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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.

MASSACHUSETTS

Andover

Northeast Document Conservation Center
Andover, MA
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
$20,000
To support an internship for a beginning paper conservator. The internship is designed for an individual who has completed graduate training in a fine arts conservation program but who requires additional, hands-on experience.

Beverly

North Shore Community Arts Foundation, Inc. (aka North Shore Music Theatre)
Beverly, MA
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
$30,000
To support a collaborative program for deaf, hard of hearing and hearing individuals to create a performance piece that will tour. Sign Stage, a prototype program, will include classes, workshops and a new musical theater work that will tour throughout New England.

Boston

Artists for Humanity, Inc.
Boston, MA
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$50,000
To support expansion of the Youth-run Arts Micro-enterprise program. Through four-year paid apprenticeships, young people aged 14 to 18, primarily from low-income neighborhoods in Boston, receive studio instruction in the visual arts.

Boston University
Boston, MA
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$28,000
To support the Young Artists Orchestra and Young Artists Wind Ensemble programs of Boston University's Tanglewood Institute. High school musicians will receive individual music instruction and group participation opportunities through ensemble rehearsals and performances, master classes and coaching sessions.

Concert Productions, Inc.
Boston, MA
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio &TV FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$115,000
To support the production of the public radio series From the Top to be broadcast in 2003-2004, as well as a two-hour From the Top television special to be taped in Carnegie Hall. The weekly, hour long radio program features performances by exceptional young classical musicians, ages nine to 18, interviews, guest artists and a 15-year-old "roving reporter" who profiles the young musicians.

Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras
Boston, MA
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$30,000
To support the Intense Community Program that provides rigorous stringed-instrument training to underserved youth from the Boston area. The upcoming year's goal is to continue the program's growth by adding another class of 20 talented students to the current student body.

Massachusetts College of Art
Boston, MA
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$40,000
To support Renewal, Support and Growth: Professional Development Opportunities for Massachusetts K-12 Visual Arts Teachers. The series of workshops is designed to explore the innovative approaches for supporting the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks and provide ongoing opportunities for teacher/artist renewal, support and growth.

Massachusetts Cultural Council
Boston, MA
CATEGORY: Folk Arts Infrastructure FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk &Traditional Arts
$25,000
To support the Folk Arts and Heritage Program. Core activities include fieldwork, public access to documentation and continuation of the Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program.

Massachusetts Cultural Council
Boston, MA
CATEGORY: Partnership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State &Regional
$664,400
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Boston, MA
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
$51,000
To support photographic documentation and rehousing of the museum's textile and fashion art collection. The collection of over 27,000 items includes tapestries, embroideries, costumes and accessories, as well as one of the finest Andean textiles collections in existence.

New England Foundation for the Arts
Boston, MA
CATEGORY: Partnership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State &Regional
$827,200
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Partners for Youth with Disabilities, Inc.
Boston, MA
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$20,000
To support the continuation of Access to Theater. The program targets Boston-area youth with disabilities for fully accessible participatory theater work with professional artists.

Project STEP, Inc.
Boston, MA
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$23,000
To support continuation of the String Training and Education Program (STEP). With a focus on gifted, at-risk youth, the program immerses students in private lessons, classroom instruction and master classes, performance opportunities, summer study, career counseling and musical instrument loans.

Wang Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. (on behalf of Suskind Young at Arts)
Boston, MA
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$21,000
To support three ongoing after-school programs: BroadWays, Critics' Circle and Songwriting. Through a wide range of arts learning activities that include playwriting, acting, songwriting and theater criticism, high school-aged students will engage in a combination of individualized instruction, hands-on experiences and peer interaction.

WGBH Educational Foundation
Boston, MA
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$70,000
To support Music and Words. The music education and radio production program provides professional development, curriculum resources and technical support for teachers; and curriculum based classroom study for elementary, middle and high school students.

Cambridge

Community Art Center, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$40,000
To support a collaborative youth media project. The center will join with four youth service organizations to work with professional media artists and middle school students on pre-production, production and post-production of original videos.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (on behalf of List Visual Arts Center)
Cambridge, MA
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
$20,000
To support the conservation treatment of Italian-American artist Harry Bertoia's (1915-1978) altarpiece in the MIT chapel. Created in 1955, the altarpiece is one of many notable early modernist works on the campus.

Lenox

Shakespeare &Company, Inc.
Lenox, MA
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$45,000
To support the continuation of Shakespeare in Action. Students in 12 high schools will participate in the nine-week theater arts residency program that features after-school classes, production work, performances of a Shakespeare play, interscholastic master classes and a festival of student performances.

Lowell

Angkor Dance Troupe, Inc.
Lowell, MA
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$20,000
To support in-depth, ongoing instruction in traditional Cambodian dance. Youth will be taught Cambodian classical and folk dance traditions by world-renowned master dancers, led by director Phousita Huy.

Northampton

Smith College
Northampton, MA
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
$12,000
To support a comprehensive survey of the museum's frame collection for paintings. The results of the survey will be used to guide conservation planning and frame replacement decisions and to update the museum's documentary files.

Young at Heart Chorus, Inc.
Northampton, MA
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
$15,000
To support the creation and production of an original musical that explores the lives of senior citizens. The new musical, Road to Nowhere, will incorporate music not commonly sung by older Americans and video images to depict the experiences of older workers in supermarkets, fast food joints and large department stores.

Roxbury

Arts In Progress, Inc.
Roxbury, MA
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$25,000
To support expansion of A Circle of Girls. The two-year program will offer after-school theater arts and social development instruction targeted to middle-school girls.

Vineyard Haven

Vineyard Playhouse Company, Inc.
Vineyard Haven, MA
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$13,000
To support the continuation of One-on-One and Playmaking. The 10-week residency is directly integrated into the fourth-grade curriculum and introduces students to all aspects of theater, from playwriting to production.

Waltham

Filmmakers Collaborative, Inc. (on behalf of Ambrica Productions)
Waltham, MA
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio &TV FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$50,000
To support production and post-production costs for a documentary film on Mary Pickford. Using home movies, archival footage, photographs, interviews, atmospheric shots and Ms. Pickford's own films, the documentary will provide a portrait of a complex and powerful woman.

National Center for Jewish Film
Waltham, MA
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$15,000
To support the preservation of The Living Orphan. The center's collection contains the only surviving copy of this film, which is in danger of decomposing.

Williamstown

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
Williamstown, MA
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
$50,000
To support a traveling exhibition of the work of French painter Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825), with accompanying education programs. David was the leader of the Neo-Classical style in France, a supporter of the French Revolution and painter to Napoleon.

Williamstown Theatre Foundation, Inc.
Williamstown, MA
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$8,000
To support programs which serve and engage an economically and racially diverse community. The Williamstown Theatre Foundation's community programs include the Greylock Theatre Project, Kid's Night and Free Theatre.

Massachusetts Total Dollars Awarded: $2,327,600
Massachusetts Total Grants Awarded : 27


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