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.

COLORADO

Colorado Council on the Arts
Denver, CO
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the regional folk arts program. Core activities will include full restoration of the southern Colorado folklorist position, establishment of a statewide folk arts network of cultural ambassadors, and representation in the state's Heritage Tourism Plan.

Colorado Council on the Arts
Denver, CO
$619,000
CATEGORY: Partnership  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Colorado Music Festival
Boulder, CO
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support education and outreach programming for adults and children. Plans include a young people's concert, workshops for children, pre-concert lectures, open rehearsals, and the production of real-time musical guides for festival audience members.

Denver Center for the Performing Arts (aka Denver Center Theatre)
Denver, CO
$40,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support Living History, a school-based theater education program. High school students will learn techniques of theatrical performance, improvisation, and extemporaneous debate in a program that will address social issues relevant to young people.

Denver Office of Cultural Affairs
Denver, CO
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support Doors Open Denver The project will provide self-guided and expert-led tours surveying Denver's historic and modern architecture.

Fort Lewis College (on behalf of Southwest Writers Institute)
Durango, CO
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a weekend of literary events for residents of the Four Corners. Proposed keynote speakers include Barbara Kingsolver and Louise Erdich.

Frequent Flyers Productions, Inc.
Boulder, CO
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the annual Aerial Dance Festival. The project will include classes, workshops, and performances.

International Tap Association (aka ITA)
Boulder, CO
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a publication and Web site development project. The project will include the publication of interviews and articles on the American art of tap in the magazine On Tap, and in two monographs.

Naropa University
Boulder, CO
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the development of curricula for high school and college classrooms utilizing recordings from the collections of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. Curricula and downloadable audiofiles will be made available on Naropa's Web site.

Sprinkle Art, Inc. (aka Kennedy Center Imagination Celebration)
Colorado Springs, CO
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Mariachi Connections Program. Workshops for young people and adults will be taught by mariachi professionals on the history, musical techniques, theory, and cultural relationship of mariachi music.

Western States Arts Federation
Denver, CO
$1,389,800
CATEGORY: Partnership  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Number of Grants: 11          Total Amount: $2,183,800

 
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