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.
TEXAS
Austin Symphony Orchestra Society, Inc.
Austin, TX
$20,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support the String Fellows Program. Designed to revitalize
Austin public high school orchestral programs, the project will
place teachers and students in strings workshops and sectionals
with a quartet of Austin Symphony Orchestra musicians.
Creative Opportunity Orchestra, Inc.
Austin, TX
$20,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support Circle of Light. During a weeklong residency in
elementary schools, students will participate in 90-minute,
grade-specific arts workshops in the context of holiday traditions
and practices.
Dallas Museum of Art
Dallas, TX
$29,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support the Artist-in-Residence Partnership. Professional
artists will develop interrelated arts education activities in
dance, music, visual arts, theater, and writing that will be
incorporated into the curricula of two arts magnet schools
Fotofest, Inc. (consortium)
Houston, TX
$60,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support Literacy Through Photography. Through a consortium
partner, Project GRAD Houston, a new curriculum in computer
graphics and literary arts for high school students and classroom
teachers will be implemented.
Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center
San Antonio, TX
$37,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Multidisciplinary
To support Epoca de Oro: The Golden Age of Mexican Cinema. The
multidisciplinary project will examine the impact of Mexican film
on Mexican, Chicano, and Latino heritage and culture.
Judd Foundation
Marfa, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Museums
To support the first phase of research and cataloging of American
artist Donald Judd's (1928-94) archives. This initial stage will
lead to a catalogue raisonne of the artist's life's
work.
Junior Players Guild
Dallas, TX
$13,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support expansion of free theater education programs for youth.
Programs will include the two-week, summer Discover Theater and
Shakespeare camps, and a production of a Shakespeare play produced
in cooperation with the Shakespeare Festival of Dallas.
Pegasus Musical Society
Dallas, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Music
To support concerts celebrating the 300th anniversary of the birth
of Francisco Courcelle (1705-78), principal composer of the
18th-century Court of Spain. Conducted by music director Grover
Wilkins, the Orchestra of New Spain will perform concerts in Dallas
as well as outreach to other communities.
SAMSKRITI, Society for Indian Performing Arts
(on behalf of Anjali Center for Performing
Arts)
Houston, TX
$10,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support workshops in the classical Indian dance forms of
bharatanatyam and kuchipudi . Anjali Center for
Performing Arts' professional dancers who live in the United
States, as well as artists visiting from India, will teach children
and youth ages four and older who are largely from families in the
Indian immigrant community.
SAY Si
San Antonio, TX
$14,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support the High School Visual Arts Program. Urban youth will
study a variety of visual arts media and create commissioned
artwork, in this tuition-free, year-round visual and media arts
program.
Texas Commission on the Arts
Austin, TX
$791,200
CATEGORY: Partnership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State &
Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.
Texas Folklife Resources
Austin, TX
$20,000
CATEGORY: Leadership Initiatives FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk
& Traditional Arts
To support a folklorist position and related costs.
Responsibilities include fieldwork and folk arts project planning
with African-American and Mexican-American community-based
organizations in the underserved counties of Brazoria and
Hidalgo.
Texas Public Radio
San Antonio, TX
$20,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and
Television FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the weekly public radio jazz series Riverwalk, Live
From the Landing. Distributed by Public Radio International to 147
stations nationwide, each hour-long program combines live
performance with interviews, oral histories, and historical
recordings to celebrate important artists and eras in jazz
Van Cliburn Foundation, Inc.
Fort Worth, TX
$35,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and
Television FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production of a television special chronicling the
12th Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. The festival is
dedicated to the discovery of the world's finest young
pianists.
Writers In the Schools (WITS)
Houston, TX
$57,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support Urban Stories: Who I Am, Who We Are. In this creative
writing residency program, students from Houston's diverse
immigrant population will share their stories with a WITS resident
writer and classmates, reflecting on themselves and their cultural
identity as they improve their reading and writing skills.
Young Audiences of North Texas, Inc.
(consortium)
Dallas, TX
$45,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support Early Learning Through the Arts--the North Texas
Wolf Trap Program. The consortium project will feature a series of
professional development workshops for artists and teachers to
acquire skills from the nationally recognized Wolf Trap Institute
for Early Learning Through the Arts.
TEXAS total grants: 16
TEXAS total dollars: $1,191,200
National Endowment for the Arts · an independent federal agency
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