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Arts for the 2006 Annual Report Annual National Endowment NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS 2006 ANNUAL REPORT v o venue, N.W. .arts.g ania A v l www (202) 682-5400 ennsy ashington, D.C. 20506-0001 W 1100 P Not for sale–Available for free at www.arts.gov sale–Available for Not for Great Nation Deserves Great Art. Great Great Nation Deserves A The National Endowment for the Arts is a public agency dedicated to supporting excellence in the arts, both new and established; bringing the arts to all Americans; and providing leadership in arts education. Established by Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government, the Endowment is the nation’s largest annual funder of the arts, bringing great art to all 50 states, including rural areas, inner cities and military bases. Rufino Tamayo's Retrato de Olga (Portrait of Olga), 1964, was part of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art's exhibition Tamayo: A Modern Icon Reinterpreted. Photo courtesy of Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, CONACULTA-INBA, © Herederos de Rufino Tamayo Dear Mr. President: It is my pleasure to submit the Annual Report of the National Endowment for the Arts for Fiscal Year 2006. Since its establishment in 1965, the Arts Endowment has awarded more than $4 billion in grants to organizations and artists residing in all 50 states and the six U.S. jurisdictions, in communities large and small. Throughout its history, the NEA has played a transformative and sustaining role in the development of regional theater, opera, dance, orchestras, museums, and other arts—both contemporary and traditional—that Americans now enjoy. The activities highlighted in this report illustrate the Arts Endowment’s continuing commitment to a nation in which artistic excellence is celebrated, supported, and available to all Americans. Sincerely, Dana Gioia Chairman Sunrise, Old Walpi Pueblo, Arizona, ca. 1942, by Ansel Adams, one of the photographs being preserved through a Save America’s Treasures grant. Photo courtesy of Collection Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona. © Trustees of the Ansel Adams Publishing Rights Trust Table of Contents Chairman’s Statement ...................................................................1 National Initiatives........................................................................7 State and Regional Partnerships ...................................................17 Lifetime Honors .........................................................................19 National Medal of Arts ....................................................................................19 NEA Jazz Masters Fellowship...........................................................................20 NEA National Heritage Fellowship ...................................................................22 Grant Highlights.........................................................................25 State-by-State listing Literature Fellowships................................................................129 National Council on the Arts.......................................................139 Financial Summary....................................................................141 Appropriations History..............................................................143 Credits.....................................................................................144 Tatiana Jouravel in Milwaukee Ballet Company’s production of Lila York’s Coronach. Photo by Rick Brodzeller Chairman’s Statement o by Vance Jacobs t Pho Chairman’s Statement A NEW CONVERSATION, ARTISTIC EXCELLENCE A NEW CONSENSUS In 2006, the NEA continued to support all the arts in s the National Endowment for the Arts all the disciplines across all the states and jurisdictions. (NEA) moves past the midpoint of the first More than $100 million was distributed in more than A 2,200 grants. Hundreds of millions of Americans— decade of the new century, we find ourselves leading a compelling new conversation including millions of children and youth—have about the role of government funding of the arts and benefited from Arts Endowment grants, broadcasts, arts education—a new conversation that has led to a and National Initiatives. new consensus of broad support for such funding. These grants included between 30,000 and 40,000 The NEA has introduced into this conversation topics concerts, readings, and performances. Among them such as “artistic excellence,” “arts presentation and were American Masterpieces: Choral Music concerts arts education,” “arts and civic engagement,” and involving eight choral festivals around the country, “democratic reach.” Discussion and exploration of including a free concert in our nation’s capital, each of these ideas has led us, as an agency and as a “America Sings!,” which showcased significant nation, out of the “us versus them” artistic arguments American choral works performed by as many as 325 of the last century and into the new consensus of the singers from a dozen American choruses. new century: Government support of the arts and arts Support from the NEA has helped provide some 4,000 education is an investment in our future. exhibitions, including visual and media arts, and more than 10,000 artist residencies in schools and other 2006 Annual Report 1 Chairman’s Statement Sharing America’s artistic excellence and that of other countries was expanded even further with the announcement of the NEA’s International Literary Exchanges. These will provide American readers access to literary works by contemporary writers of other countries and provide foreign readers access to the work of acclaimed American writers, especially poets. Projects will include either publication of dual anthologies or specific translation projects. Projects are currently in development with Pakistan, Russia, Mexico, Greece, and Spain. In all instances, the NEA The two-volume bilingual poetry anthology, will work with literary and governmental organizations Connecting Lines/Líneas Conectadas, features to complete the projects. work from Mexican and United States poets. COMBINING ARTS locations. We have supported artistic excellence in PRESENTATION WITH organizations as large as the Kennedy Center for the ARTS EDUCATION Performing Arts in Washington, DC, and the Metropolitan Opera in New York City to those as The Arts Endowment’s commitment to arts education small as Figures of Speech Theatre in Freeport, Maine, has grown with each National Initiative as well as and the Caribbean Dance Company in the American within our Learning in the Arts direct grants. All of our Virgin Islands. From those as longstanding as the National Initiatives have education components and, MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire, in some cases, are driven primarily by the desire to est. 1907, to those as new as Youth Speaks in San educate young people to the power of art. Francisco, est. 1999. The goal of Shakespeare for a New Generation is to Our efforts to promote artistic excellence reached awaken America’s youth to the power of live theater. across our southern border in 2006 to the literary Since 2003, more than 16 million middle and high achievements of Mexican and American poets. The school students have benefited from the free teacher NEA published, with Sarabande Books, Connecting resource kits that are available through that program. Lines and Líneas Conectadas, a two-volume bilingual Since 2005, more than six million students have anthology of work by poets from Mexico and the learned about the history of jazz through our NEA United States. The anthology resulted from the Jazz in the Schools program. And tens of thousands collaborative efforts of the National Endowment for more Americans—young and old—have learned the Arts, the U.S. Embassy in Mexico, and the about their own artistic and cultural heritage through National Autonomous University of Mexico. Each American Masterpieces presentations in dance, choral volume contains the work of 50 poets from the music, visual arts, theater, and musical theater. postwar generation writing in diverse styles. 2 National Endowment for the Arts Chairman’s Statement As part of California Shakespeare Theater’s Student Discovery program, students participate in a post-show discussion with the cast of As You Like It. Photo by Jay Yamada Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth direct Atlanta, Georgia. We taught photography to students grants continue to give students opportunities for in Pablo, Montana, and Chicago, Illinois. In short, we exposure to and instruction in dance, classical music, introduced millions of students across the country to folk and traditional arts, and visual arts—opportunities the entire spectrum of the arts—and to their that used to be as much a part of the school day as transformative power. math and reading, but which have become lost over the years to budget cuts and redesigned curricula. ARTS AND CIVIC If we don’t give our children access to the arts in their ENGAGEMENT schools, we don’t give them a chance to become fully During the past five years the formed, well-rounded human beings. Arts education NEA has rebuilt its Research is as necessary to a child reaching his or her full and Analysis department into potential as any of the sciences or language arts. With a leader in national opinion, this in mind, the NEA puts great emphasis on arts giving arts organizations, arts education. administrators, artists, opinion In 2006, the NEA supported youth writing programs makers, and legislators the