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.

MONTANA

Helena Presents
Helena, MT
$15,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary 
To support Echoes of Discovery. The project is the sixth phase of the Lewis & Clark Bicentennial Project and will support the creation of new multidisciplinary works that respond to the commemoration.

Holter Museum of Art, Inc.
Helena, MT
$24,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
To support an artist-in-residence program. Led by artists from diverse cultures, students in first through 12th grades will create and interact with artwork at the museum, exploring the role of heritage as it shapes personal and cultural identity.

Missoula Writing Collaborative
Missoula, MT
$33,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
To support a writing residency program. The project will place eight writers in separate rural, low-income, and/or tribal reservation schools for eight months to give weekly writing instruction to students, ages seven to 18.

Montana Arts Council
Helena, MT
$619,400
CATEGORY: Partnership  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional 
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

University of Montana (on behalf of Montana Repertory Theatre)
Missoula, MT
$12,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support the development and production of a new play that celebrates rodeo as an integral part of the culture of the American West. Playwright Jim McClure and musician Rob Quist will tour the Montana rodeo circuit to conduct research and collect materials from which to develop a script and score.

Yellowstone National Art Trust
Bozeman, MT
$15,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
To support Cradleboards, Dolls, and Stories. Crow artists Birdie Real Bird and C.T. Walks Over Ice and studio visual artist Maggie Carlson will teach functional and decorative Crow traditional arts including parfleches, cradleboards, dolls, stories, and tribal history.

MONTANA total grants: 6
MONTANA total dollars: $718,400

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