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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.

MARYLAND

Cambodian-American Heritage, Inc.
Fort Washington, MD
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support instruction in Cambodian music and Cambodian classical and folk dances. The project will culminate with a concert in observance of the Cambodian New Year.

Dance Exchange, Inc. (aka Liz Lerman Dance Exchange)
Takoma Park, MD
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a project that uses the Internet to disseminate information on choreographing dances based on the international human rights movement. A conference and institute will launch the project.

Heifetz International Music Institute, Inc.
Ellicott City, MD
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support community outreach lectures and performances by professional musicians. Activities will take place at a children's center, retirement homes, and churches during the summer institute held in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire.

Howard County Arts Council, Inc.
Ellicott City, MD
$21,500
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support Head StART in ART. Local professional artists who have experience teaching pre-kindergarten-age children will collaborate with teachers in the Ellicott City Head Start Center to teach year-round, age-appropriate lessons in visual and performing arts.

Latin American Folk Institute
Mt. Rainier, MD
$15,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production of a radio series on the history of Latin Jazz. Rhythms from the Heart will chronicle this musical genre from its early incarnations in New Orleans, through the Bebop and Mambo eras in 1950s New York, to its popularity today.

Magical Experiences Arts Company (aka MEAC)
Baltimore, MD
$8,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support theater workshops and performances for children and adolescents with severe disabilities. The Mask Project, the presentation of original plays by Artistic Director Joanne Margolius, will tour to Maryland schools providing interactive workshops for students residing at the United Cerebral Palsy School and the Maryland School for the Blind in Baltimore.

Maryland Institute College of Art
Baltimore, MD
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support Super Pride Studio. Working with East Baltimore communitiy organizations and Maryland Institute College of Art students, artists will create projects that help the organizations creatively achieve their social service goals.

Maryland State Arts Council
Baltimore, MD
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the sixth year of Maryland Traditions. Activities will include support of folklorist positions at Frostburg State University and the Ward Museum of Wildfowl Art at Salisbury University.

Maryland State Arts Council
Baltimore, MD
$614,300
CATEGORY: Partnership  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Maryland State Boychoir, Inc.
Baltimore, MD
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support an East Coast regional tour. The chorus will perform concerts in New York, Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont.

Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, Inc.
Baltimore, MD
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To suppport the Mid Atlantic Outreach Program. The program is designed to strengthen the region's folk and traditional arts infrastructure through a series of residencies that includes the traveling of folklorists and traditional artists from their home locations to mid-Atlantic hosts sites or jurisdictions.

Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, Inc.
Baltimore, MD
$1,242,200
CATEGORY: Partnership  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Pyramid Atlantic, Inc. (aka Pyramid Atlantic Art Center)
Silver Spring, MD
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support Page As Stage. Through the artist residency program in printmaking, artists will be invited to work for two weeks in the studio, interacting with teachers and youth.

Quest:arts for everyone, Inc. (aka Quest)
Lanham, MD
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Wings Company Training Initiative. The project includes the development and production of theater works by deaf and hard-of-hearing performers.

Society of Kunqu Arts, Inc.
Silver Spring, MD
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support a series of lecture-demonstrations, workshops, and performances. The project will present and preserve the performing art of Kunqu, the oldest form of Chinese opera.

Station Resource Group, Inc.
Takoma Park, MD
$10,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support Public Radio Exchange's Documentaries on Demand project. Through a curated online repository, independently produced arts-focused radio programs will be made available to public radio stations across the country.

TLC-Treatment and Learning Centers, Inc.
Rockville, MD
$10,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support weekly music, movement, drama, and visual arts classes. Based in Orff Schulwerk Education Theory, the instruction will be targeted towards elementary and middle school students with moderate to severe language-learning disabilities.

Ward Foundation, Inc. (aka Ward Museum of Wildfowl Art)
Salisbury, MD
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support instruction in the skills of decoy carving. Resulting work will be judged at the Chesapeake Wildfowl Expo, the Ward Museum's fall waterfowling event.


Number of Grants: 18          Total Amount: $2,071,000

 
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