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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.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Washington

African American Heritage Preservation Foundation, Inc.
Washington, DC
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
$15,000
To support a weekend workshop for design professionals, public school teachers and community leaders. The project will encourage community awareness of historic African-American sites and involve local neighborhood youth.

Andrew Cacho African Drummers & Dancers Economic Development, Inc.
Washington, DC
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$10,760
To support workshops and performances as part of the Youthworks 2003 project. Children, teens and adults will be trained in African-Caribbean drumming, dancing, stiltwalking and masquerades.

Capital Concerts, Inc.
Washington, DC
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & TV FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$25,000
To support The National Memorial Day Concert and A Capitol Fourth, two patriotic concerts at the U.S. Capitol to be nationally broadcast live on PBS in 2003. A national television audience of 10-12 million watches each of these 90-minute programs every year.

Choral Arts Society of Washington
Washington, DC
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$28,000
To support artsACCESS. This arts-in-education initiative uses the creative and participatory nature of music and the arts to support collaborative curriculum development and teacher/artist training.

Choral Arts Society of Washington
Washington, DC
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & TV FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$15,000
To support the production and distribution of the radio series Celebrating the Choral Arts. Five, two hour holiday specials will provide national audiences with concerts by the Choral Arts Society of Washington performed at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Dance Heritage Coalition, Inc.
Washington, DC
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$30,000
To support internships in dance conservation. The interns will conduct archival assessments including basic conservation, materials handling and housing, and environmental requirements for dance-related artifacts.

District of Columbia Commission on the Arts and Humanities
Washington, DC
CATEGORY: Partnership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
$522,500
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Grupo de Artistas Latinamericanos (aka GALA, Inc.)
Washington, DC
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$35,000
To support a production of Valor, Agravio, y Mujer by Ana Caro. The theater will commission an original translation and will offer free simultaneous English interpretation at all shows.

Heritage Preservation, Inc.
Washington, DC
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$9,000
To support the second phase of a project to conserve works commissioned during the National Endowment for the Arts' Art in Public Places Program. The second phase will attempt to raise public awareness of more than 300 sculptures and their conditions.

Levine School of Music (aka Selma M. Levine School of Music)
Washington, DC
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$23,000
To support Early Childhood Music. The program incorporates musical activities to help young children develop their cognitive, emotional and social skills.

National Assembly of State Arts Agencies
Washington, DC
CATEGORY: Partnership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
$510,000
To support National Services to state arts agencies.

National Museum of Women in the Arts, Inc.
Washington, DC
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$12,000
To support Bridging Communities. The program combines museum visits, classroom lessons, visiting artists and in-depth instruction in the arts, culminating with an exhibition of student work at the museum.

National Park Foundation (on behalf of New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park)
Washington, DC
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$25,000
To support development and piloting of a kit of materials for teaching young people how to perform New Orleans-derived jazz styles. The kit will consist of lesson plans, a CD with an introduction to traditional jazz, a DVD showing youth and adult bands playing traditional jazz, and a resource guide.

National Public Radio
Washington, DC
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & TV FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$150,000
To support the NPR Classical Music Initiative. The initiative will fund Performance Today, SymphonyCast and World of Opera broadcasts, as well as the production of music segments for NPR's news programs.

National Public Radio
Washington, DC
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & TV FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$45,000
To support the production and national broadcast of new documentary profiles of notable American artists. Twenty-six NPR Biography features will be aired in 2003-2004 on National Public Radio's Morning Edition and All Things Considered.

OPERA America, Inc. (consortium)
Washington, DC
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
$50,000
To support the development of Cornerstones, a permanent learning resource for audiences and opera companies on the Internet. In consortium with the Boston Lyric Opera, multimedia educational materials will be designed in 2003-04 concerning 10 of the most frequently performed operas.

Pacifica Foundation
Washington, DC
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$15,000
To support initial work to preserve arts-related recordings in the Pacifica archive. Of the 40,500 tapes housed in the archive, approximately 25 percent represent arts programming.

Phillips Collection
Washington, DC
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
$100,000
To support the creation of a digital archive of the American art collection. The project will greatly increase access to the Phillip's renowned American collection, most of which cannot be exhibited at any given time due to space limitations.

Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz (consortium)
Washington, DC
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$50,000
To support continuation of Jazz Sports. The national jazz instruction and performance project includes in-school and after-school training sessions, individual and sectional instruction, master classes with professional jazz artists, full band rehearsals and performances at festivals.

Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz
Washington, DC
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$65,000
To support Jazz in America: The National Jazz Curriculum. The free Internet-based curriculum will be expanded for the fifth, eighth and eleventh grades.

Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art (aka Corcoran Gallery of Art)
Washington, DC
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
$50,000
To support the production of a scholarly catalog of the pre-1945 American painting and sculpture collection. The new, full-color publication will include in-depth entries on the most significant works.

Turning the Page
Washington, DC
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
$28,000
To support an art and literacy program for the parents and caregivers of public school children. The project will be carried out in collaboration with the Smithsonian's Freer and Sackler Galleries.

VSA arts, Inc.
Washington, DC
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$25,000
To support documentation and dissemination of research-based practices and strategies in arts education through special education. The project will include focus group meetings, development of an agenda for action research, examination of findings and presentation of findings at an international research symposium.

Washington Chorus, Inc.
Washington, DC
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$10,000
To support an outreach and education program. Activities include free concerts for the elderly, school choir workshops and distribution of free tickets to young people throughout the Washington area.

Washington Men's Camerata, Inc.
Washington, DC
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$9,000
To support the National Library of Men's Choral Music. The project is a continuation of a multi-year initiative to establish an operational lending library and searchable database to safeguard collections of men's choral music and make the repertoire widely available for study.

Washington Opera
Washington, DC
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$60,000
To support continuation of Music! Words! Opera! (MWO) The sequential music education program links specific operas to core curricula.

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company (consortium)
Washington, DC
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$60,000
To support development of the Anacostia River Community Playbuilding Coalition. The endeavor will feature theater arts workshops and the premiere of an original student play for neighborhoods of Southeast Washington.

Young Playwrights' Theater, Inc.
Washington, DC
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$20,000
To support the Youth to Dare Tour. Youth to Dare is a month-long tour of up to nine plays written by middle and high school students.

District of Columbia Total Dollars Awarded: $1,997,260
District of Columbia Total Grants Awarded: 28


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