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.

NORTH CAROLINA

Boone

Watauga County Arts Council
Boone, NC
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$30,000
To support The Playhouse Project. This multidisciplinary arts exploration program for children age five and under and their parents, includes storytelling sessions, "art safaris," and artist-led training for parents and educators.

Carrboro

Arts Center
Carrboro, NC
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$22,000
To support the AfterSchool Arts Immersion (AAI). The project will offer hands-on training by outstanding artists in a variety of performing and visual art forms and one-on-one apprenticeships with artists-in-residence.

Chapel Hill

Town of Chapel Hill/Public Arts Commission
Chapel Hill, NC
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$10,000
To support an artist residency at the Phillips Middle School in Chapel Hill by sculptor Bryant Holsenbeck. Students will meet twice a week for eight weeks with the artist and the school's visual arts teacher for instruction in public art and sculpture, which will lead to the fabrication of a temporary sculpture.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$85,000
To support expansion of the Curriculum, Music and Community project. The summer institute will engage elementary and middle school teachers and traditional musicians of North Carolina to co design site-specific, standards-based courses that will weave local vernacular music into the classroom curriculum.

Charlotte

Charlotte Symphony Orchestra Society, Inc.
Charlotte, NC
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$25,000
To support a community engagement initiative to reach new audiences. Activities will include community concerts, a Symphony 101 lecture series in neighborhood libraries, and a Web site that will serve as a promotional and educational tool.

Cultural Education Collaborative, Inc. (consortium)
Charlotte, NC
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$80,000
To support professional development activities for school-community teams of teachers, artists, cultural educators, school administrators and arts organizations. Now in its third year, new focus areas will be added to include pre-school and pre-service training.

Durham

African American Dance Ensemble, Inc. (consortium)
Durham, NC
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$35,000
To support community residencies celebrating the culture and traditions of Africa. The project will include a variety of outreach activities and performances in North Carolina.

American Dance Festival, Inc. (consortium)
Durham, NC
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$22,000
To support the Dance Critics Workshop. Journalists will attend performances followed by discussion and analysis, classes, informal sessions and seminars.

Greensboro

Dance Project, Inc. (aka NC Dance Project)
Greensboro, NC
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$10,000
To support the expansion of the North Carolina Dance Festival. The Festival showcases local dance artists who travel to communities across the state.

Penland

Penland School of Crafts, Inc.
Penland, NC
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$12,000
To support printing and distribution costs of a publication documenting Penland's 75th anniversary. Designed to complement a traveling exhibition and other programming organized by Penland and the Mint Museum of Craft and Design, the publication will function as a book about craft rather than simply an exhibition catalog.

Raleigh

Design Corps
Raleigh, NC
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
$40,000
To support the completion of a community-based design project for a job training and day care center in Perry County, Alabama. The project began under the efforts of the late Sam Mockbee, founder of the Rural Studio and MacArthur Fellow recipient.

North Carolina Arts Council
Raleigh, NC
CATEGORY: Partnership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
$669,100
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Salisbury

Waterworks Visual Arts Center, Inc.
Salisbury, NC
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$28,000
To support a public art memorial to honor African-American history at the site of the Freedman's Cemetery. Deeded to serve as a burial ground for African Americans in 1770, over the last 100 years portions of the cemetery were violated, bodies disinterred and all markers removed.

Seagrove

North Carolina Pottery Museum, Inc. (aka NC Pottery Center)
Seagrove, NC
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
$25,000
To support the creation of new displays within the permanent exhibition intended to place North Carolina traditional pottery in context. Plans include installing a potter's workshop, a cutaway of a wood kiln and a room for a 19th century farmhouse.

North Carolina Total Dollars Awarded: $1,093,100
North Carolina Total Grants Awarded: 14

National Endowment for the Arts · an independent federal agency
1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20506