1998 Grant Awards: Heritage & Preservation

Some details of the projects listed in this grant announcement are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

National/Multi-State Impact | Direct Impact Grants

The following grants have national or multi-state impact.

Andrew Cacho African Drummers and Dancers
Washington, DC
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance (Fiscal Agent for Olatunji Center for African Culture)
To support the acquisition and production of traditional African dances for the Olatunji Center for African Culture to be used in concerts and school performances nationally for an estimated audience of over 100,000 people. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Appalachian State University Center for Development of Social Responsibility
Boone, NC
$18,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Black Banjo Project: Griots of the Upland South including the preservation of previously unreleased reel-to-reel recordings and the production of two CDs featuring black banjo music, planned for national distribution through the Smithsonian"s Folkways label. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Appalshop, Inc.
Whitesburg, KY
$100,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support a series of arts activities in 1998 demonstrating the role of art in creating healthier communities by identifying and celebrating the cultural traditions of Blackey, Kentucky, a community emblematic of American post-industrial rural towns. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Artists Space, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support a retrospective publication that will be distributed internationally to commemorate the 25th anniversary of Artists Space, including in-depth interviews with over 300 artists who have exhibited at this organization that has served over 4,500 artists.
(National/Multi-State Impact)

Association of Village Council Presidents
Bethel, AK
$28,300
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support Dance and Song from the Yup"ik Point of View: A Living Tradition, a bilingual documentary account of Yup"ik dance and song that will be distributed nationally by the University of Washington Press. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Brown University
Providence, RI
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the catalogue and video components of Gifts of Pride and Love: Kiowa and Comanche Lattice Cradles and their Makers, a traveling exhibition that will present valuable artistic and scholarly Native American materials in Oklahoma and at least three other sites, organized by the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Buffalo Bill Memorial Association
Cody, WY
$12,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum (Consortium)
To support "Powerful Images: Portrayals of Native America," a collaborative exhibition among ten museums in states including Arizona, Texas, Oklahoma, and California reflecting how native peoples have represented themselves and how they have been portrayed outside their cultures from 1820 to the present. The exhibition is expected to draw an audience of over one million during its three-year tour to several venues. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Carter Family Memorial Music Center, Inc.
Hiltons, VA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the preservation of Old Time Music through a weekly concert series featuring mountain music of the region performed on acoustic instruments, simultaneously recorded for inclusion in a public archive used by practitioners and students of this traditional art form. (National/Multi-State Impact)

City Lore, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts (Consortium)
To support a consortium project, Dos Alas/Two Wings: Cuba y Puerto Rico, including a national tour of African-based Cuban rumba and Puerto Rican bomba music and dance through the collaborative efforts of City Lore and Harbor Conservatory for the Performing Arts in New York City. (National/Multi-State Impact)

City Lore, Inc.
New York, NY
$53,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
(Fiscal Agent for National Folk Arts Education Network)
To support the National Folk Arts Education Network, a national teacher/folklorist mentoring program, including a field guide, an Internet-based heritage resource center, and regional and national teachers" institutes. (National/Multi-State Impact)

City of Philadelphia Board of Directors of City Trusts Philadelphia, PA
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Design
To support the conservation and travelling exhibition of a collection of significant architectural drawings that offer an unparalleled documentation of the work of the many prominent architects who entered an 1832 competition to design Founders" Hall at Philadelphia"s Girard College. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Cleveland State University
Cleveland, OH
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the Cleveland Chamber Orchestra"s showcase of distinguished African-American composers and their works to be performed at free concerts at Karamu House and Cleveland State University in April 1998; accompanying composer residency activities; and a CD of never before-recorded music, distributed to academic institutions nationally and internationally.
(National/Multi-State Impact)

Colorado Dance Festival, Inc.
Boulder, CO
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the International Tap Association"s Closing the Gap project that will document four generations of nationally significant tap artists through oral histories, videotaping, publications, the creation of archives, and by making this information available at key dance libraries across the country. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Dance Pioneers
Honolulu, HI
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the production of a video documentary, intended for national broadcast, about the American choreographer and dancer, Donald McKayle. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Duquesne University/WDUQ FM
Pittsburgh, PA
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the production and national distribution of a public radio series presenting performances from the Lowell Folk Festival, America"s largest free celebration of traditional music and culture. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Elders Share the Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$45,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts (Consortium)
To support a consortium between Elders Share the Arts and Los Pleneros de la 21 that will complete post production activities and distribute Bomba! Dancing the Drum, a video documentary about the Cepeda family -- important artists in the Puerto Rican Bomba tradition. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Electronic Arts Intermix, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the initial stages of documenting, cataloging, preserving, and disseminating Intermix"s historical inventory of artists" videotapes -- one of the most distinguished collections of video art in the country. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Film Arts Foundation
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts (Fiscal Agent for Searchlight Films)
To support the production and post-production of a documentary film on the gospel singer Marion Williams that will be made available for national distribution. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Folk Traditions, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the development of a public television series for national broadcast about the evolution of the Broadway musical, in cooperation with the Library of Congress. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Fund for Folk Culture
Santa Fe, NM
$54,600
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a national program of technical assistance and services to the folk and traditional arts field throughout the United States.
(National/Multi-State Impact)

Institute for Community Research
Hartford, CT
$25,700
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts (Consortium)
To support the Rhode Island/Connecticut traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program, a collaborative cross-state project by the Institute for Community Research and the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Koahnic Broadcast Corporation
Anchorage, AK
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts (Consortium)
To support the National Native Oral Traditions Project, a radio initiative to document and present Alaska Native and other Native American arts, language, and cultural traditions to Native and non-Native communities around the nation. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Lira Ensemble
Chicago, IL
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support performances of the Lira Ensemble"s Polish American Christmas Gala in Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana, and Illinois. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Los Pleneros de la 21, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a series of Puerto Rican folk music programs across a five-state area, including An Evening with the Masters, Feasts of the Cross, Bomba & Plena Children"s Workshops, and a touring residency program. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Los Reyes de Albuquerque Foundation
Albuquerque, NM
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support and perpetuate the Hispanic music and culture of northern New Mexico and southern Colorado through presentations at child day-care centers and senior citizen centers in rural New Mexico. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Museum of Chinese In The Americas
New York, NY
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support Fly to Freedom: The Art of the Golden Venture Refugees Traveling Exhibition, an updating and touring project of the artwork created by Chinese immigrants whose ship had run aground off the coast of New York City in June of 1993, and were subsequently incarcerated for over three years pending determination of their immigration status. (National/Multi-State Impact)

National Council for the Traditional Arts
Silver Spring, MD
$100,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Folk Artists National Visibility Project, including large urban festivals, touring programs, and cultural interpretation in National Parks with media products produced for the participating traditional artists. (National/Multi-State Impact)

National Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Property, Inc. Washington, DC
$55,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support Save Outdoor Sculpture! Tender, Loving Care, which will provide training for 300 community residents by professional conservators to perform critical, low-tech maintenance and provide information on the significance of major public sculptures in fifteen states. (National/Multi-State Impact)

National Park Foundation
Washington, DC
$38,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the 1998 American Roots 4th of July Concert & Radio Broadcast to be held on the grounds of the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., and bringing the nation"s finest cultural traditions and performing artists to an audience of more than 250,000. (National/Multi-State Impact)

New York University
New York, NY
$6,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support editorial expenses, and authors" and translators" fees for the publication of four issues of The Drama Review. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Non-Traditional Casting Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the maintenance of Artist Files Online, a computerized and nationally available database of artists of color and artists with disabilities; maintenance on the Internet of New Traditions, a theater journal dedicated to issues of cultural diversity; and the Resource Guide for employers of actors with disabilities. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Northwest Native American Basketweavers Association
Olympia, WA
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the 1998 Master Basketweaver"s Annual Regional Gatherings of Native American Master Basketweavers and their apprentices and families, showcasing a myriad of artistic styles and techniques through demonstrations and discussions. (National/Multi-State Impact)

OLLANTAY Center for the Arts, Inc.
Jackson Heights, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the bi-annual production and publication of OLLANTAY Theater Magazine and the production and publication of Latino Drama Anthology, Vol. II, both distributed nationally to libraries, colleges, and individuals. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Preserve, Inc.
Falls Church, VA
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the convening and documentation of a symposium at the American Dance Festival that will review national efforts to document American dance over the last ten years, and to support the production and national distribution of Afterimages, a newsletter that provides essential information about performing arts documentation and preservation. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Princeton University
Princeton, NJ
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support The Art and Culture of Chinese Calligraphy: Selections from the John B. Elliott Collection, a touring exhibition organized by the Princeton Art Museum and accompanied by a catalogue and public programs that will be held at three sites, giving the American public an appropriate cultural context for this ancient art form. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Rhythm and Blues Foundation, Inc.
Washington, DC
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the production of Let the Good Times Roll, a radio series on the history of rhythm and blues, tentatively scheduled to be broadcast on National Public Radio in 1998-99. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Robert W. Woodruff Arts Center, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$60,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a showcase of works by African-American composers in a Martin Luther King, Jr. celebration, including: a January 1998 concert by the Atlanta Symphony, and Morehouse and Spelman College Glee Clubs; nationwide and European broadcast on Performance Today (NPR); production of CDs of African-American composers" works; and performances and master classes for area college students. (National/Multi-State Impact)

San Francisco Contemporary Music Players
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a recording of chamber music compositions written by noted flutist James Newton, featuring the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, James Newton, and his Quartet; to be released in July 2000 on New World Records to 1,500 libraries and 4,000 retail/wholesale outlets in the United states and 19 foreign countries. (National/Multi-State Impact)

St. Louis Symphony Society
St. Louis, MO
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the two-year Musical History Archive Project, transferring 3,500 hours of analog, BETA and DAT recordings, made during a pivotal period of the St. Louis Symphony"s history
(1968-1996), of 1,750 performances, to CD format for preservation and dissemination to various local and national institutions for scholarly research and study. (National/Multi-State Impact)

University of Denver
Denver, CO
$18,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
(Fiscal Agent for Rocky Mountain Conservation Center)
To support the provision of on-site professional conservation services by the Rocky Mountain Conservation Center to small and rural museums, historical societies, and historic park sites throughout the Rocky Mountain/Great Plains region as a cost-effective way of preserving and caring for collections that are available to a broad public. (National/Multi-State Impact)

University of Minnesota-Twin Cities/Weisman Art Museum
Minneapolis, MN
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the conservation of paintings by American Modernist Alfred Maurer, the costs of publishing a catalogue that will build on important new scholarship on the Modernist period, an exhibition in Minneapolis, and a five-venue national tour, organized by the University"s Weisman Art Museum. (National/Multi-State Impact)

University of Southern Mississippi
Hattiesburg, MS
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts (Consortium)
To support the Piney Wood Folklife Project, a consortium documentation project by the University of Southern Mississippi, the Mississippi Arts Commission, the Louisiana Division of the Arts, the Alabama State Council on the Arts, and the Alabama Center for Traditional Culture that will document and present the art forms of traditional artists from this unique cultural area. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Vermont Folklife Center
Middlebury, VT
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts (Consortium)
To support a consortium project for the production and broadcast of New England Touchstones, a series of five-minute radio programs on traditional storytelling. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts
Vienna, VA
$100,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts (Consortium)
To support the Folk Masters Concert, Education, Radio and Recordings Project, a consortium initiative with the New Orleans Urban Folklife Society to include concerts from Wolf Trap broadcast over 300 NPR stations, folk arts features for the New Orleans radio series American Routes, Folk Masters secondary school curricula, and CDs distributed through the Smithsonian. (National/Multi-State Impact)

World Music Institute, Inc.
New York, NY
$45,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts (Consortium)
To support the World Music America -- A Consortium, which includes a concert and workshop series by traditional musicians and dancers from Pakistan, Kurdistan, Vietnam, Bulgaria, and Puerto Rico. (National/Multi-State Impact)

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