FY 2006 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access to Artistic Excellence II/Arts on Radio and Television/
Folk & Traditional Arts Infrastructure/Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth/Partnership Agreements

Some details of the projects listed in this grant announcement are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

ALABAMA

Alabama Blues Project, Inc.
Tuscaloosa, AL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support after-school and summer classes in blues music. Professional Alabama-based blues musicians will teach weekly beginner and advanced classes in blues music performance and history, leading to public performances by the advanced student ensemble.

Alabama Educational Television Foundation Authority (aka Alabama Public Television)
Birmingham, AL
$25,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support post-production and outreach activities for a television documentary by Celia Carey on visual artist Thornton Dial. Mr. Dial Has Something to Say will include footage of the artist discussing and creating his work and scenes from the Thornton Dial retrospective at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Alabama Folklife Association, Inc.
Birmingham, AL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the 2006 Alabama Community Scholars Institute. Participants will be introduced to the skills of conducting field surveys, interviews, and photographic and videeographic documentation.

Alabama State Council on the Arts
Montgomery, AL
$636,100
CATEGORY: Partnership  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Alabama Symphonic Association, Inc. (aka Alabama Symphony Orchestra)
Birmingham, AL
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Touring Alabama. Performances and two-day residencies, including master classes for high school music students, ensemble performances, and a demonstration in middle schools, will take place in three communities: Marion, Guntersville, and Tuskegee.

Artemis Media Project
Foley, AL
$5,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production of a radio documentary about W.C. Handy (1873-1958). The hour-long program will examine the life, work, and legacy of the man known as "the Father of the Blues."

Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts Association
Montgomery, AL
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the conservation and housing of a collection of African American quilts recently acquired by the museum. Conservation and proper stabilization of the collection are important because the museum plans to exhibit the quilts in its new Education Wing and create an exhibition of the quilts to travel to other institutions.

Music Preservation Society, Inc.
Florence, AL
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the second phase of the Muscle Shoals National Heritage Area Study. The study will identify, inventory, archive, and conserve traditional music, storytelling, and folk traditions in the six-county region of Northwest Alabama known as Muscle Shoals.

Sloss Furnaces Foundation
Birmingham, AL
$63,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support the Summer Youth Apprenticeship program. High school students from the Birmingham area will apprentice with professional artists to create cast-metal sculptures.

Number of Grants: 9          Total Amount: $804,100

 
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