NEA ANNOUNCES $60,726,300 IN NEW GRANTS

Source: Arts Wire CURRENT, a project of Arts Wire, a program of the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) -- http://www.nyfa.org

WASHINGTON, DC - The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) has announced $60,726,300 awarded through 851 grants in the second major funding round of Fiscal Year 2002.

Awards will be distributed to nonprofit national, regional, state and local organizations across the country through three of the Endowment's Grants to Organizations categories: Access, Arts Learning and Heritage/Preservation, as well as through Arts on Radio and Television, Challenge America Arts Access, Leadership Initiatives and Partnership Agreements.

-- From New York where Electronic Arts Intermix received funding to support the ARTISTS' VIDEOTAPE DISTRIBUTION SERVICE with an online catalog which will make more than 3,000 works available to libraries, educational institutions, community centers, museums and other organizations;

to Texas where the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture in San Antonio will produce a three-part television series examining the cultural and artistic expression of Latino communities in the United States;

to California where California Summer Music (San Francisco) will implement the COMPOSITION & THEORY SKILLS PROGRAM, a program designed to provide opportunities for young musicians to compose and perform contemporary music.

"Through these grants, the Arts Endowment will provide excellent arts education opportunities for children and young people, celebrate our rich cultural heritage, and ensure greater access to the arts for communities nationwide," said Eileen B. Mason, Acting Chairman of the Arts Endowment.

In ARTS ON RADIO AND TELEVISION GRANTS, the NEA will provide $3.8 million for the development, production and distribution of arts programs for radio and television broadcast. Examples of projects supported by Arts on Radio and Television include:

a grant to American Documentary, (New York, City) to support the production of VIRTUAL LIVES, a series of short documentary works by independent filmmakers and Internet artists offered to the public via the Web. The series will combine independent filmmaking with community-building dialogue via an Internet site which will include episodic installments as well as encourage user participation;

and funding to Appalshop (Whitesburg, KY) to support the development and production of a radio series documenting the living music and cultural traditions of the Central Appalachian highlands. Intended for national broadcast, each program will combine musical presentations, interviews, and narration.

ACCESS GRANTS help arts organizations utilize outreach strategies -- such as touring, publication or technology -- to help people overcome constraints in connecting to the arts. Examples of projects supported by Access grants include:

Asian American Arts Alliance (New York City) to support the maintenance and expansion of the web-based ASIAN AMERICAN ARTS CALENDAR/NY;

Adirondack Community College (Queensbury, NY; on behalf of Writers Institute) to support the creation of a writer's institute which will present readings and workshops by nationally renowned and local writers to students and community members;

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (Piscataway, NJ; on behalf of the Jane Vorhees Zimmerli Art Museum) to support education programs for the exhibition ARTIST + PRINTERS: RECENT TRENDS IN COLLABORATIVE PRINTMAKING. The project will focus on the working relationship between the artist and the printer in the process of producing a successful print;

Mercy Housing (on behalf of Indigenous Community Enterprises; Flagstaff, AZ) to support a housing project for elderly Navajos that incorporates traditional Navajo dwelling designs with contemporary housing design features. Design workshops will be conducted with Navajo elders and family members, community leaders, social service providers, tribal officials and facility managers;

and Small Press Distribution, Berkeley, CA to support a distribution initiative which will provide individuals, libraries and bookstores in all 50 states with publications from 500 small and independent presses.

ARTS LEARNING GRANTS support the arts as an integral part of education both in and outside the classroom. Projects focus on direct instruction of children and youth; professional development for teachers and artists; and curriculum and community-based program development. (Note that beginning in Fiscal Year 2003, Arts Learning will be separate from the other Grants to Organizations categories with its own set of guidelines and application.) Examples of projects supported by Arts Learning grants include:

University of Massachusetts at Amherst (on behalf of the New WORLD Theater) to support continuation of PROJECT 2050. Designed as a multidisciplinary and cross-cultural project for youth from diverse racial, ethnic and class backgrounds, 2050 provides interactions among youth, professional artists and scholars and includes the creation of original theater pieces;

through the LIFT COMMUNITY SERVICE PROGRAM, Dance Ring in New York City will offer dance education and support services for children in city homeless shelters;

The Manhattan Theatre Club (New York, NY) will expand the distance learning TheatreLink program from 12 to 15 high schools across the country and provide for an upgrade of technological support;

The Washington Very Special Arts (Washington, DC) School for Arts in Learning project helps students with disabilities transition from kindergarten through eighth grades;

working with students of the Daniel Boone School, Village of Arts and Humanities (Philadelphia, PA) artists will create an art park in a blighted section of North Philadelphia;

The California Institute of the Arts (consortium) Valencia, CA Community Arts Partnership will bring together youth with Cal Arts faculty and artists to design and implement in-depth programs in media arts, dance, visual arts, theater and music for youth. Consortium members include the Armory Center for the Arts, Inner-City Arts, Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, Plaza de la Raza, Santa Clarita Valley Boys & Girls Club, Self-Help Graphics & Art and the Watts Towers Arts Center.

and in Vancouver, WA, Friends of the Vancouver School of Arts and Academics (consortium) -- through the ORIGINS program, designed as a symposium on arts education and the creative process -- high school arts students, artists and arts educators will examine 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.

HERITAGE/PRESERVATION GRANTS help conserve significant art works and honor, assist and increase the visibility of art and artists. Projects celebrate cultural traditions through performances, festivals, apprenticeships, workshops and mentoring opportunities. For instance:

in New York City, Franklin Furnace Archive received funding to support an archival project to create a digital record and searchable database of the 25 year history of this pioneering alternative artists' organization. The project will create an accessible, interactive and ongoing record of the organization's work, including exhibitions of artists' books, temporary installations, performance art, and live on the Internet netcasts;

in Chicago, the Art Institute of Chicago (on behalf of the Video Data Bank) received funding to support the preservation of ON ART AND ARTISTS. The project will accommodate the preservation of nearly 42 artist interviews and a publication to promote the availability of the videotapes;

in Oklahoma City, OK, Black Liberated Arts Center will utilize NEA funds to support a photographic exhibition and catalogue documenting the contributions of African Americans to the cultural and architectural development of Oklahoma City; (photographer Ron Tarver)

in New Mexico, the Albuquerque Arts Alliance was awarded a grant to support a cultural survey of various ethnic populations that reside in the greater Albuquerque areas. The survey will assist arts organizations in tailoring their programs and services to meet the specific needs of these underserved populations.

Sixty CHALLENGE AMERICA ARTS ACCESS GRANTS totaling $2.3 million will support projects that engage artists, arts organizations and communities to make quality arts programs more widely available.

In this category:

Art Resources Transfer (New York City) received funding to support the Distribution to UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES PROGRAM. The project will offer books, museum catalogues, videos and other material about contemporary art free to libraries across the nation with a special emphasis on rural and inner-city libraries.

Meet The Composer (New York City) was awarded $100,000 to support the COMPOSER CONNECTIONS INITIATIVE designed to increase the impact contemporary music has on listeners.

New Orleans Video Access Center will use NEA funds to support the provision of workshops and production equipment for media artists and students.

In PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENTS, the Arts Endowment awarded $39,645,800 or 41% of its grantmaking budget to state and regional arts agencies across the country.

For instance, the Wyoming Arts Council received $544,000 to support Partnership Agreement activities.

The Endowment also awarded $1.3 million for LEADERSHIP INITIATIVES -- primarily for the Folk and Traditional Arts Infrastructure Initiative which will strengthen partnerships between state and local organizations for the nonprofit folk and traditional arts.

As they do every year, these 851 grants reflect the broad and effective reach the Arts Endowment's arts funding programs have across the country. With a relatively small budget, The National Endowment for the Arts seeds and supports our Nation's arts in myriad ways.

Among many other grants in this round are:

_BIRMINGHAM, AL - Sloss Furnace Association, Inc. (consortium)
$24,000 (on behalf of Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark) CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support planning of an entrepreneurial venture to train youth in cast iron and clay production. The project will feature apprenticeships in the making of prototypes for architectural products and street furniture with participants using the foundry at Sloss Furnaces and clay studios at Space One Eleven.

_ANCHORAGE, AK - Koahnic Broadcast Corporation
$25,000 CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & Television FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support arts reporting, performance and features on the nationally distributed radio programs National Native News and Native America Calling. These daily news and information programs, which reach 360,000 listeners each week, are also available via the Internet.

_GRAND CANYON, AZ - Grand Canyon Chamber Music Festival, Inc.
$10,000 CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support the Native American Composer Apprentice Project. Developed with composer Brent Michael Davids and the Miro String Quartet, this project provides mentoring and training opportunities in composition and music literacy for eleventh-grade Native American students.

_LOS ANGELES, CA - ARTScorpsLA $24,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a collaborative public art project between community residents, university students and artists Mel Chin and Tricia Ward in Temple-Beaudry, a near East side neighborhood of Los Angeles.The interdisciplinary partnership will build on past projects that empower communities to reclaim derelict, vacant, of 10 contaminated sites in the inner-city.

_SAN FRANCISCO, CA - Bay Area Video Coalition, Inc.
$50,000 CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the provision of national video preservation services to artists and arts organizations and other related activities. Services include the recording, retrieval and preservation of video art and art on video and the dissemination of information to the public.

_LOS ANGELES, CA - Los Angeles Poverty Department (consortium)
$18,000 CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a tour of Agents and Assets, a play that investigates the advent of the U.S. crack epidemic, to Florida, Ohio and Michigan. A community symposium with an invited panel of experts will follow each performance.

_SAN JOSE, CA - Arab Women's Solidarity Association (on behalf of Arab Film Festival)
$5,000 CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the sixth annual Arab Film Festival.

_SAN DIEGO, CA - Museum of Photographic Arts
$30,000 CATEGORY: Challenge America Arts Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the Regeneration Project, a 16-week collaborative creative process involving senior citizens and local artists. Working with professional photographers, actors, composers, designers and arts educators, the seniors participating in the project will experiment with a variety of artistic processes to write, direct and present a multimedia performance piece.

_BOULDER, CO - Naropa University
$20,000 CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the preservation of recordings of central literary figures who have visited the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics since 1974. Authors featured on the tapes include Robert Creeley, Barbara Guest, Amiri Baraka, John Ashbery, Gary Snyder, Rikki Ducornet, Ishmael Reed and Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

_NEW HAVEN, CT - Connecticut Players Foundation, Inc.
$25,000 CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support expansion of Long Wharf Theatre's New Haven Project. The theater has expanded its outreach programs to include an annual community performance project, a subsidized ticket fund, and workshops at New Haven neighborhood sites every month during the season.

_WILMINGTON, DE - Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Inc.
$10,000 CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a series of community-based artists' residencies and publication of a documentary catalogue. The artists will collaborate with community groups to create work based on ideas and issues relevant to the participants' lives.

_WASHINGTON, DC - Association of Performing Arts Presenters, Inc.
$60,000 CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Performing Arts Information System, an Internet communications platform for the national touring and presenting field. This on-line system will accelerate dissemination of knowledge to the field and offer a wealth of performance information and cultural opportunities to the public.

_WASHINGTON, DC - National Building Museum
$30,000 CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support This House is Home that engages communities and residents in photography, oral history and arts-based civic dialogue about affordable home ownership. A mobile gallery of the community's work will tour nationally and engage four diverse communities.

_GAINESVILLE, FL - Dance Alive!
$25,000 CATEGORY: Challenge America Arts
Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance To support expansion of touring in rural and underserved areas in Florida, Georgia, Alabama and Louisiana. The dance programs will include work by resident choreographers, George Balanchine, and commissioned work by contemporary choreographers.

_SARASOTA, FL - Sarasota Season of Sculpture
$16,000 CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support symposia held in conjunction with Sarasota's Season Of Sculpture exhibition, a major waterfront exhibition featuring work by large-scale sculptors. The symposia will bring together international curators, artists, art critics and others to discuss the impact of public art through the ages.

_VALDOSTA, GA - Lowndes/Valdosta Arts Commission
$7,000 CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support a series of exhibitions primarily featuring the work of regional artists. Each exhibit will hang in the Main or Hall Galleries of the Lowndes Valdosta Arts Center and will be accompanied by monthly educational programming, as well as provide the public with an opportunity to meet the artists.

_HONOLULU, HI - Hawaii Literary Arts Council $5,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a series of readings and writing workshops at men's and women's prisons. Scheduled participants include Lois-Ann Yamanaka and Chris McKinney, author of the novel TATTOO which is set in Halawa prison.

_BOISE, ID - Ballet Idaho, Inc.
$30,000 CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support an educational outreach program, Learning Through Dance. Three project components, Artist-in-Residence, Teacher In-Service and School Connections, have been designed to integrate dance and movement into curriculum-based learning.

_CHICAGO, IL - Archeworks $38,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support design and production of a prototype kitchen that would benefit individuals with physical disabilities. The prototype kitchen was developed by Archeworks, an alternative design school founded to initiate design solutions for underserved communities.

_NORMAL, IL - Center for Book Culture
$40,000 CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the restoration and promotion of major works of modern fiction by Dalkey Archive Press. Authors whose works will be republished as part of the press's International Recovery Project include Osman Lins, Ann Quin, Louis Paul Boon, Elizabeth Bowen, Manuel Puig and Alasdair Gray.

_CHICAGO, IL - Chicago New Art Association
$18,000 CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a mentoring program for writers and critics of contemporary art for the NEW ART EXAMINER, an independent visual arts magazine. Promising young writers will be identified through a scouting process and will work with artists, museums, galleries, schools and other nonprofit arts organizations from Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri and Wisconsin

_CHICAGO, IL - SCT Productions $10,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of DANCE CHICAGO 2002. The five-week dance festival will include 250 dance groups and more than 2000 artists from Chicago.

_INDIANAPOLIS, IN - Indiana Opera Society, Inc.
$25,000 CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support MUSIC! WORDS! OPERA! The literature-based, K-12 educational project, will provide teacher manuals and training, audiotapes, study guides, and support attendance at performances, open rehearsals, and workshops for teachers and approximately 5,000 students from 10 schools.

_CEDAR RAPIDS, IA - Legion Arts, Inc. $15,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support a neighborhood-based artist residency program. Over a two-year period, 30 to 40 nationally recognized visual artists, musicians and theater makers will work with Cedar Rapids community groups in collaborative activities.

_SHAWNEE MISSION, KS - Arts & Humanities Association of Johnson County (consortium)
$25,000 CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support the expansion and refinement of Kansas Arts Learning. Designed as a community based, arts education program for parents and young children, the project will develop new partnerships in rural northeast Kansas and Kansas City's urban center.

_LOUISVILLE, KY - Pleiades Theatre Company
$5,000 CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the creation, development and presentation of a new theater work by women playwrights from Kentucky. Up to four women playwrights will collaborate to create a play that will explore the lives of a diverse group of women from Kentucky's history.

_NEW ORLEANS, LA - National Performance Network, Inc. (consortium)
$28,000 CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support WEAVING THE WEB OF COMMUNITY. The project will create partnerships between cultural and civil rights organizations to create collaboratively produced performance work

_PORTLAND, ME - Center for Cultural Exchange (consortium)
$25,000 CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support LATINO DOWN EAST/HISPANO DE BAJO ESTE. In consortium with the Latino Community Council of Maine, the project involves a series of artist residencies, workshops, performances and in-school educational programs with local Caribbean, Mexican and Central American communities.

_ROCKVILLE, MD - Cambodian Network Council
$20,000 CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support Cambodian arts and cultural classes for Cambodian American youth

_ST. MICHAELS, MD - Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, Inc.
$20,000 CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support apprenticeships in traditional wooden boat building. Working under the guidance of a master shipwright, the apprentices will learn the art of wooden boat building while restoring the last remaining skipjacks licensed to dredge for oysters on the Chesapeake Bay.

_FLORENCE, MA - Fund for Women Artists, Inc.
$15,000 CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the creation and implementation of a marketing and fundraising initiative and the expansion of current on-line services. The project is designed to assist women artists in the marketing of their work.

_BOSTON, MA - New England Conservatory (consortium) $60,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support a national consortium for music-in-education. The consortium will develop new resources and cross-institutional capacities for sharing proven and promising practices among leading arts in education organizations. Consortium members include the Chicago Arts Partners in Education, the Kenan Institute for the Arts Foundation and Metropolitan Opera Guild.

_FLINT, MI - Flint Cultural Center Corporation $22,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support a summer festival and yearlong artist residencies. The two-day SUMMER FAMILY CELEBRATION festival and community engagement residencies led by Urban Bush Women and the Color Line Project are designed to develop new audiences.

_DETROIT, MI - InsideOut, Inc.
$10,000 CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support professional development workshops for artists and teachers and the revision of an instructor handbook. The workshops, covering techniques such as improvisation, guided imagery and classroom management, will be presented by educators, a theater artist, graphic designer, blues performer and storyteller.

_MINNEAPOLIS, MN - Children's Theatre Company and School (consortium)
$20,000 CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the final phase of the LAND BRIDGE PROJECT, an ongoing artistic and civic dialogue about the farm crisis with residents of Minnesota. Working in a consortium with the Perpich Center for Arts Education, the final phase of the project will include performance festivals of participants' original work.

_MINNEAPOLIS, MN - Public Radio International
$70,000 CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & Television FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production, distribution and marketing of STUDIO 360 in 2002-03. A weekly arts and culture radio program designed to illuminate the role of the arts in our society, the series is a co-production of Public Radio International and WNYC/FM.

_JACKSON, MS - Mississippi Arts Commission $25,000
CATEGORY: Leadership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a folklorist position and other related costs. The position will focus on documenting traditional artists living in the northern region of the state.

_COLUMBIA, MO - Missouri Association of Community Arts Agencies
$25,000 CATEGORY: Challenge America Arts Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the RURAL INITIATIVE. The project will develop arts programs in rural communities and provide services to isolated artists through an on-line artist directory, a rural touring roster, and technical assistance.

_MISSOULA, MT - Montana Committee for the Humanities
$50,000 CATEGORY: Challenge America Arts Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the third annual MONTANA FESTIVAL OF THE BOOK in September 2002. More than 100 regional authors will read and discuss their work at selected venues in downtown Missoula, reaching an estimated audience of up to 5,000.

_OMAHA, NE - Opera Omaha
$15,000 CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support CREATE OPERA, a project for high school students. A composer-in-residence, Deborah Fischer Teason, will coordinate the creation and presentation of a one-act opera generated by the collaboration of approximately 200 high school students and professional artists.

_RENO, NV - Nevada Museum of Art
$28,000 CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support creation of the ART ODYSSEY TEACHERS INSTITUTE. Major project activities include development and implementation of instructional lessons for teachers based on the museums permanent collection, training in using the collection to integrate art into the core curriculum, and sequential evaluation of the program.

_PORTSMOUTH, NH - New Hampshire Mime Company
$10,000 CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a tour of five works exploring and celebrating the history of New England to rural communities. Performances will take place in town halls, libraries, museums, schools and other community facilities.

_CAMDEN, NJ - Walt Whitman Cultural Arts Center
$45,000 CATEGORY: Challenge America Arts Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support the expansion of the artist residency and workshop program. Up to 10 recognized community teaching artists and local artists will work with underserved city residents.

_SANTA FE, NM - College of Santa Fe (on behalf of the GirlsFilmSchool)
$10,000 CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support the continuation of the GirlsFilmSchool. The two-week summer residential program provides opportunities for adolescent youth to develop self-esteem, self-expression, and explore careers through film and video production.

_NEW YORK, NY - Art 21
$175,000 CATEGORY: Access: Arts on Radio & TV FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the second year of ART FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY, a four-year public television series about contemporary visual art and artists in the United States. The project will include the production of four, one-hour programs featuring intimate profiles of artists and the contexts within which they work.

_NEW YORK, NY - Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, Inc. (on behalf of Dancers Responding to AIDS)
$10,000 CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support dance activities in the NEW YORK CITY FESTIVAL OF DANCE.

_NEW YORK, NY - New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc. (on behalf of Anker Productions)
$50,000 CATEGORY Arts on Radio & Television FIELD/DISCIPLINE Media Arts
To support post-production costs for the two-part television series MUSIC FROM THE INSIDE OUT. Intended for a national PBS broadcast, the series will explore the intangible qualities of music as seen through the eyes of the members of the Philadelphia Orchestra.

_NEW YORK, NY - New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc. (on behalf of Robert Levi Films)
$20,000 CATEGORY Arts on Radio & Television FIELD/DISCIPLINE Media Arts
To support production and post-production costs for a documentary film on Billy Strayhorn. PIANO IN THE BACKGROUND THE STORY OF BILLY STRAYHORN AND DUKE ELLINGTON will chronicle Mr. Strayhorn's career as composer and arranger for the Ellington Orchestra as well as his relationship with the maestro.

_HOWES CAVE, NY - Iroquois Indian Museum
$16,000 CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support Haudenosaunee Happenings. The project will present a wide spectrum of visual and performing arts events by Iroquois Nation artists.

_NEW YORK, NY - Jewish Heritage Writing Project
$10,000 CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the NATIONAL INITIATIVE IN THE LITERATURE OF THE HOLOCAUST, a residency program coupling young, established writers with Holocaust survivors to produce publishable literary memoirs.

_NEW YORK, NY - Monte/Brown Dance (E. Monte Motion, Inc.)
$10,000 CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support CELEBRATE HARLEM ARTS, a series of performances and discussions inaugurating Monte/Brown Harlem ARTSpace. The project will incorporate performances of a new African Caribbean-based work created by choreographers Monte and Brown, as well as performances by Harlem community artists and groups.

_NEW YORK, NY - New York University
$8,000 CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the publication and distribution of four volumes of THE DRAMA REVIEW, an international journal of live performance. The Drama Review is committed to documenting important new work and to reassessing traditional notions of performance.

_NEW YORK, NY - Poets House, Inc.
New York, NY $40,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the tenth annual POETRY PUBLICATION SHOWCASE, a series of programs designed to preserve and display the breadth of poetry in print. Poets House will exhibit new poetry books to 20,000 librarians at the American Library Association Conference in Atlanta, and will publish the Directory of American Poetry Books, the only bibliographic resource that tracks the annual publication of poetry.

_NEW YORK, NY - Rhizome.org
$23,000 CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support design and touring of arcade-style consoles featuring new media work. Targeted at young people, the project, entitled GROK, will be installed at four community centers in rural or underserved areas across the country and will introduce audiences to the potential of new, contemporary digital art.

BROOKLYN NY - Elders Share the Arts (consortium)
$20,000 CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support the NATIONAL CENTER FOR CREATIVE AGING, a national arts-in-aging training program. Project activities will include the maintenance of current arts-in-training programs in five regions, expansion of training to additional cities, creation of a network newsletter, and the development of an online component highlighting model programs.

_DURHAM, NC - American Dance Festival, Inc. (consortium)
$20,000 CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a three-week DANCE CRITICS WORKSHOP. The critics will attend performances followed by sessions on writing, discussion and analysis, the history of dance and dance criticism.

_PENLAND, NC - Penland School of Crafts, Inc.
$15,000 CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support research, development and production of a publication documenting Penland's 75th anniversary. Designed to complement a traveling exhibition and other public programming organized by Penland and the Mint Museum of Craft and Design, the publication will function as a book about craft rather than simply a catalogue of the exhibition.

_BISMARCK, ND - North Dakota Council on the Arts $45,000
CATEGORY: Leadership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a statewide TRADITIONAL ARTS APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM and other related costs. The program allows master traditional artists to pass their knowledge and skills to apprentices in an intensive one-to-one teaching/learning situation.

_AKRON, OH - Akron Art Museum
$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

_CLEVELAND, OH - Cleveland Foundation (consortium)
$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.

_PENINSULA, OH - Cuyahoga Valley Environmental Education Center
$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.

_LAWTON, OK - Comanche Indian Tribe $8,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the third Reunion of Shoshonean Speaking Peoples. Through the two-day gathering, Shoshonean tribes of similar origin will share group stories, oral histories, traditions and groups concerns.

_PORTLAND, OR - Haven Project $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.

_PORTLAND, OR - Portland Art Museum (on behalf of Northwest Film Center)
$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.

_PHILADELPHIA, PA - ARTREACH,
$5,000 CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support the OUTREACH PROJECT, an expansion of ARTREACH's ticketing program. This project will provide tickets to arts events and increase outreach to human service agencies that assist people with disabilities and the economically disadvantaged.

_PHILADELPHIA, PA - InterAct, Inc.
$10,000 CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the NATIONAL SHOWCASE OF NEW PLAYS project. The three-week festival will feature staged readings of works by writers from across the country.

_UWCHLAND, PA - Pennsylvania Public Radio Associates, Inc.
$40,000 CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & Television FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production of concerts and feature programs for ECHOES, a nationally broadcast radio series of contemporary music. The series will serve a weekly audience of nearly 300,000 listeners from 175 stations in 36 states and the Northern Mariana Islands.

_PROVIDENCE, RI - Perishable Theater
$15,000 CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the SHOWS FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES touring program, which provides access to touring productions of original musicals to K-8 schools, libraries and community centers in Rhode Island. The program includes a Web-based component and a residency project with an arts magnet school in Providence.

_ROCK HILL, SC - Arts Council of Rock Hill and York County
$40,000 CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the REVIVAL DESIGN CAMP MEETING, including the marketing of developed products. The Revival Design Camp Meeting provides cross-training to professional craft artists and environmentalists in the design of home furnishing and accessory prototypes that are primarily composed of recycled materials.

_SIOUX FALLS, SD - South Dakota Symphony Orchestra $7,500
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the expansion of South Dakota Symphony Orchestra's state touring program. Two chamber ensembles and a chamber orchestra, composed of the symphony's musicians, will perform concerts and conduct educational programs in two communities.

_KNOXVILLE, TN - Knoxville Museum of Art $12,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the museum's TRAVELING TRUNKS program. The trunks contain art education tools designed to bring art to life in the classroom.

_HOUSTON, TX - Association for Community Television (on behalf of Welcome Home Productions)
$50,000 CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & Television FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production of a documentary on Project Row Houses. WELCOME HOME will explore the transformation of Houston's Third Ward neighborhood from its decline to its current status as a role model for urban renewal.

_SAN ANTONIO, TX - Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center
$5,000 CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support LATINA LETTERS: A CONFERENCE ON LATINA LITERATURE AND IDENTITY. Proposed authors include Migdalia Cruz, Aurora Levins Morales, Demetria Martinez, Dolores Prida and Ana Castillo.

_DALLAS, TX - Writer's Garret
$20,000 CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support publication costs and related expenses for TEX!, a free literary magazine written by and about Texas writers. The magazine is distributed to 500,000 readers via schools, libraries, festivals, tourist bureaus, stores and as an insert in The Dallas Morning News.

_SALT LAKE CITY, UT - Repertory Dance Theatre
$10,000 CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a one-week residency in San Juan County, UT and Apache County, AZ. Activities will include performances, teacher workshops, lecture demonstrations, classes and community events.

_BLACKSBURG, VA - Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (consortium)
$10,000 CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support an Internet publishing project. The initiative will include the Web-based dissemination of THE CITIZEN ARTIST and the commissioning of new critical writing on the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange's Hallelujah project.

_ST. CROIX, VI - Caribbean Dance Company of the Virgin Islands,
$30,000 CATEGORY: Challenge America Arts Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the 2002 Caribbean Dance Axis. The project will provide performances for public daycare centers, elementary schools, universities, school parents and for senior citizens.

_BURLINGTON, VT - Flynn Theatre for the Performing Arts, Ltd. (on behalf of the Burlington Discover Jazz Festival)
$15,000 CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support artist residencies and performances at the Discover Jazz Festival. Educational activities will include a jazz scholar-in-residence, pre-performance lectures, and dialogues with the performing artists.

_OLYMPIA, WA - Evergreen State College (consortium)
$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.

_SEATTLE, WA - Henry Art Gallery Association
$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.

_OLYMPIA, WA - Northwest Native American Basketweavers Association
$20,000 CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the 2002 MASTER BASKETWEAVERS GATHERING.

_CHARLESTON, WV - West Virginia Public Broadcasting Foundation
$40,000 CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & Television FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production and national broadcast of the radio series MOUNTAIN STAGE. Distributed by Public Radio International to more than 125 stations throughout the United States, the weekly, two-hour program presents contemporary music and traditional roots performers.

_SHEBOYGAN, WI - Sheboygan Arts Foundation, Inc.
(on behalf of the John Michael Kohler Arts Center)
$60,000 CATEGORY: Challenge America Arts Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support CONNECTING COMMUNITIES. This series of five community-based residencies will facilitate collaborations between visual and performing artists and the Hmong and Hispanic communities, youth at-risk, industrial employees and elderly audiences from Sheboygan County.

The Arts Endowment's budget appropriation for FY 2002 is $115.2 million, representing the second consecutive budget increase the agency has received since 1992 and an increase of $10 million over last year's budget. Of the $115.2 million, $95.8 million is designated for grantmaking. This round of awards constitutes approximately 63% of the Endowment's grant funds for the year.

Sources/resources:

NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS -- http://www.arts.gov
For more information and a complete listing of this round of grants, visit http://www.arts.gov/endownews/news02/Announce4-24-02.html
Information on applying for next year's rounds of grants in these categories is available at http://www.arts.gov/guide/Orgs03/OrgIndex.html

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