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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.

TEXAS

Association for Community Television
(on behalf of Welcome Home Productions)
Houston, TX
$50,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & Television FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production of a documentary on Project Row Houses. Welcome Home will explore the transformation of Houston's Third Ward neighborhood from its decline to its current status as a role model for urban renewal.

Austin Circle of Theaters
Austin, TX
$8,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support Summer Talk Theater. Designed as a drop-out retention program, high school youth participate in theatrical experiences while learning life and academic skills.

Austin Lyric Opera
Austin, TX
$19,500
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support Opera Odyssey, an arts learning project for fifth-grade students. Various component programs will expose students and teachers to the range of multidisciplinary activities that are required to produce opera.

Ballet East Dance Company
Austin, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the development of a folkloric dance program. The program will be part of the company's Dare to Dance theater/dance program, in partnership with Austin Independent School District.

Centro Cultural Aztlan, Inc.
San Antonio, TX
$17,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support a series of special community arts programs. Through exhibitions, literary events, workshops and performances, underserved audiences will be given the opportunity to participate in and appreciate Chicano/Latino art and culture.

Dallas Theater Center
Dallas, TX
$30,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America Arts Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a theater touring program to serve audiences limited by disabilities, economic, cultural and/or educational constraints. Dallas Theater Center will tour an adaptation of Sophocles' tragedy Antigone to regional schools with underserved populations, juvenile detention centers, halfway houses and other community organizations.

Documentary Arts, Inc.
Dallas, TX
$60,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support increased public access to the comprehensive Masters of Traditional Arts collection. Focusing on 20 years of the National Heritage Fellowship Program, the project will organize and conserve materials using professional archival standards and leading to its placement in the Archive of Folk Culture at the Library of Congress.

Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center
San Antonio, TX
$5,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support Latina Letters: A Conference on Latina Literature and Identity. Proposed authors include Migdalia Cruz, Aurora Levins Morales, Demetria Mártinez, Dolores Prida and Ana Castillo.

Houston Grand Opera Association, Inc.
Houston, TX
$75,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America Arts Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the seventh year of the Community Connections Initiative. This model initiative demonstrates unique methods for developing new audiences for opera and will include free performances of a work by Puccini performed on the Multimedia Modular Stage at Houston's Miller Outdoor Theatre.

Houston Symphony Society
Houston, TX
$32,500
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Community Connections, an outreach project for underserved communities. During 2002-03, the Houston Symphony's musicians will perform at various sites, including hospitals, schools, community centers and long-term care facilities.

Jump-Start Performance Company
San Antonio, TX
$15,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support expansion of Historias y Cuentos (Stories and Tales). An ongoing multidisciplinary arts education program with five inner-city San Antonio public schools, this project focuses on integrating the arts with an academic curriculum.

National Association of Latino Arts and Culture
San Antonio, TX
$100,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & Television FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support production costs for a three-part television series examining the cultural and artistic expression of Latino communities found within the United States. Visiones: Latino Art and Culture will give viewers an overview of the growth of cultural arts centers, dance and theater companies, and other cultural organizations within the Latino Diaspora.

North Texas Public Broadcasting, Inc.
Dallas, TX
$30,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & Television FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support production and post-production costs for a documentary film profile of Margo Jones. Intended for national broadcast and distribution, the one-hour program will tell the story of Ms. Jones' rise to national recognition when she founded and ran the Fair Park in Dallas, the first professional resident theater outside New York.

Opera Company, Inc.
El Paso, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support three educational component initiatives. Founded in 1993, the company will continue its major program, Opera on Wheels, reaching up to 50 elementary schools with performances of a mini-opera based on a standard piece.

SAY SI
San Antonio, TX
$23,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support the continuation of Project WAM (Working Artists and Mentors). Working alongside professional artists, high school students will mentor middle school students during this year-round visual and media arts program.

Symphony Society of San Antonio
San Antonio, TX
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a residency at St. Philip's College. The Symphony Society will conduct master classes, open rehearsals, lectures and concerts for primary and secondary school children.

Texas A&M Research Foundation
College Station, TX
$40,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America Arts Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support Writing the Self and Community, a series of public readings and writing workshops organized by the journal Callaloo to be held at historically black colleges and universities around the country. Writers will visit Morehouse College in Atlanta, GA; Xavier University in New Orleans, LA; Fisk University in Nashville, TN; and Morgan State University in Baltimore, MD.

Texas Commission on the Arts
Austin, TX
$760,000
CATEGORY: Partnership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Texas Fine Arts Association
Austin, TX
$25,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America Arts Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support Art on Tour, a statewide traveling exhibition program with accompanying catalogues and lectures. The program circulates exhibitions of contemporary art by emerging and mid-career American artists to small museums and university and community galleries throughout Texas, many in rural, culturally underserved communities.

Texas Folklife Resources
Austin, TX
$45,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the second International Accordion Festival. The event celebrates the accordion's central role in the traditional music of the United States and the world.

Texas Folklife Resources
Austin, TX
$25,000
CATEGORY: Leadership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Apprenticeship Program in the Folk Arts program and other related costs. The program encourages master traditional artists to pass on their skills to younger learners, particularly within their own ethnic or regional communities.

University of Texas at Austin (on behalf of KUT)
Austin, TX
$30,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & Television FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production and acquisition of arts and cultural programs to be broadcast nationally on Latino USA, a weekly English language radio journal of news and culture. The series is aired on 198 stations, reaching more than 200,000 U.S. listeners each week, and is heard worldwide through the Armed Forces Radio and Television Service.

Writer's Garret
Dallas, TX
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support publication costs and related expenses for TEX!, a free literary magazine written by and about Texas writers. The magazine is distributed to 500,000 readers via schools, libraries, festivals, tourist bureaus, stores and as an insert in The Dallas Morning News.

Writer's Garret (consortium)
Dallas, TX
$30,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support Summer Creative Writing Seminars for Language Arts Teachers. Partnering with the Dallas Independent School District and Dallas Reads, the Writer's Garret will sponsor a three-week seminar to enable high school teachers to apply creative writing in their classrooms. Consortium members include the Dallas Independent School District and Dallas Reads.

Writers In the Schools
Houston, TX
$60,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support the WITS Impact, an initiative to intensify the writers-in-residence program. Master teacher/writers will conduct seminars for classroom teachers over an eight-week period, providing strategies for creative writing in the classroom and methods for teachers and children to brainstorm, draft, edit and publish their work.

Young Audiences of Greater Dallas, Inc.
Dallas, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support Library Live! This program will provide families in inner-city Dallas and outlying areas with access to free family-oriented performances and workshops in 39 North Texas libraries.

Total Dollars Awarded: $1,545,000
Total Grants Awarded: 26


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