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.
OREGON
Eugene Ballet Company
Eugene, OR
$30,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America Arts Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support regional rural touring in Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington. The tour will consist
of performances and outreach programs and reach rural communities.
Haven Project
Portland, OR
$8,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support the Afield program. In six, two-week residencies for underserved youth, professional
theater artists will pair one-on-one with 65 adolescents, ages 10 to 18, to develop short scripts
that will be given a performance by professional or university actors at the end of the
sessions.
IRCO
Portland, OR
$30,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a statewide tour and an accompanying catalogue of the exhibition In My Country.
The exhibition will be based on a weekly sewing circle of refugee and immigrant traditional fiber
artists.
MediaRites
Portland, OR
$10,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & Television FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production of an eight-part radio series by Dmae Roberts. 1st Person Radio
Stories will focus on eight different people going through challenging experiences in their
lives.
Oregon Arts Commission
Salem, OR
$590,100
CATEGORY: Partnership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.
Oregon Historical Society
Portland, OR
$25,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support Portraits of Oregon. The project will engage 4-H clubs in five rural Oregon counties to
document the folklife and cultural heritage of these important economic, geographic and cultural
communities.
Oregon Historical Society
Portland, OR
$20,000
CATEGORY: Leadership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the re-establishment of the Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program and other related
costs. The program allows master traditional artists to teach a specific skill to another member of
their cultural community.
Oregon Public Broadcasting (on behalf of Actual Films)
Portland, OR
$75,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & Television FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support a television series on the Third Reich's attempt to seize and appropriate Europe's great
art collections, and the efforts of the Allied Governments to preserve them. The Rape of
Europe will be a three-part series intended for national PBS broadcast.
Portland Art Museum (on behalf of Northwest Film Center)
Portland, OR
$55,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support Filmmakers-in-the-Schools. The Northwest Film Center of the Portland Museum of Art will
conduct a broad array of programs to encourage media literacy in the schools and foster learning in
line with Oregon's education goals and standards for the arts.
Portland Opera Association, Inc.
Portland, OR
$15,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support Portland Opera Works!, a touring/residency project for K-12 students. For this project,
the 36-year old Portland Opera will audition and hire eight singer/teachers for a 14 week,
professional training program that will include an eight-week tour.
University of Oregon (on behalf of Museum of Art) (consortium)
Eugene, OR
$30,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America Arts Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the Art Access Program. The project is to disseminate art and cultural instruction to
students who have limited exposure to the arts due to geographic and financial constraints.
Total Dollars Awarded: $888,100
Total Grants Awarded: 11
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