2000 Grant Awards: Leadership Initiative Grants
Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change,
contingent upon prior Endowment approval.
GRANTS WITH NATIONAL OR MULTI-STATE IMPACT
American Architectural Foundation
Washington, DC
$400,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Design
To support costs for up to six meetings of the Mayors' Institute of City Design (MICD): two national institutes for mayors of larger American cities and up to four regional meetings for mayors of smaller cities within a defined geographical region.
Chamber Music America, Inc.
New York, NY
$150,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the Chamber Music Rural Residencies Program. This program places emerging chamber music ensembles in selected rural communities for a residency period of nine months to enhance musical life in those communities and provide the ensembles an opportunity to learn repertoire and hone performance, teaching, management, and interpersonal skills.
Juilliard School
New York, NY
$35,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the Seaver/NEA Conductors Award Program, in partnership with the Seaver Institute. This national project aims to increase the number of American conductors leading our nation's symphony orchestras by identifying and cultivating exceptionally talented conductors at the early stages of their professional careers, through four-year career stipends.
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Washington, DC
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support a meeting of state arts consultants from state departments of education, in partnership with the Kennedy Center Alliance for Arts Education Network, to help strengthen national partnerships and communications.
New England Foundation for the Arts
Boston, MA
$500,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the fifth year of the National Dance Project, which supports the creation and touring of dance. The program provides presenters, dance companies, and audiences across the country access to contemporary dance.
Ohio Arts Foundation
Columbus, OH
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: International
To support research, Internet broadcast, and publications related to the arts and public policy symposium, Going Global: Negotiating the Maze of Cultural Interactions. This symposium will focus on issues surrounding globalization of arts and culture and will be held May 4-6, 2000, in Columbus, Ohio.
Southern Arts Federation, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support a regional leadership initiative in arts education. The project will link communities and schools across state borders by educating policy-making organizations, identifying and promoting model projects that exemplify standards of excellence in arts education, and providing professional training workshops that serve artists, teachers, and presenters.
Theatre Communications Group, Inc.
New York, NY
$375,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To continue the Endowment's support for the coordination and administration of a residency program for playwrights. This competitive program affords playwrights the opportunity to create new work in residence at a host theater and to become an integral part of the theater's artistic life and community activities.
Folk Arts Infrastructure Initiative
GRANTS WITH NATIONAL OR MULTI-STATE IMPACT
Southern Arts Federation, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the American Traditions Program. This project will enable the Southern Arts Federation to: 1) develop a roster of artistically excellent and experienced traditional artists trained to tour to rural, inner-city ethnic, and other underserved areas; and 2) develop a self-sustaining network of skilled and experienced presenters in underserved areas of the nation.
GRANTS WITH ACTIVITY PRIMARILY IN ONE STATE
Atlatl, Inc.
Phoenix, AZ
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the establishment of a folk and traditional arts program. This program will provide Native American groups in Arizona with technical assistance, workshop training opportunities, and a demonstration apprenticeship program.
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
Harrisburg, PA
$34,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the expansion and enhancement of the Regional Folk Arts Support Centers network in Pennsylvania. Phase Two of this project will provide stronger linkages into a statewide network and increase outreach to artists and grassroots folk arts-related organizations.
D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities
Washington, DC
$12,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a Folk Arts Music Apprenticeship Program. DC Folk 2000 will match masters of ethnic and folk traditions with apprentice musicians and singers from their communities of origin in a series of one-on-one technical assistance sessions, followed by a series of performances by program participants targeted to D.C. area and regional arts presenters.
Florida Division of Historical Resources
Tallahassee, FL
$24,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the folklife outreach coordinator position and related costs. Projects will include Folklife Institutes to train community members, festival outreach and development of marketing strategies.
Fresno Arts Council
Fresno, CA
$42,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support strategic planning for the Alliance for California Traditional Arts, technical assistance to the state's folk and traditional artists, and the development of a Web based communications net. This project will ensure that folk and traditional artists and organizations are served statewide, despite geographic distances.
Gef Pa'go
Inarajan, GU
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a series of workshops in Chamorro art forms, crafts and folkways to youth and community groups. Using the activity of thatching as the central theme, traditional master artists will work with school and community groups in hands-on activities at the cultural village site while helping to make thatch for the maintenance of demonstration huts.
Idaho Commission on the Arts
Boise, ID
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support fieldwork surveys and technical training for artists, presenting organizations and cultural centers. Needs identified by artists and tradition bearers will be addressed by technical training and the surveys will provide the Folk and Traditional Arts Program with knowledge of Idaho's fastest-growing immigrant population.
Indiana Arts Commission
Indianapolis, IN
$42,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support Traditional Arts Indiana. This statewide folk arts program is dedicated to the support, promotion and presentation of the traditional arts and artists of Indiana.
Institute for Community Research
Hartford, CT
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the salary of the program director and related costs. This project will enable the program director to continue administering core activities and expand the arts-in-education program, marketing of traditional arts, and archiving.
Iowa Arts Council
Des Moines, IA
$24,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a folklorist position and related costs. The folklorist will assist the Folklife Coordinator with 2001 folklife festival planning, folklife in education activities, and folk arts community programming.
Kentucky Arts Council
Frankfort, KY
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a folklorist position and related costs. The folklorist will work directly with community members, artists, and teachers and help them envision, develop and accomplish their programs.
Long Island Traditions, Inc.
Port Washington, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support an ethnic folk arts specialist and related costs. The ethnic folk art specialist will document the music, dance, material culture and narratives of recent immigrants from Central and South America, India and the Middle East.
Louisiana Division of the Arts
Baton Rouge, LA
$42,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Folklife in Education Coordinator position and related costs associated with Phase III of Louisiana Voices. Phase III will further develop online folklife resources, create a statewide network, and offer one-day workshops and two professional development institutes for educators.
Maine Arts Commission
Augusta, ME
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support folklorist field research and related costs. Working with established organizations and artists, folklorists will inventory artists and art forms while identifying lesser-known community based groups and artists.
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI
$35,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a folklife specialist and related costs. The folklife specialist will: 1) coordinate the planning and implementation of a Great Lakes Folk Festival in 2002; 2) coordinate an annual gathering of regional folklorists; and, 3) develop and maintain an electronic communication network among folklorists in the Great Lakes area.
Minnesota State Arts Board
St. Paul, MN
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Minnesota Folk Artists Directory. The Web site version of the Minnesota Folk Artists Directory contains listings of individual folk artists and folk arts groups, and provides information related to booking artists.
Mississippi Arts Commission
Jackson, MS
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the salary of a contractor and related costs. The contractor will assist in the initial organizational work of re-establishing a statewide folklore organization.
Montana Arts Council
Helena, MT
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support Bridles, Bits and Beads, a virtual exhibit of Montana folklife and folk arts. This exhibit will be directly linked to the Montana Arts Council's Web site, and will contain slides, text, audio interviews and other materials developed for the touring exhibit of the same name.
New Jersey State Council on the Arts
Trenton, NJ
$12,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the strengthening of New Jersey's network of seven folk arts organizations through: 1) creation of a shared databank of artists and resources; and 2) a joint project to educate the public about the state's folk arts heritage. This project will provide resources to specific high-need sectors and to regional and statewide programs.
New Mexico Arts
Santa Fe, NM
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program and the Community Fieldworker Network Program. The Apprenticeship Program pairs master traditional artists with apprentices for long or short-term instruction and the Community Fieldworker Network Program assists the Folk Arts Program in reaching underserved, cultural communities throughout the state.
North Dakota Council on the Arts
Bismarck, ND
$42,400
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the statewide Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program and related costs. The Apprenticeship Program and its related activities are used by the Council's Traditional Arts Program to reach its goals of preserving the state's living cultural heritage and presenting this heritage to the public.
Ohio Arts Council
Columbus, OH
$23,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Ohio Traditional Arts Initiative. This project provides for a folk and traditional arts advisory committee, fieldwork and documentation, presentation of traditional artists at the CITYFOLK Festival and construction of a World Wide Web site.
Oregon Historical Society
Portland, OR
$31,600
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Oregon Historical Society's Folklife Program. This initiative will provide statewide services to traditional artists and communities not previously served by other public arts programs, especially in rural areas.
Rhode Island State Council on the Arts
Providence, RI
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Rhode Island Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program and related costs. The goal of the Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program is to foster the sharing and passing on of traditional skills within cultural communities.
South Carolina Arts Commission
Columbia, SC
$35,700
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support: 1) the creation of a Heritage Corridor fieldwork coordinator position and related costs; and, 2) the continuation of the state apprenticeship program. The coordinator will conduct primary fieldwork in Regions III and IV of the Heritage Corridor to create programming opportunities for traditional artists.
South Dakota Arts Council
Pierre, SD
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the salary of an independent folklife consultant, and the South Dakota Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program and related costs. The apprenticeship program is designed to help master artists pass on their skills to another generation so that South Dakota's unique and rich cultural heritage lives on.
Tennessee Arts Commission
Nashville, TN
$42,200
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Knoxville Folk Arts Initiative. This initiative will create a full-time folklorist position, develop an Internet database of artists, and develop traditional arts programming at Jubilee Community Arts.
Texas Folklife Resources
Austin, TX
$23,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Texas Folklife Resources Apprenticeship in the Folk Arts program. Texas
Folklife Resources will expand the program's reach and goals by continuing fieldwork to identify tradition bearers from cultural communities statewide.
Valdosta State University
Valdosta, GA
$49,600
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a folklorist position and related costs. The South Georgia Folklife Project will facilitate long-term and systematic support, documentation and interpretation of folk arts in a 41-county region.
Washington State Arts Commission
Olympia, WA
$34,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a survey of northeast and southwest Washington and related costs. This survey will complete a multi-year project that documents traditional artists throughout the state and identifies artists for the Arts Commission's Apprenticeship Program, Fellowships Program and Governor's Heritage Award.
NEA/Doris Duke Charitable Foundation JazzNet Initiative
American Jazz Museum
Kansas City, MO
$11,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support urban residency programs by jazz artists that will include summer jazz music education programs for youth, further development of the Kansas City Jazz Curriculum for middle and high schools, and continuation of the on-line chat room about the Charlie Parker legacy.
Artists Collective, Inc.
Hartford, CT
$11,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support urban residency programs by jazz artists.
Cityfolk
Dayton, OH
$11,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support commissioning and urban residency programs by jazz artists, including a summer jazz workshop for teams of high school and college teachers, a multicultural festival in downtown Dayton, and enhanced media partnerships.
Contemporary Arts Center (Consortium)
New Orleans, LA
$15,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support, in consortium with the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation, commissioning and urban residency programs by jazz artists.
Earshot Jazz Society of Seattle
Seattle, WA
$11,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support commissioning and urban residency programs by jazz artists, including expansion of the Web site linking artists and audiences, jazz-related visual art exhibits and archival records.
Flynn Theatre for the Performing Arts, Ltd.
Burlington, VT
$15,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support jazz residencies and programming through commissions and presentations of new work by jazz artists.
Jazz in the City
San Francisco, CA
$11,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support commissioning and urban residency programs by jazz artists, including educational activities for youth and adults and a jazz festival in the fall.
Manchester Craftsmen's Guild
Pittsburgh, PA
$11,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support commissioning and residency programs by jazz artists.
Newark Public Radio, Inc.
Newark, NJ
$11,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support commissioning and urban residency programs by jazz artists, including cybercasts and broadcasts of concerts and the continuation of the Children's Jazz Series.
Outpost Productions, Inc.
Albuquerque, NM
$11,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support commissioning and urban residency programs by jazz artists.
Painted Bride Art Center
Philadelphia, PA
$15,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support residency programs by jazz artists that will include activities at community and education centers and culminate in evening performances at the Painted Bride Art Center.
Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz
Washington, DC
$11,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the Artists-in-Residence component of the jazz performance educational program at the University of Southern California.
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