2004 Grant Awards: State Listings
Arts on Radio and Television/Folk Arts Infrastructure/Heritage & Preservation/Learning in the Arts/Partnerships
Some details of the projects listed below are subject to
change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.
CALIFORNIA
24th Street Theatre Company
Los Angeles, CA
$12,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support After 'Cool, an after-school, theater-based program for
youth attending Los Angeles public schools. Professional theater
artists will conduct free theater workshops that will culminate in
a staged public performance.
Alameda County Art Commission (consortium)
Oakland, CA
$24,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support Project YES!, a media-based consortium project. Open to
youth, ages 13 to 18, program activities will include introductory
radio journalism and engineering instruction, followed by intensive
training in Web production, content editing, research, writing, and
reporting.
Ali Akbar College of Music
San Rafael, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Ali Akbar Archive Project. The preservation effort
will survey 35 years of important archival material and will
explore ways to make the contents accessible.
Alliance for California Traditional Arts
Fresno, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program. The
project will support one-on-one learning for 25 master-apprentice
pairs, an artists' gathering, and an on-line statewide traditional
arts directory.
Alliance for California Traditional Arts
Fresno, CA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Leadership Initiatives FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk
& Traditional Arts
To support the Traditional Arts Development Program. The program
will consist of a mentoring and professional development; a
gathering of organizations, artists, and funders; and partial
support of the executive director and administrative assistant
positions.
American Tapestry Alliance
San Jose, CA
$5,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Visual Arts
To support the development and touring of a biennial exhibition
and catalog of contemporary tapestry. The exhibition will include
tapestry works from around the world and will travel to venues
within the United States.
Arhoolie Foundation (on behalf of
Sageland Media)
El Cerrito, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Kenny Hall Video Project. The video will document,
preserve and present the repertoire and musical heritage of
old-time fiddle and mandolin player Kenny Hall.
Asian Improv aRts (consortium) (on behalf of
AYPAL)
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support Talking Roots Arts Collective. Through
artist-in-residence programs, the project offers after-school
classes in poetry, theatre, and dance for Asian and Pacific
Islander youth, ages 12 to 18, in Central and East Oakland.
Bay Area Video Coalition, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Media Arts
To support ongoing, low-cost video preservation services to
artists and arts organizations throughout the nation. In addition,
Bay Area Video Coalition will launch an audio preservation and
remastering service center.
Bethune Theatredanse
Los Angeles, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support Unbound Dreams. Children and youth with special needs
will gain dance, movement and theater skills integrated with
academics and career-development experiences in after-school and
weekend residencies.
Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
$38,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support visual arts instruction for young people. Full-time art
directors and guest artists will provide after-school and summer
instruction in a wide range of media including drawing, sculpture,
painting, metal work, woodworking, printmaking, silk screening,
ceramics, and photography.
California Arts Council
Sacramento, CA
$987100
CATEGORY: Partnership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State &
Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.
California Institute of the Arts
(consortium)
Valencia, CA
$48,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support the Digital Arts Project. In consortium with Watts
Towers Arts Center and other community-based partners, faculty and
students will provide in-depth workshops and public events in
digital media through the Community Arts Partnership (CAP).
California Poets in the Schools
San Francisco, CA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support the PEER Project, a poet-in-residence and peer-review
program. Students in kindergarten through 12th grade will be taught
writing skills by accomplished poets and in addition, will have
opportunities to share their work through public readings and
published entries in the California Poets in the Schools
Statewide Anthology.
California State University, Long Beach
Foundation (on behalf of California Institute for
Preservation of Jazz)
Long Beach, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Music
To support a festival honoring the music of 1990 NEA Jazz Master
Gerald Wilson. Activities will include the commissioning and
performance of a new work by Wilson, master classes, and the
initiation of a Gerald Wilson Collection archives.
California State University Los Angeles Auxiliary
Services, Inc. (on behalf of Luckman Fine Arts
Complex)
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Music
To support Dolphy in Depth: 75 Years of the Life and Music of Eric
Dolphy. The festival celebrating the great Los Angeles-born jazz
musician and composer in performances by the Luckman Jazz
Orchestra, under the leadership of James Newton, will also include
a symposium featuring jazz scholars and collaborating
musicians.
California Summer Music, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support a comprehensive music education summer program for
children and youth from across the country. Young pianists,
composers, and string players will be engaged in a series of
hands-on learning opportunities including private music lessons,
chamber music ensembles, master classes with guest artists, and
public performances.
Center for World Music
La Mesa, CA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support World Music in the Schools. Ethnomusicologists and
educators will develop a comprehensive, standards-based program
through school concerts, workshops, and intensive instruction given
by internationally respected artists.
Chinese Culture Foundation of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
$16,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Visual Arts
To support an exhibition and catalog featuring the Cantonese art
form of Shiwan ceramics. Curated by So Kam Ng, Professor of Asian
Art History at San Francisco State University, the project is a
collaboration between Asian and U.S. scholars.
Chinese Historical Society of Southern
California
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Museums
To support the Archiving and Curating Project. The archive
documents the development of the Chinese community in Southern
California from the 1880s to the 1930s.
City of San Fernando, California
San Fernando, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Folk & Traditional Arts
To suport the Mariachi Master-Apprentice Program. The project
includes instruction in advanced arrangement and performance
skills.
Community Music Center
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support the Comprehensive Musicianship/Inner City Young
Musicians program. Professional musicians will provide free
ensemble and musicianship classes for underserved middle and high
school-aged students.
Corporation of the Fine Arts Museums
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Museums
To support conservation treatment of key furniture pieces and
important frames for paintings in the American art collection.
Dating from the 18th to the early 20th century, the works are
anchors of the museum's comprehensive survey of American art.
Deaf West Theatre Company, Inc.
North Hollywood, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Musical Theater
To support an education program provided to theaters participating
in a 15-city tour of the musical Big River . As part of the
tour, Deaf West Theatre Company will provide theater staff with a
two-week, pre-show training program led by an American Sign
Language master to help them better understand deaf culture, deaf
accessibility, and the unique artistic approach required for
successful sign-language theater.
di Rosa Preserve: Art and Nature
Napa, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Museums
To support the Collection Care Program. The project will address
the long-term conservation needs of this major collection of
northern California art through a collaboration with the Department
of Art and Art History at Sonoma State University.
Each One Reach One
Pacifica, CA
$13,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support A Dream and a Plan for Tomorrow (ADAPT), a playwriting
workshop and educational tutoring program. Designed for
incarcerated San Mateo County teenagers, the project will involve
professional theater artists working one-on-one with youths to
create and develop original, one-act plays.
El Teatro Campesino
San Juan Bautist, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Theater
To support the production of a traditional miracle play.
Professional and community artists will participate in the
production of La Virgen del Tepeyac at the San Juan Bautista
Mission.
Film Arts Foundation (on behalf of
Public Interest TV Films)
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a documentary film titled Freedom's Road: A Musical
Journey. The film will document the life and work of Linda
Tillery and the Cultural Heritage Choir as they travel the world
uncovering, preserving, and disseminating an endangered indigenous
oral folk culture and African-American vernacular music.
Film Arts Foundation (on behalf of Deep
Focus Productions Inc.)
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and
Television FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support research and development for a television documentary
on the roles, impact, and depiction of Asian Pacific Americans in
the American motion picture industry. The Asian Pacifics in
American Cinema Project will bring to light the contributions that
Asian Pacific Americans have made both in front of and behind the
camera.
Firebird Youth Chinese Orchestra
San Jose, CA
$26,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support Chinese Music Education for Youth. Master Chinese
musicians will offer weekend traditional instrumental music
ensemble classes at six levels of proficiency for youth, ages seven
to 13.
Gamelan Sekar Jaya
El Cerrito, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Folk & Traditional Arts
To support post-production costs for a video documentary on the
life and work of Balinese dancer Ni Ketut Arini. The documentary
will be the first examination of Balinese dance conveyed by a
master artist widely recognized as a national treasure and
repository of rare and endangered dance forms.
HeArt Project
Los Angeles, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support workshops in theater, poetry, visual arts, and dance.
Eight professional artists will offer workshops for students, ages
14-18, in two "continuation" high schools in Santa Monica and
Redondo Beach. Continuation high schools provide students who have
failed the traditional high school system with alternative ways to
pursue their educational goals.
Idris Ackamoor & Cultural Odyssey
(consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Theater
To support a consortium project to preserve and document the
theatrical works of two theater companies. Cultural Odyssey and
AfroSolo will partner in an archival project to document, display,
and publish the historic contributions of each organization to
honor the groups' 25th and 10th anniversaries, respectively.
Independent Television Service, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$125,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and
Television FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the selection, acquisition, and packaging of films for
the 2004-05 season on the public television series Independent
Lens. The series will provide the public with access to innovative
dramatic, animated, and documentary works by independent
filmmakers.
Inner-City Arts
Los Angeles, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support the Early Arts Learning Initiative. The project will
engage visiting artists as full-time staff to provide a sequential
arts education program for second- and third-grade students in Los
Angeles elementary schools.
Iris Feminist Collective
Berkeley, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and
Television FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the pre-production, writing, and early filming phase of
a documentary by Jon Else about the making of a new opera.
Wonders are Many will follow composer John Adams and
director Peter Sellars as they create an opera based on the life of
physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer.
Japanese Cultural & Community Center of Northern
California (on behalf of Gen Taiko)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Mastsuri Project, a program focused on
Japanese-American heritage. Activities will include a residency by
minyo (folk song) and shamisen (three-string Japanese
lute) master artists; performances at the Japan Center Obon
Festival, GenTaiko's 10th Anniversary Concert, and the fifth Annual
Asian Pacific American Arts and Heritage Festival.
Jazz Tap Ensemble, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Dance
To support the preservation of rhythm tap dance. The project will
include the creation of a DVD, a mentorship program for
choreographers and dancers, and the creation of new work.
Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Visual Arts
To support restoration and reinstallation of a WPA mural painted
in 1933 by Bernard Zakheim. Once restored, the mural will be
reinstalled at the Jewish Community Center's new
135,000-square-foot facility.
Kaisahan of San Jose
San Jose, CA
$8,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Next Generation Program. The project will offer
five apprenticeships for young adult dancers to assume leadership
roles in the teachng of Filipino dance classes.
Kern County Youth Mariachi Foundation
Bakersfield, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Folk & Traditional Arts
To support implementation of an apprenticeship and instructor
training program in mariachi traditions. Advanced students will be
trained to mentor and teach younger students. A total of 120
students will be served by the program.
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$24,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Visual Arts
To support an archival project to preserve the holdings of Los
Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Inc. (LACE). The archival
holdings include thousands of slides, catalogs, correspondence,
invitations, posters, and a vast video collection.
Los Angeles County Arts Commission
Los Angeles, CA
$75,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support the Arts Education Hub and the implementation of Arts
for All: Los Angeles County Regional Blueprint for Arts Education.
The Blueprint provides a roadmap for systemic change and
institutionalization of kindergarten to 12th grade sequential arts
education in Los Angeles County.
Los Angeles Opera Company
Los Angeles, CA
$70,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support the Educational Continuum. The program, designed to
provide opportunities for children to appreciate and understand the
broad genre of opera, will include a student matinee of a fully
staged opera, and Opera for Educators/Opera 101, a professional
development seminar for teachers.
Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center
San Pablo, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Community Heritage Project (CHP). The CHP promotes
cultural traditions with the goal of increasing youth and family
involvement in community affairs in the Mexican and
Mexican-American communities of San Pablo and Richmond.
Marsh, a breeding ground for new
performance
San Francisco, CA
$21,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support the Marsh Youth Theater. The program will provide Bay
Area children with in-depth drama instruction in areas such as
playwriting, acting, costuming, and set design, serving to
strengthen each student's understanding of the dramatic arts as
well as build self-esteem.
Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
San Francisco, CA
$17,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Visual Arts
To support exhibitions, catalogs, and related programming
featuring the work of contemporary Latino artists. Exhibitions will
be curated by director Patricia Rodriguez and guest curators.
Mission Inn Foundation
Riverside, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support Family Voices. Workshops in writing, videography, and
storytelling for students and teachers from the California School
for the Deaf-Riverside; visually impaired students from the
Riverside Unified School District; and Advancement Via Individual
Determination, a college preparatory school for underachieving
students.
Museum of Craft & Folk Art
San Francisco, CA
$38,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support Bring on the Art!: School & Teacher Programs. The
project will include continuation of Art Out-and-About:The Outreach
School Program, which provides students with the opportunity to
examine cultural artifacts, and the implementation of the ArtTrips!
In-House School Program.
Museum of Photographic Arts
San Diego, CA
$33,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support Beyond Beauty, a project involving at-risk teens.
Youths selected by the Boys & Girls Clubs of San Diego County
will participate in gallery talks, lectures, discussions, slide
presentations, and interactive art-making activities.
New Town Pasadena Foundation (on behalf of
Village Green Owners Association)
Altadena, CA
$17,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Visual Arts
To support restoration of a mural painted in 1942 by Rico Lebrun.
The mural restoration is part of a larger rehabilitation project at
Village Green, a 68-acre National Historic Landmark.
No Limits Theater Group, Inc.
Culver City, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support a theater-based education program for deaf children,
who are in the process of learning to speak. The project will
include rehearsals for a student performance of No Limits
Angels at GasconTheater as well as intensive, cost-free speech
and language therapy sessions.
Pacifica Foundation
Universal City, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Media Arts
To support the initial phases of preservation of arts-related
recordings in the Pacifica archive. Of the 40,500 tapes housed in
the archive, approximately 25 percent represent arts programming,
which include radio adaptations of plays, poetry, literature
readings, original radio dramas, artist interviews, and sound
sculptures.
Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles
County
Los Angeles, CA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support Artists in the Classroom, Music Center on Tour, and
Teacher In-Services. The programs will feature a wide range of
in-school and after-school workshops and residencies by local dance
and theater companies.
Playwrights Project
San Diego, CA
$19,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support SWELL (Scenes With English Language Learners). The
project will provide English language students, grades six through
eight, with an in-school, standards-based playwriting program to
support state arts and language curricula.
Regents of the University of California at
Berkeley (on behalf of Bancroft
Library)
Berkeley, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Multidisciplinary
To support videotaped, oral history interviews with leading
performance artists and dancers with disabilities. The project will
include five to seven artists' interviews. DVDs of the videotaped
interviews and transcripts will be made available and full-text
oral histories will be accessible on-line.
Regents of the University of California at
Davis (on behalf of School/University Parterships
& School of Education)
Davis, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support professional development of integrated dance and music
curricula and implementation using materials created by the Mondavi
Center. Arts curriculum specialists of the Sierra North Arts
Project, a regional site of the California Arts Project, will
provide site-based training to elementary school teachers in the
Elk Grove Unified School District.
Regents of the University of California at Los
Angeles (on behalf of UCLA Film and TV
Archive)
Los Angeles, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Media Arts
To support the 12th Festival of Preservation. Consisting of films
preserved at the UCLA Film andTelevision Archives, the film
festival presents work ranging from the silent era to more
contemporary cinema.
Rural Human Services, Inc.
Crescent City, CA
$48,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support the Youth Pottery Program. The program will provide a
creative environment in which youth can learn the basic skills,
chemistry, and production processes of the ceramic medium while
developing artistic, social, leadership, and occupational
skills.
Ryman-Carroll Foundation
Los Angeles, CA
$42,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support the Ryman Program for Young Artists. Teens from Los
Angeles will receive tuition-free studio instruction in drawing and
painting by master artist teachers.
San Diego Opera Association (consortium)
San Diego, CA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support the consortium Words and Music (WAM) Program. Working
in collaboration with San Diego Schools and consortium member La
Jolla Playhouse, students will participate in the creation of
musical theater and opera works.
San Francisco Arts Commission (on behalf of
San Francisco Writer's Corp)
San Francisco, CA
$48,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support Writer's Corp. Professional artists will teach creative
writing to disadvantaged youth in underperforming schools, working
primarily in language arts classrooms and using creative writing
activities linked thematically to literature.
San Francisco Arts Commission (on behalf of
Arts Education Funders Collaborative)
San Francisco, CA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support arts education programs in elementary schools and child
development centers throughout the San Francisco Unified School
District. The project will provide artist residencies, professional
development, and team-teaching opportunities.
San Francisco Ballet Association
(consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support Dance in Schools and Communities (DISC). The consortium
project will provide free, interactive movement and music
activities for third and fourth-grade students, in partnership with
the San Francisco Unified School District.
San Francisco Center for the Book
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support the Art of the Book in the Classroom Initiative (ABC).
Artist-led, book arts activities with teachers and students will be
designed to develop artistic expression and literacy skills.
San Francisco Contemporary Music Players
San Francisco, CA
$16,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Music
To support a CD recording of music by composer Pablo Ortiz. The
recording will include Ortiz works composed between 1996 and 2003,
performed by musicians from the ensemble and singers from San
Francisco Chanticleer, and conducted by music director David
Milnes.
San Francisco State University (on behalf of
The Poetry Center)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Literature
To support the preservation of historical film footage from the
Poetry Center's American Poetry Archives. The center will develop
and implement standardized procedures for digitizing, storing, and
cataloging its audio and video recordings.
San Francisco Symphony (on behalf of
San Francisco Youth Orchestra)
San Francisco, CA
$65,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support the ongoing Youth Orchestra Artistic Development
Program. Personalized coaching, engagements with renowned artists,
apprenticeships, and mentorships will enhance the curriculum of
individualized training and specialization for youth orchestra
members.
San Francisco Symphony
San Francisco, CA
$250,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and
Television FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support a public television and radio series featuring
conductor Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony.
Keeping Score: MTT on Music is designed to help a national audience
appreciate the relevance of classical music in contemporary
life.
Sanger Unified School District
Sanger, CA
$45,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support the Sanger Arts in Education Project. Working alongside
local artists, teachers will participate in on-site training,
artist residencies, and curriculum development in standards-based
arts instruction.
Santa Monica College (on behalf of
KCRW-FM)
Santa Monica, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and
Television FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production of a radio series presenting classic
American short crime fiction. Mean Street, USA: A Century of
"Hard-Boiled" Short Crime Fiction will present hour-long programs
of unabridged, full-cast dramatic readings of classic works written
by masters of the genre.
Silent Film Festival
San Francisco, CA
$5,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Media Arts
To support the 9th Annual San Francisco Silent Film Festival. Held
during the summer, the event presents film programs with live
musical accompaniment. Films to be screened include The Four
Horseman of the Apocalypse, Lady of the Night, and
The Circus.
Silicon Valley Children's Fund
San Jose, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support the Kids First Art Education Program. The project will
provide opportunities for underserved children and youth to explore
cultural identity and social issues and to learn ways to use the
visual and performing arts as communication tools.
Sweetwater Union High School District
(consortium)
Chula Vista, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation FIELD/DISCIPLINE:
Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Learning from the Masters component of the
Sweetwater Mariachi Festival and Conference. The project preserves
the age-old Mexican artistic traditions of mariachi and ballet
folklorico by inspiring a new generation of artists to hone their
music and dance skills at the hands of mariachi master players.
Theatre Of Hearts, Inc. (aka Youth First)
Los Angeles, CA
$38,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support an artists-in-residence program. Designed for youth
with emotional disturbances and/or learning disabilities, the
program places master artists in alternative schools to lead a
special artistic "intervention" curriculum.
Virginia Avenue Project
Santa Monica, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support the continuation of One-on-One, Poetry, and Playmaking.
These writing and performing programs will link area youths with
professional artist mentors in workshops, a summer camp, and
performances.
Youth Radio
Berkeley, CA
$38,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts
Education
To support Youth Recording Arts. Approximately 85 students will
gain hands-on skills in recording production, sound design, and
professional engineering in this pilot program.
CALIFORNIA total grants: 77
CALIFORNIA total dollars: $3,296,100
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