FY 2006 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access to Artistic Excellence II/Arts on Radio and Television/
Folk & Traditional Arts Infrastructure/Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth/Partnership Agreements

Some details of the projects listed in this grant announcement are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

VERMONT

Craft Emergency Relief Fund, Inc. (aka CERF)
Montpelier, VT
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support development of an emergency relief response plan for artists in the United States. CERF will work in partnership with the New York Foundation on the Arts, Artist Trust, the North Carolina Arts Council, and the Texas Commission on the Arts to organize a 10-member task force to develop a master plan.

Flynn Theatre for the Performing Arts, Ltd. (on behalf of Burlington Discover Jazz Festival)
Burlington, VT
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support artist residencies and performances at the Burlington Discover Jazz Festival. Educational activities will include a jazz scholar-in-residence, pre-performance lectures, and dialogues with the performing artists.

Grass Roots Art and Community Effort (aka GRACE)
Hardwick, VT
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support community art workshops and accompanying exhibitions for residents in rural and economically distressed areas of Vermont. The project is designed to reach a diverse spectrum of the community, including senior citizens, developmentally disabled adults, and children.

Sandglass Center for Puppetry and Theater Research (aka Sandglass Theater)
Putney, VT
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Voices of Community series. The project will bring multicultural ensembles from communities of color to a rural, culturally underserved area to inspire dialogue on issues of diversity and expand local knowledge of the arts.

Vermont Council on the Arts, Inc.
Montpelier, VT
$600,900
CATEGORY: Partnership  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Vermont Folklife Center
Middlebury, VT
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support field research to identify and document the music and dance traditions of African, Bosnian, Tibetan, Laotian, and Vietnamese communities. Artists identified through this research will be presetnted at the annual Champlain Valley Folk Festival.

Vermont Folklife Center
Middlebury, VT
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the continuation of a statewide Traditional Arts Apprenticeship program. The apprenticeship program encourages the preservation of living traditional arts by funding master artists to work with less experienced apprentices in order to pass along time-honored skills and knowledge.

Vermont Museum & Gallery Alliance
Vergennes, VT
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the conservation and stabilization of historic painted theater curtains. Once conserved, most of the curtains will be reinstalled in their original locations for public use and appreciation.

Vermont Symphony Orchestra Association, Inc.
Burlington, VT
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Made in Vermont Music Festival Tour, a series of community concert programs in underserved rural communities. The project will present orchestral programs and educational outreach activities.

Weston Playhouse Theatre
Weston, VT
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a multi-state tour of Mary Zimmerman's adaptation of Ovid's Metamorphoses to rural and underserved audiences throughout New England. Targeting communities with no resident theater company, the production will be supplemented by study guides, workshops, pre-show lectures, audio description, and ASL interpretation.

Number of Grants: 10          Total Amount: $765,900

 
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