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2005 Grant Awards: State Listings
Access to Artistic Excellence II/American Masterpieces/
Folk Arts Infrastructure/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
$33,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support Playmaking, a three-tiered playwriting and dramatic performance program for youth residing in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of New York City.
Academy of American Poets, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a consortium project to coordinate National Poetry Month. In partnership with the American Poetry & Literacy Project, the Academy will sponsor readings, discussions, and outreach programs designed to encourage Americans to make poetry a larger part of their lives.
Adirondack Community College
Queensbury, NY
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support readings and workshops by nationally renowned and local writers for students and community members. The college will promote the readings through its Web site and newsletters.
Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Nancy Quinn Fund and the Theatre Leadership Institute as technical assistance programs. The initiatives will provide management-related technical assistance to small and mid-size theater companies nationally.
American Brass Chamber Music Association, Inc.
New York, NY
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a tour of performances and residency activities by the American Brass Quintet. Each residency will include up to seven performance and educational events, culminating in a formal concert in each community.
American Documentary, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 4th Youth Views Institute. The program engages young people between the ages of 14 and 20 to use non-fiction media as a tool to facilitate dialogue with their peers about issues that are addressed in the film/video artworks.
American Institute of Graphic Arts
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support a National Election Design Summit and a series of regional workshops. Election officials and administrators, designers, ballot printers, and manufacturers of electronic voting equipment will participate.
American Music Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support American Music Center's Virtual Information Center for new American music through its NewMusicBox.org and NewMusicJukeBox.org Web sites. 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
$27,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support the continued expansion of Literature to Life, a theater and literature program for middle and high school students in New York, Los Angeles and Cleveland. The program will include performances of professionally staged adaptations of exemplary American literary works, post-show discussions, and artist residencies.
American Tap Dance Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$11,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the fifth-year anniversary of Tap City, The New York City Tap Festival. The project will include performances, master classes, tap workshops, panel discussions, and film seminars.
Aquila Theatre Company
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the production and multistate tour of plays. The company will tour Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and William Shakespeare's Hamlet.
Art 21, Inc.
New York, NY
$75,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support the education components of Art21: Art in the Twenty-First Century, a public television series on contemporary visual art. Program components include development of new curricular resources, professional development for secondary school teachers, and special projects.
Art Commission of the City of New York
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the first phase of the preservation of the commission's 18th- and 19th-century American portrait collection. Portraits of James Kent by Rembrandt Peale, Jacob Brown by John Wesley Jarvis, and Andrew Jackson by John Vanderlyn will be conserved.
Art Resources Transfer, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the Distribution to Underserved Communities Program. The project will offer books, museum catalogues, videos, and other material about contemporary art free-of-charge to libraries across the nation, with a special emphasis on rural and inner-city libraries.
Arts Center of the Capital Region
Troy, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support Media Direct, a residency program for contemporary visual artists. The project will place artists in residencies at media and communications-oriented businesses, and will include the production of a Web-based catalogue and exhibitions of the newly created work at the Art Center's main gallery.
Arts Connection
New York, NY
$45,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support professional development for theater and dance teaching artists and school-based arts specialists. The training will address New York City Department of Education Curriculum Blueprints in theater and dance for students in kindergarten through 12th grades.
Arts Council for Chautauqua County
Jamestown, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support Video Works, Teen TV, and Ripley Writes. Daily classroom and after-school education in video art will be offered to high school students, as will weekly sessions in creative writing and after-school video workshops three days a week for teenagers.
Arts Engine, Inc. (on behalf of MediaRights.org)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 5th annual Media That Matters Film Festival. The touring program features short film and video artworks produced by independent and youth makers from across the United States.
Arts Resources in Collaboration, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the digitization of Eye on Dance, an educational series of interviews with artists. The digitized sessions will be distributed nationally to libraries and educational institutions and broadcast on PBS in the New York City tri-state area.
Association for Cultural Equity (Alan Lomax Collection)
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support preservation of the Performance Style and Culture Collection of the Alan Lomax Archive. The collection comprises paper, computer, and audio files and elucidates the methods that the esteemed folklorist and his colleagues developed to compare the music, dance, and speech patterns of vastly different cultures.
Association of Independents in Radio
Brooklyn, NY
$60,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the Mentor Program. Veteran radio producers will be paired with less experienced counterparts and selected public radio stations to provide individual training and guidance in every aspect of audio/radio production.
Association of Institutes for Aesthetic Education, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support the Teaching Artist Mentoring Project: Implementation Year Two. The regional professional development workshops will focus on best practices for teaching dance, music, theater, and the visual arts, and will sustain inter-institute mentoring relationships.
Bang on a Can, Inc. (consortium)
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Summer Institute of Music, a consortium residency program for composers and performers of experimental music. In partnership with the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, the initiative includes free concerts and outreach activities in low-income communities, and at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams.
Bard College
Annandale-Hudson, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support an exhibition and catalogue on textile design as propaganda in America, Great Britain, and Japan during World War II. The exhibition held at the Bard Graduate Center titled Wearing Propaganda, will present significant examples of mid-20th century textile design that reflected cultural attitudes.
Bardavon 1869 Opera House, Inc.
Poughkeepsie, NY
$22,500
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support the Young Playwrights Festival. Sixth graders will participate in weekly classes with a resident writer and theater producer, culminating in rehearsals and the staging of an original play performed by professional actors.
Batoto Yetu, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of Ngola Nzinga: Birth of Nzinga, choreographed by Artistic Director Julio Leitao. The work will be performed in New York, New Jersey, Colorado, and Kansas, and the project will include post-performance discussions, master classes, and workshops in African dance and drumming.
Big Apple Circus, Ltd.
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support performances of Circus of the Senses. The program makes circus performances accessible to audiences of physically and developmentally disabled children.
Bowery Arts and Science
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support A Passion for Poetry. The project will support fieldwork in, and presentations of, poetry traditions from Iran, Egypt, Basque cultures, and West Africa.
Boys & Girls Harbor, Inc. (on behalf of Harbor Conservatory)
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the preservation and digitization of paper media found in the Raices Collection of the Harbor Conservatory. The collection includes 1,600 rare books, posters, album covers, manuscripts, and periodicals that are rapidly deteriorating.
Brooklyn Arts Council, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support Folk Feet III: Celebrating Traditional Dance in Brooklyn. The festival will include concerts and workshops, and will feature both dance groups and individuals presenting community-based dance forms.
Brooklyn Arts Council, Inc. (consortium)
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the consortium project featuring a printmaking exhibition of American and French artists. In partnership with the Long University, Brooklyn, the exhibition will take place at venues in both New York and Paris.
Brooklyn Institute of Arts & Sciences
Brooklyn, NY
$70,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support Ceremonies and Social Traditions (CST), a reinstallation of the museum's collection of indigenous art of the Americas. The project is part of seven long-term installations that constitute Living Legacies: The Art of the Americas.
Brooklyn Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Inc. (consortium)
Brooklyn, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Music Off the Walls, a consortium project. A series of chamber music concerts will be performed in the Brooklyn Museum of Art, exploring themes of current exhibitions.
Brooklyn Public Library Foundation
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support Brooklyn Authors for Brooklyn Readers, a series of readings and interviews with WNYC radio talk show host Leonard Lopate. The library will make digital audio recordings of each program available on its Web site.
Buffalo Media Resources, Inc. (Squeaky Wheel)
Buffalo, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support SWAP: Squeaky Wheel Access Program. The 18-year-old program provides media equipment access, low cost workshops, artist residencies, and resource services to film and video artists locally and nationally.
Camera News, Inc. (Third World Newsreel)
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
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.
Center for New American Media, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production of a documentary film by Andrew Kolker and Louis Alvarez. Getting Happy (the working title) will explore Americans' search for happiness.
Center for Traditional Music and Dance, Inc.
New York, NY
$34,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support continuation of the Community Cultural Initiative (CCI). The project is designed to contribute to the efforts of the Mexican, Peruvian, and Chinese communities to manage their music and dance traditions.
Chashama, Inc.
New York, NY
$8,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support free performance, exhibition, and work space for performing and visual artists. A minimum of two venues will be made available including a black box theater, galleries, and window stages.
Children's Art Carnival, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support the Learning from the Living Treasures of Harlem initiative. The arts education project will document the under-represented history of the Weusi Artist Collective through exhibitions, residencies, lecture-demonstrations, artists' talks, printed and online journals/catalogues, and a video.
Cineaste Publishers, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the publication of Cineaste, a quarterly film magazine dedicated to the art and understanding of cinema. Cineaste will report on new French cinema, the recent critical success of documentary film as an art form, publish interviews with Ousmane Sembene and Oliver Stone, and commission essays on Oscar Micheaux and Anna May Wong.
City Center 55th Street Theater Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$55,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the restoration, remounting, and staged concert productions of musicals and a concert in the 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 Trova, Inc.)
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the 7th International Troubadour Celebration. Trovadores, improvisatory singer-poets, will perform Puerto Rico's traditional jibaro music.
City Lore, Inc. (on behalf of National Network for Folk Arts in Education)
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a national folk arts-in-education initiative to foster the inclusion of folk arts as a basic element of K-12 arts education. The effort will integrate folk arts and artists into school curricula by connecting educators and students to folklorists, folk artists, and folk arts materials and training.
City Lore, Inc.
New York, NY
$39,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support Local Learning: Exploring Cultures and Communities Through the Arts. Skills-based student instruction in the visual and performing arts will incorporate folk and fine artists as part of a model program to integrate the study of community into the social studies curriculum.
City University of New York Medgar Evers College
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the Eighth National Black Writers Conference. Proposed participants include Yusef Komunyakaa, Elizabeth Alexander, Edwidge Danticat, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., James McBride, Elizabeth Nunez, John Edgar Wideman, and Quincy Troupe.
City University of New York Queens College (on behalf of Colden Center for Performing Arts)
Flushing, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support jazz artists' residencies. Teaching artists will collaborate with music teachers to provide eight-week workshops for students enrolled in New York City middle and senior high school jazz instrumental and vocal ensembles.
Cornell University (on behalf of Johnson Museum)
Ithaca, NY
$8,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a conservation survey of the drawings collection. The project will focus on the 200 drawings that have come into the collection since 1993.
Council of Literary Magazines and Presses
New York, NY
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support new and enhanced services for independent literary publishers. Scheduled activities will include an interactive Web site, a national conference, and technical assistance workshops.
Cygnus Ensemble, Inc.
Mt. Vernon, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a CD recording of new works for chamber ensemble. The works to be included on the Bridge Records release are works by William Anderson, Milton Babbitt, David Claman, Akemi Naito, and Rolv Yttrehus.
Da Capo Chamber Players, Inc.
New York, NY
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a chamber ensemble performance tour and residency activities. The four-state tour will involve concerts, public school performances, open rehearsals, and programs for retirement communities.
Dance Films Association, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the national tour of the Dance on Camera Festival. The Festival will include domestic and international films, and related outreach activities.
Dance Notation Bureau, Inc.
New York, NY
$23,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the addition of new dance scores to an archive of notated dances. The scores will be documented using Labanotation, a method of recording dance movement.
Dance Theatre of Harlem, Inc.
New York, NY
$90,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support an educational and community outreach initiative that exposes children and adults to dance. Dancing Through Barriers® will include lecture-demonstrations, video assemblies, master classes, workshops, dress rehearsals, open rehearsals, performances, and teacher professional development workshops in cities across the United States.
Dancewave, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support Kids Company, which provides opportunities for teens to work with ballet and modern dance choreographers. The educational training and performance program will provide twice-weekly rehearsals and classes, and performance opportunities for students.
Dancing in the Streets, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a series of dance programs in public parks in New York City neighborhoods. In collaboration with City Parks Foundation, Dancing in CityParks will feature Urban Bush Women in Red Hook, Brooklyn; Rennie Harris Puremovement in Queensbridge, Queens; and Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company in Harlem, Manhattan.
Das Puppenspiel Puppet Theater Inc.
Westfield, NY
$12,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a national tour of The Puppet Tree Series. The company will tour contemporary plays and adaptations of classic works for young audiences, including Hans Christian Andersen's The Snow Queen, Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking Glass, and the Native American parable The Story of Jumping Mouse.
Dia Center for the Arts
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support the Beacon Arts Education Program. The district-wide partnership with the Beacon City School District will engage every school at the elementary, middle, and high school levels through in-depth, structured interaction with Dia's permanent collection and the architecture and landscape of the Beacon museum site.
Dieu Donné Papermill, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a consortium project to publish and distribute a report, The Artist Workspace Residency: Setting a Standard for Cultural Organizations and Artists. The report will compile and share information regarding best practices for residencies.
Downtown Community Television Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support workshops, facilities access, and related activities. Downtown Community Television (DCTV) is devoted to making technologically sophisticated media available to underserved communities by providing a range of courses and services.
Early Stages Program, Inc.
New York, NY
$28,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support the Storytelling Program. Resident artists will provide multiple six-week, standards-based writing and theater skills development workshops for New York students.
Educational Alliance, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support continuation of the Young Artists Program. The after-school and summer visual arts program will be taught by practicing and exhibiting artists, and will provide free or low-cost visual arts instruction to underserved teens.
Electronic Music Foundation, Ltd.
Albany, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Electronic Music in the United States, a Web site. Plans include compiling, researching, and acquiring audio, video, and other documentation of the pioneers in electronic music for inclusion on the Web site.
Epic Theatre Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$17,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support the Journeys Series program. As many as 20 artist residencies will take place in New York public high school English and government classrooms, with teaching artists leading students in the study of classical Greek plays.
Experimental Television Center Ltd.
Newark Valley, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support a year-round residency program for media artists. The Experimental Television Center provides film and video artists access to sophisticated production facilities.
Farmers' Museum, Inc.
Cooperstown, NY
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Cooperstown Chamber Music Festival. The three-week summer festival in August 2005 will include six performances, two interactive family concerts, and free educational outreach programs.
Film/Video Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support post-production costs for a documentary by Nicole Cattell. Revolucion: Visions of Cuba Since The Revolution is about six Cuban photographers.
Finnish Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support a consortium project for a publication about architect Eero Saarinen. In conjunction with Yale University, the catalogue will be printed and distributed worldwide to universities and libraries.
Foundation for Independent Video and Film
New York, NY
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the Information Services Project. Consisting of the publication The Independent Film and Video Monthly, the electronic newsletter Splice!, one-on-one artist advice and referral services, and online directories, the project will serve a constituency of more than 100,000 individuals, including artists and members of the public.
Friends of the Arts
Locust Valley, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support Jazz Sampler. Project activities will include professional development for artists and elementary school teachers focusing on arts integration into the curriculum, as well as workshops for students in composition, song performance, play writing, dance, puppetry, and mask making.
George Eastman House
Rochester, NY
$200,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the touring exhibition Seeing Ourselves: Masterpieces of American Photography, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition, organized for a national tour to small and mid-sized communities, will present works by American photographers from the nation's oldest and most comprehensive photography collection.
Glens Falls Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Glens Falls, NY
$74,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Made in America, a collaborative commissioning, performance, and outreach project. A new work by Joan Tower will be commissioned and performed by up to 60 small-budget orchestras in all 50 states.
Global Action Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$60,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
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.
Groundswell Community Mural Project, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support continuation of the Voices Her'd mural project for teenage girls from three ethnically diverse, low-income Brooklyn neighborhoods, to study works in the museum's collection as the springboard for the creation of three public murals.
Haleakala, Inc. (The Kitchen) (consortium)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a consortium project of literary performances to showcase small, alternative literary publications and their writers. In partnership with Open City, Inc., The Kitchen will promote the monthly series to its mailing list of 17,000 individuals.
High 5 Tickets to the Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support the Take 5 reduced-price ticketing program. The adult-led, small group program will promote parental involvement and adult mentorship in arts experiences.
Horizon Concerts, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support artist fees for free concerts by solo performers in senior citizen facilities, nursing homes, special education schools, homeless shelters, and other social service organizations. Up to 100 free concerts by young professional musicians will take place during 2005-06.
Independent Feature Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the IFP Market. The conference and exhibition provide independent filmmakers from across the country the opportunity to present their work to the industry.
International Film Seminars, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 51st Robert Flaherty Film Seminar. The week-long event, to be held at Claremont College in California, will bring together students, scholars, filmmakers, curators, librarians, and film enthusiasts to explore and discuss the art of the moving image.
Isamu Noguchi Foundation, Inc.
Long Island City, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the exhibition, The Imagery of Chess Revisited, and related educational programs. Originally curated by Marcel Duchamp in 1944, the show will present designer- and artist-created chess sets.
Jazz Alliance International, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support an audience development and media awareness campaign promoting jazz to the African American community. The campaign will include radio and television public service announcements, magazine articles, an eight-page editorial magazine, Internet banners, and college panel discussions.
Jazz at Lincoln Center Inc.
New York, NY
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the U.S. tour of the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra (LCJO), the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra (ALJO), and smaller ensembles by distinguished jazz artists. The tour will reach up to 15 cities in 12 states.
Jazz Gallery
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Jazz Masters Pass It On. Emerging musicians will be paired with prominent jazz musicians, including many NEA Jazz Masters, to perform together and discuss the means by which jazz traditions are passed on to younger generations.
Joyce Theater Foundation, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a consortium project to present dance in Lower Manhattan's Battery Park. The Joyce Theater will partner with the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council to offer a range of dance company performances in the Evening Stars series, which takes place during the River to River Festival.
Juilliard School
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support the continuation of the Music Advancement Program. The project will involve concentrated musical training for public school children (ages 8 to 16) from all New York City boroughs.
Just Buffalo Literary Center, Inc.
Buffalo, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support outreach programs throughout the greater Buffalo area. Proposed programs will include Poetry To Go, a series of readings at public venues; World of Voices, bringing international writers to western New York for week-long residencies; and If All of Buffalo Read the Same Book.
Kunqu Society, Inc.
Whitestone, NY
$14,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support lecture-demonstrations and a performance in the art of Kunqu. The project will raise awareness of Kunqu, a form of traditional Chinese theatre proclaimed by UNESCO as a masterpiece of the oral and intangible heritage of humanity.
La Troupe Makandal, Inc. (consortium)
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support Krik! Krak!, a consortium project. A collaboration with the Tonel Lakay Dance Theatre, the project will consist of instruction in Haitian music and dance.
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. (on behalf of Institute for Arts in Education)
New York, NY
$70,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support the Focus School Collaborative. The project is a whole-school reform and renewal initiative in which participating schools make long-term commitments toward the integration of the arts across the curriculum.
Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of America, Inc.
New York, NY
$6,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Technology Initiative. The mission of Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of America is to affirm, support, and broaden the roles that literary managers and dramaturgs play in the theater field.
Locust Street Neighborhood Art Classes, Inc.
Buffalo, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support free-of-charge art classes for children in an inner-city neighborhood of Buffalo. Taught by working artists, many of whom are alumni of the organization, classes are available in photography, ceramics, painting, and drawing.
Los Pleneros de la 21, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
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 a Fiesta de Cruz.
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Inc.
New York, NY
$22,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support Workspace: 120 Broadway, an artist residency program. Workspace provides emerging to mid-career artists the opportunity to create new site-inspired work and to share that work with critics, curators, and new audiences through studio visits and an Open Studio weekend.
Ma-Yi Filipino Theatre Ensemble, Inc.
New York, NY
$28,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and workshop readings of The Suitcase Trilogy by Han Ong. Development activities will include closed workshop sessions, an extended collaboration process with director, playwright, dramaturg, and cast, and public readings of the work-in-progress.
Manhattan Theatre Club, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support the TheatreLink program. The video-conferencing component of this distance-learning initiative will enhance the educational quality of the program as it reaches isolated youth who have limited access to arts education and professional theater experiences.
Manna House Workshops Inc.
New York, NY
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support music education and performance programs. Plans include individual music instruction and a concert series.
Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, Inc.
New York, NY
$90,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the revivals of works choreographed by Martha Graham. Letter to the World (1940) and Rite of Spring (1984) will be presented in New York during the company's 80th anniversary.
Meet The Composer, Inc.
New York, NY
$75,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Creative Connections, a nationwide project that brings composers and audiences together around new musical works. The project will provide opportunities for composers to attend performances of their music and take part in pre- or post-concert discussions, open rehearsals, workshops, lecture-demonstrations, and interviews.
Metropolitan Opera Guild, Inc.
New York, NY
$85,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support the Creating Original Opera (COO) Program. The professional development program for New York City-area classroom and music teachers integrates the state and national standards-based COO curriculum into their classrooms, enabling students to write, compose, and perform original works.
Midori Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support Adventures in Making Music. The program will offer free twice-weekly instruction in woodwind, brass, percussion, and violin to inner-city youth.
Momenta Art, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the organization and dissemination of an archive of video art work presented at Momenta since 1993. Momenta, located in Brooklyn's Williamsburg area, has presented work by hundreds of video artists during a period of growth for the medium.
Museum of Arts & Design
New York, NY
$113,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the touring exhibition Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 2 (Contemporary Native North American Art from the West and Northwest), with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition, organized for a national tour, is the second in a series of three exhibitions examining the work of Native American artists within the broader context of trends in the visual arts.
Music From China, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Music from China Festival, a consortium project. A collaboration with Seton Hall University, the project will include a series of public concerts, lecture-demonstrations, and a music training program targeting children and youth.
National Audio Theatre Festivals, Inc.
Hempstead, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the Audio Theatre Workshop. The series of classes trains audio artists in script writing, performance for radio, and technical skills to produce innovative live radio drama.
National Book Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support literary outreach programs that link National Book Award authors with underserved communities throughout the country. Programs will include American Voices, which brings writers to American Indian reservations nationwide, and a summer writing camp for inner-city teens and adults.
National Center for Creative Aging, Inc. (Elders Share the Arts) (consortium)
Brooklyn, NY
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support the consortium project, Summit Conference on Arts and Aging. The project will bring together, for the first time, the top organizations and 200-300 artists who work with older people.
National Center for Creative Aging, Inc. (Elders Share the Arts)
Brooklyn, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support Living History Arts. The cross-generational, cross-cultural curriculum places students with elders in the community to focus on, and examine, the theme of what it means to be an American.
National Dance Institute, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support dance instruction and performance programs. Designed to provide sequential dance skills through ensemble performances, classes are offered to advanced and motivated students with professional artists trained in NDI's teaching methods.
National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts
New York, NY
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support professional development programs for leaders in the community arts education field. The programs will include a national conference, Advance Training for Regional Chairs, the Arts Management in Community Institutions Training Institute, and an interactive platform for online discussions.
New Art Publications
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the annual issues of AMERICAS. The publication will feature interviews with Latin American and Caribbean writers, artists, musicians, and architects, and will include original translations of poetry and fiction.
New York Academy of Medicine
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support preservation of two 16th century Flemish tapestries. Conservation treatment will be undertaken by conservators from the textile lab of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine.
New York Baroque Dance Co. Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the 11th Baroque Ballet Workshop, a residency program to be held in Texas, New York, and California. The project will include classes, lectures, and performances.
New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc. (on behalf of Automatic Release)
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support production and post-production costs for a video/audio installation project by Shaun Irons and Lauren Petty. Artificial Paradise will combine images from different locations around the country with an audio score consisting of music and other sounds.
New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support NYFA Source, a national resource that lists opportunities for artists. The largest and most comprehensive free online information repository, NYFA Source lists more than 7,500 opportunities in every state.
New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations (on behalf of New York Public Library for the Performing Arts)
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the production, documentation, and preservation of significant dance and theater performances and oral histories by notable performing artists. Performances and oral histories will be recorded, and 50 hours of deteriorating oral history material will be conserved.
New York Shakespeare Festival
New York, NY
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the production of Two Gentleman of Verona through the Free Shakespeare in Central Park program.
New York State Council on the Arts
New York, NY
$763100
CATEGORY: Partnership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.
New York State Historical Association
Cooperstown, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the touring exhibition A Deaf Artist in Early America: The Worlds of John Brewster, Jr., with accompanying brochure and education programs. The exhibition will examine the work and impact of deaf portrait artist Brewster (1766 - 1854) in the context of his life, and the formation of deaf culture in America in the 18th century.
New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture
New York, NY
$76,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the Evening Lecture Series, a free program that enables artists, scholars, critics, philosophers, and art historians to engage the public in the discussion of critical issues in the visual arts. Held on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings throughout the school year, the program features prominent speakers such as James Rosenquist, Elizabeth Murray, Arthur Danto, Lisa Yuskavage, Hilton Kramer, and Lily Wei.
New York University
New York, NY
$60,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Phase Two of a three-year preservation plan to save and make accessible culturally significant videotapes from the Fales Library's Downtown Collection. More than 1,700 videotapes of dance, theater, artists' interviews, and performance art from New York (1970-1990) are included in the collection, and many are in danger of being lost.
New York University (on behalf of The Drama Review)
New York, NY
$12,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the publication and distribution 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: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the preservation and presentation of a multimedia work by choreographer Alwin Nikolais. The works will be performed by the Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Non-Traditional Casting Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Inclusion Project, which will include Artist Files Online and the National Diversity Forum. The project is designed to assist nonprofit theaters in achieving greater diversity.
Olana Partnership
Hudson, NY
$60,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the touring exhibition Treasures from Olana: Landscapes by Frederick Edwin Church, with accompanying catalogue and educational materials. Church (1826 - 1900) was one of the most prominent members of the Hudson River School, whose painting celebrated the natural beauty of the Hudson River Valley.
OLLANTAY Center for the Arts, Inc.
Jackson Heights, NY
$12,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the publication of OLLANTAY Theatre Magazine, an international journal that features the work of Latino playwrights and theater artists. Now in its 13th year, the magazine includes complete play texts, articles, essays, and interviews with artists and scholars, and is published in a combination of English and Spanish.
Opus 118 Music Center (Harlem Center for Strings)
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support music lessons for underserved, inner-city youth. Opus 118's Conservatory Program will be offered to low-income children in East Harlem.
Pan Asian Repertory Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the development and workshop production of a new musical adapted from a literary work. Based on the novel Days of the Tong War by author and lyricist C. Y. Lee, The Fan Tan King will be composed by Douglas Lackey and directed by Tisa Chang.
Paper Bag Players
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and multistate tour of a new work for children. Founder and veteran Artistic Director Judith Martin will lead an ensemble of artists through the writing, musical scoring, and design of the new production for children ages four to nine.
PEN American Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support Border Crossings, a program that brings literature to underserved American audiences through readings and discussions. The project is designed to create public events featuring distinguished writers and connect under-recognized writers to their local communities through writing workshops and public readings.
Pepatian Inc.
Bronx, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Jump It Up: Bronx Artists Spotlight. The multidisciplinary presentation will highlight the work of Bronx-based artists, nonprofit centers, and performance spaces.
Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support a consortium project called the School Partnership Program. Students in the second through fifth grades will attend workshops held by New York-trained teaching artists.
Poetry Project, Ltd.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the Monday Night and Wednesday Night Reading and Performance Series, which will feature live presentations by more than 130 poets and performers. Writers under consideration include Wanda Coleman, Martin Espada, Kimoko Hahn, Sonia Sanchez, and Kevin Young.
Poetry Society of America
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support Poetry in Motion, a program that places poetry placards in public transportation systems throughout the country. Targeted cities will be expanded to include New Orleans, Kansas City, and Milwaukee.
Poets House, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support public events in the Re/VISION/aries series. The project will explore a range of visionary poets of the past, look at new frontiers being charted in contemporary poetry, and invite diverse audiences to reconsider their stance toward poetry.
Poets & Writers, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the consortium project Carried Voices: Writers & Books in the West. In partnership with the YMCA of Billings, the project will bring literary events to Oregon, Washington, Montana, Wyoming, and northern California.
Poets & Writers, Inc.
New York, NY
$80,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication of Poets & Writers Magazine and the continued development and promotion of Poets & Writers' Web site. The Web site provides links to over 1,000 other Web sites dedicated to helping writers.
Police Athletic League, Inc.
New York, NY
$60,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support the Arts Conservatory Program (ACP). Targeted for homeless youth living in shelters, and other at-risk children and teens, the sequential arts instruction program will be offered at PAL youth centers in East New York, Hell's Kitchen, and South Bronx.
Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre Co., Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Raul Julia Training Unit and the Playwrights Unit. The career development programs will offer tuition-free, bilingual professional development to Latino youth and adults.
Queens Symphony Orchestra Inc
Glendale, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support in-school ensemble performances, educational workshops, and young people's concerts. The music appreciation project will reach children and families throughout the Borough of Queens.
Queens Theatre in the Park, Inc.
Flushing, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the 9th annual Latino Cultural Festival and the 5th annual Latino Cultural Series. The festival will feature music, dance, theater, film, visual art exhibitions, and residency workshops.
Ringside Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support components of STREB/Ringside's audience development and access program, PUBLIC ACTION. The project will support residency and outreach programs for PUBLIC/ACTION NEW YORK and PUBLIC/ACTION ON TOUR.
Rochester City School District
Rochester, NY
$65,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support an evaluative impact study regarding arts instruction integration. The study will be carried out in partnership with the Rochester City School District Research, Evaluation, and Testing Department and the Young Audiences of Rochester, and will determine the impact of an integrated arts instruction program on students' learning in English language arts and theater.
Rochester Institute of Technology (on behalf of RIT Libraries Archives & Special Collections)
Rochester, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the preservation of, and creation of, the archive of graphic designer George Giusti. After stabilizing and sorting the archive, a detailed Web-based finding aid will be created to provide access to a wider audience.
Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Inc.
Rochester, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Symphony 101, an outreach project of community 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.
Salvadori Educational Center on the Built Environment
New York, NY
$60,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support the Salvadori On-Site Program The program provides professional development for classroom teachers and school administrators.
Saratoga International Theater Institute, Inc.
New York, NY
$18,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Performing Arts Center at Purchase College. Originally commissioned and premiered by the San Jose Repertory Theatre, the production is directed by Artistic Director Anne Bogart and performed by members of the SITI Company.
Sixteen As One Music Inc. (Vanguard Jazz Orchestra)
New York, NY
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support performances and a CD recording of new works by composer Jim McNeely. The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra will premiere the works at the Village Vanguard in New York City.
Skidmore College
Saratoga Springs, NY
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Skidmore Jazz Institute at the college's Bernhard Theater. The two-week summer jazz program will include master classes, daily improvisational classes, private instruction, and a mini-festival.
Soho Repertory Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$14,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Writer/Director Lab and Phase 2 Play Development programs. The projects will foster the creation of new plays by playwrights near the start of their careers, and the development of plays in workshops.
Sound Portraits Productions, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production of a radio documentary by Dave Isay. To be produced as part of the American Sound Portraits series, the half-hour work will be broadcast on National Public Radio's All Things Considered.
Spanish Theatre Repertory Company, Ltd.
New York, NY
$55,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
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.
St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support a music instruction program for children in New York City public schools. The project will feature free performances, in-school workshops, and applied music instruction.
Stages of Learning
Brooklyn, NY
$39,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support Stages of Learning, a sequential, standards-based theater education program that provides children with an opportunity to enhance their writing and reading skills through the study of playmaking.
Standby Program, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support access to state-of-the-art, broadcast quality, and post-production video equipment for artists and independent producers. Standby's access program is a unique model of collaboration between a nonprofit arts organization and privately owned businesses.
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Syracuse, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support concert tours to New York's North Country. The orchestra, under the direction of music director Daniel Hege, will perform concerts in rural and underserved communities.
TADA! Theater and Dance Alliance, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
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.
Teachers & Writers Collaborative, Inc.
New York, NY
$60,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support expansion of 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.
Theatre Communications Group, Inc.
New York, NY
$130,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the 15th National Conference. The conference will meet in Seattle and through sessions, performances, topical meetings, and workshops will explore the role of the arts in shaping American identity.
Theatre Communications Group, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support a consortium project, Building a National TEAM: Theater Education Assessment Models. TCG, in partnership with the U.S. Center for the International Association of Theater for Children and Young People, will develop national models for assessing theater education programs, and also will provide a national rubric for artists who are teaching theater in educational programs.
Theatre Development Fund, Inc.
New York, NY
$22,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Interpreting for the Theatre initiative. The program is an intensive one-week institute for theater sign-language interpreters that seeks to support and preserve the art of sign-interpretation, set national standards of excellence in the field, and ensure that theater is accessible to deaf and hearing-impaired audiences nationwide.
Theatreworks/USA Corporation
New York, NY
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support a national tour of theater productions for young audiences. Theatreworks/USA will provide audiences in 35 states and the District of Columbia with access to live theater and educational activities that complement school curricula.
Traditional Arts in Upstate New York, Inc.
Canton, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the folk arts program and related costs. The program is designed to work with arts and community organizations in the North Country region to produce traditional arts programming at their sites.
Visual Understanding in Education
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support an institute in San Francisco to introduce elementary school educators to Visual Thinking Strategies, an art education program designed to fulfill curriculum standards in social studies and language arts. The technique, developed by museum educator Philip Yenawine and cognitive psychologist Abigail Housen, has been widely practiced in museums across the country.
Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support the Legal Boot Camp, and expansion of business and legal services. New and traditional programs will be offered on a regional basis in New York State and around the nation in cooperation with arts councils and arts organizations.
Wave Hill, Inc.
Bronx, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the Family Art Project, a series of free weekend workshops that provide families the opportunity to create nature-based art projects inspired by craft traditions from around the world. Led by contemporary artists, the projects are designed to complement Wave Hill's unique setting - 28 acres of cultivated gardens, urban woodland, and an historic estate overlooking the Hudson River.
Westchester Arts Council
White Plains, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the creation of new work by Chris Burns and Stomu Miyazaki. The two Westchester artists have been selected to create two large-scale works for installation in the Council's gallery, the Grand Banking Room of the Arts Exchange.
Women's Studio Workshop, Inc. (consortium)
Rosendale, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support artist residencies within the Workshop's education program. The residency program offers emerging artists paid, professional opportunities to work for an extended period of time in a technically-equipped studio space, and training in teaching and mentoring.
Wooster Group, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the BRACE UP! Project, an educational video installation. The project will include the development of a DVD compiled from video footage of the production of Paul Schmidt's translation of Anton Chekhov's play Three Sisters.
Working Theatre Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$12,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the TheaterWorks! project. The initiative offers artist residencies and workshops to low-income people in New York City labor unions.
World Music Institute, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a consortium project of touring concerts of traditional Dogon music and dance of Mali, aboriginal song and dance of Australia, and music and song of Venezuela. The project, in partnership with World Music, Inc., is designed to reach a broad audience for non-Western music and dance, and to serve immigrant communities whose music is being presented, as well as descendants of "roots" communities.
Writers & Books, Inc.
Rochester, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support Literary Learning for a Lifetime, a series of educational and outreach programs. The project will offer readings, writing workshops, and online classes.
Writers Room, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support subsidized work space for emerging writers. The Writers Room is an urban writer's colony in New York City.
Young Audiences/New York, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support the Long-Term Partnership Model Program. The 16-week residencies, targeted for underserved New York City public schools, will involve professional teaching artists who will help develop a skills-based instructional program.
Young Men's & Young Women's Hebrew Association (on behalf of 92nd Street Y)
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the Unterberg Poetry Center Reading Series. The project will feature readings, performances, literary tributes, and live interviews by established and emerging authors.
Young People's Chorus of New York City, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support the Partner Schools Program. Students targeted and recruited from partner schools in Harlem, the Bronx, and Manhattan will receive training (tuition-free) in vocal technique and music reading and writing, participate in choral festivals, and progress to advanced musical training.
NEW YORK total grants: 176
NEW YORK total dollars: $6,063,100
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