2002 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access/Arts Learning/Arts on Radio & Television/ Challenge America Access/ Heritage-Preservation/ Leadership Initiatives/Partnership Agreements

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

Alabama State Council on the Arts
Montgomery, AL
$636,000
CATEGORY: Partnership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Mobile Symphony, Inc.
Mobile, AL
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
$7,500
To support Preludes. This music program provides basic music education in nine elementary schools.

Sloss Furnace Association, Inc.
(on behalf of Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark)
Birmingham, AL
$35,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support expansion of the Summer Youth Apprenticeship Program. Designed to build artistic, vocational and social skills in high school students, this arts-based youth program will increase the number of apprentices and professional artists by including inner-city youth.

Sloss Furnace Association, Inc. (consortium) $24,000
(on behalf of Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark)
Birmingham, AL
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support planning of an entrepreneurial venture to train youth in cast iron and clay production. The project will feature apprenticeships in the making of prototypes for architectural products and street furniture with participants using the foundry at Sloss Furnaces and clay studios at Space One Eleven.

Total Dollars Awarded: $702,500
Total Grants Awarded: 4

National Endowment for the Arts · an independent federal agency
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