This grant will enable Tomas Lozano, composer and singer songwriter, to produce his first album of original compositions
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Individual Artist Program Grantee City Region Discipline Award Skila King Brown Bloomington 8 Literature $830.00 Author Skila Brown will be traveling to Memphis where she'll spend four days doing research for an upcoming novel about the 1865 Sultana steamboat disaster, which killed more than 1700 people, many of whom were Union POWs returning home after the conclusion of the Civil War. Kenneth Garcia South Bend 2 Literature $2,000.00 I will write a series of creative nonfiction essays on the search for invisible treasure (microscopic flecks of gold hidden in the earth, and the scientific quest to understand the mysteries of the universe). I request funds to conduct research in South Dakota (site of a former gold mine where advanced science laboratories now operate deep underground) and, later the open pit gold mines of Nevada. Daniel Bowman Jr.
Hartford City
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Literature
$2,000.00
Daniel Bowman Jr. is writing a novel featuring an autistic main character. He wants to tell a great story and also inspire wider understanding of a complex disability.
Mike Mullin Danville 7 Literature $2,000.00 I will use the grant funds to research my forthcoming novel, BLADES OF SPRING, taking a week-long driving trip from Warren, Illinois to Lake Charles, Louisiana. This trip will allow me to write authentically about the setting in my novel. I will also use the photos and notes from the trip to develop a presentation for middle and high schools about the novel and my writing process.
Amy Lynn Budd
West Lafayette
4
Opera/ Music Theatre
$2,000.00
Theatre Director Amy Lynn Budd will participate in the Goodspeed Musicals Observership Program, attending rehearsals for Darling Grenadine, a new musical directed by Kristin Hanggi, best known for Tony-nominated musical Rock of Ages. Upon completion of this competitive professional development program, Amy will share her experience in at least one free public talk in greater Lafayette.
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Individual Artist Program Grantee City Region Discipline Award Stacey Lynn Brown Bloomington 8 Literature $1,700.00 Poet Stacey Lynn Brown will travel to the North Carolina Museum of History to conduct further research on Tiny Broadwick--the first woman to jump from an airplane, the first person to free fall, and the first to parachute into a large body of water--and will interview her closest living relatives and examine their family archives to write a feminist retelling of her life and accomplishments.
Tomas Lozano Bloomington 8 Music $2,000.00 This grant will enable Tomas Lozano, composer and singer songwriter, to produce his first album of original compositions for voice, Spanish guitar, baroque viola da gamba and flamenco guitar. The production of 1,000 copies of the musical CD will contain a 24 page booklet that includes the lyrics (sung poems) written by 1956 Nobel Prize in Literature, Juan Ramon Jimenez.
Elena Kraineva Indianapolis 7 Music $2,000.00 A CD recording by Elena Kraineva will feature rarely performed 20th century compositions for viola d’amore. It will include music by Frank Martin, York Bowen, the “Suite in Old Style” by Willem De Boer, a legacy of Thomas Mann’s family as well as “La Chasse”, a brilliant forgery by Henri Casadesus attributed to Lorenzitti; and a premiere of Charles Loeffler’s piece ”Alla Podrida”
Natalie Solmer Speedway 7 Literature $1,441.00 Natalie will spend 5 days at a private retreat center (Lindenwood, at Ancilla College), where she focus solely on honing the manuscript of her first book of poetry. After this retreat, she will submit her manuscript to an awarded poetry editor, Jenn Givhan. After spending focused time on her work, and receiving edits, Natalie will be ready to attempt publication of her book.
Jimmy Finnie Indianapolis 7 Music $2,000.00 Percussionist, Jimmy Finnie will record and release a professional quality compact disc of select solo and chamber music works by Chicago composer Regina Harris Baiocchi.
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Individual Artist Program Grantee City Region Discipline Award Fernando Ismael Tarango
Fort Wayne
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Music
$2,000.00
Fernando Tarango will film 3 pilot webisodes of his children's music education show, The Perpetual Music Machine. It runs on STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math). A calling card for his unique style of youth education and engagement through the arts, the webisodes provide leverage for educational partnerships, corporate sponsorship and potential income from the recorded music.
Nancy Nichols-Pethick Terre Haute 6 Literature $1,745.00 Nancy will attend a workshop at the Highlights Foundation in Milanville, Pennsylvania. The workshop will allow her to refine her picture book manuscript with feedback from successful authors and illustrators, and to present it to editors and publishers.
Monika Herzig Bloomington 8 Music $2,000.00 Jazz Girls Day is an educational outreach project for girls ages 12-18 interested in learning jazz. This project will bring the event to Indianapolis with a series of workshops and panel discussions during the day and a final concert in the evening. Seasoned female professionals will serve as role models and advocates for the art form.
Garrette Horne Hammond 1 Theatre $2,000.00 Garrette Horne, a professional actor and instructor specializing in theatre for social change, will develop a curriculum that uses theatre to address the social issues youth encounter during everyday life. Students will participate in after school acting and playwriting workshops that explore real - life stories and culminate with an original work and tour of Hammond schools and other venues.
Shari Benyousky Warsaw 2 Literature $2,000.00 Accidentally running across the story of an unsolved Indiana murder propelled me to research the locale and time period, and then to write an accurate historical novel entitled DOWN TO THE BONES. The first draft of the manuscript is complete, but needs a professional editor before an agent. My project is to publish a quality manuscript representing Indiana's charm and people.
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Individual Artist Program Grantee City Region Discipline Award Sarah E. Morin Fishers 7 Literature $2,000.00 Sarah E. Morin is a youth worker who writes unruly fairy tales and poems. “Rapunzel the Hairbrained” seeks to challenge elementary-age girls to put beauty in its proper context, and base their self-worth on ability. This grant will enable her to bring a message of empowerment through the publication of a colorful and entertaining picture book and the development of a corresponding workshop.
Amy Sandlin Indianapolis 7 Music $2,000.00 The grant will enable musician, piano educator and music therapist, Amy Sandlin to develop and execute a music education and performance based program for youth. This program will allow youth to express their individuality and creativity as they learn music and develop their own free community public performances and be a professional building block for Amy Sandlin’s artistic career.
Susan Koper Muncie 5 Dance $2,000.00 This performance project integrates dance with an oral history of Sybil Jordan Hampton, the sole African American enrolled in her class at Little Rock Central High School from 1959 to 1962. It provides a space for participants to engage in unique ways with dance while contemplating themes of race, self, others and possibilities for enacting social justice.
Dianna Davis Indianapolis 7 Music $2,000.00 Dianna Davis will study at the New York Jazz Academy, experiencing an immersive jazz education experience: taking lessons, attending workshops, visiting jazz historical sites, and studying with influential players.
Paula Jane Chambers Bloomington 8 Dance $2,000.00 Paula will direct and produce a dance and kinetic movement arts performance showcase featuring choreography by herself and several other dancers. Featured acts will include prop manipulation like juggling, poi, staff, acrobatic partner balance, multiple hoop (hula) dance routines and aerial artists. The show will highlight both local and regional artists specializing in the flow arts.
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Individual Artist Program Grantee City Region Discipline Award Pamela Blevins Hinkle Indianapolis 7 Music $2,000.00 Songleader Pam Blevins Hinkle will: (1) create a website, called SongSquadIndy.com, where the public and members of the SongSquad ensemble can access learning tools for songs that encourage community-based singing, and (2) attend the Village FIre Singing camp, where she will collect additional songs to share with various publics.
Wendy Marie Vergoz Indianapolis 7 Literature $2,000.00 This grant will provide poet Wendy Vergoz with funding to attend a summer poetry workshop and with a computer on which to revise and complete her poetry manuscript, Steak Knife, Wedding Gift. The manuscript explores the experience of a woman who survives domestic violence and sexual abuse. Vergoz plans to rework and edit the manuscript to give it unity, strength, and universal resonance.
Shawndra B. Miller Indianapolis 7 Literature $2,000.00 Seven Steeples: My Kinship with Women of the Asylum is a hybrid work of historical fiction and memoir, fictionalizing the lives of forgotten women confined in the 19th century women's ward of Central State Hospital. Author Shawndra Miller interweaves their stories with her own quest for healing. National Book Award nominee Patricia Henley will edit the manuscript and help shape the final draft.
Heidi Keller Phillips Indianapolis 7 Dance $2,000.00 Heidi Keller Phillips will use her grant to support the development of Move Your Brain, a movement arts workshop for general education instructors that explores connections between dance, the brain, and effective learning behavior in a classroom environment
Debra Silvert DBA Duo Sequenza
Valparaiso
1
Music
$2,000.00
Duo Sequenza will produce several studio recordings of flute/classical guitar literature, prioritizing repertoire by living American and Indiana composers, making use of an "Open Studio" concept. Expenses include engineer, producer, and editing fees for 60-84 minutes of finished recordings. As many works as possible will be completed as money permits. Album production costs are not included.
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Individual Artist Program Grantee City Region Discipline Award Elizabeth Crawford Muncie 5 Music $2,000.00 Elizabeth will record a CD of music for E-flat clarinet, one of the smallest members of the clarinet family, and a very under utilized instrument. The disc will include two compositions written specifically for her. "Stardust," by Jenni Brandon, is based on Indiana native, Hoagy Carmichael's song of the same name. "Crazy" by Scott McAllister uses Willie Nelson's song as its inspiration.
Amy Brailey Merrillville 1 Literature $1,983.50 Amy Brailey will spend a week in Virginia and a week in Pennsylvania conducting research on George Washington's early life and experiences in the Virginia militia during the French-Indian War. She will complete a section of her novel entitled Jon Everett and the Hall of History in which Jon travels back to interact with a young Washington prior to his career as president of the United States.
Raymond Bryan Horton Floyds Knobs 12 Music $2,000.00 "Emery Crossing" will be a composition for brass choir (or British brass band) of 10 to 13 min.long. It will be inspired by Emery Crossing, a road in Southern Indiana's Clark County. The road is striking, running past junkyards, a Latino body shop, rusted train cars, abandoned homes and pastures to important historical sites and a stunning view of the Ohio River, thriving commerce and industry.
Joshua Matthew Aerie South Bend 2 Music $2,000.00 IAP grant funding will support the creation of a CD recording by Josh Aerie and the Sylvan Trio of music by Rick Sowash for flute, cello and piano. It will also support performances of music from the CD in concerts in Tippecanoe, Montgomery, Bartholomew and St. Joseph Counties. The CD will constitute world-premiere recordings of new works composed for Josh Aerie and the Sylvan Trio.
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Individual Artist Program Grantee City Region Discipline Award Maurice Broaddus Indianapolis 7 Theatre $2,000.00 Maurice Broaddus will take an advanced workshop in play-writing to finish an Indiana-based play entitled “The Trial of John Freeman.” The script will be developed in a residency program. Using actors from Indianapolis, he will workshop portions on street corners as commentary on gentrification as well as racial injustice in the criminal justice system and how they impact the community.
Robin Cox Indianapolis 7 Music $2,000.00 Robin will further develop his community participation work 'Hourglass' by integrating lighting design and lighting equipment with the hour length music composition. The enhancements will increase the quality of Hourglass events as he continues to present the work throughout Indiana. This also provides him a new base of knowledge for integrating visuals with his work as a composer.
Erica R Rubis Bloomington 8 Music $1,500.00 To create a professional website that establishes a more concrete identity for myself as an early music performer and teacher. The specific intent is to become more available to potential students where I live, as well as to convey my unique weave of musical experience, achievements and interests to the music world at-large.
Steven R. Rahe New Albany 12 Theatre $2,000.00 Steven will write and workshop a new play for young audiences inspired by a series of open-dialogue sessions he will conduct with Indiana youth, exploring the nature of their greatest hopes and fears. The play will be written and professionally developed at a creative playwriting residency in Northern Minnesota. The project will culminate in a public staged reading in Floyd County, Indiana.
Shana Ritter Bloomington 8 Literature $1,550.00 Shana Ritter will attend a weeklong writer's retreat where she will complete the revision of her novel. This historical novel tells the story of a mother and her daughters facing choices and consequences when the Spanish Inquisition orders Jews to leave Spain or convert. Will they forsake all that is integral to their lives, or leave to seek refuge far from home?
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Individual Artist Program Grantee City Region Discipline Award Leela Breithaupt Bloomington 8 Music $2,000.00 The second CD in a series for Naxos Records, "The Birth of the Flute: Songs With and Without Words," explores the intersectionality between voice and flute in turn of 17th century France and the flute’s rise to becoming a solo instrument. Music for Baroque flute and soprano with violin, viol, harpsichord and theorbo by Montéclair and Clérambault is performed on 18th century replicas.
Iveta Diana Asons
Fishers
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Folk/ Traditional Arts
$2,000.00
Iveta will create a set of Latvian folk-inspired dances based on her parents' childhood memories of rural Latvia during the 1930s/40s. The dances will be featured in a multimedia Latvian folk dance performance to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Latvia's independence in 2018. The grant will be used for the rental of moving lights, projection screen, and projector.
Georgeanna Dale Smith Wade Fishers 7 Theatre $2,000.00 Georgeanna Smith Wade will expand her theatrical training with workshops with the critically acclaimed Pig Iron Theatre Company in Philadelphia and Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Mass. She will study physical theatre techniques, group collaboration and devising techniques, and Shakespeare performance techniques.
Rebecca Pappas Indianapolis 7 Dance $2,000.00 Parade2017 is a cumulative outdoor performance that traverses 100 years of artistic history. It is inspired by the power of collective motion and the Ballets Russes piece Parade (1917).
Barbara Shoup Indianapolis 7 Literature $2,000.00 Barbara Shoup will attend the 2017 National Convention for Teachers of English (NCTE) and the Assembly For Literature for Adolescents of the NCTE (ALAN) to promote her work as a young adult author.
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Individual Artist Program Grantee City Region Discipline Award Hannah Fischer Mishawaka 2 Dance $2,000.00 Fischer Dance presents 'Stories', an evening length concert in South Bend, Indiana. Directed by Hannah Fischer, the dance theater company is the only one in the Michiana area. In their third season, Fischer Dance presents modern dance concerts in collaboration with live music and video projection in new, unique spaces. Q&A sessions are held after every concert for audience questions and responses.
Stephanie Marie Nugent Indianapolis 7 Dance $2,000.00 Stephanie Nugent, choreographer, improviser and educator of dance theater will purchase a "marley" dance floor, for use by Nugent Dance to present performances and workshops in theaters, galleries and alternative sites, not traditionally designed to accommodate contemporary dance.
Christina Davidson Lanesville 12 Literature $1,445.00 Christina Davidson will attend a writing workshop to receive expert criticism on her work as a writer. During this event, she will complete her first draft of a novel set in rural Indiana. The novel-in-progress features a young man disillusioned with society following a confession that rattles his entire community. He later finds comfort in a friendship gained from his elderly neighbor, Ruth.
Eiko Kocher Bloomington 8 Dance $2,000.00 Eiko Kocher will use the IAC grant to study Oriental and Folkloric Belly Dance technique at Cassandra’s Oriental Dance Intensive Weeklong Workshop at The Cassandra School in Minneapolis, MN. Eiko will choreograph a Raqs al Assaya piece, a cane dance from the Sa’id (Upper Egypt). The completed choreography will be performed at one of the shows during the weeklong intensive and other venues.
Daniel Stein Bloomington 8 Music $2,000.00 This project will create four critical transcriptions of Argentine tango pieces in public domain. These pieces will be then released freely online under Creative Commons License anyone to use for performance and study. In addition to traditional PDF files, these transcriptions will be release in Music XML.
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Individual Artist Program Grantee City Region Discipline Award Benjamin Bogart Bloomington 8 Music $2,000.00 Ben Bogart will document performances compositions with bandoneon soloist, write articles on the performance practice of well know works for bandoneon, and compile an educational resource for presenters and the community.
Lukas Schooler Indianapolis 7 Theatre $2,000.00 Lukas Schooler will explore elements of physical theater by attending classes at The Actors Gymnasium in Evanston, Illinois. This training will include aerial arts, circus arts, and clowning, with the intent to harness these skills for outdoor, public, site-specific performances in Indianapolis.
Carolyn Divish Indianapolis 7 Literature $725.00 Carolyn will follow the path Morgan and his Confederate Raiders took through southern Indiana. She will research and complete a middle grade novel balancing two fictional narratives--with one character embarking on a adventure and the other caught up in the Great Raid of 1863. At the culmination of the grant period, she will lead a series of writing workshops for children.
Benjamin Dean Taylor Bloomington 8 Music $1,031.00 Composer Benjamin Taylor will travel to Bellingham, Washington where he will present the premiere of his new work written for the Calidore String Quartet and Bellingham Festival Symphony Orchestra. As a guest composer, Dr. Taylor will work with the musicians in rehearsals and give a public talk immediately preceding the concert.
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