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FY 2009 Grant Awards: State Listings

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

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

CALIFORNIA

509 Cultural Center (aka Luggage Store Gallery)
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support Short Cuts. Targeted to emerging artists and art students, the mentorship program at Luggage Store Gallery is designed to advance curatorial and exhibition organizing skills.

826 Valencia
San Francisco, CA
$48,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support writing programs and the publication of student work. Professional artists will teach creative writing to underserved youth in under-performing schools.

Actors' Gang, Inc.
Culver City, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and presentation of an adaptation of Shakespeare's Cymbeline for family audiences, with accompanying educational activities. Artistic Director Tim Robbins will guide the artistic team of adaptor Angelina Berliner, scenic/lighting designer Francis-Pierre Couture, and puppet master John Burton.

AjA Project
San Diego, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Journey program, a series of after-school photography workshops is targeted to serve immigrant and refugee youth, ages 12 to 17, living in the San Diego area.

Alliance for California Traditional Arts
Fresno, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program. The project will encourage the continuance of significant traditional arts within cultural communities while providing public visibility for those artists and art forms.

Alliance for California Traditional Arts (Consortium)
Fresno, CA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support a program for consultancies, mentorships, and technical assistance for folk artists and organizations. In partnership with the California Arts Council, the project will support the Alliance's administrative capacity.

American Film Institute, Inc. (aka AFI)
Los Angeles, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the Directing Workshop for Women. Each year, the program provides individuals with the necessary skills and portfolio to enter the directing field.

Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility (on behalf of New Village Press)
Oakland, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Beginner's Guide Service to Community Based Artists and Arts Organizations Project. New Village Press will produce and disseminate a package of professional development resources, including online lesson plans and activities and in-person residencies.

Architecture for Humanity (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support a youth leadership development initiative and community outreach program. With project partner Do Something, Inc., Architecture for Humanity will help participant students develop and implement a series of activities and exhibitions in their communities related to the 2009 Open Architecture Challenge: Portable Classrooms design competition.

Armory Center for the Arts
Pasadena, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support Installations Inside/Out. The project, commemorating the center's 20th anniversary in its current Pasadena facility, involves the commissioning of works by artists with historic and current ties to the organization.

Arts Council Silicon Valley
San Jose, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the Community Arts Fund, which supports arts projects, such as performances and exhibitions,  that reflect the numerous cultures represented in Santa Clara County.

Arts for LA
Los Angeles, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Grasstop Leadership Initiative. The project will provide resources and infrastructure to help unify arts and culture administrators in the region through a series of annual networking events.

Autry National Center of the American West
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Native Voices at the Autry program, with accompanying educational outreach activities. New works by Native American writers will be developed at an annual playwrights retreat and through professional workshops and public staged readings.

AXIS Dance Company (Consortium)
Oakland, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a residency with choreographer David Dorfman that features community performers with and without physical disabilities. The project will be implemented in partnership with Dance Place in Washington, DC.

Bay Area Video Coalition, Inc. (aka BAVC) (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the Mediamaker Awards and Mediamaker Advance programs. In collaboration with KQED-TV (the San Francisco PBS affiliate), these programs will provide independent video artists and producers with the technical assistance and resources they need to finish their projects.

Berkeley Repertory Theatre (aka Berkeley Rep) (Consortium)
Berkeley, CA
$12,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Intern Recruitment Program. In partnership with Chicago Theatre Group, aka Goodman Theatre, the program will reach Historically Black Colleges and Universities to provide theater training opportunities for students and support the hiring of diversified staff in theaters nationwide.

Bethune Theatredanse
Los Angeles, CA
$60,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Infinite Dreams, a dance and drama instruction program for special-needs youth. Residency artists will provide classes targeting underserved students from Los Angeles County schools and community sites.

California Arts Council
Sacramento, CA
$1,194,800
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

California College of the Arts (Consortium)
Oakland, CA
$36,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Studio Thinking in Practice, a professional development program in the visual arts. A partnership with the Alameda County Office of Education, the program will provide professional development training and resource materials for elementary classroom teachers and teaching artists to expand their ability to deliver visual arts instruction to underserved children.

California Indian Storytelling Association
Fremont, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Storytelling Festival and Symposia: Following Ancient Trade Routes 2010. The project will facilitate a cultural exchange between Native story tellers from California, Oregon, Washington, Hawaii, and New Zealand.

California Institute of the Arts (aka CalArts) (Consortium)
Valencia, CA
$64,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the CalArts Community Arts Partnership Plaza de la Raza Youth Theater Program. In partnership with Plaza de la Raza, CalArts will provide youth with intensive arts training in all aspects of theater production, including the creation and performance of an original play in collaboration with a professional playwright.

California Lawyers for the Arts, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the expansion of property sites for community-based art spaces and artist studios as part of the ArtHouse project. Plans for the Hunter's Point Shipyard area will include a multimedia center for mentoring youth in the digital arts, an outdoor theater, artist studios, and multi-tenant spaces for arts organizations.

California Presenters
Sacramento, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the 26th annual Artist Information Exchange. Designed for performing arts presenters, the program comprises discipline-specific panel discussions and a juried performing arts showcase intended to familiarize presenters with available touring artists suitable for venues and programming budgets of all sizes.

Casa Romantica Cultural Center and Gardens
San Clemente, CA
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the Casa Romantica Reading Series, featuring free monthly presentations by well-known poets and writers. Additional activities will include a Favorite Poem Project culminating in a reading by Robert Pinsky, as well as writing workshops for teens and adults.

Center for World Music
Olivenhain, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support World Music Performance for Children. Skilled artists of varied cultural backgrounds will teach African, Indian, Indonesian, and Iran folk and traditional music, dance, and storytelling to elementary, middle, and high school students in San Diego and Orange counties.

Center Theatre Group of Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support development, curation, and planning for Under the Radar West, a contemporary theater festival and symposium. The festival will spotlight multidisciplinary theater by artists from Los Angeles, Latin America, and the Pacific Rim.

Chhandam Chitresh Das Dance Company
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support Traditions Engaged, an international festival and symposium of Indian dance forms. The project will be held in San Francisco and Los Angeles and bring dancers, critics, scholars, and the public together to discuss and present the seven forms of classical Indian dance.

Chinese Cultural Productions (aka Lily Cai Chinese Dance Company)
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the tour of Silk Cascade by the Lily Cai Chinese Dance Company. The full-length concert, featuring a trio of dances choreographed by Artistic Director Lily Cai, will tour to five cities with large Chinese populations, including Los Angeles, Seattle, Minneapolis, Boston, and Houston.

City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support fees for nationally recognized artists and cultural leaders, including composers, filmmakers, visual artists, and critics, among others, who will participate in the Zócalo Arts and Culture Public Lecture Series.

City of San Fernando, California
San Fernando, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Mariachi Master Apprentice Program. The City of San Fernando Department of Recreation and Community Services will hold sequential, advanced-level mariachi classes for youth ages 10 to 18. Led by NEA National Heritage Fellow Natividad Cano's Mariachi los Camperos, the classes will prepare young musicians for concert performances and mariachi conferences.

Collage Dance Theatre
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation of A Guide to An Exhibitionist, by choreographer Heidi Duckler. Dancers will work in life-sized frames at an art gallery.

Cornerstone Theater Company, Inc. (Consortium)
Los Angeles, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Cornerstone Institute Summer Residency. Conducted in partnership with Eureka Theater, the program will offer immersive training for theater artists in the company's community-based theater methodology.

Craft in America, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support outreach and educational materials for Craft in America, a public television series that explores the origins, artists, and techniques of American craft.

Craft in America, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$125,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts Touring
To support the touring exhibition Craft in America: The Creative Continuum. The exhibition will present a broad cross section of objects, materials, and makers from diverse geographic, cultural, and educational backgrounds.

Craft in America, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$100,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support production and related costs for Craft in America. The two one-hour programs will examine craft from a thematic perspective.

Creative Growth, Inc. (aka Creative Growth Art Center)
Oakland, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support The Artists of Our Era. In order to involve artists with disabilities as a vital part of the larger arts community, the project will include a series of studio arts workshops for adults with disabilities, a visiting artists program, an exhibition series, a publicity campaign, and a publication.

Crocker Art Museum Association
Sacramento, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the publication of a catalogue of the museum's permanent collection. Publication of the catalogue will coincide with the museum's 125th anniversary as well as the opening of its new addition, which will connect the two 19th-century buildings that currently comprise the museum.

Crucible
Oakland, CA
$13,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Community Partnership Initiative. Activities will include workshops, residencies, public art projects, training for teens, facility access for the community, and the presentation of the annual, open-air Fire Arts Festival.

Dance Camera West
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of the 2010 Dance Camera West Film Festival. The festival will present a series of screenings of films from around the world at various venues in Los Angeles.

Diamano Coura West African Dance Co.
Oakland, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the 15th annual Collage des Cultures Africaines Festival. The community-based festival involves a series of drum, dance, and health and wellness workshops, as well as residencies and performances from Bay Area and international artists.

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

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

East Bay Center for the Performing Arts
Richmond, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Call and Response program. Community-requested performances will be presented at city festivals, cultural fairs, community centers, local companies, parks, and schools throughout Contra Costa County.

EastSide Arts Alliance
Oakland, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support a series of free community arts programs. Programming will include Holla Back, a weekly poetry and spoken word open mic program; Final Friday's Microcinema, a monthly film and video screening series; and Bop Gun, a weekly jazz and hip-hop jam session.

El Teatro Campesino
San Juan Bautist, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the restaging of La Pastorela (The Shepherds' Play). The multidisciplinary, traditional work adapted by playwright Luis Valdez, choreographer Janet Johns, and composer Tim Tompkins, will be enhanced and documented for future presentations.

Epiphany Productions Sonic Dance Theater (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of site-specific dances along one of San Francisco's trolley lines. In partnership with Dancers' Group, a Bay Area dance service organization, the sixth annual San Francisco Trolley Dances will bring together the local dance community and the San Francisco Municipal Railway for two weekends of free performances.

Firebird Youth Chinese Orchestra
San Jose, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Learning the Azalea Mountain. Professional traditional Chinese musicians will teach youth to perform Azalea Mountain, composed in 1973 by Yu Huiyong.

Ford Theatre Foundation (Consortium)
Hollywood, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Community Bridges Program. In partnership with Community Partners FBO J.U.I.C.E., the project will develop programming, marketing, and audience development strategies for facilitating the participation of local Latino and Asian American communities in the theater's classes, workshops, and performances.

Frameline
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support a seminar series. The program will include panel discussions and interviews with film historians and artists, interspersed with film clips and culminating in question-and-answer sessions with audiences.

Friends of Olympia Station (aka Tandy Beal & Company)
Felton, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of HereAfterHere: A Self-Guided Tour of Eternity, a new full-length dance work by choreographer Tandy Beal. The work will be interwoven with multi-generational dancers, text, abstract video, and brief video interviews with the public concerning their ideas about death.

Fund for Women Artists, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support SWAN Day (Support Women Artists Now Day), a national celebration of women artists. A project coordinator and online event management software will enable the organization to further develop the Web site as a repository and marketing tool associated with SWAN Day events and national and international programming.

Galeria/Studio 24 (aka Galeria de la Raza)
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support continued development of an online exhibition archive to include materials from Galeria's programming from 2001 to the present. The project involves uploading more than 1,000 images, documents, newspaper articles, and critical reviews.

Grabhorn Institute
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support Bookmaking, Writing, and Art, a series of public programs, including demonstrations, lectures, and exhibitions. The project explores connections between traditional bookmaking crafts and the work of contemporary artists and writers.

Guitar Foundation of America
Garden Grove, CA
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support online access to an archive of classical guitar scores. As the second phase of a four-phase project, activities will focus on making available online unique and rare scores together with sound clips.

HeArt Project
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support arts workshops at Los Angeles alternative high schools. Professional artists will lead classroom residencies and develop curricula in multiple art forms.

Heyday Institute (aka Heyday Books)
Berkeley, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a literary tour featuring readings and discussions by authors from different California regions. Prominent authors will participate in free readings and discussions focusing on the state of California and theme of sense of place.

Hmong Cultural Arts, Crafts, Teaching & Museum Projects
Sacramento, CA
$53,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Hmong Cultural Arts Teaching Project. Local artists will lead year-round, daily after-school classes in pa dao (embroidery), the qeej (free-reed aerophone of bundled bamboo pipes), and folk dance movement in preparation for performances and demonstrations at public festivals and other community events.

HUC Skirball Cultural Center
Los Angeles, CA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Viva! Celebrating the Americas, with accompanying educational activities for adults and youth.  Performances, film screenings, readings, exhibitions, and lectures will highlight the intersection of Jewish and Latin American cultures.

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

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

Institute on Aging
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Center for Elders and Youth in the Arts program, a series of intergenerational arts classes. Artists will provide instruction in painting, poetry, acting, movement, music composition, textiles, and oral history creation.

Jazz Tap Ensemble Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the production of the DVD Jazz Tap Originals, an anthology of tap spanning the years 1979-2009. Produced and directed by Artistic Director Lynn Dally, the DVD will also feature premiere performances of new tap works with live jazz by company members.

Jazzschool, Inc.
Berkeley, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support educational activities in jazz. Students will participate in after-school classes and master classes with jazz artists, and will be featured in public performances at the school and in venues across the San Francisco Bay Area.

Joe Goode Performance Group
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the reconstruction and presentation of Joe Goode's seminal 1989 work 29 Effeminate Gestures, on a national tour. The solo piece, set to music by Erik Ian Walker, will include related educational activities such as lectures, panel discussions, open rehearsals, and question and answer sessions after performances.

Karuk Tribe of California
Happy Camp, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Cultural Survival Through Education and Awareness program. The project will encourage basketweaving and other traditional Karuk Native American arts.

Kayamanan Ng Lahi Philippine Folk Arts
Culver City, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Philippine Dance Gathering and Workshops. The project will preserve and promote Philippine folk dance and music.

Khmer Arts Academy
Long Beach, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support Cambodian classical dance training. The project will support instruction in Cambodia's most enduring art form.

Kitchen Sisters Productions
San Francisco, CA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production and national distribution of a series of audio documentaries to be produced by Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva. The Secret Life of Girls Around the World will be aired on National Public Radio's Morning Edition and All Things Considered.

Kronos Performing Arts Association (aka Kronos Quartet)
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Chamber Music
To support the Kronos Quartet's performances of Harry Partch's U.S. Highball: A Musical Account of Slim's Transcontinental Hobo Trip. Concerts and related educational activities will take place as part of the Los Angeles Philharmonic's California Festival.

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

L.A. Theatre Works (Consortium)
Venice, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a national tour of a docudrama about Robert F. Kennedy's involvement with the civil rights movement. In partnership with the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center at the University of Notre Dame, the theater will commission, develop, and tour the piece to a network of universities.

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

La Peña Cultural Center, Inc.
Berkeley, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the creation and presentation of La Peña--Ayer, Hoy, y P'Alante (Yesterday, Today, and Onwards). The work will chronicle the organization's history through music, spoken word, images, and audio excerpts collected from its archival materials.

La Peña Cultural Center, Inc. (Consortium)
Berkeley, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Enlaces: Connections that Bind Us, a series of music and dance performances, with accompanying youth outreach activities. In partnership with the Community Music Center in San Francisco, the project will trace the Spanish, African, Arabic, and indigenous influences on Latin America.

Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support Insights, an exhibition of work by contemporary artists who are blind or visually impaired. Featuring work by approximately 40 artists, the juried exhibition will be installed at the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery in City Hall.

Long Beach Museum of Art Foundation (aka Long Beach Museum of Art)
Long Beach, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support KidsVision, the museum's flagship education program. The program offers free comprehensive arts education programming to all fifth graders in the Long Beach Unified School District.

Los Angeles County Arts Commission (Consortium)
Los Angeles, CA
$46,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Arts for All Artists-in-Residence Program. In partnership with the Los Angeles County Office of Education, the project will assist participating school districts countywide to develop artist residencies in music, dance, and visual arts for students in kindergarten through twelfth grades.

Los Angeles Opera Company (aka LA Opera) (Consortium)
Los Angeles, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Education Pathways, an expansion of the LA Opera's professional development program for teachers. In partnership with Urban Educational Partnership, the program will provide three tiers of workshop opportunities on how to integrate opera into the classroom for classroom teachers in the Los Angeles Unified School District.

Los Angeles Philharmonic Association (Consortium)
Los Angeles, CA
$60,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Elementary School Partners Program. In partnership with the Los Angeles Unified School District, the program includes in-school music residencies and school day concerts for students, and professional development workshops for teachers.

Los Angeles Poverty Department (aka LAPD)
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the creation and premiere of the new work The History of Incarceration. The production will be directed by John Malpede and developed through a community process involving public conversation events and research.

Los Angeles Poverty Department (aka LAPD) (Consortium)
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and production of Let's Go, with accompanying outreach activities. Artistic Director John Malpede and Associate Director Henriette Brouwers will partner with Social Model Recovery Systems, Inc. to lead theater workshops resulting in an ensemble performance piece.

Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center (Consortium)
San Pablo, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Cultures of Mexico Outreach program. In collaboration with Region 1, the Migrant Education Program, this project will use traditional Mexican music and dance to examine cultural identity among Mexican immigrants and Mexican Americans and educate youth and adults about Mexico's cultural contributions to America.

Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center
San Pablo, CA
$56,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Mockingbird Youth Project. Master artists will teach weekly classes and workshops in Mexican traditional instrumental music, singing, and dance to children ages 4 to 18. The project will culminate with performances of Son Jarocho, African-influenced songs from southern Veracruz with syncopated rhythmic patterns.

Lula Washington Contemporary Dance Foundation (aka Lula Washington Dance Theatre)
LOS ANGELES, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the commissioning of a new ballet by choreographer Christopher Huggins. The work will be performed at the company's 30th anniversary concert at the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts in Los Angeles.

Luna Kids Dance
Berkeley, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Dance Learning Institutes. The professional development project will provide teaching artists and classroom teachers with training to work together to create standards-based, individualized dance lessons and units for students.

Marcus A. Foster Educational Institute
Oakland, CA
$16,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Higher Ground. The Prescott Circus Theatre, a youth ensemble project of the Marcus A. Foster Educational Institute, will place professional artists in residence to provide after-school classes for elementary school students in African stilt dancing.

Mills College
Oakland, CA
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the presentation of concerts by the Center for Contemporary Music. Guest composers and performers Jonas Baes, Ann Warde, Nick Didkovsky, Julian Rohrhuber, David Dunn, Cheryl Leonard, Chris Bobrowski, Pauline Oliveros, Jose Manuel Berenguer, and Tad Ermintano will participate in performances of their work.

Museum of Performance & Design
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support Dance Stars of the West, an oral history project for three California dance artists. The artists are Jocelyn Vollmar (ballet), Naesio Paredes (Spanish dance), and Evelyn Cisneros (ballet).

Museum of Photographic Arts (aka MoPA)
San Diego, CA
$100,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts Touring
To support the touring exhibition Expanding the Family of Man: Masters of "Sixties" Photography, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition expands on American photographer Edward Steichen's groundbreaking 1955 show of works by photographers from around the world that examined commonalities in the lives of people from different countries and cultures.

Musical Theatre West
Long Beach, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the School Assemblies component of the Youth Cultural Enrichment Program. The program will provide year-round musical theater exposure and enrichment projects for children and youth.

National Alliance of Media Arts Centers, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$85,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support services to the nonprofit media arts field. The National Alliance of Media Arts Centers includes among its more than 350 members media arts and technology centers, university-based programs, exhibitors, distributors, artist cooperatives, film archives, and community-access television stations.

National Alliance of Media Arts Centers, Inc. (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$75,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the CommonWealth - 2009 Conference of the National Alliance of Media Arts Centers. In collaboration with the Center for Independent Documentary, the National Alliance of Media Art Centers and five other Massachusetts media arts organizations will plan and host the biannual event.

National Association of Latino Independent Producers, Inc. (Consortium)
Santa Monica, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support a series of regional conferences. In collaboration with Doc Arts (aka the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival), the National Association of Latino Independent Producers will offer Doing Your Doc: Diverse Visions, Regional Voices in four American cities.

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

Network of Ensemble Theaters
Los Angeles, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the National Summit of Ensemble Theaters: Performance, Process, Provocation. The project will be designed to lead and organize the ensemble field, build momentum for the ensemble movement, and celebrate ensemble work.

New Century Chamber Orchestra
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a chamber orchestra tour in Colorado, Wyoming, and California. Repertoire will span the early 20th century to the present, including a new work by an emerging composer.

NewTown Pasadena Foundation
Altadena, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Convergences, a series of multidisciplinary arts events. The project will meld media arts with workcreated by local artists in disciplines such as music and sonic art, spoken word, dance, performance art, and visual arts.

Ninth Street Media Consortium, Inc. (aka Ninth Street Independent Film Center)
San Francisco, CA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support a programmatic collaboration at the Ninth Street Independent Film Center. The center is a consortium of seven media arts organizations, all housed in one building.

Old Globe Theatre (aka The Old Globe)
San Diego, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Student Access to the Arts program. The program will provide underserved middle and high school students from San Diego County the opportunity to experience live theater.

Other Minds
San Francisco, CA
$35,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Chamber Music
To support Henry Cowell: The Whole World of Music. Chamber music concerts of Cowell's compositions will be performed in Tateuchi Hall at the Finn Center in Mountain View, California. Ancillary activities will include the production and broadcast of feature-length radio programs on the composer, lectures, and an exhibtion of Cowell's manuscripts and publications.

Otis Art Institute (aka Otis College of Art and Design)
Los Angeles, CA
$67,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the O TEAM program. The tuition-free, after-school and summer program will provide opportunities for underserved youth to study multiple media and provide professional development for media arts teachers from the Los Angeles Unified School District.

Overtone Industries
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support a production of Songs & Dances of Imaginary Lands, a site-specific musical play. The project will result from the collaboration of more than 50 artists led by Artistic Director O-Lan Jones.

Palo Alto Art Center Foundation
Palo Alto, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Cultural Kaleidoscope. Local professional artists teach classes for grades one through five in poetry, ceramics, fiber arts, sculpture, printmaking, and mural painting.

PEN Center USA West (aka PEN USA)
Los Angeles, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support Freedom to Write, a series of programs reaching writers in underserved communities. The project includes PEN in the Classroom, which provides creative writing residencies for at-risk youth; Emerging Voices, a fellowship program for aspiring writers; and Writers' Toolbox, a series of discussions about the craft and business of writing.

Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County (aka Music Center)
Los Angeles, CA
$80,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Culver City Arts Integration Partnership. The program features a professional development institute for Culver City Unified School District educators, including third- and fourth-grade teachers, principals, and district leaders, as well as school residencies in dance, led by Madeleine Dahm, and theater, led by Peter Kors.

PhotoAlliance
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the Photography Lecture Series. The program enables established and emerging photographers to engage the public.

Playwrights Project
San Diego, CA
$23,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Write On! Underserved middle and high school students will work with teaching artists in their classrooms to create original plays - a means also to improve students' reading skills and vocabulary.

Public Corporation for the Arts of the City of Long Beach (aka Arts Council for Long Beach)
Long Beach, CA
$45,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Eye on Design, a neighborhood public art education program of the Arts Council for Long Beach. Third-grade students will attend field trips to historic houses and view public art in the neighborhood; learn about public art, architecture, and design; and design their own public artworks and build maquettes.

Public Design Studio (aka Public Architecture) (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$28,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support The 1% Design Ambassadors program. In partnership with the Taproot Foundation, Public Architecture will create a network of ambassadors trained to promote the power of architecture and to encourage firms to provide pro bono design services to nonprofit organizations.

Regents of the University of California at Los Angeles (on behalf of UCLA Live) (Consortium)
Los Angeles, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the presentation of the Maly Drama Theatre's Uncle Vanya. UCLA Live will partner with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to bring the company from St. Petersburg, Russia, to both universities for performances and educational programs.

Regents of the University of California at Santa Barbara (on behalf of Arts & Lectures)
Santa Barbara, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Viva el Arte de Santa Barbara! a project focusing on Mexican arts and artists presented by Arts & Lectures. Activities will include artist residencies and free performances for low-income communities and schools.

Regents of the University of California at Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the restaging and presentation of the seminal modern dance work Speeds, choreographed by Jennifer Muller in 1974. The work will be staged on the University of California Santa Barbara Dance Company and will be performed locally as well as on tour regionally, nationally, and internationally.

Renaissance Arts Academy
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Conservatory. The program will support after-school and summer string ensembles, choirs, and dance classes for middle school students taught by professional performing artists.

Rhapsody In Taps, Inc.
Long Beach, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of Buckets and Frogs (working title) by choreographer Linda Sohl-Ellison and composer/percussionist Monti Ellison. The project will also involve refining the Tribute to Foster Johnson project, which is a tribute to the late Los Angeles tap master.

River of Words
Berkeley, CA
$24,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support teacher training workshops in poetry composition and visual arts. Using a specially designed curriculum, teachers will learn to teach students the crafts of poetry and visual arts based on their observations of the natural environment.

Rova:Arts
San Francisco, CA
$8,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Cleaning the Mirror, a documentary film focused on John Coltrane's 1965 work Ascension, which has been re-envisioned as Electric Ascension by the Rova Saxophone Quartet. The film will be distributed via the Internet, public television broadcasts, and public screenings.

Ryman-Carroll Foundation (aka Ryman Arts)
Los Angeles, CA
$67,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Ryman Arts Program, pre-professional studio art classes for high school students. Students from Southern California high schools will receive free college-level studio art classes that focus on the fundamental skills of drawing and painting.

Sacramento Master Singers
Sacramento, CA
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the preservation of American jazz choral works. The project will result in a compact disc recording of NEA Jazz Master Dave Brubeck's Earth Is Our Mother and Duke Ellington's Sacred Concerts.

Sacramento Philharmonic Orchestra Association, Inc.
Sacramento, CA
$17,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Building Bridges Project--Sharing Music, an educational outreach program. The series of concerts, master classes, and lectures will feature American premieres of works influenced by Israeli, Persian, and Egyptian cultures as a means to engage the area's diverse Arab-Muslim and Jewish populations.

San Diego Opera Association (Consortium)
San Diego, CA
$47,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Words & Music Program. In partnership with the San Diego Unified School District, the company will provide an in-school opera residency in which students will learn to compose an original opera.

San Diego Symphony Orchestra Association
San Diego, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support education programs for young audiences. The orchestra will present concerts and expand its programming to include Family Festivals, Kinder Koncerts, and Young People's Concerts.

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

San Francisco Art Institute
San Francisco, CA
$68,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the  City Studio Programs. Students, ages 13 to 19, will receive free arts instruction on-campus at the San Francisco Art Institute and at various locations in three Bay Area counties.

San Francisco Arts Commission (on behalf of WritersCorp)
San Francisco, CA
$60,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the WritersCorp program. Professional artists will teach creative writing classes targeted toward at-risk youth in underserved public schools. Student work will be published in the WritersCorp annual anthology and its chapbooks.

San Francisco Chanticleer, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a national concert tour and residency program. Activities will include choral coaching, youth choral festivals, and advanced choral training for adult singers.

San Francisco Contemporary Music Players
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Chamber Music
To support concerts of chamber music by American composers of diverse origins. The ensemble will perform contemporary music written by John Harbison, Hans Thomalla, Tan Dun, and Brian Ferneyhough at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and related educational events at the School of the Arts in San Francisco.

San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$9,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Chamber Music Day, a free chamber music festival. In partnership with the San Francisco Community Music Center, chamber ensembles from the San Francisco Bay Area will perform all day long at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and the adjacent Yerba Buena Gardens.

San Francisco Girls Chorus, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$42,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Music Education and Outreach Program. The project will provide year-round instruction in choral singing and opportunities for concert performance touring.

San Francisco State University
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the continued cataloguing and digitizing of audiotapes from the Poetry Center's American Poetry Archives. The center will record, catalogue, and make available parts of the 56 most significant audiotapes in its archive dating from 1954 to 1974.

San Francisco Symphony
San Francisco, CA
$125,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support a public television series featuring Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony. Keeping Score is designed to help a national audience appreciate the relevance of classical music in contemporary life.

San Francisco Symphony
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support production and post-production costs for a radio series featuring Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony. The programs will be associated with the television series Keeping Score.

San Francisco Symphony (on behalf of San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra)
San Francisco, CA
$44,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Artist Development Program of the San Francisco Youth Symphony. Designed to complement the youth orchestra's core program of weekly rehearsals and concert performances, the program will provide students with coaching, mentorship, and specialized training in chamber music, instrument care, and auditioning techniques.

San Jose Children's Musical Theater (aka Children's Musical Theater San Jose)
San Jose, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support a production of the musical The Who's Tommy. Artistic Director Kevin Hauge will direct the contemporary work featuring music and lyrics by Peter Townshend, book by Des McAnuff and Townshend, and additional music by John Entwhistle and Keith Moon.

Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, Inc.
Santa Barbara, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the Giant Sequoia redwood tree-ring installation, exhibition, and related educational activities. Fire destroyed the original redwood tree-ring round.

Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Inc.
Santa Barbara, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support Forum Lounge. A year-long performance art series, Forum Lounge will present artists in the gallery and at specific sites around Santa Barbara.

Santa Cecilia Opera and Orchestra Association
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Discovering Music, an educational outreach program in underserved communities of Los Angeles. The project, led by Artistic Director Sonia Marie De Leon, will provide orchestral performances and education programs in venues ranging from elementary schools to community centers.

Santa Monica Symphony Association
Pasadena, CA
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the SMSO Community Music Project. Plans include ethnically diverse programming for symphonic concerts, a concert for students featuring young artists, community and school chamber concerts, and an Adopt-a-School program.

Shakespeare Festival/LA, Inc. (aka SF/LA)
Los Angeles, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of Romeo and Juliet. The production will be offered free-of-charge on the plaza of Our Lady of the Angels Cathedral in downtown Los Angeles.

Small Press Distribution, Inc. (Consortium)
Berkeley, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the expanded distribution of independently published books to booksellers and librarians. In partnership with the American Booksellers Association, Small Press Distribution will extend its reach by attendance at book festivals and tradeshows in targeted regions, and through mailings to independent booksellers nationwide.

Squaw Valley Community of Writers (aka Squaw Valley Screenwriters)
Nevada City, CA
$7,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the Screenwriting Program. The workshop focuses on the essence of storytelling and teaches participants how to show rather than tell their stories.

Teatro Vision
San Jose, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the production of Ghosts of the River, a bilingual work that explores U.S.-Mexican border immigration issues using shadow puppetry, epic and mythic writing, visual art, and norteño music, a mix of Mexican son and German and Czech rhythms.. The production will feature outreach activities, including panel discussions, public forums, and artist demonstrations.

Theatre Bay Area
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Theatre Bay Area Online Information Portal to serve as a central entertainment Web site for the theater-going public. The new site will provide news, ticketing information, performance schedules, and audio/video content for the wealth of theater offerings available in the area.

Venice Arts In Neighborhoods
Venice, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the expansion of the Art Mentoring Program, which provides free, technologically intensive arts learning in photography, film, and digital arts  to low-income youth, ages 6 to 18.

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

We Tell Stories
Los Angeles, CA
$21,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Open Court Intensive, a theater and literacy residency program. Program components include professional storytelling performances, planning sessions for teachers and teaching artists, workshops for students, professional development for teachers and staff, and culminating student performances.

Western Jazz Presenters Network, Inc.
La Jolla, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a touring project featuring vocalist and bassist Esperanza Spalding and her quartet. In addition to the concert performances, there will be educational outreach activities and a week-long artist residency.

World Arts West
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the educational program People Like Me. Designed for kindergarten through sixth-grade students, the performances will be presented at California theaters in a one-hour session featuring traditional world dance and music genres in an interactive theatrical format.

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (aka YBCA) (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the African Consortium. In partnership with Mapp International Productions in New York City, the international exchange initiative is designed to create a new level of artistic collaboration between artists and arts organizations and develop cultural dialogue between the United States and African countries through activities such as panels, seminars, workshops, performances, residencies, interview, and a Web site.

Youth in Arts
San Rafael, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Arts Unite Us: Youth in Arts Presents. The program comprises four components: performances by artists with disabilities, pre-performance workshops for teachers; ASL interpretations for all presentations; and a holiday sing-along concert for students and their families.

Youth Radio
Oakland, CA
$60,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Arts and Culture Initiative. Students will learn from professional radio journalists to plan, research, create, and produce  music journalism, commentaries, and interviews for on-air and online distribution.

Youth Speaks, Inc. (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the 12th annual Brave New Voices International Poetry Festival in Chicago. In partnership with Young Chicago Authors,  festival programming will include performances, workshops, training for artists and educators, and community programs.


Number of Grants: 151          Total Amount: $5,586,800

 
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