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
National Endowment for the Arts
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