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2001 Grant Awards: Challenge America: Positive Alternatives for Youth
Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change,
contingent upon prior Endowment approval.
ALABAMA
Jefferson County Committee for Economic Opportunity
Birmingham, AL
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theatre
$10,000
To support a partnership with SEPIA, Inc. and the Alabama Jazz Hall for the YES Ambassadors Theatrical Troupe Project, a musical theatre training and performance program for youth ages 12-17. Some of the youth participants suffer from hearing and visual impairments and learning disabilities, and others have been exposed to substance abuse and domestic violence. After training in writing, dramatic presentation, dance, music and set design, the group will perform for inner-city and rural youth at local venues, including the historical Carver Theater.
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts Association
Montgomery, AL
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$10,000
To support a partnership with Bellingrath Junior High School and Cloverdale Junior High School for the program In My View that offers students hour-long classes in photography, verbal description of visual images, Web design and museum field trips. Both schools are struggling to improve poor student academic performance. The museum's Assistant Curator of Education will coordinate the interaction of local professional resident artists, school teachers and key staff, and the youth participants.
Total Grants Awarded: 2
Total Dollars Awarded: $20,000
ALASKA
Cultural Heritage and Education Institute (CHEI)
Fairbanks, AK
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Alaska Rural Systemic Initiative, North Star Borough School District and Minto School for students in a small, rural Alaskan native village. Through the project, village Elders will share oral histories with students, then visiting artists will teach the students to draw and paint traditional sites in the Minto area, which will be scanned and posted on the Cultural Atlas Web site and shared with other students in the area.
Total Grants Awarded: 1
Total Dollars Awarded: $10,000
ARIZONA
Free Arts for Abused Children of Arizona
Phoenix, AZ
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$5,000
To support a partnership with Youth Etc., the Salvation Army's Family Shelter, Brownstone Care, Family Support Resources, and the Sunshine Group for the Multicultural Arts Camp. The summer camp provides training in art, music, drama and dance of cultures around the world to children ages 12-17 who have been abused and neglected, are homeless, or live in residential treatment centers, group homes and shelters throughout the Phoenix area. The project concludes with performances and exhibits celebrating the children's accomplishments.
LFC, Inc. (Bank One Tucson International Mariachi Conference)
Tucson, AZ
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Tucson Unified School District, the Metro Tucson Convention and Visitors Bureau, the Tucson/Pima Arts Council, the Tucson Convention Center and Bank One to provide beginning, intermediate, and advanced training in mariachi music and Mexican dance for predominantly Mexican American children in grades 6 -12, many of whom come from low-income and single-parent families.
The Navajo Arts and Humanities Council
Lukachukai, AZ
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Tsaile Public School and the Dine College Music Club to bring professional Navajo authors and singer-songwriters together with Native youth from the rural Tsaile area on the Navajo Nation. Due to its isolation from any metropolitan area, children from Tsaile have little access to the performing arts and experience high levels of poverty and unemployment.
Total Grants Awarded: 3
Total Dollars Awarded: $25,000
ARKANSAS
Batesville Area Arts Council
Batesville, AR
FILED/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Batesville School and the Batesville Non-Profit Roundtable to provide training in theater, choir, music ensemble and visual arts activities through after-school arts programs for fifth and sixth grade children who are at-risk due to poor academic performance, lack of supervision at home, or who have behavior problems at school. Artists will work in an educational setting and create a vibrant learning environment in cooperation with classroom teachers.
Total Grants Awarded: 1
Total Dollars Awarded: $10,000
CALIFORNIA
Armenian American Faith Charity
Fresno, CA
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
$5,000
To support a project of artist-led activities in partnership with Padrinos Folklorico of the Roosevelt School of the Arts for an after-school program for ethnically and racially diverse students enrolled at Fresno's Roosevelt High School. Students will study the origins of the music, dances, costumes and instruments specific to the many geographic regions of Mexico. The program culminates in school and community performances.
California Institute of the Arts (CalArts)
Valencia, CA
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$10,000
To support the Community Arts Partnership with the Watts Tower Arts Center. The program provides multicultural after-school and weekend, artist-led programs for students ages 12-18 living in the mostly Latino and African American community of Watts in Los Angeles. Special challenges in Watts include chronic unemployment, teen pregnancy and illegal gang activity.
East Bay Center for the Performing Arts
Richmond, CA
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Summit Center and the Chris Adams Girls Center (both juvenile residential treatment centers) for The Living Mission. This program provides boys and girls ages 12-18 who have been through the court system with workshops in drumming, West-African dance and video production to better realize their creative spirit and discourage recidivism. At the end of each session, the participants present workshop performances to an audience of friends, family and peers.
Fallbrook Union High School District
Fallbrook, CA
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$5,000
To support a partnership project with the California Center for the Arts in Escondido and California State University at San Marcos for SUAVE (Socios Unidos Para Artes Educacion/United Communities for Arts in Education). This program features an arts-integrated approach to teaching and learning in multicultural and multilingual settings for students at Fallbrook, Ivy, and Oasis high schools. SUAVE brings community artists to the classroom and provides professional development for teachers in rural northern San Diego County.
Floricanto Dance Theatre
Whittier, CA
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Bravo Medical High School in East Los Angeles to provide after-school folklorico dance. Francisco Bravo Medical Magnet High School is an ethnically diverse, inner-city, science-focused magnet school whose goals are to increase both student literacy in the biomedical sciences and the rate of students entering the health professions.
Fresno Arts Council
Fresno, CA
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Fresno Unified School District, and the Southeast Intersession School to provide students in grades three through six with curriculum-based arts activities led by professional artists. These students have been or are at-risk for retention. The Fresno Unified School District is the sixth most impoverished district in the state with a population of many ethnic groups that have limited proficiency in English.
Hmong Cultural Arts, Crafts, Teaching and Museum Project
Elverta, CA
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Del Paso Heights and Robla school districts to provide classes in traditional Hmong pa dao (embroidery), qeej (reed instrument) and folk dance to students ages 6 -18 from low-income neighborhoods with high exposure to gangs. It is estimated that 70 percent of Hmong adults who came to the United States as refugees in the 1980s have limited English proficiency. The folk art activities give the children a greater appreciation for Hmong heritage as well as improve their self-esteem and ability to succeed.
Imagination Workshop, Inc.
Los Angles, CA
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Walgrove and Grandview schools, the Accelerated School, the Olympic School, the MacLaren School, and the UCLA Trauma Psychiatry Program. The project will provide age appropriate training in playwriting and theater arts for students, grades K-6, from South Central Los Angeles and Santa Monica. The project will be led by professional theater artists and culminate in public performances. Youth targeted by this program are ethnically diverse, have learning disabilities and emotional problems and are exposed to drugs and gang-related activities.
Inner-City Arts
Los Angeles, CA
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$10,000
To support a partnership project with schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District and Para Los Niños (an inner-city child care organization) that provides elementary school students from diverse ethnic and racial backgrounds, with classes in dance, music, choir and visual arts. Recent tests suggest that students participating in this program perform better in subjects such as English and math, despite being exposed to poverty, homelessness, gang violence and crime.
Inside Out Community Arts
Los Angeles, CA
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Boys & Girls Club of Venice for the Neighborhood Arts Project, a theater-based, after-school program serving middle school students from the Oakwood District of Los Angeles. Through this program, the students -- who are exposed daily to high levels of poverty and drug and gang-related violence -- write plays inspired by important issues in their lives then perform their work.
Kern County Youth Mariachi Foundation
Bakersfield, CA
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Hall Ambulance, Kern County Superintendent of Schools, Kern County Department of Human Services, Family Motors Foundation, Oasis Air Conditioning, and Kern County Hispanic Chamber of Commerce. The project will provide after school training in traditional mariachi music (along with tutoring and higher education guidance) for mostly Mexican American youth ages 7-19 living in the inner-city and rural areas of Bakersfield and the surrounding areas of East Bakersfield, Richgrove, Lamont, Delano, McFarland and Santa Maria.
L.A. Theatre Works
Los Angeles, CA
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Los Angeles County Probation Department and the Los Angeles County Office of Education, to engage youth ages 14-18 in mounting a colored tile mural on the outside wall of the Hope Center in Compton. These young people are first-time offenders or are returning from incarceration.
Museum of Children's Art
Oakland, CA
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$10,000
To support a partnership with Cole Elementary School and the Oakland Housing Authority for Project YIELD (Youth in Education and Leadership Development), an after-school program that integrates computer graphics, multimedia, and Web page design for fourth through eighth graders from an area marked by low-income and poor academic performance.
Playwrights Project
San Diego, CA
FIELD/DISCPLINE: Theater
$10,000
To support a partnership with Castle Rock Middle School in Chula Vista, that provides teacher training through the Professional Development for Classroom Teachers component of SEEDS (Stimulating Educational Excellence through Drama Standards) including workshops; access to teaching artists; and use of Stage Write, Playwrights Project's recently published playwriting curriculum. Chula Vista is an area of San Diego County marked by high levels of drug-related deaths, teen suicides and incarcerated youth.
San Diego Dance Institute
San Diego, CA
FIELD/DISCPLINE: Dance
$5,000
To support a partnership project with Edison, Baker Montessori, Harley Knox, Rosa Parks and Paradise Hills elementary schools; the Nubia Leadership Academy; Wilson Middle Schools; and the University of California at San Diego for City Moves! This project provides an after-school dance program for fifth through eighth grade students from predominately single-family homes in neighborhoods of immigrants from Mexico, Vietnam, Laos and Somalia. These neighborhoods are marked by drugs and violence, and residents are encumbered by limited English proficiency. At the end of the program, the children perform their original work at school assemblies and evening performances.
San Jose Repertory Theatre
San Jose, CA
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Foundry School, an alternative high school for youth who have been through the court system, and the Red Ladder Theater Company. The program provides students with interactive theater workshops designed to help them build life skills and self-esteem through improvisational exercises, theater games and dramatic scenarios. Students at The Foundry School encounter violence, abuse, homelessness and gang pressures.
Shasta County Arts Council
Redding, CA
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Northern Valley Catholic Social Services for Kids Arts Recreation and Education (KARE), a program that provides children living in transitional housing with after-school and summer dance classes and visual arts activities to foster skills in socialization and positive interaction.
Theatre and Arts Foundation of San Diego County
La Jolla, CA
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$10,000
To support a partnership project with La Jolla Playhouse; the California Youth Authority's Gang Violence Reduction Project in liaison with the San Diego Police Department; and PIPER Partners in Prevention for Project Turnaround. The project provides professional play development instruction for middle school students identified as "high risk" for gang involvement. The teens participating in the project are from an area of central San Diego marked by low income, violent crime and Latino and African American gangs.
Trinity County Arts Council
Weaverville, CA
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Art
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Trinity Occupational Training that provides summer employment and training in mural arts for youth ages 15 through 18 living in the isolated and mountainous area of Trinity County. The project will result in a large mural on the wall around the public swimming pool at Lowden Park in Weaverville. The program targets youth who are confronted by poverty, poor academic achievements, homelessness and other serious problems.
Total Grants Awarded: 19
Total Dollars Awarded: $175,000
COLORADO
Aspen Ballet Company and School
Aspen, CO
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$5,000
To support a partnership project with Carbondale and Besalt middle schools for Celebrate the Beat, a highly effective in-school dance program developed by the National Dance Institute and celebrated educator and dancer Jacques d'Amboise. This project is targeted to elementary and middle school students who live in the down-valley communities near Aspen, where many families are new residents of Latino descent who struggle with low-income status and legal and language barriers.
Colorado Dance Festival
Boulder, CO
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Dairy Center for the Arts, the Collage Children's Museum, the City of Boulder Youth Opportunities Advisory Board, and the Institute of African American Leadership for The Youth Dance Project. This project supports a community-based collaboration of educational, arts and social science organizations to provide youth ages 11-18 with classes in Latino, African and African American dance.
Kim Robards Dance
Denver, CO
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Teen Quest program of the Denver Area Youth Service, a juvenile detention facility for Kinetic Connection. This project provides incarcerated girls, ages 13-18, with a series of classes in ballet, jazz, modern and tap as well as peer mentoring by specially selected and trained teenage girls from the Kim Robards Dance Company. The classes are designed to cultivate physical, mental and social skills for girls who lack self-esteem as victims of physical and emotional abuse, in order to assist them in succeeding when they are released from the center.
The Piñon Project
Cortez, CO
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$5,000
To support a partnership project with the Art Juice Studio, the Sunrise Youth Shelter, the Mancos Family Center, and the Dolores Club House for The Family Drawing Together project. This project provides Native American youth ages 6 -12 in rural southwestern Colorado with trips to remote areas of the Ute Mountain Tribal Land and the rural countryside outside Mancos. Participating youth will write and visually record their experience through painting. Family members, mentors and Native American dignitaries also participate in this program.
Total Grants Awarded: 4
Total Dollars Awarded: $30,000
CONNECTICUT
Curbstone Press
Willimantic, CT
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Windham High School and the Windham Heights Housing Project that provides after-school workshops in writing and public reading for teen residents. The workshops will be led by bilingual guest authors such as Jack Agueros, Naomi Ayala and Danielle Georges. An isolated area of Connecticut, Windham has large numbers of Latino residents, many with limited English proficiency who are coping with poverty and unemployment.
Farmington Valley Arts Center
Avon, CT
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Our Piece of the Pie (Southend Community Services) for the Creative Youth Business Partnership (CYBP). This year-round program enables urban middle school students to create and market art products, receive internships and part-time employment in schools and galleries, as well as discuss careers options with professional artists in nearby Hartford. The children are recruited through local social agencies such as foster care, juvenile programs and the Girl Scouts of America, are mostly African American and Latino, and typically reside in low-income and single-parent families making them often at-risk for poor academic achievement and high dropout rates.
International Festival of Arts and Ideas
New Haven, CT
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Arts Council of Greater New Haven to bring nationally renown artists, Urban Bush Women, to lead workshops for youth that celebrate the history, culture, and spiritual traditions of the African American community. The workshops take place at schools, community centers and churches in the Dixwell neighborhood of New Haven. Dixwell is a culturally historic African American community that has begun to experience some poverty, unemployment and high crime.
New Britain Museum of American Art
New Britain, CT
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Greater New Britain YWCA's Pathways/Senderos (a teenage pregnancy prevention program) and STRIVE (an anti-substance abuse program) for The Youth Studio Project. This project provides after-school visual arts classes to children, in grades 6 -12, in the low-income Arch Street neighborhood.
Total Grants Awarded: 4
Total Dollars Awarded: $40,000
DELAWARE
Delaware Theatre Company
Wilmington, DE
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Ferris School, a maximum security facility, for improvisational playwriting residencies that incorporate writing skills, acting, directing and stage design for incarcerated boys between the ages of 14 and 18. This program offers the incarcerated youth the opportunity for self-expression as well as enhancing self-esteem and self-analysis, which the school considers essential to rehabilitation.
Wilmington Music School
Wilmington, DE
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$5,000
To support a partnership project with the Cole Ensemble, an ensemble for cello, piano and percussion, and actors Akin Babatunde and Georgina Corbo to perform two musical theatre works. These are Of Ebony Embers-Vignettes of the Harlem Renaissance, which explores the cultural legacy of the Harlem Renaissance period, and Tres Vidas, a celebration of Latin American women. A number of locations within Wilmington's low-income, west center city area, including the Christina Cultural Arts Center, the Cab Calloway School of the Arts and the Latin American Community Center, will host the residency activities.
Total Grants Awarded: 2
Total Dollars Awarded: $15,000
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Beacon House Community Ministry, Inc.
Washington, D.C.
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Levine School of Music and Dance Place, for after school and summer camp programs in music and dance for children ages 5 -18 living in the Edgewood Terrace community. The project culminates in public performances. Ward 5, where Edgewood Terrace is located, is a community with a high incidence of poverty, malnutrition, drugs, violence, gangs and low performance on standardized tests in math and reading.
Washington Drama Society, Inc.
Washington, D.C.
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Maya Angelou Public Charter School, an alternative school for children who have been through the court system or are identified as at-risk of becoming criminally involved. The project brings artists from the Living Stage Theatre Company to perform and conducts workshops for students ages 14-18. The youth, who are predominately African American and Latino and many of whom have been involved with substance abuse, are encouraged to explore issues faced in their everyday lives.
Total Grants Awarded: 2
Total Dollars Awarded: $20,000
FLORIDA
Asian Cultural Association of Central Florida
Longwood, FL
FILED/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Midway Elementary School, Rollins College, Stetson University and Seminole County Public Schools for the acclaimed santoor musician, teacher and tri-county area resident, Nandkishore Muley. Muley will conduct lectures and demonstrations of the music of India for students in Seminole, Orange and Brevard counties. Students participating in this program are typically from lower-income families. This music program is designed to help youth expand their communication skills and improve their self-esteem.
Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville, Inc.
Jacksonville, FL
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the State Attorney's Office and Inside Outside, Inc. that provides weekly arts classes for youth ages 14-25 who have been either recently released from incarceration, been through the court system as adults or are currently incarcerated in the Duval County Jail. Through Inside/Outside, youth participate in programs conducted by professional artists and justice staff concluding with events open to prison staff, friends, mentors and volunteers. In addition to after-school programs, the youth make field trips and attend performances and museum exhibits.
Laura (Riding) Jackson Home Preservation Foundation, Inc.
Vero Beach, FL
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$10,000
To support a partnership project with College Application Consultants, the School District of Indian River County, and the School Board of St. Lucie County for Teen Writers Workshops, a program led by professional authors and independent publishers for students in grades 9-12 in Indian River County, a rural retirement community.
Metropolitan Dade County (Miami-Dade Art in Public Places)
Miami, FL
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Miami-Dade Department of Cultural Affairs and Bay Point Schools, a residential school for moderate-risk juvenile offenders for ArtCare: Tile Mural Project. Led by local artists Carlos Alves and J. C. Carroll, the project engages youth in the mounting of a mosaic tile mural in a common living/dining area of the school.
Plant City Children's Theatre Guild, Inc.
Plant City, FL
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$5,000
To support a partnership project with the Arts Council of Plant City for the Peacemaker Performing Arts Team, a rigorous after-school program providing training in the performing arts, including ballet, jazz, gymnastics, folk dancing, and creating production costumes and scenery. The project involves children in grades 6 -12 residing in the rural area of eastern Hillsborough County. The area is home to many low-income and migrant families that do not have access to the performing arts. The training and activities culminate in two public performances presented by the Plant City Children's Theatre.
United Arts Council of Collier County
Naples, FL
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Collier County Parks and Recreation and PACE Center for Girls, and New Beginnings for The Pottery Adventure Program. This series of classes and workshops for teens is led by professional studio artists in ceramics arts and the business of marketing crafts in the largely Mexican American, southwestern Florida migrant farm community of Immokalee.
Total Grants Awarded: 6
Total Dollars Awarded: $55,000
GEORGIA
Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center
Atlanta, GA
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Georgia State University, Department of Education; the Boys & Girls Club of Metro Atlanta; and the Atlanta Housing Authority for As Seen Through Teens, a series of workshops led by professional photographers and writers for teens. The project results in a professionally mounted exhibition of the students' photographs and their own literary descriptions installed at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center. The exhibition will travel to a number of local business centers, during which opening receptions will honor the students and their families.
Total Grants Awarded: 1
Total Dollars Awarded: $10,000
HAWAII
Honolulu Theatre for Youth
Honolulu, HI
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Molokai High and Intermediate School for the Pacific Young Playwrights-Theaterfest, a series of classroom playwriting workshops and after-school public readings for youth ages 13-20 living in the sparsely populated and generally poor island of Moloka'i.
Maui Community Arts and Cultural Center
Kahului, HI
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$10,000
To support a partnership project with The Maui Dance Council; the Department of Education, Maui District; and the Hana School for Chance to Dance, a series of residencies by Maui Dance Council artists and other visiting artists for children grades 6-12. The children live in the remote, rural, and ethnically diverse communities of Maui County, Moloka'i and Lana'i.
Total Grants Awarded: 2
Total Dollars Awarded: $20,000
IDAHO
Community Youth Connection, Inc.
Boise, ID
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$10,000
To support a partnership with The Boise City Arts Commission, the Idaho Youth Ranch, and the Community Gang Prevention Team for Youth Speaks Out Arts Initiative, a multidisciplinary arts program for young people, ages 12-18. Youth participants are referred by the Idaho Youth Ranch, a facility for troubled, delinquent and abused youth, as well as the Ada County Sheriff's Office Patrol Division Diversion Program. The participating young people develop technical and creative skills with African djembe and Australian didjeridoo instruments, songwriting and recording workshops, and mural art activities.
Festival Dance and Performing Arts Association, Inc.
Moscow, ID
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$5,000
To support a partnership project with Troy and Potlatch elementary schools for the Discover Dance Project, a series of in-school classes in jazz, modern and African dance taught by professional dance instructors for third, fourth and fifth graders in remote rural communities throughout the region.
Lava Revitalization Team
Lava Hot Springs, ID
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$5,000
To support a partnership project with The South Bannock County Historical Society, Lava Elementary School, the State Foundation, and the Bannock County Sheriff's Department for Our Youth, Our River, Our Resources. This program of in-school and after-school workshops in storytelling and visual arts involves K-12 students in the rural and isolated area of Lava, Idaho. The children in this region have no other school art programs.
Log Cabin Literary Center, Inc.
Boise, ID
FILED/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$5,000
To support a partnership project with Idaho Health and Human Services Road to Recovery, the Boise Art Museum, Zoo Boise, the Idaho Historical Museum, the Morrison-Knudsen Nature Center, the Boise Public Library, and the Boise Department of Parks and Recreation for a series of field trips and workshops for students ages 9-14 to learn to write about their experiences. The children participating in this project are mostly Mexican Americans who reside in rural, agriculture communities where there is a high dropout rate.
Total Grants Awarded 4
Total Dollars Awarded $25,000
ILLINOIS
Boulevard Art Center
Chicago, IL
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Yale School, Gallery 37, the Chicago Public Schools, the Mayor's Office of Workforce Development, and the Chicago Department of Human Services to engage 40 youth ages 6-17. The young people will be led by local artists in the production of a mural in the inner-city, low-income, African American Englewood neighborhood. The mural is part of a city plan to transform a vacant lot, currently a refuge for gangs, into a campus park.
Lifeline Productions, Inc.
Chicago, IL
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Joyce Kilmer Elementary School to expand an ongoing artist residency program for seventh and eighth graders to include grades fifth and sixth. The residency will teach dramatic storytelling to build literacy, encourage creativity, strengthen self confidence, and foster an appreciation for other points of view by having students write and present their personal stories. Most of the students at Kilmer School come from low-income families and over half have underdeveloped English proficiency and language skills.
Performing Arts Chicago
Chicago, IL
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Albany Park Theater Project for a performing arts education serving youth in the racially diverse and economically disadvantaged community of Albany Park in northwest Chicago. Participants will learn theater techniques, and improve communication and problem-solving skills by working with professional artists to create and present dramatic works.
Rockford Area Arts Council
Rockford, IL
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$10,000
To support a partnership project with New American Theater and Rockford Public Schools for teens in Rockford and the surrounding low-income rural areas. Students will serve as apprentices to professional artists as well as create original visual art and small theater works.
Sun Foundation for the Advancement in the Environmental Sciences and the Arts
Washburn, IL
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$5,000
To support a partnership project with the Illinois Arts Council, Hallmark Metamora Woodworking, Metamora Telephone Company, Caterpillar Foundation, Peoria Community Foundation, and Dick Blick Company to provide 325 students in grades 6-12 with art classes led by artists. Students are from eight underserved communities in the Central Illinois River Valley. The project will culminate in public exhibitions and performances of the youth's work.
Young Chicago Authors
Glencoe, IL
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$10,000
To support a partnership with The East Village Youth Program schools in the Chicago Public School District, and several west-side community organizations. The project will provide classes in writing, photography and publication design, field trips and participation in public readings for 250 teenagers from underserved communities in Chicago's south and west sides.
Total Grants Awarded: 6
Total Dollars Awarded: $55,000
INDIANA
Fischoff Chamber Music Association, Inc.
South Bend, IN
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$10,000
To support a partnership project with South Bend Community School Corporation, Elkhart Community Schools, Penn-Harris-Madison School Corporation, St. Joseph School Corporation and the 21st Century Community Learning Center at Harrison Elementary for chamber music classes for high school students. Participants will form chamber ensembles that perform for third through sixth graders in underserved South Bend elementary schools.
Muncie Center for the Arts, Inc.
South Bend, IN
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Muncie Indiana Transit System, Motivate Our Minds, South Madison Community Center, Ross Community Center, Buley Community Center, Ball State University Student Volunteer Services, and Muncie Community Schools for the Macdonald's Conley Kids After-School Arts Adventure Program. The program supports a series of after-school classes in the visual arts, dance and music for children ages 5 13 who come from ethnically diverse, low-income neighborhoods.
Total Grants Awarded: 2
Total Dollars Awarded: $20,000
IOWA
Red Cedar Chamber Music, Inc.
Marion, IA
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$10,000
To support a partnership with Four Oaks, community service organization for children, for music activities for children and their senior citizen mentors that will include an introduction to the music heritage of various ethnic groups in Iowa. Participants will make unique instruments from found objects and compose a musical work. Youth targeted for this program are racially diverse, many coming from low-income and single-parent families.
The Sioux City Symphony Orchestra Association
Sioux City, IA
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$5,000
To support a partnership project with the Sioux City Community School District for Music Explorers, an after-school program for at-risk students grades 7-11 in the ethnically diverse, rural community. Under the guidance of teachers and musicians, targeted youth will investigate Latin American, Native American, Laotian, Caribbean and Vietnamese musical traditions, receive instruction on traditional instruments, and form ensembles that will perform for the school community, fostering greater cultural awareness and understanding.
Total Grants Awarded: 2
Total Dollars Awarded: $15,000
KANSAS
Filipino Association of Greater Kansas City
OverlandPark, KS
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Racela Educational & Charitable Foundation and Medical Missions Foundation, Inc. to develop a program in Filipino dance and a rondalla (traditional string ensemble) for Filipino American and other interested youth in grades 6-12 from the Greater Kansas City area. Participants will meet at the Filipino Cultural Center for eighteen fall and spring sessions. Classes will culminate in performances that will highlight traditional and contemporary Filipino dance and music.
Kaw Valley Arts & Humanities, Inc.
Kansas City, KS
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$10,000
To support a partnership project with YWCA of Kansas City and the Chameleon Theatre Company for Destination Creation, an arts-based, skill-building day camp for 60 youth ages
11-16 who live in public housing adjacent to the YWCA. The summer program will provide instruction in the arts as a means to develop such skills as creativity, planning, problem-solving, teamwork and workplace protocol.
Total Grants Awarded: 2
Total Dollars Awarded: $20,000
KENTUCKY
Americana Community Center, Inc.
Louisville, KY
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Kentucky Theater Project, Iroquois Amphitheater Association and the City of Louisville Office of International and Cultural Affairs for workshops in photography, oral history and Web publishing for middle and high school youth. The young people live in a Louisville transitional housing complex for recent immigrant and political refugee families. Through digital photography, storytelling and Web design activities, participants will explore their relationships with their peers leading to improved understanding and communication, a greater appreciation of diversity, and more effective teamwork.
Kentucky Center for the Arts
Louisville, KY
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$10,000
To support a partnership project with City of Louisville Metro Parks Department, Iroquois High Community School, and Meyzeek Community School for after-school art instruction to middle and high school students in Louisville's south and central sections of the city. The project will introduce techniques such as collage, assemblage, fiber and etching with a different project/medium offered each quarter, and culminate in a student exhibition.
Total Grants Awarded: 2
Total Dollars Awarded: $20,000
LOUISIANA
Contemporary Arts Center
New Orleans, LA
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Street Academy Charter School (an alternative school for youth at-risk for academic failure) for ongoing weekend training for Circle of Ten, an ensemble of inner-city students ages 13-18. Classes will be taught by jazz musician and composer, Hannibal Lukumbe. Objectives will be to help students develop a positive self-image, gain appreciation and skill in music and visual arts, and learn about the relevance of music as a vehicle of individual and community expression.
Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra
New Orleans, LA
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Good Shepherd School to develop a comprehensive music education program. Good Shepherd School, a new, relatively small school targeting at-risk youth from local inner-city neighborhoods who are living below the poverty line, opens its kindergarten and first grade classes in the fall of 2001.
New Orleans Video Access Center, Inc.
New Orleans, LA
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Louisiana Office of Public Health for Listen Up, a nationally recognized series of workshops in video production led by award-winning media artists. The project engages youth ages 13-18 in various production workshops that lead to the creation of public service announcements directed to teenagers.
Saint Joseph Arts, Inc.
Saint Joseph, LA
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$5,000
To support a partnership project with Northeast Louisiana Arts Council, Work Force Development (Tensas Parish Office), Tensas Parish Public Schools, Macon Ridge Economic Development Group and Loving Cup Counseling for music workshops for children in grades K-12 in Tensas Parish. Participants who generally cannot afford music instruction or instrument rentals will receive scholarships for private and group music lessons. Selected participants will have the chance to play in the Saint Joseph Orchestra, a unique training opportunity for students from a region where music education is seldom available in public schools.
Total Grants Awarded: 4
Total Dollars Awarded: $35,000
MAINE
Hancock County Auditorium Associates
Ellsworth, ME
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Ellsworth High School, Bull Hill Consolidated School, and the Maine Alliance for Arts Education for an artist residency of the Los Angeles Brass Quintet. The quintet will serve seven rural school districts of Hancock County. This program will enhance students' understanding and appreciation of music through workshops, coaching and private lessons.
Maine Alliance for Arts Education
Augusta, ME
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$10,000
To support a partnership project with 19 high schools of Penobscot and Piscataquis counties, Acadia Hospital, University of Maine School of Education, and National Center for Student Aspirations for an in-school residency program in theater arts for high school students in the rural districts in the Penquis region. Led by professional theater and movement artists from throughout the state, students will create original work.
Total Grants Awarded: 2
Total Dollars Awarded: $20,000
MARYLAND
Mayor's Advisory Committee on Art and Culture
Baltimore, MD
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$10,000
To support a partnership project with School 33 Arts Center, Thomas Johnson Elementary School, Federal Hill Elementary School, and Francis Scott Key Elementary and Middle Schools for an After-School Art Program for youth ages 8-15 in inner-city south Baltimore neighborhoods. Students receive instruction by professional artists in photography, ceramics, painting and drawing.
Somerset County Local Management Board
Princess Anne, MD
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Somerset County Arts Council, Somerset County Board of Education, and Somerset County Health Department for visits by The FUN-mobile, a mobile after-school enrichment program to school-age children in the rural and economically depressed county. Local artists who are members of the Somerset County Arts Council will lead the students in a wide variety of arts activities.
Total Grants Awarded: 2
Total Dollars Awarded: $20,000
MASSACHUSETTS
Artspace Community Arts Center
Greenfield, MA
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Greenfield Housing Authority for ABC's of the Arts, for children and their families residing at Oak Courts, a low-income housing project in rural western Massachusetts. This program consists of a preliminary arts festival designed to inform and recruit participants to attend a two 16-week series of age-appropriate art, music and theater classes, and monthly arts-based activities taught by qualified artists and teachers selected by Artspace.
Barrington Stage Company, Inc.
Great Barrington, MA
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Railroad Street Youth Project and Southern Berkshire Regional School District for the Playwright Mentoring Project, a theater program for students in grades 1012. The program will be led by award-winning director Julianne Boyd and other theater professionals in rural, largely low-income southern Berkshire County in western Massachusetts. The project will culminate in a full-length revue, written and presented by students, that is intended for county-wide touring.
Community Music School of Springfield, Inc.
Springfield, MA
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Springfield Housing Authority for Jump Start, a series of after-school and weekend workshops in hip-hop music and music video production led by professional musicians and videographers. This project will serve Springfield youth living in low-income housing developments.
DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park
Lincoln, MA
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Alston Branch Public Library for local resident and quilter Clara Wainwright to work with eighth graders from two local schools in the racially and ethnically diverse Boston neighborhood. Ms. Wainwright will help youth create a quilt that will reflect in both theme and design an aspect of the community. The quilt will be permanently displayed at the library.
Music & Art Development
Jamaica Plain, MA
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Bird Street Community Center, Jamaica Plain Community Center, Boston Housing Authority, and Agassiz Community Center for The PeaceDrum Project, an after-school arts and leadership training program for 20 inner-city teenagers. The project includes oral history interviews, drum-making, drumming and a culminating exhibition of drums decorated with visual images resulting from the oral histories gathered from community elders.
Spinner Publications
New Bedford, MA
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$10,000
To support a partnership project with ArtWorks!, New Directions, the New Bedford Whaling National Park, and the Massachusetts Department of Mental Retardation for the New Bedford Teen Arts Coalition. The project supports a series of summer and after-school art classes including visual arts, graphic design, pottery, journalism and creative writing for culturally and ethnically diverse, low-income high school students. Participants include youth from Portuguese, Cape Verdean, Latino, African American, and European communities.
Total Grants Awarded: 6
Total Dollars Awarded: $60,000
MICHIGAN
All The World's A Stage
Clinton Township, MI
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Michigan State University Macomb County Extension, and Creating a Healthier Macomb for workshops in theater arts leading to performances of original theater works. The plays will explore relevant social issues of interest to the students who are in grades 6-12 residing in this rural, generally poor county.
Flint Community Schools (on behalf of Flint Youth Theatre)
Flint, MI
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$10,000
To support a partnership with Pierce Cultural Center School and Longway Planetarium for classes in playwriting and theater arts for fifth and sixth graders leading to production of a performance by 20 of the students. The teachers are theater professionals associated with Flint Youth Theater. Students at Pierce Cultural Center School are from urban, ethnically diverse communities.
Genessee Intermediate School District
Flint, MI
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Very Special Arts of Michigan Genesee County for an Artist-in-Residence program serving the Genesse Intermediate School District's special education programs. Hands-on workshops in music, visual and literary arts, creative movement and drama will give students with a wide range of disabilities new tools for learning and alternative avenues for communication and personal growth.
Liberty Children's Art Project
Negaunee, MI
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Sault Saint Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians for an artist-in-residence position to lead a photography program for middle school students. Granger was formerly the Native American Education Coordinator at Marquette Senior High School. Most of the students are Native Americans residents of Michigan's rural and isolated Upper Peninsula.
Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit
Detroit, MI
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$10,000
To support a partnership project with University of Michigan Arts of Citizenship Program and Performance Network of Ann Arbor for Youth Ensemble, a program providing free training for 105 multi ethnic middle and high school students in Greater Detroit. The ensemble is directed by Mosaic's theater professionals who conduct intensive workshops and prepare students for culminating performances at schools and local theaters.
Total Grants Awarded: 5
Total Dollars Awarded: $50,000
MINNESOTA
The Center for Arts Criticism
St. Paul, MN
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Na Esh Equay, an Ojibwe women's art cooperative, and Cass Lake Bena-High School for Sisters in Leadership, a program in digital photography, videography and computer editing designed for young Native American women from Leech Lake Nation and the township of Cass Lake in north central Minnesota. Approximately 15 young women will learn to create artwork using new technologies, write about the issues and themes addressed in their work, and present their media work to the community.
Stages Theatre Company, Inc. Hopkins, MN
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$5,000
To support a partnership project with South Elementary School and East Junior High School in rural central Minnesota for a collaboration between resident professional artists and teachers. This project will incorporate theater into the schools' curriculum, develop students' dramatic skills and appreciation of theater, and produce a play based on folktales of several cultures.
White Earth Land Recovery Project
Ponsford, MN
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Minnesota Alliance for Arts Education, Headwaters School of Music and the Arts, Episcopal Church, Naytahwaush Sports Complex, and Detroit Lakes Title 9 Indian Education Programs for after-school and summer arts programs in the rural Naytahwaush and Rice Lake areas. The project involving Native American youth ages 1218, will support the learning of traditional Ojibwe storytelling, drumming, art, music and dance as well as non-traditional art forms.
Total Grants Awarded: 3
Total Dollars Awarded: $25,000
MISSISSIPPI
Foundation for the Revitalization of Artesia, MS, Inc.
Artesia, MS
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$5,000
To support a partnership with Columbus Arts Council and the Town of Artesia for a 10-week after-school and weekend residency for blues musician Johnnie Billington to teach youth in grades 6-12 in the low-income, rural community of east central Mississippi. Billington has been named a Master Folk Artist by the Mississippi Arts Commission and has received a W.C. Handy Blues Award for his dedication to teaching blues music to young people since the 1970s.
Mississippi Cultural Crossroads
Port Gibson, MS
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Cornerstone Theater, University of Mississippi Center for Oral History & Cultural Heritage, Mississippi Library Commission, City of Port Gibson, Claiborne County Supervisors, and Hattiesburg Arts Council for Peanut Butter & Jelly Theater, a literacy and theater project led by Cornerstone Theater of Los Angeles, CA. In addition, local youth in this largely African American community will participate in Taking Their Place: Young Person's Documentary Project, which offers workshops in oral interviews, photo documentation, essay writing for publication in local newspapers, desktop publishing and Web page design.
Walk of Faith Ministry
Mound Bayou, MS
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Delta Blues Education Fund, public schools in Mound Bayou, North Bolivar and West Bolivar, Youth Focus Initiative, and Mound Bayou Police Department for after-school music instruction and summer programs for youth ages 8 18. Youth from this rural Mississippi Delta community will be instructed in a wide range of music classes including production of audio recordings, African drumming and blues music.
Total Grants Awarded: 3
Total Dollars Awarded: $25,000
MISSOURI
Adair County Family YMCA
Kirksville, MO
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Kirksville Arts Association for Kreative Kids, an after school and summer day camp arts program open to children in grades three through eight from the rural community of Adair County. With the Kirksville Arts Association providing the selection process, regional artists and arts educators will provide instruction. All activities will take place at the YMCA facility.
Kansas City Ballet Association
Kansas City, MO
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Primitivo Garcia World Language School for Reach Out And Dance, a unique in-school arts education program for low-income, inner-city youth in grades four and five using the dance method devised by nationally recognized dancer and educator Jacques D'Amboise. Through exposure to dance movement, youth participants will develop a sense of team dynamics, trust and discipline.
Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey
Kansas City, MO
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Kaw Valley Arts and Humanities, Inc., and Unified School District 500 for a six-week, dance-based summer arts camp for youth ages 11-14 from Wyandotte County, which has the highest percentage of families living below the poverty line in the state. Led by professional artists and educators, the AileyCamp is based on the premise that dance not only exposes children to creativity but improves self-discipline, listening, critical thinking and communication skills.
Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Inc.
Kansas City, MO
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Kansas City School District in Kansas City, KS and Park University in Parkville, MO for one-week artist residencies in eight middle schools in Kansas City, KS on the opera production The Orphan Train. The subject matter offers participants lessons about slavery, the Civil War, pioneer life and westward migration. Students will learn basic conventions of opera, work with professional singers to learn excerpts and act out parts of the opera, and attend public performances of the Lyric's opera production at Park University.
The Salvation Army
Independence, MO
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Independence School District, Music/Arts Institute and the Children's Art Institute for music lessons and visual arts instruction for low-income children ages six to eight. The Salvation Army offers free instruction as well as art materials, music and loaner instruments at no cost to participants. Through this partnership and among several music resources, students will receive both weekly after-school classes and private lessons during the summer months.
St. Louis African Chorus
St. Louis, MO
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$5,000
To support a partnership project with Loyola Academy of Saint Louis for an after-school choral program for nearly forty middle school students at the Loyola Boys Academy of St. Louis that targets African American boys from low-income families. Project activities include training clinics with choral director, Boniface Mgaga of Kenya. The chorus will meet three afternoons a week after school, presenting monthly mini-concerts for faculty and parents and two school-wide performances in December and April.
Total Grants Awarded: 6
Total Dollars Awarded: $55,000
MONTANA
Alberta Bair Theater for the Performing Arts
Billings, MT
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$10,000
To support a partnership project with The Writer's Voice of the Billings Family YMCA, Billings Public Schools, Yellowstone Art Museum, The Billings Symphony, and The Moss Mansion to expand the ongoing Stories Project currently offered to students at two middle schools to include an alternative school. The program participants have been identified by school personnel as needing special assistance and new avenues for creative expression. The project offers in-school classes in music, creative writing and the visual arts with field trips to collaborating arts and cultural organizations.
Missoula Writing Collaborative
issoula, MT
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$5,000
To support a partnership project with the Two Eagle River School (an alternative high-school on the Flathead Indian Reservation) and the Lone Rock School District for workshops in poetry, fiction and personal essays. Led by professional writers, the project will publish an anthology of works by youth participants who represent this low-income, rural and predominately Native American population.
Wakina Sky Learning Circle
Helena, MT
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Helena Indian Alliance and the Holter Museum of Art for after-school activities targeting Native American youth living in rural and low-income Lewis and Clark, Jefferson and Broadwater counties. A team of distinguished traditional artists, including drummer/drum maker Al Chandlers and traditional dancers Nyleta Belgarde and Ken Walton, will lead the project. The program seeks to address and inspire a broader awareness of the disparate cultural histories and shared artistic traditions represented in and among the tribal populations in Montana.
Youth, Inc.
White Sulphur Springs, MT
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Meagher County Arts Council, Meagher County Public Television, and Vid-Kid Productions for The Arts are Central Project, to expand Youth, Inc.'s existing programs of after-school and summer arts activities to include youth in grades 712. The project will involve these youth in creating a video documentary about Montana arts resources designed to interest other youth in this age range to participate in the arts. All video will be digitally shot and mastered under the direction of Vid-Kid, a youth-operated video production group, and the executive director of the local public television station. The county is located in a geographically remote area and has a landmass comparable to the size of the state of Delaware.
Total Grants Awarded: 5
Total Dollars Awarded: $45,000
NEBRASKA
Opera Omaha, Inc.
Omaha, NE
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Omaha South High School and Durham Western Heritage Museum for a Composer-In-Residence program with composer Deb Tyson. Ms. Tyson will work with teachers, history professionals and high school students in preparation for a residency. During Ms. Tyson's visits, she will teach a workshop at the high school on writing lyrics as well as conduct preliminary work on the score with instrumental and vocal students.
Total Grants Awarded: 1
Total Dollars Awarded: $10,000
NEVADA
Clark County Nevada
Las Vegas, NV
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the City of Las Vegas Cultural & Community Affairs Division and the Reed Whipple Cultural Center for intensive workshops in theater, creative writing and the visual arts for youth ages 13-17. This will take place at the Spring Mountain Youth Camp, a residency for both juvenile offenders and for youth who have been through the court system who are living in halfway homes. Resident artists have been selected from the Nevada Arts Council's roster of qualified artist and have experience in working with youth.
Total Grants Awarded: 1
Total Dollars Awarded: $10,000
NEW HAMPSHIRE
Manchester New Hampshire School District
anchester, NH
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$5,000
To support a partnership project with the New Hampshire Institute of Arts and the Manchester Community Music School for the After School Art and Music Club, a music and arts program targeted for fifth graders from low-income neighborhoods. Up to 50 students, primarily from the underserved Glosser Park community, will participate in the project.
Moving Company Dance Center
Keene, NH
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Keene Institute of Music and Related Arts, ACTING OUT (a drama center of the Monadnock Family Services), Savings Bank of Walpole, Monadnock Developmental Services, and the City of Keene Youth Services Division, for Creative Arts at Keene, a summer arts program of intensive multidisciplinary workshops for youth ages 915 living in rural southwestern New Hampshire. During a five-week summer program, a team of professional artists will provide classes in creative writing, music, dance, drama and visual arts.
Total Grants Awarded: 2
Total Dollars Awarded: $15,000
NEW JERSEY
Appel Farm Arts & Music Center
Elmer, NJ
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$10,000
To support a partnership with Arthur B. Schalick High School to hire Ava Blitz, a Philadelphia artist working in sculpture and landscape architecture. Ms. Blitz will serve an 18-month residency at the Center, located on 176 acres in rural, southwestern New Jersey. Under the guidance of the artist, students will be involved in fabricating and installing Beauty and the Beast, a large-scale outdoor sculpture. Students of other area high schools and adults from the community also will assist in phases of the project.
Arts Horizons, Inc.
Englewood, NJ
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$10,000
To support a partnership with the City of Orange Township Board of Education. Arts Horizons will conduct an after-school "safe haven" project, serving low-income, primarily African American students ages 11-13. Artists and classroom teachers will work with the children through music, dance, theater and visual arts activities to foster creativity, constructive self expression and skills in problem-solving and cooperation.
Total Grants Awarded: 2
Total Dollars Awarded: $20,000
NEW MEXICO
Branigan Cultural Center Foundation
Las Cruces, NM
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Las Cruces school system, two cultural museums, and New Mexico State University's theater company. The Foundation will administer Another Planet, a collaborative arts project for 750 middle school students at three schools in this predominately Mexican American town located 50 miles from the Mexican border. During classroom residencies, writers, dancers, musicians, visual and theater artists from southwestern New Mexico will guide pupils in making artworks, honing their academic skills, and exploring their heritage.
Farmington Municipal School District/Advisory of Arts & Culture
Farmington, NM
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$10,000
To support a partnership with Farmington Gateway Museum, San Juan College and Anthony Emerson (artist & gallery) for Navajo Artlinks. This program will enroll approximately 160 students from four middle schools in an after-school, arts discipline-based curriculum. The program, which targets students with academic and behavior problems, will feature professional instruction in Navajo arts and culture, demonstrations of student learning, and public art projects for placement in each community.
La Jicarita Enterprise Community
Peñasco, NM
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Peñasco school, the district and an artists' cooperative to sponsor the Intergenerational Arts Mentorship program for the low-income, largely Mexican American community. The project will connect practitioners of regional craft traditions (woodcrafts, pottery, visual arts and metal sculpture) with local students. The program has two components: a summer rural arts institute for about 60 middle and high school students involving classes taught by six local artists; and a fall semester initiative to enhance the curriculum, pairing area artisans with art teachers in the classroom.
Outside In Productions
Santa Fe, NM
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$10,000
To support a partnership with El Museo Cultural for the Creative Arts for Youth With Promise project to offer classes to young juvenile offenders and other troubled youngsters, most of whom are from low-income Hispanic and Native American families. Participants will receive free weekly guitar lessons through the local Boy & Girls Club using instruments donated by the Bonnie Raitt/Fender Guitar Program. Also, workshops will be provided in hip-hop dance and mural painting.
Reach 2000/Unity Center
Roswell, NM
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$10,000
To support a partnership between two New Mexico community organizations, Unity Center in Roswell and Rocky Mountain Youth Corps in Taos, to sponsor woodworking apprenticeship programs that guide participating youths in production of handcrafted products while teaching them self-reliance and entrepreneurship. The apprentices, staff and visiting artists of both programs will join in a series of six two-day workshops to exchange craft construction, marketing and capacity-building expertise.
Total Grants Awarded: 5
Total Dollars Awarded : $50,000
NEW YORK
Amas Musical Theatre, Inc. ew York, NY
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
$5,000
To support a partnership with Beacon Program: Pathways for Youth project, an after-school performance program serving elementary school students from throughout the Bronx. Under the direction of seasoned professionals, including Christopher Scott, participants will study singing techniques, learn choral and solo numbers, and perform popular Broadway show tunes in public musical revues.
Arts Center of the Capital Region
Troy, NY
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Troy Rehabilitation and Improvement Program to offer creative art experiences to 75 economically disadvantaged youth living in the underserved north central section of the Troy. During summer, midwinter and spring breaks, youngsters will attend week-long day camps led by a range of professional artist-teachers and counselors. Participants will be immersed in a multidisciplinary arts environment.
Asian American Writers' Workshop/CreateNow Youth Writing Program
New York, NY
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$10,000
To support a partnership with Harlem Overheard, the Workshop will host 10-week Saturday writing sessions for up to 25 New York City public high school students. Teen participants, who are selected based on writing samples, will benefit from exposure to professional writers such as American Book Award winner, Kimiko Hahn. The CreateNow program seeks to establish a community of young authors who seek opportunities to write, perform and publish works under the supervision of professional writers and independent publishers.
Ballet Artists of WNY
Buffalo, NY
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$5,000
To support a partnership with the bilingual Herman Badillo Community School located in the inner-city, 20 third to fifth grade students will receive ballet lessons from Spanish-speaking dancers through the CityDance project. CityDance's objectives are to encourage the children's interest in ballet, classic Spanish dance and associated music while promoting self-discipline through choreographed movement and purposeful listening.
Brooklyn Information & Culture/The Rotunda Gallery
Brooklyn, NY
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$10,000
To support a partnership with Rotunda Gallery and William Gaynor Intermediate School will enable artist-educators to work with the school's pupils to create a series of changing exhibitions for display in the school's Mini-Museum, a specially designed gallery constructed by the partners. Through researching thematic information, creating works in various media, selecting and organizing pieces for display, preparing informational materials and conducting tours, students develop creative, analytical and social skills. The school is located in the low-income Bushwick section of Brooklyn, which is a largely Latino and African American community.
Center for the Arts at Ithaca
Ithaca, NY
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$10,000
To support a partnership between the Hangar Theatre and the Austin MacCormick Secure Center which is a long-term (usually 4 or more years) juvenile detention facility. The project will include artist-led activities by staff of the Hangar Theatre for a six-month artistic residency workshop. Through exposure to writing and theater arts, residents will have the opportunity to perform an original work demonstrating their creative expression and mutual collaboration.
DanceWorks, Inc./Pentacle
New York, NY
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$5,000
To support a partnership with Satellite Academy High School-Forsyth Campus through which Pentacle's three teaching artists will serve in a dance residency during non-school hours. This is a project that serves students who have been transferred due to unsuccessful performance at previous schools. Volunteers must be willing to commit to the scheduled 10-hour course of instruction. At the semester's end, the pupils will perform in a lecture/demonstration of their work.
Dancing in the Streets, Inc.
New York, NY
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$10,000
To support a partnership with Good Shepherd Services, School for Leadership in the Environment, South Brooklyn Community High School, and Red Hook Community Center Beacon (at P.S.15) for educational workshops in dance through Dancing in the Schools. This project links art with community and place to nurture a sense of achievement, cultural exploration and civic pride in the young dancers who live in the low-income, relatively isolated Red Hook area of Brooklyn.
DreamYard Drama Project, Inc.
New York, NY
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$10,000
To support a partnership with Ping Chong and Company, who will produce his community response production, Undesirable Elements, featuring local youth. Ping Chong has a track record of successfully producing this dance-music-theater work reflecting the life stories and cultural history of the host community in which it is staged. Supervised by teachers and a team of artists, 15 teenagers from Harlem, East Harlem and the Bronx will work on all aspects of the production, which culminates in performances at several city venues including schools.
Elders Share the Arts
Brooklyn, NY
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$10,000
To support a partnership to expand Legacy Works, a living history arts project, to a new site, the Casita Maria Settlement House. Twelve teenagers living in Carver Houses, an East Harlem public housing project, will be selected to partner with up to 20 of Carver's homebound elderly residents served by Casita Maria. During the six-month program, the youngsters will learn to produce written stories and visual collages on a designated theme, work with elders to express their biographies in visual form, collaboratively evaluate the results of this process, and mount an exhibition at Carver.
Global Action Project
New York, NY
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$10,000
To support a partnership with the International Rescue Committee and the International Trauma Studies Department of New York University, Global Action Project (GAP) will lead teen immigrants and refugees in an exploration of displacement, exile, shifting identities and intergroup relations through the creation of short videos, stories, poetry and photography. A multi national core group of 12 to 16 youths, two media artists and youth audiences will participate in this ongoing project.
Long Island Traditions
Port Washington, NY
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$5,000
To support a partnership with the Shinnecock Indian Nation, Long Island Traditions will develop a six-week arts and culture component of the Shinnecock reservation's after-school program for about 20 tribal students in grades 6-10. Three master artists will guide the young people's creation of a quilt and a mural documenting their perceptions of the traditional Shinnecock Pow-wow, for display in the new Family Preservation Center.
Manhattan Theatre Club
New York, NY
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$10,000
To support a partnership project with two Rikers Island juvenile facilities, Island Academy and Riker's Island Educational Facility. The Theatre will conduct a playwriting residency, Write on the Edge II, for incarcerated youth ages 14-18. A team of theater professionals and classroom English teachers will supervise the students in preliminary study and in writing and revising their scripts, which then will be performed by professional actors.
Mill Street Loft, Inc.
Poughkeepsie, NY
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$10,000
To support a partnership with the New Day Repertory Company and the Poughkeepsie City School District, 30 students participating in Mill Street Loft's Project ABLE, an arts-based job skills training program, will design and produce a mural for permanent installation in the Board of Education meeting room of the Poughkeepsie City School District offices. Visual artist Nestor Madalengoitia and Project Able's program director, a professional wood craftsman, will supervise the design and construction of the wood mural. In addition, Joan Henry, a Native American storyteller, and the Repertory Company's artistic director will engage youth in other related programming.
Police Athletic League, Inc.
New York, NY
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Brooklyn Philharmonic and Coalition for the Homeless. The project will support free, sequential instrumental music instruction for 30 homeless youngsters in four Brooklyn shelters. The Coalition's composer-in-residence Kevin James initiated the project. Professional musicians will teach weekly Saturday lessons at the Police Athletic League's Schwartz Center and after-school workshops in the shelters located in the Bushwich neighborhood. Also, the Philharmonic will contribute monthly, off-site performance events.
Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre
New York, NY
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$10,000
To support a partnership with Campos Community Center, the Theatre's training unit will continue to conduct a bilingual after-school program of acting, singing, dancing and visual arts classes for youths from low-income Latino and African American families. The program, which emphasizes reading and other academic learning skills, also promotes responsibility, leadership and character-building.
Teachers & Writers Collaborative
New York, NY
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$10,000
To support a partnership with Youth Speaks and the Educational Alliance's Pride Site One (PS1) to offer literary arts programs for PS1's residents, who are 16-20-year-old males with drug and alcohol dependency problems. Within the controlled environment of PS1, which is a year-long residency program, participants will be encouraged to produce literary projects as an outlet for creative expression through poetry, fiction and the spoken word as potential transforming instruments of their rehabilitation process.
Working Playground, Inc.
Hastings, NY
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$10,000
To support a partnership with New York City's East Side Community High School, Working Playground will direct a program of arts studio classes. The youth participants are 78 percent Latino and 19 percent African-American. Artists and arts educators will teach eight disciplines (acting/playwriting, computer art, dance, design, poetry, video production and visual arts) to groups averaging 17 members each, to address a curriculum structured to help seventh through 12th grade pupils excel in English and language arts, mathematics and science.
Writers & Books, Inc.
Rochester, NY
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$5,000
To support a partnership with Hillside Children's Center, a facility that offers community-based treatment and emergency services to children with behavioral and mental health problems. The project will be led by Writer-in-Residence Todd Beer, who has more than 15 years experience in both traditional and alternative settings. He will be accompanied by a teacher and teacher's aid. Beer will conduct two six-week writing sessions, each for students ages 13-18, resulting in a published anthology of their work. The project seeks to provide students with exposure to the creative writing process and instill confidence in this form of self-expression.
YMCA of Greater Syracuse, Inc.
Syracuse, NY
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$10,000
To support a partnership with the After School Arts Program at Elmwood Elementary School to provide instruction to over 100 children ages 8-14 in choir, dance, storytelling and visual art, consistent with New York State Standards for Arts Learning. Led by the Y's Director, Phillip Memmer, who is a published poet, writer and literary editor, the program, which operates two 10-week terms, reinforces skills the students need to tackle other academic subjects successfully. Elmwood Elementary School's enrollment is drawn from a low-income, crime-ridden section of downtown Syracuse.
Total Grants Awarded: 20
Total Dollars Awarded: $175,000
NORTH CAROLINA
Asheville Art Museum Association, Inc.
Asheville, NC
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$10,000
To support a partnership with the City Parks and Recreation Department for Art Where I Live, a 36-week course of visual arts activities for teenagers affiliated with an after-school program for low-income residents. Linked to objectives in North Carolina's Standard Course of Study, activities will include four projects at the Museum's galleries and new art resource center (making paper and books, masks, puppets and silkscreen designs), as well as the creation of murals in four community centers. The Museum will display participants' works in a culminating exhibition.
Mint Museum of Art
Charlotte, NC
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$5,000
To support a partnership with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools in which the Mint Museum of Craft + Design, a new Mint facility, will develop a curriculum-based program, Science of Ceramics. Art, science and math teachers will work with ceramists on a cross-disciplinary approach to teaching chemistry, physics and mathematics concepts to students. Pilot implementation will begin with artist residencies in Independence and West Mecklenburg high schools.
Total Grants Awarded: 2
Total Dollars Awarded: $15,000
NORTH DAKOTA
FutureBuilders/Trollwood Performing Arts School
Fargo, ND
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$10,000
To support a partnership between North Dakota East Central District Juvenile Court; Dakota Boys Ranch; Fargo Housing & Redevelopment Authority; Clay County (Minnesota) WrapAround Process; and Trollwood Performing Arts School, a summer program of Fargo Public Schools and the Fargo Parks District. This project will support the STAR (STudents At Risk) project for sixth to twelfth-graders with learning disabilities, behavior difficulties and challenges aggravated by poverty or recent immigration. Aided by a one-to-three mentor-to-student ratio, STAR participants will learn through instruction in dramatic writing, technical theater and video production.
Nelson County Arts Council
Pekin, ND
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$5,000
To support a partnership with Nelson county Stump Lake Park Management and Dakota Prairie School District for a summer arts camp for youth from Nelson County and surrounding areas. Pekin is a small town (population 101), yet the County Arts Council has sponsored a regional art exhibit that has attracted more than fifty artists from North Dakota as well as three neighboring states. In 1999, the Council initiated the Arts Camp for which some parents drive 80 miles round trip daily, and registration has been at overflow capacity for each of its two years of operation. Under the direction of experienced arts instructors, students study visual and performing arts, and present a culminating public event.
North Dakota Museum of Art
Grand Forks, ND
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$10,000
To support a partnership with two middle schools and two elementary schools whose students will attend After School at the Museum, a program bringing together professional artists and youngsters ages 8-14 for sessions to acquaint them with the visual arts. Fifteen students from each of the four partner public schools will be selected to participate in a six-week session, during which they will examine contemporary works and learn about the range of techniques used by visual artists, writers, musicians and actors. The activities are intended to stimulate critical thinking, creative expression, communication and offer a cultural context for participants, some who have minimal exposure to professional arts resources.
Total Grants Awarded: 3
Total Dollars Awarded: $25,000
OHIO
Jefferson Academy of Music
Columbus, OH
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Ohio State University School of Music to expand to weekends the Academy's Jefferson at OSU, a 10-week string music instruction program for area students. By adding Saturday instruction for three 10-week terms, 100 additional inner-city and rural youth, selected from schools in seven central Ohio counties, will have access to private study, master classes with OSU faculty and performance opportunities. Only 25 percent of Ohio school districts offer string instruction. Tuition assistance and instruments will be provided for potential students targeted with the assistance of Columbus's school personnel and will be available to other potential students.
Mad River Theater Works
West Liberty, OH
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$10,000
To support a partnership with Adriel School and Ben-El Child Development Center, the Theater will direct YouthWorks, a collaborative project involving youth with special needs. Four residencies for theater artists will take place at the Adriel School complex, based in rural Logan County. The School is a residential care facility for young people who are struggling with disabling psychological and behavioral challenges. Each student group will learn elements of theater and, based on local history, students will develop an original play to be performed as a culminating event for their families, fellow outpatients/residents and service agency staff.
Portsmouth Public Library
Portsmouth, OH
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$10,000
To support a partnership with Community Action Organization and Shawnee State University, the Library will host TheatreWorks!, a summer theater education and jobs program for underserved Appalachian youth ages 14-20. Components of the project include workshops in commedia dell'arte, mask making, voice, movement, improvisation and costume design. The second component, apprenticeships, will provide in-depth commedia training, paid employment, career counseling and rehearsals and performances.
Toledo Museum of Art
Toledo, OH
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$10,000
To support a partnership with Toledo Public Schools, the Museum and its business sector partners will offer two semesters of job training in design and visual art fields to selected vocational education students. During the first semester, the youths will serve as studio assistants in the School of Art and Design and may take art courses there on scholarship. After preparation in a carefully chosen medium, they will be placed as apprentices in private local firms (architecture, glass manufacturing, advertising) to begin to apply their new craft.
Total Grants Awarded: 4
Total Dollars Awarded: $40,000
OKLAHOMA
Cheyenne Cultural Center
Clinton, OK
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$10,000
To support a partnership between the Black Kettle Museum, Plains Indian and Pioneer Museum, the Village Within, the Washita National Battlefield and the Fort Supply Historic Sites, Roman Nose State Park, and Fort Reno Visitors Center. The Center and project partners, located in central west Oklahoma, will sponsor Project VALUE, a mentorship project in which 16 Cheyenne and Arapaho artists will guide local Indian public school students in creating 16 commissioned paintings depicting tribal historical events. The youths will gain knowledge about tribal cultural heritage and be involved in the creative process. Initiated and unveiled with traditional ceremonies, the paintings will be housed as part of a permanent exhibit.
Kaw Nation of Oklahoma
Kaw City, OK
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$5,000
To support a partnership with the Kanza Museum, Ponca City Cultural Center, Ponca City Association, Ponca Arts & Humanities Council, Kaw Dependent School District, and Standing Bear Foundation. The Kaw Nation will host an artist residency as part of its summer Youth Activity and Nutrition program, which primarily serves youth living in public housing.
Arthur Short Bull, a Lakota Sioux visual artist, storyteller, poet and educator, will engage the Kaw youth grades K-12 in classes in traditional songs, dance and Kaw language. Prior to the residency, students will take field trips to visit the various partner arts organizations.
Total Grants Awarded: 2
Total Dollars Awarded: $15,000
OREGON
Artists Repertory Theatre
Portland, OR
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$5,000
To support a partnership with the Youth Opportunity Center to enable underserved teenagers to create, produce and perform original musical theater pieces. Classes of 16 students from two Portland high schools located in low-income neighborhoods will participate in a 12-week series of theater workshops. As a basis for career exploration, there will be instruction by drama and music specialists with additional presentations by designers of sets, lighting, sound, and costume, and by arts administrators.
Crossroads Creative and Performing Arts Center, Inc.
Baker City, OR
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$10,000
To support a partnership between Baker School District 5J, the Commission on Children and Families, Mountain Valley Mental Health, New Directions Northwest, and the American Association of University Women, during which the Center's Artspeak project will expand its after-school and summer programming. Classes are conducted for pre-kindergarten to 12th graders who live in this isolated, rural locale in northeastern Oregon. From what began as a dance class for juvenile offenders, the program now offers instruction in visual arts, dance, poetry and theater.
The International Refugee Center of Oregon (IRCO)
Portland, OR
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
$10,000
To support a partnership between IRCO's Arts for New Immigrants Program and the Oregon Historical Society Folklife Project Program to sponsor a series of traditional arts classes for youth. Master folk artists-in-residence representing various cultures will teach primarily
sixth-twelfth graders from the same cultural community during non-school hours. The programs will culminate in a public arts event showcasing the students' work. IRCO serves immigrant populations from Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
Lane Arts Council
Eugene, OR
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$10,000
To support a partnership with Looking Glass Youth Services and the City of Eugene's Amazon Community Center, the council will sponsor arts programming for homeless, runaway and troubled youth ages 11-20. Artist residencies will be extended into longer residencies at each of the three participating sites: Station 7 Crisis Shelter, New Roads Access Center and Amazon Community Center. Through work with a team of mentoring artists, young people acquire creative self-expression and the ability to involve themselves more constructively within the community.
Total Grants Awarded: 4
Total Dollars Awarded: $35,000
PENNSYLVANIA
Abington Art Center
Jenkintown, PA
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$5,000
To support a partnership with the Montgomery County Youth Center and County Juvenile Probation Division and the Abington Police Department, that will sponsor a delinquency prevention initiative. Abington Art Center (AAC) will establish a visual arts internship program for 12 to 15 students from Abington junior and senior high schools in suburban Philadelphia. Under the guidance of AAC staff, artists and local business professionals working in related fields (e.g., journalism, graphic design, printing), the teenagers will produce a visual art magazine.
Associated Artists of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$5,000
To support a partnership with the Visual Arts Career Orientation Partnership (VACOP), operated by Associated Artists of Pittsburgh with four area high schools. VACOP introduces students to the variety of career paths in the visual arts. Successful local artists will offer realistic perspectives on rewards and challenges associated with their respective disciplines, while overseeing the pupils' individual and collaborative art projects. Twenty youths with artistic ability and interest, who may need intervention to keep them on track, will be chosen from each school to ensure a diverse representation of racial, ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds.
Berks Art Council
Reading, PA
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$5,000
To support a partnership with the Institute of the Arts, Berks Community Television, and Lauer's Park Elementary School to administer Arts Camp on the Air for elementary children. Poet Craig Czury, sculptor Angelo DiMaria, and Full Circle Music Society will lead televised courses in their respective disciplines. The project supports a three-week series offering literature, sculpture and music classes conducted in the studio for broadcast by Berks Community Television. The Wyomissing Institute of Fine Arts will help supply teachers for the inner-city students of Lauers Park Elementary School, 20 of whom will serve as the interactive audience.
COSACOSA art at large, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$5,000
To support a partnership with Temple Children's Medical Center to sponsor artist Pedro Ospina for a three-month residency at the Medical Center working with young patients to create Safe Harbor, an installation work. Youths ages 10-18 from adjacent African American, Latino, and racially mixed neighborhoods, including patients, will fashion milagros (miracles), figural metal amulets symbolic of their lives which, when attached to a large sculptural piece, will symbolize the connection of art and healing.
Philadelphia School District/High School for
Creative and Performing Arts
Philadelphia, PA
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Philadelphia Folklore Project to sponsor four 15-week artist residencies at CAPA. Masters of traditional African continental and African diaspora dance will conduct classes for dance students as well as mount a public performance. A magnet school, CAPA's enrollment includes many students of all races from low-income families. This project highlights cultural artistry that has not been previously available in the dance curriculum.
Total Grants Awarded: 5
Total Dollars Awarded: $30,000
RHODE ISLAND
Island Art Center, Inc.
Newport, RI
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center, a Newport-based social service agency, to offer professional-level photography instruction to low-income African American and Latino teenagers who are students at Rogers High School. Twice a week in after school/ summer sessions, the youths will learn fundamental camera techniques and film processing from a team of professional photographers and arts educators, producing work for a community exhibition. After-school counselors of the MLK Center, art department staff at Rogers High School, staff of the Stopover Services and experienced staff of the Art Center will assist in identifying student participants.
Total Grants Awarded: 1
Total Dollars Awarded: $10,000
SOUTH CAROLINA
Columbia City Jazz Company
Columbia, SC
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$10,000
To support a partnership with John Ford Elementary School to benefit sixth eighth graders in rural Calhoun County to participate in weekly after-school dance lessons during the academic year. Participants also may include students from nearby Sandy Run Elementary School. Students will learn original choreography. Businesses will defray the cost of shoes, tights and leotards for the young dancers, who come mainly from poor, African American households in a jurisdiction where organized recreational and cultural activities for youth are generally unavailable.
Creative Spark, Inc.
Mt. Pleasant, SC
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$5,000
To support a partnership with three elementary schools, the Ron McNair School, Jennie Moore School and Cainhoy School, to provide residencies for artists affiliated with the South Carolina Arts Commission's roster program. The program seeks to inform children about forms of cultural expression, enliven the study of history and geography, and enrich the standard curriculum. Each participating school represents an underserved population: rural African Americans, inner-city tenants of public housing, and residents of a rural area undergoing both modernization as well as the arrival of new immigrants.
Darlington County Cities in Schools/Puck's Theatre
Hartsville, SC
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$10,000
To support a partnership with Puck's Theater and Communities in the School to provide after school art sessions during the academic year for selected fifth through ninth grade students in six Darlington County public schools. Participants will be chosen according to their need for help, such as poor grades or low attendance, difficult home environment or encounters with the police. Students will participate in an integrated program of dance, music and theater, offering an artist student ratio of one to ten. As a culminating activity, students will be able to participate in a presentation for families and the general public.
Greenville Symphony Association
Greenville, SC
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$10,000
To support a partnership with the School District of Greenville County and the Greenville County YMCA to expand the Symphony's LARK program, which provides music education for middle school students who live in public and low-income housing. LARK enables youngsters to participate in school bands, orchestras and strings groups by furnishing instruments, supplies, uniforms and fees.
Total Grants Awarded: 4
Total Dollars Awarded: $35,000
SOUTH DAKOTA
South Dakota Symphony Orchestra
Sioux Falls, SD
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$10,000
To support a partnership with South Dakotans for the Arts and the Short Grass Arts Council to allow the Orchestra's touring groups, a string quartet and a wind quintet, to conduct after-school residencies in two Pierre public schools. At the Pierre Indian Learning Center, attended by 250 pupils in kindergarten through eighth grade, the musicians will introduce European classical music and instruments. While at Riggs High School, musicians will work one-on-one with the 170 members of the school band.
Total Grants Awarded: 1
Total Dollars Awarded: $10,000
TENNESSEE
Jefferson County School System
Dandridge, TN
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Tennessee Arts Commission, BankFirst, and the St. Mary's Foundation to sponsor the LINK program, designed to benefit newly arriving high school freshmen. This program utilizes the visual arts to build and strengthen academic and social skills students require to help make a successful transition into high school. Families living in this Appalachian region cope with a traditional lack of access to economic and cultural resources.
Jubilee Project, Inc.
Sneedville, TN
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$5,000
To support a partnership with Sneedville/Hancock Community Partners, Hancock High School, the Women's Clubs of Sneedville and Hancock, and the Rose Center in Morristown, to initiate JET-Arts (Jubilee Empowerment through Theater Arts), a course of theater workshops for troubled youths ages 11-18 in Hancock County, a poor, rural Appalachian area. Instruction will begin in the summer and continue until December. The program is designed to permit participating youngsters to learn about the creative process, as well as provide them with the experience of setting and attaining goals.
Total Grants Awarded: 2
Total Dollars Awarded: $15,000
TEXAS
Arts for Everyone, Inc.
Encinal, TX
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Encinal Community Team and the City of Encinal to conduct more than 20 artist-led workshops providing sixth through eighth grade students with the opportunity to learn from experienced visual and media artists, create artwork, and showcase their work in a community exhibit. The project provides a unique and creative experience for children living in a rural, isolated community.
San Antonio Youth Opportunity Program
San Antonio, TX
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$5,000
To support a partnership with the San Antonio Housing Authority and the Carver Development Board to bring renown Capoeiro master, Jaire Mansur, to teach six weeks of Capoeira classes for students living in public housing. It provides an opportunity for the largely Hispanic and African American students to participate in a study of a relevant cultural form, promoting pride and deeper understanding of heritage.
SAY SÍ
San Antonio, TX
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$10,000
To support a partnership with the San Antonio Independent School District to support a weekly Working Artists and Mentors (WAM) visual and media arts program aimed at artistically talented middle school students. Under the tutelage of professional artists, WAM gives students an opportunity to develop artistic and social skills, while providing the senior students an opportunity to share their developing skills and act as mentors.
Several Dancers
Houston, TX
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Battered Women's Shelter of the Houston Area Women's Center and the Children's Assessment Center to continue the Rising Stars Creative Arts Program that serves children at both Centers. The program provides children ages 5-15 with the opportunity for creativity, learning and fun through movement and dance. The program offers positive interactions with adults who care about them, helping abused children begin to heal and improve self-esteem.
Southwestern Alternative Media Projects, Inc.
Houston, TX
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$10,000
To support a partnership with Talento Bilingüe de Houston to sponsor the Storytelling on the Internet Project serving young people in a low-income, inner-city, primarily Latino community where residents have limited access to computers. The project provides children with an opportunity to work with media artists and to use technology as a vehicle for creative expression and communication.
Teatro Humanidad Cansada
Austin, TX
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theatre
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Austin/Travis Co. Summer Youth Employment Program, the University of Texas, the Texas Commission on the Arts, and the Milagro Foundation to provide low-income, minority, middle and high school students with employment in the arts as apprentice actors, designers and technicians in Teatro's acclaimed Youth Theatre Program. The participants have an opportunity to earn money while learning theatre arts through workshops and drama activities in an after-school setting at the University of Texas campus.
Writer's Garret, Inc.
Dallas, TX
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$10,000
To support a partnership with a variety of organizations including Southern Methodist University, Dallas Independent School District, and Artspartners to expand the successful Make A Write Turn after-school program for youth grades two through 12. The program serves mainly inner-city, low-income Latino and African American children, providing the opportunity to learn from writers in a workshop setting, develop a student journal, and participate in a writing contest resulting in potential scholarships.
Total Grants Awarded: 7
Total Dollars Awarded: $65,000
UTAH
Moab Arts Festival
Moab, UT
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Grand County School District, KZMU Community Radio, and the Dan O'Laurie Museum to support Voices of Youth, an interactive, community-based photography and radio project designed to deepen teenagers' understanding of culture and community. The project aims to reinstill in both the participating youth and the community an appreciation of Moab's unique cultural heritage.
Moab Music Festival
Moab, UT
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Grand County School District to provide an Educational Outreach Program to bring Chinese Composers-in-Residence, Chen Yi and Zhou Long, to Moab schools for teacher workshops, presentations and school assemblies. The Moab Music Festival's Outreach Program provides an opportunity for students in a rural, isolated, and low income area to participate in comprehensive music programs.
Utah Opera Company
Salt Lake City, UT
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
$5,000
To support a partnership with the Rock Springs Community Arts Center and the Sevier County Arts Alliance to provide five-day residencies in schools in remote communities of Utah, Idaho, Nevada and Wyoming, reaching children with little or no access to the arts. Residencies are conducted by members of Utah Opera's Ensemble Program, a prestigious training program serving young professional vocalists from throughout from North America.
Art Access/VSA Arts of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Utah Arts Council and Horizonte Instruction and Training Center, an alternative school, for a folklorist-led project in the use of masks in traditional culture followed by a workshop in the construction of fused glass masks led by artists from Powell Brothers and Sons. Project activities are targeted for the ethnically diverse students of Horizonte Center. Students with limited English proficiency comprise 62 percent of the population.
Total Grants Awarded: 4
Total Dollars Awarded: $35,000
VERMONT
Flynn Theatre for the Performing Arts
Burlington, VT
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$10,000
To support a partnership with two inner-city youth organizations, the King Street Youth Center and the Sarah Holbrook Community Center, to support a five-week intensive residency with percussionist/composer/educator Donald Knaack. The residency will serve teenage youth from Burlington's urban, poor, multi-ethnic neighborhoods and culminate with a student performance at Burlington's Discover Jazz festival.
Onion River Arts Council
Montpelier, VT
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Washington County Youth Service Bureau/Boys & Girls Club and the Cityscape Consortium to continue support for artist residencies in a community-based, after-school program serving approximately 200 fifth-eighth graders. The Cityscape Program provides an opportunity for students in a rural and low-income area to work with artists selected by the Onion River Arts Council.
Total Grants Awarded: 2
Total Dollars Awarded: $20,000
VIRGINIA
Northern Virginia Youth Symphony Association
Annandale, VA
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Fairfax County Public Schools to expand the Music Buddies Mentorship program that provides one-on-one, peer-to-peer weekly music instruction from advanced teenage musicians to middle school students. The students being mentored are identified as having financial, social or academic challenges and attend one of three middle schools with large ethnic populations. Music Buddies provides these students with an opportunity to develop musical skills and build stronger relationships with their peers.
The Barter Foundation, Inc.
Abingdon, VA
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theatre
$5,000
To support a partnership with the Olney Theatre and several public schools to create a Young Playwright's Workshop and Festival for students in rural Appalachia, offering artistic opportunities that were previously unavailable to these students. The program will guide high school students in development of critical writing skills and give them the experience of seeing works presented on stage at the Youth Playwright's Festival.
Southhampton County Assembly, Inc.
Newsoms, VA
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Suwabi African Ballet and the City of Franklin Department of Parks and Recreation to develop a Rites of Passage Project to provide year-round, after-school and weekend classes in traditional African dance and drums at the local community center for youth from the sixth through 12th grades, in rural Southampton and Isle of Wright counties and the city of Franklin. The project will use traditional African folk arts and cultural heritage to assist youth from largely low-income, African Americans communities in their transition from childhood to adulthood.
Total Grants Awarded: 3
Total Dollars Awarded: $25,000
VIRGIN ISLANDS
School of Visual Arts and Careers
St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$5,000
To support a partnership with the Fort Christian Museum and the St. Thomas-St. John Arts Council to support an after-school and summer art program. The project will provide intensive training in the visual arts and related careers for students in seventh through 12th grades. Most of the students live in public housing and do not have opportunities the program provides, such as creative self-expression, self-exploration though the arts, vocational training and some paid internships.
Total Grants Awarded: 1
Total Dollars Awarded: $5,000
WASHINGTON
Arts Council of Snohomish County
Everett, WA
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$5,000
To support a partnership with the Denney Juvenile Justice Center, the Cocoon School and the Everett School District to provide incarcerated and homeless teens with weekly art classes, led by a professional art instructor. The art classes are designed to improve both the academic and art skills of the participants as well as provide youth with positive interactions with caring adults.
Blue Mountain Art Alliance
Walla Walla, WA
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$5,000
To support a partnership with the Walla Walla Community, the City of Walla Walla, the Walla Walla Community Center for Youth, and the Walla Walla Community Network to support arts education programming at the Community Center for Youth, providing after-school and weekend activities for students in this rural community in southeast Washington. Participants, largely from low-income families and several of whom have already been through the court system, will have an opportunity to improve their art skills with artists selected by Blue Mountain Arts Alliance while having positive interactions with their peers.
Kitsap County Consolidated Housing
Silverdale, WA
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$10,000
To support a partnership with the West Sound Academy to create Forms of Identity, a pilot project designed to engage students, ages 11-18, by intensively exploring different art forms. The students, who are residents of low-income communities, will participate in artist-led workshops, create an outdoor sculpture, design a Web page for a Homework Club, and serve as mentors to younger students. The program will not only enhance their artistic skills but will develop leadership skills through mentoring the younger children.
Tears of Joy Theatre
Vancouver, WA
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$10,000
To support a partnership with Joy Theatre, the Northwest Afrikan American Ballet, the Ockley Green Community School and the Youth Services Consortium to continue an after-school arts based student success program housed at an inner-city, low-income, largely ethnic middle school. Participants in this program engage in challenging experiences with professional artists geared to enhance creativity and self-expression, practice discipline, manage responsibility, and develop communication skills.
Unidentified Moving Objects, Inc.
Vashon, WA
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theatre
$5,000
To support a partnership with the Ruth Dykeman Children's Home to provide an art-in education initiative for young people who are victims of violence, neglect, trauma, abandonment and abuse. Participants will learn writing techniques from a poet and creative writing teacher, eventually writing original poetry, songs and stories that will be published in a booklet. In addition, the youth will make masks and learn improvisation and performance techniques. By learning alternative modes of expression through performance and writing techniques, the young participants will be less afraid to confront issues of self-awareness and improve their self-esteem.
Total Grants Awarded: 5
Total Dollars Awarded: $35,000
WEST VIRGINIA
High Rocks Educational Corporation
Hillsboro, WV
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$10,000
To support a partnership with Carnegie Hall to integrate an arts-in-education component into High Rocks' Use Your Noodle Club, a community service program developed by high school girls in rural, poor counties in West Virginia. Carnegie Hall will provide visual and dramatic arts instructors to teach teenagers, some of who will then serve as apprentices with the artists in classes for elementary-age children.
Huntington Museum of Art
Huntington, WV
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Huntington Housing Authority to support ArtWorks, a project to provide visual arts instruction to teens ages 14-18 living in the Huntington Housing Authority. The students will work on a public mural in the summer and a tile project in the winter. ArtWorks provides participating teens with an opportunity to create work as well as practice successful coping strategies and enhance communication skills.
Morgan Arts Council
Berkeley Springs, WV
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theatre
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Boys & Girls Club of Morgan County and the Ice House School of the World to establish a youth summer theatre camp and after-school theatre arts classes. The programs will teach playwriting, teen drama, stage craft and movement, providing an opportunity for youth living in a low-income, rural area of West Virginia to receive theatre arts training as well as provide them with high quality, enriching after-school and summer activities.
Upshur County Youth Council, Inc.
Buckhannon, WV
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
$5,000
To support a partnership with the Buckhannon Community Theatre, Upshur County Arts Alliance, Augusta Youth Ballet Company, and the Upshur County Family Resource Network to provide a four-week series of summer performance and visual arts education programs, focused on regional Appalachian arts and culture, to youth in sixth through eighth grades. These programs provide area youth, living in an isolated, rural, low-income area of Appalachia with limited exposure to the arts, with an opportunity to increase awareness and appreciation of art and their own culture, develop new skills, and explore future opportunities in the visual and performing arts.
Total Grants Awarded: 4
Total Dollars Awarded: $35,000
WISCONSIN
Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Inc.
Brookfield, WI
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Milwaukee Public Theater, Danceworks, Inc., and the Milwaukee Sign Language School to support a one-week, full-day, multicultural arts camp for deaf and hard of hearing youth. The camp will incorporate three components of creative expression that are accessible to deaf and hard of hearing children: rhythm and dance, music (drumming) and visual arts, while focusing on Asian, African and Deaf cultures. This project will be an opportunity for children to overcome communication barriers and gain exposure to the arts.
Fresh Tracks Discovery Center
Danbury, WI
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theatre
$5,000
To support a partnership with the Siren and Webster School Districts and Communities United in Education to support an artist-in-residency project bringing performing artists from the Big Top Chautauqua into the Siren and Webster High Schools to work with band and choir students, culminating in their performance with the Big Top. The project's students reside in a low income, rural and isolated area of Wisconsin, with very limited access to art and music resources.
John C. Cudahy YMCA
Milwaukee, WI
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Milwaukee Public Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Wisconsin Conservatory of Music, and Kairo Communications to support ArtsAlive, an after school arts program for middle and high school students in the North Meadows low-income housing community. A diverse roster of professional artists and organizations from the greater Milwaukee area will participate in the program, helping to expand the students' awareness of and engagement in the visual and performing arts. The project will be launched in collaboration with the local Gear Up Program aimed at helping low-income students prepare for college.
Latino Arts, Inc.
Milwaukee, WI
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Milwaukee Public Theatre to support after-school cultural arts workshops for low-income, primarily Latino youth. The workshops will include sessions in visual arts, theater and flamenco dance and will center around three Latino cultural events. The program seeks to be a source of cultural appreciation and enrichment for the young participants and for the community as a whole.
Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design
Milwaukee, WI
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Neighborhood House of Milwaukee to support an after school arts program serving an inner-city, low-income Milwaukee neighborhood. The program provides a safe, supervised and educational after-school venue while its interdisciplinary approach helps students use art and design to explore literacy, technology and arts careers.
Northern Lakes Center for the Arts
Amery, WI
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$5,000
To support a partnership with the Amery Public School District, Northern Lakes Writers' Guild, Northern Lakes Theater Guild, ICN Radio, and the Amery Area United Way to support an artists' residency program to bring actors and writers into language arts and literature classes in public schools located in a rural, isolated area in northwestern Wisconsin. The program will help students in grades four, six, eight, and ten write, produce and perform a series of radio plays.
Oneida Nation Arts Program
Oneida, WI
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$10,000
To support a partnership with Youth Educational Services, Cultural Heritage Department, Oneida Community Health, and Workforce and Job Placement to support Nurturing Roots and Spreading Wings, a 10-week arts job training program for tribal youth. Tribal youth will be hired as apprentices to work with three resident artists in sculpture and video animation. The project addresses the community's need to provide meaningful youth employment, teach job skills, and expose tribal youth to new and positive experiences.
Total Grants Awarded: 7
Total Dollars Awarded: $60,000
WYOMING
Community Visual Arts Association
Jackson, WY
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
$10,000
To support a partnership with Western Wyoming High School to develop an after-school art and design studio for young people, providing advanced arts training and being equipped to produce marketable works of art. The project will offer talented young people in this rural, isolated community professional opportunities in the visual arts and experience in implementing and managing an art design studio.
Region V BOCES
Wilson, WY
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$5,000
To support a partnership with Community Visual Arts Association, the Martin Harris Gallery, and the Dancer's Workshop to support a program offering multidisciplinary art opportunities for youth at C-V Ranch, a residential special education school. The program will be led by community artists and arts-related professionals and will afford the participants an opportunity to enhance creative skills as well as improve self-esteem.
Young Musicians
Evanston, WY
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$10,000
To support a partnership with the Davis Middle School Music Department to support a Summer Music Program bringing visiting professional musicians from as far away as New York and California to educate and perform for rural southwest Wyoming and areas of rural Utah and Idaho. This week-long program offers unique educational and performance opportunities to youth in grades six -12 that are currently unavailable through any other regional source.
Total Grants Awarded: 3
Total Dollars Awarded: $25,000
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