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.

NEW YORK

Action Arts League, Inc. (aka FIGMENT)
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the FIGMENT Arts Festival in New York City, Boston, Detroit, and Jackson, Missippi. The free participatory festival will provide a forum for creation and display of interactive art forms by emerging artists in a variety of disciplines including sculpture, visual arts, electronic art, performance, and music.

Albany Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Albany, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the American Music Festival: Christopher Rouse and his American Legacy.

Alfred University
Alfred, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Artist Communities
To support the Institute for Electronic Arts' Experimental Projects Residency. This program of 32, one to two week residencies will fully support eight residents interested in experimenting with traditional and digital media.

Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, Inc. (aka Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater)
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a United States tour that includes performances and outreach activities in more than 25 cities. The tour will feature new works selected by Robert Battle, the third artistic director in the company's 53-year history.

Alwan Foundation (aka Alwan for the Arts)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support Connections: Disruption/Improvisation, a residency that will bring together artists of Middle Eastern descent to create a multidisciplinary work. Curated by Amir ElSaffar, selected artists will combine art forms including music, dance, theater, visual arts, and literature during a week-long residency to create a work for public performance that will also be documented on video.

Amas Musical Theatre
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the premiere of A Good Man, a new musical about an African American sharecropper in post-WWII Mississippi, with music by Ray Leslee, book and lyrics by Philip S. Goodman, and direction by Ruben Santiago-Hudson. Based on the novel by Jefferson Young, the production will be a part of the theatre's Lens on Live Theatre high school matinee program.

American Academy in Rome
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a residency opportunity for visual artists to create, interpret, and present new work. The residency will provide an opportunity for three American artists to spend a year in Rome in the historic setting on the Janiculum, one of the highest hills within the walls of Rome, and will include housing, a studio, meals, and a stipend.

American Composers Orchestra, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Co-LABoratory initiative. Through a series of activities -- including workshops, symposia, commissions, open rehearsals, premieres, and online streaming designed to help up to six composers develop new ideas that stretch their artistic vision -- the initiative will be a season-long research and developmental laboratory for the creation of new, risk-taking orchestral music.

American Dance Asylum, Inc. (aka The New York State DanceForce)
Corning, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support performances and related outreach activities by the Garth Fagan Dance and Ellen Sinopoli Dance Companies. The Garth Fagan Dance Company will perform and participate in outreach activities in Oswego, New York, while the Ellen Sinopoli Dance Company will perform a site-specific work in Plattsburgh, New York.

American Documentary, Inc. (aka P.O.V.)
Brooklyn, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support POV/Behind the Lens, the digitization of filmmaker interviews produced for the television series P.O.V. Since the series began in 1988, P.O.V. (Point of View) has featured more than 300 interviews with artists whose films have been presented as part of the series.

American Guild of Organists
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the performance and workshop programming at the biennial national American Guild of Organists convention.

American Opera Projects, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the development and workshop production of Paul's Case by composer Gregory Spears and librettist Kathryn Walat. Based on the short story by Willa Cather, the 85 minute score featuring seven singers and a six-piece chamber orchestration will see two semi-staged workshops in Brooklyn and two in Princeton.

American Opera Projects, Inc. (Consortium)
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support workshop productions of the chamber opera The Weeping Camel by composer Huang Ruo and librettist Candice Mui-Ngam Chong. In collaboration with Symphony Space and Guangzhou Opera House, the opera will receive workshop presentations as part of the First Chance program, which is structured to allow for the participation of the audience in order to help the creators revise and adapt their work.

American Tap Dance Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the dance festival Tap City. Activities will include training, education, special events, and performances by artists and companies such as Constance Valis Hill, Lynn Daly, Lane Alexander, Acia Gray, Chloe Arnold, Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards, Brenda Bufalino, Derik K. Grant, Deborah Mitchell, Barbara Duffy and Company, Max Pollak's RumbaTap, Tapage, Parallel Exit, and international artists Sarah Petronio (France) and Kazu Kumagai (Japan).

Anthology Film Archives
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the presentation of several curated film series. Within the eight series, Anthology Film Archives regularly presents classic and contemporary independent, experimental, international, and art-house cinema with more than 900 programs per year.

Apollo Theater Foundation (Consortium)
New York, NY
$45,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Harlem Jazz Shrines festival, to include premieres of commissions, new talent presentations, jam sessions, and educational panels. A partnership with Aaron Davis Hall and Jazzmobile, innovative programming will connect live performances to multimedia features and will engage the public in creating a more livable and vibrant urban community that celebrates its roots.

Archipelago Books, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$22,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of international works of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction in translation. Proposed titles will be translated into English from Arabic, Croatian, Czech, French, Norwegian, Romanian, and Spanish.

Armitage Foundation Ltd. (aka Armitage Gone! Dance)
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation of a new work by Karole Armitage, titled Fables of de la Fontaine. The work will be a full-evening ballet and operatic work performed as a series of vignettes, set to the text of the 17th century poet Jean de la Fontaine with music composed by Corey Dargel and performed by a baroque ensemble.

Ars Nova Theater, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Final Project, an evening of thematically-linked one-act plays and live music by members of the Ars Nova Play Group, a collective of emerging playwrights. Activities of the Play Group include script and scene readings of works-in-progress, and discussions that take place over a two-year period.

Art in General, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the New Commissions Program. The program will afford between four and six emerging New York-based artists, and one international artist the opportunity to create and present new work; each artist will receive an artist fee, a production budget, a solo exhibition, a publication, and technical, logistical, and organizational support to realize the work.

Arts Connection
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support High Five Tickets to the Arts. Students and their families will attend performances and residency activities in more than 300 arts venues throughout New York City's five boroughs for $5 per student.

Arts for Art, Inc. (aka The Vision Festival)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the seven-day Vision Festival which will feature jazz, poetry, visual arts, panel discussions, and a free performance in the New York City Housing Authority Campos Plaza. Headliner artists include Andrew Cyrille, Milford Graves, George Lewis, Nicole Mitchell, Wadada Leo Smith, and pioneers of Latin free music Antonio Panda Gianfratti (Brazil), and Ricardo Tejero (Spain).

Asia Society
New York, NY
$52,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the exhibition Princes and Painters in Mughal Delhi, 1707-1857. The exhibition will focus on the artists who came to be associated with the Delhi "Company School" bringing together approximately 100 masterpieces, including portraits, panoramas, and decorative arts to explore the art, artists, and complex patronage during one of the most significant and surprising periods of change in India's history.

Asian CineVision, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 36th Asian American International Film Festival and national tour. Films presented come from China, Pakistan, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Malaysia, Taiwan, and Thailand.

Ballet Hispanico of New York
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by artistic director Eduardo Vilaro. The work, titled Reina, will be inspired by the music of Celia Cruz, the Queen of Salsa.

Ballet Theatre Foundation, Inc. (aka American Ballet Theatre)
New York, NY
$70,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and world premiere of a new production of The Firebird, choreographed by Alexei Ratmansky, American Ballet Theatre artist-in-residence. The ballet will utilize the complete score by Igor Stravinksy, and it will be incorporated into the company's education and outreach efforts.

Bang on a Can, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Field Recordings, a 25th anniversary commissioning and performance project. Twelve composers will be commissioned to create five-minute works based on something recorded from "the field," along with something with special meaning to the composer incorporated within the work.

Bard College (on behalf of Conjunctions)
Annandale-Hudson, NY
$7,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of the journal Conjunctions. Published twice a year, each issue has a unifying theme, averages more than 400 pages, and includes the work of as many as 50 different authors.

Bard College (on behalf of Bard Music Festival)
Annandale-Hudson, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Bard Music Festival. Led by the resident ensemble, American Symphony Orchestra, the festival will explore the world and music of French composer Camille Saint-Saëns by presenting a range of musical forms including orchestral, chamber, and choral concerts with associated educational activities.

Beth Morrison Projects
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the world premiere of Song From The Uproar: The Lives and Deaths of Isabelle Eberhardt by composer Missy Mazzoli in collaboration with librettist Royce Vavrek and filmmaker Stephen Taylor. Culled from the journals of Swiss explorer Isabelle Eberhardt at the turn of the last century, the multimedia work explores Eastern and Western cultures, the elation of self-discovery, and the mystery of death.

BOA Editions, Ltd.
Rochester, NY
$22,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the production, promotion, and related expenses for new volumes of poetry, author interviews, and short fiction. Scheduled authors include Bruce Beasley, Lucille Clifton, Tony Leuzzi, Aimee Parkison, Ira Sadoff, and Barton Sutter.

Bronx Museum of the Arts
Bronx, NY
$43,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the exhibition Demand and Supply: Legacies of the Young Lords in Activist Art Practices, and accompanying catalogue. The exhibition will feature contemporary artwork from the museum's permanent collection and private loans to be presented alongside posters, flyers, ephemera, audio-visual recordings, garments, and other memorabilia that chronicle the aesthetic of the Young Lords Organization and its legacy within the cultural life and ethnic transformation of New York.

Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Artist Communities
To support expansion of dance and theater residencies for emerging artists. Twelve artists will be given free rehearsal space, stipends, artistic, technical and production support in Brooklyn.

Brooklyn Information & Culture, Inc. (aka BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn) (on behalf of Celebrate Brooklyn)
Brooklyn, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support BRIC's "ultimedia Performance series of the Celebrate Brooklyn Peforming Arts Festival. Free performances of collaborative works by music artists, filmmakers, photographers, video artists, and visual artists will be presented at the Prospect Park Bandshell. Performances are expected to attract audiences totaling at least 30,000 people.

Brooklyn Youth Chorus Academy, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the Concert Chorus/Senior Chorus Training and Performance Programs, which include 10 months of weekly vocal music training for students. Vocal artists will teach students repertoire of past and present composers which students will then perform in a variety of venues.

Buffalo Media Resources, Inc. (aka Squeaky Wheel) (Consortium)
Buffalo, NY
$28,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the Buffalo Youth Media Institute. The citywide youth media initiative, carried out in collaboration with Preservation Buffalo Niagara, will give young people the opportunity to work with experienced media artists and local historians to produce documentaries about Buffalo's culture and history.

Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra Society, Inc.
Buffalo, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support performances of American music with related educational activities. Plans include a concert of music by composers Aaron Copland (Four Dance Episodes from Rodeo), John Adams (Lollapalooza), Roy Harris (Symphony No. 3), and Mark O'Connor (Improvised Violin Concerto) with the composer as soloist.

Byrd Hoffman Watermill Foundation (aka The Watermill Center)
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Artist Communities
To support residencies and community programs at the Watermill Center. Emerging artists and performing groups from a range of backgrounds will be provided with opportunities to develop new work.

Capoeira Foundation, Inc. (aka DanceBrazil)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by choreographer and artistic director Jelon Vieira. IMFAZWE will explore both the fighting and dance aspects of the art form of capoeira.

Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, Inc.
Katonah, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the International Music Festival. The 67th annual six-week outdoor summer festival of classical, opera, jazz, and roots music will feature the Orchestra of St. Luke's as resident orchestra as well as the following proposed artists: NEA Jazz Masters Paquito D'Rivera (2005) and Ahmad Jamal (1994), ETHEL Quartet, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, Senegalese singer Youssou N'Dour, and the Linden String Quartet.

Carnegie Hall Society, Inc.
New York, NY
$75,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a festival of Latin American music. Composer Osvaldo Golijov will serve as festival artistic director with performances on Carnegie Hall's three stages and throughout New York City by the Simon Bolivar National Orchestra of Venezuela with Gustavo Dudamel conducting, Brazilian musician (and former Minister of Culture) Gilberto Gil, and Afro-Cuban jazz pianist Chucho Valdes among others.

Center for Photography at Woodstock, Inc.
Woodstock, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a residency program for photographers. As many as eight artists, selected by a peer review panel, will be provided studio and darkroom access, equipment, an honorarium, lodging, and meals for residencies as long as six weeks.

Center for Urban Pedagogy, Inc. (aka CUP) (Consortium)
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support The Art of Red Tape (ART), an arts workshop for underserved high school students that will help them understand and make art about New York City's social service systems. In partnership with the Resiliency Advocacy Project, students will employ principles of art, design, and multi-media in a final collaborative project to be presented at a public event at a New York cultural venue. Copies of the culminating work will be distributed to students' peers to further educate their communities.

Center for Urban Pedagogy, Inc. (aka CUP)
Brooklyn, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support Making Policy Public, a collaborative communication design project. A series of socially engaged publication design and media projects will be developed to explain complex public policy issues.

Chamber Music America, Inc.
New York, NY
$85,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the National Leadership Initiative. Designed to build leadership skills in the chamber music field, the project will provide professional services to members through consultancies, on-site technical assistance, special publications, a Web site, and a national conference in New York City.

Children's Museum of the Arts
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Chinese and Caribbean Family Art & Culture Festivals. Featured guests will include the theater group Chinese Theatre Works and master Haitian drummer Gaston Jean-Baptise, known as Bonga. These two festivals will celebrate the artistic and cultural traditions of two of the many ethnic groups served by the museum.

City Parks Foundation
New York, NY
$45,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Summerstage: A New York City Arts Festival. Five dance, music, and theater performances will be presented at public parks in New York City.

Civilians, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the world premiere and touring of Paris Commune, a new play with music co-written by Steve Cosson and Michael Friedman. The piece will employ the cabaret style of 19th-century Paris to tell the story of a spontaneous popular uprising of working-class Parisians in 1871, featuring text and songs drawn from research into the cultural aspects of the revolution.

Clement, Jennifer
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

Colgate University
Hamilton, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a retrospective exhibition of the video work by American artist Ann Hamilton (b. 1956). Best known for textile art and richly layered sculptures, Hamilton is also active in the fields of photography, printmaking, and video installation; the exhibition will explore video installations that portray actions monotonously repeated such as pouring, polishing, writing, drawing, erasing, breathing, and walking.

Colleges of the Seneca Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Geneva, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Disability and the Arts Festival, promoting inclusive opportunities in the arts for individuals with and without disabilities. Among the proposed artists who will participate in the month-long festival of performances, film-screenings, workshops, speakers, and exhibits are Larry Bissonnette, Douglas Biklen, Peter S. Cook, Tracy Thresher, and Gerardine Wurzburg.

Columbia University in the City of New York (on behalf of Miller Theatre)
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Composer Portraits and PopUp Concerts at Miller Theatre. Plans include programs by Georges Aperghis (performed by the International Contemporary Ensemble, Hilda Paredes (performed by Signal chamber orchestra), and Karin Rehnqvist (performed by Either/Or ensemble) and free, hour-long, casual concerts of chamber music.

Community Works
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support a series of multidisciplinary presentations and artist residencies at the Dwyer Cultural Center. The series will feature performances, exhibitions, and film screenings by such artists as NEA Heritage Fellow Juan Gutierrez, actor/playwright Daniel Beaty, singer/songwriter Somi, filmmaker Jamal Joseph, and cuatro player Yomo Toro.

Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support Ruptures, an exhibition, conference, and catalogue examining the themes of art, freedom, and social justice. The exhibition will feature commissioned works that re-define the role of cultural production in transforming public space and political mobilization and will include works by Sharon Hayes, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Mircea Cantor, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Nancy Davenport, Oliver Ressler, Michael Rakowitz, and Igor Grubic.

Copland House
Cortlandt Manor, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support performances of new and recent American music performed by the Music from Copland House ensemble with related educational activities. Programs featuring music by composers Sebastian Currier, Jennifer Higdon, Philip Glass, Derek Bermel, Paul Schoenfield, John Corigliano, Richard Danielpour, Robert Xavier Rodriguez, and Aaron Copland, will take place at Copland's former home in Cortlandt Manor, New York, and in a satellite venue at Merestead estate in Westchester County, New York.

Creative Time, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the presentation of the exhibition Space Program 2.0. Presented in consortium with the Park Avenue Armory, artist Tom Sachs will blend live performances, installations, and film screenings to transform Wade Thompson Drill Hall into a hands-on, interactive voyage to Mars that will include a space station mimicking the environment on the planet.

Dance Continuum, Inc. (aka Susan Marshall Company)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation of a new dance by choreographer Susan Marshall. The work will be created in collaboration with composer David Lang and guitarists Taylor Levine and James Moore.

Dance Theatre Etcetera, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the 19th annual Red Hook Fest, a two day performing arts festival. This outdoor festival features music, theater, spoken-word, and dance groups.

Dance Theatre of Harlem
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation of a new work by choreographers Thaddeus Davis and Tanya Wideman. The work will be created on a small group of dancers, which will be fully realized by the new professional Dance Theatre of Harlem dancers.

DanceNOW NYC
New York City, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the DanceNOW Steelstacks program, and other performance and career advancement opportunities for dancemakers.

Dancewave, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$80,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support Dancewave Company, a program of pre-professional dance training for students to learn and perform works of major modern choreographers. Students study a diverse array of styles and artistic viewpoints with internationally renowned and emerging choreographers and develop skills required to pursue a professional dance career.

DanceWorks, Inc. (aka Pentacle)
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support Pentacle's series of infrastructure support programs for small to mid-sized New York and Los Angeles dance companies. The programs will include the creation of Help Desk/New York, which will address dance literacy and audience engagement; Cultivating Leadership in Dance, which pairs dance companies with promising young administrators; the Help Desk/Los Angeles, created to serve the needs of the Los Angeles dance community; and The Back Office, a program to address the administrative staffing needs of choreographers based at universities in Los Angeles.

Danspace Project
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the Choreographic Center Without Walls. Danspace will present public performances in its three core programs: the guest-curated PLATFORM, City/Dans (NYC artists), and Global Exchange (international artists) series.

Dieu Donné Papermill, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support residency opportunities for artists in the hand papermaking tradition. The program will offer eight residencies to mid-career and emerging artists through Lab Grant and the Emerging Workspace Residency programs that will provide each artist with an honorarium, materials stipend, one-on-one collaboration with master papermakers, and an exhibition in the Dieu Donné gallery.

Discalced, Inc. (aka Mark Morris Dance Group)
Brooklyn, NY
$60,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation of a new work and the revival of a work by choreographer Mark Morris for the Mark Morris Dance Group. The new work will be set to Ludwig van Beethoven's Fantasy in C minor for Piano, Chorus, and Orchestra, and the work to be revived is titled Four Saints in Three Acts (2000), a dance-based opera set to music of the same name by Virgil Thomson.

DOVA, Inc. (aka Doug Varone and Dancers)
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation of Doug Varone and Dancers' Dark Full Ride, set to the music of the same title by composer Julia Wolfe. The work will be shown in-progress at the company's informal performance series at the 92nd Street Y.

Drawing Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$17,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support an exhibition of work by the Italian post-war Pop artist Giosetta Fioroni, and accompanying catalogue. Featuring more than 20 paintings, 50 drawings, as well as select sculptures and films, the exhibition will introduce American audiences to Fiorini (b. 1932), one of Italy's most renowned women artists of the post-war period.

DreamYard Drama Project, Inc.
Bronx, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support Out of School Programs. The programs are ACTION Project for arts and activism, the Bronx Acting Ensemble for pre-professional theater training, the Bronx Art Collective for visual art, the Bronx Poetry Program, Rhyme Factory for hip-hop culture, and Minis for visual art, dance, and theater workshops for young children and their guardians.

Elaine Kaufman Cultural Center/Lucy Moses School for Music and Dance (on behalf of Merkin Concert Hall)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Ecstatic Music Festival at Merkin Concert Hall. Programs in the two-month winter festival will focus on collaborations between two or more performers, ensembles and/or composers, each working in a different musical genre.

Electronic Arts Intermix, Inc.
New York, NY
$45,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the Artists' Videotape Distribution Service. Works will be made available to libraries, educational institutions, community centers, museums, and other organizations through an online catalogue, which includes more than 3,500 titles.

Elevator Repair Service Theater, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and premiere of a new ensemble theater work, directed by John Collins and written by Sibyl Kempson. In a departure from text-based methodology, the ensemble will create a devised work in which the writing, editing, and design are all actively in play throughout the rehearsal period.

En Foco, Inc.
Bronx, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support publication of the bilingual photography journal Nueva Luz. Each issue will feature the work of emerging photographers of color, an essay by a guest critic/editor, and a comprehensive listing of career opportunities and other resources for photographers; outreach will include artist lectures that will be available through podcasts.

Ethel's Foundation for the Arts
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Documerica, a program of newly commissioned works inspired by photographs commissioned by the Environmental Protection Agency's project of the same name in 1972. Four commissioned works by composers James "Kimo" Williams, Ulysses Owens, Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate, and Dick Connette will be performed with projected photographs in New York City.

Evidence, Inc. (aka Ronald K. Brown/Evidence, A Dance Company)
Brooklyn, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a national tour and performances at The Joyce Theater in New York City, which will include community engagement and arts education programs. The project will also include further development and presentation of Ronald K. Brown's newest work, On Earth Together, inspired by music based on social consciousness and responsibility by Stevie Wonder.

Eyebeam Atelier, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Artist Communities
To support short and long term artist residencies and mentoring programs. This project includes both 11 month and six month long residencies for six artists, and a mentoring program connecting alumni and current Eyebeam residents.

Fence Magazine, Inc. (aka Fence Books)
Albany, NY
$7,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the maintenance and development of The Constant Critic, Fence's free online website featuring weekly reviews of contemporary poetry books. The online review will continue to provide payment to its editors and critics; critics include Jordan Davis, Sueyeun Juliette Lee, Ray McDaniel, and Vanessa Place.

Fiji Theater Company, Inc. (aka Ping Chong & Company)
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and production of The Civil War Project (working title), an original multidisciplinary project by Ping Chong. Using historical text and imagery, personal biography, folklore and ghost stories as source material, the creation process will be a mix of historical research, first-hand interviews, and ensemble-based devising process.

Film Forum
New York, NY
$90,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the theatrical premieres of American independent and foreign films at Film Forum. Approximately 30 new films will be screened, and in many cases receive their United States premiere, between July 1, 2012, and June 30, 2013.

Film Society of Lincoln Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support Perspectives in World Cinema, which will include the curated film series New Directors/New Films Festival; Latinbeat, showcasing the work of filmmakers from Latin America and the Caribbean; and Film Comment Selects, focusing on new and established artists. Programming will also include Views from the Avant Garde, a screening series of experimental work held during the New York Film Festival, and Masterworks, retrospectives of global cinemas.

Foundation for Independent Artists
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of new dance works on tour and in New York City by Bridgman/Packer Dance and Nicholas Leichter Dance. Bridgman/Packer will create a work inspired by the paintings of Edward Hopper, and will incorporate live choreography and videos in the work. Nicholas Leichter will develop an evening-length work titled Black Barbra, which emanates from the story of 1973 film The Way We Were, told through the lens of singer Donna Summer.

Foundry Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development of a new work that investigates the complex issue of racial profiling, co-created by Marcus Gardley and Melanie Joseph. Loosely based on the fatal police shooting of Oscar Grant in Oakland, California, development of the piece will involve interviews and consultations with community groups that center their activities around criminalization and racial profiling, including the Audre Lord Center, the Center for Immigrant Families, and the Justice Committee.

Four Way Books, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication, promotion, and distribution of books of poetry and fiction, including first books by emerging authors. Scheduled authors include Joan Aleshire, Cynthia Cruz, Blas Falconer, Farrah Field, Patrick Ryan Frank, Paul Lisicky, and Rose McLarney.

Garth Fagan Dance, Inc.
Rochester, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support Conversations with Garth, a series of collaborative dialogues between Garth Fagan and a range of other leading artists. Each "conversation" will include a performance by Garth Fagan Dance and various selections of the other artists' work, such as that of Norwood Pennewell, long time dancer with the company and visual artist Albert Paley.

Genesee Center for the Arts & Education
Rochester, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the Urban Youth Arts Education photography program. Mentored by professional photographers, students will learn about and practice the art of photography, reflect on their work and the work of others, and express their own creative vision by making and displaying their own work.

George Eastman House
Rochester, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the preservation of The Innocence of Lizette (1916), directed by James Kirkwood and starring Mary Miles Minter.

Geva Theatre Center, Inc.
Rochester, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of Superior Donuts by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Tracy Letts, directed by artistic director Mark Cuddy. The production will be the culmination of a trio of plays that illuminate issues of neighborhood integration and gentrification, including A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, and a reading of Clybourne Park by Bruce Norris.

Girls Write Now, Inc.
New York, NY
$60,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the Mentoring Program, which pairs girls with professional women writers as their personal mentors. Through weekly one-on-one writing sessions, monthly genre-based group workshops, a public reading series, and creation of literary portfolios, mentors help girls develop their independent voices, explore professions in writing, and learn how to make healthy chioces in school, career, and life.

Global Action Project, Inc. (aka G.A.P.)
New York, NY
$38,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the Urban Voices Media Arts Program. Professional media artists will work with underserved youth in digital media production to create group and individual media arts projects.

Gotham Dance, Inc. (aka Bebe Miller Company)
New York, NY
$19,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of an evening-length work, choreographed by Bebe Miller in collaboration with long-time company members. The work, titled History, will examine the creative process, and will have a companion interactive media installation that includes video imagery with recorded commentary by the artists, that will be made available online.

Gowanus Canal Community Development Corporation
Brooklyn, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the creation of City as Living Laboratory (CaLL) Gowanus. CaLL is pioneered by environmental artist Mary Miss and will foster collaboration between visual thinkers and scientists by designing a series of interactive field stations at each of the Gowanus Canal bridge crossings in Brooklyn, New York.

Group I Acting Company, Inc. (aka The Acting Company)
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production and tour of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, directed by Rob Melrose, artistic director and co-founder of The Cutting Ball Theater in San Francisco. Viewed through a modern lens, Julius Caesar will capture the excitement of the 2008 U.S. presidential election.

Harlem Arts Alliance
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the Arts and Cultural Development program, an expansion of the alliance's technical and resource-building services to underserved artists and arts organizations.

Henry Street Settlement (aka Henry Street Settlement/Abrons ArtsCenter)
New York, NY
$45,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the Abrons Arts Center Dance Ensemble and Junior Dance Ensemble. The Dance Ensemble provides free dance training for teens who are interested in pursuing dance in higher education or as a career while the Junior Dance Ensemble prepares younger students for advanced dance training.

Home for Contemporary Theatre and Art, Ltd. (aka HERE)
New York, NY
$60,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support HERE Artist Residency Program for mid-career performing and visual artists collaborating and experimenting with new approaches to expand the parameters of performance work. The development of participating artists' work is nurtured through cross-disciplinary exchange, workshops, panel discussions, artist retreats, career development services, and productions.

Hyde Collection Trust (aka The Hyde Collection)
Glens Falls, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the traveling exhibition Modern Nature: Georgia O'Keeffe and Lake George, and accompanying catalogue. The exhibition, organized with the Georgia O'Keeffe Museum of Art, will examine the extraordinary body of work created by O'Keeffe (1887-1986) of and at Lake George in the Adirondack Mountains in New York State, a favorite rural retreat of the artist.

id Theatre, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Seven Devils Playwrights Conference in McCall, Idaho, a program that brings professional artists from across the country together with artists and students from the local community to collaboratively develop new plays. The program consists of two weeks of rehearsals, workshops, and readings for the Conference plays, and a presentation and playwriting workshop.

Immaterial, Inc. (aka Cabinet)
Brooklyn, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of the quarterly magazine Cabinet. Cabinet features an eclectic array of topical essays by historians, novelists, scientists, philosophers, artists, and others often centered on a particular theme.

Indo-American Arts Council, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 12th New York Indian Film Festival. Held in the spring, the festival presents narrative feature films, short works, and documentaries made by, about, or featuring persons of Indian origin.

Inta, Inc. (aka Eiko & Koma)
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of Fragile, a collaboration between Eiko & Koma and the Kronos Quartet. Fragile will be created for alternative spaces where audience members will be invited to view from multiple perspectives.

International Center of Photography
New York, NY
$34,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the exhibition The Rise and Fall of Apartheid, and accompanying catalogue. The exhibition will include approximately 250 photographs, films, and ephemera that will explore the legacy of apartheid and how it defined South Africa's identity from 1948-1994, affecting even the most mundane aspects of social existence from housing, public amenities, and transportation to education, tourism, religion, and business.

International Contemporary Ensemble Foundation, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the ICElab, a project of commissioning, incubation, and performances of new work and associated educational activities. Collaborations with six emerging American composers are planned to include commissions, residency workshops with each composer and the ensemble, and premiere performances in concerts across the country.

International Studio & Curatorial Program
Brooklyn, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a series of public programs for mid-career artists and curators. Programs to be offered free-of-charge to the public include exhibitions, artist talks, live performances, film screenings, panel discussions, and lectures.

Jacob Burns Film Center, Inc.
Pleasantville, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support a curated film series. International Understanding Through Film will feature more than 100 films from China, France, Germany, India, Iran, Israel, Italy, and Japan, and will include documentaries that focus on international issues.

Jazz at Lincoln Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$60,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support eight performances during the 25th anniversary season of Jazz at Lincoln Center. Programming includes the resident Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra performing commissioned pieces and seminal works as well as two series exploring the innovation and cross-pollination between jazz and other musical forms: Blues Series features John Hammond, John Mayall, and Taj Mahal; and the Jazz and Popular Song Series, curated by Michael Feinstein.

Jazz Gallery
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Jazz Gallery's Thursday Night Debut Series. The focus on innovative programming aims to serve as a laboratory for gifted professional emerging jazz artists providing them a platform to step forward as band leaders and offering opportunities to premiere new works.

Jewish Community Center in Manhattan, Inc. (aka The JCC in Manhattan)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support ReelAbilities: NY Disabilities Film Festival. Following each screening, a panel of directors, actors, medical experts, or accessibility advocates will lead a conversation about the themes discussed in the film.

José Limón Dance Foundation (aka Limón Dance Company)
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support expansion of an audience engagement project in New York City. Activities will include a variety of education and outreach programs such as open rehearsals, Limón technique classes for the public, the expansion of the arts-in-education program Limón4Kids for middle school youth, and non-traditional partnerships with venues such as Bryant Park, which will focus on introducing non-dance audiences to modern dance.

Joyce Theater Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$80,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the Dance Presentation Program. Dance companies from the United States and abroad are under consideration including Jin Xing Dance Theatre Shanghai (China); Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo (Monaco); Jant-bi (Senegal); Ballet du Grand Theatre de Geneve (Switzerland); and Jason Samuels Smith (U.S.).

Kalman, Nadia
Brooklyn, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

Keigwin + Company
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a new dance choreographed by artistic director Larry Keigwin. The dance, 12 CHAIRS, is inspired by the black folding chair.

Kings Majestic Corporation (aka 651 ARTS)
Brooklyn, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support a series of multidisciplinary performances and residencies at 651 Arts. Artists, including spoken word performer Marc Bamuthi Joseph, dance company Jant-Bi (Senegal), composer Tania Leon, and saxophonist Branford Marsalis, will participate in educational and outreach activities.

La Donna Dance, Inc. (aka Donna Uchizono Company)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and premiere of Beneath, choreographed by Donna Uchizono. The work for four dancers will feature an original live electronic score by James Lo and visual imagery for set installation by photographer Michael Grimaldi.

La Farge, Paul
Red Hook, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and production of The Stopped Bridge of Dreams, written and directed by John Jesurun. Inspired by Ihara Saikaku, the 17th-century Japanese poet and novelist known for his stories of The Floating World, the work is set in an airplane, a modern version of a pleasure quarter tea house.

Lar Lubovitch Dance Company
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation of a new work by choreographer Lar Lubovitch. The world premiere of the work, titled New Dance, will take place in New York City as part of the company's 45th anniversary, and it will also be performed on tour across the United States.

Lark Theatre Company, Inc. (aka Lark Play Development Center)
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Open Access Program to provide selected writers access to development support for their new works. Designed to support unheard voices, the program will include a review of new scripts, readings, networking opportunities through the Playwrights Week, and advancement of selected works to a 30-hour workshop which concludes with public readings of new theatrical pieces.

Laundromat Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support site-specific installations created in New York City and Philadelphia laundromats. Selected artists will be encouraged to involve the local community in the art-making process. Spoken word artist Aisha Bell will be the lead artist at the New York City site.

League of American Orchestras
New York, NY
$100,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the League of American Orchestras' strategic services designed to strengthen orchestras through learning and leadership development, research, and communications within the field. The league will focus on best-practice models and host an annual national conference for more than 1,200 participants. Training and development opportunities will be provided to expand leadership skills.

Let My Children Hear Music, Inc. (aka Charles Mingus Institute)
New York, NY
$7,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Charles Mingus High School Band Competition and Festival. The weekend-long festival includes public concerts, master classes for music students and band directors, clinics, lecture-demonstrations, and film screenings.

Light Work Visual Studies, Inc. (aka Light Work)
Syracuse, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a residency program for artists and publication of their work in Contact Sheet-The Light Work Annual. As many as 12 emerging artists working in photography or electronic media will be invited for one-month residencies which will include facility and equipment access, housing, an honorarium, publication of their work, and inclusion of their work on Light Work's online image database.

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Lincoln Center Out of Doors 2012, a festival coinciding with the XXX Summer Olympics. In partnership with Duke University, performances will explore concepts such as sport, competition, and the boundaries of movement.

Lower East Side Printshop, Inc. (aka Printshop)
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the Publishing Residency Program. The six-month residency will provide four emerging artists with studio space, technical assistance, a materials budget, and a stipend to develop new work; resident artists will collaborate with print professionals, receive catalogue documentation, promotion, and exhibition opportunities.

Ma-Yi Filipino Theatre Ensemble, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and world premiere of You for Me for You, a new play by Asian American playwright Mia Chung. The play explores the concept of survival as an act of imagination and creativity as it revolves around two sisters attempting to leave the closed society of North Korea because of the failing health of one sister.

Maimouna Keita School of African Dance, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the 20th annual African Dance & Drum Conference: Sila Djiguiba, Path of Hope. Master artists will perform and offer classes in traditional dance and drumming techniques rooted in a variety of African cultures.

Manhattan Class Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the world premiere of Don’t Go Gentle by Stephen Belber.

Manhattan Theatre Club, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the world premiere of The Columnist by David Auburn, directed by Daniel Sullivan. The drama chronicles the turbulence of the 1960s through the life of iconic Washington insider and domestic and foreign affairs journalist Joseph Alsop.

MAPP International Productions Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the production of three contemporary dance projects. Choreographer Nora Chipaumire will create Miriam, a new evening-length work; David Zambrano's SOUL PROJECT will tour to seven U.S. cities; African dance artists Nadia Beugre, Bouchra Ouizguen, Maria Helena Pinto, Kettley Noel, and Nelisiwe Xaba will be presented as part of Voices of Strength: A Program of Contemporary Dance by Women of Africa.

Maverick Concerts, Inc.
Woodstock, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the 97th annual Maverick Concerts 2012 Festival, with programming celebrating the connection between France and America. The festival will be curated by music director Alexander Platt and will feature the Paris-based chamber ensemble Quatuor Ebene, as well as Imani Winds, Trio Solisti, St. Lawrence Quartet, and the Maverick Chamber Players.

Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, NY
$43,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the exhibition Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition (7th-9th Centuries), and accompanying catalogue. The exhibition, the first presentation to synthesize Byzantine and Islamic studies of this pivotal period in the history of the eastern Mediterranean, will feature more than 250 masterworks of art from the Metropolitan's collections and additional works from private and public collections from 16 countries.

Metropolitan Opera Association, Inc. (aka The Met)
New York, NY
$70,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the world premiere of The Enchanted Island. Inspired by the musical pastiches and masques of the 18th-century, this new Baroque opera will combine music by George Frideric Handel, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Antonio Vivaldi, and others, with characters and plot elements from two Shakespeare plays as the four mismatched lovers from A Midsummer Night's Dream are shipwrecked on an island where Prospero (David Daniels) and Sycorax (Joyce DiDonato) from The Tempest are embroiled in a supernatural battle.

Mettawee Theatre Company, Inc. (aka Mettawee River Company)
Salem, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the creation and tour of Archy to the Rescue featuring masks and puppets by designer-director Ralph Lee. The play is adapted from the early 20th-century New York Sun columns of Don Marquis, which featured communiques from the author's small associate Archy, a cockroach with the soul of a poet-philosopher.

Millay Colony for the Arts, Inc.
Austerlitz, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Artist Communities
To support artist residencies for composers, writers, and visual artists. Up to six artists will be provided one-month residencies between April and November, enabling 48 artists to be served.

Mint Theater Company
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a revival of Love Goes to Press by Martha Gellhorn and Virginia Cowles, directed by Jerry Ruiz. Originally debuted in London in 1946, the comedy tells the story of women war correspondents based on Gellhorn and Cowles' own experiences covering the front lines in WWII.

Monica Bill Barnes & Company
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of an evening-length contemporary dance work, by choreographer Monica Bill Barnes, as part of the company's 15th anniversary. The work, titled The Snow Globe Show, will be presented at Joe's Pub (NYC) and during a national tour.

Movement Research, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the 2012 Movement Research Spring and Fall Festivals, a series of free and low-cost dance performances, classes, and workshops. The festivals will bring together multiple generations of artists, writers, critics, presenters, and the general public for the engagement, discussion, and examination of contemporary dance practices, improvisation, and performance forms.

Museum of Arts & Design
New York, NY
$34,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a travelling exhibition and catalogue Changing Hands: Art Without Reservation 3 - Contemporary Native, North American, First Nations, and Inuit Art. The exhibition will showcase approximately 150 recent works created by artists in the eastern and southeastern United States and Canada.

Museum of Biblical Art
New York, NY
$21,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support planning a travelling exhibition, Ashe to Amen: African-Americans and Biblical Imagery. The exhibition will feature approximately 60 works by 19th and 20th century artists such as Romare Bearden, Aaron Douglas, Margo Humphrey, Archibald Motley, and Harriet Powers, presenting their varied responses and explorations of biblical imagery and Christian storytelling.

Musical Chairs Chamber Ensemble, Inc.
Staten Island, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Chamber Music for Staten Island Audiences Initiative, a series of outreach concerts featuring composer and bassist Andrew Rosciszewski, percussionist Mick Rossi, guitarist Oren Fader, and saxophonist Andrew Sterman. Concerts will be held at On Your Mark, an organization offering services to children and adults with a wide range of abilities as well as to students of PS44, a Title I school.

n+1 Foundation, Inc. (aka n+1)
Brooklyn, NY
$7,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of n+1 magazine, a literary journal devoted to the development of young, unpublished writers. This project includes the publication of a book of essays, the digitization of back issues, and the launch of a podcast series.

Naked Angels
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the development and world premiere of The Madam C.J. Walker Project (working title), a new musical with book by Kara Lee Corthron and music and lyrics by Justin Levine. The musical will explore the life of Madam C.J. Walker, America's first African American and first female self-made millionaire, through music with roots in blues, gospel, and R&B.

National Alliance for Musical Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$60,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the 24th annual Festival of New Musicals and the Fall Conference. These activities bring together musical theater writers and industry professionals for staged readings, a songwriter showcase, and panels.

New 42nd Street, Inc.
New York, NY
$70,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the presentation of theater works for young audiences by international and national companies accompanied by arts education programs and outreach activities. The project will feature four works: Brazil! Brazil! by World Stage Productions & Broadway Asia LLC (Brazil); The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Actors Theatre of Louisville, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis and Kansas City Repertory Theatre in association with Hartford Stage, CT; Lucky Duck by the Coterie Lab, MO; and The Book of Everything by Belvoir Theatre Company & Theater of Image (Australia).

New Art Publications, Inc. (aka BOMB Magazine)
Brooklyn, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the publication of artists interviews in BOMB Magazine and the expansion of online content. Project activities will include the presentation of Web-exclusive interviews, photo essays, video clips or film excerpts, streaming video conversations for BOMB online as well as podcasts; technical support and stipends will be provided to emerging artists as they develop content unique to their communities and practices.

New Dramatists, Inc.
New York, NY
$100,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Playwrights Lab for development of new work. The Lab provides writers with resources through each stage of the play development process as well as the opportunity to explore or revisit new plays and musicals at any step in their development.

New Group, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the world premiere of An Early History of Fire by David Rabe and directed by Jo Bonney. Set in 1962 and based on Rabe's upbringing in a small Midwestern town, the play portrays Danny, a young man whose life is frustratingly limited by his trouble-making childhood friends, and his father, a German immigrant crippled by nostalgia.

New Music USA
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support online services for new American music. Services for composers and contemporary musicians and enthusiasts will include www.NewMusicBox.org, the central hub of information through which one can access a monthly web magazine about artists and issues in the new music community; the American Music Center Online Library, a searchable encyclopedic database of contemporary American composers; and Counterstream Radio, audio streaming of contemporary music.

New Music USA
New York, NY
$60,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Creative Ventures initiative. The project will offer composers professional development through regional workshops, meetings, and new Web content; provide technical assistance to composers and presenters involved in artist residencies; and enable organizations to present programs at national and regional music service organizations' conferences.

New School University (on behalf of New School Concerts)
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the New School Concerts' New York String Seminar Program for emerging young musicians, directed by violinist and conductor Jaime Laredo and culminating in concerts at Carnegie Hall. The 10-day extensive training experience will be offered with full scholarships to 64 talented high school and college-age string players, selected through national live auditions.

New York City Ballet
New York, NY
$80,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support commissioning of new works by choreographers Benjamin Millepied and Christopher Wheeldon. Wheeldon's new work will be part of an all-Wheeldon program, marking the first time in the company's history that an evening is devoted to the work of a single choreographer other than George Balanchine or Jerome Robbins. Millepied will collaborate with composer Nico Muhly to create a new ballet and original score.

New York Festival of Song, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support A Modern Person's Guide to Hooking Up & Breaking Up, a concert program of American love songs with performances at Merkin Concert Hall at the Kaufman Center in New York City and at the Gardner Museum in Boston. American composers whose works will be featured include Frank Loesser, Leonard Bernstein, Bruce Springsteen, Paul Moravec, and Jerome Kern.

New York Foundation for Architecture, Inc. (aka Center for Architecture Foundation) (Consortium)
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the traveling exhibition, FitNation: Healthy Communities through Design, and accompanying programming. In collaboration with Project for Public Spaces, Inc., project activities will demonstrate the many ways that design can encourage physical activity and better health, and the value of active design in cities nationwide.

New York Historical Society
New York, NY
$34,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support planning of The Armory Show at 100, an exhibition and catalogue that celebrates the centenary of the 1913 Armory Show. The exhibition will reassess the Armory Show with a carefully chosen group of approximately 80 to 90 works, and will include European paintings and sculpture to represent the well-known, avant-garde artists of the time, as well as the lesser-known fact that more than two-thirds of the works on view were by American artists.

New York International Children's Film Festival, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 2012 New York International Children's Film Festival. Approximately 100 animated, experimental shorts, documentaries, and feature films will be presented at various venues throughout New York City.

New York Live Arts Inc. (aka Formerly Dance Theatre Workshop)
New York, NY
$70,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of dance companies in the Commissioning and Residency Program, Fresh Tracks Performance and Residency Program, and the Studio Performance and Residency Series, as well as a U.S. tour of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company. Each program will include pre- and post-performance discussions, Web-based interviews, active blogs, and special studio showings. While on tour, the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company will work with presenters to create outreach activities.

New York Pops, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Patti Austin Sings Ella Fitzgerald's Gershwin Songbook, a concert performance at Carnegie Hall in tribute to Ella Fitzgerald's 1959 Grammy Award-winning five-volume recording of Gershwin standards. Under the direction of music director Steven Reineke, the orchestra will collaborate with the Library of Congress, the Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation, and the Nelson Riddle Trust to present singer Patti Austin in the concert program.

New York Shakespeare Festival (aka The Public Theater)
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support Public LAB, a new play development program designed to provide opportunities for playwrights to develop their work in front of an audience. Supported activities will include a world premiere of The Total Bent, a new musical by Stew and Heidi Rodewald about a black gospel prodigy and a white music producer from South London; and the world premiere of a new play (TBD).

New York Theatre Workshop, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the world premiere of Food and Fadwa by Arab American actor and playwright Lameece Issaq, directed by Shana Gold. The piece tells the story of a Palestinian woman and her family's struggle to maintain its culture and lifestyle amidst the constraints of life in East Bethlehem.

New York University (on behalf of Grey Art Gallery)
New York, NY
$17,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support an exhibition SOTO: Paris and Beyond, 1950-70, and accompanying catalogue. The first solo show of Venezuelan artist Jesus Raphael Soto (1923-2005) in New York since 1974, the exhibition will be divided into three chronologic sections.

New York Youth Symphony, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Growing Music initiative. The youth orchestra musicians will participate in composition workshops, score reading, orchestration, as well as public performances of student compositions at Carnegie Hall, Symphony Space, and Lincoln Center.

Noche Flamenca
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a United States tour of flamenco dance programs. The tour will include an adaption of the Greek tragedy Antigone for flamenco, incorporating text from the play into lyrics and song, by artistic director Martin Santangelo, and outreach events will include an in-school, arts education program, student performances, master classes, and pre- and post-performance lectures.

NY Writers Coalition Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Fort Greene Park Summer Literary Festival, a series of creative writing workshops for youth culminating in a public reading. Writers who have previously presented at the final event include Jhumpa Lahiri, Sonia Sanchez, Sapphire, and Colson Whitehead.

O'Neill, Joseph
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

One Story, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication of the literary journal One Story, and the launch of OS2, a sister magazine for young adults intended to introduce a new generation of readers to short fiction as a vital art form. OS2 will target an audience of 12- to 16-year-olds, publish one short story each month during the school year, launch on iPad and Kindle, and host a "tweet-in" where readers and authors connect in real-time via Twitter.

openhousenewyork inc. (aka OHNY)
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the 10th Annual openhousenewyork (OHNY) Weekend. The event will offer free access to more than 200 architecturally significant sites and facilities, along with more than 150 education programs throughout the five boroughs to promote a greater appreciation of New York City's built environment.

Opera Orchestra of New York, Inc.
New York, NY
$12,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a concert opera performance of Wagner's Rienzi. Activities include a Young Artist Showcase, open rehearsals, and lecture-demonstrations for students at Hunter Elementary, Hunter High School, and Hunter College.

Our Time Theatre Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the Our Time NYC Program. Led by professional theater artists and targeted to teenagers who stutter, the program will allow students (ages eight to 18) to meet weekly for nine months to study the structure of playwriting and the importance of theme; develop vocal strength and breath support through singing exercises; and work collaboratively to write and perform a full-length play that will tour nationally in the summer months.

Page Seventy-Three Productions, Inc. (aka PAGE 73)
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support early-career playwright development initiatives that offer unproduced emerging playwrights work tools, and shepherds new plays from initial draft to production-ready scripts. The initiatives provide a flexible framework through which a participating playwright can create a development plan that best fits the piece in-progress and to forge new artistic alliances or advance long-term relationships with artistic collaborators.

Paris Review Foundation, Inc. (aka The Paris Review)
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication of the literary quarterly The Paris Review. Launched in 1953, the journal is nationally recognized as a defining voice of contemporary literature and has published such acclaimed authors as John Ashberry, Richard Wilbur, Victor LaValle, and Lydia Davis.

Paul Taylor Dance Foundation, Inc. (aka Paul Taylor Dance Company)
New York, NY
$70,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of new works by artistic director Paul Taylor. The pieces represent the 136th and 137th works created for the company and will be created in collaboration with lighting designer Jennifer Tipton and costume and set designer Santo Loquasto.

Performance Space 122, Inc. (aka PS122)
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the installation and implementation of Apartment X. The project will stage public performances in inhabited apartments in three neighborhoods in New York City, in which artists will have created installations.

Perlman Music Program Inc.
New York, NY
$38,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the Summer Music School. The intensive, six-week summer residency program will provide instruction, coaching, and mentoring opportunities to exceptionally gifted young string players.

Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York, Inc. (aka The New York Philharmonic)
New York, NY
$60,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support an artist residency by pianist Emanuel Ax. During the residency, the artist will collaborate with the orchestra's artistic leadership on programming and participate in orchestral and chamber music performances and educational and audience engagement activities.

Photo-Based Art (aka Blind Spot)
Annandale-Hudson, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the publication of Blind Spot magazine, the presentation of Blind Spot Lab events, and the expansion of online digital editions. As part of the project, two volumes of Blind Spot magazine will be published and designed by guest curators; Blind Spot Lab will offer events designed as live explorations of the artists, images, and ideas in each issue.

Pick Up Performance Company
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by choreographer David Gordon. Titled the End of the Beginning, the work is based on material written by the 1934 Nobel Prize winner in Literature, Luigi Pirandello, and is a companion piece to Gordon's recent work, the Beginning of the End.

Play Production Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support The New Work/ New World Production Series, which features new American plays alongside new international works. The project will include the New York premiere of The Golden Dragon by German playwright Roland Schimmelpfennig; Working on a Special Day, an experimental work inspired by Ettore Scola's 1977 Academy Award-winning film; and a co-production with Ma-Yi Theatre Company.

Playwrights Horizons, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the world premiere production of Assistance by Leslye Headland. The third in a series of works exploring Dante's seven deadly sins, the play is a satire on greed and our national addiction to power, telling the story of six personal assistants working for a tyrannical business magnate.

Ponce, Pedro
Canton, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

Pratt Institute (on behalf of Pratt Center for Community Development)
Brooklyn, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support Pratt Center for Community Development's New York Industrial Retention Network. A goal of the project is to strengthen the relationship between the manufacturing and design sectors by conducting research and extensive outreach, producing a report that identifies opportunities for collaboration, and hosting networking events.

Pregones Touring Puerto Rican Theatre Collection, Inc.
Bronx, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development of the bilingual production The Astronaut's Desire, directed by director/dramaturg Alvan Colon Lespier with musical direction by Desmar Guevara. Drawing from original research and interviews with Latino air and space professionals, The Astronaut's Desire is the fictional story of Esteban Only, who single-handedly undertakes spacecraft repairs.

Present Theatre Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the New York International Fringe Festival. Competitively selected artists and arts organizations will present work to a broad audience in a variety of venues.

Puppetry Arts Theatre, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support a production of Anthropomorphic, a new musical by Tim Young and Thiago Tiberio, featuring the New York Symphonic Arts Ensemble conducted by Timothy Hutto. Area high schools students will be invited to attend open rehearsals.

Queens Council on the Arts, Inc.
Woodhaven, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the Artist Empowerment Initiative, an artistic development program intended to develop the professional careers of Queens-based artists and strengthen the capacity of arts organizations.

Queens Theatre in the Park, Inc.
Flushing, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the annual Latino Cultural Festival. The program will feature music, dance, spoken word, film, visual art exhibitions, and residency activities.

Rattlestick Productions, Inc. (aka Rattlestick Playwrights Theater)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and premiere of Basilica-An American Corrido, written by Mando Alvarado and directed by Michael Ray Escamilla. The form of the play will be a corrido, a descriptive Mexican folk song, and will portray a man who returns home to a small West Texas town to face his sins, causing himself and those around him to question their faith and morals.

Research Foundation of State University of New York (on behalf of State University of New York at Oswego)
Albany, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support Caravanserai: A Place Where Cultures Meet, a series of residency programs by musicians and media artists from Pakistan presented by ARTSwego. Filmmaker Ayesha Khan will present and discuss her feature film Made in Pakistan with the public. Sanam Marvi, Arif Lohar, and their ensembles will perform a series of concerts in rural Oswego County.

Research Foundation of the City University of New York (on behalf of Queensborough Community College Art Gallery)
New York, NY
$34,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the exhibition Shangaa: Art of Tanzania at the Queensborough Community College Art Gallery, and accompanying catalogue. The exhibition, scheduled to travel to several museums in the United States and Europe, will highlight 250 abstract and expressionistic figures from the 19th century to contemporary pieces.

Ripe Time, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the creation and production of The World is Round, an original piece directed by Rachel Dickstein and composed by Heather Christian, based on Gertrude Stein's little-known children's book. The piece tells the story of a young girl on a quest to climb a mountain and discover her own sense of self, and will be accompanied by live musicians playing an alternative rock score.

Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Inc.
Rochester, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the commissioning and premiere of a new work, including a composer residency, by American composer Margaret Brouwer. The project will include workshops with high school and college-level composers, a presentation at the International Viola Congress in Rochester, and a performance of the composer's Viola Concerto with a guest violist from the Eastman School of Music.

Rooftop Films, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 2012 Summer Series, held in outdoor settings throughout New York City. The programming includes screenings of independent films, both feature-length and short works, with accompanying live music and entertainment.

Rosie's Theater Kids, Inc.
New York, NY
$60,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the ACTE II (A Commitment to Excellence) program in musical theater. Targeted to exceptionally talented students from low-income families, professional teaching artists and guests from the Broadway stage will provide instruction after-school and during a summer intensive, which culminates in a student performance for family and friends.

School of Hard Knocks
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by choreographer Yoshiko Chuma. The work, titled 6 Seconds in Ramallah, will include collaborations with traditional and contemporary dancers from the United States, Palestine, Jordan, and Japan.

Sculpture Center, Inc.
Long Island City, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a commissioning program for emerging artists working in contemporary sculpture. The series will commission 12 to 15 artists chosen from an open call for proposals to create new work for the Center's galleries; artists will receive an honorarium, a production stipend, curatorial and administrative support, and an exhibition.

Sculpture Space, Inc.
Utica, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support an international residency program providing specialized studio workspace for professional sculptors to create new work. Artists will receive an honorarium, 24-hour access to indoor/outdoor workspaces, specialized equipment, technical support, and a housing and transportation stipend.

Second Stage Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the world premiere of Lonely, I’m Not by Paul Weitz. Lonely, I’m Not is about a son’s attempt to reenter the world after giving up the trappings of wealth and dropping out of a fast paced corporate job, and his desire to rebuilt relationships with his father, ex-wife, former colleagues, and a new love interest, who happens to be blind.

Seventh Regiment Armory Conservancy, Inc. (aka Park Avenue Armory)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Park Avenue Armory's Tune-In Festival featuring the work of American composer Philip Glass and exploring how his life's work has influenced other composers' creative output. Performances and educational activities, including a one-day marathon of performances, will take place over four days in the Armory's 55,000 square foot drill hall.

Shelley and Donald Rubin Cultural Trust
New York, NY
$60,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the exhibition, The Black Hat Eccentric: Artistic Visions of the Tenth Karmapa. The exhibition will be the first and exclusive viewing in the west of art works by the 10th Karmapa (1604-74), a prominent artist and revered lama, whose work sheds light on the cross-cultural exchange among China, India, and Tibet, providing a historical perspective of the sectarianism in this region of the world that is still relevant today.

Signature Theatre Company
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the production of Hurt Village by Katori Hall. The piece tells the story of an African American soldier who returns from the Iraq War to find the Memphis housing project in which his family lives on the verge of demolition.

Skidmore College
Saratoga Springs, NY
$12,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Skidmore College Summer Jazz Institute, an intensive two-week summer program designed to educate national and international students in the art and history of jazz. Students take part in combos and master classes; receive one-on-one instruction with educators and recognized performers including NEA Jazz Master Curtis Fuller (2007); and attend evening concerts.

Smack Mellon Studios, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the Artist Studio Program. Participating artists will be provided access to studio space, equipment, technical support, professional development opportunities, and an honorarium.

Soho Repertory Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of Annie Baker's adaptation of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, directed by Sam Gold. Baker will collaborate with Russian-speaking translator Margarita Shalina to develop an adaptation immersed in Russian culture, but still accessible and relevant to an American audience.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation (aka Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum) (Consortium)
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support Stillspotting NYC, an outdoor exhibition. In collaboration with New York City Department of Transportation and Columbia University's Spatial Information Design Lab, Stillspotting NYC will explore the concept of stillness in a restless urban landscape by pinpointing flows of stress, population density, and noise; and designing "stillspots" that will offer sources of inspiration for a city in need of peace and quiet.

Spanish Dance Arts Company, Inc. (aka Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana)
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the restaging and presentation of Bailes de Ida Vuelta (2003), choreographed by Antonio Hidalgo, and a variety of outreach activities. The work explores the relationship of flamenco and Latin American music and dance and will include music and dance workshops, pre-performance talks, and post-performance discussions.

Sprout
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Sprout Film Festival, a showcase of films related to the field of developmental disabilities. Each screening will be held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Uris Education Center and will be followed by a question-and-answer session featuring the filmmakers, actors, or subjects of the film.

St. Ann Center for Restoration and the Arts, Inc. (aka St. Ann's Warehouse)
Brooklyn, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a co-commissioning with artist Cynthia Hopkins and the Walker Arts Center to create This Clement World. The work will explore climate change through the integration of a variety of media and seeks to illuminate the way in which humanity is rendering its habitat inhospitable and the changes of behavior necessary to maintain a habitable climate.

State University of New York at Buffalo (on behalf of UB Center for the Arts)
Buffalo, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Arts in Health Residency Program. Doug Varone and Dancers and cellist Stephen Katz will perform and conduct hands-on activities with patients, staff, and families at Roswell Park Cancer Institute and Women and Children's Hospital of Buffalo.

Stecher and Horowitz Foundation
New York, NY
$7,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Young Artists Recitals by emerging young pianists in the tri-state region of New York, Connecticut, and Washington, DC. The project will include performance, coaching, ensemble playing, and educational seminars at the Manhattan School of Music.

Stephen Petronio Company
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of THE ARCHITECTURE OF LOSS by choreographer Stephen Petronio and in collaboration with Icelandic composer Valgeir Sigurdsson.

Studio Museum in Harlem, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support an artist-in-residence program. The program, targeted to emerging artists of African descent, will offer three artists studio space in the museum, a stipend, an allotment for materials, professional mentoring by curators and art critics, and an exhibition of their work.

SU Theatre Corporation (aka Syracuse Stage)
Syracuse, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support a production of Tony Kushner's Caroline, or Change, directed by Marcela Lorca. Set in 1963, the musical recounts a time in American history when Martin Luther King, Jr. led The March on Washington, DC, and delivered his "I have a Dream" sermon, and when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.

Symphony Space, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support The Music of Now, the presentation of new music. Directed by composer and educator Laura Kaminsky, the performances will be presented through three types of presentations: The Music of Now Marathon during the month of February, intimate monthly Salon concerts, and Underscore events and concerts with the participation of composers and performers.

Teachers and Writers Collaborative
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the development and dissemination of materials related to the teaching of creative writing and the literary arts. The collaborative will publish issues of the quarterly magazine Teachers & Writers; add an online interactive space for readers to comment on the magazine content; and launch a digital archive of material drawn from the 80 books and 44 years of periodicals published by the collaborative since 1967.

Tel, Jonathan
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

Theater Breaking Through Barriers Corp.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development of new plays that deal with disability or feature artists with disabilities, and the world premiere of one play at the conclusion of this stage. Plays in development include Sex on Wheels by Gregg Mozgala, a comedy about two high school students in wheelchairs who devise a unique plan to increase their popularity; The Road to Messina by Kate Moira Ryan, about Iraq from the point of view of a disabled soldier; Something Truly Monstrous by Jeff Tabnick; and Sad Hotel by David Foley.

Theatre for a New Audience, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of The Broken Heart by John Ford, directed by Irish director Selina Cartmell in her American directing debut. Cartmell's direction of Ford's rarely-performed Jacobean drama will employ a theatrical blending of text, choreography, light, and music.

Theatre of the Emerging American Moment, Inc. (aka The TEAM)
Brooklyn, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support a two-week run of Mission Drift at the Nevada Conservatory Theatre, University of Nevada-Las Vegas, a musical that uses the mythology and history of the frontier to examine American capitalism. Stories collected from a wide array of individuals working in Las Vegas recount the unsustainable growth of one of the nation's fastest-growing cities in 2000 that is now a fabled center of the housing collapse.

Thin Man Dance, Inc. (aka John Jasperse Company)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a tour of works by choreographer John Jasperse and the creation of a new work. The company will present the evening-length productions Canyon and Fort Blossom at Bryn Mawr College Performing Arts Center in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania; the Wexner Center for the Performing Arts in Columbus, Ohio; The Flynn Center for the Performing Arts in Burlington, Vermont; and at one additional city.

Trisha Brown Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$60,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a solo work by choreographer and artistic director Trisha Brown The work will represent the culmination of Trisha's legacy as a solo artist, her intensive and historic collaborations with visual artists, and her continued interested in dance and drawing and their creative intersections.

Ugly Duckling Presse, Ltd.
Brooklyn, NY
$8,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of books of poetry and prose in experimental forms. As a part of its Emerging Writers Program, the press will publish books by Aase Berg, Sara Wintz, Lawrence Giffin, John Surowiecki, and Egyptian American poet and translator Maged Zaher.

University of Rochester (on behalf of Open Letter Books)
Rochester, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of international literature in English translation. Open Letter Books will publish titles from Germany and Latin America.

Vasicek, René Georg
Astoria, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

Vineyard Theatre & Workshop Center, Inc. (aka Vineyard Theatre)
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support a developmental production of The Landing, an original piece with music by John Kander, and book and lyrics by Greg Pierce. The work will be made up of three interwoven one-acts: Andra, the story of a young boy who acquires a telescope through which he views the eponymous constellation; and The Brick, in which a film noir enthusiast becomes obsessed with owning a piece of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.

Vivian Beaumont Theater, Inc. (aka Lincoln Center Theater)
New York, NY
$60,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the world premiere of a new untitled play by Bruce Norris, directed by Anna D. Shapiro. The play explores contemporary gender conflicts with irony and humor as it tells the story of a politician who resigns his office in the midst of a ruinous scandal, and of his privileged family's struggle to recover.

White Pine, Inc. (aka White Pine Press)
Buffalo, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication, promotion, and translation of books of fiction and poetry. The press will publish the work of Argentinean short-story writer Olga Orozco, Uruguayan poet Mario Benedetti and American poet Gary Young.

Whitney Museum of American Art
New York, NY
$61,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the exhibition Jay DeFeo: A Retrospective, and accompanying catalogue. The exhibition will evaluate the entirety of DeFeo's (1929-89) career, placing her most well-known work, the four-ton, eight years in-the-making landmark painting ""The Rose"" (1958-66), in the context of four decades of output, highlighting her unconventional approach to materials, and her intensive, physical method.

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

Women's Project & Productions (aka Women's Project)
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support activities of the WP Lab. The program provides a two-year artistic residency for competitively selected early to mid-career women playwrights, directors, and producers to develop new work; and features monthly Lab meetings, dramaturgical sessions, readings, workshops, and the production of a new, full-length play created through the collaboration of Lab artists.

Women's Studio Workshop, Inc.
Rosendale, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support residencies for artists at a print and papermaking facility. The four artists in residence will be provided a stipend, studio space, technical and production assistance, a materials allowance, and travel costs during an eight-week residency.

Words Without Borders
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of Words Without Borders, a free online journal of international literature in translation. Each month, the journal will publish 8-12 translated pieces of fiction, poetry, and literary nonfiction, often alongside the original language version; all work remains archived online and is available at no charge.

World Music Institute, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support Great Voices of the World, a series of concerts featuring vocal traditions from artists who are contemporary masters of their inherited and evolving traditions. The series will feature leading artists from Portugal, Guadeloupe, Senegal, India, France, and Spain, making these significant traditions accessible to American audiences and providing opportunities for these communities to celebrate their heritage.

Young Concert Artists, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Young Concert Artists Series, the professional development program of recitals and concerto debuts in New York City and Washington, DC. The program also includes the commissioning of a new work by a young composer, career management for emerging classical performers and composers, and residencies in schools and community centers while the artists are on tour.

Young Jean Lee's Theater Company, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development of No Homo, a new play written and directed by Young Jean Lee investigating gay men and their oppressors, developed in collaboration with a diverse company of gay and queer-identifying performers. The piece will explore the issue of homophobia in all segments of American society, including the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community itself.

Young People''s Chorus of New York City, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the Partner Schools Program. At-risk students from up to 15 New York City public schools will participate in after-school, choral music education activities, including weekly rehearsals, music theory and harmonic analysis classes, and performance experiences.

Number of Grants: 232          Total Amount: $6,458,000

 
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