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.

MONTANA

Alberta Bair Theater Corporation
Billings, MT
$10,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support Cultural Pioneers on the New Frontier. This multicomponent project will include specially designed school performances for K-12 local, rural and tribal students; professional development workshops for teachers; master classes for advanced students; and complimentary tickets for low-income youth.

Billings Symphony Society
Billings, MT
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Yellowstone Music Initiative. This comprehensive outreach project will reach underserved audiences in non-traditional venues in a variety of programs for youth and seniors.

Holter Museum of Art, Inc.
Helena, MT
$20,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support artist residencies and student tours, workshops and exhibitions. The museum will host a wide variety of arts activities to engage students and instruct teachers in learning referenced to Montana Standards for Arts, Social Studies, World Languages and Speaking and Listening.

Montana Art Gallery Directors Association
Great Falls, MT
$9,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support an art exhibition touring program. Funds will also support the association's annual professional training conference for museum personnel in the state.

Montana Arts Council
Helena, MT
$595,500
CATEGORY: Partnership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Montana Committee for the Humanities
Missoula, MT
$50,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America Arts Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the third annual Montana Festival of the Book in September 2002. More than 100 regional authors will read and discuss their work at selected venues in downtown Missoula, reaching an estimated audience of up to 5,000.

Montana State University
Bozeman, MT
$7,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the visiting artist lecture series, The New Frontier. Artists Luis Jimenez, Wayne Thiebaud and Jaune Quick-to-See Smith will be joined by writer and critic Lucy Lippard to explore issues related to the American West in the 21st century.

Myrna Loy Center for the Performing & Media Arts
Helena, MT
$15,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support Echoes of Discovery. This performance will coincide with the bicentennial of Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery and reflect on the mythic role of the Northwest Passage.

Tundra Club
Bozeman, MT
$15,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & Television FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production and national distribution of a series presenting the work of independent radio producers. Hearing Voices will be a compilation of documentaries, sound portraits and features that will be curated thematically.

University of Montana
Missoula, MT
$13,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support Celebrate the Classics, a series of performances and dialogues produced for rural community audiences in Montana. The Montana Repertory Theatre will present a fully staged production of The Miracle Worker in a producing partnership with the non-arts community leadership of each town on the tour.

Young Men's Christian Association of Billings
Billings, MT
$17,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support Painting Stories: Exploring the Narrative Voice in the New West. This series of readings, artist workshops and community discussions will be held at seven tribal colleges in Montana.

Total Dollars Awarded: $761,500
Total Grants Awarded: 11

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