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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.

OHIO

Akron Art Museum
Akron, OH
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum 
To support the reinstallation of the permanent collection in renovated and new gallery space. The project will give visitors, for the first time, permanent access to the museum's major paintings and sculptures.

American Folklore Society
Columbus, OH
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts 
To support a documentary of public sector folklorists Bess Lomax Hawes, Alan Jabbour, Archie Green, and the late Ralph Rinzler. The DVD will focus on public sector folk arts programs at the federal level.

Ben-El Child Development Center
Urbana, OH
$25,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth 
To support Youthworks, a theater program for children and youth with special or behavioral needs. Students will develop critical thinking skills and knowledge of the theater in areas such as character development, improvisation, and storytelling.

Canton Symphony Orchestra Association
Canton, OH
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support school performances and young people's concerts. Plans include small ensembles performing in 20 elementary and middle schools in Canton, and two young people's concerts.

Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Cincinnati, OH
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support Coming Together - A Wave of Progress, a community engagement program. Plans include organization-wide initiatives and programs that will build artistic partnerships within the African American and Latino communities.

Cityfolk, Inc.
Dayton, OH
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting 
To support the annual Cityfolk Festival. A three-day free arts event offers a wide variety of music by the world's most accomplished traditional musicians, as well as world-renowned traditional visual artists and dance companies.

Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra Association
Dayton, OH
$20,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth 
To support School Partners with Artists Reaching Kids (SPARK). The project will team musicians with classroom teachers from area elementary schools to create lesson plans incorporating music concepts into the classroom curricula.

Fine Arts Association Willoughby (on behalf of The Corning Theatre)
Willoughby, OH
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support the production of a contemporary play. Fabio Polanco will direct the production of Necessary Targets by Eve Ensler.

GroundWorks Dancetheater
Cleveland Hts, OH
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support a series of outreach activities. The project will include expansion of an intergenerational project with The Fairhill Center for Aging and The Intergenerational School, and the establishment of an annual workshop residency with the University of Akron Dance Institute.

Mad River Theater Works
West Liberty, OH
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater 
To support the creation of a play based on local history and folklore in collaboration with students and their families, teachers, and members of the public. The play will tour to non-traditional settings throughout Ohio and surrounding states.

Ohio Arts Council
Columbus, OH
$20,000
CATEGORY: Folk & Traditional Arts Infrastructure Initiative  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts 
To support continuation of the Ohio Folk Arts Initiative. Core activities will include fieldwork and documentation, the Ohio Heritage Fellowship Program, presentation of folk and traditional artists at the Cityfolk Festival, and support of archival activities for folk arts material collected throughout the state.

Ohio Arts Council
Columbus, OH
$738,300
CATEGORY: Partnership  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional 
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Ohio Department of Education
Columbus, OH
$50,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth 
To support the Summer Institute for Arts Partners (AP Institute). The project will involve teams of practitioners and school administrators who will focus on academic content standards and curriculum development and assessment, as well as the development of effective partnerships with community leaders and artists.

Professional Flair, Inc. (Dancing Wheels) (consortium)
Cleveland, OH
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support a consortium project to tour a national festival of integrated dance. AXIS Dance Company from Oakland, California will collaborate with Dancing Wheels on the planning and implementation of the festival.

Professional Flair, Inc. (Dancing Wheels)
Cleveland, OH
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support the creation and presentation of a full-length work about Helen Keller, a new student piece, and the commissioning of a full-ensemble piece by choreographer Alison Becker Chase. The project will involve dancers and students with, and without, disabilities.

Young Audiences of Greater Cleveland, Inc.
Cleveland, OH
$35,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth 
To support American Roots. The project focuses on the integration of popular music, dance, and the visual arts with an elementary social studies curriculum.

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

 

OHIO total grants: 17
OHIO total dollars: $1,088,300


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