2001 Grant Awards: Education

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

Arts Education | Dance | Design | Folk & Traditional Arts | Literature
Local Arts Agencies | Media Arts | Multidisciplinary | Museums | Music
Musical Theater | Opera |Presenting | Theater | Visual Arts

Some details of the projects listed in this grant announcement are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

ARTS EDUCATION

American Composers Forum (Consortium)
St. Paul, MN
$100,000
To support the New Band Horizons program. This project will complete the four-year development of an interdisciplinary curricula based on original compositions by 15 leading American composers, representing a diverse range of musical traditions and styles, including jazz, ethnic, folk, theatrical and classical. (Multistate)

American String Teachers Association (Consortium)
Reston, VA
$80,000
To support expansion of the National String Project Consortium (NSPC) to five additional institutions of higher education. NSPC will help alleviate the shortage of public school string and orchestra teachers and increase the number of children who have access to playing stringed instruments. (Multistate)

Arts Horizons, Inc.
Englewood, NJ
$20,000
To support residencies and teacher/artist planning sessions, site visits and Web site access. This project is designed to strengthen the infrastructure of schools committed to making the arts basic to their curriculum by developing support systems for participating artists and teachers in two elementary schools in New York City.

Brown University (Consortium)
Providence, RI
$100,000
To support the Arts/Literacy Project. This project will provide year-round professional development programs for teachers and artists linking the performing arts and literacy skills.

Choral Arts Society of Washington
Washington, DC
$30,000
To support the artsACCESS program. This choral music educational initiative will focus on primary grades to assist schools in using music and the arts to teach across the curriculum.

Cleveland Foundation (on behalf of the Initiative for Cultural Arts in Education (ICARE))
Cleveland, OH
$45,000
To support the professional development component of the ICARE program. ICARE will design and market programs for educators within and outside the Cleveland School District with the goals of increasing attendance at professional development events and reaching students in northeast Ohio.

Cultural Council of Jackson Hole (on behalf of pARTners)
Jackson, WY
$15,000
To support the pARTners program. The program will advance the development and dissemination of exemplary demonstration projects that use the arts and project-based learning to meet academic standards at all grade levels in Teton County public schools.

Cultural Education Collaborative (Consortium)
Charlotte, NC
$90,000
To support a professional development collaborative. The collaborative will train teachers, artists and administrators to develop and implement innovative, arts-infused curricula; help emerging organizations develop training capacity; and provide continuous technical assistance to support sustainable program implementation.

Early Stages Program, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the Storytelling Program. Extended artists' residencies will be conducted in four public elementary schools of Queens, Brooklyn and the South Bronx enabling children to write and perform their own stories, build communication skills through theater, and study a range of folk literature.

El Puente de Williamsburg, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$15,000
To support the development and implementation of an integrated arts curriculum. Students in grades nine to 11 will investigate issues of wages, labor, global economy and fashion as they learn to use artistic expressions (dance, visual arts, theater and video) to communicate issues related to local and international sweatshops.

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. (on behalf of the Lincoln Center Institute)
New York, NY
$90,000
To support expansion of the Focus Schools Collaborative. Designed as a whole-school renewal and reform initiative, up to 12 collaborating schools will make a multiyear commitment to engage students, preK-12, in learning about and through the arts.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Museum Associates)
Los Angeles, CA
$30,000
To support the Teachers Academy. Supported and taught by local artists and educators, and using the museum's collections, the academy will provide two weeks of professional development training for local teachers using instructional strategies for incorporating the arts into history, social sciences and language arts curriculum.

Louisiana Alliance for Arts Education (Consortium)
Baton Rouge, LA
$70,000
To support the first phase of a long-term Arts Assessment Program. The assessment will measure K-12 students' knowledge of arts education and improve teaching and learning in the arts.

Manhattan Theatre Club, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support year-long pilot artist residencies and an evaluation. Residency activities will include in-depth study of three plays over the course of a season with a single teaching artist allowing for broader exploration and integration of other curricula based on the play's theme.

Northwest Folklife
Seattle, WA
$10,000
To support an assessment of the Folklife in the Schools project. Following the development of study guides, this assessment will advance the educational impact of the folklife program and help improve its effectiveness.

Ohio Alliance for Arts In Education (Consortium)
Columbus, OH
$100,000
To support arts assessment in Ohio's schools. In consortium with the Ohio Arts Council and Ohio Department of Education, the project will further refine, implement and publicize quality arts assessment, adding components for arts organizations, developing demonstration sites and linking arts assessment to student learning and curriculum planning.

Rhode Island Alliance for Arts in Education Arts Center (on behalf of the National Dance Education Organization)
Providence, RI
$20,000

To support a state master plan for dance education in Missouri. The National Dance Education Organization will provide technical assistance to Missouri to develop and implement a dance education needs survey, work through a six-phase process to build a three-year state master plan, and document and evaluate the project. (Multistate)

San Francisco Symphony
San Francisco, CA
$80,000
To support expansion of Adventures in Music (AIM). The project will conclude the final year of a three-year expansion to serve all 28,000 students in grades one through five in the San Francisco Schools.

Settlement Music School
Philadelphia, PA
$50,000
To support the Early Childhood Education Initiative. This project includes a preschool arts enrichment program and a teacher-training institute for the arts.

Shakespeare & Company
Lenox, MA
$70,000
To support the Shakespeare in Action residency program. Students and teachers in 15 to 20 high schools in Massachusetts and New York will participate in classroom and extracurricular sessions, rehearsals, master classes, student productions and professional development activities. (Multistate)

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Consortium)
Chapel Hill, NC
$90,000
To support expansion of the Curriculum, Music and Community Project. This project will assist teachers and musicians to use indigenous music as a vehicle for cross-curricular teaching in schools across North Carolina.

Urban Gateways: The Center for Arts in Education
Chicago, IL
$28,000
To support the Aesthetic Education Summer Institute. Expanded professional development will be provided for educators at schools participating in Urban Gateways' residencies.

Video Machete
Chicago, IL
$40,000
To support expansion of the in-school component of the Global Youth Project. Designed to address the experience of immigrant youth and their communities, this media education project will train teachers and students to integrate digital media production and theory into the sixth through 12th-grade social studies curriculum.

Whitney Museum of American Art
New York, NY
$45,000
To support Visualizing American Art and Culture. This professional development project will help K-12 teachers from all disciplines develop creative ways to integrate art into their curriculum and stimulate learning in their students. (Multistate)

Young Audiences of Greater Dallas, Inc. (Consortium)
Dallas, TX
$75,000
To support the on-line professional development component of the ArtsPartners program. The ArtsPartners Web site will serve as a virtual classroom, providing information, technical assistance and a forum for peer-to-peer exchange.

DANCE

Abhinaya Dance Company of San Jose, Inc.
San Jose, CA
$5,000
To support the expansion of the Bharatanatyam Training Project. This community-based arts education program will provide approximately 120 youths, ages six to 18, instruction in classical south Indian dance.

Alabama Ballet (State of Alabama Ballet, Inc.) (Consortium)
Birmingham, AL
$10,000
To support a project for Liz Lerman Dance Exchange to conduct three planning/residency visits. In collaboration with the Children's Dance Foundation, Alabama Ballet will engage Liz Lerman Dance Exchange to lead planning sessions, training sessions and outreach workshops with the staff, dancers and teaching artists of each organization.

Aman Folk Ensemble
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
To support creation of a new school performance and the development of curriculum materials. The program will include dance and music from Hungary, Greece, Mexico and central Asia and will be performed for schools in southern California.

Ballet Austin, Inc. (Consortium)
Austin, TX
$10,000
To support a project that will provide arts education workshops and performances for school children in Austin, TX and Nashville, TN. Arts Blitz 2002 will reach 8,000 at-risk K-2 school children. (Multistate)

Ballet Florida, Inc.
West Palm Beach, FL
$10,000
To support the continuation and expansion of City Dance Outreach. The dance/educational outreach program serves at-risk, underserved and minority children from inner-city elementary schools in West Palm Beach.

Ballet Idaho, Inc.
Boise, ID
$5,000
To support the Learning Through Dance Project. The project will expose students to dance, work with educators to incorporate methods of teaching dance, offer students the opportunity for accelerated learning, and increase understanding of dance.

Ballet Tech Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
To support professional ballet training and performance programs for New York City public school children. The purpose of the school is to identify and support gifted and dedicated students with free dance training.

Caribbean Dance Company of the Virgin Islands, Inc.
St. Croix, VI
$20,000
To support the third year of the Caribbean Dance Experience. The project will provide elementary school children with an in-depth experience in their own dance traditions.

Carver Development Board (Consortium)
San Antonio, TX
$20,000
To support a residency of Rennie Harris PureMovement. In partnership with Ile Bahia de San Antonio, The Carver will bring in Rennie Harris PureMovement for performances and workshops.

Dance Kaleidoscope, Inc.
Indianapolis, IN
$5,000
To support a multicultural, in-school educational program in rural areas in Indiana. The Community Investment Residency for the Arts will include a two-week residency by Dance Kaleidoscope and the development of new support materials.

Dance Theatre of Harlem, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
To support a comprehensive educational outreach program that introduces children and adults to dance. Dancing through Barriers will include presentation of master classes, assembly programs, lecture-demonstrations and residencies throughout the United States. (Multistate)

Dr. Schaffer & Mr. Stern Dance Ensemble (MoveSpeakSpin)
Santa Cruz, CA
$8,000
To support a concert and outreach activities that interweave dance and science. The company will perform The Bounds of Discovery and provide K-12 classroom activities in several states across the United States. (Multistate)

Florida Dance Association, Inc.
Miami, FL
$30,000
To support the 23rd Florida Dance Festival, a two-week event with master classes, workshops, seminars and other educational programs. The festival includes students, dancers, teachers, choreographers and others from across Florida, the United States and abroad.

Frequent Flyers Productions, Inc.
Boulder, CO
$5,000
To support the Aerial Dance Festival 2001. This festival offers classes, workshops, lecture demonstrations, video showings, lunch discussions and a culminating performance.

Friends of NORD (on behalf of the New Orleans Recreation Department/New Orleans Ballet Association)
New Orleans, LA $5,000
To support the 2000-01 Step Up Artist In Residence program. The program includes residencies with American Repertory Dance Company and Doug Varone and Company.

George Balanchine Foundation, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the continuing development of the computer application Mediatext. The George Balanchine Foundation, in partnership with MIT's Center for Educational Computing Initiatives, will create a computer application that combines video clips with images, audio and text to provide a resource on dance for scholars, researchers, students and dancers. (Multistate)

Miami City Ballet, Inc.
Miami Beach, FL
$40,000
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 200 economically disadvantaged inner-city students.

National Dance Institute of New Mexico
Santa Fe, NM
$10,000
To support a residency dance program in rural areas of New Mexico. The Rural Initiative will serve 1,440 third through sixth grade children and 19,000 audience members in Abiquiu, Chimayo, Coyote, Pojoaque, Santa Clara Pueblo, Tesuque, Alamo, Dulce, Jemez, Magdalena, Silver City and Socorro.

National Dance Institute, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the development of a two-week teacher training workshop and accompanying teacher manual. Seventy-five dance teachers and professional dancers will participate in the program.

Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre
Pittsburgh, PA
$20,000
To support the continuation and expansion of educational programming. The educational activities will range from classroom presentations and school matinee performances to creative movement residencies.

Southern Danceworks
Birmingham, AL
$5,000
To support the touring of a lecture-demonstration program in seven communities throughout Alabama. Dance and Music, A Beautiful Harmony will tour to 14 schools and reach 9,000 middle and high school students in low-income communities.

University of Montana (on behalf of The Montana Transport Company)
Missoula, MT
$5,000
To support touring of the dance performance Moving Words. This piece will be presented to K-6 students throughout Montana and Idaho. (Multistate)

University of Southern Mississippi
Hattiesburg, MS
$10,000
To support a collaboration of two campuses of the University of Southern Mississippi, local school districts and the National Dance Institute for a four-week residency program. The project will provide dance instruction for 100 underserved middle school children, and an in-service seminar for 35 teachers on process pedagogy.

DESIGN

Chicago Architecture Foundation (Consortium)
Chicago, IL
$24,000
To support the Newhouse Architecture Competition, a consortium project with Chicago Public Schools that provides educational opportunities for high school students interested in design. Selected students will receive paid summer internships at architecture firms and architecture workshop scholarships.

Harlem Textile Works, Ltd.
New York, NY
$24,000
To support Design as Enterprise, a workshop training program for underserved youth in Harlem. Design as Enterprise will provide 40 young people, ages 14-24, with design training and job skills.

William Marsh Rice University
Houston, TX
$15,000
To support the publication of Cite, a quarterly review of architecture, urban planning and design. The Rice Design Alliance is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the advancement of architecture, urban design and the built environment through educational programs.

FOLK & TRADITIONAL ARTS

Association for the Advancement of Filipino American Arts & Culture
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
To support a needs assessment and folk artists network. The needs assessment would be used to develop artistic and educational programs for youth and adults and the artists network would lead to developing a core of over 300 Filipino American artists who might serve as faculty, administrators and students.

Center for World Music
La Mesa, CA
$10,000
To support the World Music in the Schools' Tier I Program. This program is designed to deliver authentic world music performance and curriculum to children grades K-6 through school and community center artistic residencies.

City of San Fernando (Consortium)
San Fernando, CA
$20,000
To support the Mariachi Master-Apprentice Program. The proposed project will bring together world class mariachi musician masters and talented youth ages 11-19 who want to advance their skills as mariachi musicians.

CITYFOLK
Dayton, OH
$15,000
To support an Education Initiative. The proposed project is designed to build a more educated audience for the folk and traditional arts in greater Dayton through concerts, educational outreach and CITYFOLK's annual folk festival.

Fresno Arts Council
Fresno, CA
$60,000
To support the Alliance for California Traditional Arts' state traditional arts apprenticeship program and related costs. This project will support 40 master-apprenticeship pairs and will enhance Web site outreach.

Kalihi-Palama Culture & Arts Society, Inc.
Honolulu, HI
$5,000
To support a series of training classes in traditional art forms. Classes include Hawaiian, Tahitian, Okinawan, Filipino and Samoan dance; Samoan music and crafts; and lei making.

New York Folklore Society (Consortium)
Schenectady, NY
$10,000
To support the creation of social studies curriculum for fourth and seventh graders. The consortium project, in collaboration with the Questar III Board of Cooperative Education Services, will consist of loose-leaf guides for teaching folklore with an integrated lesson plan and a CD of recorded folk arts documentaries.

New York Folklore Society
Schenectady, NY
$15,000
To support the Mentoring and Professional Development Program for Folklife and the Traditional Arts. The program provides assistance to folk artists in New York State through consultancies and professional exchange that will serve as a national model for technical assistance.

Purple Silk Music Education Foundation, Inc.
Oakland, CA
$20,000
To support the establishment of a Chinese instrument youth orchestra. Youth in grades six to 12 will receive instruction in strumming, bowing, wind and percussion.

World Arts West
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
To support People Like Me. People Like Me offers K-6 grade students the opportunity to experience and learn about the immense variety of dance that is rooted in the Bay area's multicultural population.

LITERATURE

Cave Canem Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support writing retreats targeting emerging African American poets. Cave Canem will convene two week-long retreats in summer 2001 and winter 2002.

InsideOut, Inc.
Detroit, MI
$10,000
To support year-long writers' residencies in Detroit inner-city public schools. InsideOut will place writers in 20 schools, reaching an estimated audience of 2,000 students in grades three through 12.

Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance
Brunswick, ME
$10,000
To support creative writing workshops for children and adults throughout Maine, reaching remote rural areas in Aroostook, Hancock, Washington and Franklin counties. The project also will serve statewide communities through readings and publications for and about Maine writers.

Milkweed Editions
Minneapolis, MN
$20,000
To support Stories From Where We Live, a book series and Web initiative to foster ecological literacy and reading and writing skills among children in grades four through seven. (Multistate)

New School University (on behalf of the New School Adult Division)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the Writing Lives Conference, a three-day event in autumn 2001. The conference will bring together biographers, novelists, poets, memoirists, anthropologists, literary scholars and documentary filmmakers to explore the craft of recording and dramatizing individual experiences.

PEN American Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
To support Readers & Writers, a community development project that brings authors and their books to a variety of educational settings around the country. PEN also will expand its Book Group Initiative, a program in New York designed to create discussion groups in community libraries, religious institutions, private homes and workplaces. (Multistate)

PEN Center USA West
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
To support Write Through Life, a project consisting of writers' residencies in Los Angeles high schools, mentorships for emerging writers from underserved and minority communities, and seminars on practical topics for professional writers in Arizona, Montana, California and Illinois. PEN West also will launch PEN Inc., a program of creative writing workshops for adults in the workplace. (Multistate)

Richard Hugo House
Seattle, WA
$20,000
To support Writing for a Lifetime, a multifaceted program of creative writing and teacher training workshops. After-school, evening, and weekend classes will target at-risk youth, prison inmates, and working members of the Seattle community.

Seattle Arts & Lectures
Seattle, WA
$25,000
To support Writers in the Schools, an educational project targeting 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.

Teachers & Writers Collaborative
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the expansion of WriteNet, an Internet initiative to provide writers, students, teachers and parents around the country with access to literary arts education materials. The Web site will feature professional development services for writers and teachers, and a series of on-line writing workshops. (Multistate)

Writers & Books, Inc.
Rochester, NY
$20,000
To support the expansion of Learning for a Lifetime, a series of educational and outreach programs for more than 4,500 community members. Writers & Books will train writers to lead writing workshops, introduce on-line writing courses and promote its programs to a wider audience.

LOCAL ARTS AGENCIES

Northern Indiana Arts Association
Munster, IN
$15,000
To support art programming and related promotional activities at Substation No. 9. A variety of art class structures and marketing methods will be used at this arts center, a former public utility substation, to ensure the participation of northwest Indiana and neighboring suburban Chicago residents.

Rock Hill Arts Council
Rock Hill, SC
$15,000
To support the Revival Design Camp Meeting. Held in Rock Hill, this event provides cross-training of craft artists, designers, environmentalists, architects and engineers who contribute to the creation of prototypes for home furnishings made of recycled materials.

United Arts Council of Calhoun County
Battle Creek, MI
$60,000
To support Art City. Through this project that serves 30,000 students annually, arts organizations, area educators and community residents will create a county-wide campus approach to bring the arts into classrooms, after-school venues and youth facilities.

MEDIA ARTS

Boston Film/Video Foundation, Inc.
Boston, MA
$25,000
To support a comprehensive media arts education program. Open to the public, this initiative is designed to encourage personal vision, assist in skill development, and foster relationships meant to strengthen and advance the production of film and video art works.

Camera News, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support a digital media literacy and production education program. This includes the 24th year of the Advanced Film and Video Production Workshop, the Wednesday Night Media Workshops, and the Introduction to Final Cut Pro/Media Literacy Workshop Series.

Community Film Workshop of Chicago
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support digital media and media literacy training for media artists and teachers. Training will consist of digital still imaging, digital motion imaging, digital non-linear editing, media literacy for educators, and workshops for artists working with schools.

Community Television Network
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support the Media Arts for Youth project. This includes video production workshops, the youth-produced television program Hard Cover, and professional arts career training.

Downtown Community Television Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the CyberStudio and Video Training Workshops Program. Downtown Community Television is devoted to making technologically sophisticated media available to underserved communities by providing a range of courses.

Frameline
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support the conference Persistent Vision. A series of panel discussions, round tables, keynote addresses and public engagements will discuss issues surrounding the past, present and future of lesbian and gay film.

Independent Feature Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support a comprehensive media arts education program. The Independent Feature Project provides its constituents with seminars, workshops, demonstrations, mentoring, networking opportunities and consultancies.

Independent Feature Project/West
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
To support a series of workshops designed to foster the development of the filmmaker's craft and to advance the production and distribution of independent films. Approximately 3,000 people will attend the various classes.

Jack Straw Foundation (Consortium)
Seattle, WA
$10,000
To support the Blind Youth Audio Project. The series of workshops introduces visually impaired young people to the creative possibilities and latest techniques of audio production while they design their own radio program.

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

L.A. Freewaves
Los Angeles, CA
$5,000
To support Open Studio Los Angeles. This series of panel discussions will focus on the state of media arts in the Los Angeles region and is a collaborative project with Visual Communications and OnRamp.

National Audio Theatre Festivals
Hempstead, NY
$10,000
To support the annual Audio Theatre Workshop. The series of classes train audio artists from across the country in script writing, performance for radio and technical skills to produce innovative live radio drama.

Partnership for Media Education
Austin, TX
$10,000
To support Unleashing Creativity, the third national media education conference. To be held in Austin in June 2001, over 500 educators and artists are expected to attend.

Scribe Video Center, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$35,000
To support two components of Scribe's educational activities. The first is an intergenerational video oral history project and the second is the continuation of Scribe's Master Class series.

Youth Radio
Berkeley, CA
$25,000
To support Youth Radio's National Network. This project brings together teen reporters, producers and stations from around the United States to produce high quality broadcasts by youth for local, national, public, commercial and interactive outlets. (Multistate)

MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Community School of the Arts
Charlotte, NC
$10,000
To support access to preschool arts education. The project will provide six preschool centers, serving up to 90 children, access to three early arts programs: the Preschool Arts Lab, Orff Music and the Early Arts Summer Camp.

Cuyahoga Valley Environmental Education Center
Peninsula, OH
$30,000
To support an artists-in-residence program. Twelve artists in various disciplines will be engaged to create models for interacting with students and integrating the arts into curricular activities.

Danceworks, Inc.
Milwaukee, WI
$15,000
To support the 50-Plus Initiative, a dance and creative arts program for older adults. Workshops, classes, residencies and performances will be adapted for high-functioning older adults, low functioning and frail elderly, and for those with physical and cognitive disabilities, including Alzheimer's disease.

Elders Share the Arts (Consortium)
Brooklyn, NY
$25,000
To support the Center for Creative Aging, a national arts-in-aging training program. Level 2, a new series of full-day, intensive arts instruction, will be piloted at current locations and expanded to additional cities in 2002. (Multistate)

Frederick Douglass Creative Arts Center
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the development of professional writers in all genres. The three-part project will feature writing workshops, a reading series of original plays for stage and screen, and the 29th annual Black Roots Festival of Poetry, Prose, Drama and Music.

Friends of Teen Arts, Inc.
Lambertville, NJ
$15,000
To support the annual New Jersey Teen Arts Festival. The two-day statewide event for middle and high school teenagers will include student performances and exhibitions in the creative, fine and performing arts as well as critiques, workshops and master classes with professional artists.

Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning
Jamaica, NY
$8,000
To support the Community Workshop Series. Workshops in the visual arts, drama, dance, music, writing and art and technology will be offered to children and adults in two 14-week sessions.

Maine Arts Commission (Consortium)
Augusta, ME
$30,000
To support phase two of Connecting Maine Artists. This professional development program for artists offers a full year of workshops, conferences and artist gatherings.

Manchester Craftsmen's Guild
Pittsburgh, PA
$60,000
To support the Youth Development program. This two-part arts learning initiative for Pittsburgh high schools will include Arts Collaborative, which places visual and multimedia artists of national and international stature into the classroom; and Arts Leadership in Public Service, which links young people to their communities through public service.

Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum
Chicago, IL
$40,000
To support Youth Initiatives, an arts education and career training program for at-risk youth. The two-pronged project will feature Yollocalli Youth Museum and Radio Arte for the Pilsen/Little Village communities of Chicago.

Multicultural Music Group, Inc.
Yonkers, NY
$25,000
To support The Comprehensive Arts Program. The three-part program will include an Integrated Arts component, an Arts Awareness component and performance-based instruction.

New Orleans Center for Creative Arts Institute
New Orleans, LA
$30,000
To support the Artists-in-Residence Program. This initiative will sponsor master classes and workshops lead by regionally and nationally acclaimed artists.

Newark Community School of the Arts
Newark, NJ
$15,000
To support the Intensive Study Program. The project will expand educational and performance activities for students who demonstrate exceptional talent or strong interest and motivation in developing skills in music, dance and theater.

Oakland Asian Cultural Center (Consortium)
Oakland, CA
$20,000
To support the Asian and Pacific Islander Youth Promoting Advocacy and Leadership Arts Education Program. This project uses shadow puppet theater, mural painting, drama and poetry to teach organizing, advocacy and leadership skills to central and east Oakland youth.

Opera Piccola
Oakland, CA
$20,000
To support ArtGate, a themed residency program, in six Oakland public schools. The multiarts programming is specifically tailored for each student level, from elementary through middle to high school.

Out North (Organization for Northern Development)
Anchorage, AK
$20,000
To support Images of Youth, artist residencies for underserved adolescents. The two-year project will develop the creative abilities and critical thinking skills of young Alaskans ages 12 to 18 through the integration of writing, performance and media arts.

Plaza de la Raza, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$18,000
To support the School of Performing and Visual Arts Program. This artist residency project will offer weekly workshops and master classes in theater, visual arts, music and dance.

Quest: arts for everyone, Inc.
Lanham, MD
$12,000
To support a thematic after-school arts program for students. Two six-week units of acting, dance, music and visual arts will be integrated for presentation within a cultural or historic theme.

Research Foundation of SUNY/Purchase College (on behalf of the Performing Arts Center)
Albany, NY
$25,000
To support the development and implementation of a multidisciplinary performing arts project for youth and adult audiences. This initiative will focus on African, Hispanic and Asian cultures linking ancient and modern traditions through world music and dance. (Multistate)

Research Foundation of the City University of New York (on behalf of the College of Staten Island)
New York, NY
$5,000
To support a public lecture series by artists involved in creating long-term projects at the Fresh Kills Staten Island Landfill. The presentations will be broadcast live on WSIA FM Radio. (Multistate)

Sierra Arts Foundation (on behalf of Youth ArtWorks)
Reno, NV
$20,000
To support a project that will provide employment in the arts for youth ages four to 21. Through apprenticeships in landscape design, the literary arts, printmaking, dance and mural painting, Youth ArtWorks will educate, mentor and train youth in artistic skills that will expand career opportunities.

The Kitchen (Haleakala, Inc.)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support The Sidney Kahn Summer Institute. Students and young professionals in the performing and media arts will receive intensive training in the design and development of multimedia work.

Village of Arts and Humanities, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$45,000
To support Education through the Arts. This program, serving low-income African American youth in North Philadelphia, comprises four interconnected parts: core leadership, open workshops, theater and outreach.

MUSEUMS

Chinati Foundation
Marfa, TX
$10,000
To support a two-day symposium, Light in Architecture and Art: The Work of Dan Flavin, with an accompanying publication. The symposium will coincide with the installation of a large-scale, permanent work by Flavin, specifically created for the collection.

Contemporary Arts Museum (Contemporary Arts Association of Houston)
Houston, TX
$45,000
To support the Teen Council program. The Teen Council provides area youth direct access to artists and all aspects of museum operations.

Cornell University (on behalf of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art)
Ithaca, NY
$25,000
To support a project for area schools called Objects and Their Makers: New Insights. This multidisciplinary teacher institute on the arts of Japan will examine Japanese culture through the arts.

Emory University (on behalf of the Michael C. Carlos Museum)
Atlanta, GA
$35,000
To support educational programming and interpretive materials related to the installation of the museum's recently acquired collection of ancient Egyptian and Near Eastern art. The new installation will introduce the community to important Egyptian and Near Eastern works and offer an enriched perspective on these ancient cultures.

Florida International University (on behalf of the Art Museum)
Miami, FL
$8,000
To support a professional development workshop for Miami-Dade County Public School art teachers. The free workshop will explore the touring exhibition, Face of the Gods: Art and Altars of Africa and the African Americas.

Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Santa Fe, NM
$20,000
To support the O'Keeffe Museum's Art and Leadership Program for Girls. The program is designed to foster leadership, self-expression and independent thinking in adolescent girls through interaction with artists.

Institute of Contemporary Art (Consortium)
Boston, MA
$25,000
To support an Artist-in-Residence program. Working with Boston's National Historical Park and the Boston Arts Academy, the Institute of Contemporary Art will partner students and artists to create temporary public artworks.

Montana Art Gallery Directors Association
Great Falls, MT
$8,000
To support part of the exhibition touring program. Funds will also support the Association's annual professional training conference for museum professionals in the state.

Montclair Art Museum
Montclair, NJ
$30,000
To support the expansion of Art Comprehension and Creation for Every School Student (ACCESS). Funds will support this curriculum-based initiative designed to introduce inner-city grade school students to the visual arts.

National Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Center
Oklahoma City, OK
$10,000
To support education programs for museum members and staff. Programming includes various activities revolving around the Prix de West Invitational exhibition, children's art camps, the Academy of Western Art and Art of the American West, four of the museum's major initiatives.

Palo Alto Art Center Foundation
Palo Alto, CA
$30,000
To support two community outreach programs. Funds will expand Cultural Kaleidoscope, an artist residency program, and the Teen Mentorship Program, which will train teenagers as mentors/interns for art and technology classes at the Art Center.

University of California at Riverside (on behalf of the California Museum of Photography)
Riverside, CA
$23,000
To support Digital Discoveries, a training program in professional digital photography, Web design and digital video production. Workshop participants will draw from the museum's collection to create Web sites and digital videos on media literacy, the history of photography and contemporary photographic practice.

University of Rochester (on behalf of the Memorial Art Gallery) (Consortium)
Rochester, NY
$40,000
To support the development of a new component of Odyssey Online, the Gallery's interactive Web site. Designed for high school world history students, this site will serve as a resource for the advanced study of ancient Near Eastern, Egyptian, Greek and Roman cultures. (Multistate)

Washington Pavilion Management, Inc.
Sioux Falls, SD
$20,000
To support Pride in Place, a celebration of Midwestern life. Accompanying exhibitions and education programs are planned to increase audience participation at the Center, make quality art instruction available to students, and boost community pride.

MUSIC

American Symphony Orchestra League (Consortium)
New York, NY
$50,000
To support the National Youth Orchestra Festival. Young musicians from five youth orchestras will participate in a week of rehearsals and performances under the direction of renowned conductors and professional orchestras. (Multistate)

Boise Philharmonic Association, Inc.
Boise, ID
$5,000
To support the presentation of youth concerts and in-school visits in elementary schools throughout southwestern Idaho. The Boise Philharmonic will provide fourth and fifth grade students the opportunity to experience orchestral music.

Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Boston, MA
$75,000
To support the Composer-in-Residence Program. Between five and eight composers will participate in rehearsals, dialogues with audiences, composition classes and master classes.

Boston University (on behalf of Boston University Tanglewood Institute)
Boston, MA
$10,000
To support artists-in-residence for the Young Artist Orchestra Program. The Boston University Tanglewood Institute will continue to expand its roster of faculty artists to provide intensive coaching for the Chamber Music component of the Young Artist Orchestra Program.

Brevard Music Center, Inc.
Brevard, NC
$7,500
To support the Master Teacher Residency Program. Internationally renowned guest artists will give master classes and performances at the Center.

California Summer Music, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$7,500
To support the Composition Program for student composers. Up to ten student composers will create, rehearse and record their original work; receive private lessons; attend group seminars, master classes and lecture-demonstrations with a resident composer; and use private time for composing music.

Canton Symphony Orchestra Association
Canton, OH
$15,000
To support Think Music!, an educational project for elementary school students. This project will explore how the brain processes and reacts to music through lecture/ demonstrations, performances, classroom visits and concert curriculum.

Cedar Rapids Symphony Orchestra Association, Inc.
Cedar Rapids, IA
$7,500
To support the expansion of a music education program in area colleges and outreach programs for underserved communities. The symphony will increase the number of concerts at two area colleges, provide weekday concerts during its residency in Iowa City, and hold early childhood music sessions at Kirkwood Community College.

Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Cincinnati, OH
$42,000
To support Sound Discoveries, a comprehensive educational and outreach program. The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra will provide this three-part program to schools and communities in the Cincinnati metropolitan area.

Columbus Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Columbus, OH
$20,000
To support the Elementary School Young People's Concerts and the accompanying SEATS (Symphony Education and Audience Training the Schools) curriculum booklets. The symphony musicians will perform full orchestral concerts as well as ensemble programs and educational activities for central Ohio's schoolchildren.

Detroit Chamber Winds
Southfield, MI
$5,000
To support educational programs and a summer music institute. The chamber ensemble will perform residency activities in Southfield schools and offer intensive ensemble coaching for advanced chamber ensembles through the Catherine Filene Shouse Chamber Music Institute.

Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Detroit, MI
$50,000
To support the Summer Institute. This two-week intensive day camp will include coaching and instruction by the symphony musicians and music faculty from Oakland University in Rochester, MI.

Fargo-Moorhead Orchestral Association
Fargo, ND
$7,500
To support the Educational Series Concerts. This project will include daytime Pizza Pop concerts for high school students and their families and young people's concerts for the whole community. (Multistate)

Flynn Theatre for the Performing Arts, Ltd. (on behalf of the Discover Jazz Festival)
Burlington, VT
$7,500
To support artist residencies and performances at the Discover Jazz Festival. Educational activities will include a jazz scholar in residence, pre-performance lectures and dialogues with the performing artists.

Friends of the Arts
Locust Valley, NY
$5,000
To support Jazz Sampler. This education project, with sequential instruction materials for the K-6 curriculum, is designed to bring jazz to two underserved elementary schools in the Roosevelt, NY School District.

Friends of the D.C. Youth Orchestra Program, Inc.
Washington, DC
$5,000
To support orchestral instruction and presentation of concerts by the D.C. Youth Orchestra. The concerts will be held in the Lincoln Theatre, a major historic landmark in the city's performing arts history.

Glen Ellyn Children's Chorus
Glen Ellyn, IL
$7,500
To support outreach programs of the Glen Ellyn Children's Chorus. These programs will include the Honors Chorus Workshop and Festival, and Weekly Outreach classes for students in K-5 grades.

Grand Canyon Music Festival
Grand Canyon, AZ
$7,500
To support a composer residency with Brent Michael Davids in rural Native American schools in northern Arizona. The resulting new works by students will be performed and toured to nine schools by the Miro String Quartet.

Grand Rapids Symphony Society
Grand Rapids, MI
$15,000
To support an artists-in-residence program in the schools. The symphony's musicians will provide in-school musical performances for elementary school children in the greater Grand Rapids area.

Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras, Inc.
Boston, MA
$22,500
To support the Intensive Community Program. This project will provide string training for children in underserved communities of greater Boston.

Haddonfield Symphony Society
Haddonfield, NJ
$5,000
To support the commission of a work by Carter Pann, winner of the Haddonfield Symphony's Young Composer's Competition in 2000. The new work will be performed at four concerts for young people at the South Jersey Performing Arts Center on the Waterfront in Camden.

Hartford Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Hartford, CT
$5,000
To support Symphony in the Schools. Members of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra will be involved in performance and educational programs for schools in Hartford, East Hartford and Bloomfield.

Institute of Puerto Rican Culture (on behalf of the Puerto Rican Conservatory of Music)
San Juan, PR
$5,000
To support the Visiting Professor Program at the Puerto Rican Conservatory of Music. Jazz pianist and composer Danilo Perez will visit the conservatory four times in one year, conducting master classes, performances and lectures.

Jazz at Lincoln Center, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$50,000
To support the Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition and Festival. Duke Ellington's musical legacy will be taught in schools across the country through the use of study, performance, and free distribution of his repertoire, providing thousands of students the opportunity to perform Elllington's music. (Multistate)

Jazzmobile, Inc.
New York, NY
$22,500
To support the Saturday Jazz Workshop Program. This project will provide weekly music training courses for 400 inner-city students.

Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra
Kalamazoo, MI
$10,000
To support the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra's education and outreach program. This comprehensive, community-based program will provide educational enrichment for all ages.

Kent State University Main Campus
Kent, OH
$5,000
To support a mentorship program at the Blossom Music Festival. This project will place up to 25 nationally recognized professional artists, including members of the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra, in six weeks of instruction and rehearsal sessions for 44 young and emerging musicians.

Lark Society for Chamber Music
Portland, ME
$7,500
To support a high school residency by the Portland String Quartet. The residency will feature lecture/demonstrations that integrate the study of history, literature and music.

Litchfield Performing Arts, Inc. (Consortium)
Litchfield, CT
$10,000
To support the Connecticut Jazz Spectacular. This program of master classes and a festival for school bands from across Connecticut will present a roster of professional jazz musicians in educational activities and in performances for the final concert of the festival.

Longy School of Music
Cambridge, MA
$20,000
To support SCORE (Scholarship and Community Outreach: Reaching Excellence). Through SCORE, the School will provide access to quality music education for families of public school children, ages eight to 18.

Manhattan School of Music
New York, NY
$10,000
To support an expansion of the Summer Music Camp. The Manhattan School of Music will conduct a tuition-free music camp for New York City school children in grades five through eight.

Manna House Workshops, Inc.
New York, NY
$7,500
To support SummerTAM, a music education program for young students. Manna House Workshops will offer an eight-week program to inner-city children, ages seven to 16.

Marlboro School of Music, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$25,000
To support the Invited Master Artist Project. This multifaceted summer project will provide young musicians with enhanced experiences and study with master concert artists.

MERIT Music Program, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$25,000
To support the Preparatory Program. This project will provide music instruction to talented inner city students of Chicago.

Midori & Friends
New York, NY
$7,500
To support the Instrument Instruction Program for inner-city school children in New York City. Midori & Friends will expand this program to include eight schools and will teach choral singing in three schools.

Moab Music Festival
Moab, UT
$5,000
To support the Educational Outreach Program. Moab Music Festival will provide music education to students in the Grand County School District.

Music Educators National Conference
Reston, VA
$10,000
To support the World's Largest Concert. This annual sing-along, play-along event involves the PBS broadcast participation of more than eight million elementary and secondary schoolchildren as the centerpiece of Music In Our Schools Month, a national school-based awareness campaign held each March. (Multistate)

New School University (on behalf of New School Concerts)
New York, NY
$5,000
To support the New York String Orchestra Seminar. This intensive music education project for young musicians will host 60 musicians between the ages of 15 to 22 for ten days of orchestra rehearsals with violinist and conductor Jaime Laredo, and culminate in performances at Carnegie Hall.

New World Symphony, Inc.
Miami Beach, FL
$25,000
To support the Musician Development Program. Up to 86 New World Symphony musicians will receive training in career development, audience development, leadership and musical technique to better serve the South Florida community.

North Carolina Symphony Society, Inc.
Raleigh, NC
$50,000
To support an in-school educational concert program and workshop for elementary school music teachers from communities throughout the state. All 65 full-time musicians of the North Carolina Symphony will travel more than 18,000 miles to perform 55 to 65 educational concerts.

Philadelphia Orchestra Association (Consortium)
Philadelphia, PA
$50,000
To support the Music Education Partnership. Philadelphia Orchestra and the Settlement Music School will partner in this music education project for 55 Philadelphia public elementary schools.

Philomel Concerts, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$5,000
To support the education outreach program. The early music chamber ensemble will provide in school programs for public schools, youth concerts for children and their parents, and informal family concerts.

Pittsburgh Chamber Music Society, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
$5,000
To support the Presenter-Community Residency program. Opus One, the project's ensemble-in residence, will provide chamber music coaching to students in the Pittsburgh School District, training for area music teachers and graduate students, and performances for underserved audiences.

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

Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Inc.
Rochester, NY
$25,000
To support the expansion of the Tiny Tots music education program. The Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra will increase the number of concerts in this program for inner-city children, ages two through six.

San Antonio Symphony (Symphony Society of San Antonio)
San Antonio, TX
$15,000
To support a residency at St. Philip's College. The Symphony Society of San Antonio will conduct master classes, open rehearsals, lectures and concerts for primary and secondary school children.

San Francisco Chanticleer, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support the expansion of the music education program Singing-in-the-Schools. Chanticleer will add a school residency program, youth ensembles and a youth chorus festival for students in eight Bay Area schools.

San Francisco Girls Chorus, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$7,500
To support the Music Education and Outreach Program. This project will provide a graduated curriculum for young singers in the beginning level training choruses.

San Francisco Symphony (on behalf of the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra)
San Francisco, CA
$75,000
To support the artistic development project. Musicians of this pre-professional orchestra will participate in music training and career development programs.

San Jose Symphony
San Jose, CA
$5,000
To support the Music Mentorships program. Musicians of the San Jose Symphony will mentor students in three elementary schools located in San Jose's underserved neighborhoods.

Seattle Symphony Orchestra (Consortium)
Seattle, WA
$50,000
To support ALIVE: A Community Gateway to Music Advancement. The Seattle Symphony Orchestra will provide a music education program to people of all ages through the Seattle Symphony Learning Center.

Sioux City Symphony Association (Consortium)
Sioux City, IA
$7,500
To support the Tri-State String Initiative, an educational partnership program between the Sioux City Symphony Orchestra Association, Morningside College and the Sioux City Public Schools. The goal of this initiative will be to revive string instruction in Iowa, Nebraska and South Dakota. (Multistate)

Society of the Third Street Music School Settlement, Inc.
New York, NY
$7,500
To support the Chamber Music Program. Ensemble training, weekly coaching and performance opportunities will enhance the pre-professional training of students enrolled in the school's instrumental classes.

Southwest Chamber Music Society
Pasadena, CA
$15,000
To support Project MUSE and Open Rehearsal: Breaking the Code. These two educational programs will engage students at six schools in the Pasadena and Los Angeles Unified School Districts.

Springfield Symphony Orchestra
Springfield, MA
$7,500
To support the Western Massachusetts Youth Orchestras. This educational outreach project will feature a professional musician as artist-in-residence with two youth orchestras.

St. Cecilia Music Society
Grand Rapids, MI
$7,000
To support a music education program for all ages. The St. Cecilia Music Society will provide a comprehensive program of classes, choirs, orchestral training, music clubs, in-school programming and performances for the residents of western Michigan.

Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz (Consortium)
Washington, DC
$50,000
To support Jazz Sports, a national music instruction and performance project. The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, with its consortium member, the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts Foundation, will host professional jazz musicians in Los Angeles and Washington, DC schools as teachers and mentors of young music students. (Multistate)

Utah Symphony Society
Salt Lake City, UT
$20,000
To support Passport to the World of Music. This curriculum-based student program will feature in-school concerts, public young people's concerts, a family music fair, and Lollipops concerts for the very young.

MUSICAL THEATER

North Shore Community Arts Foundation, Inc.
Beverly, MA
$20,000
To support a two-part educational program for Massachusetts elementary schools. Based on the newly commissioned musical Friendship of the Sea, the program will combine in-school workshops with performances by a touring acting company.

Performance Community
Chicago, IL
$15,000
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.

Stage Directors and Choreographers Workshop Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support a symposium for directors and designers titled A New Era: Inventing the 21st Century Musical. The four-day symposium of seminars, roundtables, workshops and presentations will explore the creation, current state and the future of new musicals.

OPERA

Knoxville Opera Company
Knoxville, TN
$7,500
To support interactive educational programs for elementary and middle schools. Two new programs, Opera Antics for elementary students and Hello Operator for middle school students, will encompass 36 performances in 24 schools reaching an estimated 5,000 students in 2001 02.

Lake George Opera Festival Association, Inc.
Saratoga Springs, NY
$7,500
To support the Opera Festival Apprentice Program. In the 2001 summer, apprentice artists will receive master class coaching, sing supporting roles, cover primary roles, and perform as chorus members in the company's mainstage summer season.

Los Angeles Opera Company
Los Angeles, CA
$75,000
To support the Educational Continuum, a series of programs which provide sequential arts education activities for students in grades K-12. Programs for 2001-02 will include the Elementary and Secondary In-School Opera, the Student Matinee and Opera for Educators.

Lyric Opera Center for American Artists
Chicago, IL
$17,000
To support faculty costs related to the training and professional development program. The multidisciplinary curriculum comprises language, theatrical training, and voice instruction, master classes and career development guidance.

New Cleveland Opera Company
Cleveland, OH
$25,000
To support Cleveland Opera on Tour, a cross-curricular and intergenerational education initiative. In 2001-02 training and professional development for educators and artists and evaluation and measurement processes will be expanded.

Opera Orchestra of New York, Inc.
New York, NY
$7,500
To support the Young Artists Professional Development Program. The program offers comprehensive individual instruction and ensemble training and teaches work habits and technical skills that are required for an operatic career.

Opera Theatre of Saint Louis (Consortium)
St. Louis, MO
$25,000
To support an artist-in-training program for high school students. In 2001-02 students who have little access to vocal coaching will receive a full year of training with emphasis on academic achievement at area universities.

Pittsburgh Opera, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
$12,500
To support educational programs for students and educators and for the Pittsburgh Opera Center, a professional training program for young singers. In 2001-02 these programs will bring opera to a wide constituency in urban, suburban and rural areas of southwestern Pennsylvania.

PRESENTING

Alberta Bair Theater for the Performing Arts
Billings, MT
$6,000
To support the Arts in Education program. This project will feature performances for K-12 local, rural and tribal students and low-income, at-risk youth as well as professional development for teachers.

San Francisco Performances, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
To support long-term artist residencies and community education activities for audiences of all ages in school and community settings. World class artists will participate in lectures/demonstrations, workshops, instrument instruction, pre- and post-concert discussions, in-service programs for teachers, and family matinee performances.

Seattle International Children's Festival
Seattle, WA
$25,000
To support expansion of educational outreach programs. The Children's Festival will increase the number of educational activities in schools, and the number of programs for the general public and its satellite festival sites throughout Washington State.

Tennessee Performing Arts Center
Nashville, TN
$10,000
To support the ArtSmart and Humanities Outreach in Tennessee programs. A part of the Center's Season for Young People, these activities provide quality arts education experiences that broaden understanding and appreciation of the arts and humanities while building audiences for the arts.

THEATER

52nd Street Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$28,000
To support The Playmaking Program. The two-year project will feature playwriting classes for young people.

A Contemporary Theatre, Inc.
Seattle, WA
$12,000
To support the Young Playwrights Festival workshop and competition for students of Seattle public high schools. The festival gives students the opportunity to meet and work closely with top theater professionals to develop their own plays and provides a public spotlight for their work as young artists.

Adaptors, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
To support planning, curriculum design and production of a pilot tape for a series of educational videos documenting the Margolis Method, a physical acting pedagogy. Entitled Sculpting a Universal Theater: an Introduction to Margolis Method, the videos will teach the concepts, vocabulary and methods of this formalized physical approach to acting.

American Place Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support Literature to Life, a theater and literature-based education program for middle and high school students in New York City and Los Angeles. The American Place education staff and actors use text selections from high school reading lists to create professional stage adaptations which are then performed, followed by discussion, analysis of the text and drama based education. (Multistate)

Arizona Theatre Company
Tucson, AZ
$45,000
To support the expansion and improvement of lifelong theater arts education for students and adults and outreach programming. The Arizona Theatre Company will institute programs that help students achieve state and national theater arts standards and broaden public access to and appreciation of theater.

Blackberry Productions (Consortium)
New York, NY
$7,000
To support Harlem Renaissance II, a three-fold event featuring repertory theater, intensive arts in education residencies and a visual arts exhibit. Blackberry Productions will partner with The Valley Youth Organization for a cultural outreach initiative designed to bring theater and arts education to at-risk youth and underserved communities.

Book-It
Seattle, WA
$12,000
To support the Book-It-All-Over! Education and Community Outreach Program. The project will be presented to schools, libraries and community centers throughout Washington State.

Center for Puppetry Arts
Atlanta, GA
$50,000
To support the presentation of two new theater works with related education and museum activities. The project includes the presentation of The Body Detective: An Internal Investigation and an adaptation of the Brothers Grimm's The Shoemaker and the Elves.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater
Chicago, IL
$15,000
To support an expanded tour of Short Shakespeare! Romeo and Juliet to schools and educational centers. As a major initiative of Chicago Shakespeare Theater's education programs, Short Shakespeare! productions are abridged versions of Shakespeare's most popular works designed for performance in schools and classrooms. (Multistate)

Dallas Theater Center
Dallas, TX
$23,000
To support the expansion of Project Discovery's Flagship Program to reach as many as 17,500 students. This extended program will offer teacher workshop sessions, long-term collaborations between the professional teaching-artists of the Dallas Theater Center and teachers and students, performances, transportation to the theater, study guides, and an interactive Web site.

Delaware Theatre Company
Wilmington, DE
$12,000
To support a five-week residency partnering artist-teachers with student and classroom teachers of the Margaret S. Sterck School, the Delaware School for the Deaf. The goal of this continuing program is to expand literacy among deaf and hearing-impaired students through playwriting and acting.

Double Edge Theatre Productions, Inc.
Ashfield, MA
$11,000
To support the Third International Consortium of Theatre Practice for one month in Ashfield. Double Edge Theatre will offer at its Farm Center vocal, physical and improvisational actor training, an artistic think tank, performances by the theater, and a final performance by the participants.

East-West Players
Los Angeles, CA
$22,000
To support the expansion and integration of East-West Players' professional training program to include collaborations between Asian Pacific American performing artists and audiences. The program includes the Actors Conservatory, David Henry Hwang Writers Institute, the Actors Network and Theater For Youth.

Florida Studio Theatre, Inc.
Sarasota, FL
$12,000
To support the Write A Play Program. Florida Studio will offer an in-school program of interactive workshops and in-class exercises designed to inspire students to express themselves by writing plays.

Foxborough Regional Center for the Performing Arts, Inc.
Foxborough, MA
$7,000
To support the creation and presentation of theatrical works by at-risk youth and seniors in southeastern Massachusetts. The Orpheum Foxborough's Century Project will bring young people and seniors together to create works based on their shared life stories, insights and concerns.

George Street Playhouse, Inc.
New Brunswick, NJ
$22,000
To support Phase IV of Acting Out, a series of writing workshops for seventh to 12th grade students in New Brunswick schools. This initiative is divided into the Divas Project, which focuses on female performing artists working with girls, and the Gentle Men Project with male artists leading workshops for boys.

Gertrude Stein Repertory Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support a series of public workshops to demonstrate the latest multimedia equipment and software in the arts to enable artists and arts professionals to assess and apply new technology in their work. The reach of the workshops will be extended through the use of an on-line magazine, www.digitalperformance.org.

Illusion Theater & School, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$45,000
To support the Peer Education Theater Program in 2001-02, reaching high school youth in rural and urban communities. Producing Directors Michael Robins and Bonnie Morris and Education Coordinator Karen Gundlach will conduct the peer education training sessions. (Multistate)

Indiana Repertory Theatre, Inc.
Indianapolis, IN
$50,000
To support the multidisciplinary theater classes and workshops program. The education-based program will be offered to adults and youth.

Inside Out Community Arts, Inc.
Venice, CA
$6,000
To support The School Project and the Alumni Mentors Program. The program is an after-school, theater-based arts program serving middle and high school students.

LA Public Theatre, Inc.
Auburn, ME
$10,000
To support the Student Matinee Program. The student matinee program will target audiences in underserved communities.

Madison Repertory Theatre, Inc.
Madison, WI
$7,000
To support artist residencies in high school literature classes. The high school residency program will augment the teaching of a specific roster of classic plays commonly included in the curricula of area Wisconsin high schools.

Miniature Theatre of Chester
Chester, MA
$5,000
To support a production of Eugene O'Neill's A Long Day's Journey Into Night to be performed in residence at Westfield State College. This performance residency is one component of a new partnership between The Miniature Theatre of Chester and Westfield State College that will include seminars, personnel exchange and the annual Western Massachusetts Playwrights Project.

Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit
Detroit, MI
$17,000
To support the creation and touring performances of an original full-length play with music. With the guidance of staff directors and guest artists, a youth ensemble of approximately 100 Metro Detroit area gifted young artists will collaborate to write 2001 Hastings Street, a play with original music based on oral histories.

National Theatre of the Deaf, Inc.
Hartford, CT
$40,000
To support regional touring, including performances, educational workshops and residencies by the Little Theatre of the Deaf for children in grades K-12 as well as a professional development program for company members. A typical K-6 performance begins with an entertaining introduction to American Sign Language followed by fables, stories and/or poems and ending with Your Game, an interactive, improvisational segment.

Penumbra Theatre Company, Inc.
St. Paul, MN
$25,000
To support the creation of a fellowship program that will allow pre-professional theatre artists to benefit from both course work and practical experience while engaged in professional theatre work. The program will extend to graduates and post-graduates the cultural experience of working for an exclusively African American theatre.

Pittsburgh Public Theater Corporation
Pittsburgh, PA
$12,000
To support The Young Company Program. Students from around the country will collaborate on the production and presentation of a classic work in a professional theater.

Plowshares Theatre Company
Detroit, MI
$6,000
To support The Community Collaborative Initiatives Project. The project is a series of community based educational programs for students and young adults.

Portland Stage Company
Portland, ME
$10,000
To support three education/outreach programs for young people. The project includes The Early Show, Adopt-a-School and The Young Company programs.

San Francisco School of Circus Arts
San Francisco, CA
$18,000
To support the implementation of a two-year comprehensive professional training program in the circus arts. Pre-professional students of circus arts will benefit from small class sizes and performance opportunities throughout the Bay Area as a key part of their training.

Shakespeare Theatre (Consortium)
Washington, DC
$30,000
To support the expansion of a curriculum-based arts education initiative known as Text Alive! to a greater number of schools in Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia. Consortium partners for program expansion include Arlington, Fairfax and Montgomery County Schools.

Stage One: The Louisville Children's Theatre, Inc.
Louisville, KY
$14,000
To support the production of two plays in repertory for different age groups to be performed in Louisville and regional satellite venues. All productions will be supported by study guides, student classroom workshops and professional development opportunities for teachers.

Stagebridge
Oakland, CA
$13,000
To support the expansion of the Storybridge Literacy Project to include more partner schools and an increased number of students. Storybridge brings intergenerational theatre, oral histories and storytelling by senior citizens to elementary school children of the East Bay, San Francisco and the Peninsula.

Tennessee Repertory Theatre, Inc.
Nashville, TN
$12,000
To support the creation of RISE: the Rep Institute and Southern Ensemble. RISE will serve as the umbrella structure for the Rep's expanding community-centered education programs and will consist of marketing staff, teaching teams, support staff and resources.

Theater By The Blind Corporation
New York, NY
$12,000
To support expanded efforts in the training and professional development of blind and visually impaired theater artists. Theater By the Blind responds to a lack of access to play scripts and theater texts for blind and visually impaired individuals by offering an elaborate reading service by sighted actors and staged reading performance opportunities.

Theatre for Young America, Inc.
Mission, KS
$5,000
To support the Drama Connects program. This initiative includes residencies and the tour of two productions.

Trustus, Inc.
Columbia, SC
$7,000
To support two actor training programs and an audience development initiative. The two programs, the Apprentice Company Initiative and the African-American Workshop, are designed to train young actors and increase and diversify audiences.

Underground Railway Puppets & Actors, Inc.
Arlington, MA
$7,000
To support the Literacy Theatre Project. The project will include the creation, production and tour of an original play by Melinda Lopez that focuses on literacy and language.

Women's Project & Productions, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the Ten Centuries of Women Playwrights Project. Using a curriculum of plays by women, this program is designed to expose students to theatre while promoting literacy, literature and self-esteem.

Young Playwrights' Theater, Inc.
Washington, DC
$6,000
To support the EmPowerPlay Program EmPowerPlay is a three-tiered program in playwriting for middle and high school students.

VISUAL ARTS

Art Institute of Chicago (on behalf of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago)
Chicago, IL
$67,000
To support expansion of the Teacher Institute in Contemporary Art. Through this program experienced high school art teachers from around the U.S. will enrich their artistic creativity through sessions with contemporary artists and lecturers in visual and new media arts.

Bethlehem Musikfest Association
Bethlehem, PA
$20,000
To support a year-round media arts education program for low-income middle school students at The Banana Factory, the visual arts component of the Bethlehem Musikfest Association. Working closely with consortium member the Bethlehem Area School District, The Banana Factory will prepare students for careers as technology-trained arts professionals.

California College of Arts and Crafts
San Francisco, CA
$23,000
To support the California College of Arts and Crafts' (CCAC) Community Partnership project. Working in collaboration with three Oakland schools, the CCAC will engage college-level arts students in teaching and community service in North Oakland.

Canal Corridor Association
Chicago, IL
$15,000
To support Canal Origins Park - Building Community Through Public Art, a public art initiative between the Canal Corridor Association and the Chicago Park District. Sited where the historic Illinois & Michigan Canal began in Chicago, Canal Origins Park will bring artists and community together to create permanent artworks.

Clay Studio
Philadelphia, PA
$25,000
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.

Educational Alliance, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the expansion of the Gifted Young Artists Program. Taught by practicing and exhibiting artists, this after-school and summer program provides economically disadvantaged adolescents with high-quality art instruction in a professional art school setting.

Intermedia Arts of Minnesota, Inc. (Consortium)
Minneapolis, MN
$40,000
To support development and implementation of a pilot program to help artists work in community based public art. The program will also help community development professionals develop their understanding and ability to work with arts projects.

Little Black Pearl Workshop, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$12,000
To support after-school programs to provide youth from the south side of Chicago with art and entrepreneurial training. The project involves two levels of programs, the Arts = Smarts program and the Little Black Pearl Club, designed to increase opportunities for inner-city children between ten and 19 years old.

Montana State University
Bozeman, MT
$7,000
To support a visiting artist series Figurative Art in the 21st Century. Artists Manuel Neri and Bill Viola will be joined by critic Donald Kuspit to address figuration in contemporary art.

Pyramid Atlantic, Inc.
Riverdale, MD
$20,000
To support career development and training for students, teachers and professional artists in hand papermaking, printmaking and book arts. The project, The Bridge Between Cultures, will explore issues of cultural and regional identity through artist residencies, teacher training programs and youth mentorships.

Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC)
Venice, CA
$20,000
To support the extension of The Great Wall of Los Angeles, SPARC's first public art project. The addition of four new panels will highlight defining events from the past four decades that are important to American minority communities.

Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts
Newcastle, ME
$15,000
To support expansion of the services of MudMobile, a statewide traveling ceramics program in a van. The MudMobile will increase its sites, adding community organizations that serve a variety of social service needs.

Women's Studio Workshop, Inc.
Rosendale, NY
$15,000
To support artists residencies within the education program providing artists' space dedicated to papermaking, printmaking, photography, book arts and ceramics. Each artist will be in residence for ten weeks with the first six weeks devoted to working on their artist's book project.

National Endowment for the Arts · an independent federal agency
1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20506