1999 Grant Awards: Education & Access

Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

Grants With Activity Primarily In One State

509 Cultural Center
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support outdoor arts presentations, the fifth annual In the Street Theater Festival, and arts education programs for economically disadvantaged residents of the city's Tenderloin district. The project will focus on art forms reflecting the culturally diverse neighborhood and will target at-risk youth for arts education activities.

52nd Street Project
New York, NY
$34,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the Playmaking program. Playmaking is a series of three progressively challenging playwriting programs offered free of charge for young people between the ages of 9 and 13 from New York's Clinton (Hell's Kitchen) neighborhood.

911 Media Arts Center
Seattle, WA
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the Young Producers' Program, a series of classes that introduce middle and high school students to media as an art form. These workshops, taught at 911 and at Seattle area public schools, encourage children to learn the language of the moving image and become makers themselves.

Alaska Native Heritage Center, Inc. (Consortium)
Anchorage, AK
$70,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a consortium project of workshops in business skills and public arts interpretation for at least 120 Alaska Native artists. This consortium effort is in collaboration with Alaska Pacific University.

American Conservatory Theatre Foundation
San Francisco, CA
$33,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support production expenses for performances in alternate venues featuring third-year students from the A.C.T. Conservatory Advanced Training Program for actors. The productions will promote awareness of the Conservatory as a community asset.

American Dance Festival, Inc. (Consortium)
Durham, NC
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support a statewide extended adult education consortium project with David Dorfman Dance. This project will consist of a series of specially-targeted residency activities with the American Dance Festival, North Carolina Arts Council, Diana Wortham Theatre, An Appalachian Summer Festival, Carolina Union, Duke University Institute of the Arts, City Arts, Meredith College Dance Department, and the North Carolina School of the Arts School of Dance.

American Film Institute
Los Angeles, CA
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the Professional Training Division and its outreach efforts to underserved communities. This comprehensive educational program provides students with workshops and classes ranging from basic lighting and cinematography to the fundamentals of digital imaging.

American Visionary Art Museum
Baltimore, MD
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support educational programming associated with the exhibition Holy Fire: the Match Stick Artistry of Gerald Hawkes. Two workshop series entitled E Pluribus Unum and Exquisite Trash will be offered to elementary, middle, and high school students and will focus on the innovative use of everyday materials.

Amherst Writers & Artists Press, Inc. (Amherst Writers & Artists Institute)
Amherst, MA
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support Amherst Writers and Artists Institute's Low Income Writing Workshop Program for women and children living in public housing in Western Massachusetts. Workshops will be held at the Cabot Manor Housing Project and the Senecal Apartments in Chicopee, the Martin Luther King Center in Springfield, the Hampshire Heights Housing Project in Northampton, and the Grace House transition home for women in Amherst.

Amphitheater Unified School District
Tucson, AZ
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Amphitheater Folklorico Program. Beginning with performances at school sites, Folklorico dancers will teach students, parents and community members traditional dance, music and costume of the Hispanic culture in the Southwest.

Arizona Commission on the Arts (Consortium)
Phoenix, AZ
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support a consortium project for a statewide rural tour of the Lula Washington Dance Theatre. The company will perform and conduct community activities organized by Arizona Commission on the Arts, Gila Valley Arts Council, Mohave College, City of Sierra Vista Parks and Leisure, and Northern Arizona University.

Arizona Theatre Company
Tucson, AZ
$22,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the Latino/Native American Playwright Mentorship Program. The Mentorship Program was created to develop the work of Arizona Latino and Native American writers and to create artistic links between the Arizona Theater Company and ethnically specific populations in Arizona.

Arkansas Department of Education (Consortium)
Little Rock, AR
$75,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support a consortium project to provide arts assessment and art criticism professional development and training for arts teachers, arts-in-education roster artists, and museum docents and faculty in Arkansas. This project is the outgrowth of public hearings and surveys that showed an overwhelming need in Arkansas for more professional development for arts educators in order to move forward with education reform efforts in the state, and is being carried out by the Arkansas Department of Education, the Arkansas Arts Council, the Arkansas Arts Center, and the Northeast Arkansas Education Service Cooperative.

Arlington County Cultural Affairs Division
Arlington, VA
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a folklorist position and other related costs. The folklorist will identify folk artists among new immigrants as well as long-time residents in the Arlington County area.

Arnot Art Museum
Elmira, NY
$8,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support the Chemung River School Project. This project, which is designed to enable students to use the materials and processes of one or more of the arts to express their understanding of the interactions between the social and natural environments and to evaluate the role of the artist in these interactions, combines fourth-grade science, natural and social history, and ecology curricula with writing, performing and visual arts, and is specifically designed to address the New York State Learning Standards for the Arts.

Artists Collective, Incorporated
Hartford, CT
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support professional training classes in dance, music, theater and visual arts to broaden understanding and appreciation of the African Diaspora in the Hartford community. The project also includes activities to provide access to the arts to underserved inner city residents.

Artists Repertory Theatre
Portland, OR
$12,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support partial compensation for actor/teachers and the director of Actors-to-Go, an arts-in education program which brings theater to schools and social service agencies. Actors-to-Go helps supplant arts programs eliminated through budget cuts in area schools and provides its services free of charge.

Arts & Humanities Council of Tulsa (Consortium)
Tulsa, OK
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Local Arts Agency
To support an after school and summer arts program for high school-aged youth that will be conducted by a consortium of art, education and social service organizations. The program will feature after school studios in various art disciplines with Oklahoman master artists and summer sessions with nationally recognized artists for Tulsa City and County youth.

Arts Network of Washington State
Olympia, WA
$43,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Local Arts Agency
To support the Rural Community Residency Program. This program is composed of ten one week artist residencies in rural communities throughout the state over a period of two years.

ArtsAlliance of Jackson & Hinds County
Jackson, MS
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Local Arts Agency
To support the Community Arts Grants Program. This grant making and services program provides support for artistic programming in Jackson and Hinds County area.

Artsreach (Consortium)
Los Angeles, CA
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support a consortium with the California Youth Authority and the California Arts Council to increase the number of institutions in the California juvenile prison system that offer arts training and programming. Currently, three institutions offer arts education activities, and this project would increase the number up to seven.

Asheville Art Museum Association, Inc.
Asheville, NC
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support expansion of the Museum's Literacy Through Art (LTA) rural outreach initiative into additional grades and additional schools in six communities in western North Carolina, with the goal of affecting school-wide curriculum reform. The Museum currently serves grades 3-5 with this program and plans to expand into grades K-2 and 6-8, as well as adding additional schools, resulting in a comprehensive, K-8 integrated arts curriculum for students in the western region of the state.

Association for Development of Dramatic Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$9,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the expansion of an educational outreach program. Jean Cocteau Repertory will expand the Theatre-Across-the-Curriculum educational outreach program to reach students at inner-city colleges not currently served.

Association of Independents in Radio
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support a national production training retreat for emerging and mid-level independent radio producers. This low-cost, in-depth, three-day workshop experience will provide radio artists with the proficiency skills needed to continue and advance their careers, and offer participants a chance to meet and discuss issues in the field.

Atlanta Opera
Atlanta, GA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support the company's education and outreach program, performed by The Atlanta Opera Studio, for students who are mentally and physically challenged during 1999-2001. Included are free performances with audio description and sign interpretation as well as specially designed workshops.

Austin Lyric Opera
Austin, TX
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support youth and adult education and outreach programs, including initial programs of the company's new Armstrong Community Music School during 1999-2000. The community music school will provide lifelong opportunities for music education and appreciation for youths and adults from diverse skill levels and backgrounds.

Ballet Concierto de Puerto Rico, Inc.
San Juan, PR
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support Ballet Concierto on Wheels, an ongoing community project designed to expose underserved communities to the art of ballet. The project consists of a series of ten performances that will be presented in a variety of public spaces throughout towns of Puerto Rico.

**Ballet Idaho, Inc.
Boise, ID
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support expansion of Learning Through Dance, a program designed to help elementary school teachers integrate kinesthetic learning methods into their current curriculum. Ballet Idaho intends to expand the program to include additional schools in rural and underserved areas of Idaho outside the metropolitan Boise area.

**Ballet Metropolitan, Inc. (BalletMet Columbus)
Columbus, OH
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support three initiatives within its expanded Dance Reach educational outreach programs. These initiatives include BalletMet's Dance Camp for SummerDance 1999, a residency program expansion, and a Distance Learning project.

Ballet Tech Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support a tuition-free ballet school for gifted public students. Ballet Tech will introduce thousands of children to the performing arts through annual auditions in New York City public schools and through performances by its student troupe, Kids Dance.

Baltimore Museum of Art, Inc.
Baltimore, MD
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support an exhibition of the work of Baltimore-based, African American artist Joyce Scott and accompanying education programs. The project will be carried out in close collaboration with the Maryland Institute College of Art.

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Baltimore, MD
$100,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support an ongoing community engagement plan to involve more African-Americans in all areas of the activities of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (BSO). During 1999-2000, the 280 member African-American volunteer corps of the BSO's Community Outreach Committee aims to promote African-American artists and composers in subscription and special programming as well as to increase African-American attendance at BSO events by strengthening linkages with powerful African-American institutions such as churches, fraternal organizations, schools, and media.

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Inc. (Consortium)
Baltimore, MD
$95,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support, through a consortium project, year four of Arts Excel. A five-year initiative designed to integrate music with the school curriculum for grades K-12 in nine Baltimore-area schools, year four will see additional professional development sessions for teachers and introduction of the curriculum into grades 4 and 12, as carried out in consortium with the Center for Arts Education Research at Teachers College, Columbia University.

Bellevue Art Museum
Bellevue, WA
$75,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support the writing and production of Northwest Artists, a multimedia arts education program for students in grades 5 through 12 in Washington State. Based on the work of seven internationally recognized artists who have lived and worked in the Pacific Northwest, the project will result in up to 28 in-depth, interactive lessons that address both the National Standards for Arts Education and Washington State's Essential Learning Requirements in the Arts, and that provide for integrated learning among the arts, social studies, and language arts.

Berkeley Symphony Orchestra
Berkeley, CA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a music education project in Berkeley, California elementary schools. The Berkeley Symphony Orchestra will address music making and appreciation through custom-tailored programs in four schools that engage students in the performance, composition, and listening to orchestral music.

Berks Arts Council
Reading, PA
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Local Arts Agency
To support the Berks Poetry Project. These multi-lingual, creative writing workshops, to be led by poet and folklorist Craig Czury, are designed to document the diversity of cultural voices throughout Berks County.

Blackberry Productions, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support a three-fold event that celebrates and preserves the cultural traditions of the Harlems in America. Harlem Renaissance II will feature a repertory theater, arts in education residences, and a visual arts exhibit.

Boise State University (Poetry in Public Places Series)
Boise, ID
$6,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support Idaho Skylights, a project to place illustrated poetry posters on school bus ceilings and engage poets and artists featured on the posters to ride rural morning bus routes to discuss poetry with students. Funds also will be used to establish and maintain an interactive Web site for young Idaho writers and artists.

Boston Film/Video Foundation, Inc.
Boston, MA
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support a comprehensive media arts education program. Open to the public, this initiative is designed to encourage personal vision, assist in the development of concrete skills, and foster relationships meant to strengthen and advance the production of film and video art works.

Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Boston, MA
$100,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a community performance initiative that will involve Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) musicians in the community through live orchestral and chamber concerts. Funds will be used for two free BSO youth concerts led by Music Director Seiji Ozawa in April 1999 and for a series of eight free chamber concerts by BSO player ensembles at various community sites in 1999-2000.

Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. (Tanglewood Music Center)
Boston, MA
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support artist residencies at the Tanglewood Music Center in the summer of 1999. Leading soloists and conductors, music teachers, composers, and three selected chamber ensembles will participate in varying residencies, conducting master classes, workshops, and seminars.

Boston University (Boston University Tanglewood Institute)
Boston, MA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support artists-in-residences for the Young Artists Orchestra Program. During 1999-2000, the Boston University Tanglewood Institute will expand its roster of faculty, including a professional string quartet, to provide intensive coaching for the chamber music component of the Youth Artists Orchestra Program.

**Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta
Atlanta, GA
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support two teen outreach programs designed to provide opportunities for teens to have in depth arts experiences through direct involvement in creative collaborations with artists. The activities are part of the organization's Youth Arts Connection program.

**Branigan Cultural Center Foundation
Las Cruces, NM
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support Another Planet, a collaborative arts project for middle school students that provides training in creative writing, performing arts and the visual arts. The project also includes a teacher training component.

Brava for Women in the Arts
San Francisco, CA
$12,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support programmatic and administrative expenses associated with arts education programming. An Arts Education Director position will be created to administer Brava's experiential arts education programs serving at-risk youth.

Brooklyn Museum of Art (Consortium)
Brooklyn, NY
$75,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support a consortium project initiative to integrate the study of art into an expanded understanding of United States history at the secondary level. Together with the American Social History Project, the Museum will provide a series of one-day teacher workshops, a three-week summer teacher institute, mentoring in classrooms, and a new teacher's manual, all designed to enhance teachers' abilities to integrate American painting, sculpture and decorative arts into the current curriculum.

California Assembly of Local Arts Agencies
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Local Arts Agency
To support the Institute for Strategic Community Alliances Public Information and Access Initiatives, a statewide network. This project will nurture and expand local arts agency coalitions.

California Institute of the Arts (Consortium)
Valencia, CA
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support the Community Arts Partnership consortium which provides arts training to Los Angeles youth in collaboration with eight community-based arts centers. The CAP program offers free classes, workshops, exhibitions and performances for youth, their families, and the community at large.

Cambridge Arts Council
Cambridge, MA
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support a comprehensive community education program for the Cambridge Arts Council's extensive public art collection. The program will include curriculum-based teacher learning materials, activity guides, a map for a self-guided public art tour, and an expanded Web site.

Camera News, Inc.
New York, NY
$12,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support a two-part project: the expansion of the Advanced Film and Video Production Workshop and the implementation of the Media Literacy and Representation Project. These two series of workshops will provide students with technical and media awareness skills respectively.

Campbell County Public Land Board
Gillette, WY
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support the Summer Performing Arts Workshop of the CAM-PLEX Heritage Center which provides intensive training in performing and technical aspects of the performing arts for youth and emerging artists in the county. The project culminates in a production incorporating children, youth and adults in performances for audiences drawn from across this rural county.

Canton Symphony Orchestra Association
Canton, OH
$18,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support Lines and Spaces: the Music/Language Link, an education and outreach project. The Canton Symphony Orchestra will implement this project during 1999-2000 through a series of educational community concerts, residencies, and teacher/musicians workshops.

Caribbean Dance Company, Inc.
St. Croix, VI
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the 1999 Carribean Dance Experience Project for elementary students. This project would provide 14,000 territorial elementary students in 20 public schools on St. Croix, St. Thomas, and St. John with a combination of guided cultural research, in-school performance, and one-on-one, post-performance discussions with performers in the classroom.

Carver Development Board (Consortium)
San Antonio, TX
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Presenting
To support Cultural Confluences: African/African American Music and Dance. The Board, along with the Society for the Performing Arts in Houston and the South Dallas Cultural Center, will host residencies in each city for nationally respected artists: Sweet Honey in the Rock, Chuck Davis and the African American Dance Ensemble, Olu Dara, and Dianne McIntyre.

Catamount Film and Arts Co.
St. Johnsbury, VT
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support the multidisciplinary Rural Arts Education Initiatives. The components of this program are: the continuation of the Kingdom Young Writers Network; the creation of the Kingdom Young Composers Network; a series of in-school and community performances and residencies; and the expansion of the Film Production Initiative and the Visual Arts Program.

Center for Cultural Exchange (Consortium)
Portland, ME
$80,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support the Core Cultures Project, a comprehensive, multi-ethnic, arts-based consortium project. Through this project, Portland Performing Arts and its partners -- the Portland Public Schools and the Portland Partnership -- will connect the K-12 curriculum with artists-in-residence, community resources, and a range of extra-curricular activities designed to provide culturally diverse arts education that responds to the reality of a school district in which students speak 42 different native languages.

Center for Women & Their Work, Inc.
Austin, TX
$35,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support an educational program targeted to adults and youth to increase awareness of contemporary art in Austin. The Center's comprehensive educational programs will include hands-on gallery workshops, guided tours, and in-school workshops for low-income Austin public school students and gallery talks, panel discussions, and development of interpretive materials for adults.

Center of Contemporary Arts
St. Louis, MO
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support the enhancement and expansion of COCA's arts education programs. The project's two initiatives are: providing a comprehensive program of support to talented art students and improving professional development opportunities for instructors.

Centro Cultural Aztlan
San Antonio, TX
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support Conexiones Culturales/Cultural Connections. This project intends to expand visibility of Chicano/Latino artistic expression through exhibitions, reading recitals, drama and music performances.

Charlotte Symphony Orchestra Society, Inc.
Charlotte, NC
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support development of a comprehensive, sequential arts education program for grades K-8 through expansion of the Symphony's MusicaLinks program. The goal of the project is to make MusicaLinks a music-integrated curriculum, available to underserved schools in the Charlotte metropolitan area.

Charlotte Symphony Society, Inc.
Port Charlotte, FL
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support youth programs and adult education by the Charlotte Symphony Society in Port Charlotte, Florida. This two-year project will expand the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra's
in-school performances and demonstrations to all 4th grade students in Charlotte County, present three youth concerts of the full orchestra to elementary school populations and their families, as well as present a concert by talented high school musicians with the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra.

Chattanooga Symphony and Opera Association
Chattanooga, TN
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support in-depth educational programs for fourth and fifth grade students in Hamilton County in 1999-2001. The fourth grade program will consist of an introduction to opera while the fifth grade program will teach students how to create their own opera.

**Chicago Children's Choir
Chicago, IL
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the Summer Choral Training Institute, a program for children designed by the Chicago Children's Choir to involve learners in activities that will increase their understanding of and skills in music. Conducted outside the formal pre-K through 12 setting, the project includes learning in the arts, master classes, and outreach to young people from culturally diverse communities and will take place during the summers of 1999 and 2000.

Chicago Humanities Festival
Chicago, IL
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support the Festival's arts education programs. The 1999 Festival theme, Old and New/Young and Old will offer year-round arts programs for various age groups, ranging from elementary to college level, and encourages teachers to focus on the annual Festival as a major educational resource.

Chicago Opera Theater
Chicago, IL
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support salaries and fees for artists and technical personnel for three participatory operas performed in non-traditional venues during 1999-2001. The operas will involve large numbers (children and adults) of the community in all aspects of production and will be performed throughout the city's neighborhoods.

Children's Art Carnival
New York, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support multidisciplinary arts training programs for youth in the Harlem community. Eight sessions of seven-week workshops will be provided in visual, media and design arts for children ages 12-21.

Children's Theatre Company and School (Consortium)
Minneapolis, MN
$27,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support expenses associated with a consortium project providing in-depth educational programs to foster critical literacy in students from inner-city schools. The School Partners/Neighborhood Bridges program will partner The Children's Theatre Company, Whittier Community School for the Arts, Lucy Craft Laney Community School, experts in the use of storytelling in education and more than 20 community artists.

Cincinnati Ballet Company, Inc.
Cincinnati, OH
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the Home Cities Tour--performances of family-oriented productions in Cincinnati. The Home Cities Tour aims to introduce today's children to the joy of dance by overcoming the impediments of distance, inconvenience, and expense.

City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department
Los Angeles, CA
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Local Arts Agency
To support phase II of the Art Partners Program. The Art Partners Program, which takes place in specific community art centers throughout the city and represents an alliance between community-based arts organizations, private sponsors, and local governments, will provide ongoing, multi-disciplinary art classes, exhibitions, festivals and performances.

City of Madison, Wisconsin (Madison CitiArts Commission)
Madison, WI
$16,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Local Arts Agency
To support ArtWORKS, a neighborhood arts education program for elementary school level, youth-at-risk. ArtWORKS will place performing and visual artists in residencies at after school programs of selected community centers throughout Madison.

Cityfolk
Dayton, OH
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a full-time education director and other related costs. The education director will be responsible for building a more educated audience for the folk and traditional arts in greater Dayton and to fulfill Cityfolk's organizational values and commitment to the community by providing a broader understanding of and appreciation for folk arts.

**Clay Studio
Philadelphia, PA
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support the Claymobile, a traveling van that brings equipment and materials, a teacher and an intern, to conduct ceramics classes in low-income, inner-city neighborhoods in the Philadelphia area. Classes are offered to schools, community centers, after-school programs, and homeless shelters throughout the city.

Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, OH
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the development and production of a thematic handbook of the museum's permanent collection. The book will be designed so its contents can also be disseminated through the Internet, curriculum-specific guides for school visits, and a system of computer kiosks in the museum's galleries.

Colorado Ballet Company
Denver, CO
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the educational programming of the Kirkland Dance Project. The project is a work of contemporary ballet choreographed by Artistic Director Martin Fredmann in response to the works of Colorado painter Vance Kirkland, and set to music by American composers.

Colorado Springs Symphony Orchestra Association
Colorado Springs, CO
$12,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the Colorado Springs Symphony's educational outreach project. During 1999-2000, the Symphony will perform Young People's Concerts, conduct ListenUp docent program training, and present three Family Classics Concerts at the Pikes Peak Center.

Commonwealth Players, Inc.
Richmond, VA
$6,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support Theatre Virginia's New Voices for the Theatre program. The New Voices program targets middle and high school students for guidance and instruction in the craft of playwriting.

Communities of Faith for Housing (Hoboken Shelter Creative Writing Workshop)
Hoboken, NJ
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the continuation and expansion of the Creative Writing Workshop at the Hoboken Homeless Shelter. The workshop will increase the circulation of its quarterly anthology Pieces From Wandering Minds, add a fall performance of its stage work Voices From the Shelter, and hire an assistant director to recruit new participants.

Community Television Network
Chicago, IL
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the production of the cable television show Hard Cover and the implementation of a companion Web site. Hard Cover is produced by at-risk Chicago youth who learn writing, directing, editing, and producing skills as they create each program within the series.

COMPAS, Inc. (Consortium)
St. Paul, MN
$35,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support Creating the Link, a consortium project to make standards-based models for arts learning accessible to all Minnesota teachers. The consortium of COMPAS, the Minnesota State Arts Board, and the Minnesota Alliance for Arts in Education intends to: provide new standards based frameworks for artist residencies; create effective curriculum and assessment tools; and disseminate new residency models to teachers, artists and arts organizations interested in helping students achieve the Minnesota Graduation Standards.

Concord Community Music School
Concord, NH
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the Music in the Community Initiative of the Concord Community Music School. This two-year project consists of the second and third year of the School's community initiative, a partnership with twelve institutions that are designed for distinct populations throughout the state.

Conductors' Guild, Inc.
West Chester, PA
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support American conductor training workshops. From April 1999 through March 2000, five workshops taught by leading master teachers will allow gifted young American conductors to bridge the gap between formal academic training and a professional post.

Connecticut Ballet Theatre
Stamford, CT
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the continued growth of Connecticut Ballet's outreach project. The Dance Exposure Project will reach children in the communities of Stamford, Norwalk, and Bridgeport, Connecticut.

**Contemporary Arts Center
Cincinnati, OH
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the development of an education gallery for children and families. A symposium will be hosted to investigate the relationship of children and contemporary art museums, and several artists will be commissioned to create proposals for the space.

Cornell University (Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art)
Ithaca, NY
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support a project for area schools called Objects and Their Makers: New Insights (OMNI). A multidisciplinary teacher institute on the arts of China will be held in the fall of 1999.

Cortez and Company Dance Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the creation of a lecture-demonstration and youth masterclass. The project will include the development of a teacher/student video and manual study guide.

Dance Saint Louis
St. Louis, MO
$11,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support a collaboration between Dance St. Louis and Circus Flora, and Elizabeth Streb/Ringside and the St. Louis Arches gymnastics troupe. The project will present accessible and nontraditional forms of dance to nontraditional dance audiences.

Dance Umbrella Boston, Inc. (Consortium)
Boston, MA
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support a consortium project for Minds in Motion 2000, a comprehensive dance education program. Minds in Motion 2000, a project with Boston Public Schools, will provide both disciplined-based dance education and curriculum-based teacher training, as well as performances and residency activities, including master classes, lecture-demonstrations, and "Meet the Artists" sessions.

Dancing in the Streets, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support an ongoing education, access, and performance initiative in the Red Hook neighborhood of Brooklyn. The project will involve artists in four Brooklyn schools; the 1999 Young People's Performance Festival; the further development of an interactive Web site; and a full-scale professional site-work entitled Picture Red Hook.

Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts
Wilmington, DE
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support the Artists' Residency Program, which provides four artists with two-month residencies to create new work and interact with underserved communities. The projects will involve collaborations with community-based organizations, exhibitions, educational activities, and a documentary catalogue.

Delaware Theatre Company
Wilmington, DE
$17,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the Youth At Risk Program of the Delaware Theatre Company. The theater will add three new components to its Youth At Risk Program: acting classes for chronically ill students; acting classes for children who are hearing impaired; and the development of assessment and evaluation tools.

**Detroit Symphony Orchestra Hall, Inc.
Detroit, MI
$100,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the Detroit Symphony Open Service educational program. This 1999-2000 project focuses on elementary school students, with four components that reach participants of all ages.

DiverseWorks, Inc.
Houston, TX
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support an educational initiative focused on contemporary art. The project seeks to expand exposure of contemporary arts programming to local high school, college and university students; and to broaden outreach to diverse communities through partnerships with community organizations.

Documentary Arts, Inc.
Dallas, TX
$45,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the development of a curriculum guide, Masters of Traditional Arts. The overall Masters of Traditional Arts project will include a 52-part radio series for national broadcast, a reference book with biographical entries on all the recipients, an interactive CD-Rom, and a 10 compact disc set.

Downtown Community Television Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the Video Training Workshops Program. Downtown Community Television Center (DCTV) is devoted to making a technologically sophisticated medium available to underserved communities by providing a comprehensive range of courses.

Duke University (Center for Documentary Studies)
Durham, NC
$90,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support Gallery in the Classroom, an extension of the Center's Literacy through Photography program. This is a project to explore new ways to enhance teachers' understanding of artistic practice and to expand the ways that visual arts are incorporated into the elementary and middle school curriculum.

**Duncan Avenue Arts Collaborative
Providence, RI
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the creation of a performance piece concerning conflict resolution with accompanying workshops. The creation process will include Everett Dance Theatre members and talented youth from inner-city high schools in Providence, Rhode Island.

East Bay Center for the Performing Arts
Richmond, CA
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support the Center's mainstage performing arts productions, community performance events, and educational programs. These activities encourage thousands of children and adults from a large, low-income and multi-ethnic urban community to participate in the performing arts.

East Bay Institute for Urban Arts
Oakland, CA
$55,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support an initiative to document, refine and disseminate the Urban Arts methodology and its links with secondary school curricula. Urban Arts will work with faculty and staff from Oakland Technical High School and an advisory group of both primary and secondary educators and youth workers from throughout the Bay Area to review the Urban Arts methodology, critique it, and help make it relevant to a broad range of youth arts practitioners and educators.

East West Players, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support a professional training program. East West Players' professional training program serves a diverse community of Asian Pacific artists with an acting/performance conservatory, a writers institute and career development programs.

El Paso Opera
El Paso, TX
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support outreach activities of El Paso Opera during 1999-2000. Included will be in-house and in-school performances and workshops for students, free tickets to music students, a condensed version of Hansel & Gretel, and the Apprentice Artist Program.

Enchanted Circle Theater
Holyoke, MA
$7,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support expenses associated with the development and production of a new play for family audiences. Inspired by the story of Don Quixote, the new play will be written by playwright-in residence, Magdalena Gomez, and is planned to premiere in January 2000 in Western Massachusetts.

Esperanza Peace and Justice Center
San Antonio, TX
$35,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support weekend multidisciplinary art classes and internships for community youth. This pilot project entitled ArtEscuela, will involve classes facilitated by Esperanza's artist faculty and paid artist interns who will work with guest artists, technicians, designers, and curators.

Eugene O'Neill Memorial Theater Center, Inc.
Waterford, CT
$40,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support expenses associated with the National Playwrights Conference. The work of emerging and mid-career playwrights participating in the conference receives support and development through an intensive process encompassing the creation of new work and staged readings.

Evergreen State College
Olympia, WA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a series of apprenticeships in the traditional Native art forms of carving and weaving. This program is designed to provide emerging artists an opportunity to work closely with established artists to enhance the emerging artists' technical skills and to establish a network of area artists.

Fairfax County Public Schools (Consortium)
Fairfax, VA
$45,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support a consortium project to create and promulgate a model program based at Mosby Woods Elementary School for infusing the arts into the elementary school academic curriculum. Along with its consortium partner, the Institute of the Arts at George Mason University, Fairfax County Public Schools will oversee a collaborative planning process among classroom teachers, school-based specialists and consultants that is intended to develop a model that can be replicated throughout the County's 134 elementary schools.

Festival Dance & Performing Arts
Moscow, ID
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support expansion of Festival Dance Youthreach Program. This program involves presenting free performances by touring professional dance companies for area public schools.

Figures of Speech Theatre (Consortium)
Freeport, ME
$8,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support a consortium project in cooperation with Portland's Downtown District for the educational components of World Puppets in Portland, an international festival of puppet theater. In addition to live performances, outreach components of the week-long festival will include an artist residency, a free symposium and exhibition, post-performance discussions, performances for school groups, workshops for educators and health providers, and a demonstration of puppet-making.

Fitton Center for Creative Arts
Hamilton, OH
$100,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support a new SPECTRA+ research project focusing on several elementary schools identified as having highly at-risk students. The project will incorporate both empirical and ethnographic research methods to determine the intrinsic as well as instrumental effects of sustained and in depth arts instruction, and will include activities such as artists-in-residence, evaluation and documentation for years one and two of this five-year longitudinal study.

Florida Dance Association, Inc.
Miami, FL
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support more than 300 classes, workshops, and community activities during the Florida Dance Festival. The Festival's diverse curriculum attracts students, teachers, choreographers, and professionals from throughout the United States, Central and South America, and the Caribbean.

Florida Grand Opera, Inc.
Miami, FL
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support the Young Artists Studio/Technical Apprentice Program, in-school performances, student matinees, pre-opera talks and Up-on-Opera lectures during 1999-2000. The Young Artists Studio/Technical Apprentice Program, now in its fifteenth year, enables singers to develop those skills necessary for a professional opera career.

Florida Stage, Inc.
Manalapan, FL
$13,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support expenses associated with Young Voices, a series of ensemble performances of new plays for young audiences. Middle and high school student actors will perform a variety of plays ranging from adaptations of classic literature to explorations of contemporary issues such as violence, illiteracy, and substance abuse.

**Florida Studio Theatre, Inc.
Sarasota, FL
$12,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support expenses associated with the Under Six: Tall Tales by Florida Youth program of plays written by children. The program includes playwriting workshops, productions, and a statewide tour of the works written by children in grades 1-6.

Fondo del Sol
Washington, DC
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support Raices de America/Roots of America, a bilingual arts education program for public school students in the District of Columbia. The project will offer studio and workshop activities both at the museum and at schools in the surrounding low income, Latino neighborhood.

Foundation for Architecture (Architecture in Education)
Philadelphia, PA
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Design
To support educational activities which include a series of publications, workshops for teachers, and an expanded Web site. The project components will be presented at the American Institute of Architects convention in 2000 in Philadelphia.

Frederick Douglass Creative Arts Center
New York, NY
$45,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support the development of African American writers through intensive workshops, staged readings, and the 27th Annual Black Roots Festival. The Center provides an environment where talented young writers receive professional training while simultaneously creating high caliber literary works about the Black experience in the Twentieth Century.

Friends of Teen Arts, Inc.
Lambertville, NJ
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support the New Jersey State Teen Arts Festival. This two-day event will take place at the College of New Jersey in May 1999 and will include student and professional performances, a student art exhibit, critiquing sessions, poetry readings, and master classes and workshops taught by professional artists for middle and high school students.

**Friends of the Bass Museum, Inc.
Miami Beach, FL
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support Art-to-Work, a project that provides high school students with internships as museum docents and workshop leaders. Under the supervision of professional artists and museum staff, the interns will lead tours of exhibitions and supervise hands-on art projects for school children in Miami-Dade County.

Galeria de la Raza
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support Regeneration, a project designed to increase participation by young Latinos in the programs and exhibitions of Galeria Studio 24. Regeneration is designed to offer opportunities for young artists to gain the information and skills needed to launch careers in the arts.

Gallaudet University
Washington, DC
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support a component of the Young Scholars Program including summer training in the performing arts for deaf, hard of hearing, and hearing students; and a teacher training program. The summer program will have a focus on the culture of Romania.

George Street Playhouse, Inc.
New Brunswick, NJ
$28,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the inaugural and second year of a new education initiative entitled the Diva Project. George Street Playhouse will create a program that will provide an artistic forum in which young women from diverse backgrounds may explore their creativity and identity.

Glen Ellyn Children's Chorus
Glen Ellyn, IL
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the outreach programs of the Glen Ellyn Children's Chorus. For support during
1999-2000, these programs include the Musical Experience for Children (MEC) targeting children from kindergarten through second grade living in low-income, ethnically- and culturally-diverse neighborhoods and a 500-voice honors chorus workshop.

Glimmerglass Opera, Inc.
Cooperstown, NY
$38,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support lectures and musical events throughout the winter and spring in New York City and upstate New York culminating in an annual summer weekend and a tour of selections from four centuries of opera to middle and high schools in 1999-2000. The summer seminar weekend will focus on the newly commissioned Central Park, three one-act operas performed as a triple bill.

Grand Performances
Los Angeles, CA
$27,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Presenting
To support activities and performances related to increased access to Grand Performances' free performing arts events. Working with and through leaders of community organizations, specific cultural communities will be targeted through direct outreach, specialized marketing efforts, social gatherings, and other incentives.

Grass Roots Art and Community Efforts
Hardwick, VT
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support a weekly community arts workshop for developmentally disabled adults and children in a rural and economically depressed region of Vermont. The project will build on GRACE's successful workshop model in the nearby community of Greensboro.

Great Leap, Incorporated
Santa Monica, CA
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support performances, artist/audience dialogues, and a series of youth workshops in several ethnic-based art forms. These activities are components of To All Relations, a multidisciplinary work involving dance, music, and theater, whose participants will be multi-ethnic communities, students, and artists from the Santa Monica area.

Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras
Boston, MA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the Intensive Community Program of the Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras. This two-year project provides string training for children aged 6-11 in minority based communities of greater Boston.

Greenville Symphony Association
Greenville, SC
$7,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support an educational outreach program entitled An Orchestra's Most Excellent Adventure. The program, in conjunction with Greenville County School District, features a concert during the 1999-2000 season by the Greenville Symphony to area fifth graders performing music from the Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Romantic, and Modern periods with costumed actors portraying the featured composers on stage and providing a narrative about the music.

H.T. Dance Company, Inc. (Chen & Dancers)
New York, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support development and implementation of a dance-based educational program. The program, entitled Eye of the Beholder, involves Chen & Dancers' culturally based repertory for the company's regional and national touring.

Handel and Haydn Society (Consortium)
Boston, MA
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support educational and community outreach components related to the premiere of a new work by Dan Welcher entitled Celebrating the Voice of Peace, in collaboration with consortium members Facing History and Ourselves and the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum. Founded in 1815, the Handel and Haydn Society plans to mark the millennium by premiering their commissioned work in 1999 which commemorates the words and historical significance of President John F. Kennedy as they relate to the topic of peace.

Henry Street Settlement
New York, NY
$35,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support the Building Bridges-Building Audiences Project. The project will celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Abrons Art Center with a series of performances and exhibitions highlighting artists relevant to the Center's history and introducing emerging artists for the new Millennium.

Home for Contemporary Theatre and Art, Ltd.
New York, NY
$29,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the Here Artist Residency Program (HARP) which provides access and information on the arts for the independent artist and for consumers. The program provides emerging and mid-career artists the opportunity for cross-disciplinary exchange and practicums in the business of creating art, as well as an enhanced understanding of the creative process for consumers.

Honolulu Academy of Arts
Honolulu, HI
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the Academy's enhanced education programs surrounding its new permanent installation East Meets West. The goals of the project are to strengthen the Academy's education and outreach activities through a program called A Museum for Everyone.

Honolulu Dance Theatre, Ltd.
Honolulu, HI
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the re-development, production, and presentation of the lecture/performance
Gotta Dance! This presentation is designed to introduce children to the art of dance, and it will be made available to K-6 school children attending both public and private schools, home schoolers, and children with disabilities.

Honolulu Symphony Society
Honolulu, HI
$12,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support an education program including a youth concert and in-school ensemble performances to students in K-12 on the islands of Maui, Kauai, and Hawaii. During 1999-2000, two performances of full orchestra youth concerts at a major venue and in-school demonstration/performances by ensemble groups are planned on each of the three islands.

Houston Community College System (Consortium)
Houston, TX
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support a consortium project consisting of three concert performances by the Jose Limon Dance Company during a two-week residency. The Limon Project is a partnership of the Houston Community College System, Episcopal High School, and the Houston Independent School District's High School for the Performing and Visual Arts.

Houston Grand Opera Association, Inc.
Houston, TX
$100,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support The Community Connections Initiative in 1999-2000. The Initiative, in its fourth year, is a multi-faceted program created to enhance accessibility and broaden audiences for opera by presenting programs that reach all segments of the community.

Houston Symphony Society
Houston, TX
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a community outreach project by the Houston Symphony. During 1999-2000, the Symphony will conduct outreach activities to underserved Houston and Harris County communities, including schools, hospitals, and long-term care facilities.

Humboldt Arts Council (Consortium)
Eureka, CA
$16,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Local Arts Agency
To support a consortium project offering multi-disciplinary arts workshops and activities. Project programming involves local artists working with elementary and teenage-youth who live and attend schools in rural and low-income communities.

Huntington Theatre Company, Inc.
Boston, MA
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the after-school programming component of Take Center Stage. Huntington Theatre Company promotes theater arts training with Take Center Stage, a series of performances, workshops, lectures, and after-school programs.

**Hyde Park Art Center
Chicago, IL
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support Partners in Art, an after-school educational program in the visual arts for at-risk youth carried out in collaboration with the Chicago Park District. The project will provide teenagers an opportunity to develop art skills with resident artists and to jointly teach and mentor younger children at park sites in the community.

Illusion Theater and School, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$68,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support a Peer Education Theater Program with high school-age students in rural and urban communities. Through this project, the company will work with students to develop/adapt plays revolving around issues of significance to them and their communities.

Indiana Repertory Theatre, Inc.
Indianapolis, IN
$33,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support costs for the Discovery Series, a production and educational outreach program for middle and high school students. The Discovery Series consists of three productions and ancillary education services.

Institute for Puerto Rican Culture on (Fiscal Agent for Danzactiva)
San Juan, PR
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support a series of touring residencies by Danzactiva throughout Puerto Rico. During the residencies, Danzactiva will perform Mi Puerto Rico Tuyo, a multidisciplinary production combining the choreography of Paulette Beauchamp, the masks of Michelle Piaggio, the music of Nicky Aponte, and the photographs of the late Jack Delano.

Institute for Research on Social Problems (Fiscal Agent for Vanguard Films)
Boulder, CO
$22,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support pre-production costs for a two-hour public television documentary on American 'Negro' spirituals. To be hosted and narrated by Bobby McFerrin, the program will trace the origins and influence of these religious folk songs sung by slaves in eighteenth and nineteenth century America.

Institute of Musical Traditions
Silver Spring,, MD
$18,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Presenting
To support the development and expansion of the Class Acts outreach program. Components of the project include subsidy of the cost of bringing artists to lower-income schools, community and social service centers, and working with area arts presenters and other organizations to promote successful programs for traditional folk artists.

Intermedia Arts of Minnesota, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support a project to improve the quality and availability of arts education in the Minneapolis area, and to provide resources for teachers and schools to effectively implement and evaluate recently instituted Minnesota state graduation standards in the arts. Project activities will include training for artists and teachers, development and implementation of artist-led arts education projects, and the fostering of long-term partnerships among schools, educators, artists and arts organizations intended to effect systemic change in how the arts are taught in the schools.

International Arts Relations, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$30,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support a consortium project with Pan Asian Repertory Theatre and New Federal Theatre for the Three by 3 Consortium. The collaboration is the second phase of an audience development initiative designed to increase audiences within the Latino, Asian, and African-American communities.

International House of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA
$8,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support professional training for media artists. Through workshops, seminars, and screenings, film and video makers will have the opportunity to learn about all aspects of production ranging from editing techniques to the use of copyrighted material.

International Institute of New Jersey
Jersey City, NJ
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Community Cultural Center Incubators Project, a program designed to provide education and technical assistance to artists from immigrant communities in New Jersey. The project will focus on Filipinos, Trinidadians, Vietnamese, Ecuadorians, Mexicans, and Bengali speaking immigrants.

Intiman Theatre
Seattle, WA
$11,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the Living History program, an arts-in-education project that introduces high school students to scenes from classic and contemporary plays. Artist residencies will compliment performances in classrooms in which, through workshops, students identify the moral dilemmas found in the plays.

Jack Straw Foundation (Consortium)
Seattle, WA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support a consortium project with Arts and Visually Impaired Audiences to carry out the Blind Youth Audio Project. This series of workshops introduces visually impaired youth to the creative possibilities, and the latest techniques, of audio production by helping them create a radio program of their own design.

Japanese American Cultural and Community Center
Los Angeles, CA
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support performances and exhibitions of contemporary and traditional work of Japanese and Japanese American artists with accompanying contextual and interpretive materials. Programs range from puppet theater to traditional Japanese music to contemporary dance.

Jazzmobile, Inc.
New York, NY
$32,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support Jazzmobile's Saturday Jazz Workshop Program. This 1999-2000 project will provide music training for nearly 400 inner city, predominantly minority students through weekly courses.

Jubilate, Inc. (Consortium)
Miami, FL
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the African American Concert & Lecture Series of performances by the Jubilate Vocal Ensemble and the Jubilate Symphony Orchestra in a consortium project with Miami-Dade Park and Recreation Department. These performances of Afro-centric programs will occur in the Joseph Caleb Auditorium in the Liberty City section of Miami in the spring of 1999.

Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra
Kalamazoo, MI
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the Regional Education Project for youth and adults. During 1999-2000, the Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra will implement this music education project in six counties of Michigan.

Kalihi Palama Culture & Arts Society, Inc.
Honolulu, HI
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a series of training classes in traditional art forms. The classes will include training in Tahitian music and dance, Hawaiian traditional chant and dance, Okinawan classical dance, Samoan dance and crafts, and other Western art forms.

Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey
Kansas City, MO
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the 1999 AileyCamp and outreach activities in conjunction with the Alvin Ailey Repertory Ensemble residency. Each student receives a full-tuition scholarship, as well as uniforms, meals, and transportation free of charge.

Kansas City Symphony
Kansas City, MO
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support over 200 outreach events that will expand access to symphonic music by Greater Kansas City residents. Over two seasons, 1999-2000 and 2000-2001, the Symphony intends to bring classical music concerts to new adult audiences in diverse community settings, encourage new listeners to become regular attendees, and train orchestra members to assume new roles in audience-interactive performances.

Katherine Dunham Centers for Arts & Humanities
East St. Louis, IL
$35,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support creation of an audio-visual study guide of the Dunham Technique of dance by Director/Producer Terry Carter and Dunham specialist Glory Van Scott. Katherine Dunham and her master dance teachers will define and demonstrate the Dunham Technique in this video.

Kent State University Main Campus
Kent, OH
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a mentorship program for nationally selected, post-secondary music students at the Blossom Music Festival. This 1999-2000 project will provide scholarships for talented, promising young musicians to study with the Cleveland Orchestra members of the Kent/Blossom Music faculty.

**Knoxville Symphony Society, Inc.
Knoxville, TN
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the Knoxville Symphony Society's initiatives in music education. During 1999-2000, the Symphony will hire a full-time director of education, expand its youth orchestra, and launch a curriculum-based string instruction program developed by the Symphony, the Knox County School System, and the University of Tennessee/Knoxville Music Department.

L.A. Freewaves
Los Angeles, CA
$8,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support TV or Not TV: All Things Reconsidered. This multi-faceted activity will celebrate
L.A. Freewaves' ten years of programming video and multimedia art through the production of a video tape collection, a CD/ROM, and the publication of a book of essays contextualizing the work and the organization's history.

Lark Society for Chamber Music
Portland, ME
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a residency by the Portland String Quartet in high schools in the Portland Public School System that includes lecture/demonstrations that integrate the study of history and English, and performances as well as master classes and string workshops. In 1999-2000, the Quartet members will collaborate with the school's history and English teachers to develop four sequential sessions called Parallels in U.S. History and the 'Lively Arts' from 1730 to the Present.

**Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Inc.
Wausau, WI
$14,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support Making Friends through Art, a series of educational activities that complement special exhibitions. The project encompasses nine educational programs that are designed to assist new and novice viewers, as well as deepen the understanding to more adept visitors to the museum.

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. (Lincoln Center Institute)
New York, NY
$100,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support the Lincoln Center Institute's (LCI) Focus School Collaborative, a project to expand and intensify the Institute's aesthetic education practices both throughout the school year and in relation to the entire school curriculum. This project is part of a five-year commitment with individual schools that involves all staff and students in an intensive, year-round arts-in education study.

Little City Foundation
Palatine, IL
$18,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support Creativity on Wheels, a series of traveling art classes that will serve adults and children with developmental disabilities. Artist/teachers, equipped with mobile art materials, will travel to non-profit and community organizations in the greater Chicago area to conduct art classes beginning in the fall of 1999 and ending in the summer of 2000.

Local Government Commission
Sacramento, CA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Design
To support community design workshops in four cities with high Latino populations in the San Joaquin Valley. The workshops will include interactive design charettes that identify design projects that help build citizen's pride in unique local communities.

**Log Cabin Literary Center, Inc.
Boise, ID
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support writers-in-residence in schools and communities throughout Idaho. Log Cabin Literary Center will sponsor 28-week residencies in 15 schools and communities, publish anthologies of student writings, and host readings by visiting writers and their students.

Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra (Consortium)
New Orleans, LA
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a consortium education project between the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra and the Greater New Orleans Youth Orchestra. This two-year project will enhance the collaboration between these two organizations to provide young, pre-professional musicians with the skills, experience, and musical knowledge necessary for a musical career.

**Louisville Orchestra, Inc.
Louisville, KY
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the second year of The Louisville Orchestra Making Music Partnership. During
1999-2000, the Orchestra, in collaboration with the Jefferson County Public Schools, will provide music education and enrichment to 4th and 5th graders.

Lower East Side Tenement Museum
New York, NY
$11,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the Lower East Side Tenement Museum's collaboration with City Lights Youth Theatre for The Origins Project. This collaboration will provide school children an historical perspective through a theatrical interpretation of immigrant and migrant experiences on Manhattan's Lower East Side.

Lyric Opera Center for American Artists
Chicago, IL
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support the Lyric Opera Center for American Artist Professional Performance Training Program in 1999-2000. Young professional singers participate in a year-long curriculum of theatrical training, language instruction, vocal coaching, master classes, and workshops, working with Lyric Opera of Chicago's composer-in-residence.

Magic Theatre, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$24,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support Magic Theatre's educational outreach and access activities. The objective of Magic Theatre's education and access efforts is to work with students and audiences, present and future, to explore the process and discipline of new play development.

**Manchester Craftsmen's Guild
Pittsburgh, PA
$75,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support Artists, Youth & Community: The Story as Form and Expression, a program of exhibitions, workshops, public lectures and performances by visiting artists. Inner-city youths ages 11 to 18 will be the core participants in workshops to be conducted on-site or in studios located on nearby college campuses.

**Manhattan School of Music
New York, NY
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support development of a music-based curriculum for grades 4-6 that is consistent with national and New York State learning standards, in partnership with two New York City public elementary schools. Manhattan School of Music has been working with P.S. 37 since 1995 and with River East Elementary School since January 1998 through its Music Teaches program, upon which this project is based.

Manhattan Theatre Club, Inc.
New York, NY
$37,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support specific aspects of The Core Program, a multi-faceted arts education program. Manhattan Theatre Club (MTC) reaches new theater audiences in the schools with its education programs that include an Internet-based program, playwright development, and matinee performances as well as professional development workshops for teaching artists.

Marlboro School of Music, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the Invited Master Artist Project of the Marlboro School of Music. This multi-faceted, adjunct project will provide young musicians experience and study with master concert artists.

Mayor's Advisory Committee on Art and Culture (School 33 Art Center)
Baltimore, MD
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support a one-month residency for an artist at School 33 to coincide with an exhibition, East Meets West. Los Angeles artist Joyce Lightbody will conduct programming that increases the Baltimore Center's educational and cultural outreach for underserved communities.

Media Alliance, Inc.
New York, NY
$8,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the development and initial operation of the monthly Web-based New York State Media Arts Outreach Calendar. This calendar will be designed to promote media arts events to new audiences around the state by helping the general public, both residents and visitors to New York, locate media arts exhibitions, workshops, lectures, broadcasts, and conferences in the region of their choice.

MERIT Music Program, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$32,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the second year of MERIT Music Program's Project BEGIN (Bringing Educational Goals to Inner-city Neighborhoods). Serving 24 Chicago communities in up to 60 sites, this project will provide music education and immersion for over 3,000 school children.

Miami Art Museum of Dade County Association, Inc.
Miami, FL
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the research and planning phases of Linking Collection and Community. This is a four-year initiative to establish a methodology for both scholarly research on the museum's permanent collection and comprehensive audience research to further refine the museum's mission.

Miami-Dade County Cultural Affairs Council
Miami, FL
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Local Arts Agency
To support the Cultural Access Network program. Through the Cultural Access Network (CAN), cultural programming initiatives in fourteen neighborhood cultural facilities will be implemented.

Midori & amp;Friends
New York, NY
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the Instrument Instruction Program. Midori & Friends will expand this program within Public School 160 in Jamaica, Queens to provide more students musical instruction.

Milwaukee Public Theatre
Milwaukee, WI
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support artists' fees and salaries for Millenium Festival Residencies, a series of neighborhood arts residencies. The residencies are developed in collaboration with community-based agencies to produce stories, music, puppetry, and a parade in celebration of the Millenium.

Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts (Minneapolis Institute of Arts)
Minneapolis, MN
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the second year of the museum's New Audience Development Initiative for families and African Americans. The project will include public programs for the new family center, special permanent collection tours of the McKnight Galleries of African Art, and free monthly Family Days.

Minnesota Center for Book Arts
Minneapolis, MN
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support workshops for high school students entitled, By Design, led jointly by a book artist and writer. Students will write an original composition and apply design concepts and book arts techniques to create a collaborative work.

Minnesota Chorale
Minneapolis, MN
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support Meditations for Peace, a concert and associated educational activities in the Minnesota Chorale's Bridges program, which brings together the area's cultural groups to share an evening of sacred song with the greater Twin Cities community. The performance for the 1999-2000 season will bring together three cultural communities with which the Chorale has had recent Bridges partnerships including the Twin Cities Russian, Jewish, and African American populations.

Minnesota Contemporary Ensemble
Minneapolis, MN
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a community outreach project by the Minnesota Contemporary Ensemble. During 1999, the Ensemble will present free concerts of contemporary music at the Weisman Art Museum through its 'gallery crawl' project, which includes educational programs in diverse Twin Cities area high schools.

Minnesota Orchestral Association (Consortium)
Minneapolis, MN
$60,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support Science and Sound, an educational project in consortium with the Science Museum of Minnesota. The two consortium members plan to expand the project to include more students, to create a new interactive composition for orchestra, actors, and participatory audience, to expand the school curriculum, and to test a pilot, curriculum-driven interactive Internet Sound Site.

Mississippi Action for Community Education
Greensville, MS
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Mississippi Action for Community Education Delta Arts Project (MACE). The 1999-2000 program will expand the art-in-school program by presenting at least twenty-four in school presentations/performances.

Mississippi Cultural Crossroads, Inc. (Consortium)
Port Gibson, MS
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Local Arts Agency
To support a consortium for the operation of the Young Peoples Cultural Exchange Program (YPCEP). This after-school program provides visual arts instruction to young people living in several Mississippi communities.

Missouri Association of Community Arts Agencies
Columbia, MO
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Local Arts Agency
To support workshops for individual artists and training for peer assistance teams in the development of rural arts programming. These are two components of a Rural Initiative Project that is designed to create greater access to the arts for rural communities in Missouri.

Montana Art Gallery Directors Association
Great Falls, MT
$8,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support part of the Montana Art Gallery Directors Association's exhibition touring program throughout the state of Montana. Funds would also support the Association's annual professional training conference for visual arts professionals in the state.

Montana Indian Art and Culture Association, Inc.
Bozeman, MT
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support the Renaissance of the Bozeman Trail project. Designed as a weekend-long festival, the project will present Native American artists who work in the traditional and contemporary arts.

Montana State University
Bozeman, MT
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support a visiting artist series Twisted Society: Marching Towards the Millennium, that will bring three artists for one-week residencies to three Montana universities -- MSU-Billings, MSU Bozeman, and University of Montana-Missoula. Artists Manuel Ocampo, a painter from Spain; Art Chantry, a graphic designer from Seattle; and Nancy Kienholtz, a sculptor from Idaho will discuss how the Millennium is influencing their work and American contemporary art in general.

Monterey County Symphony Association
Carmel, CA
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a joint concert with a Mariachi ensemble and the Monterey Symphony during the Salinas Valley International Mariachi Festival. The festival will be held at Sherwood Hall in Salinas, California in October 1999.

Mosaic Youth Threatre of Detroit
Detroit, MI
$16,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Musical Theater
To support the Youth Ensemble Training Program. Mosaic Youth Theatre's training program provides free theatrical training in acting, vocal performance, technical theater, and design to young people, ages 12-20.

MoveSpeakSpin (Dr. Schaffer & Mr. Stern Dance Ensemble)
Santa Cruz, CA
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the creation and performance of dance works exploring the connections between dance, science, mathematics, and the imagination. The project will also support the creation and dissemination of curricular materials for K-12 educators.

Museum Board of the City of Birmingham (Consortium)
Birmingham, AL
$9,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a consortium education and access project in jazz. The Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame, and the Birmingham Youth Jazz Ensemble, will join the Birmingham Museum of Art for a consortium project in 1999-2000 that showcases jazz masters, artists, and composers who have roots in Alabama.

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Houston, TX
$125,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the development of interpretive materials for the newly reinstalled permanent collection. A visitor's guide, labels, wall text, teacher packets, random access audio tours, and Discovery Boxes are all part of the resources intended to increase public access to the museum's collections.

Music Center of Los Angeles County
Los Angeles, CA
$80,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Presenting
To support Music Center On Tour. The project involves three aspects of the program: a subsidy to offset the gap between expenses and earned revenue; artistic development; and the next phase of the development of 'Artsource' units designed to introduce the work of contemporary artists to new audiences.

Music Center Opera Association (Los Angeles Opera)
Los Angeles, CA
$100,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support The Educational Continuum, L.A. Opera's developmental and sequential arts education program on 1999-2000. The Educational Continuum includes the Elementary In- School Opera Program, Secondary In-School Opera Program, Student Matinee Program, and the College Project.

Nashville Academy Theatre and Nashville Children's Theatre Association
Nashville, TN
$7,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support artistic, production and administrative expenses associated with the establishment of a Nashville Children's Theatre satellite arts center located in rural Wilson County, Tennessee. The satellite will offer, on a smaller scale, the same intensive dramatic arts programs offered at Nashville Academy's home theater.

Nashville Chamber Orchestra (Consortium)
Nashville, TN
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support a consortium project to create and perform multidisciplinary works reflecting America at the Millennium. Teams of young people working with professional artists will create works to be produced by the consortium members -- Nashville Shakespeare Festival, Tennessee Dance Theater, ArtSynergy, Nashville Independent Film Festival, and Nashville African American Arts Association in their millennium seasons.

Nashville Opera Association
Nashville, TN
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support Tennessee Opera Theater's educational programs in 1999-2000. Included are the Young Artists Training Program, internships in production and administration, a school tour, and pre-performance lecture/ demonstrations.

Nashville Symphony Association
Nashville, TN
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a music education project. The Nashville Symphony Association will implement the American Heritage education project for 5th and 8th graders that integrates music, history and social studies, and language arts.

National Center for Children's Illustrated Literature (Consortium)
Abilene, TX
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support Arts Alive, a consortium project with Young Audiences of Abilene, to organize exhibitions of original illustrations from children's books and live performances based on the literature. Arts Alive will also develop educational materials to accompany the exhibits and performances.

New Jersey Symphony Orchestra
Newark, NJ
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a statewide music outreach project. During 1999-2000, the New Jersey Symphony will conduct a statewide tour throughout New Jersey called Project REACH (Resources for Education And Community Harmony).

New Mexico Symphony Orchestra
Albuquerque, NM
$21,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support two outreach projects: a statewide tour and an educational enrichment project. The New Mexico Symphony Orchestra will tour to 14 underserved communities throughout the state and conduct educational enrichment activities in schools and through youth concerts.

New Orleans Ballet Association
New Orleans, LA
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the In Motion Community Partnership Initiative. This project will include residencies by Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, Parsons Dance Company, and the New Orleans Ballet Association's New Orleans Dance Collective and Apprentice Corps.

New Orleans Video Access Center, Inc.
New Orleans, LA
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the provision of production equipment and educational activities to low-income artists and students.

New School University (New School Concerts)
New York, NY
$5,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the New York String Orchestra Seminar, an intensive music education project for young musicians. The New School Concerts will bring 60 musicians between the ages of fifteen and twenty-two to New York City for ten days of challenging orchestra rehearsals with violinist and conductor Jaime Laredo that will culminate in performances at Carnegie Hall.

New Wave Corporation (Midwest Radio Theater Workshop)
Columbia, MO
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the 19th annual Midwest Radio Theatre Workshop's national radio theatre production conference in 1999. This intense, one-week series of classes trains audio artists from across the country in script writing, performance for radio, and technical skills to produce innovative live radio drama.

New World Symphony, Inc.
Miami Beach, FL
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a community outreach and audience education project of the New World Symphony. During 1999-2000, New World Symphony will engage in educational activities in communities and schools to entertain and enlighten audiences in various performance settings.

New York Chamber Symphony, Inc.
New York, NY
$7,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support New York Chamber Symphony's music education project. During 1999-2000, the Symphony plans to increase participation in its recorder program in New York City schools.

North Carolina Symphony Society, Inc.
Raleigh, NC
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support educational programs including emphasis on performing full-orchestra in-school educational concerts, and a workshop for school music teachers from communities throughout the state regarding programs targeted to 80,000 school children. In 1999-2000, all 64 full-time musicians of the North Carolina Symphony will travel more than 18,000 miles to perform 65 live presentations of specifically planned educational concerts.

North Dakota Community Foundation
Bismarck, ND
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the presentation of the Minneapolis Children's Theatre Company in Bismarck, North Dakota. The Minneapolis Children's Theatre will give two performances in a rural community and will distribute a comprehensive study guide to enhance the theatrical experience.

Northwest Asian American Theatre
Seattle, WA
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support the creation and presentation of a multidisciplinary work by Chinese American filmmaker John Pai and Chinese Malaysian dancer and choreographer Mew Chang Tsing. The work will provide audiences increased access to works by Asian artists and will premier in Seattle at A-Fest 2000.

Oakland East Bay Symphony
Oakland, CA
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support MUSE, an instrumental education program by the Oakland East Bay Symphony musicians for students in grades K through 12. During 1999-2000, Symphony musicians will participate in MUSE (which stands for MUSic for Excellence) in seven East Bay Public Schools.

Ohio Chamber Ballet (Ohio Ballet)
Akron, OH
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support Delivering Dance, a community and education outreach initiative comprised of nine diverse projects. The project will involve delivering performances, lecture-demonstrations, and workshops to various constituents throughout Ohio.

Opera Omaha, Inc.
Omaha, NE
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support outreach and educational activities, including Meet the Artists Lunches, Back Stage Tours, discount coupons for main stage productions, and the development of a touring opera, The Trial of Standing Bear, in 1999-2000. Three workshops will be presented to the public for the purpose of evaluating the suitability of converting the touring opera, The Trial of Standing Bear, to a full-length opera.

Opera Orchestra of New York, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support the Young Artists Program in 1999-2000. The program provides comprehensive individual instruction, ensemble training, and skills essential to the career development of opera singers.

Opera Pacific
Irvine, CA
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support community outreach and educational programs, the revitalization of the apprentice/young professionals program, and development of a new community outreach opera, The Music Shop by American composer Richard Wargo, in 1999-2000. Community outreach and educational programs will target underserved areas of Orange and Los Angeles Counties.

OperaDelaware, Inc.
Wilmington, DE
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support the augmentation of the company's MUSIC! WORDS! OPERA! Summer training program for Delaware educators and a program to evaluate the education and outreach program during 1999-2001. These two programs are new components of the company's education and outreach efforts.

Orchestral Association (Chicago Symphony Orchestra)
Chicago, IL
$150,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a Community Engagement Initiative, which will develop practical tools and strategies to better communicate, program, and build relationships with communities that have been previously under-represented in the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (CSO) organization. In an effort to begin to change the perception of symphony orchestras as elitist and isolated institutions, the CSO has launched the Initiative that will first focus on African American, Latino, and low-income families and individuals.

Orpheon, Inc. (The Little Orchestra Society of New York)
New York, NY
$9,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the expansion of the Collaborative Arts-in-Education Program (CAEP). In 1999 2000, the Little Orchestra Society (LOS) will incorporate an early childhood component into the existing CAEP and introduce the program to an additional 1,100 students in Queens, Brooklyn, and the Bronx.

Pacific Northwest Ballet Association
Seattle, WA
$65,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support Pacific Northwest Ballet School. The school, located in Seattle and Bellevue, provides ballet and dance training to 1,540 children and adults per year.

Pacific Symphony Association
Santa Ana, CA
$55,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support the sixth year of the Symphony's Class Act initiative. Class Act is an orchestra education program that provides a year of sequential learning for elementary school students through direct exposure to and interaction with Pacific Symphony Orchestra musicians and their work.

pARTs Photographic Arts
Minneapolis, MN
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support Youth Arts Experience, a photography-based educational program for young people. The project will offer after-school and Saturday workshops to children in the third through the fifth grades.

Pat Graney Performance
Seattle, WA
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the fifth annual Keeping the Faith Prison Project. This residency program brings the teachings of Pat Graney and other lead artists into the lives of incarcerated women through a series of educational workshops.

Peralta Community College District (Fiscal Agent for Pure Silk Foundation, Inc.)
Oakland, CA
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support: 1) an after school ethnomusicology program; 2) performances of the Purple Bamboo Youth Orchestra and Laney College Silk Road Chinese Orchestra; and 3) a Chinese Opera at Laney College. These programs are designed to promote and preserve traditional Chinese music at schools and community sites.

Perseverance Theatre
Douglas, AK
$38,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support salary costs for an education coordinator and artist/instructors to sustain and strengthen the education outreach program. The program is designed to create greater opportunities for theater arts training in underserved communities.

Philadelphia Orchestra Association (Consortium)
Philadelphia, PA
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a consortium music education project. During 1999-2000, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Settlement Music School, and the School District of Philadelphia will partner in the third year of MEP (Music Education Partnership) for elementary school students in 60 public schools.

Philippine Information Education Resource Center
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the tour of the play peregriNasyon to cities throughout the state of California. The Philippine Information Education Resource Center's tour of peregriNasyon will create access for Filipino populations and multicultural audiences to a play based upon the Filipino American experience.

Phoenix Theatre Academy, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$14,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support a three-year training program that will equip actors for long-term arts-based work in the community. The Human Services Program will reach at-risk youth throughout the community in partnership with specific facilities and institution.

**Pittsburgh Chamber Music Society, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
$9,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a chamber music ensemble residency. The Pittsburgh Chamber Music Society will present a chamber music ensemble in a community-based residency that will include educational instruction, coaching, open rehearsals and performances.

Pittsburgh Public Theater Corporation
Pittsburgh, PA
$6,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support expenses associated with a new educational initiative for students from elementary school through college. Pittsburgh Public Theater has designed an educational track beginning with age-appropriate theater games for elementary school children, a series of classes and student matinees for upper middle and high school students, and a summer production for college students.

Plaza de la Raza, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$35,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support a series of workshops and master classes in drama, dance, music, and the visual arts. The project will also include residencies for 20 artists drawn from the Los Angeles arts community and speaking/teaching engagements for 16 additional guest artists.

Portland Museum of Art
Portland, ME
$27,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support Looking to Learn, an initiative designed to assist Maine public school teachers in meeting the new state-mandated Learning Results for grades 3-5. The Portland Museum of Art will collaborate with teachers to create classroom materials that link the Museum's collection to four subject areas: the visual arts, language arts, social studies, and science.

Portland Stage Company, Inc.
Portland, ME
$18,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support a three-tiered education program including the Early Show Matinee Series, Adopt-A School and the SOAR Program. The comprehensive program will provide curriculum-based experiences using the performing arts the in classrooms.

Pregones Touring Puerto Rican Theatre Collection, Inc.
Bronx, NY
$32,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support expenses associated with the expanded activities of the Teatro Matinee Cultural Connections Project, a citywide artistic/educational bilingual project. The expanded program will offer performances of Baile Cangrejero, interpretive materials for young audiences, a series of teacher enrichment workshops, and broadened access to a family ticket voucher system.

Present Music, Inc.
Milwaukee, WI
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a high school composition program with southeastern Wisconsin high school music students which includes performances and a commission to Eric Segnitz, Present Music's violinist and composer. Present Music, a new music ensemble, will work with music students in five area high schools in creating and performing new music during 1999-2000.

Project Artaud Corporation (Southern Exposure)
San Francisco, CA
$16,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support Race, Representation and Youth, Southern Exposure's media literacy program to promote greater understanding of cultural representation in mass media. The project is a collaborative endeavor between artists and teachers at San Francisco's Balboa High School that is integrated into the school's ninth-grade English/Ethnic Literature and English as a Second Language curricula.

Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$12,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support expenses associated with theater education programs. The Raul Julia Training Unit will expand to include a bilingual stage manager/technical director internship program and master classes while the Playwrights Unit will expand its IN SIGHT one-act play series.

Pyramid Atlantic, Inc.
Riverdale, MD
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support career development and training for students and professional artists in papermaking, printmaking, and the book arts. Three distinct programs support this work: Making Connections, Apprenticeship/Internship, and Artists' Residencies.

Queens Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Long Island City, NY
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support an audience development campaign whereby subscription concerts by the Queens Symphony Orchestra (QSO) are presented throughout the borough instead of in one location. This decentralization plan during 1999-2000 will better mirror the small, ethnic enclaves of Queens--the most ethnically diverse county in the nation.

Racing Thoughts, Inc. (Jane Comfort and Company)
New York, NY
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support an outreach program to expose at-risk youths to dance/theater. The program will provide live performances, company rehearsals, and workshops geared to teaching students how to create movement/text performances from their own personal stories and issues.

Ragamala
Minneapolis, MN
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support a residency in three rural elementary schools in southeastern Minnesota. Artistic Director Ranee Ramaswamy and her dance assistant will introduce fourth grade students and their teachers to traditional Indian dance, music, and culture.

Ravinia Festival Association
Highland Park, IL
$12,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a music education project. The Ravinia Festival Association will conduct the Music Illumination Program in Chicago area schools that will include teaching artists, materials, and workshops for teachers to expand student opportunities in music exploration.

Real Art Ways, Inc.
Hartford, CT
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support Access/Real/Art, an educational program to complement the contemporary exhibitions scheduled at Real Art Ways. The project will target public schools and senior citizens and includes the establishment of a pilot program to train community members as docents.

Regents of the University of California at Berkeley (Pacific Film Archive) (Consortium)
Berkeley, CA
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support 50 Years of Bay Area Avant Garde Cinema, a consortium project with the Pacific Film Archive and the San Francisco Cinematheque. Along with an extensive exhibition series, the project will also include a catalog with essays by film and video scholars and media makers themselves; a CD/ROM with oral histories, interviews, posters, footage, and soundtracks; and a Do-It-Yourself Tour Kit.

Research Foundation of State University of New York at Albany (on behalf of the Regional Partnership of Schools & Colleges at Purchase College)
Albany, NY
$100,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support development and implementation of a model public high school dance program consistent with New York State and national standards for dance education. Purchase College, working in collaboration with New Rochelle High School, will provide education in and access to dance as an in-school, curriculum-based subject integrating various movement techniques, multicultural dance forms and history, anatomy, composition/choreography, music/rhythm analysis, performance production and computer technology.

Revolving Museum
Boston, MA
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support the creation of The House of Prints, a collaboration by artists and youth using prints to explore issues of home and family. The finished prints will be installed to create a full-scale house and exhibited at the Revolving Museum and in the participating communities.

Rhode Island School of Design (Museum of Art)
Providence, RI
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support a community-based artists residency program. Nationally known artists will be commissioned to work in one of Providence's branch libraries creating a new work in collaboration with the community.

Richmond Ballet
Richmond, VA
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support Minds in Motion, a year-long educational initiative for fourth graders. This program teaches discipline, dedication, and self-awareness by leading the students through a series of choreographic movements that must be memorized and expanded upon in each class session.

Robert Gumbiner Foundation (Museum of Latin American Art)
Long Beach, CA
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the expansion of educational outreach activities. Vecindad offers neighborhood children and their families an introduction to Latin American art, and Connections offers professional development seminars for Los Angeles area educators.

Robert W. Woodruff Arts Center, Inc. (Atlanta Symphony Orchestra)
Atlanta, GA
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support Building Bridges to the Community, an educational and community partnership initiative to serve new and existing constituents through a variety of programs in traditional and nontraditional venues. The goal of the initiative in 1999-2000 is to empower the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra to become a more integral part of community life through three core areas: education activities, community partnerships, and outreach performances.

Rock Hill Arts Council, Inc. (Consortium)
Rock Hill, SC
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Local Arts Agency
To support a consortium conducting the Revival-Design Camp Meeting 1999. This week-long workshop provides the opportunity for nationally known design and craft artists to work with college students in the design of home furnishing prototypes using recycled materials.

Roundabout Theatre Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$22,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support expenses associated with From Page To Stage, an arts education program. In cooperation with the New York City public schools, Roundabout Theatre provides an in-depth sequential program including professional development, planning/assessment, artist visits to schools, complimentary tickets, and student creation and presentation of dramatic works.

Salina Art Center, Inc.
Salina, KS
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the installation of an artist-designed interactive educational area in the museum. The project will offer experiences for children and adults that will encourage new ways of perceiving contemporary art and provide a context for the museum's exhibitions.

San Diego Dance Institute
San Diego, CA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the expansion of San Diego Dance Institute's City Moves! program in the City Heights neighborhood of San Diego. The project will include eight elementary and two middle schools, and three community centers, reaching 360 children.

San Diego Opera Association
San Diego, CA
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support the Community Opera Project for children in Barrio Logan in 1999-2000. This program, located in an economically and socially marginalized southeast San Diego neighborhood strives to enhance student academic achievement and social development through intensive exposure to the opera art form.

San Francisco Girls Chorus, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the Master Teacher Program. During 1999-2000, this program will provide specialized vocal training, language exposure, and performance opportunities for the young concert and touring ensemble singers (Chorissima and Virtuose Choruses) and continued professional development for the artistic staff, including conductor/vocal workshops and coaching in vocal development, conducting styles, and performance practices.

San Francisco Symphony (San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra)
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra's Artistic Development Project. During 1999-2000, musicians of this pre-professional orchestra will participate in an array of training and educational programs.

San Jose Symphony Association
San Jose, CA
$12,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a community educational outreach project. The San Jose Symphony will present community concerts for San Jose elementary school children, provide music education through Music Mentorships, and implement outreach activities in schools and community centers.

Sandglass Center for Puppetry and Theater Research (Consortium)
Putney, VT
$20,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support Barnstorming, a consortium project to tour theater productions throughout rural Vermont. Sandglass Theater, the Vermont Stage Company, Rural Vermont, and the Vermont Land Trust will tour productions about people living on Vermont farms to venues around the state.

Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Ltd.
Santa Fe, NM
$12,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a comprehensive music education and access initiative by the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. This project will include a statewide tour, in-school and adult education, as well as youth concerts and a young artists program.

Santa Fe Opera
Santa Fe, NM
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support The Santa Fe Opera Apprentice Program for Singers and Technicians, the Apprentice Tour, and the Pueblo Opera Program in 1999-2000. The Pueblo Opera Program, established in 1973 to encourage Native American exposure to and involvement in opera, offers educational programs to 15 pueblos in New Mexico.

Scottsdale Cultural Council
Scottsdale, AZ
$38,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Local Arts Agency
To support an extended artist residency program at the Salt River Pima Maricopa Indian Community. Local, national, and international artists will work with students at the newly established, tribal-run secondary school, as well as with other youth and community organizations.

Scribe Video Center, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support film, video, new media, and audio workshops for emerging and mid-level artists that will assist the participants in the creation of new work. As a multipurpose media arts center, Scribe offers hands-on instruction in various aspects of media production and provides access to its facilities.

Seattle Arts & Lectures
Seattle, WA
$22,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support Writers in the Schools, an educational project targeting local communities and secondary schools in the Seattle area. Seattle Arts & Lectures will provide teacher training, classroom residencies and mentoring sessions with established and emerging writers, and local readings and publications featuring the work of young writers.

Seattle Arts Commission
Seattle, WA
$9,980
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Local Arts Agency
To support Public Art 101, a national conference to discuss current issues and examine models within the arena of public art. Through this conference, to be held in Seattle, technical assistance will be provided to municipal and community arts organizations involved in establishing and managing public art programs.

Seneca-Iroquois National Museum
Salamanca, NY
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support Out of the Ashes: The Death and Rebirth of Iroquois Pottery, an exhibit of prehistoric ceramics from the Seneca Iroquois National Museum. This exhibit will showcase the vitality of contemporary works inspired by ancient techniques and forms.

Senior Arts Project
Albuquerque, NM
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support field trips, workshops and dance parties for Albuquerque senior citizens. The Senior Arts Project plans to present Antonia Apodaca and Cipriano Vigil, older folk musicians who specialize in the Spanish Colonial music and dance of Northern New Mexico.

**Settlement Music School
Philadelphia, PA
$80,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support the 10th year of the Kaleidoscope Preschool Arts Enrichment Program. Operating since 1990 in a South Philadelphia neighborhood, Kaleidoscope is a tuition-free program that provides comprehensive education, including music, art, and dance, each year to 60 students, ages three to five, whose family income levels and living conditions place them at a risk for failure.

Sheboygan Arts Foundation, Inc.
Sheboygan, WI
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support Connecting Communities, an artist's residency project in the visual, performing and literary arts. Artists will collaborate with local traditional artists in the Hmong, Hispanic, and blue collar German and Dutch communities and with local teens, to create a community-based work.

Shreveport Symphony , Inc.
Shreveport, LA
$6,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support Beat Street at Harmony Road, a series of concerts for at-risk, inner-city teens and young adults. During the 1999-2000 and 2000-2001 seasons, the Shreveport Symphony will partner with two Police Departments, the YWCA, St. Catherine's Community Center, and an urban contemporary radio station.

South Dakotans for the Arts
Deadwood, SD
$22,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Local Arts Agency
To support the development, promotion and touring of the Dakota Children's Theatre Company. This project is being conducted in partnership with the Black Hills Playhouse and the South Dakota Arts Council in order to provide access to quality theater experiences for South Dakota children, as well as to provide professional work opportunities for young South Dakotan theater professionals.

**South Florida Art Center, Inc.
Miami Beach, FL
$35,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support the Art Center's School-to-Work Initiative for elementary, middle, and high school children in Miami-Dade County Public Schools. Art Adventures for elementary and middle school children introduces them to the possibilities of careers in the visual arts; ArtsEdge supports arts training for high schoolers.

Southwest Chamber Music Society
Pasadena, CA
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support Project MUSE (MUSic for Excellence) a mentorship program of the Southwest Chamber Music Society. This 1999 project will engage students at six schools in Los Angeles County.

Space One Eleven, Inc. (Consortium)
Birmingham, AL
$27,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support a consortium project with the Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark to commission public art elements in native iron and clay for the Metropolitan Gardens community. The project will involve the community's input in the design of elements such as cast iron park benches and sidewalk pavers that will reflect the city's industrial heritage.

Spanish Theatre Repertory Co., Ltd.
New York, NY
$62,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support a multifaceted education project entitled DIGNIDAD: The 21st Century Latino Education and Mentorship Project. Repertorio Espanol/Spanish Theatre Repertory Company's educational project will offer teacher and student services which combine the humanities, arts and literature with education, and which link dramatic theater with classroom curricula to improve students' achievement.

Spokane Symphony Orchestra
Spokane, WA
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the presentation of an outdoor concert by the Spokane Symphony Orchestra. During 1999, the Spokane Symphony will present a free concert at Shadle Park, located in an underserved neighborhood in northwest Spokane.

Springfield Symphony Orchestra
Springfield, MA
$12,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support an educational outreach project. The Springfield Symphony Orchestra will develop an interdisciplinary curriculum-based project for grades 3 to 5 with the Springfield Science Museum that explores rhythm in both earth science and music.

St. Louis African Chorus
St. Louis, MO
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support community outreach programs at the Soldan International Studies High School. During 1999-2000, the St. Louis African Chorus will engage St. Louis area youth in after-school arts programs of choral music in native African languages as well as American gospels and spirituals and African dance and drumming.

St. Louis Symphony Society (Consortium)
St. Louis, MO
$125,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a consortium music education project. The St. Louis Symphony Society, University of Missouri-St. Louis, and Opera Theatre of St. Louis will partner to bring music education by professional musicians into public schools and bring students to performances by the Symphony, the Opera, and at the University during 1999-2001.

Stage One: The Louisville Children's Theatre
Louisville, KY
$6,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the production of two plays for two different young audience age segments. STAGE ONE: Louisville Children's Theatre mounts plays for a specific age group and supports its work with study guides, student classroom workshops, and professional development for teachers.

**Stagebridge
Oakland, CA
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support expenses associated with Storybridge, an intergenerational literacy project. The project brings older storytellers into elementary schools and offers presentations of a literacy based play entitled Grandparents Tales.

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute (Consortium)
Williamstown, MA
$80,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the creation of an art space for families, teachers and students to learn about and create contemporary art. Located at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (Mass MOCA), programming will be developed by collaborative partners, Williams College Museum of Art and the Clark Art Institute for three elementary schools in North Adams.

Street-Level Youth Media
Chicago, IL
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the Neighborhood Network, three after-school drop-in centers where over 600 at risk Chicago youth can experiment and create with video equipment and computers. During the grant period, Street-Level will operate the three centers, hire a Director to coordinate the Network's efforts, and upgrade staff training so that the instructors can remain current with the abilities and limitations of the new technologies and share this information with the students.

Suzuki-Orff School for Young Musicians
Chicago, IL
$70,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support Project IMAGE (Integrating Music/Movement Arts with General Education) and its components, Clap, Sing, and READ! and Baby STEPS (Starting Together the Educational Process) in the Chicago Public Schools. This project will allow the Suzuki-Orff School to expand this program into additional schools and to enlist more active parental support in the program.

Taller Puertorriqueno, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$55,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support a multidisciplinary arts and cultural education program to commemorate Taller's 25th anniversary. The program, Corazon Cultural del Barrio: Taller Turns 25, includes a series of presentations, residencies and an exhibit related to the organization's history of focusing on Puerto Rican and Latin American cultures in the Philadelphia area.

The New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players, Inc.
New York, NY
$7,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Musical Theater
To support an educational outreach program that introduces the works of Gilbert & Sullivan to New York City public school children. The New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players produces professional productions from the repertory of Gilbert & Sullivan, using classically trained singers and are accompanied by a live orchestra.

Touchstone
Bethlehem, PA
$15,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the Teen Troupe Project, an education and access initiative for middle and high school students. Fifteen students will work with ensemble members to learn the skills of theater.

Trinity Repertory Company (Consortium)
Providence, RI
$27,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support a consortium project entitled Theater in the Classroom and on Stage, an education and access initiative that will provide professional development in theater education for middle and high school teachers of Rhode Island. In partnership with the Bread Loaf School of English, artists from Trinity Repertory Company will receive training in theater education, and will in turn provide professional development and classroom support for teachers using theater as a teaching tool.

Trustees of Amherst College (The Folger Shakespeare Library)
Washington, DC
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the Folger Poetry Series, a series of poetry readings at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., and a coordinated series of outreach and educational programs.

Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Presenting
To support the 1999 Philadelphia International Children's Festival of the Arts and a two-day Education Conference. The 1999 Festival will include approximately 60 performances given by eight international arts companies; the Conference will provide a forum for Philadelphia educators, Graduate School of Education scholars, and Festival performers.

Umoja African Arts Company
Pittsburgh, PA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the implementation of an African Heritage School Initiative (AHSI). AHSI will allow artists and instructors to conduct a three-month residency in African dance, music, history, storytelling and visual arts.

University of Michigan at Ann Arbor (Consortium)
Ann Arbor, MI
$75,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a consortium education project with the University of Michigan, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, and the University Musical Society. During 1999, a symposium will be held on the campus of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor to explore the achievements of African American musicians and composers and how the learning process in the fine arts and performing arts can enhance education methods in teaching and learning other disciplines.

University of Montana (Montana Repertory Theatre)
Missoula, MT
$13,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support a new education and access initiative, The Montana Rep Regional Initiative Program. The company will tour three one-act plays to towns throughout the state, with accompanying educational outreach activities, offering workshops on professional acting techniques as well as practical advice regarding the development and production of school plays.

University of Oregon (Oregon Bach Festival)
Eugene, OR
$9,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support Youth Choral Academy, a music education project for young singers. The Oregon Bach Festival will conduct this ten-day intensive education project for 90 high school students from throughout the state of Oregon.

University of Southern Mississippi
Hattiesburg, MS
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support collaboration of two colleges at University of Southern Mississippi, local school districts, and the National Dance Institute for a two-week residency program. The project will provide dance instruction for middle school children who are economically disadvantaged.

UPS Tacoma Symphony Orchestra Guild (Tacoma Symphony Orchestra)
Tacoma, WA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the Simply Symphonic project by the UPS Tacoma Symphony Orchestra Guild. This project will provide an extensive elementary school music education program incorporating curriculum, performance, and student participation.

Utah Arts Council (Consortium)
Salt Lake City, UT
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support a statewide initiative for K-12 film/video education, a consortium project under the direction of the Utah Arts Council. The Council and its partners -- Sundance Film Institute, University of Utah Film Department, Utah Film Commission, Utah State Office of Education, Utah Film and Video Center, and Utah Alliance for Arts and Humanities Education -- will provide a film/video curriculum along with related teacher professional development and filmmaker residencies, both to promote media literacy and to teach filmmaking skills.

Vermont Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Burlington, VT
$14,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support educational activities and community concerts in rural underserved areas of Vermont. During 1999-2000, grant funds will be used to extend a tour to three communities in rural parts of Vermont.

Very Special Arts Montana (Consortium)
Missoula, MT
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support a consortium project to provide dance programs for children, youth, and adults with and without disabilities and concerts for community audiences. Very Special Arts Montana, Young Audiences of Western Montana, and The Montana Transport Company will provide school programs and master classes in dance and present a community performance in modern dance.

Very Special Arts of Indiana
Indianapolis, IN
$7,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support VSAI University Practicum (UP), a new teacher-training program in Indiana. Through collaborations with several Indiana universities, VSAI will provide opportunities for university students in Arts Education methods classes to intern with VSAI Master Artists in VSAI residency programs, where the students will be able to work with children with disabilities.

Village of Arts and Humanities, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$55,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support arts education and arts outreach programs. The programs include studio workshops for children and teens and Village on the Move, an outreach program that takes Village instructional workshops to other neighborhood facilities.

**Walt Whitman Cultural Arts Center, Inc.
Camden, NJ
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support the public presentations of the Center's Urban Education Program. The project includes live performances of dance, music, puppetry, storytelling, and lectures/demonstrations for students and their families during the school year.

Washington Bach Consort
Washington, DC
$6,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the Giving Bach to Our Community initiative, an educational outreach program in free, accessible concert formats for new audiences. During 1999-2000, the Washington Bach Consort will present noontime and rush hour concerts, pre-concert lectures, and an elementary education program in the D.C. area schools.

Washington Drama Society, Inc. (Living Stage Theatre)
Washington, DC
$13,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the Columbia Heights/Shaw Initiative. The purpose of Living Stage Theatre Company's Columbia Heights/Shaw Initiative is to provide meaningful and far-reaching access to the creative arts for people residing in the Columbia Heights/Shaw community surrounding the theater facility in northwest Washington, D.C.

West Virginia Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Charleston, WV
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra's statewide touring program, bringing live orchestral music to rural, underserved communities throughout the state. During 1999-2000, the Symphony will reach audiences in 14 communities in fall and spring tours.

Winston-Salem Symphony Association
Winston-Salem, NC
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support an educational outreach project by the Winston-Salem Symphony. During
1999-2000, the Symphony will present symphonic and chamber music performances in classrooms and concert halls of Forsyth County Public Schools, grades K-6.

Wisconsin Art Education Association
Madison, WI
$65,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support Tomorrow by Design: Design Education as a Catalyst for K-12 Learning, an initiative to develop a comprehensive statewide K-12 design education program in Wisconsin. Both state and national design professionals will be brought together with educators, through individual meetings, workshops and conferences, to develop and implement a curriculum on design education.

Women's Studio Workshop, Inc.
Rosendale, NY
$12,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support the visiting artist component of Hands-on-Art, a studio-based arts education program for public school students. Two visiting artists will be in residence for ten weeks each, create new work using the workshops facilities and equipment, and direct a month-long curriculum for the Kingston City and New Paltz school districts.

Woodland Pattern Book Center, Inc. (Consortium)
Milwaukee, WI
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support Poetry Without Walls, an outreach program featuring weekly writing workshops for youth, poetry on public radio, neighborhood poetry murals, and creative writing day camps. Consortium members include Franklin Pierce Elementary School, Marquette University High School, Milwaukee School of Engineering, public radio station WMSE-FM, and the University of Wisconsin's Department of Art.

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Washington, DC
$64,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support a collaboration to undertake a Community Playbuilding Project. Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company and its artist partners will work with young people and adults from Washington's Shaw district neighborhoods to create an original theater piece based on interviews, oral histories, research, and creative writing.

World Arts West
San Francisco, CA
$60,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support People Like Me (PLM) a vernacular dance education project. Through a second expansion, People Like Me will go to San Jose for two additional weeks.

World Music, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
$12,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Presenting
To support adult educational programs consisting of semester-long classes, workshops, master classes and a one-to-three week intensive immersion into various world music and dance traditions. The project will involve collaborations with cultural, community and educational organizations throughout Boston and Cambridge.

World Poetry Bout Association
Taos, NM
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the Taos Poetry Circus's Education Project, which seeks to develop a model curriculum for teaching contemporary poetics and performance in the classroom. The organization also will sponsor poetry classes for emerging writers, panel discussions featuring distinguished poets, high school poetry slams, and an annual anthology of student writing.

Writers In The Schools
Houston, TX
$35,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support eight creative writing residencies in juvenile probation facilities in and around Houston, Texas. Student writing and instructional material resulting from the residencies will be published and distributed to writers, teachers, and juvenile probation employees throughout the country.

YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago (Duncan YMCA Chemin's Center for the Arts)
Chicago, IL
$16,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support a play reading and development series. The YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago's Duncan Center has designed an arts education program to serve economically disadvantaged youth and families in Chicago's Near West Side and throughout the city.

Young Audiences of Indiana, Inc.
Indianapolis, IN
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support the Cornerstone Dance Project: Positive Interaction through Dance. This is a collaboration between Young Audiences of Indiana and the Metropolitan School District of Washington Township to provide a sequential dance education program based on the voluntary National Standards for Dance Education at the elementary and middle school levels.

Young Playwrights, Inc.
New York, NY
$64,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the expansion of existing educational programming with curriculum-based professional development and student playwriting workshop programs. The project will reach eight school districts or consortia of districts nationwide.

**Zachary Scott Theatre Center
Austin, TX
$12,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support expenses associated with Project Discovery, an arts education program. Project Discovery offers students, grades 6-12, attendance at selected mainstage productions, a peer teaching program, and artist workshops in the schools.

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