NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS ~~>~=~~ -. " " i . " I~~ JJ~ , .. ..... MUSIC ON COVER AND TI~E PAGE TA~N ~OM SgMPH~ NO. 1 BY ELLEN TAA~ ZWIL­ ICH, WHICH SHE COM~SED WHILE ~CEIV~G A COM~SERS’ ~LLOWSHIP IN 1981 ~OM THE MUSIC PR~RAM. IN 1983, ~IS COM~S[~ON WAS AW~~D ~E PUL~ER PR~E FOR MUSIC. COPYRIGHT 1983 M~G~ MUSIC, INC. ~P~~ED BY PE~ISSION OF THE PUBLISHER. 1987 ANNUAL REPORT National Endowment for the Arts Washington, D.C. Dear Mr. President: I have the honor to submit to you the Annual Repon of the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Council on the Arts for the Fiscal Year ended September 30, 1987. Respectfully, Frank Hodsoll Chairman The President The White House Washington, D.C. March 1988 CONTENTS CHAIRMAN’S STATEMENT v THE AGENCY AND ITS FUNCTIONS vii THE NATIONAL COUNCIL ON THE ARTS ix PROGRAMS 1 Dance 3 Design Arts 17 Expansion Arts 29 Folk Arts 51 Inter-Arts 59 Literature 71 Media Arts: Film/Radio/Television 83 Museum 95 Music 117 Opera-Musical Theater 151 Theater 161 Visual Arts 173 OFFICE FOR PUBLIC PARTNERSHIP 187 Artists in Education 189 Locals Test Program 195 State Programs 199 OFFICE FOR PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP 203 Challenge 205 Advancement 209 OFFICE OF POLICY, PLANNING, AND RESEARCH 211 Fellowship Program for Arts Managers 213 Intemational 215 Research 217 Special Constituencies 219 APPENDIX 221 Statement of Mission 222 Overview and Challenge Advisory Panels 223 Financial Summary 228 History of Authoñzations and Appropriations 229 iii CHAIRMAN’S STATEMENT The tremendous diversity of the arts of the basics of education from federal support for the arts over the in America is clearly shown by the kindergarten through twelfth grade, long term. The first Challenge III 4,699 grants made by the Endowment’s Our Arts in Education Program is awards will be announced in October programs covered in this Annual leading this effort, and the Endowment’s 1988. Report for 1987. The total amount of study on the state of arts education, A match~’lg grant of $64,420 was the grants was $151.4 millíon. We are recently presented to Congress, under­ provided to the Winston Network grateful to the panelists and members of scores the need to make progress in of San Francisco and New York, an the National Council on the Arts who this area. The report concludes that a advertising corporation, for posters of provide valuable advice on our work. balanced education is essential to poetry to be displayed on buses in an enlightened citizenry and a produc­ I0 cities. Another grant of $11,800 was tive work force, and that the arts are an provided by the Literature Program, EDUCATION essential part of that balance, in cooperation with the Book Office of A concrete step toward improvement the United States Information Agency, Over the 22 years since the Endowment of the situation was the award in for an Intemational Bookfair Project was created, the arts in this country March 1987 of the first 16 state arts exhibiting small press books, selected have expanded enormously, enriching agency planning grants to assist the by a Literature Advisory Panel, in the lives of millions of people in every process of state arts agency-state Frankfurt, West Germany, and Buenos state. Museums, orchestras, regional education agency collaboration to make Aires, Argentina. theaters, dance and opera companies are the arts more basic in education and Important support for the preservation operating across the land. The popula­ to identify school districts where of American musicals was provided tion of artists has grown, and audiences progress in actual classrooms might by a $50,000 grant to the National are also expanding. Support for the actually move forward. In addition the Institute for Music Theatre for a cata­ arts is up in both the public and private Endowment and the U.S. Department logue of musical theater works. Three sectors. The Endowment’s Research of Education selected a national Arts awards under the New American Division recently noted that 1986 was Education Research Center with two Works Category totaling $85,000 were the second year in a row when admis­ divisions-~one at the University of granted to the American Music Theater sion receípts for nonprofit performing Illinois and the other at New York Festival in Philadelphia. Out of these arts events exceeded those for spectator University. The Center will conduct came Anthony Davis’s fine opera sports, research on how students are taught, X, which was performanced by the But the other side of the coin is that what they learn, and how the arts New York City Opera. The Endowment 61 percent of adult Americans in can be better integrated into the curric­ also provided funds for presenting on 1985 did not attend a single live ulum. It is our hope that the Center Public Television’s "Great Perform­ performance of classical music, jazz, and the centers for literature and ances" series, Nixon in China, a new theater, musical theater, opera or ballet elementary education, which were also opera by John Adams, commissioned or visitan art museum or gallery, established in 1987, will provide a and performed by the Houston Grand That means that a majority of Ameri­ body of knowledge and a place for Opera. This program was part of cans didn’t even once in ayear have natienal debate on how arts education the Endowment’s continuing effort to personal contact with the arts outside can best advance, put productions by outstanding regional the popular culture. For them, the companies on national television. arts were the popular culture, and the 1987 was also ayear of history- arts of our cultural heritage and the PROGRAMS making rediscovery in American dance. majority of contemporary expression The Dance Program supported recon­ remained largely the preserve of the The Challenge Grant Program accepted structions and restagings of master better-educated, not really a part of the its first applications under the new works like Vaslav Nijinsky’s and Igor national consciousness. Challenge III guidelines. Building on a Stravinski’s Le Sacre du Printemps This is why the Endowment is 10-year record of success in generating (The Rite of Spring) by the Joffrey making a special effort to encourage institutional support, this new program Ballet, which has not been performed elementary and secondary schools offers grants for exceptional projects for some 75 years. The Endowment to make the arts a more señous and that advance artistic excellence, access also supported Martha Graham to sequential part of the curñculum--part to the arts, arts appreciation or non- restore her 1931 group work, Celebra­ CHAIRMAN’S STATEMENT tion, and the Alvin Ailey American performers (’88 grants), and stage President Reagan reiterated his deep Dance Theatre to produce a full evening designers (’89 grants). And, a 1987 commitment to the arts, and to arts of works by Katherine Dunham. Locals Program grant of $175,000 education. Duñng his remarks at the As part of the Expansion Arts to Boston’s Office of the Arts and National Medal of Arts ceremony Program, $100,000 was awarded to the Humanities will assist the establishment on June 18th, the President recalled the National Black Arts Festival to support of a midtown cultural district where, high regard in which the arts were the first annual Festival of African- through public-private partnerships, 25 held by George Washington, Thomas Ameñcan Arts in Atlanta in July 1988. new and rehabilítated cultural facilities Jefferson, and John Adams, and asked Many important performing arts will be developed, us to "resolve that our schools will organizations, as well as individual In 1987 the Folk Arts Program teach our children the same respect and artists from black communities across concluded three years of support to the appreciation for the arts and humanities the country will appear at the Festival. Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, that the Founders had." During the 1987-88 concert season, Nevada. This annual event has had "Why do we, asa free people, honor the Orchestra Touring Program brought widespread ñpple effects throughout the the arts?", the President asked. His the Houston and St. Louis symphony westem region--local and statewide answer is a beacon for all of us here at orchestras to smaller cities and towns in gatherings of cowboy poets have been the Endowment: Texas and five midwestem states. This started in several states, and cowboy The arts and the humanities teach program is a model public/pñvate poetry is now available on audio us who we are and what we can partnership between the Music Program cassette and cable TV. The Endow­ be. They lie at the very core and Southwestem Bell; its replication ment’s investment in the Cowboy of the culture of which we’re a will enable outstanding orchestras Poetry Gathering has enabled the event part, and they provide the founda­ to reach audiences otherwise untouched to become financially self-sufficient, tion from which we may reach by live symphony performances. Through the new Special Artistic out to other cultures so that the The Inter-Arts Program initiated, Initiatives category the Museum great heñtage that is ours may be Program has awarded $640,000 to eight with support from the Rockefeller enñched by--as well as itself art museums. The supported projects enñch---other enduñng traditions. Foundation, a National Task Force on are designed to use, over a period Presenting and Touring of the Perform­ We honor the arts not because of several years, the museum’s own art we want monuments to our own ing Arts.