FY 2012 Grant Awards: State Listings

Art Works II/Arts in Media/Partnerships

Some details of the projects listed in this grant announcement are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

MONTANA

Art Mobile of Montana
Dillon, MT
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a traveling youth art education program for rural Montana schools and their communities. Exhibition of works by approximately 30 Montana visual artists will include presentations, art lessons, and resources for teachers using the theme of "conservation."

Helena Presents (aka Myrna Loy Center)
Helena, MT
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support a series of commissioning, presenting, touring, and residency projects at the Myrna Loy Center. Guest artists including choreographers Reggie Wilson and Kyle Abraham, composer/violinist Daniel Bernard Roumain, poet/performer Marc Bamuthi Joseph, and music ensemble Sō Percussion will create and present works in collaboration with local and regional artists.

Holter Museum of Art, Inc.
Helena, MT
$55,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support Cultural Crossroads, a visual arts education program. Led by artists from diverse cultures, the program will offer students in kindergarten through 12th grade the opportunity to create art and interact with artwork at the museum, as well as explore the role of heritage and place as it shapes personal and cultural identity.

Mainstreet Uptown Butte, Inc.
Butte, MT
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the First People's Gathering at the Montana Folk Festival. The project will feature Montana's Indian tribes in the festival program and provide exposure for Montana's Native artists and craftspeople, presenting Native arts and crafts in a display and demonstration area that features both traditional and contemporary artists from across the state.

MCT, Inc. (aka Missoula Children\'s Theatre)
Missoula, MT
$55,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support Missoula Children's Theatre's national performing arts residency tour in underserved communities and on U.S. military bases. During an estimated 1,200 residencies, touring actors and directors will cast as many as 65 local youth in original musicals, with rehearsals and performances within a week's time.

Missoula Writing Collaborative
Missoula, MT
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support Words Fly!, creative writing residencies for elementary students. In collaboration with classroom teachers, professional writers will lead students through a variety of writing exercises and help them to create a portfolio of work and present their work in public readings and in an anthology published by each participating school.

Montana Arts Council
Helena, MT
$769,300
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Montana Committee for the Humanities (aka Humanities Montana)
Missoula, MT
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the 2012 Montana Festival of the Book. The three-day festival will highlight the work of Native American writer and Montana native James Welch, with a world premiere of the film Winter in the Blood, based on his novel of the same name, and a chamber opera based on his novel, The Heartsong of Charging Elk.

Montana State University
Bozeman, MT
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Montana Shakespeare in the Parks 2012 summer tour. Two professional theater productions will be performed in 60 communities throughout Montana, northern Wyoming, eastern Idaho, and western North Dakota, with a special focus on rural, underserved areas.

Young Men\'s Christian Association of Billings (aka YMCA Writer\'s Voice)
Billings, MT
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support Native Voices, a unique series of public readings by contemporary Native American writers. Authors representing Crow, Cheyenne, Kootenai, Salish, Sioux, Assiniboine, Cree, Cherokee, and Aleut cultures will present work in public, private, and Tribal colleges throughout eastern Montana.

Number of Grants: 10          Total Amount: $1,014,300

 
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