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.

TEXAS

Austin

Texas Commission on the Arts
Austin, TX
CATEGORY: Partnership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
$762,600
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Texas Fine Arts Association
Austin, TX
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
$45,000
To support Art on Tour, a statewide traveling exhibition program with accompanying catalogs and lectures. The program circulates exhibitions of contemporary art by emerging and mid-career American artists to small museums and university and community galleries throughout Texas, many in rural, culturally underserved communities.

Texas Folklife Resources
Austin, TX
CATEGORY: Folk Arts Infrastructure FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
$20,000
To support the Apprenticeship in the Folk Arts Program and related costs. The program encourages master traditional artists to pass on their skills to younger learners, particularly within their own ethnic or regional communities.

Texas Folklife Resources
Austin, TX
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
$50,000
To support the third International Accordion Festival. The event celebrates the accordion's central role in the traditional music of the United States and throughout the globe.

Writers' League of Texas (on behalf of Austin Cinemaker Co-op)
Austin, TX
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$15,000
To support the Seminar Series, a yearlong program that will provide students the opportunity to learn a variety of filmmaking techniques. Courses to be offered include Intro to Super 8 Filmmaking, Art of Film Installation and Non-linear Editing.

Bastrop

Bastrop Association for the Arts
Bastrop, TX
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$5,000
To support a collaborative public art project in a Texas hill country high school. Lead by the artist Raul Valdez, high school teachers will engage the students in a semester-long interior mural project.

Brownsville

Brownsville Art League (aka Brownsville Museum of Fine Art)
Brownsville, TX
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$40,000
To support the Art to Grow Program. This program will serve 120 at-risk children, ages eight to 12 in experiential arts programs in traditional art forms of Mexico and Central America.

Dallas

Dallas Symphony Association, Inc.
Dallas, TX
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$65,000
To support the continuation of Youth Strings, a project that targets and develops the musical talents of outstanding African-American and Latino students in the Dallas area. The three-level course of instruction for students in grades K-12 provides semi-private and private string lessons taught by Dallas Symphony Orchestra musicians.

Junior Players Guild
Dallas, TX
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$13,000
To support free theater education programs for youth. Programs include two-week summer Discover Theater camps, two-week Shakespeare camps and a production of a Shakespeare play, produced in cooperation with the Shakespeare Festival of Dallas.

Writer's Garret (consortium)
Dallas, TX
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$40,000
To support the Writer's Studio, a pilot radio show featuring interviews with established authors. The show will be broadcast on KERA-FM to listeners in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Arkansas.

El Paso

Opera Company, Inc.
El Paso, TX
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$15,000
To support Opera on Wheels, Artists in the Schools, Youth Night at the Opera and the Lauren Butler Scholarship Competition. Program activities include classroom workshops, mini-opera productions and accessibility to main stage productions for students in underserved areas of Texas and New Mexico.

Encinal

Art's for Everyone, Inc.
Encinal, TX
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$21,000
To support Echale Art. This visual arts enrichment project, serving rural children and youth of Encinal, Texas (population 850), includes free after-school workshops by visiting artists, a summer arts program and a field trip to Houston's annual Art Car parade.

Fort Worth

Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra Association, Inc.
Fort Worth, TX
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$15,000
To support the Neighborhood Arts Program in Fort Worth and rural communities throughout Texas. In partnership with the Arts Council Fort Worth and Tarrant County, the program will provide free orchestral performances in more than 20 neighborhood churches, schools and community centers.

Houston

Cultural Arts Council of Houston
Houston, TX
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
$40,000
To support Creative Expressions. The project seeks to increase the access of traditional and ethnically specific arts organizations and artists to larger audiences in Houston.

Houston Grand Opera Association, Inc.
Houston, TX
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
$95,000
To support Discover America: Community Connections Initiative - Phase II. In 2003-04, the initiative will focus on free and discounted performances in order to reach a broader base of young and diverse audiences.

Orange Show Foundation
Houston, TX
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$10,000
To support conservation and restoration of the Beer Can House, a work by self-taught artist John Milkovisch. The Houston landmark, consisting of a house and grounds decorated with methodically trimmed cans, will be used as an artist-in-residence project space.

SAMSKRI, Society for Indian Performing Arts
Houston, TX
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$10,000
To support the first international conference on Kuchipudi Indian Dance. The conference will include panel discussions, presentation of scholarly papers, workshops and performances.

Writers In the Schools (aka WITS)
Houston, TX
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$54,000
To support the development of Cultural Conversations. The program will build on an established school residency program in creative writing to address Houston's increasingly international student body.

Irving

City of Irving-Irving Arts Center (aka Irving Arts Center)
Irving, TX
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
$25,000
To support the creation of the Centennial Mural. In recognition of the city's centennial, an original Venetian glass tile mural will be created for installation in the Irving Arts Center Sculpture Garden.

Marfa

Chinati Foundation (aka La Fundacion Chinati)
Marfa, TX
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
$25,000
To support a study of the environmental conditions of the Chinati museum buildings. The project addresses the long-term care of the contemporary art collections.

San Antonio

Centro Cultural Aztlan, Inc.
San Antonio, TX
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$25,000
To support a series of special community arts programs. Through exhibitions, workshops and performances, underserved audiences will be given the opportunity to participate in the creation and appreciation of Chicano/Latino art and culture.

Esperanza Peace and Justice Center
San Antonio, TX
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$45,000
To support Arte es Vida. The series will consist of presentations by literary, visual and performance artists at schools, senior centers and other venues in the city's Westside.

Gemini Series, Inc. (aka Gemini Ink)
San Antonio, TX
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$10,000
To support Gemini Ink's 2003 Summer Festival/National Writer's Conference in San Antonio. Activities include readings, writing workshops for adults and children, and workshops for teachers of writing.

National Association of Latino Arts and Culture
San Antonio, TX
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & TV FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$50,000
To support post-production costs for a three-part television series examining the cultural and artistic expression of Latino communities within the United States. Visiones: Latino Art and Culture will give viewers an overview of the growth of cultural arts centers, dance and theater companies, and other cultural organizations within the Latino Diaspora.

SAY Si
San Antonio, TX
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$15,000
To support the Media Studio Arts (MAS) program. The year-round program provides urban students with a state-of-the-art digital media lab, broadband Internet access, and professional software and training to give them the skills needed to compete in a technological and information-based economy.

Symphony Society of San Antonio (aka San Antonio Symphony)
San Antonio, TX
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$15,000
To support a residency at St. Philip's College, a historically black college in San Antonio. Activities will include master classes, open rehearsals, lectures, and concerts for primary and secondary school children.

Texas Public Radio (on behalf of Riverwalk)
San Antonio, TX
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & TV FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$20,000
To support the weekly public radio jazz series Riverwalk, Live From the Landing. Distributed by PRI to 153 stations nationwide, each hour-long program combines live performance with interviews, oral histories and historical recordings to showcase the contributions of important artists and eras in jazz history.

San Marcos

Southwest Texas State University (on behalf of Alkek Library)
San Marcos, TX
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$10,000
To support conservation and restoration of a section of a 1951 Buck Winn mural, depicting the visual drama of an early cattle drive. Originally painted for the Pearl Brewery in San Antonio, it was removed, folded accordion-style, and placed in storage in the 1970s.

Texas Total Dollars Awarded: $1,555,600
Texas Total Grants Awarded: 28

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