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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.

MASSACHUSETTS

Angkor Dance Troupe, Inc.
Lowell, MA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Masters of Cambodian Dance Apprenticeship Program. The project goals are to improve the technical and artistic ability of dancers in the troupe, increase dancers' understanding of the spiritual and ritual functions of dance in Cambodian culture, and utilize the expertise of visiting masters to develop dances not currently performed by the troupe.

Boston Lyric Opera Company
Boston, MA
$27,300
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support performances of Bizet's Carmen. Two fully staged, free outdoor performances and related educational activities will reach an estimated 30,000 people in 2002.

Boston Office of Cultural Affairs
Boston, MA
$27,000
CATEGORY: Leadership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a folk arts director's position and other related costs. The folk arts director will identify, research and make accessible the authentic art forms and traditions of Boston.

Boston University (on behalf of Boston University Tanglewood Institute)
Boston, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support faculty artists in the preparation and presentation of Young Artists Orchestra concerts. The Boston University Tanglewood Institute will continue to expand its roster of faculty artists to provide intensive coaching for the orchestral program.

Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, Inc.
East Cambridge, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support Crossing John at the Crossroad. This multidisciplinary production by Gilbert McCauley and Bill Lowe examines the history of jazz.

Center for Independent Documentary, Inc.
Waban, MA
$75,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & Television FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support production of a documentary television series on self-taught artists. The six-part series will follow African American artists who make compositions out of bones, broken tools, fabric scrapes, torn-up roots, rusty buckets, burned rope, car parts and other "junk."

Community Music School of Springfield, Inc.
Springfield, MA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support Prelude, an early-childhood music professional development program. The program for teachers at eight Springfield Day Nursery centers will include daily integration of a sequentially-based music program, co-teaching with music specialists, basic music skills training, and curriculum development.

Concert Productions, Inc.
Boston, MA
$70,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & Television FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production of the public radio series From the Top to be broadcast in 2002 03. The hour-long program combines performances by exceptional young classical musicians, ages nine to 18, interviews, guest artists, and a 14-year-old "roving reporter" who profiles the young musicians.

Cultural Images Group, Inc.
Northampton, MA
$8,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and tour of a play to high schools, community colleges, and youth cultural programs in the Northeast. The Serious Play! Youth Theatre Ensemble will tour an alumni company production of Marat Sade by Peter Weiss, with additional text from Shakespeare's The Tempest, and new music by composer Elizabeth Swados.

Education Development Center, Inc.
Newton, MA
$75,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support expansion of Spectra New England. Spectra is a comprehensive approach to whole-school change that uses the arts as a major entry point for transforming teaching and learning throughout the curriculum.

Emerald Necklace Conservancy
Boston, MA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the rehabilitation of a Henry Hobson Richardson-designed gatehouse. The project will serve as the first permanent exhibition and visitor center exploring the Olmsted-designed parks and waterways constituting the Emerald Necklace park system.

Fund for Women Artists, Inc.
Florence, MA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the creation and implementation of a marketing and fundraising initiative and the expansion of current on-line services. The project is designed to assist women artists in the marketing of their work.

Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras
Boston, MA
$22,500
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Intensive Community Program. The project will provide string training for children in underserved communities of greater Boston.

Khmer Family Resource Center, Inc.
Fall River, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support the expansion of Khmer Arts Workshop. Since 1997, this workshop has provided Cambodian inner-city youth in Fall River with after-school arts education workshops that also help address critical social and academic issues.

Massachusetts Cultural Council
Boston, MA
$664,800
CATEGORY: Partnership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Massachusetts International Festival of the Arts
Northampton, MA
$9,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a residency by Avila/Weeks Dance. The residency will be conducted for the students of the Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Charter High School as part of MIFA's Performing Arts Education Program.

National Center for Jewish Film
Waltham, MA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the preservation of three historically and culturally significant films in jeopardy of decomposing. The center's collection contains the only surviving copies of these films.

New England Conservatory (consortium)
Boston, MA
$60,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support a national consortium for music-in-education. The consortium will develop new resources and cross-institutional capacities for sharing proven and promising practices among leading arts in education organizations. Consortium members include the Chicago Arts Partners in Education, the Kenan Institute for the Arts Foundation and Metropolitan Opera Guild.

New England Foundation for the Arts
(on behalf of ArtWorks Educational Foundation)
Boston, MA
$45,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & Television FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support research and development for a television series on the arts for children. Targeted for six to 12 year olds, the 13-part series will champion the artistic development, literacy and expression of children.

New England Foundation for the Arts
Boston, MA
$826,200
CATEGORY: Partnership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

New Repertory Theatre, Inc. (consortium)
Newton Highlands, MA
$12,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support two collaborative projects of the New Repertory Theatre and the Brandeis University Theatre Arts Program. Brandeis/New Rep On Tour will tour plays to local high schools and offer artist residencies, and the Brandeis/New Rep Project will provide a comprehensive internship program.

Northeast Document Conservation Center
Andover, MA
$22,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support What's Wrong with this Picture?, a pilot workshop for museum professionals on preserving and digitizing photographs. The workshop will be developed and offered in Boston in partnership with the New England Museum Association, and at Montana State University-Bozeman to serve archivists and curators at tribal colleges.

Peabody Essex Museum, Inc.
Salem, MA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a permanent installation of Native American art in a newly renovated and expanded gallery space. Using a combination of traditional and multimedia interpretive tools, the museum will display its collections of Native American art representing the Plains, Northwest Coast, Arctic, Southwest and Central and South America regions.

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute (consortium)
Williamstown, MA
$60,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support Kidspace. Kidspace offers a full range of activities to promote art in-schools as both a distinct curricular discipline and as a tool for mastering other subjects. Consortium members include Williams College Museum of Art and the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art.

Underground Railway Puppets & Actors, Inc.
Arlington, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a tour of How Do You Spell Hope?, a new play about the power of reading and the rewards of literacy, to community centers in underserved neighborhoods of Cambridge, MA. Workshops will be offered with performances to encourage intergenerational audiences to make connections between the play and their own experiences.

University of Massachusetts at Amherst
(on behalf of the New WORLD Theater)
Amherst, MA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support continuation of Project 2050. Designed as a multidisciplinary and cross-cultural project for youth from diverse racial, ethnic and class backgrounds, 2050 provides interactions among youth, professional artists and scholars and includes the creation of original theater pieces.

Vineyard Playhouse Company, Inc.
Vineyard Haven, MA
$7,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support the 4th Grade Theatre Project. In nine years, the program has introduced 800 fourth graders to theater as an artistic collaboration, teaching script development, acting, designing and creating sets and costumes, writing press releases and performing for the public in a historic playhouse.

VSA arts of Massachusetts
Boston, MA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support the expansion of the National Cultural Access Initiative. The project will demonstrate the principles of universal design through a national tour of JazzArtSigns.

Young at Heart Chorus, Inc.
Northampton, MA
$8,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the revival of an original musical about the French revolution, Louis Lou I. Young At Heart Chorus, an ensemble of performers who are over 70 years old, will revive a musical from its repertory that played at the 800-seat Academy of Music Theater in Northampton to sold-out houses in 1991.

Total Dollars Awarded: $2,263,800
Total Grants Awarded: 29


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