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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.

CONNECTICUT

Artists Collective, Inc.
Hartford, CT
$35,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support after-school and weekend classes in music and dance led by professional artists, serving youth ages 4 to 18 in greater Hartford. Students will receive sequential instruction in African, Afro-Cuban, jazz and modern dance, tap, and ballet, as well as jazz and steel pan music.

Connecticut Commission on Culture & Tourism
Hartford, CT
$649,700
CATEGORY: Partnership  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Connecticut Historical Society (aka Connecticut Historial Society Museum)
Hartford, CT
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the preparation of a manuscript for a catalogue of the collection of American decorative needlework dating from 1740 to 1840. The collection includes pictures, samplers, household furnishings, costumes, and personal accessories.

Connecticut Public Broadcasting, Inc.
Hartford, CT
$40,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production of public television series on music for young children. A series of 13 half-hour programs, Lomax, the Hound of Music will draw on America's rich and diverse tradition of roots music to help pre-school and early elementary school children develop their musical ability.

Eugene O'Neill Theater Center, Inc. (aka O'Neill Center)
Waterford, CT
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the National Playwrights Conference and the National Music Theater Conference. The project will include the creation and development of new plays and musical theater works.

Hartford Jazz Society, Inc.
Bloomfield, CT
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support jazz concerts and related educational activities. Tenor saxophonist and NEA Jazz Master Wayne Shorter and blues artist Shemekia Copeland will perform in separate concerts and give master classes at an area high school and conservatory.

Hartford Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Hartford, CT
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a Martin Luther King Celebration concert and school and community concerts. Plans include the eighth annual I Have a Dream concert, school performances, outreach performances in community organizations, and concerts featuring performances and compositions by African American and Latino artists.

Hartley Film Foundation
Westport, CT
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support post-production costs for a documentary film by Jennifer Maytorena Taylor. The New Muslim Cool will follow four artists creating a Muslim hip-hop music label.

Hill-Stead Museum
Farmington, CT
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival, featuring summer readings and workshops. Scheduled poets include Jane Hirshfield, Jim Daniels, Li-Young Lee, and Norah Pollard.

Institute for Community Research, Inc.
Hartford, CT
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Cultural Heritage Arts Program. The program will consist of the development of a Web site and brochure designed to reach a wider audience, providing information about traditional artists and communities across the state.

Institute for Community Research, Inc. (aka ICR)
Hartford, CT
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Southern New England Apprenticeship Program. The project brings together master artists and apprentices from Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.

Josef Albers Foundation, Inc. (aka Josef and Anni Albers Foundation)
Bethany, CT
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the Art Collection Cataloguing and Preservation Project. The project will greatly broaden the foundation's art history and arts education services to the public and to artists, scholars, students, educators, and curators.

Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts
Old Lyme, CT
$40,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support the ArtReach visual arts education program. Scholarships will be made available to underserved children to strengthen their pre-college portfolio, enhancing their competitiveness in college applications.

Mark Twain House (aka Mark Twain House & Museum)
Hartford, CT
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support conservation treatment of paintings and works on paper in the permanent collection. The works are important pieces in the museum's fine arts collection and have been determined by professional art conservators to be in immediate, urgent need of treatment.

Music and Arts Center for Humanity, Inc. (aka MACH)
Bridgeport, CT
$25,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support the Cultural Alternatives Division. Artists will be hired to provide comprehensive and sequential interdisciplinary, pre-school, in-school, after-school, and summer programming for special needs children and youth.


Number of Grants: 15          Total Amount: $974,700

 
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