2003 Grant Awards: Leadership Initiative Grants

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

ACCESSABILITY

Adaptive Environments Center, Inc.
Boston, MA
$65,000
To support the third phase of Access to Design Professions, a leadership effort to increase the number of, and support for, people with disabilities in design professions.

George Washington University
(on behalf of Center on Aging, Humanities and Research)
Washington, DC
$145,000
To support the third year of a three-year study on the Impact of the Arts on Older Americans, to measure and evaluate the effects that professional arts programming have on the quality of life of older adults. Additional funding will be provided through interagency agreements with other federal agencies and gift funds.

DANCE

Dance/USA
Washington, DC
$500,000
To support the second round of the National College Choreography Initiative, a project that will bring classic American dances of the past century and newly commissioned works to students and audiences in communities across the nation. The project will involve two parts: the reconstruction or restaging of masterworks of the 20th Century by historically significant choreographers, and the creation or restaging of dances by contemporary choreographers.

DESIGN

Octagon, the Museum of The American Architectural Foundation
Washington, DC
$62,000
To support the conservation of the only extant original architectural model (1969-71) of the World Trade Center. Made by the offices of Minoru Yamasaki Associates for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, the presentation model is all that remains to document that site in its original form.

INTERNATIONAL

Mid-America Arts Alliance
Kansas City, MO
$100,000
To support a tour and development of educational and programming materials for the exhibition El Ojo Fino, The Exquisite Eye, a show of works of nine prominent women photographers of Mexico.

New England Foundation for the Arts
Boston, MA
$100,000
To support development of educational materials and community outreach programs for the dance touring project, Dance Across Borders, that will present two Mexican dance companies in communities across the United States.

MEDIA ARTS

Minnesota Public Radio
St. PAUL, MN
$500,000
To support the first phase of a multi-year leadership initiative aimed at developing the next generation of classical music programming for public radio. The project will include an assessment of current programming, the establishment of a fund for the development of programming using new digital technologies and other related activities.

Window to the World Communications, Inc. (on behalf of 98.7 WFMT Radio)
Chicago, IL
$150,000
To support the production and national distribution of the radio series Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin. The series will consist of daily, one-hour programs focusing on classical music in an informed, educational and entertaining manner.

MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Forest Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture
Washington, DC
$150,000
To support the Arts and Rural Community Assistance Initiative. The initiative will provide grants for arts projects that celebrate rural America's diverse cultural heritage, strengthen the arts in rural communities by supporting works of artistic excellence, and advance learning in the arts.

SAVE AMERICA'S TREASURES

Appalshop, Inc.
Whitesburg, KY
$135,000
To support the preservation of Appalshop's film, video, audio and photographic archives. The Appalshop Archive, an extensive repository of the history and culture of the Appalachian region, also offers a unique look into the work of one of the country's oldest independent media centers.

Bishop Museum
Honolulu, HI
$75,000
To support the preservation of the museum's vast Hawaiian Cultural Collection. Environmental stabilization and climate control improvements of Hawaiian Hall are critical to saving the collection, which reflects the diverse legacy of Native Hawaiian culture and 19th- and 20th-century Hawaiian immigration.

City of Dallas Park and Recreation Department
Dallas, TX
$200,000
To support the conservation of the cast-concrete outdoor statuary, fountain pylons and bas-relief sculpture on the Esplanade of State in Fair Park, a National Historic Landmark. Fair Park was built in 1936 as the Texas Centennial Exposition, a regional World's Fair, and contains the largest collection of intact grouping of Exposition buildings in the United States.

ETV Endowment of South Carolina, Inc.
Spartanburg, SC
$81,000
To support the preservation of over 20 years of Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz. Over 500 programs, featuring McPartland's conversations with an impressive list of American jazz legends, will be stabilized and catalogued for future access by scholars, educators and the general public.

18th & Vine Authority
Kansas City, MO
$96,000
To support the conservation of the John Baker Film Collection, which spans five decades of American jazz history and expression. Films in the Baker Collection feature such artists as Lena Horne, Eubie Blake and Duke Ellington.

Flint Institute of Arts
Flint, MI
$300,000
To support the preservation of the museum's extensive American paintings collection. FIA's holdings represent significant aspects of American history and culture, and include works from artists such as John Singer Sargent, Mary Cassatt, Wayne Thiebaud, Alexander Calder, Willem deKooning and Romare Bearden.

Marblehead Historical Society
Marblehead, MA
$70,000
To conserve a collection of three sets of rare, original 18th-century English wallpapers in and from the 1768 Jeremiah Lee Mansion. The proposed conservation work will address the immediate threat of disengagement from the walls, as well as the long-term stability of the entire collection, its supports and its printed designs.

Museum of the City of New York
New York, NY
$64,000
To support the preservation of the LOOK Magazine photographic collection. Ranging in date from 1937 to 1965, the images in the LOOK collection capture all aspects of American life: culture, politics, social issues, sports, medicine and fashion.

New York City Ballet, Inc.
New York, NY
$300,000
To support the conservation and preservation of the New York City Ballet's archival collections. The collection includes photographs, films, sets, costumes, personal papers of the founders and other historically relevant materials.

Ohio State University
Columbus, OH
$58,000
To support the stabilization and treatment of The James Thurber Collection. The collection of manuscripts, published works, letters and other materials are threatened by the acidic nature of the papers used by Thurber, a notable 20th-century humorist.

Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center (Stony Brook Foundation, Inc.)
East Hampton, NY
$107,000
To support the stabilization of the home and studio of 20th-century abstract painters Jackson Pollock (1912-56) and Lee Krasner (1908-84). The home and studio, left intact, house the artists' personal library of books, exhibition catalogues, and a large collection of jazz and classical records.

University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Minneapolis, MN
$116,000
To support the conservation and stabilization of the Weisman Art Museum's Mimbres pottery collection, which is one of the largest in the world. The collection, which numbers nearly 800 pieces, is all that remains of the Mimbres people, who lived in present-day southwestern New Mexico over 850 years ago.

Vermont Museum & Gallery Alliance
Woodstock, VT
$150,000
To support the conservation and stabilization of 100 painted theater curtains across the state. Painted between 1880 and 1940, these curtains illustrate the impact of the arts, popular culture and commerce on small-town communities.

GRANTS AWARDED: 22
TOTAL DOLLARS AWARDED: $3,524,000

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