2005 Grant Awards: State Listings
Access to Artistic Excellence II/American Masterpieces/
Folk Arts Infrastructure/Learning in the Arts/Partnerships
Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change,
contingent upon prior Endowment approval.
CALIFORNIA
509 Cultural Center (Luggage Store)
San Francisco, CA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support outdoor performances, visual arts exhibitions, and the 11th annual In the Street Theater Festival. The project provides free, professional quality, community-based multidisciplinary arts programming for culturally and economically diverse residents of San Francisco's Tenderloin and Mid-Market Corridor neighborhoods.
A Traveling Jewish Theatre
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of The One That Got Away, the U.S. premiere of a large-scale, site-specific theater piece created and directed by Kendra Fanconi. Set in and around a swimming pool, the play explores one woman's search for her submerged Jewish identity, using water as a medium for space and time.
Alliance for California Traditional Arts
Fresno, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Connecting California project and related costs. The project will provide information about traditional artists, activities, and resources state-wide via the New Moon e-newsletter and a Web site including an online artist directory, virtual exhibitions, and a traditional music portal.
Alliance for California Traditional Arts
Fresno, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Folk & Traditional Arts Infrastructure Initiative FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support continuation of the Traditional Arts Development Program. The program will consist of technical assistance through a mentoring program, and a gathering of artists and funders.
American Film Institute Inc. (AFI Silver Theatre and Cultural Center)
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the Directing Workshop for Women. Each year the program provides individuals with the necessary skills and portfolio to enter the directing field.
Arts Council Silicon Valley
San Jose, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the Community Arts Fund (CAF). Now in its 15th year, the CAF will provide grants to support community-based artistic programs throughout Santa Clara County.
ArtsChange
Richmond, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the Quilt of Many Colors Project, a series of curated exhibitions installed in the waiting room of Richmond's main public health facility. The project will promote the value of the arts in the healing process and provide access to art for approximately 17,000 users of the facility per year.
Autry National Center of the American West
Los Angeles, CA
$33,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support Native Voices at the Autry, a program to develop and present new plays by Native American writers. Writers will work with professional directors and actors, and participate in the readings and workshop productions.
Axis Dance Company
Oakland, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support Dance Access & Dance Access/KIDS!, an education/outreach program. The program offers a variety of events for youth, and adults with and without disabilities.
Bay Area Video Coalition, Inc. (consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support a consortium project for the Mediamaker Awards and Artist Residency. In collaboration with the San Francisco Art Institute, these programs will provide independent video artists and producers with critical technical assistance and the resources they need to finish their projects.
Business Arts Council
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support the Business Volunteer for the Arts Program. Small and mid-sized arts organizations will be matched with trained business volunteers who will assist the organizations with specific organizational challenges.
California Alliance for Arts Education (on behalf of Department of Education Directors of Arts Ed.)
Pasadena, CA
$67,500
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support electronic networking for the Department of Education Directors of Arts Education (DEDAE). Virtual meetings, regional discussions, and polling of members through a Web site, as well as e-mail and telephone communications, will enable state arts education directors to engage in focused discussions with national leaders and to network with one another.
California Arts Council
Sacramento, CA
$953,000
CATEGORY: Partnership FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.
California College of Arts and Crafts
Oakland, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the organization and dissemination of archive material documenting the Capp Street Project's 20-year history of commissioning artists' installations. For the past eight years, Capp Street Project has been administered by the California College of the Arts, which invites artists for residencies that result in installation projects.
California College of Arts and Crafts (consortium)
Oakland, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support the Professional Development Project. Seminars, classroom visits, and individual coaching with be provided to generalist teachers and principals at two Oakland schools to develop arts-integrated lessons that address the California Visual and Performing Arts Standards.
California Indian Storytelling Association
Fremont, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Storytelling Festivals 2005/06: Building Cultural Bridges--Continuing the Dialogue. The forums will bring together storytellers from California, Hawaii, Arizona, and Oregon.
California Lawyers for the Arts, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support the expansion of ArtHouse. The program will provide technical support, seminars, and Web-based information on how to develop affordable space to artists and arts organizations in the Bay Area.
California Shakespeare Festival
Berkeley, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the production of a play adapted from a literary work, and accompanying writing workshops. Jonathan Moscone and Sean Daniels will co-direct a new adaptation of Charles Dickens' The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, by David Edgar.
Cazadero Performing Arts Camp
Berkeley, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Jumpstart in Music. In collaboration with the Berkeley Unified School District, middle school music students will be offered a three-day weekend retreat of music instruction.
Center for Art in Translation
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support Poetry Inside Out. Targeted for bilingual students ages 8 to 13, the program will introduce students to Spanish literature, increase language proficiency in both English and Spanish through literary translation, and demonstrate the possibility of turning bilingual abilities into translation skills for career and educational opportunities.
Center Theatre Group of Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
$55,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the production of plays with accompanying educational activities for middle and high school students from underserved areas. The Young Audiences Program will offer matinee performances of regular season productions free of charge, accompanied by study guides and pre- and post-play workshops and discussions.
Central City Hospitality House
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support workshop, exhibition, and publication components of the Community Arts Program. The project will provide professional arts training to the population of the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco.
Chhandam Chitresh Das Dance Company
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support solo performances of Kathak, an endangered classical dance of North India. The art form requires knowledge and understanding of complex rhythmic patterns that are spontaneously produced through footwork, recitation, and movement that harmonize completely with the percussionist.
Chinese Cultural Productions (Lily Cai Chinese Dance Company)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a tour of traditional Chinese dance and outreach activities. The dance performances will be accompanied by Chinese music and will incorporate contemporary American stagecraft.
Chinese Culture Foundation of San Francisco (consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a consortium project, The Cantonese Opera Heritage Project. A partnership with the Chinese Performing Arts Foundation, the project will include a series of lectures, workshops, and exhibitions designed to raise awareness of the prominent role Cantonese opera has played in San Francisco over the past 150 years.
Chula Vista Elementary School District
Chula Vista, CA
$55,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support Community of Teachers and Artists (CoTA). The professional development project features side-by-side collaborations of teachers and artists who conceive and implement instruction strategies and methods that integrate the arts into all facets of the elementary school curriculum.
Cinnabar Arts Corporation
Petaluma, CA
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the presentation of a concert and semi-staged version of Robert Xavier Rodriguez's opera La Curandera. The opera, based on Mozart's comic opera Bastien und Bastienne, will feature a female sorceress in the Mexican folk tradition.
City of San Diego, California (on behalf of Commission for Arts and Culture)
San Diego, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the commission of visual installations for the city's new main library. Artists Donald Lipski, Gary Hill, Roy McMakin, and Einar and Jamex de la Torre have been selected to create site-specific artworks.
City of San Fernando, California
San Fernando, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support the Mariachi Master Apprentice Program. Evening mariachi classes for youth will culminate in a concert performance and mariachi conference. Professional mariachi musicians (including National Heritage Fellow Natividad Cano) will serve as instructors and evaluate the progress of the apprentices in violin, guitar, guitarrón, vihuela, trumpet, and folk harp playing techniques.
City of Ventura, California (on behalf of Office of Cultural Affairs)
Ventura, CA
$8,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the development of an assessment and conservation plan for the city's public art collection The collection is made up of 47 site-specific art works ranging from a small bronze to a monumental, award-winning bus transit center designed by Dennis Oppenheim.
Clapperstick Institute
Berkeley, CA
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the Central Valley Writers Conference, a free, two-day festival of readings and writing workshops in rural California. Proposed participants include Lawson Fusao Inada, Philip Levine, Gary Soto, Susan Kelley-DeWitt, Dixie Salazar, and Juan Felipe Herrera.
Community Music Center
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support the Comprehensive Musicianship/Inner City Young Musicians program. Professional musicians will provide free ensemble and musicianship classes for underserved middle and high school students.
Cornerstone Theater Company, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the production of a play. The company will develop and produce, in collaboration with the Cornerstone Institute and residents of Grayson and Westley, California, a new adaptation of Blood Wedding by Federico García Lorca.
Creative Growth, Inc.
Oakland, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support First Person Plural: Preserving the Work and Stories of Artists with Disabilities. The project archive will document and create a resource center for the work done by adults with disabilities, and provide a series of DVDs by the artists themselves.
Cultural Council of Santa Cruz County
Santa Cruz, CA
$14,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support an artist residency program, Connecting Arts and Community. The David Dorfman Dance Company and About Productions, a theater company focusing on Latino heritage, will conduct outreach activities and perform for Santa Cruz County residents.
Dance for Power
Stockton, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Multicultural Performing Arts Series. Activities will include public and student matinee performances, in-school lecture-demonstrations, and artists' workshops.
Dancer's Group (on behalf of Epiphany Productions)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of site-specific dances along one of San Francisco's historic trolley lines. Trolley Dances will involve the local dance community, the San Francisco Municipal Railway (MUNI), and the inner-city communities of downtown San Francisco.
Dimensions Dance Theater, Inc.
Oakland, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a free dance program for children, youth, and young adults. In the City/Rites of Passage provides dance education and training in a variety of styles, and is taught by professional dancers.
Each One Reach One
Pacifica, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support A Dream and a Plan for Tomorrow (ADAPT), a playwriting workshop and educational tutoring program. Designed for incarcerated San Mateo County teenagers, the project will involve professional theater artists working one-on-one with youth to create and develop original, one-act plays.
Earplay (consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a consortium project for a workshop of a new opera score, Every Man Jack, by composer Libby Larsen and librettist Philip Littell. The workshop with the ensemble Earplay in June 2005 will help the composer determine how all the Sonoma City Opera production elements are working together.
East Bay Center for the Performing Arts
Richmond, CA
$47,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support Call and Response and a series of special performance events. Multicultural resident dance, music, and theater companies will perform at San Francisco Bay Area sites.
East Los Angeles Classic Theatre
Los Angeles, CA
$23,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Literary Engagement Performance Tour. The tour will bring an adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, performed in a "Zoot Suit" style, to schools and community venues, and provide free performances for the general public at the Ford Amphitheatre.
El Teatro Campesino
San Juan Bautist, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of La Pastorela: The Shepherd's Tale at the Old Mission San Juan Bautista. With a cast of both professional artists and community volunteers, the production will be the centerpiece of the community's annual holiday celebration.
Eldergivers
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support expansion of an art instruction program for residents of Bay Area nursing homes. Building upon more than ten years of experience, Eldergivers will hire professional artists with teaching experience to conduct workshops for institutionalized seniors.
Eth-Noh-Tec Creations
San Francisco, CA
$8,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a Bay Area tour of Takashi's Dream, an original production dramatizing the life journey of a man who survived the bombing of Hiroshima when he was eight years old. Takashi Tanemori, whose life is the inspiration for the piece, will participate in a post-performance dialogue with artists and audiences after each performance.
Film Arts Foundation (on behalf of Sageland Media)
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a film titled No Mouse Music! The Story of Chris Strachwitz and Arhoolie Records. The project will explore the vernacular music Strachwitz brought to the attention of middle America via recordings of Cajun, Zydeco, country, blues, klezmer, old-time tunes, and Tex-Mex.
Film Arts Foundation
San Francisco, CA
$65,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the Emerging Filmmaker Initiative. The program will provide media artists with workshops, seminars, classes, facilities access, peer mentorship, and information services to cultivate new voices.
Film Arts Foundation (on behalf of 3 Dogs Productions)
San Francisco, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support research and development and the subsequent production of an experimental documentary film by Naomi Uman. Using an observational point of view, the filmmaker will examine her family's path from the Ukraine to the United States.
Film Arts Foundation (on behalf of Nathaniel Dorsky Film and Video)
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production of a silent experimental film by Nathaniel Dorsky. Dedicated to the spirit of devotional song, Coda (working title) will explore the external surface of objects both man-made and natural.
Film Arts Foundation (on behalf of Hotwire Productions)
San Francisco, CA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support production and post-production costs for a documentary film by Lynn Hershman. Changing Worlds: Art, Women and Revolution will examine the feminist art movement from 1968 through the present.
Film Arts Foundation (on behalf of Locomotion Films)
San Francisco, CA
$38,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production of an experimental film by Jay Rosenblatt. The film will examine the subject of suicide. It will combine interviews and archival footage. Music, ambient sounds, and text will reflect the respectful tone of the piece. Philosophical and spiritual text will be interspersed throughout the film, to be shot in both color and black and white.
Firebird Youth Chinese Orchestra
San Jose, CA
$24,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support classes in traditional Chinese instrumental music. The project will provide 7- to 14-year-olds with year-round weekend lessons and ensemble classes in Chinese music. Beginning, intermediate, and advanced classes will be offered in Chinese instruments such as the souna, dizi, pipa, erhu, yangqin, and percussion, various playing styles and techniques, and music theory.
Floricanto Dance Theatre
Whittier, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a touring concert titled Fandango Without Borders. The project will include musicians, dancers, singers, and poets celebrating the son jarocho, an improvisational music and dance form from Veracruz, Mexico.
Ford Theatre Foundation
Hollywood, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the 4th annual Latino Audience Initiative (LAI). The project will explore programming, marketing, and audience development strategies targeted for the Latino audience, to increase participation and access to performing arts programs.
Friends of the Schindler House
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support Iceland, an exhibition of the work of British artist Isaac Julien. Although Julien is best known for his filmmaking, Iceland is a series of lush, detailed formal still images taken during a recent film shoot.
Galería/Studio 24
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support documentation of the Digital Mural Project on the organization's Web site. In just five years, Galería has presented 25 public art pieces, on a 24 foot by 10 foot billboard, on its facade in San Francisco's Mission District.
Grand Performances
Los Angeles, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Exploration of Electronic Music series. The project will bring electronic and contemporary classical composers to the stage for live performances.
Highways, Inc.
Santa Monica, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation of a dance work with disabled veterans by choreographer Victoria Marks. The work will incorporate video art and documentation of the process by filmmaker Ellen Bromberg.
Hmong Cultural Arts, Crafts, Teaching & Museum Projects
Sacramento, CA
$24,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support classes in traditional Hmong folk arts. Local artists will lead year-round, after-school classes in Hmong music, pa dao (reverse appliqué embroidery), and folk dance in preparation for performances and demonstrations at public festivals and other community events.
Hutchins Consort
Encinitas, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a tour of concerts in tribute to Dr. Carleen Hutchins, the maker of eight scaled violins that collectively span the full range of written music. The tour will begin in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, and continue to the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, which currently owns a set of the violins.
Idris Ackamoor & Cultural Odyssey (consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a consortium project, the African American Theatre Alliance for Independence (AATAIN!). In partnership with the Afro Solo Theater Company, the project will encourage self-empowerment through collective marketing, audience development, technical assistance, and aesthetic exploration.
Imagination Workshop, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support theater arts workshops for individuals with special needs in the greater Los Angeles area. The program prepares professional stage and screen artists to lead workshops in creation and performance for participants in hospitals, group homes, inner-city schools, and other institutions.
Installation Gallery
San Diego, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support Dialogues 8, 9, 10, and 11, four one-day public symposiums which take place as part of InSite05, a temporary public art installation held in the San Diego/Tijuana region.
Instituto Pro Musica de California
San Francisco, CA
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a state-wide tour of Fandango! - a choral and instrumental program of the music of early California (1770-1870). Performances will take place in Los Angeles, Monterey, Oakland, San Francisco, San Jose, and Santa Barbara in June 2005.
Intersection (consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$7,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the consortium project Independent Press Spotlight, a monthly series of events designed to highlight the work of independent presses and literary journals from the Bay Area. In partnership with City Lights Foundation, the center will promote the series in its newsletter which is distributed to more than 11,500 individuals.
Japanese American Cultural and Community Center
Los Angeles, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support the Asian and Pacific Islander Artist Presenting Initiative. Through presentation of representative works, the project will deepen public understanding and appreciation of the community's arts and cultural heritage.
Japanese American National Museum
Los Angeles, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the conservation treatment of paintings by Benji Okubo (1905-1975). A noted painter of Japanese ancestry, active in Los Angeles from the 1920s through the 40s, Okubo continued painting during his World War II internment at Heart Mountain, Wyoming.
Karuk Tribe of California
Happy Camp, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support an artist-in-residence program and basketweaver gatherings. The project is designed to encourage basketweaving among the Karuk people, to both generate income and increase public awareness of Native American traditional arts.
Kitchen Sisters Productions
San Francisco, CA
$85,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production of a radio series by the Kitchen Sisters. Hidden Kitchens will explore how communities come together through food.
Kitka, Inc.
Oakland, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the research, presentation, CD recording, songbook publication, and tour of Lulaj: Lullabies and Songs of Children from the Old Country. Traditional songs sung by Balkan, Slavic, and Caucasian mothers and their children will be gathered, documented, preserved, and showcased in the collection.
L.A. Freewaves
Los Angeles, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production and distribution of two episodes of Freewaves. The 13-part television series will showcase independent media artworks and broadcast them on local public access stations.
L.A. Theatre Works
Venice, CA
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the expansion of the Alive and Aloud and Library Access national outreach programs. The project will include the distribution of audio plays to libraries in underserved communities and to public schools in all 50 states.
La Peña Cultural Center
Berkeley, CA
$37,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Art in Action series. Artists in residence will address daily life and social issues through performances and workshops.
Los Angeles County Arts Commission (consortium)
Los Angeles, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support the consortium project Arts for All, in partnership with the Los Angeles County Department of Education. The project is an ongoing effort to organize systematic activities that will implement the Los Angeles County Regional Blueprint for Arts Education and institutionalize K-12 sequential arts education in the school districts.
Los Angeles Opera Company (consortium)
Los Angeles, CA
$55,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support a consortium project titled Community Performance Tour. Disadvantaged children from Southern California will have the opportunity to attend an opera performance of The Prospector and learn basic tenets of opera.
Los Angeles Poverty Department
Los Angeles, CA
$12,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the creation, development, and production of a play. Fried Poetry will be written through a workshop process in collaboration with community partners, neighborhood residents, and writer and playwright Ron Allen.
Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center
San Pablo, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Community Heritage Project. The project is a multigenerational, multidisciplinary, and multifaceted program of arts training in traditional Mexican music and dance.
Los Sambos
Panorama City, CA
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Bolivian Festival of Southern California. The event will showcase various forms of folk dance originating from several regions in Bolivia.
Luna Kids Dance
Berkeley, CA
$15,000
To support Luna Kids Dance Summer Institute 2005. The project will provide opportunities for teachers and artists to design and implement creative and standards-based dance activities for kindergarten through twelfth-grade students.
Luther Burbank Memorial Foundation
Santa Rosa, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Luther Burbank Center's Hispanic Community Cultural Outreach Program. Initiated in 2002, the program will expand the number and types of cultural arts experiences offered, and will provide more arts accessibility to the North Bay Hispanic community.
Museum of Latin American Art
Long Beach, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support implementation of a multicomponent community outreach plan and the Free Admission Fridays program. The goals of the project are to expand and diversify MoLAA's audience, and to increase museum attendance and membership.
Music in Schools Today
San Francisco, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support Music-Integrated Literacy Enhancement (MILE) Program. In collaboration with Oakland Unified School District, the program will provide opportunities for music teachers to co-teach with classroom teachers.
National Alliance of Media Arts Centers, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$60,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support Giving a Public Face to the Media Arts. Through regional meetings, leadership development, and information gathering and dissemination, the National Alliance of Media Arts Centers (NAMAC) will continue to serve the independent media arts community.
National Association of Latino Independent Producers, Inc.
Santa Monica, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the Latino Media Market. Targeted to Latino media artists, the Market will connect filmmakers with representatives from both the nonprofit and commercial film and television fields.
National Federation of Community Broadcasters, Inc. (consortium)
Oakland, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support a consortium project to offer radio production workshops. In collaboration with KBOO Foundation, the training will take place during the 2006 Community Radio Conference, which will be held in Portland, Oregon.
National Steinbeck Center (consortium)
Salinas, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a consortium project titled The Steinbeck Chair, a community artist-in-residence program. In partnership with The Western Stage, the center will bring Japanese American poet Lawson Inada to Salinas for readings, workshops, and discussion groups.
Ninth Street Media Consortium, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$75,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support collaborative programming. Founded in 2001, the Ninth Street Independent Film Center houses eight nonprofit media arts organizations, each with its own identity.
Oakland Museum of California Foundation
Oakland, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the post-production of video interviews with contemporary California artists whose work is in the museum's permanent collection. The resulting videos will be used as a new educational tool in the new Gallery of California Art, planned for 2006-07.
ODC Theater
San Francisco, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support the Verge and Artists-in-Residence programs. The project will provide professional development training, technical support, and space subsidies to dance and music artists, and companies.
Other Minds (consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the digital conversion of archival recordings for free public access via the Internet. Other Minds and consortium partner Internet Archive will select and prepare the materials featuring performances, interviews, and conversations recorded live by leading composers and artists of 20th-century American music.
Pacific Asia Museum
Pasadena, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the reinstallation of the Japanese collection and accompanying education programs. Highlights of the Japanese collection will be installed in the first permanent gallery space devoted to Japanese art.
Pacific Symphony Association
Santa Ana, CA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support the Class Act Music Education Program. The project will pair Orange County schools with orchestral musicians in year-long, sequentially structured classroom programs and concert experiences.
Pasadena Playhouse State Theatre of California, Inc. (consortium)
Pasadena, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a consortium project to produce Open Window, a new play by Stephen Sachs. The Playhouse will collaborate with Deaf West Theatre on the production, which will include deaf and hearing actors performing in American Sign Language and English.
PEN Center USA West
Los Angeles, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support Freedom to Write, a project to connect professional writers with emerging writers from underserved communities. The project will include Emerging Voices, a one-on-one mentorship program, and PEN in the Classroom, an arts instruction program for high school students.
Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County
Los Angeles, CA
$90,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support the Arts Capacity Team Schools (ACTS) program. Elementary schools will design, implement, and sustain arts education programs (involving the disciplines of music, theater, dance, or visual arts) and incorporate those activities into the core school-wide curriculum.
Playwrights Project
San Diego, CA
$18,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support Write On! The program will provide underserved youth with classroom opportunities to work with trained artists in creating original plays, improving reading skills, and developing vocabulary as students write dialogue and describe settings.
Poetry Flash (consortium)
Berkeley, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a consortium project for the 10th anniversary of the Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival. In partnership with The Ecology Center, the project will celebrate American literary imagination and its relationship to the natural world.
Public Corporation for the Arts of the City of Long Beach
Long Beach, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support A City of Neighborhoods: Bridging School and Community in Long Beach. The public art and design project will provide staff and community leaders training in the development and implementation of a semester-long, in-school program for high school students.
Purple Silk Music Education Foundation, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support the Tenth Anniversary Concert Series. Children and youth will participate in beginner and advanced, weekly Chinese music lessons and ensemble classes in preparation for performances throughout the Bay Area that will celebrate the 10th anniversary of the founding of its two ensembles: Purple Bamboo Chorus and the Great Wall Youth Chorus & Orchestra.
Radio Bilingüe, Inc. (consortium)
Fresno, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support Radio Bilingüe's Smithsonian Folklife Festival, a consortium project. A collaboration with WRTU-FM Radio Universidad de Puerto Rico, the project will bring the festival and its artists to underserved, low-income Latino communities through more than 60 affiliates across the United States and Mexico, and on the Web.
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley (consortium)
Berkeley, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support the 2005 Berkeley/Oakland AileyCamp, a consortium project. In partnership with the Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, the six-week summer program will provide dance training and personal development instruction targeted for at-risk children and youths.
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley (on behalf of Young Musicians Program)
Berkeley, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support the Young Musicians Program. The seven-week, conservatory-style summer program will offer students musical training and performance opportunities.
Regents of the University of California at San Diego
La Jolla, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the publication TheatreForum, an international journal of contemporary performance. Using an expansive definition of theater, the publication features plays by American and international playwrights, and articles on new work by scholars and artists.
Rhythmic Concepts, Inc.
Oakland, CA
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a jazz music education camp for all ages. Jazz Camp West will offer daily classes and multiple performance opportunities throughout its eight-day program.
Ryman-Carroll Foundation
Los Angeles, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support Opportunities for Talented Urban Youth. Teens from Los Angeles will receive tuition-free studio instruction in drawing and painting by master artist teachers.
San Diego Asian Film Foundation
San Diego, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the sixth San Diego Asian Film Festival. Held in the fall, the four-day event features short films, animated work, documentaries, and narrative feature films.
San Diego Symphony Orchestra Association
San Diego, CA
$12,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support concerts reaching out to new audiences. The San Diego Symphony, under music director Jahja Ling, will perform selections from their repertoire by Mexican composers in several venues in San Diego and Tijuana.
San Francisco Art and Film Program
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support continuation of the Teen Film Workshop. The project is designed to prepare students for film school and train them for future careers in the film industry.
San Francisco Arts Commission (on behalf of San Francisco Writer's Corp)
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support Writer's Corp. Professional artists will teach creative writing to at-risk youth in underperforming schools.
San Francisco Chanticleer, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$27,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a national concert and educational residency project. Activities will include choral coaching, youth choral festivals, and advanced choral training for adult singers.
San Francisco Girls Chorus, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support Music Education and Outreach Program. The project will provide an introduction to choral singing, and it will serve as the foundation for the performance concert and touring ensembles.
San Francisco Performing Arts Library & Museum
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the documentation and preservation of the dance collections of West Coast artists. These artists include Michael Smuin, Anna Halprin, Tandy Beal, and Chitresh Das.
San Francisco State University
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the Poetry Center's Being a Poet youth residency project. A pilot program will bring renowned visiting writers to local classrooms, using current literary efforts in the Bay Area.
San Francisco Symphony (on behalf of San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra)
San Francisco, CA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support the Artist Development Program. Designed to complement the Youth Orchestra's core program of weekly rehearsals and concert performances, students will receive coaching, apprenticeships, mentorships, and specialized training in chamber music, instrument care, and auditioning techniques.
San Jose Children's Musical Theater
San Jose, CA
$18,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the training of young artists, workshops, and the production of a musical. Young performers will receive introductory training with professional theater artists and perform in a presentation of the musical Jesus Christ Superstar.
Santa Cecilia Opera and Orchestra Association
Los Angeles, CA
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Discovering Music, an educational outreach program in underserved communities of Los Angeles. The project, led by artistic director Sonia Marie De Leon, will provide orchestral performances and educational activities in venues ranging from elementary schools to community centers.
Shakespeare Festival/LA, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$22,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the 20th Annual Summer Festival. A production of The Two Gentlemen of Verona, directed by Ben Donenberg, will be presented free of charge in Los Angeles' downtown Pershing Square and other outdoor venues.
Shared Adventures (on behalf of Young Artists Studio)
Santa Cruz, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support Young Artists Studio. Able-bodied and disabled young artists (12 to 18 years old) will work together in an inclusive, after-school art classroom creating individual and group artwork.
Southern Exposure (consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support Mission Voices, a consortium project. The project will focus on arts-based community development by pairing local artists with teens from seven participating youth organizations, including consortium partner Horizons Unlimited.
Southwest Chamber Music Society
Pasadena, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the recording of a new work by Chinary Ung. The commissioned work will be premiered and recorded by Southwest Chamber Music.
Squaw Valley Community of Writers
Nevada City, CA
$6,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the Screenwriting Program. The workshop focuses on the essence of storytelling and teaches participants how to "show" rather than "tell" their stories.
Stern Grove Festival Association
San Francisco, CA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the New Audience Program. The project is a series of performances designed to reach underserved ethnic groups.
STOP-GAP
Santa Ana, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the production and tour of a play. Eradic/hate, written and directed by Fionnuala Kenny, will tour to young audiences in area schools, Boys and Girls Clubs, and summer camps.
Theatre Bay Area
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Mentoring Initiative, to improve organizational stability and the effectiveness of mid-size theater companies. The project will create year-long mentoring relationships between theaters in the Bay Area.
Theatre of Yugen
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development, presentation, and multistate tour of a new theater work. Moon of the Scarlet Plums will be adapted by playwright Erik Ehn and performed by the company's ensemble members in the Japanese Noh tradition.
Venice Arts Mecca
Venice, CA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support expansion of ArtPartners. The artist-in-residence program will provide free photography workshops to youth at the Mar Vista Gardens public housing project.
Virginia Avenue Project
Santa Monica, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support the writing and performing programs One-on-One, WordPlay, and Playmaking. The programs will connect area youth with professional artists in mentorships, workshops, a summer camp, and public performances.
Western Jazz Presenters Network, Inc.
La Jolla, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a touring initiative featuring jazz violinist Regina Carter. The Regina Carter Quartet will perform in towns and cities in California, Arizona, New Mexico, Washington, Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, and Nevada.
Western Stage Auxiliary Corporation
Salinas, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the continued development of a stage adaptation of Victor Villaseñor's novel Rain of Gold. The original play, created and produced by the company in 2003, will be further developed, performed, and reworked as a viable script for publication and future production.
Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum
Topanga, CA
$12,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the production of William Shakespeare's Anthony and Cleopatra with accompanying educational programs and materials. The project will include a one-hour version of the play to tour to schools throughout Los Angeles, and educational school field trips to see matinee performances.
World Arts West
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the arts education program People Like Me. The program will include performances presented at several Bay Area theaters for students in kindergarten through sixth grades.
Zaccho SF
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the production and presentation of Invisible Wings. The performance will include traditional dance, song, and storytelling from slave culture combined with theatrical interpretations and modern dance.
Zeum
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support Zeum Presents, free multimedia and performing arts presentations to the public. Community-based arts organizations will use the facilities, and technical and administrative support, to create and present work to students and adults.
CALIFORNIA total grants: 133
CALIFORNIA total dollars: $4,294,000
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