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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.

NEW JERSEY

Artists Collective for Social Change
Fort Lee, NJ
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support Broadway in the Schools and accompanying educational activities. Executive Director Alexis Marnel will lead an eight-month residency in which students create an original musical at the Henry Highland Garnet School for Success (PS 175) in Harlem, New York.

Arts Horizons, Inc.
Englewood, NJ
$26,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Special Education Artists Academy. Teachers for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder in New York City District 75 Special Education Services, as well as three public schools in the Bronx, Manhattan, and Queens, will be trained to teach music, dance, and theater and will then partner with artists in their classrooms.

International Sculpture Center, Inc. (aka Sculpture Magazine) (Consortium)
Hamilton, NJ
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support production of a book titled Art for the Earth. Designed to feature artists whose work addresses environmental remediation or preservation or other ecological issues, the publication will be published by International Sculpture Center Press.

Jersey City Museum, Inc.
Jersey City, NJ
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the inventory and evaluation of the museum's collection. Objects will be examined, measured, and entered into a searchable collections management database with a written description and a high-resolution image.

Montclair State University
Upper Montclair, NJ
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Peak Performance's presentation of Passport by Robert Whitman; The Matter of Origins by Liz Lerman; and Llámame Mariachi by La Ribot. Works have been selected to demonstrate the current state of boundary-less art, how it evolved, and its impact on the work of current-day artists.

Montclair State University
Upper Montclair, NJ
$15,000
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the restaging of Company B, choreographed by Paul Taylor in 1991. The work will be performed by university students in the Department of Theatre and Dance, and will be accompanied by education and outreach activities.

Music For All Seasons, Inc.
Scotch Plains, NJ
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support music programs targeted for at-risk children living in shelters. Between two and four instrumentalists will be engaged to lead activities in various venues in New Jersey, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, and California.

New Jersey State Council on the Arts
Trenton, NJ
$993,100
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

Newark Museum Association
Newark, NJ
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the conservation and exhibition of a complete set of Tibetan thangkas (scroll paintings) depicting scenes from the life of Je Tsongkhapa (1357-1419). Painted in vivid, elaborate detail, the early 19th-century Tsongkhapa thangkas represent one of only three known complete sets of their kind in the world.

Newark Public Radio, Inc. (aka WBGO Jazz 88)
Newark, NJ
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the WBGO Living Archive, a project to convert past radio shows onto the new website www.wbgo.org. Celebrating its 30th year in 2009, WBGO will create new programs of audio treasures from its archive, making them accessible to a wider audience.

Newark Public Radio, Inc. (aka WBGO Jazz 88)
Newark, NJ
$60,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production of JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater, a weekly radio series of jazz concerts. The series is produced by WBGO/Newark, distributed by NPR, and reaches approximately 170,000 listeners each week throughout the United States.

Princeton Ballet Society (aka American Repertory Ballet)
New Brunswick, NJ
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the restaging of choreographer Twyla Tharp's Eight Jelly Rolls. This work will be American Repertory Ballet's fourth Tharp revival, and will premiere at the New Theatre in New Brunswick, New Jersey.

Ramapo College of New Jersey
Mahwah, NJ
$6,100
CATEGORY: American Masterpieces   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Conversations in Bebop: An Artist Residency with Dr. Barry Harris. The project will feature NEA Jazz Master Harris in concert, with related master classes, discussions, and improvisational workshops for students and the community.

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (Consortium)
New Brunswick, NJ
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support Latina/o Literary Imagination, a biennial conference and website designed to foster community among Latina/o literary artists. Rutgers will partner with the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque to engage writers, critics, scholars, and other attendees in actual and virtual cross-country conversations.

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (Consortium)
New Brunswick, NJ
$22,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support Artists Mentoring Against Racism, Drugs, & Violence: Healing Through the Arts Summer Camp. With assistance from the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, artists will provide multidisciplinary arts instruction during a summer camp for youth, ages 10 to 16.

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-Camden Campus
Camden, NJ
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support Writers at Camden, a series of free monthly workshops, readings, and discussions with visiting writers targeting residents of the city of Camden, one of the most poverty-stricken cities in the nation. Scheduled authors include Victor Lavalle, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Veronica Chambers, Juan Herrera, Elizabeth Strout, and Tom Bissell.

Visual Arts Center of New Jersey
Summit, NJ
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support an exhibition and outdoor installation of the work of contemporary artist Chakaia Booker (b. 1953), with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will trace the career of Booker, a New Jersey native, examining her choice of materials, working methods, and formal qualities as well as her explorations of race, gender, environment, and society.

Young Audiences of New Jersey, Inc.
Princeton, NJ
$18,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Emerging Artists' Creativity Institute. Performing, visual, media, and literary arts students from across New Jersey will be mentored by professional teaching artists to collaboratively study multidisciplinary work for live performances, exhibitions, and online presentations.


Number of Grants: 18          Total Amount: $1,470,200

 
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