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Local Arts Agencies: FY2004 Grants

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

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Alliance of New York State Arts Councils, Inc.
Mattituck, NY
$25,000
To support the development of Online Live! A New Model for Professional Development. In Partnership with Cornell University, this interactive online conferencing, meeting and training program will serve more than 2,000 local and statewide service and discipline specific organizations within all 62 counties of the state.

Arts Council of Rock Hill & York County
Rock Hill, SC
$20,000
To support the Revival Design Camp Meeting and ripple-effect. The Revival Design Camp is a national model for the cross-training of professional craft artists and environmentalists working with recycled materials; ripple-effect is the artist-directed, non-profit component that manufactures and markets the resulting sustainable designs.

Arts Council Silicon Valley
San Jose, CA
$32,000
To support the Community Arts Fund (CAF) grant program. Now in its 14th year, CAF promotes multicultural diversity of Santa Clara County's arts community and extends these resources to audiences throughout the region.

Cambridge Arts Council
Cambridge, MA
$25,000
To support Cambridge Public Arts ACTS. In partnership with the Underground Railway Theater, theatrical performances inspired by public artworks in Cambridge will be created to better acquaint the host communities with the artworks' significance.

City of Charleston, South Carolina (on behalf of Office of Cultural Affairs)
Charleston, SC
$25,000
To support Piccolo Art Beat. This outreach project for the 2005 Piccolo Spoleto Festival will include an artist residency through which Charleston students will learn drumming techniques, make percussion instruments from found objects, and perform an original composition created during the residency.

Colquitt Miller Arts Council (consortium)
Colquitt, GA
$25,000
To support the consortium Art with Heart project. Working in partnership with the Miller County Hospital/Nursing Home, students will be trained by local art instructors in various art forms such as weaving, basketry, quilting, painting and drawing, and will then work with nursing home residents and hospital patients to create community art projects.

Greater Columbus Arts Council, Inc.
Columbus, OH
$25,000
To support Arts CLASSified. This new searchable Web directory highlights providers of community arts education programs within Franklin County, Ohio.

Madera County Arts Council
Madera, CA
$15,000
To support a cultural needs assessment to identify the needs and interests of the Latino population. The goal of this project, undertaken in partnership with Latinas Unidas, is to expand and diversify the audience for Madera County Arts Council programs, particularly among the local Latino population.

Missouri Association of Community Arts Agencies
Columbia, MO
$18,000
To support the expansion and marketing of macaa.net. The Web site offers multiple types of information for arts organizations, individual artists, and rural audiences throughout Missouri.

Pinellas County Arts Council
Clearwater, FL
$70,000
To support the consortium project, Youth Arts Corps. In partnership with the City of St. Petersburg, this arts-based youth development program provides after-school and summer programs for youth eight to 17 and places professional artists in juvenile justice and community-based settings within Pinellas County.

Quad City Arts, Inc.
Rock Island, IL
$35,000
To support the Visiting Artists Series. The project is a performing arts residency program that brings artists of national acclaim to a six-county region within Illinois and Iowa, with performances held in traditional and non-traditional venues, including factories, small businesses.

Rockford Area Arts Council
Rockford, IL
$10,000
To support artists' fees for the ArtsPlace Open House. The project will feature visual arts exhibits and performances as part of an outreach effort by ArtsPlace, an arts job-training program for Rockford teens.

Southeast Texas Arts Council, Inc.
Beaumont, TX
$15,000
To support a Native American festival. The festival will demonstrate elements of indigenous southeast Texas Native American culture through dance, music, lectures, storytelling, and museum exhibitions.

Western Arts Agencies of North Carolina, Inc. (consortium)
Hiddenite, NC
$35,000
To support the integration of art into the Blue Ridge Heritage Area Management Plan (BRHA). In partnership with Advantage West, the consortium project will include an arts and tourism partnership retreat to educate arts councils on shared opportunities for cultural tourism; arts and heritage tourism workshops; and individual consultations with arts organizations to further develop strategies.

Creativity

Churchill Arts Council
Fallon, NV
$35,000
To support a performing arts series at the Oak Park Art Center Theatre. The series will offer audiences of northern Nevada presentations featuring artists representing international cultural traditions and aesthetics.

City of El Paso, Texas Arts and Culture (on behalf of Arts Resource Department)
El Paso, TX
$12,000
To support the Discovery Series Performances, lecture demonstrations, and master classes will be conducted by Ballet Hispanico, the Martha Graham Dance Ensemble, and the Turtle Island String Quartet in El Paso, Las Cruces, NM, and Chihuahua City, Mexico.

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Inc.
New York, NY
$45,000
To support the Workspace artist residency program. Workspace is a competitive residency program that will provide studio space to emerging and mid-career artists for the creation and exhibition of new work.

Northampton Arts Council
Northampton, MA
$10,000
To support Sisters of the South. Blues artists Beverly Guitar Watkins, Mother Pauline Goins, Cora Mae Bryant, Algia Mae Hinton, and Essie Mae Brooks will perform and present workshops as part of the council's performing arts series.

Heritage & Preservation

Americans for the Arts
Washington, DC
$50,000
To support a series of activities related to public art preservation. Project activities will include the archiving of visual documentation of national public art works for historical purposes as well as to serve as models for new projects, documenting best practices and policies including information about conservation of outdoor art, and disseminating this information to various interested parties.

Services to Arts Organizations and Artists

Bronx Council on the Arts, Inc.
Bronx, NY
$45,000
To support the Cultural Venture Fund. Selected Bronx arts organizations will be provided consultants and grants to facilitate the development of arts-related entrepreneurial ventures.

Cultural Development Authority
Seattle, WA
$15,000
To support the Touring Artists Program. TAP links King County performing artists with local and regional presenters by providing marketing assistance for artists and booking resources for presenters.

Fulton County Arts Council
Atlanta, GA
$40,000
To support ACCESS, an electronic marketing initiative designed to benefit Fulton County's arts community. Small and mid-sized arts organizations in metropolitan Atlanta will receive technology support to allow them to benefit from a newly developed Web portal that provides unified marketing for the arts.

Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance
Philadelphia, PA
$20,000
To support the continued development of an electronic marketing initiative PhillyFunGuide.com, an online regional entertainment calendar, and PhillyFunSavers, an e-mail program offering last minute, half-priced tickets provides unified marketing for southeastern Pennsylvania's nonprofit cultural organizations.

Illinois Arts Alliance Foundation
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support the Local Arts Network. The LAN provides training, technical assistance, and professional development opportunities for nonprofit arts organizations across Illinois.

Los Angeles County Arts Commission
Los Angeles, CA
$55,000
To support the Initiative of International Arts Collaborations. The initiative will provide opportunities for Los Angeles-based artists and arts organizations to interact with visiting international artists.

Michigan Association of Community Arts Agencies
Ann Arbor, MI
$42,000
To support a series of statewide and regional conferences focusing on arts management, community development, and leadership initiatives. MACAA provides direct services to its constituents that represent more than 3,000 arts and cultural organizations in Michigan's 83 counties.

National Community Arts Network
(United Statewide Community Arts Association)
$15,000
Rock Hill, SC
To support a mentorship program, professional development training opportunities, and travel subsidy for attendance at a national conference. The National Community Arts Network is the national association of statewide assemblies of local arts organizations.

South Dakotans for the Arts
Lead, SD
$18,000
To support the Prairie Arts Management Institute. Now in its third year, PAMI is a one-week residential training program for staff of small and mid-sized organizations from the prairie states of middle America.

Wisconsin Assembly for Local Arts
Madison, WI
$12,000
To support a series of training programs and resources for community-based cultural organizations. The comprehensive statewide program is designed to continue to strengthen Wisconsin's arts infrastructure while providing visibility for the arts.


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