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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.

OREGON

Enterprise

Fishtrap, Inc.
Enterprise, OR
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$10,000
To support writing workshops, discussions and readings for residents of the rural Northwest. Themes for these events will include the changing demographics of the West, the urban-rural divide, aging of rural populations, new immigrants of color and the resurgence of Native-American culture.

Eugene

Eugene Ballet Company
Eugene, OR
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$20,000
To support regional touring in Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington. The tour will consist of performance and outreach programs in rural communities.

McMinnville

Oregon Alliance for Arts Education
McMinnville, OR
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$20,000
To support expansion of the Oregon Teacher Arts Institute. Designed to integrate standards-based arts into the curriculum through professional development workshops and pre-service training in the arts, the program will be expanded to include up to 20 teachers.

Portland

Constitution Project (consortium)
Portland, OR
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$10,000
To support If Walls Could Talk, a project designed to commemorate the contributions of African Americans to New Orleans' history. Working in collaboration with the Ashe Cultural Arts Center, local artists will receive training in digital software applications to be used in the production of a series of large community murals.

IRCO
Portland, OR
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
$50,000
To support the Refugee Elder Traditional Arts Project (RETAP). An intergenerational, multicultural project team will be trained to work with elders from Bosnia, Laos, Romania, Somalia, Sudan, Ukraine and Vietnam to identify and document their traditional arts and present them in a video.

Literary Arts, Inc.
Portland, OR
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$12,000
To support continuation of Writers in the Schools (WITS). The project, targeted to high school students, provides one-day visits by local and touring authors, artist-in-residence mentorships, faculty training sessions, purchase of authors' books as a permanent resource, and student readings and publications.

MediaRites
Portland, OR
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & TV FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$10,000
To support the production of Stories 1st, a series of radio specials and a related online magazine featuring stories by independent radio producers and writers. Stories will be curated around themes such as Earth Day, Summer and Women's History Month, and will be broadcast by public radio stations as specials throughout the year.

Oregon Historical Society
Portland, OR
CATEGORY: Folk Arts Infrastructure FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
$30,000
To support a folklife coordinator's position and related costs. The coordinator will oversee the Folklife/Folk Arts Education Initiative, which will include a summer teacher's institute, outreach to rural artists and communities, and design and development of educational materials.

Oregon Public Broadcasting
Portland, OR
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$55,000
To support development of the Oregon Art Beat in the Schools Web site. The Web-based video archive and online resources for K-12 students and teachers will feature contemporary Oregon artists and associated lesson plans.

Wisdom of the Elders, Inc.
Portland, OR
CATEGORY: Folk Arts Infrastructure FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
$30,000
To support a cultural coordinator position and related costs. Activities will include creating the Turtle Island Storytellers Network, a project designed to identify, employ, archive, and promote Native historians and storytellers.

Wisdom of the Elders, Inc.
Portland, OR
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & TV FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$20,000
To support the production of Turtle Island Storytellers, a series of traditional storytelling segments to be featured on the weekly Native-American radio program Wisdom of the Elders. Twenty-six, eight minute modules will showcase indigenous storytellers from around the country with stories, narration and music.

Salem

Oregon Arts Commission
Salem, OR
CATEGORY: Partnership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
$590,200
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Oregon Total Dollars Awarded: $857,200
Oregon Total Grants Awarded: 12


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