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.

NEW YORK

13 Playwrights, Inc. (aka 13P)
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of The Zero Hour, a new play by Madeleine George. The play will be the 10th production by the company whose finite goal is to produce 13 plays, one by each of its 13 mid-career member playwrights.

A Public Space Literary Projects, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication of the quarterly literary magazine A Public Space. The journal will pair emerging writers with mentors to develop new pieces of fiction for publication.

Abdoh, Salar
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

Academy of American Poets, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of American Poet magazine. The Academy also will expand its online publishing initiative, poets.org, which serves nearly one million visitors each month.

African Film Festival
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 17th New York African Film Festival and the 13th edition of the African Film Festival Traveling Series, which will tour to 13 or more American cities. The program will showcase contemporary and classic films from Africa and the African diaspora.

Albany Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Albany, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the American Music Festival, Beyond Our Borders. Through numerous commissions, performances, and educational activities, the month-long festival will explore music and musicians from different traditions and cultures.

Alliance for Downtown New York, Inc. (on behalf of River to River Festival)
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the River to River Festival. Free outdoor activities in Lower Manhattan will include music performances and film screenings.

Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, Inc. (aka Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater)
New York, NY
$100,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's United States tour. The company will offer performances and outreach activities in communities across the United States.

Amas Musical Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the development of new musicals through the Amas Six O'Clock Musical Theatre Lab Series and workshop productions. The works in development will cover a broad range of subject matter and styles and support the theater's mission of celebrating diversity and minority perspectives, and its commitment to youth programming.

American Academy in Rome
New York, NY
$75,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support residency opportunities for visual artists. American artists will be given the opportunity to spend a year in Rome engaged in the creation, interpretation, and presentation of artistic work.

American Composers Orchestra, Inc.
New York, NY
$32,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Playing It Unsafe initiative. Through a series of activities designed to help composers develop new ideas that stretch their artistic vision, the initiative will be a season-long research and developmental laboratory for the creation of risk-taking new orchestral music.

American Documentary, Inc.
New York, NY
$60,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the digitization of filmmaker interviews that have accompanied works broadcast on the television series P.O.V. Since the series began in 1988, P.O.V. (Point of View) has featured companion interviews with the artists whose films have been presented as part of the series.

American Guild of Organists
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the biennial national convention. Plans for the 50th national convention in Washington, D.C. include performances, workshops, and lectures for both professional and amateur organists as well as choral conductors.

American Indian Artists, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the premiere of a new work, Thieves, by playwright William S. Yellow Robe, Jr. The playwright will collaborate with director Steve Elm on the development of the piece that explores the issue of cultural identity theft as experienced by the Native American community.

American Lyric Theater Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the Composer Librettist Development Program. The full-time resident artist program will provide professional training for emerging opera composers and librettists.

American Music Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$33,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support online services for new American music. Services will include www.NewMusicBox.org, a monthly web magazine about artists and issues in the new music community; the American Music Center Online Library, a searchable, encyclopedic database of contemporary American composers; and Counterstream Radio, an online radio station.

American Opera Projects, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the commission and developmental phase of Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, by composer and librettist Herschel Garfein and stage direction by Mark Morris. Based on the 1966 play and 1990 film by Tom Stoppard, the work will be transformed into a two-act opera for six principal roles, three smaller roles, and 16 instrumentalists.

American Symphony Orchestra League (aka League of American Orchestras)
New York, NY
$160,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support services designed to strengthen orchestras through learning and leadership development, research, and communications within the orchestra field. The League of American Orchestras will assist nearly 1,000 member orchestras of every size and type in all 50 states.

American Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the presentation of rarely performed works by established composers and Classics Declassified, an audience education series. Plans include performances of works by composers Henry Cowell, Boris Tchaikovsky, Boris Tishchenko, Robert Schumann, Gustav Holst, Arthur Bliss, Luigi Dallapiccola, Hans Werner Henze, and Albert Roussel.

American Tap Dance Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support Tap City, an annual summer tap festival. The festival offers training, education, special events, and performances.

Anthology Film Archives
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support several curated film series. Anthology Film Archives regularly presents classic and contemporary independent, experimental, international, and art house cinema with more than 900 programs per year.

Archipelago Books, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$54,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of works of fiction in translation. Proposed titles will be translated into English from German, Swedish, Russian, Arabic, Dutch, Polish, and Croatian.

Architectural League of New York
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support Urban Omnibus an online web-based forum. The website will encourage multi-disciplinary discussion concerning the past, present, and future of New York City's built environment.

Architectural League of New York (Consortium)
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the Current Work lecture series. In partnership with the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at the Cooper Union, the project will present a series of public lectures on architecture and design.

Armitage Foundation Ltd. (aka Armitage Gone! Dance)
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of "Three Theories," an evening-length work by choreographer and artistic director Karole Armitage.

Art Education for the Blind, Inc.
New York, NY
$60,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the Multi-site Museum Programmatic Accessibility Project. Focused on art museums and historic houses of all sizes, the project aims to support recent landmark accessibility legislation with case studies and practical tools.

Art Omi, Inc.
Ghent, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Artists Communities
To support the artist residency program. Musicians, writers, dancers, and visual artists will be provided room, board, and a place to work.

Art Sweats, Inc. (aka David Dorfman Dance)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of a new work by artistic director and choreographer David Dorfman. The work will be presented on a national tour by David Dorfman Dance.

Arts & Cultural Council for Greater Rochester, Inc.
Rochester, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support a cultural planning process for the 10-county greater Rochester region. The planning process will identify priorities and strategies for arts and culture and build community consensus around the integration of the arts with other regional industries in the greater Rochester area.

Arts Engine, Inc. (aka Media That Matters Film Festival/MediaRights)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 10th annual Media That Matters Film Festival. The touring program features short film and video artworks produced by independent and young filmmakers from across the United States.

Asia Society
New York, NY
$75,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the touring exhibition Pilgrimage and Buddhist Art, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will explore the impact of Buddhist pilgrimage practices and traditions on Asian artistic production.

Atlantic Theater Company
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Stage 2 New Play Development and Production Program. The program develops new works by emerging and established playwrights.

Ballet Hispanico of New York, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a national tour and the premiere of new works in honor of the company's 40th anniversary. In conjunction with the tour, the company will offer a range of Primeros Pasos (First Steps) dance education activities and performances tailored to the specific needs of the communities.

Ballet Theatre Foundation, Inc. (aka American Ballet Theatre)
New York, NY
$100,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation of a new production of Piotr Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker, choreographed by American Ballet Theatre's artist in residence, Alexei Ratmansky. The new production will premiere at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and will eventually tour both nationally and internationally.

Bang on a Can, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support performances by the Bang on a Can All-Stars ensemble in venues around the country. Concerts will take place in New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Iowa City (IA), Eugene (OR), and in Lincoln (NE).

Bard College (on behalf of Words Without Borders)
Annandale-Hudson, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support publication of Words Without Borders, an interactive website devoted to international literature. The free-of-charge website features audio recordings, nonfiction, short stories, poems, and novel excerpts drawn from more than 66 languages in 86 countries.

Bard College (on behalf of Conjunctions)
Annandale-Hudson, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of the journal Conjunctions. Published twice a year, each issue of the journal has a unifying theme and averages more than 400 pages.

Bard College (on behalf of Bard Music Festival)
Annandale-Hudson, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Bard Music Festival. The festival will explore the world and music of Austrian composer Alban Berg and his contemporaries by presenting a range of musical forms including symphonic, orchestral, and choral concerts.

Bargemusic, Ltd.
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a residency with the Flux String Quartet. Concerts will take place on a floating barge at the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge and will feature performances by the quartet including one with guest artist and saxophonist Oliver Lake and related educational activities.

Big Tree Productions, Inc. (aka Tere O'Connor Dance)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of an evening-length work by choreographer Tere O'Connor. The work will be created in collaboration with composer James Baker.

BOA Editions, Ltd.
Rochester, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the production, promotion, and related expenses for new volumes of poetry and fiction. Scheduled authors include Peter Makuck, Wyn Cooper, Craig Morgan Teicher, Anne Germanacos, Barbara Jane Reyes, Jeanne Marie Beaumont, and Sean Thomas Dougherty.

Borough of Manhattan Community College Performing Arts Center, Inc. (aka Tribeca Performing Arts Center)
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Tribeca Performing Arts Center's Lost Jazz Shrines. The performance series will honor three musician-run venues of the 1970s and '80s: the late drummer Rashid Ali's Ali's Alley; pianist and NEA Jazz Master Barry Harris' Jazz Cultural Theatre; and saxophonist-composer Sam Rivers' Studio Rivbea.

Bowery Arts and Science, Ltd.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of books of poetry. Authors include Cynthia Kraman, Fay Chiang, Celena Glenn, Rachel McKibbens, and Ishle Yi Park.

Bronx Council on the Arts, Inc.
Bronx, NY
$24,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the studio production, distribution and marketing of CDs for "under the radar" Bronx artists as part of the Bronx Indie Professional Development Series.

Bronx Museum of the Arts (Consortium)
Bronx, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a touring exhibition of the work of Chilean-born, New York-based artist Juan Downey (1940-1993), with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition is being co-organized with the List Visual Arts Center at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Brooklyn Information & Culture, Inc. (on behalf of Celebrate Brooklyn Performing Arts Festival)
Brooklyn, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support BRIC's "Influencers" series of the Celebrate Brooklyn Performing Arts Festival. Free performances will be presented at the Prospect Park Bandshell.

Brooklyn Institute of Arts & Sciences (aka Brooklyn Museum)
Brooklyn, NY
$75,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the touring exhibition Before the Fall: Art of the American Twenties, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The Brooklyn Museum exhibition will aim to provide a holistic view of American art during the period, examining the era's dominant realist aesthetic.

Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra Society, Inc.
Buffalo, NY
$22,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the premiere of a percussion concerto by composer Eric Ewazen and related educational activities. Titled Drums over the Niagara, the new work will be performed with Scottish percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie.

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

Canandaigua Lake Chamber Music Festival, Inc.
Canandaigua, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support performances by the Amelia Piano Trio and the Anderson & Roe Piano Duo. These performances will be part of the 2010 Canandaigua Lake Chamber Music Festival to be held in the rural Finger Lakes region of New York.

Capoeira Foundation, Inc. (aka DanceBrazil)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by DanceBrazil's choreographer and artistic director Jelon Vieira. The evening-length piece, titled Fluxo & Refluxo (Flux and Re-flux), will explore the cultural, historical, and religious connections between Brazil and Africa through a fusion of capoeira and Afro-Brazilian dance.

Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, Inc.
Katonah, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the International Music Festival. The six-week summer festival will feature a music and nature theme throughout the programming.

Career Transition For Dancers, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a series of career-counseling seminars for dancers. The National Outreach Project will take place in Austin, Charleston, Cleveland, Las Vegas, Nashville, and New Orleans.

Carnegie Hall Society, Inc.
New York, NY
$96,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Japan Festival. Maestro Seiji Ozawa will serve as artistic director of a festival of presentations showcasing Japan's cultural traditions alongside its openness to cutting-edge technologies and ideas.

CAVE Organization, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the New York Butoh-Kan Teaching Residency and Training Initiative. Butoh dance masters will offer workshops and create a new work with the New York dance community.

Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Arts (aka CEPA Gallery)
Buffalo, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the exhibition Art of War. The exhibition will feature an international group of artists working in a variety of photo-related media to address recent global conflicts.

Center for Photography at Woodstock, Inc.
Woodstock, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a residency program for photographers. Artists will be provided studio and darkroom access, equipment, an honorarium, lodging, and meals for residencies as long as six weeks.

Center for Urban Pedagogy, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support Making Policy Public, a collaborative communication design project. A series of socially engaged publication design and media projects will be developed to explain complex public policy issues.

Chamber Music America, Inc.
New York, NY
$114,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the National Leadership Initiative. Designed to build leadership skills in the chamber music field, the project will provide professional services to members through consultancies, on-site technical assistance, special publications, a website, and a national conference in New York City.

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Inc.
New York City, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Chamber Music Society Two, a professional development program for artists in the early stages of their careers. Musicians participating in the residency will receive coaching and performance opportunities with master artists.

Cherry Lane Alternative, Inc. (aka Cherry Lane Theatre)
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the 12th year of the Obie Award-winning Mentor Project.

Children's Museum of Manhattan (aka G.A.M.E.)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support Access Arts Festivals, museum after-hours events. Planned activities include live performances by selected artists, hands-on arts-based workshops, visual arts exhibitions, and readings by children's book authors targeted to low-income New York City youth.

Children's Museum of the Arts
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Lunar New Year Arts Festival. The second annual festival will showcase work by contemporary Chinese American artists, as well as traditional Chinese visual and performing arts.

China Institute in America, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the exhibition, Confucius, with accompanying education programs. The exhibition is being organized in collaboration with the Shandong Provincial Museum and the Qufu Confucius Museum in China.

Cities at Peace Inc. (aka City at Peace)
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the development and production of a new, original work of musical theater written and performed by a cast of New York City teenagers. The script will be developed from participants' life stories and will focus on communicating their ideas for change.

City Parks Foundation
New York, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Arts for All: A Citywide Festival of dance, music, and theater. Free performances will be presented at public parks in New York City.

Civilians, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and workshop production of The Great Immensity, a theatrical project by writer/director Steve Cosson and composer Michael Friedman, with projections by filmmaker David Ford. The project examines the effects of climate change on the natural world through interviews with scientists and those experiencing the changes already occurring.

Clarion Music Society, Inc.
New York, NY
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a series of concerts featuring Baroque choral works with related educational activities. Performances of works by composers Claudio Monteverdi and J.S. Bach will take place in New York City churches.

Classical Theatre of Harlem, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support Project Classic: Theatre in Public Housing, an audience development initiative. The project will bring a series of plays to a community center located in a major low-income housing project in Harlem.

Clubbed Thumb, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the 15th annual Summerworks '10 festival of new plays. The project will consist of full productions of new plays and an evening of thematically linked short pieces by different writers who will use New York's subway lines as their central focus.

College Community Services, Inc. (aka Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Br)
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts' World of Dance Series. The series comprises cultural dance forms from Brazil, Israel, and Jamaica, in addition to classical and modern dance forms, with the incorporation of live world music and storytelling.

Columbia University in the City of New York (on behalf of Miller Theater)
New York, NY
$12,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Composer Portraits Series, a performance and residency program presented at Miller Theater. Plans include four concerts each focused on a single composer: Benet Casablancas, Sebastian Currier, Helmut Lachenmann, and Lou Reed; commissions; and composer discussions.

Community Works
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support a series of dance, music, and theater presentations at the Dwyer Cultural Center. The series will feature performances, exhibitions, and film screenings.

Complexions-A Concept In Dance (aka Complexions Contemporary Ballet)
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation of a new work choreographed by Complexions Contemporary Ballet co-artistic director Dwight Rhoden. The work will premiere at the Joyce Theater.

Concert Artists Guild, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support career development of emerging classical musicians through national concert engagements. In diverse venues across the country, 75 performance opportunities will enable 18 artists/ensembles on the Concert Artists Guild roster to polish their performance and communication skills.

Cool Culture, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Arts Education for Everyone Campaign, a marketing initiative to promote selected New York City cultural destinations to nontraditional audiences. Low-income audiences will be targeted through the campaign that will promote events at the Bronx Museum of Art, Museum of Chinese in America, Queens Museum of Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and the NYC Transit Museum.

Copland House
Cortlandt Manor, NY
$11,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support concerts exploring 150 years of American compositions. Performances will feature guest artists and the founding resident ensemble Music from Copland House.

Corporation of Yaddo (aka Yaddo)
Saratoga Springs, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Artists Communities
To support artist residencies for first-time applicants at Yaddo. Artists from various disciplines will receive housing, meals, and a fully equipped studio or workspace.

Creative Time, Inc. (aka Creative Time)
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support Key to the City, a public art project by Paul Ramirez Jonas. The project will re-imagine the symbolic "key to the city" as an actual master key, available to everyday citizens to unlock more than 30 sites across the five boroughs of New York City.

CUE Art Foundation
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a solo exhibition series featuring the work of under-recognized artists, with accompanying catalogues. Artists are selected by a rotating group of curators, selected annually by a curatorial advisory committee.

Cunningham Dance Foundation, Inc. (aka Merce Cunningham Dance Company)
New York, NY
$100,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a national tour of repertory works as part of the "Legacy Tour."

D.U.M.B.O. Arts Center
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the D.U.M.B.O. Art Under the Bridge Festival. The three-day, 30-block festival includes site-specific public art, video screenings and installations, open studios, and projections.

Dance Continuum, Inc. (aka Susan Marshall & Company)
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation of a new, short-form dance by artistic director Susan Marshall. The dance will serve as a companion piece to the Susan Marshall & Company's most recent work, Frame Dances.

Dance New Amsterdam, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the Artist in Residence program. The project will include a teaching residency, through which artists teach in the Modern Guest Artist Program, and a performing residency, through which artists are commissioned to present their work in a concert.

Dance Notation Bureau, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the Digital Transcription of Dance Scores project. The scores will be transcribed using a software program called LabanWriter.

Dance Theatre Etcetera, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the 17th annual Red Hook Waterfront Arts Festival. Free outdoor music, dance, and spoken-word performances will be presented in conjunction with a youth film festival, arts workshops, and a parade.

Dance Theatre Workshop, Inc.
New York, NY
$90,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of dance companies in the Commissioning and Residency Program, Fresh Tracks Performance and Residency Program, and the Studio Performance and Residency Series. Each program will include pre- and post-performance discussions, Web-based interviews with the dance companies' artistic directors and dancers, blogs, special studio showings, and panel discussions during the residencies.

DanceWorks, Inc. (aka Pentacle)
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support Pentacle's mentoring program ARC II Advancement, Reinvention, and Creativity. The project will mentor artists in New York, Chicago, and San Francisco.

Danspace Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the Choreographic Center Without Walls project, a multi-year research and development project. The project will include guest curated dance "platforms," by curators Ralph Lemon, Juliette Map, and Melinda Ring.

Dia Center for the Arts (aka Dia Art Foundation)
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a touring retrospective exhibition of the work of German artist Blinky Palermo (1943-1977). The exhibition is organized with the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College and will be presented jointly at both institutions.

Discalced, Inc. (aka Mark Morris Dance Group)
Brooklyn, NY
$65,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a new work and the revival of a work choreographed by Mark Morris. The Mark Morris Dance Group will tour the works throughout the United States.

DOVA, Inc. (aka Doug Varone and Dancers)
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of Chapters from a Broken Novel, an evening-length work by choreographer and artistic director Doug Varone. Composer David Van Tieghem will create an original score to accompany the piece.

Drawing Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the touring exhibition Leon Golub: Live + Die Like a Lion, with accompanying catalogue. This will be the first museum exhibition to focus on Golub's (1922-2004) late drawings from 2000 to 2004.

Early Music Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support English and German Roots of the American Orchestra concerts. Two programs performed by the resident Orchestra of Original Instruments are planned of music from the 17th- through the early 19th-centuries with related educational activities.

Eldridge Street Project, Inc. (aka Museum at Eldridge Street)
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the 11th Annual Egg Rolls & Egg Creams Festival. The event celebrates traditions and art forms from the Chinese and Eastern European Jewish communities.

Electronic Arts Intermix, Inc.
New York, NY
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the Artists' Videotape Distribution Service. Through an online catalogue, works will be made available to libraries, educational institutions, community centers, museums, and other organizations.

Elevator Repair Service Theater, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and premiere of The Sun Also Rises, adapted from Ernest Hemingway's novel. Artistic Director John Collins will direct.

En Foco, Inc.
Bronx, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support publication of the bilingual photography journal Nueva Luz. Each issue will feature the work of emerging photographers of color, an essay by a guest critic/editor, and a comprehensive listing of career opportunities and other resources for photographers.

Evidence, Inc. (aka Evidence, A Dance Company)
Brooklyn, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support Evidence's home series at the Joyce Theater in New York Cityand national tour during the company's 25th anniversary. The company conducts outreach activities in every city it tours.

Eyebeam Atelier, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Artists Communities
To support the artist residency and fellowship programs. Participating artists will have access to technology equipment and technicians, otherwise not available to them, enabling creation or completion of their work.

Fence Magazine, Inc.
Albany, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of Fence magazine, titles by Fence Books, and a catalogue. Scheduled poetry titles include Ben Doller's Dead Ahead, Aaron Kunin's The Sore Throat, and Martin Corless-Smith's English Fragments/A Brief History of the Soul.

Fiji Theater Company, Inc. (aka Ping Chong & Company)
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and production of new theater works in Ping Chong & Company's Undesirable Elements Series. The project is an ongoing series of documentary plays created in collaboration with communities that explores the evolving concepts of race, identity, and culture in America.

Film Society of Lincoln Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$60,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support New Voices in World Cinema, which will include several curated film series. The programs to be presented are the New Directors/New Films Festival; Latinbeat, showcasing the work of filmmakers from Latin America and the Caribbean; and Film Comment Selects, focusing on new and established artists.

Foundation for Independent Artists, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of new works by choreographers Art Bridgman and Myrna Packer, Nora Chipaumire, Nicholas Leichter, and Ben Munisteri. The works will be performed in New York City and on a national tour.

Foundry Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of Alone on Stage: David Greenspan's Solos. The project will consist of three solo works for the stage by playwright and performer David Greenspan, which include The Argument, Stein's Plays, and The Myopia: an Epic Burlesque of Tragic Proportion.

Four Way Books, Inc.
New York, NY
$42,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication, promotion, and distribution of books of poetry. Scheduled authors include Priscilla Becker, David Dodd Lee, Jamie Ross, Daniel Tobin, Monica Youn, and Megan Staffel.

Free Arts for Abused Children of New York City, Inc. (aka Free Arts NYC)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Youth Theatre Program performed and facilitated by the Striking Viking Story Pirates. The teaching artists will lead a series of creative writing and theater workshops for participating youth. The workshops will culminate by providing the youth an opportunity to create sculptures of their characters and observe a performance showcasing their stories.

Garth Fagan Dance, Inc.
Rochester, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the expansion of touring opportunities. Garth Fagan Dance will provide discounts to presenters that would not normally be able to afford a modern dance company of their size and stature.

Girls Write Now, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support readings and community outreach. Events for at-risk girls will include a panel discussion with professional women authors about literary careers, to be held at Barnard College. Past guest artists have included authors Judy Blundell, Annete Gordon-Reed, and Jenny Lumet.

Glimmerglass Opera, Inc.
Cooperstown, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support performances of Aaron Copland's The Tender Land. Educational activities related to the productions will include pre-season lectures and pre-performance talks.

Gotham Chamber Opera, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the commission, development, and premiere of Dark Sisters, by composer Nico Muhly and librettist Stephen Karam. The opera will serve as the centerpiece of the company's 10th anniversary season.

Gotham Dance, Inc. (aka Bebe Miller Company)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a new work choreographed by artistic director Bebe Miller. History will simultaneously exist as an archive, a laboratory process, and a performance work.

Great Small Works, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Ninth International Toy Theater Festival. The project will be presented at St. Ann's warehouse in Brooklyn.

Group I Acting Company, Inc. (aka The Acting Company)
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support The Acting Company's development of an adaptation of Alice in Wonderland by commissioned playwright Kira Obolensky. Development will take place through a series of workshop productions directed by Will Pomerantz.

Hamilton Hill Drop-in Arts & Crafts Center
Schenectady, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Juneteenth Celebration. The outdoor festival will feature the gospel quartet Legendary Soul Stirrers and hip-hop artists De La Soul.

Heart of Brooklyn Cultural Institutions, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Jazz: Brooklyn's Beat, a multiple presenting organization collaborative. Jazz concerts for borough residents and visitors will take place at the Brooklyn Museum, Botanic Gardens, Prospect Park and Zoo, Brooklyn Public Library, and Children's Museum.

Hohn, Donovan
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

Home for Contemporary Theatre and Art, Ltd. (aka HERE Arts Center)
New York, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the HERE Arts Center Artist Residency Program, directed by Artistic Director Kristin Marting. The project will support mid-career performing and visual artists working as collaborative teams.

Hudson Opera House, Inc.
Hudson, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Global Stories multidisciplinary series. Performances, readings, and exhibitions will be augmented by workshops and educational sessions with collaborating public schools and community service organizations.

Hudson Vagabond Puppets, Inc.
Blauvelt, NY
$12,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the rebuilding of the 1987 production Guess Who Signed the Constitution conceived by Lois Bohovesky, book and lyrics by Bernie Garzia, and music by Andrew Wilder. Artistic director Edward Winslow will direct with new puppets designed by Peter Bohovesky.

id Theatre, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, with accompanying outreach activities. Artistic Director Jeni Mahoney will lead professional theater artists as they mentor their local counterparts, students, and community members in the artistic process.

Independent Curators International
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a touring exhibition of the work of American artist Martha Wilson (b. 1947), with accompanying catalogue and education programs. Titled Staging the Self, the exhibition is being co-organized with Canada's Dalhousie Art Gallery at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Independent Media Arts Preservation Inc
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support workshops and related activities on the preservation of media collections. The workshops will be held at not-for-profit organizations across the United States.

Indo-American Arts Council, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 10th Mahindra IAAC Film Festival. Held in the fall, the festival presents narrative feature films, short works, and documentaries made by, about, or featuring persons of (east) Indian origin.

Inta, Inc. (aka Eiko & Koma)
New York, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of the second phase of the Retrospective Project. Choreographers Eiko & Koma will present their work at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church in New York City, and at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.

International Center of Photography (Consortium)
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the touring exhibition Jasper, Texas, an exhibition of the work of African American photographer Alonzo Jordan (1903-1984), with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The project is a collaboration between ICP and Documentary Arts, Inc. in Dallas, Texas.

International Foundation for Art Research, Inc. (aka IFAR)
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support publication of the IFAR Journal. The quarterly publication provides current information on issues of authenticity, ownership, theft, looting, and other scholarly and ethical issues concerning art objects.

International Print Center New York
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the New Prints Program. The series of exhibitions is designed to bring printmaking to a wider audience.

Irondale Productions, Inc. (aka Irondale Ensemble Project)
Brooklyn, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and world premiere of Murrow's Boys and Their Descendants, a documentary play created by Artistic Director Jim Niesen with members of the Irondale Ensemble Project. The play will dramatize the creation of the CBS radio news division under Edward R. Murrow, interwoven with an exploration of the news habits of today's public.

Jacob Burns Film Center, Inc.
Pleasantville, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support a curated film series. International Understanding Through Film will feature more than 100 films from China, Germany, India, Iran, Israel, Italy, and Poland and will include documentaries that focus on international issues.

Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Inc.
Jamaica, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support Jamaica Flux: Workspaces & Windows. The project will commission site-specific work by 25 artists in indoor and outdoor spaces along Jamaica Avenue in the New York City borough of Queens.

Japan Society, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the exhibition Bye, Bye Kitty!!! Between Heaven and Hell in Contemporary Japanese Art, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will present work by younger artists that departs from the prevailing semi-ironic, child-like narratives of the so called "Hello Kitty" aesthetic of recent years.

Jazz at Lincoln Center, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Festival. In addition to activities in New York City, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will host a regional one-day Essentially Ellington Festival; provide performance, clinic/workshop, and rehearsal space; and identify high school jazz bands from across the state as participants.

Jazz at Lincoln Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$60,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a concert series by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. The orchestra, under the direction of trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, and guest artists will perform works to inspire and extend audiences for jazz and encourage the continued development of the art form.

Jazz Forum Arts, Inc.
Dobbs Ferry, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the 2010 Jazz Forum Arts Free Summer Concerts series. More than 50 live performances will take place in community parks and other public venues in 13 ethnically and economically diverse New York State communities with limited access to live music.

Jazz Gallery
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Jazz Troubadours: Taking Music to the Neighborhood, an outreach initiative. Created to present jazz in the Lower Manhattan South Village (Hudson Square), concerts/performances by ensembles ranging from solo guitar to 19-piece big band will take place in cafes and restaurants, hotels, parks, and playgrounds.

Jewish Museum (Consortium)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 2010 New York Jewish Film Festival, a joint project with the Film Society of Lincoln Center. Held in January, the festival presents narrative feature films, short works, and documentaries to an audience of approximately 10,000 people.

Jewish Museum
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the touring exhibition Conjuring Houdini, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. Harry Houdini (1874-1926) was a world-renowned magician and escape artist who emerged from a Jewish Hungarian immigrant family in Appleton, Wisconsin, to create a stunningly influential career as an entertainer.

José Limón Dance Foundation
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the Limón Dance Company's home tour in New York City, which will feature the revivals of José Limón masterworks, There is a Time (1956) and La Malinche (1949). The home tour seeks to expand and diversify the company's home-base constituency with a variety of related outreach programs, as well as to preserve the important masterworks of its founder, José Limón.

Joyce Theater Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$90,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the Dance Presentation Program. Dance companies will be presented at the Joyce Theater, the Joyce SoHo, and other New York City venues.

Keigwin and Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a new work created by artistic director Larry Keigwin and his company. The work will be created during a four-week residency hosted by DANCEworks, a joint partnership between SUMMERDANCE Santa Barbara and the historic Lobero Theatre in Santa Barbara.

Kings Majestic Corporation (aka 651 ARTS)
Brooklyn, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support a series of multidisciplinary performances and residencies at 651 Arts. Artists from the United States and abroad will participate in education and outreach activities.

Lark Theatre Company, Inc. (aka Lark Play Development Center) (Consortium)
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Middle East America Program. In partnership with Silk Road Theatre Project of Chicago, the company will create a program dedicated to providing a pipeline for plays by American writers of Middle Eastern descent.

Lark Theatre Company, Inc. (aka Lark Play Development Center)
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Open Access Program. The project will provide selected playwrights access to development support and advancement efforts for their new works.

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$46,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's 2010 Summer Institute for Individual Artists. In partnership with Creative Capital, the professional development program will provide intensive training to individual artists.

Lubovitch Dance Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by choreographer Lar Lubovitch. The work will premiere at Chicago's Harris Theater, and then be presented at New York's City Center and on tour.

Mabou Mines Development Foundation, Inc. (aka Mabou Mines)
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and premiere of Corn, a new work by Julie Archer and Liza Lorwin. The project will feature film and photographic projections, narrative performance, live music, a live sound effects score, and static trapeze.

MadCat Women's International Film Festival
Brooklyn, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 14th MadCat Women's International Film Festival and national tour. Approximately 75 films will be presented to an audience of 5,000 people.

Maimouna Keita School of African Dance Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the 18th Annual African Dance and Drum Conference: Sila Djiguiba. The project will present a series of workshops and a concert devoted to traditional African music and techniques.

Manhattan Class Company, Inc. (aka MCC Theater)
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and production of the world premiere of Side Effects by Michael Weller. Austin Pendleton will direct the production, with set design by Neil Patel and lighting design by Michelle Habeck.

Manhattan Theatre Club, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development of work by emerging and established playwrights in the Artistic Development Program. Script evaluation, readings, commissions, and dramaturgy will further new plays and musicals toward full-scale productions.

Marilyn Horne Foundation
New York, NY
$13,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the On Wings of Song Recital Series. Recitals will be presented in New York, Santa Barbara, and Santa Monica as part of the On Wings of Song series and recorded for later broadcast on WQXR-FM.

Maverick Concerts, Inc.
Woodstock, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the 95th annual summer chamber music festival. Programming will include the world premiere of a new work by composer Daren Hagen-a chamber orchestra version of his 2001 composition Seven Last Words-and a regional premiere of Libby Larsen's Sonnets from the Portuguese.

Meet The Composer, Inc.
New York, NY
$100,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Creative Frontiers initiative. The program is designed to expand the service organization's reach by utilizing regional, virtual, and networking opportunities.

Meruane, Lina
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the exhibition From Xanadu to Dadu--The World of Khubilai Khan, with accompanying education programs. The exhibition centers on the most significant part of the Mongol empire, encompassing China and Mongolia from 1215 to the end of the Yuan dynasty in 1368.

Metropolitan Opera Association, Inc. (aka The Met)
New York, NY
$125,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a new production of The Nose, by Dmitri Shostakovich. Renowned Shostakovich interpreter Valery Gergiev will conduct a cast led by Tony-award winning baritone Paulo Szot, tenor Andrei Popov, and tenor Gordon Gietz.

Metropolitan Opera Association, Inc. (aka The Met) (Consortium)
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support The Met: HD Live in Schools Education Program. In collaboration with the New York City Department of Education, the project will serve students in New York City high schools, one in each borough.

Millay Colony for the Arts, Inc.
Austerlitz, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Artists Communities
To support artist residencies for composers, writers, and visual artists. Participating artists will be provided separate studios and living quarters.

Millennium Film Workshop, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the exhibition of experimental film and video art. Exhibitions will feature avant-garde cinema and video from the United States and abroad.

Mint Theater Company
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a revival of A Little Journey by Rachel Crothers. Originally produced on Broadway in 1918, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the play tells the story of a disillusioned young woman leaving New York to return to her family in the West after her money and luck have run out.

Mount Saint Mary College
Newburgh, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the presentation of No Child, a one-woman play written and performed by Nilaja Sun. The play will be performed for high school students and teachers from Newburgh Free Academy. The students will also participate in pre- and post-performance discussions with the artist, college faculty, and teachers.

Movement Research, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the 2010 Movement Research Spring and Fall Festivals. The festivals will include a series of free and low-cost dance performances, classes, and workshops.

Moving Image, Inc. (aka Film Forum)
New York, NY
$125,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the theatrical premieres of American independent and foreign films at Film Forum. Film Forum is devoted to bringing the highest quality new work by young and emerging artists, as well as by more established figures, to a large and diverse public.

Muae Publishing, Inc. (aka Kaya Press)
New York, NY
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and printing of Asian American literature. The press plans to promote its titles with reading tours, conference appearances, on the Internet, and through direct mail.

Museum for African Art
Long Island City, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the touring exhibition Dogon Now: Masks in Motion, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will present and interpret the evolution of Dogon (Mali) mask dancers and sculpture that have, over the years, assimilated modernity into traditional forms.

Museum of Biblical Art
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the exhibition An Uneasy Communion: Jews, Christians, and the Altarpieces of Medieval Aragon, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will explore the collaboration of Jewish and Christian artists who created art for both the Catholic church and the Jewish community.

Museum of Chinese in the Americas
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support Chinese Holiday Festival Series. The project will celebrate the traditions of Chinese Americans through festivals connected to significant Chinese holidays.

Music at the Anthology, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the 12th annual festival of new music at (Le) Poisson Rouge in Manhattan. The festival will include new works by young composers.

Music-Theatre Group, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support development of Dark Sisters by composer Nico Muhly and librettist Stephen Karam. The musical is a modern day fairy tale inspired by the teachings of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints, media interviews, and the wives of Joseph Smith.

Musical Chairs Chamber Ensemble, Inc.
Staten Island, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support a series of concerts featuring new compositions by Mohammad Fairouz and Andrew Sterman. The performances and related lectures will be presented at the Staten Island and Tibetan Museums.

National Alliance for Musical Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$85,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the 22nd annual Festival of New Musicals and Fall Conference. The festival and conference will bring together musical theater writers and industry professionals with the goal of developing and nurturing new musicals.

National Asian American Theatre Company
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a the world premiere of "A Play on War" based on Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage, directed by Rubén Polendo. The production will feature an all Asian American cast.

New 42nd Street, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the presentation of theater works for young audiences by international and national companies. The productions will be accompanied by arts education programs, ancillary outreach activities, and paid job training programs for youth.

New Community Cinema Club, Inc. (aka Cinema Arts Centre)
Huntington, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support several curated film series at the Cinema Arts Centre. The program will include silent films, films on art and artists, and documentaries from the United States and abroad.

New Dramatists, Inc.
New York, NY
$75,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development of new work for the theater in the Playwrights Lab. The initiative will support resident playwrights through writer-driven readings and a workshop series.

New Group, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the world premiere of The Kid, a new musical with music by Andy Monroe, lyrics by Jack Lechner, and libretto by Michael Zam. The musical will be based on the best-selling memoir of the same name by Dan Savage.

New School University (on behalf of New School Concerts)
New York, NY
$11,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the New School Concerts' New York String Seminar Program for emerging young musicians. The professional development program, directed by violinist and conductor Jaime Laredo, will culminate in two concerts at Carnegie Hall in New York City.

New York Chinese Cultural Center, Inc. (aka Dance China NY)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of two new works by Dance China NY artistic director Jiang Qi. Both pieces will draw upon classic Chinese movements and will incorporate video elements and live music accompaniment.

New York City Ballet, Inc.
New York, NY
$100,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of new music and choreography in tribute to the 50th anniversary of Lincoln Center. The celebration will feature performances from the company's repertory along with a newly designed stage setting by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava.

New York City Opera, Inc. (aka City Opera)
New York, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a performance of Puccini's Madama Butterfly. City Opera will present in-school, out-of-school, and adult education programs that reach out to diverse communities.

New York Festival of Song, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support New American Works, a performance project featuring the premiere of a new song cycle by Harold Meltzer and new works by John Corigliano and Mark Adamo. The program will be presented at Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center in New York City.

New York Pops, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support The Best of Lerner and Loewe, a concert program celebrating the collaborations between librettist and lyricist Alan Jay Lerner and composer Frederick Loewe. Music director conductor Steven Reineke will direct the program at Carnegie Hall in New York City.

New York Shakespeare Festival (aka The Public Theater)
New York, NY
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of Snake, a new play by Suzan-Lori Parks, at the Public Theater. The play examines the complex dynamic of an American family confronting the deteriorating effects of distance and time on their relationships.

Nikolais/Louis Foundation for Dance (aka Nikolais/Louis)
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support performances by the Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company of Salt Lake City of select Alwin Nikolais works as part of the Alwin Nikolais Centennial celebration. Spanning two years and two continents, the celebration will include outreach activities at the Abron Center/Henry Street Settlement and the Joyce Theater, as well as an exhibit at the New York Public Library of the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center.

Noche Flamenca, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a tour of flamenco dance across the United States. While on tour, the company will offer a variety of outreach events.

Ogdensburg Command Performances, Inc.
Ogdensburg, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support performances of The Adventures of Harold and the Purple Crayon, produced by Enchantment Theatre. Reduced-price tickets will be available for organizations such as the Ogdensburg Boys and Girls Club and the St. Lawrence Psychiatric Center.

One Story, Inc. (aka One Story)
Brooklyn, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of the literary journal One Story. Each issue features one short story by one writer.

openhousenewyork inc. (aka OHNY)
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the eighth annual openhousenewyork weekend. The event tours all five boroughs and provides access to buildings and facilities not typically open to the public celebrating the architectural and design significance of New York City's built environment.

Opera America, Inc.
New York, NY
$110,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the continued development of web and multi-media resources and publications to provide access to and documentation of the opera field. The national service organization for opera will provide essential support to member artists and companies in realizing artistic excellence and service to their local communities.

Opera America, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the Singer Workshop Series. The service organization will collaborate with Boston Lyric Opera to design singer training workshops in Boston, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, and Baltimore.

Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Inc.
New York, NY
$21,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support multi-state touring on the East Coast. The orchestra will perform concerts in multiple venues in New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, and Georgia.

Page Seventy-Three Productions, Inc. (aka Page 73)
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the theater's early-career playwright development initiatives. Project components offer unproduced emerging playwrights tools to shepherd new plays from initial draft to production-ready script.

Pamphlet Architecture, Ltd.
New York, NY
$14,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the publication, Pamphlet Architecture 30 and jury and website costs for Pamphlet Architecture 31. The international competition is open to all architects, landscape architects, urbanists, and designers.

Pascal Rioult Dance Theatre, Inc. (aka RIOULT)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a work set to music by J.S. Bach by choreographer Pascal Rioult. The new work will premiere as part of the company's New York season at The Joyce Theater.

Paul Taylor Dance Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$100,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of works by artisticdirector and choreographer Paul Taylor. The works will be presented at the company's home season at New York's City Center and on a national tour.

Performance Space 122, Inc. (aka P.S. 122)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and premiere of new commissioned works. Planned projects include Ads by Richard Maxwell and Gin and It by Reid Farrington.

Performance Zone, Inc. (aka The Field)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support The Field's outreach and capacity-building programs, including the 2010 annual conference and creative residencies for dance artists. The Field programs support the creation of new art and strengthen career development of artists working in dance, theater, music, text, and performance art.

Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York, Inc. (aka New York Philharmonic)
New York, NY
$70,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support an artist residency by violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter at the New York Philharmonic. The residency will include performances of violin concerti written specifically for her by composers Wolfgang Rihm, Sofia Gubaidulina, and Sebastian Currier.

Photo-Based Art (aka Blind Spot)
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support publication of the journal Blind Spot and related public events. A semi-annual publication that covers photography, each issue of Blind Spot presents the work of living artists who create photography-based work.

Pick Up Performance Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation of a new work by choreographer David Gordon. The dance theater work will feature character-based movement incorporated with text adapted from the one-act plays of Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936).

Play Production Company, Inc. (aka The Play Company)
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the New Works/New World production series, which features early productions of new American and international plays. The project will include the American premiere of Enjoy by Toshiki Okada, translated by Aya Ogawa and directed by Dan Rothenberg.

Playwrights Horizons, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the American Voice artistic development program. The project will include script evaluation, developmental play readings, musical theater staged readings, and a production of a new play by an American writer.

Pratt Institute
Brooklyn, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support an architecture exhibition titled Envelopes, with accompanying catalogue and public presentations. The exhibition, catalogue and public presentation will explore the double meaning of the "envelope" in architecture as an external skin of a building, and as a sensorial space that envelops the body.

Pregones Touring Puerto Rican Theatre Collection, Inc.
Bronx, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and production of Piojos/Fly-Babies, a new bilingual comedy about lice. The script will be adapted from Caribbean, Latin American, and Latino folktales, folk wisdom, and popular culture.

Present Theatre Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the New York International Fringe Festival. The festival will allow artists and arts organizations the opportunity to present work to a broad audience in a variety of venues.

Prospect Theater Company Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the development and production of The Hidden Sky by Kate Chisholm and Peter Foley. Book writer Kate Chisholm will direct.

Qi Shu Fang's Peking Opera Association, Inc.
Queens, New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Tenth Annual Peking Opera Festival. The project will feature selections of Peking Opera and enhance the presentations with lectures, English and Mandarin Chinese supertitles, and collaboration with a prominent Peking Opera performer.

Queens Council on the Arts, Inc.
Woodhaven, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the Individual Artist Initiative Peer Leadership Circle. The annual artistic professional development program strengthens and develops the professional careers of Queens-based artists across disciplines.

Queens Museum of Art
Queens, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the Works Progress project. Works Progress is a group of commissions by artists who take inspiration for their work from their environment and their time.

Queens Theatre in the Park, Inc. (Consortium)
Flushing, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the multidisciplinary Latino Cultural Festival and the Latino Cultural Series. Presented in partnership with El Museo del Barrio, the programs will feature music, dance, theater, film, visual art exhibitions, and residency activities.

Rattlestick Productions, Inc. (aka Rattlestick Playwrights Theater)
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the premiere of a new trilogy of plays by playwright Adam Rapp at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater. The plays will be presented in a repertory run that includes Hallway, Paraffin, and Nursing.

Research Foundation of State University of New York (on behalf of Neuberger Museum of Art)
Albany, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the touring exhibition The Deconstructive Impulse: Women Artists Reconfigure the Signs of Power, 1973-1990, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The Neuberger Museum of Art exhibition presents a reassessment of the art movement known as appropriation from a feminist perspective.

Roulette Intermedium, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Concert Series of Experimental and Adventurous Music. Director Jim Staley will curate the programming of diverse musical works.

Saratoga International Theatre Institute, Inc. (aka SITI Company)
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the creation and premiere of Empire of Light, a new work written by Jocelyn Clarke. The production will be directed by SITI Company founder Anne Bogart.

Sculpture Space, Inc.
Utica, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a residency program for sculptors. Artists from outside New York state will be given the opportunity to create new work during two-month residencies at a former steam engine and boilerworks plant.

Second Generation Productions, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Past, Present, and Future Festival. The festival will present staged readings of past productions such as Brian Yorkey's Making Tracks and Euijoon Kim's Karaoke Stories, as well as a new work currently in development by playwright Michael Lew. Short plays will also be created during the festival utilizing professional actors and playwrights.

Second Stage Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the world premiere production of Year Zero, by Michael Golamco. The play is about reincarnation, reinvention and ultimately redemption.

Sharpe, Matthew
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

Shen Wei Dance Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the revival of the company's entire repertory. As part of the company's 10th anniversary, the revivals will be accompanied by the creation of a new work by artistic director Shen Wei.

Signature Theatre Company
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the production of The Story of a Family, the tentatively titled third segment of Horton Foote's epic masterwork The Orphans' Home Cycle. The play will be co-produced with Hartford Stage.

Skaneateles Festival, Inc.
Skaneateles, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the annual summer chamber music festival. Concerts will be presented in varied venues in the lakeside village of Skaneateles, New York.

Skidmore College
Saratoga Springs, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Skidmore College Summer Jazz Institute. Hosted by the college's Bernhard Theater, the two-week summer jazz program will include master classes, daily classes on improvisational techniques, private instruction, and a mini-jazz festival.

Soho Repertory Theatre, Inc. (aka Soho Rep)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support new play development programs. The Writer/Director Lab and the Soho Rep Studio will be led by Artistic Director Sarah Benson and co-chairs Katherine Ryan and Daniel Manley.

Soho Think Tank, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support Ice Factory 2010. Robert Lyons, founder and artistic director, and Erich Jungwirth, producing director, will direct the Obie award-winning annual summer festival of new work.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation (aka Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum)
New York, NY
$75,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the exhibition Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy, and Germany, 1918-1936, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition explores the interwar period when artists turned from pre-war experimentalism to a heroic embrace of the human figure, objective values, and rational organization.

Spanish Dance Arts Company, Inc. (aka Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the revival and expansion of Bailaor/Bailaora. The project will revisit both pieces while examining the evolution of flamenco including new musical influences, and new ways of moving the body that reflect the influence that modern dance has had on the art form over the last 10years.

Sprout
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Challenge America   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Sprout Film Festival, a multi-day event showcasing films related to the field of developmental disabilities. The festival, held at the New Uris Center for Education at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, will provide an opportunity for participating adults with developmental disabilities to tour the museum. Planned activities include question and answer sessions with filmmakers, media arts workshops, and an exhibition showcasing the works of artists with developmental disabilities.

Stecher and Horowitz Foundation
New York, NY
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Young Artists Recitals. The project will include performance, coaching, ensemble playing, and educational seminars at the Manhattan School of Music.

Stephen Petronio Dance Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of Lovers and Architects, a new work by artistic director Stephen Petronio, and the revival of various repertory works. The work will premiere at the Joyce Theater in New York City.

Studio Museum in Harlem, Inc.
New York, NY
$65,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the Artist-in-Residence Program. Since its founding in 1968, the program has helped launch the careers of more than 100 artists of African descent.

SU Theatre Corporation (aka Syracuse Stage)
Syracuse, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of August Wilson's Fences, directed by Producing Artistic Director Timothy Bond. The Syracuse Stage production will be accompanied by educational and outreach programming.

Sweet Jane Productions, Inc. (aka International WOW)
Brooklyn, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and production of A Place to Live, a new play by Artistic Director Josh Fox. The International WOW Company play will be loosely based on the themes and ideas in Anton's Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard.

Talking Band, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the creation and production of Walk, a new play created in collaboration with playwright and performance artist Taylor Mac. The piece will be directed by Founding Artistic Director Paul Zimet.

Target Margin Theater, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the creation and production of The Really Big Once, an exploration of the collaboration between director Elia Kazan and playwright Tennessee Williams on Camino Real. The company-created work will be based on notebooks, letters, memoirs, drafts, interviews, and recollections.

Teachers and Writers Collaborative
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the development and dissemination of materials related to the teaching of creative writing and the literary arts. The collaborative will publish Rouse Our Rhyme, a book on teaching poetry in the K-12 classroom, issues of the quarterly magazine Teachers & Writers, and issues of an e-newsletter.

Thalia Spanish Theatre Inc.
Long Island City, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the development and world premiere production of a bilingual tango musical created and directed by Angel Gil Orrios with music by Latin Grammy winner Raul Jaurena. The piece will be based on the collaboration between two famous Argentinean masters: writer Jorge Luis Borges and composer Astor Piazzolla and will explore the origins of tango and its characters.

Theater Breaking Through Barriers Corp.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the world premiere of Bass for Picasso, a new play by Kate Moira Ryan. The cast for the production will feature a mix of able-bodied and disabled actors.

Theater Labrador, Inc. (aka New Georges Theater)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support The Spark Project, a fully staged production comprised of "sparks" of other newly commissioned works. New Georges Theater will commission and develop stand-alone excerpts or one-act versions of larger works to be presented as a full-length production.

Theatre for a New Audience, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of Love is My Sin, a collection of Shakespeare's sonnets, adapted for the theater and directed by Peter Brook. The work will be performed by Bruce Meyers and Natasha Parry.

Theatre of the Emerging American Moment, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and premiere of The American Capitalism Project, a new ensemble-based theatrical work directed by Artistic Director Rachel Chavkin. The project will include a development period in Las Vegas and performances at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and in New York.

Thin Man Dance, Inc. (aka John Jasperse Company)
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the tour of Truth, Revised Histories, Wishful Thinking and Flat Out Lies by choreographer and Artistic Director John Jasperse. The work is a Joyce Theater 25th anniversary commission, and is co-commissioned by the Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis.

Threshold Dance Projects, Inc. (aka Buglisi Dance Theatre)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of an evening-length dance by Buglisi Dance Theatre choreographer Jacqulyn Buglisi. The work will use movement, song, spoken word, music, and props to investigate the heritage of the Hudson River Valley.

Transport Group
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the world premiere of Queen of the Mist, a new musical with music, book, and lyrics by Michael John LaChiusa. Artistic Director Jack Cummings III will direct.

Trisha Brown Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$70,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a new work by choreographer Trisha Brown commissioned by the Festival International d'Art Lyrique in Aix-en-Provence, France. The piece will be based on Jean-Philippe Rameau's one act baroque opera, Pigmalion.

Ugly Duckling Presse, Ltd.
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of books of poetry and a book of prose, poetry, photography, and essays. Proposed authors include Demosthenes Agrafiotis, Clark Coolidge, Marosa Di Giorgio, Eugène Guillevic, Christian Hawkey, Cole Swensen, and Ivan Yauri.

Van Alen Institute: Projects in Public Architecture
New York, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the High Speed Passenger Rail and the Future of U.S. Cities initiative. The project comprises a series of activities that will explore the impact of rail transportation infrastructure on the urban built environment.

Vineyard Theatre & Workshop Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support for the development and Lab Production of a new American musical, The Scottsboro Boys. Susan Stroman will choreograph and direct the work with music and lyrics by John Kander and Fred Ebb, and book by David Thompson.

Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$22,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the enhancement of services and data management systems. Improved systems will allow Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts to better serve the thousands of constituent artists and arts organizations it assists annually.

Wave Hill, Inc. (Consortium)
Bronx, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support Propagating Eden, a travelling exhibition and catalogue exploring the uses and techniques of nature printing from the 18th century to today. The project builds upon an existing exhibition of historic material organized by the International Print Center.

Wayne, Teddy
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

WCV, Inc. (aka Wally Cardona Quartet)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of works. A new work by choreographer and artistic director Wally Cardona will be created along with the revival of his piece titled A Light Conversation (2008).

Women Make Movies, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the Women Make Movies Distribution Service. Its collection of more than 500 titles includes documentary, narrative, experimental, animation, and mixed-genre work created by artists worldwide.

Woodstock Film Festival, Inc.
Woodstock, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 2010 Woodstock Film Festival. The event includes screenings, panels, workshops, and concerts.

Woodstock Guild of Craftsmen, Inc.
Woodstock, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Artists Communities
To support the Byrdcliffe Artists-in-Residence Program at the Byrdcliffe Colony. Writers and artists will be given a small stipend to defray their costs, and expanded marketing and increased administrative staff also will be part of the project.

World Music Institute, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support Latin American Voices and the African Legacy. The project will feature musical influences from African cultures found in traditional music from the Caribbean and the Americas.

Young Concert Artists, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Young Concert Artists Series. The professional development program of recitals and concerto debuts in New York City and Washington, DC, will include the commissioning of a new work by a young composer and career management for emerging classical performers and composers.

Young Jean Lee's Theater Company, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and production of Christians, a new experimental theater work by Young Jean Lee. Lee will write and direct the work in collaboration with a diverse ensemble of performers, designers, and choreographers through a series of workshops and readings.

Number of Grants: 258          Total Amount: $7,106,000

 
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