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.

PENNSYLVANIA

Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture
Philadelphia, PA
$18,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support Arabic Rhythms: A Percussion Instruction and Music Appreciation Program. Professional musicians will offer weekly group instruction, individual apprenticeships, rehearsals for public performances, and master classes in Arabic percussion to advanced students (ages 8-15) who also will participate with their teachers in weekend outreach workshops for peer-age audiences.

American Music Theater Festival, Inc. (aka Prince Music Theater)
Philadelphia, PA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the remounting, production, and tour of a contemporary musical with accompanying outreach activities. Rajendra Ramoon Maharaj will direct FROM THA HIP, a new work that fuses hip-hop, music, and text by creator/choreographer Clyde Evans and playwright/musician Albert Innaurato.

Arden Theatre Company
Philadelphia, PA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support a production of Leonard Bernstein's Candide with accompanying educational and outreach activities. Originally adapted by Hugh Wheeler from Voltaire's 1759 novel, a new musical version, with book by John Daird, lyrics by Richard Wilbur, and additional lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, John Latouche, Lillian Hellman, Dorothy Parker, and Leonard Bernstein, will be directed by producing artistic director Terence J. Nolen.

Art Sanctuary
Philadelphia, PA
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support outreach programs associated with the year-long Celebration of Black Writing. Events will include readings, performances, workshops, and discussions targeting African Americans.

Art Sanctuary (Consortium)
Philadelphia, PA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by composer Hannibal Lokumbe and residency activities. A three-month residency by Lokumbe will take place at the partnering organization, the Center for Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

Asian Americans United, Inc. (Consortium)
Philadelphia, PA
$18,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support the Folk Arts Education Program. In partnership with the Philadelphia Chinese Opera Society, the organization will develop arts-integrated curricula for kindergarten through eighth-grade students enrolled in the Folk Arts Cultural Treasures School (FACTS); provide professional development for teachers and artists; and engage artists for in- and after-school residencies.

Associated Artists of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support exhibitions at the Carnegie Museum of Art. The Associated Artists of Pittsburgh's (AAP) annual juried show will open simultaneously with a historic survey of prominent artists who were once members.

August Wilson Center for African American Culture
Pittsburgh, PA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the presentation of a series of new works by prominent African American artists. Residency activities, workshops, and audience talkbacks will complement the performances.

Carnegie Institute (on behalf of Andy Warhol Museum)
Pittsburgh, PA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the conservation treatment of American artist Andy Warhol's (1928-87) magnetic media collection. The video- and audiotapes are the Andy Warhol Museum's highest conservation priority due to the unstable nature of the material and the specialized expertise required to care for it.

Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support Arts Greenhouse. Poets, actors, musicians, and audio technologists from the community and Carnegie Mellon Center for the Arts in Society will give workshops in contemporary urban performing arts.

Carnegie Mellon University (Consortium)
Pittsburgh, PA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support Architecture Building Communities. Designed and implemented in partnership with Bloomfield-Garfield Corporation (a community-based nonprofit), the program offers high school students from three urban Pittsburgh neighborhoods the opportunity to study architecture and local history as well as to design projects for vacant lots in their communities.

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
Harrisburg, PA
$789,700
CATEGORY: Partnership  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Congreso De Latinos Unidos, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support the Youth Artist Program. Low-income high school students will be targeted to participate in the development and creation of original films based on their life experiences.

Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts (aka CCAHA)
Philadelphia, PA
$15,000
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
$17,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Common Good Project. Professional artists will teach hospitalized individuals and other community members artistic techniques, resulting in the design and creation of permanent public art projects for public spaces and neighborhood healthcare facilities.

CultureWorks, Ltd.
Philadelphia, PA
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the first phase of production for a documentary radio series on the work of William Shakespeare. Planned as 13 one-hour programs, Radio Shakespeare: His Work, His World, & Ours will be produced by Steve Rowland and written by Larry Abrams, with sound design by Tom Lopez.

Friends of the Japanese House and Garden
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support conservation of the Japanese House in Philadelphia's Fairmount Park. The house is the only authentic Japanese structure situated in a Japanese garden in America.

Fulton Opera House Foundation (aka Fulton Theatre)
Lancaster, PA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support Youtheatre. During a five-week summer program, professional actors, musicians, choreographers, and stage designers will teach a team of youth, ages 13 to 19, key elements of theater which will result in the creation and perfromance of a new musical based on themes from their own lives.

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 adults and 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, archival recording, and preservation of MCG Jazz presentations. The 21st annual programming will include NEA Jazz Masters Wayne Shorter, McCoy Tyner, and Chick Corea.

Mann Center for the Performing Arts (aka Mann Center)
Philadelphia, PA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Access the Arts, a series of educational and outreach activities for youth. 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.
Philadelphia, PA
$12,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support The Continued Life of New Plays Fund. The project is an initiative providing production stipends to theaters that commit to participate in the sequential production of new plays.

Olive Dance Theatre, Inc. (aka Olive Dance Theatre)
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a new evening-length work, Brotherly Love. The work will premiere at the Painted Bride Art Center and will tour to underserved regions and communities.

Pennsylvania Public Radio Associates, Inc.
Chester Springs, PA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production of concerts and special features for Echoes, a daily radio series of contemporary music. Distributed by Public Radio International, the series will serve a weekly audience of more than 300,000 listeners on 130 stations in 33 states and the Northern Mariana Islands.

Pennsylvania Public Radio Associates, Inc. (aka Echoes)
Chester Springs, PA
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the restoration of a contemporary music concert archive. Originally recorded and produced for Echoes, a daily program in the 1980s, the restored archives will be broadcast on public radio and other distribution media.

Philadelphia Folklore Project
Philadelphia, PA
$30,000
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
Philadelphia, PA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support the Mural Arts Program (MAP). Activities will include the Big Picture after-school mural-making program for youth, ages 10 to 14, and Mural Corps for students, ages 14 to 21.

Philadelphia Orchestra Association (Consortium)
Philadelphia, PA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Neighborhood Concerts. In partnership with the Cooper Health System, the orchestra will perform free concerts with educational activities targeted to non-traditional and underserved audiences in Philadelphia and Camden, New Jersey.

Philadelphia Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support outreach concerts for underserved communities in the Delaware Valley. The orchestra will perform concerts in community centers in Philadelphia and Chester, Pennsylvania, and Trenton, New Jersey.

Philadelphia Young Playwrights Program, Inc. (Consortium)
Philadelphia, PA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the professional production of original student work from the Young Playwrights' Annual Playwriting Festival. The company will partner with Philadelphia Theatre Company to give the student plays fully mounted professional productions.

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 Filmmakers Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the training in and access to high definition video equipment. Pittsburgh Filmmakers will purchase high definition cameras, video cassette recorders, and monitors to offer these services to its constituents.

Pittsburgh Parks Conservancy
Pittsburgh, PA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support conservation treatment of Victor David Brenner's A Song to Nature, a bronze and granite fountain. The fountain, located in front of the Frick Fine Arts Building at the University of Pittsburgh, was dedicated in 1918 to the philanthropy of Mary Schenley, who donated 456 acres for the city's flagship park.

Pittsburgh Symphony Society (aka Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra) (Consortium)
Pittsburgh, PA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support A Celebration of Wilkinsburg. In partnership with the Wilkinsburg School District, the orchestra will perform a community outreach concert at the Wilkinsburg High School.

Scribe Video Center, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$55,000
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
Philadelphia, PA
$20,000
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 musical training through individual study classes, collaborative efforts with professional musicians and composers, and performance opportunities.

Strings for Schools, Inc. (aka Musicopia) (Consortium)
Philadelphia, PA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support Exploring Ourselves and Our Cultures. In an ongoing partnership with the Clay Studio and Philadelphia Young Playwrights, the program will provide music, playwriting, and ceramic arts classes to students in kindergarten through eighth grade.

Taller Puertorriqueño, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Connecting the Threads of Our Pasts and the Hopes of Our Futures. The series will include exhibitions, street festivals, workshops, performances, and a symposium.

Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (on behalf of WXPN)
Philadelphia, PA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production and national distribution of the public radio series World Café. A contemporary music and interview series hosted by David Dye, the program reaches more than 500,000 listeners each week.

Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (on behalf of Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts)
Philadelphia, PA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Annenberg Center's Philadelphia Presenting Project. Local performing artists and arts organizations will create new work as well as receive technical, marketing, and production assistance.

Walnut Street Theatre Corporation
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Touring Outreach Company. The initiative will offer students in grades 6-12 workshops and matinee performances of fully produced plays reflective of the curriculum of area schools.

WHYY, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$60,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  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 and culture is broadcast on 483 NPR stations and heard by more than 4.6 million people each week.

York Symphony Orchestra
York, PA
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support free community outreach concerts. The orchestra will perform summer concerts at the historic band shell in Farquhar Park in York.

Number of Grants: 43          Total Amount: $1,764,700

 
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