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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.

WASHINGTON

Book-It
Seattle, WA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support an education and community outreach program titled Book-It All Over! The program utilizes seven productions for its touring component, related workshops, and an in school artist residency to teach its methodology of creating simply staged productions based on literature in the curriculum.

Earshot Jazz
Seattle, WA
$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.

Evergreen State College (consortium)
Olympia, WA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America Arts Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the traveling exhibition Hitemelkil'isix (Within the Circle of the Rim), with an accompanying catalogue. The exhibition will showcase artwork of the first U. S.-based Gathering of Indigenous Visual Artists of the Pacific Rim.

Friends of the Vancouver School of Arts and Academics (consortium)
Vancouver, WA
$32,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support ORIGINS. Through this program, designed as a symposium on arts education and the creative process, high school arts students, artists and arts educators will examine the subject of creativity via student work. Consortium members include Portland Institute of Contemporary Arts, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Perpich Center for Arts Education and the Vancouver School District.

Greater Tacoma Community Foundation
(on behalf of the Cultural Council of Greater Tacoma) (consortium)
Tacoma, WA
$32,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support Arts Impact. This is a professional development program for elementary classroom teachers in teaching and assessing visual arts, dance and drama. Consortium members include the Tacoma Art Museum and Broadway Center for the Performing Arts.

Henry Art Gallery Association
Seattle, WA
$16,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support Short Stories, Volume II, a flexible series of small exhibition projects. The project includes the exhibition of works from the permanent collection, commissioning new work by contemporary artists and an artist residency.

Intiman Theatre
Seattle, WA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the matinee performances of up to three plays through the Living History project. The company will produce Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, Moliere's Scapin, Harley Granville Barker's Waste and conduct artist residencies at local high schools.

Jack Straw Memorial Foundation (on behalf of Reel Women Productions)
Seattle, WA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & Television FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support a documentary radio series that will profile objects held in museums that are rarely or never displayed. The Hidden Treasures Radio Project is intended for broadcast on National Public Radio's Morning Edition or Public Radio International's Studio 360.

Jack Straw Memorial Foundation (consortium)
Seattle, WA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America Arts Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the Blind Youth and Adult Audio Project. With Arts and Visually Impaired Audiences, the series of workshops introduces visually impaired people to the creative possibilities and latest techniques of audio production while they design their own radio program.

King County Arts Commission (consortium)
Seattle, WA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the King County Performance Network (KCPN). KCPN, a regional affiliation of local arts agencies, will provide coordinated services to identify performance venues and better techniques to market contemporary theater.

Music Works Northwest
Bellevue, WA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support music education activities of an inner-city branch campus for youth and adults. The community music school's branch campus activities will include a summer music camp, private and group music instruction, music technology/audio engineering classes, guest artist workshops and performances.

Northwest Designer Craftsmen
Seattle, WA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the Living Treasures Project, a video documentary series on craftspeople of the Northwest. The broadcast quality, half-hour videos feature the work, philosophy and achievements of the Northwest's most influential elder craft professionals and craft advocates.

Northwest Native American Basketweavers Association
Olympia, WA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the 2002 Master Basketweavers Gathering. The gathering is designed to honor Native American basketweavers by showcasing their basketry, producing a public market day featuring basketry and related fiber arts, and presenting discussions of pertinent issues with public agency managers.

Pacific Northwest Ballet Association
Seattle, WA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support the ballet's three outreach programs for children in elementary school. The ballet presents performance/demonstrations, conducts in-school residencies of up to six weeks, and professionally trains talented children from schools where many speak English as a second language or come from low-income families.

Pat Graney Performance, Inc.
Seattle, WA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America Arts Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support the national expansion of Keeping the Faith - the Prison Project. Through this residency program, artists in three U.S. cities will be trained to create their own arts programming in prisons.

Seattle Arts & Lectures
Seattle, WA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support the Writers In The Schools project. Geared to Washington State Essential Academic Learning Requirements, the program will feature up to 40 comprehensive writers' residencies in Seattle middle and high schools, along with teacher training and student mentoring.

Seattle International Children's Festival
Seattle, WA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America Arts Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support expansion of education and outreach programs. The Children's Festival will increase the number of educational activities in schools, programs for the general public and satellite festival sites throughout Washington State.

Seattle Opera
Seattle, WA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the Young Artists Program and expansion of community access and educational opportunities for elementary and high school students. In 2002-03 the program will serve over 37,000 persons.

Seattle Repertory Theatre (consortium)
Seattle, WA
$18,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support two professional development programs. The programs complement one another by focusing on the needs of teachers to incorporate theater and the arts into the curriculum and on artists' needs for experience in classrooms.

Seattle Shakespeare Festival
Seattle, WA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a Shakespeare festival involving all Seattle School District middle schools and volunteers from the senior community. Participants will work with professional actors and production managers from Seattle Shakespeare Festival to rehearse and perform 90-minute Shakespeare adaptations in a festival format.

Seattle Theatre Group
Seattle, WA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support Dance this. The program features local youth dance companies performing in diverse styles, from traditional to contemporary.

Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestras
Seattle, WA
$7,500
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support the Marrowstone Music Festival. Founded in 1943, this three-week residential summer music program provides orchestral and chamber music instruction for youth through master classes, rehearsals and performances with a nationally and internationally acclaimed artist faculty.

Spokane Symphony Society
Spokane, WA
$7,500
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support expansion of Symphony Ensembles for Education. The project will send four ensembles into area elementary schools and juvenile correctional facilities to perform interactive concerts that center around a musical theme or situation.

Tacoma Symphony Orchestra Guild
Tacoma, WA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support Simply Symphonic. This integrated elementary school music education program is provided free to fifth grade students in Pierce County public and private schools.

VSA arts of Washington
Seattle, WA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America Arts Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support the Cultural Access Project of Washington State. The project will serve people with disabilities by assisting in the evaluation and education of arts organizations that seek to incorporate access into all facets of their facilities and programming.

Washington State Arts Commission
Olympia, WA
$603,300
CATEGORY: Partnership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Washington State Arts Commission
Olympia, WA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Leadership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program and other related costs. The program supports the sharing of traditional arts between a master and an apprentice.

Wing Luke Memorial Foundation
Seattle, WA
$24,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support the Heritage Enrichment Project. This three-part project will offer middle school students access to museum arts and heritage education, a performing arts residency and a Cambodian youth-developed performance.

Total Dollars Awarded: $1,286,300
Total Grants Awarded: 28


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