2004 Grant Awards: State Listings
Arts on Radio and Television/Folk Arts Infrastructure/Heritage & Preservation/Learning in the Arts/Partnerships
Some details of the projects listed below are subject to
change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.
NEW YORK
52nd Street Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$43,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support Playmaking, a three-tiered drama and playwriting
program for economically disadvantaged youth. Components Stage One,
Replay, and Playback, are part of a sequential strategy for
children to develop new plays under the supervision of professional
theater artists and directors.
Alianza Dominicana, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Dominican Folk Instrument and Dance Apprenticeship
project. The apprentice dancers in Alianza's youth ensemble will
train to perform traditional social dances, while the folk
instrument component will include instruction in the accordion,
guitar, tres, quinto, and percussion instruments.
Alliance for Young Artists & Writers,
Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. Original art work by
students from throughout the United States in seventh through
12th-grade art and English classes or community-based arts programs
are nominated by teachers and administrators, leading to national
recognition and an exhibit of approximately 1,100 works at the
Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.
American Documentary, Inc.
New York, NY
$250,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and
Television FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the selection, acquisition, packaging, and promotion of
films for broadcast on the public television series P.O.V. (Point
Of View). As the longest-running PBS series devoted exclusively to
the art of independent, non-fiction film, P.O.V. brings documentary
artworks--rarely found in the mainstream media--to national
audiences.
American Place Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$19,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support the expansion of Literature to Life, a theater and
literature program for middle and high school students. The program
will include attendance at professional performances, post-show
discussions and workshops, and artist residencies, and will be
augmented by multiple in-school workshops.
American Society for Psychical Research,
Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Visual Arts
To support planning for the exhibition Phantom Images:
Photography and Psychical Research in America from 1860 until
Today. The project will examine early experimentation in the
darkroom which resulted in the manipulation of images by combining
two or more negatives.
American Symphony Orchestra League
(consortium)
New York, NY
$65,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support an education initiative that will identify and reward
excellent work in orchestra education. Components of the consortium
project will include building resources of music education
materials, conducting research for online documentation of best
practices, and selecting recipients for the Excellence in Orchestra
Education awards.
American Tap Dance Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Dance
To support theTap City festival. The project will include
educational activities and a series of choreography workshops, with
a focus on the classic and contemporary choreography of tap
masters.
Americas Society, Inc. (on behalf of
Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas)
New York, NY
$5,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Literature
To support a project featuring a special issue of Review:
Literature and Arts of the Americas focusing on contemporary
Latin American writers. The Americas Society also will present
bilingual readings, panels, and discussions.
Anthology Film Archives
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Media Arts
To support the preservation of films by Marie Menken and Storm De
Hirsch. The materials for these films have been placed permanently
with Anthology Film Archives by the estates of the filmmakers. The
61 total works will be preserved on 16mm film and duplicated for
distribution.
Art 21, Inc.
New York, NY
$250,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and
Television FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the third year of Art: 21, Art in theTwenty-First
Century. A public television series about contemporary visual art
and artists in the United States, the project will include one-hour
programs as well as ancillary outreach activities.
Arts Connection
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support development of the Inquiry-Based Partnership Model.
Teachers and artists will work together to understand the relations
between arts and other curricular areas in order to help children
apply knowledge from one discipline to another, leading to
cross-curricular arts learning in up to three elementary schools in
Brooklyn.
Association of Institutes for Aesthetic Education,
Inc.
New York, NY
$65,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support the implementation phase of the Teaching Artist
Mentoring Project. By providing enhanced professional development
opportunities for teaching artists around the country, the project
will identify new teaching artists through regional workshops then
train and support them with a national consulting team and
web-based resources.
Bardavon 1869 Opera House, Inc.
Poughkeepsie, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Design Arts
To support a study for the restoration of the auditorium and
lobbies of a historic theater, the Bardavon. The project will
determine the focus of restoration work and include planning for
the documentation and conservation of the original architectural
dome.
Batoto Yetu, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Dance
To support expansion of Nzinga: The Legend Continues,
choreographed by artistic director Jlio T. Leito. The story of
Nzinga pays tribute to Western Africa's historical and cultural
heritage.
Borough of Manhattan Community College Performing Arts
Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Music
To support Lost Jazz Shrines:The Village Gate (Part 2), a concert
series featuring music performed at historic, lower-Manhattan jazz
venues. During 2005, the series will highlight artists who once
played at the seminal Greenwich Village club, the Village Gate.
Boys & Girls Harbor, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Archive Preservation Initiative (API). Archivists
will catalog, preserve, and store paper and photographic materials
in the 15,000-item Raices (roots) Collection.
Carnegie Hall Society, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
$72,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support the continuation of LinkUP! In partnership with the New
York City Board of Education, the consortium project is a
standards-based music education program that integrates music into
the elementary school curriculum.
Center for the Study of Classical Architecture
Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Design Arts
To support the educational program Classical Architecture for
Design and Building Professionals. Curricular tools will be
developed to make the program more accessible to building design
and construction professionals nationwide.
Center for Traditional Music and Dance,
Inc.
New York, NY
$52,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Community Cultural Initiatives (CCI). The project
is designed to contribute to the efforts of Mexican, Chinese, and
Peruvian communities in becoming self-sufficient managers of their
music and dance traditions.
Centro Civico of Amsterdam, Inc.
Amsterdam, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Folk & Traditional Arts
To support documentation of the sacred traditional art of Latina
home altars. The project will result in a traveling exhibition and
catalog.
Chemung Valley Arts Council, Inc.
Corning, NY
$5,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Traditional Country Music Project. The project
consists of an ongoing Old Time Fiddlers Gathering and a first-time
Bluegrass Gathering.
Chinese-American Arts Council, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Multidisciplinary
To support the Summer Cultural Festival. The project will include
three fully staged Chinese operas performed by artists from China,
Taiwan, and the United States and an exhibition by Chinese-American
visual artists.
City Center 55th Street Theater
Foundation,Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Musical Theater
To support the restoration, remounting, and staged concert
productions of musicals and a concert in the City Center Encores!
series. The annual series of rarely-heard American musicals is
performed in City Center's 2,753-seat theater.
City Lore, Inc. (on behalf of Henry
Street Folklore)
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Friends of Old Time Music (FOTM) project.
Activities will include an oral history project, conference,
concert, and publication to examine, analyze, and set in historical
context the work of this pioneering folk arts organization.
City Lore, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a consortium project, the 2005 People's Poetry
Endangered Languages initiative. In partnership with the Poets
House, Inc., the gathering will bring together Native Americans,
Africans and South American immigrants, Yiddish, Gaelic, and Basque
poets.
City Lore, Inc. (consortium) (on behalf of
Trova, Inc.)
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the sixth International Troubadour Festival. Twenty-two
trovadores (improvisatory singer-poets) will perform Puerto
Rican's traditional jibaro music.
Community-Word Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support yearlong residencies by writers and visual artists
collaborating with classroom teachers in New York City public
schools. Artists collaborate with teachers throughout the school
year, visiting classes weekly over a 35-week period.
Concert Royal, Inc.
Larchmont, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Music
To support musicians' fees and workshop costs toward the
development of Prince of Haiti/King of Paris, a new
work for music and dance. Celebrating the 200th anniversary of
Haitian independence, the work will juxtapose the French baroque
music of 18th-century colonists with Haitian music of the same
period.
Cornell University (on behalf of
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art)
Ithaca, NY
$22,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support the OMNI program, consisting of outreach activities to
area schools, a technology component, and a teacher institute. OMNI
will offer six grade- and culture-specific learning units,
including classroom instruction by museum staff, museum visits,
workshops led by an artist, and follow-up activities.
Dance Films Association, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a consortium folk music and dance project, Bombazo con
los Cepeda. In collaboration with the Hostos Community College
Advisory Council, Inc., the project will support Afro-Puerto Rican
bomba music and dance through a residency tour consisting of
concerts, workshops, school lectures, and demonstrations.
Dance Notation Bureau, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Dance
To support the addition of new dance scores to an archive of
notated dances. The scores will be documented using Laban notation,
a method of recording dance movement, containing full historical
and production data.
Dance Ring, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support the LIFT Community Service Program. The project will
include year-round ballet classes for disadvantaged youth, summer
sessions, and dance performances including Dance on a
Shoestring by the New YorkTheatre Ballet.
Dorian Woodwind Quintet Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$12,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Music
To support an archival, two compact disc set spanning the
performance history of the quintet. In celebration of its 40th
anniversary, the compendium will include numerous commissioned
premieres and arrangements, as well as the performance of
Anniversary Variations on a Theme by Reicha, a five-movement
work created by five different composers.
Dream Yard Drama Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support the Arts Community Teams In Our Neighborhoods (ACTION).
The project is an intensive summer institute that provides
ninth-grade students with pre-professional training in dance,
theater, visual arts, or media.
Early Stages Program, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support the Responsive Writing Program. Resident artists will
provide semester-long, weekly writing workshops to students, who
will attend live concerts and performances in New York and then
present oral and written commentaries.
Educational Broadcasting Corporation
New York, NY
$535,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and
Television FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support development and production of the television series
American Masters for PBS broadcast. Definitive documentary profiles
of major cultural figures will be made available in 2005-06 to
millions of viewers in all 50 states on 345 public television
stations.
Educational Broadcasting Corporation
New York, NY
$550,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and
Television FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support development and production of the television series
Great Performances and Dance in America for broadcast on PBS.
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 in 2005-06.
El Puente de Williamsburg, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support Arts for Empowerment: School-Based Integrated Arts
Project. Teachers and artists will develop arts curricula that
address community and global issues for students at El Puente
Academy for Peace & Justice, a New York City public high
school.
Exit Art/The First World, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Visual Arts
To support a consortium project with Franklin Furnace to conserve,
digitize, and make accessible online the archival material of Exit
Art. Founded in 1982, Exit Art has presented contemporary work by
as many as 1,600 artists in more than 200 exhibitions.
Eyebeam Atelier, Inc. (consortium)
Brooklyn, NY
$11,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support continuation of New Media Collaborative. The art and
technology program will provide after-school activities for
students from the Humanities Preparatory Academy. Teaching artists
will provide tutorials for students in graphic and Web design,
digital video, robotics, and portfolio development.
Feminist Press, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Literature
To support the restoration and promotion of books by U.S. women as
part of the press's Contemporary Classics Series. Authors whose
works will be brought back into print include Shelley Ayame,
Nishimura Ota, Denise Chavez, Mary Deasy, Antonia Pola, Jessamyn
West, and Paule Marshall.
Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Multidisciplinary
To support Art Spaces Archive Project (ASAP). The consortium
project will provide for the research and creation of a database,
development of a Web site, surveying of art spaces nationally, and
hosting of a national meeting for art space organizations to
compare preservation strategies.
Genesee Street Corporation
Rochester, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support after-school classes in photography, on-line editing,
and ceramics. The project is designed to reinforce other academic
subjects for students, ages 10-17, in the James Madison School of
Excellence after-school photo club, Corpus Christi School Clay and
Cameras program, and Right-on-School Photo Express, a four-week
summer camp in Rochester.
George Eastman House
Rochester, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Media Arts
To support In Glorious Technicolor. Unique and endangered
Technicolor films produced between 1927 and 1951 will be
preserved.
Global Action Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$33,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support the continuation of Urban Voices TV. Professional media
artists will work with youth in digital media production to create
group and individual media arts projects.
Gregg Smith Singers, Inc.
Yonkers, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Music
To support a compact disc recording of the early sacred works of
American composer Charles Ives. The recording will include nine
previously unrecorded church anthems as well as the 1902 cantata
Celestial County, which was recorded in the 1970s by the
chorus but is no longer available to the public.
Hallwalls, Inc. (consortium)
Buffalo, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Multidisciplinary
To support a consortium project to preserve multidisciplinary
performance recordings. In partnership with SUNY Buffalo's Poetry
and Rare Books Collection, the project will catalog, archive,
preserve, and make accessible various video and audio recordings
from the Hallwalls 1970s and 80s performance archives.
Hatch-Billops Collection, Inc.
New York, NY
$16,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Multidisciplinary
To support an annual journal and videotape collection, Artist
& Influence. The project will document artists of color through
videotaped interviews and the publication of a journal.
Hostos Community College Foundation, Inc.
Bronx, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Folk & Traditional Arts
To support BomPlenazo 2004. The week-long multifaceted program
will explore and present Puerto Rico's African-rooted bomba
and plena music and dance traditions as they are practiced
today.
House Foundation for the Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Dance
To support an initiative to transfer artistic director Meredith
Monk's archive to a public institution. The project will include
the completion of an archive catalog, the restoration and
digitization of dance works on film, and the identification of
dance score recordings.
Independent Media Arts Preservation (IMAP)
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Media Arts
To support the Magnetic and New Media Preservation Online
Sourcebook. The online resource will provide the latest information
for video and audio preservation contacts and include information
on new media, installation, and related paper ephemera
preservation.
Independent Production Fund, Inc. (on behalf of
Mannes Productions)
New York, NY
$100,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and
Television FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production of a public television series that will
examine the science behind our experience of music. In one-hour
programs, Music Instinct: Science and Song will explore scientific
discoveries about the psychological and physical aspects of music's
primal hold on human beings, and its connection to the world around
us.
Iroquois Indian Museum
Howes Cave, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Multidisciplinary
To support At the Edge of the Clearing. The summer series and
festivals will present traditional and contemporary Iroquois art
and foster greater awareness of Iroquois heritage.
Juilliard School
New York, NY
$18,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support the continuation of the Music Advancement Program. The
project will involve concentrated musical training for public
school children, ages eight to 14, from all New York City
boroughs.
Just Buffalo Literary Center, Inc.
(consortium)
Buffalo, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support the second year of a three-year research program to
integrate the arts into the curriculum of the Buffalo Public
Schools, focusing on the state English language standards. The
consortium member, Musicians United for Superior Education, and two
partners, the Native American Magnet School and Young Artists of
Western New York, will formalize and implement the instruction.
Kiboko Projects (consortium)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support The Watoto Project. Implemented with consortium partner
St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery, the project will provide
cross-cultural media arts activities for youth in the visual arts,
video production, and storytelling.
La Troupe Makandal, Inc. (consortium)
Brooklyn, NY
$8,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support Krik! Krak! The project provides workshops for
Caribbean youth, ages six to 16, in traditional Haitian music and
dance led by National Heritage Fellow Frisner Augustin, and other
artists in the community.
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc.
(on behalf of Institute for the Arts in
Education)
New York, NY
$75,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support the Focus School Collaborative. The project is a
whole-school reform and renewal initiative in which participating
schools make long-term commitments to integrating the arts across
the curriculum.
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts,
Inc.
New York, NY
$150,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and
Television FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support production and broadcast of the television series Live
From Lincoln Center. In 2005, the series will be aired on
approximately 300 PBS stations across all 50 states and territories
reaching five million viewers per program.
Los Pleneros de la 21, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Puerto Rican Music Project. Project activities
include concerts, performances, lectures, workshops, classes for
youth and adults, and out-of-state residencies.
Manhattan Community Access Corporation
New York, NY
$14,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support the Manhattan Neighborhood Network Youth Channel. Youth
will participate in an intensive workshop series that will include
artist-led, facilitated documentary-viewing workshops; field trips;
filmmaker visits; and guest speakers.
Manhattan Theatre Club, Inc.
New York, NY
$32,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support expansion of the Core Program, a theater arts project.
The program will provide in-school residencies and performing arts
attendance opportunities. Workshops will address theatrical skills
such as scriptwriting and editing, acting techniques, and the
applications of critical thinking skills in theater.
Marquis Studios, Ltd.
Brooklyn, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support professional development seminars. The seminars will
enable classroom teachers, school administrators, and resident
artists from elementary schools in New York City to share their
best practices for collaborative models and replicable arts
lessons.
Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance,
Inc.
New York, NY
$90,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Dance
To support a project to provide documentary information on dances
by Martha Graham. The project will provide anthologies and offer
tool kits to dance companies and students in order to enhance the
public's knowledge of these works.
Melodious Accord, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Music
To support the recording of choral music arranged or composed by
Alice Parker. Two major choral works, Singers Glen and
The Ponder Heart, will be recorded and released on Gothic
Records/Loft Recording.
Metropolitan Opera Association, Inc.
New York, NY
$75,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and
Television FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support post-production costs for a national PBS telecast of
Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos. Distributed to
approximately 340 PBS stations nationwide, Metropolitan Opera
Presents is seen by three to five million viewers per program.
Metropolitan Opera Guild, Inc.
New York, NY
$45,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support the 2004 Empire State Partnerships Summer Seminar.
Through workshops, consultations, and hands-on artistic
experiences, teams of teachers, artists, and administrators will
address topics including effective professional development, arts
integration, evaluation, research, and collaboration.
Midori Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$19,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support expansion of the Making Music Program. Additional grade
levels and classes will mark the expansion of the music education
project for one intermediate and ten elementary schools in New York
City. The project will involve planning sessions for teachers and
administrators and free group lessons for children in grades three
through six.
Mill Street Loft, Inc.
Poughkeepsie, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support Program for Adolescent Student Women of Real Direction
(PASWORD) and Adolescent Women Are Realizing Empowerment (AWARE).
The programs provide after- school, multidisciplinary arts
workshops culminating in a Rites of Passage ceremony for urban
girls, ages 11-15.
Mind-Builders Creative Arts Co.
(consortium)
Bronx, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a consortium folklorist-in-training program. In
partnership with the Bronx Museum of the Arts, 18 interns between
the ages of 12 and 18 will be recruited and trained to identify,
document, and present 20 folk artists and tradition bearers found
in Bronx neighborhoods.
Municipal Art Society of New York
(consortium)
New York, NY
$45,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Design Arts
To support Marking Places that Matter. The consortium project will
implement innovative place markers that interpret the historical
and cultural landscape of New York City.
Museum of Modern Art
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Media Arts
To support the preservation of endangered films from the museum's
nationally recognized collection. Each year, the Museum of Modern
Art's (MoMA'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.
Music From China
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Music
To support thematic concerts of new music for traditional Chinese
instruments. The project will include string instrument training
for youth and adults and performances at various sites in New York
City.
National Center for Creative Aging, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$12,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support Living History Arts. In the second year of a
cross-generational, cross-cultural curriculum, Elders Share the
Arts artist-teachers will teach writing, photography, and drama to
students in Brooklyn International High School on the subject of
what it means to be an American.
New Art Publications
New York, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Multidisciplinary
To support AMERICAS 2005. The annual issue of BOMB magazine
will feature discussions among artists, writers, and musicians, and
original translations of poetry and fiction, highlighting the work
of artists living and practicing in Latin America and the
Caribbean.
New England Dinosaur, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support ESLdance-Connected. New York City educators will learn
and practice American modern dance through training and curriculum
integration.
New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.
(consortium)
Staten Island, NY
$5,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Media Arts
To support a consortium project to archive work from the radio
series New American Radio. Artists including Pauline Oliveros,
Suzan-Lori Parks, and Charles Amirkahnian produced work for the
series.
New York Baroque Dance Co. Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Dance
To support the Baroque Ballet Workshop, a residency program to be
held in Hunter, New York; San Rafael, California; and Denton,Texas.
The project will include classes, concerts, and lectures.
New York Folklore Society, Inc.
Schenectady, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a statewide technical assistance and professional
development program. The program provides vital services to folk
artists and folk cultural specialists in New York.
New York Folklore Society, Inc.
Schenectady, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Leadership Initiatives FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk
& Traditional Arts
To support a folklore and education coordinator position and
related costs. Activities will include folk arts education and
professional training opportunities for folklorists, workshops for
New York state educators, and a community scholar field school.
New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc. (on
behalf of Robert Levi Productions)
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and
Television FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support production and post-production costs for a documentary
film on Billy Strayhorn. Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life will
chronicle the artist'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. (on
behalf of Kitchen Sync)
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and
Television FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production of a documentary film by John Valadez.
The Last Conquistador will be about sculptor John Houser,
his bronze equestrian memorial to the Spanish explorer Juan de
Oate, and the public discussion surrounding the future placement of
the monumental public artwork in El Paso,Texas.
New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc. (on
behalf of Firethorn Productions)
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and
Television FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the research and development phase of a public
television series about the history of African-American theater.
It'll Be Me is intended for national PBS broadcast.
New York Pops, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Music
To support the recording of Nathaniel Shilkret's Concerto for
Trombone and its release on compact disc. Under the artistic
direction of Skitch Henderson, trombone soloist Jim Pugh and the
orchestra will perform the work, originally commissioned in 1943 by
swing legendTommy Dorsey.
New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden
Foundations (on behalf of New York Public Library
for the Performing Arts)
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Multidisciplinary
To support the documentation and preservation of dance and theater
performances and oral histories by performing artists. As many as
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
$787,800
CATEGORY: Partnership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State &
Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.
New York University (on behalf of The
Drama Review)
New York, NY
$12,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Theater
To support the publication and distribution of four volumes of
The Drama Review, an international journal of live
performance. The Drama Review is committed to documenting
important new work and to reassessing traditional notions of
performance.
Nikolais/Louis Foundation for Dance
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Dance
To support the preservation and presentation of two works by
choreographer Alwin Nikolais. The works will be performed by the
Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company in Salt Lake City.
OLLANTAY Center for the Arts, Inc.
Jackson Heights, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Theater
To support the publication and distribution of OLLANTAY Theater
Magazine . The journal highlights Latino theater through essays
and interviews by and with Latino artists and writers.
Opus 118 Music Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$43,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support an after-school and summer classical strings music camp
for underserved youth in East Harlem. A unique pedagogical style
that combines the rudiments of traditional violin instruction with
elements of the Suzuki teaching method will be used to teach
students.
Paris Review Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Literature
To support the preservation and dissemination of the entire
archive of Paris Review interviews online, free of charge.
The journal will present nearly 300 interviews conducted since 1953
with writers whose work has defined the literary landscape of the
latter half of the 20th century.
Penfield Central School District
Penfield, NY
$14,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support the creation of new musical works by students and
professional composers. Teams of students studying history will
work together with composers to create works reflecting events or
common themes in America's history.
Philharmonia Virtuosi Corp.
Dobbs Ferry, NY
$12,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support a school residency program for middle school youth. The
project will link instrumental and choral instruction with the
social studies and American history curricula in the school.
Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York, Inc.
(consortium)
New York, NY
$62,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support the continuation of the School Partnership Program, a
consortium project. Students in grades three through five will
attend workshops and receive recorder and composition instruction
from orchestra musicians and music educators.
Photography Institute
New York, NY
$17,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Visual Arts
To support the National Graduate Seminar (NGS) Archive Project. An
annual forum for photographers, scholars, historians, and critics,
the project will allow for the transfer of more than 800 video and
audio tapes and texts created since the Institute's inception in
1991.
Poets House, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Literature
To support the Poetry House Showcase, an exhibit and series of
programs designed to preserve and display the breadth of poetry in
print. The showcase will feature panel discussions, readings, and
publication of an online directory of American poetry books.
Queens Theatre in the Park, Inc.
Flushing, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Presenting
To support the Latino Cultural Festival and the Latino Cultural
Series. The festival will feature music, dance, theater, film,
workshops, panel discussions, family-oriented performances, and an
exhibition of contemporary Latino visual artists.
Recorded Anthology of American Music, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Opera
To support the recording and distribution of a two compact-disc
set of the opera Amistad, composed by Anthony Davis with
libretto by Thulani Davis. The two-act opera is based on the
Amistad revolt of 1839, a successful uprising of captives on a
slave ship en route to America.
Rochester Chapter of Young Audiences, Inc.
Rochester, NY
$22,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support The Communication Project. This poetry and writing
initiative for students, ages 13 to 21, will combine hip-hop and
rap music with reading, writing, and research activities, providing
a forum for participating young people to tell their own stories
related to current youth culture.
Shelley and Donald Rubin Cultural Trust
New York, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support Thinking Through Art. The project collaborators will
develop a model curriculum that increases students' observation
skills, reflection, and discussion, resulting in deeper
understanding of Tibetan art forms that are in the collection of the
Rubin Museum.
Society of the Third Street Music School Settlement
Inc.
New York, NY
$24,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support the After-School/Saturday MILES program for public
schools located in Lower Manhattan's East Side. Linked to the
society's school-based programs, the project will provide
underserved students with free music lessons.
Sound Portraits Productions, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and
Television FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production of new programs for the AmericanTalkers
radio series. Produced by Dave Isay for broadcast on National
Public Radio, the series presents the voices of ordinary Americans
with an extraordinary penchant for storytelling.
Symphony Space, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and
Television FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production of the public radio series Selected
Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story, and the distribution of
related audiocassettes. The series, which will air on more than 140
National Public Radio stations, 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
$29,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support the Musical Theater Writing Residency. The program will
integrate a social studies topic with the writing, rehearsal, and
performance of an original musical by fourth and fifth graders, led
by teaching artists and their regular classroom teachers.
Talking Band, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
$12,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Musical Theater
To support a consortium tour of a music theater work. The Talking
Band will partner with the Allied Arts Council of St. Joseph,
Missouri, to present the musical Bitterroot as part of the
2004 Lewis and Clark Bicentennial celebration.
Teachers & Writers Collaborative, Inc.
New York, NY
$57,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support the WriteNet Internet-based forum, the Urban Word NYC
Internet Initiative, and a publication. Teachers and writers will
use the interactive Web site, WriteNet, as a forum to discuss
education and the literary arts, as well as to conduct writing
workshops for students around the country.
Textile Conservation Workshop, Inc.
South Salem, NY
$18,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Museums
To support a master apprenticeship for in-depth training in
textile conservation. As part of a regional conservation
laboratory, the apprenticeship program fills a gap not covered by
formal conservation courses in graduate school programs.
Theatre Development Fund, Inc.
New York, NY
$22,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Theater
To support Interpreting for the Theatre, an intensive one-week
institute for theater sign language interpreters. The goal of the
program is to support and preserve the art of sign-interpreting,
set national standards of excellence in the field, and to ensure
that theater is accessible to deaf and hearing-impaired
audiences.
University of Rochester (on behalf of
Memorial Art Gallery)
Rochester, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Museums
To support the publication of a catalog and the creation of a Web
site of the Memorial Art Gallery's American art collection. The
project is the second in a three-phase initiative titled Seeing
America, which uses the American collection as an important
educational and community resource, thereby raising the
collection's visibility.
Westhab, Inc.
Elmsford, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support StoryArts. The project will develop artistic skills and
provide performance opportunities for severely disadvantaged
children and youth who reside at homeless shelters.
Whitney Museum of American Art
New York, NY
$48,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support Moving Pictures 3: The Art of Conflict and Resolution.
Through this media arts program, youth ages 14 to 18 will study
techniques of filmmaking to create video poems relating to personal
conflict.
WNYC Radio, Inc. (on behalf of Radio
Rookies)
New York, NY
$33,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support Radio Rookies, a media education program. Open to young
people from across New York City's five boroughs, the program will
provide training in all aspects of radio production.
WNYC Radio, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and
Television FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support The Integration Project, a model radio programming
project. WNYC will develop programs that bridge classical music and
news-talk formats within its own broadcast schedule, encourage
local stations around the country to customize the model for their
own communities, and make innovative programs available for
national broadcast.
Working Playground, Inc.
New York, NY
$38,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support Moving Pictures 3: The Art of Conflict and Resolution.
Through this media arts program, youth ages 14 to 18 will study
techniques of filmmaking to create video poems relating to personal
conflict.
World Music Productions
Brooklyn, NY
$45,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and
Television FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support production and distribution of the weekly public radio
program Afropop Worldwide. 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 United States.
Young People's Chorus of New York City,
Inc.
New York, NY
$38,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support expansion of the Partner School Program. The program
will provide full scholarships enabling students recruited from
partner schools in Harlem and the Bronx to receive training in
vocal techniques, instruction in music reading and writing, and
opportunities to participate in choral performance activities.
Youth Advancement Through Music & Art
(YATMA)
Albany, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support after-school visual and performing arts activities for
emotionally challenged children and youth. YATMA will provide
multidisciplinary arts activities for those children and youth who
reside in the Parsons Child & Family Center, a residential
facility for children who have been orphaned, abandoned, or removed
from their homes.
NEW YORK total grants: 118
NEW YORK total dollars: $5,656,800
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