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FY 2009 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access to Artistic Excellence I/Challenge America Fast-Track Grants/Creativity & Aging/Literature Fellowships (Poetry)

Some details of the projects listed in this grant announcement are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

GEORGIA

Albany Symphony Association, Inc.
Albany, GA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support My Soul is a Witness: Spirit and Spirituality in the Music of America's Enslaved. The concert series, featuring tenor Leroy E. Bynum and the Albany State University Concert Chorale, will highlight the significance of the genre known as African American spirituals.

American Jewish Committee
Atlanta, GA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival. Film presentations exploring themes of Jewish culture, heritage, and history will be augmented by guest speakers and panel discussions featuring actors, filmmakers, academics, and authors. Recent participants have included director Paul Mazursky and actors Jerry Adler and Judd Hirsch.

Art Papers, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support reviews of contemporary artists' work in the journal Art Papers. The reviews section includes an average of 32 articles by writers, many of whom will be published for the first time.

Atlanta Botanical Garden, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the presentation in Atlanta of Henry Moore in America, with accompanying education programs. British artist Moore (1898-1986) is widely considered to be one of the most important sculptors of the 20th century.

Atlanta Chinese Dance Company
Norcross, GA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support West to East, East to West, an original Chinese dance production. Featuring guest artists Hangdong Xu of Dance China New York and Tara Lee of the Atlanta Ballet, the production will examine the influence of western dance techniques on traditional dance in China.

Atlanta Opera
Atlanta, GA
$12,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the performance of Verdi's Il Trovatore. Educational programs will include an Opera 101 course open to the public that will provide a synopsis of the plot, musical highlights, and production anecdotes. 

Better Hometown Task Force, Inc.
Dawson, GA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Southern Soul Festival. The event will take place in the historic downtown area of Dawson, Georgia, and will feature local and regional artists who will perform for audiences from the surrounding nine-county area.

Center for Puppetry Arts
Atlanta, GA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a bilingual puppetry adaptation of Miguel de Cervantes' 1605 classic, Don Quixote, with accompanying educational and outreach activities. Associate Producer Bobby Cox will direct and adapt the work in collaboration with Manuel Moran, Ph.D., founder and artistic director of New York's Teatro Society of the Educational Arts.

Clayton State University
Morrow, GA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Spivey Hall Spring Bach Festival, a series of concerts and educational activities. Artists to be presented include the Academy of Ancient Music conducted by harpsichordist Richard Egarr, pianist Angela Hewitt, organist Vincent Dubois, harpsichordist Trevor Pinnock, and cellist Daniel Muller-Schott.

Hambidge Center for Creative Arts & Sciences, Inc.
Rabun Gap, GA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the New Artist Initiative residency program. While in residence for two to four weeks, artists will receive stipends, private cabin studios, and meals.

Horizon Theatre Company, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the 2009 New South Playwrights Festival. Project activities will include a full production of a new play, staged readings of new works, and a week of professional mentoring for high school and college writers.

Independent Media Artists of GA, Etc., Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 33rd Atlanta Film Festival. The festival presents the best of current independent film and video to an audience of 13,000 people.

NAMES Project Foundation
Atlanta, GA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support Call My Name, a series of quilting workshops targeting the African American community. The workshops will encourage dialogue about the AIDS quilt and related issues of recovery and loss.

National Black Arts Festival
Atlanta, GA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Cant's, Don't, Won't Stop Theater Festival of poetry, language, and hip-hop. Artists will perform and participate in residency activities such as workshops and post-performance discussions.

Rathburn, Chelsea
Decatur, GA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a creative writing fellowship.

Robert W. Woodruff Arts Center, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a touring exhibition of the work of African American self-taught artist Bill Traylor (c.1854-1949), with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The project is being co-organized with the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts in Alabama.

Robert W. Woodruff Arts Center, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support A King Celebration, a project of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra that will celebrate the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In collaboration with Morehouse College, the project will include performances, educational outreach activities, and a national radio broadcast.

Robert W. Woodruff Arts Center, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a world premiere production of Smart Cookie, a new play by Julia Brownell. The Alliance Theatre production will be directed by Susan V. Booth.

Sautee Nacoochee Community Association, Inc.
Sautee Nacoochee, GA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the commissioning, development, and production of Headwaters 2009: More Stories from a Goodly Portion of Beautiful Northeast Georgia. The company will create a community-based performance piece using stories gathered from Sautee Nacoochee and the surrounding areas.

Savannah College of Art and Design
Savannah, GA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the exhibition Richard Hunt: Promethean Mythmaker [Sculptures, Drawings, and Prints]. Hunt will participate in a lecture that will be available to students on three SCAD campuses via Webcast.

Southern Poetry Review, Inc.
Savannah, GA
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of the Southern Poetry Review. The journal will advertise in several established literary journals.

Springer Opera House Arts Association, Inc.
Columbus, GA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of Charm School by Eddie Lee and Larry Larson. Producing Artistic Director Paul Pierce and Associate Artistic Director Ron Anderson will partner with the Business Resource Center of the Pastoral Institute to provide education and outreach assistance to area businesses.

Synchronicity Performance Group, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production and tour of Women and War, an original, ensemble-created work. The tour will include full performances and lecture-demonstrations related to the production.


Number of Grants: 23          Total Amount: $430,000

 
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