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.

NEW YORK

Albertson

National Center for Disability Services
Albertson, NY
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
$20,000
To support a cooperative venture with the Nassau County Museum of Art, Long Island, N.Y., to make the museum's outdoor sculpture garden more accessible to people with disabilities. The project is part of NCDS's initiative to promote access to the arts for disabled children.

Amherst

State University of New York at Buffalo
Amherst, NY
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$74,000
To support the professional development opportunities for early childhood specialists. Designed to examine the impact of music achievement on emergent literacy development, teachers will study extensive repertoire, creative movement and improvisation, and participate in a six-week practicum in the Early Childhood Resource Center.

Annandale-Hudson

Bard College
Annandale-Hudson, NY
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$30,000
To support the continued development and expansion of Words Without Borders, an interactive Web site devoted to international literature. The site will feature 100 works of nonfiction, short stories, poems and novel excerpts a year drawn from approximately 20-25 languages.

Bronx

Hostos Community College Advisory Council, Inc.
(aka Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture)
Bronx, NY
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk &Traditional Arts
$20,000
To support Canciones de Liberacion. The project will consist of a series of concerts, workshops, lecture demonstrations and exhibits showcasing traditional Latin-American music and dance.

Mind-Builders Creative Arts Co. (consortium)
Bronx, NY
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk &Traditional Arts
$10,000
To support the folklorist-in-training project. The project will recruit and train local youth between the ages of 13-18 to help identify, document and present folk artists and tradition bearers found within their families and neighborhoods.

Pepatian, Inc.
Bronx, NY
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
$20,000
To support Jump It Up: Bronx Artists Spotlight. The multidisciplinary presentation will highlight the work of Bronx-based artists, nonprofit centers and performance spaces.

Wave Hill, Inc.
Bronx, NY
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$10,000
To support the Family Art Project. A series of free weekend workshops will provide families the opportunity to create nature-based art projects inspired by craft traditions from around the world.

Brooklyn

Brooklyn Arts Council, Inc. (aka BAC)
Brooklyn, NY
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk &Traditional Arts
$15,000
To support Folk Feet: Celebrating Traditional Dance in Brooklyn, and related costs. The festival will feature highly skilled dance groups and dancers representing community-based dance forms.

Brooklyn Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Inc. (consortium)
Brooklyn, NY
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$35,000
To support expansion of the Bedford-Stuyvesant Initiative. The project will include skills-based and curriculum-integrated activities and live musical performance for students, as well as professional development sessions for teachers and administrators.

El Puente de Williamsburg, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$20,000
To support the Arts for Empowerment: School-based Integrated Arts Project. El Puente teaching artists and teachers of New Visions High School will collaborate on the project.

Elders Share the Arts (on behalf of National Center for Creative Aging)
Brooklyn, NY
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$15,000
To support a new initiative, Generating Community. The first of a four-year sequential curriculum for freshman students at the Millennium Art Academy in the Bronx will integrate the art of storytelling with the classroom study of history and the civil rights movement.

Elders Share the Arts (aka National Center for Creative Aging) (consortium)
Brooklyn, NY
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$40,000
To support the Creative Aging Institutes, a national arts-in-aging training program. Project activities will include continued training programs at five affiliate sites and an expansion to additional cities, creation of a network newsletter, and development of an online component highlighting model programs.

Eyebeam Atelier, Inc. (consortium)
Brooklyn, NY
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$10,000
To support continuation of the New Media Collaborative. The art and technology program will provide after-school activities for 25 students of the Humanities Preparatory Academy.

Groundswell Community Mural Project, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$12,000
To support the Voices Her'd mural project. Young women, ages 14 to 18, from three ethnically diverse, low-income Brooklyn neighborhoods will develop a series of collaboratively designed and painted community murals.

La Troupe Makandal, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk &Traditional Arts
$9,000
To support Rezistans. The performance will celebrate the bicentenary of Haitian independence and present portraits of men and women crucial to Haiti's historic struggle for justice and equality.

Ringside, Inc. (aka STREB)
Brooklyn, NY
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$40,000
To support two components of Streb/Ringside's audience development and access program. The project will support residency and outreach programs for PUBLIC/ACTION NEW YORK and PUBLIC/ACTION ON TOUR. World Music Productions
Brooklyn, NY
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & TV FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$45,000
To support the production and distribution of the weekly public radio program Afropop Worldwide in 2003-2004. 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.

Buffalo

Buffalo Media Resources, Inc. (aka Squeaky Wheel)
Buffalo, NY
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$10,000
To support SWAP: Squeaky Wheel Access Program. The 16-year-old program provides media equipment access, low-cost workshops, artists' residencies and resource services to film and video artists locally and nationally.

Just Buffalo Literary Center, Inc. (consortium)
Buffalo, NY
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$36,000
To support integration of the arts into the curriculum of Buffalo public schools. This project formalizes and implements a collaborative program to raise student achievement in the English language through the use of poetry, dance, music and theater, and to assess the impact of arts learning on student achievement.

Musicians United for Superior Education, Inc.
Buffalo, NY
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$20,000
To support the MUSE Mobile program. The project will bring professional artists into six Buffalo community centers to teach West African or Latin drum and dance to children, aged 10 or older.

Canton

Traditional Arts in Upstate New York, Inc. (aka TAUNY)
Canton, NY
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
$20,000
To support the creation of a register of cultural landmarks in the northernmost counties of New York. The project will document diverse cultural sites such as diners, Grange halls, country churches, barbershops, auto repair shops, cemeteries, and bridges and aid in efforts for their preservation.

Traditional Arts in Upstate New York, Inc. (aka TAUNY)
Canton, NY
CATEGORY: Folk Arts Infrastructure FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
$25,000
To support an executive director's position and related costs. Responsibilities include policy making and funding, as well as planning, organizing and coordinating activities for the organization, such as a local cultural tourism project and development of a core of volunteers.

Cooperstown

Glimmerglass Opera, Inc. (consortium)
Cooperstown, NY
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
$50,000
To support a series of audience development and access programs, including a tour to rural communities, high school partnerships and residencies. A consortium with New York City Opera, the project will focus on Handel's Orlando and Offenbach's Bluebeard as the subjects of the Gala Weekend Symposium and Summer Seminar Weekend, respectively.

Flushing

Queens Museum of Art (consortium)
Flushing, NY
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
$75,000
To support the exhibition Down the Garden Path: Artists' Gardens Since 1960, with accompanying catalog and education programs. The project is a collaboration with the Queens Botanical Garden and the New York City Parks Department.

Queens Theatre in the Park, Inc.
Flushing, NY
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
$30,000
To support the Latino Cultural Festival and the yearlong Latino Cultural Series. The festival and series, a three-week summer event, will feature music, dance, theater, film and family programming.

Queens Theatre in the Park, Inc. (consortium)
Flushing, NY
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$10,000
To support the International Movements Project, a new annual commissioning initiative. Mexican choreographer Alicia Sanchez will choreograph a new work.

Fresh Meadows

Tung Ching Chinese Center for the Arts, Inc.
Fresh Meadows, NY
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
$15,000
To support the 12th Anniversary of the Traditional Chinese Theatre Festival. The celebration will focus on Beijing, Shaoxing and Cantonese styles of Chinese opera.

Glendale

Queens Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Glendale, NY
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$22,500
To support an audience development project presenting subscription concerts throughout the borough. The decentralization plan will mirror the enclaves of Queens, one of the most ethnically diverse counties in the nation.

Howes Cave

Iroquois Indian Museum
Howes Cave, NY
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$27,000
To support Iroquois Arts Celebrations. The project will present a wide spectrum of visual and performing arts events by Iroquois Nation artists.

Jackson Heights

Community School District 30
Jackson Heights, NY
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$50,000
To support expansion of Local Learning. In partnership with City Lore and P.S. 11 in Queens, a number of community-based artists will work as artists-in-residence with students from the second through sixth grades.

Locust Valley

Friends of the Arts, Inc.
Locust Valley, NY
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$15,000
To support expansion of Jazz Sampler. The program incorporates the study of the history and elements of jazz into the curricula of visual arts, language arts and social studies in the Washington Rose School in Long Island.

Long Island City

Isamu Noguchi Foundation Inc.
Long Island City, NY
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
$5,000
To support the conservation treatment of large-scale stone sculptures by Japanese-American artist Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988). Several of the works were recently relocated to the museum from the artist's studio in Japan.

New York

Academy of American Poets, Inc.
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$50,000
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. The Academy will host library readings, panel discussions, outreach efforts and special features on the organization's Web site.

Amas Musical Theatre, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
$28,000
To support the presentation of a new musical, in-school residencies, the creation and distribution of an education guide, and an outreach concert for the Brooklyn and Crown Heights New York community. In consortium with Documentary Arts of Dallas Texas, Amas Musical Theatre will produce Blind Lemon Blues, by Alan Govenar and Akin Babatunde, off-Broadway in New York City.

American Brass Chamber Music Association, Inc.
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$7,000
To support a tour of performances and residency activities. The residencies will include up to seven performance and/or educational events culminating in a formal concert in each community.

American Documentary, Inc.
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & TV FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$250,000
To support the selection, acquisition, packaging and promotion of films for the 2004 broadcast of P.O.V. (Point of View). As public television's longest running series devoted exclusively to the art of independent, non-fiction film, P.O.V. brings documentary artworks--rarely found in the mainstream media--into America's living rooms.

American Documentary, Inc.
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$40,000
To support the production of Borders. The series of short documentaries by independent filmmakers and Internet artists will be offered to the public via the Web.

American Music Center, Inc.
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$50,000
To support NewMusicBox.org and NewMusicJukeBox.org. NewMusicBox is a monthly Web magazine about artists and issues in the new music community, and NewMusicJukeBox is a searchable, encyclopedic database of contemporary American composers.

American Place Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$18,000
To support the expansion and further development of Literature to Life, a theater and literature program for middle and high school students in Washington, D.C. and New York City. Attendance at a performance of a culturally specific work, including a post-show discussion and workshop, will be augmented by four in-school workshops.

American Symphony Orchestra League (consortium)
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$90,000
To support a comprehensive analysis of first-time orchestra concertgoers. Introduced by a national television ad campaign and through Web sites, the project will survey participants attending one of 21 pre-selected concerts.

American Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$28,000
To support expansion of an arts education program designed to increase attendance and exposure to symphonic music, and expand content and context of musical works in the humanities curriculum. The project will include curriculum planning, development, teacher training and at least four visits by musicians to each school.

American Tap Dance Orchestra, Inc.
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$10,000
To support the 2003 Tap City/Tap Workshop Intensive. The project includes professional-level master classes, tap workshops, an expanded youth program, luncheon seminars, panel discussions and film seminars about tap history.

American Turkish Society, Inc.
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$10,000
To support The Festival of Turkish Film - 1930-2003. The curated film series will showcase Turkish films selected for their artistic and historical significance.

Amigos del Museo del Barrio (aka El Museo del Barrio)
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$25,000
To support programming integrating visual art exhibitions and performing arts activities. The initiative will comprise theater programs, music concerts, film screenings and an art symposium in conjunction with the exhibitions.

An Claidheamh Soluis, Inc.
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$25,000
To support The Big Potato, a program based on the New York State Education Department's Great Irish Famine Curriculum. Activities will include in-school workshops and performances that teach students modern and folk dances, Irish folk song and mime, performed to live traditional Irish music.

Anthology Film Archives
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$20,000
To support the preservation of films directed by Willard Maas, Paul Sharits and Larry Jordan. The films, of considerable historical and aesthetic importance, exist on old and decaying internegatives, many of which are more than 35 years old.

Art Resources Transfer, Inc. (aka A.R.T. Press)
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$48,000
To support the Distribution to Underserved Communities Program. The project will offer books, museum catalogues, videos and other material about contemporary art, free-of-charge, to libraries across the nation with a special emphasis on rural and inner-city libraries.

Arts Resources in Collaboration, Inc.
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$10,000
To support the restoration of Eye On Dance video interviews. The restored sessions will be distributed nationally to libraries and educational institutions and broadcast on PBS in the New York City tri-state area.

ASCAP Foundation
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$40,000
To support Summer Music Camp, an intensive musical training and performance experience for public school students throughout New York City's five boroughs. The ongoing project of the Manhattan School of Music provides students classical music training with an emphasis on performance skills.

Asian American Arts Centre, Inc.
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$15,000
To support Stories of Chinatown, an intergenerational public art project. Organized in collaboration with Elders Share the Arts, the program will bring Chinatown seniors together with high school youth to create artwork that presents the untold stories of the aging immigrant population.

Association for the Development of Dramatic Arts, Inc. (Jean Cocteau Repertory)
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$15,000
To support educational and outreach activities through the Classic Access Initiative. The initiative will include discount tickets and subsidy programs for seniors and college students, the upgrade of an online resource for classic theater and a tour of a theater piece.

Association of Institutes for Aesthetic Education, Inc.
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$65,000
To support the Teaching Artist Mentoring Project. The project will provide a series of professional development workshops for teaching artists, as well as the development of an online forum (part of the AIAE Web site) that will facilitate theoretical and/or practical-interest discussions.

Ballet Tech Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$40,000
To support tuition-free professional ballet training. Designed to infuse dance training into the academic curriculum, students grades four through 12 participate in weekly and summer intensive ballet classes in addition to receiving dancewear, shoes and necessary transportation.

Bang on a Can, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$25,000
To support the Summer Institute of Music at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, a residency program for gifted composers and performers interested in experimental music. Bang on a Can All-Stars, guest composers, performers and students will present concerts and educational activities in schools and other venues throughout North Adams, Mass., and in the museum galleries.

Batoto Yetu, Inc.
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$10,000
To support the creation of Ngola Nzinga, choreographed by Artistic Director Julio T. Leitao. The piece will showcase African music, dance and folklore.

Big Apple Circus, Ltd.
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$25,000
To support the Clown Care Unit program in which professional clown performers make bedside visits to perform for hospitalized children. The program works in close partnership with medical facilities in nine major U.S. cities.

Borough of Manhattan Community College Performing Arts Center, Inc.
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$15,000
To support Lost Jazz Shrines, an annual concert series featuring music performed at historic, lower Manhattan jazz venues. During 2004, the series will highlight the various styles of jazz heard from 1957 to 1994 at the seminal Greenwich Village club, the Village Gate.

Boys & Girls Harbor, Inc. (on behalf of Harbor Conservatory)
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
$30,000
To support a project director staff position and related costs. The director will oversee the cataloging, preservation and storage of the paper and photographic materials of the RAICES Archives, the world's largest collection of Afro-Caribbean Latin music.

Camera News, Inc. (aka Third World Newsreel)
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$30,000
To support a digital media literacy and production education program. Components of the program will be the Advanced Film and Video Production Workshop, Wednesday Night Media Workshops and an Introduction to Final Cut Pro/Media Literacy Workshop Series.

Carnegie Hall Society, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$90,000
To support continuation of LinkUP! The project is a standards-based music education program that integrates music into the elementary school curriculum, including curriculum development and teacher training, curriculum-based classroom instruction for children and school concerts.

Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
$30,000
To support the training of two apprentice textile conservators. The apprentices will assist in the conservation treatment of a 17th century Barberini tapestries series depicting the life of Christ.

Cave Canem Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$20,000
To support a writing retreat targeting emerging African-American poets. Cave Canem will publish an anthology of student work following the retreat.

Center for Arts Education
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$90,000
To support the Parents as Arts Partners program. Through open forums, dissemination of an Arts Education Action Kit, and the production of a public awareness campaign, the center will develop and share effective strategies for parental involvement in the arts.

Center for Book Arts, Incorporated 1974
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$5,000
To support workshops in letterpress printing and fine press publishing targeting emerging inner-city writers. The center will sponsor public readings of work printed in the workshops.

Center for Traditional Music and Dance, Inc.
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
$50,000
To support the New York World Festival. The festival will focus on the rich musical traditions of countries of the Western Caribbean and the coast of the Gulf of Mexico.

Central Park Conservancy, Inc.
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$10,000
To support the Harlem Meer Performance Festival. The free summer series will showcase African American and Latino music, featuring established and emerging artists from the area's African American and Latino community.

Children's Art Carnival, Inc.
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$50,000
To support Building Community Through the Arts. Youth will work on revitalizing a senior citizen's sculpture garden, creating objects such as benches, mosaics and murals.

Chinese-American Arts Council, Inc.
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$10,000
To support the Summer Cultural Festival. This series will feature Chinese opera, folk music, visual arts and lecture demonstrations.

Cineaste Publishers, Inc.
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$15,000
To support the publication of Cineaste, a quarterly film magazine dedicated to the art and understanding of cinema. Cineaste will report on Asian-American filmmakers, Spanish films and images of Greece, and will publish a special supplement on history and the cinema.

City Lights Youth Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$50,000
To support Voices in Time: Exploring History through Theater, a two-year interdisciplinary pilot project integrating theater arts with social studies curriculum in several New York City elementary schools. Every week a playwright and director will work with students, leading them through historical research, writing, and theatrical exercises to create and stage an original theatrical production based on a social studies script.

City Lore, Inc.
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
$50,000
To support A Passion for Poetry: Asian and Middle Eastern Poetry Traditions in New York City. The project will support fieldwork in and presentations of eight poetry traditions of Asian and Middle Eastern cultures in Iran, Iraq, India, India, Pakistan, Yemen, the Ukraine and Uzbekistan.

City Lore, Inc.
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Folk Arts Infrastructure FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
$45,000
To support the continuation of the documentarian position and related costs. Responsibilities will be to continue the field research for all of City Lore's initiatives, including Place Matters and the People's Poetry Gathering.
City Lore, Inc. (on behalf of Henry Street Settlement)
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
$50,000
To support the Friends of Old Time Music Project. The project will restore, archive and disseminate historic audio recordings of concerts presented by the Friends of Old Time Music (FOTM) from 1961 1965.

Community-Word Project, Inc.
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$40,000
To support artist-led classroom workshops. Trained writers and visual artists will lead creative writing, visual and performance-arts residencies that meet city and state-mandated language arts standards in New York schools.

Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art (consortium)
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$30,000
To support continuation of the Community Arts Partnership Program (CAP). The project provides pre college studio arts classes in a community setting.

Council for Positive Images, Inc. (aka CPI)
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & TV FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$40,000
To support post-production costs for a documentary on Katherine Dunham. Katherine Dunham: A Portrait of the Artist will be a 90-minute television program on the life and work of this African American anthropologist, dancer and choreographer.

Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (consortium)
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$15,000
To support Lit Mag Fairs, events designed to present literary magazines at reduced cost to communities across the country. Targeted cities include Portland, Ore.; Buffalo, N.Y.; Houston, Texas; and Columbus, Ohio.

Creative Center for Women with Cancer
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$15,000
To support an artists' residency program to bring artists to different hospitals to work with terminally ill patients. Patients receive instruction and an introduction to various techniques in watercolor, clay, drawing, sculpture and collage.

Da Capo Chamber Players, Inc.
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$7,500
To support a performance tour and residency activities. The project will include public school concerts, open rehearsals, programs for retirement communities and radio interviews with composers in-residence in four states.

Dance Films Association, Inc.
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$15,000
To support the Dance Camera Festival and international tour. The project will also include a Floating Cinema at Prospect Park in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Dance Notation Bureau, Inc.
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$20,000
To support the updating of existing dance scores using the computer program LabanWriter. Scores include Le Spectre de la Rose by Mikhail Fokine, New Dance by Doris Humphrey, Strange Hero by Daniel Nagrin, Le Tricorn by Leonide Massine, A Choreographic Offering by Jose Limon and Resettings by Senta Driver.

Dance Ring, Inc.
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$15,000
To support continuation of Project LIFT. The project will include year-round ballet classes for at-risk youth, field trips to museums and dance concerts, and performance opportunities.

Dance Theatre of Harlem, Inc.
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$90,000
To support a comprehensive educational outreach program that introduces children and adults to dance. Dancing through Barriers will include professional workshops for teachers, master classes, lecture performances, video assemblies and performances.

Dancing in the Streets, Inc.
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$30,000
To support the presentation of dance companies in free performances at public sites throughout New York City. Companies to be presented include Eiko and Koma, Taylor 2, Nrityagram Dance Ensemble and nicholasleichter dance.

Dia Center for the Arts
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$12,000
To support the Beacon Arts Education Program (BAEP). This long-term district-wide partnership with the Beacon City School District will engage every student at the elementary, middle and high school levels over the course of his or her education.

Dieu Donne Papermill, Inc.
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$16,000
To support assessment and upgrade of Dieu Donne's archive. The project will be managed by a professional conservator working with staff and prominent artists who have been associated with the papermill.

Dream Yard Drama Project, Inc.
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$20,000
To support summer classes led by professional teaching artists in theater, film, studio art, mural making and dance. Children ages nine to 14 will spend six weeks in skills-based arts education workshops with artists, theater directors, filmmakers and dancers, with the training culminating in a public performance.

Early Music Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$18,000
To support Sirens & Harpies: Medieval Women as Performers, Subjects and Composers, a national tour of early music performances. The program will feature 12th- to 14th-century European music performed according to historical practices by female guest artists.

Early Stages Program, Inc.
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$20,000
To support the Storytelling Program. The project will introduce children in four elementary schools in Queens, Brooklyn and South Bronx to a range of traditional folk stories and will build their writing, expressive and dramatic skills through student performances of their own stories.

Educational Broadcasting Corporation (aka Thirteen/WNET New York)
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & TV FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$500,000
To support the development and production of the television series American Masters for PBS broadcast in 2003-2004. Definitive documentary profiles of major cultural figures will be made available to millions of viewers in all 50 states over 345 public television stations.

Educational Broadcasting Corporation (aka Thirteen/WNET New York)
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & TV FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$550,000
To support the development and production of Thirteen/WNET's Performing Arts Series, including Great Performances and Dance in America for broadcast on PBS in 2004-2005. 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 Video Center
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$50,000
To support the Method of Media Arts Instruction. The curriculum development project will focus on documentation, production, pilot testing and national dissemination.

Electronic Arts Intermix, Inc. (EAI)
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$50,000
To support the Artists' Videotape Distribution Service. Through an online catalog, more than 3,000 works will be available to libraries, educational institutions, community centers, museums and other organizations.

George Balanchine Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$40,000
To support updating and digitizing the publication Choreography by George Balanchine: A Catalogue of Works. The publication will also be made available on the Foundation's Web site.

Global Action Project, Inc.
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$25,000
To support the continuation of Urban Voices TV. Professional media artists will work with youth producers in artistic inquiry, digital media production, and creating group and individual media arts projects.

H.T. Dance Company, Inc. (aka H.T. Chen & Dancers)
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$30,000
To support the pilot phase of The Phoenix Project, a two-year initiative. The company will create a new, multidisciplinary dance program and a new work inspired by interviews with the Chinese American community.

Harlem Children's Zone, Inc.
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$40,000
To support continuation of the TRUCE Community Artist-in-Residency Program. TRUCE provides Central Harlem youth with access to a variety of visual arts, media literacy and performance activities, and provides teaching artists with curriculum design resources and professional training workshops.

Hatch-Billops Collection, Inc.
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$15,000
To support ARTIST AND INFLUENCE. The project will document visual artists, writers, performers and arts administrators through recorded interviews, photography and the publication of a journal.

Henry Street Settlement (aka Abrons Art Center)
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
$40,000
To support Arts for Everyone. Low-cost dance and theater performances by emerging, ethnically diverse artists will be presented at the Abrons Arts Center.

High 5 Tickets to the Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$10,000
To support the Take 5 reduced price 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 arts event on their own.

Independent Media Arts Preservation (IMAP)
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$10,000
To support Phase III of the Cataloging Project, an on-line compatible database created to assist artists and organizations in cataloging their media materials. The database consists of a template- designed to be shared--that includes fields for a numbering system, format, production date, synopsis, artist's name, etc.

Infinity Dance Theater
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$10,000
To support a national workshop series on disability dance. The workshops will be held in New York, N.Y.; Washington, D.C.; and Columbus, Ohio.

International Arts Relations, Inc. (aka INTAR) (consortium)
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$35,000
To support the New York premiere of The Old Matador by Latina playwright Milcha Sanchez-Scott. In a consortium with The Women's Project and Productions, INTAR will co-produce the play to be staged at the newly renovated Women's Project Theater in New York.

International Film Seminars, Inc.
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$20,000
To support the 49th Robert Flaherty Film Seminar. The weeklong event will bring together students, scholars, filmmakers, curators, librarians and film enthusiasts to explore and discuss the art of the moving image.

Irish Repertory Theatre Company, Inc.
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$10,000
Presentation of an adaptation of Peter Quinn's novel Banished Children of Eve. Based on Peter Quinn's historical novel and adapted by producing director Ciaran O'Rielly, the piece will depict the experiences of Irish immigrants in New York City during the Civil War.

Jazz at Lincoln Center, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$50,000
To support the Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition and Festival. The program provides an opportunity for thousands of students to study and perform Duke Ellington's music.

Jazz Foundation of America, Inc.
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$25,000
To support a mentorship program provided by older jazz musicians. Performances and discussions for New York City school students will offer senior jazz musicians the opportunity to relate their life stories and share their artistry.

Juilliard School
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$20,000
To support the continuation of the Music Advancement Program. The program targets public school children ages eight to 14 from all five New York boroughs for intensive musical training.

Korean Traditional Performing Arts Association, Inc.
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
$15,000
To support workshops in Korean dance, song and instrumental performance, and the development of a Web site. The project is intended to increase access to traditional Korean performing arts.

Lark Theatre Company, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
$25,000
To support the creation of a new musical based on the historic Lewis and Clark expedition. A consortium of regional theaters will create and produce the musical Lewis & Clark with book by Arthur Kopit, and music and lyrics by Donald Alan Siegal.

Learning Matters, Inc. (on behalf of Listen Up! Youth Media Network)
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$80,000
To support Listen Up! This project facilitates production and distribution of youth-produced, media focused issues of national unity and international understanding.

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & TV FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$140,000
To support telecasts in 2004 of the 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.

Los Pleneros de la 21, Inc.
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
$30,000
To support the Puerto Rican Music Project. Components will include a Touring and Residency Project, Bomba and Plena Community Workshops, An Evening with the Masters and Fiesta de Cruz.

Lower East Side Printshop, Inc.
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$15,000
To support the Professional Apprenticeship Program in Printmaking. The program is an intensive, hands-on, yearlong experience working with the Printshop's master printer and contemporary artists who use the facility.

Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, Inc.
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$100,000
To support a tour to Mexico. The tour will consist of open rehearsals and performances at several venues.

Media Alliance, Inc.
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$5,000
To support the development of innovative models of self-distribution for emerging film and video makers. Once developed, the models will be available on the Web.

Meet The Composer, Inc.
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$100,000
To support the Meet the Composer Fund. The program allows composers to attend performances of their own music and take part in pre- or post-concert discussions, open rehearsals, workshops, lecture demonstrations and interviews.

Metropolitan Opera Association, Inc. (aka The Met)
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & TV FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$100,000
To support post-production costs for a national PBS telecast of Richard Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg. The plot revolves around the efforts of a young knight in 16th-century Germany to win the hand of his beloved by proving himself in a song contest with the help of a warm-hearted cobbler who happens to be a master singer.

Metropolitan Opera Guild, Inc.
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$30,000
To support an educational research and documentation project. The focus will be the impact of the Guild's In-Class and Creating Original Opera programs on special needs school populations of the northeastern United States.

Midori Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$15,000
To support expansion of the Making Music Program. Additional grade levels and classes will mark the expansion to eight schools.

Museum of Modern Art
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$32,500
To support the preservation of endangered films from the museum's nationally recognized collection. Each year, the Museum of Modern Art's Department of Film and Media saves 50 to 100 films by transferring them from unstable nitrate stock to acetate, and also preserves fading and damaged acetate films.

National Book Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$40,000
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 Dance Institute, Inc. (aka NDI)
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$40,000
To support the Teacher Training Program. Intensive workshops for teachers and professional artists will be held in New York and Los Angeles and several apprentices will be trained under the auspices of founder Jacques D'Amboise.

New Art Publications (aka BOMB Magazine)
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$30,000
To support AMERICAS 2004. This annual issue will feature interviews between artists, writers and musicians, and original translations of poetry and fiction.

New England Dinosaur, Inc.
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$13,000
To support the Community Dance Clinic. This after-school program at William Sidney Mount School (P.S. 174) in Rego Park, Queens, combines traditional artist residencies with a dance-making clinic for students with additional oversight from teachers and parents.

New Life Dance Inc. (aka Sara Pearson/PatrikWidrig & Company)
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$15,000
To support preliminary site visits as a component of five touring engagements. The company will conduct residencies in Dartmouth, N.H.; Miami, Fla.; College Park, Md.; Missoula, Mont.; and Burlington, Vt. communities.

New York Baroque Dance Co., Inc.
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$10,000
To support the Baroque Ballet Workshop, a residency program to be held in Hunter, N.Y., San Rafael, Calif., and Denton, Texas. The project will include classes, concerts and lectures.

New York Foundation for Architecture, Inc. (aka NYFA)
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$20,000
To support Learning by Design: NY. The K through 12 students' program teaches architecture and design education within New York City public schools.

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc. (on behalf of Toots Crackin Productions)
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & TV FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$20,000
To support post-production costs for a documentary about the "Silver Belles." Been Rich All My Life will focus on five women tap dancers who performed between sets by bandleaders Cab Calloway, Count Basie and Duke Ellington.

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc. (on behalf of Check Your Body at the Door)
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$25,000
To support a fine-cut edit of Check Your Body at the Door, a video documentary about popular, social, and club dances and dancers in New York City. The documentary is filmed in the clubs and the studio, and features a group of dancers, ages 16 to 46, demonstrating a variety of styles including free-form house jazz, hip-hop, vogueing, fast footwork and other new free styles.

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc. (on behalf of Robert Levi Films)
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & TV FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$20,000
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 Foundation for the Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$70,000
To support educational outreach associated with the public television broadcast Music From The Inside Out. This multifaceted training program for music educators will feature a series of seminars taught by well-known Juilliard professor Eric Booth in 15 cities across the country.

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc. (on behalf of Lumiere Productions, Inc.) 0
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & TV FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$100,00
To support the production of a six-part documentary television series on the history of documentary film. Intended for national PBS broadcast, To Tell the Truth will shed light on the art of non-fiction filmmaking from the advent of cinema to the 1970s.

New York Public Library and the Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations
(on behalf of New York Public Library for the Performing Arts)
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$65,000
To support the documentation and preservation of dance and theater performances and oral histories by performing artists. Up to 18 performances and seven oral histories will be recorded and 50 hours of audio materials will be preserved.

New York State Council on the Arts
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Partnership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
$765,600
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

New York University
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$40,000
To support phase one of a three-year preservation plan for the Downtown Collection. Phase one will focus on research, material assessment, copyright determination and the development of protocols for preserving a large print and video archive documenting the downtown New York arts scene.

New York University (on behalf of Creative Arts Team)
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$46,000
To support the InterACT elementary school program. Dramatic arts activities are used in school and after-school settings to develop at-risk students' literacy, critical thinking and conflict resolution skills.

New York University (on behalf of The Drama Review)
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$10,000
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.

New York Women in Film & Television
(on behalf of Women's Film Preservation Fund)
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$5,000
To support a curated film series and national tour. Since 1996, the Women's Film Preservation Fund has supported the preservation of films in which women held significant creative roles.

Nikolais/Louis Foundation for Dance, Inc.
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$40,000
To support the Nikolais Festival. The project will document and present several dances of choreographer Alwin Nikolais in commemoration of the 10th anniversary of his death.

Paris Review Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$10,000
To support Writers-at-Work interviews in The Paris Review. Potential interviewees include Pat Barker, Anne Carson, Andrea Barrett, Janet Malcolm, Michael Chabon, Richard Powers, Barry Hannah, Ian Frazier and Jonathan Lethem.

Paul Taylor Dance Foundation, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$20,000
To support a tandem tour by Paul Taylor Dance Company and Taylor 2. The tour will include performances and classes and take place in Portland, Eugene, and Monmouth, Ore. and in Seattle, Wash.

Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York, Inc. (aka New York Philharmonic)
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & TV FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$55,000
To support the production of live, monthly radio broadcasts of performances by the New York Philharmonic in 2003-2004. Approximately five million listeners will hear each two-hour program.

Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York, Inc. (aka New York Philharmonic) (consortium)
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$65,000
To support continuation of the School Partnership Program. Students in grades three through eight will attend workshops with New York Symphony-trained teaching artists.

Playwrights' Preview Productions (aka Urban Stages)
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$10,000
To support Urban Stages' Outreach Program. With the New York, Queens and Brooklyn Public Library Systems serving as venues and partners, Urban Stages tours new works by multiethnic authors to underserved communities and schools.

Poetry Society of America
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$40,000
To support Poetry in Motion, a program that places poetry placards in public transportation systems around the country. Targeted cities include Los Angeles, Fresno, Philadelphia, Chicago, New York, Austin and Portland, Ore.

Poets House, Inc.
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$50,000
To support the Poetry Publication Showcase, a series of programs designed to preserve and display the breadth of poetry in print. The Showcase will feature panel discussions, readings and an intensive three-day workshop to help librarians bring poetry to their communities.

Police Athletic League, Inc.
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$54,000
To support the Portraits Project Mentorship Program and the In School Training and Employment Program (In-Step). The sequential arts program will be hosted by 10 centers serving more than 40 at-risk and homeless children.

Radio Diaries, Inc.
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & TV FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$20,000
To support the production of up to eight, 30-minute documentaries for the series Radio Diaries. A fusion of art and journalism, the program uses sounds, scenes, conversations, and personal reflections to chronicle the lives of people over time, while weaving together a narrative thread to create drama.

Radio Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & TV FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$25,000
To support the production of a new series of public radio programs featuring the legendary American humorists Bob Elliot and Ray Goulding. Up to 52, half-hour Bob & Ray programs will be created using archival material that has not been heard since its original broadcast (1946-76).

Radio Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$7,500
To support the Bob & Ray Permanent Archive. Bob & Ray were radio humorists who were on the air nationally for 40 years.

Rhizome Communications, Inc. (aka Rhizome.org)
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$7,000
To support continued development of the Rhizome ArtBase, an on-line platform for new media art. The project will include adding new works to the database, preparing for potential preservation issues related to technological obsolescence and disseminating new media preservation information with peer institutions.

School of American Ballet, Inc.
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$20,000
To support the Oral Preservation Project, documenting the evolution of the school, which was integral to the development of ballet in this country from the 1940s to the present. The project will involve interviews with individuals key to the school's history.

Shakespeare Project, Inc.
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$10,000
To support free outdoor performances of Shakespeare's The Tempest in parks and public spaces throughout New York City. The production will target nontraditional audiences and communities surrounding the park venues.

Society of the Educational Arts, Inc. (aka Sociedad Educativa de las Artes)
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
$32,000
To support productions of children's theater with accompanying workshops in New York and a tour to Puerto Rico. Through the presentation of Latin American children's classics and folk tales, Sociedad Educativa de las Artes' (SEA) preserves Latin American arts and culture.

Sound Portraits Productions, Inc.
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & TV FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$20,000
To support the production of up to ten new programs for the American Talkers radio series. Produced by David Isay for broadcast on NPR, the series presents the voices of ordinary Americans with an extraordinary penchant for storytelling.

Spanish Theatre Repertory Company, Ltd.
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$65,000
To support the Teatro Accesso program. The company will tour theater works to underserved schools and Latino communities throughout the New York metropolitan area and the northeastern United States.

Starfish Theatreworks, Inc. (aka STW)
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$15,000
To support creation of a text documenting the Literacy-Through-Theatre Method. This project will continue with the goals achieved through STW's Turn-Key Lab that has improved hundreds of inner city teens' writing and speaking skills through the study of playwriting and acting.

Symphony Space, Inc.
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & TV FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$40,000
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 130 NPR stations in 2004-2005, will present leading stage and screen actors reading both classic and new short fiction by established and emerging authors of diverse cultures.

TADA! Theater and Dance Alliance, Inc.
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$30,000
To support expansion of the Musical Theater Writing Residency. The program integrates a social studies topic with the writing, rehearsal and performance of an original musical by fourth and fifth graders under the tutelage of three teaching artists and their regular classroom teachers.

Teachers & Writers Collaborative, Inc. (aka Youth Speaks)
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$60,000
To support expansion of the WriteNet Internet-based forum, Youth Speaks NY Internet Initiative and book publications. Teachers and writers use the interactive Web site WriteNet as a forum to discuss education and the literary arts and to conduct writing workshops for students around the country.

Theatre Development Fund, Inc.
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$25,000
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 signing plays and musicals, and to maintain national standards of excellence in the field.

Theatre for a New Audience, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$15,000
To support continuation of the World Theater Project. The curriculum-based classic drama program for sixth grade ESL students builds literacy through weekly classroom instruction, 10-week residencies led by teaching artists and student attendance at an off-Broadway production.

WNYC Radio, Inc.
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio & TV FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$35,000
To support the production of The Next Big Thing, a weekly public radio series reflecting the cultural life of the city. Hosted by Dean Olsher and distributed nationally by PRI, the series commissions radio producers, writers, musicians, artists and performers to create new works for the radio medium.

Women Make Movies, Inc. (on behalf of Travelfilm Company)
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
$30,000
To support a documentary that depicts the history of Mason City, Iowa through a narrative about one building. The Park Inn, a hotel designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, will be documented, presenting the building through its relationship to the city and urban history.

Working Playground, Inc.
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$40,000
To support continuation of the Art of Recovery. Students at the High School for Leadership and Public Service, located one block from Ground Zero, will work with teachers, visual and video artists, filmmakers, professional designers and architects to produce a documentary.

Working Theatre Company, Inc.
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$10,000
To support the TheaterWorks project. This initiative offers artist residencies and workshops to low income working people at three New York City unions.

World Music Institute, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
$25,000
To support touring concerts of traditional Moroccan, Colombian, West African, and Greek music and dance. The project is designed to reach a larger audience for non-Western music and dance and to serve those immigrant communities whose music is being presented.

Young People's Chorus of New York City, Inc.
New York, NY
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$45,000
To support the Partner School Program. Full scholarships enable students recruited from partner schools in Harlem and the Bronx to receive training in vocal technique and music reading and writing and to participate in extensive choral performance activities.

Potsdam

Institute for Learning Centered Education
(on behalf of Adirondack Curriculum Project)
Potsdam, NY
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$15,000
To support Arts Forever Wild: Adirondack Arts Institute for Teachers. This summer institute brings together art and music teachers from the Adirondack region with artists and curriculum specialists for the purpose of developing and implementing Adirondack-related curriculum materials.

Poughkeepsie

Children's Media Project
Poughkeepsie, NY
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$21,000
To support enhancement of the Media Guild program through addition of artist residencies. Residency activities will include the creation of new work, mentoring advanced students and developing new course curricula.

Dutchess County Arts Council, Inc.
Poughkeepsie, NY
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
$7,000
To support One River, Many Streams. The festival will feature performances, demonstrations, discussions and displays of folk and traditional performing and material arts practiced in the Mid Hudson Valley region.

Queensbury

Adirondack Community College
Queensbury, NY
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$5,000
To support readings and workshops by nationally renowned and local writers to students and community members. The college will promote the readings through its Web site and newsletters.

Rochester

Commission Project, Inc.
Rochester, NY
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$18,000
To support the Rochester Initiative, a composer-in-residence program in six local schools. The organization will commission six professional composers to compose, with students' input, new music for that school's musical ensemble.

George Eastman House
Rochester, NY
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$45,000
To support Before Mickey: Masterworks of Early Animation. George Eastman House will restore unique and endangered animated films of the silent era, produced and/or directed by pioneers of American cartoons between 1916 and 1929.

Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Inc.
Rochester, NY
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$40,000
To support Symphony 101, an outreach project of concerts for underserved and low-income residents. Host and music director Christopher Seaman and the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra will offer a symphonic repertoire and informal lectures for first-time concertgoers at Roberts Wesleyan College.

University of Rochester (on behalf of Memorial Art Gallery)
Rochester, NY
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
$30,000
To support the exhibiton Coffins of Pa-Debehu-Aset, with accompanying educational materials. The project focuses on the gallery's newly acquired pair of Egyptian coffins.

Visual Studies Workshop, Inc.
Rochester, NY
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$15,000
To support a residency program in photography, bookmaking, digital imaging, digital video, and small format film and video that will provide artists with access to high quality equipment and materials. Participating artists will receive a stipend, travel costs, use of the facilities, training and housing for one-month residencies.

Writers & Books, Inc.
Rochester, NY
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$25,000
To support Literary Learning for a Lifetime, a series of outreach programs in the greater Rochester area. Programs include writing workshops for adults and intergenerational groups, master writing classes taught by visiting authors, discussions and seminars, and online classes on writing and publishing.

Young Audiences of Rochester, Inc.
Rochester, NY
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$20,000
To support The Communication Project, a poetry and writing initiative for high-risk students aged 13 to 21. Combining hip-hop and rap music with reading, writing and research activities, the participating young people will tell the story of their own youth culture.

Saratoga Springs

Skidmore College
Saratoga Springs, NY
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$10,000
To support the Skidmore Jazz Institute at the Bernhard Theater on the campus of the college. The two-week summer jazz program will include master classes, daily improvisational classes, private instruction and a mini-festival.

Scarsdale

Kunqu Society, Inc.
Scarsdale, NY
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
$8,000
To support Fifteen Strings of Cash. The presentation of the 17th century Kunqu drama will mark the premiere of the play outside China.

Schenectady

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

South Salem

Textile Conservation Workshop, Inc.
South Salem, NY
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
$15,000
To support a master-apprenticeship for in-depth training in textile conservation. As a regional conservation laboratory, the apprenticeship program fills a gap not covered by formal conservation courses in graduate school programs.

Staten Island

New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.
Staten Island, NY
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$10,000
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.

Syracuse

Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Syracuse, NY
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$20,000
To support a concert tour to New York's North Country. The orchestra, under the direction of Music Director Daniel Hege, will perform full orchestra concerts in rural and underserved communities.

Utica

Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute
Utica, NY
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
$15,000
To support the conservation treatment of works from the collection of European modernist works. The project leads toward a touring exhibition in 2005.

West Park

Transart & Cultural Services, Inc.
West Park, NY
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$18,000
To support the pilot project, Foundations: Art, Rhythm & Rhyme. The after-school, multidisciplinary arts program will focus on visual arts, spoken word, music and movement in artist-led, hands-on sessions for small groups of students in the sixth through eighth grades.

West Village Station

Michael Chekhov Association, Inc.
West Village Station, NY
CATEGORY: Heritage/Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$30,000
To support the production and distribution of six videos on the Michael Chekhov technique. The videos will serve as a resource for teachers, students, professional actors and directors, and libraries.

Woodhaven

Shu Fang Qi Peking Opera Association, Inc.
Woodhaven, NY
CATEGORY: Access FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
$25,000
To support the Third Annual Chinese Peking Opera Arts Festival. The opera company is planning two programs designed to attract recent immigrants and college students at Hunter College, as well as a Broadway audience at The New Victory Theatre.

Yonkers

Multicultural Music Group, Inc.
Yonkers, NY
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
$36,000
To support professional development opportunities for music educators in New York. Designed to improve delivery of an integrated arts curriculum in social studies, technology and music, teachers will receive in-service training covering a variety of music education aspects.

New York Total Dollars Awarded: $7,748,600
New York Total Grants Awarded : 191

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