{"id":51459,"date":"2024-08-09T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/?p=51459"},"modified":"2024-08-15T16:53:49","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T21:53:49","slug":"tarleton-states-stone-awarded-mid-america-arts-alliance-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/tarleton-states-stone-awarded-mid-america-arts-alliance-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarleton State\u2019s Stone Awarded Mid-America Arts Alliance Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

STEPHENVILLE, Texas \u2014 Tarleton State University Assistant Professor of Theater Dan Stone has been awarded a $25,000 grant from the Mid-America Arts Alliance through the organization\u2019s Interchange Grant Program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dan Stone, Assistant Professor of Theater at Tarleton State University, has been awarded a $25,000 grant from the Mid-America Arts Alliance and its Interchange Grant Program.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWith this grant, I can continue my work in Socially Engaged Participatory Theatre, focusing on rural communities in Texas,\u201d Stone said. \u201cSince 2008, I have been committed to this type of work through my company, Sanctuary Stage, in Northern California and Oregon. Now that I’ve moved back to Texas, I am eager to continue these socially minded arts practices here.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The program, made possible by the support of the Mellon Foundation, awarded practice-based fellowships to 16 regional artists, providing vital resources for their socially engaged creative practices. Individual artists residing in M-AAA\u2019s six-state region of Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas were eligible to apply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of Stone\u2019s most recent projects at Tarleton State was directing the musical \u201cLIZZIE: The Musical\u201d about the infamous Lizzie Borden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Theatre at Tarleton production garnered national attention from the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival and earned a spot in the regional competition in Abilene earlier this year, a first for the university.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stone, the winner of the award for Outstanding Direction at the 2016 San Diego International Fringe Festival, says working closely with his students is the best part of his job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019ve had some really good mentors in different areas of my life,\u201d he said. \u201cI think teaching is more than getting in front of a classroom and talking at <\/em>people. In the arts, mentorship \u2014 taking time with students and showing them how to be successful in a career that can be risky \u2014 is very important.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

STEPHENVILLE, Texas \u2014 Tarleton State University Assistant Professor of Theater Dan Stone has been awarded a $25,000 grant from the Mid-America Arts Alliance through the organization\u2019s Interchange Grant Program. \u201cWith …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":51460,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[382,423,424,425,421,426],"tags":[453],"class_list":["post-51459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homepage","category-academics-research","category-arts-events","category-campus-community","category-featuredstories","category-honors-achievements","tag-performing-fine-arts"],"acf":{"image":false},"author_meta":{"display_name":"priddle","author_link":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/author\/priddle-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2024\/08\/Stone_Dan-300x200.jpg","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["_Homepage<\/a>","Academics & Research<\/a>","Arts & Events<\/a>","Campus & Community<\/a>","Featured Stories<\/a>","Honors & Achievements<\/a>"],"unlinked":["_Homepage<\/span>","Academics & Research<\/span>","Arts & Events<\/span>","Campus & Community<\/span>","Featured Stories<\/span>","Honors & Achievements<\/span>"]},"tags":{"linked":["Performing & Fine Arts<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Performing & Fine Arts<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":0,"relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 2 years ago","modified":"Updated 2 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on August 9, 2024","modified":"Updated on August 15, 2024"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on August 9, 2024 8:00 am","modified":"Updated on August 15, 2024 4:53 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"Man in a purple Tarleton State University sweater stands confidently indoors.","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tarleton.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}