OARD IRECTORS ———————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————B of D l LEH insideT h e 2 0 0 3 Annual Report PAGE 1 Board and Staff PAGE 2 Introduction PAGE 4 PRIME TIME Family Reading Time PAGE 5 Louisiana Cultural Vistas Magazine PAGE 6 Readings in Literature and Culture (RELIC) PAGE 7 Teacher Institutes for Advanced Study PAGE 9 Grants n Grants Analysis (p. 9-10) n American Routes (p. 11) n Tennessee Williams (p. 11) On the cover n Yesterday’s Tomorrows (p. 12) Though renowned n Southern Humanities Media Fund (p. 12) as a painter of the n Public Humanities Grants (p.13) Mississippi Gulf Coast, artist Walter Anderson n Documentary Film & Radio Grants (p. 15) was born and schooled n Louisiana Publishing Initiative (p. 16) in New Orleans. n Outreach Grants (p. 17) His watercolor Pelicans is in the collection of the PAGE 22 2003 Humanities Awards Ogden Museum of PAGE 23 Past Board of Directors Southern Art. PAGE 24 2003 Donors to the LEH OARD IRECTORS DMINISTRATIVE TAFF ———————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————B of D l ——————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————A S l SAnDRA M. GunnER JEnnIfER MITCHEL DAVID JoHnSon New Orleans Associate Director Publications Director Managing Editor/Art Dir. WILLIAM JEnKInS WALKER LASITER Louisiana Cultural Vistas LEH Baton Rouge MICHAEL Assistant Director SARTISKy, DAVID SMITH R. LEWIS MCHEnRy PH.D. Lou Ann MoREHouSE Assistant Editor New Orleans President/ Assistant Director Executive SAnDRA WILLIS PHILIP C. f. CHARLES MCMAInS, JR. Director JIM SEGRETo Office Manager EARHART Baton Rouge & Editor-in-Chief Project Director, RELIC LEH Chairman, Lake Charles of Louisiana Cultural Vistas (Readings in Literature STEPHAnIE MACKIn MELInDA MInTz & Culture) Executive Manager Monroe JoHn R. KEMP DIAnnE BRADy AnITA yESHo ALICE G. PECoRARo, Ph.D. LAWREnCE n. PoWELL Deputy Director Project Director Administrative Assistant Vice Chair, Morgan City New Orleans for Grants & Public Affairs PRIME TIME FAMILY READING TIME® KATE MonTGoMERy CynTHIA LoWEnTHAL HELAInE RAzoVSKy WARREn MEyER Administrative Assistant Secretary, New Orleans Natchitoches Associate Director DAnA EnESS, fAyE fLAnAnGAn of Administration & onEAL ISAAC MARK H. HELLER, CLu, CPC MARGARET M. RITCHEy Assistant Directors Treasurer, New Orleans Lafayette MIKE BoyLE PRIME TIME Director of Development FAMILY READING TIME® CONSULTANTS RALPH BREnnAn REnEE VAnoVER —————————————————————————————————————l New Orleans Berwick LInDA SPRADLEy THoMAS C. DAVID, JR. nEARI fRAnCoIS WARnER LOUISIANA Legislative Liaison Alexandria Grambling HUMANITIES R. CHRISTIAn JoHnSEn DAVID M. EPPLER MARy LEACH WERnER Legislative Liaison Pineville Lake Charles CENTER Washington, D.C. ———————————————————————————l nEIL T. ERWIn LIz B. WHITE Turners’ Hall, LInDA LAnGLEy Shreveport Ruston a 19th-century Program Education German social hall, RoSEMARy uPSHAW EWInG fRAnK WILLIAMS, JR. has served as home KEITH DuBLIn Quitman Shreveport to the LEH since the Network Administrator spring of 2001. GARy B. fRoEBA JAnET R. WooD It is located in LAuRA LADEnDoRf, New Orleans Lafayette new orleans’ Central KARIn MARTIn, ToAn nGuyEn, Business District. & BECCA RAPP nAnCy GuIDRy Designers, Metairie Louisiana Cultural Vistas A N N U A L 2003 REPORT 1 OUISIANA NDOWMENT UMANITIES ———————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————L E for the H l THE LouISIAnA EnDoWMEnT foR THE HuMAnITIES — through its throughout the state with grants for museum exhibitions and other humani- national award-winning programs, Louisiana Cultural Vistas magazine and ties projects, and a broadened adult reading program in Readings in grants awarded to communities across the state — seeks to help Louisianians Literature and Culture (RELIC). We continued to excel in developing and tell their stories and create greater public access to “our shared heritage.” Its supporting programs that are now national models. programs also address needs such as family literacy, teacher professional Louisiana rarely has been the source of a solution to the problems of illit- development and cultural tourism that are eracy. Too often, our state has been cited crucial to the quality of life today and for among its dismal examples. yet, in 2003, our future generations. PRIME TIME completed Last year, 2003, was a phenomenal year in programs in 61 sites, rep- funding and in programs. The Board of resenting 33 parishes and Directors awarded 11 grants to various organi- reaching 2,900 young zations throughout the state to underwrite people and their parents programs that celebrated the Bicentennial of or guardians. In addition, the Louisiana Purchase. That was in addition PRIME TIME programs to the 11 grants awarded in 2002. In october were held at 17 sites in 2003, the u.S. Department of Education seven other states. awardedNTRODUCTION an almost $1 million “Teaching Illinois, Indiana, AmericanI History” grant to the LEH and the Michigan, new york and orleans Parish School System to conduct a Wisconsin contracted as three-year series of summer institutes for affiliate states, thus illus- almost 400 orleans Parish public school histo- trating their commitment The LEH and ry teachers. In addition, the LEH was fortunate to be included in to sustain and expand the program nationally. the state’s capital outlay appropriation for $600,000 for the Orleans Parish Also, the national Endowment for the Louisiana Humanities Center. The appropriation is pending in the public schools Humanities awarded PRIME TIME a $290,000 state’s 2004-2005 capital outlay budget. The LEH, working with grant, our largest ever, to expand the program to teamed up national fund-raising consultants, also completed a feasibility study 20 sites in four other states. The program also for a $2.5 million capital campaign that will be launched in mid 2004. to earn a received the Public Library Association’s 2003 Whether through the dramatic expansion of PRIME TIME fAMI- $1 million national Advancement of Literacy Award. Since Ly READInG TIME, the receipt of a major Teaching of American PRIME TIME began in 1991, it has reached 59 of “Teaching History grant, our Teacher Institutes for Advanced Study or the state’s 64 parishes as well as communities in Louisiana Cultural Vistas magazine, the Louisiana Endowment for American 34 other states, plus the Virgin Islands. This is the Humanities’ statewide program reached deep into communities History” grant. truly a Louisiana success story. 2 LOUISIANA ENDOWMENT for the HUMANITIES Whether through the dramatic expansion of PRIME TIME FAMILY READING TIME, the receipt of a $1 million Teaching American History grant, our Teacher Institutes for Advanced Study or Louisiana Cultural Vistas magazine, the LEH continued to excel in developing and supporting programs that are “now national models.” — MICHAEL SARTISky, LEH ExECUTIVE DIRECTOR AND PRESIDENT now in its 21st year, RELIC is a cornerstone of our initia- report. American Routes is a nationally acclaimed two- tives and a blueprint for successful reading programs. In hour weekly radio program, featuring Louisiana roots 2003, LEH, working with local libraries, conducted 40 six- music. In 2003, it reached 147 radio stations in 200 radio week programs with almost 5,513 Louisiana residents sign- markets. The Tennessee Williams new orleans Literary ing up. Subjects this year ranged from Louisiana and festival, completing its 17th year in 2003, continued to Southern literature to the legacy of the Louisiana Purchase. gain national recognition as one of the nation’s premier lit- Since its inception in 1983, RELIC programs have reached erary events. over 70,000 Louisiana residents in The LEH also continued to support the efforts of the 62 of the state’s 64 parishes. Southern Humanities Media fund, which underwrites film, our highly popular Teacher video and audio productions that focus on the history and Institutes for Advance Studies culture of the American South. The LEH has contributed were successful again last year. In $45,000 since joining the SHMf in 2002. 2003, the LEH provided grant While practically every area of LEH programming grew funds for 10 institutes, engaging during the past year, much more remains to be done. Several 217 teachers from 37 parishes and regions of the state are underserved. unfortunately, many scholars from a dozen Louisiana colleges and uni- communities lack the resources to host programs we support. versities. The largest statewide program of its kind in These are challenges we continue to explore. the nation, teachers who have completed our Teacher This year’s Annual Report also describes grants projects funded in 2003 to Institutes for Advanced Study community organizations, institutions, museums, scholars, writers and film ———————————————— instruct just over 452,000 producers. Since its creation in 1971, the LEH has provided almost $15 mil- A partnership Louisiana students annually. lion to help fund almost 2,400 humanities projects, reaching towns and cities Louisiana Cultural Vistas, many in every parish in the state. In 2003 alone, the LEH awarded 82 grants to with the Smith- times winner of the new orleans individuals and organizations, totaling almost $715,000. sonian Institution Press Club award