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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.

NORTH CAROLINA

African American Dance Ensemble, Inc. (consortium)
Durham, NC
$50,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America Arts Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a series of community residencies. The project will include a variety of activities and a performance.

American Dance Festival, Inc. (consortium)
Durham, NC
$20,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a three-week Dance Critics Workshop. The critics will attend performances followed by sessions on writing, discussion and analysis, the history of dance and dance criticism.

Asheville Art Museum Association, Inc.
Asheville, NC
$25,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America Arts Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the Literacy Through Art (LTA) program. LTA delivers art programs to students in the Appalachian region of North Carolina including lessons led by visual and performing artists and visits to the Asheville Art Museum.

Center for Documentary Studies
Durham, NC
$57,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support the professional development of teachers and artists, following methods used in the Literacy Through Photography program. The program offers workshops and related services to professionals from around the country to assist them in developing writing and photography skills and will also produce a curriculum for utilizing photography in the classroom.

Center for Documentary Studies (consortium)
Durham, NC
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support related programming for a retrospective exhibition of the work of photographer Wendy Ewald. The Center for Documentary Studies will provide access to Ewald's work through classroom visits, teacher workshops, and student gallery and Web exhibitions.

Charlotte Children's Choir
Charlotte, NC
$5,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support a choral arts festival titled A Children's Celebration in Song The 11th annual summer choral festival will provide opportunities for children from three counties to study choral singing, vocal development and creative motion.

Community School of the Arts
Charlotte, NC
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support after-school and intergenerational arts programming. Children and adults from the Southside Homes public housing community will participate in on-site workshops and lessons in visual art, drama and music.

Cultural Education Collaborative (consortium)
Charlotte, NC
$90,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support a professional development collaborative focused on the design and implementation of an arts-infused curriculum and professional development of teachers, artists, school administrators and arts organizations. Consortium members include the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, Charlotte Symphony, North Carolina Dance Theatre, Afro American Cultural Center, Children's Theatre of Charlotte, Mint Museum of Art, Museum of the New South and the Light Factory.

El Pueblo, Inc.
Raleigh, NC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support La Fiesta del Pueblo, a showcase for Latin American art, culture and heritage. The event will feature folkloric dance, poetry readings, storytelling, music, visual arts, youth performances and a community-based mural project.

Mint Museum of Art, Inc.
Charlotte, NC
$15,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the preparation of a manuscript for a catalogue of the North Carolina pottery collection. The comprehensive collection, of approximately 2,700 pieces, spans three centuries and includes works from all the major pottery centers in the state.

Museum of the Albemarle, Inc.
Elizabeth City, NC
$10,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support development and implementation of Planters, Providers, & Pathfinders: African American Folklife in North Carolina. This community-based art education program is an interactive folk arts demonstration program for third through fifth-grade students in northeastern North Carolina.

North Carolina Arts Council
Raleigh, NC
$668,800
CATEGORY: Partnership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

North Carolina Folklife Institute
Durham, NC
$30,000
CATEGORY: Leadership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the creation of an executive director's position and other related costs. The primary responsibility of this position is to strengthen the state's infrastructure of support for the folk and traditional arts, not only through improved communication but also through long-range planning.

North Carolina Performing Arts Center at Charlotte Foundation
Charlotte, NC
$30,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support planning, implementation, and evaluation of GAINS--Gaston Arts Integration Nurtures Success--a comprehensive curriculum initiative. The project targets second and third grades at the Ida Rankin Elementary School in Mount Holly, NC.

North Carolina Symphony Society, Inc.
Raleigh, NC
$50,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support an in-school educational concert program and a workshop for elementary school music teachers from communities throughout the state. In 2002-03, all 64 full-time musicians of the North Carolina Symphony will travel more than 18,000 miles to perform up to 60 educational concerts.

Penland School of Crafts, Inc.
Penland, NC
$15,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support research, development and production of a publication documenting Penland's 75th anniversary. Designed to complement a traveling exhibition and other public programming organized by Penland and the Mint Museum of Craft and Design, the publication will function as a book about craft rather than simply a catalogue of the exhibition.

Total Dollars Awarded: $1,130,800
Total Grants Awarded: 16


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