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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.

NEW YORK

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

Alianza Dominicana, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts 
To support the Dominican Folk Instrument and Dance Apprenticeship project. The apprentice dancers in Alianza's youth ensemble will train to perform traditional social dances, while the folk instrument component will include instruction in the accordion, guitar, tres, quinto, and percussion instruments.

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

American Documentary, Inc.
New York, NY
$250,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts 
To support the selection, acquisition, packaging, and promotion of films for broadcast on the public television series P.O.V. (Point Of View). As the longest-running PBS series devoted exclusively to the art of independent, non-fiction film, P.O.V. brings documentary artworks--rarely found in the mainstream media--to national audiences.

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

American Society for Psychical Research, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts 
To support planning for the exhibition Phantom Images: Photography and Psychical Research in America from 1860 until Today. The project will examine early experimentation in the darkroom which resulted in the manipulation of images by combining two or more negatives.

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

American Tap Dance Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support theTap City festival. The project will include educational activities and a series of choreography workshops, with a focus on the classic and contemporary choreography of tap masters.

Americas Society, Inc. (on behalf of Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas)
New York, NY
$5,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature 
To support a project featuring a special issue of Review: Literature and Arts of the Americas focusing on contemporary Latin American writers. The Americas Society also will present bilingual readings, panels, and discussions.

Anthology Film Archives
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts 
To support the preservation of films by Marie Menken and Storm De Hirsch. The materials for these films have been placed permanently with Anthology Film Archives by the estates of the filmmakers. The 61 total works will be preserved on 16mm film and duplicated for distribution.

Art 21, Inc.
New York, NY
$250,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts 
To support the third year of Art: 21, Art in theTwenty-First Century. A public television series about contemporary visual art and artists in the United States, the project will include one-hour programs as well as ancillary outreach activities.

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

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

Bardavon 1869 Opera House, Inc.
Poughkeepsie, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design Arts 
To support a study for the restoration of the auditorium and lobbies of a historic theater, the Bardavon. The project will determine the focus of restoration work and include planning for the documentation and conservation of the original architectural dome.

Batoto Yetu, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support expansion of Nzinga: The Legend Continues, choreographed by artistic director Jlio T. Leito. The story of Nzinga pays tribute to Western Africa's historical and cultural heritage.

Borough of Manhattan Community College Performing Arts Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support Lost Jazz Shrines:The Village Gate (Part 2), a concert series featuring music performed at historic, lower-Manhattan jazz venues. During 2005, the series will highlight artists who once played at the seminal Greenwich Village club, the Village Gate.

Boys & Girls Harbor, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts 
To support the Archive Preservation Initiative (API). Archivists will catalog, preserve, and store paper and photographic materials in the 15,000-item Raices (roots) Collection.

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

Center for the Study of Classical Architecture Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design Arts 
To support the educational program Classical Architecture for Design and Building Professionals. Curricular tools will be developed to make the program more accessible to building design and construction professionals nationwide.

Center for Traditional Music and Dance, Inc.
New York, NY
$52,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts 
To support the Community Cultural Initiatives (CCI). The project is designed to contribute to the efforts of Mexican, Chinese, and Peruvian communities in becoming self-sufficient managers of their music and dance traditions.

Centro Civico of Amsterdam, Inc.
Amsterdam, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts 
To support documentation of the sacred traditional art of Latina home altars. The project will result in a traveling exhibition and catalog.

Chemung Valley Arts Council, Inc.
Corning, NY
$5,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts 
To support the Traditional Country Music Project. The project consists of an ongoing Old Time Fiddlers Gathering and a first-time Bluegrass Gathering.

Chinese-American Arts Council, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary 
To support the Summer Cultural Festival. The project will include three fully staged Chinese operas performed by artists from China, Taiwan, and the United States and an exhibition by Chinese-American visual artists.

City Center 55th Street Theater Foundation,Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater 
To support the restoration, remounting, and staged concert productions of musicals and a concert in the City Center Encores! series. The annual series of rarely-heard American musicals is performed in City Center's 2,753-seat theater.

City Lore, Inc. (on behalf of Henry Street Folklore)
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts 
To support the Friends of Old Time Music (FOTM) project. Activities will include an oral history project, conference, concert, and publication to examine, analyze, and set in historical context the work of this pioneering folk arts organization.

City Lore, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts 
To support a consortium project, the 2005 People's Poetry Endangered Languages initiative. In partnership with the Poets House, Inc., the gathering will bring together Native Americans, Africans and South American immigrants, Yiddish, Gaelic, and Basque poets.

City Lore, Inc. (consortium) (on behalf of Trova, Inc.)
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts 
To support the sixth International Troubadour Festival. Twenty-two trovadores (improvisatory singer-poets) will perform Puerto Rican's traditional jibaro music.

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

Concert Royal, Inc.
Larchmont, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support musicians' fees and workshop costs toward the development of Prince of Haiti/King of Paris, a new work for music and dance. Celebrating the 200th anniversary of Haitian independence, the work will juxtapose the French baroque music of 18th-century colonists with Haitian music of the same period.

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

Dance Films Association, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts 
To support a consortium folk music and dance project, Bombazo con los Cepeda. In collaboration with the Hostos Community College Advisory Council, Inc., the project will support Afro-Puerto Rican bomba music and dance through a residency tour consisting of concerts, workshops, school lectures, and demonstrations.

Dance Notation Bureau, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support the addition of new dance scores to an archive of notated dances. The scores will be documented using Laban notation, a method of recording dance movement, containing full historical and production data.

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

Dorian Woodwind Quintet Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$12,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support an archival, two compact disc set spanning the performance history of the quintet. In celebration of its 40th anniversary, the compendium will include numerous commissioned premieres and arrangements, as well as the performance of Anniversary Variations on a Theme by Reicha, a five-movement work created by five different composers.

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

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

Educational Broadcasting Corporation
New York, NY
$535,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts 
To support development and production of the television series American Masters for PBS broadcast. Definitive documentary profiles of major cultural figures will be made available in 2005-06 to millions of viewers in all 50 states on 345 public television stations.

Educational Broadcasting Corporation
New York, NY
$550,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts 
To support development and production of the television series Great Performances and Dance in America for broadcast on PBS. Regardless of geographic or economic limitations, American television audiences in all 50 states will be provided free access to a diverse range of cultural programming in 2005-06.

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

Exit Art/The First World, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts 
To support a consortium project with Franklin Furnace to conserve, digitize, and make accessible online the archival material of Exit Art. Founded in 1982, Exit Art has presented contemporary work by as many as 1,600 artists in more than 200 exhibitions.

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

Feminist Press, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature 
To support the restoration and promotion of books by U.S. women as part of the press's Contemporary Classics Series. Authors whose works will be brought back into print include Shelley Ayame, Nishimura Ota, Denise Chavez, Mary Deasy, Antonia Pola, Jessamyn West, and Paule Marshall.

Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary 
To support Art Spaces Archive Project (ASAP). The consortium project will provide for the research and creation of a database, development of a Web site, surveying of art spaces nationally, and hosting of a national meeting for art space organizations to compare preservation strategies.

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

George Eastman House
Rochester, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts 
To support In Glorious Technicolor. Unique and endangered Technicolor films produced between 1927 and 1951 will be preserved.

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

Gregg Smith Singers, Inc.
Yonkers, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support a compact disc recording of the early sacred works of American composer Charles Ives. The recording will include nine previously unrecorded church anthems as well as the 1902 cantata Celestial County, which was recorded in the 1970s by the chorus but is no longer available to the public.

Hallwalls, Inc. (consortium)
Buffalo, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary 
To support a consortium project to preserve multidisciplinary performance recordings. In partnership with SUNY Buffalo's Poetry and Rare Books Collection, the project will catalog, archive, preserve, and make accessible various video and audio recordings from the Hallwalls 1970s and 80s performance archives.

Hatch-Billops Collection, Inc.
New York, NY
$16,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary 
To support an annual journal and videotape collection, Artist & Influence. The project will document artists of color through videotaped interviews and the publication of a journal.

Hostos Community College Foundation, Inc.
Bronx, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts 
To support BomPlenazo 2004. The week-long multifaceted program will explore and present Puerto Rico's African-rooted bomba and plena music and dance traditions as they are practiced today.

House Foundation for the Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support an initiative to transfer artistic director Meredith Monk's archive to a public institution. The project will include the completion of an archive catalog, the restoration and digitization of dance works on film, and the identification of dance score recordings.

Independent Media Arts Preservation (IMAP)
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts 
To support the Magnetic and New Media Preservation Online Sourcebook. The online resource will provide the latest information for video and audio preservation contacts and include information on new media, installation, and related paper ephemera preservation.

Independent Production Fund, Inc. (on behalf of Mannes Productions)
New York, NY
$100,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts 
To support the production of a public television series that will examine the science behind our experience of music. In one-hour programs, Music Instinct: Science and Song will explore scientific discoveries about the psychological and physical aspects of music's primal hold on human beings, and its connection to the world around us.

Iroquois Indian Museum
Howes Cave, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary 
To support At the Edge of the Clearing. The summer series and festivals will present traditional and contemporary Iroquois art and foster greater awareness of Iroquois heritage.

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

Just Buffalo Literary Center, Inc. (consortium)
Buffalo, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
To support the second year of a three-year research program to integrate the arts into the curriculum of the Buffalo Public Schools, focusing on the state English language standards. The consortium member, Musicians United for Superior Education, and two partners, the Native American Magnet School and Young Artists of Western New York, will formalize and implement the instruction.

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

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

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

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$150,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts 
To support production and broadcast of the television series Live From Lincoln Center. In 2005, the series will be aired on approximately 300 PBS stations across all 50 states and territories reaching five million viewers per program.

Los Pleneros de la 21, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts 
To support the Puerto Rican Music Project. Project activities include concerts, performances, lectures, workshops, classes for youth and adults, and out-of-state residencies.

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

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

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

Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, Inc.
New York, NY
$90,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support a project to provide documentary information on dances by Martha Graham. The project will provide anthologies and offer tool kits to dance companies and students in order to enhance the public's knowledge of these works.

Melodious Accord, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support the recording of choral music arranged or composed by Alice Parker. Two major choral works, Singers Glen and The Ponder Heart, will be recorded and released on Gothic Records/Loft Recording.

Metropolitan Opera Association, Inc.
New York, NY
$75,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts 
To support post-production costs for a national PBS telecast of Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos. Distributed to approximately 340 PBS stations nationwide, Metropolitan Opera Presents is seen by three to five million viewers per program.

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

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

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

Mind-Builders Creative Arts Co. (consortium)
Bronx, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts 
To support a consortium folklorist-in-training program. In partnership with the Bronx Museum of the Arts, 18 interns between the ages of 12 and 18 will be recruited and trained to identify, document, and present 20 folk artists and tradition bearers found in Bronx neighborhoods.

Municipal Art Society of New York (consortium)
New York, NY
$45,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design Arts 
To support Marking Places that Matter. The consortium project will implement innovative place markers that interpret the historical and cultural landscape of New York City.

Museum of Modern Art
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts 
To support the preservation of endangered films from the museum's nationally recognized collection. Each year, the Museum of Modern Art's (MoMA's) Department of Film and Media saves 50 to 100 films by transferring them from unstable nitrate stock to acetate, and also preserves fading and damaged acetate films.

Music From China
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support thematic concerts of new music for traditional Chinese instruments. The project will include string instrument training for youth and adults and performances at various sites in New York City.

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

New Art Publications
New York, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary 
To support AMERICAS 2005. The annual issue of BOMB magazine will feature discussions among artists, writers, and musicians, and original translations of poetry and fiction, highlighting the work of artists living and practicing in Latin America and the Caribbean.

New England Dinosaur, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Arts Learning  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education 
To support ESLdance-Connected. New York City educators will learn and practice American modern dance through training and curriculum integration.

New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. (consortium)
Staten Island, NY
$5,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts 
To support a consortium project to archive work from the radio series New American Radio. Artists including Pauline Oliveros, Suzan-Lori Parks, and Charles Amirkahnian produced work for the series.

New York Baroque Dance Co. Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support the Baroque Ballet Workshop, a residency program to be held in Hunter, New York; San Rafael, California; and Denton,Texas. The project will include classes, concerts, and lectures.

New York Folklore Society, Inc.
Schenectady, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts 
To support a statewide technical assistance and professional development program. The program provides vital services to folk artists and folk cultural specialists in New York.

New York Folklore Society, Inc.
Schenectady, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Leadership Initiatives  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts 
To support a folklore and education coordinator position and related costs. Activities will include folk arts education and professional training opportunities for folklorists, workshops for New York state educators, and a community scholar field school.

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc. (on behalf of Robert Levi Productions)
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts 
To support production and post-production costs for a documentary film on Billy Strayhorn. Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life will chronicle the artist's career as composer and arranger for the Ellington Orchestra, as well as his relationship with the maestro.

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc. (on behalf of Kitchen Sync)
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts 
To support the production of a documentary film by John Valadez. The Last Conquistador will be about sculptor John Houser, his bronze equestrian memorial to the Spanish explorer Juan de Oate, and the public discussion surrounding the future placement of the monumental public artwork in El Paso,Texas.

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc. (on behalf of Firethorn Productions)
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts 
To support the research and development phase of a public television series about the history of African-American theater. It'll Be Me is intended for national PBS broadcast.

New York Pops, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support the recording of Nathaniel Shilkret's Concerto for Trombone and its release on compact disc. Under the artistic direction of Skitch Henderson, trombone soloist Jim Pugh and the orchestra will perform the work, originally commissioned in 1943 by swing legendTommy Dorsey.

New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations (on behalf of New York Public Library for the Performing Arts)
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary 
To support the documentation and preservation of dance and theater performances and oral histories by performing artists. As many as 18 performances and seven oral histories will be recorded, and 50 hours of audio materials will be preserved.

New York State Council on the Arts
New York, NY
$787,800
CATEGORY: Partnership  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional 
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

New York University (on behalf of The Drama Review)
New York, NY
$12,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support the publication and distribution of four volumes of The Drama Review, an international journal of live performance. The Drama Review is committed to documenting important new work and to reassessing traditional notions of performance.

Nikolais/Louis Foundation for Dance
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support the preservation and presentation of two works by choreographer Alwin Nikolais. The works will be performed by the Ririe-Woodbury Dance Company in Salt Lake City.

OLLANTAY Center for the Arts, Inc.
Jackson Heights, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support the publication and distribution of OLLANTAY Theater Magazine . The journal highlights Latino theater through essays and interviews by and with Latino artists and writers.

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

Paris Review Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature 
To support the preservation and dissemination of the entire archive of Paris Review interviews online, free of charge. The journal will present nearly 300 interviews conducted since 1953 with writers whose work has defined the literary landscape of the latter half of the 20th century.

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

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

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

Photography Institute
New York, NY
$17,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts 
To support the National Graduate Seminar (NGS) Archive Project. An annual forum for photographers, scholars, historians, and critics, the project will allow for the transfer of more than 800 video and audio tapes and texts created since the Institute's inception in 1991.

Poets House, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature 
To support the Poetry House Showcase, an exhibit and series of programs designed to preserve and display the breadth of poetry in print. The showcase will feature panel discussions, readings, and publication of an online directory of American poetry books.

Queens Theatre in the Park, Inc.
Flushing, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting 
To support the Latino Cultural Festival and the Latino Cultural Series. The festival will feature music, dance, theater, film, workshops, panel discussions, family-oriented performances, and an exhibition of contemporary Latino visual artists.

Recorded Anthology of American Music, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera 
To support the recording and distribution of a two compact-disc set of the opera Amistad, composed by Anthony Davis with libretto by Thulani Davis. The two-act opera is based on the Amistad revolt of 1839, a successful uprising of captives on a slave ship en route to America.

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

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

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

Sound Portraits Productions, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts 
To support the production of new programs for the AmericanTalkers radio series. Produced by Dave Isay for broadcast on National Public Radio, the series presents the voices of ordinary Americans with an extraordinary penchant for storytelling.

Symphony Space, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts 
To support the production of the public radio series Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story, and the distribution of related audiocassettes. The series, which will air on more than 140 National Public Radio stations, will present leading stage and screen actors reading both classic and new short fiction by established and emerging authors of diverse cultures.

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

Talking Band, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
$12,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater 
To support a consortium tour of a music theater work. The Talking Band will partner with the Allied Arts Council of St. Joseph, Missouri, to present the musical Bitterroot as part of the 2004 Lewis and Clark Bicentennial celebration.

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

Textile Conservation Workshop, Inc.
South Salem, NY
$18,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museums 
To support a master apprenticeship for in-depth training in textile conservation. As part of a regional conservation laboratory, the apprenticeship program fills a gap not covered by formal conservation courses in graduate school programs.

Theatre Development Fund, Inc.
New York, NY
$22,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support Interpreting for the Theatre, an intensive one-week institute for theater sign language interpreters. The goal of the program is to support and preserve the art of sign-interpreting, set national standards of excellence in the field, and to ensure that theater is accessible to deaf and hearing-impaired audiences.

University of Rochester (on behalf of Memorial Art Gallery)
Rochester, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Heritage & Preservation  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museums 
To support the publication of a catalog and the creation of a Web site of the Memorial Art Gallery's American art collection. The project is the second in a three-phase initiative titled Seeing America, which uses the American collection as an important educational and community resource, thereby raising the collection's visibility.

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

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

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

WNYC Radio, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts 
To support The Integration Project, a model radio programming project. WNYC will develop programs that bridge classical music and news-talk formats within its own broadcast schedule, encourage local stations around the country to customize the model for their own communities, and make innovative programs available for national broadcast.

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

World Music Productions
Brooklyn, NY
$45,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts 
To support production and distribution of the weekly public radio program Afropop Worldwide. The series showcases the contemporary musical cultures of Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas, and is distributed by Public Radio International to approximately 100 radio stations in the United States.

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

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

NEW YORK total grants: 118
NEW YORK total dollars: $5,656,800


 
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