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2002 Grant Awards: Arts On Radio And Television

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

American Documentary, Inc.
New York, NY
$250,000
To support the selection, acquisition, packaging and promotion of films for the 2003 broadcast of P.O.V. (Point of View), a primetime public television series that showcases the art of independent, non-fiction filmmakers. As public television's longest running broadcast venue devoted exclusively to the art of nonfiction film, P.O.V. brings documentary artworks - rarely found in the mainstream media - into America's living rooms.

American University
Washington, DC
$15,000
To support the production of literary programs on the radio series The Diane Rehm Show. These shows will feature fiction, poetry, biography, essays and more. Each week, one million listeners on 76 stations currently hear The Diane Rehm Show.

Appalshop, Inc.
Whitesburg, KY
$20,000
To support the development and production of a radio series documenting the living music and cultural traditions of the Central Appalachian highlands. Intended for national broadcast, each program will combine musical presentations, interviews and narration.

Art 21, Inc.
New York, NY
$175,000
To support the second year of Art for the Twenty-First Century, a four-year public television series about contemporary visual art and artists in the United States. The project will include the production of four, one-hour programs featuring intimate profiles of artists and the contexts within which they work.

Association for Community Television
(on behalf of Welcome Home Productions)
Houston, TX
$50,000
To support the production of a documentary on Project Row Houses. Welcome Home will explore the transformation of Houston's Third Ward neighborhood from its decline to its current status as a role model for urban renewal.

Capital Concerts, Inc.
Washington, DC
$25,000
To support The National Memorial Day Concert and A Capitol Fourth, two patriotic concerts at the U.S. Capitol to be nationally broadcast live on PBS in 2002. A national television audience of 10 12 million watches each of these 90-minute programs every year.

Center for Independent Documentary, Inc.
Waban, MA
$75,000
To support production of a documentary television series on self-taught artists. The six-part series will follow African American artists who make compositions out of bones, broken tools, fabric scrapes, torn-up roots, rusty buckets, burned rope, car parts and other "junk."

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the production and national distribution of the radio series, Chamber Music from Lincoln Center. Thirteen, one-hour programs will be offered free of charge to public radio stations across the country in 2002-03.

Choral Arts Society of Washington
Washington, DC
$15,000
To support the production and distribution of the radio series, Celebrating the Choral Arts. Five, two-hour holiday specials will provide national audiences with concerts by the Choral Arts Society of Washington performed at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Concert Productions, Inc.
Boston, MA
$70,000
To support the production of the public radio series From the Top to be broadcast in 2002-03. The hour-long program combines performances by exceptional young classical musicians, ages nine to 18, interviews, guest artists, and a 14-year-old "roving reporter" who profiles the young musicians.

Detroit Educational Television Foundation
Detroit, MI
$15,000
To support research and development for a documentary on Vietnam War veterans as artists. Through the Green Door will be based on the National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum in Chicago where more than 140 artists' works are exhibited.

Duquesne University
Pittsburgh, PA
$10,000
To support the production of a radio series of music from the National Folk Festival. In collaboration with the National Council for the Traditional Arts, Duquesne University's WDUQ-FM will select audio performances from the last 30 years of the festival to present a variety of artists and musical traditions.

Educational Broadcasting Corporation
New York, NY
$500,000
To support the development and production of the television series American Masters for national PBS broadcast in 2002-03. Definitive documentary profiles of major cultural figures will be made available to millions of viewers in all 50 states over 340 public television stations.

Educational Broadcasting Corporation
New York, NY
$550,000
To support the development and production of Thirteen/WNET's Performing Arts Series, including Great Performances and Dance in America for national broadcast on PBS in 2003-04. Regardless of geographic or economic limitations, American television audiences in all 50 states will be provided free access to a diverse range of cultural programming.

ETV Endowment of South Carolina, Inc.
(on behalf of South Carolina Educational Radio)
$65,000
Spartanburg, SC
To support the production of new programs for the weekly radio series Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz. National Public Radio will distribute the programs to American audiences on more than 245 stations in the United States, and to international audiences via NPR Worldwide.

Film Arts Foundation (on behalf of Geller Goldfine Productions)
San Francisco, CA
$40,000
To support production and post-production costs for a documentary tracing the history and impact of the Ballets Russes companies and the individuals who danced within them. Ballet Russes: A Living Legacy will cover the over eighty-year story of the blend of Russian, American, Canadian, Cuban and Latin American dancers and their impact not only within the dance community, but also on theater and film communities during the 20th century.

Films for Humanity, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support research and development for a documentary film on Robert and Frances Flaherty. Eyes to Illuminate: The Lives and Work of Robert and Frances Flaherty will examine the Flahertys' growth as artists when non-fiction film was emerging as an art form in and of itself, away from ethnographic and adventure filmmaking.

Greater New Orleans Educational Television Foundation
(on behalf of Bras Coupe Films)
$10,000
New Orleans, LA
To support the production of Stories from the Faubourg Treme. The one-hour documentary will feature six storytelling performers from America's oldest black urban neighborhood.

Illume Productions, Inc.
Washington, DC
$30,000
To support the production of a television documentary series about the meaning of monuments. Monuments: Reminders and Warnings will explore the meaning of monuments, the creative process behind them, and their role as purposeful public art that partly shapes American identity.

International Cultural Programming, Inc.
New York, NY
$100,000
To support a television series on the dance traditions of the Pacific Islands. Dances of Life will be a two-hour series as seen through the eyes of the people who practice it as an art form and way of life.

Jack Straw Memorial Foundation
(on behalf of Reel Women Productions)
Seattle, WA
$10,000
To support a documentary radio series that will profile objects held in museums that are rarely or never displayed. The Hidden Treasures Radio Project is intended for broadcast on National Public Radio's Morning Edition or Public Radio International's Studio 360.

Koahnic Broadcast Corporation
Anchorage, AK
$20,000
To support the production of the weekly radio series Earthsongs. The one-hour program features recordings and live performances of contemporary Native American music and reaches an estimated audience of 60,000 people per broadcast.

Koahnic Broadcast Corporation
Anchorage, AK
$25,000
To support arts reporting, performance and features on the nationally distributed radio programs National Native News and Native America Calling. These daily news and information programs, which reach 360,000 listeners each week, are also available via the Internet.

L.A. Theatre Works
Venice, CA
$15,000
To support the production of radio plays intended for national and international distribution. Three plays will be recorded in front of a live audience in collaboration with Washington, DC theater companies, and two plays based on recent Broadway/Off Broadway productions will be recorded in-studio.

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$150,000
To support national telecasts in 2003-04 of the public television series Live From Lincoln Center. The series is broadcast on approximately 300 PBS stations across the 50 states and U.S. territories and reaches an average of five million viewers per program.

MediaRites
Portland, OR
$10,000
To support the production of an eight-part radio series by Dmae Roberts. 1st Person Radio Stories will focus on eight different people going through challenging experiences in their lives.

Metropolitan Opera Association, Inc.
New York, NY
$100,000
To support post-production costs for a national PBS telecast of Alban Berg's Wozzeck. Based on Georg Buchner's play, this 20th century opera is about a low-ranking soldier who is tormented by his officers, his doctor and the mother of his child.

Minnesota Public Radio
St. Paul, MN
$70,000
To support the production and national broadcast of St. Paul Sunday, a weekly, one-hour radio series presenting the vitality, diversity and excellence of chamber music. The program will be heard on more than 215 radio stations throughout the United States in 2002-03.

National Association of Latino Arts and Culture
San Antonio, TX
$100,000
To support production costs for a three-part television series examining the cultural and artistic expression of Latino communities found within the United States. Visiones: Latino Art and Culture will give viewers an overview of the growth of cultural arts centers, dance and theater companies, and other cultural organizations within the Latino Diaspora.

National Public Radio
Washington, DC
$150,000
To support the NPR Classical Music Initiative. The initiative will include the recording, acquisition and national radio broadcast of selected American symphony orchestras on the daily classical music series Performance Today, the weekly program SymphonyCast, and the presentation of American operatic productions for NPR's World of Opera series.

National Public Radio
Washington, DC
$150,000
To support production and distribution of year-round jazz programming to reach national radio audiences. NPR's Jazz Initiative will include the Peabody Award-winning documentary program Jazz Profiles, Jazz Riffs and the development and acquisition of other jazz programming created for radio, satellite and Internet distribution.

New England Foundation for the Arts
(on behalf of ArtWorks Educational Foundation)
Boston, MA
$45,000
To support research and development for a television series on the arts for children. Targeted for six to 12 year olds, the 13-part series will champion the artistic development, literacy and expression of children.

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc.
(on behalf of Robert Levi Films)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support production and post-production costs for a documentary film on Billy Strayhorn. Piano in the Background: The Story of Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington will chronicle Mr. Strayhorn's career as composer and arranger for the Ellington Orchestra as well as his relationship with the maestro.

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc.
(on behalf of Anker Productions)
New York, NY
$50,000
To support post-production costs for the two-part television series Music From the Inside Out. Intended for a national PBS broadcast, the series will explore the intangible qualities of music as seen through the eyes of the members of the Philadelphia Orchestra.

Newark Public Radio, Inc.
Newark, NJ
$70,000
To support the production of JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater, a weekly radio series of jazz concerts. The series is produced by WBGO/Newark and distributed by National Public Radio to approximately 135 public radio stations throughout the country.

North Texas Public Broadcasting, Inc.
Dallas, TX
$30,000
To support production and post-production costs for a documentary film profile of Margo Jones. Intended for national broadcast and distribution, the one-hour program will tell the story of Ms. Jones' rise to national recognition when she founded and ran the Fair Park in Dallas, the first professional resident theater outside New York.

Oregon Public Broadcasting (on behalf of Actual Films)
Portland, OR
$75,000
To support a television series on the Third Reich's attempt to seize and appropriate Europe's great art collections, and the efforts of the Allied Governments to preserve them. The Rape of Europa will be a three-part series intended for national PBS broadcast.

Paradigm Productions
Berkeley, CA
$15,000
To support research, development and scripting costs for a one-hour documentary film on Jose Clemente Orozco. A member of the Mexican mural renaissance, Jose Clemente Orozco rivaled Diego Rivera in technique, authenticity and talent, but never achieved the same recognition.

Pennsylvania Public Radio Associates, Inc.
Uwchland, PA
$40,000
To support the production of concerts and feature programs for Echoes, a nationally broadcast radio series of contemporary music. The series will serve a weekly audience of nearly 300,000 listeners from 175 stations in 36 states and the Northern Mariana Islands.

Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York, Inc.
New York, NY
$60,000
To support the production of live radio broadcasts of performances by the New York Philharmonic in 2002-03. Approximately 5 million listeners per month will hear each two-hour program.

Public Radio International, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$70,000
To support the production, distribution and marketing of Studio 360 in 2002-03. A weekly arts and culture radio program designed to illuminate the role of the arts in our society, the series is a co-production of Public Radio International and WNYC/FM.

Shirley Road Productions
Narberth, PA
$20,000
To support production and post-production costs for a documentary film on Margarita and Ramona de Saa. Mirror Dance is the story of two Cuban identical twins who, though separated for nearly 40 years, continue to share a passion for dance.

Sound Portraits Productions, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the production of a radio documentary for the series American Sound Portraits. To be aired on NPR's All Things Considered, David Isay will produce this program.

Sweet Bird Classics
Albuquerque, NM
$10,000
To support a series of music education radio programs for children. Boombox Classroom is a new, multi-part series targeted to children in kindergarten through fifth grade that features classical and world music.

Sylvan House, Inc. (on behalf of Ghostlight Films)
Orange, CT
$100,000
To support the development and production of a television series on the history of the Broadway musical. Broadway: The American Musical will be a six-part series intended for national PBS broadcast.

Symphony Space, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the production of the public radio series Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story, and the distribution of related audiocassettes. The series, which will air on more than 125 National Public Radio stations in 2003-04, will present leading stage and screen actors reading both classic and new short fiction by established and emerging authors of diverse cultures.

Tundra Club
Bozeman, MT
$15,000
To support the production and national distribution of a series presenting the work of independent radio producers. Hearing Voices will be a compilation of documentaries, sound portraits and features that will be thematically curated.

University of New Orleans Foundation (on behalf of American Routes)
New Orleans, LA
$50,000
To support the production and national distribution of American Routes, a weekly radio series from New Orleans devoted to the roots of popular music and popular roots music. The series is currently carried by 150 radio stations and is heard by approximately 500,000 listeners each week.

University of Texas at Austin (on behalf of KUT)
Austin, TX
$30,000
To support the production and acquisition of arts and cultural programs to be broadcast nationally on Latino USA, a weekly English language radio journal of news and culture. The series is aired on 198 stations, reaching more than 200,000 U.S. listeners each week, and is heard worldwide through the Armed Forces Radio and Television Service.

West Virginia Public Broadcasting Foundation, Inc.
Charleston, WV
$40,000
To support the production and national broadcast of the radio series Mountain Stage. Distributed by Public Radio International to more than 125 stations throughout the United States, the weekly, two-hour program presents contemporary music and traditional roots performers.

WHYY, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$75,000
To support the production and national broadcast of the radio series Fresh Air with Terry Gross. The award-winning daily journal of contemporary arts, culture and issues is broadcast on 355 public radio stations and heard by three million people each week.

Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts
Vienna, VA
$25,000
To support the production and distribution of the radio series Center Stage from Wolf Trap. The 13-part series provides national audiences with chamber music performances recorded at the Barns of Wolf Trap.

World Music Productions
Brooklyn, NY
$40,000
To support the production and national distribution of the weekly public radio program Afropop Worldwide in 2002-03. The series showcases the contemporary musical cultures of Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas, and is distributed by Public Radio International to approximately 100 radio stations in the U.S.

Writer's Center (on behalf of Out of the Box Productions)
Bethesda, MD
$15,000
To support research and development costs for a documentary on Frank Gehry's addition to the Corcoran Gallery of Art. The film will explore Washington's architectural heritage juxtaposed with the proposed design, while also examining new museum architecture both here and abroad.


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