2001 Grant Awards: Challenge America: Community Arts Development

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

ALABAMA

Kentuck Museum Association, Inc.
Northport, AL
PROJECT TYPE: Civic Design
$10,000
To support a partnership with the City of Northport and the Tuscaloosa Arts Council to develop a new Kentuck art center complex. The art center would serve as the hub of the community's arts events with space suitable for hosting major national touring exhibitions, lectures and concerts, and showcasing regional artists. The center would serve as West Alabama's only public multi-disciplinary art center and spur interest, additional development and revitalization of the entire downtown area.

Mobile Museum of Art
Mobile, AL
PROJECT TYPE: New Technology
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Bay Area Arts Educators, the State of Alabama Bureau of Tourism and Travel, and Dogwood Productions, Inc. to design and construct a Web site. The site will promote both the reopening of the museum and its opening exhibition, Picturing the French Style: Three Hundred Years of Art and Fashion to teachers in a predominantly rural, low-income six county area, as well as state-wide. Content will include an interactive guide to the museum and a series of curriculum-based lesson plans and arts activities.

Music Preservation Society, Inc.
Florence, AL
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Assessment/Planning
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Shoals Chamber of Commerce, the Tennessee Valley Art Center, the Florence-Lauderdale Tourism, the Colbert County Visitors Bureau and others for a regional conference to examine the Shoals CultureNet strategic plan. Developed in 1999, this strategic plan proposed linking cultural heritage and quality of life assets to economic development efforts for northwest Alabama. A key recommendation of the 1999 plan was to convene the regionwide conference to further the agenda for cultural tourism, historic preservation and related improvements.

Total Grant Awards: 3
Total Dollars Awarded: $30,000

ARIZONA

Atlatl, Inc.
Phoenix, AZ
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Tourism/District
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Pee-Posh Project, an ongoing arts program within the Gila River Indian Community serving both the Pima/O'Odham and Maricopa/Pee-Posh tribes. The project identifies community artists and elders to mentor youth, ages eight-18 in apprenticeships in Maricopa traditional and commercial pottery, carving, beadwork, gourdmaking, basketry, silversmithing, and Yuman Bird and Akimal O'Odham song and dance. The crafts and artworks created through these apprenticeships help to revive the community's cultural heritage and are marketed regionally, the income providing support for additional cultural tourism activities.

St. Anne's Mission, St. Michael's Mission - Franciscan Friars
(on behalf of The Navajo Lifeway)
Ganado, AZ
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Assessment/Planning
$10,000
To support a partnership with Dine Be'iina, Inc., Chinle High School, Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site, Jeddito Sewing Center, Klagetoh Community-Based Partnership and the Navajo Sheep Project for the development of a community cultural plan for an area of the northeastern Navajo Nation. The cultural plan will bring together the diverse resources of the partnership to support traditional and contemporary fiber arts and continue the Navajo sheep culture. Training for fiber artists, technical assistance to Navajo-Churro sheep producers, increased wool processing facilities, and marketing strategies will be integrated into the community plan.

Prescott Fine Arts Association
Prescott, AZ
PROJECT TYPE: New Technology
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Prescott Arts and Humanities Council, Prescott Downtown Partnership, Prescott Coalition for Tourism, Prescott Valley Arts and Cultural Commission and the Arizona Commission on the Arts to develop a visual artist roster project. The partnership will expand upon the Prescott Fine Arts Association's Web site to include a juried database of 50 local visual artists' work. The goal of the project is to identify artists for curated exhibits and commissions, and to facilitate schools' identification of local artists for residencies, apprenticeships and classroom lecture/demonstrations.

Total Grant Awards: 3
Total Dollars Awarded: $30,000

CALIFORNIA

Arts Council of Mendocino County
Boonville, CA
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Assessment/Planning
$5,000
To support a partnership with the Mendocino County Community Foundation, Mendocino Theatre Company, Mendocino Art Center, County Department of Public Health and the Grace Hudson Museum for a countywide cultural assessment. The plan's outcomes will include mapping cultural resources, analyzing the economic impact of cultural activities on the local community and on tourism, evaluating cultural activities in school curriculum, and developing partnerships for new community-based programs.

Bump the Ghost Foundation
Los Angeles, CA
PROJECT TYPE: New Technology
$10,000
To support a partnership with Long Beach Museum of Art; the National Gallery, London; National Campaign for Museums, United Kingdom; Prince of Wales Business Leaders Forum; Gorham Home School District; and North Los Angeles County to connect underserved urban and rural students with museums. Through two workshops for 50 4th and 5th graders, students will have the opportunity to visit museums through the Internet. A CD-ROM and accompanying materials will also be developed.

Central Sierra Arts Council
Sonora, CA
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Assessment/Planning
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Mother Lode Art Association, Sierra Repertory Theatre, Tuolumne County Economic Development Corporation and the Tuolumne County Planning Commission for the development of a community cultural plan. This plan will address the needs of local artists and arts organizations and the role of the arts in the fast-paced development of this county, which is the northern gateway into Yosemite National Park with nearly 6.3 million tourists per year.

City of Richmond
Richmond, CA
PROJECT TYPE: Civic Design
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Downtown Association, Arts Forum Richmond, Richmond Main Street Project and the Iron Triangle Neighborhood Council to fund a coordinated planning effort to integrate the arts into the design of a public area currently undergoing revitalization. Planning would involve community groups, arts organizations, residents, businesses and city departments. The area includes one of the most diverse, impoverished and violent neighborhoods in the city. The plan will use art to enhance the design of the civic space as well as encourage the development of a performing arts venue.

El Dorado Arts Council
Placerville, CA
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Tourism/District
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Placer Arts Association, Sierra Symphony, Theatre El Dorado, Friends of the Library/Literacy Action Council and El Dorado Camera Club which will produce ArtsAccess El Dorado County. A four-color brochure and map of cultural sites in El Dorado County providing accessibility information will be developed as well as a series of intuitive Web pages to more widely disseminate the information. The objectives of the initiative are to promote the cultural resources of the county to residents and tourists as part of the state-wide celebration of the arts, led by the California Arts Council.

Escondido Arts Partnership
Escondido, CA
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Tourism/District
$10,000
To support a partnership with Downtown Business Association of Escondido and Downtown Escondido Designated Antiques District to promote the recently designated cultural neighborhood. Second Saturday Escondido is a monthly artwalk through the developing cultural sector which aims to engage artists and businesses to work together, provide free access to arts and culture, and contribute to the economic vitality of a once-declining downtown. The partnership seeks to increase community awareness by improving printed materials, extending their distribution, producing materials in Spanish and expanding outreach efforts to surrounding areas.

The Foothill Theatre Company
Nevada City, CA
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Tourism/District
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Nevada County Fair (17th District Agricultural Association) to further develop the Sierra Shakespeare Festival. The Shakespeare Festival is extending its performance schedule from one to two months. A joint marketing effort with the fair is aimed at increasing attendance for both events. The first play of the festival will open in late July, the fair will take place in early August, and the second Shakespearean production will begin in mid-August.

Fresno Arts Council
Fresno, CA
PROJECT TYPE: New Technology
$5,000
To support a partnership with Lineonline and the Fresno Arts Council. Lineonline is an electronic arts journal that presents an overview of the fine and folk arts communities in the Fresno area. Through the partnership, the publication will be able to utilize the services of writers, photographers and an editor.

Humboldt Arts Council
Eureka, CA
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Tourism/District
$10,000
To support a partnership with the David and Lucille Packard Foundation and KIEM-TV3 to produce and distribute a 15-minute video of promotional and educational spots focusing on the artists and cultural opportunities in and around Humboldt County. The goal of these productions is to highlight the small towns actively involved in making art, attracting both resident and tourist audiences.

The Mateel Community Center, Inc.
Redway, CA
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Assessment/Planning
$10,000
To support a partnership with Feet First Dancers, Pure Schmint Theater, the Mateel Arts Cooperative, and the Healthy Start Program for the SHU School District for an inclusive community cultural plan that addresses a variety of key concerns including inadequate facilities and resources. The plan will integrate common goals for local arts organizations, nonprofit organizations, performing and visual artists, youth and youth programs, schools and teachers.

Round Valley Community Theater
Covelo, CA
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Tourism/District
$5,000
To support a partnership with Round Valley Unified School District, Round Valley Chamber of Commerce, Round Valley Tribal Council and Covelo.net to promote the arts as a positive integrating force in the community. Building on the success of the district's Arts Alive! project in the schools, Arts for All will develop community murals, an annual Arts in the Park presentation/exhibit, and a cross-cultural Native American Story-telling and Cowboy Poetry Reading Festival. Plans also call for incorporating a theater production into the local Blackberry Festival and expanding the community arts Web site.

San Diego Performing Arts League
San Diego, CA
PROJECT TYPE: New Technology
$10,000
To support a partnership with Sycuan Showcase Theatre, Ticketmaster.com, Taylor and Pond Corporate Communications, Bennet Peji Design, and San Diego area colleges and universities to develop and launch E-TIX Today, an online program to sell discount day-of-show tickets through the League's Web site. In addition to increasing ticket sales, the program will create a database of online ticket buyers and cultivate new audiences for San Diego arts organizations.

Sierra Repertory Theatre
Sonora, CA
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Tourism/District
$5,000
To support a partnership with the nonprofit City Hotel Corporation to produce the premiere of The Christmas Foundling in the Fallon House Theatre in Columbia State Historic Park. Norman Allen was commissioned to write this story of Gold Rush Columbia, to be presented during the holiday season as an extension of the park's living history activities and displays. Moving out of an economic tradition based on lumbering and mining, Columbia and the surrounding region are very dependent on the cultural tourism generated by the historic park.

World Stage Performance Gallery
Los Angeles, CA
PROJECT TYPE: New Technology
$5,000
To support a partnership with KAOS Network to recreate Leimert Park, recognized as the black cultural center of Los Angeles, as a digital environment via linked Web sites, audio/visual clips that capture the cultural experience of Leimert Park, a hotline for events taking place in the park, and live performance Web site. The goals of the partnership are to expand audiences for and document the park's cultural experiences, and empower local arts providers as active participants in marketing their community.

Total Grant Awards: 14
Total Dollars Awarded: $115,000

COLORADO

City of Delta
Delta, CO
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Tourism/District
$10,000
To support an ongoing partnership with the Southern Ute Tribe, Northern Ute Tribe and Ute Mountain Ute Tribe to produce the 7th Annual Council Tree Pow Wow and Cultural Festival. In celebration of American Indian songs and dances, the City of Delta and its partners host hundred of dancers and other artists and artisans to share this rich cultural heritage with residents of western Colorado, eastern Utah and visitors from other states and Canada. An educational feature of the festival is the Cultural Centers in which Ute artisans demonstrate and explain the songs, stories and traditions of their nation.

Community Foundation of Northwest Colorado
Craig, CO
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Tourism/District
$5,000
To support an ongoing partnership with the Downtown Business Association, Artists for Art and Moffat County Tourism to host a winter and summer Art Walk. In an effort to overcome the isolation created by distance and, in the winter, harsh weather conditions, the business community of Craig has joined with local artists to develop this family event. The businesses extend their hours and provide exhibit space for the artwork to offer the community this free cultural event.

Grand Lake Area Arts Council
Grand Lake, CO
PROJECT TYPE: Civic Design
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Rocky Mountain Repertory Theatre, Town of Grand Lake, Rocky Mountain National Park, and Grand Lake Chamber of Commerce for the architectural design of a theatre in a community cultural center. Key to the economic development of this small, rural mountain community, the theatre will provide space for concerts, theater, dances, craft fairs, conferences and other community activities, providing much needed cultural access to this isolated community. In addition, it would help the community develop its economic base during the non-summer months.

Total Grant Awards: 3
Total Dollars Awarded: $25,000

CONNECTICUT

Waterbury Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Waterbury, CT
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Assessment/Planning
$5,000
To support a partnership with Mattatuck Museum, Naugatuck Valley Community College and St. John's Church to increase arts participation among Waterbury's diverse minority communities. Part of this effort will include community workshops related to a newly commissioned work by Deborah Fisher Treason.

Total Grant Awards: 1
Total Dollars Awarded: $5,000

DELAWARE

Division of Parks and Recreation
Dover, DE
PROJECT TYPE: Civic Design
$5,000
To support a partnership with the Port Penn Area Historical Society to create a streetscape design plan for the two main streets of the unincorporated village of Port Penn, Delaware. Port Penn is a small, working-class village with a population of 300 that faces encroachment from developing suburban areas. The design plan will assist the community in preserving its historic structure, landscape and cultural identity resulting in a community that is more attractive and livable.

Smyrna-Clayton Heritage Association
Smyrna, DE
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Tourism/District
$10,000
To support an ongoing partnership with Smyrna Opera House and Smyrna Main Street Association to research and create a theatrical production based on town history. The production will be used to attract tourists to Smyrna and will be performed in the newly renovated Smyrna Opera House, a cornerstone for the revitalization of the downtown business district.

Total Grant Awards: 2
Total Dollars Awarded: $15,000

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Cultural Development Corporation of the District of Columbia
Washington, D.C.
PROJECT TYPE: Civic Design
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Washington Stage Guild and Fusebox gallery to design architectural plans for the redevelopment of a former paint warehouse into a 200-seat theatre, rehearsal space and contemporary art gallery. This center will offer much needed entertainment and cultural activities for a diverse area of the city dealing with low-income and unemployment. It would also provide affordable space to various city arts organizations.

Ethiopian Cultural Television
Washington, D.C.
PROJECT TYPE: New Technology
$10,000
To support a partnership with Cyber Sustainable Network to provide streaming video of Ethiopian cultural events taking place in the Washington, DC area via the Internet. The two main events that will be the focus of the project are the annual New Year celebration and the annual soccer tournament, both of which attract many artists and attendees. The project will serve to both document these events and make them available to a wider audience.

Total Grant Awards: 2
Total Dollars Awarded: $20,000

FLORIDA

University of Florida
Gainesville, FL
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Assessment/Planning
$10,000
To support a partnership with the School Board of Alachua County and the Alachua County School District of Florida for the publication, implementation and evaluation of a standardized arts education curriculum for grades three to five. The curriculum will correlate with state standards in the visual and language arts and with Florida's Comprehensive Assessment Test reading and writing preparation guides. The curriculum will provide teachers with visual instructional materials, art production and art criticism activities, and assessment strategies to evaluate student learning.

Total Grant Awards: 1
Total Dollars Awarded: $10,000

GEORGIA

Atlanta Opera
Atlanta, GA
PROJECT TYPE: New Technology
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta and Turner Broadcasting System to expand the musical terms glossary on the Atlanta Opera Web site. The partnership will add up to 130 audio clip narrations for readings of current and new definitions, and up to 60 audio samples of terms. The opera will begin marketing the enhanced glossary to educators and public libraries in Georgia, and members of the Boys & Girls Club of Metro Atlanta in the fall of 2001.

Camden Area Players, Inc.
St. Marys, GA
PROJECT TYPE: Civic Design
$5,000
To support a partnership with the Waterfront Warehouse Theater, Inc. and St. Marys Downtown Merchants Association for renovation design of a deteriorated warehouse for use as a theater and cultural center. The new theater will be adjacent to a newly renovated riverfront park, contributing to the downtown area's revitalization. The theater will provide space for an award-winning local theater group and fine arts children's camp as well as helping extend the reach of cultural activities to area populations currently under-represented in the arts such as the elderly and underprivileged youth.

Reynoldstown Revitalization Corporation
Atlanta, GA
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Tourism/District
$10,000
To support a partnership with the National Black Arts Festival to increase the visibility of Reynoldstown as a destination for cultural tourism and to promote creativity and economic self-sufficiency through the arts. During two residencies, photographer and painter Lynn Marshall-Linnemeier will work with community residents to create art-based products, such as hand-painted message boards based on Reynoldstown themes and women heroes in African American culture. These products will be exhibited and sold at the Wheelbarrow Festival, a three-day local event, and the 2002 National Black Arts Festival, a 10-day event that draws a national audience.

Total Grant Awards: 3
Total Dollars Awarded: $25,000

IDAHO

Boise City Arts Commission
Boise, ID
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Tourism/District
$10,000
To support an ongoing partnership with Capital City Development Corporation, Downtown Boise Association and the Idaho Commission on the Arts to promote the city's cultural district. The coalition plans to construct and install two information kiosks in downtown Boise to display maps showing the location of various cultural facilities, restaurants and shops. The maps will also be distributed in brochure format, in both English and Spanish, through various venues and by mail.

Communities Creating Connections
Kooskia, ID
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Tourism/District
$10,000
To support an ongoing partnership with Upper Clearwater Arts, Old Opera House Theatre, Friends of the Kooskia Library and Kooskia Chamber of Commerce. Through the creation of a working collaborative, the participants seek to increase the number and quality of arts events in the Kooskia/Kamiah communities while attracting larger audiences through joint marketing. Plans for the project include compilation of a comprehensive data base, development and distribution of a cultural events brochure, creation of an Internet marketing presence and coordination of events with various Lewis and Clark Bicentennial groups.

Idaho Falls Arts Council
Idaho Falls, ID
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Tourism/District
$10,000
To support a partnership with Greater Idaho Falls Chamber of Commerce and the Eastern Idaho Economic Development Council to organize the Snake River Roaring Youth Jam. Plans for this regional arts festival include performances and workshops by Seattle Mime Theater, Junk Music, Do Jump! Extremely Physical Theater, and the African American storyteller Diane Ferlatter. Some of the visual arts activities are a Snake River Totem, a teen-oriented Snake Mural and Sandbox Art to encourage young sculptors, and Art Tents housing on print-making and ceramic production.

Total Grant Awards: 3
Total Dollars Awarded: $30,000

ILLINOIS

Bethel New Life, Inc.
Chicago, IL
PROJECT TYPE: Civic Design
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Chicago Public Art Group to create a Griot Circle (in West Africa culture the griot is the village storyteller) in a low-income, largely African America area of Chicago. Local high school students in an after-school program will work with two artists in designing the mosaics for the Griot Circle. The Griot Circle will be an integral part of the area's developing African Village and serve as a venue for community storytelling, celebrating the community's African American heritage, and encouraging inter-generational activities.

Carbondale Community Arts
Carbondale, IL
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Assessment/Planning
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Carbondale Main Street, Arts Trail of Southern Illinois, CCA/Public Policy Institute Study Group and the Carbondale Millennium Committee for a cultural plan for the Carbondale Corridor. The resulting community cultural plan will help to focus efforts of the local cultural organizations, increase the capacity of the arts in the community to encourage economic development, and broaden cultural awareness among area residents.

Total Grant Awards: 2
Total Dollars Awarded: $20,000

INDIANA

Marion Philharmonic Association
Marion, IN
PROJECT TYPE: New Technology
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Walnut Creek Golf Course, Old Shoe Productions, and the Marion/Grant County Convention & Visitors Bureau to encourage cultural tourism in Grant and the surrounding counties. The partnership will evaluate the first year results of a CD-ROM Web site promotion and use that information to refine their marketing activities with the goals of expanding audiences and increasing ticket sales for the Philharmonic.

Total Grant Awards: 1
Total Dollars Awarded: $10,000

IOWA

Union County Extension
Creston, IA
PROJECT TYPE: Civic Design
$10,000
To support a partnership with Youth Plus, Creston High School and the Iowa State Savings Bank to design and create a community mural in Creston, a rural, low-income community. Creston High School students will work with artist Carl Homstad to design the mural, drawing upon the students' interests, cultural backgrounds and aspirations. The mural will promote community pride and regional cultural identity while providing a positive activity for local high school youth.

Total Grant Awards: 1
Total Dollars Awarded: $10,000

KANSAS

Lied Center of Kansas
(Kansas University Center for Research, Inc.)
Lawrence, KS
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Assessment/Planning
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Haskell Indian Nations University, Lawrence Public Schools, Kentucky Continuing Education, Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center and the Lawrence Chamber of Commerce for a Civic Dialogue Project utilizing Native American arts to bridge the gap between Native and non-Native communities within Lawrence. The goal is to highlight the extraordinary quality of traditional and contemporary American Indian/Alaskan Native artists and use these performances to facilitate better understanding between two diverse cultures. This program is the first of a three-year initiative to create a civic dialogue through the arts.

Manhattan Arts Center
Manhattan, KS
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Tourism/District
$5,000
To support an ongoing partnership with Kansas State University, Manhattan Area Chamber of Commerce, Manhattan Mercury, and Riley County Historical Society to develop and install an 11-panel display promoting the arts and other cultural activities of the region. The Manhattan Area Arts and Humanities Coalition represents 21 different organizations serving the Riley and Pottawatomie counties. The panel display, including a calendar of events handout, will travel to various locations including the regional airport, the Manhattan Town Center Mall, schools, convention sites and arts institutions.

Total Grant Awards: 2
Total Dollars Awarded: $15,000

KENTUCKY

The Bennett Center of London, Inc.
London, KY
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Assessment/Planning
$10,000
To support a partnership with the London Community Orchestra, Southeastern Kentucky Fine Arts Association, City of London, and the London-Laurel County Tourist Commission for a plan to develop the Belle Bennett Building as a fine arts center offering a variety of cultural experiences. In addition to consulting with visual and performing arts advisors, the partnership will also seek input from state officials for the renovation of the building and its positioning in the network of the state's other cultural facilities.

Covington Community Center
Covington, KY
PROJECT TYPE: Civic Design
$10,000
To support a partnership with Forward Quest, The Frank Duveneck Arts and Cultural Center, My Nose Turns Red Theatre Company and River Cities Mosaic Public Art Group to create a neighborhood arts center that will serve as a catalyst for community development in a low income area plagued by crime and unemployment. The center will be located in the heart of the Eastside neighborhood, a densely populated area in the urban core of the city with high crime and unemployment rates. It is hopeful the new center will provide residents with a feeling of ownership and will offer positive activities to the area's residents, both young and old.

Greater Louisville Foundation, Inc.
Louisville, KY
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Assessment/Planning
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Greater Louisville Arts & Cultural Attractions Council and the Regional Leadership Coalition for a comprehensive community arts and cultural plan. The planning process will include dialogue between arts and non-arts organizations, civic leaders and concerned community members will focus on cultural issues and related economic development concerns such as attracting new economy business to the region and recruiting young professionals to the city.

Jenny Wiley State Resort Park
Prestonsburg, KY
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Tourism/District
$10,000
To support a partnership with US 23 Cultural Heritage Network, Kentucky Tourism Development Cabinet, Prestonsburg and Paintsville Tourism Commissions, and County Extension Agents to design and produce a multimedia presentation highlighting the arts and cultural attractions of the region. A kiosk will be installed in the Jenny Wiley State Resort Park to provide 24-hour access to computerized information. Videotapes and CDs of the presentation will be made available to schools for heritage education and the presentation will be added to the park's Web site and linked to the state tourism site.

Kentucky Community & Technical College System
(Somerset Community College)
Somerset, KY
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Tourism/District
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Kentucky Folk Art Center, Lake Cumberland State Resort Park and Burnside State Park to preserve and promote the work of Harriette Arnow, Kentucky author and cultural historian. By adapting Ms. Arnow's novel The Dollmaker, for the stage and producing it in conjunction with the Harriette Arnow Summer Series, the college will promote the cultural heritage of the Cumberland Plateau to the tourists visiting Lake Cumberland. A Web site, HarrietteArnow.com, will feature historical and critical information about the author.

Kentucky Guild of Artists and Craftsmen
(on behalf of Appalachian Heritage Highways)
Berea, KY
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Assessment/Planning
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Center for Appalachian Studies of Eastern Kentucky University, and the Center for Economic Development, Entrepreneurship, and Technology for a regional cultural plan for festivals in seven counties. Over the past year, a network has been developed of artists, artist guilds, arts organizations, festival organizers, tourism commissions, local area businesses and university staff that will be involved in the planning process. The resulting cultural plan will provide a framework with which the network numbers can share resources, and collaboratively book artists, hold workshops and market events.

Portland Museum, Inc.
Louisville, KY
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Assessment/Planning
$10,000
To support a partnership with Louisville Metro Parks, Neighborhood House, Harriet Tubman Center, United Methodist Center, JustUs WeCare, and the Portland Elementary School for community cultural planning process that will engage the residents of an underserved, urban neighborhood in Louisville. The goal is to begin building a cultural infrastructure to attract artists and craftspeople to live and work in the community.

University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service, Elliott County Office
(on behalf of Elliott County Tourism Development Council)
Sandy Hook, KY
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Tourism/District
$10,000
To support a partnership with Elliott County Heritage Arts Network, Inc. and Elliott County Tourism Development Council to fund the design of an educational facility as part of the Cultural Heritage Welcome Center. The center will be used to showcase, demonstrate and teach arts and crafts. This collaborative effort has been devised as part of a county economic development plan centering on tourism, and fostering arts and humanities learning for local youth.

Williamsburg Action Team, Inc.
Williamsburg, KY
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Assessment/Planning
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Williamsburg Chamber/Action Team, Appalanchian Artists Guild and the Save the Children Federation for an assessment of the community's cultural and performing arts resources, the assessment is part of an effort to convert an art deco theater into an arts and cultural center for the town. The center is the cornerstone of the proposed revitalization of the Main Street area of Williamsburg.

Total Grant Awards: 9
Total Dollars Awarded: $90,000

MAINE

Brunswick Area Arts & Cultural Alliance
Brunswick, ME
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Tourism/District
$5,000
To support a partnership with Greater Bath Cultural Resources and Chamber of Commerce of the Bath-Brunswick Region to research, publish and distribute a cultural map and guide of the region. Cultural institutions such as the Bowdoin College Museum of Art and Summer Music Festival, the Maine Maritime Museum, Maine Music Theatre and Chocolate Church Arts Center will be featured in this brochure, as well as sites related to the area's rich literary tradition.

Warrington House, Inc.
(on behalf of Hancock County Cultural Network)
Brooklin, ME
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Tourism/District
$5,000
To support a partnership with Alone Moose Fine Crafts and Great Harbor Maritime Museum to design, print and distribute the Hancock County Arts and Heritage Map. This project will give area artists and cultural organizations a regional identity, provide visitors and residents with a greater awareness of arts and cultural activities available to them, and increase exposure to the region's arts and cultural diversity. The initiative grew out of a Maine Arts Commission sponsored cultural assessment and inventory process.

Total Grant Awards: 2
Total Dollars Awarded: $10,000

MARYLAND

Allegany Arts Council, Inc.
Cumberland, MD
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Tourism/District
$10,000
To support a partnership with the City of Frostburg and the City of Cumberland to design, produce and distribute a brochure to market the county's arts and cultural resources, which will be supplemented by, print advertising campaigns. Both cities have recently created arts and cultural districts and plan not only to promote cultural tourism but also to attract artists and arts businesses to the area.

Howard County Arts Council, Inc.
Ellicott City, MD
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Assessment/Planning
$10,000
To support a partnership with Howard United Vision, and other arts and civic groups to assess the impact of ArtsVision 2001, the ten-year plan for the arts published in 1992, and update it to meet the changing needs of the county. The partnership will engage Jean Moon and Associates to facilitate the assessment and planning process.

Salisbury Wicomico Arts Council
Salisbury, MD
PROJECT TYPE: Civic Design
$10,000
To support a partnership with Urban Salisbury, Inc., the City of Salisbury, Community Players of Salisbury and the Charles H. Chipman Cultural Center to design a cultural arts center in downtown Salisbury as part of a comprehensive redevelopment of the civic landscape of the city. The center, a former movie theatre complex, will provide the only performance venue in the area, contributing to the revitalization of the urban area and allowing both residents and tourists to participate more fully in the arts.

St. Mary's County Public School
Leonardtown, MD
PROJECT TYPE: New Technology
$5,000
To support a partnership with the St. Mary's County Arts Council, North End Art Gallery, Chancellor's Run Senior Center, St. Mary's College and St. Mary's County Board of Education to create a Web site to promote the arts to a wider community audience. A focus of the Web site will be the newly established Superintendent's Art Gallery that represents artwork from each of the schools in the county and acts as a performing arts venue.

Total Grant Awards: 4
Total Dollars Awarded: $35,000

MASSACHUSETTS

Fishtown Artspace, Inc.
Gloucester, MA
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Tourism/District
$10,000
To support a partnership with Cape Ann Historical Association, Sawyer Free Library of Gloucester, Essex Shipbuilding Museum, Gloucester Cultural Council and Boudin Historical Photographs to produce a documentary on the history and cultural heritage of Gloucester. The Gloucester Story will be screened daily in a heritage center with both local residents and tourists as audience. Through this documentary, the partners seek to promote tourism and increase community pride.

Northern Berkshire Community Coalition, Inc.
North Adams, MA
PROJECT TYPE: Civic Design
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art and the Departments of Environmental Management and Juvenile Justice to develop the Berkshire Bike Path Teen Sculpture project in northern Berkshire County, a rural, low-income community. The bike path, constructed along the Ashuwillticook Rail Trail, will connect seven northern Berkshire communities, providing recreational opportunities for both local residents and tourists. The project will involve local teens in the development of artwork along the trail.

Nueva Esperanza, Inc.
(El Arco Iris Youth and Community Arts Center)
Holyoke, MA
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Tourism/District
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Arts Walk Committee, the Enchanted Circle Theater, Nuestras Raices, the Children's Museum and the Teen Resource Project to develop and produce the Holyoke Arts Walk Festival. The festival, planned for May 2002, will demonstrate the potential of the area around Holyoke's canals as a place to showcase the artistic talents of the ethnic groups and, in particular, the youth of the city. Several of the partners have been working with teens and children to paint murals, create banners to decorate the canals, and involve the youth in other efforts to revitalize the community through the arts.

Town of Arlington
Arlington, MA
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Assessment/Planning
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Arlington Public Schools, Arlington Center for the Arts, and the Arlington Partners in Education for a planning process to integrate arts education into the curriculum for all K-12 students. This partnership will enable a core group of artists, parents, teachers, administrators and community representatives to launch a three-pronged initiative to help the Arlington school system sustain its commitment to arts education.

Total Grant Awards: 4
Total Dollars Awarded: $40,000

MICHIGAN

Copper Country Community Arts Council
(on behalf of Keweenaw Arts and Cultural Alliance)
Hancock, MI
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Tourism/District
$5,000
To support a partnership with Keweenaw National Historical Park and Keweenaw Peninsula Chamber of Commerce to revise, publish and distribute a brochure promoting the cultural offerings of the four-county region of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. The brochure, designed by graphic design students of Michigan Technological University, will be a tool to increase arts participation by local residents and to draw tourists to the area.

Total Grant Awards: 1
Total Dollars Awarded: $5,000

MINNESOTA

East Side Arts Council
St. Paul, MN
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Assessment/Planning
$10,000
To support a partnership with the East Side Neighborhood Development Company, District 5 Planning Council and the John A. Johnson Achievement Plus Elementary School to include the arts in a neighborhood revitalization effort called the International Marketplace. Fuller development of the arts component of the marketplace will help bring cultural authenticity and professionalism to the marketplace's arts component and encourage more community members to come to the marketplace.

Minneapolis American Indian Center
Minneapolis, MN
PROJECT TYPE: Civic Design
$10,000
To support a partnership with Amerindian Architects, Inc. and the Native Arts Circle to implement the Culture at the Center project, a redesign of the Minneapolis American Indian Center facilities, grounds and programs. The center is one of the oldest and most stable urban Indian centers in the country. It serves a large population of American Indians in the Twin Cities and provides opportunities, resources and a place for young people and families to participate in, learn about and celebrate their indigenous culture.

Pillsbury House Theatre
Minneapolis, MN
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Assessment/Planning
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Central Neighborhood P.E.A.C.E. Project and the National Resilience Resource Center of the University of Minnesota in a planning process to use theater to address critical issues facing this neighborhood, one of the most challenged areas of the city. The project will develop new ways to involve theater in building relationships with neighborhood organizations and individuals, create new audiences and participants for Pillsbury House Theatre programs, and develop a model that might be replicated by other neighborhoods.

Riverland Community College
Austin, MN
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Assessment/Planning
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Owatonna Arts Center, Austin Area Commission for the Arts, Austin Welcome Center and the Albert Lea Art Center for a cultural assessment in three southern Minnesota counties. The project's goal is to explore the cultural needs and assets of the increasing number of new immigrants from such countries as Bosnia, Mexico, Somalia, Sudan and Vietnam. Project partners will offer expanded opportunities for the community's young people through collaborative arts programming and outreach.

Total Grant Awards: 4
Total Dollars Awarded: $40,000

MISSISSIPPI

Brookhaven Trust for the Preservation of History, Culture, and Arts
Brookhaven, MS
PROJECT TYPE: Civic Design
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Brookhaven-Lincoln Chamber of Commerce and the Brookhaven Arts Council to provide an architectural review of the Old City Hall and Fire Station to develop a plan of how the unused space could be used for civic events. This plan will facilitate historically - sensitive renovation of the facility in a prime downtown location, providing for cultural events, and fulfilling a pressing need in the community.

West Jackson Community Development Corporation
Jackson, MS
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Tourism/District
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Mississippi Arts Commission, and the neighborhood associations of Washington Addition, Poindexter Park and University Park to produce the Tenth Annual Lynch Street Cultural Arts Festival. The two-day festival will be held in April 2002 and seeks to attract 10,000 people to the historic Lynch Street area. Festival programming will include theatre and music performances, as well as literary arts experiences. Organizers plan to increase the number of West Jackson residents and neighborhood associations involved in the production of this annual celebration of African American culture.

Total Grant Awards: 2
Total Dollars Awarded: $20,000

MISSOURI

Hannibal Arts Council
(on behalf of Northeast Missouri Development Authority)
Hannibal, MO
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Tourism/District
$10,000
To support a partnership with Great River Road Guild of Professional Artisans to implement the Provenance Project. The primary purpose of the Provenance Project is the development of Scenic Byway 79, connecting the communities of Hannibal, Clarksville and Louisiana, MO, as a destination for cultural tourists. Other objectives are the redevelopment of the three central business districts, the recruitment of additional cultural enterprise, the generation of additional sales tax and rehabilitation and preservation of the area's cultural history.

Ozark Actors Theatre
Rolla, MO
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Assessment/Planning
$10,000
To support a partnership with ArtsRolla!, Rolla Music Teacher's Association, Phelps County Community Partnership, Home School Drama Club of Mid-Missouri, and Phelps County Provisional YMCA for planning the establishment of a local arts center in downtown Rolla. The Cedar Street downtown area is emerging as a cultural district and the establishment of the Cedar Street Arts Center will serve as the area's anchor and home to several important arts and cultural organizations.

Springfield Area Arts Council
Springfield, MO
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Assessment/Planning
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Community Foundation of the Ozarks for development of a community-wide needs assessment and action plan for facilitating cultural growth in the city of Springfield and the Ozarks region. This plan will help the arts community participate in the city's rapid growth by updating the current cultural plan.

Total Grant Awards: 4
Total Dollars Awarded: $40,000

MONTANA

Downtown Development Corporation
(on behalf of Billings Cultural Partners)
Billings, MT
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Tourism/District
$10,000
To support an ongoing partnership with the City of Billings, County of Yellowstone, Downtown Billings Association and Montana Arts Council to implement the Billings Cultural Plan. The project's goal is to double the annual attendance at the cultural and historic institutions in Billings by the year 2010. Strategies include strengthening the Billings Cultural Partners organization, establishing a community cultural image for marketing purposes, supporting educational collaborations among the partners' membership, and working with the City of Billings to include cultural planning as part of overall city planning.

Great Falls Civic Center Events Division
Great Falls, MT
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Assessment/Planning
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Great Falls Symphony Association, the Business Improvement District, Great Falls Public Schools and Miss Linda's School of Dance for a community cultural assessment and planning process to enhance the quality of performances and to invigorate the downtown cultural area. Included in the project's goals will be plans to increase participation by underserved citizens such as the Native American population, the temporary residents of the Malmstrom Air Force Base, and students of the Montana School for the Deaf and Blind. Another goal is to assess the impact of an expanded performing arts series on arts education.

Lewis & Clark Bicentennial Commission of Lewis & Clark County
Helena, MT
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Tourism/District
$10,000
To support an ongoing partnership with the Artisan LLP, U.S. Forest Service and Montana Science Institute to research and design a model of the Montana section of the Lewis and Clark expedition for installation at a later date on an open five acre site in Helena. The path will be imbedded in the sidewalks and include miniature representations of the Missouri River, the Gates of the Mountains, and Pompey's Pillar with 20 sculptures and bas reliefs depicting specific episodes of the journey. Native
American cultures and indigenous flora and fauna will also be featured along the trail.

Performing Arts League
Choteau, MT
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Assessment/Planning
$5,000
To support a partnership with the Prairie Mountain Players, Front Range Art Association, and the Old Trail Museum for expansion of a community cultural inventory. The project will increase the visibility of the community's cultural groups through surveys and data compilation into a Choteau Community Cultural Resource Guide and complimentary Web site. The Guide and complimentary Web site are hoped to facilitate contact among residents of rural Teton County and northern Lewis and Clark County.

Total Grant Awards: 4
Total Dollars Awarded: $35,000

NEBRASKA

Wayne State College
Wayne, NE
PROJECT TYPE: Civic Design
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Wayne Chamber of Commerce, the County Clerk and the Wayne School District Superintendent to implement the creation and installation of collaborative public art strategically placed throughout the Wayne area. Forty clay sculptures and a mural will be created by area children and their parents in workshops developed by college art faculty and art students. Through the process of this unique for citizens of this rural community, it is hoped that arts learning will be encouraged and pride in community heritage will be fostered.

Total Grant Awards: 1
Total Dollars Awarded: $10,000

NEVADA

City of Las Vegas (Cultural & Community Affairs Division)
Las Vegas, NV
PROJECT TYPE: Civic Design
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Las Vegas Academy of International Studies and Performing Arts, the Contemporary Art Collective, and the Left of Center Gallery to support the expansion of the Aerial Gallery Downtown. This public art project features digital artwork of local artists on banners in a mile-long display along downtown Las Vegas Boulevard. The project provides an exhibition opportunity for local artists, highlights the arts as a development tool for downtown, and enhances the urban streetscape by integrating the arts into the boulevard.

Western Folklife Center
Elko, NV
PROJECT TYPE: New Technology
$10,000
To support a partnership with Great Basin College and Elko County Economic Diversification Authority to develop and implement Internet marketing for traditional artists and craftsmen in the underserved and rural interior West. This project will allow the Western Folklife Center to identify and work with selected artists and local ranching, Native American, Hispanic and other relevant communities in marketing and selling their work to a wider audience.

Total Grant Awards: 2
Total Dollars Awarded: $20,000

NEW HAMPSHIRE

Concord Community Music School
Concord, NH
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Tourism/District
$10,000
To support a partnership with Groundwork Concord to redesign Fletcher-Murphy Park. The architect of the Music School's new building, currently under construction, incorporated a "front porch" or bandstand that faces a once neglected city play lot. As part of the project, Groundwork Concord will act as liaison with the city to shepherd the redesign and rehabilitation of the green space through to completion in time for the 2002 opening series of three Summer Concerts in the Park.

New Hampshire Institute of Art
Manchester, NH
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Tourism/District
$10,000
To support a partnership with Currier Gallery of Art, Franco American Centre, YO! Gallery and the Manchester Historic Association to provide Trolley Art. Offered four times each year, this event is a free tour of more than a dozen art, historic and cultural heritage sites in Manchester with transportation via trolley. Volunteer guides accompany the tour and inform participants about the exhibitions and the community's history.

Tricinium, Ltd.
Westmoreland, NH
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Assessment/Planning
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Underground Railway Theater, Monadnock Institute of Nature, Place and Culture at Franklin Pierce College, and the New Hampshire Rural Development Council for development of a large-scale public arts project along the Connecticut River. A central part of the project's development process will be dialogue about civic, environmental and cultural issues. The project's outcomes include a detailed plan for a multidisciplinary arts project that will include heritage tourism, curriculum development, artist residencies in schools, and region-wide community projects.

Total Grant Awards: 3
Total Dollars Awarded: $30,000

NEW JERSEY

County of Middlesex/Cultural & Heritage Commission
New Brunswick, NJ
PROJECT TYPE: New Technology
$10,000
To support a partnership with the County of Middlesex/Cultural & Heritage Commission and A.S.I.A. (an organization of 16 Asian cultural groups) to place online a statewide directory serving the Asian American arts community. This online directory would provide access to arts and cultural information to a greater audience in the New Brunswick area and beyond.

Total Grant Awards: 1
Total Dollars Awarded: $10,000

NEW MEXICO

Artesanos de Questa Cultural Center
Questa, NM
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Tourism/District
$10,000
To support a partnership with Project SST, a local welfare-to-work initiative, to expand the hours and improve marketing for the Artists' Cooperative Gallery. By training three welfare clients in marketing, sales, accounting and computers, the gallery will be able to extend its business hours, increase its sales, and provide more services for its membership artists. The artwork ranges from carved tables and cabinets, retablos, metal sculpture, pottery and paintings to jewelry.

Branigan Cultural Center Foundation
(on behalf of Mesilla Valley Museum Consortium)
Las Cruces, NM
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Tourism/District
$10,000
To support a partnership with New Mexico Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum, New Mexico State University Art Gallery and Fort Selden State Monument to redesign and update the Mesilla Valley Museum Consortium brochure and to expand marketing via billboards, regional magazines and bilingual advertisements. The consortium is a marketing association that combines the resources of smaller arts and heritage agencies to promote cultural tourism. Local residents and visitors will benefit from learning about the exhibitions, educational programs and workshops available.

Carlsbad Area Art Association, Inc.
Carlsbad, NM
PROJECT TYPE: Civic Design
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Carlsbad Main Street Project, Carlsbad Soil and Water Conservation District, Carlsbad Department of Development and Carlsbad Area Art Association to create a streetscape plan to improve highway and downtown landscaping, signage, lighting and public art displays in this rural, isolated community. The project will enhance the main entrances to Carlsbad and the 10-block downtown area, redeveloping the city into an artists' community and capitalizing on tourism drawn to nearby Carlsbad Caverns.

Cibola Arts Council
Grants, NM
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Tourism/District
$5,000
To support a partnership with El Morro Area Arts Council, Mission Café and Gallery, Cecilio's Southwest Originals, John Boomer Fine Arts, and Jan Pearson Gallery to offer a two-day studio tour extending from Cubero to Ramah in New Mexico, and to promote the cultural organizations and individual artist participants. Some of the artists will design a billboard, map and brochure. The map and brochure will be used not only for the tour itself, but also as a resource to be distributed through hotels, the Chamber of Commerce, the arts venues and other tourist sites. Approximately 120 artists will be represented, including members of the local Native American tribes and the large Hispanic population.

Total Grant Awards: 4
Total Dollars Awarded: $35,000

NEW YORK

Arts & Business Council, Inc.
New York, NY
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Tourism/District
$10,000
To support a partnership with Tourism Development Associates and the New York State Council on the Arts to expand and strengthen the Cultural Tourism Application Workshops to include more emphasis on concepts and techniques for rural upstate New York. The initial series of three classes given by the council in three different sites will be expanded. The focus will change to provide training on the development of a cultural tourism strategy for four different communities in upstate New York.

Chemung Valley Arts Council/The ARTS of the South Finger Lakes
Corning, NY
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Tourism/District
$10,000
To support an ongoing partnership with Steuben County Conference & Visitors Center, Finger Lakes Wine Country Tourism Marketing Association and WENY-TV to promote cultural tourism through the third annual billboard campaign, "Fingerlakes Wine CountryŠcanvases just down the road." The partnership will commission 12 visual artists to design billboards mirroring the natural beauty of the area, while 12 poets will receive awards for their work to be displayed on placemats in local restaurants. A trail guide will be designed to direct visitors from one billboard to the next with photographs of the artwork and information on arts sites and events.

Chenango County Council of the Arts, Inc.
Norwich, NY
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Tourism/District
$10,000
To support a partnership with Chenango County Chamber of Commerce to design, publish and distribute a brochure highlighting the county arts and cultural attractions, as well as restaurants, accommodations and specialty shops. The Chamber of Commerce, as the lead tourism agency in the county, recognizes the enormous economic potential of cultural tourism in this struggling agricultural region. The council; which provides educational arts services, a performing arts series, monthly gallery exhibitions, technical assistance to local arts organizations, and administers grant programs for teachers and individual artists; and will use the brochure to inform residents and visitors of these activities.

CITYarts, Inc.
New York, NY
PROJECT TYPE: Civic Design
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Floyd Bennett Field Gardens Association and the National Park Service to produce the Living Sculpture project, a permanent public artwork to be installed in Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett Field. Floyd Bennett Field is the primary recreational area in the community, especially for gardeners and families. The Living Sculpture will be created from indigenous trees and plants in the garden, helping forge a partnership between local artists and gardeners, emphasizing the importance of caring for the environment, and beautifying the garden area for all to enjoy.

Community Arts Partnership of Tompkins County, Inc.
Ithaca, NY
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Assessment/Planning
$10,000
To support a partnership with Tompkins County and the Tompkins County Chamber of Commerce for a community action plan to identify new audiences, encourage increased business support, and to assess the operating environment, organizational needs, and short and long-term goals of arts and cultural organizations.

Foundation for the Open Eye, Inc.
Margaretville, NY
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Assessment/Planning
$10,000
To support a partnership with Margaretville Central School, Delaware County Chamber of Commerce, Greater Margaretville Chamber of Commerce, Auxiliary of Margaretville Memorial Hospital and the Fairview Public Library for the first comprehensive review of the arts community in and around Middletown, NY. The arts assessment, conducted with the participation of arts groups; artists; municipal, educational and funding leaders; and county and state economic development representatives, will identify common needs and strengths in support of strong partnerships.

High 5 Tickets to the Arts
New York, NY
PROJECT TYPE: New Technology
$10,000
To support a partnership between High 5 Tickets to the Arts and the Bronx Council on the Arts to increase awareness of Bronx arts events through a Web site. High 5 Tickets to the Arts provides discount tickets to teens with the help of over 200 New York City arts organizations. This partnership will restructure the High 5 Tickets to the Arts Web site to expand the list of cultural partners in the Bronx, and increase an e-mail address database for the High 5 Tickets to the Arts e-newsletter.

Highland Cultural Center /HCC-Arts
Highland, NY
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Tourism/District
$5,000
To support a partnership with the Cities of Kingston, Poughkeepsie and Beacon and the Town and Village of New Paltz to produce the 2002 Hudson Valley Summer Music Festival. This annual event offers over 20 free concerts at four locations spread over two counties. The music, ranging from jazz and blues to classical, international and bluegrass is performed by professional recording artists and brings together a diverse audience.

Jazz Forum Arts
Dobbs Ferry, NY
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Tourism/District
$10,000
To support an ongoing partnership with the City of Yonkers, the Downtown Yonkers Management Association and the Yonkers Historical Society to produce a series of free concerts and films on the Yonkers Recreation Pier. The music to be presented reflects the diversity of the area and the films will be ones set in the city or featuring Yonkers actors or filmmakers. The Yonkers waterfront revitalization has been spurred on by the recent designation of the Hudson as an American Heritage River.

Stillwater Area Community Services Center, Inc.
Stillwater, NY
PROJECT TYPE: Civic Design
$5,000
To support a partnership with the Town and Village of Stillwater to plan the design of a new park in front of the Stillwater Community Center. The park will include a gazebo for public performances such as concerts and plays, as well as a splashpad/ice skating rink, gardens, picnic areas and a playground. The park will provide a much needed performing arts venue for this rural community, as well as an improved recreational area for the town's residents.

Sustainable Long Island
Huntington, NY
PROJECT TYPE: Civic Design
$5,000
To support a partnership with Long Island Design Group and the Unified New Cassel Community Revitalization Corporation to research and produce computer graphics presenting the history of architecture and neighborhood design of New Cassel, one of the oldest African American communities on Long Island. This package will include aerial photography, area maps, site plans, street elevation drawings and 3-D streetscapes for use in community education and visioning programs that will assist the local revitalization effort while preserving the community's cultural heritage. The format developed in this project will become a template for other similar design projects across Long Island.

Traditional Arts in Upstate New York
Canton, NY
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Tourism/District
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Grasse River Heritage Area Development Corporation for planning, design and development of the Rushton Project. This project will be a permanent exhibition of the work of Canton boat builder, J. Henry Ruston (1843-1906), with workshop space for training in traditional small wooden pulling boat construction, as well as other traditional regional crafts. The Ruston Project is a part of the proposed Grasse River Heritage Park, which will cover three islands in downtown Canton.

Total Grant Awards: 12
Total Dollars Awarded: $105,000

NORTH CAROLINA

Black Mountain Swannanoa Arts Center
Black Mountain, NC
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Tourism/District
$10,000
To support a partnership with Black Mountain College Museum and Arts Center and Swannanoa Valley Museum to research, write and produce a folk history play Way Back When: The Story of Black Mountain and the Swannanoa Valley. Experienced artists will train college students and instructors to interview older residents of the area and record their stories, songs and traditions as the basis for the play. A local professional drama instructor will train community members to perform the play. The oral histories will also be read to school children who will be encouraged to create illustrations for an anthology.

Kinston Art Council/Community Council for the Arts
Kinston, NC
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Tourism/District
$5,000
To support an ongoing partnership with the City of Kinston, the County of Lenoir, N.C. Global Transpark, Pride of Kinston, Inc. and the Chamber of Commerce & Tourism to design, create and install a five-panel outdoor mural recording the area's past and present. The partners will form a committee to identify the key events and time periods to be depicted in this public artwork. The Windows Through Time mural is planned as the first in a series for installation in prominent places in Kinston.

Stecoah Valley Arts, Crafts & Educational Center, Inc.
Robbinsville, NC
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Tourism/District
$10,000
To support an ongoing partnership with Graham City Travel & Tourism, North Carolina Arts Council and North Carolina Division of Tourism to enhance and expand the summer series An Appalachian Evening. The goals of this project are to preserve and promote mountain arts, in particular the music, to develop cultural tourism as a source of revenue for this third poorest rural county in the state, and to provide greater public access to the arts and cultural traditions of the region. A committee of professional musicians and teachers headed by the Stecoah Valley Center's folklore specialist and program director will chose the performing artists.

Tryon Center for Visual Art
Charlotte, NC
PROJECT TYPE: Civic Design
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Charlotte Housing Authority and Friends of Fourth Ward to redesign the public spaces of Edwin Towers, a 35-year old public housing facility for seniors in downtown Charlotte. The renewed space will include a bird sanctuary and community garden to be shared by the elderly residents of Edwin Towers and the neighboring homeowners, helping to bridge the gap between the housing project and its more affluent neighbors.

Total Grant Awards: 4
Total Dollars Awarded: $35,000

NORTH DAKOTA

City of Regent/Enchanted Highway
Regent, ND
PROJECT TYPE: Civic Design
$5,000
To support a partnership with North Dakota State University to plan and design the Metal Art Theme Park, which will consist of an art park, golf course and historic rock house. The park will be designed around a metal art theme and provide a family atmosphere. It will provide a venue for local folk artists, an entertainment center for the rural town, and a means to boost the town's struggling economy by promoting a unique tourist attraction.

Northern Plains Ballet
Bismarck, ND
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Tourism/District
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Bismarck-Mandan Convention and Visitors Bureau, Kranzler Kingsley Communications, Ltd. and Dakota West Arts Council to develop a marketing strategy for the ballet company to reach underserved rural populations and foster cultural tourism. With the marketing expertise of the Convention and Visitors Bureau and the Kingsley ad agency, the ballet company plans to expand its audience base and effectively reach the many rural areas of the state. The arts council will advise the project and share information and strategies developed in this project with other arts institutions, with a long-term goal of creating a marketing effort involving all arts organizations in the area.

Total Grant Awards: 2
Total Dollars Awarded: $15,000

OHIO

Arts Foundation of Olde Towne
Columbus, OH
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Tourism/District
$10,000
To support an ongoing partnership with The Olde Towne Business Association, the City of Columbus, the Columbus Health Department and ComFest to produce the Hot Times Community Arts & Music Festival. In its 25th year, the Hot Times Festival draws together inner city residents to plan and organize the event, as well as to perform and exhibit the arts and crafts of their diverse cultures. A Poetry Slam, the Columbus Children's Parade and Hear History in Music are segments of this festival which draws, audience members from both suburban communities and tourists visiting the city.

Culture Works
Dayton, OH
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Tourism/District
$10,000
To support a partnership with Cityfolk, Dayton Visual Arts Center, K12 Gallery for Young People, Rhythm in Shoes, Robert J. Schiffler Collection and Archive, We Care Arts, City of Dayton, and Montgomery County to commission a feasibility assessment of two potential sites for a multi-use arts facility. Oregon Group Architects will assess various engineering facets, environmental issues and public safety, transportation and parking concerns for each of the two sites under consideration. The proposed facility will provide expanded exhibition space for the Shiffler Collection, additional classrooms and workshops for CityFolk, K12 Gallery and Rhythm in Shoes, as well as much needed gallery space for local artists through the Dayton Visual Arts Center and We Care Arts organizations.

The Toledo Jazz Society
Toledo, OH
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Tourism/District
$10,000
To support an ongoing partnership with Columbia Gas of Ohio, the City of Toledo, Ohio Arts Council, Roman Peshoff and The Toledo Blade to produce the Art Tatum Jazz Heritage Festival. The free outdoor festival offers inner city residents the opportunity to enjoy and take pride in the musical accomplishments of many Toledo natives, including jazz pianist, Art Tatum. Festival artists represent local, regional and national talent.

Total Grant Awards: 4
Total Dollars Awarded: $40,000

OKLAHOMA

Arts & Humanities Council of Tulsa, Inc.
Tulsa, OK
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Assessment/Planning
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Tulsa Hispanic American Foundation, Tulsa Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and the Tulsa City-County Library for a cultural assessment and plan with the Tulsa area Hispanic community to determine its cultural resources, needs and development strategies. This specific focus on Tulsa's rapidly growing Hispanic community will supplement the city's cultural plans developed in 1990 and 1997.

Black Liberated Arts Center
Oklahoma City, OK
PROJECT TYPE: New Technology
$10,000
To support a partnership with Langston University, Langston University at the Oklahoma City campus and Oklahoma Climatological Survey Group to support the Millennium Arts Revue System (MARS). This marketing project uses technology to reach underserved people living in the rural and remote towns around Langston University, and the African American residents of Northeast Oklahoma City. MARS will promote the center's arts and arts education programs.

Cherokee National Historical Society, Inc.
Tahlequah, OK
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Tourism/District
$10,000
To support an ongoing partnership with Northeastern State University and the Cherokee Nation to produce a revised script of Trail of Tears and to present a series of culturally specific performances from around the world. The 30 year-old script and production design for this Cherokee historical drama has been reworked and will be performed several times each week during the tourist season. Performers from a range of international cultures will also be presented at the TsaLaGi amphitheatre.

City of Guymon
Guymon, OK
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Tourism/District
$10,000
To support an ongoing partnership with Oklahoma Arts Council, Oklahoma Department of Tourism and the City of Foley, Alabama to take the Guymon Oklahoma Heritage Festival to Foley. These two small cities with widely differing life styles and cultures have discovered the excitement of sharing their heritage with others through an exchange of community festivals. The spurmaker, quilter, beader, potter, wheat weaver, flute maker and player join the dancer, story teller, "Buffalo soldier" and cowboy poet in traveling to the coastal town of Foley to share the traditions and arts of Oklahoma with the people of coastal Alabama.

Comanche Tribe of Oklahoma
Lawton, OK
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Assessment/Planning
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Comanche Language and Cultural Preservation Committee, Indian Country Development Corporation and the Cultures and Arts of Native Americans for the planning of a new Comanche tribal museum. The partners will convene a two-day meeting that will include Native museum and community development professionals to define the museum's architectural plan. In the process, a community-wide cultural inventory of traditional skills, knowledge and significant material objects will be conducted.

Idabel Regional Arts Council
Idabel, OK
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Tourism/District
$10,000
To support a partnership with Idabel Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture, Idabel Public School System, Oklahoma Arts Council, Ministerial Alliance, McCurtain County Genealogical Society and others to develop and produce the Centennial Folk Life Play. Using oral histories collected since 1999, two playwrights, Rebecca Williams and Jerry Pope, are developing the script that will be cast within the community and presented as part of Idabel's 100th anniversary celebration in 2002.

Tulsa Opera, Inc.
Tulsa, OK
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Tourism/District
$5,000
To support a partnership with the Tulsa Zoo and Living Museum to present Tulsa Opera Day at the Zoo. To celebrate the production of The Cunning Little Vixen, the opera and zoo will offer a series of special activities ranging from Find the Fox tours with educational booklets for children to Opera Previews with musical and historical highlights from the opera. Educational packets will be sent to teachers by both the zoo and the opera in the summer to encourage incorporation of both music and nature study into school curriculum.

Total Grant Awards: 7
Total Dollars Awarded: $65,000

OREGON

Arts Council of Pendleton
Pendleton, OR
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Tourism/District
$10,000
To support a partnership with Pendleton Chamber of Commerce, Umatilla County Historical Society, Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts and Children's Museum of Eastern Oregon to launch the Pendleton Cultural Discovery Project. The goal of the Discovery Project is to identify art venues and events and create a collaborative cultural tourism campaign. By combining their resources, the cultural organizations seek to raise awareness of their programs through joint marketing materials and online promotions in order to develop larger audiences, attracting both local residents and tourists.

City of Bay City
Bay City, OR
PROJECT TYPE: Civic Design
$10,000
To support a partnership with Bay City Arts Center, Bay City Planning Commission, Bay City Visioning Committee and City Repair to develop a civic design plan for this rural area, helping Bay City realize its goal of becoming the cultural center of the county. City Repair, an award winning civic design organization, will work with local students and artists to produce "Vision for Bay City," for use as a guide to the long term management plan of Bay City's cultural and civic redevelopment.

Oregon Coast Council for the Arts
Newport, OR
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Tourism/District
$10,000
To support a partnership with Tillamook County Arts Network, Coos Arts Council & Tourism Association, Coastal Arts and Business Alliance, Columbia River Maritime Museum and Oregon Coast Aquarium to develop, print and distribute a cultural arts visitors guide. Covering seven counties along the Oregon coast, this directory will introduce galleries, artists, performance venues and other cultural organizations to the reader. Trade shows, chambers of commerce and cultural venues will facilitate distribution of the guide.

Total Grant Awards: 3
Total Dollars Awarded: $30,000

PENNSYLVANIA

Aliquippa Alliance for Unity and Development
(on behalf of Aliquippa Embraces Art)
Aliquippa, PA
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Tourism/District
$10,000
To support an ongoing partnership with Artworks Cultural Alliance and the City of Aliquippa to produce the 10th Annual Aliquippa Embraces Art Festival. Since 1992, the arts have played an increasingly important role in the revitalization of Aliquippa, which has struggled to survive the collapse of the U.S. steel industry. The Aliquippa Alliance sponsors summer programming for children, and local galleries have special open hours on Saturdays leading up to this celebration of contemporary and traditional arts and crafts.

Borough of Steelton
Steelton, PA
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Assessment/Planning
$5,000
To support a partnership with the Office of the Mayor and MetroArts of the Capital Region for cultural plan development, beginning with a survey of arts and cultural needs and resources in this highly diverse community representing over 27 cultures. The cultural plan will complement Steelton Borough's Comprehensive Plan for economic development.

Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance
Philadelphia, PA
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Assessment/Planning
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Abington Art Center, Chester County Historical Society and the Mercer Museum/Bucks County Historical Society for exchanging information with rural areas as part of the cultural planning process for the five-county southeastern Pennsylvania region. This project will result in 15-25 sub-regional meetings in a focused dialogue about the cultural plan, as well as coalition building among cultural organizations, local governments, social service organizations, businesses and other community-based groups.

Lancaster Museum of Art
Lancaster, PA
PROJECT TYPE: Civic Design
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Masser Park Civic Association, Downtown Investment District, and the City of Lancaster Parks and Recreation Department. The partnership will hire a landscape architect to design a long-range master plan for Musser Park and a building architect to design an 8,000 square foot addition for the Lancaster Museum of Art, located in the park. The project will provide a safe, green haven for residents and visitors to Lancaster and the art museum. Improvements made to the art museum and Musser Park will significantly improve the economic base of this neighborhood by attracting additional tourists and providing a much needed cultural center for the community.

Midtown Market District
Harrisburg, PA
PROJECT TYPE: Civic Design
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Center for Women's Creative Expression to design a community arts center to help empower women, especially women of color and low or limited income, through the development of artistic skills, self-esteem and professional skills. The arts center will serve as a key component in the economic revitalization of an historic, racially and ethnically diverse urban neighborhood in Harrisburg known as Midtown. Although the center will emphasize service to women, it will also provide cultural programs to the community as a whole.

Sunflower Hill Productions
Milford, PA
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Tourism/District
$5,000
To support a partnership with Pike County Historical Society, Milford Business Council, Delaware Township Board of Supervisors, Pike County Chamber of Commerce and others to expand community arts programming. The recent leasing of the historic Milford theater will permit Sunflower Hill to provide a year-round venue for artists to develop new works and performance techniques, to create educational programs for children and to offer the community additional cultural events. Milford's population has grown rapidly and with it the demand for more diverse cultural activities.

Total Grant Awards: 6
Total Dollars Awarded: $50,000

PUERTO RICO

Ballet Concierto de Puerto Rico
San Juan, PR
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Tourism/District
$10,000
To support a partnership with Galerias Raices, Trapiche and the First Church of Christ Scientist to present Ballet, Arte y Musica. The ballet company has recently moved into new quarters on De Diego Avenue and with its neighbor-partners will stage four monthly outdoor events for nearby residents, office workers and tourists. The group wants to develop De Diego Avenue as the Avenue of the Arts by providing free cultural events, including tours of the gallery and museum, as well as music and dance performances in this area of San Juan.

Total Grant Awards: 1
Total Dollars Awarded: $10,000

RHODE ISLAND

CapitolArts Providence
Providence, RI
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Tourism/District
$10,000
To support an ongoing partnership with the Rhode Island Tourism Division and Providence Parks Office of Cultural Affairs to organize and present Convergence 2001 International Arts Festival. The Convergence traces its roots back to 1987, but its expansion to include international sculpture, and this year, its extension to all of Rhode Island, illustrates the growing awareness of cultural events as tourist attractions and economic assets. The Convergence is proud of its policy of paying sculptors a stipend for the "rental" of their artwork, for display during the festival.

Newport County Development Council
Middletown, RI
PROJECT TYPE: Civic Design
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Arts and Cultural Alliance of Newport County, Bank of Newport, Newport County Convention and Visitors Bureau, Newport Cultural Commission, and Newport County Chamber of Commerce to develop an architectural plan for the restoration of the historic Opera House Theatre into a performing arts center. The performing arts center will be an important economic development tool for Newport and a vital component of the historic revitalization of the town center, while providing access to the performing arts and needed community space for its residents.

Trinity Repertory Company
Providence, RI
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Assessment/Planning
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts for the development of a list of plays and literature relevant to the state's school curriculum. From this list, the Trinity Repertory Company will mount at least one production per year, in addition to widely distributing the list for use by other arts organizations and schools. This project will serve schools throughout the entire state, but will be especially beneficial to those located in economically disadvantaged and rural areas.

Total Grant Awards: 3
Total Dollars Awarded: $30,000

SOUTH CAROLINA

Arts Partnership of Greater Spartanburg, Inc.
Spartanburg, SC
PROJECT TYPE: Civic Design
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Spartanburg Little Theatre and Youth Theatre, Spartanburg Museum of Art, Spartanburg Historical Association, Ballet Spartanburg and the Music Foundation of Spartanburg to design a community arts facility. The facility would include an art and history museum, a 500-seat theatre and a science center. Spartanburg is a small, rural town with no large public buildings. This proposed facility would serve as an architectural icon in Spartanburg and provide a much needed venue for community celebrations and cultural activities.

Main Street Laurens USA, Inc.
Laurens, SC
PROJECT TYPE: Civic Design
$5,000
To support a partnership with the South Carolina Development Association and the South Carolina Design Arts Partnership to host a design charette to create design specifications for restoring historic downtown Laurens. During the charette, design and development professionals will conduct meetings with property owners to study their buildings and assess public spaces. Following these sessions, architects and city planners from across the state will create a detailed plan to redevelop downtown Laurens. The plan will be presented to the public.

School District of Greenville County
Greenville, SC
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Assessment/Planning
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Greenville Symphony Association, Peace Center for the Performing Arts and the Greenville County Museum of Art for a long-term plan to coordinate the school district's state-mandated arts education goals with outreach programs developed by cultural and performing arts organizations in Greenville County. Focusing on students in grades three to five, this initiative is designed to reach the same student body annually for three years with follow-up evaluation of student performance at the end.

Town of Cheraw (on behalf of Cheraw Arts Commission)
Cheraw, SC
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Tourism/District
$10,000
To support a partnership with Four Seasons Garden Club, Civic League Garden Club, Chesterfield County School District and Cheraw Chamber of Commerce to convert the childhood home of Dizzy Gillespie into a park to honor the legendary jazz musician. A sculptor will be commissioned not only to design the centerpiece for the park, but also to spend three weeks in Chernaw working with local school children as they design eight artworks and fencing for the park. Chernaw has been in the spotlight since being cited as Gillespie's hometown in the Ken Burns' documentary series on jazz aired on PBS.

Total Grant Awards: 4
Total Dollars Awarded: $35,000

SOUTH DAKOTA

Allied Arts Fund Drive, Inc.
Rapid City, SD
PROJECT TYPE: New Technology
$5,000
To support a partnership with Black Hills Community Theatre, Black Hills Symphony Orchestra, Rapid City Arts Council, and RapidNet to expand the Allied Arts Fund Drive Web site. The partnership will provide technical assistance and materials to the eight organizations within Allied Arts so that they can upgrade their respective portions of the Allied Arts Web site.

Historic Homestake Opera House Society
Lead, SD
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Tourism/District
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Lead Area Chamber of Commerce to use the recently developed fibre optics communications center in the Opera House for the planning, creation and implementation of arts and cultural opportunities in the area. A gallery will be designed and furnished to exhibit artwork, plans and artists' renderings of proposed projects such as the Black Hills Foundry, a sculpture garden, a winery in the historic Roundhouse, and the restoration of the interior of the Opera House itself. Lead 2000, a committee of the Chamber of Commerce, will include an Arts and Cultural Opportunities link on its Web site to provide further information concerning progress on the proposed projects.

Sioux Falls Film Society
Sioux Falls, SD
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Assessment/Planning
$5,000
To support a partnership with the Sioux Falls Municipal Band, City of Sioux Falls, Main Street Sioux Falls, Sioux Empire Arts Council and the Minnehaha County Board of Preservation for a study of the currently abandoned, historic Grand State Theatre and its relation to the thriving, historical downtown area. The historic theatre (built in 1925), will be renovated for use by the Sioux Falls Film Society and the Sioux Falls Municipal Band, as well as other activities for the benefit of the community.

Sturgis Area Arts Council
Sturgis, SD
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Assessment/Planning
$5,000
To support a partnership with the City of Sturgis and the Sturgis Area Chamber of Commerce for an assessment of the community's cultural assets. A steering committee, appointed by the Mayor, will be composed of people representing the arts, children's activities, ministerial association, business community, education, Fort Meade and city government. Located at the edge of Black Hills, a cultural plan for the city will identify community needs and highlight the historic importance of the area.

Total Grant Awards: 4
Total Dollars Awarded: $25,000

TENNESSEE

Birthplace of Country Music Alliance
Bristol, TN
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Tourism/District
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Carter Family Memorial Music Center, Inc., Virginia Tennessee Chamber of Commerce/Tourism Convention Bureau and Wallace Video to develop, produce and distribute marketing materials to promote the 75th Anniversary of the Bristol Sessions, a seminal event in country music. An eight-minute video, shorter video clips and printed brochures will be used to announce the 2002 celebration of that long ago recording session in a Bristol hotel that is considered an historical development in country music. The promotional materials will provide lists of weekly "pickin' sessions," details of the Carter Music Center weekly concerts, and other musical events in and around the birthplace of country music.

Metropolitan Government of Nashville & Davidson County/Metro Arts Commission
Nashville, TN
PROJECT TYPE: Civic Design
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Civic Design Center, Vanderbilt University, and University of Tennessee/Knoxville to present Urban Design Forum and Urban Design 101 -- two educational programs whose purpose is to establish a strong, widely shared vision for Nashville and to develop the highest standards for contemporary community design. The Urban Design Forum is a continuing, monthly lecture series on urban design issues with participants from many neighborhoods taking part. Urban Design 101 is a more concentrated continuing education course. Both courses will play an important role in community development and in shaping Nashville's character.

Total Grant Awards: 2
Total Dollars Awarded: $20,000

TEXAS

Anson Preservation League, Inc.
Anson, TX
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Tourism/District
$5,000
To support a partnership with Anson Chamber of Commerce, Anson Independent School District, Anson Opera House, and City of Anson to expand the Cowboy Poetry and Outdoor Mural Art programs. Cowboy poet, Chris Issacs will lead a four-day Poetry Can Be Fun clinic for the youth of Anson as an extension of the annual Larry Chittenden Cowboy Celebration. Sue Fletcher, a muralist, will head the effort to involve the community, particularly the young people, in creating an outdoor mural gallery.

Bastrop Association for the Arts
Bastrop, TX
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Assessment/Planning
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Bastrop Economic Development Corporation, Upstart, Inc., Calvary Episcopal Church; and the City of Bastrop to create an action plan for a downtown arts district that will provide area residents in this primarily rural community with opportunities in music, dance, video, drama, literature and the visual arts. The goal is to create gallery, performance and workshop space and a place for the planned public access cable television channel. The centerpiece of the arts district could be the Miley House, a National Historic Register building.

Big Bend Players, Inc.
Alpine, TX
PROJECT TYPE: Civic Design
$10,000
To support a partnership with Historic Alpine, Inc., the Alpine Main Street Program and the City of Alpine to prepare a design plan for the restoration of the historic Alpine Theatre into a cultural complex. Alpine is an isolated, predominantly Hispanic, city in Texas with few cultural opportunities. The theatre restoration, in conjunction with an ongoing major revitalization effort, will have a significant impact on tourism and business, helping this city's struggling economy and providing Alpine's residents with much needed cultural access.

El Paso Community Foundation
El Paso, TX
PROJECT TYPE: New Technology
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Junior League of El Paso, KTSM-TV and StantonStreet.com to develop audiences for the Plaza Theatre, a historic movie palace that is the focus of a restoration project. The partnership will redesign the theater's Web site to make available arts education curriculum, encourage attendance by school children to theater events, and develop criteria for visual arts projects to beautify the theater.

Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center
San Antonio, TX
PROJECT TYPE: Civic Design
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Avenida Guadalupe Neighborhood Association and artist, Jesse Trevino to create a civic design project on the west side of San Antonio. Mr. Trevino will design and construct a large, three-dimensional veladora (candleholder) that depicts the image of the Virgin of Guadalupe, the patron saint for many of the city's Mexican American residents, with a rose garden in front of the mural. The west side of San Antonio has long served as the epicenter of Mexican American life and culture, but is plagued a decaying infrastructure. The project is seen as the spark necessary for community renaissance, helping with the west side's economic revitalization, redevelopment and historic preservation.

University of Texas ­ Pan American
(University Theatre)
Edinburg, TX
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Assessment/Planning
$10,000
To support a partnership with the UTPA Foundation and the Edinburg 2020 Cultural Activities Committee for a feasibility study to determine if the South Texas Rio Grande Valley could support a Latino center for theater, television and film. The University Theatre of the University of Texas Pan American would serve as the location for such a center that could include a library for scripts, films and videos on the Latino/Chicago/Hispanic experience; a residency center for guest artists; and a performance center for live and electronic theater arts.

Total Grant Awards: 7
Total Dollars Awarded: $65,000

UTAH

Davis County Arts & Humanities Council
Layton, UT
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Assessment/Planning
$10,000
To support a partnership with the City of Layton, Davis County and the Bountiful Performing Arts Center for a city and county cultural needs assessment. Through a series of community conversations, surveys, interviews and other data gathering, the partners will evaluate the resources and services offered to the community by its cultural organizations and how best to address the significant increase in the area's population.

Summit Institute for the Arts and Humanities
Park City, UT
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Tourism/District
$10,000
To support a partnership with Arts-Kids, Inc., Park City Performing Arts Association, the Folk Arts Division of the Utah Humanities Council, Park City Historical Society, Adopt-a-Native Elder and others to present Westbound Festival 2001. The institute seeks to bring together musicians, visual artists, writers, crafts people, folklorists, performing artists and scholars who work in the varied Western traditions and cultures. The 2001 festival will celebrate and explore the West's human and natural resources, community development, and the contributions of minority cultures and women to the history of the region.
Total Grant Awards: 2
Total Dollars Awarded: $20,000

VERMONT

Brattleboro Museum and Art Center
Brattleboro, VT
PROJECT TYPE: Civic Design
$10,000
To support a partnership with the town of Brattleboro, Marlboro College, Connecticut River Joint Commission, and Windham Regional Planning to develop and lead Waterfront Dialogue. This is a coalition of arts and non-arts organizations, artists and individuals whose mission is to plan for the revitalization of a neglected Connecticut River-front area owned by the Town of Brattleboro. The coalition's goal is to infuse the arts into the revitalization of this riverfront space, turning it into a public cultural and recreational area. By involving the people of Brattleboro in all stages of the redevelopment project, the town hopes to gain a beautiful new space and a strengthened community.

Town of Morristown/ River Arts of Morrisville, Inc.
Morrisville, VT
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Tourism/District
$5,000
To support a partnership with Morristown Community Partnership, Conservation Commission, and Recreation Trails Committee to develop a design concept to represent the community. The project is planned in three stages: research and development, design and review, and presentation and recommendations with public input solicited at each phase. With this strategy, the partnership hopes to raise community awareness and pride in its cultural and historic identity.

Total Grant Awards: 2
Total Dollars Awarded: $15,000

VIRGINIA

The Arts Center in Orange, Inc.
Orange, VA
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Tourism/District
$5,000
To support a partnership with Orange County Department of Tourism, Four County Players, the Nichols Gallery and Annex, and the James Madison Museum to develop a combined marketing campaign for the arts and culture in the county. An arts festival weekend will include special exhibitions by the various galleries and the Madison Museum, performances by the Players and The Montpelier Singers, and tours of studios that are normally closed to the public. A contest using an Arts Passport, to be stamped by each local venue and then submitted for a major art prize, is one of the strategies in the campaign to promote cultural tourism and raise local awareness of the value of the arts.

New Dixie Theatre, Inc.
Staunton, VA
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Assessment/Planning
$5,000
To support a partnership with the Staunton Downtown Development Association, Shenandoah Shakespeare, Staunton Convention & Visitors Bureau and the R. R. Smith Center for History & Art to create a strategic plan for developing downtown Staunton as an arts and theater destination. A cultural district will increase both community access to the performing and visual arts and help sustain the city's financial base. The strategic plan will present a unified vision of what a cultural district should be, identify challenges and opportunities, and set out roles for each of the major players.

Staunton Fine Arts Association (Staunton Augusta Art Center)
Staunton, VA
PROJECT TYPE: Civic Design
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Staunton-Augusta History and Art Alliance, Historic Staunton Foundation and the Augusta County Historical Society to help renovate an historic building into the R.R. Smith Center for History and Art. The center will be a multi-use facility to promote art and history in the Staunton region including Virginia Museum of Fine Arts affiliated galleries. With its galleries and seven classrooms, the center will enhance the rural region's cultural opportunities and tourism potential while preserving an historic downtown building and improving the visual gateway to the city.

Total Grant Awards: 3
Total Dollars Awarded: $20,000

WASHINGTON

City of Colville
Coleville, WA
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Tourism/District
$5,000
To support a partnership with Colville Community Arts Association, Colville Main Street Foundation, Mysty Mountain Records, Colville Parks & Recreation, and Colville Chamber of Commerce to produce a summer concert series and art exhibit in the city park. Colville, a town of 5,000 in a federally designated distressed timber area, is working to attract tourists and provide a venue for talented local musicians. In its second year, the summer concert series will include Art in the Park, an exhibit of local visual artists' work celebrating the natural beauty of the region.

Gallery One
Ellensburg, WA
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Tourism/District
$10,000
To support a partnership with Clymer Museum of Art, Kittitas County Historical Society, Central Washington University Spurgeon Gallery, and Children's Activity Museum to present and market a multi-site exhibition of dolls. Through an unusual collaboration of five public and private galleries and museums, What a Doll! will feature contemporary art dolls, historic American dolls and Native American doll traditions. Educational events include artist lectures at each of the five sites, workshops in doll-making, a panel discussion, and a performance piece relating to dolls.

Lincoln Theatre Center Foundation
Mount Vernon, WA
PROJECT TYPE: Civic Design
$10,000
To support a partnership with the City of Mount Vernon, the Theatre Arts Guild, the Mount Vernon School District and the Downtown Merchants Association to design the restoration and expansion of the stage area of the 75-year old historic Lincoln Theatre in the heart of rural Skagit County. The redesign will strengthen the theatre's prominent historical significance in the area while improving the quality and variety of its programming for the residents of this rural, isolated community.

Vashon Allied Arts
Vashon Island, WA
PROJECT TYPE: Civic Design
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Island Arts Council, Drama Dock Community Theate, Dance! Vashon, Islewilde!, UMO, Vashon Chamber Orchestra Island Chorale and the Community Center Coalition to develop a cultural facilities plan for the Vashon community. Vashon is a rural, island community with a large number of working artists, making the arts central to the island's character. The cultural facilities plan will serve as a catalyst for a capital campaign to solve longstanding facilities problems, as well as enhance cultural tourism and the quality of life on the island.

Total Grant Awards: 4
Total Dollars Awarded: $35,000

WEST VIRGINIA

Pocahontas Communications Cooperative Corporation
Dunmore, WV
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Tourism/District
$10,000
To support an ongoing partnership with Highland County Arts Council, Allegheny Mountain Radio Arts Partnership, Pendleton County Committee for the Arts, Pocahontas County Convention & Visitors' Bureau, various regional libraries and others to promote the activities of the arts organizations in the Highland area. The non-profit Radio Partnership will provide broadcast marketing as well as technical expertise and equipment for the arts organizations to publicize their activities. The public libraries of this mountainous, rural region serve as conservators through the collection and documentation of local cultural traditions and histories. These and other public programs will be promoted through this project.

Valley Ridge Studio, Inc.
Thomas, WV
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Tourism/District
$10,000
To support an ongoing partnership with Arts Alliance and Tucker County School System to continue the Community Artists Collective. The Collective is a group of six professional artists who work in adjoining studio and performance space, sharing their artistry with the community through workshops, classes, performances, exhibitions and demonstrations. This community project is the latest in a series aimed at supporting the local professional artists while providing the residents and tourists with the benefits of participating in and learning about the arts.

Total Grant Awards: 2
Total Dollars Awarded: $20,000

WISCONSIN

Oconto County Human Services
(on behalf of A.V.E.C./Arts Vitally Enrich Communities)
Oconto, WI
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Tourism/District
$10,000
To support a partnership with A.V.E.C. and local townships to create a series of large murals to attract tourism to this rural area. Highway 32, which cuts through Oconto County and the Nicolet National Forest, provides the venue for the proposed drive-by museum. A.V.E.C. has previous experience working with communities to engage the residents in the design and implementation of public works of art such as the murals.

Total Grant Awards: 1
Total Dollars Awarded: $10,000

WYOMING

Citizens for a Civic Auditorium
Casper, WY
PROJECT TYPE: Civic Design
$10,000
To support a partnership with ARTCORE, the Wyoming Symphony Orchestra, Casper Performing Arts Coalition and the Casper Civic Chorale to develop a design and marketing plan for a new civic auditorium. Casper is a rural area with limited facilities to support cultural and community activities. The new auditorium will provide much needed space for performing arts, community and school functions, enhancing cultural access and the quality of life in this isolated community.

Community Center for the Arts
Jackson, WY
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Tourism/District
$10,000
To support a partnership with Jackson Hole Chamber of Commerce and Cultural Council of Jackson Hole to develop and begin implementing a cultural tourism plan. Arts organizations and the area's business community seek to produce a collaborative effort to foster cultural tourism, using ways to strengthen local artists and arts organizations while preserving the authentic character and history of the community.

Lucius Burch Center for Western Traditions
Dubois, WY
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Tourism/District
$10,000
To support a partnership with Wind River Art Guild, Headwaters Arts and Community Center, Wyoming Council for the Arts, Dubois Cowboy Poetry Group and Dubois Museum Association to promote the area as a cultural tourism destination. As part of this effort, the partnership will present the Wind River Folk Arts and Music Festival featuring cowboy poetry, western music by local performers, Native American cultural traditions and frontier crafts.

The Museum of the American West
(on behalf of Lander Jazz Festival Committee)
Lander, WY
PROJECT TYPE: Cultural Tourism/District
$10,000
To support a partnership with Lander Chamber of Commerce and Rotary Community Foundation of Lander to produce the third annual Lander Jazz Festival. Previous years' festivals have drawn fans of traditional jazz from 15 states to this region. The festival will be managed by local volunteers ranging from the community college music educator who provides technical support for the sound system to those who transport the professional musicians from the airport to their complimentary hotel accommodations.

Wyoming Arts Alliance
Four Corners, WY
PROJECT TYPE: New Technology
$5,000
To support a partnership between the Wyoming Arts Alliance and the Wyoming Arts Council to develop an interactive Web site to link Wyoming Arts Alliance members both in Wyoming and in surrounding states to encourage booking of touring performing arts companies. This Web site would allow small presenters to interact with artists, agents and producers and increase touring engagements in the area, allowing more rural citizens access to quality arts programming.

Total Grant Awards: 5
Total Dollars Awarded: $45,000

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