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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.

NORTH CAROLINA

Appalachian State University (Consortium)
Boone, NC
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support expansion of the Black Banjo Gathering to an annual event, exploring the diverse influences on the banjo. A collaboration with the Avery Arts Council, the project will present lectures, workshops, and performances, demonstrating various cultural influences (including African, Caribbean, French, Judaic, and Native American) on the banjo and banjo music.

Arts & Science Council Charlotte Mecklenburg (aka ASC)
Charlotte, NC
$22,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Program Innovation
To support the Charlotte Arts Journalism Alliance, a collection of trained arts journalists commissioned to produce compelling arts journalism on television, radio, print, and online.

Cooleemee Historical Association (aka Textile Heritage Center)
Cooleemee, NC
$35,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the adaptive reuse of the Cooleemee Cotton Mill. Project activities include a community design charrette, strengthening stakeholder relationships, market research, and a schematic design to transform the cotton mill into a vibrant town center.

Duke University (on behalf of Nasher Museum of Art)
Durham, NC
$75,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support Words & Pictures, a Nasher Museum of Art education program. The program will include free visual arts and language arts curriculum customized for K-12 under-performing schools in the City of Durham public school system.

East Carolina University
Greenville, NC
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the Eastern North Carolina Literary Homecoming, a year-long program of events featuring artists who are from, live in, and/or write about the region. The theme for 2012 is Adapting North Carolina Literature into Film.

Eastern Music Festival, Inc.
Greensboro, NC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Eastern Music Festival including artist fees, promotion, and salary expenses. The five-week summer festival of more than 100 performances of orchestral, chamber, and jazz will feature artists including pianists Vladimir Feltsman and Alexander Toradze, singers Nancy Maultsby and Anthony Dean Griffey, and violinists Elmar Oliveira and Tasmin Little.

HandMade in America, Inc. (aka HandMade in America Community Development Corporation)
Asheville, NC
$35,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support Crafting Vibrant Rural Communities, an artist apprenticeship program. Project activities include planning, designing, and implementing an apprenticeship program for artists to learn how to organize community events and studio tours that stimulate local economic development.

Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts + Culture
Charlotte, NC
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the cataloguing, digitizing, and documentation of the museum's Hewitt Collection. The collection includes 78 two-dimensional works by 20th-century African American artists such as Romare Bearden, Margaret Burroughs, Jonathan Green, Jacob Lawrence, Elizabeth Catlett, Ann Tanksley, and Henry Tanner.

Music Maker Relief and Recording Foundation, Inc.
Hillsborough, NC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support Music Maker Roots and Leaves: Celebrating the Legacy of Libba Cotton. The project will honor the memory of local legend Elizabeth Cotton with a series of concerts featuring local musicians exploring the contributions of blues artists, string-bands, female musicians, and Native Americans.

North Carolina Arts Council
Raleigh, NC
$904,700
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

North Carolina Folklife Institute
Durham, NC
$45,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support activities that strengthen the state's folk and traditional arts infrastructure and support the state arts council's strategic plan to create a network of North Carolina Heritage Arts Centers. The project will provide for staff support that will facilitate the development of folk arts organizations across the state; improve the North Carolina Folklife Institute's website; produce an artists' directory for traditional music of the state's Piedmont; and  implement the Folklife Resource & Knowledge Exchange, a program linking these organizations and allowing them to share resources.

North Carolina Folklife Institute
Durham, NC
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support Documenting and Promoting Traditional Arts in Southeastern North Carolina. The North Carolina Folklife Institute will maintain development of the Statewide Heritage Initiative by documenting and promoting traditional arts and artists in southeastern North Carolina, using regional traditions, and traditional artists for economic development through heritage tourism.

North Carolina Theatre
Raleigh, NC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support a production of Oliver! for family audiences. Directed by Richard Stafford., the production will afford opportunities for students from the theater's year-round conservatory to perform alongside professional artists.

PineCone - the Piedmont Council of Traditional Music, Inc. (Consortium)
Raleigh, NC
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support production of A Singing Stream II: A Black Family Chronicle Continues, a sequel to a documentary film chronicling the lives of the Landis Family and their gospel music traditions. In collaboration with Folkstreams, Inc., Tom Davenport, who produced the original film in 1986, will work with the Landis Family to explore the social and cultural changes in the family and community in the 25 years since the first film.

Reynolda House, Inc. (aka Reynolda House Museum of American Art)
Winston-Salem, NC
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the final phase of a collections database project. This phase will include creation and enhancement of 500 content-rich records and professional digital photography of 150 fine and decorative art objects.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (on behalf of Carolina Performing Arts)
Chapel Hill, NC
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the creation and presentation of Rite of Spring at 100. Commemorating the 100th anniversary of Igor Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, two new collaborative works will be created and presented by puppeteer Basil Twist with the Orchestra of St. Luke's and choreographer Bill T. Jones with theater director Anne Bogart.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (on behalf of Playmakers Repertory Company)
Chapel Hill, NC
$100,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support Playmakers Repertory Company's rotating repertory productions of A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry and Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris. By pairing Hansberry's 1959 work with Norris's, written in 2009 as a response to A Raisin in the Sun, the theater will explore issues of race and gentrification using a company of 16 actors.


Number of Grants: 17          Total Amount: $1,472,200

 
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