Pop-Up Grant Recipient History
TACA Pop-Up Grant Recipients
TACA Pop-Up Grants reward exciting artistic work that fuels a local culture of creativity and innovation. Thanks to the generosity of the March Family Foundation and PNC, two-thirds of the grants we give will go directly into the hands of key and supporting artists in 2024.
Since August 2020, TACA has awarded $547,250 in grants to 121 arts programs and 1,202 artists.
HEADER PHOTO: Bruce Wood Dance 14th Anniversary Performance – Photo by Natalie Bracken
2024
Dallas Black Dance Theatre & Dallas Museum of Art
Echoes of Diaspora: A Ballet Inspired by “Afro-Atlantic Histories”
$2,500 Pop-Up Grant
$5,000 Artist Bonus Funding
Irving Symphony Orchestra
Let’s Dance
$2,500 Pop-Up Grant
$5,000 Artist Bonus Funding
Nasher Sculpture Center
Empire of Dirt
$2,500 Pop-Up Grant
$5,000 Artist Bonus Funding
Produced by Bishop Arts Theatre Center in collaboration with Dallas Theater Center
Fannie: The Music and Life of Fannie Lou Hamer
$2,500 Pop-Up Grant
$5,000 Artist Bonus Funding
Bruce Wood Dance
The 14th Anniversary Performance
$2,500 Pop-Up Grant
$5,000 Artist Bonus Funding
Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Uptown Nights: It Don’t Mean a Thing If It Ain’t Got That Swing
$2,500 Pop-Up Grant
Orchestra of New Spain
Angels & Devils
$2,500 Pop-Up Grant
$5,000 Artist Bonus Funding
Verdigris Ensemble
Dust Bowl
$2,500 Pop-Up Grant
$5,000 Artist Bonus Funding
Produced by Bishop Arts Theatre Center in collaboration with Dallas Theater Center
Fannie: The Music and Life of Fannie Lou Hamer
$2,500 Pop-Up Grant
$5,000 Artist Bonus Funding
Kitchen Dog Theater
Love and Vinyl
$2,500 Pop-Up Grant
$5,000 Artist Bonus Funding
Pegasus Contemporary Ballet
Synergy 2024
$2,500 Pop-Up Grant
$5,000 Artist Bonus Funding
Teatro Dallas
Cloud Tectonics
$2,500 Pop-Up Grant
$5,000 Artist Bonus Funding
Bombshell Dance Project & Dallas Contemporary
DC Empty
$2,500 Pop-Up Grant
$5,000 Artist Bonus Funding
Prism Movement Theatre & AT&T Performing Arts Center
La Maupin: The French Abomination
$3,000 Pop-Up Grant
$5,000 Artist Bonus Funding
Shakespeare Dallas
The Odyssey
$2,500 Pop-Up Grant
$5,000 Artist Bonus Funding
Artists Sans Frontières & AT&T Performing Arts Center
Hazards
$2,500 Pop-Up Grant
$5,000 Artist Bonus Funding
Fair Assembly
King Lear
$2,500 Pop-Up Grant
$5,000 Artist Bonus Funding
OutLoud Dallas
See Me
$2,500 Pop-Up Grant
$5,000 Artist Bonus Funding
Aurora
Biennial 2024
$2,500 Pop-Up Grant
$5,000 Artist Bonus Funding
TITAS / Dance Unbound
Õkāreka Dance Company in Mana Wahine
$2,500 Pop-Up Grant
$5,000 Artist Bonus Funding
WaterTower Theatre
The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe
$2,500 Pop-Up Grant
$5,000 Artist Bonus Funding
2023
Bishop Arts Theatre Center
The 1619 Project One-Act Festival
$2,500 Pop-Up Grant
$5,000 Artist Bonus Funding to 18 Key Artists and 7 Supporting Artists
Junior Players
Be More Chill
$2,500 Pop-Up Grant
$5,000 Artist Bonus Funding to 20 Key Artists and 19 Supporting Artists
Lyric Stage
Aida
$2,500 Pop-Up Grant
$5,000 Artist Bonus Funding
to 3 Key Artists and 3 Supporting Artists
Dallas Black Dance Theater
Cultural Awareness: Swipe Left by Sean J. Smith
$1,250 Pop-Up Grant
$2,500 Artist Bonus Funding to 2 Key Artists and 11 Supporting Artists
Nasher Sculpture Center
Afro Mingei: A Project by Theaster Gates
$2,500 Pop-Up Grant
Verdigris Ensemble
SHAMS
$2,500 Pop-Up Grant
$5,000 Artist Bonus Funding to 16 Key Artists and 3 Supporting Artists
Pegasus Contemporary Ballet
Synergy: Dallas Music In Motion
$2,500 Pop-Up Grant
$5,000 Artist Bonus Funding to 5 Key Artists and 4 Supporting Artists
Cara Mia Theatre
Origenes/Origins & To DIE:GO with Leaves
$2,500 Pop-Up Grant
$4000 Artist Bonus Funding to 14 Key Artists and 10 Supporting Artists
AT&T Performing Arts Center
Agora Artists presents Eldert Lofts
$2,500 Pop-Up Grant
$5,000 Artist Bonus Funding
Prism Movement Theatre
Circe: The Song of Benedito
$2,500 Pop-Up Grant
$5,000 Artist Bonus Funding
Echo Theatre
Natural Shocks & I AND YOU
$2,500 Pop-Up Grant
$5,000 Artist Bonus Funding
WaterTower Theatre
Manic Monologues
$2,500 Pop-Up Grant
$5,000 Artist Bonus Funding
African American Museum of Dallas
If You Look Hard Enough, You Can See Our Future
$2,500 Pop-Up Grant
AT&T Performing Arts Center
B. Moore Dance presents Jazz, Soul, Funk, Classics
$2,500 Pop-Up Grant
$5,000 Artist Bonus Funding
The Watering Hole Collective
Spring Awakening
$2,500 Pop-Up Grant
$5,000 Artist Bonus Funding
AT&T Performing Arts Center
The DASH Ensemble presents The Power of Collision
$2,500 Pop-Up Grant
$5,000 Artist Bonus Funding
Fair Assembly
As You Like It
$2,500 Pop-Up Grant
$5,000 Artist Bonus Funding
Dallas Children’s Theater
Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters
$2,500 Pop-Up Grant
$5,000 Artist Bonus Funding
Junior Players
Shakespeare with Henry
$2,500 Pop-Up Grant
$5,000 Artist Bonus Funding
Dallas Theater Center
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
$2,500 Pop-Up Grant
Avant Chamber Ballet
Dracula
$2,500 Pop-Up Grant
$5,000 Artist Bonus Funding
Kitchen Dog Theater
Safe at Home
$2,500 Pop-Up Grant
$5,000 Artist Bonus Funding
Bishop Arts Theatre Center
Othello Adapted by Franky D. Gonzalez
$2,500 Pop-Up Grant
$5,000 Artist Bonus Funding
The Dallas Opera
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
$2,500 Pop-Up Grant
2022
Cara Mía Theatre
Luchadora!
$2,000 Pop-Up Grant
$4,000 Artist Bonus Funding
to 19 Key Artists and 4 Supporting Artists
Nasher Sculpture Center
Carne y Arena
$2,000 Pop-Up Grant
Presented in partnership with the George W. Bush Presidential Center and Fair Park First
Teatro Dallas
Pastor’s Paradox
$2,000 Pop-Up Grant
Presented in partnership with The Juanita Craft Civil Rights House
Verdigris Ensemble
Betty’s Notebook
$2,000 Pop-Up Grant
$4,000 Artist Bonus Funding
to 16 Key Artists
AT&T Performing Arts Center
RAGE by Janelle Gray
$2,000 Pop-Up Grant
$4,000 Artist Bonus Funding
Bruce Wood Dance & Dallas Museum of Art
Slip Zone Suite
$2,000 Pop-Up Grant
$4,000 Artist Bonus Funding to 13 Key Artists and 5 Supporting Artists
Dallas Theater Center
The Sound of Music
$2,000 Pop-Up Grant
Nasher Sculpture Center
Sculpting Sound
$2,000 Pop-Up Grant
AT&T Performing Arts Center
Griots by Bandan Koro
$2,000 Pop-Up Grant
$4,000 Artist Bonus Funding
Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Yanga
$2,000 Pop-Up Grant
Presented in partnership with the Latino Arts Project and the African-American Museum
Fair Assembly
Macbeth
$2,000 Pop-Up Grant
$4,000 Artist Bonus Funding to 12 Key Artists and 8 Supporting Artists
Orchestra of New Spain
Celebrating Juneteenth
$2,000 Pop-Up Grant
$4,000 Artist Bonus Funding to 3 Key Artists and 10 Supporting Artists
Theatre Three
Stede Bonnet: A F*cking Pirate Musical
$2,000 Pop-Up Grant
$4,000 Artist Bonus Funding to 13 Key Artists and 14 Supporting Artists
Artstillery
In Spite of History, Part 1
$2,000 Pop-Up Grant
$4,000 Artist Bonus Funding to 6 Key Artists and 15 Supporting Artists
Dallas Theater Center
Public Works Dallas: The Odyssey
$2,000 Pop-Up Grant
Turtle Creek Chorale
Let Us March On!
$2,000 Pop-Up Grant
$4,000 Artist Bonus Funding to 4 Key Artists
Cara Mía Theatre
Latinidades: A Festival of Latinx Theatre
$2,000 Pop-Up Grant
$4,000 Artist Bonus Funding to 3 Key Artists and 7 Supporting Artists
The Classics Theatre Project
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
$2,000 Pop-Up Grant
$4,000 Artist Bonus Funding to 4 Key Artists and 21 Supporting Artists
The Dallas Opera
Rigoletto (Livestream)
$2,000 Pop-Up Grant
Echo Theatre
Echo Offstage: Theatre Women Speak
$2,000 Pop-Up Grant
$4,000 Artist Bonus Funding to 3 Key Artists and 2 Supporting Artists
Latino Arts Project
Yanga and the AfroMexican Experience
$2,000 Pop-Up Grant
$4,000 Artist Bonus Funding to 2 Key Artists and 2 Supporting Artists
The Walls at Pleasant Grove
StylesFest
$2,000 Pop-Up Grant
$4,000 Artist Bonus Funding to 1 Key Artist and 8 Supporting Artists
AT&T Performing Arts Center
Bombshell Dance Project’s In the Conservatory with the Knife
$2,000 Pop-Up Grant
$4,000 Artist Bonus Funding to 8 Key Artists and 3 Supporting Artists
Soul Rep Theatre Company
Travisville
$2,000 Pop-Up Grant
$4,000 Artist Bonus Funding to 9 Key Artists and 7 Supporting Artists
Teatro Dallas
ASHES OF LIGHT/LA LUZ DE UN CIGARILLO
$2,000 Pop-Up Grant
$4,000 Artist Bonus Funding to 6 Key Artists and 6 Supporting Artists
Pegasus Contemporary Ballet
Fall Into Dance
$2,000 Pop-Up Grant
$4,000 Artist Bonus Funding to 8 Key Artists and 2 Supporting Artists
2021
The Cedars Union
Flesh & Bone
$500 Pop-Up Grant
$1,000 Artist Bonus Funding
to 1 Key Artist and 1 Supporting Artist
The Cube: An Interactive Experience for the Socially-Distanced Era
$1,500 Pop-Up Grant
$3,000 Artist Bonus Funding
to 3 Key Artists and 2 Supporting Artists
Kitchen Dog Theater
#ENOUGH: Plays to End Gun Violence
$1,000 Pop-Up Grant
$2,000 Artist Bonus Funding
to 12 Key Artists
Shakespeare Dallas
Shakespeare Decoded
$1,000 Pop-Up Grant
$2,000 Artist Bonus Funding
to 6 Key Artists and 6 Supporting Artists
Soul Rep Theatre
DO NO HARM
$2,000 Pop-Up Grant
$4,000 Artist Bonus Funding
to 6 Key Artists and 5 Supporting Artists
Avant Chamber Ballet
Still Growing + 19th Amendment
$1,000 Pop-Up Grant
$2,000 Artist Bonus Funding
to 11 Key Artists and 4 Supporting Artists
Bishop Arts Theatre Center
Before You Get Married and Dancing in the Past
$2,000 Pop-Up Grant
$3,000 Artist Bonus Funding
to 4 Key Artists and 1 Supporting Artist
Dallas Black Dance Theatre
Reminisce
$1,500 Pop-Up Grant
$3,000 Artist Bonus Funding
to 10 Key Artists and 2 Supporting Artists
Nasher Sculpture Center
Nasher Public: Vicki Meek’s “Stony the Road We Trod”
$1,000 Pop-Up Grant
$2,000 Artist Bonus Funding
to 1 Key Artist
B. Moore Dance
Bold Brilliant Beautiful You!
$1,500 Pop-Up Grant
$3,000 Artist Bonus Funding
to 11 Key Artists and 5 Supporting Artists
Bruce Wood Dance
WOOD/SHOP
$1,500 Pop-Up Grant
$3,000 Artist Bonus Funding
to 4 Key Artists and 14 Supporting Artists
Dallas Black Dance Theatre
Dancing Beyond Borders
$1,500 Pop-Up Grant
$3,000 Artist Bonus Funding
to 10 Key Artists and 2 Supporting Artists
Dallas Contemporary
Liu Xiaodong: Borders
$1,000 Pop-Up Grant
$2,000 Artist Bonus Funding
to 1 Key Artist
Dallas Symphony Orchestra
The Concert Truck Residency
$2,000 Pop-Up Grant
Fine Arts Chamber Players
Clara’s Influence and Shadow & Light
$2,000 Pop-Up Grant
$4,000 Artist Bonus Funding
to 7 Key Artists
Texas Ballet Theater
The Poetry of Expression
$2,000 Pop-Up Grant
Theatre Three
Love and Kindness in the Time of Quarantine
$2,000 Pop-Up Grant
$4,000 Artist Bonus Funding
to 10 Key Artists and 8 Supporting Artists
American Baroque Opera Company
Dido & Aeneas
$1,500 Pop-Up Grant
$3,000 Artist Bonus Funding
to 2 Key Artists and 8 Supporting Artists
Cara Mía Theatre Co.
Ursula
$1,000 Pop-Up Grant
$2,000 Artist Bonus Funding
to 2 Key Artists and 1 Supporting Artist
Soul Rep Theatre Co.
SOUL-O SHORTS
$1,500 Pop-Up Grant
$3,000 Artist Bonus Funding
to 8 Key Artists and 6 Supporting Artists
TITAS/DANCE UNBOUND
Pilobolus in the Garden
$2,000 Pop-Up Grant
$4,000 Artist Bonus Funding
to 1 Key Artist and 22 Supporting Artists
Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Juneteenth Celebration of Freedom and Diversity
$2,000 Pop-Up Grant
Theatre Three
The Music Man
$2,000 Pop-Up Grant
$4,000 Artist Bonus Funding
to 10 Key Artists and 9 Supporting Artists
Artstillery
Family Dollar
$2,000 Pop-Up Grant
$4,000 Artist Bonus Funding
to 11 Key Artists and 9 Supporting Artists
Cry Havoc Theater Co.
Committed: Mad Women of the Asylum
$2,000 Pop-Up Grant
$4,000 Artist Bonus Funding
to 9 Key Artists and 14 Supporting Artists
Dallas Center for Photography
Photography and Dance Exhibition
$500 Pop-Up Grant
$1,000 Artist Bonus Funding
to 10 Key Artists and 5 Supporting Artists
Fine Arts Chamber Players
Basically Beethoven: Festival-in-Place
$500 Pop-Up Grant
$1,000 Artist Bonus Funding
to 15 Key Artists
Prism Movement Theater
Lucha Teotl
$500 Pop-Up Grant
$1,000 Artist Bonus Funding
to 10 Key Artists and 20 Supporting Artists
American Baroque Opera Co.
Don Quixote
$2,000 Pop-Up Grant
$4,000 Artist Bonus Funding
to 4 Key Artists and 8 Supporting Artists
Bombshell Dance Project
The Great 30
$2,000 Pop-Up Grant
$4,000 Artist Bonus Funding
to 9 Key Artists and 3 Supporting Artists
Dallas Theater Center
Cake Ladies
$2,000 Pop-Up Grant
The Dallas Opera
Everest – A Graphic Novel Opera
$2,000 Pop-Up Grant
TITAS/Dance Unbound
‘Alice’ by MOMIX
$2,000 Pop-Up Grant
Bruce Wood Dance
Dallas Fall Arts Festival
$2,000 Pop-Up Grant
$4,000 Artist Bonus Funding
to 9 Key Artists and 3 Supporting Artists
Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Tribute to Ruth Bader Ginsburg
$2,000 Pop-Up Grant
Nasher Sculpture Center
Betye Saar: Call and Response
$2,000 Pop-Up Grant
Theatre Three
Little Shop of Horrors
$2,000 Pop-Up Grant
$4,000 Artist Bonus Funding
to 14 Key Artists and 13 Supporting Artists
B. Moore Dance
Holiday in the City
$2,000 Pop-Up Grant
$4,000 Artist Bonus Funding
to 9 Key Artists and 12 Supporting Artists
Bruce Wood Dance
ReNEW
$2,000 Pop-Up Grant
$4,000 Artist Bonus Funding
to 13 Key Artists and 14 Supporting Artists
kNOwBOX dance
kNOwBOX dance Film Festival
$2,000 Pop-Up Grant
$4,000 Artist Bonus Funding
to 24 Key Artists and 4 Supporting Artists
2020
Cry Havoc Theater Company
Dark Was The Night, Cold Was The Ground and Project Ghostlight
$2,000 Pop-Up Grant
Dallas Children’s Theater
Children & Racism Talkback
$2,000 Pop-Up Grant
Echo Theatre
It’s My Party!
$2,000 Pop-Up Grant
Prism Movement Theater
Everything Will Be Fine
$2,000 Pop-Up Grant
Bishop Arts Theatre Center
‘Me & My Masks’ Monologue Competition
$2,000 Pop-Up Grant
Dallas Summer Musicals
Black Art Matters: A DSM Digital Series
$2,000 Pop-Up Grant
The Dallas Opera
TDO Network
$2,000 Pop-Up Grant
Aurora
Area 3
$2,000 Pop-Up Grant
Dallas Symphony Orchestra
NEXT STAGE Digital Concert Series
$2,000 Pop-Up Grant
Kitchen Dog Theater
Get Up, Stand Up! A Drive-in Celebration of Democracy
$2,000 Pop-Up Grant
TITAS/Dance Unbound
Virtually TITAS
$2,000 Pop-Up Grant
Undermain Theatre
St. Nicholas
$2,000 Pop-Up Grant
Dallas Black Dance Theatre
Director’s Choice
$2,000 Pop-Up Grant
Dallas Children’s Theater
Social Justice Plays
$2,000 Pop-Up Grant
Teatro Dallas
A Grave is Given Supper
$2,000 Pop-Up Grant
Verdigris Ensemble
Life in Our Time
$2,000 Pop-Up Grant
Bruce Wood Dance
HOPE
$2,000 Pop-Up Grant
Cara Mía Theatre Co.
Remember. Breathe. Dream.
$2,000 Pop-Up Grant
Dallas Theater Center
In the Bleak Midwinter: A Christmas Carol for Our Time
$2,000 Pop-Up Grant
Lumedia Musicworks
Welcome to the West
$2,000 Pop-Up Grant
Turtle Creek Chorale
Holidays Unmuted
$2,000 Pop-Up Grant
Thank you to our Pop-Up Grant Supporters:
March Family Foundation
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