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2002 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access/Arts Learning/Arts on Radio & Television/ Challenge America Access/ Heritage-Preservation/ Leadership Initiatives/Partnership Agreements

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

GEORGIA

Alternate ROOTS, Inc. (consortium)
Atlanta, GA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support the Atlanta Partnerships for Arts in Learning. This program provides artists and teachers with professional development and ongoing consultations in planning and team teaching. Consortium partner is the Alonzo A. Crim Center for Urban Educational Excellence at Georgia State University.

Atlanta Ballet, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support Centre Dance, a multifaceted dance education program in Atlanta schools. Centre Dance provides a curriculum-based dance program for approximately 100 at-risk children in grades K through 12.

Center for Puppetry Arts
Atlanta, GA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support puppetry productions and associated educational activities. The center will produce two works based on children's stories or interests and offer workshops, study guides and museum visits that complement the performances.

Columbus State University
Columbus, GA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support Baskets, Ballsticks, and Busk: Interpreting Southeastern Indian Culture Through Art, Games and Dance. The multifaceted program will include a staff development course for teachers focusing on southeastern Indian culture, a program for school children, an academic symposium, and a Southeastern Indian Heritage Day.

Emory University (on behalf of the Michael C. Carlos Museum)
Atlanta, GA
$18,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support educational programs in conjunction with the reinstallation of the collection of art from the ancient Americas. The public programming and related educational materials will reflect the reinstallation's four themes: Shamanism, Nature and Culture, Science and Art, and Artistry.

Gateway Performance Productions
Atlanta, GA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support an outreach program of tour performances and community and school-based workshops and residencies. Programs of mask theater, dance, mime and puppetry will be presented at sites throughout Georgia and New Mexico.

Georgia Council for the Arts
Atlanta, GA
$605,800
CATEGORY: Partnership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Lowndes/Valdosta Arts Commission
Valdosta, GA
$7,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support a series of exhibitions primarily featuring the work of regional artists. Each exhibit will hang in the Main or Hall Galleries of the Lowndes Valdosta Arts Center and will be accompanied by monthly educational programming, as well as provide the public with an opportunity to meet the artists.

Phoenix Theatre Academy, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$16,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Academy Theatre for Youth Artists-in-Schools Tour Team, a multiracial ensemble that develops original, curriculum-based, issue-oriented plays that tour to schools and other youth organizations throughout the Southeast. Performances are accompanied by post-performance drama workshops to provide students with a forum for discussion.

Robert W. Woodruff Arts Center, Inc.
(on behalf of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra)
Atlanta, GA
$60,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America Arts Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support an educational and community partnership initiative. The components of the initiative include a four-day music institute for talented young musicians and a statewide tour to rural communities.

Southern Arts Federation, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$24,000
CATEGORY: Leadership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the initial phase of the Hispanic/Latino Initiative. The initiative is the first phase of a long-term program to provide assistance, education, information and resources to the region's traditional artists in Spanish-speaking communities.

Southern Arts Federation, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$1,064,800
CATEGORY: Partnership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

UNIMA-USA
Atlanta, GA
$5,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support publications which promote the interests and international visibility of American puppeteers. UNIMA-U.S.A.'s publications document puppet theater works and provide technical assistance to puppet artists.

Valdosta State University
Valdosta, GA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Leadership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a professional folklorist position and other 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.

VSA arts of Georgia, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the expansion of the theatrical sign language interpreting program StageHands. The program will offer discounted services to small and mid-sized theater companies in Georgia and will offer professional development opportunities for current and new theatrical interpreters.

Total Dollars Awarded: $2,005,600
Total Grants Awarded: 16


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