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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.

RHODE ISLAND

Alliance of Artists Communities
Providence, RI
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Artists' Communities: Impacting Society in the Past, Present, and Future. The theme relates to project components that will help artists communities and communicate their collective and individual impact on society.

Community Musicworks
Providence, RI
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support free music education and performance programs targeted to at-risk children and youth. The Providence String Quartet will be in residence and will teach and mentor students as well as perform in its downtown storefront facility and in other community venues.

FirstWorks
Providence, RI
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the production of FirstWorksProv Festival 2008. The series of New England performance premieres will extend into communities through forums, workshops, lectures, and discounted admissions.

FirstWorks
Providence, RI
$15,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the American Masterpieces Series of music and dance. Works by composer John Adams will be performed by the Boston Modern Orchestra, Providence Singers, and Rhode Island and Boston Children's Choirs; and the Thunderbird American Indian Dance Ensemble will perform traditional Native dances and music.

Island Moving Company
Newport, RI
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America Fast-Track Review
To support "Open for Dancing 2008." In addition to site specific commissions, festival activities will include master classes led by guest artists, panel discussions, and film screenings.

Project New Urban Arts (aka New Urban Arts)
Providence, RI
$25,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support the Youth Mentorship Program and the Arts Mentoring Fellowship Program. The two components are based on a community plan that will enable young emerging artists to design and implement arts initiatives for high school students participating in after-school and summer visual and literary arts programs.

Providence Singers, Inc.
Providence, RI
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the performance and recording of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Dominick Argento's Jonah and the Whale.  Artistic Director Andrew Clark will conduct the live performances in Providence.

Rhode Island Alliance for Arts Education (Consortium)
Tiverton, RI
$20,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support Rhode Island Arts Passport. In partnership with the Rhode Island Arts Learning Network, the project will expand to include folk and traditional arts as practiced by the masters who live in the state. 

Rhode Island School of Design (aka RISD) (on behalf of Museum of Art)
Providence, RI
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the publication of a handbook of the Museum of Art's permanent collection. The book will introduce the best of the museum's ancient, Asian, American, European, and contemporary art to a general audience of students, adults, and children.

Rhode Island School of Design
Providence, RI
$30,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support Project Open Door, a visual arts education program.  The free, after-school and summer program for underserved urban high school students and teachers will provide opportunities for youth to develop technical skills in the visual arts and prepare competitive college entrance portfolios.

Rhode Island State Council on the Arts
Providence, RI
$741,000
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.


Number of Grants: 11          Total Amount: $946,000

 
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