FY 2012 Grant Awards: State Listings

Art Works I | Challenge America Fast-Track Grants | Literature Fellowships (Prose)

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

CALIFORNIA

18th Street Arts Complex
Santa Monica, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Artist Communities
To support artist residencies for local, national, and international artists. Twenty- four long- and medium-term resident artists, 18 international artists, and six California artists will do residencies of various lengths.

3rd I South Asian Independent Film (aka 3rd i Films)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the South Asian International Film Festival. The 10th annual festival will include full-length features, documentaries, and short films by South Asian filmmakers from the United States, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Europe, Canada, and the South Asian diaspora, with a special program called Bombay Noir featuring guest filmmakers Anurag Kashyap and Sriram Raghavan.

509 Cultural Center (aka The Luggage Store)
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the exhibition Pax Americana by American artist David Gurman at the Luggage Store. Constructed in collaboration with a team of experts in seismology, music, robotics, and electromechanical engineering Gurman's installation Pax Americana will convert real time seismic data into music performed robotically by a quintet composed of piano, viola, cello, bassoon, and a timpani.

Actors Gang, Inc.
Culver City, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and presentation of a re-imagined adaptation of Shakespeare's The Tempest, created by actor, director, and Shakespeare expert Lisa Wolpe. Based in the physical traditions of commedia dell' arte, company members will create an intergenerational and multicultural production presented in The Actors' Gang Family Theater Summer Program for family audiences.

AjA Project
San Diego, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the Journey program. The series of after-school photography workshops is targeted to serve immigrant and refugee youth, ages 14 to 19, living in the San Diego area.

ALICE: Arts and Literacy in Children's Education (aka ALICE Arts)
Oakland, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and production of From the Cradle: Family Stories of Iraqi Refugees and American Vets, an original performance work. The work will use video, mask work, puppetry, and lighting to portray the toll the Iraq War has taken on people's lives.

Alonzo King LINES Ballet
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of work by choreographer Alonzo King, in collaboration with bassist and composer Edgar Meyer. The project will include post-performance question-and-answer sessions, as well as free family activities before Sunday performances.

American Conservatory Theatre Foundation (aka A.C.T.)
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the West Coast premiere of Scorched by Lebanese-born Canadian playwright Wadji Mouawad, directed by artistic director Carey Perloff. Set in a fictional war-torn Middle Eastern country, the play explores the chaos and suffering caused by war, and the relationship between family and identity as it tells the story of immigrant twins who receive a surprising request in their late mother's will.

API Cultural Center (aka Oakland Asian Cultural Center)
Oakland, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the development of A History of the Body, performed by artists from the Pagbabalik (Return) Project. The multidisciplinary, spoken word performance piece will explore the ways body images of immigrants are affected by cultural, historical, and media influences.

Architecture for Humanity
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the Open Architecture Challenge. The 2012 challenge is an ideas competition that invites architects and designers from around the world to develop innovative urban design and land use solutions for the re-purposing of former and decommissioned military sites.

Armory Center for the Arts
Pasadena, CA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the exhibition Water, CA. Socially engaged artist collectives and individual artists will exhibit works, stage performances, and convene events at the Armory's main facility in Old Pasadena and off-site locations to broaden the public's understanding of California's water rights, water use history, and the changing role of contemporary art practice in society.

Art Works for Change
Oakland, CA
$45,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the exhibition Natures Toolbox: Biodiversity, Art, and Invention. Newly-commissioned and selected artworks by artists, scientists, designers, and technological innovators will explore the beauty and genius of nature along with global environmental issues and the human impact that is contributing to a rapid loss of biodiversity and species extinction.

Arts & Services for Disabled
Long Beach, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support an exhibitions program for artists with developmental and physical disabilities. More than 120 participants with intellectual, developmental, emotional, psychological, and physical disabilities will create, curate, and present between 25 to 30 pieces of art, each based on a variety of unique themes and art techniques, which will be viewed by more than 30,000 people during the year-long exhibition series displayed at various locations in Los Angeles County.

Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
$34,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support an exhibition of Asian contemporary art, Phantoms of Asia, and accompanying catalogue. Curated by the chief curator of the Mori Museum in Tokyo, the exhibition will examine the spiritual, religious, and cultural environments of Buddhism, Shinto, Confucianism, Taoism, Hinduism, and Islam, and how these environments coexist multi-dimensionally in Asia and abroad through magic, folklore rituals, oracles, and religious services.

Association of California Symphony Orchestras
Sacramento, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the planning and implementation of the 44th Annual Conference and the "Ask the Expert" series.

AXIS Dance Company
Oakland, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support Dance Access & Dance Access/KIDS! education and outreach programs. These activities will offer a variety of dance events for youth and adults with and without disabilities.

Berkeley Society for the Preservation of Traditional Music, Inc. (aka Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse)
Berkeley, CA
$12,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Genre Bending Innovators series at Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse in Berkeley, California. Local and touring musicians -- such as jazz clarinetist Don Byron, mandolin virtuoso Mike Marshall, and the Fishtank Ensemble (Serbian and Transylvanian Gypsy music infused with Flamenco, rockabilly, and French jazz) -- will perform music that experiments with combining various styles within the roots music genre.

Berkeley Symphony Orchestra
Berkeley, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support commissions, premieres, a mentorship program, and residency activities with composers Paul Dresher and Steven Stucky. Plans include four one-week residencies plus a commission and premiere of a new work by Stucky; a commission and premiere of a new work by Dresher featuring two of his invented instruments, the Quadrachord and the Hurdy Grande; and participation by both composers in the Under Construction mentorship program for local emerging composers.

Bernard, Sean
Claremont, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music
Santa Cruz, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a professional development program for conductors and composers. The training program, led by conductors Marin Alsop and Gustav Meier, will offer 20 emerging conductors the opportunity to lead small and large ensembles in rehearsals and a public performance, to program contemporary works, and to collaborate with composers.

California Institute of the Arts (aka CalArts)
Valencia, CA
$70,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the CalArts Community Arts Partnership Summer Arts Program, a three-week program of day-long classes in visual arts, dance, creative writing, animation, digital filmmaking, theater, photography and music led by CalArts faculty, student and alumni instructors. Students will learn artmaking from professional artists, experience art at Los Angeles arts institutions, and create original art that is presented to the public at the culmination of the program.

California Symphony Orchestra, Inc. (aka California Symphony)
Walnut Creek, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Young American Composer Residency. Plans for the residency with composer D. J. Sparr include the commissioning and premiere of a new work developed through reading sessions and feedback from the orchestra's musicians and conductor as well as taking part in educational activities with school children.

Carlsbad Music Festival
Carlsbad, CA
$7,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Carlsbad Music Festival. Plans for the five-day festival include more than 30 performances by percussion ensemble Red Fish Blue Fish, Calder Quartet, La Jolla Symphony with pipa player Wu Man, and related educational activities.

Center for Architecture + Design
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the Civil Salon Project: Design Thinking for Social Innovation. The project will pair as many as five designers with local government agencies in San Francisco for one month residencies and a series of public meetings to explore issues and propose solutions for challenges to urban livability.

Center for Asian American Media
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 30th San Francisco Asian American Film Festival. The event will showcase new work by and about Asian Americans and Asians.

Center for the Art of Translation
San Francisco, CA
$7,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of Two Lines, an annual anthology of international writing in translation. The center will publish two collections of Arabic literature in addition to expanding their exclusive online content, and inaugurating a series of monographs.

Children's Book Press
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of multicultural and bilingual board books for early readers. In addition to reprinting 13 backlist titles, the press will continue phase three of the First Voice: Early Reader Initiative to survey and assess the books' impact on children, their families, and childhood development professionals.

Chitresh Das Dance Company & Chhandam School
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the creation of a new narrative dance and its performance by the Chitresh Das Dance Company. Heritage Fellow Pandit Chitresh Das will choreograph and direct Darba, a performance using traditional Kathak dance, master Indian musicians, and multimedia images to tell a story of the royal court of North India.

City of San Fernando, California
San Fernando, CA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the Mariachi Master Apprentice Program that brings together professional musicians of Mariachi Los Camperos with mariachi students. Led by NEA National Heritage Fellow Nati Cano, the master musicians will teach mariachi arrangements of sones, rancheras, jarabes, huapangos, and polkas and performance skills including how to play effectively in live recording sessions.

Classics for Kids, Inc.
San Diego, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support Las Tradiciones Musicales Concert Series & Educational Workshops, featuring Mexican musical traditions. Guest artists, including the Leyenda Dance Company, Jeff Nevin, and Mariachi Garibaldi, will participate in the bilingual concert series for audiences from throughout San Diego County.

CounterPulse
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the CounterPULSE Artist Residency and Commissioning (ARC) Program for local and emerging artists. The 2012 ARC Program will consist of two, six-month residencies during which four artists (two per session) will rehearse, collaborate, teach, and perform new work in a shared program.

Creative Growth, Inc. (aka Creative Growth Art Center)
Oakland, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support Around the Corner, Around the World: American Artists with Disabilities in a Contemporary Context, a program of activities for American artists with disabilities. The program will include a year-long series of exhibitions; presentations on art and disabilities in five cities across Europe, South America, and Asia; workshops in a variety of media and video production; collaborative artists' projects; and a summer art program for youth with disabilities.

Croatian Cultural Center of San Francisco (aka Croatian American Cultural Center)
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the 2012 San Francisco Tam Fest. The festival will present Croatian American Tamburitza ensembles and soloists who, in addition to performing, will lead master classes, jam sessions, provide music for dancing, and participate in a panel discussion about Tamburitza music in the lives of Croatian people.

Cutting Ball Theater
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the commission and world premiere of Tender Loin, written and directed by Annie Elias. The work will be about the people and places in the district where Cutting Ball Theater is located, developed through a compilation of interviews with neighborhood merchants, workers, and residents, woven into a documentary-style theater piece.

Cygnet Theatre Company
San Diego, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support a production of Parade, by Jason Robert Brown and Alfred Uhry. The musical recounts the 1913 Atlanta trial of Leo Frank in which sensational journalism obscured Frank's innocence, and explores issues of bigotry and anti-Semitism through community partnerships and forums, film screenings, book readings, and student matinees.

Dancers' Group
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support In Dance, a publication targeted for dance artists in the San Francisco Bay Area. The issues appear in print as well as on the Dancers' Group Web site, and include a comprehensive performance calendar, summer workshop guide, reviews of dance companies, performance auditions, jobs, grant news listings, and downloadable podcasts of special interviews and features.

De Robertis, Carolina
Oakland, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

Dell'Arte, Inc.
Blue Lake, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support The Mary Jane Project, an interactive installation and original theater work that will examine the culture surrounding marijuana, a crop of economic importance to the theater's home in Humboldt County, California. The project will consist of two components: an art installation by visual artist Michele McCall Wallace that will tour the region with company members collecting stories about local marijuana culture; and an original theater work created in conjunction with The Absynth Quintet.

Djerassi Resident Artists Program
Woodside, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Artist Communities
To support artist residencies. The project will provide studios, living accommodations, meals and professional assistance to visual, media, performing, and literary artists.

East Bay Center for the Performing Arts
Richmond, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support Young Artists Diploma Program. The Pre-Diploma Program provides arts education for youth ages three to 18 and the four-year Diploma Program serves middle and high school students. Professional artists from the fields of dance, media, music, and theater will teach classes and private lessons in the after-school and summer programs.

East-West Players, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$60,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the world premiere production of The Three-Year Swim Club by Lee A. Tonouchi, directed by Keo Woolford. Rooted in the Hawaiian pidgin culture and language, the piece is based on the true story of a 1930s swim coach who trained swimmers in the irrigation ditches of Hawaii and led them to the Olympics; and will dramatize the action of swimming in the production through Hula.

El Teatro Campesino
San Juan Bautist, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the commission, development, and production of Valley of the Heart by Luis Valdez. Research will be conducted at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles to tell the true story of an inter-racial romance between a Japanese American woman and a Mexican farm worker during WWII; developmental steps will include a one-week script workshop, a public staged reading, and a music workshop with San Jose Taiko.

Engage Inc. (aka EngAGE: The Art of Active Aging)
Burbank, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support EngAGE in Creativity, a series of multidisciplinary workshops for senior citizens. Artists will conduct visual arts, film, acting/directing, and music classes culminating in exhibitions, performances, readings, and radio shows.

Epiphany Productions Sonic Dance Theater (aka Epiphany Productions)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the San Francisco Trolley Dances. This festival includes presentations of free site-specific contemporary dance performances, presented along a different city trolley or San Francisco Municipal Railway route each year.

Eth-Noh-Tec Creations
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support Tales of Pangu, a full-length interdisciplinary program featuring the Gay Asian Pacific Alliance Men's Chorus. With music and song from the men's chorus, the work will present ancient Chinese creation myths and the stories of Pangu, a central figure in Chinese mythology.

Exploratorium
San Francisco, CA
$39,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support residencies and creation of art works by contemporary artists on Pier 15, the Exploratorium's new home. Works by Nina Katchadourian, Raphael Lozano Hemmer, Mark Brest van Kempen, and two artist collectives, REBAR and The Lucky Dragons, will be installed on a 50,000 square foot public promenade over the water.

Ford Theatre Foundation (aka John Anson Ford Theatres)
Hollywood, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Community Bridges Program. The project will facilitate participation of local Latino and Asian American communities through performances, residencies, marketing, and audience development strategies.

Fountain Theatre
Los Angeles, CA
$18,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and premiere of a new play by South African playwright Athol Fugard, directed by artistic director Stephen Sachs. New works under consideration include The Bird Watchers, which dramatizes the reunion of three old friends in South Africa, and Blue Iris, the intimate portrait of an elderly South African gentleman and his small grandson.

Frameline
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support a curated film series. To be presented during the San Francisco International LBGT Film Festival, the series will focus on early films of the New Queer Cinema Movement.

Friends of the Levitt Pavilion-Pasadena (aka Levitt Pavilion Pasadena)
Pasadena, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support production and outreach for Influences of Africa. This free six-concert series fuses the traditional music and dance of Africa with contemporary influences like pop, rock, funk, soul, rap, hip hop, and electronica.

Gamelan Sekar Jaya
Oakland, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support Artist Residencies: Master Artists from Bali. Renowned artists and culture bearers will disseminate rare forms of Balinese music and dance in classes and educational activities, assist in the creation and performance of two major works, and support establishment of an artistic exchange program.

Global Girl Media
Culver City, CA
$18,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support GlobalGirlMedia, a media arts education project. Teenage girls from underserved communities will be introduced to the principles of citizen journalism while using digital media to inspire self-esteem, community engagement, and social change.

Golden Thread Productions
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the premiere production of ReOrient Festival of short plays exploring the Middle East, and a weekend forum of panels with leading experts and presentations on theater and the Middle East. The four-week run of fully produced new short plays, as well as ReOrient Forum, a weekend of talks, lectures, performances, showings, exhibitions, and other events, will take place at the Thick House and Theatre Artaud/Z Space in San Francisco.

Grand Performances
Los Angeles, CA
$45,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Changing Neighborhoods: San Pedro/Wilmington, a multidisciplinary arts series at California Plaza. Events will include music, theater, storytelling performances, film screenings, and related lectures exploring the San Pedro/Wilmington communities.

Grand Vision Foundation
San Pedro, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Latino History Month Music & Dance Program, a series of workshops and concerts highlighting the folklorico, salsa, and tango genres. Potential participating musical ensembles include La Santa Cecilia, Orquesta La Fiebre, and La Mariachi Estrela de Jalisco.

Headlands Center for the Arts
Sausalito, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Artist Communities
To support artist residencies for emerging and mid-career artists. The program will directly support 50 artists at the historic National Park campus.

Holeton, Richard
Montara, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

Idyllwild Arts Foundation
Idyllwild, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Idyllwild Arts Native American Arts Program and Festival. The project will include free performances, lectures, demonstrations, gallery events and storytelling, as well as hands-on workshops with prominent Native American traditional and contemporary artists.

Independent Television Service, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$45,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support a 26-part television series titled Global Voices. The series will present documentaries funded through the Independent Television Services' International Media Development Fund and will also showcase programs from the ITVS archive of more than 900 titles.

Intersection (aka Intersection for the Arts)
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support resident company Campo Santo's development of Alleluia, The Road, a new play by Luis Alfaro, inspired by August Strindberg's The Road to Damascus. The research and development process will engage urban and rural communities as a team of artists explore seven stops on California's Highway 99, reflecting on the state's history of economic, demographic, and cultural shifts.

Jazzschool, Inc.
Berkeley, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the Young Musicians Program. Resident and visiting jazz artists and educators will teach middle and high school instrumental and vocal jazz students in a year-round program including after-school classes, summer camps, and performance opportunities.

Joe Goode Performance Group
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation of a series of site-specific performance work by choreographer Joe Goode. The project, titled The Human Kind Series, was inspired by the company's move to a newly acquired permanent studio at San Francisco's Project Artaud in the Mission Hill neighborhood.

Kala Institute
Berkeley, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Artist Communities
To support the artist residencies in visual arts, video, performance, digital media, and book arts. American and international artists will receive stipends, technical support, and access to working facilities

Kronos Performing Arts Association
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the creation, planning, production, and rehearsal costs for 12 Stories, a collaboration with composer/performer Laurie Anderson and Kronos Quartet. The evening-length work will comprise 12 short songs for processed (electronic) violin written by Anderson and arranged for string quartet interwoven with 12 stories written and spoken by Anderson.

Kuumbwa Jazz Society
Santa Cruz, CA
$17,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Kuumbwa Jazz Presents NEA Jazz Masters in Concert and Conversation series. Three concerts will feature NEA Jazz Masters Toshiko Akiyoshi (2007), Kenny Barron (2010), Branford Marsalis (2011); and Orrin Keepnews (2011) will be showcased in an in-depth conversation about his 60-year career in jazz.

La Jolla Music Society
La Jolla, CA
$17,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support SummerFest, presentations of chamber music. Under the direction of music director and violinist Cho-Liang Lin, the festival will include commissions and premieres of new works by composers Aaron Jay Kernis, Matthias Pintscher, and Steven Stucky as well as a variety of educational activities.

Laguna Beach Live!
Laguna Beach, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Laguna Beach Music Festival of chamber music concerts and educational activities. Violinist Joshua Bell will be guest artistic director for the festival with performances by cellist Steven Isserlis, pianist Jeremy Denk, and emerging artists accompanied by a variety of outreach concerts, workshops, and educational programs.

Les Figues Press
Los Angeles, CA
$7,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication, distribution, and promotion of works of poetry and literary prose from the TrenchArt series. Scheduled authors include Kim Rosenfield, Michael du Plessis, Matias Viegener, Mark Rutkoski, Melissa Buzzeo, Chris Tysh, and Divya Victor.

LEVYdance
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of the Bay Area Contemporary Choreographer's Showcase, an artist-produced shared program with The Foundry dance company and LEVYdance. The artists will share resources to rent the performance space for an extended run.

Lively Arts Foundation
Fresno, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support a performance by Alonzo King LINES Ballet and related outreach. Activities will include an introductory dance class for the community and a contemporary dance master class for area dance students.

Long Beach Opera
Long Beach, CA
$22,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a new production of AINADAMAR by composer Osvaldo Golijov and librettist David Henry Hwang. The 2006 Grammy Award-winning opera portrays the life of Spanish poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca.

Long Beach Opera (Consortium)
Long Beach, CA
$22,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the double-bill: Oceana by Argentinean composer Osvaldo Golijov and the American premiere of The Paper Nautilius by Scottish composer Gavin Bryars. In partnership with the Aquarium of the Pacific, the company will transform the Great Hall of the Aquarium into an immersive performance venue allowing the production to complement the movements of the surrounding ocean life.

Los Angeles County Arts Commission
Los Angeles, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support Engage: A New Media Intensive. Through a competitive application process, the program will provide arts organizations with resources and technical assistance to create digital media resources.

Los Angeles Master Chorale Association
Los Angeles, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Andes to the Sea, a concert program of choral music featuring the premiere of a commissioned work by composer Gabriela Lena Frank and related educational activities. The program will include the new work performed with Latin American folk jazz ensemble Huayucaltia, along with works by Venezuelan composers Maria Guinand, Alberto Grau, and Oscar Galian.

Los Angeles Opera Company (aka LA Opera)
Los Angeles, CA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support Benjamin Britten's Albert Herring as part of LA Opera's celebration of his centenary. The production will build on the efforts of the four-year Britten Celebration, which fulfills the company's mission of immersing audiences in the complete body of works of one composer.

Los Angeles Philharmonic Association
Los Angeles, CA
$70,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Mahler Project. Plans include performances of all nine symphonies by Gustav Mahler performed with the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela along with chamber music, family and community concerts, and educational programs.

Magic Theatre, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and world premiere of Bruja, an original, contemporary adaptation of Euripedes' Medea, set in modern day Cuba, by playwright Luis Alfaro and producing artistic director Loretta Greco. Affairs of the heart take on intense theatrical dimension in this story of exile as people view Medea's choices in a contemporary light.

MAK Center for Arts and Architecture
West Hollywood, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support Schindler Lab, rounds two and three. This newly launched exhibition series pairs a local emerging artist and local emerging architect to build complementary installations in the modernist landmark Schindler House.

Margaret Jenkins Dance Studio, Inc. (aka Margaret Jenkins Dance Company)
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of Time Bones, a new work by choreographer Margaret Jenkins. Time Bones, inspired by the myth of the scattered limbs of Osiris, will explore the "bones" of Margaret Jenkins' creative process throughout her 38-year career, and will be compiled from components of her 75 works.

Marin Theatre Company
Mill Valley, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a playwright residency and production of Lauren Gunderson's new play Silent Sky with accompanying educational activities. Using the medium of theater to tell the story of women in science, Silent Sky portrays the life of early 20th-century astronomer Henrietta Leavitt on her journey of discovery.

Media Arts Center San Diego
San Diego, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 19th San Diego Latino Film Festival. The films and videos exhibited are produced by Latinos or are about the Latino experience.

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

Monterey Jazz Festival
Monterey, CA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support artists fees and travel costs for the 55th annual Monterey Jazz Festival. Artists that will perform include the festival's 2012 artist-in-residence and the annually selected Commission and Showcase Artists.

Mount Saint Mary's College (on behalf of Da Camera Society)
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the presentation of Chamber Music in Historic Sites by the Da Camera Society. The concerts and outreach activities (with artists such as American Bach Soloists, and the Sphinx Symphony with the Catalyst Quartet) will match musical programming from various cultures and periods with sites of architectural and historical significance in the Los Angeles area.

Muckenthaler Cultural Center
Fullerton, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Latino Audience Development Program, a series of performances and exhibits highlighting Latino arts and culture. Activities will include performances by Chilean flute group Chaski, Brazilian choro group Grupo Falso Baiano, and Mexican son jarocho group Son del Centro.

Museum Associates (aka LACMA)
Los Angeles, CA
$34,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the exhibition Children of the Plumed Serpent: The Legacy of Quetzalcoatl in Ancient Mexico at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and accompanying catalogue. The exhibition, the first systematic investigation of the cultural and artistic traditions in Mesoamerica during the Post-classic period (AD 1000-1521), will extend its reach into the present day, examining the cultural complexities of the late pre-Columbian and early colonial eras in the art of the period and the enduring nature of these complexities in contemporary Mesoamerican societies.

Music Academy of the West
Santa Barbara, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Orchestral Leadership Program, a guest conductor residency program. Professional conductors, including James Gaffigan, Nicholas McGegan, and Larry Rachleff, will conduct young instrumentalists in orchestral and chamber music repertoire as part of their professional training during the Academy's summer festival.

Narrative Magazine, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of Narrative Magazine, a free online journal of new literature. In 2011, Narrative's website will be upgraded to include community-building modules and allow readers to personally customize their onsite experience with features such as individual bookshelves.

National Film Preservation Foundation
San Francisco, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production of a DVD anthology. Treasures 6: New Wave Avant-Garde, 1960-1988 will include experimental films by artists such as Bruce Conner, Marjorie Keller, Willie Varela, and Ernie Gehr.

Oakland East Bay Symphony
Oakland, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support All That Jazz, a performance project featuring guest artists including jazz composer and pianist Taylor Eigsti, vocalist Paula West, and violinist and composer Daniel Bernard Roumain. The orchestra, under the direction of music director Michael Morgan, will perform recent works by Eigsti, a Bay Area native, and the west coast premiere of Romain's Voodoo Violin Concerto, featuring the composer in performance with the orchestra.

Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir, Inc.
Oakland, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support Celebrating Our Traditions in Harmony, a choral concert featuring the a cappella ensemble Vocolot. The performance will premiere several new choral pieces created by Terrance Kelly, artistic director of Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir, and Linda Hirschhorn, artistic director of Vocolot that explore gospel, spirituals, folk, and world music.

Oberlin Dance Collective (aka ODC/Dance)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of new works. Artistic director Brenda Way will premiere Life Saving Maneuvers, which will include a set and video piece by Alexander Nichols, and music by composer/cellist Zoe Keating and selections of Tom Waits. Co-artistic director KT Nelson will premiere Transit, in collaboration with composer Hyo-shin Na, set designer Matt Antaky, and designer/welder Max Chen.

Ojai Festivals
Ojai, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Ojai Music Festival. The 66th annual music festival will be curated by Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes, also serving as the 2012 festival music director and guest artist in performance.

Orange County Museum of Art
Newport Beach, CA
$34,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the exhibition 10,000 x Jack Goldstein (1945-2003) and accompanying catalogue. Organized by guest-curator Philipp Kaiser, the exhibition is the first American retrospective of the artist and will feature approximately 60 paintings, films, sculptures, installations, recordings, and ephemera.

Pacific Chorale
Santa Ana, CA
$42,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the commissioning, premiere performance, and recording of a new choral and orchestral work by Frank Ticheli. Featuring the 140-voice Pacific Chorale and the 66-member Pacific Symphony, the world premiere will take place in the spring of 2013 at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts and the resulting recording will be released worldwide by the record label Delos through Naxos of America, Inc.

Pacific Symphony (aka Orange County's Pacific Symphony)
Santa Ana, CA
$45,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support A Nowruz Celebration festival celebrating the ancient Persian New Year and exploring Persian music influences on American composers. The festival, directed by music director Carl St. Clair and artistic adviser Joseph Horowitz, will showcase A Peace Oratorio, a new work by Richard Danielpour, an American composer of Persian descent.

Peninsula Symphony Association
Palos Verdes Peninsula, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support Awakening Emotions, a concert featuring pianist Esther Keel, and related outreach activities. In addition to the concert, Keel will make presentations to students at three local Title I elementary schools.

Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
San Francisco, CA
$12,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support performances of George Frideric Handel's oratorio Alexander's Feast, under the direction of music director Nicholas McGegan. The project will include guest artists soprano Dominique Labelle, tenor James Taylor, and baritone Philip Cutlip, as well as the Philharmonia Chorale with chorale director Bruce Lamott.

Philharmonic Society of Orange County (aka Philharmonic Society)
Irvine, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Festival of American Orchestras, featuring the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, The Cleveland Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the New York Philharmonic in performances and artist residency activities. The concerts will be held at the Renee and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall of the Orange County Performing Arts Center.

Piece by Piece
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Visiting Artist Series, a sequence of workshops and lectures featuring mosaic artists Beth Barror, Jolino Beserra, Kim Emerson, and Lillian Sizemore. The project will target low-income residents and culminate in an exhibit of the participants' work at The Mark, an events venue in Los Angeles.

Playwrights Foundation, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the 35th anniversary presentation of the Bay Area Playwrights Festival. The festival includes a week of studio work and two weekends of publically-staged readings of eight new plays.

Playwrights Foundation, Inc. (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and premiere of The Hundred Flowers Project, a new play by Asian American playwright Christopher Chen, directed by Latin American playwright and director Octavio Solis. Co-commissioned with Crowded Fire Theater Company, and with participation by the Lark Play Development Center, the play investigates the reign of Mao Tse-tung's cult of personality and its powerful impact on the modern world.

Plaza de la Raza, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support Día De Los Muertos/Day of the Dead Festival at Plaza de la Raza, a traditional Mexican/Chicano celebration. The project will attract local and regional audiences for public performances of music and dance, as well as workshops on the material aspects of the holiday (altars, sugar skulls, and skeletons).

Pro Arts
Oakland, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the New Works Series featuring new work by Oakland-based artists. The Series will include three commissioning programs for contemporary art made by Oakland-based artists; 2x2 Solos will commission and exhibit new work by four emerging artists; PROJECT will commission artists to create new site-specific installations in Downtown Oakland; and the Open Call program will provide exceptional and unexpected presentations of contemporary art from local artists and curators.

Project X Foundation for Art and Criticism (aka X-TRA)
Los Angeles, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the reviews section of X-TRA Magazine. A quarterly visual arts publication featuring national and international artists, X-Tra includes expansive features, historical essays, commissioned artist's projects, interviews, and substantive exhibition and book reviews.

Radio Bilingüe, Inc.
Fresno, CA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support Radio Bilingüe's presentation of the 29th annual ¡Viva el Mariachi! festival. Radio Bilingüe will present a concert featuring mariachi ensembles, folkloric dance performances, and workshops taught by master mariachi musicians, open to all levels of participants.

Regents of the University of California at Berkeley (on behalf of Pacific Film Archive)
Berkeley, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the curated film series A Survey of Georgian Cinema. The retrospective will present 25 films, including works from Soviet Georgia through the present.

Regents of the University of California at Berkeley (on behalf of Berkeley Art Museum)
Berkeley, CA
$68,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the exhibition Beauty Revealed: Images of Women in Qing Dynasty Chinese Painting at the Berkeley Art Museum, and accompanying catalogue. The exhibition, of approximately 60 major paintings from public and private collections, will investigate a relatively unexamined area of Chinese art history, meiren (beautiful women) paintings from the 17th and 18nth centuries.

Regents of the University of California at Berkeley (on behalf of Cal Performances)
Berkeley, CA
$75,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support performances of Einstein on the Beach by composer Philip Glass and librettist Robert Wilson. A two-week residency with the composer and librettist as well as numerous education and community programs will bring this significant work to the stage.

Regents of the University of California at Los Angeles (on behalf of Hammer Museum)
Los Angeles, CA
$34,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the exhibition, Alina Szapocznikow: This is Not My Body at the Hammer Museum, and accompanying catalogue. The exhibition will present the sculpture and works on paper of Szapocznikow (1926-73), an under-recognized 20th century Polish sculptor and WWII concentration camp survivor, who was one of the first artists (along with Eva Hesse) to manipulate the skin-like viscosity and translucence of polyester resin.

Regents of the University of California at Santa Barbara (Consortium)
Santa Barbara, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Viva el Arte de Santa Barbara!, a multidisciplinary arts project focusing on Mexican arts and artists. In collaboration with Community Youth Performing Arts Center, activities will include artist residencies and free performances by artists, including Trio Los Panchos, Calexico, Mariachi Cobre, Ozomatli, and Grandesa Mexicana, for low-income communities and schools.

Rhythmic Concepts, Inc.
Oakland, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support In the Name of Love, a musical tribute honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., featuring vocalist Mavis Staples. Additional artists participating in the concert will include the Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir and the Oakland Children's Community Choir.

Rhythmix Cultural Works
Alameda, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Island Arts Concert Series and workshops, featuring musical traditions from islands around the world. In partnership with the Alameda Boys & Girls Club and Girls Incorporated of the Island City, youth will participate in workshops taught by the guest artists. Proposed artists include Gamelan Seka Jaya (Bali), Hanayui (Japan), Helladelics (Greece), and the John Santos Sextet (pan-Caribbean).

Root Division
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the Second Saturday Exhibition Series, a collection of visual art events taking place in San Francisco's Mission District. The series will present a unique event or exhibition opening on the second Saturday of each month highlighting the painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, installation, video, film, new media, and performance work of Bay Area visual art artists.

Ryman-Carroll Foundation (aka Ryman Arts)
Los Angeles, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the expansion of pre-professional studio art classes for high school students in the Los Angeles. Offered free of charge, classes are taught by experienced teaching artists and focus on the fundamental skills of drawing and painting in a rigorous and supportive environment.

San Diego Asian Film Foundation
San Diego, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 13th San Diego Asian Film Festival. Held in the fall, the week-long event features approximately 160 short films, animated works, documentaries, and narrative feature films.

San Diego Dance Theatre (aka Jean Isaacs San Diego Dance Theater)
San Diego, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support Trolley Dances, featuring original works by choreographers Jean Isaacs, Joe Alter, Monica Bill Barnes, and Greg Sample. The project will be produced in partnership with the Metropolitan Transit System and be presented on the Mission Valley Trolley Line for both students and the general public.

San Diego Opera Association (aka San Diego Opera)
San Diego, CA
$42,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the new opera Moby Dick by composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer, based on the novel by Herman Melville. Director Leonard Foglia, designer Robert Brill, projection designer Elaine McCarthy, and lighting designer Donald Holder will be joined by a diverse cast in this co-commission with the Dallas Opera, San Francisco Opera, State Opera of South Australia, and Calgary Opera.

San Diego Repertory Theatre
San Diego, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a final workshop and the world premiere of Tortilla Curtain by Matthew Spangler, based on the 1955 novel by T.C. Boyle, and directed by artistic director Sam Woodhouse. Part comic satire and part parable about the price of the American Dream, Tortilla Curtain takes place in 2011 just outside Los Angeles and explores the rights, privileges, and responsibilities of citizens and immigrants.

San Francisco Art and Film Program (aka San Francisco Art & Film for Teenagers)
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the Teen Film Workshop, an arts education project designed to prepare students for film school and train them for careers in the film industry. Students will participate in lectures and film viewings, which will provide them with a foundation in theory. They then apply what they have learned as they design and produce individual films and a group film.

San Francisco Ballet Association
San Francisco, CA
$70,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of new works by several choreographers, including artistic director Helgi Tomasson, choreographer-in-residence Yuri Possokhov, Wayne McGregor, Mark Morris, and Christopher Wheeldon. The project includes audience engagement activities such as community matinees for students and seniors, reduced-price tickets, pre-performance discussions, a docent-training program, and podcasts of Meet the Artist interviews and Pointes of View lectures.

San Francisco Cinematheque
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support curated film series of experimental and avant garde film and video. Programs to be included range from forgotten masterpieces by artists such as Stan Brakhage and Chick Strand, to retrospectives of Canadian filmmaker Etienne O'Leary and France's Helga Fanderl.

San Francisco Film Society
San Francisco, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 55th San Francisco International Film Festival and other related exhibition programs. The San Francisco International Film Festival will showcase more than 250 films; through its year-round programming, the SFFS will present current American independent and international feature films as well as programs devoted to French film, Italian film, animation, and documentaries.

San Francisco Girls Chorus, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$22,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the Music Education and Performance Program. The program will provide nine months of instruction in choral singing and opportunities for concert performance, using a five-level graduated curriculum and repertoire that spans six centuries and includes 14 languages.

San Francisco Jazz Organization (aka SFJAZZ)
San Francisco, CA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the 2012 SFJazz Collective Tour and Outreach Project, a residency and touring ensemble of all-star musicians. Project components include the creation and public presentation of new works by collective members and reinterpreted masterworks by Stevie Wonder as well as residencies for high school and college students.

San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 32nd San Francisco Jewish Film Festival and related activities. The festival, devoted to films on Jewish subjects, presents the premieres of films and videos by independent producers from around the world.

San Francisco Mime Troupe, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the creation, production, and Bay Area parks tour of The Last Election. The musical will tell the story of a group of corporate power brokers on Capitol Hill that plots to postpone an election to make an assault on democracy.

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
San Francisco, CA
$34,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support an exhibition featuring the work of photographer and video artist Rineke Dijkstra (b. 1959). The exhibition will feature color photographs and video installations, including new work that has never been shown, presenting Dijkstra's reexamination of portraiture in contemporary art.

San Francisco Opera Association (aka San Francisco Opera)
San Francisco, CA
$70,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the premiere of The Gospel of Mary Magdalene by composer and librettist Mark Adamo. Community outreach activities include panel discussions with the artists, biblical scholars, and authors allowing for questions and answers, lectures, films, and artwork displays about Mary Magdalene in the opera house lobby.

San Francisco Symphony (on behalf of San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra)
San Francisco, CA
$90,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the Artist Development Program of the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra. Designed to complement the youth orchestra's core program of weekly rehearsals and concert performances, the free program will provide students with coaching, mentorship, and specialized training in chamber music.

San Francisco Symphony
San Francisco, CA
$60,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the American Mavericks Festival, featuring world premieres of works by John Adams, Mason Bates, and Meredith Monk. Directed by music director Michael Tilson Thomas, programming will include performances of works by John Cage, Aaron Copland, Lukas Foss, Lou Harrison, and will feature guest artists composer Meredith Monk, vocalist Joan LaBarbara, soprano Jessye Norman, pianists Emanuel Ax and Jeremy Denk, and the St. Lawrence String Quartet.

San Jose Multicultural Artists Guild Inc.
San Jose, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support “Jazz Reflections” and related outreach activities.

Santa Monica Museum of Art
Santa Monica, CA
$34,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the exhibition, Mickalene Thomas: The Origin of the Universe and accompanying catalogue. Through the presentation of approximately 15 large-scale paintings, the exhibition will demonstrate how Thomas (b. 1971) employs classical genres and formal methodologies to address the politics of racial identity, female identity, subjectivity, and representation.

Shasta County Arts Council
Redding, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support a design project, Sails Over Old City Hall Courtyard. A new design will be developed for the courtyard of the historic Old City Hall, the home of the Shasta County Arts Council, to make it more accommodating for outdoor cultural events.

Shotgun Players, Inc.
Berkeley, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the creation of The Berkeley Stories Project, a community-based play created in collaboration with residents from the city of Berkeley. Lead artists Dan Wolf and Rebecca Novick will conduct outreach in ten different Berkeley neighborhoods, cultural centers, or schools, creating episodes based on input from the community that will then be performed in public community spaces.

Sixteen Rivers Press, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$7,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of a collection of poems and a chapbook of poetry. This project includes a website redesign, the conversion of inventory to e-books, and a Senior Outreach Project, involving readings and workshops at Bay Area senior facilities.

Smuin Ballets-SF
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the commissioning and presentation of a world premiere ballet from choreographer Ma Cong and the presentation of a new work by Amy Seiwert. The works will be presented in Smuin Ballet's home cities in Northern California: Carmel, Mountain View, San Francisco, and Walnut Creek.

Soileau, Stephanie
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

South Coast Repertory, Inc.
Costa Mesa, CA
$70,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the 15th annual Pacific Playwrights Festival, which will include world premiere productions and world premiere workshop readings of new plays. The festival will culminate with a three-day weekend during which local audiences and visiting theater professionals from across the country can see numerous plays.

Southern California Asian American Studies Central (aka Visual Communications)
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support Visual Communications' 28th Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film and Video Festival. The 10-day festival is Southern California's showcase of independent Asian international and Asian Pacific American film and video work.

Southern Exposure (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support intensive visual arts education projects for San Francisco area teenagers. In partnership with the Jewish Vocational and Career Counseling Service, Southern Exposure will have youth work alongside teaching artists to produce three major projects and exhibitions to be presented in the Southern Exposure Gallery.

Southern Exposure
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the commissioning and presentation of new work by emerging artists for gallery exhibitions and public art projects. Artists selected by a rotating curatorial committee receive conceptual, logistical, and administrative support to develop their work.

Stanford Jazz Workshop
Stanford, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the 2012 Jazz Camp and Jazz Residency Programs. Students will study with professional jazz educators and musicians, with a focus on ear training, improvisation, and playing in small ensembles.

Stern Grove Festival Association
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support a series of free, outdoor music and dance performances. Artists will be presented on Sundays from June through August at the Sigmund Stern Grove amphitheater.

Symphonic Jazz Orchestra
Culver City, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support a community concert featuring guitarist Lee Ritenour and related outreach. Additional outreach activities will include a master class at the World Stage Arts Education and Performance Gallery in Los Angeles, as well as workshops at The Harmony Project in Hollywood and the Guadalupe Community Center in Canoga Park.

The Ink People Center for the Arts
Eureka, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the DreamMaker Program: Creating Healthy Communities through Arts and Culture, an arts incubator program. The DreamMaker Program provides peer support, technical assistance, a series of nonprofit management workshops, and individualized professional development for rural Humboldt County cultural groups.

Theatre of Yugen, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the creation and production of Mystical Abyss, conceived and directed by Yuriko Doi and written by playwright John O'Keefe. Inspired by similarities between the Native American Iroquois creation myth and the Japanese Izanami (Goddess of Creation and Death) and Amaterasu (Sun Goddess) myths, the work will dramatize the need for connection and understanding across cultures through Native American storytelling, dance, and music with traditional Japanese Noh theater.

TheatreWorks
Palo Alto, CA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the New Works Initiative for the development of new plays and musicals. Through readings, workshops, a writer's retreat, an annual "New Works Festival," and full productions of world premieres, the program supports the artistry of composers and writers and enables them to explore and create new forms of musical theater.

Threepenny Review
Berkeley, CA
$12,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support authors' fees and promotion costs for The Threepenny Review. The proposed issues will be promoted through a direct-mail campaign, collaborative literary events with other organizations, a new digital edition of the magazine, author appearances at local book fairs, and the journal's website and Facebook page.

University Enterprises Inc. (aka Cal State University Sacramento) (on behalf of Festival of New American Music)
Sacramento, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the 2012 Festival of New American Music. The annual festival is held on the campus of California State University Sacramento and at community venues, featuring concerts, workshops, master classes, lectures, seminars, concert previews, and open rehearsals.

Voice of Roma
Sebastopol, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support Crossing Boarders: The Impact of Migration on Romani Art & Families, a project showcasing Romani music, dance, films, history, art, food, and culture. Beginning with the 11th annual International Roma Day, and coinciding with the Herdeljezi Festival, a traditional Romani celebration of the return of Spring, the Petaluma Museum's exhibit will highlight Romani visual arts and present renowned European and U.S. Romani artists in concerts and demonstrations.

Voice of Witness
San Francisco, CA
$55,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and production of The Voice of Witness oral history book series. Acclaimed and emerging authors will conduct in-depth interviews with survivors of human rights and social justice crises and produce collections of novelistic, first-person narratives.

World Arts West (aka San Francisco Ethnic Dance FEstival)
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the 34th annual San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival. A panel of dance educators, performers, and ethnologists will select dance ensembles and solo artists, whose work is rooted in various cultural traditions, to perform at the festival.

Yerba Buena Arts & Events
San Francisco, CA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival. This project includes 80 concert and performing arts programs, plus one new multidisciplinary commission.

Z Space Studio
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support a collaboration with composer/jazz musician Marcus Shelby and actor/director/singer Margo Hall to create Miss Black World (Michigan). The new musical performance piece, directed by Ellen Sebastian Chang, will explore the journey of a young black woman growing up in Detroit in the 60s, and will incorporate oratorio, original songs, chorals, instruments, storytelling, and movement.

Zoological Society of San Diego (aka San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research)
San Diego, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support Native Roots: The Nature of Art, a series of workshops that will strengthen the understanding of Native American basketweaving and the environment that supports the tradition. Renowned Native American artists will instruct youth from their own tribal communities in the art of basketmaking, including training them to identify and harvest plants used for the baskets and to preserve and maintain the environment that supports these plants.

Number of Grants: 156          Total Amount: $3,841,000

 
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