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Local Arts Agencies: FY2002 Grants

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

Access | Challenge America Access | Creativity | Heritage/Preservation

Organizational Capacity | Panelists

Access

Arts Council of Rock Hill and York County
Rock Hill, SC
$40,000
To support the Revival Design Camp Meeting, including the marketing of developed products. The Revival Design Camp Meeting provides cross-training to professional craft artists and environmentalists in the design of home furnishing and accessory prototypes that are primarily composed of recycled materials.

City of Charleston, South Carolina
Charleston, SC
$50,000
To support the provision of low- and no-cost Piccolo Spoleto Festival events in a range of community settings. Held in Charleston, , Piccolo Spoleto Festival presents national and international artists and provides a significant venue for artists of the southeastern region.

King County Arts Commission (consortium)
Seattle, WA
$50,000
To support the King County Performance Network (KCPN). The KCPN, a regional affiliation of local arts agencies, will provide coordinated services to identify performance venues and better techniques to market contemporary theater.

Lowndes/Valdosta Arts Commission
Valdosta, GA
$7,000
To support a series of exhibitions primarily featuring the work of regional artists. Each exhibit will hang in the Main or Hall Galleries of the Lowndes Valdosta Arts Center and will be accompanied by monthly educational programming, as well as provide the public with an opportunity to meet the artists.

Metropolitan Arts Council
Greenville, SC
$7,000
To support Greenville Open Studio. Local professional artists will open their studios for tours to the general public, and an exhibition of works by the participating artists will be mounted at the Greenville County Museum of Art.

Perry County Council of the Arts
Newport, PA
$11,000
To support the 19th Annual Festival at Little Buffalo and Coffeehouse presentations. The festival is a regional event that combines musical performances, workshops, a fine arts and crafts marketplace, juried art exhibits and artist demonstrations. Coffeehouse provides a venue for poets, authors and emerging musicians.

Pinellas County Arts Council
Clearwater, FL
$33,000
To support Youth Arts Corps, which places artists in juvenile justice and community-based residency programs. It also operates Youth Arts Corps at Wildwood, an after-school program, and Youth Arts Corps Productions, a job-training program.

Challenge America Access

Missouri Association of Community Arts Agencies
Columbia, MO
$25,000
To support the Rural Initiative. The project will develop arts programs in rural communities and provide services to isolated artists through an on-line artist directory, a rural touring roster, and technical assistance.

Scottsdale Cultural Council
Scottsdale, AZ
$50,000
To support an artist residency program in the Salt River and Gila River Pima/Maricopa Indian communities. The residency program will provide an opportunity for local and national artists to work with tribal children in elementary and secondary schools.

Creativity

Arts Council of New Orleans
New Orleans, LA
$23,000
To support a master artist residencies series designed to offer professional visual artists the opportunity to work in non-studio settings. The master artists selected for this initial residency are John Scott, Lin Emery and Helen Escobedo.

Churchill Arts Council
Fallon, NV
$15,000
To support a performing and visual arts series for the benefit of residents of northern Nevada and surrounding areas. The series will include performing and visual arts events offering a wide variety of cultural traditions and aesthetics.

City of El Paso Arts Resources Dept.
El Paso, TX
$10,000
To support the World on a String Guitar Festival, including performances and master classes. Guitarists Paul Galbraith, Berta Rojas, Andrew York, Brian Gore, Peppino D'Agostino and Laurence Juber will perform at the Chamizal National Memorial Theater drawing audiences from New Mexico and Mexico.

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
New York, NY
$35,000
To support the World Views Visual Arts Residency. Until the events of September 11, the program operated on the 92nd floor of the World Trade Center's Tower One. An alternative site is being explored.

Quad City Arts, Inc.
Rock Island, IL
$18,000
To support the Visiting Artist Series. This series will include internationally acclaimed artists performing and in residence at venues in a six-county area of Illinois and Iowa.

Heritage/Preservation

Americans for the Arts
Washington, DC
$75,000
To support the preservation of Americans for the Arts' policy, research and training documents through digitization and the creation of an online archive Digitizing and archiving these documents, published as early as 1985, will make this collection accessible to the arts policy and administration fields at the local, state and national levels.

Organizational Capacity

Alliance of New York State Arts Councils, Inc. (consortium)
Mattituck, NY
$40,000
To support the E-Institute for Leadership, developed in partnership with the New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University. The E-Institute will provide an opportunity for 30 state and local arts service professionals to participate in a series of primarily technology-based learning activities designed to sharpen arts leadership skills.

Arts Council Lake Erie West
Toledo, OH
$30,000
To support the expansion of the Black Swamp Rural Arts Initiative (BSRAI). Working in partnership with the Ohio Arts Council, BSRAI will develop arts leadership skills in Northwest Ohio rural communities through professional development workshops, peer mentoring and the use of technology.

Bronx Council on the Arts
Bronx, NY
$78,000
To support the Cultural Venture Fund. This initiative provides funding and consultants to assist Bronx arts organizations in the development of arts-related entrepreneurial ventures.

Culture Works
Dayton, OH
$22,000
To support the Cultural Assets Program. The Cultural Assets Program is an intensive, long term leadership development and training program for the staff and board of small and emerging arts and cultural organizations in greater Dayton.

Illinois Arts Alliance Foundation
Chicago, IL
$15,000
To support the Local Arts Network. The Local Arts Network provides training, technical assistance and networking opportunities for local arts agencies to strengthen local delivery of arts programs and services throughout the state.

Michigan Association of Community Arts Agencies
Ann Arbor, MI
$58,000
To support training and technical services to arts and cultural organizations. Through a series of conferences, regional workshops and peer-to-peer assistance, the association will provide direct services to arts and cultural organizations throughout Michigan's 83 counties.

Wisconsin Assembly for Local Arts
Madison, WI
$14,000
To support the Arts Leadership Program. The program will focus on education and expansion of the management and leadership skills of paid and volunteer leaders of Wisconsin's community-based cultural organizations.


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