FY 2007 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access to Artistic Excellence II/American Masterpieces/
Arts on Radio and Television/Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth/Partnership Agreements/Summer Schools in the Arts

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

KENTUCKY

Appalshop, Inc. (aka WMMT-FM) (Consortium)
Whitesburg, KY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the 25th Anniversary National Heritage Fellowship project. Collaborating with the Kentucky Arts Council, the event will showcase a series of films featuring recipients of the NEA National Heritage Fellowship.

Appalshop, Inc.
Whitesburg, KY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the Summer Documentary Institute. Nine Appalachian youth will work with professional Appalshop filmmakers to learn documentary video production.

Appalshop, Inc. (aka WMMT-FM) (on behalf of Roadside Theater)
Whitesburg, KY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support community-based cultural development programming designed to strengthen rural communities in central Appalachian states. Roadside Theater activities will include performances, community residencies, professional theater training, and enrichment programs for Appalachian children.

Cowan Community Action Group, Inc. (aka Cowan Community Center)
Whitesburg, KY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support folk arts activities at the Cowan Community Center. Activities will include an after-school music program, artist residencies, and summer and fall gatherings.

International Bluegrass Music Museum, Inc. (Consortium)
Owensboro, KY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support continuation of the Video Oral History Project. A collaboration with the Brandywine Friends of Old Time Music, the project will document the lives, stories, and musical performances of artists designated as Bluegrass Music's First Generation.

J.B. Speed Art Museum (Consortium)
Louisville, KY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support the Art Explorer Program. Designed and implemented in partnership with Jefferson County Board of Education, the program will use a range of interactive experiences to engage elementary students in the visual arts, literature, and humanities.

Kentucky Arts Council
Frankfort, KY
$670,900
CATEGORY: Partnership  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Kentucky Center for the Arts Corporation (aka The Kentucky Center)
Louisville, KY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support the Kentucky Center Governor's School for the Arts. Professional artists will give daily classes, master classes, and performances for talented junior and senior high school students in dance, music, creative writing, and visual arts.

Lexington Philharmonic Society, Inc.
Lexington, KY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Lexphil On Tour. Plans include eight orchestral and ensemble concerts and educational activities in underserved rural Appalachian towns and in eastern Kentucky.

Louisville Orchestra, Inc.
Louisville, KY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support MakingMUSIC, an education program. Concerts for fourth- through eighth-grade students will take place in concert halls, schools, and community centers in Louisville, Kentucky, and New Albany, Indiana.

Luther F. Carson Four Rivers Center (aka The Carson Center)
Paducah, KY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Broadway by the River, Carson Select, Class Acts Education, and the creation of the Myre Series. These performance series provide artistic performance opportunities for audiences from western Kentucky, southern Illinois, southeast Missouri, and northwest Tennessee.

University of Kentucky Research Foundation (on behalf of University of Kentucky Art Museum)
Lexington, KY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the publication of a catalogue of the University of Kentucky Art Museum's photography collection. The book will present a selection of the "top 100 images" from the museum's collection of more than 1,000 photographs.

University of Kentucky Research Foundation
Lexington, KY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support the Asian Folk Music Outreach Program. Resident ethnomusicologists Han Kuo-Huang and Cecilia Wang and visiting experts, including Pat Sheehan Campbell, Marvelene Moore, and Judith Tucker, will lead professional development workshops for fifth- and sixth-grade public school teachers.

Number of Grants: 13          Total Amount: $890,900

 
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