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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.

OHIO

Akron Art Museum
Akron, OH
$38,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support development and implementation of Art & Self, a theme-based art and writing collaboration. Developed for the sixth grade, this program includes workshops, museum visits, and artist residencies designed to provide an artistic outlet for self-expression and self awareness while creating a community for social interaction and enhancing students' abilities to relate to others.

Canton Symphony Orchestra Association
Canton, OH
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support after-school and weekend music instruction for elementary students and their families who are living in low-income neighborhoods of Canton. The symphony's musicians will offer instruction in steel drum, recorder and keyboard in four, six-week sessions.

Cincinnati Museum Association
Cincinnati, OH
$50,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the reinstallation from the permanent collection of objects in the newly renovated Cincinnati Wing, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The project will use the museum's comprehensive holdings of work produced by artists in Cincinnati during the 19th and 20th centuries to demonstrate the pivotal role the city played in the history of American art.

Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Cincinnati, OH
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a series of outreach programs that will include concerts and other services to neighborhoods throughout the region. The orchestra will provide a three-part initiative to communities in the Cincinnati metropolitan area including areas of northern Kentucky.

City of Columbus, Ohio (on behalf of the Burkhart Mural Task Force)
Columbus, OH
$10,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support final conservation and reinstallation of a seven-canvas mural by Emerson Burkhart. Commissioned by the Columbus Board of Education with funding from the Public Works of Art Project (a precursor to the Works Progress Administration), the mural, Music, was originally installed in 1934 in a high school auditorium.

Cityfolk
Dayton, OH
$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.

Cleveland Foundation (consortium)
Cleveland, OH
$45,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support the Preparation and Practice initiative. The two-year project will develop the skills of teaching artists throughout northeast Ohio. Consortium members include Young Audiences of Greater Cleveland and the Broadway School of Music and the Arts.

Columbus Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Columbus, OH
$25,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support The Holocaust: An Artist's Perspective. Project components include a concert, teacher seminar, classroom visits, a student-produced video documentary and an archival exhibit.

Cuyahoga Valley Environmental Education Center
Peninsula, OH
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support an artists-in-residence program. Six artists in various disciplines will be engaged to create models for interacting with students and the public in a residential environmental program.

GroundWorks Dancetheater
Cleveland Heights, OH
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support an increase in the number and variety of educational outreach programs. Programs will be offered during performance residencies at the Cleveland Public Theatre and the Landmarks Concert Series.

Mad River Theater Works
West Liberty, OH
$30,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America Arts Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the creation of a new play in collaboration with students and their families, school teachers, administrators, and members of the public and a tour of the production throughout Ohio and surrounding states. Participants will collaborate to create plays based on local history and folklore.

New Cleveland Opera Company
Cleveland, OH
$35,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America Arts Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the Intergenerational Initiative. Using the company's core K-12 programs as a model, the initiative will reach an estimated 21,000 underserved persons.

Oberlin College (on behalf of Allen Memorial Art Museum)
Oberlin, OH
$15,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support the Puppet Summer project. The project is designed to reach a new audience, adolescents ages 13 to 18, through community-wide arts activities during the summer.

Ohio Arts Council
Columbus, OH
$25,000
CATEGORY: Leadership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the continuation of the Ohio Folk Arts Initiative. Project activities will include fieldwork and documentation, the creation of an Ohio Heritage Fellowship Program, presentations of Ohio folk/traditional artists at the Cityfolk Festival, and expansion and updating of the Web site.

Ohio Arts Council
Columbus, OH
$761,700
CATEGORY: Partnership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Professional Flair, Inc.
Cleveland, OH
$10,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support a theatrical training initiative for children with disabilities. The project will partner art therapists, the Dancing Wheels Company, the AA Studio, and the Cleveland Clinic's Children's Rehabilitation Unit in this pilot youth arts training, performance and evaluation program.

Tri-C Jazz Fest
Cleveland, OH
$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.

Yellow Springs Exempted Village School District
Yellow Springs, OH
$25,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support Looking in, Looking out: Our Place in the World to advance curriculum integration. Components include a summer institute for teachers, school immersion in the study and celebration of diversity by focusing on innovative approaches to interdisciplinary learning, and community activities for parents.

Total Dollars Awarded: $1,191,700
Total Grants Awarded: 18


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