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FY 2011 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access to Artistic Excellence | 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

Abilene Philharmonic Orchestra Association
Abilene, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support a performance by Cirque de la Symphonie and a collaborative series of musical performances, exhibitions, and lecture-demonstrations.

Alley Theatre
Houston, TX
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the production of the world premiere of The Medusa Body by Rajiv Joseph. A psychological thriller, the play will be developed during a residency of workshops and readings, and will include Joseph's participation in an "Affinity Series Symposium" with his collaborators and local experts whose area of expertise relate to the larger societal issues raised by the play.

Amarillo Symphony, Inc.
Amarillo , TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support performances and related outreach activities concluding the Symphony's 85th season. Featured guest artists will include mezzo-soprano Marietta Simpson, soprano Jeanine Thames, and pianist Davide Cabassi in a performance of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Major and Mahler's Symphony No. 2, Resurrection.

Artpace, Inc. (aka Artpace San Antonio)
San Antonio, TX
$60,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the International Artist-in-Residence program. The program will invite up to nine artists selected by guest curators to produce and exhibit new work at Artpace in San Antonio 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: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the Annual Screening Series. Short films, documentaries, experimental work, and feature-length narrative films will be presented.

Austin Film Society
Austin, TX
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the presentation of several curated film and video series. The nine series will include the ongoing exhibition of contemporary documentaries and the presentation of films from Japan and Hong Kong, as well as the films of directors Agnes Varda and Jacques Demy and British filmmakers Derek Jarman, Peter Greenaway and Ken Russell.

Badgerdog Literary Publishing, Inc.
Austin, TX
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication, promotion, and distribution of the quarterly journal American Short Fiction. The journal will publish short stories each month exclusively on its website, and will promote its print and online content through Google network ad campaigns, Twitter, blog updates, and podcasts of authors.

Ballet Austin, Inc.
Austin, TX
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a new full-length ballet choreographed by Artistic Director Stephen Mills. The musical score, based on a non-vocal transcription of Mozart's opera The Magic Flute, will be performed by the Austin Symphony Orchestra, and the ballet will feature large dancer-manipulated shadow puppets created by ShadowLight Productions.

Ballroom Cultural Arts Foundation (aka Ballroom Marfa)
Marfa, TX
$28,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the presentation of Marfa's 2011 exhibition series. The World According to New Orleans, curated by Dan Cameron will interpret the art of New Orleans through the work of seven artists who live and work in the city and whose careers span a half-century; the film West of East, North of South by film and video artist Meredith Danluck will be the centerpiece of an exhibition by the same name that will include newly-commissioned works by visual artists and literary writers invited to respond to the film.

Blue Lapis Light, Inc.
Austin, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of Devotion, a site specific aerial dance performance over the Colorado River in Austin. The work will include an ensemble of dancers suspended above the water and others performing at the edge of river bank to music composed by Graham Reynolds, sound design by William Meadows, and an excerpt from Swan Lake performed by a solo cellist.

Capps, Ashley
Houston , TX
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

Centro Cultural Aztlan, Inc.
San Antonio, TX
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Cultural Expressions/Expressiones Culturales, a series of community arts projects involving Chicano/Latino artists. Activities will include exhibitions, workshops, literary events, and performances that preserve cultural traditions and support new and evolving art forms.

Chinati Foundation (aka La Fundación Chinati)
Marfa, TX
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a permanent installation by the artist Robert Irwin (b. 1928). The artist will transform a dilapidated hospital on the grounds of a former army base using translucent scrims throughout the interior.

City of Dallas, Texas
Dallas , TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Día del Niño Festival, highlighting Latin American traditions. Selected artists Alegre Ballet Folklórico, Cara Mía Theater Company, and the Parranda Venezuela music ensemble will be presented during the Children's Day festival that is inspired by a long-standing custom in Latin American countries including Mexico, El Salvador, and Guatemala.

Commerce Street Stage (aka The Magik Theatre)
San Antonio , TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support performances and related activities featuring the work of children's author and literacy advocate, R.L. Stine. Project activities (developed in partnership by the Magik Theatre, the San Antonio Independent School District, and the San Antonio Public Library Foundation) will include a live stage adaptation of Stine's Goosebumps, post-performance discussions with the author, and author-led workshops.

Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
Houston, TX
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the touring exhibition Donald Moffett: Twenty Years, with accompanying catalogue and educational programs. The first comprehensive survey of Moffett's (b. 1955) work, the exhibition will examine how his paintings were shaped by the political and social environments of the past 20 years and explore Moffett's own critique of being gay in America, as well as larger universal issues of loss, alienation, life, and death.

Da Camera Society of Texas
Houston, TX
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support chamber music concerts, the commissioning of a new work, a recording, radio broadcasts, and educational activities such as lectures, master classes, and in-school programs.

Dallas Opera
Dallas, TX
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a production of Tristan and Isolde by Richard Wagner. Accompanying outreach activities will include lectures, panel discussions with the artists, and a radio broadcast on classical WRR-FM.

Dallas Symphony Association, Inc.
Dallas, TX
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support world premiere performances of a new work for gamelan and orchestra by composer Stewart Copeland. Titled "Gamelan D'Drum," the performance will feature Dallas-based gamelan ensemble D'Drum and will be preceded by master classes with the composer and the Greater Dallas Youth Orchestras.

Documentary Arts, Inc. (Consortium)
Dallas, TX
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support Traditional Art and Immigration: Chinese Opera in New York, a touring exhibition. In collaboration with Beloit College, the project will use artifacts, photographs, and video to tell the story of NEA National Heritage Fellow Qi Shu Fang and her troupe of Peking Opera performers, who practice a traditional 18th-century art form that has established vital roots in America.

Dominic Walsh Dance Theater
Houston, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of dance works at the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts in Houston. The project will include the company premiere of Pas de Dans by choreographer Mats Ek and the world premiere of Walsh's Victor Frankenstein, co-created with Houston poet Addie Tsai.

Esperanza Peace and Justice Center
San Antonio, TX
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Arte es Vida Westside Cultural Project. Activities will aim to revitalize and engage San Antonio's Westside community by organizing and presenting public events, concerts, dance performances, film screenings, and workshops.

Fort Worth Opera Association, Inc.
Fort Worth, TX
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the production of Giulio Cesare (Julius Caesar) by George Frideric Handel. In keeping with the company's mission to produce a variety of work spanning the history and breadth of the art form, these performances mark the company's first production of a work from the baroque repertoire.

Glasstire
Houston, TX
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support critical writing and expansion of the online resource Glasstire. Exhibition reviews, artist interviews, and features will be commissioned for the online resource dedicated to the visual arts in Texas, which receives an estimated 110,000 visits each month.

Great Promise Inc.
Austin , TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the American Indian Heritage Festival and Powwow at the Toney Burger Center. Educational programs will be offered the day following the festival at the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum.

Houston Ballet Foundation
Houston, TX
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of new ballets. The world premiere of a work by Finnish choreographer Jorma Elo and the premiere of Grinning in Your Face by the company's associate choreographer Christopher Bruce will be complemented by historical information about the ballets, images, and artist interviews presented on the company's website.

Houston Grand Opera Association, Inc.
Houston, TX
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the production of Dead Man Walking by American composer Jake Heggie. The opera is expected to attract less traditional opera audiences because there is familiarity with Prejean's book by the same title and the 1995 film; the company plans to engage the community in preview and discussions on topics such as the death penalty and the creation process in opera.

Houston Institute for Culture
Houston, TX
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support Houston: Social Intersections, a series of concerts and related events that will present the traditional music and arts of various ethnic populations now living in Houston. The programs will include concerts and accompanying discussions, workshops, and demonstrations.

International Accordion Festival
San Antonio, TX
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the 11th annual International Accordion Festival. The festival is designed to celebrate the instrument's local identity and global reach, and present accordion traditions of ethnic, regional, and national cultures.

Journey, Anna
Houston , TX
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

Jubilee Players Inc.
Fort Worth , TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support performances of the play Shakin' the Mess Outta Misery by Shay Youngblood. In addition to the professional production, Youngblood and director Phyllis Cicero will work with South Hills and OD Wyatt High Schools to produce condensed versions of the play for their communities.

Kitchen Dog Theater Company
Dallas, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development of new plays during the 13th annual New Works Festival, complemented by educational and outreach activities. Over the course of the festival's five-week run, activities will include a mainstage production of Ponzi by Elaine Romero; a week-long workshop and staged readings of six winning scripts chosen from more than 350 submitted manuscripts; and Playwrights Under Progress (aka PUP Fest), which consists of five staged readings of short plays written by local high school students.

Lubbock Arts Alliance, Inc. (aka Lubbock Arts Alliance)
Lubbock , TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Lubbock Arts Festival, featuring an exhibit of work by visual artist Herb Williams, who creates sculptures constructed with crayons.  The festival will include other visual and performing artists from across the nation, some of whom will be selected from the state arts agency touring roster.

McAllen International Museum
McAllen , TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support Running the Numbers, an exhibit of work by digital photographer and environmental artist Chris Jordan. The artist will present a lecture for the public and another for elementary school students.

Menil Foundation, Inc. (aka The Menil Collection)
Houston, TX
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the touring exhibition Richard Serra: Drawing in Retrospect, with accompanying educational programs. The exhibition will be the first retrospective of Serra's drawings (b. 1939), as he is best known for his monumental steel sculptures.

Mexic-Arte (aka Mexic-Arte Museum)
Austin, TX
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the exhibition Young Latino Artists. The exhibition will feature current work by emerging Texas artists selected by guest curator Alex Freeman from Artpace in San Antonio.

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (on behalf of Glassell School of Art)
Houston, TX
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   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: the resources, support, and environment necessary for fellows to continue to develop their practices; an exhibition program designed to stimulate dialogue and experimentation; and a series of visits from distinguished arts professionals who consult with fellows on their work and give public lectures.

Project Row Houses
Houston, TX
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the Public Art Projects Program, a residency program for artists in Houston's Third Ward. The initiatives created under this program include installation opportunities for artists in shotgun-style row houses, a summer studio program for students, and the participation of artists in a public art program.

Southwestern Alternate Media Projects, Inc. (aka SWAMP)
Houston, TX
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production and distribution of the public television series The Territory. The Territory is thematically programmed and includes work from various cinematic genres: documentary, animation, narrative, and experimental.

University of Houston (on behalf of Community Design Resource Center)
Houston, TX
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the Collaborative Community Design Initiative: No. 2. by the Community Design Resource Center, through which a plan will be created for the sustainable development of select Houston communities. Program activities will offer residents and community stakeholders comprehensive design assistance, including goal setting, visioning, and implementation workshops to generate design strategies collaboratively and identify potential civic projects that build upon existing resources and strengths of four Houston communities.

University of Houston (on behalf of Arte Público Press)
Houston, TX
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of the collected works of some of the founders of the Latino literary movement of the 1960s and 1970s, published by Arte Público Press. The press has launched the careers of most of the Latino writers that have achieved success in North America, publishing more than 30 books per year of Latino writing.

University of Texas at Brownsville/Texas Southmost College
Brownsville , TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support a public performance by the wind quintet Imani Winds. Outreach activities include interactive concerts for local middle and high school students, as well as workshops and master classes for university students.

University of Texas at El Paso (on behalf of Stanlee and Gerald Rubin Center for the Arts)
El Paso, TX
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support exhibitions of contemporary art with accompanying catalogues at the Stanlee and Geraldine Rubin Art Center. Exhibitions will include a site-specific installation by Mexico City-based Argentine artist Enriqué Jezik who creates large scale sculptures with political and military themes and a traveling exhibition of 14 contemporary jewelers and blacksmiths curated by Susan Ramljak, editor of Metalsmith magazine, titled Different Tempers.

Virtuosi of Houston
Houston, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support chamber music concerts performed by young, emerging artists in Zilkha Hall of the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts in Houston. Founding directors Franz Anton Krager and Andrzej Grabiec will provide coaching, conducting, and artistic direction for the participating young musicians who will be selected through an audition process.

Visions In Rhythm (aka Tapestry Dance Company)
Austin, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the 11th annual Soul to Sole Tap Festival. Artists participating in the project include Acia Gray, Jason Samuel-Smith, Jason Janas, Brenda Bufalino, Barbara Phillips, and Linda Sohl-Ellison.

VORTEX Repertory Company (aka The VORTEX)
Austin, TX
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the production of Sarah Silver Hand, a new musical composed by Chad Salvata and directed by Artistic Director Bonnie Cullum, with accompanying outreach activities. Inspired by the Grimm Brothers' fairy tale The Girl with No Hands, the work portrays a young woman's "hero journey" as she overcomes the loss of both hands and discovers her own truths and the power of self transformation.

Zachary Scott Theater Center
Austin, TX
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the regional premiere and second fully staged production of The Book of Grace by playwright Suzan-Lori Parks, with accompanying educational and outreach activities. The play is the story of a prodigal son reunited with his father that explores border issues in Texas, the ways we create community, our national identity, and the creation of history by those charged with recording it.


Number of Grants: 47          Total Amount: $1,283,500

 
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