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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.

WASHINGTON

Arts and Visually Impaired Audiences
Seattle, WA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support guest artist performances in Seattle's Olympic Sculpture Park that will be designed to be accessible for audiences with visual disabilities. AVIA will provide an audio-described tour of the sculpture in the park between performances featuring interdisciplinary ensembles Lelavision and Aono Jikken and African ensembles Anzanga and Ocheami that will occur at different locations in the park.

Arts Corps
Seattle, WA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support Advance Teen Artist Program that provides Seattle area youth weekly, year-round, after-school, advanced arts classes in music, spoken word poetry, theater, and dance taught by professional teaching artists. Arts Corps will provide professional development for artists and manage the classes that take place in Youngstown Cultural Arts Center.

Bellevue Arts Museum
Bellevue, WA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a retrospective exhibition of ceramic sculptor Patti Warashina. Organized by the American Museum of Ceramic Art, the exhibition will feature Warashina's (b. 1940) prolific output, unique for its great variety in size, scale, techniques, and concepts.

Bellingham Festival of Music
Bellingham, WA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Bellingham Festival of Music, a two-week summer festival featuring orchestral and chamber music concerts throughout the community. Plans include five orchestra performances conducted by Artistic Director Michael Palmer; guest artist appearances by pianist Garrick Ohlsson, cellist Joshua Roman, and soprano Heidi Grant Murphy; free chamber concerts at Whatcom Museum of History and Art; and educational activities such as master classes, open rehearsals, and pre-concert lectures.

Broadway Center for the Performing Arts
Tacoma, WA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support World Class Artists for Local Underserved Audiences, a series of performances and outreach programs by visiting artists. Featured artists Circus Oz, the Mark O'Connor Quartet, Whim W'him, and the Simon Shaheen Quintet will participate in residencies, workshops, master classes, and lecture-demonstrations with the local community.

Celtic Arts Foundation
Mount Vernon, WA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Masters of Scottish Arts Concert and Celtic Arts Instructional Schools. The Celtic Arts Foundation will produce a concert of traditional music and dance performed by masters of Scottish bagpipes, Scottish-style drums, fiddling, and dance from the British Isles and Canada. Also, the master musicians will teach classes for aspiring musicians.

Cinema Seattle (aka Seattle International Film Festival)
Seattle, WA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 39th Seattle International Film Festival. Approximately 250 filmmakers will be invited to the 25-day event where more than 400 feature-length and short films will be screened.

Copper Canyon Press
Port Townsend, WA
$70,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication, promotion, and distribution of new print and electronic books of poetry. Scheduled authors include W.S. Merwin, Lucia Perillo, Bob Hicok, Sarah Lindsay, Kwame Dawes, Jim Harrison, Forrest Gander, Jane Miller, Brenda Shaughnessy, and Frank Stanford.

Dr. James W. Washington Jr & Janie Rogella Washington Foundation (aka James Washington Foundation)
Seattle, WA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support an artist-in-residence program. Artists will receive a stipend, housing, and 24-hour studio access for emerging artists to develop large-scale sculptures, an exhibit, and a public program at the home, studio, and gardens of James W. Washington (1909-2000), a regional pioneer in sculpture and painting in Seattle's historically African American Central District.

Early Music America, Inc.
Seattle, WA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Young Performers Festival. Plans include 10 concerts held in conjunction with the Boston Early Music Festival by selected college and university early music ensembles; a concert by the Festival Ensemble, a group of 25 to 30 students selected through a juried process from colleges and universities throughout North America; and career development workshops.

Earshot Jazz Society of Seattle
Seattle, WA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the 2013 Earshot Jazz Festival. Performances of more than 250 artists such as NEA Jazz Master Cecil Taylor, Roscoe Mitchell, Vijay Iyer, and Robert Glasper are slated to perform in more than 60 events in a dozen venues across Seattle.

Henry Gallery Association, Inc. (aka Henry Art Gallery)
Seattle, WA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support  the exhibition Out [o] Fashion Photography: Embracing Beauty. The exhibition will explore the interplay between historical and contemporary representations of beauty by presenting more than 90 works by artists such as Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, E. J. Bellocq, Marsha Burns, Imogen Cunningham, Edward Curtis, Bruce Davidson, Fred Miller, Hope Sandrow, Cindy Sherman, Lorna Simpson, Andy Warhol, Weegee, Carrie Mae Weems, and Garry Winogrand.

Mangold, Sarah
Edmonds, WA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

Northwest Film Forum
Seattle, WA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support a curated film exhibition series. The project will present director retrospectives, premieres, films for children, and thematic programming in Northwest Film Forum's two theaters.

Northwest Native American Basketweavers Association
Covington, WA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Annual Gathering of Basketweavers, Youth Weaving Programs and Mini- Gatherings. The Gathering offers an opportunity for indigenous weavers to showcase their basketry and participate in seminars about relevant issues, while other project activities provide learning opportunities for youth and adults in rural communities.

On the Boards
Seattle, WA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a series of dance presentations and associated education and outreach activities. Artists will include KT Niehoff, Catherine Cabeen, Heather Kravas, Zoe Scofield and Juniper Shuey, and Miguel Gutierrez, as well as additional artists.

Pacific Northwest Ballet Association
Seattle, WA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a new ballet by choreographer Christopher Wheeldon, and the presentation of Diamonds and Agnon, choreographed by George Balanchine. All works will be performed in a program titled Repertory Program Six --All Tchaikovsky, and will be accompanied by education and outreach programs such as lectures, previews, post-performance question-and-answer sessions, and dress rehearsals.

Pilchuck Glass School
Seattle, WA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support an artist residency program. Artists will be provided with resources, facilities, and technical assistance for a variety of residency opportunities including the John Hauberg Residency for distinguished artists whose medium is not glass, summer artists' residency, and emerging artists' residency.

Pratt Fine Arts Center
Seattle, WA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the MasterArtist and Artist-in-Residence program. Pratt will bring 10 nationally and internationally renowned artists to Seattle to present lectures, exhibit new work, and teach workshops in jewelry, metalsmithing, glass, sculpture, wood, painting, and printmaking. Select Master Artists will be asked to stay and participate in a month-long artist-in-residence program.

Seattle Art Museum
Seattle, WA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a traveling exhibition and catalogue featuring the work of Robert Davidson, a Haida artist from British Columbia. (The Haida are indigenous people from British Columbia in Canada.) The exhibition will feature approximately 45 paintings, sculptures, and prints---bold abstract works that build upon Davidson’s (b. 1946) earlier, more traditional influences.

Seattle Children's Theatre Association, Inc.
Seattle, WA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support a production of The Edge of Peace, the third production in The Ware Trilogy, a series of plays written by Suzan Zeder set in the 1940s rural town of Ware, Illinois. The play features a host of characters awaiting news from their loved ones during World War II.

Seattle Opera
Seattle, WA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support performances of Poulenc's La Voix Humaine and Puccini's Suor Angelica in a double-bill production. Accompanied by adult and youth education events, including in-school presentations, free dress rehearsals for high school students, pre-performance talks, and post-performance question-and-answer sessions, performances will be broadcast via radio and will stream online through the company's partnership with the local classical music station.

Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Seattle, WA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the American Commissions and Premieres project featuring new works by Elliott Carter and John Luther Adams. The programming will feature the world premieres of the two new American works along with works by Johannes Brahms, Robert Schumann, Gioachino Rossini, and Dmitri Shostakovich.

Songwriting Works Educational Foundation
Port Townsend, WA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the creation of music composed by adults with cognitive disabilities and the development of a CD that will feature the original compositions. Music producer Orville Johnson and singer-songwriter Anke Summerhill will help participants compose, record music, and participate in SongFest, a culminating performance that will include the guest artists and project participants.

SouthEast Effective Development
Seattle, WA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support Guest Gallery exhibitions of East Asian brush painting and sculptures reflecting the cultural identities and experiences of East African girls living in Seattle, with related community outreach activities targeting economically disadvantaged residents in Seattle. The Puget Sound Sumi Artists will perform public demonstrations of Asian ink wash painting and calligraphy; artist Mary Cross will hold art-making workshops with East African girls who will create plaster casts of hands embellished with henna designs, for display alongside Cross' own works in the exhibit, and participate in a public panel discussion with other guest artists.

Unidentified Moving Objects Company, Inc.
Vashon, WA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support Red Tiger Tales, a play that weaves together traditional Buddhist, Zen, Tao, and Sufi legends and puppetry, created and performed by the UMO Ensemble, a physical theater company. The ensemble will work with the Seattle School District and ACT Theatre's Young Playwrights Program to provide a series of matinees targeting economically disadvantaged students.

Village Theatre
Issaquah, WA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support Village Originals, a program of new musical development that will include readings, workshops, and a production of the new musical Trails by Jeff Thomson, Jordan Mann, and Christy Hall. Trails follows two friends hiking the Appalachian Trail, celebrating nature's beauty while exploring undying love, unfulfilled dreams, and the consequences that arise from holding on too tightly to the past.

Walla Walla Symphony Society, Inc.
Walla Walla, WA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support performances by PROJECT Trio and associated outreach activities. PROJECT Trio will collaborate with symphony musicians to offer a public symphonic concert, an educational family concert, and a chamber ensemble soiree, as well as provide music education programs for schools located throughout Washington, targeting economically disadvantaged, geographically isolated youth.

Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission
Olympia, WA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support Celebrating Cultures: Washington State Parks' Folk and Traditional Arts in the Parks. In conjunction with the commission's centennial celebration, Celebrating Cultures will present as many as two concert series and five festival events, featuring folk, ethnic, and indigenous artists from around the state.

Youth in Focus
Seattle, WA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the Core Curriculum Photography Classes program. Underserved high school students will work with professional artists to explore black-and-white photography as well as other digital media in the open darkroom and digital lab.


Number of Grants: 30          Total Amount: $775,000

 
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