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.

WASHINGTON

Bellingham

Northwest Indian College
Bellingham, WA
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
$25,000
To support the Native American Women & Girls Conference. The three-day conference is designed to keep alive the Coast Salish art of basketry by passing the skills from elders to young people.

Bremerton

Admiral Theatre Foundation
Bremerton, WA
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$10,000
To support the presentation of a play in collaboration with Missoula Children's Theatre. A team of two actor/directors from the Missoula Children's Theatre will conduct a weeklong workshop to develop and present a full-scale children's production with cast members selected from the community.

Lynden

Lynden Heritage Foundation
Lynden, WA
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
$8,000
To support a commission and residency for contemporary American artist Patrick Dougherty (b. 1945), with an accompanying brochure. Dougherty will create a public, site-specific installation in downtown Lynden's Centennial Park.

Olympia

Washington State Arts Commission
Olympia, WA
CATEGORY: Partnership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
$603,400
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Washington State Arts Commission
Olympia, WA
CATEGORY: Folk Arts Infrastructure FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
$25,000
To support the creation of a statewide Latino Infrastructure Initiative. Fieldwork and community meetings will take place statewide, identifying artists and establishing support networks.

Port Townsend

New Old Time Chautauqua
Port Townsend, WA
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$6,000
To support artist residencies and the presentation of theater works in rural communities throughout Idaho, Montana and Washington. Artist/teachers will collaborate with local arts and civic agencies in up to five locations to present community-participatory performance events.

Seattle

911 Media Arts Center (consortium)
Seattle, WA
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$25,000
To support New Voices 3.0, a mentoring program that provides emerging film and video makers the opportunity to create broadcast-quality short documentaries for public television. Working with KCTS, the PBS affiliate in Seattle, 911 selects up to ten producers to participate in New Voices.

911 Media Arts Center (on behalf of Reel Girls)
Seattle, WA
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$15,000
To support continuation of Reel Girls. This after-school media program, designed and targeted for teenage girls, will involve rigorous after-school and weekend programs to explore media literacy, gender identity and video production.

Arts and Visually Impaired Audiences
Seattle, WA
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$25,000
To support the Blind Youth and Adult Audio Project. The series of workshops introduces visually impaired people to the creative possibilities and latest techniques of audio production while they design their own radio program.

Book-It Repertory Theatre
Seattle, WA
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$10,000
To support the Book-It All Over (BIAO) education and outreach program that presents literature based theater to K-12 students. The BIAO reaches audiences at schools, libraries and community centers throughout Washington State through performances, hands-on workshops and residencies.

City of Seattle, Washington Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs
Seattle, WA
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
$13,000
To support the publication of Public Art 101. The project is a guide to developing and implementing public art programs and projects.

Ethnic Heritage Council
Seattle, WA
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
$30,000
To support the creation or development of after-school programs in various folk and traditional art forms. Programs will include instruction in Cambodian classical music, mariachi music and wood carving.

Jack Straw Memorial Foundation (aka Jack Straw Foundation)
(on behalf of Reel Women Productions)
Seattle, WA
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & TV FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$10,000
To support a documentary radio series that will profile objects held in museums that are rarely or never displayed. The Hidden Treasures Radio Project is intended for National Public Radio's Morning Edition or Public Radio International's Studio 360.

Jack Straw Memorial Foundation (aka Jack Straw Foundation) (consortium)
Seattle, WA
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$55,000
To support Family Celebrations. The radio project will include the development of a curriculum focused on family oral histories and student-created audio vignettes about family and community celebrations.

Seattle Arts & Lectures
Seattle, WA
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$50,000
To support the expansion of Writers in the Schools (WITS). Components of this Seattle public schools literary arts program include teacher training, classroom residencies by established and emerging writers, student readings and publications, and community activities.

Seattle Center Foundation
Seattle, WA
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$8,000
To support the Seattle Center Academy. Middle school students will work directly with professional artists from the region during the intensive, summer arts education program.

Seattle International Children's Festival
Seattle, WA
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
$40,000
To support the expansion of education and outreach programs. The Children's Festival will increase in-school activities, programs for the general public and satellite Festival activities.

Seattle Repertory Theatre (consortium)
Seattle, WA
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$25,000
To support expansion of the professional development program, Bringing Theater Into the Classroom. Ongoing workshops and classroom residencies will be added to the weeklong summer workshop for K-12 classroom teachers.

Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Inc. (consortium)
Seattle, WA
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$65,000
To support outreach performances and educational events for underserved communities. The orchestra with the Texaco-Sphinx competition winner as guest soloist will perform concerts in the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center, New Hope Baptist Church and Benaroya Hall.

Seattle Theatre Group
Seattle, WA
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$17,000
To support DANCE this... The project will feature dance training and cross-cultural workshops for youth, a commissioned work by a visiting choreographer and local youth-company dance performances in traditional and contemporary styles.

Town Hall Association
Seattle, WA
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
$20,000
To support a series of performances and educational programs. The multicomponent project will focus on world, traditional, and folk music and dance, as well as cultural preservation issues and artist conversations.

Tribes Project, Inc.
Seattle, WA
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$10,000
To support a high school production of original plays on the theme of race created by a multi-ethnic youth ensemble. A cast of 12 to 16 students will be recruited to perform approximately 15 shows throughout Seattle and a 12-show tour around the Pacific Northwest region.

University of Washington (on behalf of Burke Museum)
Seattle, WA
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
$30,000
To support the creation of a Web site on totem pole art. The project is part of a multiyear effort to create a comprehensive and widely accessible visual database of Northwest Coast Native-American art.

University of Washington (on behalf of Burke Museum) (consortium)
Seattle, WA
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
$25,000
To support the commissioning of two totem poles. The poles will interpret the Kaats grizzly bear legend of the Saanyakwan Tlingit and will replace the grizzly bear house posts recently repatriated by the museum.

Wing Luke Memorial Foundation
Seattle, WA
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$25,000
To support Learning the Past, Living the Present: Sikh Community, Culture and Conversation. This project will generate oral histories and visual artworks that will form the basis for a traveling exhibition.

Youth in Focus
Seattle, WA
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$12,000
To support Introduction to Black and White Photography, a series of small, individualized after-school classes for urban teens. The project will include after-school photography classes at the Youth in Focus gallery and darkroom and field trips to local museums and galleries.

Spokane

Spokane Symphony Society
Spokane, WA
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$10,000
To support regional concerts in underserved communities. The Spokane Symphony will perform orchestral concerts for rural and low-income residents in Washington and Idaho.

Tacoma

Greater Tacoma Community Foundation
(on behalf of Cultural Council of Greater Tacoma)
Tacoma, WA
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$25,000
To support Arts Impact. This ongoing program is designed to improve classroom teaching skills in the visual and performing arts for kindergarten through grade eight teachers.

Vashon Island

Washington Total Dollars Awarded: $1,230,400
Washington Total Grants Awarded: 29

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