2005 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access to Artistic Excellence II/American Masterpieces/
Folk Arts Infrastructure/Learning in the Arts/Partnerships

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

MASSACHUSETTS

Atlantic Public Media (on behalf of Transom) (consortium)
Woods Hole, MA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts 
To support Transom.org. The project encourages both emerging and experienced independent audio producers to tell their stories on public radio.

Boston Conservatory
Boston, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support the staging of reconstructions of Murray Louis and Martha Graham works by Boston Conservatory Dance Theater students. The Murray Louis works include Schubert Suite, Index, and Four Brubeck Pieces, and the work by Martha Graham is Dark Meadow.

Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Inc.
Roslindale, MA
$18,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support CD recordings of works by American composers. Each of the four new CD recordings will represent either a premiere release or a new release of an out-of-print recording.

Boston University
Boston, MA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth 
To support the Young Artists Orchestra and Young Arts Wind Ensemble programs of the Tanglewood Institute. High school musicians will receive individual music instruction and ensemble opportunities through rehearsals and performances, master classes, and coaching sessions led by resident artists and ensembles such as the Synergy Quintet and Vento Chiaro Wind Quartet.

Celebrity Series of Boston
Boston, MA
$12,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support What Makes It Great?, Family Musik performances, and community concerts. In celebration of the 10th year of Celebrity Series programs by Robert Kapilow, three What Makes It Great? programs, three Family Musik performances, and three free community concerts are planned.

Community Music School of Springfield, Inc. (consotium)
Springfield, MA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth 
To support the continuation of Preludes. The professional development program for early childhood education teachers is designed to provide a sequentially based music curriculum supported by in-classroom co-teaching with music specialists, basic music skill training, and movement skills development.

Education Development Center, Inc.
Newton, MA
$60,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth 
To support SmART Schools. The standards-based, comprehensive, school-reform initiative will promote Teaching for Understanding, an arts-infused K-12 curriculum used since 1999 in Rhode Island and New Hampshire schools.

Federated Dorchester Neighborhood Houses, Inc. (on behalf of Art a la Carte)
Dorchester, MA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth 
To support visual and performing arts workshops and the Advanced Art/Portfolio Class. The after-school and summer workshops will culminate in gallery shows and performances, and a weekend workshop designed to assist students with their portfolios and applications to art schools and colleges.

Fund for Boston Neighborhoods, Inc. (on behalf of Mayor's Office of Arts. Tourism and Special Events)
Boston, MA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts 
To support the folk and traditional arts component of the Boston Arts Festival. The project will consist of day-long performances from artists such as the Roma Band, Chinese Lion dancers, Trinidadian costume makers, and craft demonstrations such as Gullah basketmaking, Vietnamese dressmaking, and Tibetan thangka painting.

Fund for Women Artists, Inc.
Florence, MA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary 
To support the WomenArts Network, an online service designed to increase hiring, funding, and public awareness of women artists nationally. The project provides access to artists' contact information and descriptions of their work.

Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras
Boston, MA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth 
To support expansion of the Intensive Community Program that will provide string-instrument and jazz training targeted for lower-income youth. The orchestra will add another class of approximately 16 talented students to the program.

Longy School of Music
Cambridge, MA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth 
To support SCORE (Scholarship & Community Outreach: Reaching Excellence). The program will provide economically disadvantaged youth from the greater Boston area with significantly subsidized music lessons and opportunities to attend musical performances and education programs in the region's public schools.

Massachusetts Cultural Council
Boston, MA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Folk & Traditional Arts Infrastructure Initiative  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts 
To support expansion of the Folk Arts and Heritage Program. Core program activities will include fieldwork, artist grants, Traditional Arts Apprenticeships and a statewide traveling exhibition titled Keepers of Tradition: Folk Arts in Massachusetts.

Massachusetts Cultural Council
Boston, MA
$677,000
CATEGORY: Partnership  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional 
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art Foundation, Inc.
North Adams, MA
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary 
To support Becoming Animal, a thematic series of exhibitions, performing and media arts events investigating the many complex levels of commonality between humans and animals. Outreach activities will include lectures, symposia, school and library events, a free pass program, and museum tours.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Boston, MA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum 
To support the publication of a series of guidebooks highlighting areas of the museum's encyclopedic permanent collection. Each volume will introduce audiences to important works of art in an approachable manner, providing broad access to the collections.

New England Conservatory of Music
Boston, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support the preservation of music scores by leading jazz composers over the past 50 years. Works by artists such as NEA Jazz Masters George Russell, Cecil Taylor, Gunther Schuller, Jaki Byard, Jimmy Giuffre, Bob Brookmeyer, Steve Lacy, and Ran Blake will be made accessible through the New England Conservatory Jazz Archive.

New England Foundation for the Arts
Boston, MA
$860,600
CATEGORY: Partnership  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional 
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

New Repertory Theatre, Inc.
Newton Highlands, MA
$12,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support the New Rep On Tour program. Dramatic works will tour to middle and high schools throughout Massachusetts and New Hampshire.

Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockridge, Inc.
Stockbridge, MA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum 
To support the preservation of the collection of nitrate negatives. The project will preserve, through digital replication, the collection of negatives, which are central to the archives of one of America's most famous illustrators.

Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockridge, Inc.
Stockridge, MA
$140,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum 
To support the touring exhibition American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell (1894 - 1978), with accompanying catalogue and education materials. This will be a moderately-sized exhibition, targeted toward underserved audiences, revealing Rockwell's artistic legacy as a reflection of 20th century American life and ideals.

Northeast Document Conservation Center
Andover, MA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum 
To support a one-year internship in paper conservation. The intern will also be trained to provide technical assistance in collections care to smaller museums in the region.

Partners for Youth with Disabilities, Inc.
Boston, MA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth 
To support Access to Theater, a program for disabled youth in the Boston area. Under the direction of professional artists, youth will be engaged in arts education experiences through fully accessible, participatory theater work.

Peabody Essex Museum, Inc.
Salem, MA
$150,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum 
To support the touring exhibit Joseph Cornell: Navigating the Imagination, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibit will examine Cornell's (1903-1972) love of exploration and possibilities, realized through his rich and varied shadow box assemblages.

Project STEP, Inc.
Boston, MA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth 
To support the continuation of the String Training and Educational Program (STEP). Targeting gifted, at-risk youth, the program provides private lessons, classroom instruction and master classes, performance opportunities, academic and career counseling, and musical instrument loans.

Shakespeare & Company, Inc.
Lenox, MA
$27,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth 
To support Shakespeare in Action, a theater arts residency program. The series of classroom and after-school sessions will focus on a Shakespeare play through master classes, rehearsals, text analysis, and student performances.

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
Williamstown, MA
$65,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum 
To support the publication of a catalogue of the 19th-century European paintings in the permanent collection. The paintings are the last major collections in an American museum to be documented in a publication.

University of Massachusetts at Amherst (on behalf of Juniper Initiative)
Amherst, MA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature 
To support the Juniper Initiative, featuring literary programming that reaches out to locales throughout the Connecticut River Valley. The initiative will feature a Visiting Writers Series and the Juniper Festival, an annual gathering of 400-600 readers, writers, editors, and independent publishers.

WGBH Educational Foundation
Boston, MA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support Art of the States, a radio and online distribution service of contemporary music. The service will provide monthly radio programs to broadcasters nationally and internationally, as well as a growing collection of works presented through its Web site.

Williams College (on behalf of Museum of Art)
Williamstown, MA
$100,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum 
To support the touring exhibition Moving Pictures: American Art and Early Film, 1880 - 1910, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will explore the relationship between American art and the new art of film at the turn of the 20th century.

Writers' Room of Boston, Inc.
Boston, MA
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature 
To support subsidized work space for emerging writers in Boston. The project will provide 40 authors with work space 24 hours a day.

Young at Heart Chorus, Incorporated
Northampton, MA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater 
To support the production and tour of two musicals. The Chorus will tour the repertory works Road to Heaven and Road to Nowhere to states in the Midwest, and on the West Coast.

MASSACHUSETTS total grants: 32
MASSACHUSETTS total dollars: $2,647,100

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