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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.

CONNECTICUT

Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art
Ridgefield, CT
$17,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support the continuation of the Student Docent Program. Since 1993, the program has provided opportunities for youth to lead their peers in discussions on contemporary art through the museum's permanent and traveling exhibitions.

Artists Collective
Hartford, CT
$11,000
CATEGORY: Leadership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the continuation of JazzNet, a jointly funded initiative with the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. Designed to increase commissioning, residencies and educational programming through 13 regional presenters, JazzNet encourages individual artists and ensembles by providing creation funds, touring support, artists' residencies and access to shared workspace.

Artists Collective, Inc.
Hartford, CT
$30,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support training and performance opportunities in dance and music. Designed to bring youth together from different ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds, the youth participate, celebrate and share the art and culture of the African Diaspora with the greater Hartford region.

Connecticut Architecture Foundation
(on behalf of Architecture Resource Center)
$15,000
New Haven, CT RY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the publication Hartford: Making of a Capital. The project encompasses a design based, interdisciplinary, cultural heritage education program and curriculum materials for middle schools.

Connecticut Commission on the Arts
Hartford, CT
$594,100
CATEGORY: Partnership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

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

Education Connection (consortium)
Litchfield, CT
$10,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support Project Poetry Live! This integrated arts education program for seventh-grade students, provides opportunities for youth to work alongside professional artists of diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds.

Institute for Community Research, Inc.
Hartford, CT
$20,000
CATEGORY: Leadership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the basic costs of the statewide folk arts program including the partial salary of the program director. Core programs activities include fieldwork, documentation, technical assistance and special projects in education and marketing.

Institute for Community Research, Inc.
Hartford, CT
$20,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the fifth year of the Southern New England Apprenticeship Project. The project will link artists to members of their ethnic group in other locations, and will enhance public activities in ethnic and occupational communities shared by artists in Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts.

Lyme Historical Society (on behalf of the Florence Griswold Museum)
Old Lyme, CT
$5,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a planning project to develop a furnishings plan for the 1817 Florence Griswold House, now an art museum and National Historic Landmark. The plan will form the basis for a long term exhibition portraying the house's former role as a boarding house for artists, circa 1905-1915, and the center of the Lyme Art Colony.

Music and Arts Center for Humanity, Inc.
Bridgeport, CT
$20,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support continuation of the Cultural Alternatives Initiative. The initiative provides comprehensive and sequential in-school, out-of-school, and summer art programs for youth with special needs.

Stamford Theatre Works, Inc.
Stamford, CT
$12,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of Flyin' West by Pearl Cleage. The company will present Flyin' West in celebration of Black History month.

Sylvan House, Inc. (on behalf of Ghostlight Films)
Orange, CT
$100,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & Television FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the development and production of a television series on the history of the Broadway musical. Broadway: The American Musical will be a six-part series intended for national PBS broadcast.

Wadsworth Atheneum
Hartford, CT
$20,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support Hand-in-Hand: Art & Writing at the Wadsworth Atheneum. Designed for at-risk fifth-grade students, the Hand-in-Hand program uses the museum's permanent collection and special exhibitions to strengthen students' skills in observation and verbal and written communications.

Total Dollars Awarded: $899,100
Total Grants Awarded: 14


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