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FUNDING/OPPORTUNITIES FOR ORGANIZATIONS
NEA AWARDS 249 GRANTS IN CHALLENGE AMERICA: POSITIVE ALTERNATIVES FOR
YOUTH PROGRAM
WASHINGTON, DC -- The National Endowment for the Arts, (NEA) has
announced $2,265,000 awarded in 249 grants through the Challenge
America: Positive Alternatives for Youth program. Organizations in 48
states and the District of Columbia will receive grants for projects
involving artist residencies in schools and civic or community
organizations which offer young people the opportunity to explore
their creative capacities.
"Funded projects serve young people in communities ranging from
rural, isolated towns which lack art and social service resources to
low-income urban neighborhoods where crime and violence are everyday
threats," the NEA notes. "Many of the young people served are facing
academic, emotional, social, and/or physical challenges; are involved
with the juvenile justice system; live in public housing; and/or have
limited English language proficiency."
This round of grants includes, among many others,
_CITYARTS (New York, NY)
$10,000 to support a partnership project with the Stuyvesant High
School Art Club, Parks Department of New York City, and Washington
Market Community Park that will conduct the public mural project,
Alice in Wall Street Land -- emphasizing students' belief in peace
despite the events of September 11, 2001. The mural, which will be
located at 35 Cooper Square in lower Manhattan, will contribute to
the rebuilding of New York's spirit.
_MANHATTAN COMMUNITY ACCESS CORPORATION (New York, NY)
$5,000 to support a partnership project with Sarah Powell Huntington
House, a transitional residence to reunify mothers leaving prison
with their children, to provide workshops in digital video
production. Participants, who are primarily African American and
Latina mothers ages 13 to 17, will use their life stories as the
theme for films produced in the workshops.
_FRIENDS OF THE ARTS (Locust Valley, NY)
$10,000 to support a partnership project with the National Center for
Disability Services, Chechov Theatre Ensemble, Henry Viscardi School
for Children with Disabilities, and the Herricks Middle School that
will provide a residency to develop theatre and performance skills in
a diverse group, coupling disabled students with children without
disabilities. During the ten-session residency, students will develop
performance techniques, rehearse a script composed of choral teams,
and prepare a public performance for the community.
_IN SIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY PROJECT (Dummerston, VT)
$5,000 to support a partnership project with the 17th Flat Street
Boys & Girls Club and Marlboro College that will conduct Incentive
Class, a workshop for advanced students in photography, ages 11 to
18. Professional artists and students from Marlboro College will
instruct approximately 16 youth from a primarily rural community who
suffer from substance abuse or learning difficulties.
_COMMUNITY ART CENTER, (Cambridge, MA)
$10,000 to support a partnership project with the Boston University
College of Communication Alumni Office, Cambridge Community
Television, Cambridge Housing Authority's Work Force and Office of
Workforce Development to provide for a three-phase project of media
arts instruction. Student participants who come from low-income
families will work in teams with visiting media artists in curating a
film festival, producing original videos, photographs, and computer
designs, and participating in an intensive summer creative workshop.
_NEW HAVEN INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ARTS & IDEAS (New Haven, CT)
$10,000 to support a partnership project with the Dixwell, Dwight,
Fair Haven, Hill, Newhallville and West Rock neighborhoods to enable
the Visions 7 Voices Artist Residencies program to provide up to 300
students the opportunity to work with professional artists as they
create public art pieces for display in each neighborhood. The pieces
will become a permanent part of each community's landscape and
contribute to their economic and social vitality.
_NAI-NI CHEN DANCE COMPANY (Fort Lee, NJ)
$10,000 to support a partnership project with the Harlem School of
the Arts Dance Department for weekend workshops in Asian American
heritage and arts.
_DANCE INSTITUTE OF WASHINGTON (Washington, D.C.)
$10,000 to support a partnership project with the National Park
Service, Perry School Community Services Center, KanKouran West
African Dancers/Drummers, Planned Parenthood, Women Investing in a
Secure Retirement, American Lung Association, George Washington
University Medical Center, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing
Arts, and College Bound to provide job training for teenage students
in the performing arts, arts management and stage production.
_ARLINGTON ARTS CENTER (Arlington, VA)
$10,000 to support a partnership project with the Humanities Project
and English for Students of Other Languages, both in the Arlington
Public Schools, that will integrate visual arts into the curriculum
for elementary and middle school classrooms, particularly those with
high percentages of second language learners. The project will
provide professional development for classroom teachers and
instruction in the special needs of second language learners for the
artists in a county where students speak 60 different languages.
_CONGRESO DE LATINOS UNIDOS (Philadelphia, PA)
$10,000 to support a partnership project with Taller Puertorriqueno
that will provide adjudicated youths with six weeks of daily
instruction about Latino artists and culture during the summer. About
30 youths who live in one of Philadelphia's most impoverished
communities will attend these visual arts classes. During the school
year, the same youth will participate weekly in Expressive Art
Therapy sessions, led by a treatment program coordinator and visiting
community artists.
_ALEXANDER CHAMBER FOUNDATION (Taylorsville, NC)
$10,000 to support a partnership project with Hiddenite Center,
Department of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the
Taylorsville Police Department, and the Alexander County Schools to
provide summer classes in furniture making, pottery, cabin design and
construction and other art forms representing the heritage of the
Appalachian area for middle school youths. Teachers, counselors, and
youth authorities in the mountainous rural county in central North
Carolina will identify participating youths.
_FOUNDATION FOR THE REVITALIZATION OF ARTESIA, Mississippi
(Artesia, MS)
$10,000 to support a partnership project with Columbus-Lowndes Parks
and Recreation Department, Columbus Arts Council and the Town of
Artsia that will implement residencies by Blues musician Johnnie
Billington and drummer and storyteller Charles "Wsir"" Johnson. The
residency program takes place after school and children and youths
from isolated areas will be provided transportation to and from the
classes.
_HIPPODROME STATE THEATRE (Gainesville, FL)
$10,000 to support a partnership project with the Alachua Halfway
House and Hipprodrome's Improvisational Teen Theatre Program to
provide after-school theater workshops for girls in a residential
commitment facility for female juvenile offenders. For seven weeks,
artists will work with participants to teach the principles of group
ensemble work and improvisation as they explore critical life issues.
Students will also develop greater communication skills, cultural
awareness, team cooperation and dramatic skills.
_YOUNG ASPIRATIONS/YOUNG ARTISTS (New Orleans, LA)
$10,000 to support a partnership project with Why Five Studios,
Delgado Community College, Louisiana Children's Museum, and Historic
New Orleans Collection that will implement Art-pentry, an interior
design and production program during summer and after-school hours
for high school students. Ten students will be selected to train in
furniture, fabric, accessory and other design disciplines to create a
prototype child's bedroom that will be installed in the Louisiana
Children's Museum.
_MICHIGAN OPERA THEATRE (Detroit, MI)
$10,000 to support a partnership project with Marygrove College and
InsideOut to provide instruction for children and youth from
low-income, inner-city neighborhoods through Learning at the Opera
House, a nine-week summer program of classes and workshops.
_WEXNER CENTER FOUNDATION (Columbus, OH)
$10,000 to support a partnership project with the Department of Art,
Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design, and Chadwick
Aboretum at Ohio State University, the Davis Performing Arts Center,
and Center of Science and Industry to conduct summer
multidisciplinary arts workshops for children and youth at the Wexner
Center.
_GUILD COMPLEX (Chicago, IL)
$10,000 to support a partnership project with Young Chicago Authors,
Bromley Project and Interfaith Youth Corps that will implement the
Writing Through the Prism of Self and Community summer literary
program for youth. Forty students from inner-city neighborhoods will
participate in the six-week session that will include two evening
classes per week led by two instructors and four youth apprentices
who are alumni of the program.
_ALAADEEN ENTERPRISES (Overland Park, KS)
$5,000 to support a partnership project with the Oregon Trail Junior
High, Olathe North High School, and Santa Fe Trail Junior High that
will provide a two-week residency and associated performances, by
Ahmad Alaadeen, a jazz master of the Kansas City style. Alaadeen will
hold workshops with the schools' jazz bands and individual musicians
and discuss his experiences and jazz history with larger student
groups. In addition, the Oregon Trail band will perform with Alaadeen
at nine elementary schools and all three school bands will join for a
final public performance in the historic jazz district in Kansas
City.
_INTERACTION THEATER (Indianapolis, IN)
$5,000 to support a partnership project with The Rise Extended Living
Shelter that will provide theater training, especially
improvisational acting, for children living in this shelter for
battered families. Instruction will be offered on a weekly basis
during after-school hours to youths living in the shelter, and
counselors will be available to provide support to program
participants.
_UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA-TWIN CITIES (on behalf of City Songs)
(Minneapolis, MN)
$10,000 to support a partnership project with Community Celebration
of Place, Music Tech, Rondo Community Education Center, and Talmud
Torah Hebrew Day School that will provide music and dance instruction
and performance opportunities for children from Twin Cities
low-income neighborhoods. Participants attend twice weekly
after-school rehearsals, participate in approximately 20 public
performances for local organizations, and attend field trips to
cultural institutions and events.
_PENINSULA ART SCHOOL OF DOOR COUNTY (Fish Creek, WI)
$10,000 to support a partnership project with Sturgeon Bay High
School, Door Peninsula Astronomical Society, and Crossroads at Big
Creek to create the StarGarden Sculpture Park. High school students
will collaborate with visual artist Jean Humke to design, site and
construct the first public art space in a largely rural area. About
50 students will take an astronomy course and then devote five weeks
to creating seating and lounging sculptures that will permit
stargazers to observe the night sky.
_COLORADO CHILDREN'S CHORALE (Denver, CO)
$10,000 to support a partnership project with the Denver Public
Schools to assist the ninth year of the Chorale Conservatory
partnership that brings chorale conductors into eight economically
disadvantaged areas of Denver. Musicians will also collaborate with
teachers to strengthen teaching skills and lesson plans to meet
curriculum goals.
_GRAND CANYON MUSIC FESTIVAL (Grand Canyon, AZ)
$5,000 to support a partnership project with the Grand Canyon Music
Festival and the Heard Museum to provide a Native American
composer-residency for Native American students, ages 15 to 18, in
the Phoenix area. Composer and member of the Mohican Nation, Brent
Michael Davids, will work with 15 to 20 students to compose music for
string quartet, with selected works performed in public at the Heard
Museum.
_PROJECT ROW HOUSES (Houston, TX)
$10,000 to support a partnership project with University of Houston
Continuing Education, Multicultural Education throughout the Arts,
America Reads and Counts, and Community Builders Cadre to conduct two
after-school and summer programs in an effort to discourage gang
violence between African American and Latino youth. Local artists,
high school and college students, and parents will teach art classes
for approximately 50 elementary through junior high school African
American students. The Art/Life program will involve 15 African
American and Latino youth in the revitalization of six row houses and
adjacent lots through design, building crafts, art and landscape.
_YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BILLINGS (Billings, MT)
$10,000 to support a partnership project with 45 rural schools in
Montana and northern Wyoming to provide day-long intensive workshops
in various art forms and Poets on the Prairie intensive writing
workshops at four high schools in or near Billings.
_YOUTH ARTWORKS (Reno, NV)
$10,000 to support a partnership project with the Sierra Arts
Foundation, Reno Police Department, Nevada Museum of Art, Northwest
Reno Library and the Nevada Festival Ballet to implement cultural job
training program for teens. Participants will receive training in
mural painting, dance, writing and printmaking.
_CALDERA (Portland, OR)
$5,000 to support a partnership project with three youth service
organizations and two schools that will provide two eight-day summer
residencies for approximately 40 children each at a 90-acre rural
site in the Cascade Mountains. Professional artists will conduct two
classes daily in creative writing, photography, painting, sculpture,
performance and African dance and drumming, with additional sessions
in conflict resolution and environmental studies. The project
purposely combines low-income and minority students from Friends of
the Children, Open Meadow Alternative School, and Self Enhancement,
Inc., in Portland, with isolated rural youth from the Cascade Youth
and Family Center and the Sisters School District in central Oregon.
_911 MEDIA ARTS CENTER (Seattle, WA)
$10,000 to support a partnership project with KCTS and the Metro YMCA
that will implement Reel Girls, a media awareness and production
class, after school and on weekends. Approximately 50 teenage girls
of diverse ethnic backgrounds will participate in the training and
also work with media artist Kathleen Sweeney to create a work of
video self portraits, which will be screened for the public.
_ALAMEDA COUNTY OFFICE OF EDUCATION (Hayward, CA)
$10,000 to support a partnership project with ASCEND School, Museum
of Children's Art, Oakland Youth Chorus, and the Bay Area Coalition
of Equitable Schools to provide artist-teacher collaborations to
develop a standards-based curriculum integrating music and visual
arts with other core subjects. The selected artists will lead arts
instruction for approximately 320 children, grades K through seven,
for two hours per week during the academic year.
_UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SANTA BARBARA (on behalf of Isla Vista)
(Santa Barbara, CA)
$5,000 to support a partnership project with the University of
California at Santa Barbara's Office of the Isla Vista, Art Studio,
and Art Museum; and Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum to provide
an after-school visual art and art history program, known as Viva el
Arte, for 20 fifth and sixth grade students. Students will discuss
20th century art history, visit art museums and create works of their
own one afternoon per week throughout the entire school year.
Consistent with the Arts Endowment's longstanding commitment to arts
education, in Fiscal Year 2003 the Positive Alternatives for Youth
program will become part of the agency's newly expanded and
restructured Arts Learning grant category.
Applications are due on August 12, 2002. For complete details, visit
http://www.arts.gov/guide/ArtsLearning03/ALindex.html
A complete list of recipients is linked to
http://www.arts.gov/endownews/news02/PAYannounce.html
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