2003 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access; Arts on Radio & TV; Arts Learning; Folk Arts Infrastructure; Heritage/Preservation; State & Regional Partnership Agreements

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

CALIFORNIA

Berkeley

Aurora Theatre Company
Berkeley, CA
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$6,000
To support the Family Theatre Initiative, a program that offers discounted admission for families in attendance at designated performances. Participants will receive pre-show materials and participate in post-performance activities.

La Pena Cultural Center
Berkeley, CA
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
$35,000
To support Live La Pena. The series will create a forum for musicians and spoken-word artists to create live recordings of their performances.

La Pena Cultural Center (consortium)
Berkeley, CA
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
$40,000
To support the Next Generation Summit. Emerging performing artists, representatives of Bay Area youth arts organizations, members of the Latino Arts Network and presenters will convene to discuss programming for audiences and artists of color.

Paradigm Productions, Inc.
Berkeley, CA
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & TV FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$45,000
To support production and post-production costs for a documentary film on Jose Clemente Orozco. A member of the Mexican mural movement, Orozco rivaled Diego Rivera in technique, authenticity and talent, but never achieved the same recognition.

Small Press Distribution, Inc.
Berkeley, CA
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$60,000
To support a distribution initiative, targeting individuals, libraries and bookstores in all 50 states with publications from 550 small and independent presses. The project will include outreach materials, an online bookstore, catalogs and a newsletter.

Youth Radio
Berkeley, CA
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & TV FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$20,000
To support Youth Voices on Art and Culture, a series of nationally distributed radio programs about art and culture, produced by young people. Youth-produced commentaries and short modules will air on NPR news programs, and half-hour specials covering youth culture will be produced for Public Radio International.

Chula Vista

Chula Vista Elementary School District
Chula Vista, CA
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$70,000
To support Community of Teachers & Artists. Artists and teachers in four selected schools will be engaged in a process to fully integrate the arts into all aspects of the curriculum and develop outcome-based evaluation for students in the Chula Vista Elementary School.

Culver City

Henry Mancini Institute
Culver City, CA
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$15,000
To support the Summer Concert Series and Community Combos. The Summer Concert Series will take place at Royce Hall, University of California/Los Angeles and Community Combos performances will take place in museums, parks, senior centers and other public places in Los Angeles.

Kayamanan Ng Lahi Philippine Folk Arts
Culver City, CA
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
$20,000
To support the Philippine Dance Gathering and Workshops II. The project is designed to support the development of Philippine dance in America through the provision of a variety of capacity-building activities and services.

El Cerrito

Gamelan Sekar Jaya
El Cerrito, CA
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$25,000
To support the Balinese Residency and Intensive Workshop Series. Up to ten Balinese musicians and dancers will offer hands-on instruction, coaching, lectures and demonstrations on both widely known Balinese performance genres and little-documented music and dance forms.

Elverta

Hmong Cultural Arts, Crafts, Teaching & Museum Projects
Elverta, CA
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$20,000
To support the preservation of Hmong culture and music. Eight masters of traditional Hmong arts will teach classes to mostly Southeast-Asian youth ages eight to 14 at the Hmong Cultural Center in Sacramento and the Firehouse Community Center in Del Paso Heights.

Fremont

California Indian Storytelling Association (CISA)
Fremont, CA
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
$30,000
To support the Storytelling Festivals and Symposia: Building Cultural Bridges. The forums will provide time for Native storytellers from California, Arizona and Hawaii to share their stories so they may learn from each other, discuss issues and pass stories on to new generations as they educate the public.

Fresno

Fresno Arts Council, Inc.
Fresno, CA
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
$25,000
To support Art Hop, a monthly, free event of open studios, galleries and museums. Designed to increase the access to Fresno's diverse cultural offerings, the project will include the establishment of an art trolley to transport participants from location to location, as well as a joint marketing plan.

Fresno Arts Council, Inc. (on behalf of Alliance for California Traditional Arts)
Fresno, CA
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
$40,000
To support the Alliance for California Traditional Arts State Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program and related costs. The project will support one-on-one learning for 30 master-apprentice pairs, fieldwork, an artists' gathering and Web site outreach.

Fresno Arts Council, Inc.
Fresno, CA
CATEGORY: Folk Arts Infrastructure FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
$30,000
To support an executive director's position and related costs at the Alliance for California Traditional Arts (ACTA). Located at the Fresno Arts Council, the director will coordinate and support folk arts programs throughout the state of California.

Fresno Arts Council, Inc.
Fresno, CA
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
$30,000
To support Voices of Youth 2003. Using folklore theory and the documentary arts of photography and audio recording to explore the idea of community, youth ages 13 to 17 will focus attention on elements of their own community traditions.

Glendale

Alex Regional Theatre Board (aka The Alex)
Glendale, CA
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$20,000
To support performing arts educational outreach programs. Alex in the Schools will work with American Repertory Dance Company to develop the programs.

Hollywood

Actors' Gang, Inc.
Hollywood, CA
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$8,000
To support the marketing outreach initiative and the Youth Mentorship Program. The two programs will increase accessibility for underserved urban audiences.

Ford Theatre Foundation
Hollywood, CA
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
$20,000
To support expenses associated with the presentation of the International Hispanic Theatre Festival (IHTF). Festival programming will be expanded from one week to two.

La Jolla

Regents of the University of California at San Diego (on behalf of TheaterForum)
La Jolla, CA
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$8,000
To support the publication and distribution of two issues of TheatreForum, an international journal of performance. TheatreForum documents contemporary theater for current and future students, scholars and theater practitioners.

Long Beach

Long Beach Museum of Art Foundation
Long Beach, CA
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$35,000
To support KidsVisions. This visual arts education program includes teachers' training, artists' presentations at the schools, resource materials, student field trips to the museum, art-making experiences and an exhibition.

Long Beach Symphony Association (aka Long Beach Symphony Orchestra)
Long Beach, CA
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$17,500
To support Musical Bridges, an outreach program. Proposed activities include community concerts that will link traditional and classical music in local venues, a chamber orchestra concert and specially designed family concerts.

Los Angeles

Autry Museum of Western Heritage
Los Angeles, CA
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$40,000
To support the expansion of New Voices at the Autry, a program targeted to the development and presentation of new plays by Native-American writers. Competitively selected writers work with professional directors and actors on new plays, and benefit from participation in workshops, readings and workshop productions.

Cornerstone Theater Company
Los Angeles, CA
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$55,000
To support the third project in a four-year Faith-Based Theater Cycle. In 10 Acrobats in an Amazing Leap of Faith, members of Los Angeles' diverse Muslim community will participate with playwright Yussef El Guindi to create a new work about family, faith and access to the American Dream.

Friends of the Schindler House (aka FOSH)
(on behalf of MAK Center for Art and Architecture, L.A.)
Los Angeles, CA
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
$25,000
To support public access to the MAK Center archives and to expand the Web site. The Web site expansion will create a virtual archive, an online index, and will allow online book sales and advance ticket purchases.

Grand Performances
Los Angeles, CA
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
$20,000
To support Intersection Africa--the effects of the African diaspora on contemporary arts. The free series will comprise spoken word, dance, and music performances by local, national, and international artists, in addition to an intergenerational poetry workshop.

HeArt Project
Los Angeles, CA
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$10,000
To support a standards-based arts education project. Yearlong comprehensive workshops will be conducted for students at continuation high schools of the Los Angeles Unified School District.

Heritage & Tradition, Inc. (AVAZ International Dance Theatre)
Los Angeles, CA
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$10,000
To support the creation of a suite of classical Persian court dances. Choreographed by Associate Artistic Director Jamal, the works will mark the 25th anniversary of AVAZ International Dance Theatre.

HUC Skirball Cultural Center (aka Skirball Cultural Center)
Los Angeles, CA
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$40,000
To support the International Jewish Performing Arts Festival. The three-week series will present work by international musicians, theater artists, videographers, filmmakers and choreographers whose work integrates traditional Jewish and contemporary artistic practices.

Inner-City Arts
Los Angeles, CA
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$40,000
To support the Early Arts Learning Initiative. This initiative will engage visiting artists as full-time staff to provide a sequential arts education program for second- and third-grade students in Los Angeles elementary schools.

Inner-City Arts (consortium)
Los Angeles, CA
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$60,000
To support the Partnership for Improved Education (PIE-Arts). The initiative, which links the arts with literacy, will focus on development and implementation of specialized curriculum models that promote student learning and arts education strategies in Los Angeles middle schools.

Iota Fund (aka iotaCenter)
Los Angeles, CA
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$10,000
To support the preservation of films by Jules Engel from the Dr. William Moritz Collection. Jules Engel, who began his career working on Walt Disney's Fantasia (1939), is an important figure in the field of abstract animation.

Japanese American Cultural and Community Center
Los Angeles, CA
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$50,000
To support contemporary and traditional cross-cultural arts programming. Project activities will include concerts, performances, visual art exhibitions, cultural celebrations and a series of events that will bring programming to sites throughout Los Angeles.

Japanese American Cultural and Community Center (consortium)
Los Angeles, CA
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
$20,000
To support the 2003 North American Taiko Community Gathering. The project will offer a three-day conference with master classes, community leadership dialogues, a weeklong Summer Taiko Institute and a Taiko Jam concert.

L.A. Freewaves
Los Angeles, CA
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$20,000
To support the production and distribution of Not TV. The 26-part television series will showcase independent media artworks and broadcast them on local public access stations.

Los Angeles Chamber Singers, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$10,000
To support a residency at the University of California at Riverside. Activities will include four full-length concerts for the public, open rehearsals, joint rehearsals with student ensembles and master classes in performance, repertoire, period practice and composition.

Los Angeles Commission on Assaults Against Women (LACAAW)
Los Angeles, CA
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$45,000
To support the Digital Storytelling Project. This project provides at-risk youth residing in metropolitan Los Angeles with after-school education in the visual, graphic and literary arts, using multimedia technology.

Los Angeles County Arts Commission (consortium)
Los Angeles, CA
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$80,000
To support the Arts Education Hub. The project will provide central coordination of the county's efforts toward furthering its arts education policies.

Los Angeles Opera Company
Los Angeles, CA
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$75,000
To support arts education programs for students in grades K-12. Activities include in-school performances, a student matinee program and Opera for Educators/Opera 101, and a professional development seminar for teachers.

Los Angeles Poverty Department (aka LAPD)
Los Angeles, CA
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$10,000
To support the creation, development and production of a new play. Based on the legend of La Llorona and the stories of the women of Skid Row in Los Angeles, the play will be written and performed in collaboration with neighborhood residents.

People's Community Organization for Reform and Empowerment
Los Angeles, CA
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$35,000
To support continuation of the Mural Missions project. The weekly series of after-school public art and mural classes will bring local artists together with inner-city middle and high school-aged youth.

Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County (aka Music Center)
Los Angeles, CA
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$75,000
To support four Music Center programs: Music Center on Tour, Arts Packages, Artists in Residence, Teacher Partnerships and After-School Creative Education. The programs feature a range of in school and after-school workshops and residencies by local artists and ensembles for K-12 students and teachers in Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, Ventura and Riverside counties.

Regents of the University of California at Los Angeles
(on behalf of UCLA Film and Television Archive)
Los Angeles, CA
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation DISICPLINE: Media Arts
$15,000
To support a retrospective film series devoted to director Frank Borzage. Frank Borzage was a pioneer in the use of soft-focus photography and set the Hollywood standard for romantic atmosphere.

Ryman-Carroll Foundation
Los Angeles, CA
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$50,000
To support the expansion of the Ryman Program for Young Artists. Teens from Los Angeles will receive tuition-free studio instruction in drawing and painting by master artist teachers.

Santa Cecilia Opera and Orchestra Association
Los Angeles, CA
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$10,000
To support Discovering Music, an educational outreach program in underserved communities of Los Angeles. The project, led by artistic director Sonia Marie De Leon, will provide orchestral performances and educational activities in venues ranging from elementary schools to community centers.

Shakespeare Festival/LA, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$20,000
To support the production of Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor in downtown Los Angeles' Pershing Square as part of the company's annual summer festival. Performances will be free in order to increase access for both traditional and nontraditional theater audiences.

Monterey Park

East Los Angeles Classic Theatre (aka ECT)
Monterey Park, CA
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$27,000
To support the 2003-2004 Beyond Borders Literacy Engagement PerformanceTour and associated workshops. Over 60 performances of culturally relevant adaptations of The Tempest, Much Ado About Nothing, and A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare will be presented in schools and community venues.

Nevada City

California Indian Basketweavers Association
Nevada City, CA
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
$30,000
To support the California Indian Basketweavers Gathering. The annual gathering contributes to the revitalization of indigenous basket traditions in California by bringing together basketweavers to learn from one another, share experiences, discuss issues and exhibit their work.

Music in the Mountains
Nevada City, CA
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$12,000
To support Music in the Mountains. Components of the music education program for pre-K through 12th-grade students and teachers include instruction in music, movement and composition along with educational tours and classroom performances.

North Hollywood

Deaf West Theatre Company, Inc.
North Hollywood, CA
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
$60,000
To support the creation of a new musical that is culturally relevant and linguistically appropriate for both deaf and hearing audiences. Based on the classic love story Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmund Rostand, the new sign language musical will use technology to create accessibility for both audiences and artists.

Oakland

Destiny Arts Center
Oakland, CA
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$30,000
To support Project Aloud. The project will include the creation and performance of a dance/theater work by the Center's Destiny Arts Youth Performing Company, and the development and distribution of a curriculum guide.

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

East Bay Asian Youth Center
Oakland, CA
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$45,000
To support Mothers on the Move, a media-based arts learning initiative for youth. The program is designed to immerse 50 high school students in the process of digital storytelling documenting the struggles of multicultural low-income mothers living in Oakland.

Panorama City

Pasadena

Armory Center for the Arts
Pasadena, CA
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$50,000
To support increasing the number of schools and classrooms in the Pasadena Unified School District that participate in in-depth, sequential visual arts education programs. Four programs, presented for K through eighth-grade students and teachers during the school day, are tied to the Visual Arts Content Standards mandated by the California Department of Education.

California Alliance for Arts Education
Pasadena, CA
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$20,000
To support the Community Arts Education Project, a collaboration with the California State PTA Leadership to increase arts learning in public schools. Working in 20 selected sites, community arts teams will develop arts education plans and assessments.

Pacific Asia Museum
Pasadena, CA
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
$45,000
To support the Chinese Community Initiative (CCI). The project will expand the museum's efforts to involve the Chinese American community in its programming and to make use of its resources.

Pasadena Symphony Association
Pasadena, CA
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$33,000
To support music education and outreach programs. The four programs serve to increase the musical knowledge and skills of Pasadena's ethnically diverse student population.

Richmond

Richmond Arts Center (on behalf of Quilt of Many Colors Project)
Richmond, CA
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$10,000
To support the Quilt of Many Colors Project, a series of 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.

Riverside

Mission Inn Foundation
Riverside, CA
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$18,000
To support Family Voices. Using object-based learning, students from the California School for the Deaf and mainstream classes select a family artifact and work alongside a professional storyteller and published author to research, develop and communicate their own stories.

Sacramento

California Arts Council
Sacramento, CA
CATEGORY: Partnership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
$962,600
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

San Diego

City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture
San Diego, CA
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
$65,000
To support the Neighborhood Design Arts Program. The project, conducted in partnership with Partners for Livable Places, will integrate quality public art and design into community development plans, and will implement projects designed to foster a stronger sense of community.

San Diego Opera Association (consortium)
San Diego, CA
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$55,000
To support continuation of the WAM (Words and Music) program. The project aims to improve literacy skills of at-risk middle school students through the creation of a student written/composed musical theatre/opera piece.

Sherman Heights Community Center Corporation (on behalf of !Art Now!)
San Diego, CA
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$20,000
To support the Voices Project. The program is a collaboration among artists, youth, museums and community partners and will use photography, writing, sound and video to address issues of importance to teens, their families and community members.

San Fernando

City of San Fernando, California
San Fernando, CA
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
$20,000
To support the Mariachi Master-Apprentice Program. The project will focus on advanced instrumental and vocal performance skills for youth ages 11 to 21.

San Francisco

509 Cultural Center
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$25,000
To support free arts programming in a low-income neighborhood. The project will feature outdoor performances, the ninth annual In the Street Theater Festival and visual arts exhibitions.

American Indian Film Institute
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$5,000
To support the 29th annual American Indian Film Festival. At the 2003 festival, documentaries and feature films will be presented along with work by emerging Native-American filmmakers.

Art Re Grup, Inc. (aka The LAB)
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$9,000
To support the organization and dissemination of archive material documenting The LAB's 20-year history of contemporary arts programming. The LAB, located in San Francisco's Mission District, has presented hundreds of artists over the years whose work crossed the disciplinary boundaries of visual, performing and literary art.

Bay Area Video Coalition, Inc. (aka BAVC)
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$50,000
To support ongoing, low-cost video preservation services to artists and arts organizations throughout the nation. In addition, Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC) will launch an audio preservation and remastering service center.

Buen Dia Corporation
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$15,000
To support the Early Childhood Arts Education Training Program in the Visual and Performing Arts. This program provides preschool teachers with training workshops and artist residencies to enhance their skills in delivering arts programs specifically to young children.

California Lawyers for the Arts, Inc. (consortium)
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$70,000
To support evaluation, documentation and dissemination of CultureCore. The program is designed to expand the development of youth through cultural enrichment and exposure.

California Poets in the Schools
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$45,000
To support the PEER Project. Through this poet-in-residence and peer-review project students in grades
K-12 will learn poetry appreciation and writing from accomplished poets-in-residence at their schools.

Center for Art in Translation
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$10,000
To support Poetry Inside Out. Targeted for bilingual students ages eight to 13, the program will introduce students to Spanish literature, increase language proficiency in both English and Spanish through literary translation, and demonstrate the possibility of career opportunities.

Chhandam Chitresh Das Dance Company (aka CDDC) (consortium)
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
$30,000
To support the Kathak at the Crossroads conference. The conference will bring, for the first time, the international Kathak community to one location and explore Kathak in all its dimensions through performances, panel discussions, forums, papers and lecture demonstrations.

Children's Book Press (aka Imprenta de Libros Infantiles)
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$18,000
To support LitLinks. This virtual author-in-residence project combines literature and technology in four, yearlong literature-based writing programs for youth, ages 11 to 14.

Eldergivers
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$15,000
To support an art instruction program for Bay Area nursing homes. Building upon 10 years of experience, Eldergivers will hire professional artists with teaching experience to conduct workshops for institutionalized seniors.

Exploratorium (consortium)
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$30,000
To support the development of integrated arts learning activities focused on artist James Turrell's monumental art installation in the Arizona Desert's Roden Crater. The interconnections between art and science will be explored through an interactive Web site and related classroom activities.

Film Arts Foundation (on behalf of Performance and Media Art)
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & TV FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$40,000
To support production and post-production costs for a documentary on composer Lou Harrison. Lou Harrison: A World of Music will be a feature-length film that will examine Lou Harrison's personal and professional life.

Galeria/Studio 24
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$25,000
To support Paradigms Lost. The project will explore Latino/Latin American artists' reflections on self and place in the digital age, and will comprise a visual art exhibition, performances, public art and a youth arts component.

Idris Ackamoor & Cultural Odyssey (consortium)
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$30,000
To support a partnership of African-American performance institutions. Cultural Odyssey, Afro Solo Theater Company and the San Francisco Black Film Festival will encourage self-empowerment through collective marketing, audience development, technical assistance and Web development.

Independent Television Service, Inc. (aka ITVS)
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & TV FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$100,000
To support the selection, acquisition and packaging of films for the 2003-2004 broadcast of the primetime public television series, Independent Lens. The series will provide the public with access to innovative dramatic, animated and documentary works by independent filmmakers.

Instituto Pro Musica de California
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$15,000
To support the annual Dia de los Reyes (Epiphany) celebratory concerts of 18th-century Mexico music performed throughout Northern California and recorded for subsequent release. The project will involve the restoration to modern performance repertory and give present-day premieres of eight works by Mexican composers.

Just Think Foundation
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$55,000
To support the production and marketing of a series of media-literacy curriculum kits. The curriculum is designed for children in third through 12th grade, and will be marketed to teachers, parents and community workers.

Kitchen Sisters Productions
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & TV FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$25,000
To support planning, research and development of Lost and Found Film, a series of stories for television, created from rare, unusual and little-known moving image footage. Evolving from the Kitchen Sisters' Peabody Award-winning NPR series Lost and Found Sound, the series will use personal and archival film, found footage and "orphan films" to produce richly layered stories about daily life.

Magnificat
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$12,500
To support a series of regional touring performances and events in communities across the United States. Programming for the nine-state tour will center around the neglected works of a 17th-century Italian composer and cloistered nun, Chiara Margarita Cozzolani.

Make A Circus, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$10,000
To support a tour of Circus Days 2003 to communities in the San Francisco Bay Area. The program offers free performances of a circus in which audience members learn basic circus skills and incorporate them into the performance.

Other Minds (consortium)
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$50,000
To support New Music in America, a project preserving more than 3,500 hours of original live conversations, interviews and performances by leading American composers and artists of the 20th and early 21st centuries. The San Francisco Performing Arts Library and Museum will collaborate on the project to convert the aging analog archive into a digital medium.

Performing Arts Workshop, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$10,000
To support continuation of the Artists in Schools evaluation. The research study of student learning in and through the arts will focus on student performance at 10 elementary schools in San Francisco, San Mateo and Marin County.

Precita Eyes Muralists Association, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$17,000
To support research and development of a book documenting the murals of San Franciso's Mission District. To be published and distributed by the University of California Press, the volume will present the murals in full-color photographs.

Purple Silk Music Education Foundation, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$30,000
To support expansion of the youth training programs. Chinese traditional musicians will train students, ages eight to 18, on weekends in ensembles grouped by three levels of proficiency, of which the most advanced, the Great Wall Youth Orchestra, will perform at public events and will be recorded.

San Francisco Art and Film Program
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$12,000
To support continuation of the Teen Film Workshop. The film workshop is designed to prepare high school juniors and seniors, aged 16 to 18, for film school and train them for future careers in the film industry.

San Francisco Arts Commission
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$50,000
To support the Arts Education Funders Collaborative (AEFC). The program will provide ongoing arts education activities for all elementary school and child development center students and professional development for educators in the San Francisco United School District.

San Francisco Girls Chorus, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$25,000
To support a choral music education and performance program for talented Bay-area girls. The program is a graduated, three-level curriculum and serves as a training ground for the Performance Program's two concert and touring ensembles.

San Francisco Performing Arts Library & Museum (aka SF Palm) (on behalf of LEGACY 0ral History Project)
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation DISICPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$25,000
To support the expansion of the LEGACY Oral History Project. Up to nine oral histories will be produced and two training workshops in the creation of oral histories will be offered.

San Francisco Symphony
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & TV FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$200,000
To support a public television series featuring Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony. The Music Show is designed to help a national audience appreciate the power and relevance of classical music in contemporary life.

San Francisco Symphony (on behalf of San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra)
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$75,000
To support the ongoing Youth Orchestra Artistic Development Program. Intensive personalized coaching, engagements with renowned artists, apprenticeships and mentorships enhance the curriculum of individualized training and specialization for youth orchestra members.

SEW Productions, Inc. (aka Lorraine Hansberry Theatre)
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$15,000
To support an Artist/Audience Development and Youth Outreach Program. Lorraine Hansberry Theatre will produce four plays showcasing the work of leading African-American playwrights and artists, and expose underserved students to African-American arts and culture.

Stern Grove Festival Association
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$30,000
To support the Asian American and Pacific Islander Initiative. This project will consist of a mainstage concert featuring contemporary and traditional Hawaiian music and dance, and education programs for children and adults.

Streetside Stories, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$20,000
To support the development of Storytelling Exchange. Streetside Stories staff and facilitator will lead workshops for sixth-grade students in the composition of autobiographical narratives, theater performance and storytelling workshops which will culminate in a published anthology of the students' work.

Women's Philharmonic
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$10,000
To support Composing A Career, a symposium and an annual music festival at Yerba Buena Center for the Performing Arts. The symposium will include Music in the Making, new music reading sessions that will showcase emerging American women composers.

Words Given Wings Literary Arts Project (aka Mercury House)
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$10,000
To support Mercury House's publication and national distribution of culturally significant works of international literature. Scheduled titles include Running Through Fire, a memoir by Holocaust survivor Zosia Goldberg as told to Hilton Obenzinger, with an introduction by Paul Auster; and Border Crosser: Selected Writings of Victor Perera.

Z Space Studio
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$17,000
To support Word for Word's educational outreach activities. The project includes performances, workshops and artist residencies in local schools and libraries.

San Jose

American Musical Theatre of San Jose (aka AMTSJ)
San Jose, CA
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
$20,000
To support and expand accommodation services for blind/sight impaired and deaf/hearing impaired patrons. Each mainstage show will be made accessible to these special-needs audiences through human and technological resources.

Arab American Congress of Silicon Valley (on behalf of Arab Film Festival)
San Jose, CA
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$5,000
To support the seventh annual Arab Film Festival. Held in venues in San Francisco, Berkeley and San Jose, the festival will present approximately 30 films to an estimated audience of 4,000 people.

San Pablo

Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center
San Pablo, CA
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
$25,000
To support the Community Heritage Project. The project is designed to help low-income and at-risk youth develop art skills in a social context by providing them with opportunities for self and community expression through traditional Mexican music, dance and visual art forms.

Santa Ana

STOP-GAP
Santa Ana, CA
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$15,000
To support the creation and Southern California tour of a new interactive play for middle and high school students. Friendly Fire will involve teens in a creative examination of the roles they play when they experience conflict with their peers, and will help them recognize and discourage bullying behavior.

Santa Clarita

City of Santa Clarita, California
Santa Clarita, CA
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
$10,000
To support the 2004 Cowboy Poetry & Music Festival and the Cowboy Poetry and Music in the Schools Program. The project is designed to enlighten festival patrons about the rich history of California through songs and verse, commission folk and traditional artists to create new works and develop an education component.

Santa Monica

American Film Foundation
Santa Monica, CA
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & TV FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$45,000
To support production and post-production costs for a documentary film about Tony Kushner. Wrestling with Angels will be a portrait of the playwright and his creative process.

Virginia Avenue Project
Santa Monica, CA
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$15,000
To support the continuation of One-on-One and Playmaking. The writing and performing programs link area youth with professional artist mentors in workshops, summer camp and performances.

Santa Rosa

Santa Rosa Symphony Association
Santa Rosa, CA
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$20,000
To support the completion of a documentary film that captures the yearlong process and results of a community outreach project. The video will be disseminated nationwide to schools and symphony orchestras as a template for community collaborations, as well as an educational tool to bring meaning to present-day conflicts.

South Lake Tahoe

Tahoe Arts Project
South Lake Tahoe, CA
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
$10,000
To support the presentation of The Manding Empire Revealed by Manding Jata. The performance will profile the music, dance and oral traditions of the Mali Empire.

Topanga

Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum
Topanga, CA
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$10,000
To support the apprenticeship program. Twenty young artists will be mentored as they move past the internship stage to professional actor and artist/teachers.

Truckee

Sierra Business Council
Truckee, CA
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
$20,000
To support the printing and Web placement of Sierra Town Patterns. The publication on historic buildings and downtown areas will offer information on cultural and historical assets in Sierra Nevada communities.

Venice

Inside Out Community Arts, Inc.
Venice, CA
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$20,000
To support the continuation of The School Project. This comprehensive program of after-school theater arts instruction is located at three Los Angeles Unified School District middle schools.

L.A. Theatre Works
Venice, CA
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & TV FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$40,000
To support the production and distribution of The Play's The Thing, a weekly radio theater series intended for broadcast on satellite and public radio stations nationwide. Up to 17 new radio plays, recorded live before audiences in Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles, will be produced.

L.A. Theatre Works
Venice, CA
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$60,000
To support the expansion of the Alive and Aloud and Library Access national outreach programs. Alive and Aloud distributes audio plays with curricula to schools in all 50 states and the Library Access program distributes audio plays to more than 700 libraries in low-income, underserved neighborhoods.

Venice Arts Mecca (aka Venice Arts)
Venice, CA
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$12,000
To support the expansion of ArtPartners. The yearlong artist residency program will provide photographic and digital art workshops for at-risk youth, ages 10 to 17, from Mar Vista and Venice.

Westminster

Bump the Ghost Foundation (aka Museum Without Walls)
Westminster, CA
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$70,000
To support the development of a CD-Rom and Web site based on resources offered by art museums from across the United States and abroad. The information will be designed to provide motivational learning resources and activities geared toward children ages eight to 12 and which fulfill state goals in art, literacy and other subjects.

Whittier

Floricanto Dance Theatre
Whittier, CA
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$18,000
To support the Floricanto Dance Institute. Designed to preserve Mexican culture and awareness through music and dance, students will participate in after-school dance training programs.

California Total Dollars Awarded: $4,682,600
California Total Grants Awarded: 120

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