Folk & Traditional Arts: FY2004 Grants

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

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Appalshop, Inc. (on behalf of WMMT-FM)
Whitesburg, KY
$15,000
To support a series of community-based radio broadcasts, which will air traditional music and stories. Based in eastern Kentucky, WMMT-FM serves a rural regional audience with historically strong ties to Appalachian musical traditions.

Armstrong County Museum, Inc.
Claude, TX
$10,000
To support the Rimstone Revue: Live From the Gem Theatre radio series. The series will showcase folk music and folk legends of the African, Anglo, and Hispanic settlers of the Texas Panhandle.

Arts Center of Cannon County
Woodbury, TN
$25,000
To support a folklorist position and related costs. Responsibilities will include creation of traditional music DVDs and CDs, development of interactive museum exhibits, a community scholar initiative, and an enhanced Web site.

Bayou Civic Club, Inc.
Larose, LA
$10,000
To support a folklorist position and related costs. Activities will include programming; technical assistance; and documentation of maritime traditions, craft skills, Cajun music, and Native American dance traditions along Bayou Lafourche.

Black Leadership Council for Excellence
Bryans Road, MD
$10,000
To support the Celebrations festivals and concerts. Major components of the event will be the Festival of the Americas, the Asian and Pacific Islands Festival, and the Juneteenth Festival of African-American cultures.

California Indian Storytelling Association
Fremont, CA
$25,000
To support the Storytelling Festivals 2004/05: Building Cultural Bridges--Continuing the Dialogue. The forums will bring together storytellers from California, Hawaii, Arizona, and Oregon, to meet and share their stories, discuss issues, and pass stories onto new generations as they educate the public.

California Traditional Music Society
Tarzana, CA
$10,000
To support the Folk Music in the Schools Program. Activities include interactive and educational performances by master folk musicians, dancers and storytellers.

Center for Cultural Exchange
Portland, ME
$30,000
To support a community programs director position and related costs. The director will oversee cultural initiatives and residencies with master artists; train and supervise staff and volunteer community coordinators; and conduct fieldwork among Maine's ethnic communities.

Centers for New Horizons, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$5,000
To support an instruction series in Afro-Caribbean, jazz, and hip-hop dance as well as African drumming. Activities are designed to increase self-esteem, develop discipline, and provide support and guidance for youth, ages six to17, while introducing them to participatory performance via dance and musical instruction.

City Lore, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support a documentarian position and related costs. The documentarian's work will result in ongoing exhibitions, publications, documentary films, and performances.

City of San Diego, California
San Diego, CA
$15,000
To support the Folk and Traditional Arts Program (FTAP) Web Site Project. The project will promote and build public awareness of folk and traditional artists in the San Diego area, and provide artists with access to resources and artists' networks that will enhance their professional capacity.

Cultural Resources, Inc.
Rockport, ME
$20,000
To support a folklorist position and related costs. Activities will include Web site development and fieldwork on the Kennebec-Chaudiere cultural trail.

Dine be iina, Inc.
Ganado, AZ
$20,000
To support the Sheep Is Life Cultural Development Project focused on the distinct Dinée (Navajo) rug weaving tradition. This initiative will include public programming, technical assistance to artists, and the development of strategies to assure that appropriate weaving materials and supplies are maintained.

Documentary Arts, Inc.
Dallas, TX
$20,000
To support the Masters of Traditional Arts Exhibition. The exhibition will be based upon the process through which the NEA National Heritage Fellows have attained mastery of culturally diverse artistic styles, whether ethnic, tribal, religious, or regional.

Ferrum College (on behalf of Blue Ridge Institute & Museum)
Ferrum, VA
$10,000
To support the Southwest Virginia Music Guide Project. The 14-county survey will identify traditional musicians and musical venues in the Appalachian region.

Hmong Cultural Arts, Crafts, Teaching & Museum Projects
Sacramento, CA
$10,000
To support an after-school program of instruction in Hmong pa dao embroidery, kheng music, and Hmong traditional folk dances. The program is offered to youths who live in a disadvantaged area.

Iowa Arts Council
Des Moines, IA
$20,000
To support Cultural Express: Traditional Arts on Tour. The project will consist of exhibitions and programs featuring traditional artists in Iowa libraries and museums, supplemented by exhibits, resource lists, press kits, and activity kits for pre-program presentations.

IRCO
Portland, OR
$20,000
To support the Creating Access for Refugee and Immigrant Traditional Arts project. A team of trainers and experts will prepare a refugee and immigrant community team including artists from Bosnia, Ethiopia, Iran, and Laos, to effectively present their traditional arts within an American format of festival art.

Jubilee Community Arts, Inc.
Knoxville, TN
$15,000
To support live presentations, broadcasts, and documentation of traditional music. The project will include a series of weekly concerts, performances at the Jubilee Festival, programs focusing on the traditional music of the southern Appalachian region, and research and documentation of traditional artists in East Tennessee.

Kalihi-Palama Culture & Arts Society, Inc.
Honolulu, HI
$10,000
To support training in traditional and contemporary art. Classes include Hawaiian, Polynesian, Okinawan, Filipino and Samoan dance; Samoan crafts; and ceramics.

Mindanao Lilang-Lilang (on behalf of Palabuniyan Kulintang Ensemble)
Daly City, CA
$20,000
To support the Palabuniyan Kulintang Ensemble tour. The project will consist of a series of kulintang music and dance concerts and workshops.

National Organization for Traditional Artists Exchange
Honolulu, HI
$25,000
To support a folklorist position and related costs. Responsibilities include coordination of concerts, exhibitions, workshops, and fieldwork documenting traditional artists to be showcased on the Pacific Visions radio series.

Northern Tier Cultural Alliance
Mansfield, PA
$10,000
To support the Forest Heritage Intergenerational Project. Activities will include workshops led by community traditional arts scholars; training in field work techniques by ethnographers; storytelling by Native American community residents; and expeditions to artists' studios.

Northwest Heritage Resources
Olympia, WA
$15,000
To support the Washington Tradition Portal (WTP) project. The Web site will house information about traditional arts and artists, events, and organizations statewide. The project will provide a resource through which educators and community scholars can learn about and contribute to the pool of knowledge about Washington state traditions.

Northwest Jersey Folklife Project, Inc.
Oxford, NJ
$10,000
To support the Northwest Jersey Folklife Project. Fieldwork and documentation will culminate in a traveling exhibition and an accompanying brochure featuring the folk arts of the northwest New Jersey region.

Performing Arts Society of Acadiana, Inc.
Lafayette, LA
$10,000
To support BRAVO! Building Relationships, Awareness, Visibility, and Opportunities. BRAVO!showcases Asian Indian, Laotian, and Colombian cultures in the southwestern region of Louisiana through performances, master classes, and lecture-demonstrations.

Texas Czech Heritage and Cultural Center
La Grange, TX
$20,000
To support a documentary on the Vrazels' Polka Band on the occasion of its 50th anniversary. The Czech musical group is widely considered to be the finest currently active within the tradition.

Traditional Arts in Upstate New York, Inc. (TAUNY)
Canton, NY
$25,000
To support an executive director's position and related costs. Responsibilities include working with five arts and community organizations in the North Country region to plan potential collaborations on TAUNY-produced programming of traditional arts and local culture for their sites.

UMOJA African Arts Company
Pittsburgh, PA
$10,000
To support the African Heritage Child Initiative. Students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade will receive instruction in African culture traditions. A series of individual workshops in African drumming, dance, stories, instrument making, and visual arts will be offered in 10 community libraries.

Vermont Folklife Center
Middlebury, VT
$25,000
To support the Weavings of War touring exhibition and catalog. The project will highlight both the beauty and meaning of a new and evolving genre of folk textiles.

West Plains Council on the Arts, Inc. (on behalf of The West Plains Council on the Arts)
West Plains, MO
$30,000
To support a folklorist position and related costs. The folklorist will work collaboratively to expand audiences for traditional artists, artforms, and folklife of the Ozark's region.

Wisdom of the Elders, Inc.
Portland, OR
$20,000
To support a tribal liaison position and related costs. A primary focus will be the continuation of the Turtle Island Storytellers Network, a project designed to identify, employ, and promote Native-American historians and storytellers, and document their work.

Creativity

Chhandam Chitresh Das Dance Company
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support the tour of an evening length collaborative work. East as Center features master artists Chitresh Das, Govindan Kutty, and Ni Ketut Arini.

City of San Antonio, Texas Office of Cultural Affairs
San Antonio, TX
$35,000
To support the fourth International Accordion Festival. The event celebrates the accordion's central role in the traditional music of the United States and throughout the globe.

Federated Dorchester Neighborhood
(on behalf of Yorick's Marionette Theater)
Dorchester, MA
$10,000
To support the creation of hand-carved marionettes. The 14 marionettes will be used for a production titled The Magic Circus and will be presented in schools and communities throughout New England.

Japanese American National Museum
Los Angeles, CA
$40,000
To support planning and fieldwork leading to an exhibition about taiko drumming in the United States. Activities include community involvement and outreach, documentation of community performances, and oral history interviews with 10 key figures in taiko.

Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI
$65,000
To support planning and fabrication of a Native American basketry exhibition. Carriers of Culture: Contemporary Native Basket Traditions will focus on contemporary Native American basketry traditions from Hawaii and North America at the turn of the century.

People's Center, Karuk Tribe
Happy Camp, CA
$20,000
To support an exhibition, an artist-in-residence program, and a basketweavers gathering. The project is designed to encourage basketweaving among the Karuk people, to support employment and income generation, and to increase public awareness of these Native American traditional arts.

Philadelphia Folklore Project
Philadelphia, PA
$30,000
To support the Local Knowledge Project. Activities will include a series of exhibitions and discussion groups or spoken work performances that will inform,interpret, and link the exhibitions.

South Carolina Traditional
Columbia, SC
$23,000
To support a concert, program book, and a CD-ROM. The project will highlight past recipients of the South Carolina Folk Heritage Awards.

Texas Folklife Resources
Austin, TX
$45,000
To support the Community Residency Program. The program will consist of four residencies in underserved Texas towns with populations of fewer than 10,000.

University of California at (on behalf of UCSB Arts & Lectures)
Santa Barbara, CA
$15,000
To support the San Jose Taiko residency program. The week-long program will feature interactive workshops and lecture demonstrations targeted to K-12 students in schools without arts programs, as well as workshops and evening lecture demonstrations at community centers.

Utah State University (on behalf of The Mountain West Center for Regional Studies)
Logan, UT
$35,000
To support the Mountain West Symposium on Song. The three-day symposium will be a combination of musical performances, scholarly papers and lectures, and workshops exploring aspects of song.

Wisconsin Arts Board (consortium)
Madison, WI
$30,000
To support the Arts in the Curriculum: Quilts project. The project will bring together researchers, educators, artists, and a community of learners to develop new teaching and learning approaches incorporating arts into the classroom and community.

Folk & Traditional Arts Infrastructure Initiative

Alabama Folklife Association, Inc.
Birmingham, AL
$20,000
To support the executive director's position and related costs. Responsibilities include creation of an Alabama Community Scholars Institute and the establishment of partnerships with federal and state organizations to document and present folk arts in various communities.

Alliance for California Traditional Arts
Fresno, CA
$35,000
To support the Traditional Arts Development Program. The program will consist of a mentoring and professional development; a gathering of organizations, artists, and funders; and partial support of the executive director and administrative assistant positions.

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
Harrisburg, PA
$30,000
To support continuation of the Folk Arts Support Centers. The project will expand outreach into underserved regions of the state, and will develop strategies to increase public participation in and awareness of the folk and traditional arts.

Division of the Arts, Louisiana Department of Culture, Recreation, & Tourism
Baton Rouge, LA
$25,000
To support Phase VII of Louisiana Voices. The program offers both high- and low-tech resources that provide teachers with folk arts-based lessons and strategies to meet Social Studies and English Language Arts content standards.

Florida Division of Historical Resources
Tallahassee, FL
$25,000
To support a statewide outreach coordinator's postion and related costs. Activities will include the Florida Folklife Apprenticeship Program, Folklife Days, the Exploring Florida Folkife library programs, and the Voices of Florida radio series.

Idaho Commission on the Arts
Boise, ID
$25,000
To support the Idaho Artistic and Cultural Traditions project. A lead folklorist, students, and community members will conduct surveys to identify and document underserved folk arts and artists in ten counties that comprise southwest Idaho.

Indiana University
Bloomington, IN
$25,000
To support Traditional Arts Indiana, a statewide program dedicated to the identification, documentation, presentation, and promotion of traditional arts and artists of Indiana. Activities will include public presentations and fieldwork but will focus primarily on an expanded apprenticeship program.

Institute for Community Research, Inc.
Hartford, CT
$20,000
To support a series of programs designed to expand documentation and presentation of Connecticut's folk arts. Traditional artists will receive technical assistance in documenting and archiving their traditional art forms, and community histories and community-based cultural programming will be developed.

Kentucky Arts Council
Frankfort, KY
$20,000
To support a folklorist position and related costs. Related activities will include a Community Scholars Program, an interactive Web site, and the development of a statewide folklife conference.

Maine Arts Commission
Augusta, ME
$20,000
To support the Traditional Arts Apprenticeship program. The program will bring recognition to local artistic traditions and will honor and support master artists who continue to practice these traditions.

Maryland State Arts Council
Baltimore, MD
$25,000
To support the fourth year of Maryland Traditions. Through this project, folklorists are placed in cultural institutions that serve rural and underserved regions presently challenged by demographic and cultural shifts.

Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI
$30,000
To support the Michigan Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program and related costs. Funding for the program will also support research, documentation, and public presentations, including an exhibition and publication.

Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation
Baltimore, MD
$25,000
To support a traditional arts program associate position and related costs. Core activities include fieldwork to identify traditional artists and their needs; integration of fieldwork into other programs at Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, and creation of links to allied field and funding resources.

Mississippi Arts Commission
Jackson, MS
$20,000
To support fieldworker positions and related costs. Four fieldworkers living in different regions of Mississippi, or in bordering states, will document and recruit traditional artists for the agency's folk arts apprenticeship and fellowship programs.

Museum of Western Colorado
Grand Junction, CO
$30,000
To support folklorist positions in western, eastern and southern Colorado. Activities include maintaining the statewide folk arts programs in education and cultural tourism, archiving 22 years of previous work, and planning the program's future infrastructure in collaborating with the Colorado Council on the Arts' overall planning process.

Nebraska Humanities Council
Lincoln, NE
$25,000
To support the Nebraska Folklife Network (NFN). Activities will include technical assistance to traditional artists, tradition bearers, cultural communities, and organizations; fieldwork in Vietnamese and Swedish communities; and the creation of two cultural educational traveling kits.

New Hampshire State Council on the Arts
Concord, NH
$20,000
To support expansion of the Learning Center component of the folklife Web site. Interactive educational activities will be based upon traditional music, words and images specific to craft and occupational traditions, maps featuring historic structures and traditional craft skills, and sample classroom projects.

New Mexico Arts
Santa Fe, NM
$25,000
To support the Folk Arts Apprenticeship and Community Fieldworker Network Programs. Practitioners for the apprenticeship program are sought in the course of the folk arts coordinator's fieldwork and with the assistance of trained lay folklorists or community scholars participating in the Community Fieldworker Network Program.

New York Folklore Society, Inc.
Schenectady, NY
$20,000
To support a folklore and education coordinator position and related costs. Activities will include folk arts education and professional training opportunities for folklorists, workshops for New York state educators, and a community scholar field school.

North Carolina Folklife Institute
Durham, NC
$25,000
To support a folklorist position and related costs. The folklorist will make selected folklife documentation accessible to the public, help public folklorists initiate and shape heritage tourism development in the state, and support public projects that have statewide impact.

North Dakota Council on the Arts
Bismarck, ND
$30,000
To support the statewide Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program and related costs. The program supports 15 pairs of North Dakota folk artists and apprentices participating in an intensive one-on-one teaching/learning situation.

Ohio Arts Council
Columbus, OH
$20,000
To support continuation of the Ohio Folk Arts Initiative. Core activities will include fieldwork and documentation; continuation of the Ohio Heritage Fellowship Program; presentation of folk and traditional arts at the Cityfolk Festival; expansion and updating of the Web site; and upgrading and operation of the Cityfolk Folklife Resource Center.

Old Town School of Folk Music, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$25,000
To support the community programs manager position and related costs. Activities will include formation of an advisory panel of experts in the field of African-American music, and the pilot of new point-of-entry concerts to connect with new audiences.

Oregon Historical Society
Portland, OR
$30,000
To support continuation of a statewide multi-year Latino initiative. The program includes rural residencies in Latino communities and a series of educational workshops designed to increase cross-cultural communication, interaction, and understanding of Latino culture for teachers, students, and their communities.

Rhode Island State Council on the Arts
Providence, RI
$20,000
To support the Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program and related costs. The program fosters the sharing and passing on of traditional skills within cultural communities and will pair 12 master-apprentice teams.

South Carolina Arts Commission
Columbia, SC
$25,000
To support continuation of the Heritage Corridor fieldwork coordinator position, the Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Initiative and establishment of a Folklife & Education Initiative (FEI). The initiative will create long-lasting partnerships at the local and state level, and create models for folklife documentation efforts in the state.

South Dakota Arts Council
Pierre, SD
$20,000
To support a folklorist position and related costs. Related activities will include the Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program, a Traditional Textiles Exhibit, and the Missouri River Folklife Project.

Texas Folklife Resources
Austin, TX
$20,000
To support a folklorist position and related costs. Responsibilities include fieldwork and folk arts project planning with African-American and Mexican-American community-based organizations in the underserved counties of Brazoria and Hidalgo.

Vermont Folklife Center
Middlebury, VT
$25,000
To support continuation of a statewide Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program and related costs. The apprenticeship program encourages the preservation of living traditional arts by funding master artists to work with apprentices in order to pass along time-honored skills and knowledge.

Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy
Charlottesville, VA
$25,000
To support continuation of the Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship Program and related costs. The program will support nine apprenticeship teams, drawing from a diverse range of communities and involving a wide array of traditional arts and folkways.

Washington State Arts Commission
Olympia, WA
$35,000
To support a folk arts coordinator position and related costs. Responsibilities include the Folk Arts in the Parks Initiative that will develop programs connecting many of the state's 120 parks with local communities through concerts, festivals, exhibits, and demonstrations.

Wisconsin Arts Board
Madison, WI
$35,000
To support continuation and expansion of Wisconsin Folks. The project is an online curriculum for students, a resource for educators, and a hiring directory for artists, featuring traditional artists in segments written for both students and adults.

Heritage & Preservation

Ali Akbar College of Music
San Rafael, CA
$20,000
To support the Ali Akbar Archive Project. The preservation effort will survey 35 years of important archival material and will explore ways to make the contents accessible.

Alianza Dominicana, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the Dominican Folk Instrument and Dance Apprenticeship project. The apprentice dancers in Alianza's youth ensemble will train to perform traditional social dances, while the folk instrument component will include instruction in the accordion, guitar, tres, quinto, and percussion instruments.

Allegheny Echoes, Inc.
Marlinton, WV
$8,000
To support workshops in traditional Appalachian music and poetry. The week-long workshops are designed to preserve, present, and pass down the traditional arts of West Virginia.

Alliance for California Traditional Arts
Fresno, CA
$40,000
To support the Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program. The project will support one-on-one learning for 25 master-apprentice pairs, an artists' gathering, and an on-line statewide traditional arts directory.

Arhoolie Foundation (on behalf of Sageland Media)
El Cerrito, CA
$20,000
To support the Kenny Hall Video Project. The video will document, preserve and present the repertoire and musical heritage of old-time fiddle and mandolin player Kenny Hall.

Asian Americans United, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
To support the ninth Annual Mid-Autumn Festival. The traditional lunar festival will feature master artists in martial arts, Chinese opera, traditional music, and dance as well as performances by youth and other community members.

Beacon Street Gallery and Performance Company
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support continuation of the Chicago Fieldwork Project. The survey will identify the cultural assets and needs of the diverse population of the Chicago metropolitan area.

Birthplace of Country Music Alliance
Bristol, TN
$10,000
To support a researcher position and related costs. The researcher will be responsible for interviews; field research; and the creation of an archive of materials about musicians, luthiers (guitar makers), and musical venues within a 100-mile radius of Bristol.

Boys & Girls Harbor, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the Archive Preservation Initiative (API). Archivists will catalog, preserve, and store paper and photographic materials in the 15,000-item Raices (roots) Collection.

Cambodian American Heritage, Inc.
Fort Washington, MD
$10,000
To support instruction in Cambodian traditional music as well as classical folk dances. The project will culminate with a concert in observance of Cambodian New Year. Workshops will be led by Madame Sam-OeunTes, dance director and 1998 NEA National Heritage Fellow, as well as by six additional master teachers and three instructors.

Center for Traditional Music and Dance, Inc.
New York, NY
$52,000
To support the Community Cultural Initiatives (CCI). The project is designed to contribute to the efforts of Mexican, Chinese, and Peruvian communities in becoming self-sufficient managers of their music and dance traditions.

Centro Civico of Amsterdam, Inc.
Amsterdam, NY
$20,000
To support documentation of the sacred traditional art of Latina home altars. The project will result in a traveling exhibition and catalog.

Chemung Valley Arts Council, Inc.
Corning, NY
$5,000
To support the Traditional Country Music Project. The project consists of an ongoing Old Time Fiddlers Gathering and a first-time Bluegrass Gathering.

City Lore, Inc. (on behalf of Henry Street Folklore)
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the Friends of Old Time Music (FOTM) project. Activities will include an oral history project, conference, concert, and publication to examine, analyze, and set in historical context the work of this pioneering folk arts organization.

City Lore, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
$35,000
To support a consortium project, the 2005 People's Poetry Endangered Languages initiative. In partnership with the Poets House, Inc., the gathering will bring together Native Americans, Africans and South American immigrants, Yiddish, Gaelic, and Basque poets.

City Lore, Inc. (consortium) (on behalf of Trova, Inc.)
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the sixth International Troubadour Festival. Twenty-two trovadores (improvisatory singer-poets) will perform Puerto Rican's traditional jibaro music.

City of San Fernando, California
San Fernando, CA
$20,000
To suport the Mariachi Master-Apprentice Program. The project includes instruction in advanced arrangement and performance skills.

Community Economic Development Center of SE Massachusetts
New Bedford, MA
$30,000
To support the Working Waterfront Festival. The event is a celebration of the occupational culture and artistic traditions of the port of New Bedford, including demonstrations and contests of occupational skills of the fishermen.

Dance Films Association, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
$40,000
To support a consortium folk music and dance project, Bombazo con los Cepeda. In collaboration with the Hostos Community College Advisory Council, Inc., the project will support Afro-Puerto Rican bomba music and dance through a residency tour consisting of concerts, workshops, school lectures, and demonstrations.

Davis & Elkins College (on behalf of Augusta Heritage Center)
Elkins, WV
$30,000
To support the West Virginia Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program and the Old-Time Fiddler's Reunion and related costs. Ten apprenticeship pairs will be supported in the home or workplace of the master artist where content, values and lore are shared along with the art itself.

Delta Blues Education Fund
Clarksdale, MS
$10,000
To support the Delta Blues Education Program. Apprentices will learn the Delta blues tradition directly from master blues musician Johnnie "Mr. Johnnie" Billington and graduate students from his training program.

Dry Creek Arts Fellowship
Flagstaff, AZ
$10,000
To support inclusion of the paniolo, Hawaiian cowboy culture at the 16th AnnualTrappings of the American West Exhibition. Activities will include an Artist/Apprenticeship Exchange Program designed to explore the cultural connections between the paniolo and the cowboy of the American West.

Evergreen State College (on behalf of Longhouse Education and Cultural Center)
Olympia, WA
$25,000
To support the second Annual Northwest Native Carvers Gathering. Fifteen Native American wood carvers will meet to present their work to the public in an educational setting and to analyze and discuss issues related to the protection, promotion, and preservation of the traditional expression of culture.

Film Arts Foundation (on behalf of Public Interest TV Films)
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support a documentary film titled Freedom's Road: A Musical Journey. The film will document the life and work of Linda Tillery and the Cultural Heritage Choir as they travel the world uncovering, preserving, and disseminating an endangered indigenous oral folk culture and African-American vernacular music.

Florida Division of Historical Resources (on behalf of Florida Folklife Program)
Tallahassee, FL
$15,000
To support a survey of traditional arts in Latin-American and Vietnamese communities in central Florida. Documentation will result in the integration of artists into special events, Web site resources, and ongoing folklife programs.

Gamelan Sekar Jaya
El Cerrito, CA
$15,000
To support post-production costs for a video documentary on the life and work of Balinese dancer Ni Ketut Arini. The documentary will be the first examination of Balinese dance conveyed by a master artist widely recognized as a national treasure and repository of rare and endangered dance forms.

Hawaii Craftsmen
Honolulu, HI
$20,000
To support the creation of a video archive of Hawaii's diverse floral artistic traditions. Art forms documented include Hawaiian lei making, Chinese New Year narcissus carving, ceremonial Laotian flower offering, and Japanese ikebana flower arranging.

Historical Association of Southern Florida, Inc.
Miami, FL
$20,000
To support the Haitian Community Arts Project. Activities will include technical assistance to Haitian arts practitioners in south Florida, and an exhibition of photographs highlighting Haitian traditional arts.

Homowo African Arts & Cultures
Portland, OR
$20,000
To support the 15th Annual Homowo Festival of African Arts. Activities will include performances, demonstrations, interactive workshops, and children's activities.

Hostos Community College Foundation, Inc.
Bronx, NY
$25,000
To support BomPlenazo 2004. The week-long multifaceted program will explore and present Puerto Rico's African-rooted bomba and plena music and dance traditions as they are practiced today.

Hula Preservation Society
Kaneohe, HI
$25,000
To support the preservation of ancient hula through an online hula library. Through digital technologies the voices, faces, movements, stories, and knowledge of Hawaiian hula masters are being gathered, preserved and disseminated.

Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, Inc.
Albuquerque, NM
$20,000
To support the Cultural Education Program (CEP). The CEP features Pueblo artists in weekly and special-event dances, regular lecture series, art and craft demonstrations, workshops, and festivals.

Institute for Community Research, Inc.
Hartford, CT
$20,000
To support the seventh year of the Southern New England Apprenticeship Project. The project will bring together 10 master artists and apprentices from Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.

Institute for Cultural Partnerships
Harrisburg, PA
$30,000
To support the Folk Arts of Newcomers project. The project will document, record, and archive traditional arts and practices among newly emerging, ethnic communities in south central Pennsylvania.

Jamestown Fine Arts Association Inc.
Jamestown, ND
$10,000
To support a regional folk arts festival. Activities will include performances, workshops, classes, and exhibitions. Year-long school and community residencies by indigenous and immigrant traditional artists have generated a call for continued arts programming in this city of 16,000.

Japanese Cultural & Community Center of Northern California (on behalf of Gen Taiko)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the Mastsuri Project, a program focused on Japanese-American heritage. Activities will include a residency by minyo (folk song) and shamisen (three-string Japanese lute) master artists; performances at the Japan Center Obon Festival, GenTaiko's 10th Anniversary Concert, and the fifth Annual Asian Pacific American Arts and Heritage Festival.

Kaisahan of San Jose
San Jose, CA
$8,000
To support the Next Generation Program. The project will offer five apprenticeships for young adult dancers to assume leadership roles in the teachng of Filipino dance classes.

Kern County Youth Mariachi Foundation
Bakersfield, CA
$20,000
To support implementation of an apprenticeship and instructor training program in mariachi traditions. Advanced students will be trained to mentor and teach younger students. A total of 120 students will be served by the program.

Ketchikan Indian Corporation
Ketchikan, AK
$35,000
To support the carving of traditional southeast Alaska Native totem poles and the organization of a potlatch (raising of the poles) celebration. The project includes an apprenticeship program in which a master carver will teach young Tlingit, Tsimshian, and Haida carvers to shape the poles.

Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center
San Pablo, CA
$15,000
To support the Community Heritage Project (CHP). The CHP promotes cultural traditions with the goal of increasing youth and family involvement in community affairs in the Mexican and Mexican-American communities of San Pablo and Richmond.

Los Pleneros de la 21, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the Puerto Rican Music Project. Project activities include concerts, performances, lectures, workshops, classes for youth and adults, and out-of-state residencies.

Maine Acadian Heritage Council
Madawaska, ME
$15,000
To support a compact disc and guidebook of the Saint John Valley cultural heritage trail. The project will introduce local residents and visitors to the region's cultural and historic sites, museums, traditional artists, family farms, stories, traditional cuisine, and music.

Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance, Inc.
Old Town, ME
$25,000
To support the Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program. The program will support 20 master basketmakers and 25 apprentices in the ancient traditions of ash and sweetgrass basketry among the Maliseet, Micmac, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot tribes in Maine.

Mars Hill College (on behalf of Liston B. Ramsey Center for Regional Studies)
Mars Hill, NC
$10,000
To support the Madison County: Birthplace to Folk Music Festivals project. The project will preserve four festival archival collections containing Southern Appalachian old-time and bluegrass music recordings through an online catalog, a Web-based exhibition, and a Community Memory Celebration.

Michigan State University (consortium)
East Lansing, MI
$35,000
To support a consortium project, the 2004 Great Lakes Folk Festival. In collaboration with the City of East Lansing, the festival will provide a sampling of the best traditional artists around the country and the world.

Mind-Builders Creative Arts Co. (consortium)
Bronx, NY
$10,000
To support a consortium folklorist-in-training program. In partnership with the Bronx Museum of the Arts, 18 interns between the ages of 12 and 18 will be recruited and trained to identify, document, and present 20 folk artists and tradition bearers found in Bronx neighborhoods.

National Council for the Traditional Arts
Silver Spring, MD
$55,000
To support an urban and rural festival, a Caribbean traditional arts tour in the eastern United States, and a series of outdoor concerts in an underserved region of Appalachia. The project is designed to present a broad array of folk, tribal, and ethnic artists in educational public programs throughout the nation to build new, diverse audiences for traditional arts while nurturing new, sustainable events.

Native American Art Scholarship Fund
Silver City, NM
$55,000
To support the Lore of the Land Indigenous Aural Historian Training Project. Seven indigenous people from five southwest Native-American tribes will acquire training, equipment skills, and professional credentials as community aural historians.

New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation, Inc.
New Orleans, LA
$25,000
To support the Louisiana Folklife Village, Folk Heritage Stage, and Native American Village at the Jazz Fest. The festival offers attendees a unique opportunity to interact directly with tradition bearers and to develop a deeper understanding of Louisianian and Native-American culture.

New York Folklore Society, Inc.
Schenectady, NY
$20,000
To support a statewide technical assistance and professional development program. The program provides vital services to folk artists and folk cultural specialists in New York.

Odunde, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$25,000
To support the 29th ODUNDE Festival. The festival is the oldest African-American community festival in Philadelphia, featuring local and international dancers, musicians, and performers in the areas of hip-hop, tap dance, gospel, rhythm and blues, stepping, drill teams, and many other genres.

Philadelphia Folklore Project
Philadelphia, PA
$40,000
To support Art Happens Here. The project will document and present Philadelphia folk artists and their arts to audiences in community sites throughout the region through traveling exhibitions and artist residencies.

Sweetwater Union High School District (consortium)
Chula Vista, CA
$10,000
To support the Learning from the Masters component of the Sweetwater Mariachi Festival and Conference. The project preserves the age-old Mexican artistic traditions of mariachi and ballet folklorico by inspiring a new generation of artists to hone their music and dance skills at the hands of mariachi master players.

Tohono O'odham Community Action
Sells, AZ
$40,000
To support the Celebration of Basketweavers gathering and related activities. Services will include creation of an on-line artists' directory, revitalization of willow basketweaving traditions through master classes, and expansion of marketing activities.

University of Missouri at Columbia (on behalf of Museum of Art & Archaeaology)
Columbia, MO
$25,000
To support the Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program. The program will join 10 apprenticeship pairs who are committed to conserving their artistic traditions and cultural heritage.

Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy
Charlottesville, VA
$25,000
To support a survey of traditional arts in and around Route 58 in southwest Virginia, also known as the Crooked Road. Materials gathered will be used to create a touring exhibition, a documentary film focusing on the Galax Fiddlers Convention, a series of documentary radio pieces, and an expansion of the archive of Virginia folk culture.

Ward Foundation, Inc.
Salisbury, MD
$30,000
To support a consortium project, the Traditional Mid-Atlantic Decoy Project. The project is designed to educate the public about traditional decoy carving in the Mid-Atlantic region and its cultural legacy to a national audience.

West Valley City, Utah
West Valley City, UT
$10,000
To support the Traditionbearers Festival and exhibition. The project will identify, document, and preserve the ethnic arts and artists in West Valley and introduce these ongoing traditions to the larger public.

Service to Arts Organizations and Artists

Fund for Folk Culture
Santa Fe, NM
$75,000
To support two gatherings and associated publications. The gatherings will focus on the internationalization of cultural resources, networks, and activity for the field of folk culture and traditional arts.

Northwest Native American Basketweavers
Omak, WA
$25,000
To support the 2004 Annual Gathering of Basketweavers. The regional gathering will honor 35 Native-American basketweavers, their apprentices, and families by showcasing their basketry, demonstrating artistic styles and techniques, and producing a public art market day.

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