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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.

NEW MEXICO

City of Santa Fe, New Mexico (aka City of Santa Fe Arts Commission)
Santa Fe, NM
$55,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support ArtWorks. Based on the Lincoln Center Institute's model of Aesthetic Education, a summer professional development institute on art in education will be offered to elementary school teachers, school staff, and teaching artists, resulting in lesson plans and a curriculum that will be implemented during the school year.

City of Santa Fe, New Mexico (aka City of Santa Fe Arts Commission) (on behalf of Arts Commission) (Consortium)
Santa Fe, NM
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the consortium project Cultural Voices. In partnership with the Museum of International Folk Art, Cultural Voices will showcase Santa Fe's diverse artistic and cultural resources.

Cornerstones Community Partnerships
Santa Fe, NM
$32,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support workshops focused on the preservation and conservation of historic adobe structures. The project will train rural community residents in traditional building methods.

Espanola Public School District
Espanola, NM
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the Cultural Heritage Videos project. Teenagers will work with a video artist to produce short works on various artists in their region. The students will shoot the footage, conduct interviews, write a script, and edit each documentary.

Fine Arts for Children and Teens, Inc. (aka FACT)
Santa Fe, NM
$30,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support in-depth, visual arts education programs. Components will include ARTreach, an integrated in-school program for students; ARTclub, an after-school arts learning program; ARTbarn, a community-based, year-long program held at FACT's Community Studio; ARTcamp, a summer arts camp; and professional development workshops for teachers.

Fund for Folk Culture
Santa Fe, NM
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support a conference of folk arts professionals and practitioners. The conference will assess the state of the fields in which folklorists most commonly work: museums, state and regional arts agencies, nonprofit/multidisciplinary cultural organizations, universities, and libraries.

Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Albuquerque, NM
$15,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production of a series of public radio programs highlighting the early careers and cultural significance of major innovators in popular music. The Emergence of . . . will consist of nine, two-hour programs, each devoted to a single artist.

Lore of the Land, Inc.
Silver City, NM
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Indigenous Aural Folklorist Project. The project will establish sound archives, ensure community access, and facilitate the community's self-determination about how its traditions and intellectual property rights should be conserved and transmitted.

Los Reyes de Albuquerque Foundation
Albuquerque, NM
$17,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support and perpetuate Nuevomexicano folk traditions and to present performances of the Entriega de los Novios. Nuevomexicano presentations will be held at senior and nursing centers, adult day-care centers, and meal sites for the homeless; while the Entriega de los Novios will be presented at middle and high schools.

Moving People Dance Theatre, Inc.
Santa Fe, NM
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the Santa Fe Dance Festival. The project will include performances and dance training.

National Dance Institute New Mexico
Santa Fe, NM
$20,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support the North Program. Underserved children in the 3rd and 4th grades from schools in rural, northern New Mexico will receive weekly, in-school dance classes and an opportunity to perform in an original dance production.

New Mexico Arts
Santa Fe, NM
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support continuation of the Apprenticeship Program and Community Fieldworker Network. Practitioners for the apprenticeship program are sought in the course of fieldwork with the assistance of trained lay folklorists participating in the Community Fieldworker Network program.

New Mexico Arts
Santa Fe, NM
$547,700
CATEGORY: Partnership  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Santa Fe New Music, Inc.
Santa Fe, NM
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Music and Water, the second biannual international festival of new music. The project will include the premiere of Tsunami Requiem by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Henry Brant.

Spanish Colonial Arts Society, Inc.
Santa Fe, NM
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the expansion of learning projects in traditional Hispano art forms for underserved communities in New Mexico. The project's objective is to encourage the revival of, and continuation of, endangered Hispano art forms and practices.

Tricklock Company
Albuquerque, NM
$18,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Revolutions International Theatre Festival. The festival will feature companies and artists in performances, lectures, discussions, and workshops on international theatrical and cultural traditions.

Working Classroom, Inc.
Albuquerque, NM
$30,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support introductory, intermediate, and advanced workshops and classes in a range of arts, including theater, film, video, and visual arts for culturally diverse youth, ages 12 to 18. Students will learn to draw, paint, work with mixed media, and perform plays.


Number of Grants: 17          Total Amount: $890,200

 
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