NEA 2000 SECOND ROUND GRANTS.The National Endowment for the Arts National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Independent agency of the U.S. government that supports the creation, dissemination, and performance of the arts. It was created by the U.S. (NEA NEA abbr. 1. National Education Association 2. National Endowment for the Arts NEA (US) n abbr (= National Education Association) → Verband für das Erziehungswesen ) has announced its second round of grants for the 2000 fiscal year. The NEA was allotted al·lot tr.v. al·lot·ted, al·lot·ting, al·lots 1. To parcel out; distribute or apportion: allotting land to homesteaders; allot blame. 2. a budget of $97.6 million for Fiscal Year 2000, $79.6 million of which was designated for grantmaking. Second round grants total $50.2 million or 63% of the Endowment's Fiscal Year 2000 funds. Grants will be distributed through three of the Endowment's major grant categories: Access, Education and Heritage and Preservation. The Access category, which funds events such as artist residencies, after-school and mentoring programs, performing arts tours, community-based projects, publication distribution and the innovative use of technology in communities where they are not readily available, will award 208 grants totaling $4.4 million. In Education, 244 grants totaling $6.2 million were approved. Education grants reflect the Endowment's commitment to the arts as an integral part of education. In the Heritage and Preservation category, which funds organizations to help conserve signific ant artworks and to help increase the visibility of art and artists of various cultural traditions, 208 grants totaling $3.8 million will be awarded. In addition, state and regional arts agencies will receive $33.3 million in Partnership Agreements and $2.5 million will fund Leadership initiatives. Overall, projects reaching national or multi-state audiences will receive $11.3 million. On February 7, President Clinton submitted his FY 2001 budget proposal to Congress, requesting a $150 million appropriation for the NEA, an increase of $52 million from the FY 2000 budget. The additional funds would primarily be used to support Challenge America, a new initiative that aims to connect arts organizations more closely with families and communities, provide access to the arts in underserved areas and encourage the development of cultural organizations in communities not previously served by the NEA. In addition, the President has proposed funding for a collaboration between the NEA and the Department of Education. What follows are grants that we believe will be of interest to Afterimage afterimage /af·ter·im·age/ (af´ter-im?aj) a retinal impression remaining after cessation of the stimulus causing it. af·ter·im·age n. readers, culled from the Media Arts, Visual Arts visual arts npl → artes fpl plásticas visual arts npl → arts mpl plastiques visual arts npl → , Multidisciplinary, Museum, Arts Education, Local Arts Agencies and State and Regional Arts Organizations categories. Media Arts Anthology Film Archives, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , NY $8000 To support the publication of Volume II of The Legend of Maya Deren. Maya Deren (1917-1961) is considered a pioneer both as a female film director and as a pivotal figure in experimental filmmaking. Art Institute of Chicago Art Institute of Chicago, museum and art school, in Grant Park, facing Michigan Ave. It was incorporated in 1879; George Armour was the first president. Since 1893 the Institute has been housed in its present building, designed in the Italian Renaissance style by (on behalf of Video Data Bank), Chicago, IL $25,000 To support the enhancement of Video Data Bank's (VDB (Visual dBASE) See dBASE. ) Web site. New video-streaming technology will provide users with direct on-line access to the more than 1500 titles in VDB's collection of video art and interviews with artists on video. Bay Area Video Coalition, Inc., San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden , CA $50,000 To support the provision of national video preservation services to artists and arts organizations and other related activities. This includes the recording, retrieval and preservation of video art and art on video, the dissemination of information to the interested public and a symposium on video preservation for conservators. Boston Film/Video Foundation, Inc., Boston, MA $20,000 To support a comprehensive media arts education program. Open to the public, this initiative is designed to encourage personal vision, assist in the development of concrete skills and foster relationships meant to strengthen and advance the production of film and video artworks. Camera News, Inc., New York, NY $20,000 To support the Advanced Film and Video Production Workshop, a series of media arts seminars and the Seeing Through Racism Project. This three-part program will provide workshop participants with technical and media awareness skills. Center for Arts Criticism, Minneapolis, MN $20,000 To support a year-long artist mentorship program designed to promote the artistic visions of inner city and rural youth. Entitled "An Artist's Life," the program will provide participants with media arts production training, critical writing workshops, public speaking skills and curated presentations. Cineaste cin·e·aste also cin·e·ast or cin·é·aste n. 1. A film or movie enthusiast. 2. A person involved in filmmaking. Publishers, Inc., New York, NY $7500 To support the publication of four issues of Cineaste magazine including special supplements devoted to race in contemporary American film and overviews of specific national cinemas. The organization will also increase its writers' fees and produce an index to the contents of each issue published throughout the journal's 30-year history. Downtown Community Television Center, Inc., New York, NY $25,000 To support the Video Training Workshops Program. Downtown Community Television Center is devoted to making technologically sophisticated medium available to underserved communities by providing a comprehensive range of courses. Electronic Arts Intermix in·ter·mix tr. & intr.v. in·ter·mixed, in·ter·mix·ing, in·ter·mix·es To mix or become mixed together. [Back-formation from obsolete intermixt, from Latin (on behalf of Independent Media Arts Preservation) NewYork, NY $10,000 To support the Media Arts Cataloging Project. This Web-based tutorial will enable artists and organizations to catalog their media materials using a shared, compatible database and make the information available to other artists, media arts organizations, scholars, curators, educators and students. Electronic Arts Intermix, New York, NY $25,000 To support the Artists' Videotape Distribution Service. Through Electronic Arts Intermix's on-line catalog, study center and special programs, more than 2750 works will be made available to libraries, educational institutions, community centers, museums and other organizations. Foundation for Independent Video and Film, New York, NY $35,000 To support the publication of The Independent Film and Video Monthly and upkeep of its on-line companion resource. This nationally distributed magazine provides information on all aspects of independent film and video production including practical, aesthetic and scholarly articles. Hot Springs Documentary Film Institute, Hot Springs, AR $5000 To support educational activities during the 2000 Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival. These include symposia, forums, discussion groups and special programs for children and senior citizens. George Eastman House, Rochester, NY $50,000 To support the preservation of seven films made between 1931 and 1937. These films were all produced by, for and about the immigrants who settled in America in the first half of the twentieth century. Jack Straw Foundation (Consortium), Seattle, WA $10,000 To support a consortium project with Arts and Visually Impaired Audiences, the Blind Youth Audio Project. This series of workshops introduces visually impaired young people to the creative possibilities and latest techniques of audio production by helping them create a radio program of their own design. Kingdom County Productions (on behalf of Fledgling Films Institute), Barnet, VT $20,000 To support production and media literacy Media literacy is the process of accessing, analyzing, evaluating and creating messages in a wide variety of media modes, genres and forms. It uses an inquiry-based instructional model that encourages people to ask questions about what they watch, see and read. workshops for young people. The Fledgling Films curriculum and practice is formulated to help students develop aesthetic perspectives on color, composition, movement, story and character. L. A. Theatre Works, Venice, CA $45,000 To support the distribution of 10 audio plays to 2500 libraries in underserved locations, including 175 facilities that serve blind and visually impaired audiences. In addition, L.A. Theatre Works will provide the organizations with print materials (large print and recorded versions for the visually impaired) to augment the collection. Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY $30,000 To support the preservation of critically endangered films from the Museum's nationally recognized collection that are crucial to the history of film as an art form. The Museum's Film Department saves 50-100 films from disintegration each year by transferring them from unstable nitrate stock to acetate and also preserves fading and damaged acetate films. National Asian American A·sian A·mer·i·can also A·sian-A·mer·i·can n. A U.S. citizen or resident of Asian descent. See Usage Note at Amerasian. A Telecommunications Association, San Francisco, CA $15,000 To support Asian American Media: The Millennium Project A parallel computing project at the University of California at Berkeley. Using nearly a thousand computers donated by Intel, its focus is on developing a multi-level "system of systems" that uses local clusters of SMP machines called a "CLUMP. . As part of its 20th anniversary, the National Asian American Telecommunications Association will publish a series of articles, organize panels and convene a two-day conference to assess the state of Asian American media arts. National Center for Jewish Film, Waltham, MA $20,000 To support the preservation of historically and culturally significant films in the National Center for Jewish Film (NCJF NCJF National Center for Jewish Film ) collections that are in jeopardy of decomposing. The NCJF holds the only surviving copies of these films. New Orleans New Orleans (ôr`lēənz –lənz, ôrlēnz`), city (2006 pop. 187,525), coextensive with Orleans parish, SE La., between the Mississippi River and Lake Pontchartrain, 107 mi (172 km) by water from the river mouth; founded Video Access Center, New Orleans, LA $15,000 To support the provision of production equipment for media artists and students. The New Orleans Video Access Center offers, at greatly reduced rates, access to sophisticated production facilities for artists to create new work. New Wave Corporation (on behalf of Midwest Radio Theatre Workshop), Columbia, MO $10,000 To support the 20th annual Midwest Radio Theatre Workshop's national radio theater The National Radio Theater was a non-profit independent producer of radio plays created in Chicago by Yuri Rasovsky and Michelle M. Faith. Long affiliated with classical FM station WFMT, NRT was active from January 1973 to April 1986. production conference in 2000 and related materials distributed nationally. This intense, one-week series of classes trains audio artists from across the country in scriptwriting, performance for radio and technical skills to produce innovative, live radio drama. Portland Art Museum The Portland Art Museum (PAM) in Portland, Oregon, United States, was founded in the last days of 1892, making it the oldest art museum in the Pacific Northwest. Upon completion of the most recent renovations, Portland Art Museum became one of the twenty-five largest art museums in (on behalf of Northwest Film Center  This article or section is written like an .Please help [ rewrite this article] from a neutral point of view. Mark blatant advertising for , using . ) (Consortium), Portland, OR $20,000 To support Nuestro Vision, Nuestro Futuro: The Oregon Latino Youth Video Project, a consortium project with the Oregon Council for Hispanic Advancement. The project will provide hands-on training and artist mentorships targeted to highly motivated Hispanic teens. Scribe Video Center, Inc., Philadelphia, PA $30,000 To support three components of Scribe's workshop program. To assist artists in the creation of new work, Scribe offers hands-on instruction in various aspects of media production and provides access to its facilities. Sundance Institute for Film and Television (Consortium), Salt Lake City, UT $15,000 To support a consortium project with the University of California The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and a combined systemwide and campus endowment of just over $7.3 billion (8th largest in the United States). at Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. (UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX ) Film and Television Archive that will restore and preserve American independent films. The Sundance Collection at UCLA will be comprised of feature-length narrative works, documentaries and short films. Taos Talking Pictures, Inc., Taos, NM $7500 To support the Teen Media Conference to be held at the 2000 Taos Talking Picture Festival, This three-day event three-day event a competition in the pleasure horse sport comprising usually one day each for dressage, cross country and show jumping. will offer young people workshops on critical viewing skills, analysis and deconstruction of mass media. Voice Over Video Networks/TILT, San Francisco, CA $20,000 To support a year-long program of after-school production workshops for teenagers. Students will learn to deconstruct de·con·struct tr.v. de·con·struct·ed, de·con·struct·ing, de·con·structs 1. To break down into components; dismantle. 2. and analyze popular media by way of creating and producing their own narrative stories. Visual Arts 509 Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA $15,000 To support outdoor arts presentations, the 6th annual San Francisco In the Street theater street theater n. Dramatization of social and political issues, usually enacted outside, as on the street or in a park. Also called guerrilla theater. Noun 1. festival and arts education programs for low-income youth and adults. The project will focus on art forms reflecting the center's culturally diverse neighborhood and will target underserved youth and adults for arts education activities. American Indian American Indian or Native American or Amerindian or indigenous American Any member of the various aboriginal peoples of the Western Hemisphere, with the exception of the Eskimos (Inuit) and the Aleuts. Center of Chicago, Chicago, IL $24,000 To support development of a training program and marketing opportunities for the creation and sale of traditional and contemporary Native American arts Native American arts Literary, performing, and visual arts of the indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere. Folktales have long been a part of the social and cultural life of diverse groups of American Indian and Inuit peoples. and crafts. Conducted by master artists, classes will be offered in beadwork beadwork Ornamental work in beads. In the Middle Ages beads were used to embellish embroidery work. In Renaissance and Elizabethan England, clothing, purses, fancy boxes, and small pictures were adorned with beads. , painting, costume design Costume design is the design of the appearance of the characters in a theater or cinema performance. This usually involves designing or choosing clothing, footwear, hats and head dresses for the actors to wear, but it may also include designing masks, makeup or other unusual forms, , pottery, doll making, fiber art, photography and jewelry making. American Indian Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA $16,500 To support thematic exhibitions of contemporary Native American artists' work. The project will include an exhibition examining the experiences of Native artists living in urban centers, an exhibition of artists experimenting with cyberspace and new technologies and a two-person show of female artists from different tribes. Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services The Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services (ACCESS) is an organization formed to support the needs of the Arab American community. A national group, the headquarters is located in Dearborn, Michigan. , Dearborn, MI $15,500 To support the photography component of an oral history project entitled "Arab Americans This is a list of famous Arab Americans. Academics
Archie Bray Foundation The Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts (also known as "The Bray") is a public, nonprofit, educational institution located 3 miles from downtown Helena, Montana, USA. for the Ceramic Arts, Helena, MT $15,000 To support a symposium commemorating the 50-year history of this internationally acclaimed ceramic arts colony. Plans include participation by leaders of the ceramic arts field and development of concurrent arts education programming. Art Institute of Chicago (on behalf of the School of the Art Institute), Chicago, IL $35,000 To support the second phase of an archival project documenting the Visiting Artists Program. The project will preserve the audio-- and videotaped voices of artists of the 1980s and '90s and make them accessible to artists, students and researchers as part of an archival resource center. Art Resources Transfer, Inc., New York, NY $40,000 To support the Distribution to Underserved Communities Program, a project that offers books, museum catalogs, videos and other publications about contemporary art free-of-charge to libraries across the nation. The program has reached more than 1600 libraries in 36 states to date, with a special emphasis on rural and inner-city areas. Asian American Arts Centre An art center or arts centre is distinct from an art gallery or art museum. An arts centre is a functional community centre with a specific remit to encourage arts practice and to provide facilities such as theatre space, gallery space, venues for musical performance, , Inc., New York, NY $9000 To support an archival effort to digitize the Asian American Artists Slide Archive. The collection, to be stored on CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). format, will make a 55-year history of Asian American artists and their work available on the Centre's Web site. Cambridge Arts Council An arts council is a government or private, non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the arts mainly by funding local artists, awarding prizes, and organizing events at home and abroad. , Cambridge, MA $42,000 To support a national conference and production of a handbook on the conservation of contemporary public art. The conference, the first of its kind in the country, will respond to critical needs in the field, as a result of the proliferation of public art programs in the U.S. within the last three decades. Center for Women & Their Work, Austin, TX $22,000 To support a comprehensive educational program targeting adults and young people to increase awareness of contemporary art in Austin. The project will include hands-on gallery workshops, guided tours and in-school workshops for low-income public school students. Chicago Public Art Group, Chicago, IL $22,500 To support The Best We Know, a workshop series for artists and administrators throughout the Midwest involved in contemporary public art projects. Artists, covering topics that range from the practical to the conceptual, will lead the monthly sessions. City Art Works, Seattle, WA $11,000 To support the Master Artists Program at the Pratt Fine Arts Center Pratt Fine Arts Center is a non-profit arts education and resource center in the Squire Park area of Seattle's Central District. The school now serves 3,200 students and 500 working artists. . Artists of international and national renown will teach glass blowing glass blowing n. The art or process of shaping an object from molten glass by blowing air into it through a tube. glass blower n. and casting, sculpture, jewelry making, metalsmithing and printmaking printmaking Art form consisting of the production of images, usually on paper but occasionally on fabric, parchment, plastic, or other support, by various techniques of multiplication, under the direct supervision of or by the hand of the artist. . Contemporary Culture, Inc., Dallas, TX $5000 To support expansion of Art in the Neighborhood, a program of an art center housed in an early twentieth-century fire station in an inner-city residential neighborhood, to include more cultural diversity in the artist/teacher roster. Contemporary Culture's program is designed for a variety of ages from eight to 18. Dairy Barn Southeastern Ohio Cultural Arts Center, Inc., Athens, OH $7,500 To support a nine-month residency for a ceramic artist to work in a rural community. Benjie Heu will work with high school students, younger children, adults and professional artists in the area, as well as design a public art project. Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts, Inc., Wilmington, DE $30,000 To support a series of community-based artists' residencies and publication of a documentary catalog. The project will bring artists from across the country for two-month residencies, conducted in collaboration with social service agencies in the region. Dialogue, Inc., Columbus, OH $10,000 To support the development of an annual children's magazine dedicated to the visual arts for the Midwest region. Tentatively titled smART, the publication will be targeted to rural sixth-graders who do not typically have access to museums and galleries. Friends of the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, San Francisco, CA $12,000 To support an archival project preserving a collection of posters and prints that document the Latino/Chicano Arts Movement of the San Francisco Bay area “Bay Area” redirects here. For other uses, see Bay Area (disambiguation). The San Francisco Bay Area, colloquially known as the Bay Area or The Bay . Over 2000 works on paper spanning 25 years will be archived, exhibited and digitized. Glass Art Society, Inc., Seattle, WA $12,000 To support the 30th annual conference of the national service organization of artists working in glass. "G.A.S. 2000: Bridge to the Future" will be held in Brooklyn in June 2000. Grass Roots grass roots pl.n. (used with a sing. or pl. verb) 1. People or society at a local level rather than at the center of major political activity. Often used with the. 2. The groundwork or source of something. Art and Community Efforts, Hardwick, VT $15,000 To support community art workshops for residents in rural and economically distressed areas of Vermont. Designed to reach a diverse spectrum of the community including senior citizens and developmentally disabled adults and children, the project builds on a 16-year history of workshop opportunities. Hand Print Workshop, Alexandria, VA $10,000 To support "The View From Here," a traveling exhibition featuring the work of contemporary artists from the U.S. and the former Soviet Union. The exhibition will open in Moscow and tour to six sites in the U.S. K12 Gallery for young people, Dayton, OH $7000 To support the Resident Artist Program which provides art training and workshops for inner-city youths in the Miami Valley The Miami Valley, broadly, refers to the land area surrounding the Great Miami River in southwest Ohio, USA, and also includes the Little Miami, Mad, and Stillwater Rivers as well. Geographically it includes, Dayton, Springfield, Middletown, Hamilton, and other communities. . The program includes summer residencies, community outreach residencies, a Saturday workshop series and an after-school studio. Mayor's Advisory Committee on Art and Culture (on behalf of School 33 Art Center), Baltimore, MD $8500 To support publication of a book documenting School 33 Art Center's history of presenting contemporary are in Baltimore. Since its founding in 1979, School 33 has consistently presented programming to make contemporary art and artists accessible. Minneapolis American Indian Center (on behalf of Two Rivers Two Rivers, city (1990 pop. 13,030), Manitowoc co., E Wis., on Lake Michigan at the mouth of the Twin River; inc. 1878. Two Rivers is closely associated with its twin city, Manitowoc, both of which are highly industrialized. Gallery), Minneapolis, MN $24,000 To support an exhibition and educational activities exploring the cultural significance of the buffalo. Artists from different Great Plains tribes whose cultures and histories are closely tied to the buffalo will work with Native and non-Native American children to develop work for the project. NAMES Project Foundation, San Francisco, CA $47,000 To support ongoing archival efforts to document the AIDS Memorial Quilt. Archival efforts will result in a searchable, on-line database Noun 1. on-line database - (computer science) a database that can be accessed by computers computer database, electronic database, electronic information service accessible to a global audience. National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts Founded in 1966, the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) is an organisation in the United States promoting ceramics as an art form for several decades. , Boerne, TX $15,000 To support the annual conference of the nation's oldest and largest professional service organization in the ceramic arts. To be held in Charlotte, NC in 2001, Evolving Legacies will include a series of critical lectures, panels, workshop demonstrations and a publication. Project Row Houses row houses npl (US) → casas fpl adosadas , Houston, TX $45,000 To support a residency program that will commission artist installations in several shotgun-style row houses. The project will feature the work of sculptors selected by the organization's founding director Rick Lowe. Pyramid Atlantic, Inc., Riverdale, MD $18,000 To support career development and training for students, teachers and professional artists in papermaking, printmaking and the book arts. The project is composed of four distinct elements: Making Connections, Teachers' Training, Cultural Connections/Living Traditions and Artists' Residencies. Real Art Ways, Inc. (Consortium), Hartford, CT $7000 To support a consortium project entitled "Signs of the Times" with the Connecticut Historical Society (CHS (Cylinder Head Sector) An earlier method of addressing a hard disk by referencing all three physical elements of the drive. It was superseded by logical block addressing (see LBA). ) for collaborative marketing and programming of concurrent exhibitions. Three exhibitions by contemporary artists whose work deals with signage will be jointly promoted with the CHS's historic tavern sign exhibition. Rhizome rhizome (rī`zōm) or rootstock, fleshy, creeping underground stem by means of which certain plants propagate themselves. Buds that form at the joints produce new shoots. Communications, Inc., New York, NY $17,000 To support development of an on-line database for cyberspace artwork. The project will assist in the interpretation, presentation and preservation of artists' work crested on and for the Internet. Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA $15,000 To support expansion of the Art Reach program for at-risk youths in West Contra Costa Contra Costa can refer to:
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (on behalf of Rutgers Center for Innovative Print and Paper), Piscataway, NJ $17,000 To support a residency program for eight Native American artists Criteria for inclusion is that the artist be of verifiable Native American descent as a tribal member. "Native American" is defined as meeting the requirements established by either state or federal regulations, and meeting the eligibility requirements for artist membership in the Indian to experiment in paper and printmaking. The two-phased project will include two-week residencies at Rutgers and two-week residencies at Indian reservations in Oregon This is a list of Indian reservations in the U.S. state of Oregon as of 2006. Existing reservations There are seven Indian reservations in Oregon that belong to seven of the nine federally recognized Oregon tribes: SAY SI, San Antonio San Antonio (săn ăntō`nēō, əntōn`), city (1990 pop. 935,933), seat of Bexar co., S central Tex., at the source of the San Antonio River; inc. 1837. , TX $17,000 To support expansion of a year-round, visual arts program for high school students in an inner-city neighborhood. Students are taught by working artists in a variety of media. Skystone Foundation, Inc., Flagstaff Flagstaff, city (1990 pop. 45,857), seat of Coconino co., N Ariz., near the San Francisco Peaks; inc. 1894. Lumbering, ranching, and a lively tourist trade thrive in the region, where many ruined pueblos, numerous state parks, several lakes, and large pine forests , AZ $12,000 To support an educational symposium on artist James Turrell's Roden Crater Project, an earthwork earth·work n. 1. An earthen embankment, especially one used as a fortification. See Synonyms at bulwark. 2. Engineering Excavation and embankment of earth. 3. located in the northeast Arizona Northeast Arizona, sometimes referred to by local people as The Rez, is a region of the U.S. state of Arizona commonly including Apache County and Navajo County. Some notable towns there are St. desert. Art historians, critics, scientists and the artist will participate in the symposium, which will precede the dedication of the work in the fall of 2000. Sloss Furnace Association, Inc. (on behalf of Sloss Furnaces Sloss Furnaces is a National Historic Landmark in Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.A.. It was operated as a pig iron-producing blast furnace from 1882 to 1971. After closing it became one of the first industrial sites (and the only blast furnace) in the U.S. to be preserved for public use. Historic Landmark), Birmingham, AL $18,000 To support the development of a summer youth apprenticeship program in the metal arts at the Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark A National Historic Landmark (NHL) is a building, district, site, structure, or object, almost always within the United States, officially recognized by the United States government for its historical significance. . The program will employ six to nine students from inner-city secondary schools who will work with professional artists on casting and fabricating sculpture. Space One Eleven, Inc. (Consortium), Birmingham, AL $36,500 To support the Southern Digital ByWays Initiative, a consortium project designed to support artists and audiences interested in cyberspace. The project will target three distinct communities, through Space One Eleven in Birmingham, the Gadsden (AL) Cultural Arts Center and the Evans Memorial Library in Aberdeen, MS. St. Mark's St. Mark's could refer to:
To support workshops in photography, video and Web site design for youths and seniors residing on New York's Lower East Side. The project is part of The Diary Project, an international exchange program between schools in the U.S., Kenya and South Africa South Africa, Afrikaans Suid-Afrika, officially Republic of South Africa, republic (2005 est. pop. 44,344,000), 471,442 sq mi (1,221,037 sq km), S Africa. , and will result in s series of exhibitions at St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery that will also be accessible to an Internet audience. Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, Newcastle, ME $15,000 To support the MudMobile, a statewide traveling ceramics program. The MudMobile van brings ceramics activities to diverse sites and populations throughout rural Maine. Multidisciplinary 18th Street Arts Complex, Santa Monica Santa Monica (săn`tə mŏn`ĭkə), city (1990 pop. 86,905), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1886. Tourism and retailing are important, and the city has motion-picture, biotechnology, and software industries. , CA $5,000 To support the Arts Education Program. The program provides artist-teacher training, artist employment opportunities and sustained arts programming to schools free of charge. Alternate ROOTS, Inc., Atlanta, GA $50,000 To support artist residencies, performances, community projects, training and professional development workshops, documentary publications and artist fee subsidies in underserved areas of the Southeast region. Appalshop, Inc., Whitesburg, KY $45,000 To support the implementation of a national retrospective tour of Appalahop's artistic productions in celebration of the organization's 30th anniversary. The tour, co-produced with six organizations, will travel to New York, Tennessee, Texas, California, Alaska and Ohio. Art Museum of Missoula, Missoula, MT $10,000 To support expansion of the Arts in the Schools and Neighborhoods Program. The project provides an interdisciplinary program of arts education to youth in their schools and communities. Arte Americas--The Mexican Arts Center, Fresno, CA $20,000 To support the Arte Am[acute{e}]ricas 2000 performance series in their newly constructed outdoor plaza performance space. This project focuses on five major concerts and festivals to be held between May and October 2000. Artists Collective, Inc., Hartford, CT $40,000 To support professional training in dance and music, student performance opportunities and community outreach efforts. All programs serve to broaden understanding and appreciation of the culture, heritage and art of the African Diaspora The African diaspora is the diaspora created by the movements and cultures of Africans and their descendants throughout the world, to places such as the Americas, (including the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, Central America, and South America) Europe and Asia. . ARTREACH, Inc., Philadelphia, PA $10,000 To support the creation of a Cultural Access Guide far the Disabled for the Greater Philadelphia region. The guide will detail architectural and programmatic access for the physically disabled, blind, deaf and hard of hearing populations to cultural venues. Atlatl atlatl (ät`lätəl) [Nahuatl], device used to throw a spear with greater propulsion. Atlatls began to be used in the Americas in the post-Pleistocene period and were eventually replaced by the bow and arrow. , Inc., Phoenix, AZ $35,000 To support project components designed to increase access to Native American arts. The project includes technical assistance, professional development and increased dissemination of arts-related information through Atlatl's publications and Web site. California Institute of the Arts California Institute of the Arts known as CalArts U.S. private institution of higher learning in Valencia. Created in 1961 through the merger of two other art institutes, it was the first in the U.S. (Consortium), Valencia, CA $50,000 To support the Community Arts Partnership The Community Arts Partnership (usually known as CAP) was established in 1990,and is the first program of its kind in the U.S. The program links the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) to community art centers and public schools throughout Los Angeles County as part of an consortium providing arts programming for underserved, K-12 aged youth in Los Angeles. With partners including Inner-City Arts, Inner-City Cultural Center, KAOS KAOS - Kent Applicative Operating System Network, Armory Center for the Arts and the Watts Tower Arts Center, the program offers free arts workshops, public programming, after-school and weekend classes, exhibitions and performances for students, their families and the community at large. Center for Hmong Arts and Talent, St. Paul St. Paul as a missionary he fearlessly confronts the “perils of waters, of robbers, in the city, in the wilderness.” [N.T.: II Cor. 11:26] See : Bravery , MN $5000 To support The Youth Arts Program. The program consists of the Visual Arts Studio, Literary Arts Workshop and Video Workshop. Children's Art Carnival, Inc., New York, NY $7000 To support the Communication Arts Production and Entrepreneurial Program designed to enable young people to gain an understanding of career options in the visual and communication arts field. The program offers youths professionally directed apprenticeship workshops in illustration, photography, video production, cartooning, ceramics, design, printmaking, painting and computer graphics. Columbia College Columbia College: see Columbia University. , Chicago, IL $15,000 To support Democratizing the Arts/Building Community Access. This program consists of two components: the West Side Education Series for Teens and Town Hall Plus, which are geared to promote arts access in West Side Chicago communities. Chinese-American Arts Council, Inc., New York, NY $18,000 To support the Summer Cultural Festival of 2000. The festival will include three fully staged Chinese theater productions, a traditional dance presentation soda group show of eight visual artists of Chinese descent. East Bay Center for the Performing Arts, Richmond, CA $40,000 To support East Bay Center's main stage production season, Call and Response community performance events, educational and training programs and performance elements of Living the Mission projects. These activities are designed to prepare and encourage predominantly minority children and adults from low-income multi-ethnic communities to participate in the arts as performers, creators, partners and audience members. Elders Share the Arts, Inc. (Consortium), New York, NY $25,000 To support the consortium project, The Center for Creative Aging. The project, in partnership with the American Society of Aging's National Learning Center, supports program maintenance and expansion in up to five cities: Boston, Miami, New York, Philadelphia and San Francisco. Esperanza Peace and Justice Center, San Antonio, TX $35,000 To support ArtEscuela: A Youth Community Cultural Arts School and internships. Local and international visual and media artists will teach youths the creative and technical uses of media and visual arts, and explore the role of the artist in strengthening the community. Fort Wayne Fort Wayne, city (1990 pop. 173,072), seat of Allen co., NE Ind., where the St. Joseph and St. Marys rivers join to form the Maumee River; inc. 1840. It is the second largest city in the state, a major railroad and shipping point, a wholesale and distribution hub, Dance Collective, Inc., Fort Wayne, IN $10,000 To support a multidisciplinary arts collaboration with the Wood Youth Center, Youth Services Center, Crossroad Children's Home children's home n → centro de acogida para niños children's home n → foyer m d'accueil (pour enfants) children's home n and Center for Nonviolence. Project activities are designed to provide avenues of artistic expression for abused, adjudicated and low-income youth. Friends of Teen Arts, Inc., Lambertville, NJ $15,000 To support the New Jersey State Teen Arts Festival An arts festival or art fair is a festival that focuses on the visual arts, but which may also focus on other arts. Arts festivals in the visual arts are exhibitions. for middle and high school students. This two-day event includes student performances, critiquing sessions, a student art exhibit, poetry readings, master classes and workshops taught by professional artists and college and career information dissemination. Georgia Commission on the Holocaust (Consortium), Atlanta, GA $15,000 To support a tour of James Still's play, And Then They Came For Me, a series of symposia and a student visual art exhibit. Young Audiences of Atlanta and the Georgia Ensemble are consortium members in this project. Great Leap, Inc., Santa Monica, CA $5000 To support the To All Relations 2000 residency project. The residencies will take place at Pomona College/Claremont Colleges, Rio Hondo College Rio Hondo College is a community college located in unincorporated Whittier, California. It was founded in 1960 and mainly serves the cities of Whittier, Pico Rivera, Santa Fe Springs, El Monte, and South El Monte. , the University of Southern California's Upward Bound Upward Bound is a program of the United States Department of Education, the goal of this which is to give high school students who are in categories that make them less likely to attend college (such as low income, parents who didn't attend college, and living in rural areas) the youth program and within the community. Haleakala, Inc./The Kitchen, New York, NY $25,000 To support the preservation of a video archive of performance art. The archive, spanning 27 years, contains early work by artists such as Laurie Anderson For the author, see . Laurie Anderson (born Laura Phillips Anderson, on June 5 1947, in Glen Ellyn, Illinois) is an American experimental performance artist and musician. , Philip Glass Philip Glass (born January 31, 1937) is a three-times Academy Award-nominated American composer. He is considered one of the most influential composers of the late-20th century[1][2][3][4][5] , Cindy Sherman, Steve Reich, Joan Logue, Meredith Monk, Eric Bogosian, Nam June Paik Nam June Paik (July 20, 1932 - January 29, 2006) was a South Korean-born American artist. He worked with a variety of media and is considered to be the first video artist.[1] He is considered by some[2] and Bill T. Jones. Henry Street Settlement Abrons Art Center, New York, NY $30,000 To support the Arts for Everyone Project. This project will provide theme-based, low-cost, weekend performances. Imagination Celebration, Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX $13,000 To support the Special Weekend for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing. This arts education program, designed for deaf middle and high school students, will be presented to educators, performing artists, arts industry leaders and organizations serving the deaf in California, Kansas, Louisiana and New Hampshire New Hampshire, one of the New England states of the NE United States. It is bordered by Massachusetts (S), Vermont, with the Connecticut R. forming the boundary (W), the Canadian province of Quebec (NW), and Maine and a short strip of the Atlantic Ocean (E). . Japanese American Cultural and Community Center, Los Angeles, CA $45,000 To support Celebrating Community: Reinterpreting the Japanese American Festival, a series of multidisciplinary arts events organized around the festival traditions of the Japanese American community. Activities include outdoor festivals, exhibitions, performances, children's workshops and educational programming. Latino Arts, Inc., Milwaukee, WI $5000 To support the Cultural Traditions Series. This series provides professional and community-based, Latino visual and performing arts for greater Milwaukee communities and artistic development workshops primarily for low-income Latino children. Little City Foundation (on behalf of The MultiDisciplinary Arts Center), Palatine, IL $10,000 To support Have Art, Will Travel, a series of traveling arts classes that serve children and adults with developmental disabilities developmental disabilities (DD), n.pl the pathologic conditions that have their origin in the embryology and growth and development of an individual. DDs usually appear clinically before 18 years of age. where they live and work. Artist teachers equipped with movable art materials will offer classes in visual, performing and media arts. Manchester Craftsmen's Guild Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild is a nonprofit a multi-discipline learning community established in 1968 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. Its programs include MCG Jazz, MCG Youth and the Denali Initiative. The organization is the brainchild of Bill Strickland. , Pittsburgh, PA $60,000 To support the extension of the Arts Collaborative Program into Pittsburgh schools. The project will begin the planning process to bring the program to other communities. New Art Publications, New York, NY $26,000 To support BOMB magazine's on-line archive. The archive will draw from over 600 interviews with and between artists, writers, musicians, directors and actors. Newark Community School of the Arts School of the Arts is the name of several schools (usually high schools) that are devoted to the fine arts, including:
To support the Intensive Study Program in Music and Dance. The program provides students who desire to pursue a career in the arts with comprehensive arts education and performance opportunities. Oakland Asian Cultural Center, Oakland, CA $10,000 To support the Free-to-the-Public programs. These programs are designed to increase awareness of and access to Oakland Asian Cultural Center activities and to diversify audiences. Plaza de la Raza, Inc., Los Angeles, CA $20,000 To support the School of Performing and Visual Arts Conservatory Program. Weekly workshops and master classes in theater, visual arts, music and dance are offered as well as residencies for artists from the Los Angeles community. Point Breeze Performing Arts Center A performing arts center, often abbreviated PAC, is a multi-use performance space that can be adapted for use by various types of the performing arts, including dance, music and theatre. , Philadelphia, PA $16,000 To support the Arts for Social Change: Community Access Project. The project will expand the Center's satellite program and improve the marketing and production of its performing arts and cultural events. Queens Theatre in the Park, Inc., Flushing, NY $15,000 To support the production of the Latino Arts Festival. This three-week summer festival features a combination of music, dance, theater, film, children's productions and visual art exhibitions to celebrate the contributions of Latino and Latin American artists to the cultural life of Queens and the greater New York area. Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (on behalf of Center for Latino Arts and Culture) (Consortium), Piscataway, NJ $5000 To support the consortium project, Artist Mentoring Against Racism, Drugs and Violence: Healing Through the Arts. The program is designed to motivate Latino and African American African American Multiculture A person having origins in any of the black racial groups of Africa. See Race. youth to work together to create works of art to help prevent violence between the two communities. Sheboygan Arts Foundation, Inc./John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI $30,000 To support community-based commissions in its Connecting Communities program. The project involves long-term residency workshops, discussions, interviews and open rehearsals. Sierra Arts Foundation, Reno, NV $25,000 To support the Youth ArtWorks Program. The project is designed to create new avenues of employment exploration through apprenticeships for youth. SomArts, San Francisco, CA $10,000 To support the Arts Access Program. The program provides venue access and technical services at minimal cost to local arts organizations. St. Louis County St. Louis County is the name of multiple counties in the United States:
To support the Depot Outreach artist-in-residence program. This program offers performances, educational workshops and lecture-demonstrations by visual, literary and performing artists in northern Minnesota and northwest Wisconsin. Taller Puertorrique[tilde A symbol used in Windows, starting with Windows 95, that maintains a short version of a long file or directory name for compatibility with Windows 3.1 and DOS. For example, the short version of a file named "Letter to Joe" would be LETTER~1. Then "Letter to Pat" becomes LETTER~2. {n}]o, Inc., Philadelphia, PA $45,000 To support Taller Puertorrique[tilde{n}]o's educational initiatives. These initiatives include the Cultural Awareness Program, Youth Artist Program, Visiting Artists Programs and the Cultural Enrichment Program. Visual Arts Research & Resource Center Relating to the Caribbean, New York, NY $10,000 To support implementation, promotion and distribution of educational materials concerning cultures of the African Diaspora. The project provides an opportunity to perform a national field market test on public, private and independent schools, school districts, libraries and the general public. Very Special Arts Massachusetts, Boston, MA $20,000 To support the National Cultural Access Initiative. This initiative works with each state to provide a local infrastructure for people with disabilities and the cultural organizations of their communities. Wing Luke Memorial Foundation, Seattle, WA $36,000 To support the Wing Luke Asian Museum's Heritage Outreach Program. This effort emphasizes active youth involvement in Asian Pacific American cultural heritage projects. Working Classroom, Inc., Albuquerque, NM $20,000 To support a tuition-free summer arts camp serving students from low-income backgrounds. The camp includes drama and visual arts workshops in English and Spanish, field trips to cultural venues, performances and discussions with visiting artists. YMCA YMCA in full Young Men's Christian Association Nonsectarian, nonpolitical Christian lay movement that aims to develop high standards of Christian character among its members. of Metropolitan Chicago--Duncan, Chicago, IL $10,000 To support the production and educational components of a multidisciplinary, youth-focused production of Lorraine Hansberry's What Use are Flowers? This project is designed to foster environmental consciousness among urban youth and create dialogue about the nature of urban environment in the present and future. Museum African American Museum in Philadelphia The African American Museum in Philadelphia (AAMP) opened in 1976 in celebration of the Bicentennial of the United States. Located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, it was the first major museum in the country devoted specifically to African American history and traditions. , Philadelphia, PA $16,500 To support the exhibition "Once We Were Americans ... Portraits by Max Belcher," with accompanying catalog and education programs. Belcher's photographs document the lives of descendants of a group of African Americans who emigrated to Haiti in the 1820s. Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT $5000 To support Innovations in Museum Education, a three-day seminar focused on the development of programs for schools and students in art museums. The seminar functions as a forum in which educators can exchange ideas and get outside opinions on their work. Amistad Research Center, New Orleans, LA $6000 To support the restoration of works of art in the center's Aaron Douglas Collection of African American Art African American art is a broad term describing the visual arts of the American black community. Influenced by various cultural traditions, including those of Africa, Europe and the Americas, traditional African American art forms include the range of plastic arts, from , an exhibition and accompanying brochure. The project will result in the collection being made more available for study, exhibition and loan to other institutions. Birmingham Museum of Art Coordinates: The Birmingham Museum of Art is an important regional public art museum, located at 2000 Eighth Ave. North in downtown Birmingham, Alabama. , Birmingham, AL $47,000 To support the reinstallation and interpretation of the museum's Native American collection. The project will increase the space devoted to the collection by 40 percent. Carnegie Institute (on behalf of Carnegie Museum of Art) (Consortium), Pittsburgh, PA $35,000 To support the design, production and distribution of an interactive CD-ROM entitled Pittsburgh: A City Seen 1850-1960. The project is a consortium among the Carnegie Museum, the University of Pittsburgh Press The University of Pittsburgh Press is a scholarly publishing house and a major American university press in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. The Press was established in September 1936 by University of Pittsburgh Chancellor John Gabbert Bowman. and the Studio for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University, at Pittsburgh, Pa.; est. 1967 through the merger of the Carnegie Institute of Technology (founded 1900, opened 1905) and the Mellon Institute of Industrial Research (founded 1913). . Cincinnati Institute of Fine Arts/The Taft Museum, Cincinnati, OH $10,000 To support a conservation survey of objects in the Taft Museum's permanent collection. The survey is a primary goal of the museum's strategic plan prior to beginning renovations and capital expansion. Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts The Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts (CCAHA) was founded in 1977 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as a reaction to the growing problem of paper deterioration occurring in repositories in the New England area. , Philadelphia, PA $9000 To support a one-year, postgraduste internship in paper conservation. The project will provide training for the treatment of works on paper such as drawings, prints and watercolors, as well as manuscripts, maps, photographs, parchment and papyrus. Florida State University Florida State University, at Tallahassee; coeducational; chartered 1851, opened 1857. Present name was adopted in 1947. Special research facilities include those in nuclear science and oceanography. (on behalf of the Museum of Fine Arts Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, chartered and incorporated (1870) after a decision by the Boston Athenaeum, Harvard, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to pool their collections of art objects and house them in adequate public galleries. ), Tallahassee, FL $14,000 To support the exhibition "Florida Photogenesis," with accompanying catalog and lecture series. The exhibition will present the work of a group of artists who, beginning in the 1960s, were experimenting with photography in their work. Fondo Del Sol Visual Arts Center, Washington, D.C. $17,400 To support "Roots of Heritage;," a series of traveling exhibitions with accompanying catalogs and education materials. The exhibitions present the work of contemporary Latino, Caribbean and African American artists. Gettysburg College (on behalf of the Art Gallery), Gettysburg, PA $7,150 To support the traveling exhibition "Re-Scripting the Story: Mary Beth Edelson 1970-2000," with accompanying catalog. The project will examine the work of this internationally prominent artist who was one of the pioneers of the feminist art movement The Feminist Art Movement refers to the efforts and accomplishments of feminists internationally to bring more visibility to women within art history and art practice. Corresponding with general developments within feminism, the movement began in the 1960s, flourished throughout in the 1970s. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum or Fenway Court is a museum in Boston, Massachusetts with a collection of over 2,500 works of European, Asian and American art, including paintings, sculpture, tapestries, and decorative arts. , Boston, MA $65,000 To support School Partnerships, the museum's art education programs that bring contemporary artists, students and teachers together. The program focuses on six urban public schools within walking distance of the Gardner. Long Beach Museum of Art The Long Beach Museum of Art is a museum located on Ocean Blvd. in the Bluff Park neighborhood of Long Beach, California. The museum occupies the historic 1912 Elizabeth Milbank Anderson house and carriage house (designed by Charles Alonzo Rich[1]) and a new two-story Foundation, Long Beach, CA $10,000 To support the purchase of an audio guide system and the creation, production and translation into Spanish of a series of audio tours. The audio tours will feature 20 pieces in the permanent collection in various media by diverse artists. Mexican Museum, San Francisco, CA $30,000 To support Chicanos en Mictl[acute{a}]n: Dia de los Muertos Día de los Muer·tos n. See Day of the Dead. [Spanish : día, day + de, of + los, the + muertos, pl. of muerto, dead.] en California. This is a multi-faceted project that will recount, from a first-voice perspective, the development of Dia de los Muertos in California. Montana Art Gallery Directors Association, Great Falls, MT $7500 To support an exhibition touring program throughout the state of Montana. The project also includes an annual professional training conference for visual arts professionals in the state, as well as North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming and Idaho. Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles This article is about Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. For other Museums named Museum of Contemporary Art, see Museum of Contemporary Art. The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) is a contemporary art museum in and near Los Angeles, California. , Los Angeles, CA $75,000 To support MOCA's Public + Artist Program. The education program provides opportunities for an ongoing dialogue among contemporary artists, museum staff and the public. Museum of Contemporary Art of Puerto Rico, Inc., San Juan, PR $30,000 To support an exhibition of the work of Puerto Rican artist Pep[acute{o}]n Osorio (b. 1955), with accompanying catalog and education programs. The project will present three to four of Osorio's major installation pieces and will include a residency at the Escuela de Artes Pl[acute{a}]sticas. New York Historical Society, New York, NY $20,000 To support expansion of the Society's use of primary source materials in its education programs to include the study of museum objects. The program will be used to enhance state-mandated curricula for fourth-, seventh- and eighth-graders. Northeast Document Conservation Center The Northeast Document Conservation Center was founded in 1973 as a reaction to the growing problem of paper deterioration occurring in repositories in the New England area. , Andover, MA $10,000 To support the second phase of a project that trains staffs of Puerto Rican institutions in the care of works of art on paper. The project includes an internship at the Northeast Document Conservation Center for a museum professional from the University of Puerto Rico Founded in 1903, the University of Puerto Rico (Universidad de Puerto Rico in Spanish, UPR) is the oldest and largest university system in Puerto Rico. Though Puerto Rico is not a U.S. , San Juan. Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND $9250 To support the development of educational materials to accompany the Rolling Plains Art Gallery, an arts education outreach program. The gallery truck brings visual arts exhibitions to rural communities in North Dakota, Minnesota, South Dakota and Montana. Regents of the University of California The Regents of the University of California make up the governing board of the University of California. The Board has 26 full (i.e., voting) members:
To support a touring retrospective exhibition of the work of Korean American artist Theresa Cha, with an accompanying catalog. Cha came of age as an artist in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1970s, actively participating in the development of a series of important artistic movements, including conceptual, performance and video art. Regents of the University of California at Riverside (on behalf of California Museum of Photography), Riverside, CA $20,000 To support Digital Studio, the museum's community imaging and technology center. The studio offers artists, children, teenagers and adults opportunities to participate in and understand computer-based creative expression by providing access to the tools that support new imaging technologies. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is a major modern art museum and San Francisco landmark. It opened in 1935 under founding director Dr. Grace Morley (Grace L. , San Francisco, CA $50,000 To support making Sense of Modern Art, an interactive, multi-media education program and associated curriculum and training materials. The program serves as a guide to the major artists, works and themes represented in the museums permanent collection. Sewell C. Biggs Trust/Biggs Museum of American Art, Dover, DE $6600 To support a traveling exhibition of the work of Delaware women artists of the early twentieth century, with accompanying catalog. The artists to be included were native Delawareans, studied in Delaware or made their careers in the state. Smith College (on behalf of Museum of Art), Northampton, MA $37,000 To support the development of a random-access audio tour of the museum's permanent collection. The tour will be produced in two versions, featuring 60-75 objects for adults and 25 objects for children. St. Joseph's Historic Foundation, Inc., Durham, NC $10,000 To support an exhibition documenting Durham's historic Hayti district and other African American images of Durham. The exhibition will be on permanent display upon the opening of the new Hayti Museum in the fall of 2000. Tacoma Art Museum In May 2003, Tacoma Art Museum opened a new facility twice the size of its previous home, allowing the museum to expand on its vision and mission. American Institute of Architects AIA Gold Medal winner Antoine Predock designed the building located in the heart of Tacoma’s , Tacoma, WA $10,000 To support the presentation in Tacoma of the exhibition "Contemporary Folk Art: Treasures from the Smithsonian's Museum of American Art" with accompanying education programs. The 80 works in the exhibition were selected by the National Museum of American Art and represent self-taught artists of the last 30 years, most unknown to the public. Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, TX $15,000 To support Art on Tour, a statewide traveling exhibition program. The program circulates exhibitions of contemporary art by emerging and mid-career American artists to smaller museums and university and community art galleries throughout Texas. University of Alaska at Fairbanks (on behalf of University Art Museum) (Consortium), Fairbanks, AK $125,000 To support A Sense of Place, a consortium project to develop a comprehensive interpretation and education program around the museum's permanent collection of Alaskan art. The museum will work with a consortium team, including the Fairbanks School District and Public Library, Fairbanks Family Literacy, Nenana Public Schools, Denakkanaaga and the Deyon Regional Corporation. University of Arizona (body, education) University of Arizona - The University was founded in 1885 as a Land Grant institution with a three-fold mission of teaching, research and public service. (on behalf of Center for Creative Photography The Center for Creative Photography (CCP), established in 1975 and located on the University of Arizona (Tucson) campus, is a research facility and archival repository containing the full archives of over sixty of the most famous American photographers including those of Ansel ) (Consortium), Tucson, AZ $40,000 To support increased and diversified public programming for the Center for Creative Photography's traveling exhibition "Indivisible INDIVISIBLE. That which cannot be separated. 2. It is important to ascertain when a consideration or a contract, is or is not indivisible. When a consideration is entire and indivisible, and it is against law, the contract is void in toto. 11 Verm. 592; 2 W. ." The project is being carried out in partnership with the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. University of Arizona (On behalf of the Center for Creative Photography), Tucson, Az $45,000 To support a multi-faceted project that will preserve and increase access to the Edward Weston Photography Archive. Weston's work has been in constant demand for exhibition loans and scholarly reproduction purposes for the 28 years that it has been housed at the Center for Creative Photography. Vermont Museum & Gallery Alliance, Woodstock, VT $5100 To support the Vermont Collections Care Program which provides technical assistance to Vermont's historical societies, museums and galleries. Collection care workshops, general collection condition surveys and on-site training will be offered for the staff and volunteers of the organization's 220 member institutions. Whitney Museum of American Art Whitney Museum of American Art, in New York City, founded in 1930 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. It was an outgrowth of the Whitney Studio (1914–18), the Whitney Studio Club (1918–28), and the Whitney Studio Galleries (1928–30). , New York, NY $40,000 To support the museum's Touring Exhibition Program. The program consists of small and medium-size thematic, one-person and group exhibitions drawn from the permanent collection. Worcester Art Museum The Worcester Art Museum, located at 55 Salisbury Street, Worcester, Massachusetts, is one of the largest art museums in Central Massachusetts. History and Collection Overview , Worcester, MA $40,000 To support the planning, design and installation of Worcester's Community Mosaic. The project is intended to enhance community response to the museums major fall 2000 exhibition "Antioch: The Lost Ancient City." Yale University (on behalf of the Art Gallery), New Haven, CT $37,000 To support the publication of The Portrait in Little: American Miniatures at Yale University. This fully illustrated catalog will document the gallery's collection of 250 portrait miniatures. Arts Education Alliance for Art Education, New Jersey, Trenton, NJ $90,000 To support Arts Create Excellent Schools (ACES), a statewide initiative in New Jersey to catalyze state and local systemic educational reforms through the arts. This project includes two components: the ACES Leadership Institute, designed to train school teams in skills and methods for accomplishing school change through the arts; and dissemination of the ACES local currriculum. Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA $1000,000 To support extension of: 1) Project FLARE: Fun with Language, Arts and Reading and 2) Children Investigate the Environment (CIE (Commission Internationale de l'Eclairage, International Commission on Illumination, Vienna, Austria, www.cie.co.at) An international organization that sets standards for all aspects of lighting and illumination, including colorimetry, photometry and the measurement of visible and ). These curriculum-based, collaborative arts education programs with the Pasadena Unified School District The Pasadena Unified School District is a unified school district that is responsible for the schools of Pasadena, California. As of 2005, it has 5 high schools, 3 middle schools, and 24 elementary schools. and individual schools in the Los Angeles area make the arts an essential part of daily classroom instruction by integrating visual arts with the various school curricula. Drawing Center, Inc. (Consortium), NewYork, NY $25,000 To support the expansion and professional development components of Arts Benefit All Coalition Alternative (ABACA), a consortium project. ABACA is a collaboration among the Drawing Center, Thread Waxing Space, Artists Space, Art in General and the Satellite Academy, an alternative high school on Manhattan's Lower East Side. Educational Development Center, Inc. (Consortium), Newton, MA $150,000 To support a consortium project that will conduct research into the effects of a fully realized, arts-integrated curriculum on student learning. The Center for Arts Education in New York City Education in New York City is provided by a vast number of public and private institutions. The city's public school system, the New York City Department of Education, is the largest in the United States, and New York is home to some of the most important libraries, universities, and the Education Development Center will study, document and disseminate the development and impact in both arts and non-arts domains of models of arts-integrated curricula designed by teams of artists and teachers. Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL $80,000 To support a consortium project, The Center for Creative Aging. The project, in partnership with the American Society of Aging's National Learning Center, supports program maintenance and expansion in up to five cities: Boston, Miami, New York, Philadelphia and San Francisco. Miami-Dade County Public Schools (on behalf of New World School of the Arts New World School of the Arts (abbreviated NWSA) is a conservatory with programs in Visual Arts, Dance, Theatre, Musical Theatre, Instrumental Music, and Vocal Music . ), Miami, FL $50,000 To support the third and final year of the New World School of the Arts' Interdisciplinary Arts and Technology (ID ARTS) project. ID ARTS is a pilot curriculum designed to enable 11th and 12th grade students to create interdisciplinary art projects under the guidance of master artists-in-residence. New York State Alliance for Arts Education (Consortium), Albany, NY $60,000 To support a consortium project that will develop guidelines, for how best to document evidence of student achievement in arts education. The Alliance, with its consortium partners--the New York State Council on the Arts The New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) is an arts council serving the U.S. state of New York. It was established in 1960 through a bill introduced in the New York State Legislature by New York State Senator MacNeil Mitchell (1905-1996), with backing from Governor Nelson and the New York State Education Department The New York State Education Department is the state education department in New York State. It is responsible for the supervision for all public schools in New York State and all standardized testing, as well as the production and administration of state tests and Regents --will focus specifically on arts education taking place in the Empire State Partnerships Project, developed and implemented jointly by these partners. Portland Art Museum (on behalf of Northwest Film Center), Portland, OR $40,000 To support the formation and development of an annual Media Arts Academy. Developed by the Northwest Film Center, the Academy will serve teachers and students from throughout Oregon. Settlement Music School, Philadelphia, PA $80,000 To support the Early Childhood Education Initiative. This initiative comprises the School's Kaleidoscope Preschool Arts Enrichment Program and its Teacher Training Institute for the Arts. Southern Arts Federation The Southern Arts Federation (SAF), headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, is one of six not-for-profit regional arts organizations funded by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). , Inc, Atlanta, GA $10,000 To support a regional leadership initiative in arts education. The project will link communities and schools across state borders by educating policy-making pol·i·cy·mak·ing or pol·i·cy-mak·ing n. High-level development of policy, especially official government policy. adj. Of, relating to, or involving the making of high-level policy: organizations, identifying and promoting model projects that exemplify standards of excellence in arts education and providing professional training workshops that serve artists, teachers and presenters. Street-Level Youth Media, Chicago, IL $50,000 To support expansion of Street-Level Youth Media's In-School Projects Division. The project offers media arts programs to at-risk children and young adults through arts-integrated curriculum projects. University of Massachusetts The system includes UMass Amherst, UMass Boston, UMass Dartmouth (affiliated with Cape Cod Community College), UMass Lowell, and the UMass Medical School. It also has an online school called UMassOnline. at Amherst (on behalf of Art Extension Service), Amherst, MA $50,000 To support, through a consortium project, Learning Partnerships: on-line help for arts and education collaborations. Arts Extension Service, along with its consortium partners--the Arts Education Partnership, Council of Chief State School Officers The Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) is a national nonprofit organization in the United States which represents public officials that head elementary and secondary education departments. and National Assembly of State Arts Agencies--will develop and promote this initiative to help make the arts basic to education and enhance student learning by encouraging community arts and education collaborations. Wang Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. (Consortium), Boston, MA $70,000 To support ACT III and IV of Arts Can Teach (ACT), a consortium project. ACT is a multi-year collaborative effort among the Wang Center, LynnArts and the Lynn Public Schools to integrate the arts into the Lynn Public Schools' curriculum. Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC $100,000 To support the Arts in Basic Curriculum (ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. ) OUTREACH Program. This program is an effort to extend the ABC Project to rural and underserved school districts throughout South Carolina South Carolina, state of the SE United States. It is bordered by North Carolina (N), the Atlantic Ocean (SE), and Georgia (SW). Facts and Figures Area, 31,055 sq mi (80,432 sq km). Pop. (2000) 4,012,012, a 15. . Young Audiences of Greater Dallas (Consortium), Dallas, TX $80,000 To support the professional development component of ARTSPartners. Working with its eight consortium partners, Young Audiences will train artists and teachers in the effective use of arts and cultural programs to influence teaching and learning. Local Arts Agencies Burklyn Arts Council, Lyndonville, VT $5000 To support ticket subsidies for school children and senior citizens to attend area performances and exhibitions. The arts events will be sponsored by Catamount catamount: see puma. Arts, a major presenter of regional artistry. Fulton County Arts Council, Atlanta, GA $65,000 To support Art-at-Work and Art for Women's Economic Empowerment, two programs designed to increase economic opportunities through teaching arts skills. The program's goal is to provide targeted teens and underemployed un·der·em·ployed adj. 1. Employed only part-time when one needs and desires full-time employment. 2. Inadequately employed, especially employed at a low-paying job that requires less skill or training than one possesses. women in Fulton County with options and alternatives that can result in positive benefits to their lives. Grand Performances (on behalf of City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department The City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department is the official Los Angeles, California, USA arts council. The agency approves the design of structures built on or over City property and accepts works of art to be acquired by the City. ), Los Angeles, CA $10,000 To support LA Cultural Treasures. This project, a component of a larger, two-year, millennium cultural campaign being implemented by the Department, includes the printing and distribution of informational site maps depicting where artists have lived and worked throughout the city of Los Angeles
Lane Arts Council (Consortium), Eugene, OR $22,000 To support a six-member consortium's implementation of Arts Works, a project that trains and engages youth in the creation and presentation of community arts projects. Led by professional artists from performing and visual arts disciplines, residents in 13 rural towns in Lane County will participate in the creation and presentation of arts projects. Mississippi Cultural Crossroads (Consortium), Port Gibson, MS $30,000 To support a consortium in the implementation of the Mississippi Young People's Cultural Exchange Program. Now entering its second year, this program provides art instruction to youths by placing a visual artist at each of the four consortium member locations in rural areas near Jackson and Biloxi. Pinellas County Arts Council (Consortium), Clearwater, FL $100,000 To support a consortium project, the Youth Arts Corps/Juvenile Justice Arts Program. The consortium, comprised of the Pinellas County Arts Council, the Dali Museum, the Tampa Museum of Arts, Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center and the St. Petersburg Fine Arts Museum, will operate two related after-school arts programs (Youth Arts Corps and Youth Arts Corps Productions), as well as place trained, professional artists as resources in 11 juvenile justice programs. Regional Arts & Culture Council, Portland, OR $70,000 To support the Regional Library Arts Program. This project will provide a wide range of arts and cultural programs for citizens in Clackamas and Washington Counties at 20 libraries and selected community settings. Regional Arts Organizations Arts Midwest, Minneapolis, MN $840,400 Serving Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wisconsin. Consortium for Pacific Arts and Cultures, Honolulu, HI $183,800 Serving American Samoa, Guam and the Northern Marianas Islands. Mid-America Arts Alliance, Kansas City, MO $710,200 Serving Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas. Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, Baltimore, MD $831,200 Serving Delaware, District of Columbia District of Columbia, federal district (2000 pop. 572,059, a 5.7% decrease in population since the 1990 census), 69 sq mi (179 sq km), on the east bank of the Potomac River, coextensive with the city of Washington, D.C. (the capital of the United States). , Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Virgin Islands and West Virginia. National Assembly of State Arts Agencies, Washington, D.C. $385,000 To support NASAA's Fiscal Year 2000 and 2001 programs and services for state and regional arts agencies. New England Foundation for the Arts, Boston, MA $618,400 Serving Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island Rhode Island, island, United States Rhode Island, island, 15 mi (24 km) long and 5 mi (8 km) wide, S R.I., at the entrance to Narragansett Bay. It is the largest island in the state, with steep cliffs and excellent beaches. and Vermont. Southern Arts Federation, Inc., Atlanta, GA $785,200 Serving Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina North Carolina, state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N). Facts and Figures Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop. , South Carolina and Tennessee. Western States Arts Federation, Denver, CO $960,600 Serving Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming. State Arts Organizations Alabama State Council on the Arts, Montgomery, AL $545,400 Alaska State Council on the Arts, Anchorage, AK $420,400 American Samoa Council on Arts, Culture, & Humanities, Pago Pago, AS $238,900 Arizona Commission on the Arts, Phoenix, AZ $563,900 Arkansas Arts Council, Little Rock, AR $421,700 California Arts Council The California Arts Council is a state agency governed by an 11-member council appointed by the Governor and the state Legislature to advance the state through the arts and creativity, with an emphasis on children and under-served communities. , Sacramento, CA $836,800 Colorado Council on the Arts
Connecticut Commission on the Arts, Hartford, CT $521,500 Delaware Division of the Arts, Wilmington, DR $480,300 D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Washington, D.C. $398,300 Florida Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs, Tallahassee, FL $603,100 Georgia Council for the Arts, Atlanta, GA $511,100 Guam Council on the Arts and Humanities, Agana, GU $240,200 State Foundation on Culture &the Arts (Hawaii), Honolulu, HI $476,800 Idaho Commission on the Arts, Boise, ID $486,900 Illinois Arts Council The Illinois Arts Council is a government agency of the state of Illinois formed to encourage development of the arts throughout Illinois. Founded in 1965 by the Illinois General Assembly, the Illinois Arts Council provides financial and technical assistance to artists, arts , Chicago, IL $586,900 Indiana Arts Commission, Indianapolis, IN $477,300 Iowa Arts Council, Des Moines, IA $475,700 Kansas Arts Commission, Topeka, KS $444,900 Kentucky Arts Council, Frankfort, KY $522,800 Louisiana Division of the Arts, Baton Rouge, LA $535,100 Maine Arts Commission, Augusta, ME $486,900 Maryland State Arts Council, Baltimore, MD $497,000 Massachusetts Cultural Council, Boston, MA $545,800 Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs, Lansing, MI $578,800 Minnesota State Arts Board, St. Paul, MN $500,300 Mississippi Arts Commission, Jackson, MS $537,500 Missouri State Council on the Arts, St. Louis, MO $491,200 Montana Arts Council, Helena, MT $477,500 Nebraska Arts Council The Nebraska Arts Council is a publicly funded organization which seeks to promote creative arts in Nebraska. Members include musicians, artists, and writers of all disciplines. , Omaha, NE $522,600 Nevada Arts Council, Carson City, NV $488,000 New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, Concord, NH $465,700 New Jersey State Council on the Arts The New Jersey State Council on the Arts was founded in 1966 to support artistic activities in the state of New Jersey. It is funded by the New Jersey State Legislature and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). , Trenton, NJ $623,300 New Mexico Arts, Santa Fe, NM $419,300 NewYork State Council on the Arts, New York, NY $683,900 North Carolina Arts Council, Raleigh, NC $604,000 North Dakota Council on the Arts, Bismarck, ND $453,300 Commonwealth Council for Arts & Culture (Northern Marianas Islands), Saipan, MP $250,400 Ohio Arts Council The Ohio Arts Council (OAC) is an agency serving the U.S. state of Ohio. Established in 1965, its mission is to "foster and encourage the development of the arts and assist the preservation of Ohio's cultural heritage. , Columbus, OH $672,800 Oklahoma Arts Council, Oklahoma City, OK $492,900 Oregon Arts Commission, Salem, OR $475,900 Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Council on the Arts The Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (PCA) is an agency serving the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Established in 1966, its mission is "to foster the excellence, diversity and vitality of the arts in Pennsylvania and to broaden the availability and appreciation of those arts , Harrisburg, PA $612,000 Instituto De Cultura Puertorriquena/Institute of Puerto Rican Culture, San Juan, PR $431,900 Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, Providence, RI $495,900 South Carolina Arts Commission, Columbia, SC $572,400 South Dakota Arts Council, Pierre, SD $513,500 Tennessee Arts Commission, Nashville, TN $519,700 Texas Commission on the Arts, Austin, TX $665,100 Utah Arts Council, Salt Lake City, UT $516,000 Vermont Council on the Arts, Inc., Montpelier, VT $452,300 Virgin Islands Council on the Arts, St. Thomas, VI $244,400 Virginia Commission for the Arts, Richmond, VA $504,200 Washington State Arts Commission, Olympia, WA $472,200 West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Arts Section, Charleston, WV $460,000 Wisconsin Arts Board, Madison, WI $483,200 Wyoming Arts Council, Cheyenne, WY $498,100 |
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