FY 2006 Grant Awards
Access to Artistic
Excellence II/Arts on Radio and Television/ Folk &
Traditional Arts Infrastructure/Learning in the Arts for
Children & Youth/Partnership Agreements
Some details of the
projects listed in this grant announcement are subject to
change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.
Alabama Blues
Project, Inc.
Tuscaloosa, AL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning
in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support after-school and summer classes in blues music.
Professional Alabama-based blues musicians will teach weekly
beginner and advanced classes in blues music performance and
history, leading to public performances by the advanced student
ensemble.
Alabama
Educational Television Foundation Authority (aka Alabama Public
Television)
Birmingham, AL
$25,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Media Arts
To support post-production and outreach activities for a
television documentary by Celia Carey on visual artist Thornton
Dial. Mr. Dial Has Something to Say will include footage
of the artist discussing and creating his work and scenes from
the Thornton Dial retrospective at the Museum of Fine Arts,
Houston.
Alabama Folklife
Association, Inc.
Birmingham, AL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the 2006 Alabama Community Scholars Institute.
Participants will be introduced to the skills of conducting
field surveys, interviews, and photographic and videeographic
documentation.
Alabama State
Council on the Arts
Montgomery, AL
$636,100
CATEGORY: Partnership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State &
Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.
Alabama Symphonic
Association, Inc. (aka Alabama Symphony Orchestra)
Birmingham, AL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Music
To support Touring Alabama. Performances and two-day
residencies, including master classes for high school music
students, ensemble performances, and a demonstration in middle
schools, will take place in three communities: Marion,
Guntersville, and Tuskegee.
Artemis Media
Project
Foley, AL
$5,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Media Arts
To support the production of a radio documentary about W.C.
Handy (1873-1958). The hour-long program will examine the life,
work, and legacy of the man known as "the Father of the
Blues."
Montgomery Museum
of Fine Arts Association
Montgomery, AL
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Museum
To support the conservation and housing of a collection of
African American quilts recently acquired by the museum.
Conservation and proper stabilization of the collection are
important because the museum plans to exhibit the quilts in its
new Education Wing and create an exhibition of the quilts to
travel to other institutions.
Music
Preservation Society, Inc.
Florence, AL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the second phase of the Muscle Shoals National
Heritage Area Study. The study will identify, inventory,
archive, and conserve traditional music, storytelling, and folk
traditions in the six-county region of Northwest Alabama known
as Muscle Shoals.
Sloss
Furnaces Foundation
Birmingham, AL
$63,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning
in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support the Summer Youth Apprenticeship program. High school
students from the Birmingham area will apprentice with
professional artists to create cast-metal sculptures.
Number of Grants: 9 Total
Amount: $804,100
FY 2006 Grant Awards
Access to Artistic
Excellence/Literature Fellowships
Some details of the
projects listed in this grant announcement are subject to
change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.
Alabama
Shakespeare Festival, Inc. (ASF)
Montgomery, AL
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to
Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the 2006 Festival of New Plays. The festival includes
the Southern Writers' Project, which encourages new works
dealing with Southern issues and topics including those that
emphasize African American experiences.
Birmingham Museum
of Art
Birmingham, AL
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to
Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a touring exhibition of Alabama folk pottery, with
accompany education programs and a symposium. The exhibition
will document the development of Alabama pottery from the early
19th century to the mid-20th century.
Number of Grants: 2 Total
Amount: $70,000
FY 2006 Grant Awards:
Challenge America Fast-Track Review Grants
Some details of the
projects listed below are subject to change, contingent upon
prior Endowment approval.
Birmingham
International Festival (BIF)
Birmingham, AL
$10,000
To support in-school performances by Taikoza, a Japanese music
and dance company. The company will perform and give lectures on
Japanese culture to K-12 students in rural Jefferson and St.
Clair Counties.
Cawaco Resource
Conservation and Development Area (Cawaco RC&D)
Birmingham, AL
$10,000
To support the development of a metal art installation for
inclusion in the site design of the Fultondale Coke Ovens Park.
The park will preserve the environment and cultural history of
the old mining communities of North Birmingham, Alabama,
including the historic beehive coke ovens.
Rural Members
Association Inc.
Aliceville, AL
$10,000
To support the Freedom Creek Blues Festival. The festival
showcases Alabama blues artists from the local community as well
as nationally known musicians.
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