FY 2008 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access to Artistic Excellence/Literature Fellowships

Some details of the projects listed in this grant announcement are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

CALIFORNIA

18th Street Arts Complex
Santa Monica, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the 2008 Residency Program. American and international artists will be hosted for periods ranging from one month to one year.

About Productions
Pasadena, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and production of Showing Our Age, an interdisciplinary performance piece based on the collected stories of older adults in Los Angeles. The production will be created by co-directors Theresa Chavez and Laurel Ollstein, with music by Robert Anderson.

Arts Orange County
Santa Ana, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the expansion of OCArtSource.org. The redesigned centralized arts and culture Web site and an accompanying marketing campaign will provide comprehensive access to Orange County artistic offerings.

Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
$75,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the touring exhibition Court Arts of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will be the first major exhibition in the United States to focus on China's Ming court arts.

Associates of the University of California Press (on behalf of University of California Press)
Berkeley, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of experimental poetry as part of the press's New California Poetry Series. Titles are selected by Robert Hass, Brenda Hillman, Calvin Bedient, and Forrest Gander.

Association of California Symphony Orchestras
Sacramento, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support professional and leadership development and technical assistance programs for California orchestras. Plans include an annual statewide conference and workshops for artistic and administrative staff, trustees, and volunteers from more than 150 orchestras.

Aunt Lute Foundation (aka Aunt Lute Books)
San Francisco, CA
$17,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of works of fiction by women writers. Proposed titles include a translation of Beautiful and Dark by Spanish writer Rosa Montero, and a collection of writing about and from women incarcerated in prisons titled Word for Word.

AXIS Dance Company (Consortium)
Oakland, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a shared performance by AXIS Dance Company, Dandelion Dance Theater, and Nadia Adame's Compania Y from Madrid, Spain, in consortium with Joe Goode Performance Group.

AXIS Dance Company
Oakland, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support Dance Access & Dance Access/KIDS! education/outreach programs. The programs offer a variety of dance events for youth and adults in schools and in the community.

Berkeley Opera
Berkeley, CA
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a double bill of 20th-century works: Bartok's Duke Bluebeard's Castle and Ravel's L'Enfant et les Sortileges. Digitally presented animations by artists will provide a visual counterpart to the music's exploration of the inner mind.

Berkeley Repertory Theatre (aka Berkeley Rep)
Berkeley, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development of young, emerging, and early-career writers in the Commissioning and New Play Development Program, with accompanying outreach activities. Associate artistic director Les Waters and resident dramaturg/literary manager Madeleine Oldham will oversee the program.

Body Weather Laboratory
Venice, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a tour of Caddy! Caddy! Caddy!, a new evening-length dance work by Butoh dancer Oguri. The work will be presented at the Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis and tour across the United States.

Boxtales Theatre Company
Santa Barbara, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and production of an adaptation of 1001 Arabian Nights. The piece will employ circus arts, dance, and storytelling with accompanying educational and outreach activities.

Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music
Santa Cruz, CA
$12,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a professional development program for conductors and composers. The training program, led by conductors Marin Alsop and Gustav Meier, will offer emerging conductors the opportunity to lead small and large ensembles in rehearsals and public performances, program contemporary works, and collaborate with composers.

California EAR Unit Foundation
Santa Clarita, CA
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support concerts at the REDCAT Theater in the Disney Concert Hall complex. The series will celebrate the integration of advanced technologies in music by programming works scored for acoustic instruments and electronics such as tape, synthesizer, or computer.

California Film Institute
Mill Valley, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 31st Mill Valley Film Festival. Programming includes short films, documentaries, independent American films, and films from abroad.

California Indian Basketweavers Association
Woodland, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the 18th Annual California Indian Basketweavers Gathering. The gathering brings together both experienced and novice weavers to share their artistry with each other and the public, sell and exhibit their work, and discuss issues important to their traditions.

California Institute of the Arts (aka CalArts) (on behalf of Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater/REDCAT)
Valencia, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the REDCAT Intersections Initiative at the Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater. The project will feature a series of residencies, performances, and exhibitions.

California Shakespeare Theater (aka Cal Shakes)
Berkeley, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the commissioning of Octavio Solis and collaboration with San Francisco's Word for Word Performing Arts Company to adapt John Steinbeck's novel The Pasture of Heaven, with accompanying educational and outreach activities. Artistic director Jonathan Moscone will direct the production.

California Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Walnut Creek, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Young American Composer-in-Residence Program. The residency with composer Mason Bates will include recorded reading sessions, high school visits, and the creation and presentation of a new work.

Caspers, Nona M.
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a creative writing fellowship.

Center for Asian American Media
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the San Francisco Asian American Film Festival and other exhibition activities. The film festival will showcase the work of new Asian Pacific American film and video makers.

Center Theatre Group of Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the world premiere production of Of Equal Measure, a new play by Tanya Barfield. The production will be directed by Leigh Silverman.

Children's Book Press
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication of and educational programming for volumes of multicultural and bilingual children's literature by authors and artists of color. Scheduled writers and illustrators include Luca Gonzalez and Lulu Delacre; Jos Ramirez and Ina Cumpiano; Francisco X. Alarcn and Maya Christina Gonzalez; and Malathi Michelle Iyengar.

Contemporary Jewish Museum
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the exhibition In the Beginning, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. In the Beginning is the inaugural exhibition of newly commissioned site-specific work for the museum's new downtown facility.

CounterPulse
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the Artist in Residence Program for local emerging choreographers. The project will include developmental feedback sessions, public workshops, outreach to local non-dance communities, and the presentation of original works of contemporary choreography.

Creative Growth, Inc. (aka Creative Growth Art Center)
Oakland, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support Margins and Mainstreams2. The project will include a series of studio arts workshops for adults with disabilities, a visiting artists program, and an exhibition series.

Crocker Art Museum Association
Sacramento, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the touring exhibition The Language of the Nude: Four Centuries of Drawing the Human Body, with accompanying catalogue. This exhibition of rarely seen drawings from the museum's permanent collection examines the nude, its place in each artist's oeuvre, and the ideals and desires it expressed in European art from the 16th through the 19th centuries.

Crosspulse
Oakland, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a new dance piece. The work will be performed by Oakland-based percussive acapella jazz ensemble Slammin All-Body Band and the Brazilian body music group Barbatuques, based in Saó Paulo.

DanceArt, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the 17th annual West Wave Dance Festival. The project presents emerging and mid-career Bay Area artists and will take place at Project Artaud Theater in San Francisco.

Dancers' Group
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the expansion of the publication IN DANCE, for movement-based artists in the San Francisco Bay Area. The publication appears in print as well as on the Dancers' Group Web site.

Djerassi Resident Artists Program
Woodside, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support artist residencies. The project will provide studios, living accommodations, meals, and professional assistance to American writers, composers, choreographers, and media and visual artists.

Earplay
San Francisco, CA
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support concerts featuring works of composer Peter Maxwell Davies. The British composer's works will be programmed in context with other works by a diverse group of local and international composers.

Exploratorium
San Francisco, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a series of artist residencies with accompanying education programs. The residencies will place an emphasis on the interplay of handcraft and technology in contemporary art and public engagement with the work.

Flyaway Productions
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of an evening-length dance called The Ballad of Polly Ann choreographed by artistic director Jo Kreiter. The dance and soundscape are inspired by the folksong lyrics of "The Legend of John Henry's Hammer."

Ford Theatre Foundation (Consortium)
Hollywood, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the [Inside] Partnership Series. In partnership with Circle X Theatre Company, the theater will offer services to small Los Angeles County theaters to strengthen their producing capabilities and increase their visibility and audiences.

Foundation for World Arts
Los Angeles, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the World Festival of Sacred Music. The citywide festival will feature the work of local and international artists working in Western and world music, dance, theater, and the visual arts.

Friends of the Levitt Pavilion-Pasadena (aka Levitt Pavilion for the Performing Arts)
Pasadena, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support a series of free, outdoor performances at the Levitt Pavilion for the Performing Arts. Thematic presentations will take place from Wednesday through Sunday evenings: Children's Night, World Music, Rhythm and Blues, Musica Latina, and Jazz, respectively.

Grand Performances
Los Angeles, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Come Blow Your Horn: A Multidisciplinary Look at Brass Bands. The series will include free dance, spoken-word, and music events, with related lecture-demonstrations.

Headlands Center for the Arts
Sausalito, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support residencies for emerging and mid-career artists. Resident artists will receive monthly stipends, living quarters, meals, travel expenses, and studio space in which to create new work, investigate surrounding communities, and share ideas and their works with other artists.

Healdsburg Jazz Festival, Inc.
Healdsburg, CA
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the 10th annual Healdsburg Jazz Festival. The 11-day June festival will include jazz concerts as well as educational activities such as demonstrations, presentations, and student mentoring.

Independent Feature Project/West (aka IFP/Los Angeles)
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 14th Los Angeles Film Festival. More than 250 films including dramatic features, documentaries, and short films will be presented to an anticipated audience of 80,000.

Intersection (aka Intersection for the Arts)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the commissioning and premiere of June in a Box by playwright Octavio Solis and the Campo Santo resident theater ensemble, with accompanying educational activities. Based on the Mexican ballad El Corrido De June Robles, the play recounts the true story of the kidnapping of a young girl in Tucson.

Irvine Barclay Theatre (Consortium)
Irvine, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support performances of an adaptation of Henry Purcell's opera Dido and Aeneas by choreographer Mark Morris. In partnership with Pacific Symphony, the dance-opera will be presented at the Irvine Barclay Theatre.

Ison, Tara
Sherman Oaks, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a creative writing fellowship.

Joe Goode Performance Group
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation of a new work by choreographer Joe Goode in collaboration with puppeteer Basil Twist. The work will receive its world premiere at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.

Kala Institute
Berkeley, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Fellowship Residency Program. American and international artists working in the visual arts, video, performance, and digital media will receive stipends, technical support, and access to working facilities.

Kronos Performing Arts Assn. (aka Kronos Quartet)
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support commissioning and performances by the Kronos Quartet. Composers Steve Reich, Terry Riley, and Hanna Kulenty will write new works for string quartet.

Kuumbwa Jazz Society
Santa Cruz, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support jazz presentations. Plans include the presentation of two NEA Jazz Masters and an emerging jazz vocalist from San Francisco, Paula West.

La Jolla Music Society
La Jolla, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support SummerFest. Under the direction of Music Director and violinist Cho-Liang Lin, the three-week festival will include chamber music, jazz presentations, and educational activities.

La Pena Cultural Center, Inc.
Berkeley,, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Viva Mexico! Music and Dance Series. Multiple generations of Mexican and Mexican American artists will perform and participate in panel discussions, workshops, and jam sessions.

Latino Film Festival of Marin, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 12th International Latino Film Festival. Held in the fall, the festival presents more than 40 films to an audience of 14,000 people.

Los Angeles County Arts Commission
Los Angeles, CA
$60,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the Arts for Survival Initiative. Through the regional planning initiative, the Commission will research and develop mechanisms through which the arts can continue to respond to the homelessness crisis in Los Angeles County.

Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design
Los Angeles, CA
$24,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support publications as part of the Forum Pamphlet series. The series will focus on the innovative art, architecture, design, and urbanism in Southern California.

Los Angeles Master Chorale Association
Los Angeles, CA
$17,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the commissioning and premiere of a new work by Ricky Ian Gordon and the premiere of a work by David O. Both works will be performed in concert at the Walt Disney Concert Hall.

Los Angeles Opera Company
Los Angeles, CA
$65,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the premiere of The Fly, an opera by composer Howard Shore and librettist David Henry Hwang. The work fulfills the company's core mission: to create new productions by integrating the traditional operatic art form with the creativity of Hollywood directors, writers, production designers, and musical artists.

Los Angeles Philharmonic Association
Los Angeles, CA
$80,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Concrete Frequency, a celebration of the city reflected in the music of our time. Festival activities will include symposia focusing on urban issues and concerts featuring orchestral music as well as elements from contemporary urban culture.

Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center (Consortium)
San Pablo, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Cultures of Mexico in California Outreach Project. In collaboration with the California Migrant Education Program, the project will present performances of traditional Mexican music and dance, host screenings of Hispanic documentary films, and conduct workshops on the role of traditional arts in the community.

MadCat Women's International Film Festival
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 12th MadCat Women's International Film Festival and national tour. Approximately 85 films will be presented to an audience of 7,000 people.

Magic Theatre, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the world premiere of Tir-Na-Nog (Land of Youth) by Irish novelist and playwright Edna O'Brien. Artistic director Chris Smith will direct the play.

Margaret Jenkins Dance Studio, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation and continued development of A Slipping Glimpse, created by Margaret Jenkins in collaboration with Tanusree Shankar Dance Company from Kolkata, India. The work will be performed at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

Marin Theatre Company
Mill Valley, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support Love Person by Aditi Kapil, one of the Three-Way National New Play Network World Premiere productions. Director Gia Forakis will direct the production, with accompanying outreach activities.

Marsh, a breeding ground for new performance
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Marsh Performance Initiative including the creation of new work, training, and the Festival of New Voices. The year-long performance development program will focus on both creating performances and the production/business of theater.

McNeely, Thomas H.
Menlo Park, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a creative writing fellowship.

Media Arts Center San Diego (aka San Diego Latino Film Festival)
San Diego, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 14th San Diego Latino Film Festival. The films and videos exhibited must be produced by Latinos or be about the Latino experience.

Merola Opera Program
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a professional training program for singers, apprentice coaches, and an apprentice stage director. Participants will receive private coaching and attend master classes that serve as forums for intergenerational exchange between opera's veterans and emerging newcomers.

Mexican Heritage Corporation of San Jose (aka Mexican Heritage Plaza)
San Jose, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the 17th Annual San Jose International Mariachi Festival and Conference. With educational symposia, student mariachi workshops, student performances, and world-renowned mariachi performers, the festival continues to be the largest of its kind in California and a standard-bearer for mariachi festivals worldwide.

Mills College
Oakland, CA
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the presentation of concerts by the Center for Contemporary Music. Guest composers and performers Jonas Baes, Ann Warde, David Dunn, Cheryl Leonard, Krys Bobrowski, Sergi Jorda, and Hilda will participate in performances of their work at the Mills College Concert Hall in Oakland.

Monterey Jazz Festival
Monterey, CA
$22,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the 51st Monterey Jazz Festival at the Monterey County Fairgrounds. Key components of the festival will be the premiere of a commissioned work by composer Maria Schneider, an artist residency by Christian McBride, and performances by emerging jazz musicians.

Morris, David J.
Irvine, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a creative writing fellowship.

Mount Saint Mary's College (on behalf of Da Camera Society)
Los Angeles, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the presentation of Chamber Music in Historic Sites by the Da Camera Society. The series of chamber music concerts and outreach activities will match musical programming from a variety of cultures and periods with sites of architectural and historical significance in the Los Angeles area.

Mountain Play Association
Mill Valley, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support an outdoor production of The Wizard of Oz. Performances will be given during day-long, outdoor community events in a rock amphitheater in Mount Tamalpais State Park.

Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana de San Jose, Inc. (aka MACLA)
San Jose, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the production and exhibition of new work by California-based Latino artists. The new work will be shown concurrently with 2008 ZeroOne: A Global Festival of Art on the Edge, a new media arts festival to be held in San Jose.

Museum Associates (aka Los Angeles County Museum of Art) (Consortium)
Los Angeles, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the touring exhibition Contemporary Art from Korea at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The project is a collaboration with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and will be the first major museum exhibition in the United States to focus on a generation of artists working within a distinctly Korean context at the cutting edge of international art trends.

Museum Associates (aka Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
Los Angeles, CA
$75,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the touring exhibition German Art during the Cold War, 1945-89 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. This will be the first major exhibition in the United States to examine the complexity of art developed under the historical framework of the Cold War.

Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
La Jolla, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the exhibition Phenomenal: California Light and Space, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will focus on the art of Light and Space, a movement that began in Southern California in the late 1960s and continues to foment many of the most vanguard practices engaging young artists today.

Museum of Photographic Arts
San Diego, CA
$60,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the exhibition A Literacy of Images: Nancy Newhall and the Art of Photography, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The retrospective exhibition of photographs and essays by Nancy Newhall (1908-1974) will also include a selection of works by photographers whom Newhall promoted through her essays and as a curator.

Music Circle
Pasadena, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Festival of Emerging Indian Artists. The festival will bring young Indian musicians to the professional stage to share their art with the Los Angeles community.

National Film Preserve, Ltd. (aka Telluride Film Festival)
Berkeley, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 35th Telluride Film Festival. Approximately 40 programs of feature-length and short films will be screened to an estimated audience of more than 6,000 people.

Oakland East Bay Symphony
Oakland, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support performances of works by living American composers. The project will include premieres of new works by Jon Jang and Roberto Sierra, as well as works by John Adams and Stephen Sondheim.

Oberlin Dance Collective (aka ODC San Francisco)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by artistic director and choreographer Brenda Way. The work, titled Catch and Release, will be created with the San Francisco Girls Chorus and presented at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.

ODC Theater
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support residencies for established and emerging performing artists. The theater will provide rehearsal space, technical support, production assistance, and performance opportunities.

Ojai Festivals, Ltd.
Ojai, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Ojai Music Festival. The 62nd annual music festival, directed by artistic director Thomas W. Morris, will feature music director David Robertson, soprano Dawn Upshaw, the vocal ensemble Synergy, and the Ojai Festival Orchestra.

Opera Pacific
Santa Ana, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support performances of Carlisle Floyd's Susannah at the Orange Country Performing Arts Center. Educational components include activities at schools, libraries, and civic centers, as well as a lecture series by the composer.

Opera San Jose, Inc.
San Jose, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support performances of a new production of Mozart's Die Zauberflote (The Magic Flute). A student matinee and a family evening at the opera will be offered admission-free, and preview lectures at the San Jose Museum of Art and the Fairmont San Jose Hotel will feature musical excerpts from the work.

Other Minds
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support OM13, the 13th annual new music festival. The festival will be held at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, with guest composers participating in a five-day residency that will include a panel discussion, free workshop, and lecture-demonstration session.

Pacific Symphony
Santa Ana, CA
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support The Idea of the West, an American composers festival. Programming will feature music inspired by open spaces, Native American culture, cowboy songs, and other influences that forged an authentic American voice during the last century.

Palm Springs International Film Society
Palm Springs, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 19th Palm Springs International Film Festival. Held in January, the event presents more than 230 films to an audience of approximately 119,000 people.

Perks, Micah E.
Santa Cruz, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a creative writing fellowship.

Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a festival commemorating the 250th anniversary of George Frideric Handel's death. Under the direction of music director Nicholas McGegan, the performances on period instruments will be presented in San Francisco, Berkeley, Palo Alto, and Lafayette, California, and at Carnegie Hall in New York.

Plaza de la Raza Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the annual Dia de los Muertos Celebration. Free to the community, the celebration is an artistic event that reflects Chicano and Mexicano cultural traditions on the Day of the Dead.

Poetry Flash
Berkeley, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and distribution of issues of Poetry Flash, a free tabloid of event listings, readings, workshops, and literary news. Divided geographically, Poetry Flash lists programs throughout California, the Pacific Northwest, and the Southwest.

Project X Foundation for Art and Criticism (aka X-Tra Magazine)
Los Angeles, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the reviews section of X-TRA Magazine. A quarterly visual arts publication, X-TRA is available via bookstores and newsstands nationwide, by subscription, and by complementary distribution for use by students in art schools and university/college art programs.

Public Design Studio (aka Public Architecture)
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the 1% Solution, a network for architecture professionals to pledge one percent of their billable hours to pro bono work. Public Architecture's interactive Web site, along with training sessions, will connect willing architects with nonprofit organizations and communities seeking design services.

Radio Bilingüe, Inc.
Fresno, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Viva el Mariachi Festival 2008. The festival will showcase local, national, and international mariachi talent while also providing workshops for youth and community members to study with mariachi masters.

Read, Cornelia L.
Berkeley, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a creative writing fellowship.

Regents of the University of California (on behalf of UCLA Film and Television Archives)
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support a curated film series and related activities. Nitrate to Digital will be a program of screenings, multimedia presentations, and panels that will explore selected technological landmarks that helped set new directions and standards for American cinema as an art form.

Regents of the University of California at Berkeley (on behalf of University Art Museum)
Berkeley, CA
$18,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the planning of the exhibition State of Mind: Conceptual Art in Northern and Southern California by the University Art Museum. The goal of the project is to investigate and identify California's significant contributions to the genre of Conceptual art and the distinctions that marked the development of the genre in the northern and southern parts of the state.

Regents of the University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support performances of music, opera, and dance under the Masters Series. International master artists will perform in the series and participate in pre-performance lectures and student matinee sessions.

Regents of the University of California at Davis (on behalf of Robert and Margrit Mondavi Center for Performing Arts)
Davis, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Creativity Project, presented by the Robert and Margit Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts. Artists will participate in residencies including creation and presentation of new and existing works, lecture-demonstrations, exhibitions, and apprenticeships.

Regents of the University of California at Los Angeles (on behalf of UCLA Live/UCLA Performing Arts)
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the International Theater Festival presented by UCLA Live/UCLA Performing Arts. Performances will feature artists and ensembles that extend the boundaries of theater by using unique combinations of media and innovative approaches to historic literary and dramatic texts.

Robert Moses Kin
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by artistic director and choreographer Robert Moses. The work, titled Redline, will premiere at The Jewish Community Center of San Francisco.

Rova:Arts (aka Rova Saxophone Quartet)
San Francisco, CA
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Fissures, Futures, a series of performances and lecture-demonstrations on music improvisation by the Rova Saxophone Quartet. Programming will feature guest artists and composers and focus on the ideas of Buckminster Fuller, the visionary American architect.

Rural Media Arts and Education Project (aka Sixth Street Cinema)
Mariposa, CA
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the presentation of film and video art. Approximately 40 films will be screened to an audience of 2,200 people.

Sacramento Philharmonic Orchestra Association, Inc.
Sacramento, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Building Bridges to Peace, a concert and artist residency project exploring cross-cultural understanding through music. Under the direction of music director Michael Morgan, orchestral performances and master classes will be held in community venues in Sacramento.

San Diego Asian Film Foundation
San Diego, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the ninth San Diego Asian Film Festival. Held in the fall, the week-long event features short films, animated work, documentaries, and narrative feature films.

San Diego Opera Association
San Diego, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a new production of Tannhauser by Richard Wagner. Activities designed around the production will include a student dress rehearsal for youth from San Diego County and Tijuana, Mexico; pre-performance lectures; and an Artists' Roundtable, where the public will have an opportunity to meet the singers, conductor, and director.

San Diego Symphony Orchestra Association
San Diego, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Behold the Bold Umbrellaphant, a commissioning and performance project. Composer Lucas Richman will create an orchestral work for children based on the poetry of Jack Prelutsky, the first American Children's Poet Laureate.

San Francisco Ballet Association
San Francisco, CA
$90,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of new works. Performances will take place at San Francisco's War Memorial Opera House.

San Francisco Camerawork, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the photography exhibition I feel that I am free but I know that I am not. The project will examine the relationships between photography, performance, artist, and viewer.

San Francisco Chanticleer, Inc. (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a residency project of choral workshops, youth choral festivals, and a symposium. In partnership with North Dakota State University and other national educational residency collaborators, Chanticleer will present a series of day-long workshops and festivals for high school choruses and adult singers.

San Francisco Cinematheque
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support a curated film series. Cinema is a series of six week-long residencies for artists, scholars, and curators focusing on experimental cinema.

San Francisco Contemporary Music Players
San Francisco, CA
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support performances of works by composers Edmund Campion, Elliott Carter, Steve Mackey, Jorge Liderman, Frederic Rzewski, David Sheinfeld, and Reynold Tharp. The chamber works will be performed at the Yuerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.

San Francisco Film Society
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 51st San Francisco International Film Festival. The festival presents more than 300 films from 54 countries to an audience of 85,000 people.

San Francisco International Arts Festival, Inc. (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of a contemporary dance program. The program, in collaboration with Project Artaud, will feature Kolben Dance Company (Israel), Quasar Dance Company (Brazil), Pusch Productions (Germany), and Bay Area choreographer Kathleen Hermesdorf in collaboration with composer Matthias Herrmann.

San Francisco Jazz Organization (aka SFJAZZ)
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the residency and touring activities of the SFJAZZ Collective ensemble. Events will include open rehearsals, world premieres of new work, educational outreach activities, and a national tour.

San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 28th San Francisco Jewish Film Festival and related activities. The festival, devoted to films on Jewish subjects, presents the premieres of films and videos by independent producers from around the world.

San Francisco Mime Troupe, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the development and tour of a musical comedy titled Wide Open. Developed and produced by the Tony Award-winning troupe, the musical will be an entertaining examination of electoral politics and the voting process.

San Francisco Opera Association
San Francisco, CA
$100,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the world premiere of The Bonesetter's Daughter by composer Stewart Wallace and librettist Amy Tan. Education and outreach programs will include a panel discussion with members of the cast and the creative team, preview lectures at Bay Area locations, pre-performance lectures, and a dress rehearsal for Bay Area middle and high school students.

San Francisco Performances, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the presentation of chamber music, vocal and instrumental recitals, jazz, and contemporary dance. Related workshops and lectures will help audiences increase their understanding and enjoyment of the live performances.

San Francisco Symphony
San Francisco, CA
$75,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support A Brahms Festival. The three-week series of performances and educational activities will explore the work of 19th-century Romantic composer Johannes Brahms.

San Jose Children's Musical Theater
San Jose, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the production of West Side Story with book by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein, and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim with accompanying educational activities, theatrical training, and performance experience for young artists. Artistic director and choreographer Kevin Hauge will direct the musical as the centerpiece of the theater's 40th-anniversary season.

San Jose Jazz Society
San Jose, CA
$12,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the annual San Jose Jazz Festival. The three-day festival will be held in downtown San Jose.

Santa Rosa Symphony Association
Santa Rosa, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Latin Waves: A Festival of Rhythm, Melody and Dance. The festival will feature chamber and symphonic work under the direction of Dr. Richard Loheyde.

Silent Film Festival (aka The San Francisco Silent Film Festival)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 13th San Francisco Silent Film Festival. Newly composed live music will accompany the films presented at the festival's 11 programs.

Small Press Distribution, Inc.
Berkeley, CA
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a distribution initiative targeting bookstores, libraries, and academic settings in all 50 states. Publications from approximately 450 small and independent presses will be included.

Smuin Ballets-SF
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by Amy Seiwert and the West Coast premiere of Kirk Peterson's Reinin' in the Hurricaine. Performances of the works will take place at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, the Lesher Center for the Arts in Walnut Creek, and the Sunset Center in Carmel.

South Coast Repertory, Inc.
Costa Mesa, CA
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the world premiere production of An Italian Straw Hat. The musical is based on playwright John Strand's translation and adaptation of the French farce by Eugene Labiche.

Southern California Asian American Studies Central (aka Visual Communications)
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 24th Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film and Video Festival and other exhibition activities. The eight-day festival is Southern California's showcase of independent Asian international and Asian Pacific American film and video work.

Stanford Jazz Workshop
Stanford, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the annual Stanford Jazz Festival. The programming will feature faculty and master teachers, emerging jazz artists, and free events such as outdoor concerts, informal jam sessions, and performances by students participating in the concurrently running jazz camp and jazz residency program.

Stanford University
Stanford, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support a series of artist residencies. Activities will include open rehearsals, lectures, and pre- and post-performance discussions.

STEPOLOGY
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the sixth annual Bay Area Tap Festival. The festival includes workshops, mainstage performances, a tap jam, a panel discussion, and other activities.

Stern Grove Festival Association
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support a series of free, outdoor music and dance performances. Artists will be presented on Sundays from June through August at the Sigmund Stern Grove amphitheater.

The Cutting Ball Theater
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and world premiere productions of Mr. Fujiyama's Electric Beach by Kevin Oakes and Bone to Pick by Eugenie Chan. Both productions will be directed by artistic director Rob Melrose.

Theatre of Yugen, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the creation and production of The Iliad Project: No Dogsbody. The work will be developed by director Ong Keng Sen and playwright Erik Ehn in collaboration with the Yugen ensemble.

TheatreWorks
Palo Alto, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the seventh annual New Works Festival. The project will feature new musicals and plays presented in staged reading and workshop production formats.

Threepenny Review
Berkeley, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support authors' fees and promotional costs for issues of the Threepenny Review. The proposed issues will be promoted through a direct-mail campaign, collaborative literary events with other organizations, advertising, appearances at local book fairs, and the journal's Web site.

Williams, Ann J.
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a creative writing fellowship.

Yates, Dwight A.
Redlands, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a creative writing fellowship.

Yerba Buena Arts & Events
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival. The project will connect the diverse communities of the Bay Area in shared arts and cultural experiences presented by several local organizations.

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Big Ideas, a series of multidisciplinary performances. The programs of film, visual, and performance work will be presented in conjunction with curatorial themes that aim to contextualize the series.

Z Space Studio
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the third phase of the Western Presenters' Commissioning Initiative. In partnership with Lensic Arts of Santa Fe, Z Space will lead performing arts presenters in the commissioning, development, and touring of new theatrical works.

Number of Grants: 142          Total Amount: $3,059,500

 
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