2004 Grant Awards: State Listings

Arts on Radio and Television/Folk Arts Infrastructure/Heritage & Preservation/Learning in the Arts/Partnerships

Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

CONNECTICUT

Connecticut Architecture Foundation, Inc (on behalf of Architecture Resource Center)
New Haven, CT
$48,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
To support Hartford Connections, an educational curriculum for the design arts. The course will be written, tested, revised, and implemented in Greater Hartford middle schools by master teachers, scholars, project directors, and consultants.

Connecticut Commission on the Arts
Hartford, CT
$617,700
CATEGORY: Partnership  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional 
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Institute for Community Research, Inc.
Hartford, CT
$20,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts 
To support the seventh year of the Southern New England Apprenticeship Project. The project will bring together 10 master artists and apprentices from Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.

Institute for Community Research, Inc.
Hartford, CT
$20,000
CATEGORY: Leadership Initiatives  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts 
To support a series of programs designed to expand documentation and presentation of Connecticut's folk arts. Traditional artists will receive technical assistance in documenting and archiving their traditional art forms, and community histories and community-based cultural programming will be developed.

Josef Albers Foundation, Inc.
Bethany, CT
$20,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museums 
To support the Archives Organization Project. The project is a comprehensive effort to inventory, preserve, and make accessible the foundation's voluminous archives, which contains correspondence, photographs, and other materials from the late arts educators Josef and Anni Albers.

Lyme Historical Society
Old Lyme, CT
$15,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museums 
To support an exhibition of the work of American artist Willard Metcalf (1858-1925), with accompanying catalog and education programs. The exhibition will explore Metcalf's contribution to American Impressionist art in general and to the Old Lyme Art Colony in particular.

CONNECTICUT total grants: 6
CONNECTICUT total dollars: $740,700

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