The small arts/education non-profit, The Stockyard Institute, has a great mission and they seem to be doing some great collaborative work to bring different forms of arts, education, and social justice together. Their Projects>Pedagogical Factory section was impressive and another good place to get ideas for projects to do with students!
I appreciate the simplicity of the site and the straightforward navigation with the limited number of menu option up top. However, the site feels a little awkward to me. I am sure they don't have a huge budget for a fancy-shmancy website, but I think they could significantly improve the site by (a) increasing the font size several points, (b) generally orient things up a bit more on the screen so extra scrolling is not required to read the texts, and (c) somehow add more contrast to the titles (like "Press," "Support," "About Us," etc.) up top because they are sometimes hard to read against the background...which is cool, but shouldn't distract from the readability of the site...
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i couldn't pin down what was bugging me about the design of the stockyard site, but i think your three suggestions nailed it right on the head. the second idea about scooting things up higher would really make me happy. i don't believe in scrolling (or ironing).
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