Alexis Bacon
Music
The work is a ten-minute electroacoustic composition for flute, percussion, and recorded sound. The musical materials will come from recordings of yodelers in Adams County. The work will be programmed by the duo ""Due East"" on three recitals in different Indiana geographical locations, and subsequently recorded.
Barbara Shoup
Literature
Novelist Barbara Shoup will take an essay workshop with Philip Lopate to expand her range as a writer and write a series of essays on aspects of the creative process.
D. DelReverda-Jennings
Literature
Indianapolis based interdisciplinary artist D. DelReverda-Jennings, wrote ""Horizon: Indiana Artists of Color,"" to bring about greater awareness and appreciation for Indiana native or resident Artists of African descent practicing visual art disciplines, and for the creatively rich artistic heritage from which they are inspired.
Debra S. Levy
Literature
Debra Levy plans to use her IAC grant to research and write a personal essay about the federal government\'s undisclosed chemical warfare dispersals and testing in the early Sixties on her hometown of Fort Wayne, Indiana. The essay will be included in a manuscript of collected essays she hopes to publish. In addition, she will give a public reading of an excerpt of the essay in her hometown.
Denise Wilson
Music
Denise Wilson will create a musical program that explores the important role of music in seeking social justice throughout American history. She will research and learn historical songs and write original songs which tell the stories of people who fought in peaceful ways for social and economic justice. Grant funds will also be used to buy a small sound system to enable Wilson to play for venues that do not have their own sound. A free concert will be given in Lafayette in the fall of 2011.
Don Nichols
Music
“Station of Small Sounds” is a recording of original compositions for percussion by Don Nichols. This collection is a synthesis of electronics, non-traditional instruments and percussion, performed by the composer. Drawing from the sounds of daily life, this work offers both an innovative musical approach and a critical “translation” of our contemporary culture.
Doris Lynch
Literature
My Haiku Year: Doris Lynch will explore haiku by a daily immersion in this centuries-old poetic form. She will receive training and inspiration by attending the largest North American haiku conference. Learning to write haiku well will bring concision. clarity, and a deep connection with nature to all of her writing.
Dr. Gregory C. Kostraba
Music
The grant will support the creation of a CD recording by Greg Kostraba\'s trio ""Quelque Chose"" of a wide range of music for the unusual combination of violin, horn, and piano. It will also support a performance of music from the CD in two concerts in the Greater Lafayette area.
Dwandra Nickole Lampkin
Theatre
The National Black Theatre Festival is known worldwide for highlighting new and current works of African American playwrights and performers. Dwandra Nickole Lampkin, Assistant Professor in the Department of Theatre & Dance at Ball State University, attended the event as an artist and educator. One of her goals in attending the festival was to conduct a reading/workshop of her new one-woman show, ""The Conviction of Lady Lorraine,"" in order to improve the script for future performances.
Elise Hofer Derstine
Literature
Through a year-long mentorship with a seasoned poet, Elise Hofer Derstine will finish drafting and revising her first collection of poems. In addition to refining her poems, Elise will receive critical guidance in succeeding as a career poet.
Ellen Denham
Music
Voice teacher and singer Ellen Denham will take her teaching into the 21st century by upgrading her music studio with computer equipment and software. Her students will present two free public recitals at St. John Catholic Church and she will give a free workshop as part of the 2012 Indy Convergence.
George Kalamaras
Literature
George Kalamaras is researching and writing a book of poems about the American West, THE RAIN THAT DOESN\'T REACH THE GROUND. Located in Colorado, near Wyoming\'s border, the poems explore historical, regional, cultural, and psychological complexities of living in the modern West, presenting a speaker ""on the border""--who once lived in Colorado and now lives in Indiana but frequents the West.
Henry Craig Brenner
Music
Craig Brenner will arrange his ""Homage to New Orleans"" for performance by students in the Bloomington High School jazz band, and make an audio and video recording of the students performing the piece in concert for viewing on YouTube, using equipment and software purchased with the IAP grant. The music will also be available for use by other high school band programs.
James Farrell Vernon
Music
James Farrell Vernon\'s classical music CD, ""Convergence: New Arrangements for the Sopranino Saxophone"" explores the unique timbre and lyrical quality of the smallest member of the saxophone family, the rarely heard sopranino saxophone. The CD blends old with new: works from Baroque to contemporary eras in the classical music canon are presented in exciting new arrangements for sopranino with piano, guitar, viola da gamba, and other accompaniment.
Janiece Jaffe
Music
Improvisational vocal artist, Janiece Jaffe visits the Big Island of Hawaii to study vocal techniques of Hawaiian chants and songs. She will give a free public workshop and concert based on what she has learned in May of 2012 in Bloomington Indiana.
Jean Harper
Literature
Jean Harper is working on completing her book, ""Horses and Divorces."" The book focuses on the far-reaching and transformative effects working with horses has on women and girls.
Jeffrey C. Casazza
Theatre
Jeff Casazza will travel to Spoleto, Italy where he will participate in the International Symposium for Directors. While there he will work with Internationally renowned theatre artists exploring physical theatre and present a performance workshop demonstrating how he works with the Chorus of classical and contemporary plays.
Jennifer W. Kiffmeyer
Theatre
Written and performed by Jennie Kiffmeyer, ""Rivertown Dispatch"" is a one-woman show that celebrates the power of storytelling in our lives. Told from the point of view of Mary, the publisher of a small town newspaper, the piece chronicles a series of discoveries in the fictional town of Rivertown, Indiana. During the 50 minute performance, we hear such stories such as that of a forgotten grave, a secret trove of poems and Mary\'s own epiphany about her life\'s calling.
John Sherman
Literature
John Sherman will create large-format posters of his poetry and photography as illustrations for his workshops with students in various counties to encourage them to work alone or in collaboration with others to create similar works, culminating in his and the students’ displays, readings, and discussions of the process of writing and the creation of these enhanced displays of poetry to further engage audiences.
Joseph O\'Connell
Folk Arts - Music
“A Ripple Rock Treasury” is an album-length sound recording by Joseph O\'Connell featuring original folk songwriting. Drawing on longstanding song forms and instrumental styles, this work engages and builds upon the musical idioms of the artist’s home region.
Julianna Eleanor Thibodeaux
Literature
Julianna Thibodeaux will complete and seek publication for her novel ""The Mother\'s Room,"" which explores mothering in today\'s society. The novel\'s protagonist, Jeanne, must find a way to navigate the tension between society\'s expectations and her own beliefs about herself as woman and mother. After the completion of the novel, Thibodeaux will offer a public writing workshop including a reading from her novel, discussion, and writing exercises.
Julie Lyn Barber
Theatre
The Panto Project will bring two new adaptations of classic children\'s stories to four intimate venues in East Central Indiana. These performances breathe new life into tried and true tales by presenting them in an enduringly popular, traditional British comedic style known as panto. The British panto style incorporates broad comedy, audience interaction and familiar characters to engage audiences of all ages.
Karla Cruise
Literature
A Current of Irresistible Force is a collection of short stories structured around the historic, beautiful, though at times deadly St. Joseph River. The author isolates and precisely renders pivotal moments in the lives of a diverse array of real and imagined characters who, though separated from each other by the economic, social and psychological structures unique to their time periods, are all changed forever by the river\'s poetic, mysterious force.
Kelcey Parker
Literature
The Bitter Life of Bozena Nemcova"" is a book-length biographical collage of texts and images related to the life and writings of Bozena Nemcova, a major Czech literary figure who struggled to balance her literary ambitions with her roles as wife and mother. This hybrid text will be interspersed with the story of my own journey to discover more about this historical woman writer, and will include photos and documents as well as reflections about literary lineages.
Kevin Alan McKelvey
Literature
Kevin McKelvey will continue recent work on poems about the Wabash River. The Wabash River embodies both the past and future of Indiana, and McKelvey\'s project will capture that in poetry. At ten towns and cities along the Wabash, he will read from his work and lead creative writing workshops with local residents.
Matthew C Brennan
Literature
Souvenir"" is a collection of poems about travel and art, especially landscapes of Europe and New Deal-artworks that evoke the places and times of the poet\'s ancestors. The poems, whether in blank-verse sonnets or free verse, all confront our superficial sense of the past and of other cultures and how they lead us to surprising discoveries.
Maurice Broaddus
Literature
The project to be completed is a novel entitled The Revolution Will Not Be Televised. It is set in a world where the Revolutionary War never happened, America is still a colony of the Albion Empire, and slavery ended only a couple of generations ago. Some of the citizens struggle against some of the lingering effects of the slave system.
Michael Joseph Lewis
Music
Michael Lewis, of West Lafayette, IN received an IAC grant to write and record the 12 songs which will comprise his first solo recording, entitled The Natural World. A free CD release concert will be held in October of 2011 in West Lafayette with a reception afterwards. Lewis, who has played in the traditional Celtic duo Traveler\'s Dream for the last ten years, will now be able to market himself additionally as a singer/songwriter, which will open up many new performance opportunities for him.
Michael Steven Pounds
Music
A new musical composition will be created to involve live computer processing of accordion sounds. New computer interface equipment will be purchased to allow gestural control of the computer music using hand movements. The piece will be performed in a concert at Ball State University and submitted for other venues.
Monika Herzig
Music
This project will be a live video and audio recording of a piano concert. The recordings will be edited and mastered as part of a physical multi-media release as well as digital releases of individual tracks and video clips. The physical package will also include media files of musical scores, interviews with the artist, audience members, personnel involved in supporting the project,and instructional commentary.
Nancy Kriplen
Literature
Tryphena"" is the true story of a small town Indiana girl who meets and marries a wealthy English widower and lives happily ever after in their magnificent, ancient Somerset manor house, wearing Fortuny gowns to tea and parties like many fashionable women in the 1920s. This is the first chapter in the book, CINQUE FORTUNY, blending stories about individual Fortuny clients with biographical anecdotes about the Venitian artist/designer/craftsman, Mariano Fortuny.
Natalee J.W. Cooney
Dance
The grant will provide funds for travel and tuition for the artist to study with Paul Taylor Dance Company, in addition to viewing and research of New York City dance performances. The grantee will teach a Master Class to Indianapolis area students and professionals in order to impart skills, techniques, and knowledge gained from study with Paul Taylor Dance Company in New York City.
Patricia J Martin
Dance
Patricia\'s project entails traveling to Brooklyn, New York, where she will receive teacher training from Dance for Parkinson\'s at the Mark Morris Dance Center. Upon completion of her training, she will develop and provide dance classes for those with Parkinson\'s disease in Indiana.
Peggy Reiff Miller
Literature
FINDING CHARITY, a historical novel, tells the story of a sixteen-year-old Indiana farm boy, McKinley (Mac) Morgan, who loses his brother to World War II. Unsettling events at home related to his brother\'s death lead Mac to sign up as a seagoing cowboy to take livestock to war-torn Poland. In this coming-of-age story, Mac gains a deeper understanding of himself, his brother, and the meaning of love as he encounters the aftermath of war.
PETAR JANKOVIC
Music
Petar Jankovic, international award-winning classical guitarist and faculty member at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, releases a CD of originally developed arrangements for a very unique and attractive ""string quartet LED BY guitar"" ensemble of music by some of the icons of classical guitar solo and duo repertoire: Albeniz , De Falla , Piazzolla, etc...
R. Shana Ritter
Literature
Shana Ritter will complete a manuscript of poetry that explores the themes of immigration, assimilation and home. The writer will incorporate research and family letters into the work which will draw on a range of poetic forms including narrative, prose poems and epistolary.
Rebecca Hart Archibald
Music
Composer/pianist Becky Archibald will will create inspiration and interest in jazz composition, performances and presentations in Central Indiana. After performing and presenting her work as Composer-in-Residence at the Dordorgne International Jazz Summer School in Monteton, France, Archibald will return to Indiana to give presentations and performances in Indianapolis and at Anderson University. In addition, Archibald will create songbooks of the jazz she has written, inspired by Monteton.
Scott Deal
Music
This project is to fund the recording, mixing and mastering of the musical work ""Six Ecoacoustic Quintets"" from the opera ""Auksalaq"" composed by Matthew Burtner. The Inupiat word for “melting snow/ice”, ""Auksalaq"" is a large-scale opera that artistically illuminates scientific analysis as well as cultural and political issues surrounding global climate change. The Quintets are a core component of the opera, used to portray elemental human relationships with the environment through music.
Clowes Memorial Hall
For nearly 50 years, Clowes Memorial Hall of Butler University, a professional performing arts facility, has been dedicated to lifelong learning in and through the arts. Our mission is to educate, enrich and entertain the citizens of Indiana and the Butler University community by presenting, promoting and hosting culturally, artistically and internationally diverse programs, events and collaborations.
Dance Kaleidoscope
Dance Kaleidoscope is Indiana\'s premiere professional contemporary dance company. Artistic director David Hochoy has been at the helm for over 20 years, choreographing much of the company\'s repertoire. Founded in 1972, DK is celebrating it\'s 40th season with a mission to Inspire, Educate and Entertain through the experience of outstanding contemporary dance.
Eiteljorg Museum
The Eiteljorg Museum is the only museum in the Midwest that explores Native American and Western art history and culture. Through engaging exhibits and hands-on programming guests learn about the amazing stories of America’s first people and the American West.
Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra
Founded in 1934 and led by Music Director Alfred Savia, the Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra is the largest arts institution in a tri-state area that includes thirty counties in Kentucky, Illinois and Indiana. The Orchestra performs in the historic Victory Theatre in downtown Evansville and offers education programs and diverse performances ranging from Beethoven to the Beatles.
Fort Wayne Museum of Art
The Fort Wayne Museum of Art is committed to providing the region with exhibitions of the highest caliber, community events that are meaningful and engaging, and on-site and off-site educational programs that increase people\'s understanding and appreciation of America\'s visual arts. The Museum\'s newly renovated and expanded facility offers visitors a chance to view works from it\'s over 2,300 piece Collection of American artwork on a rotating basis as well as traveling exhibitions.
Fort Wayne Philharmonic Orchestra
Now performing its 68th season, The Fort Wayne Philharmonic’s mission is to inspire and foster a lifelong love of classical music through performance and education. The Phil is led by Music Director Andrew Constantine. The Phil is a member of the League of American Orchestras and a funded member of Arts United of Greater Fort Wayne, the Indiana Arts Commission and National Endowment for the Arts. The Phil employs 41 full-time musicians and produces a nine-month concert season comprised of five subscription series. In addition, Philharmonic musicians in full orchestra, chamber orchestra, and small ensembles present over 400 education and outreach performances throughout 13 counties northeast Indiana, connecting classical music to approximately 250,000 adults and children in concert halls, schools, and via radio broadcasts. For additional information, log on to our website: www.fwphil.org
The Honeywell Center
The Honeywell Foundation owns and operates the Honeywell Center, a venue dedicated to enhancing cultural and artistic opportunities for all. Offerings include performances in the 1500 seat Ford Theater, touring art exhibits in the Clark Gallery, an extensive Educational Outreach Program, and musical and artistic classes and events. For more information, visit www.honeywellcenter.org
Indianapolis Children\'s Choir
The Indianapolis Children’s Choir was founded in 1986 and serves nearly 2500 children toddler age through high school. The mission of providing quality music education at the highest level of artistic excellence is evident in the ICC’s own concert series, regular appearances at civic events, artistic collaborations, and a history of touring that has taken the choir around the world.
Indianapolis Museum of Art
Founded in 1883 as the Art Association of Indianapolis, the Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA) is among the 10 largest and oldest encyclopedic art museums in the United States. Encompassing 152 acres of gardens and grounds, the IMA serves more than 400,000 visitors annually with its permanent collection of more than 54,000 objects, 100 Acres: The Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park, Oldfields–Lilly House & Gardens, Miller House and Garden, 530-seat Randall L. and Marianne W. Tobias Theater (The Toby), and on-site conservation science laboratory. These resources collectively advance the Museum’s mission to serve the creative interests of its communities by fostering exploration of art, design, and the natural environment. The IMA promotes these interests through the collection, presentation, interpretation, and conservation of its artistic, historic, and environmental assets.
Indianapolis Opera
Indianapolis Opera, Indiana’s only professional opera company, presents up to four main stage productions each season. Serving Indianapolis, the state of Indiana and the Midwest, Indianapolis Opera’s mission is to entertain by creating the passion, excitement and art of opera and to develop the widest possible audience for opera through educational, cultural and community activities. Each year the Indianapolis Opera Ensemble reaches over 35,000 residents throughout the state of Indiana with live opera programs, all of which are designed to support state curriculum standards.
Indiana Repertory Theatre
The Indiana Repertory Theatre was founded in 1972 and is Indiana\'s leading fully professional, resident, not-for-profit theatre, providing 103,917 world class theatre and arts education experiences for its audience last season. These experiences included 41,793 students and teachers from 56 of Indiana’s 92 counties, making the IRT one of the most youth-oriented professional theatres in the country.
Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra
The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra was formed in 1930 and today performs 200 classical, pops and family concerts for more than 350,000 people each year. The ISO is the largest performing arts organization in the state of Indiana and one of only 16 year-round, professional orchestras in the nation.
International Violin Competition of Indianapolis
The International Violin Competition of Indianapolis (IVCI) recognizes, rewards and promotes the world’s finest young classical violinists and encourages understanding, appreciation and support of the violin repertoire by a large and diverse audience. The IVCI utilizes its world prominence to bring international attention to Indianapolis, and maintains its efforts to be a visible and collaborative member of the arts communities in Indianapolis and Indiana.
Young Audiences of Indiana
Young Audiences of Indiana (YA) empowers children to achieve their creative and intellectual potential through arts in education. Last year YA provided more than 3,000 programs to nearly 150,000 students across the state. YA staff and teaching artists collaborate with teachers and administrators to ensure its programs not only expose children to high-quality arts experiences, but also connect to core curriculum areas and life skills.