2000 Grant Awards: Education

Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

National/Multistate Impact | Grants With Activity Primarily In One State

Grants With A National or Multi-State Impact

Artists Repertory Theatre
Portland, OR
$12,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the expansion of Actors-to-Go, a free arts-in-education program offered to students and social service organizations throughout northwest Oregon and southwest Washington. The expansion will increase workshop time for students to create theater pieces culminating in public performances.

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Inc. (Consortium)
Baltimore, MD
$80,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support a consortium project that will document and evaluate the Arts Excel pilot during its fifth and final year. Since Arts Excel was planned as a potential national model, this effort is considered a necessary step before dissemination and/or replication on a wider scale, and will be carried out in collaboration with the Center for Arts Education at Teachers College, Columbia University.

Center for City Building Educational Programs
Los Angeles, CA
$14,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Design
To support the development of an interactive guide for coaching teachers in design based education. The guide will be a companion to an educational Web site, City Building Education-Online Web site library.

Chicago Public Art Group
Chicago, IL
$22,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support The Best We Know, a workshop series for artists and administrators throughout the Midwest involved in contemporary public art projects. Artists, covering topics that range from the practical to the conceptual, will lead the monthly sessions.

Cultural Images Group, Inc.
Northampton, MA
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the development and tour of Hamlet 2000, a new adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet. The project is conducted in collaboration with playwright Midgalia Cruz to explore American society's struggle with cultural differences.

Dance Exchange, Inc./Liz Lerman Dance Exchange
Takoma Park, MD
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the Tool Box, a project to document, publish, and disseminate Dance Exchange methodologies. The Tool Box will be a central means by which the Dance Exchange documents and disseminates its methodologies that have evolved over the past 25 years.

Dance Theatre of Harlem, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support a comprehensive educational outreach program that introduces children and adults to dance. The program, titled Dancing Through Barriers, will include a presentation of master classes, assembly programs, lecture and video demonstrations, and residencies throughout the United States.

Delaware Theatre Company
Wilmington, DE
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the creation of a pilot touring component of Delaware Theatre Company's education program. The project will bring an original work based on Shakespearean plays to secondary schools throughout the Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Maryland region.

Dialogue, Inc.
Columbus, OH
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support the development of an annual children's magazine dedicated to the visual arts for the Midwest region. Tentatively titled smART, the publication will be targeted to rural sixth-graders who do not typically have access to museums and galleries.

Education Development Center, Inc. (Consortium)
Newton, MA
$150,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support a consortium project that will conduct research into the effects of a fully realized, arts-integrated curriculum on student learning. The Center for Arts Education (CAE) in New York City and the Education Development Center (EDC) will study, document, and disseminate the development and impact in both arts and non-arts domains of models of arts-integrated curricula designed by teams of artists and teachers.

Elders Share the Arts, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support the consortium project, The Center for Creative Aging. The project, in partnership with the American Society of Aging's National Learning Center, supports program maintenance and expansion in up to five cities: Boston, Miami, New York, Philadelphia, and San Francisco.

Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL
$80,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support research and development of K-12 art education assessment models with potential for national replication. The project will take place in Florida, Illinois, and Indiana, and will be a cooperative effort by three university art education faculties and three school districts in each of the participating states.

Georgia Shakespeare Festival
Atlanta, GA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the annual school tour of a Shakespearean play. The company will tour through the Southeast to up to 70 locations and reach an estimated 28,000 students.

Glass Art Society, Inc.
Seattle, WA
$12,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support the 30th annual conference of the national service organization of artists working in glass. G.A.S. 2000: Bridge to the Future will be held in Brooklyn in June 2000.

Imagination Celebration, Fort Worth
Fort Worth, TX
$13,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support the Special Weekend for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. This arts education program, designed for deaf middle and high school students, will be presented to educators, performing artists, arts industry leaders, and organizations serving the deaf in California, Kansas, Louisiana, and New Hampshire.

Jarvis Conservatory
Napa, CA
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support a professional artists' training workshop, culminating in the public performance of zarzuela, or Spanish musical theater. In the year 2000, the workshop will be developed around two zarzuelas, La Revoltosa and La Del Manojo de Rosas.

Jazz at Lincoln Center, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition and Festival, a consortium project with Jazz Aspen Snowmass in Colorado. During 2000, Duke Ellington's musical legacy will be taught in schools across the country through the use of study, performance, and distribution of his repertoire (free of charge), providing thousands of students the opportunity to perform Ellington's music.

Levine School of Music (Consortium)
Washington, DC
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support string master classes and a festival weekend in a consortium project with the D.C. Youth Orchestra and the Northern Virginia Youth Orchestra. During 2000-01, the Levine School of Music will conduct string master classes for advanced students in grades 10 through 12 and coordinate a festival weekend of sectional rehearsals and orchestral performances.

Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra, Inc. (Consortium)
Milwaukee, WI
$12,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the National Youth Orchestra Festival, a consortium project that will provide intensive study in orchestral performance. The summer 2000 festival, along with consortium members the Greater Dallas Youth Orchestra, the Minnesota Youth Symphonies, and the Northern Virginia Youth Symphony Association, will bring together leading youth orchestras from throughout the nation for eight days of performances, coaching sessions, and master classes in Sarasota, FL.

Montana Art Gallery Directors Association
Great Falls, MT
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support an exhibition touring program throughout the state of Montana. The project also includes an annual professional training conference for visual arts professionals in the state, as well as North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, and Idaho.

MoveSpeakSpin (Dr. Schaffer & Mr. Stern Dance Ensemble)
Santa Cruz, CA
$8,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support dance education activities in several states as a tool in teaching curriculum subjects in math and science. The project will involve performances, demonstrations, teacher workshops, and development of model projects.

National Asian American Telecommunications Association
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support Asian American Media: The Millennium Project. As part of its 20th anniversary, the National Asian American Telecommunications Association will publish a series of articles, organize panels, and convene a two-day conference to assess the state of Asian American media arts. New York City Opera, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support the study and assessment of New York City Opera's education program in the tri-state area. The company's education staff will team with teachers and special consultants to collect information and study the data about classroom performance, test scores, and motivation of students participating in the company's elementary, middle-school, and high-school residencies, assessing the effectiveness of this programming as a component of education in the school curriculum.

Northern Indiana Art Association
Munster, IN
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Local Arts Agency
To support the expansion of programming and arts services through Substation No. 9. This inner-city arts center, a former substation of a major regional public utility company, provides multidisciplinary arts instruction and arts services to the residents of northwest Indiana and suburban Chicago.

Old Creamery Theatre Company
Amana, IA
$8,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support The Young People's Touring Company and its partner component The Young People's Storytelling Competition, an outreach program of the Old Creamery Theatre Company. The program takes student storytelling concepts and turns them into professional theatre productions which tour to elementary and middle schools in Iowa and Illinois.

Opera for the Young, Inc.
Madison, WI
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support the commission, production, and multi-state tour of an adaptation of Mozart's The Magic Flute for children. The tour will reach approximately 70,000 children in 180 elementary schools throughout Wisconsin, northern Illinois, and eastern Minnesota during 2000-01.

PEN American Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the Readers & Writers Community Development Project, which brings authors and their books to educational settings around the country. PEN also will launch the Book Group Initiative, a pilot program in Brooklyn to create discussion groups in community libraries, religious institutions, private homes, and workplaces.

PEN Center USA West
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support Write Through Life, a project consisting of residencies for writers in Los Angeles high schools, mentorships for emerging writers from underserved and minority communities, and seminars on practical topics for professional writers in Texas, Arizona, Oregon, and Washington.

Plains Art Museum
Fargo, ND
$9,250
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the development of educational materials to accompany the Rolling Plains Art Gallery, an arts education outreach program. The gallery truck brings visual arts exhibitions to rural communities in North Dakota, Minnesota, South Dakota, and Montana.

Rhode Island Alliance for Arts Education (fiscal agent for National Dance Education Organization)
Providence, RI
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support a pilot program that will offer technical assistance to eight to ten states so that they may meet goals in dance arts education. The program will serve as a model for all states.

Ririe-Woodbury Dance Foundation
Salt Lake City, UT
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support a teacher education project titled Curriculum Based Partnership in dance. The company will conduct workshops in Idaho and Ohio in an effort to give teachers and students the necessary skills to fulfill their state's dance core curriculum requirements and the national standards for dance.

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (on behalf of Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper)
Piscataway, NJ
$17,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support a residency program for eight Native American artists to experiment in paper and printmaking. The two-phased project will include two-week residencies at Rutgers and two-week residencies at Indian reservations in Oregon and Montana.

Spanish Theatre Repertory Co., Ltd.
New York, NY
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support costs associated with an arts education program that includes performances and educational services. Repertorio Espanol will present UN TRIPLE PLE: A Latino Triple-Play for Students, a trio of works and educational services representing the breadth of Hispanic theater for over 21,000 Latino and non-Latino students.

St. Louis County Heritage & Arts Center
Duluth, MN
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support the Depot Outreach artist-in-residence program. This program offers performances, educational workshops, and lecture-demonstrations by visual, literary, and performing artists in northern Minnesota and northwest Wisconsin.

St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery
New York, NY
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support workshops in photography, video, and Web site design for youths and seniors residing on New York's Lower East Side. The project is part of The Diary Project, an international exchange program between schools in the United States, Kenya, and South Africa, and will result in a series of exhibitions at St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery that will also be accessible to an Internet audience.

Stage One: The Louisville Children's Theatre, Inc.
Louisville, KY
$12,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the production of The Tortoise and the Hare, by Alan Broadhurst, for primary school audiences and a newly commissioned adaptation of Huckleberry Finn, by James DeVita, for middle school audiences. Both plays are classics, relevant to the classroom curricula, and will be performed in Louisville and around the region in satellite venues.

Tahoe Arts Project
South Lake Tahoe, CA
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the presentation of Ballet Folclorico do Brasil in California and Nevada. The project will include school lecture-demonstrations and a public performance.

Teachers & Writers Collaborative
New York, NY
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the expansion of WriteNet, an Internet initiative to provide writers, students, teachers, and parents around the country with access to literary arts education materials. The Web site will feature professional development services for writers and teachers, and a series of on-line writing workshops.

Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz
Washington, DC
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support the development of Jazz in America: The National Jazz Curriculum. This project will provide an Internet-based national jazz curriculum to 4th, 8th, and 11th grade public school students throughout the United States and will be piloted in six cities during 2000-01.

Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz (Consortium)
Washington, DC
$80,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a consortium project, Jazz Sports, a national music instruction and performance project. The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, with its consortium members, the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts Foundation (CA) and the Ellington Fund of the Duke Ellington School of the Arts (DC), will host professional jazz musicians in Los Angeles and Washington, DC schools as teachers and mentors of young music students.

University of Massachusetts at Amherst (on behalf of Arts Extension Service) (Consortium)
Amherst, MA
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support, through a consortium project, Learning Partnerships: online help for arts and education collaborations. Arts Extension Service, along with its consortium partners - the Arts Education Partnership, Council of Chief State School Officers, and National Assembly of State Arts Agencies - will develop and promote this initiative to help make the arts basic to education and enhance student learning by encouraging community arts and education collaborations.

Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts (Consortium)
Vienna, VA
$150,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support ArtsLink, a consortium project that will broaden the services of the Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts. Wolf Trap and its consortium partner, the Greater Memphis (TN) Arts Council's Center for Arts Education, are developing this multi-level project to further integrate the arts into the preschool/kindergarten curriculum.

Women's Philharmonic (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the National Women Conductors Initiative, a consortium project. During
2000-01 and 2001-02, the Women's Philharmonic and consortium member Colorado Symphony Orchestra will provide women conductors at the most advanced career levels with opportunities to enhance their professional skills and earn positions as conductors and music directors with the leading national orchestras.

Young Audiences, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the consortium project Compose Yourself, integrating the study of classical music composers into the K-12 curriculum. During 2000-01, Young Audiences and consortium member Meet the Composer, Inc. will offer training, performance opportunities, and professional development for teachers and composers in Kentucky, Missouri, Massachusetts, northern New York State and Indiana.

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