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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.

MISSOURI

Center of Creative Arts
St. Louis, MO
$27,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support three dance outreach programs. The Pre-Professional Dance program will provide intensive dance training to students (ages 11 to 18); the Talent Identified Program prepares intermediate students for advanced study and transition to the Honors Dance Program; the Dance Outreach program will provide dance instruction in jazz, modern, hip-hop, and tap to elementary school children in St. Louis Public Schools.

Curators of the University of Missouri at Columbia
Columbia, MO
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support new print, online, and audio versions of The Missouri Review, a quarterly literary magazine of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. The online edition provides the unabridged version of each issue, and can be read on mobile devices, such as an e-reader or smartphone.

Dance Saint Louis
St. Louis, MO
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support dance presentations and related activities. The project will include New Dance Horizon, a program where four choreographers create new works on four St. Louis dance companies, and the presentation of New York City Ballet Moves, Shanghai Ballet, Canada's Royal Winnipeg Ballet, Nashville Ballet, and the Modern American Dance Company, based at the University of Missouri-St. Louis.

International Institute of Metropolitan St. Louis
St. Louis, MO
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Festival of Nations, an annual, multicultural, multidisciplinary arts festival that will feature free performances by the Mexican Folkloric Dance Company of Chicago. The dance company will also provide free dance workshops for residents of rural Missouri after each performance.

Jazz St. Louis (aka Jazz at the Bistro)
St. Louis, MO
$17,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Jazz St. Louis Artist Residency Program. Jazz artists including Wycliffe Gordon, John Faddis, and the Clayton Brothers participate in week-long residencies that comprise performances at schools, master classes, private lessons, and coaching public school big bands.

Kansas City Artists Coalition
Kansas City, MO
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Artist Communities
To support the curated International Artist Residency Program. Fatma Abu Rumi (Israel), Zehra Cobanli, (Turkey), Michel Delacroix (France), and Bai Ming (China) will serve as artists in-residence at the Kansas City Artists Coalition. As many as 475 people from the community will have the opportunity to interact with the artists.

Kansas City Ballet Association
Kansas City, MO
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of a work by Karole Armitage, artistic director of Armitage Gone! Dance, based in New York City. This commission follows the success of Arctic Song, a work that Armitage, a Kansas native, created for the company in 2009.

Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Inc.
Kansas City, MO
$35,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the premiere of Waiting for You (On the Corner of...), created by Theatre of the Emerging American Moment and Sojourn Theatre. The commissioned play portrays six characters who live and work in Kansas City and examines the ways in which people listen to each other, what values are shared between communities, and how local individuals participate in the national discourse of today's polarized political climate.

Kansas City Symphony
Kansas City, MO
$17,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the premiere performance of a new work by composer-in-residence Adam Schoenberg with related educational activities. Paying homage to Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, the new work will be created using as inspiration works of art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.

Laurentiis, Rickey
St Louis, MO
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Inc.
Kansas City, MO
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a new production of Wagner's The Flying Dutchman. As part of the company's 55th season, the production will be the Lyric Opera's first staging of the work since 1975 and will use its new state-of-the-art performance hall enabling it to take technical advantage of a work that will require significantly larger forces on stage and in the orchestra pit.

Metro Theater Company
St. Louis, MO
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the production of Jackie and Me by Steven Dietz. Adapted from the book by Dan Gutman, the play follows a young boy as he travels back in time to 1947 where he witnesses the courage and dignity of renowned baseball player Jackie Robinson who broke the color barrier in major league baseball.

Metropolitan Arts Council of Greater Kansas City
Kansas City, MO
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the creation of a regional cultural plan for the greater Kansas City metropolitan area. A consultant will be contracted to lead a cultural planning process for five counties in Missouri and Kansas.

Nelson Gallery Foundation (aka The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art)
Kansas City, MO
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the exhibition Impressionist France: Le Gray to Monet with an accompanying catalogue. The exhibition will explore the relationship between landscape and national identity reflected in paintings and photographs (circa 1850-1880) and will include 120 works organized in sections that explore different types of landscape including modern cityscapes, monuments, rural and farm life, railroads and factories, mountains, and marine views.

Paul Mesner Puppets, Inc.
Kansas City, MO
$35,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support a production of Charlie Parker, from Ragtime to Bebop: The Story of Kansas City Jazz, a new company-developed puppet play celebrating early Kansas City jazz. Told from the viewpoint of a young Charlie Parker, the play will explore how Kansas City's jazz scene evolved from ragtime to bebop, and the historical and social events that allowed the music scene to flourish in the "Paris of the Plains."

Pro Musica
Joplin, MO
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support a performance by the Linden String Quartet and musical outreach activities targeting middle and high schools, a nursing home, and a shelter for battered women. Outreach activities will include an audience discussion about the type of music the quartet performs, the instruments used, and the composers.

Ragtag Programming for Film and Media Art (aka Ragtag Cinema / True False Film Festival)
Columbia, MO
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the True/False Film Festival and other curated film series. The True/False Film Festival, presented in March, focuses on documentary film; other film programs include a series devoted to 1970s American cinema, another to international work, and films by under-represented voices in the United States.

Robert L. Reed Tap Heritage Institute
Saint Louis, MO
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of the St. Louis Tap Festival. The festival includes a performance titled All That Tap presented at the Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center at the University of Missouri featuring live music.

St. Louis Children's Choirs
Saint Louis, MO
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the Choral Arts Ensemble Training and Performance Program. Students will participate in one of six performing groups, rehearse weekly, and perform throughout the year. Students will learn sight-reading, music theory, vocal technique, and will perform original commissioned works.

Webster University (on behalf of Community Music School)
St. Louis, MO
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the Community Music School's Pre-College Student Preparatory Program. Designed to augment the individual study of exceptionally talented music students in the St. Louis area, the program trains students in chamber music, music theory, music history and literature, and provides performance opportunities and artistic mentoring.

William Jewell College (on behalf of Harriman-Jewell Series)
Liberty, MO
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Discovery Concerts, free recital performances by emerging musicians in the Harriman-Jewell Series. Musicians include pianist Jan Lisiecki; violinist Elena Urioste and pianist Gabriela Martinez in a dual recital; violinist Vilde Frang; and pianist George Li. They will be presented free at the Folly Theater and the Kauffman Concert Hall in downtown Kansas City.


Number of Grants: 21          Total Amount: $467,000

 
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