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Presenting: FY2002 Grants

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

Access | Challenge America Access | Creativity | Heritage/Preservation

Organizational Capacity | Panelists

Access

Association of Performing Arts Presenters, Inc.
Washington, DC
$60,000
To support the Performing Arts Information System, an Internet communications platform for the national touring and presenting field. This on-line system will accelerate dissemination of knowledge to the field and offer a wealth of performance information and cultural opportunities to the public.

Center for Cultural Exchange (consortium)
Portland, ME
$25,000
To support Latino Down East/hispano de bajo este. In consortium with the Latino Community Council of Maine, the project involves a series of artist residencies, workshops, performances and in-school educational programs with local Caribbean, Mexican and Central American communities.

Class Acts Arts, Inc.
Silver Spring, MD
$10,000
To support the expansion of outreach programs to underserved populations and the development of access programs for people who are deaf. These efforts will focus on special needs and at-risk youth and include workshops with master artists, new learning guides and other support material for teachers.

Grand Performances
Los Angeles, CA
$35,000
To support a multidisciplinary series of hip hop presentations. Focused on local roots, this free series will broaden involvement of young audiences and introduce intergenerational audiences to the artistry of hip hop.

La Peña Cultural Center
Berkeley, CA
$28,000
To support the Bay Area Latin Jazz Legacy. This six-part series will feature Bay Area Latin jazz veterans and newer Latino jazz artists.

Miami Light Project, Inc.
Miami, FL
$25,000
To support Here and Now On Tour. This project focuses on an expansion of outreach programs for Miami-based artists, community organizations and their constituencies.

Pregones Touring Puerto Rican Theater Collection, Inc. (consortium)
Bronx, NY
$35,000
To support La Ruta: The Northeastern Latino Cultural Corridor, a regional touring and artist residency network. Activities will include structural and curatorial planning for network activity, artist nominations and selection, presenter-artist residency planning and regional tours throughout the northeast and mid-Atlantic regions.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL
$22,000
To support the Creative Intersections initiative. This project will enable the university's Krannert Center for the Performing Arts to extend its audience development efforts for classical music, jazz and dance.

Challenge America Access

Seattle International Children's Festival
Seattle, WA
$35,000
To support expansion of education and outreach programs. The Children's Festival will increase the number of educational activities in schools, programs for the general public, and satellite festival sites throughout Washington State.

Creativity

651 ARTS (Kings Majestic Corporation)
Brooklyn, NY
$45,000
To support a series of presentations by performing artists of African descent. The project will include public performances, commissioning or reconstruction support, and community residency activities.

Aaron Davis Hall, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the commissioning and presentation of works in a broad range of art forms by established and emerging artists of color. Artists are provided with support and space for the creation of new work and engage in residency activities designed to build new audiences.

Brooklyn Academy of Music, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$40,000
To support the 2002 Next Wave Festival, the festival's 25th anniversary. Presented each fall for two to three months, the festival showcases a combination of mature, experimental artists and emerging talent working in music, dance, theater and the visual arts, as well as hybrid forms.

Brooklyn Information & Culture, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$12,000
To support Celebrate Brooklyn-Urban Voices/Rural Stories, a series of concerts and professionally moderated dialogues with artists and audiences. Music, dance and spoken word will be featured in this series of writing and performance.

Center for Cultural Exchange
Portland, ME
$25,000
To support Passion, a two-part touring program focused on aspects of two distinctive cultures. The project will present artists from the African-Latin cultural diaspora and from four Islam-influenced Southern European areas.

City Parks Foundation-SummerStage
New York, NY
$10,000
To support New Works, New Voices, 2002. This ongoing initiative is devoted to fostering collaborations between artists of different disciplines and presenting new works resulting from such collaborations

Flynn Theatre for the Performing Arts, Ltd.
Burlington, VT
$50,000
To support a series of dance, theater and music residencies. With this project, the Flynn continues its commitment to the development of new work and educational activities in its community.

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
To support Lincoln Center Festival 2002. For three weeks in July 2002, major artists and ensembles from the U.S. and abroad will be presented in concert halls and theaters at Lincoln Center and neighboring venues.

Maui Community Arts & Cultural Center
Kahului, HI
$12,000
To support Global Rhythms, a presenting series of artists from a range of performing arts disciplines and countries. A goal of the program is to present artists to whom the Maui community would not otherwise have access.

Museum of Contemporary Art
Chicago, IL
$60,000
To support MCA Performances. This series of multidisciplinary performances will be enhanced by related residency activities designed to promote contact and interchange between artists and the public.

ODC Theater
San Francisco, CA
$12,000
To support an artist-in-residence program. Based on artistic quality and the opportunity for the residency to invigorate the community, three residencies will be organized during 2002.

On the Boards
Seattle, WA
$15,000
To support The New Performance Series & Northwest New Works Festival. The project will include the premiere of cross-discipline work and will support residencies for artists.

Ordway Center for the Performing Arts
St. Paul, MN
$15,000
To support the 2002 Koch's International Children's Festival. The festival is a weeklong event featuring international artists performing multidisciplinary works and includes educational components for children ages four to 12.

Philadelphia Fringe Festival
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
To support the 6th annual Philadelphia Fringe Festival. The project involves contemporary performing arts events presented over a 16-day period.

University Musical Society
Ann Arbor, MI
$30,000
To support Scores, Sonnets and Steps. This series of presentations will explore the connections between literature and the performing arts.

University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA
$20,000
To support the commission and presentation of chamber dance works with live music. The program will premiere at the University's Hancher Auditorium and will be performed on national tours over the following year.

University of Kansas Center for Research, Inc.
(on behalf of the Lied Center)
$25,000
Lawrence, KS
To support Current and Crossroads: A Journey of Self-Discovery. In addition to presentations by professional artists in a range of performing arts disciplines, the project will include residency activities throughout the Lawrence community allowing residents to engage in dialogue with the artists.

Walker Art Center, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$60,000
To support Intersections: New Works in Community. This series of commissions and residencies by contemporary performing arts innovators will deepen the community's understanding of and appreciation for the creative process.

Washington Performing Arts Society (consortium)
Washington, DC
$40,000
To support ArteAmericA, a consortium project with the GALA Hispanic Theatre and the Latin American Youth Center. The project features a series of performances, residencies and outreach activities.

World Music Institute, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support American Roots: From the Old Country to the New. Concerts will feature music and dance from Europe as well as American forms.

World Music, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
$10,000
To support a presentation/residency series. This series will explore cross-cultural influences between traditional and contemporary performing artists.

Heritage/Preservation


Queens Theatre in the Park, Inc.
Flushing, NY
$25,000
To support the Latino Cultural Festival and the yearlong Latino Cultural Series. The festival, a three-week summer event, and the series, a seven-event program, will feature music, dance, theater, film and children's productions in celebration of Latino and Latin American artists' contributions to the cultural life of Queens and the greater New York metropolitan area.

Organizational Capacity

Western Alliance of Arts Administrators Foundation
San Francisco, CA
$12,000
To support the Leadership Development Program designed to serve the touring and presenting field in the West. This project will include an annual Leadership Institute and a Leadership Circle, activities at the alliance's annual conference, an on-line resource bank and scholarships for emerging leaders.


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