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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.

NORTH CAROLINA

Alleghany County Schools (aka Alleghany County Board of Education)
Sparta, NC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the Junior Appalachian Musicians. The project will provide after-school classes in Appalachian traditional folk music and dance for students in third through eighth grades in Alleghany County.

American Dance Festival, Inc. (aka ADF)
Durham, NC
$65,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support performances during American Dance Festival's 80th anniversary. The festival will feature choreographers and companies who have played an important role at ADF such as Martha Graham Dance Company, Paul Taylor Dance Company, and Trisha Brown Dance Company as well as Jonah Bokaer, Rosie Herrera, Camille Brown, Kate Weare, and Gregory Dolbashian, and international artists such as Cloud Gate Dance Theater (Taiwan), Nasser Martin-Gousset (France), Maguy Marin (France), Meg Stuart (Belgium), Lucy Guerin (Australia), Leonie McDonagh (Ireland), and Grupo Corpo (Brazil).

Cape Fear Regional Theatre at Fayetteville Inc. (aka Cape Fear Regional Theatre)
Fayetteville, NC
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support a production of The Parchman Hour by Mike Wiley. The play recounts the Freedom Riders of America's civil rights movement, many of whom were arrested and imprisoned in Mississippi's notorious Parchman Farm Penitentiary where they invented a live variety show The Parchman Hour with characters such as Stokely Carmichael, Martin Luther King, and Robert Kennedy.

Carolina Ballet, Inc.
Raleigh, NC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of Giselle during the company's 15th anniversary. The work will be staged by Olga Kostritzky and free performances will be provided for social service agencies that work with at-risk children.

Center for Documentary Studies
Durham, NC
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 16th Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. The event will showcase work by emerging, established, and international documentarians.

Elkins, Ansel
Greensboro, NC
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

Elsewhere, Inc (aka Elsewhere Artist Collaborative)
Greensboro, NC
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a site-specific residency program for southern artists at Elsewhere in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina. As many as six artists nominated by a committee of southern non-profit arts professionals will receive travel funds, room and board, and a stipend for their participation in a four-week residency that includes access to Elsewhere's collection of vintage objects, production support to create experimental new work, professional documentation and development tools, project publicity, and participation in Elsewhere's global artist network.

Fayetteville State University
Fayetteville, NC
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the premiere of And Then Came Tomorrow... by Walter Allen Bennett, Jr. The play portrays an African American family's legacy that spans five decades from Rosa Parks to President Barack Obama and will be directed by visiting professor Bennett with professional actors.

Lake Eden Arts Festival (aka LEAF)
Black Mountain, NC
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the LEAF Vocal Traditions Series. The LEAF Festival and LEAF in Schools & Streets educational outreach program will present vocalists Lizz Wright, Oumou Sangare, Mycale, Aisha Khalil, and others in public performances and community outreach concerts.

Mallarme Chamber Players, Inc.
Durham, NC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the North Carolina Historically Informed Practices Festival, a baroque chamber music festival including performances, workshops, master classes, and lectures. Proposed artists include countertenor Michael Maniaci, baroque violinist Elizabeth Field, guitarist and theorbo player William Simms, and Frances Blaker, who plays the recorder.

McColl Center for Visual Art
Charlotte, NC
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Artist Communities
To support residencies for artists. Participating artists will be provided housing, workspace, technical assistance, transportation costs, materials, and a monthly stipend for a three-month residency. As many as 12 artists will be in residence; the project will benefit an audience of 22,000, including children.

North Carolina Dance Theatre
Charlotte, NC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and world premiere of a new work by dancer and choreographer Jiri Bubenicek. Education and outreach programming will include presenting excerpts of Bubenicek's work in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg schools, as well as lecture-demonstrations that tie dance to core curriculum subjects.

North Carolina International Folk Festival, Inc.
Waynesville, NC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Folkmoot USA Outreach Project, featuring Absolutely Legless, an Irish dance and music ensemble. Absolutely Legless will travel to geographically isolated counties in North Carolina to perform, as well as offer workshops and dance classes highlighting the similarities and differences between Irish step dancing and traditional clogging, a popular art form in Western North Carolina.

Richardson, Rachel
Greensboro, NC
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

Rigsbee, David
Raleigh, NC
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

RiverRun International Film Festival
Winston-Salem, NC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support Films with Class. Throughout the school year, RiverRun partners with 25 elementary, middle, and high schools to screen American independent and international work to students and produces a curriculum to accompany the program.

Stecoah Valley Arts, Crafts & Educational Center, Inc.
Robbinsville, NC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support An Appalachian Evening Performing Arts Series. The concert series featuring traditional Appalachian old-time, bluegrass, and Celtic music, as well as, dancing, and storytelling will include informal demonstrations to deepen the audience's understanding of mountain culture.

Storytelling Arts Center of the Southeast, Inc.
Laurinburg, NC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Eclectic Arts Programming for a Diverse Community, presenting storytelling and jazz performances. Activities will include the Bold-Faced Liars Storytelling Showdown, the Storytelling Festival of Carolina, monthly Jazz Jams, and a performance by the jazz band Sweet Dreams.

Triad Stage, Inc.
Greensboro, NC
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the development and production of the world premiere of Preston Lane and Laurelyn Dossett's Radiunt Abundunt. The new play about Tassie Laidlaw, a self-taught, Appalachian outsider artist will use projections and music to bring to life the artist's paintings and the voices that drove her to create.

University of North Carolina at Wilmington
Wilmington, NC
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of novels by Lookout Books, the art and science journal Ecotone. The press will reissue the novel The Prodigal Women by Nancy Hale.


Number of Grants: 20          Total Amount: $390,000

 
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