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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.

NEW MEXICO

City of Santa Fe, New Mexico
Santa Fe, NM
$40,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
To support ArtWorks. The program will provide professional development opportunities for classroom teachers and will incorporate professional performances and exhibitions presented by Santa Fe arts organizations.

Cornerstones Community Partnerships
Santa Fe, NM
$30,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design Arts 
To support educational workshops on the preservation of historic adobe structures. The project will train rural community residents in the traditional building methods of their ancestors.

Espanola Public Schools
Espanola, NM
$29,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
To support the Cultural Heritage Videos and Editing Project. Native-American and Hispanic youth will work with adult mentors to produce high quality media about their culture and to share these with the public.

Fine Arts for Children and Teens, Inc.
Santa Fe, NM
$19,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
To support in-depth visual arts education programs. Program components will include ARTreach, an integrated in-school program for students; ARTreach/Professional Development, which combines direct arts instruction for students with hands-on professional development for teachers; ARTclub, arts learning after school; and ARTcamp, a summer arts camp.

Georgia O'Keeffe Museum (consortium)
Santa Fe, NM
$25,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museums 
To support a consortium project to conduct a scientific examination of the technical components of a number of Georgia O'Keeffe's (1887-1986) works in various American museum collections. The project, conducted with the Whitney Museum of American Art, will be the first to investigate the artist's studio practices.

Indian Pueblo Cultural Center, Inc.
Albuquerque, NM
$20,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts 
To support the Cultural Education Program (CEP). The CEP features Pueblo artists in weekly and special-event dances, regular lecture series, art and craft demonstrations, workshops, and festivals.

La Jicarita
Penasco, NM
$20,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts 
To support the production of a public radio series showcasing new writers from across the United States. Calling America will be a weekly series of two-to-three-minute modules of contemporary writers reading their poems, essays, and stories.

Millicent Rogers Museum, Inc.
Taos, NM
$25,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museums 
To support the publication of a catalog of the extensive collection of work by Native American potter Maria Poveka Martinez (1889-1980). The catalog will accompany the expansion and reinstallation of the current Martinez exhibition, scheduled to open in 2006.

Mimbres Region Arts Council, Inc.
Silver City, NM
$20,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
To support the Youth Mural Program. The project offers Saturday programs in eight-week sessions, leading to the creation of public art for up to 300 youth, ages 13-19, who have been through the juvenile justice system.

National Dance Institute of New Mexico
Santa Fe, NM
$35,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
To support dance classes for elementary school students in rural communities throughout northern New Mexico. The program will provide 30 weekly dance classes, four-week residencies, and a final performance that will showcase student work.

Native American Art Scholarship Fund
Silver City, NM
$55,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts 
To support the Lore of the Land Indigenous Aural Historian Training Project. Seven indigenous people from five southwest Native-American tribes will acquire training, equipment skills, and professional credentials as community aural historians.

New Mexico Arts
Santa Fe, NM
$25,000
CATEGORY: Leadership Initiatives  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts 
To support the Folk Arts Apprenticeship and Community Fieldworker Network Programs. Practitioners for the apprenticeship program are sought in the course of the folk arts coordinator's fieldwork and with the assistance of trained lay folklorists or community scholars participating in the Community Fieldworker Network Program.

New Mexico Arts
Santa Fe, NM
$523,100
CATEGORY: Partnership  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional 
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Outside In Productions (consortium)
Santa Fe, NM
$15,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
To support Youth With Promise. The project provides weekly instruction in guitar, dance, and visual arts for juvenile offenders in detention or on probation, in residential treatment centers and shelters.

Spanish Colonial Arts Society, Inc.
Santa Fe, NM
$20,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museums 
To support and increase the scope of education projects in the traditional Hispanic arts. The program is targeted to underserved urban and rural communities in New Mexico. Hispanic artists from the community will be placed in local classrooms and workshops, fostering life-long learning in the arts and the preservation of Hispanic cultural traditions.

Sweet Bird Classics, Inc.
Albuquerque, NM
$30,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
To support Boombox Classroom. The innovative series of radio programs about world and classical music is designed for school districts that have little general music instruction in kindergarten through eighth grade.

Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian
Santa Fe, NM
$15,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museums 
To support the development of appropriate conservation treatments for the collection of Navajo folk art, toys, and pottery. The project will treat as many as 150 high priority objects from the collection.

Working Classroom, Inc.
Albuquerque, NM
$20,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
To support professional training in the visual arts and theater for aspiring young artists. Students from low-income Albuquerque communities will participate in introductory, intermediate, and advanced arts workshops.

NEW MEXICO total grants: 18
NEW MEXICO total dollars: $966,100


 
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