2002 Grant Awards: Access

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

DANCE

Andrew Cacho African Drummers & Dancers
Economic Development, Inc.
Washington, DC
$15,000
To support workshops and performances as part of the Youthworks 2002 project. Children, teens and young adults will be trained in African Caribbean drumming, dancing, stilt walking and masquerades.

Ballet East Dance Company
Austin, TX
$10,000
To support the development of a folkloric dance program. The program will be part of the company's Dare to Dance theater/dance program, in partnership with Austin Independent School District.

Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, Inc.
(on behalf of Dancers Responding to AIDS)
$10,000
New York, NY
To support dance activities in the New York City Festival of Dance. Activities range from benefit performances to the Danskin™ Masterclass Series.

Chicago Multi-Cultural Dance Center
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support the expansion of a ballet-based dance instruction program. Dancing off the Streets, serving low-income and minority children, will bring the studio-based program to schools and community sites.

Dance Films Association, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the 30th international dance film and video festival. Dance on Camera Festival 2002 On Tour will take place in California, Florida, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York and Virginia.

Dance St. Louis
St. Louis, MO
$15,000
To support the presentation of Dayton Contemporary Dance Company in a series of access and outreach programs. Dance St. Louis will identify suburban, rural and urban partners to reach underserved areas and audiences.

Dance Theatre of Harlem, Inc.
New York, NY
$70,000
To support a comprehensive educational outreach program that introduces children and adults to dance. The program, Dancing through Barriers, will provide professional development workshops for teachers, master classes, movement classes, lecture demonstrations, video assemblies, athletic workshops, performances, open rehearsals, and internships and apprenticeships.

Dancers' Group
(on behalf of Bay Area Celebrates National Dance Week)
San Francisco, CA
$5,000
To support Bay Area Celebrates National Dance Week. The main program of this event is Open Dance Studios, which allows dance artists and organizations to highlight their programming in their own neighborhoods.

Dancing in the Streets, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support a mobile living installation created and performed by Eiko and Koma. White will be performed in multiple public spaces in New York City.

Dimensions Dance Theater, Inc.
Oakland, CA
$10,000
To support a free dance program for youth. In the City/Rites of Passage provides youth with dance education and training.

Festival Dance & Performing Arts Association
Moscow, ID
$8,000
To support the Festival Youthreach Project. The project provides free performances and master classes presented by touring professional dance companies in regional public schools.

GroundWorks Dancetheater
Cleveland Heights, OH
$10,000
To support an increase in the number and variety of educational outreach programs. Programs will be offered during performance residencies at the Cleveland Public Theatre and the Landmarks Concert Series.

H.T. Dance Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support an interactive and multidisciplinary dance education program. Bamboo Oracle will be expanded to include community participation in rehearsal and performance during company residencies in New York and Texas.

Honolulu Dance Theatre, Ltd.
Honolulu, HI
$6,000
To support the creation and presentation of a dance production and lecture demonstration. Pele and the Legends of Hawaii, based on the mythology of Hawaiian Goddess Pele, will be presented at the Hawaii Theatre Center.

Massachusetts International Festival of the Arts
Northampton, MA
$9,000
To support a residency by Avila/Weeks Dance. The residency will be conducted for the students of the Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Charter High School as part of MIFA's Performing Arts Education Program.

Monte/Brown Dance (E. Monte Motion, Inc.)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support Celebrate Harlem ARTS, a series of performances and discussions inaugurating Monte/Brown Harlem ARTSpace. The project will incorporate performances of a new African Caribbean-based work created by choreographers Monte and Brown, as well as performances by Harlem community artists and groups.

New Orleans Ballet Association (consortium)
New Orleans, LA
$10,000
To support the commissioning of Donald Byrd/The Group for the Louis Armstrong Dance Project, Phase II. The project will include a New Orleans world premiere, a two-week residency and a site-specific work.

Paul Taylor Dance Foundation, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the Paul Taylor Dance Company in a five-year, annual residency at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. The project will consist of a Taylor 2 residency, an open rehearsal week by Paul Taylor Dance Company and a company performance.

Philadanco (Philadelphia Dance Company, Inc.)
Philadelphia, PA
$30,000
To support an increase in Philadanco's outreach programs. Programs will include workshops, master classes, lecture demonstrations and career development conferences.

Repertory Dance Theatre
Salt Lake City, UT
$10,000
To support a one-week residency in San Juan County, UT and Apache County, AZ. Activities will include performances, teacher workshops, lecture demonstrations, classes and community events.

Ririe-Woodbury Dance Foundation
Salt Lake City, UT
$30,000
To support eight weeks of residency activities. The company will travel to Alaska, California, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Nevada, New York and Ohio and offer a broad range of dance activities and workshops.

San Diego Dance Theater
San Diego, CA
$10,000
To support the Dance Ability Project. The project partners dancers and choreographers from the San Diego Dance Theater with general and adapted physical education teachers to create dances that provide performance opportunities for disabled students of the Oceanside School District.

SCT Productions
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support the presentation of Dance Chicago 2002. The five-week dance festival will include 250 dance groups and more than 2,000 artists from Chicago.

Streb/Ringside (Ringside, Inc.)
New York, NY
$30,000
To support two components of PUBLIC/ACTION, Streb/Ringside's central audience development and access program. The project will support residency and outreach programs for PUBLIC/ACTION NEW YORK and PUBLIC/ACTION ON TOUR.

Tigertail Productions, Inc. (consortium)
Miami, FL
$10,000
To support a five-day series of performances, workshops and symposia dedicated to exploring and promoting dance for people with disabilities. DanceAble III will take place during the Florida Dance Festival.

DESIGN

Alaska Design Forum, Inc. (consortium)
Anchorage, AK
$20,000
To support a series of lectures and workshops on the built environment. Architects and environmental and graphic designers will present current design issues at venues in Anchorage and Fairbanks.

Archeworks
Chicago, IL
$38,000
To support design and production of a prototype kitchen that would benefit individuals with physical disabilities. The prototype kitchen was developed by Archeworks, an alternative design school founded to initiate design solutions for underserved communities.

Chicago Architecture Foundation
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support the extension and expansion of CitySpace, an architectural exhibition space open to the public seven days per week. The exhibition space offers visitors a virtual tour of Chicago's notable historic architectural sites dating from 1830 to 1930, and new programming would present Chicago's modern and contemporary architectural history.

Chicago Horticultural Society
Glencoe, IL
$33,000
To support the Great Gardens exhibition, publication and educational activities on landscape and garden design that will incorporate digitized photomural images, blueprints, models and a designer videotape and lecture series. Great Gardens will present contemporary gardens and landscapes images to explore the origins, ideas, techniques and cultural influences reflected in their design.

Indigenous Community Enterprises)
Flagstaff, AZ
$57,000
To support a housing project for elderly Navajos that incorporates traditional Navajo dwelling designs with contemporary housing design features. Design workshops will be conducted with Navajo elders and family members, community leaders, social service providers, tribal officials and facility managers.

Little Haiti Housing Association, Inc.
Miami, FL
$50,000
To support design fees, exhibition and publicity for new, affordable, single housing units in the traditionally underserved Little Haiti neighborhood of Miami City. Teaming up with the School of Architecture at the Florida International University, Little Haiti Housing Association will design and build at least eight housing units for this project.

Little Tokyo Service Center Community Development Corporation
Los Angeles, CA
$15,000
To support a permanent interpretive center for the Little Tokyo National Historic District and a lecture series exploring the concept of an ethnic heritage site. The interpretive center will be housed in the Far East Building, within the historic district, and the programming will seek to raise awareness about issues involved in connecting ethnicity to historic architecture.

National Building Museum
Washington, DC
$30,000
To support This House is Home that engages communities and residents in photography, oral history and arts-based civic dialogue about affordable home ownership. A mobile gallery of the community's work will tour nationally and engage four diverse communities.

FOLK & TRADITIONAL ARTS

Documentary Arts, Inc.
Dallas, TX
$60,000
To support increased public access to the comprehensive Masters of Traditional Arts collection. Focusing on 20 years of the National Heritage Fellowship Program, the project will organize and conserve materials using professional archival standards and leading to its placement in the Archive of Folk Culture at the Library of Congress.

Kalihi-Palama Culture & Arts Society, Inc.
Honolulu, HI
$10,000
To support a series of training classes in traditional art forms and one Western art form. Classes include Hawaiian, Tahitian, Okinawan and Filipino dance; ceramics; and lei making.

Living Archives, Inc.
New York, NY
$33,000
To support a documentary and an accompanying curriculum guide based on the 2001 People's Poetry Gathering. The gathering features free-style rap artists, Cambodian Ayaiand Hmong Kwv Txhiaj men and women poets, as well as fishermen, loggers and farmers from the Pacific Northwest.

Natya Dance Theatre
Chicago, IL
$15,000
To support the creation of a new work. The dance theater will present a work based on Herman Hesse's Siddhartha, about the son of a renowned Brahmin who, in order to find meaning in life, discards a promising future for the life of a wandering ascetic.

University of Wisconsin at Madison
(on behalf of the Center for the Study of Upper Midwestern Cultures)
Madison, WI
$35,000
To support a public folklorist position and other related expenses. The folklorist will assist in identifying and increasing access to past regional public folklore documentation and create a structure for the archiving, conservation and accessibility of future folk arts documentation.

LITERATURE

Academy of American Poets, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the coordination of National Poetry Month, a project that brings poetry to schools, libraries, bookstores, cultural organizations and communities across the country in new and imaginative ways. During April 2002, the academy will host library readings, panel discussions, outreach efforts and special features on the organization's Web site.

Adirondack Community College (on behalf of the Writers Institute)
Queensbury, NY
$5,000
To support the creation of a writer's institute. The institute will present readings and workshops by nationally renowned and local writers to students and community members.

Bard College
Annandale-Hudson, NY
$35,000
To support the development of Interlit, a Web site devoted to international literature. The site will feature between 50 and 100 works of nonfiction, short stories, poems and novel excerpts a year drawn from 20 to 25 languages.

Cave Canem Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support a writing retreat for emerging African American poets. Cave Canem also will expand and improve its new Web site to include more information about available programs and participating poets.

Hawaii Literary Arts Council
Honolulu, HI
$5,000
To support a series of readings and writing workshops at men's and women's prisons. Scheduled participants include Lois-Ann Yamanaka and Chris McKinney, author of the novel Tattoo, which isset in Halawa prison.

Jewish Heritage Writing Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the National Initiative in the Literature of the Holocaust, a residency program coupling young, established writers with Holocaust survivors to produce publishable literary memoirs. Jewish Heritage will partner with schools, museums and community organizations across the country to produce and promote quality manuscripts.

PEN Center USA West
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
To support mentorships targeted to emerging writers from underserved and minority communities, and seminars on practical topics for professional writers in California, New Mexico, Washington and Colorado. PEN West also will expand and reprint its Author Access catalogue, which lists more than 300 writers who are available for readings and speaking engagements.

Poetry Flash
Berkeley, CA
$7,500
To support the expansion of the Poetry Flash Online Web site. The new site will feature improved editorial archives and frequent updates to a calendar of literary events throughout California and the West Coast.

Poetry Society of America
New York, NY
$30,000
To support Poetry in Motion, a program that places poetry placards in public transportation systems around the country. Targeted cities include Boston, MA; Washington, DC; Atlanta, GA; and Minneapolis, MN.

Poets House, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the expansion of the Poetry in the Branches program to libraries throughout the nation. In collaboration with the American Library Association, the organization will present a three-day training conference for librarians from branches nationwide.

Santa Monica College
Santa Monica, CA
$7,500
To support the production of a series of one-hour theatrical readings of 20th century short fiction about the immigrant experience. To be aired on public radio station KCRW to 500,000 listeners, the series will be designed for both local and national audiences as well as Internet broadcast.

Small Press Distribution, Inc.
Berkeley, CA
$50,000
To support a targeted distribution initiative. The project will provide individuals, libraries and bookstores in all 50 states with publications from 500 small and independent presses.

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Richmond, VA
$5,000
To support the Poetic Principles Series, featuring readings at the museum by established authors. Scheduled guests include Seamus Heaney and Anita Desai, who will read and comment on the museum's upcoming exhibition of painting from India.

Writer's Garret
Dallas, TX
$20,000
To support publication costs and related expenses for TEX!, a free literary magazine written by and about Texas writers. The magazine is distributed to 500,000 readers via schools, libraries, festivals, tourist bureaus, stores and as an insert in The Dallas Morning News.

LOCAL ARTS AGENCIES

Arts Council of Rock Hill and York County
Rock Hill, SC
$40,000
To support the Revival Design Camp Meeting, including the marketing of developed products. The Revival Design Camp Meeting provides cross-training to professional craft artists and environmentalists in the design of home furnishing and accessory prototypes that are primarily composed of recycled materials.

City of Charleston, South Carolina
Charleston, SC
$50,000
To support the provision of low- and no-cost Piccolo Spoleto Festival events in a range of community settings. Held in Charleston, , Piccolo Spoleto Festival presents national and international artists and provides a significant venue for artists of the southeastern region.

King County Arts Commission (consortium)
Seattle, WA
$50,000
To support the King County Performance Network (KCPN). The KCPN, a regional affiliation of local arts agencies, will provide coordinated services to identify performance venues and better techniques to market contemporary theater.

Lowndes/Valdosta Arts Commission
Valdosta, GA
$7,000
To support a series of exhibitions primarily featuring the work of regional artists. Each exhibit will hang in the Main or Hall Galleries of the Lowndes Valdosta Arts Center and will be accompanied by monthly educational programming, as well as provide the public with an opportunity to meet the artists.

Metropolitan Arts Council
Greenville, SC
$7,000
To support Greenville Open Studio. Local professional artists will open their studios for tours to the general public, and an exhibition of works by the participating artists will be mounted at the Greenville County Museum of Art.

Perry County Council of the Arts
Newport, PA
$11,000
To support the 19th Annual Festival at Little Buffalo and Coffeehouse presentations. The festival is a regional event that combines musical performances, workshops, a fine arts and crafts marketplace, juried art exhibits and artist demonstrations. Coffeehouse provides a venue for poets, authors and emerging musicians.

Pinellas County Arts Council
Clearwater, FL
$33,000
To support Youth Arts Corps, which places artists in juvenile justice and community-based residency programs. It also operates Youth Arts Corps at Wildwood, an after-school program, and Youth Arts Corps Productions, a job-training program.

MEDIA ARTS

American Documentary, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the production of Virtual Lives, a series of short documentary works by independent filmmakers and Internet artists offered to the public via the Web. The series will combine independent filmmaking with community-building dialogue via an Internet site that will include episodic installments and features that encourage user participation.

Arab Women's Solidarity Association (on behalf of Arab Film Festival)
San Jose, CA
$5,000
To support the sixth annual Arab Film Festival. Held in venues in San Francisco, Berkeley and San Jose, this event will present approximately 30 films to an estimated audience of 3,000 people.

Buffalo Media Resources, Inc.
Buffalo, NY
$5,000
To support SWAP: Squeaky Wheel Access Program. This 15-year-old program provides media equipment access, low-cost workshops, artists residencies and resource services to film and video artists locally and nationally.

Camera News, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support a digital media literacy and production education program. This includes the 25th year of the Advanced Film and Video Production Workshop, the Wednesday Night Media Workshops, and the Introduction to Final Cut Pro/Media Literacy Workshop Series.

Cineaste Publishers, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the publication of special supplements for Cineaste magazine. The organization will also increase its writers' fees.

Electronic Arts Intermix, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the Artists' Videotape Distribution Service. Through Electronic Arts Intermix's on-line catalog, more than 3,000 works will be made available to libraries, educational institutions, community centers, museums and other organizations.

International Film Seminars, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the 48th Robert Flaherty Film Seminar. The event will bring together students, scholars, filmmakers, curators, librarians and film enthusiasts to explore and discuss the art of the moving image.

Jewish Arts Foundation
Palm Beach, FL
$5,000
To support the 13th Palm Beach Jewish Film Festival. The event is devoted to Jewish-subject films from international and American independent sources that otherwise would not be screened in Palm Beach.

National Black Programming Consortium
Pittsburgh, PA
$9,000
To support the fifth Prized Pieces film festival. The event, held in the fall, showcases new work by African and African American video and filmmakers.

Station Resource Group, Inc. (consortium)
Takoma Park, MD
$35,000
To support the Radio Exchange. Through this Web-based service, public radio stations will have access to creative radio productions, and individual producers will find new outlets for their work.

MULTIDISCIPLINARY

509 Cultural Center
San Francisco, CA
$17,000
To support free arts programming in a low-income neighborhood of San Francisco. This project will feature outdoor arts presentations, exhibitions and the eighth annual In the Street Theater Festival.

ARTREACH, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$5,000
To support the Outreach Project, an expansion of ARTREACH's ticketing program. This project will provide tickets to arts events and increase outreach to human service agencies that assist people with disabilities and the economically disadvantaged.

Asian American Arts Alliance, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the maintenance and expansion of the Asian American Arts Calendar/NY. This Web based resource project will promote greater visibility and access to Asian American arts and cultural activities in New York City.

Asian Arts Initiative (consortium)
Philadelphia, PA
$40,000
To support the Artist Community Training Program. The program will prepare artists to conduct art-making workshops and residencies in multigenerational community settings across Philadelphia.

Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, Inc.
East Cambridge, MA
$10,000
To support Crossing John at the Crossroads. This multidisciplinary production by Gilbert McCauley and Bill Lowe examines the history of jazz.

Central City Hospitality House
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the expansion of the Community Arts Program. The project will consist of a weekly series of artist workshops and exhibitions in both on-site and off-site galleries for homeless residents of San Francisco's Tenderloin district.

Centro Cultural Aztlan, Inc.
San Antonio, TX
$17,000
To support a series of special community arts programs. Through exhibitions, literary events, workshops and performances, underserved audiences will be given the opportunity to participate in and appreciate Chicano/Latino art and culture.

Community School of the Arts
Charlotte, NC
$15,000
To support after-school and intergenerational arts programming. Children and adults from the Southside Homes public housing community will participate in on-site workshops and lessons in visual art, drama and music.

Creative Access
Philadelphia, PA
$12,000
To support the Cultural Access Project. The project will provide accessible programming at museums and venues featuring local/regional theater and touring Broadway productions for deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals living in the Greater Philadelphia area.

Cuyahoga Valley Environmental Education Center
Peninsula, OH
$30,000
To support an 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.

Dixon Place (Open Channels NY, Inc.)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the Intergenerational Performance Workshops. The program will provide artistic outlets for underserved seniors, youth and audiences residing at public housing facilities in the Rosehill section of Manhattan.

Earthways Foundation, Inc. (consortium)
Malibu, CA
$27,000
To support the second World Festival of Sacred Music/LA. This intercultural celebration will present international indigenous, classical, and folk dance and music at venues throughout Los Angeles.

East Bay Center for the Performing Arts
Richmond, CA
$47,000
To support Call and Response and a series of special performance events. Ten culturally specific and multicultural resident dance, music and theater companies will perform at sites in and near Richmond.

Elders Share the Arts (consortium)
Brooklyn, NY
$20,000
To support the National Center for Creative Aging, a national arts-in-aging training program. Project activities will include the maintenance of current arts-in-training programs in five regions, expansion of training to additional cities, creation of a network newsletter and the development of an online component highlighting model programs.

Flint Cultural Center Corporation
Flint, MI
$22,000
To support a summer festival and yearlong artist residencies. The two-day Summer Family Celebration festival and community engagement residencies led by Urban Bush Women and the Color Line Project are designed to develop new audiences.

Flint Institute of Music
Flint, MI
$10,000
To support music outreach activities for underserved communities. Performances and other activities for children and adults will be presented at public housing projects, recreation centers and senior centers.

Gateway Performance Productions
Atlanta, GA
$10,000
To support an outreach program of tour performances and community and school-based workshops and residencies. Programs of mask theater, dance, mime and puppetry will be presented at sites throughout Georgia and New Mexico.

Great Leap, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$12,000
To support To All Relations: Re-spiriting Detroit. This intergenerational residency project will utilize dance, music and storytelling to create a work based on the community movement to rebuild Detroit.

Hatch-Billops Collection, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support Artist and Influence. This project will document visual artists, writers, filmmakers, poets and arts administrators through recorded interviews, television broadcasts on Manhattan Cable and publication of a journal.

Henry Street Settlement
New York, NY
$33,000
To support Arts for Everyone. Low-cost, theme-based performances and ancillary events will be presented at The Abrons Arts Center and feature a range of artists who reflect the diversity of the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

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

Japanese American Cultural and Community Center
Los Angeles, CA
$40,000
To support Crossing Bridges and the 20th Anniversary Celebration. This yearlong series of festivals, exhibitions, performances and educational activities will highlight multicultural artists and art forms with an emphasis on the Asian Pacific American community and its artists.

Legion Arts, Inc.
Cedar Rapids, IA
$15,000
To support a neighborhood-based artist residency program. Over a two-year period, 30 to 40 nationally recognized visual artists, musicians and theater makers will engage Cedar Rapids community groups in collaborative activities.

Little City Foundation
Palatine, IL
$15,000
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.

National Performance Network, Inc. (consortium)
New Orleans, LA
$28,000
To support Weaving the Web of Community. The project will create partnerships between cultural and civil rights organizations to create collaboratively produced performance work.

Senior Arts Project
Albuquerque, NM
$6,000
To support the Senior Arts Festival Internacional. The project will feature a series of workshops, a daylong intergenerational celebration for seniors and school children and a social dance.

The Field (Performance Zone, Inc.) (consortium)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support GoTour. This Web-based interactive touring planner will connect nationwide independent performing artists and their audiences with venues and artist resources.

VSA arts of Massachusetts
Boston, MA
$30,000
To support the expansion of the National Cultural Access Initiative. The project will demonstrate the principles of universal design through a national tour of JazzArtSigns.

Young Audiences of Greater Dallas, Inc.
Dallas, TX
$10,000
To support Library Live! This program will provide families in inner-city Dallas and outlying areas with access to free family-oriented performances and workshops in 39 North Texas libraries.

Young Audiences/New York, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support FamilyLink. This intergenerational program will provide underserved public school students and families with access to arts education programming and New York City's cultural resources.

Young Men's Christian Association of Billings
Billings, MT
$17,000
To support Painting Stories: Exploring the Narrative Voice in the New West. This series of readings, artist workshops and community discussions will be held at seven tribal colleges in Montana.

MUSEUMS

Artrain, Inc.
Ann Arbor, MI
$16,000
To support a tour of the exhibition Artistry of Space: The NASA Art Program, with accompanying educational and community outreach programs. Artrain will bring the exhibition to approximately 20 underserved communities in the western United States.

Center for Documentary Studies (consortium)
Durham, NC
$40,000
To support related programming for a retrospective exhibition of the work of photographer Wendy Ewald. The Center for Documentary Studies will provide access to Ewald's work through classroom visits, teacher workshops and student gallery and Web exhibitions.

Children's Museum of Manhattan/ G.A.M.E. Inc.
New York, NY
$16,000
To support Art Inside Out (AIO), a collaborative project between contemporary artists and school age audiences. AIO visitors will observe how artists develop their work, interact with artist-created exhibitions and create art themselves.

Emory University (on behalf of Michael C. Carlos Museum)
Atlanta, GA
$18,000
To support educational programs in conjunction with the reinstallation of the collection of art from the ancient Americas. The public programming and related educational materials will reflect the reinstallation's four themes: Shamanism, Nature and Culture, Science and Art and Artistry.

Henry Art Gallery Association $16,000
Seattle, WA
To support Short Stories, Volume II, a flexible series of small exhibition projects. The project includes the exhibition of works from the permanent collection, commissioning new work by contemporary artists and an artist residency.

J.B. Speed Art Museum
Louisville, KY
$13,000
To support the planning and evaluation of Touch Art, a series of arts learning resources for preschool children. In partnership with the Louisville Free Public Library, the museum will develop pilot computer programs and interactive resource materials that will result in an enhanced appreciation for and understanding of the permanent collection.

Knoxville Museum of Art
Knoxville, TN
$12,000
To support the museum's Traveling Trunks program. The trunks contain art education tools designed to bring art to life in the classroom.

Montana Art Gallery Directors Association
Great Falls, MT
$9,000
To support an art exhibition touring program. Funds will also support the association's annual professional training conference for museum personnel in the state.

Pacific Asia Museum
Pasadena, CA
$16,000
To support the Chinese Community Initiative. This is the museum's first concerted effort to increase the number of Chinese Americans who visit the museum and participate in its programs.

Portland Museum of Art
Portland, ME
$32,000
To support Portland's Golden Age: 1800-1860, with accompanying education programs. The project will highlight Portland's 19th century artistic and economic boom, which served as a catalyst for the formation of the city's cultural landscape.

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
(on behalf of Jane Vorhees Zimmerli Art Museum)
$21,000
Piscataway, NJ
To support education programs for the exhibition Artist + Printers: Recent Trends in Collaborative Printmaking. The project will focus on the working relationship between the artist and the printer in the process of producing a successful print.

South Carolina State Museum Commission
Columbia, SC
$13,000
To support the South Carolina Art History project, with accompanying education programs. Working from its permanent collection, the museum will produce a comprehensive exhibition of South Carolina art examining new interpretations of works ranging from Native American vessels to contemporary installations.

University of California at Berkeley (consortium)
(on behalf of the University Art Museum)
$14,000
Berkeley, CA
To support Access to Alternative Art Forms. The project will utilize technology to increase viewing of and interaction with art collections via the Internet.

University of Southern California (on behalf of the Fisher Gallery)
Los Angeles, CA
$32,000
To support the touring exhibition Mixed Feelings, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will feature new work by contemporary artists dealing with issues about "the border," immigration, globalization and urbanization.

Walters Art Gallery
Baltimore, MD
$14,000
To support Family Fun Programs. The project will encompass activities such as festivals organized around special exhibitions, workshops for adults and children and development of interpretive materials designed to enhance the museum experience.

MUSIC

Billings Symphony Society
Billings, MT
$10,000
To support the Yellowstone Music Initiative. This comprehensive outreach project will reach underserved audiences in non-traditional venues in a variety of programs for youth and seniors.

Black Dot Artists, Inc. (on behalf of Eastside Arts Alliance)
Oakland, CA
$6,000
To support the 4th annual Malcolm X JazzArts Festival. The free, all-day, outdoor community event to be held in East Oakland in May 2003 will present various styles of jazz, including influences from Latin, Asian and African American cultures.

Boston University
(on behalf of the Boston University Tanglewood Institute)
Boston, MA
$10,000
To support faculty artists in the preparation and presentation of Young Artists Orchestra concerts. The Boston University Tanglewood Institute will continue to expand its roster of faculty artists to provide intensive coaching for the orchestral program.

Canton Symphony Orchestra Association
Canton, OH
$10,000
To support after-school and weekend music instruction for elementary students and their families who are living in low-income neighborhoods of Canton. The symphony's musicians will offer instruction in steel drum, recorder and keyboard in four six-week sessions.

Central Park Conservancy, Inc.
New York, NY
$7,500
To support the Harlem Meer Performance Festival. This free music performance series will showcase emerging African American and Latino artists.

Chicago Chamber Musicians
Chicago, IL
$15,000
To support First Monday, a free noontime concert series by the Chicago Chamber Musicians at the Chicago Cultural Center that will be broadcast live by the WFMT-FM radio station. The format for the series in 2002 takes on a 45-minute interactive approach offering audiences the opportunity to learn from the musicians themselves about the music that is performed.

Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Cincinnati, OH
$50,000
To support a series of outreach programs that will include concerts and other services to neighborhoods throughout the region. The orchestra will provide a three-part initiative to communities in the Cincinnati metropolitan area, including areas of northern Kentucky.

College of Saint Benedict
St. Joseph, MN
$7,500
To support the presentation of World Drums in performance and residency. The September 2002 event will feature percussion ensembles and soloists gathered from around the world.

Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Detroit, MI
$60,000
To support The Detroit Symphony Orchestra Downriver project. This is the first year of a three year outreach effort by the orchestra to underserved communities south of Detroit.

Fairbanks Symphony Association, Inc.
Fairbanks, AK
$10,000
To support an orchestra tour to communities in rural Alaska. Concerts and educational outreach programs will be presented by the Arctic Chamber Orchestra, the orchestra's touring ensemble, in parts of the state that do not have access to the concert experience.

Flynn Theatre for the Performing Arts, Ltd.
(on behalf of the Burlington Discover Jazz Festival)
$15,000
Burlington, VT
To support artist residencies and performances at the Discover Jazz Festival. Educational activities will include a jazz scholar-in-residence, pre-performance lectures and dialogues with the performing artists.

Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras
Boston, MA
$22,500
To support the Intensive Community Program. The project will provide string training for children in underserved communities of greater Boston.

Houston Symphony Society
Houston, TX
$32,500
To support Community Connections, an outreach project for underserved communities. During 2002-03, the Houston Symphony's musicians will perform at various sites, including hospitals, schools, community centers and long-term care facilities.

Jazz at Lincoln Center, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
$50,000
To support the Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition and Festival. Duke Ellington's musical legacy will be taught in schools across the country through study, performance and free distribution of his repertoire, providing thousands of students with the opportunity to perform Ellington's music. Consortium members include Jazz Aspen Snowmass in Colorado and the International Association of Jazz Educators in Kansas.

Jazz Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support the expansion of the Chicago Jazz and Heritage Program. The program seeks to explore ways to connect youth and families with the cultural heritage of the city's diverse communities.

Levine School of Music
Washington, DC
$15,000
To support early childhood music education that incorporates intergenerational music experiences to underserved populations in the Washington, DC area. Goals for the project include reinforcing the children's academic, social and emotional development through music.

Minnesota Chorale
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
To support the annual Bridges outreach program. The fall 2002 program will link urban and rural youth, teachers and parents in four performances of Adventures of the Black Dot, a narrated choral work introducing musical concepts within a whimsical story.

Music Works Northwest
Bellevue, WA
$20,000
To support music education activities of an inner-city branch campus for youth and adults. The community music school's branch campus activities will include a summer music camp, private and group music instruction, music technology/audio engineering classes, guest artist workshops and performances.

New Mexico Symphony Orchestra
Albuquerque, NM
$20,000
To support a statewide tour to small, rural and underserved communities of New Mexico. In addition, the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra will conduct educational activities in Albuquerque area schools.

Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support community concerts, two national tours and residency activities. Orpheus Chamber Orchestra will tour with pianist Richard Goode and soprano Dawn Upshaw, and be in residence at University of California-Los Angeles and the Krannert Center at the University of Illinois at Champagne.

Philadelphia Orchestra Association (consortium)
Philadelphia, PA
$35,000
To support outreach performances in the Washington Township School District, NJ. During 2002, the Philadelphia Orchestra will perform a free neighborhood concert in the district's Center for the Performing Arts and additional smaller performances, all free of charge.

Philomel Concerts, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$5,000
Workshops, Kids' Concerts, and Concerts & Conversations family concerts will provide access and build long-term audience involvement in early music.

Phoenix Symphony Association (consortium)
Phoenix, AZ
$25,000
To support One Nation. The series of education programs for the local Native American community will include master classes for grades seven to 12, a classroom concert for elementary students and a free community concert.

Queens Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Glendale, NY
$20,000
To support an audience development campaign, presenting subscription concerts throughout the borough. This decentralization plan will mirror the enclaves of Queens, one of the most ethnically diverse counties in the nation.

Saint Louis Symphony Society (consortium)
St. Louis, MO
$50,000
To support a community partnership initiative with the Innsbrook Institute in Warren County, MO. The Saint Louis Symphony will perform an outdoor community concert, as well as a summer festival of orchestral and chamber music.

Santa Rosa Symphony Association
Santa Rosa, CA
$7,500
To support a community outreach project using Sir Michael Tippett's poem, A Child of Our Time, as a catalyst for interdisciplinary study at Santa Rosa High School. The activities will culminate with performances by the Santa Rosa Symphony, guest soloists and two community choruses.

Sitka Summer Music Festival, Inc.
Sitka, AK
$10,000
To support the presentation of chamber music through concert tours in urban and rural communities of Alaska. The Sitka Summer Music Festival's touring concerts will serve communities in Anchorage, Haines, Homer, Juneau, Kenai, Seldovia, Sitka and Skagway.

Sonos Handbell Ensemble, Inc.
Berkeley, CA
$7,500
To support a national tour of Sonos Handbell Ensemble's program Runaway Child. The ensemble and guest artist, mezzo soprano Frederica von Stade, will perform in ten venues, featuring a new work titled Hell's Belles by American composer Libby Larsen.

South Dakota Symphony Orchestra
Sioux Falls, SD
$7,500
To support the expansion of South Dakota Symphony Orchestra's state touring program. Two chamber ensembles and a chamber orchestra, composed of the symphony's musicians, will perform concerts and conduct educational programs in two communities.

Symphony Society of San Antonio
San Antonio, TX
$15,000
To support a residency at St. Philip's College. The Symphony Society will conduct master classes, open rehearsals, lectures and concerts for primary and secondary school children.

Tucson Symphony Society (consortium)
Tucson, AZ
$15,000
To support the Southern Arizona Residency. The project consists of an educational component and a public concert in four rural communities in southern Arizona.

Vermont Symphony Orchestra Association, Inc.
Burlington, VT
$20,000
To support the Made in Vermont Music Festival Tour. The orchestra will present educational activities and community concert programs in ten underserved rural communities throughout Vermont.

Washington Chorus, Inc.
Washington, DC
$6,500
To support an outreach and education program. Activities include free concerts for the elderly, school choir workshops and distribution of free tickets to young people throughout the Washington, DC area.

West Virginia Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Charleston, WV
$12,500
To support a statewide tour to underserved rural communities. The symphony will reach audiences in ten communities in fall and spring tours.

MUSICAL THEATER

M Ensemble Company, Inc.
Miami, FL
$8,000
To support the production of a musical. The M Ensemble Company will produce Shoehorn by Idris Ackamoor at three locations in Miami-Dade County.

NY Artists Unlimited, Inc.
New York, NY
$8,000
To support performances and tour of a bilingual musical dramatization of poetry by Julia de Burgos. NY Artists Unlimited will present and tour Song of the Simple Truth-El Canto de Julia de Burgos to underserved and predominantly Latino and African American audiences in New York City and in Connecticut, New Jersey and New York State.

Young at Heart Chorus, Inc.
Northampton, MA
$8,000
To support the revival of an original musical about the French revolution, Louis Lou I. Young At Heart Chorus, an ensemble of performers who are over 70 years old, will revive a musical from its repertory that played at the 800-seat Academy of Music Theater in Northampton to sold-out houses in 1991.

OPERA

Boston Lyric Opera Company
Boston, MA
$27,300
To support performances of Bizet's Carmen. Two fully staged, free outdoor performances and related educational activities will reach an estimated 30,000 people in 2002.

Glimmerglass Opera, Inc. (consortium)
Cooperstown, NY
$45,000
To support audience development and educational outreach programs for adults and students in conjunction with a new co-production of Mark Adamo's Little Women. In consortium with New York City Opera, Little Women will be seen in Cooperstown during the 2002 Festival Season and at Lincoln Center in 2003.

Madison Opera, Inc.
Madison, WI
$10,000
To support Opera in the Park. In celebration of its 40 years of opera production in the city, a free concert of opera favorites with principal singers, chorus and orchestra will be performed in Garner Park on the west side of Madison in July 2002.

Opera for the Young, Inc.
Madison, WI
$9,200
To support the commission, production and multistate school tour of a new children's operatic adaptation of Dvorak's Rusalka. Approximately 215 in-school performances will take place throughout rural Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota and Iowa during 2002-03.

Seattle Opera
Seattle, WA
$50,000
To support the Young Artists Program and expansion of community access and educational opportunities for elementary and high school students. In 2002-03 the program will serve over 37,000 people.

PRESENTING

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.

THEATER

African Continuum Theatre Coalition, Inc.
Washington, DC
$12,000
To support a series of marketing initiatives to increase audiences. The company will create a Web site and a monthly e-magazine, and will commission a new theater work to increase audience engagement.

Alaska Junior Theater, Inc.
Anchorage, AK
$10,000
To support the presentation of theater works by three theaters companies through the Arts Outreach Program. The productions will tour to underserved young audiences and families throughout the state.

Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble, Inc.
Bloomsburg, PA
$27,000
To support Theatre in the Classroom, a traveling educational theater experience. This 23-year old program tours adaptations of world folk literature or American history to elementary and middle schools, offering performances and residencies throughout Pennsylvania.

Capital Repertory Company
Albany, NY
$5,000
To support expanded efforts to provide assistance for the hearing impaired. Plans include the installation of an infrared assisted listening system and the engagement of professional sign language interpreters for designated performances.

Children's Theatre Company and School (consortium)
Minneapolis, MN
$20,000
To support the final phase of the Land Bridge Project, an ongoing artistic and civic dialogue about the farm crisis with residents of Minnesota. Working in a consortium with the Perpich Center for Arts Education, the final phase of the project will include performance festivals of participants' original works.

City Theatre Company, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
$15,000
To support the Community Outreach Initiative. Spearheaded by the Community Relations Department of City Theatre, the program was created to increase accessibility of programming, events and activities to underserved populations with an emphasis on communities with low household incomes and people with disabilities.

Connecticut Players Foundation, Inc.
New Haven, CT
$25,000
To support expansion of Long Wharf Theatre's New Haven Project. The theater has expanded its outreach programs to include an annual community performance project, a subsidized ticket fund and workshops at New Haven neighborhood sites every month during the season.

Cultural Images Group, Inc.
Northampton, MA
$8,000
To support the development and tour of a play to high schools, community colleges and youth cultural programs in the Northeast. The Serious Play! Youth Theatre Ensemble will tour an alumni company production of Marat Sade by Peter Weiss, with additional text from Shakespeare's The Tempest, and new music by composer Elizabeth Swados.

D'Youville College
Buffalo, NY
$8,000
To support programs for underserved students and professional opportunities for young people seeking careers in the arts. The theater will expand and refine its ongoing programs to broaden access to the arts among neighborhood young people.

Developmental Services Center of Champaign County
Champaign, IL
$7,000
To support the development and presentation of a new theater work by The Prompting Theater. The ensemble will present the new work during the 2002-03 annual Street Theatre Festival.

East Los Angeles Classic Theatre
Monterey Park, CA
$25,000
To support the Beyond Borders Literary Engagement Performance Tour to schools and community venues. Touring productions of Shakespeare's As You Like It and A Midsummer Night's Dream will introduce students and communities to dramatic literature and the art of the spoken word.

East-West Players
Los Angeles, CA
$30,000
To support the expansion and integration of the theater's comprehensive education program, which consists of the Actors Conservatory, the David Henry Hwang Writers Institute and Network. Scholarships and membership subsidies will be provided on a competitive basis to make the programs more accessible to emerging artists from underrepresented Asian Pacific communities.

El Teatro de la Esperanza
San Francisco, CA
$16,000
To support the development of a modern secular adaptation of Las Posadas Mojadas, a seasonal pageant and play about immigrants seeking refuge. The adaptation will be designed as a touring production that will bring theater to underserved audiences in San Francisco and nationwide.

Fund for Women Artists, Inc.
Florence, MA
$15,000
To support the creation and implementation of a marketing and fundraising initiative and the expansion of current on-line services. The project is designed to assist women artists in the marketing of their work.

Idaho Shakespeare Festival
Boise, ID
$15,000
To support the expansion of a multistate theater Rural Outreach Project. Idaho Shakespeare Festival's 2002 education program will serve five to 10 percent more rural schools with an increased number of workshops and community performances to deepen its impact among parents and teachers.

Idris Ackamoor & Cultural Odyssey (consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
To support a partnership of Black performance institutions in supporting and nurturing a performing arts community rooted in African American artistic traditions. The consortium of Cultural Odyssey, Afro Solo Theater Company and the San Francisco Black Film Festival will encourage self-empowerment through collective marketing, audience development, technical assistance, Web development and aesthetic exploration.

InterAct, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
To support the National Showcase of New Plays project. The three-week festival will feature staged readings of works by writers from across the country.

Intiman Theatre
Seattle, WA
$25,000
To support the matinee performances of up to three plays through the Living History project. The company will produce Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, Moliere's Scapin, Harley Granville Barker's Waste, and will conduct artist residencies at local high schools.

Lime Kiln Arts, Inc.
Lexington, VA
$5,000
To support a multistate tour of musical theater works based on classic tales and Appalachian folk tales. Productions will tour through southeastern states.

Los Angeles Poverty Department (consortium)
Los Angeles, CA
$18,000
To support a tour of Agents and Assets, a play that investigates the advent of the U.S. crack epidemic, to Florida, Ohio and Michigan. A community symposium with an invited panel of experts will follow each performance, providing a forum for public dialogue.

Los Angeles Women's Shakespeare Company
Santa Monica, CA
$10,000
To support a production of The Tempest as part of the Los Angeles County Arts Commission's Summer Nights at the Ford series. The Tempest will be performed by an all-female, multicultural, multiracial cast and will feature acrobats, pyrotechnics, live musicians and aerialists.

Magical Experiences Arts Company
Baltimore, MD
$6,000
To support workshops and performances for children and adolescents with severe disabilities. Magical Experiences Arts Company will present This Is Your Rainbow, a program of interactive workshops that provide participants with sensory, emotional and educational experiences and the development of plays based on the writings of Helen Keller.

Make*A*Circus
San Francisco, CA
$8,000
To support Circus Days 2002. Make A Circus will tour a circus/theater musical play with audience participation to over 50 communities in California in summer 2002.

Metro Theater Company
St. Louis, MO
$27,000
To support the presentation and tour of two plays to rural and urban communities in the Midwest and nationally for two seasons. Metro Theater Company's tour will include the productions of Captain Lindbergh's Ocean Flight, developed by Het Filiaal of the Netherlands, and Two Donuts by Jose Cruz Gonzalez.

New Hampshire Mime Company
Portsmouth, NH
$10,000
To support a tour of five works exploring and celebrating the history of New England to rural communities. Performances will take place in town halls, libraries, museums, schools and other community facilities.

New Repertory Theatre, Inc. (consortium)
Newton Highlands, MA
$12,000
To support two collaborative projects of the New Repertory Theatre and the Brandeis University Theatre Arts Program. Brandeis/New Rep On Tour will tour plays to local high schools and offer artist residencies, and the Brandeis/New Rep Project will provide a comprehensive internship program.

Non-Traditional Casting Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$28,000
To support Artist Files/Online and the National Diversity Forum. These two initiatives link theater producers with artists of color and artists with disabilities to promote a national dialogue concerning diversity and inclusion.

Pegasus Players Theatre (consortium)
Chicago, IL
$13,000
To support continuing efforts toward a more integrated audience. The theater will work with consortium member the Chicago Theatre Company to create integrated audiences at both theaters through subscriber exchanges, shared artistic staff and joint development of new works.

Penobscot Theatre Company
Bangor, ME
$8,000
To support a production of The Diary of Anne Frank and an accompanying outreach project. A series of multicultural and intergenerational initiatives for schools, libraries and senior centers will engage the theater's community in an examination of bigotry in the contexts of religion, ethnicity and sexual orientation.

Perishable Theater
Providence, RI
$15,000
To support the Shows for Young Audiences touring program, which provides access to touring productions of original musicals to K-8 schools, libraries and community centers in Rhode Island. The program includes a Web-based component and a residency project with an arts magnet school in Providence.

Phoenix Theatre Academy, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$16,000
To support the Academy Theatre for Youth Artists-in-Schools Tour Team, a multiracial ensemble that develops original, curriculum-based, issue-oriented plays that tour to schools and other youth organizations throughout the Southeast. Performances are accompanied by post performance drama workshops to provide students with a forum for discussion.

Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre Co., Inc.
New York, NY
$22,000
To support a national tour of La Lupe: My Life, My Destiny by Carmen Rivera during the 2003 season. In keeping with its tradition, the company will present the play in both English and Spanish.

Seattle Shakespeare Festival
Seattle, WA
$15,000
To support a Shakespeare festival involving all Seattle School District middle schools and volunteers from the senior community. Participants will work with professional actors and production managers from Seattle Shakespeare Festival to rehearse and perform 90-minute Shakespeare adaptations in a festival format.

Shakespeare - San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
$8,000
To support Free Shakespeare in the Park which offers diverse audiences the opportunity to enjoy professional productions of Shakespeare in San Francisco Bay Area public parks. The 2002 production will mark the company's 20th anniversary of offering free performances to the region.

Shakespeare Festival LA, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$15,000
To support a production of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in downtown Los Angeles' Pershing Square as part of the company's annual Summer Festival. To increase access to traditional and non-traditional theater audiences, more than half of the Summer Festival performances will be free.

Shakespeare Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$8,000
To support free outdoor performances of Shakespeare's Othello in parks and public spaces throughout New York City. The production will be targeted to non-traditional audiences and to the communities surrounding the park venues.

St. Louis Black Repertory Company, Inc.
St. Louis, MO
$25,000
To support components of the company's Community and Education programs. The initiative includes a professional theater intern program, touring performances, student matinees and workshops, acting classes and a summer theater camp.

Stageworks, Inc.
Tampa, FL
$5,000
To support the production and tour of two plays by the Rainbow Tribe. The company will present African American Greats by De Vellus Glover and Inner Circle by Patricia McLawrey.

Stamford Theatre Works, Inc.
Stamford, CT
$12,000
To support a production of Flyin' West by Pearl Cleage. The company will present Flyin' West in celebration of Black History month.

Ten Thousand Things
Minneapolis, MN
$9,000
To support the presentation and tour of Shakespeare's King Lear. The company will tour 16 performances of a highly physical production of King Lear to audiences in prisons, homeless shelters and adult education centers serving low-income people in Minneapolis and St. Paul.

Theatre Development Fund, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support Interpreting for the Theatre, an intensive one-week institute for proficient sign language interpreters. The program is designed to improve the skills of certified interpreters who have experience in signing plays and musicals, and to maintain national standards of excellence in the field.

Underground Railway Puppets & Actors, Inc.
Arlington, MA
$10,000
To support a tour of How Do You Spell Hope?, a new play about the power of reading and the rewards of literacy, to community centers in underserved neighborhoods of Cambridge, MA. Workshops will be offered with performances to encourage intergenerational audiences to make connections between the play and their own experiences.

University of Montana
Missoula, MT
$13,000
To support Celebrate the Classics, a series of performances and dialogues produced for rural community audiences in Montana. The Montana Repertory Theatre will present a fully staged production of The Miracle Worker in a producing partnership with the non-arts community leadership of each town on the tour.

VSA arts of Georgia, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$10,000
To support the expansion of the theatrical sign language interpreting program StageHands. The program will offer discounted services to small and mid-sized theater companies in Georgia and will offer professional development opportunities for current and new theatrical interpreters.

Washington Theatre Awards Society
Washington, DC
$10,000
To support the Washington Audience Development Initiative, a multimedia promotional campaign to identify and develop new audiences for all Washington theaters. The initiative will work toward developing theater audiences in metropolitan Washington that are representative of area demographics.

Weston Playhouse Theatre
Weston, VT
$17,000
To support expansion of the theater's education and outreach programs for an intergenerational, rural, underserved audience. Under the leadership of a new education director, new initiatives will be launched and existing programs enhanced.

Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum
Topanga, CA
$5,000
To support the development and touring of a new piece about the history of Spanish-speaking people in California. Free performances of the new work will be offered to underserved audiences in schools and library venues throughout southern California.

Z Space Studio (on behalf of Word for Word)
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support the expansion of Word for Word's educational outreach activities. The project includes additional performances, workshops and artist residencies in local schools and libraries.

VISUAL ARTS

3-D Chicago
River Forest, IL
$10,000
To support the 6th annual Pier Walk, The Chicago International Sculpture Exhibition at Navy Pier in Chicago. To be juried by critic and writer Dave Hickey, Pier Walk is the largest exhibition of large-scale outdoor sculpture in the world, featuring work by approximately 70 sculptors.

Art Re Grup, Inc. (consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support a residency, community programming and exhibition by the collaborative artist team London Fieldworks, Bruce Gilchrist and Jo Joelson. The artists, through an investigation into the effects of polarized light on perception, seek to illuminate the intersections of art, science and technology, making them more comprehensible for the general public.

ARTScorpsLA
Los Angeles, CA
$24,000
To support a collaborative public art project between community residents, university students and artists Mel Chin and Tricia Ward in Temple-Beaudry, an eastside neighborhood of Los Angeles. The interdisciplinary partnership will build on past projects that empower communities to reclaim derelict, vacant and often contaminated sites in the inner city.

Chicago New Art Association
Chicago, IL
$18,000
To support a mentoring program for writers and critics of contemporary art for the New Art Examiner, an independent visual arts magazine. Promising young writers will be identified through a scouting process and will work with artists, museums, galleries, schools and other nonprofit arts organizations from Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri and Wisconsin.

COSACOSA art at large, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$5,000
To support a series of neighborhood-based art workshops led by studio artists at various hospital and health-care facilities. Project participants receive instruction in one or more specific art making skills and are guided by professional artists in the design and creation of a site-specific, collaborative work.

Creative Growth, Inc.
Oakland, CA
$10,000
To support a yearlong series of professional studio arts instruction for adults with disabilities, gallery exhibitions and extensive outreach activities. Professional artists, with experience working with people with disabilities, will teach classes in printmaking, drawing, painting and wood and clay sculpture.

Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Inc.
Wilmington, DE
$10,000
To support a series of community-based artists' residencies and publication of a documentary catalogue. The artists will collaborate with community groups to create work based on ideas and issues relevant to the participants' lives.

Downtown Arts Project
New York, NY
$12,000
To support an Internet-based professional development project for emerging visual artists. The Emerge Web site is a centralized resource for career advice by arts professionals, on-line dialogues and exhibitions, and links to artists resources.

Galeria/Studio 24
San Francisco, CA
$23,000
To support a community-based public art project that will commission artists and youth to develop computer-generated temporary murals. The project will include workshops and panel discussions to discuss how the works address the theme "Pervasive Forces: Globalization, Private Identities, and the Public Sphere."

Greater Philadelphia Urban Affairs Coalition
(on behalf of the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program)
$16,000
Philadelphia, PA
To support the commission of a mural celebrating the cultural resources of North Philadelphia and the city's economic development initiative, Avenue of the Arts. The mural, to be sited at the corner of Broad Street and Girard Avenue, will address the theme of local heroes.

Hyde Park Art Center
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support the expansion and extension of Partners in Art. A collaboration with the Chicago Park District, the program will offer after-school visual arts programs and mentoring to inner-city youth at several park sites on Chicago's south and west sides.

Montana State University
Bozeman, MT
$7,000
To support the visiting artist lecture series, The New Frontier. Artists Luis Jimenez, Wayne Thiebaud and Jaune Quick-to-See Smith will be joined by writer and critic Lucy Lippard to explore issues related to the American West in the 21st century.

Pyramid Atlantic, Inc.
Riverdale, MD
$10,000
To support a residency program, educational outreach, teacher training and mentorships. The program, designed to explore various media, imagery and the notions of community, will be intergenerational and bilingual, uniting artists, scholars, teachers and youth.

Rhizome.org.
New York, NY
$23,000
To support design and touring of arcade-style consoles featuring new media work. Targeted at young people, the project, entitled Grok, will be installed at four community centers in rural or underserved areas across the country and will introduce audiences to the potential of new, contemporary digital art.

Richmond Art Center (on behalf of Quilt of Many Colors Project)
Richmond, CA
$7,000
To support the Quilt of Many Colors Project, a series of four curated exhibitions installed in the waiting room of Richmond's main public health facility. The project will promote the value of the arts in the healing process and provide access to art for approximately 30,000 users of the facility.

Sarasota Season of Sculpture, Inc.
Sarasota, FL
$16,000
To support symposia held in conjunction with Sarasota's Season Of Sculpture exhibition, a major waterfront exhibition featuring work by large-scale sculptors. The symposia will bring together international curators, artists, art critics and others to discuss the impact of public art through the ages.

Sloss Furnace Association, Inc. (consortium)
(on behalf of Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark)
$24,000
Birmingham, AL
To support planning of an entrepreneurial venture to train youth in cast iron and clay production. The project will feature apprenticeships in the making of prototypes for architectural products and street furniture with participants using the foundry at Sloss Furnaces and clay studios at Space One Eleven.

Social and Public Art Resource Center
Venice, CA
$18,000
To support expansion of digital mural-making opportunities in collaboration with a new media lab at the University of California, Los Angeles. Artists will lead inner-city youth in mural projects that address contemporary issues of identity and community.

Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts
Newcastle, ME
$16,000
To support expansion of the services of MudMobile, a statewide traveling ceramics program in a van. The MudMobile will increase its services to the elderly and to other community organizations that serve a variety of social service needs.

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