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1998 Grant Awards: Education & Access
Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change,
contingent upon prior Endowment approval.
National/Multi-State Imapct | Direct Impact
The following grants have national or multi-state
impact.
Academy of American Poets, Incorporated
New York, NY
$95,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the 1998 coordination of National Poetry Month, a project whereby the Academy
collaborates with schools, libraries, bookstores, and cultural organizations to bring poetry to
communities across the country in new and imaginative ways, including the distribution of free
books, programs in public libraries, an on-line poetry classroom, and an interactive festival site
on the World Wide Web. (National/Multi-State Impact)
Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Inc.
Montgomery, AL
$11,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the 1998 tour of The Taming of the Shrew to underserved communities in the
Southeast and surrounding regions including South Carolina, Arkansas, Tennessee, and Louisiana.
(National/Multi-State Impact)
Alberta Bair Theater
Billings, MT
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support activities that will reach populations in Montana and northern Wyoming during the 1998
and 1999 school years, including teacher and student workshops, student educational performances,
and master classes for advanced students. (National/Multi-State Impact)
Alternate ROOTS, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$60,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support residencies, performances, community projects training, workshops and artistic fee
subsidies for communities in the Southeastern states, as well as documentary publications covering
many of the activities. (National/Multi-State Impact)
American Composers Forum
St. Paul, MN
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts (Consortium)
To support a consortium project with Minnesota Public Radio to produce The Composer"s
Voice, a series of one-hour radio programs for national broadcast featuring a broad range of
contemporary American composers and their work. (National/Multi-State Impact)
American Documentary, Inc.
New York, NY
$140,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the acquisition, packaging, and promotion of programs for the 1999 national broadcast
of P.O.V. (Point of View), a primetime summer public television series that showcases the
work of independent, non-fiction filmmakers. (National/Multi-State Impact)
Americans for the Arts
Washington, DC
$100,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Local Arts Agency
To support two components of Public Information and Access: Linking Americans and the Arts to the
21st Century including the further development of the ArtsUSA website and collaborations and
partnerships to broaden and leverage private funding and support for arts and arts education.
(National/Multi-State Impact)
Appalshop, Inc. / American Festival Project
Whitesburg, KY
$18,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Presenting
To support the Training Program of the American Festival Project, a national coalition, in its
second annual Cross-Cultural Training Conference and Institute involving workshops in cultural
exchange, development techniques, and on-site training teams. (National/Multi-State Impact)
Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ
$60,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the distribution of 950 titles of Hispanic, Latin American, and Spanish creative
literature to 2,600 bookstores throughout the United States during 1998, 1999, and 2000, a period
during which the press also will donate books to rural and inner-city schools, domestic abuse
treatment centers, and prisons. (National/Multi-State Impact)
Artrain, Inc.
Ann Arbor, MI
$45,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the 1998-99 Plains and Western States tour of Artrain"s exhibition, "Art in
Celebration!," comprised of artworks commissioned by the Smithsonian Associates to celebrate and
commemorate the Smithsonian and nationally significant events since 1972.
(National/Multi-State Impact)
Arts Company
Cambridge, MA
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the commissioning of art works to be distributed on the Internet. (National/Multi-State
Impact)
Asian American Arts Alliance, Inc.
New York, NY
$14,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support outreach efforts through the distribution of information in 1998 about Asian American
art and artists in publications, information hot lines, a resource library and on-line access.
(National/Multi-State Impact)
Association of Hispanic Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$14,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support development of a website which will provide access, audience development and marketing
opportunities to Latino artists through the Internet by offering AHA"s publications, database, and
other information services on-line. (National/Multi-State Impact)
Atlatl, Inc.
Phoenix, AZ
$24,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support national services designed to increase access to Native American arts, including the
organization of two travelling exhibitions, workshops for Native artists on marketing their art, a
quarterly newsletter, and collaborative efforts with other cultural organizations to produce,
present and interpret indigenous art forms. (National/Multi-State Impact)
Ballet Hispanico of New York
New York, NY
$35,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support the enhancement and expansion of Primeros Pasos (First Steps), the organization"s
education outreach initiative, during the 1998 and 1999 school years, to include in-school
residencies, special performances, and other activities in New York City and throughout the
country. (National/Multi-State Impact)
Camera News
New York, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support activities which will supplement a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art that will
celebrate Camera News" 30-year history, including the restoration of some of the film and video
prints in its distribution catalog, a panel on mentoring and training emerging film and video
makers of color, and the publication of a monograph covering the organization"s history.
(National/Multi-State Impact)
Center for City Building Educational Programs
Los Angeles, CA
$22,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Design
To support the development of an on-line, electronic, multi-media library that contains over 25
years of archival materials documenting the work of the Center for City Building Education.
(National/Multi-State Impact)
Chatham Baroque, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a tour of rural West Virginia by Chatham Baroque, presenting concerts of relatively
unknown Latin-American baroque music in such towns as Fairmont, Lewisburg, Glenville, Parkersburg,
and West Liberty during September of 1998, in collaboration with local arts councils and presenters
identified by the West Virginia Council of Cultural Coordinators. (National/Multi-State Impact)
Cineaste Publishing, Inc.
New York, NY
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support a series of articles within the four 1998 issues of the nationally distributed magazine
Cineaste, to increase writers" fees, and to produce an index to the contents of each issue
published in the journal"s 30-year history. (National/Multi-State Impact)
Civil Rights Project, Inc.
Boston, MA
$75,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support completion costs for a nationally broadcast public television series that will examine
the contributions of African-American artists in the 20th Century. (National/Multi-State
Impact)
Conductors" Guild, Inc.
West Chester, PA
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the 1998-99 series of conductor training workshops in sites around the country,
presented by the Conductors Guild, which include the study of a broad range of repertoire (with an
emphasis on American works) and utilize leading master teachers, in an effort to bridge the gap
between graduate-level conductor training and a professional music director post.
(National/Multi-State Impact)
Council of Chief State School Officers
Washington, DC
$140,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support a trainer-of-trainers program in arts education assessment for teachers and artists
from up to 14 states between June 1998 and May 2000. (National/Multi-State Impact)
Dance Theatre of Harlem, Inc.
New York, NY
$115,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support Dancing Through Barriers, a comprehensive education outreach program that provides
lectures, master classes, school assemblies, performances, and open rehearsals to children and
communities nationally. (National/Multi-State Impact)
Des Moines Metro Opera, Inc.
Indianola, IA
$7,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support artist fees for OPERA Iowa"s 1998 three-state regional tour to Iowa, Illinois, and
Minnesota of Rumpelstiltskin, a world premiere opera commissioned by Des Moines Metro
Opera and composed by Iowa artist Amy Tate Williams, that will include workshops and performances
in concert halls, schools, retirement homes, and health and human services agencies.
(National/Multi-State Impact)
Documentary Arts, Inc.
Dallas, TX
$60,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the production of Masters of Traditional Arts, an interactive digital program
showcasing the arts and cultures of the recipients of National Heritage Fellowships.
(National/Multi-State Impact)
Donald Byrd Dance Foundation, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$21,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support activities designed to engage communities nationwide in the creation of dance, enhance
public understanding of dance, and create a dialogue on contemporary issues addressed in Donald
Byrd"s choreography. (National/Multi-State Impact)
Educational Broadcasting Corp.
New York, NY
$700,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the development and production of performance specials and arts documentaries by the
WNET Cultural and Arts Division for national broadcast on PBS in 1999 within the Great
Performances and American Masters television series, providing free access to
America"s cultural treasures. (National/Multi-State Impact)
Eugene Ballet
Eugene, OR
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support development of an Educational Outreach Ensemble that will focus on activities that
involve residencies, in-school performances, and related projects during company residencies and
tour dates throughout a 14-state Western region. (National/Multi-State Impact)
Fitchburg Art Museum
Fitchburg, MA
$55,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education (Consortium)
To support a two-year consortium project between the Fitchburg Art Museum and the Fitchburg Public
Schools to develop a collection-based, arts-integrated, regional arts magnet school, grades 6-12,
serving north-central Massachusetts and southern New Hampshire. (National/Multi-State Impact)
Foundation for Independent Video & Film, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the publication of the Independent Film and Video Monthly in 1998, a
nationally distributed magazine devoted to providing information on all aspects of independent film
and video production including practical, aesthetic, and scholarly articles. (National/Multi-State
Impact)
H.T. Dance Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the implementation and expansion of Adopted Land, a dance-based educational program for
elementary, middle and high school-aged children that includes teacher guides, study guides, and
new dance works for local performances and national touring by Chen and Dancers.
(National/Multi-State Impact)
Hatch-Billops Collection, Inc.
New York, NY
$7,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support interviews and transcripts of twelve artists to be included in the 1998 Artist and
Influence public access television program, and a publication documenting Black Americans in
the arts that will be distributed to museums, public and university libraries, and scholars.
(National/Multi-State Impact)
Independent Feature Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts (Consortium)
To support a consortium project with the Independent Feature Project/West to commission noted
independent producers to write a series of articles for the nationally distributed magazine,
Filmmaker, and to expand outreach activities to increase subscribers. (National/Multi-State
Impact)
Juilliard School
New York, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music (Consortium)
To support the 1998-99 Seaver/NEA Conductors Award Program, a national project to increase the
number of American conductors leading our nation"s symphony orchestras, by identifying and
cultivating young, exceptionally talented conductors at early stages in their professional careers,
through four-year career stipends. (National/Multi-State Impact)
Kent State University Main Campus
Kent, OH
$8,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support scholarships for a nationally-auditioned, mentorship program during the 1998
Kent/Blossom Music Festival for music students seeking performance careers, which involves
Cleveland Orchestra musicians as teachers/mentors and provides performance opportunities at Blossom
Music Center and public venues in Akron, OH, that are heard on local and national radio broadcasts.
(National/Multi-State Impact)
Kent State University Main Campus
Kent, OH
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education (Consortium)
To support, during 1998 and 1999, a consortium project between Kent State and the Southern
Educational Communications Association to create six new episodes for Eureka! The Creative Art
Series, a national instructional TV series on PBS, and support resources, including an
integrated CD-ROM and print and Internet resources, for elementary school students and teachers
nationwide. (National/Multi-State Impact)
L.A. Theatre Works
Venice, CA
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the distribution of a package of ten plays on audio cassette to thousands of
underserved public high schools nationwide for use in classrooms and school libraries.
(National/Multi-State Impact)
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$125,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts (Consortium)
To support a consortium project to produce six national telecasts in 1999 of the public television
series, Live From Lincoln Center, reaching as many as eight million viewers per telecast.
(National/Multi-State Impact)
Meet The Composer, Inc.
New York, NY
$130,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the 1998-99 Community Residencies Initiative, a national project which places more than
800 composers-in-residence with a broad range of community organizations (housing developments,
libraries, arts facilities, and outdoor venues) in more than 40 states across the nation, resulting
in strengthened connections among composers and communities in which they live.
(National/Multi-State Impact)
Minnesota Public Radio, Inc.
St. Paul, MN
$35,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the production of St. Paul Sunday, a series of one-hour radio programs
demonstrating the vitality, diversity, and excellence of chamber music to the widest possible
audience through national broadcasts during 1998 and 1999. (National/Multi-State Impact)
National Asian American Telecommunications Association San Francisco, CA
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the publication and national distribution of two educational catalogs which will
facilitate the accessibility of Asian-American films and videos by teachers and students from
junior high school through college. (National/Multi-State Impact)
National Book Foundation
New York, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the American Voices project, which will send National Book Award-nominated writers to
ten American Indian reservations nationwide during 1998 and 1999 for educational residencies that
benefit students and the general reservation population. (National/Multi-State Impact)
National Institute of Art and Disabilities
Richmond, CA
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support development of a new exhibition to promote public awareness of the creative ability of
adults with developmental disabilities which will travel to highly visible locations throughout the
United States. (National/Multi-State Impact)
National Public Radio
Washington, DC
$75,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the 1998 NPR Classical Music Initiative, including the recording and national broadcast
of American orchestras on the daily classical music radio program Performance Today. and
new productions by American opera companies on the World of Opera. (National/Multi-State
Impact)
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support, following a national summit on design education, three professional development
institutes at various sites nationwide for teachers from around the country, focused on the use of
design in K-12 classrooms, to be developed by the University"s School of Design in collaboration
with the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, and offered in 1998 and 1999.
(National/Multi-State Impact)
Oakland Ballet
Oakland, CA
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support Oakland Ballet"s reduced-price community matinee series of full-length ballets, the
First Steps dance training program in local public schools, national touring, and other community
outreach efforts during 1998-99. (National/Multi-State Impact)
Pan Asian Repertory Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$12,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support Pan Asian Repertory Theatre"s tour of an original Asian American musical, Shanghai
Lil"s, to San Francisco, California for one year beginning March, 1998. (National/Multi-State
Impact)
PEN Center USA West
Los Angeles, CA
$38,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support a two-year project, Write Through Life, consisting of 25 residencies for writers in Los
Angeles high schools, mentorships for six emerging writers from underserved and minority
communities, and three seminars on practical topics for professional writers in Montana, Arizona,
and Colorado. (National/Multi-State Impact)
Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support arts education and outreach programs in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio during
the 1998-99 season which are designed to reach underserved audiences, build future audiences and
enrich children"s education through exposure to and participation in classical dance.
(National/Multi-State Impact)
Pittsburgh Dance Council, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support Beyond Pittsburgh, an access to dance project designed to develop audiences in rural
areas and smaller cities outside the Pittsburgh metropolitan area, including audiences in West
Virginia, through the partnership of national touring dance companies and locally-based
organizations. (National/Multi-State Impact)
Poetry Society of America
New York, NY
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature (Consortium)
To support the expansion of Poetry in Motion, a consortium project which places poetry placards in
public transportation systems, to Portland, Oregon; Baltimore, Maryland; Atlanta, Georgia; and
Washington, DC during 1998-99. (National/Multi-State Impact)
Professional Flair, Inc.
Cleveland, OH
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support community-based classes, lectures, and performances in schools throughout Ohio,
Illinois, and New York by Cleveland"s Dancing Wheels, and an integrated dance workshop that will
showcase dancers with and without disabilities highlighting methods of technique, training,
choreography and performance. (National/Multi-State Impact)
Public Media Foundation, Inc.
Boston, MA
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the dramatization and production of two radio plays based on the short stories of Sarah
Orne Jewett and Edith Wharton as part of the radio drama series "Scribbling Women," to be
nationally distributed by National Public Radio and to be included in a multimedia educational kit
for distribution to libraries, schools, and community centers. (National/Multi-State Impact)
Ririe-Woodbury Dance Foundation
Salt Lake City, UT
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the continuation of the Community Based Programming Project that will provide dance
services, based on the needs and opportunities identified in local communities, to rural areas in
California, Idaho, and Nevada by the Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company. (National/Multi-State
Impact)
Small Press Distribution, Inc.
Berkeley, CA
$90,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support a two-year targeted distribution initiative to provide individuals, libraries, and
bookstores in all 50 states with publications from 550 small and independent presses.
(National/Multi-State Impact)
Social Media Productions, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the research and development phase of a three-part documentary television series,
intended for national broadcast, on the lives and works of composers and musicians who helped shape
American music in the 19th century. (National/Multi-State Impact)
Sound Print Media Center, Inc.
Laurel, MD
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the 1998-99 production, promotion, and distribution of SOUNDPRINT, a weekly radio
series which presents the art of the radio documentary to national audiences through broadcast and
the Internet. (National/Multi-State Impact)
Teachers and Writers Collaborative
New York, NY
$23,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the publication and national distribution of The Teachers & Writers Guide to
William Carlos Williams and the presentation of three lectures on the work of Williams at T
& W"s Center for Imaginative Writing. (National/Multi-State Impact)
Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz
Washington, DC
$70,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support Jazz Sports, a national jazz instruction and performance project that provides public
school music students with instruction and mentoring by amateur and professional jazz musicians,
and creates performance opportunities before diverse audiences at high-profile events, including
National Basketball Association games. (National/Multi-State Impact)
Towson University
Towson, MD
$100,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support over two years, beginning in March 1998, development of an interactive CD-ROM based
modular instructional delivery system for public school teachers and administrators, to illustrate
how the National Standards for Dance can be utilized in K-12 public school classrooms.
(National/Multi-State Impact)
U.B.W., Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the 1998 Summer Dance Institute at Florida State University in Tallahassee, conducted
by Urban Bush Women. (National/Multi-State Impact)
University of California at Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
$75,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support Revisions, an eighteen-month project to document and disseminate through the Center"s
national network the work of under-recognized Asian Pacific American artists through video and
educational modules. (National/Multi-State Impact)
University of Texas at Austin/KUT Radio
Austin, TX
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the production and acquisition of arts and cultural programs to be broadcast nationally
on "Latino USA," a weekly English language radio journal of news and culture.
(National/Multi-State Impact)
University of the Arts
Philadelphia, PA
$13,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support three professional development workshops at various sites nationwide in 1998, and
assessment of pilot sites, which are part of a larger initiative called DK-12: Design for Thinking,
an intensive 7-year initiative at the University, in collaboration with teachers and designers in
the field, to effect significant systemic curriculum change in K-12 education.
(National/Multi-State Impact)
Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum
Decorah, IA
$18,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support, during 1998 and 1999, a partnership between the museum and the Byron, Minnesota,
public school system to develop new programming, outreach, and materials for the museum, provide
access for the schools, and serve as a model program for other sites.
(National/Multi-State Impact)
Vigilante Players, Inc.
Bozeman, MT
$6,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support a tour of original and commissioned works by regional playwrights to rural communities
in Montana, Idaho, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wyoming during the 1998-99 season.
(National/Multi-State Impact)
Washington Opera
Washington, DC
$35,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support the presentation of four Look-In performances, which are 50-minute behind-the scenes
programs designed to introduce the artistic elements of opera to 4th through 7th grade students in
the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia in 1998-1999. (National/Multi-State Impact)
WGBH Educational Foundation
Boston, MA
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support WGBH"s Descriptive Video Service to make dramatic, cultural, and artistic television
programs on PBS accessible to the nation"s blind and visually impaired citizens.
(National/Multi-State Impact)
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