2000 Grant Awards: Creative Links: Positive Alternatives for Youth

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

ALABAMA

First Night Mobile, Inc.
Mobile, AL
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To fund a partnership with the Parapluie Dance Company and the Boys & Girls Club of South Alabama, Inc. for 30 youth, ages 11 to 18, to receive dance instruction, culminating in a public performance.

Gadsden Cultural Arts Foundation, Inc.
Gadsden, AL
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To fund a partnership with the Center for Cultural Arts ­ Youth Alive!, Northeast Alabama Boys & Girls Clubs and the Gadsden Housing Authority to create a public art installation using the exterior of the Center for Cultural Arts building. Twenty-four youths, ages 12 to 16, living in public housing will create the installation.

Space One Eleven, Inc.
Birmingham, AL
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To fund a partnership with the Tenants' Association of Metropolitan Gardens Housing to produce Success Story, an after-school and summer program led by local professional artists and community leaders. The program is designed to enhance creative thinking and problem solving for predominantly African-American youth, ages ten to 18, who are residents in Alabama's largest public housing site.

ALASKA

Organization for Northern Development DBA Out North
Anchorage, AK
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To fund a partnership with the McLaughlin Youth Center and McLaughlin Secondary School to provide summer workshops in digital media art led by a professional video artist. The activities are for incarcerated juvenile offenders and will result in experimental video art that reflects the vision and future aspirations of the youth participants.

Perseverance Theatre, Inc.
Douglas, AK
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To fund a partnership with the Juneau School District, Tlingit and Haida Healthy Nations, Tlingit and Haida Regional Housing Authority, Filipino Commission, Big Brothers/Big Sisters and Juneau Youth Services to offer the 2001 STAR (Summer Theatre Arts Rendezvous) program to ten disadvantaged youths, ages eight to 18. Students will learn skills in acting, directing and playwriting by producing Shakespeare's As You Like It.

ARIZONA

Arizona State University
Tempe, AZ
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To fund a partnership with the University's College of Fine Arts-ARTSWORK, Free Arts for Abused Children of Arizona and the Herberger Theatre Center to serve abused and neglected youths living in group homes. Through a theatre immersion program, the children will create and present an original theatre work at Herberger Theatre.

Friends of the Tucson Public Library, Inc. $5,000
Tucson, AZ
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To fund a partnership with the Center for Prevention and Resolution of Violence (CPRV), Pima County Adult Detention Center and Pima County Juvenile Court Center to fund the Tucson Writers' Project, which expands established workshops with CPRV to include incarcerated youth. The participating youth will create a variety of word-based art works, including books, album quilts, poems and stories.

ARKANSAS

Lane House Alternative Education Center
Eureka Springs, AR
$5,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To fund a partnership with St. James Episcopal Church, the City of Eureka Springs Advertising and Promotion, and Clear Springs School for a summer 2001 artist mentor program for teens. By attending programs at artists' studios, selected students will receive instruction in various art forms and obtain a comprehensive introduction to the professional life of working artists.

CALIFORNIA

City of Fairfield
Fairfield, CA
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To fund a partnership with CityArts Fairfield, Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District, Coalition Against Homelessness, Mission Solano and City of Fairfield's Division of Transportation to provide scholarships for homeless youth in grades six to 12. Students will attend T-Street Theatre Conservatory, a year-round, after-school drama and dance program.

City of San Fernando
San Fernando, CA
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To fund a partnership with Chicano Studies at California State University, Northridge; Los Angeles Unified School District; Los Camperos de Nati Cano; Ballet Folklorico Ollin; and La Voz del Mariachi to bring together world-class mariachi musicians with 40 youths, ages 11 to 19. They will establish an All-Youth Mariachi Group and appear in at least four public performances.

Dell'Arte, Inc.
Blue Lake, CA
$5,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To fund a partnership with the McKinleyville Community Services District to assist in the Playbuilding Project. Through this after-school program, 20 students at McKinleyville Middle School will create and perform an original theater piece in collaboration with playwright and director Lauren Wilson.

Hmong Cultural Arts Crafts Teaching & Museum Projects
Sacramento, CA
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To fund a partnership with Del Paso Heights School District in North Sacramento and State Criminal Justice Planning: Juvenile Delinquency Prevention to support after-school workshops in traditional Hmong embroidery and folk dance in conjunction with an ongoing academic enrichment program for Hmong youth. The program offers family counseling, academic tutoring and arts activities that deepen student understanding of their heritage.

La Casa de la Raza
Santa Barbara, CA
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To fund a partnership with the People's Self-Help Housing Corporation in support of Milagro Dance, a program that provides free classes in Aztec, Mexican folkloric and modern dance for youth in the predominantly Mexican-American community of El Milagro de Ladera, a low-income housing site in Santa Barbara.

Madera County Arts Council
Madera, CA
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To fund a partnership with Madera municipal organizations including the Madera County Workforce Development Office, Unified School District-Furman High School, City Council, Downtown Association, Historical Society, and Redevelopment Office as well as, to provide 25 teens from an alternative school with the opportunity to work with a professional muralist on the development and installation of a series of murals based on the history of Madera.

Marin Interfaith Youth Outreach
San Rafael, CA
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To fund a partnership with the Latino Film Festival to produce Youth in Film/Video. Through this program, youths ages 17 to 20 from the ethnic communities in Marin County will produce four to six film shorts to be shown at the annual Latino Film Festival at the Rafael Film Center in San Rafael.

Mount Saint Mary's College
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To fund a partnership with the Da Camera Society of Mount Saint Mary's College and Camp Fred C. Miller, a juvenile detention camp, to support a program in which teams of artists will lead the youths at Camp Miller in intensive workshops in African and Afro-Latin drumming and drum making, with emphasis on understanding the healing power of drumming in those cultures.

Pro Arts (on behalf of Taller Sin Fronteras)
Oakland, CA
$5,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To fund a partnership with Taller Sin Fronteras and two New York partners, the Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence in northwest Bronx and Youth Force in South Bronx. The Bronx Mural Project, will serve as a bridge for youth in African-American, Latino and Southeast Asian communities in the Bronx to create together a large-scale public mural.

Richmond District Neighborhood Center
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To fund a partnership with the Neighborhood Center, California Poets in the Schools and the San Francisco Arts Education Project to allow a lead artist to work with 10 to 15 middle-school students in the Richmond District where English is a second language in 50 percent of the households. Students will take classes in poetry writing and computer design and layout, and will publish an anthology of their work.

United Cambodian Community, Inc.
Long Beach, CA
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To fund a partnership with the Arts of Apsara Cultural Center to provide workshops in traditional Cambodian folk music and dance to middle and high school students from the Long Beach Unified School District.

Venice Arts Mecca
Venice, CA
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To fund a partnership with the Neighborhood Youth Association, Mar Vista Gardens and the Venice Community Housing Corporation to assist ArtPartners, an arts program for 100 low-income youth taking place within their communities. ArtPartners offers after-school and weekend workshops in photography, creative writing, digital arts and dance.

Z Space Studio
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To fund an arts program partnership with Walden House, an in-patient drug rehabilitation facility. Thirteen girls, ages 15 to18, will participate in an artist residency project that will culminate in a performance featuring the teens as actors.

COLORADO

Metropolitan State College Foundation, Inc.
Denver, CO
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To fund a partnership with the Metropolitan State College of Denver Center for the Visual Arts and the Denver Housing Authority to support Arts Builds Communities, an after-school program that provides cross-cultural visual arts workshops for low-income, predominantly Latino and African American youth, ages six to 12, living in Denver's public housing.

Workout, Ltd.
Colorado Springs, CO
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To fund a partnership with Innovative Studios, Debra Rose Studios, and City of Colorado Springs to support the Expressions In Art Mural Project. The after-school program instructs youth in mural design, creation and installation. In addition, through the B-POZ Project, youth will learn how to operate a music production studio and create original audio compositions.

Young Audiences, Inc. Denver Area Chapter
Denver, CO
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To fund a partnership with Young Audiences of Colorado, Marvin Fook Youth Services Center, and Colorado Boys Ranch for four professional artists to teach a variety of arts disciplines to teens in two juvenile detention centers. The youths' arts projects will be displayed in Denver and La Junta, Colorado.

CONNECTICUT

Institute for Community Research, Inc.
Hartford, CT
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To fund a partnership with Khmer Health Advocates, Lao Saturday School, and the Hmong Foundation of Connecticut, in which the Institute for Community Research will coordinate after school, cross-cultural classes in Cambodian, Lao and Hmong traditional music and dance for youth in each of the three ethnic communities.

Music and Arts Center for the Handicapped, Inc.
Bridgeport, CT
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To fund a partnership with Youth Services, the Department of Children and Families, Casey Family Services, Family Services of Woodfield, Bridgeport Child Guidance and Alvin Ailey Dance Theater Foundation for after-school classes and a summer AileyCamp for inner-city youth, grades six to eight, to study ballet, modern, jazz and African dance, complemented with creative communication and personal development classes. Campers will also produce an anthology of fiction and journalistic writings.

Young Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Hartford
Hartford, CT
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To fund a partnership with Curbstone Press, Inc. and Words Alive/Capital Region Education Council for a summer program serving 25 teens of diverse cultures. Students will integrate literary and visual arts to create work for public exhibition and readings that the teens will plan and oversee. The program also includes launching an arts youth leadership club.

DELAWARE

Delaware Theatre Association for the Performing Arts
Wilmington, DE
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater

To fund a partnership with the Ferris School, a facility for incarcerated boys, to support a program for 18 boys, ages 14 to 18, to learn playwriting, performance and elements of stagecraft.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art
Washington, DC
$5,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To fund a partnership with Asian American Lead, Calvary Bilingual Multicultural Learning Center, the Latin American Youth Center, the Chinese Community Church and Martha's Table for the Corcoran After School Art Program, which offers year-round classes for children, ages ten to 18. Under the direction of professional artists, 300 students from the ethnically mixed communities of Washington, DC will read and visually interpret poems, write about their own communities, assemble illustrated books and paint murals.

Washington Drama Society, Inc. (Arena Stage)
Washington, DC
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To fund a partnership with the Maya Angelou Public Charter School to support the Living Stage Theater Company, an after-school program for 35 students, ages 14 to 16, of mainly African American or Latino descent. Students will participate in workshops focusing on improvisatory theater, poetry, songwriting, mask-making, drumming, journal-writing and other art forms.

Washington Very Special Arts
Washington, DC
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To fund a partnership with Larry Fuente and the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Museum of American Art to support the ARTiculate Artist in Residence project for youth with disabilities, ages 14 to 25. Working with professional artist Larry Puente, students will explore a variety of media and show their work in the ARTiculate gallery.

FLORIDA

Hippodrome State Theatre, Inc.
Gainesville, FL
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To fund a partnership with Alachua County Halfway House to support the Hippodrome Improvisational Teen Theatre, an after-school teen program to create plays on the subject of preventing alcohol and substance abuse and violence.

Norton Gallery and School of Art, Inc.
West Pam Beach, FL
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To fund a partnership with the Boys & Girls Clubs of Palm Beach County, Inc.; Martin Country Parks and Recreation Department, City of West Palm Beach Housing Authority, Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office, City of Belle Glade Housing Authority, and the City of Pahokee Housing Authority to assist PACE, an after-school, visual arts-based program for youth ages five to 18 in six predominantly African-American and Hispanic, low-income communities in West Palm Beach.

Orlando Opera Company, Inc.
Orlando, FL
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To fund a partnership with ESTEEM, Inc., Orange County Public School Music Teachers and the Florida Symphony Youth Orchestra. The partnership will provide scholarships for 25 youth for an after-school children's opera program led by artists of Orlando Opera Company and scholarships for ten students in a summer musical theater program as well as a two-week collaboration with the Florida Symphony Orchestra.

Sarasota Ballet of Florida, Inc.
Sarasota, FL
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To fund a partnership with the University of South Florida, Sarasota Campus and the Manatee Community College to assist Dance -The Next Generation, an after-school program that offers structured dance classes as well as assistance in homework, health, nutrition and counseling for youth in generally less-visible, low-income areas of Sarasota County.

Youth Orchestra of Florida, Inc.
Hollywood, FL
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To fund a partnership with the Broward County School Board, City of Fort Lauderdale Parks and Recreation Department's After School Programming, Florida Philharmonic Orchestra, University of Miami School of Music, Florida Department of State Division of Cultural Affairs, Broward County Cultural Affairs, Miami-Dade County Cultural Affairs and the City of Fort Lauderdale to provide String Training in the Public Schools. Sixty-four third and fourth grade students will receive lessons and instruments through this after-school program.

GEORGIA

Boys & Girls Club of Metro Atlanta Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To fund a partnership with the Atlanta Historic District Development Corporation and Atlanta ArtScape Arts Festival to create My Community, My Place. In this multi-media photography workshop, 15 to 20 inner-city teens, ages 13 to 16, will investigate historic Auburn Avenue in downtown Atlanta learning the technical and creative aspects of photography and creating a book that includes photos, interviews and creative writing.

City of Decatur
Decatur, GA
$5,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To fund a partnership with The Alliance Theater, Young Audiences of Atlanta and the Children's Museum of Atlanta for an after-school theater program for youths in fourth to fifth grades. The program uses theatre arts to explore issues surrounding the transition from elementary to middle school.

Independence, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To fund a partnership with Moving in the Spirit, an East Atlanta-based dance organization for youth, and Neighborhood Music Schools, a youth music program of Georgia State University to provide workshops in homeless shelters, schools, public housing sites and community centers, resulting in the multimedia dance production, Cut Loose With Dr. Seuss.

HAWAII

Hawai'i Alliance for Arts Education
Honolulu, HI
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To fund a partnership with the Housing and Community Development Corporation of Hawai'i, Kamehameha Homes Tenants Association, Ka'ahumanu Homes Tenants Association and Queen Lili'u'okalani Children's Center to provide after-school classes in visual arts, traditional Hawaiian hula dance and ukulele playing for youth in multi-ethnic public housing in inner-city Honolulu.

Hui No'eau
Makawao, HI
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To fund a partnership with Hui Malama Learning Center, the Alternative Learning Center at Baldwin High School and Maui Youth and Family Services to support The Arts of Life for Maui Youth, a program of after-school classes in photography, digital imaging, ceramics, jewelry making and woodworking for youth from low-income families on the rural island of Maui.

IDAHO

Young Men's Christian Association of Boise
Boise, ID
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To fund a partnership with the Idaho Shakespeare Festival/Idaho Theater for Youth that will provide a theater enrichment program during the school year and over the summer to 10 YMCA after school, child development centers. Theater instructors will offer classes for children, ages five to 17.

ILLINOIS

Art Resources in Teaching
Chicago, IL
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To fund a partnership with Saint Agatha's Family Empowerment, the Illinois Humanities Council, and Steans Family Foundation to work with 15 non-violent, repeat, juvenile offenders, ages 14 to 18. The summer workshops will result in a large-scale clay relief or painted mural.

Chicago Youth Centers
Chicago, IL
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To fund a partnership with the Elliott Donnelly Youth Center, Raymond Elementary School and Stateway Family Support Center to provide 50 students in grades seven and eight with art instruction in photography or ceramics, and training in entrepreneurship.

Community Television Network
Chicago, IL
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To fund a partnership with the CCA Academy, Wendell Phillips High School, CAN-TV, and several community organizations including the Youth Justice Initiative. The project will team video artists with African-American youth, ages 12 to 18, to create short-length videotapes using an array of media production tools. The videos will be cablecast on Hard Cover throughout metropolitan Chicago.

Elgin Symphony Orchestra Association
Elgin, IL
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To fund a partnership with Hamilton Wings, School District U-46 and Urban Gateways: The Center for Arts in Education to support Students Creating Opera to Reinforce Education! (SCORE!), a year long program offering 60 underserved 10 to13-year olds the opportunity to create and produce an original opera under the guidance of professional artists.

Galesburg Civic Art League, Inc.
Galesburg, IL
$5,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To fund a partnership with Mary Davis Detention Home to provide weekly art instruction for its clients who are serious offenders, ages 10 to 17, from 21 counties in Illinois. Art projects are chosen to help improve clients' self-image, sense of empowerment and communication skills.

Guild Complex
Chicago, IL
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To fund a partnership with Young Chicago Authors and the Chicago Historical Society to support Writing Through the Prism of Self and Community, a summer creative writing workshop project for inner-city Chicago youth, resulting in publication of their work. Young Chicago Authors has worked with the Guild Complex in youth literacy projects since 1992.

Redmoon Theater
Chicago, IL
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To fund a partnership among the YMCA Metropolitan Chicago Street Intervention Program, Youth Struggling for Survival and West Humboldt Park Center for the Performing Arts in a series of workshops in puppetry, mask making and theatre for twelve community youth organizations on the west side of Chicago. The workshops will be in conjunction with the theater's annual All Hallows' Eve Ritual Celebration that includes tributes to deceased ancestors.

Video Machete
Chicago, IL
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To fund a partnership with the Chinese Mutual Aid Association to benefit The Global Youth Project, a media arts project that provides 60 low-income sixth to twelfth graders from diverse ethnic backgrounds with training in video production, multi-media authoring, website design and web-casting.

INDIANA

Fort Wayne Dance Collective, Inc.
Fort Wayne, IN
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To fund a partnership with the Center for Nonviolence, Crossroad Children's Home, Wood Youth Center and Youth Services Center for an after-school program in which six artists will employ principles of non-violence while teaching creative movement, theater, poetry, percussion and puppetry to teens. The program will culminate in public performances.

Young Audiences of Indiana, Inc.
Indianapolis, IN
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To fund a partnership with the Martin Luther King Multi-Service Center, Hispanic Education Center, Dayspring Center, Flanner House-Watkins Park Youth Center, Universal United Methodist Church, Concord Multi-Service Center and East 10th United Methodist Children and Youth Center to help fund Summer Arts for Youth. This program allows inner-city, low-income youths, ages eight to 14, to work with professional artists in music, dance, drama and visual arts.

IOWA

Blanden Memorial Art Museum
Fort Dodge, IA
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To fund a partnership with the Boys & Girls Home of Fort Dodge for teens assigned by the courts for counseling and treatment. This program will culminate in the creation of individual artwork and works that will become a permanent feature of the Museum's public space.

City of Cedar Falls
Cedar Falls, IA
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To fund a partnership with the Hearst Center for the Arts, Boys & Girls Club of Waterloo, Educational Discipline Center and Waterloo Alternative Program for Attendance and Community United Child Care Centers, Inc. for a program in which local artists teach works on paper, ceramics and kite making to approximately 75 secondary school students. The program includes tours of exhibitions at the Hearst Center for the Arts.

United Action for Youth
Iowa City, IA
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To fund a partnership with the Downtown Association of Iowa City, the Stepping Up Project of the University of Iowa and area artists to sponsor the after-school Fountain of Youth Project. This project will provide an artist to teach composing, recording and performance to youths, ages 12 to 17. Student compositions will be compiled on a CD and later be made available to the community.

KANSAS

The Columbian Theatre Foundation, Inc.
Wamego, KS
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To fund a partnership between the Columbian Theatre, Museum and Art Center and the school districts of Rock Creek, Maple Hill and Wamego to support a theatre program for rural youth. Approximately 100 students from pre-kindergarten to twelfth grade will plan and produce a musical based on The Wizard of Oz.

KENTUCKY

Appalshop, Inc.
Whitesburg, KY
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To fund a partnership with eight Eastern Kentucky high schools to support the Appalachian Media Institute, a training program in video and radio production. The residential summer school program will host 12 young people, ages 15 to 18, who are challenged by difficult family and economic situations.

Jackson County Cooperative Extension Service
McKee, KY
$5,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To fund a partnership with Jackson County 4-H (Cooperative Extension Service) and Open Ground to support visual and performing arts workshops during the Youth Environmental Summit. The project will establish a connection between participants and their understanding of the environment.

LOUISIANA

New Orleans Ballet Association
New Orleans, LA
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To fund a partnership with the New Orleans Recreation Department to provide year-round dance instruction for over 600 inner-city children at seven city centers. The program targets girls, ages 11 to 18, from predominantly African-American and low-income areas of Orleans Parish.

New Orleans Video Access Center, Inc.
New Orleans, LA
$5,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To fund a partnership with Listen Up! and the Office of Public Health to create the NOVA Teen Video Workshop for inner-city teens in the Greater New Orleans area. This is a national campaign in which teens create public service video announcements that target other teens. Participants will work under the mentorship of professional artists, learning the creative and technical aspects of video production.

MAINE

Bates College
Lewiston, ME
$5,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To fund a partnership with The Dance Center/Unified Baptist Church, Lewiston Parks and Recreation Department and Lewiston School Department for Bates Dance Festival's Youth Arts Program. Through this program, 80 youth, ages six to 17, will participate in contemporary dance and music training, attend festival events and enjoy performance opportunities.

Center for Cultural Exchange
Portland, ME
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To fund a partnership with the Portland Police Department: Community Policing Housing Unit, Portland Public Schools: Office of Multilingual and Multicultural Affairs and Maine Khmer Council to produce the Youth Intensive Project for Cambodian, Hispanic and African-American teens. During summer and after-school workshops, master performers will teach classical Cambodian dance and musical performance, African and Caribbean dances, and other disciplines to 40 students, ages nine to 18.

Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance
Old Town, ME
$5,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To fund a partnership with the Passamaquoddy Tribe to organize and lead traditional basketry workshops in the four reservation communities in Maine. The program seeks to encourage younger generations of tribal members to learn traditional ash and sweetgrass basketry in order to preserve this highly endangered Native American art form.

MARYLAND

Center Stage Associates, Inc.
Baltimore, MD
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To fund a partnership with Paul Laurence Dunbar Community High School to provide an after school program for 15 to 20 inner-city students featuring expressive writing, critiques and participation in performances and poetry slams. The program culminates in a public performance at Center Stage.

Prince George's Philharmonic
Riverdale, MD
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To fund a partnership with the county government, Prince George's Public Schools and Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority to support Prince George's Philharmonic's Symphony Kids and Adopt a Musician programs that provides instruments, music lessons and coaching for music ensembles to talented, disadvantaged children. The programs will assist in providing opportunities for the students to perform in school orchestras as well as in state competitions.

MASSACHUSETTS

Angkor Dance Troupe, Inc.
Lowell, MA
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To fund a partnership between Big Brother/Big Sister of Greater Lowell's ADAM Project, University of Massachusetts-Lowell, Community Teamwork, Inc., City of Lowell Community School Program, and the Massachusetts Department of Social Services to fund Angkor Youth Dance. This after-school and summer program for 45 students ages 10 to 17 culminates in a public performance with world class teachers of traditional Cambodian dance.

Artists for Humanity, Inc.
Boston, MA
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To fund a partnership with Grand Circle Travel and the Department of Public Health for Artists for Humanity's City Teens Design Company. More than four hundred youth, ages 14 to 18, will learn silk screening and other graphic arts, as well as business skills related to the field of graphic design.

Community Art Center, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To fund a partnership with Cambridge Community Television; Center for Independent Documentary, Inc.; Boston Film and Video Foundation; and The Work Force, an agency of the Cambridge Housing Authority for The Visiting Artist Project, which connects ethnically diverse teens with professional artists to produce an original video. Students learn production and presentation techniques through involvement in the annual National Youth Film and Video Festival and in Boston Film and Video Foundation projects.

Essex Art Center, Inc.
Laurence, MA
$5,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To fund a partnership with the Merrimack Valley Community Volunteer Service Corps and Laurence Family Services to create a training program for young volunteers. After school, teens will spend at least one day a week assisting and learning from an artist/teacher who conducts classes at the Center. One additional day will be spent learning about and helping with the administration of the Center.

Federated Dorchester Neighborhood Houses, Inc.
Dorchester, MA
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To fund a partnership with the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; United South End Settlements; Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; Mobius and the African-American Master Artist-in-Residence Program to create Art a la Carte. Through this program, 80 Boston teens will create their own works of art, collaborate on group projects, learn basics of gallery and museum administration, develop portfolios for college, and design a culminating exhibit at Mobius.

Partners for Disabled Youth, Inc.
Boston, MA
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To fund a partnership with Until Tomorrow Productions, Very Special Arts Massachusetts and the Boston Center for Independent Living to support the Access to Theater Peer Leadership Project for youth with disabilities. The project seeks to develop artistic, leadership and job readiness skills through after-school workshops in theatre movement, costumes, stage properties and improvisation.

RAW Art Works, Inc.
Lynn, MA
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To fund a partnership with Bridge Street Productions and Media One to create a digital video documentary program. Five ethnically diverse teens will shoot and edit video diaries, later resulting in public screenings at RAW, housing sites and the local cable channel. The youth will also serve as mentors for other children in art programs at RAW.

Shakespeare & Company, Inc.
Lenox, MA
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To fund a partnership with the Berkshire County Juvenile Court and seven Berkshire County high schools for two after-school programs: one for high school students and another for adjudicated juvenile offenders as part of their parole program. Both groups will create scripts from scenes of Shakespearean plays, culminating in performances for other youth and families.

SMARTS Collaborative
Norton, MA
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To fund a partnership with the Attleboro, Dighton, Easton, Foxboro, Mansfield, Norton, Rehoboth and Taunton School Districts for the SMARTS Summer Institute, which offers daily classes in creative writing, dance, drama, music and visual arts for both hearing and deaf students in the first through twelfth grades.

Trustees of the Fuller Memorial d/b/a Fuller Museum of Art
Brockton, MA
$5,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To fund a partnership with the Brockton Alliance for Youth and the Mobius Artists Group that will support a summer artist residency by visual artist Margaret Tittemore to create an exhibit at the Fuller Museum of Art and at Mobius Gallery. The participating girls are referred by a local social service organization to this special museum project

MICHIGAN

Boarshead Theater
Lansing, MI
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To fund a partnership with Gardner Middle School and YMCA of Lansing to support Theater as Social Voice. In this after-school program, middle school students will develop a performance piece around a social issue selected by the students.

Very Special Arts Michigan
Detroit, MI
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To fund a partnership with The Arc Detroit, Great Lakes CIL, Detroit Institute of Arts, Wayne State University, Michigan Rehabilitation Services, Detroit Public Schools and the Center for Creative Studies to provide after-school vocational training and creative opportunities in visual arts, conducted by professional artists with disabilities for 30 teens with disabilities.

MINNESOTA

COMPAS, Inc.
St. Paul, MN
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To fund a partnership with the Center for Hmong Arts and Talent to provide after-school workshops in traditional and contemporary arts, led by Hmong artists for youth, ages 10 to 18. Each workshop will focus on a different art form--traditional Hmong instrument-playing, textiles or contemporary theater.

Heart of the Beast Theatre, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To fund a partnership with Anderson Community School, South High School and the Minneapolis Summer Youth Employment Program to benefit The Lake Street Theater Club, which provides artist-led puppet and mask-making workshops for teens leading to public performances for a summer tour. Advanced teens will assist in teaching their peers.

Regents of the University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To fund a partnership between the Hallie Q. Brown Community Center, Mounds Park School, Music Tech and St. Paul Talmud Torah Choir to support CitySong's Erase Racism Project, a choir program for youth, grades three to eight. The partnership will provide after-school rehearsals, public performances, field trips and special projects involving songwriting and recording.

MISSOURI

Center of Contemporary Arts
St. Louis, MO
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Art
To fund a partnership with Jefferson Elementary School for an after-school and summer program for third to fifth graders. Students will take computer-based art classes including digital painting, image editing, bookmaking, animation and web design; the program culminates in an exhibition of their work.

The Coterie, Inc.
Kansas City, MO
$5,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To fund a partnership with several metropolitan area high schools and local professional artists associated with the Coterie for Reaching the Write Minds, a series of workshops for emerging teen playwrights. From this group, 20 to 30 young people will be selected to be in the Coterie's year long, after-school program, "Young Playwrights' Roundtable," and their plays will be performed in the Coterie's Young Playwrights' Festival.

Saint Louis Art Museum
St. Louis, MO
$5,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To fund a partnership with the Herbert Hoover Boys & Girls Club to provide Art With Us, a program featuring art history and hands-on activities taught by professional artists for 100 or more youth from predominantly African-American communities in St. Louis.

MONTANA

Young Men's Christian Association of Billings
Billings, MT
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To fund a partnership with eight schools in School District 2, five rural schools and the Housing Authority to create an after-school program in which artists and writers will hold weekly workshops in writing, collage work, improvisational jazz and environmental studies.

NEBRASKA

Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts
Omaha, NE
$5,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To fund a partnership with Pacific Pals, Inc., to support Creating with Pals at the Bemis, an after school art program for approximately 20 seventh and eighth graders from low-income families in Omaha. Participants will work in a variety of visual arts media with resident artists, tour galleries and artists' studios and explore career options in related fields.

NEVADA

Lied Discovery Children's Museum
Las Vegas, NV
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To fund a partnership with the Clark County School District to support ArtSmarts, an artist-in residence program for 15 to 20 teens. The artist and students will work together to create an arts activity that will later be presented to the public.

Sierra Arts Foundation
Reno, NV
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To fund a project of Youth ArtWorks, an ongoing partnership with the Reno Police Department, Nevada Museum of Art, Washoe County Library System, Job Opportunities in Nevada, and the Sundance Bookstore. The project, led by writer Cindie Geddes, offers literature and writing classes to youth ages 15 to 21 from the Truckee Meadows community. The project will provide participants with journal publication and public readings of their work.

NEW HAMPSHIRE

The Currier Gallery of Art
Manchester, NH
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To fund a partnership with the Manchester Neighborhood Housing Services to provide after-school residencies in painting, drawing and sculpture for approximately 20 low-income, inner-city high school students. The program will culminate in a public exhibition at the Yo! Gallery.

NEW JERSEY

Institute for Arts and Humanities Education
New Brunswick, NJ
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To fund a partnership with Dobbs Ferry High School, Children's Village, Our Lady of Victory Academy and The Masters School to create an after-school program in which students from four high schools in Dobbs Ferry, New York create an experimental, multimedia arts project addressing the theme of boredom and choices.

Perkins Center for the Arts
Moorestown, NJ
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To fund a partnership with Saint Joseph's Carpenter Society and Saint Joseph's Pro-Cathedral School for creation of a public mural in East Camden, NJ intended to increase cultural awareness and promote positive identity in a multicultural community. Philadelphia artist Walter Edmonds will lead the community process for the project and mentor teen participants.

Young Audiences of New Jersey
Princeton, NJ
$5,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Art
To fund a partnership with HomeFront for the Ennis Beley Project, for a summer program for adolescents of homeless Trenton families to work with professional photographers, exploring the art and business of photography. Participants will visit area businesses that employ photographers, write a journal about their personal photographs, and curate a student exhibition.

NEW MEXICO

Gallup Area Arts Council, Inc.
Gallup, NM
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To fund a partnership with the Gallup McKinley School District's Theatre Artists-In-Residence for Gallup Performing Arts Academy's Playmaker's Workshop. This program will provide after-school and weekend sessions for predominantly Native-American and Hispanic youth, ages 12 to 18, in storytelling, scriptwriting, theatrical production and performance centered on themes of alcohol and drug abuse prevention, culminating in performances of their work.

The Mimbres Region Arts Council
Silver City, NM
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To fund a partnership with the Silver Consolidated Schools for an after-school drama program at five different schools involving approximately 20 students in kindergarten through twelfth grade in isolated, rural, southwest New Mexico. The program will culminate in public and school performances.

Working Classroom, Inc.
Albuquerque, NM
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To fund a partnership with the Hayes Middle School, Highland High School Cluster Forum, Rotary Club of Albuquerque and others for after-school arts programming for 11 to 14-year-old, primarily Hispanic, Mexican and Native-American students. Activities will include a community mural painted on interior school walls, painting classes culminating in school and gallery exhibits, acting classes and school performances.

NEW YORK

Arts and Cultural Council for Greater Rochester, Inc.
Rochester, NY
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To fund a partnership with the Lewis Street Center, a social service agency; Rochester City School District; ArtWorks Advisory Committee and Rochester Resource Alliance to expand ArtWorks, a summer youth employment program, into a year-round after-school program. ArtWorks will employ 20 low-income African-American and Hispanic teens, ages 14 and 15, to create artwork under the guidance of professional artists.

The Children's Art Carnival
New York, NY
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To fund a partnership with the Joan Mitchell Foundation and Alternative High Schools Superintendency to provide artists residencies in painting, drawing and sculpture to 45 students in grades six to 12. Three professional artists will provide arts instruction and serve as role models and mentors to the participants.

CRC Institute for Arts in Education, Inc.
Albany, NY
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To fund a partnership with the City of Troy Police Department, Troy Enlarged City School District and Lansingburgh School District for a social action theater and music project focusing on substance abuse and violence prevention. Forty-five students will work with professionals, attend professional theater, and develop performances for their peers in Troy and Lansingburgh schools and summer day camps.

Downtown Community Television Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To fund a partnership with the Amboy Neighborhood Center in Brooklyn, HELP Bronx Crotona homeless shelter, and Manhattan Neighborhood Network to train 10 homeless teens in production and post-production of electronic media through an after-school and weekend program.

Elders Share the Arts, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To fund a partnership with the Union Settlement Association to support the intergenerational after school program Living History, which pairs teens in East Harlem with homebound elders. The students will work with two professional artists to transform the elders' oral history into exhibited artworks. Twenty-one students, ages 14 to 16, and 12 to 20 elders will work together to create an exhibition at Union Settlement's Community Gallery.

El Puente de Williamsburg, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To fund a partnership with the Los Sures Senior Citizen Center for Recipe for Cultural Wellness. This program brings together approximately 30 low-income youth, ages 12 to 21, and 20 senior citizens in the Latino community to create a mural, theatrical presentation and documentary video around the theme of food and cultural wellness, utilizing the tradition of oral history and the rituals of cooking.

New York University/Creative Arts Team
New York, NY
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To fund a partnership with The After School Corporation, Tommy Hilfiger, Inc., and The Paul A. Kaplan Center for Educational Drama, for an after-school drama program for 52 high school students to develop skills such as critical thinking, cooperation, decision making and conflict resolution.

Poets & Writers, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To fund a partnership with the Police Athletic League to provide poetry workshops for children ages eight to 15 who live in four homeless shelters in Brooklyn, NY. Under the guidance of poet mentors, the children will improve their language skills and develop a stronger sense of self-esteem.

TADA! Theater and Dance Alliance, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To fund a partnership with the Grand Street Settlement Girls' and Young Women's Initiative to teach playwriting and musical theater to 50 girls in grades six to twelve on Manhattan's Lower East Side. TADA! teaching artists Terri Muuss and Ken Kacmar will work with the pre-teen girls to develop a theater work about growing up. The program will culminate in a performance at the Grand Street Settlement.

Westchester Arts Council, Inc.
White Plains, NY
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To fund a partnership with the Mount Vernon Youth Bureau for an after-school job readiness training program for 30 low-income children, who will attend artist-led residencies in dance, theater and writing.

Young Audiences of Western New York, Inc.
Buffalo, NY
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To fund a partnership with Boys & Girls of Buffalo, Inc. to support Partnership Project 2001, a series of after-school and summer residencies for children, ages five to 17. The program will integrate visual and performing arts with literacy and communication skills, culminating in a presentation of the children's work.

NORTH CAROLINA

Alleghany County Schools
Sparta, NC
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To fund a partnership with Mountaineer Millennium, Alleghany County Fiddlers Convention, and the Alleghany Arts Council to support Junior Appalachian Musicians, an after-school program offering instruction in traditional music placing master artists with 50 students in fifth to eighth grades. Structured practice sessions and field trips will enhance the instruction of traditional music to these children in a rural, mountainous region of North Carolina with a high rate of poverty and illiteracy.

Community School of the Arts
Charlotte, NC
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To fund a partnership with Charlotte Housing Authority and Myers Park Methodist Church for an after-school program providing classes in music and visual arts for youths in Southside Homes. The program serves approximately 360 children, ages six and older, largely from low-income, African American families.

Hiddenite Center, Inc.
Hiddenite, NC
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To fund a partnership with Work Force Initiatives for Youth, Alexander County Schools and the Alexander County Sheriff's Department for youth in rural Alexander County to work with artists on reconstructing regional-style log cabins and furniture. Youths will learn the techniques of woodworking and pottery, regional history, team building, math and communication skills.

Sawtooth Center for Visual Art
Winston-Salem, NC
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To fund a partnership with the Forsyth County Public Library, Camp Leo and Hispanic Ministries of the Catholic Diocese, an ESL Specialist for Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools, and the elementary schools of Diggs, Brunson and Hall-Woodward. Through writing, photography, mural making and studio-based arts instruction, the project serves as a bridge that helps to connect African American, Hispanic and Caucasian elementary and middle school students whose Winston-Salem and Forsyth County neighborhoods are largely separated by race.

NORTH DAKOTA

Jamestown Fine Arts Association
Jamestown, ND
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To fund a partnership with the YMCA, Jamestown Public Schools, St. John's Academy and Region VI ND Partnerships Project for Arts After School, a program providing a structured, supervised setting for students in grades four through six. Students will participate in a variety of arts disciplines including visual arts. In addition, they will create and perform improvisations and scripted short plays based on personal experiences.

Turtle Mountain Community College, Inc.
Belcourt, ND
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To fund a partnership with Turtle Mountain Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Prevention and Research, Turtle Mountain Child Welfare, North Dakota Council on the Arts, University of New Mexico CASAA, and the Indian Health Service. Traditional Dakota, Chippewa, Norwegian and Irish storytellers will work with professional counselors prior to weekend camps for Indian youth, families and non-Indian foster parents referred by partnering organizations. By relating traditional stories about responsibility, choices and caring for oneself and others, the storytellers hope to help children, families and counselors interact.

OHIO

Cleveland Public Theatre, Inc.
Cleveland, OH
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To fund a partnership with the Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority for Brick City Theatre, a theatre arts program in two public housing residences. The program will train teens in theater arts and public relations and culminate in a winter holiday performance.

Foothills School of American Crafts
Amesville, OH
$5,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To fund a partnership with the Hocking Valley Community Residential Center for an artists' residency at the Center, a rehabilitation facility for boys who have committed non-violent offenses. The eight youths, ages 13 to 18, will learn several facets of traditional Appalachian white oak basketmaking.

Greater Akron Musical Association, Inc.
Akron, OH
$5,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
Musicians from the Akron Symphony and Omo Iroko Dance Society will provide lessons in Trinidadian steel drum and African drum playing for middle school students participating in a health program of the Children's Hospital Center of Akron. The youths will then teach senior citizens at the Akron Metropolitan Housing Authority's Saferstein Towers.

Greater Columbus Arts Council
Columbus, OH
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To fund a partnership with Americorp, Martin Luther King Community Center and the Greater Columbus Arts Council to create Children of the Future, an after-school and summer program for children, ages five to 12, living in high crime neighborhoods. Artists will use drama, creative writing, dance and visual arts activities to help the children develop skills in critical thinking, communication and conflict resolution as they gain greater awareness of their roles and responsibilities in larger communities.

Mad River Theater Works
West Liberty, OH
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To fund a partnership with the Ben-El Child Development Center to support YouthWorks, bringing together theater artists, social service agency staff, community members and youth ages eight to 18 with severe mental, emotional or behavioral challenges. Led by artists and Ben-El caseworkers and therapists, the young people will explore the culture of rural Ohio as source material to create original plays, culminating in performances at the Center for their families and other residents.

OKLAHOMA

Arts and Humanities Council of Tulsa, Inc.
Tulsa, OK
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To fund a partnership with Madison Middle School and the Family & Children Services of Tulsa to serve middle school students and their families. Evening workshops in the visual and performing arts will pair students and their families with teachers, counselors and artists, such as members of the African Drum and Dance Troupe.

Arts Council of Oklahoma City
Oklahoma City, OK
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To fund a partnership with YMCA of Greater Oklahoma City, Oklahoma City Public Schools, Oklahoma City Community Foundation, United Way of Oklahoma City, DHS Office of Child Care, Oklahoma Arts Council, City Arts Center and BLAC, Inc. The Arts After School committee will plan the recruitment and placement of artists at 25 sites during the 2000/01 school year.

OREGON

Eastern Oregon Regional Arts Council, Inc.
La Grande, OR
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To fund a partnership with Eastern Oregon Arts in Education, the Mexican American Citizens League and Oregon Folklife Program to conduct Youth on the Move, an after-school and summer program for Latino children, ages eight to 18, who will learn about traditional folk arts and culture.

Media-Rites
Portland, OR
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To fund a partnership with Roosevelt High School and the Family Resource Center/Health Clinic for the Roosevelt Afterschool Project, to train inner-city North Portland teens to become reporters, writers and graphic/web designers. The teens will produce a series of radio stories, broadcast locally and on NPR stations; a monthly community newspaper; and a website in different languages to provide information by and for youth and their families.

Oregon Historical Society
Portland, OR
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To fund a partnership with the Oregon Folklife Program, Oregon Council for Hispanic Advancement's Oregon Leadership Institute, and Oregon State University's Extension Services in Hood River. The project provides workshops in traditional Mexican embroidery, wheat weaving, pottery, and other art forms led by folk artists identified by the Oregon Folklife Program. The project participants are youth in rural Hood River County in north central Oregon.

PENNSYLVANIA

Asian Arts Initiative
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To fund a partnership with Medical Community for Pan-Asian Health and Understanding and artists Gary San Angel and Alvin Eng. Seeing Voices utilizes the creative process of video-making to empower Asian America teens, culminating in the production of a video that addresses the issues the teens confront in daily life.

Benedictine Sisters of Erie
Erie, PA
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To fund a partnership with Inner-City Neighborhood Art House, Erie Junior Philharmonic, and Pfieffer-Burleigh Elementary School to provide approximately 400 inner-city children, ages seven to 14, with access to concerts and music demonstrations in the community. In addition, 100 children will receive after-school lessons on a musical instrument.

The Clay Studio
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To fund a partnership with the Philadelphia Youth Study Center, a detention facility, to provide ceramic classes for teens at the Center. Through the classes, the teens from low-income, inner-city neighborhoods will learn through creative study and involvement with their mentors.

Fulton Opera House Foundation
Lancaster, PA
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To fund a partnership with The Pennsylvania Migrant Education Program of Millersville University and Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Services of Lancaster County for the development and production of an original theater piece by multi-ethnic, disadvantaged and disabled teens, based on issues in their lives and communities. The program also includes a summer project, Youtheater.

Philadelphia Folklore Project
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To fund a partnership with Asian American United to benefit the Asian Folk Arts Education Project, to provide year-round, weekend and after-school classes for low-income youth in Chinese folk and lion dance led by master folk artists in Philadelphia's Chinatown. The youth will also learn to document the cultural heritage of their community whose base is currently threatened by the construction of a baseball stadium.

Temple University
Elkins Park, PA
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To fund a partnership with The Children's Services Department of the Philadelphia Emergency Shelters at Francis House and Interstate Realty Management, Dauphine Arms to provide artists in residence for teens in predominantly African-American communities in low-income areas of North Philadelphia. Rennie Harris Pure Movement dancer and choreographer Clyde Evens will teach movement to youth at a homeless shelter, and Gina Frederick will lead youth in designing and building a community garden in nearby public housing.

Young Men and Women's Hebrew Association & Irene Kaufmann Centers
Pittsburgh, PA
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To fund a partnership with the Jewish Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh and the East End Cooperative Ministry to serve African-American and Jewish teens. Teens will create a story quilt incorporating words, photo transfers and stitchery based on a story they generated from their discussions of each other's communities. The quilt will later be displayed publicly.

RHODE ISLAND

Duncan Avenue Arts Collaborative
Providence, RI
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary

To fund a partnership with the Providence Community Mediation Center, Providence Recreation Department and Everett Dance Theatre in an after-school program with 20 high school youth. Students will create skits, songs and movement relating to conflict resolution and peacemaking. A selected group will create performances and workshops to tour recreation centers and middle schools.

Rhode Island Youth Guidance Center, Inc.
Pawtucket, RI
$5,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To fund a partnership with Samuel Slater Junior High School and AS220, a Providence-based community art center, for A+ Adventure. School staff will refer 20 students who demonstrate signs of social, emotional or academic problems for a year-long, after-school program utilizing photography, printmaking, drawing, sculpture and ceramics to portray the students' Woodlawn neighborhood.

SOUTH CAROLINA

Ballet Guild of Spartanburg, Inc.
Spartanburg, SC
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To fund a partnership with The Arts Partnership of Greater Spartanburg, The City of Spartanburg, and Spartanburg Housing Authority in support of Art In Motion, a summer program offering visual art and dance classes to 150 inner-city children, ages six to 14, who live in public housing. Classes will culminate in a dance performance and art exhibit.

South Carolina State Museum
Columbia, SC
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To fund a partnership with Sue Kuhlen Camp for Kids, a camping program for children and families living with HIV. Heidi Darr-Hope, artist in residence at the Center for Cancer Treatment and Research at Richland Memorial Hospital, will give workshops for 45 HIV-positive youth, grades six to 12, in self-expression as a means of managing the emotional turmoil of the illness. The students' work will be incorporated into Darr-Hope's mixed media sculpture that will be on exhibit at the museum in conjunction with a photography exhibit, Friend in AID: Portrait of an Epidemic.

The Spartanburg County Association
Spartanburg, SC
$5,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To fund a partnership with the Housing Authority of Spartanburg, Junior League of Spartanburg, Inc., and The Arts Partnership of Greater Spartanburg to support the residency of local professional artist Thomas Parham, in the Creative Outlet and Learning Opportunities for Rising Stars (COLORS) program at Phyllis Goins House Complex.

SOUTH DAKOTA

Prairie Freedom Center for Disabled Independence
Sioux Falls, SD
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To fund a partnership with Very Special Arts South Dakota, the Prairie Freedom Center for Independent Living and Head Start for visual arts classes led by artists in the state for Native American children, ages three to six, who are in Head Start programs on five South Dakota Indian reservations.

TENNESSEE

Ballet Tennessee
Chattanooga, TN
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To fund a partnership with the City of Chattanooga Department of Parks, Recreation, Arts and Culture to conduct The Talent Identification Program that offers dance training through summer workshops and performances for inner-city and rural youth, ages eight to 14. Students will also attend rehearsals of Ballet Tennessee's Millennium Nutcracker, in which some of them will have roles.

TEXAS

Centro Cultural Aztlan, Inc.
San Antonio, TX
$10, 000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To fund a partnership with the Edgewood Independent School District to support Pluma Y Verso Juvenil, a creative writing program serving low-income youth throughout the school year. It provides a forum for teens to share experiences, insights and aspirations.

Jump-Start Performance Company
San Antonio, TX
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To fund a partnership with the Boys & Girls Club of San Antonio and Alamo Children's Advocacy Center CARE Project to support Healing Arts, a series of therapeutic workshops in performance and stagecraft, led by Jump-Start Performance Company for children ages five to 12 who have been sexually abused. The project will take place at the Boys & Girls Club of San Antonio.

Junior Players Guild
Dallas, TX
$5,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To fund a partnership with the Camp Fire Boys & Girls, Lone Star Council, Youth Services Council, Calumet Community Center, Buckner Family Services, Our Brother's Keeper and the independent school districts of Dallas, Richardson, Irving and Plano. The partnership's Peace Power program provides after-school and summer workshops in a variety of performing and visual arts for 400 youth, ages 11 to 18.

Writers In The Schools
Houston, TX
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To fund a partnership with DiverseWorks, the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, Burbank Middle School, Deady Middle School and Chaver High School to create Word Up, a series of after-school writing workshops. Students will draft and edit work and learn public speaking skills such as projection, enunciation, tone and delivery prior to presenting public readings.

TEXAS

Young Audiences of Greater Dallas
Dallas, TX
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To fund a partnership with the Dallas County Juvenile Department to support the Creative Solutions Summer Program, an alternative education program for up to 75 teens, including youth on probation. The program provides the teens with hands-on visual and performing arts residences that will culminate in exhibitions and performances.

Zachary Scott Theatre Center
Austin, TX
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To fund a partnership with artist Joy Cunningham and Allen Elementary School to support After School Theatre Troupes, a long-term residency for third and fourth and seventh through tenth grade students, that culminates in the writing and performance of an original play.

UTAH

Repertory Dance Theatre
Salt Lake City, UT
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To fund a partnership with Salt Lake City School District's Community Education Program, Wells Fargo Bank, Artworks at West High School, Bryant Middle School, Northwest Intermediate School, Bad Dog Rediscovers America, Artspace, and Centro de la Familia for year-round training opportunities for seventh to twelfth grade students. The program provides administrative internships, after-school classes and summer workshops in dance and stage production, leading to performances and exploration of various career options in the arts.

Visual Art Institute
Salt Lake City, UT
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To fund a partnership with Bad Dog Rediscovers America and Salt Lake Community Education to provide three week-long art camps for low-income, ethnically diverse youths, ages 11 to 18. The three camp topics are technology, celebrating cultural diversity and storytelling.

VERMONT

Vermont Arts Exchange
North Bennington, VT
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To fund a partnership with the Town of Bennington and its police department, Southwestern Vermont Supervisory Union District and Applegate Residents Association, a low-income public housing site, to support the Vermont Arts Exchange's Afterschool Arts and Outreach Initiative. This program matches local youth with artist mentors for a variety of arts projects.

Washington County Youth Services Bureau (WCYSB)
Montpelier, VT
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To fund a partnership with WCYSB/Boys & Girls Club, the Onion River Arts Council and Christ Episcopal Church to produce a series of after-school workshops led by professional artists for approximately 50 teens in Central Vermont. Field trips to museums, exhibitions and artists' studios will be included.

VIRGINIA

Arlington County Cultural Affairs Division
Arlington, VA
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To fund the Columbia Heights West Teen Photo Project, a partnership with Arlington County Recreation Division, Arlington Arts Center and Arlington Public Schools, to provide after-school workshops in photography for13 teens from 11 different ethnic and cultural traditions. A public exhibition of participants' work will document their perspectives on the life of immigrants in Northern Virginia.

Eastern Shore's Own, Inc.
Belle Haven, VA
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To fund a partnership with New Road Community Development Group, Concerned Citizens of Cape Charles, Bayview Citizens for Social Justice, Snead's Memorial Methodist Church, Northampton County 4-H, and Virginia Cooperative Extension for after-school and summer arts workshops for youth, grades six to 12. The students come from low-income, rural and predominantly African American communities on Virginia's Eastern Shore.

Northampton County Public Schools
Machipongo, VA
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To fund a partnership with Arts Enter Dance Studio to hold weekend jazz and modern dance classes at the Palace Theater in Cape Charles for predominantly African-American students in grades six to twelve in the geographically isolated communities of Virginia's Eastern Shore. In addition to studying technique, choreography and performance, students will explore music, costumes and an introduction to dance history. The program culminates in a public performance.

WASHINGTON

911 Media Arts Center
Seattle, WA
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To fund a partnership between YMCA Seattle City Center Branch and KCTS, Seattle's PBS affiliate, to support Reel Grrls. This after-school program brings a diverse group of teen girls together with professional media artists to create videos that will examine images of girls in the mainstream media.

Jack Straw Foundation
Seattle, WA
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To fund a partnership with Arts and Visually Impaired Audiences and Franklin, Cleveland, Thomas Jefferson, West Seattle and Federal Way High Schools to provide audio arts internships for up to five high school students per quarter. This includes audio arts training, mentorship for individual projects and observation of professional recording sessions. Committees of local school staff, youth development specialists and staff of the partnering organizations will select the interns.

WEST VIRGINIA

Carnegie Hall, Inc.
Lewisburg, WV
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To fund a partnership with Greenbrier County Schools to present Carnegie Kids' College, a summer program for approximately 200 students, grades K-6. Students will progress through six performing and/or visual arts classes and student work will be exhibited in the Carnegie Hall Museum.

Davis and Elkins College
Elkins, WV
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To fund a partnership with the Randolph County Board of Education and Youth Build for after school and intensive summer workshops led by local artists for children ages 13 to 18. The program will teach regional folk art traditions and cultural heritage, expand the number of youth folk art apprenticeships, and provide technical support for youths forming traditional bands and dance groups.

Step By Step, Inc.
Harts, WV
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To fund a partnership with Lincoln County Schools 21st Century Program, West Virginia University Extension Service, Save the Children and Appalachian Field Office to support an after-school and summer program led by local folk artists who teach traditional instrumental music, dance, African American and old-time gospel to youth in rural, isolated Lincoln County.

WISCONSIN

County of Oconto
Oconto, WI
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To fund a partnership with AVEC Ltd. for an after-school program involving up to 125 youth, in grades six to 12, in the creation of a public mural and related music composition.

String Academy of Wisconsin, Inc.
Milwaukee, WI
$5,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To fund a partnership with the Kagel and Wisconsin Avenue Elementary Schools and University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee for the String Academy Inner City Music Program, providing individual lessons, classes and performance opportunities in violin, viola and cello to 20 to 30 low-income and ethnically diverse students ages four to 18 living in the central city area of Milwaukee.

Woodland Pattern, Inc.
Milwaukee, WI
$10,000
FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To fund a partnership with Franklin Pierce Elementary School to support several after-school projects in creative writing, movement and visual arts. These workshops will culminate in a public performance and publication of an anthology and/or art exhibition. The partnership will also support Woodland Creatures Poetry Camp, a summer program for creative writing and the arts.

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