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Thursday, September 09, 2010  

Education Grant Listings Part 2: O-Z (JFY 2009)

Education (O-Z)
                 
Ordway Center for the Performing Arts. St. Paul, MN  
Education and Community Engagement with Shidara 

Project Director: Shelley Quiala

$2,500

As part of its Target World Music Series, Ordway Center for the Performing Arts will present Shidara, a Taiko drumming group from Japan . Shidara will perform in the Ordway's Main Hall on February 24, 2010. The group will hold a Workshop/Master Class on Feb 23. In addition, the group will perform for K-12 school groups in our Performing Arts Classroom Series on Feb 24 and 25. Rick Shiomi, Artistic Director, and Iris Shiraishi, Taiko Programs Director of Mu Performing Arts in Minneapolis , MN will lead an "Ordway Extra," an informational session before the performance, and a post-performance talk-back with Shidara members after the performance.

http://www.ordway.org/performances/0910/shidara.asp
 
Park Side Elementary School. Marshall, MN
Explore Japan & Get to Know Its People 
Project Director: Dr. John Bowden
$4,400Tointroduce the children of Park Side Elementary School to the music and literature of Japan through a cooperative effort with Southwest Minnesota State University and to have direct inter-communication sessions with the children or Park Side and two primary schools in Tokyo and Osaka.
http://www.marshall.k12.mn.us/
 
The Play Company. New York, N Y 
ENJOY 
Project Director: Kate Loewald 
$5,000 
The Play Company is producing the English-language American Premiere of Toshiki Okada's ENJOY in a four week, Off Broadway run. Play Company is conducting extensive educational outreach initiatives surrounding this landmark production. Our educational initiatives seek to deepen local students and community's understanding of current Japanese culture, and illuminate issues and experiences common within both Japanese and American society. Our educational outreach program also seeks to propagate Okada's uniqure theatrical techniques to local professional theatre artists and writers to further advance his influence in America.
 
Portland Taiko. Portland, OR 
Rural Outreach Residency & Performance Project 
Project Director: Michael Griggs
$4,910
The proposed grant will allow Portland Taiko to deliver outreach residency programs to rural Oregon communities that are underserved by the arts. Portland Taiko will provide performances and participatory residencies based in the Japanese art of taiko. We will work with K-12 schools and community-based programs in three communities with the goal of increasing awareness and appreciation of Japanese arts and culture.
http://www.portlandtaiko.org/
 
Primary Source. Watertown, MA 
Teaching K-12 Educators about Japan through Online Resources 
Project Director: Deborah Cunningham
$5,000
Primary Source's proposed project, Teaching K-12 Educators about Japan through Online Resources, will allow us to expand our reach, both throughout Massachusetts and nationally, and support schools as they build their own capacity to teach about Japan . It will also encourage educators to improve and expand their use of technology in their classrooms for the purpose of better connecting their students to the world, therefore helping to bring US-Japan perspectives to the world. We anticipate that our workshop will serve up to 30 educators who will share their new knowledge with over 2,500 students.
 
Putnam Museum of History & Natural Science. Davenport, IA
“Images of the Floating World” Lunch & Learn 
Project Director: Christina Kastell
$2,200
A current Putnam exhibit featuring Edo period woodblock prints and related artifacts was brought to life in a unique way which allows us to highlight a shameful episode in American history-the WWII internment of Japanese-Americans. Via a "Lunch and Learn" workshop, at least 100 teachers, students and interested adults will gain a deeper understanding of the exhibit's prints and related aspects of 19th-century Japanese culture while also learning about the experience of Japanese-Americans during the war. Having such a workshop here is especially important as, compared to the East and West coasts, people here have relatively little familiarity with Japan and the experiences of Japanese-Americans.
 
Saugatuck Center for the Arts. Saugatuck, MI 
Culture of Japan Festival 
Project Director: Kristin Armstrong
$4,935
The Culture of Japan Festival is the second in the Saugatuck Center for the Arts' series of annual international "culture festivals" intended to deepen the West Michigan community's understanding of and appreciation for a specific world culture. This series of public events and exhibitions will be held at the Saugatuck Center for the Arts in our gallery, 400-seat theatre, and classroom/art studio spaces during March and April. Festival programming--which includes music, dance, cinema, culinary, visual art, "do it" and "about it" classes for adults and children, and public lectures--is geared for students as well as the general public.
 
Smith Academy of International Languages (SAIL). Charlotte, NC 
Taiko Project 
Project Director: Yumi Kyogoku
$4,650
Japanese immersion teachers at Smith Academy of International Languages (SAIL) plan to emphasize taiko in our culture lessons this spring through the Taiko Project. The project will deepen our students' understanding of Japanese culture, and then their ability to spread awareness and understanding of Japanese culture to students and staff in other language programs at SAIL and to the community through the following activities: 1) establish a taiko club, 2) hold taiko workshops, 3) study how to take care of taiko, 4) research how taiko are made, 5) create imitation taiko using full-size plastic garbage cans and small garbage pails, 6) provide taiko workshops, and demonstrations, 7) publish and display what they have learned, 8) observe a public taiko performance at school and 9) perform at the regional Nihon Bunkasai in May.
 
Smithsonian American Art Museum. Washington, DC 
Teacher Workshop and Bus Grant for the Exhibition: "The Art of Gaman: Arts and Crafts from the Japanese American Internment Camps, 1942-1946" 
Project Director: Suzannah Niepold
$5,000
The objective is to educate a new generation of Americans about the Japanese American internment experience, using the exhibition, "The Art of Gaman." The museum will conduct a full-day workshop in March 2010 for area teachers, focusing on Japanese American internment in World War II and the themes of the exhibition, including traditional Japanese crafts, traditions and heritage. Workshop teachers will be encouraged to schedule museum visits for their students to tour the exhibition, and four disadvantaged schools will be awarded bus grants to make the visit possible.
 
The Textile Museum.    Washington, DC
Contemporary Japanese Fashion: The Mary Baskett Collection
Project Director: Maryclaire Ramsey
$5,000
The Textile Museum brings to any project more than 80 years of experience in scholarship through its curators, conservators, exhibition designers and its world-renowned collection of more than 18,000 textile objects. The Museum concentrates on the traditions of non-Western countries, and frequently explores the cross-cultural transfer of techniques and designs. Contemporary Japanese Fashion: The Mary Baskett Collection provides The Textile Museum with an opportunity to present a visually impressive and thought provoking investigation of Japanese fashion in a globalized world, and to explore the innovative technologies that underlie the creation of such unconventional, yet appealing designs.
 
University of Colorado, Program for Teaching East Asia. Boulder, CO 
Texts and Contexts: Teaching Japan through Children's Literature 
Project Director: Catherine Higbee Ishida
$5,000
The proposed project will 1) publish online five lessons that assist K-6 teachers in using specific children's literature to teach about Japan; and 2) conduct an outreach workshop in which Program for Teaching East Asia teacher-alumni and authors of the lessons will introduce the online lessons and methodology for using children's literature to teach key concepts about Japan at the elementary level.
 
University of Kentucky Research Foundation. Lexington, KY
Matsuri in Kentucky 
Project Director: Shana Herron
$4,510
This project aims to: 1) Bring Japanese cultural activities (taiko drumming, Noh theatre, calligraphy, tea ceremony, and Japanese games) to the Louisville World Fest, an event that draws over 100,000 people; 2) Document and disseminate these activities through video, resource lists, and instructions to encourage their inclusion in rural world culture festivals at schools and libraries; 3) Directly help students and patrons at four rural schools or libraries learn Japanese matsuri activities to share at their local world culture festivals by organizing visits by the KY Tea Group, with our JOI coordinator.
 
Washington County Museum of Fine Arts. Hagerstown, MD 
Konnichiwa: A Tour of Japanese Culture through Ukiyo-e 
Project Director: Amy Hunt
$4,380
The Washington County Museum of Fine Arts requests support to present an interactive exhibition, related cultural workshops and special events. Selected works of art from the Museum's holdings of 19th century ukiyo-e prints, Japanese fashion and porcelain will serve as the basis for interactive components of the exhibition, the associated cultural and artistic workshops and special events, all of which will educate audiences about Japanese culture.
 
Williamstown Elementary. Williamstown, WV
Passport to Japan
Project Director: Ruth Patrick
$3,445
Our project, Passport to Japan, will start by applying for a passport to start this adventure. Students will locate bodies of water and land masses using a globe or a map. Older students will demonstrate their knowledge of map skills by using map tools to interpret information. They will explore nonfiction and fiction books. While learning about the Japanese culture, students will investigate cultural differences through celebrations, holidays and traditions. Art activities will include origami, bamboo hats, carp windsocks and Japanese fans.
http://wvde.state.wv.us/ed_directory/index.html?county_id=96&school_id=235
 
World Affairs Council of Dallas/Forth Worth. Dallas, TX
Japanese Culture Day 
Project Director: Jennifer Bowden
$5,000
The principal objective of this event will be to offer local students and teachers a new opportunity to discover the traditions and heritage of Japan and to promote international cultural understanding and appreciation.

 
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