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.

RHODE ISLAND

Brown University (consortium) (on behalf of ArtsLiteracy Project (Education Department))
Providence, RI
$65,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
To support the Arts Literacy Project. In partnerships with the Providence Black Repertory Company, artists will join a core group of classroom teachers, Brown University students, and youth leaders at the Brown Summer High School for 50 hours of professional development during the summer months.

Everett Dance Theatre (consortium)
Providence, RI
$20,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
To support improvisational theater training for high school students. The Everett DanceTheatre will coordinate with The Institute for the Practice and Study of Nonviolence and Feinstein High School teachers and school psychologists, to design and implement a program that uses improvisational theater to explore how different emotions impact the outcome of potentially violent situations.

Opera Providence
Providence, RI
$25,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
To support OPERAtunity, an opera residency program. In partnership with three local Rhode Island schools, students in elementary, middle school, and high school will receive classroom training in opera through in-class instruction given by Opera Providence performers.

Project New Urban Arts
Providence, RI
$20,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
To support the development of youth in arts apprenticeships in Providence. The project is based on a community plan that enables young emerging artists, ages 17-24, to design and implement arts initiatives as mentors to high school students in after-school and summer studio arts programs in visual, performing, and literary arts.

Rhode Island State Council on the Arts (on behalf of Rhode Island Arts Learning Network)
Providence, RI
$40,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
To support key aspects of the Rhode Island Arts Learning Network. The two-year project will provide a statewide infrastructure that will ensure greater access to the arts for all Rhode Island children and youth.

Rhode Island State Council on the Arts
Providence, RI
$20,000
CATEGORY: Leadership Initiatives  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts 
To support the Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program and related costs. The program fosters the sharing and passing on of traditional skills within cultural communities and will pair 12 master-apprentice teams.

Rhode Island State Council on the Arts
Providence, RI
$615,000
CATEGORY: Partnership  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional 
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

RHODE ISLAND total grants: 7
RHODE ISLAND total dollars: $805,000

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