2002 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access/Arts Learning/Arts on Radio & Television/ Challenge America Access/ Heritage-Preservation/ Leadership Initiatives/Partnership Agreements

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

CALIFORNIA

18th Street Arts Complex
Santa Monica, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support the Arts Education Program. The program provides artist-teacher training, artist employment opportunities and sustained, arts programming to schools free of charge.

509 Cultural Center
San Francisco, CA
$17,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support free arts programming in a low-income neighborhood of San Francisco. This project will feature outdoor arts presentations, the eighth annual In the Street Theater Festival and exhibitions.

Aman Folk Ensemble
Pasadena, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support the Aman Arts in Education program. In this project traditional music and dance from diverse cultures is utilized to improve students' social skills, coordination and memory, as well as facilitate curriculum instruction in geometry, geography, history and language.

Arab Women's Solidarity Association (on behalf of Arab Film Festival)
San Jose, CA
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the sixth annual Arab Film Festival. Held in venues in San Francisco, Berkeley and San Jose, this event will present approximately 30 films to an estimated audience of 3,000 people.

Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility
Berkeley, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support New Village Journal, a publication that presents case studies of grassroots projects about cultural heritage and neighborhood spirit that serve immigrant communities, children, youth, the physically ill and others. Examples of cultural and physical renewal in some of the most challenged urban neighborhoods will be presented.

Armory Center for the Arts
Pasadena, CA
$47,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support Art Central. This new, comprehensive arts education program will place a full-time artist in residence in two elementary schools to encourage student and teacher involvement in the arts.

Art Re Grup, Inc. (consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a residency, community programming and exhibition by the collaborative artist team, London Fieldworks, Bruce Gilchrist and Jo Joelson. The artists, through an investigation into the effects of polarized light on perception, seek to illuminate the intersections of art, science and technology, making them more comprehensible for the general public.

ARTScorpsLA
Los Angeles, CA
$24,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a collaborative public art project between community residents, university students and artists Mel Chin and Tricia Ward in Temple-Beaudry, a near East side neighborhood of Los Angeles. The interdisciplinary partnership will build on past projects that empower communities to reclaim derelict, vacant, of10 contaminated sites in the inner-city.

Ballet Folklorico Ollin, Inc. (on behalf of Mariachi Los Camperos)
Panorama City, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America Arts Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a tour of Fiesta Navidad to the rural San Joaquin, Antelope and Imperial Valleys of California. Fiesta Navidad is a concert of mariachi music and folklorico dancing that tells the Christmas story of La Posada, a Mexican tradition marking the journey of Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem.

Bay Area Video Coalition, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the provision of national video preservation services to artists and arts organizations and other related activities. Services include the recording, retrieval and preservation of video art and art on video and the dissemination of information to the interested public.

Black Dot Artists, Inc. (on behalf of the Eastside Arts Alliance)
Oakland, CA
$6,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the 4th annual Malcolm X JazzArts Festival. The free, all-day, outdoor community event to be held in East Oakland, CA in May 2003 will present various styles of jazz, including influences from Latin, Asian and African American cultures.

California Arts Council
Sacramento, CA
$960,300
CATEGORY: Partnership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

California College of Arts and Crafts (consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$48,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support the design and implementation of a K-12 program infused with the study of art, architecture and design. Consortium member Bay Area Coalition of Equitable Schools and the college will partner with a high school and an arts magnet school (K-8) to offer sequential learning in the arts with a connection to other subjects. Consortium partner is the Bay Area Coalition of Equitable Schools.

California Indian Basketweavers Association
Nevada City, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the California Indian Basketweavers Gathering. The gathering brings basketweavers and students together to teach and learn from one another and to celebrate their artistry, and provides opportunities for basketweavers to educate the public, exhibit and sell their work and discuss ideas relevant to their traditions.

California Institute of the Arts (consortium)
Valencia, CA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support the Community Arts Partnership. Designed as a two-year, in-depth multicultural and community arts program, CAP brings together youth with Cal Arts faculty and artists to design and implement in-depth programs in media arts, dance, visual arts, theater and music for youth. Consortium members include the Armory Center for the Arts, Inner-City Arts, Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, Plaza de la Raza, Santa Clarita Valley Boys & Girls Club, Self-Help Graphics & Art and the Watts Towers Arts Center.

California Shakespeare Festival
Berkeley, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support three components of the Artistic Learning Initiative. The festival will offer varied programs to reach elementary and secondary students in the Bay area.

California State University (on behalf of Luckman Fine Arts Complex)
Los Angeles, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Mingus at 80 Festival: A Los Angeles Homecoming. The festival will feature jazz performances, a film screening and classroom presentations. Musician and composer James Newton conceived the festival to bring new light to a wide range of Mingus's works and highlight the breadth of his artistic prodigy.

California State University, Long Beach Foundation
Long Beach, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the preservation of the Gerry Mulligan Collection archive at the University's California Institute for the Preservation of Jazz. Original materials from the collections of Mrs. Franca Mulligan (widow of Gerry Mulligan) will be catalogued.

California Summer Music, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$7,500
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support the implementation of the Composition & Theory Skills Program. Through this program designed to provide opportunities for young musicians to create and perform contemporary music, youth will participate in the creation, reading, rehearsal, performance and recording of new works.

Central City Hospitality House
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support the expansion of the Community Arts Program. The project will consist of a weekly series of artist workshops and exhibitions in both on-site and off-site galleries for homeless residents of San Francisco's Tenderloin district.

Children's Book Press
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support LitLinks, an Internet residency project. Through four virtual author-in-residence programs, this project offers an innovative, literature-based approach that will stimulate students to investigate their own backgrounds and communities and then express themselves in writing and publish on-line.

Chinese Historical Society of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
$5,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the development of an archive storage facility to house both current collections and future donations. This phase of the project will include researching appropriate software, creating a centralized database of collection objects, hiring curatorial staff to oversee cataloguing and documentation, and acquisition of archival storage materials.

City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture
San Diego, CA
$27,000
CATEGORY: Leadership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a folklorist position and other related costs. The folklorist will assess the state of the folk and traditional arts field in San Diego and implement a plan that will address the funding and professional development needs of individuals artists.

Creative Growth, Inc.
Oakland, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a year-long series of professional studio arts instruction for adults with disabilities, gallery exhibitions and extensive outreach activities. Professional artists, with experience working with people with disabilities, will teach classes in print making, drawing, painting and wood and clay sculpture.

Dancers' Group (on behalf of Bay Area Celebrates National Dance Week)
San Francisco, CA
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support Bay Area Celebrates National Dance Week. The main program of this event is Open Dance Studios, which allows dance artists and organizations to highlight their programming in their own neighborhoods.

Deaf West Theatre Company, Inc.
North Hollywood, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America Arts Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the tour and production of professional deaf theater for new audiences in New York City. Deaf West Theatre Company will identify and secure a venue in New York to co produce the musical production of Oliver! in American Sign Language.

Dimensions Dance Theater, Inc.
Oakland, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a free dance program for youth. In the City/Rites of Passage provides youth with dance education and training.

Earthways Foundation, Inc. (consortium)
Malibu, CA
$27,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support the second World Festival of Sacred Music/LA. This intercultural celebration will present international indigenous, classical and folk dance and music at venues throughout Los Angeles.

East Bay Center for the Performing Arts
Richmond, CA
$47,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multid
To support Call and Response and a series of special performance events. Ten culturally specific and multicultural resident dance, music and theater companies will perform at sites in and near Richmond.

East Bay Community Foundation (consortium)
Oakland, CA
$70,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support ARTS Ed. This project focuses on school district-coordinated leadership development and on capacity-building for school sites to sustain arts programs in partnership with local arts organizations and individual artists. Consortium partner is the Julia Morgan Center for the Arts.

East Los Angeles Classic Theatre
Monterey Park, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Beyond Borders Literary Engagement Performance Tour to schools and community venues. Touring productions of Shakespeare's As You Like It and A Midsummer Night's Dream will introduce students and communities to dramatic literature and the art of the spoken word.

East-West Players
Los Angeles, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the expansion and integration of the theater's comprehensive education program, which consists of the Actors Conservatory, the David Henry Hwang Writers Institute and Network. Scholarships and membership subsidies will be provided on a competitive basis to make the programs more accessible to emerging artists from underrepresented Asian Pacific communities.

El Teatro de la Esperanza
San Francisco, CA
$16,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development of a modern secular adaptation of Las Posadas Mojadas, a seasonal pageant and play about immigrants seeking refuge. The adaptation will be designed as a touring production that will bring theater to underserved audiences in San Francisco and nationwide.

Film Arts Foundation (on behalf of Mother Lode Productions)
San Francisco, CA
$22,500
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the community distribution strategy for the documentary Downside UP. The documentary relates the conversion of a New England industrial mill into MASS MoCA, America's largest contemporary art museum.

Film Arts Foundation (on behalf of Geller Goldfine Productions)
San Francisco, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & Television FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support production and post-production costs for a documentary tracing the history and impact of the Ballets Russes companies and the individuals who danced within them. Ballet Russes: A Living Legacy will cover the over eighty-year story of the blend of Russian, American, Canadian, Cuban and Latin American dancers and their impact not only within the dance community, but also on theater and film communities during the 20th century.

First Voice, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$12,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support the documentation of a performance of Sun Cycles for archival purposes. The performance will offer a contemporary interpretation of a creation myth using the Japanese art form, Gagaku.

Floricanto Dance Theatre
Whittier, CA
$13,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a full-length work choreographed by Artistic Director Gema Sandoval. The work will be based on the Mexican Day of the Dead (Dia de los Muertos) celebrations.

Fountain Theatre
Los Angeles, CA
$8,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support Poetry in Motion. Now in its second year, the project provides performance opportunities for deaf and hearing youth.

Fresno Arts Council
Fresno, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Leadership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support an executive director's position and other related costs at the Alliance for California Traditional Arts. Located at the Fresno Arts Council, the director will coordinate and support folk arts programs throughout the state of California.

Fresno Arts Council (consortium)
Fresno, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America Arts Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support production of a full-color quarterly publication entitled Living Cultures: A Magazine of California Arts & Community. Each issue will contain an events calendar highlighting traditional arts events, including the California Indian Basketweavers annual gathering and ethnic celebrations such as the Hmong New Year.

Fresno Arts Council
Fresno, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Alliance for California State Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program and other related costs. The project will support one-on-one learning for 40 master-apprenticeship pairs, an artist's gathering and Web site outreach.

Friends, Foundation of the California African American Museum
Los Angeles, CA
$24,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a touring exhibition of the work of African American artist Grafton Tyler Brown (1816-1918), with accompanying catalogue. Brown was one of a small number of African American professional landscape painters in the United States in the 19th century and one of the earliest African American painters in the West.

Galeria/Studio 24
San Francisco, CA
$23,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a community-based public art project that will commission artists and youth to develop computer-generated temporary murals. The project will include workshops and panel discussions to discuss how the works address the theme "Pervasive Forces: Globalization, Private Identities, and the Public Sphere."

Grand Performances
Los Angeles, CA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support a multidisciplinary series of hip hop presentations. Focused on local roots, this free series will broaden involvement of young audiences and introduce inter-generational audiences to the artistry of hip hop.

Great Leap, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$12,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support To All Relations: Re-spiriting Detroit. This intergenerational residency project will utilize dance, music and storytelling to create a work based on the community movement to rebuild Detroit.

Hmong Cultural Arts, Crafts, Teaching & Museum Projects
Elverta, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support an after-school program of instruction in Hmong pa dao embroidery, kheng music and Hmong and traditional folk dances. The after-school program is offered to at-risk youths who live in a disadvantaged area troubled by juvenile delinquency.

Idris Ackamoor & Cultural Odyssey (consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a partnership of Black performance institutions in supporting and nurturing a performing arts community rooted in African American artistic traditions. The consortium of Cultural Odyssey, Afro Solo Theater Company and the San Francisco Black Film Festival will encourage self-empowerment through collective marketing, audience development, technical assistance, Web development and aesthetic exploration.

Inglewood Cultural Arts, Inc.
Inglewood, CA
$8,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support multicultural workshops and the Interacts Experience. This after-school arts education workshop provides opportunities for youth to participate in African music, dance, culture and multimedia workshops and performances.

Inner-City Arts
Los Angeles, CA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support Arts Within Reach. Through programs in various arts disciplines, family days and teacher-training workshops, Inner-City Arts will foster self-expression, creativity, and an enhanced understanding of the arts by putting the arts within reach of the community.

Inside Out Community Arts, Inc.
Venice, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support the continuation of The School Project. Since 1993, the after-school project for at-risk youth has provided theater-based arts program at three middle schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District.

International Documentary Association
Los Angeles, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support the Docs Rocks Institute. A 14-day conference for filmmakers, students, visual arts and English teachers will examine the curriculum and media products associated with a one-year pilot project in a Los Angeles high school that integrated media studies with California's first media arts standards.

Intersection (on behalf of Youth Speaks)
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support the continuation of Youth Speaks. In this program, designed as an after-school literary arts workshop, youth participate in mentor and teacher training, a reading series, and a corresponding professional performance poetry series.

Japanese American Cultural and Community Center
Los Angeles, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support Crossing Bridges and the 20th Anniversary Celebration. This yearlong series of festivals, exhibitions, performances and educational activities will highlight multicultural artists and art forms with an emphasis on the Asian Pacific American community and its artists.

Japanese American National Museum
Los Angeles, CA
$16,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support Finding Family Stories--Artists in the Community Workshops. A series of eight hands-on workshops, exploring the themes of family history and cultural heritage, will culminate in an exhibition of students' work.

L.A. Theatre Works
Venice, CA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America Arts Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the distribution of two audio plays to 2,500 underserved public secondary schools and 700 public libraries, including those for the blind or visually impaired. In addition, L.A. Theatre Works will provide the organizations with promotional materials to augment the collection.

L.A. Theatre Works
Venice, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & Television FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production of radio plays intended for national and international distribution. Three plays will be recorded in front of a live audience in collaboration with Washington, D.C. theater companies, and two plays based on recent Broadway/Off Broadway productions will be recorded in-studio.

La Pena Cultural Center
Berkeley, CA
$28,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Bay Area Latin Jazz Legacy. This six-part series will feature Bay Area Latin jazz veterans and newer Latino jazz artists.

Little Tokyo Service Center Community Development Corporation
Los Angeles, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support a permanent interpretive center for the Little Tokyo National Historic District and a lecture series exploring the concept of an ethnic heritage site. The interpretive center will be housed in the Far East Building, within the historic district, and the programming will seek to raise awareness about issues involved in connecting ethnicity to historic architecture.

Los Angeles County Arts Commission (consortium)
Los Angeles, CA
$70,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support the second year of a professionally staffed arts education service hub. In consortium with the Los Angeles County Office of Education, the hub will deliver resources, training and coordinated services to systematically increase K-12 arts education in Los Angeles County.

Los Angeles County Arts Commission
Los Angeles, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Peer Mentorship and Project Grant Programs. These programs will increase the effectiveness and business acumen of folk arts organizations and encourage the expression of the myriad cultural traditions that have a home in Los Angeles County.

Los Angeles Opera Company
Los Angeles, CA
$80,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support the Educational Continuum. The services for K-12 teachers and students will include two specially commissioned operas as the basis for sequential, participatory activities that introduce as many as 20,000 students to opera.

Los Angeles Poverty Department (consortium)
Los Angeles, CA
$18,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a tour of Agents and Assets, a play that investigates the advent of the U.S. crack epidemic, to Florida, Ohio and Michigan. A community symposium with an invited panel of experts will follow each performance.

Los Angeles Women's Shakespeare Company
Santa Monica, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of The Tempest as part of the Los Angeles County Arts Commission's Summer Nights at the Ford series. The Tempest will be performed by an all-female, multicultural, multiracial cast and will feature acrobats, pyrotechnics, live musicians and aerialists.

Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center
San Pablo, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Community Heritage Project. The project provides an integrated program of arts training in traditional Mexican music and dance.

Make*A*Circus
San Francisco, CA
$8,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support Circus Days 2002. Make A Circus will tour a circus/theater musical play with audience participation to over 50 communities in California in summer 2002.

Mexican Museum
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support curatorial research and planning for an exhibition titled La Tercera Raiz (The Third Root): The African Presence in Mexico. Through visual, literary, media and performing arts, the exhibition will expand scholarship and introduce the American public to a relatively unknown Afro-Mestizo component of Mexican cultural heritage.

Mission Inn Foundation
Riverside, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support Family Voices. High school students participate in an objects-based learning project by selecting a family artifact and working with a storyteller/artist to research, develop and communicate their stories.

Museum of Children's Art
Oakland, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support best practices in the arts, education and youth development. The museum will provide organizational assessment and documentation, staff development, and comprehensive technical assistance to the field on a local, regional and statewide level.

Museum of Photographic Arts
San Diego, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America Arts Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the Regeneration Project, a 16-week collaborative creative process involving senior citizens and local artists. Working with professional photographers, actors, composers, designers and arts educators, the seniors participating in the project will experiment with a variety of artistic processes to write, direct and present a multimedia performance piece.

Old Globe Theatre
San Diego, CA
$45,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support the expansion of Teatro Meta. The in-school theater program for ESL middle and high school students has provided opportunities for youth to develop, produce and perform short plays.

Pacific Chorale
Santa Ana, CA
$11,500
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the recording of choral works by American composer Vincent Persichetti. The Pacific Chorale and the Pacific Symphony, under the direction of John Alexander, will perform and record Te Deum, Op. 93 and Stabat Mater, Opus 92 for release by RCM Records.

Pacific Symphony Association
Santa Ana, CA
$60,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support Class Act. The music education program provides both arts instruction and performance directly into all grade levels of 40 elementary and middle schools.

Pacificulture Foundation (on behalf of Pacific Asia Museum)
Pasadena, CA
$16,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the Chinese Community Initiative. This is the museum's first concerted effort to increase the number of Chinese Americans who visit the museum and participate in its programs.

Paradigm Productions
Berkeley, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & Television FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support research, development and scripting costs for a one-hour documentary film on José Clemente Orozco. A member of the Mexican mural renaissance, José Clemente Orozco rivaled Diego Rivera in technique, authenticity and talent, but never achieved the same recognition.

Pasadena Playhouse State Theatre of California, Inc.
Pasadena, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America Arts Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support an audience development initiative through increased access opportunities for deaf and hearing impaired, and low-income individuals. The program will include signed performances, audio-described performances for the blind and visually impaired, and pay what-you-can opportunities for individuals with limited financial resources.

Pasadena Symphony Association
Pasadena, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support four music education programs: TEMPO!, Musical Circus, the Mentor Program, and the Pasadena Youth Symphony Orchestra & Prelude Strings. These programs provide music infused curriculum, professional development for teachers, beginning and advanced music lessons with professional musicians, and performance opportunities for underserved children.

PEN Center USA West
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support mentorships targeted to emerging writers from underserved and minority communities, and seminars on practical topics for professional writers in California, New Mexico, Washington and Colorado. PEN West also will expand and reprint its Author Access catalogue, which lists more than 300 writers who are available for readings and speaking engagements.

Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County
Los Angeles, CA
$75,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support core programs of the Music Center Education Division. Four core programs form a continuum of in-school arts education services, including Music Center on Tour, individually designed arts packages, Artist in Residence and Teachers Partnership, and After School Creative Education.

Performing Arts Workshop, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support the Artists-in-Schools (AIS) program. The AIS program places professional artists in schools to conduct 15-week, process-oriented residencies in creative movement, theatre and world dance to enhance the academic experience of educationally and economically disadvantaged students.

Plaza de la Raza, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support youth arts programming at the School of Performing and Visual Arts. This cultural arts program features workshops, master classes, community performances and exhibitions for and by youth from the Lincoln Heights and east Los Angeles areas.

Poetry Flash
Berkeley, CA
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the expansion of the Poetry Flash Online Web site. The new site will feature improved editorial archives and frequent updates to a calendar of literary events throughout California and the West Coast.

Richmond Art Center
Richmond, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support the Artists-in-Schools program. Project activities will include residencies in six elementary schools of the West Contra Costa Unified School District.

Richmond Art Center (on behalf of the Quilt of Many Colors Project)
Richmond, CA
$7,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the Quilt of Many Colors Project, a series of four curated exhibitions installed in the waiting room of Richmond's main public health facility. The project will promote the value of the arts in the healing process and provide access to art for approximately 30,000 users of the facility.

San Diego Dance Theater
San Diego, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the Dance Ability Project. The project partners dancers and choreographers from the San Diego Dance Theater with general and adapted physical education teachers to create dances that provide performance opportunities for disabled students of the Oceanside School District.

San Diego Opera Association
San Diego, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support Operation: Opera, a series of educational outreach initiatives for K-12 students. The programs employ full production values, are complemented with teacher support materials connected to core curriculum, and are evaluated through a process created by the Educational Technology Department of San Diego State University.

San Diego State University Foundation
(on behalf of Border Voices Poetry Project)
$10,000
San Diego, CA RY: Arts Learning
To support the Borders Voices Poetry Project. This project will place up to 20 poet/teachers in school residency programs, feature an annual two-day poetry fair, produce six television shows documenting interaction at the fairs between poets and students, and publish the work of participating poets alongside student poems and artwork.

San Francisco Girls Chorus, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support the Music Education/Outreach Program. The program provides need-based scholarships for female youth in 160 schools in the Bay area to participate in choral training and performances.

San Francisco Jazz Organization
San Francisco, CA
$11,000
CATEGORY: Leadership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the continuation of JazzNet, a jointly funded initiative with the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. Designed to increase commissioning residencies and educational programming through 13 regional presenters, JazzNet encourages individual artists and ensembles by providing creation funds, touring support, artists' residencies and access to shared workspace.

San Francisco Performances, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support Performance Poetry and Jazz Intervention. Jazz vibraphonist Stefon Harris and baritone Christopheren Nomura will work with primarily inner-city high school students in lecture-demonstrations, workshops, instrument and creative writing instruction, and performances.

San Francisco State University (on behalf of the Poetry Center)
San Francisco, CA
$7,500
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the restoration of historical film footage from the Poetry Center's American Poetry Archives. Authors featured in these original recordings include Ernest J. Gaines, Audre Lorde, Allen Ginsberg, Charles Reznikoff, William S. Burroughs and Ted Hughes.

San Francisco Symphony
(on behalf of the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra)
$60,000
San Francisco, CA RY: Arts Learning
To support the Artistic Development Program. In this program designed to enhance the artistic growth of Youth Orchestra members, youth participate in personalized coaching, master classes, apprenticeships, mentorships, and specialized training in chamber music, instrument care and auditioning.

San Jose Jazz Society
San Jose, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support a jazz education research program. Four classrooms of students will participate in Get Jazzed and Jazz for Kids to test the effectiveness of classroom materials in motivating students to participate in music education.

Santa Monica College
Santa Monica, CA
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the production of a series of one-hour theatrical readings of 20th century short fiction about the immigrant experience. To be aired on public radio station KCRW to 500,000 listeners, the series will be designed for both local and national audiences as well as Internet broadcast.

Santa Rosa Symphony Association
Santa Rosa, CA
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a community outreach project using Sir Michael Tippett's poem, A Child of Our Time, as a catalyst for interdisciplinary study at Santa Rosa High School. The activities will culminate with performances by the Santa Rosa Symphony, guest soloists and two community choruses.

Shakespeare - San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
$8,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support Free Shakespeare in the Park which offers diverse audiences the opportunity to enjoy professional productions of Shakespeare in San Francisco Bay Area public parks. The 2002 production will mark the company's 20th anniversary of offering free performances to the region.

Shakespeare Festival LA, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLI
To support a production of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in downtown Los Angeles' Pershing Square as part of the company's annual Summer Festival. To increase access to traditional and nontraditional theater audiences, more than half of the Summer Festival performances will be free.

Small Press Distribution, Inc.
Berkeley, CA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a targeted distribution initiative. The project will provide individuals, libraries and bookstores in all 50 states with publications from 500 small and independent presses.

Social and Public Art Resource Center
Venice, CA
$18,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support expansion of digital mural making opportunities in collaboration with a new media lab at the University of California, Los Angeles. Artists will lead inner-city youth in mural projects that address contemporary issues of identity and community.

Sonos Handbell Ensemble, Inc.
Berkeley, CA
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a national tour of Sonos Handbell Ensemble's program Runaway Child. The ensemble and guest artist, mezzo soprano Frederica von Stade, will perform in 10 venues, featuring a new work titled Hell's Belles by American composer Libby Larsen.

Stanford Jazz Workshop
Stanford, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support the continuation of Jazz Camp. This two-week summer program uses customized jazz curriculum, which is based on each participant's abilities and interests.

Sundar Kala Kendra Foundation
Walnut, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support creation and presentation of a dance drama choreographed by Artistic Director Anjani Ambegaokar. The production will be performed in classical kathak dance style accompanied by live musicians.

Theater Artaud
San Francisco, CA
$18,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support the Inheritance Project. This initiative will preserve and teach the history of northern California hip hop dance, poetry and music though a series of workshops, performance creation and documentation.

Tides Center
Stanford, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support Visual Arts/Language Arts. This project will sustain and expand a guest artists program, extend teacher/artist training in creative writing and visual arts, and foster long-term partnerships among schools, artists and arts organizations.

United Cambodian Community, Inc.
(on behalf of Arts of Apsara Performing Arts & Cultural Center)
Long Beach, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Arts of Apsara Performing Arts Program. The project will consist of master/apprentice workshops in traditional Cambodian dance and music, public presentations and the promotion of the program's resident performing ensemble.

University of California at Berkeley (consortium)
(on behalf of the University Art Museum)
Berkeley, CA
$14,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support Access to Alternative Art Forms. The project will utilize technology to increase viewing of and interaction with art collections via the Internet.

University of California at Los Angeles
(on behalf of UCLA Film & Television Archive)
Los Angeles, CA
$7,500
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support a curated film series. The retrospective will feature Ida Lupino as both an actress and a director.

University of California at San Diego
La Jolla, CA
$5,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the publication and distribution of two issues of Theatre Forum. The journal documents and disseminates innovative theatre works internationally.

University of California at Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the post-production phase of Mary Anthony: A Life in Modern Dance. This is a video documentary of the life and work of a dance artist and pioneer.

University of Southern California (on behalf of Fisher Gallery)
Los Angeles, CA
$32,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the touring exhibition Mixed Feelings, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will feature new work by contemporary artists dealing with issues about the "border," immigration, globalization and urbanization.

Viet Olympiad
Garden Grove, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a performance of Cai Luong classical Vietnamese musical theater. Cai Luong is dear to the hearts of both old and young in the Vietnamese community because its music and lyrics express their deepest feelings, stirring people to laugh, cry, fall in love, feel angry and, most often, express sadness.

Virginia Avenue Project
Los Angeles, CA
$12,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support the One-on-One and Playmaking programs. Through a sequence of classes, youth develop skills in acting and playwriting, culminating in performances of their works for peers and general audiences. Since 1992, more than 250 original plays have been written and performed by youth in collaboration with professional artists.

Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum
Topanga, CA
$5,000

CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLI
To support the development and touring of a new piece about the history of Spanish speaking people in California. Free performances of the new work will be offered to underserved audiences in schools and library venues throughout southern California.

Words Given Wings Literary Arts Project
San Francisco, CA
$5,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support Mercury House's publication and national distribution of an anthology of fiction, drama, poetry and nonfiction by Carl Sadakichi Hartmann, with an introduction by Japanese American poet Lawson Fusao Inada. A Japanese-German American naturalized in 1894, Hartmann devoted most of his life to championing American art and artists.

Z Space Studio (on behalf of Word for Word)
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the expansion of Word for Word's educational outreach activities. The project includes additional performances, workshops and artist residencies in local schools and libraries.

Total Dollars Awarded: $3,431,800
Total Grants Awarded: 114

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