FY 2005 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access to Artistic Excellence/Literature Fellowships

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

NEW YORK

306090, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design 
To support an architectural journal on education, curriculum, and advancements by students and young design practitioners. Each volume, produced by a guest editor, will focus on a theme relevant to pedagogy and practice.

651 ARTS (Kings Majestic Corporation)
Brooklyn, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary 
To support the Artist Development Initiative program. Resources will be made available for artists whose work is grounded in the African American cultural experience to create new or present existing works.

Aaron Davis Hall, Inc.
New York, NY
$55,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting 
To support commissioning and programmatic activities for the development of works by artists of color. The second phase of a three-year initiative titled Waterworks will involve performing and multidisciplinary artists.

Academy of American Poets, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature 
To support the National Poetry Almanac, an online resource featuring 365 days of poetry highlights, activities, ideas, and history. The Academy will promote the almanac as a printable anthology and study guide to teachers and librarians across the country.

African Film Festival, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts 
To support the 12th New York African Film Festival and the 9th edition of the African Film Festival Traveling Series, which tours 10 American cities. The program will present an overview of the last 50 years of African cinema.

Albany Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Albany, NY
$22,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support "American Memories/American Dreams," the final year of a three-year initiative (Giving Voice) designed to celebrate American music of the past, present, and future. The initiative will include the creation and presentation of new works by American composers.

Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo Fine Arts Academy) (consortium)
Buffalo, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum 
To support a consortium-based exhibition titled The Wall: Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. Organized in collaboration with the University at Buffalo Art Galleries, this is the largest exhibition of contemporary Chinese art outside of China.

Alliance of New York State Arts Organizations (Alliance of New York State Arts Councils, Inc.)
Mattituck, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies 
To support Community Action Teams of cultural and economic development professionals. The teams will work within rural, suburban, and urban communities in New York state to develop strategies to improve resources for the arts and cultural industry.

Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$100,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support a United States tour in 2005. The company will offer 95 performances and outreach activities in 14 states across the country and the District of Columbia.

American Ballet Theatre (Ballet Theatre Foundation, Inc.)
New York, NY
$70,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support the presentation of four new productions of classic works by choreographer Michel Fokine. Les Sylphides, Le Spectre de la Rose, Petrouchka, and Polovetsian Dances from Prince Igor will make up The Fokine Evening, to premiere at the Kennedy Center.

American Composers Orchestra, Inc.
New York, NY
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support the Emerging Composers Program, featuring commissioning and performances of new works by early- to mid-career American composers, as well as residency activities. The orchestra will perform world premieres and continue its new music reading sessions.

American Folk Art Museum
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum 
To support a touring exhibition of the work of Mexican artist Martin Ramirez (1895-1963), with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will explore the biographical, historical, and cultural influences in the artists's work, and his contributions to the field of self-taught art.

American Museum of the Moving Image
Astoria, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts 
To support several curated film series. Repertory Nights, World Cinema Fridays, and The New York Film Critics Circle will feature screenings of more than 75 feature films and personal appearances by filmmakers, curators, and critics.

American Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support the presentation in thematic concert format of U.S. premieres and rarely performed works by established composers, with associated educational activities. Composers will include Emmanuel Chabrier, Nicolai Miaskovsky, Paul von Klenau, and Richard Strauss.

American Symphony Orchestra League
New York, NY
$150,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support services designed to strengthen peer-learning networks, communication, and research within the orchestra field. The project will assist nearly 900 member orchestras of every size and type in all 50 states.

Anthology Film Archives
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts 
To support the preservation of films by Wallace Berman and Greg Sharits. Anthology Film Archives holds the originals or top sources for all titles to be preserved.

Art in General, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts 
To support artist residencies and exhibitions as well as accompanying publications, educational outreach, and public programs. Proposed artists will be in residence for periods of two months, and two New York-based artists will participate in an international exchange, working at art centers in Eastern Europe.

Artists Space, Inc.
New York, NY
$12,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design 
To support the Architecture and Design Program Series. Exhibitions and a film series will introduce current design and architectural debates to visual arts, design, and general audiences.

Arts at St. Ann's (St. Ann Center for Restoration and the Arts, Inc.)
Brooklyn, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary 
To support the Puppet Lab and Labapalooza! Mini-Festival of New Puppet Theater from The Lab. The project is an ongoing professional workshop where emerging and mid-career puppet artists and collaborators meet weekly to create interdisciplinary puppet theater works.

Asia Society
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum 
To support a touring exhibition of recent art from India with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will be historically important for its scope and size and will place the art of internationally recognized contemporary artists alongside those of India's most innovative younger artists.

Asia Society
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting 
To support a consortium project to commission a multimedia work titled Five Streams. In a collaboration with MassMOCA, director/filmmaker Ibrahim Quraishi, sound artist DJ Spooky, choreographer Paul Shah, and visual artist Shahzia Sikander will create a work that weaves interlocking narratives drawn from three canonical works of Hindu and Indo-Islamic literature.

Asian CineVision, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts 
To support the 28th Asian American International Film Festival. The festival will travel to 10 sites throughout the United States including campuses and cultural institutions in Iowa, Florida, and Nevada.

Ballet Hispanico of New York, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support the commissioning of a new work by choreographer RamÛn Oller. The work, Tales of the Alhambra, will premiere at the Kennedy Center during the company's 35th anniversary.

BAM LDC (BAM Local Development Corporation)
Brooklyn, NY
$37,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design 
To support a public space urban design program for the BAM Cultural District. BAM has identified four types of public spaces to be designed and developed - destination spaces, common spaces, work spaces, and transition spaces.

Bang on a Can, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support concerts featuring new work by American composers. Three concerts will take place at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Merkin Concert Hall, and Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall.

Bard College (on behalf of Bard Music Festival)
Annandale-Hudson, NY
$22,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support the Bard Music Festival. The festival will explore the music of Aaron Copland and his contemporaries by presenting a wide range of musical forms including his symphonies, chamber music, solo piano music, ballets, and movie scores.

Bebe Miller Company (Gotham Dance, Inc.)
New York, NY
$13100
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support final developmental residencies and rehearsals, and premiere performances for Landing/Place, choreographed by Bebe Miller. The performance will feature live dance and music, a digitally-produced projection environment, and dance for the camera.

Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company (Foundation for Dance Promotion, Inc.)
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support the creation of an evening-length dance theatre work, choreographed by Bill. T. Jones. The new work, Blind Date I & II, will have a preview performance along with residency activities at Aaron Davis Hall in New York.

Blackberry Productions, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support the production of theatrical works, workshops, and exhibitions in Harlem Renaissance II. Worksong and Shelter will be presented as part of an educational performance event celebrating the contributions of African Americans.

BOA Editions, Ltd.
Rochester, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature 
To support production, promotion, and related expenses for new volumes of poetry. Scheduled poets to be published include Russell Edson, Ray Gonzalez, Jacqueline Osherow, and Naomi Shihab Nye.

Bond Street Theatre Coalition Palenville Interarts Colony
New York, NY
$18,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support the production of a new play. The company will collaborate with The Exile Theatre of Kabul, Afghanistan to present Beyond the Mirror, a non-verbal play using symbolic representation, images, movement and music to examine the last two decades of Afghan history.

Bronx Council on the Arts, Inc.
Bronx, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies 
To support the Cultural Enterprise Network. The program is designed to facilitate the earned-income capabilities of select nonprofit arts organizations in the Bronx.

Brooklyn Academy of Music, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$55,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting 
To support the annual Next Wave Festival. Now in its 21st year, the festival will feature U.S. artists who have been nurtured by the Brooklyn Academy of Music and will present new works by international artists.

Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts (College Community Services, Inc.)
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support the presentation of American and international dance companies. The project will also include educational programs, subsidized ticket prices, and extensive outreach to Brooklyn's diverse community.

Brooklyn Information & Culture, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support American Roots, a series of concerts that will explore the roots of American music. Artists to be presented will be masters in the fields of blues, folk, country, and rhythm and blues.

Brooklyn Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support the creation and presentation of a new work for voice and orchestra by composer Jennifer Higdon. Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass will be used as text for the work, which will be performed in the historic Gilman Opera House at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in April 2005.

Builders Association, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary 
To support creation and development of Super Vision, a multimedia performance exploring how humans are perceived as accumulations of electronic personal data, and how this perception is changing us. The project is a collaboration with dbox, a multidisciplinary studio whose work explores the intersection of visual arts and architectural design through 3-D digital media.

Carnegie Hall Society, Inc.
New York, NY
$100,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support Inventive American Artists, a series of presentations featuring American musicians. The series will include performances by the Kronos Quartet and the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, with conductor David Robertson, performing educational concerts, a composer workshop, and a week-long professional training seminar for musicians.

Center for Contemporary Opera, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera 
To support productions of The Last True Words of Dutch Schultz by composer Eric Salzman and librettist Valeria Vasilevski and Mario and the Magician by composer Francis Thorne and librettist J.D. McClatchy. Prior to each production, an Opera Preview Program will feature the composers and key artists in a dialogue with the audience.

Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Arts
Buffalo, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts 
To support artist residencies for Art Works!, a community-based program that brings artists to work directly with the community. The month-long residencies are project-based and targeted to specific community concerns and issues.

Center for Photography at Woodstock, Inc.
Woodstock, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts 
To support a residency program for photographers. Artists will be provided with an honorarium, studio and darkroom access, equipment, lodging, and meals for residencies of up to one month.

Chamber Music America, Inc.
New York, NY
$100,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support the National Leadership Initiative. Designed to build leadership skills in the chamber music field, the project will provide professional services in several areas including consultancies, on-site technical assistance, special publications, a Web site, and a national conference.

Cinema Arts Centre (New Community Cinema Club, Inc.)
Huntington, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts 
To support International Women's Film Festival and the International Latino Film Festival. Both events will feature films from the United States and abroad, and present guest artists and speakers.

Circus Amok, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$8,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support the ensemble creation of a summer touring production that will be performed in public spaces throughout New York City. Performances will be offered free of charge in ethnically and economically diverse communities.

City Lore, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts 
To support the consortium project Deaf Jam: The Poetry Dialogues. In partnership with the Teachers and Writers Collaborative, Deaf Jam will highlight the beauty and expressiveness of American Sign Language (ASL) by giving deaf teenagers a chance to express themselves in ASL poetry.

City Parks Foundation
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting 
To support New Works, New Voices 2005 for the 20th anniversary of the Central Park Summerstage program. The project will be a continuation of annual presentations of new cross-disciplinary work or debut presentations by emerging, regional, and international artists.

Clubbed Thumb, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support the Summerworks '05 Festival, dedicated to the development and production of new works by emerging playwrights. The month-long festival will feature post-show discussions, staged readings and workshop productions of six new plays and one vaudeville variety presentation.

Columbia University in the City of New York
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support Miller Theater's Pocket Concerto Project. Plans include the commissioning and presentation of new works for instrumental soloists and small chamber ensemble of 15 to 20 players (a "pocket concerto").

Concert Artists Guild, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support career development of emerging classical musicians through national concert engagements. In diverse venues across the country, 75 performance opportunities will allow artists on the Concert Artists Guild (CAG) roster to hone performance skills and improve their powers of communication.

Creative Time, Inc.
New York, NY
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts 
To support a public art project, Truisms for New York City, by artist Jenny Holzer. Holzer will collaborate with poet Henri Cole to create texts about New York City that will be displayed on a blimp floating over the skyline and at a public exhibition using LED technology.

Cross Performance, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary 
To support the tour of The Geography Trilogy, Part 3: House, a dance/theater work choreographed and directed by Ralph Lemon. The Geography Trilogy is a decade-long, autobiographical work that explores race, culture, modernity, and individual identity.

Cunningham Dance Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$100,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support the creation and presentation of a new work and revival of an older work. The new work will be created in collaboration with architect Frank Gehry, and the work to be revived is Ocean, created in 1994.

d.u.m.b.o. arts center
Brooklyn, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary 
To support the d.u.m.b.o (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass) festival. The annual three-day festival will feature exhibitions, site-specific installations, film and video screenings, live music, theater, and dance by artists that live and work in the 10-block area under the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges.

Dahesh Museum of Art (consortium)
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum 
To support a consortium project, the exhibition Gods and Mortals: Homeric Subjects in the Collections of the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The project is in collaboration with the Princeton University Art Museum.

Dance Space Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support the Artist in Residence Program. The program supports the work of New York choreographers.

Dance Theater Workshop, Inc.
New York, NY
$70,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support a program for emerging and established artists. The Creative Space Program offers creative time at Dance Theater Workshop's facilities, as well as presentations at The Bessie Schonberg Theater.

DanceBrazil (Capoeira Foundation, Inc.)
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by artistic director Jelon Vieria. The work, titled Retratos da Bahia, is inspired by the work of Pierre Verger, a French photographer and anthropologist who photographed the Brazilian state of Bahia for 55 years.

Danspace Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support the eighth year of City/Dans. This 13-week series of performances at St. Mark's Church presents the work of dance artists such as Karinee Keithley, Mark Jarecke, and David Gordon.

David Dorfman Dance (ART SWEATS, INC.)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by artistic director and choreographer David Dorfman, to music by composer Frank London. Other collaborators include Naoko Nagata (costume design) and Jane Cox (lighting design).

Dawidoff, Sally
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature 
To support a creative writing fellowship.

Dieu Donne Papermill, Inc.
New York, NY
$18,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts 
To support the Artist Apprentice Program to develop hand papermaking skills in the creation of contemporary art. One artist will be selected for an intensive 21-month apprenticeship with master papermaker Paul Wong.

Donna Uchizono Company (La Donna Dance, Inc.)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by artistic director and choreographer Donna Uchizono. The work for five dancers will be performed at Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church in New York and on a national tour.

Doug Varone and Dancers (Dova, Inc.)
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support the creation of a full-evening work by choreographer Doug Varone. The piece will be created to Alessandro Scarlatti's Il Primo Omicido, and will be presented at City Center in New York City as part of the company's 20th anniversary.

Drama League of New York, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support the Directors Project. The Drama League of New York provides new directors with career development opportunities and fosters the art and craft of stage direction.

Drawing Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum 
To support the touring exhibition Eva Hesse: Studies and Drawings, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will focus on Hesse's (1936-1970) crossover between drawing, painting, and sculpture during her short but very influential career.

Eiko & Koma (Inta, Inc.)
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support the creation of a new work by Eiko and Koma in collaboration with artists in Cambodia. After its Cambodian premiere, the work will have its United States premiere in New York.

Electronic Arts Intermix, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts 
To support the Artists' Videotape Distribution Service. Through an online catalogue, works will be made available to libraries, educational institutions, community centers, museums, and other organizations.

Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts- Int. Studio & Cur. Program
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts 
To support American artists' participation in the International Studio and Curatorial Program, a residency program in New York City. Artists will be provided with a private studio, room and board, and access to curators, critics, collectors, and other artists through studio visits, field trips, and exhibitions.

En Foco, Inc.
Bronx, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts 
To support production of several issues of Nueva Luz, a bilingual photographic journal. Each issue will feature the work of emerging photographers of color, an essay by a guest critic/editor, and a comprehensive listing of career opportunities and other resources for photographers.

Encompass Theatre Company, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera 
To support workshops for the development of a new opera, The Theory of Everything, by composer Lior Navok and librettist Nancy Rhodes. The creative team will rehearse and review the first-draft score materials to evaluate needs toward developing a full-scale production.

Ethel's Foundation for the Arts
Sunnyside, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support the creation and presentation of new works for string quartet. Composers Don Byron, Marcelo Zarvos, and Pamela Z will create new works in collaboration with the quartet members who will premiere the works in December 2005.

Exit Art/The First World, Inc.
New York, NY
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts 
To support an exhibition and catalogue examining contemporary concerns regarding water and its conservation. The exhibition will feature work by at least 50 artists.

Eyebeam Atelier, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary 
To support the Artist in Residence Program. Artists will participate in five-month residencies and receive stipends for the development, creation, and presentation of new works of art created with new technologies and digital tools.

Feminist Press, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature 
To support the publication and promotion of fiction and creative nonfiction in translation as part of the Women Writers of the Islamic World series. Scheduled titles explore the cultures of Iraq, Algeria, Afghanistan, the West Bank, and India

Fiji Theater Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support the development, presentation, and tour of a new puppet theatre work. The company will tour Some Chinese Ghosts by Artistic Director Ping Chong throughout the Northeastern states.

Film Forum (Moving Image, Inc.)
New York, NY
$70,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts 
To support the theatrical premieres of American independent and foreign films. Film Forum is devoted to bringing a broad array of the highest quality new work by young and emerging artists, as well as by more established figures, to a large and diverse general public.

Film Society of Lincoln Center
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts 
To support a curated film series. Um Cinema Popular will present a history of Brazilian cinema.

Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana (Spanish Dance Arts Company, Inc.)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by choreographer Antonio Hidalgo. The new work will premiere at the Joyce Theater in New York.

Foundry Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support the commission, development, and workshop production of Out of Time, a new theater piece written and directed by Steve Cosson. The play will explore questions relating to the nature of time in the digital age and how individuals are affected by time.

Frederick Douglass Creative Arts Center
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary 
To support the development of professional writers and playwrights. The project will feature writing workshops, staged readings, and the 33rd annual Black Roots Festival.

Frick Collection
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum 
To support an exhibition of portraits by Flemish artist Hans Memling, with accompanying catalogue and public lectures. This will be the first exhibition devoted exclusively to Memling's portraits, organized in conjunction with the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid and the Groeningemuseum in Bruges.

Fulton, Alice
Ithaca, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature 
To support a creative writing fellowship.

Garth Fagan Dance, Inc.
Rochester, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support the creation of a new work by Garth Fagan. The new work will premiere at the Joyce Theater in New York, and later tour throughout the United States.

George Eastman House
Rochester, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts 
To support The Reel Emergency Project. The 20 titles included in the project -- including films dating back to 1916 -- are in imminent danger of disintegration. Once preserved, the films will be featured in public screenings in Rochester throughout the U.S., and abroad.

Geva Theatre Center, Inc.
Rochester, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support Hibernatus Interruptus: A Winter Festival of New Plays. The eighth annual festival will feature commissioning and the development of new plays and a new musical.

Gina Gibney Dance, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support the creation and presentation of a new evening-length work, choreographed by Gina Gibney. The work, titled Out of Bounds, will be presented in New York.

Glimmerglass Opera, Inc.
Cooperstown, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera 
To support a production of Gaetano Donizetti's Lucie de Lammermoor, the French version of his Italian masterpiece. The new edition, prepared by Jacques Chalmeau, will be directed by Lillian Groag and conducted by Beatrice Jona Affron, with set designs by John Conklin and costumes by Jess Goldstein.

Global Action Project, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts 
To support Urban Visionaries, a consortium project with the Museum of Television and Radio. This film festival features the work of young filmmakers.

Great Small Works, Inc.
New York, NY
$8,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support the 7th International Toy Theatre Festival and a variety series of one-time-only performance events. Both projects will involve company members and guest artists as curators, hosts, and performers.

Gregg Smith Singers, Inc.
Yonkers, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support the creation, presentation, and recording of a new work by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Ned Rorem. The commissioned work for chamber chorus will be performed in New York City in November 2005 and at the Adirondack Festival of American Music in Saranac Lake in July 2006.

Group I Acting Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support the production and national tour of William Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona, a spirited and comic look at young love. The company will offer educational activities including master classes, workshops, and week-long artist residencies for middle and high school students in selected venues throughout the tour.

Hallwalls, Inc.
Buffalo, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary 
To support the Artist in Residence Project for the creation and presentation of new works. Artists will receive stipends, allotments for materials and fabrication, and workspace; access to equipment and technical support; and opportunities for public presentation and interaction with local artists and community members.

Home for Contemporary Theatre and Art, Ltd
New York, NY
$23,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support the HERE Artist Residency Program (HARP), a professional development program for mid-career performing and visual artists and collaborative artist teams. HARP serves artists through workshops, panel discussions, productions, and career development services.

Hong, Cathy
Brooklyn, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature 
To support a creative writing fellowship.

House Foundation for the Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support the creation and presentation of a new evening-length dance theater work by artistic director and choreographer Meredith Monk. The Impermenance Project will feature both Monk's choreography and musical compositions to live music.

Hudson Review, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature 
To support Hudson Review Criticsand Poets Online, a free online archive of selected essays and poetry from the journal's 56 years of publishing. Each selection will include an author's photo and short biography, and audio links to recordings when available.

Hudson Vagabond Puppets, Incorporate
Blauvelt, NY
$8,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater 
To support the restoration and redesign of puppets and sets for the production of Mammoth Follies, a musical puppetry work. This vaudeville-style dinosaur review is part of the company's touring repertoire.

ICA & CA (Center for the Study of Classical Architecture Inc.) (consortium)
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design 
To support a consortium project with Habitat for Humanity International to design well-proportioned homes based on the Habitat housing model. Architects will be paired with Habitat affiliates working in historic urban neighborhoods to design contextually sensitive homes that will enhance those neighborhoods.

Immaterial Incorporated
Brooklyn, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary 
To support Cabinet Magazine, a quarterly journal that publishes the work of contemporary artists and essays on art and culture. Each issue of Cabinet features regular columns, essays, and a themed art project that can take the form of an audio CD, CD-ROM, postcards, posters, or Web-based projects.

International Arts Relations, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support the world premiere of Tight Embrace, a new play by Jorge Ignacio Cortinas, directed by Loy Arcenas. Based on a kidnapping incident in Colombia, South America, the play investigates the theme of terrorism.

International Center of Photography
New York, NY
$75,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum 
To support a touring exhibition of the work of American photographer Robert Capa with accompanying catalogue and education programs. Hungarian born Capa is widely considered to be the most important war photographer of the past century.

Japan Society, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum 
To support a consortium project, an exhibition and public art event titled Cool Japan: Contemporary Japanese Popular Culture, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition, organized in collaboration with New York's Public Art Fund, explores Otaku, a youthful culture attracted to animation and video in the media.

Jazz at Lincoln Center Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
$65,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support a consortium project, Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition and Festival. The program gives thousands of students the opportunity to study and perform Duke Ellington's music, and provides a training academy for band directors, hosted by Michigan State University.

Jazz Forum Arts, Inc.
Dobbs Ferry, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support free summer jazz concerts. The series consists of at least 50 concerts in New York communities including Yonkers, Mt. Vernon, and Sleepy Hollow.

Jess, Tyehimba
Brooklyn, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature 
To support a creative writing fellowship.

John Jasperse Company (Thin Man Dance, Inc.)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by choreographer John Jasperse. The evening-length work, titled Prone, will be created for three dancers to a commissioned score by composer Zeena Parkins.

Jóse Limón Dance Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by choreographer Lar Lubovitch. The work will center around the life and work of Jóse Limón and will tour throughout the United States.

Joyce Theater Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$70,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support the Dance Presentation Program. The project will consist of the presentation of companies from the Untied States and overseas, including presentations at the Joyce Soho.

La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support the creation and production of a new play based on the Greek myth Atalanta. Artistic Director Ellen Stewart will develop the text treatment, and Elizabeth Swados will compose original music.

LAByrinth, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support the world premiere of a new play by Stephen Adly Guirgis. Directed by Co-Artistic Director Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot will explore contemporary issues of religion, justice, morality, and forgiveness.

Lar Lubovitch Dance Company (Lubovitch Dance Foundation, Inc.)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support the creation and presentation of a new work and the staging of a past work by choreographer Lar Lubovitch. Credo and Pentimento will be presented during performances at Jazz at Lincoln Center Theater.

Lark Theatre Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support an expansion of Playwrights' Week, an annual festival of new works by emerging artists. During the festival, competitively selected playwrights are provided with teams of professional directors and actors to support the development of a new script.

Light Work Visual Studies, Inc.
Syracuse, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts 
To support a residency program for artists in photography and electronic media, along with the publication of their work in Contact Sheet - The Light Work Annual. Participating artists' work will also be made available on Light Work's online database, a collection of more than 2,000 images, essays, and biographical information.

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$55,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting 
To support performances and related activities of Lincoln Center Festival 2005. The summer festival will feature traditional and contemporary multidisciplinary works as well as symposia and lectures that inform the presentations.

Lower East Side Printshop, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts 
To support a program for emerging artists from all disciplines to create new work in printmaking. The program is an intensive, hands-on, year-long experience working with the Printshop's master printer.

Mabou Mines Development Foundation
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support the creation and production of a site-specific theater work that celebrates the history and geography of New York City and surrounding communities. Ruth Maleczech will conceive and direct Song For New York to be written by female poets reflecting New York City's boroughs.

Manhattan Class Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support the production of The Lieutenant of Inishmore by Martin McDonagh. In the play, a member of the IRA turns violent when he discovers the object of his affection, his cat Wee Thomas, is dead.

Marilyn Horne Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$12,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support vocal recitals by emerging artists. The foundation will present the artists at New York City's St. Bartholomew's Church as part of its On Wings of Song series which will be later broadcast on WQXR -FM radio.

Mark Morris Dance Group (Discalced, Inc.)
Brooklyn, NY
$70,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support the creation and presentation of three new works by choreographer and artistic director Mark Morris, in celebration of the company's 25th anniversary. In addition, the company will remount major works from its repertory, and both the new and older works will be performed on tour throughout the United States and the United Kingdom.

Mathys, Ted
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature 
To support a creative writing fellowship.

Melting Pot Theatre Co.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater 
To support the development and production of a new musical by composer Mike Reid and lyricist/librettist Sarah Schlesinger. In This House examines the lives of two married couples.

Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, NY
$100,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum 
To support the exhibition Prague, The Crown of Bohemia, 1347-1437, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. This will be the first international exhibition to trace the emergence of Prague as one of the premier artistic capitals of Europe, organized in collaboration with the Prague Castle Administration.

Metropolitan Opera Association, Inc.
New York, NY
$100,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera 
To support the North American premiere of Franco Alfano's Cyrano de Bergerac. The new production will be directed by Francesca Zambello; Placido Domingo will sing the title role of Cyrano.

Mettawee Theatre Company
Salem, NY
$18,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support the development and production of a new outdoor play, Circle of Chalk. Based on a Chinese folktale about two women struggling for possession of a child, the play will feature masks and puppets, and will tour New England states in the summer of 2005.

Mind-Builders Creative Arts Co. (consortium)
Bronx, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts 
To support a consortium project for a folklorist-in-training program. In partnership with Community Works, interns between the ages of 12 and 18 will be recruited and trained to identify, document, and present folk artists and tradition bearers found in the predominantly Africa American, Caribean, and Latino neighborhoods of the Bronx.

MoMA (Museum of Modern Art)
New York, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts 
To support the preservation of endangered films from the museum's nationally recognized collection. Each year, the museum saves 50 to 100 films by transferring them from unstable nitrate stock to acetate, and preserves fading and damaged acetate films.

MoMA (Museum of Modern Art) (consortium)
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design 
To support a consortium project for the design and production of a site-specific architectural installation. The project will create a public venue at the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center and provide critical exposure to emerging architects/designers.

Monday Morning Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design 
To support The Ganzfeld, a publication on design and visual culture. Each issue features commissioned work by designers, illustrators, cartoonists, and artists; the publication is available in approximately 400 cities around the world, online, and through Distributed Art Publishers.

MOSAIC, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary 
To support the remounting of Cabaret Schoenberg, an interpretation of composer Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire, stylized to evoke the original cabaret setting. Director Hans Peter Cloos (Germany) and designer Jean Kalman (France) will collaborate with the MOSAIC ensemble to meld the components of music, theater, film, and slide projections.

Movement Research, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support the 14th annual Improvisation Festival/NY. The festival includes a series of free and low-cost dance performances, classes and workshops, and film and video presentations.

Museum of Arts and Design (American Craft Museum)
New York, NY
$70,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum 
To support the research and planning for a touring exhibition and catalogue titled The Studio Craft Movement 1945-1965: A Community Emerges. This will be the fourth in a seven-part series, The Centenary Project, the first comprehensive history of 20th-century American craft.

Music at the Anthology, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support the MATA 2005 Festival. The week-long new music festival, held at the Anthology Film Archives in New York City, will include performances, commissions, field-related workshops, and educational programs.

Music From China
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support thematic concerts of new music for traditional Chinese instruments. The project will include the premiere of a commissioned work by composer Vivian Fung, string instrument training for youths and adults, and performances at various sites in New York City.

Music-Theatre Group, Inc.
New York, NY
$38,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater 
To support the final development and production of a new musical work. The artistic team of composer Tod Machover, U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky, director Diane Paulus, and writer/director Randy Weiner will develop Death and the Powers, exploring the life of inventor, businessman, and showman Casey Powers.

National Alliance for Musical Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$33,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater 
To support the 17th annual Festival of New Musicals. The festival will showcase new musicals for an invited audience of producers and musical theater professionals.

New 42nd Street, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support the presentation of theater productions for young audiences by international touring companies. The productions will be augmented by Weekend Theater Workshop offerings that will focus on theater, music, poetry, and puppetry.

New Dramatists, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support the Readings and Workshops program. Through a variety of flexible development activities, the program provides opportunities for company playwrights to collaborate with actors and directors on new plays and musicals during extended residencies.

New Federal Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support the world premiere production of Real Black Men Don't Sit Crosslegged on the Floor. Written by Christopher "Malk" Browne in the style of a choreopoem, the play will combine non-linear narrative with original music, poetry, prose, blues, rhythm, and dance to explore how African American men survive in America.

New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. (consortium)
Staten Island, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts 
To support a consortium project to archive work from the New American Radio series. The archival project will preserve contributions by artists such as Pauline Oliveros, Suzan-Lori Parks, and Charles Amirkahnian.

New School University (on behalf of New School Concerts)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support the New York String Seminar Program for emerging young musicians. The professional development program, directed by violinist and conductor Jaime Laredo, will culminate in two concerts at Carnegie Hall in New York City.

New York Chinese Cultural Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support the creation and presentation of new work and the restaging of past works by the Chinese Folk Dance Company. The works will premiere at the company's 20th annual Lunar New Year Festival at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts in New York, at a fall concert series at a dance venue in lower Manhattan, and will tour nationwide.

New York City Ballet, Inc.
New York, NY
$100,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support the presentation of the 13th year of the Diamond Project, the company's biennial festival dedicated to the commissioning and performance of new work. The company will premiere four new ballets by choreographers Peter Martins, Christopher Wheeldon, Benjamin Millepied, and Albert Evans.

New York City Opera, Inc.
New York, NY
$60,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera 
To support a new production of Giacomo Puccini's La Faniculla del West. Outreach programs will include panel discussions with directors, designers, and performers, along with educational opportunities for adults and high school and middle school students.

New York Collegium, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support Music in the Cloister: Defiance and Negotiation, recreating the ensembles of young nuns and cloistered women of 18th-century Northern Italy. The project will include a concert, a symposium, a film screening, and a master class.

New York Festival of Song, Inc.
New York, NY
$12,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support thematic song recital programs under the artistic direction of Steven Blier and Michael Barrett. The recitals will feature singers in solo and ensemble performances in Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center in New York City.

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc. (on behalf of Jennifer Monson Dance)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support the creation of an evening-length work by choreographer Jennifer Monson. BIRD BRAIN Dance (A Theatrical Version) will be created for five dancers, with an original commissioned score by David Kean and set design by Bob Braine.

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc. (on behalf of Art Research Collaboration , Inc.)
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary 
To support Interactive Alexandria, a multi-sensory, new media online artistic work. Originally conceived as an installation, the Web-based work will feature the charred remnants of 150 books as a metaphorical image for extinction and loss.

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc. (on behalf of dance & be still arts)
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary 
To support the development of The America Project, a multimedia music/theater work by poet, playwright, and performer Sekou Sundiata. The work will explore the deeper meaning of democracy in Western society.

New York Philharmonic (Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York, Inc.)
New York, NY
$100,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support the American Creations Festival. The orchestra will perform the world premiere of Peter Lieberson's Shotoku Taishi - The World in Flower for orchestra and chorus and works by Christopher Rouse, Elliott Carter, and Stephen Albert at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. The project will include discussions with composers, symposia, master classes, and conductors' roundtables.

New York State Historical Association
Cooperstown, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum 
To support the touring exhibition Grandmother to the Nation: Grandma Moses and the American Century, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will offer new critical perspectives on Moses, placing her work in the context of America's transformation through the Depression and World War II to the national prosperity of the '50s.

New York Theatre Workshop, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support a production of Eyewitness Blues, a new interdisciplinary work by Mildred Ruiz and Steven Sapp. The piece will blend storytelling, abstract movement, experimental music, and choreography with diverse ethnic influences to challenge the boundaries of traditional theatrical forms.

New York Treble Singers (Florida Camerata)
New York, NY
$8,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support a 20th-anniversary concert programmed for women's voices, including commissioned works. The October 2005 concert will focus on music for, by, and about women and will include the commissioned works of composers Mary Jane Leach and Laura Kaminsky.

OHNY (openhousenewyork inc.)
New York, NY
$22,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design 
To support a site guide, interpretive handouts, and Web site guide for a New York City architectural tour. The weekend event tours all five boroughs and provides access to buildings and facilities not typically open to the public.

Ontological-Hysteric Theater, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support the creation and production of a new work, titled The Idiot Savant. The work will explore the nature of truth and consciousness in an absurdist format that poses intellectual questions.

Opera Orchestra of New York, Inc.
New York, NY
$17,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera 
To support the Young Artists Program. Professional training activities will include coaching, showcases and readings at area venues, interaction with international opera singers, and performances with the orchestra, each centered on one of the Carnegie Hall productions.

Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support a multi-state tour featuring different concert programs. The repertoire will include premieres of commissioned works by Daniel Schnyder and Robert Aldridge. The orchestra will perform 17 concerts at venues in 10 states.

P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Inc. (consortium)
Long Island City, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum 
To support a consortium prject, the exhibition Greater New York II, with accompanying catalogue. The exhibition, organized in collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art, will showcase over 140 emerging New York-based artists working in a wide range of media.

P.S. 122 (Performance Space 122, Inc.)
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support the commissioning and presentation of new works by two choreographers. Sara Michelson and Mei-Yin Ng will appear in the Phys Ed dance series.

Pamphlet Architecture, Ltd.
New York, NY
$14250
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design 
To support a series of publications featuring exploratory work by architects, landscape architects, and urbanists, with the goal of introducing a new generation of architects and designers to a wider audience. Featured work will be selected through a juried competition, and the initial print run will be distributed internationally.

Paramount Center for the Arts, Inc.
Peekskill, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support a commission to composer and trumpeter Dave Douglas for new works to accompany early silent films of Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle. The new musical scores will be premiered with film screenings at the Paramount Center for the Arts.

Parrish Art Museum, Inc.
Southampton, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum 
To support an exhibition of the work of artist/architect Norman Jaffe, with accompanying catalogue. During a 30-year career, Jaffe built 600 projects and received four Architectural Records awards and was exhibited nationally by the Museum of Modern Art and the Smithsonian.

Paul Taylor Dance Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$100,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support the creation and presentation of new works by Paul Taylor. The works will be featured on tour and overseas as part of the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Paul Taylor Dance Company.

PEARSONWIDRIG DANCE THEATER (New Life Dance Inc.)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support the creation of a full-evening dance/theater/video work by choreographers Sara Pearson and Patrik Widrig. The work, titled An Oriental Guide to Unrequited Love, will premiere in New York.

Pentacle (DanceWorks, Inc.)
New York, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support the artist mentorship program, Help Desk, which provides technical assistance to emerging and mid-career choreographers.

Pick Up Performance Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support the creation and workshop of a new work by choreographer David Gordon and the presentation of Dancing Henry Five, a dance theater work inspired by Shakespeare's Henry V. The works will be presented in New York City and on a national tour.

Playwrights Horizons, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support a series of new work development programs and studio productions during the 2005-2006 season. The development programs are focused on serving the needs of writers, offering support, feedback, and artistic and technical resources during the process of creation.

Point Community Development Corporation (consortium)
Bronx, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts 
To support a consortium project for the continuation of the Mambo to Hip Hop Initiative. In collaboration with Public Art Films, the project will include field research, a stage performance titled Hip Hop Roots/Boricua Flavor, and completion of the documentary film From Mambo to Hip Hop: Music and Survival in the South Bronx.

Primary Stages Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support the production of Going to St. Ives, a play by Lee Blessing. Directed by Maria Mileaf, the play portrays an encounter between a doctor and the mother of an African dictator.

Public Art Fund Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts 
To support In the Public Realm, an opportunity for emerging artists to develop temporary art projects in an urban context. Projects will be documented in a series of publications.

Qi Shu Fang Peking Opera Company (Qi Shu Fang Peking Opera Association, Inc.)
Woodhaven, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts 
To support the Fifth Annual Peking Opera Festival. The festival will consist of weekend performances designed to attract recent immigrants and college students at Hunter College in New York City, Princeton University in New Jersey, and the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in Pennsylvania.

Queens Museum of Art (consortium)
Flushing, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum 
To support a consortium project, an exhibition documenting American artist Gordon Matta-Clark's 1973 Reality Properties: Fake Estates project in Queens, a conceptual art project about the urban built envorinment. The consortium partners are Cabinet Magazine and White Columns.

Redhawk Indian Arts Council
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts 
To support the Native American Heritage Celebrations. The celebration will focus on the heritage of the Eastern Woodland Native Americans and consist of lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on activities.

Research Foundation of State University of New York (on behalf of Performing Arts Center, Purchase College)
Albany, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support the Theatre Masterpieces series. National touring ensemble theater companies will perform interpretations of classic texts, such as Henry James's Turn of the Screw and H.G. Wells's The Invisible Man.

Roundabout Theatre Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support the production of Sam Shepherd's play, Fool For Love. The contemporary classic depicts a couples' volatile relationship and explores themes of love, hate, and the decline of the Old West.

School of Hard Knocks, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support the creation of a site-specific work by choreographer Yoshiko Chuma and a residency in upstate New York. The work will take place in several indoor and outdoor sites in the East Village in New York City as part of the HOWL Festival, and the residency will take place at the Bulldog Studios.

Sculpture Center, Inc.
Long Island City, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts 
To support a survey exhibition of contemporary sculpture and installation by artists working in the New York City area. Co-curated by Mary Ceruti, artist and Director of Sculpture Center, the exhibition will include new site-specific work and work newly created in the studio by approximately 40 artists.

Sean Curran Company (Curran Events, Inc.)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support the creation and presentation of a new work. Mozart Dances will premiere at The Joyce Theater in New York.

Second Generation Productions, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater 
To support the production of a new musical theater work. Based on Ang Lee's Academy Award-nominated film, the adaptation titled The Wedding Banquet: The Musical will be created by the artistic team of co-bookwriter and conceiver Welly Yang, co-bookwriter and lyricist Brian Yorkey, and composer Woody Pak.

Second Stage Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support the New York premiere of Birdie Blue, a new play by Cheryl West about a husband and wife coping with the difficulties of old age in their day-to-day lives. West will continue development of the play while in residence at the theater.

Sens Production, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support the creation and presentation of a site-specific work choreographed by Noemie Lafrance. The work will be staged inside a dormant outdoor pool in McCarran Park, Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

Seven Loaves, Inc. (on behalf of Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater 
To support the development and production of a new musical work with actors, jazz musicians, and puppets. The Bass Saxophone tells the story of teen musicians and jazz aficionados in German-occupied Czechoslovakia during World War II.

Shen Wei Dance Arts
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by choreographer Shen Wei. The work will be based upon repertory work of the Peking Opera, and will premiere at the American Dance Festival.

Signature Theatre Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support the production of Hot 'N' Throbbin by Pulitzer Prize-winner Paula Vogel. The play examines domestic violence and explores its complex effects on families. The production will be accompanied by outreach to organizations that support victims of domestic violence.

Singer, Sean
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature 
To support a creative writing fellowship.

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Inc.
New York, NY
$18,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts 
To support a residency program for emerging visual artists. Artists will be provided with a private studio, full room and board, and weekly private and group critiques by a faculty of leading professional artists.

Skysaver Productions, Inc.
New York, NY
$12,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support the creation, development, and production of a play. Trilogy, created and directed by Theodora Skipitaris, will feature puppetry, dance, and multimedia elements, and is based on the events surrounding the Trojan War.

Smack Mellon Studios, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts 
To support a program to provide artists with access to studio space, equipment, and technical support. Artists responding to an open call will be selected by a panel of artists, curators, and critics for residency periods of one year, including an honorarium.

Society for New Music
Syracuse, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support winter concerts and the creation and presentation of a commissioned work by Sally Lamb. The winter season will include concert programs with repeat performances in venues such as colleges, universities, and libraries.

Society of the Educational Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater 
To support productions of children's musical theater with accompanying workshops in New York and Puerto Rico. Through the presentation of Latin American children's classics and folk tales, Sociedad Educativa de las Artes (SEA) preserves Latin American arts and culture.

Socrates Sculpture Park, Inc.
Long Island City, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts 
To support a residency and exhibition opportunity for sculptors to realize large-scale work. Free-of-charge to the public, the exhibition attracts more than 40,000 local and international visitors per year who have the opportunity to observe the artists create new work.

Stephen Petronio Dance Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support the creation of a new work and revival of past works by choreographer Stephen Petronio. The works will be presented in New York and on national and international tours.

SU Theatre Corporation
Syracuse, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support the production of The Grapes of Wrath, based on the novel by John Steinbeck. The production will feature eduational workshops, study guides, curriculum support materials and community outreach.

Susan Marshall & Company (Dance Continuum, Inc.)
Putnam Valley, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support the creation and presentation of an evening-length work and the revival of past work choreographed by Susan Marshall. The work will be presented at Dance Theater Workshop in New York and on tour throughout the United States.

Syracuse Children's Chorus, Inc.
Syracuse, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support the commissioning of a new work for children's chorus and string quartet. Music will be composed by American composer Libby Larsen, with libretto by Native American poet and novelist Louise Erdrich.

Talking Band, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support the development and production of a new play, Delicious Rivers (working title) by Ellen Maddow. Developed in collaboration with mathematician Marjorie Senechal, the play follows four postal workers and three neighborhood apartment dwellers whose lives intertwine in a variety of surprising twists and turns.

Tectonic Theater Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$18,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support the stage adaptation of One Arm, an unproduced screenplay by Tennessee Williams. Moisés Kaufman will adapt and direct the piece through an intensive development process.

Tere O'Connor Dance (Big Tree Productions, Inc.)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support the creation and presentation of an evening-length dance work choreographed by Tere O'Connor. The work will be created in collaboration with composer James Baker and lighting and set designer Brian MacDevitt.

Thalia Spanish Theatre Inc.
Sunnyside, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater 
To support the world premiere of a musical theater work that celebrates the art of tango. To be written and directed by Angel Gil Orrios, with original music by composer Raul Jaurena, I Love Tango/Te Amo Tango will explore tango from its origins to its fusion with jazz and modern dance.

The Field (Performance Zone Inc.)
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support a series of workshops and residencies. The project will include the creation of work, retreats, a conference, a national touring facilitation Web site, and an artist resource center.

The Kitchen (Haleakala, Inc.)
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary 
To support the Sidney Kahn Summer Institute, a laboratory for students and young professionals who are interested in the creation of multimedia works. The intensive three-week program immerses participants in the artistic, technical, and philosophical approaches to contemporary performance through various workshops, screenings, and artist discussions.

The Thing, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary 
To support a new media residency program titled THING.Clouds: A Wireless Media Project. A public Internet network in Manhattan and Brooklyn will allow easy access and connections among various artists, enabling them to create multidisciplinary works.

Theater Labrador, Inc.
New York, NY
$11,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support the production of The Beauty Inside by Catherine Filloux. The play is inspired by an actual event in which a 14-year-old Turkish girl was placed under state protection, the victim of an attempted honor killing.

Theatre for a New Audience, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support the production of plays. The company will present William Shakespeare's Coriolanus directed by Karin Coonrod and a new English translation of Eduardo de Filippo's Questi Fantasmi titled Souls of Naples by Michael Feingold.

Thunder Bay Ensemble, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary 
To support the creation of a new collaborative performance work. The ensemble will create a new work in conjunction with European performance groups Artus (Hungary) and Toaca (Romania).

Tkacz, Virlana
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature 
To support the translation from Ukrainian of Serhyi Zhadan's two most recent books of poetry. Tkacz will collaborate with Wanda Phipps. Born in 1974, Zhadan is one of the most popular poets of the post-independence generation in Ukraine. His work deals with the disillusionment, difficulties, and ironies that the collapse of the Soviet Union has brought to the country, and is widely read in literary circles and by the younger generation. Tkacz and Phipps will translate Ballads of War and Reconstruction (2001) and History of Culture at the Turn of This Century (2003). Virlana Tkacz is a translator, writer, and theater director, and currently serves as the artistic director of Yara Arts Group, a resident company at La MaMa Experimental Theatre. With her long-time collaborator, Phipps, she has translated Ukrainian poetry of more than 20 poets, and they received the National Theatre Translation Fund Award for their translation of Lesia Ukrainka's verse drama The Forest Song.

Tribeca Performing Arts Center (Borough of Manhattan Community College Performing Arts Center, Inc.)
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support Lost Jazz Shrines: Bradley's - The Art of the Small Band, a concert series showcasing music performed at historic, lower-Manhattan jazz venues. The series will include works inspired by music featured at the jazz club Bradley's.

Trisha Brown Dance Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$70,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support the creation and presentation of a new work and the reconstruction of three seminal pieces from the company's repertory. These pieces will be part of the company's 35th anniversary celebration and will tour nationally and internationally.

Tung Ching Chinese Center for the Arts, Inc.
Flushing, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts 
To support the 13th Annual Traditional Chinese Theater Festival. The celebration will focus on Beijing, Chinese, and Shaoxing styles of Chinese opera.

Unique Projects, Inc. (on behalf of Dance by Neil Greenberg)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support the creation and premiere of a new work by choreographer Neil Greenberg. Partial View will be created in collaboration with video designer John Jesurun, composer Zeena Parkins, and lighting designer Michael Stiller.

Urban Bush Women (UBW, Inc.)
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support the creation of a work by choreographer Jawole Willa Jo Zollar. Titled Walking With Pearl - The Southern Diaries, the work will be inspired by the life of dance pioneer and social activist Pearl Primus, and will be performed in a variety of venues.

Van Alen Institute:Projects in Public Architecture
New York, NY
$12,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design 
To support an exhibition and publication on recreation and play. The exhibition will be organized around three main concepts - amusement parks, downtown playgrounds, and park systems used as entertainment networks.

Vineyard Theatre & Workshop Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support the development and production of a new interpretation of J.M. Barrie's 1920s play Mary Rose. The revival of the lost classic will involve dramaturgical research, developmental readings and workshops, and the commission of an original score.

Visual Studies Workshop, Inc.
Rochester, NY
$18,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts 
To support a residency program in photography, bookmaking, digital imaging, digital video, and small-format film and video. Participating artists will receive a stipend, travel costs, use of the facilities, training, and housing for one-month residencies.

Vivian Beaumont Theater, Inc.
New York, NY
$60,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater 
To support the world premiere of a new musical. Based on a novel by Sherley Anne Williams, Dessa Rose will be directed by Graciela Daniele, with libretto and lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, and score by Stephen Flaherty.

Wally Cardona Quartet (WCV, Inc.)
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance 
To support creation and presentation of an evening-length work choreographed by artistic director and choreographer Wally Cardona in collaboration with composer Phil Kline. The work will be presented at Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival and Portland Institute for Contemporary Art's TBA Festival.

Wave Hill, Inc.
Bronx, NY
$12,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts 
To support a consortium project to commission artist Bob Braine to create a work for the 2005 Generated@WaveHill program. Working on the grounds of the Bronx River Art Center, the artist will use the river edge as the subject of intense ecological and aesthetic study.

Westchester Arts Council (consortium)
White Plains, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies 
To support a consortium project of marketing initiatives designed to assist building audiences for the arts through cultural tourism partnerships. In association with the Westchester County Office of Tourism, the Council will expand its multi-faceted marketing initiatives using improved resources for print, Web, e-mail, and visitor centers.

White Columns, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts 
To support an exhibition series featuring the work of emerging visual artists. Artists are selected by the curator of White Columns from an artists' registry that includes the work of approximately 1,000 artists who do not have New York gallery representation.

White Pine Press (White Pine Inc.)
Buffalo, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature 
To support the translation, publication, and promotion of titles in the World of Voices Publishing Project. White Pine will bring authors to Buffalo, New York, for week-long residencies in high schools and community centers in underserved urban areas.

WMI (World Music Institute, Inc.)
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts 
To support Music and Dance of Latin America. The project will consist of traditional music and dance from venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Peru, and Columbia.

Women's Project & Productions
New York, NY
$18,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support the Developmental Theatre Program. The program includes The Directors Forum, Playwrights Lab, First Looks rehearsal readings and Works-in-Progress workshops.

Young Concert Artists, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music 
To support the presentation of the Young Concert Artists Series of recitals and concerti debuts in New York City and Washington, DC. The project will include the commissioning of a new work by a young composer and will provide career management for emerging classical performers and composers.

Young Playwrights Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater 
To support the Young Playwrights Festival 2005. The festival will feature workshops, staged readings, and full productions of plays by young playwrights.

NEW YORK total grants: 223
NEW YORK total dollars: $6,306,350

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