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.

NEW MEXICO

Albuquerque

National Institute of Flamenco
Albuquerque, NM
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$10,000
To support the Festival Flamenca Internacional 2003. The Festival consists of performances and a variety of educational activities.

New Mexico Symphony Orchestra (aka Albuquerque Symphony Orchestra)
Albuquerque, NM
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$25,000
To support a statewide tour to small, rural and underserved communities of New Mexico. The project will also offer educational activities in Albuquerque area schools.

Senior Arts Project
Albuquerque, NM
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$6,000
To support a Celebration of African American Artists. This series will consist of workshops in visual and literary arts, musical performances and intergenerational storytelling events.

Sweet Bird Classics, Inc.
Albuquerque, NM
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$23,000
To support Boombox Classroom. The innovative series of radio programs about world and classical music is designed for school districts that have little general music instruction in kindergarten through fifth grade.

Las Cruces

Diocese of Las Cruces Foundation, Inc.
(on behalf of Las Cruces International Mariachi Conference)
Las Cruces, NM
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$18,000
To support mariachi workshops for students in kindergarten through 12th grades. The youth will learn traditional Mexican mariachi instrumental and vocal music from a number of professional performers.

Santa Fe

College of Santa Fe (on behalf of GirlsFilmSchool)
Santa Fe, NM
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$22,000
To support GirlsFilmSchool. This intensive two-week summer media production program introduces high school girls, ages 15 to 18, to the fundamentals of film, video and new media production.

Cornerstones Community Partnerships
Santa Fe, NM
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
$35,000
To support educational workshops on the preservation of historic adobe structures in Mora County, New Mexico. The project will train rural communities in the preservation of their historic adobe buildings with a traditional building technique central to the Hispanic and Native-American cultures of the Southwest.

Fine Arts for Children and Teens, Inc. (aka FACT)
Santa Fe, NM
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$20,000
To support in-depth visual arts education programs. Offered during the school day and during non school hours, the program serves 500 underserved students ages eight to 18, at four public school sites and one central community studio location.

Museum of New Mexico Foundation
Santa Fe, NM
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
$25,000
To support Cultural Crossroads, a long-term reinstallation of the permanent collection, with accompanying catalog and public programs. Cultural Crossroads and related interpretive projects will present a cross-cultural, multidisciplinary view of New Mexico art from the arrival of the railroad in 1880 to the present.

National Dance Institute of New Mexico
Santa Fe, NM
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$30,000
To support dance classes for elementary school students in rural communities throughout northern New Mexico. Senior Dance Institute instructors will conduct weekly, 50-minute dance classes for 25 to 30 students in grades three through six.

New Mexico Arts Division
Santa Fe, NM
CATEGORY: Folk Arts Infrastructure FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk &Traditional Arts
$35,000
To support the Folk Arts Apprenticeship and Community Fieldworker Network programs. Practitioners in the apprenticeship program will be sought in the course of the folk arts coordinator's fieldwork, with the assistance of the Community Fieldworker Network.

New Mexico Arts Division
Santa Fe, NM
CATEGORY: Partnership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State &Regional
$499,300
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Outside In Productions (consortium)
Santa Fe, NM
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$10,000
To support the continuation of Creative Arts for Youth With Promise. The workshops in guitar, dance and visual arts for boys and girls ages 12-17 take place during the week in the county juvenile detention center and on Saturdays in the facilities of El Museo Cultural Center, the consortium partner.

Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian
Santa Fe, NM
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
$20,000
To support the conservation treatment of Navajo and Pueblo Indian textiles. The goals of the project are to remove potentially damaging soil and to stabilize areas of wear.

Taos

Millicent Rogers Museum, Inc.
Taos, NM
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
$12,000
To support the exhibition The Art of the Book in the Southwest, with accompanying education programs. The exhibition features work from 1600 to the present by Native-American, Hispanic and European-American artists.

New Mexico Total Dollars Awarded: $790,300
New Mexico Total Grants Awarded : 16

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