Multidisciplinary: FY2003 Grants

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

Access | Creativity | Heritage/Preservation | Organizational Capacity

Leadership | Panelists

Access

509 Cultural Center
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
To support free arts programming in a low-income neighborhood. The project will feature outdoor performances, the ninth-annual In the Street Theater Festival and visual arts exhibitions.

Aliquippa Alliance for Unity and Development, Inc.
Aliquippa, PA
$20,000
To support the 11th annual Aliquippa Embraces Art Festival. The one-day event will be followed by a year-round, artist-in-residence program.

Alternate ROOTS, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$60,000
To support the Tour/Residency Program and other services. This multistate project will provide services that will enable geographically isolated artists and presenters to reach broader audiences, share information and develop new work.

Amigos del Museo del Barrio (aka El Museo del Barrio)
New York, NY
$25,000
To support programming integrating visual art exhibitions and performing arts activities. The initiative will comprise theater programs, music concerts, film screenings and an art symposium in conjunction with the exhibitions.

ARTREACH, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
To support the expansion of the online version of Access the Arts, etc., A Guide for People with Disabilities. The guide will provide disabled audience members with an enhanced listing of accessible visual and performing art venues in southeastern Pennsylvania, Southern New Jersey and Delaware.

Centro Cultural Aztlan, Inc.
San Antonio, TX
$25,000
To support a series of special community arts programs. Through exhibitions, workshops and performances, underserved audiences will be given the opportunity to participate in the creation and appreciation of Chicano/Latino art and culture.

Class Acts Arts, Inc.
Silver Spring, MD
$15,000
To support the expansion of outreach programs to underserved populations. The two-part project will focus on special-needs and at-risk youth, and the development of deaf access programs.

Cuyahoga Valley National Park Association
Peninsula, OH
$35,000
To support the artists-in-residence program. Six artists in various disciplines will be engaged to create models for interacting with students and the public in a residential environmental program.

Danceworks, Inc.
Milwaukee, WI
$30,000
To support the 50-Plus Initiative, a dance and creative arts program for older adults. Workshops, classes, exhibitions, residencies and performances will be adapted for high-functioning older adults, low-functioning and frail elderly, and for those with physical and cognitive disabilities, including Alzheimer's disease.

East Bay Center for the Performing Arts
Richmond, CA
$60,000
To support Call and Response and a series of special performance events. Multicultural resident dance, music and theater companies will perform at San Francisco Bay Area sites.

Elders Share the Arts (aka National Center for Creative Aging) (consortium)
Brooklyn, NY
$40,000
To support the Creative Aging Institutes, a national arts-in-aging training program. Project activities will include continued training programs at five affiliate sites and an expansion to additional cities, creation of a network newsletter, and development of an online component highlighting model programs.

Esperanza Peace and Justice Center
San Antonio, TX
$45,000
To support Arte es Vida. The series will consist of presentations by literary, visual and performance artists at schools, senior centers and other venues in the city's Westside.

Galeria/Studio 24
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
To support Paradigms Lost. The project will explore Latino/Latin-American artists' reflections on self and place in the digital age, and will comprise a visual art exhibition, performances, public art and a youth arts component.

Hatch-Billops Collection, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support ARTIST AND INFLUENCE. The project will document visual artists, writers, performers and arts administrators through recorded interviews, photography and the publication of a journal.

High 5 Tickets to the Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the Take 5 reduced price ticketing program. This adult-led, small group program is designed to make the arts accessible to younger teens, many of whom may not be able to attend an arts event on their own.

Institute for Cultural Partnerships
Harrisburg, PA
$20,000
To support a multisite residency program in south central Pennsylvania. Three artists will offer Latino and other interested adults instruction in poetry, dance and visual arts.

Japanese American Cultural and Community Center
Los Angeles, CA
$50,000
To support contemporary and traditional cross-cultural arts programming. Project activities will include concerts, performances, visual art exhibitions, cultural celebrations and a series of events that will bring programming to sites throughout Los Angeles.

Little City Foundation
Palatine, IL
$20,000
To support Have Art, Will Travel. This series of mobile arts classes is designed for children and adults with developmental disabilities and provides them with at-home/work instruction in visual, performing and media arts.

Myrna Loy Center/Helena Presents
Helena, MT
$24,000
To support phase four of Echoes of Discovery. This five-part project culminating in 2003-2004 explores historical and mythical notions of the Northwest Passage.

New Comers' Network, Inc. (aka Refugee Family Services)
Clarkston, GA
$20,000
To support My Journey Yours, a series of residencies and exhibitions. A team of artists and individuals from local refugee communities will generate a series of collaborative art works.

Real Art Ways, Inc. (consortium)
Hartford, CT
$40,000
To support events focusing on contemporary work by Puerto Rican artists. The series will feature a visual art exhibition, musical performances, films, literary events and a youth arts component.

Senior Arts Project
Albuquerque, NM
$6,000
To support a Celebration of African American Artists. This series will consist of workshops in visual and literary arts, musical performances and intergenerational storytelling events.

Stern Grove Festival Association
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
To support the Asian American and Pacific Islander Initiative. This project will consist of a mainstage concert featuring contemporary and traditional Hawaiian music and dance, and education programs for children and adults.

Sun Valley Center for the Arts and Humanities, Inc.
(aka Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Inc.)
Sun Valley, ID
$25,000
To support a series of programs exploring Hispanic art and culture. The project will include visual art exhibitions, performances and literary events.

Taller Puertorriqueno, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$40,000

To support a series of adult and family programming activities. Programs in the visual arts, music, public art and literature will explore both traditional and contemporary Latino art forms.

Urban Appalachian Council
Cincinnati, OH
$30,000
To support a series of residencies in diverse inner-city Cincinnati neighborhoods. Appalachian and Affrilachian artists will facilitate community-based activities in creative writing, storytelling, theater and music.

VSA arts of New Hampshire
Concord, NH
$20,000
To support activities designed to make art more broadly available to individuals with disabilities. The initiative will include site surveys, a Web-based ticket exchange and a monthly calendar of events.

Walker's Point Center for the Arts, Ltd.
Milwaukee, WI
$10,000
To support exhibitions and performances that will introduce multiethnic, low-income audiences to traditional and contemporary art forms. Work from a range of disciplines including visual art, craft, performance art and digital art will be presented.

Walt Whitman Cultural Arts Center, Inc.
Camden, NJ
$30,000
To support the expansion of the artist residency and workshop program. Up to four literary and performing artists will develop new work with community participation.

Washington Pavilion Management, Inc.
Sioux Falls, SD
$10,000
To support access to educational arts activities for new community members. The project will provide Sudanese and Ethiopian refugees and other new area residents with access to open art studio sessions.

Creativity

3 Legged Race, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$12,000
To support the 5th annual Summer Blizzard. The series will focus on the development and presentation of four new, large-scale dance, circus arts and interdisciplinary works.

651 ARTS (Kings Majestic Corporation) (on behalf of Fist & Heel Performance Group)
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
To support the development of Black Burlesque (revisited). The project is a collaboration between Fist and Heel Performance Group (NYC) and Black Umfolosi (Zimbabwe) with the Noble Douglas Dance Company (Trinidad and Tobago).

American Music Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$23,000
To support the commissioning of collaborative Web-based works. Composers will be paired with visual or performing artists to create new works of art that incorporate music and new media.

Appalshop, Inc. (on behalf of American Festival Project)
Whitesburg, KY
$35,000
To support the American Festival Project's Primary Labs and Traveling Council. The project supports artists in the creation of community arts projects in underserved regions of Appalachia.

Arts at St. Ann's (St. Ann Center for Restoration and the Arts, Inc.)
Brooklyn, NY
$35,000
To support the 2003 Puppet Lab and Labapalooza! Mini-Festival of New Puppet Theater from The Lab. The project is an ongoing professional workshop where emerging and mid-career puppet artists and collaborators meet weekly to create new, interdisciplinary puppet theater works.

Boston Cyberarts, Inc.
Jamaica Plain, MA
$20,000
To support the Boston Cyberarts Festival. Ten events will be developed and produced for the 2003 festival.

Builders Association, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support Alladeen, a cross-media performance based on the legend of Alladin. The project will be created in collaboration with the London-based South Asian performance company, Moti Roti.

CalArts (California Institute of the Arts)
Valencia, CA
$25,000
To support REDCAT InterArts. The new project will comprise five residencies by innovative artistic teams from a range of disciplines.

Carnegie Mellon University (on behalf of Studio for Creative Inquiry)
Pittsburgh, PA
$40,000
To support a one-year Artist Residency Project with an emphasis on artists collectives. Three artists/collectives and an art critic/curator will be provided with the opportunity to develop new work and convene a panel on the collective art-making process.

CDDC (Chhandam Chitresh Das Dance Company)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support a collaboration between two Bengali artists, dancer and choreographer Chitresh Das and Paris-based painter Shahabuddin. The project will expand upon a work-in-progress performance presented in 2001.

Center for Cultural Exchange
Portland, ME
$30,000
To support the creation of Orientalism. This new work by Armenian-American composer Alan Shavarsh Bardezbanian will explore the West's relationship with Islamic and Asian cultures.

Chashama, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the Artist in Residence Program. The program offers free rehearsal, performance, studio and gallery space to emerging and established artists based in New York City.

Contemporary Arts Center
New Orleans, LA
$20,000
To support Hip Hop: Kicking Rhyme. The program will feature a multidisciplinary performance event, a visual art exhibition and a theater residency.

Corporation of Yaddo
Saratoga Springs, NY
$25,000
To support residencies for professional artists. Up to 100 artists who have never before been in residence at Yaddo will be provided with residencies running from two weeks to one month.

Creative Time, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the New York Project. Three artists will create audio narratives about the New York City neighborhoods in which they live.

DiverseWorks ArtSpace
Houston, TX
$40,000
To support the commissioning and presentation of new works. The project will include a series of visual arts exhibitions, performances, artist residencies and educational activities.

Djerassi Resident Artists Program
Woodside, CA
$35,000
To support one-month residencies for American artists. The project will provide studios, living accommodations, meals and professional support for media artists, visual artists, writers, choreographers and composers.

Exploratorium
San Francisco, CA
$35,000
To support the commissioning of up to six new works. The commissioned pieces will be integral to two museum initiatives in science and education.

Eyebeam Atelier, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$27,000
To support the Artist in Residence Program. Sixteen artists will be provided with stipends for the development, creation and presentation of new digital art through this five-month residency program.

Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Inc.
Provincetown, MA
$30,000
To support the Winter Residency Program. The program will provide 20 emerging writers and visual artists with housing, studios and a monthly stipend for a seven-month period.

Five Myles, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the construction and production of an abstract theater work based on The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster. This new work will be a collaboration among architect Burzeen Contractor, composer Jane Wang, puppeteer Hanne Tierney and designer Trevor Brown.

Frederick Douglass Creative Arts Center
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the development of professional writers and playwrights. This project will feature writing workshops, a reading series of original plays for stage and screen and the 31st annual Black Roots Festival.

Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center
San Antonio, TX
$40,000
To support Voces Femeninas: Woman Artists Across Las Generaciones. This year-long project will pair established and emerging dancers, writers, and theater artists to explore the contributions of women artists to Latino/Chicano culture.

Hallwalls, Inc.
Buffalo, NY
$25,000
To support the Hallwalls Artist-in-Residence Project. The project will enable two visual artists, one media artist and two musicians to create and present new works.

Harvestworks, Inc.
New York, NY
$22,000
To support the Artists' Access Program in digital media. The program will provide artists with studio residencies, classes and public presentation of work.

Headlands Center for the Arts
Sausalito, CA
$45,000
To support the U.S. Artists-in-Residence Program and associated public programs. The project will provide three-month residences for up to 30 artists.

Hesperus
Arlington, VA
$10,000
To support the Robin Hood Project. The project components include a concert, film screening, play and lecture designed to deepen the public's understanding of Medieval and Renaissance music and culture.

Indo-American Cultural Center
Venice, CA
$10,000
To support the enhancement and expansion of current artist services. Components of the project will include the Artwallah festival of visual arts, a mentoring program and the commissioning of 10 new projects on the South Asian diasporic experience.

International Cinematexas Short Film Festival
Austin, TX
$20,000
To support the Austin Eye+Ear Performance Series. The series will showcase work by artists who have not previously performed in Austin.

Jack Straw Memorial Foundation
Seattle, WA
$30,000
To support audio art residencies. The program will make available Jack Straw studios and facilities to Northwest artists from a variety of disciplines.

La Pocha Nostra
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support the creation and U.S. presentation of EX-CENTRIS. This series of performance installations will be directed by Guillermo Gomez-Pena at sites in the U.S., Spain and England.

Maine Arts Commission
Augusta, ME
$40,000
To support Connecting Maine Artists. This is an expansion of an on-going program that provides artists statewide with a curriculum of professional development opportunities and resources.

MASS MoCA (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art Foundation, Inc.)
North Adams, MA
$40,000
To support MASS Manufacturing. Seven new works will be created through this residency and commissioning program.

Movin' Spirits Dance Theater, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$12,000
To support The Women's Project "Under Construction". The evening-length performance work will use a combination of live music, video, language and dance to explore the stories and personal histories of women.

New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.
Staten Island, NY
$15,000
To support new commissioned work and the continued development of the Turbulence Web site. The project will provide for the creation and distribution of five new works of Internet-based art by national artists and the development of a new interface for the web site.

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc. (on behalf of Bill Shannon/Crutch Productions)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the creation of a new dance/multimedia project. The evening-length work will bring together elements of break-dancing, skateboarding, contemporary music and video to explore street dance within a theater context.

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc. (on behalf of Yin Mei Dance)
New York, NY
$17,000
To support the development and production of part one of the Nomad Trilogy. Nomad I will be a multi-media, dance theater work examining the theme of spiritual exploration.

NewTown Pasadena Foundation
Altadena, CA
$10,000
To support the presentation of two public art projects. Who's in Control, Anyway?, an exhibition exploring audience interactivity and Trail Markers 3, will feature site-specific installations and performances.

Red Wing Performing Group, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
To support the creation and premiere of the Hiroshima Maidens. This bunraku-style puppet work will be written and directed by Dan Hurlin.

Regents of the University of California at Los Angeles
(on behalf of Center for Intercultural Performance)
$35,000
To support the Art of Rice Traveling Theater. The evening-length production with original music, dance and theater will be created by 15 artists of varying disciplines from Asia and the United States during a four-week residency.

Rotunda Gallery (Brooklyn Information & Culture, Inc.)
(on behalf of Celebrate Brooklyn Performing Arts Festival)
$15,000
To support Live Music for Film. The project will feature screenings of two classic silent films accompanied by live performances of original music.

Roulette Intermedium, Inc.
New York, NY
$12,000
To support the Festival of Mixology 2003. This series of eight concerts will focus on the ways in which artists are experimenting with new technological interfaces between sound and video.

Saratoga International Theater Institute, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support SYSTEMS/LAYERS. This collaborative work will incorporate seven actors, five musicians and film projection to re-examine the boundaries between theater, music and dance.

South Florida Composers Alliance, Inc.
Miami, FL
$10,000
To support the Sound Arts Workshop residency program. The project will provide four interdisciplinary artists with access to equipment, technical assistance and artist fees for the creation of sound-based work.

Temple University
Philadelphia, PA
$12,000
To support the development and production of La maquina del tiempo. This new interdisciplinary work by choreographer Merian Soto will explore the influence of salsa on musical and dance forms.

Temple University (on behalf of Art Works in Different Places)
Philadelphia, PA
$30,000
To support the commissioning and presenting of two new works. Art Works in Different Places will produce a new public artwork by visual artist Buster Simpson and an evening-length performance piece by composer Myra Melford.

The Kitchen (Haleakala, Inc.)
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the Sidney Kahn Summer Institute. Students and young professionals in the performing and media arts will receive intensive training in the design and development of multimedia work.

Wexner Center for the Arts
Columbus, OH
$75,000
To support the commissioning of visual, performing and media art works. The project is a part of the Wexner Center for the Arts' ongoing artists residency program that provides support for the creation, completion and/or presentation of art.

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
To support residencies for artists of multiple disciplines. Artists in residence in the visual arts, performing arts, film and video will be given the opportunity to develop works and engage in a variety of education and community programs.

Heritage/Preservation

Association to Preserve the Eatonville Community, Inc. (aka P.E.C.)
Eatonville, FL
$10,000
To support a photographic exhibition and short film festival. The events will be presented as part of the 15th Annual Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities.

Chinese-American Arts Council, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the Summer Cultural Festival. This series will feature Chinese opera, folk music, visual arts and lecture demonstrations.

Experimental Sound Studio (consortium)
Chicago, IL
$18,000
To support the Creative Audio Archive. This project will catalog and preserve three collections of audio recordings of local and national significance.

Gamelan Sekar Jaya
El Cerrito, CA
$25,000
To support the Balinese Residency and Intensive Workshop Series. Up to ten Balinese musicians and dancers will offer hands-on instruction, coaching, lectures and demonstrations on both widely known Balinese performance genres and little-documented music and dance forms.

HUC Skirball Cultural Center (aka Skirball Cultural Center)
Los Angeles, CA
$40,000
To support the International Jewish Performing Arts Festival. The three-week series will present work by international musicians, theater artists, videographers, filmmakers and choreographers whose work integrates traditional Jewish and contemporary artistic practices.

Intermedia Arts of Minnesota, Inc. (consortium)
Minneapolis, MN
$25,000
To support the expansion and maintenance of the Intermedia Arts Collection. This archive of regional work will grow to include 35 mm slides, media art, performance documentation, interviews and corporate records gathered over the organization's 30-year history.

Iroquois Indian Museum
Howes Cave, NY
$27,000
To support Iroquois Arts Celebrations. The project will present a wide spectrum of visual and performing arts events by Iroquois Nation artists.

New Art Publications (aka BOMB Magazine)
New York, NY
$30,000
To support AMERICAS 2004. This annual issue will feature interviews between artists, writers and musicians, and original translations of poetry and fiction.

New York Public Library and the Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations
(on behalf of New York Public Library for the Performing Arts)
New York, NY
$65,000
To support the documentation and preservation of dance and theater performances and oral histories by performing artists. Up to 18 performances and seven oral histories will be recorded, and 50 hours of audio materials will be preserved.

New York University
New York, NY
$40,000
To support phase one of a three-year preservation plan for the Downtown Collection. Phase one will focus on research, material assessment, copyright determination and the development of protocols for preserving a large print and video archive documenting the downtown New York arts scene.

San Francisco Performing Arts Library & Museum (aka SF Palm)
(on behalf of LEGACY 0ral History Project)
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
To support the expansion of the LEGACY Oral History Project. Up to nine oral histories will be produced and two training workshops in the creation of oral histories will be offered.

Wing Luke Memorial Foundation
Seattle, WA
$25,000
To support Learning the Past, Living the Present: Sikh Community, Culture and Conversation. This project will generate oral histories and visual artworks that will form the basis for a traveling exhibition.

Organizational Capacity

Alliance of Artists' Communities
Providence, RI
$20,000
To support the development of skills of emerging leaders in the field of artists' communities. This two part initiative will include a peer-mentoring program and two regional meetings.

Artist Trust
Seattle, WA
$15,000
To support the maintenance and expansion of the Information Services program. The project serves artists by collecting and dispensing professional development information and resources to the artists of Washington State.

Arts & Business Council, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
To support the National Arts Marketing Project (NAMP). NAMP services will comprise basic marketing workshops, a national conference and a Web site.

Arts Alive Fort Collins
Fort Collins, CO
$5,000
To support the expansion of business management and professional development services. Four workshops will be offered to local arts organizations in marketing, grantwriting, fundraising and audience diversification.

ArtServe Michigan, Inc.
Southfield, MI
$15,000
To support and expand the Volunteer Services Program. ArtServe will present workshops focusing on the business of being an artist, and will develop online forums, an arts fair and a speakers' bureau.

Asian American Arts Alliance, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the Technical Assistance for Organizations (TAO) project. This two-tier program will offer management workshops for 20 small to mid-sized organizations, 20-80 hours of training, consultations, and issue-specific roundtables and forums.

Association of Hispanic Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the Latino Arts Management Training Series (LMTS). This two-tier program will provide arts administrators from 20 small to mid-sized New York City-area arts organizations with training in business planning, financial management, resource development and marketing.

California Lawyers for the Arts, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$40,000
To support the expansion of ArtHouse. The program will provide workshops and Web-based resources on how to develop affordable space for arts organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area and in Southern California.

East Bay Center for the Performing Arts (on behalf of Latino Arts Network of CA)
Richmond, CA
$25,000
To support the Arts and Technology Services program. Consultants will work with 12 mid-sized California cultural centers to integrate digital technologies into their programs and operations.

Lawyers for the Creative Arts
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support the expansion of pro bono legal and arts mediation services. The project will provide artists and arts organizations in Northern Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin with access to free legal expertise.

National Association of Latino Arts and Culture
San Antonio, TX
$35,000
To support a leadership institute and four regional meetings. This two-part project will provide community-based organizations with capacity building skills, leadership training and technical assistance.

National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts
New York, NY
$40,000
To support Project Bridge. This three-part leadership training initiative will include a series of gatherings, a management training institute, and a mentoring and partnership program.

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$55,000
To support the Arts Leadership Initiative. A series of peer-learning groups and workshops, and one on-one coaching sessions will enhance the leadership skills of administrators from small and mid sized arts groups.

Philadelphia Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
To support the Cultural Entrepreneurship Center. The center will provide services such as business training, educational programs, publications and peer discussion groups to artists and arts organizations in the greater Philadelphia region.

Resources and Counseling for the Arts
St. Paul, MN
$10,000
To support the Arts Administration Mentorship Program. This statewide program will feature retreats, workshops and networking opportunities.

Society for the Arts in Healthcare
Washington, DC
$10,000
To support a national conference on arts and healing. Transforming Healthcare Through the Arts: Healing Our Patients, Our Communities and Ourselves will offer artists, arts administrators and medical professionals training on the use of the arts in healing environments.

Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the expansion of pro bono and low cost legal services. The program will provide representation, advocacy, and mediation services to artists and arts organizations throughout New York State.

Leadership

Forest Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture
Washington, DC
$150,000
To support the Arts and Rural Community Assistance Initiative. The initiative will provide grants for arts projects that celebrate rural America's diverse cultural heritage, strengthen the arts in rural communities by supporting works of artistic excellence, and advance learning in the arts.

National Endowment for the Arts · an independent federal agency
1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20506