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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.

WASHINGTON

911 Media Arts Center
Seattle, WA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support programs to assist media artists in creating new work. The Media Artist-In-Residence program, the New Works Laboratory, and the New Voices Project encourage film and video artists to expand both their aesthetic perception and proficiency.

Artist Trust: A Resource for Washington
Seattle, WA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the maintenance and expansion of the Information Services program. The project provides professional development information and resources to Washington artists.

Arts and Visually Impaired Audiences
Seattle, WA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the Blind Youth and Adult Audio Project. The series of workshops will introduce visually impaired people to the creative possibilities and latest techniques of audio production while they design their own radio program.

Associated Recreation Council (aka Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center) (on behalf of Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center)
Seattle, WA
$11,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of Diva Daughters Dupree, a new play by Kim Yvonne Euell directed by Artistic Director Jacqueline Moscou. Outreach activities will include audience discussions, special student matinees, and discounted tickets for seniors.

Central District Forum for Arts & Ideas (aka CD Forum)
Seattle, WA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Professional Development Program. Emerging African American performing artists from the states of Washington, Idaho, and Oregon will be chosen by a master-artist panel to create and develop new works, participate in skill-building workshops, and perform in community-based showcases.

Confluences (aka Confluence Project)
Vancouver, WA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the publication of a study guide on recent landscapes designed by architect Maya Lin. The study guide will examine new landscape installations located in Washington and Oregon, along the key confluences of the Columbia River Basin.

Cultural Development Authority of King County
Seattle, WA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the King County Performance Network. Building on an eight-year history of presenting contemporary performances, site-specific arts events will be commissioned for presentation at suburban and rural venues.

Esoterics
Seattle, WA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support performances and a compact disc recording of contemporary American choral works. Works by composers William Hawley, Donald Skirvin, and Bern Herbolsheimer will be performed on a program titled Hymnodia that will be presented throughout the Puget Sound area.

Freehold Theatre Lab Studio (aka Freehold)
Seattle, WA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Engaged Theatre Program. The project will provide participatory theater performances, interactive workshops, and residencies to underserved audiences.

Jack Straw Foundation (aka Jack Straw Productions)
Seattle, WA
$5,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production of radio features by Harriet Baskas. Gone - But Not Quite Forgotten is a series of short programs introducing national audiences to a variety of traditions and art forms still practiced in small towns.

Kalispel Tribe of Indians
Usk, WA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the inclusion of traditional Plateau Indian art in the curriculum of K-12 Native American students in the Pacific Northwest. Activities will include beading, basketweaving, singing, and drumming.

Northwest Folklife
Seattle, WA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Borderlands survey project. The project will consist of a survey to identify and document traditional artists and culture bearers in communities on both sides of the boundary between Washington State and British Columbia.

Pat Graney Performance, Inc. (aka Pat Graney Company)
Seattle, WA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation of a book, Keeping the Faith: The Prison Project, by Pat Graney. The book will document 10 years of artistic programming in a United States women's prison and will include writings, photographs, and a CD-ROM.

Puget Sound Educational Service District (aka PSESD)
Burien, WA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support Arts Impact. A summer visual and performing arts institute for teachers will be followed by artist residencies in kindergarten to 5th-grade classrooms in Pierce County.

Quake
Seattle, WA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a recording project of new American chamber music and a subsequent tour to introduce the works to audiences in rural Alaska, Washington, and Oregon. The ensemble will record works by Chinary Ung, Jennifer Higdon, Gabriella Frank, John Pai/Quake, and Al Vizzutti.

Reel Grrls
Seattle, WA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support Reel Grrls, an after-school media art program. Designed for teenage girls, activities will involve after-school and weekend programs to explore media literacy, video production, and issues of personal identity.

Richard Hugo House
Seattle, WA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support Project Writing Nation, a series of outreach programs designed to boost writing skills and interaction with literature. Programs include writers residencies, writing workshops in low-income communities, and zine publishing workshops.

Seattle Art Museum
Seattle, WA
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the installation of a Porcelain Room in the museum's new, expanded downtown facility. The gallery will engage visitors in the cross-cultural story of porcelain in the 17th and 18th centuries, illustrating why it was so highly valued.

Seattle Arts & Lectures (Consortium)
Seattle, WA
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a consortium project to present poetry readings and on-stage interviews with poets in Portland, OR and Seattle, WA. In partnership with Literary Arts, Inc., the organizations will mail promotional brochures to more than 27,000 individuals, and will run advertisements in local magazines and newspapers.

Seattle International Children's Festival
Seattle, WA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the 21st annual Seattle International Children's Festival, the eighth annual Festival in Tacoma, and related education and outreach activities. The project also will provide teachers with an enriched curriculum by linking the festival's cultural opportunities to classroom activities.

Seattle Repertory Theatre (Consortium)
Seattle, WA
$70,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support a consortium project titled Staged Reading and Bringing Theater Into the Classroom. In partnership with the Seattle Children's Theatre, the program provides classroom residencies in which professional artists and teachers combine theater education and concepts of literacy into their classroom curriculum.

Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Inc. (aka Seattle Symphony) (Consortium)
Seattle, WA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support ACCESS, a consortium project of outreach performances and educational events for underserved communities. In partnership with the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center, the project will comprise free early childhood music education classes in public libraries; artist residencies in public schools; educational concerts for secondary school students; free community concerts; and free tickets for an orchestral performance.

Tears of Joy Theatre
Vancouver, WA
$12,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a collaborative project with the Center for Puppetry Arts in Atlanta to produce The Shoemaker and the Elves. The production will combine shadow puppetry with hand and rod puppets in a contemporary retelling of the classic fairy tale.

Town Hall Association (aka Town Hall Seattle)
Seattle, WA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Global Rhythms, a series featuring traditional and international performers. Performances and related activities will be developed through community partnerships.

Vashon Allied Arts, Inc. (aka VAA)
Vashon Island, WA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support Vashon Artists in Schools. Professional artists who live and work in the island community and visiting artists who practice ethnic art forms will collaborate with classroom teachers to design, implement, and evaluate artist residencies in Vashon Island Public Schools.

Velocity Dance Center
Seattle, WA
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the 10th anniversary of a summer dance festival, the Strictly Seattle Dance Intensive, which offers instruction by Seattle artists.

Washington State Arts Commission
Olympia, WA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a folk arts coordinator position and related costs. Responsibilities will include the development of programs that connect many of the state's 120 parks with local communities through concerts, festivals, exhibits, and demonstrations.

Washington State Arts Commission
Olympia, WA
$661,000
CATEGORY: Partnership  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission (aka WSPRC)
Olympia, WA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Folk and Traditional Arts in the Parks Program. The project will include a series of multi-cultural events in the state parks.


Number of Grants: 29          Total Amount: $1,226,500

 
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