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FY 2013 Grant Awards: State Listings

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

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

CALIFORNIA

3rd I South Asian Independent Film
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the South Asian International Film Festival. Held at San Francisco's Castro and Roxie Theaters, the 11th annual festival will include full-length features, documentaries, and short films by South Asian filmmakers from the United States, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Europe, and Canada, including filmmakers Ashim Ahluwalia and Sabiha Sumar.

Alternative Theater Ensemble (aka AlterTheater)
San Rafael, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the commission, development, and production of a new play by Larissa Fasthorse. As part of the theater's commissioning and playwrights-in-residence program, Fasthorse will collaborate with Alter Theater to develop a play that addresses challenging issues facing the San Rafael local community.

American Conservatory Theatre Foundation (aka American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.))
San Francisco, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the premiere of Stuck Elevator created by writer Aaron Jefferis and composer Byron Au Yong. Based on the true story of an undocumented immigrant who survived 81 hours in a Bronx elevator, the Chinese American hip-hop opera portrays a Chinese food deliveryman struggling for freedom from debt, human smugglers, and untrustworthy coworkers, and his attempts to escape his physical and existential fate.

API Cultural Center (aka Oakland Asian Cultural Center)
Oakland, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Indo-China Ensemble's creation of a multidisciplinary piece incorporating South Indian classical (Carnatic) and Chinese music traditions. Featuring Prasant Radhakrishnan, a San Francisco-based Carnatic saxophonist; Wang Fei, a guqin (Chinese string instrument) artist; and Shriram Brahmanandam, a Carnatic percussionist, project activity will include performances and workshops in several Bay Area communities.

Armory Center for the Arts
Pasadena, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support Home Away, a multimedia exhibition. Organized by guest curator Kris Kuramitsu, Home Away will feature eleven artists and collaborative teams, each of which have strong ties to Los Angeles yet live part-time in cities across Asia and Latin America. Their work will highlight various international artistic practices that resonate with Southern California audiences and will delve into the politics of place, space, and identity.

Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support an exhibition titled 75x75x75, featuring the work of Flo Oy Wong and co-curated by Pamela Wu Kochiyama and Darryl Smith. A contemporary artist who uses everyday items in her art works - such as cloth rice sacks, sequins, beads, and old suitcases - Wong creates works that speak of personal, family, community, cultural, and historical stories; the exhibition will be installed at San Francisco's Luggage Store Gallery.

Association for the Advancement of Filipino American Arts & Culture (aka FilAm ARTS )
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the traditional components of the Festival of Philippine Arts & Culture. The project will present traditional music and dance from different regions of the Philippines, along with craft demonstrations and traditional foods.

Association of California Symphony Orchestras
SACRAMENTO, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support professional and leadership development and technical assistance programs for California orchestras. Plans include webinars and "Ask the Expert" conference calls; an annual statewide conference; and workshops for artistic and administrative staff, trustees, and volunteers from more than 150 orchestras.

Aunt Lute Foundation (aka Aunt Lute Books)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of print and electronic books by American Indian and Chicana authors. Authors being considered are Reid Gomez, Ire'ne Lara Silva, and LeAnne Howe. The press will promote the books through social media, touring authors in pairs, reviving partnerships with local community organizers, and maintaining proactive blogs on the press's website with suggested writing projects and other incentives.

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

Bayview Hunters Point Center for Arts & Technology
San Francisco, CA
$18,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the BAYCAT Youth Powered Media Program. Students will develop skills such as artistic expression, critical thinking, and effective communication, while receiving comprehensive instruction in digital media arts technology.

Berkeley Opera (aka West Edge Opera)
Berkeley, CA
$12,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support performances of Monteverdi's L'incoronazione di Poppea. A new orchestral edition by early music scholar Alan Curtis will be used to create a reduced performance version accessible for use by smaller opera organizations and schools. Artists will include conductor Gilbert Martinez, video designer Jeremy Knight, and singers Christine Brandes in the role of Nerone and Emma McNairy as Poppea.

Berkeley Repertory Theatre (aka Berkeley Rep)
Berkeley, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the world premiere of Dan LeFranc's Troublemaker, or The Freakin Kick-A Adventures of Bradley Boatright, directed by Lila Neugebauer. Commissioned and developed at Berkeley Rep, the play is both an epic adventure and a tale of personal discovery with fast-paced storytelling and inventive language to portray a modern boy's imagination as he struggles with changes in his relationships.

Berkeley Society for the Preservation of Traditional Music, Inc. (aka Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse)
Berkeley, CA
$12,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Genre Bending Innovators series. More than 24 concerts and 12 workshops at Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse will feature local and touring musicians such as mandolinist Mike Marshall, jazz clarinetist Don Byron, and composer/vocalist Amy X. Neuburg & the Cello ChiXtet, who will perform music that seeks to create new forms within traditional genres.

Bird Greenberg, Miriam
Berkeley, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music
Santa Cruz, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a professional development program for conductors and composers. The training program, led by conductors Marin Alsop and Gustav Meier, will offer 20 emerging conductors the opportunity to lead small and large ensembles in rehearsals and a public performance, program contemporary works, and collaborate with three early-career composers.

California Institute of the Arts (aka CalArts)
Valencia, CA
$45,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the CalArts Community Arts Partnership Summer Arts Program, a three-week program of day-long classes in visual arts, dance, creative writing, animation, digital filmmaking, theater, photography, and music led by CalArts faculty, student, and alumni instructors. Students will learn from professional artists, experience art at Los Angeles arts institutions, and create original art that is presented to the public at the culmination of the program.

California State University Long Beach
Long Beach, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Richard and Karen Carpenter Performing Arts Center's presentation of the Kronos Quartet in a performance of their original work, The Sun Rings, with associated workshops and master classes. The Kronos Quartet will conduct a discussion on the creation of The Sun Rings, which was composed by Terry Riley in collaboration with scientists from NASA and includes sounds of the galaxy captured by NASA spacecraft.

Carlsbad Music Festival
Carlsbad, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Carlsbad Music Festival. The five-day contemporary classical music festival will feature more than 30 performances by musicians including percussion ensemble Red Fish Blue Fish, the Calder Quartet, Bang on a Can All-Stars, and the La Jolla Symphony along with related educational activities.

Center for Asian American Media (aka CAAM)
San Francisco, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 31st San Francisco Asian American Film Festival. The event will showcase new work by and about Asian Americans and Asians.

Center for the Art of Translation
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the print and electronic publication and promotion by Two Lines Press of books in translation from Spanish, French, and Hebrew, as well as an anthology of international literature. Two Lines will publish exclusive online content monthly and will promote its publications through its blog, podcasts, author/translator interviews, videos, and social media.

Center Theatre Group of Los Angeles (aka Center Theatre Group)
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the world premiere of Jennifer Haley's The Nether. Winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, Hayley will challenge our increasing dependence on the Internet and how the time spent online is changing the way people see themselves, interact with society, and draw the lines of morality.

Chernoff, Maxine
Mill Valley, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

Chhandam Chitresh Das Dance Company
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support Shiva: Creation, Destruction, Preservation, a narrative dance about the royal court of North India. NEA National Heritage Fellow Pandit Chitresh Das will direct and choreograph a suite of works featuring dancers, master Indian musicians, and multimedia images.

City of San Fernando, California
San Fernando, CA
$57,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the Mariachi Master Apprentice Program that brings together professional musicians of Mariachi Los Camperos with mariachi students. Internationally renowned musicians will teach mariachi arrangements of sones, rancheras, jarabes, huapangos, and polkas and performance skills including how to play effectively in live recording sessions during after-school and weekend instructional workshops held at Las Palmas Park and San Fernando Middle School.

Community Television of Southern California (aka KCET)
Burbank, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support Departures: Youth Voices, a multimedia literacy curriculum for high school students. Students will learn the tenets of multimedia production and storytelling as producers of KCET's web series titled Departures.

Cornerstone Theater Company, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the development and production of the Hunger Cycle: School Food Project by Peter Howard. The play will explore how school food connects to success in learning and the universal hunger for a healthy and productive adulthood, examining cafeterias as microcosms of the larger school community.

Corporation of the Fine Arts Museums (aka Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco)
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the exhibition and catalogue Richard Diebenkorn: The Berkeley Years, 1953-1966. Through the presentation of more than 100 paintings, drawings, and watercolors, the exhibition will explore Diebenkorn's (1923-93) oscillation between abstraction and figuration during the 13 years he was living in Berkeley.

CounterPulse
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the CounterPulse Artist Residency and Commissioning Program. Activities will include the creation and presentation of four contemporary works and two full-length world premieres.

Creative Growth, Inc. (aka Creative Growth Art Center)
Oakland, CA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support Creativity/Connectivity, a year-long program for artists with disabilities. Program activities include workshops in painting, drawing, ceramics, textiles, printmaking, and video production for adult artists with disabilites, a summer art instruction program for disabled youth, visiting artist workshops, an exhibition series with accompanying catalog, and presentations on art and disabilities by Creative Growth Art Center Director Tom di Maria.

Crocker Art Museum Association
Sacramento, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the exhibition An Opening of the Field: Jess, Robert Duncan & Their Circle and accompanying catalogue. The exhibition, featuring paintings, drawings, books, and other ephemera by Jess Collins (simply known as "Jess") (1923-2004) and the poet Duncan (1919-88) and their contemporaries, will examine how their artistic collaboration influenced a generation of artists.

Crosspulse
Oakland, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the United States tour of Body Music, which showcases movement, rhythm, sound, and voice, and will include concerts, and education and outreach activities. The project features a new collaborative work, Body Tjak 13, from the ensembles Cudamani (Indonesia), Barbatuques (Brazil) and SLAMMIN all-body band (Oakland, CA).

Crowded Fire Theater Company (aka Crowded Fire Theater (CFT))
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the development and world premiere production of The Taming by Lauren Gunderson. Based on Shakespeare's The Taming of The Shrew, the comedic play will portray the female voice in American politics and explore potent elements of female characters within the Bard's work.

Cygnet Theatre Company
San Diego, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support Gem of the Ocean: The Cycle Begins, the first production of the August Wilson Cycle Plays, and a presentation of Walking in the Shadows---August Wilson by Antonio Johnson. Gem of the Ocean lays the foundation for Wilson's epic exploration of the cultural and spiritual journey made by 20th-century African Americans; Johnson's one-man performance will focus on themes of faith, hope, and tradition, and the relationship between Wilson's life and the Century Cycle stories.

Cypress Performing Arts Association (aka Cypress String Quartet)
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Call and Response, a concert program featuring a new work by composer Jennifer Higdon with related educational activities. The work will be performed by the Cypress String Quartet and soprano Christine Brandes and based on the poetry of former U.S. Poet Laureate W. S. Merwin.

DanceArt, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the 22nd annual WestWave Dance, which will include the presentation of works by Bay Area choreographers in a shared program at University of California Berkeley's Zellerbach Playhouse and at Z Space in San Francisco. The project will also include a reprise of the Monday a Month program, a series of curated programs to be presented the second Monday of each month between August and October.

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

Diavolo Dance Theater
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of Fluid Infinities set to Philip Glass's Symphony No. 3, which will complete a trilogy of commissions from the Los Angeles Philharmonic. As part of the project, the company will offer a series of open studio showings during the creation process.

Djerassi Resident Artists Program
Woodside, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Artist Communities
To support artist residencies. Djerassi will provide studios, living accommodations, meals, and professional assistance to visual, media, performing, and literary artists. As many as 50 American and international artists and an audience of 1,200 will benefit from the project.

East Bay Center for the Performing Arts
Richmond, CA
$65,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support Young Artists Diploma Program. The Pre-Diploma Program provides arts education for youth ages three to 18 and the four-year Diploma Program serves middle and high school students. Professional artists from the fields of dance, media, music, and theater will teach classes and private lessons in the after-school and summer programs.

East Bay Performing Arts (on behalf of Oakland East Bay Symphony)
Oakland, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a concert of works by American composers performed by the Oakland East Bay Symphony with related educational activities including an open dress rehearsal for middle and high school students. Works will include A Woman's Life Song Cycle by Richard Danielpour with text by poet Maya Angelou and featuring soprano Angela Brown; Symphony No. 3 by Florence Price; and Come Sunday by Duke Ellington.

East Bay Performing Arts (on behalf of Oakland Youth Orchestra)
Oakland, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a residency and commission by composer Jack Perla performed by the Oakland Youth Orchestra (OYO). Preceded by school visits by the composer and Music Director Michael Morgan, the premiere will be free to the public and include student performers in grades three through five of the Oakland Unified School District performing side-by-side with OYO players.

East-West Players, Inc. (aka EWP)
Los Angeles, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the world premiere of Christmas In Hanoi by Eddie Borey. The play explores the Asian Pacific American biracial experience as two siblings travel with their Irish Catholic father and their Vietnamese maternal grandfather to visit their late mother's ancestral home in Vietnam.

Ebony Repertory Theatre
Los Angeles, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of Dance@theHolden, a new dance presenting series. Artists to be presented include Complexions Ballet from New York City, hip-hop artist Rennie Harris from Philadelphia, as well as local artists Viver Brasil, Contra Tiempo, and Ballet Folclorico do Brasil.

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

Firebird Youth Chinese Orchestra
San Jose, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support a project to teach young musicians the traditional instrument orchestra setting of Red Detachment of Women, and important work written during the Cultural Revolution. During weekly classes held at the San Jose City College Music Department, students will practice the score individually, in sections, and as a full ensemble leading to concert performances throughout the Bay Area.

Friends of Peralta Hacienda Historical Park (aka Peralta Hacienda)
Oakland, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the creation of a sculpture by African American artist/landscape architect Walter Hood. The sculpture will explore themes of African American history and identity in a participatory public art and audio installation. The figure of a horse will be layered over with papier mache text and images from African American community members and storytellers from Oakland's Fruitvale district.

Friends of the Levitt Pavilion-Pasadena
Pasadena, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Vintage Revisited. This free, five-concert series, part of a 50-concert outdoor summer festival, is intended to attract diverse audiences. Proposed artists including Mexican Institute of Sound, Bei Ru, and Hanni El Khatib create new genres of music that blend traditional or classic styles with modern-day sounds.

Galeria/Studio 24 (aka Galeria de la Raza)
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a multidisciplinary exhibition of contemporary photography and photo-based art. Featured works by emerging and established California-based Chicano artists will layer personal, political, cultural, and artistic histories while exploring the relationship between the United States and Mexico, and the intersections between private and public space.

Gamelan Sekar Jaya
Berkeley, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support Artists at Work: Master Artists-in-Residence, a project featuring artists from Bali, Indonesia, and Kolkata, India. The guest artists will work with students to strengthen their skills and understanding of traditional Balinese music through creating a new work and reconstructing several traditional works.

Golden Thread Productions
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the development and premiere of Urge for Going by Mona Mansour with direction by Evren Odcikin. The story centers on Jamila, a young refugee girl preparing for her university exams---her ticket out of the refugee camp.

Grand Performances
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Los Angeles: An East Asian Gateway. The series of free multidisciplinary arts events featuring artists On Ensemble, Los Angeles Cantonese Opera Orchestra, Kayamanan Ng Lahi Philippine Folk Arts, Un-Cabaret, and Miwa Matreyek will also include related lectures, workshops, and an artist residency serving at-risk youth. 

Great Leap, Incorporated
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support Collabortory, a cross-disciplinary program culminating in a series of performances. Artists and community participants will create a collaborative theater piece exploring environmentalism.

Headlands Center for the Arts (aka Headlands)
Sausalito, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Artist Communities
To support artist residencies for emerging and mid-career artists. Direct support will be provided to as many as 45 artists at Headlands, located in the Marin Headlands, part of the historic Golden Gate National Recreation Area administered by the National Park Service. The development and creation of new work is expected to reach more than 11,000 annual visitors.

Healdsburg Jazz Festival, Inc.
Healdsburg, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a Healdsburg Jazz Festival tribute to NEA Jazz Master Charlie Haden. More than 25 performers representing various phases of the bassist-composer-bandleader's career are slated to participate in this two-day celebration of his music and legacy which also features workshops, master classes, a film screening, and a culminating concert by the 12-piece Liberation Jazz Orchestra.

Heart of Los Angeles Youth, Inc. (aka Heart of Los Angeles (HOLA))
Los Angeles, CA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles at Heart of Los Angeles (YOLA at HOLA), an after-school music program for students. Professional artists will lead students in ensemble and orchestra rehearsals, musicianship and singing classes. Also, students are supported by daily academic tutoring.

Highways, Inc.
Santa Monica, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Latino/a Engagement Project. The series of multidisciplinary events will engage residents through a Latino LGBTQ writers series, a new works festival featuring Latino performers, and a Dia de los Muertos event.

Historical Museum Foundation of Sonoma County
Santa Rosa, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the creation of a large-scale mosaic sculpture in the museum's sculpture garden, led by artist Mario Uribe. Uribe will work with high school students, who will explore their communal roots and local environment by interviewing community leaders, developing project-related content for the museum's Web site and exhibition catalogue.

Idris Ackamoor & Cultural Odyssey (aka Cultural Odyssey)
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support Fully Awake & Facing Seventy: The End of Time Has Begun!, written and performed by Rhodessa Jones. In a solo piece with live music, Jones as a new senior citizen shares her "homegrown" wisdom regarding family, community, memory and spirit, and offers a treatise on the Baby Boom Generation confronting their last years with style, humor, and yoga.

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

Ink People, Inc. (aka The Ink People Center for the Arts)
Eureka, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the DreamMaker Program: Creating Healthy Communities through Arts and Culture, an arts incubator program. The DreamMaker Program provides peer support, technical assistance, not-for-profit management workshops, and training for Humboldt County cultural groups.

Inside Out Community Arts, Inc.
Venice, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support The School Project, an after-school and weekend theater-based arts program. Led by professional artists and supported by high school and college alumni of the program, middle and high school students from the Los Angeles Unified School District will participate in weekly and Saturday workshops, attend a professional production, and take part in a three-day rehearsal retreat that will culminate in a free public performance of student plays.

Intersection
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the 2013 Triangle Lab. A partnership with the California Shakespeare Theater, the new program will place artists, arts organizations, and communities as equal partners in a "triangulated" relationship to create new theater works and will seek new development models for the field.

Kala Institute (aka Kala Art Institute)
Berkeley, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Artist Communities
To support the artist residencies in visual arts, video, performance, digital media, and book arts. American and international artists will receive stipends, technical support, and access to working facilities. As many as nine artists will be selected for residency periods ranging from one to six months, and an estimated 25,000 people are expected to attend related public events.

Kitka, Inc.
Oakland, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the commissioning, premiere, and recording of a new choral work by composer Eric Banks with related educational activities. Plans include the creation and premiere of a new work titled Just Between Us for women's vocal ensemble and string quartet based on an early 20th-century love affair between Russian poets Marina Tsvetaeva and Sophia Parnok; vocal workshops; online video documentation of the creation process; and an audio recording on the ensemble's in-house Diaphonica label available for digital release.

Kronos Performing Arts Association (aka Kronos Quartet)
San Francisco, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the commission, development, and rehearsal of a new work as part of Kronos Quartet's 40th anniversary season. The commissioned piece by Serbian American composer Aleksandra Vrebalov will mark the centennial of World War I and will be scored for string quartet, pre-recorded audio track, and video by Croatian filmmaker Ivan Faktor.

Kuumbwa Jazz Society
Santa Cruz, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Kuumbwa Jazz series NEA Jazz Masters in Concert. Six concerts will feature Jack DeJohnette, Sheila Jordan, Branford Marsalis, and Herbie Hancock who will collaborate with the Kuumbwa Jazz Honor Band, an all-star group of local high school musicians.

La Jolla Music Society
La Jolla, CA
$18,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support SummerFest, presentations of chamber music. Under the direction of music director and violinist Cho-Liang Lin, the festival will feature performances by artists including cellist Carter Brey; clarinetist David Schifrin; pianists Yefim Bronfman, Gabriela Montera, and Jon Kimura Parker; Brazilian guitarists Sérgio and Odair Assad; and Argentinean tango-infused jazz bass player Pablo Aslan; a commission and premiere of a new work by composer John Harbison; and a variety of educational activities.

Laguna Beach Live!
Laguna Beach, CA
$11,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Laguna Beach Music Festival of chamber music concerts and educational activities. With a focus on the music of Argentina, Pablo Ziegler will be guest artistic director for the festival and performances of Ziegler's Trio for Nuevo Tango and emerging artists accompanied by a variety of outreach concerts, workshops, and educational programs.

Latino Theater Company
Los Angeles, CA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the National Latino Theater Festival and Conference. The project will include the commissioning of six Latino theater companies across the nation to develop new works to be presented at the festival and a conference focusing on the present and future state of U.S. Latino theater practices.

LEVYdance, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of work as part of the company's 10th anniversary. The company will restage and remount work from their history on custom built stages in a San Francisco alleyway, which will also be shared with other artists in the community for a week of free and subsidized performances.

Living Jazz
Oakland, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support In the Name of Love, a musical tribute honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The tribute will include the Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir and the Oakland Children's Community Choir, as well as proposed guest artist duo Tuck & Patti and Roberta Flack.

Long Beach Opera
Long Beach, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the West Coast premiere of Philip Glass's The Fall of the House of Usher. Director Ken Hazan and scenic director Alan E. Muraoka will set the stage for this classic story by Edgar Allan Poe, with soprano Suzan Hanson as Madeline and Michael Chioldi as Roderick.

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Society, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support In Residence/On the Road, a residency and commissioning project. Plans include a three-week residency by composer Andrew Norman, workshops in local schools, pre-concert discussions, a commission for a new work, performances in Los Angeles and at the newly opened Green Music Center at Sonoma State University, and a radio broadcast.

Los Angeles Jazz Society
Van Nuys, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support Jazz in Schools, an annual program providing free jazz education performances by professional musicians for economically disadvantaged students in public elementary schools throughout the Los Angeles Unified School District. Proposed artists include drummer and historian Washington Rucker, pianist Delbert Taylor, and Charles Owens, a saxophonist and composer.

Los Angeles Master Chorale Association
Los Angeles, CA
$32,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support performances of choral music and related educational activities. Two programs are planned at Disney Concert Hall, each preceded by pre-concert ListenUp! discussions, including a pairing of Ein Deutsches Requiem by Johannes Brahms and the west coast premiere of The World in Flower by Peter Lieberson, and a concert of American music featuring works by Samuel Barber, Elliot Carter, Ricky Ian Gordon, and Eric Whitacre.

Los Angeles Opera Company (aka LA Opera)
Los Angeles, CA
$60,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support performances of Rossini's La Cenerentola by the creative team of Els Comediants from Spain. Conductor James Conlon, scenic and costume designer Joan Guillen, and lighting designer Albert Faura will bring the story to life.

Los Angeles Philharmonic Association
Los Angeles, CA
$100,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a staged version of composer John Adams's oratorio The Gospel According to the Other Mary directed by Peter Sellars with related educational activities. Created as a companion piece to El Nino from 2000, the new work will explore the New Testament stories of Lazarus and Jesus's Passion in combination with the poetry of Rosario Castellanos and Louise Erdrich.

Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center
San Pablo, CA
$45,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Routes of Resilience. A series of music performances, as well as web-based videos of traditional and contemporary Mexican art that will portray the Mexican American immigrant experience.

Margaret Jenkins Dance Studio, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of Barrier Winds, a new work by Margaret Jenkins. Jenkins will bring dancers from San Francisco to Israel for a residency that will foster the creation process, and then Israeli artists will come to San Francisco for the final rehearsal period leading up to the premiere.

Media Arts Center San Diego
San Diego, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 20th San Diego Latino Film Festival. The films and videos exhibited are produced by Latinos or are about the Latino experience.

Mexican Heritage Corporation (aka Mexican Heritage Plaza)
San Jose, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support VivaFest!, a Mexican heritage and mariachi festival. The Mexican Heritage Center will present traditional music, dance, visual arts, and foodways of Mexican and American Latinos through performances, workshops, and films.

Mo'olelo Performing Arts Company
San Diego, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support a production of Extraordinary Chambers by David Wiener. The play portrays an American couple who travel to Cambodia for a business trip and become entangled with Khmer Rouge survivors and alleged perpetrators of war crimes. The play aims to raise the awareness of the Khmer Rouge's history and explore American intersections within their history.

Montalvo Association (aka Montalvo Arts Center)
Saratoga, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Artist Communities
To support the Lucas Artists Program, an artist residency program. Artists working in the performing, visual, and literary arts also will have the opportunity to present or exhibit their work at Villa Montalvo and other Bay Area venues. As many as 24 artists will be selected either by invitation or by a juried process, and more than 8,000 people are expected to benefit from residency-related exhibitions and performances.

Monterey Jazz Festival
Monterey, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support artists fees and travel costs for the 56th annual Monterey Jazz Festival. Performing artists include the festival's artist-in-residence and the annually selected Commission and Showcase Artists---designations previously held by trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire, composer and bandleader Maria Schneider, and pianist Robert Glasper.

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

Museum Associates (aka Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA))
Los Angeles, CA
$55,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the exhibition Chinese Paintings from Japanese Collections and accompanying catalogue. The exhibition, featuring as many as 40 works of the Tang, Song, Yuan, and Ming dynasties owned by Japanese museums and Buddhist temples, will be the first exhibition in America to explore the history of collecting Chinese paintings in Japan.

Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
La Jolla, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a retrospective exhibition and catalogue featuring the work of abstract painter Jack Whitten. The exhibition, covering a prolific 50-year career, will include 60 paintings and a selection of drawings to provide a full picture of Whitten's (b. 1939) innovations as an abstractionist.

Music Academy of the West
Santa Barbara, CA
$12,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support performances of Mozart's The Magic Flute, as part of the Summer School and Festival program. The academy's performance-based approach to classical music training will require that the cast and orchestra be comprised almost entirely of academy students, whose hands-on training for the production will expose them to a core piece of opera repertoire while also giving them professional experience with a German-language work.

Narrative Magazine, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support artist fees and upgrades for the free online magazine Narrative. The journal publishes more than 350 authors and artists each year and has more than 170,000 subscribers.

National Alliance of Media Arts Centers, Inc. (aka National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture)
San Francisco, CA
$75,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support services to the nonprofit media arts field. The National Alliance of Media Arts Centers will focus on three core areas: 1) a leadership institute for delegates from the field; 2) conducting regional meetings with constituents; and 3) updating a report on changing production, exhibition, and distribution trends and the economic impact and creative practice of the media arts field.

National Association of Latino Independent Producers, Inc. (aka NALIP)
Santa Monica, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support Doing Your Doc: Diverse Visions, Regional Voices, a series of regional conferences. NALIP will offer seminars in four different cities concentrating on documentary film development and production for emerging documentarians from underserved communities.

National String Project Consortium
San Rafael, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support professional development for orchestra teachers through partnerships with universities. Participants will get hands-on, practical experience in teaching orchestral music during their college years, under the supervision of the director and master teacher at each site, while third and fourth grade children in the programs will learn to play the violin, viola, cello, or bass.

Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir, Inc.
Oakland, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support a free blues and gospel concert featuring vocalist Faye Carol, with related outreach. Associated outreach activities will include workshops covering vocal technique, instrumental instruction, and performance techniques for choirs, vocalists, and the general public.

Oakland Museum of California Foundation
Oakland, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the traveling exhibition Moving Pictures: The Life and Work of Hung Liu, (b. 1948) featuring work by the contemporary Chinese American artist. The exhibition of approximately 60 paintings, as well as personal ephemera, photographs, and installations, demonstrates how the artist uses archival materials to explore issues of collective memory and how Chinese history has been preserved through material culture.

Oberlin Dance Collective (aka ODC/Dance)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of new works by resident choreographers Brenda Way and KT Nelson. Way, ODC founder and artistic director, will create Lifesaving Maneuvers with dramaturge/librettist Marc Bamuthi Joseph, video artist and lighting designer Alexander V. Nichols, and composer Jay Cloidt. Co-artistic director Nelson will create Transit II with designer/craftsman welder Max Chen and lighting and set designer Barry Steele.

Oceanside Museum of Art
Oceanside, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support Artists@Work, a series of events that will turn the museum into an open studio environment featuring visual artists Ernest Silva, Ellen Salk, and Charles Arnoldi. Patrons will be encouraged to investigate, discuss, and participate while artists are creating original, commissioned work.

Ojai Festivals, Ltd.
Ojai, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Ojai Music Festival. Curated by choreographer Mark Morris, guest music director for the 67th annual festival, programming will be focused on American artists and music, including the works of Lou Harrison, John Cage, Henry Cowell, Charles Ives, and John Luther Adams, and will feature the Mark Morris Music Ensemble, the Mark Morris Dance Group, pianist Emanuel Ax, the American String Quartet, and jazz trio The Bad Plus with Ethan Iverson.

Ojai Playwrights Conference
Ojai, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the Ojai Playwrights Conference, an annual two-week residential retreat and new works festival dedicated to the development of new dramatic literature for the American stage. The project consists of the New Works Festival, a Young Professionals Initiative that mentors and trains college-level interns, and a Youth Workshop that features the creation of original works by teenagers.

Orange County Museum of Art
Newport Beach, CA
$60,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the retrospective exhibition Siah Armajani: Citizen Artist and accompanying catalogue. The exhibition will examine different aspects of Armajani's (b. 1939) career including his early conceptual works, studio-based sculpture, public art projects (bridges, reading rooms, gardens), and large-scale indoor and outdoor installations.

Pacific Chorale
Santa Ana, CA
$43,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the commissioning, performance, and recording of a new Jake Heggie choral work, Acts of Creation. Featuring the 24-voice John Alexander Singers, the 140-voice Pacific Chorale, and the eight instrumentalists, the world premiere will take place in the spring of 2014 at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts and the resulting recording will be released worldwide by the record label Delos through Naxos of America, Inc.

Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
San Francisco, CA
$12,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the concert presentation of Handel's opera Teseo. Under the direction of Music Director Nicholas McGegan, the project will include guest artists sopranos Dominique Labelle, Amanda Forsythe, Amy Freston, and Celine Ricci, and countertenors Robin Blaze and Drew Minter.

Piece by Piece
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Visiting Artist Series, offering mosaic-related arts education classes to economically disadvantaged audiences. The project includes a culminating public exhibit featuring the work of participants.

Playhouse Arts
Arcata, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support performances of The Gruffalo, written by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler. Presented during the Playhouse Family Fun Series, the play will target youth living in this rural community.

Playwrights Foundation, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the 36th anniversary presentation of the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, a new play development event that serves as a laboratory and showcase for Bay Area playwrights. The festival includes a week of studio work and two weekends of staged readings of eight new plays.

Pro Arts
Oakland, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the New Works Series. The series of contemporary art commissioning programs will serve as a showcase for new work made by local emerging artists in the Oakland/Bay Area. The series includes 2 x 2 Solos, Project, and the Annual Exhibition Call, each with accompanying catalogs and public events.

Project X Foundation for Art and Criticism (aka X-TRA)
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the reviews section of X-TRA Magazine. The quarterly visual arts publication features expansive articles, historical essays, commissioned artist's projects, interviews, and substantive exhibition and book reviews. It will be published and distributed to galleries, museums, and art schools throughout Southern California and to subscribers across the country.

Purple Silk Music Education Foundation, Inc.
Oakland, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support intermediate and advanced instruction in Chinese string, wind, and percussion instruments taught by professional musicians culminating in public performances in the Chinese community and on college campuses. During 20 weeks of classes, students will increase their musical proficiency, learn about the Beijing Opera, and perform instrumental repertory from Farewell My Concubine arranged for Chinese folk music orchestra.

Red Hen Press, Inc.
Pasadena, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of new books of poetry and fiction, with the fiction titles also offered as e-books. Scheduled authors include Peggy Shumaker, Katharine Coles, Brynn Saito, John Van Kirk, Andrew Lam, and Tess Taylor.

Regents of the University of California at Berkeley (on behalf of Pacific Film Archive)
Berkeley, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support Committed Cinema, a curated film series. The work to be presented ranges from Elia Suliaman's films from Palestine to Laura Poitras's trilogy on Iraq.

Regents of the University of California at Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Accessibility
To support a Statewide Forum on Careers in the Arts for People with Disabilities and forum follow-up projects. The forum will bring together representatives from the arts, rehabilitation, education, and disability communities to address barriers and implement strategies for advancing training and career opportunities of artists and arts administrators with disabilities.

Regents of the University of California at Los Angeles (on behalf of Hammer Museum)
Los Angeles, CA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a retrospective exhibition featuring the artist Llyn Foulkes (b. 1934). The exhibition of approximately 150 artworks will include assemblage, rock and landscape paintings, and his more recent tableau works of found objects, clothing, and paint.

Riley, Atsuro
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

Ryman-Carroll Foundation (aka Ryman Arts)
Los Angeles, CA
$45,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the expansion of pre-professional studio art classes for high school students in Los Angeles. Offered free-of-charge, classes are taught by experienced teaching artists and focus on the fundamental skills of drawing and painting in a rigorous and supportive environment.

Saint Joseph Ballet Company
Santa Ana, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support Transforming Lives Through Dance. Guest choreographers will create work for and with low-income youth participants, culminating in four public performances.

San Bernardino Symphony Association
San Bernardino, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support Classics Revisited, featuring violinist Lindsay Deutsch, with associated outreach activities. As many as 350 San Bernardino-area youth and their families will be invited to attend the concert at no charge and complimentary tickets will be given to 50 San Bernardino City Unified School District Honors Orchestra students and their parents.

San Diego Asian Film Foundation (aka San Diego Asian Film Festival (SDAFF))
San Diego, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 14th San Diego Asian Film Festival. Held in the fall, the week-long event features approximately 160 documentaries, narrative feature films, short films, and animated works.

San Diego Museum Council, Inc.
San Diego, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support Kids Free in October, a cultural tourism initiative aimed at engaging children to explore more than 35 museums located throughout San Diego County. More than 4,500 children received free museum admission during the program's inaugural year in 2011.

San Diego Opera Association
San Diego, CA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a new production of Ildebrando Pizzetti's Murder in the Cathedral. Conducted by Donata Renzetti, directed by Ian Campbell, with a set design by Ralph Funicello, the production will feature a cast comprised of Ferrucio Furlanetto as Archbishop Thomas Becket, Susan Nevis as First Chorister, and Helen Schneiderman as Second Chorister.

San Diego Repertory Theatre (aka San Diego Rep)
San Diego, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the world premiere production of The Federal Jazz Project, written by Richard Montoya with original jazz music by Gilbert Castellanos and directed by Sam Woodhouse. Set in the jazz clubs and speakeasies of downtown San Diego and Tijuana from the end of Prohibition to the present day, the play will explore the rich, but little known history of jazz music and musicians on both sides of the San Diego/Tijuana international border.

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

San Francisco Ballet Association
San Francisco, CA
$75,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of new ballets by several choreographers. Choreographers such as artistic director Helgi Tomasson, choreographer in residence Yuri Possokhov, and Alexei Ratmanksy as well as others will be commissioned to create new works.

San Francisco Contemporary Music Players
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support commissioning and performance of Webern Point, a new chamber work by intermedia composer Jaroslaw Kapuscinski. Inspired by Anton Webern's Concerto for Nine Instruments, Opus 24, the composition will integrate music with animation and documentary film footage by filmmaker Jason Sussberg.

San Francisco Film Society (aka SFFS)
San Francisco, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 56th San Francisco International Film Festival and other related exhibition programs. The San Francisco International Film Festival will showcase more than 260 films. Through its year-round programming, SFFS will present current American independent and international feature films as well as programs devoted to French film, Italian film, animation, and documentaries.

San Francisco Girls Chorus, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the Music Education and Performance Program. The program will provide nine months of instruction in choral singing and opportunities for concert performance, using a five-level, graduated curriculum and repertoire that spans six centuries and includes 14 languages.

San Francisco Jazz Organization (aka SFJAZZ)
San Francisco, CA
$51,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the 2013 SFJAZZ Collective Tour and Outreach Project, a residency and touring ensemble. Components include the creation and public presentation of new and re-interpreted works by Collective members, residencies, workshops and master classes for young musicians, open rehearsals, and pre-concert talks.

San Francisco Opera Association
San Francisco, CA
$100,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the commission and premiere of Dolores Claiborne by composer Tobias Picker and librettist J.D. McClatchy. Based on the novel by Stephen King, the production will include a title role brought to life by Dolora Zajick, alongside Elizabeth Futral as Vera, and will be conducted by George Manahan and directed by James Robinson.

San Francisco Symphony (on behalf of San Francisco Youth Symphony)
San Francisco, CA
$65,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the Artist Development Program of the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra. Designed to complement the youth orchestra's core program of weekly rehearsals and concert performances, the free program will provide students with coaching, mentorship, and specialized training in chamber music.

San Francisco Symphony
San Francisco, CA
$75,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support A Beethoven Exploration festival, directed by Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas. Programming will include performances of Beethoven's first major work, Cantata on the Death of Emperor Joseph II, and one of his final masterpieces, Missa Solemnis, and will feature guest artists sopranos Sally Matthews and Laura Claycomb, mezzo-sopranos Tamara Mumford and Sasha Cooke, tenors Barry Banks and Michael Fabiano, bass-baritone Andrew Foster-Williams, bass Shenyang, and the St. Lawrence String Quartet.

San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art
San Jose, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the Sandbox program for emerging and mid-career artists to create and exhibit large-scale experimental artworks. The institute will present three, three-month-long Sandbox projects in the Focus Gallery. Educational outreach opportunities, including gallery tours and Talking Art lectures led by staff and artists, will accompany each exhibit along with exhibition brochures that include scholarly essays.

ShadowLight Productions
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the Ainu Shadow Project. A new multidisciplinary shadow theater work created by Larry Reed in collaboration with OKI, a prominent musician from the indigenous Ainu tribe in Hokkaido, Japan, the project will explore the Ainu mythology, language, music, and history in order to introduce Bay Area audiences to the ancient culture and to provide a platform to reflect upon the effects of globalization.

Sharif, Solmaz
Los Angeles, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

Smuin Ballets-SF
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of West Coast premieres of ballets by choreographers Adam Hougland and Helen Pickett. The works will include Adam Hougland's Cold Virtues and Helen Pickett's Petal. In addition to performances in San Francisco, the company will perform in Walnut Creek, Carmel, Livermore, and Mountain View, CA.

South Coast Repertory, Inc.
Costa Mesa, CA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the 16th annual Pacific Playwrights Festival. The festival will feature two world premiere productions and staged readings of five previously unproduced plays, bringing leading playwrights and emerging talents from around the country together where they will share the readings and productions of new work with theater professionals from across the nation.

Southern California Asian American Studies Central (aka Visual Communications)
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support Visual Communication's 29th Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film and Video Festival. The 11-day festival is Southern California's showcase of independent Asian international and Asian Pacific American film and video work.

Southwest Chamber Music Society
Pasadena, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Los Angeles International New Music Festival. Musicians of Southwest Chamber Music and guest artists from around the world will perform the chamber works by composers such as Alexandra du Bois, Helen Grimes, Lei Liang, Kurt Rohde, Augusta Read Thomas, and Charles Wuorinen at the Colburn School of Performing Arts in Los Angeles.

SpectorDance
Marina, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the commission and performance of East/West - a dance, poetry, and media project about gang violence. Associated outreach activities will include poetry and dance workshops, providing economically disadvantaged youth with opportunities to use words and movement to communicate their experiences.

Stagebridge
Oakland, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support a residency for playwright Joan Holden. The residency will culminate in a workshop production of a new play to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Free Speech Movement at the University of California at Berkeley. The residency also will include research, development, and a workshop production of the play, which will be developed through interviews, focus groups, and investigation of historical San Francisco media resources.

Stanford Jazz Workshop
Stanford, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the 2013 Stanford Jazz Workshop: Jazz Camp and Jazz Residency. Students will study with professional jazz educators and musicians, with a focus on ear training, improvisation, and playing in small ensembles.

Stanford University
Stanford, CA
$32,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Bing Concert Hall inaugural season celebration with the commissioning and performances of chamber works by composer Jonathan Berger, composer and performer Laurie Anderson with Kronos Quartet, and composer Steve Reich with Alarm Will Sound. The project will include the commissioning and premieres of two new chamber opera works (Anaphora and Magnificat) by Jonathan Berger and librettist Dan O'Brien, which will feature digital processing to create electroacoustic interludes and illusory aural spaces.

Stern Grove Festival Association
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support a series of admission-free outdoor concerts. Performances will include concerts by the San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco Opera, and San Francisco Ballet. 

Street Symphony Project, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Street Symphony Los Angeles Veterans Concert Series, a series of free performances at clinics and not-for-profits serving low-income and homeless veterans. Proposed guest artists include musicians from the Los Angeles Philharmonic, jazz guitarist Howard Alden, cellist Lynn Harrell, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, and conductor Gustavo Dudamel.

Symphonic Jazz Orchestra
Culver City, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support a free jazz concert for economically disadvantaged students featuring multi-instrumentalist and composer Miguel Atwood-Ferguson, with related outreach. Outreach activities will include a series of master classes and workshops for youth.

Teitman, Ryan
Berkeley, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

Theatre of Yugen, Incorporated
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the creation of The Noh Oratorio of Emmett Till, a new theater project. Developed by poet and composer Kevin Simmonds and artist-in-residence Judy Halebsky, the piece will blend traditional Japanese theater forms with Western sensibility and will feature poetry set to music, characters, a chorus, and an instrumental ensemble.

TheatreWorks
Palo Alto, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the New Works Initiative for the development of new plays and musicals. Through readings, workshops, a writer's retreat, an annual New Works Festival, and full productions of world premieres, the program supports the artistry of musical theater composers and writers and enables them to explore and create new forms of musical theater.

Threepenny Review
Berkeley, CA
$12,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support payments to writers and promotion costs for the Threepenny Review. The proposed issues will be promoted through literary events, author appearances at local book fairs, the journal's website and Facebook page, and a direct-mail campaign with a proven track record aimed at more than 90,000 readers.

University Enterprises Inc.
Sacramento, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the annual Festival of New American Music featuring concerts, workshops, master classes, lectures, seminars, concert previews, and open rehearsals at California State University, Sacramento. Artists to be engaged include Calliope Duo, NewSpeak, Percussion Group Cincinnati, Plural Ensemble, TwoSense, Yarn/Wire, saxophonist Tim McAllister, and composers Ryan Brown, Paul Dresher, Amy Kirsten, and Steven Stucky.

Unusual Suspects Theatre Co.
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support theater arts education residencies. Led by professional artists, students will study theater arts to improve their knowledge about theater, literacy, and communication skills, create their own plays, and collaboratively produce and perform in each other's plays.

Vap, Sarah
Santa Monica, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

Venice Arts In Neighborhoods
Venice, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the expansion of the Art Mentoring Program. The project will provide free, technologically intensive, arts instruction to underserved youth with a focus on art creation in photography, filmmaking, and digital media.

Voice of Witness
San Francisco, CA
$60,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication of and outreach for recently published anthologies of in-depth, oral history interviews with survivors of human rights and social justice crises. Founded by author Dave Eggers and physician/human rights scholar Lola Vollen, the press will promote the following titles: Invisible Hands: Narratives of Human Rights in the Global Economy; Throwing Stones: Narratives from Colombians Displaced by Violence; The Refugee Hotel; and High Rise Stories: Narratives from Chicago Public Housing.

Watts Village Theater
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the development and performances of Riot/Rebellion, an original work by Donald Jolly, directed by Larissa Kokernot. Inspired by the events surrounding the 1965 Watts Riots, the play draws from eyewitness testimony from the Los Angeles Riots of 2002 and the Zoot Suit Riots of 1943, relating the stories in a comprehensive way to a new generation of Latinos and the surrounding community.

Yerba Buena Arts & Events (aka Yerba Buena Gardens Festival )
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival. This project will include nearly 80 live concerts and performing arts programs in a range of artistic genres and styles.


Number of Grants: 154          Total Amount: $3,910,500

 
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