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FY 2008 Grant Awards: State Listings

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

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
$35,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support Arabic Rhythms: A Percussion Instruction and Music Appreciation Program. Lead teacher Joseph Tayoun and professional guest artists will provide year-round group and individual instruction in Arabic percussion at after-school and weekend workshops.  In addition, apprenticeships with performance opportunities for beginning, intermediate, and advanced students ages 8 to 15, and members of the Al-Bustan Percussion Ensemble will be offered.

American Music Theater Festival, Inc. (aka Prince Music Theater)
Philadelphia, PA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support production of the rarely produced musical Jamaica at the Prince Music Theater, with education and outreach activities. With book by E.Y. "Yip" Harburg and Fred Saidy, music by Harold Arlen, and lyrics by Yip Harburg, the production will include new orchestrations that incorporate Caribbean instrumentation.

Art Sanctuary
Philadelphia, PA
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the 25th annual Celebration of Black Writing, featuring a year of outreach programs. Events focusing on black writing and spoken-word poetry will include readings, performances, workshops, and discussions.

Asian Americans United, Inc. (Consortium)
Philadelphia, PA
$18,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support the Folk Arts Education Program. In partnership with the Philadelphia Chinese Opera Society, the project will provide artist residencies, folk arts educational resources, professional development for educators, events where students will experience artists and art forms, and opportunities for students to exhibit their work.

Asian Arts Initiative (Consortium)
Philadelphia, PA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support Chinatown In/flux: Future Landscape. Building on the success of a 2006 exhibition, this community-based project will involve commissions to four artists for site-specific installations exploring how public art can engage community members in shaping a neighborhood's physical and social development.

Bradford County Regional Arts Council
Towanda, PA
$28,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support Readiness & Transitions Through the Arts. The program will integrate music, dance, storytelling, drama, and visual arts instruction at Head Start and childcare facilities for children, ages three to six.

Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet
Carlisle, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
The support the presentation of the DiscoverDance Program. The program introduces at-risk children in first and second grades to dance.

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
Harrisburg, PA
$916,600
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Community Arts Center
Wallingford, PA
$9,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support Murals and More. Professional artists will provide instruction in ceramics and painting to expand community-based arts programming throughout Delaware County.

Congreso De Latinos Unidos, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$18,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support the Youth Artist Program. Low-income high school students participate in the development and creation of original films.

Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts
Philadelphia, PA
$17,000
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
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support a series of community-based art projects in North Philadelphia. 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.

County of Lackawanna, Pennsylvania (on behalf of Office of Education and Culture)
Scranton, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America Fast-Track Review
To support selected guest artists for Lackawanna County ethnic festivals. Proposed artists include gospel legends, the Dixie Hummingbirds, the Salsamba Latin Jazz Group, and Joseph Tayoun, a Middle Eastern percussionist.

CultureWorks, Ltd. (aka CultureWorks)
Philadelphia, PA
$15,000
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.

Curtis Institute of Music
Philadelphia, PA
$10,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a compact disc recording of composer Dominick Argentos opera Postcard from Morocco. While the recording took place in April 2007 by the Curtis Opera Theatre accompanied by the Curtis Chamber Orchestra, funding will be targeted to the digital mastering of the live performance and the production and distribution of the disc.

Erie Philharmonic
Erie, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America Fast-Track Review
To support Young Guns II, a part of the In the Spotlight concert series. The concert theme will focus on musical prodigies and will present teenage pianists Michelle and Christina Naughton playing works composed at an early age by Mendelssohn, Mozart, Poulenc, and Bizet.

Fulton Opera House Foundation (aka Fulton Theatre)
Lancaster, PA
$45,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support the Fulton Youtheatre 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 performance of a new musical based on pertinent issues from their own lives.

Gateway to the Arts, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
$18,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support Gateway Early Learning Through the Arts. Workshops and residencies for professional teaching artists, day-care and Head Start classroom teachers, and aides will integrate pre-kindergarten arts activities developed around children's literature.

Huntingdon County Arts Council
Huntingdon, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the commissioning of a mural by visual artist Joe Brenman. The mural will be part of Paper Trail, a series of public art installations in the Borough of Huntingdon celebrating native son J.C. Blair's lifetime achievements.

Institute for Cultural Partnerships
Harrisburg, PA
$18,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support The Art of Many Voices, a folk arts education program.  Students at William Penn High School in Harrisburg will study basic ethnographic methodologies and compose personal narratives in class with institute's staff folklorists Amy Skillman and Lisa Rathje and will create work with resident artists in hip-hop dance, visual arts, and spoken word. 

International Assoc. of Performing Arts for Young People (aka International Performing Arts for Youth)
Philadelphia, PA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the IPAY Showcase. The networking and artistic activities of the showcase will target art presenters of youth and family programming and the artists and managers who produce such work.

Lancaster Symphony Orchestra
Lancaster, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Sound Discovery performances; the , a music education program. The project involves five open rehearsals with Lido, an illustrated conductor's baton, that will be presented to adults and students in grades five and above; three Friday Nights for Generation X, Y and NextMusic Discovery Experience, an instrument petting zoo, and Symphonic Concerts for Children, designed for students in the third through fifth grades.

Market Square Concerts
Harrisburg, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America Fast-Track Review
To support performances by the Lark Chamber Ensemble. Percussionist Yousif Sheronick will join the Ensemble in composer Daniel Bernard Roumain's Fifth String Quartet, an homage to Rosa Parks.

Montgomery County Community College
Blue Bell, PA
$20,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support An American Vision: Music, Theater, and Poetry series. The Turtle Island String Quartet, Matt Wilson Ensemble, and Montana Repertory Theater will perform and interpret works by musician John Coltrane, poet Carl Sandburg, and author Harper Lee, respectively.

National New Play Network, Ltd.
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Emerging Playwright Residencies program. The program will offer playwrights graduating from qualified MFA programs residencies at professional theaters where they will receive artistic mentorship.

Orchestra 2001
Philadelphia, PA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a tour of composer George Crumb's American Songbook. The orchestra will perform the concert program in Delaware, New York, and Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania Public Radio Associates, Inc. (aka Echoes)
Chester Springs, PA
$25,000
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 268,000 listeners on 130 stations in 33 states and the Northern Mariana Islands.

Philadelphia Folklore Project
Philadelphia, PA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Folk Arts House program. The project will include technical assistance workshops for Philadelphia-area folk and traditional artists and will feature local artists presenting their work in small settings.

Philadelphia Mural Arts Advocates (aka Mural Arts Program)
Philadelphia, PA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support the Mural Arts Program (MAP). 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 Museum of Art
Philadelphia, PA
$100,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts Touring
To support a touring retrospective exhibition of work by American artist James Castle (1899-1977), with accompanying catalogue and education programs. This will be the first comprehensive museum exhibition exploring the full range of this Idaho-born, self-taught artist.

Philadelphia Orchestra Association (Consortium)
Philadelphia, PA
$75,000
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 and ancillary activities in Philadelphia and Camden, New Jersey.

Philadelphia Young Playwrights
Philadelphia, PA
$28,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support the Enhanced Program Activities Menu. Students will enhance their playwriting skills and deepen their understanding of theater through interactions with professional artists, trips to see professional theater, and intensive writing workshops.

Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the Summer Performance Series, featuring free performances in non-traditional settings. The company will perform as part of Allegheny County's Summer Concert series and Cranberry Township's Concert Series.

Pittsburgh Film-Makers, Inc. (aka Pittsburgh Filmmakers)
Pittsburgh, PA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support training in, and access to, animation equipment. Pittsburgh Filmmakers will purchase specific animation workstations and software to offer these services to its constituents.

Pittsburgh Glass Center, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support an artist residency program. Artists will be provided with resources, facilities, and technical assistance for exploration in glass making.

Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support The SyngeCycle, a project featuring the complete dramatic works of Irish dramatist John Millington Synge. A production of The Playboy of the Western World directed by artistic director Andrew Paul will serve as the centerpiece of the project.

Scribe Video Center, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$70,000
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 artworks.

Spiral Q Puppet Theater (aka Spiral Q)
Philadelphia, PA
$18,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support the UP North Community Arts Education Program. Youth in North Philadelphia will study basic elements of parades and pageantry, construct giant puppets, silk-screen banners and flags, print posters, and choreograph movement of the puppets to original music and poetry.

Susquehanna Folk Music Society, Inc. (aka Susquehanna Folk)
New Cumberland, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America Fast-Track Review
To support the Masters of the Traditional Arts Festival. Accomplished artists include Lakota flute player and singer Kevin Locke, Irish fiddler Kevin Burke, and luthier Wayne Henderon.

Susquehanna Folk Music Society, Inc.
New Cumberland, PA
$15,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the American Masters: Preserving Folk Traditions Series. Performances by master musicians, dancers, and storytellers will be complemented by lectures, workshops, and educational activities.

Sweetwater Art Center (aka Sweetwater Center for the Arts)
Sewickley, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America Fast-Track Review
To support the Mavuno Festival of African American Art and Culture. Now in its twelfth year, Festival activities include a visual art exhibit, an artist residency in local schools, and a jazz concert featuring Etta Cox.

Taller Puertorriqueno, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Journeys: Puerto Rico, Philadelphia, and New York as Hubs of Puerto Rican/Latino Arts. The series will include exhibitions, street festivals, workshops, performances, and a symposium.

Touchstone (aka Touchstone Theatre)
Bethlehem, PA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Young Playwrights Lab. The program is designed to increase literacy skills among local children and youth by teaching them the fundamentals of playwriting.

Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania
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 Penn Museum)
Philadelphia, PA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support Tlingit Artists Disseminating Knowledge. The Penn Museum will bring Tlingit master weaver and basketmaker Teri Rofkar from Alaska to Philadelphia to study and then to write a book about the museum's collection of 400 Tlingit baskets.

University of Pittsburgh Main Campus (on behalf of University of Pittsburgh Press)
Pittsburgh, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support free poetry readings at colleges and universities around the country in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Pitt Poetry Series. The University of Pittsburgh Press will target historically black colleges, small liberal arts colleges in rural areas, and community colleges in urban areas with predominantly minority students.

Walnut Street Theatre Corporation
Philadelphia, PA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Touring Outreach Program. The program brings curriculum-based plays for youth and educational workshops to students throughout the Delaware Valley.

Westmoreland Museum of American Art
Greensburg, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the publication of the second in a series of four permanent collection catalogues. The series is intended to replace the museum's outdated catalogue published nearly 30 years ago.

WHYY, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$65,000
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 493 NPR stations and is heard by more than 4.5 million people each week.


Number of Grants: 49          Total Amount: $2,059,100

 
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