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.
KENTUCKY
Berea
Eastern Kentucky Child Care Coalition, Inc.
Berea, KY
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$28,000
To support the Eastern Kentucky Child Care Coalition. This program
of hands-on activities for children, artist and teacher workshops,
and artist residencies teaches about the region's artistic and
cultural heritage to children enrolled in childcare programs within
underserved counties.
Save the Children Federation, Inc. (consortium)
Berea, KY
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$40,000
To support Passing the Pick and the Bow project. Student classes in
Appalachian Mountain music for children, ages eight to 18, from
rural Appalachian communities will attend three-day Mountain Music
Schools taught by regional master musicians and 10-week sessions
taught by local teachers.
Covington
Covington Community Center, Inc.
Covington, KY
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$10,000
To support The Gateway Project, featuring mosaic tilework as a
means of identifying different neighborhoods in the city of
Covington. Artists Jackie Slone and Rosemary Topie will direct this
intergenerational project, which will engage the participants in
discussions about the city's history and their individual
heritage.
Frankfort
Kentucky Arts Council
Frankfort, KY
CATEGORY: Partnership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
$616,400
To support Partnership Agreement activities.
Kentucky Arts Council
Frankfort, KY
CATEGORY: Folk Arts Infrastructure FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk &
Traditional Arts
$33,000
To support a folklorist position and other related costs. The
position will oversee three areas of expanded outreach by the
Kentucky Folklife Program.
Lexington
Kentucky Educational Television Foundation, Inc.
Lexington, KY
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$60,000
To support Art to Heart. This early childhood educational resource
is designed to help teachers, parents, artists and childcare
providers nurture creativity in children from birth through age
eight.
Louisville
Kentucky Assembly of Local Arts Agencies (aka Arts
Kentucky)
Louisville, KY
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk &
Traditional Arts
$25,000
To support the Kentucky Festivals Cultural Heritage Improvement
Project. The project will develop and maintain a system of
resources used to provide training and support to the organizers
and volunteers of festivals in seven rural Kentucky
communities.
Kentucky Center for the Arts Corporation
Louisville, KY
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$54,000
To support a drama and oral history pilot program led by ArtsReach
for middle and high school students. The students' work will
revolve around personal oral histories that each will explore and
recreate through dramatic expression.
Louisville Orchestra, Inc.
Louisville, KY
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$50,000
To support Making Music Partnership. This collaborative project
between the Louisville Orchestra and Jefferson County Public
Schools includes classroom visits, ensemble performances,
curriculum materials for students and teachers, newsletters and
full orchestra concerts.
New Performing Arts, Inc.
Louisville, KY
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$25,000
To support a national conference that will address model frameworks
for developing and sustaining music presenting and programming in
rural and underserved communities. The project will include
dissemination via Internet of the conference results, as well as
artist residencies in rural Minnesota, New York and Texas.
Whitesburg
Appalshop, Inc.
Whitesburg, KY
CATEGORY: Folk Arts Infrastructure FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk &
Traditional Arts
$30,000
To support a folk arts coordinator position and related costs. The
coordinator will be responsible for working with music education,
presentation and apprenticeships for youth and adults in a
five-county area of eastern Kentucky and southwest Virginia.
Appalshop, Inc.
Whitesburg, KY
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$60,000
To support the Appalshop Arts Education Initiative. Project
activities will include after-school arts programming for youth,
artist-led curriculum workshops for arts educators, and the
documentation of youth arts education program models and
curricula.
Kentucky Total Dollars Awarded: $1,031,400
Kentucky Total Grants Awarded: 12
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