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.

LOUISIANA

Contemporary Arts Center
New Orleans, LA
$15,500
CATEGORY: Leadership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the continuation of JazzNet, a jointly funded initiative with the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. Designed to increase commissioning, residencies and educational programming through 13 regional presenters, JazzNet encourages individual artists and ensembles by providing creation funds, touring support, artists' residencies and access to shared workspace.

Greater New Orleans Educational Television Foundation
(on behalf of Bras Coupe Films)
New Orleans, LA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & Television FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production of Stories from the FaubourgTreme. The one-hour documentary will feature six storytelling performers from America's oldest black urban neighborhood.

Louisiana Division of the Arts
Baton Rouge, LA
$626,300
CATEGORY: Partnership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Louisiana Division of the Arts
Baton Rouge, LA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Leadership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support Phase V of Louisiana Voices. The project offers a blend of high- and low-tech resources that, in addition to providing lessons in folklife, offer teachers strategies to meet social studies and English language arts content standards.

National Performance Network, Inc. (consortium)
New Orleans, LA
$28,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support Weaving the Web of Community. The project will create partnerships between cultural and civil rights organizations to create collaboratively produced performance work.

New Orleans Ballet Association (consortium)
New Orleans, LA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the commissioning of Donald Byrd/The Group for the Louis Armstrong Dance Project, Phase II. The project will include a New Orleans world premiere, a two-week residency and a site-specific work.

New Orleans Video Access Center, Inc.
New Orleans, LA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America Arts Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the provision of workshops and production equipment for media artists and students. The New Orleans Video Access Center offers, at greatly reduced rates, access to training and sophisticated production facilities for artists to create new work.

Preservation Alliance of New Orleans, Inc.
New Orleans, LA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support selected commissions for affordable houses inspired by the architecture of existing New Orleans historical houses. Architects to design and produce plans for the housing will be chosen by an advisory committee.

Shreveport Opera
Shreveport, LA
$7,500
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support Shreveport Opera Express, a residency program throughout the state of Louisiana. Three different elementary school programs and two for middle and high school students focused on specially written children's operas will tour with three vocalists, a pianist and project manager.

Tulane University
New Orleans, LA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support artist fees for the sixth annual New Orleans Jazz Dance Festival. The activities of the festival are designed to preserve, understand and respect the diverse cultural heritage of 20th century American jazz dance.

University of New Orleans Foundation (on behalf of American Routes)
New Orleans, LA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & Television FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production and national distribution of American Routes, a weekly radio series from New Orleans devoted to the roots of popular music and popular roots music. The series is currently carried by 150 radio stations and is heard by approximately 500,000 listeners each week.

University of New Orleans Foundation (on behalf of American Routes)
New Orleans, LA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support special field recorded segments of American Routes, a two-hour radio program broadcast through Public Radio International. These segments, including field recordings of musicians in performance as well as interviews with featured artists and community members, will enhance and provide context for the ongoing in-studio radio presentations.

Total Dollars Awarded: $867,300
Total Grants Awarded: 12

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