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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.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

African Continuum Theatre Coalition, Inc.
Washington, DC
$12,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a series of marketing initiatives to increase audiences. The company will create a Web site, a monthly e-magazine and commission a new theater work to increase audience engagement.

American University
Washington, DC
$15,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & Television FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production of literary programs on the radio series The Diane Rehm Show. These shows will feature fiction, poetry, biography, essays and more. Each week, one million listeners on 76 stations currently hear The Diane Rehm Show.

Americans for the Arts
Washington, DC
$75,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the preservation of Americans for the Arts' policy, research and training documents through digitization and the creation of an on-line archive Digitizing and archiving these documents, published as early as 1985, will make this collection accessible to the arts policy and administration fields at the local, state and national levels.

Andrew Cacho African Drummers & Dancers Economic Development Inc.
Washington, DC
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support workshops and performances as part of the Youthworks 2002 project. Children, teens and young adults will be trained in African Caribbean drumming, dancing, stilt walking and masquerades.

Association of Performing Arts Presenters, Inc.
Washington, DC
$60,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Performing Arts Information System, an Internet communications platform for the national touring and presenting field. This on-line system will accelerate dissemination of knowledge to the field and offer a wealth of performance information and cultural opportunities to the public.

Capital Concerts, Inc.
Washington, DC
$25,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & Television FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support The National Memorial Day Concert and A Capitol Fourth, two patriotic concerts at the U.S. Capitol to be nationally broadcast live on PBS in 2002. A national television audience of 10-12 million watches each of these 90-minute programs every year.

Choral Arts Society of Washington
Washington, DC
$25,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support the artsACCESS program. This choral music educational initiative will involve primary grades to assist schools in using music and the arts to teach across the curriculum.

Choral Arts Society of Washington
Washington, DC
$15,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & Television FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production and distribution of the radio series, Celebrating the Choral Arts. Five, two-hour holiday specials will provide national audiences with concerts by the Choral Arts Society of Washington performed at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Washington, DC
$24,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support the Visual Artist Community Outreach Program. This nationally recognized program offers classes, courses and mentorships to students in the District of Columbia.

Dance Heritage Coalition, Inc.
Washington, DC
$30,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support Phase II of Facing the Magnetic Media Crisis. The project will reformat or copy 175 tapes that have been subject to physical deterioration, format or machinery obsolescence as well as convene a Technology Working Group meeting.

Dance Institute of Washington
Washington, DC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support First Position Ballet, an introductory course for children in grades one through three. Dance instructors will work with teachers to develop classes for 12 students in four different 10-week sessions that will teach rudimentary ballet skills, introduce French vocabulary, improve children's response to direction and their ability to recall vocabulary and movement, and develop communication skills.

District of Columbia Commission on the Arts and Humanities
Washington, DC
$491,500
CATEGORY: Partnership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

District of Columbia Jewish Community Center, Inc.
(on behalf of the Washington Jewish Film Festival)
Washington, DC
$5,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 13th Annual Washington Jewish Film Festival. To be held in the fall of 2002, this event celebrates Jewish culture and the richness of the Jewish experience through the language of film.

Gala, Inc. Grupo de Artistas Latinoamericanos
Washington, DC
$20,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of Cervantes: Master Between Acts, an evening of short farces by the Spanish Golden Age writer Miguel de Cervantes. Written in both verse and prose to be performed between the acts of Spanish classical plays, these short farces or entremeses are humorous and satirical, reflecting the popular culture and customs of 17th century Spain.

Gallaudet University
Washington, DC
$15,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support the Young Scholars Program. This four-week summer arts program provides deaf, hard-of-hearing, and hearing teenagers with performing arts opportunities through cultural exploration and celebrations.

Illume Productions, Inc.
Washington, DC
$30,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & Television FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production of a television documentary series about the meaning of monuments. Monuments: Reminders and Warnings will explore the meaning of monuments, the creative process behind them, and their role as purposeful public art that partly shapes American identity.

KanKouran West African Dance Company
Washington, DC
$25,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America Arts Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the 19th Annual Labor Day Conference and Concert. The project involves five days of West African dancing, drumming and cultural art workshops concluding with a self produced concert.

Levine School of Music
Washington, DC
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support early childhood music education that incorporates intergenerational music experiences to underserved populations in the Washington, D.C. area. Goals for the project include reinforcing the children's academic, social and emotional development through music.

National Assembly of State Arts Agencies
Washington, DC
$510,000
CATEGORY: Partnership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support national leadership in fiscal year 2003 through services in the areas of education and technical assistance, public awareness, development of new partnerships and advanced information services.

National Building Museum
Washington, DC
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support This House is Home that engages communities and residents in photography, oral history and arts-based civic dialogue about affordable home ownership. A mobile gallery of the community's work will tour nationally and engage four diverse communities.

National Education Association Foundation
for the Improvement of Education
Washington, DC
$50,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support Arts Work. The pilot project will assist secondary school arts specialists and technology-using teachers collaborate in developing curricula that incorporates national arts and technology standards and links student learning to the world of work.

National Public Radio
Washington, DC
$150,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & Television FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the NPR Classical Music Initiative. The initiative will include the recording, acquisition and national radio broadcast of selected American symphony orchestras on the daily classical music series Performance Today and the weekly program SymphonyCast; and the presentation of American operatic productions for NPR's World of Opera series.

National Public Radio
Washington, DC
$150,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & Television FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support production and distribution of year-round jazz programming to reach national radio audiences. NPR's Jazz Initiative will include the Peabody Award-winning documentary program Jazz Profiles, Jazz Riffs and the development and acquisition of other jazz programming created for radio, satellite and Internet distribution.

National Trust for Historic Preservation
Washington, DC
$30,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support research, technical assistance, organization and material development for Community-Centered Historic Schools, a preservation tool that will help citizens save endangered historic schools. The materials developed for the project will provide evidence that it is economically wiser to maintain and update historic neighborhood schools.

National Trust for Historic Preservation (on behalf of Lyndhurst)
Washington, DC
$20,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the reinstallation of the A.J. Davis 1842 Gothic Revival parlor at Lyndhurst. A.J. Davis was one of America's earliest architects to unify space and furnishings and the Lyndhurst parlor is considered one of the masterpieces demonstrating this unification.

Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz
Washington, DC
$32,500
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Internet-based Jazz Resource Library. The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz will update and promote this resource on two of its Web sites.

Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz
Washington, DC
$11,000
CATEGORY: Leadership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the continuation of JazzNet, a jointly funded initiative with the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. Designed to increase commissioning, residencies and educational programming through 13 regional presenters, JazzNet encourages individual artists and ensembles by providing creation funds, touring support, artists' residencies and access to shared workspace.

Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz (consortium)
Washington, DC
$75,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support Jazz Sports, a national music instruction and performance project. The institute will host professional jazz musicians in Los Angeles and District of Columbia schools as teachers and mentors of young music students. Consortium member is the Los Angeles Unified School District.

Washington Chorus, Inc.
Washington, DC
$6,500
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support an outreach and education program. Activities include free concerts for the elderly, school choir workshops, and distribution of free tickets to young people throughout the Washington, D.C. area.

Washington Men's Camerata, Inc.
Washington, DC
$7,500
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the preservation and archiving of men's choral music. The project will involve the cataloguing and lending system for a national repository library of this substantial collection.

Washington Opera
Washington, DC
$40,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support programming of Music! Words! Opera! Modeled after the national educational initiative developed by OPERA America, the company will create a sequential curriculum based on La bohème that integrates language, drama, visual arts and music into lesson plans for students, grades three through eight.

Washington Theatre Awards Society
Washington, DC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Washington Audience Development Initiative, a multimedia promotional campaign to identify and develop new audiences for all Washington theaters. The initiative will work toward developing theater audiences in metropolitan Washington that are representative of area demographics.

Washington Very Special Arts
Washington, DC
$40,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support the School for Arts in Learning project for students with disabilities and their transition from kindergarten through eighth grades. Project components include documentation of all phases of curriculum development, assessment and teaching modes of the K-5 program, followed by documentation of the elementary students' adjustments to and progress in the upper-school level.

Young Playwrights' Theater, Inc.
Washington, DC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support EmPowerPlay, a multifaceted playwriting program for middle and high school students. The project centers on playwriting exercises, in-school readings, visits from guest artists, and field trips to local performances.

Total Dollars Awarded: $2,080,000
Total Grants Awarded: 34


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