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.
NEVADA
Clark County, NV, Cultural Affairs Division
Las Vegas, NV
$25,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the folk arts program. Activities will include locating, documenting and archiving folk
arts in Clark County and coordinating the annual International Food and Folklife Festival of
Southern Nevada.
International Institute of Modern Letters
Las Vegas, NV
$40,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support the implementation of Living Writers. Designed as a shared educational and artistic
experience for the classroom and community sites, the project will encourage active involvement and
promote interest in modern letters.
Nevada Arts Council
Carson City, NV
$582,600
CATEGORY: Partnership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.
Nevada Museum of Art
Reno, NV
$28,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support creation of the Art Odyssey Teachers Institute. Major project activities include
development and implementation of instructional lessons for teachers based on the museums permanent
collection, training in using the collection to integrate art into the core curriculum, and
sequential evaluation of the program.
Western Folklife Center
Elko, NV
$25,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support continued fieldwork on the cowboy poetry tradition. The fieldwork will add substantially
to Western Folklife Center's body of work on cowboy poets and cowboy poetry, illuminating the
variety of reasons each poet has for writing by providing more depth to the biographical, social,
familial, cultural, literary and artistic record.
Total Dollars Awarded: $700,600
Total Grants Awarded: 5
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