2003 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access; Arts on Radio & TV; Arts Learning; Folk Arts Infrastructure; Heritage/Preservation; State & Regional Partnership Agreements

Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

COLORADO

Frequent Flyers Productions, Inc.
Boulder, CO
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$10,000
To support the Aerial Dance Festival 2003. The project will include classes, workshops and performances.

International Tap Association
Boulder, CO
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$10,000
To support Closing the Gap, a project examining the legacy and future of the art of tap. The project will bring together three generations of tap artists to examine aesthetic, philosophical and practical issues for the field.

Naropa University
Boulder, CO
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$25,000
To support the preservation of recordings of central literary figures who have visited the Poetics School between 1974 and 1986. Authors featured on the tapes include Philip Whalen, Gregory Corso, Ted Berrigan, William S. Burroughs and Meredith Monk.

Colorado Springs

Sprinkle Art, Inc. (aka Kennedy Center Imagination Celebration)
Colorado Springs, CO
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$38,000
To support expansion of the Outposts Program. The infrastructure development project for rural school districts will feature classroom resources, teacher training, residencies and performances.

Denver

Colorado Council on the Arts
Denver, CO
CATEGORY: Partnership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
$613,600
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Western States Arts Federation
Denver, CO
CATEGORY: Partnership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
$1,250,600
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Erie

National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts
Erie, CO
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$40,000
To support the annual conference of the nation's oldest and largest professional service organization for the ceramic arts. To be held in Indianapolis in 2004, Fields of Clay will include a series of exhibitions, critical lectures, panels and workshop demonstrations.

Colorado Total Dollars Awarded: $1,987,200
Colorado Total Grants Awarded: 7

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