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.

PENNSYLVANIA

Aliquippa

Aliquippa Alliance for Unity and Development, Inc.
Aliquippa, PA
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$20,000
To support the 11th annual Aliquippa Embraces Art Festival. The one-day event will be followed by a year-round, artist-in-residence program.

Bethlehem

Bethlehem Musikfest Association (consortium)
Bethlehem, PA
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$25,000
To support Bsmart. This year-round after-school and weekend media arts program is targeted to middle school students from low-income families.

Lehigh Valley Community Broadcasters Association
Bethlehem, PA
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$12,000
To support WDIY-FM radio station's Youth Media program. Project activities will include hands-on training for youth, ages 14 to 18, in all aspects of radio production.

Touchstone (aka Touchstone Theatre)
Bethlehem, PA
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$25,000
To support the Don Quijote Project. Touchstone Theatre will use Cervantes' classic tale Don Quijote as a catalyst to create new work and to bridge the gap between cultures, generations and classes in the neighborhoods of south Bethlehem, Pa.

Bloomsburg

Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble, Inc.
Bloomsburg, PA
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$27,000
To support Theatre in the Classroom, a traveling educational theatre experience. The program tours adaptations of world folk literature or American history to elementary and middle schools, offering performances and residencies throughout Pennsylvania.

Carlisle

Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet
Carlisle, PA
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$18,000
To support DiscoverDance. Designed as an arts program for at-risk students ages six to nine, children progress through three levels of dance and music classes in 13-week sessions.

Harrisburg

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
Harrisburg, PA
CATEGORY: Partnership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
$708,400
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
Harrisburg, PA
CATEGORY: Folk Arts Infrastructure FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
$35,000
To support regional Folk Arts Suppport Centers and a celebration of the 20th anniversary of the state's Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program. The Folk Arts Support Centers are locally based, independent organizations that have formed a network to promote the practice of the folk and traditional arts across the state.

Institute for Cultural Partnerships (consortium)
Harrisburg, PA
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
$50,000
To support the Mid-Atlantic Maritime Cultural Heritage Project. The project will identify and document communities and individuals whose work significantly preserves their maritime heritage through presentation, conservation and education.

Institute for Cultural Partnerships
Harrisburg, PA
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$20,000
To support a multisite residency program in south central Pennsylvania. Three artists will offer Latino and other interested adults instruction in poetry, dance and visual arts.

Loretto

Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art
Loretto, PA
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$25,000
To support creative-art courses for preschool-age children and their parents. Activities will take place at the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, comprising the museums of Loretto, Altoona, Johnstown and Ligonier Valley.

Philadelphia

American Music Theater Festival, Inc. (AMTF) (aka Prince Music Theater)(consortium)
Philadelphia, PA
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
$55,000
To support the Multi-generational Arts Initiative, a comprehensive artistic, marketing and educational project to encourage active audience participation and theater attendance. The Initiative will offer an annual family series of live performances, workshops, and films intended to reach the widest possible audience, expand outreach and bring multi-generational audiences to the theater.

American Music Theater Festival, Inc. (AMTF) (aka Prince Music Theater)
Philadelphia, PA
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$55,000
To support the Youth on Stage Program. Activities will include intensive classes in music theater writing, composing, acting, singing and dance on site at the Prince Music Theater.

ARTREACH, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$10,000
To support the expansion of the online version of Access the Arts, etc. A Guide for People with Disabilities. The guide will provide disabled audience members with an enhanced listing of accessible visual and performing art venues in southeastern Pennsylvania, Southern New Jersey and Delaware.

Asian Americans United, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
$16,000
To support the Mid-Autumn Festival. The event will promote community unity through cultural reclamation, cultural maintenance and intergenerational healing.

City of Philadelphia, Office Arts & Culture (aka Public Art Office)
Philadelphia, PA
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
$80,000
To support the conservation of City Hall Tower sculptures by Alexander Milne Calder. The larger than-life-size bronze sculptures, created by the artist in the early 1870s, consist of Native Americans, Swedish settlers and American eagles on the exterior of Philadelphia's City Hall.

Clay Studio (consortium)
Philadelphia, PA
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$18,000
To support a traveling exhibition of work by contemporary Chinese ceramic artists. The project is a collaboration with the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art.

Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts (aka CCAHA)
Philadelphia, PA
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
$25,000
To support a postgraduate internship in paper conservation. The project will involve training in the treatment of works on paper such as drawings, prints and watercolors as well as manuscripts, maps, photographs, parchment and books.

Odunde Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
$20,000
To support the 2003 ODUNDE Festival. ODUNDE is the oldest African-American community festival in Philadelphia, featuring local and international dancers, musicians and performers, including hip hop, tap dance, gospel, steel drum and stepping.

Pennsylvania Young Playwrights Program, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$40,000
To support Stage Write. The playwriting program fosters dialogue and understanding by pairing urban and suburban middle and high school students in school workshops, collaborative writing activities, attendance at professional theater and the staging of student plays.

Philadelphia Folklore Project
Philadelphia, PA
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
$35,000
To support Art Happens Here. The project will document and present folk artists and their arts to audiences at community sites within the region through exhibitions and artist residencies.

Philadelphia Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$10,000
To support concerts in diverse, underserved neighborhoods of Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The orchestra will perform in churches, schools and assisted-living residences.

Philomel Concerts, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$5,000
To support expansion of Imagination Workshops, Kids' Concerts, and Concerts & Conversations. The outreach, educational programs and family concerts will provide access to and build long-term audience involvement in early music.

Raices Culturales Latinoamericanas, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
$15,000
To support Nuestras Culturas/Our Cultures. The after-school program for students between the ages of 14-18 will offer workshops in Hispanic dance, craft and music.

Sedgwick Cultural Center
Philadelphia, PA
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
$40,000
To support a touring exhibition of the Germantown Eyedazzler style of Navajo weaving. The exhibit will document the evolution, adaptation and preservation of three interwoven traditions during more than two centuries of social change.

Taller Puertorriqueno, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$40,000
To support a series of adult and family programming activities. Programs in the visual arts, music, public art and literature will explore both traditional and contemporary Latino art forms.

Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania
(on behalf of Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts)
Philadelphia, PA
$20,000
To support the 19th Annual Philadelphia International Children's Festival. The festival will present more than 60 presentations by international performers for young people and their families.

Village of Arts and Humanities, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$70,000
To support the Learning Through the Arts Program. The multifaceted arts education series for ages six to 18 provides comprehensive year-round, after-school, weekend and full-day summer programming.

WHYY, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & TV FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$70,000
To support the production and national broadcast of the radio series Fresh Air with Terry Gross. The award-winning daily journal of contemporary arts, culture and issues is broadcast on 406 NPR stations and heard by four million people each week.

Pittsburgh

Carnegie Institute (aka Carnegie Museum of Art)
(on behalf of Andy Warhol Museum)
Pittsburgh, PA
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$20,000
To support Youth Invasion. Based on Andy Warhol's unique exhibition practices in his 1968 Raid the Icebox, participants will curate exhibitions, display their own artwork and organize public events.

Manchester Craftsmen's Guild
Pittsburgh, PA
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$50,000
To support an archival recording project to preserve the 16th anniversary MCGJazz series and the cataloging and preservation of the Stanley Turrentine Archive. Artists whose performances will be recorded live during the eight-concert season include Herbie Hancock, Cassandra Wilson, the Joshua Redman Quartet and the George Shearing Trio.

Pittsburgh Chamber Music Society, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$10,000
To support a chamber ensemble residency by the Talich Quartet at City Music Center on the campus of Duquesne University. Activities will include performances, coaching and community activities.

Pittsburgh Opera, Inc. (consortium)
Pittsburgh, PA
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
$50,000
To support the planning and implementation of a series of public programs and forums to coincide with the first-ever performing arts convention in Pittsburgh. The project, a consortium with Chatham Baroque, Bach Choir of Pittsburgh and the Children's Festival Chorus of Pittsburgh, will highlight how music performances contribute to a community's higher quality of life.

Uwchland

Pennsylvania Public Radio Associates, Inc.
Uwchland, PA
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & TV FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$40,000
To support the production of concerts and feature programs for Echoes, a radio series of contemporary music. The series will serve a weekly audience of more than 300,000 listeners over 150 stations in 35 states and the Northern Mariana Islands.

West Grove

Big Picture Alliance
West Grove, PA
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$49,000
To support a media production project. Philadelphia inner-city high school students, working with media artists/mentors, will be involved in all aspects of creating broadcast-quality narrative projects.

Pennsylvania Total Dollars Awarded: $1,808,400
Pennsylvania Total Grants Awarded: 35

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