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Arts Council of New Orleans
Louisiana Decentralized Arts Funding Program
FY2009 Grants
Grant Activity Period: October 1, 2008 – September 30, 2009
The Arts Council of New Orleans provides critical funding to support arts and cultural activities
in Orleans, Jefferson, and Plaquemines Parishes through the Louisiana Decentralized Arts
Funding Program. Decentralized grants are made possible by state funding through the
Louisiana Division of the Arts, under the Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism.
Decentralized funds are allocated to each parish in the state on a per capita basis using the
most recent census figures, giving each parish the opportunity to develop arts programming in
response to local needs.
Orleans Parish
Operating Support Grants
Anthony Bean Community Theater and Acting School
$5,450
To support the presentation of professional-quality theater showcasing the work of African
American playwrights and actors; and to support a theater arts training program for youth
through a summer camp and after-school sessions.
Efforts of Grace
$5,950
To support the promotion and presentation of African American art and artists through a multidisciplinary program at the Ashe' Cultural Center which fosters partnerships and collaborations
that unite the forces of community development, cultural appreciation and artist support.
Friends of WWOZ
$7,050
To support WWOZ’s unique community radio programming which celebrates and promotes the
cultural heritage and music traditions of New Orleans and the surrounding region through
information and through jazz, blues, rhythm and blues, zydeco, gospel, brass band, bluegrass,
African, Caribbean, Latin, and Irish music programming.
Junebug Productions
$4,050
To support the creation and presentation locally and nationally of original theater that explores
the African American experience and focuses on the challenge of social change.
Komenka Ethnic Dance Ensemble
$5,050
To support Komenka Ensemble performances of folk-inspired dance and music from countries
throughout the world, and Komenka participation in ballets, festivals, and collaborative
productions.
Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre
$5,050
To support Le Petit Theatre's season, including the presentation of main stage plays and
musicals and theater productions for young people.
Musical Arts Society of New Orleans
$5,150
To support the New Orleans International Piano Competition and Keyboard Festival and the
New Orleans Piano Institute which together offer a week-long series of concerts, master
classes, and lectures attended by the world's leading musicians, music educators and students.
FY2009 DECENTRALIZED GRANTS
Orleans Parish
Operating Support Grants
New Orleans African American Museum
$4,050
To support exhibitions, educational programming, and cultural events at the museum which
showcase and interpret the history, art and culture of African Americans and the African
diaspora.
New Orleans Children's Chorus
$5,350
To support the training and concerts of the New Orleans Children's Chorus, including
performances with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra and an annual spring concert.
New Orleans Friends of Music
$4,250
To support a chamber music concert series featuring performances by nationally and
internationally known artists, making world-class chamber music accessible to local audiences.
New Orleans Gay Men's Chorus
$4,200
To support a series of concerts held at a variety of community events and venues and to
support new music commissioned for the Chorus and choral workshops.
New Orleans Musica da Camera
$4,850
To support a concert series presenting music of the Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque
periods; and to support lectures, publications, and weekly radio broadcasts on WWNO-2 of
Continuum, one of the longest-running radio programs devoted to early music.
Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society
$4,200
To support Words & Music, an annual national writers' conference including master classes,
panels, readings, and music and theater events; the national William Faulkner Creative Writing
Competition; The Double Dealer literary journal, and year-round readings and special events.
Stage to Stage
$5,850
To support a performing arts program for children including year-round instruction and the
production of musicals for the Crescent City Lights Youth Theater, now housed at the NORD Ty
Tracy Theatre in Gallier Hall.
Symphony Chorus of New Orleans
$3,950
To support Symphony Chorus performances with the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra and an
educational outreach program.
Young Audiences
$5,950
To support the presentation of arts-in-education programming in schools, community centers,
and libraries through performances, workshops, and residencies by a roster of local professional
artists.
Orleans Parish Operating Support Total - $80,400
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FY2009 DECENTRALIZED GRANTS
Orleans Parish
Project Assistance Grants
Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund
$4,500
To support the participation of local artists in the 13th annual New Orleans Dance Festival, a 16day event held in the summer which celebrates African heritage dance and music traditions of
New Orleans and the Americas.
ArtSpot Productions
$4,310
To support the development and premiere on All Saints Day 2009 of three new Saint Plays by
Erik Ehn produced through a collaboration with Cripple Creek Theater, Mondo Bizarro, Tulane
University and The Porch / 7th Ward Community Center.
Rob Cambre
$3,780
To support a concert series of improvised and new music featuring local, national, and
international artists and held at The Big Top arts center in Central City.
Children’s Hospital
$4,125
To support a music education and performance series at the hospital for patients and their families
including several shows of Delfeayo Marsalis’s “Swinging with the Cool School” and performances
by other local musicians.
CubaNOLA Arts Collective
$3,905
To support the Vecinos Series of concerts and gatherings at neighborhood venues which bring
together new Latin American residents and established New Orleans residents for music by
international visiting artists and local artists, food, and dancing.
Culu Children’s Traditional African Dance Company
$2,850
To support an annual conference with workshops and seminars in traditional African dance and
drumming and a performance called Kuerr (Home).
D’Project, Inc.
$3,697
To support Southern Voices, a multimedia dance concert using innovative sound, video, and set
design and presenting an array of local dancers and choreographers.
DramaRama
$2,950
To support DramaRama16, a multidisciplinary performing arts festival showcasing a diversity of
local talent through a one-night event of performances throughout the Contemporary Arts Center
and a complementary daytime event for children at the Louisiana Children's Museum.
Lula Elzy New Orleans Dance Theatre
$4,400
To support the Lula Elzy Dance Theatre’s production of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn's
Nutcracker Swing, featuring live performances by the John Mahoney Big Band.
Rashida Ferdinand
$3,450
To support a ceramics guild program for young people in the Lower Ninth Ward which includes
intensive instruction and opportunities for participants to sell their creations in the community.
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FY2009 DECENTRALIZED GRANTS
Orleans Parish
Project Assistance Grants
Friends of NORD
$2,950
To support the Pre-Professional Program of the NORD/NOBA Center for Dance and its Center
for Dance Company which provide free year-round training to young dancers and opportunities
for advanced students to perform and work with professional dancers.
GNO Area Chapter 9th & 10th Calvary Association Buffalo Soldiers
$3,250
To support artist-led mural projects in two local public high schools, both depicting the Buffalo
Soldiers who were established by Congress as the first peacetime all-black regiments in the
U.S. Army.
GNO-ABO Charitable and Educational Foundation
$3,375
To support artist residencies at Pierre Capdeau UNO Charter School and Medard Nelson UNO
Charter School with professional storyteller and arts educator Vanora Legaux.
International House of Blues Foundation
$4,900
To support the Moving Blues SchoolHouse, a program that brings to public schools in Orleans
Parish a live, interactive musical performance that traces the evolution of the blues and bluesinspired music.
Louisiana Artists Guild
$3,950
To support curated exhibitions in three gallery spaces of Louisiana Artworks as part of the
Prospect.1 international art biennial taking place November 2008 through mid-January 2009.
Mondo Bizarro
$4,410
To support the State of the Nation, a bi-monthly series and a multidisciplinary arts festival
presenting the work of student, emerging, and professional performing and visual artists from
Louisiana and beyond.
Monkey Puzzle Productions
$4,150
To support the production of a series of radio pieces celebrating the life of the late musician,
teacher, writer and griot Danny Barker.
Musicians For Music
$3,730
To support Ecos Latinos, a monthly arts series presenting local and international Latino
musicians, poets, dancers and visual artists at a variety of venues such as Tulane University,
Delgado Community College, Orleans public schools and Trinity Episcopal Church.
National Performance Network
$4,400
To support the Creative Forces Youth Educational Theater Corps’s series of after-school
performances and workshops designed to help public school students with their science and
math studies.
Neighborhood Housing Services of New Orleans
$4,450
To support a 7th Ward digital storytelling project that includes training of neighborhood
participants and a new media festival which will present and archive the stories of 7th Ward
residents.
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FY2009 DECENTRALIZED GRANTS
Orleans Parish
Project Assistance Grants
New Orleans Afrikan Film and Arts Festival
$2,765
To support screenings of African and African American film to illuminate the historic ties of New
Orleans to Africa and the diaspora.
New Orleans Ballet Association
$4,410
To support a one-week residency by visiting artist Trey McIntyre including the commission of a
new work to be performed with local jazz musicians.
New Orleans Dance Collective
$2,950
To support a summer dance program for inner-city youth including master classes with
professional dancers and a recital performance for the community.
New Orleans Fringe, Inc.
$4,060
To support the first New Orleans Fringe Festival featuring comedy, dance, drama, performance
art, puppetry, and spoken word to be performed at an array of venues in the Bywater
neighborhood.
New Orleans Mardi Gras Indian Council
$3,700
To support the traditional Super Sunday celebration of Mardi Gras Indian culture including a
parade and festival of Indian tribes from across the city with second line clubs, music by local
bands, and children’s activities.
New Orleans String Project
$4,900
To support a free program for inner-city children of weekly after-school music instruction in cello,
viola, and string bass; a week-long summer intensive; and outreach performances.
NO/AIDS Task Force
$2,791
To support the 7th annual Saints and Sinners LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender)
Literary Festival which takes place in May 2009 at various venues in the French Quarter.
NOCCA Institute
$2,950
To support NOCCA Riverfront’s Center Stage concert series, its Creative Readings Series,
and its On the Edge gallery exhibition series all of which benefit both students and the public.
NOLA Playback Theatre
$3,880
To support the initial events at Ashe’ Cultural Center and the 7th Ward Neighborhood Center of
Red Tent NOLA, a pilot series traveling to New Orleans communities to encourage storysharing performances by women and about women.
Press Street
$3,950
To support the third annual Drawathon, a 24-hour creative event of continuous drawing
activities and workshops led by local artists and open to the public.
Renew Our Music Fund, Inc.
$2,450
To support the Sweet Home New Orleans/Renew Our Music performance subsidy program
which funds individual musicians and bands to perform at community events.
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FY2009 DECENTRALIZED GRANTS
Orleans Parish
Project Assistance Grants
St. Louis Cathedral
$3,730
To support a series of pipe organ concerts presenting internationally-acclaimed organists with
the aim being to broaden the public’s awareness of the scope of pipe organ music.
St. Mary's Academy
$3,950
To support a residency by puppetry artist Karen Konnerth giving elementary students the
opportunity to work with a professional artist in visual arts, puppetry, and theater projects which
are aligned with classroom studies.
Wesley Swinnen
$2,650
To support Static, a cable TV show on Cox 10 which promotes New Orleans rock music artists.
Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival
$3,050
To support outreach programs during the annual festival including a high school writers'
workshop and a poetry slam.
Timecode NOLA
$2,790
To support Timecode:NOLA, a cable television program that showcases and promotes the work
of Louisiana independent filmmakers, giving them an opportunity to have their work shown to a
regional television audience and a worldwide internet audience.
Tsunami Dance Company
$4,310
To support the premiere of Migration of Form, a new concert by Tsunami featuring the
company’s signature choreographic work which combines innovative, original modern dance
and media arts.
Uptown Area Senior Adult Ministry
$3,810
To support actor training, script development, and touring of the Golden Heart Players, a senior
citizen community theater group.
Jan Villarubia
$4,060
To support the production of Whispering Bones, a community-based, collaborative performance
piece examining racism and the role of black domestics in white southern households.
James Walsh
$2,750
To support a new music concert for chamber orchestra by the New Orleans New Music
Ensemble presenting works by living local composers in the relaxed, informal atmosphere of
The Big Top arts center in Central City.
Orleans Parish Project Assistance Total - $147,438
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FY2009 DECENTRALIZED GRANTS
Orleans Parish
Technical Assistance Grants
CubaNOLA Arts Collective
$2,050
To support the creation of a web site that will provide information on CubaNOLA projects, collect
mailing list data, and streamline registration for CubaNOLA cultural tourism trips.
Green Project
$2,050
To support hiring a consultant to help the Recycle for the Arts program create a strategic plan
including actions steps to be implemented over the next five years.
KID smART
$2,450
To support sending Kidmart's AXIS Director to the Project Zero symposium at the Harvard
Graduate School of Education.
Lula Elzy New Orleans Dance Theatre
$1,950
To support hiring a web designer to create a web site and a video producer to create video
trailers of company work to post on the web site.
New Orleans Film Society
$2,050
To support sending key staff to national film festivals to network, share information, and find
programming for the New Orleans Film Festival.
New Orleans Fringe, Inc.
$2,050
To support hiring a technical theater consultant and an accountant; and to support sending the
executive director to another Fringe Festival to gain festival production insight.
Southern Rep
$2,050
To support redesigning and enhancing Southern Rep's web site to increase its online presence
locally and nationally by featuring blogs and links to essential tourist and arts-based web sites.
Symphony Chorus of New Orleans
To support hiring a consultant who will help the organization create a strategic plan.
$2,450
Three Ring Circus Arts Education Center
To support hiring a consultant who will help the organization create a strategic plan.
$1,950
Orleans Parish Technical Assistance Total $19,050
Grand Total for Orleans Parish - $246,888
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FY2009 DECENTRALIZED GRANTS
Jefferson Parish
Operating Support Grants
Cervantes Fundacion Hispanoamericana de Arte
$6,145
To support the School of Arts which offers classes for the Spanish-speaking community in
theater, drawing, oil painting, music and dance.
Delta Festival Ballet
$13,390
To support the company’s public and in-school performances; educational programs such as
the New Orleans Youth Ballet offering intensive study for serious young dancers; and an
outreach program including dance concerts for young children, scholarships for the Summer
Ballet Workshop, and discounted tickets.
Jefferson Ballet Theatre
$12,390
To support a program that promotes the appreciation of ballet by presenting major ballets
featuring renowned guest artists, offering talented local dancers professional opportunities, and
offering master classes, outreach to disadvantaged youth, and training scholarships.
Jefferson Performing Arts Society
$56,360
To support a program that promotes the performing arts including presenting touring and local
musical theater, symphonic music, and opera and providing regional education and outreach
programs.
Rivertown Repertory Theatre Guild
$28,390
To support the season of main stage productions, productions for children through the Imagine
Theatre for Children, and the Conservatory for Children, a training program for young actors.
Jefferson Parish Operating Support Total - $116,675
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FY2009 DECENTRALIZED GRANTS
Jefferson Parish
Project Assistance Grants
Bissonet Plaza Elementary
$5,760
To support an arts program that includes a teacher training workshop, a three-week residency
by a professional storyteller, and a series of performances by visiting artists.
Catherine Strehle Elementary School
$5,210
To support in-school performances by visiting artists and an instrument-making workshop for
the entire student body; and to support a storytelling residency for 4th - 5th grades and a music
residency for pre-K and 1st grades.
Deckbar Alternative School
$6,100
To support the Jefferson Performing Arts Society’s Cultural Crossroads residency-based arts
education program, bringing an array of artists into the school to integrate arts and cultural
experiences into core curricula.
Feis New Orleans/McTeggart Irish Dancers of Louisiana
$5,800
To support Feis New Orleans and the Louisiana Irish Dance Championships, a one-day festival
and competition drawing participants from all over North America to participate in Irish dance,
music, song, and spoken word.
Grand Isle Community Development Team
$6,700
To support Magical Botanical, the 7th annual regional juried art exhibition which now includes a
children’s division and was established to raise awareness of coastal erosion of Louisiana's only
inhabited barrier island and the surrounding wetlands.
Greater New Orleans Suzuki Forum
$4,160
To support the Greater New Orleans Summer Music Camp which uses the internationallyrenowned Suzuki method of instruction which benefits not only the young students, but their
parents and teachers.
Green Park Elementary
$5,710
To support visual, music, dance and theater artist residencies, all focusing on a Louisiana
theme, to culminate in the Green Park Creative Arts Festival which includes exhibitions, a
student play, and music and dance performances.
Jefferson Dollars for Scholars
$6,150
To support the Jefferson Dollars for Scholars Summer Arts Program which provides
scholarships to deserving students from low-income families, enabling them to attend summer
arts programs in the metropolitan area.
Jefferson Parish Public Schools/Special Programs
$4,450
To support an artist residency which brings visual artist Rashida Ferdinand to Maggoire
Elementary School as part of the Ogden Museum of Southern Art’s Artists and Sense of Place
Residency program.
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FY2009 DECENTRALIZED GRANTS
Jefferson Parish
Project Assistance Grants
Jefferson Youth Foundation
$6,100
To support the Creative Arts Workshop which provides instruction in various arts disciplines to
children who have limited exposure to the arts and attend the Jefferson Youth Foundation’s
Advent After-School Program.
John Martyn Alternative School
$6,180
To support the Jefferson Performing Arts Society’s Cultural Crossroads residency-based arts
education program bringing an array of artists into the school to integrate arts and cultural
experiences into core curricula.
Kerner Elementary School
$5,100
To support the publication of the 8th volume of Les Plumes de Lafitte, the school’s literary
journal, and to support drama training and the production of a school play led by visiting artists.
Anita Kulkarni
$6,100
To support a workshop series in classical Indian music and one in classical Indian dance, and to
support a public concert featuring both to promote appreciation of these art forms.
Lincoln Elementary School for the Arts
$6,020
To support the Jefferson Performing Arts Society’s Stage Without a Theatre residency-based
arts education program bringing artists of various disciplines into the school to integrate arts and
cultural experiences into core curricula.
Magnolia School
$7,050
To support ceramics classes which are led by a visiting artist and are provided free-of-charge to
adults with mental disabilities.
Moscow Nights
$6,900
To support An Evening with Anton Chekhov, a theater production including three short plays by
Chekhov.
Pluma Productions of Southern Dominican Province
$6,550
To support Ecos Latinos, a monthly artist series videotaped for cablecast, presenting visiting
and local Latino musicians, poets, dancers, and visual artists at community venues such as
Jefferson Parish public schools, bookstores, and senior homes.
St. Benilde Church and School
$5,090
To support after-school dance instruction provided by the New Orleans Ballet Association freeof-charge to children in Jefferson Parish with a demonstrated interest in dance.
St. Jerome Church
$5,350
To support an after-school dance and drumming program for a mostly Latino student population,
with the dance instruction provided by the New Orleans Ballet Association.
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FY2009 DECENTRALIZED GRANTS
Jefferson Parish
Project Assistance Grants
Waggaman Alternative School
$6,145
To support the Jefferson Performing Arts Society’s Cultural Crossroads residency-based arts
education program bringing an array of artists into the school to integrate arts and cultural
experiences into core curricula.
West Bank Art Guild
$3,697
To support hiring accomplished visual artists to conduct a series of hands-on workshops for
area adults, senior citizens, and chidren.
Westbank Community School
$6,284
To support Jefferson Performing Arts Society’s Cultural Crossroads residency-based arts
education program bringing an array of artists into the school to integrate arts and cultural
experiences into core curricula.
Jefferson Parish Project Assistance Total - $126,606
Jefferson Parish
Technical Assistance Grants
Moscow Nights
$2,500
To support hiring a professional management consultant to assist with fund development.
Jefferson Parish Technical Assistance Total - $2,500
Grand Total for Jefferson Parish - $245,781
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FY2009 DECENTRALIZED GRANTS
Plaquemines Parish
Project Assistance Grants
Belle Chasse Academy
$2,935
To support a Cajun Cultural Festival that enables students in the 5 - 8th grades to experience the
culinary, music, and craft traditions of Louisiana's Cajun culture.
Belle Chasse Primary School
$4,127
To support in-school performances by visiting actors and musicians to enhance the students’
study of Louisiana and to reinforce core curricula.
Boothville-Venice Elementary School
$4,445
To support in-school performances by a series of guest artists including storytellers, musicians,
theater artists, and folk dancers.
Plaquemines Parish Library
$4,230
To support performances by a series of guest artists including storytellers, musicians, and
dancers as part of the library's Summer Reading Program.
Total for Plaquemines Parish - $15,737
The programs of the Arts Council of New Orleans are
supported by a grant from the Louisiana Division of the Arts,
Office of Cultural Development, Department of Culture,
Recreation and Tourism, in cooperation with the
Louisiana State Arts Council. Funding is also
provided by the National Endowment for the Arts,
a Federal Agency. Specific programs
are also funded through contracts with the
City of New Orleans and other public and private agencies.
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