2002 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access/Arts Learning/Arts on Radio & Television/ Challenge America Access/ Heritage-Preservation/ Leadership Initiatives/Partnership Agreements

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

COLORADO

Arvada Council for the Arts and Humanities
Arvada, CO
$10,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support a children's theater production and associated Arts Day events. The Arvada Center will host approximately 32,000 students for three-hour visits that include a professional performance based on a popular children's literary work, backstage tours and drama workshops, and related exposure in areas such as dance, visual arts, history and environmental education.

Colorado Council on the Arts
Denver, CO
$613,100
CATEGORY: Partnership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Denver Center for the Performing Arts
Denver, CO
$30,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support the Living History educational program for middle and high school students. Professional theater artists perform scenes from productions of the Denver Center Theatre Company, then tailor workshops to augment class curriculum in two ­ to ­ 10 day residencies.

International Tap Association
Boulder, CO
$10,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support Tap 2003, a project examining the legacy and future of the art of tap. The project will bring together four generations of tap artists to examine the aesthetic, philosophical and practical issues for the field.

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

Western States Arts Federation
Denver, CO
$1,245,600
CATEGORY: Partnership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Young Audiences Inc., Denver Area Chapter
Denver, CO
$15,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support The Aesthetic Education Institute of Colorado. Components include professional development for teachers and artists, curriculum planning based on infusion of the arts, and an artist-in-residence program.

Total Dollars Awarded: $1,943,700
Total Grants Awarded: 7

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