2004 Grant Awards: State Listings

Arts on Radio and Television/Folk Arts Infrastructure/Heritage & Preservation/Learning in the Arts/Partnerships

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

GEORGIA

Atlanta Partnership for Arts in Learning, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
To support partnerships that will link teachers and students to artists and arts resources. Teachers will receive 25 hours of professional development in methods for increasing students' capicity by infusing arts into the curricula of other subjects.

Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$17,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
To support the Youth Art Connection Media Arts Program. Middle and high school-aged youth participating in the program will develop skills in the use of digital design, video, photography, and music technology.

Center for Puppetry Arts
Atlanta, GA
$38,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
To support a puppetry production and associated educational activities. Students in kindergarten through sixth grades will attend the performances of an original work, The Adventures of Mighty Bug, and also participate in pre- and post-performance educational workshops and museum activities.

Emory University (on behalf of General Libraries)
Atlanta, GA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support a conference on the life and musical legacy of composer, conductor, and educator William Levi Dawson (1899-1990). The four-day program will include performances of Dawson's choral, orchestral, and chamber works; conversations with scholars about his music; and discussions with noted composers and performers.

Georgia Council for the Arts
Atlanta, GA
$652,600
CATEGORY: Partnership  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional 
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Georgia State University (on behalf of Center for Educational Partnerships in Music)
Atlanta, GA
$52,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
To support Sound Learning, a project that integrates music education with core academic curriculum for approximately 1,600 students in the greater Atlanta region. In partnership with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the program will engage local musicians to serve as music mentors for students while working with teachers to develop lesson plans.

IndepenDANCE, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
To support Stepping Stones. The program will provide homeless, refugee, and low-income children with dance instruction. Students will learn fundamental dance techniques and present short dance pieces, using dance as a creative tool for personal development in areas such as self-expression and self-discipline.

Southern Arts Federation, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$1,180,500
CATEGORY: Partnership  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional 
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Wholistic Stress Control Institute, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
To support SIMBA (Saturday Institute for Manhood, Brotherhood Actualization). The 13-year-old multidisciplinary art program will provide spoken-word poetry and drawing classes to incarcerated youth at the Metro Regional Youth Detention Center.

GEORGIA total grants: 9
GEORGIA total dollars: $2,020,100

National Endowment for the Arts · an independent federal agency
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Washington, DC 20506