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.

NEW YORK

Aaron Davis Hall, Inc. (aka Harlem Stage)
New York, NY
$60,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the restaging of Chapel/Chapter (2006) by Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company and the work's collaborators presented at the Harlem Stage. The work was commissioned for the opening of its new space, the historic Gatehouse.

Academy of American Poets, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$55,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support National Poetry Month in April 2009. In partnership with the National Council of Teachers of English, the Academy will sponsor outreach programs designed to encourage Americans to make poetry a larger part of their lives.

Actors Company Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Off-Broadway production of rarely produced plays of literary merit. The repertory includes lesser-known plays by well-known playwrights and titles that have not be seen or presented for at least 15 years yet resonate with modern audiences.

Adirondack Community College (on behalf of The Writers Project at ACC)
Queensbury, NY
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support readings and workshops by nationally renowned and local writers for students and community members. Proposed authors include Martin Espada, Jimmy Santiago Baca, and Amy Tan.

Alliance for Inclusion in the Arts
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support The Inclusion Project. Comprising the National Diversity Forum and the Artist Files/Online, the project seeks to spark change in the hiring practices of the American theater industry.

Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York, Inc. (aka A.R.T./New York)
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the William Randolph Hearst Theatrical Arts Education Program and the Harold and Mimi Steinberg Theatre Leadership Institute. Both programs provide administrative and managerial training to assist theaters as they work to achieve their artistic missions and serve their audiences.

Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, Inc. (aka Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater) (Consortium)
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support AileyCamp New York, a summer program that includes dance training, creative writing instruction, and personal development and communication workshops. The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater program, in partnership with the Children's Aid Society, will take place in Washington Heights and Staten Island.

American Brass Chamber Music Association, Inc. (aka American Brass Quintet)
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a 50th-anniversary double compact disc recording by the American Brass Quintet (ABQ). Works to be included on the recording will include brass chamber music commissioned by or written for ABQ.

American Brass Chamber Music Association, Inc. (aka American Brass Quintet)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Chamber Music
To support a multi-state performance tour by the American Brass Quintet and related residency activities. Each two- to three-day residency will include as many as seven performance and/or educational events based on the repertoire of American composers such as Joan Tower, Paul Moravec, Adam Schoenberg, Robert Dennis, Gordon Beeferman, and Shafer Mahoney.

American Composers Orchestra, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$22,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Orchestra Underground Concerts, New Music Readings, and Playing it UNsafe. In collaboration with the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Pennsylvania, the orchestra will perform in concert and schedule orchestral reading sessions for emerging composers in the area.

American Documentary, Inc. (aka P.O.V.)
New York, NY
$250,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the selection, acquisition, packaging, and promotion of films for broadcast on the public television series P.O.V. ("point of view"). As the longest running PBS series devoted exclusively to the art of independent, non-fiction film, P.O.V. brings documentary artworks - rarely found in the mainstream media - to national audiences.

American Museum of the Moving Image (aka Museum of the Moving Image)
Astoria, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the Moving Image Source. The Web site will be a resource for students, curators, scholars, filmmakers, and others interested in the moving image.

American Place Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support Literature to Life. Professional artists will lead in-school theater residencies for underserved middle and high school students. Each residency will begin with a performance of a play adapted from an American novel, such as The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls or Black Boy by Richard Wright.

American Symphony Orchestra, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support Music Notes/Project CORE. In partnership with Verona Public Schools, American Symphony Orchestra will provide music instruction in New York and New Jersey schools, integrating orchestral music into the humanities curriculum.

American Tap Dance Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the eighth annual New York City Tap Festival. The project will include classes, performances, panel discussions, and film presentations.

Amigos del Museo del Barrio (aka El Museo del Barrio)
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the installation of the museum's new permanent collection galleries. The installation will showcase objects ranging from pre-Columbian artifacts to contemporary works.

Aquila Theatre Company
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a tour and new production of Homer's Iliad. Based on Stanley Lombardo's translation of the epic poem, accompanying educational activities will include in-school performances, workshops based on the themes of the play, and pre-show discussions of the theater's approach to the work.

Art 21, Inc.
New York, NY
$200,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the fifth year of Art:21 - Art in the Twenty-First Century. A public television series about contemporary visual art and artists in the United States, the project will yield four, one-hour programs as well as ancillary outreach activities.

Art 21, Inc.
New York, NY
$80,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support outreach programs and curriculum materials for Art:21 Art in the Twenty-First Century. The public television series about contemporary visual art creates intimate profiles of America's diverse artists and the contexts in which they work.

Art Council Inc. (aka Artadia: The Fund for Art and Dialogue) (Consortium)
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support residencies for visual artists. Participating artists will be provided housing, workspace, technical assistance, transportation costs, and a materials budget for a three-month residency in partnership with the International Studio and Curatorial Program at the Elizabeth Foundation in New York City.

Art Education for the Blind, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support outreach programs related to the launch of an online publication, American Identities: Art in North America and Latin America. The publication is a component of a multi-media, multi-sensory art encyclopedia for blind and visually-impaired people.

Art Resources Transfer, Inc. (aka A.R.T. Press)
New York, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the Distribution to Underserved Communities Program. A.R.T. Press will offer books, museum catalogues, videos, and other material about contemporary art free-of-charge to libraries across the nation, with a special emphasis on rural and inner cities.

Arts & Business Council, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support professional development services for New York City arts and culture organizations. Services will include workshops in arts marketing and management, panel discussions on arts and workforce development, and business volunteer matching services as well as board recruitment, training, and placement programs.

Arts Resources in Collaboration, Inc. (aka ARC)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the digitization of Eye on Dance, an educational series of videotaped interviews with dancers and choreographers. The digitized sessions will be distributed nationally to libraries and universities, and broadcast on New York City PBS and cable stations.

ASCAP Foundation
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support the Summer Music Camp. Public school students living in New York City's five boroughs will receive free classical music training with an emphasis on increased performance skills.

Ballet Tech Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a tuition-free ballet training program for New York City public school children. The program, founded by choreographer Eliot Feld, provides pre-professional arts training, including an integrated public academic education and a student performance troupe.

Bang on a Can, Inc. (Consortium)
Brooklyn, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Summer Institute of Music, an experimental music residency for composers and performers. In partnership with the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, the program will include free concerts and outreach activities in low-income communities and at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams.

Bardavon 1869 Opera House, Inc. (Consortium)
Poughkeepsie, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support Young Playwrights Festival Program. In partnership with Poughkeepsie City School District, the project will place playwright Casey Kurti and actor Maggie Low in 13-week residencies for 6th graders in two schools, culminating in performances by professional actors of plays written by the students.

Bargemusic, Ltd.
Brooklyn, NY
$7,500
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Chamber Music
To support American chamber music residency performances by the American String Quartet and guest artists. Concerts will take place on a floating barge at the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge and will include the works of composers George Chadwick, Charles Ives, Charles Tomlinson Griffes, Henry Cowell, Amy Beach, Walter Piston, Ruth Crawford Seeger, and Elliott Carter.

Big Apple Circus, Ltd.
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the tour and creation of a new work about a music box and the journey of two clowns. Founder and artistic director Paul Binder and co-founder Michael Christensen will lead the creative team in the creation of a performance featuring horses, acrobats, jugglers, and clowns.

Bowery Arts and Science, Ltd. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support completion of the documentary DeAF Jam. In collaboration with American Focus, the project will highlight deaf artists performing their poetry in American Sign Language.

Bowery Arts and Science, Ltd.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support production and completion costs of a documentary film by Robert Levi on jazz musician and NEA Jazz Master, Hank Jones. Hank Jones: From the Inside will be a one-hour, musical performance film featuring the life and work of one of America's greatest living jazz pianists and arrangers.

Bowery Arts and Science, Ltd.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support post-production costs of a music performance film by Robert Levi. Hidden Music: Billy Strayhorn's Secret Songs will be a one-hour public television program featuring newly discovered jazz and vocal compositions written by the co-composer and arranger for the Duke Ellington Orchestra.

Boys & Girls Harbor, Inc.
New York, NY
$27,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support the Dance Program. Professional dancers will provide intensive dance instruction at beginning, intermediate, and pre-professional levels.  The year-long project will serve low-income students ages 4 to 19 from East Harlem and the Bronx.

Bread and Roses Cultural Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support Unseen America, a photography project. Designed to serve immigrant and low-income workers, the project will provide residents of several communities with training in photography and opportunities for exhibiting the resulting work.

Brooklyn Arts Council, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support Brooklyn Days of the Dead. The project will include fieldwork resulting in concerts, demonstrations, and symposia that will acquaint the public with the traditions of death in various cultural groups residing in Brooklyn.

Brooklyn Conservatory of Music
Brooklyn, NY
$12,500
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Chamber Music
To support concerts and residency activities by composer Cedar Walton and NEA Jazz Master Randy Weston. Plans include performances by faculty and students, jazz clinics, panel discussions, and honors recitals.

Brooklyn Conservatory of Music
Brooklyn, NY
$18,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support Music Partners. The program provides in-school and after-school music therapy and music instruction to students in public and private schools, as well as childcare and social services agencies throughout the boroughs of Brooklyn, Queens, and Manhattan.

Brooklyn Information & Culture, Inc. (on behalf of Celebrate Brooklyn)
Brooklyn, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Celebrate Brooklyn's presentation of the Godfrey Reggio/Philip Glass film Powaqqatsi - Life in Transformation, with a live performance by the Philip Glass Ensemble. The free event will be part of the festival's 30th anniversary at the Prospect Park Bandshell.

Brooklyn Information & Culture, Inc. (on behalf of Rotunda Gallery)
Brooklyn, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support a visual arts residency and teacher training program of the Rotunda Gallery. The program will combine student visits to contemporary art galleries with in-school classroom workshops for underserved youth in Brooklyn.

Brooklyn Institute of Arts & Sciences (aka Brooklyn Museum of Art)
Brooklyn, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support research and conservation of Sioux masterworks in the permanent collection of the Brooklyn Museum of Art. The objects will be prepared for a subsequent traveling exhibition, and the results of the research will be published in the exhibition catalogue.

Brooklyn Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Chamber Music
To support the Music Off the Shelves program. American chamber works by composers such as Zenobia Powell Perry, Margaret Bonds, and Amy Beach in conjunction with literary works by authors such as Zora Neale Hurston and Kate Chopin will be presented in Brooklyn public libraries.

Brooklyn Public Library Foundation (aka Brooklyn Public Library) (Consortium)
Brooklyn, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the Independence Days literary series at the new Dweck Center for Contemporary Culture in Brooklyn. These free events will include author readings, interviews, and discussions and feature authors from five independent literary organizations.

Brooklyn Youth Chorus, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$18,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support the Concert Chorus Training and Performance Program. Students will participate in rigorous, weekly, vocal music training gaining skills in musicianship, music theory, sight singing, and ear training.

Buffalo Media Resources, Inc. (aka Squeaky Wheel)
Buffalo, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support SWAP: Squeaky Wheel Access Program. The 22-year old program provides media equipment access, low-cost workshops, artist residencies, and resource services to film and video artists locally and nationally.

Buffalo Media Resources, Inc. (aka Squeaky Wheel) (Consortium)
Buffalo, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support Squeaky Wheel's Buffalo Youth Media Institute. The citywide youth media initiative, carried out in partnership with the Preservation Coalition of Erie County, will give young people the opportunity to work with experienced media artists and local historians to produce documentaries about Buffalo's culture and history.

Canandaigua Lake Chamber Music Festival, Inc.
Canandaigua, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America Fast-Track Review
To support performances by the Amelia Piano Trio and the Corigliano Quartet, a string quartet. These performances will be part of the 2008 season Canandaigua Lake Chamber Music Festival that is held in the rural Finger Lakes region of New York.

Carnegie Hall Society, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Chamber Music
To support the Elliott Carter Centenary. A season-long celebration of the composer's 100th birthday will include concerts, public interviews with the composer, and residency activities at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York.

Carnegie Hall Society, Inc. (aka Carnegie Hall) (Consortium)
New York, NY
$75,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support LinkUP! In partnership with the New York City Department of Education, Carnegie Hall staff will develop a curriculum that will teach basic music concepts, give professional development workshops for teachers, support classroom and music teachers throughout the year, and produce public concerts in the spring when students will perform alongside a professional orchestra.

Catskill Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Oneonta, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America Fast-Track Review
To support harmonica master Howard Levy in a concert performance and associated outreach activities. A Grammy winner, Mr. Levy will perform with the symphony, as well as participate in enrichment programs for area public school youth from a rural three-county area in central New York.

Center for Arts Education
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support Arts Academy at P.S. 37R on Staten Island. Teachers, learning specialists and artists will take part in professional development workshops and design a dance, music, and visual arts curriculum that will integrate alternative instructional methods for students with cognitive and physical developmental disabilities.

Center for Book Arts
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support continued archival efforts to document the organization's 30 years of programming in the book arts. The project involves development of an online archive of 150 exhibitions and cataloguing an art collection of more than 1,000 objects for on-site and online access.

Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Arts (aka CEPA Gallery)
Buffalo,, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts Touring
To support the touring exhibition Ken Heyman: Being Human, with accompanying educational materials. This retrospective of photographer Ken Heyman (b. 1930) will include 130 images including early journalistic and anthropological work, iconic portraits, Pop Art works, and contemporary experimental images.

Center for Traditional Music and Dance, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the New York World Music Festival: Music and Dance Around the Black Sea. In collaboration with Lotus Fine Arts, the project will educate the public on the diverse cultural traditions around the Black Sea and celebrate New York's cultural diversity.

Center for Traditional Music and Dance, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Community Cultural Initiative (CCI) in Peruvian, Chinese, and Ukrainian communities. The program is designed to nurture and preserve community-based artistic documentation and the presentation of projects in immigrant and ethnic neighborhoods throughout the New York metropolitan area.

Center for Urban Pedagogy, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$18,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support Urban Investigation, a design education program. High school students will explore the architectural inner workings of New York City's environmental design. Students will study issues such as space planning, parkland creation, and waste management systems design.

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Chamber Music
To support performances of American chamber music and associated educational activities. Serving as Season Composers, William Bolcom and George Tsontakis will participate in master classes, pre-concert composer chats, in-concert interviews, and lectures.

Chashama, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support free exhibition and performance spaces and stipends for theater groups and visual artists. Venues will include a black-box theater, galleries, and window stages.

Cherry Lane Alternative Inc. (aka Cherry Lane Theatre)
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Cherry Lane Master Classes at the Cherry Lane Theatre. Theater professionals and the general public will receive an inside view into the art and craft of playwriting of award-winning master playwrights on Monday evenings throughout the theatrical season.

Children's Art Carnival, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support New Generation of Artists. Professional artists will lead after-school and summer workshops for youth, ages 12 to 18 in graphic design, painting, drawing, photography, and video production.

Children's Theatre Company
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support Building Character Onstage. Youth will participate in the creation, production, and performance of plays and musicals that reflect and explore diverse racial, ethnic, and religious communities.

Chinese-American Arts Council, Inc. (aka CAAC)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America Fast-Track Review
To support Chinese opera productions featuring guests Charlene Tong and Lin Yin Traditional Chinese theater integrates dialogue, ornate costumes, stylized movements, and poetic narration. The performances will take place at the Chinese Community Center and the Lincoln Center for Performing Arts Avery Fisher Hall.

Circus Amok, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the creation and presentation of the Summer 2008 Parks Tour. The work will include a series of circus acts to be performed free-of-charge in outdoor public spaces in ethnically and economically diverse neighborhoods throughout New York City.

City Lore, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support Abkua, Palo, and Vodou: African Cultural Expressions from Cuba, the Dominican Republic, and Haiti. The project will use cultural expressions, including sacred drumming, poetry, and visual art to show African connections between the three Caribbean nations.

City Lore, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support Second Harvest: Revisiting the Wellsprings of American Folk Tradition. In collaboration with the Western Folklife Center, the project will produce a series of radio segments for Weekend All Things Considered, an hour-long piece for American Radio Works, and a Web exhibit for the City Lore and Western Folklife Center's Web sites.

City of New York, New York
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Exploring Cultures Through the Arts residency program. The New York City Department of Education will implement and document artists-in-residency programs in elementary schools.

CITYarts, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America Fast-Track Review
To support the creation of a mural led by artist Adam C. Peachy. The project is part of a program that engages youth in the creation of public art that reflects the character and strength of communities located in the five boroughs of New York City.

Classical Theatre of Harlem, Inc. (aka CTH)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America Fast-Track Review
To support the production of EMANCIPATION by playwright Ty Jones. The work is based on Nat Turner's participation in a slave rebellion in 1831. The development of this work was enhanced through a collaborative partnership with the Frederick Douglas Creative Arts Center and The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

Columbia University in the City of New York (on behalf of Miller Theatre)
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Chamber Music
To support Composer Portraits: American Masters at Miller Theatre and on tour. Plans include concerts each focused on a single American composer: Milton Babbitt, Leon Kirchner, and John Cage; composer discussions; radio and Internet broadcasts; and school presentations.

Copland House
Cortlandt Manor, NY
$7,500
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Chamber Music
To support chamber music performances and educational activities by the ensemble Music From Copland House. Repertoire will include works by composers such as Amy Beach, Charles Tomlinson Griffes, Charles Ives, Aaron Copland, William Grant Still, John Corigliano, William Bolcom, Richard Danielpour, Alvin Singleton, Tania Leon, Lowell Liebermann, Paul Schoenfield, Jennifer Higdon, and Carlos Carrillo.

Cornell University (on behalf of Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art)
Ithaca, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support Objects and Their Makers: New Insights (OMNI), a visual arts education project based on the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art's permanent collection. The program will offer grade- and culture-specific learning units focused on the art of Africa, Asia, and the Americas and their historical context.

Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (Consortium)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the presentation of literary magazine and small press fairs to communities across the country. In partnership with Fence Magazine, each fair will provide a hands-on venue for publishers to introduce readers to the wide variety of writing found in literary magazines and small presses.

Council of Literary Magazines and Presses
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support technical and capacity-building tools and advice for large, mid-size, and small independent literary publishers. Scheduled services include an interactive Web site, workshops, one-on-one mentoring, and networking opportunities.

Creative Center for Women with Cancer (aka The Creative Center: Arts in Healthcare)
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the New York City Hospital Artists-in-Residence Program. The project will promote the value of the arts in the healing process and provide access to quality art instruction by professional artists.

Dance Films Association, Inc. (aka DFA)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the national tour of the Dance on Camera Festival. The festival will include domestic and international films and related educational outreach activities.

Dance Theatre Etcetera, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the 15th annual Red Hook Waterfront Arts Festival. Free outdoor music, dance, and spoken-word performances will be presented in conjunction with a youth film festival, arts workshops, and a parade.

Dance Theatre of Harlem, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support educational and community outreach initiatives that expose children and adults to dance. Dancing Through Barriers will include lecture-demonstrations, video assemblies, special student performances, master classes, dress rehearsals, and various workshops conducted in New York City and around the country.

Dance Theatre Workshop, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the launch of a pilot program to support choreographers experimenting with media during a research residency. In collaboration with the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography at Florida State University in Tallahassee, artists will be in residence for one to two weeks, followed by a one-week premiere of their work at Dance Theater Workshop.

Dancing Crane, Inc.
Warwick, NY
$18,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support the Children's Georgian Dance Class and Performance Ensemble. Master artists who were trained in the Republic of Georgia and now live in the United States will teach children traditional Georgian dance.

Dancing in the Street, Inc. (aka Dancing in the Streets)
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the second annual Hip-Hop Generation Next. The full-day block party at Coffey Park in Red Hook, Brooklyn, will feature a variety of hip-hop artists.

Das Puppenspiel Puppet Theater Inc.
Westfield, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a new work titled Beyond the Beanstalk (The Jack Tales). The project will include a local, regional, and national tour of a repertoire of productions, with accompanying outreach activities.

Diversity of Dance, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support Earl Mosley's Institute of the Arts. Students will receive rigorous dance training from professional dance educators through classes in technique (ballet, modern, jazz, hip-hop, African dance, tap), composition, and repertory as well as participate in master classes with guest artists.

DreamYard Drama Project, Inc.
Bronx, NY
$42,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support Bronx Teen Arts Companies. Lead teaching artists, guest visiting artists, and other arts professionals will help teens acquire skills and knowledge to create, perform, and experience the arts. Students will curate their own gallery exhibits at Sotheby's Auction House, perform their own plays at Pregones Theater and the Theater at Scholastic Incorporated, and attend arts field trips throughout New York City.

E. Monte Motion, Inc. (aka Elisa Monte Dance)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the revival of Feu Follet and Audentity, choreographed by Artistic Director Elisa Monte. The works will be presented on tour across the United States and overseas.

Early Music Foundation, Inc. (aka Early Music New York)
New York, NY
$12,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the compact disc recording of music of colonial America by the Early Music New York (EMNY) chamber ensemble. The recording will be released on the foundation's own Ex Cathedra Record label.

Educational Alliance, Inc.
New York, NY
$26,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support the Young Artists Program. The after-school and summer visual arts program will be taught by practicing and exhibiting artists and will provide free or low-cost visual arts instruction to underserved teens.

Educational Broadcasting Corporation (aka Thirteen/WNET New York)
New York, NY
$85,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support post-production costs for a documentary film by Fred Wiseman. Boxing Gym (working title) will examine the role Lord's Gym plays in Austin, Texas.

Educational Broadcasting Corporation (aka Thirteen/WNET New York)
New York, NY
$565,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the development and production by Thirteen/WNET New York of performing arts specials for the television series Great Performances and Dance in America for broadcast on PBS. Regardless of geographic or economic limitations, American television audiences in all 50 states will be provided free access to a diverse range of cultural programming in 2009.

Educational Broadcasting Corporation (aka Thirteen/WNET New York)
New York, NY
$575,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the development and production by Thirteen/WNET New York of the television series American Masters for PBS broadcast. Definitive documentary profiles of major cultural figures will be made available in 2009-10 to millions of viewers in all 50 states on more than 345 public television stations.

Elaine Kaufman Cultural Center/Lucy Moses School for Music & Dance (on behalf of Merkin Concert Hall)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Chamber Music
To support chamber music performances at Merkin Concert Hall of composer Elliott Carter's works, and related educational activities. In celebration of Carter's 100th birthday, the performance by the New York Woodwind Quintet and pianist Ursula Oppens will be preceded by an open rehearsal and a pre-concert discussion with the musicians and composer.

Epic Theatre Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support the Journeys Series program. Artist residencies will take place in New York public high schools, with teaching artists leading students in the study of classical and modern plays.

Experimental Television Center Ltd.
Newark Valley, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support a year-round residency program for media artists. The Experimental Television Center (ETC) provides film and video artists access to sophisticated production facilities.

Flushing Council on Culture and the Arts, Inc. (aka Flushing Town Hall)
Flushing, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support Jazz Live, a series of performances featuring NEA Jazz Masters. Performances at Flushing Town Hall will include Barry Harris, Clark Terry, the Queens Jazz Orchestra with music director Jimmy Heath, and the premiere of a commissioned composition by Wycliffe Gordon.

Fractured Atlas Productions, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support expansion of the Open Arts Network, a national network of arts service organizations. The program will add career development training and health insurance services targeted for emerging artists in upstate and western New York, New Jersey, and southeastern Pennsylvania.

Friends of the Arts, Inc
Locust Valley, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support the Jazz Sampler Project. Artists and school staff will develop and implement in the classroom goals, residency content, timelines, learning activities and resources, and evaluation and assessment tools for an arts-integrated curriculum on the history and elements of jazz.

Garth Fagan Dance, Inc.
Rochester, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the preservation of choreographer Garth Fagan's work, which spans 37 years. The company will disseminate, digitize, and preserve its collection of performance videos, programs, press clippings, and other pertinent materials.

Geneva Concerts, Inc.
Geneva, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a residency by the Taylor 2 Company in Geneva, New York. The three-week residency will include outreach activities for youth and young adults at 11 designated sites in rural and underserved areas surrounding Geneva, and will culminate with a performance by the Paul Taylor Dance Company.

Global Action Project, Inc. (aka G.A.P.)
New York, NY
$68,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support the Urban Voices Media Arts Program.  Professional media artists will work with youths in digital media production to create group and individual media arts projects.

Gotham Arts Exchange, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of emerging choreographers at Dance Theater Workshop. The project will include an extensive mentoring component, where artists work with arts professionals in general administration, development and marketing, touring, and production.

Gregg Smith Singers, Inc.
Yonkers, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the creation of an oral history of the activities of the organization from 1955 to 2008. Interviews of a wide spectrum of the industry will take place: composers, singers, managers, and publishers from their early days in Los Angeles to touring activities, recording, the Summer Adirondack Festival, and the New York City concert series.

Groundswell Community Mural Project, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$45,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support the Summer Leadership Institute. Teenage girls and boys from low-income, underserved areas of Brooklyn will work under professional artists to study the history, design, and methodology of mural painting.

H.T. Dance Company, Inc. (aka H.T. Chen & Dancers)
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation of a new education program. The fully staged program will incorporate dance, music, and video projections.

Haleakala, Inc. (aka The Kitchen) (Consortium)
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a series of literary events to showcase small, alternative literary publications and their writers. In partnership with the journal Open City, The Kitchen will promote the monthly series to its mailing list of 25,000 individuals.

Haleakala, Inc. (aka The Kitchen)
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support The Kitchen's Archive Project. Activities will include cataloging of video, audio, and paper archives; and re-mastering video and audio tapes to preserve and make accessible the works created and presented during its 30-year history.

Harlem Children's Zone, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support The Renaissance University for Community Education (TRUCE). Artists-in-residence will lead professional development workshops in arts learning for Harlem Children's Zone staff and will teach arts classes for youth, ages 13 to 19.

Harlem School of the Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support Open Enrollment and College Prep. After-school, evening, and weekend classes in beginning to advanced instruction in music, dance, theater, and visual arts are opened to pre-kindergarten through 18 year old students, and a pre-collegiate training program is available for students ages 12 and 18 who demonstrate artistic proficiency.

Harvestworks, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Virtual Spaces and Physical Experiences. In collaboration with Roulette Intermedium, the project will explore physical computing and its implications for live performance through think-tanks, four workshops, a conference, and a festival.

Harvestworks, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the retooling and presentation of Hand-drawn Spaces (1998). The seminal virtual dance installation by choreographer Merce Cunningham, composer/sound artist Ron Kuivila, and digital artists Paul Kaiser and Shelley Eshkar will be updated by using current technology and then presented during the New York Electronic Arts Festival.

Heart of Brooklyn Cultural Institutions, Inc. (aka Heart of Brooklyn)
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America Fast-Track Review
To support wider distribution of the Cultural Calendar Highlights inserts which will be placed into Courier Life Publications. The illustrated calendar lists the programs and activities of a collection of Brooklyn's cultural organizations including the Brooklyn Children's Museum and Brooklyn Public Library.

Henry Street Settlement
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the RE:MOVE dance series, a new performance initiative aimed to bring together the community of the Lower East Side in Manhattan. The series will consist of 23 live modern dance performances at the Abrons Art Center in New York City.

House Foundation for the Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a pilot educational program at New York's LaGuardia High School to convey the work and philosophy of Artistic Director Meredith Monk. The program will include Monk's work in movement, voice, film/video, and interdisciplinary performance.

Hudson Opera House, Inc.
Hudson, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Global Steps: East Meets West. The Asian cultural series will include performances, workshops, and educational sessions in cooperation with area schools and social service agencies.

Independent Feature Project, Inc. (aka IFP)
New York, NY
$65,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support Independent Film Week. The event provides independent filmmakers from across the country the opportunity to present their work to the industry.

Instituto Arte Teatral Internacional, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support Triple Play Tours to Latino communities. The project will include full-length children's plays, theater workshops, and new play staged readings in public libraries, community centers, and school venues in distressed and underserved neighborhoods throughout the Northeast.

International Film Seminars, Inc. (aka The Flaherty)
New York, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 54th Robert Flaherty Film Seminar. The week-long event, to be held at Colgate College in Hamilton, New York, will bring together students, scholars, filmmakers, curators, librarians, and film enthusiasts to explore and discuss the art of the moving image.

Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum (aka Noguchi Museum)
Long Island City, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the first phase of the Isamu Noguchi Catalogue Raisonne project. The catalogue will be the first comprehensive record of Japanese American artist Isamu Noguchi's (1904-1988) work.

Jacob Burns Film Center, Inc.
Pleasantville, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support Unscripted, a documentary filmmaking program for high school students.  During summer months, students will learn all aspects of the filmmaking craft including writing, conducting interviews, editing, filming, and directing.

Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, Inc. (Consortium)
Jamaica, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support Page to Stage, a theater education program. Developed in partnership with New York City Department of Education District 28, will engage seventh- and eighth-grade students at MS 217 in Queens. 

Jazz Foundation of America, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Jazz Foundation in the Schools and Musicians' Legacy Programs. The Legacy program will offer weekly private instruction by elder, established, professional musicians for young adult students.

Jazzmobile, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the inaugural Harlem International Jazz Festival. The festival will involve various Harlem arts presenters and will feature legendary and emerging musicians from the U.S. and around the world.

JazzReach Performing Art & Education Association
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a national tour of jazz educational outreach programs. Activities in 30 communities in 15 states will include master classes, workshops, clinics, and performances by its resident ensemble the Metta Quintet.

Joyce Theater Foundation, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support Evening Stars, an outdoor dance festival that takes place in Lower Manhattan's Battery Park. The project, in partnership with the Alliance for Downtown New York, will feature several dance companies.

Judd Foundation
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the creation of a conservation plan for, and the documentation of, the collection of works on paper and sculpture by American artist and writer Donald Judd (1928-94). The project will lead to the eventual conservation treatment of approximately 2,300 works.

Juilliard School
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support the Music Advancement Program (MAP). Juilliard music faculty will provide private lessons and classes as well as mentoring to New York City public school students.

Just Buffalo Literary Center, Inc.
Buffalo, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support Babel, a literary arts initiative that will bring renowned international writers to western New York for readings and related outreach activities. The 2008-2009 season will begin with a visit from Chinua Achebe in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Things Fall Apart.

Just Buffalo Literary Center, Inc. (Consortium)
Buffalo, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support Writing with Light. In partnership with the Center for Exploratory and Perpetual Art (CEPA), the project will engage writers and photographers to teach creative writing and basic elements of photography and guide students in documenting their communities with cameras and poetry.

Kunqu Society, Inc.
Whitestone, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support lecture-demonstrations and a performance of the art of Kunqu. The project will raise awareness of a form of traditional Chinese theater proclaimed by UNESCO as a masterpiece of the oral and intangible artistic heritage of humanity.

La Troupe Makandal, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Haiti Drum and Dance Project. The project will present a series of workshops focusing on the traditional drum and percussion music of Haiti to foster an appreciation of the art form.

League of Professional Theatre Women
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the exhibition 100 Years of Women in Stage Design to advance and promote the visibility of American women in the professional theater. The exhibit will highlight the notable contributions of women in the arts of theatrical design.

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$150,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production and broadcast of the television series Live From Lincoln Center. In 2009, the series will be aired on PBS stations in all 50 states, reaching an average of five million viewers per program.

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the American Masterpieces at Lincoln Center series. Works by composer John Adams, and a film festival on composer/conductor Leonard Bernstein will be presented in conjunction with symposia and educational materials.

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. (on behalf of Lincoln Center Institute for the Arts in Education)
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support the Focus Schools Collaborative of the Lincoln Center Institute for the Arts in Education. Music, dance, theater, and visual arts will be integrated into the curriculum of a cluster of New York City public schools.

Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of America, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the annual membership conference. The conference will be hosted by the University of California, San Diego.

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Inc.
New York, NY
$60,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support Workspace, an artist residency program. Workspace is a site-specific artist residency program that provides artists with studio workspace, as well as access to a community of artists, professional development services, and a modest stipend.

Luzerne Music Center, Inc.
Lake Luzerne, NY
$7,500
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Chamber Music
To support A Celebration of American Chamber Music during the Luzerne Music Festival. Plans include concerts, residency activities, and recordings of American chamber repertoire including Andre Previn's Love Songs, Samuel Barber's Summer Music, David Baker's Roots II, Paul Schoenfield's Sparks of Glory, and William Grant Still's Trio.

Making Books Sing, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America Fast-Track Review
To support the musical theater production of Patricia Polacco's book "The Butterfly," by Barbara Zinn Krieger and Charles Greenberg and related educational activities. Prior to the production, short musicals will be created through a series of workshops at housing shelters.

Mama Foundation for the Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support Gospel for Teens. Students ages 13 to 19 who are selected through an audition will learn fundamental vocal techniques, gain knowledge about the historic and cultural context of the African American gospel tradition, and perform in public concerts.

Manhattan New Music Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support Open The World To Children With Autism. Teaching artists will be trained to collaborate with classroom teachers to teach music, theater, dance, and visual arts to students who have severe cognitive, emotional, and physical challenges.

Mano a Mano: Mexican Culture Without Borders
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Teaching Artist Development project in the Mexican immigrant community of New York City

Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, Inc. (aka Martha Graham Dance Company)
New York, NY
$100,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support final rehearsals and presentation of Clytemnestra, Martha Graham's only full-length work. The work will premiere at New York University's Skirball Center for the Performing Arts and then tour across the United States.

Mercantile Library Association of the City of New York (aka Mercantile Library Center for Fiction)
New York, NY
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the Fall Fiction Series, which provides readings, panels, and performances by new and established writers. Proposed authors include Lydia Davis, Jonathan Franzen, Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Junot Diaz, T. C. Boyle, Dalia Sofer, and Donna Hemans.

Metropolitan Opera Association, Inc. (aka the Met)
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support production and post-production costs associated with the national telecast of Great Performances at the Met: La Fille du Regiment. Captured in high-definition video, this new production of Donizetti's opera will be broadcast on PBS stations around the country, reaching an estimated audience of three million viewers.

Midori Foundation, Inc. (aka Midori & Friends)
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support music instruction by Midori & Friends in underserved schools throughout New York City.  Students will receive a variety of music learning experiences, and teachers will receive professional development training.

Museum of Arts & Design
New York, NY
$75,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the organization and presentation of the exhibition Second Lives, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. Second Lives will be the inaugural exhibition of the museum's new home at 2 Columbus Circle in Manhattan.

Museum of Arts & Design
New York, NY
$150,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts Touring
To support the touring exhibition Change the World! Radicals and Revolutionaries in American Craft, 1945-1970, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will examine the history from which the American Studio Craft Movement emerged.

Music From China, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$12,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support performances of traditional and new music for traditional Chinese instruments in central New York state. In partnership with the State University of New York at Oneonta, the concerts will include works written for chamber ensembles and symphonic orchestras.

Music-Theatre Group, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the world premiere of the contemporary staged oratorio, Arjuna's Dilemma. The creative team will include composer Douglas Cuomo, visual designer Hillary Leone, director Robin Guarino, and music director Alan Johnson.

Musicians United for Superior Education, Inc. (aka MUSE)
Buffalo, NY
$18,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support the Maria Montessori Whole School Project. Teaching artists will work with Montessori school students at two Montessori Schools in whole-school residencies resulting in a student-written opera.

National Audio Theatre Festivals, Inc.
Hempstead, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the Audio Theatre Workshop and related activities. The series of classes trains audio artists in script writing and performance for radio, and helps them develop the technical skills needed to produce innovative live radio drama.

National Book Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the promotion of 2009 National Book Award finalists and winners. The project will include the development and distribution of online audio and video literary programming, as well as posters, book discussion guides, and other marketing materials for bookstores, libraries, festivals, schools, and other outlets.

National Dance Institute, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support dance instruction and performance programs. Designed to provide sequential dance training through ensemble performances, classes will be offered to advanced and motivated students taught by professional artists trained in the institute's teaching methods.

National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support professional development programs for leaders in the arts education field. Programs will include the national Conference for Community Arts Education, regional events and trainings in New York and San Francisco, and an online Community Arts Education Toolkit.

National Music Theater Network, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support The Next Link Project at the New York Musical Theatre Festival. The writer assistance program will provide new writers with the access and tools needed to develop their careers and present their work to the industry and the public.

National Video Resources, Inc. (aka Renew Media)
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support The Reframe Project. The online resource will help media artists make the transition to deliver digital video content through the Internet.

New Art Publications (aka BOMB Magazine)
Brooklyn, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support BOMB Magazine's annual issue of AMERICAS. The publication will feature original translations of poetry and fiction, and will include interviews with Latin American writers, artists, musicians, filmmakers, choreographers, dancers, critics, and architects.

New Community Cinema Club, Inc. (aka Cinema Arts Centre)
Huntington, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America Fast-Track Review
To support the film series "Creativity: An Eternal Mystery" and related activities. Following each film, guest speakers will engage the audience in informal discussions. Previous speakers have included Director Linda Hattendorf (The Cats of Mirikitani) and Director Maryte Kavaliauskas (David Hockney-Colors of Music).

New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. (Consortium)
Staten Island, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the development of Networked:A/networked_book/About/networked_art/. The online transdisciplinary book will address the artistic developments of the last decade made possible by computers, networks, and mobile connectivity, and document the collapse of the traditional distinction between artist, artwork, and audience, as well as the building of virtual communities.

New York City Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the restoration, remounting, and staged concert productions of musicals in the Encores! Series. The annual series of rarely heard American musicals will be performed in New York City Center's 2,753-seat theater.

New York Classical Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support free performances of classic works in New York's Central Park. Productions of Shakespeare's Cymbeline and George Bernard Shaw's Misalliance will be staged throughout a 12-acre area of the park.

New York Folklore Society, Inc.
Schenectady, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support services to folk artists and folk arts organizations in the Capital District of upstate New York. The project will provide professional development services, field research, and ethnographic assistance to community-based, nonprofit organizations.

New York Folklore Society, Inc. (Consortium)
Schenectady, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support a Latino Folk Arts Conference. In collaboration with Long Island Traditions, the project will support planning for a statewide symposium that will examine the folk art of the state's various Latino communities.

New York Foundation for Architecture, Inc. (aka Center for Architecture Foundation)
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support Learning By Design: NY, design residencies in three New York City public elementary schools. The residencies will be held in three unique Lower Manhattan schools, and the curriculum for each residency will be designed around each school's neighborhood.

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support enhancement of services provided to artists. Services provided will include access to NYFA Source, a free online resource, and professional development workshops to be held in various cities.

New York New Music Ensemble
New York, NY
$7,500
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Chamber Music
To support a concert program highlighting Elliott Carter's 1983 chamber work Triple Duo in celebration of the Pulitzer Prize-winning composer's 100th birthday. The ensemble will tour the program with new works by other living American composers in California and Utah.

New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations (aka The New York Public Library) (on behalf of New York Public Library for the Performing Arts)
New York, NY
$60,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts' documentation and preservation of significant dance and theater performances and oral histories by notable performing artists. Performances and oral histories will be recorded, and deteriorating oral history material will be conserved.

New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations (on behalf of New York Public Library for the Performing Arts)
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the 100 Years of Women in Stage Design exhibition at The New York Library for the Performing Arts. The library will present a series of public programs including discussion panels, lectures, film screenings, and oral histories of notable women set, costume, and lighting designers.

New York Shakespeare Festival (aka The Public Theater) (Consortium)
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support free community programs and performances conducted by artists in the Public Theater's Shakespeare Lab. In partnership with teaching artists from the Bronx-based theater company Mud/Bone, artists will offer workshops to local students and community members in preparation for free performances of a Shakespeare play.

New York State Council on the Arts
New York, NY
$887,800
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, Inc. (aka New York Studio School)
New York, NY
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the Evening Lecture Series. The free program enables artists, scholars, critics, philosophers, and art historians to engage the public in a discussion of critical issues in the visual arts.

New York Youth Symphony, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support Making Scores. The project will consist of a series of educational courses designed to introduce aspiring young composers to fundamental principles of musical composition.

New-York Historical Society
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the publication of a catalogue of the silver collection. The collection contains more than 1,800 objects ranging in date from 1586 to 1986.

New-York Historical Society
New York, NY
$80,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts Touring
To support the touring exhibition John Rogers: American Stories, with accompanying catalogue and educational activities. American artist Rogers (1829-1904), who became known as the "people's sculptor," worked prolifically in the 19th century, creating narrative works that depicted themes of Victorian domesticity, American history, and literature.

Nikolais/Louis Foundation for Dance
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation, preservation, and documentation of Tower, choreographed by Alwin Nikolais. The dance will be mounted on the Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company.

NY Writers Coalition Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the 4th Annual Fort Greene Park Summer Literary Festival, which consists of a six-week series of free creative workshops for young people and a public reading.

openhousenewyork inc. (aka OHNY) (Consortium)
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support youth workshops and design educational materials. In collaboration with the Center for Architecture Foundation, design and architecture educational programs will be created for New York City students and youth.

Opus 118 Music Center (aka Harlem Center for Strings)
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support music education programs targeted for underserved, inner-city youth. Opus 118's afterschool sessions, Harlem Youth Chorus program, and a summer program will be offered to low-income children in East Harlem.

Oscar Seagle Association, Inc. (aka Seagle Music Colony)
Schroon Lake, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America Fast-Track Review
To support the workshop performance of "The Beast in the Jungle." The opera is based on a novel by Hentry James. The composer is Thomas Pasatieri and the librettist is Frank Corsaro.

Our Time Theatre Company, Inc. (aka Our Time)
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support the Teen Play Project. The theater arts instruction program is targeted to teenagers who stutter.

Pan Asian Repertory Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Festival of New Works and Emerging Artist Training Program. The programs provide emerging Asian American and Amerasian artists with access to the professional theater arena.

Paper Bag Players, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a national tour of original multidisciplinary works for young audiences. Productions will be collaboratively created by the ensemble under the artistic direction of Judith Martin.

Pearl Theatre Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the world premiere production of a new adaptation of The Oedipus Cycle by Sophocles.

PEN American Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the 2009 PEN World Voices: The New York Festival of International Literature. The five-day festival will feature tributes, forums, conversations, readings, and roundtable discussions in both large-scale and intimate public venues.

Perlman Music Program, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support the Summer Music School at The Perlman Music Program. The program is an intensive six-week residency which provides instruction, coaching, and mentoring opportunities to exceptionally gifted young string players.

Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York, Inc. (aka The New York Philharmonic)
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production of national radio broadcasts of performances by the New York Philharmonic from its 2008-09 season. Approximately 2.5 million listeners will hear each two-hour program in the 52-week series.

Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York, Inc. (aka The New York Philharmonic) (Consortium)
New York, NY
$70,500
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support the New York Philharmonic's School Partnership Program. In partnership with the New York City Department of Education, students in the third to fifth grades will attend workshops held by professionally trained teaching artists.

Piatigorsky Foundation
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America Fast-Track Review
To support a series of classical music performances in rural east Texas. Clarinetist Igor Begelman, flutist Lorna McGhee, and harpist Heidi Krutzen will serve as featured artists in cities such as Crockett, Overton, and Trinity.

Poetry Project, Ltd. (aka Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the Monday Night and Wednesday Night Reading and Performance Series. The series will feature live presentations by more than 130 poets and performers.

Poetry Society of America
New York, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the continuation of Poetry in Motion, a program that places poetry placards in public transportation systems throughout the country. Poetry in Motion currently reaches 12 million mass transit riders daily in cities nationwide.

Poets & Writers, Inc.
New York, NY
$65,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication of Poets & Writers Magazine and the expansion of the Poets & Writers Web site. The Web site provides links to more than 1,500 other Web sites dedicated to helping writers.

Poets House, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support Lyric: From Poetry to Song, a series of events celebrating the opening of the new Poets House along the waterfront in Battery Park City in Lower Manhattan. Poets House will present readings, discussions, classes, and performances to an estimated audience of 10,000.

Point Community Development Corporation (aka THE POINT) (Consortium)
Bronx, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support a permanent exhibition titled From Mambo to Hip Hop. In collaboration with Public Arts Films, the exhibition will include photographs about mambo, salsa, and hip-hop; screenings of the documentary film From Mambo to Hip Hop: A Bronx Tale; an interactive kiosk; and live performances.

Point Community Development Corporation (aka THE POINT)
Bronx, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support Mapping Our Environment Through Art. The project will offer adults and young people of Hunts Point in the Bronx art making opportunities lead by guest artists.

Pratt Institute
Brooklyn, NY
$48,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the Liberty Career Exploration Program in Design. The weekend project will provide fifth- and sixth-graders access to design instruction through studio projects, workshops, and field trips.

Pregones Touring Puerto Rican Theatre Collection, Inc. (aka Pregones Theater)
Bronx, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the presentation of master Puerto Rican artists as part of the March Is Music - May Is Dance Series at the Pregones Theatre. NEA National Heritage Fellow and bomba and plena musician Juan Gutierrez, singer/songwriter Danny Rivera, and dancer/choreographer Merian Soto will perform and participate in residency activities.

Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre Co., Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the Musical Theater Workshop, focusing on musical theater playwriting for Latino playwrights. The project will take place under the supervision of Yale Drama School alumnus, Allen Davis III.

Queens Museum of Art
Queens, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support Queens Teens. The after-school program will introduce and train local high school students in the administrative, curatorial, and interpretive skills necessary to work in an art museum.

Queens Theatre in the Park, Inc.
Flushing, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Latino Cultural Festival and the Latino Cultural Series. The programs will feature music, dance, theater, film, visual art exhibitions, and residency activities.

Radio Diaries, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production of radio documentaries by Joe Richman. The Audio History Project will air on National Public Radio's All Things Considered.

Rattapallax, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the Literary Audio Series of free lectures and poetry readings at the Bowery Poetry Club in the East Village. The series will feature contemporary poets, writers, and scholars discussing important literary figures and connecting them to specific New York City landmarks.

Rattapallax, Incorporated
New York, NY
$16,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: International
To support, through a Chairman's extraordinary action award, project planning and travel costs for poets Joy Harjo and Carolyn Forche to attend the Kolkata Book Fair in India. The writers will participate in poetry readings, literary panels, and discussions, as well as visits to local schools.

Redhawk Indian Arts Council, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support Native American Heritage Celebrations in the Lower Hudson Valley. The project will support performances by Native American traditional artists and dance companies.

Reel Stories Teen Filmmaking, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$60,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support The Lab, Reel Impact, The Lab Master Class, and Summer Lab. Student teens recruited to participate in free, after-school and summer filmmaking workshops, will produce and distribute short documentaries about their lives under the mentorship of professional filmmakers.

Ringside Inc. (aka STREB)
Brooklyn, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support PUBLIC/ACTION, an audience development and access program. The project will support residency and outreach programs for PUBLIC/ACTION NEW YORK and PUBLIC/ACTION ON TOUR.

Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Inc.
Rochester, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Symphony 101, an outreach project of community concerts for underserved and low-income residents. Host and Music Director Christopher Seaman and the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra will offer a symphonic repertoire and informal lectures designed for first-time concertgoers.

Rochester Regional Community Design Center
Rochester, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support Reshaping Rochester, an educational program on design and urban planning. Nationally recognized design experts will speak at a public lecture, meet with government officials and civic leaders, and offer a workshop for local design professionals.

Rockland Center for the Arts (aka RoCA)
West Nyack, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the Exhibition-Based Visual Arts-in-Education Program. Designed to foster children's creativity and critical thinking skills, the program introduces students to contemporary art through exhibitions, activities, discussions, and art projects.

Rosie's Broadway Kids, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support the ACTE II (A Commitment to Excellence) program in musical theater. The program will target exceptionally talented students from low-income families for intensive training in music, dance, and drama.

Salvadori Educational Center on the Built Environment
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support GLOBE: Guided Learning through Our Built Environment, a design education program.  Components of the project will include professional development activities and school-based residencies for New York public elementary school students where they will learn about architecture and the built environment of their community.

Second Generation Productions, Inc. (aka Second Generation)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America Fast-Track Review
To support "ELEVEN," a festival featuring "TBA," by playwright Carla Ching, "Five," an evening showcase of one-act plays, and staged readings of new works.

Skaneateles Festival, Inc.
Skaneateles, NY
$7,500
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Chamber Music
To support I Love New York, a celebration of chamber music works by New York composers. Repertoire will include Spirituals by R. Nathaniel Dett; Five Portraits for Cello and Piano by Virgil Thomson; Corner in Manhattan by Michael Torke; Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op. 6, by Samuel Barber; and three works by John Novacek: Barcarolle, Stephen Foster Fantasy for Piano Trio, and Four Rags for Clarinet and Piano.

Sokolow Theatre Dance Ensemble, Ltd
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the reconstruction, performance, and preservation of Anna Sokolow's work Dreams, created in 1961. The work will be part of the celebration of Anna Sokolow's 100th birthday (1910-2000) in 2010, which will include activities scheduled at the 92nd Street Y in New York City, the Holocaust Museum in Cincinnati, and during a tour in Italy.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation (aka Guggenheim Museum)
New York, NY
$100,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts Touring
To support the touring exhibition American Art and the East, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will examine the impact of Asian art on modern American art.

Solomons Company/Dance, Inc. (aka PARADIGM)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by choreographers Dwight Rhoden and Jonah Bokaer for the dance ensemble PARADIGM. The work will premiere at Dance Theater Workshop in New York City.

Sound Portraits Productions, Inc. (aka StoryCorps)
Brooklyn, NY
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production of StoryCorps radio segments for weekly broadcast on NPR's Morning Edition. A collaboration between Sound Portraits Productions, the Library of Congress, and public radio stations, StoryCorps is a nationwide project aimed at inspiring Americans to record one another's stories in sound.

Southern Tier Celebrates, Inc.
Binghamton, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support World Fest on the Plaza. Free performances by world music groups will be presented at Government Plaza and at several community organizations.

Spanish Theatre Repertory Company, Ltd. (aka Repertorio Español)
New York, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Teatro Acceso program. The company will present and tour classic and contemporary Spanish, Latin American, and U.S. Latino works to underserved schools and communities throughout the New York metropolitan area and the northeastern United States.

Stage Directors and Choreographers Workshop Foundation, Inc. (aka Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation)
New York, NY
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Observership Program. The project is designed to give emerging directors and choreographers access to the creative process in professional theater settings.

Standby Program, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support access to state-of-the-art, broadcast-quality, production, and post-production video equipment for artists and independent producers. Standby's access program is a unique model of collaboration between a nonprofit arts organization and privately owned businesses.

Studio in a School Association, Inc.
New York, NY
$60,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support the Collaborative Community Site program, a visual arts education program. Professional artists will lead classroom residencies and professional development seminars for visual arts and classroom teachers in Brooklyn. 

Sylvan Winds, Inc. (aka Sylvan Wind Quintet)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the recording of new American works for chamber wind ensemble. The quintet will record works by American composers Robert Dick, Max Lifchitz, and Alla Borzova.

Sylvan Winds, Inc.
New York, NY
$7,500
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Chamber Music
To support performances of 20th century American chamber music for wind instruments. In addition to performing works by composers such as Samuel Barber, John Cage, Elliott Carter, Walter Piston, NEA Jazz Master Gunther Schuller, and Chen Yi, the ensemble will conduct master classes, seminars, workshops, and outreach concerts.

Symphony Space, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production of the public radio series Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story, and the distribution of related CDs. The series, which will air on more than 146 NPR stations, will present leading stage and screen actors reading both classic and new short fiction by established and emerging authors of diverse cultures.

Symphony Space, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the American Masterpieces 1939 Festival of music, literary, film, and dance presentations. Program activities will celebrate and examine outstanding artistic works created in 1939 during a time in U.S. history when growing optimism joined the realities of a world on the brink of war.

Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Syracuse, NY
$22,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a concert tour to New York's North Country. The orchestra, under the direction of Music Director Daniel Hege, will perform concerts in rural and underserved communities.

TADA! Theater and Dance Alliance, Inc. (aka TADA! Youth Theater)
New York, NY
$45,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support expansion of the Musical Theater Writing Residency. The program will integrate social studies topics with the writing, rehearsal, and performance of an original musical by fourth- and fifth- graders under the tutelage of teaching artists and their regular classroom teachers.

Teachers & Writers Collaborative, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the development and dissemination of materials related to the teaching of creative writing and the literary arts. The collaborative will redesign its Web site, launch an e-newsletter, host in-house readings and discussions, and publish Teachers & Writers magazine, both in print and Online.

Teatro Circulo Ltd
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the production and tour of original Spanish-language productions to locations in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic. The tour will include productions of Lágrimas Negras by Eva Vásquez and La Celestina by Carmelo Santana.

The National Network for Folk Arts in Education (aka National Network for Folk Arts in Education) (Consortium)
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Folk Artist Training Institute: Preparing Traditional Artists to Work in Classroom Settings. In collaboration with La Troupe Makandal, the project will include a program to develop the effectiveness of folk artists in the classroom.

The National Network for Folk Arts in Education (aka National Network for Folk Arts in Education)
New York, NY
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support an expansion of the Folk Arts in Education network. The project will connect educators and students to folklorists and folk artists through publications, Web sites, and workshops.

Theater By The Blind Corp.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. Ike Schambelan will direct a cast and crew composed of theater artists with and without disabilities.

Theatre Communications Group, Inc.
New York, NY
$125,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the TCG National Conference, professional development programs, field research, and publication resources for the staff and trustees of professional, nonprofit theaters nationwide. The 2008 National Conference will be held in conjunction with the National Performing Arts Convention in Denver.

Theatre Development Fund, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Interpreting for the Theatre initiative. The program is an intensive one-week institute for theater sign-language interpreters.

Theatreworks/USA Corporation
New York, NY
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support a national tour of theater productions for young audiences. Theaterworks/USA will provide audiences in as many as 30 states and the District of Columbia with access to live theater and educational activities that complement school curricula.

Town Hall Foundation (aka The Town Hall)
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support the Education Outreach Program, a theater education program. Summer internships and school-year classes in theater and stagecraft will be offered for students in kindergarten through twelfth grades in New York City schools.

UBW, Inc. (aka Urban Bush Women)
Brooklyn, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support educational activities of the Urban Bush Women dance company for youth, artists, educators, and the general public. The programs will include Builders, Organizers, and Leaders through Dance (BOLD); the annual Summer Institute, Community Building for Change; and activities related to the company's international collaboration with Compagnie JANT-BI of Senegal.

University of Rochester (on behalf of Memorial Art Gallery)
Rochester, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the reinstallation of the Ancient Gallery in the Memorial Art Gallery. The project involves the design and implementation of Connecting with the Ancient World, which will reinstall the museum's collection of ancient Near Eastern, Egyptian, and Mediterranean Art.

Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Ask the Lawyer: Legal and Business Interactive Resource Web Site and related arts services. A comprehensive online resource will be offered to provide free legal and business guidance to the arts community.

Wave Hill, Inc.
Bronx, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the Family Art Project. The series of weekend workshops provide families the opportunity to create nature-based art projects inspired by craft traditions from around the world.

Westchester Arts Council, Inc.
White Plains, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support Creative City, a series of exhibitions and workshops. Programming will take place in the newly created Rotunda Gallery in Mount Vernon Library's historic Carnegie building.

Western Wind Vocal Ensemble, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Chamber Music
To support O Beautiful! American Music, a concert program that combines early American music with new works by living American composers. Repertoire will include works by composers such as William Bolcom, Philip Glass, Bobby McFerrin, Lisa Bielawa, Meredith Monk, Tania León, Eric Salzman, and Robert Dennis.

White Pine, Inc. (aka White Pine Press)
Buffalo, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of volumes of poetry and fiction.

WNYC Radio
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production of a series of radio documentaries by Sara Fishko. The Jazz Loft Broadcast Series will be created from archival audio recordings of jazz musicians made by the photographer W. Eugene Smith from 1957 to '65.

WNYC Radio
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support Radio Rookies, a media arts education program. Open to young people from across New York City's five boroughs, the program will provide training in all aspects of radio production.

Women's Studio Workshop, Inc. (Consortium)
Rosendale, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support artist residencies. In partnership with the Kingston City School District, the residency program offers emerging artists paid professional opportunities to work for an extended period of time in a technically equipped studio space as well as training in teaching and mentoring.

Working Playground, Inc.
New York, NY
$54,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support My Medium, My Message. The project will provide foundational design experiences in the fields of animation, film, digital photography, and music production for students at the New Design High School.

Working Theatre Company, Inc. (aka Working Theater)
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the TheaterWorks! adult education program. The program teaches writing and performance skills to low-income workers in the service and manufacturing sector.

World Music Institute, Inc. (aka WMI) (Consortium)
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the World Music America Touring Project 2008-2009. In collaboration with World Music America, the project will present national tours of ensembles representing cultural traditions from four continents.

World Music Institute, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support a music and dance concert series celebrating NEA's National Heritage Fellowship recipients. Brass band McCullough Sons of Thunder, bomba and plena musician Juan Gutiérrez, Hawaiian hula artists Nalini Kanaka'ole and Pualani Kanaka'ole Kanahele, tap dancer Jimmy Slyde and protégés, and Guinean dancer/musician Sidiki Conde will perform and participate in educational workshops.

World Music Productions, Inc. (aka Afropop Worldwide)
Brooklyn, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production and distribution of the weekly public radio program Afropop Worldwide. The series showcases the contemporary musical cultures of Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas, and is distributed by Public Radio International to more than 100 radio stations in the United States.

Writers & Books, Inc.
Rochester, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a series of educational and outreach programs. The project will offer readings, writing workshops, lectures, and online classes for adults and intergenerational groups.

Writers Room, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support subsidized work space for emerging writers. The Writers Room is an urban writers' colony in New York City.

York Theatre Company, Inc. (Consortium)
New York,, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the musical Blind Lemon Blues written by Ala Govenar and Akin Babatunde, with musical arrangements by Cavin Yarbrough, Alisa Yarbrough, and Akin Babatunde. In collaboration with Documentary Arts of Texas, the production will be based on the life of Blind Lemon Jefferson, the biggest-selling country-blues singer in the 1920s.

Young Men's & Young Women's Hebrew Association (aka 92nd Street Y) (on behalf of Unterberg Poetry Center)
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the Unterberg Poetry Center's 2008-2009 Main Reading Series. The series features readings by established and emerging writers, literary tributes, and dialogues between writers and audiences about literary and related topics.

Young People's Chorus of New York City, Inc. (aka YPC) (Consortium)
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Radio Radiance, an educational outreach project. In partnership with WNYC Public Radio, the chorus will bring new music by living composers to young people and a general audience through radio and other media sources.

Young People's Chorus of New York City, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children and Youth
To support the Partner Schools Program. At-risk students, ages 8 to 18, will participate in after-school choral music education activities.

Number of Grants: 255          Total Amount: $9,506,300

 
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