2003 GRANT AWARDS - Arts Learning

2003 Grant Awards: Arts Learning

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

A listing with the in-depth descriptions and contact information is also available in Portable Document Format (PDF). PDF documents can be downloaded and read with the free Acrobat Reader.

911 Media Arts Center (on behalf of Reel Girls)
Seattle, WA
$15,000
To support continuation of Reel Girls. This after-school media program, designed and targeted for teenage girls, will involve rigorous after-school and weekend programs to explore media literacy, gender identity and video production.

American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance
(on behalf of National Dance Association)
Reston, VA
$15,000
To support innovative professional development workshop projects for dance educators and artists. The project will include three new initiatives: a pedagogy conference, workshops pertaining to the national dance standards and other workshops involving dancers.

American Composers Forum (consortium)
St. Paul, MN
$85,000
To support the translation to CD-ROM format of curriculum for additional works in the BandQuest commissioning series. The project assists middle school students and teachers in meeting National Standards for Arts Education through an electronic, interactive course in band music.

American Music Theater Festival, Inc. (AMTF) (aka Prince Music Theater) (consortium)
Philadelphia, PA
$55,000
To support the Youth on Stage Program. Activities will include intensive classes in music theater writing, composing, acting, singing and dance on site at the Prince Music Theater.

American Place Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$18,000
To support the expansion and further development of Literature to Life, a theater and literature program for middle and high school students in Washington, D.C. and New York City. Attendance at a performance of a culturally specific work, including a post-show discussion and workshop, will be augmented by four in-school workshops.

American String Teachers Association (aka ASTA with NSOA) (consortium)
Fairfax, VA
$65,000
To support a professional development program at higher education institutions as part of the ongoing Strings Project. Undergraduate music education majors participate as student teachers in all aspects of string teaching to more than 300 public school students in the third through 12th grades.

American Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
New York, NY
$28,000
To support expansion of an arts education program designed to increase attendance and exposure to symphonic music, and expand content and context of musical works in the humanities curriculum. The project will include curriculum planning, development, teacher training and at least four visits by musicians to each school.

An Claidheamh Soluis, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support The Big Potato, a program based on the New York State Education Department's Great Irish Famine Curriculum. Activities will include in-school workshops and performances that teach students modern and folk dances, Irish folk song and mime, performed to live traditional Irish music.

Angkor Dance Troupe, Inc.
Lowell, MA
$20,000
To support in-depth, ongoing instruction in traditional Cambodian dance. Youth will be taught Cambodian classical and folk dance traditions by world-renowned master dancers, led by director Phousita Huy.

Appalshop, Inc.
Whitesburg, KY
$60,000
To support the Appalshop Arts Education Initiative. Project activities will include after-school arts programming for youth, artist-led curriculum workshops for arts educators, and the documentation of youth arts education program models and curricula.

Armory Center for the Arts
Pasadena, CA
$50,000
To support increasing the number of schools and classrooms in the Pasadena Unified School District that participate in in-depth, sequential visual arts education programs. Four programs, presented for K through eighth-grade students and teachers during the school day, are tied to the Visual Arts Content Standards mandated by the California Department of Education.

Art Institute of Chicago (on behalf of School of the Art Institute of Chicago)
Chicago, IL
$60,000
To support expansion of the Teacher Institute in Contemporary Art. The institute will provide experienced high school art teachers the opportunity to study contemporary art theory and practice with leading artists, critics and lecturers in the visual and new media arts.

Art's for Everyone, Inc.
Encinal, TX
$21,000
To support Echale Art. This visual arts enrichment project, serving rural children and youth of Encinal, Texas (population 850), includes free after-school workshops by visiting artists, a summer arts program, and a field trip to Houston's annual Art Car parade.

Artists Collective, Inc.
Hartford, CT
$40,000
To support music and dance training for students, including performance opportunities with dance ensembles and a Youth Jazz Orchestra. The project will include master classes and workshops in dance and music for students.

Artists for Humanity, Inc.
Boston, MA
$50,000
To support expansion of the Youth-run Arts Micro-enterprise program. Through four-year paid apprenticeships, young people aged 14 to 18, primarily from low-income neighborhoods in Boston, receive studio instruction in the visual arts.

Arts Alliance of Northern New Hampshire
Littleton, NH
$35,000
To support the development of a pedagogical model curriculum titled, Heart of the Silk Road. Project activities will include summer institutes, pilot residencies, performances and exhibitions based on the arts and culture of the region of Central, South, and East Asia that historically have been connected by trade.

Arts Center
Carrboro, NC
$22,000
To support the AfterSchool Arts Immersion (AAI). The project will offer hands-on training by outstanding artists in a variety of performing and visual art forms and one-on-one apprenticeships with artists-in-residence.

Arts In Progress, Inc.
Roxbury, MA
$25,000
To support expansion of A Circle of Girls. The two-year program will offer after-school theater arts and social development instruction targeted to middle-school girls.

ASCAP Foundation
New York, NY
$40,000
To support Summer Music Camp, an intensive musical training and performance experience for public school students throughout New York City's five boroughs. The ongoing project of the Manhattan School of Music provides students classical music training with an emphasis on performance skills.

Association of Institutes for Aesthetic Education, Inc.
New York, NY
$65,000
To support the Teaching Artist Mentoring Project. The project will provide a series of professional development workshops for teaching artists, as well as the development of an online forum (part of the AIAE Web site) that will facilitate theoretical and/or practical-interest discussions.

Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$23,000
To support the Family History Art Book Project, an after-school program. Fourth- and fifth-grade students will work one-on-one with professional artists to research and create autobiographical artists' books.

Bad Dog Rediscovers America
Salt Lake City, UT
$23,000
To support in-school cultural activities and arts-in-education programming for Guadalupe School. The project will include arts programming for pre-school and K-third grades, and weeklong summer camps for 3- to 9-year-olds.

Ballet Arts Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN
$20,000
To support expansion of the City Children's Nutcracker Project. The project offers free dance education and professional caliber performance opportunities for children in Minneapolis' low-income neighborhoods.

Ballet Tech Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support tuition-free professional ballet training. Designed to infuse dance training into the academic curriculum, students grades four through 12 participate in weekly and summer intensive ballet classes in addition to receiving dancewear, shoes and necessary transportation.

Baltimore Clayworks, Inc.
Baltimore, MD
$28,000
To support after-school art classes for young people in underserved Baltimore communities. The project connects working and exhibiting ceramic artists with young people, ages 11 to 14, in four, 10 week sessions of classes, followed by an exhibition at City Hall galleries.

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Baltimore, MD
$45,000
To support the expansion of Arts Excel. Designed to support academic achievement in core curricular subjects through the arts, the program will focus on schools in rural Washington County in western Maryland.

Belmont University (on behalf of Tennessee Arts Academy)
Nashville, TN
$45,000
To support the Tennessee Art Academy. Administered by the Tennessee Department of Education, the program will offer statewide summer workshops in visual arts, theater, music and dance for teachers and teaching artists.

Bethlehem Musikfest Association (consortium)
Bethlehem, PA
$25,000
To support Bsmart. This year-round after-school and weekend media arts program is targeted to middle school students from low-income families.

Big Picture Alliance
West Grove, PA
$49,000
To support a media production project. Philadelphia inner-city high school students, working with media artists/mentors, will be involved in all aspects of creating broadcast-quality narrative projects.

Book-It Repertory Theatre
Seattle, WA
$10,000
To support the Book-It All Over (BIAO) education and outreach program that presents literature based theater to K-12 students. The BIAO reaches audiences at schools, libraries and community centers throughout Washington State through performances, hands-on workshops and residencies.

Boston University
Boston, MA
$28,000
To support the Young Artists Orchestra and Young Artists Wind Ensemble programs of Boston University's Tanglewood Institute. High school musicians will receive individual music instruction and group participation opportunities through ensemble rehearsals and performances, master classes and coaching sessions.

Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$20,000
To support Four: You & Me. Using elements of theater to explore principles of leadership and conflict resolution, students aged eight to 18 will participate in workshops and residencies led by playwright and theater artist John Flemming.

Brooklyn Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Inc. (consortium)
Brooklyn, NY
$35,000
To support expansion of the Bedford-Stuyvesant Initiative. The project will include skills-based and curriculum-integrated activities and live musical performance for students, as well as professional development sessions for teachers and administrators.

Brown University (consortium)
Providence, RI
$75,000
To support the continuation of the Arts Literacy Project (ALP). The program will provide year-round professional development opportunities for teachers and artists, in an effort to link arts and literacy.

Brownsville Art League (aka Brownsville Museum of Fine Art)
Brownsville, TX
$40,000
To support the Art to Grow Program. This program will serve 120 at-risk children, ages eight to 12, in experiential arts programs in traditional art forms of Mexico and Central America.

Buen Dia Corporation
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support the Early Childhood Arts Education Training Program in the Visual and Performing Arts. This program provides preschool teachers with training workshops and artist residencies to enhance their skills in delivering arts programs specifically to young children.

Bump the Ghost Foundation (aka Museum Without Walls)
Westminster, CA
$70,000
To support the development of a CD-Rom and Web site based on resources offered by art museums from across the United States and abroad. The information will be designed to provide motivational learning resources and activities geared toward children ages eight to 12 and which fulfill state goals in art, literacy and other subjects.

California Alliance for Arts Education
Pasadena, CA
$20,000
To support the Community Arts Education Project, a collaboration with the California State PTA Leadership to increase arts learning in public schools. Working in 20 selected sites, community arts teams will develop arts education plans and assessments.

California Lawyers for the Arts, Inc. (consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$70,000
To support evaluation, documentation and dissemination of CultureCore. The program is designed to expand the development of youth through cultural enrichment and exposure.

California Poets in the Schools
San Francisco, CA
$45,000
To support the PEER Project. Through this poet-in-residence and peer-review project students in grades K-12 will learn poetry appreciation and writing from accomplished poets-in-residence at their schools.

Carnegie Hall Society, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
$90,000
To support continuation of LinkUP! The project is a standards-based music education program that integrates music into the elementary school curriculum, including curriculum development and teacher training, curriculum-based classroom instruction for children and school concerts.

Carnegie Institute (aka Carnegie Museum of Art)
(on behalf of Andy Warhol Museum)
Pittsburgh, PA
$20,000
To support Youth Invasion. Based on Andy Warhol's unique exhibition practices in his 1968 Raid the Icebox, participants will curate exhibitions, display their own artwork and organize public events.

Center for Art in Translation
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support Poetry Inside Out. Targeted for bilingual students ages eight to 13, the program will introduce students to Spanish literature, increase language proficiency in both English and Spanish through literary translation, and demonstrate the possibility of career opportunities.

Center for Arts Criticism
St. Paul, MN
$25,000
To support expansion of Sisters in Leadership (Ogichidaakweg). This media arts and criticism project, targeted to young Anishinabe women from the Leech Lake Nation, will provide video and digital photography instruction as a means for giving a public voice to important community issues.

Center for Arts Education
New York, NY
$90,000
To support the Parents as Arts Partners program. Through open forums, dissemination of an Arts Education Action Kit, and the production of a public awareness campaign, the center will develop and share effective strategies for parental involvement in the arts.

Center for Creative Education
West Palm Beach, FL
$17,000
To support expansion of Project LEAP (Learning through Education and Arts Partnerships). Professional artists and teachers will develop and implement an in-school curriculum to teach academic subjects through the arts for first through third grade students at the Allamanda Elementary School.

Central Pennsylvania Youth Ballet
Carlisle, PA
$18,000
To support DiscoverDance. Designed as an arts program for at-risk students ages six to nine, children progress through three levels of dance and music classes in 13-week sessions.

Chaldean American Ladies of Charity
Southfield, MI
$5,000
To support Restoring Our History Program. Designed to increase public awareness and appreciation of Chaldean cultural traditions, teen-aged youth will participate in summer workshops in painting, history and visual arts activities at the Chaldean Cultural Center.

Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education
Chicago, IL
$80,000
To support the Arts Education Partnership Design Seminar. CAPE will continue to build on its work with schools and artist partners on designing, implementing and documenting arts-integrated curriculum that will bring professionalism to the role of teaching artists and in-school arts specialists.

Chicago Children's Museum
Chicago, IL
$15,000
To support expansion of Passport to the World. This educational series for children up to fifth grade and their families highlights the arts, cultures and traditions of Chicago's diverse communities.

Children's Art Carnival, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
To support Building Community Through the Arts. Youth will work on revitalizing a senior citizen's sculpture garden, creating objects such as benches, mosaics and murals.

Children's Book Press (aka Imprenta de Libros Infantiles)
San Francisco, CA
$18,000
To support LitLinks. This virtual author-in-residence project combines literature and technology in four, yearlong literature-based writing programs for youth, ages 11 to 14.

Children's Dance Foundation
Birmingham, AL
$10,000
To support Movement-to-Music, which provides dance for young children and children with special needs. The program is offered to more than 45 pre-schools throughout the Birmingham area and taught by professional dance instructors and musicians.

Children's Dance Theatre
Salt Lake City, UT
$45,000
To support the Side-By-Side Teacher Training Residency. The program has been developed to help students and teachers incorporate dance, music and creativity into the classroom.

Children's Media Project
Poughkeepsie, NY
$21,000
To support enhancement of the Media Guild program through addition of artist residencies. Residency activities will include the creation of new work, mentoring advanced students and developing new course curricula.

Children's Theatre Company and School (consortium)
Minneapolis, MN
$65,000
To support the Teen Collective. The two-year project is designed to form a diverse company of teenagers who will receive training and mentoring from local and nationally recognized theater artists.

Choral Arts Society of Washington
Washington, DC
$28,000
To support artsACCESS. This arts-in-education initiative uses the creative and participatory nature of music and the arts to support collaborative curriculum development and teacher/artist training.

Chula Vista Elementary School District
Chula Vista, CA
$70,000
To support Community of Teachers & Artists. Artists and teachers in four selected schools will be engaged in a process to fully integrate the arts into all aspects of the curriculum and develop outcome-based evaluation for students in the Chula Vista Elementary School.

Cincinnati Classical Public Radio, Inc.
Cincinnati, OH
$15,000
To support continuation of Classics for Kids, an innovative radio and outreach program. The project will include radio broadcasts, a multi-media interactive Web site, lesson plan materials for teachers and CD recordings.

City Lights Youth Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
To support Voices in Time: Exploring History through Theater, a two-year interdisciplinary pilot project integrating theater arts with social studies curriculum in several New York City elementary schools. Every week a playwright and director will work with students, leading them through historical research, writing and theatrical exercises to create and stage an original theatrical production based on a social studies script.

College of Santa Fe (on behalf of Girls Film School)
Santa Fe, NM
$22,000
To support GirlsFilmSchool. This intensive two-week summer media production program introduces high school girls, ages 15 to 18, to the fundamentals of film, video and new media production.

Columbia College (on behalf of Community Arts Partners Institute)
Chicago, IL
$72,000
To support the professional development conference of the Community Arts Partners Institute. The annual conference will be held for artists, cultural workers, faculty, and community and university leaders.

Columbia College (on behalf of Office of Community Arts Partnerships) (consortium)
Chicago, IL
$70,000
To support continuation of the Urban Missions Program. Approximately 3,000 Chicago youth, aged nine to 18, will be offered community-based arts classes, workshops, mentorships and training opportunities as part of their arts learning activities.

Commission Project, Inc.
Rochester, NY
$18,000
To support the Rochester Initiative, a composer-in-residence program in six local schools. The organization will commission six professional composers to compose, with students' input, new music for that school's musical ensemble.

Communities In Schools of New Jersey, Inc.
Newark, NJ
$30,000
To support Studioworks. After-school visual and performing arts classes and summer arts instruction, as part of job training, will be offered to youth from low-income, primarily African-American and Latino neighborhoods in Newark and Montclair, New Jersey.

Community Art Center, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
$40,000
To support a collaborative youth media project. The center will join with four youth service organizations to work with professional media artists and middle school students on pre-production, production and post-production of original videos.

Community School District 30
Jackson Heights, NY
$50,000
To support expansion of Local Learning. In partnership with City Lore and P.S. 11 in Queens, a number of community-based artists will work as artists-in-residence with students from the second through sixth grades.

Community Television Network (aka CTVN)
Chicago, IL
$26,000
To support a media technology program for at-risk youth. CTVN teens, aged 14 to 21, will create, view, distribute and exchange streaming media through Hard Cover, CTVN's award-winning cable TV show.

Community Visual Art Association of Jackson Hole
Jackson, WY
$8,000
To support the continuation of Y.A.R.D. (Young Artists Revolutionary Designs) Art, a design and marketing program for at-risk teens. Recruited from Jackson Hole and Western Wyoming high schools and Teton Youth and Family Services, 25 teens will work with community artists and business professionals to design, fabricate and sell unique metal yard furniture.

Community-Word Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support artist-led classroom workshops. Trained writers and visual artists will lead creative writing, visual and performance-arts residencies that meet city and state-mandated language arts standards in New York schools.

COMPAS, Inc.
St. Paul, MN
$33,000
To support continuation of ArtsWork, an arts-based youth employment program. During the summer, students will be employed as apprentices to professional artists to create artwork and performances that will be exhibited to the public.

Concord Community Music School (aka CCMS)
Concord, NH
$45,000
To support continuation of the Music in the Community Initiative (MICI), a partnership with early childhood providers and public schools. Activities will include Music & Movement for mothers and their children, percussion for fourth and fifth graders, master classes and sectionals for school music programs, improvisation and composition residencies and performances.

Connecticut Architecture Foundation, Inc (aka CAF)
(on behalf of Architecture Resource Center)
New Haven, CT
$12,000
To support design and implementation of a professional development model. Twenty 5th-grade teachers will broaden their design knowledge, skills and resource bases as part of the implementation of New Haven's Cultural Landscape: its changing people and places.

Cultural Council of Greater Jacksonville, Inc.
Jacksonville, FL
$20,000
To support Living Inside, a multidisciplinary arts instruction project. The training will include creative writing, photography, drama, and graphic/Web site design instruction at Public School 176 that serves juvenile offenders who are incarcerated at the Duval County Jail.

Cultural Education Collaborative, Inc. (consortium)
Charlotte, NC
$80,000
To support professional development activities for school-community teams of teachers, artists, cultural educators, school administrators and arts organizations. Now in its third year, new focus areas will be added to include pre-school and pre-service training.

Dallas Symphony Association, Inc.
Dallas, TX
$65,000
To support the continuation of Youth Strings, a project that targets and develops the musical talents of outstanding African-American and Latino students in the Dallas area. The three-level course of instruction for students in grades K-12 provides semi-private and private string lessons taught by Dallas Symphony Orchestra musicians.

Dance Ring, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support continuation of Project LIFT. The project will include year-round ballet classes for at-risk youth, field trips to museums and dance concerts, and performance opportunities.

Des Moines Metro Opera, Inc.
Indianola, IA
$15,000
To support OPERA Iowa, an education program that will include a 13-week tour in rural Midwestern schools. Featuring a world premiere of Iowa composer Michael Patterson's The Tale of Peter Rabbit and Engelbert Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel, the program will offer more than 80 performances and 320 classroom workshops.

Destiny Arts Center
Oakland, CA
$30,000
To support Project Aloud. The project will include the creation and performance of a dance/theater work by the Center's Destiny Arts Youth Performing Company, and the development and distribution of a curriculum guide.

Detroit Institute of Arts (on behalf of El Arte Alliance)
Detroit, MI
$18,000
To support school-based arts learning. The program will provide multicultural, interdisciplinary art experiences developed and administered by collaborating teachers and artists who teach curriculum-based arts in the classroom.

Dia Center for the Arts
New York, NY
$12,000
To support the Beacon Arts Education Program (BAEP). This long-term district-wide partnership with the Beacon City School District will engage every student at the elementary, middle and high school levels over the course of his or her education.

Diocese of Las Cruces Foundation, Inc.
(on behalf of Las Cruces International Mariachi Conference)
Las Cruces, NM
$18,000
To support mariachi workshops for students in kindergarten through 12th grades. The youth will learn traditional Mexican mariachi instrumental and vocal music from a number of professional performers.

Dream Yard Drama Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support summer classes led by professional teaching artists in theater, film, studio art, mural making and dance. Children ages nine to 14 will spend six weeks in skills-based arts education workshops with artists, theater directors, filmmakers and dancers, with the training culminating in a public performance.

Early Stages Program, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the Storytelling Program. The project will introduce children in four elementary schools in Queens, Brooklyn and South Bronx to a range of traditional folk stories and will build their writing, expressive and dramatic skills through student performances of their own stories.

East Bay Asian Youth Center
Oakland, CA
$45,000
To support Mothers on the Move, a media-based arts learning initiative for youth. The program is designed to immerse 50 high school students in the process of digital storytelling documenting the struggles of multi-cultural low-income mothers living in Oakland.

East Side Arts Council
St. Paul, MN
$18,000
To support the Arts InFusion Project. A series of artist residencies will be designed as a means to integrate the arts into the basic school curriculum of three schools.

Eastern Kentucky Child Care Coalition, Inc.
Berea, KY
$28,000
To support an education program that teaches children enrolled in child care programs in underserved counties of southeastern Kentucky about the region's artistic and cultural heritage.

Educational Video Center
New York, NY
$50,000
To support the Method of Media Arts Instruction. The curriculum development project will focus on documentation, production, pilot testing and national dissemination.

El Puente de Williamsburg, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$20,000
To support the Arts for Empowerment: School-based Integrated Arts Project. El Puente teaching artists and teachers of New Visions High School will collaborate on the project.

Elders Share the Arts (on behalf of National Center for Creative Aging)
Brooklyn, NY
$15,000
To support a new initiative, Generating Community. The first of a four-year sequential curriculum for freshman students at the Millennium Art Academy in the Bronx will integrate the art of storytelling with the classroom study of history and the civil rights movement.

Exploratorium (consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
To support the development of integrated arts learning activities focused on artist James Turrell's monumental art installation in the Arizona Desert's Roden Crater. The interconnections between art and science will be explored through an interactive Web site and related classroom activities.

Eyebeam Atelier, Inc. (consortium)
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
To support continuation of the New Media Collaborative. The art and technology program will provide after-school activities for 25 students of the Humanities Preparatory Academy.

Figures of Speech Theatre
Freeport, ME
$28,000
To support the development and implementation of teacher residency programs in the puppetry arts as a fulfillment of Maine Learning Results requirements for kindergarten through 12th grades. Building on the theater's touring performances and in-school residencies, the project will support three age-appropriate teaching programs, as well as teacher workshops, educational and evaluation materials and outreach information.

Fine Arts for Children and Teens, Inc. (aka FACT)
Santa Fe, NM
$20,000
To support in-depth visual arts education programs. Offered during the school day and during non school hours, the program serves 500 underserved students ages eight to 18, at four public school sites and one central community studio location.

Floricanto Dance Theatre
Whittier, CA
$18,000
To support the Floricanto Dance Institute. Designed to preserve Mexican culture and awareness through music and dance, students will participate in after-school dance training programs.

Fort Wayne Dance Collective, Inc.
Fort Wayne, IN
$30,000
To support Identity Bridge. The multidisciplinary arts learning project was designed to promote child and youth development by providing arts and cultural opportunities for creative expression.

Fort Wayne Philharmonic Orchestra, Inc. (consortium)
Fort Wayne, IN
$20,000
To support the Preschool Music Program. The program will provide a music curriculum, rhythm instruments and live ensemble performances for more than 600 at-risk, inner city, pre-school children.

Free Street Programs, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support the continuation of the TeenStreet Theater and Arts Literacy programs. TeenStreet is a community-based, comprehensive theater program that provides low-income Chicago teens with after-school jobs as writers, performers and producers; Arts Literacy is a yearlong school-based residency program.

Friends of Lied/Lied Center for Performing Arts Nebraska
Lincoln, NE
$45,000
To support the Omaha Cultural Arts Project. In collaboration, teachers and artists will develop a kindergarten through 12th grade arts curriculum for 450 students enrolled in the Omaha Nation Public School District, in rural Macy, Nebraska.

Friends of NORD
New Orleans, LA
$15,000
To support the NORD/NOBA Center for Dance. This cultural community partnership between the New Orleans Recreation Department (NORD) and the New Orleans Ballet Association (NOBA) will provide year-round free classes and workshops.

Friends of the Arts, Inc.
Locust Valley, NY
$15,000
To support expansion of Jazz Sampler. The program incorporates the study of the history and elements of jazz into the curricula of visual arts, language arts and social studies in the Washington Rose School in Long Island.

Georgia State University (on behalf of Atlanta Partnership for Arts in Learning)
Atlanta, GA
$40,000
To support partnerships that connect teachers and students to artists and art resources. Activities will include training artists and K-12 teachers, developing arts-integrated curricula, offering professional development for teachers and seminars for school administrators, and disseminating the model through publications.

Glen Ellyn Children's Chorus
Glen Ellyn, IL
$15,000
To support the continuation of chorus workshops, school exchanges and outreach classes for students from economically disadvantaged households. Through weekly rehearsals and performances of a variety of ethnic and musical styles, this performance-based music education program's three performing ensembles serve about 250 children, ranging in age from five to 18.

Global Action Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the continuation of Urban Voices TV. Professional media artists will work with youth producers in artistic inquiry, digital media production, and creating group and individual media arts projects.

Grand Canyon Music Festival (aka Grand Canyon Chamber Music Festival)
Grand Canyon, AZ
$10,000
To support the ongoing Native American Composer Apprentice Project for rural Native American students in northern Arizona. The project trains and encourages 15 to 20 talented high school students through composition study resulting in the creation, premiere and recording of five new works for string quartet.

Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras
Boston, MA
$30,000
To support the Intense Community Program that provides rigorous stringed-instrument training to underserved youth from the Boston area. The upcoming year's goal is to continue the program's growth by adding another class of 20 talented students to the current student body.

Greater Tacoma Community Foundation
(on behalf of Cultural Council of Greater Tacoma)
Tacoma, WA
$25,000
To support Arts Impact. This ongoing program is designed to improve classroom teaching skills in the visual and performing arts for kindergarten through grade eight teachers.

Groundswell Community Mural Project, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$12,000
To support the Voices Her'd mural project. Young women, ages 14 to 18, from three ethnically diverse, low-income Brooklyn neighborhoods will develop a series of collaboratively designed and painted community murals.

Harlem Children's Zone, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support continuation of the TRUCE Community Artist-in-Residency Program. TRUCE provides Central Harlem youth with access to a variety of visual arts, media literacy and performance activities, and provides teaching artists with curriculum design resources and professional training workshops.

Hawaii Alliance for Arts Education (consortium)
Honolulu, HI
$90,000
To support Arts First. This project will support development and implementation of an elementary school arts learning curriculum incorporating dance, drama, music and visual arts.

HeArt Project
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
To support a standards-based arts education project. Yearlong comprehensive workshops will be conducted for students at continuation high schools of the Los Angeles Unified School District.

High Scope Educational Research Foundation
Ypsilanti, MI
$64,000
To support the Supporting Young Artists program. Through this professional-development training program, the number of early childhood practitioners who are skilled in developing visual arts programs for preschool children will be expanded.

Hmong Cultural Arts, Crafts, Teaching & Museum Projects
Elverta, CA
$20,000
To support the preservation of Hmong culture and music. Eight masters of traditional Hmong arts will teach classes to mostly Southeast Asian youth ages eight to 14 at the Hmong Cultural Center in Sacramento and the Firehouse Community Center in Del Paso Heights.

Huntsville Housing Authority
Huntsville, AL
$43,000
To support comprehensive musical exposure and educational opportunities to Authority residents and children in the surrounding community. The project will include violin instruction, ensemble performances, music theory and literacy classes, elementary school residencies, a youth orchestra and other performance opportunities.

Idaho Commission on the Arts (consortium)
Boise, ID
$40,000
To support a pilot summer institute for elementary classroom teachers. The project is designed to strengthen teaching skills in and through the arts.

Independance Inc. (aka Moving In The Spirit)
Atlanta, GA
$18,000
To support the Stepping Stones. The program, which reaches out to homeless, refugee and low income neighborhood children, will use dance as a creative tool for personal development in such areas as self-expression, self-determination and discipline.

Indiana Symphony Society, Inc. (aka Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra)
Indianapolis, IN
$30,000
To support the continuation of the School Partner Program. The program uses the arts to teach core curricula to a diverse social and economic representation of Indianapolis children.

Inner-City Arts (consortium)
Los Angeles, CA
$60,000
To support the Partnership for Improved Education (PIE-Arts). The initiative, which links the arts with literacy, will focus on development and implementation of specialized curriculum models that promote student learning and arts education strategies in Los Angeles middle schools.

Inner-City Arts
Los Angeles, CA
$40,000
To support the Early Arts Learning Initiative. This initiative will engage visiting artists as full-time staff to provide a sequential arts education program for second and third grade students in Los Angeles elementary schools.

Inside Out Community Arts, Inc.
Venice, CA
$20,000
To support the continuation of The School Project. This comprehensive program of after-school theater arts instruction is located at three Los Angeles Unified School District middle schools.

Institute for Learning Centered Education
(on behalf of Adirondack Curriculum Project)
Potsdam, NY
$15,000
To support Arts Forever Wild: Adirondack Arts Institute for Teachers. This summer institute brings together art and music teachers from the Adirondack region with artists and curriculum specialists for the purpose of developing and implementing Adirondack-related curriculum materials.

Jack Straw Memorial Foundation (aka Jack Straw Foundation) (consortium)
Seattle, WA
$55,000
To support Family Celebrations. The radio project will include the development of a curriculum focused on family oral histories and student-created audio vignettes about family and community celebrations.

Jamestown Fine Arts Association
Jamestown, ND
$18,000
To support Arts After School. The program provides a structured, supervised setting where students work with professional artists to increase their artistic and social skills.

Juilliard School
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the continuation of the Music Advancement Program. The program targets public school children ages eight to 14 from all five New York boroughs for intensive musical training.

Junior Players Guild
Dallas, TX
$13,000
To support free theater education programs for youth. Programs include two-week summer Discover Theater camps, two-week Shakespeare camps and a production of a Shakespeare play, produced in cooperation with the Shakespeare Festival of Dallas.

Just Buffalo Literary Center, Inc. (consortium)
Buffalo, NY
$36,000
To support integration of the arts into the curriculum of Buffalo public schools. This project formalizes and implements a collaborative program to raise student achievement in the English language through the use of poetry, dance, music and theater, and to assess the impact of arts learning on student achievement.

Just Think Foundation
San Francisco, CA
$55,000
To support the production and marketing of a series of media-literacy curriculum kits. The curriculum is designed for children in third through 12th grade, and will be marketed to teachers, parents and community workers.

Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra (consortium)
Kalamazoo, MI
$15,000
To support the Orchestra's school-based and community-based education program. Activities will include school-based residencies by musicians and composers, string coaching by professional musicians, and concert and community-based programs.

Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey, Inc.
Kansas City, MO
$25,000
To support the continuation of AileyCamp, a six-week summer program for middle-school students. Project activities will include dance classes, creative communications through storytelling and creative writing, personal development classes, guest speakers, field trips and family events, and a final performance.

Kentucky Center for the Arts Corporation
Louisville, KY
$54,000
To support a drama and oral history pilot program led by ArtsReach for middle and high school students. The students' work will revolve around personal oral histories that each will explore and recreate through dramatic expression.

Kentucky Educational Television Foundation, Inc.
Lexington, KY
$60,000
To support Art to Heart. This early childhood educational resource is designed to help teachers, parents, artists and childcare providers nurture creativity in children from birth through age eight.

Kingdom County Productions (aka Fledgling Films)
Barnet, VT
$25,000
To support continuation of the Fledgling Films program. The project will include a 21-day intensive Summer Institute, 15 days of summer "Seedling" film workshops, ten days of in-school residencies, the Fledgling Film Festival and a Fledgling Film Series of screenings.

La Frontera Mariachi Conference, Inc.
Tucson, AZ
$20,000
To support mariachi workshops in conjunction with the Bank One Tucson International Mariachi Conference. The workshops and master classes by professional artists will provide instruction in mariachi singing, violin, trumpet, vihuela, guitarron, guitar and harp-playing techniques and repertoire, as well as Mexican folk dance.

Lawrence University of Wisconsin (on behalf of Lawrence Academy of Music)
Appleton, WI
$28,000
To support a jazz education program during non-school hours that will offer children an exploration into the history of jazz and its Afrocentric roots. The new initiative is an extension of the University's Lawrence Academy of Music and will have three main components: a Saturday Morning Live program, an after-school program and summer day camps.

Learning Matters, Inc. (on behalf of Listen Up! Youth Media Network)
New York, NY
$80,000
To support Listen Up! This project facilitates production and distribution of youth-produced, media focused issues of national unity and international understanding.

Lehigh Valley Community Broadcasters Association
Bethlehem, PA
$12,000
To support WDIY-FM radio station's Youth Media program. Project activities will include hands-on training for youth, ages 14 to 18, in all aspects of radio production.

Levine School of Music (aka Selma M. Levine School of Music)
Washington, DC
$23,000
To support Early Childhood Music. The program incorporates musical activities to help young children develop their cognitive, emotional and social skills.

Literary Arts, Inc.
Portland, OR
$12,000
To support continuation of Writers in the Schools (WITS). The project, targeted to high school students, provides one-day visits by local and touring authors, artist-in-residence mentorships, faculty training sessions, purchase of authors' books as a permanent resource, and student readings and publications.

Live Bait Theatrical Company
Chicago, IL
$8,000
To support the continuation and expansion of Police-Teen Link. The program brings together teens from disadvantaged backgrounds with police officers and theater professionals through writing and improvisational comedy experiences.

Long Beach Museum of Art Foundation
Long Beach, CA
$35,000
To support KidsVisions. This visual-arts education program includes teachers' training, artists' presentations at the schools, resource materials, student field trips to the museum, art-making experiences and an exhibition.

Los Angeles Commission on Assaults Against Women (LACAAW)
Los Angeles, CA
$45,000
To support the Digital Storytelling Project. This project provides at-risk youth residing in metropolitan Los Angeles with after-school education in the visual, graphic, and literary arts, using multimedia technology.

Los Angeles County Arts Commission (consortium)
Los Angeles, CA
$80,000
To support the Arts Education Hub. The project will provide central coordination of the county's efforts toward furthering its arts education policies.

Los Angeles Opera Company
Los Angeles, CA
$75,000
To support arts education programs for students in grades K-12. Activities include in-school performances, a student matinee program and Opera for Educators/Opera 101, and a professional development seminar for teachers.

Louisville Orchestra, Inc.
Louisville, KY
$50,000
To support Making Music Partnership. This collaborative project between the Louisville Orchestra and Jefferson County Public Schools includes classroom visits, ensemble performances, curriculum materials for students and teachers, newsletters and full orchestra concerts.

Madison Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Madison, WI
$13,000
To support Up Close & Musical. The partnership between the Madison Symphony Orchestra and the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Music is designed to help kindergarten through second grade students experience classical music.

Marwen Foundation, Inc. (aka Marwen)
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support the Pre-College Summer Program. The two-week, intensive college planning and visual arts instruction course for underserved junior and senior high school students will teach students how to prepare for college admissions and how to develop portfolios of artwork.

Maryland Institute College of Art (on behalf of Community Arts Partnerships)
Baltimore, MD
$20,000
To support the Baltimore Youth Television program. Children, ages eight to 12, will create their own short videos and public service announcements under the direction of a master video artist, assisted by college student mentors from the Community Arts Partnerships.

Massachusetts College of Art
Boston, MA
$40,000
To support Renewal, Support and Growth: Professional Development Opportunities for Massachusetts K-12 Visual Arts Teachers. The series of workshops is designed to explore the innovative approaches for supporting the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks and provide ongoing opportunities for teacher/artist renewal, support and growth.

Maui Community Arts & Cultural Center (consortium)
Kahului, HI
$40,000
To support Ho'ike: Arts for All. The professional development program for teachers and artists will be expanded to reach increased numbers of students in Maui County communities.

Merit School of Music
Chicago, IL
$46,000
To support the Humboldt Park Music Program. Designed to foster a love of music, the after-school music lessons are targeted to third- through sixth-grade students in Chicago's inner-city public schools.

Metropolitan Opera Guild, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support an educational research and documentation project. The focus will be the impact of the Guild's In-Class and Creating Original Opera programs on special needs school populations of the northeastern United States.

Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum
Chicago, IL
$41,000
To support expansion of the Yollocalli Youth Museum Program. The arts education and career training program engages students in different artistic media, while introducing them to diverse professions in the arts.

Midori Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support expansion of the Making Music Program. Additional grade levels and classes will mark the expansion to eight schools.

Milwaukee Public Schools
Milwaukee, WI
$90,000
To support arts instruction for elementary school students. Fine arts activities including painting, drawing, dance, music, theater, creative writing and poetry will take place in schools and community settings, with a special emphasis on reaching underserved populations of public school students.

Minnesota Children's Museum
St. Paul, MN
$37,000
To support the Creativity and the Young Child initiative. The series of professional development and training events will provide early childhood educators, artists and parents with an understanding of the range of experiences in arts and creative expression for young children.

Mission Inn Foundation
Riverside, CA
$18,000
To support Family Voices. Using object-based learning, students from the California School for the Deaf and mainstream classes select a family artifact and work alongside a professional storyteller and published author to research, develop and communicate their own stories.

Mississippi Cultural Crossroads, Inc.
Port Gibson, MS
$25,000
To support in-school and summer workshops for children and youth in theater, visual arts and documentary photography. Designed to provide opportunities for self-expression, self-affirmation and skills-building in and through the arts, middle and high school students work alongside professional artists to develop original scripts for public performances.

Missoula Community Access Television, Inc. (aka MCAT)
Missoula, MT
$25,000
To support the Montana Media Arts in Education project. Students in Missoula high schools will work with MCAT's artist-in-residence to improve their media literacy and production skills through hands-on production experience.

Missoula Writing Collaborative
Missoula, MT
$25,000
To support a writing residency program. The program will place six writers in six rural, low-income, and/or reservation schools for eight months for weekly writing sessions with students, ages seven to 18.

Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit
Detroit, MI
$18,000
To support the Ensemble Training Program. Through this program, students will receive ongoing instruction through the creation and performance of an original play and original music.

Multicultural Music Group, Inc.
Yonkers, NY
$36,000
To support professional development opportunities for music educators in New York. Designed to improve delivery of an integrated arts curriculum in social studies, technology and music, teachers will receive in-service training covering a variety of music education aspects.

Music in the Mountains
Nevada City, CA
$12,000
To support Music in the Mountains. Components of the music education program for pre-K through 12th-grade students and teachers include instruction in music, movement and composition along with educational tours and classroom performances.

Musicians United for Superior Education, Inc.
Buffalo, NY
$20,000
To support the MUSE Mobile program. The project will bring professional artists into six Buffalo community centers to teach West African or Latin drum and dance to children, aged 10 or older.

National Dance Institute of New Mexico
Santa Fe, NM
$30,000
To support dance classes for elementary school students in rural communities throughout northern New Mexico. Senior Dance Institute instructors will conduct weekly, 50-minute dance classes for 25 to 30 students in grades three through six.

National Dance Institute, Inc. (aka NDI)
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the Teacher Training Program. Intensive workshops for teachers and professional artists will be held in New York and Los Angeles and several apprentices will be trained under the auspices of founder Jacques D'Amboise.

National Museum of Women in the Arts, Inc.
Washington, DC
$12,000
To support Bridging Communities. The program combines museum visits, classroom lessons, visiting artists and in-depth instruction in the arts, culminating with an exhibition of student work at the museum.

National Park Foundation
Washington, DC
$25,000
To support development and piloting of a kit of materials for teaching young people how to perform New Orleans-derived jazz styles. The kit will consist of lesson plans, a CD with an introduction to traditional jazz, a DVD showing youth and adult bands playing traditional jazz, and a resource guide.

New Brunswick Cultural Center, Inc.
New Brunswick, NJ
$18,000
To support the State Theatre School-Community Dance Project. This comprehensive dance immersion experience serves 450 ethnically diverse sixth graders from low-income neighborhoods.

New England Dinosaur, Inc.
New York, NY
$13,000
To support the Community Dance Clinic. This after-school program at William Sidney Mount School (P.S. 174) in Rego Park, Queens, combines traditional artist residencies with a dance-making clinic for students with additional oversight from teachers and parents.

New Haven Family Alliance, Inc. (on behalf of Family Support Centers)
New Haven, CT
$10,000
To support Lifting Voices, Quilting Lives. Youth living in New Haven's public housing developments will compile stories and recollections from community members and, from this compilation of experiences, will illustrate life in the neighborhood by painting images on fabric.

New York Foundation for Architecture, Inc. (aka NYFA)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support Learning by Design: NY. The K-12 students' program teaches architecture and design education within New York City public schools.

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$70,000
To support educational outreach associated with the public television broadcast Music From The Inside Out. This multifaceted training program for music educators will feature a series of seminars taught by well-known Juilliard professor Eric Booth in 15 cities across the country.

New York University (on behalf of Creative Arts Team)
New York, NY
$46,000
To support the InterACT elementary school program. Dramatic arts activities are used in school and after-school settings to develop at-risk students' literacy, critical thinking and conflict resolution skills.

Oklahoma Arts Council (consortium)
Oklahoma City, OK
$23,000
To support the Visual Art Visual Language project. Focusing on art and visual literacy, the program will involve at-risk youth, ages 13 to 18, enrolled in alternative education programs in Oklahoma.

Opera Company, Inc.
El Paso, TX
$15,000
To support Opera on Wheels, Artists in the Schools, Youth Night at the Opera and the Lauren Butler Scholarship Competition. Program activities include classroom workshops, mini-opera productions and accessibility to main stage productions for students in underserved areas of Texas and New Mexico.

Oregon Alliance for Arts Education
McMinnville, OR
$20,000
To support expansion of the Oregon Teacher Arts Institute. Designed to integrate standards-based arts into the curriculum through professional development workshops and pre-service training in the arts, the program will be expanded to include up to 20 teachers.

Oregon Public Broadcasting
Portland, OR
$55,000
To support development of the Oregon Art Beat in the Schools Web site. The Web-based video archive and online resources for K-12 students and teachers will feature contemporary Oregon artists and associated lesson plans.

Organization for Northern Development (aka Out North)
Anchorage, AK
$20,000
To support O.N.T.V. (Out North Teen Visions), a media literacy and production training program for teenagers. Program participants will learn media production skills through workshops, tutorials, mentoring and screenings of other youth media work.

Outside In Productions (consortium)
Santa Fe, NM
$10,000
To support the continuation of Creative Arts for Youth With Promise. The workshops in guitar, dance and visual arts for boys and girls ages 12-17 take place during the week in the county juvenile detention center and on Saturdays in the facilities of El Museo Cultural Center, the consortium partner.

Paine Art Center & Gardens, Inc.
Oshkosh, WI
$23,000
To support Discover Art! Looking and Creating. This interactive exhibit module for children, ages six to 12, and their families will feature "looking" areas, where visitors will see and discuss reproductions of works in the Paine collection and a "creating" area where they can create their own work.

Partners for Youth with Disabilities, Inc.
Boston, MA
$20,000
To support the continuation of Access to Theater. The program targets Boston-area youth with disabilities for fully accessible participatory theater work with professional artists.

Pasadena Symphony Association
Pasadena, CA
$33,000
To support music education and outreach programs. The four programs serve to increase the musical knowledge and skills of Pasadena's ethnically diverse student population.

Passage Theatre Company, Inc.
Trenton, NJ
$20,000
To support the State Street Project. Youth in elementary and middle school participate in playwriting, poetry, performances and vocational training in technical theater.

Pennsylvania Young Playwrights Program, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$40,000
To support Stage Write. The playwriting program fosters dialogue and understanding by pairing urban and suburban middle and high school students in school workshops, collaborative writing activities, attendance at professional theater and the staging of student plays.

People's Community Organization for Reform and Empowerment
Los Angeles, CA
$35,000
To support continuation of the Mural Missions project. The weekly series of after-school public art and mural classes will bring local artists together with inner-city middle and high school-aged youth.

Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County (aka Music Center)
Los Angeles, CA
$75,000
To support four Music Center programs: Music Center on Tour, Arts Packages, Artists in Residence, Teacher Partnerships and After-School Creative Education. The programs feature a range of in school and after-school workshops and residencies by local artists and ensembles for K-12 students and teachers in Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino, Ventura and Riverside counties.

Performing Arts Workshop, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support continuation of the Artists in Schools evaluation. The research study of student learning in and through the arts will focus on student performance at 10 elementary schools in San Francisco, San Mateo and Marin County.

Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York, Inc. (aka New York Philharmonic)
New York, NY (consortium)
$65,000
To support continuation of the School Partnership Program. Students in grades three through eight will attend workshops with New York Symphony-trained teaching artists.

Phoenix Boys Choir Association
Phoenix, AZ
$20,000
To support the commission and production of a children's opera. The work, to be composed by Michael Abels and premiered by the Phoenix Boys Choir, will tell the story of a group of singers with divergent musical styles who, through collaboration and respect, make music in spite of their differences.

Pillsbury United Communities
Minneapolis, MN
$15,000
To support the Chicago Avenue Project. Professional playwrights, actors and directors work with inner-city children to create theater productions organized around a common theme.

Police Athletic League, Inc.
New York, NY
$54,000
To support the Portraits Project Mentorship Program and the In School Training and Employment Program (In-Step). The sequential arts program will be hosted by 10 centers serving more than 40 at-risk and homeless children.

Pomperaug Regional School District No. 15 (consortium)
Middlebury, CT
$70,000
To support professional training of arts educators and resident artists throughout the state of Connecticut. During weeklong summer institutes, participants will learn the systematic approach to developing standards-based arts curricula and classroom instruction units.

Project STEP, Inc.
Boston, MA
$23,000
To support continuation of the String Training and Education Program (STEP). With a focus on gifted, at-risk youth, the program immerses students in private lessons, classroom instruction and master classes, performance opportunities, summer study, career counseling and musical instrument loans.

Pros Arts Studio
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support Project: Celebraciones! Activities will include free, after-school workshops in both traditional and contemporary visual arts that are part of the Dia de los Muertos, Dia del Nino, and Carnaval celebrations in Latin-American communities, as well as teacher workshops.

Purple Silk Music Education Foundation, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
To support expansion of the youth training programs. Chinese traditional musicians will train students, ages eight to 18, on weekends in ensembles grouped by three levels of proficiency, of which the most advanced, the Great Wall Youth Orchestra, will perform at public events and will be recorded.

Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra (on behalf of The Music School)
Providence, RI
$28,000
To support The Music School's programs of learning in and through the arts for at-risk youth at the Nathan Bishop Middle School. Program activities include workshops, in-school residencies, teacher training and after-school programs for youth, ages six to 12.

Rockford Area Arts Council
Rockford, IL
$23,000
To support ArtsPlace. The arts and job apprenticeship program trains teens, aged 14 to 18, as teaching assistants through studio time with professional artists.

Ryman-Carroll Foundation
Los Angeles, CA
$50,000
To support the expansion of the Ryman Program for Young Artists. Teens from Los Angeles will receive tuition-free studio instruction in drawing and painting by master artist teachers.

San Diego Opera Association (consortium)
San Diego, CA
$55,000
To support continuation of the WAM (Words and Music) program. The project aims to improve literacy skills of at-risk middle school students through the creation of a student written/composed musical theatre/opera piece.

San Francisco Art and Film Program
San Francisco, CA
$12,000
To support continuation of the Teen Film Workshop. The film workshop is designed to prepare high school juniors and seniors, aged 16 to 18, for film school and train them for future careers in the film industry.

San Francisco Arts Commission
San Francisco, CA
$50,000
To support the Arts Education Funders Collaborative (AEFC). The program will provide ongoing arts education activities for all elementary school and child development center students and professional development for educators in the San Francisco United School District.

San Francisco Girls Chorus, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
To support a choral music education and performance program for talented Bay-area girls. The program is a graduated, three-level curriculum and serves as a training ground for the Performance Program's two concert and touring ensembles.

San Francisco Symphony (on behalf of San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra)
San Francisco, CA
$75,000
To support the ongoing Youth Orchestra Artistic Development Program. Intensive personalized coaching, engagements with renowned artists, apprenticeships and mentorships enhance the curriculum of individualized training and specialization for youth orchestra members.

Save the Children Federation, Inc. (consortium)
Berea, KY
$40,000
To support Passing the Pick and the Bow project. Student classes in Appalachian Mountain music for children, ages eight to 18, from rural Appalachian communities will attend three-day Mountain Music Schools taught by regional master musicians and 10-week sessions taught by local teachers.

SAY Si
San Antonio, TX
$15,000
To support the Media Studio Arts (MAS) program. The year-round program provides urban students with a state-of-the-art digital media lab, broadband Internet access, and professional software and training to give them the skills needed to compete in a technological and information-based economy.

Seattle Arts & Lectures
Seattle, WA
$50,000
To support the expansion of Writers in the Schools (WITS). Components of this Seattle public schools literary arts program include teacher training, classroom residencies by established and emerging writers, student readings and publications, and community activities.

Seattle Center Foundation
Seattle, WA
$8,000
To support the Seattle Center Academy. Middle school students will work directly with professional artists from the region during the intensive, summer arts education program.

Seattle Repertory Theatre (consortium)
Seattle, WA
$25,000
To support expansion of the professional development program, Bringing Theater Into the Classroom. Ongoing workshops and classroom residencies will be added to the weeklong summer workshop for K-12 classroom teachers.

Seattle Theatre Group
Seattle, WA
$17,000
To support DANCE this... The project will feature dance training and cross-cultural workshops for youth, a commissioned work by a visiting choreographer and local youth-company dance performances in traditional and contemporary styles.

Shakespeare & Company, Inc.
Lenox, MA
$45,000
To support the continuation of Shakespeare in Action. Students in 12 high schools will participate in the nine-week theater arts residency program that features after-school classes, production work, performances of a Shakespeare play, interscholastic master classes and a festival of student performances.

Sheldon Swope Art Museum, Inc.
Terre Haute, IN
$10,000
To support the Rural Arts Initiative. The project will provide arts education resources to underserved rural schools in the Wabash Valley.

Sherman Heights Community Center Corporation (on behalf of !Art Now!)
San Diego, CA
$20,000
To support the Voices Project. The program is a collaboration among artists, youth, museums and community partners and will use photography, writing, sound and video to address issues of importance to teens, their families and community members.

Sloss Furnace Association, Inc.
Birmingham, AL
$35,000
To support The Summer Youth Apprenticeship program. High school students from the Birmingham area will apprentice with professional artists to create cast-metal sculptures.

South Carolina Educational Communications, Inc.
Spartanburg, SC
$75,000
To support the Virtual Arts Center (VAC). The interactive arts education Web site, designed for middle school students, will feature videos of working artists and online galleries of student-produced work in the visual and performing arts.

Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art
Loretto, PA
$25,000
To support creative-art courses for preschool-age children and their parents. Activities will take place at the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, comprising the museums of Loretto, Altoona, Johnstown and Ligonier Valley.

Sprinkle Art, Inc. (aka Kennedy Center Imagination Celebration)
Colorado Springs, CO
$38,000
To support expansion of the Outposts Program. The infrastructure development project for rural school districts will feature classroom resources, teacher training, residencies and performances.

Starfish Theatreworks, Inc. (aka STW)
New York, NY
$15,000
To support creation of a text documenting the Literacy-Through-Theatre Method. This project will continue with the goals achieved through STW's Turn-Key Lab that has improved hundreds of inner city teens' writing and speaking skills through the study of playwriting and acting.

State University of New York at Buffalo
Amherst, NY
$74,000
To support the professional development opportunities for early childhood specialists. Designed to examine the impact of music achievement on emergent literacy development, teachers will study extensive repertoire, creative movement and improvisation, and participate in a six-week practicum in the Early Childhood Resource Center.

Street-Level Youth Media
Chicago, IL
$25,000
To support expansion of the In-School program to increase the amount of time spent in classrooms and allow for in-depth arts and technology-infused learning experiences. The project will include training resident and freelance artists in models of arts education, professional training workshops for teachers and extended classroom projects for students.

Streetside Stories, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support the development of Storytelling Exchange. Streetside Stories staff and facilitator will lead workshops for sixth-grade students in the composition of autobiographical narratives, theater performance and storytelling workshops which will culminate in a published anthology of the students' work.

Sweet Bird Classics, Inc.
Albuquerque, NM
$23,000
To support Boombox Classroom. The innovative series of radio programs about world and classical music is designed for school districts that have little general music instruction in kindergarten through fifth grade.

TADA! Theater and Dance Alliance, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support expansion of the Musical Theater Writing Residency. The program integrates a social studies topic with the writing, rehearsal and performance of an original musical by fourth and fifth graders under the tutelage of three teaching artists and their regular classroom teachers.

Teachers & Writers Collaborative, Inc. (aka Youth Speaks)
New York, NY
$60,000
To support expansion of the WriteNet Internet-based forum, Youth Speaks NY Internet Initiative and book publications. Teachers and writers use the interactive Web site WriteNet as a forum to discuss education and the literary arts and to conduct writing workshops for students around the country.

Theatre for a New Audience, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
$15,000
To support continuation of the World Theater Project. The curriculum-based classic drama program for sixth grade ESL students builds literacy through weekly classroom instruction, 10-week residencies led by teaching artists and student attendance at an off-Broadway production.

Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz
Washington, DC
$65,000
To support Jazz in America: The National Jazz Curriculum. The free Internet-based curriculum will be expanded for the fifth, eighth and 11th grades.

Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz (consortium)
Washington, DC
$50,000
To support continuation of Jazz Sports. The national jazz instruction and performance project includes in-school and after-school training sessions, individual and sectional instruction, master classes with professional jazz artists, full band rehearsals and performances at festivals.

Town of Chapel Hill/Public Arts Commission
Chapel Hill, NC
$10,000
To support an artist residency at the Phillips Middle School in Chapel Hill by sculptor Bryant Holsenbeck. Students will meet twice a week for eight weeks with the artist and the school's visual arts teacher for instruction in public art and sculpture, which will lead to the fabrication of a temporary sculpture.

Transart & Cultural Services, Inc.
West Park, NY
$18,000
To support the pilot project, Foundations: Art, Rhythm & Rhyme. The after-school, multidisciplinary arts program will focus on visual arts, spoken word, music and movement in artist-led, hands-on sessions for small groups of students in the sixth through eighth grades.

Tribes Project, Inc.
Seattle, WA
$10,000
To support a high school production of original plays on the theme of race created by a multi-ethnic youth ensemble. A cast of 12 to 16 students will be recruited to perform approximately 15 shows throughout Seattle and a 12-show tour around the Pacific Northwest region.

Trinity Repertory Company (consortium)
Providence, RI
$40,000
To support the development of a model for community outreach through arts enrichment programming for children and youth. The yearlong program of hands-on arts learning experiences will include workshops, theater performances and volunteer opportunities for underserved children and youth.

Unified School District #497
Lawrence, KS
$85,000
To support Strategies in Math, Arts, and Reading for Teachers and Students (smARTS). The pre-K through fourth-grade curriculum development project involves design, implementation, evaluation and field-testing of a comprehensive framework for integrating the arts into the math and reading curricula.

University of Alabama at Birmingham
(on behalf of Alys Robinson Stephens Performing Arts Center)
Birmingham, AL
$25,000
To support Mentor the Arts. The pilot program is designed to enhance high school-level understanding of the performing arts through extended activities with mentors in non-academic settings.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC
$85,000
To support expansion of the Curriculum, Music and Community project. The summer institute will engage elementary and middle school teachers and traditional musicians of North Carolina to co design site-specific, standards-based courses that will weave local vernacular music into the classroom curriculum.

Urban Gateways
Chicago, IL
$15,000
To support the Aesthetic Education Focus Schools project. During the school year, students at Horace Greeley Elementary and middle school students at Ravenswood Public School will study the same work of art through varied artist residency programs designed to build connections across the curriculum.

Vashon Allied Arts, Inc.
Vashon Island, WA
$8,000
To support the Vashon Artists in Schools Program. Designed to create a source of pride and identity for the Vashon school community by integrating the arts into everyday life, students and their teachers work alongside professional artists in multidisciplinary projects.

Venice Arts Mecca (aka Venice Arts)
Venice, CA
$12,000
To support the expansion of ArtPartners. The yearlong artist residency program will provide photographic and digital art workshops for at-risk youth, ages 10 to 17, from Mar Vista and Venice.

Vermont Arts Exchange
North Bennington, VT
$18,000
To support the Arts Education Partnership and Outreach Initiative. Developed with local schools and social service agencies, the initiative matches five- to 18-year-olds with artists and arts programming at various school and community sites during the school day, after school and in the summer.

Vermont MIDI/ARTT Project, Inc.
Montpelier, VT
$70,000
To support professional development workshops for teachers, online arts mentoring, and extension of the Summer Institute to include students. Program levels will be enhanced by project assessments and increased dissemination to K through 12th-grade teachers and students.

Video Machete
Chicago, IL
$28,000
To support Global Youth multimedia workshops. Targeted to immigrant youth, the project will include in-school and after-school training in digital video production, graphic design and Web design.

Village of Arts and Humanities, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$70,000
To support the Learning Through the Arts Program. The multifaceted arts education series for ages six to 18 provides comprehensive year-round, after-school, weekend and full-day summer programming.

Vineyard Playhouse Company, Inc.
Vineyard Haven, MA
$13,000
To support the continuation of One-on-One and Playmaking. The 10-week residency is directly integrated into the fourth grade curriculum and introduces students to all aspects of theater, from playwriting to production.

Virginia Avenue Project
Santa Monica, CA
$15,000
To support the continuation of One-on-One and Playmaking. The writing and performing programs link area youth with professional artist mentors in workshops, summer camp and performances.

VSA arts, Inc.
Washington, DC
$25,000
To support documentation and dissemination of research-based practices and strategies in arts education through special education. The project will include focus group meetings, development of an agenda for action research, examination of findings, and presentation of findings at an international research symposium.

Wang Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. (on behalf of Suskind Young at Arts)
Boston, MA
$21,000
To support three ongoing after-school programs: BroadWays, Critics' Circle and Songwriting. Through a wide range of arts learning activities that include playwriting, acting, songwriting and theater criticism, high school-aged students will engage in a combination of individualized instruction, hands-on experiences and peer interaction.

Washington Opera
Washington, DC
$60,000
To support continuation of Music! Words! Opera! (MWO) The sequential music education program links specific operas to core curricula.

Watauga County Arts Council
Boone, NC
$30,000
To support The Playhouse Project. This multidisciplinary arts exploration program for children age five and under and their parents, includes storytelling sessions, "art safaris," and artist-led training for parents and educators.

WGBH Educational Foundation
Boston, MA
$70,000
To support Music and Words. The music education and radio production program provides professional development, curriculum resources and technical support for teachers; and curriculum based classroom study for elementary, middle and high school students.

Winthrop University (on behalf of College of Visual and Performing Arts)
Rock Hill, SC
$90,000
To support expansion of the ABC Outreach Program. Phase two of the initiative will increase the network of schools that provide standards-based arts instruction and will focus on serving high concentrations of K through eighth-grade students at risk of educational failure.

Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts (consortium)
Vienna, VA
$90,000
To support stART smart. Formerly known as ArtsLink, the program is designed to integrate the performing arts into lessons for preschool children and uses children's books as the springboard for developmentally appropriate arts activities.

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company (consortium)
Washington, DC
$60,000
To support development of the Anacostia River Community Playbuilding Coalition. The endeavor will feature theater arts workshops and the premiere of an original student play for neighborhoods of Southeast Washington.

Working Playground, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support continuation of the Art of Recovery. Students at the High School for Leadership and Public Service, located one block from Ground Zero, will work with teachers, visual and video artists, filmmakers, professional designers and architects to produce a documentary.

Writers In the Schools (aka WITS)
Houston, TX
$54,000
To support the development of Cultural Conversations. The program will build on an established school residency program in creative writing to address Houston's increasingly international student body.

Yale University (on behalf of Yale University Art Gallery)
New Haven, CT
$35,000
To support Between the Wars: Modernism in American Art. The professional development institute will help high school teachers use an object-based, interdisciplinary approach to teaching core subjects.

Young Audiences of Rochester, Inc.
Rochester, NY
$20,000
To support The Communication Project, a poetry and writing initiative for high-risk students aged 13 to 21. Combining hip-hop and rap music with reading, writing and research activities, the participating young people will tell the story of their own youth culture.

Young Chicago Authors
Glencoe, IL
$50,000
To support Say What, a tri-annual publication of the greater Chicago writing community. The free publication is designed for youths, ages 14 to 20, and their teachers.

Young People's Chorus of New York City, Inc.
New York, NY
$45,000
To support the Partner School Program. Full scholarships enable students recruited from partner schools in Harlem and the Bronx to receive training in vocal technique and music reading and writing and to participate in extensive choral performance activities.

Youth in Focus
Seattle, WA
$12,000
To support Introduction to Black and White Photography, a series of small, individualized after-school classes for urban teens. The project will include after-school photography classes at the Youth in Focus gallery and darkroom and field trips to local museums and galleries.

TOTAL ARTS LEARNING GRANTS: 258
TOTAL ARTS LEARNING DOLLARS: $8,842,000

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