2003 GRANT AWARDS

2003 Grant Awards: Access

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

DANCE

African American Dance Ensemble, Inc. (consortium)
Durham, NC
$35,000
To support community residencies celebrating the culture and traditions of Africa. The project will include a variety of outreach activities and performances in North Carolina.

Alex Regional Theatre Board (aka The Alex)
Glendale, CA
$20,000
To support performing arts educational outreach programs. Alex in the Schools will work with American Repertory Dance Company to develop the programs.

Andrew Cacho African Drummers & Dancers Economic Development, Inc.
Washington, DC
$10,760
To support workshops and performances as part of the Youthworks 2003 project. Children, teens and adults will be trained in African-Caribbean drumming, dancing, stiltwalking and masquerades.

Caribbean Dance Company of the Virgin Islands, Inc. (aka CDC)
St. Croix, VI
$30,000
To support the 2003 Caribbean Dance Axis. The project will provide performances for public day care centers, elementary schools and universities, school parents and senior citizens.

Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company
Union, NJ
$10,000
To support a tour to Los Angeles, Milwaukee and Miami for the Creating Cultural Communities on Tour program. The project will center around Artistic Director Carolyn Dorfman's work Mayne Mentshn (My People).

Cincinnati Ballet Company, Inc.
Cincinnati, OH
$30,000
To support the Home Cities Tour. The program will travel to the rural and suburban regions of Greater Cincinnati, Northern Kentucky and Southeastern Indiana.

College of Saint Benedict
St. Joseph, MN
$20,000
To support a residency and the commissioning of a work by Diavolo Dance Theater. The residency will involve several partners including area teachers, the College of Saint Benedict Theater Department, Anna Marie's Shelter for battered women and Casa Guadalupe, a Hispanic community organization.

Dance Alive!, Inc.
Gainesville, FL
$10,000
To support expansion of touring in rural and underserved areas in Florida, Georgia, Alabama and Louisiana. The dance programs will include work by resident choreographers, George Balanchine and commissioned work by contemporary choreographers.

Dance Exchange, Inc. (aka Liz Lerman Dance Exchange)
Takoma Park, MD
$30,000
To support the Dance Exchange Toolbox Tour. The project will consist of a series of dance performances and training workshops that will disseminate the company's techniques and methodologies for community art.

Dance Films Association, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the Dance Camera Festival and international tour. The project will also include a Floating Cinema at Prospect Park in Brooklyn, N.Y.

Dance Project, Inc. (aka NC Dance Project)
Greensboro, NC
$10,000
To support the expansion of the North Carolina Dance Festival. The festival showcases local dance artists who travel to communities across the state.

Dance Theatre of Harlem, Inc.
New York, NY
$90,000
To support a comprehensive educational outreach program that introduces children and adults to dance. Dancing through Barriers will include professional workshops for teachers, master classes, lecture performances, video assemblies and performances.

Dancing in the Streets, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the presentation of dance companies in free performances at public sites throughout New York City. Companies to be presented include Eiko and Koma, Taylor 2, Nrityagram Dance Ensemble and nicholasleichter dance.

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

Eugene Ballet Company
Eugene, OR
$20,000
To support regional touring in Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington. The tour will consist of performance and outreach programs in rural communities.

Festival Ballet Providence
Providence, RI
$10,000
To support an interactive educational performance designed to reach underserved elementary school children. Teachers will receive resource information on dance with activities correlating to literacy and core curriculum academic subjects.

Festival Dance & Performing Arts Association, Inc.
Moscow, ID
$9,000
To support the expansion of the Festival Youthreach Project. The project provides free performances and master classes by touring professional dance companies for regional public schools students.

Frequent Flyers Productions, Inc.
Boulder, CO
$10,000
To support the Aerial Dance Festival 2003. The project will include classes, workshops and performances.

H.T. Dance Company, Inc. (aka H.T. Chen & Dancers)
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the pilot phase of The Phoenix Project, a two-year initiative. The company will create a new, multidisciplinary dance program and a new work inspired by interviews with the Chinese American community.

Infinity Dance Theater
New York, NY
$10,000
To support a national workshop series on disability dance. The workshops will be held in New York, N.Y.; Washington, D.C.; and Columbus, Ohio.

Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey, Inc. (consortium)
Kansas City, MO
$20,000
To support a residency for Ailey II. Activities will include performances of Ailey II in Kansas City, a rural residency in Kansas and outreach activities throughout the bi-state metropolitan area.

Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, Inc.
New York, NY
$100,000
To support a tour to Mexico. The tour will consist of open rehearsals and performances at several venues.

Minnesota Dance Alliance
Minneapolis, MN
$28,000
To support phase one of Dance Imprints, a new residency and performance program. The project will connect dance artists to new communities and expand dance activities in geographically diverse areas throughout the Midwest.

Natya Dance Theatre (consortium)
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support dance workshops for South Asian and Middle Eastern immigrant families in crisis. Natya Dance Theatre, an Indian classical dance organization, will work in consortium with Apna Ghar, a social service agency.

New Life Dance Inc. (aka Sara Pearson/PatrikWidrig & Company)
New York, NY
$15,000
To support preliminary site visits as a component of five touring engagements. The company will conduct residencies in Dartmouth, N.H.; Miami, Fla.; College Park, Md.; Missoula, Mont.; and Burlington, Vt. communities.

Paul Taylor Dance Foundation, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support a tandem tour by Paul Taylor Dance Company and Taylor 2. The tour will include performances and classes and take place in Portland, Eugene, and Monmouth, Ore. and in Seattle, Wash.

Professional Flair, Inc. (aka Dancing Wheels)
Cleveland, OH
$10,000
To support the expansion of education programs and public performances. The project will provide opportunities for artists with and without disabilities by offering training, performing and employment opportunities.

Queens Theatre in the Park, Inc. (consortium)
Flushing, NY
$10,000
To support the International Movements Project, a new annual commissioning initiative. Mexican choreographer Alicia Sanchez will choreograph a new work.

Ringside, Inc. (aka STREB)
Brooklyn, NY
$40,000
To support two components of Streb/Ringside's audience development and access program. The project will support residency and outreach programs for PUBLIC/ACTION NEW YORK and PUBLIC/ACTION ON TOUR.

Ririe-Woodbury Dance Foundation
Salt Lake City, UT
$30,000
To support residency activities. The company will travel to St. Bonaventure, New York and the underserved communities of Billings, Ronan and Helena, Montana.

Robert L. Reed Tap Heritage Institute, Inc.
St. Louis, MO
$10,000
To support the St. Louis Tap Festival. The event showcases locally, nationally and internationally known artists.

Stuart Pimsler Dance & Theater
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
To support the Working with Artists, Sharing the Healing symposium. The symposium will explore strategies for integrating artistic expression and healing.

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

DESIGN

Alaska Design Forum, Inc.
Anchorage, AK
$28,000
To support a lecture and workshop series on the built environment with internationally recognized architects and designers. Lectures will be presented in Anchorage, Fairbanks and Juneau, and workshops will be held in Anchorage.

Design Corps
Raleigh, NC
$40,000
To support the completion of a community-based design project for a job training and day care center in Perry County, Alabama. The project began under the efforts of the late Sam Mockbee, founder of the Rural Studio and MacArthur Fellow recipient.

Florida International University (on behalf of Wolfsonian - FIU)
Miami, FL
$60,000
To support documentation and access to a Dutch industrial design collection dating from 1885 through 1945. The collection will be made accessible and searchable through the Web site.

Friends of the Schindler House (aka FOSH)
(on behalf of MAK Center for Art and Architectur, L.A.)
Los Angeles, CA
$25,000
To support public access to the MAK Center archives and to expand the Web site. The Web site expansion will create a virtual archive, an online index, and will allow online book sales and advance ticket purchases.

Pineapple Grove Main Street, Inc.
Delray Beach, FL
$35,000
To support the Delray Beach Cultural Loop, a walking tour that connects cultural heritage, arts and civic institutions, and the socioeconomic context of Delray Beach. A community process has identified significant places and buildings to include in the walking tour.

FOLK & TRADITIONAL ARTS

Arlington County Cultural Affairs Division
Arlington, VA
$35,000
To support Hereabouts: Creating Connections through Culture and Arts Works Neighborhood Heritage Project. The project will include a series of mini-tours of senior centers and libraries, and a youth employment training program.

Ballet Folklorico Ollin, Inc. (on behalf of Mariachi Los Camperos)
Panorama City, CA
$20,000
To support a tour of Fiesta Navidad. The project is a concert of mariachi music and folklorico dancing that celebrates the Christmas holiday season.

California Indian Storytelling Association (CISA)
Fremont, CA
$30,000
To support the Storytelling Festivals and Symposia: Building Cultural Bridges. The forums will provide time for Native storytellers from California, Arizona and Hawaii to share their stories so they may learn from each other, discuss issues and pass stories on to new generations as they educate the public.

City Lore, Inc. (on behalf of Henry Street Settlement)
New York, NY
$50,000
To support the Friends of Old Time Music Project. The project will restore, archive and disseminate historic audio recordings of concerts presented by the Friends of Old Time Music (FOTM) from 1961 1965.

Ethnic Heritage Council
Seattle, WA
$30,000
To support the creation or development of after-school programs in various folk and traditional art forms. Programs will include instruction in Cambodian classical music, mariachi music and wood carving.

Folkstreams, Inc.
Delaplane, VA
$67,000
To support a folklore film Web site. Folkstreams.net will be a public cultural preserve of important films and videos about American traditional or "roots" culture.

IRCO
Portland, OR
$50,000
To support the Refugee Elder Traditional Arts Project (RETAP). An intergenerational, multicultural project team will be trained to work with elders from Bosnia, Laos, Romania, Somalia, Sudan, Ukraine and Vietnam to identify and document their traditional arts and present them in a video.

Jubilee Community Arts, Inc.
Knoxville, TN
$20,000
To support the Knoxville Folk Arts Initiative. The project will consist of research and documentation of artists in metropolitan Knoxville, along with a series of performances at weekly concerts and the annual Jubilee Festival.

Kalihi-Palama Culture & Arts Society, Inc.
Honolulu, HI
$10,000
To support a series of training classes in traditional and contemporary art forms. Classes include Hawaiian, Samoan, Okinawan, Tahitian and contemporary Filipino dance, as well as crafts and ukulele playing.

Korean Traditional Performing Arts Association, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support workshops in Korean dance, song and instrumental performance, and the development of a Web site. The project is intended to increase access to traditional Korean performing arts.

Native Seeds/SEARCH
Tucson, AZ
$30,000
To support the Navajo Agriculture CD-ROM. The interactive software will provide information about aesthetic dimensions of Navajo agricultural traditions that will be utilized in Navajo schools and libraries.

New Community Corporation (consortium)
Newark, NJ
$35,000
To support training of immigrant artists in the marketing of their artwork, culminating in a multi-city tour. Artists' work will feature Indian saris and embroidery, rangoli sandpainting, Tibetan traditional clothing, Guatemalan weaving, Honduran painting, Nigerian woodcarving and Ecuadorian basketmaking.

Old Town School of Folk Music, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$35,000
To support Proyecto Fandango. Using the traditional model of a fandango in rural outreach to new immigrant communities, Sones de Mexico Ensemble, will tour Mexican-American communities in Wisconsin and Illinois.

Seven Pipers Scottish Society of Tucson, Inc.
Tucson, AZ
$10,000
To support the development of a folk artist-in-the-school initiative, as well as master classes in Scottish music and dance. The project is designed to improve the skills of established artists, to provide workshops in schools and to expand outreach to new audiences.

Shu Fang Qi Peking Opera Association, Inc.
Woodhaven, NY
$25,000
To support the Third Annual Chinese Peking Opera Arts Festival. The opera company is planning two programs designed to attract recent immigrants and college students at Hunter College, as well as a Broadway audience at The New Victory Theatre.

Traditional Arts in Upstate New York, Inc. (aka TAUNY)
Canton, NY
$20,000
To support the creation of a register of cultural landmarks in the northernmost counties of New York. The project will document diverse cultural sites such as diners, Grange halls, country churches, barbershops, auto repair shops, cemeteries, and bridges and aid in efforts for their preservation.

Tung Ching Chinese Center for the Arts, Inc.
Fresh Meadows, NY
$15,000
To support the 12th Anniversary of the Traditional Chinese Theatre Festival. The celebration will focus on Beijing, Shaoxing and Cantonese styles of Chinese opera.

United Cambodian American Resources for Enrichment, Inc. (aka UCARE)
Rockville, MD
$25,000
To support workshops in advanced and authentic artistic techniques of Khmer art forms and a National Festival of Khmer Arts. The festival will include a stage performance of Cambodian folk and traditional arts showcasing artists and dance repertory from across the United States and exhibits of Cambodian crafts, painting and sculpture.

Valdosta State University
Valdosta, GA
$13,000
To support the Changing Sound of South Georgia radio series. The project will be grounded in a comprehensive field survey of the music traditions of the South Georgia region.

LITERATURE

Academy of American Poets, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
To support the coordination of National Poetry Month, a project that brings poetry to schools, libraries, bookstores, cultural organizations and communities across the country in new and imaginative ways. The Academy will host library readings, panel discussions, outreach efforts and special features on the organization's Web site.

Adirondack Community College
Queensbury, NY
$5,000
To support readings and workshops by nationally renowned and local writers to students and community members. The college will promote the readings through its Web site and newsletters.

American Library Association
Chicago, IL
$55,000
To support the development of Library Networks for Literature, linking regional libraries with authors, publishers and literary organizations. The initiative will sponsor a variety of events, including readings by such writers as Stuart Dybek, E. Ethelbert Miller and Gail Tsukiyama.

Auburn University Main Campus (consortium)
Auburn University, AL
$20,000
To support creative writing classes at the Julia Tutwiler Prison for Women and Edwina Mitchell Center Work Release for Women, as part of the Alabama Prison Arts Initiative. The project will seek to involve participants' families, prison staff and administrators.

Bard College
Annandale-Hudson, NY
$30,000
To support the continued development and expansion of Words Without Borders, an interactive Web site devoted to international literature. The site will feature 100 works of nonfiction, short stories, poems and novel excerpts a year drawn from approximately 20-25 languages.

Cave Canem Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support a writing retreat targeting emerging African-American poets. Cave Canem will publish an anthology of student work following the retreat.

Center for Book Arts, Incorporated 1974
New York, NY
$5,000
To support workshops in letterpress printing and fine press publishing targeting emerging inner-city writers. The center will sponsor public readings of work printed in the workshops.

Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (consortium)
New York, NY
$15,000
To support Lit Mag Fairs, events designed to present literary magazines at reduced cost to communities across the country. Targeted cities include Portland, Ore.; Buffalo, N.Y.; Houston, Texas; and Columbus, Ohio.

Fishtrap, Inc.
Enterprise, OR
$10,000
To support writing workshops, discussions and readings for residents of the rural Northwest. Themes for these events will include the changing demographics of the West, the urban-rural divide, aging of rural populations, new immigrants of color and the resurgence of Native-American culture.

Gemini Series, Inc. (aka Gemini Ink)
San Antonio, TX
$10,000
To support Gemini Ink's 2003 Summer Festival/National Writer's Conference in San Antonio. Activities include readings, writing workshops for adults and children, and workshops for teachers of writing.

Log Cabin Literary Center, Inc.
Boise, ID
$20,000
To support BookFest, a free festival focused on writing and reading about Idaho and the Northwest. The four-day program will feature readings, panel discussions and writing workshops, as well as events surrounding Idaho's Book Club selection for What If Everyone Read the Same Book?

National Book Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support literary outreach programs that link National Book Award authors with underserved communities throughout the country. Programs include American Voices, which brings writers to American-Indian reservations nationwide, and a summer writing camp for inner-city teens and adults.

Poetry Society of America
New York, NY
$40,000
To support Poetry in Motion, a program that places poetry placards in public transportation systems around the country. Targeted cities include Los Angeles, Fresno, Philadelphia, Chicago, New York, Austin and Portland, Ore.

Small Press Distribution, Inc.
Berkeley, CA
$60,000
To support a distribution initiative, targeting individuals, libraries and bookstores in all 50 states with publications from 550 small and independent presses. The project will include outreach materials, an online bookstore, catalogs and a newsletter.

Writer's Garret (consortium)
Dallas, TX
$40,000
To support the Writer's Studio, a pilot radio show featuring interviews with established authors. The show will be broadcast on KERA-FM to listeners in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Arkansas.

Writers & Books, Inc.
Rochester, NY
$25,000
To support Literary Learning for a Lifetime, a series of outreach programs in the greater Rochester area. Programs include writing workshops for adults and intergenerational groups, master writing classes taught by visiting authors, discussions and seminars, and online classes on writing and publishing.

YMCA of the USA
Chicago, IL
$60,000
To support the YMCA National Readings Tour, bringing writers to YMCA Writer's Voice centers throughout the country, and the YMCA National Writers Community, offering residencies to mid-career writers. The readings tour will link local writers with nationally recognized writers for readings in communities such as Billings, Mont.; Phoenix, Ariz.; and Tampa, Fla.

Young Men's Christian Association of Billings
Billings, MT
$20,000
To support Native Voices, a series of readings, workshops and discussions throughout Montana exploring contemporary Native American writing and storytelling. Scheduled participants include Sherman Alexie, Diane Glancy, Linda Hogan, Joy Harjo and Allison Adelle Hedge Coke.

LOCALS

Arts Council of New Orleans
New Orleans, LA
$45,000
To support the Louisiana ArtWorks ArtReach Project. The project is designed to provide audiences with access to the creative process of the visual arts by attracting artists with diverse backgrounds to Louisiana ArtWorks, a multifaceted arts complex.

Arts Council of Rock Hill & York County
Rock Hill, SC
$20,000
To support the Revival-Design Camp Meeting. The project supports the cross-training of professional craft artists and environmentalists in the development of home furnishing prototypes primarily using recycled materials.

City of Charleston Office of Cultural Affairs
Charleston, SC
$35,000
To support performances at the Petite Performance Pavilion. As part of the Piccolo Spoleto Festival, this project will provide short, admission-free performances by artists who will perform in ticketed events during the festival.

City of Detroit (aka Cultural Affairs Department)
Detroit, MI
$10,000
To support the CityArts Grant Program. The project will support small and medium-sized cultural organizations that offer arts activities in a variety of media for audiences of all ages in community based venues.

City of Irving-Irving Arts Center (aka Irving Arts Center)
Irving, TX
$25,000
To support the creation of the Centennial Mural. In recognition of the city's centennial, an original Venetian glass tile mural will be created for installation in the Irving Arts Center Sculpture Garden.

City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture
San Diego, CA
$65,000
To support the Neighborhood Design Arts Program. The project, conducted in partnership with Partners for Livable Places, will integrate quality public art and design into community development plans, and will implement projects designed to foster a stronger sense of community.

City of Seattle, Washington Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs
Seattle, WA
$13,000
To support the publication of Public Art 101. The project is a guide to developing and implementing public art programs and projects.

Cultural Arts Council of Houston
Houston, TX
$40,000
To support Creative Expressions. The project seeks to increase the access of traditional and ethnically specific arts organizations and artists to larger audiences in Houston.

Fresno Arts Council, Inc.
Fresno, CA
$25,000
To support Art Hop, a monthly, free event of open studios, galleries and museums. Designed to increase the access to Fresno's diverse cultural offerings, the project will include the establishment of an art trolley to transport participants from location to location, as well as a joint marketing plan.

Fulton County Arts Council
Atlanta, GA
$60,000
To support DIALOG, an Urban Literary Initiative. In celebration of National Poetry Month, DIALOG will include residencies, performances and educational events with national poets, as well as a juried show of local artists.

Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs
Miami, FL
$22,000
To support the Golden Ticket Program. The program provides low-income seniors who reside in the Miami-Dade area with discounted or free tickets to a broad selection of cultural activities.

Quad City Arts, Inc.
Rock Island, IL
$30,000
To support the Visiting Artist Series. The project focuses on arts education and community outreach and will present nationally acclaimed performing artists in residencies in counties located in Iowa and Illinois.

Regional Cultural and Performing Arts Development Commission
St. Louis, MO
$10,000
To support the Community Arts Training (CAT) Institute. The project provides comprehensive training and support for artists and social service providers who work to develop community arts partnerships.

Yoknapatawpha Arts Council, Inc.
Oxford, MS
$10,000
To support artist fees and marketing expenses for the inaugural Oxford Film Festival. The proposed annual event will present work that showcases independent dramatic and documentary films with an emphasis on Southern culture relevant to the residents of Lafayette County.

MEDIA ARTS

911 Media Arts Center (consortium)
Seattle, WA
$25,000
To support New Voices 3.0, a mentoring program that provides emerging film and video makers the opportunity to create broadcast-quality short documentaries for public television. Working with KCTS, the PBS affiliate in Seattle, 911 selects up to ten producers to participate in New Voices.

American Documentary, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the production of Borders. The series of short documentaries by independent filmmakers and Internet artists will be offered to the public via the Web.

American Turkish Society, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support The Festival of Turkish Film - 1930-2003. The curated film series will showcase Turkish films selected for their artistic and historical significance.

Arab American Congress of Silicon Valley (on behalf of Arab Film Festival)
San Jose, CA
$5,000
To support the seventh annual Arab Film Festival. Held in venues in San Francisco, Berkeley and San Jose, the festival will present approximately 30 films to an estimated audience of 4,000 people.

Art Institute of Chicago (on behalf of Video Data Bank)
Chicago, IL
$60,000
To support the transfer of approximately 400 titles in Video Data Bank's (VDB) videotape collection from analog to digital Betacam format. The transfer will facilitate distribution on DVD and allow the titles to be viewed through video streaming on VDB's Web site, www.vdb.org.

Arts and Visually Impaired Audiences
Seattle, WA
$25,000
To support the Blind Youth and Adult Audio Project. The series of workshops introduces visually impaired people to the creative possibilities and latest techniques of audio production while they design their own radio program.

Buffalo Media Resources, Inc. (aka Squeaky Wheel)
Buffalo, NY
$10,000
To support SWAP: Squeaky Wheel Access Program. The 16-year-old program provides media equipment access, low-cost workshops, artists' residencies and resource services to film and video artists locally and nationally.

Camera News, Inc. (aka Third World Newsreel)
New York, NY
$30,000
To support a digital media literacy and production education program. Components of the program will be the Advanced Film and Video Production Workshop, Wednesday Night Media Workshops and an Introduction to Final Cut Pro/Media Literacy Workshop Series.

Cineaste Publishers, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the publication of Cineaste, a quarterly film magazine dedicated to the art and understanding of cinema. Cineaste will report on Asian-American filmmakers, Spanish films and images of Greece, and will publish a special supplement on history and the cinema.

Electronic Arts Intermix, Inc. (EAI)
New York, NY
$50,000
To support the Artists' Videotape Distribution Service. Through an online catalog, more than 3,000 works will be available to libraries, educational institutions, community centers, museums and other organizations.

International Film Seminars, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the 49th Robert Flaherty Film Seminar. The weeklong event will bring together students, scholars, filmmakers, curators, librarians and film enthusiasts to explore and discuss the art of the moving image.

L.A. Freewaves
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
To support the production and distribution of Not TV. The 26-part television series will showcase independent media artworks and broadcast them on local public access stations.

L.A. Theatre Works
Venice, CA
$60,000
To support the expansion of the Alive and Aloud and Library Access national outreach programs. Alive and Aloud distributes audio plays with curricula to schools in all 50 states and the Library Access program distributes audio plays to more than 700 libraries in low-income, underserved neighborhoods.

Media Alliance, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,000
To support the development of innovative models of self-distribution for emerging film and video makers. Once developed, the models will be available on the Web.

New Orleans Video Access Center, Inc.
New Orleans, LA
$25,000
To support workshops for media artists and students. Access to training programs and sophisticated production facilities will allow artists to create new work.

Video Machete (consortium)
Chicago, IL
$35,000
To support the distribution of youth-produced media art. Working with MediaRights.org, Video Machete will tour and exhibit a compilation of work by young artists, create a Web portal to access its database of titles and conduct workshops on methods of distribution.

Waterfront Festival
Saugatuck, MI
$7,500
To support the Waterfront Film Festival. More than 6,000 people will attend 60 screenings of independent films.

Writers' League of Texas (on behalf of Austin Cinemaker Co-op)
Austin, TX
$15,000
To support the Seminar Series, a year long program that will provide students the opportunity to learn a variety of filmmaking techniques. Courses to be offered include Intro to Super 8 Filmmaking, Art of Film Installation and Non-linear Editing.

MULTIDISCIPLINARY

509 Cultural Center
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
To support free arts programming in a low-income neighborhood. The project will feature outdoor performances, the ninth-annual In the Street Theater Festival and visual arts exhibitions.

Aliquippa Alliance for Unity and Development, Inc.
Aliquippa, PA
$20,000
To support the 11th annual Aliquippa Embraces Art Festival. The one-day event will be followed by a year-round, artist-in-residence program.

Alternate ROOTS, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$60,000
To support the Tour/Residency Program and other services. This multistate project will provide services that will enable geographically isolated artists and presenters to reach broader audiences, share information and develop new work.

Amigos del Museo del Barrio (aka El Museo del Barrio)
New York, NY
$25,000
To support programming integrating visual art exhibitions and performing arts activities. The initiative will comprise theater programs, music concerts, film screenings and an art symposium in conjunction with the exhibitions.

ARTREACH, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
To support the expansion of the online version of Access the Arts, etc., A Guide for People with Disabilities. The guide will provide disabled audience members with an enhanced listing of accessible visual and performing art venues in southeastern Pennsylvania, Southern New Jersey and Delaware.

Centro Cultural Aztlan, Inc.
San Antonio, TX
$25,000
To support a series of special community arts programs. Through exhibitions, workshops and performances, underserved audiences will be given the opportunity to participate in the creation and appreciation of Chicano/Latino art and culture.

Class Acts Arts, Inc.
Silver Spring, MD
$15,000
To support the expansion of outreach programs to underserved populations. The two-part project will focus on special-needs and at-risk youth, and the development of deaf access programs.

Cuyahoga Valley National Park Association
Peninsula, OH
$35,000
To support the artists-in-residence program. Six artists in various disciplines will be engaged to create models for interacting with students and the public in a residential environmental program.

Danceworks, Inc.
Milwaukee, WI
$30,000
To support the 50-Plus Initiative, a dance and creative arts program for older adults. Workshops, classes, exhibitions, residencies and performances will be adapted for high-functioning older adults, low-functioning and frail elderly, and for those with physical and cognitive disabilities, including Alzheimer's disease.

East Bay Center for the Performing Arts
Richmond, CA
$60,000
To support Call and Response and a series of special performance events. Multicultural resident dance, music and theater companies will perform at San Francisco Bay Area sites.

Elders Share the Arts (aka National Center for Creative Aging) (consortium)
Brooklyn, NY
$40,000
To support the Creative Aging Institutes, a national arts-in-aging training program. Project activities will include continued training programs at five affiliate sites and an expansion to additional cities, creation of a network newsletter, and development of an online component highlighting model programs.

Esperanza Peace and Justice Center
San Antonio, TX
$45,000
To support Arte es Vida. The series will consist of presentations by literary, visual and performance artists at schools, senior centers and other venues in the city's Westside.

Galeria/Studio 24
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
To support Paradigms Lost. The project will explore Latino/Latin-American artists' reflections on self and place in the digital age, and will comprise a visual art exhibition, performances, public art and a youth arts component.

Hatch-Billops Collection, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support ARTIST AND INFLUENCE. The project will document visual artists, writers, performers and arts administrators through recorded interviews, photography and the publication of a journal.

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

Institute for Cultural Partnerships
Harrisburg, PA
$20,000
To support a multisite residency program in south central Pennsylvania. Three artists will offer Latino and other interested adults instruction in poetry, dance and visual arts.

Japanese American Cultural and Community Center
Los Angeles, CA
$50,000
To support contemporary and traditional cross-cultural arts programming. Project activities will include concerts, performances, visual art exhibitions, cultural celebrations and a series of events that will bring programming to sites throughout Los Angeles.

Little City Foundation
Palatine, IL
$20,000
To support Have Art, Will Travel. This series of mobile arts classes is designed for children and adults with developmental disabilities and provides them with at-home/work instruction in visual, performing and media arts.

Myrna Loy Center/Helena Presents
Helena, MT
$24,000
To support phase four of Echoes of Discovery. This five-part project culminating in 2003-2004 explores historical and mythical notions of the Northwest Passage.

New Comers' Network, Inc. (aka Refugee Family Services)
Clarkston, GA
$20,000
To support My Journey Yours, a series of residencies and exhibitions. A team of artists and individuals from local refugee communities will generate a series of collaborative art works.

Real Art Ways, Inc. (consortium)
Hartford, CT
$40,000
To support events focusing on contemporary work by Puerto Rican artists. The series will feature a visual art exhibition, musical performances, films, literary events and a youth arts component.

Senior Arts Project
Albuquerque, NM
$6,000
To support a Celebration of African American Artists. This series will consist of workshops in visual and literary arts, musical performances and intergenerational storytelling events.

Stern Grove Festival Association
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
To support the Asian American and Pacific Islander Initiative. This project will consist of a mainstage concert featuring contemporary and traditional Hawaiian music and dance, and education programs for children and adults.

Sun Valley Center for the Arts and Humanities, Inc.
(aka Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Inc.)
Sun Valley, ID
$25,000
To support a series of programs exploring Hispanic art and culture. The project will include visual art exhibitions, performances and literary events.

Taller Puertorriqueno, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$40,000

To support a series of adult and family programming activities. Programs in the visual arts, music, public art and literature will explore both traditional and contemporary Latino art forms.

Urban Appalachian Council
Cincinnati, OH
$30,000
To support a series of residencies in diverse inner-city Cincinnati neighborhoods. Appalachian and Affrilachian artists will facilitate community-based activities in creative writing, storytelling, theater and music.

VSA arts of New Hampshire
Concord, NH
$20,000
To support activities designed to make art more broadly available to individuals with disabilities. The initiative will include site surveys, a Web-based ticket exchange and a monthly calendar of events.

Walker's Point Center for the Arts, Ltd.
Milwaukee, WI
$10,000
To support exhibitions and performances that will introduce multiethnic, low-income audiences to traditional and contemporary art forms. Work from a range of disciplines including visual art, craft, performance art and digital art will be presented.

Walt Whitman Cultural Arts Center, Inc.
Camden, NJ
$30,000
To support the expansion of the artist residency and workshop program. Up to four literary and performing artists will develop new work with community participation.

Washington Pavilion Management, Inc.
Sioux Falls, SD
$10,000
To support access to educational arts activities for new community members. The project will provide Sudanese and Ethiopian refugees and other new area residents with access to open art studio sessions.

MUSEUMS

Birmingham Museum of Art
Birmingham, AL
$25,000
To support the exhibition Kamisaka Sekka: Rimpa Master--Pioneer of Modern Design, with accompanying catalog and education programs. As the leading early 20th century proponent of the Rimpa decorative tradition, Sekka (1866-1942) is considered the father of modern Japanese design.

Lynden Heritage Foundation
Lynden, WA
$8,000
To support a commission and residency for contemporary American artist Patrick Dougherty (b. 1945), with an accompanying brochure. Dougherty will create a public, site-specific installation in downtown Lynden's Centennial Park.

Mary Brogan Museum of Art and Science, Inc.
Tallahassee, FL
$45,000
To support a touring exhibition of work by Southeastern self-taught artists drawn from the museum's permanent collection, with accompanying catalog and education programs and materials. Self-taught art--sometimes referred to as folk art, outsider art, vernacular or primitive art--has been a major subject of scholarly investigation in the latter half of the 20th century.

Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum (consortium)
Chicago, IL
$100,000
To support Museums in the Park (MIP), in collaboration with the Chicago Park District. MIP's Park Voyagers--kids for creative exploration--is designed to bring new families into museums and bring museums into new communities.

National Center for Disability Services
Albertson, NY
$20,000
To support a cooperative venture with the Nassau County Museum of Art, Long Island, N.Y., to make the museum's outdoor sculpture garden more accessible to people with disabilities. The project is part of NCDS's initiative to promote access to the arts for disabled children.

Newark Museum Association
Newark, NJ
$100,000
To support the development of the Tibet Information Zone (TIZ). The project is a multifaceted education/public access initiative that will increase and deepen understanding of Tibetan art and culture for youth and family audiences.

Pacific Asia Museum
Pasadena, CA
$45,000
To support the Chinese Community Initiative (CCI). The project will expand the museum's efforts to involve the Chinese-American community in its programming and to make use of its resources.

Phillips Collection
Washington, DC
$100,000
To support the creation of a digital archive of the American art collection. The project will greatly increase access to the Phillip's renowned American collection, most of which cannot be exhibited at any given time due to space limitations.

Queens Museum of Art (consortium)
Flushing, NY
$75,000
To support the exhibition Down the Garden Path: Artists' Gardens Since 1960, with accompanying catalog and education programs. The project is a collaboration with the Queens Botanical Garden and the New York City Parks Department.

Salt Lake Art Center
Salt Lake City, UT
$24,000
To support the ArtWORKS program. The program offers at-risk high school students an opportunity to express themselves through the creation, discussion and exploration of art.

Texas Fine Arts Association
Austin, TX
$45,000
To support Art on Tour, a statewide traveling exhibition program with accompanying catalogs and lectures. The program circulates exhibitions of contemporary art by emerging and mid-career American artists to small museums and university and community galleries throughout Texas, many in rural, culturally underserved communities.

Turning the Page
Washington, DC
$28,000
To support an art and literacy program for the parents and caregivers of public school children. The project will be carried out in collaboration with the Smithsonian's Freer and Sackler Galleries.

University of Alaska at Fairbanks
Fairbanks, AK
$75,000
To support a residency program for Alaskan artists. The project will expand upon the new Rose Berry Alaskan Art Gallery at the University by bringing in contemporary artists to respond to, and interact with, the permanent collection.

University of Arizona (on behalf of Arizona State Museum)
Tucson, AZ
$10,000
To support artists' fees for a ceramic artists-in-residence program. The residencies will be held in conjunction with the exhibition The Pottery Detectives: Decoding the Secrets of Southwestern Pottery.

University of Montana (on behalf of Montana Museum of Art and Culture)
Missoula, MT
$20,000
To support the exhibition Native American Artists--After Lewis and Clark, with accompanying catalog. The exhibition will present the viewpoints of contemporary Native-American artists as their work addresses the Lewis and Clark expedition's bicentennial in 2005-06.

University of Rochester (on behalf of Memorial Art Gallery)
Rochester, NY
$30,000
To support the exhibiton Coffins of Pa-Debehu-Aset, with accompanying educational materials. The project focuses on the gallery's newly acquired pair of Egyptian coffins.

University of Washington (on behalf of Burke Museum)
Seattle, WA
$30,000
To support the creation of a Web site on totem pole art. The project is part of a multiyear effort to create a comprehensive and widely accessible visual database of Northwest Coast Native-American art.

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Richmond, VA
$45,000
To support the Art on the Spot: In-School Field Trip Program. The project is designed to maintain continued access to the museum while it is closed for renovation and new construction over the next few years.

MUSIC

American Brass Chamber Music Association, Inc.
New York, NY
$7,000
To support a tour of performances and residency activities. The residencies will include up to seven performance and/or educational events culminating in a formal concert in each community.

American Music Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
To support NewMusicBox.org and NewMusicJukeBox.org. NewMusicBox is a monthly Web magazine about artists and issues in the new music community, and NewMusicJukeBox is a searchable, encyclopedic database of contemporary American composers.

American Symphony Orchestra League (consortium)
New York, NY
$90,000
To support a comprehensive analysis of first-time orchestra concertgoers. Introduced by a national television ad campaign and through Web sites, the project will survey participants attending one of 21 pre-selected concerts.

Bang on a Can, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the Summer Institute of Music at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, a residency program for gifted composers and performers interested in experimental music. Bang on a Can All-Stars, guest composers, performers and students will present concerts and educational activities in schools and other venues throughout North Adams, Mass., and in the museum galleries.

Central Park Conservancy, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the Harlem Meer Performance Festival. The free summer series will showcase African American and Latino music, featuring established and emerging artists from the area's African American and Latino community.

Charlotte Symphony Orchestra Society, Inc.
Charlotte, NC
$25,000
To support a community engagement initiative to reach new audiences. Activities will include community concerts, a Symphony 101 lecture series in neighborhood libraries, and a Web site that will serve as a promotional and educational tool.

Chicago Chamber Musicians
Chicago, IL
$17,500
To support First Monday, a free noontime concert series at the Chicago Cultural Center, broadcast live on WFMT-FM radio. The 45-minute interactive concert format allows audiences to discuss the music with the chamber players.

Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Cincinnati, OH
$50,000
To support a series of outreach programs in communities throughout the Cincinnati metropolitan area, including areas of northern Kentucky. The three-part initiative will offer concerts at reduced prices or free of charge.

Da Capo Chamber Players, Inc.
New York, NY
$7,500
To support a performance tour and residency activities. The project will include public school concerts, open rehearsals, programs for retirement communities and radio interviews with composers in-residence in four states.

Delaware Symphony Association
Wilmington, DE
$20,000
To support educational outreach activities for adults and children in rural and underserved areas of the state. The project will include youth and family concerts as well as an in-school ensemble program serving 16 schools across the state.

Early Music Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$18,000
To support Sirens & Harpies: Medieval Women as Performers, Subjects and Composers, a national tour of early music performances. The program will feature 12th- to 14th-century European music performed according to historical practices by female guest artists.

Fargo-Moorhead Orchestral Association
Fargo, ND
$10,000
To support an outreach and intergenerational education program. Activities will include Pizza Pop Concerts for high school students and Young People's/Family Concerts for elementary school students and their families.

Fischoff Chamber Music Association, Inc.
(aka Fischoff National Chamber Music Association)
Notre Dame, IN
$10,000
To support the Arts-in-Education Residency Program. Three weeklong residencies with Imani Winds, Manhattan Brass Quintet and the prize-winning ensemble of the 2003 Fischoff Competition will celebrate the community's African-American and Latino cultures.

Fish Middleton Jazz Scholarship Fund, Inc.
Silver Spring, MD
$15,000
To support the Jazz Heritage Artist project at the East Coast Jazz Festival. Annually, a jazz artist of distinction will be honored and presented at the festival.

Flynn Theatre for the Performing Arts, Ltd.
(on behalf of Burlington Discover Jazz Festival)
Burlington, VT $20,000
To support artist residencies and performances at the Burlington Discover Jazz Festival. Educational activities will include a jazz scholar-in-residence, pre-performance lectures and dialogues with the performing artists.

Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra Association, Inc.
Fort Worth, TX
$15,000
To support the Neighborhood Arts Program in Fort Worth and rural communities throughout Texas. In partnership with the Arts Council Fort Worth and Tarrant County, the program will provide free orchestral performances in more than 20 neighborhood churches, schools and community centers.

Henry Mancini Institute
Culver City, CA
$15,000
To support the Summer Concert Series and Community Combos. The Summer Concert Series will take place at Royce Hall, University of California/Los Angeles and Community Combos performances will take place in museums, parks, senior centers and other public places in Los Angeles.

International Choral Festival
Missoula, MT
$15,000
To support an international choral festival. Up to 15 choirs from around the world will be selected to participate in performances and workshops that will take place for five days in July 2003 in Missoula.

International Double Reed Society
Finksburg, MD
$9,500
To support the improvement of Internet equipment for the society's Web site, www.idrs.org. With an upgraded Web server, computer peripherals and software, the site will increase distribution of sound files, printed music, research materials and other sources of information on double reed instruments.

Irving S. Gilmore International Keyboard Festival
Kalamazoo, MI
$27,500
To support the Gilmore Keyboard Festival. More than 90 classical and jazz concerts, master classes, lectures and public education programs throughout western Michigan will take place during two weeks in spring 2004.

Jazz at Lincoln Center, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
$50,000
To support the Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition and Festival. The program provides an opportunity for thousands of students to study and perform Duke Ellington's music.

Jazz Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL
$30,000
To support the continued expansion of the Chicago Jazz and Heritage Program. The program seeks to explore ways to connect youth and families with the cultural heritage of the city's diverse communities.

Long Beach Symphony Association (aka Long Beach Symphony Orchestra)
Long Beach, CA
$17,500
To support Musical Bridges, an outreach program. Proposed activities include community concerts that will link traditional and classical music in local venues, a chamber orchestra concert and specially designed family concerts.

Los Angeles Chamber Singers, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
To support a residency at the University of California at Riverside. Activities will include four full-length concerts for the public, open rehearsals, joint rehearsals with student ensembles and master classes in performance, repertoire, period practice and composition.

Magnificat
San Francisco, CA
$12,500
To support a series of regional touring performances and events in communities across the United States. Programming for the nine-state tour will center around the neglected works of a 17th-century Italian composer and cloistered nun, Chiara Margarita Cozzolani.

Meet The Composer, Inc.
New York, NY
$100,000
To support the Meet the Composer Fund. The program allows composers to attend performances of their own music and take part in pre- or post-concert discussions, open rehearsals, workshops, lecture demonstrations and interviews.

Minnesota Chorale
Minneapolis, MN
$25,000
To support the annual Bridges outreach program. The project will present Musical Chi: East-West Convergences, a weeklong residency by t'ai chi master and author Chungliang Al Huang, in partnership with the Minnesota Chorale and pipa virtuosa Gao Hong.

Minnesota Orchestral Association (consortium)
Minneapolis, MN
$40,000
To support Discovering Great Music, a music education project with Minneapolis public schools. Activities will include youth concerts, teacher workshops, development of curriculum guides and classroom visits to students.

Moab Music Festival, Inc.
Moab, UT
$10,000
To support the September season of the Moab Music Festival. The 2003 festival will present 11 chamber music concerts by world-class musicians and will take place in the remote town of Moab in southeastern Utah.

Nashville Symphony Association
Nashville, TN
$20,000
To support outreach concerts to rural areas of middle Tennessee and southern Kentucky. The Nashville Symphony, in partnership with local community organizations, will tour to 10 diverse and underserved communities.

New Jersey Performing Arts Center
Newark, NJ
$40,000
To support Sounds of the City, a presentation of 12 weekly, free, outdoor summer concerts in the center's downtown plaza. In 2003, the concerts will feature diverse musical styles ranging from jazz, swing and salsa to Cajun and Celtic.

New Mexico Symphony Orchestra (aka Albuquerque Symphony Orchestra)
Albuquerque, NM
$25,000
To support a statewide tour to small, rural and underserved communities of New Mexico. The project will also offer educational activities in Albuquerque area schools.

New Performing Arts, Inc.
Louisville, KY
$25,000
To support a national conference that will address model frameworks for developing and sustaining music presenting and programming in rural and underserved communities. The project will include dissemination via Internet of the conference results, as well as artist residencies in rural Minnesota, New York and Texas.

Philadelphia Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
To support concerts in diverse, underserved neighborhoods of Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The orchestra will perform in churches, schools and assisted-living residences.

Philomel Concerts, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$5,000
To support expansion of Imagination Workshops, Kids' Concerts, and Concerts & Conversations. The outreach, educational programs and family concerts will provide access to and build long-term audience involvement in early music.

Phoenix Symphony Association (consortium)
Phoenix, AZ
$40,000
To support One Nation, a series of education programs for the local Native American community. The project will include master classes for grades seven to 12, a classroom concert for elementary students and a free family community concert.

Pittsburgh Chamber Music Society, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
$10,000
To support a chamber ensemble residency by the Talich Quartet at City Music Center on the campus of Duquesne University. Activities will include performances, coaching and community activities.

Queens Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Glendale, NY
$22,500
To support an audience development project presenting subscription concerts throughout the borough. The decentralization plan will mirror the enclaves of Queens, one of the most ethnically diverse counties in the nation.

Red Cedar Chamber Music
Marion, IA
$10,000
To support Reaching Out: Rural Outreach Concerts, a series of chamber music concerts and educational events in small rural Iowa communities. Founded in 1997, the ensemble performs a range of early to contemporary music.

Robert W. Woodruff Arts Center, Inc. (on behalf of Atlanta Symphony Orchestra)
Atlanta, GA (consortium)
$60,000
To support ASO Around Georgia, a community partnership initiative. The tour by the Atlanta Symphony will include performances and outreach activities as a means to cultivate meaningful partnerships with communities across the state.

Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Inc.
Rochester, NY
$40,000
To support Symphony 101, an outreach project of concerts for underserved and low-income residents. Host and music director Christopher Seaman and the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra will offer a symphonic repertoire and informal lectures for first-time concertgoers at Roberts Wesleyan College.

Saint Louis Symphony Society
St. Louis, MO
$50,000
To support regional concerts in underserved communities. The symphony will perform free ensemble performances and low-cost orchestral concerts in Missouri and Illinois.

Santa Cecilia Opera and Orchestra Association
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
To support Discovering Music, an educational outreach program in underserved communities of Los Angeles. The project, led by artistic director Sonia Marie De Leon, will provide orchestral performances and educational activities in venues ranging from elementary schools to community centers.

Santa Rosa Symphony Association
Santa Rosa, CA
$20,000
To support the completion of a documentary film that captures the year-long process and results of a community outreach project. The video will be disseminated nationwide to schools and symphony orchestras as a template for community collaborations, as well as an educational tool to bring meaning to present-day conflicts.

Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Inc. (consortium)
Seattle, WA
$65,000
To support outreach performances and educational events for underserved communities. The orchestra with the Texaco-Sphinx competition winner as guest soloist will perform concerts in the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center, New Hope Baptist Church and Benaroya Hall.

Sitka Summer Music Festival, Inc.
Sitka, AK
$13,000
To support concert tours of chamber music in cities and rural communities of Alaska. The concerts will serve communities in Anchorage, Dillingham, Juneau, Kotzebue, Nome, Pelican, Petersburg and Sitka.

Skidmore College
Saratoga Springs, NY
$10,000
To support the Skidmore Jazz Institute at the Bernhard Theater on the campus of the college. The two-week summer jazz program will include master classes, daily improvisational classes, private instruction and a mini-festival.

Sounds of Hope, Ltd.
St. Paul, MN
$10,000
To support a Mississippi River concert tour performed by local and international youth. Concerts on a floating barge along the river, from LaCrosse to Saint Paul, will coincide with the 150th-anniversary commemoration of the Grand Excursion of 1854.

Spokane Symphony Society
Spokane, WA
$10,000
To support regional concerts in underserved communities. The Spokane Symphony will perform orchestral concerts for rural and low-income residents in Washington and Idaho.

Symphony Society of San Antonio (aka San Antonio Symphony)
San Antonio, TX
$15,000
To support a residency at St. Philip's College, a historically black college in San Antonio. Activities will include master classes, open rehearsals, lectures, and concerts for primary and secondary school children.

Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Syracuse, NY
$20,000
To support a concert tour to New York's North Country. The orchestra, under the direction of Music Director Daniel Hege, will perform full orchestra concerts in rural and underserved communities.

Tucson Symphony Society (consortium)
Tucson, AZ
$20,000
To support the Southern Arizona Residency. The project consists of an educational component and a public concert in five rural communities in southern Arizona.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL
$25,000
To support Jazz Threads, a year-long project of community jazz activities and a residency by Cecil Bridgewater at the Krannert Art Center. The project will include performances, educational activities and community participation.

Vermont Symphony Orchestra Association, Inc.
Burlington, VT
$22,500
To support the Made in Vermont Music Festival Tour, a series of educational activities and community concert programs in underserved rural communities. The project will tie community concerts to children's concerts in 10 communities.

Washington Chorus, Inc.
Washington, DC
$10,000
To support an outreach and education program. Activities include free concerts for the elderly, school choir workshops and distribution of free tickets to young people throughout the Washington area.

West Virginia Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Charleston, WV
$20,000
To support a statewide tour to underserved rural communities. The symphony will reach audiences in seven to 10 communities throughout West Virginia.

Women's Philharmonic
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support Composing A Career, a symposium and an annual music festival at Yerba Buena Center for the Performing Arts. The symposium will include Music in the Making, new music reading sessions that will showcase emerging American women composers.

MUSICAL THEATER

Amas Musical Theatre, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
$28,000
To support the presentation of a new musical, in-school residencies, the creation and distribution of an education guide, and an outreach concert for the Brooklyn and Crown Heights New York community. In consortium with Documentary Arts of Dallas, Texas, Amas Musical Theatre will produce Blind Lemon Blues, by Alan Govenar and Akin Babatunde, off-Broadway in New York City.

American Music Theater Festival, Inc. (AMTF) (aka Prince Music Theater)
Philadelphia, PA
$55,000
To support the Multi-generational Arts Initiative, a comprehensive artistic, marketing and educational project to encourage active audience participation and theater attendance. The Initiative will offer an annual family series of live performances, workshops and films intended to reach the widest possible audience, expand outreach and bring multigenerational audiences to the theater.

American Musical Theatre of San Jose (aka AMTSJ)
San Jose, CA
$20,000
To support and expand accommodation services for blind/sight-impaired and deaf/hearing-impaired patrons. Each mainstage show will be made accessible to these special-needs audiences through human and technological resources.

Deaf West Theatre Company, Inc.
North Hollywood, CA
$60,000
To support the creation of a new musical that is culturally relevant and linguistically appropriate for both deaf and hearing audiences. Based on the classic love story Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmund Rostand, the new sign language musical will use technology to create accessibility for both audiences and artists.

Lark Theatre Company, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the creation of a new musical based on the historic Lewis and Clark expedition. A consortium of regional theaters will create and produce the musical Lewis & Clark with book by Arthur Kopit, and music and lyrics by Donald Alan Siegal.

M Ensemble Company, Inc.
Miami, FL
$10,000
To support the production of a musical work. New York actress Bukanla will play the lead character of Moms Mabley and Jerry Maple, Jr. will direct the M Ensemble Company's production of Jackie Moms Mabley, Live!

Mad River Theater Works
West Liberty, OH
$23,000
To support the creation of a new play in collaboration with students and their families, school teachers and members of the public, and a tour of that production throughout Ohio and surrounding states. Participants will collaborate to create plays based on local history and folklore.

MCT, Inc. (aka Missoula Children's Theatre)
Missoula, MT
$25,000
To support the MCT Tour Project, a touring musical theater residency project offered to children nationwide. By using participatory performing arts workshops and performances, Missoula Children's Theatre strives to empower and develop life skills for children.

North Shore Community Arts Foundation, Inc. (aka North Shore Music Theatre)
Beverly, MA
$30,000
To support a collaborative program for deaf, hard of hearing and hearing individuals to create a performance piece that will tour. Sign Stage, a prototype program, will include classes, workshops and a new musical theater work that will tour throughout New England.

Society of the Educational Arts, Inc. (aka Sociedad Educativa de las Artes)
New York, NY
$32,000
To support productions of children's theater with accompanying workshops in New York and a tour to Puerto Rico. Through the presentation of Latin-American children's classics and folk tales, Sociedad Educativa de las Artes' (SEA) preserves Latin-American arts and culture.

Young at Heart Chorus, Inc.
Northampton, MA
$15,000
To support the creation and production of an original musical that explores the lives of senior citizens. The new musical, Road to Nowhere, will incorporate music not commonly sung by older Americans and video images to depict the experiences of older workers in supermarkets, fast food joints and large department stores.

OPERA

Anchorage Opera Company
Anchorage, AK
$20,000
To support the Anchorage Opera Studio Theatre, a young artist statewide touring program. In 2003 04 the project will include programs, performances, and residencies in rural communities and in the underserved Anchorage School District.

Baltimore Opera Company, Inc.
Baltimore, MD
$15,000
To support the Baltimore Opera Studio and education and community programs. In order to advance an appreciation of opera, programs will be developed during the 2003-04 season for audiences of all ages and ethnic and economic backgrounds.

Glimmerglass Opera, Inc. (consortium)
Cooperstown, NY
$50,000
To support a series of audience development and access programs, including a tour to rural communities, high school partnerships and residencies. A consortium with New York City Opera, the project will focus on Handel's Orlando and Offenbach's Bluebeard as the subjects of the Gala Weekend Symposium and Summer Seminar Weekend, respectively.

Houston Grand Opera Association, Inc.
Houston, TX
$95,000
To support Discover America: Community Connections Initiative - Phase II. In 2003-04, the initiative will focus on free and discounted performances in order to reach a broader base of young and diverse audiences.

Nashville Opera Association
Nashville, TN
$10,000
To support the implementation of electronic technology for opera education of children, K-12 educators and other adults. Digital ISDN connection, computer equipment and special software will be utilized to present programs via video conferencing.

New Cleveland Opera Company (aka Cleveland Opera)
Cleveland, OH
$15,000
To support the Intergenerational Initiative and activities associated with core K-12 educational programs. The initiative will feature the Great Works Student Matinee Program that brings together students from the Hathaway Brown School in Shaker Heights and older adults from senior centers in underserved, urban communities.

OPERA America, Inc. (consortium)
Washington, DC
$50,000
To support the development of Cornerstones, a permanent learning resource for audiences and opera companies on the Internet. In consortium with the Boston Lyric Opera, multimedia educational materials will be designed in 2003-04 concerning 10 of the most frequently performed operas.

Opera Omaha, Inc.
Omaha, NE
$20,000
To support outreach activities associated with the opera, Cold Sassy Tree, by Carlisle Floyd. A four week tour of scenes from the opera and community programs that advance the public's understanding of American opera will take place in 2003-04.

Opera Theatre of Saint Louis (aka OTSL) (consortium)
St. Louis, MO
$65,000
To support workshops and the world premiere of a one-act opera for young people, titled Lewis and Clark: Dream of the Pacific by Stephen Mager. The project will commemorate the bicentennial of the Lewis and Clark expedition.

Pine Mountain Music Festival, Inc. (aka PMMF)
Hancock, MI
$10,000
To support performances of Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore and a tour of opera scenes by the Pine Mountain Music Festival Young Artists. In 2003, the Young Artists will tour Highlights of the Great Operas to three remote and underserved cities in the Upper Peninsula: Iron Mountain, Marquette and Calumet.

Pittsburgh Opera, Inc. (consortium)
Pittsburgh, PA
$50,000
To support the planning and implementation of a series of public programs and forums to coincide with the first-ever performing arts convention in Pittsburgh. The project, a consortium with Chatham Baroque, Bach Choir of Pittsburgh and the Children's Festival Chorus of Pittsburgh, will highlight how music performances contribute to a community's higher quality of life.

Shreveport Opera
Shreveport, LA
$10,000
To support a tour of Corps of Discovery--Musical Journey, a new opera by Michael Ching with libretto by Hugh Moffat, celebrating the 200th anniversary of the Louisiana Purchase. Community performances and interactive educational residencies will take place in eight cities and underserved areas throughout Louisiana and East Texas in the 2003-04 season.

PRESENTING

Alaska Junior Theater, Inc.
Anchorage, AK
$15,000
To support the Arts Outreach Program. The project is designed to present performing arts programming to underserved children and families in Anchorage, Kenai, Barrow, Nome and other rural Alaskan communities.

Ford Theatre Foundation
Hollywood, CA
$20,000
To support expenses associated with the presentation of the International Hispanic Theatre Festival (IHTF). Festival programming will be expanded from one week to two.

Grand Performances
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
To support Intersection Africa-- the effects of the African diaspora on contemporary arts. The free series will comprise of spoken word, dance and music performances by local, national and international artists, in addition to an intergenerational poetry workshop.

Henry Street Settlement (aka Abrons Art Center)
New York, NY
$40,000
To support Arts for Everyone. Low-cost dance and theater performances by emerging, ethnically diverse artists will be presented at the Abrons Arts Center.

La Pena Cultural Center (consortium)
Berkeley, CA
$40,000
To support the Next Generation Summit. Emerging performing artists, representatives of Bay Area youth arts organizations, members of the Latino Arts Network and presenters will convene to discuss programming for audiences and artists of color.

La Pena Cultural Center
Berkeley, CA
$35,000
To support Live La Pena. The series will create a forum for musicians and spoken-word artists to create live recordings of their performances.

Maui Community Arts & Cultural Center (aka Maui Arts & Cultural Center)
Kahului, HI
$40,000
To support a presenting series and expand residency activities. The project will feature Hawaiian based music and dance events, as well as dance, theater and music performances by U.S. and international artists.

Pepatian, Inc.
Bronx, NY
$20,000
To support Jump It Up: Bronx Artists Spotlight. The multidisciplinary presentation will highlight the work of Bronx-based artists, nonprofit centers and performance spaces.

Seattle International Children's Festival
Seattle, WA
$40,000
To support the expansion of education and outreach programs. The Children's Festival will increase in-school activities, programs for the general public and satellite Festival activities.

Tahoe Arts Project
South Lake Tahoe, CA
$10,000
To support the presentation of The Manding Empire Revealed by Manding Jata. The performance will profile the music, dance and oral traditions of the Mali Empire.

Town Hall Association
Seattle, WA
$20,000
To support a series of performances and educational programs. The multicomponent project will focus on world, traditional, and folk music and dance, as well as cultural preservation issues and artist conversations.

Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania
(on behalf of Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts)
Philadelphia, PA
$20,000
To support the 19th Annual Philadelphia International Children's Festival. The festival will present more than 60 presentations by international performers for young people and their families.

Wyoming Arts Alliance
Four Corners, WY
$5,000
To support a presenting and touring conference in Wyoming. The event will feature artist showcases and professional development workshops for both artists and presenters.

THEATER

Actors' Gang, Inc.
Hollywood, CA
$8,000
To support the marketing outreach initiative and the Youth Mentorship Program. The two programs will increase accessibility for underserved urban audiences.

Admiral Theatre Foundation
Bremerton, WA
$10,000
To support the presentation of a play in collaboration with Missoula Children's Theatre. A team of two actor/directors from the Missoula Children's Theatre will conduct a weeklong workshop to develop and present a full-scale children's production with cast members selected from the community.

Arkansas Repertory Theatre Company
Little Rock, AR
$48,000
To support the presentation of free outdoor performances of a Shakespeare play. The production of Romeo and Juliet will be presented in state parks throughout the summer of 2003.

Association for the Development of Dramatic Arts, Inc. (Jean Cocteau Repertory)
New York, NY
$15,000
To support educational and outreach activities through the Classic Access Initiative. The initiative will include discount tickets and subsidy programs for seniors and college students, the upgrade of an online resource for classic theater and a tour of a theater piece.

Aurora Theatre Company
Berkeley, CA
$6,000
To support the Family Theatre Initiative, a program that offers discounted admission for families in attendance at designated performances. Participants will receive pre-show materials and participate in post-performance activities.

Autry Museum of Western Heritage
Los Angeles, CA
$40,000
To support the expansion of New Voices at the Autry, a program targeted to the development and presentation of new plays by Native-American writers. Competitively selected writers work with professional directors and actors on new plays, and benefit from participation in workshops, readings and workshop productions.

Big Apple Circus, Ltd.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the Clown Care Unit program in which professional clown performers make bedside visits to perform for hospitalized children. The program works in close partnership with medical facilities in nine major U.S. cities.

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

Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park (consortium)
Cincinnati, OH
$35,000
To support the creation and regional tour of a new work by David Gonzales, developed collaboratively with local community historical and cultural organizations and seniors in the Greater Cincinnati region. The resulting work will tell the stories of individuals from many cultures who found freedom in the Ohio River Valley.

Cornerstone Theater Company
Los Angeles, CA
$55,000
To support the third project in a four-year Faith-Based Theater Cycle. In 10 Acrobats in an Amazing Leap of Faith, members of Los Angeles' diverse Muslim community will participate with playwright Yussef El Guindi to create a new work about family, faith and access to the American Dream.

Developmental Services Center
Champaign, IL
$7,000
To support the production of an adaptation of Shakespeare's "The Comedy of Errors." The Promting Theater will premiere its version of the classic play during its third annual Street Theater Festival.

East Los Angeles Classic Theatre (aka ECT)
Monterey Park, CA
$27,000
To support the 2003-2004 Beyond Borders Literacy Engagement PerformanceTour and associated workshops. Over 60 performances of culturally relevant adaptations of The Tempest, Much Ado About Nothing, and A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare will be presented in schools and community venues.

Georgia Shakespeare Festival, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$8,000
To support a state-wide tour of a Shakespeare play. Artistic Director Richard Garner will direct the production that will be offered free of charge and will tour to high schools in rural areas in South and Central Georgia.

Idaho Shakespeare Festival
Boise, ID
$18,000
To support the Rural Outreach Project, a program that conducts tours of theater with related educational programming to K-12 students in four states. The program consists of two components, Shakespearience and the Idaho Theater for Youth.

Idris Ackamoor & Cultural Odyssey (consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
To support a partnership of African-American performance institutions. Cultural Odyssey, Afro Solo Theater Company and the San Francisco Black Film Festival will encourage self-empowerment through collective marketing, audience development, technical assistance and Web development.

Illusion Theater & School, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$50,000
To support the Peer Education Theatre Program to be conducted with adults and high school youth in rural and urban communities. Illusion Theater artists will train individuals in schools, communities and juvenile detention facilities to develop and perform plays centered on issues of importance to them and their communities.

L A Public Theatre, Inc.
Auburn, ME
$10,000
To support the Student Matinee program, Free Theatre program, and the Youth at Risk Internship program. These initiatives are designed to make theater accessible to children and adults in a rural and economically depressed region.

Los Angeles Poverty Department (aka LAPD)
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
To support the creation, development and production of a new play. Based on the legend of La Llorona and the stories of the women of Skid Row in Los Angeles, the play will be written and performed in collaboration with neighborhood residents.

Magical Experiences Arts Company
Baltimore, MD
$6,000
To support workshops and performances for children and adolescents with severe disabilities. The Oaktree of Maryland, written by Artistic Director and playwright Joanne Margolius, will tour to five Maryland schools providing interactive workshops for students.

Make A Circus, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support a tour of Circus Days 2003 to communities in the San Francisco Bay Area. The program offers free performances of a circus in which audience members learn basic circus skills and incorporate them into the performance.

Metro Theater Company
St. Louis, MO
$27,000
To support a tour of two of the theater's repertory works for young people. Frankenstein's Children, by R.N. Sandburg with a sound score by Michael Keck, and More Stuff, by Christopher Gurr, will tour to schools, community centers and performing arts venues across the U.S.

Montana Shakespeare in the Parks
Bozeman, MT
$15,000
To support a tour of free performances of two Shakespeare productions to communities throughout Montana, northern Wyoming and eastern Idaho. The tour will be targeted to communities in underserved, rural areas.

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

New Old Time Chautauqua
Port Townsend, WA
$6,000
To support artist residencies and the presentation of theater works in rural communities throughout Idaho, Montana and Washington. Artist/teachers will collaborate with local arts and civic agencies in up to five locations to present community-participatory performance events.

Olney Theatre Corporation (aka Olney Theatre Center for the Arts)
Olney, MD
$20,000
To support Educational Connections, a multifaceted middle and high school educational theater program. Ongoing program activities are designed to make theater more widely available, involve diverse communities and reach new audiences.

Omaha Theater Company (aka Omaha Theater Company for Young People)
Omaha, NE
$20,000
To support a national tour of How Anansi Came to America by Frank Higgins. The 22-week tour will reach nearly 300,000 young people and their families in 35 states.

Phoenix Theatre Academy, Inc. (aka Academy Theatre)
Atlanta, GA
$25,000
To support the tour of the Academy Theatre For Youth's Artist-In-Schools Team. The ensemble will develop original, curriculum-based, issue-oriented plays to tour to schools and youth organizations throughout the Southeast.

Playwrights' Preview Productions (aka Urban Stages)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support Urban Stages' Outreach Program. With the New York, Queens and Brooklyn Public Library Systems serving as venues and partners, Urban Stages tours new works by multiethnic authors to underserved communities and schools.

Robert W. Woodruff Arts Center, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$45,000
To support the production of plays by Atlanta theater companies in the City Series. The Alliance Theater Company will create partnerships with, and present the works of, five mid-size Atlanta theater companies on its Hertz Stage.

Shakespeare Festival/LA, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
To support the production of Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor in downtown Los Angeles' Pershing Square as part of the company's annual summer festival. Performances will be free in order to increase access for both traditional and nontraditional theater audiences.

Shakespeare Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support free outdoor performances of Shakespeare's The Tempest in parks and public spaces throughout New York City. The production will target nontraditional audiences and communities surrounding the park venues.

Spanish Theatre Repertory Company, Ltd.
New York, NY
$65,000
To support the Teatro Accesso program. The company will tour theater works to underserved schools and Latino communities throughout the New York metropolitan area and the northeastern United States.

St. Louis Black Repertory Company, Inc.
St. Louis, MO
$35,000
To support outreach programs designed to provide access to theater for underserved communities, promote African-American culture among diverse populations and cultivate new audiences. Component activities will include touring performances, discussion series, student matinees, and short and long-term workshops in theater.

Stageworks, Inc.
Tampa, FL
$6,000
To support performances by the Rainbow Tribe of African American Greats and Inner Circle. Performances will serve at-risk youth at Title One middle schools and alternative secondary schools.

Stamford Theatre Works, Inc.
Stamford, CT
$8,000
To support a production of A Lesson Before Dying by Romulus Linney, directed by Patricia Floyd. Funds will be used for marketing and publicity initiatives surrounding the theater's annual celebration of Black History Month.

STOP-GAP
Santa Ana, CA
$15,000
To support the creation and Southern California tour of a new interactive play for middle and high school students. Friendly Fire will involve teens in a creative examination of the roles they play when they experience conflict with their peers, and will help them recognize and discourage bullying behavior.

Ten Thousand Things
Minneapolis, MN
$11,000
To support touring performances of a highly physical production of Bertolt Brecht's The Good Person of Szechwan to audiences at prisons, shelters and centers serving low-income communities. The production was the first ever undertaken by the company, and will mark the company's 10th anniversary in the Twin Cities.

Theatre Development Fund, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support Interpreting for the Theatre, an intensive one-week institute for proficient sign language interpreters. The program is designed to improve the skills of certified interpreters who have experience signing plays and musicals, and to maintain national standards of excellence in the field.

Touchstone (aka Touchstone Theatre)
Bethlehem, PA
$25,000
To support the Don Quijote Project. Touchstone Theatre will use Cervantes' classic tale Don Quijote as a catalyst to create new work and to bridge the gap between cultures, generations and classes in the neighborhoods of south Bethlehem.

VSA arts of Georgia, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$7,000
To support a sign language interpreting program entitled Stagehands. VSA arts of Georgia will offer a discount to small and mid-sized theaters for the provision of its sign language interpreting service.

Weston Playhouse Theatre
Weston, VT
$40,000
To support expansion of the theater's education and outreach programs for intergenerational, rural and underserved audiences. Programming will include summer production internships, a program of training and onstage experience for young performers, school matinees and annual statewide teacher workshops.

Williamstown Theatre Foundation, Inc.
Williamstown, MA
$8,000
To support programs which serve and engage an economically and racially diverse community. The Williamstown Theatre Foundation's community programs include the Greylock Theatre Project, Kid's Night and Free Theatre.

Working Theatre Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the TheaterWorks project. This initiative offers artist residencies and workshops to low income working people at three New York City unions.

Young Playwrights' Theater, Inc.
Washington, DC
$20,000
To support the Youth to Dare Tour. Youth to Dare is a month-long tour of up to nine plays written by middle and high school students.

Z Space Studio
San Francisco, CA
$17,000
To support Word for Word's educational outreach activities. The project includes performances, workshops and artist residencies in local schools and libraries.

VISUAL ARTS

3-D Chicago
Chicago, IL
$25,000
To support the sixth annual Pier Walk, The Chicago International Sculpture Exhibition. To be juried by critic and writer David Pagel, Pier Walk is the biggest exhibition of large-scale outdoor sculpture in the world, featuring work by approximately 40 sculptors.

Art Resources Transfer, Inc. (aka A.R.T. Press)
New York, NY
$48,000
To support the Distribution to Underserved Communities Program. The project will offer books, museum catalogs, videos and other material about contemporary art, free-of-charge, to libraries across the nation with a special emphasis on rural and inner-city libraries.

Asian American Arts Centre, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support Stories of Chinatown, an intergenerational public art project. Organized in collaboration with Elders Share the Arts, the program will bring Chinatown seniors together with high school youth to create artwork that presents the untold stories of the aging immigrant population.

Bastrop Association for the Arts
Bastrop, TX
$5,000
To support a collaborative public art project in a Texas hill country high school. Lead by the artist Raul Valdez, high school teachers will engage the students in a semester-long interior mural project.

Clay Studio (consortium)
Philadelphia, PA
$18,000
To support a traveling exhibition of work by contemporary Chinese ceramic artists. The project is a collaboration with the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art.

Constitution Project (consortium)
Portland, OR
$10,000
To support If Walls Could Talk, a project designed to commemorate the contributions of African Americans to New Orleans' history. Working in collaboration with the Ashe Cultural Arts Center, local artists will receive training in digital software applications to be used in the production of a series of large community murals.

Covington Community Center, Inc.
Covington, KY
$10,000
To support The Gateway Project, featuring mosaic tilework as a means of identifying different neighborhoods in the city of Covington. Artists Jackie Slone and Rosemary Topie will direct this intergenerational project, which will engage the participants in discussions about the city's history and their individual heritage.

Creative Center for Women with Cancer
New York, NY
$15,000
To support an artists' residency program to bring artists to different hospitals to work with terminally ill patients. Patients receive instruction and an introduction to various techniques in watercolor, clay, drawing, sculpture and collage.

Eldergivers
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support an art instruction program for Bay Area nursing homes. Building upon 10 years of experience, Eldergivers will hire professional artists with teaching experience to conduct workshops for institutionalized seniors.

Escuela de Artes Plasticas de Puerto Rico
San Juan, PR
$40,000
To support the Artist-in-Residence program bringing contemporary artists to Puerto Rico for residencies. Artists such as Ursula Von Rydingsvard, Julio Valdez, Helga Griffiths and William C. Quan will lead workshops and give lectures to the school's student population, as well as conduct lectures open to the general public.

Maine Fiberarts
Brunswick, ME
$25,000
To support The State of Fiber: 2004. A statewide series of activities and events will include exhibitions, workshops, demonstrations and lectures targeted to the general public, as well as services and resources that are field specific.

Montana State University (on behalf of School of Art)
Bozeman, MT
$8,000
To support a visiting artist lecture series and an exhibition of work by South-African printmakers. The lecture series will examine the degree of social activism reflected in the work of contemporary artists.

National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts
Erie, CO
$40,000
To support the annual conference of the nation's oldest and largest professional service organization for the ceramic arts. To be held in Indianapolis in 2004, Fields of Clay will include a series of exhibitions, critical lectures, panels and workshop demonstrations.

Pyramid Atlantic, Inc.
Riverdale, MD
$54,000
To support Discoveries through Reading as Process, Art as Content--an artist residency project designed to improve visual literacy. The program will bring artist and educator Tim Rollins and his team, Kids of Survival (K.O.S.), to work with students and teachers to explore print and papermaking, digital media and the book arts.

Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific Foundation
Honolulu, HI
$15,000
To support studio arts instruction for patients at the Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific. Instruction is provided by professional guest artists who tailor their approach to the particular needs of adults and children with physical or cognitive disabilities.

Richmond Arts Center (on behalf of Quilt of Many Colors Project)
Richmond, CA
$10,000
To support the Quilt of Many Colors Project, a series of curated exhibitions installed in the waiting room of Richmond's main public health facility. The project will promote the value of the arts in the healing process and provide access to art for approximately 30,000 users of the facility.

St. Augustine-Baracoa Friendship Association
St. Augustine, FL
$10,000
To support Shared Vision, a traveling exhibition and catalog documenting two of the oldest continuously inhabited Spanish settlements in the U.S. and Cuba. St. Augustine, in Florida, and Baracoa, in Cuba, will be recorded by two American and two Cuban photographers.

Visual Studies Workshop, Inc.
Rochester, NY
$15,000
To support a residency program in photography, bookmaking, digital imaging, digital video, and small format film and video that will provide artists with access to high-quality equipment and materials. Participating artists will receive a stipend, travel costs, use of the facilities, training and housing for one-month residencies.

Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts
Newcastle, ME
$12,000
To support expansion of the services of MudMobile, a statewide traveling ceramics program in a van. The MudMobile will inaugurate a Community Clay public arts program in two Maine towns.

Wave Hill, Inc.
Bronx, NY
$10,000
To support the Family Art Project. A series of free weekend workshops will provide families the opportunity to create nature-based art projects inspired by craft traditions from around the world.

TOTAL ACCESS GRANTS:314
TOTAL ACCESS DOLLARS: $8,321,260

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