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.

TENNESSEE

Allied Arts of Greater Chattanooga
Chattanooga, TN
$15,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support Book it! Project consultant Claudia Cornett will offer professional development courses in literature curricula for 3rd- and 4th-grade teachers leading to classroom residencies by theater and dance artists.

Arts Center of Cannon County
Woodbury, TN
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support a CD and exhibition showcasing the ethnographic studies of musicologist Dr. John Wesley Work, III. Work documented the changing rural culture of the Mississippi Delta before World War II and produced significant recordings of African American music from the era.

Beale Street Caravan, Inc.
Memphis, TN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production and national broadcast of the public radio series Beale Street Caravan. Weekly, one-hour programs featuring performances by blues artists will be broadcast on more than 330 public, community, and college radio stations nationwide.

Center for Southern Folklore
Memphis, TN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support preservation of the Multimedia Archives. Core activities will include indexing the Center's library of recordings, interviews, and performances, and transferring to digital format all of the 16-mm film footage, audio discs, and photographs contained in the Reverend L.O. Taylor Collection.

Humanities Tennessee
Nashville, TN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support The Southern Festival of Books: A Celebration of the Written Word in 2006. With an annual audience of 30,000, the free, three-day festival in downtown Memphis will feature readings and panel sessions by more than 200 authors.

Kingsport Ballet (Consortium)
Kingsport, TN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support a consortium project titled DANCE CO (Developing Artists and Nurturing Cultural Education through Community Outreach). The project will provide classical ballet instruction to children, ages six to 12, from underserved schools and the Boys and Girls Club of Kingsport.

Knoxville Opera Company (aka Knoxville Opera)
Knoxville, TN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Mainly Mozart Music Festival. In celebration of Mozart's 250th birthday, the festival will feature performances of symphonic, chamber, opera, vocal, and choral works.

Nashville Public Radio (aka WPLN 90.3 FM)
Nashville, TN
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Live in Studio C, a weekly live radio broadcast of performances and interviews with Nashville area musicians. The locally produced program will feature classical, jazz, and alternative music.

Nashville Symphony Association
Nashville, TN
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support outreach concerts in rural areas of Tennessee and Alabama. In partnership with local community organizations, the orchestra will tour to diverse and underserved communities.

Pi Beta Phi Settlement School (aka Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts)
Gatlinburg, TN
$8,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the second phase of a comprehensive, online, digital archive of Arrowmont's permanent collection. The school's collection of more than 1,000 objects acquired over the past 90 years represents a variety of craft traditions.

Tennessee Arts Commission
Nashville, TN
$609,700
CATEGORY: Partnership  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Number of Grants: 11          Total Amount: $732,700

 
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