2012-2013 ORGANIZATIONAL SUPPORT GRANTS
(21 Awards Totaling $1,625,000)

Associated Artists of Winston-Salem    $18,000
Authoring Action   $5,000
Festival Stage of Winston-Salem    $35,000
Hispanic Arts Initiative    $20,000
Kernersville Little Theatre    $8,740
No Rules Theatre Company    $30,000
North Carolina Black Repertory Company    $184,000
Old Salem Museums and Gardens    $64,400
Piedmont Chamber Singers   $8,500
Piedmont Craftsmen    $82,090
Piedmont Opera    $101,410
Piedmont Wind Symphony    $18,400
Reynolda House Museum of American Art    $73,600
RiverRun International Film Festival    $96,580
Sawtooth School for Visual Art    $139,600*
Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art    $183,520
Twin City Stage/Children’s Theatre of Winston-Salem    $238,280
Winston-Salem Delta Fine Arts    $27,600
Winston-Salem Festival Ballet    $35,000
Winston-Salem Symphony    $241,480
Winston-Salem Youth Chorus    $13,800

*Sawtooth School for Visual Art has been awarded an additional $20,000 matching challenge grant for any new revenue sources excluding Arts Council grants.

2012-2013 WELLS FARGO ARTS IN EDUCATION GRANTS
(18 Awards Totaling $100,000*)

 

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 Music Ways:  $4,000
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
Diana Greene:  $5,000
To conduct 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:  $5,000
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:  $2,500
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 present a Day of the Dead visual art workshop
Jared Stewart: $2,000
To provide small-group instruction for public middle-school percussion students
Karl Kassner:  $6,000
To provide small-group instruction for public middle-school brass students
Laura Shirley: $2,000
To provide small-group instruction for public middle-school cello students
Leslie Hill: $4,000
To conduct film/video production workshops with elementary and high-school students
North Carolina Shakespeare Festival:  $6,000
To bring Shakespeare To Go’s performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream public high schools in order to support the study of Shakespeare in the classroom
Piedmont Craftsmen:  $7,000
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
Reynolda House Museum of American Art: $2,000
To bring elementary school students to the museum to experience the exhibition Romare Bearden: A Black Odyssey
Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art:  $7,000
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
University of North Carolina School of the Arts Foundation:  $6,000
To bring student dancers from the School of Dance to present Peter and the Wolf in four elementary schools; to conduct the Pluck Project, contemporary dance workshops for public high-school students;  and to present the UNCSA alumni troupe Open Dreams Ensemble’s original musical Big Shoes in elementary schools
William Scheidt: $6,000
To bring hands-on African drumming and dancing workshops to elementary and high-school students
Winston-Salem Delta Fine Arts: $2,000
To bring poetry writing and poetry slam workshops to middle-and high-school students
Winston-Salem Festival Ballet: $4,000
To conduct contemporary dance workshops for high-school dance students
Winston-Salem Symphony:  $7,000
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.

* The total includes $80,500 in Arts-in-Education grants plus $19,500 in matching funds on power2give.org/winston-salem for Arts-in-Education programs.

2012-2013 INNOVATIVE PROJECT GRANTS
(11 Awards Totaling $51,150)

Associated Artists of Winston-Salem: $5,000
To aid in the creation of 20 three-to-five minute videos of its organization and member artists to use for online marketing efforts
Authoring Action: $5,000
To collaborate with ImaginationInstallation.com and the City’s Centennial Celebration on a project called The Dream Machine in which teens will create multimedia pieces that showcase their dreams for the future of Winston-Salem
Children’s Museum of Winston-Salem: $5,000
To support the travel and lodging of Japanese textile artist Toshiko Horiuchi MacAdams and designger Charles MacAdams who will be installing a new innovative, climbable art installation at the museum
Forecast Music:  $5,000
To present new and innovative contemporary music from local Triad composers, as well as guest composers from around the country
Helen Simoneau Danse Co.:  $10,000
To support a three-week choreographic residency and dance performance at the Hanesbrands Theatre in spring 2013
New Song Music:  $5,000
To support the New Song Emerging Artist series which brings outstanding emerging performing songwriters from across the nation to Winston-Salem’s Hanesbrands Theatre
Piedmont S.L.A.M.:  $1,150
To collaborate with the Haiku Society of America in December 2012 to present workshops and performances and to celebrate National Poetry Month in April 2013 with a series of performances
POWAR:  $2,500
To collaborate with the P.E.A.C.E. Academy and fiber artist, Kathry Gauldin, to create a multidisciplinary performance project that explores the words “peace” and “power”
Second Spring Arts, Inc.:  $5,000
To support Second Spring 2013, a four-day festival in May, which will celebrate the achievements of individuals age 60 and above in a wide variety of art forms including visual arts, literature, music, film and dance
Winston-Salem Theatre Alliance:  $2,500
To present the “By the Book,” a series of free-to-the-public staged readings, that will partner with local nonprofits to build social capital and reach new audiences
Forsyth County Public Library: $5,000
To collaborate with Reynolda House Museum of American Art to bring Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson to Winston-Salem as part of On The Same Page 2012 & Romare Bearden: A Black Odyssey to present “Bearden And The Great Migration” on Sunday, October 21, 2012

2012-2013 REGIONAL ARTIST PROJECT GRANTS
(10 Awards Totaling $25,000)

Michael Anderson:  $1,800
To purchase computer and audio equipment to create and record film compositions
Matokie Brim:  $500
To purchase a computer and fund creation of a website in order to market herself as a writer and spoken-word artist
Andrew Fansler:  $1,500
To create a new body of large-scale sculptural installations that brings together geometric and organic forms
Christopher Holmes:  $4,000
To rent a high-quality camera package in order to shoot his feature film, The Lost Colony
Tracy Lindenthal:  $3,700
To create a new body of large scale paintings based on alien landscapes
Mollye Maxner:  $4,500
To create and produce “one…one…one,” an original movement work inspired by The Island by Athol Fugard, which will feature 3 dancers
James Baxter McFarlin:  $1,000
To create a series of paintings depicting the Western world through topics such as environment, politics and social landscape
Frederick Moore:  $1,800
To hire an editor to work on his memoir, “I Once Was Lost,” his journey through life and his experience being incarcerated
Saxton Rose:  $4,000
To record and produce a CD of contemporary classical music featuring the bassoon and including local musicians
Barbara Bamberger Scott: $2,200
To complete a nonfiction book titled The History of American Homesteading, which will trace the efforts and aspirations of homesteaders from the earliest settlement of America to the present

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.

2012-2013 ADVERTISING ASSISTANCE GRANTS
(16 Recipients Will Receive $224,676)

Associated Artists of Winston-Salem    $1,500
Bookmarks    $4,900
Children’s Museum of Winston-Salem    $1,980
Festival Stage of Winston-Salem    $18,525
Forsyth County Public Library    $9,065
No Rules Theatre Company    $14,344
North Carolina Black Repertory Company    $17,500
North Carolina Shakespeare Festival    $21,838
Piedmont Craftsmen    $16,083
Piedmont Opera    $29,241
Reynolda House Museum of American Art    $26,127
Sawtooth School for Visual Art    $9,240
Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art    $6,900
Twin City Stage/Children’s Theatre of Winston-Salem    $27,050
Winston-Salem Symphony     $13,000
Winston-Salem Youth Chorus    $7,383

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 and the EverWondr Network.