NLAC announces grant recipients for the Professional Project Grants Program (fall 2009 session)
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
December 21, 2009, St. John’s, NL – The Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council (NLAC) has awarded $248,563 in grants for 72 artistic projects under its Professional Project Grants Program during its fall 2009 granting session.
The Professional Project Grants Program supports creation, production and professional development in dance, film, multidiscipline, music, theatre, visual arts, and writing. Grants are awarded through a competitive application and peer assessment process.
The maximum available grant for new professional artists or groups is $3000, and the maximum available grant for established professional artists or groups, and professional not-for-profit arts organizations is $7500.
The average grant this session was $3452 – down from this time last year when the average grant was $3884. There were a total of 149 applications which represents a 20 percent increase from last fall.
“We’ve continued to see an increase in the number of applications over the past couple of years.” says Reg Winsor, executive director of the NLAC. “This is indicative of the growing artistic activity taking place throughout the province. As the arts continue to grow and flourish, we expect this trend to continue.”
The Professional Project Grants Program has two grant deadlines a year: one in the spring and one in the fall. The next application deadline is March 16, 2010 (for projects starting on or after May 15, 2010.)
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The Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council (NLAC) is a non-profit Crown agency that promotes and supports the arts through a variety of granting programs. It receives an annual grant, appropriated by the Legislature, to finance its granting programs, office administration, and communications.
Professional Project Grants Program
Grant Recipients fall 2009
Total amount awarded: $248,563
Total grants: 72
- 24 New artists and groups: $ 48,563
- 44 Established artists and groups: $ 184,448
- 4 Not-for-profit arts organizations: $ 15,552
DANCE
Established
Tammy MacLeod
St. John's
$5,000
December 1, 2009 - February 28, 2010
Support to commission Eryn Dace Trudell of Montreal to create a new dance piece for three dancers. It is hoped that the complete work, Idealect, will be presented at the Festival of New Dance 2010.
Sarah Joy Stoker
St. John's
$2,500
November 16, 2009 - May 10, 2010
Support to develop the new solo dance work When the Birds Fly Happy. This work explores happiness, sadness and how others react to these emotions. Also, support for an explorative creative process to research and develop a new group dance piece.
New
Mark Bath
St. John's
$1,730
January 16 - February 6, 2010
Support to create the new dance work Bedddeath. This piece will explore the fragility of memory, the potency of fetish, and the dreamlike quality of loss and discovery.
Andrea Tucker
Paradise
$1,270
January 11 - 18, 2010
Support to develop the new duet dance work Alchera based on the physics theory the Coriolis effect.
FILM
Established
Lynn Andrews, Wanda Nolan, Dana Warren
St. John’s
$4,500
March 10 - May 10, 2010
Support to produce the short film Four Sisters – a tale where new secrets reveal old secrets, and how sex, jealousy, love and family divide and ultimately bond four sisters.
Rhonda Buckley
St. John’s
$2,071
November 15, 2009 - July 15, 2010
Support to produce the film Vocation. This work will include interviews with actor and writer Andy Jones, writer Jane Urquhart, and performer Anne-Marie Brassard about choosing their career paths early in life.
Jordan Canning
St. John's
$4,500
January 1 - June 30, 2010
Support to produce the six-minute short comedic film Not Over Easy. The film, which is part live-action and part stop-motion animation, explores nasty breakups, second chances, and knowing when to call it quits.
Rock Can Roll Independent (Rock Can Roll Media Collective)
St. John’s
$3,000
November 15, 2009 - March 31, 2010
Support to produce an International New Animation Festival in St. John's highlighting new animation techniques and experimental animation.
Bart Simpson
St. John’s
$4,000
November 15, 2009 - January 25, 2010
Support to produce a documentary film about Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer. This new work will involve interviews with Oscar Niemeyer and others focusing on the aesthetics and politics around the design, construction, and evolution of the city of Brasilia.
New
Robert Chafe
St. John's
$2,000
January 4 - March 15, 2010
Support to complete the final draft of the screenplay adaptation of the play Tempting Providence.
Jacqueline Hynes
St. John's
$2,795
April 13 - June 23, 2010
Support to produce the short film Cardboard Junction. This work centres on a young girl who is abandoned by her mother when they receive an unsettling visit from Mister, an old friend and current employer.
Jody Rideout
St. John's
$550
November 15, 2009 - February 10, 2010
Support to produce a short film, Gift of the Spirit.
MULTIDISCIPLINE
Established
Chris Brookes/ Marnie Parsons
St. John's
$3,341
December 1, 2009 - November 30, 2010
Support to develop a cycle of Jack tales that imaginatively develops a Newfoundland and Labrador national/folkloric identity. The epic would be performed as a marathon oral storytelling event by a group of storytellers.
Dale Jarvis
St. John's
$1,501
April 14 - April 26, 2010
Support to assist a storytelling performance in Ottawa; to teach a workshop to street youth in Toronto; and participate in storytelling and writing professional development workshops in the United States.
Liz Pickard (Liz Solo)
St. John's
$3,341
November 15, 2009 - March 31, 2010
Support to create and produce the hybrid reality performance art work Everything Popular is Wrong.
New
Ricky King
St. John's
$2,000
November 15, 2009 - January 15, 2010
Support to create the graphic novel Inside.
MUSIC
Established
Duane Andrews
St. John's
$7,000
November 16, 2009 - May 14, 2010
Support to record and promote Duane’s fourth full-length recording.
Paddy Barry
St. John's
$4,000
March 1 - March 31, 2010
Support to record the debut album April's Moonlight.
Patrick Boyle
Mount Pearl
$3,664
March 1 - March 14, 2010
Support to study Irish wind instrument music with Conal O'Grada in Ireland.
Anna Kearney Guigne
Paradise
$5,430
January 1 - June 30, 2010
Support to develop the fourth volume of Kenneth Peacock's Songs of the Newfoundland Outports: Songs of the Newfoundland Outports – Volume 4: The Songs that Nearly Got Away.
Hot Earth Ensemble
St. John's
$2,145
November 16, 2009 - January 24, 2010
Support for the second concert of the 2009-2010 season. This performance will be a musical exploration of the darkness of winter, which gives way to the light of spring through the ears of Baroque composers J.S Bach, C. Graupner, G.P.Telemann, James Oswald, J.M Leclair and Canadian composer James Gelfand.
Idlers Music Inc.
St. John's
$4,500
October 6 - December 12, 2009
Support for the Keep Out tour of Eastern Canada.
Fergus O'Byrne
St. John’s
$4,800
November 15, 2009 - June 18, 2010
Support to present Young Folk At the Hall in Champneys West, English Harbour, Central Newfoundland and Labrador. This event is a gathering of young folk musicians (ages 7-17), who partake in a weekend of workshops/sessions, guided by Fergus O'Byrne and local folk musicians/mentors. The weekend culminates in a public concert.
The Opera Roadshow
St. John's
$6,000
November 15, 2009 - May 6, 2010
Support to commission Newfoundland and Labrador-born composer Dean Burry to compose a new opera for young audiences.
Kristina Szutor
St. John's
$3,500
February 12 - March 12, 2010
Support to take part in a short-term winter residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts. The residency will include workshopping and preparing a program of pieces for the CD recording project Apres Scarlatti.
New
Catcher
Conception Bay South
$3,000
November 15 - December 15, 2009
Support to record and produce Catcher's Sophomore Album May You Live in Interesting Times.
The Mountains & The Trees (Jon Janes)
St. John’s
$3,000
November 21, 2009 - May 30, 2010
Support to record a full-length album of indie folk-pop music entitled Paper Bag Tunes.
Andrew James O'Brien
Mount Pearl
$3,000
December 1, 2009 - February 1, 2010
Support to record, mix, and master the debut solo album Songs About Time.
Scalabrine
St. John's
$1,000
December 1, 2009 - May 1, 2010
Support to record, mix and master the hip-hop 8-track EP, Searching.
THEATRE
Established
Tara Manuel
Corner Brook
$4,221
December 1, 2009 - March 1, 2010
Support to produce a shadow play based on the myth of St. George and the Dragon. The show will combine traditional shadow puppetry with innovative digital projection techniques to be presented in ten rural Western Newfoundland and Labrador communities.
Sarah McDonald-Anderson
Corner Brook
$1,000
November 15 - 21, 2009
Support for professional development at the Nightwood Theatre's Directors Summit in Toronto.
Newfoundlandartistx
St. John's
$4,000
December 4 - 6, 2009
Support to produce the play Offensive to Some by Berni Stapleton at Rabbittown Theatre.
She Said Yes!
St. John's
$6,000
December 1, 2009 - March 15, 2010
Support for the third annual Mail-Order Dramaturgy program that links three playwrights from across Canada with long-distance dramaturgical support. Also, support to develop workshops for new plays from across the country in a reading series as part of the Women's Work Festival.
Wreckhouse Productions
St. John's
$6,000
January 28 - February 21, 2010
Support to produce the new stage play Pity the Flesh by Frank Barry.
Mark Edward Quinn White
St. John's
$4,200
February 22 - March 20, 2010
Support to produce a workshop and staged reading of Mark’s new play low down low with dramaturge Robert Chafe.
New
Greg Gale
Corner Brook
$2,525
November 17 - December 12, 2009
Support to develop Highway 63: The Fort Mac Show, a play about life on the front lines of the oil sands of Fort McMurray.
Nicole Rousseau
St. John's
$2,025
November 16 - November 20, 2009
Support for a workshop and staged reading of a new play by Phillip Goodridge entitled, Eli and the Death Curse.
VISUAL ARTS
Established
Brent Coffin
Mount Pearl
$3,000
November 5, 2009 - March 5, 2010
Support to create the series of oil paintings entitled Beyond Facades. The works will use figurative subjects wearing conceptual fashion in both domestic and mythic scenes to express the strength and frailty of the human spirit.
Janet Davis
Wesleyville
$3,000
November 15, 2009 - May 15, 2010
Support to research and create an extensive body of work entitled Salt Cod Study. It will explore salt cod as an icon in Newfoundland and Labrador's history.
Audrey M. Feltham
Deer Lake
$4,500
April 27 - May 30, 2010
Support for professional development in the textile manipulation technique Devore (relief texture) with international fabric artist Dionne Swift in England.
Don Foulds
Corner Brook
$5,000
November 15, 2009 - August 15, 2010
Support to create a sculpture series entitled Metaphorical Figuration - The New Body.
Susan Furneaux
St. John's
$2,420
December 1, 2009 - March 1, 2010
Support to research and record the conversion of local natural dyes into dry pigments for use in the textile technique of Bingata.
Corey Gorman
St. John's
$4,000
November 15, 2009 - November 15, 2010
Support to create a series of 10 abstract Merz paintings based on found architectural blueprints overlaid with contemporary architectural drawings.
Nicola Hawkins
Cape Broyle
$3,500
November 16, 2009 - July 30, 2010
Support to create three large-scale mixed-media works. These collage/paintings will be one component of the larger project Junk-O-Sphere which will be shown in a solo exhibit at The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery in 2012.
Christine Koch
St. John's
$5,500
November 15, 2009 - May 15, 2010
Support to create a body of work consisting of painting and prints exploring Gros Morne National Park.
Laurie Leehane
St. John's
$3,500
November 15, 2009 - February 15, 2010
Support to create Eviction, a mixed media body of work exploring the end of a gravel pit camp and the stories left behind.
John McDonald
St. John's
$4,000
November 15, 2009 - September 15, 2010
Support to create a series of 10 to 15 oil paintings exploring the combination of the past and present by juxtaposing contemporary dress and iconography with various classical compositions.
Michael Pittman
Grand Falls-Windsor
$7,499
November 15, 2009 - July 09, 2010
Support to create a mixed media exploration of beds and their varied functions and significance. The work will investigate sleep, dreams, sexuality, illness, birth, and death.
Elena Popova
Flatrock
$4,500
January 1 - April 1, 2010
Support to create 12 large-scale mixed media paintings for a solo exhibition at The Rooms Provincial Art Gallery in the fall of 2010.
Jay Riopelle
Corner Brook
$5,000
November 15, 2009 - February 28, 2010
Support to produce the new glass series Where Water Meets Land. This series will include 10 to 15 glass sculptures that capture the natural beauty and ruggedness of various coastal regions of Newfoundland and Labrador.
New
Jordan Bennett
Corner Brook
$1,977
November 15, 2009 - February 23, 2010
Support to create and present mixed media sculpture at the Banff Centre for the Arts through its Aboriginal Visual Arts Residency: Towards Language.
Nancy Brubacher Jacobsen
Corner Brook
$2,200
January 4 - March 31, 2010
Support to create a series of sculptures exploring environmental concerns, domesticity and the fragility of human existence entitled Implore. This work will be made by combining found and recycled materials with concrete. The completed exhibition will be shown at the Corner Brook Arts and Culture Centre.
Candace Fulford
St. John's
$1,500
November 15, 2009 - August 15, 2010
Support to create 15 mixed media paintings which will explore the poetic expression of personal narrative, memory, and nostalgia through the means of abstract paintings.
Jonathan Howse
Springdale
$2,000
November 15, 2009 - April 15, 2010
Support to complete a series of 10 oil paintings. These narrative paintings will allegorize the contemporary concerns of rural Newfoundlander and Labradorians within their own histories.
David Kaarsemaker
St. John's
$2,000
November 15, 2009 - March 1, 2010
Support to create a large-scale triptych entitled The Expulsion exploring the disconnect between culture and nature using the forest as a metaphor.
Mary Florence MacDonald
St. John's
$1,611
November 15, 2009 - June 12, 2010
Support to produce a site and time-specific video installation The Duckworth Project. This work will be a moving reflection of Duckworth Street in St. John's transformed through drawing and animation. From dark till dawn for one week The Duckworth Project will be presented in a storefront window.
WRITING
Established
Paul Butler
St. John’s
$5,000
November 15, 2009 - April 15, 2010
Support to complete a draft of the novel Cupids – a Newfoundland and Labrador twist on the Jacobean Revenge Tragedy.
Michelle Butler Hallett
St. John's
$6,000
January 02 - April 30, 2010
Support to write a diverse collection of new stories and novellas entitled Balbus in a Roadside Rage.
Catherine Hogan Safer
St. John's
$5,000
November 15, 2009 - March 15, 2010
Support to write a collection of short stories based on people, situations, and life in St. John's.
Joel Thomas Hynes
St. John's
$6,000
December 1, 2009 - March 31, 2010
Support to develop a book about four generations of father-son relationships entitled I Never Dream of My Father.
Michael Johansen
North West River
$1,815
November 15, 2009 - March 15, 2010
Support to conduct research for the novel Dinner on the Empress. Part of the research involves recreating a meal based on a ship’s menu from 1929. The dinner was a celebratory meal served to 15 Great War veterans on board the Canadian Pacific Trans-Atlantic liner the Empress of Scotland. All the guests, including Newfoundlander Tommy Ricketts, were recipients of the Victoria Cross.
Agnes M. Walsh
St. John's
$5,000
November 15, 2009 - March 15, 2010
Support to write a short story collection.
New
David Andrews
St. John's
$1,600
November 20, 2009 - March 20, 2010
Support to complete a collection of interlocking short stories entitled West Orange.
Randy Drover
St. John's
$1,280
November 15, 2009 - February 15, 2010
Support to complete a manuscript of short fiction and poetry that explores stories of misfits.
Margaret Goudie Parsons
Happy Valley-Goose Bay
$2,000
November 20, 2009 - November 20, 2010
Support to take part in an on-line professional development course on writing for children and teenagers offered through the Institute of Children's Literature.
John Gushue
St. John's
$3,000
December 01, 2009 - February 28, 2010
Support to research and write a novel tentatively titled Skeets of St. John's.
Andreae Prozesky
St. John's
$3,000
November 15, 2009 - April 15, 2010
Support to write a book-length series of poems about butchers and their craft titled, Befriending the Butcher.
Shoshanna Wingate
St. John's
$1,500
November 15, 2009 - March 31, 2010
Support to write the novel Dear Henry. This work centres on a teenage girl fleeing her alcoholic father in search of an estranged aunt and a new life.
NOT-FOR-PROFIT ARTS ORGANIZATIONS
Craft Council of Newfoundland and Labrador Gallery
St. John's
$3,500
November 16, 2009 - June 13, 2010
Support for seven exhibitions and programming at the Craft Council Gallery, including “Comfort & Joy”, “Made for Each Other”, “Spring Again!”, and juried group shows.
Lady Cove Women's Choir
St. John's
$2,835
November 15, 2009 - March 01, 2010
Support to commission writer Agnes Walsh to compose a poem for the choir to premiere in a new choral piece.
Rabbittown Theatre Company
St. John's
$4,608
January 1 - February 1, 2010
Support to produce the original play The Monk by Aiden Flynn.
White Rooster Productions
St. John's
$4,609
February 1 - March 8, 2010
Support to produce the new play Monarita by Sharron Bramen.
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