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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.

VIRGINIA

1708 East Main, Inc. (aka 1708 Gallery )
Richmond, VA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support InLight Richmond 2013, a juried exhibition of light-based art. The exhibition will include video projections, interactive environments, multi-media projects, light installations, a community lantern parade, and a curatorial program in which a group of artists will be commissioned by a curator to produce projects that respond directly to the site. Facades, walls, storefronts, doorways, parking lots, alleyways, and the natural environment in the Shockoe Bottom neighborhood will serve as installation sites.

American Youth Philharmonic Orchestras
Annandale, VA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support a master class, dress rehearsal, and public performance with the Ahn Trio and members of the American Youth Philharmonic conducted by Daniel Spalding. All activities are scheduled to take place at the George Mason University Center for the Arts and will be targeted to engage economically disadvantaged middle school students.

Blue Ridge Traditional Arts, Inc.
Galax, VA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support traditional music programming at the Blue Ridge Music Center. The project will present concerts, lectures, and workshops celebrating music and dance traditions of the Appalachian Mountains, featuring local and regional talent, including NEA National Heritage Fellow Wayne Henderson.

Fairfax Symphony Orchestra
Fairfax, VA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support a concert featuring Ricardo Morales, principal clarinetist of the Philadelphia Orchestra, and a series of outreach activities that will engage Latino and Hispanic residents in Virginia. Morales will provide bilingual workshops for students attending Spanish immersion schools, an open rehearsal for students, a visit to the Levine School of Music, lectures for adults in Fairfax, and transportation to the concert will be provided by Fairfax Symphony Orchestra to students attending Fairfax County Public Schools.

Folkstreams, Inc.
Delaplane, VA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support Folkstreams.net, an Internet site that streams films about folk and traditional arts. Folkstreams, Inc., will continue to provide access to films concerned with traditional arts and culture, while adding new films to the website, developing contextual background materials for these films, and implementing an open source data management system to make the site easier to maintain and administer.

Heifetz International Music Institute, Inc.
Staunton, VA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support performance and communication training for young musicians. Under the artistic direction of founder Daniel Heifetz, the six-week tuition-free summer program held in Staunton, Virginia, will train more than 60 artists in the areas of voice, freedom of expression, public speaking, movement, and drama.

Piedmont Council of the Arts
Charlottesville, VA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the development of a Charlottesville-area cultural plan, encompassing the city of Charlottesville, Albemarle County, and select surrounding counties. Consultant Craig Dreeszen will facilitate the planning process that will focus on cultural asset mapping, regional cultural tourism, and city-county investment in the arts.

Richmond Ballet, Inc.
Richmond, VA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the 2013 New Works Festival, which will feature original ballets created for the company by both emerging and established choreographers. During their residency, artists will be supported by the Richmond Ballet's artistic and production staff to create original lighting concepts, scenery, and costumes for each piece.

Seay, Allison
Midlothian, VA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

Signature Theatre, Inc. (aka Signature)
Arlington, VA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support a production of Shakespeare's R & J, adapted and directed by Artistic Associate Joe Calarco. Set in a present-day all-male Catholic boarding school where Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet has been banned, the piece tells the story of a group of students who unearth the play and secretly perform the text.

Synetic Theatre, Inc.
Arlington, VA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the creation and production of a 90-minute, movement-based, wordless adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tempest with an original score. With the script on hand, the piece will be developed primarily through improvisation by a company of actors trained in the theater's specific vocabulary of movement and choreography, while the score is developed simultaneously throughout the rehearsal process.

Virginia Arts Festival, Inc.
Norfolk, VA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support Cultivating Community Through Dance, which will include the presentation of the Birmingham Royal Ballet, Keigwin + Company, and the Richmond Ballet. The project will include in-depth residency activities such as master classes, workshops, and dialogue for K- 12 students, pre-professional dancers, and the general public.

Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (aka VCCA)
Amherst, VA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Artist Communities
To support residencies for visual artists and composers. As many as 10 African American and Latino artists will be selected for three- to five-week residencies. An estimated audience of 3,000 will benefit from this project.

Virginia Opera Association, Inc.
Norfolk, VA
$22,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a new production of Andre Previn's A Streetcar Named Desire to launch the Made in America series. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Tennessee Williams, the production is comprised of a creative team that includes conductor Maestro Ari Pelto, director Sam Helfrich, set designer Andromache Chalfant, who will be joined by singers Kelly Cae Hogan, David Adam Moore, Julia Ebner, and Scott Ramsey.

Virginia's Heritage Music Trail The Crooked Road
Abingdon, VA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support Crooked Road's Traditional Music Education Program of professional development for teachers and after-school classes for children programs in rural southwest Virginia counties. In the spring and summer, classroom teachers will be trained to use an Appalachian music lesson plan followed by assembly programs and classroom visits by Emily Spencer and the Mount Rogers Community Band.

Visual Arts Center of Richmond
Richmond, VA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the exhibition Megan Marlatt: Substitutions for a Game Never Played, a series of art workshops, and a culminating public parade that will celebrate Spanish art. The project will be a collaboration with the Boys & Girls Club and the Richmond Public Library, and will feature Barcelona-based visual artists Neus Hosta and David Ventura, who specialize in making capgrossos (big heads), artistic creations that originate in Spain.


Number of Grants: 16          Total Amount: $317,500

 
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