THRIVING CULTURES GRANT DESCRIPTIONS
Detroit Creative Corridor Center
Detroit, MI | $25,000 (1 year)
To support the 2011 Rust Belt to Artists Belt III in Detroit, a two-day conference to examine the role artists, creative entrepreneurs, and advanced manufacturers play in the economic redevelopment of older industrial cities.
Additional funding for this grant comes from Surdna's Strong Local Economies Program.
Ellington Fund/Duke Ellington
School of the Arts
Washington, DC | $225,000 (3 years)
To strengthen core elements of Ellington's Arts Program by adding adjunct staff in four arts departments, providing professional development training for five arts chairs, and hiring a community coordinator for the school's annual benefit concert.
Friends of A Studio in the Woods
New Orleans, LA | $150,000 (3 years)
To support "Changing Landscapes: A Dialogue Between Art and the Environment," a series of eight environmentally-themed artist residencies over the next three years.
Harbor Conservatory for the Performing Arts
New York, NY | $150,000 (2 years)
To ensure that teens in the Pre-Professional program with advanced capabilities in music, dance and theater continue to have individual lessons, technique classes, special ensembles, workshops, audition coaching and public performances, and to work with a commissioned choreographer.
Harlem School of the Arts
New York, NY | $75,000 (1 year)
To provide full scholarship assistance to dance and visual arts students in the Harlem School of the Arts Prep Program, and to help cover HSA Prep dance and visual arts department direct program costs.
Highlander Research and Education Center
New Market, TN | $75,000 (1 year)
To support the Zilphia Horton Cultural Organizing Residency Project, an effort that builds understanding and strengthens the practice of cultural organizing to address community issues of fairness and social justice.
Kentucky Center Governor's
School for the Arts
Louisville, KY | $120,000 (3 years)
To continue to strengthen its architecture program, a component of Kentucky Center Governor's School for the Arts' intensive three-week summer residency program, preceded by introductory workshops for high school students.
Kenyon Review
Gambier, OH | $150,000 (3 years)
To strengthen partnerships with writing advocates and schools across the country, identify underserved, exceptional teen writers, and provide them with scholarships to attend the Kenyon Review Young Writers program.
Louisiana Cultural Economy Foundation
New Orleans, LA | $30,000 (1 year)
To support a comprehensive three- to five-year institutional strategic plan, preparing the Louisiana Cultural Economy Foundation to provide the next level of service for Louisiana's cultural economy workforce.
Manchester Craftsmen's Guild
Pittsburgh, PA | $160,000 (2 years)
To strengthen Manchester Craftsmen's Guild's capacity to offer its students meaningful, out-of-school arts, educational and professional development experiences through its Apprenticeship Training Program.
Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Boston, MA | $150,000 (2 years)
To support Artward Bound, a multi-year college access program in the visual arts for Boston teens that provides the artistic, academic, and personal skills needed for admission to a visual arts college or other post-secondary institution.
McColl Center for Visual Art
Charlotte, NC | $100,000 (2 years)
To support McColl Center's Environmental Artist-In-Residence Program, a three-year initiative that will enable a total of nine artists (three per year) to create ecology-based art that engages citizens, enhances science education and benefits the environment.
National Performance Network
New Orleans, LA | $5,000 (1 year)
Toward the establishment of an annual National Performance Network Mentorship and Leadership award in honor of Wesley Montgomery.
NOCCA Institute
New Orleans, LA | $300,000 (3 years)
To strengthen artistic learning for student and faculty/artist mentors via artists-in-residence, professional development, the Plessy Project, cultural exchanges and administrative support.