2000 Grant Awards: Access

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

Grants With Activity Primarily In One State

509 Cultural Center
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support outdoor arts presentations, the sixth annual San Francisco In the Street theater festival, and arts education programs for low-income youth and adults. The project will focus on art forms reflecting the center's culturally diverse neighborhood and will target under-served youth and adults for arts education activities.

Alabama Writers' Forum, Inc.
Montgomery, AL
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support literary arts programs in Alabama, including Writing Our Stories, creative writing workshops for youth involved with Alabama's juvenile justice system, and Alabama Voices, a series of public readings in libraries and rural community centers.

Alaska Design Forum
Anchorage, AK
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Design
To support a lecture series on the built environment presenting leading edge design ideas. Lectures will be given by eight artists including architects, graphic designers and performance artists.

Amarillo Symphony, Inc.
Amarillo, TX
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support Music Makes a Difference!, Amarillo Symphony's chamber music residencies in elementary schools. This outreach project will expose students and their families to chamber music and develop basic music-listening skills during 2000-02.

American Musical Theatre of San Jose
San Jose, CA
$12,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Musical Theater
To support the touring production of Musicals in the Neighborhood, a multilingual musical performance that focuses on universal themes and crosses cultural lines. In partnership with a volunteer neighborhood task force comprised of community leaders, the outreach production will be performed in local schools and neighborhood centers throughout Santa Clara County.

Anchorage Opera
Anchorage, AK
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support the creation and development of the Anchorage Opera Studio Theatre as a statewide, touring and apprentice company. Studio Theatre will audition, train, and present new, local operatic talent for professional chamber opera productions in schools, and for community groups and organizations throughout Alaska during 2000 and 2001.

Andrew Cacho African Drummers and Dancers Economic Devel., Inc.
Washington, DC
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support workshops and performances as part of the Youthworks 2000 project. Children, teens, and young adults will be trained in African/Caribbean drumming, dancing, stiltwalking, and masquerades.

Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services
Dearborn, MI
$15,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support the photography component of an oral history project titled Arab Americans and the Automobile: Faces from the Factory. A booklet will be produced by teenagers under the guidance of artist-mentors to document the experiences of Arab American autoworkers in the Detroit area.

Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts
Helena, MT
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support a symposium commemorating the 50-year history of this internationally acclaimed ceramic arts colony. Plans include participation by leaders of the ceramic arts field and development of concurrent arts education programming.

Arkansas Symphony Orchestra Society, Inc.
Little Rock, AR
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support Music in Our Town, an outreach project for the city of North Little Rock. The Arkansas Symphony Orchestra will perform three concerts in the local high school auditorium for this community during 2000-01.

Arte Américas - The Mexican Arts Center
Fresno, CA
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support the Arte Américas 2000 performance series in their newly constructed outdoor plaza performance space. This project focuses on five major concerts and festivals to be held between May and October 2000.

Artists Collective, Inc.
Hartford, CT
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support professional training in dance and music, student performance opportunities, and community outreach efforts. All programs serve to broaden understanding and appreciation of the culture, heritage, and art of the African Diaspora.

Atlanta Ballet, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the expansion of Centre Dance, a residency program that reaches underserved communities. The program will be expanded to encompass community centers, in-school programs, after-school programs, and teenage crisis centers.

Atlatl, Inc. (on behalf of Cultures and Arts of Native Americans, Inc.)
Phoenix, AZ
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support fieldwork and documentation of Native American traditions in rural southwestern Oklahoma; gatherings and workshops; family folklore projects; and traditional artist participation at the National Folklife Festival. This project will provide Native people with greater access to the arts and opportunities to participate in cultural conservation and presentation activities.

Atlatl, Inc. (on behalf of Juniper Arts & Traditions)
Phoenix, AZ
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support fieldwork and documentation of cultural traditions among Native American groups in southern Oregon and northern California; a cultural inventory of the traditions and tradition bearers in this area; and other, related costs. Tradition bearers will be identified and on-site interviews conducted to record the traditional knowledge and skills of these lesser-known groups of the region.

Ballet East Dance Company
Austin, TX
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the expansion and enhancement of a children's dance/theater program in partnership with the Austin Parks and Recreation Department and the Independent School District. The major components of this project, titled Dare to Dance, are the addition of two instructors/choreographers, two sites, and two final productions.

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Baltimore, MD
$40,00
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a community outreach project of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. During 2000-01, the Orchestra, with joint community planning, will perform concerts targeted at underserved populations in Baltimore and throughout Maryland.

Batoto Yetu, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the production of The Mukishi One Day You Will Understand. Approximately 40 children between the ages of 4 and 17 will perform in this full-length African drama.

Bethesda Academy of Performing Arts
Bethesda, MD
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Musical Theater
To support the Arts Access Program, which offers young people with disabilities the opportunity to experience success through the arts. This program was created to enhance self-confidence and develop communication, artistic and social skills, as well as to deepen public understanding and appreciation of people with disabilities.

Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble
Bloomsburg, PA
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support expenses associated with a touring arts education program, Theatre in the Classroom, offering performances as well as workshops and residencies in the schools.

Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta
Atlanta, GA
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support the commissioning and staging of an original production of Ping Chong's Undesirable Elements, with a cast and primary audience of young adults. The theater piece, produced by the Youth Art Connection Program of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta, will be accompanied by educational programming for youth and an installation project presented at the Youth Art Connection Gallery.

Burklyn Arts Council
Lyndonville, VT
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Local Arts Agency
To support ticket subsidies for school children and senior citizens to attend area performances and exhibitions. The arts events will be sponsored by Catamount Arts, a major presenter of regional artistry, with scheduled performances by folk musicians Peter Octroushko and Dean McCraw, actress Billie Jean Young, jazz artist David Libeman, and the Perlman-Nikkanen-Bailey Trio.

California Institute of the Arts (Consortium)
Valencia, CA
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support the Community Arts Partnership consortium providing arts programming for under-served, K-12 aged youth in Los Angeles. With partners including Inner-City Arts, Inner-City Cultural Center, KAOS Network, Armory Center for the Arts and the Watts Tower Arts Center, the program offers free arts workshops, public programming, after-school and weekend classes, exhibitions and performances for students, their families, and the community at large.

Carousel Society of the Niagara Frontier
North Tonawanda, NY
$18,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the preservation and interpretation of the Society's collection of hand carved carousel animals and artifacts. The objects in the collection illustrate the changes in style and technology of carousel animals over a period of 75 years, dating from the late 1880s.

Celebrity Series of Boston, Inc.
Boston, MA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support AileyCamp, a six-week, full scholarship summer program for 60-80 at-risk middle school students. Dance will be used as a vehicle for developing self-esteem, creative expression, and critical thinking skills among sixth, seventh, and eighth-grade students ages 11-14.

Center for Cultural Exchange
Portland, ME
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the residency and commissioning of a work by choreographer Ann Carlson, to be performed by participants in the Youth Intensive Program.

Children's Theatre Company and School (Consortium)
Minneapolis, MN
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support a consortium project to develop arts programming for youth in inner-city neighborhoods of Minneapolis-St. Paul. The Community Partnership Project is a collaboration with Whittier/Phillips Governors After School Program and the Saint Paul Public Housing Agency.

City of Bremerton
Bremerton, WA
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support a consortium project of performances, presentations, and arts education programs for the community. The City of Bremerton Parks Department, the Admiral Theatre Foundation, and the Evergreen Children's Theatre will join in a coordinated program serving the West Puget Sound region.

City of Somerville, Somerville Arts Council
Somerville, MA
$33,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Design
To support the design and planning of a new facade for an artists' studio building. The goal is to integrate the artists' work into the neighborhood as well as develop community support for the artists.

Clarksville-Montgomery County Historical Museum
Clarksville, TN
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support a multi-faceted program that will research, document, present, and interpret the work of local, self-taught artist Enoch Tanner Wickham. The museum will implement a two-year series of exhibitions and community activities as well as provide public information on the artist and his work.

Columbia College
Chicago, IL
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support Democratizing the Arts/Building Community Access. This program consists of two components, the West Side Education Series for Teens and Town Hall Plus, which are geared to promote arts access in West Side Chicago communities.

Community Music School of Springfield
Springfield, MA
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support Banking on the Arts, an educational outreach project for families. During 2000-02, artists and ensembles will provide interactive, music-making experiences targeted to underserved audiences within the community.

Concord Community Music School
Concord, NH
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the Music in the Community Initiative, providing rural and underserved communities with music education opportunities. Statewide in scope, the initiative will take place through partnerships with schools, senior citizen centers, human service agencies, preschools serving at-risk families, and mental health centers during 2000-01.

Contemporary Culture, Inc.
Dallas, TX
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support expansion of Art in the Neighborhood, a program of an art center housed in an early 20th-century fire station in an inner-city residential neighborhood, to include more cultural diversity in the artist/teacher roster. Contemporary Culture's program is designed for a variety of ages from 8 to 18.

Cornerstone Theater Company (Consortium)
Los Angeles, CA
$45,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support expenses associated with a consortium theater project that will bring together members of 14 diverse communities in the development of an epic, multi lingual musical play. Cornerstone Theatre will be joined in this project, titled the City Wide Bridge Project, by the Mark Taper Forum and the Los Angeles Public Library.

Curbstone Press (on behalf of Windham Area Poetry Project)
Willimantic, CT
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the Windham Area Poetry Project, a program of readings and writing workshops serving immigrant communities, senior care homes, juvenile homes, prisons, social service organizations and public schools in northeastern, rural Connecticut.

Dancing in the Streets, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support Picture Red Hook, a site-specific production designed for an abandoned grain silo in Brooklyn. The production will feature performers from Zaccho Dance Theatre, large-scale projections by video artist Mary Ellen Strom, aerial rigging by designer Wayne Campbell, and a score by composer Lauren Weinger.

Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts, Inc.
Wilmington, DE
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support a series of community-based artists' residencies and publication of a documentary catalogue. The project will bring artists from across the country for two month residencies, conducted in collaboration with social service agencies in the region.

Delaware Symphony Association
Wilmington, DE
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the Delaware Symphony's educational outreach project. During 2000-01, the Symphony will conduct in-school ensemble performances and present youth and family concerts throughout the state of Delaware.

Dickinson College (on behalf of Trout Gallery)
Carlisle, PA
$45,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the touring exhibition Writing on Hands: Memory and Knowledge in Early Modern European Culture, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition is being organized in collaboration with the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC.

East Bay Center for the Performing Arts
Richmond, CA
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support East Bay Center's main stage production season, Call and Response community performance events, educational and training programs, and performance elements of Living the Mission projects. These activities are designed to prepare and encourage predominantly minority children and adults from a low-income, multi ethnic community to participate in the arts as performers, creators, partners, and audience members.

El Teatro de la Esperanza
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Musical Theater
To support the staging of La Pastorela Endiablada. El Teatro De La Esperanza has created a secular adaptation of the traditional Mexican shepherds' play.

Esperanza Peace and Justice Center
San Antonio, TX
$35,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support ArtEscuela: A Youth Community Cultural Arts School and internships. Local and international visual and media artists will teach youth the creative and technical uses of media and visual arts, and explore the role of the artist in strengthening the community.

Festival Dance & Performing Arts
Moscow, ID
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support expansion of the Festival Dance Youthreach program. Four touring professional dance companies will present free performances for students of 17 elementary schools.

Figures of Speech Theatre
Freeport, ME
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support a tour of The Beanstock Variations to rural audiences in Maine. The tour will include up to 20 performances in schools and public performance venues within Penobscot, Washington, and Aroostook Counties.

Fort Wayne Dance Collective, Inc.
Fort Wayne, IN
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support a multidisciplinary arts collaboration with the Wood Youth Center, Youth Services Center, Crossroad Children's Home, and Center for Nonviolence. Project activities are designed to provide avenues of artistic expression for abused, adjudicated, and low-income youth.

Friends of Nord, Inc. (on behalf of New Orleans Recreation Dept./New Orleans Ballet Association)
New Orleans, LA
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support artistic fees for the 2000 Step Up Artist in Residence Program. Artists participating in the residencies include the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, the Watts Prophets, and Perks Dance Music Theatre.

Fulton County Arts Council
Atlanta, GA
$65,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Local Arts Agency
To support Art-at-Work and Art for Women's Economic Empowerment, two programs designed to increase economic opportunities through teaching arts skills. The program goal is to provide targeted teens and underemployed women in Fulton County with options and alternatives that can result in positive benefits to their lives.

Georgia Commission on the Holocaust (Consortium)
Atlanta, GA
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support a tour of James Still's play, And Then They Came For Me, a series of symposia, and a student visual art exhibit. Young Audiences of Atlanta and the Georgia Ensemble are consortium members in this project.

Gorilla Repertory Theatre Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the presentation of four Shakespeare plays in the Summer 2000 Project. Gorilla Repertory Theatre Company will perform works of William Shakespeare free of charge in accessible outdoor environments.

Grand Performances
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Presenting
To support the Accessibility Through Visibility project. This initiative will increase audiences for free performances during 2000-2001, particularly from underserved communities in the Los Angeles area.

Grand Performances (on behalf of City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department) Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Local Arts Agency
To support LA Cultural Treasures. This project, a component of a larger, two-year, millennium cultural campaign being implemented by the Department, includes the printing and distribution of informational site maps depicting where artists have lived and worked throughout the city of Los Angeles.

Grand Rapids Symphony Society
Grand Rapids, MI
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the Grand Rapids Symphony's Tour 2000. During the fall season, the Symphony will perform in the Upper Peninsula and northern Lower Peninsula of Michigan.

Grass Roots Art and Community Efforts
Hardwick, VT
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support community art workshops for residents in rural and economically distressed areas of Vermont. Designed to reach a diverse spectrum of the community including senior citizens and developmentally disabled adults and children, the project builds on a 16-year history of workshop opportunities.

Henry Street Settlement Abrons Art Center
New York, NY
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support the Arts for Everyone Project. This project will provide theme-based, low cost, weekend performances.

Hippodrome State Theatre, Inc.
Gainesville, FL
$8,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support expenses associated with a theater outreach program for at-risk youth. The Hippodrome Improvisational Teen Theatre will develop a production of William Mastrosimone's play Bang, Bang, You're Dead, and subsequently tour it to underserved counties in North Central Florida.

Houston Grand Opera Association, Inc.
Houston, TX
$100,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support the fifth year of the Community Connections Initiative. Programming for
2000-01 will include free, outdoor performances of an opera, performed on a multimedia modular stage; artist residencies and performances at various sites throughout the community; and discount tickets for mainstage performances at the Wortham Theater Center.

Houston Symphony Society
Houston, TX
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support Music Matters: Community Connections, an outreach project for underserved communities. During 2000-01, the Houston Symphony's musicians will perform at various sites, including nursing homes, community centers, hospitals, and schools.

Idris Ackamoor and Cultural Odyssey
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the enhancement the theater's impact by developing new audiences, marketing strategies, and touring. Cultural Odyssey continues to expand its audiences by forming partnerships with the community and creating theater that speaks directly to its audiences.

Imagination Workshop
Los Angeles, CA
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the Artists of the Millennium Program that offers isolated members of the community the opportunity to create and perform theatrical pieces. The work will be presented on stage at UCLA and/or at their respective sites, and will be made available on the Internet.

Indiana State Symphony Society, Inc./Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra
Indianapolis, IN
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the Neighborhood Harmony Project, an outreach project with community centers in Indianapolis. During 2000-01, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra will provide music performances and educational programs for children in low-income families.

International House of Philadelphia (Consortium)
Philadelphia, PA
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support a consortium project with Philadelphia organizations to work with choreographer/dancer Rennie Harris. The consortium of Point Breeze Performing Arts Center, Art Sanctuary, Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Village of Arts and Humanities, and International House will organize performances, after-school and summer mentoring programs, a Hip Hop Festival, and documentation projects.

Intiman Theatre
Seattle, WA
$12,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the presentation of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure through the Living History Project. The company will produce the play and conduct artists residencies in local high schools.

Jacksonville Symphony Association
Jacksonville, FL
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support 4 By 4 Art Attack, an outreach project in four Florida counties. The Jacksonville Symphony will provide performances and educational programs for residents of Baker, Bradford, Nassau, and Putnam Counties during 2000-01.

Japanese American Cultural and Community Center
Los Angeles, CA
$45,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support Celebrating Community: Reinterpreting the Japanese American Festival, a series of multidisciplinary arts events organized around the festival traditions of the Japanese American community. Activities include outdoor festivals, exhibitions, performances, children's workshops, and educational programming.

Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey
Kansas City, MO
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the 2000 AileyCamp and outreach activities in conjunction with the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater residency. The project reaches 50 students during AileyCamp, and over 30,000 students with outreach activities.

La Peña Cultural Center
Berkeley, CA
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Presenting
To support the Carnaval series. This year 2000 series of lecture-demonstrations, participatory jam sessions, and workshops will relate to the traditions of Carnaval in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Lane Arts Council (Consortium)
Eugene, OR
$22,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Local Arts Agency
To support a six-member consortium's implementation of ArtsWorks, a project that trains and engages youth in the creation and presentation of community arts projects. Led by professional artists from performing and visual arts disciplines, residents in thirteen rural towns in Lane County will participate in the creation and presentation of arts projects.

Little City Foundation (on behalf of The MultiDisciplinary Arts Center)
Palatine, IL
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support Have Art, Will Travel, a series of traveling arts classes that serve children and adults with developmental disabilities where they live and work. Artist teachers equipped with movable art materials will offer classes in visual, performing, and media arts.

Long Beach Museum of Art Foundation
Long Beach, CA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the purchase of an audio guide system and the creation, production, and translation into Spanish of a series of audio tours. The audio tours will feature twenty pieces in the permanent collection in various media by diverse artists.

Los Angeles Poverty Department
Los Angeles, CA
$8,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the development of the performance project Crack's Stranglehold. The project attempts to understand the effects of crack on individual lives in the neighborhood known as "skid row" in downtown Los Angeles.

Los Angeles Poverty Department (Consortium)
Los Angeles, CA
$7,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support Change/Exchange, a consortium project. In conjunction with SRO Housing Corporation and St. Vincent's Cardinal Manning Center, LAPD will create a three-week intensive training program in community-based theater.

Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art
North Adams, MA
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the exhibition Unnatural Science. The project brings together monumental installation works by a diverse group of artists who share an interest in the methods, language, and the "look" of science.

Mexican Heritage Corporation
San Jose, CA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Presenting
To support MHC Presents. This program of the Mexican Heritage Corporation will offer a variety of cultural presentations in music, dance, and family theater during 2000-2002.

Minnesota Chorale
Minneapolis, MN
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support Community Global Gathering, a concert and associated outreach activities under the Minnesota Chorale's Bridges program, bringing together the area's cultural groups in an evening of song with the greater Twin Cities community. This 2000-01 project will involve area youth as cultural partners and participants in the concert performance.

Minot Area Council of the Arts
Minot, ND
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support a week long residency for Wonder Wheels, a mixed-ability dance company based in Omaha, Nebraska. The project will include a mainstage performance, three lecture-demonstrations, and two speaking engagements.

Mississippi Cultural Crossroads (Consortium)
Port Gibson, MS
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Local Arts Agency
To support a consortium in the implementation of the Mississippi Young People's Cultural Exchange Program. Now entering its second year, this program provides art instruction to youths by placing a visual artist at each of the four consortium member locations in rural areas near Jackson and Biloxi.

Mobile Opera, Inc.
Mobile, AL
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support a tour of the children's opera Little Red Riding Hood by Seymour Barab. During the year 2000, this five-week tour will be presented free of charge at public elementary and middle schools in Mobile County, Alabama.

Municipal Art Society of New York (Consortium)
New York, NY
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Design
To support a public outreach and education project with New York City's Department of City Planning and the Department of Cultural Affairs that will study the feasibility of reusing the 3000-acre Fresh Kills Landfill in Staten Island as a public park.

Museum of Contemporary Art of Puerto Rico, Inc.
San Juan, PR
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support an exhibition of the work of Puerto Rican artist Pepón Osorio (b. 1955), with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The project will present three to four of Osorio's major installation pieces and will include a residency at the Escuela de Artes Plásticas.

Music Center of Los Angeles County
Los Angeles, CA
$75,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Presenting
To support Music Center On Tour, artist development, and the 20th Anniversary Jubilation Festival, a free event featuring performances, workshops, a pageant, and parade. The artist development aspect of this 2000-2001 project will concentrate on artist-focused work, including commissions, new artist recruitment, artist-teacher training, and performance refinement.

Nashville Academy Theatre and Nashville Children's Theatre Association
Nashville, TN
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support a tour of a theatrical production and school residencies in Robertson County, TN. Children from artistically underserved schools will participate in the education and outreach program.

Nashville Chamber Orchestra
Nashville, TN
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the Community Partnership Program, a performance and education outreach project of the Nashville Chamber Orchestra. During 2000-02, the Orchestra will develop long-term, community partners for sustainable programming in rural Tennessee.

Near NorthWest Arts Council
Chicago, IL
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support the planning and production of creative writing, publishing and performance workshops with poet David Hernandez. The workshops are held in collaboration with the Children's Museum on the theme of prejudice and discrimination.

New Jersey Symphony Orchestra
Newark, NJ
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support Project REACH, a statewide music outreach program. During 2000-01, the New Jersey Symphony will conduct a statewide tour throughout New Jersey.

New Mexico Symphony Orchestra
Albuquerque, NM
$21,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a statewide tour and an educational enrichment project. The New Mexico Symphony Orchestra will tour to underserved communities throughout the state and conduct educational activities in schools, including full-orchestra youth concerts, during 2000-01.

New Orleans Video Access Center
New Orleans, LA
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the provision of production equipment for media artists and students. The New Orleans Video Access Center offers, at greatly reduced rates, access to sophisticated production facilities for artists to create new work.

New York Folklore Society (Consortium)
Schenectady, NY
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a series of conferences that will examine the influence of Black folk culture on the American mainstream and concepts of folklore in the Black community. This collaborative project will be conducted in partnership with the Institute for African American Folk Culture, Dutchess County Arts Council, and the State University of New York at Oneonta.

Oakland Asian Cultural Center
Oakland, CA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support the Free-to-the-Public programs. These programs are designed to increase awareness of and access to Oakland Asian Cultural Center activities and to diversify audiences.

Oakland Ballet Company and Guild
Oakland, CA
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support a residency program titled Dancing in Our Backyard. The project will increase access to the performing arts among African American, Latino, and Asian American communities in Oakland.

Odunde, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the ODUNDE Festival. This community-based festival will feature local artists such as National Heritage Fellow tap dancer LaVaughn Robinson; Groove Phi Groove; the South Philadelphia Pride drill team; local choir groups; double-dutch teams; poets and others.

Oklahoma Arts Council
Oklahoma City, OK
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: State & Regional
To support ArtsRelief programming for children affected by the May 3, 1999 tornado that destroyed much of the mid-section of Oklahoma. Through school placements in affected communities, artists will work with children in the areas of visual arts, music, drama, dance, writing and theater.

Opera Memphis, Inc.
Memphis, TN
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support student performances of Different Fields by Mike Reid and Sarah Schlesinger. Two matinee performances will be presented to 1,600 school students from the rural counties surrounding Memphis, including eastern Arkansas, northern Mississippi, the Missouri boot heel, and western Tennessee during the year.

Ordway Music Theatre
St. Paul, MN
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Presenting
To support Access the Planet. This new 2000-2002 program will use video conferencing technology to present multicultural performing artists interacting with students and teachers in Minnesota, including rural areas and Indian reservations.

Pan Asian Repertory Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support two new programs, The Young Asian Forum and Theatre For Youth. Both programs fulfill Pan Asian Repertory Theatre's mission to serve its constituency by providing young people with a platform to exercise their creativity and celebrate the artistry of Asian American culture in their daily lives.

Pegasus Players (Consortium)
Chicago, IL
$7,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support a consortium project aimed at integrating audiences of diverse ethnic cultures. The collaboration between Pegasus Players and Chicago Theatre Company will include a production by each theater with audience exchanges to encourage the development of new audiences for both companies.

Penobscot Theatre Company
Bangor, ME
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support a statewide touring production of Macbeth as part of Shakespeare in the Schools. The tour of Maine middle and high schools will include workshops, a professional performance and participation in post-performance discussions with the artists.

Perishable Theatre
Providence, RI
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Musical Theater
To support the production and tour of two new plays in the Shows for Young Audiences Program and a new program and performance-based literacy initiative, The Reading Railroad. The two plays, Invasion of the Homogenoids and Eco-Spy, address issues of topical concern to children in southeastern New England.

Pinellas County Arts Council (Consortium)
Clearwater, FL
$100,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Local Arts Agency
To support a consortium project, the Youth Arts Corps/Juvenile Justice Arts Program. The consortium, comprised of the Pinellas County Arts Council, the Dali Museum, the Tampa Museum of Arts, Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center and the St. Petersburg Fine Arts Museum, will operate two related after-school arts programs (Youth Arts Corps and Youth Arts Corps Productions), as well as place trained, professional artists as resources in eleven juvenile justice programs.

Pittsburgh Opera, Inc. (Consortium)
Pittsburgh, PA
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support a consortium with the Palace Theatre for the Performing Arts in a tour of Rossini's L'Italiana in Algeri, performed by young artists from the Pittsburgh Opera's training program. During 2000-01, six performances of the fully produced opera will take place at the Byham Theater in downtown Pittsburgh, the Olin Fine Arts Center at Washington & Jefferson College, the Barrow-Civic Theater in Franklin, the State Theater in Uniontown, and the Palace Theatre in Greensburg.

PlayTime Productions, Inc./Classika Theatre (Consortium)
Arlington, VA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support ARTsmarts 2K, a consortium arts education project in conjunction with the Arlington County Public Schools. The project will utilize arts education and theatre arts to improve reading and comprehension skills for underserved children enrolled in the Arlington County, VA, Title I program.

Playwrights Project (Consortium)
San Diego, CA
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the expansion of Lifestages, a program that creates theatre from the life experiences of older people. Seniors in convalescent hospitals or residences are paired with professional actor/writers to create and perform autobiographical vignettes from their lives.

Point Breeze Performing Arts Center
Philadelphia, PA
$16,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support the Arts for Social Change: Community Access Project. The project will expand the Center's satellite program and improve the marketing and production of its performing arts and cultural events.

Portland Art Museum (on behalf of Northwest Film Center) (Consortium)
Portland, OR
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support Nuestro Vision, Nuestro Futuro: The Oregon Latino Youth Video Project, a consortium project with the Oregon Council for Hispanic Advancement. The project will provide hands-on training and artist mentorships targeted to highly motivated Hispanic teens.

Portland Museum
Louisville, KY
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support If Not Audubon, Who? A Community Curators Project. Participants will seek to identify the artistic authorship of four portraits in the museum's collection tentatively attributed to John James Audubon or two of his sons.

Project Row Houses
Houston, TX
$45,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support a residency program that will commission artist installations in several shotgun-style row houses. The project will feature the work of sculptors selected by the organization's founding director Rick Lowe.

Puerto Rico Community Foundation, Inc.
San Juan, PR
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Presenting
To support Share The Arts (Comparte tu Arte). This 2000-2001 project will expand the Vive las Artes presenting series by providing arts access to low-income Puerto Rican communities.

Queens Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Long Island City, NY
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support an audience development campaign, presenting the Queens Symphony Orchestra's subscription concerts throughout the borough. This decentralization plan during 2000-01 will mirror the enclaves of Queens--one of the most ethnically diverse counties in the nation.

Real Art Ways, Inc. (Consortium)
Hartford, CT
$7,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support a consortium project titled Signs of the Times with the Connecticut Historical Society (CHS) for collaborative marketing and programming of concurrent exhibitions. Three exhibitions by contemporary artists whose work deals with signage will be jointly promoted with the CHS's historic tavern sign exhibition.

Regional Arts & Culture Council
Portland, OR
$70,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Local Arts Agency
To support the Regional Library Arts Program. This project will provide a wide range of arts and cultural programs for citizens in Clackamas and Washington Counties at twenty libraries and selected community settings.

Rhode Island Philharmonic (Consortium)
Providence, RI
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support Music After Hours, a consortium project with the Music School. During the 2000-02 seasons, the Rhode Island Philharmonic and the Music School will provide after-school music education programs to children in grades three to five, particularly youths at risk, and senior adults in four underserved cities of Rhode Island.

Roanoke Symphony Society
Roanoke, VA
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the ENCORE project, a tour by the Roanoke Symphony to underserved rural regions in the state of Virginia. During 2000-01, the outreach effort will offer communities full-orchestra concerts, with soloists or musical groups from the host area, and pre-concert, interactive discussions with the audience.

Robert W. Woodruff Arts Center (on behalf of Atlanta Symphony Orchestra)
Atlanta, GA
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support Building Bridges to the Community, an educational and community partnership initiative. The goal of this 2000-01 initiative is to develop the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra as a more integral part of community life by focusing on three core areas: education activities, community partnerships, and outreach.

San Diego Area Dance Alliance (on behalf of Foster-King Dance Collection)
San Diego, CA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the14th annual International Association of Blacks in Dance conference. The purpose of the conference is the preservation and promotion of dance by people of African ancestry or origin and assistance in artist networking, funding, performance, education, audience development, touring, and advocacy.

San Francisco Performances
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support artist residencies in the San Francisco metropolitan community and local schools. The project will extend ongoing residencies with Stephen Petronio Dance Company, classical guitarist Manuel Barrueco, and jazz violinist Regina Carter, and will add a composer to the residency roster.

Sarasota Opera Association, Inc.
Sarasota, FL
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support Sarasota Opera's access program for mentally disabled adults, hearing impaired children and adults, and Head Start children in Sarasota and Manatee Counties. Included will be a signed performance of Hansel and Gretel, a performance of Verdi's Requiem with a community choir, interactive workshops, a youth opera production, and a field trip to the Opera House during 2000-01.

Seattle Symphony Orchestra (Consortium)
Seattle, WA
$60,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a regional tour consortium project with Central Washington University, Prosser Economic Development Association, Walla Walla Symphony, and Washington State University. During the year 2000, the Seattle Symphony Orchestra will perform outreach concerts in four cities of eastern Washington.

Senior Arts Project
Albuquerque, NM
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Senior Arts Celebration of Native Artists. This series of performances and workshops will take place in Albuquerque's public senior facilities featuring Native American art and culture.

Sharir + Bustamante Danceworks
Austin, TX
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support outreach programming for a new dance theatre work. The Leaf Storm will incorporate music, poetry, and movement by choreographer Jose Luis Bustamante and singer/songwriter Lourdes Pérez.

Sheboygan Arts Foundation, Inc./John Michael Kohler Arts Center
Sheboygan, WI
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support community-based commissions in its Connecting Communities program. The project involves long-term residency workshops, discussions, interviews, and open rehearsals.

Sitka Summer Music Festival, Inc.
Sitka, AK
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the presentation of chamber music through concert tours in urban and rural communities of Alaska. During 2000-01, the Sitka Summer Music Festival's 23 touring concerts will serve communities in Anchorage, Dillingham, Gustavus, Homer, Kenai, Kodiak, Pelican, and Sitka.

Sixteen As One Music, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support Cultural Access 2000, a community outreach project of jazz concerts and workshops. Sixteen As One Music, better known as the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, will perform and conduct educational activities for middle school and high school jazz band directors and music students, as well as for the general public.

Smith College (on behalf of Museum of Art)
Northampton, MA
$37,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the development of a random-access audio tour of the museum's permanent collection. The tour will be produced in two versions, featuring 60-75 objects for adults and 25 objects for children.

SomArts
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support the Arts Access Program. The program provides venue access and technical services at minimal cost to local arts organizations.

South Dakotans for the Arts (Consortium)
Deadwood, SD
$22,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Local Arts Agency
To support a consortium designed to assist in the promotion and tour of the Dakota Children's Theatre Company. The project will provide access to theater experiences for South Dakota children in rural communities, as well as provide professional work opportunities in South Dakota for emerging South Dakota theater artists.

Space One Eleven, Inc.
Birmingham, AL
$35,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Design
To support a multi-agency, collaborative, citywide design project resulting in an exhibit and artist residency involving art and architecture students, underserved communities and youth. The touring exhibit will be a twenty-year survey of Allan Wexler's work and the residency will take place in the public housing neighborhood where the organization is located.

Taller Puertorriqueño, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$45,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support Taller Puertorriqueño's educational initiatives. These initiatives include the Cultural Awareness Program, Youth Artist Program, Visiting Artists Programs, and the Cultural Enrichment Program.

Ten Thousand Things
Minneapolis, MN
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support a production of the play Cymbeline by William Shakespeare. Ten Thousand Things will perform the play for low-income audiences with free performances in prisons, homeless shelters, and other centers serving people with little access to the arts.

Texas Fine Arts Association
Austin, TX
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support Art on Tour, a statewide traveling exhibition program. The program circulates exhibitions of contemporary art by emerging and mid-career American artists to smaller museums and university and community art galleries throughout Texas.

Thalia Spanish Theatre, Inc.
Sunnyside, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the series Folklore Shows of music and dance from Spain and Latin America. The music and dance shows include Argentine tango, flamenco and classic Spanish dance, and Mexican folklore.

Theatre Development Fund, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support expenses associated with Interpreting for the Theatre. The project consists of a one-week summer course on theater sign-interpretation.

Unicorn Theatre
Kansas City, MO
$12,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the Main Street Writers' Collective: A Multi-Cultural Artists' Project. The company will seek out area writers to develop new works that will culminate in fully developed scripts presented to the public in a mini-festival of staged readings.

University of Alaska at Fairbanks (on behalf of University Art Museum) (Consortium)
Fairbanks, AK
$125,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support A Sense of Place, a consortium project to develop a comprehensive interpretation and education program around the museum's permanent collection of Alaskan art. The museum will work with a consortium team, including the Fairbanks School District and Public Library, Fairbanks Family Literacy, Nenana Public Schools, Denakkanaaga, and the Deyon Regional Corporation.

Vermont Symphony Orchestra
Burlington, VT
$13,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the Made in Vermont Music Festival Tour, a project of educational activities and community concerts. During the year 2000, the Vermont Symphony Orchestra will tour to ten underserved rural communities in Vermont.

Visual Arts Research & Resource Center Relating to the Caribbean
New York, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support implementation, promotion, and distribution of educational materials concerning cultures of the African Diaspora. The project provides an opportunity to perform a national field market test on public, private, and independent schools, school districts, libraries, and the general public.

Voice Over Video Networks/TILT
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support a year long program of after-school production workshops for teenagers. Students will learn to deconstruct and analyze popular media by way of creating and producing their own narrative stories.

Washington Bach Consort
Washington, DC
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the Giving Bach to Our Community initiative, an educational outreach program of free, accessible concerts, formatted for new audiences. During 2000-01, the Washington Bach Consort will present noontime and rush hour concerts, pre concert lectures, and an elementary education program in the District of Columbia's area schools.

West Virginia Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Charleston, WV
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the West Virginia Symphony Orchestra's touring project to underserved rural communities throughout the state. During 2000-01, the Symphony will reach audiences in ten communities on fall and spring tours.

Williamstown Theatre Foundation, Inc.
Williamstown, MA
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support Free Theatre, Greylock Theatre Project, and Kids' Night, the three community programs of the Williamstown Theatre Festival. The project is designed to utilize the theatre's artists and performances in programs that serve and engage a diverse community.

Worcester Art Museum
Worcester, MA
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the planning, design, and installation of Worcester's Community Mosaic. The project is intended to enhance community response to the museum's major fall 2000 exhibition Antioch: The Lost Ancient City.

Writer's Garret, Inc.
Dallas, TX
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support publication and related expenses for TEX!, a free multicultural literary magazine distributed in newspapers throughout Texas, and a series of promotional readings by poets and writers featured in the magazine. TEX! will increase its circulation to 550,000 readers as an insert in seven community newspapers including The Dallas Morning News.

Writers In The Schools
Houston, TX
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support creative writing residencies in public schools for economically disadvantaged students in Houston, Texas.

YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago - Duncan
Chicago, IL
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support the production and educational components of a multidisciplinary, youth- focused production of Lorraine Hansberry's What Use are Flowers?. This project is designed to foster environmental consciousness among urban youth and create dialogue about the nature of urban environment in the present and future.

Young Men's and Young Women's Association (Consortium)
New York, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support a consortium project between the 92nd Street Y and East Harlem's Union Settlement Association, which will bring 12 established writers to Union Settlement's adult education programs. Proposed authors include Paul Theroux, Denise Chavez, Luisa Valenzuela, Maxine Hong Kingston, Nicanor Parra, Sergio Ramirez, and Charles Johnson.

Young Men's Christian Association of Billings
Billings, MT
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support literary programs in 35 towns, 18 counties, and three Native American reservations throughout Montana and Wyoming. Activities include readings, writing workshops and school residencies, and a weekly program of interviews with writers for broadcast on Yellowstone Public Radio.

Z Space Studio
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the expansion of Word for Word's educational outreach program, The School and Library Tour. The tour will bring works of literature and short stories, performed literally word for word, to San Francisco Bay Area high schools for students whose literacy skills are below average.

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