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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.

MASSACHUSETTS

Amherst College (on behalf of Folger Shakespeare Library)
Amherst, MA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production of a radio series on the influence of William Shakespeare's works in the United States. Consisting of three one-hour documentaries, Shakespeare in American Life will be produced by Richard Paul and distributed by Public Radio International.

Arts Boston, Inc. (aka ArtsBoston)
Boston, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support SmartMarketing Services. A range of technical assistance programs will serve to enhance the marketing capacity of Boston performing arts companies through such resources as cooperative print advertising discounts, shared mailing lists, and professional development workshops.

Atlantic Public Media
Woods Hole, MA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support Transom.org. The project encourages both emerging and experienced independent audio producers to tell their stories on public radio. The Web site acts as a showcase, workshop, audition space, library, and master class for producers.

Atlantic Public Media (aka APM)
Woods Hole, MA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production of a radio series showcasing the creative work of new and established radio producers. The Transom Radio Hour will offer national audiences a series of programs based on material from the Peabody Award-winning Web site Transom.org.

Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Inc. (aka BMOP)
Roslindale, MA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support compact disc recordings of works by American composers Derek Bermel, George Rochberg, Elliott Schwartz, and Mathew Rosenblum. Each recording will be either a premier release or a new release of an out-of-print recording.

City of Somerville (aka Somerville Arts Council) (on behalf of Somerville Arts Council)
Somerville, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support fieldwork within Portuguese and Brazilian communities. Fieldwork will result in a booklet titled Traditional Arts of Somerville's Brazilian and Portuguese Communities and will provide context for a culminating festival.

City Stage Company (aka City Stage)
Boston, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support artist residencies in the theater arts. Professional artists will work at one elementary school and one high school to lead students in the rehearsal and performance of classic works of literature.

Education Development Center, Inc.
Newton, MA
$75,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support SmART Schools. Arts instructors will be hired to collaborate with teams of classroom teachers to implement school-wide arts-infused curriculum in schools throughout Vermont.

From the Top, Inc.
Boston, MA
$60,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production of the public radio series From the Top. The weekly, hour-long radio program features performances by young classical musicians (ages eight to 18), interviews, and guest artists.

Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras (aka GBYSO)
Boston, MA
$45,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support the Incentive Community Program. Components of the project include weekly music lessons, ensemble classes, and instrument rental for inner-city and minority youth.

Institute of Contemporary Art (aka ICA)
Boston, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Family Matinees and Teen Nights at a new museum facility on Boston's Fan Pier. Community members will attend performances, exhibitions, and films, and will participate in hands-on activities.

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Inc.
Boston, MA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support costs associated with making the museum's collection available over the Internet. The collection of 3,200 objects, spanning 30 centuries and many cultures, includes some of the nation's preeminent examples of Italian Renaissance and American 19th-century paintings.

Lowell Festival Foundation
Lowell, MA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support fieldwork in new and underserved ethnic communities in New England. Fieldwork will lead to the creation of a culturally diverse database of artists and artisans from which to draw for presentation at the annual Lowell Folk Festival.

Massachusetts Cultural Council
Boston, MA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support continuation of the Folk Arts and Heritage Program. Core activities include artists grants and traditional arts apprenticeships, Web site development, and an exhibition and catalog titled Keepers of Traditions: Folk Arts in Massachusetts.

Massachusetts Cultural Council
Boston, MA
$707,900
CATEGORY: Partnership  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

New Bedford Symphony Orchestra Association, Inc. (aka NBSO)
New Bedford, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a performance and recording project, Voices from the Gallery, by American composer Stephen Paulus. The project will complete the trilogy of his works recorded by the orchestra for release on Albany Records.

New England Foundation for the Arts
Boston, MA
$907,200
CATEGORY: Partnership  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

North Shore Community Arts Foundation, Inc. (aka North Shore Music Theatre)
Beverly, MA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the production of a revised musical adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' 1844 novel, The Three Musketeers. The project includes music by George Stiles, lyrics by Paul Leigh, and book by Peter Raby.

Northampton Arts Council
Northampton, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support a series of musical presentations exploring Puerto Rican mountain music. Guest artists from Puerto Rico, Ecos de Borinquen and Grupo Mapeye, and local artist Jose Gonzales will perform and present workshops on this art form known as the jibaro that was created by Puerto Rican rural sharecroppers.

Northeast Document Conservation Center
Andover, MA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a one-year internship in paper conservation. The intern will also be trained to provide technical assistance in collections care to smaller museums in the region.

Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston, Inc. (aka Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra)
Cambridge, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support community outreach concerts. The performances will reach underserved audiences as well as low-income, inner city youth, and immigrant populations.

Project STEP, Inc.
Boston, MA
$24,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support the String Training and Educational Program. The project will prepare gifted African American and Latino children, ages 6 to 18, for careers in classical music as soloists, teachers, and orchestra members.

Revolving Museum, Inc.
Lowell, MA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support Pulling Strings: Traditional and Contemporary Puppetry, with accompanying brochure. The project serves to both highlight puppetry's roots and the role it can play in raising awareness of contemporary social issues.

Shakespeare & Company, Inc.
Lenox, MA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support Shakespeare in Action, a theater arts residency program. The series of classroom and after-school sessions will focus on a language-based exploration of a Shakespeare play through master classes, rehearsals, text analysis, and student performances.

Trustees of Boston College (on behalf of McMullen Museum of Art)
Chestnut Hill, MA
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the traveling exhibition Cosmophilia: Islamic Art from the David Collection, Copenhagen, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will also be presented at the Smart Museum at the University of Chicago.

University of Massachusetts at Amherst (on behalf of Fine Arts Center / University Gallery)
Amherst, MA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support restoration of George Trakas's Isle of View. The outdoor site-specific sculpture, commissioned by the University Gallery in 1981, is located on a pond in the center of campus.

University of Massachusetts at Amherst (on behalf of New World Theater)
Amherst, MA
$80,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support Project 2050. The cross-cultural theater project is designed to prepare youth from diverse racial, ethnic, and economic backgrounds for the shifts in demographics expected by the year 2050.

VSA arts of Massachusetts (aka Very Special Arts)
Boston, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the touring of JazzArtSigns, a multidisciplinary performance utilizing universal design concepts. A community residency in each city on the tour will create the infrastructure necessary to support creation of work and audience development.

Wang Center for the Performing Arts, Inc.
Boston, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support productions of Shakespeare plays by the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company (CSC). The project will feature free, outdoor performances presented on Boston Common of Taming of the Shrew, and an urban neighborhood touring production of Comedy of Errors performed by the CSC Apprentice Company.

WGBH Educational Foundation
Boston, MA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production and distribution of short video segments of poetry to public television stations across the country. The Poem initiative is designed to make poetry available to the public on a regular basis during hourly station breaks between PBS programs.

WGBH Educational Foundation
Boston, MA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production of From the Top for Television. Intended for national broadcast, the 13 half-hour programs will celebrate young classical musicians whose passion and talent for music is exceptional.

Williamstown Theatre Foundation, Inc. (aka Williamstown Theatre Festival)
Williamstown, MA
$12,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support Community Programs designed to include the local Williamstown community in the Festival's annual operations. The project will include Free Theatre, the Greylock Theatre Project, and Kids' Night.

Worcester Center for Crafts, Inc.
Worcester, MA
$18,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support the Teen Apprentice Program and CraftReach. The projects will engage urban elementary school students and underserved high school students in hands-on arts workshops.

Young at Heart Chorus, Incorporated (aka Young at Heart Chorus)
Northampton, MA
$28,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the development and production of an original musical to tour with other repertory productions. Road Race, staged by director Roy Faudree and performed by the chorus, will join repertory works Road to Heaven and Road to Nowhere for performances in Northampton and Springfield, Massachusetts.


Number of Grants: 34          Total Amount: $2,487,100

 
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