FY 2010 Grant Awards: State Listings

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

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

CALIFORNIA

42nd Street Moon
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support script and score restorations and the production of Three Sisters, a musical play by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II. Co-Artistic Director and musical theater historian Greg MacKellan will restore the production script with score restoration and new chamber orchestrations by musical director Dave Dobrusky.

509 Cultural Center (aka Luggage Store)
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support completion of an online archive documenting the 20-year exhibition history of the Luggage Store. The archive will include more than 2,000 visual images, biographical information, video footage, DVDs, newspaper articles, and critical writing.

826 Valencia
San Francisco, CA
$28,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support writing programs and the publication of student work. Professional artists will teach creative writing to underserved youth in under-performing schools in the Bay Area.

Abadá-Capoeira San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Spirit of Brazil Festival 2010. The festival will expand the public's awareness of Brazilian folk arts through a series of performances, lectures, and workshops.

Actors' Gang, Inc.
Culver City, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and presentation of a re-imagined adaptation of Shakespeare's Macbeth for family audiences. Using the company's original acting method based in the traditions of Commedia dell'Arte, company members will create an intergenerational and multicultural production using music, dance, puppetry, and masks.

Aftermath Project
Los Angeles, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support production of the book War Is Only Half the Story. Featuring work by award-winning artists, this publication will be the third volume to document photographic work that reveals the consequences of war.

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

Alliance for California Traditional Arts
Fresno, CA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program. The project will facilitate intensive learning and cultural transmission for qualified apprentices by master level artists in one-on-one pairings.

Alliance for California Traditional Arts (Consortium)
Fresno, CA
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support a program for consultancies, mentorships, and technical assistance for folk artists and organizations. In partnership with the California Arts Council, the project will support the alliance's administrative capacity.

American Film Institute, Inc. (aka AFI)
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the Directing Workshop for Women. Each year, the program provides individuals with the necessary skills and portfolio to enter the directing field.

Arhoolie Foundation
El Cerrito, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the digitization of the Strachwitz-Fronteria Collection of Mexican and Mexican American recordings. The project will preserve the collection of vernacular music and make these recordings accessible online through a searchable bilingual website.

Armory Center for the Arts
Pasadena, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the exhibition City Site: Street Photography and Southern California Urbanism, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will explore factors that led to the post-war shift in work by Southern California photographers.

Arts Council Silicon Valley
San Jose, CA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the Community Arts Fund. The regranting program supports artistic programming presented by arts organizations in Santa Clara County, California.

Arts for LA
Los Angeles, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the LA Arts Convergence. The project will engage arts leaders in the development of strategies aimed at changing the way the arts are supported at the local and regional level.

ArtsChange
Richmond, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support Calle 23: Richmond Migration Stories. The project will bring nationally recognized artists to work with urban youth of color in a series of art and printmaking workshops exploring immigration.

Autry National Center of the American West
Los Angeles, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Native Voices at the Autry program, with accompanying educational outreach activities. New works by Native American writers will be developed at an annual playwrights retreat and through professional workshops and public staged readings.

AXIS Dance Company (Consortium)
Oakland, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by choreographer Shinichi Iova- Koga and composer/cellist Joan Jeanrenaud, inspired by the paintings of Icelandic artist Odd Nerdum. The project will feature AXIS Dance Company and Shinichi Iova-Koga's company, inkBoat, and will be implemented in partnership with Oberlin Dance Collective Theater in San Francisco.

Bilingual Foundation of the Arts
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support an unabridged production of La vida es sueño (Life is a Dream) by Pedro Calderón de la Barca with accompanying educational outreach activities. Cesar Oliva-Bernal will direct, with separate performances in Spanish and English.

Bluepalm: Art and Culture Education
Los Angeles, CA
$14,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the professional development component of the dance program in Bluepalm's Charter Arts Initiative. Classroom teachers at four charter schools will work with dance teaching artists to create and deliver standards-based dance lessons in their classrooms.

Bread and Roses Benefit Agency
Corte Madera, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the presentation of free, live music performances to underserved audiences. Approximately 1,000 volunteer professional or skilled amateur musicians will perform in more than 500 performances for disadvantaged and isolated children, teens, adults, and seniors.

California Arts Council
Sacramento, CA
$1,274,800
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

California Indian Storytelling Association
Fremont, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Storytelling Festival: Following Ancient Trade Routes 2011. The project will facilitate a cultural exchange between Native storytellers from California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, Hawaii, and New Zealand.

California Institute of Integral Studies
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support ChicaChic. The multi-faceted project will feature contemporary Chicana artists in an exhibition, a mass transit public art project, and a series of educational forums.

California Institute of the Arts (aka REDCAT) (on behalf of Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater)
Valencia, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support CalArts' REDCAT 20/20 Interdisciplinary Initiative at the Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater. The project will feature a series of residencies, performances, and festivals.

California Polytechnic State University Foundation (on behalf of Cal Poly Arts)
San Luis Obispo, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support NEA Jazz Masters and More, a series of concerts and associated outreach activities presented by Cal Poly Arts. NEA Jazz Masters Nancy Wilson (2004) and Chick Corea (2006) will be among the renowned jazz artists performing at the San Luis Obispo Performing Arts Center on the Cal Poly campus.

California Presenters
Sacramento, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the 27th annual Artist Information Exchange. Designed for performing arts presenters, the program will enable presenters to learn about artists suitable for venues and programming budgets of all sizes through a peer-to-peer exchange.

California Shakespeare Theater (aka Cal Shakes)
Berkeley, CA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of The Pastures of Heaven, adapted by Octavio Solis from the novel by John Steinbeck. The project will be the culmination of a multi-year, community-based process to adapt the novel set in Northern California's Salinas Valley.

California Summer Music, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a concert of works by American composers, a composer residency, and educational activities during the California Summer Music Festival. Concert repertoire will include works by faculty composer David Tcimpidis and guest composer Judith Shatin.

Catticus Corporation
Berkeley, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support production and post-production costs for a feature-length documentary about the Mark Morris Dance Group working with people who have Parkinson's disease. Capturing Grace will follow the Mark Morris Dance Group's dancers and the Parkinson's patients as they prepare for their first public performance in June 2010.

Center for Asian American Media
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production of a video documentary intended for public television. The half-hour program will feature the North Indian dance master Chitresh Das and tap dancer Jason Samuels Smith.

Center for the Art of Translation (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Poetry Inside Out. In partnership with the Teachers and Writers Collaborative, the program will introduce bilingual students, ages 8 to 18, to Spanish literature with the goal of increasing language proficiency in both English and Spanish through literary translation.

Center for World Music (aka Center for World Music and Related Arts)
El Cajon, CA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the World Music Performance for Children program. Skilled artists of varied cultural backgrounds will teach living folk and traditional music, dance, and storytelling of Africa, India, Indonesia, and Iran through direct experience, exploration, and participation to elementary, middle, and high school students in San Diego and Orange counties.

Chinese Cultural Productions (aka Lily Cai Chinese Dance company)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a tour of the Lily Cai Chinese Dance Company to five United States cities. The full-length concert will feature two works choreographed by Cai: her newest piece, What We're Missing, and Silk Cascade.

City of San Fernando, California
San Fernando, CA
$38,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Mariachi Master Apprentice Program. Led by Mariachi los Camperos, the City of San Fernando Department of Recreation and Community Services will hold weekly sequential, advanced-level mariachi classes in evening hours for youth, ages 10 to 18 to prepare the young musicians for performances and mariachi conferences.

City of Santa Monica, California (aka Santa Monica Cultural Affairs) (on behalf of Cultural Affairs Division)
Santa Monica, CA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support Glow, a series of temporary site-specific installations of contemporary art. Anchored by a new digital artwork by Jennifer Steinkamp, the second biennial will be presented at Santa Monica's pier, beach, and downtown promenade.

Colburn School
Los Angeles, CA
$12,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Musical Encounter Program. The peer-to-peer program will introduce the musical arts including classical, music, jazz and voice to underserved elementary school students through concerts by honor students at the Colburn School of Performing Arts.

Collage Dance Theatre
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the restaging and documentation of the site-specific dance Laundromatinee, choreographed by Heidi Duckler, as part of the company's 25th anniversary celebration. The work will be performed on a national tour that will include master classes, open rehearsals, and post-concert discussions.

Community Music Center
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Young Musicians Programs. Middle and high school students will participate in weekly instrumental music classes, individual private lessons, guest artist workshops, and have opportunities for performance.

Community Works West, Inc.
Berkeley, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Integrated Arts for Incarcerated Youth. The project will provide an integrated visual arts and language arts curriculum at Buena Vista School, the educational facility serving incarcerated youth at the Alameda County Juvenile Justice Center.

Cornerstone Theater Company, Inc. (aka Cornerstone)
Los Angeles, CA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Cornerstone Institute Summer Residency in Pacoima, California, led by Director Paula Donnelly and Artistic Director Michael John Garces to train the next generation of community-engaged theater artists. Playwright Sigrid Gilmer will create a community-specific world-premiere play to address critical issues in Pacoima.

Coronado Unified School District
Coronado, CA
$13,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Collaborative Arts Project. Professional artists will lead workshops for students (grades 9 to 12) that will result in the presentation of student work in coordination with the installation of Peter Terezakis's work Sacred Sky, Sacred Earth on the beach in Coronado.

Dance Camera West
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of the 2011 Dance Camera West Film Festival. The festival will include a series of film screenings from around the world at various venues in Los Angeles.

Dell'Arte, Inc.
Blue Lake, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support The Rural Residency Project. Founding Artistic Director Joan Schirle, Producing Artistic Director Michael Fields, and company members will lead an arts residency program with community partnerships in Northern California and Southern Oregon.

Dimensions Dance Theater, Inc.
Oakland, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a dance program for children and young adults. Offered free-of-charge, Rites of Passage will provide instruction in a variety of African and African-derived dance and music styles, as well as performance opportunities.

Each One Reach One
South San Francisco, CA
$17,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Playwriting Workshop. Designed for incarcerated San Francisco and San Mateo County teenagers, the playwriting and educational tutoring program will pair professional theater artists one-on-one with youth to create and develop original, one-act plays.

East Bay Housing Organizations
Oakland, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support a community design and neighborhood planning education project for the redevelopment of the Concord Naval Weapons Base in Concord, California. Symposia and community design workshops will be offered to the residents of Concord to assess needs and identify opportunities for the development of mixed-income and affordable housing on the 5,000-acre site.

East-West Players
Los Angeles, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the production of Mysterious Skin by playwright Prince Gomolvilas, adapted from the  novel by Scott Heim.  Producing artistic director Tim Dang will direct the new work with accompanying educational and outreach activities.

EastSide Arts Alliance
Oakland, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Jazz in Communities Program. Activities will include a jazz history performance series, music jam sessions that bring together hip-hop and jazz musicians, and a free outdoor jazz festival.

El Camino Youth Symphony
Palo Alto, CA
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support an orchestral performances by young musicians. Middle and high school students will perform a concert at the Flint Center at De Anza College in Cupertino, California.

El Teatro Campesino
San Juan Bautist, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the remounting of La Virgen de Tepeyac (The Virgin of Tepeyac). First adapted by playwright Luis Valdez in 1971, the performance tells the story of the apparitions of Our Lady of Guadalupe in the year 1531 in Mexico.

Fifth Stream Music
San Francisco, CA
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support India & Africa: A Birthday Celebration for John Coltrane, a touring project of the Asian American Orchestra, directed by Dr. Anthony Brown. The twin themes of India & Africa reference two seminal extended works composed and recorded by Coltrane.

Firebird Youth Chinese Orchestra
San Jose, CA
$44,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Learning Compositions by Peng Xiuwen. Professional traditional Chinese musicians will teach youth through classes and ensembles to perform compositions by Peng Xiuwen (1931-96).

foolsFURY Theater Company
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the FURY Factory Festival of Ensemble Theater. The biennial festival features performances of collaboratively created works by ensemble companies as well as public workshops, panel discussions, and opportunities for artists and audiences to interact.

Ford Theatre Foundation
Hollywood, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Winter Partnership Program, which will allow Los Angeles County-based theater companies to produce their work at the historic Ford Theatre. The program will provide technical, marketing, and financial assistance to participating companies, as well as subsidized rental of an 87-seat proscenium theater.

Fund for Women Artists, Inc. (aka WomenArts)
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support WomenArts' annual SWAN Day (Support Women Artists Now Day), a national celebration of women artists.

Gabriella Axelrad Education Foundation (aka "everybody dance!")
Los Angeles, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support everybody dance! The project will provide year-long, weekly dance instruction and master classes in jazz, tap, ballroom, creative movement, and modern dance to Gabriella Charter School students.

Galería/Studio 24 (aka Galería de la Raza) (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support Nighthawks (Remix). The project, commemorating Galería's 40th anniversary, involves the development and premiere of a photo-based live performance work by Guillermo Gomez Peña and James Luna.

Gamelan Sekar Jaya (aka GSJ)
Oakland, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support residencies for master artists from Indonesia. The guest artists will conduct a series of residences, create new work, and share these cultural riches with audiences, artists, and students.

Geffen Playhouse, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the 2010 Geffen Playhouse production of Thurgood by George Stevens, Jr., with accompanying public service programs. Leonard Foglia will direct the production, starring Laurence Fishburne.

Golden Thread Productions (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of Language Rooms by Yussef El Guindi. Artistic Director Torange Yeghiazarian will partner with Asian American Theatre to reach new audiences and freelance director and dramaturg Mark Routhier will direct.

Grabhorn Institute
San Francisco, CA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support Bookmaking, Writing, and Art, a series of demonstrations, lectures, and exhibitions. Programs will explore connections between traditional bookmaking crafts and the work of contemporary artists and writers.

Grammy Museum Foundation, Inc. (aka The GRAMMY Museum)
Los Angeles, CA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support final post-production costs for a documentary film by Jim Brown. Rockin' the Iron Curtain will explore how American Rock and Roll music energized the youth behind the Iron Curtain.

Hernandez Mariachi Heritage Society (aka Mariachi Heritage Society)
South El Monte, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support after-school mariachi music instruction for students in Los Angeles taught by members of Mariachi Sol. Students, from beginners to advanced, will learn to sing, play their chosen instruments, and perform in public through standards-based curriculum.

Hmong Cultural Arts, Crafts, Teaching & Museum Projects
Sacramento, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Hmong Cultural Arts Teaching Project. Local artists will lead year-round, daily after-school classes in pa dao (embroidery), the qeej (free-reed aerophone of bundled bamboo pipes), and folk dance movement in preparation for performances and demonstrations at public festivals and other community events.

Idyllwild Arts Foundation
Idyllwild, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Native American Arts Program and Festival. The project will foster cross-cultural understanding through a series of workshops and performances featuring Native American artists.

Imagine Bus Project (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support After School Studio. Targeted to children from under-resourced schools, After School Studio is a partnership with the San Francisco School District.

Independent Television Service, Inc. (aka ITVS)
San Francisco, CA
$110,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the Independent Digital Distribution Lab. The Independent Television Service (ITVS) is exploring revenue-generating partnership models for independent filmmakers and public television.

Independent Television Service, Inc. (aka ITVS)
San Francisco, CA
$185,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the selection, acquisition, and packaging of films for the public television series Independent Lens. This weekly primetime PBS series provides the public with access to innovative, dramatic, animated, and documentary works by independent filmmakers.

Inside Out Community Arts, Inc.
Venice, CA
$38,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support The School Project, an after-school and weekend theater-based arts program. Middle and high school students from the Los Angeles Unified School District will participate in weekly workshops, a field trip to attend a professional production, Saturday parent and child workshops, and a three-day rehearsal retreat.

Jazz Tap Ensemble Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the production of the DVD Jazz Tap Originals - Blues Legacy. Produced and directed by Artistic Director Lynn Dally, the DVD will focus on the Blues influence throughout the Jazz Tap Ensemble legacy.

Jazzschool, Inc. (Consortium)
Berkeley, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Oda Africana residency and concert. The project encompasses an educational residency by two renowned Afro-Cuban music performers: percussionist John Santos and pianist/composer Omar Sosa; and the commission and presentation of Oda Africana, a new work by Omar Sosa for chamber orchestra and world music ensemble.

Khmer Arts Academy
Long Beach, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support Cambodian classical dance training. The program will include master/apprentice training and public performances for the Long Beach Cambodian community and beyond.

Kid Serve Youth Murals
San Francisco, CA
$8,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support mural arts residencies. Professional artists will guide youth through the process of designing and creating three permanent outdoor mosaic murals in their communities.

KQED, Inc. (aka Northern California Public Broadcasting)
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the research and development phase of a multi-part television series. In Both Sides Now the artist Linda Ronstadt will explore the rich musical traditions and history of various locals along the border between the United States and Mexico through musical performance, conversation, and travel.

Kronos Performing Arts Association (aka Kronos Quartet)
San Francisco, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support performances of American chamber works by composer Terry Riley performed by the Kronos Quartet, including related educational activities. In honor of the composer's 75th birthday, two of the five quartets that make up Salome Dances for Peace will be revived in venues throughout the country.

L.A. Theatre Works
Venice, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the distribution of audio plays to schools and libraries. The Alive and Aloud and Library Access national outreach programs provide the audio plays to underserved communities in all 50 states.

L.A. Theatre Works
Venice, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production and distribution of The Play's the Thing, a radio theater series intended for broadcast on satellite and public radio stations nationwide. The 52-week series will include new radio plays, as well as selections from L.A. Theatre Works' extensive audio drama collection.

La Pocha Nostra Inter Cultural Performance & Community Arts
San Francisco, CA
$19,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support an arts training workshop and performance. The workshop will be designed for artists, scholars, and curators and will include professional development activities, instruction on the use of props and costumes, and group discussions.

LA Stage Alliance (Consortium)
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a Customer Relationship Management System for Southern California small and mid-sized theater companies. Executive Director Terence McFarland will lead the initiative in partnership with Richard Stein, Executive Director of Arts Orange County, and Eugene Carr, president of Patron Technology.

Lamb's Players Theatre
Coronado, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support an after-school residency, ASSIST - Artists and Students Staying in School Together. Associate Artistic Director Kerry Meads will collaborate with Hispanic Arts Theatre Artistic Director Carlos Mendoza to launch an initiative addressing the dropout epidemic among Hispanic students.

Library Foundation of Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support ALOUD at Central Library, a literary outreach program in downtown Los Angeles targeting young and ethnically diverse audiences. Events will be promoted through blogs, online chats, and video podcasts available through the Los Angeles Public Library website, iTunes, and a local television station.

Lobero Theatre Foundation
Santa Barbara, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support DANCEworks. In partnership with SUMMERDANCE Santa Barbara, DANCEworks will provide a four-week residency to an emerging choreographer to create new work which will be performed at the Lobero Theatre at the end of the residency.

Los Angeles County Arts Commission (Consortium)
Los Angeles, CA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Arts for All Artists-in-Residence Program. In partnership with the Los Angeles County Office of Education, the project will assist 34 school districts county-wide to develop and implement artist residencies in music, dance, and visual arts for students in kindergarten through 12th grade.

Los Angeles Philharmonic Association (Consortium)
Los Angeles, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Youth Orchestra LA. In partnership with the City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks, the program promotes healthy communities by providing free music instruments, after-school music instruction, and ensemble performance opportunities to students in the Los Angeles area.

Los Angeles Poverty Department (aka LAPD)
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the creation and production of Walk the Talk. Artistic Director John Malpede will direct a performance that celebrates the community of Skid Row in partnership with the Public Arts of Redevelopment Agency.

Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center (Consortium)
San Pablo, CA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Cultures of Mexico Outreach program. In collaboration with the Migrant Education Program Region 1, the project will use traditional Mexican music and dance to examine cultural identity among Mexican immigrants and Mexican Americans.

Luna Kids Dance
Berkeley, CA
$33,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Dance Learning Institutes. The project includes summer professional development in teaching dance for artists and teachers followed by periodic workshops and meetings during the school year.

Maiden Voyage Productions Inc
Half Moon Bay, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support production and post-production costs for an experimental documentary film by Ellen Bruno. Split will explore the inner world of children whose parents are going through a divorce or who are divorced.

MAK Center for Arts and Architecture
West Hollywood, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the exhibit Sympathetic Seeing: Esther McCoy and the Heart of American Modernist Architecture and Design. The exhibit will present the work of architectural historian Esther McCoy (1904-1989) and will discuss her role as a key figure in American modernism.

Marin Shakespeare Company
San Rafael, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, directed by Lesley Currier.

Mariposa County Arts Council, Inc.
Mariposa, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the Mariposa Storytelling Festival. Selected storytellers Miblre Burch, Peter Cook, Baba Jamal Koram, Sunny Dooley, Gay Ducey, and Jim May will perform for audiences drawn from Mariposa County and central California.

Marsh, a breeding ground for new performance (aka The Marsh and MarshYouth Theater)
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support a production of Siddhartha: The Bright Path, with a cast of young actors from an affiliated theater arts program. The performance opportunity is designed to introduce the students to the rigors of a professional production experience.

Matsutoyo Kai (aka Minyo Station)
Gardena, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support The Japanese Folk Music and Dance Festival. The project will present Japanese folk music and dance performed on traditional Japanese instruments and feature a guest artist from Japan.

Mexican Heritage Corporation (aka Mexican Heritage Plaza) (Consortium)
San Jose, CA
$21,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Mariachi Youth Program. Students in the San Jose Unified School District will learn to play the violin, trumpet, guitar, vihuela, or guitarron, from professional mariachi musicians.

Moolelo Performing Arts Company
San Diego, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of Yellow Face by David Henry Hwang, with accompanying educational and outreach activities. Artistic Director Seema Sueko will direct.

Museum of Performance & Design
San Francisco, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support Full Spectrum: Preserving Rare & Diverse Bay Area Dance Video, 1985-2000. The collection will be available to students, scholars, researchers, and the general public.

Museum of Photographic Arts
San Diego, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support an online exhibition series. The project will digitize and present images and related content from the museum's Picturing the Process exhibition series.

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

National Association of Latino Independent Producers, Inc. (aka NALIP) (Consortium)
Santa Monica, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support a series of regional conferences. In collaboration with Doc Arts (aka the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival), the National Association of Latino Independent Producers will offer Doing Your Doc: Diverse Visions, Regional Voices in four American cities.

National Association of Latino Independent Producers, Inc. (aka NALIP)
Santa Monica, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the seventh Latino Media Market. Targeted to Latino media artists, the project will connect filmmakers with representatives from both the nonprofit and commercial film and television fields.

National Federation of Community Broadcasters, Inc.
Oakland, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the Radio Arts Track at the 2011 Community Radio Conference. Workshops, seminars, and mentorships will be offered to 400 participants.

Network of Ensemble Theaters
Los Angeles, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Ensembles All-Together Building Capacity (Ensembles ABCs) program. The program is intended to increase ensembles' organizational capacity and sustainability.

Network of Ensemble Theaters (Consortium)
Los Angeles, CA
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support MicroFestsUSA, a series of regional micro-festivals to explore ensemble theater field issues, share and develop new work, and strengthen the ensemble field. NET national coordinator Mark Valdez will partner with Shelley Orr, president of Literary Managers & Dramaturgs of the Americas, and community partners/hosts Progress Theatre, CalArts, and olive Dance Theatre.

Ninth Street Media Consortium, Inc. (aka Ninth Street Independent Film Center)
San Francisco, CA
$55,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support a programmatic collaboration at the Ninth Street Independent Film Center. The center is a consortium of eight media arts organizations, all housed in one building.

Oakland East Bay Symphony (Consortium)
Oakland, CA
$18,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support MUSic for Excellence (MUSE). In partnership with the Oakland Unified School District, professional musicians of the symphony will provide mentoring and music instruction as well as instrumental music clinics to students.

Oakland Youth Orchestra
Oakland, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a composer residency and educational outreach project. Mexican American composer Hector Armienta will participate in school visits and workshops, and orchestra musicians will perform his commissioned work in a public concert in Oakland.

ODC Theater
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a work by choreographer Sarah Michelson, in collaboration with playwright Richard Maxwell, visual artist Parker Lutz, and composer Peter Drungle. The work will launch the opening season of the newly renovated and expanded Oberlin Dance Collective Theater.

Odyssey Theatre Foundation (aka Odyssey Theatre Ensemble)
Los Angeles, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the co-production of A Bloody Red Heart in partnership with Los Angeles City College. Students from the Los Angeles City College Theatre Academy will rehearse and perform the productions in an extended residency at the theater's professional complex.

Old Globe Theatre (Consortium)
San Diego, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Student Access to the Arts program. Conducted in partnership with the San Diego County Office of Education, the program will provide underserved middle and high school students from throughout San Diego County with opportunities to experience live, professional theater performances.

Other Minds (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a project to convert archival recordings for free public access via the Internet. In partnership with Internet Archive, Other Minds will select and prepare the materials featuring performances, interviews, and conversations recorded live by leading composers and artists of 20th-century American music.

Other Minds
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Dane Rudhyar: The Magic of Tone. Chamber music concerts of Rudhyar's compositions will be performed in San Francisco and Portola Valley, California.

Otis Art Institute (aka Otis College of Art and Design)
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support American Icons: Graphics of Patriotism and Dissent. Drawn from the collection of the Center for the Study of Political Graphics, the exhibition at Otis's Ben Maltz Gallery will feature as many as 80 posters.

Pacific Asia Museum
Pasadena, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the creation of the Orientation Gallery. The reinterpreted exhibition space visitors encounter upon entering the museum will present an overview of the museum's unique collection and history and its role in preserving and interpreting Asian and Pacific Island art.

Pacific Chorale
Santa Ana, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support an expanded education program. The project will include the Pacific Festival Chorale, a high school summer choral camp, a youth choir, and an online preview and educational website for the community of Orange County.

Paradigm Productions, Inc.
Berkeley, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the post-production and distribution of the dance film Dark Swan. In the film, Zimbabwean dancer Nora Chipaumire and Bay Area filmmaker Laurie Coyle collaborate on a lyrical and provocative reinterpretation of Mikhail Fokine's ballet solo, The Dying Swan.

Pasadena Unified School District
Pasadena, CA
$70,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support My Masterpieces: Discovering Art in My Community. Through the collaboration of multiple Pasadena museums and cultural institutions, a sequential and comprehensive arts curriculum integrating classroom instruction with field trips will be available for students and teachers in the Pasadena Unified School District.

PCPA Foundation (aka PCPA Theaterfest)
Santa Maria, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support a production of West Side Story with book by Arthur Laurents, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, music by Leonard Bernstein, and choreography and concept by Jerome Robbins. Literary Manager Patricia M. Troxel and resident artist and choreographer Michael Jenkinson will co-direct under the leadership of Artistic Director/Associate Dean Mark Booher.

PEN Center USA West (aka PEN USA)
Beverly Hills, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support Freedom to Write, a series of programs reaching writers in underserved communities. The project includes PEN in the Classroom, providing creative writing residencies for at-risk youth; Emerging Voices, a fellowship program for aspiring writers; and Writers' Toolbox, a series of discussions about the craft and business of writing.

Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County (aka Music Center)
Los Angeles, CA
$100,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company  in performances of Roaratorio at the Music Center's Walt Disney Concert Hall. Performances will be offered in conjunction with film screenings, master classes, workshops, and panel discussions.

Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County (aka Music Center)
Los Angeles, CA
$60,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Arts Integration Partnership. Music Center artists will lead professional development to build capacity for sequential, integrated arts instruction for Culver City Unified School District elementary and middle school teachers, principals, and district leadership.

Performing Arts Workshop, Inc. (aka The Workshop)
San Francisco, CA
$26,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Artists-in-Schools program. Professional artists will provide standards-aligned learning opportunities in creative movement, theater arts, creative writing, world dance, and music to youth in schools and child development centers.

PhotoAlliance
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the Photography Lecture Series. The program enables established and emerging photographers to engage the public.

Playhouse Arts (aka Arcata Playhouse, Four on the FloorProductio)
Arcata, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Fifth Annual Playhouse Family Fun Series. The Arcata Playhouse series will present professional theater events to an underserved, rural Northern California community.

Playwrights Project
San Diego, CA
$18,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support SEEDS (Stimulating Educational Excellence with Drama Standards). Underserved middle and high school students will work with teaching artists in their classrooms to create original plays as a means to also improve reading skills and their vocabulary.

Praxis Project Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$80,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support post-production costs for a documentary film by Peter Friedman. Poor Consuelo Conquers the World will examine how soap operas and telenovelas are combating the effects of poverty worldwide.

Prescott Circus Theatre
Oakland, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Higher Ground, a youth ensemble program. Professional artists will be placed in residencies to provide after-school classes in African stilt dancing for elementary school children.

Public Corporation for the Arts of the City of Long Beach (aka Arts Council for Long Beach) (Consortium)
Long Beach, CA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Eye on Design, a visual arts and design education program of the Arts Council for Long Beach. Third-grade students in Long Beach Unified Public Schools will learn about neighborhood public art and design from local artists.

Purple Silk Music Education Foundation, Inc.
Oakland, CA
$16,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Strengthening Learning in the Arts. Professional Chinese musicians will teach students a repertory of music from around the world arranged for Chinese traditional instruments.

QCC-The Center for LGBT Art & Culture
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support a capacity-building professional development program for emerging Bay Area lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender arts organizations and artists. The center will offer workshops for artists and organizations proposing to present works at the annual National Queer Arts Festival.

RADAR Productions
San Francisco, CA
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support RADAR Lab, a writer's retreat targeting lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender writers. Scheduled faculty includes Michelle Tea, Eileen Myles, and Jewelle Gomez.

Radio Bilingüe, Inc. (Consortium)
Fresno, CA
$26,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support radio coverage of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival's First Nations of Mexico. The project will broadcast performances, artist interviews, and commentary on the Native Mexicans featured in the Smithsonian's Festival of American Folklife.

Regents of the University of California at Berkeley (on behalf of Pacific Film Archive) (Consortium)
Berkeley, CA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support Behind the Scenes. Working in collaboration with the San Francisco Film Society, Pacific Film Archive will host artist residencies with film specialists outside of the directorial role.

Regents of the University of California at Berkeley (on behalf of Cal Performances)
Berkeley, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a residency by Merce Cunningham Dance Company at Cal Performances. The residency will be part of the company's Legacy Tour and will include public performances featuring the co-commissioned revival of Pond Way and other Cunningham pieces.

Regents of the University of California at Los Angeles (Consortium)
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Amp it up! In partnership with the Los Angeles Unified School District, the arts-based program will use visual art, spoken word, storytelling, dance, and theater to educate youth about HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections.

Regents of the University of California at Los Angeles (on behalf of UCLA Live)
Los Angeles, CA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the International Theater Festival presented by UCLA Live. Performances will feature artists and ensembles that extend the boundaries of theater by using unique combinations of media and innovative approaches to historic literary and dramatic texts.

Regents of the University of California at San Diego (on behalf of TheatreForum, International Theatre Journal)
La Jolla, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the publication and distribution of issues of TheatreForum. The journal documents and disseminates innovative theater works internationally.

Regents of the University of California at San Diego (on behalf of Stuart Collection)
La Jolla, CA
$90,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the commissioning of a site-specific public artwork by Do-Ho Suh. The artist will install Fallen Star on the rooftop of a building on the campus of the University of California at San Diego.

Regents of the University of California at Santa Cruz (on behalf of Shakespeare Santa Cruz)
Santa Cruz, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of La Bête by David Hirson, directed by Art Manke. The production will be performed in repertory with two Shakespeare productions as part of the Shakespeare Santa Cruz Summer Shakespeare Festival.

Regents of the University of California at Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA
$28,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Paul Bowles Centennial Festival. Activities will explore the work of author, composer, translator, and ethnographer Paul Bowles (1910-1999).

Renaissance Arts Academy (aka RenArts)
Los Angeles, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support The Conservatory. The project will provide after-school and summer programs led by professional artists in music and dance for middle and high school students.

Saint Joseph Ballet Company
Santa Ana, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support year-round dance education and performances program for low-income youth. These after-school programs include dance education, performance opportunities, academic touring, college preparatory services, student mentoring, fieldtrips, and family services such as counseling and crisis intervention.

San Diego Chamber Orchestra (aka Orchestra Nova San Diego)
San Diego, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support an Internet webcast recording project by Orchestra Nova San Diego. Concert performances will be held at the Irwin M. Jacobs Qualcomm Hall and recorded and broadcast for free viewing on the Internet.

San Diego Historical Society
San Diego, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support enhanced access to the Norman Baynard Collection of African American Photographs. To date a virtually unknown collection, the photographs were taken by Baynard (1908-1986) in a neighborhood studio he operated in Logan Heights, a segregated middle-class neighborhood of African Americans in San Diego.

San Diego Museum of Art
San Diego, CA
$75,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support documentation for a catalogue of Italian and Spanish materials in the museum's permanent collection. The museum has more than 70 Italian and Spanish paintings produced before 1800.

San Diego Museum of Man
San Diego, CA
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the conservation treatment of Native American baskets in the museum's permanent collection. Cited for conservation in an assessment report completed in 2006, the restored baskets will be available for research, exhibitions, and educational programming.

San Diego Opera Association (Consortium)
San Diego, CA
$41,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Words & Music Program. In partnership with the San Diego Unified School District, the company will provide an in-school opera residency in which students will learn to compose an original opera.

San Francisco Art and Film Program (aka San Francisco Art & Film for Teenagers)
San Francisco, CA
$22,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Teen Film Workshop. The project is designed to prepare students for film school and train them for future careers in the film industry.

San Francisco Arts Commission
San Francisco, CA
$70,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the installation of the monumental sculpture Three Heads Six Arms. Created by contemporary Chinese artist Zhang Huan, the sculpture will be installed at the San Francisco Civic Center Plaza.

San Francisco Arts Commission (on behalf of San Francisco WritersCorps)
San Francisco, CA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the WritersCorp program. Professional artists will teach creative writing targeted toward at-risk youth in underserved public schools.

San Francisco Ballet Association (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$26,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Dance in Schools and Communities. In partnership with the San Francisco Unified School District, teaching artists will provide 10 weeks of free, interactive movement and music instruction to students in the second through fourth grade and their teachers.

San Francisco Chanticleer, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$55,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a national concert tour and residency program. Activities will include choral coaching, youth choral festivals, and advanced choral training for adult singers.

San Francisco Contemporary Music Players
San Francisco, CA
$12,500
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support concerts of chamber music by American composers. The ensemble will perform contemporary works by John Cage, Lou Harrison, Du Yan, and Jefferson Friedman at the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco.

San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music
San Francisco, CA
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Chamber Music Day, a free chamber music festival. Chamber ensembles from the San Francisco Bay Area will perform all day long at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music in Civic Center.

San Francisco Girls Chorus, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$38,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Music Education and Performance Program. The project will provide year-round instruction in choral singing and opportunities for concert performance.

San Francisco Performances, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the presentation of chamber music, instrumental recitals, jazz, and contemporary dance. Related workshops and lectures will help audiences increase their understanding and enjoyment of the live performances.

San Francisco Performances, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$50,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the presentation of choreographer Lucinda Child's DANCE. Outreach activities will include master classes, post-performance discussions, open rehearsals, exhibitions, and video screenings.

San Francisco State University
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support free web access to selections from the Poetry Center Digital Archive. The archive includes more than 3,000 audio recordings of poets from 1954 to the present.

San Francisco State University
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the reconstruction of choreographer Brenda Way's Investigating Grace, created in 1999. Performances, master classes, lectures, and additional outreach activities will provide educational and artistic opportunities for the San Francisco Bay Area community.

San Francisco Symphony
San Francisco, CA
$11,500
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Feet First! Chamber Music Inspired by Popular Dance, a performance and educational project. As part of the orchestra's Keeping Score Education Summer Institute, concerts will be performed by ensembles of orchestra musicians with dancers from the San Francisco Ballet School and held at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.

San Francisco Symphony (on behalf of San Francisco Youth Symphony)
San Francisco, CA
$76,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Artist Development Program of the San Francisco Youth Symphony. Designed to complement the youth orchestra's core program of weekly rehearsals and concert performances, the program will provide students with coaching, mentorship, and specialized training in chamber music.

San Jose Children's Musical Theater (aka Children's Musical Theater San Jose)
San Jose, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support a production of the musical Miss Saigon. Artistic Director Kevin Hauge will direct the modern adaptation of Giacomo Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly, with music and lyrics by Alan Boublil and Richard Maltby.

San Jose Museum of Art Association
San Jose, CA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the reinstallation of the museum's permanent collection. The project will better present the museum's expanded collection in thematically organized groupings tailored to community interests and activities.

Santa Cecilia Opera and Orchestra Association
Los Angeles, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Discovering Music, an educational outreach program in underserved communities of Los Angeles. The project, led by Artistic Director Sonia Marie De Leon, will provide orchestral performances and education programs in venues ranging from elementary schools to community centers.

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

ShadowLight Productions
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Crossing Borders Project, with accompanying educational and outreach activities. Company and teaching artist Leonidas Kassapides will direct and collaborate with Everett Middle School's drama and multimedia teacher Martha Estrella.

Shakespeare - San Francisco (aka San Francisco Shakespeare Festival)
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival Free Shakespeare in the Park. Ken Kelleher will direct the production of Romeo and Juliet with scenic design by Richard Ortenblad and choreography by MaryBeth Cavanaugh.

Shakespeare Festival/LA, Inc. (aka SF/LA)
Los Angeles, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support productions of Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Summer Night's Dream, with accompanying educational and outreach activities. Repertory performances will inaugurate the theater's recently renovated indoor performance space and be offered free-of-charge on the plaza of Our Lady of the Angeles Cathedral in downtown Los Angeles.

Shakespeare Festival/LA, Inc. (aka SF/LA) (Consortium)
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Will Power to Youth. Presented in collaboration with St. Louis Black Repertory Company, the program will provide intensive study of Shakespeare and all aspects of theater.

Small Press Distribution, Inc. (aka SPD) (Consortium)
Berkeley, CA
$60,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the expanded distribution of independently published books to booksellers and librarians. In partnership with the American Booksellers Association, SPD will extend its reach by attendance at book festivals and tradeshows in targeted regions, and through mailings to independent booksellers nationwide.

Southern Exposure (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$31,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Mission Voices. In partnership with the Jewish Vocational and Career Counseling Service, the project will focus on arts-based community development by pairing local artists with underserved teens in the San Francisco area.

Southwest Chamber Music Society
Pasadena, CA
$27,500
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a celebration of the life and chamber music works of American composer John Cage (b. 1912 in Los Angeles). The ensemble will present three distinct creative periods of the composer's artistic legacy.

Squaw Valley Community of Writers (aka Squaw Valley Screenwriters)
Nevada City, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the Screenwriting Program. The workshop focuses on the essence of storytelling and teaches participants how to "show" rather than "tell" their stories.

Stagebridge
Oakland, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the expansion of the Performing Arts Training Institute, a theater arts training program for older adults. The project will organize and expand the existing curriculum, and will include the development of a core of trained teachers to meet the growing demand for performing arts opportunities for Bay Area seniors.

Stanford University (on behalf of Stanford Lively Arts)
Stanford, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Stanford Lively Arts' presentation of contemporary music and associated outreach activities. Featuring the St. Lawrence String Quartet, eighth blackbird, and Bang on a Can All-Stars, the project will focus on links between contemporary concert music and other art forms.

Stanford University (on behalf of Stanford Lively Arts)
Stanford, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Mingus Dynasty's ensemble residency program presented by Stanford Lively Arts. Activities will include performances, workshops, discussions, classroom visits, and a professional development workshop for K-12 teachers.

Streetside Stories, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Bay Area Youth Story Project. Workshops for middle school students providing instruction in the composition of autobiographical narratives, theater performance, and storytelling will culminate in a published anthology of the students' work.

Teatro Vision
San Jose, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the commissioning of Herbert Siguenza and fellow Culture Clash artists and founders Richard Montoya and Ric Salinas to create a new bilingual work celebrating the life of writer, activist, and muralist José Antonio Burciaga. Tony! The Life and Times of José Antonio Burciaga will be directed by Wilma Bonet.

Theatre Bay Area
San Francisco, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support Theatre Bay Area Online Redesign, with accompanying educational and outreach activities. Executive Director Brad Erickson will oversee the initiative led by Communications Director Karen McKevitt and Marketing Director Clayton Lord.

Theatre Bay Area (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and implementation of Intrinsic Impact: Measuring How Live Theatre Affects Emotional, Intellectual and Spiritual Growth in Audiences. The nationwide study will be implemented in partnership with Theatre Puget Sound and other regional service organizations throughout the United States.

Theatre of Yugen, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the NOHkids Cycle, a project consisting of original, experimental plays performed following the architecture of a traditional Japanese Noh Cycle theatrical event. The plays will draw inspiration from Western classics of children's literature including The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (based on the The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis), and The Steadfast Soldier by Hans Christian Andersen.

Trust for Public Land
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the Railyard Park and Plaza Stewards program. The project will offer educational workshops, tours, and community work days to maintain and conserve the Railyard Park and Plaza in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Venice Arts In Neighborhoods
Venice, CA
$42,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Art Mentoring program. The project will provide free, technologically intensive arts instruction to underserved youth with a focus on art creation in photography, filmmaking, and digitally-based media.

Virginia Avenue Project
Santa Monica, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the writing and performing programs One-on-One and Playwriting. Area youth will connect with professional artists through activities such as mentoring, theater workshops, a summer camp, and public performances.

Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum (aka Theatricum Botanicum)
Topanga, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of Americana: Struggles, Strength and Survival. The play will use speeches, songs, poems and experiences of notable Americans to create a unique theatrical experience.

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the African Consortium. In partnership with Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, the international exchange initiative is designed to create a new level of artistic collaboration between artists and arts organizations and develop cultural dialogue between the United States and African countries.

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
San Francisco, CA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Big Ideas, a series of multidisciplinary performances, film screenings, and exhibitions. The programs of film, visual, and performance work will be presented in conjunction with curatorial themes that aim to contextualize the series.

Young Musicians Foundation
Beverly Hills, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a concert by the foundation's Debut Orchestra.

Youth in Arts
San Rafael, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the creation of A Day in the Life of Señor Calavera. The piece will include aspects of Mexican culture, music, video, and dance, forming a lively educational performance for children.

Number of Grants: 188          Total Amount: $6,707,300

 
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