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.
CONNECTICUT
Hartford
Artists Collective, Inc.
Hartford, CT
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$40,000
To support music and dance training for students, including
performance opportunities with dance ensembles and a Youth Jazz
Orchestra. The project will include master classes and workshops in
dance and music for students.
Connecticut Commission on the Arts
Hartford, CT
CATEGORY: Partnership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
$594,000
To support Partnership Agreement activities.
Connecticut Historical Society
Hartford, CT
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
$25,000
To support the exhibition Truly American: Discovering the
Connecticut Furniture of Eliphalet Chapin and his
Contemporaries, with accompanying catalog and education
programs. The exhibition will focus on Chapin's 18th century
cabinetmaking and its place within central Connecticut and early
American furniture making.
Institute for Community Research, Inc.
Hartford, CT
CATEGORY: Folk Arts Infrastructure FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk &
Traditional Arts
$25,000
To support the basic costs of the statewide folk arts program,
including the partial salary of the program director. Program
activities include fieldwork, documentation, technical assistance
and special projects in education and marketing.
Institute for Community Research, Inc.
Hartford, CT
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk &
Traditional Arts
$20,000
To support the Southern New England Apprenticeship Project. The
sixth year of the project will continue to bring together master
artists and apprentices from Massachusetts, Rhode Island and
Connecticut, adding new artists located through ongoing fieldwork
in the region.
Real Art Ways, Inc. (consortium)
Hartford, CT
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$40,000
To support events focusing on contemporary work by Puerto Rican
artists. The series will feature a visual art exhibition, musical
performances, films, literary events and a youth arts
component.
Middlebury
Pomperaug Regional School District No. 15 (consortium)
Middlebury, CT
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$70,000
To support professional training of arts educators and resident
artists throughout the state of Connecticut. During weeklong summer
institutes, participants will learn the systematic approach to
developing standards-based arts curricula and classroom instruction
units.
New Haven
Connecticut Architecture Foundation, Inc (aka CAF)
(on behalf of Architecture Resource Center)
New Haven, CT
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$12,000
To support design and implementation of a professional development
model. Twenty, fifth-grade teachers will broaden their design
knowledge, skills and resource bases as part of the implementation
of New Haven's Cultural Landscape: its changing people and
places.
New Haven Family Alliance, Inc. (on behalf of Family
Support Centers)
New Haven, CT
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$10,000
To support Lifting Voices, Quilting Lives. Youth living in New
Haven's public housing developments will compile stories and
recollections from community members and, from this compilation of
experiences, will illustrate life in the neighborhood by painting
images on fabric.
Yale University (on behalf of Yale University Art
Gallery)
New Haven, CT
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$35,000
To support Between the Wars: Modernism in American Art. The
professional development institute will help high school teachers
use an object-based, interdisciplinary approach to teaching core
subjects.
Orange
Sylvan House, Inc. (on behalf of Ghostlight Films)
Orange, CT
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & TV FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$100,000
To support the development and production of a television series on
the history of the Broadway musical. Broadway: The American
Musical, a co-production of Ghostlight Films and WNET/New York,
will be a six-part series intended for national PBS broadcast.
Stamford
Stamford Theatre Works, Inc.
Stamford, CT
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$8,000
To support a production of A Lesson Before Dying by
Romulus Linney, directed by Patricia Floyd. Funds will be used for
marketing and publicity initiatives surrounding the theater's
annual celebration of Black History Month.
Connecticut Total Dollars Awarded: $979,000
Connecticut Total Grants Awarded: 12
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