FY 2006 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access to Artistic Excellence II/Arts on Radio and Television/
Folk & Traditional Arts Infrastructure/Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth/Partnership Agreements

Some details of the projects listed in this grant announcement are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

VIRGINIA

Arlington County Cultural Affairs Division
Arlington, VA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support expansion of Hereabouts, a folk arts education program. Activities will include training both traditional artists and K-12 teachers in presenting traditional arts in classrooms.

Association of Writers & Writing Programs (aka AWP)
Fairfax, VA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the production, printing, and distribution of The Writer's Chronicle and the AWP Job List, continued development of the AWP Web site, and the 2006 AWP Conference in Atlanta, Georgia. AWP will promote the publications and annual conference through a 200,000-piece direct mail campaign.

Daily Poetry Association (aka Poetry Daily)
Charlottesville, VA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the expansion of the online publication Poetry Daily. The journal features a new poem every day of the year, as well as criticism and links to contemporary poetry and poets.

Folkstreams, Inc.
Delaplane, VA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support expansion of the Folkstreams.net Web site. The site will include additinal films and videos about American traditional arts and culture with supporting materials about the artistic, social, and cultural importance of the work.

Jefferson Center Foundation, Ltd. (aka Jefferson Center)
Roanoke, VA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the North American Festival of Traditional Arts. The festival will feature traditional music ensembles from the United States, Canada, and Mexico in a trinational tour as well as workshops, educational programs, the production of an audio CD/DVD, and a trilingual interpretive program booklet.

Piedmont Environmental Council
Warrenton, VA
$52,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support community forums and design tools for the redesign of Tysons Corner, Virginia. Civic groups, residents, business leaders, and officials will discuss methods to redesign the area around a new light rail system.

Richmond Ballet (aka Richmond Ballet, the State Ballet of Virginia) (Consortium)
Richmond, VA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support a consortium project titled Minds in Motion, which introduces students to dance movement, performance skills, and choreography. Created in partnership with the Virginia Historical Society, the year-round program will be offered to as many as 16 elementary schools with 1,300 4th-grade students.

University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA
$44,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support a traveling exhibition and catalogue documenting where and how African American musicians traveled during segregation. Project plans include 10 artist/architects, each designing a box based on a dresser trunk to tell the story of musicians who traveled along the Southern Crescent Train Line.

Virginia Commission for the Arts
Richmond, VA
$618,200
CATEGORY: Partnership  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy
Charlottesville, VA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support continuation of the Virginia Folklife Apprenticeship Program and related costs. The program pairs an experienced master artist with an apprentice in order to help ensure that art forms are passed on in ways sensitive to history and tradition.

Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy (aka VFH)
Charlottesville, VA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the 13th annual Virginia Festival of the Book in Charlottesville, Virginia. Over five days, the festival features author readings, lectures, and writing workshops free-of-charge.

Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts
Vienna, VA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production and distribution of the radio series Center Stage from Wolf Trap. The series provides national audiences with chamber music performances recorded at the Barns of Wolf Trap near Washington, D.C.

Number of Grants: 12          Total Amount: $929,200

 
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