1998 Grant Awards: Leadership Initiative Grants
Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change,
contingent upon prior Endowment approval.
Arts In Education
National Assembly of State Arts Agencies
Washington, DC
$70,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To provide administrative and technical assistance in support of professional development
activities for state arts agency arts education coordinators.
Southern Arts Federation, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support Southern Arts Federation's leadership services to regional, state, and local
constituents to promote the advancement of the arts as part of K-12 basic education.
Millennium Initiatives
American Composers Forum
St. Paul, MN
$500,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support Continental Harmony, a project available to underserved, small town, and rural
communities nationwide, that will organize community-designed and -managed composers' residencies
in all 50 states, culminating in the year 2000 with the premieres of original works by local arts
and community organizations.
American Dance Festival, Inc.
Durham, NC
$100,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To amend a prior year award to support the production and completion of three one-hour television
programs on the crucial role of African-Americans in the development of 20th century modern dance,
to be broadcast on PBS in the year 2000.
Civil Rights Project, Inc.
Boston, MA
$325,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support completion costs for a nationally broadcast public television series that will examine
the contributions of African-American artists in the 20th Century.
Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Assn./WETA
Washington, DC
$200,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the production and completion of "Jazz," a nine-part documentary television series by
the filmmaker Ken Burns, to be broadcast on PBS in the fall of the year 2000.
Heritage Preservation
Washington, DC
$500,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support SOS/2000, a project that will help underwrite costs of professional conservation
treatment and development of maintenance plans for artistically significant outdoor sculpture in
all 50 states and the District of Columbia, and related public awareness.
Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, Inc.
Baltimore, MD
$1,000,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: State & Regional
To support Artists & Communities, a national artists' residency project.
New England Foundation for the Arts
Boston, MA
$500,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the Favorite Poem Project, a consortium with the Library of Congress and Boston
University.
Twin Cities Public Television, Inc./KTCA
St. Paul, MN
$200,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To amend a prior year award to support the production and completion of "American Photography: A
Century of Images," a 3-part television series exploring still photography in America, to be
nationally broadcast on PBS in the fall of 1999.
International
Americans for the Arts
Washington, DC
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support the U.S./Ireland/Northern Ireland Community Residencies Exchange, a partnership with the
Arts Councils of Ireland and Northern Ireland, which offers four-week residencies for four artists
from the U.S. and two artists each from Ireland and Northern Ireland.
Arts International/Institute for International Education
New York, NY
$190,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support the Fund for U. S. Artists at International Festivals and Exhibitions, a public/private
partnership with U. S. I. A., The Pew Charitable Trusts, and the Rockefeller Foundation that
provides approximately $1.1 million to represent the excellence, diversity, and vitality of the
arts of the United States at important international festivals and exhibitions.
CEC International Partners/Citizen Exchange Council, Inc.
New York, NY
$115,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support ArtsLink, a public-private funding initiative offering opportunities for artistic
exchange between the United States and the countries of Eastern and Central Europe through
COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS, which provides assistance to U. S. artists to work on mutually benficial
projects with counterparts in the former eastern bloc region and ARTSLINK RESIDENCIES, which helps
U.S. arts organizations wishing to host a visiting artist or arts manager for a five-week
residency.
Japan-U. S. Friendship Commission
Washington, DC
$75,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support a partnership with Japan's Agency for Cultural Affairs and the Japan/U. S. Friendship
Commission that assists up to five U. S. artists to complete a project in Japan during a six-month
period and at least an equivalent number of Japanese artistists.
Folk Arts Infrastructure Initiative
Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, Inc.
Baltimore, MD
$28,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the development and implementation of the Peer Assistance and Mentoring Program, a
program intended to connect traditional arts resources and expertise across state lines and an
accompanying series of three peer group forums.
Southern Arts Federation, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$21,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Folk Arts & Southern Culture Traveling Exhibits Program, a program which serves
Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and
Tennessee with affordable exhibits that showcase the traditional culture and arts of the south.
Western States Arts Federation
Denver, CO
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a project that will build a coalition of Western participants to research and
disseminate information regarding new funding sources that support ongoing folk arts activity at
the local, state and regional levels in the West.
Alaska State Council on the Arts
Anchorage, AK
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support seven tribal- or city-operated Alaska Native cultural centers through marketing,
technical assistance, workshops, apprenticeship programs and a statewide Alaska Native artist
registry.
Arizona Commission on the Arts
Phoenix, AZ
$28,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Folk Arts Building Initiative, a program that will give technical assistance and
funding to Native American artists for projects which help ensure perpetuation of the traditional
arts through infrastructure building, professional development, and the inclusion of Native
American artists in a tourism environment.
Colorado Council on the Arts
Denver, CO
$28,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support two part-time folklorist positions and related costs to research and present
performances, exhibitions, classes, and programs by traditional artists, to increase Eastern
Coloradoans' awareness of their cultural wealth.
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
Harrisburg, PA
$28,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support regional folk arts centers, a project that will provide more effective outreach and
access for folk artists and organizations through fieldwork and a mini grant program.
Connecticut Commission on the Arts
Hartford, CT
$23,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support: 1) identifying and assisting traditional artists to be represented in the Commission's
publicly accessible slide bank; 2) The Inner City Cultural Development Program that trains artists
to become advocates and promoters for their own work and 3) the HOTSchools Program, a week-long
training institute for teachers and artists.
Department of Arkansas Heritage
Little Rock, AR
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the salary and travel costs of the Folklife Program Coordinator, and creation of
materials promoting folklife.
Florida Division of Historical Resources
Tallahassee, FL
$36,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a folklorist position and related costs which will augment the statewide impact of
folklife programs through increased programming and the identification of new statewide folklife
resources.
Fresno Arts Council, Inc.
Fresno, CA
$45,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the compilation and assessment of data on the state's artistic resources, including
identification of traditional artists, and the creation of a database and report on artistic
resources and needs.
Indiana Arts Commission
Indianapolis, IN
$24,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support research and establishment of a traditional arts program to identify, document,
preserve, and promote folk and traditional arts and living folk artists in Indiana.
Iowa Arts Council
Des Moines, IA
$23,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support Iowa Traditions in Transition, a project that will survey the folklife of Iowa's
refugee/immigrant communities and present those traditions in public programs in libraries in seven
mostly urban areas where these newcomers reside.
Louisiana Division of the Arts
Baton Rouge, LA
$45,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support statewide folklife study units and exhibits for classroom use for grades K-12.
Maine Arts Commission
Augusta, ME
$21,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a coordinator position and related costs to develop and run a state-wide training
program on how to identify traditional artists in a community in order to build partnerships and
promote local culture.
Massachusetts Cultural Council
Boston, MA
$28,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the establishment of a permanent folklorist position and other related costs to
coordinate a long-term program of fieldwork, technical assistance, planning, program development,
and implementation.
Minnesota State Arts Board
St. Paul, MN
$12,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support three regional workshops and follow-up sessions aimed at strengthening the local and
statewide connection between folk arts presenters and the folk arts program of the Arts Board.
Mississippi Arts Commission
Jackson, MS
$22,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a one-year folklife specialist position and related costs to work with the Heritage
Program Director to develop priorities for fieldwork, assist with archiving field recordings and
materials, and evaluate program activities.
Nebraska State Historical Society
Lincoln, NE
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a statewide series of needs assessment meetings with ethnic groups, occupational
groups, and other traditional communities, resulting in a published strategic plan of folk and
traditional arts in Nebraska.
New Jersey State Council on the Arts
Trenton, NJ
$43,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support grants to three organizations establishing full-time professionally staffed folk arts
programs, each appropriate to the cultural region, the needs and interests of the community, and
the organization's mission.
New Mexico Arts
Santa Fe, NM
$23,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the New Mexico Apprenticeship Program, a unique program pairing master traditional
artists with apprentices for long- or short-term apprenticeships.
North Dakota Council on the Arts
Bismarck, ND
$33,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a traditional arts apprenticeship program and a series of folk art/music
performances/presentations in long-term care facilities.
Ohio Arts Council
Columbus, OH
$21,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Traditional Arts Initiative, a project that provides for fieldwork and
documentation, an advisory committee, presentations, and publications.
Oregon Historical Society
Portland, OR
$33,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the work of the Oregon Folklife Program to maintain its established programs and
develop new programming in partnership with the Oregon Arts Commission and the Regional Arts &
Cultural Council.
Partnership for the Sounds, Inc.
Washington, NC
$28,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a professional folk arts position and related costs in northeastern North Carolina that
will support folk and traditional arts and culture through documentation, exhibits, and programming
in the region.
Rhode Island State Council on the Arts
Providence, RI
$23,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support: 1) the Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program; 2) folk arts performances and demonstrations
at the Artists Showcase and at a major festival, and 3) folk arts residencies in the schools.
South Carolina Arts Commission
Columbia, SC
$23,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the establishment of a state arts apprenticeship program and the Community Scholars in
the Traditional Arts project.
Tennessee Arts Commission
Nashville, TN
$21,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Knoxville Folk Arts Initiative, which includes a fieldwork survey of the Knoxville
area, the creation of an Internet database of regional folk performers, and improved folk
programming of the Jubilee Community Arts at the Laurel Theatre.
Texas Folklife Resources
Austin, TX
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support Inside the Loop, a survey that will document the traditional arts among recent
Southeast Asian, Central American, and Caribbean immigrants to Houston through oral histories and
photo documentation.
Valdosta State University
Valdosta, GA
$23,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the South Georgia Folklife Project, a collaborative effort with the Georgia Folklife
Program to establish a professional folklorist position and folklore center at Valdosta State
University.
Vermont Folklife Center
Middlebury, VT
$23,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a regional fieldwork plan to document master traditional storytellers throughout New
England.
Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy
Charlottesville, VA
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support additional folk arts fieldwork to expand the programming capacity of the Virginia
Folklife Program.
Washington State Arts Commission
Olympia, WA
$18,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support fieldwork and documentation in Central Western Washington through an extensive survey
and the production of a cassette and booklet tour guides.
West Virginia Division of Culture & History, Arts & Humanities Section
Charleston, WV
$21,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a statewide survey of ethnic communities and traditions that will involve fieldwork,
research and translation of those findings into programs of the West Virginia Commission on the
Arts' Cultural Center.
Other
52nd Street Project
New York, NY
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
In recognition of the outstanding arts programs for children and youth.
American Architectural Foundation
Washington, DC
$396,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Design
To support the Mayors' Institute on City Design, a strategic partnership between the U. S.
Conference of Mayors and the National Endowment for the Arts.
Americans for the Arts
Washington, DC
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Local Arts Agency
To support planning for the national youth arts initiative.
Appalshop, Inc.
Whitesburg, KY
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
In recognition of the Appalachian Media Institute's outstanding arts programs for children and
youth.
Art Resources International
Washington, DC
$49,915
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To provide funds for Phase III of a Visual Artists Fellowship Archive Project, in connection with
Creation & Presentation/Visual Arts.
Association of Art Museum Directors Educational Foundation
New York, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the stipend for the first two years of an internship program designed to further the
professional development of individuals with significant potential for successful careers as art
museum directors.
City of San Antonio, Texas
San Antonio, TX
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
In recognition of the outstanding Urban smARTS program for children and youth.
Council of Literary Magazines and Presses
New York, NY
$175,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the Literary Journal Institute, a two-year project to provide individual literary
magazines with professional assistance to develop plans for increasing both earned and contributed
income, and to stabilize this area of the field.
Friends of the Cleveland School of the Arts
Cleveland, OH
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
In recognition of the outstanding YARD (Youth at Risk Dancing) program for children and youth.
Fund for Folk Culture
Santa Fe, NM
$55,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the 1998 professional development activities of state and regional folk arts
coordinators at the annual conference of the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies, to be held
in Portland, Oregon.
Gallup Area Arts Council
Gallup, NM
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
In recognition of Gallup Performing Arts Academy's outstanding programs for children and youth.
International Association of Jazz Educators
Manhattan, KS
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support an awards concert honoring three recipients of the American Jazz Masters Awards,
including a mini documentary of each artist, at the annual IAJE conference in Anaheim,
California.
Keepers of the Treasures
Santa Fe, NM
$12,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support vital programs including a newsletter, a national meeting, and a board development
workshop.
Manchester Craftsmen's Guild
Pittsburgh, PA
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
In recognition of the outstanding Arts Apprenticeship Training Program for children and youth.
Meet The Composer, Inc.
New York, NY
$100,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the third year of a pilot program: Meet the Composer/Arts Endowment Commissioning
Music/USA, which supports consortia of music organizations in their commissioning of new American
works.
National Building Museum
Washington, DC
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Design
To facilitate and promote public dialogue to inform the practice of urban design regarding issues
-- architecture, development, land use, transportation planning, and environmental quality --
affecting the quality of life in American cities.
National Council for the Traditional Arts
Silver Spring, MD
$150,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the continuation of a national program of technical assistance and site evaluations of
funded and proposed projects in the culturally diverse and geographically widespread field of folk
and traditional arts.
National Council for the Traditional Arts
Silver Spring, MD
$175,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the continued costs of the National Endowment for the Arts' National Heritage Fellowship
Program.
National Symphony Orchestra Association
Washington, DC
$200,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the American Residencies Program in the State of Mississippi involving performances by
the full orchestra, small ensembles, individual orchestra musicians and Music Director Leonard
Slatkin working in tandem with local music organizations throughout the state.
New England Foundation for the Arts
Boston, MA
$500,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the National Dance Project which will provide support to presenters,dance companies, and
audiences across the country by providing access to the development and performance of contemporary
dance.
Norfolk State University
Norfolk, VA
$100,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Policy, Research, & Technology
To support a second year of internships for students in historically Black Colleges and
Universities (HBCUs), adding HBCUs in FL, GA, NC and SC. The program places qualified fine arts and
arts management students as interns in non-profit arts organizations.
North Carolina State University
Raleigh, NC
$75,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: AccessAbility
To identify, describe, and visually document approximately 50 excellent examples of Universal
Design, from the disciplines of architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, product
design, and graphic communications, on CD-ROM for national distribution.
Seattle Children's Museum
Seattle, WA
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
In recognition of the Experimental Gallery's outstanding arts programs for children and youth.
Settlement Music School
Philadelphia, PA
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
In recognition of the outstanding Kaleidoscope Preschool Arts Enrichment Program for children and
youth.
Street-Level Youth Media
Chicago, IL
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
In recognition of the outstanding arts programs for children and youth.
The HTC Group
St. Simons Island, GA
$29,400
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To develop a business plan in order to create a "Cultural Star Cities Program," as well as an
implementation strategy.
Theatre Communications Group, Inc.
New York, NY
$357,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the coordination and administration of a residency program for playwrights in various
locations a nd theaters throughout the nation.
U. S. Department of Agriculture/Forest Service
Washington, DC
$150,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support continuation of arts-based, rural community assistance grants that demonstrate the role
of the arts in rural economic development, community development, and heritage preservation.
U. S. Department of Justice
Washington, DC
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support a national demonstration program, in conjunction with the Department of Education, to
involve arts activities, job skills training and employment, and conflict resolution education in
after school and summer programs for youth at risk.
U. S. Department of Justice
Washington, DC
$62,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To continue the National Partnership for Conflict Resolution Education in the Arts, which seeks to
strengthen arts programs directed to youth who are at risk of drug abuse and violence by providing
professional education and training in conflict resolution skills to the artists, staffs,
administrators, and young people participating in these programs.
U. S. Department of Justice
Washington, DC
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support a national initiative that seeks to implement arts-based programming for juvenile
offenders in juvenile detention and corrections facilities, and in the community.
U. S. Department of State
Washington, DC
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Design
To support the improvement of Federal design practices through the Board on Infrastructure and the
Constructed Environment (BICE) and the Federal Facilities Council (FFC) for a 12-month period
beginning January 1, 1998.
U. S. General Services Administration
Washington, DC
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Design
$50,000
To support the Presidential Design Awards program.
Wheelock College
Boston, MA
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support of Wheelock Family Theatre's outstanding PAH! Deaf Youth Theatre program for children
and youth.
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