TO: Nashville Arts Organizations,
19 October 2001
Five arts groups awarded New Opportunity grants
The Metro Nashville Arts Commission awarded five local arts organizations $40,572 in New Opportunity grants yesterday.
The successful recipients in the new MNAC grant program and their awards were: Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art, $10,250; StageWorks, $10,000; the Global Education Center, $9,000; the Nashville Cultural Arts Project, $3,822, and the Nashville Chamber Orchestra, $7,500.
The New Opportunity grant category was started this year "to identify special arts needs or specific arts activity," said MNAC Chairman Dr. Paulette Coleman. The awards were part of the Metro Arts Commission's $1,908,168 grants budget approved by the Metro Council in June for FY 2002.
Nashville and Davidson County arts organizations were invited to propose projects based on special needs. Collaborations by two or more arts groups were especially encouraged. The MNAC added that it would give preference to projects that addressed issues of management or governance, financial controls, marketing, organizational or financial development, planning, evaluation, and audience-building. Arts groups that received grants in July had to address special concerns or needs separate from an activity covered by MNAC Basic Operating Support, Program, Initiative, or Creation grants.
The New Opportunity category enabled arts organizations to "get creative, to propose projects that address special issues," Turk added.
Grant Projects
Cheekwood leads a consortium of fifteen agency members of Museum Advocates to market a program to engage Davidson County K through 12 students in the arts next summer. The students will receive a Cultural Passport with incentives to visit all fifteen different area museums.
StageWorks, a not-for-profit performing arts academy, will design a test program to better benefit underserved students throughout Nashville. A special one-week version of StageWorks performance camp during spring break offering hands-on experience in the performing arts.
The Global Education Center will create a ten-minute promotional video with accompanying audio recording and directory of artists. The project will be used for marketing and audience-building, two of the GEC's most pressing needs.
The Nashville Cultural Arts Project and the Nashville Jazz Workshop will collaborate to design and implement a "poet's garden" at the site of the former Neuhoff Packing plant on the Cumberland River. The Nashville Jazz Workshop will invent a music program, connecting student musicians with local poets, writers and performance artists.
The Nashville Chamber Orchestra will present an innovative three-inch mini-CDROM brochure to market its 2002-2003 season. This marketing effort aims to expand its earned revenue base.
The Metro Nashville Arts Commission is a board of 15 citizens from throughout Davidson County appointed by the mayor and confirmed by the Metro Council. The Commission's mission is "to provide leadership that stimulates and advances the arts to enrich the human experience for the community." Dr. Paulette Coleman chairs the MNAC. Other members are: Walter Schatz, Colleen Dowd, Paul E. Bell, Barbara Chazen, Dr. Constance B. Gee, Jon H. Glassmeyer, Andrée LeQuire, Michael McBride, Jefferson H. Ockerman, Nancy Saturn, Don Shriver, Steve Sirls, Cindy Steine, and Adelaide Vienneau.
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NEA Chairman nominated
Michael P. Hammond, currently Dean of Shepherd School of Music at Rice University in Houston, Texas, is new chairman-designate of the National Endowment for the Arts. A nationally known composer and conductor, Hammond has written several theater scores and specializes in music of Southeast Asia, Western Medieval and Renaissance music. He earned his degree at Oxford in philosophy, psychology and physiology and has taught neuroanatomy and physiology at Marquette Medical School and the University of Wisconsin.
Hammond has been associate conductor of the American Symphony with Leopold Stokowski, conductor of the Bergen Philharmonic, musical director and conductor of the Dessoff Choirs in New York and composer in residence for the Milwaukee Repertory Theater.
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TAC creates new grant category
A new grant category for professional artists was announced in August by the Tennessee Arts Commission (TAC). The Professional Artist Support category is designed to help Tennessee's individual artists of all disciplines take advantage of unique opportunities that will significantly benefit their careers, with awards ranging from $500 to $1000 in fiscal year 2002. This program, in addition to the Individual Artist Fellowships Program, provides help to Tennessee's many talented artists across the state. For more information, visit TAC's website at www.arts.state.tn.us under "Grant Programs."
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Foundation funds artists
Creative Capital Foundation is a national nonprofit organization that supports artists pursuing innovative approaches to form and content in the media, performing, and visual arts, and in emerging fields. For 2001-2001, the foundation will fund artists working in the disciplines of performing arts and emerging fields. Deadline: November 5, 2001. Visit www.creative-capital.org for more information and an application.
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Artists add images to MNAC's Artist Registry
Log on to MNAC's website to see new participants in our website's Artist Registry, including Chip Herbert, Priscilla Morris and Brenda Stein.
Many long-time Registry artists have recently updated the images on their page. Visit the sites of these artists on www.artsnashville.org to view their new work: Sheila Baldwin, Paul Crommelin, Kaaren Hirschowitz Engel, Marsha Heidbrink, Michele Herbert, Mildred Jarrett, Charles Nelson, Sharon Rusch Shaver and Ron Volpe.
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