2012 Grant Awards: Art Works

[ August 11, 2011 deadline ]

Arts Education | Dance | Design | Folk & Traditional Arts | Literature
Local Arts Agencies | Media Arts | Museums | Music | Musical Theater
Opera | Presenting | Theater | Visual Arts

Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

Folk and Traditional Arts

Abhinaya Dance Company of San Jose, Inc.
San Jose, CA
$10,000
To support the Teacher Training Program, a year-round professional development project to teach the traditions and performance techniques of classical South Indian dance. As many as four master artists will instruct emerging Indian American Bharatanatyam choreographers, strengthening their teaching and performance skills, passing this ancient art to the next generation.

Alaska Native Heritage Center, Inc.
Anchorage, AK
$10,000
To support the Indigenous World Film Festival. The project will host screenings of original works produced by indigenous filmmakers from the United States, Alaska, and the rest of the world.

Allegheny Echoes, Inc.
Marlinton, WV
$10,000
To support a week-long workshop that will instruct the region's youth in traditional Appalachian music and poetry. The workshop will match students with accomplished masters for instruction in traditional instrumental techniques, vocal music, or creative writing, and conclude with two performances showcasing the instructors and their students.

Alliance for California Traditional Arts
Fresno, CA
$55,000
To support a statewide traditional arts apprenticeship program. The project will seek out potential participants; convene a panel to select apprenticeship teams; provide technical support to the participants; document the master/apprentice work; publicize the apprenticeship with articles and presentations by each pair; and evaluate the program.

Alliance for California Traditional Arts
Fresno, CA
$45,000
To support an organizational and artistic development program and staff salaries. This project will provide technical assistance through consultancies, mentorships, and travel opportunities for traditional artists and organizations.

Appalachian State University (Consortium)
Boone, NC
$20,000
To support expansion of the Black Banjo Gathering to an annual event, exploring the diverse influences on the banjo. A collaboration with the Avery Arts Council, the project will present lectures, workshops, and performances, demonstrating various cultural influences (including African, Caribbean, French, Judaic, and Native American) on the banjo and banjo music.

Arkansas State University
State University, AR
$30,000
To support the Arkansas Folklife Program, the only statewide traditional arts service organization in the state. In addition to documenting traditional artists and presenting that information through publications, recordings, and public programs, the project will continue the folk arts apprenticeship program, integrate folk arts in education, and provide technical assistance to folklife organizations and traditional artists in the state.

Arts Center of Cannon County (Consortium)
Woodbury, TN
$25,000
To support production of concise web-based programs that explore the cultural context of Southern traditional music. In collaboration with the Center for Popular Music at Middle Tennessee State University, the Arts Center of Cannon County will use primary sources from its archives and the Center for Popular Music to create programs that explore song histories, traditional musicians, tune variants, and other subjects related to traditional music from the Southern states.

Association for the Advancement of Filipino American Arts & Culture (aka FilAm ARTS / Festival of PhilippineArts & Culture)
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
To support the traditional components of the 21st annual Festival of Philippine Arts & Culture. The project will present traditional music and dance, arts, and crafts from different regions of the Philippines, along with craft demonstrations and a special exhibit of agricultural traditions.

Bangor Folk Festival (aka American Folk Festival on the Bangor Waterfront)
Bangor, ME
$35,000
To support the 2012 Bangor Folk Festival. Also known as the American Folk Festival, the event will include performances, workshops, and demonstrations presented by more than 100 musicians, dancers, and craftspeople performing blues, gospel, jazz, polka, cowboy, bluegrass, Native American, Klezmer, Cajun, mariachi, and western swing music.

Bowery Arts and Science, Ltd. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$50,000
To support Live From The PoeMobile, a project designed to promote poetry traditions in New York City's diverse ethnic groups. In collaboration with the literary organization Ratapallax, Bowery Arts and Science will identify poets whose art best represents various ethnic communities and present their poetry in performances that also feature traditional music from that community.

Brooklyn Arts Council, Inc. (aka BAC)
Brooklyn, NY
$40,000
To support HarborLore: Where the River Meets the Sea in Brooklyn's Folk Imagination. The project will research and document traditions practiced in Brooklyn that address the manifestation of human interaction with bodies of water: rivers, harbors, oceans.

Cambodian-American Heritage, Inc.
Fort Washington, MD
$10,000
To support the Cambodian American Heritage Arts Program. Students will be instructed in traditional Cambodian classical and folk dances and music under the supervision of master Cambodian heritage arts teachers, including NEA National Heritage Fellows Madame Sam-Oeun Tes and Master Chum Ngek.

Catholic Diocese of Las Cruces Foundation (on behalf of Las Cruces International Marichi Conference)
Las Cruces, NM
$25,000
To support the 19th annual Mariachi Music and Folkloric Dance Program. The project includes instruction in music and folkloric dance for students, as well as professional development seminars for instructors.

Center for Art, Tradition and Cultural Heritage (aka CATCH) (Consortium)
New York, NY
$30,000
To Support Self-Representations: Romani Music and Culture in Diaspora. In collaboration with the Voice of Roma, the project will present an academic symposium on Romani identity, culture, and representations in panel discussions, paper presentations, films, and performances, featuring scholars of Romani culture and leading Romani musicians.

Center for Traditional Music and Dance, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
To support Community Cultural Initiatives, a program designed to assist New York City's immigrant communities in preserving and sharing performing arts traditions. The program will include field research, artistic presentations, and educational programs in New York's Colombian, Ukrainian, and Haitian communities.

City Lore, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
To support a folk arts in education program for urban elementary and middle schools, called Artful Stories. The project integrates folk arts into the schools' arts, social studies, and English language arts curricula through artist residencies co-designed by folk artists and classroom teachers.

City of Tarpon Springs, Florida
Tarpon Springs, FL
$40,000
To support the Gulf Coast Folklife Center's presentation of local, state, and regional traditions through exhibits, festivals, performances, workshops, and other programs. The project will conduct fieldwork to identify and document new folk artists, and present new and established folk artists in a variety of venues including concerts, workshops, festivals, and a special exhibit of Latin American folk culture.

Cityfolk, Inc.
Dayton, OH
$40,000
To support the 2012 Cityfolk Festival, an annual presentation of traditional music, dance, and visual arts. The project will feature leading traditional artists, including NEA National Heritage Fellow Mavis Staples, and a special exhibition, Folkways: Mexico, that will include performances, lecture-demonstrations, and workshops dedicated to the traditional arts of Mexico.

Company of Folk
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support production of Volume Five in the Folksongs of Illinois CD series, documenting the diverse musical traditions of Chicago and Illinois This recording will feature ethnic music from immigrant groups including Latino, Asian, Middle Eastern, South American, and Caribbean communities.

Cultural Resources, Inc.
Rockport, ME
$15,000
To support Elder Arts. The project will support a series of training workshops for health care and social service professionals to explore the role of traditional arts in the life review process of senior citizens, presenting a series of folk arts demonstrations, with senior folk artists serving as role models.

Curators of the University of Missouri at Columbia (on behalf of Missouri Folk Arts Program at the Museum of Art & Archaelogy)
Columbia, MO
$30,000
To support the Missouri Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program with master artists' honoraria, supplies, and performance fees. The project will provide technical assistance to masters and apprentices as they demonstrate and display folk arts at events at the state capitol and festivals across the state.

Diamano Coura West African Dance Co.
Oakland, CA
$20,000
To support the 18th annual Collage des Cultures Africaines. The project will support a series of workshops on, and performances of, traditional African dance and music presented by master artists from Africa. In addition, the project will include an African Art exhibit, a symposium on technology and the evolution of traditional art, and discussions on the current state of the arts of the African Diaspora.

Documentary Arts, Inc.
Dallas, TX
$40,000
To support production costs for a half-hour video program titled We Don't Need Feet To Dance. The program examines NEA National Heritage Fellow Sidiki Conde's daily life, showing him teaching classes to students and participating in ceremonies and community rituals, emphasizing the ways his traditional music and dance engages his students, his community, and the general public.

Eldridge Street Project, Inc. (aka Museum at Eldridge Street)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the 13th annual Egg Rolls & Egg Creams Festival. The event celebrates traditions and art forms from the Chinese and Eastern European Jewish communities that have lived side-by-side on the Lower East Side for generations.

Eugenio Maria de Hostos Community College Foundation (aka Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture)
Bronx, NY
$25,000
To support BomPlenazo 2012, the Seventh Biennial of Afro Puerto Rican Culture. The project will focus on Puerto Rican music and dance, with an emphasis on traditions practiced in and around the municipality of Santurce, in the San Juan metropolitan area.

Filmmakers Collaborative, Inc.
Waltham, MA
$25,000
To support completion of Fiddles on Fire. The documentary film will feature fiddlers representing various fiddle traditions, such as Cajun, Jazz, Scottish, Old Time, and Bluegrass.

First Peoples Fund
Rapid City, SD
$30,000
To support Engaging in the Power of Native Art, fellowship programs to promote Native American artists. The project will offer support to Native American artists through three programs: Cultural Capital, in which Natives receive training to research and document ancestral artifacts held in local and national museums; Artists in Business Leadership, which teaches marketing and business skills to mid-career Native Artists; and Community Spirit Awards which recognize artists who are sustaining tribes' culture, language, spiritual ceremonies, songs, and dances.

Florida Division of Historical Resources (on behalf of Florida Division of Historical Resources)
Tallahassee, FL
$35,000
To support the Florida Folklife Program (FFP). The projects of the FFP include identification and documentation of folk artists, an apprenticeship program, folk heritage awards, a series of folklife forums, and presentation of folk artists at the Florida Folk Festival and the State Fair; additionally, the FFP plans to work with Viva Florida 500, a series of programs showcasing the state's diverse heritage, commemorating the 500th anniversary of Ponce de León's arrival in Florida.

Folkstreams, Inc. (aka Folkstreams.net)
Delaplane, VA
$50,000
To support the Folkstreams.net site, a web-based service that provides access to films and videos about American traditional arts and culture. The project will support adding new films to the site, developing contextual background materials for these films, and implementing an open source data management system to make the site easier to maintain and administer.

Houston Arts Alliance
Houston, TX
$50,000
To support activities of the Houston Folklife and Traditional Arts Program. Houston Arts Alliance will identify and present the folk arts of the city through activities documenting the occupational traditions of the Port of Houston  and the Houston Ship Channel, spiritually-inspired music programming, and a concert series focused on the city's musical legacy.

Houston Institute for Culture
Houston, TX
$20,000
To support Essential Festivals: Sharing Traditions, a project that will support major festivals celebrating the city's diversity. Among the cultural traditions to be highlighted are Juneteenth, which commemorates emancipation in Texas; Carnival, which honors Caribbean culture and African American Gulf-coast traditions; and Celebrate Houston!, which presents a wide cross-section of the city's traditions.

Hula Preservation Society
Kaneohe, HI
$20,000
To support Our Last Living Link, a project focused on documenting esteemed hula elders. The project will use video to record the life stories of these elderly master artists and their collections of significant cultural materials, such as still images and manuscripts.

Institute for Community Research, Inc.
Hartford, CT
$35,000
To support the Cultural Heritage Arts Program. The project will provide for identification, documentation, and presentation of folk arts; training for community scholars; development of a website with online galleries and professionally produced videos; and a traveling exhibit on Connecticut's agricultural traditions, in collaboration with state offices of Historic Preservation and Tourism.

Institute for Community Research, Inc.
Hartford, CT
$30,000
To support the Southern New England Apprenticeship Program. In its 15th year, the project will bring together master artists and apprentices from Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut to teach students from their community, presenting the results of their cooperative learning in a public event, community festival, or performance.

Instituto Mazatlán Bellas Artes de Sacramento
Sacramento, CA
$10,000
To support Viva el Arte, a presentation of Mexican folk dance and culture in Northern California. Instituto Mazatlán will present traditional Mexican dance, offer master classes for area dancers, and provice a pre-show lecture explaining the traditions and customs expressed in the dance.

Khmer Arts Academy
Long Beach, CA
$20,000
To support Cambodian classical dance training. Students are taught in weekly workshops by experienced master artists, including NEA National Heritage Fellow Sophiline Cheam Shapiro.

Korean American Cultural Arts Foundation
Waldorf, MD
$20,000
To support the seventh annual Korean American Cultural Arts Festival and seventh annual Korean American Lunar Festival. The project will support a series of performances celebrating traditional Korean culture, including music, dance, and drumming, as well as workshops and demonstrations of traditional ceremonies, crafts, and foodways.

Kulintang Arts (aka KULARTS)
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support creation of a choreographed production of the epic Filipino tale of Ibon Ng Adarna (Adarna Bird). Using traditional Pilipino dance techniques and Pilipino mythology, the work will be performed by dancers and musicians from the Parangal Dance Company and Kawayan Folk Arts, fostering the development of a new generation of Pilipino American dance artists and expanding their knowledge of Pilipino tribal dances.

La Troupe Makandal, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
To support Haiti Drums and Dances, a program that provides classes in traditional Afro-Haitian drumming and dance. NEA National Heritage Fellow Frisner Augustin will offer drumming instruction, while Haitian native Pierre Desrameaux will teach dance to children and adults.

Local Learning: The National Network for Folk Arts in Education
New York, NY
$50,000
To support outreach and technical assistance activities which incorporate folk arts into K-12 education and support folk arts in education (FAIE) practitioners. This project includes ongoing publications and an online newsletter; the work of an NEA National Heritage Fellow through a "virtual residency" on the website; the publication of an outreach brochure and a quarterly e-bulletin; the hiring of an FAIE consultant to oversee Local Learning working groups; and hosting a professional development conference.

Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center (Consortium)
San Pablo, CA
$45,000
To support Cultures of Mexico in California, a project that uses vernacular Mexican music and dance to examine cultural identity among Mexican immigrants and Mexican Americans. In collaboration with the Migrant Education Program, Region 16, Los Cenzontles will present performances of traditional Mexican music and dance and produce documentary films, recordings, and workshops on traditional Mexican arts and their role in the community.

Los Pleneros de la 21, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support The Puerto Rican Music Project. The project comprises a series of local and touring concerts, workshops, and lectures that will facilitate the appreciation and understanding of Puerto Rico's traditional music and dance.

Lowell Festival Foundation
Lowell, MA
$30,000
To support the 25th annual Lowell Folk Festival, a showcase of high-caliber traditional artists from a variety of cultures that represent the region's diverse ethnic and immigrant populations. Performance fees will be provided for traditional craft demonstrators and performers, and as many as 100 artists will participate.

Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance
Old Town, ME
$30,000
To support an apprenticeship program for master Native American basketmakers to teach ash and sweetgrass basketry traditions. The program provides partial support for master basketmakers from four federally-recognized Maine tribes (Maliseet, Micmac, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot) to teach the ancient skills of ash and sweetgrass basketry art to the next generations.

Mainstreet Uptown Butte, Inc.
Butte, MT
$30,000
To support the First People's Gathering at the Montana Folk Festival. The project will feature Montana's Indian tribes in the festival program and provide exposure for Montana's Native artists and craftspeople, presenting Native arts and crafts in a display and demonstration area that features both traditional and contemporary artists from across the state.

Matsutoyo Kai (aka Minyo Station)
Gardena, CA
$10,000
To support performances and a workshop of Japanese folk music. The event will feature performances of traditional music and dance from Japan by local artists and a guest artist from Japan, Madame Matsuhiromi Sato, as well as workshops offering instruction for playing the shamisen (a three-stringed banjo-like instrument) and singing the traditional song "Cherry Blossom."

Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI
$40,000
To support the Michigan Traditional Arts Program (MTAP). The program will strengthen the state's folklife through fieldwork and targeted documentation of traditional artists and folk arts events; use new and existing documentation to enhance online web resources; and develop social media tools to connect folk artists, audiences, and other cultural workers to MTAP's resources and activities.

Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI
$40,000
To support two components of the Michigan Traditional Arts Program. The Michigan Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program and Michigan Heritage Awards both directly support folk artists and their work in the state.

Mind-Builders Creative Arts Co.
Bronx, NY
$25,000
To support training for students in basic folklore research, documentation, and presentation. Students will receive training to identify, document, and present the traditions of folk artists they "discover" in their families, community, and city, and produce four public presentations of the folk artists and their traditions in classrooms and to the general public.

Museum of Chinese in the Americas
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the Chinese Holiday Festival Series. The project will celebrate the traditions of Chinese Americans through festivals connected to significant Chinese holidays, including the Lunar New Year (winter), Qing Ming/Day of the Dead (spring), Dragon Boat Festival (summer), and Mid-Autumn Moon Festival (fall).

Museum of Jurassic Technology
Culver City, CA
$10,000
To support a concert series Folk Music from Central Asia and the Near East. The performance series will present traditional music of cultures from Central Asia and the Near East through musical performances and conversations with artists from this region.

Music Maker Relief and Recording Foundation, Inc.
Hillsborough, NC
$10,000
To support Music Maker Roots and Leaves: Celebrating the Legacy of Libba Cotton. The project will honor the memory of local legend Elizabeth Cotton with a series of concerts featuring local musicians exploring the contributions of blues artists, string-bands, female musicians, and Native Americans.

Natya Dance Theatre
Chicago, IL
$15,000
To support performances of the Indian dance drama Sri Rama Jaya Jaya Rama: The Ramayana in the New World. The project will use the classical Indian dance form Bharata Natyam and the accompanying traditional music to present the ancient Sanskrit epic The Ramayana, adapted to address contemporary society.

Nebraska Folklife Network, Inc.
Lincoln, NE
$30,000
To support the operation of the Nebraska Folklife Network. The project will support the Harvest of Traditions festival; a statewide apprenticeship program; assistance to folk artists from recent immigrant groups; and folk arts in education projects, including "school trunks" that provide lesson plans and cultural artifacts related to Latino and Eastern European populations.

New York Folklore Society, Inc.
Schenectady, NY
$35,000
To support the New York Folklore Society's statewide professional development services to folk artists, folklorists, and organizations. These services include mentoring and professional development, as well as support for field work and presentation in the state's Capitol Region. Additionally, supervision and maintenance will be provided for the professional listserv of folklorists and cultural specialists.

New York Folklore Society, Inc.
Schenectady, NY
$30,000
To support the Upstate Latino Dance Symposium. A conference will explore dance instruction, performance, and professional development workshops for instructors on topics of recruiting and retaining youth.

Nordic Heritage Museum Foundation
Seattle, WA
$10,000
To support the fourth annual Nordic Knitting Conference. Internationally-acclaimed knitting experts will lead the three-day conference provide in-depth instructions in a variety of traditional pan-Nordic knitting and spinning techniques.

North Carolina Folklife Institute
Durham, NC
$45,000
To support activities that strengthen the state's folk and traditional arts infrastructure and support the state arts council's strategic plan to create a network of North Carolina Heritage Arts Centers. The project will provide for staff support that will facilitate the development of folk arts organizations across the state; improve the North Carolina Folklife Institute's website; produce an artists' directory for traditional music of the state's Piedmont; and  implement the Folklife Resource & Knowledge Exchange, a program linking these organizations and allowing them to share resources.

North Carolina Folklife Institute
Durham, NC
$40,000
To support Documenting and Promoting Traditional Arts in Southeastern North Carolina. The North Carolina Folklife Institute will maintain development of the Statewide Heritage Initiative by documenting and promoting traditional arts and artists in southeastern North Carolina, using regional traditions, and traditional artists for economic development through heritage tourism.

Northern Michigan University (on behalf of Beaumier Upper Peninsula Heritage Center)
Marquette, MI
$15,000
To support the 2012 Upper Peninsula Folklife Festival, an event featuring concerts, workshops, and demonstrations of folk and traditional arts from throughout Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The festival will include tradition bearers from most of the cultural and ethnic groups that populate the region, including Anishinaabeg, French-Canadian, Italian, Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian, Croatian, Cornish, German, English, and Irish, as well as musicians from throughout the United States.

Northwest Heritage Resources
Lake Forest Park, WA
$30,000
To support the position of Executive Director of Northwest Heritage Resources. Salary support will allow the organization to provide statewide services, including updating its successful heritage audio tours; expanding its website; integrating folk arts into educational curricula; and presenting folk arts in state parks.

Northwest Heritage Resources
Lake Forest Park, WA
$30,000
To support Building New Audiences for Traditional Arts in Washington's Underserved Communities. Now in its second year, the project will expand traditional arts presentations (concerts, workshops, and artist demonstrations) in state parks located in areas that are not currently reached by such programs.

Northwest Indian College
Bellingham, WA
$25,000
To support Skills Enhancement for Northwest Native American Basketweavers. The project will sponsor a series of conferences and workshops for students and experienced basketweavers offering instruction about the art of Coast Salish basketweaving, preserving this important component of Native American cultural heritage.

Old Town School of Folk Music, Inc. (Consortium)
Chicago, IL
$35,000
To support Pueblo Latino Chicago. A collaboration with Instituto Cervantes of Chicago, the project will expand Old Town School of Folk Music's instruction and performances for the Latin population of the Chicago metro area, and the development of new bilingual marketing tools to promote them.

Orutsararmuit Native Council (on behalf of Eddie Hoffman Senior Center)
Bethel, AK
$30,000
To support the Traditional Arts Mentorship Model Program. Yup'ik elders will mentor youth in tribal folkways, including making traditional clothing, instrument-making, foodways, ceremonies, and stories.

Philadelphia Folklore Project
Philadelphia, PA
$35,000
To support Folk Arts House. Philadelphia Folklore Project will provide technical assistance workshops, exhibitions, and public salons that will support local traditional artistic development and growth, and build skills among community members in documenting and sustaining local folk arts.

PineCone - the Piedmont Council of Traditional Music, Inc. (Consortium)
Raleigh, NC
$20,000
To support production of A Singing Stream II: A Black Family Chronicle Continues, a sequel to a documentary film chronicling the lives of the Landis Family and their gospel music traditions. In collaboration with Folkstreams, Inc., Tom Davenport, who produced the original film in 1986, will work with the Landis Family to explore the social and cultural changes in the family and community in the 25 years since the first film.

Rural Members Association Inc.
Aliceville, AL
$10,000
To support the Freedom Creek Blues Festival 2012. In its 15th year, the festival showcases local Alabama blues artists and traditional blues musicians from the wider community, allowing local and lesser-known musicians to share the stage with nationally and internationally renowned artists.

Sones de Mexico Ensemble
Chicago, IL
$35,000
To support Beyond The Music. The project will present a series of 25 free educational lectures, workshops, and discussions on Mexican folk music, dance, and culture taught by members of the Sones de Mexico Ensemble.

Traditional Arts in Upstate New York, Inc. (aka TAUNY)
Canton, NY
$30,000
To support From Shop to Screen: TAUNY Video Series to Present Traditional Art Forms. The project will work with Mountain Lake PBS to produce a series of short videos documenting the work of artisans who maintain traditional art forms in the 14-county rural region served by both TAUNY and Mountain Lake.

Tucson Meet Yourself, Inc.
Tucson, AZ
$35,000
To support statewide projects intended to strengthen folk and traditional arts in the Southwest/Sonoran Desert region. Projects include expanding the online archive of documented folk artists and folklife practices of the region; training for community scholars, especially from rural communities; and a statewide assessment and inventory of folk arts resources.

Tucson Meet Yourself, Inc.
Tucson, AZ
$30,000
To support the Tucson Meet Yourself Folklife Festival. In its 39th year, the festival will present music, dance, food, and folk arts from traditional artists, ethnic, and occupational groups from the Arizona-Sonora region, this year featuring traditions of mining.

University of Oregon (on behalf of Oregon Folklife Network)
Eugene, OR
$40,000
To support Preserving and Sustaining Oregon's Cultural Traditions. The project will continue a folk arts apprenticeship program, allowing master folk artists to teach art forms to apprentices. Additionally, a folk arts survey will identify folk arts resources and produce folklife smartphone applications designed make to Oregon's regional folklife easily accessible to the public.

University of South Carolina Research Foundation
Columbia, SC
$35,000
To support Community Voices: A Survey of South Carolina's Tradition Bearers. The project's focus will be the identification and documentation of  folk and traditional artists in 16 counties of the state and the incorporation of the survey's findings in the museum's digital portal, Digital Traditions: www.digitaltraditions.net.

Venture Richmond
Richmond, VA
$35,000
To support the Richmond Folk Festival 2012. Now in its fifth year, the festival will feature a variety of traditional music and dance performances, narrative stages, craft exhibits and demonstrations, and regional and ethnic foods, featuring a special Virginia Folklife Area, curated by the director of the Virginia Folklife Program and produced in partnership with the Children's Museum of Richmond.

Vermont Folklife Center
Middlebury, VT
$30,000
To support the Vermont Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program. The apprenticeship program offers stipends for master artists to work with less experienced apprentices striving to preserve and pass on time-honored skills and knowledge. Additionally, the project will develop a 20th anniversary online catalogue to showcase the program's history.

Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy (aka Virginia Folklife Program)
Charlottesville, VA
$40,000
To support a staff position for a digital media specialist. The specialist will improve the production quality of the program's audio, video, and photographic documentation of folk arts and folk artists. Additionally, the specialist will digitize and organize the Virginia Folklife Program's large collection of field recordings, video materials, and still photographs, improving public accessibility.

Ward Foundation, Inc. (aka Ward Museum of Wildfowl Art)
Salisbury, MD
$30,000
To support Carving Out Future Decoy Makers. Master decoy makers from across the country will train aspiring carvers to make a functional hunting decoy, with the resulting works judged at the 2012 Chesapeake Wildfowl Expo.

Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission (Consortium)
OLympia, WA
$25,000
To support the salary of the Folk Arts Program Manager of the Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission's Folk and Traditional Arts in the Parks Program. In collaboration with the State Arts Commission, the Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission will produce festivals, concerts, an ethnic puppet theater performance, and supplementary programming, presenting high-quality folk, ethnic, and indigenous artists.

Wisdom of the Elders, Inc.
Portland, OR
$20,000
To support the Northwest Indian Storytellers Association's (NISA) Apprenticeship Project and Emerging Tribal Storytellers Workshop. The project will engage underserved tribal and urban Indian communities in the Pacific Northwest, identifying potential artists and supporting their participation in storytelling workshops held at the seventh annual Northwest Indian Storytelling Festival and the second annual NISA Retreat.

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