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FY 2011 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access to Artistic Excellence II/ 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.

NEW JERSEY

International Sculpture Center, Inc. (aka Sculpture Magazine) (Consortium)
Hamilton, NJ
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the book Public Art Alternatives. The book will include articles previously published in Sculpture magazine as well as new articles commissioned specifically for the publication. The book will feature artists and organizations whose work expands the boundaries of public art through new venues, new aesthetic approaches, and fresh perspectives on public life.

Montclair Art Museum
Montclair, NJ
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a digitization project for the museum's permanent collection. The project will support a technology software upgrade to eMuseum, a web-based publishing system that employs a dynamic web interface for searching and displaying collections information.

Montclair State University
Upper Montclair, NJ
$60,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the presentation of the Voices of Disenfranchisement series. Dance and music works will be presented by artists from Israel, Hawaii, Africa, New York, and Puerto Rico, along with workshops and lectures.

Music For All Seasons, Inc.
Scotch Plains, NJ
$17,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support music programs targeted for at-risk children living in shelters in various venues in New Jersey, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, and California. Geared primarily toward children living in shelters who are victims of domestic violence, eight monthly programs by instrumentalists are planned for each of 14 shelters in five states totaling 112 programs, with each activity using music to help the residents continue the process of healing.

New Jersey Institute of Technology (Consortium)
Newark, NJ
$33,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support People Planning Newark: Designing New Jersey's Metropolis. The College of Architecture and Design, in partnership with the City of Newark, plan a video, exhibition, tours, and "walkshops" focusing on the role of community-based planning and design in the city's architecture and urban design.

New Jersey State Council on the Arts
Trenton, NJ
$901,100
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

New Jersey Symphony Orchestra
Newark, NJ
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support community outreach concerts for young audiences and families. Venues will include the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark, Elizabeth High School, Sussex County Technical School in Sparta, and the Roberto Clemente School in Paterson.

Newark Public Radio, Inc. (aka WBGO)
Newark, NJ
$60,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production of JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater, a weekly radio series of jazz concerts. The series is produced by WBGO/Newark and distributed by NPR and reaches approximately 140,000 listeners throughout the United States each week.

Opera New Jersey, Inc.
Princeton, NJ
$16,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Discover Opera Stages. During this multi-year opera program, students create dramatic interpretations of an existing opera work and attend an opera performance.

Passaic County Community College (on behalf of The Poetry Center)
Paterson, NJ
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support readings as part of The Poetry Center's Distinguished Poets Series, as well as workshops and other outreach efforts targeting senior adults. Regional poets will conduct writing workshops at senior centers, culminating in an anthology and readings by participants to be broadcast on cable television.

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
New Brunswick, NJ
$65,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support public programs related to the exhibition Momentum: Women/Art/Technology, organized by Rutgers' Institute for Women and Art with the Mason Gross School of the Arts. Symposia, lectures, educational workshops, live-performances, interactive web activities, and a film and video festival will accompany the exhibition of works by both established and emerging contemporary women artists who use technology.

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (Consortium)
New Brunswick, NJ
$10,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Artists Mentoring Against Racism, Drugs, & Violence Healing Through the Arts Summer Camp. During the five-week program, artists will teach photography, dance, visual arts, and theater to Latino and African American youth in New Brunswick, culminating in showcases, performances, and a community mural project.

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-Camden Campus
Camden, NJ
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support Writers at Camden, a series of free monthly workshops, readings, and discussions with visiting writers targeting residents of the city of Camden, one of the most poverty-stricken cities in the nation. Discussion topics will include nonfiction and the social conscience, the collision of race and youth in fiction, and creating a meaningful and profitable writing career.


Number of Grants: 13          Total Amount: $1,257,600

 
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