National Endowment For The Arts Annual Report National Endowment For The Arts 1990 Annual Report National Endowment for the Arts Washington, D.C. Dear Mr. President: I have the honor to submit to you the Annual Report of the National Endowment for the Arts for the Fiscal Year ended September 30, 1990. Respectfully, Jc Frohnmayer Chairman The President The White House Washington, D.C. April 1991 CONTENTS Chairman’s Statement ............................................................5 The Agency and its Functions .............................................29 . The National Council on the Arts ........................................30 Programs Dance ........................................................................................ 32 Design Arts .............................................................................. 53 Expansion Arts .....................................................................66 ... Folk Arts .................................................................................. 92 Inter-Arts ..................................................................................103. Literature ..............................................................................121 .... Media Arts: Film/Radio/Television ..................................137 .. Museum ................................................................................155 .... Music ....................................................................................186 .... 236 ~O~eera-Musicalater ................................................................................. Theater ............................................................ ..... 249 Visual Arts ................................................................................ 268 Office for Public Partnership Arts in Education .................................................................... 290 Locals Program .....................................................................298 .... States Program ........................................................................ 303 Challenge and Advancement Challenge .................................................................................. 310 Advancement .......................................................................... 319 Office of Policy, Planning, and Research Arts Administration Fellows Program ................................326 .. International Activities ............................................................ 329 Research Division ................................................................331 .... Office for Special Constituencies ............................................332 Financial Summary Fiscal Year 1990 ....................................................................334 .... History of Authorizations and Appropriations ...................335 . Chairman’s Statement Over the past year, a conundrum has crossed my will enhance and broaden the work of the Arts mind time and again: what can we do to help the Endowment, while at the same time ensuring arts play a more meaningful part in our citizens’ artistic excellence as the foundation of its grant- daily lives, and how can the National giving process. Endowment for the Arts better make available Toward the goal of cultural understanding, quality arts to the citizens of this country? we have undertaken initiatives that cut across the Americans, asa whole, value the richness that arts disciplines and concern every partnership art, in its multiple forms, brings to their lives and with state, local and private arts organizations. those of their children. As this report shows, our Let us briefly examine these initiatives: twofold mission is to support artistic excellence and to provide access to that excellence for all ARTS EDUCATION citizens. The National Endowment for the Arts is in The ultimate goal of the Endowment’s arts the business of promoting creativity. Our grants education efforts is a citizenry that: to artists and arts organizations go to projects that ¯ have a positive impact in communities in all parts Recognizes and appreciates the life- of our nation. Over the 25-year history of this enhancing value of all art forms; agency, we have been successful in this mission, ¯ yet with the passing of each year, we realize that Understands that arts education, with its we have more to do and greater challenges ability to teach creativity, is fundamental to ahead, superior human performance in all An understanding of our culture is endeavors; fundamental to superior human performance in ¯ all endeavors and to the maintenance of our Feels free to give expression to its own democratic institutions. As Leonard Garment, a innate creativity and humanity through lawyer and former cultural advisor to President participation in the arts; and Nixon, recently said: "[A] child who has not ¯ been moved early in life by a poem ora story is Provides active support for the arts in both not likely to be deeply affected later on by the the private and public realms. burning of books..." Since this Annual Report is for FY 1990, it For this stewardship of our nation’s culture, does not fully reflect some of the new directions all Americans -- young and old -- deserve a undertaken in recent months. On November 5, quality education which emphasizes the 1990, Congress enacted "The Arts and fundamental value of the arts in our lives. The Humanities Amendments of 1990" which Endowment will expand existing programs which reauthorized the programs of the Endowment for help bring artists-in-residence to schools and Fiscal Years 1991 - 1993. The provisions of this other settings and help state arts agencies new legislation will significantly affect the cooperate with state and local education leaders to Endowment’s grantmaking in coming years. The develop curricula and joint programs in arts internal reforms in advisory panel and education. grantmaking procedures bring increased Nurturing our imaginative life is responsiveness to our deliberations and will make fundamental to our growth asa society. The arts the Arts Endowment more accessible to all of the have the power to stimulate students -- to inspire American people. The implementation of new them to dream and to dare. Exposure to the arts conflict of interest rules strengthens our peer helps build a well-rounded person with the panel review process. Finally, a new initiative mental acuity to see and think creatively and with state arts agencies will direct more federal critically. Art teaches an appreciation of proportion, funds to rural, inner city and other areas that have been underserved artistically. Taken asa order, wit and genius. Granted, not everyone can whole, the changes contained in this legislation perform or write, sculpt or paint, but all should be given an opportunity to know about visual and spacial composition, harmony, design and to determine which of these efforts might be structure so that they might better understand improved or expanded. Additionally, as our world, mandated by Congress in our reauthorization This Administration has declared, and all legislation, five percent of program funds are Americans can agree, that an educated populace being transferred to the state arts agencies for should be a first order of priority. A significant rural and inner city initiatives. part of that education is to sights and sounds, to relationships and proportion, to poetry and plays. In short, it is education to those truths that tell us CULTURAL DIVERSITY who we are and allow us to exercise discipline, We are committed to supporting organizations intelligence, tolerance, compassion and intuition. which reflect the cultural diversity in America. Our Expansion Arts Program was formed to reach organizations "deeply rooted in and ACCESS TO THE ARTS reflective of culturally diverse, inner city, rural or We will develop more cultural activities for tribal communities." Approximately 300 such people in rural areas, inner cities, and other areas organizations are funded each year, and underserved by the arts. We must ensure Expansion Arts has nurtured many of the adequate facilities for these activities, encourage celebrated minority arts organizations in America the use of new distribution channels and promote -- from the Alvin Ailey Dance Company to El new techniques, and new venues: community Teatro Campesino to the Japanese-American centers, libraries, schools, halls. Every person in Cultural & Community Center in Los Angeles. every state should have access to the arts. And Many more examples can be found under the we must recognize that there is no one ~ way Expansion Arts heading of this report and to do or provide art -- we are limited only by our throughout all of the disciplines funded by the imaginations. Endowment. Twenty-five years ago there was no The people of the United States descend National Endowment for the Arts, only a handful from at least 170 discrete cultural backgrounds, of state arts agencies, and few active local arts and from each of these backgrounds comes art councils. Twenty-five years ago, most quality forms -- traditional and contemporary -- that are arts organizations were clustered in New York aesthetically distinctive, and essential to City anda few other metropolitan areas. America’s cultural wealth. The Endowment’s Twenty-five years ago, acceptance, understanding goal is to assist all elements of America’s culture and appreciation of the diversity of American in the maintenance and development of its culture was not the prevailing mood.