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.

INDIANA

Elkhart Centre, Inc.
Elkhart, IN
$7,500
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Elkhart Jazz Festival. Held over three days in June, the festival includes concerts, master classes and school clinics. Proposed artists for the 2002 festival include the Dukes of Dixieland, Boston Brass, the Swamp Dogs, Rob Parton and the JazzTech Band, the Brubeck Brothers, and many other national and local artists.

Evansville Philharmonic Orchestral Corp.
Evansville, IN
$5,500
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support the orchestra's educational activities. The project will include youth concerts, professional development, curriculum development and school visits by musicians.

Fort Wayne Dance Collective, Inc.
Fort Wayne, IN
$12,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support continuation of Identity Bridge. For the past six years, Fort Wayne Dance Collective has provided more than 2,500 youth in northeast Indiana with classes in modern dance/theatre, poetry, percussion and visual art.

Indiana Arts Commission
Indianapolis, IN
$579,800
CATEGORY: Partnership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Indiana Arts Commission
Indianapolis, IN
$25,000
CATEGORY: Leadership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a Master Artist/Apprenticeship Program and other related costs. The apprenticeship program is designed to identify, document, present and promote the traditional arts and artists of Indiana.

Indiana Opera Society, Inc.
Indianapolis, IN
$25,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support Music! Words! Opera! The literature-based, K-12 educational project, will provide teacher manuals and training, audiotapes, study guides, and support attendance at performances, open rehearsals, and workshops for teachers and approximately 5,000 students from 10 schools.

Indiana Repertory Theatre, Inc. (consortium)
Indianapolis, IN
$50,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support a bilingual playwriting class for students in grades three to 12. In partnership with the Westfield Schools, the project will provide professional development opportunities for approximately 20 teachers and 10 professional artists to observe a course led by playwright James Still. Consortium partner is the Westfield Schools.

Indiana University (on behalf of Traditional Arts Indiana)
Bloomington, IN
$20,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the initial phase of the Indiana County Fair Documentation Project. Documentation will include photography and on-the-spot interviews and field notes which will result in a comprehensive and contemporary photo-ethnography of midwest county fairs.

VSA arts of Indiana, Inc.
Indianapolis, IN
$12,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support a multidisciplinary art program for students with disabilities. Based on the aesthetic inquiry process developed by the Lincoln Center Institute for Aesthetic Education, this project will launch a cooperative arts education program with Indianapolis Public Schools and includes professional development opportunities for teachers at Lincoln Center.

Total Dollars Awarded: $736,800
Total Grants Awarded: 9

National Endowment for the Arts · an independent federal agency
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Washington, DC 20506