2001 Grant Awards: Access

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

DANCE

African American Dance Ensemble, Inc. (Consortium)
Durham, NC
$40,000
To support a project to present the African American Dance Ensemble in six community residencies. The project will include a variety of activities and a full concert performance.

American Repertory Ballet (Princeton Ballet Society)
New Brunswick, NJ
$10,000
To support a performance festival in New Jersey. The festival will include New Jersey Symphony, American Repertory Ballet, Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company, Nai-Ni Chen, Alice Farley Dance Theater and guest artists from the Singapore Ballet, the Dutch National Ballet and the Birmingham Ballet.

Andrew Cacho African Drummers and Dancers Economic Development, Inc.
Washington, DC
$10,000
To support workshops and performances as part of the Youthworks 2001 project. Children, teens and young adults will be trained in African Caribbean drumming, dancing, stilt walking and masquerades.

Arizona Commission on the Arts (Consortium)
Phoenix, AZ
$20,000
To support a project to organize a statewide dance residency. The consortium will present the Aspen Ballet in performances and community activities.

Aspen Santa Fe Ballet (Aspen Ballet Company & School)
Aspen, CO
$5,000
To support a performance and outreach touring project that brings professional dance to a variety of rural and underserved communities along the western corridors of Colorado and New Mexico. Pointe to Point will consist of 36 performances and 32 outreach activities reaching 25,000 people. (Multistate)

Ballet East Dance Company
Austin, TX
$5,000
To support the expansion and enhancement of a children's dance/theatre program in partnership with the Austin Parks and Recreation Department and the Independent School District. The major components of Dare to Dance are the additions of two instructors/choreographers, two additional sites and two final productions.

Columbia College (on behalf of the Dance Center) (Consortium)
Chicago, IL
$5,000
To support a project to provide a set of programs for individuals to learn about dance. The Generational Dance Access Project will target young children, their caregivers and elder adults.

Dance Gallery Foundation (on behalf of Peter Sparling Dance Company)
Ann Arbor, MI
$5,000
To support a tour and accompanying residency in six rural Michigan communities. The Orfeo Project will include a series of dance lecture-demonstrations that will be presented in community centers and schools, and lectures and master classes in modern dance given by Peter Sparling.

Dance Institute of Washington
Washington, DC
$5,000
To support dance instruction for children and youth from underserved communities. The Reaching New Audiences Project will provide dance training, performance opportunities, access to performing arts and targeted outreach to non-traditional audiences.

Dancing Wheels (Professional Flair, Inc.)
Cleveland, OH
$10,000
To support the expansion of mixed ability, educational and outreach/inreach programs. The expansion includes broader class offerings on site, in addition to expanded outreach programs and residencies to underserved areas nationwide. (Multistate)

David Taylor Dance Theatre
Littleton, CO
$5,000
To support a four-week tour of 12 rural communities in Colorado. David Taylor Dance Theatre will present their multimedia production of A Children's Rainforest Odyssey.

Dimensions Dance Theater
Oakland, CA
$5,000
To support a free dance program for Oakland youth ages eight to 18. Rites of Passage provides dance education and training in a variety of forms and styles and is taught by professional dancers.

Donald Byrd Dance Foundation, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$15,000
To support a community-based project designed to create a dialogue on the issue of domestic violence. The National Beast Project will be performed in New York and Los Angeles. (Multistate)

Eugene Ballet Company
Eugene, OR
$20,000
To support touring in Oregon, Montana, Washington, Idaho and Wyoming. The tour will consist of performances and outreach programs and reach 14 rural communities. (Multistate)

Grand Performances
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
To support the Accidental Audience Project, offering free performances and other activities. The artists who will be included are Parajat Desai, Taller Choreographico, La Tania and Kin Dance Company.

H.T. Chen and Dancers (H.T. Dance Company, Inc.)
New York, NY
$30,000
To support a new dance-based educational program. Bamboo Oracle will focus on the themes of balance and harmony through the presentation of traditional dances and modern work by choreographer H.T. Chen and will be presented in cities across the United States. (Multistate)

Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey
Kansas City, MO
$10,000
To support the 2001 AileyCamp and outreach activities in conjunction with the Ailey II residency. At-risk youth, ranging in age from 11-14, come together for six weeks of training by some of the nation's top dance instructors.

Natya Dance Theatre (Natyakalalayam Dance Company)
Chicago, IL
$5,000
To support the continuation of outreach programs. The company will undertake two major outreach projects: Mitra - the Sounds and Legends of India, in collaboration with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra; and Bharatanatyam in the Diaspora, a national conference/festival of Bharatanatyamin collaboration with the Dance Center of Columbia College.

Nevada Ballet Theatre (Nevada Dance Theatre, Inc.)
Las Vegas, NV
$5,000
To support an outreach program that provides dance instruction to racially diverse children attending at-risk elementary schools. Future Dance Program offers one to two classes per week for 20 weeks to over 400 students.

North Carolina State University (Consortium)
Raleigh, NC
$30,000
To support a project with Liz Lerman Dance Exchange. The project will involve Dance Exchange in an extended statewide residency project.

Oakland Ballet Association, Inc.
Oakland, CA
$15,000
To support an audience development project. Oakland Ballet plans to attract new audiences with performances, outreach activities and educational programs. (Multistate)

Parsons Dance Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support outreach programs for underserved communities under the direction of dancer/choreographer David Parsons. The Community Outreach Program will include lecture demonstrations, master classes, seminars and Teaching Video Creativity Workshops across the United States. (Multistate)

Rennie Harris PureMovement
Philadelphia, PA
$15,000
To support the planning, development and touring of a hip-hop festival. Illadelph Legends will consist of performances, workshops, lecture-demonstrations and master classes and will tour to Illinois, Minnesota, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. (Multistate)

Ririe-Woodbury Dance Foundation
Salt Lake City, UT
$20,000
To support eight weeks of residency activities. The company will travel to Louisiana, Minnesota and California to offer a variety of dance workshops to all ages, ranging from Afro-Caribbean dance and creative movement in local schools to ballroom dance for senior citizens. (Multistate)

Risa Jaroslow & Dancers (High Tide Dance, Inc.) (Consortium)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support a project to implement community dance projects in New York City. Risa Jaroslow & Dancers will work with low-income women, conducting storytelling/movement workshops that culminate in community performances.

San Diego Dance Institute
San Diego, CA
$10,000
To support a neighborhood residency program. Students and professional choreographers will collaborate on the development and performance of new dances.

Sara Pearson/Patrik Widrig & Company (New Life Dance)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the creation of a community-based, multidisciplinary performance project that features dance, text, live music and site-specific video pieces. Portraits of Change residencies will span one to three weeks and involve host communities through workshops, the creation of videos and participation in performances in New York, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Maine, Pennsylvania and Georgia. (Multistate)

Stuart Pimsler Dance & Theater
Minneapolis, MN
$5,000
To support a collaboration with two healthcare organizations to create workshops and a new work. Stuart Pimsler Dance & Theater will work with Pathways and Virginia Piper Cancer Institute's Arts and Humanities program on a new project, Stories to Die For, involving caregivers and persons with life threatening illnesses.

Tandy Beal & Company (Friends of Olympia Station) (Consortium)
Santa Cruz, CA
$10,000
To support a project to work with several community groups to coordinate outreach programs. The project will deepen and broaden access to arts education programs in the Santa Cruz community.

Tigertail Productions, Inc. (Consortium)
Miami, FL
$5,000
To support a three-day series of performances, workshops and symposia dedicated to promoting and exploring dance for people with disabilities. DanceAble II, a collaboration between Tigertail Productions and Florida Dance Association, will include mixed ability performing groups such as AXIS Dance Company (California), CandoCo (England) and Din A 13 (Germany).

DESIGN

Alaska Design Forum
Anchorage, AK
$10,000
To support a series of lectures and workshops on the built environment. Architects and environmental and graphic designers will present current issues in the design field at venues in Anchorage and Fairbanks.

American Institute of Graphic Arts/Seattle (on behalf of Art with Heart)
Seattle, WA
$8,000
To support an intergenerational book project that brings together inner-city school children, senior citizens and graphic designers in a ten-week long workshop. A set of books created by the participants will be published and distributed to the community.

Archeworks
Chicago, IL
$15,000
To support an exhibition of competition entries from the David Award for Excellence in Design for People with Disabilities. The David Award was established to improve the quality and innovation of products designed for disabled people. (Multistate)

North Hawaii Community Hospital, Inc. (on behalf of The Kohala Center)
Kamuela, HI
$35,000
To support the design of an academic center for healing arts and the sciences in rural North Hawaii. Roto Architects, who have an established reputation for producing excellence in design while working with rural and indigenous communities, will facilitate the design for the center.

Washington, D.C. Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial Project Foundation, Inc.
Washington, DC
$40,000
To support a lecture series and traveling exhibit of entries from the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial international design competition. The exhibition will document the process and present a sample of the 898 design entries. (Multistate)

Woodbury University
Burbank, CA
$20,000
To support a research and design project for the Yucca Corridor in Los Angeles as a test case and model to find public space in urban areas. A design team will define and analyze marginal areas to develop new uses and amenities for the public.

FOLK & TRADITIONAL ARTS

American University (on behalf of WAMU 88.5 FM)
Washington, DC
$10,000
To support increased access around the country to bluegrass, classic honky-tonk, traditional country, folk and acoustic music through the Web. WAMU proposes the creation of three 24 hour streams of high quality Web audio. (Multistate)

Asian Americans United, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
To support fieldwork, documentation and assessment of artists' needs in Philadelphia's Chinese communities. Fieldwork will identify artists who are cultural resources within their communities and engage those artists in the life of their communities through a festival, garden and storytelling projects.

Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI
$35,000
To support the Traveling Exhibition Service Project. The low-cost exhibitions will travel to areas that are generally underserved by exhibitions, such as Native American reservations and urban neighborhoods, with venues to include worship houses, labor halls, county fairs and museums. (Multistate)

Oregon Historical Society
Portland, OR
$75,000
To support Artes Tradicionales. Artes Tradicionales will consist of an Oregon component to a major Mexican arts exhibit, public arts programming related to the exhibition, and community based arts residencies in Latino communities statewide.

Valdosta State University
Valdosta, GA
$20,000
To support a traveling exhibition, Folklife in the Georgia Wiregrass. The exhibition focuses on rural traditional arts associated with agriculture, religion and community life and will travel to selected communities in the underserved region of rural south Georgia.

West Valley Fine Arts Council
Litchfield Park, AZ
$10,000
To support Mariachi Espectacular 2001. This project includes an evening performance of music and dance and a conference that will feature master classes in mariachi music, ballet folklorico and Mexican traditional visual arts.

LITERATURE

Academy of American Poets
New York, NY
$60,000
To support the coordination of National Poetry Month, a project that brings poetry to schools, libraries, bookstores, cultural organizations and communities across the country in new and imaginative ways. During April 2001, the Academy will host library readings, panel discussions, outreach efforts and special features on the organization's Web site. (Multistate)

Anhinga Press, Inc.
Tallahassee, FL
$5,000
To support Runaway With Words, a program of creative writing workshops for at-risk youth. Anhinga Press will extend the program to new sites in Florida, Oregon and Utah and train artists and teachers at those sites to conduct effective workshops. (Multistate)

Arizona State University (on behalf of Bilingual Review Press)
Tempe, AZ
$10,000
To support the distribution of 1,000 titles of Hispanic, Latin American and Spanish literature to 2,650 bookstores throughout the United States. Bilingual Review Press will distribute free copies of books to rural and inner-city schools and domestic abuse centers. (Multistate)

Curbstone Press, Inc. (Consortium)
Willimantic, CT
$5,000
To support Community Access to Living Literature, a program offering readings and writing workshops to immigrant communities, senior care homes, juvenile homes, prisons, social service organizations and public schools in northeastern, rural Connecticut. Curbstone Press will partner with Windham Public Schools, the Center for Learning in Retirement and the Connecticut Historical Society.

Literary Arts, Inc.
Portland, OR
$5,000
To support Writers in the Schools, a program for writers, teachers and middle and high school students in Portland and Eugene. Literary Arts will partner with the Independent Resource Publishing Center to provide desktop publishing and Web design instruction to help students publish literary reviews and Webzines using on-site technology.

Montana Committee for the Humanities/Center for the Book
Missoula, MT
$10,000
To support the second annual Montana Festival of the Book in September 2001. More than 100 regional authors will read and discuss their work at selected venues in downtown Missoula, reaching an estimated audience of up to 3,000. (Multistate)

Poetry Society of America
New York, NY
$30,000
To support Poetry in Motion, a program that places poetry placards in public transportation systems. The Poetry Society of America will launch new programs in Boston, MA; Washington, DC; Eugene, OR; Houston, TX; and Miami, FL. (Multistate)

Poets House, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the expansion of the Poets House Poetry in the Branches Program to libraries throughout the nation. In collaboration with the American Library Association, the organization will present a two-day training conference for librarians from over 100 branches nationwide. (Multistate)

Small Press Distribution, Inc.
Berkeley, CA
$60,000
To support a targeted distribution initiative to provide individuals, libraries and bookstores in all 50 states with publications from 500 small and independent presses. (Multistate)

Tampa Metropolitan Area YMCA, Inc.
Tampa, FL
$5,000
To support after-school creative writing workshops targeting underserved children of migrant farm families. The Writer's Voice of the Tampa Metropolitan Area YMCA will offer a series of 12 week-long workshops at 13 sites in and around Tampa for 400 children, ages eight to 12.

Writer's Garret, Inc.
Dallas, TX
$20,000
To support publication costs and related expenses for TEX!, a free literary magazine distributed in newspapers throughout Texas, and a series of promotional readings by poets and writers featured in the magazine. TEX! is distributed to 550,000 readers as an insert in seven community newspapers including The Dallas Morning News.

Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation
Richmond, VA
$10,000
To support artists' fees, promotion and related expenses for Hurston/Wright Writers Week, a multi-genre summer writers workshop geared toward African American writers. The Hurston/Wright Foundation will promote the workshop at historically Black colleges and universities around the country.

LOCAL ARTS AGENCIES

Arts Council of Placer County
Auburn, CA
$15,000
To support the publication and distribution of Perspectives. This bimonthly arts news magazine and calendar of cultural events serves affiliate arts groups and agencies by announcing and celebrating cultural events within the county.

Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs
Chicago, IL
$61,500
To support Street Stages. This project will feature local, national and international puppeteers performing in venues throughout Chicago's diverse communities.

City of Charleston, South Carolina
Charleston, SC
$50,000
To support New Music by American Composers at 2001 Piccolo Spoleto Festival. Twelve American composers from throughout the United States will be selected to participate in the Festival.

City of Phoenix (on behalf of the Phoenix Arts Commission)
Phoenix, AZ
$14,500
To support an artist-in-residency program. The Phoenix Arts Commission and the Phoenix Parks, Recreation and Library Department will work in collaboration to place professional artists at after-school sites to provide arts training to area youth.

Maine Arts Sponsors Association
Bangor, ME
$22,000
To support the Rural Arts Network. The Rural Arts Network is a statewide technical assistance program for newer local arts agencies in Maine.

Missouri Association of Community Arts Agencies
Columbia, MO
$27,000
To support the Rural Initiative. This project seeks to develop the arts in Missouri's rural communities through an on-line artist directory, rural touring roster, technical assistance, training and workshops.

Regional Arts & Culture Council (Consortium)
Portland, OR
$25,000
To support the Arts in Healthcare Consortium. This multifaceted program will provide professional arts programs in healthcare facilities in the Portland metropolitan region for the benefit of patients and their families.

MEDIA ARTS

American Documentary, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the production of 360 Degrees: Life from Every Angle, a series of short documentary works by independent filmmakers and Internet artists offered to the public via the Web. The series will combine independent filmmaking with community-building dialogue via an Internet site that will include episodic installments and features that encourage user participation. (Multistate)

American Film Institute, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
To support the American Silent Film Database project. This two-tiered program is designed to promote greater interest in American silent films and will serve the public and the archival film community. (Multistate)

Appalshop, Inc. (Consortium)
Whitesburg, KY
$15,000
To support the development of a multi-year youth media exchange project. Planning will include a discussion on youth training including common problems and approaches, media literacy, artistic training and youth development. (Multistate)

Arab Women's Solidarity Association (on behalf of the Arab Film Festival)
San Jose, CA
$5,000
To support the fifth annual Arab Film Festival. Held in venues in San Francisco, Berkeley and San Jose, this event will present approximately 30 films to an estimated audience of 4,000 people.

Art Institute of Chicago (on behalf of the Video Data Bank)
Chicago, IL
$30,000
To support the development of www.videoplexx.org, an innovative media arts cultural Web site. This on-line media arts center will promote broader exposure to video art and artists. (Multistate)

Cineaste Publishers, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the publication of four issues of Cineaste magazine. The organization will also increase its writers' fees and produce an index to the contents of each issue published in the journal's 30-year history. (Multistate)

Electronic Arts Intermix
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the Artists' Videotape Distribution Service. Through Electronic Arts Intermix's on-line catalog, more than 2,850 works will be made available to libraries, educational institutions, community centers, museums and other organizations. (Multistate)

Film/Video Arts, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the consortium project Film and Video Live. Film and video producers will be given screening opportunities at different venues throughout New York City and expect to reach an audience of over 3,000 people.

Independent Feature Project, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support FILMMAKER magazine and offer it via the Internet. A consortium project with Independent Feature Project/West, FILMMAKER provides access to information and resources by covering the independent film scene. (Multistate)

International Film Seminars, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the 47th Robert Flaherty Film Seminar. This event will bring together students, scholars, filmmakers, curators, librarians and film enthusiasts to explore and discuss the art of the moving image.

Koahnic Broadcast Corporation
Anchorage, AK
$5,000
To support National Native News: Arts and Cultural Dispatches. This daily newscast is heard on 140 public radio stations. (Multistate)

L.A. Theatre Works
Venice, CA
$10,000
To support the distribution of ten audio plays to 200 libraries for the blind or visually impaired. In addition, L.A. Theatre Works will provide the organizations with promotional materials to augment the collection. (Multistate)

Media Arts Center San Diego
San Diego, CA
$5,000
To support Tu Cine! This multi-faceted outreach project is designed to expand community dialogue about Mexican film and culture.

Portland Art Museum (on behalf of the Northwest Film Center) (Consortium)
Portland, OR
$10,000
To support work with homeless teens to create and produce video art works. The youth will learn to use media analysis, interviewing, scripting, cinematography, editing, music, sound effects and graphic arts to articulate and present their own perspectives of homelessness to the community at large.

Resolution, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
To support Africa in the Picture. Resolution will acquire eight recent African feature films, documentaries, experimental videos and television programs to distribute to institutional venues (universities, libraries, etc.), semi-theatrical exhibitors (film festivals, media arts centers), and public television stations. (Multistate)

University of California at Berkeley (on behalf of the Pacific Film Archive)
Berkeley, CA
$10,000
To support Behind the Experiments: Film and Video Artists Speak. The exhibition series will present an in-depth survey of experimental cinema as it has evolved over the past 50 years.

MULTIDISCIPLINARY

509 Cultural Center
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support free arts programming in a low-income neighborhood of San Francisco. This project will feature outdoor arts presentations, the seventh annual In the Street Theater Festival, exhibitions, and arts education programs for under-served youth and adults.

Appalshop, Inc.
Whitesburg, KY
$40,000
To support Route 23: A Cultural Corridor. This project will provide access to existing, new and ongoing work about the Route 23 cultural corridor to underserved audiences in Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia. (Multistate)

Arizona Theatre Company (Consortium)
Tucson, AZ
$10,000
To support ARTability: Accessing Arizona's Arts. This statewide audience development, community outreach and professional training project will expand and promote accessible programming to individuals with disabilities.

Artists Collective, Inc.
Hartford, CT
$35,000
To support professional training in dance and music, student performance opportunities, and community outreach efforts. All programs will serve to broaden the understanding and appreciation of the culture, heritage and art of the African Diaspora.

Arts for the Aging-Maryland, Inc.
Bethesda, MD
$5,000
To support expansion of the Arts Workshop Program. The project will provide for monthly instruction by specially trained professional artists at senior daycare centers that serve metropolitan Washington, DC.

Artsreach (Consortium)
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
To support the California Youth Authority Arts Program targeting incarcerated youth. This two year project will offer a fine arts education program to youths in juvenile detention centers and provide training of the artist-facilitators.

Batoto Yetu, Inc.
New York, NY
$8,000
To support Kamulangu. This full-length drama will showcase African dance, music and folklore for youth and adult audiences in Harlem.

Beacon Street Gallery and Theatre
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support the Uptown Youth and Cultural Heritage Preservation Program. This initiative will utilize apprenticeships, literary press and a job training program to promote cross-cultural understanding, strengthen intergenerational ties, enhance literacy and build job-readiness skills.

California Institute of the Arts (Consortium)
Valencia, CA
$50,000
To support the Community Arts Partnership. The program will offers free arts workshops, after school and weekend classes, exhibitions and performances for at-risk, school-aged youth in Los Angeles County.

Center of Contemporary Arts
St. Louis, MO
$25,000
To support the expansion of the Urban Arts Program/Residency Initiative. Long- and short-term residencies will feature performances and teaching sessions by national and local artists and touring companies at underserved schools in metropolitan St. Louis.

Circus Amok, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,000
To support the Summer Parks Tour. This series will offer free outdoor performances to sitesthroughout the five boroughs of New York City, along with workshops and a youth internship program.

Dayton Contemporary Dance Guild, Inc.
Dayton, OH
$20,000
To support Can Dream Can Do. This program, designed for at-risk youth, ages nine to 12 will provide arts instruction and techniques for developing critical life skills.

East Bay Center for the Performing Arts
Richmond, CA
$40,000
To support Call and Response. Ten culturally-specific and multicultural resident dance, music and theater companies will perform at sites throughout West Contra Costa County.

Esperanza Peace and Justice Center
San Antonio, TX
$35,000
To support ArtEscuela. This year-round youth project offers paid internships and weekend classes in video, photography, visual arts, dance, music, storytelling and performance.

Gallaudet University
Washington, DC
$10,000
To support the planning for Deaf Way II, an international conference and symposium. This initiative will provide support for all arts and arts education-related events scheduled for July 2002.

Gateway Performance Productions
Atlanta, GA
$15,000
To support an outreach program of tour performances and community and school-based workshops and residencies. Programs of mask theater, dance, mime and puppetry will be presented at sites throughout Georgia. A series of residency programs will be conducted at the Isleta Indian Reservation in New Mexico. (Multistate)

Great Leap, Inc.
Santa Monica, CA
$5,000
To support To All Relations 2001. This residency project will include performance and workshops in storytelling, video production and Web site design in Detroit and Central Appalachia communities. (Multistate)

Hatch-Billops Collection, Inc.
New York, NY
$8,000
To support Artist and Influence. This project will document visual artists, writers, filmmakers, poets and arts administrators through recorded interviews, the publication of a journal and television broadcasts on Manhattan Cable.

Henry Street Settlement
New York, NY
$25,000
To support Arts for Everyone. Low-cost, theme-based performances will be presented at the Abrons Arts Center and feature a range of artists who reflect the diversity of the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

High 5 Tickets to the Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the Latino Outreach project. This program of special event and low-cost ticket offerings targeting Latino teens will increase access to arts events held throughout New York City.

Ink People, Inc.
Eureka, CA
$10,000
To support Arts Online. This three-part program will provide free Internet access to rural populations, train artists and arts administrators in computer and Internet use, and offer arts and technology workshops for youth.

Japanese American Cultural and Community Center
Los Angeles, CA
$35,000
To support Crossing Bridges/Opening Doors. This year-long series of festivals, exhibitions, performances and outreach activities will highlight multicultural artists and art forms with an emphasis on the Asian Pacific American community and its artists.

Little City Foundation
Palatine, IL
$10,000
To support Have Art, Will Travel. This series of mobile arts classes is designed for children and adults with developmental disabilities and provides them with instruction in visual, performing and media arts where they work and live.

Media Working Group
Covington, KY
$10,000
To support Open Studio: The Arts On-Line. This project will provide technical assistance and training for artists and arts organizations in Internet technologies and new digital environments. (Multistate)

Sheboygan Arts Foundation, Inc. (on behalf of the John Michael Kohler Arts Center)
Sheboygan, WI
$40,000
To support Connecting Communities. This series of five community-based residencies will facilitate collaborations between visual and performing artists and the Hmong and Hispanic communities, at-risk youth, industrial employees and elderly audiences from Sheboygan County.

SomArts
San Francisco, CA
$8,000
To support the Arts Access Program. The program offers venue access and technical services, at minimal cost, to six local arts organizations.

University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI
$25,000
To support the Prison Creative Arts Project. This program will sponsor two exhibitions of art by Michigan prisoners and link talented, incarcerated youth with arts agencies and organizations in the communities to which they return. (Multistate)

VSA Arts of Massachusetts
Boston, MA
$20,000
To support a new phase of the National Cultural Access Initiative. This facet of the program will provide training and technical assistance on methods for more fully engaging people with disabilities and incorporating them into all levels of arts organizations. (Multistate)

Walt Whitman Cultural Arts Center, Inc.
Camden, NJ
$20,000
To support WWCAC: 25 Years of Artists and Community Working Together. This two-year anniversary celebration will feature main stage presentations, community discussions, adult education workshops with the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, and the publication of a documentation piece.

Young Audiences of Greater Dallas, Inc.
Dallas, TX
$5,000
To support the expansion of CityArts. Performances, workshops, master classes and arts programming will be provided to elementary school children and preteens, and training for pre-K childcare workers will be conducted in underserved communities within Dallas.

Young Men's Christian Association of Billings
Billings, MT
$18,000
To support Finding Common Ground in an Uncommon Land. This rural outreach program will feature a writer-led reading series for adults and in-school workshops for students. (Multistate)

MUSEUMS

Arkansas Arts Center
Little Rock, AR
$15,000
To support the Arkansas Arts Center's (AAC) State Services Programs that address the underserved, rural audiences of Arkansas. Components of the project are crates for traveling exhibitions, installation of a new exhibition in the AAC's Artmobile, and a new touring summer children's theater troupe.

Art Museum of Western Virginia
Roanoke, VA
$7,000
To support the Museum's Art Van program. The program brings art exhibitions and educational activities to fourth grade students in 37 counties surrounding Roanoke.

Columbia College (on behalf of the Museum of Contemporary Photography)
Chicago, IL
$15,000
To support the continuing development of Photo-Net Connections, the museum's on-line interactive outreach program. The project will be developed in collaboration with the faculty, administration and students of Curie Metropolitan High School. (Multistate)

DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park
Lincoln, MA
$10,000
To support Taking Shape: the Art of Public Sculpture, an education program for students about the history of public and outdoor sculpture. The program provides students in grades seven to 12 with an understanding of large-scale contemporary public sculpture, its antecedents and its technical, formal and functional considerations.

El Museo del Barrio (Amigos del Museo del Barrio)
New York, NY
$30,000
To support a project titled Approaching our Collection. The project is a major initiative to provide access to a broad, national audience by creating scholarly and popular interpretive products based on significant works in El Museo's collection.

Museum of Contemporary Art of Puerto Rico, Inc.
San Juan, PR
$12,000
To support the museum's Cultural Suitcase and Family Sundays programs. The project is focused on creating new audiences and promoting museum visitorship among low-income, culturally marginalized, urban neighborhoods, rural towns and housing projects.

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Houston, TX
$35,000
To support the production of interpretive materials, including an interactive Web site, and development of public programs for a touring exhibition of the arts of colonial Mexico. Splendors of Vice Regal Mexico: Three Centuries of Treasures from the Museo Franz Mayer will, for the first time, present to American audiences the decorative and fine arts from the Mexican colonial period (1521-1829). (Multistate)

Newark Museum Association
Newark, NJ
$30,000
To support the museum's African Masterworks Project. The project will involve students of all ages in the research and interpretation of the museum's renowned collection of African art as it works toward its reinstallation.

Putnam Foundation
San Diego, CA
$10,000
To support the Museum's Outreach Español program. The program uses bilingual educational tours, lectures and other programs to introduce Spanish-speaking and bilingual audiences throughout San Diego, CA and Baja California, Mexico to the Timken's collection and the history of art.

Rhode Island School of Design, Museum of Art
Providence, RI
$50,000
To support an artists-in-residence program, exhibitions and accompanying education programs. The residencies are part of the museum's ongoing Art ConText program, a collaboration with the Providence Public Library System.

Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities, Inc.
Boston, MA
$30,000
To support a major nationally touring exhibition titled Cherished Possessions: A New England Legacy, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. For the first time in its 90-year history, the Society will tour its renowned collection of New England fine and decorative arts. (Multistate)

Texas Fine Arts Association
Austin, TX
$10,000
To support Art on Tour, a statewide traveling exhibition program with accompanying catalogues and lectures. The program circulates exhibitions of contemporary art by emerging and mid career American artists to small museums and university and community galleries throughout Texas, many in rural, culturally underserved communities.

University of Houston (on behalf of the Blaffer Gallery)
Houston, TX
$20,000
To support the Blaffer Gallery's Mobile Art Quest (MAQ). MAQ is a traveling museum for art education which brings an interactive, artist-guided art education program to elementary-age children in their own neighborhoods.

MUSIC

American Music Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$22,500
To support NewMusicBox.org, a Web magazine for new music. The American Music Center will expand promotion and marketing efforts to build new and more diverse audiences for the field of new music, promote the work of American composers, and generate an increased number of new music performances nationwide. (Multistate)

Chamber Orchestra of the South Bay
Palos Verdes, CA
$5,000
To support concerts in a new venue. This project will extend the concerts currently performed at the Norris Theatre for the Performing Arts in Palos Verdes to include two performances at the Warner Grand Theater in San Pedro.

Chicago Symphony Orchestra (on behalf of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago)
Chicago, IL
$25,000
To support the Performances in the Community project. These free concerts throughout Chicago will engage a broad and diverse community and increase access to classical music.

Chicago Symphony Orchestra (Consortium)
Chicago, IL
$100,000
To support the community festival Plazas de Mexico. This Mexican American neighborhood festival, which will feature the Armonia Musicians Residency Program, will offer free access to music and music education.

City of Indianapolis Department of Parks and Recreation (Consortium)
Indianapolis, IN
$7,500
To support free public concerts by the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra to diverse audiences in public parks in Indianapolis. Plans for the project include expanding the two free concerts that normally take place each year to four free concerts in new locations.

Columbia College (on behalf of the Center for Black Music Research)
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support performances and lecture-demonstrations by the New Black Music Repertory Ensemble. These activities will take place in south and westside neighborhood venues of Chicago's cultural centers, parks, colleges, and elementary and secondary schools.

Flint Institute of Music
Flint, MI
$10,000
To support music outreach activities for underserved communities. Performances and other activities for children and adults will be presented at public housing projects, recreation centers and senior citizen centers.

Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra Association
Fort Worth, TX
$22,500
To support Adventures in Music, young persons' educational concerts. The Orchestra will spend a week presenting 12 concerts each in Harlingen and McAllen, Texas to more than 20,000 school children.

Jazz Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support the expansion of the Chicago Jazz and Heritage Program. The program seeks to explore ways to connect youth and families with the cultural heritage of the city's diverse communities.

Levine School of Music
Washington, DC
$25,000
To support curriculum development in early childhood music education. Goals for the project include reinforcing the children's academic, social and emotional development through music. (Multistate)

Meet The Composer, Inc.
New York, NY
$70,000
To support Residency Works, a national audience development project to further public appreciation for new American music. More than 1,000 composers will be participating in this community engagement endeavor, cultivating relationships between composers and communities across the country. (Multistate)

Minnesota Chorale
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
To support the annual Bridges outreach program. The project will focus on cultural exchange with South America and build musical and social bridges to the Twin Cities Latin American community.

Minot Symphony Association, Inc.
Minot, ND
$5,000
To support Cultivating Symphonic Seeds in the Heartland. This outreach project is designed around mentoring activities for students in a youth orchestra and a community music school in rural North Dakota.

Music Works Northwest
Bellevue, WA
$25,000
To support activities of a new inner-city branch campus for youth and adults. The community music school's city campus activities will include a summer music camp, private and group music instruction, free family music nights, recitals and performances, master classes, field trips to performance venues in Seattle, and artist mentoring sessions.

Nashville Symphony Association
Nashville, TN
$15,000
To support American Heritage: Discovery! This program will integrate music, social studies and language arts curricula with a focus on the history of American invention and technology and culminate with live concerts for students and teachers at the War Memorial Auditorium in Nashville.

New Mexico Symphony Orchestra
Albuquerque, NM
$10,000
To support a statewide tour. The 47-member orchestra will expand to 60 players for tour performances and morning youth concerts in 15 communities.

New Performing Arts, Inc.
Louisville, KY
$10,000
To support community outreach and education activities by soloists and chamber music ensembles. Up to 28 communities in southeastern Kentucky will be targeted for educational activities by 28 soloists and ensembles.

Omaha Symphony Association
Omaha, NE
$20,000
To support a statewide tour targeting rural populations. The tour to 12 communities will also include educational activities for preschool through high school students at five of the locations.

Phoenix Symphony Association (Consortium)
Phoenix, AZ
$20,000
To support One Nation. The series of education programs for the local Native American community will include master classes for grades seven to 12, a classroom concert for elementary students, and a free family community concert.

Queens Symphony Orchestra
Long Island City, NY
$22,500
To support an audience development campaign, presenting subscription concerts throughout the borough. This decentralization plan will mirror the enclaves of Queens, one of the most ethnically diverse counties in the nation.

Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra, Inc.
Providence, RI
$20,000
To support Fantastico: a Celebration of Portuguese Music. Focusing on the area's rich Portuguese heritage, activities will include concerts, workshops and education programs. (Multistate)

Robert W. Woodruff Arts Center (on behalf of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra)
Atlanta, GA
$50,000
To support Building Bridges to the Community, an educational and community partnership initiative. The goals of this initiative include ongoing education and outreach activities and increased technology, training and access components.

Saint Louis Symphony Society (Consortium)
St. Louis, MO
$55,000
To support the Concert Residency Series. The programming of free, informal classical music concerts will be expanded to six venues of residencies and concerts in Missouri and Illinois. (Multistate)

Sitka Summer Music Festival, Inc.
Sitka, AK
$10,000
To support the presentation of chamber music through concert tours in urban and rural communities of Alaska. The Sitka Summer Music Festival's 25 touring concerts will serve communities in Anchorage, Dillingham, Gustavus, Homer, Kenai, Kodiak, Pelican and Sitka.

South Dakota Symphony Orchestra
Sioux Falls, SD
$5,000
To support a residency by the Dakota Wind Quintet for Native American school children. A collaborative work will be created and performed for the students' community.

Tucson Symphony Society
Tucson, AZ
$10,000
To support the Southern Arizona Residency. The project consists of an educational component and a public concert in four rural communities in southern Arizona.

Vermont Symphony Orchestra Association, Inc.
Burlington, VT
$20,000
To support the Made in Vermont Music Festival Tour. Educational activities and community concert programs will be toured to ten underserved rural communities in Vermont.

Washington Chorus
Washington, DC
$5,000
To support an outreach and education program. Activities include free concerts to the elderly, school choir workshops, and distribution of free tickets to young people throughout the Washington, DC area.

West Virginia Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Charleston, WV
$10,000
To support a statewide tour to underserved rural communities. The symphony will reach audiences in ten communities through fall and spring tours.

WGBH Educational Foundation
Boston, MA
$20,000
To support an on-line archive of recorded American concert music. Art of the States, an international music radio program, will create an Internet archive to be made accessible to students, teachers, composers and the general public. (Multistate)

Women's Philharmonic
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
To support collaborations between women composers and performing artists as well as a composer symposium. Four collaborations are planned that will include commissioning a new work as well as highlighting the Philharmonic's 20 years of programming.

World Symposium on Choral Music (WCS6, Inc.) (Consortium)
Minneapolis, MN
$25,000
To support the 2002 World Symposium on Choral Music. This triennial gathering of choral musicians will take place in Minneapolis and will include concerts by international choirs, master classes by noted clinicians, and repeat performances throughout neighborhoods in the Twin Cities.

MUSICAL THEATER

American Music Theater Festival (Prince Music Theater)
Philadelphia, PA
$50,000
To support Project Open Doors, a multifaceted project with complementary artistic, educational and marketing components to bring diverse communities together. Prince Music Theater will create access to musical theater through mini-tours to disadvantaged area communities, in school artist residencies to create original work, and performances by and for minority and disabled artists as well as audiences at low or no cost.

Mad River Theater Works
West Liberty, OH
$18,000
To support a tour and collaborative theater project with students and their families, school teachers and administrators, and members of the public. Participants will collaborate to create plays based on local history and folklore that affirm family and community identity.

Missoula Children's Theatre
Missoula, MT
$10,000
To support the MCT Tour Project, a touring musical theater, week-long residency offered to rural children nationwide. Missoula Children Theatre strives to empower and develop life skills in rural children by using participatory performing arts workshops and performances. (Multistate)

Perishable Theatre
Providence, RI
$10,000
To support the Shows for Young Audiences Touring Program and its Web-based component. The Perishable Theatre will tour original musicals to students in grades K-eight in three states throughout the school year. (Multistate)

Society of the Educational Arts, Inc. (Sociedad Educativa de las Artes)
New York, NY
$8,000
To support the New York productions and tour to Puerto Rico of children's theater in Spanish and accompanying workshops. Sociedad Educativa de las Artes' programs and performances preserve Latin American arts and culture through presentation of a repertory of Latin American children's classics, folk tales and art forms. (Multistate)

Theatreworks/USA Corporation
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the national tour of three productions. Theatreworks/USA will tour Ferdinand the Bull, Island of the Blue Dolphins, and Romeo & Juliet to over 400,000 young people and families in 24 states and Washington, DC during its 2001-02 season. (Multistate)

Young at Heart Chorus, Inc.
Northampton, MA
$8,000
To support the revival of an original musical about the French revolution, Louis Lou I. Young At Heart Chorus, an ensemble of performers who are over 70 years old, will revive a musical from its repertory that played at the 800-seat Academy of Music Theater in Northampton to sold-out houses in 1991.

OPERA

Anchorage Civic Opera Association, Inc.
Anchorage, AK
$5,000
To support the Young Artist Opera Studio Theatre. In 2001-02, this young artist program will serve three major functions: statewide performances of professional one-act operas, educational outreach for students of all ages in underserved communities, and professional development of emerging artists.

Arizona Opera Company
Phoenix, AZ
$5,000
To support a tour of Opera Briefs to rural and Spanish-speaking communities throughout Arizona. In 2001, a condensed version of La Cenerentola (Cinderella) by Rossini will tour to remote and rural parts of the state, including Yuma, Douglas, Bisbee, Benson, Nogales, Patagonia, Show Low, Prescott and Jerome with additional performances in Phoenix and Tucson.

Des Moines Metro Opera, Inc.
Indianola, IA
$10,000
To support the OPERA Iowa touring program. In 2002, a 13-week tour will feature Seymour Barab's Little Red Riding Hood and Mozart's The Magic Flute in 80 performances and 320 workshops in rural Midwestern settings, including school residencies and evening community performances.

El Paso Opera
El Paso, TX
$10,000
To support educational and outreach activities, which include Youth Night at the Opera, Artists Programs and Workshops in the Schools, and El Paso Opera on Wheels. The Opera on Wheels program will feature a mini-version of Hansel and Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck.

Houston Grand Opera Association, Inc.
Houston, TX
$75,000
To support the sixth year of the Community Connections Initiative. The programming for 2001-02 will include free performances of Puccini's Turandot on the Multimedia Modular Stage at Houston's Miller Outdoor Theatre.

Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Inc.
Kansas City, MO
$7,500
To support educational programs for pre-K through 12 students and families and inmates in correctional facilities and their families, in addition to professional development for educators. In 2001-03, the educational programs will include Lyric Opera Express, Opera for Teens, and professional development for educators in Kansas and Missouri. (Multistate)

OPERA America, Inc. (Consortium)
Washington, DC
$20,000
To support a consortium with Boston Lyric Opera to create an on-line opera education center. In 2001-02 services will provide public access to the world of opera and will include a free bi weekly bulletin, distance learning courses, and a permanent and growing library of reference materials. (Multistate)

Opera Carolina
Charlotte, NC
$8,000
To support a summer opera camp for young people from underserved communities in Charlotte. The company will partner with Washington Heights Youth Services Academy to strengthen the program's outreach and services to participating youth who will create an original opera under the tutelage of professional musicians and technicians.

Opera for the Young, Inc.
Madison, WI
$5,000
To support a multi-state tour of Donizetti's The Elixir of Love, adapted for children and set in the Old American West. Approximately 190 in-school performances will take place in Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa and Wyoming. (Multistate)

Opera North
Hanover, NH
$5,000
To support a tour of Mozart's Don Giovanni and performances of a one-act opera/scenes program to rural Vermont and New Hampshire. Both programs will feature young artists from Opera North's training program, who will perform the principal roles they have understudied for mainstage production and star in the one-act/scenes tour. (Multistate)

Orlando Opera Company, Inc.
Orlando, FL
$5,000
To support an expanded tour to the Florida panhandle and throughout the central corridor of the state. In 2001-02, one-third of Florida's 67 counties will be targeted, especially those rural areas with limited exposure to live operatic performance.

Pine Mountain Music Festival, Inc.
Hancock, MI
$5,000
To support two performances of a double bill, Cavalleria Rusticana by Pietro Mascagni and Gianni Schicchi by Giacomo Puccini. In the summer of 2001, performances will be held in the new Rozsa Performing Arts Center at Michigan Technological University in Houghton.

Tulsa Opera, Inc.
Tulsa, OK
$10,000
To support the musical Purlie, adapted from the screenplay Purlie Victorious by Ossie Davis. In 2001-02, as part of the company's effort to expand its outreach to diverse communities in North Tulsa, Purlie will be presented to audiences in the Greenwood district, site of the infamous race riot of 1921.

Virginia Opera Association
Norfolk, VA
$10,000
To support the statewide touring program, featuring young professional artists from the Spectrum Resident Artist Program. The project will reach adults and students in grades K-12.

PRESENTING

Alaska Junior Theater, Inc.
Anchorage, AK
$10,000
To support the Arts Outreach Program. This project is designed to present performing arts programming to underserved children and families in Anchorage, Kenai, Barrow and other rural Alaskan communities.

Alternate ROOTS, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$40,000
To support ROOTS On Tour: Services to Underserved Artists, Presenters, Community Organizations, and Their Communities. The tour will feature artist residencies, performances, community projects, training and professional development workshops, documentary publications and include artist fee subsidies for underserved areas throughout the Southeast region. (Multistate)

Central Park Conservancy, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,000
To support the Harlem Meer Performance Festival. This free music and dance performance series will showcase emerging African American and Latino artists.

Class Acts Arts, Inc.
Silver Spring, MD
$10,000
To support the expansion of outreach programs, featuring public performances and workshops in partnership with community arts presenters. These outreach efforts will include artist subsidies for presentations to underserved public school children and community and social service centers, and work with area arts centers to promote programs featuring traditional folk artists.

Education Division, Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County
Los Angeles, CA
$75,000
To support Artists On Tour. The project will involve subsidy for in-school performances, underwriting to commission new work for in-school touring, and recruitment of new artists and performing ensembles, as well as the adaptation of their work for young audiences.

La Peña Cultural Center
Berkeley, CA
$20,000
To support Word Descarga (Word Jam Session). This series will feature established and emerging poets and musicians from diverse cultural backgrounds.

Newberry Opera House Foundation
Newberry, SC
$5,000
To support Carolina Jubilee and the Opera House dance series, Joy of Dance. These efforts are part of ongoing activities to build audiences for live performance in a rural, underserved area.

Pepatian
Bronx, NY
$15,000
To support Bronx Dance and Performance Project 2001: A Community Celebration. Project 2001 will be a multidisciplinary festival highlighting the borough's artistic resources and underserved Bronx-based artists.

Pregones Touring Puerto Rican Theater Collection, Inc. (Consortium)
Bronx, NY
$30,000
To support La Ruta Panoramica: The Northeastern Latino Cultural Corridor, a regional touring and artist residency network. Activities will include structural and curatorial planning for network activity, artist nominations and audits of their work, conferences and site visits with two selected artists/ensembles, and two regional tours throughout the northeast and mid-Atlantic regions. (Multistate)

South Dakota Art Museum
Brookings, SD
$5,000
To support Dakota Reader. This series, a collaborative effort between the museum, South Dakota Public Radio and regional artists, will feature live performances at the museum broadcast weekly over a two-year period.

THEATER

Artists Repertory Theatre
Portland, OR
$13,000
To support the A.R.T. To Go project. The program will work with three teams of individuals drawn from artistically isolated communities in the creation, development and presentation of their own public performances.

Arts Midwest (Consortium)
Minneapolis, MN
$70,000
To support the Heartland Arts Fund consortium project. Arts Midwest, in conjunction with a nine member consortia, will tour the Guthrie Theater's production of Eugene O'Neill's Ah! Wilderness.

Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble
Bloomsburg, PA
$25,000
To support expenses associated with a touring arts education program. Theatre in the Classroom offers performances as well as workshops and residencies in the schools.

Bridgework Theater, Inc.
Goshen, IN
$10,000
To support theater productions written in collaboration with children that address issues and needs of young people ages seven to 18. Bridgework Theater strives to create work that empowers and helps youth with social and psychological problems. (Multistate)

Contemporary American Theater Festival, Inc.
Shepherdstown, WV
$6,000
To support the purchase and installation of infrared-assistive listening devices. Contemporary American Theater Festival will install the new system in two theaters to increase hearing accessibility for people of all hearing abilities.

Cornerstone Theater Company
Los Angeles, CA
$42,000
To support the Festival of Faith, the first event in a series of faith-based theater projects within the diverse communities of Los Angeles. Cornerstone Theater will present the Festival of Faith that will include original plays, a touring audience participatory show, a fringe festival, and a monthly inter-faith dialogue series.

Coterie, Inc. (Consortium)
Kansas City, MO
$10,000
To support the 2001-02 year of the Dramatic AIDS Education Project, in a consortium with the University of Kansas Medical Center. Through customized and culturally specific dramatic AIDS education performance workshops for teens, The Coterie will provide an unusual and needed service to an at-risk population in Missouri and Kansas.

Davner Theatricals, Inc.
Raleigh, NC
$5,000
To support an educational tour of a theater classic to high schools in the eastern and central regions of North Carolina. Davner Theatricals, a young professional theater company, demonstrates its commitment to arts education by touring a play drawn from the local high school curriculum into those schools.

El Teatro de la Esperanza
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support the presentation and tour of one play and the development of a new play. The company will tour Rosita's Day of the Dead by Artistic Director Rodrigo Duarte Clark, through the Southwest.

Figures of Speech Theatre (Consortium)
Freeport, ME
$10,000
To support the World Puppets in New England Festival. The three-week festival will take place in Maine, Vermont and Connecticut. (Multistate)

First Stage Milwaukee, Inc.
Milwaukee, WI
$11,000
To support The Multi-Cultural School Assembly Tour project. The company will tour the production of Hmong Tapestry: Voices From the Cloth throughout the state.

Florida Stage, Inc.
Manalapan, FL
$15,000
To support the expansion of the Young Voices program. Florida Stage will hire a playwright to work with the Haitian and Cuban communities to create a new theater piece that will be performed by student actors.

Gorilla Repertory Theatre Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,000
To support the production of four Shakespeare plays in New York City parks. Gorilla Repertory Theater will present Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest and A Midsummer Night's Dream outdoors and free of charge in the summer of 2001.

Idaho Shakespeare Festival
Boise, ID
$12,000
To support Crossing The Divide, the combined multistate programs of Shakespearience and the Idaho Theater for Youth Tour. These two tours, the first designed for junior high and high school audiences and the second for elementary school students, will extend into Oregon, Washington and Nevada. (Multistate)

Imagination Workshop, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$13,000
To support the Artists Communicating Theater Program, weekly playwriting and improvisational workshops for students at UCLA's Neuropsychiatric Institute and a handful of Los Angeles and Santa Monica/Malibu schools. The Imagination Workshop artist leaders and key artists have received special training to prepare them for their work with individuals with autism, learning disabilities, emotional, psychological or behavioral challenges and at-risk youth.

Institute of Puerto Rican Culture (on behalf of Aqua Sol y Sereno)
San Juan, PR
$8,000
To support the development, rehearsals and performances of a new outdoor theater piece that will draw its inspiration from El Escambron Beach and its community and will be offered free to the public. Marea Alta, Marea Baja (High Tide, Low Tide) will be staged at the shoreline and will incorporate giant water puppets, sand stilters, actors, musicians, synchronized swimmers and 30 residents from neighboring communities.

Junebug Productions
New Orleans, LA
$25,000
To support The Color Line Project. The company will facilitate and participate in the collection of stories from the community.

Los Angeles Foundation for the Circus Arts
Westlake, CA
$10,000
To support the circus school. The project includes salaries for artist instructors.

Los Angeles Poverty Department (Consortium)
Los Angeles, CA
$7,000
To support CHANGE/EXCHANGE, an intensive workshop in community-based art making. Artists, teachers, students and community activists from around the nation will work with Los Angeles skid row community groups and experience Los Angeles Poverty Department's approach to making art with the community.

Los Angeles Poverty Department
Los Angeles, CA
$9,000
To support the development and production of a theater work that examines the history of Skid Row. Los Angeles Poverty Department will present theatrical performances to its community about the social construction and re-construction of the Skid Row neighborhood.

Magical Experiences Arts Company
Baltimore, MD
$5,000
To support workshops and performances for children and adolescents with severe disabilities. Magical Experiences Arts Company will present Feeling The Rainbow, one-hour plays based on the writings of Helen Keller, and interactive workshops that provide participants with sensory, emotional and educational experiences.

Make*A*Circus
San Francisco, CA
$5,000
To support Circus Days 2001. Make*A*Circus will tour a circus/theater musical play with audience participation to over 50 communities in California in summer 2001.

Metro Theater Company
St. Louis, MO
$25,000
To support the tour of More Stuff, Metro Theater Company's newest production, to rural and urban communities in the Midwest and nationally for two seasons. Described as a playful romp through the very essence of creative problem solving, More Stuff uses live music, imaginative movement and gibberish to explore both interpersonal relationships and relationships with inanimate objects. (Multistate)

Non-Traditional Casting Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$22,000
To support the Artist Files/Online and the National Forum on Diversity: The American Scene. These two initiatives link theater producers with artists of color and artists with disabilities and promote a national dialogue concerning diversity and inclusion. (Multistate)

Phoenix Theatre Academy, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$15,000
To support the Academy Theatre for Youth Tour Team. The ensemble will develop up to six new theater works to tour throughout the Southeast accompanied by curriculum-based outreach activities. (Multistate)

Playwrights' Preview Productions
New York, NY
$5,000
To support the Urban Stages Library Outreach Program. This program will bring new plays by multiethnic authors to underserved communities throughout New York City.

Pregones Touring Puerto Rican Theater Collection, Inc.
Bronx, NY
$18,000
To support the development and touring of a new play with music in the Summer Stage project. Pregones Theater will produce free outdoor performances in New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. (Multistate)

Round House Theatre
Silver Spring, MD
$10,000
To support the expansion of an Outreach Touring Program. In order to provide access to theatre for schools with budgetary constraints, Round House Theatre will provide free performances for an increased number of Title 1/Chapter 1 elementary schools in the Washington, DC region.

Seven Stages, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$25,000
To support the production and tour of Hush, the story of Blind Tom Wiggins. This world premiere, written by African American playwright Robert Earl Price, will be performed as part of Seven Stages' mainstage season in Atlanta and will subsequently tour to selected communities throughout the Southeast. (Multistate)

Spanish Theatre Repertory Co.
New York, NY
$52,000
To support Teatro Acceso, an initiative that will provide access to heritage-sustaining theatre works for educationally underserved schools in economically disadvantaged communities. Repertorio Espanol's Teatro Acceso will address the growing populations of Hispanic students in the New York City Public School system and the tri-state area with Spanish-language productions and outreach activities. (Multistate)

Teatro Circulo, Ltd.
New York, NY
$7,000
To support a national tour of two new theater productions. The company will tour Que Felices Son Las Barbies by Wanda Arriega and the ensemble-created theater work Puerto Rico Fua! (Multistate)

Ten Thousand Things
Minneapolis, MN
$6,000
To support development and production of a play. The adaptation of Aeschylus's The Eumenides will be toured to centers throughout the community.

Theatre Development Fund, Inc.
New York, NY
$12,000
To support Interpreting For The Theatre, an intensive one-week course on theater sign-language interpretation. Theatre Development Fund will offer a professional advanced training program to attract certified interpreters nationwide to hone their skills as theater sign interpreters and to explore techniques for signing plays and musicals. (Multistate)

Touchstone
Bethlehem, PA
$14,000
To support Healing Stories;Transforming Lives, an outreach project to increase access to the arts and to heal communities. Touchstone will collaborate with area nonprofit organizations and a hospital network to collect stories, create a theater work and build community.

University of Montana (on behalf of the Montana Repertory Theatre)
Missoula, MT
$10,000
To support a series of two and three-day residencies by the Montana Repertory Theatre to small and underserved communities in the state. Employing a mixed company of student and professional actors, The Montana Arts Adventure Tour will perform two plays of social and political significance.

University of Tennessee at Knoxville (on behalf of the Clarence Brown Theatre)
Knoxville, TN
$8,000
To support a touring production of As You Like It to five Appalachian townships in East Tennessee. The Clarence Brown Theatre's Appalachian Shakespeare Project will tour to rural, underserved audiences and provide a variety of outreach events for children and adults including youth theatre workshops, discussions and demonstrations.

Weston Playhouse Theatre
Weston, VT
$10,000
To support a touring production of John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men with outreach components to rural audiences in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont. All performances will be supplemented with outreach activities including printed study guides, director's talks, post-show discussions, and in-school workshops designed to provide opportunities to deepen public understanding of theater and the play.

Working Theatre Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,000
To support the Special Constituencies Initiative. The outreach program includes tours of a production to local union and labor organizations and a play-reading series of new works.

Z Space Studio (on behalf of Word for Word)
San Francisco, CA
$12,000
To support the expansion of Word for Word's educational outreach activities. The project includes additional performances, workshops and artist residencies.

Zachary Scott Theatre Center
Austin, TX
$13,000
To support the Project InterAct touring program. The program will tour a new play based on the life of Barbara Jordon to youth in grades one through six.

VISUAL ARTS

Arab Community Center for Economic & Social Services
Dearborn, MI
$15,000
To support a mentorship project to train young people in the art of photography. Using the city of Dearborn, MI as the backdrop, youth will document the contributions, lifestyle and livelihood of Arab Americans who began settling in the region in the late 19th century.

Art Resources Transfer, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the Distribution to Underserved Communities Program. This project offers for free books, museum catalogues, videos and other publications about contemporary art to libraries across the nation with a special emphasis on rural and inner-city libraries. Since its inception in 1990, the program has distributed more than 40,000 items to 1,800 libraries in 42 states. In 2001, distribution will expand to reach all 50 states. (Multistate)

Central City Hospitality House
San Francisco, CA
$7,000
To support expansion of services of the Community Arts Program for homeless and at-risk artists in the Tenderloin district, one of San Francisco's poorest neighborhoods. The project will include increased studio time, a weekly series of workshops and exhibition opportunities.

Chicago New Art Association
Chicago, IL
$25,000
To support a mentoring program to develop writers and critics for the visual arts in the Midwest to be published in the New Art Examiner, an independent visual arts magazine founded in Chicago in 1973. Promising young writers will be identified through a scouting process undertaken by the staff of the magazine who will work with artists, museums, galleries, schools and other nonprofit arts organizations from Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri and Wisconsin. (Multistate)

Clemson University
Clemson, SC
$39,000
To support a public art commission by artist Chris Drury for the South Carolina Botanical Gardens at Clemson University. The environmentally-based work and nine other existing sculptures will be documented by a video produced for broadcast on public television, a slide presentation with textual documentation and a Web site.

Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art (Consortium)
New York, NY
$17,000
To support expansion of an arts education program to provide pre-college studio arts courses for New York City high school students. Goals for the project include adding year-round programming, a portfolio preparation class, greater exposure to Cooper Union resources, and professional development opportunities.

Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Inc.
Wilmington, DE
$22,000
To support a series of community-based artists' residencies and publication of a documentary catalogue. The artists will collaborate with community groups to create work based on ideas and issues relevant to the participants' lives.

Galeria Studio 24
San Francisco, CA
$24,000
To support a commissioning project for digital murals in San Francisco's Mission District. The artists will be invited to explore issues related to the Digital Divide -- the cultural, economic, social and political implications of new information technologies.

Hyde Park Art Center
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support Partners in Art, an after-school educational program in the visual arts for at-risk youth carried out in collaboration with the Chicago Park District. The project will provide teenagers an opportunity to develop art skills with resident artists and to jointly teach and mentor younger children at park sites in the city.

Richmond Art Center (on behalf of the Quilt of Many Colors Project)
Richmond, CA
$8,000
To support the Quilt of Many Colors Project, a series of four curated exhibitions installed in the waiting room of Richmond's main public health facility. The project will promote the value of the arts in the healing process and provide access to art for approximately 30,000 users of the facility.

Salina Art Center, Inc.
Salina, KS
$17,000
To support two artists installations in a collaborative project between the Arts Center and the city of Salina's largest employer, Tony's Pizza Service. Artists Linda Herritt of Boulder, CO and Susan White of Kansas City, MO will create installations that evolve from objects and materials found in the everyday world in an attempt to connect the cultures of art, industry and community.

Sloss Furnace Association (Consortium)
Birmingham, AL
$21,000
To support apprenticeship opportunities for youth, building on Birmingham's industrial heritage as a foundry town. With consortium member Space One Eleven, artists Vaughn Randall and Bryan Warren will lead the residency program that will train youth in the design and creation of prototypes for products that combine cast iron and clay.

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