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1999 Grant Awards: Education & Access
Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change,
contingent upon prior Endowment approval.
National/Multistate Impact | Grants With Activity Primarily In One State
Grants With A National or Multi-State Impact
A Traveling Jewish Theatre
San Francisco, CA
$27,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the expenses associated with a multi-state national tour. A Traveling Jewish Theatre will mount a 20th anniversary national tour of a new work celebrating Yiddish poetry, entitled Diamonds In The Dark, encompassing a minimum of 20 half-week residences in diverse communities throughout the United States.
Academy of American Poets
New York, NY
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the coordination of National Poetry Month, a project whereby the Academy collaborates with schools, libraries, bookstores, and cultural organizations to bring poetry to communities across the country in new and imaginative ways. During April 1999, the Academy will host library readings, outreach efforts to bring poetry to school curricula, and special features on the organization's Web site.
Alternate ROOTS, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support artist residencies, performances, community projects training, workshops and artistic fee subsidies for communities in the Southeastern states, as well as documentary publications covering many of its activities. Alternate ROOTS serves artists and communities in Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Florida, and the District of Columbia.
American Architectural Foundation, Inc. (Consortium)
Washington, DC
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Design
To support Messages of the Built Environment, a consortium educational project with Learning and Leadership in Families that will serve at-risk families. The project will enable parents to use their new appreciation of the arts and architecture to provide richer experiences for their children.
American Boychoir School
Princeton, NJ
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the September 2000 National Choral Conference and the creation of an instructional video for nationwide distribution to teachers and children's choir conductors on how to teach and motivate adolescent singers from diverse cultural backgrounds. Founder and host of the conference since 1987, the American Boychoir will perform as the "demonstration choir" for attendees of the conference that will include conductors from well-established ensembles from more than 20 states.
American Documentary, Inc.
New York, NY
$200,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the selection, acquisition, packaging, and promotion of programs for the year 2000 national broadcast of P.O.V. (Point of View), a primetime summer public television series that showcases the art of independent, non-fiction filmmakers. Public television's only continuing series devoted exclusively to the art of nonfiction film, P.O.V. brings documentary artworks, rarely found in the mainstream media-into America's living rooms.
American Music Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a series of nationwide Professional Development Program workshops and a monthly Internet magazine. The American Music Center has initiated new structural and programmatic changes which include the introduction of innovative Internet activities and career development workshops in 1999-2000 in order to make a more effective impact in the music field.
American Recorder Society
Littleton, CO
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the production and dissemination of a set of educational videos featuring techniques of professional recorder teachers, for circulation to adults interested in knowing more about teaching recorder during 1999-2000. The American Recorder Society will make these videos available on loan, free of charge to Society members and members of other music education organizations across the country.
Americans for the Arts
Washington, DC
$90,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Local Arts Agency
To support activities of the National Youth Arts Summit. Scheduled to convene June 1999 in Atlanta, the Summit will bring together a broad-based coalition of cultural, educational, and public policy representatives to hear from field leaders in the interest of deepening public commitment to increased opportunities for American youth to experience, participate in and learn through the arts.
Appalshop, Inc. (Fiscal Agent for American Festival Project)
Whitesburg, KY
$45,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support the development of the Circles of American Community Festival, a multi-site project to establish arts-based community collaborations for arts training and performances working with populations that have little access to the arts. The Circles project will work in Louisville, Kentucky; Knoxville, Tennessee; San Antonio, Texas; Amherst, Massachusetts; New Orleans, Louisiana; Helena and other small Montana communities, including the Blackfeet Indian Reservation.
Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the expansion of the Institute's Web site to include more interpretive and visual information on the permanent collection. This project will focus on the African, Amerindian, and African American collections.
Art Resources Transfer, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support the Distribution of Underserved Communities Program, a project that offers books, videos, and other publications about contemporary art free-of-charge to libraries across the nation. The program has reached more than 1,300 libraries in 31 states to date, with a special emphasis on rural and inner-city areas.
Arts Resources and Technical Services, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support print and online publication of the Millennial fifth edition of the Greater Los Angeles Arts Resource Directory and Arts & Education Guide. The new directory includes expanded content for arts-in-education and community based and culturally specific organizations, as well as online information about Los Angeles arts and cultural organizations.
Asia Society
New York, NY
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the planning and development of an online Asian Art Resource Center (AARC). Developed in conjunction with its building renovation and expansion program, the AARC will be part of an integrated interpretive strategy for the permanent collection exhibitions that will be on view on an ongoing basis for the first time.
Asian American Arts Alliance, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support development of a full capacity Web site with necessary online technology to serve as a resource for information about Asian American arts and culture. The site will maintain a centralized, interactive forum for resource sharing among the many different Asian American arts organizations in the United States.
Atlatl, Inc.
Phoenix, AZ
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support national services designed to increase access to Native American arts. The project includes the organization of two traveling exhibitions, technical assistance workshops for Native artists, a newsletter, and collaborative efforts with other cultural organizations to produce, present and interpret indigenous art forms.
Bay Chamber Concerts
Camden, ME
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support research and dissemination of a national model rural music education/audience development program. Bay Chamber Concerts will refine and document the program, share information with music organizations, presenters, and funders nationwide, and utilize the materials in a revised edition of Thomas Wolf's book, Presenting Performances.
BCA Development Corporation (Consortium)
Bronx, NY
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support Developing Writers in America's Communities, a WritersCorps project designed to enhance the professional development of writers and expose underserved populations to the literary arts. WritersCorps is a consortium of three local arts and humanities agencies: the Humanities Council of Washington, DC, the Bronx Council on the Arts, and the San Francisco Arts Commission.
**Black Hills Special Services Cooperative (Prairie Winds Writing Project)
Sturgis, SD
$65,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support expansion of the Prairie Winds Writing Project, a South Dakota program, into neighboring Wyoming. Prairie Winds, an 18-year-old program for improving both student and teacher writing, includes one-on-one mentorships with regional professional writers, conferences and writing retreats, teacher workshops, publication opportunities, and the Prairie Winds Writing Book, an instructional guide for teachers.
Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble, Inc.
Bloomsburg, PA
$22,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support expenses associated with the Theatre in the Classroom project. Theatre in the Classroom is an arts education program that tours adaptations of world folk literature or American history to elementary and middle schools across Pennsylvania and to several states as both a tool for curriculum enhancement and as a creative opportunity.
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the production and national distribution of a series of radio programs presenting performances by the Chamber Music Society. Twenty-six one-hour programs will be distributed by Public Radio International to more than 100 stations nationwide.
Children's Book Press
San Francisco, CA
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support LitLinks, a series of online residencies connecting 1,400 low-income youth with established writers and artists. Projected sites include elementary and middle schools, libraries, and community-based literacy programs in California, Texas, New York, Illinois, and Washington, D.C.
Cineaste Publishers
New York, NY
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the publication of four issues of Cineaste magazine including special supplements devoted to Shakespeare in Cinema and contemporary Irish film. As part of this project, the organization will also increase its writers' fees and produce an index to the contents of each issue published in the journal's 30-year history.
Circum-Arts Foundation, Inc. (Fiscal Agent for An American Dream)
New York, NY
$19,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support expenses associated with touring residencies to juvenile correctional facilities. An American Dream will tour Voices in the Rain, a theater piece that explores issues of identity and community with relation to America's urban African American male.
City Lore, Inc. (Fiscal Agent for National Task Force on Folk Arts in Education)
New York, NY
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a nationwide initiative of the National Task Force on Folk Arts in Education to integrate the folk arts as a basic element of the K-12 public school curriculum. This multi-faceted project will include summer teacher institutes, the continued maintenance of a Web site with folk arts resources for teachers, and a national program of technical assistance and networking.
Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (Consortium)
New York, NY
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support New Readers for New Writers, a consortium project between the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses and Small Press Distribution to increase the accessibility of literary magazines to the general public.
Dance Theatre of Harlem, Inc.
New York, NY
$60,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support a comprehensive educational outreach program that introduces children and adults to dance. The program, entitled Dancing Through Barriers, will include a presentation of master classes, assembly programs, and lecture and video demonstrations in cities throughout the United States.
Des Moines Metro Opera, Inc.
Indianola, IA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support artists' fees and related costs for tours by OPERA Iowa during 1999-2000. The tours will include The Barber of Seville by Rossini and Sid the Serpent Who Wanted to Sing by Malcolm Fox.
Drawing Society, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support the publication and distribution of four issues of the journal Drawing. Designed to encourage a deeper understanding of drawings from all periods and cultures, each edition of Drawing includes essays, exhibition listings and book reviews by a broad range of art historians, curators, conservators, and artists.
Earth Talk Incorporated
Austin, TX
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the production and national distribution of Bookmark, a new daily three-minute radio program that will feature writers and their work. The series, which will include poetry, prose, creative nonfiction, and playwriting, will be broadcast on more than 100 stations during its first year.
East Bay Institute for Urban Arts (Consortium)
Oakland, CA
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support a consortium project which will launch the CommArts Directory, an online network of community arts trainers, training programs and schools.
Educational Broadcasting Corp.
New York, NY
$700,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the development and production of performance specials and arts documentaries by the WNET Culture and Arts Division for national broadcast on PBS in the year 2000 within the Great Performances, Dance in America, and American Masters television series. Regardless of geographic or economic limitations, American television audiences in all 50 states are provided free access to many of America's greatest cultural treasures through these series.
Electronic Arts Intermix, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the Artists' Videotape Distribution Service. Through the publication of a new catalog, thematic programming, and expansion of its Web site, Electronic Arts Intermix will make one of the world's largest and most distinguished historical collections of video art more accessible to libraries, educational institutions, community centers, museums and other organizations.
Eugene Ballet Company
Eugene, OR
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support an Educational Outreach Ensemble that will provide outreach services to students in venues where the company performs. The project will also involve the implementation of a full curriculum that will be utilized in schools in the 14 western states where the company regularly performs.
Film Arts Foundation (Canyon Cinema)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the production and mailing of a Film Study Guide for use in colleges and universities. Composed of twelve topical essays, to be written by filmmakers and teachers, the study guide will address such issues as media literacy, film as an art form, documentary film, etc., and it will be accompanied by curated film packages that will reflect the themes of the articles.
Foundation for Independent Video & Film, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the publication of The Independent Film and Video Monthly. This nationally distributed magazine provides information on all aspects of independent film and video production including practical, esthetic, and scholarly articles.
Foundation for New Jersey Public Broadcasting
Trenton, NJ
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the post-production costs of a one-hour public television documentary about the painter, muralist, and photographer Ben Shahn. Ben Shahn: Nonconformist is intended for national broadcast and also will be targeted to high school and college students through an educational outreach campaign.
Grand Rapids Symphony Society
Grand Rapids, MI
$35,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support concerts and a compact disc recording relating to the ReachOut! Chamber and Symphonic Music Initiative, an access initiative to recognize the 20th century as an epoch in American music and to realize the beginning of a new millennium. The initiative's objectives are to develop audiences in the underserved communities of Grand Rapids, strengthen current audience relationships, and commit to the creation and performance of American music.
Hatch-Billops Collection, Inc.
New York, NY
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support interviews and transcripts of up to twelve artists to be included in the Artist and Influence public access television program. The project includes the publication of a new volume of Artist and Influence, a documentation of Black Americans in the arts that will be distributed to museums, public and university libraries and scholars.
Homowo Foundation for African Arts and Cultures
Portland, OR
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a touring production of Ghanaian drumming and dance. Under the artistic direction of 1996 National Heritage Fellow Obo Addy, each production will be accompanied by a residency activity chosen by the presenter and presented to a community group.
International Center of Photography (Consortium)
New York, NY
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support a consortium project with George Eastman House, Rochester, New York, entitled Focus on Photography. The project is a joint effort to provide much broader access to the collections and resources of these two preeminent photography institutions.
International Film Seminars, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$12,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support a consortium project with Duke University's Film and Video Program where the 45th Annual Robert Flaherty Film Seminar will be held. This event, to be held in Durham, North Carolina, will bring together students, scholars, filmmakers, curators, librarians, and film enthusiasts to explore and discuss the art of the moving image.
Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Inc. (Consortium)
Lee, MA
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support a consortium project in which four presenting organizations work with Dr. Suzanne Carbonneau to develop multimedia tools and public programs. The consortium of Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival (Lee, Massachusetts), The Flynn Theatre of the Performing Arts (Burlington, Vermont), Bates Dance Festival (Lewiston, Maine), and the Hopkins Center at Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire) will present What is Dance?: A Model for Dance Literacy. The program will assist adults of all ages in understanding and appreciating dance as an art form.
Jazz at Lincoln Center, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition and Festival, a consortium project that involves jazz at Lincoln Center, The International Association of Jazz Educators, and the Duke Ellington Society. This 1999 project will bring the legacy of Duke Ellington to schools across the country through study and performance, distribute his repertoire to schools free of charge, and provide thousands of students the opportunity to perform Ellington's music.
Junebug Productions (Consortium)
New Orleans, LA
$57,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support expenses associated with phase III of The Exchange, a consortium project for the producing and presenting of a new collaborative theater piece. The project is based on an extended residency at Junebug Productions in New Orleans by Roadside Theater and Pregones Theater through which a new work will be created and performed in New Orleans, Kentucky and New York followed by performances in Nebraska, Vermont, and Maryland.
**Ko-Thi, Inc.
Milwaukee, WI
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support enhancement of Ko-Thi's education outreach programs. These programs include cultural education, dance training, school concerts, residencies, master classes, and performances by the children's ensemble in communities in Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota.
**L.A. Theatre Works
Venice, CA
$45,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support ALIVE AND ALOUD: Radio Plays for Learning in the Classroom. L.A. Theatre Works will distribute a package of plays on audiocassette accompanied by study guides to 1,250 public secondary schools throughout the United States, establish a project Web site, and develop a model for employing the arts in the instruction of at-risk and incarcerated youth.
**Lime Kiln Arts, Inc.
Lexington, VA
$11,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support expenses associated with touring and artist-in-residence programs. The programs tour folktale plays and perform residencies throughout Virginia, West Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, and Maryland.
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$100,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support six national telecasts during 2000 of the public television series Live From Lincoln Center. The series is broadcast on approximately 350 PBS stations across the 50 states and U.S. territories and reaches an average of five to eight million viewers per program.
Mad River Theater Works
West Liberty, OH
$18,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Musical Theater
To support the creation of a new play in collaboration with local schools and community members and the touring of works from the theater's repertory. Mad River Theater Works will establish a partnership program with its local schools and community to provide learning opportunities for students, teachers, and community members.
Meet The Composer, Inc.
New York, NY
$100,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the Community Residencies Initiative, a national project which places more than 800 composers in residence (from one day to three years) with a broad range of community organizations (libraries, churches, synagogues, arts facilities, housing developments and outdoor venues). In 1999-2000, residencies will reach more than 40 states across the United States and will result in strengthened connections among composers, musicians, and the communities in which they live.
Metropolitan Opera Association, Inc.
New York, NY
$100,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the taping and national PBS broadcast of three Metropolitan Opera productions in 1999 and 2000. Broadcast by 270 public television stations throughout the country, these programs will be seen by seven to ten million viewers throughout the United States.
Metropolitan Opera Guild, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support implementation of an artist-training program that will prepare up to an additional 30 new artists in order to expand the Creating Original Opera Program throughout the New York tri-state metropolitan region. The Creating Original Opera Program is a special residency and teacher training program that integrates opera into the classroom curriculum.
Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum
Chicago, IL
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support several components of the Museum's Youth Initiative Program. This project includes the production of Metro Joven, a weekly one-hour bilingual online live radio program; the creation and design of an accompanying quarterly magazine; and the provision of Internet access to WRTE Radio Arte programs.
Mid-America Arts Alliance (Fiscal Agent for ExhibitsUSA)
Kansas City, MO
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support part of Mid-America Arts Alliance's national touring exhibition program, ExhibitsUSA. The project will include several new exhibitions with accompanying catalogues, brochures, and education materials.
Minnesota Public Radio, Inc.
St. Paul, MN
$35,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the production of St. Paul Sunday, a nationally broadcast series of one-hour radio programs demonstrating the vitality, diversity, and excellence of chamber music. The series, which provides the public with access to the worlds finest chamber musicians, will be heard on more than 200 radio stations throughout the United States in 1999 and 2000.
National Alliance of Media Arts Centers, Inc. (NAMAC)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the Online Support Center for Independent Media, a national service provided by NAMAC through its Web site. Through one-on-one exchanges, mentorships, and information sharing, this communication mechanism will allow the founding generation of the media arts field to interact with the upcoming leadership on an ongoing basis.
National Asian American Telecommunications Association
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the publication and national distribution of an educational catalog that will feature the nearly 200 film and video artworks in its collection. This distribution catalog will be primarily offered, in print and on-line, to educational institutions.
National Association of Latino Arts & Culture
San Antonio, TX
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support services for Latino arts organization nationally. Project plans include a national conference, a series of regional meetings, and provision of technical services and training to staff of Latino arts organizations.
National Book Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support American Voices, a project that brings established writers to American Indian reservations nationwide. Scheduled residency sites include the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota, the Fort Belknap Reservation in Montana, and the Stockbridge-Munsee Reservation in Wisconsin.
National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts
Boerne, TX
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support the annual conference of the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA), the nation's oldest and largest professional service organization in the ceramic arts. To be held in Denver in 2000, NCECA 2000 Higher Ground will focus on a series of critical lectures, panels, and workshop demonstrations.
National Public Radio
Washington, DC
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the NPR Classical Music Initiative in 1999-2000. This initiative will include: the recording and national broadcast of American orchestras on the daily classical music radio program Performance Today; new productions by American opera companies on the World of Opera; and the initiation of NPR at the Opera, a new series designed to enhance the public's understanding of this art form.
Nevada Joint Union High School District
Grass Valley, CA
$26,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support a series of interconnected, technology-rich publishing projects and a traveling exhibition of exemplary student art work. Nevada Union High School, the largest school in the district, was selected as a 1997-98 National Blue Ribbon School, and will be the site for this project.
**New Dance Theatre
Denver, CO
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support Cleo Parker Robinson Dance's educational programs. These programs, Season of Schools, TraininGroup, and International Summer Dance Institute will provide unique opportunities for youth ages five through eighteen in Colorado and Wyoming.
New Cleveland Opera Company
Cleveland, OH
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support education and outreach programs for students in underserved urban and rural communities in 1999-2000. The project emphasizes participatory activities for elementary, middle, and high school students in addition to cross-generational and community partnerships for adults.
New Museum of Contemporary Art (Consortium)
New York, NY
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support the Visible Knowledge Program (VKP) Curriculum Dissemination Project, a consortium project to develop, implement and evaluate new multicultural arts education resources. With its consortium partner, the Robert F. Wagner Institute of Art and Technology, the New Museum intends to make available to teachers and administrators nationwide, via the Internet and CD-ROM, resources coming out of the VKP, an interdisciplinary educational and professional development program for underserved high school populations.
New Sounds Music, Incorporated
New York, NY
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support residency activities by the Prism Saxophone Quartet and composer Jennifer Higdon at three institutions in Philadelphia: The Kardon Institute of the Arts for People with Disabilities, Settlement Music School, and the Free Library of Philadelphia The project encompasses the second year of the residency in Philadelphia, March 1999 to February 2000.
New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$65,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support the Knowledge in Technology (KIT) pilot program and expansion of the Visual Artist Information Hotline via electronic communications. KIT will promote the development of comprehensive information technology strategies for small non-profit arts organizations, and the Visual Artist Information Hotline will expand its distribution methods through electronic communications and the Internet while maintaining its commitment to telephone callers.
Number, Inc. (Consortium)
Memphis, TN
$18,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support a consortium project between Number, Inc., the Art Museum of the University of Memphis, and the Mississippi Museum of Art to develop skills and stimulate interest in art criticism in the South. The project will entail two writing workshops, one to be held in Memphis, the second in Jackson, Tennessee.
Opera for the Young, Inc.
Madison, WI
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support the production and performance of a children's opera, Orpheus Returns, in 1999 2000. The 45-minute opera, developed specifically for children, is based on the music of Offenbach, Gluck, and Monteverdi.
Parsons Dance Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the Coca-Cola Community Outreach Program. This project will provide workshops, lecture-demonstrations, and master classes with primary attention given to the communities of Atlanta and Chicago.
PEN American Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the Readers & Writers Community Development Project, which brings authors and their books to a variety of educational settings. PEN American Center will continue its visiting writer program at sites in New York, Texas, and Arizona; and establish new programs sites in the Northwest, New England, and Illinois.
PEN Center USA West
Los Angeles, CA
$32,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support Write Through Life, a project consisting of residencies for writers in Los Angeles high schools, mentorships for emerging writers from underserved and minority communities, and seminars on practical topics for professional writers in Montana, Arizona, and Colorado.
Perishable Theatre
Providence, RI
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support expenses associated with the Shows for Young Audiences program that presents original topical plays to children in southeastern New England. The project will tour two plays to Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and eastern Connecticut.
Pittsburgh Opera, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
$12,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support the pre-professional training program at the Pittsburgh Opera Center at Duquesne and in-school education programs in 1999-2000. The training program will work with ten American singers while the education programs will reach approximately 10,000 students and teachers in the tri-state area of southwestern Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia.
Poetry Society of America
New York, NY
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the continuation and expansion of Poetry in Motion, a program that places poetry placards in public transportation systems. The Poetry Society of America will continue existing programs in Atlanta; Chicago; Los Angeles; New York; Philadelphia; Portland, Oregon; and Washington, DC, and will help launch the program in Dallas, Miami, Cincinnati, and Boston.
Poets House, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the expansion of the Poets House Poetry in the Branches Program to libraries throughout the nation. In collaboration with the American Library Association, the organization will publish and distribute a Poetry in the Branches Guidebook, produce a two-day training seminar for librarians, convene a focus group of potential library systems, and implement the program in three library systems.
Regents of the University of California at Riverside (California Museum of Photography)
Riverside, CA
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support Digital Wizards, an educational program for teens and young adults that concentrates on digital photography and video, Web site design, and CD-ROM production. The project offer young people hands-on instruction in basic computer-based art making, broadens visual creativity, and enhances future employment and educational opportunities.
Repertory Dance Theatre
Salt Lake City, UT
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support Repertory Dance Theatre's six-week tour of residencies, celebrating 100 years of dance. Millennium Residencies will take place in colleges and communities across the United States and will present a retrospective of dance history.
Resolution, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support Ubuntu 2000: A Pan-African Cinema Celebration a circulating tour of recently produced African films. After the films are subtitled and distributed on 35mm prints, Resolution will make video tapes of the works, write a catalog to accompany the collection, and offer the package to audiences via its Library of African Cinema.
Ririe-Woodbury Dance Foundation
Salt Lake City, UT
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support seven weeks of residency activities across four geographical regions. The Community Based Programming Project will involve collaborations with a coalition of diverse representatives to design in-depth residencies from the communities of Western Washington, Western California, Texas, Illinois, and Ohio.
San Francisco Opera Association
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support a national tour of Mozart's Don Giovanni performed by the Western Opera Theater during 1999. The tour will be presented in collaboration with local presenters throughout the United States reaching approximately 36 towns in 14 states.
Santa Monica Community College (KCRW)
Santa Monica, CA
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the production and national broadcast of The Children of Abraham: Stories From the Middle East. This 13-part radio series will introduce modern Middle Eastern literature by Arab and Israeli writers to American audiences through short stories and excerpts from novels read by leading actors of the stage and screen.
Small Press Distribution, Inc.
Berkeley, CA
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support a targeted distribution initiative to provide individuals, libraries, and bookstores in all 50 states with publications from 500 small and independent presses.
Spanish Dance Arts Company, Inc. (Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana)
New York, NY
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support a four-week community-based residency in North Carolina. The residency will include in-school curriculum-based workshops for students, teacher training workshops, lecture demonstrations, and performances by students and Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana.
Teachers and Writers Collaborative
New York, NY
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the publication and national distribution of The Teachers & Writers Guide to Nature Writing. Teachers and Writers also will develop a series of professional workshops for teachers on using nature writing in the classroom.
Terezin Chamber Music Foundation, Inc. (Consortium)
Boston, MA
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the recording of a compact disc, a curriculum guide to accompany it, and a series of workshops and performances by the Terezin Chamber Music Foundation based on the music written by composers imprisoned in the Theresienstadt concentration camp during World War II. This consortium project with Facing History and Ourselves will involve educational activities to middle and high schools students in the Boston area and performances and teacher workshops in Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Los Angeles, Memphis, New York, and the San Francisco Bay area during 1999-2000.
Texas Institute for Arts in Education
Houston, TX
$90,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support development of CD-ROM applications and teacher training for Stage II of the Institute's Web site. This project is designed to use the Internet in tandem with CD-ROM applications to provide the necessary tools and techniques to use computer technology, support the use of arts in education and connect a larger audience with the Institute's core program resources.
Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz
Washington, DC
$80,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support Jazz Sports, a national jazz music instruction and performance project. Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz will bring professional jazz musicians into schools to teach and mentor young music students in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.
**Tulsa Opera, Inc.
Tulsa, OK
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support the Opera Oklahoma education and access program, including performances of Hansel & Gretel, and the Tulsa High School Pilot Education Program in 1999-2000. The program will reach audiences in Oklahoma, Arizona, and Kansas, and Missouri.
University of Texas at Austin (KUT Radio)
Austin, TX
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the production and acquisition of arts and cultural programs to be broadcast nationally on Latino USA, a weekly English language radio journal of news and culture. The series seeks to expose broad audiences to the contributions of Latino creative expression, presenting the regional differences and contributions of the nation's diverse Latino communities, and to serve as a communications bridge to greater cross-cultural awareness among listeners.
University of Virginia (Callaloo)
Charlottesville, VA
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support Writing the Self and Community: Callaloo Writing Workshops for Historically Black Institutions. Participating institutions include Fisk University in Nashville, Morehouse College in Atlanta, and Xavier University in New Orleans.
Vigilante Players, Inc.
Bozeman, MT
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support costs for a regional tour through Northwest states. The proposed tour includes new works by regional playwrights to build the region's rural cultural heritage and provide access to rural residents of Montana, Idaho, North and South Dakota, and Wyoming.
Virginia Stage Company
Norfolk, VA
$13,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the enhancement of an existing Web site including the incorporation of an interactive education component. The upgrade will allow teachers and students of all ages broader access to the theater through its educational programming.
Washington Opera
Washington, DC
$21,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support education programs for students in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia schools in 1999-2000. Included will be the Opera Look-In program, Music! Words! Opera! Curriculum based program, and Opera Camp for Kids.
Watts/Century Latino Organization (WCLO)
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support post-production costs for a documentary film on the poet Piri Thomas. A 90-minute film intended for PBS broadcast, Every Child is Born a Poet also will be screened at community centers across the country.
Whitney Museum of American Art
New York, NY
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support training for primary and secondary school teachers nationwide in conjunction with "The American Century: Art and Culture 1900-2000." The project will include open houses for local teachers, workshops, a national summer institute, curriculum packets, and a Web site.
William Marsh Rice University
Houston, TX
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Design
To support the publication of Cite, a quarterly review of architecture, urban planning, and design. The four issues will contain articles on current design issues such as artists, museums, and public art projects in Texas and how Houston's current construction boom is affecting the city's topology.
Women Make Movies, Inc.
New York, NY
$12,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support Girls Like Us, a curated distribution package of films about young women's lives around the world and the publication of an accompanying study guide. Intended for adolescent audiences and adults, Girls in a Global Village will be screened at over ten sites in the U.S. and marketed to the 100,000 secondary schools across the country.
Worcester Art Museum
Worcester, MA
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the planning, design, and production of an on-line catalogue focusing on the Museum's collection of early American paintings dating from 1670 to 1830.
Yale University (Norfolk Chamber Music Festival)
New Haven, CT
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support an education and access project by the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival. Entitled Project Access, this effort will expand the reach of the Festival's performances and educational activities to underserved and rural communities of Connecticut, New York and Massachusetts.
Young Audiences, Inc.
New York, NY
$65,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support field testing of Meet the Artists (MTA), an interactive digital prototype model for linking teachers and artists to community resources. Through MTA, teachers and artists will learn new technologies for finding and sharing information among themselves and their peers, and will utilize new tools for scheduling of artists for work in classrooms.
Young Men's Christian Association of Billings
Billings, MT
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support Expanding the Literary Frontier, a project designed to provide literary programs for students in four northern Wyoming counties, implement a weekly program of interviews with writers for broadcast on Yellowstone Public Radio, and improve the technical quality of literary broadcasts on community access television.
Youth Radio
Berkeley, CA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the production of Youth Radio on Race & Identity a series of programs produced by teenagers examining the cultural and personal issues of young people of color as they enter into adulthood in the United States. Intended for broadcast on National Public Radio, the series will be comprised of 15 two-to-seven minute pieces featuring essays, commentaries, documentaries, and investigative reporting.
Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation
Richmond, VA
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support Hurston/Wright Writers Week, a series of summer writers workshops geared toward African American writers. Events are held on the campuses of Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia, and Saint Mary's College of California in Moraga, California.
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