N A N A L E ENT S NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR~THE ARTS 1992, ANNUAL REPORT NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR!y’THE ARTS The Federal agency that supports the Dear Mr. President: visual, literary and pe~orming arts to I have the honor to submit to you the Annual Report benefit all A mericans of the National Endowment for the Arts for the fiscal year ended September 30, 1992. Respectfully, Arts in Education Challenge &Advancement Dance Aria M. Steele Design Arts Acting Senior Deputy Chairman Expansion Arts Folk Arts International Literature The President Local Arts Agencies The White House Media Arts Washington, D.C. Museum Music April 1993 Opera-Musical Theater Presenting & Commissioning State & Regional Theater Visual Arts The Nancy Hanks Center 1100 Pennsylvania Ave. NW Washington. DC 20506 202/682-5400 6 The Arts Endowment in Brief The National Council on the Arts PROGRAMS 14 Dance 32 Design Arts 44 Expansion Arts 68 Folk Arts 82 Literature 96 Media Arts II2. Museum I46 Music I94 Opera-Musical Theater ZlO Presenting & Commissioning Theater zSZ Visual Arts ~en~ PUBLIC PARTNERSHIP z96 Arts in Education 308 Local Arts Agencies State & Regional 3z4 Underserved Communities Set-Aside POLICY, PLANNING, RESEARCH & BUDGET 338 International 346 Arts Administration Fallows 348 Research 35o Special Constituencies OVERVIEW PANELS AND FINANCIAL SUMMARIES 354 1992 Overview Panels 360 Financial Summary 36I Histos~f Authorizations and 366~redi~ At the "Parabolic Bench" outside a South Bronx school, a child discovers aspects of sound -- for instance, that it can be stopped with the wave of a hand. Sonic architects Bill & Mary Buchen designed this "Sound Playground" with help from the Design Arts Program in the form of one of the 4,141 grants that the Arts Endowment awarded in FY 1992. 6 National Endowment for the Arts The Arts Endowment In" B" rle f STABHSHED BY CONGRESS IN 1965, THE grams’ guidelines for the following year. During application National Endowment for the Arts is the fed­ review, the panel discusses applications and support materials eral agency that supports the visual, literary in light of the review criteria in the existing guidelines, and and performing arts to benefit all Americans. makes recommendations for funding. Its mission is to serve the American people -­ The panels’ recommendations are forwarded to the Eby fostering artistic excellence and helping to National Council on the Arts for its review in open meeting develop the nation’s finest creative talent; by preserving and at which individual grant applications and supporting mate­ transmitting our diverse cultural rials may be discussed. The heritage; by making the arts more National Council makes its recom­ accessible to all Americans, young, mendations to the Chairman of old, or disabled, living in rural the Arts Endowment on applica­ towns or major cities; by promot­ tions recommended for funding, ing the vitality of arts institutions; and makes decisions on those to be and by helping to make the arts in­ rejected. trinsic to education. The Chairman of the Endow­ The Arts Endowment serves as ment then decides whether or not a catalyst to increase opportunities to fund applications recommended for artists and resources for arts or­ by the Council ganizations. It also spurs involve­ ment in the arts by citizens, public The Chairman and private organizations, and the APPOINTED BY THE PRESIDENT states and local communities. of the United States with the ad­ How the Agency Functions vice and consent of the Senate, the Chairman of the Endowment is THE ENDOWMENT SERVES THE chief executive officer of the American public by providing fi­ agency and Chairman of the nancial assistance to artists and National Council on the Arts. nonprofit arts organizations. The ..... agency also awards grants to other ~ "~ National Council on the Arts public arts agencies at the state, Students of a dancer-in-residence perform in TWENTY-SIX DISTINGUISHED local and regional levels. The Toledo thanks in pert to an Endowment grant to the citizens, appointed by the President Endowment receives applications Ohio Irts Council. NaUon~de the Endowment hel~sand confirmed by the Senate, plus for more than four times as many fund 13,000 a~sts-in-residence who serve 4 mil- the Chairman of the Endowment, grants as it can support. After lion citizens of all ages. constitute the National Council on being processed by the appropriate program staff, applica­ the Arts. These citizens have broad experience in the various tions go through a three-step process: arts disciplines and in the major aspects of artistic enterprise First, they are reviewed by an advisory panel, which is a such as creation, performance, presentation, administration continually rotating committee composed of experts from and patronage. Representing the variety of artistic disciplines the field and a knowledgeable layperson. The panel reviews and genres in America, collectively the Council transcends sin­ applications in closed session, and then, in open session, pro­ gle artistic interests as well as narrow geographic, ethnic and vides guidance on general policy, procedures, and the pro- philosophic bounds. I992 Annual Report 7 The Arts Endowment in Brief Methods of Funding In addition to making funding recommendations, the Council advises the Chairman on policies, programs and GRANT MONEY AUTHORIZED BY CONGRESS COMES TO procedures. Council members serve six-year terms, staggered the Endowment as Program Funds, Treasury Funds and so that roughly one-third of the Council membership rotates Challenge grant funds. Most direct grants to organizations evety two years. and individuals come from Program Funds. Program grants to arts organizations must be matched at least dollar-for-dol­ The Advisory Panels lar with funds received from other sources. Grants to indi­ PANELS OF CITIZENS ADVISE THE ENDOWMENT’S INDI- viduals do not require matching funds. vidual programs, review applications, identit~ issues of artis­ Treasury Fund grants, designed to help applicants in­ tic concern to the field and the American public, and inform crease or sustain non-Federal contributions, generally must the policies and programs through which the Endowment be matched with at least three non-Federal dollars for each pursues its mission. Federal dollar. Arts and community leaders from around the nation Grants from the Challenge Program, which must be matched on at least a three-to­ one basis, stimulate support for significant projects with long-term impact. Ranging up to $1 million, Challenge grants fund projects that pro­ mote expanded artistry, en­ hanced access and art appreci­ ation, and strengthened arts support systems. Impact of Endowment Grants EVERY GRANT DIRECTLY benefits the grantee and thus the grantee’s home commu­ nity and state. On the aver­ age, more than a quarter of the Endowment’s funding Maestra JoAnn Falletta conducts the Bay Area Women’s Philharmonic, which received supports projects whose im­ one of the Music Program’s more than 300 grants to ensembles ranging from jazz combos pact extends beyond the to symphony orchestras. home state of the recipient. Typically, about 8 percent of serve on the advisory peer panels. The panelists represent the Endowment’s grant dollars support projects whose many aesthetic and cultural viewpoints, providing a cross- benefits extend to the region of the grantee. With even section of American experience and artistic opinion. Panels broader effect, more than 20 percent of Endowment grant typically include artists, arts administrators, board mem­ funds supported projects of national impact. Many of bers, critics, arts educators and knowledgeable laymen. these served audiences nationwide through radio or TV Nominations for panelists can come from any source in­ broadcasting, publications or recordings. Others reached cluding the public at large; from artists, organizations, and wide audiences through touring -- of a dance company leaders in the arts field; from members of Congress; and from or a sculpture exhibition, for example. Still other grants Endowment staffand Council members. Appointments to had a national impact on their arts field by providing panels are made by the Endowment chairman. Membership management or technical assistance, professional training, on the panels rotates regularly, as no member may serve more career development, research or information. Because of their importance, grants having national im­ than three years consecutively. Panelists may not serve on a pact are flagged throughout this report with this symbol: panel for program categories in which they have a pending application. [~] 8 National Endowment for the Arts Annual Report THIS REPORT COVERS THE FISCAL YEAR THAT ENDED September 30, 1992. During that period the Art Endow­ ment awarded 4,141 grants, entered into 78 cooperative agreements, and participated in six interagency agreements. As the Financial Summary shows, the agency obligated $141,040,581 in Program, Treasury and miscellaneous funds, and an additional $13,522,556 in Challenge funds for a total of $154,563,137 to gupport artists, cultural organiza­ tions and state and local arts agencies in FY ’92. The Programs section of this report covers grants awarded within specific arts disciplines and for particular arts activities, such as the Dance Program and Presenting & Commissioning Program. The Public Partnership section covers grants awarded primarily to other public agencies, especially regional, state and local arts agencies. The Policy, Planning, Research & Budget section covers a variety of special offices, including those that supported arts adminis­ tration fellowships, research, special constituencies and international activities. 0 Within the first three parts of this report, each chapter 0 opens with introductory information on the pertinent office or Program. Then, typically, the chapter lists all that Four Philadanco dancers count themselves among the Program’s grants, grouped by category. The grants are thousands of performers who enliven the stages of described individually as are the funding categories. America with the help of the Endowment’s grants to nearly Most grants are awarded from Program Funds.