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.

NEW YORK

52nd Street Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support One-on-Ones and Two-on-Twos, programs designed to improve the quality of life for inner-city youth targeted from New York City's Clinton (Hell's Kitchen) neighborhood. Personal mentoring relationships will be developed between the young people and professional theater artists.

Academy of American Poets, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the coordination of National Poetry Month, a project that brings poetry to schools, libraries, bookstores, cultural organizations and communities across the country in new and imaginative ways. During April 2002, the academy will host library readings, panel discussions, outreach efforts and special features on the organization's Web site.

Adirondack Community College (on behalf of Writers Institute)
Queensbury, NY
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
To support the creation of a writer's institute. The institute will present readings and workshops by nationally renowned and local writers to students and community members.

Alianza Dominicana, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Dominican Folk Instrument and Dance Apprenticeship Project. The project will expand the Conjunto Folklorico ensemble's activities by adding a much needed folk instrument component.

American Bolero Dance Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the American Bolero Apprenticeship Program. Participants in the program will be taught traditional Spanish dance.

American Documentary, Inc.
New York, NY
$250,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & Television FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the selection, acquisition, packaging and promotion of films for the 2003 broadcast of P.O.V. (Point of View), a primetime public television series that showcases the art of independent, nonfiction filmmakers. As public television's longest running broadcast venue devoted exclusively to the art of nonfiction film, P.O.V. brings documentary artworks - rarely found in the mainstream media - into America's living rooms.

American Documentary, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production of Virtual Lives, a series of short documentary works by independent filmmakers and Internet artists offered to the public via the Web. The series will combine independent filmmaking with community-building dialogue via an Internet site that will include episodic installments and features that encourage user participation.

American Place Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$17,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support the Literature to Life program. Initiated in New York in 1994 and replicated later in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C., the program encourages middle and high school students to develop reading, writing and critical thinking skills and encourage involvement with literature and theater.

Americas Society, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support Central American Writing Today, a program of bilingual author readings and school visits, and publication and marketing of Review: Latin American Literature and Arts. Scheduled writers include Claribel Alegria of Nicaragua and El Salvador, Roberto Quesada of Honduras, and Ernesto Cardenal and Sergio Ramírez of Nicaragua.

Anthology Film Archives
New York, NY
$12,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support a curated film series. The Iron Lens will focus on the rise of experimental film in Pittsburgh during the 1970s.

Art 21, Inc.
New York, NY
$45,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support the expansion of the Art in the Twenty-First Century series, an educational program for public television. Launched in fall 2001, the series provides opportunities for citizens to discover and understand contemporary art, while exploring creative self-expression.

Art 21, Inc.
New York, NY
$175,000
CATEGORY: Access: Arts on Radio & TV FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the second year of Art for the Twenty-First Century, a four-year public television series about contemporary visual art and artists in the United States. The project will include the production of four, one-hour programs featuring intimate profiles of artists and the contexts within which they work.

Art Resources Transfer, Inc.
New York, NY
$57,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America Arts Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the Distribution to Underserved Communities Program. The project will offer books, museum catalogues, videos and other material about contemporary art free to libraries across the nation with a special emphasis on rural and inner-city libraries.

ArtsConnection, Inc.
New York, NY
$60,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support classroom-based instruction in dance, storytelling and theater arts. This 20-week program reaches the 1,600 students at Community Elementary School 53 in the Bronx and provides professional development for teachers.

Asian American Arts Alliance, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support the maintenance and expansion of the Asian American Arts Calendar/NY. This Web-based resource project will promote greater visibility and access to Asian American arts and cultural activities in New York City.

Asian American Arts Centre, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America Arts Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support an intergenerational public art project, Stories of Chinatown, in an underserved community. Organized in collaboration with Elders Share the Arts, the program will bring Chinatown seniors together with high school youth to create artwork that will present the untold stories of this aging immigrant population in a permanent ceramic tile installation.

Ballet Tech Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support the Upper School program (grades 6-12) at the New York City Public School for Dance, and performances by KidsDance. Developed to increase the number of professionally trained young dancers, the program strengthens students' dance technique, and is designed to help raise the individual dancer's sense of responsibility and improve their discipline.

Bard College
Annandale-Hudson, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the development of Interlit, a Web site devoted to international literature. The site will feature between 50 and 100 works of nonfiction, short stories, poems and novel excerpts a year drawn from 20 to 25 languages.

Batoto Yetu, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the expanded production of a dance drama created by Artistic Director Julio T. Leitao. The production, titled The Quest, will showcase African dance and folklore.

Big Apple Circus, Ltd.
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America Arts Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Clown Care Unit program in which professional clown performers make bedside visits to hospitalized children around the country. Using juggling, mime, magic and music, Big Apple Circus clowns use classical circus arts to bring humor to acutely and chronically ill children and their parents.

BOMB Magazine (New Art Publications)
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support the development of an on-line archive of artist-to-artist interviews. The project will feature selections from BOMB Magazine's collection of interviews, video and audio clips, original poetry, and visual art by highlighted artists.

Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, Inc.
(on behalf of Dancers Responding to AIDS)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support dance activities in the New York City Festival of Dance. Activities range from benefit performances to the Danskin Masterclass Series.

Brooklyn Arts Council
Brooklyn, NY
$8,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support fieldwork and the Praise in the Park: Musical Expressions of Faith concert. The concert will present exemplary musicians, dancers and ritual practitioners working in Brooklyn's varied religious traditions.

Brooklyn Historical Society
Brooklyn, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the exhibition The Art of Work and related programming. A series of public programs and video segments will be created to accompany the society's new permanent exhibition, Brooklyn Works: 350 Years of Making a Living in Brooklyn.

Buffalo Media Resources, Inc.
Buffalo, NY
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support SWAP: Squeaky Wheel Access Program. This 15-year-old program provides media equipment access, low-cost workshops, artists residencies and resource services to film and video artists locally and nationally.

Burchfield-Penney Art Center
Buffalo, NY
$12,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a retrospective exhibition of the work of Milton Rogovin (b. 1909), with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition, generated by a recent gift of Rogovin's work to the center, will feature works that represent all phases of the artist's career.

Camera News, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support a digital media literacy and production education program. This includes the 25th year of the Advanced Film and Video Production Workshop, the Wednesday Night Media Workshops, and the Introduction to Final Cut Pro/Media Literacy Workshop Series.

Capital Repertory Company
Albany, NY
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support expanded efforts to provide assistance for the hearing impaired. Plans include the installation of an infrared assisted listening system and the engagement of professional sign language interpreters for designated performances.

Capoeira Foundation, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support the expansion of a youth arts dance program. Designed to reach the City of Hartford's inner-city population, youth will receive dance and capoeira training on a year round basis. Consortium members include Dance Connecticut and the Housing Authority of the City of Hartford.

Cave Canem Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a writing retreat for emerging African American poets. Cave Canem also will expand and improve its new Web site to include more information about available programs and participating poets.

Center for Traditional Music and Dance, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Tradi
To support the creation of a Mariachi Education Program. The program will offer intensive instruction in mariachi repertoire, instruments and vocal technique.

Central Park Conservancy, Inc.
New York, NY
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Harlem Meer Performance Festival. This free music performance series will showcase emerging African American and Latino artists.

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & Television FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production and national distribution of the radio series, Chamber Music From Lincoln Center. Thirteen, one-hour programs will be offered free of charge to public radio stations across the country in 2002-03.

Chekhov Theatre Ensemble, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$8,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support Stages of Learning, a series of learning experiences designed to inspire children to learn. In 10-week sessions, the ensemble will provide lecture demonstrations that introduce teachers and approximately 4,000 K-eighth grade students to a sequential process illustrating how a play is developed in rehearsal.

Children's Museum of Manhattan/ G.A.M.E. Inc.
New York, NY
$16,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support Art Inside Out (AIO), a collaborative project between contemporary artists and school age audiences. AIO visitors will observe how artists develop their work, interact with artist-created exhibitions and create art themselves.

China Institute in America
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support Sound of Silk: Chinese Culture through Music, a professional training opportunity for New York City sixth grade teachers. The program will utilize music to stimulate and facilitate children's learning about the folk and traditional culture of China and to enable them to understand Chinese music.

Chinese-American Arts Council, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support the Summer Cultural Festival. This series will feature Chinese opera, traditional dance, folk music, visual arts and demonstrations.

Cineaste Publishers, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the publication of special supplements for Cineaste magazine. The organization will also increase its writers' fees.

City Center 55th Street Theater Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the restoration, remounting and concert staging of a musical in the City Center Encores! project. City Center will remount and produce House of Flowers by Harold Arlen and Truman Capote in its 2,753-seat theater.

City Lore, Inc.
New York, NY
$45,000
CATEGORY: Leadership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the creation of the documentarian (director of fieldwork) position and other related costs. The responsibilities for the new position will be to conduct field research for all of City Lore's initiatives including Place Matters and the People's Poetry Gathering.

City Lore, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the third People's Poetry Gathering. The gatherings have featured more than 30 different genres of traditional poetry, ranging from occupational traditions -- loggers, cowboy, hobos, fishermen -- to ethnic traditions, such as Cambodian ayai or the Brazilian cordel (clothesline) poetry.

City Lore, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the touring exhibition Que bonita bandera!: The Puerto Rican Flag as Folk Art. The traveling exhibition will feature traditional mundillo and vejigante masks as well as murals and assemblages of objects which utilize the image of the flag.

City University of New York City College (consortium)
New York, NY
$80,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America Arts Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support a strategic planning process for the Harlem Heights Heritage Area, including pilot sites, cultural tourism, educational programming and economic revitalization. City College Architectural Center has been assisting the West Harlem Art Fund with efforts to establish a New York State Heritage Area in northern Manhattan.

Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art (consortium)
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support and expand a community arts partnership. Since 1999, Cooper Union, Jamaica Center for the Arts & Learning, and ABC No Rio have partnered in a consortium to provide pre college studio art classes to the community outside of the academic setting.

D'Youville College
Buffalo, NY
$8,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support programs for underserved at-risk students and professional opportunities for young people seeking careers in the arts. The theater will expand and refine its ongoing programs to broaden access to the arts among neighborhood young people.

Dance Films Association, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the 30th international dance film and video festival. Dance on Camera Festival 2002 On Tour will take place in California, Florida, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York and Virginia.

Dance Ring, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support the LIFT Community Service Program, which offers dance education and support services for children from New York City homeless shelters. Started in 1989, the LIFT program provides scholarships for 30 predominantly African and Latin American children, ages four through 12, for a 36-week training program in ballet.

Dance Theatre of Harlem, Inc.
New York, NY
$70,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a comprehensive educational outreach program that introduces children and adults to dance. The program, Dancing through Barriers, will provide professional development workshops for teachers, master classes, movement classes, lecture demonstrations, video assemblies, athletic workshops, performances, open rehearsals, and internships and apprenticeships.

Dancing in the Streets, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a mobile living installation created and performed by Eiko and Koma. White will be performed in multiple public spaces in New York City.

Das Puppenspiel Puppet Theater, Inc.
Westfield, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America Arts Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a multistate tour of plays for young audiences. Performances will feature a variety of performance styles including mime, mask and shadow puppets, and will tour to performing arts centers, schools and museums.

Dixon Place (Open Channels NY, Inc.)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support the Intergenerational Performance Workshops. The program will provide artistic outlets for underserved seniors, youth and audiences residing at public housing facilities in the Rosehill section of Manhattan.

Downtown Art Co., Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$7,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support the creation and production of two original plays. Since 1997, this program has provided youth with rehearsal, presentation and production opportunities while increasing their knowledge and skills in theater arts.

Downtown Arts Project
New York, NY
$12,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support an Internet-based professional development project for emerging visual artists. The Emerge Web site is a centralized resource for career advice by arts professionals, on-line dialogues and exhibitions, and links to artists resources.

Downtown Community Television Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America Arts Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the CyberStudio for the Arts Residency Program and Video Training Workshops Program. Downtown Community Television is devoted to making technologically sophisticated media available to underserved communities by providing a range of courses.

Dutchess County Arts Council, Inc.
Poughkeepsie, NY
$6,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support One River, Many Streams. The festival features performances, demonstrations and displays of folk and traditional performing and material arts practiced in the Mid-Hudson Valley.

Early Stages Program, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support the initiation of the Responsive Writing Programs. Early Stages will augment its Live Theater Program, which has provided access to theater, symphony, dance and other cultural events for K-12 students since 1983, by launching a writing program based on responses to the performances attended.

Education Through Music, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support the Teaching Artist Academy, ongoing mentoring, and Saturday Teacher Institutes. The program will train academic teachers and teaching-artists in pedagogy and integration.

Educational Alliance, Inc.
New York, NY
$12,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support the expansion of the Gifted Young Artist Program. This visual arts after-school and summer program, taught by practicing and exhibiting artists, provides economically disadvantaged youth with art instruction in a professional art school environment.

Educational Broadcasting Corporation
New York, NY
$550,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & Television FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the development and production of Thirteen/WNET's Performing Arts Series, including Great Performances and Dance in America for national broadcast on PBS in 2003 04. Regardless of geographic or economic limitations, American television audiences in all 50 states will be provided free access to a diverse range of cultural programming.

Educational Broadcasting Corporation
New York, NY
$500,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & Television FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the development and production of the television series American Masters for national PBS broadcast in 2002-03. Definitive documentary profiles of major cultural figures will be made available to millions of viewers in all 50 states over 340 public television stations.

El Puente de Williamsburg, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support the development and implementation of an integrated arts curriculum. In collaboration with El Puente Academy (a New York City public high school), the project will look at the science and cultural ritual of food and cooking through an integrated arts curriculum.

Elders Share the Arts
Brooklyn, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support two artist residencies, refinement and publication of a curriculum and teacher training. The program includes residencies in theater and video; development, testing, refinement and publication of a comprehensive curriculum manual that will integrate theater and video into a sequential course of study; and teacher training in the manual's use.

Elders Share the Arts (consortium)
Brooklyn, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support the National Center for Creative Aging, a national arts-in-aging training program. Project activities will include the maintenance of current arts-in-training programs in five regions, expansion of training to additional cities, creation of a network newsletter, and the development of an online component highlighting model programs.

Electronic Arts Intermix, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the Artists' Videotape Distribution Service. Through Electronic Arts Intermix's online catalog, more than 3,000 works will be made available to libraries, educational institutions, community centers, museums and other organizations.

Electronic Arts Intermix, Inc.
(on behalf of Independent Media Arts Preservation)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support workshops and consultations to teach arts organizations how to care for and preserve their media collections. The Independent Media Arts Preservation organization was formed to support the preservation of art works reflecting the early history of independent media.

Films for Humanity, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & Television FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support research and development for a documentary film on Robert and Frances Flaherty. Eyes to Illuminate: The Lives and Work of Robert and Frances Flaherty will examine the Flahertys' growth as artists when nonfiction film was emerging as an art form in and of itself, away from ethnographic and adventure filmmaking.

Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support an archival project to create a digital record and searchable database of the 25 year history of this pioneering alternative artists' organization. The project will create an accessible, interactive and ongoing record of the organization's work, including exhibitions of artists' books, temporary installations, performance art, and live on the Internet netcasts.

George Balanchine Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support two core video archive programs. The Archive of Lost Choreography retrieves fragments of Balanchine works that are no longer performed and the Interpreters Archive preserves the coaching of Balanchine roles by those who worked directly with him.

George Eastman House (consortium)
Rochester, NY
$55,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the touring exhibition Young America: The Daguerreotypes of Southworth and Hawes, and accompanying education programs. The exhibition is being organized with the International Center of Photography in New York City.

George Eastman House
Rochester, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the preservation of five films made in the United States between 1917 and 1923. The films are especially notable because they are early classics from the careers of Douglas Fairbanks, Viola Dana, Harold Lloyd and Mae Murray.

Glimmerglass Opera, Inc. (consortium)
Cooperstown, NY
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support audience development and educational outreach programs for adults and students in conjunction with a new co-production of Mark Adamo's Little Women. In consortium with New York City Opera, Little Women will be seen in Cooperstown during the 2002 Festival Season and at Lincoln Center in 2003.

Global Action Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support the continuation of Urban Voices TV. The pre-professional media arts training program engages low-income youth in artistic inquiry, digital media productions, and the creation of group and individual media arts projects.

H.T. Dance Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support an interactive and multidisciplinary dance education program. Bamboo Oracle will be expanded to include community participation in rehearsal and performance during company residencies in New York and Texas.

Hatch-Billops Collection, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support Artist and Influence. This project will document visual artists, writers, filmmakers, poets and arts administrators through recorded interviews, journal publication and television broadcasts on Manhattan Cable.

Henry Street Settlement
New York, NY
$33,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support Arts for Everyone. Low-cost, theme-based performances and ancillary events will be presented at Abrons Arts Center and feature a range of artists who reflect the diversity of the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

High 5 Tickets to the Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support the Take 5 reduced ticketing program. This adult-led, small-group program is designed to make the arts accessible to younger teens, many of whom may not be able to attend an art event on their own.

Hostos Community College Advisory Council, Inc.
Bronx, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support BomPlenazo 2002. Project activities include a concert series, school lecture/demonstrations; percussion, dance and crafts workshops; and an exhibit of photos and artifacts related to bomba and plena.

Hyde Collection Trust
Glens Falls, NY
$22,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support conservation treatment of the collection of Italian Renaissance and 18th century French furniture, with accompanying interpretive and educational programs. The project is part of a major renovation, reinstallation and reinterpretation of historic Hyde House.

International Arts Relations, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and presentation of a new play entitled Our Wide, Wide Sea, by Afro-Cuban playwright Alberto Pedro. The play will be co-produced in both New York City and Los Angeles.

International Cultural Programming, Inc.
New York, NY
$100,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & Television FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support a television series on the dance traditions of the Pacific Islands. Dances of Life will be a two-hour series as seen through the eyes of the people who practice it as an art form and way of life.

International Film Seminars, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 48th Robert Flaherty Film Seminar. The event will bring together students, scholars, filmmakers, curators, librarians and film enthusiasts to explore and discuss the art of the moving image.

Irondale Productions, Inc. (consortium)
Brooklyn, NY
$8,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the next phase of development of the Network of Ensemble Theaters (NET), a service organization for ensemble-based theaters. NET was created to document and preserve the ways in which ensembles create work, while serving the needs of those companies and mentoring artists who will form the next generation of American ensembles.

Iroquois Indian Museum
Howes Cave, NY
$16,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support Haudenosaunee Happenings. The project will present a wide spectrum of visual and performing arts events by Iroquois Nation artists.

Jazz at Lincoln Center, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition and Festival. Duke Ellington's musical legacy will be taught in schools across the country through study, performance and free distribution of his repertoire, providing thousands of students with the opportunity to perform Ellington's music. Consortium members include Jazz Aspen Snowmass in Colorado and the International Association of Jazz Educators in Kansas.

Jewish Heritage Writing Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the National Initiative in the Literature of the Holocaust, a residency program coupling young, established writers with Holocaust survivors to produce publishable literary memoirs. Jewish Heritage will partner with schools, museums and community organizations across the country to produce and promote quality manuscripts.

La Troupe Makandal, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$6,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support Carnival. A street procession held in the early morning hours of Labor Day, Carnival features a blend of traditional African and Christian cultural elements.

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$150,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & Television FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support national telecasts in 2003-04 of the public television series Live From Lincoln Center. The series is broadcast on approximately 300 PBS stations across the 50 states and U.S. territories and reaches an average of five million viewers per program.

Living Archives, Inc.
New York, NY
$33,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a documentary and an accompanying curriculum guide based on the 2001 People's Poetry Gathering. The gathering features free-style rap artists, Cambodian Ayaiand Hmong Kwv Txhiaj men and women poets, as well as fishermen, loggers, and farmers from the Pacific Northwest.

Long Island Traditions. Inc.
Port Washington, NY
$23,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support development of a model social studies curriculum using traditional and vernacular architectural design and history. Through interdisciplinary study, students at Dodd Junior High School will examine how artistic design decisions were affected by technological and historical/cultural changes.

Los Pleneros de la 21, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Puerto Rican Music Project. Project activities include an array of year-round concerts, performance lectures, workshops, community festivals, classes for youth and adults and out-of-state residencies.

Lower East Side Printshop, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support the Art-in-Education and Teacher Training programs in public schools in New York's Lower East Side. Through intensive, semester-long art programs, students in grades K 9 will gain skills in art making and appreciation.

Manhattan Theatre Club, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support expansion of the TheatreLink program. This project will extend the five-year-old distance learning initiative from 12 to 15 high schools across the country and provide for an upgrade of technological support.

Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance
New York, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the Martha Graham Media Project. The project will catalogue between 1,500 and 2,000 recordings, preserve 500 items, and make a selection of these works accessible to the public.

Meet The Composer, Inc.
New York, NY
$100,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America Arts Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Composer Connections Initiative designed to increase the impact contemporary music has on listeners. The components of the initiative, the Meet the Composer Fund and New Residencies, embrace complementary approaches to cultivating relationships between composers and communities.

Metropolitan Opera Association, Inc.
New York, NY
$100,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & Television FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support post-production costs for a national PBS telecast of Alban Berg's Wozzeck. Based on Georg Buchner's play, this 20th century opera is about a low-ranking soldier who is tormented by his officers, his doctor and the mother of his child.

Mind-Builders Creative Arts Co. (consortium)
Bronx, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the folklorist-in-training project. The project will recruit and train local youth between the ages of 13 and 17 to help identify, document and present folk artists and tradition bearers found in their family and neighborhood.

Monte/Brown Dance (E. Monte Motion, Inc.)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support Celebrate Harlem ARTS, a series of performances and discussions inaugurating Monte/Brown Harlem ARTSpace. The project will incorporate performances of a new African Caribbean-based work created by choreographers Monte and Brown, as well as performances by Harlem community artists and groups.

Museum of Modern Art
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the preservation of critically endangered films from the museum's nationally recognized collection that are crucial to the history of film as an art form. The museum's Film Department saves 50 to 100 films from disintegration each year by transferring them from unstable nitrate stock to acetate and also preserves fading and damaged acetate films.

Music From China
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support thematic concerts of new music for traditional Chinese instruments. Music From China will perform Chinese music, including a Cantonese opera, at several sites in New York City.

Nassau County Firefighters Emerald Society Pipes and Drums
Long Beach, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support drum and pipe workshops. The workshops are designed to preserve, present and pass down Irish drum and bagpipe traditions.

National Black Touring Circuit, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the Gospel in Theater Project. National Black Touring Circuit will present three theater pieces that include the music of the Great Divas of Gospel and the sermons and music of James Weldon Johnson.

National Book Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America Arts Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support literary outreach programs that link National Book Award authors with underserved communities throughout the country. Programs include American Voices, which brings writers to American Indian reservations nationwide, and a Summer Writing Camp for inner-city teens and adults.

National Conference of Artists, Inc.
Bronx, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support conference activities associated with Renewing our Spiritual Connections throughout the African Diaspora to be held in Ghana. The two-week event includes exhibitions, symposia, demonstration and training workshops, and studio tours of Ghanaian artists.

New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. (consortium)
Staten Island, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the cataloging and preservation of work from the radio series New American Radio. New American Radio (1989-1998) was a weekly series that encouraged artists from all disciplines to create radiophonic art works.

New York Baroque Dance Co,. Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the Baroque Ballet Workshop, a residency program to be held in Hunter, NY, San Rafael, CA, and Dallas, TX. The focus of the project is to strengthen professional and public knowledge of Baroque dance heritage through classes, concerts and lectures, passing on artistic repertoire, techniques and traditions.

New York City Ballet, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support Phase II of the Archive Project. The project is an effort to organize, preserve and make accessible original materials from New York City Ballet's past.

New York Festival of Song, Inc.
New York, NY
$12,500
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support an in-school music education and professional development program for high school teachers. Components include in-school workshops taught by teaching artists, curriculum materials designed to support classroom work, teacher training/planning sessions, a concert designed for students and teachers, and video documentation of classroom workshops, and a final concert.

New York Folklore Society, Inc.
Schenectady, NY
$16,000
CATEGORY: Leadership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support an audio technician position and other related costs. Activities include Web site enhancements and technology upgrades to provide audio streaming onto the society's Web site.

New York Folklore Society, Inc.
Schenectady, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the continuation of the Mentoring and Professional Development Program for Folklife and the Traditional Arts and expansion of the services to the field through the Building Capacity and Artist Promotion and Marketing Programs. The services will provide professional development support and outreach to underserved rural and community folk arts organizations.

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc. (on behalf of Anker Productions)
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & Television FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support post-production costs for the two-part television series Music From the Inside Out. Intended for a national PBS broadcast, the series will explore the intangible qualities of music as seen through the eyes of the members of the Philadelphia Orchestra.

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc. (on behalf of Robert Levi Films)
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & Television FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support production and post-production costs for a documentary film on Billy Strayhorn. Piano in the Background: The Story of Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington will chronicle Mr. Strayhorn's career as composer and arranger for the Ellington Orchestra as well as his relationship with the maestro.

New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations
(on behalf of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts)
New York, NY
$58,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support the documentation of dance and theater performances and the preservation of oral histories by seminal artists. Sixteen performances and four oral histories will be recorded, and 70 hours of audio materials will be conserved.

New York State Council on the Arts
New York, NY
$777,200
CATEGORY: Partnership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

New York University
New York, NY
$8,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the publication and distribution of four volumes of The Drama Review, an international journal of live performance. The Drama Review is committed to documenting important new work and to reassessing traditional notions of performance.

Non-Traditional Casting Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$28,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support Artist Files/Online and the National Diversity Forum. These two initiatives link theater producers with artists of color and artists with disabilities to promote a national dialogue concerning diversity and inclusion.

NY Artists Unlimited, Inc.
New York, NY
$8,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support performances and a tour of a bilingual musical dramatization of poetry by Julia de Burgos. NY Artists Unlimited will present and tour Song of the Simple Truth-El Canto de Julia de Burgos to underserved and predominantly Latino and African American audiences in New York City and in Connecticut, New Jersey and New York State.

OLLANTAY Center for the Arts, Inc.
Jackson Heights, NY
$9,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the publication and distribution of two volumes of OLLANTAY Theater Magazine, a semi-annual journal of Latino theater. The magazine is dedicated to the preservation and promotion of Latino culture in the United States through the investigation and publication of works by Latino artists.

Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support community concerts, two national tours and residency activities. Orpheus Chamber Orchestra will tour with pianist Richard Goode and soprano Dawn Upshaw, and be in residence at University of California-Los Angeles and the Krannert Center at the University of Illinois at Champagne.

Paris Review Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support eight Writers-at-Work interviews in The Paris Review. Potential interviewees include Michael Ondaatje, Jorie Graham, David Foster Wallace, John Edgar Wideman, Ann Beattie, Adrienne Rich, Wole Soyinka, Edward Hirsch, Richard Powers, Stephen King and Annie Proulx.

Paul Taylor Dance Foundation, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the Paul Taylor Dance Company in a five-year, annual residency at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. The project will consist of a Taylor 2 residency, an open rehearsal week by Paul Taylor Dance Company, and a company performance.

Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York, Inc.
New York, NY
$60,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & Television FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production of live radio broadcasts of performances by the New York Philharmonic in 2002-03. Approximately 5 million listeners per month will hear each two hour program.

Poetry Society of America
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support Poetry in Motion, a program that places poetry placards in public transportation systems around the country. Targeted cities include Boston, MA; Washington, D.C.; Atlanta, GA; and Minneapolis, MN.

Poets & Writers, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
$45,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America Arts Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support Carried Voices: Writers & Books in the West, a program to increase access to established writers in rural communities throughout Washington, Oregon and Montana. The program will develop a new model for writers' residencies and more effectively link publishers, presenters and audiences outside of major urban centers.

Poets House, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the expansion of the Poetry in the Branches program to libraries throughout the nation. In collaboration with the American Library Association, the organization will present a three-day training conference for librarians from branches nationwide.

Poets House, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the tenth annual Poetry Publication Showcase, a series of programs designed to preserve and display the breadth of poetry in print. Poets House will exhibit new poetry books to 20,000 librarians at the American Library Association Conference in Atlanta, and will publish the Directory of American Poetry Books, the only bibliographic resource that tracks the annual publication of poetry.

Pregones Touring Puerto Rican Theater Collection, Inc. (consortium)
Bronx, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support La Ruta: The Northeastern Latino Cultural Corridor, a regional touring and artist residency network. Activities will include structural and curatorial planning for network activity, artist nominations and selection, presenter-artist residency planning, and regional tours throughout the northeast and mid-Atlantic regions.

Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre Co., Inc.
New York, NY
$22,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a national tour of La Lupe: My Life, My Destiny by Carmen Rivera during the 2003 season. In keeping with its tradition, the company will present the play in both English and Spanish.

Queens Symphony Orchestra Inc
Glendale, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support an audience development campaign, presenting subscription concerts throughout the borough. This decentralization plan will mirror the enclaves of Queens, one of the most ethnically diverse counties in the nation.

Queens Theatre in the Park, Inc.
Flushing, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Latino Cultural Festival and the yearlong Latino Cultural Series. The festival, a three-week summer event, and the series, a seven-event program, will feature music, dance, theater, film and children's productions in celebration of Latino and Latin American artists' contributions to the cultural life of Queens and the greater New York metropolitan area.

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support documentation of the acoustical properties of Troy Music Hall using the latest measurement technology for sound documentation. The documentation of Troy Music Hall will aid in the design, understanding and preservation of musical performance spaces.

Rhizome.org.
New York, NY
$23,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support design and touring of arcade-style consoles featuring new media work. Targeted at young people, the project, entitled Grok, will be installed at four community centers in rural or underserved areas across the country and will introduce audiences to the potential of new, contemporary digital art.

Roundabout Theatre Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$45,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support arts-in-education programs in New York City schools. Through a three-part approach, the Page to Stage and Producing Partners programs for students and professional development workshops for teachers, is geared to New York State Standards and the integration of creativity and theater elements into the curriculum.

Salvadori Center
New York, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support dissemination of the methodology used in the Salvadori Middle School Program and the development of a project book to be used to replicate the methodology outside of New York City. The center will expand its middle school program to Staten Island and Port Chester, NY, to explore ways to disseminate teaching methods in areas where on-site mentoring by Salvadori staff and bimonthly workshops in New York City are not feasible.

Shakespeare Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$8,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support free outdoor performances of Shakespeare's Othello in parks and public spaces throughout New York City. The production will be targeted to nontraditional audiences and to the communities surrounding the park venues.

Society of the Educational Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America Arts Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the New York productions and tour to Puerto Rico of children's theater in Spanish with accompanying workshops. Sociedad Educativa de las Artes' programs and performances preserve Latin American arts and culture through presentation of a repertory of Latin American children's classics and folk tales.

Society of the Third Street Music School Settlement, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support development of a comprehensive, sequential music curriculum. Created in collaboration with the Island School, the program will include basic music, strings, choral singing, percussion and recorder.

Sound Portraits Productions, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & Television FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production of a radio documentary for the series American Sound Portraits. To be aired on NPR's All Things Considered, David Isay will produce this program.

Spanish Theatre Repertory Co.
New York, NY
$75,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America Arts Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support Teatro Acceso, a tour of theater works to students from underserved schools and Latino communities with limited access to the arts throughout the New York metropolitan, tri state area, and the northeastern United States. Spanish Theatre Repertory Company will implement grassroots promotional efforts to reach the underserved communities.

St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support performances and workshops in New York City public schools. The project includes 12 performances of Handel's opera Acis and Galatea and as many as 800 artist-led workshops at 25 elementary and intermediate schools.

Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, Inc.
Cazenovia, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America Arts Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of Dance Theatre of Harlem in rural, upstate New York. The open rehearsal, evening performance, and lecture demonstration will be for low-income rural and urban participants, particularly at-risk children and youth.

Storefront for Art and Architecture
New York, NY
$18,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support the development and implementation of a design education project for youth living in New York City shelters. Students will study urban structures representing different aspects of the city.

Streb/Ringside (Ringside, Inc.)
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support two components of PUBLIC/ACTION, Streb/Ringside's central audience development and access program. The project will support residency and outreach programs for PUBLIC/ACTION NEW YORK and PUBLIC/ACTION ON TOUR.

Symphony Space, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & Television FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production of the public radio series Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story, and the distribution of related audiocassettes. The series, which will air on more than 125 National Public Radio stations in 2003-04, will present leading stage and screen actors reading both classic and new short fiction by established and emerging authors of diverse cultures.

Syracuse Children's Chorus, Inc.
Syracuse, NY
$5,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the recording of choral works by American composer Gregg Smith. The Syracuse Children's Chorus will release the compact disc recording for national distribution.

TADA Theatre and Dance Alliance, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support expansion of the Musical Theater Writing Residency program to reach more students in underserved neighborhoods of New York City. TADA! will replicate its six-year-old model to develop musicals related to the social studies curriculum in two Brooklyn schools, where many students speak English as a second language.

Teachers & Writers Collaborative, Inc.
New York, NY
$55,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support the expansion of WriteNet, an Internet-based service for writers working in schools, and Teachers & Writers, a bimonthly magazine. These resources provide teachers, writers, students, and parents access to literary arts materials and opportunities for writers to partner with schools and community institutions.

Textile Conservation Workshop, Inc.
South Salem, NY
$18,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a master-apprenticeship for in-depth training in textile conservation. As a regional conservation laboratory, the program fills a gap not covered by formal conservation courses in graduate school programs.

The Field (Performance Zone, Inc.) (consortium)
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support GoTour. This Web-based interactive touring planner will connect nationwide independent performing artists and their audiences with venues and artist resources.

The Kitchen (Haleakala, Inc.)
New York, NY
$28,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support a partnership to enhance access to historically significant collections of video art and documentation. The Kitchen and consortium partner Electronic Arts Intermix will share an archivist and oversee the restoration and distribution of extensive performance and video art archives.

Theatre Development Fund, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support Interpreting for the Theatre, an intensive one-week institute for proficient sign language interpreters. The program is designed to improve the skills of certified interpreters who have experience in signing plays and musicals, and to maintain national standards of excellence in the field.

Theatreworks/USA Corporation
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America Arts Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support a tour of productions to western states and Washington, D.C. Theatreworks/USA will tour Ferdinand the Bull, Island of the Blue Dolphins, and Freedom Train to over 280,000 young people and families in seven western states and Washington, D.C. during its 2002-03 season.

UrbanGlass
Brooklyn, NY
$12,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the 25th anniversary publication documenting Urban Glass' history and its contributions to the more experimental side of the studio glass movement. The publication, Glass, will be a double issue that includes an illustrated chronology and a complete photographic record of all exhibitions and artist residencies.

Women's Studio Workshop, Inc.
Rosendale, NY
$18,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support the Hands-On-Art Visiting Artist Project. Two emerging artists will be awarded 10 week residencies to conduct in-school and in-studio workshops with pre-K-12 students and to develop an artist's book.

Working Playground, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning
To support implementation of the Curriculum Development and Arts Access Program. This program will train middle and high school humanities teachers at East Side Community High School to integrate the arts into the academic curriculum.

World Music Institute, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support touring concerts of traditional Kurdish, Greek, Ethiopian, Afro-Cuban and Indian music and dance. The project will showcase music and dance rarely offered in this country, providing a window onto these cultures and offering assistance to artists striving to preserve culturally valuable forms of music and dance.

World Music Productions
Brooklyn, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & Television FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production and national distribution of the weekly public radio program Afropop Worldwide in 2002-03. The series showcases the contemporary musical cultures of Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas, and is distributed by Public Radio International to approximately 100 radio stations in the U.S.

Young Audiences/New York, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support FamilyLink. This intergenerational program will provide underserved public school students and families with access to arts education programming and New York City's cultural resources.

Total Dollars Awarded: 200
Total Grants Awarded: $6,337,157

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