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2004 Grant Awards: Learning in the Arts

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

24th Street Theatre Company
Los Angeles, CA
$12,000
To support After 'Cool, an after-school, theater-based program for youth attending Los Angeles public schools. Professional theater artists will conduct free theater workshops that will culminate in a staged public performance.

52nd Street Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$43,000
To support Playmaking, a three-tiered drama and playwriting program for economically disadvantaged youth. Components Stage One, Replay, and Playback, are part of a sequential strategy for children to develop new plays under the supervision of professional theater artists and directors.

911 Media Arts Center (on behalf of Reel Grrls)
Seattle, WA
$24,000
To support Reel Grrls, an after-school media program. Designed for teenage girls, activities will involve rigorous after-school and weekend programs to explore media literacy, video production, and issues of personal identity.

Alabama School of Fine Arts Foundation, Inc.
North Birmingham, AL
$15,000
To support a modern dance residency. During a two-week summer program in North Birmingham, students will learn choreography and dance techniques from Complexions, a New York City contemporary dance company.

Alameda County Art Commission (consortium)
Oakland, CA
$24,000
To support Project YES!, a media-based consortium project. Open to youth, ages 13 to 18, program activities will include introductory radio journalism and engineering instruction, followed by intensive training in Web production, content editing, research, writing, and reporting.

All Florida Youth Orchestra, Inc.
Hollywood, FL
$10,000
To support an expansion of Music STEPS (String Training and Education in Public Schools) - Choral Kids. The project will provide after-school choral training and performance opportunities for elementary and middle school students.

Alleghany County Schools (on behalf of Junior Appalachian Musicians)
Sparta, NC
$15,000
To support the expansion of Junior Appalachian Musicians. The project provides after-school classes in Appalachian traditional folk music for students in fourth through ninth grades; a pedagogical conference for artists, teachers, and administrators; and a daylong summer gathering of all youth participants.

Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. Original art work by students from throughout the United States in seventh through 12th-grade art and English classes or community-based arts programs are nominated by teachers and administrators, leading to national recognition and an exhibit of approximately 1,100 works at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

American Indian Center, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$50,000
To support year-round, weekly workshops in traditional and non-traditional visual and performing arts in the context of American-Indian culture and practices. The project will engage urban American-Indian youth, ages five through 18, with elder culture bearers in Chicago.

American Place Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$19,000
To support the expansion of Literature to Life, a theater and literature program for middle and high school students. The program will include attendance at professional performances, post-show discussions and workshops, and artist residencies, and will be augmented by multiple in-school workshops.

American String Teachers Association, Inc. (consortium)
Fairfax, VA
$65,000
To support the consortium Strings Project. The program, designed to lessen the shortage of public school orchestra teachers, will offer Suzuki training, chamber music instruction, theory classes, and private lessons to undergraduate string education majors.

American Symphony Orchestra League (consortium)
New York, NY
$65,000
To support an education initiative that will identify and reward excellent work in orchestra education. Components of the consortium project will include building resources of music education materials, conducting research for online documentation of best practices, and selecting recipients for the Excellence in Orchestra Education awards.

Angkor Dance Troupe, Inc.
Lowell, MA
$20,000
To support in-depth instruction in traditional Cambodian dance. Master artists will instruct youth, ages six to 18, in folk and classical dances, leading to recitals and public performances in Lowell.

Art Institute of Chicago (on behalf of School of the Art Institute)
Chicago, IL
$57,000
To support the Teacher Institute in Contemporary Art. The project will provide experienced high school art teachers the opportunity to study contemporary art theory and to practice with leading artists, critics, and lecturers in the visual and new media arts.

Arts Center
Carrboro, NC
$25,000
To support a series of one-month, after-school arts learning programs. The project includes up to three hours of classes every weekday, and two-week residencies by touring performing artists, including the African American Dance Ensemble and Nai Ni Chen Dance Company.

Arts Connection
New York, NY
$50,000
To support development of the Inquiry-Based Partnership Model. Teachers and artists will work together to understand the relations between arts and other curricular areas in order to help children apply knowledge from one discipline to another, leading to cross-curricular arts learning in up to three elementary schools in Brooklyn.

Arts Corps
Seattle, WA
$18,000
To support the Music/Hip Hop Program. The project will feature Brazilian rhythm and African drumming activities for elementary school students in addition to hip-hop drama and spoken-word poetry workshops for middle and high school students.

Asheville Art Museum Association, Inc.
Asheville, NC
$19,000
To support implementation and evaluation of More Than Math (MTM). Through this project, teachers in grades three through nine will learn to integrate the visual arts into the mathematics curriculum using objects from the museum's collection.

Asian Arts Initiative
Philadelphia, PA
$38,000
To support Youth Arts Workshop. Professional artists will lead after-school courses in theater, video, and mural arts for Asian-American teenagers in Philadelphia.

Asian Improv aRts (consortium) (on behalf of AYPAL)
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
To support Talking Roots Arts Collective. Through artist-in-residence programs, the project offers after-school classes in poetry, theatre, and dance for Asian and Pacific Islander youth, ages 12 to 18, in Central and East Oakland.

Association House of Chicago
Chicago, IL
$25,000
To support year-round, after-school, weekend, and summer classes in theater, poetry, video, and puppetry. Professional artists and partnering arts organizations offer classes that reach predominantly Latino and African-American youth in Chicago.

Association of Institutes for Aesthetic Education, Inc.
New York, NY
$65,000
To support the implementation phase of the Teaching Artist Mentoring Project. By providing enhanced professional development opportunities for teaching artists around the country, the project will identify new teaching artists through regional workshops then train and support them with a national consulting team and web-based resources.

Atlanta Partnership for Arts in Learning, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$25,000
To support partnerships that will link teachers and students to artists and arts resources. Teachers will receive 25 hours of professional development in methods for increasing students' capicity by infusing arts into the curricula of other subjects.

Austin Symphony Orchestra Society, Inc.
Austin, TX
$20,000
To support the String Fellows Program. Designed to revitalize Austin public high school orchestral programs, the project will place teachers and students in strings workshops and sectionals with a quartet of Austin Symphony Orchestra musicians.

Baltimore Clayworks, Inc.
Baltimore, MD
$48,000
To support after-school art classes for young people in underserved Baltimore communities. The project will provide multidisciplinary arts programs for young people, ages seven to 18. More than 300 students will work closely with teaching artists in three community locations to learn drawing and basic clay hand-building skills.

Barrel Of Monkeys
Chicago, IL
$8,000
To support a creative writing and theater residency program for underserved children in the Chicago area. Residency workshops will be led by trained actors-educators who have extensive experience working with youth.

Belmont University (on behalf of Tennessee Arts Academy Foundation)
Nashville, TN
$35,000
To support the Tennessee Arts Academy. Administered by theTennessee Department of Education, the program will offer summer workshops for teachers, artists, and administrators in music, theater, dance, and visual art.

Ben-El Child Development Center
Bellefontaine, OH
$29,000
To support YouthWorks, a community-based theater program for children with special or behavioral needs. The youth will develop basic theater skills, such as character development, improvisation, and storytelling, through arts education training sessions held at the Ben-El Partial Hospitalization Center, located in rural Central Ohio.

Berklee College of Music, Inc. (consortium)
Boston, MA
$60,000
To support e-Sharp, a consortium project. Designed to provide students with opportunities to learn from experienced professional musicians and visiting artists, the Berklee City Music after-school program will be replicated in the District of Columbia in partnership with the Community Preservation and Development Corporation.

Bethune Theatredanse
Los Angeles, CA
$40,000
To support Unbound Dreams. Children and youth with special needs will gain dance, movement and theater skills integrated with academics and career-development experiences in after-school and weekend residencies.

Book-It Repertory Theatre
Seattle, WA
$10,000
To support the Book-It All Over (BIAO) education and outreach program that will present literature-based theater to kindergarten through 12th-grade students. BIAO will reach audiences at schools, libraries, and community centers across the state of Washington through performances, hands-on workshops, and residencies.

Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. (on behalf of Tanglewood)
Boston, MA
$35,000
To support Day in the Arts at Tanglewood (DART). The project offers eight, five-day summer arts immersion programs, including workshops and field trips for sixth through eighth-grade students from Berkshire County.

Boston University
Boston, MA
$25,000
To support the Young Artists Orchestra and Young Arts Wind Ensemble programs of theTanglewood Institute. High school musicians will receive individual music instruction and group participation opportunities through ensemble rehearsals and performances, master classes, and coaching sessions led by resident ensembles such as the Synergy Quintet and Vento Chiaro Wind Quartet.

Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$17,000
To support the Youth Art Connection Media Arts Program. Middle and high school-aged youth participating in the program will develop skills in the use of digital design, video, photography, and music technology.

Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
$38,000
To support visual arts instruction for young people. Full-time art directors and guest artists will provide after-school and summer instruction in a wide range of media including drawing, sculpture, painting, metal work, woodworking, printmaking, silk screening, ceramics, and photography.

Brown University (consortium) (on behalf of ArtsLiteracy Project (Education Department))
Providence, RI
$65,000
To support the Arts Literacy Project. In partnerships with the Providence Black Repertory Company, artists will join a core group of classroom teachers, Brown University students, and youth leaders at the Brown Summer High School for 50 hours of professional development during the summer months.

Cable Communications
Detroit, MI
$14,000
To support SCOOP, a program that will provide hands-on instruction in video production for high school students in after-school and summer settings. Divided into three groups based on their skill level, students will write, produce, direct, and edit their own programs using industry-standard equipment with instruction from media professionals.

California Institute of the Arts (consortium)
Valencia, CA
$48,000
To support the Digital Arts Project. In consortium with Watts Towers Arts Center and other community-based partners, faculty and students will provide in-depth workshops and public events in digital media through the Community Arts Partnership (CAP).

California Poets in the Schools
San Francisco, CA
$35,000
To support the PEER Project, a poet-in-residence and peer-review program. Students in kindergarten through 12th grade will be taught writing skills by accomplished poets and in addition, will have opportunities to share their work through public readings and published entries in the California Poets in the Schools Statewide Anthology.

California Summer Music, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support a comprehensive music education summer program for children and youth from across the country. Young pianists, composers, and string players will be engaged in a series of hands-on learning opportunities including private music lessons, chamber music ensembles, master classes with guest artists, and public performances.

Carnegie Hall Society, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
$72,000
To support the continuation of LinkUP! In partnership with the New York City Board of Education, the consortium project is a standards-based music education program that integrates music into the elementary school curriculum.

Center for Puppetry Arts
Atlanta, GA
$38,000
To support a puppetry production and associated educational activities. Students in kindergarten through sixth grades will attend the performances of an original work, The Adventures of Mighty Bug, and also participate in pre- and post-performance educational workshops and museum activities.

Center for World Music
La Mesa, CA
$35,000
To support World Music in the Schools. Ethnomusicologists and educators will develop a comprehensive, standards-based program through school concerts, workshops, and intensive instruction given by internationally respected artists.

Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education
Chicago, IL
$70,000
To support Arts in Education Partnership Design Seminar. The project will establish partnerships with artists and educators to integrate arts into the overall educational program of Chicago public schools, and the program will also research and document effective methods for creating new partnerships.

Children's Dance Theatre
Salt Lake City, UT
$50,000
To support the Side-By-Side TeacherTraining Residency Program. The year-long residency will train teachers to incorporate dance concepts into their curriculum using the Utah State Dance Core Curriculum.

Choral Arts Society of Washington
Washington, DC
$25,000
To support artsACCESS. The project will provide opportunities for teachers to use the creative and participatory nature of music and the arts across the curriculum in such subjects as language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies.

Cincinnati Museum Association
Cincinnati, OH
$62,000
To support the development and testing of a series of curriculum units connecting works of art with children's literature. The units will engage children in museum visits, as well as preparatory and follow-up activities, and will relate to an overarching theme, incorporating examples of children's literature and works of art.

City of Santa Fe, New Mexico
Santa Fe, NM
$40,000
To support ArtWorks. The program will provide professional development opportunities for classroom teachers and will incorporate professional performances and exhibitions presented by Santa Fe arts organizations.

Clay Studio
Philadelphia, PA
$19,000
To support the Claymobile, a mobile ceramic art education program for underserved populations. Staffed by experienced teaching artists, the Claymobile is equipped to conduct instructional classes as well as transport finished pieces for firing.

COCA (Center of Creative Arts)
St. Louis, MO
$30,000
To support the Dance Outreach and Pre-Professional Dance Program. Both programs are designed to provide low-income youth and underserved schools in the St. Louis Public School District with training and personal contact with professional artists.

Columbia College Chicago (on behalf of Office of Community Arts Partnerships)
Chicago, IL
$65,000
To support Community Arts Leadership and Learning (CALL). The project provides professional development programs to prepare emerging and mid-career community youth-arts leaders.

Community Foundation of South Alabama
Mobile, AL
$15,000
To support the Merging of Cultures. The project will provide a photography and writing artist-residency program in public schools through artist-led workshops and weekly classes for students in the third through 12th grades.

Community Music Center
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the Comprehensive Musicianship/Inner City Young Musicians program. Professional musicians will provide free ensemble and musicianship classes for underserved middle and high school-aged students.

Community-Word Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support yearlong residencies by writers and visual artists collaborating with classroom teachers in New York City public schools. Artists collaborate with teachers throughout the school year, visiting classes weekly over a 35-week period.

Concord Community Music School
Concord, NH
$45,000
To support the Music in the Community Initiative. The program, in partnership with early-childhood care providers, public schools, and a public housing authority, will provide music and movement programs to underserved populations.

Connecticut Architecture Foundation, Inc (on behalf of Architecture Resource Center)
New Haven, CT
$48,000
To support Hartford Connections, an educational curriculum for the design arts. The course will be written, tested, revised, and implemented in Greater Hartford middle schools by master teachers, scholars, project directors, and consultants.

Cornell University (on behalf of Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art)
Ithaca, NY
$22,000
To support the OMNI program, consisting of outreach activities to area schools, a technology component, and a teacher institute. OMNI will offer six grade- and culture-specific learning units, including classroom instruction by museum staff, museum visits, workshops led by an artist, and follow-up activities.

Creative Opportunity Orchestra, Inc.
Austin, TX
$20,000
To support Circle of Light. During a weeklong residency in elementary schools, students will participate in 90-minute, grade-specific arts workshops in the context of holiday traditions and practices.

Dallas Museum of Art
Dallas, TX
$29,000
To support the Artist-in-Residence Partnership. Professional artists will develop interrelated arts education activities in dance, music, visual arts, theater, and writing that will be incorporated into the curricula of two arts magnet schools

Dance Ring, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the LIFT Community Service Program. The project will include year-round ballet classes for disadvantaged youth, summer sessions, and dance performances including Dance on a Shoestring by the New YorkTheatre Ballet.

Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra Association (consortium)
Dayton, OH
$20,000
To support School Partners with Artists Reaching Kids (SPARK). The consortium project will team musicians with classroom teachers from the Kettering City School District to create lesson plans incorporating music concepts into the classroom curriculum.

DC WritersCorps, Inc.
Washington, DC
$33,000
To support after-school writing workshops and the Youth Poetry Slam League (YPSL). The project will provide literary mentors and writing workshops to students in public middle and junior high schools.

Denver Center for the Performing Arts
Denver, CO
$24,000
To support Living History, a theater education program. Middle and high school students will learn techniques of theatrical performance, improvisation, and production in a program that will address issues of social relevance in the lives of young people.

Des Moines Metro Opera, Inc.
Indianola, IA
$10,000
To support OPERA Iowa, an educational program that will include a 10-week tour to rural Midwestern schools. Featuring Seymour Barab's Fair Means or Foul , the program will offer more than 80 opera performances and 320 classroom workshops.

Dream Yard Drama Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the Arts Community Teams In Our Neighborhoods (ACTION). The project is an intensive summer institute that provides ninth-grade students with pre-professional training in dance, theater, visual arts, or media.

Dreams of Wilmington, Inc.
Wilmington, NC
$17,000
To support Voices & Images of Dreams Artists. The interdisciplinary arts project will combine creative writing and the visual arts to create artwork that will express students' personal stories.

Each One Reach One
Pacifica, CA
$13,000
To support A Dream and a Plan for Tomorrow (ADAPT), a playwriting workshop and educational tutoring program. Designed for incarcerated San Mateo County teenagers, the project will involve professional theater artists working one-on-one with youths to create and develop original, one-act plays.

Eagle Music & Media Academy
Mound Bayou, MS
$15,000
To support workshops in blues guitar and African and Afro-Latin drumming in the context of African-American heritage in the Mississippi Delta. Youth, ages eight to 13, will gain performance skills as well as an understanding of the historical significance of these genres from the perspective of local artists, ethnomusicologists, and folklorists.

Early Stages Program, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the Responsive Writing Program. Resident artists will provide semester-long, weekly writing workshops to students, who will attend live concerts and performances in New York and then present oral and written commentaries.

East Side Arts Council
St. Paul, MN
$20,000
To support the Arts InFusion Project. The project provides teachers and administrators retreats and other professional development activities as well as in-school artists residencies that integrate arts into the school curriculum for elementary school students in East St. Paul.

Education Development Center, Inc.
Newton, MA
$75,000
To support SmART Schools. The standards-based, comprehensive school-reform initiative promotes Teaching for Understanding, an arts-infused curriculum approach used since 1999 in Rhode Island and New Hampshire schools.

El Puente de Williamsburg, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$20,000
To support Arts for Empowerment: School-Based Integrated Arts Project. Teachers and artists will develop arts curricula that address community and global issues for students at El Puente Academy for Peace & Justice, a New York City public high school.

Espanola Public Schools
Espanola, NM
$29,000
To support the Cultural Heritage Videos and Editing Project. Native-American and Hispanic youth will work with adult mentors to produce high quality media about their culture and to share these with the public.

Everett Dance Theatre (consortium)
Providence, RI
$20,000
To support improvisational theater training for high school students. The Everett DanceTheatre will coordinate with The Institute for the Practice and Study of Nonviolence and Feinstein High School teachers and school psychologists, to design and implement a program that uses improvisational theater to explore how different emotions impact the outcome of potentially violent situations.

Eyebeam Atelier, Inc. (consortium)
Brooklyn, NY
$11,000
To support continuation of New Media Collaborative. The art and technology program will provide after-school activities for students from the Humanities Preparatory Academy. Teaching artists will provide tutorials for students in graphic and Web design, digital video, robotics, and portfolio development.

Fine Arts for Children and Teens, Inc.
Santa Fe, NM
$19,000
To support in-depth visual arts education programs. Program components will include ARTreach, an integrated in-school program for students; ARTreach/Professional Development, which combines direct arts instruction for students with hands-on professional development for teachers; ARTclub, arts learning after school; and ARTcamp, a summer arts camp.

Firebird Youth Chinese Orchestra
San Jose, CA
$26,000
To support Chinese Music Education for Youth. Master Chinese musicians will offer weekend traditional instrumental music ensemble classes at six levels of proficiency for youth, ages seven to 13.

Florida Studio Theatre, Inc.
Sarasota, FL
$29,000
To support the Write a Play Tour and auxiliary activities for elementary and secondary school students. The program will include statewide touring of professional productions, playwriting workshops, teacher training, and the Young Playwrights Festival.

Fort Wayne Philharmonic Orchestra, Inc. (consortium)
Fort Wayne, IN
$20,000
To support the Preschool Music Program. Working in partnership with three Early Childhood Alliance sites and consortium member Childhood Alliance of Northeast Indiana, the project will provide a music curriculum, rhythm instruments, and live ensemble performances for inner-city preschool children.

Fotofest, Inc. (consortium)
Houston, TX
$60,000
To support Literacy Through Photography. Through a consortium partner, Project GRAD Houston, a new curriculum in computer graphics and literary arts for high school students and classroom teachers will be implemented.

From the Top, Inc. (consortium)
Boston, MA
$62,000
To support music and theater training for students. In consortium with Young Audiences (NY), students will create a live, collaborative radio show that will be performed, taped, and disseminated on the organization's Web site.

Galumph Interactive Theater
Minneapolis, MN
$14,000
To support a theater-based program for high school-aged students with special needs. The semester-long project will guide students through a series of puppet and mask performances supported by ongoing story-writing classes with professional artists and educators.

Genesee Street Corporation
Rochester, NY
$25,000
To support after-school classes in photography, on-line editing, and ceramics. The project is designed to reinforce other academic subjects for students, ages 10-17, in the James Madison School of Excellence after-school photo club, Corpus Christi School Clay and Cameras program, and Right-on-School Photo Express, a four-week summer camp in Rochester.

Georgia State University (on behalf of Center for Educational Partnerships in Music)
Atlanta, GA
$52,000
To support Sound Learning, a project that integrates music education with core academic curriculum for approximately 1,600 students in the greater Atlanta region. In partnership with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the program will engage local musicians to serve as music mentors for students while working with teachers to develop lesson plans.

Glen Ellyn Children's Chorus
Glen Ellyn, IL
$17,000
To support chorus workshops and outreach classes for low-income students. Youth choristers will participate in vocal ensembles rehearsals, culminating in public concerts performed in a variety of community venues.

Global Action Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$33,000
To support the continuation of Urban Voices TV. Professional media artists will work with youth in digital media production to create group and individual media arts projects.

Grand Canyon Chamber Music Festival, Inc.
Grand Canyon, AZ
$10,000
To support the Native American Composer Apprentice Project for talented, rural, Native-American students living in northern Arizona. The project will involve compositional study resulting in the creation, performance, and recording of new works for string quartet.

Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras
Boston, MA
$43,000
To support expansion of the Intensive Community Program, providing rigorous string-instrument training to low-income youth from the Boston area. The project will continue the program's growth by adding another class of 20 talented students to the current student body.

Haven Project
Portland, OR
$17,000
To support expansion of the Afield Program into alternative and residential treatment centers for underserved youth. The youth will be paired individually with a professional artist to learn multiple facets of playwriting including character development, story development, and exploration of dramatic conflict.

Hawaii Alliance for Arts Education
Honolulu, HI
$60,000
To support Arts First. Now in the second of a three-year plan, the research and demonstration project of the Hawaii Arts Education Partners will develop, integrate, document, and evaluate an arts-integrated curriculum for kindergarten through fifth-grade students at Waiahole Elementary.

Hawaii's Volcano Circus
Pahoa, HI
$25,000
To support Project Playmates which provides year-long instruction for youth in video production, drama, dance, acrobatics, and circus skills. The culmination of the project is Malama I ke Kai (Family of Life), a community-based drama performed by children and assisted by their parents.

HeArt Project
Los Angeles, CA
$15,000
To support workshops in theater, poetry, visual arts, and dance. Eight professional artists will offer workshops for students, ages 14-18, in two "continuation" high schools in Santa Monica and Redondo Beach. Continuation high schools provide students who have failed the traditional high school system with alternative ways to pursue their educational goals.

Hispanic Cultural Center of Idaho, Inc.
Nampa, ID
$40,000
To support the Quinceaera Program. After-school workshops for eighth-grade students in craft arts, dance, creative writing, visual arts, and theater are based around the traditional celebration of a Mexican girl's 15th birthday.

Holter Museum of Art, Inc.
Helena, MT
$24,000
To support an artist-in-residence program. Led by artists from diverse cultures, students in first through 12th grades will create and interact with artwork at the museum, exploring the role of heritage as it shapes personal and cultural identity.

Honolulu Theatre for Youth (consortium)
Honolulu, HI
$70,000
To support Developing Creative Curriculum, a consortium project that will train pre-service teachers in the processes of drama education. Through intensive workshops and drama sessions with the University of Hawaii's College of Education, pre-service teachers will learn how to integrate drama education practices throughout the school curriculum.

In Progress
St. Paul, MN
$24,000
To support Fresh Voices. The digital arts project targets Latino youth in urban and rural Minnesota communities and will guide them through the experience of creating expressive pieces of artwork using new technologies, such as digital photography and digital video cameras.

In Sight Photography Project, Inc.
Dummerston, VT
$14,000
To support photography classes for youth. Intermediate and advanced photography classes will be offered for underserved, at-risk youth in rural Vermont, offered in 10-week increments for two hours per week.

IndepenDANCE, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$20,000
To support Stepping Stones. The program will provide homeless, refugee, and low-income children with dance instruction. Students will learn fundamental dance techniques and present short dance pieces, using dance as a creative tool for personal development in areas such as self-expression and self-discipline.

Indiana Repertory Theatre, Inc.
Indianapolis, IN
$28,000
To support the expansion of a professional development, distance-learning project for teachers nationwide. Since 1996, the theater has developed and implemented, via video teleconferencing for teachers in rural areas, a program that demonstrates how to integrate theater skills and practices into other core curricular areas of study.

Inner-City Arts
Los Angeles, CA
$40,000
To support the Early Arts Learning Initiative. The project 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.

InsideOut Literary Arts Projects, Inc.
Detroit, MI
$33,000
To support a writers-in-residence project. Creative writing workshops will be provided to Detroit Public School students in the third through 12th grades. These weekly workshops by poets and fiction writers will be held in three classes per school.

Jack Straw Foundation (consortium)
Seattle, WA
$48,000
To support a consortium project, Do Tell: Multicultural Family Stories. Developed and implemented with the Seattle School District, the project will involve students creating oral history-based audio vignettes and radio theater about family stories and cultural celebrations.

Juilliard School
New York, NY
$18,000
To support the continuation of the Music Advancement Program. The project will involve concentrated musical training for public school children, ages eight to 14, from all New York City boroughs.

Junior Players Guild
Dallas, TX
$13,000
To support expansion of free theater education programs for youth. Programs will include the two-week, summer Discover Theater and 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
$30,000
To support the second year of a three-year research program to integrate the arts into the curriculum of the Buffalo Public Schools, focusing on the state English language standards. The consortium member, Musicians United for Superior Education, and two partners, the Native American Magnet School and Young Artists of Western New York, will formalize and implement the instruction.

Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra
Kalamazoo, MI
$10,000
To support a school-based and community-based education program. Activities will include school 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
$20,000
To support AileyCamp. The six-week summer program for middle school students will offer arts learning experiences to develop self-esteem, creative expression, critical thinking, and academic motivation as well as an understanding about dance and movement.

Kiboko Projects (consortium)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support The Watoto Project. Implemented with consortium partner St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery, the project will provide cross-cultural media arts activities for youth in the visual arts, video production, and storytelling.

La Troupe Makandal, Inc. (consortium)
Brooklyn, NY
$8,000
To support Krik! Krak! The project provides workshops for Caribbean youth, ages six to 16, in traditional Haitian music and dance led by National Heritage Fellow Frisner Augustin, and other artists in the community.

Lane Arts Council
Eugene, OR
$40,000
To support Artists Collaborating with Teachers on Site. The project provides professional development for kindergarten through eighth-grade teachers and residency artists at up to 30 rural and underserved schools in Lane County.

Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe
Cass Lake, MN
$10,000
To support the Children's Juried Art Show. After-school workshops in Ojibwe traditional crafts, drumming, and dancing as well as painting, drawing, and theatre will culminate in exhibitions and performances at the 7th Annual Northern Woodland Winterfest, a celebration of Ojibwe art and culture.

Lehigh Valley Community Broadcasters Association
Bethlehem, PA
$10,000
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
Washington, DC
$23,000
To support Early Childhood Music. While providing a foundation for lifelong involvement in the arts, the project will offer 30 weeks of free music activities to help young children develop language, cognitive, social, and motor development skills.

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. (on behalf of Institute for the Arts in Education)
New York, NY
$75,000
To support the Focus School Collaborative. The project is a whole-school reform and renewal initiative in which participating schools make long-term commitments to integrating the arts across the curriculum.

Los Angeles County Arts Commission
Los Angeles, CA
$75,000
To support the Arts Education Hub and the implementation of Arts for All: Los Angeles County Regional Blueprint for Arts Education. The Blueprint provides a roadmap for systemic change and institutionalization of kindergarten to 12th grade sequential arts education in Los Angeles County.

Los Angeles Opera Company
Los Angeles, CA
$70,000
To support the Educational Continuum. The program, designed to provide opportunities for children to appreciate and understand the broad genre of opera, will include a student matinee of a fully staged opera, and Opera for Educators/Opera 101, a professional development seminar for teachers.

Maine Alliance for Arts Education
Augusta, ME
$35,000
To support Building Community Through the Arts. The project offers in-school and after-school artist residencies in theatre and dance for rural Maine high schools, as well as regional conferences for the participants.

Manhattan Community Access Corporation
New York, NY
$14,000
To support the Manhattan Neighborhood Network Youth Channel. Youth will participate in an intensive workshop series that will include artist-led, facilitated documentary-viewing workshops; field trips; filmmaker visits; and guest speakers.

Manhattan Theatre Club, Inc.
New York, NY
$32,000
To support expansion of the Core Program, a theater arts project. The program will provide in-school residencies and performing arts attendance opportunities. Workshops will address theatrical skills such as scriptwriting and editing, acting techniques, and the applications of critical thinking skills in theater.

Marquis Studios, Ltd.
Brooklyn, NY
$15,000
To support professional development seminars. The seminars will enable classroom teachers, school administrators, and resident artists from elementary schools in New York City to share their best practices for collaborative models and replicable arts lessons.

Marsh, a breeding ground for new performance
San Francisco, CA
$21,000
To support the Marsh Youth Theater. The program will provide Bay Area children with in-depth drama instruction in areas such as playwriting, acting, costuming, and set design, serving to strengthen each student's understanding of the dramatic arts as well as build self-esteem.

Mattress Factory, Ltd. (consortium)
Pittsburgh, PA
$29,000
To support a consortium garden installation project. Based on Winifred Lutz's Garden installation, and with assistance from the Shaler Area School District, the project will entail developing, implementing, and evaluating an interdisciplinary arts program for grades two, four, six, and eight.

Maui Community Arts & Cultural Center (consortium)
Kahului, HI
$60,000
To support Quality Learning by Design. The project will implement the statewide Arts First: Hawaii Arts Education Strategic Plan 2001, including teacher and artist training through a consortium with the Hawaii State Department of Education.

Metro Theater Company
St. Louis, MO
$13,000
To support the implementation of a theater-based program for middle-school students. Principles of dramatic learning will be combined with personal character development to strengthen the children's understanding of theater arts and their role as members of a larger community.

Metropolitan Opera Guild, Inc.
New York, NY
$45,000
To support the 2004 Empire State Partnerships Summer Seminar. Through workshops, consultations, and hands-on artistic experiences, teams of teachers, artists, and administrators will address topics including effective professional development, arts integration, evaluation, research, and collaboration.

Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum (on behalf of WRTE 90.5 FM Radio Arte)
Chicago, IL
$38,000
To support Radio Arte and an intergenerational activity titled Audio Retratos (Pictures). The program will provide students with the opportunity to explore sound, use spoken word, and incorporate music into storytelling.

Miami-Dade County Public Schools (on behalf of New World School of the Arts)
Miami, FL
$63,000
To support development of a school-based, artist-in-residency program that teaches dance, theater, music, and visual arts in the context of South Florida's ethnic cultures. Visiting artists will guide high school students in the creation and exhibition of new artworks that tap into a deeper understanding of cultural identity.

Michigan Youth Arts Festival
Kalamazoo, MI
$20,000
To support the Michigan Youth Arts Festival. The project will feature educational clinics, workshops, master classes, rehearsals, and performances and exhibitions of youth work.

Midori Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$19,000
To support expansion of the Making Music Program. Additional grade levels and classes will mark the expansion of the music education project for one intermediate and ten elementary schools in New York City. The project will involve planning sessions for teachers and administrators and free group lessons for children in grades three through six.

Mill Street Loft, Inc.
Poughkeepsie, NY
$30,000
To support Program for Adolescent Student Women of Real Direction (PASWORD) and Adolescent Women Are Realizing Empowerment (AWARE). The programs provide after- school, multidisciplinary arts workshops culminating in a Rites of Passage ceremony for urban girls, ages 11-15.

Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Milwaukee, WI
$55,000
To support the expansion of the ACE Partnership, a model music education program in Milwaukee elementary schools. Sequentially based, the project integrates learning in the arts with other academic subjects.

Mimbres Region Arts Council, Inc.
Silver City, NM
$20,000
To support the Youth Mural Program. The project offers Saturday programs in eight-week sessions, leading to the creation of public art for up to 300 youth, ages 13-19, who have been through the juvenile justice system.

Mission Inn Foundation
Riverside, CA
$10,000
To support Family Voices. Workshops in writing, videography, and storytelling for students and teachers from the California School for the Deaf-Riverside; visually impaired students from the Riverside Unified School District; and Advancement Via Individual Determination, a college preparatory school for underachieving students.

Missoula Writing Collaborative
Missoula, MT
$33,000
To support a writing residency program. The project will place eight writers in separate rural, low-income, and/or tribal reservation schools for eight months to give weekly writing instruction to students, ages seven to 18.

Multi-Media Training Institute
Washington, DC
$20,000
To support training in videography, computer editing, and the production of documentaries for public broadcast. Local professional videographers, filmmakers, and editors will provide workshops for up to 20 youth, ages 12 to 18, in studio and field production of digital video, broadcasting, and Webcasting.

Museum of Craft & Folk Art
San Francisco, CA
$38,000
To support Bring on the Art!: School & Teacher Programs. The project will include continuation of Art Out-and-About: The Outreach School Program, which provides students with the opportunity to examine cultural artifacts, and the implementation of the ArtTrips! In-House School Program.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Boston, MA
$14,000
To support the after-school Community Partnerships program. Through guided museum visits and studio art-making led by professional artists, youth are engaged in the creative process and learn teamwork skills as they produce a final collaborative project.

Museum of Photographic Arts
San Diego, CA
$33,000
To support Beyond Beauty, a project involving at-risk teens. Youths selected by the Boys & Girls Clubs of San Diego County will participate in gallery talks, lectures, discussions, slide presentations, and interactive art-making activities.

National Arts & Learning Foundation
Natick, MA
$60,000
To support the Arts and Learning Collaborative Program in Boston elementary schools. Professional development in arts education for teachers and administrators will be provided in partnership with Lesley University's Creative Arts in Learning Division.

National Center for Creative Aging, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$12,000
To support Living History Arts. In the second year of a cross-generational, cross-cultural curriculum, Elders Share the Arts artist-teachers will teach writing, photography, and drama to students in Brooklyn International High School on the subject of what it means to be an American.

National Dance Education Association
Bethesda, MD
$34,000
To support Research in Dance Education. The project will provide dance teachers and artists with professional development opportunities in research and evaluation techniques.

National Dance Institute of New Mexico
Santa Fe, NM
$35,000
To support dance classes for elementary school students in rural communities throughout northern New Mexico. The program will provide 30 weekly dance classes, four-week residencies, and a final performance that will showcase student work.

New England Conservatory of Music (consortium)
Boston, MA
$82,000
To support the Music-in-Education National Consortium Project. New resources and cross-institutional capacities will be developed to support the evolving role and innovative practices of music and musicians in urban public schools.

New England Dinosaur, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support ESLdance-Connected. New York City educators will learn and practice American modern dance through training and curriculum integration.

New England String Ensemble, Inc.
Wakefield, MA
$18,000
To support the New England Musical Heritage Initiative, a music curriculum in public schools. Composers will create compositions based on the lives of past and present New Englanders, which then will be used as a study resource.

No Limits Theater Group, Inc.
Culver City, CA
$10,000
To support a theater-based education program for deaf children, who are in the process of learning to speak. The project will include rehearsals for a student performance of No Limits Angels at Gascon Theater as well as intensive, cost-free speech and language therapy sessions.

North Carolina School of the Arts Foundation, Inc.
Winston-Salem, NC
$65,000
To support a statewide expansion of Shakespeare Lives. The professional development program for teachers aims to improve the teaching of literature in classrooms by providing in-depth curricular and educational materials for the study of works by William Shakespeare.

Oklahoma State University
Stillwater, OK
$5,000
To support the Architecture Students Teaching Elementary Kids (ASTEK) project. Fundamental concepts of art and design will be introduced to fifth-grade students through hands-on activities, and OSU architecture students will lead hour-long sessions addressing topics such as visualization and imagination drawing, sketching, and textures and materials.

Old Town School of Folk Music, Inc. (consortium)
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support a consortium project of early childhood folk music and dance education activities. In partnership with the Carole Robertson Center for Learning, the project will provide classroom teacher sessions on strategies for teaching music and movement; weekly infant, toddler, and early-childhood instruction in children's folk songs and dance; and related activities for parents.

Opera Company of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA
$14,000
To support Sounds of Learning. Through professional development workshops, teachers will learn how to use opera as a tool for students' exploration of other core curricular subjects.

Opera Providence
Providence, RI
$25,000
To support OPERAtunity, an opera residency program. In partnership with three local Rhode Island schools, students in elementary, middle school, and high school will receive classroom training in opera through in-class instruction given by Opera Providence performers.

Opera Theatre of Saint Louis (consortium)
St. Louis, MO
$24,000
To support the Artist-In-Training consortium project. With a focus on urban youth, the program will provide opportunities for high school students to pursue individual vocal coaching and training with professional voice teachers.

Opus 118 Music Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$43,000
To support an after-school and summer classical strings music camp for underserved youth in East Harlem. A unique pedagogical style that combines the rudiments of traditional violin instruction with elements of the Suzuki teaching method will be used to teach students.

Ounce of Prevention Fund
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support the Early Childhood Arts Program. Working with professional artists, underserved children and their families will participate in dance and music activities, classroom residencies, and live performances.

Outside In Productions (consortium)
Santa Fe, NM
$15,000
To support Youth With Promise. The project provides weekly instruction in guitar, dance, and visual arts for juvenile offenders in detention or on probation, in residential treatment centers and shelters.

Pacific Foundation for the Performing Arts
Charlotte, NC
$10,000
To support dance classes for children with physical and learning disabilities. The project will provide weekly dance instruction by specially trained peer tutors. Classes are designed to give cultural opportunities to students with disabilities, in addition to developing awareness and understanding by students without disabilities.

Pacific Resources for Education and Learning
Honolulu, HI
$57,000
To support Image to Word--Word to Image. The professional development program is designed to increase student achievement in visual arts, reading, and language arts. Teachers and administrators from two underserved elementary schools will participate, with an emphasis on grades four through six.

Penfield Central School District
Penfield, NY
$14,000
To support the creation of new musical works by students and professional composers. Teams of students studying history will work together with composers to create works reflecting events or common themes in America's history.

Performance Lab
Minneapolis, MN
$50,000
To support Building the Network: New Strategies for Residencies and Coaching in the Performing Arts. Using technology as an interactive tool in arts education and performance, high school students will learn dance and theater skills and techniques.

Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County
Los Angeles, CA
$50,000
To support Artists in the Classroom, Music Center on Tour, and Teacher In-Services. The programs will feature a wide range of in-school and after-school workshops and residencies by local dance and theater companies.

Philadelphia Mural Arts Advocates
Philadelphia, PA
$33,000
To support the Mural Arts Program (MAP). MAP includes the Big Picture after-school mural-making program for youth ages 10 to 14, and Mural Corps, for students ages 14 to 18.

Philharmonia Virtuosi Corp.
Dobbs Ferry, NY
$12,000
To support a school residency program for middle school youth. The project will link instrumental and choral instruction with the social studies and American history curricula in the school.

Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
$62,000
To support the continuation of the School Partnership Program, a consortium project. Students in grades three through five will attend workshops and receive recorder and composition instruction from orchestra musicians and music educators.

Pillsbury United Communities
Minneapolis, MN
$14,000
To support expansion of the Chicago Avenue Project. Professional playwrights, actors, and directors will work with inner-city children to create theater productions focused on a common theme.

Pittsburgh Symphony Society (consortium)
Pittsburgh, PA
$38,000
To support the Symphony Young Strings program, a consortium project of comprehensive string instruction. Through artist residencies, after-school music instruction, and a summer string camp, children from underserved areas surrounding Pittsburgh will work with and be mentored by professional musicians and educators from the orchestra.

Playwrights Project
San Diego, CA
$19,000
To support SWELL (Scenes With English Language Learners). The project will provide English language students, grades six through eight, with an in-school, standards-based playwriting program to support state arts and language curricula.

Portland Museum of Art
Portland, ME
$43,000
To support Look at ME. Through professional development for teachers, docents, and parents, the museum will link its collection with books by Maine authors to serve as a catalyst for visual arts learning and literacy for students in kindergarten through second grade.

Project New Urban Arts
Providence, RI
$20,000
To support the development of youth in arts apprenticeships in Providence. The project is based on a community plan that enables young emerging artists, ages 17-24, to design and implement arts initiatives as mentors to high school students in after-school and summer studio arts programs in visual, performing, and literary arts.

Project STEP Inc.
Boston, MA
$24,000
To support continuation of the String Training and Education Program (STEP). With a focus on gifted, economically disadvantaged youth, the program will immerse students in private lessons, classroom instruction and master classes, performance opportunities, summer study, and career counseling, and will offer them musical instrument loans.

Raw Art Works, Inc.
Lynn, MA
$33,000
To support Real to Reel Digital Film School. Disadvantaged teenagers will be trained in all aspects of filmmaking during this 40-week program from September to June.

Regents of the University of California at Davis (on behalf of School/University Parterships & School of Education)
Davis, CA
$40,000
To support professional development of integrated dance and music curricula and implementation using materials created by the Mondavi Center. Arts curriculum specialists of the Sierra North Arts Project, a regional site of the California Arts Project, will provide site-based training to elementary school teachers in the Elk Grove Unified School District.

ReStart, Inc.
Kansas, MO
$30,000
To support Art at ReStart and Intensive Instructional Modules. The two-year project will provide homeless children with professional arts instruction, live performances, and field trips, while providing opportunities for creative self-expression.

Rhode Island State Council on the Arts (on behalf of Rhode Island Arts Learning Network)
Providence, RI
$40,000
To support key aspects of the Rhode Island Arts Learning Network. The two-year project will provide a statewide infrastructure that will ensure greater access to the arts for all Rhode Island children and youth.

Richmond Ballet (consortium)
Richmond, VA
$24,000
To support expansion of the consortium project Minds In Motion. Fourth-grade students at three elementary schools in Hopewell, Virginia, will participate in weekly, hour-long dance classes during the school day.

Riddle Institute, Inc.
Morganton, NC
$50,000
To support the Pathway to the Arts Project. The program will integrate arts experiences into the activities of early childhood and family support centers in rural Western North Carolina.

Rochester Chapter of Young Audiences, Inc.
Rochester, NY
$22,000
To support The Communication Project. This poetry and writing initiative for students, ages 13 to 21, will combine hip-hop and rap music with reading, writing, and research activities, providing a forum for participating young people to tell their own stories related to current youth culture.

Rural Human Services, Inc.
Crescent City, CA
$48,000
To support the Youth Pottery Program. The program will provide a creative environment in which youth can learn the basic skills, chemistry, and production processes of the ceramic medium while developing artistic, social, leadership, and occupational skills.

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (on behalf of Rutgers-Camden Center for the Arts)
New Brunswick, NJ
$18,000
To support Shared Visions. The exhibition-based education program will be open to underserved seventh-grade students and their teachers who will learn to view, discuss, create, and exhibit artwork.

Ryman-Carroll Foundation
Los Angeles, CA
$42,000
To support the Ryman Program for Young Artists. Teens from Los Angeles will receive tuition-free studio instruction in drawing and painting by master artist teachers.

Salt Lake City Corporation
Salt Lake City, UT
$25,000
To support Dance, Learn, Celebrate! The program will provide students with experiences in dance that explore the themes of family values, social responsibility, and cultural heritage.

SAMSKRITI, Society for Indian Performing Arts (on behalf of Anjali Center for Performing Arts)
Houston, TX
$10,000
To support workshops in the classical Indian dance forms of bharatanatyam and kuchipudi . Anjali Center for Performing Arts' professional dancers who live in the United States, as well as artists visiting from India, will teach children and youth ages four and older who are largely from families in the Indian immigrant community.

San Diego Opera Association (consortium)
San Diego, CA
$50,000
To support the consortium Words and Music (WAM) Program. Working in collaboration with San Diego Schools and consortium member La Jolla Playhouse, students will participate in the creation of musical theater and opera works.

San Francisco Arts Commission (on behalf of San Francisco Writer's Corp)
San Francisco, CA
$48,000
To support Writer's Corp. Professional artists will teach creative writing to disadvantaged youth in underperforming schools, working primarily in language arts classrooms and using creative writing activities linked thematically to literature.

San Francisco Arts Commission (on behalf of Arts Education Funders Collaborative)
San Francisco, CA
$50,000
To support arts education programs in elementary schools and child development centers throughout the San Francisco Unified School District. The project will provide artist residencies, professional development, and team-teaching opportunities.

San Francisco Ballet Association (consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
To support Dance in Schools and Communities (DISC). The consortium project will provide free, interactive movement and music activities for third and fourth-grade students, in partnership with the San Francisco Unified School District.

San Francisco Center for the Book
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the Art of the Book in the Classroom Initiative (ABC). Artist-led, book arts activities with teachers and students will be designed to develop artistic expression and literacy skills.

San Francisco Symphony (on behalf of San Francisco Youth Orchestra)
San Francisco, CA
$65,000
To support the ongoing Youth Orchestra Artistic Development Program. Personalized coaching, engagements with renowned artists, apprenticeships, and mentorships will enhance the curriculum of individualized training and specialization for youth orchestra members.

Sanger Unified School District
Sanger, CA
$45,000
To support the Sanger Arts in Education Project. Working alongside local artists, teachers will participate in on-site training, artist residencies, and curriculum development in standards-based arts instruction.

SAY Si
San Antonio, TX
$14,000
To support the High School Visual Arts Program. Urban youth will study a variety of visual arts media and create commissioned artwork, in this tuition-free, year-round visual and media arts program.

School District of Philadelphia (on behalf of Office of Curriculum Support/Asian Pacific American Studies)
Philadelphia, PA
$40,000
To support Asian Folk Arts in Philadelphia Schools. The Office of Curriculum Support will collaborate with the Philadelphia Chinese Opera Society and the Philadelphia Folklore Project to develop curricular materials and provide teacher training and model residencies that bring local Chinese and Cambodian folk artists into direct contact with public school students and teachers.

School of Visual Arts & Careers
St. Thomas, VI
$10,000
To support year-round training in fine arts for artistically talented students in the eighth through 12th grades. Components of the project will include studio production, career exploration, internships with art organizations, and special guest workshops.

Seattle Arts & Lectures
Seattle, WA
$65,000
To support Writers in the Schools, a literary arts program. Components will include teacher training, classroom residencies by established and emerging writers, student readings and publications, and community activities.

Seattle Repertory Theatre (consortium)
Seattle, WA
$24,000
To support a consortium project, Bringing Theater Into the Classroom. The professional development program for kindergarten through 12th-grade teachers will include a week-long summer session, additional follow-up residencies, and other ongoing workshops throughout the school year.

Seattle Theatre Group
Seattle, WA
$15,000
To support DANCE this... The project will provide cultural and contemporary dance training and performance opportunities for youth dance companies in the Pacific Northwest.

Settlement Music School of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA
$50,000
To support Kaleidoscope. The comprehensive, arts-based preschool program will enhance readiness and learning skills of disadvantaged children through arts-integrated curriculum and a variety of arts activities.

Shakespeare Theatre (consortium)
Washington, DC
$62,000
To support Classics in the Classroom, a consortium project. Through intensive professional development opportunities, District of Columbia public school teachers will explore theater instruction, integration, and assessment skills.

Shelley and Donald Rubin Cultural Trust
New York, NY
$35,000
To support Thinking Through Art. The project collaborators will develop a model curriculum that increases students' observation skills, reflection, and discussion, resulting in deeper understanding of Tibetan art forms that are in the collection of the Rubin Museum.

Shreveport Regional Arts Council
Shreveport, LA
$50,000
To support the ARTSMART Arts and Academic Program. Designed to assist students who are in danger of failing the Louisiana Educational Assessment Program, the project will provide middle school students with interdisciplinary and interactive arts instruction to increase their skills and knowledge in core academic subjects.

Silicon Valley Children's Fund
San Jose, CA
$25,000
To support the Kids First Art Education Program. The project will provide opportunities for underserved children and youth to explore cultural identity and social issues and to learn ways to use the visual and performing arts as communication tools.

Sloss Furnace Association, Inc.
Birmingham, AL
$38,000
To support the Summer Youth Apprenticeship program. High school students from the Birmingham area will apprentice with professional artists to create cast-metal sculptures.

Society of the Third Street Music School Settlement Inc.
New York, NY
$24,000
To support the After-School/Saturday MILES program for public schools located in Lower Manhattan's East Side. Linked to the society's school-based programs, the project will provide underserved students with free music lessons.

Spy Hop Productions
Salt Lake City, UT
$29,000
To support the Youth Documentary Arts Program. The project will include Reel Stories, a summer documentary filmmaking workshop; The Other Side of theTracks, an exploration of Salt Lake City neighborhoods; and Loud and Clear, a youth-produced radio program.

State of Michigan, DHAL, Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs (consortium)
Lansing, MI
$50,000
To support folk arts education activities in Michigan and nationwide. The consortium project will update and distribute, in printed and online versions, Folk Arts in Education: A Resource Handbook , and the 1979 FOLKPATTERNS curriculum guide.

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
Williamstown, MA
$67,000
To support Kidspace. The program will offer students the opportunity to study and make visual art under the direction of professional artists and will include numerous teacher training workshops and artist residencies in the schools.

Street-Level Youth Media
Chicago, IL
$24,000
To support the In-School program, an in-depth arts and technology-infused learning experience. The project will include arts education training for resident and freelance artists, professional training workshops for teachers, and extended classroom projects for students.

Sun Foundation for Advancement in the Environmental Sciences and Arts
Washburn, IL
$10,000
To support Art and Science in the Woods. Working in rural outdoor classes, students will participate in dance, drama, music, and visual art activities with artists through an intensive, one-week summer program in natural surroundings.

Sweet Bird Classics, Inc.
Albuquerque, NM
$30,000
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 eighth grade.

Tacoma Art Museum (consortium)
Tacoma, WA
$25,000
To support consortium project Arts Impact. In partnership with the Broadway Center for the Arts, the program will provide professional development opportunities for elementary teachers in the visual arts, dance, and theater.

TADA! Theater and Dance Alliance, Inc.
New York, NY
$29,000
To support the Musical Theater Writing Residency. The program will integrate a social studies topic with the writing, rehearsal, and performance of an original musical by fourth and fifth graders, led by teaching artists and their regular classroom teachers.

Tales & Scales, Inc.
Evansville, IN
$30,000
To support Imagine That! The week-long residencies at Evansville schools will include performances byTales & Scales, a professional quartet that includes music, spoken text, and movement in interactive performances. Students will be able to participate in the collaborative artistic processes.

Teachers & Writers Collaborative, Inc.
New York, NY
$57,000
To support the WriteNet Internet-based forum, the Urban Word NYC Internet Initiative, and a publication. Teachers and writers will use the interactive Web site, WriteNet, as a forum to discuss education and the literary arts, as well as to conduct writing workshops for students around the country.

Theatre Of Hearts, Inc. (aka Youth First)
Los Angeles, CA
$38,000
To support an artists-in-residence program. Designed for youth with emotional disturbances and/or learning disabilities, the program places master artists in alternative schools to lead a special artistic "intervention" curriculum.

Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz (consortium)
Washington, DC
$48,000
To support Jazz Sports, a national music instruction and performance consortium project. The institute will engage professional jazz musicians as teachers and mentors for young musicians in the Los Angeles and District of Columbia schools.

University of Chicago (on behalf of David & Alfred Smart Museum of Art)
Chicago, IL
$48,000
To support SmART Explorers. The six-unit arts education program teaches fifth-grade students how to look at, think, and talk about art through components such as a teacher mentoring program and an interactive Web site for children.

University of Massachusetts at Amherst (on behalf of New WORLD Theater)
Amherst, MA
$55,000
To support Project 2050. The cross-cultural theater project is designed to prepare youth from diverse racial, ethnic, and class backgrounds for future demographic shifts by exploring global, political, and cross-cultural issues through open-studio and dialogue workshops and short theater works.

University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Greensboro, NC
$70,000
To support documentation of the A+ Schools Program in North Carolina, Oklahoma, and Arkansas, and to convene a national conference to disseminate research-based evidence of the effectiveness of the A+ Schools model.

Urban Gateways
Chicago, IL
$41,000
To support the Cultural Enrichment Program. The project is driven by Arts Plan, a four-year program for learning in and through the arts that includes early-childhood instruction, professional development for teachers, and artist residencies for students and teachers in pre-kindergarten through eighth grade in up to 13 public schools.

Utah Arts Council (consortium)
Salt Lake City, UT
$75,000
To support the evaluation of kindergarten through 12th-grade dance education programs. The consortium project will study and document the effectiveness of various model programs currently being used by Utah dance companies to train classroom teachers and students.

Vashon Allied Arts, Inc.
Vashon Island, WA
$10,000
To support Vashon Artists in the Schools. Designed to stimulate and enhance kindergarten through 12th grade arts education programs, the project will provide multidisciplinary arts-integrated activities for students and their teachers.

Video Machete
Chicago, IL
$24,000
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
$60,000
To support the Learning through the Arts Program. Through theme-based programming, children and youth will participate in multidisciplinary arts activities year-round, including park building and urban gardening, field trips, and project collaboration with visiting artists.

Virginia Avenue Project
Santa Monica, CA
$10,000
To support the continuation of One-on-One, Poetry, and Playmaking. These writing and performing programs will link area youths with professional artist mentors in workshops, a summer camp, and performances.

VSA arts of Wisconsin, Inc.
Madison, WI
$16,000
To support the Early Childhood Program. The project will feature artist residencies designed specifically for children with disabilities. In collaboration with a VSA artist, teachers and students will participate in 10 weeks of workshops in the visual and performing arts.

Washington Opera
Washington, DC
$50,000
To support Opera Look-In. The sequential music education program will link specific operas to the core curricula of schools in Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C. Students will by attend fully staged one-act productions and learn about behind-the-scenes production aspects.

Westhab, Inc.
Elmsford, NY
$30,000
To support StoryArts. The project will develop artistic skills and provide performance opportunities for severely disadvantaged children and youth who reside at homeless shelters.

Whitney Museum of American Art
New York, NY
$48,000
To support Moving Pictures 3: The Art of Conflict and Resolution. Through this media arts program, youth ages 14 to 18 will study techniques of filmmaking to create video poems relating to personal conflict.

Wholistic Stress Control Institute, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$10,000
To support SIMBA (Saturday Institute for Manhood, Brotherhood Actualization). The 13-year-old multidisciplinary art program will provide spoken-word poetry and drawing classes to incarcerated youth at the Metro Regional Youth Detention Center.

Wild Space, Inc.
Milwaukee, WI
$10,000
To support Dance Makers: Young Choreographers Development Program for disadvantaged youth in middle schools and alternative high schools. The project is designed to develop students' problem-solving and critical-thinking skills through dance-making and performance workshops.

WNYC Radio, Inc. (on behalf of Radio Rookies)
New York, NY
$33,000
To support Radio Rookies, a media education program. Open to young people from across New York City's five boroughs, the program will provide training in all aspects of radio production.

Working Classroom, Inc.
Albuquerque, NM
$20,000
To support professional training in the visual arts and theater for aspiring young artists. Students from low-income Albuquerque communities will participate in introductory, intermediate, and advanced arts workshops.

Working Playground, Inc.
New York, NY
$38,000
To support Moving Pictures 3: The Art of Conflict and Resolution. Through this media arts program, youth ages 14 to 18 will study techniques of filmmaking to create video poems relating to personal conflict.

Writers In the Schools (WITS)
Houston, TX
$57,000
To support Urban Stories: Who I Am, Who We Are. In this creative writing residency program, students from Houston's diverse immigrant population will share their stories with a WITS resident writer and classmates, reflecting on themselves and their cultural identity as they improve their reading and writing skills.

Yellowstone National Art Trust
Bozeman, MT
$15,000
To support Cradleboards, Dolls, and Stories. Crow artists Birdie Real Bird and C.T. Walks Over Ice and studio visual artist Maggie Carlson will teach functional and decorative Crow traditional arts including parfleches, cradleboards, dolls, stories, and tribal history.

Young Audiences of Indiana, Inc.
Indianapolis, IN
$40,000
To support professional training for artists and teachers. Based on the Reggio Emilia approach to early learning, artists will design and implement residencies in music, theater, dance, and the visual arts.

Young Audiences of North Texas, Inc. (consortium)
Dallas, TX
$45,000
To support Early Learning Through the Arts--the North Texas Wolf Trap Program. The consortium project will feature a series of professional development workshops for artists and teachers to acquire skills from the nationally recognized Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts.

Young People's Chorus of New York City, Inc.
New York, NY
$38,000
To support expansion of the Partner School Program. The program will provide full scholarships enabling students recruited from partner schools in Harlem and the Bronx to receive training in vocal techniques, instruction in music reading and writing, and opportunities to participate in choral performance activities.

Youth Advancement Through Music & Art (YATMA)
Albany, NY
$30,000
To support after-school visual and performing arts activities for emotionally challenged children and youth. YATMA will provide multidisciplinary arts activities for those children and youth who reside in the Parsons Child & Family Center, a residential facility for children who have been orphaned, abandoned, or removed from their homes.

Youth Radio
Berkeley, CA
$38,000
To support Youth Recording Arts. Approximately 85 students will gain hands-on skills in recording production, sound design, and professional engineering in this pilot program.

YS Kids Playhouse, Inc.
Yellow Springs, OH
$10,000
To support a musical theater education project that will engage youth in theater production. Led by artist educators, students will produce and perform alongside professional actors in a full-length, original musical that will explore gender issues of young women.

Total Arts Learning grants: 239
Total Arts Learning dollars: $7,723,000