The Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City Board of Directors has approved $6,079 in new ArtsKC Fund Inspiration Award funding for eight projects by local artists. Inspiration awards from the ArtsKC fund, a united arts fund, support projects by individual artists which assist with their overall professional growth in specific creative endeavors. This is the last of three rounds of Inspiration awards for the 2009 grant cycle. In the first two rounds of funding, artists were awarded a combined total of $14,070. The following are grant recipients in the performing arts:
Nathan Granner and Jeffrey Rukaman: Tenor Nathan Granner and composer/musician Jeffrey Rukaman will travel to Florida for a month long residency during which they will be collaborating on a new opera based on the Gospel of Judas. Inspiration funding will help pay for their travel expenses to the residency.
Robert Chase Heishman: Heishman will purchase a high definition video camera to use in recording his personal reconstruction of an episode of the 1980’s prime time soap opera Falcon Crest that aired on the day he was born; it inspired his mother to name him after the actor who portrayed the main character.
These awards conclude the commitment of all grant funds raised and pledged during the 2009 ArtsKC Fund campaign. Letters of inquiry from artists interested in applying for the first round of 2010 awards are due March 15.
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