1999 Grant Awards: Leadership Initiative Grants 2
Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change,
contingent upon prior Endowment approval.
All Leadership Initiatives Have National or Multi-State Significance
AcessAbilty
Actors Fund of America
New York, NY
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: AccessAbility
To support the Artists' Health Insurance Resource Center, a national clearinghouse of information that helps artists and arts organizations learn how to acquire appropriate health insurance.
Adaptive Environments
Boston, MA
$65,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: AccessAbility
To support Access to Design Professionals, a first-time effort to increase the number of, and support for, people with disabilities in design professions.
The John F. Kennedy Center for the Arts
Washington, DC
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: AccessAbility
To conduct follow-up projects recommended by the 300 artists, arts administrators, educators and rehabilitation professionals who participated in the June 1998 National Forum on Careers in the Arts that was convened in partnership with four other Federal agencies.
Society for Arts in Healthcare
Denver, CO
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: AccessAbility
To support a first ever national technical assistance project that would train arts administrators and artists as consultants to educate and assist health care institutions across the country in establishing comprehensive, professional arts programming within their institutions.
U.S. Department of Justice
Washington, D.C.
$12,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: AccessAbility
To support an interagency project of three artists' residencies beginning in May 1999, jointly funded with the Department of Justice (DOJ)/Federal Bureau of Prisons.
VSA
Washington, DC
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: AccessAbility
To support stipends for 50 artist presenters at ArtCareers Expo, an exposition at which people with disabilities can explore careers in the arts. ArtCareers Expo will be held in Los Angeles, California in conjunction with the International VSA Festival in June 1999.
Western States Arts Foundation
Denver, Colorado
$32,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: AccessAbility To support the planning and convening of a regional symposium to assist state arts agencies and other grantees in this twelve state region in making their activities fully available to people with disabilities and older adults.
William James Association
Santa Cruz, CA
$35,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: AccessAbility
To support the organization and establishment of six one-year artists' residencies in federal correctional institutions in conjunction with the Arts Endowment's interagency agreement with the Department of Justice.
Arts Education
Colorado Council on the Arts
Denver, CO
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support "The Healing Power of the Arts" project, a series of art-making activities in response to the Columbine High School tragedy, including summer workshops and publication and distribution of a memorial poetry book.
Council of Chief State School Officers
Washington, DC
$400,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support the fifth year of the Arts Endowment/Kennedy Center Arts Education Partnership.
Hollywood Access Program for Native Americans, Inc.
Tarzana, CA
$299,886
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support the "Mars Millenium" project.
The Kennedy Center
Washington, D.C.
$100,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support, in partnership with the U.S. Department of Education, the continuation of the implementation phase of ArtsEdge, the national arts education information network.
National Assembly of State Arts Agencies
Washington, D.C.
$75,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To provide continued support for the professional development and technical assistance project for the state arts agency arts education coordinators.
National Dance Institute, Inc.
New York, NY
$21,600
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support the development of a web site, as part of "Step by Step," Jacques d'Amboise's 2,160 mile hike of the Appalachian Trail, that is expected to engage the on-line community in the fields of arts, education, and the environment.
Southern Arts Federation, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support the 1999-2000 Southern Arts Federation's leadership services to regional, state, and local constituents which will advance the arts as a part of K-12 basic education.
Dance
Dance Heritage Coalition
Washington, DC
$30,000
To support the national Leadership Forum "Setting the Agenda: A National Leadership Forum for Dance Documentation and Preservation.
New England Foundation for the Arts
Boston, MA
$500,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the National Dance Project which supports the creation and touring of dance. The program provides presenters, dance companies, and audiences across the country access to contemporary dance.
Design
The American Architectural Foundation
Washington, D.C.
$400,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Design
To support costs related to up to six meetings of the Mayors' Institute on City Design: two national institutes for mayors of larger American cities, and up to four regional meetings for mayors of smaller cities within defined geographical regions.
National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States
Washington, DC
$100,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Design
To renew the Endowment's cooperative agreement with the National Trust for Historic Preservation for four additional Your Town workshops.
Folk
City Lore, Inc.
New York, NY
$75,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a national folk-arts-in-education initiative to foster the inclusion of folk arts and artists as a basic element of K-12 arts education. Building on the work of the National Task Force on Folk Arts in Education, created in 1993 through Endowment leadership, this effort will integrate folk arts and folk artists into school curricula through a variety of efforts.
Fund for Folk Culture
Santa Fe, NM
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To renew the cooperative agreement to support the 1999 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 Louisville, Kentucky.
National Council for the Traditional Arts
Silver Spring, MD
$125,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To renew the agreement to support the continuation of a national program of technical assistance and site evaluation 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 renew the agreement to support the continued costs of the National Endowment for the Arts' National Heritage Fellowship Program.
Folk & Traditional Arts Infrastructure Initiative Grants
Alaska State Council on the Arts
Anchorage, AK
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the formation of a Cultural Center Consortium. This project is designed to support communication and cooperation among Alaska's Native culture centers through technical assistance for exhibit design and development, financial support for curating and traveling six regionally developed Native Arts exhibits, and development of a Millennium Collection of Alaska Native art and companion exhibit catalog.
Arkansas Arts Council
Little Rock, AR
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a folklorist position and other related costs. The folklorist is to implement and develop the statewide plan through research and fieldwork.
Delaware Division of Parks and Recreation
Dover, DE
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a folklorist position and other related costs. The folklorist will provide institutional and program development services for the Delaware Division of Parks and Recreation.
Florida Division of Historical Resources
Tallahassee, FL
$28,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a folklorist position and other related costs. This position is designed to augment the statewide impact of folklike programs through increased programming efforts and the identification of new folklife resources through the state.
Indiana Arts Commission
Indianapolis, IN
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the establishment of a sustainable system to identify, document, preserve, and promote folk and traditional arts and living folk artists in Indiana. This project is a collaboration between the Indiana Arts Commission and the Indiana University Folklore Institute.
Institute for Community Research
Hartford, CT
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support salary and other related costs of the statewide folk arts program in Connecticut. The eight-year old program will continue core activities and expand into arts in education, marketing of traditional arts, and archiving.
Iowa Arts Council
Des Moines, IA
$34,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support an assistant folklife coordinator position and other related costs. The assistant folklife coordinator will work with the folklife coordinator in managing special projects such as the annual Iowa Folklife Institute, and working with immigrant and refugee artists presenting their traditions at the Festival of Iowa Folklife in 2001.
Kentucky Arts Council
Frankfort, KY
$25,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a folklorist position and other related costs. This position will allow the Kentucky Folklife Program to maintain its current goals and greatly enhance the Program's commitment to extend the level of outreach to local artists and grassroots communities throughout the state.
Louisiana Division of the Arts
Baton Rouge, LA
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support: 1) a folklife education coordinator and other related costs; 2) professional development institutes, and 3) a CD-ROM. This project uses technology to provide teachers with strategies to meet Social Studies and English Language Arts content standards.
Maine Arts Commission
Augusta, ME
$19,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Maine Arts Commission's Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program. The Traditional Arts Apprenticeships Program directly serves the needs of individual traditional artists and continues to provide encouragement and support for traditional culture in the state.
Minnesota State Arts Board
St. Paul, MN
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a summer folk arts institute for teachers on Minnesota hybrid cultural forms. This project will include three components: 1) a summer institute for teachers; 2) a set of K-6 teaching materials; and 3) a component of an annual festival.
Mississippi Arts Commission
Jackson, MS
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a series of fieldwork surveys and a conference designed to develop a network of traditional arts advocates in Mississippi. The conference and fieldwork surveys will help individuals who are already working with traditional artists learn more and encourage others to include traditional artists in their organizations and folk artists in the activities of the broader community.
Missouri State Council on the Arts
St. Louis, MO
$12,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a feasibility study for an Ozark Center. The study will be structured to include a series of mini-retreats to ensure that input from Ozark folk culture experts are an integral part of the project and inform the data-collection and review process.
Montana Arts Council
Helena, MT
$15,700
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Montana Arts Council Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program. The apprenticeships have proven themselves to be invaluable as bridges to the future--documenting, supporting, and preserving the many rich traditional arts yet to be found among the people of Montana.
New Hampshire State Council on the Arts
Concord, NH
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support workshops, a conference, and strategic grants to expand public programming of traditional arts in New Hampshire. This project will allow traditional artists, folklorists, and presenters to learn from each other and bring New Hampshire's rich, diverse traditions--from Franco-American step dancing to Russian Orthodox icon painting--to new audiences.
New Mexico Arts
Santa Fe, NM
$33,800
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the New Mexico Apprenticeship Program. This unique program pairs master traditional artists with apprentices for long- or short-term apprenticeships.
New York Folklore Society
Newfield, NY
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a full-time folklorist position and other related costs. The Director of Services position will affect the consolidation and expansion of the New York Folklore Society's services to the field.
North Dakota Council on the Arts
Bismarck, ND
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the North Dakota Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program. The apprenticeship program and its related activities are and will be used by the Council's Traditional Arts Program to reach its goals of preserving and perpetuating the state's living cultural heritage, as well as presenting this heritage to the public.
Northwest Native American Basketweavers Association
Olympia, WA
$37,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the salary of professional personnel, development of a board of directors, and production of a newsletter. This collaborative effort is a partnership between the Northwest Native American Basketweavers Association and the Western State Arts Federation.
Ohio Arts Council
Columbus, OH
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Ohio Traditional Arts Initiative. This project provides for an advisory committee, fieldwork and documentation, presentations of a significant number of Ohio folk and traditional artists at the annual CITYFOLK Festival, and updating of the Web site.
Oregon Historical Society
Portland, OR
$33,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Oregon Folklife Director and other related costs. The work of the Oregon Folklife Director is to maintain existing programs, create new ones, and develop strategies for arts and community development.
Rhode Island State Council on the Arts
Providence, RI
$21,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Rhode Island Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program. This program will provide apprenticeship participants with promotional/educational materials and present them at a showcase and festivals.
South Carolina Arts Commission
Columbia, SC
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support: 1) the creation of a Heritage corridor fieldwork coordinator position and related costs; 2) the continuation of the state arts apprenticeship program; and, 3) a community scholars-in-the-traditional arts project. The proposed project is in collaboration with the South Carolina Arts Commission, the University of South Carolina McKissick Museum and the South Carolina Department of Parks, Recreation & Tourism.
South Dakota Arts Council
Pierre, SD
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the South Dakota Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program. The South Dakota Arts Council seeks to redevelop its folk arts apprenticeship program and to identify and recommend folk artists for touring programs.
Southern Arts Federation, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$23,900
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support Living Traditions: Folk Artists of the American South, a traveling exhibition of master folk artists. This exhibition will feature a master folk artist from each of the nine states in the Southern Arts Federation Region: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee.
Tennessee Arts Commission
Nashville, TN
$2,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Knoxville Folk Arts Initiative. This initiative calls for a folklorist position, development of a database of artists, and development of traditional arts programming at Jubilee Community Center.
Texas Folklife Resources
Austin, TX
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the reinvigoration of the Texas Folklife Resources Apprenticeships in the Folk Arts program. Texas Folklife Resources intends to undertake a major fieldwork initiative to identify a wider selection of tradition bearers from cultural communities statewide.
Valdosta State University
Valdosta, GA
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a folklorist position and other related costs in southern Georgia. This position is a result of a collaborative effort of Valdosta State University and the Georgia Folklife Program at the Georgia Council for the Arts.
Vermont Folklife Center
Middlebury, VT
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Vermont Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program. The apprenticeship program encourages the preservation of living traditional arts by funding master artists to work with less experienced apprentices to pass on time-honored skills and knowledge.
Washington State Arts Commission
Olympia, WA
$20,100
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a survey and tape tour with an accompanying tour guide booklet of the central corridor of Washington from Seattle to Spokane. This region is one of the culturally richest, yet least served, parts of the state.
Western Folklife Center
Elko, NV
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the coordination and implementation of a joint archives project. This collaboration is a partnership between the Western Folklife Center and the Folk Arts Program of the Nevada Arts Council.
Wisconsin Arts Board
Madison, WI
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support two part-time folklorist positions and other related costs. Each folklorist will have a main area of responsibility: one will be responsible for support and outreach to local agencies interested in the folk arts and the other in teacher training and educational outreach in folklore.
Literature
American Library Association
Chicago, IL
$22,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the planning and development of "LIVE at the Library: Libraries Build Communities for the Millennium," a project which will establish libraries as community centers of culture and provide audiences with live discussions with artists.
Council of Literary Magazines and Presses
New York, NY
$175,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support Year 2 of the Literary Journal Institute.
Poets & Writers
New York, NY
$95,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the continued reading and evaluation of manuscripts and related administrative costs for the Literature Fellowship categories.
Local Arts Agencies
Americans for the Arts
Washington, DC
$4,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Local Arts Agency
To increase the scope and funding of a prior-year cooperative agreement.
Americans for the Arts
Washington, D.C.
$90,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Local Arts Agencies
To support activities of the National Youth Arts Summit.
Media Arts
National Film Preservation Foundation
San Francisco, CA
$500,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support a project to preserve and make available to the public a selection of films from a number of American archives.
New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc. (on behalf of Ginger Group Productions)
New York, NY
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the research and development phase of a television series on American "folk music" in the 20th century.
Multidisciplinary
Arts International
New York, NY
$240,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support the Fund for U.S. Artists at International Festivals and Exhibitions, a long-standing public/private partnership of the Arts Endowment, the United States Information Agency, the Pew Charitable Trusts, and the Rockefeller Foundation.
Arts Midwest
Minneapolis, MN
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support the Heartlands International Millennium Project, a museum exhibition exchange that will examine views of regional identity and link the heartlands of the United States and Central Europe.The U.S. exhibition will include pieces created for the exhibition theme by artists Maya Lin, Kerry James Marshall and Malcolm Cochran, who will all travel to Hungary and Austria for public programs on the exhibition's
Department of the Interior/Office of Surface Mining
Washington, DC
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support a partnership with the DOI's Office of Surface Mining for the Arts and Appalachian Clean Streams Program supporting pilot public arts projects that demonstrate the importance and value of artists and designers in creating effective and imaginative acid mine drainage remediation projects incorporating public art in Appalachia.
Heritage Preservation, Inc.
Washington, DC
$12,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To update and redesign the publication, "Emergency Preparedness and Respone: Federal Aid for Cultural Institutions during an Emergency.
Japan/U. S. Friendship Commission
Washington, DC
$75,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support a partnership that promotes cultural understanding among Japanese and U. S. artists.
National Assembly of State Arts Agencies
Washington, DC
$520,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support "Arts Projects on Millenium Trails.
National Assembly of State Arts Agencies
Washington, DC
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To increase the scope and funding of a prior-year cooperative agreement.
Tucson Pima Arts Council
Tucson, AZ
$24,655
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
Challenge America - Alternative Arts Funding.
U. S. Department of Justice
Washington, DC
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
A 2-year project supporting the development of a new pilot site demonstration program in the arts in juvenile detention or youth corrections facilities, as well as the enhancement of existing arts programs for adjudicated youth.
U. S. Department of Justice
Washington, DC
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
Arts and At-Risk Youth program supported by the Departments of Justice, Labor and Education for multicomponent arts program that integrates arts activities, job skil development, work experience, and conflict resolution training for high school youth during nonschool hours.
U. S. Department of Justice
Washington, DC
$62,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To provide artists and arts organizations involved in youth programs with conflict resolution education, training, and technical assistance.
Music
Chamber Music America, Inc.
New York, NY
$150,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the Chamber Music Rural Residency Program in the 1999-2000 season. This program places emerging chamber music ensembles in selected rural communities for a residency period of nine months to enhance musical life and provide the ensembles an opportunity to work together to learn repertoire, and hone performance, teaching, management, and interpersonal skills.
International Association of Jazz Educators
Manhattan, KS
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support facilitation of the American Jazz Masters Awards Ceremony and Concert as part of the January 2000 conference in New Orleans, an associated commemorative program booklet, and jazz master documentary interviews on video.
Juilliard School
New York, NY
$35,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the Seaver/NEA Conductors Award Program, a consortium project with the Seaver Institute. This national project aims to increase the number of American conductors leading our nation's symphony orchestras by identifying and cultivating exceptionally talented conductors at the early stages of their professional careers, through four-year career stipends to young American conductors.
Meet The Composer, Inc.
New York, NY
$100,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the fourth year of the Commissioning Music/USA program. This project engages consortia of music organizations in their commissioning of new American works for orchestra, chorus, opera, musical theater, chamber and jazz ensembles, solo recitalists, radio, and television.
Opera
OPERA America, Inc.
Washington, DC
$225,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support the millinneum project, "The Next Stage," a national initiative o produce under-performed American operas which premiered in recent decades and which may contribute to opera's 21st century repertoire.
Policy, Research & Technology
The Benton Foundation
Washington, D.C.
$500,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Policy, Research and Technology
To support the third phase of Open Studio: The Arts Online, an initiative launched in 1996 for the purpose of increasing the nonprofit arts information and cultural content available on the Internet and providing the arts community with the fundamental skills needed to produce artistic content online.
State and Regional
Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, Inc.
Baltimore, MD
$500,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: State & Regional
To provide continued support for the National Artists Residency Project.
National Assembly of State Arts Agencies
Washington, D.C.
$52,650
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: State and Regional
To include the humanities in the update of Design for Accessibility, the most comprehensive access guide for cultural groups, and print 2000 copies of the guide for the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grantees, and an additional 1,200 copies for Arts Endowment grantees.
Theater
BHK Arts Consultants
Washington, DC
$275,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the administration and coordination of site report activities for designated theater and musical theater companies.
BHK Arts Consultants
Washington, DC
$80,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To amend a prior-year cooperative agreement for the coordination of site report activities for designated theater and musical theater companies.
Theatre Communications Group, Inc.
New York, NY
$375,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the continued coordination and administration of a residency program for playwrights.
Theatre Communications Group, Inc.
New York, NY
$350,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support an additional cycle of the NEA/TCG Career Development Programs for Directors and Designers.
Visual Arts
National Museum of American Art/Smithsonian Institution
Washington, D.C.
$155,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support the third and final phase of the Visual Artists Fellowship Archive Project.
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