FY 2009 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access to Artistic Excellence I/Challenge America Fast-Track Grants/Creativity & Aging/Literature Fellowships (Poetry)

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

CALIFORNIA

18th Street Arts Complex
Santa Monica, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the 2009 Residency Program. American and international artists will be hosted for periods ranging from one month to one year.

Abhinaya Dance Company of San Jose, Inc.
San Jose, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support Nritya Sangati - Dance Progressions, an original, evening-length Indian dance and music concert. The work, created by choreographers Mythili and Rasika Kumar and master sitar player/composer Kartik Seshadri, will premiere at the Mexican Heritage Plaza Theater in San Jose.

Alonzo King's Contemporary LINES Ballet (aka LINES Ballet)
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by artistic director and choreographer Alonzo King. The new work will premiere as part of LINES Ballet's fall home season at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.

American Bach Soloists
San Franciso, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Handel Celebration. The ensemble will mark the 250th anniversary of G. F. Handel's death and its 20th-anniversary season with concerts featuring works played on period instruments, including large choral anthems and the composer's Music for Royal Fireworks.

American Conservatory Theatre Foundation (aka American Conservatory Theater)
San Francisco, CA
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a world premiere production of War Music, a large-scale original play created by Lillian Groag. The work will be based on contemporary British poet Christopher Logue's English-language adaptation of Homer's The Iliad.

American Indian Child Resource Center
Oakland, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Mentor Artist Playwriting Project (MAPP). Through MAPP, a series of professional staged readings of original short plays written by Native American youth will be produced.

API Cultural Center (aka Oakland Asian Cultural Center)
Oakland, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Lunar New Year Festival. Also known as the Spring Festival, the event will feature Bay Area artists representing the artistry of the Pan-Asian community, including Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese traditions.

Architecture for Humanity
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support The 2009 Open Architecture Challenge: Portable Classrooms, an online design competition. K-12 students and teachers will be invited to partner with architects in their community to design innovative and viable alternatives to portable classrooms.

Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco (aka Asian Art Museum of San Francisco)
San Francisco, CA
$75,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the exhibition Samurai, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. Most of the objects selected for the exhibition have never before been seen outside of Japan.

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

AXIS Dance Company
Oakland, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support Dance Access & Dance Access/KIDS! education and outreach programs. The programs offer a variety of dance events for disabled and abled youth and adults in schools in the Bay Area and on tour nationally.

Bay Area Video Coalition, Inc. (aka BAVC)
San Francisco, CA
$60,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support low-cost audio and video preservation services to artists and arts organizations throughout the nation. Services include the recording, retrieval, and preservation of audio/video art and of performances archived on various media, and the dissemination of information to the public.

Berkeley Repertory Theatre (aka Berkeley Rep)
Berkeley, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a world premiere of a new work by award-winning playwright Sarah Ruhl. In the Next Room will be directed by Associate Artistic Director Les Waters.

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

Burnon, Inc. (aka Rubicon Theatre Company)
Ventura, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the creation and world premiere production of The Best is Yet to Come: The Music of Cy Coleman, a new musical revue at the Rubicon Theater Company. Tony and Drama Desk Award-winner and Coleman collaborator David Zippel will create and direct the adaptation.

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

California Film Institute
San Rafael, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 32nd Mill Valley Film Festival. Programming includes short films, documentaries, independent American films, and films from abroad.

California Institute of the Arts (aka CalArts) (on behalf of Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT))
Valencia, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support residencies at REDCAT by visiting artists, the 2009 New Original Works NOW Festival, and STUDIO. National and international artists will be in residence for a full week, providing public performances and master classes; the NOW Festival will feature premiere works by artists from Los Angeles and other California cities; and three editions of STUDIO will feature informal programs of new works and works-in-progress by local artists.

California State University Long Beach Foundation (on behalf of California Institute for Preservation of Jazz)
Long Beach, CA
$12,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Moody's Mood for Music: A Tribute to James Moody presented by the California Institute for the Preservation of Jazz. To honor the 1998 NEA Jazz Master, the three-day festival will feature a master class, a panel discussion, educational outreach activities in inner-city area schools, and live performances, including one by Moody's professional quartet.

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

Candelaria, Xochiquetzal
San Juan Bautist, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a creative writing fellowship.

Center for Asian American Media
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the San Francisco Asian American Film Festival. The project will showcase new work by and about Asian Americans and Asians.

Center for the Art of Translation
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of the literary anthology Two Lines. A strategic marketing plan will also increase book sales and reach new audiences.

Center Theatre Group of Los Angeles (consortium)
Los Angeles, CA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support a revival of the Tony Award-winning musical Pippin by Stephen Schwartz and Roger O. Hirson. The theater will partner with Deaf West Theatre Company to develop and co-produce a new sign language adaptation of the musical which debuted on Broadway in 1972.

Children's Book Press
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of multicultural and bilingual board books for early readers. Proposed titles include bilingual works in Spanish, English, and Chinese.

Circle X Theatre Company
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and production of The Chinese Massacre (Annotated), a new play by Tom Jacobson. The play will tell the story of an 1871 Los Angeles riot in which 19 Chinese men and boys were murdered.

Circuit Network
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the creation and presentation of the LED Kimono Project. Composer Miya Masaoka and media artist Michelle Handelman will create an interactive performance/installation featuring a musical instrument in the form of a kimono -- constructed of thousands of light-emitting diodes (LEDs).

Contemporary Jewish Museum
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the production of a catalogue to accompany the exhibition You Shall Tell Your Children: Artists Interpret the Passover Seder Plate. The exhibition and catalogue will showcase new works by leading local, national, and international artists who have been invited to explore the meaning and form of the Seder plate.

Cornerstone Theater Company, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support The Environmental Justice Project, with accompanying educational and outreach activities. Playwright Julie Herbert, director Juliette Carrillo, and the theater ensemble will partner with community members to explore the urban environmental issues surrounding the Los Angeles River.

CounterPulse
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the Artist Residency and Commissioning Program for local emerging and mid-career choreographers. The program will include two, six-month residencies during which four artists will rehearse, collaborate, teach, and perform new work.

DanceArt, Inc.
Mill Valley, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the 18th annual West Wave Dance Festival. In partnership with the Dancers' Group, the project presents emerging and mid-career Bay Area artists and will take place at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.

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

Dell'Arte, Inc. (aka Dell'Arte International)
Blue Lake, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support The Bernarda Project. The artistic team of Founding Artistic Director and actress Joan Schirle, choreographer Donlin Foreman, director and master teacher Ronlin Foreman, Argentinean composer Daniel Binnelli, and ensemble members will create a new theater work inspired by Federico García Lorca's Spanish classic The House of Bernarda Alba.

Djerassi Resident Artists Program
Woodside, CA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support artist residencies. The project will provide studios, living accommodations, meals, and professional assistance to American writers, composers, choreographers, and media and visual artists.

Earplay
San Francisco, CA
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support new music concerts. Two concerts are planned featuring music of composers Elliott Carter and Olivier Messiaen (1908-92), in celebration of each composer's 100th birthday.

East-West Players
Los Angeles, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support an artistic collaboration to develop a contemporary musical that blends hip-hop dance and music with Japanese anime storytelling. Artistic director Tim Dang will direct with choreographer Jason T. Chong and composer Marc Macalintal to create an urban multicultural work, with accompanying outreach activities and staged readings.

Engage Inc.
Burbank, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Creativity & Aging   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: AccessAbility
To support EngAGE in Writing. The project will include community-based creative writing classes, taught by professional writers of varying genres, in retirement communities.

Film Independent, Inc. (aka IFP/Los Angeles)
Los Angeles, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 15th Los Angeles Film Festival. More than 125 films including dramatic features, documentaries, and short films will be presented to an anticipated audience of 90,000.

foolsFURY Theater Company
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the creation of an ensemble theater piece in collaboration with playwright Sheila Callaghan and the Playwrights Foundation. Set within the opulent confines of a cruise ship, Floating Uneasy will explore the fine line between decadence and luxury in contemporary American culture.

Ford Theatre Foundation
Hollywood, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the [Inside] the Ford Winter Partnership Series. The project will offer services to small Los Angeles County theaters to strengthen their producing capabilities and increase their visibility and audiences.

Friends of Peralta Hacienda Historical Park
Oakland, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Community Traditional Arts Exposition and Education Program. The project will preserve the traditional arts and culture of Fruitvale, an ethnically diverse Oakland neighborhood, by presenting cultural traditions through exhibits, festivals, and hands-on activities.

Gamelan Sekar Jaya
Oakland, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support residencies for master artists from Indonesia in celebration of the organization's 30th-anniversary season. The guest artists will lead intensive rehearsals and classes, perform in major international festivals and other performances, and conduct educational activities.

Grand Performances
Los Angeles, CA
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support The Voice: Universal and Unifying. The project will include free music, theater, and spoken-word events combined with relevant lectures and demonstrations concerning a transcultural exploration of the voice.

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

Healdsburg Jazz Festival, Inc.
Healdsburg, CA
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the 11th annual Healdsburg Jazz Festival. The 10-day festival will feature internationally acclaimed masters of jazz and emerging artists in a series of concerts and related activities in various rural Sonoma County venues, including free events in the Healdsburg Town Square, local cafes, and galleries.

Hi Hopes Identity Discovery Foundation (aka Hope University)
Anaheim, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support Beau Monde Float, a multimedia performance collaboration between artist collective MLuM and adults with developmental disabilities affiliated with the foundation. The piece will be developed through a series of workshops with topics including music composition, design, and dance.

Hutchins Consort
Encinitas, CA
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support concerts for violin octet with educational activities, including an open dress rehearsal, master classes, and lecture demonstrations. The program will feature performances on the eight scaled violins of the violin octet designed and built by luthier Dr. Carleen Hutchins.

Idris Ackamoor & Cultural Odyssey (aka Cultural Odyssey)
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development of a theatrical piece exploring the reasons behind the AIDS epidemic in the lives of African American women. Dancing with the Clown of Love will be created collaboratively with the Women's HIV Program at the University of California Medical Center, San Francisco.

Independent Television Service, Inc. (aka ITVS)
San Francisco, CA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support a 26-part television series titled Global Voices. The series will air on the new digital channel PBS World to an estimated audience of 25 million people.

Ink People, Inc. (aka The Ink People Center for the Arts)
Eureka, CA
$22,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the DreamMaker Program: Creating Healthy Communities through Arts and Culture. The arts incubator program provides shared resources, workshops, technical assistance, administrative support, and individualized training for Humboldt County cultural groups.

Intersection (aka Intersection for the Arts)
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and premiere of The Curse: Oscar, Lola y Yunior, based on The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, a new novel by Dominican American writer Junot Diaz. The play will be developed by Intersection for the Arts' resident ensemble member Campo Santo.

Irvine Barclay Theatre Operating Co.
Irvine, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the eighth annual New World Flamenco Festival at The Barclay. Presentations will feature flamenco dancers and musicians, and activities will include workshops, meet-the-artist events, and film screenings.

Jaffe, Maggie
San Diego, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a creative writing fellowship.

Jess Curtis/Gravity, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of culminating events as part of The Symmetry Project. The project is a three-year, movement-based, performance-installation/media project by choreographer and artistic director Jess Curtis, in collaboration with choreographer and performer Maria Francesca Scaroni.

Joe Goode Performance Group
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of Beauty Meets Excess, a dance theater piece by choreographer and artistic director Joe Goode. The work will premiere at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.

Kala Institute
Berkeley, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Fellowship Residency Program. American and international artists working in the visual arts, video, performance, and digital media will receive stipends, technical support, and access to working facilities.

Kearny Street Workshop, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support APAture: A Window on the Art of Asian Pacific Americans, a multidisciplinary arts festival. Project activities will include a visual arts exhibition, film screenings, literary readings, and music performances.

Keshet Chaim Dancers
Sherman Oaks, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support Colors of Israel, a workshop and performance series that will introduce elementary school students to Jewish and Israeli culture and folk dance. Proposed schools are the Hart Street School, Sherman Oaks Elementary, and Carpenter Elementary Schools.

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

Kronos Performing Arts Association (aka Kronos Quartet)
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a collaboration, commission, and performances by the Kronos Quartet. Plans include a collaboration with pipa virtuoso Wu Man for a staged work and a commissioned work by jazz pianist Maria Schneider.

Kuumbwa Jazz Society
Santa Cruz, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Conversations with a Jazz Master and Jazz Masters Concert series. Artists being considered for the series include NEA Jazz Masters John Levy (2005), jazz historian and archivist Dan Morgenstern (2007), and impresario George Wein (2005) will be featured in the Conversations series; pianists and NEA Jazz Masters Toshiko Akiyoshi (2007), Ahmad Jamal (1994), and McCoy Tyner (2002), and Dianne Reeves.

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

LEVYdance, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a national tour. The company will travel to New York; Philadelphia; Baltimore; Washington, DC; Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania; and Dover, Deleware.

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Society, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the 40th Anniversary New Music Initiative. Three new works by composers Damian Montano, Lalo Schifrin, and Christopher Theofanidis will be commissioned and premiered.

Los Angeles County Arts Commission
Los Angeles, CA
$65,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the Arts Board Leadership Initiative, a comprehensive board training program. The project will strengthen the infrastructure and capacity of selected Los Angeles County mid-sized arts organizations.

Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design (aka LA Forum)
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support Dingbat 2.0: A Competition to Revamp Existing Housing Stock. Dingbat 2.0 is an open competition, exhibition, and pamphlet project calling upon designers, architects, planners, artists, and academics to identify design solutions that transform dilapidated stucco apartment buildings into livable low-income dwellings.

Los Angeles Master Chorale Association
Los Angeles, CA
$17,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support choral concerts and related educational activities. Plans include performances of works by composers Franz Joseph Haydn, Olivier Messiaen, and Roberto Sierra.

Los Angeles Opera Company
Los Angeles, CA
$60,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the commissioning and premiere of Il Postino, by composer and librettist Daniel Catán. The work fulfills the company's core mission: to create new productions by integrating the traditional operatic art form with the creativity of Hollywood directors, writers, production designers, and musical artists.

Los Angeles Philharmonic Association
Los Angeles, CA
$80,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the California Festival. An exploration of the state of California as a national cultural nexus, the festival will feature orchestral, jazz, and popular music concerts as well as a symposium and multidisciplinary events.

Luther Burbank Memorial Foundation (aka Wells Fargo Center for the Arts)
Santa Rosa, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support performances, pre-performance discussions, and master classes by the Ailey II dance company. Students receiving free or reduced lunches, low-income families, and teachers will receive discounted tickets.

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

Media Arts Center San Diego (aka San Diego Latino Film Festival)
San Diego, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 16th San Diego Latino Film Festival. The films and videos exhibited are produced by Latinos or are about the Latino experience.

Merola Opera Program
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support master teachers and instructors at the professional training program for singers, apprentice coaches, and an apprentice stage director. Participants will receive private coaching and attend master classes between opera's veteran and emerging artists.

Monterey Jazz Festival
Monterey, CA
$22,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the 52nd Monterey Jazz Festival at the Monterey County Fairgrounds. Renowned and emerging jazz artists will perform at the 2009 festival, including a commissioned artist and the artists-in-residence.

Mount Saint Mary's College (on behalf of Da Camera Society)
Los Angeles, CA
$17,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the presentation of Chamber Music in Historic Sites by the Da Camera Society. The series of chamber music concerts and outreach activities will match musical programming from a variety of cultures and periods with sites of architectural and historical significance in the Los Angeles area.

Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana de San Jose, Inc. (aka MACLA)
San Jose, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the production and exhibition of new work by artists Einar and Jamex de la Torre with an accompanying catalogue.  The commission is in concert with MACLA's 20th-anniversary celebration to be held at its gallery in downtown San Jose.

Museum Associates (aka Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA))
Los Angeles, CA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the exhibition When Worlds Collide: The Arts and Culture of Lucknow, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will focus exclusively on this northern Indian city, exploring the development of its artistic traditions.

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (aka MOCA)
Los Angeles, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a touring retrospective exhibition of the work of American artist Dan Graham (b. 1942), with accompanying catalogue. An essential influence on the development of contemporary art since the laste 1960s, the  exhibit will examine Graham's entire body of work, such as the artist's photographs, architectural models, outdoor pavilions, and film and video work.

Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
La Jolla, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the touring exhibition Automatic Cities: The Architectural Imaginary in Contemporary Art, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will explore the social and aesthetic implications/influences of architecture as a subject for many contemporary artists.

Music Circle
Pasadena, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support Ramayana: An Indian Epic. Drummer I Wayan Budha and dancer Ni Ketut Masekan, both from Bali, will add authenticity to the unique Balinese performance.

National Film Preserve, Ltd. (aka The Telluride Film Festival)
Berkeley, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 36th Telluride Film Festival. Approximately 40 programs of feature-length and short films will be screened to an estimated audience of more than 6,000 people.

Oakland East Bay Symphony
Oakland, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support performances of works by living American composers. The project will include premieres of new works by Nathaniel Stookey and Nolan Gasser, as well as works by Pēteris Vasks, Giuseppe Verdi, and Jerome Kern.

Oberlin Dance Collective
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by artistic director and choreographer Brenda Way with related outreach activities. In the Memory of the Forest will be created in collaboration with video artists David and Hi-jin Hodge, composer Jay Cloidt, and lighting/set designer Elaine Buckholtz, and will be presented at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater in San Francisco.

ODC Theater
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Excavating the Future, a series of theater, dance, and music performances. In celebration of the opening of the new theater, programming will present artists who have had a long relationship with ODC Theater and the community.

Ojai Festivals, Ltd. (aka Ojai Music Festival)
Ojai, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Ojai Music Festival. The 63rd annual music festival will feature the commission and premiere of a work by composers Steve Mackey and Rinde Eckert for this year's musical directors, the sextet ensemble eighth blackbird.

Old Globe Theatre (aka The Old Globe) (Consortium)
San Diego, CA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of Since Africa by Mia McCullough, with accompanying educational and outreach activities. Artistic Director Seema Sueko of the partnering organization Mo'olelo Performing Arts Company will direct the production.

Opera Noir, Inc.
Sherman Oaks, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the commissioning and presentation of Song and Dance by pianist and composer John Gentry Tennyson. Low-income students and families will receive free tickets.

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

Opera Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA
$12,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the commissioning, development, and premiere of Séance on a Wet Afternoon by Stephen Schwartz. Based on the 1961 novel by Mark McShane and the award-winning screen adaptation by Bryan Forbes, the opera will be directed by Scott Schwartz and conducted by maestro Valery Ryvkin.

Other Minds
San Francisco, CA
$12,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support OM14, the 14th annual new music festival. Activities will be held at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco, with guest composers participating in a four-day residency that will include a panel discussion, free workshop, and a lecture-demonstration.

Pacific Chorale
Santa Ana, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Fanfare for a New Era, a performance project celebrating the inaugural year of the new C. B. Fisk organ in the Renee and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall at the Orange County Performing Arts Center. The chorus will be joined by French composer and organist Thierry Escaich in an American premiere performance of his Three Motets.

Pacific Symphony (aka Orange County's Pacific Symphony)
Santa Ana, CA
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Hollywood's Golden Age, an American composers festival. Programming will feature music by composers Erich Korngold, Miklos Rozsa, and Bernard Herrmann, as well as the premiere of a commissioned work by James Newton Howard.

Pacifica Foundation
North Hollywood, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the preservation of arts-related recordings in the Pacifica archive. Of the 50,000 tapes housed in the archive, approximately 25 percent represent arts programming.

Palm Springs International Film Society
Palm Springs, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 20th Palm Springs International Film Festival. Held in January, the event presents more than 230 films to an audience of approximately 125,000 people.

Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
San Francisco, CA
$12,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a tour commemorating Henry Purcell's 350th birthday. Under the direction of music director Nicholas McGegan, the performances on period instruments will be presented in San Francisco, Berkeley, Palo Alto, and Los Angeles, California, and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Temple of Dendur in New York City.

Poetry Flash
Berkeley, CA
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and distribution of Poetry Flash, a free tabloid of event listings, readings, workshops, and literary news. Divided into geographical sections, Poetry Flash lists programs throughout California, the Pacific Northwest, and the Southwest.

Project X Foundation for Art and Criticism (aka X-TRA Magazine)
Los Angeles, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the reviews section of X-Tra Magazine. A quarterly visual arts publication, X-Tra is distributed to galleries, museums, and art schools throughout Southern California and to subscribers across the country.

Public Design Studio (aka Public Architecture)
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the Pro Bono Road Show. The traveling exhibition will showcase excellence in pro bono design, inspiring both architects and nonprofit organizations by raising collective awareness about the potential of pro bono design and its importance in improving public life.

Radio Bilingüe, Inc.
Fresno, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support ¡Viva el Mariachi! Festival and Musicians' Workshops 2009. The festival will showcase local, national, and international mariachi groups while also providing workshops for youth and community members.

Red Hen Press, Inc.
Granada Hills, CA
$12,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication, promotion, and distribution of new works of poetry and creative nonfiction in the American World of Ideas series. Authors include Chris Abani, Percival Everett, Katharine Coles, Ernest Hilbert, and Orlando White.

Regents of the University of California at Berkeley (on behalf of Pacific Film Archive)
Berkeley, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support a guest presenters series to accompany film screenings at the Pacific Film Archive. Guests will include filmmakers, curators, critics, historians, academics, actors, and musicians.

Regents of the University of California at Berkeley (on behalf of Cal Performances)
Berkeley, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support a series of music, opera, and dance performances at Cal Performances. Artists will perform and participate in pre-performance lectures and student matinee sessions.

Regents of the University of California at Los Angeles (on behalf of Fowler Museum)
Los Angeles, CA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the touring exhibition Arts of the Benue River Valley, Nigeria, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition is being organized by the Fowler Museum in collaboration with the Musee du quai Branly in Paris.

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

Riverside Community College District Foundation
Riverside, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support performances of California Theatre Center's family-theater piece, Most Valuable Player: The Story of Jackie Robinson by Mary Hall Surface. In partnership with the Riverside Public Library, youth who read books about Black history or sports will be able to receive complimentary tickets to the performance.

San Diego Opera Association
San Diego, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a new production of Massenet's Don Quichotte. Activities designed around the production will include a student dress rehearsal for youth from San Diego County and Tijuana, Mexico, schools; pre-performance lectures; and an Artists' Roundtable, where the public will have an opportunity to meet the singers, conductor, and director.

San Diego Repertory Theatre
San Diego, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of The Threepenny Opera by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill. The production will be directed by Artistic Director Sam Woodhouse.

San Francisco Ballet Association
San Francisco, CA
$95,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of new works, including commissions by artistic director Helgi Tomasson and choreographer-in-residence Yuri Possokhov. Performances and related education programs will take place at San Francisco's War Memorial Opera House.

San Francisco Camerawork, Inc. (aka Camerawork)
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support The Autobiography of the San Francisco Bay Area Since 1974, a project celebrating Camerawork's 35th anniversary. The multifaceted project will include three exhibitions, commission of new work, and a publication.

San Francisco Chanticleer, Inc. (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$27,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a residency project of choral workshops, youth choral festivals, and a symposium. In partnership with the Hibbing Independent School District (Minnesota) and other national educational residency collaborators, Chanticleer will present a series of day-long workshops and festivals for high school choruses and adult singers.

San Francisco Contemporary Music Players
San Francisco, CA
$8,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support performances of contemporary chamber works. Works by composers Lee Hyla, Roscoe Mitchell, Cindy Cox, Terry Riley, Philippe Leroux, Dmitri Tymoczko, and Donnach Dennehy will be featured in performances at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.

San Francisco Film Society
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 52nd San Francisco International Film Festival The festival presents more than 100 films from 40 countries to an audience of 75,000 people.

San Francisco International Arts Festival, Inc. (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the presentation of the international collaborative project "Beyond the Mirror" in consortium with the Bond Street Theatre. The play, developed in collaboration with The Exile Theatre of Kabul, will be presented as part of the 2009 festival.

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

San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 29th San Francisco Jewish Film Festival and related activities. The festival, devoted to films on Jewish subjects, presents the premieres of films and videos by independent producers from around the world.

San Francisco Mime Troupe, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the development and tour of a musical comedy titled Fifty Sense. During its 50th anniversary season, the Tony Award-winning company will develop and produce an entertaining comedy that explores the similarities between the present and 1959 when the company was founded.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (aka SFMOMA)
San Francisco, CA
$100,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a touring retrospective of the work of South African artist William Kentridge (b. 1955), with accompanying catalogue. The exhibition is being co-organized with the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, Florida.

San Francisco Opera Association
San Francisco, CA
$75,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support performances of Puccini's La Fanciulla del West and related educational outreach activities.

San Francisco Performances, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the presentation of chamber music, vocal and instrumental recitals, jazz, and contemporary dance. Related workshops and lectures will help audiences increase their understanding and enjoyment of the live performances.

San Francisco Symphony
San Francisco, CA
$70,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support A Viennese Festival. The three-week series of performances and educational activities will explore the works of composers Franz Schubert (1797-1828) and Alban Berg (1885-1935).

San Jose Jazz Society
San Jose, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the 20th annual San Jose Jazz Festival. Programming will include a signature performance of a jazz legend paired with an emerging artist and an exhibit/technical showcase exploring how the historical creation and dissemination of music shaped the "hearing" and "listening" experiences of jazz audiences.

Santa Rosa Symphony Association
Santa Rosa, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Demystifying Messiaen, a concert focused on French composer Olivier Messiaen and his influences. The orchestra, conducted by music director Bruno Ferrandis, will perform three movements of the 10-movement Turangalila Symphony.

SEW Productions, Inc. (aka Lorraine Hansberry Theatre)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support architectural studies and a feasibility plan to identify a new venue for the Lorraine Hansberry Theatre. Brian Rawlinson will serve as lead architect for the project. The organization will develop strategies to keep ticket prices moderate during transition into the new venue.

ShadowLight Productions
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a workshop and in-progress presentations of a new shadow theater work. Artistic Director Larry Reed, co-author/performer Karen Kandel, and choreographer/performer Yin Mei will develop the Good-For-Nothing Lover.

Shotgun Players, Inc.
Berkeley, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the final development, workshop, reading, and production of a new musical titled This World Is in a Woman's Hands, with accompanying educational and outreach activities. Aaron Davidman will direct the work by playwright Marcus Gardley with original music by Molly Holm.

Sierra Repertory Theatre, Inc.
Sonora, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support a production of Little Women, a musical by lyricist Mindi Dickstein and composer Jason Howland based on the book by Louisa May Alcott. The organization will engage local educators to distribute study guides, schedule matinee performances for schools, and include the musical in the semester's curriculum.

Silent Film Festival (aka The San Francisco Silent Film Festival)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 14th San Francisco Silent Film Festival. Newly composed live music will accompany the films presented at the festival's 14 programs.

Sixteen Rivers Press, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of a collection of poetry.

Small Press Distribution, Inc.
Berkeley, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the printing, marketing, and distribution of print and Web-based catalogues and the warehousing of titles. Books and other works from approximately 450 small and independent presses will be included.

Smuin Ballets-SF
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by Amy Seiwert; the West Coast premiere performances of The Naughty Boy, choreographed by Trey McIntyre; and Carmen, choreographed by Robert Sund. Performances will take place in San Francisco, Walnut Creek, Mountain View, and Carmel, California.

South Coast Repertory, Inc.
Costa Mesa, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a workshop and world premiere of You, Nero, a new comedy developed by award-winning playwright Amy Freed. Sharon Ott will direct the production, with accompanying educational and outreach activities.

Southern California Asian American Studies Central (aka Visual Communications)
Los Angeles, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support Visual Communications' 25th Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film and Video Festival. The eight-day festival is Southern California's showcase of independent Asian international and Asian Pacific American film and video work.

Southern Exposure
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support SoEx Off-Site. The project will feature new artwork by local and international artists in various locations around the San Francisco Bay Area that elicits public interaction outside of the gallery.

Spera, Gabriel
Los Angeles, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a creative writing fellowship.

Stagebridge
Oakland, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Creativity & Aging   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: AccessAbility
To support the Stagebridge Playwriting Project. The project will foster the development of new plays and short works, while enriching the field of theatrical literature by, for, and about older artists.

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

Stanford University
Stanford, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Literature and the Performing Arts Residency Project. Stanford Lively Arts will collaborate with Word for Word Theater Company, Making Books Sing Theatre Company, and the José Limón Dance Company in a series of residency activities.

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

Stockton Symphony Association, Inc.
Stockton, CA
$12,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the commission and premiere performance of Ansel Adams:America, a new work by NEA Jazz Master Dave Brubeck and his son Christopher. The concert will commemorate the 25th anniversary of the death of legendary photographer Ansel Adams.

Struloeff, John
Malibu, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a creative writing fellowship.

Symphonic Jazz Orchestra
Culver City, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support a concert featuring saxophonist Tom Scott and related outreach activities. Prior to the concert, outreach activities will occur at the following organizations: The World Stage Arts Education and Performance Gallery in south-central Los Angeles, The Harmony Project in Hollywood, Guadalupe Youth Center in Canoga Park, and Sierra Vista Elementary in East Los Angeles.

TheatreWorks
Palo Alto, CA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the New Works Initiative. The program will foster the development of new plays and musicals through readings and workshops, a writer's retreat, the annual New Works Festival, and full productions of world premieres.

Threepenny Review
Berkeley, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support authors' fees and promotion costs for The Threepenny Review. The proposed issues will be promoted through a direct-mail campaign, collaborative literary events with other organizations, advertising, appearances at local book fairs, and the journal's Web site.

University Enterprises, Inc. (on behalf of Festival of New American Music)
Sacramento, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Festival of New American Music. The annual two-week festival, held on the campus of California State University, Sacramento and at various community venues, will feature concerts, workshops, master classes, lectures, seminars, concert previews, and open rehearsals.

University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support a collaborative graphic design initiative. The project will explore a range of graphic design topics, including design fundamentals and process, technology as a design tool, layout, and collaborative design.

Voice of Roma
Sebastopol, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the 13th Annual California Herdeljezi Festival. The festival will honor ethnic Romani (Gypsy) heritage with the celebration of the Romani holiday Herdeljezi.

Watts Village Theater Company
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Langston Hughes Project, including the premiere of a play written by playwright Lynn Manning and directed by Nataki Garrett. The play will explore Latin cultural influences on Hughes who lived for several years with his father in Toluca, Mexico.

Yerba Buena Arts & Events
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival. The project will connect the diverse communities of the Bay Area in shared arts and cultural experiences presented by several local organizations.

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Big Ideas, a series of multidisciplinary performances. The programs of film, visual, and performance work will be presented along curatorial themes that aim to contextualize the series.

YMCA of San Diego County
San Diego, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the creation of a mural on the exterior of the Balboa Youth and Community Center. The organization will partner with A Reason to Survive, a nonprofit organization providing free arts programming to local children facing adversity.

Young, C. Dale
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a creative writing fellowship.

Youth Speaks, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the creation and presentation of the dance-theater work Bopha. Collaborating artists will include choreographer Robert Moses, composer Ajayi Jackson, dancer Alseny Soumah (Guinea), director Marc Bamuthi Joseph, and writer Hodari B. Davis.

ZYZZYVA, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication, promotion, and related costs for ZYZZYVA, a journal featuring the work of West Coast writers. Each issue includes approximately 20 writers, one-third of whom have never been in print.

Number of Grants: 153          Total Amount: $3,545,000

 
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