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FY 2008 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access to Artistic Excellence II/American Masterpieces/
Arts on Radio and Television/Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth/Partnerships

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

CALIFORNIA

'A 'A Arts
Oakland, CA
$12,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Web site Deep Oakland. Images, text, and sound files created by local artists will tell the evolving story of Oakland.

3rd I South Asian Independent Film
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America Fast-Track Review
To support the Annual San Francisco South Asian International Film Festival. The sixth annual festival will screen feature full-length films, documentaries and short films by media artists and independent filmmakers from the United States, Bangladesh, Canada, England, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.

826 Valencia
San Francisco, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support writing programs and the publication of student work. Professional artists will teach creative writing to at-risk youth in under-performing schools. The project will be offered free-of-charge to all Bay Area schools, and it is expected to serve more than 6,000 students, ages 6 to 18.

Abhinaya Dance Company of San Jose, Inc. (aka N/A)
San Jose, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America Fast-Track Review
To support performances of "Rivers - A Mystical Journey," featuring original choreography and music by composer Babu Parameswaran. The performances will illustrate the use of classical and contemporary Indian music and dance traditions.

Actors' Gang, Inc.
Culver City, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and presentation of an adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear titled King Larry, with accompanying educational activities. Artistic director Tim Robbins will guide the artistic team of adaptor Angelina Berliner, scenic/lighting designer Francis-Pierre Couture, and puppet master John Burton.

AjA Project
San Diego, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support Journey, a photography project. Designed to serve refugee and immigrant youth, the project will provide training in photography and opportunities for exhibition.

Alliance for California Traditional Arts (Consortium)
Fresno, CA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the provision of significant information about statewide traditional artists, activities, and resources via its website and monthly e-newsletter in consortium with the California Arts Council.

Alliance for California Traditional Arts
Fresno, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program. The project will facilitate intensive learning and cultural transmission for qualified apprentices by master-level artists in one-on-one pairings and support a two-day artists' gathering and public exhibition.

American Conservatory Theatre Foundation (aka American Conservatory Theater)
San Francisco, CA
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the production of John Ford's Tis A Pity She's A Whore, with accompanying educational activities. Artistic director Carey Perloff will direct the rarely produced Jacobean tragedy, with original music composed by Tony Award-winning composer Duncan Sheik.

American Film Institute, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the Directing Workshop for Women. Each year, the program provides individuals with the necessary skills and portfolio to enter the directing field.

Arab American Congress of Silicon Valley
San Jose, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America Fast-Track Review
To support the 12th Annual Arab Film Festival. Staged at venues in Berkeley, San Jose, and San Francisco, the festival will screen feature films and documentaries that present Arab and Arab-American culture.

Arts Council Silicon Valley
San Jose, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the Community Arts Fund (CAF). CAF plays a vital role in enriching Silicon Valley's diverse cultural life by supporting the activities of community-based arts organizations.

Arts for LA
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the 2009 Los Angeles Arts Convergence. The event will address critical issues facing arts and cultural institutions and will incorporate nationally recognized speakers, panel discussions, and workshops offered to arts administrators, arts practitioners, and the general public.

ArtsChange
Richmond, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a series of curated exhibitions installed in the waiting room of Richmond's main public health facility. The project will promote the value of the arts in the healing process and provide access to art for users of the facility.

Asian Improv aRts
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the creation and presentation of composer/performer Dohee Lee's The I-ching Project: Flux Passages of Change. The work will incorporate a unique combination of improvisational brass, percussive sounds, string, movement, lights, and film.

Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center (aka APICC)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America Fast-Track Review
To support a retrospective exhibition of Flo Oy Wong, a mixed media artist. The exhibition will be part of the Annual United States of Asian America Festival at the SomArts Cultural Center in San Francisco.

Autry National Center of the American West (aka Autry National Center)
Los Angeles, CA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Native Voices at the Autry program, with accompanying educational outreach activities. New works by Native American writers will be developed at an annual playwrights retreat and through professional workshops and public staged readings.

Balboa Art Conservation Center
San Diego, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a postgraduate internship in paper conservation. The internship is designed to build upon a student's theoretical knowledge of conservation.

Bay Area Video Coalition, Inc. (aka BAVC)
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support Frameworks: Connecting Artists to New Media Technology. The program will help media artists at all levels of experience learn to use sophisticated digital production equipment.

Berkeley Symphony Orchestra (Consortium)
Berkeley, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a year-long introduction to music for Berkeley public elementary school students. In collaboration with the Berkeley Unified School District, plans include classroom visits, school concerts, and free tickets to a subscription concert.

Bethune Theatredanse
Los Angeles, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support Infinite Dreams, a dance and drama instruction program for special needs youth. Residency artists will provide classes targeted for underserved students from Los Angeles County schools and community sites.

Bilingual Foundation of the Arts
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of The House of Bernarda Alba by Federico García Lorca. Artistic director Margarita Galban will direct the production, with accompanying educational activities.

California Arts Council
Sacramento, CA
$1,125,700
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

California Center for the Arts, Escondido Foundation (Consortium)
Escondido, CA
$18,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support My Story: Literacy through the Arts. In partnership with the Escondido Union School District, this program will engage underserved fifth graders in lessons that combine digital photography with literacy, and will culminate in each student creating a unique book about an important event or tradition in his or her life. 

California College of the Arts (Consortium)
Oakland, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support Connecting the Dots: Arts Education and Community Engagement. A partnership with the Alameda County Office of Education, the program will provide professional development training and resource materials for elementary classroom teachers and teaching artists to expand their ability to deliver visual arts instruction to underserved children.

California Indian Storytelling Association
Fremont, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Indigenous Voices: Following Ancient Trade Routes Project. The project will facilitate a cultural exchange between Native storytellers from California, Oregon, Washington, Hawaii, and New Zealand.

California Institute of the Arts (aka CalArts) (Consortium)
Valencia, CA
$68,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support the CalArts Community Arts Partnership (CAP) Plaza de la Raza Youth Theater Program. In partnership with Plaza de la Raza, CalArts will provide 50 youth with 30 weeks of intensive arts training in all aspects of theater production, including the creation and performance of an original play in collaboration with a professional playwright.

California Lawyers for the Arts, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the expansion of ArtHouse. Strategies and collaborative efforts will facilitate the development of artists' studios and multi-tenant spaces for arts organizations in San Francisco's Hunter's Point Shipyard.

California Presenters
Sacramento, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the 25th annual Artist Information Exchange. Designed for performing arts presenters, the program enables a peer-to-peer exchange among presenters as a means to learn about artists suitable for venues and programming budgets of all sizes.

California State University Los Angeles Auxiliary Services, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support an international poetry residency and poetry readings. The project will support the British Council Poet-in-Residency at the Center for Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, and readings by visiting poets.

Center for Asian American Media
San Francisco, CA
$75,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support production and post-production costs for a one-hour documentary on the making of the opera The Bonesetter's Daughter. The Bonesetter's Daughter: the Making of an Opera will offer a behind-the-scenes look at the collaboration between librettist Amy Tan and composer Stewart Wallace.

Center for the Art of Translation
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support Lit & Lunch, a bilingual lunchtime reading series. The monthly program presents a writer working in a foreign language, whose work is read or performed in the original language and also in English.

Center for World Music
El Cajon, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support World Music Performance for Children. Skilled artist teachers of varied cultural backgrounds (African, Asian Indian, Indonesian, and Iranian) and performing arts expertise (music, dance, and storytelling) will teach students living folk and traditional arts of the world. 

City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs
Los Angeles, CA
$70,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the presentation of Charles Mingus -- Son of Watts -- Musical Caravan. The citywide tour will include musical performances, exhibitions, a television broadcast, and outreach activities.

City of Riverside (on behalf of Riverside Public Library)
Riverside, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support community readings and workshops and a discussion guide based on the book Inlandia: A Literary Journey though California's Inland Empire. Key authors from the anthology will also be taped for Internet and government access broadcast.

City of San Diego, California (on behalf of Commission for Arts and Culture)
San Diego, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the conservation of a prominent public artwork titled Journey to Aztlan. Created by contemporary Mexican American visual artists Einar and Jamex de la Torre, the exterior mural is located in downtown San Diego.

City of San Fernando, California
City of San Fernando, CA
$38,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support the Mariachi Master Apprentice Program. Mariachi Los Camperos, led by NEA National Heritage Fellow, Natividad Cano, will teach sequential, advanced-level mariachi classes held weekly in evening hours for youth (ages 11 to 18) to prepare them for a culminating concert performance and mariachi conference.

City of Ventura, California (on behalf of Cultural Affairs Division)
Ventura, CA
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the Main Street Temporary Mural Project. An artist-in-residence will create a temporary mural in a park located in Ventura's newly established downtown cultural district.

Crucible
Oakland, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Community Partnership Initiative. Activities will include workshops, residencies, public art projects, the Fire Arts Festival, training for teens, and facility access for the community.

Dance Camera West
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of the 2009 Dance Camera West Film Festival. The project will present a series of screenings from around the world at various venues in Los Angeles.

di Rosa Preserve (aka di Rosa Preserve: Art and Nature)
Napa, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the Collection Care Program. The project will address the long-term conservation needs of the di Rosa Preserve's collection of works by important Northern California artists through collaboration with the Department of Art and Art History at Sonoma State University.

Dimensions Dance Theater, Inc.
OAKLAND, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a free dance program for children and young adults. Rites of Passage will provide a variety of African and African-derived dance and music styles as well as performance opportunities.

Each One Reach One
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support the Playwriting Workshop. Designed for incarcerated San Francisco and San Mateo County teenagers, the playwriting and educational tutoring program will pair professional theater artists one-on-one with youths to create and develop original, one-act plays.

East Bay Center for the Performing Arts
Richmond, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
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.

East-West Players
Los Angeles, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the world premiere production of Ruby Tragically Rotund by Boni Alvarez, with accompanying outreach activities. Jon Lawrence Rivera will direct the multicultural cast in the theater's 43rd anniversary season.

EastSide Arts Alliance
Oakland, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting

To support a series of community arts programs. Programming will include Holla Back, a weekly poetry/spoken-word open mic; Final Friday's, a monthly film and video screening; and Bicasso's Black Music Jam, a weekly jazz and hip-hop jam session.

EastSide Arts Alliance
Oakland, CA
$12,500
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Chamber Music
To support performances and residency activities by jazz saxophonist and composer David Murray. The eight-week residency will include performances, workshops for young musicians, and lectures.

Enrichment Works
Van Nuys, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support original productions by Broadway and Hollywood writers to improve education and portray important issues for young people. Students participating in the after-school Youth Development Program at elementary schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District will experience a wide variety of art forms.

Epiphany Productions Sonic Dance Theater
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of site-specific dances along one of San Francisco's trolley lines. The fifth annual San Francisco Trolley Dances will bring together the local dance community and the San Francisco Municipal Railway (MUNI) for two weekends of free performances.

Film Arts Foundation (aka FAF)
San Francisco, CA
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support educational programs and related activities. Film Arts Foundation is a multi-service media arts center that provides training, resources, and access to production equipment to more than 1,200 film and video artists each year.

Firebird Youth Chinese Orchestra
San Jose, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support weekly classes in the music of Chinese opera arranged for different sized ensembles. Professional Chinese musicians who live in the Bay Area will help intermediate and advanced students gain a deeper understanding of the cultural and historic context of modern Chinese traditional music as well as teach them to develop their technical performing skills.

Ford Theatre Foundation
Hollywood, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Community Bridges Program. The project will facilitate participation of local Latino and Asian American communities through programming, marketing, and audience development strategies.

Friends of Peralta Hacienda Historical Park
Oakland, CA
$18,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support Project S.O.S. (Sharing Oakland's Stories) a media arts education program.  Professional dramatists, authors, filmmakers, and video artists teach students how to make documentary digital films.

Friends of the Children's Museum at La Habra (aka The Children's Museum at La Habra)
La Habra, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support Young at Art. In the first year of the project, professional artists from the region and education staff at the museum will develop professional development workshop content for teachers and an arts educational curriculum for kindergarten through second-grade students, and implement both in La Habra City School District during the second year.

Friends of the Schindler House (aka MAK Center for Art and Architecture)
West Hollywood, CA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a public art project by the MAK Center for Art and Architecture.  The project provides contemporary artists with the opportunity to develop new work for billboards in a concentrated area of Los Angeles.

Fund for Women Artists, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Support Women Artists Now Day (SWAN Day), a national celebration of women artists. A project coordinator and online event management software will enable the organization to provide participants with access to events on the Web site.

Gabriella Axelrad Education Foundation
Encino, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support everybody dance! The project will provide weekly dance instruction and master classes in ballet, jazz, tap, hip hop, creative movement, and modern dance.

Galeria/Studio 24 (aka Galeria de la Raza)
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support continued development of an online exhibition archive to include materials from Galeria's programming between 1985 and 2000. The project involves uploading more than 1,500 images, documents, newspaper articles, and critical reviews.

Grabhorn Institute
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a series of public programs, including demonstrations, lectures, and exhibitions, titled Bookmaking, Writing, and Art. The project explores connections between traditional bookmaking crafts and the work of contemporary artists and writers.

Great Leap, Incorporated
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America Fast-Track Review
To support Collaboratory Round VI, an intensive performing arts workshop for emerging artists taught by guest artists. The workshops culminate with performances of new work created by the participants.

Greenway Arts Alliance
Los Angeles, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support Voices Unheard, a program of classes in theatre, film, creative writing, literacy, and spoken word poetry.  Professional artists will teach high school students in the Los Angeles Unified School District through weekly classes and workshops. 

Hanford Elementary School District
Hanford, CA
$18,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support ArtsExcel, a visual arts program. Students will benefit from an arts-infused, whole school approach designed to develop skills in art and creative problem-solving.

Heyday Institute (aka Heyday Books)
Berkeley, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support literary events to develop a larger readership of and appreciation for Armenian American literature. The project will include a national book tour with readings, signings, and lectures from Forgotten Bread, an anthology of first-generation Armenian American writers, and The Saroyan Reader.

Hmong Cultural Arts, Crafts, Teaching & Museum Projects (aka Hmong Cultural Arts)
Sacramento, CA
$55,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support classes for youth in traditional Hmong folk arts. Local artists will lead year-round, after-school classes in pa dao (reverse-applique embroidery), the qeej (free-reed aerophone of bundled bamboo pipes), and folk dance movement in preparation for performances and demonstrations at public festivals and other community events.

Homeboy Industries
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America Fast-Track Review
To support Homeboy Press. Authors Luis Rodriguez and Leslie Schwartz will mentor program participants in the production of a literary magazine.

HUC Skirball Cultural Center (aka Skirball Cultural Center)
Los Angeles, CA
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Viva! Celebrating the Americas at the Skirball. Performances, film screenings, readings, exhibitions, and lectures will highlight the intersection of Jewish and Latin American cultures.

Idris Ackamoor & Cultural Odyssey (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the New Works Development Program of the African American Theater Alliance for Independence. Afro Solo Theater will be a partner in the project to inaugurate a development program to support the work of African American emerging and established performing artists.

Idyllwild Arts Foundation (aka Idyllwild Arts Academy and Summer Program)
Idyllwild, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Native American Arts Program and Festival. The project will foster cross-cultural understanding through a series of workshops and performances featuring Native American artists.

Independent Shakespeare Co. Inc.
Chatsworth, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support Free Shakespeare in Barnsdall Park, 2008. Performances of free Shakespeare plays in rotating repertory will include Twelfth Night, Henry IV, and Titus Andronicus.

Independent Television Service, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$175,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the selection, acquisition, and packaging of films for the public television series Independent Lens. This weekly primetime PBS series provides the public with access to innovative, dramatic, animated, and documentary works by independent filmmakers.

Inner-City Arts (Consortium)
Los Angeles, CA
$65,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support Arts in the Middle (AIM), a theater and literacy immersion program. In partnership with Los Angeles Unified School District 4, AIM is targeted to students at the Berendo Middle School who lack sufficient English language skills to achieve academic success.

Inside Out Community Arts, Inc.
Venice, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support The School Project, an after-school and weekend theater-based arts program. Middle and high school students from the Los Angeles Unified School District will participate in weekly workshops, a field trip to attend a professional production, Saturday parent and child workshops, and a three-day rehearsal retreat.

International City Theatre
Long Beach, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Performing Arts and Classroom Teaching Program. The outreach program promotes literacy and creativity for third-grade children in the Long Beach Unified School District.

International Documentary Association (aka IDA)
Los Angeles, CA
$70,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support post-production costs for a documentary by Katja Esson. Poetry of Resilience will follow various poets from different countries who have survived traumatic experiences.

Jazz Tap Ensemble Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a tap dance involving storytelling, choreographed by Artistic Director Lynn Dally. The work will premiere at the Joyce Theater in New York.

Katahdin Productions, Inc. (aka Katahdin Foundation)
Berkeley, CA
$60,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support post-production costs for a personal documentary by Deann Borshay Liem. In Precious Objects of Desire, the filmmaker will attempt to resolve a case of mistaken identity that took place when she was adopted by an American family in the 1960s.

Khmer Arts Academy
Long Beach, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Classical Dance Training & Performance Program. The program will include master/apprentice training and public performances for the Long Beach Cambodian community.

Kitchen Sisters Productions
San Francisco, CA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production and national distribution of a series of audio documentaries to be produced by Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva. The Secret Life of Girls Around the World will be aired on National Public Radio's Morning Edition and All Things Considered.

Kitka, Inc. (aka Kitka Women's Vocal Ensemble)
Oakland, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Voices of Darkness, a performing, touring, recording, and songbook production project. Eastern European folk songs will be the basis of the dramatic song-cycle exploring the experiences of wartime.

Kronos Performing Arts Assn. (aka Kronos Quartet)
San Francisco, CA
$22,500
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Chamber Music
To support a re-staged production of George Crumb's Black Angels (Thirteen Images from the Dark Land) by the Kronos Quartet. Educational activities will include post-concert discussions, master classes, coaching sessions, school concerts, and open rehearsals.

L.A. Freewaves
Los Aneles, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the creation of a Web site. The HollyWould site will feature more than 800 works by film, video, installation, and media artists from the United States and abroad.

L.A. Theatre Works
Venice, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the distribution of audio plays to schools, libraries, and communities. The Alive and Aloud and Library Access national outreach programs provide the audio plays to underserved communities in all 50 states.

L.A. Theatre Works
Venice, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production and distribution of The Play's the Thing, a radio theater series intended for broadcast on satellite and public radio stations nationwide. The 52-week series will include new radio plays, as well as selections from L.A. Theatre Works' extensive audio theater collection.

La Pena Cultural Center, Inc. (Consortium)
Berkeley, CA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the presentation of Documenting History Through the Arts. In partnership with KPFA/Pacifica Public Radio, the center will investigate the intersection of the arts and social change, and the series will include performances, an exhibition, residency activities, radio broadcasts, and video documentation.

La Pocha Nostra Inter Cultural Performance & Community Arts (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$18,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support a workshop and performance. In partnership with Tucson's Museum of Contemporary Art, the workshop is designed for artists, scholars, and curators and includes professional development activities, instruction on the use of props and costumes, group discussions, shared meals, and salons.

LINES Contemporary Ballet (aka LINES Ballet)
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by Artistic Director Alonzo King. The work will be created in collaboration with electronic music composer Leslie Stuck.

Long Beach Museum of Art Foundation
Long Beach, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support KidsVisions. The project is an arts learning program for fifth-grade students in the Long Beach Unified School District.

Los Angeles Brotherhood Crusade, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support an outreach concert presented on the Neighborhood Concert Series. Hosted by a local celebrity and performed by the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and a community youth choir, the free concert will be presented in an underserved community in South Los Angeles.

Los Angeles County Arts Commission (Consortium)
Los Angeles, CA
$70,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support the Arts for All Artists-in-Residence Program. In partnership with the Los Angeles County Office of Education, the project will assist participating school districts county-wide to develop artist residencies in music, dance, and visual arts for students in kindergarten through 12th grades.

Los Angeles Opera Company (Consortium)
Los Angeles, CA
$18,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support 110 Project, an opera education program. In partnership with the California African American Museum, the company will create a new work to celebrate and share traditions, music, and history with cultural/artistic centers along the 35-mile 110 Freeway.

Los Angeles Poverty Department (aka LAPD) (Consortium)
Los Angeles, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a series of workshops leading to a community performance with residents of the Daybreak Program. Director John Malpede and associate director Henriette Brouwers will partner with the Ocean Park Community Center to lead free workshops in theater improvisation, writing, and movement.

Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center
San Pablo, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support the Mockingbird Youth Project. Master artists will teach weekly classes and workshops in Mexican traditional instrumental music, singing, and dance to children ages four to 18 leading to performances of son Jarocho, African-influenced songs from southern Veracruz with syncopated rhythmic patterns.

Luna Kids Dance
Berkeley, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support the Dance Learning Institutes. The professional development project will provide teaching artists and classroom teachers with training in which they will work together to create standards-based dance lessons and units targeted to the populations they teach.

Marin Dance Theatre
San Rafael, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support Let's All Dance! Professional dance artists will provide weekly instruction in ballet, modern, hip hop, ballroom, classical Indian, flamenco, and African dance through in-school residences at six schools.

Marin Shakespeare Company
San Rafael, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida directed by artistic director Robert Currier. Audiences will experience a classic work produced in the Forest Meadows Amphitheatre, with accompanying educational activities.

Mixed Bag Productions (aka Contraband)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support Tribes of the Familial, a new dance work by Contraband choreographer/director Sara Shelton Mann. The project will focus on exploring the cultural roots of different artists, and how they chose their art forms.

More Than Shelter For Seniors, Inc.
Burbank, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support multidisciplinary workshops for senior citizens. Artists will conduct visual arts, film, acting/directing, and music workshops culminating in festivals, exhibitions, Web sites, and DVDs.

Museum of Neon Art
Los Angeles, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the conservation of historic neon signs, with related photographic documentation and educational programs. The project will be implemented in partnership with the American Sign Museum in Cincinnati, Ohio.

National Alliance of Media Arts Centers, Inc. (aka National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture)
San Francisco, CA
$75,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support services to the nonprofit media arts field. The National Alliance of Media Arts Centers (NAMAC) includes among its more than 350 members media arts and technology centers, university-based programs, exhibitors, distributors, artist cooperatives, film archives, and community-access television stations.

National Association of Latino Independent Producers, Inc. (aka NALIP)
Santa Monica, CA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the fifth Latino Media Market. Targeted to Latino media artists, the project will connect filmmakers with representatives from both the nonprofit and commercial film and television fields.

National Association of Latino Independent Producers, Inc. (aka NALIP) (Consortium)
Santa Monica, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support regional conferences. In collaboration with Doc Arts (aka the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival), the National Association of Latino Independent Producers will offer Doing Your Doc: Diverse Visions, Regional Voices in four American cities.

National Federation of Community Broadcasters, Inc. (Consortium)
Oakland, CA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 2009 Community Radio Conference. Working in collaboration with KBOO-FM, the conference will provide workshops in all aspects of radio management, leadership, and production.

Ninth Street Media Consortium, Inc. (aka Ninth Street Independent Film Center)
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support a programmatic collaboration at the Ninth Street Independent Film Center. The center is a consortium of seven media arts organizations all housed in one building.

Northern California Center for the Arts (on behalf of Literature Alive!)
Grass Valley, CA
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support literary readings and writing workshops in and around the communities of Grass Valley and Nevada City. Visiting writers also will conduct workshops at local high schools.

Old Globe Theatre
San Diego, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Student Access to the Arts program. The project provides underserved middle and high school students throughout San Diego County with opportunities to experience live professional theater.

Other Minds (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$22,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a project to convert archival recordings for free public access via the Internet. In partnership with Internet Archive, Other Minds will select and prepare the materials featuring performances, interviews, and conversation recorded live by leading composers and artists of 20th-century American music.

Other Minds
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Chamber Music
To support a celebration of the life and works of American composer Ruth Crawford Seeger and her contemporaries. Performances will be held at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.

Otis Art Institute (aka Otis College of Art and Design)
Los Angeles, CA
$60,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support the O TEAM program. The tuition-free, after-school and summer visual arts education program will provide opportunities for underserved youth (ages 15 to 18) to study multiple media and develop portfolios of student work for the competitive college admissions process.

Pacific Asia Museum
Pasadena, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the Filipino Community Initiative, with accompanying education programs. The project is intended to strengthen the museum's ties to Southern California's Filipino community and develop new ways for all audiences to access the museum's collection of Filipino art.

Pasadena Playhouse State Theatre of California, Inc. (Consortium)
Pasadena, CA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the New Generations program. In partnership with It's Time For Kids, the program will provide at-risk Los Angeles youth with first-time theater experiences. Youth will be given access to artists through workshops, post-show interaction, and exchanges with professional playwrights.

PEN Center USA West (aka PEN USA)
Los Angeles, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support writing residencies and workshops for emerging writers. The project will include Emerging Voices, a one-on-one mentorship program; PEN in the Classroom, providing arts instruction for underserved high school students; and Literary Series: Diaspora Cultures, featuring readings and discussions targeting Korean, Ethiopian, and Native American communities.

Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County (aka Music Center)
Los Angeles, CA
$60,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support the Music Center Arts Capacity Team Project, a multidisciplinary arts education initiative.  A package of arts services, including professional development for teachers and administrators, artist's residencies, and performances by professional artists will be provided to public elementary schools in Los Angeles County.

Precita Eyes Muralists
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America Fast-Track Review
To support the creation of the mural "Making Friends Across Diverse Cultures" at the Bret Harte Elementary School. Artists Brenda Miller and Susan Cervantes will lead the visual arts project.

Prescott-Joseph Center for Community Enhancement, Inc. (aka Prescott-Joseph Center)
Oakland, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America Fast-Track Review
To support an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet titled "Johnny and Ebony." The production will explore themes of division in the African American community, including questions of loyalty.

Public Corporation for the Arts of the City of Long Beach (aka Arts Council for Long Beach)
Long Beach, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support Eye on Design, a neighborhood public art education program of the Arts Council for Long Beach. Third-grade students will attend field trips to historic houses and view public art in the neighborhood, learn about public art, architecture, and design; and design their own public artworks and build maquettes.

Public Design Studio (aka Public Architecture) (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the creation of online documentation of pro-bono design services for nonprofit organizations. In partnership with Taproot Foundation, Public Architecture will identify pro bono design projects that exemplify excellence in architectural design, experimental use of space or materials, significant empowerment of a community or population, and a uniquely collaborative design process.

Purple Silk Music Education Foundation, Inc.
Oakland, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support The Purple Silk and Spring Thunder Concert Series. The project will enable students from the Purple Silk Music Education Foundation (PSMEF) to learn from, rehearse with, and perform alongside artists from the Spring Thunder Chinese Music Association.

Radio Bilingüe, Inc. (Consortium)
Fresno, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support Art Moments on Radio. The project, in collaboration with the Alliance for California Traditional Arts, is designed to support a series of radio programs featuring traditional artists.

Regents of the University of California at Irvine (on behalf of Beall Center for Art and Technology) (Consortium)
Irvine, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support public programs for Contemporary New Media Arts: History/Theory/Practice. The project, carried out in partnership with the Orange County Museum of Art and the studio art department and gallery at the University of California at Irvine, explores the increasingly blurred boundaries between visual art, new media, and arts criticism.

Regents of the University of California at Los Angeles (on behalf of Hammer Museum)
Los Angeles, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the reinstallation of the Hammer Museum's permanent collection. The project will better interpret and present to the public the museum's collection of 16th- to 20th-century European and American art.

Regents of the University of California at Los Angeles (on behalf of Hammer Museum)
Los Angeles, CA
$150,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts Touring
To support a touring exhibition of the work of American modernist architect John Lautner (1911-94), organized by the Hammer Museum, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. In a career that spanned six decades, Lautner built more than 150 innovative homes and commercial spaces that shaped the American West.

Regents of the University of California at San Diego (on behalf of TheatreForum, International Theatre Journal)
La Jolla, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the publication and distribution of issues of TheatreForum. The journal documents and disseminates innovative theater works internationally.

Regents of the University of California at Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support ¡Viva el Arte de Santa Barbara! The project will focus on Mexican arts and artists and include artist residencies and free performances for low-income communities and schools.

Rhapsody In Taps, Inc.
Long Beach, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of Mambo Musings, by choreographer and Artistic Director Linda Sohl-Ellison, and the creation of a work that is a tribute to the late Los Angeles tap master Foster Johnson. The works will be performed at the Aratani Japan America Theatre.

River of Words
Berkeley, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support teacher training workshops in poetry composition and visual arts. Using a specially designed curriculum, teachers will learn to teach students to create poetry based on observation of the natural environment.

Robey Theatre Company
Los Angeles, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of The River Niger by Joseph A. Walker, with accompanying activities. Producing director Ben Guillory will direct.

Saint Joseph Ballet Company
Santa Ana, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support the development and implementation of a dance education curriculum.  Youth, mostly from low-income families in Orange County, will attend ballet classes as well as master classes in genres such as hip hop, African dance, and jazz, and staff will receive training to implement the new program.

San Diego Opera Association (Consortium)
San Diego, CA
$37,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support the Words & Music Program. In partnership with the San Diego Unified School District, the company will provide an in-school opera residency in which students will learn to compose an original opera.

San Diego Women Film Foundation
San Diego, CA
$12,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support Divas Direct: Film Workshop for Girls. Middle and high school-aged girls will participate in after-school and summer workshops filmmaking workshops.

San Francisco Art and Film Program
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support the Teen Film Workshop. The project is designed to prepare students for film school and train them for future careers in the film industry.

San Francisco Arts Commission
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support Spiraling Echoes: A Sound Sculpture for the Rotunda of San Francisco City Hall. A site-specific sound installation by Bill Fontana will translate the visual experience of the architecture in the rotunda into sound.

San Francisco Arts Commission (on behalf of WritersCorp)
San Francisco, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support the WritersCorp program. Professional artists will teach creative writing for at-risk youth in underserved public schools.

San Francisco Chanticleer, Inc. (aka Chanticleer)
San Francisco, CA
$65,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a national concert tour and educational residency project. Activities will include choral coaching, youth choral festivals, and advanced choral training for adult singers.

San Francisco Contemporary Music Players
San Francisco, CA
$7,500
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Chamber Music
To support Four Dreams: Recent American Chamber Music, featuring works by American composers Elliott Carter, John Thow, Mario Diaz de Len, and Dmitri Tymoczko. The concert will take place at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and related educational events will occur at the School of the Arts, Lowell High School, and local universities in San Francisco.

San Francisco Girls Chorus, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support the Music Education and Outreach Program. The project will provide an introduction to choral singing and will serve as the foundation for the concert performance and touring ensembles.

San Francisco Performances, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Chamber Music
To support a festival celebrating the 100th birthday of American composer Elliott Carter. The performances and community educational events will take place in the Concert Hall at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

San Francisco Performing Arts Library & Museum
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support Preserving the Dance Iconography of the West Before the Digital Era. A project that will preserve the early history of dance in the West, 400 images dating from 1850 representing the wealth of dance history in the West will be preserved.

San Francisco State University (on behalf of The Poetry Center)
San Francisco, CA
$12,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the cataloguing and digitizing of audiotapes from the Poetry Center's American Poetry Archives. The center will record, catalogue, and make available parts of the most significant audiotapes dating from 1954 to 1974.

San Francisco Symphony (on behalf of San Francisco Youth Symphony)
San Francisco, CA
$60,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support the Artist Development Program of the San Francisco Youth Symphony. Designed to complement the youth orchestra's core program of weekly rehearsals and concert performances, the program will provide students with coaching, apprenticeship, mentorship, and specialized training in chamber music, instrument care, and auditioning techniques.

San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
San Jose, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support Talking Art. Designed as a professional development program for artists, Talking Art seeks to demystify the inner workings of the art world.

San Jose Museum of Art Association
San Jose, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a beta version of the iMuseum Permanent Collection Digital Interpretation Project. The project will consist of an online permanent collection platform that will invite audiences to experience and customize interactive interpretive material.

Santa Monica Cultural Affairs Division
Santa Monica, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support Glow, a series of temporary site-specific installations. Anchored by signature works of visual artists Usman Haque and Shih Chieh Huang, Glow will feature contemporary art that will be shown at Santa Monica's pier, beach, and downtown promenade.

Santa Monica Symphony Association
Pasadena, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support community outreach concerts. The orchestra, conducted by Music Director Allen Robert Gross, will perform chamber concerts in schools and orchestral concerts for families at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium.

Shakespeare Festival/LA, Inc. (aka SFLA)
Los Angeles, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the 23rd Annual Summer Festival. William Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew will be directed by Ben Donenberg and will be presented free-of-charge in Los Angeles's downtown Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels.

Slavonic Cultural Center (aka Croatian American Cultural Center)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America Fast-Track Review
To support CroatiaFest 2008. Activities include a concert featuring traditional music and dance, a tamburitza master class, a film screening, and a photography exhibit.

Small Press Distribution, Inc. (Consortium)
Berkeley, CA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the expanded distribution of independently published books to booksellers and librarians in the Pacific Northwest, the Midwest, the South, and New England. In partnership with the American Booksellers Association, Small Press Distribution will extend its reach by attending more book festivals and regional tradeshows in these areas.

Southern Exposure (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support Mission Voices, a visual arts education project.  In partnership with the Columbia Park Boys and Girls Club of San Francisco, the community-based project will pair local artists with underserved teens living in the city's Mission District.

Squaw Valley Community of Writers
Olympic Valley, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the Screenwriting Program. The workshop focuses on the essence of storytelling and teaches participants how to "show" rather than "tell" their stories.

Sweetwater Union High School District
Chula Vista, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support Learning from the Masters. The project will provide students the opportunity to learn from working professionals in the genres of mariachi and ballet folklorico.

Theatre & Arts Foundation of San Diego County (aka La Jolla Playhouse)
La Jolla, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Theatre and Youth artist residency project at the La Jolla Playhouse. The project will offer artist residencies to elementary, middle, and high school students in San Diego County.

Theatre Bay Area
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Leadership Development Initiative. The project will offer an extensive array of services, programs, and resources to Bay Area arts leaders and future arts leaders.

University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support Thornton JazzReach. Teaching artists will provide after-school private and group instruction, master classes, and performance opportunities in instrumental and vocal jazz for students from four schools located in the diverse community surrounding the USC University Park campus. 

Unusual Suspects Theatre Co.
Culver City, CA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support theater arts education workshops. Teenage youth will participate in a series of master classes led by professional screenwriters.

Virginia Avenue Project
Santa Monica, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support the writing and performing programs, One-on-One and Three-on-Three. Area youth will connect with professional artists through activities such as mentoring, workshops, a summer camp, and public performances.

Walden School, Ltd. (aka The Walden School)
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support the Composition Immersion Course. A five-week summer music program for 9-to 18-year old students will include daily classes in musicianship, composition, individual tutoring, and interaction with resident guest composers and musicians, leading to performances of original student compositions. 

World Arts West
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the educational program People Like Me. Designed for kindergarten through sixth- grade students, the performances will be presented at California theater in a one-hour session featuring traditional world dance and music genres in an interactive theatrical format.

Wu Yee Children's Services (aka Chinatown Beacon Center) (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support Blasted By Culture. In partnership with Chinatown Youth Development Network, the project will provide opportunities for children to learn theatrical singing and movement from the Huangmei, Beijing, and Kunqu styles of Chinese opera as well as traditional Japanese singing, dancing, and drumming.

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the African Consortium. In partnership with Bates College (Lewiston, Maine), the international initiative is designed to create a new level of artistic exchange between artists and arts organizations and develop cultural dialogue between the United States and African countries.

Yolo County Arts Council
Woodland, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support Storytelling through Art, an artist residency program. Professional artists will provide ongoing instruction in drawing, ceramics, painting, and dance for underserved youth in kindergarten through sixth grades.

Young Musicians Foundation
Beverly Hills, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support the Mentor Artists Program. Mentor music artists will provide individual and ensemble instrumental music instruction during 32-week school residencies in Los Angeles County schools.

Youth Radio
Oakland, CA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the Arts and Culture Desk. Approximately 90 individuals, ages 14-18, will participate in the project.

Youth Speaks, Inc. (aka Youth Speaks/The Living Word Project)
San Francisco, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Artist-in-Residence Program for emerging writers and performers. Artists will receive institutional support, including venues for previewing, creating, and premiering works.


Number of Grants: 162          Total Amount: $5,505,200

 
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