2002 Grant Awards: Arts Learning

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

18th Street Arts Complex
Santa Monica, CA
$15,000
To support the Arts Education Program. The program provides artist-teacher training, artist employment opportunities and sustained arts programming to schools free of charge.

52nd Street Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support One-on-Ones and Two-on-Twos, programs designed to improve the quality of life for inner-city youth from New York City's Clinton (Hell's Kitchen) neighborhood. Personal mentoring relationships will be developed between the young people and professional theater artists.

Akron Art Museum
Akron, OH
$38,000
To support development and implementation of Art & Self, a theme-based art and writing collaboration. Developed for the sixth grade, this program includes workshops, museum visits and artist residencies designed to provide an artistic outlet for self-expression and self awareness while creating a community for social interaction and enhancing students' abilities to relate to others.

Alberta Bair Theater Corporation
Billings, MT
$10,000
To support Cultural Pioneers on the New Frontier. This multicomponent project will include specially designed school performances for K-12 local, rural and tribal students; professional development workshops for teachers; master classes for advanced students; and complimentary tickets for low-income youth.

Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art
Ridgefield, CT
$17,000
To support the continuation of the Student Docent Program. Since 1993, the program has provided opportunities for youth to lead their peers in discussions on contemporary art through the museum's permanent and traveling exhibitions.

Alternate ROOTS, Inc. (consortium)
Atlanta, GA
$35,000
To support the Atlanta Partnerships for Arts in Learning. This program provides artists and teachers with professional development and ongoing consultations in planning and team teaching. Consortium partner is the Alonzo A. Crim Center for Urban Educational Excellence at Georgia State University.

Aman Folk Ensemble
Pasadena, CA
$20,000
To support the Aman Arts in Education program. In this project traditional music and dance from diverse cultures is utilized to improve students' social skills, coordination and memory, as well as facilitate curriculum instruction in geometry, geography, history and language.

American Place Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$17,000
To support the Literature to Life program. Initiated in New York in 1994 and replicated later in Los Angeles and Washington, DC, the program encourages middle and high school students to develop reading, writing and critical thinking skills and encourage involvement with literature and theater.

Anhinga Press, Inc.
Tallahassee, FL
$15,000
To support the expansion of Runaway with Words. Since 1991, this program has offered poetry workshops to more than 2,000 at-risk children and youth, in shelters, detention centers and alternative schools throughout Florida as well as in Oregon and Utah.

Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Ann Arbor, MI
$7,500
To support the Symphony to School program. Components include Ensembles in the Classroom, multidisciplinary classroom activities and a youth concert.

archi-treasures Association
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support design and development of a Garden Gallery at Willa Cather Elementary School. The process will encompass design workshops, after-school art programs and summer jobs for youth in association with nearby community organizations.

Armory Center for the Arts
Pasadena, CA
$47,000
To support Art Central. This new, comprehensive arts education program will place a full-time artist in residence in two elementary schools to encourage student and teacher involvement in the arts.

Art 21, Inc.
New York, NY
$45,000
To support the expansion of the Art in the Twenty-First Century series, an educational program for public television. Launched in fall 2001, the series provides opportunities for citizens to discover and understand contemporary art, while exploring creative self-expression.

Art Institute of Chicago
(on behalf of School of the Art Institute of Chicago)
$52,000
Chicago, IL
To support the Teacher Institute in Contemporary Art (TICA). The School of the Art Institute will expand TICA to offer four separate one-week sessions to high school art teachers from around the country.

Artists Collective, Inc.
Hartford, CT
$30,000
To support training and performance opportunities in dance and music. Designed to bring youth together from different ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds, the youth participate, celebrate and share the art and culture of the African Diaspora with the greater Hartford region.

Arts & Humanities Association of Johnson County (consortium)
Shawnee Mission, KS
$25,000
To support the expansion and refinement of Kansas Arts Learning. Designed as a community based, arts education program for parents and young children, the project will develop new partnerships in rural northeast Kansas and Kansas City's urban center.

Arts Education in Maryland Schools, Inc.
Baltimore, MD
$45,000
To support a review of the status of the local fine arts strategic plans. Through a two-year evaluation process, AEMS and its partners will examine the results of fine arts strategic plans undertaken in all 24 school districts in Maryland and supported by the governor, state legislature and state department of education.

ArtsConnection, Inc.
New York, NY
$60,000
To support classroom-based instruction in dance, storytelling and theater arts. This 20-week program reaches the 1,600 students at Community Elementary School 53 in the Bronx and provides professional development for teachers.

Arvada Council for the Arts and Humanities
Arvada, CO
$10,000
To support a children's theater production and associated Arts Day events. The Arvada Center will host approximately 32,000 students for three-hour visits that include a professional performance based on a popular children's literary work, backstage tours, drama workshops and related exposure in areas such as dance, visual arts, history and environmental education.

Asian Arts Initiative
Philadelphia, PA
$35,000
To support the continuation of the Youth Arts Workshop. The program provides a safe space in which Asian American teenagers can engage in art making while developing their artistic and leadership skills.

Atlanta Ballet, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$20,000
To support Centre Dance, a multifaceted dance education program in Atlanta schools. Centre Dance provides a curriculum-based dance program for approximately 100 at-risk children in grades K through 12.

Austin Circle of Theaters
Austin, TX
$8,000
To support Summer Talk Theater. Designed as a drop-out retention program, high school youth participate in theatrical experiences while learning life and academic skills.

Austin Lyric Opera
Austin, TX
$19,500
To support Opera Odyssey, an arts learning project for fifth grade students. Various component programs will expose students and teachers to the range of multidisciplinary activities that are required to produce opera.

Ballet Florida, Inc.
West Palm Beach, FL
$15,000
To support the continuation of City Dance Outreach. Since 1995, this classical and contemporary dance outreach program has recruited youth from five schools for after school classes and provided them with tuition, dance apparel and transportation to Ballet Florida studios.

Ballet Idaho, Inc.
Boise, ID
$30,000
To support an educational outreach program, Learning Through Dance. Three project components, Artist-in-Residence, Teacher In-Service and School Connections, have been designed to integrate dance and movement into curriculum-based learning.

Ballet Tech Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
To support the Upper School program (grades 6-12) at the New York City Public School for Dance and performances by KidsDance. Developed to increase the number of professionally trained young dancers, the program strengthens students' dance technique and is designed to help raise the individual dancer's sense of responsibility and improve their discipline.

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Inc. (consortium)
Baltimore, MD
$70,000
To support expansion of the Arts Excel curriculum program for grades K-12. The program includes school observations, classroom presentations, planning sessions with teachers, implementation workshops to review curriculum and program distribution. Consortium partner is the Baltimore City Public School System.

Book-It
Seattle, WA
$15,000
To support an education and community outreach program titled Book-It All Over! The program utilizes seven productions for its touring component, related workshops and an in-school artist residency to teach its methodology of creating simply-staged productions based on literature in the curriculum.

Brown University (consortium)
Providence, RI
$100,000
To support the Arts/Literacy Project. The project will provide a year-round professional development program for teachers and artists linking performing arts and literacy skills. Consortium partner is the Providence Black Repertory Company.

California College of Arts and Crafts (consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$48,000
To support the design and implementation of a K-12 program infused with the study of art, architecture and design. Consortium member Bay Area Coalition of Equitable Schools and the college will partner with a high school and an arts magnet school (grades K-8) to offer sequential learning in the arts with a connection to other subjects. Consortium partner is the Bay Area Coalition of Equitable Schools.

California Institute of the Arts (consortium)
Valencia, CA
$50,000
To support the Community Arts Partnership. Designed as a two-year, multicultural and community arts program, CAP brings together youth with Cal Arts faculty and artists to design and implement in-depth programs in media arts, dance, visual arts, theater and music for youth. Consortium members include the Armory Center for the Arts, Inner-City Arts, Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, Plaza de la Raza, Santa Clarita Valley Boys & Girls Club, Self-Help Graphics & Art and the Watts Towers Arts Center.

California Shakespeare Festival
Berkeley, CA
$15,000
To support three components of the Artistic Learning Initiative. The festival will offer varied programs to reach elementary and secondary students in the Bay area.

California Summer Music, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$7,500
To support the implementation of the Composition & Theory Skills Program. Through this program designed to provide opportunities for young musicians to create and perform contemporary music, youth will participate in the creation, reading, rehearsal, performance and recording of new works.

Cambodian Network Council, Inc.
Rockville, MD
$20,000
To support Cambodian arts and cultural classes. Cambodian American youth will participate in after school classes in traditional Cambodian dance and music as a means to develop an understanding for the significance of their arts and culture.

Capoeira Foundation, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
$50,000
To support the expansion of a youth arts dance program. Designed to reach the City of Hartford's inner-city population, youth will receive dance and Capoeira training on a year-round basis. Consortium members include Dance Connecticut and the Housing Authority of the City of Hartford.

Center for Arts Criticism
St. Paul, MN
$30,000
To support the continuation of In Progress. This community-based, mobile media arts unit engages youth in the artistic disciplines of video production, digital photography, writing and critical appreciation.

Center for Puppetry Arts
Atlanta, GA
$25,000
To support puppetry productions and associated educational activities. The center will produce two works based on children's stories or interests and offer workshops, study guides and museum visits that complement the performances.

Center of Contemporary Arts
St. Louis, MO
$20,000
To support the continuation of the Pre-Professional Dance and Dance Outreach Program. These programs provide intensive training for low-income students and yearlong dance residencies to elementary schools in the St. Louis School District.

Charlotte Children's Choir
Charlotte, NC
$5,000
To support a choral arts festival titled A Children's Celebration in Song. The 11th annual summer choral festival will provide opportunities for children from three counties to study choral singing, vocal development and creative motion.

Chekhov Theatre Ensemble, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$8,000
To support Stages of Learning, a series of learning experiences designed to inspire children to learn. In 10-week sessions, the ensemble will provide lecture demonstrations that introduce teachers and approximately 4,000 K-8 grade students to a sequential process illustrating how a play is developed in rehearsal.

Chicago Architecture Foundation (consortium)
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support the Newhouse Architecture Competition. In a consortium with the Chicago Public Schools, the project provides educational opportunities and career counseling for high school students interested in design.

Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education
Chicago, IL
$80,000
To support Arts Education Design Seminars. This project assists arts organizations and schools to design and teach arts-integrated curriculum through hands-on training and curriculum development.

Chicago Children's Choir
Chicago, IL
$50,000
To support the creation and production of an original work, Movement. The multimedia choral performance will serve students in grades K-12 from Chicago and neighboring suburban schools.

Chicago Children's Museum
Chicago, IL
$15,000
To support the continuation of Passport to the World. Begun in September 2000, this multicultural celebration has provided youth and their families opportunities to learn about the arts and traditions of Chicago's diverse and emerging neighborhoods.

Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras
Chicago, IL
$7,500
To support Classroom Symphony, a string instruction program and expansion of after-school community outreach activities. The program includes student training, development of teacher orientation materials, in- and after-school workshops, concert trips and a spring concert.

Children's Book Press
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support LitLinks, an Internet residency project. Through four virtual author-in-residence programs, this project offers an innovative, literature-based approach that will stimulate students to investigate their own backgrounds and communities and then express themselves in writing and on-line publishing.

China Institute in America
New York, NY
$20,000
To support Sound of Silk: Chinese Culture through Music, a professional training opportunity for New York City sixth grade teachers. The program will utilize music to stimulate and facilitate children's learning about the folk and traditional culture of China and to enable them to understand Chinese music.

Choral Arts Society of Washington
Washington, DC
$25,000
To support the artsACCESS program. This choral music educational initiative will assist schools in using music and the arts to teach across the curriculum in primary grades.

City of Santa Fe
Santa Fe, NM
$32,000
To support ongoing professional development for elementary classroom teachers. The program will focus on methodologies of aesthetic education and ways to use the arts to meet literacy goals that have been established by the Santa Fe Public Schools.

Clay Studio
Philadelphia, PA
$15,000
To support the continuation of Claymobile, a mobile ceramic art education program for underserved youth. In an effort to provide access to high quality clay art education and teaching opportunities for artists, the Claymobile, host institutions, artists and teachers will design interdisciplinary lesson plans using ceramic arts.

College of Santa Fe (on behalf of GirlsFilmSchool)
Santa Fe, NM
$10,000
To support the continuation of the GirlsFilmSchool. The two-week summer residential program provides opportunities for adolescent youth to develop self-esteem, self-expression and explore careers through film and video production.

Columbia College
(on behalf of Office of Community Arts Partnerships)
$65,000
Chicago, IL
To support continuation of the Urban Missions Program. The initiative provides multimedia and Web site design and community art exhibitions.

Columbus Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Columbus, OH
$25,000
To support The Holocaust: An Artist's Perspective. Project components include a concert, teacher seminar, classroom visits, a student-produced video documentary and an archival exhibit.

Community Film Workshop of Chicago
Chicago, IL
$25,000
To support the expansion of the Media Arts and New Technologies Project. This project, designed as a year-round, after-school and summer media arts, technology and peer leadership program, involves at-risk youth who will document and create community projects presented in area parks.

Community Music School of Springfield, Inc.
Springfield, MA
$25,000
To support Prelude, an early-childhood music professional development program. The program for teachers at eight Springfield Day Nursery centers will include daily integration of a sequentially-based music program, co-teaching with music specialists, basic music skills training and curriculum development.

Community Television Network
Chicago, IL
$15,000
To support continuation of the International Video Letter. This multidisciplinary experience in media arts provides youth with opportunities to engage in global dialogues while deepening an understanding and appreciation of their communities and culture.

Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art (consortium)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support and expand a community arts partnership. Since 1999, Cooper Union, Jamaica Center for the Arts & Learning and ABC No Rio have partnered in a consortium to provide pre college studio art classes to the community outside of the academic setting.

Corcoran Gallery of Art
Washington, DC
$24,000
To support the Visual Artist Community Outreach Program. This nationally recognized program offers classes, courses and mentorships to students in the District of Columbia.

Cultural Education Collaborative (consortium)
Charlotte, NC
$90,000
To support a professional development collaborative focused on the design and implementation of an arts-infused curriculum and professional development of teachers, artists, school administrators and arts organizations. Consortium members include the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, Charlotte Symphony, North Carolina Dance Theatre, Afro-American Cultural Center, Children's Theatre of Charlotte, Mint Museum of Art, Museum of the New South and the Light Factory.

Dance Institute of Washington
Washington, DC
$10,000
To support First Position Ballet, an introductory course for children in grades one through three. Dance instructors will work with teachers to develop classes for 12 students in four different 10 week sessions that will teach rudimentary ballet skills, introduce French vocabulary, improve children's response to direction and their ability to recall vocabulary and movement, and develop communication skills.

Dance Ring, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the LIFT Community Service Program, which offers dance education and support services for children from New York City homeless shelters. Started in 1989, the LIFT program provides scholarships for 30 predominantly African and Latin American children, ages four through 12, for a 36-week training program in ballet with less intensive sessions provided during the summer.

Denver Center for the Performing Arts
Denver, CO
$30,000
To support the Living History educational program for middle and high school students. Professional theater artists perform scenes from productions of the Denver Center Theatre Company, then tailor workshops to augment class curriculum in two-to ten-day residencies.

Des Moines Metro Opera, Inc.
Indianola, IA
$15,000
To support Opera Iowa, a 10-week tour to underserved audiences in the Midwest. Since 1986, Opera Iowa has toured in a nine-state region, giving community performances and half-day residencies to students in grades K-12.

Detroit Educational Television Foundation (consortium)
Detroit, MI
$40,000
To support The Enrichment Channel. Program components include multimedia instructional programs, community-based resource materials, professional development experiences in classrooms and homes, and production of early literacy learning units in addition to other activities. Consortium members include the Detroit Public Schools and the Wayne Regional Education Service Agency.

Detroit Institute of Arts
Detroit, MI
$50,000
To support continuation of the Art Discovery Program. This project consists of a discussion based on examinations of works of art and a hands-on studio session.

Downtown Art Co., Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$7,000
To support the creation and production of two original plays. Since 1997, this program has provided youth with rehearsal, presentation and production opportunities while increasing their knowledge and skills in theater arts.

Duke University (on behalf of the Center for Documentary Studies)
Durham, NC
$57,000
To support the professional development of teachers and artists, following methods used in the Literacy Through Photography program. The program offers workshops and related services to professionals from around the country to assist them in developing writing and photography skills and will produce a curriculum for utilizing photography in the classroom.

Duncan Avenue Arts Collaborative
Providence, RI
$20,000
To support young artist mentorships. In this project, designed to create a formal training and development program for young artists, Everett Dance Theatre members will mentor youth in after school arts programs at Everett's Carriage House Stage and School.

Early Stages Program, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the initiation of the Responsive Writing Programs. Early Stages will augment its Live Theater Program, which has provided access to theater, symphony, dance and other cultural events for K-12 students since 1983, by launching a writing program based on responses to the performances attended.

East Bay Community Foundation (consortium)
Oakland, CA
$70,000
To support ARTS Ed. This project focuses on school district-coordinated leadership development and on capacity-building for school sites to sustain arts programs in partnership with local arts organizations and individual artists. Consortium partner is the Julia Morgan Center for the Arts.

Education Connection (consortium)
Litchfield, CT
$10,000
To support Project Poetry Live! This integrated arts education program for seventh grade students, provides opportunities for youth to work alongside professional artists of diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds.

Education Development Center, Inc.
Newton, MA
$75,000
To support expansion of Spectra New England. Spectra is a comprehensive approach to whole school change that uses the arts as a major entry point for transforming teaching and learning throughout the curriculum.

Education Through Music, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the Teaching Artist Academy, ongoing mentoring and Saturday Teacher Institutes. The program will train academic teachers and teaching-artists in pedagogy and integration.

Educational Alliance, Inc.
New York, NY
$12,000
To support the expansion of the Gifted Young Artist Program. This visual arts after-school and summer program, taught by practicing and exhibiting artists, provides economically disadvantaged youth with high-quality art instruction in a professional art school environment.

El Puente de Williamsburg, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$15,000
To support the development and implementation of an integrated arts curriculum. In collaboration with El Puente Academy (a New York City public high school), the project will look at the science and cultural ritual of food and cooking through an integrated arts curriculum.

Elders Share the Arts
Brooklyn, NY
$20,000
To support two artist residencies, refinement and publication of a curriculum and teacher training. The program includes residencies in theater and video; development, testing, refinement and publication of a comprehensive curriculum manual that will integrate theater and video into a sequential course of study; and teacher training in the manual's use.

Evansville Philharmonic Orchestral Corp.
Evansville, IN
$5,500
To support the orchestra's educational activities. The project will include youth concerts, professional development, curriculum development and school visits by musicians.

Fine Arts for Children and Teens, Inc.
Santa Fe, NM
$14,000
To support the continuation of ARTclub. Since its inception in 1997, this in-depth, after school visual art program for at-risk youth has provided an educational framework for art production and instruction in a non-threatening environment.

Fort Wayne Dance Collective, Inc.
Fort Wayne, IN
$12,000
To support continuation of Identity Bridge. For the past six years, Fort Wayne Dance Collective has provided more than 2,500 youth in northeast Indiana with classes in modern dance/theatre, poetry, percussion and visual art.

Fountain Theatre
Los Angeles, CA
$8,000
To support Poetry in Motion. Now in its second year, the project provides performance opportunities for deaf and hearing youth.

Free Street Programs, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$25,000
To support TeenStreet Theater. This program provides employment opportunities for youth in theater arts.

Friends of the Vancouver School of Arts and Academics (consortium)
Vancouver, WA
$32,000
To support ORIGINS. Through this program, designed as a symposium on arts education and the creative process, high school arts students, artists and arts educators will examine the subject of creativity via student work. Consortium members include Portland Institute of Contemporary Arts, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Perpich Center for Arts Education and the Vancouver School District.

Fulton Opera House Foundation
Lancaster, PA
$10,000
To support Youtheatre, a teen theater company. During this five-week summer project, youth create and perform a theater piece that is based on topics pertinent to their lives and that of their peers.

Glen Ellyn Children's Chorus
Glen Ellyn, IL
$12,500
To support Honors Chorus Workshop and Festival, School Exchanges and VoiceLinks. Through this program, designed to provide outstanding artistic experiences for youth with limited access to music education, students will participate in performing ensembles and outreach programs.

Global Action Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the continuation of Urban Voices TV. The pre-professional media arts training program engages low-income youth in artistic inquiry, digital media productions and the creation of group and individual media arts projects.

Grand Canyon Chamber Music Festival, Inc.
Grand Canyon, AZ
$10,000
To support the Native American Composer Apprentice Project. Developed with composer Brent Michael Davids and the Miro String Quartet, this project provides mentoring and training opportunities in composition and music literacy for eleventh grade Native American students.

Greater Tacoma Community Foundation (consortium)
(on behalf of Cultural Council of Greater Tacoma)
$32,000
Tacoma, WA
To support Arts Impact. This is a professional development program for elementary classroom teachers in teaching and assessing visual arts, dance and drama. Consortium members include the Tacoma Art Museum and Broadway Center for the Performing Arts.

Haven Project
Portland, OR
$8,000
To support the Afield program. In six, two-week residencies for underserved youth, professional theater artists will pair one-on-one with 65 adolescents, ages 10 to 18, to develop short scripts that will be given a performance by professional or university actors at the end of the sessions.

Holter Museum of Art, Inc.
Helena, MT
$20,000
To support artist residencies and student tours, workshops and exhibitions. The museum will host a wide variety of arts activities to engage students and instruct teachers in learning referenced to Montana Standards for Arts, Social Studies, World Languages, and Speaking and Listening.

Indiana Opera Society, Inc.
Indianapolis, IN
$25,000
To support Music! Words! Opera! The literature-based, K-12 educational project will provide teacher manuals and training, audiotapes, study guides and support attendance at performances, open rehearsals and workshops for teachers and approximately 5,000 students from 10 schools.

Indiana Repertory Theatre, Inc. (consortium)
Indianapolis, IN
$50,000
To support a bilingual playwriting class for students in grades three to 12. In partnership with the Westfield Schools, the project will provide professional development opportunities for approximately 20 teachers and 10 professional artists to observe a course led by playwright James Still. Consortium partner is the Westfield Schools.

Inglewood Cultural Arts, Inc.
Inglewood, CA
$8,000
To support multicultural workshops and the Interacts Experience. This after-school arts education workshop provides opportunities for youth to participate in African music, dance, culture and multimedia workshops and performances.

Inner-City Arts
Los Angeles, CA
$35,000
To support Arts Within Reach. Through programs in various arts disciplines, family days and teacher-training workshops, Inner-City Arts will foster self-expression, creativity and an enhanced understanding of the arts by putting the arts within reach of the community.

Inside Out Community Arts, Inc.
Venice, CA
$10,000
To support the continuation of The School Project. Since 1993, the after-school project for at risk youth has provided theater-based arts program at three middle schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District.

InsideOut, Inc.
Detroit, MI
$10,000
To support professional development workshops for artists and teachers and the revision of an instructor handbook. The workshops, covering techniques such as improvisation, guided imagery and classroom management, will be presented by educators, a theater artist, graphic designer, blues performer and storyteller.

Intermedia Arts of Minnesota, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$30,000
To support the establishment of The Art of Partnership: Language through the Arts. The nine month program will partner teachers and artists to develop their teaching skills around arts infused, bilingual curriculum for Spanish-speaking students.

International Documentary Association
Los Angeles, CA
$15,000
To support the Docs Rocks Institute. A 14-day conference for filmmakers, students, visual arts and English teachers will examine the curriculum and media products associated with a one-year pilot project in a Los Angeles high school that integrated media studies with California's first media arts standards.

International Institute of Modern Letters
Las Vegas, NV
$40,000
To support the implementation of Living Writers. Designed as a shared educational and artistic experience for the classroom and community sites, the project will encourage active involvement and promote interest in modern letters.

Intersection (on behalf of Youth Speaks)
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support the continuation of Youth Speaks. In this program, designed as an after-school literary arts workshop, youth participate in mentor and teacher training, a reading series and a corresponding professional performance poetry series.

Japanese American National Museum
Los Angeles, CA
$16,000
To support Finding Family Stories--Artists in the Community Workshops. A series of eight hands on workshops, exploring the themes of family history and cultural heritage, will culminate in an exhibition of students' work.

Jump-Start Performance Company
San Antonio, TX
$15,000
To support expansion of Historias y Cuentos (Stories and Tales). An ongoing multidisciplinary arts education program with five inner-city San Antonio public schools, this project focuses on integrating the arts with an academic curriculum.

Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra
Kalamazoo, MI
$10,000
To support music education activities in classroom settings and non-academic venues. Components include Discovery and Youth Concerts, open rehearsals, an instrument petting zoo, performance opportunities for youth, an Arts Technology Partners Lab program, musical coaching and music residencies.

Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey, Inc.
Kansas City, MO
$20,000
To support Ailey Camp. This summer program for high-risk middle school students in the Kansas City, MO School District develops self-esteem, creative expression, critical thinking and academic motivation through dance.

Kentucky Educational Television Foundation, Inc.
Lexington, KY
$50,000
To support production of an Art Toolkit. The multimedia resource will include a video excerpt library with modules in dance and visual arts and a Web site that facilitates interactive contact between teachers and students.

Kentucky Opera Association
Louisville, KY
$10,000
To support World Rhythms - OperaWorks. The series of programs for middle and high school students will include up to 25 performances and post-performance discussions that address objectives of the Kentucky Education Reform Act.

Khmer Family Resource Center, Inc.
Fall River, MA
$10,000
To support the expansion of Khmer Arts Workshop. Since 1997, this workshop has provided Cambodian inner-city youth in Fall River, MA with after-school arts education workshops that also help address critical social and academic issues.

Kingdom County Productions (on behalf of Fledging Films)
Barnet, VT
$20,000
To support and extend Fledgling Films. Designed for teens and pre-teens, the project provides opportunities in media writing, production and media literacy.

Log Cabin Literary Center, Inc.
Boise, ID
$36,000
To support Writers in the School. Yearlong residencies of 15 writers and professional development programs for 90 teachers will focus on writing to elements in the core curriculum for Boise area and rural Idaho school children in the third through twelfth grades.

Long Island Traditions. Inc.
Port Washington, NY
$23,000
To support development of a model social studies curriculum using traditional and vernacular architectural design and history. Through interdisciplinary study, students at Dodd Junior High School will examine how artistic design decisions were affected by technological and historical/cultural changes.

Los Angeles County Arts Commission (consortium)
Los Angeles, CA
$70,000
To support the second year of a professionally staffed arts education service hub. In consortium with the Los Angeles County Office of Education, the hub will deliver resources, training and coordinated services to systematically increase K-12 arts education in Los Angeles County.

Los Angeles Opera Company
Los Angeles, CA
$80,000
To support the Educational Continuum. The services for K-12 teachers and students will include two, specially commissioned operas as the basis for sequential, participatory activities that will introduce as many as 20,000 students to opera. Consortium partner is the Los Angeles County Office of Education.

Louisville Visual Art Association
Louisville, KY
$10,000
To support ARTworks. This project provides traveling exhibitions, artist residencies, resource materials and in-service training for teachers in four elementary schools.

Lower East Side Printshop, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the Art-in-Education and Teacher Training programs in public schools in New York's Lower East Side. Through intensive, semester-long art programs, students in grades K-9 will gain skills in art making and appreciation.

Madison Repertory Theatre, Inc.
Madison, WI
$10,000
To support the High School Residency program. Modeled after the Great Lakes Theater Festival's High School Residency program, high school literature classes will collaborate with actor-teachers on a roster of plays that are linked to Wisconsin curricula.

Maine Alliance for Arts Education
Augusta, ME
$30,000
To support expansion of Building Community Through the Arts. This in-school artist residency program is designed to foster positive social relationships among students through guided creation in theatre and dance.

Manhattan Theatre Club, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support expansion of the TheatreLink program. This project will extend the five-year-old distance learning initiative from 12 to 15 high schools across the country and provide for an upgrade of technological support.

Marlboro County School District
Bennettsville, SC
$20,000
To support expansion of the district's after-school, multitiered media project for disadvantaged middle school youth. The program teaches students to critically analyze media products through hands-on creation and exploratory viewing, listening and discussion.

Maui Community Arts & Cultural Center (consortium)
Kahului, HI
$30,000
To support Ho'ike: Arts for All. This project will provide artists/teacher training to implement Hawaii-mandated fine arts standards. Consortium members include the Hawaii Department of Education, Maui Academy of Performing Arts and Hana Arts.

Mill Mountain Playhouse Company
Roanoke, VA
$18,000
To support an oral history project. Combining elements of both dramaturgy and playwriting, youth will examine economic and social issues in the Roanoke region.

Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design
Milwaukee, WI
$15,000
To support the Creative Educator's Institute, a two-week professional training program for integrating art, design and the visual arts into K-12 curriculum. About 75 teachers will follow a one-week studio course in a combination of traditional media and emerging technologies with a second week focused on specific classroom issues and techniques.

Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts (consortium)
Minneapolis, MN
$25,000
To support a visual arts professional development program for Minneapolis teachers. Visual Thinking Strategies is a multiyear sequential arts curriculum that uses viewing and discussion of visual arts to teach critical thinking and communication skills.

Minnesota Orchestral Association
Minneapolis, MN
$65,000
To support Kinder Konzerts, the Adopt-a-School program and Young People's Concerts. The program includes commission of a new work to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Kinder Konzerts, strengthened musician training, development of new curriculum and ticket subsidies and commission of a new work in collaboration with the Philadelphia Orchestra.

Mission Inn Foundation
Riverside, CA
$15,000
To support Family Voices. High school students participate in an objects-based learning project by selecting a family artifact and working with a storyteller/artist to research, develop and communicate their stories.

Mobile Symphony, Inc.
Mobile, AL
$7,500
To support Preludes. This music program provides basic music education in nine elementary schools.

Mosaic Youth Theater of Detroit
Detroit, MI
$28,000
To support the Youth Ensemble. This after-school program provides quality theatrical and musical training for youth in the Detroit area.

Museum of Children's Art
Oakland, CA
$10,000
To support best practices in the arts, education and youth development. The museum will provide organizational assessment and documentation, staff development and comprehensive technical assistance to the field on a local, regional and statewide level.

Museum of the Albemarle, Inc.
Elizabeth City, NC
$10,000
To support development and implementation of Planters, Providers, & Pathfinders: African American Folklife in North Carolina. This community-based art education program is an interactive folk arts demonstration program for third through fifth grade students in northeastern North Carolina.

Music and Arts Center for Humanity, Inc.
Bridgeport, CT
$20,000
To support continuation of the Cultural Alternatives Initiative. The initiative provides comprehensive and sequential in-school, out-of-school and summer art programs for youth with special needs.

Music Institute of Chicago
Winnetka, IL
$10,000
To support expansion of Chicago Duo-Piano Festival and Mid-Winter Institutes. Both programs provide non-school day and summer music education for youth in the Midwest.

National Education Association Foundation
for the Improvement of Education
$50,000
Washington, DC
To support ArtsWork. The pilot project will assist secondary school arts specialists and technology-using teachers to collaborate in developing curricula that incorporates national arts and technology standards and links student learning to the world of work.

Nevada Museum of Art
Reno, NV
$28,000
To support creation of the Art Odyssey Teachers Institute. Major project activities include development and implementation of instructional lessons for teachers based on the museum's permanent collection; training in using the collection to integrate art into the core curriculum; and sequential evaluation of the program.

New England Conservatory (consortium)
Boston, MA
$60,000
To support a National Consortium for Music-in-Education. The consortium will develop new resources and cross-institutional capacities for sharing proven and promising practices among leading arts in education organizations. Consortium members include the Chicago Arts Partners in Education, the Kenan Institute for the Arts Foundation and Metropolitan Opera Guild.

New York Festival of Song, Inc.
New York, NY
$12,500
To support an in-school music education and professional development program for high school teachers. Components include in-school workshops taught by teaching artists; curriculum materials designed to support classroom work; teacher training/planning sessions; a concert designed for students and teachers and video documentation of classroom workshops; and a final concert.

North Carolina Performing Arts Center at Charlotte Foundation
Charlotte, NC
$30,000
To support planning, implementation and evaluation of GAINS--Gaston Arts Integration Nurtures Success--a comprehensive curriculum initiative. The project targets second and third grades at the Ida Rankin Elementary School in Mount Holly, NC.

North Carolina Symphony Society, Inc.
Raleigh, NC
$50,000
To support an in-school educational concert program and a workshop for elementary school music teachers from communities throughout the state. In 2002-03, all 64 full-time musicians of the North Carolina Symphony will travel more than 18,000 miles to perform up to 60 educational concerts.

Northern Illinois University
De Kalb, IL
$85,000
To support an assessment of the impact of arts integration on student learning and student artistic production and the development of assessment instruments. Twelve artist-teacher teams will collaborate with researchers in three cities: New York City, Chicago and Minneapolis.

Oberlin College (on behalf of Allen Memorial Art Museum)
Oberlin, OH
$15,000
To support the Puppet Summer project. The project is designed to reach a new audience, adolescents ages 13 to 18, through community-wide arts activities during the summer.

Old Globe Theatre
San Diego, CA
$45,000
To support the expansion of Teatro Meta. The in-school theater program for ESL middle and high school students has provided opportunities for youth to develop, produce and perform short plays.

Omaha Symphony Association (consortium)
Omaha, NE
$40,000
To support a pilot Residency Partnership Program. The program will offer specially developed, curriculum-based presentations in local schools and on-site residencies supported by the Nebraska Distance Learning Network. The consortium partner is the Omaha Public School System.

Opera Company, Inc.
El Paso, TX
$10,000
To support three educational component initiatives. Founded in 1993, the company will continue its major program, Opera on Wheels, reaching up to 50 elementary schools with performances of a mini-opera based on a standard piece.

Opera Omaha, Inc.
Omaha, NE
$15,000
To support Create Opera, a project for high school students. A composer-in-residence, Deborah Fischer Teason, will coordinate the creation and presentation of a one-act opera generated by the collaboration of approximately 200 high school students and professional artists.

Opera Theatre of St. Louis (consortium)
St. Louis, MO
$30,000
To support the Artists-In-Training program. With a focus on urban youth, the program provides opportunities for high school students in vocal coaching, master classes, retreats and performances. Consortium members include Webster University, Washington University and the University of Missouri-St. Louis.

Orlando Opera Company, Inc.
Orlando, FL
$15,000
To support In-School Opera. The program tours every Orange County public school at least once every two years as well as some schools in neighboring areas.

Pacific Northwest Ballet Association
Seattle, WA
$50,000
To support the ballet's three outreach programs for children in elementary school. The ballet presents performance/demonstrations, conducts in-school residencies of up to six weeks and professionally trains talented children from schools where many speak English as a second language or come from low-income families.

Pacific Symphony Association
Santa Ana, CA
$60,000
To support Class Act. The music education program provides both arts instruction and performance directly to all grade levels of 40 elementary and middle schools.

pARTs Photographic Arts
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
To support Youth Arts Experience. This component of the Focus on Education program, features in-school photography workshops, high school mentoring programs, family workshops and symposia and exhibition tours to schools.

Pasadena Symphony Association
Pasadena, CA
$25,000
To support four music education programs: TEMPO!, Musical Circus, the Mentor Program and the Pasadena Youth Symphony Orchestra & Prelude Strings. These programs provide music-infused curriculum, professional development for teachers, beginning and advanced music lessons with professional musicians and performance opportunities for underserved children.

People's Light & Theatre Company
Malvern, PA
$55,000
To support Project Discovery. The program features performances both for and with young people, an intensive ensemble project for at-risk students, school residencies, teacher workshops, theater classes and summer programs.

Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County
Los Angeles, CA
$75,000
To support core programs of the Music Center Education Division. Four core programs form a continuum of in-school arts education services, including Music Center on Tour, individually designed arts packages, Artist in Residence and Teachers Partnership and After School Creative Education.

Performing Arts Workshop, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the Artists-in-Schools (AIS) program. The AIS program places professional artists in schools to conduct 15-week, process-oriented residencies in creative movement, theatre and world dance to enhance the academic experience of educationally and economically disadvantaged students.

Philadelphia Dance Alliance
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
To support the Neighborhood Dance Exchange Program. Now in its 16th year, the program, which provides quality dance training for inner-city youth in Philadelphia, will complete a comprehensive evaluation and assessment plan and develop a broad-based dance curriculum.

Pillsbury United Communities
Minneapolis, MN
$15,000
To support the Chicago Avenue Project. Inspired by New York's nationally renowned 52nd Street Project, inner-city youth work alongside professional artists to create theater pieces.

Pittsburgh CLO (Civic Light Opera)
Pittsburgh, PA
$15,000
To support expansion of the Creative Vision program to broaden the reach of its in-school component among the Pittsburgh middle schools. The Civic Light Opera will provide theater arts training within a standards-driven language arts curriculum to 300 at-risk students.

Plaza de la Raza, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
To support youth arts programming at the School of Performing and Visual Arts. This cultural arts program features workshops, master classes, community performances and exhibitions for and by youth from the Lincoln Heights and east Los Angeles areas.

Portland Art Museum (on behalf of Northwest Film Center)
Portland, OR
$55,000
To support Filmmakers-in-the-Schools. The Northwest Film Center of the Portland Museum of Art will conduct a broad array of programs to encourage media literacy in the schools and foster learning in line with Oregon's education goals and standards for the arts.

Portland Museum of Art
Portland, ME
$15,000
To support AXIS (Artists eXchange Ideas with Students). The statewide initiative uses 19th century American art and architecture as instructional keys for middle school students in urban and rural sites.

Portland Opera Association, Inc.
Portland, OR
$15,000
To support Portland Opera Works!, a touring/residency project for K-12 students. For this project, the 36-year old Portland Opera will audition and hire eight singer/teachers for a 14 week, professional training program that will include an eight-week tour.

Professional Flair, Inc.
Cleveland, OH
$10,000
To support a theatrical training initiative for children with disabilities. The project will partner art therapists, the Dancing Wheels Company, the AA Studio and the Cleveland Clinic's Children's Rehabilitation Unit in this pilot youth arts training, performance and evaluation program.

Rhode Island School of Design
Providence, RI
$50,000
To support the design and development of The Knowing Eye. This new initiative will provide interactive learning spaces and incorporate directed looking of the museum's permanent collection through supplemental educational materials.

Richmond Art Center
Richmond, CA
$20,000
To support the Artists-in-Schools program. Project activities will include residencies in six elementary schools of the West Contra Costa Unified School District.

Richmond Ballet
Richmond, VA
$25,000
To support the Minds In Motion, a fourth grade dance education program. The ballet's faculty will plan and conduct hour-long, once-a-week classes that extend for 28 weeks in nine schools in Richmond and in rural, adjacent counties.

Roundabout Theatre Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$45,000
To support arts in education programs in New York City schools. Through a three-part approach, the Page to Stage and Producing Partners programs for students and professional development workshops for teachers, is geared to New York State Standards and the integration of creativity and theater elements into the curriculum.

Salvadori Center
New York, NY
$35,000
To support dissemination of the methodology used in the Salvadori Middle School Program and the development of a project book to be used to replicate the methodology outside of New York City. The center will expand its program to Staten Island and Port Chester, NY, to explore ways to disseminate teaching methods in areas where on-site mentoring by Salvadori staff and bi monthly workshops in New York City are not feasible.

San Diego Opera Association
San Diego, CA
$30,000
To support Operation: Opera, a series of educational outreach initiatives for K-12 students. The programs employ full production values, are complemented with teacher support materials connected to core curriculum and are evaluated through a process created by the Educational Technology Department of San Diego State University.

San Diego State University Foundation
(on behalf of Border Voices Poetry Project)
San Diego, CA
$10,000
To support the Borders Voices Poetry Project. This project will place up to 20 poet/teachers in school residency programs; feature an annual two-day poetry fair; produce six television shows documenting interaction at the fairs between poets and students; and publish the work of participating poets alongside student poems and artwork.

San Francisco Girls Chorus, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the Music Education/Outreach Program. The program provides need-based scholarships for female youth in 160 schools in the Bay area to participate in choral training and performances.

San Francisco Performances, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support Performance Poetry and Jazz Intervention. Jazz vibraphonist Stefon Harris and baritone Christopheren Nomura will work with primarily inner-city high school students in lecture demonstrations, workshops, instrument and creative writing instruction and performances.

San Francisco Symphony
(on behalf of San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra)
$60,000
San Francisco, CA
To support the Artistic Development Program. In this program designed to enhance the artistic growth of Youth Orchestra members, youth participate in personalized coaching, master classes, apprenticeships, mentorships and specialized training in chamber music, instrument care and auditioning.

San Jose Jazz Society
San Jose, CA
$15,000
To support a jazz education research program. Four classrooms of students will participate in Get Jazzed and Jazz for Kids to test the effectiveness of classroom materials in motivating students to participate in music education.
SAY _I
San Antonio, TX
$23,000
To support the continuation of Project WAM (Working Artists and Mentors). Working alongside professional artists, high school students will mentor middle school students during this year round visual and media arts program.

Seattle Arts & Lectures
Seattle, WA
$40,000
To support the Writers In The Schools project. Geared to Washington State Essential Academic Learning Requirements, the program will feature up to 40 comprehensive writers' residencies in Seattle middle and high schools, along with teacher training and student mentoring.

Seattle Repertory Theatre (consortium)
Seattle, WA
$18,000
To support two professional development programs. The programs complement one another by focusing on the needs of teachers to incorporate theater and the arts into the curriculum and on artists' needs for experience in classrooms.

Seattle Theatre Group
Seattle, WA
$15,000
To support Dance This. The program features local youth dance companies performing in diverse styles, from traditional to contemporary.

Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestras
Seattle, WA
$7,500
To support the Marrowstone Music Festival. Founded in 1943, this three-week residential summer music program provides orchestral and chamber music instruction for youth through master classes, rehearsals and performances with a nationally and internationally acclaimed artist-faculty.

Shreveport Opera
Shreveport, LA
$7,500
To support Shreveport Opera Express, a residency program throughout the state of Louisiana. Three different elementary school programs and two for middle and high school students focused on specially written children's operas will tour with three vocalists, a pianist and project manager.

SITE Santa Fe
Santa Fe, NM
$50,000
To support the creation of SITE ONSITE. This outreach program will engage youth in the creation and presentation of art, providing hands-on experiences in art making, reviewing and curating.

Sloss Furnace Association, Inc.
(on behalf of Sloss Furnances National Historic Landmark)
$35,000
Birmingham, AL
To support expansion of the Summer Youth Apprenticeship Program. Designed to build artistic, vocational and social skills in high school students, this arts-based youth program will increase the number of apprentices and professional artists by including inner-city youth.

Society of the Third Street Music School Settlement, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support development of a comprehensive, sequential music curriculum. Created in collaboration with the Island School, the program will include basic music, strings, choral singing, percussion and recorder.

Spokane Symphony Society
Spokane, WA
$7,500
To support expansion of Symphony Ensembles for Education. The project will send four ensembles into area elementary schools and juvenile correctional facilities to perform interactive concerts that center around a musical theme or situation.

St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble
New York, NY
$20,000
To support performances and workshops in New York City public schools. The project includes 12 performances of Handel's opera Acis and Galatea and as many as 800 artist-led workshops at 25 elementary and intermediate schools.

Stage One: The Louisville Children's Theatre, Inc.
Louisville, KY
$15,000
To support the production of two repertory plays for young audiences. The plays will be designed for elementary and middle school audiences using a developmental approach to theater.

Stanford Jazz Workshop
Stanford, CA
$20,000
To support the continuation of Jazz Camp. This two-week summer program uses a customized jazz curriculum, which is based on each participant's abilities and interests.

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute (consortium)
Williamstown, MA
$60,000
To support Kidspace. Kidspace offers a full range of activities to promote art in-schools as both a distinct curricular discipline and as a tool for mastering other subjects. Consortium members include Williams College Museum of Art and the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art.

Storefront for Art and Architecture
New York, NY
$18,000
To support the development and implementation of a design education project for youth living in New York City shelters. Students will study urban structures representing different aspects of the city.

Street-Level Youth Media
Chicago, IL
$30,000
To support continuation of the In-School program. The project offers media arts programs to at risk children and young adults through arts-integrated curricula projects teacher training and artist residencies.

Strings for Schools, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$12,500
To support an ongoing music education/exposure program for K-12 students. The project includes development and implementation of sequential learning activities to introduce students to traditional and multiethnic musical genres.

Tacoma Symphony Orchestra Guild
Tacoma, WA
$10,000
To support Simply Symphonic. This integrated elementary school music education program is provided free to fifth grade students in Pierce County public and private schools.

TADA Theatre and Dance Alliance, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support expansion of the Musical Theater Writing Residency program to reach more students in underserved neighborhoods of New York City. TADA! will replicate its six-year-old model to develop musicals related to the social studies curriculum in two Brooklyn schools, where many students speak English as a second language.

Teachers & Writers Collaborative, Inc.
New York, NY
$55,000
To support the expansion of WriteNet, an Internet-based service for writers working in schools and Teachers & Writers, a bimonthly magazine. These resources provide teachers, writers, students and parents access to literary arts materials and opportunities for writers to partner with schools and community institutions.

Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz (consortium)
Washington, DC
$75,000
To support Jazz Sports, a national music instruction and performance project. The institute will host professional jazz musicians in Los Angeles and District of Columbia schools as teachers and mentors of young music students. Consortium member is the Los Angeles Unified School District.

Tides Center
Stanford, CA
$10,000
To support Visual Arts/Language Arts. This project will sustain and expand a guest artists program, extend teacher/artist training in creative writing and visual arts and foster long-term partnerships among schools, artists and arts organizations.

Trinity Repertory Company (consortium)
Providence, RI
$35,000
To support the expansion of the Trinity Summer Shakespeare Project. This outreach program provides free tours of Shakespearean productions to outdoor venues throughout southern New England during the summer. Consortium member is the Veterans Memorial Auditorium Foundation.

University of Massachusetts at Amherst
(on behalf of New WORLD Theater)
$50,000
Amherst, MA
To support continuation of Project 2050. Designed as a multidisciplinary and cross-cultural project for youth from diverse racial, ethnic and class backgrounds, 2050 provides interactions among youth, professional artists and scholars and includes the creation of original theater pieces.

Video Machete
Chicago, IL
$30,000
To support full implementation of the Global Youth Project. This multipart media education project will train students, teachers and administrators in digital media production and theory.

Village of Arts and Humanities, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$9,000
To support the creation of an art park in a blighted section of North Philadelphia. Students of the Daniel Boone School, in collaboration with Village artists, will design and construct a community art park in one of the abandoned properties adjacent to the school.

Vineyard Playhouse Company, Inc.
Vineyard Haven, MA
$7,000
To support the 4th Grade Theatre Project. In nine years, the program has introduced 800 fourth graders to theater as an artistic collaboration, teaching script development, acting, designing and creating sets and costumes, writing press releases, and performing for the public in a historic playhouse.

Virginia Avenue Project
Los Angeles, CA
$12,000
To support the One-on-One and Playmaking programs. Through a sequence of classes, youth develop skills in acting and playwriting, culminating in performances of their works for peers and general audiences. Since 1992, more than 250 original plays have been written and performed by youth in collaboration with professional artists.

VSA arts of Indiana, Inc.
Indianapolis, IN
$12,000
To support a multidisciplinary art program for students with disabilities. Based on the aesthetic inquiry process developed by the Lincoln Center Institute for Aesthetic Education, this project will launch a cooperative arts education program with Indianapolis Public Schools and include professional development opportunities for teachers at Lincoln Center.

Wadsworth Atheneum
Hartford, CT
$20,000
To support Hand-in-Hand: Art & Writing at the Wadsworth Atheneum. Designed for at-risk fifth grade students, the Hand-in-Hand program uses the museum's permanent collection and special exhibitions to strengthen students' skills in observation and verbal and written communications.

Washington Opera
Washington, DC
$40,000
To support programming of Music! Words! Opera! Modeled after the national educational initiative developed by OPERA America, the company will create a sequential curriculum based on La bohème that integrates language, drama, visual arts and music into lesson plans for students, grades three through eight.

Washington Very Special Arts
Washington, DC
$40,000
To support the School for Arts in Learning project for students with disabilities and their transition from kindergarten through eighth grade. Project components include documentation of all phases of curriculum development, assessment and teaching modes of the K-5 program, followed by documentation of the elementary students' adjustments to and progress in the upper-school level.

Women's Studio Workshop, Inc.
Rosendale, NY
$18,000
To support the Hands-On-Art Visiting Artist Project. Two emerging artists will be awarded 10 week residencies to conduct in-school and in-studio workshops with pre-K-12 students and to develop an artist's book.

Working Playground, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support implementation of the Curriculum Development and Arts Access Program. This program will train middle and high school humanities teachers at East Side Community High School to integrate the arts into the academic curriculum.

World Poetry Bout Association
Taos, NM
$10,000
To support the continuation of the Poetry Education Project. This community education project provides opportunities for participants to develop communication skills while increasing knowledge, skills and appreciation of contemporary poetry.

Writer's Garret (consortium)
Dallas, TX
$30,000
To support Summer Creative Writing Seminars for Language Arts Teachers. Partnering with the Dallas Independent School District and Dallas Reads, the Writer's Garret will sponsor a three week seminar to enable high school teachers to apply creative writing in their classrooms. Consortium members include the Dallas Independent School District and Dallas Reads.

Writers In the Schools
Houston, TX
$60,000
To support the WITS Impact, an initiative to intensify the writers-in-residence program. Master teacher/writers will conduct seminars for classroom teachers over an eight-week period, providing strategies for creative writing in the classroom and methods for teachers and children to brainstorm, draft, edit and publish their work.

Yellow Springs Exempted Village School District
Yellow Springs, OH
$25,000
To support Looking in, Looking out: Our Place in the World to advance curriculum integration. Components include a summer institute for teachers, school immersion in the study and celebration of diversity by focusing on innovative approaches to interdisciplinary learning and community activities for parents.

YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago
Chicago, IL
$15,000
To support the ShoeBox Series. Through a partnership with Columbia College Chicago's Erikson Institute Early Childhood Teach Education Program and local theater companies, this project will provide preschool children with experiences in theater and creative drama.

Young Audiences Inc., Denver Area Chapter
Denver, CO
$15,000
To support The Aesthetic Education Institute of Colorado. Components include professional development for teachers and artists, curriculum planning based on infusion of the arts and an artist-in-residence program.

Young Audiences of Greater Cleveland (consortium)
Cleveland, OH
$45,000
To support the Preparation and Practice initiative. The two-year project will develop the skills of teaching artists throughout northeast Ohio. Consortium members include Young Audiences of Greater Cleveland and the Broadway School of Music and the Arts.

Young Playwrights' Theater, Inc.
Washington, DC
$10,000
To support EmPowerPlay, a multifaceted playwriting program for middle and high school students. The project centers on playwriting exercises, in-school readings, visits from guest artists and field trips to local performances.

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