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Heritage Fellow Michael Doucet MAY/JULY 2005 NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS A GREAT NATION DESERVES GREAT ART 2 SHAKESPEARE Heritage FOR A NEW GENERATION Fellow 4 2005 HERITAGE FELLOWS Michael Doucet 6 LEWIS & CLARK BICENTENNIAL Shakespeare FOR A NEW GENERATION Mrs. Laura Bush at the headquarters of Shakespeare Festival LA. Photo: © Ryan Miller/Capture Imaging 2 hen Mrs. Laura Bush dropped by the ing funds to support activities targeting students from headquarters of Shakespeare Festival at least 10 schools in their communities, states, or LA’s Will Power to Youth program, and regions during the 2005-06 school year. Wwatched its young cast members perform the opening Mrs. Bush commended the program’s expansion: scenes of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, she said, “This “Shakespeare for a New Generation brings the world was so great. But it wasn’t enough. I’d like to see more.” of this great playwright to thousands of schoolchildren Mrs. Bush is about to get her wish, along with throughout the country.” thousands of American students. On May 12th, Arts Since its 2003 inauguration, Shakespeare in American Endowment Chairman Dana Gioia announced the Communities has reached more than 550 communities participating theater companies for the third year of with more than 1,200 performances in areas as diverse as Shakespeare in American Communities and the second Monmouth, Maine and Douglas, Arkansas. year of Shakespeare for a New Generation. This new “This program helps actors, students, teachers, and phase will include theater companies that present full theater companies while improving the quality of edu- productions, along with those that present Shakespeare’s cation across the country. It is a model of both artistic work through model education programs. Arts Midwest, excellence and grassroots accessibility,” said NEA a regional arts organization based in Minneapolis, is Chairman Dana Gioia. managing the program. To enhance the educational impact of the program, the Arts Endowment will continue to provide educa- tional materials, free of charge, to thousands of class- rooms. Materials include a teacher’s guide with lesson plans, two educational videos, and a CD featuring interviews and recitations by leading actors, and can be ordered free of charge by teachers at http://www.vpw.com/partner/shakespeare. Above: Cast members of Shakespeare Festival LA’s Will Power to Youth program. Photo: © Ryan Miller/Capture Imaging Bottom, left to right: Adair Margo, Chair of President’s Committee on So far, 46 theater companies have participated in the the Arts and the Humanities, NEA Chairman Dana Gioia with Mrs. program. (See the May 12th press release in the News Laura Bush and Ben Donenberg, Artistic Director of Shakespeare Festival Room of our Web site.) Companies will provide match- LA. Photo: © Ryan Miller/Capture Imaging 3 2005 NEA National Heritage Fellows A Celebration of Folk and Traditional Artists Each year, the Arts Endowment celebrates folk and 2005 NEA National Heritage Fellows traditional artists by recognizing the NEA National Eldrid Skjold Arntzen (Watertown, CT)—for rosemal- Heritage Fellows. For 2005, twelve superlative makers— ing, which flourished in 18th-century Norway as a form of rosemaling and papel picado, of Yiddish song, Cajun, of decoration on wood, and was used on objects and gospel, and “go-go” music—will be given the highest furnishings in rural churches and homes. federal recognition for their arts and crafts. The process of finding the NEA National Heritage Earl Barthé (New Orleans, LA)—for decorative plaster Fellows is comprehensive. In choosing them, our panel and stucco work that reflects an array of French, evaluated 270 individual nominations submitted Spanish, Anglo-American neo-classical, and by the public. Panelists read more than 4,500 African American aesthetics, in sync with the pages of written nomination material and historic architecture of New Orleans. considered 1,114 visual images, 300 recorded- sound samples, and 183 audio-visual selections. Chuck Brown (Brandywine, MD)—for a In September, the recipients are brought to musical blend of Latin beats, African call- Washington for programs honoring their contri- and-response chants, rhythm and blues, and butions to our nation’s artistic heritage. Recipients jazz (“go-go”) that has been identified with the District are feted at a banquet held in the Great Hall of the of Columbia for more than 30 years. Library of Congress. Later, Fellows receive a certificate in a ceremony on Capitol Hill, attended by family, Michael Doucet (Lafayette, LA)—a fiddler, composer, and friends, and members of Congress. The week culmi- bandleader, he is perhaps the single most important figure nates with a celebratory concert presenting the artists in the revitalization of Cajun music in the United States. and their work to the general public. The ceremony and related activities are generously Jerry Grcevich (North Huntingdon, PA)— for his mas- supported by Cracker Barrel Old Country Stores. tery of all five of the instruments of the tamburitza Left to right: Grace Henderson Nez displays one of her handmade rugs. Photo: Ann Lane Hedlund. An example of Herminia Albarrán Romero’s masterful papel picado (Mexican paper cutting). Photo: courtesy of the artist 4 (Serbo-Croatian string material to be performed by music) ensemble—the various artists. prim, braã, cello, bugarija, and bass. Albertina Walker (Chicago, IL)— for her lifetime of Wanda Jackson commitment to gospel (Oklahoma City, OK)— music. To date she has for her musical career recorded more than 60 spanning country ballads, albums, with 5 gold records early rock and roll, rocka- Earl Barthé with one of his decorative plaster works. and 10 Grammy nomina- billy, and gospel music. tions among them. Grace Henderson Nez (Ganado, AZ)— for her Navajo James Ka’upena Wong (Waianae, HI)—for the art of rugs in the “old style” as well as the distinct Ganado Hawaiian chant. He is also known as a “keeper of the style. For more than seven decades, she has raised and word” and thus the language, and as a master of ancient sheared sheep, carded and dyed the wool, and woven poetic chant called mele kahiko. intricate and distinctive designs at the Navajo Reservation in Arizona. Bess Lomax Hawes National Heritage Fellowship Janette Carter (Hiltons, VA)—for her support and pro- Herminia Albarrán Romero (San Francisco, CA)—for motion of the traditional music of the Appalachian the art of papel picado (Mexican paper cutting) and region. Her parents and Aunt Maybelle made up the altar-making. Her paper designs, flowers, and altars are Carter Family, known as the “First Family of Country used on special occasions such as weddings, Cinco de Music.” In 1976, she and community members built an Mayo, and Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead). 880-seat amphitheater, the Carter Family Fold, beside the family store. A regular series of concerts has been Beyle Schaechter-Gottesman (Bronx, NY)— offered there ever since. Today the Carter Family Fold for her Yiddish poetry and song. The renaissance of attracts more than 50,000 visitors a year to this family- klezmer music in the United States also allowed her run monument to early country music. large repertoire of traditional and original Chuck Brown, the “Godfather of Go-Go” music. Photo: Eduardo Rodriguez 5 The NEA Supports The Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Composer Rob Kapilow (left) and writer Darrell Kipp. Photo: Hugo Perez When Meriwether Lewis and William Clark set out to and the Louisiana Symphony as well. explore the vast frontier that would later become the Kapilow, an exciting new voice in classical music Western United States in 1804, they were searching for today, has been called the “pied piper of classical music” The Northwest Passage. Following the directives of because of his wide-ranging efforts at making classical President Thomas Jefferson, the pair attempted to find a music accessible to new audiences. Kipp is celebrated waterway running East to West, but never did—since no within his tribe for his campaign to save the Blackfeet such river exists. Instead, Lewis and Clark returned in language from extinction. Together, they spent nearly a 1806 with news of the West,“with room enough for our year listening and collaborating, to create a work that descendants, to the thousandth and thousandth genera- “crosses the divide” that separates mainstream America tion,” according to President Jefferson. and Native America. This year, the Arts Endowment has provided funding Beginning in December 2003, Kapilow and Kipp for a number of significant works to commemorate the engaged in dozens of conversations, audience dialogues, Lewis and Clark Bicentennial. and town hall meetings. They visited tribal communi- ties in North Dakota, Montana, Idaho, and Oregon— Summer Sun, Winter Moon and involved those communities in the process. What The composer Rob Kapilow has joined with writer Darrell Kipp, a member of the Blackfeet tribe of Montana, to create a large-scale choral and orchestra Opposite, clockwise from top right: Model of the land bridge planned work for the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial. for the Vancouver National Historic Reserve in Vancouver, Washington. Commissioned by three symphony orchestras, Summer Photo: Jones + Jones Architects. Artist and architect Maya Lin discusses Sun, Winter Moon was premiered by the Kansas City plans for one of the seven Confluence Project sites with architects. Chief Symphony with a 100-voice choir in September 2004, Timothy Park in Clarkston, Washington, where Maya Lin plans to before an audience estimated at 1,000. The piece has create an outdoor amphitheater and a lookout point with excerpts from since been performed by the St. Louis Symphony the Lewis & Clark journals. Photos: Betsy Henning 6 they learned and heard are reflected in music and song of Vancouver/Clark County, and the Friends of Lewis in Summer Sun, Winter Moon. and Clark of Pacific County.
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