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Presenting: FY2004 Grants

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

Challenge America | Creativity | Heritage & Preservation | Services to Arts Organizations and Artists | Panelists

Challenge America: Access to the Arts

Alaska Junior Theater, Inc.
Anchorage, AK
$10,000
To support the Arts Outreach Program. The project presents performing arts programming to underserved children and families in Anchorage, Kenai, Barrow, Bethel, and other rural Alaskan communities.

Alberta Bair Theater Corporation
Billings, MT
$10,000
To support Border Crossings: Celebrating the Cultural Diversity of the Americas. The performing arts series will feature Canadian and Latin-American dance, theater, and music and will include artist residencies as well as educational outreach activities in rural Montana.

Arts Center Foundation
El Cajon, CA
$10,000
To support the Plug into Arts Program. Designed to reach students ages seven to 18 throughout East County, San Diego, the program will provide performances and workshops through week-long residencies at more than 38 schools.

First Night Binghamton
Binghamton, NY
$10,000
To support Starry Nights on the Plaza and On the Road. Free performances will be given at the downtown Binghamton Government Plaza and at assisted living and public housing facilities.

Ford Theatre Foundation
Hollywood, CA
$20,000
To support the Latino Audience Initiative (LAI). The project will explore programming, marketing, and audience development strategies intended to increase Latino participation and access to performing arts programs.

Grand Performances
Los Angeles, CA
$30,000
To support the presentation of traditional and contemporary performing arts of Central Asia. Focusing on geographically themed, intergenerational, and intercultural programming, performances will include local and touring artists from Iran, Armenia, India, Pakistan, and Turkey.

Henry Street Settlement
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the Urban Youth Theater (UYT) Festival and Music for All Seasons. UYT will provide comprehensive theater training and performance opportunities to more than 60 teens, while participants in the music series will reflect the diversity of Lower East Side composers and musicians.

La Pena Cultural Center
Berkeley, CA
$35,000
To support Mujeres, a series of performances and conversations featuring female artists of different generations and cultures. Artists will perform music and dance rooted in traditional African-American and Latin-American folklore, as well as contemporary works of jazz, spoken-word, and hip-hop.

Maui Community Arts & Cultural Center
Kahului, HI
$30,000
To support a presenting and residency series. The project will highlight Hawaiian-based music, dance events, and traditional storytelling.

New Jersey Performing Arts Center
Newark, NJ
$30,000
To support Sounds of the City and the Alternate Routes Festival. Both events aim to revitalize downtown Newark and celebrate world cultures.

Seattle International Children's Festival
Seattle, WA
$40,000
To support the 19th annual Seattle International Children's Festival and the 6th annual Festival in Tacoma, and related education and outreach activities. The project also will provide teachers with an enriched curriculum by linking the festival's cultural opportunities to classroom activities.

Town Hall Association
Seattle, WA
$30,000
To support World in Seattle. The multi-component project will focus on world, traditional, and folk music and dance performances; cultural preservation issues; and artist conversations, focusing on enhancing the understanding and appreciation of the traditions of local culture communities.

Creativity

651 ARTS (Kings Majestic Corporation)
Brooklyn, NY
$45,000
To support the presentation of new and existing works by artists and companies of African descent. Working in all performing arts disciplines and representing the full spectrum of the African Diaspora, artists will be commissioned and involved in a series of public events, including mainstage performances and workshops.

Aaron Davis Hall, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support commissioning and programmatic activities for the development and presentation of works by artists of color. Included will be a series by dance, music, and multidisciplinary artists titled Waterworks at the Gatehouse facility.

Anchorage Concert Association, Inc.
Anchorage, AK
$10,000
To support the Cultural Crossroads Series of dance and music. The series will feature public and in school performances, gatherings with local artists, pre- and post-concert talks, and radio broadcasts.

Asociacion de Musicos Latino Americanos, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
To support Tesoros Culturales/Cultural Treasures programs. Workshops, presentations, and performances will make diverse forms of Latin music and dance accessible to the Latino community in Philadelphia.

Brooklyn Academy of Music, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$55,000
To support the New Discoveries series and Strategic Alliances presentations. The New Discoveries series will focus on New York or U.S. debuts, and Strategic Alliances will feature new work by artists with whom the Brooklyn Academy has continuing realtionships.

City Parks Foundation (Central Park Summerstage)
New York, NY
$15,000
To support New Works/New Voices 2004 for the Central Park SummerStage program. The project will be a continuation of annual efforts to present new cross-disciplinary work or debut presentations by emerging, regional, and international artists.

Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, OH
$35,000
To support presentation of music and dance performances by national and international artists/ensembles. A comprehensive schedule of performance series, including VIVA!, Carnevale, Gala Music Series, and Aki Festival of New Music, will feature artists from diverse cultures.

Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH
$40,000
To support the Visiting Performing Artist Series. Residencies will feature presentations of community based, site-specific, and educational projects by theater/puppet artists, choreographers/dance companies, and musicians.

Dixon Place (Open Channels NY, Inc.)
New York, NY
$15,000
To support Mondo Cane!, a commissioning program for theater and dance artists. The program provides four to six weeks of workshop and residency time and an additional month in which the artists perform their work, gather audience feedback, and continue the work's development.

Flynn Theatre for the Performing Arts, Ltd.
Burlington, VT
$60,000
To support the presentation of a multidisciplinary series including new and commissioned works. The series will feature a gospel oratorio by Bob Telson and Lee Breuer and a two-week creation residency by the Axis Dance Company.

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
New York, NY
$50,000
To support performances and related activities of Lincoln Center Festival 2004. The summer festival will feature traditional and contemporary multidisciplinary works, as well as symposia that inform the presentations.

Miami Light Project, Inc. (consortium)
Miami, FL
$30,000
To support the International Hip-Hop Exchange. The annual celebration of hip-hop music, dance, theater, spoken word, visual art, film, and video will feature work by local, national, and international hip-hop artists.

Miami-Dade Community College
Miami, FL
$40,000
To support the Cultura del Lobo performance series. The Cultural Affairs Department of the college will present nine major performances and more than 100 residency activities focusing on contemporary work.

Museum of Contemporary Art
Chicago, IL
$40,000
To support a series of large-scale performance projects based on interdisciplinary and collaborative practice. The museum will produce, co-commission, or provide developmental residencies for four new projects.

National Black Arts Festival
Atlanta, GA
$25,000
To support a series of performances at the National Black Arts Festival 2004. Under the theme "Women of the African Diaspora", performances will be supplemented by educational activities and humanities-based events designed to deepen the audience's connection to artists and the works presented.

On the Boards
Seattle, WA
$18,000
To support the New Performance Series and the Northwest New Works Series. The New Performance Series will present contemporary works by national and international artists/companies, and the new Northwest New Works Series will focus on contemporary work by regional dance companies.

Painted Bride Art Center
Philadelphia, PA
$20,000
To support the creation and presentation of new works by Philadelphia artists. Three artists will be chosen to receive commissioning, marketing, and technical support to develop new work into projects which can be toured and will be given the opportunity to workshop and document their work.

Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art
Winston-Salem, NC
$25,000
To support the performing arts series New Voices/New Visions Live! The programs will feature a multidisciplinary focus incorporating film and digital media with live music performance.

Spoleto Festival USA
Charleston, SC
$60,000
To support the Spoleto Festival USA 2004. The annual 17-day festival will produce and present a range of multidisciplinary work juxtaposing the traditional with the new, performed by both established and emerging artists.

Tigertail Productions, Inc.
Miami, FL
$20,000
To support the Asian Diaspora of the Americas Festival. The festival will present artists of Asian descent from North and South America whose work examines their cultural roots and/or reflects viewpoints stemming from their ancestry.

University of California (on behalf of UCLA Performing Arts)
Los Angeles, CA
$25,000
To support the 2004 UCLA Live International Theatre Festival. Approximately 45 performances will be presented, featuring performing artists/ensembles who extend the boundaries of theater using unique combinations of media and pioneering new approaches to historic literary and dramatic texts.

University of California (on behalf of Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts)
Davis, CA
$30,000
To support the New Works/Contemporary Artists project. Local, national, and international contemporary artists in theater and dance will offer performances and related audience outreach activities.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(on behalf of Krannert Center for the Performing Arts)
Champaign, IL
$25,000
To support a residency with choreographer Ralph Lemon and the development and premiere of House: Part 3 of the Geography Trilogy. The work will encompass dance, theater, and new media/interactive technologies in a full evening performance.

University of Maryland at College Park
(on behalf of Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center)
College Park, MD
$30,000
To support Voices, a program of residencies and performances. Programs in dance, music, and theater will explore diverse perspectives that share the common theme of giving voice to the art in our everyday lives.

Walker Art Center, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$75,000
To support the residency project, Connective Creation: Developing New Work in Community. Up to seven large-scale residencies will include on-site creation and presentation of new work and partnering with diverse communities.

Washington Performing Arts Society (consortium)
Washington, DC
$30,000
To support the ArteAmericA series. A consortium with GALA Hispanic Theatre, this project will include performances and residencies celebrating Latino cultures throughout the Americas.

World Music Institute, Inc.
New York, NY
$42,000
To support the Mediterranean Cross-Currents concert series. The series will feature music and dance from Egypt, Greece, and Spain and from North Africa and the Middle East.

WYO Theatre, Inc.
Sheridan, WY
$10,000
To support dance components of the Children's Educational and Families' Series. The series will feature free matinee performances for school children and residency activities, planned in cooperation with the Sheridan YMCA.

Heritage & Preservation

Center for Cultural Exchange (consortium)
Portland, ME
$62,000
To support a consortium project to create sourcebooks, CDs, and DVDs for the Suitcase Projects. Produced in partnership with the Franco American Heritage Center, the thematic, multimedia materials will document the tour performances of leading traditional dancers and musicians from immigrant and refugee communities in the Northeast.

Minnesota STAR, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$25,000
To support the sixth annual Nordic Roots Festival. The festival will present traditional music and children's theater from Scandinavian countries.

Queens Theatre in the Park, Inc.
Flushing, NY
$50,000
To support the Latino Cultural Festival and the Latino Cultural Series. The festival will feature music, dance, theater, film, workshops, panel discussions, family-oriented performances, and an exhibition of contemporary Latino visual artists.

Services to Arts Organizations and Artists

Arts Northwest
Port Angeles, WA
$25,000
To support technical assistance and professional training through On the Road Seminars. The project will target arts administrators who have fewer opportunities for professional development because of geographic and budgetary constraints.

Association of Performing Arts Presenters, Inc.
Washington, DC
$75,000
To support Next Steps, a professional development program. The project is designed to give mid career artists with a history of touring, but under-developed managerial and administrative infrastructure, the tools to develop projects with presenters; as well as give presenters, artists managers, and agents skills in building partnerships with artists and other partners.


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