2004 Grant Awards: State Listings
Arts on Radio and Television/Folk Arts Infrastructure/Heritage & Preservation/Learning in the Arts/Partnerships
Some details of the projects listed below are subject to
change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.
PENNSYLVANIA
Asian Americans United, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the ninth Annual Mid-Autumn Festival. The traditional
lunar festival will feature master artists in martial arts, Chinese
opera, traditional music, and dance as well as performances by
youth and other community members.
Asian Arts Initiative
Philadelphia, PA
$38,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support Youth Arts Workshop. Professional artists will lead
after-school courses in theater, video, and mural arts for
Asian-American teenagers in Philadelphia.
Barnes Foundation
Merion Station, PA
$70,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Museums
To support the research, writing, and publication of a catalog of
the museum's collection of American paintings and works on paper.
This will be the first publication documenting a unique collection
of more than 300 American works of art.
Brandywine Conservancy, Inc. (on behalf of
Brandywine River Museum)
Chadds Ford, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Museums
To support the production of an educational film on the making of
the egg tempera medium and tempera paintings, with a brief history
of tempera. The film will provide an academic introduction to this
complex subject and will fill a significant gap in available
information about the technique.
Clay Studio
Philadelphia, PA
$19,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support the Claymobile, a mobile ceramic art education program
for underserved populations. Staffed by experienced teaching
artists, the Claymobile is equipped to conduct instructional
classes as well as transport finished pieces for firing.
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Council on the
Arts
Harrisburg, PA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Leadership Initiatives FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk
& Traditional Arts
To support continuation of the Folk Arts Support Centers. The
project will expand outreach into underserved regions of the state,
and will develop strategies to increase public participation in and
awareness of the folk and traditional arts.
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Council on the
Arts
Harrisburg, PA
$759,700
CATEGORY: Partnership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State &
Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.
Conservation Center for Art and Historic
Artifacts
Philadelphia, PA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Museums
To support a post-graduate 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.
Institute for Cultural Partnerships
Harrisburg, PA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Folk Arts of Newcomers project. The project will
document, record, and archive traditional arts and practices among
newly emerging, ethnic communities in south central
Pennsylvania.
Latin American Literary Review Press
Pittsburgh, PA
$5,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Literature
To support the publication and promotion of books by Latin
American writers. Proposed titles include The Chronicle of San
Gabriel by Peruvian writer Julio Ramn Ribeyro and the first
unabridged translation of Edmundo Desnoes' Memories of
Underdevelopment.
Lehigh Valley Community Broadcasters
Association
Bethlehem, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support WDIY-FM radio station's Youth Media program. Project
activities will include hands-on training for youth, ages 14 to 18,
in all aspects of radio production.
Manchester Craftsmen's Guild
Pittsburgh, PA
$60,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Music
To support the Pittsburgh Jazz Legacy project. Components include
archival recordings of the 18th-anniversary MCGJazz series, and a
catalog of the Herbie Mann Archive. Each MCGJazz series concert
will be recorded in both audio and video formats and will be added
to the archive, currently consisting of more than 600 titles.
Mattress Factory, Ltd. (consortium)
Pittsburgh, PA
$29,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support a consortium garden installation project. Based on
Winifred Lutz's Garden installation, and with assistance
from the Shaler Area School District, the project will entail
developing, implementing, and evaluating an interdisciplinary arts
program for grades two, four, six, and eight.
Odunde, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the 29th ODUNDE Festival. The festival is the oldest
African-American community festival in Philadelphia, featuring
local and international dancers, musicians, and performers in the
areas of hip-hop, tap dance, gospel, rhythm and blues, stepping,
drill teams, and many other genres.
Opera Company of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA
$14,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support Sounds of Learning. Through professional development
workshops, teachers will learn how to use opera as a tool for
students' exploration of other core curricular subjects.
Pennsylvania Public Radio Associates, Inc.
Chester Springs, PA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and
Television FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production of concerts and sound portraits for
Echoes, a daily radio series of contemporary music. The series will
serve a weekly audience of more than 300,000 listeners on 150
stations in 35 states and the Northern Mariana Islands.
Philadelphia Folklore Project
Philadelphia, PA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Folk & Traditional Arts
To support Art Happens Here. The project will document and present
Philadelphia folk artists and their arts to audiences in community
sites throughout the region through traveling exhibitions and
artist residencies.
Philadelphia Mural Arts Advocates
Philadelphia, PA
$33,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support the Mural Arts Program (MAP). MAP includes the Big
Picture after-school mural-making program for youth ages 10 to 14,
and Mural Corps, for students ages 14 to 18.
Pittsburgh Symphony Society (consortium)
Pittsburgh, PA
$38,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support the Symphony Young Strings program, a consortium
project of comprehensive string instruction. Through artist
residencies, after-school music instruction, and a summer string
camp, children from underserved areas surrounding Pittsburgh will
work with and be mentored by professional musicians and educators
from the orchestra.
Projects in the Design Arts Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Design Arts
To support the publication Swoop: A History of the Suspension
Bridge . The book will profile landmark American suspension
bridges from 1800 to the present.
School District of Philadelphia (on behalf of
Office of Curriculum Support/Asian Pacific American
Studies)
Philadelphia, PA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support Asian Folk Arts in Philadelphia Schools. The Office of
Curriculum Support will collaborate with the Philadelphia Chinese
Opera Society and the Philadelphia Folklore Project to develop
curricular materials and provide teacher training and model
residencies that bring local Chinese and Cambodian folk artists
into direct contact with public school students and teachers.
Schwenkfelder Library
Pennsburg, PA
$17,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Museums
To support conservation treatment of works by fraktur
artist Susanna Heebner (1750-1818) in the permanent collection.
With roots extending back to medieval illuminated manuscripts,
fraktur is a highly decorative style blending motifs and
religious or inspirational text on a single sheet of paper.
Settlement Music School of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support Kaleidoscope. The comprehensive, arts-based preschool
program will enhance readiness and learning skills of disadvantaged
children through arts-integrated curriculum and a variety of arts
activities.
Shirley Road Productions
Narberth, PA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and
Television FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support post-production costs for a documentary film on
Margarita and Ramona de Saa. Mirror Dance is the story of
identical Cuban twins who, though separated for nearly 40 years,
continue to share a passion for dance.
Srishti Dances of India
Pittsburgh, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Dance
To support the creation and touring of an evening-length work.
Lavanya: Graceful Expressions of the East will interweave
two of India's classical dance forms, odissi and
manipuri, and will be choreographed by artistic director
Sreyashi Dey and Poushali Chatterjee, artistic director of
Calcutta, an Indian-based manipuri dance troupe.
Temple University (consortium)
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Dance
To support a consortium project to preserve, catalog, and provide
access to the Philadelphia Dance Collection. Temple University and
Swarthmore College will coordinate access to the archives in a
project that will preserve documents representing the dance
heritage and dirverse traditions of Philadelphia.
Village of Arts and Humanities Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$60,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support the Learning through the Arts Program. Through
theme-based programming, children and youth will participate in
multidisciplinary arts activities year-round, including park
building and urban gardening, field trips, and project
collaboration with visiting artists.
PENNSYLVANIA total grants: 27
PENNSYLVANIA total dollars: $1,497,700
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