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FY 2010 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access to Artistic Excellence | Challenge America Fast-Track Grants | Literature Fellowships (Prose)

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

CALIFORNIA

18th Street Arts Complex (aka 18th Street Arts Center)
Santa Monica, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Artists Communities
To support the Residency Program. American and international artists of various disciplines will be hosted for periods ranging from one month to one year.

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

A Traveling Jewish Theatre
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the creation and world premiere of In the Maze of Our Own Lives. Playwright and founding ensemble member Corey Fischer, Artistic Director Aaron Davidman, and filmmaker Sam Ball will create a mixed media theater piece based on the history of the Group Theater from 1931-1941.

Abhinaya Dance Company of San Jose, Inc.
San Jose, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support performances by the Abhinaya Dance Company featuring the San Jose Taiko Group and Gamelan Sekar Jaya, a Balinese ensemble. The concert, celebrating Abhinaya's 30th anniversary, is scheduled to be held at the Mexican Heritage Plaza and is representative of the Company's numerous cross-cultural programs.

About Productions, Inc.
Pasadena, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development, workshop, and premiere of an original interdisciplinary theater work Evangeline, The Queen of Make-Believe. Theresa Chavez and Rose Portillo will co-write the work and collaborate with Los Lobos songwriter/musician Louie Perez.

Academy for New Musical Theatre
North Hollywood, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the Academy Repertory Company Concert Reading Series. The program features concert readings of new works of musical theater in development.

African-American Shakespeare Company
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the final development and world premiere of playwright Robert Henry Johnson's commissioned project The Othello Papers with accompanying educational and outreach activities.

Ali Akbar College of Music
San Rafael, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Audio Archive Preservation Project. The project will support the digitization of the musical archives of the Ali Akbar College of Music.

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

American Conservatory Theatre Foundation
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the world premiere of The Tosca Project. The movement-based theatrical production will be co-created by Artistic Director Carey Perloff and choreographer Val Caniparoli.

API Cultural Center
Oakland, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Asian Pacific American Heritage Festival, celebrating Asian American contributions to jazz. A series of live performances for Bay Area audiences will include proposed artists Francis Wong, Anthony Brown, and VidyA, a South Asian jazz ensemble.

Architecture for Humanity
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the second volume of Design Like You Give a Damn. The book will include case studies of design projects in the built environment that address systemic poverty, support community development, and provide shelter to the homeless and the displaced.

Arts & Services for Disabled
Long Beach, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support exhibition opportunities for artists with developmental disabilities. To eliminate many of the barriers that disabled artists face, Arts & Services for Disabled will organize exhibitions at 10 different venues throughout Los Angeles County.

Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco (aka Asian Art Museum of San Francisco)
San Francisco, CA
$60,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the touring exhibition Shanghai: 1850 to Present, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. As Shanghai's sister city, San Francisco will present the exhibition to coincide with Shanghai's 2010 World Expo.

Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the development and production of marketing materials promoting Asian American and Pacific Islander American cultural organizations. Organizations such as Asian Improv aRts, Kearney Street Workshop, and the Chinese Cultural Center will benefit from the collaborative marketing project that will focus on the Bay Area Asian and Pacific Islander community.

Association for the Advancement of Filipino American Arts & Culture (aka Fil Am ARTS)
Los Angeles, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the traditional component of the Annual Festival of Philippine Arts and Culture. The festival will present performances of traditional Philippine music, dance, and craft demonstrations.

Association of California Symphony Orchestras
Sacramento, CA
$27,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support professional and leadership development and technical assistance programs for California orchestras. Plans include an annual statewide conference and workshops for artistic and administrative staff, trustees, and volunteers from more than 150 orchestras.

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

Bakersfield Art Foundation, Inc. (aka Bakersfield Museum of Art)
Bakersfield, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Via Arte Street Painting Festival The Bakersfield Museum will select artists and arts organizations to create work for the festival focused on the Italian tradition of street painting that dates back to the 16th century.

Bay Area Video Coalition, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$85,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support low-cost audio and video preservation services to artists and arts organizations throughout the nation. Services include the recording, retrieval, and preservation of audio/video art and of performances archived on various media, as well as the dissemination of information to the public.

Berkeley Opera (Consortium)
Berkeley, CA
$12,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support performances of Caliban's Dream, by composer Clark Suprynowicz and librettist Amanda Moody. The collaboration with Sixth Street Playhouse will enable the company to expand its audiences to Santa Rosa.

Berkeley Repertory Theatre (aka Berkeley Rep)
Berkeley, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the world premiere production of Concerning Strange Devices from the Distant West, a new play by Naomi Iizuka. Associate Artistic Director Les Waters will direct the production.

Berkeley Society for the Preservation of Traditional Music, Inc. (aka Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse)
Berkeley, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Chamber Folk Series at the Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse. Concerts are planned that will feature a classical approach to the folk and traditional repertoire.

Berkeley Symphony Orchestra
Berkeley, CA
$12,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support residencies by California composers. Composer Gabriela Lena Frank will serve as the season-long composer-in-residence where she will collaborate with music director Joana Carneiro, create a new work for orchestra, take part in school programs, and mentor emerging Bay Area composers selected for residencies in the Under Construction concert series.

Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music
Santa Cruz, CA
$13,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a professional development program for conductors and composers. The training program, led by conductors Marin Alsop and Gustav Meier, will offer emerging conductors the opportunity to lead small and large ensembles in rehearsals and public performances, program contemporary works, and collaborate with composers.

California Film Institute
San Rafael, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 33rd Mill Valley Film Festival. Programming includes short films, documentaries, independent American films, and films from abroad.

California Indian Basketweavers Association
Woodland, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the 19th Annual California Indian Basketweavers Gathering. The project brings together both experienced and novice weavers to share their artistry with each other and the public, sell and exhibit their work, and discuss issues important to their traditions.

California Presenters (Consortium)
Sacramento, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support a touring program: Don't Fence Me In: Songs, Music, and Poetry of the American West. In partnership with the National Council for the Traditional Arts, the project will feature performances and educational and residency activities.

California Traditional Music Society
Encino, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the 2010 Summer Solstice Festival. The project will present performances of traditional music and dance that reflect the many nationalities living in the Los Angeles area.

Center for Asian American Media
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 28th San Francisco Asian American Film Festival. The event will showcase new work by and about Asian Americans and Asians.

Center for the Art of Translation (on behalf of Two Lines)
San Francisco, CA
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of anthologies of literature in translation. The center will publish one book of Francophone literature and one of Arabic literature.

Center Theatre Group of Los Angeles (aka Center Theatre Group)
Los Angeles, CA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and world premiere production of Lisa Kron's The Wake to be directed by Leigh Silverman. The theater will co-produce the new play in partnership with Berkeley Repertory Theatre.

Children's Book Press
San Francisco, CA
$36,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of multicultural and bilingual board books for early readers. The press will continue a five-year program to encourage reading among bilingual children.

Circuit Network
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the creation and presentation of Suicide Barrier: Secure in Our Illusions. Choreographer Ledoh and his Salt Farm dance company will collaborate with video artist Perry Hallinan in the creation of an installation and performance work.

City of Vista, California
Vista, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Mural-in-a-Day program. A muralist will work with volunteer artists from the Townsite Neighborhood to create murals for installation in two local parks.

Cornerstone Theater Company, Inc. (Consortium)
Los Angeles, CA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and production of the Justice Cycle Bridge Show, a community production developed in collaboration with playwright Naomi Iizuka. The play will be produced in partnership with Grand Performances, a Los Angeles-based presenter of free performing arts programs.

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

Craft & Folk Art Museum Incorporating the Egg and the Eye
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support Some Assembly Required: Race, Gender and Globalization, a group exhibition. Among the 13 proposed artists are Mildred Howard, Dr. Amalia Mesa-Bains, Willie Little, Adia Millett, and Alison Saar, whose works will tell a story about the impact of globalization on identity.

Creative Growth, Inc. (aka Creative Growth Art Center)
Oakland, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support Beyond Our Walls: Breaking New Ground. A series of studio arts workshops for adults with disabilities, a visiting artists program, an exhibition series, a publicity campaign, and a publication will involve artists with disabilities as a vital part of the arts community.

Croatian Cultural Center
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Cultural Crossroads Program. The project will present a series of concerts representing various Balkan communities living in the San Francisco area.

Crocker Art Museum Association
Sacramento, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the touring exhibition A Pioneering Collection: Master Drawings from the Crocker Art Museum. The Crocker's collection includes works long known to scholars but that have not previously been available to American audiences.

Crucible
Oakland, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the outdoor Fire Arts Festival. Activities will include performances, interactive sculptures, installations, and demonstrations.

Cutting Ball Theater
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the world premiere productions of two new plays. The project will include a production of Marcus Gardley's ...and Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi, directed by Amy Mueller, and Eugenie Chan's Nightlight Bone to Pick, directed by Artistic Director Bob Melrose.

Cypress Performing Arts Association (aka Cypress String Quartet)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Call and Response, a commissioning, performance, and educational program featuring composer Elena Ruehr and the Cypress String Quartet. The new work will be created using works of literature as inspiration.

DanceArt, Inc.
Mill Valley, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the 2010 West Wave Dance Festival. The festival includes presentations of emerging and mid-career Bay Area artists and will take place at the Cowell Theatre in San Francisco.

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

Deaf West Theatre Company, Inc.
North Hollywood, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the production of Swiss dramatist Friedrich Dürrenmatt's The Visit, adapted by Kenneth Albers to include deaf artists and deaf audiences. Through the development of an American Sign Language (ASL) script that augments the English language translation, the production will feature deaf and hearing actors telling the story through sign, gesture, and spoken English.

Developmental Disabilities Service Organization, Inc. (on behalf of Short Center Repertory)
Sacramento, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the writing and production of Tent City, an original script exploring homelessness in Sacramento. In partnership with local organizations serving the homeless, Short Center Repertory will work with members of the homeless community to create the work.

Diamano Coura West African Dance Company
Oakland, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the 15th Annual Collage de Cultures Africaines Festival. The project will feature a series of workshops and a performance centered on the dance and music of the African diaspora.

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

Engage Inc.
Burbank, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Experience Talks - Radio Elder Arts Project, through which live interviews with artists will be recorded for radio broadcast. The series will feature interviews with visual artists John Outerbridge and Phoebe Beasley and actors Carol Channing and Len Lesser.

Exitheatre (aka EXIT Theatre)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the 19th annual San Francisco Fringe Festival. The festival provides performance opportunities for emerging artists to perform and develop audiences for their work.

Exploratorium
San Francisco, CA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the New Frontiers project. The project consists of artist research residencies at the Exploratorium's future home.

Film Independent, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 16th Los Angeles Film Festival. More than 100 films including dramatic features, documentaries, and short films will be presented to an anticipated audience of 80,000.

Flyaway Productions
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a site specific collaborative work, Singing Praises: Centennial Dance for Women's Building, by choreographer Jo Kreiter. Collaborators will include composer Jewlia Eisenberg and lighting designer Elaine Buckholtz.

Ford Theatre Foundation (Consortium)
Hollywood, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Community Bridges Program. In partnership with Kayamanan Ng Lahi Philippine Folk Arts, the project will facilitate participation of local Latino and Asian American communities through programming, marketing, and audience development strategies.

Foundation for the California State University, San Bernardino
San Bernardino, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support Retelling The Ring in Art, Music, Movies, and Literature. An art exhibit, lecture series, concert performance, and workshops for teens will explore adaptations of Richard Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung.

Frameline
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support a retrospective of films by Andy Warhol. Warhol's better known works (Chelsea Girls, Sleep) will be exhibited alongside his less-often seen films.

Friends of the Levitt Pavilion-Pasadena
Pasadena, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Patchwork of America Concert Series of music and dance. The free, outdoor performances at the Levitt Pavilion for the Performing Arts will feature the genres of swing, rockabilly, blues, country, Cajun, and gospel.

Galería/Studio 24 (aka Galería de la Raza)
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support two exhibitions featuring work by prominent California Latino artists from the late 20th century. The exhibitions, with accompanying online catalogues and public programming, are planned to coincide with the 40th anniversary of Galería de La Raza.

Gifford, Barry
Berkeley, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

Grand Performances
Los Angeles, CA
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support a summer multidisciplinary arts series at California Plaza. Building on the previous season's focus on various instruments, the project will center on the artistic use of strings.

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

Healdsburg Jazz Festival, Inc.
Healdsburg, CA
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the 12th annual Healdsburg Jazz Festival. The event will feature internationally acclaimed masters of jazz and emerging artists in a series of concerts and related activities in various rural Sonoma County venues, including free events in the Healdsburg Town Square, local cafes, and galleries.

Heyday Institute (aka Heyday Books)
Berkeley, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication of an anthology of African American writers in California. Contemporary emerging writers will be featured alongside established authors such as Walter Mosley, Alice Walker, Octavia Butler, James Madison Bell, and Maya Angelou.

Housing Consortium of the East Bay
Oakland, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Magnolia Terrace Landscape Collaboration. Artists with developmental disabilities will design words and phrases that will be incorporated into pathways, fences, and lights surrounding the facility. Magnolia Terrace provides affordable apartments for adults with developmental disabilities.

HUC Skirball Cultural Center
Los Angeles, CA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Viva!, a program of dance and music performances, film screenings, exhibitions, and lectures. Programming will highlight the intersection of Jewish and Latin American cultures.

Idris Ackamoor & Cultural Odyssey (aka Cultural Odyssey)
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and production of Frankie Baker -- An Immoral Ballad: The True Story of Frankie and Johnny. Co-Artistic Directors Rhodessa Jones and Idris Ackamoor will collaborate with writer Cecil Brown, and blues musician Taj Mahal to create the production.

Ink People, Inc. (aka The Ink People Center for the Arts)
Eureka, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the DreamMaker Program: Creating Healthy Communities through Arts and Culture, an arts incubator program. The DreamMaker Program provides peer support, technical assistance, a series of nonprofit management workshops, and individualized training for Humboldt County cultural groups.

inkBoat, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by Artistic Director Shinichi Iova-Koga in collaboration with Japanese Butoh master artist, Ko Murobushi. Crazy Cloud will be completed as part of a two-week residency at the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography at Florida State University.

Intersection (aka Intersection for the Arts)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and premiere of Mirrors in Every Corner, a new play by Chinaka Hodge. The production will be directed by Marc Bamuthi Joseph.

Jahn, Ben
Albany, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Toward a Healthy Planet series involving dance, film, and music. Activities will include performances, lectures, and documentary film screenings exploring environmental issues.

Joe Goode Performance Group
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a new piece by choreographer Joe Goode. The new piece will be a performance/installation that will take place in the forum and outer lobby entrance at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

Johnson, Adam
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

Kaisahan of San Jose
San Jose, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support a series of master classes taught by Philippine dancer Franco Pastor. The classes will culminate in a public performance at the Joyce Ellington Library Community Center.

Kala Institute
Berkeley, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Artists Communities
To support the Fellowship Residency Program. American and international artists working in the visual arts, video, performance, digital media, and literature will receive stipends, technical support, and access to working facilities.

Kesey, Roy
Ukiah, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

Kitka, Inc.
Oakland, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Kitka Sings Monk: I, a residency and performance project with composer Meredith Monk. The women's vocal ensemble will host two, week-long residencies with the composer that will culminate in an evening-length program of Monk's work.

Kronos Performing Arts Association (aka Kronos Quartet)
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a collaboration, commission, and performances by the Kronos Quartet. Plans include a collaboration with folk singer, musician, and storyteller Lee Knight and the commissioning and performances of a new work by composer J.G. Thirlwell for string quartet and audio tape.

Kuumbwa Jazz Society
Santa Cruz, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Kuumbwa Jazz Presents Concerts and Conversations with NEA Jazz Masters. Programming includes concerts featuring Toshiko Akiyoshi, Kenny Burrell, and James Moody and a Conversation with Good Friends, Music Collaborators, and NEA Jazz Masters Kenny Burrell, Gerald Wilson, and Snooky Young.

La Jolla Music Society
La Jolla, CA
$17,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support SummerFest, presentations of chamber music and jazz. Under the direction of music director and violinist Cho-Liang Lin and composer-in-residence Christopher Rouse, the festival will include premieres of commissioned works and educational activities.

La Peña Cultural Center, Inc.
Berkeley, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Flamenco at the Crossroads, a dance and music series. Artists from Spain and the United States will be featured in activities and performances that will explore the many transformations of Flamenco dance and music.

La Raza Bookstore (aka La Raza - Galeria Posada)
Sacramento, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support a performance by bolero musicians Trio Los Panchos. Related activities will include a master class targeted toward high school students taught by Trio artistic director Gabriel Vargas Aguilar and a series of mid-century Mexican films featuring a bolero score.

Les Figues Press
Los Angeles, CA
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the production, distribution, and promotion of new works of poetry and prose as part of the press's TrenchArt series. The series specializes in innovative literary work that may not fit into a specific genre.

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

Loco Bloco Drum and Dance Ensemble
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support a residency with Guatemalan performing arts ensemble Caja Lúdica. The residency will consist of workshops, master classes, and collaborative performances.

Long Beach Museum of Art Foundation (Consortium)
Long Beach, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the exhibition Exchange and Evolution: World Wide Video/Long Beach, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition is a project with the University Art Museum at California State University, Long Beach.

Long Beach Opera
Long Beach, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support performances of Nixon in China by composer John Adams and librettist Alice Goodman. Outreach activities through a partnership with the Nixon Library and Museum in Yorba Linda will include exhibitions and symposia comprising leading Nixon scholars and former Nixon administration staff members.

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Society, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$16,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a series of performances of new and rarely heard works and related educational activities. The two programs will be conducted by Music Director Jeffrey Kahane at the Alex Theatre in Glendale, California, and at Royce Hall on the University of California/Los Angeles campus in Westwood.

Los Angeles County Arts Commission
Los Angeles, CA
$90,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the Cultivate/Create Initiative. The regranting program will award Los Angeles County arts organizations grants to increase their capacity.

Los Angeles Master Chorale Association
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a concert of the music of composers Meredith Monk and Arvo Part and another comprising Americana music and spirituals with related educational activities. The performances in Walt Disney Concert Hall will be conducted by Music Director Grant Gershon.

Los Angeles Opera Company (Consortium)
Los Angeles, CA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the commission, production, and performances of a new opera, The Tower of Babel, by composer James MacMillan with libretto by award-winning British poet Michael Symmons Roberts. The collaboration is part of LA Opera at the Cathedral, a partnership that presents free opera performances in the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels.

Los Angeles Opera Company
Los Angeles, CA
$105,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support performances of Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Nibelung's Ring). The production will employ the use of new technologies for lighting, flying, stage machinery, projections, and unique effects using specially designed software and hardware.

Los Angeles Philharmonic Association
Los Angeles, CA
$100,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Americas and Americans Festival with related educational activities. The six-week festival of orchestral, folk, and popular music concerts will be directed by incoming Music Director Gustavo Dudamel.

Lukas, Michael David
Berkeley, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

Lula Washington Contemporary Dance Foundation
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of performances in Los Angeles and on a national tour as part of the company's 30th anniversary. The company will also host the International Association of Blacks in Dance conference/festival in Los Angeles.

Machine Project
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support a series of free presentations, exhibitions, and an artist residency program. Emerging visual, literary, and performing artists will create site-specific works that will be presented at Machine Project's gallery space.

Magic Theatre, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and world premiere of Oedipus El Ray by Luis Alfaro. Artistic Director Loretta Greco will lead the large cast to re-envision Sophocles' Oedipus as a contemporary Chicano story in California.

Margaret Jenkins Dance Studio, Inc. (aka Margaret Jenkins Dance Company)
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a site -pecific work by choreographer Margaret Jenkins in collaboration with multimedia visual artist Naomie Kremer. The work will be performed in the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco.

Marin Theatre Company
Mill Valley, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the world premiere of Sharr White's Sunlight. Artistic Director Jasson Minadakis will direct the 2008 Sky Cooper New American Playwright Prize-winning play.

Media Arts Center San Diego (aka San Diego Latino Film Festival)
San Diego, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 17th San Diego Latino Film Festival. The films and videos exhibited are produced by Latinos or are about the Latino experience.

Merola Opera Program
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support master teachers and instructors at the professional training program for singers, apprentice coaches, and an apprentice stage director. Participants will receive private coaching and attend master classes for intergenerational exchange between veterans in the opera field and emerging newcomers.

Mexican Heritage Corporation (aka Mexican Heritage Plaza)
San Jose, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the 19th Annual San Jose International Mariachi Festival and Conference. With educational symposia, student mariachi workshops, student performances, and world-renowned mariachi performers, the festival continues to be the largest of its kind in California.

Mills College
Oakland, CA
$8,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the presentation of concerts by the Center for Contemporary Music.

Monday Evening Concerts
Culver City, CA
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Shattered Shadows: An Introduction to the Music of Frank Denyer. The concert performance and a pre-concert lecture with the British composer Frank Denyer (b. 1943) will be presented at the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles.

Montalvo Association (aka Montalvo Arts Center)
Saratoga, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Artists Communities
To support the Lucas Artists Program of residencies at the Montalvo Arts Center. Artists working in the performing, visual, and literary arts also will have the opportunity to present or exhibit their work at Villa Montalvo and other Bay Area venues.

Monterey Jazz Festival
Monterey, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the 53rd Annual Monterey Jazz Festival at the Monterey County Fairgrounds. Programming will include concerts with renowned and emerging jazz artists and will showcase performances of an artist-in-residence and a commissioned artist.

Mount Saint Mary's College (on behalf of Da Camera Society)
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the presentation of Chamber Music in Historic Sites by the Da Camera Society. The series of chamber music concerts and outreach activities will match musical programming from a variety of cultures and periods with sites of architectural and historical significance in the Los Angeles area.

Museum Associates (aka Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
Los Angeles, CA
$75,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a touring exhibition of the work of American artist David Smith (1906-65), with accompanying education programs. Cubes and Anarchy: Geometry in David Smith, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art exhibition will explore the role played by geometric shape in the artist's oeuvre.

Narrative Magazine, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the artists fees for Narrative Magazine, a free online journal of new literature. Recent contributors have included Joyce Carol Oates, E.L. Doctorow, Amy Tan, and T. C. Boyle.

National Film Preservation Foundation
San Francisco, CA
$55,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the first year of production of a DVD anthology, Treasures V: The West.

National Film Preserve, Ltd. (aka The Telluride Film Festival)
Berkeley, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 37th Telluride Film Festival. Approximately 40 programs of feature-length and short films will be screened to an estimated audience of more than 6,000 people.

New Century Chamber Orchestra
San Francisco, CA
$12,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Featured Composer Residency by American composer William Bolcom. Activities will include the commissioning of a new work for the chamber orchestra and its premiere performances in San Francisco, Palo Alto, and San Rafael.

Oakland East Bay Symphony
Oakland, CA
$16,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a performance project celebrating music director Michael Morgan's 20th anniversary with the orchestra. The project will include world premieres of new work by composers Rebecca Mauleon and Benedikt Brydern.

Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir, Inc.
Oakland, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the annual Traditional Music Concert. A lecture placing the gospel songs in historical and cultural context will follow the performance. Potential guest artists include Jacqueline B. Hairston, Linda Tillery and the Cultural Heritage Choir, and the Marcus Shelby Jazz Orchestra.

Ojai Festivals, Ltd.
Ojai, CA
$16,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Ojai Music Festival. The 64th annual music festival will feature the premiere of Little Hill, a new work by composer and conductor George Benjamin, who will serve as this year's festival music director.

Old Globe Theatre
San Diego, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the world-premiere production of Whisper House, a new musical with music and lyrics by Tony Award-winning composer Duncan Sheik, book and lyrics by Kyle Jarrow and directed by Keith Powell. Educational and outreach activities will accompany the production.

Opera Piccola
Oakland, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support performances of Mirrors of Mumbai. The multidisciplinary piece will be presented at colleges and high schools in Alameda and Santa Clara counties, areas with high Asian Indian populations.

Orange County Museum of Art
Newport Beach, CA
$75,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a touring exhibition of the work of American artist Richard Diebenkorn (b. 1922), with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will focus on the artist's Ocean Park Series.

Other Minds
San Francisco, CA
$12,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support OM15, the 15th annual new music festival. Activities will be held at the Jewish Community Center in San Francisco, with guest composers participating in a four-day residency that will include a panel discussion, free workshop, and lecture-demonstration session.

Pacific Symphony (aka Orange County's Pacific Symphony)
Santa Ana, CA
$47,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support The Greatest Generation, an American composers festival. Programming will feature music composed during, and in response to, the Great Depression and World War II, as well as the premiere of a commissioned work echoing this theme by American composer Michael Daugherty.

Pacifica Foundation
North Hollywood, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the preservation of arts-related audio recordings in the Pacifica archive. Of the 50,000 tapes housed in the archive, approximately 25 percent represent arts programming.

Palm Springs International Film Society
Palm Springs, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 21st Palm Springs International Film Festival. Held in January, the event presents more than 200 films to an audience of approximately 130,000 people.

Phan, Aimee
Oakland, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the concert presentation of George Frideric Handel's opera Orlando (1733). Under the direction of music director Nicholas McGegan, the performances on period instruments will be presented in San Francisco, Berkeley, and Palo Alto.

Philharmonic Society of Orange County
Irvine, CA
$12,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support an artist residency, Steve Reich: A 75th Birthday Celebration. The project will feature a new work commissioned work by Reich composed for string quartet, premiered by the Kronos Quartet at the Renee and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall.

Piano Spheres
Los Angeles, CA
$12,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the commissioning and presentation of a new solo piano work. American composer Steven Stucky will create a new work that will be performed multiple times by several pianists in recital at Zipper Concert Hall at the Colburn School in Los Angeles and at a number of institutions of higher education.

Playwrights Foundation, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Bay Area Playwrights Festival. The festival brings professional and emerging playwrights from diverse aesthetic and cultural backgrounds together with other arts professionals in an intensive creative process to develop new work.

Poetry Flash
Berkeley, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and distribution of Poetry Flash, a free tabloid of event listings, readings, workshops, and literary news. Divided into geographical sections, Poetry Flash lists programs throughout California, the Pacific Northwest, and the Southwest.

Pro Arts
Oakland, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support Oakland Visionaries. The series of solo exhibitions will feature new work by Oakland-based artists.

Project Bandaloop
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the first phase in the creation and presentation of IdEgo, a new work choreographed by artistic director Amelia Rudolph, in collaboration with the dancers of Project Bandaloop, theater director Ellen Sebastian Chang, and sculptor/set designer Todd Laby.

Project X Foundation for Art and Criticism (aka X-TRA Magazine)
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the reviews section of X-Tra Magazine. A quarterly visual arts publication, X-Tra is distributed to galleries, museums, and art schools throughout Southern California and to subscribers across the country.

Public Design Studio (aka Public Architecture)
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the design and distribution of a pro-bono design innovation book by Public Architecture. The book will explore the power of architecture and pro-bono design services to nonprofit organizations.

Radio Bilingüe, Inc.
Fresno, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the 28th Viva el Mariachi Festival. The festival will feature outstanding local, national, and international mariachi bands and folkloric dance ensembles, as well as providing workshops for youth and community members to study with mariachi masters.

Regents of the University of California at Berkeley (on behalf of Pacific Film Archive)
Berkeley, CA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support Endangered Films and Videos: Preserving the Avant-Garde. More than 15 films and videos by Bay Area artists will be preserved by Pacific Film Archive.

Regents of the University of California at Los Angeles (on behalf of Hammer Museum)
Los Angeles, CA
$75,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the touring exhibition Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960-1980, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. Now Dig This! is the Hammer Museum's culmination of a two-year research project presenting a comprehensive survey of the work of African American artists during the period.

Regents of the University of California at Los Angeles (on behalf of Center for Intercultural Performance)
Los Angeles, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Asian Pacific Exchange Residency Fellowship Program, administered by the Center for Intercultural Performance. American performing artists will participate in workshops, master classes, and collaborative projects alongside Asian Pacific artists in Bali, Indonesia.

Regents of the University of California at Santa Barbara (on behalf of Arts & Letters)
Santa Barbara, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support ¡Viva el Arte de Santa Barbara!, a multidisciplinary arts project focusing on Mexican arts and artists presented by Arts & Lectures. Activities will include artist residencies and free performances for low-income communities and schools.

Rivecca, Suzanne
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

Riverside Community College District Foundation
Riverside, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support performances of Apollo: To the Moon, a multimedia theater production created by Kevin Reese and Mary Hall Surface. The presentations, targeted to grades 4 through 12, will be held at the March Field Air Museum and will include guided tours of the facility.

Robert Moses Kin
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation of The Cinderella Theory: Try These On, See if They Fit, a new work by artistic director Robert Moses. The work will premiere as the centerpiece of Robert Moses' Kin's 15th anniversary home series at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.

Sacatar Foundation
Pasadena, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Artists Communities
To support residencies that exchange artistic techniques between quilt-makers of Gees Bend, Alabama, and women artisans of Bahia, Brazil. The two disparate communities of the African Diaspora will exchange ideas and traditional lore and produce artworks that combine their traditional techniques.

Sacramento Philharmonic Orchestra Association, Inc.
Sacramento, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a community performance project featuring works by Chevalier de Saint Georges, Pastor Alonzo Morris, William Grant Still, Sergei Prokofiev, and George Gershwin. Under the direction of music director Michael Morgan, the orchestra will perform with the Paradise Baptist Church Choir at the Guild Theater and the Community Center Theater in Sacramento.

San Diego Asian Film Foundation (aka San Diego Asian Film Festival)
San Diego, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 11th San Diego Asian Film Festival. Held in the fall, the 10-day event features short films, animated works, documentaries, and narrative feature films.

San Diego Opera Association
San Diego, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a new production of Verdi's Nabucco. Activities designed around the production will include a student dress rehearsal for youth from schools in San Diego County and Tijuana, Mexico; pre-performance lectures; and an artists' roundtable discussion.

San Diego Repertory Theatre (aka San Diego REP)
San Diego, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a residency by Latino theater troupe Culture Clash to create new works. Ensemble members Richard Montoya, Herbert Siguenza and Ric Salinas will rehearse and perform a newly revised version of Culture Clash in AmeriCCa, and develop, design, and perform the world premiere of A Weekend with Pablo Picasso.

San Francisco Ballet Association
San Francisco, CA
$95,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of new works. Performances will take place at San Francisco's War Memorial Opera House.

San Francisco Camerawork, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support New Narrative Collaborations. The project will examine the relationship between photography and the literary arts.

San Francisco Chamber Orchestra, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support Meet Gabriela Frank, a special outreach initiative targeting the Latino community. Frank will present four free concerts of her new composition titled El Picaflor: Tone Poem for Violin and Orchestra. Other activities will include programming targeting elementary schools with predominantly Latino students and a free chamber music concert at a Latino community center.

San Francisco Chanticleer, Inc. (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$32,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a residency project of choral workshops, youth choral festivals, and a symposium. In partnership with the American Choral Directors Association-Western Division (Tucson) and other national educational residency collaborators, Chanticleer will present a series of day-long workshops and festivals for high school choruses and adult singers.

San Francisco Cinematheque
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support a curated film series. International Perspectives will feature contemporary international experimental film and video work.

San Francisco Contemporary Music Players
San Francisco, CA
$8,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support world premieres of chamber works by composers Brian Current, Manolis Manousakis, Ronald Bruce Smith, and Olly Wilson. The concerts will take place at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.

San Francisco Film Society
San Francisco, CA
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 53rd San Francisco International Film Festival and other related exhibition programs. Approximately 400 films will be shown to an estimated audience of 116,000 people.

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

San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 30th San Francisco Jewish Film Festival and related activities. The festival, devoted to films on Jewish subjects, presents the premieres of films and videos by independent producers from around the world.

San Francisco Mime Troupe, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$12,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the development and tour of a musical comedy titled Make or Break. The Tony Award-winning company will develop and produce an entertaining comedy that explores the connection between the need for alternative energy and the creation of new jobs.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
San Francisco, CA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the presentation of the touring exhibition Matisse, Picasso, and the Stein Family Collections, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will illuminate the Stein Family's role in the early 20th-century revolution in the visual arts through both their patronage and the intellectual and artistic stimulus of their salons.

San Francisco Opera Association
San Francisco, CA
$120,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Nibelung's Ring). Educational outreach and enrichment activities will include an Insight panel discussion in San Francisco's Herbst Theater featuring members of the cast and production team and preview lectures that will be held at various venues throughout the Bay Area.

San Francisco Symphony
San Francisco, CA
$70,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a composer residency by British composer George Benjamin. As part of the orchestra's Project San Francisco, the composer will conduct concerts of his works and participate in education programs during his two-week residency.

San Jose Multicultural Artists Guild, Inc.
San Jose, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support performances by Daniel Beaty of his one man show Emergence-SEE!. Beaty will also participate in post-show discussions and a master class.

Santa Barbara Opera Association
Santa Barbara, CA
$12,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support Opera Al Fresco! The admission-free concert will be held at the Sunken Gardens of the Santa Barbara County Courthouse.

Shotgun Players, Inc.
Berkeley, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development of Beardo, a new play by Jason Craig based on the life of Rasputin (1869-1916). Music will be composed by Dave Malloy.

Sierra Repertory Theatre, Inc.
Sonora, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support a production of Is He Dead?, a play by Mark Twain and adapted by David Ives. The organization will work with teachers to incorporate the play into their curriculums, create and distribute study guides, and present a student matinee.

Silent Film Festival (aka The San Francisco Silent Film Festival)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 15th San Francisco Silent Film Festival. Newly composed live music will accompany the films presented at the festival's 14 programs.

Siskiyou Performing Arts Center
Yreka, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Kids' Acting Network. Under the direction of teaching artist Marah Winslow, rural youth will follow a technical track or performance track culminating in performances for the community. Other participating artists will include videographer John Cumming, scenic artist Mary Carpelan, costume designer Bee Soule, and musician Gerry Smida.

Small Press Distribution, Inc.
Berkeley, CA
$60,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the development and dissemination of print and online outreach materials to market small press titles and journals to bookstores, libraries, educators, and other readers. Approximately 450 small and independent presses are represented.

Smuin Ballets-SF
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of new works. Performances will include a new piece by choreographer in residence Amy Seiwart and the company premiere of French Twist by dancer/choreographer Ma Cong.

Solnit, Rebecca
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

South Coast Repertory, Inc.
Costa Mesa, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the 13th Annual Pacific Playwrights Festival. The festival will include world premiere productions and workshop readings of new plays.

Southern California Asian American Studies Central (aka Visual Communications)
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support Visual Communication's 26th Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film and Video Festival. The eight-day festival is Southern California's showcase of independent Asian international and Asian Pacific American film and video work.

Stanford Jazz Workshop
Stanford, CA
$18,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the 2010 Stanford Jazz Festival. Programming will feature faculty and master teachers, emerging jazz artists, free events such as noontime jazz concerts and nightly jam sessions, and performances by students participating in the Jazz Camp and Jazz Residency Programs.

STEPOLOGY
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the annual Bay Area Tap Festival. The festival includes workshops, mainstage performances, a tap jam, a panel discussion, and other activities.

Stern Grove Festival Association
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support a series of free, outdoor music and dance performances. Artists will be presented on Sundays from June through August at the Sigmund Stern Grove amphitheater.

Theatre & Arts Foundation of San Diego County (aka La Jolla Playhouse)
La Jolla, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a fully staged production of Shah Mat. A new play by Naomi Iizuka, the piece will explore the way in which recent wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have impacted the city of San Diego.

TheatreWorks
Palo Alto, CA
$55,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the New Works Initiative. The program will foster the development of new plays and musicals through readings and workshops, a writer's retreat, the annual New Works Festival, and full productions of world premieres.

Thick Description (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the presentation of the American premiere of The Solitary, an original Arabic-language production created by Al-Khareef Theatre Troupe.

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

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

Voice of Roma
Sebastopol, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the 14th Annual California Herdeljezi Festival. The festival will honor ethnic Romani (Gypsy) heritage with the celebration of the Romani holiday Herdeljezi.

Wilderson III, Frank B.
Irvine, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

William James Association
Santa Cruz, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the tour of Deborah Tobola's play "Off the Hook."

Woodbury University
Burbank, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support Interventions Towards a Universal Specificity. A design team from the Valley Center, an outreach community design arm of Woodbury University's School of Architecture, will involve teachers and students at two local schools in the production and documentation of architecturally integrated universal design solutions that accommodate people with disabilities.

World Arts West
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the 32nd Annual San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival. The project will support a series of performances celebrating traditional dance from the diverse ethnic communities living in Northern California.

Yerba Buena Arts & Events (aka Yerba Buena Gardens Festival)
San Francisco, CA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival. The project will connect the diverse communities of the Bay Area in shared arts and cultural experiences presented by several local organizations.

Youth Speaks, Inc. (aka The Living Word Project)
San Francisco, CA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Living Word Project's Artist in Residence Program. Activities planned aim to nurture the development of work by writers and performers, as well as to facilitate a mentoring process.

ZeroOne - The Art and Technology Network (aka ZER01) (Consortium)
San Jose, CA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the commissioning component for Build Your Own World, the 01SJ Biennial. Held in San Jose, the biennial's theme for 2010 will investigate how artists, designers, engineers, and others can interpret and affect the future through the creation of artwork that intersects with technology and digital culture.

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


Number of Grants: 188          Total Amount: $4,426,000

 
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