2011-2012 ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORT GRANTS

(21 Awards Totaling $1,758,000)

Associated Artists of Winston-Salem    $51,000
Children’s Theatre of Winston-Salem    $64,000
Festival Stage of Winston-Salem    $30,000
Hispanic Arts Initiative    $30,000*
Kernersville Little Theatre    $9,500
No Rules Theatre Company    $25,000
North Carolina Black Repertory Company    $200,000
Old Salem Museums and Gardens    $70,000
Piedmont Chamber Singers   $8,500
Piedmont Craftsmen    $85,000
Piedmont Opera    $105,000
Piedmont Wind Symphony    $20,000
Reynolda House Museum of American Art    $80,000
RiverRun International Film Festival    $100,000
Sawtooth School for Visual Art    $130,000
Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art    $190,000
Twin City Stage    $195,000
Winston-Salem Delta Fine Arts    $30,000**
Winston-Salem Festival Ballet    $30,000***
Winston-Salem Symphony    $250,000
Winston-Salem Youth Chorus    $15,000

*Hispanic Arts Initiative has been awarded an additional $10,000 matching challenge grant for any new revenue sources excluding Arts Council grants.

**Winston-Salem Delta Fine Arts has been awarded an additional $10,000 matching challenge grant for any new revenue sources excluding Arts Council grants.

***Winston-Salem Festival Ballet has been awarded an additional $20,000 matching challenge grant provided they raise the matching funds prior to the end of The Arts Council’s fiscal year.

2011-2012 ARTS IN EDUCATION GRANTS 

(20 Awards Totaling $100,000)

alban elved dance company:  $7,000
To continue “Wingspan,” a multi-week arts education program with high school dance departments in the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools

Associated Artists of Winston-Salem:  $3,000
To provide artist-led workshops in public middle and high school art classes allowing teachers to enhance their current curriculum by introducing students to a specific art media

Carolina Ballet:  $5,000
To support the “Dancers in the Schools,” a program that brings ballet and professional dancers into the public schools, specifically targeting 3rd and 5th grades

Carolina Music Ways:  $4,400
To present Carolina Music Ways Old-Timey Radio Show, a 45-minute musical program that introduces elementary school students to the Piedmont’s cross-cultural musical legacy featuring jazz, blues, bluegrass, gospel,  Moravian and old-time string bands

Carolyn Currie Williams: $300
To present “The Apple Lady,” a multidisciplinary program involving storytelling and folk art in the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools

Diana Greene:  $5,700
To conduct a three-week literacy through photography workshop for 4th graders called “My Inside/Outside Self,” in which students will make black and white self-portraits and write a narrative describing who they are on the inside and out

Giannini Brass:  $6,000
To present Brass Under the Big Top which integrates musical performances with the magic of the circus to expose elementary school students to classical music and teach music concepts and history

Hispanic Arts Initiative:  $3,200
To conduct high energy Latin percussion and dance workshops; to present an interactive workshop showcasing the ancient Mexican art tradition known as “Trees of Life”; and to conduct an artist residency with Arts Based Elementary School focusing on the study of Caribbean music and its impact on U.S. culture

Iara Kendrick: $300 *
To conduct Shadow Puppet workshops in the public schools

Karl Kassner:  $7,000
To provide small group instruction for public middle-school brass students in order to enhance the students’ understanding of how to play brass instruments

Mark McMasters: $300 *
To introduce public theatre high school students to the art of physical theatre through a hands-on mime workshop

North Carolina Shakespeare Festival:  $6,000
To bring Shakespeare To Go’s performance of Macbeth to 10 public high schools in order to support the study of Shakespeare in the classroom

Piedmont Craftsmen:  $10,000
To present “Living Craft: Crafting Lives,” a three-tiered craft program for elementary through high school students that includes a Craft Career Day, Artists in Residencies, and Fine Craft Lectures

RiverRun International Film Festival:  $2,000
To present “Films with Class,” a program that brings the art of filmmaking into the classroom through viewing festival films and discussing its art and content

Robert Moyer:  $2,000
To conduct a series of puppetry workshops for 2nd through 5th grade students and teachers at Arts Based Elementary School in which students will perform puppet plays derived from a variety of fables

Surteg Sandhu:  $300 *
To conduct Indian Rangoli art and Bhangra dance workshops for public middle school students in visual art and dance classes

Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art:  $9,000
To support The Intersections Project (TIP), a collaborative program that brings together artists and classroom educators to develop arts integrated lesson plans and artist residencies for classroom application

Tam Tam Mandingue Winston-Salem:  $10,000
To bring hands-on African drumming and dancing workshops to the public K-12 students

University of North Carolina School of the Arts:  $8,500
To bring student dancers from the School of Dance to present Peter and the Wolf in four elementary schools and the the professional UNCSA alumni troupe, Open Dream Ensemble, to present Peril on the Red Planet in 3 elementary schools

Winston-Salem Symphony:  $10,000
To support “The Mary Starling In-School Music Education Program,” a program that engages all the public 4th and 5th grade students through intimate ensemble performances in public schools and a full orchestra concert

The Arts-In-Education Grant is jointly designed, funded and administered by The Arts Council of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County and the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County School System.

* = Pilot Program.

2011-2012 REGIONAL ARTIST PROJECT GRANTS

(19 Awards Totaling $50,000)

Matthew Barr:  $4,000
To produce a teaser and cover travel expenses and reproduction rights for archival materials for his feature length documentary, Truth to Power

Ira DeKoven:  $2,500
To complete an enameling studio with an accessible entrance and art display area

Daniel Diaz:  $3,500
To record and produce a CD focusing on the world of percussion

Jonathan Foster:  $3,300
To assist with the costs of promoting his film, Sayonara, to film festivals

Diana Greene:  $1,300
To create a photographic/literature store front exhibit, A Dozen Dresses

Tohm Judson:  $1,430
To release his debut electronic album, still life

Jonathan Kirby:  $2,250
To purchase audio and video equipment to document musicians of the Carolinas

Christine Kirouac:  $2,000
To exhibit her solo show, Paper Men, featuring 25-30 portrait photographs of the men who sell the Winston-Salem Journal from street corners and medians at Delta Arts Center in May 2012

Karola Luttringhaus:  $4,500
To hire a booking agent, purchase promotional materials and participate at booking conference in New York City

Soulstice Seventh:  $2,500
To produce and market an indie soul CD, Every Bliss Begins With Play

Martha  Mendenhall:  $3,000
To revise, edit, publish and market a 60-minute version of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet for use by teachers and theatre artists

Leo Morrissey:  $2,000
To create a new body of work, Wood-book Projection Project

Luke Payne:  $2,000
To complete a debut album of original songs

Yadkin Artists Residing Downtown (YARD):  $2,500
To brand and market YARD by creating a logo, website, and rack cards to increase public awareness about their studios

Olivia Sledge:  $2,180
To purchase African drum and costumes and to attend Camp Fareta: Drum & Dance Camp

The Darnell Woodies:  $3,000
To record and produce a CD rooted in Appalachian string music

Sally Spring:  $2,000
To record and produce a CD based in American roots music style

Martin Tucker:  $3,500
To create a full length documentary film, Patty – Ride The Wind

William Willner:  $2,540
To create a new body of work, crows

Regional Artist Project Grants provide financial support to committed, gifted individual artists in Forsyth, Davie, Davidson, Stokes, Surry, and Yadkin counties.  These grants are funded jointly by The Arts Council of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County and the N.C. Arts Council, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources. 

2011-2012 INNOVATIVE PROJECT GRANTS

(14 Awards Totaling $100,000)

Art for Art’s Sake:  $10,000
To continue AFAS’ Arts on Sunday Series outdoor street festival in Winston Salem’s arts district every Sunday in October 2011 and May 2012, featuring art, fine craft and music from regional artists

Carolina Chamber Symphony Players:  $5,000
To produce the 2012 Carolina Summer Music Festival utilizing diverse venues in Winston-Salem featuring cutting edge contemporary music

Center for Design Innovation:  $10,000
To support Ready, Aim, Look: Understanding Movement through High-Speed Artistry, a collaborative effort among the Center for Design Innovation, Old Salem, WSSU Diggs Gallery, the UNC School of the Arts, and Wake Forest University which will employ CDI’s motion capture capability to enhance public understanding of artistic innovation

Forecast Music:  $5,000
To present its debut North Carolina season of contemporary chamber music concerts focusing on the works of composers living and working here in the Triad, as well as guest composers from around the country

Forsyth Futures & Associated Artists of Winston-Salem:  $7,500
To host Input/Output: The Fine Art of Visual Data-Making, a juried art competition and exhibition to raise awareness of significant social issues facing the Winston-Salem/Forsyth County community

Helen Simoneau Danse Co.:  $7,500
To support a three-week choreographic residency and dance performance at the Hanesbrands Theatre, March 1 & 2, 2012

Paper Lantern Theatre Co.:  $5,000
To present the North Carolina premier of Next Fall by Tony Award Nominee Geoffrey Nauffts in January 2012

PAVE & SEED:  $10,000
To support the Positive Giant Art Project, a public art project which will increase the attention and awareness of the Winston-Salem art and design community

Piedmont Opera:  $2,500
To support the purchase of a new supertitle projector that will enable all of their productions to have accompanying English supertitles

Piedmont Slam:  $2,500
To provide 4 performances and 52 workshops in simple poetic forms urging a diverse group of youth, children, seniors, and disabled to speak out

Reynolda House Museum of American Art:  $10,000
To support the collections database project, making over 1,500 objects from its fine art, decorative art, silver, textiles, and furniture collections available to the public via their website

Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA):  $10,000
To expand its Out of Fashion exhibition beyond gallery walls through the commission of two site-specific works on its public grounds

Terpsicorps Theatre of Dance:  $10,000
To present a new expansion of its most successful work, The Many Deaths of Edward Gorey at the Hanesbrands Theatre, July 12-14, 2012

Winston-Salem Youth Chorus:  $5,000
To support JUMPSTART, a program targeting underserved young people in music and choral training by conducting two months of rehearsals culminating in two public performances

These grants are funded jointly by The Arts Council of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County and the N.C. Arts Council, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources, with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts.

2011-2012 ADVERTISING ASSISTANCE GRANTS

(19 Recipients Will Receive $251,533)

Associated Artists of Winston-Salem    $4,895
Bookmarks    $4,000
Children’s Museum of Winston-Salem    $1,390
Children’s Theatre of Winston-Salem    $2,900
Festival Stage of Winston-Salem    $16,200
Forsyth County Public Library    $9,577
No Rules Theatre Company    $8,408
North Carolina Black Repertory Company    $22,000
North Carolina Shakespeare Festival    $4,000
Old Salem Museums and Gardens    $63,290
Piedmont Craftsmen    $14,000
Piedmont Opera    $23,434
Reynolda House Museum of American Art    $32,515
Sawtooth School for Visual Art    $2,700
SciWorks    $2,500
Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art    $4,900
Twin City Stage    $22,700
Winston-Salem Festival Ballet    $5,400
Winston-Salem Youth Chorus    $6,725

The Advertising Assistance Grants provide financial support to member organizations of The Arts Council of Winston-Salem and Forsyth County.  It is administered by The Arts Council and funded by 88.5 WFDD Radio, 90.5 WSNC Radio, The Winston-Salem Journal, the Winston-Salem Chronicle, Pursuit of Happiness, LLC and Gem Productions.