2003 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access; Arts on Radio & TV; Arts Learning; Folk Arts Infrastructure; Heritage/Preservation; State & Regional Partnership Agreements

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

ALASKA

Anchorage

Alaska Design Forum, Inc.
Anchorage, AK
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
$28,000
To support a lecture and workshop series on the built environment with internationally recognized architects and designers. Lectures will be presented in Anchorage, Fairbanks and Juneau, and workshops will be held in Anchorage.

Alaska Junior Theater, Inc.
Anchorage, AK
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
$15,000
To support the Arts Outreach Program. The project is designed to present performing arts programming to underserved children and families in Anchorage, Kenai, Barrow, Nome and other rural Alaskan communities.

Alaska State Council on the Arts
Anchorage, AK
CATEGORY: Partnership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
$513,200
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Anchorage Opera Company
Anchorage, AK
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
$20,000
To support the Anchorage Opera Studio Theatre, a young artist statewide touring program. In 2003 04 the project will include programs, performances, and residencies in rural communities and in the underserved Anchorage School District.

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

Koahnic Broadcast Corporation
Anchorage, AK
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & TV FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$20,000
To support the production of the weekly radio series Earthsongs. The one-hour program features recordings and live performances of contemporary Native-American music and reaches an estimated audience of nearly 60,000 people per broadcast.

Organization for Northern Development (aka Out North)
Anchorage, AK
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$20,000
To support O.N.T.V. (Out North Teen Visions), a media literacy and production training program for teenagers. Program participants will learn media production skills through workshops, tutorials, mentoring and screenings of other youth media work.

Fairbanks

University of Alaska at Fairbanks
Fairbanks, AK
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
$75,000
To support a residency program for Alaskan artists. The project will expand upon the new Rose Berry Alaskan Art Gallery at the University by bringing in contemporary artists to respond to, and interact with, the permanent collection.

Sitka

Friends of Sheldon Jackson Museum
Sitka, AK
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
$15,000
To support the Native Artist Demonstrator Program. Alaska Native artists will demonstrate and interpret art forms found in the museum collection including wood, ivory and silver carving, drum making, beading, skin sewing, and basket and textile weaving.

Sitka Summer Music Festival, Inc.
Sitka, AK
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$13,000
To support concert tours of chamber music in cities and rural communities of Alaska. The concerts will serve communities in Anchorage, Dillingham, Juneau, Kotzebue, Nome, Pelican, Petersburg and Sitka.

Alaska Total Dollars Awarded: $744,200
Alaska Total Grants Awarded: 10

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