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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.

OREGON

Homowo African Arts & Cultures (aka Obo Addy Legacy Project)
Portland, OR
$12,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support The Masters Project, a tribute concert for NEA National Heritage Fellow Obo Addy. The focus of the project is to honor the life and legacy of Ghanaian drummer Obo Addy, who passed away on September 13, 2012.

Miracle Theatre Group
Portland, OR
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the development and premiere of Dance for a Dollar. The original dance/theater play, co-created by writer Mariana Carreno King and director/choreographer Daniel Jaquez, explores the contemporary urban immigrant experience through story, movement, and dance from traditional to folkloric styles, and centers on the culture of social dance as a shared experience that transcends immigrant alienation.

Neskowin Coast Foundation (aka Sitka Center for Art and Ecology)
Otis, OR
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Artist Communities
To support residencies for Art and Ecology. As many as 28 American emerging and mid-career artists will receive stipends and residencies. An estimated audience of 1,020 will benefit from the program.

Northwest Professional Dance Project
Portland, OR
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by artistic director and choreographer Sarah Slipper. The piece will consist of three thematically linked duets for one male and one female dancer, and will include moving sets involving projections of a home's interior, an urban landscape, and a wooded area on a scrim.

Oregon Children's Theatre Company
Portland, OR
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the commissioning of Eric Coble to create Gathering Blue, an adaptation of Lois Lowry's novel for young audiences. The play takes place in a futuristic society controlled by secretive, ruthless authorities, and is designed to spark discussions and critical thinking among middle school aged audiences.

Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association
Ashland, OR
$100,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the world premiere production of The Liquid Plain by Naomi Wallace, directed by Kwame Kwei-Armah. The play tells the story of a 1791 slave ship murder and was commissioned by the theater as part of American Revolutions: The United States History Cycle, a series of commissions inspired by times of transformation, innovation, challenge, or conflict in American history.

Portland Art Museum (on behalf of Northwest Film Center)
Portland, OR
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the Northwest Filmmakers' Festival and regional tour. The event showcases new work by media artists living in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and British Columbia.

Portland Center Stage
Portland, OR
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the 15th annual JAW (Just Add Water): Playwrights Festival. The two-week festival, which supports playwrights in new work development to enhance the repertoire of the American theater, brings four playwrights to Portland where their work with theater professionals culminates in formal main stage readings.

Portland Jazz Festival, Inc.
Portland, OR
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Portland Jazz Festival featuring Jack DeJohnette and Friends - a band comprised of NEA Jazz Master Jack DeJohnette, Ravi Coltrane, and Matt Garrison. The project will include the presentation of The Incredible Journey of Jazz, a musical theater performance about the history of jazz designed for middle school students; performances by local high school jazz ensembles; a workshop at Portland State University led by DeJohnette; and a live Jazz Conversation series featuring DeJohnette that will be recorded, podcasted, and archived on the jazz festival's website.

Portland Opera Association Inc.
Portland, OR
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a new production of Handel's Rinaldo. The work marks only the fourth Baroque production in the company's 95-year history and will be the second collaboration with the Portland Baroque Orchestra.

Portland Playhouse
Portland, OR
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support The Left Hand of Darkness, a new play adapted from Ursula K. Le Guin's 1969 science fiction novel. Co-produced with Hand2Mouth Theatre (H2M), a Portland-based ensemble, and directed by H2M Artistic Director Jonathan Walters, the play will use the conventions of science fiction to explore bigotry and ask universal questions about tolerance.

Shaw, B. T.
Portland, OR
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

University of Oregon (on behalf of Oregon Bach Festival)
Eugene, OR
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the commissioning of a new work for chorus and orchestra by James MacMillan for the Oregon Bach Festival. The commissioned work will be a cantata scored for chorus, orchestra, and soloists, 30-40 minutes in length.

White Bird
Portland, OR
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support dance performances in the White Bird Uncaged series. Compagnie Marie Chouinard (Canada), Abou Lagraa (France/Algeria), and other companies will be presented in intimate-sized venues in Portland.


Number of Grants: 14          Total Amount: $352,500

 
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