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The Knight Foundation announced its Arts Challenge winners this week, awarding 47 projects that will share in $2.29 million. To qualify, the projects must be about art, must take place in or benefit Miami, and the winners must find funds to match the Knight grant within a year.
Out of nearly 1,200 applications, the 2014 winners include Bookleggers' community mobile library, the national expansion of Weird Miami Bus Tours by Bas Fisher, Amanda Keeley's roaming artist books pop-up, Exile Books, HistoryMiami's proposed photography center, and more.
Receiving even more bucks is the Key West Art and Historical Society, who won the People's Choice Award and $20,000 cash by getting the most text votes from the public.
Read on for the full list of winners.
2014 Knight Arts Challenge Winners
Exile Books: Pop-up Art Book Store Ignites Conversation
Recipient: Amanda Keeley
Award: $50,000
City of Progress Project Preserves Analog Recordings in a Digital World
Recipient: Andrew Yeomanson (DJ Le Spam)
Award: $35,000
Wild Billboards Bring Everglades into the City
Recipient: Artists in Residence in Everglades (AIRIE)
Award: $60,000
Weird Miami Tours Go National
Recipient: BFI (Bas Fisher Invitational)
Award: $150,000
Bookleggers' Mobile Library Expands Outreach
Recipient: Bookleggers
Amount: $30,000
Books & Books Brings Author Events Online
Recipient: Books & Books
Award: $80,000
Street Performers Bring Downtown to Life
Recipient: Buskerfest Miami!
Award: $10,000
Microgrant Program for Experimental Art Expands
Recipient: Cannonball
Award: $150,000
Microtheater Expands in Downtown
Recipient: Centro Cultural Español de Cooperación Iberoamericana
Award: $50,000
Doral Brings New Arts Programming to West Dade
Recipient: City of Doral
Award: $60,000
Festival Explores African Culture Through Music
Recipient: Community Arts and Culture
Amount: $40,000
Cultural Exchange Planned for Miami and Havana
Recipient: Elizabeth Cerejido
Award: $60,000
Fort Lauderdale Arts Space Provides Home for Experimental Work
Recipient: FATVillage Arts District
Award: $80,000
Electronic Music and Sound from the Americas Featured in New Series
Recipient: Foundation for Emerging Technologies and Arts (FETA)
Award: $15,000
Hialeah Collective Engages City in the Arts
Recipient: HICCUP
Award: $15,000
HistoryMiami Launches Photo Center
Recipient: HistoryMiami
Award: $150,000
Dance Festival Highlights Afro-Cuban Culture
Recipient: IFE-ILE
Award: $15,000
New inkub8 Lab Helps Artistic Voices Grow
Recipient: inkub8
Award: $30,000
Super Bowl of Poetry Coming to Broward
Recipient: Jason Taylor Foundation
Award: $50,000
Kinetic Sculpture Parade Comes to Key West
Recipient: Key West Art & Historical Society
Award: $15,000
Book Series Puts Spotlight on Miami Photographers of the '70s and '80s
Recipient: Letter 16 Press
Award: $20,000
Haitian Rara Music Celebrated with New Youth Program
Recipient: Little Haiti Cultural Center
Award: $50,000
Young Students Trained in Urban Dance
Recipient: Live in Color Dance Collective
Award: $20,000
Mariachi Academy Comes to South Dade
Recipient: Mexican American Council
Award: $60,000
Artists and Architects Meet to Inspire New Ideas
Recipient: Miami Center for Architecture & Design (MCAD)
Award: $15,000
Stories of Modern-Day Marines Told in Multimedia Work
Recipient: MDC Live Arts
Award: $50,000
Teaching Artists to Get New Training at Miami Music Project
Recipient: Miami Music Project
Award: $75,000
Prominent Alums Celebrate African Cultural Center's 40th Anniversary
Recipient: Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs
Award: $75,000
Fashion As Art is Focus of New Museum
Recipient: Museum of Fashion
Award: $25,000
Classic Film Series Expands at the Cosford
Recipient: Norton Herrick Center for Motion Picture Studies
Award: $15,000
New Ensemble Focuses on Music and Multimedia Performances
Recipient: Nu Deco Ensemble
Award: $75,000
New Miami Publishing House Features Local Works
Recipient: Jai-Alai Books
Award: $40,000
Design District Gallery Focuses on Artistic Values
Recipient: Oliver Sanchez
Award: $15,000
Olympia Theater Expands Downtown Arts Series
Recipient: Olympia Theater at Gusman Center
Award: $50,000
Artistic Transformation Planned for Opa-locka Thoroughfare
Recipient: Opa-locka Community Development Corporation
Award: $100,000
Art Meets Science at Frost Science Performance Series
Recipient: Patricia and Phillip Frost Museum of Science
Award: $15,000
Choreographers Bring Dance to Unexpected Locations
Recipient: Pioneer Winter / Pioneer Winter Collective
Award: $20,000
Cultural Mash-up Mixes Indian Dance with Afro-Caribbean Poetry
Recipient: Ranjana Warier
Award: $35,000
Collective Challenges Artistic Boundaries Through Technology and Performing Arts
Recipient: Sound and Vision
Award: $10,000
Stiltsville to Host Artist-in-Residence Program
Recipient: Stiltsville Trust
Award: $25,000
South Dade Children Gain Access to Choral Music Program
Recipient: The Children's Voice Chorus
Award: $25,000
The Screening Room Brings Films and Video Installations to Wynwood
Recipient: The Screening Room
Award: $25,000
Festival Pushes Caribbean Avant-Garde in Miami
Recipient: Third Horizon Media
Award: $50,000
Trinity Cathedral to Double as Performance Space
Recipient: Trinity Episcopal Cathedral
Award: $30,000
Brazilian Music Institute Heads to Broward
Recipient: University of Florida, College of Fine Arts, School of Music
Award: $75,000
Local Students Jam with Jazz Greats
Recipient: Village of Pinecrest, Pinecrest Gardens
Award: $75,000
Virginia Key Festival Features World Music, Dance
Recipient: Virginia Key GrassRoots Festival of Music, Art and Dance
Award: $75,000
The Knight Arts Challenge will open for applications again in early 2015.
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