Artist Services Artist Services provides financial assistance and recognition to Utah artists. In fiscal year 2002, 136 artists submitted applications for Artist Grants, requesting $160,451. Twenty artists were awarded up to $1,200 for a total of $24,000 in Artist Grants. Over 2,200 artists received ArtOps, a quarterly opportunities newsletter. Several hundred artists visited the Artist Resource Center (ARC). The ARC and Artist Services held or subsidized seven workshops for artists, which 160 individ uals attended.
Arts Education The Arts Education Program is committed to life- long learning about, in and through the arts. The AE program provided grants to schools and nonprofit organizations for residencies and arts education projects. The program also provided technical assistance in arts education planning/ implementation, grant writing, and arts learning and development. Educators, parents, artists, arts administrators, and nonprofit administrators in all 29 counties participated in conferences and workshops. Regional workshops were offered to all of the state's 40 school districts through partnerships with the Utah State Office of Education, Utah PTA, Utah Arts Education Association, Utah Dance Education Organization, Utah Music Educators Association, Utah Theatre Association and Art Access/Very Special Arts Utah. New initiatives in 2002 included outreach into juvenile facilities, programming for volunteer organizations, and workshops and confe rences for agencies serving Utah victims of crime. The Arts Education Program also contributed to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Imagination Celebration held as part of the Salt Lake Winter Games Utah Cultural Olympiad. The Program's outreach expenditures in fiscal year 2002 totaled $289,738. Community/State Partnership The Community/State Partnership Program provides technical assistance to community arts organizations through workshops, leadership training, retreats and nonprofit education. The CSP program provided this technical assistance to over 100 arts and cultural organizations at little or no cost. This year, CSP initiated The Pilot Program, a professional development training. This two-year program impacts 18 of Utah’s underserved or rural communities. Each participant received over 80 hours of curriculum-based leadership training. CSP also administers the Utah Performing Arts Tour, which offers nonprofit organizations throughout the state the finest local, regional, and national artists and companies at affordable prices. In fiscal year 2002, the Tour subsidized performances in 50 Utah communities, reaching audiences of over 28,000 citizens. Each performance included an artist outreach residency, free of charge, that educated over 8,500 students within those communities. 76
