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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.

TEXAS

Alley Theatre
Houston, TX
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support a production of Warrior Class by Kenneth Lin. Set in Baltimore and New York City, the political drama portrays the life of a son of Chinese immigrants who is a decorated war veteran and Asian American politician whose bid for Congress is threatened when a secret from the past emerges.

Artpace, Inc. (aka Artpace San Antonio)
San Antonio, TX
$60,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support an International Artist-in-Residence program. The program will invite as many as nine artists selected by guest curators to produce and exhibit new work during a two-month residency that will provide housing, work space, technical assistance, transportation costs, and a stipend.

Aurora Picture Show
Houston, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support several curated film series. Short films, documentaries, experimental work, and feature-length narrative films will be presented.

Austin Film Society
Austin, TX
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the presentation of several curated film and video series. The 13 series will include the ongoing exhibition of contemporary documentaries, experimental work, and the presentation of films from Europe, Asia, South America, and the Middle East.

Austin Lyric Opera
Austin, TX
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a new production of Gounod's Faust set in the 1940s and '50s. Utilizing video projections to set the stage, this co-production with Arizona Opera, Lyric Opera Baltimore, and Opera Lyra Ottawa, will include creative team director Bernard Uzan, scenery by Eric Stroud, projection by Doug Provost, and lighting by Michael Baumgarten and also includes a cast led by Jonathan Boyd in the role of Faust, Jamie Offenbach as Mephistopheles, and Hyung Yun as Valentine.

Ballet Austin, Inc.
Austin, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of Snow White, choreographed by Nellie van Bommel. The one-act ballet will be performed by Ballet Austin II dancers, and will be van Bommel's third work for Ballet Austin.

Ballroom Cultural Arts Foundation (aka Ballroom Marfa)
Marfa, TX
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a series of three solo exhibitions. Following a two- or three-month residency, artists Enrico David, Teresa Hubbard, Alexander Birchler, and Rashid Johnson will create site-specific installations that explore themes of race and identity in the American West.

Brazosport College
Lake Jackson, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Lila Downs Concert & Outreach Project, a residency with a focus on Mexican heritage and culture with world music. World music artist Lila Downs will perform at the Clarion at Brazosport College, as well as participate in a pre-concert lecture and lead lectures for high school girls, in this focused effort to reach the low-income, Hispanic populations in the cities of Clute and Freeport, TX, and surrounding communities.

Browne, Jenny
San Antonio, TX
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

Cine Las Americas
Austin, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Cine Las Americas International Film Festival. The 16th festival, with most events taking place at the Alamo Drafthouse South Lamar, will feature narrative and documentary features, short films, and youth cinema made by or about Latinos and indigenous peoples of the Americas, Portugal, and Spain.

City of Austin, Texas (on behalf of Cultural Affairs Division)
Austin, TX
$45,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support a cultural tourism plan and training program for arts and cultural organizations in Austin and the surrounding area. The Cultural Affairs Division will convene partners from the nonprofit arts and culture community and destination management entities, such as the Austin Convention and Visitors Bureau, to form the Tourism Task Force. The task force will advise the division on development of a cultural tourism plan.

Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
Houston, TX
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a survey exhibition, catalogue, and special edition poster featuring the drawings of Trenton Doyle Hancock. The exhibition of drawings, prints, and works on paper, will feature 16 years of his work, highlighting the mechanics and technique unique to Hancock's (b. 1974) drawings.

Da Camera Society of Texas
Houston, TX
$22,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support chamber music concerts, the premiere of a new work, radio broadcasts, and educational activities. Plans include a series of concerts of music created late in an artist's career including Beethoven's late string quartets and piano sonatas, the last quartets of Shostakovich, and a 50th anniversary tribute to John Coltrane's Love Supreme; a premiere and residency by composer Lei Liang; and master classes and panel discussions.

Dallas Black Dance Theatre
Dallas, TX
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of Calaveras, a new work by choreographers Armando Silva and Richard Freeman, Jr. Calaveras will explore the Dia de Los Muertos (Day of the Dead) tradition through music, theater, dance, and puppetry.

Dallas Opera
Dallas, TX
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support performances of Tod Machover and Robert Pinsky's Death and the Powers, developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab. In an original creation by director Diane Paulus, the production will feature soprano Joelle Harvey and mezzo-soprano Patricia Risley and will involve designer Alex McDowell, choregrapher Karole Armitage, with technology created by the MIT Media Lab.

Dallas Symphony Association, Inc.
Dallas, TX
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the commissioning, premiere, and broadcast of a new work by 17-year-old composer Conrad Tao in observance of the 50th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy with related educational activities. Plans include four performances of the work, master classes by the composer with high school students, a radio broadcast, and collaborative events with the Sixth Floor Museum, the Mayor's Office, and the Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs.

Dallas Theater Center
Dallas, TX
$70,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the development and world premiere musical production of Stagger Lee by Will Power and Justin Ellington. Known for energetic hip-hop interpretation of stories that speak to young urban audiences, Power's story is based on African American folk tales and portrays the history of African American music.

Documentary Arts, Inc.
Dallas, TX
$35,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support Masters of Traditional Arts Touch Screens. The project will create interactive kiosks and wall environments containing photographs, interviews, video, audio, and biographical texts about the 350 NEA National Heritage Fellows. The touch screens will update existing DVD kiosks and will be made available to museums, libraries, and cultural organizations nationwide.

Downtown Bryan Association
Bryan, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support ArtFill: Art as Infill, a public art installation. In partnership with the City of Bryan, the association will select an artist to lead the creation of a semi-permanent community art installation for the north end of downtown.

El Paso Symphony Orchestra Association, Inc.
El Paso, TX
$27,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the El Paso Symphony Youth Orchestras program. Students advance their musical skills in lessons and participation in small group ensembles based on age including The El Paso Youth Orchestra, the El Paso Symphony Youth String Ensembles, the El Paso Youth Symphonic, and the El Paso Youth String Philharmonic.

Esperanza Peace and Justice Center
San Antonio, TX
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Arte es Vida Westside Cultural Project. Activities including concerts, dance performances, film screenings, and workshops will engage the community.

Essbaum, Jill Alexander
Austin, TX
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

Fort Worth Opera Association, Inc.
Fort Worth, TX
$17,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support performances of Tom Cipullo's Glory Denied. The production of this work marks Fort Worth Opera's continued effort to produce contemporary opera.

Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature & Fine Arts
Houston, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the print and electronic publication and promotion of the journal Gulf Coast, including a reading series, exclusive free online content, and independent press book and magazine fair. The journal regularly reviews almost exclusively first books of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.

Houston Ballet Foundation
Houston, TX
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of Stanton Welch's Rite of Spring, and a new work by Taiwanese choreographer Edwaard Liang. The project will include information on each ballet such as articles, historical information, synopses, image galleries, and interviews and biographies with choreographers, designers, dancers, and musicians, which will be posted on the company's website.

Houston Children's Chorus
Houston, TX
$18,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support Music in the Schools, an after-school, weekly choral music program. Professional musicians will provide after-school ensemble and one-on-one instruction, in preparation for a collaborative performance with the Houston Children's Chorus at the end of each semester.

Houston Cinema Arts Society
Houston, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the sixth Cinema Arts Festival Houston. The five-day festival includes narrative and documentary work, mixed-media performances, new media, and interactive installations.

Houston Grand Opera Association, Inc.
Houston, TX
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support performances of Cruzar la Cara de la Luna. This unique work blending the genres of opera and mariachi will help introduce mariachi fans to opera, and opera fans to mariachi, and will feature musical accompaniment by the renowned ensemble Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlan.

Houston Symphony Society
Houston, TX
$35,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support concert presentations and a radio broadcast of composer Alban Berg's opera Wozzeck. With baritone Roman Trekel in the title role, the performances will be conducted by Music Director Hans Graf and will use unusual orchestra placement, movement, supertitles and dramatic lighting.

Kitchen Dog Theater Company (aka Kitchen Dog)
Dallas, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the 15th annual New Works Festival. The festival will feature as many as six staged readings picked from more than 350 scripts submitted nationwide; Playwrights Under Progress Fest, which consists of five staged readings of short plays written by local high school students; and a fully produced play chosen from those that were submitted in the past year.

Lubbock Arts Alliance, Inc.
Lubbock, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Lubbock Arts Festival featuring The Monster Engine! by Dave DeVries. The 34th annual festival will highlight DeVries' work as a painter, illustrator, and graphic designer; DeVries takes children's drawings of monsters and renders them in comic book realism.

Menil Foundation, Inc. (aka The Menil Collection)
Houston, TX
$60,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support an exhibition of Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze (1913-51). A leading figure in Tachisme, the European equivalent of American Abstract Expressionism, "Wols" -- as he was commonly known -- was an artist, draftsman, watercolorist, painter, and photographer active in France.

Mid Texas Symphony Society, Inc.
Seguin, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support a multimedia performance that will include a slideshow assembled by Astrophysicist Dr. Eric Schlegel, displaying planet photography while violinist Charles Yang performs Bruch's Scottish Fantasy and Holst's The Planets. The project will also include a pre-concert conversation about astronomy led by Schlegel, two shortened concerts designed for fourth- and fifth-grade students, and discounted tickets for students, the military, families, and musicians.

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (aka MFAH) (on behalf of Glassell School of Art)
Houston, TX
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the Glassell School of Art's Core Residency Program. The program provides one- or two-year-long residencies for artists and art scholars and comprises three components: 1) the resources, support, and environment necessary for fellows to continue to develop their practices; 2) an exhibition program designed to stimulate dialogue and experimentation; and 3) a series of visits from distinguished arts professionals who consult with fellows on their work and give public lectures.

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (aka MFAH)
Houston, TX
$60,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the exhibition American Adversaries: West and Copley in a Transatlantic World and accompanying catalogue. The exhibition will explore how West (1738-1820) and Copley (1738-1815) were innovators, painting contemporary events ripped from the headlines, not the more typical mythological or biblical subject matter.

Project Row Houses
Houston, TX
$45,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a series of residencies for artists to undertake projects in Houston's Third Ward. Site-specific artist installations by approximately 14 artists will be installed in the shotgun-style row houses along Dowling Street. Resident artists will work with community members from the Third Ward in realizing their projects and will be provided a commissioning fee, travel costs, materials stipend, and documentation of their work.

San Anto Cultural Arts, Inc.
San Antonio, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the San Anto Cultural Arts Community Mural/Public Art Project. The project will include multigenerational community meetings involving youth, adults, and seniors living in San Antonio, who will work as a team to develop thematic designs for the mural.

University of Houston (on behalf of Arte Publico Press)
Houston, TX
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the conversion of the press's backlist to e-books for availability through the gamut of e-distributors and platforms. Founded in 1979, Arte Público is one of the oldest and largest publishers of Latino authors in the US, including such distinguished writers as Rodolfo Anaya, Ana Castillo, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Rolando Hinojosa, Nicholasa Mohr, Pat Mora, Miguel Pinero, Tomas Rivera, Gary Soto, Victor Villasenor, and Helena Maria Viramontes.

Van Cliburn Foundation, Inc.
Fort Worth, TX
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the commissioning of a solo piano work by Christopher Theofanidis, and performances featuring the Brentano String Quartet and conductor Leonard Slatkin. Founded in 1961, the foundation's mission is to identify and promote the finest talent in classical music worldwide through piano competitions, concerts, and education programs in Fort Worth and Dallas schools.

Visions In Rhythm (aka Tapestry Dance Company)
Austin, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the 13th annual Soul to Sole Tap Festival. Artists participating in the project include Acia Gray, Arthur Duncan, Travis Knights, Jason Samuels-Smith, Barbara Phillips, and Brenda Bufalino, among others.

Voices Breaking Boundaries
Houston, TX
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Borderlines Living Room Art. The project will examine the struggle of Mexican American and South Asian border regions through performances, community workshops, documentaries, catalogues, and an interactive website.

VSA arts of Texas
Austin, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support Body Shift, a dance festival for people with and without disabilities, featuring choreographer Karen Nelson. Nelson will provide free public performances, lead a series of workshops, and participate in a "dance jam" with dancers who have disabilities.

Youth Orchestras of San Antonio
San Antonio, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the commission and premiere of a new concerto for electric violin composed by Kenji Bunch and performed by electric violinist Tracy Silverman, with associated outreach activities. Silverman and Bunch will lead free workshops for economically disadvantaged youth at elementary, middle, and high schools located in San Antonio and work with as many as 40 youth string players who participate in the Orchestra's free, daily after-school music program; students and their families will receive complementary tickets to the concert.

Zachary Scott Theater Center (aka ZACH Theatre)
Austin, TX
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the world premiere of Mad Beat Hip & Gone, a new play directed by Steven Dietz with live music. Inspired by the famed literary journey of Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassady, the play is a coming-of-age tale and a tribute to American wanderlust, exploring the story of two 1950s youth who, unlike Kerouac and Cassady, did not become famous while trying to be hip members of the beat generation.


Number of Grants: 44          Total Amount: $1,115,000

 
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