2003 GRANT AWARDS - Heritage/Preservation

2003 Grant Awards: Heritage/Preservation

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

DANCE

American Dance Festival, Inc. (consortium)
Durham, NC
$22,000
To support the Dance Critics Workshop. Journalists will attend performances followed by discussion and analysis, classes, informal sessions and seminars.

American Tap Dance Orchestra, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the 2003 Tap City/Tap Workshop Intensive. The project includes professional-level master classes, tap workshops, an expanded youth program, luncheon seminars, panel discussions and film seminars about tap history.

Arts Resources in Collaboration, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the restoration of Eye On Dance video interviews. The restored sessions will be distributed nationally to libraries and educational institutions and broadcast on PBS in the New York City tri-state area.

Batoto Yetu, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the creation of Ngola Nzinga, choreographed by Artistic Director Julio T. Leitao. The piece will showcase African music, dance and folklore.

Dance Heritage Coalition, Inc.
Washington, DC
$30,000
To support internships in dance conservation. The interns will conduct archival assessments including basic conservation, materials handling and housing, and environmental requirements for dance-related artifacts.

Dance Notation Bureau, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the updating of existing dance scores using the computer program LabanWriter. Scores include Le Spectre de la Rose by Mikhail Fokine, New Dance by Doris Humphrey, Strange Hero by Daniel Nagrin, Le Tricorn by Leonide Massine, A Choreographic Offering by Jose Limon and Resettings by Senta Driver.

George Balanchine Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support updating and digitizing the publication Choreography by George Balanchine: A Catalogue of Works. The publication will also be made available on the Foundation's Web site.

Heritage & Tradition, Inc. (AVAZ International Dance Theatre)
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
To support the creation of a suite of classical Persian court dances. Choreographed by Associate Artistic Director Jamal, the works will mark the 25th anniversary of AVAZ International Dance Theatre.

International Tap Association
Boulder, CO
$10,000
To support Closing the Gap, a project examining the legacy and future of the art of tap. The project will bring together three generations of tap artists to examine aesthetic, philosophical and practical issues for the field.

John Butler Foundation, Inc.
Richmond, VA
$20,000
To support a condition assessment of the significant works of the late choreographer John Butler. The project will result in a comprehensive catalog of his works, spanning five decades.

Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company, Inc.
Fort Lee, NJ
$5,000
To support the presentation of a Beijing Opera dance by Liu Tao. The work will premiere at the company's Chinese New Year Festival presented at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center.

National Institute of Flamenco
Albuquerque, NM
$10,000
To support the Festival Flamenca Internacional 2003. The Festival consists of performances and a variety of educational activities.

New York Baroque Dance Co., Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the Baroque Ballet Workshop, a residency program to be held in Hunter, N.Y., San Rafael, Calif., and Denton, Texas. The project will include classes, concerts and lectures.

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc. (on behalf of Check Your Body at the Door)
New York, NY
$25,000
To support a fine-cut edit of Check Your Body at the Door, a video documentary about popular, social, and club dances and dancers in New York City. The documentary is filmed in the clubs and the studio, and features a group of dancers, ages 16 to 46, demonstrating a variety of styles including free-form house jazz, hip-hop, vogueing, fast footwork and other new free styles.

Nikolais/Louis Foundation for Dance, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the Nikolais Festival. The project will document and present several dances of choreographer Alwin Nikolais in commemoration of the 10th anniversary of his death.

Repertory Dance Theatre
Salt Lake City, UT
$20,000
To support the reconstruction, performance and documentation of Steps of Silence, a work created in 1968 for Repertory Dance Theatre by choreographer Anna Sokolow. The project will enhance future study and appreciation of Sokolow's influence in modern dance.

Repertory Project
Cleveland Hts., OH
$5,000
To support the creation of a new work by Artistic Director Hernando Cortez. The piece will be choreographed to songs from the 1952 Moondog Coronation Ball and will honor founding Cleveland DJ Alan Freed.

SAMSKRI, Society for Indian Performing Arts
Houston, TX
$10,000
To support the first international conference on Kuchipudi Indian Dance. The conference will include panel discussions, presentation of scholarly papers, workshops and performances.

School of American Ballet, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the Oral Preservation Project, documenting the evolution of the school, which was integral to the development of ballet in this country from the 1940s to the present. The project will involve interviews with individuals key to the school's history.

DESIGN

African American Heritage Preservation Foundation, Inc.
Washington, DC
$15,000
To support a weekend workshop for design professionals, public school teachers and community leaders. The project will encourage community awareness of historic African-American sites and involve local neighborhood youth.

Cornerstones Community Partnerships
Santa Fe, NM
$35,000
To support educational workshops on the preservation of historic adobe structures in Mora County, New Mexico. The project will train rural communities in the preservation of their historic adobe buildings with a traditional building technique central to the Hispanic and Native-American cultures of the Southwest.

Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support the nomination of Frank Lloyd Wright structures to the UNESCO World Heritage List. The nomination will focus on the comprehensive nature of Wright's contribution to modern architecture.

Preservation Oklahoma, Inc.
Oklahoma City, OK
$15,000
To support an exhibit and lecture series on Oklahoma's endangered historic properties. Activities will focus public attention on cultural resources such as archeological sites, historic theaters and other historic structures that are threatened by demolition, vandalism and neglect.

Price Tower Arts Center, Inc.
Bartlesville, OK
$20,000
To support the documentation of a Frank Lloyd Wright-designed space and furnishings. The research and documentation of the H.C. Price executive office and family apartment building will allow the space to be restored to its 1956 appearance.

School of the Building Arts, Inc. (consortium)
Charleston, SC
$55,000
To support Masters of the Building Arts, a festival showcasing the skills of master craftspeople. The festival will feature artisans such as stonecarvers, brick masons, woodcarvers and other craftspeople, in workshops, demonstrations and lectures.

Sierra Business Council
Truckee, CA
$20,000
To support the printing and Web placement of Sierra Town Patterns. The publication on historic buildings and downtown areas will offer information on cultural and historical assets in Sierra Nevada communities.

Women Make Movies, Inc. (on behalf of Travelfilm Company)
New York, NY
$30,000
To support a documentary that depicts the history of Mason City, Iowa through a narrative about one building. The Park Inn, a hotel designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, will be documented, presenting the building through its relationship to the city and urban history.

FOLK & TRADITIONAL ARTS

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.

LITERATURE

Center for Book Culture
Normal, IL
$55,000
To support the restoration and promotion of major works of modern fiction by Dalkey Archive Press. Authors whose works will be republished as part of the press's International Recovery Project include Ivan Angelo, Violette Leduc, Robert Pinget, Nathalie Sarraute and Ignacio Brandao.

Naropa University
Boulder, CO
$25,000
To support the preservation of recordings of central literary figures who have visited the Poetics School between 1974 and 1986. Authors featured on the tapes include Philip Whalen, Gregory Corso, Ted Berrigan, William S. Burroughs and Meredith Monk.

Paris Review Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support Writers-at-Work interviews in The Paris Review. Potential interviewees include Pat Barker, Anne Carson, Andrea Barrett, Janet Malcolm, Michael Chabon, Richard Powers, Barry Hannah, Ian Frazier and Jonathan Lethem.

Poets House, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
To support the Poetry Publication Showcase, a series of programs designed to preserve and display the breadth of poetry in print. The Showcase will feature panel discussions, readings and an intensive three-day workshop to help librarians bring poetry to their communities.

Words Given Wings Literary Arts Project (aka Mercury House)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support Mercury House's publication and national distribution of culturally significant works of international literature. Scheduled titles include Running Through Fire, a memoir by Holocaust survivor Zosia Goldberg as told to Hilton Obenzinger, with an introduction by Paul Auster; and Border Crosser: Selected Writings of Victor Perera.

LOCALS

City of Philadelphia, Office Arts & Culture (aka Public Art Office)
Philadelphia, PA
$80,000
To support the conservation of City Hall Tower sculptures by Alexander Milne Calder. The larger than-life-size bronze sculptures, created by the artist in the early 1870s, consist of Native Americans, Swedish settlers and American eagles on the exterior of Philadelphia's City Hall.

MEDIA ARTS

American Indian Film Institute
San Francisco, CA
$5,000
To support the 29th annual American Indian Film Festival. At the 2003 festival, documentaries and feature films will be presented along with work by emerging Native American filmmakers.

Anthology Film Archives
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the preservation of films directed by Willard Maas, Paul Sharits and Larry Jordan. The films, of considerable historical and aesthetic importance, exist on old and decaying internegatives, many of which are more than 35 years old.

Bay Area Video Coalition, Inc. (aka BAVC)
San Francisco, CA
$50,000
To support ongoing, low-cost video preservation services to artists and arts organizations throughout the nation. In addition, Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC) will launch an audio preservation and remastering service center.

George Eastman House
Rochester, NY
$45,000
To support Before Mickey: Masterworks of Early Animation. George Eastman House will restore unique and endangered animated films of the silent era, produced and/or directed by pioneers of American cartoons between 1916 and 1929.

Independent Media Arts Preservation (IMAP)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support Phase III of the Cataloging Project, an on-line compatible database created to assist artists and organizations in cataloging their media materials. The database consists of a template- designed to be shared--that includes fields for a numbering system, format, production date, synopsis, artist's name, etc.

Iota Fund (aka iotaCenter)
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
To support the preservation of films by Jules Engel from the Dr. William Moritz Collection. Jules Engel, who began his career working on Walt Disney's Fantasia (1939), is an important figure in the field of abstract animation.

Museum of Modern Art
New York, NY
$32,500
To support the preservation of endangered films from the museum's nationally recognized collection. Each year, the Museum of Modern Art's Department of Film and Media saves 50 to 100 films by transferring them from unstable nitrate stock to acetate, and also preserves fading and damaged acetate films.

National Center for Jewish Film
Waltham, MA
$15,000
To support the preservation of The Living Orphan. The center's collection contains the only surviving copy of this film, which is in danger of decomposing.

New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.
Staten Island, NY
$10,000
To support the cataloging and preservation of work from the radio series New American Radio. New American Radio (1989-1998) was a weekly series that encouraged artists from all disciplines to create radiophonic art works.

New York Women in Film & Television
(on behalf of Women's Film Preservation Fund)
New York, NY
$5,000
To support a curated film series and national tour. Since 1996, the Women's Film Preservation Fund has supported the preservation of films in which women held significant creative roles.

Pacifica Foundation
Washington, DC
$15,000
To support initial work to preserve arts-related recordings in the Pacifica archive. Of the 40,500 tapes housed in the archive, approximately 25 percent represent arts programming.

Radio Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$7,500
To support the Bob & Ray Permanent Archive. Bob & Ray were radio humorists who were on the air nationally for 40 years.

Regents of the University of California at Los Angeles
(on behalf of UCLA Film and Television Archive)
Los Angeles, CA
$15,000
To support a retrospective film series devoted to director Frank Borzage. Frank Borzage was a pioneer in the use of soft-focus photography and set the Hollywood standard for romantic atmosphere.

MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Association to Preserve the Eatonville Community, Inc. (aka P.E.C.)
Eatonville, FL
$10,000
To support a photographic exhibition and short film festival. The events will be presented as part of the 15th Annual Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities.

Chinese-American Arts Council, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the Summer Cultural Festival. This series will feature Chinese opera, folk music, visual arts and lecture demonstrations.

Experimental Sound Studio (consortium)
Chicago, IL
$18,000
To support the Creative Audio Archive. This project will catalog and preserve three collections of audio recordings of local and national significance.

Gamelan Sekar Jaya
El Cerrito, CA
$25,000
To support the Balinese Residency and Intensive Workshop Series. Up to ten Balinese musicians and dancers will offer hands-on instruction, coaching, lectures and demonstrations on both widely known Balinese performance genres and little-documented music and dance forms.

HUC Skirball Cultural Center (aka Skirball Cultural Center)
Los Angeles, CA
$40,000
To support the International Jewish Performing Arts Festival. The three-week series will present work by international musicians, theater artists, videographers, filmmakers and choreographers whose work integrates traditional Jewish and contemporary artistic practices.

Intermedia Arts of Minnesota, Inc. (consortium)
Minneapolis, MN
$25,000
To support the expansion and maintenance of the Intermedia Arts Collection. This archive of regional work will grow to include 35 mm slides, media art, performance documentation, interviews and corporate records gathered over the organization's 30-year history.

Iroquois Indian Museum
Howes Cave, NY
$27,000
To support Iroquois Arts Celebrations. The project will present a wide spectrum of visual and performing arts events by Iroquois Nation artists.

New Art Publications (aka BOMB Magazine)
New York, NY
$30,000
To support AMERICAS 2004. This annual issue will feature interviews between artists, writers and musicians, and original translations of poetry and fiction.

New York Public Library and the Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations
(on behalf of New York Public Library for the Performing Arts)
New York, NY
$65,000
To support the documentation and preservation of dance and theater performances and oral histories by performing artists. Up to 18 performances and seven oral histories will be recorded, and 50 hours of audio materials will be preserved.

New York University
New York, NY
$40,000
To support phase one of a three-year preservation plan for the Downtown Collection. Phase one will focus on research, material assessment, copyright determination and the development of protocols for preserving a large print and video archive documenting the downtown New York arts scene.

San Francisco Performing Arts Library & Museum (aka SF Palm)
(on behalf of LEGACY 0ral History Project)
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
To support the expansion of the LEGACY Oral History Project. Up to nine oral histories will be produced and two training workshops in the creation of oral histories will be offered.

Wing Luke Memorial Foundation
Seattle, WA
$25,000
To support Learning the Past, Living the Present: Sikh Community, Culture and Conversation. This project will generate oral histories and visual artworks that will form the basis for a traveling exhibition.

MUSEUMS

Art Museum of Western Virginia
Roanoke, VA
$20,000
To support the conservation of paintings, preliminary studies and sculpture by American artist Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) and members of his artistic circle. Eakins, who spent most of his life working and teaching in Philadelphia, is considered to be one of the finest American portrait painters of the 19th century.

Baltimore Museum of Art, Inc. (consortium)
Baltimore, MD
$50,000
To support documentation of 19th century French drawings in the permanent collections of the Baltimore Museum and Walters Art Museum. Together, the works of art featured in the project constitute one of the nation's richest collections of French drawing as it developed from academic traditions to progressive modernism.

Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the training of two apprentice textile conservators. The apprentices will assist in the conservation treatment of a 17th century Barberini tapestries series depicting the life of Christ.

Chinati Foundation (aka La Fundacion Chinati)
Marfa, TX
$25,000
To support a study of the environmental conditions of the Chinati museum buildings. The project addresses the long-term care of the contemporary art collections.

Connecticut Historical Society
Hartford, CT
$25,000
To support the exhibition Truly American: Discovering the Connecticut Furniture of Eliphalet Chapin and his Contemporaries, with accompanying catalog and education programs. The exhibition will focus on Chapin's 18th century cabinetmaking and its place within central Connecticut and early American furniture making.

Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts (aka CCAHA)
Philadelphia, PA
$25,000
To support a postgraduate internship in paper conservation. The project will involve training in the treatment of works on paper such as drawings, prints and watercolors as well as manuscripts, maps, photographs, parchment and books.

Field Museum of Natural History (aka Field Museum)
Chicago, IL
$35,000
To support the preservation of the museum's collection of Chinese embroideries. The collection consists of over 2,800 items, some of which date from the 15th century.

Glessner House Museum
Chicago, IL
$12,000
To support the creation of a management database of the collection. The museum has an extensive collection of Arts and Crafts furniture and decor numbering approximately 5,000 objects.

Indiana University (on behalf of University Art Museum)
Bloomington, IN
$30,000
To support the conservation treatment of American artist Stuart Davis' Swing Landscape mural. The entire conservation process will be documented in writing and photography for future use by scholars and conservators.

Isamu Noguchi Foundation Inc.
Long Island City, NY
$5,000
To support the conservation treatment of large-scale stone sculptures by Japanese-American artist Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988). Several of the works were recently relocated to the museum from the artist's studio in Japan.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (on behalf of List Visual Arts Center)
Cambridge, MA
$20,000
To support the conservation treatment of Italian-American artist Harry Bertoia's (1915-1978) altarpiece in the MIT chapel. Created in 1955, the altarpiece is one of many notable early modernist works on the campus.

Millicent Rogers Museum, Inc.
Taos, NM
$12,000
To support the exhibition The Art of the Book in the Southwest, with accompanying education programs. The exhibition features work from 1600 to the present by Native-American, Hispanic and European-American artists.

Milwaukee Art Museum, Inc.
Milwaukee, WI
$30,000
To support the touring exhibition American Fancy: Imagination and Style in the 19th Century Home, with accompanying catalog and education programs. The project will examine a wide range of objects to identify and define "fancy" in the context of the history of American decorative arts.

Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute
Utica, NY
$15,000
To support the conservation treatment of works from the collection of European modernist works. The project leads toward a touring exhibition in 2005.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Boston, MA
$51,000
To support photographic documentation and rehousing of the museum's textile and fashion art collection. The collection of over 27,000 items includes tapestries, embroideries, costumes and accessories, as well as one of the finest Andean textiles collections in existence.

Museum of New Mexico Foundation
Santa Fe, NM
$25,000
To support Cultural Crossroads, a long-term reinstallation of the permanent collection, with accompanying catalog and public programs. Cultural Crossroads and related interpretive projects will present a cross-cultural, multidisciplinary view of New Mexico art from the arrival of the railroad in 1880 to the present.

Northeast Document Conservation Center
Andover, MA
$20,000
To support an internship for a beginning paper conservator. The internship is designed for an individual who has completed graduate training in a fine arts conservation program but who requires additional, hands-on experience.

Smith College
Northampton, MA
$12,000
To support a comprehensive survey of the museum's frame collection for paintings. The results of the survey will be used to guide conservation planning and frame replacement decisions and to update the museum's documentary files.

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
Williamstown, MA
$50,000
To support a traveling exhibition of the work of French painter Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825), with accompanying education programs. David was the leader of the Neo-Classical style in France, a supporter of the French Revolution and painter to Napoleon.

Textile Conservation Workshop, Inc.
South Salem, NY
$15,000
To support a master-apprenticeship for in-depth training in textile conservation. As a regional conservation laboratory, the apprenticeship program fills a gap not covered by formal conservation courses in graduate school programs.

Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art (aka Corcoran Gallery of Art)
Washington, DC
$50,000
To support the production of a scholarly catalog of the pre-1945 American painting and sculpture collection. The new, full-color publication will include in-depth entries on the most significant works.

University of Maryland Baltimore County Campus
(on behalf of Albin O. Kuhn Library and Gallery Special Collections)
Baltimore, MD
$18,000
To support the exhibition Intermedia: The Dick Higgins Collection, with accompanying catalog and symposium. The exhibition will consist of works drawn from the library's Dick Higgins archive representing more than 400 intermedia artists.

University of Washington (on behalf of Burke Museum) (consortium)
Seattle, WA
$25,000
To support the commissioning of two totem poles. The poles will interpret the Kaats grizzly bear legend of the Saanyakwan Tlingit and will replace the grizzly bear house posts recently repatriated by the museum.

Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian
Santa Fe, NM
$20,000
To support the conservation treatment of Navajo and Pueblo Indian textiles. The goals of the project are to remove potentially damaging soil and to stabilize areas of wear.

MUSIC

Borough of Manhattan Community College Performing Arts Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support Lost Jazz Shrines, an annual concert series featuring music performed at historic, lower Manhattan jazz venues. During 2004, the series will highlight the various styles of jazz heard from 1957 to 1994 at the seminal Greenwich Village club, the Village Gate.

Center for Cultural Exchange (consortium)
Portland, ME
$22,500
To support Sweet Sounds of Praise, a series of artist residencies, performances and a compact disc recording. Three week-long residencies are planned with noted artists in African-American music.

Columbia College Chicago (on behalf of Center for Black Music Research)
Chicago, IL
$25,000
To support a symposium and performance celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Center for Black Music Research. Artistic Director Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson will moderate an open panel discussion with five composers of African descent and conduct a performance by the New Black Music Repertory Ensemble.

Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Inc. (aka Detroit Symphony Orchestra Hall)
Detroit, MI (consortium)
$75,000
To support workshops and performances during the National Association of Negro Musicians' (NANM) 2004 convention. The Detroit Symphony Orchestra (DSO) and NANM will host the six-day national convention and present youth sessions, panel discussions, a scholarship competition, and concerts of jazz, gospel, choral and orchestral music.

Eclipse Chamber Orchestra, Inc.
Alexandria, VA
$10,000
To support the compact disc recording of works by composer Mark Adamo. The compact disc will feature music commissioned during the composer's tenure as composer-in-residence with the chamber orchestra and will be recorded on the Naxos label.

Instituto Pro Musica de California
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support the annual Dia de los Reyes (Epiphany) celebratory concerts of 18th century Mexican music performed throughout Northern California and recorded for subsequent release. The project will involve the restoration to modern performance repertory and give present-day premieres of eight works by Mexican composers.

Jazz Foundation of America, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support a mentorship program provided by older jazz musicians. Performances and discussions for New York City school students will offer senior jazz musicians the opportunity to relate their life stories and share their artistry.

Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra
New Orleans, LA
$25,000
To support a concert program exploring the connection between the city of New Orleans and the Harlem Renaissance. Through a collaboration with the New Orleans Museum of Art and Tulane University's Amistad Research Center, three concert performances will include an exhibition of works by Harlem artists and educational activities.

Manchester Craftsmen's Guild
Pittsburgh, PA
$50,000
To support an archival recording project to preserve the 16th anniversary MCGJazz series and the cataloging and preservation of the Stanley Turrentine Archive. Artists whose performances will be recorded live during the eight-concert season include Herbie Hancock, Cassandra Wilson, the Joshua Redman Quartet and the George Shearing Trio.

Other Minds (consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$50,000
To support New Music in America, a project preserving more than 3,500 hours of original live conversations, interviews and performances by leading American composers and artists of the 20th and early 21st centuries. The San Francisco Performing Arts Library and Museum will collaborate on the project to convert the aging analog archive into a digital medium.

Twentieth Century Consort (aka 20th Century Consort)
Takoma Park, MD
$13,500
To support an archival project preserving recorded works by 20th- and 21st-century composers. The digital archive will be housed in the Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library at the University of Maryland at College Park.

Washington Men's Camerata, Inc.
Washington, DC
$9,000
To support the National Library of Men's Choral Music. The project is a continuation of a multi-year initiative to establish an operational lending library and searchable database to safeguard collections of men's choral music and make the repertoire widely available for study.

PRESENTING

Minnesota STAR, Inc. (Cedar Cultural Center)
Minneapolis, MN
$20,000
To support the Fifth Annual Nordic Roots Festival. The festival will present traditional roots-based music from Scandinavian countries and a collaborative dance performance.

Queens Theatre in the Park, Inc.
Flushing, NY
$30,000
To support the Latino Cultural Festival and the yearlong Latino Cultural Series. The festival and series, a three-week summer event, will feature music, dance, theater, film and family programming.

THEATER

Grupo de Artistas Latinamericanos (aka GALA, Inc.)
Washington, DC
$35,000
To support a production of Valor, Agravio, y Mujer by Ana Caro. The theater will commission an original translation and will offer free simultaneous English interpretation at all shows.

International Arts Relations, Inc. (aka INTAR) (consortium)
New York, NY
$35,000
To support the New York premiere of The Old Matador by Latina playwright Milcha Sanchez-Scott. In a consortium with The Women's Project and Productions, INTAR will co-produce the play to be staged at the newly renovated Women's Project Theater in New York.

Irish Repertory Theatre Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
Presentation of an adaptation of Peter Quinn's novel Banished Children of Eve. Based on Peter Quinn's historical novel and adapted by producing director Ciaran O'Rielly, the piece will depict the experiences of Irish immigrants in New York City during the Civil War.

Michael Chekhov Association, Inc.
West Village Station, NY
$30,000
To support the production and distribution of six videos on the Michael Chekhov technique. The videos will serve as a resource for teachers, students, professional actors and directors, and libraries.

New York University (on behalf of The Drama Review)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the publication and distribution of four volumes of The Drama Review, an international journal of live performance. The Drama Review is committed to documenting important new work and to reassessing traditional notions of performance.

Regents of the University of California at San Diego (on behalf of TheaterForum)
La Jolla, CA
$8,000
To support the publication and distribution of two issues of TheatreForum, an international journal of performance. TheatreForum documents contemporary theater for current and future students, scholars and theater practitioners.

UNIMA-USA
Atlanta, GA
$12,000
To support the publication and distribution of Puppetry International Magazine and the Directory of Touring Companies & Professional Puppetry Services, and the expansion of Web site services. UNIMA-U.S.A.'s publications document puppet theater works and provide technical assistance to puppet artists.

Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum
Topanga, CA
$10,000
To support the apprenticeship program. Twenty young artists will be mentored as they move past the internship stage to professional actor and artist/teachers.

VISUAL ARTS

Arizona State University (on behalf of Bilingual Review Press)
Tempe, AZ
$18,000
To support the third volume in a series of publications documenting work by Chicano artists and art organizations since the 1960s. Published by Bilingual Review Press, the book will document artistic production from various regions of the country.

Art Re Grup, Inc. (aka The LAB)
San Francisco, CA
$9,000
To support the organization and dissemination of archive material documenting The LAB's 20-year history of contemporary arts programming. The LAB, located in San Francisco's Mission District, has presented hundreds of artists over the years whose work crossed the disciplinary boundaries of visual, performing and literary art.

Baltimore Center for the Performing Arts, Inc.
Baltimore, MD
$15,000
To support conservation and restoration of a 1914 mural by Vincent Maragliotti above the proscenium arch in Baltimore's historic Hippodrome Theater. The mural, 45 feet long and 26 feet tall, is painted on canvas and now in storage awaiting conservation.

Brevard Community College
(on behalf of Harry T. and Harriette Moore Multicultural Center)
Cocoa, FL
$10,000
To support an exhibition and education activities featuring the work of the "Highwaymen," a group of African-American artists who painted in Florida in the mid-20th century. These artists, denied gallery representation because of their race, used their cars as mobile galleries and sold their art along the highway, driving the triangle formed by the cities of Fort Pierce, Daytona and Orlando.

Central Baptist Church
Charleston, SC
$15,000
To support conservation and restoration of murals executed in 1915 by an artist from India, Amohamed Milai, in one of the first churches built solely by African Americans. The murals are extensive and depict the life of Christ, including the Crucifixion, Ascension and Resurrection.

Dieu Donne Papermill, Inc.
New York, NY
$16,000
To support assessment and upgrade of Dieu Donne's archive. The project will be managed by a professional conservator working with staff and prominent artists who have been associated with the papermill.

Friends of Fred Smith, Inc.
Phillips, WI
$10,000
To support a conservation project to treat art works in the Wisconsin Concrete Park, an installation created by self-taught artist Fred Smith. Specific works, more than 200 sculptures and tableaux, will receive treatment, including the potential replication of a set of original organic antlers.

Heritage Preservation, Inc.
Washington, DC
$9,000
To support the second phase of a project to conserve works commissioned during the National Endowment for the Arts' Art in Public Places Program. The second phase will attempt to raise public awareness of more than 300 sculptures and their conditions.

Lower East Side Printshop, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the Professional Apprenticeship Program in Printmaking. The program is an intensive, hands-on, yearlong experience working with the Printshop's master printer and contemporary artists who use the facility.

Orange Show Foundation
Houston, TX
$10,000
To support conservation and restoration of the Beer Can House, a work by self-taught artist John Milkovisch. The Houston landmark, consisting of a house and grounds decorated with methodically trimmed cans, will be used as an artist-in-residence project space.

Penland School of Crafts, Inc.
Penland, NC
$12,000
To support printing and distribution costs of a publication documenting Penland's 75th anniversary. Designed to complement a traveling exhibition and other programming organized by Penland and the Mint Museum of Craft and Design, the publication will function as a book about craft rather than simply an exhibition catalogue.

Pi Beta Phi Settlement School (aka Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts)
Gatlinburg, TN
$9,000
To support development of a comprehensive, on-line, digital archive of Arrowmont's permanent collection of more than 1,000 objects. The school's collection, acquired over the past 90 years, represents a variety of craft traditions and has the potential to be a great resource and teaching tool.

Precita Eyes Muralists Association, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$17,000
To support research and development of a book documenting the murals of San Franciso's Mission District. To be published and distributed by the University of California Press, the volume will present the murals in full-color photographs.

Rhizome Communications, Inc. (aka Rhizome.org)
New York, NY
$7,000
To support continued development of the Rhizome ArtBase, an on-line platform for new media art. The project will include adding new works to the database, preparing for potential preservation issues related to technological obsolescence and disseminating new media preservation information with peer institutions.

Smyrna School District
Smyrna, DE
$10,000
To support conservation and restoration of eight large WPA murals executed in the 1930s by Brandywine River School artists Walter Pyle, Jr., Stafford Good and Edward Grant. The murals are extensive and reflect life and culture in the Delaware region.

Southwest Texas State University (on behalf of Alkek Library)
San Marcos, TX
$10,000
To support conservation and restoration of a section of a 1951 Buck Winn mural, depicting the visual drama of an early cattle drive. Originally painted for the Pearl Brewery in San Antonio, it was removed, folded accordion-style, and placed in storage in the 1970s.

University of Wyoming
Laramie, WY
$10,000
To support conservation and restoration of a WPA mural executed in 1940 by Lynn Fausett. The mural depicts the mythological arrival of the new university President, Arthur Crane.

Waterworks Visual Arts Center, Inc.
Salisbury, NC
$28,000
To support a public art memorial to honor African-American history at the site of the Freedman's Cemetery. Deeded to serve as a burial ground for African Americans in 1770, over the last 100 years portions of the cemetery were violated, bodies disinterred and all markers removed.

Wauwatosa Historical Society, Inc. (consortium)
Wauwatosa, WI
$10,000
To support conservation and restoration of WPA murals, decorative plasterwork, and ornamental tile on the ceiling and entryway of Wauwatosa East High School. The murals, long concealed by drop ceiling panels, will be conserved by a professional conservator working with artists in collaboration with the school district and the city government.

TOTAL HERITAGE/PRESERVATION GRANTS: 172
TOTAL ACCESS DOLLARS: $4,020,000

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