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FY 2006 Gulf Coast Hurricane Relief Grants

ALABAMA

Alabama State Council on the Arts
Mobile, AL
$24,100
To support projects that revitalize the arts industry in the areas affected by the 2005 hurricanes.

Arts & Humanities Council of Tuscaloosa
Tuscaloosa, AL
$5,000
To support a production by the Birmingham Children's Theatre. Androcles & The Lion will take place in the Council's historic Bama Theatre. The project will focus on serving youth from the Tuscaloosa City and County school systems whose access to performing arts has been curtailed due to recent hurricane damage.

Mobile Arts Council
Mobile, AL
$10,000
To support arts programming at the Alba Middle School by providing assistance to replace musical instruments, sheet music, music stands, and visual arts supplies destroyed by hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

Number of grants: 3   Total amount: $39,100


FLORIDA

Florida Keys Council on the Arts
Key West, FL
$8,900
To support regranting to select constituent arts organizations whose programming was affected by hurricane damage.

Miami Dade County Dept. of Cultural Affairs
Miami, FL
$8,900
To support the Vizcaya Museum and Gardens in repair of damages to the Museum's collections and gardens.

Number of grants: 2    Total amount: $17,800


LOUISIANA

Louisiana Division of the Arts
Baton Rouge, LA
$70,400
To support projects to revitalize the arts industry in the areas affected by the 2005 hurricanes.

Acadiana Arts Council
Lafayette, LA
$20,000
To support the development and implementation of The Creativity Center, a year-long series of visual, performing, and literary arts workshops and classes that will provide residents (both temporary and permanent) of the Eighth-Parish Acadiana region with artistic opportunities to respond to the hurricane devastation.

Arts Council of Central Louisiana
Alexandria, LA
$5,000
To support Spirit of Inspiration, a concert by the American Spiritual Ensemble for evacuees from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The American Spiritual Ensemble is an accomplished chorale that has performed around the world with renditions of classic spirituals, jazz, and Broadway tunes highlighting the African American experience of survival.

Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge
Baton Rouge, LA
$10,000
To support the Post-Katrina Major Works Call to Artists, a project that will provide artists in all disciplines with the opportunity to design, document, and prepare proposals for works expressing their creative response to Hurricane Katrina.

Arts Council of New Orleans
New Orleans, LA
$30,000
To support management infrastructure and services to artists and arts organizations affected by Hurricane Katrina. Project activities will include coordination of cultural facility damage assessments, free computer access for job searches, supply donations, as well as provide grants for artists to acquire equipment and rent studio space.

Arts & Humanities Council of Southwest Louisiana
Lake Charles, LA
$15,000
To provide grants to constituent arts organizations to resume programming curtailed by Hurricane Rita, as well as for the Council's administrative costs associated with managing services for participating organizations impacted by the Hurricane.

Contemporary Arts Center
New Orleans, LA
$20,000
To provide administrative support for the re-opening of the Arts Center damaged by Hurricane Katrina.

Friends of A Studio in the Woods
New Orleans, LA
$10,000
To support a series of artist residencies of visual, literary, and performing artists affected by Hurricane Katrina to work at this site located in a protected, bottomland hardwood forest located on the west bank of the Mississippi River.

Houma-Terrebonne Arts & Humanities Council
Houma, LA
$5,000
To support ArtSense, a four-week summer visual arts camp for children ages 7 to 12 from the region devastated by Hurricane Katrina.

Louisiana Library Foundation
Baton Rouge, LA
$10,000
To support the 4th Annual Louisiana Book Festival and aid in the recovery of its writers, book professionals, and supplies after the devastation wrought by Hurricane Katrina in the Gulf Coast region.

Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra
New Orleans, LA
$20,000
To support orchestral performances as part of the "We're ‘Marchin' to New Orleans" month-long celebration of the performing arts in New Orleans in March, 2006. Guest artist Branford Marsalis will join the symphony at the opening concert in the restored Mahalia Jackson Theatre of the Performing Arts in Louis Armstrong Park.

National Performance Network
New Orleans, LA
$10,000
To support Performance – The Next Generation. The project will provide Louisiana artists with opportunities to perform with other artists and presenters for audiences in communities throughout the state.

New Orleans Ballet Association
New Orleans, LA
$20,000
To support performances by the Joffrey Ballet and the Parsons Dance Company, along with education and outreach programs, for the residents of New Orleans. The companies will be presented on the concert stage, as well as in community settings, reaching an estimated 7,500 people through concerts, master classes, open dress rehearsals, pre-performance talks, and other life-long learning activities.

New Orleans Museum of Art
New Orleans, LA
$30,000
To support an emergency conservation project that will assess the conservation needs of the permanent collection, including a condition report of the relocation of 30,000 objects, report on the needed treatment of adversely affected objects, and assess the replacement of archival packing and storage materials destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.

New Orleans Opera Association
New Orleans, LA
$20,000
To support a gala benefit concert titled A Night for New Orleans. Confirmed guest artists include Plácido Domingo, Denyce Graves, Samuel Ramey, and Paul Groves. The March 4, 2006 performance will occur in the Municipal Auditorium of the Performing Arts in Louis Armstrong Park in New Orleans.

Northeast Louisiana Arts Council
West Monroe, LA
$5,000
To support presentations through the Council's Rural Underserved Presenters and Representative Program, including a musical concert tour of We Three Kings, a retrospective exhibition of works by photographer Lee Estes, and a concert series by baritone Corey Trahan for residents of a rural area of northeast Louisiana.

Performing Arts Society of Acadiana
Lafayette, LA
$10,000
To support a series of Louisiana artist residencies, outreach activities, and performances. Project activities will target youth, the Latino and African American communities.

Shreveport Regional Arts Council
Shreveport, LA
$5,000
To support Katrina Arts Relief and its projects to assist displaced artists and arts organizations with supplies, materials, marketing assistance, space rental, and related administrative costs.

Young Aspirations/Young Artists, Inc.
New Orleans, LA
$10,000
To support a long-range planning process and creation of a collective artwork. The two-and-a-half-day event will enable the organization to plan for recovery after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.

Number of grants: 19    Total amount: $325,400


MISSISSIPPI

Mississippi Arts Commission
Jackson, MS
$50, 200
To support projects to revitalize the arts industry in the areas affected by the 2005 hurricanes.

Beauvoir, The Jefferson Davis Home
Biloxi, MS
$10,000
To support costs related to the salvage, cleaning, repair, photography, cataloging, and storage of artifacts at the historic home of Jefferson Davis.

Hattiesburg Civic Arts Council
Hattiesburg, MS
$5,000
To support documentation of the effects of the hurricane in writing and photography and to provide assistance to artists, including painter Jorge Valato and potter Brian Nettles.

Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art, Inc.
Biloxi, MS
$15,000
To support staffing and conservation efforts of museum's curatorial staff to work with conservation scientists from the Winterthur Museum in Delaware on the repair and restoration of collections of paintings, drawings and African art.

Walter Anderson Museum of Art
Ocean Springs, MS
$10,000
To support the museum's traveling exhibition program throughout the state, which was curtailed by the destruction of travel crates by Hurricane Katrina.

Mississippi State University (Carl Small Town Center)
Mississippi State, MS
$30,000
To support a Your Town design workshop for the city of Pass Christian, Mississippi.

Mississippi Main Street Association
Jackson, MS
$22,000
To support a Your Town design workshop for the city of Picayune, Mississippi.

Mississippi Department of Archives and History
Jackson, MS
$18,000
To support a Your Town design workshop for Columbia, Laurel, Lucedale, and Wiggins, Mississippi.

Number of grants: 8    Total amount: $160,200


TEXAS

Southeast Texas Arts Council
Beaumont, TX
$10,000
To support the Council's work in assisting dislocated artists to secure working venues and presentation space in the wake of Hurricane Rita. Regional arts facilities suffered extensive damage and this project will provide alternative venues for artists during recovery efforts.

Texas Commission on the Arts
Austin, TX
$17,500
To support projects to revitalize the arts industry in the areas affected by the 2005 hurricanes.

Number of grants: 2    Total amount: $27,500


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