Highlights of the Past
Decade
1992-1993 – With funding from the Mary and Barry
Bingham, Sr. Fund of Louisville, three experimental concert
series begin in the Appalachian communities of Jackson,
Salyersville and Whitesburg, Kentucky.
1993-1994 – Educational programming begins with
school-based performances by the Whitney Trio in Washington
County and in several Louisville parochial schools.
1994-1995 – Concert series begins in Greenville,
Kentucky, in partnership with the Duncan Cultural Center and
combined with arts education programs throughout Muhlenberg
County - NPA’s model project.
1995-1996 – NPA is recruited by Chamber Music America
and the National Endowment for the Arts to serve as host to
the Tower Saxophone Quartet in the Chamber Music Rural
Residencies Program.
1996-1997 – NPA receives a Leadership Initiative Grant
from the National Endowment for the Arts to establish rural
residencies in three Kentucky communities, without any
reliance upon outside funds for programming.
1997-1998 – National Endowment for the Arts Leadership Initiative project evolves
into the “Conservatory Project,” an ongoing program that now
provides rural residency training and experience to students
from the Eastman School of Music.
1998-1999 – Executive Director Michele Wogaman creates
the Muhlenberg County “Opera Project,” in collaboration with
Indiana University Opera Theater Director Mark Clark and
composer Edwin Penhorwood.
1999-2000 – New World Symphony joins the “Conservatory
Project;” Ballet is added to roster; Muhlenberg County Public
Schools – NPA’s model project site - is the only
entire school district invited to a Kentucky arts education best practices
conference with other schools from across the state, hosted by the Kentucky Center for the Arts and the
Kentucky Arts Council.
2000-2001 – Oberlin Conservatory joins the
“Conservatory Project;” NPA makes arts-education best
practices presentations at several statewide education
conferences, and conducts needs assessment for at-risk schools
in Jefferson County, resulting in $60,000 in arts programming
in 19 at-risk schools.
2001-2002 – NPA receives its second grant from the
National Endowment for the Arts; Music, dance and theater programs reach
over 100,000 students in 35 counties; NPA's history and method
fully
documented in NPA founder Steve Wogaman’s completed doctoral
dissertation.
2002-2003
- NPA adds multicultural programming with Dance Diaspora, an
African dance program from Oberlin College in Ohio.
Program designs developed to target both large assembly and
classroom-size audiences in selected disciplines.
2003-2004 - Initiated projects integrating visual art
and music, piloted a highly successful modern dance program,
and facilitated the fortieth anniversary tour of the
Louisville Bach Society to five Kentucky venues plus
educational performances.
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