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.

OHIO

Ben-El Child Development Center
Bellefontaine, OH
$29,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
To support YouthWorks, a community-based theater program for children with special or behavioral needs. The youth will develop basic theater skills, such as character development, improvisation, and storytelling, through arts education training sessions held at the Ben-El Partial Hospitalization Center, located in rural Central Ohio.

Cincinnati Museum Association
Cincinnati, OH
$62,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
To support the development and testing of a series of curriculum units connecting works of art with children's literature. The units will engage children in museum visits, as well as preparatory and follow-up activities, and will relate to an overarching theme, incorporating examples of children's literature and works of art.

Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra Association (consortium)
Dayton, OH
$20,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
To support School Partners with Artists Reaching Kids (SPARK). The consortium project will team musicians with classroom teachers from the Kettering City School District to create lesson plans incorporating music concepts into the classroom curriculum.

Ohio Arts Council
Columbus, OH
$20,000
CATEGORY: Leadership Initiatives  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts 
To support continuation of the Ohio Folk Arts Initiative. Core activities will include fieldwork and documentation; continuation of the Ohio Heritage Fellowship Program; presentation of folk and traditional arts at the Cityfolk Festival; expansion and updating of the Web site; and upgrading and operation of the Cityfolk Folklife Resource Center.

Ohio Arts Council
Columbus, OH
$767,200
CATEGORY: Partnership  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional 
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Ohio University Main Campus (on behalf of Kennedy Museum of Art)
Athens, OH
$20,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museums 
To support the installation of the Kennedy Museum's Southwest Native-American collection. The collection is comprised of more than 700 weavings and 1,200 jewelry items representing all major historical periods of Navajo textile and silverwork production.

YS Kids Playhouse, Inc.
Yellow Springs, OH
$10,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
To support a musical theater education project that will engage youth in theater production. Led by artist educators, students will produce and perform alongside professional actors in a full-length, original musical that will explore gender issues of young women.

OHIO total grants: 7
OHIO total dollars: $928,200

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