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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.

PENNSYLVANIA

Art Sanctuary
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the 2006-2007 Celebration of Black Writing. The year's programming will include a series of readings, performances, workshops, and discussions targeting African Americans.

Asian Arts Initiative
Philadelphia, PA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support the Youth Arts Workshop. Local artists will lead teenage youth in after-school and summer workshops and classes in theater, videography, mural painting, and public art.

Carnegie Mellon University (on behalf of Studio for Creative Inquiry)
Pittsburgh, PA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production and post-production costs for an animated work by James Duesing. End of Code is about two groups of animal/human hybrids trying to control the system of traffic lights in the city where the story takes place.

Civic Light Opera (aka Pittsburgh CLO)
Pittsburgh, PA
$16,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the tour of a musical and the Gallery of Heroes education and outreach program. Jason Coll's historical musical Steel will explore an immigrant man's efforts to improve his life through hard work and technology and the importance of the steel industry to the region.

Clay Studio (Consortium)
Philadelphia, PA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support a consortium project titled Exploring Ourselves and Our Culture. With Philadelphia Young Playwrights and Strings for Schools, Clay Studio will offer classes in clay, music, and theater in the context of cultures of the world for students in public schools.

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
Harrisburg, PA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support continuation of the Folk Arts Support Centers. The project will expand fieldwork in additional underserved regions of the state and develop statewide strategies that preserve and enhance the folk and traditional arts.

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
Harrisburg, PA
$778,500
CATEGORY: Partnership  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts
Philadelphia, PA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a postgraduate internship in paper conservation. The project will involve training in the treatment of works on paper such as drawings, prints, and watercolors as well as manuscripts, maps, photographs, parchment, and books.

COSACOSA art at large, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Healing Art Project. Professional artists will teach hospitalized individuals and other community members artistic techniques, resulting in the design and creation of permanent art projects for public spaces and neighborhood healthcare facilities.

Creative Access
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Deaf Performing Artists Extravaganza. Performances and educational activities will be presented for the deaf and hard-of-hearing culture.

Delaware Valley Philharmonic Orchestra, Inc. (aka DVPO)
Fairless Hills, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a Youth in the Arts Competition, an orchestral concert, and educational activities. Selected musical works submitted to the competition by students in the fourth through 12th grades will be chosen, then arranged for orchestra and performed in concert.

Elk County Council On The Arts (Consortium)
Ridgway, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the consortium project Enchanted Woodlins. With the Pennsylvania Lumber Heritage Region, the project will support the creation and installation of chainsaw carved sculptures at sites throughout the state.

Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council
Pittsburgh, PA
$33,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support activities of the Office of Public Art Project. Activities will include the development of a public art walking tour, a conservation assessment of municipal public art, development of a public art registry, and a related lecture series.

Institute for Cultural Partnerships
Harrisburg, PA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support workshops focused on the integration of refugee and immigrant artists into regional and national arts programming. Participants will be provided with useable tools to develop new, or to enhance ongoing, programs.

Lancaster Symphony Orchestra
Lancaster, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Sound Discovery, a music education program. The project involves five open rehearsals with Lido, an animated conductor's baton, that will be presented to students in grades five and above and Symphonic Concerts for Children, designed for students in the third through fifth grades.

Manchester Craftsmen's Guild (aka MCG Jazz)
Pittsburgh, PA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the presentation, touring, archival recording, and preservation of MCGJazz presentations. The 20th anniversary celebration will be co-curated by NEA Jazz Master Dr. Billy Taylor.

Mann Center for the Performing Arts (aka Mann Center)
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support expansion of Access the Arts. The series of educational and outreach activities will include the Young People's Concert Series, Connecting Arts-N-Schools, All-City Dance and Band Festivals, and the Complimentary Ticket Program.

National New Play Network, Ltd. (aka NNPN)
Philadelphia, PA
$13,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support The Continued Life of New Plays Fund, an initiative providing production stipends to theaters that commit to participate in the sequential production of new plays. The fund will support world premieres of new plays at theaters throughout the United States.

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Philadelphia, PA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the museum's efforts to improve its collections management system. The project involves acquiring software, hardware, and additional staff to make the collections more accessible.

Pennsylvania Public Radio Associates, Inc. (aka Echoes)
Chester Springs, PA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production of concerts and sound portraits for Echoes, a daily radio series of contemporary music. The series will serve a weekly audience of more than 300,000 listeners on 130 stations in 33 states and the Northern Mariana Islands.

Philadelphia Folklore Project
Philadelphia, PA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Folk Arts House program. The project will support technical assistance workshops for traditional artists, grassroots groups, and artist-run programs and will feature local artists presenting their work in small settings.

Philadelphia Mural Arts Advocates (aka Mural Arts Advocates)
Philadelphia, PA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support the Mural Arts Program. Activities will include the Big Picture after-school mural-making program for youths, ages 10 to 14, and Mural Corps for students, ages 14 to 21.

Philadelphia Orchestra Association (Consortium)
Philadelphia, PA
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Neighborhood Concerts, a consortium project. In partnership with the Cooper Health System, the orchestra will perform free concerts and ancillary activities targeted to underserved and nontraditional audiences in Philadelphia and Camden, New Jersey.

Philadelphia Print Collaborative (aka Philagrafika)
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support research and planning for (RE)PRINT: CONTEMPORARY ART PRACTICE AND THE PRINTED IMAGE. A citywide event to occur in fall 2007, the project will examine the ways in which printmaking has become a key tool for artists of every discipline and how this interaction has affected contemporary art and traditional notions of printmaking.

Philomel Concerts, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Imagination Workshops, Kids' Concerts, and Concerts & Conversations. The educational outreach programs and family concerts will provide access to and build long-term audiences for early music.

Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre, Inc. (aka PICT)
Pittsburgh, PA
$12,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support Beckett Fest, a festival of works by legendary Irish playwright Samuel Beckett. The centerpiece of the festival will be a full production of Endgame, directed by acclaimed Polish director Tadeusz Bradecki.

Pittsburgh Symphony Society (aka Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra)
Pittsburgh, PA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a community concert featuring the premiere of Pastime, a new work by composer Richard Danielpour based on the poetry of Michael Harper. The work chronicles the lives of three African American baseball players from the past, and the performance in Heinz Hall will coincide with Major League Baseball's All-Star Game festivities in Pittsburgh.

Scribe Video Center, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support workshop programs and related activities. Scribe Video Center is a community-based media arts center that provides students and artists with the tools and skills necessary to produce video art works.

Settlement Music School of Philadelphia (aka Settlement Music School)
Philadelphia, PA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support the Advanced Study Program. The tuition-free program provides students with pre-professional music training through individual study classes, collaborative efforts with professional musicians and composers, and performance opportunities.

Strings for Schools, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$23,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support expansion of the Immersion in Latino Music and Culture artist residencies in public schools. The Philadelphia School District will help identify schools in predominantly Latino areas of North Philadelphia to serve as hosts for the artist residencies.

Taller Puertorriqueno, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Collaborations: Bridging the Arts. The series will celebrate the intersection between visual arts, literature, and music.

Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA
$11,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the New Play Festival. A steering committee of artistic leaders from the Philadelphia area will meet to plan, promote, and implement a two-week festival of new works.

Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Philadelphia Presenting Project. Local performing artists and arts organizations will create new work as well as receive technical, marketing, and production assistance.

Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (on behalf of WPXN-FM)
Philadelphia, PA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production and national distribution of the public radio series World Cafe. A contemporary music and interview program hosted by David Dye, the program reaches more than 600,000 listeners each week

Village of Arts and Humanities, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support Learning Through the Arts. The program will offer teenagers a range of after-school, weekend, and summer activities, including workshops in public art and mural painting, a hip-hop festival, and multi-media exhibitions that celebrate life in North Philadelphia neighborhoods.

Walnut Street Theatre Corporation
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support an education and outreach program. The outreach program will supplement school curricula with artistic programming that is relevant to students' lives with a goal of building future audiences.

Westmoreland Museum of American Art
Greensburg, PA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the reinstallation of the Valley of Work: Scenes of Industry collection in the Barclay Gallery, which will be renovated in summer 2006. The art collection depicts Pittsburgh during the height of the Big Steel Era (1875-1980).

WHYY, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$65,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production and national broadcast of the radio series Fresh Air with Terry Gross. The award-winning daily journal of contemporary arts, culture, and issues is broadcast on 468 NPR stations and heard by 4.75 million people each week.


Number of Grants: 38          Total Amount: $1,596,500

 
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