National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Chairman Jane Chu announced that Young Audiences of Houston is one of seven organizations nationwide to receive an arts education collective impact grant through NEA's Art Works grant program. Young Audiences of Houston is recommended for a $50,000 grant to support the Arts Access Initiative, an unprecedented project that will transform the landscape of arts education in Houston and ensure equity of arts access in all of Houston ISD's schools.
Phoenix Theatre of Indianapolis announces River City opening tonight, January 8, 2015 on the Frank and Katrina Basile Stage. This production runs through February 1, 2015, with Dale McFadden serving as director. The production will be a National New Play Network (NNPN) Rolling World Premiere.
The NEA and California Arts Council will host From Surveys to Solutions: Engaging Audiences in the Arts on Monday, January 12, 2015 from 11:00am-12:15pm. This event will be held at Capital Stage Company in Midtown Sacramento and will include an announcement by Chairman Chu of three new NEA research reports that explore who participates in the arts and why, as well as the arts as an economic engine. Following this announcement, Chairman Chu will participate in a panel discussion about how this new information can enable arts organizations to effectively understand their audiences and develop strategies to engage them.
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Chairman Jane Chu has announced that The Collegiate Chorale is one of only 919 nonprofit organizations nationwide to receive an NEA Art Works grant. The Collegiate Chorale will receive a $30,000 grant in support of its May 2015 concert and CD recording of Kurt Weill and Franz Werfel's musical epic, The Road of Promise.
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Chairman Jane Chu announced in early December that Utah Symphony is one of 919 nonprofit organizations nationwide to receive an NEA Art Works grant. Utah Symphony is recommended for a $10,000 grant to support the world premiere performances of a new orchestral work by American composer Augusta Read Thomas.
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Chairman Jane Chu announced today that RIOULT Dance NY is one of 919 nonprofit organizations nationwide to receive an NEA Art Works grant. RIOULT Dance is recommended for a $10,000 grant to support the creation and presentation of Artistic Director, Pascal Rioult's new work entitled Polymorphous.
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Chairman Jane Chu announced last week that the Handel and Haydn Society is one of 919 nonprofit organizations nationwide to receive an NEA Art Works grant. H+H is recommended for a $60,000 grant for its performances of Haydn's The Creation in May 2015 as well as educational and community programs that will surround the production.
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Chairman Jane Chu announced this month that the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra is one of 919 nonprofit organizations nationwide to receive an NEA Art Works grant.
The NEA grant is to support their "Heritage" series, a series of three plays by or about artists of color exploring the history, mythology, and cultural inheritance of people of different races and cultural backgrounds. The three part series includes River City by Diana Grisanti, Dontrell, Who Kissed the Sea by Nathan Alan Davis, and a new play with music based on Mexican folk tales, to be developed by the Phoenix and presented in English and Spanish in November of 2015. All of the plays in the series are World Premiere productions, the first two being National New Play Network Rolling World Premieres, and the third being commissioned by the Phoenix Theatre.
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Chairman Jane Chu announced this week that the Houston Symphony is one of 919 nonprofit organizations nationwide to receive an NEA Art Works grant. The Houston Symphony is recommended for a $20,000 grant to support the organization's "Musically Speaking with Andres" series.
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Chairman Jane Chu announced this week that id Theater has been awarded a grant of $10,000 to support The Seven Devils Playwrights Conference. id is one of 919 nonprofit organizations nationwide to receive an NEA Art Works grant.
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Chairman Jane Chu announced that Skylight Music Theatre is one of a few select groups of nonprofit organizations nationwide to receive an NEA Art Works grant. Skylight Music Theatre is recommended for a $20,000 grant to support the World Premiere of The Snow Dragon by award winning novelist and composer Somtow Sucharitkul.
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Chairman Jane Chu announced today that Arizona Opera is one of 919 nonprofit organizations nationwide to receive an NEA Art Works grant. Arizona Opera is recommended for a $20,000 grant to support its new production of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin to premiere in Tucson on January 31, 2015.
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has awarded Honolulu Theatre for Youth (HTY) a prestigious Art Works grant in the amount of $60,000 to support its upcoming original production, WHERE THE MOUNTAIN MEETS THE MOON. HTY is one of only seven Hawaii nonprofits to receive a 2015 Art Works grant; its grant was the largest of the seven.
Arizona Theatre Company has received a $20,000 grant from the National Endowment of the Arts (NEA) for a multi-faceted initiative, Voices of a New America, that includes support for Spanish language mainstage performances, commissioning a new Latino work about border issues and support for ATC's long-running National Latino Playwrighting Award.
The ?Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF) has been awarded an $80,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to support the 2015 U.S. premiere of Secret Love in Peach Blossom Land.
The Music Academy of the West will receive a $20,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to help fund an innovative four-year partnership with the celebrated New York Philharmonic. The grant, the fifth the Music Academy has received from the NEA in as many years, re-affirms the institution's stature as a premier classical music training facility, according to Academy President Scott Reed.
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has announced Oregon Children's Theatre is one of six Oregon theater companies (and 919 nationwide nonprofit organizations nationwide) to receive an NEA Art Works grant.
Phoenix Theatre of Indianapolis announces River City opening January 8, 2015 on the Frank and Katrina Basile Stage. This production runs through February 1, 2015, with Dale McFadden serving as director. The production will be a National New Play Network (NNPN) Rolling World Premiere.
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