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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.

PENNSYLVANIA

American Friends Service Committee
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Grand Finale Performance of the Tamejavi Culture and Art Series and artists' workshops featuring spoken word artist Adam Bowser, filmmaker Maureen Gosling, and dancer Maria Bauman. The series encompasses the performance of song, dance, and poetry drawn from the Central Valley's immigrant stories including, among others, those of the Hmong, Khmer, Latin American, and Mexican communities.

American Poetry Review
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication, promotion, and distribution of issues of The American Poetry Review. The tabloid will conduct a direct mail campaign with a reduced price incentive to approximately 75,000 potential new readers.

Arden Theatre Company
Philadelphia, PA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support a playwright residency program The Writers' Room. The residencies will include workshops of plays in development and the mounting of a full but smaller scale production.

Asian Arts Initiative
Philadelphia, PA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support Youth Arts Workshop after-school, weekend, and summer classes and long-term apprenticeships for youth in grades five through 12. Students will study with artists in workshops and apprenticeships, produce original works in open-studio time, and document their experiences through youth-produced media.

Astral Artistic Services
Philadelphia, PA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Spiritual Voyages, a concert of newly commissioned works by African American composers including educational and outreach activities. The concert will feature three new works by composers Alvin Singleton, David Sanford, and Evelyn Simpson Curenton, each based on an existing spiritual and performed by roster artists (jury-selected young artists) and guest artists.

Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Women of Note: A Celebration of Women Composers, a concert and radio broadcast. The project will showcase emerging women soloists, including African American flutist Julietta Curenton and Korean American violinist Kristin Lee, and will feature a work by Florence Price along with works by living women composers such as Kaija Saariaho, Tania Leon, and Melinda Wagner.

Blake, Sarah
Havertown, PA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Artist Communities
To support residencies at the Studio for Creative Inquiry. Up to eight artists will receive residencies emphasizing creation in new media arts and emerging artforms. Approximately 16 artists and as many as 1,000 audience members will benefit.

Center City Opera Theater, Inc
Philadelphia, PA
$12,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a new production of Carlisle Floyd's Of Mice and Men, using a newly commissioned reduced orchestration. Under the composer's direction, the reduction created by Floyd's former students Michael Ching and Craig Bohmler will be a complete re-imagining of the score by director Leland Kimball, lighting designer Dominic Chacon, costume designer Amy Chmielewski, set designer Cindy Tobias, and singers Christopher Lorge and Paul Corujo.

City of Asylum Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA
$23,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Jazz Poetry Festival. American jazz ensembles and international poets, sometimes censored in their home countries, will perform collaboratively and individually in this free street festival.

City Theatre Company, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support a production of Abigail/1702 by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa. The play portrays Abigail Williams, a character depicted in Arthur Miller's The Crucible, who after the Salem Witch Trials, flees Salem and lives in hiding while helping the poor and diseased, repenting in seclusion, and is forced to face her past and honor a secret pact she made long ago.

COSACOSA art at large, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Home/Away from Home, a series of community-building art projects. Through direct, extended collaborations with professional artists, inner city residents will create permanent, site-specific public artworks.

Curtis Institute of Music
Philadelphia, PA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support performances of Benjamin Britten's Owen Wingrave, presented in collaboration with the Opera Company of Philadelphia and Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts. The production will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the composer and through the resources of the partnering organizations will incorporate educational programming, including a dress rehearsal for students, a study guide, pre-concert lectures, podcast, and a preview recital.

Endless Mountain Music Festival
Wellsboro, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Endless Mountain Music Festival, a series of concerts and related activities held in Northern Pennsylvania and Southern New York. Proposed artists Shelton Berg (jazz piano), Peter Kenote (violin), Frederick Zlotkin (cello), and Doris Hall-Gulati (clarinet) will perform throughout the region and participate in outreach activities including pre- and post-concert discussions, master classes, and educational programs.

Erie Philharmonic
Erie, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the presentation of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73 (the "Emperor" concerto) and associated outreach activities. In addition to featuring pianist Inon Barnatan, the multidisciplinary event will highlight the work of cartoonist and storyteller Joe Wos and will take place in the Warner Theatre for audiences drawn from northwestern Pennsylvania, northeastern Ohio, and the Southern Tier of New York.

Fabric Workshop and Museum, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support an artist-in-residence program. Artists will receive an honorarium, travel, and housing expenses and will create new work using innovative fabrics, materials, and construction techniques in experimental ways.

Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance
Philadelphia, PA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the Philly Teen Program, an initiative to encourage increased teen participation in arts and culture. Focused on 15- to 17-year-old students in Philadelphia, a Teen Pass will provide free access to Philadelphia museums and other teen-focused arts activities throughout the year.

InterAct, Inc. (aka InterAct Theatre Company)
Philadelphia, PA
$18,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support a world premiere of Some Other Kind Of Person by Eric Pfeffinger. The commissioned play explores the global crisis surrounding human trafficking.

International House of Philadelphia (on behalf of Film at International House)
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support several curated film series. The programs will include a series devoted to the world-renowned Janus Collection, directors' retrospectives, a focus on documentaries, and silent films with live orchestral accompaniment.

Keystone College
La Plume, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the free Arts on Fire festival and Community Iron Pour, featuring sculptors Vaughn C. Randall and Kevin M. Dartt, who will exhibit their work and demonstrate their art making techniques for area residents. The sculptors will also engage low-income high school students who will be involved in the art making demonstrations at the festival and will display their own artwork.

Lafayette College
Easton, PA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Jazz at Lafayette: Decoding the Cuban Jazz Genome. A series of up to five performance residencies will be offered with educational outreach activities by proposed artists NEA Jazz Master Paquito D'Rivera, Arturo O'Farrill and the Afro-Caribbean Jazz Orchestra, Dafnis Prieto, Tiempo Libre, Fabian Almazan, and Gonzalo Rubalcaba.

Learning Lamp, Inc.
Johnstown, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the free Children's Book Festival of Johnstown featuring author/illustrators Suzanne Bloom, and Nick Bruel, as well as associated outreach activities targeting economically disadvantaged youth. Bloom and Bruel will visit as many as four elementary schools located in Johnstown, reading and discussing their work with students.

Mann Center for the Performing Arts
Philadelphia, PA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Mann Summer Festival's Orchestral Concert Series, featuring the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, and the Curtis Symphony Orchestra. Taking place in Fairmont Park, located near the center of Philadelphia, programming for the outdoor summer festival will feature full orchestral repertoire, as well as lecture-demonstrations with guest artists and students from the Curtis Institute of Music.

Marlboro School of Music, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$32,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Invited Master Artist Project. Student musicians will participate in a series of workshops, open rehearsals and concerts, master classes, and lecture-demonstrations led by a group of concert artists, composers, and scholars during the Marlboro Music Festival.

Mattress Factory, Ltd.
Pittsburgh, PA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the project Detroit Artists in Pittsburgh. The project will feature six site-specific installations by Detroit artists who will receive an artist's fee, travel, lodging and per diem, materials, and skilled assistance during a nine-week residency in celebration of the Mattress Factory's 35th anniversary.

Mendelssohn Club Of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA
$12,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support BIG SING//Julia Wolfe, a commissioning and performance project of a new work for chorus and ensemble, with guest artist ensemble Bang On a Can All-Stars. The 45-minute work will explore the folk legends and songs of mining communities in Pennsylvania.

Montgomery County Community College
Blue Bell, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the residency and presentation of the South Asian dance company, Nrityagram. The project will feature performances of two classical Indian dances in a work titled Sambhavya: Imagine, a new work that explores the Indian dance forms of Odissi and Bharata Natyam alongside Kandyan Dance from Sri Lanka; a lecture and screening of a documentary film about the company; a lecture for students in K-12 county schools; and opportunities for artistic exchange between professional dancers in the region and students at the college.

Network for New Music, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$12,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Electronic.NNM: The Mini-Festival, featuring the commissioning and performance of a new chamber work for violin, viola, cello, and fixed media by composer Eric Chasalow. The new work will be presented as part of the four-concert mini-festival exploring electroacoustic music.

New Paradise Laboratories Theatre, Inc. (aka New Paradise Laboratories)
Philadelphia, PA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the continued development and performances of 27, with a series of audience engagement activities. This new ensemble work about rock and blues musicians who died in their 27th year, will be augmented by activities including a convening and retreat for college-aged artists, performers, musicians, and audience members that will include seminars in the techniques and practices of the company and the development of new works for its online performances space.

Opera Company of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA
$75,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support performances of Kevin Puts and Mark Campbell's Silent Night. The Pulitzer Prize-winning work depicts World War I French, German, and Scottish soldiers defying their commands to enact a truce to spend Christmas together and will feature singers Bill Burden, Liam Bonner, Craig Irvin, and Troy Cook, and will be conducted by Michael Christie, directed by Eric Simonson, and performed on a set designed by Francis O'Connor, with costumes by Karin Kopischke, lighting designed by Marcus Dilliard, and illuminated with video projections by Andrzej Goulding.

Pennsylvania Ballet Association
Philadelphia, PA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of Artifact Suite, choreographed by William Forsythe. In addition to performances, a symposium moderated by Dr. Linda Caruso Haviland of Bryn Mawr College and featuring Forsythe and his colleague, Freya Vass-Rhee, along with other guests, will be offered to the Philadelphia community free-of-charge.

People's Light & Theatre Company
Malvern, PA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support a production of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale. Directed by Scottish director Guy Hollands, with set and costume design by British designer Philip Witcomb, the production will be a fast-paced, highly physical rendition of the work, featuring music, movement, and inventive storytelling.

Philadelphia Chamber Music Society
Philadelphia, PA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Vocal Music Project. The art song recitals will feature soprano Susanna Phillips, mezzo-soprano Angelika Kirchschlager, tenor Ian Bostridge, and the Philadelphia Singers Chorus in repertoire ranging from the Renaissance to contemporary vocal music.

Philadelphia Dance Company (aka PHILADANCO)
Philadelphia, PA
$60,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by choreographer Christopher Huggins. Education and outreach activities will include workshops, performances for school-aged youth, lecture-demonstrations, master classes, and pre- and post-interviews and discussions.

Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia, PA
$80,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the exhibition Fernand Leger and the Modern City. The exhibition will examine how Leger (1881-1955) challenged traditional notions of painting with other forms of cultural production central to the public life of the modern city, such as graphic and advertising design, theater, film, and architecture.

Philadelphia Theatre Company
Philadelphia, PA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the development and production of Unvarnished, a new play by Bill Cain. The play will explore the life and trials of American painter Thomas Eakins whose realistic paintings and photographs provide an in-depth view of Philadelphia and its inhabitants in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Pig Iron Theatre Company
Philadelphia, PA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support I Promised Myself to Live Faster, a new play conceived by Co-Artistic Director Dito van Reigersberg. Inspired by the cinematic melodramas of the 1950s, the play will use the life of Charles Ludlam, the founder of The Ridiculous Theatrical Company, as a springboard, employing the Hollywood starlets and forbidden loves that peopled Ludlam's life and work, and the intensity of emotion that is characteristic of melodrama.

Pittsburgh Chamber Music Society, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support violin recitals featuring Noah Bendix-Balgley and David Allen Wehr, as well as Poco a Poco, an educational program that will provide instruments and musical instruction to economically disadvantaged African Americans students. Cellist Ryan Murphy will lead a workshop for Poco a Poco students and all Poco a Poco students will receive complementary tickets to a recital.

Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support New Works: Ted Hearne and Mathew Rosenblum, a commissioning and performance project. The Hearne work will be scored for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, and percussion, while the Rosenblum work, titled Falling (based on a James Dickey poem), will be scored for amplified ensemble of bass-baritone voice, flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano/sampler, and percussion.

Pittsburgh Symphony Society
Pittsburgh, PA
$60,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Composer of the Year project, an artist residency with composer Mason Bates. The orchestra will perform the composer's The B-Sides with principal guest conductor Leonard Slatkin and Desert Transport, a work inspired by a helicopter flight over the Arizona landscape, to be conducted by Juanjo Mena.

PlayPenn, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the 2013 Conference, a new play retreat and conference through which invited playwrights will work with a director, dramaturg, designer, and actors to develop new plays. As many as six plays will be chosen through a competitive selection process and will receive 29-hour workshops that culminate in public readings.

Silk Screen (aka Silk Screen: Asian American Film Festival)
Pittsburgh, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support Silk Screen: Asian American Film Festival. Silk Screen anticipates bringing to Pittsburgh films, filmmakers, actors, and directors from across Asia -- from Turkey to Japan, including Israel and other countries in the Middle East.

Sports & Exhibition Authority of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County
Pittsburgh, PA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support Curtain Call, a sculptural artwork designed by artist/landscape architect Walter Hood for the Hill District neighborhood of Pittsburgh. The project design involves a series of rain gardens surrounded by vertical frames that will display thousands of glass photo tiles collected through a process of engaging the local community.

Tempesta di Mare, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$12,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support performances of See Famed Apollo!, William Boyce's 1739 ode to Saint Cecilia, patron saint of music, written for soloists, chorus, and orchestra. The orchestra will perform the work in collaboration with Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra, and the Westminster Kantorei of Princeton, New Jersey.

Wilma Theater, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the U.S. premiere production of Under the Whaleback by British playwright Richard Bean, directed by Artistic Director Blanka Zizka. Set aboard three different ships, the play explores themes of relationships between fathers and sons, generational responsibility, and pride in work.


Number of Grants: 45          Total Amount: $1,033,000

 
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