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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.

MARYLAND

Baltimore

Baltimore Center for the Performing Arts, Inc.
Baltimore, MD
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$15,000
To support conservation and restoration of a 1914 mural by Vincent Maragliotti above the proscenium arch in Baltimore's historic Hippodrome Theater. The mural, 45 feet long and 26 feet tall, is painted on canvas and now in storage awaiting conservation.

Baltimore Clayworks, Inc.
Baltimore, MD
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$28,000
To support after-school art classes for young people in underserved Baltimore communities. The project connects working and exhibiting ceramic artists with young people, ages 11 to 14, in four, 10 week sessions of classes, followed by an exhibition at City Hall galleries.

Baltimore Museum of Art, Inc. (consortium)
Baltimore, MD
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
$50,000
To support documentation of 19th century French drawings in the permanent collections of the Baltimore Museum and Walters Art Museum. Together, the works of art featured in the project constitute one of the nation's richest collections of French drawing as it developed from academic traditions to progressive modernism.

Baltimore Opera Company, Inc.
Baltimore, MD
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
$15,000
To support the Baltimore Opera Studio and education and community programs. In order to advance an appreciation of opera, programs will be developed during the 2003-04 season for audiences of all ages and ethnic and economic backgrounds.

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Baltimore, MD
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$45,000
To support the expansion of Arts Excel. Designed to support academic achievement in core curricular subjects through the arts, the program will focus on schools in rural Washington County in western Maryland.

Magical Experiences Arts Company
Baltimore, MD
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$6,000
To support workshops and performances for children and adolescents with severe disabilities. The Oaktree of Maryland, written by Artistic Director and playwright Joanne Margolius, will tour to five Maryland schools providing interactive workshops for students.

Maryland Institute College of Art (on behalf of Community Arts Partnerships)
Baltimore, MD
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$20,000
To support the Baltimore Youth Television program. Children, ages eight to 12, will create their own short videos and public service announcements under the direction of a master video artist, assisted by college student mentors from the Community Arts Partnerships.

Maryland State Arts Council
Baltimore, MD
CATEGORY: Partnership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State &Regional
$563,800
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Maryland State Arts Council
Baltimore, MD
CATEGORY: Folk Arts Infrastructure FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk &Traditional Arts
$26,000
To support the third year of Maryland Traditions. Folklorists will be placed in two cultural institutions that serve rural and underserved regions presently challenged by demographic and cultural shifts.

Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation
Baltimore, MD
CATEGORY: Partnership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State &Regional
$1,107,400
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

University of Maryland Baltimore County Campus
 (on behalf of Albin O. Kuhn Library and Gallery Special Collections)
Baltimore, MD
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
$18,000
To support the exhibition Intermedia: The Dick Higgins Collection, with accompanying catalog and symposium. The exhibition will consist of works drawn from the library's Dick Higgins archive representing more than 400 intermedia artists.

Finksburg

International Double Reed Society
Finksburg, MD
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$9,500
To support the improvement of Internet equipment for the society's Web site, www.idrs.org. With an upgraded Web server, computer peripherals and software, the site will increase distribution of sound files, printed music, research materials and other sources of information on double reed instruments.

Fort Washington

Cambodian American Heritage, Inc.
Fort Washington, MD
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk &Traditional Arts
$10,000
To support instruction in Cambodian classical dance and music. The project will culminate with a concert in observance of the Cambodian New Year.

Olney

Olney Theatre Corporation (aka Olney Theatre Center for the Arts)
Olney, MD
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$20,000
To support Educational Connections, a multifaceted middle and high school educational theater program. Ongoing program activities are designed to make theater more widely available, involve diverse communities and reach new audiences.

Riverdale

Pyramid Atlantic, Inc.
Riverdale, MD
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$54,000
To support Discoveries through Reading as Process, Art as Content--an artist residency project designed to improve visual literacy. The program will bring artist and educator Tim Rollins and his team, Kids of Survival (K.O.S.), to work with students and teachers to explore print and papermaking, digital media and the book arts.

Rockville

United Cambodian American Resources for Enrichment, Inc. (aka UCARE)
Rockville, MD
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk &Traditional Arts
$25,000
To support workshops in advanced and authentic artistic techniques of Khmer art forms and a National Festival of Khmer Arts. The festival will include a stage performance of Cambodian folk and traditional arts showcasing artists and dance repertory from across the United States and exhibits of Cambodian crafts, painting and sculpture.

Silver Spring

Class Acts Arts, Inc.
Silver Spring, MD
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$15,000
To support the expansion of outreach programs to underserved populations. The two-part project will focus on special-needs and at-risk youth, and the development of deaf access programs.

Fish Middleton Jazz Scholarship Fund, Inc.
Silver Spring, MD
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$15,000
To support the Jazz Heritage Artist project at the East Coast Jazz Festival. Annually, a jazz artist of distinction will be honored and presented at the festival.

National Council for the Traditional Arts
Silver Spring, MD
CATEGORY: Folk Arts Infrastructure FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk &Traditional Arts
$35,000
To support the Lowell Folk Festival, the National Folk Festival in Bangor, Maine and the Blue Ridge Music Center's Summer Series.

National Council for the Traditional Arts
Silver Spring, MD
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk &Traditional Arts
$65,000
To support an urban and rural festival, a tour in the western United States and a series of outdoor concerts in an underserved region of Appalachia. The project honors folk, tribal and ethnic communities across the nation by developing audiences and giving national exposure to excellent folk artists.

Washington Chu Shan Chinese Opera Institute, Inc.
Silver Spring, MD
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk &Traditional Arts
$10,000
To support Zhe Ze Xi, a series of excerpts from traditional Chinese operas. Performing artists of Chinese opera from Taiwan, mainland China and the U.S. will perform traditional excerpts from Kunqu (Literary opera), Nanqu (Southern opera), Chuanju (Sichuan opera) and Jingju (Peking opera).

Takoma Park

Dance Exchange, Inc. (aka Liz Lerman Dance Exchange)
Takoma Park, MD
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$30,000
To support the Dance Exchange Toolbox Tour. The project will consist of a series of dance performances and training workshops that will disseminate the company's techniques and methodologies for community art.

Twentieth Century Consort (aka 20th Century Consort)
Takoma Park, MD
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$13,500
To support an archival project preserving recorded works by 20th- and 21st-century composers. The digital archive will be housed in the Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library at the University of Maryland at College Park.

Maryland Total Dollars Awarded: $2,196,200
Maryland Total Grants Awarded : 23


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