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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.

VIRGINIA

Alexandria Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Alexandria, VA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Music Makes a Difference, an education program for school children. Plans include concerts for students in grades three through five where performances of Gustav Holst's The Planets will relate to science studies; a mentoring program for middle and high school students; and a culminating Family Arts Festival where students play side-by-side with orchestra musicians.

Ash Lawn Opera Festival Foundation
Charlottesville, VA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support performances of Amahl and the Night Visitors by composer and librettist Gian Carlo Menotti. The holiday production will feature Brandy Lynn Hawkins (Mother), members of the Charlottesville & University Symphony Orchestra conducted by music director Kate Tamarkin, and members of the Virginia Consort.

Association of Writers & Writing Programs (aka AWP)
Fairfax, VA
$100,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the 2013 AWP conference in Boston, Massachusetts; the publication of The Writer's Chronicle; and the AWP website, including the web-based AWP Job List. Serving an estimated 9,500 attendees, the annual three-day conference is the largest gathering of its kind, featuring more than 400 readings, forums, and panel discussions, as well as a book fair showcasing the work of more than 550 small presses.

Chrysler Museum of Art
Norfolk, VA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support restoration, installation, and re-interpretation of two classical statues. Once part of the collection of Vincenzo Giustiniani (1564-1637), the Roman 1st century A.D. statues are of outstanding quality and, because of their provenance, of significant importance to the history of collecting and taste.

Fall for the Book, Inc.
Fairfax, VA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support Fall for the Book, a week-long festival of readings, discussions, and exhibits. Each year, the festival honors a headlining writer. Past honorees include Stephen King, Amy Tan, Michael Cunningham, Joyce Carol Oates, E.L. Doctorow, Ann Patchett, Dave Eggers, and Sherman Alexie.

Festival of the Photograph, Inc. (aka LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph)
Charlottesville, VA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support exhibitions and public programs for the LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph. The festival will present a series of exhibitions curated by Melissa Harris, editor-in-chief of Aperture magazine, and designer Yolanda Cuomo, as well as a series of in-depth artist interviews, lectures, photography workshops, and outdoor multimedia installations by established and emerging artists.

Folkstreams, Inc. (aka Folkstreams.net)
Delaplane, VA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Folkstreams.net site, a web-based service that provides access to films and videos about American traditional arts and culture. The project will support adding new films to the site, developing contextual background materials for these films, and implementing an open source data management system to make the site easier to maintain and administer.

Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association, Inc. (aka WETA)
Arlington, VA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the local radio broadcast of Front Row Washington, featuring recordings of live classical concerts in metropolitan Washington, DC, on WETA-FM. Specific programming for the year-long weekly series of broadcasts will be designed in a similar fashion to past performances which have included pianist Menachem Pressler and the Auryn Quartet at Georgetown University, the Castleton Orchestra conducted by Lorin Maazel at the Castleton Festival, Pro Musica Hebraica at the Kennedy Center's Terrace Theater, and pianist Jenny Lin and the Shanghai Quartet at the Freer Gallery.

Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association, Inc. (aka WETA)
Arlington, VA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Arts in Media   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support WETA's production of a series of arts news reports. A dedicated Arts Unit will produce as many as 15 in-depth arts segments as part of the public television program, PBS NewsHour. The series website offers a blog along with extensive online daily print and video coverage.

Public Broadcasting Service
Arlington, VA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Arts in Media   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the development and creation of two mobile applications for PBSArts 2.0, a multi-year, multi-platform initiative. The first app, Art 101, will provide short video clips that teach skills or explain specific aspects of the arts to a general public. Several ideas are under consideration for the second app including PBSArts Local, a device powered by PBS stations guiding users to local arts experiences.

Twentieth Century Consort (aka 21st Century Consort)
Round Hill, VA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a recording project featuring Cathedral Music by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Stephen Albert, Sacred Songs and Meditations by James Primosch, and Out of Darkness by Christopher Patton. All of the chamber music works were either created for or performed at the Washington National Cathedral in the District of Columbia.

Venture Richmond
Richmond, VA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Richmond Folk Festival 2012. Now in its fifth year, the festival will feature a variety of traditional music and dance performances, narrative stages, craft exhibits and demonstrations, and regional and ethnic foods, featuring a special Virginia Folklife Area, curated by the director of the Virginia Folklife Program and produced in partnership with the Children's Museum of Richmond.

Virginia Commission for the Arts
Richmond, VA
$699,700
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy (aka Virginia Folklife Program)
Charlottesville, VA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support a staff position for a digital media specialist. The specialist will improve the production quality of the program's audio, video, and photographic documentation of folk arts and folk artists. Additionally, the specialist will digitize and organize the Virginia Folklife Program's large collection of field recordings, video materials, and still photographs, improving public accessibility.

Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy (Consortium)
Charlottesville, VA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the 2013 Virginia Festival of the Book. The festival, now in its 19th year, will feature free readings by both award-winning and emerging authors, as well as panel discussions, lectures, writing workshops, school visits, and youth conferences.

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Richmond, VA
$43,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support ArtSmarts, the museum's educational outreach program. The program, designed as a hands-on, repeat-visit classroom experience in the visual arts, brings museum staff and undergraduate and graduate Art Education interns from Virginia Commonwealth University to designated Richmond City Public School system elementary and middle schools for weekly visits.

Virginia Symphony
Norfolk, VA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Harmony Project, a community partnership project with churches and historically Black colleges in Hampton Roads, Virginia. Activities will include ensemble performances, workshops, and educational programs in the region through collaborations with city councils, churches, and educational institutions in Hampton, Norfolk, and Newport News, Virginia.

Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts
Vienna, VA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support two professional training programs, Filene Young Artists and Opera Studio Artists. Artists will receive individualized training from music and language coaches, directors, and conductors, and will perform solo and supporting roles in three fully-staged operas.


Number of Grants: 18          Total Amount: $1,277,700

 
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