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.

VERMONT

Craft Emergency Relief Fund, Inc.
Montpelier, VT
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts 
To support expansion of the current Web site for craft artists. The expanded site will include a clearinghouse of information and resources on business planning, risk management, health and safety resources, and disaster prevention.

Flynn Theatre for the Performing Arts, Ltd. (on behalf of Burlington Discover Jazz Festival)
Burlington, VT
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support artist residencies and performances at the Burlington Discover Jazz Festival. Educational activities will include a jazz scholar-in-residence, pre-performance lectures, and dialogues with the performing artists.

Flynn Theatre for the Performing Arts, Ltd. (consortium)
Burlington, VT
$50,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth 
To support Words Come Alive, a consortium project in partnership with the Burlington School District. Summer training, workshops, and classroom collaborations will be featured activities for elementary school teachers in theater and dance, along with performances at Flynn Center for teachers and their classroom students, and utilization of a video and new toolkit that documents and prescribes teaching techniques.

Grass Roots Art and Community Effort
Hardwick, VT
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts 
To support community art workshops and accompanying exhibitions for residents in rural and economically-distressed areas of Vermont. Designed to reach a diverse spectrum of the community including senior citizens, developmentally disabled adults, and children, the project builds on a long history of providing workshops.

Northern Stage Company
White River Junction, VT
$8,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support the production and tour of a play. Judevine by David Budbill will tour to venues throughout the New England region.

Vermont Arts Exchange
North Bennington, VT
$25,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth 
To support the Arts Education Partnership and Outreach Initiative. Developed with local schools and social service agencies, the initiative matches students with artists and art programming at various schools and community centers during the school day, after school, and during the summer months.

Vermont Council on the Arts, Inc.
Montpelier, VT
$584,300
CATEGORY: Partnership  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional 
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Vermont Folklife Center
Middlebury, VT
$20,000
CATEGORY: Folk & Traditional Arts Infrastructure Initiative  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts 
To support continuation of a state-wide Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program and related costs. The program will encourage the preservation of living traditional arts by funding master artists to work with less experienced apprentices in order to convey time-honored skills and knowledge.

Vermont Museum & Gallery Alliance
Woodstock, VT
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum 
To support a consortium project, the Vermont Painted Curtains Project, with an accompanying symposium. In collaboration with the Southern Vermont Art Center, an exhibition drawn from Vermont's collection of more than 145 painted theater curtains will be presented.

Vermont Symphony Orchestra Association, Inc.
Burlington, VT
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support the Made in Vermont Music Festival Tour, a series of educational activities and community concert programs in rural and underserved communities. The project will present children's programs in ten communities, followed by family concerts in each location.

Weston Playhouse Theatre
Weston, VT
$27,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support a multistate tour of Jo Roets' acclaimed adaptation of Cyrano, directed by Liz Diamond, to rural and underserved audiences throughout New England. Targeting communities with no resident theater, the production will be supplemented by study guides, workshops, pre-show lectures, audio description, and ASL interpretation.

VERMONT total grants: 11
VERMONT total dollars: $786,800

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