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.
NEW JERSEY
Camden
Walt Whitman Cultural Arts Center, Inc.
Camden, NJ
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$30,000
To support the expansion of the artist residency and workshop
program. Up to four literary and performing artists will develop
new work with community participation.
Fort Lee
Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company, Inc.
Fort Lee, NJ
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$5,000
To support the presentation of a Beijing Opera dance by Liu Tao.
The work will premiere at the company's Chinese New Year Festival
presented at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center.
New Brunswick
New Brunswick Cultural Center, Inc.
New Brunswick, NJ
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$18,000
To support the State Theatre School-Community Dance Project. This
comprehensive dance immersion experience serves 450 ethnically
diverse sixth graders from low-income neighborhoods.
Newark
Communities In Schools of New Jersey, Inc.
Newark, NJ
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$30,000
To support Studioworks. After-school visual and performing arts
classes and summer arts instruction, as part of job training, will
be offered to youth from low-income, primarily African-American and
Latino neighborhoods in Newark and Montclair, New Jersey.
New Community Corporation (consortium)
Newark, NJ
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk &Traditional Arts
$35,000
To support training of immigrant artists in the marketing of their
artwork culminating in a multicity tour. Artists' work will feature
Indian saris and embroidery, rangoli sandpainting, Tibetan
traditional clothing, Guatemalan weaving, Honduran painting,
Nigerian woodcarving and Ecuadorian basketmaking.
New Jersey Performing Arts Center
Newark, NJ
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$40,000
To support Sounds of the City, a presentation of 12 weekly, free,
outdoor summer concerts in the center's downtown plaza. In 2003,
the concerts will feature diverse musical styles ranging from jazz,
swing and salsa to Cajun and Celtic.
Newark Museum Association
Newark, NJ
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
$100,000
To support the development of the Tibet Information Zone (TIZ). The
project is a multifaceted education/public access initiative that
will increase and deepen understanding of Tibetan art and culture
for youth and family audiences.
Newark Public Radio, Inc. (aka WBGO)
Newark, NJ
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio &TV FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$65,000
To support the production of JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater, a
weekly radio series of jazz concerts. The series is produced by
WBGO/Newark and distributed by NPR to approximately 120 public
radio stations throughout the country.
Trenton
New Jersey State Council on the Arts
Trenton, NJ
CATEGORY: Partnership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State &Regional
$709,700
To support Partnership Agreement activities.
Passage Theatre Company, Inc.
Trenton, NJ
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$20,000
To support the State Street Project. Youth in elementary and middle
school participate in playwriting, poetry, performances and
vocational training in technical theater.
Union
Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company
Union, NJ
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$10,000
To support a tour to Los Angeles, Milwaukee and Miami for the
Creating Cultural Communities on Tour program. The project will
center around Artistic Director Carolyn Dorfman's work Mayne
Mentshn (My People).
New Jersey Total Dollars Awarded: $1,062,700
New Jersey Total Grants Awarded : 11
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