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.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Americans for the Arts
Washington, DC
$50,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts 
To support a series of activities related to public art preservation. Project activities will include the archiving of visual documentation of national public art works for historical purposes as well as to serve as models for new projects, documenting best practices and policies including information about conservation of outdoor art, and disseminating this information to various interested parties.

Choral Arts Society of Washington
Washington, DC
$25,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
To support artsACCESS. The project will provide opportunities for teachers to use the creative and participatory nature of music and the arts across the curriculum in such subjects as language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies.

Dance Heritage Coalition, Inc.
Washington, DC
$20,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support a dance videotape archival project. Facing the Magnetic Media Crisis project will include components to catalog tapes, reformat deteriorating tapes, and provide archival-quality cases.

DC WritersCorps, Inc.
Washington, DC
$33,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
To support after-school writing workshops and the Youth Poetry Slam League (YPSL). The project will provide literary mentors and writing workshops to students in public middle and junior high schools.

District of Columbia Commission on the Arts and Humanities
Washington, DC
$546,300
CATEGORY: Partnership  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional 
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Film Odyssey, Inc.
Washington, DC
$50,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts 
To support the production of a documentary film by Karen Thomas. Exiles in Hollywood will trace the personal journeys of European writers, directors, producers, composers, and actors who contributed to many of Hollywood's enduring films.

GALA Inc., Grupo de Artistas Latinoamericanos
Washington, DC
$30,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support the production and translation of a classic Spanish play. Los Titeres de Cachiporra, or Tragicomedia de don Cristobal y la sena Rosita, by Federico Garcia Lorca, will be performed in Spanish with simultaneous English interpretation at GALA's new permanent performance facility.

Kankouran West African Dance Company (consortium)
Washington, DC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support a consortium project to present a performance of Heritage. Kankouran will collaborate with Ron Brown/Evidence to demonstrate how the traditional cultural arts of Africa are being preserved and integrated into modern dance.

Levine School of Music
Washington, DC
$23,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
To support Early Childhood Music. While providing a foundation for lifelong involvement in the arts, the project will offer 30 weeks of free music activities to help young children develop language, cognitive, social, and motor development skills.

Multi-Media Training Institute
Washington, DC
$20,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
To support training in videography, computer editing, and the production of documentaries for public broadcast. Local professional videographers, filmmakers, and editors will provide workshops for up to 20 youth, ages 12 to 18, in studio and field production of digital video, broadcasting, and Webcasting.

National Assembly of State Arts Agencies
Washington, DC
$525,910
CATEGORY: Partnership  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional 
To support National Services to State Arts Agencies

National Public Radio
Washington, DC
$50,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts 
To support the production of arts features to be aired on national newsmagazine programs. Several multi-part series will examine regional theater in America, the evolution of an American style of acting, new voices in Latin music, and the role of criticism in the arts.

National Public Radio
Washington, DC
$150,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts 
To support the Classical Music Initiative. The project will include the recording, acquisition, and national radio broadcast of selected American orchestral performances on PerformanceToday, SymphonyCast, and Creators @ Carnegie; the presentation of American operatic productions for the World of Opera radio series; and the coverage of classical music throughout NPR's news programs.

New River Education Fund, Inc.
Washington, DC
$40,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts 
To support the production of a television documentary on a new work by architect I.M. Pei. Building China Modern will follow Pei to his ancestral home in Suzhou, China, as he oversees the design of a modern museum in one of the most ancient neighborhoods of China's preeminent classical city.

Shakespeare Theatre (consortium)
Washington, DC
$62,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
To support Classics in the Classroom, a consortium project. Through intensive professional development opportunities, District of Columbia public school teachers will explore theater instruction, integration, and assessment skills.

Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz (consortium)
Washington, DC
$48,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
To support Jazz Sports, a national music instruction and performance consortium project. The institute will engage professional jazz musicians as teachers and mentors for young musicians in the Los Angeles and District of Columbia schools.

Washington Men's Camerata, Inc.
Washington, DC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support the National Library of Men's Choral Music and a compact disc recording of men's choral repertoire. The project will advance the multi-year development of an operational lending library and searchable database to safeguard collections of men's choral music, and will make the repertoire widely available for study and performance.

Washington Opera
Washington, DC
$50,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
To support Opera Look-In. The sequential music education program will link specific operas to the core curricula of schools in Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C. Students will by attend fully staged one-act productions and learn about behind-the-scenes production aspects.

Washington Opera
Washington, DC
$25,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts 
To support costs associated with the national radio broadcasts of performances by the Washington Opera. In partnership with National Public Radio, a series of operas will be recorded, produced, and aired on World of Opera.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA total grants: 19
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA total dollars: $1,768,210

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