2006 COMING UP TALLER AWARDS

Ceremony Remarks by First Lady Mrs. Bush

Acknowledgements

Note from First Lady Laura Bush

Note from Adair Margo
Chairman President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities

Note from the Federal Cultural Agencies


AWARD RECIPIENTS:
Art at the Heart Intervention Hope

Baltimore Urban Debate League

Birmingham Cultural Alliance Partnership

Greater New Orleans Youth Orchestra

Radio Rookies

Shakespeare in the Courts

ShakesPEERS (formerly SE Project)

Snow City Arts Foundation

Starfish Academy

Studioworks

Teatro de la Rosa Youth Program

Tlingit Language and Culture Program

Upward Bound and Talent Search

Write to Read: Youth Literacy at Juvenile Hall

Young Musicians Program

La Chácara Children’s Cultural Center

Children’s Cultural Center La Vecindad

Coming Up Taller Awards Semifinalists 2006

National Jury
 




Acknowledgements

The following companies, corporations, foundations, individuals, and organizations provide indispensable support to the Coming Up Taller Awards.

Beth Singer Design, LLC
GMAC Financial Services
Members, President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities
Mid-Atlantic Printers, Ltd.
Miller & Long Co., Inc.
S.H. and Helen R. Scheuer Family Foundation
Vin and Caren Prothro Foundation
The U.S.–Mexico Foundation for
Culture, with special support from
The Coca-Cola Company and the Government and private sector of the State of Campeche
Time Warner Inc.

With gratitude, the President’s
Committee on the Arts and the
Humanities acknowledges


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for their leadership commitment to arts and education. Their generous contributions play a significant role in the success of the Coming Up Taller program and make this publication possible.

Special thanks go to the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies for its partnership in coordinating the Coming Up Taller program.

The contributions of the President‘s Committee‘s Youth Arts and Humanities Subcommittee and its Chairman, James E. Farmer, are greatly appreciated.

The following individuals are central to the success of this initiative:

Carmen Boston, National Assembly of State Arts Agencies
Wilsonia Cherry, National Endowment for the Humanities
Candace Katz, President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities
Marsha Semmel, Institute of Museum and Library Services
Traci Slater-Rigaud, President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities
Anthony Tighe, National Endowment for the Arts