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.

NEW YORK

52nd Street Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$68,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Playmaking, a playwriting and dramatic performance program. Students living in the Clinton (Hell's Kitchen) neighborhood of New York City will develop new plays in collaboration with professional theater artists and directors.

Academy of American Poets, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$55,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support National Poetry Month in 2010. In partnership with the National Council of Teachers of English, the Academy will sponsor outreach programs designed to encourage Americans to make poetry a larger part of their lives.

Alliance for Inclusion in the Arts
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Inclusion Project. The project aims to ensure full inclusion of people of color and those with disabilities in all areas of nonprofit theater through education, promotion, and facilitation.

Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York, Inc. (aka A.R.T./New York)
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the William Randolph Hearst Theatrical Arts Education Program and the Harold and Mimi Steinberg Theatre Leadership Institute. Both programs will provide administrative and managerial training to assist theaters as they work to achieve their artistic missions and serve their audiences.

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

Amas Musical Theatre, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the production of Signs of Life: A Tale of Terezin, an exploration of the Jewish artists' ghetto created by the Nazis in Czechoslavakia during World War II, with music by Joel Derfner, lyrics by Len Schiff, and book by Peter Ullian.

American Brass Chamber Music Association, Inc. (aka American Brass Quintet)
New York, NY
$17,500
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Chamber Music
To support a multi-state performance tour by the American Brass Quintet and related residency activities. Each two- to three-day residency will include as many as seven performance and/or educational events, based on the repertoire of American composers such as Stephen Foster, Trevor Gureckis, Shafer Mahoney, David Sampson, and Joan Tower.

American Composers Orchestra, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Orchestra Underground Concerts, New Music Readings, and educational outreach activities, including master classes, instrumental workshops, and composer discussions. In collaboration with the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Pennsylvania, the orchestra will perform in concert and present orchestral reading sessions for emerging composers in the area.

American Craft Council
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support Building Craft's Future. Designed to serve emerging craft artists, the project will provide professional development programming through exhibition opportunities and symposia.

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

American Museum of the Moving Image (aka Museum of the Moving Image)
Astoria, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the Moving Image Source. The Web site is a resource for students, curators, scholars, filmmakers, and others interested in the moving image.

American Symphony Orchestra, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$48,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Music Notes/Project CORE program. In partnership with Verona Public Schools, American Symphony Orchestra will provide music instruction in New York and New Jersey schools, integrating orchestral music into the humanities curriculum.

American Tap Dance Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the reconstruction of two dance masterworks by choreographer Brenda Bufalino. The works include Buff Loves Basie Blues (1991) and Haitian Fight Song (1988).

Apex Art Curatorial Program, Inc. (aka apexart)
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the Resident Lecture Series. The series will present the work and views of participants in apexart's international residency program, a month-long opportunity for artists and curators from around the world.

Art 21, Inc.
New York, NY
$100,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support development of educational activities and online resources for Art:21 Art in the Twenty-First Century. The public television series about contemporary visual art creates intimate profiles of America's diverse artists and the contexts in which they work.

Art 21, Inc.
New York, NY
$120,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the fifth season of Art: 21- Art in the Twenty-First Century. A public television series about contemporary visual art and artists in the United States, the project will yield four one-hour programs as well as ancillary outreach activities.

Art Council, Inc. (aka Artadia: The Fund for Art and Dialogue) (Consortium)
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support residencies for visual artists by Artadia. Participating artists will be provided with studio space, a monthly housing stipend, a monthly subsistence stipend, and a materials budget for a three-month residency in partnership with the International Studio and Curatorial Program in New York City.

Art Resources Transfer, Inc. (aka A.R.T. Press)
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the Distribution to Underserved Communities Program. A.R.T. Press will offer books, museum catalogues, videos, and other material about contemporary art free-of-charge to libraries across the nation, with a special emphasis on rural and inner cities.

Arts & Business Council, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support professional development services for arts and cultural organizations in New York City and throughout the state. Services will include workshops in arts marketing and management, cultural tourism, and business volunteer matching services as well as board recruitment, training, and placement programs.

Arts Engine, Inc. (aka Media That Matters Film Festival) (Consortium)
New York, NY
$60,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support post-production costs for a documentary film by Elizabeth Mandel, Beth Davenport, and Katy Chevigny. A collaboration with Mapendo International, Rose and Nangabire (working title) will tell the story of a mother and daughter separated because of the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo and their recent reunion.

Arts Resources in Collaboration, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the digitization of Eye on Dance, an educational series of videotaped interviews with dancers and choreographers. The digitized sessions will be deposited in the New York Public Library Dance Research Collection.

ASCAP Foundation
New York, NY
$36,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Summer Music Camp. Public school students living in New York City's five boroughs will receive free classical music training with an emphasis on increased performance skills.

Asian American Arts Alliance, Inc. (aka A4)
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support A4's Professional Development Series. Artists and arts groups will participate in panel discussions, technical assistance sessions, and seminars with potential funders.

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

Ballet Theatre Foundation, Inc. (aka American Ballet Theatre)
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of choreographer Jerome Robbins' work Interplay by American Ballet Theatre II (ABT II), the junior company of American Ballet Theatre. The work will be performed across the United States, with accompanying educational and outreach activities.

Bang on a Can, Inc. (Consortium)
Brooklyn, NY
$22,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Summer Institute of Music, an experimental music residency for composers and performers. In partnership with the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, the program will include free concerts and outreach activities in low-income communities and at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams.

Bard College (on behalf of Words Without Borders) (Consortium)
Annandale-Hudson, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support Words Without Borders' Walks Around the World: International Nature Writing Project, a reading/discussion tour of international writers whose work focuses on the natural world. In partnership with the Orion Society, the work of the participating writers will also be published online and in Orion magazine.

Bard College
Annandale-Hudson, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the Art Space Archives Project. Led by a steering committee of professionals in the field, the initiative will provide an assessment of collections and archival needs of organizations in the alternative arts movement.

Bard College
Annandale-Hudson, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Chamber Music
To support American Masterpieces on the Road. Chamber music by American composers will be performed by ensembles comprising students and faculty along with related residency activities at Bard College Conservatory of Music and in venues around the country.

Big Apple Circus, Ltd.
New York, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the creation and tour of the 32nd annual Big Apple Circus, with accompanying outreach activities. Founder and Artistic Director Paul Binder and Co-Founder Michael Christensen will lead the creative team in a performance featuring horses, acrobats, jugglers, and clowns in one ring.

Bowery Arts and Science, Ltd. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support a series of community screenings of DeAf Jam, a documentary about deaf teenage poets who express themselves using American Sign Language. In collaboration with Living Archives, the project will develop a DVD, curriculum guide for educators, and Web site.

Bowery Arts and Science, Ltd.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support The World of Poetry, a monthly bilingual poetry reading series. The series features poetry read in its original language, and has previously featured poems in languages such as Hatian Creole, Russian, French, Chinese, Farsi, and Spanish, as well as American Sign Language.

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

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

Bronx Museum of the Arts (aka Bronx Museum)
Bronx, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support school and community programs for Bronx youth. Students participating in the student docent program and the teen council program will work in a museum setting, interact with artists, and produce a series of visual works, podcasts, and DVDs.

Brooklyn Arts Council, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support Black Brooklyn's Renaissance: Black Culture/Black Performance 1960-2010. The project will include performances, workshops, and demonstrations.

Brooklyn Information & Culture, Inc. (on behalf of Celebrate Brooklyn Performing Arts Festival)
Brooklyn, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Celebrate Brooklyn's presentation of Fred Niblo's 1925 silent film Ben Hur: Tale of the Christ, with a live performance of Carl Davis's musical score. The free event will be part of 32nd annual festival at the Prospect Park Bandshell.

Brooklyn Information & Culture, Inc. (aka BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn) (on behalf of BRIC Rotunda Gallery)
Brooklyn, NY
$54,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the visual arts residency and teacher training program of the BRIC Rotunda Gallery. The program will combine visits to contemporary art galleries with in-school classroom workshops for underserved youth in Brooklyn.

Brooklyn Institute of Arts & Sciences (aka Brooklyn Museum)
Brooklyn, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a touring exhibition of watercolor paintings by James Tissot (French, 1836-1902) with accompanying catalogue and education program. The works, from the collection of the Brooklyn Museum, depict scenes from the New Testament Gospels.

Brooklyn Public Library (Consortium)
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the Brooklyn Independents literary series, presenting both emerging and established authors. In partnership with BOMB magazine, the library will promote and present free monthly events in the Dweck Center for Contemporary Culture, including readings, interviews, and discussions featuring authors from independent literary organizations.

Brooklyn Youth Chorus Academy, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$60,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Concert Chorus Training and Performance Program. Students will participate in rigorous weekly vocal music training, gaining skills in musicianship, music theory, sight singing, and ear training.

Buffalo Fine Arts Academy (on behalf of Albright-Knox Art Gallery)
Buffalo, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the Collections Care, Storage, and Access Project. The project will upgrade the collections management of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery's Frederick P. Norton Family Prints and Drawings Study Center.

Buffalo Media Resources, Inc. (aka Squeaky Wheel)
Buffalo, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support SWAP: Squeaky Wheel Access Program. The 23-year-old program provides media equipment access, low-cost workshops, artist residencies, and resource services to film and video artists locally and nationally.

Byrd Hoffman Watermill Foundation (aka The Watermill Center)
Brooklyn, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support artist residencies and community programs. Emerging artists and performing groups from a range of backgrounds will be provided with opportunities to develop new work in residency at the Watermill Center.

Camera News, Inc. (aka Third World Newsreel)
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support a digital media literacy and production education program. Components of the Third World Newsreel program will be the Advanced Film and Video Production Workshop, Wednesday Night Media Workshops, and Introduction to Final Cut Pro/Media Literacy Workshop Series.

Carnegie Hall Society, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$45,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support The Academy. In partnership with the Juilliard School, 34 young professional music fellows will conduct intensive in-school residencies for 24 weeks in New York City public schools.

Cave Canem Foundation, Inc. (aka Cave Canem)
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the annual week-long writing retreat. The writing residency will serve emerging African American poets, allowing them to create, refine, and perform their work.

CAVE Organization, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support CAVE's fourth biennial New York Butoh Festival. The festival will celebrate the origins and international evolution of Butoh, a contemporary dance form that emerged in Japan and is now practiced worldwide.

Center for Book Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the second phase of the Collections Initiative, an archival effort to document the organization's programming in the book arts. The project involves the development of an online archive of 190 exhibitions and cataloging an art collection of more than 1,000 objects for on-site and online access.

Center for Traditional Music and Dance, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Community Cultural Initiatives. The program will identify, document, and present traditional artists from immigrant and ethnic neighborhoods throughout the New York City metropolitan area.

Center for Traditional Music and Dance, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support a project that will document and present Yiddish performing traditions found in New York City. In collaboration with the Center for Jewish History, the project will promote the vitality and continuity of these forms through concerts, lectures, and participatory workshops.

Center for Urban Pedagogy, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the creation of the Envisioning Development Toolkit. Targeted to New York City residents, the interactive toolkit will educate users about planning and development concepts, policy, and technology.

Center for Urban Pedagogy, Inc. (Consortium)
Brooklyn, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support Back to the River: Newark's Waterfront. In partnership with the City of Newark Division of Planning and Community Development, project activities will include the creation of a brochure featuring a neighborhood map and calendar of events; a series of themed riverfront tours focusing on stewardship activities, and a design competition to create an image representative of the area's future.

Chashama, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Residency Program, which provides free facility space and stipends for theater groups and visual artists. Venues will include a black-box theater, galleries, and window stages.

Children's Media Project
Poughkeepsie, NY
$24,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support DROP TV, a youth-produced television show. Working with professional media artists, high school students will study all aspects of media arts and create programs for broadcast.

City Lore, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support a virtual mapping project to create online tours of culturally significant sites in several of New York City's ethnic and new immigrant communities. Workshops will help participants to identify sites and develop content for a series of online tours to be led by a community spokesperson.

City Lore, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support River of Rhyme: Poetry Duels in the Americas. In collaboration with Rattapallax, the project will present a series of improvised poetry dueling traditions: the Arabic zajal, the Trinidadian extempo, and the Brazilian desafio.

City Parks Foundation
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Revolution, a series of performances featuring the work of  influential New York City artists. During the 25th anniversary of Central Park SummerStage, free performances will take place in Central Park and three New York City communities.

College Art Association of America, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support ARTspace, a programming component during the annual conference of the College Art Association. Designed to engage the artist members, ARTspace sessions are offered free-of-charge and include activities such as live interviews with prominent artists; film, video, and multimedia screenings; performances; and presentations.

Coming Together Festival of Dance & Music, Inc. (aka The Vanaver Caravan)
New Paltz, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support The Vanaver Caravan's Around the Word Kinections, a dance residency program for third-grade students. Professional dancers will conduct in-school dance and world studies residencies, teaching cultural dances while exploring themes of global citizenship and diversity.

Community-Word Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$52,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support artist residencies in creative writing. Teams of teaching artists, in collaboration with classroom teachers, will work with students, ages 7 to 17, in eight underserved schools to develop creative writing skills.

Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support Free as Air and Water. The series of symposia, commemorating the 150th anniversary of Cooper Union's commitment to tuition-free education, will focus on themes related to the broad question, "What is free?"

Cornell University (on behalf of Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art)
Ithaca, NY
$60,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the reinstallation and interpretation of the Johnson Museum of Art's Asian art collection. Included will be the installation and labeling of approximately 300 works of art in newly renovated and expanded galleries.

Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (aka CLMP)
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support technical assistance and capacity-building programs for large, mid-size, and small independent magazines and presses. Services and resources will include an interactive Web site offering access to media databases and virtual roundtable discussions, as well as workshops, one-on-one mentoring, and networking opportunities.

Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (aka CLMP) (Consortium)
New York, NY
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support efforts to integrate the use of literary magazines into the MFA curriculum. In partnership with the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP), the Council will offer students half-price subscriptions to a selection of literary magazines and facilitate one-on-one online discussions between participating classes and magazine editors/publishers.

Cunningham Dance Foundation, Inc. (aka Merce Cunningham Dance Company) (Consortium)
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the development and expansion of Mondays with Merce. In partnership with New York University, the Merce Cunningham Dance Company will provide public access to Merce Cunningham's creative process through Internet broadcasts, DVD distribution, and live-streamed footage of material from the Merce Cunningham Studio.

Cunningham Dance Foundation, Inc. (aka Merce Cunningham Dance Company)
New York, NY
$60,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the reconstruction of Squaregame, choreographed by Merce Cunningham in 1976. Squaregame features music by Takehisa Kosugi and decor by Mark Lancaster.

Da Capo Chamber Players, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a chamber ensemble performance tour and residency activities. The three-state tour will involve concerts, public school performances, open rehearsals, and programs for retirement communities.

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

Dance Theatre Etcetera, Inc. (Consortium)
Brooklyn, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Scene to Screen. Teaching artists will lead after-school, weekend, and day-long film-making and theater workshops and arts retreats at schools.

Dance Theatre of Harlem, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support educational and community outreach initiatives that expose children and adults to dance. Dancing Through Barriers will include lecture-demonstrations, special interactive performances, master classes, dress rehearsals, and various workshops conducted in New York City and around the country.

Dance Theatre Workshop, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a media and dance research residency for dance artists. In partnership with the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography at Florida State University in Tallahassee, two artists will be in residence for one to two weeks, followed by a one week premiere of their work at Dance Theater Workshop in New York City.

Dance Theatre Workshop, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of Season of Returns, a project highlighting works by choreographers Anna Halprin, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, and Donna Uchizono. Each presentation will include pre- and post-performance discussions and lobby talks, which are in-depth discourse on contemporary issues in dance and performance organized around specific themes.

Dancing Crane, Inc. (aka Dancing Crane Georgian Dance Theater)
WARWICK, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Children's Georgian Dance Class and Performance Ensemble. Master artists who were trained in the nation of Georgia and now live in the United States will teach traditional Georgian dance to students ages 5 to 16.

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

Das Puppenspiel Puppet Theater, Inc.
Westfield, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a local, regional, and national tour of repertory puppet productions. The tour will introduce audiences to A Worldwind of Puppets, a new production that will use vignettes to explore and present the diversity of puppetry and puppet types found in different cultures.

Diversity of Dance, Inc. (aka Earl Mosley's Institute of the Arts)
Brooklyn, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Earl Mosley's Institute of the Arts, a series of school-year residencies and a residential summer dance institute. Students will receive rigorous dance training from professional dance educators through classes in technique (ballet, modern, jazz, hip-hop, African dance, and tap), composition, and repertory, as well as participate in master classes with guest artists.

Downtown Community Television Center, Inc. (aka DCTV)
New York, NY
$75,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support workshops, facilities access, and related activities. Downtown Community Television is devoted to making technologically sophisticated media available to underserved communities by providing a range of courses and services.

DreamYard Drama Project, Inc.
Bronx, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support DreamYard Media Studies. Professional artists experienced in teaching will lead workshops and classes in theater, visual arts, poetry, and video for teenagers in the Bronx, culminating in student productions.

Early Music Foundation, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the educational series, What is Early Music? In partnership with Music Before 1800, noted scholars and performing specialists will lead lecture-demonstrations in music of the medieval, Renaissance, baroque, and classical eras.

Early Stages Program, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Storytelling Program, a theatrical artist residency program. Using folktales, fairytales, and other children's literature, teaching artists will help students enhance their proficiency in theater and language arts.

Education Through Music, Inc. (aka ETM)
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support music programs in inner-city elementary schools. Activities will include weekly classes, performance opportunities, and professional development for teachers and teaching artists.

Educational Alliance, Inc. (aka The Alliance)
New York, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Young Artists Program. The after-school and summer visual arts program will provide free or low-cost visual arts instruction to underserved youth (ages 10 to 19).

Educational Broadcasting Corporation (aka Thirteen/WNET New York)
New York, NY
$565,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the development and production by Thirteen/WNET New York of the television series American Masters for PBS broadcast. Definitive documentary profiles of major cultural figures will be made available in 2009-2010 to millions of viewers in all 50 states on more than 345 public television stations.

Educational Broadcasting Corporation (aka Thirteen/WNET New York)
New York, NY
$565,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the development and production by Thirteen/WNET New York of performing arts specials for the television series Great Performances and Dance in America for broadcast on PBS. Regardless of geographic or economic limitations, American television audiences in all 50 states will be provided free access to a diverse range of cultural programming in 2010.

Educational Theater of New York, Inc. (aka ETNY)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the presentation of a play for English-language learners. The production will be performed in short segments, and scenes will be repeated at the request of the audience to enhance the potential for language learning.

El Puente de Williamsburg, Inc. (aka El Puente)
BROOKLYN, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Educational Opportunity in the Arts project. A collaborative project design team of artists, arts and classroom teachers, and administrators will develop and implement a drama, dance, script writing, and visual arts program on the topic "Coming of Age" that is integrated across school curriculum.

Elaine Kaufman Cultural Center/Lucy Moses School for Music and Dance (Consortium)
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support chamber music performances and residency activities. The new music ensemble Alarm Will Sound will present a week-long residency for middle and high school students from the Special Music School, a public school for musically gifted students.

Elaine Kaufman Cultural Center/Lucy Moses School for Music and Dance
New York, NY
$60,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Kaufman Center's Music Program at the Special Music School. The program includes free private instrumental lessons, performance opportunities, and classes in theory, music history, and chorus for students in a school for musically gifted children in New York City.

En Foco, Inc.
Bronx, NY
$60,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts Touring
To support the touring exhibition En Foco/In Focus: Selected Works from the Permanent Collection, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. This will be the first time the public will have access to En Foco's collection of more than 600 photographs.

Epic Theatre Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Journeys Series program. Artist residencies will take place in New York public high schools, with teaching artists leading students in the study of classical and modern plays.

Esopus Foundation, Ltd.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the production and distribution of Esopus magazine. The publication will feature the work of contemporary visual artists; critical writing, fiction, poetry, and visual essays by emerging authors; interviews and archival material; and a themed compact disc of commissioned music from both established and emerging artists.

Ethel's Foundation for the Arts (aka ETHEL)
New York, NY
$17,500
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Chamber Music
To support residency activities by the string quartet Ethel. As quartet-in-residence at the Grand Canyon Music Festival, the musicians will perform concerts and engage in educational and outreach activities on Navajo and Hopi Reservations and at other venues in the Southwest.

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

Flushing Council on Culture and the Arts, Inc. (aka Flushing Town Hall)
Flushing, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support Cultural Crossroads, a world music and jazz concert series with associated community outreach programs that will be presented in celebration of Flushing Town Hall's 30th anniversary as a multidisciplinary presenter.

Foundation for Dance Promotion, Inc. (aka Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company)
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a series of events commemorating the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company's 25th anniversary, and the bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth. The celebration will include the touring of several new dance works by choreographer Bill T. Jones, as well as series of workshops and collaborative performance opportunities.

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

French Studio of Performing Arts (aka Solo Foundation)
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support production and expanded distribution of the Solo Foundation's Daylight magazine. The magazine is a forum for documentary photojournalism; its issues of Daylight highlight specific themes.

Friends of the Arts, Inc.
Locust Valley, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Jazz Sampler Project. Artists and school staff will develop and implement an arts-integrated curriculum on the history and elements of jazz.

Glens Falls Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Glens Falls, NY
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support educational outreach activities. Year-long performance and educational activities will take place in rural communities including Hudson Falls and Amsterdam, New York.

Global Action Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$56,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Urban Voices Media Arts Program. Professional media artists will work with underserved youth in digital media production to create group and individual media arts projects.

Gotham Arts Exchange, Inc. (aka Zia Artists)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation by Zia Artists of emerging choreographers as part of SummerDANZ, a two-week dance festival. The project will include an extensive mentoring component in which artists work with arts professionals to gain skills in general administration, development, marketing, touring, and production.

Great Small Works, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the tour of Toy Theater performances and workshops, with accompanying outreach activities. The artistic collective of John Bell, Trudi Cohen, Stephen Kaplin, Jenny Romaine, and Mark Sussman will function as co-artistic directors to perform and tour works.

Gregg Smith Singers, Inc.
Yonkers, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support an online comprehensive musical chronology tracing the history of the Gregg Smith Singers' musical activities since 1955. The project is part of the ensemble's goal to share the history and breadth of this musical genre with choral conductors, singers, and the public.

Groundswell Community Mural Project, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Summer Leadership Institute. Teenage girls and boys from underserved areas of Brooklyn will work under the tutelage of professional artists to study the history, design, and methodology of mural painting.

Haleakala, Inc. (aka The Kitchen) (Consortium)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a series of literary events showcasing small, alternative literary publications and the writers they publish. The Kitchen will continue its long-standing partnership with the journal Open City to promote and present the monthly series.

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

Harvestworks, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support The Artists' Practical Guide to Useful Technology. In collaboration with the UB Art Gallery of Buffalo, the project will provide artists in the tri-state area (Connecticut, New Jersey, and New York), Pennsylvania, and Ohio with access to information on new technologies for the creation, performance, and distribution of work.

Henry Street Settlement
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support NIKOLAIS: A Centennial Celebration, honoring the centennial of modern dance pioneer Alwin Nikolais (1910-93). The project will include restagings of Nikolais's works, all of which were created and originally mounted on Henry Street's stage.

Henry Street Settlement
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Abrons Arts Center Dance Ensemble and the Abrons Arts Center Junior Dance Ensemble. Students will study ballet, jazz, hip-hop, tap, salsa, and flamenco, and participate in choreography workshops.

Hip Hop Theater Festival
Brooklyn, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support hip-hop dance festivals in New York City and Washington, DC. The festivals will feature works based in dance, musical theater, theater, and staged readings of works-in-progress.

Hospital Audiences, Inc. (aka HAI)
New York, NY
$16,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the HAI Art Studio and Gallery. Classes in visual arts, digital photography, and videography as well as exhibition opportunities will be offered to individuals with mental illnesses.

House Foundation for the Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a compact disc recording of Meredith Monk's Songs of Ascension. The new, full-length audio work will be recorded live, published, and distributed online.

House Foundation for the Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$80,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the completion and digitization of the unfinished documentary Education of the Girlchild, by choreographer, singer, composer, and filmmaker Meredith Monk. The solo in part two of the work will be performed on a national and international tour.

Hudson Review, Inc. (aka The Hudson Review) (Consortium)
New York, NY
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support College Now, a free summer program for New York and New Jersey high school students. In partnership with the City University of New York, the journal will distribute the anthology, Writes of Passage: Coming-of-Age Stories and Memoirs from The Hudson Review to participating students for use in the classroom.

Hudson Valley Writers' Center, Inc.
Sleepy Hollow, NY
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the Literary Reading Series, featuring emerging and established writers of poetry and prose. The goals of the project are to develop new audiences, inspire writers and readers of all levels, and encourage the work of independent literary journals and presses.

Ifetayo Cultural Arts Facility, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$56,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support a dance education program for students in schools in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn. The project includes curriculum-integrated instruction in African and Afro-Brazilian Dance to students in pre-K through third grade.

Independent Feature Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$75,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support Independent Film Week. The event provides independent filmmakers from across the country the opportunity to present their work to the industry.

International Film Seminars, Inc. (aka The Flaherty)
New York, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 55th Robert Flaherty Film Seminar. The week-long event, to be held at Colgate College in Hamilton, New York, will bring together students, scholars, filmmakers, curators, librarians, and film enthusiasts to explore and discuss the art of the moving image.

JazzReach Performing Arts & Education Association
Brooklyn, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a national tour of jazz education programs by resident ensemble Metta Quintet. Activities will include master classes for student musicians, workshops, clinics, and concerts for general audiences.

José Limón Dance Foundation (aka Limón Dance Company)
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the revival of choreographer José Limón's seminal masterwork There is a Time, created in 1956. The work was developed with composer Norman Dello Joio, who created the accompanying score, Meditation on Ecclesiastes.

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

Just Buffalo Literary Center, Inc.
Buffalo, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support Babel, a literary arts initiative that brings renowned international writers to western New York for readings and related outreach activities. Among the activities planned for the 2009-10 season are a celebration of Marcel Proust and a program highlighting translated works.

Keen Theater Company, Inc. (aka Keen Company)
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the production of An Evening of Thornton Wilder One-Acts. The project will include works selected from the canon of Wilder's under-produced short works, and will be directed by Carl Forsman, Henry Wishcamper, and Blake Lawrence.

Kundiman, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the Asian American Poetry Retreat, offering artistic and professional development for emerging Asian American poets. The multi-day retreat includes workshops, readings, lectures, and mentorship opportunities on the campus of the University of Virginia, Charlottesville.

Kunqu Society, Inc.
Whitestone, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the presentation of The Butterfly Dream. The project will include a full performance of the 16th-century drama, as well as a workshop and lecture/demonstration related to the opera.

La Guardia Community College
Long Island City, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support Seeing and Writing Queens. Organized around a site-specific temporary installation by the internationally prominent artist Thomas Hirschhorn, students will assist the artist in a project that comments on the writings of the early 20th-century political theorist Antonio Gramsci.

La Troupe Makandal, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Tanbou program. The project will include classes in traditional Haitian music and dance for children.

Leveraging Investments in Creativity (aka LINC)
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support LINC's National Artist Health Insurance Initiative. The program will improve access to affordable, quality healthcare for artists of all arts disciplines through targeted information and programs.

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$150,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production and broadcast of the television series Live From Lincoln Center. In 2010, the series will be aired on PBS stations in all 50 states, reaching an average of five million viewers per program.

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. (on behalf of Lincoln Center Institute)
New York, NY
$70,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Lincoln Center Institute's Learning Communities Initiative. Music, dance, theater, and visual arts will be integrated into the curriculum of a cluster of New York City public schools.

Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of America, Inc. (aka LMDA)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the 2009 conference Out of Bounds to promote the exchange of information about the function, practice, and value of literary management and dramaturgy. Dr. Shelley D. Orr, president of LMDA, will direct the conference.

Local Learning: The National Network for Folk Arts in Education (aka National Network for Folk Arts in Education) (Consortium)
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Louisiana Folk Artist Integration Pilot Project. In collaboration with the Acadiana Arts Council of Lafayette, Louisiana, the project will involve the development of a replicable model integrating folk arts and folk artists into grades four and five in Lafayette Parish public schools.

Local Learning: The National Network for Folk Arts in Education (aka National Network for Folk Arts in Education)
New York, NY
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support arts learning programming. The project will sustain and expand folk arts in education by working with cultural organizations and schools to coordinate folklorists, folk artists, educators, and students nationwide.

Los Pleneros de la 21, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Puerto Rican Music Project. The program will include a touring and residency project, bomba and plena community workshops, Fiesta de Cruz, and a Fiesta Navidena.

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Inc.
New York, NY
$70,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support Workspace, an artist residency of up to nine months, and Swing Space, a short-term, project-based artist residency. The juried programs will provide promising contemporary visual and performing artists with space and time to create and present work.

Making Books Sing, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Literature at Play, an in-school musical theater residency and professional development program. Professional teaching artists, playwrights, and lyricist/composers will work with youth to adapt literature into full musical productions.

Mama Foundation for the Arts, Inc. (aka The Mama Foundation)
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Gospel for Teens. Students selected through an audition will learn fundamental vocal techniques, gain knowledge about the historic and cultural context of African American gospel tradition, and perform in public concerts.

Mano a Mano: Mexican Culture Without Borders
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Mexican Immigrant Artist Portal. The project will create a fully functional Web site that highlights Mexican immigrant artists in New York City.

Marquis Studios, Ltd.
Brooklyn, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Marquis pARTnership Program. Professional development will be provided for artists and teachers to design and implement arts curricula in New York City schools.

Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, Inc. (aka Martha Graham Dance Company)
New York, NY
$100,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation of educational, outreach, and alternative performance programs based on political themes in the work of Martha Graham and other choreographers. Political Dance will involve the development of auxiliary programs appropriate to university and community settings.

Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, Inc. (aka Martha Graham Dance Company)
New York, NY
$100,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the reconstruction and presentation of Martha Graham's American Document (1938). The ballet was Graham's first theatrical work, her first to use spoken text, and the first to feature a male soloist.

Maverick Concerts, Inc.
Woodstock, NY
$17,500
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Chamber Music
To support a mini-festival celebrating the 100th anniversary of the birth of composer Samuel Barber. Programming will feature the composer's works for woodwinds, string quartet, piano quintet, and voice.

Mercantile Library Association of the City of New York (aka Mercantile Library Center for Fiction)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support readings and discussions by new and established writers. Throughout the year, the library will present up to 60 readings, panels, and performances by distinguished authors.

Meserve-Kunhardt Foundation
Pleasantville, NY
$70,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the digitization and cataloguing of the Gordon Parks Collection. The collection of more than 26,000 items is currently housed in the Reader's Digest Building in Chappaqua, New York, after being stored haphazardly for years in Parks' home office.

Metropolitan Opera Association, Inc. (aka the Met)
New York, NY
$100,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support production and post-production costs associated with the national telecasts of Great Performances at the Met. Captured in high-definition video, the productions will be broadcast on PBS stations around the country, reaching an estimated audience of three million viewers.

Metropolitan Opera Guild, Inc.
New York, NY
$80,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Opera Institute. The professional development program will provide training and materials for classroom teachers in 15 schools to prepare them to lead their students in the creation of original musical-dramatic works.

Mexican American Symphony Orchestra, Inc. (aka Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support an educational outreach program by the Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas. Performances will introduce orchestral music to elementary school children in Manhattan's Washington Heights neighborhood.

Michael J. Quill Irish Cultural & Sports Centre, Inc. (aka Catskills Irish Arts Week)
East Durham, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Catskills Irish Arts Week. In its 15th year, the project will support a summer school devoted to promoting and preserving traditional Irish music, song, and dance.

Municipal Art Society of New York
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the Preservation and the Environment project. The exhibition, conference, and education programming will address issues of climate change by documenting the environmental benefits of the innovative reuse of historic buildings.

Museum of the City of New York
New York, NY
$75,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the first phase of the Portrait Collection Conservation and Digital Access Project. In this phase, the museum plans to conserve, photograph, catalog, and digitize 200 of its most significant portraits.

Music Journeys, Inc.
Fayetteville, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support soloist and conductor fees for a compact disc recording of three new works by American composer Aaron Jay Kernis. The recording will feature violinist James Ehnes, pianist Andrew Russo, conductor JoAnn Falletta, and the Prague Philharmonia.

National Asian American Theatre Company (Consortium)
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the 2nd National Asian American Theater Festival. In partnership with Ma-Yi Filipino Theatre Ensemble, the theater will curate a festival featuring work by Asian American companies and individual artists.

National Black Touring Circuit, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Black History Month Play Festival. The project will feature plays focusing on the lives of black women heroes.

National Book Foundation, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support BookUpNYC, a program encouraging middle school students to read for pleasure. Presented in partnership with the Children's Aid Society, the after-school program is led by published writers who model good reading behavior and help students explore new ideas of literature.

National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support professional development programs for leaders in the arts education field. Programs will include the National Conference for Community Arts Education and regional events and training sessions in Los Angeles, Seattle, Chicago, New York, and Boston.

New 42nd Street, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the New Victory Season-Long In-Classroom Residency Program. After experiencing professional productions at the New Victory Theater, residency artists will teach students performing arts techniques from a diverse range of cultures in a series of in-class workshops.

New Art Publications, Inc. (aka BOMB Magazine)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support BOMB Magazine's annual issue of AMERICAS. The publication will feature original translations of poetry and fiction, and will include interviews with Latin American writers, artists, musicians, filmmakers, choreographers, dancers, critics, and architects.

New Life Dance, Inc. (aka PEARSONWIDRIG DANCETHEATER)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of Sara Pearson and Patrick Widrig's Unmoored (Love Letters to New Orleans), a dance work featuring spoken word, video, and New Orleans music. PEARSONWIDRIG DANCETHEATER will present the work in a series of one- to two-week performance residencies.

New York City Ballet, Inc.
New York, NY
$150,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the filming, digitizing, and presentation of an entire George Balanchine ballet online. The company will develop an additional online component that may include interviews with leading dancers, conversations with other artists and designers, and material from New York City Ballet's archives.

New York City Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the restoration, remounting, and staged concert productions of musicals in the Encores! Series. The 17th annual series of rarely heard American musicals will bring the works to life and preserve our musical theater heritage.

New York City Department of Education, Community School District 28, Region 3
Flushing, NY, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support Exploring Cultures through the Arts. The project will support a program for teachers to integrate folk arts and artists in the classroom.

New York Folklore Society, Inc.
Schenectady, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support folklore development throughout the state. The program will provide professional services to folk artists and folk arts organizations, as well as targeted field and ethnographic research.

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc. (aka NYFA)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support NYFA Source, a comprehensive online repository of information for artists. The project will involve outreach to arts organizations and artists and will provide enhancements for users to access the information free-of-charge.

New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations (on behalf of New York Public LIbrary for the Performing Arts)
New York, NY
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts' documentation and preservation of significant dance and theater performances and oral histories by notable performing artists. Performances and oral histories by living artists will be recorded, and deteriorating oral history material will be conserved.

New York Shakespeare Festival (aka The Public Theater)
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a summer season of The Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park. Enhancements to the project will broaden its reach and increase access to the theater's longest-running, free, signature program.

New York State Council on the Arts
New York, NY
$942,400
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

New York State Historical Association (aka NYSHA)
Cooperstown, NY
$70,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts Touring
To support a touring exhibition of masterpieces of Native American art from NYSHA's Fenimore Art Museum, with accompanying catalogue and family guide. The exhibition will be drawn from the Eugene and Clare Thaw Collection of more than 800 works donated to the museum in 1993.

New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the Evening Lecture Series. The free program enables artists, scholars, critics, philosophers, and art historians to engage the public in a discussion of critical issues in the visual arts.

New York University
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the exhibition LIL PICARD AND COUNTERCULTURE NEW YORK, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The retrospective exhibition will examine the artist's work which ranged from painting and collages to "happenings" and films.

New York Youth Symphony, Inc.
New York, NY
$67,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Making Scores. The project will consist of a series of educational courses designed to introduce aspiring young composers to fundamental principles of musical composition.

Nikolais/Louis Foundation for Dance
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the reconstruction of dances from Alwin Nikolais's 1956 ballet Kaleidoscope on the Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company. The work will be presented in a showcase performance at Ririe-Woodbury's international summer workshop at the Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center in Salt Lake City, Utah.

openhousenewyork inc. (aka OHNY) (Consortium)
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support an architecture and design education program for New York City youth. In partnership with the Center for Architecture Foundation, the project will provide interactive youth activities and online and print educational materials celebrating New York City's built environment.

Opus 118 Music Center (aka Harlem Center for Strings)
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Harlem Center for Strings' music education programs for underserved inner-city youth. Activities will include after-school sessions, the Harlem Youth Chorus program, and a summer program.

Our Time Theatre Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Teen Play Project. The theater arts instruction program is targeted to teenagers who stutter . Students will work collaboratively to write and perform a full-length play.

Pan Asian Repertory Theatre, Inc. (aka Pan Asian Rep)
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the New York premiere production of Imelda, a new musical with book by Sachi Oyama, music by Nathan Wang, and lyrics by Aaron Coleman. The production will be directed by Tim Dang of Los Angeles's East West Players.

Paper Bag Players, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a national tour of original works for young audiences. Productions will be collaboratively created by the ensemble under the artistic direction of Judith Martin.

Paul Taylor Dance Foundation, Inc. (aka Paul Taylor Dance Company)
New York, NY
$60,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the reconstruction of Public Domain, created in 1968 by choreographer Paul Taylor. The work will be part of the company's annual performance at New York's City Center and will tour across the United States.

PEN American Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the annual PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature. The cross-cultural festival will feature readings, performances, discussions, conversations, screenings, and music in both large-scale and intimate public venues.

Perlman Music Program Inc.
New York, NY
$68,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Summer Music School @ PMP. The program is an intensive six-week residency which provides instruction, coaching, and mentoring opportunities to exceptionally gifted young string players.

Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York, Inc. (aka The New York Philharmonic)
New York, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production of national radio broadcasts of performances by the New York Philharmonic during its 2009-10 season. Approximately 2.5 million listeners will hear each two-hour program in the 52-week series.

Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York, Inc. (aka The New York Philharmonic) (Consortium)
New York, NY
$65,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the New York Philharmonic's School Partnership Program. In partnership with the New York City Department of Education, students in the third through fifth grades will attend workshops led by professionally trained teaching artists.

Planet Arts, Inc. (Consortium)
Catskill, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the first phase of the Creative Music Studio Archive Project designed to digitize tape recordings of seminal jazz and new music works. In partnership with the Creative Music Foundation, the recordings will include performances by NEA Jazz Masters pianist Cecil Taylor and saxophonist Lee Konitz.

Poetry Project, Limited (aka Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the Monday Night and Wednesday Night Reading Series, which present young, emerging poets and new poets and established literary figures respectively. These events allow poets to perform new work for a broad audience.

Poets & Writers, Inc.
New York, NY
$55,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication of Poets & Writers Magazine and the expansion of the Poets & Writers Web site. Through the publication and Web site, the organization provides information for writers, including author profiles, articles on the business and craft of writing, interviews with publishing professionals, and a comprehensive listing of grants and awards.

Poets House, Inc.
New York, NY
$55,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support Can Poetry Save the Earth? From the Green Man to Ecopoetics, a series exploring the relationship between poetry and ecology. The series will include presentations by poets about other poets and poetic traditions, lectures and dialogues on the craft of poetry and poetic form, panel discussions, readings, and seminars.

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

Pregones Touring Puerto Rican Theatre Collection, Inc. (aka Pregones Theater)
Bronx, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the March is Music-May is Dance Series, which features master Puerto Rican artists. Violinist Henry Hutchinson Negrón, choreographer/dancer Arthur Aviles, and poet Sandra María Esteves will perform and participate in residency activities during the theater's 30th- anniversary season.

Public Art Films, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the film Let's Get the Rhythm. In collaboration with The Point Community Development Corporation, the project will document and interpret a wide variety of children's handclapping games.

Queens Theatre in the Park, Inc.
Flushing, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Latino Cultural Festival and the Latino Cultural Series. The programs will feature music, dance, theater, film, visual art exhibitions, and residency activities, such as master classes and panel discussions.

Red Bull Theater, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster. Artistic Director Jesse Berger will direct the project, with set design by John Arnone, costume design by Clint Ramos, and lighting design by Peter West.

Reel Stories Teen Filmmaking, Inc. (aka Reel Works Teen Filmmaking)
Brooklyn, NY
$80,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support The Lab, Reel Impact, The Lab Master Class, and Summer Lab. Student teens recruited to participate in free after-school and summer filmmaking workshops will produce and distribute short documentaries about their lives under the mentorship of professional filmmakers.

Research Foundation of State University of New York (on behalf of Neuberger Museum of Art/Purchase)
Albany, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support research and writing for the first catalogue of the Neuberger Museum of Art's permanent collection. Roy R. Neuberger's collection of modern and postwar paintings, sculptures, and works on paper are the core of the museum's holdings.

Rhizome Communications, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support an upgrade of ArtBase, a comprehensive online archive of new media art. The project will elevate the current Web-based archive of Internet and new media art with advanced cataloguing techniques and an improved user interface.

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

Rosie's Broadway Kids, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the ACTE II (A Commitment to Excellence) program in musical theater. The program will target exceptionally talented students from low-income families for intensive training in music, dance, and drama.

Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Rush Gallery in the Schools, an after-school visual arts program. Students will have the opportunity to learn about contemporary art, interact with working artists, and create artwork in a variety of media.

School of American Ballet, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the digitization of the Workshop Performance video library to coincide with the school's 75th anniversary. The project will also expand the Oral History Initiative to include interviews with all of the school's current faculty members.

Scotia-Glenville Pipe Band, Inc.
Schenectady, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Scotia-Glenville Pipe Band 2009-10 Guest Artist Instructional Workshops. Professional pipers Andrew Douglas, Jack Lee, Donald Lindsay, and Reid Maxwell will lead a series of Scottish piping and drumming workshops and a summer workshop for youth as an adjunct to their regular weekly instruction.

Sequoia Community Initiatives, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support Open Arts Studio Program. Targeted to homeless women at St. Martin De Porre, a 200-bed shelter, the participants will have opportunities to create art using a variety of media, to participate in exhibitions, and to have images of their work included in publications distributed in the community.

Society of the Educational Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support productions of children's musical theater, with accompanying workshops in New York and Puerto Rico. Through the presentation of children's classics and folk tales drawn from Spanish-speaking countries worldwide, the project will preserve Latin American arts and culture.

Sokolow Theatre Dance Ensemble, Ltd.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the reconstruction and presentation of the dance work Frida as part of choreographer Anna Sokolow's 100th birthday in 2010. The works will be performed at the 92nd Street Y in New York City, where many of Sokolow's works premiered.

Sound Portraits Productions, Inc. (aka StoryCorps)
Brooklyn, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production of StoryCorps radio segments for weekly broadcast on NPR's Morning Edition. A collaboration between Sound Portraits Productions, the Library of Congress, and public radio stations, StoryCorps is a nationwide project aimed at inspiring Americans to record one another's stories in sound.

Spanish Theatre Repertory Company, Ltd. (aka Repertorio Español)
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Teatro Acceso program. The company will present and tour classic and contemporary Spanish, Latin American, and U.S. Latino works to underserved schools and communities.

St. Ann Center for Restoration and the Arts, Inc. (aka St. Ann's Warehouse)
Brooklyn, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support an adaptation of theater artist Lee Breuer's multidisciplinary work The Shaggy Dog Animation at St. Ann's Warehouse. The restaged work will include a live jazz trio and singers, computer animation, video, puppetry, and theater companies Mabou Mines and Tandem Otter.

Stage Directors and Choreographers Workshop Foundation, Inc. (aka Stage Directors and Choreographers Foundation)
New York, NY
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Observership Program. The program is designed to give emerging directors and choreographers access to established artists in professional theater settings.

Standby Program, Inc.
New York, NY
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support access to state-of-the-art, broadcast-quality production and post-production video equipment for artists and independent producers. Standby's access program is a unique model of collaboration between a nonprofit arts organization and privately owned businesses.

Storyville Center for the Spoken Word (aka The Moth)
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a series of storytelling events in New York City and in other areas of the U.S. Each show will feature both established and emerging writers who will share original narratives based on their life experiences.

Studio in a School Association, Inc.
New York, NY
$56,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Collaborative Community Site, a visual arts education program. Art teachers, classroom teachers, and principals will be given opportunities to observe the curricular, instructional, and administrative strategies in use at PS 255 for implementing the New York City Department of Education's Blueprint for Teaching and Learning in the Visual Arts.

Symphony Space, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production of the public radio series Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story, and the distribution of related CDs. The series, which will air on more than 143 NPR stations, will present leading stage and screen actors reading both classic and new short fiction by established and emerging authors of diverse cultures.

Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Syracuse, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a concert tour to New York's North Country. The orchestra, under the direction of Music Director Daniel Hege, will perform concerts in rural and underserved communities.

TADA! Theatre and Dance Alliance Inc. (aka TADA! Youth Theater)
New York, NY
$63,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Musical Theater Writing Residency program. The program will integrate social studies topics with the writing, rehearsal, and performance of an original musical by fourth- and fifth-graders under the tutelage of teaching artists and their regular classroom teachers.

Tank, Ltd
New York, NY
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Pairings, a performance series and a compact disc recording of works by young American composers paired with established composers. The new music series will present the JACK Quartet, Wet Ink, AMP Ensemble, and Red Light New Music performing works by Reiko Fueting, Alex Mincek, Aaron Cassidy, and Scott Wollshleger.

Theatre Communications Group, Inc. (aka TCG)
New York, NY
$135,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the TCG National Conference, professional development programs, field research, and publication resources for the staff and trustees of professional, nonprofit theaters nationwide. The 2009 National Conference will be held in Baltimore.

Theatre Communications Group, Inc. (aka TCG) (Consortium)
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Theatre Awareness Project. In partnership with the National Alliance for Musical Theater, TCG will conduct a multifaceted project designed to create public discourse about theater and increase audience attendance nationwide.

Theatre Development Fund, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Interpreting for the Theatre Institute. The program will provide intensive one-week training for theater sign-language interpreters.

Theatreworks/USA Corporation (aka Theatreworks)
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support a national tour of theater productions for young audiences. Audiences in as many as 38 states and the District of Columbia will be provided access to live theater and educational activities that complement school curricula.

Traditional Arts in Upstate New York, Inc. (aka TAUNY)
Canton, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support TAUNY on the Web. The project will make substantial upgrades to the Web site.

Trisha Brown Company, Inc. (aka Trisha Brown Dance Company)
New York, NY
$60,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the reconstruction and touring of Opal Loop/Cloud Installation by choreographer Trisha Brown. First performed in a loft in SoHo, New York, in 1980, the work is a collaboration with Japanese fog artist Fujiko Nakaya.

UBW, Inc. (aka Urban Bush Women)
Brooklyn, NY
$12,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the annual Summer Institute, Community Building for Change, the foundation for the Urban Bush Women's community engagement activities. This 12-day dance intensive is open to adults and youth, and will be held in New Orleans.

UBW, Inc. (aka Urban Bush Women)
Brooklyn, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the restaging of works from the Urban Bush Women repertory, by choreographer and Artistic Director Jawolle Willa Jo Zollar. Celebrating the company's 25th anniversary, the restaged works will be grouped into three programs: Zollar: After Hours, Zollar: Sunny Side Up, and Zollar: Rage and Power.

University of Rochester
Rochester, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the Reading the World Conversation Series, featuring international authors and their translators. The free series will enable residents of Rochester, New York, and surrounding areas to broaden their awareness of international literature, culture, and ideas.

Van Alen Institute: Projects in Public Architecture (aka Van Alen Institute)
New York, NY
$27,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support an exhibition of historical materials from the institute's  collection, with related educational programming. The Design Archive Project will feature original archival materials from the institute's architecture and design collections with an accompanying series of public  panel discussions that will explore the collection as a public design resource.

Washington Square Contemporary Music Society, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a compact disc recording of Romulus, a one-act comic opera composed by Louis Karchin. Premiered in 2007 by the Washington Square Ensemble, the work will be recorded and released on Naxos Records.

Wave Hill, Inc.
Bronx, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the Family Art Project. The series of weekend workshops provide families the opportunity to create nature-based art projects inspired by craft traditions from around the world.

Westchester Arts Council, Inc. (aka ArtsWestchester)
White Plains, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Latin American Arts Initiative. The project will support a series of public programs of Latin American folk and traditional arts in the communities of Westchester County.

Whitney Museum of American Art
New York, NY
$75,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the Whitney Museum Permanent Collection Project Phase I, Works on Paper. The project's major undertaking is the cataloguing, conservation, and documentation of all drawings, prints, watercolors, and photographs in the collection.

Wingspan Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Wingspan Arts Summer Conservatory. The conservatory is divided into two sections, Wingspan Players for younger students in grades six through eight, and Wingspan Ensemble for students with more advanced skills in grades 9 through 12.

WNYC Radio
New York, NY
$54,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Radio Rookies, a media arts education program. Open to young people from across New York City's five boroughs, the program will provide training in all aspects of radio production.

Women Make Movies, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support production and post-production costs for a documentary by Lucille Carra Tachikawa. Glenn Gould: A Three Cornered World will examine the musician's career.

Women's Studio Workshop, Inc. (on behalf of Grey Art Gallery) (Consortium)
Rosendale, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support artist residencies. In partnership with the Kingston City School District, the residency program offers emerging artists paid professional opportunities to work for an extended period of time in a technically-equipped studio space, as well as training in teaching and mentoring.

Wooster Group, Inc.
New York City, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development of Meals for a Quarter (working title). Artistic Director Elizabeth LeCompte will direct the work based on source material from the plays of Tennessee Williams and architectural documents from New Orleans.

Working Playground, Inc.
New York, NY
$58,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support My Medium, My Message. The project will provide foundational design experiences in the fields of animation, film, digital photography, and music production for students at the New Design High School and the Facing History School.

Working Theatre Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the TheaterWorks! adult education program. The program will teach writing and performance skills to low-income workers in the service and manufacturing sector.

World Music Institute, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the World Music America Touring Project. In collaboration with World Music, Inc., the project will present national tours of ensembles that represent the cultural traditions from Africa, Pakistan, the Middle East, and China.

World Music Institute, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support a multidisciplinary series of performances featuring dance artists and major figures in jazz and world music, such as NEA Jazz masters Candido Camero and Randy Weston.  The 25th anniversary series will be presented in collaboration with Jazz at Lincoln Center.

World Music Productions, Inc. (aka Afropop Worldwide)
Brooklyn, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production and distribution of the weekly public radio program Afropop Worldwide. The series showcases the contemporary musical cultures of Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas, and is distributed by Public Radio International to more than 113 radio stations in the United States.

Writers Room, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support affordable work space and other services for writers. The Writers Room is an urban writers' center in New York City, and welcomes both emerging and established writers of all literary genres.

Young Audiences/New York, Inc.
New York, NY
$56,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support visual arts residencies for students attending underserved elementary schools in the Bronx. Teaching artists will lead workshops for students and their classroom teachers.

Young Men's & Young Women's Hebrew Association (aka 92nd Street Y)
New York, NY
$55,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the Unterberg Poetry Center's Main Reading Series, which features readings, literary tributes, and dialogues between writers and audiences about literary and related topics.

Young Men's & Young Women's Hebrew Association (aka 92nd Street Y)
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of master choreographers during the 75th anniversary of the 92nd Street Y Harkness Dance Center. The project will consist of the Y's annual Harkness Dance Festival, a special anniversary performance retrospective, and the Sundays at Three performance series.

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

Young People's Chorus of New York City, Inc.
New York, NY
$54,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Partner Schools Program. Underserved students will participate in after-school choral music education activities, including rehearsals, classes in music theory and harmonic analysis, and performances.

Young Playwrights, Inc. (aka Young Playwrights Festival)
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Young Playwrights Festival. Plays will be selected through a national, open-submission playwriting competition.

ZBS Foundation
Fort Edward, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production of short radio dramas by Thomas Lopez. 2-Minute Film Noir is a series of two-minute stories based on Film Noir characters.

Number of Grants: 245          Total Amount: $10,229,900

 
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