Folk & Traditional Arts: FY2003 Grants

Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

Access | Creativity | Heritage/Preservation | Folk Arts Infrastructure

Panelists

Access

Arlington County Cultural Affairs Division
Arlington, VA
$35,000
To support Hereabouts: Creating Connections through Culture and Arts Works Neighborhood Heritage Project. The project will include a series of mini-tours of senior centers and libraries, and a youth employment training program.

Ballet Folklorico Ollin, Inc. (on behalf of Mariachi Los Camperos)
Panorama City, CA
$20,000
To support a tour of Fiesta Navidad. The project is a concert of mariachi music and folklorico dancing that celebrates the Christmas holiday season.

California Indian Storytelling Association (CISA)
Fremont, CA
$30,000
To support the Storytelling Festivals and Symposia: Building Cultural Bridges. The forums will provide time for Native storytellers from California, Arizona and Hawaii to share their stories so they may learn from each other, discuss issues and pass stories on to new generations as they educate the public.

City Lore, Inc. (on behalf of Henry Street Settlement)
New York, NY
$50,000
To support the Friends of Old Time Music Project. The project will restore, archive and disseminate historic audio recordings of concerts presented by the Friends of Old Time Music (FOTM) from 1961 1965.

Ethnic Heritage Council
Seattle, WA
$30,000
To support the creation or development of after-school programs in various folk and traditional art forms. Programs will include instruction in Cambodian classical music, mariachi music and wood carving.

Folkstreams, Inc.
Delaplane, VA
$67,000
To support a folklore film Web site. Folkstreams.net will be a public cultural preserve of important films and videos about American traditional or "roots" culture.

IRCO
Portland, OR
$50,000
To support the Refugee Elder Traditional Arts Project (RETAP). An intergenerational, multicultural project team will be trained to work with elders from Bosnia, Laos, Romania, Somalia, Sudan, Ukraine and Vietnam to identify and document their traditional arts and present them in a video.

Jubilee Community Arts, Inc.
Knoxville, TN
$20,000
To support the Knoxville Folk Arts Initiative. The project will consist of research and documentation of artists in metropolitan Knoxville, along with a series of performances at weekly concerts and the annual Jubilee Festival.

Kalihi-Palama Culture & Arts Society, Inc.
Honolulu, HI
$10,000
To support a series of training classes in traditional and contemporary art forms. Classes include Hawaiian, Samoan, Okinawan, Tahitian and contemporary Filipino dance, as well as crafts and ukulele playing.

Korean Traditional Performing Arts Association, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support workshops in Korean dance, song and instrumental performance, and the development of a Web site. The project is intended to increase access to traditional Korean performing arts.

Native Seeds/SEARCH
Tucson, AZ
$30,000
To support the Navajo Agriculture CD-ROM. The interactive software will provide information about aesthetic dimensions of Navajo agricultural traditions that will be utilized in Navajo schools and libraries.

New Community Corporation (consortium)
Newark, NJ
$35,000
To support training of immigrant artists in the marketing of their artwork, culminating in a multi-city tour. Artists' work will feature Indian saris and embroidery, rangoli sandpainting, Tibetan traditional clothing, Guatemalan weaving, Honduran painting, Nigerian woodcarving and Ecuadorian basketmaking.

Old Town School of Folk Music, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$35,000
To support Proyecto Fandango. Using the traditional model of a fandango in rural outreach to new immigrant communities, Sones de Mexico Ensemble, will tour Mexican-American communities in Wisconsin and Illinois.

Seven Pipers Scottish Society of Tucson, Inc.
Tucson, AZ
$10,000
To support the development of a folk artist-in-the-school initiative, as well as master classes in Scottish music and dance. The project is designed to improve the skills of established artists, to provide workshops in schools and to expand outreach to new audiences.

Shu Fang Qi Peking Opera Association, Inc.
Woodhaven, NY
$25,000
To support the Third Annual Chinese Peking Opera Arts Festival. The opera company is planning two programs designed to attract recent immigrants and college students at Hunter College, as well as a Broadway audience at The New Victory Theatre.

Traditional Arts in Upstate New York, Inc. (aka TAUNY)
Canton, NY
$20,000
To support the creation of a register of cultural landmarks in the northernmost counties of New York. The project will document diverse cultural sites such as diners, Grange halls, country churches, barbershops, auto repair shops, cemeteries, and bridges and aid in efforts for their preservation.

Tung Ching Chinese Center for the Arts, Inc.
Fresh Meadows, NY
$15,000
To support the 12th Anniversary of the Traditional Chinese Theatre Festival. The celebration will focus on Beijing, Shaoxing and Cantonese styles of Chinese opera.

United Cambodian American Resources for Enrichment, Inc. (aka UCARE)
Rockville, MD
$25,000
To support workshops in advanced and authentic artistic techniques of Khmer art forms and a National Festival of Khmer Arts. The festival will include a stage performance of Cambodian folk and traditional arts showcasing artists and dance repertory from across the United States and exhibits of Cambodian crafts, painting and sculpture.

Valdosta State University
Valdosta, GA
$13,000
To support the Changing Sound of South Georgia radio series. The project will be grounded in a comprehensive field survey of the music traditions of the South Georgia region.

Creativity

Arpana Dance Company
Irvine, CA
$7,000
To support the creation of a new work, Life as a River. Through the traditional dance form of Bharata Natyam, this work will present the essence of prose, poetry, legend and music referencing the River Ganga.

Asia Society
New York, NY
$35,000
To support a local tour of traditional Burmese music and dance performances and workshops. Performances will include traditional chamber music, outdoor ceremonial music and pagoda festival music featuring a hsain wain ensemble.

City of Monroe
Monroe, LA
$20,000
To support the Louisiana Folklife Festival. Based on targeted fieldwork and research, this annual festival celebrates the folklife of La. and the surrounding region.

Master Musicians Festival, Inc.
Somerset, KY
$10,000
To support the 2003 Master Musicians Festival. The festival presents performers of many cultures alongside indigenous musicians, simultaneously promoting diversity and the region's rich musical heritage.

National Council for the Traditional Arts
Silver Spring, MD
$46,000
To support the Lowell Folk Festival, the National Folk Festival in Bangor, Maine and the Blue Ridge Music Center's Summer Series.

NNABA (Northwest Native American Basketweavers Association)
Omak, WA
$20,000
To support the 2003 Master Basketweavers Gathering. The gathering will honor 35 Native American master basketweavers by showcasing their basketry, demonstrating artistic styles and producing a public art market.

Northwest Folklife Festival
Seattle, WA
$30,000
To support the Maritime Cultures in the Atlantic Northeast and the Pacific Northwest project. Curatorial teams from each region will help determine programming for the 2003 Northwest Folklife Festival showcasing the conservation of maritime culture.

Philadelphia Folklore Project
Philadelphia, PA
$40,000
To support Philly Dance Africa. The project identifies, presents, links and advances significant contemporary local African dancers and musicians.

Puerto Rican Folkloric Dance, Inc.
Austin, TX
$10,000
To support Jibaro music and dance workshops. The workshops will be led by Joaquin Nieves Caldero and the Guateque Folkloric Ballet of Puerto Rico and will culminate in a series of concerts.

Radio Bilingue, Inc.
Fresno, CA
$46,000
To support the !Viva El Mariachi! Festival. The annual festival showcases local, national and international mariachi groups while providing workshops so that mariachi masters can pass along the rich, musical heritage.

Texas Folklife Resources
Austin, TX
$46,000
To support the Community Residency Program. The program will consist of 15 week-long residencies in underserved Texas towns with populations under 10,000.

Young Women's Christian Association
Duluth, MN
$30,000
To support Dance, Dance Music and the Culture of Dance. The programming module will appear at major regional folk festivals in Minnesota and Iowa, presenting traditional dance, music and visual arts related to folk dance and music.

Folk & Traditional Arts Infrastructure Initiative

Alabama State Council on the Arts
Montgomery, AL
$15,000
To support a bilingual fieldworker and related costs. This project will provide field documentation that is crucial to the development of new traditional arts programming in Latino communities in Alabama.

Appalshop, Inc.
Whitesburg, KY
$30,000
To support a folk arts coordinator position and related costs. The coordinator will be responsible for working with music education, presentation and apprenticeships for youth and adults in a five-county area of eastern Kentucky and southwest Virginia.

Arizona Commission on the Arts
Phoenix, AZ
$20,000
To support the creation of a statewide Arizona Folk and Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program and related costs. The program will support four apprenticeship teams, a time-honored way for master artists to pass their skills on to apprentices within their community.

Arts Center of Cannon County
Woodbury, TN
$31,000
To support a folklorist position and related costs. Responsibilities will include a community scholar initiative, programming, technical assistance and heritage tourism development.

Bayou Civic Club, Inc.
Larose, LA
$30,000
To support a folklorist position and related costs. Activities will include establishing a cultural facility and providing technical assistance, as well as coordinating and documenting the maritime, music, crafts and Native-American traditions along Bayou Lafourche.

Center for Cultural Exchange
Portland, ME
$30,000
To support a community programs coordinator and related costs. The coordinator will oversee community cultural initiatives, supervise staff and volunteer community coordinators and conduct field research among Maine's ethnic communities.

City Lore, Inc.
New York, NY
$45,000
To support the continuation of the documentarian position and related costs. Responsibilities will be to continue the field research for all of City Lore's initiatives, including Place Matters and the People's Poetry Gathering.

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
Harrisburg, PA
$35,000
To support regional Folk Arts Support Centers and a celebration of the 20th anniversary of the state's Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program. The Folk Arts Support Centers are locally based, independent organizations that have formed a network to promote the practice of the folk and traditional arts across the state.

Cultural Resources, Inc.
Rockport, ME
$20,000
To support a mid-coast regional folklorist and related costs. Activities will include the development of a traveling exhibit program, technical assistance and a retail outlet for artists' work.

Division of the Arts, Louisiana Department of Culture, Recreation & Tourism
Baton Rouge, LA
$35,000
To support Phase VI of Louisiana Voices. The program offers a blend of high- and low-tech resources that, in addition to providing lessons in folklife, provide teachers with strategies to meet Social Studies and English Language Arts content standards.

Florida Division of Historical Resources
Tallahassee, FL
$30,000
To support a statewide outreach coordinator's position and related costs. Activities will include the completion of an eight-part radio series, the Florida Folklife Apprenticeship Program and Folklife Days.

Fresno Arts Council, Inc.
Fresno, CA
$30,000
To support an executive director's position and related costs at the Alliance for California Traditional Arts (ACTA). Located at the Fresno Arts Council, the director will coordinate and support folk arts programs throughout the state of California.

Indiana University
Bloomington, IN
$30,000
To support a Master Artist Apprentice Program and related costs. The program will identify up to 10 master artists and will pair them with apprentices with whom they can share their artistic traditions.

Institute for Community Research, Inc.
Hartford, CT
$25,000
To support the basic costs of the statewide folk arts program, including the partial salary of the program director. Program activities include fieldwork, documentation, technical assistance and special projects in education and marketing.

Kentucky Arts Council
Frankfort, KY
$33,000
To support a folklorist position and other related costs. The position will oversee three areas of expanded outreach by the Kentucky Folklife Program.

Lincoln Arts Council
Lincoln, NE
$30,000
To support a folklorist position and related costs. Activities will include identifying scholars and folk artists in immigrant and refugee communities, identifying venues for exhibitions and performances, and linking these communities with educational and research resources.

Maine Arts Commission
Augusta, ME
$25,000
To support the Community Folklorist-in-Residence and the Traditional Arts Apprenticeship programs. The programs are designed to bring recognition to local artistic traditions and to honor and support the artists who continue to practice these traditions.

Maryland State Arts Council
Baltimore, MD
$26,000
To support the third year of Maryland Traditions. Folklorists will be placed in two cultural institutions that serve rural and underserved regions presently challenged by demographic and cultural shifts.

Massachusetts Cultural Council
Boston, MA
$25,000
To support the Folk Arts and Heritage Program. Core activities include fieldwork, public access to documentation and continuation of the Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program.

Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI
$35,000
To support research, documentation and public presentations of the Michigan Traditional Arts Apprenticeship and Michigan Heritage Awards programs. Activities will include a publication documenting the Heritage Awards program and small exhibits about both programs.

Missouri State Council on the Arts
St. Louis, MO
$20,000
To support the creation of a pilot folk arts education program. Activities will include curated folk arts residencies for public schools.

National Council for the Traditional Arts
Silver Spring, MD
$35,000
To support the second year of a manager's position at the Blue Ridge Music Center (BRMC) near Galax, Virginia. The primary responsibilities for this position continue to be facility planning, management, programming and establishing the BRMC as a resource for the community.

National Organization for Traditional Artists Exchange
Honolulu, HI
$25,000
To support a folklorist position and related costs. Responsibilities will include coordination of school and community programs on four rural islands, as well as documentation of traditional artists to be showcased on the Pacific Visions radio series.

Nebraska Humanities Council
Lincoln, NE
$30,000
To support the Nebraska Folklife Program. The program's mission is to research, document, support and present Nebraska folklife and traditional arts.

New Mexico Arts Division
Santa Fe, NM
$35,000
To support the Folk Arts Apprenticeship and Community Fieldworker Network programs. Practitioners in the apprenticeship program will be sought in the course of the folk arts coordinator's fieldwork, with the assistance of the Community Fieldworker Network.

North Dakota Council on the Arts
Bismarck, ND
$35,000
To support a statewide Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program and related costs. The program provides grants that allow master traditional artists to pass their knowledge and skills to apprentices in an intensive one-on-one teaching/learning situation.

Ohio Arts Council
Columbus, OH
$20,000
To support the continuation of the Ohio Folk Arts Initiative. Project activities will include workshops, fieldwork/archive updates, continuation of the Ohio Heritage Fellowship Program, and expansion and updating of the Web site.

Oregon Historical Society
Portland, OR
$30,000
To support a folklife coordinator's position and related costs. The coordinator will oversee the Folklife/Folk Arts Education Initiative which will include a summer teacher's institute, outreach to rural artists and communities, and design and development of educational materials.

Rhode Island State Council on the Arts
Providence, RI
$20,000
To support the Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program and related costs. The program fosters the sharing and passing on of traditional skills within cultural communities.

South Carolina Arts Commission
Columbia, SC
$40,000
To support the continuation of the corridor fieldwork coordinator position, the Institute for Community Scholars and the Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Initiative. The continuation of these programs will create long-lasting partnerships at the local and state level, and models for folklife documentation efforts in the state.

South Carolina Traditional Arts Network
Columbia, SC
$20,000
To support an executive director's position and related costs. Responsibilities include policymaking and funding, as well as planning, organizing and coordinating activities for the organization, such as conference planning, membership development and marketing.

South Dakota Arts Council
Pierre, SD
$25,000
To support the Traditional Arts Program. The program includes a Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program, an annual apprenticeship exhibit and fieldwork focused on folk arts and folklife on the Missouri River.

Tennessee Arts Commission
Nashville, TN
$31,000
To support a folklife program assistant position and related costs. The position will include management of informational and archival resources, fieldwork, constituent services and grant management.

Texas Folklife Resources
Austin, TX
$20,000
To support the Apprenticeship in the Folk Arts Program and related costs. The program encourages master traditional artists to pass on their skills to young learners, particularly within their own ethnic or regional communities.

Traditional Arts in Upstate New York, Inc. (aka TAUNY)
Canton, NY
$25,000
To support an executive director's position and related costs. Responsibilities include policy making and funding, as well as planning, organizing and coordinating activities for the organization, such as a local cultural tourism project and development of a core of volunteers.

University of Central Florida
Orlando, FL
$35,000
To support a folklorist position and related costs. Responsibilities will include development and implementation of educational programs and events, Web site development, development of a Heritage Center and a survey of local Hispanic communities.

Valdosta State University
Valdosta, GA
$40,000
To support a folklorist position and related costs. A folklorist based in south Georgia will enhance efforts of the Georgia Folklife Program to document, support and interpret folk arts throughout the state.

Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and Public Policy (aka VFH)
Charlottesville, VA
$25,000
To support a fieldwork survey of Virginia's eastern shore and the continuation of the Folklife Apprenticeship Program and related costs. The program will support 10 apprenticeship teams.

Washington State Arts Commission
Olympia, WA
$25,000
To support the creation of a statewide Latino Infrastructure Initiative. Fieldwork and community meetings will take place statewide, identifying artists and establishing support networks.

West Plains Council on the Arts, Inc.
West Plains, MO
$30,000
To support a folklorist position and related costs. Responsibilities include identifying, locating and creating a database of traditional arts practitioners in the region, and increasing performance and exhibition programming.

West Valley City
West Valley City, UT
$25,000
To support a folklorist position and related costs. Activities include identifying and documenting traditional artists, technical assistance, program development, and coordinating and promoting cultural events.

Wisconsin Arts Board
Madison, WI
$40,000
To support Wisconsin Folks. The project is an online curriculum for students, resource for educators and hiring directory for artists.

Wisdom of the Elders, Inc.
Portland, OR
$30,000
To support a cultural coordinator position and related costs. Activities will include creating the Turtle Island Storytellers Network, a project designed to identify, employ, archive and promote Native historians and storytellers.

Heritage/Preservation

Alabama Folklife Association, Inc.
Birmingham, AL
$25,000
To support the Alabama Community Scholars Institute. The project is designed to preserve Alabama's folklore through formal training in folklife fieldwork, videography, photography transcription and writing.

Allegheny Echoes, Inc.
Marlinton, WV
$8,000
To support workshops in traditional Appalachian music and poetry. The workshops will be designed to preserve, present and pass down the traditional arts of West Virginia.

Asian Americans United, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$16,000
To support the Mid-Autumn Festival. The event will promote community unity through cultural reclamation, cultural maintenance and intergenerational healing.

Beacon Street Gallery and Performance Company
Geneva, IL
$25,000
To support fieldwork to evaluate the present condition of traditional artists and ethnic arts in the Chicago metropolitan area. Issues to be explored include artistic excellence, traditionality, continued knowledge of the traditional arts within ethnic communities and identification of methods to strengthen the practice of traditional arts.

Bear River Association of Governments
Logan, UT
$35,000
To support fieldwork to document the folk arts of the Idaho portion of the Bear River Heritage Area. Fieldwork will take place in Bear Lake, Caribou, Franklin and Oneida counties and will result in public programs, a cultural tourism Web site and a guide.

Boys & Girls Harbor, Inc. (on behalf of Harbor Conservatory)
New York, NY
$30,000
To support a project director staff position and related costs. The director will oversee the cataloging, preservation and storage of the paper and photographic materials of the RAICES Archives, the world's largest collection of Afro-Caribbean Latin music.

Brooklyn Arts Council, Inc. (aka BAC)
Brooklyn, NY
$15,000
To support Folk Feet: Celebrating Traditional Dance in Brooklyn, and related costs. The festival will feature highly skilled dance groups and dancers representing community-based dance forms.

California Indian Basketweavers Association
Nevada City, CA
$30,000
To support the California Indian Basketweavers Gathering. The annual gathering contributes to the revitalization of indigenous basket traditions in California by bringing together basketweavers to learn from one another, share experiences, discuss issues and exhibit their work.

Cambodian American Heritage, Inc.
Fort Washington, MD
$10,000
To support instruction in Cambodian classical dance and music. The project will culminate with a concert in observance of the Cambodian New Year.

Center for Traditional Music and Dance, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
To support the New York World Festival. The festival will focus on the rich musical traditions of countries of the Western Caribbean and the coast of the Gulf of Mexico.

Chhandam Chitresh Das Dance Company (aka CDDC) (consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
To support the Kathak at the Crossroads conference. The conference will bring, for the first time, the international Kathak community to one location and explore Kathak in all its dimensions through performances, panel discussions, forums, papers and lecture demonstrations.

City Lore, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
To support A Passion for Poetry: Asian and Middle Eastern Poetry Traditions in New York City. The project will support fieldwork in and presentations of eight poetry traditions of Asian and Middle Eastern cultures in Iran, Iraq, India, India, Pakistan, Yemen, the Ukraine and Uzbekistan.

City of Galax, Virginia (on behalf of Galax Downtown Association)
Galax, VA
$25,000
To support a series of traditional music concerts and the Galax Leaf and String Festival. The live radio broadcast of the festival will feature local, regional and nationally known musicians performing traditional bluegrass and old-time music.

City of San Fernando, California
San Fernando, CA
$20,000
To support the Mariachi Master-Apprentice Program. The project will focus on advanced instrumental and vocal performance skills for youth ages 11 to 21.

City of Santa Clarita, California
Santa Clarita, CA
$10,000
To support the 2004 Cowboy Poetry & Music Festival and the Cowboy Poetry and Music in the Schools Program. The project is designed to enlighten festival patrons about the rich history of California through songs and verse, commission folk and traditional artists to create new works and develop an education component.

Davis & Elkins College (on behalf of Augusta Heritage Center)
Elkins, WV
$30,000
To support the Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program and the Old-Time Fiddlers Reunion. The apprenticeship will take place in the home or workplace of the master artists where context, values and lore are shared along with the art itself.

Dutchess County Arts Council, Inc.
Poughkeepsie, NY
$7,000
To support One River, Many Streams. The festival will feature performances, demonstrations, discussions and displays of folk and traditional performing and material arts practiced in the Mid Hudson Valley region.

Fresno Arts Council, Inc.
Fresno, CA
$30,000
To support Voices of Youth 2003. Using folklore theory and the documentary arts of photography and audio recording to explore the idea of community, youth ages 13 to 17 will focus attention on elements of their own community traditions.

Fresno Arts Council, Inc. (on behalf of Alliance for California Traditional Arts)
Fresno, CA
$40,000
To support the Alliance for California Traditional Arts State Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program and related costs. The project will support one-on-one learning for 30 master-apprentice pairs, fieldwork, an artists' gathering and Web site outreach.

Friends of Sheldon Jackson Museum
Sitka, AK
$15,000
To support the Native Artist Demonstrator Program. Alaska Native artists will demonstrate and interpret art forms found in the museum collection including wood, ivory and silver carving, drum making, beading, skin sewing, and basket and textile weaving.

Hostos Community College Advisory Council, Inc.
(aka Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture)
Bronx, NY
$20,000
To support Canciones de Liberacion. The project will consist of a series of concerts, workshops, lecture demonstrations and exhibits showcasing traditional Latin-American music and dance.

Institute for Community Research, Inc.
Hartford, CT
$20,000
To support the Southern New England Apprenticeship Project. The sixth year of the project will continue to bring together master artists and apprentices from Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut, adding new artists located through ongoing fieldwork in the region.

Institute for Cultural Partnerships (consortium)
Harrisburg, PA
$50,000
To support the Mid-Atlantic Maritime Cultural Heritage Project. The project will identify and document communities and individuals whose work significantly preserves their maritime heritage through presentation, conservation and education.

Japanese American Cultural and Community Center (consortium)
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
To support the 2003 North American Taiko Community Gathering. The project will offer a three-day conference with master classes, community leadership dialogues, a weeklong Summer Taiko Institute and a Taiko Jam concert.

Kaw Valley Arts & Humanities, Inc.
Kansas City, KS
$10,000
To support the KCK Street Blues Festival. The two-day festival will present locally and nationally known blues artists in a low-income neighborhood setting.

Kayamanan Ng Lahi Philippine Folk Arts
Culver City, CA
$20,000
To support the Philippine Dance Gathering and Workshops II. The project is designed to support the development of Philippine dance in America through the provision of a variety of capacity-building activities and services.

Kentucky Assembly of Local Arts Agencies (aka Arts Kentucky)
Louisville, KY
$25,000
To support the Kentucky Festivals Cultural Heritage Improvement Project. The project will develop and maintain a system of resources used to provide training and support to the organizers and volunteers of festivals in seven rural Kentucky communities.

Kunqu Society, Inc.
Scarsdale, NY
$8,000
To support Fifteen Strings of Cash. The presentation of the 17th century Kunqu drama will mark the premiere of the play outside China.

La Troupe Makandal, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$9,000
To support Rezistans. The performance will celebrate the bicentenary of Haitian independence and present portraits of men and women crucial to Haiti's historic struggle for justice and equality.

Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center
San Pablo, CA
$25,000
To support the Community Heritage Project. The project is designed to help low-income and at-risk youth develop art skills in a social context by providing them with opportunities for self and community expression through traditional Mexican music, dance and visual art forms.

Los Pleneros de la 21, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the Puerto Rican Music Project. Components will include a Touring and Residency Project, Bomba and Plena Community Workshops, An Evening with the Masters and Fiesta de Cruz.

Maine Acadian Heritage Council
Madawaska, ME
$30,000
To support research and development of an Acadian cultural heritage trail with an accompanying audio recording. The proposed trail will encompass the Saint John Valley at the northern tip of Maine, as well as the Canadian side of the river and will feature traditional artists, museums, family farms and vernacular architecture.

Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance, Inc. (aka MIBA)
Old Town, ME
$30,000
To support the Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program. The program is central to efforts to save the ash and sweetgrass basketry traditions, the oldest art forms in Maine.

Mind-Builders Creative Arts Co. (consortium)
Bronx, NY
$10,000
To support the folklorist-in-training project. The project will recruit and train local youth between the ages of 13-18 to help identify, document and present folk artists and tradition bearers found within their families and neighborhoods.

National Council for the Traditional Arts
Silver Spring, MD
$65,000
To support an urban and rural festival, a tour in the western United States and a series of outdoor concerts in an underserved region of Appalachia. The project honors folk, tribal and ethnic communities across the nation by developing audiences and giving national exposure to excellent folk artists.

New York Folklore Society, Inc.
Schenectady, NY
$25,000
To support the Mentoring and Professional Development Program for Folklife and Traditional Arts, Capacity Building for Community Organizations and Artist Self-Presentation Programs. The services will provide professional development support and outreach to underserved rural and community folk arts organizations.

North Carolina Pottery Museum, Inc. (aka NC Pottery Center)
Seagrove, NC
$25,000
To support the creation of new displays within the permanent exhibition intended to place North Carolina traditional pottery in context. Plans include installing a potter's workshop, a cutaway of a wood kiln and a room for a 19th century farmhouse.

Northwest Indian College
Bellingham, WA
$25,000
To support the Native American Women & Girls Conference. The three-day conference is designed to keep alive the Coast Salish art of basketry by passing the skills from elders to young people.

Odunde Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$20,000
To support the 2003 ODUNDE Festival. ODUNDE is the oldest African-American community festival in Philadelphia, featuring local and international dancers, musicians and performers, including hip hop, tap dance, gospel, steel drum and stepping.

Philadelphia Folklore Project
Philadelphia, PA
$35,000
To support Art Happens Here. The project will document and present folk artists and their arts to audiences at community sites within the region through exhibitions and artist residencies.

Raices Culturales Latinoamericanas, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$15,000
To support Nuestras Culturas/Our Cultures. The after-school program for students between the ages of 14-18 will offer workshops in Hispanic dance, craft and music.

Sedgwick Cultural Center
Philadelphia, PA
$40,000
To support a touring exhibition of the Germantown Eyedazzler style of Navajo weaving. The exhibit will document the evolution, adaptation and preservation of three interwoven traditions during more than two centuries of social change.

Texas Folklife Resources
Austin, TX
$50,000
To support the third International Accordion Festival. The event celebrates the accordion's central role in the traditional music of the United States and throughout the globe.

University of Missouri at Columbia (consortium)
Columbia, MO
$25,000
To support the Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program. The program is designed to pair teams of master artists and apprentices who are committed to conserving their artistic traditions and cultural heritage.

University of New Orleans Foundation (on behalf of American Routes)
New Orleans, LA
$40,000
To support field-recorded segments of American Routes. These special features will focus on interviews with artists and community members representing unique American regional and cultural traditions.

Vermont Folklife Center
Middlebury, VT
$20,000
To support the statewide Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program. The program encourages the preservation of living traditional arts by funding master artists to work with apprentices in order to pass along time-honored skills and knowledge.

Washington Chu Shan Chinese Opera Institute, Inc.
Silver Spring, MD
$10,000
To support Zhe Ze Xi, a series of excerpts from traditional Chinese operas. Performing artists of Chinese opera from Taiwan, mainland China and the U.S. will perform traditional excerpts from Kunqu (Literary opera), Nanqu (Southern opera), Chuanju (Sichuan opera) and Jingju (Peking opera).

Western Folklife Center
Elko, NV
$50,000
To support the 2004 National Cowboy Poetry Gathering. The anniversary event will feature performers and folklorists present at the first gathering, an exhibit of materials from the center's archives, a commemorative program and video documentation for a historical record.

World Music Institute, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
$25,000
To support touring concerts of traditional Moroccan, Colombian, West African, and Greek music and dance. The project is designed to reach a larger audience for non-Western music and dance and to serve those immigrant communities whose music is being presented.

National Endowment for the Arts · an independent federal agency
1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20506