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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.

GEORGIA

Alternate ROOTS, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Tour and Residency Program. The multi-state project will provide services that will enable geographically isolated artists and presenters to reach broader audiences, share information, and develop new work.

Alternate ROOTS, Inc. (Consortium)
Atlanta, GA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support a consortium project for the 30th Annual Meeting. The Center for Digital Storytelling in Berkeley, California, will provide training for conference participants in the techniques of documenting artists' work through digital video.

Arts Clayton, Inc.
Jonesboro, GA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support a mural project as part of the City Jonesboro's downtown revitalization efforts. Muralist Cheryl Mann Hardin will be hired to develop and document design standards for a series of murals and conduct master classes for a network of artists who will assist her in the creation of the proposed mural series.

Atlanta Ballet, Inc. (Consortium)
Atlanta, GA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support a consortium project, Centre Dance. In partnership with the Fulton County Board of Education, Atlanta Ballet will provide in-school and after-school dance training to underserved African American students in three schools.

Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the Studio Program. Participating artists will be provided with access to studio space at subsidized rates.

Atlanta Opera
Atlanta, GA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support opera programs in partnership with the City of Atlanta's Bureau of Cultural Affairs and Atlanta City Public Schools. Pre-concert teaching materials and in-class workshops will prepare teachers and their students for matinee performances of Rossini's Barber of Seville or Gounod's Romeo and Juliet.

Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support The Studio, an after-school visual arts program for inner-city teens. The project includes mixed-media workshops leading to a final exhibition in the Youth Art Connection Gallery.

Dad's Garage, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support performance and training opportunities for professional improvisational ensemble companies and continued training and teaching opportunities for the Dad's Garage ensemble. The project will foster relationships among international and American ensemble companies and allow the theater to diversify its local audience.

Fulton County Arts Council
Atlanta, GA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the 2006 South African Partnership. Activities in cooperation with South Africa's Caversham Centre for Artists and Writers will include producing a catalogue of works from the Council's Caversham Fellows and their South African peers, publishing an anthology, mounting a visual arts exhibition, and hosting artist residencies.

Georgia Council for the Arts
Atlanta, GA
$659,400
CATEGORY: Partnership  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Georgia Shakespeare Festival, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$18,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the adaptation, development, and production of a Shakespeare play. Othello will be given a new adaptation by the project's two key creative collaborators, director Kent Gash and actor Brandon Dirden.

Georgia Tech Research Corporation
Atlanta, GA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support an exhibition about innovative tourist sites in Florida. Using large format photography, murals of the sites will be assembled into an interpretive exhibition.

Phoenix Theatre Academy, Inc. (aka Academy Theatre)
Avondale Estates, GA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a tour of original, curriculum-based, issue-oriented plays, and drama workshops to schools throughout metropolitan Atlanta and the Southeast. The plays will be created and performed by the Academy Theatre for Youth Tour Team in consultation with educators, psychologists, parents, and students.

Robert W. Woodruff Arts Center, Inc. (on behalf of Atlanta Symphony Orchestra)
Atlanta, GA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support ASO Around Georgia, a community partnership initiative. The tour will include performances and outreach activities as a means to cultivate meaningful partnerships between the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and communities across the state.

Savannah Music Festival, Inc. (Consortium)
Savannah, GA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Southeastern High School Jazz Band Workshop, a consortium project with the Georgia Music Educators Association. High school jazz bands from Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, and North Carolina will participate in the two-day workshop.

Southern Arts Federation, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$1,221,500
CATEGORY: Partnership  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Southern Arts Federation, Inc. (aka SAF)
Atlanta, GA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support an exhibition titled Rhythm & Roots, Southern Music Traditions. The exhibition will appear as part of Southern Arts Federation's Southern Visions touring exhibition program and will feature indigenous immigrant music traditions.

UNIMA-USA
Atlanta, GA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the publication and distribution of Puppetry International Magazine and the Puppetry Yellow Pages. The project also will include the expansion of Web site services that promote the interests and international visibility of American puppeteers.


Number of Grants: 18          Total Amount: $2,173,900

 
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