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.

NEW YORK

A Public Space Literary Projects Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the research for -- and publication and promotion of -- in-depth portfolios in the journal A Public Space exploring a literary scene, under-recognized writer, and historical moment. Topics will include the Austrian writer Ernst Weiss; the Swedish writer Kirsten Ekman; and Namibian writers who have explored the transition from colonialism through war to a struggling but functioning democracy.

African Film Festival
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 20th New York African Film Festival and the 16th edition of the African Film Festival Traveling Series, which will showcase contemporary and classic films from Africa and the African diaspora. The Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Brooklyn Academy of Music cinemas will serve as venues for the New York City programming.

Alarm Will Sound, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support chamber music residencies. Plans include residencies at the University of Missouri-St. Louis and at the Mizzou New Music Summer Festival in Columbia, Missouri, which will include concerts of music by established contemporary composers as well as new works written for the ensemble by student composers; recording sessions of student works; an educational workshop for student composers and performers; a master class on contemporary music repertoire; and a program on entrepreneurship in music and the performing arts.

Albany Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Albany, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the American Music Festival: Indigenous Americana. The five-day festival focusing on indigenous arts, folk culture, and roots movements in North America will include a concert featuring recent works; an "Urban Poetry" concert featuring the orchestra's new music ensemble, Dogs of Desire; a "Shaker Heritage" concert of commissions; a roots music performance by the festival's resident performing ensemble, Time for Three; and related educational activities.

Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$80,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a United States tour that includes performances and outreach activities in more than 20 cities. The tour will feature new work by choreographers Robert Battle, Garth Fagan, Jiri Kylian, Kyle Abraham, and Ronald K. Brown.

Alwan Foundation
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the New York Arab and South Asian Film Festival. Project activities will include a panel discussion and post-screening question-and-answer sessions.  The series will also present a feature premiere, documentaries, and short films intended to promote awareness and mutual understanding of persons of Middle Eastern or South Asian descent.

Amas Musical Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the Amas Musical Theatre Lab and Workshop Development Series. The project will support the theater's mission of celebrating diversity and minority perspectives and the development of new musicals covering a broad range of subject matter and styles.

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 four American artists to spend a year in Rome in a historic setting on the Janiculum hill within the walls of Rome, and will include a stipend, studio space, housing, and meals.

American Composers Orchestra, Inc. (aka ACO)
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute. In partnership with the Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University in New York and the University of California, Los Angeles's Herb Alpert School of Music, the institute's New Music Readings will allow up to 20 jazz composers to create up to 20 works for reading-performances by the ACO in New York City, the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra (NY), and the Stockton Symphony and the La Jolla Symphony (CA).

American Indian Artists, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the production of Powwow Highway, a full-length play for musical theater by author, playwright, and screenwriter David Seals. Seals will work with Native American director Steve Elm (Oneida) and acting ensemble Amerinda Theatre in the production of this work that focuses on the New York City Native American community.

American Opera Projects, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the creation, development, and presentation of Nkeiru Okoye's Harriet Tubman: When I Crossed the Line to Freedom. A tour of performances will occur in states along the Underground Railroad where Tubman was active including Illinois, Maryland, and New York, and will commemorate the centennial of Tubman's death as well as the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation.

American Symphony Orchestra League (aka League of American Orchestras)
New York, NY
$100,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the League of American Orchestra's strategic services designed to strengthen orchestras through learning and leadership development, research, and communications within the field. The league will focus on best-practices and host an annual national conference for more than 1,000 participants.

American Tap Dance Foundation, Inc.
New York City, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the festival Tap City. Activities will include training, education, special events, and performances by artists and companies such as Jared Grimes from Banana Shpeel, Lane Alexander from Chicago Human Rhythm Project, Acia Gray from Tapestry Dance Company, Deborah Mitchell from New Jersey Tap Ensemble, Sarah Petronio, Kazu Kumagai (Japan), RumbaTap, and Barbara Duffy and Company.

Americas Society, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Iconic and Emerging Figures from Latin America series. The project will pair established and up-and-coming artists in literature, music, and visual arts to present literary programs, concerts, an exhibition, a literary publication, as well as a visual arts catalogue.

Anthology Film Archives
New York, NY
$20,000
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
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support music, dance, and theater programs, as well as accompanying educational and outreach activities. Activities will include The James Brown Project, a dance piece conceived by choreographer Otis Sallid; The Harlem Jazz Shrines Festival, a celebration of jazz in historic venues across upper Manhattan; The Apollo Music Cafe, an intimate performance series featuring independent musicians; The Salon Series, a new work incubation program focusing on music and poetry; and Breakin' Convention, an international multidisciplinary hip-hop festival.

Archipelago Books, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of international works of fiction and poetry in English translation. Works in French, Spanish, Italian, Icelandic and other languages will be translated into English. Scheduled authors include Pierre Michon, Severo Sarduy, Antonio Tabucchi, Halldor Laxness, Jose Angel Valente, Franketienne, and Josep Pla.

Armitage Foundation Ltd. (aka Armitage Gone! Dance)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of an evening-length production Fables on Global Warming during a residency at the Krannert Center at University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign, as well as performances in New York City. This new work will be based on traditional animal fables from around the globe, and will incorporate dance, live music, visual design, and puppetry with ecological sciences.

Ars Nova Theater I, Inc. (aka Ars Nova)
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the Ars Nova Play Group Program. A collective of emerging playwrights will experience readings, workshops, writing retreats, and gather twice a month for two years to share and develop new work, receive feedback, provide peer support, and form collaborative relationships.

Art Connects New York
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the Brooklyn Art Placement Exhibitions and Workshops at New York City Industries for the Blind and the Arab-American Family Support Center. These permanent installations of contemporary artwork will actively reflect the missions of these social service agencies and will feature both emerging and established NYC-based artists such as Christophe Laudamiel, Takashi Horisaki, Yael Kanarek, and Rashin Kheirieh.

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.

Art Sweats, Inc. (aka David Dorfman Dance)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the final creation and presentation of Come, and Back Again, an evening-length dance work by choreographer David Dorfman. Inspired by the artistry of Patti Smith, such themes as loss, death, spirituality, and joy will be explored and will involve community dancers and musicians.

Arts for Art, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Vision Festival. More than 150 creative jazz artists will perform in 32 concerts during the seven-day festival that will feature jazz, poetry, visual arts, panel discussions, and a free performance at the New York City Housing Authority public housing development at Campos Plaza.

Asia Society
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the exhibition Iran Modern, 1950-1980 and accompanying catalogue. The exhibition will present more than 100 works created in three decades prior to the Islamic Revolution, exploring the commonalities and differences of modernism in the West.

Atlantic Theater Company
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the world premiere of 3 Kinds of Exile by Tony Award-winning playwright John Guare with direction by Artistic Director Neil Pepe. The play follows the stories of three Eastern European exiles who were forced from their homes during the 20th century to immigrate to the United States.

Ballet Hispanico of New York, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the commission and presentation of dance works from Spanish choreographers as part of Season of Spain. The company will perform works from emerging choreographers Meritxell Barbera and the Spanish dance company Inma Garcia of Taiat Dansa as well as works by established Spanish choreographers Cayetano Soto and Nacho Duato.

Ballet Theatre Foundation, Inc. (aka American Ballet Theatre)
New York, NY
$70,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the world premiere of ballets by Alexei Ratmansky, set to symphonies by Dmitri Shostakovich. Activities will include performances of the new ballets at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City, as well as education and outreach activities.

Bang on a Can, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Summer Festival of Music, a performance series and resident teaching facility for emerging composers and performers. Hosted by the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams, the three-week festival will feature more than 40 concerts by the Bang on a Can All-Stars, faculty, and students in galleries and in community venues.

Bard College (on behalf of Conjunctions)
Annandale-Hudson, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of print and electronic versions of the theme-based journal Conjunctions, including maintenance of the journal's newly redesigned website. Published twice a year, each issue has a unifying theme, averages 400 pages, and includes the work of 30-50 authors, many of them debut writers.

Bard College
Annandale-Hudson, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support The Georges Hoentschel Collection: Between Paris and New York. For the first time in more than 50 years, this exhibition of more than 200 works of art will bring together the collection of medieval and 18th-century French objects that formed the foundation of the decorative arts collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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 American Symphony Orchestra, the resident ensemble, the festival will explore the world and music of composer Igor Stravinsky by presenting a range of musical forms including chamber, choral, and orchestral concerts and will feature the centennial celebration performance of Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring) along with associated educational activities.

Beduya, Jose Perez
Ithaca, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

Beth Morrison Projects
New YOrk, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the creation, development, and presentation of composer Keeril Makan and librettist Jay Scheib's Persona. Inspired by the Ingmar Bergman film and developed with new music ensemble Alarm Will Sound, the project will be highlighted in workshops at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (winter 2013) and at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (spring 2013).

Big Tree Productions, Inc. (aka Tere O'Connor Dance)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation of a new dance by artistic director Tere O'Connor. Different Edens (working title) will be the result of merging three distinct dances into a fourth one. The initial three works will be performed in different types of spaces with the culminating new work to premiere at the BAM Fischer Building as part of the Next Wave Festival.

BOA Editions, Ltd.
Rochester, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of print and electronic books of poetry, memoir, and short fiction. Works by such writers as Lucille Clifton, Jim Daniels, and Li-Young Lee will be published and promoted. BOA also will release previously published backlist titles electronically, including books by Naomi Shihab Nye, Kim Addonizio, Ellen Bass, Brigit Pegeen Kelly, and Dorianne Laux.

Borough of Manhattan Community College Performing Arts Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Lost Jazz Shrines program. The series will encompass three themed events titled "Bird: A World's Eye View" in celebration and commemoration of the famed Birdland jazz club in Manhattan and the legendary alto saxophonist, Charlie "Bird" Parker, after whom it was named.

BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn, Inc. (on behalf of Celebrate Brooklyn! Performing Arts Festival)
Brooklyn, NY
$45,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Celebrate Brooklyn! Performing 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.

Bronx Museum of the Arts
Bronx, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the exhibition and catalogue Beyond the Super Square: On the Corner of Art and Architecture, including related public programming. The exhibition will demonstrate how Latin American artists have been influenced by Latin American and Caribbean modernist architecture.

Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Inc. (aka BAX)
Brooklyn, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Artist Communities
To support the expansion of dance and theater residencies for artists. As many as 12 emerging artists will be provided free rehearsal space and stipends as well as artistic, technical, and production support. An estimated 8,000 audience members will benefit in addition to the artists.

Brooklyn Conservatory of Music (aka Brooklyn-Queens Conservatory of Music)
Brooklyn, NY
$17,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the First Annual Brass Summit and a concert/interview event with saxophonist/composer/writer Fred Ho and the Afro Asian Music Ensemble. The three-day summit will offer educational activities such as workshops and clinics as well as concerts by brass players including NEA Jazz Master Jimmy Owens, Dave Douglas, Steve Turre, Dave Bargeron, Vincent Chancey, and Dave Taylor.

Brooklyn Institute of Arts & Sciences (aka Brooklyn Museum)
Brooklyn, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a traveling exhibition and catalogue. A project of the Brooklyn Museum and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, John Singer Sargent Watercolors will be the first expansive exhibition of Sargent's (1856-1925) watercolors in 20 years.

Brooklyn Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Bedford-Stuyvesant Music Series. Plans include a concert featuring orchestral arrangements of NEA Jazz Master Randy Weston's music, the commissioning and premiere of a new work by composer Ted Hearne titled But I Voted for Shirley Chisholm, a chamber concert at the Brooklyn Public Library, a family workshop, and in-school music education residencies.

Buffalo Media Resources, Inc. (aka Squeaky Wheel)
Buffalo, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support SWAP: Squeaky Wheel Access Program. This 27-year-old program provides free and low-cost access to media equipment, workshops, screenings, artist residencies, and resources to local, national, and international film and video artists.

Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra Society, Inc.
Buffalo, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support The Underground Railroad: An Evening of Spirituals with Kathleen Battle with related educational activities. The program, conducted by former assistant conductor Michael Morgan, will feature a local choir and dramatic readings of the words of Frederick Douglass. The event will mark important anniversaries including the founding of American Anti-Slavery Society and Abolitionist Movement (1833), the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation (1863), and the passing of Harriet Tubman (1913).

Camera News, Inc. (aka Third World Newsreel)
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support a digital media literacy and production education program. Components of the Third World Newsreel program will be the Advanced Film and Video Production Workshop, Wednesday Night Media Workshops, and an Introduction to Final Cut Pro/Media Literacy Workshop Series.

Canopy Canopy Canopy, Inc. (aka Triple Canopy)
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the production and promotion of Triple Canopy, an online magazine where staff collaborate with writers on written, visual, and interactive projects. Each issue of the journal contains nine internet-based projects curated around a particular theme and developed over three to six months.

Capoeira Foundation, Inc. (aka DanceBrazil)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation of a new work, Fe do Sertao, by artistic director Jelon Vieira, based on the Festival of Sao Joao. The music will be a combination from the original film score, contemporary carnival music, and Musica Popular Brasileira.

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 68th annual seven-week outdoor summer festival of classical, opera, jazz, and roots music will feature the Orchestra of St. Luke's as resident orchestra. Proposed artists include cellist Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble; NEA Jazz Masters Herbie Hancock and Ahmad Jamal; pianists Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Yefim Bronfman, Richard Goode, and András Schiff; the Punch Brothers; saxophonist Miguel Zenon; and violinists Julia Fischer and Leonidas Kavakos.

Career Transition For Dancers, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the National Outreach Project. The project takes career counseling services on a national tour with scheduled events to begin the conversation for many dancers about their post-performance careers.

Carnegie Hall Society, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the National Youth Orchestra (NYO) of the USA. Plans for the new tuition-free program include an intensive two-week residency for 120 young musicians at State University of New York at Purchase led by principal musicians from top U.S. orchestras; a public performance at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts featuring violinist Joshua Bell and conducted by Valery Gergiev; a commissioned work by composer Sean Shepherd; and a peer-to-peer exchange between NYO players and DC-area youth orchestra musicians.

Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine (aka Cathedral of Saint John the Divine)
New YOrk, NY
$80,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support an exhibition and tour featuring the 17th-century Barberini Life of Christ tapestries. Following a 30-year conservation effort, the Cathedral will mount an unprecedented three-venue tour of these rare textiles, including two of the twelve that were burned in a fire in 2001.

Catskill Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Oneonta, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support a concert featuring the Celtic music and step dancing of Cherish the Ladies. Under the leadership of flutist Joanie Madden, Cherish the Ladies will perform at SUNY Oneonta's Alumni Field House for audiences drawn from a three-county area in rural Central New York.

Center for Book Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a series of group exhibitions of contemporary book arts and related media. Organized by guest curators, each of the four exhibitions will be accompanied by a lecture and a catalogue that explore traditional artistic practices of book-making while encouraging contemporary interpretations of the book as an art object.

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 seven artists and one critical studies scholar will be selected by a peer review panel to receive studio, darkroom and equipment access, an honorarium, lodging, and meals.

Chamber Music America, Inc.
New York, NY
$95,000
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 website, and a national conference in New York City.

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Inc.
New York City, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the presentation of Shostakovich: The Complete Quartets. Plans include performances of all 15 string quartets by the Jerusalem Quartet over the course of four concerts, lectures and master classes streamed live over the Internet, and a microsite with information on the quartets.

Chen, Ken
Brooklyn, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

Cherry Lane Alternative Inc. (aka Cherry Lane Theatre)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the 13th annual OBIE Award-winning Mentor Project. The program partners established dramatists with emerging writers in a hands-on, season-long new play development program that includes readings, one-on-one workshops, and master classes; and culminates with a 12 performance Showcase Production.

Chez Bushwick, Inc. (aka Jonah Bokaer)
Brooklyn, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of AEON, choreographed by artistic director Jonah Bokaer, created in collaboration with visual artist Daniel Arsham and composer ARP. The work will be based on research in Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, and will create illusions in space through the use of movement, visual design, lighting, objects, and sound design.

Children's Media Project (aka CMP)
Poughkeepsie, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support DROP Media Lab, a year-round, community-based, media arts education program for youth between ages 14 and 18. Participating youth will hone media literacy, pre-production, production, and post-production skills in after-school and summer intensive sessions, ultimately creating complete half-hour episodes of DROP TV.

Cinema Tropical, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the Cinema Tropical Film Series. The three components include documentaries examining music genres and musicians from South America, the Cinema Tropical Festival, and the monthly series Tropical Tuesdays.

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

Civilians, Inc. (aka The Civilians)
Brooklyn, NY
$12,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the development of new plays through The Civilians' R&D Group. Selected artists with experience in playwriting, directing, and acting will investigate social topics through interviews, travel, and community residencies followed by a reading of their plays.

Clarion Music Society, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a semi-staged concert opera production. The 1787 opera Le Fils Rival (The Rival Sons) by Russian composer Dmitry Bortniansky was thought to be lost but was recently discovered by Artistic Director Steven Fox. The American premiere will be presented in partnership with Russian period instrument orchestra Musica Antiqua St. Petersburg under the direction of Fox.

Classical Theatre of Harlem, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support a production series of classic plays and works by contemporary artists of color to engage diverse audiences. Works will include Maximilian Gaspard's Breathin' & Hopin', the true story of 14-year-old George J. Stinney, Jr., a victim of Jim Crow justice and the youngest person to be executed in the United States in the 20th century; Detroit '67 by Dominique Morrisseau, which portrays the era of the 1967 Detroit riots and is a co-production with the Public Theatre; and a free outdoor production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream in partnership with City Parks Summerstage.

Clubbed Thumb, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the 18th annual festival of new plays, Summerworks '13. The festival will include an opening night event of short, thematically linked pieces on the theme "NYC Block Party" and three fully produced new plays: Cleopatra Or The Arab Spring by Sylvan Oswald, Disquietude by Aimee Gonzalez, and Sui Generis by Gregory Moss.

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 Pop-Up Concerts at Miller Theatre. Plans include five Portrait programs by composers Julio Estrada (which will feature a commission), Sofia Gubaidulina, Oliver Knussen, Enno Poppe, and Rebecca Saunders; and four Pop-Up concerts which are free, hour-long chamber music concerts held after the workday.

Community Works
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Community Matters NYC. Activities will include up to four multidisciplinary series at as many as six anchor sites across Upper Manhattan, featuring live theater, music, and dance performances, as well as exhibitions, film screenings, and interpretive programming.

Complexions-A Concept In Dance
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation of a new work by artistic director Dwight Rhoden and the restaging of a work by choreographer Christopher Wheeldon. Rhoden's work will be set on 10 dancers to Johann S. Bach's Harpsichord No. 1 in D Minor BWV 1052, and Wheeldon's Mesmeric (2003) will be restaged.

Concert Artists Guild, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support touring engagements of roster artists and the commissioning of new works. In diverse venues across the country, 75 performance opportunities will enable 18 artists/ensembles on the guild's roster to polish their performance and communication skills and will feature the premieres of four commissioned works by composers Sebastian Baverstam, Michael Brown, NEA Jazz Master Paquito D'Rivera, and Yevgeniy Sharlat.

Copland House
Cortlandt Manor, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support performances of American music performed by the Music from Copland House ensemble with related educational activities. Programs will take place at Aaron Copland's former home in Cortlandt Manor and in a satellite venue at Merestead estate in Westchester County and will feature music by composers Tom Cipullo, Aaron Copland, Jennifer Higdon, Aaron Jay Kernis, Henry Mollicone, Paul Moravec, John Musto, Mark O'Connor, Russell Platt, Robert Xavier Rodriguez, Leonard Rosenman, Alvin Singleton, William Grant Still, Augusta Read Thomas, and Kurt Weill.

Corral, Eduardo C.
Rego Park, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

Creative Time, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support Artists on the News, a multimedia website that will provide a platform for artists to disuss critical issues affecting local communities. Through the creation and presentation of interviews, podcasts, and videos, the website will feature weekly updated content connecting the thinking and ideas of artists to events happening around the world. Artist columnists will provide local reports from their cities or regions, increasing public awareness of artists as active citizens positively working within communities to shape society.

Dance Continuum, Inc. (aka Susan Marshall & Company)
NEW YORK, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support touring Bodies & Guitars, a dance choreographed by Susan Marshall as well as an audience engagement program. Composer David Lang will create the score to be performed live by the electric guitar group, Dither.

Dance Theatre Etcetera, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Red Hook Fest. The two-day outdoor performing arts festival features music, theater, spoken-word performances, and dance groups.

Dance Theatre of Harlem, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a national tour of the Dance Theatre of Harlem professional company. In addition to performances, the company will offer educational activities such as lecture-demonstrations, master classes, and movement workshops.

Dancewave, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$55,000
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 diverse 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 the Arts Management Paradigm, a series of infrastructure support programs for small to mid-sized companies and independent choreographers in Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, and New York. The project will provide companies and independent choreographers with a mentorship program led by arts professionals, management needs for dance companies and choreographers, and an internship program that will offer support to artists represented by Pentacle.

Dansology, Inc. (aka koosil-ja/danceKUMIKO)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of Ecology of Image of Body, by artistic director and choreographer koosil-ja/danceKUMIKO in collaboration with Geoff Matters, a composer, media artist, and programmer. The project will incorporate neuroscience research, 3D computer models, brain data technology, video, and sound, and will consist of two, hour-long works, an abstract dance that uses movement and images generated by brainwave data, and a lecture-performance that breaks down the elements of the work.

Danspace Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the Choreographic Center without Walls. The project will involve performances, creative or production artist residencies, and the production of post-performance and discussion writings by Danspace Project's writers-in-residence.

Dia Center for the Arts (aka Dia Art Foundation)
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a traveling retrospective exhibition and catalogue featuring the work of Carl Andre. The exhibition will feature approximately 200 large and small-scale sculptures, poems, and works on paper produced by Andre (b. 1935) during the past 50 years.

Discalced, Inc. (aka Mark Morris Dance Group)
Brooklyn, NY
$60,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of new works and a revival by choreographer Mark Morris. Morris will complete a new work set to Carl Maria von Weber's Grand Duo Concertant, Op. 48 for clarinet and piano which will premiere at the Mark Morris Dance Center; and will create a new work titled On Sacred Ground, an interpretation of Igor Stravinksy's The Rite of Spring by jazz trio The Bad Plus, which will premiere at Ojai North Music Festival in Berkeley, California.

DOVA, Inc. (aka Doug Varone and Dancers)
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of Strange Loop, a new work by choreographer Doug Varone, in collaboration with director/playwright Eric Simonson. Inspired by the Persephone myth and author Douglas Hofstader's I am a Strange Loop, the multimedia dance will explore the line between life and death, and will include film and video elements and projected text, with music by Gavin Bryars.

Downtown Community Television Center, Inc. (aka DCTV)
New York, NY
$75,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support workshops, facilities access, and related activities. Downtown Community Television is devoted to making technologically sophisticated media equipment and training available to underserved communities through a range of courses and services.

Drawing Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a traveling retrospective exhibition Ken Price: Slow and Steady Wins the Race with accompanying catalogue. Although Price is best known for his work as a ceramic sculptor, the exhibition will present 68 of his works on paper that feature a variety of subjects that correspond to the enormous variety of Price's (1935-2012) three-dimensional works.

DreamYard Project, Inc. (aka DreamYard)
Bronx, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support Out of School Programs (OSP) after-school, weekend, and summer arts classes and workshops. 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, and OSP Minis for visual art, dance, and theater workshops for elementary school children.

Eldridge Street Project, Inc. (aka Museum at Eldridge Street)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Egg Rolls & Egg Creams Festival. The event celebrates traditions and art forms from the Chinese and Eastern European Jewish communities that have lived as neighbors on the Lower East Side for generations.

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 curator/editor, a section dedicated to cultural dialogue, and a section for emerging local artists. Outreach will include artist lectures that will be available through podcasts, panel discussions, and digital access to the publication through the organization's website.

Esopus Foundation, Ltd.
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the creation and distribution of ESOPUS, a bi-annual publication. Each issue features three contemporary artists' projects, writing on the arts by creative practitioners from various disciplines, fiction and poetry by emerging authors, visual essays, interviews, archival material reproduced from the Museum of Modern Art archives, and a themed CD of music commissioned from established or emerging musicians.

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 and at BRIC House in Brooklyn. The company will perform artistic director Ron Brown's evening-length work titled Walking Out The Dark, a three-part work that will be seen in its entirety for the first time, and On Earth Together to songs by Stevie Wonder.

Eyebeam Atelier, Inc. (aka Eyebeam)
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Artist Communities
To support residencies for artists. Eyebeam Atelier will provide up to 12 artists with five-month residencies and as many as five artists with year-long residencies. An online audience of 17,500 is expected to benefit.

Feminist Press, Inc.
New York, NY
$42,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of a novel by Muriel Rukeyser, a memoir of life in an Iranian prison, and a translated Czech novel, as well as the digitization of backlist titles. The press will digitize its most requested titles, including books by such international female writers as Helena Zenna Smith, Suzette Haden Elgin, Dorothy West, Fadumo Korn, Helen Barolini, Louise DeSalvo, Shirley Geok-lin Lim, Louise Meriwether, Vivian Gornick, Shahrnush Parsipur, and Ama Ata Aidoo.

Fence Magazine, Inc.
Albany, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of print and electronic books of poetry and the journal Fence, as well as a monthly podcast and the Constant Critic, an online poetry-book review site. Scheduled authors include Philip Jenks, Prageeta Sharma and Laura Sims.

Fiji Theater Company, Inc. (aka Ping Chong & Company)
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the Undesirable Elements Projects: Secret Survivors with accompanying education and outreach activities. Oral history theater works will explore issues of identity and culture in Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Oregon.

Film Forum
New York, NY
$75,000
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, 2013 and June 30, 2014.

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 Rendez-vous with French Cinema, New Italian Cinema, the New York Asian Film Festival, Latinbeat, and Spanish Cinema Now. 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.

Firelight Media
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the Firelight Media Production Lab, a mentorship and professional development program targeted to emerging diverse filmmakers. Participants receive year-round one-on-one support in writing, producing, editing, outreach, and social media strategies.

Flux Factory, Inc. (aka Flux Factory)
Long Island City, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Artist Communities
To support residencies for emerging curators. Flux Factory will give up to two curators six months to work on exhibitions and educational initiatives. An audience of 35,000 is expected to benefit from the project.

Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a 50th anniversary publication commemorating the founding and history of the foundation by artist Jasper Johns (b.1930) and musician John Cage (1912-1993). With interviews, essays, photographs and ephemera, the publication will document the first benefit exhibition to which many leading artists contributed work and out of which the FCA granting program was established. Initial contributing artists included Willem de Kooning, Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, Frank Stella, and Andy Warhol.

Foundation for Independent Artists, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of dance works on tour and in New York City. Bridgman/Packer Dance will present Voyeur, an investigation of Edward Hopper's artwork through movement and video technology. Nicholas Leichter Dance will produce and tour 20/20, an evening-length duet; and Nora Chipaumire will create and present Still Waiting for Godot and the Mother Project, which will include collaborations with African artists.

Foundry Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support a new adaptation and production of Bertolt Brecht's Good Person of Szechwan. Drawing from a mix of theatrical styles in history including Japanese Noh, commedia dell'arte, and musical theater, director Lear deBessonet and multidisciplinary artist Taylor Mac will create an adaptation of Brecht's masterpiece that portrays a young prostitute who later becomes a small business owner and attempts to solve world poverty.

Four Way Books, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of books by emerging writers. Scheduled authors include Alex Dimitrov, Melissa Ginsburg, Yona Harvey, Joy Katz, Brian Komei-Dempster, Louise Mathias, and Kamilah Aisha Moon.

Gateways Music Festival, Inc.
Rochester, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the biennial Gateways Music Festival. The five-day festival, celebrating the participation and contributions of classically-trained musicians of African descent, will feature solo, chamber, and orchestral performances as well as a youth showcase.

Geva Theatre Center, Inc.
Rochester, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support a production of The Whipping Man by Matthew Lopez with direction by Tim Ocel. Set in the end of the Civil War, a Jewish Confederate soldier returns to his family's abandoned plantation in Virginia and forms new relationships with two of the family's former slaves who were both raised in Judaism.

Gina Gibney Dance, Inc. (aka Gibney Dance)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the development of Dance in Process, a new choreographic residency program, and the creation and presentation of an evening-length work dividingLine. The residency will provide three to five artists with one month of free rehearsal space, stipends, and creative resources at Gina Gibney Dance Center, a new creative space and performing venue for dancers.

Girls Write Now, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
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 choices in school, career, and life.

Gotham Dance, Inc. (aka Bebe Miller Company)
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a national tour of A History and the creation of a new media work by choreographer Bebe Miller. A History will include a media installation and an interactive website with a downloadable app that will examine the creative process, and while on tour, the company will host a Salon Series of creative conversations for local artists.

Groundswell Community Mural Project, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the Summer Leadership Institute. Teens will work under the tutelage of professional artists to create large-scale works of public art in New York City neighborhoods.

Hart, Pamela
South Salem, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

Henry Street Settlement (aka Abrons Arts Center)
New York, NY
$15,000
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.

Hobart William Smith Colleges
Geneva, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support Arts Experience: A Festival Celebrating Inclusion and the Arts, a festival engaging individuals with and without disabilities in the arts. Among the proposed artists who would participate in the month-long festival - featuring performances, film-screenings, workshops, speakers, and exhibits - are choreographer Lucy Bowen McCauley, percussionist Matt Giordano, and director Hilari Scarl, with a screening of films from the Sprout Touring Film Festival that will showcase works by and about individuals with developmental disabilities.

Hofstra University (on behalf of University Museum)
Hempstead, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the exhibition We Hold These Truths. The exhibition will examine issues of slavery, middle passage, the abolition movement, emancipation, and American freedom through the presentation of historic and contemporary artworks as well as artifacts and ephemera by artists such as Daniel Chester French, Currier and Ives, Thomas Nast, Richard Hunt, Willie Cole, Glenn Ligon, Howardena Pindell, Betye Saar, and Kara Walker.

Home for Contemporary Theatre and Art, Ltd. (aka HERE)
New York, NY
$100,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical 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.

Immaterial Inc. (aka Cabinet)
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of the multidisciplinary magazine Cabinet. The quarterly publication 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. (aka IAAC)
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 13th 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 completion of Eiko & Koma's archival project. The project will include the creation of a vast video archive of their past works, which will not only be shared with the public as an archive, but will also become a resource for new art installations.

International Center of Photography (aka ICP)
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support an exhibition featuring the work of photographer Chim (1911-56), co-founder of Magnum. The exhibition will include approximately 100 vintage black-and-white and color prints as well as original publications, contact sheets, and personal materials, placing Chim's life and work into the broader canon of documentary and humanistic photography.

International Contemporary Ensemble Foundation, Inc. (aka ICE)
Brooklyn, NY
$20,000
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 (Daniel Dehaan, Martin Hiendl, Felipe Lara, Sasha Siem, Maria Stankova, and Anna Thorvaldsdottir) are planned and will include commissions, residency workshops with each composer and the ensemble, and premiere performances in concerts across the country.

International Foundation for Art Research, Inc. (aka IFAR)
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support publication of the IFAR Journal. The quarterly publication provides current information on issues of authenticity, ownership, theft, looting, and other scholarly, legal, and ethical issues concerning art objects.

International Print Center New York (aka IPCNY)
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the New Prints Program and related public programs. Contemporary prints by artists at all stages of their careers will be juried through an open call and installed in three exhibitions at ICPNY's Chelsea gallery.

Intrepid Museum Foundation
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support Intrepid: Gift of Show, a series of performances and workshops coinciding with the museum's Kids Week, targeted to serve youth who are homeless and youth who reside in transitional housing. The project will feature Story Pirates, a musical theater ensemble that performs stories written by elementary students, and Literally Alive, a children's theater company that produces original musicals based on classic children's literature.

Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum (aka The Noguchi Museum)
Long Island City, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the production of a catalogue for an exhibition documenting the influence of the Chinese ink painter Qi Baishi (1864-1957) on the work of Isamu Noguchi (1904-88). The catalogue will include approximately 75 color illustrations, scholarly essays, and archival photos of China during the 1930s.

Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Inc.
Jamaica, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support Making Moves, a dance commission and performance program featuring Arch Dance Company, and the annual Making Moves Dance Festival, showcasing emerging dance companies. The project will include the performance of Battlegrounds, a multimedia, hip-hop and modern dance piece choreographed by Jennifer Archibald that incorporates recorded interviews with residents from the local community into the performance.

Jazz at Lincoln Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$60,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support concerts in Jazz at Lincoln Center's 25th anniversary season. The Music of the NEA Jazz Masters mini-festivals will include Chick Corea, Pacquito D'Rivera, and Frank Wess; the Jazz and Popular Song Series curated by pianist and vocalist Michael Feinstein will explore the common musical bonds between jazz and the Great American Songbook; and the Blues Series concert will feature Charlie Musselwhite.

Jazz Foundation of America, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Foundation's Monday Night Jams, its Musicians' Council; and the Musicians' Legacy Program. The weekly Monday Night Jams feature 10 bands on a rotating basis throughout the year; the Musicians' Council professional development workshops focus on topics of interest for aging jazz musicians; and students who are matched up with elder mentors participating in the Musicians' Legacy Program will receive biweekly lessons for nine months.

Jazz Gallery
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support The Jazz Gallery Debut Series. The innovative programming serves as a laboratory for gifted professional emerging jazz artists, providing them with a platform to step forward as band leaders and offering opportunities to premiere new works as well as repeat performance opportunities.

Jewish Museum
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support an exhibition and catalogue Marc Chagall: Years of War and Exile. The exhibition features paintings, drawings, and other ephemera from the 1930s and 1940s that address Chagall's (1887-1985) reaction to cataclysmic world events and personal losses.

Jose Limon Dance Foundation
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a national tour, corresponding residency activities, and performances in New York City. Performances will consist of new works and revivals from a repertory curated by artistic director and former company principal dancer, Carla Maxwell.

Joyce Theater Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$85,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the Dance Presentation Program. Dance companies under consideration include Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo; artists in the Nordic Dance series (Tero Saarinen Company [Finland], Danish Dance Theater [Denmark], and Carte Blanche [Norway]); Khmer Arts Ensemble (Cambodia); Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company; and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago; and Pilobolus.

Keigwin and Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of Canvas, a new dance by artistic director Larry Keigwin, in collaboration with the company and ballet dancers. It will be created while the company is in residence at the Vail International Dance Festival, with outreach activities such as open rehearsals, a post-show discussion, and a community event for dancers and non-dancers.

Kings Majestic Corporation (aka 651 ARTS)
Brooklyn, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support a series of multidisciplinary performances and residencies at 651 Arts. Activities will include several community engagement events as well as presentations of new and existing work, from theater, music, and dance artists, including choreographer Nora Chipaumire, hip-hop artist Chen Lo, Haitian musician BélO, and theater artist Ping Chong.

La Donna Dance, Inc. (aka Donna Uchizono Company)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation of a new work by artistic director Donna Uchizono. Fire Underground (working title) will be an evening-length work designed as a series of salon-style performances and will feature a cast of three performers, a live score by musician/composer James Lo, and photographs by Michael Grimaldi.

La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the world premiere of O, Black Madonna by choreographer Maureen Fleming. The project will combine Butoh-inspired dance, video, photography, and live music for an evening-length interdisciplinary work.

Lark Theatre Company, Inc. (aka Lark Play Development Center)
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the Open Access Program, a play scouting initiative that provides support for new play development. Designed to support unheard voices of all cultures, the program will include a review of new scripts, developmental readings, networking opportunities, a forum for playwrights to develop and publicly present new work as well as build professional and creative relationships, and advancement of selected works in workshops and public readings.

Laundromat Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support Co/mmissions, a public art project. Artists will be invited to develop and mount a site-specific, socially relevant public art project in a local coin-op that engages neighbors and fellow laundry patrons as participants in the creative process.

Laurie Foundation for the Performing Arts, Inc (aka Cedar Lake)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by Greek choreographer Andonis Foniadakis. The work will be created for 14 Cedar Lake dancers, and will include music by French composer Julien Tarride and Greek costume designer Tassos Sofroniou.

Light Work Visual Studies, Inc.
Syracuse, NY
$45,000
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.

Local Learning: The National Network for Folk Arts in Education
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support outreach and technical assistance activities benefiting folk arts in education practitioners. This project will feature continuing publications and an online newsletter; adding more resource material to the website; hosting a professional development conference; and an ongoing commitment to Local Learning in Louisiana, a project in the state's public schools.

Lower East Side Printshop, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
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.

Lubovitch Dance Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation of a new dance by choreographer Lar Lubovitch. The world premiere of the work will take place in New York City as part of the company's 46th season, and it will also be performed on tour across the United States.

Ma-Yi Filipino Theatre Ensemble, Inc. (aka Ma-Yi Theater Company)
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the world premiere of Happy End of the World by Lloyd Suh. The science-fiction adventure story features a young brother-sister duo who become immersed in intergalactic identity politics and who question how individual superpowers could ultimately be the key to saving the universe.

Mabou Mines Development Foundation, Inc. (aka Mabou Mines)
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the creation of an adaptation of Molière's The Imaginary Invalid by Valeria Vasilevski. In the adaptation, to be titled Imagining the Imaginary Invalid, Vasilevski will deconstruct the three-act comédie-ballet and intercut it with historical references to the evolution of American medicine from the healing arts to present-day practices.

Mama Foundation for the Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support Gospel for Teens for auditioned students to learn fundamental vocal techniques, gain knowledge about the historic and cultural context of African American gospel tradition, and perform in public concerts. The project provides pre-professional training to youth and helps to preserve the pedagogy of gospel music education and appreciation outside of the church.

Manhattan Theatre Club, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the development of new work and playwrights in the Stage II Project. The project will support writers in various stages of their careers and will include two full productions, four commissions of new plays, and two, two-week developmental workshops.

Maverick Concerts, Inc.
Woodstock, NY
$11,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Britten at Woodstock, the 98th annual Maverick Concerts Festival, with programming celebrating the connection between composer Benjamin Britten and Woodstock. The festival will be curated by music director Alexander Platt and will feature Britten's works for string quartet, as well as a chamber orchestra performance of his song cycle Les Illuminations, written in Woodstock during the summer of 1939.

Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, NY
$60,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the exhibition Silla: Korea's Golden Kingdom, featuring works from the years 400-800 C.E., the seminal era of the Silla Kingdom. Drawn primarily from the holdings of the National Museums of Korea, the exhibition of as many as 100 objects will include gold and jade regalia, jewelry, pottery, and other artifacts including objects from other ancient cultures found in tombs alongside the Silla treasures.

Metropolitan Opera Association, Inc. (aka The Met)
New York, NY
$100,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a new production of Handel's Giulio Cesare. The creative team includes conductor Harry Bicket, director David McVicar, set designer Robert Jones, costume designer Brigitte Reiffenstuel, and choreographer Andrew George.

Mill Street Loft, Inc.
Poughkeepsie, NY
$24,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the Art Institute of Mill Street Loft visual arts education programs. Professional teaching artists will lead after-school, evening, and full-time summer programs focused on portfolio development in the visual arts for teens.

Mint Theater Company
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the American production of Katie Roche by Irish playwright Teresa Deevy (1894-1963). Outreach activities will include staged readings of Deevy's one acts and the publication of her complete plays, most of which have never been in print.

Monica Bill Barnes & Company
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
o support the creation and presentation The Snow Globe Show, choreographed by Monica Bill Barnes, with related outreach activities

Movement Research, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the 2013 Spring and Fall Movement Research Festivals, a series of free and low-cost dance performances, classes, workshops, and related activities. The festivals will gather several generations of dance and multidisciplinary artists, writers, critics, presenters, and the public to examine contemporary dance practices, improvisation, and performance forms.

Murillo, John
Brooklyn, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

Museum of Biblical Art
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the 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, Harriet Powers, Willie Birch, and Michael Cummings, presenting their varied responses and explorations of biblical imagery and Christian storytelling.

Music at the Anthology, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the 15th annual MATA Festival of new music. Founded in 1996 by composers Philip Glass, Eleanor Sandresky, and Lisa Bielawa, the four-day festival will present the ensembles-in-residence BLINDMAN (five diverse instrumental quartets that grew from the original saxophone quartet founded by Eric Sleichim in 1988) and new works by emerging composers.

Music From China, Inc.
New York, NY
$12,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Heritage Concerts performed on Western and traditional Chinese instruments. Programming will be directed by artistic director and erhu player Wang Guowei and will feature Chinese and Western repertoire, choral arrangements of Chinese folk songs, as well as a concert by the Music From China Youth Orchestra.

National Alliance for Musical Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$70,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the 25th 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.

National Music Theatre Network, Inc. (aka New York Musical Theatre Festival)
New York, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the Next Link Project, a writer development program. Offered in conjunction with the New York Musical Theatre Festival, the program provides emerging writing teams with marketing and creative support and a subsidized performance slot in the annual festival.

New 42nd Street, Inc. (aka New Victory Theater)
New York, NY
$70,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical 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: The Mark of Zorro by Visible Fictions (Scotland); Grug by Windmill Theatre (Australia); The Intergalactic Nemesis by The Robot Planet (Austin, TX); and The Firework Maker's Daughter by The Opera Group (London).

New Dramatists, Inc.
New York, NY
$100,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the Playwrights Lab. The project is a writer-driven series of new play development readings, week-long workshops, and two week-long retreats for composers and librettists.

New Federal Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the production of two works by playwright Ed Bullins. Performances of The Fabulous Miss Marie, directed by Woodie King, Jr., and In the Wine Time, directed by Mansoor Najee-ullah will take place at the Henry Street Settlement's Abrons Arts Center. Scheduled audience discussions will explore the ideology, philosophy, and politics of the 1960s and ’70s, and Ed Bullins’ contributions to the American theater.

New Group, Inc. (aka The New Group)
Manhattan, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the world premiere production of Bunty Berman Presents, a new musical by Ayub Khan-Din, directed by Scott Elliott. The musical tells the story of a failing movie studio in Bollywood during the 1950s.

New Museum of Contemporary Art (aka New Museum)
New York, NY
$90,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support an exhibition and catalogue featuring contemporary performance artist and sculptor Chris Burden (b. 1946). The exhibition will survey 40 years of Burden's work an exploration of the urban landscape, the military industrial complex, feats of engineering, and transportation networks, and will include installations on the faҫade, terraces, and roof of the museum's building in the Bowery section of Manhattan.

New Music USA, Inc
New York, NY
$70,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support new music through online resources at NewMusicBox.org and newmusicusa.org, as well as professional development, technical assistance, and editorial coverage of composers and artist residencies nationwide. New Music USA, a merging of two longstanding organizations of services to the field of new music (American Music Center and Meet The Composer), is committed to increasing opportunities for composers, performers, and audiences by fostering vibrant American contemporary music.

New School University (on behalf of New School Concerts)
New York, NY
$16,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the New School Concerts' New York String Seminar Program for emerging young musicians. The 10-day extensive training experience, directed by violinist and conductor Jaime Laredo, will offer full scholarships to 64 talented high school and college-age string players selected through national live auditions and will culminate in concerts at Carnegie Hall.

New York City Ballet, Inc.
New York, NY
$80,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of the All-American Music Festival, highlighting ballets from the company's repertory set to American music. The festival will include works by George Balanchine, Benjamin Millepied, Ulysses Dove, and Richard Tanner, as well as premieres by Christopher Wheeldon, and emerging choreographer Justin Peck. Music for the performance will span more than 150 years, ranging from John Philip Sousa to John Adams.

New York City Opera, Inc. (aka City Opera)
New York, NY
$27,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a new production of Rossini's Moses in Egypt. Michael Counts will direct and design the new production, which will feature choreography by Ken Roht and singers brought to the stage by casting advisors Steven Blier and Kevin Murphy.

New York International Childrens Film Festival, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 2013 New York International Children's Film Festival. Approximately 100 animated, experimental shorts, documentaries, and feature films will be presented at various venues throughout the New York metropolitan area.

New York Live Arts Inc.
New York, NY
$70,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of dance companies in the Dance Theater Workshop Commissioning Program, the Studio Series Performance and Residency Program, and the Fresh Tracks Performance and Residency Program. Each program will include pre- and post-show talks, studio discussions, public showings, participatory workshops, and programs for artists, students, families, and youth.

New York Stage and Film Company, Inc
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support Powerhouse Season 2013, an eight-week residency on Vassar College's campus. Professional theater artists will live and work together to develop new plays and musicals. During the residency, they will present up to 20 new works in various stages of development, from readings to fully-realized main stage productions.

New York Theatre Workshop, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support a production of Amy Herzog's Belleville. This new play directed by Anne Kauffman is about an ex-pat married couple living in the Parisian suburb of Belleville in an isolated fantasy world.

New York University (on behalf of Grey Art Gallery)
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the exhibition Radical Presence: Black Performance in Contemporary Art. Originally curated by Valerie Cassell Oliver at the Contemporary Art Museum in Houston, the exhibition examines more than five decades of performance art by artists such as Benjamin Patterson, Sanford Biggers, Renee Cox, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Lyle Ashton Harris, Dave McKenzie, Adrian Piper, Danny Tisdale, and Xaviera Simmons.

New York University (on behalf of Skirball Center for the Performing Arts)
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the presentation of the U.S. premiere of Israel's Nalaga'at Theater's Deaf-Blind Acting Ensemble in Not By Bread Alone, with a three-week residency featuring performances and educational workshops. The piece is performed over the course of 90 minutes by a cast of 11 actors who are deaf and blind. The actors tell stories while they bake bread, using the act of baking bread as a metaphor for the universal longing for a home.

New York University School of Medicine (on behalf of Bellevue Literary Review)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support author payments and the creation and promotion of a digital version of the Bellevue Literary Review, which explores the relationships between illness, health, and healing through fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. The journal will actively pursue ways to connect with urban neighborhoods; hospitalized patients; medical staff; and disabled, hearing-impaired, and visually-impaired individuals.

New York University School of Medicine (on behalf of Bellevue Literary Press)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the development of a new Web site, academic and library promotions, book group outreach, and an expanded online presence for the press's backlist. Publisher of the Pulitzer Prize-winning first novel Tinkers by Paul Harding, the press will offer on its Web site exclusive interviews with authors, downloadable excerpts from past and upcoming titles, a full online catalog, upcoming events, reading group and curriculum guides, a newsletter archive, a program for individual donations, and links to relevant articles, videos, and podcasts.

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, Lincoln Center, and Queens College.

Noche Flamenca, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of a flamenco dance based on Anton Chekov's story The Huntsman. Education and outreach activities will include lecture-demonstrations, master classes in dance and music, as well as handouts on flamenco and Spanish history and culture, and copies of The Huntsman.

Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support a technical assistance and mentor program intended to develop professional skills, strengthen organizational capacity, and build peer networks for underserved artists and arts organizations. Project activities will include workshops, panels, and mentoring in digital media, grant writing, marketing, audience building, and portfolio development, among other topics.

One Story, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the launch of a website and digital application allowing readers to select back issues of the journal and combine them into one-of-a-kind digital and print-on-demand anthologies. The journal will also update all marketing materials inserted into the issues to better reflect how people read, donate, and shop.

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 teens 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, direct, and perform short plays and films which will be presented at the Five Angels Theater in New York City.

Paris Review Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of 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.

Parsons Dance Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by choreographer and former Parsons dancer Katarzyna Skarpetowska. The work will focus on the loss of life, mind, and innocence, and will be accompanied to Frederic Chopin's Preludes and Etudes for Solo Piano with lighting design by Christopher Chambers and costume design by Reid Bartelme.

Pascal Rioult Dance Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by artistic director Pascal Rioult. The work will be set to a commissioned score by composer Michael Torke, marking the third and final installment of the company's Dance to Contemporary Composers Series.

Paul Taylor Dance Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$75,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of works by artistic director Paul Taylor. The pieces represent the 138th and 139th works for the company, and will be created in collaboration with lighting designer Jennifer Tipton and set and costume designer Santo Loquasto.

Performance Zone, Inc. (aka The Field)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support The Field's entrepreneurial skill-building programs for independent choreographers and dance companies and Artward Bound, a residency program that fosters the creation of new work. A 10-day creative retreat, will provide artists with subsidized studio time to rehearse and create, alongside strategic career guidance.

Perlman Music Program Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the Summer Music School. The intensive, seven-week summer residency program will provide instruction, coaching, and mentoring opportunities to exceptionally gifted young string players.

Pick Up Performance Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a national tour of a new work by David Gordon and accompanying residency activities. For this new work, Gordon will revisit and re-imagine his 1972 work, The Matter, influenced by photographer Eadweard Muybridge's The Human Figure in Motion.

Play Production Company, Inc. (aka The Play Company)
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the New Work/New World program, which features Off-Broadway productions of new plays from both the U.S. and abroad. The project will include a production of Working on a Special Day, adapted by Laura Almela and Daniel Giménez Cacho; the New York premiere of The Golden Dragon, the world premiere of This is My Office, and the development of Ludic Proxy by Aya Ogawa, which explores the ubiquitous culture of gaming, video simulation, and technology.

Playwrights Horizons, Inc.
New York, NY
$45,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the world premiere production of The Call by Tanya Barfield and directed by Leigh Silverman. The play tells the story of a white American couple unable to have a child of their own who are struggling with their decision to adopt a child from Africa.

Point Community Development Corporation (aka The Point)
Bronx, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a public art initiative in the Hunts Point neighborhood of Bronx, New York. Using themes related to environmental and social justice concerns, visiting artists will be selected to create two new temporary or permanent site-specific public artworks. Artists will engage the Hunts Point community through workshops, exhibitions, and an online interactive catalog to document the work.

Present Theatre Company, Inc. (aka The Present Company)
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support The New York International Fringe Festival. The festival will present 200 productions from around the world in 1,200 performances taking place over 16 days in 20 venues.

Qi Shu Fang's Peking Opera Association, Inc.
Woodhaven, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Peking Opera Festival. Founded by NEA National Heritage Fellow Qi Shu Fang, the organization will present a series of performances of Peking Opera, with an interactive lecture and workshop accompanying each performance. The series will conclude with a production of the Legend of the White Snake.

Queens Council on the Arts, Inc.
Woodhaven, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the Build Your Own Business Program, which will provide services for emerging visual, literary, performance, and film artists. Queens-based emerging artists chosen by the council for this opportunity will work with a professional consultant to establish career goals and strategies.

Queens Museum of Art
Queens, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support an exhibition featuring work by contemporary artists inspired by Panorama, the large-scale model of New York City built in 1964 for the World's Fair. The exhibition will combine new commissions with existing works by artists such as Chris Burden, Tavares Strachan, Tacita Dean, Liz Glynn, Pak Sheung Chuen and Ahmet Ogut in response to Panorama.

Racing Thoughts, Inc. (aka Jane Comfort and Company)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a new dance work by choreographer Jane Comfort, in collaboration with sound designer Brandon Wolcott and lighting designer Joe Levasseur. The work will involve using the stage as a three-dimensional canvas in which to create an abstract kinesthetic painting, and the dance, sound, or lighting design will alternate as being the driving force for the creation of the material.

Rakovan, Jacob
Rochester, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

Reel Lives, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 13th Media That Matters Film Festival, a compilation of short films addressing key social issues. Following its opening in September, the festival will be distributed by DVD, broadcast, and streamed for free online.

Reel Stories Teen Filmmaking, Inc. (aka Reel Works)
Brooklyn, NY
$32,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support Reel Works, a media arts education program for underserved Brooklyn teens. Students will produce and distribute short documentaries about their lives under the mentorship of professional filmmakers.

Research Foundation of the City University of New York
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of Lost & Found, a series of chapbooks of letters, lectures, and other archived material on artists associated with the New American Poetry. Projects include Diane di Prima: Selected Lectures; David Henderson: Umbra Extensions; Charles Olson: Writings on Dance and the Body; and Pauline Kael & Robert Duncan: Selected Correspondence.

Rochester Children's Theatre, Inc.
Rochester, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support the creation and performance of the musical Moses Man: A Musical Journey of a Holocaust Survivor. The project, targeting economically disadvantaged senior citizens and students, will include discussions between the actors and the audience after performances.

Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Inc.
Rochester, NY
$12,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the commissioning and premieres of new works by Douglas Lowry and Karen Tanaka. The project will include a composer residency by Tanaka and workshops with high school and college-level composers as well as with musicians of the Rochester Philharmonic Youth Orchestra and the Eastman School of Music.

Rooftop Films, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 2013 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
$20,000
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.

Roulette Intermedium, Inc.
BROOKLYN, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support New and Adventurous Music: Roulette's Contemporary Music Program. Curated by Director Jim Staley, the concerts will feature a wide variety of musical styles by composers who perform their own work in solo or in ensemble, ranging from jazz, world music, experimental, improvisational, multimedia, and interdisciplinary work to computer music and new technologies, and music performed on uniquely built instruments.

Roundabout Theatre Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the Student Production Workshop. Targeted to youth most at-risk of dropping out of high school, students will study acting, playwriting, design, technical theater, and directing with professional artists in this 40-week theater program.

Saratoga International Theatre Institute, Inc. (aka SITI )
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the development and production of A Meditation on The Rite of Spring. A collaboration between SITI Artistic Director Anne Bogart and choreographer Bill T. Jones exploring Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring, the project will explore the impact of this revolutionary piece of music by imagining the consequence of hearing the score played for the very first time.

Sculpture Center, Inc.
Long Island City, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a public art project involving local residents in commissioning a temporary sculpture for Court Square Park in Long Island City, Queens. Workshops for local residents will be offered in urban design, contemporary art, the history of public sculpture, and architecture. Their participation will inform the artist selection process.

Second Stage Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the world premiere of A Sufficiently Advanced Technology is Indistinguishable from Magic, a new play by Michael Golamco. The play, about a teen's unlikely relationship with a science fiction writer, explores how we form connections with others and how an unlikely relationship can become a catalyst that shakes us out of our comfort zone.

Shen Wei Dance Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by artistic director Shen Wei. The work will feature a commissioned score by the new music ensemble, So Percussion, and video design and animation by digital artist team, Fake Love.

Signature Theatre Company (aka Signature Theatre)
New York, NY
$85,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the world premiere production of ---- and potatoes by Regina Taylor. The play tells the story of a small publishing house that must downsize in response to the decreased demand for printed works, exploring issues of digital media's impact on the printed word, as well as personal value, race, gender, and class.

Smack Mellon Studios, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the Artist Studio Program which provides access to studio space and career building opportunities for artists who live and work in New York City. Participating artists will receive an honorarium, access to studio space, equipment, technical support, and professional development opportunities. Two groups of six artists each will be selected from an open call by a panel of artists, curators, and critics for year-long residencies to create new work.

Society for the Preservation of Weeksville & Bed/Stuy History
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support Past, Present, and Future, a contemporary art exhibition and catalogue exploring themes related to African American identity, spirituality, and experience. The project will include photography created by artist Barron Claiborne, art workshops, and public artist lectures for local residents.

Society of the Third Street Music School Settlement, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the Pathways to Learning and Honors Enrichment music education programs. Professional musicians provide instruction to students in early childhood music, band, orchestras, choirs, dance, chamber music, jazz, and rock.

Socrates Sculpture Park, Inc.
Long Island City, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the Emerging Artist Fellowship Program, a studio residency for the production and presentation of large-scale public sculpture and multimedia outdoor installations. Between 15-20 artists will be selected through a competitive, juried application process to receive a six-month residency to produce new work. Artists will be given financial support, working space, materials, technical expertise, and administrative assistance.

Soho Repertory Theatre, Inc. (aka Soho Rep)
New York, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support a production of Futurity: a musical by The Lisps, with book by Cesar Alvarez and Molly Rice, directed by Sarah Benson. Centered around the music of The Lisps, which blends Americana, vaudeville, and musical theater with contemporary indie-rock, the musical explores the relationship between a Civil War soldier and the mathematician daughter of Lord Byron.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation (aka Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum)
New York, NY
$80,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the exhibition Gutai: Splendid Playground and accompanying catalogue. Gutai is a Japanese collective that was active in the latter half of the 20th century. The exhibition will explore Gutai's unique approach to materials, process, and performance, showcasing approximately 120 objects that demonstrate the group's radical experimentation across media and styles from 1954 to 1972.

Spanish Dance Arts Company, Inc. (aka Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana)
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support national touring and home-based performances of Luz y Sombra (1987), created by Flamenco Vivo's founder, Roberto Lorca, during the company's 30th anniversary tour. Touring and New York City performances will include extensive outreach such as 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 and exhibition, featuring works about developmental disabilities created by artists with developmental disabilities. Associated outreach activities include workshops and museum tours for individuals with developmental disabilities.

St. Ann Center for Restoration and the Arts, Inc. (aka St. Ann's Warehouse )
Brooklyn, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the presentation of the American premiere of Opus No. 7, the signature production of Russian auteur director Dmitry Krymov. The project combines puppetry, visuals, and contemporary classical music to juxtapose two distinct 20th-century decimations: the fate of Eastern European Jews in World War II and the fate of artists under Stalinism.

Stephen Petronio Dance Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a new work titled Like Lazarus Did, by Stephen Petronio. The work, inspired by the mythology of resurrection, will be created in collaboration with composer Ryan Lott, visual artist Janine Antoni, and lighting designer Ken Tabachnick.

Studio Museum in Harlem, Inc.
New York, NY
$48,000
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
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support a production of August Wilson's Two Trains Running, directed by Timothy Bond and complemented by an array of education and community engagement programs. An examination of race relations in Pittsburgh's Hill District, the play will have particular resonance with the theater's community of Syracuse's 15th Ward, an African-American community that was affected deeply in the 1960s by misguided urban renewal.

Take Wing And Soar Productions, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Challenge America
To support performances of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, directed by Kevin Connell. This adaptation of Wilde's play will be set in Harlem during the 1920s, drawing parallels to the original play and black bourgeoisie manners of that era.

Teachers and Writers Collaborative
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication of Teacher's & Writer's Magazine, the conversion of backlist print books to e-books, and the building of a digital archive of literary arts education materials. The collaborative has published more than 80 books about the teaching of creative writing, as well as periodicals dating back to 1967.

Thalia Spanish Theatre, Inc.
Long Island City, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support a world premiere of afroTANGO. A tango musical with original music by Raul Jaurena, designed and directed by Angel Gil Orrios, the project will blend Argentinean and Uruguayan tango and explore the African influences of Candombe (an African-derived rhythm from Uruguayan culture) on tango music and dance.

Theater Breaking Through Barriers Corp. (aka TBTB)
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support a 10-Minute Play Festival of commissioned plays about disability. Featuring plays by Bekah Brunstetter, Samuel D. Hunter, David Henry Hwang, Neil LaBute, Lynn Manning, and Kate Moira Ryan, the annual event is designed to showcase the talents of actors with disabilities and the work of emerging writers.

Theatre for a New Audience, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support The Wallace Shawn Project, which will include productions of The Designated Mourner and the American premiere of Grasses of a Thousand Colors. The productions will be co-produced by The Public Theater and directed by Shawn's longtime collaborator Andre Gregory.

Thin Man Dance, Inc. (aka John Jasperse Company)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of Beyond Otherness, a new evening-length work by choreographer John Jasperse, as well as the presentation of Jasperse's Fort Blossom revisited. Beyond Otherness will feature a commissioned score by composer Jonathan Bepler, with scenic and visual design by John Jasperse; Fort Blossom revisited, originally created in 2000, was choreographed by Jasperse and includes music by Ryoji Ikeda.

Threshold Dance Projects, Inc. (aka Buglisi Dance Theatre)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a new work, Migration Meditations, by choreographer Jacqulyn Buglisi. The work will focus on human trafficking, and will include live music commissioned from Daniel Bernard Roumain and animated projection design by John Goodwin.

Transport Group
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the New York premiere of The Memory Show, a new musical with libretto and book by Sara Cooper and music by Zach Redler, directed by Joe Calarco. The musical is a two-person comic tragedy about the troubled relationship of a woman who has recently been diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease and her estranged daughter, who moves back home to care for her.

Tribeca Film Institute
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support Tribeca All Access, a professional development program for film directors and writers from underserved communities. The year-long program provides artists with access to industry professionals and other resources to help them move forward to complete their narrative and documentary projects.

Trisha Brown Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$60,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of performances at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York City, and other touring engagements. Education and outreach activities will include master classes, exhibitions, and activities that incorporate materials from the Trisha Brown archive.

UBW, Inc. (aka Urban Bush Women)
Brooklyn, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a dance called Hep Hep Sweet Sweet by artistic director Jawole Willa Jo Zollar. The work will be the third in a series based on "place"--the first work was Naked City and featured the repertory company; the second piece was visible, a work created in collaboration with choreographer Nora Chipaumire and featuring international performances.

Ugly Duckling Presse, Ltd.
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of new books of poetry by emerging writers, poetry in translation, and new texts in experimental forms. Books will be published under the press's Emerging Writers Series; Eastern European Poets Series; the Lost Literature Series, focusing on forgotten or overlooked international works; and the Dossier Series, focusing on investigative and experimental texts.

University of Rochester (on behalf of Open Letter Books)
Rochester, NY
$45,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of books in translation and the continuation of the translation website Three Percent. Works from Germany, Denmark, Bulgaria, Italy, Iceland, and Greece will be translated.  The website features 50-70 book reviews per year; the Best Translated Book Awards; and posts on international awards, new works, opportunities for translators, the future and business of publishing, and book culture in general.

Vineyard Theatre & Workshop Center, Inc. (aka Vineyard Theatre)
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the world premiere of Somewhere Fun. Written by Jenny Schwartz and directed by Anne Kauffman, the play explores the human experience through the prism of an aging woman facing mortality.

VisionIntoArt Presents, Inc.
New York, NY
$12,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the creation, development, and premiere of Paola Prestini and Rinde Eckert's Aging Magician. Featuring an interactive, musicalized set, the creative team including director Julian Crouch, video designer S. Katy Tucker, and set designer Mark Stewart will create a production visually and sonically appealing to a broad audience.

WCV, Inc. (aka Wally Cardona Quartet)
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of Honorific/Rogue Encounter, choreographed by Wally Cardona. The work will be made in collaboration with other contemporary dance artists such as Jennifer Lacey and traditional artists working in Cambodian court dance, Indian kuchipudi, hula, and other forms.

Westhab, Inc.
Elmsford, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support StoryArts classes in theater, video documentation, music, and visual arts that will be given to youth ages seven to 18 who live in homeless shelters and transitional or permanent low-income housing. Musicians, actors, directors, dancers, choreographers, video, and visual artists will teach children to tell stories leading to final performances that weave together what students learned.

White Pine Inc.
Buffalo, NY
$22,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the translation, publication, and promotion of books of poetry. The press will publish the work of Polish poet Agnieszka Kuliak,Portugese poet Herberto Helder, Korean Zen poet Chin'gak Kuksa Hyesim, Mexican poet Alberto Ruy Sanchez, and American poet Christopher Merrill.

Whitney Museum of American Art
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support an exhibition and catalogue examining the drawings of Edward Hopper (1882-1967). The exhibition will be culled from the museum's collection, a vast archive rarely sold or exhibited in the artist's lifetime.

Women's Project & Productions (aka Women's Project)
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater and Musical Theater
To support the activities of the WP Lab. An artistic residency program for early to mid-career women playwrights, directors, and producers.

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. Artists in residence will be provided a stipend, studio space, technical and production assistance, a materials allowance, and travel costs during a four or eight-week residency.

Words Without Borders
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support Words Without Borders: The Online Magazine of International Literature. Each month, the free journal publishes 10-15 pieces of fiction, poetry, and literary nonfiction translated into English for the first time, 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 Living Traditions, Living Arts, a performance series of world music and dance. Masters of tradition from Asia, the Mideast, Europe, Africa, and the Americas, will participate in classes, artist workshops, film screenings, and exhibits.

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 People's Chorus of New York City, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
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 receive scholarships to participate in free, after-school, choral music education activities, including weekly rehearsals, music theory, harmonic analysis classes, and performance experiences.

Zucker, Rachel
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature

Number of Grants: 247          Total Amount: $7,146,000

 
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