FY 2013 Grant Awards: State Listings

Art Works I | Challenge America Fast-Track Grants | Literature Fellowships (Poetry)

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

KENTUCKY

Actors Theatre Of Louisville, Inc.
Louisville, KY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the 37th Annual Humana Festival of New American Plays, a showcase of new theatrical work featuring American playwrights. Actors Theatre will fully produce seven full-length plays, multiple 10-minute plays, and an anthology project to be performed by its Acting Apprentice Company.

Appalshop, Inc.
Whitesburg, KY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the Appalachian Media Institute youth media programs for high school students. Professional independent filmmakers and media artists will teach students the history, aesthetics, ethics, and practice of documentary media, resulting in the production of documentary films and radio programs.

Council on Developmental Disabilities, Inc.
Louisville, KY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support The Striped Show, an exhibition featuring artists with developmental disabilities working in collaboration with established, professional regional artists. To support The Striped Show, an exhibition featuring artists with developmental disabilities working in collaboration with established, professional regional artists.

Gorham, Sarah
Prospect, KY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

Kentucky Opera Association, Inc.
Louisville, KY
$12,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the development and premiere of The King's Man, as part of the Composer Workshop collaboration. The one-act opera by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Paul Moravec and librettist Terry Teachout is set in 1785 and will focus on the estranged relationship between Benjamin Franklin and his son William Franklin.

Lexington Philharmonic Society, Inc.
Lexington, KY
$16,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a residency by the chamber sextet Eighth Blackbird. Culminating in a performance of composer Jennifer Higdon's concerto for sextet, On a Wire, the three-day residency will feature the ensemble in a Kicked Back Classics Concert of chamber music, a pre-concert Inside the Score lecture, open rehearsals for middle and high school students, school concerts, and a new music reading session for high school and college students and amateur musicians.

Sarabande Books, Inc.
Louisville, KY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion, including two video trailers, of print and e-books by Laura Kasischke, Patricia Vigderman, Joanne Dominque Dwyer, Thomas Heise, and Kiki Petrosino. The press also will publish Red Holler, an anthology of contemporary Appalachian poetry, prose, and graphic narratives.

Number of Grants: 7          Total Amount: $158,500

 
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