2003 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access; Arts on Radio & TV; Arts Learning; Folk Arts Infrastructure; Heritage/Preservation; State & Regional Partnership Agreements

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

ARIZONA

Grand Canyon

Grand Canyon Music Festival (aka Grand Canyon Chamber Music Festival)
Grand Canyon, AZ
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$10,000
To support the ongoing Native American Composer Apprentice Project for rural Native-American students in northern Arizona. The project trains 15 to 20 talented high school students in composition study resulting in the creation, premiere and recording of five new works for string quartet.

Phoenix

Arizona Commission on the Arts
Phoenix, AZ
CATEGORY: Folk Arts Infrastructure FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
$20,000
To support the creation of a statewide Arizona Folk and Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program and related costs. The program will support four apprenticeship teams, a time-honored way for master artists to pass their skills on to apprentices within their community.

Arizona Commission on the Arts
Phoenix, AZ
CATEGORY: Partnership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
$666,600
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Phoenix Boys Choir Association
Phoenix, AZ
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$20,000
To support the commission and production of a children's opera. The work, to be composed by Michael Abels and premiered by the Phoenix Boys Choir, will tell the story of a group of singers with divergent musical styles who, through collaboration and respect, make music in spite of their differences.

Phoenix Symphony Association (consortium)
Phoenix, AZ
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$40,000
To support One Nation, a series of education programs for the local Native-American community. The project will include master classes for grades seven to 12, a classroom concert for elementary students and a free family community concert.

Tempe

Arizona State University (on behalf of Bilingual Review Press)
Tempe, AZ
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$18,000
To support the third volume in a series of publications documenting work by Chicano artists and art organizations since the 1960s. Published by Bilingual Review Press, the book will document artistic production from various regions of the country.

Tucson

La Frontera Mariachi Conference, Inc.
Tucson, AZ
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$20,000
To support mariachi workshops in conjunction with the Bank One Tucson International Mariachi Conference. The workshops and master classes by professional artists will provide instruction in mariachi singing, violin, trumpet, vihuela, guitarron, guitar, and harp playing techniques and repertoire, as well as Mexican folk dance.

Native Seeds/SEARCH
Tucson, AZ
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
$30,000
To support the Navajo Agriculture CD-ROM. The interactive software will provide information about aesthetic dimensions of Navajo agricultural traditions that will be utilized in Navajo schools and libraries.

Seven Pipers Scottish Society of Tucson, Inc.
Tucson, AZ
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
$10,000
To support the development of a folk artist-in-the-school initiative, as well as master classes in Scottish music and dance. The project is designed to improve the skills of established artists, to provide workshops in schools and to expand outreach to new audiences.

Tucson Symphony Society (consortium)
Tucson, AZ
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$20,000
To support the Southern Arizona Residency. The project consists of an educational component and a public concert in five rural communities in southern Arizona.

University of Arizona (on behalf of Arizona State Museum)
Tucson, AZ
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
$10,000
To support artists' fees for a ceramic artists-in-residence program. The residencies will be held in conjunction with the exhibition The Pottery Detectives: Decoding the Secrets of Southwestern Pottery.

Arizona Total Dollars Awarded: $864,600
Arizona Total Grants Awarded: 11

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