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FY 2007 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access to Artistic Excellence II/American Masterpieces/
Arts on Radio and Television/Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth/Partnership Agreements/Summer Schools in the Arts

Some details of the projects listed in this grant announcement are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

NORTH CAROLINA

Alleghany County Schools
Sparta, NC
$15,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support Junior Appalachian Musicians (JAM). The program will include after-school instruction in Appalachian traditional folk music and dance for students in third through eighth grades; a performance at a day-long summer gathering; interactive Web site pedagogical forums for artists, teachers, and administrators; and publication of teaching resources in Old Time Herald, a folk music quarterly magazine.

Allegro Foundation
Charlotte, NC
$12,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support dance classes targeted for children with physical and learning disabilities. Working with Charlotte-Mecklenburg public schools, the foundation will provide weekly dance instruction by specially trained peer tutors.

Charlotte Symphony Orchestra Society, Inc. (aka Charlotte Symphony)
Charlotte, NC
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a tour of The Mill Village: A Piedmont Rhapsody and related educational activities. Created by local composer David Crowe, the multimedia work uses photography, video, live narration, and symphonic music to tell the story of the social and economic transitions that occurred in mill communities of the Carolina Piedmont.

Cultural Education Collaborative, Inc. (aka ArtsTeach)
Charlotte, NC
$40,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support ArtStart. Teachers and teaching artists will collaborate to integrate arts into the curriculum for third and fourth graders.

Greenville Choral Society & New Carolina Sinfonia
Greenville, NC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Rising Voices in the East: Music Reaching New and Diverse Audiences. Concerts will take place for economically disadvantaged seniors and youth in rural communities.

Mint Museum of Art, Inc. (aka Mint Museums)
Charlotte, NC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the publication of a catalogue of the works of British-born American artist, illustrator, and author Clare Veronica Hope Leighton (1898-1989). The catalogue will correspond with an exhibition of a significant collection of Leighton's works recently donated to the Mint.

North Carolina Arts Council
Raleigh, NC
$733,300
CATEGORY: Partnership  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

North Carolina Folklife Institute (Consortium)
Durham, NC
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Community Folklife Documentation Institute. A partnership with the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, the project will provide training in the documentation and presentation of local and regional folklife traditions for community organizations, arts councils, and institutions.

North Carolina Museum of Art Foundation, Inc. (aka NCMA)
Raleigh, NC
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support The Art of Collaboration, an arts education initiative. The museum will collaborate with two middle schools to design innovative teacher training and curriculum planning tools to promote integrated instruction of the North Carolina Standard Course of Study.

Opera Carolina
Charlotte, NC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support Music!Words!Opera! Professional artists and technicians will work with students in the classroom to write and produce an original opera.

Penland School of Crafts, Inc.
Penland, NC
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the Teaching Artist Initiative. The program's several components are designed to address inadequate arts instruction in rural western North Carolina.

Southern Appalachian Repertory Theatre
Mars Hill, NC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the production of a new musical theater work celebrating Appalachian music and culture. Minstrel of the Appalachians is a musical biography of historian and archivist of traditional music Bascom Lamar Lunsford with script by playwright Randy Noojin.


Number of Grants: 12          Total Amount: $940,300

 
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