2002 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access/Arts Learning/Arts on Radio & Television/ Challenge America Access/ Heritage-Preservation/ Leadership Initiatives/Partnership Agreements

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

ALASKA

Alaska Design Forum, Inc.
Anchorage, AK
$22,500
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the book project QUONSET: The Ongoing History of Quonset Huts in Alaska. Through research and documentation the Alaska Design Forum intends to show the impact Quonset huts have had on the built environment and culture of post-World War II Alaska.

Alaska Design Forum, Inc. (consortium)
Anchorage, AK
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support a series of lectures and workshops on the built environment. Architects and environmental and graphic designers will present current design issues venues in Anchorage and Fairbanks.

Alaska Junior Theater, Inc.
Anchorage, AK
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the presentation of theater works by three theaters companies through the Arts Outreach Program. The productions will tour to underserved young audiences and families throughout the state.

Alaska State Council on the Arts
Anchorage, AK
$513,100
CATEGORY: Partnership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Anchorage Opera Company
Anchorage, AK
$25,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America Arts Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the Anchorage Opera Studio Theatre, a statewide touring young artist program to rural Alaskan schools and communities. In its third year in 2002-03, the program will provide development of young professional opera artists and expansion of the company's education and outreach activities to underserved communities including Alaska Native populations in Barrow, Kotzebue, Nome, Valdez and the Kenai Pennisula.

Calista Elders Council, Inc.
Anchorage, AK
$40,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the revitalization of the Yup'ik Messenger Feast Project. This project will document, through film, photographs, a bilingual catalog and museum exhibit, an inter village event during which two villages take turns hosting each other for a three-day celebration of feasting, singing, dancing and gift exchanges.

Fairbanks Symphony Association, Inc.
Fairbanks, AK
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support an orchestra tour to communities in rural Alaska. Concerts and educational outreach programs will be presented by the Arctic Chamber Orchestra, the orchestra's touring ensemble, in parts of the state that do not have access to the concert experience.

Koahnic Broadcast Corporation
Anchorage, AK
$20,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & Television FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production of the weekly radio series Earthsongs. The one-hour program features recordings and live performances of contemporary Native American music and reaches an estimated audience of 60,000 people per broadcast.

Koahnic Broadcast Corporation
Anchorage, AK
$25,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & Television FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support arts reporting, performance and features on the nationally distributed radio programs National Native News and Native America Calling. These daily news and information programs, which reach 360,000 listeners each week, are also available via the Internet.

Sitka Summer Music Festival, Inc.
Sitka, AK
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the presentation of chamber music through concert tours in urban and rural communities of Alaska. The Sitka Summer Music Festival's touring concerts will serve communities in Anchorage, Haines, Homer, Juneau, Kenai, Seldovia, Sitka and Skagway.

Total Dollars Awarded: $695,600
Total Grants Awarded: 10

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