2000 Grant Awards: Education

Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

Grants With Activity Primarily In One State

18th Street Arts Complex
Santa Monica, CA
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support the Arts Education Program. The program provides artist-teacher training, artist employment opportunities, and sustained arts programming to schools free of charge.

Abhinaya Dance Company of San Jose, Inc.
San Jose, CA
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the expansion of the Bharatanatyam Training Project. This community based arts education program will provide approximately 100 youths, ages 6 to 19, instruction in classical South Indian dance.

African American Heritage Preservation Foundation, Inc.
Washington, DC
$13,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Design
To support a weekend workshop for architects, designers, public school teachers, urban planners, tradesmen, preservationists and community leaders to strengthen the concepts of a city of neighborhoods and bridging school and community.

Alberta Bair Theater
Billings, MT
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Presenting
To support the Arts in Education program. This three-component project will include specially designed matinee performances for K-12 local, rural, and tribal students, an Access to the Arts program for low-income, at-risk youth and teacher workshops during 2000-01.

Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art
Ridgefield, CT
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support Innovations in Museum Education, a three-day seminar focused on the development of programs for schools and students in art museums. The seminar functions as a forum in which educators can exchange ideas and get outside opinions on their work.

Alliance for Arts Education, New Jersey
Trenton, NJ
$90,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support Arts Create Excellent Schools (ACES), a statewide initiative in New Jersey to catalyze state and local systemic educational reform through the arts. This project includes two components: the ACES Leadership Institute, designed to train school teams in skills and methods for accomplishing school change through the arts; and dissemination of the ACES local curriculum.

Armory Center for the Arts
Pasadena, CA
$100,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support expansion of: 1) Project FLARE: Fun with Language, Arts, and Reading and 2) Children Investigate the Environment (CIE). These curriculum-based, collaborative arts education programs with the Pasadena Unified School District and individual schools in the Los Angeles area make the arts an essential part of daily classroom instruction by integrating visual arts with the various school curricula.

Art Museum of Missoula
Missoula, MT
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support expansion of the Arts in the Schools and Neighborhoods Program. The project provides an interdisciplinary program of arts education to youth in their schools and communities.

Arts & Humanities Association of Johnson County (Consortium)
Shawnee Mission, KS
$55,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support the first year of a consortium-sponsored, community-based model training program of interactive arts education for children ages two through eight. In collaboration with the Lawrence Arts Center, training will be offered to parents, teachers, and staff of various agencies in both suburban and rural communities.

Arts Network of Washington State
Olympia, WA
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Local Arts Agency
To support the Washington Rural Community Residency Program. This program provides low-cost, one-week performing artist residencies to be specifically located in rural communities and schools throughout Washington State.

Association for the Development of the Dramatic Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the expansion of Theatre-Across-The-Curriculum, the educational outreach program of Jean Cocteau Repertory. The expansion will include two additional inner-city colleges and a full time educational coordinator.

Ballet Florida, Inc.
West Palm Beach, FL
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the continuation and expansion of City Dance Outreach. This dance/educational outreach program serves at-risk, underserved, and minority children from five inner-city, elementary schools.

Ballet Tech Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support tuition-free, professional ballet training and performance programs for New York City public school children, ages 8-18. The purpose of the school is to identify and support gifted and dedicated students with a continuum of free dance training.

Boise Philharmonic Association, Inc.
Boise, ID
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support orchestral performances and pre-concert educational material for school children throughout southwestern Idaho. Fourth and fifth-grade students from public, parochial, home, and private schools within a 200-mile radius of Boise will be invited to attend concerts in Boise or Nampa, Idaho during May 2000.

Book-It Repertory Theatre
Seattle, WA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the Book-It All Over education and community outreach program. The project presents performances and workshops based on activating literature as theater in schools, libraries, and community centers throughout Washington State.

Boston Film/Video Foundation, Inc.
Boston, MA
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support a comprehensive media arts education program. Open to the public, this initiative is designed to encourage personal vision, assist in the development of concrete skills, and foster relationships meant to strengthen and advance the production of film and video art works.

Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Boston, MA
$80,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the commission and presentation of a new, musical work for children by Robert Xavier Rodriguez and the Underground Railway Theater. Teacher workshops and curriculum materials will be developed around this new work which is scheduled to be premiered in 2001.

Boston University (on behalf of the Tanglewood Institute)
Boston, MA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support artists-in-residence for the Young Artists Orchestra Program. During the summer of 2000, the Boston University Tanglewood Institute will expand its roster of faculty artists, including a professional string quartet, to provide intensive coaching for the chamber music component of the Young Artists Orchestra Program.

Brown University (Consortium)
Providence, RI
$100,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support the professional development and team-teaching components of Literacy, Community and the Arts, a consortium project. With its consortium partner, Providence Black Repertory Company, and two other organizations --Trinity Repertory Company and NewGate Theatre -- Brown University will create a self-sustaining model program that educates teacher-actors to use the performing arts to help students meet new academic and artistic standards.

Butler University
Indianapolis, IN
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Presenting
To support professional development workshops for teachers, master classes and clinics for local professional artists, student matinee performances, and post performance discussions within Clowes Memorial Hall presentations during 2000 01. The project also will include the preparation of curriculum information and study guides for teachers and students.

California Poets in the Schools
San Francisco, CA
$60,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support the Poetry Residency and Education Project. The primary purpose of this project is to create a five-week, standard, introductory poetry curriculum for use in participating schools during poet-teacher residencies.

California Summer Music Incorporated
San Francisco, CA
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the composition program for student composers to create, rehearse, and record their original work. During the three-week summer program in the year 2000, ten student composers will receive private lessons; attend group seminars, master classes, and lecture-demonstrations with a resident composer; and use private time for composing music.

Camera News, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the Advanced Film and Video Production Workshop, a series of media arts seminars, and the Seeing Through Racism Project. This three-part program will provide workshop participants with technical and media awareness skills.

Canton Symphony Orchestra Association (Consortium)
Canton, OH
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support the consortium project Ride the Wave: Music in Motion, an exploration of the physics of sound and movement through music and dance. This in-school project with the Canton Ballet will include dance residencies, school assemblies, visiting artists, and professional development for teachers and artists.

Canton Symphony Orchestra Association
Canton, OH
$18,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support Music is Sound Science, an educational project for pre-K through elementary school students. In 2000-01, this project will explore the science of sound production through specially designed orchestra performances and concert preparation materials for students in Stark and Medina Counties, Ohio.

Caribbean Dance Company of the Virgin Islands, Inc.
St. Croix, VI
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the second year of Caribbean Dance Experience. The program will provide students between the ages of 5 and 11 an in-depth experience in their own dance traditions.

Cave Canem Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support writing retreats targeting emerging African American poets. Cave Canem will convene two week long retreats for over 90 writers.

Cedar Rapids Symphony Orchestra Association, Inc.
Cedar Rapids, IA
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the education program Creating the Future: a Plan for the New Millennium. In 2000-01, the program's many components will include a string enrichment program for third graders; after-school music lessons for students in grades three through five; a video broadcast of interactive, educational programs to Iowa schools; an early childhood education program for families with special needs and at risk children; music education in a senior citizens housing complex; and music education enhancements in four area colleges.

Center for Arts Criticism
Minneapolis, MN
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support a year long artist mentorship program designed to promote the artistic visions of inner city and rural youth. Titled An Artist's Life, the program will provide participants with media arts production training, critical writing workshops, public speaking skills, and curated presentations.

Center for Hmong Arts and Talent
St. Paul, MN
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support The Youth Arts Program. The program consists of the Visual Arts Studio, Literary Arts Workshop, and Video Workshop.

Center for Women & Their Work
Austin, TX
$22,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support a comprehensive educational program targeting adults and young people to increase awareness of contemporary art in Austin. The project will include hands on gallery workshops, guided tours, and in-school workshops for low-income, public school students.

Chicago Architecture Foundation (Consortium)
Chicago, IL
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Design
To support the Newhouse Architecture Competition that provides educational opportunities to underserved Chicago Public School students. Selected students will receive paid internships at architecture firms and architecture workshop scholarships.

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Chicago, IL
$80,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the Community Engagement Initiative. In 2000-01, CSO will establish a children's residency and other types of residencies with community organizations, including the Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, the People's Music School, and the South Shore Cultural Center.

Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras
Chicago, IL
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support Music Pathways, a program for elementary students in Chicago public schools, and the Chicago Youth Satellite String Program at the Beverly Art Center. This project will utilize Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra student musicians with staff and guest artists in student training, development of teacher orientation materials, in- school workshops, concert trips, and program evaluation.

Child's Play Touring Theatre
Chicago, IL
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support a pilot apprentice program and the creation of a third full-time company. The pilot program will provide new artistic staff with hands-on teaching and performing experience, and the new company will focus on educational activities and local performances.

Children's Art Carnival, Inc.
New York, NY
$7,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support the Communication Arts Production and Entrepreneurial Program designed to enable young people to gain an understanding of career options in the visual and communication arts field. The program offers youth professionally directed apprenticeship workshops in illustration, photography, video production, cartooning, ceramics, design, printmaking, painting, and computer graphics.

Children's Theatre of Cincinnati
Cincinnati, OH
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Musical Theater
To support fees for sign language interpreters and pre-production expenses of a commissioned work entitled The Beethoven Symphony. The Children's Theatre of Cincinnati will develop and co-produce the new work with the National Theatre of the Deaf of Chester, CT.

City Art Works
Seattle, WA
$11,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support the Master Artists Program at the Pratt Fine Arts Center. Artists of international and national renown will teach glass blowing and casting, sculpture, jewelry making, metalsmithing, and printmaking.

Cityfolk
Dayton, OH
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support Cityfolk's Education Initiative. Cityfolk is dedicated to building a more educated audience for the folk and traditional arts in greater Dayton through concerts, the CITYFOLK Festival, and jazz program.

Clay Studio
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support the Claymobile, a traveling van that brings art education to diverse, inner city neighborhoods in the Philadelphia area. Classes are offered at schools, community centers, after-school programs, and homeless shelters.

Cleveland Cultural Coalition
Cleveland, OH
$75,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support the teacher professional development components of the Initiative for Cultural Arts in Education (ICARE) project. Administered by the Cleveland Cultural Coalition, ICARE supports arts-focused educational partnerships between the Cleveland Municipal School District and the northeast Ohio cultural community.

Cleveland Play House
Cleveland, OH
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the commission and staging of a production about the Great Lakes. The project will create a theatre education program designed to enhance student's knowledge of the Great Lakes in conjunction with the 75th Anniversary of the Steamship William G. Mather.

Cleveland Public Theatre, Inc.
Cleveland, OH
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the expansion of Cleveland Public Theatre's Summer Theatre Enrichment Program (STEP). The program is an intensive theatre training program for at-risk and underprivileged Cleveland youth ages 14-21.

Columbus Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Columbus, OH
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the Columbus Symphony Orchestra's Musicians in the Schools program. During 2000-01, this newly focused program will serve second through fourth grade classrooms in central Ohio's underserved schools that have minimal or non-existent music programs.

Creative Music Works
Denver, CO
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the Jazz in the Classroom program. During 2000-01 and 2001-02, Creative Music Works will offer jazz band clinics and assembly performances by Colorado musicians to 16 middle and high schools in both urban and suburban Denver.

Cuyahoga Valley Association
Peninsula, OH
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Local Arts Agency
To support an artist-in-residence program at the Cuyahoga Valley Environmental Education Center (CVEEC). The project will be conducted in cooperation with the National Park Service to integrate art into the curriculum of CVEEC, which annually serves 7,000 students in northeast Ohio through its programming.

Dairy Barn Southeastern Ohio Cultural Arts Center, Inc.
Athens, OH
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support a nine-month residency for a ceramic artist to work in a rural community. Benjie Heu will work with high school students, younger children, adults, and professional artists in the area, as well as design a public art project.

Downtown Community Television Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the Video Training Workshops Program. Downtown Community Television Center is devoted to making a technologically sophisticated medium available to underserved communities by providing a comprehensive range of courses.

Drawing Center, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support the expansion and professional development components of Arts Benefit All Coalition Alternative (ABACA), a consortium project. ABACA is a collaboration among the Drawing Center, Thread Waxing Space, Artists Space, Art in General, and the Satellite Academy, an alternative high school on Manhattan's Lower East Side.

East West Players, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support East West Players' professional training program targeting a diverse community of Asian Pacific American performing artists. The program includes the Actors Conservatory, David Henry Hwang Writers Institute, and the Actors Network.

Education Development Center, Inc.
Newton, MA
$115,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support the implementation, evaluation, and replication of Spectra Rhode Island. Spectra is a comprehensive approach to whole-school change that uses the arts as a major entry point for transforming teaching and learning throughout the curriculum.

Ellington Fund
Washington, DC
$125,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support Phases II-IV of the Duke Ellington School of the Arts Project (DESAP). DESAP is a multi-institutional partnership to develop a model school in arts education and urban school reform, which will include updating of the Ellington School's arts curriculum and integrating arts and academic curricula.

Florentine Opera Company
Milwaukee, WI
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support the expansion of educational programming for students and adults, and the establishment of an education-coordinator staff position. The programming will include student performances of Turandot and Cinderella, as well as community-wide opera previews and opera informational presentations in 2000-01.

Florida Dance Association, Inc.
Miami, FL
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the 22nd Florida Dance Festival, including hundreds of master classes, workshops, and intensive study courses. The Festival includes students, dancers, teachers, choreographers, and others from across Florida, the United States, and foreign countries.

Florida Stage, Inc.
Manalapan, FL
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support Young Voices, a series of ensemble performances of new plays for young audiences. The scripts of the plays focus on issues such as school violence, prejudice, and substance abuse.

Frederick Douglass Creative Arts Center
New York, NY
$45,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support the development of African American and other professional writers through intensive workshops, staged readings, and the 28th Annual Black Roots Festival of poetry, prose, and jazz. The Center provides an environment where talented young writers receive professional training.

Fresno Arts Council
Fresno, CA
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the California Folk & Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program and other related costs. This project will support 32 master-apprentice pairs, Web site expense, and three part-time, regional coordinators.

Friends of Teen Arts, Inc.
Lambertville, NJ
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support the New Jersey State Teen Arts Festival for middle and high school students. This two-day event includes student performances, critiquing sessions, a student art exhibit, poetry readings, master classes and workshops taught by professional artists, and college and career information dissemination.

Friends of the D.C. Youth Orchestra Program, Inc.
Washington, DC
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support instruction on the recorder for children aged four-and-a-half to seven. For 2000-01 and 2001-02, the D.C. Youth Orchestras will offer recorder instruction to District of Columbia school children, advancing them to conventional wind instruments at an earlier age.

Gallup Area Arts Council
Gallup, NM
$35,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Local Arts Agency
To support the Gallup Performing Arts Academy. The Academy is a multi-disciplinary, comprehensive, summer performing arts training program for children and youth in Gallup and surrounding areas.

George Balanchine Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the development phase of a project that will explore the use of new technologies in teaching dance history. The Foundation will work with dance scholars and technicians to develop a computer application that will be accessible to dance scholars, students, teachers, and the general public.

George Street Playhouse, Inc.
New Brunswick, NJ
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support Acting Out: Same Gender Writing Workshops in Discovery and Self Exploration. The project is a combination of two residencies, The Diva Project and The Gentle Men Project.

Glen Ellyn Children's Chorus
Glen Ellyn, IL
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support outreach programs of the Glen Ellyn Children's Chorus. During 2000-01, these programs will include the Musical Experience for Children (MEC), targeting children from kindergarten through second grade living in low-income, culturally diverse neighborhoods, and the Honors Chorus Workshop.

Granite School District
Salt Lake City, UT
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the extension of arts in education activities by Repertory Dance Theatre. The company will target six elementary schools over a 36-week period.

Great Leap, Inc.
Santa Monica, CA
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support the To All Relations 2000 residency project. The residencies will take place at Pomona College/Claremont Colleges, Rio Hondo College, the University of Southern California's Upward Bound youth program, and within the community.

Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras
Boston, MA
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the Intensive Community Program of the Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras. This project will provide string training for children from low-income communities in greater Boston during 2000-01.

Harlem Textile Works Ltd.
New York, NY
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Design
To support a design training workshop program for underserved area youth. The Design as Enterprise workshop provides marketable job skills while fostering artistic talent and cultural pride.

Hmong Cultural Arts, Crafts, Teaching & Museum Project
Elverta, CA
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a program of instruction in Hmong Pa Dao embroidery and instruction in the ancient musical instruments Kheng and Xee Xo. The purpose of his project is to train and professionally develop master artists to maintain and ensure the legacy of these Hmong traditions.

Hot Springs Documentary Film Institute
Hot Springs, AR
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support educational activities during the 2000 Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival. These include symposia, forums, discussion groups, and special programs for children and senior citizens.

Ifetayo Cultural Arts Facility
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support a partnership between the Ifetayo Youth Ensemble and the Bebe Miller Company. The Bebe Miller Company will act as the Youth Ensemble's company-in residence, offering a series of 12 workshops and master classes, creating a new dance piece for the company, and overseeing the work's rehearsal and production.

Indiana Opera Society, Inc.
Indianapolis, IN
$75,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support MUSIC! WORDS! OPERA! (M!W!O!) for elementary, middle, and high school students and teachers in metropolitan Indianapolis schools. M!W!O! is a sequenced and integrated curriculum developed by OPERA America that explores historic, linguistic, and artistic diversity through the study of opera.

Indiana Repertory Theatre, Inc.
Indianapolis, IN
$45,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the creation of comprehensive, multidisciplinary theater classes and workshop programs serving central Indiana's youth and adults. The classes will augment and heighten audience appreciation of theater.

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Boston, MA
$65,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support School Partnerships, the museum's art education programs that bring contemporary artists, students, and teachers together. The program focuses on six urban public schools within walking distance of the Gardner.

Jack Straw Foundation (Consortium)
Seattle, WA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support a consortium project with Arts and Visually Impaired Audiences, the Blind Youth Audio Project. This series of workshops introduces visually impaired young people to the creative possibilities and latest techniques of audio production by helping them create a radio program of their own design.

Just Buffalo Literary Center, Inc.
Buffalo, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support Writers in Education, a multifaceted program that enhances motivation for writing, reading, and communicating among 47,000 children attending public school in Buffalo, New York. Activities include writer residencies, professional development training for teachers, workshops at a local art gallery, and a partnership with a Native American magnet school to infuse the arts into the curriculum.

K12 Gallery for Young People
Dayton, OH
$7,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support the Resident Artist Program which provides art training and workshops for inner-city youths in the Miami Valley. The program includes summer residencies, community outreach residencies, a Saturday workshop series, and an after-school studio.

Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra
Kalamazoo, MI
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support an education project for youth and adults. During 2000-01, the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra will offer a series of educational programs for adults and for pre K through college age students.

Kalihi-Palama Culture & Arts Society, Inc.
Honolulu, HI
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a series of training classes in traditional art forms. Classes include hula, Tahitian, Okinawan, and Philippine dance, and Samoan crafts.

Kansas City Symphony
Kansas City, MO
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support an arts education initiative in Kansas City school districts. During 2000-01 and 2001-02, this initiative will provide teacher training institutes, musician training, skills-based instruction, field experiences, diversity training, and a culminating performance by the Kansas City Symphony.

Kent State University Main Campus
Kent, OH
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support teaching artists in a mentorship program with nationally selected, post secondary music students at the Blossom Music Festival. This 2000-01 project will place up to 23 nationally recognized professional artists, including members of the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra, in six weeks of instruction and rehearsal sessions for 44 nationally selected, post-secondary music students.

Kingdom County Productions (on behalf of Fledgling Films Institute)
Barnet, VT
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support production and media literacy workshops for young people. The Fledgling Films curriculum and practice is formulated to help students develop esthetic perspectives--on color, composition, movement, story, and character.

Ko-Thi, Inc.
Milwaukee, WI
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support Ko-Thi's education outreach programs. These programs include free Get to- Know-Ko-Thi community concerts, master classes, studio dance and drumming instruction, Drumtalk school residencies, and Ton Ko-Thi children's performing ensemble.

L A Public Theatre, Inc.
Auburn, ME
$7,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the Student Matinee Program, providing students from underserved populations access to arts and educational activities. Pre-performance study guides and post-production discussions with the theater's director and actors will enhance the educational experience.

Lark Society for Chamber Music
Portland, ME
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a high school residency by the Portland String Quartet, with lecture/demonstrations that integrate the study of history and English, and performances, master classes, and string workshops. Quartet members will collaborate with Orono (ME) High School's history and English teachers to develop the four sequential sessions for Parallels in U.S. History and the Lively Arts from 1730 to the present.

Loft, Inc. (Consortium)
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support educational programs initiated by Open Book, a new facility for literary arts created by The Loft, Milkweed Editions, and the Minnesota Center for Book Arts. Open Book will host an opening event for teachers and provide readings, writing workshops, and bookmaking instruction for Minneapolis youth.

Log Cabin Literary Center, Inc.
Boise, ID
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support writers-in-residence in schools and communities throughout Idaho. Log Cabin Literary Center will sponsor 28-week residencies in 15 schools and communities, publish anthologies of student writings, and host readings by visiting writers and their students.

Los Lupenos de San Jose, Inc.
San Jose, CA
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support four performances of Early California Suite for K-12 public school students. The performances will be offered free to 2,000 students from schools in the greater San Jose area.

Louisville Orchestra, Inc. (Consortium)
Louisville, KY
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a third year of the Louisville Orchestra and Jefferson County Public Schools consortium, Making Music Partnership. During 2000-01, the Orchestra will integrate classical music with storytelling and language arts in a year long interaction with fourth and fifth graders.

Lyric Opera Center for American Artists
Chicago, IL
$17,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support faculty and faculty-related expenses for the professional performance training program. The training program will provide a year long curriculum for up to 12 singers during 2000-01.

Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art, Inc.
Shawnee, OK
$9,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support a residency by Native American artist James Luna. The project is a collaboration between the museum and the Washington Academy Alternative High School.

Madison Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Madison, WI
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support Up Close & Musical, a music education program for public school students in Madison, WI. During 2000-01, the Madison Symphony Orchestra will make multiple visits to kindergarten through second grade students in four schools, develop curricula for grades 3-5, and disseminate kindergarten through second grade curricula to other education professionals at state and national conferences.

Magic Theatre, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$18,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the continuation and expansion of the Young California Writers Project, an educational program designed to cultivate emerging playwrights. The two-year project will expand to include residencies in more schools and an end-of-the year festival to showcase the work of the young playwrights in the program.

Magical Experiences Arts Company
Baltimore, MD
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support Harmonium, a theatre education program at the Maryland School for the Blind. The program offers workshops for children and adolescents with mental and physical disabilities, hearing and visual impairments, and learning difficulties.

Manchester Craftsmen's Guild
Pittsburgh, PA
$60,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support the extension of the Arts Collaborative Program into Pittsburgh schools. The project will begin the planning process to bring the program to other communities.

Manhattan Class Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$12,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support costs associated with the expansion of existing education and outreach programs and the creation of a new master class for inner-city high school students. The Summer Play Party and Theater Club programs will be expanded and a new master class in playwriting will be created.

Manhattan School of Music
New York, NY
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support an expansion of the Summer Music Camp. During the summers of 2000 and 2001, Manhattan School of Music will conduct a music camp for New York City school children in grades five through eight.

Manhattan Theatre Club, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support a consortium project that will enhance the presence of Manhattan Theatre Club's (MTC) Education Program in New York City's alternative high schools. Working in partnership with the New York City Board of Education's Superintendent of Alternative, Adult and Continuing Education Schools and Programs, MTC will enhance and expand The Core Program and Write on the Edge.

Manna House Workshops, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support SummerTAM 2000, a music education program for young students. During the year 2000, Manna House Workshops will offer an eight-week program to children, ages seven to 16, five days a week, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Marlboro School of Music, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the Invited Master Artist Project of the Marlboro School of Music. This multi faceted project will provide young musicians with enhanced experiences and study with master concert artists during the summer of 2000.

Miami City Ballet, Inc.
Miami Beach, FL
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support a comprehensive dance education program for 25,000 at-risk students. The project will provide a variety of activities such as lecture-demonstrations, teacher workshops/performances, and classical ballet training for 100 economically disadvantaged minority students.

Miami-Dade County Public Schools (on behalf of New World School of the Arts) Miami, FL
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support the third and final year of the New World School of the Arts' Interdisciplinary Arts and Technology (ID ARTS) project. ID ARTS is a pilot curriculum designed to enable 11th and 12th grade students to create interdisciplinary art projects under the guidance of master artists-in-residence.

Michigan Opera Theatre
Detroit, MI
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support Learning at the Opera House 2000, a summer education program at the Detroit Opera House. The performing arts program offers instruction, lectures, workshops, and performances for youth and adults.

Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Milwaukee, WI
$100,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support a comprehensive case study of the Orchestra's Arts in Community Education (ACE) initiative. As the program enters its 10th year, the Orchestra will conduct a case study of the schools where the program is flourishing to further ACE's usefulness as a national model of orchestra-based arts education in schools.

Missoula Writing Collaborative
Missoula, MT
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support Writing 501, a writer-in-residence program for middle and high school youth in Western Montana. The Missoula Writing Collaborative will place one writer in-residence in each of six schools.

Mobile Symphony, Inc.
Mobile, AL
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the second year of Preludes, a music education program designed to help children experience and learn about music. During 2000-01, Mobile Symphony musicians will teach second-grade students in 13 public schools in Mobile County.

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
$75,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support MOCA's Public + Artist Program. The education program provides opportunities for an ongoing dialogue among contemporary artists, museum staff, and the public.

Music Center Opera Association/Los Angeles Opera
Los Angeles, CA
$100,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support Los Angeles Opera's three-step Educational Continuum, including the Elementary In-School Opera Program, the Secondary In-School Opera Program, and the Student Matinee Program. These programs, supported by Opera for Educators, the company's in-service seminar series, will provide educators with professional enrichment and strategies for incorporating opera into the classroom curriculum.

National Dance Institute of New Mexico
Santa Fe, NM
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support a residency program of class instruction and performances. The project will serve 360 fourth, fifth, and sixth grade children in Silver City, Magdalena, and Alamo, NM.

National Dance Institute, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support a program for training professional dancers in process pedagogy, a methodology of teaching developed by Artistic Director Jacques d'Amboise. The project will benefit dancers who wish to make the transition from performer to teacher.

New Cleveland Opera Company
Cleveland, OH
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support the company's education program encompassing in-school residencies, student-artist opera productions, and student-senior-service-center partnerships. The program also includes a year long Music! Words! Opera! project for elementary and middle school students, and Great Works, teacher- and artist-led activities that prepare students in grades 6 through 12 to attend the Cleveland Opera matinee performances.

New Dance Theatre, Inc. (Cleo Parker Robinson Dance)
Denver, CO
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble's educational programs. Season of Schools, TraininGroup, and the International Summer Dance Institute are designed to use dance as a means to transcend all boundaries of class, gender, language, and culture.

New England Dinosaur, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support The Michael Mao ESLdance Project® - Learning English Through Dance. ESLdance is an immersion project that teaches English through dance to recent teen immigrants.

New Haven Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
New Haven, CT
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support Symphony One-on-One. During 2000-02, New Haven Symphony Orchestra musicians will visit schools and community sites to offer master classes, instrumental workshops, and training in musical performance to students in fifth through twelfth grades.

New Jersey Shakespeare Festival of Morris County, Inc.
Madison, NJ
$12,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support costs associated with the Summer Professional Training Program. The five-component program offers intensive training in classical theater techniques for emerging, young theater artists.

New School University
New York, NY
$8,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Design
To support a design education symposium and a resulting publication in order to establish a design charter school.

New School University (on behalf of New School Concerts)
New York, NY
$5,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the New York String Orchestra Seminar, an intensive music education project for young musicians. The New School Concerts will bring 60 musicians between the ages of 15 and 22 to New York City for ten days of orchestra rehearsals with violinist and conductor Jaime Laredo, culminating in performances at Carnegie Hall.

New World Symphony, Inc.
Miami Beach, FL
$35,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the Fellowship and Educational Programs. During 2000-01, training of up to 85 New World Symphony musicians will be provided in the areas of career development, outreach, leadership, and musical technique, along with educational opportunities benefiting adults and children in the South Florida community.

New York Historical Society
New York, NY
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support expansion of the Society's use of primary source materials in its education programs to include the study of museum objects. The program will be used to enhance state-mandated curricula for fourth-, seventh-, and eighth-graders.

New York State Alliance for Arts Education (Consortium)
Albany, NY
$60,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support a consortium project that will develop guidelines for how best to document evidence of student achievement in arts education. The Alliance, with its consortium partners - the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York State Education Department - will focus specifically on arts education taking place in the Empire State Partnerships (ESP) Project, developed and implemented jointly by these partners.

Newark Community School of the Arts
Newark, NJ
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support the Intensive Study Program in Music and Dance. The program provides students who desire to pursue a career in the arts with comprehensive arts education and performance opportunities.

North Carolina Symphony Society, Inc.
Raleigh, NC
$17,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support an in-school, educational concert program and a workshop for elementary school music teachers from communities throughout the state. In 2000-01, all 65 full time musicians of the North Carolina Symphony will travel more than 18,000 miles to perform 50 to 60 educational concerts.

Omaha Community Playhouse (on behalf of Nebraska Theatre Caravan)
Omaha, NE
$12,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support Theatre Infusion, an education program that explores theatre as a teaching tool while meeting state guidelines for theatre education. The program provides an opportunity for schools to build a discipline-based theatre education program using a work of art as the text of study and professional theatre artists as guides.

Opera Association of Central Ohio / Opera/Columbus
Columbus, OH
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support the company's educational programs, with emphasis on longer-term residencies and the integration of opera programming into the classroom curriculum. The touring component of Opera/Columbus's education department will conduct as many as 200 educational events in churches, classrooms, community centers, and senior living facilities during 2000-01.

Opera Theatre of Saint Louis (Consortium)
St. Louis, MO
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support a high school artists-in-training program in consortium with Webster University, the University of Missouri-St. Louis, and Washington University. This year long training program for 15 participants will provide weekly individual coaching sessions; group rehearsals and informal performances in the community; academic counseling and tutoring; assistance in college planning; a ten-day guest artist residency; and masterclasses conducted by renowned college voice teachers.

Oregon Symphony Association
Portland, OR
$12,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support Upbeat!, an education program designed for elementary schools. During 2000-01, four Portland schools will receive a series of lessons linking music education to other areas of study and regular, personal contact between orchestra musicians and students.

Orlando Opera Company, Inc.
Orlando, FL
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support expansion of the In-School Opera Program, youth concerts, opera camp, and week long residencies for at-risk students. The In-School Opera Program will be expanded from 34 schools currently visited to 65 during 2000-01.

Ottawa Suzuki Strings, Inc.
Ottawa, KS
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support Sound Bites, a computer-based, music education program. During 2000 01, Ottawa Suzuki Strings will offer this highly individualized program to children in Ottawa, KS, and the surrounding rural community.

Pacific Northwest Ballet Association
Seattle, WA
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support educational activities at Pacific Northwest Ballet School. Located in Seattle and Bellevue, the school will provide ballet and dance training to approximately 1,600 children and adults.

Pacific Symphony Association
Santa Ana, CA
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support Class Act, a music education program in Orange County elementary and middle schools. The Class Act program was established in 1994 to form an ongoing relationship between the Orchestra and students, teachers, administrators, and parents throughout Orange County.

Pennsylvania Young Playwrights Program, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$75,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support one year of the Antiviolence Project in the West Philadelphia Cluster of the Philadelphia School District. The Antiviolence Project uses playwriting to enable students to express their experiences with violence, to find creative solutions to such violence, to shape their stories artistically, and to share them with an audience.

Performance Community
Chicago, IL
$18,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Musical Theater
To support the New Tuners Workshop and related educational activities. Lyricists, composers, and book writers will participate in a workshop and staged programs to train in the development and production of musical theater.

Philadelphia Orchestra Association (Consortium)
Philadelphia, PA
$90,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the consortium Music Education Partnership (MEP). During 2000-01, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Settlement Music School will partner in the fourth and final year of this music education project for 60 public elementary schools.

Philomel Concerts, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a music education program. During 2000-01, the chamber ensemble Philomel Concerts will provide in-school programs for public schools in low-income neighborhoods, youth concerts for children and their parents, and informal family concerts as part of its regular concert series.

Pillsbury Neighborhood Services/Pillsbury House Theatre
Minneapolis, MN
$14,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support costs associated with the Chicago Avenue Project. The project partners professional adult playwrights, actors, and directors with inner-city children in a mentoring program through which children create and perform short plays.

Pittsburgh Dance Alloy
Pittsburgh, PA
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support educational programming and residencies. Activities include residencies in the Pittsburgh High School and Junior High School for the Performing Arts, movement classes for children with disabilities, elementary school partnerships, Partners in Dance, Dance from the Inside Out, and the Summer Intensive Workshop.

Pittsburgh Opera, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support the company's education program, encompassing partnerships with schools and professional development opportunities for educators. The school partnerships involve cross-curricular and interdisciplinary activities, and workshops that prepare teachers from a range of disciplines to use opera to enhance the study of particular subjects.
Plaza de la Raza, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support the School of Performing and Visual Arts Conservatory Program. Weekly workshops and master classes in theater, visual arts, music, and dance are offered as well as residencies for artists from the Los Angeles community.

Portland Art Museum (on behalf of Northwest Film Center)
Portland, OR
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support the formation and development of an annual Media Arts Academy. Developed by the Northwest Film Center, the Academy will serve teachers and students from throughout Oregon.

Portsmouth Public Library
Portsmouth, OH
$17,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support costs associated with Theater Works!, a theater education and jobs program for disadvantaged Appalachian youth ages 13-20. The program will include instruction in the performance, history, and masks of commedia dell'arte by artists from the Dell'Arte International School of Physical Theatre, and in stagecraft taught by regional professionals.

Project Step, Inc.
Boston, MA
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the String Training and Educational Program, a project that prepares young, gifted musicians for careers in classical music. During 2000-01, Project STEP will offer participants aged five to 18 a combination of instrumental lessons with master teachers, classroom instruction, performance and master class opportunities, access to quality instruments, summer study, enrichment opportunities, and career counseling.

Puppet Co.
Glen Echo, MD
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the expansion of The Puppet Company's puppet education and interpretation program. The project will improve and expand study guide material for performances, offer week long summer puppetry camps, and present exhibitions on the development of puppetry in the mid-Atlantic region.

Pyramid Atlantic, Inc.
Riverdale, MD
$18,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support career development and training for students, teachers, and professional artists in papermaking, printmaking, and the book arts. The project is composed of four distinct elements: Making Connections, Teachers' Training, Cultural Connections/Living Traditions and Artists' Residencies.

Radcliffe College
Cambridge MA
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support two symposia in Radcliffe's ceramics program's annual series titled Major Cultural Expressions in the Ceramic Arts. Each week long symposium integrates studio work by an artist-in-residence with an in-depth study of a specific cultural tradition.

Ravinia Festival Association
Highland Park, IL
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the third year of the Ravinia-Lawndale Partnership, a community engagement initiative. During 2000-01, the Ravinia Festival will use live, diverse musical activities to increase community participation in the west side, Chicago neighborhood of Lawndale.

Regents of the University of California at Riverside (on behalf of California Museum of Photography) Riverside, CA
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support Digital Studio, the museum's community imaging and technology center. The studio offers artists, children, teenagers, and adults opportunities to participate in and understand computer-based creative expression by providing access to the tools that support new imaging technologies.

Research Foundation of State University of New York (on behalf of Purchase College)
Albany, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a national, summer, residential Jazz Institute and Winter Workshop for high school students. During 2000, the jazz program faculty at Purchase College's Conservatory of Music will host a two-week summer Jazz Institute and a day-long Winter Workshop for 42 high school students recruited from five inner-city high schools in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut.

Richmond Art Center
Richmond, CA
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support expansion of the Art Reach program for at-risk youths in West Contra Costa County. Funds will support artist/teacher training, creation of new evaluation and assessment tools, planning, and curriculum development.

Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support a two-day symposium on artist/educator Josef Albers (1888-1976). The symposium will bring together an international group of speakers from all fields related to Albers' career: artists, art historians, art educators, and theorists.

Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Inc.
Rochester, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the expansion of the Elementary Ensembles Program. During 2000-01, the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra will add three youth concerts and additional musician training workshops to its existing in-school performance workshops for third grade students in 37 Rochester City Schools.

Rock Hill Arts Council
Rock Hill, SC
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Local Arts Agency
To support the Revival Design Camp Meeting. This week-long workshop scheduled to be held in Rock Hill, SC will feature nationally known designers and craftsmen who will produce functional home furnishings made of recycled materials that can be manufactured from the craftsmen's original designs or prototypes.

Roundabout Theatre Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$32,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support expenses associated with a theater arts education program in collaboration with New York City public schools. Page To Stage is an in-depth sequential program designed to extend access to theater for underserved students and to contribute to the professional development of teachers.

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (on behalf of Center for Latino Arts and Culture) (Consortium)
Piscataway, NJ
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support the consortium project, Artist Mentoring Against Racism, Drugs and Violence: Healing Through the Arts. The program is designed to motivate Latino and African American youth to work together to create works of art to help prevent violence between the two communities.

San Francisco Girls Chorus, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$12,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the Music Education and Outreach Program. During 2000-01, this project will provide a graduated curriculum for the singers in the beginning level training choruses.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
San Francisco, CA
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support Making Sense of Modern Art, an interactive, multimedia education program, and associated curriculum and training materials. The program serves as a guide to the major artists, works, and themes represented in the museum's permanent collection.

San Francisco School of Circus Arts
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support expenses associated with establishing a full-time clown-training program. The establishment of this program is an integral part of the School's plan to offer an all-encompassing course of study in all facets of circus performance.

San Francisco Symphony (on behalf of San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra) San Francisco, CA
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra's artistic development project. During 2000-01, musicians of this pre-professional orchestra will participate in music training and career development programs.

SAY SI
San Antonio, TX
$17,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support expansion of a year-round, visual arts program for high school students in an inner-city neighborhood. Students are taught by working artists in a variety of media.

Scribe Video Center, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support three components of Scribe's workshop program. To assist artists in the creation of new work, Scribe offers hands-on instruction in various aspects of media production and provides access to its facilities.

Seattle Arts & Lectures
Seattle, WA
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the expansion of Writers in the Schools, an educational project targeting local communities and secondary schools in the Seattle area. Seattle Arts & Lectures will provide teacher training, classroom residencies and mentoring sessions with established and emerging writers, and local readings and publications featuring the work of young writers.

Seattle International Children's Festival
Seattle, WA
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Presenting
To support the Education Enhancement Program. This program's four initiatives for
2000-01 are: to conduct more artists in schools residencies and enhance a whole school residency model; to correlate curriculum materials with new state and city arts standards; to develop additional year-round educational programs; and to integrate the arts into the international education curriculum being developed.

Settlement Music School
Philadelphia, PA
$80,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support the Early Childhood Education Initiative. This initiative comprises the School's Kaleidoscope Preschool Arts Enrichment Program and its Teacher Training Institute for the Arts.

Shakespeare & Company
Lenox, MA
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the integrated discipline and curriculum based project Shakespeare In Action. The project includes collaborative curriculum development and instruction, student training in theater arts, student productions, professional development for teachers, and training for theater artists in education and documentation.

Sierra Arts Foundation
Reno, NV
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support the Youth ArtWorks Program. The project is designed to create new avenues of employment exploration through apprenticeships for youth.

Sloss Furnace Association, Inc. (on behalf of Sloss Furnaces Historic Landmark) Birmingham, AL
$18,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support the development of a summer youth apprenticeship program in the metal arts at the Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark. The program will employ six to nine students from inner-city secondary schools who will work with professional artists on casting and fabricating sculpture.

Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art (Consortium)
Loretto, PA
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the exhibition Artists of the Commonwealth: Realism in Pennsylvania Painting, 1950-2000, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The project is a joint endeavor with the Michener Art Museum in Doylestown, the Erie Art Museum, and the Westmoreland Museum of American Art in Greensburg.

Springfield Symphony Orchestra
Springfield, MA
$10,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the Western Massachusetts High School Honors Chorus program. During 2000-01, the Springfield Symphony Orchestra (SSO) will organize several high school choruses to perform a concert version of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess.

Stage Directors and Choreographers Workshop Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support expenses associated with a weekend symposium for stage directors. This seminar, focused on directing Shakespeare's The Tempest, will be offered for stage directors interested in directing classical plays.

Stagebridge
Oakland, CA
$12,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support expenses associated with an intergenerational literacy project. Storybridge will bring young and old together through theater and storytelling to teach language, reading, interpersonal, and artistic skills.

Street-Level Youth Media
Chicago, IL
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support expansion of Street-Level Youth Media's In-School Projects Division. The project offers media arts programs to at-risk children and young adults through arts integrated curriculum projects.

Syracuse Children's Chorus, Inc.
Syracuse, NY
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a jazz education project. During 2000-01, the Syracuse Children's Chorus will broaden their understanding and appreciation of jazz through this project involving a residency with Swing Central, a jazz group in Syracuse, and the commission and presentation of a new work for children's chorus by jazz artist Vijay Singh.

Taos Talking Pictures, Inc. $7,500
Taos, NM
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the Teen Media Conference to be held at the 2000 Taos Talking Picture Festival. This three-day event will offer young people workshops on critical viewing skills, analysis, and deconstruction of mass media.

Theater by The Blind Corporation
New York, NY
$12,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support expenses associated with the continuing education of blind and visually impaired actors through a series of reading projects. Theatre By The Blind has established a text/script reading service for blind and visually impaired actors that culminates in public staged readings of scripts.

Theatre for Young America, Inc.
Mission, KS
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support residencies by artist-educators in conjunction with a production of the play, The Toughest Kid in the World. The project includes residencies at the schools of sixth graders and training of arts educators and classroom teachers.

Theatre of Yugen
San Francisco, CA
$12,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support expenses associated with the expansion of an arts education program targeted to inner city Asian American youth. The program will introduce the participants to a variety of traditional Asian theatrical forms and offer special performances, study guides, and post-performance discussions.

Toledo Orchestra Association, Inc.
Toledo, OH
$22,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a music education project for young children. During 2000-02, the Toledo Orchestra will pilot the development of a unified music education curriculum encompassing performances for young children and parent and teacher involvement.

Trinity Repertory Company
Providence, RI
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the continuation and expansion of Project Discovery, a thirty-three year old education outreach program. The education program provides professional development for teachers and in-depth involvement in theater for students.

University of Alabama Program for Rural Services & Research
Tuscaloosa, AL
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support the Rural Arts Project. Project activities include formation of community arts plans, a summer Rural Arts Institute, artist residencies, and technical assistance to communities in order to develop a replicable model for fostering rural community development through the arts.

University of Iowa (on behalf of Hancher Auditorium)
Iowa City, IA
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Presenting
To support Arts Across The Curriculum. The Pilobolus Dance Theatre and storyteller performance artist David Gonzalez will be presented to Iowa students for over three weeks each during 2000-01, using the arts to enrich a multidisciplinary approach to curricula.

University of Nebraska at Lincoln
Lincoln, NE
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support expenses associated with the Lincoln Community Exchange Project. The project will involve local professional artists, community organizations and schools, and the collaborative forces of three established theater companies: Junebug Productions, Roadside Theater, and Teatro Pregones.

University of Southern Mississippi
Hattiesburg, MS
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support a collaboration of two campuses of the University of Southern Mississippi, local school districts, and the National Dance Institute for a two-week residency program. The project will provide dance instruction for underserved middle school children.

University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
Milwaukee, WI
$8,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Design
To support an architecture summer camp targeting all high school students within Wisconsin. The camp will expose the high school students to practical and theoretical aspects of architecture through workshops and field trips.

Urban Gateways: The Center for Arts in Education
Chicago, IL
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support community-based residencies. Visual artist Elaine Yoneoka and dance theater company Fluid Measure will present their work and conduct an intensive residency that includes workshops, professional development for teachers, and master classes.

Village of Arts and Humanities, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$55,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support the Education through the Arts Program. The project involves low-income, under-served youth in North Philadelphia.

Walnut Street Theatre Corporation
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Musical Theater
To support Adopt A School, a program that establishes an extracurricular theater program in an adopted school. The Walnut Street Theatre will provide direction, guidance, and hands-on training to create a foundation for long-term theater programming in participating schools.

Walt Whitman Cultural Arts Center, Inc.
Camden, NJ
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support the Walt Whitman Cultural Arts Center's residency program featuring literary, performing and visual artists. Residency activities include master classes for professional writers, mural arts projects tied to economic development, playwriting, production and after-school arts for elementary and middle school students.

Wang Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. (Consortium)
Boston, MA
$70,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support ACT III and IV of Arts Can Teach (ACT), a consortium project. ACT is a multi-year collaborative effort among the Wang Center, LynnArts, and the Lynn Public Schools to integrate the arts into the Lynn Public Schools' curriculum.

Warehouse Theatre
Greenville, SC
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support compensation for teachers and expenses related to the Professional Journeyman Program/Resident Company Master Classes. The program provides twelve young performers with a season of theater work and training.

Washington Ballet
Washington, DC
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support DanceDC, an introduction of ballet to District of Columbia public school third grade students. The students will be exposed to ballet lessons, performances, and other educational activities.

Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts
Newcastle, ME
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support the MudMobile, a statewide traveling ceramics program. The MudMobile van brings ceramics activities to diverse sites and populations throughout rural Maine.

Westchester Philharmonic, Inc.
Hartsdale, NY
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support Exploring New Worlds: Music of the Americas, a music education program for elementary school students. During 2000-01, the Westchester Philharmonic will enhance and supplement existing school-based arts programs by bringing music, art, and classroom teachers together as instructional teams and by providing students with an enriching concert experience.

Wilma Theater (Consortium)
Philadelphia, PA
$22,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support a consortium theater education project. The Wilma Theater in partnership with the Morris E. Leeds School and the Philadelphia High School Academies will offer a comprehensive program of on-stage and back-stage theater education.

Winthrop University
Rock Hill, SC
$100,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support the Arts in Basic Curriculum (ABC) OUTREACH Program. This program is an effort to extend the ABC Project to rural and underserved school districts throughout South Carolina.

Woodland Pattern Book Center, Inc.
Milwaukee, WI
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support Poetry Without Walls, an outreach program in Milwaukee's inner city featuring weekly writing workshops for youth, neighborhood poetry murals, and creative writing day camps.

Working Classroom, Inc.
Albuquerque, NM
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support a tuition-free summer arts camp serving students from low-income backgrounds. The camp includes drama and visual arts workshops in English and Spanish, field trips to cultural venues, performances, and discussions with visiting artists.

World Arts West
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support People Like Me, a vernacular and world classical dance education project. The program offers Bay Area students in grades K-6 the opportunity to experience and learn about the variety of dance rooted in the Bay Area's multicultural population, performed by dancers from the San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival.

Yoknapatawpha Arts Council, Inc.
Oxford, MS
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Local Arts Agency
To support the Youth Arts Program (YAP). This theater apprenticeship program for poor, and at-risk youth of Oxford and Lafayette County is operated in partnership between the Arts Council, the Oxford Housing Authority, and the Oxford City School District.

Young Audiences of Greater Dallas (Consortium)
Dallas, TX
$80,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support the professional development component of ARTSPartners. Working with its eight consortium partners, Young Audiences will train artists and teachers in the effective use of arts and cultural programs to influence teaching and learning.

Young Playwrights, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support expenses associated with expansion of an integrated program of curriculum-based professional development and discipline-based student playwriting workshops.

Young Playwrights' Theater, Inc.
Washington, DC
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support expenses associated with an arts education program in playwriting. EmPowerPlay is a three-tiered program of instruction in playwriting for middle and high school students.

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National Endowment for the Arts · an independent federal agency
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Washington, DC 20506