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1998 Grant Awards: Heritage & Preservation
Some details of the projects listed in this grant announcement are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.
Direct Impact Grants
A Traveling Jewish Theatre
San Francisco, CA
$13,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the Intensive Training Program for students and the subsequent implementation of a full
apprenticeship program to teach unique methods of ensemble theater creation to a new generation of
theater artists.
Ali Akbar College of Music
San Rafael, CA
$17,200
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support costs to organize, produce, and document the 1998 Festival of Indian Music, featuring
the traditional music of North and South India and including master classes, performances, and
workshops.
American Indian Contemporary Arts
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support two exhibitions featuring the work of contemporary Native American artists: Woodlands
Indian Artists, and L. Frank Manriquez Solo Show, to be held at AICA's gallery in downtown San
Francisco in 1998.
Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services
Dearborn, MI
$21,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support an initiative for Arab children and youth in metro Detroit including summer workshops
with master artists where skills in traditional music, dance, and crafts will be demonstrated and
performed, culminating in a festival with performances by the young students.
Arts Resources in Collaboration, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the conservation and restoration of deteriorating videotapes containing the dance
series, Eye on Dance, to ensure the availability of this unique resource to students and
scholars of dance.
Association for Cultural Equity, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the restoration, preservation, and indexing of rare field recordings in the Alan Lomax
archives using archival standards and making digital copies available to the public.
Bay Area Video Coalition, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$75,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the delivery of national video preservation services to artists and arts organizations,
including the recording, retrieval, and preservation of art on video, and the public dissemination
of information.
Bluegrass Tomorrow, Inc.
Lexington, KY
$12,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Design
To support the development of a regional community design plan based on goals articulated by the
local community during background forums, committee meetings and task forces.
California State University, Long Beach Foundation
Long Beach, CA
$9,700
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the 1998 International Ramayana Festival, a dance presentation featuring Southern
California ensembles from South and Southeast Asian traditions.
Carnegie Institute
Pittsburgh, PA
$24,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the conservation and installation of the monumental Art Deco lacquer relief, The
Chariot of Aurora, originally created for the grand salon of the French ocean liner Normandie in
1935, providing an opportunity for the Carnegie Museum of Art to use it as a key work in exhibition
programs about the period.
Carver Development Board
San Antonio, TX
$38,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Presenting (Consortium)
To support Black Traditions in Music & Dance, a consortium of Texas presenters including the
University of Texas at Austin, Society for the Performing Arts in Houston, and the South Dallas
Cultural Center, in partnership with African-American arts ensembles in state-wide residencies and
performances.
Cathedral of St. John the Divine
New York, NY
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support two apprentice conservators to assist in the conservation of four 17th-century
Barberini tapestries that are part of an important series of twelve tapestries illustrating scenes
in the life of Christ, so that they will be presentable for public viewing.
Centro Binacional para el Desarrollo Indigena Oaxaqueno
Santa Cruz, CA
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support workshops to teach the traditional Zapotecan and Chinanteco Oaxacan band repertory and
dances typical to specific regions of Oaxaca with performances in Los Angeles.
Chicago Public Art Group
Chicago, IL
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support the digitization of a slide archive of more than 600 Chicago community arts murals to
increase accessibility, create a permanent record, and to support the restoration of three high
quality contemporary murals to their original condition.
Cincinnati Art Museum
Cincinnati, OH
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the cleaning and conservation of never-before-exhibited ornamental carved ceiling
elements, designed by Henry and William Fry during the Aesthetic Movement, as part of a major
reinstallation of the museum's decorative arts galleries.
City Center 55th Street Theater Foundation
New York, NY
$28,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Musical Theater
To support the restoration of the complete score of an American musical for performance by a full
orchestra, principals, and ensemble as part of City Center Encores! Great American Musicals in
Concert.
City Lore, Inc.
New York, NY
$45,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the development and installation of The People's Hall of Fame: An Interactive Touch
Screen Exhibition and Web Site that will feature Arts Endowment National Heritage Award winners and
other master traditional artists on an interactive CD-ROM kiosk and on the World Wide Web.
Cornerstones Community Partnerships
Santa Fe, NM
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Design
To support the preservation of the unique artistic and cultural heritage of New Mexico through a
technical assistance program that trains community residents in the adobe construction and
conservation techniques.
Cultural Resources, Inc.
Blue Hill, ME
$14,200
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
(Fiscal Agent for Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance)
To support the Basketmaking Apprenticeship Program that promotes the continuation of traditional
art forms among Maine's four Indian tribes, and the costs of bringing master artists and their
apprentices to the Maine Indian Basketmakers' Annual Gathering.
Cuyahoga County Soldiers' & Sailors' Monument Commission
Cleveland, OH
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support the cleaning, repairing, and restoration of the exterior bronze statuary of the
artistically significant Cuyahoga County Soldiers' and Sailors' Civil War Monument, erected in 1894
for Cleveland's downtown Public Square.
Dance Notation Bureau, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support development of software linking the Life Forms animation program and Laban Writer
notation software to facilitate the notation and preservation of the history of dance and
choreography for artists, companies, students, scholars, and researchers.
Davis & Elkins College
Elkins, WV
$28,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the West Virginia Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program that pairs traditional artists with
a new generation of practitioners for one-on-one instruction, and outreach initiatives focusing on
West Virginia's smaller ethnic communities.
Delta Blues Education Fund
Clarksdale, MS
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Delta Blues Education Program, including classes, performances, and residencies
with master Delta Blues musicians teaching a core group of apprentices daily for one year, helping
to preserve an important American art form.
East Durham Irish Culture & Sports Centre, Inc.
East Durham, NY
$14,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the 1998 Catskills Irish Arts Week and Irish Traditional Music Festival, a project
featuring workshops and performances of traditional music that draws large audiences from the
entire region.
Economic Development Administration
San Juan, PR
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the 1998 Apprenticeship Program in Traditional Arts that pairs students with master
artists who pass along Puerto Rico's traditional art forms.
Exit Art/The First World, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support Parallel Histories: Exit Art's Multi-Cultural Legacy 1982-1997, which consists of an
exhibition of many artists who received early recognition at Exit Art, cataloguing of archives, and
a publication on Exit Art's history and archives distributed as a cultural resource.
Film History Foundation
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the completion costs for Through Yup'ik Eyes, a television documentary about
the lifeways of the Yup'ik Eskimo people of southwest Alaska, as interpreted by the storyteller and
commentator John Active of Bethel, Alaska.
Florida Division of Historical Resources
Tallahassee, FL
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the statewide Florida Folklife Apprenticeship Program, that preserves the traditional
arts by working with students and master artists in communities across the state, and publishing an
information booklet for free statewide distribution.
G.A.L.A., Inc. Grupo de Artistas Latinoamericanos Washington, DC
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the production in Spanish, with an original English translation and simultaneous
interpretation, of Barranca Abajo by Florencio Sanchez during the 1998-99 season in
Washington, DC.
George Eastman House
Rochester, NY
$75,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the preservation of ten historically significant American films produced during
1906-1918.
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
$17,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support technical analysis of more than 1,000 ancient bronzes in the Harvard University Art
Museums' collection, publication of a catalogue of the collection, and adding the catalogue to the
University's World Wide Web site, making available to the public and to scholars a collection too
extensive to be exhibited in the University's museums.
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN
$85,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support the conservation and reinstallation of Thomas Hart Benton's epic mural cycle
commissioned for the Chicago International Exhibition of 1933, "The Cultural and Industrial History
of Indiana," to be displayed publicly at the Indiana University Auditorium.
Institute for Cultural Partnerships
Harrisburg, PA
$35,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support On Tour Productions, a Mid-Atlantic regional touring and recording program
featuring artistic traditions including African-American tap dancing, Hungarian string band music,
Trinidadian steel drum music, and Bharathanatyam Indian Dance.
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Inc.
Boston, MA
$65,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the conservation of four 16th- and 17th-century Flemish masterpiece tapestries at the
Textile Conservation Center in Lowell, Massachussetts, in anticipation of their reinstallation in
climate-controlled public spaces in the Museum.
Jack Straw Foundation
Seattle, WA
$21,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts (Consortium)
To support African Traditions Continue: Performances within West Coast Communities, a consortium
project featuring traditional African musicians, dancers, and storytellers, in a variety of public
and broadcast programs, as well as the production of a CD and print materials that will celebrate
and preserve these traditional art forms.
Jazzmobile, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support Saturday Morning Jazz Workshops run by experienced jazz musicians and designed to teach
students, many who are young African-Americans and Latinos, to play instruments and read music; to
learn music theory, harmony, and improvisation; and to provide performance/jam session
opportunities at P.S. 197, a public school in Harlem.
John C. Campbell Folk School
Brasstown, NC
$12,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a concert/presentation series featuring master traditional artists from this culturally
rich area of North Carolina, and the production of DAT recordings of concerts for archival use in
preserving bluegrass, gospel, ballad singing, folk narrative, and other artistic genres.
Jose Limon Dance Foundation
New York, NY
$35,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support remounting and production costs associated with the revival of Jose Limon's masterwork,
There is a Time, for both domestic and international performances.
Kentucky Historical Society
Frankfort, KY
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Second Annual Festival of Kentucky Folklife to be held on the grounds of the Old
State Capital that will present and document the music and crafts of traditional artists in
Kentucky.
Kona Historical Society
Captain Cook, HI
$8,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support Ha Aheo Hawaii I Na Kona, a concert featuring Hawaiian song, dance, and
stories by local traditional artists from all segments of the Kona community, that will be archived
on recordings available to the public.
Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center
San Pablo, CA
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Community Heritage Project that teaches traditional Mexican music, dance, arts, and
crafts to youth and their families, providing strong community support while passing on artistic
traditions.
Marion County Historical Society, Inc.
Columbus, GA
$18,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support a comprehensive condition survey and conservation plan for the environmental art site
known as St. EOM's Pasaquan, a seven-acre compound filled with the work of local artist Eddie Owens
Martin and objects in the artist's collection, in preparation for treatment that will ensure its
future availability.
Massachusetts College of Art Foundation, Inc.
Boston, MA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support a major public exhibition of video art made in the United States during the last three
decades, including an accompanying catalog and a half-hour educational documentary.
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the 1998 Festival of Michigan Folklife, the centerpiece for the Michigan Festival, the
region's largest festival of living cultural traditions, attracting more than 40,000 visitors from
a tri county area.
Moanalua Gardens Foundation, Inc.
Honolulu, HI
$11,600
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Prince Lot Hula Festival XXI, non-competitive hula events featuring hula schools
(halau hula) and hula masters (kumu hula) in free public presentations in both
the traditional and modern styles of hula, enjoyed by as many as 8,000 attendees.
Museum of Modern Art
New York, NY
$75,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the preservation of critically endangered films from the Museum's nationally recognized
collection which are crucial to the history of film as an art form.
Museum of the City of New York
New York, NY
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the conservation of four artistically and historically significant mid-18th century
portraits of the New York Marston-Philipse family by John Wollaston so that, following an
electronic Internet exhibition documenting the conservation process, they can be reinstalled in a
permanent gallery.
Music From China, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support Masterpieces of Chinese Music, a series of community-oriented concert programs and
children's workshops featuring traditional and contemporary Chinese art forms that attract a large
and diverse audience, preserve traditional art forms, and encourage the creation of new work based
on traditional aesthetics.
Musical Traditions
San Francisco, CA
$75,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts (Consortium)
To support a statewide master-apprenticeship program, "Traditional Arts CA", a regionally
coordinated project featuring California's diverse artistic traditions, and the publication of a
periodical about the traditional arts in California made accessible to and inspired by the
traditional artists and their communities.
National Center for Jewish Film
Waltham, MA
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the preservation of two important American Yiddish feature films now on their original
nitrate stock, and in immediate need of restoration.
Nevada State Museum
Carson City, NV
$35,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts (Consortium)
To support the Nevada Folk Arts Apprenticeship Tenth Anniversary Celebration, a consortium project
including an exhibition, catalog, and a series of public presentations celebrating the first ten
years of the program.
New Arts Six
Dallas, TX
$6,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Musical Theater
To support the 1998-99 production and tour of a two-act, biographical, musical drama which
chronicles the life and career of the late 19th/early 20th-century African-American soprano,
Sissieretta Jones.
New York Baroque Dance Company, Inc. New York, NY
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the development of a videotape that will document technique and training in the art of
baroque dance to ensure that material on this tradition will be available for scholars and students
throughout the nation.
New York Public Library Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations
New York, NY
$125,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the Library for the Performing Arts' national video documentation services, including
the production and preservation of videotapes of significant dance and theater performances,
recorded oral histories of notable individuals in the performing arts, and providing access to
these materials for research.
Newband, Inc.
Nyack, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a two-year project of restoration and/or reconstruction, by a team of carpenters and
furniture restorers, of one-of-a-kind instruments from the historic Harry Partch Instrument
Collection, which will allow continued performance opportunities of Partch's works for current and
future generations interested in the early micro-tonal music movement in America.
Northern Illinois University
DeKalb, IL
$12,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Design
To support the cleaning, conservation, restoration and photographic documentation of an
historically significant collection of scenic models that document, in microcosm, the development
of stage design in American operatic theater of the late 19th-century.
Northwest Asian American Theatre
Seattle, WA
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Presenting
To support WinterFest 98, a five-week festival of traditional Asian arts performance and
contemporary Asian/Pacific Islander American arts performance, including the culminating residency
of artists participating in the International Artists Collaboration.
Northwest Indian College Foundation
Bellingham, WA
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the First Salmon Ceremony, a ceremony and presentation that will document and preserve
the traditions of the Lummi people featuring the arts and skills involved in Coastal Salish Native
art, legends, song, dance, and carving, among other traditions.
Oregon Historical Society
Portland, OR
$60,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Traditional Arts of the Oregon Country, a statewide survey of traditional arts with
traveling exhibits, writing workshops, and presentations by traditional artists to take place in
under-served communities and made available to the public.
Philadelphia Folklore Project
Philadelphia, PA
$53,200
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts (Consortium)
To support Art Happens Here, a consortium project including research and technical assistance
services, public exhibitions, concerts, and demonstrations to assist, document, and present
Philadelphia's folk artists and their work to audiences in community sites throughout
Philadelphia.
Philippine Information & Education Center
San Francisco, CA
$14,300
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Palabuniyan Kulintang Music & Dance Ensemble Outreach Program, featuring
Danongan Kalanduyan, a National Heritage Fellow, with concerts and presentations in cities with
significant Filipino populations, including Oakland, Sacramento, San Francisco, and Los
Angeles.
Poets House, Inc.
New York, NY
$48,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the sixth annual Poetry Publication Showcase, a month-long exhibition of new poetry
books designed to gather and preserve the breadth of poetry in print; the presentation of the
Showcase to 18,000 librarians at the American Library Association Conference in Washington, DC; the
publication of the Directory of American Poetry Books; and associated programs.
Portland Performing Arts, Inc.
Portland, ME
$46,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Presenting (Consortium)
To support the House Island Consortium involving partnerships with Portland's Jewish, Italian,
Vietnamese and Muslim communities and consortium members including Portland Public Schools, Maine
Historical Society, Italian Heritage Center, and the Jewish Community Center, to develop ethnic
heritage programs through field research and community services.
Prospect Park Alliance, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Design
To support the development of a database of historic photographs to help restore and increase
public appreciation for the 130 year-old Prospect Park, a National Historic Site designed by
Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux.
Public Corporation for the Arts of the City of Long Beach Long Beach, CA
$33,800
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts (Consortium)
To support the Traditional Arts of Long Beach Outreach Project, including workshops and concert
presentations of Cambodian classical dance, Mariachi, Oaxaqueno bands, and other traditions
represented by Long Beach's diverse communities.
Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$13,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the commissioning, production, and touring of a play to be written by Carmen Rivera
based on the life and poetry of renowned Puerto Rican author, Julia de Burgos.
Rensselaer County Council for the Arts, Inc.
Troy, NY
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support Live and Loud From Troy, New York: A Residency and Concert Series of Traditional Music
and Dance, featuring African drumming and dance, Klezmer music and traditional dance, and Puerto
Rican bomba and plena, performed by nationally recognized artists, including Endowment National
Heritage Fellow Juan Gutierrez.
Review of Contemporary Fiction, Inc.
Normal, IL
$58,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support a one-year project by Dalkey Archive Press to restore to print eleven major works of
modern and contemporary fiction which have become financially inviable for commercial presses, so
that they can be distributed nationwide.
Rhode Island School of Design
Providence, RI
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the reinstallation of the Rhode Island School of Design Museum's collection of American
art of the Colonial and Federal periods in Pendleton House, which opened in 1906 as the nation's
first museum wing dedicated to the display of American fine and applied arts; and a model
interpretive program incorporating innovate technology to enhance the public's experience and
appreciation of the work.
Roots of Brazil, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support a collaboration among choreographers, a composer, and dancers that will result in the
development of new choreography inspired by both European and indigenous African influences in
Brazil, and be performed for the public and supported by educational programs for schools and the
community.
San Francisco Art Commission
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Local Arts Agency
To support the conservation of a mural installation by Jose Moya del Pino created in 1935 that is
located in the Center for African and African American Art and Culture, a municipally-owned and
operated facility.
San Francisco Performing Arts Library and Museum San Francisco, CA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
(Fiscal Agent for Legacy Oral History Project)
To support Legacy, a project to facilitate the training of volunteers in the production of oral
histories, that documents the lives of significant dance artists and educators in Northern
California.
San Francisco State University
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the restoration of historical film footage from the Poetry Center's American Poetry
Archives of authors such as Eudora Welty, Louis Zukovsky, Janet Flanner, and Frank O'Hara; and the
continued videotaping of the Poetry Center's reading series to make available for loan or rent the
most extensive collection of poetry videos in the country.
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Santa Barbara, CA
$22,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the publication of an illustrated catalogue of the museum's extensive collection of
Asian art, which spans the period from 2,500 B.C. to the early 20th century, that will contain
information appropriate for the general public as well as research valuable to scholars and museum
professionals.
School of American Research/Indian Arts Research Center Santa Fe, NM
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the conservation of significant Southwest Native American paintings in the collection
of the Indian Arts Research Center in anticipation of a touring exhibition that is being planned in
conjunction with the University of New Mexico Fine Arts Museum.
Sitka Tribe of Alaska
Sitka, AK
$70,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the commission of major Tlingit or Northwest Coast Indian carvings for the newly
constructed Community House, the center of Tlingit community life in this small isolated island
community of Alaska.
Southeast Alaska Indian Cultural Center, Inc.
Sitka, AK
$21,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Northwest Coast Tlingit Multi-Medium Art Design Workshops, classes in totem pole
carving, silver carving, and weaving for children and adults that pass on the skills of Alaska
Native master artists and Tlingit art forms.
Southwest Museum
Los Angeles, CA
$22,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the conservation of art works from the museum's nationally significant collection of
Spanish Colonial religious folk art, in preparation for their reinstallation in the newly restored
Casa de Adobe public galleries.
Springfield Library and Museums Association
Springfield, MA
$12,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the publication of a catalogue of selected works from the distinguished American art
collection of Springfield's Museum of Fine Arts and the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, to
be distributed free of charge to area libraries and made available at the museums' gift shops.
St. Ann Center for Restoration and the Arts, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Design
To support the conservation of historic figural stained glass windows, designed by William Jay
Bolton circa 1844, that are among the earliest and most important figural glass works executed in
this country; the development of new preservation technology; and an apprentice training
program.
Steel Industry Heritage Corporation
Homestead, PA
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Folk Arts Masters Showcase for Southwest Pennsylvania, a performance/exhibition
project with training workshops and forums showcasing master traditional folk artists from the
Pittsburgh region.
Texas Folklife Resources
Austin, TX
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the 1998 Folk Arts Presenting and Education Programs, a project featuring touring,
education, and folk arts programs in rural and urban communities throughout the state, expected to
reach more than 125,000 Texans.
Textile Conservation Workshop, Inc.
South Salem, NY
$12,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support a year-long apprenticeship for an intern to receive in-depth training in a variety of
areas of textile conservation, a skill needed by museums across the country to protect valuable
collections.
Traditional Arts in Upstate New York, Inc.
Canton, NY
$19,300
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support Living Legends: A Multi-Media Traditional Arts Project, including a touring exhibition,
lecture/demonstrations, and a teacher resource guide based on regional heritage awards.
Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery
Baltimore, MD
$65,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the first complete documentation, technical analysis, and conservation of hundreds of
objects in the gallery's landmark Egyptian collection, preparing for an innovative new installation
of the collection in galleries adjacent to the Family Learning Center.
University of Alaska at Anchorage
Anchorage, AK
$6,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the publication and national distribution of an expanded edition of Alaska Native
Writers, Storytellers, and Orators, a publication which has been extremely popular with the
public and educators, and to support an issue of Alaska Quarterly Review, featuring poems
by indigenous people of the circumpolar regions, that will be distributed nationally.
University of California at Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
$75,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the preservation of five titles by the pioneering woman film director, Dorothy Arzner,
and the presentation of a major retrospective exhibition of her work which will be accompanied by a
catalog.
University of Georgia
Athens, GA
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the restoration of important folk music field tapes recorded in northern and coastal
Georgia which include performances by the McIntosh County Shouters, the Tanners, and the Eller
Brothers, which will be available to the public through libraries, commercial recordings,
cataloging, on-line databases, and the Internet.
University of Houston-University Park
Houston, TX
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support a two-year project by Arte Publico Press to restore to print ten foundational works of
Hispanic literature from the 1960's and 70's, making significant literary works by authors such as
Alba Ambert, Raul Salinas, Jose Yglesias, and Virgil Suarezonce again available to a nationwide
audience.
University of Missouri at Columbia
Columbia, MO
$24,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Missouri Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program, including public presentations
and promotional materials featuring Missouri's master traditional artists and their students.
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, WI
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a conservation and recording project featuring the diverse traditional musicians of the
area, including Native and European Americans and more recent immigrants, to be publicly archived
at the University of Wisconsin.
Vermont Folklife Center
Middlebury, VT
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Vermont Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program, including technical assistance to
artists concerning marketing skills, and the adaptation of A Handbook for Traditional
Craftspeople and Performers.
Vermont Museum and Gallery Alliance, Inc.
Shelburne, VT
$8,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the Vermont Collections Care Program, which provides affordable professional services
and training for staff and volunteers in Vermont's historical societies, museums, and galleries,
most of which are small, rural institutions.
Western Folklife Center
Elko, NV
$45,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support costs for a permanent exhibition, Back at the Ranch: An Artful Life, representing the
artistic heart of the ranching West.
Women's Project and Productions, Inc.
New York, NY
$18,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater (Consortium)
To support a consortium project among the Women's Project and Productions, INTAR Hispanic American
Arts Center, and The New Federal Theater for the Revival Festival that will present three
theatrical revivals reflecting the diverse cultural traditions of each consortium member.
Heritage & Preservation National/Multi-State Impact Grants >>
National Endowment for the Arts · an independent federal agency
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Washington, DC 20506
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