2005 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access to Artistic Excellence II/American Masterpieces/
Folk Arts Infrastructure/Learning in the Arts/Partnerships

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

NEW MEXICO

Cornerstones Community Partnerships
Santa Fe, NM
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design 
To support educational workshops about the preservation of historic adobe structures. The project will train rural community residents in traditional building methods.

Fine Arts for Children and Teens, Inc.
Santa Fe, NM
$25,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth 
To support in-depth visual arts education programs. Program components will include ARTreach, an integrated in-school program for students; ARTclub, arts learning after school; and ARTcamp, a summer arts camp.

Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Santa Fe, NM
$120,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum 
To support the touring exhibition Georgia O'Keeffe and the Women of the Stieglitz Circle, with accompanying education programs. The exhibition, organized for a national tour, will explore O'Keeffe's (1887-1986) work in relationship to other pioneering women artists who made important, although under-recognized, contributions to the American modern art movement.

Institute for Spanish Arts
Santa Fe, NM
$30,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth 
To support children and youth programming in Flamenco dance. Designed to preserve and strengthen Spanish and Hispanic culture, the program will provide year-round dance and music classes to more than 150 children and youth, ages 5 to 18.

Los Reyes de Albuquerque Foundation
Albuquerque, NM
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts 
To support and perpetuate nuevomexicano folk traditions and to present performances of the Entriega de los Novios. Nuevomexicano presentations will be held at child day-care centers, senior and nursing centers, and meal sites for the homeless, while the Entriega de los Novios will be presented at local middle and high schools.

New Mexico Arts
Santa Fe, NM
$25,000
CATEGORY: Folk & Traditional Arts Infrastructure Initiative  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts 
To support continuation of the Folk Arts Apprenticeship and Community Fieldworker Network programs. Practitioners for the apprenticeship program are sought in the course of fieldwork with the assistance of trained lay folklorists or community scholars participating in the Community Fieldworker Network program.

New Mexico Arts
Santa Fe, NM
$522,800
CATEGORY: Partnership  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional 
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

New Mexico Symphony Orchestra (Albuquerque Symphony Orchestra)
Albuquerque, NM
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support a state-wide tour to small, rural, and underserved communities of New Mexico. The project also will offer educational activities in Albuquerque area schools.

Outside In Productions (consortium)
Santa Fe, NM
$15,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth 
To support the Youth With Promise Program, a consortium project conducted in partnership with the El Museo Cultural Center. Youth workshops and classes will be offered in guitar, dance, and the visual arts.

Santa Fe Festival Ballet, Inc. (Aspen Santa Fe Ballet)
Santa Fe, NM
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support the Youth Outreach Series. Activities include a series of performances, lecture-demonstrations, and workshops.

Santa Fe New Music, Inc.
Santa Fe, NM
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support Music Literacy Through the New, an educational initiative for the Santa Fe New Music Youth Ensemble and Young Composers' Project. The project will include workshops for youth and adults in composition, theory, and performance.

Spanish Colonial Arts Society, Inc.
Santa Fe, NM
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum 
To support the expansion of learning projects in traditional Hispanic art forms for underserved communities in New Mexico. The objective is to encourage the revival and continuation of endangered Hispano art forms and practices.

Theatre Grottesco North America, Inc. (consortium)
Santa Fe, NM
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support a consortium project The National Ensemble Theater Festival with accompanying workshops, panels, and educational activities. In partnership with the Network of Ensemble Theaters, the project will produce a festival celebrating America's ensemble theater movement.

Working Classroom, Inc.
Albuquerque, NM
$30,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth 
To support year-round, tuition free visual arts and theater training in local inner-city schools. Students from low-income Albuquerque communities will participate in introductory, intermediate, and advanced arts workshops

NEW MEXICO total grants: 14
NEW MEXICO total dollars: $900,300

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