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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.

MASSACHUSETTS

Angkor Dance Troupe, Inc.
Lowell, MA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
To support in-depth instruction in traditional Cambodian dance. Master artists will instruct youth, ages six to 18, in folk and classical dances, leading to recitals and public performances in Lowell.

Berklee College of Music, Inc. (consortium)
Boston, MA
$60,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
To support e-Sharp, a consortium project. Designed to provide students with opportunities to learn from experienced professional musicians and visiting artists, the Berklee City Music after-school program will be replicated in the District of Columbia in partnership with the Community Preservation and Development Corporation.

Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Inc.
Roslindale, MA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support compact disc recordings of works by American composers. Fourteen compact discs will represent either a premiere release or a new release of an out-of-print recording from a variety of composers, including Gunther Schuller, John Harbison, Michael Gandolfi, and Elliott Carter.

Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. (on behalf of Tanglewood)
Boston, MA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
To support Day in the Arts at Tanglewood (DART). The project offers eight, five-day summer arts immersion programs, including workshops and field trips for sixth through eighth-grade students from Berkshire County.

Boston University
Boston, MA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
To support the Young Artists Orchestra and Young Arts Wind Ensemble programs of theTanglewood Institute. High school musicians will receive individual music instruction and group participation opportunities through ensemble rehearsals and performances, master classes, and coaching sessions led by resident ensembles such as the Synergy Quintet and Vento Chiaro Wind Quartet.

Community Economic Development Center of SE Massachusetts
New Bedford, MA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts 
To support the Working Waterfront Festival. The event is a celebration of the occupational culture and artistic traditions of the port of New Bedford, including demonstrations and contests of occupational skills of the fishermen.

Education Development Center, Inc.
Newton, MA
$75,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
To support SmART Schools. The standards-based, comprehensive school-reform initiative promotes Teaching for Understanding, an arts-infused curriculum approach used since 1999 in Rhode Island and New Hampshire schools.

Filmmakers Collaborative, Inc.
Waltham, MA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts 
To support pre-production costs for a documentary film on Louisa May Alcott. Using interviews with scholars, dramatic re-creations, feature film clips, archival illustrations, and actors reading from Alcott's diaries, letters, and fiction, the film will provide a complex portrait of the author best known for her novel Little Women.

From the Top, Inc.
Boston, MA
$65,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts 
To support the production of new programs for the public radio series From theTop. The weekly, hour-long radio program features performances by exceptional young classical musicians (ages nine to 18), interviews, guest artists, and a 16-year-old roving reporter who profiles the young musicians.

From the Top, Inc. (consortium)
Boston, MA
$62,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
To support music and theater training for students. In consortium with Young Audiences (NY), students will create a live, collaborative radio show that will be performed, taped, and disseminated on the organization's Web site.

Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras
Boston, MA
$43,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
To support expansion of the Intensive Community Program, providing rigorous string-instrument training to low-income youth from the Boston area. The project will continue the program's growth by adding another class of 20 talented students to the current student body.

Harvard University (on behalf of Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology)
Cambridge, MA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museums 
To support the digitization and the creation of a Web site to access the Peabody Museum's collection of North American Historic-board prints. The collection includes the first photographs of archaeological excavations and earliest efforts at ethnographic photography in the United States.

Massachusetts Cultural Council
Boston, MA
$687,600
CATEGORY: Partnership  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional 
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Boston, MA
$14,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
To support the after-school Community Partnerships program. Through guided museum visits and studio art-making led by professional artists, youth are engaged in the creative process and learn teamwork skills as they produce a final collaborative project.

National Arts & Learning Foundation
Natick, MA
$60,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
To support the Arts and Learning Collaborative Program in Boston elementary schools. Professional development in arts education for teachers and administrators will be provided in partnership with Lesley University's Creative Arts in Learning Division.

National Center for Jewish Film
Waltham, MA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts 
To support the preservation of The Cantor's Son and His Wife's Lover. The center's collection contains the only surviving 35mm prints of the films, both of which are in danger of decomposing. Once preserved, the films will be presented worldwide at film festivals, media arts centers, libraries, museums, and universities.

New England Conservatory of Music (consortium)
Boston, MA
$82,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
To support the Music-in-Education National Consortium Project. New resources and cross-institutional capacities will be developed to support the evolving role and innovative practices of music and musicians in urban public schools.

New England Foundation for the Arts
Boston, MA
$879,900
CATEGORY: Partnership  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional 
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

New England String Ensemble, Inc.
Wakefield, MA
$18,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
To support the New England Musical Heritage Initiative, a music curriculum in public schools. Composers will create compositions based on the lives of past and present New Englanders, which then will be used as a study resource.

Northeast Document Conservation Center (consortium)
Andover, MA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museums 
To support a consortium project providing a one-year internship in paper conservation. In partnership with the New England Museum Association, the intern will also be trained to provide technical assistance in collections care to smaller museums in the region.

Project STEP Inc.
Boston, MA
$24,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
To support continuation of the String Training and Education Program (STEP). With a focus on gifted, economically disadvantaged youth, the program will immerse students in private lessons, classroom instruction and master classes, performance opportunities, summer study, and career counseling, and will offer them musical instrument loans.

Raw Art Works, Inc.
Lynn, MA
$33,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
To support Real to Reel Digital Film School. Disadvantaged teenagers will be trained in all aspects of filmmaking during this 40-week program from September to June.

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
Williamstown, MA
$67,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
To support Kidspace. The program will offer students the opportunity to study and make visual art under the direction of professional artists and will include numerous teacher training workshops and artist residencies in the schools.

University of Massachusetts at Amherst (on behalf of New WORLD Theater)
Amherst, MA
$55,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
To support Project 2050. The cross-cultural theater project is designed to prepare youth from diverse racial, ethnic, and class backgrounds for future demographic shifts by exploring global, political, and cross-cultural issues through open-studio and dialogue workshops and short theater works.

WGBH Educational Foundation
Boston, MA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature 
To support the preservation and enhancement of Poetry Breaks, a collection of videotape recordings of contemporary poets reading their own work. Poets featured on the tapes include Galway Kinnell, Robert Bly, Sharon Olds, Martin Espada, Lucille Clifton, Li-Young Lee, Stanley Kunitz, Philip Levine, Cyrus Cassells, and Ruth Stone.

MASSACHUSETTS total grants: 25
MASSACHUSETTS total dollars: $2465500


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