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2007 Grant Awards: Access to Artistic Excellence
[ August 14, 2006 deadline ]
Dance |
Design |
Folk & Traditional Arts |
Literature |
Local Arts Agencies
Media Arts |
Museum |
Music |
Musical Theater |
Presenting |
Theater
Visual Arts
Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change, contingent upon prior
Endowment approval.
Presenting
Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the presentation of visual and literary works by the Scholastic Art and Writing Award recipients. Students in the 7th through 12th grades will participate in workshops with arts professionals and artists working in their specific discipline of interest.
Alliance of Artists Communities
Providence, RI
$40,000
To support a series of leadership development activities for staff and board members of artists' communities. Project components will include the Leadership Institute, the Pacific Northwest Regional Meeting, and the Board Track at the annual conference.
Alternate ROOTS, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$45,000
To support the Tour and Residency Program. The multi-state project will provide services that will enable geographically-isolated artists and presenters to reach broader audiences, share information, and develop new work.
Apollo Theater Foundation (aka Apollo)
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the 2007 Salon Series. Each performance artist engaged in the Salon Series will have access to the theater's black-box soundstage as a means for developing works-in-progress as well as presenting innovative works and discussing them with new audiences.
Arte Americas: The Mexican Arts Center (aka ARTE AMERICAS)
Fresno, CA
$10,000
To support the Nights in the Plaza series. Music and dance performances will be presented at an outdoor venue, and guest artist workshops and clinics will be conducted for local artists.
Artist Trust: A Resource for Washington
Seattle, WA
$15,000
To support Information Services, a variety of professional development resources for Washington State artists. Information will be shared with artists through training sessions, print publications, Web sites, e-mail, a toll-free phone line, and community workshops.
Arts & Business Council of Chicago (aka A&BC Chicago)
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support the enhancement of smARTstart, an online resource for start-up, Illinois-based arts organizations. Additions will include online chats with arts management experts; basic templates for business, marketing, and strategic planning; bulletin boards; chat rooms with other newly established organizations; and user profile forms to collect demographic information about site users.
Arts & Business Council, Inc. (aka Arts & Business Council of New York)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the expansion of professional development services for New York City arts organizations. In addition to arts marketing and management workshops and public panel discussions on arts and workforce development, services will expand to include business volunteer matching services and a pilot board recruitment, training, and placement program.
ArtWallah
Venice, CA
$10,000
To support the 2007 ArtWallah Festival of South Asian arts. The festival will showcase artists working in film, literature, visual arts, and performing arts whose ancestry originates from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, and the Maldives.
Asian American Arts Alliance, Inc. (aka A4)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the expansion of the A4 Connections Funding Technical Assistance program. Artists and arts groups will participate in panel discussions, technical assistance sessions, and seminars with potential funders.
Association of American Cultures (aka TAAC)
Yuma, AZ
$15,000
To support Open Dialogue Eleven. In partnership with the Western States Arts Federation, the 2007 conference, Cultural Democracy-Global Connections, will be held in Denver and will bring together approximately 250 leaders from diverse arts organizations.
Association of Performing Arts Presenters, Inc. (aka Arts Presenters)
Washington, DC
$70,000
To support professional development services for the presenting field. Intensive seminars, "think-tank" meetings, regional forums, peer networking sessions, and online and print publications will focus on such issues as leadership transition, organizational development and sustainability, audience development, curatorial training, and marketing and resource development.
August Wilson Center for African American Culture
Pittsburgh, PA
$30,000
To support the presentation of a series of new works by prominent African American artists. Residency activities, workshops, and audience talkbacks will complement the performances.
Big Thought
Dallas, TX
$20,000
To support Summer in the City, a series of excursions for youth to arts centers, museums, and cultural institutions. A partnership with the City of Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs, the project will provide more than 4,500 students and family members with citywide cultural field trips.
California Lawyers for the Arts, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$35,000
To support the expansion of ArtHouse. Collaborative efforts will facilitate the development of artist studios and multi-tenant spaces for arts organizations in San Francisco.
Cedar Cultural Center, Inc. (aka The Cedar)
Minneapolis, MN
$18,000
To support the ninth annual Nordic Roots Festival. Music and dance concerts and interactive vocal and instrumental workshops will feature a number of artists from Norway, Sweden, Finland, and the United States.
City Parks Foundation (aka Central Park Summerstage)
New York, NY
$25,000
To support City Parks Concerts, City Parks Dance, and City Parks Theater. Free performances by emerging, regional, and international artists will be presented at public parks in New York City.
COSACOSA art at large, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$17,000
To support the Common Good Project. Professional artists will teach hospitalized individuals and other community members artistic techniques, resulting in the design and creation of permanent public art projects for public spaces and neighborhood healthcare facilities.
Cultural Development Corporation of the District of Columbia (aka CuDC)
Washington, DC
$10,000
To support the Business Center at Flashpoint. The center's network of management tools and capacity-building services for artists and arts organizations will provide residency and technical assistance programs as well as opportunities for affordable exhibition, performance, and office spaces in conjunction with other business amenities.
DC Arts and Humanities Education Collaborative, Inc. (aka DC Collaborative)
Washington, DC
$15,000
To support Art for Every Student. Students will receive tickets, study materials, and transportation for cultural events throughout the District of Columbia.
DiverseWorks, Inc. (aka DiverseWorks Art Space) (Consortium)
Houston, TX
$18,000
To support the annual DiverseWorks Artists Retreat and Creative Capital Professional Development Workshop for visual and performing artists. In collaboration with the Cultural Arts Council of Houston and Harris County, the project will teach artists about the business aspects of their work and how to develop workable plans for sustaining their creative careers.
East Bay Center for the Performing Arts
Richmond, CA
$28,000
To support the 40th-anniversary season of Call and Response. Community-requested performances will be presented at city festivals, cultural fairs, community centers, local companies, parks, and schools throughout Contra Costa County.
Esopus Foundation, Ltd.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the production and distribution of Esopus magazine. The publication will feature artist projects, critical writing, short plays, visual essays, poetry, fiction, and a compact disc of commissioned music.
Esperanza Peace and Justice Center
San Antonio, TX
$25,000
To support the Arte es Vida Westside Cultural Grounding Project. The project aims to revitalize San Antonio's Westside community life by organizing and presenting public events, concerts, dance performances, and workshops that will engage community members in cultural activities stemming from the neighborhood's historical highlights.
FirstWorks (Consortium)
Providence, RI
$18,000
To support the production of FirstWorksProv Festival 2007. The series of New England performance premieres will be produced in partnership with the City of Providence and will extend into communities through forums, workshops, lectures, and discounted admissions.
Fractured Atlas Productions, Inc. (aka Fractured Atlas)
New York, NY
$12,000
To support the Open Arts Network and its first national conference. Emerging artists in New York City and various other U.S. cities will receive career development training and health insurance services.
Grand Performances
Los Angeles, CA
$40,000
To support Rhythm and Pulse: A Multidisciplinary Look at Tuned Percussion. The series will include free dance, film, and music events with related lecture-demonstrations.
Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center (aka Guadalupe)
San Antonio, TX
$10,000
To support the Building Bridges project. High school students will participate in workshops in dance, music, puppetry, and visual arts forms relevant to San Antonio's Hispanic cultural heritage culminating in a dance presentation incorporating all of the disciplines.
Harvestworks, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the sixth American International Festival of Interactive Media. A collaboration with 3-Legged Dog Media and Theater Group, the conference will feature panels, performances, and installations by artists who use interactive technology to perform and create work.
Heart of Brooklyn Cultural Institutions, Inc. (aka Heart of Brooklyn)
Brooklyn, NY
$15,000
To support the Breukelen Houses Outreach Project. Approximately 325 residents from the Breukelen Housing Development and their families will attend exhibitions, art workshops, literary programs, and performances at Heart of Brooklyn member organizations.
Helena Presents (aka Myrna Loy Center)
Helena, MT
$25,000
To support a series of commissioning and residency projects at the Myrna Loy Center. American and international guest artists will create new works in collaboration with local and regional artists.
High 5 Tickets to the Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the Take 5 Program. The adult-led, reduced-price ticketing program will promote parental involvement and adult mentorship in arts experiences.
Hospital Audiences, Inc. (aka HAI)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support classes for hospitalized adults, taught by professional artists, in the visual, media, and computer arts. The project will provide otherwise unavailable opportunities for participants to take part in arts activities.
Interact Center for the Visual and Performing Arts
Minneapolis, MN
$15,000
To support the presentation of Between the Worlds. Collaborators will mount and tour a multidisciplinary performance work that will challenge society's views about disability.
Jefferson Center Foundation, Ltd. (aka Jefferson Center)
Roanoke, VA
$20,000
To support The Other Side of the Tracks, a series of presentations addressing local issues of race, ethnicity, and history. Visual, performing, and literary works will be used to facilitate a dialogue with the community.
Kahilu Theatre Foundation
Kamuela, HI
$15,000
To support music, dance, and theater performances and related outreach activities. Classical and traditional music as well as dance and theater will be presented in remote Waimea communities and surrounding areas.
Kitka, Inc. (aka Kitka Women's Vocal Ensemble)
Oakland, CA
$25,000
To support the revision and touring of The Rasulka Cycle: Songs Between the Worlds. The folk opera is a collaborative project with composer Mariana Sadovska and director Ellen Sebastian Chang.
La Peña Cultural Center, Inc. (Consortium)
Berkeley, CA 94, CA
$25,000
To support the presentation of Raising Voice: The Immigrant Experience. In partnership with the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights in Oakland, the series will showcase commissioned and existing music as well as spoken-word, visual art, and theater works by a diverse group of artists.
Luther F. Carson Four Rivers Center (aka The Carson Center)
Paducah, KY
$10,000
To support Broadway by the River, Carson Select, Class Acts Education, and the creation of the Myre Series. These performance series provide artistic performance opportunities for audiences from western Kentucky, southern Illinois, southeast Missouri, and northwest Tennessee.
MacDowell Colony, Inc. (aka The MacDowell Colony) (Consortium)
Peterborough, NH
$30,000
To support the symposium Freedom to Create. In partnership with the Alliance of Artists Communities, speakers and panel discussions will be presented to promote the value of creativity and the role of artist communities in our society.
Mann Center for the Performing Arts (aka Mann Center)
Philadelphia, PA
$15,000
To support Access the Arts, a series of educational and outreach activities for youth. Activities will include the Young People's Concert Series, Connecting Arts-N-Schools, All-City Dance and Band Festivals, and the Complimentary Ticket Program.
Maui Community Arts & Cultural Center (aka Maui Arts & Cultural Center)
Kahului, HI
$40,000
To support a series of performances and related residency activities. Residency components will include: professional development workshops for teachers; student performances, workshops, and exhibitions; and performances by artists to whom the Maui community otherwise would not have access due to geographic constraints.
Miami Dade College (on behalf of Department of Cultural Affairs)
Miami, FL
$45,000
To support Cultura del Lobo, a project of Miami Dade College and the Miami Department of Cultural Affairs. The performance series and artist residency activities will focus on contemporary work of world cultures.
Mission Neighborhood Centers, Inc. (aka Carnaval San Francisco)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the 30th-Anniversary Carnaval San Francisco Festival and Parade. Numerous festival stages, including one stage entirely dedicated to young artists, will offer ongoing, simultaneous performances by a variety of artists representing the cultural traditions of Latin America and the Caribbean.
National Association of Latino Arts and Culture (aka NALAC)
San Antonio, TX
$45,000
To support the Seventh Leadership Institute and Regional Arts Training Workshops. Both components will offer Latino cultural organizations opportunities for organizational and professional development.
National Black Arts Festival (aka NBAF) (Consortium)
Atlanta, GA
$50,000
To support the creation of a 20th-Anniversary book and documentary film. Auburn Avenue Research Library, the organization's repository of archival materials, will document the festival's history; the initial run of 10,000 published packages will be disseminated through public broadcasting networks, libraries, and Web-based outlets.
National Foundation for Advancement in the Arts (aka NFAA)
Miami, FL
$25,000
To support the Arts Recognition and Talent Search (ARTS) and ARTS Week programs. A limited number of high school seniors will be selected to participate through a national competition in the categories of dance, film, visual arts, drama, and writing.
National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support professional development programs for leaders in the arts education field. Programs will include a national conference, the Arts Management in Community Institutions Training Institute, and the creation of the Community Arts Education Toolkit.
National Hispanic Cultural Center Foundation
Albuquerque, NM
$20,000
To support a series of performances for children and youth and statewide touring of performing arts groups to underserved communities. The performances will be complemented by a seminar for teachers on Hispanic arts and outreach activities by artists.
National Performance Network, Inc. (Consortium)
New Orleans, LA
$40,000
To support the 2007 National Performance Network annual meeting in New Orleans. Presented in partnership with the Ashe Cultural Arts Center, the national forum for artists and presenters will feature performance showcases, professional development workshops, and plenary sessions.
New Art Publications (aka BOMB Magazine)
Brooklyn, NY
$28,000
To support the publication of Americas, an annual issue of BOMB magazine. The publication will feature original translations of poetry and fiction and interviews with Latin American writers, artists, musicians, and architects.
New Orleans Center for Creative Arts Institute (aka The NOCCA Institute)
New Orleans, LA
$20,000
To support the Artists-in-Residence program. Activities will include master classes, Center Stage performances, On the Edge gallery exhibitions, and readings.
New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc. (aka NYFA)
New York, NY
$15,000
To support NYFA Source. The project will involve outreach to arts organizations and artists as well as enhancements to user access to the country's largest and most comprehensive free online information repository of opportunities for artists.
New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations (aka New York Public Library) (on behalf of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts)
New York, NY
$40,000
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 deteriorating oral history material will be conserved.
New York University
New York, NY
$18,000
To support the preservation of culturally significant videotapes from the Fales Library's Downtown Collection. The collection includes more than 1,700 videotapes, many of which are in danger of deterioration, of dance and theater performances, artist interviews, and performance art by New York artists from the 1970s to the 1990s.
Performing Arts Center Trust, Inc. (aka Carnival Center for the Performing Arts)
Miami, FL
$25,000
To support a residency by poet/playwright/performer Carl Hancock Rux at the Carnival Center for the Performing Arts. The artist will create an opera and conduct professional development activities for local artists.
Queens Theatre in the Park, Inc.
Flushing, NY
$35,000
To support the Latino Cultural Festival and the Latino Cultural Series. The programs will feature music, dance, theater, film, visual art exhibitions, and residency activities.
Regents of the University of California at Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA
$25,000
To support ¡Viva el Arte de Santa Barbara! The project will include artist residencies and free performances for low-income communities and schools.
San Francisco International Arts Festival
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support performances and residency activities by Spanish jazz pianist Omar Sosa and his Sextet. The Sextet also will perform at the Yerba Buena Arts and Events Festival.
Seattle International Children's Festival
Seattle, WA
$30,000
To support the 22nd annual Seattle International Children's Festival, the ninth annual Festival in Tacoma, and related education and outreach activities. The project also will provide teachers with an enriched curriculum by linking the festivals' cultural opportunities to classroom activities.
Sheboygan Arts Foundation, Inc. (aka John Michael Kohler Arts Center)
Sheboygan, WI
$40,000
To support Connecting Communities and the commissioning of new works at the Kohler Arts Center. Artists will collaborate with area cultural minorities, senior centers, churches, the Audubon Society, at-risk youth, and domestic abuse shelters to develop residency projects and community-based commissions.
Stern Grove Festival Association
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support the New Audience Program. The project will be a series of performances designed to reach underserved ethnic groups.
Talento Bilingüe de Houston (aka TBH)
Houston, TX
$15,000
To support a series of Latino art presentations. Local and regional artists will be featured in exhibitions, theater performances, a film series, and educational outreach activities.
Taller Puertorriqueño, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$35,000
To support Connecting the Threads of Our Pasts and the Hopes of Our Futures. The series will include exhibitions, street festivals, workshops, performances, and a symposium.
Tillett Foundation, Inc.
St. Thomas, VI
$10,000
To support the Concerts in the Garden series and Arts Alive. Classical, jazz, blues, and gospel music presentations and outreach activities will be offered to adults and students.
Town Hall Association (aka Town Hall Seattle)
Seattle, WA
$10,000
To support Global Rhythms, a series featuring traditional and international performers. Performances and related educational activities will be developed through community partnerships.
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (on behalf of Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts)
Philadelphia, PA
$20,000
To support the Annenberg Center's Philadelphia Presenting Project. Local performing artists and arts organizations will create new work as well as receive technical, marketing, and production assistance.
University Cultural Center Association (aka UCCA)
Detroit, MI
$15,000
To support the Detroit Festival of the Arts. Held in downtown Detroit, the annual international arts celebration will present free music, dance, and theater performances and will include public art and literary events.
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA
$25,000
To support Spot: The Hancher Family Arts Adventure, a series of residencies and performances targeting an audience of Gen-Xers (ages 25 to 35). Activities will take place in the Iowa communities of Spencer, Perry, Marshalltown, and Iowa City.
Western Alliance of Arts Administrators Foundations (aka Western Arts Alliance)
Portland, OR
$25,000
To support the reinvention of WAAAF's annual conference. Major shifts in format will include a site change and the development of a central meeting point at the site, increased opportunities for networking, and the introduction of a festival of full-length performances.
World Arts West
San Francisco, CA
$18,000
To support the arts education program People Like Me. Performances featuring five traditional world dance and music genres in an interactive theatrical format will be presented at Bay Area theaters for students in kindergarten through sixth grades.
World Music Institute, Inc. (aka WMI) (Consortium)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support a national tour of traditional and contemporary music and dance ensembles from Central Asia, the Middle East, and Pakistan. In partnership with World Music, Inc. (Cambridge, Massachusetts), exemplary presenters will present the ensembles and will include outreach activities such as lecture-demonstrations, workshops, master classes, and children's programs.
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
To support the African Consortium, a series of meetings, research trips, and exchanges. In partnership with Bates College (Lewiston, Maine), the international initiative is designed to create a new level of artistic exchange and cultural dialogue between the United States and African countries.
National Endowment for the Arts · an independent federal agency
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Washington, DC 20506
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