FY 2006 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access to Artistic Excellence/Literature Fellowships

Some details of the projects listed in this grant announcement are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

NEW YORK

Aaron Davis Hall, Inc.
New York, NY
$65,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the inaugural series titled WaterWorks. Commissioned artists will perform new works, and other artists will participate in residencies that will advance the development of new works scheduled for production in the following season.

African Film Festival, Inc.
New York, NY
$19,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 13th New York African Film Festival and the 10th edition of the African Film Festival Traveling Series, which will tour 13 American cities. The program will present films directed by African women, with a separate focus on Lusophone, or Portuguese-speaking, Africa.

Albany Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Albany, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the American Music Festival. The month-long celebration of American music will include a salute to film composer Bernard Herrmann (1911-1975), best known for classics such as Psycho and Taxi Driver. The observance also features the commissioning and presentation of 28 new works by American composers including Todd Levin, Dorothy Chang, and James Matheson.

Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, Inc. (aka Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater)
New York, NY
$100,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a 15-week tour of approximately 85 performances in 25 cities and 15 states across the U.S. in 2006. Outreach programming will include master classes, lectures, post-performance discussions, and residency activities.

American Composers Orchestra, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
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 including Paul Yeon Lee and Derek Bermel. Additionally, two reading sessions will provide up to eight composers with rehearsal time, readings of their work, and professional coaching.

American Federation of Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a touring mid-career survey exhibition of the work of contemporary African American artist Lorna Simpson, with an accompanying catalogue and educational materials. It will be the first nationally touring exhibition to consider the full range of her career.

American Guild of Organists
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the creation and presentation of new works for organ and chorus. Composers, including Emily Porter and Frank Ferko, will discuss their new works, to premiere at the 48th biennial American Guild of Organists National Convention. Performances also will be broadcast on the Minnesota Public Radio program Pipedreams.

American Music Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support career development workshops for composers, performers, and other music professionals. The sessions will be held in up to six cities, such as Atlanta, Houston, and Miami. These two-day workshops will include topics such as copyright, licensing, commission contracting, publishing, marketing, and professional score development.

American Symphony Orchestra League
New York, NY
$140,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support learning exchange services designed to foster better leadership and community outreach for nearly 1,000 member orchestras of every size in all 50 states. The League will enhance communications tools for the orchestra community and share best-practice models at field-wide forums and an annual national conference for more than 1,200 participants.

American Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the presentation of U.S. premieres of rarely performed works by established composers. Among those featured is Alexander Dargomyzhsky's opera The Stone Guest, based on Pushkin's play by the same name. Free educational activities will include pre-concert talks by composer-in-residence Richard Wilson, symposia, chamber recitals, and seminars at area high schools.

Anthology Film Archives
New York, NY
$13,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the preservation of 27 films by the animator Robert Breer, originally deposited at Anthology Film Archives more than twenty years ago. A multi-day conference and screening of Breer's work will take place once restoration work is complete.

Architectural League of New York
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the dissemination of materials related to programming for Architecture and . . ., a year-long series of events celebrating the 125th anniversary of the Architecture League. Materials will include an event catalogue and downloadable and CD-ROM versions of lectures and symposia.

Armitage Foundation, Ltd. (aka Armitage Dance!)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of Dante's Variations, a new work based on selected cantos from Dante's The Divine Comedy. Choreographer Karole Armitage will collaborate with dramaturg Stefano Paba, composer-lute player Jozef von Wissen, and countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo on the project.

Art Sweats, Inc. (aka David Dorfman Dance)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of underground, a new work by artistic director and choreographer David Dorfman. The piece will premiere at the American Dance Festival in Durham, North Carolina, and become part of the company's touring repertory.

Artists Alliance, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the Lower East Side Rotating Studio Program. Participating artists will be provided access to studio space, equipment, an honorarium, and technical support.

Artists Space, Inc.
New York, NY
$27,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the Architecture and Design Project Series. The series of installations and exhibits will introduce current design and architectural issues to visual arts, design, and general audiences.

Arts Engine, Inc. (on behalf of MediaRights)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the sixth annual Media That Matters Film Festival. The touring program features short film and video artworks produced by independent and young filmmakers from across the United States.

Arts for Art, Inc. (Vision Festival)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the 11th annual Vision Festival at the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center in New York City. The week-long jazz festival will focus on avant jazz, a movement closely related to free jazz, which counts three NEA Jazz Masters -- Cecil Taylor, Ornette Colenam, and Sun Ra -- among its founders.

Asia Society
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the traveling exhibition Treasures of the Liao (907-1125): China's Forgotten Nomad Dynasty, with an accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will present more than 200 recently excavated objects from Inner Mongolia.

Asian CineVision, Inc.
New York, NY
$13,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 29th Asian American International Film Festival. The festival of approximately 125 U.S. and international films and videos will travel to 10 sites nationwide, including campuses and cultural institutions in Hawaii, Michigan, and Nevada.

Ballet Hispanico of New York, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a collaboration between Ballet Hispanico and the Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra of Jazz at Lincoln Center on a dance and live music production celebrating the musicians who pioneered the fusion of Afro-Cuban rhythms and American jazz. The Jazz at Lincoln Center Education department will produce an accompanying education program for students and families.

Ballet Theatre Foundation, Inc. (aka American Ballet Theatre)
New York, NY
$80,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a new production of Cinderella, by choreographer James Kudelka, set to Sergei Prokofiev's score. Cinderella will be featured in Amerian Ballet Theatre's education and outreach programs, including Family Series, ABTKids, and a complimentary and reduced-price ticket distribution program for local public schools.

Bard College (on behalf of Bard Music Festival)
Annandale-Hudson, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Bard Music Festival. The festival will explore the music of Franz Liszt and his contemporaries by presenting a range of musical forms including piano music, symphonies and symphonic poems, concerti, and choral music.

Bard College (on behalf of Words Without Borders)
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the continued development, expansion, and promotion of Words Without Borders, an interactive Web site devoted to international literature. The site features works of nonfiction, short stories, poems, and novel excerpts drawn from approximately 30 languages.

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

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

Big Orbit Gallery, Inc. (Big Orbit)
Buffalo, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support residencies for artists from the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states resulting in site-specific installations. The residencies will result in a two-month exhibit of the installations, and a catalogue with information on each residency.

Big Tree Productions, Inc. (aka Tere O'Connor Dance)
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 by artistic director and choreographer Tere O'Connor. The work will be created in collaboration with composer James Baker, lighting and set designer Brian MacDevitt, and costume designer Kathy Zuber.

BOA Editions, Ltd.
Rochester, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the production, promotion, and related expenses for new volumes of poetry. Poets scheduled to be published include W.D. Snodgrass, Deena Linett, Steve Kronen, and Richard Garcia.

Bowery Arts and Science (Consortium)
New York, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support Harpsong: A Program of Celtic Poetry and Music at the People's Poetry Gathering, a biennial event to galvanize public attention around issues of preserving cultural forms and languages. A collaboration with New York University's Glucksman Ireland House, the project will present poets and musicians from Ireland, Wales, Scotland, and Brittany, along with Celtic artists in the United States.

Bronx Council on the Arts, Inc.
Bronx, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the Artist Venture Initiative. This pilot program will introduce Web-based marketing for approximately 40 artists who have previously received support through Bronx Council on the Arts (BCA) artist initiatives.

Bronx Council on the Arts, Inc. (BCA) (on behalf of Longwood Arts Project)
Bronx, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support cyberspace residencies that enable artists to work with advanced computer technology. An exhibition of completed works will be hosted on Longwood's online cyber gallery; public programs and demonstrations will complement the residencies.

Brooklyn Academy of Music, Inc. (BAM)
Brooklyn, NY
$70,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the annual Next Wave Festival. Now in its 23rd year, the festival will feature American artists who have had an ongoing, working relationship with BAM as well as international artists whose new works will be presented during the festival.

Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra Society, Inc. (Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra)
Buffalo, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support semi-staged performances of Shining Brow, an opera with music by Daron Hagen and libretto by Paul Muldoon. The opera chronicles the life of architect Frank Lloyd Wright and coincides with Buffalo's continuing restoration (through the NEA's Save America's Treasures) of Wright's five-structure Darwin D. Martin House complex.

Builders Association, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the creation of Invisible Cities, a site-specific, interactive performance work. A group of at-risk high school students from the Brooklyn College Community Partnership will be invited to participate in the development of virtual depictions of New York City.

Capoeira Foundation, Inc. (aka DanceBrazil)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of The Ritual of the Roda by artistic director and choreographer Jelon Vieira, with a score by Brazilian composer Tuzé de Abreu. The work will premiere at the Joyce Theater in New York and later tour to venues including Vanderbilt University, the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, and the Scottsdale Center for the Arts.

Career Transition For Dancers, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support The National Outreach Project, a two-day career counseling seminar for dancers on topics such as coping with change, the exploration of transferable talents and abilities, and the development of goal-setting plans. The seminar will take place in Chicago, Illinois; Miami, Florida; Washington, D.C.; Kansas City, Missouri; Atlanta, Georgia;and Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Carnegie Hall Society, Inc. (Carnegie Hall)
New York, NY
$75,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support performances and educational activities by American orchestras. Plans include 10 concerts and two multi-media educational programs in New York City by the visiting symphony orchestras of Chicago, Cleveland, Minnesota, San Francisco, and St. Louis.

Center for Contemporary Opera (CCO)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a production of Bonhoeffer by composer Ann Gebuhr and librettist Robert Hatten as well as the readings of at least two new operas. The Center aims to contribute to the American operatic repertory by introducing new and evolving works to the public, and by providing composers opportunities to perfect their craft through readings, workshops, and professional productions of their work.

Center for Photography at Woodstock, Inc. (CPW)
Woodstock, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a residency program for photographers and a writer/critic. Each of the six residencies will be documented in the Center's publication, Photography Quarterly.

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

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Chamber Music Society Two, a professional development program for artists in the early stages of their careers. Musicians participating in the residency will receive coaching and performance opportunities with master artists. In 2006, in celebration of the program's 10th anniversary, current residents will perform in concert with alumni of the program.

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

Clubbed Thumb, Inc.
New York, NY
$11,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Summerworks 06 Festival. The month-long festival will feature staged readings and workshop productions of new plays, as well as post-performance discussions with artists and audiences.

College Community Services, Inc. (aka Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts)
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of American and international dance companies including DanceBrazil, the National Dance Theatre Company of Jamaica, and Gus Giordano's Jazz Dance Chicago. The project will include educational programs and extended outreach to Brooklyn's diverse community.

College of Staten Island Foundation, Inc.
Staten Island, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support SoundWaves, a radio festival produced aboard the Staten Island Ferry. The ferry will be transformed into a floating radio station where original music, sound art, radio plays, lectures, interviews, and other interactive programming will occur.

Columbia University in the City of New York
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Pocket Concerto Project, which will include the commissioning and presentation of new works for instrumental soloists and small chamber ensemble of 15 to 20 players (a 'pocket concerto'). Also planned are pre-concert discussions with the composers, program notes, and musicological information on the theater's Web site.

Concert Artists Guild, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support career development of emerging classical musicians through national concert engagements. Fifteen artists and ensembles will present 50 performances in diverse venues across the country, allowing performers to hone both performance and communication skills.

Creative Time, Inc. (Creative Time)
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support The Drawing Project. Using a vacant brownstone in Harlem as a canvas, 10 artists will be commissioned to create installation artworks using drawing as the primary medium.

Cunningham Dance Foundation, Inc. (aka Merce Cunningham Dance Company)
New York, NY
$100,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the revival of Rune, created in 1959, and the creation of a new evening-length piece by choreographer Merce Cunningham, both of which will be presented during the company's domestic and international tours. Outreach activities during the tours will include master classes for local university students, lectures, workshops, educational seminars, and panel discussions.

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, which includes 100 hours of creative development time, studio work-in-progress showings, and access to the DTW administrative staff. The project also offers support to 12 emerging artists presenting work in the company's Fresh Tracks program and to four artists whose work is not scheduled at DTW.

DanceWorks, Inc. (aka Pentacle)
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support an artist mentorship program designed to provide one-on-one mentoring to four choreogrphers and their administrative staffs. Help Desk provides participants with consultancy time with mentors, bi-monthly roundtables, a stipend, and an implementation fund for addressing infrastructure issues.

Dansology, Inc. (aka koosil-ja/dance KUMIKOKIMOTO)
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 Koosil-ja Hwang. The work will be presented using live streaming technology, with each side of the divided stage having one dancer and the dancers only appearing together on a video screen.

Danspace Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the ninth year of City/Dans, a program of work by New York choreographers and at St. Mark's Church. Participating artists include David Gordon/Pick Up Performance, Matteson + Nugent, Eliza Miller, Yasuko Yokoshi, and Heidi Latsky.

Danspace Project, Inc. (on behalf of Miguel Gutierrez and the Powerful People)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation of Hybrid, a new work by choreographer Miguel Guttierrez. The work will be constructed in a series of residencies at venues nationwide including Hollins College in Roanoke, Virginia, and the Lexington Center for the Arts in Lexington, Kentucky.

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

Discalced, Inc. (aka Mark Morris Dance Group)
Brooklyn, NY
$70,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a new production of Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice, in collaboration with the Metropolitan Opera, and the creation and presentation of new works by choreographer Mark Morris. Each of the three pieces will premiere in a different U.S. city and will be performed throughout the country on the company's tour.

Dova, Inc. (aka Doug Varone and Dancers)
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the world premiere of the dance opera Il Primo Omicido and the presentation of repertory works Ballet Mecanique and Deconstructing English. The works will be choreographed by Doug Varone and presented at the Brooklyn Academy of Music as part of company's 20th anniversary.

Drawing Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a touring exhibition of the drawings of American artist Robert Ryman (b. 1930), with an accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will feature approximately 25 works from the 1950s to the present.

Elaine Kaufman Cultural Center/Lucy Moses School for Music & Dance (Kaufman Center/Lucy Moses School) (on behalf of Merkin Concert Hall)
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the creation of Mosheh: A Video Opera by American composer Yoav Gal. The work will depict the Biblical saga of Moses' coming of age, re-imagined in the landscape of today's world.

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, the work of more than 185 artists will be made available to libraries, educational institutions, community centers, museums, and other organizations.

En Foco, Inc.
Bronx, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support publication of the bilingual photography journal Nueva Luz. 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.

Exit Art/The First World, Inc. (Exit Art)
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support an exhibition titled Negritude. The exhibition will explore the intellectual and artistic movements prompted by the black diaspora in North and Latin America and the Caribbean.

Fiji Theater Company, Inc. (Ping Chong & Company)
New York, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and production of a new theater work, The Philippines Project, by Artistic Director Ping Chong and novelist/playwright Jessica Hagedorn. The work will explore European, American, and Asian colonialism in the Philippines from the 16th century to the present.

Film Society of Lincoln Center
New York, NY
$41,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support a curated film series. Reflections of Time and Memory in the Cinema will include a retrospective of Krzysztof Kieslowski, a survey of Ukrainian Cinema, and films dealing with the Holocaust.

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

Forces of Nature, 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 theater work choreographed by artistic director and choreographer Abdel Salaam. Eclipse: Visions of the Crescent and the Cross will explore the cultural and historical conflicts, as well as the similarities, between Christianity and Islam from the Crusades to the present day.

Foundation for Dance Promotion, Inc. (aka Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company)
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a newly choreographed version of Bill T. Jones' evening-length work Another Evening at the Skirball Center in New York. Educational activities may include a moderated discussion with Bill T. Jones and his artistic collaborators, an open rehearsal, a lecture and video presentation, repertory workshops, and post-performance discussions.

Foundry Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$22,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the production of MAJOR BANG or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Dirty Bomb by Kirk Lynn

Fractured Atlas Productions, Inc. (on behalf of Futurepoem Books)
New York, NY
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support publication and promotion of literary titles selected through the press's annual, free, open call for manuscripts. The press will advertise the open reading period to creative writing program discussion lists and literary publications nationwide.

Frick Collection (Consortium)
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
A consortium project to support the exhibition Domenico Tiepolo: A New Testament, with an accompanying catalogue and education programs. This will be the first exhibition and publication devoted to Tiepolo's New Testament cycle, the longest by a single artist.

Garth Fagan Dance, Inc.
Rochester, 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 Garth Fagan, in honor of the company's 35th anniversary. Outreach activities will include lecture-demonstrations and master classes for culturally diverse schools, colleges, and adult audiences at no or reduced cost.

George Eastman House
Rochester, NY
$42,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the preservation of endangered films. Titles include William Wellman's Beggars of Life (1928), Cecil B. DeMille's For Better or Worse (1919), John Collins's The Girl Without a Soul (1917), Harry Houdini's Haldane of the Secret Service (1923), and Albert Parker's The Rejected Woman (1924).

Glimmerglass Opera, Inc.
Cooperstown, NY
$22,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a new production of Jenufa by Leos Janácek . Related activities will include illustrated lecture presentations, visual exhibitions, pre-concert Meet the Artists presentations, Young American Artist recitals, and Behind the Scenes production and rehearsal previews on the opera's Web site.

Glimmerglass Opera, Inc. (Consortium)
Cooperstown, NY
$22,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
A consortium project to support a series of access programs. In partnership with New York City Opera, the series will include the Summer Seminar Weekend, featuring co-productions of Jenufa by Leos Janácek and Così fan tutte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; the Young Artist Spring Tour; and workshops for high school students.

Gotham Dance, Inc. (aka Bebe Miller Company)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the tour of LANDING/PLACE, a full-evening work by artistic director and choreographer Bebe Miller featuring video animations, videos, and dance for the camera. Pre-show events at sites such as Internet cafes, electronics stores, and libraries will present digital video and motion capture animations related to the stage performance.

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

Group I Acting Company, Inc. (Acting Company)
New York, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the production and tour of a play adapted from Alexander Dumas's classic novel The Three Musketeers. The play will tour approximately 55 cities, and include master classes for secondary school students and in-school interactive workshops.

Haleakala, Inc. (The Kitchen)
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Sidney Kahn Summer Institute, a state-of-the-art multimedia laboratory for students and young professionals artists. The intensive three-week program immerses participants in the artistic, technical, and philosophical approaches to contemporary performance through workshops, screenings, and discussions with guest artists such as Philip Glass and Bill T. Jones.

Hallwalls, Inc. (Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center)
Buffalo, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Artist in Residence Project for the creation and presentation of new works, including works addressing the image and reality of the "Rustbelt City" of Buffalo. 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.

Harvestworks, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Creative Residency Program in Technology and New Media. Artists will create public performances, installations, CD-ROM and DVD recordings, and Web and broadcast art.

Harvestworks, Inc. (on behalf of LEMUR)
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the development and design of four musical instruments that will expand the sonic qualities of a chamber orchestra. Using advanced technology, LEMUR (League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots) will create robotic instruments that offer composers and performers new sound options for the future.

Hip Hop Theatre Junction (Hip-Hop Theater Festival)
Brooklyn, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the production and presentation of hip-hop festivals in New York City, San Francisco, Chicago, and Washington, DC. The 2006 festivals will feature works based in dance, musical theater, theater, and staged readings of works-in-progress.

Home for Contemporary Theatre and Art, Ltd (HERE Arts Center)
New York, NY
$15,000
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 will serve artists through workshops, panel discussions, productions, and career development services.

House Foundation for the Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a new evening-length dance theater work with live music. Songs of Ascension will feature artistic director Meredith Monk's choreography and musical compositions, visual elements from artist Ann Hamilton, and live music performed by the Kronos Quartet.

Immaterial Incorporated (Cabinet Magazine)
Brooklyn, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support artist fees and production costs for the art journal Cabinet, which provides a literary and visual forum for the exploration of multidisciplinary arts, literature, and cultural activities. The quarterly publication will publish the work of contemporary artists and essays on art and culture.

Independent Media Arts Preservation (aka IMAP)
New York, NY
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support a pilot research study to locate and document obsolete video playback equipment, originally used for the creation and presentation of early video and media art work. Independent Media Arts Preservation is a clearinghouse for preservation practices, assisting organizations and individuals in the stewardship of media collections.

Inta, Inc. (aka Eiko & Koma)
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of Mourning, an evening-length work, choreographed by Eiko & Koma. Eiko & Koma will also develop the sets, costumes, and video projections for the work, with lighting design by David Ferri and piano accompaniment by Margaret Leng Tan.

International Print Center New York (IPCNY)
New York, NY
$18,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the New Prints Program. The series of exhibitions is designed to bring printmaking to a wider audience.

Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, Inc. (JCAL)
Jamaica, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support Jamaica Flux: Workspaces & Windows. The project will commission site-specific work by 25 artists in indoor and outdoor spaces along Jamaica Avenue in the New York City borough of Queens.

Japan Society, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support Extreme Living: Contemporary Japanese Residential Architecture, an exhibition and catalogue on contemporary Japanese home design. The project, curated by architectural critic Naomi Pollock with exhibition design by Hitoshi Abe, will significantly add to the amount of English-language information available on contemporary Japanese architecture.

Jazz at Lincoln Center Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a consortium project, the Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition and Festival. More than 1,100 high school bands will receive newly transcribed Ellington scores, CDs, and other educational materials. A three-day festival will feature 15 student Jazz Band Competition finalists.

Jazz Forum Arts, Inc.
Dobbs Ferry, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support free summer jazz concerts. At least 50 concerts will be presented at venues in the New York communities of Yonkers, Mt. Vernon, Dobbs Ferry, Sleepy Hollow, Tarrytown, Ossining, and Haverstraw.

Jewish Museum
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the exhibition Eva Hesse: Sculpture 1968, with an accompanying catalogue and education programs. Hesse's (1936-1970) work in the late 1960s anticipated the innovations of the 1970s and 1980s, including installation art, conceptual art, process art, and performance art.

José Limón Dance Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of Missa Brevis by José Limón. Originally created in 1958, the work is performed to a 1945 score by Zoltan Kodaly and will be presented during a week-long residency at the Los Angeles Music Center in celebration of the company's 60th anniversary and the centenary of José Limón's birth.

Joyce Theater Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$70,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the Dance Presentation Program, a series of performances by approximately 20 companies from the United States and overseas. Education programs include post-performance discussions; a series of conversations with artists and audiences illustrated with dance videos and movment demonstrations; and matinees for public school students and teachers.

Kings Majestic Corporation (651 ARTS)
Brooklyn, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support a series of mainstage performances, the Artist Development Initiative, and Salon 651. Resources will be made available for artists whose work is grounded in the African American cultural experience to create new or present existing works.

La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, Inc. (aka La MaMa E.T.C.)
New York, NY
$33,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the creation and production of a new operatic theater work based on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Artistic Director Ellen Stewart will create and direct the work with music composed by Genji Ito, lyrics by Ellen Stewart, and musical direction by Michael Sirotta.

LAByrinth, Inc. (LAByrinth Theater Company)
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the company's annual New Play Development Programs. Activities will include the Summer Intensive, the Barn Series Festival, and a development production.

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

Lake George Opera Festival Association, Inc. (Lake George Opera at Saratoga)
Saratoga Springs, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the production of Our Town, a new opera by composer Ned Rorem and librettist Sandy McClatchy based on the novel by Thornton Wilder. Related activities will include a screening of the film version of Our Town and panel discussions with project principals.

Lark Theatre Company, Inc. (Lark Play Development Center)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development of new plays and emerging authors. Playwrights' Week is an annual festival of rehearsed public readings of new works and panel discussions with audiences.

Light Work Visual Studies, Inc. (Light Work)
Syracuse, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a residency program for artists and 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, an ever-expanding collection of more than 2,100 images, essays, and biographical information.

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support performances and related activities of Lincoln Center Festival 2006. The summer festival will feature approximately 75 programs, including international performing art works, symposia, discussions, and lectures. Selections will include Grendel, a new opera by director/designer Julie Taymor and composer Elliot Goldenthal.

Lubovitch Dance Foundation, Inc. (aka Lar Lubovitch Dance Company)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation of a new dance by choreographer Lar Lubovitch. The project will include a series of educational and outreach initiatives in all five New York City boroughs, and an audience engagement specialist will be hired to reach out to communities not currently involved with the company.

Mabou Mines Development Foundation, Inc. (Mabou Mines)
New York, NY
$28,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and production of Finn McCool, a new multi-media theater piece conceived by co-Artistic Director Sharon Fogarty. Based on the legend of ancient Celtic hero Fionn McCumhail, the work will feature live performers, digital characters, and animated settings.

Maimouna Keita School of African Dance Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the 14th Annual Dance Conference and Concert. The conference will consist of a series of workshops in traditional African dance, drum, and accessory making, culminating in a concert.

Marilyn Horne Foundation (MHF)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support vocal recitals by emerging artists. Recitals will be presented at New York City's Saint Bartholomew's Church as part of its On Wings of Song series and for later broadcast on WQXR-FM radio in the tri-state area of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut.

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

Meet The Composer, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Commissioning Music/USA, a landmark program that supports the creation of new American music by partnering composers with chamber and symphony orchestras, opera, dance and music theater companies, and jazz and chamber ensembles nationwide. The program will result in more than 30 new works and more than 120 performances of new music.

Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, NY
$100,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the exhibition Moments of Vision: Venice and the Islamic World, ca. 1300 -1700, with accompanying education programs. Organized in collaboration with the Institute du Monde Arabe, the exhibit will feature more than 250 works of Ventian and Islamic art from institutions worldwide.

Metropolitan Opera Association, Inc. (The Met)
New York, NY
$100,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a new production of Mazeppa by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky. The production will be conducted by Valery Gergiev and produced by Yuri Alexandrov, with sets by George Tsypin and costumes by Tatiana Noginova.

Mettawee Theatre Company, Inc.
Salem, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the creation, production, and tour of a new play to be based on select English chap books from the 17th and 18th centuries, simple books developed using woodblock printing on one single sheet of paper.

Millennium Film Workshop, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the exhibition of experimental film and video art. Exhibitions will feature avant-garde cinema and video from the United States and abroad, as well as program notes and discussions with participating artists.

Moon and Stars Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the eighth annual Turkish Film Festival. The touring festival will present a selection of feature-length, documentary, and short films from leading and emerging Turkish directors.

Movement Research, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the Movement Research FESTIVAL 2006 and publication of a journal. The two-week festival includes a series of free and low-cost dance performances, classes and workshops, and film and video screenings.

Moving Image, Inc. (aka Film Forum)
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.

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

Museum of Modern Art (aka MoMA)
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the preservation of endangered films from the museum's nationally recognized collection. Five films by William S. Hart, Tom Mix, and Frank Borzage will undergo preservation work. Once preserved, the films will be made available to the public via MoMA's circulating film library.

Museum of Modern Art (aka MoMA) (Consortium)
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support a consortium project for the design and production of a site-specific, noncommercial architectural installation at the P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center. The design competition will provide critical exposure to emerging architects and designers. The final project will be selected based on artistic merit, innovative content, interpretation of the competition theme, and the ability to work within a budget.

Music From China, Inc.
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 commissions and premieres of new work by Bun-Ching Lam, also a renowned pianist and conductor, and Wang Guowei, a master erhu performer, producer and radio music program host.

National Alliance for Musical Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the 18th annual Festival of New Musicals. The festival will showcase new musicals for an invited audience of producers and musical theater professionals.

National Black Programming Consortium (aka NBPC)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 27th Prized Pieces Film/Video Festival. Held at the New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, the event showcases films by independent African-American producers, with accompanying panels, workshops, and artist discussions.

New 42nd Street, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the presentation of a series of productions for family audiences. The productions will be targeted to a diverse, intergenerational audience from New York City and the tri-state area, including nearly 10,000 students and teachers.

New Community Cinema Club, Inc. (aka Cinema Arts Centre)
Huntington, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support three curated film and video series. The Long Island African American Film Festival, Cinema Tropical, and Asian CineVision will feature films from the United States and abroad, with accompanying guest artist ectures and panel discussions.

New Dramatists, Inc.
New York, NY
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Readings and Workshops program. Through a variety of development activities, the program provides opportunities for playwrights to collaborate with actors and directors on new plays and musicals during extended residencies.

New Federal Theatre, Inc. (NFT)
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a retrospective series commemorating the playwright Ntozake Shange's theatrical legacy and voice. The retrospective will include staged readings of Spell #7, A Photograph: Lovers in Motion, Boogie Woogie Landscapes, and the showcase production of Laila's Dream.

New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.
Staten Island, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support newly commissioned artwork and related critical essays for the Turbulence Web site. The project will provide for the creation and distribution of new Internet-based works by nationally recognized artists such as artist/writer/software engineer Francis Hwang and media artist Jillian McDonald.

New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. (Consortium)
Staten Island, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
A consortium project to support the archiving of work from the radio series New American Radio. With the World Music Archive at Wesleyan University, New Radio and Performing Arts will choose 65 pieces to be housed at the Archive.

New York Chinese Cultural Center, Inc. (aka Chinese Folk Dance Company)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation of new works and the restaging of repertory works that will be presented in New York and on tour. The project will include residency and outreach programs in Chinese dance, reaching urban and rural communities across 10 states.

New York City Ballet, Inc.
New York, NY
$100,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the New York Choreographic Institute and the Diamond Project. The company will premiere eight new ballets from established choreographers, and four new ballets from emerging choreographers that are part of the company.

New York City Opera, Inc. (City Opera)
New York, NY
$60,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the East Coast premiere of Lysistrata, or The Nude Goddess, by Mark Adamo. Educational and outreach activities will include programs for middle and high school students, pre-curtain lectures, family workshops, and production talks.

New York Festival of Song, Inc. (NYFOS)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the presentation of thematic song programs, including a program which will look at France at the eve of World War I, and another which will pay tribute to lyricist Dorothy Fields and pianist and songwriter Fats Waller. The concerts will be performed in Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center in New York City.

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc. (NYFA) (on behalf of dance and be still arts)
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the production and touring of Sekou Sundiata's The 51st (dream) state. Developed through civic engagements and educational activities as part of the multi-year America Project, the production will visit Chicago, Minneapolis, and Ann Arbor, Michigan, among other cities.

New York Shakespeare Festival (Public Theater)
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the world premiere production of Satellites, a new play by Diana Son directed by Michael Greif. Set in a brownstone row house in Brooklyn, Satellites examines issues of race, gender, class and gentrification.

New York Theatre Workshop, Inc.
New York, NY
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the production of a new musical adapted from a classic text. The world premiere of The Seven, a hip-hop musical adaptation by Will Power of Aeschylus's Seven Against Thebes, will be directed by Jo Bonney.

Nikolais/Louis Foundation for Dance
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a Nikolais/Louis Summit Workshop at the University of Utah for dance professionals and aspiring dancers; professional dancers and teachers; and high school, middle school, and junior high teachers. Focusing on the philosophy and methodology of the Nikolais/Louis dance technique, the workshop will include a technique class, theory/improvisation course, a choreography class, plus lectures and panels.

Ontological-Hysteric Theater, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the adaptation and revival of a contemporary play. Richard Foreman will re-write and re-stage his 1986 Obie Award-winning play The Cure. To mark the 20th anniversary of the piece, Foreman will adapt the play within the expanded parameters of his evolving contemproary experimental theater.

Open City, Inc. (aka Open City Magazine & Books)
New York, NY
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of Open City Magazine, a journal of fiction, poetry, essays, and artwork. Open City also will feature published prose writers and poets in their free monthly reading series in New York City.

openhousenewyork inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support an event guide, interpretive handouts, and Web site for a free-of-charge New York City architectural tour including all five boroughs. Outreach activities for the project will include exhibits, performances, talks with design professionals, and materials for children developed in partnership with the New York City Board of Education.

Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Inc. (Orpheus)
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support commissions and performances of new work by composers Stephen Hartke, Marc Mellits, and Joan Tower. The concert programs also will serve as components of an educational outreach program, as well as a professional development initiative in conjunction with the Juilliard School and the Manhattan School of Music.

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 two new works by artistic director and choreographer Paul Taylor. The works will be presented on tour in the United States and overseas. Taylor 2 will offer a long-term residency at Syracuse University for education and outreach projects.

Performance Zone Inc. (aka The Field)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a series of workshops, residencies, and conferences for dancers, choreographers, and administrators. The project will include the creation of work, performances, retreats, a Web site devoted to touring for independent artists, and an artist resource center.

Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York, Inc. (New York Philharmonic)
New York, NY
$80,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support commissions and performances of new work by Hans Werner Henze, Kaija Saariaho, and Melinda Wagner. The project will include discussions with conductors and composers; students grades three to five who participate in the New York Philharmonic's Very Young Composer Program will learn more about the new works during the school year.

Pick Up Performance Company, Inc. (aka David Gordon/Pick Up Company)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation of a new dance theater work by artistic director and choreographer David Gordon. Based on Aristophane's The Birds, the work will premiere at Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church in New York.

Pierpont Morgan Library
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a touring retrospective exhibition of the work of American artist Saul Steinberg (1914-1999), with accompanying education programs. The exhibition emphasizes Steinberg's draftsmanship, his central means of expression throughout his long career.

Playwrights Horizons, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and production of new plays. The program will support both emerging and established writers in the development and presentation of new works.

Playwrights' Preview Productions (URBAN STAGES)
New York, NY
$12,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the world premiere of Bulrusher, by Eisa Davis. The play tells the story of an orphaned African American child with magical abilities, raised by residents of an all-white town with its own peculiar dialect and history.

Poetry in Review Foundation, Inc. (on behalf of Parnassus: Poetry in Review)
New York, NY
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of a special 30th-anniversary issue of Parnassus: Poetry in Review. The issue will feature translations of poems and critical essays from around the world, with a focus on writers from South America, Europe, and Asia.

Pregones Touring Puerto Rican Theatre Collection, Inc. (Pregones Theater)
Bronx, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of Medea's Last Rosary, a contemporary adaptation of a Greek myth by José Manuel Torres. Originally produced in 1991, the remounted production will launch the opening of Pregones' new theater in the South Bronx cultural corridor.

Present Theatre Company, Inc. (The Present Company)
New York, NY
$18,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the New York International Fringe Festival. The festival will feature the works of more than 200 theater companies and performing artists with workshops, lectures, panels, free tickets, apprenticeships, and educational activities.

Printed Matter, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support continued maintenance and development of the bibliographic and educational resources on the organization's Web site. The project will support new essays examining concerns in the field of artists' publications, as well as improvements to Web site navigation.

Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre Co., Inc. (PRTT)
New York, NY
$18,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the production of plays. The company will present The Ortiz Sisters of Mott Haven by Carlos J. Serrano and director/writer Dean Zayas' adaptation of Don Gil of Greenstockings by Tirso de Molina.

Qi Shu Fang Peking Opera Association, Inc.
Woodhaven, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the 6th Annual Peking Opera Festival. The festival will be designed to attract recent immigrants and college students in performances at the Fashion Institute of Technology and the Theatre at St. Clements in New York City; the Community Theatre in Morristown, New Jersey; the Lyman Center in Connecticut; and the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia.

Queens Museum of Art (Consortium)
Queens, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
A consortium project to support exhibitions based on the work of architect and city planner Robert Moses (1888-1981), with an accompanying catalogue and education programs. The three simultaneous exhibitions will be organized in partnership with the Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University in New York, and in association with the Museum of the City of New York.

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

Redhawk Indian Arts Council (aka Redhawk Native American Arts Council)
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Heritage Celebrations and Student Day components of the Redhawk Native American Heritage Festival. The project will consist of lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on activities related to a variety of art forms including wood carving, Oneida bow making and carving, and storytelling..

Research Foundation of State University of New York (on behalf of Performing Arts Center Purchase College)
Albany, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Theatre Masterpieces series. The series will include the presentation of innovative theater ensembles performing cutting edge new works, such as Canada's Les Deux Mondes' 2191 Nights, and reinterpretations of classics such as DollHouse, Mabou Mines' reinvention of Ibsen's classic drama.

Roundabout Theatre Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the production of a new adaptation of The Threepenny Opera. More than 4,000 New York City public high school students will study The Threepenny Opera and attend a performance through Roundabout Theatre's education programs.

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

Saratoga International Theatre Institute, Inc. (SITI Company)
New York, NY
$22,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the world premiere production of Hotel Cassiopeia, a new play written for the company by Charles L. Mee. The play will examine the idiosyncratic life and work of visual artist Joseph Cornell, translating his visual style into the language of the stage.

Sculpture Center, Inc.
Long Island City, NY
$55,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support an artists residency program for sculptors who have had limited exposure in the United States. Two selected artists will be able to realize new large-scale projects; public and educational outreach programs will also take place.

Sculpture Space, Inc.
Utica, NY
$16,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a residency program for sculptors. Artists from outside New York state will be given the opportunity to create new work during two-month residencies at a former steam engine and boilerworks plant.

Seven Loaves, Inc. (GOH Productions) (on behalf of Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre)
New York, NY
$12,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the creation and production of Once There Was a Village, an interdisciplinary performance piece with libretto by Artistic Director Vií Horejs. Performances will take place at La Mama Experimental Theatre Club as well as in various outdoor spaces throughout New York City.

Shen Wei Dance Arts
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by artistic director and choreographer Shen Wei. The work will premiere at the American Dance Festival and tour across the United States and overseas.

Signature Theatre Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of Landscape of the Body by John Guare. The production will inaugurate the Signature Series, an expansion of the company's programming that will present revivals of celebrated works by playwrights-in-residence from previous seasons.

Skidmore College
Saratoga Springs, NY
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Skidmore Jazz Institute. Hosted by the college's Bernhard Theater, the two-week summer jazz program will include master classes, daily classes on improvisational techniques, private instruction, and a mini-jazz festival.

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a summer residency program for approximately 65 emerging visual artists. Artists will also participate in critiques, lectures, and discussions with guest artists.

Smack Mellon Studios, Inc. (Smack Mellon)
Brooklyn, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a program to provide six artists with residencies of one year. The program was initiated in response to the lack of affordable studio space in New York City.

Society for New Music
Syracuse, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support concerts and the creation and presentation of a commissioned work by composer Robert Morris. The work, intended to be performed outdoors, will premiere at Stone Quarry Hill Art Park in Cazenovia. The winter concerts will include repeat performance programs in venues such as colleges, universities, and libraries.

Society of the Educational Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support productions of children's musical theater in Spanish, with accompanying workshops, in New York and Puerto Rico. The theater will offer free admission to low-income families as well as a discounted rate to community organizations.

Socrates Sculpture Park, Inc. (Socrates Sculpture Park)
Long Island City, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a residency and commissioning program to commemorate the organization's 20th anniversary. The artists' work will be presented at a riverfront park in an industrial neighborhood; the exhibition will also be held in several desert communities in California.

Soho Think Tank
New York, NY
$6,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the 14th annual Ice Factory Festival, an OBIE Award-winning showcase of new works in development by emerging theater artists. The festival is designed to help competitively selected young companies overcome obstacles to developing, producing, and sustaining their work in New York.

Solomons Company/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 for the dance ensemble Paradigm. Carmen de Lavallade will create the work, which will premiere at the Joyce Theater in New York, New York.

St. Ann Center for Restoration and the Arts, Inc. (Arts at St. Ann's)
Brooklyn, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Emerging Artists, Emerging Audiences Initiative, which will include commissioning and production support for emerging music and theater artists. Invited artists include composer Stephen Merritt, who will develop Coraline, a gothic musical extravaganza adapted from Neil Gaiman's graphic novel.

St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble (Orchestra of St. Luke's)
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Second Helpings, an effort to attract new and younger audiences to chamber music. The program will consist of repeat performances of new work and a recording of contemporary American chamber music. Concerts will be held at the Chelsea Museum in New York City and the Dia: Beacon Riggio Galleries in Beacon, New York.

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, performances at The Joyce Theater in New York, and national and international touring. Stephen Petronio will create a new work titled Bloom, which will feature a live youth choir and a set partially designed by local youth groups.

Studio Museum in Harlem, Inc. (SMH)
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the exhibition energy x experimentation: African American Artists and Abstraction, 1964 - 1980, with an accompanying catalogue and symposium. The exhibition will survey the work of a group of African American abstract painters and sculptors who have been largely overlooked, including Ed Clark, Sam Gilliam, and Howardena Pindell.

Sweet Jane Productions, Inc. (International WOW Company) (Consortium)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a consortium project to produce the world premiere of Will We Not Return, conceived and directed by Josh Fox. The play, created collaboratively by an international ensemble, will examine the collision between Thai culture and the American film industry.

Syracuse Children's Chorus, Inc.
Syracuse, NY
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the commission and performance of a new work by composer Zhou Long for children's chorus and traditional Chinese instruments (the erhu and the pipa). Students in the Children's Chorus will learn about Chinese culture through the rehearsal process and the Central New York Chinese School will assist with audience outreach.

Talking Band, Inc.
New York, NY
$17,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the premiere of The Necklace written by Lisa D'Amour, Ellen Maddow, Lizzie Olesker, and writer/director Paul Zimet with music by Peter Gordon. The play, set in a grand, decaying house, portrays the lives of people whose identities unfold in surprising ways. The production will be presented in eight installments in the tradition of Dickens' serial novels.

Teachers & Writers Collaborative, Inc. (T&W)
New York, NY
$60,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and related expenses of Literary Resources: Online and On Paper. Resources include Teachers & Writers magazine and Structure and Surprise: A Guide to Poetic Architecture, edited by Michael Theune and with a forward by Edward Hirsch.

Tectonic Theater Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$22,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the final research, development, and rehearsal period for 33 Variations, a new work created and directed by Moisés Kaufman. Using Beethoven's creation of the Diabelli Variations as a focal point, the work will explore the relationship between obsession and genius.

Thalia Spanish Theatre Inc.
Sunnyside, NY
$12,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the world premiere of a new musical. Tango & Flamenco, a musical fusion of tango and flamenco with original music composed and performed by bandoneon maestro Raul Jaurena and composer/guitarist Daniel Casares, will be directed by Gil Orrios.

Theatre for a New Audience, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of Shakespeare's dark comedy All's Well That Ends Well. Free post-performance discussions will be hosted in conjunction with the production.

Thin Man Dance, Inc. (aka John Jasperse Company)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation of a new work by choreographer John Jasperse. "Scavenger," an evening-length work in collaboration with composer Zeena Parkins and lighting designer Joe Levasseur, will explore the circumstance of existing in a capitalist society.

Traditional Arts in Upstate New York, Inc.
Canton, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support a series of radio documentaries based on the Register of Very Special Places (RSVP) project. The project will introduce radio audiences to local cultural landmarks in the northern Adirondacks, Lake Champlain Valley, and St. Lawrence Valley, and will invite community participation to identify and document additional sites.

Trisha Brown Company, Inc. (aka Trisha Brown Dance Company)
New York, NY
$70,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the reconstruction and presentation of works by artistic director Trisha Brown, including Accumulation, Canto/Pianto, and Groove and Countermove. Outreach and educational activities will include lecture-demonstrations, two studio showings for the public, and an academic residency at the Five Colleges in Massachusetts.

UBW, Inc. (aka Urban Bush Women)
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by artistic director Jawole Zollar and Senegalese choreographer Germaine Acogny. The project includes a collaboration between the all-female group Urban Bush Women and the all-male Compagnie JANTI-BI.

Ugly Duckling Presse, Ltd.
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of books of poetry. Titles will include a translation of the collected poems of Czech poet Ivan Blatny and The Poem in the Beginning by Macedonian poet Lidija Dimskova.

Vineyard Theatre & Workshop Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the development and workshop presentation of a new musical. My Mother and Umm Kulthum by Polly Pen will be developed in the Kitty Carlisle Hart Musical Theater Lab with accompanying dramaturgical support.

Vivian Beaumont Theater, Inc. (aka Lincoln Center Theater)
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the world premiere of a new musical. A musical adaptation of Federico Garcia Lorca's novel The House of Bernarda Alba, by playwright Richard Nelson and composer Michael John La Chiusa, will be staged by director and choreographer Graciela Daniele.

Wave Hill, Inc. (Consortium)
Bronx, NY
$12,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a consortium project to commission artist Nina Katchadourian to create a work for the 2006 Generated@WaveHill program and related public programs. Working with the New York City Audubon Society, the artist will undertake a project on the grounds of Wave Hill that explores the dynamics between people and nature.

WCV, Inc. (aka Wally Cardona Quartet)
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation of a new work and the presentation of Everywhere. The new work will feature choreography by Wally Cardona, original music by composer Phil Kline, lighting design by Roderick Murray, and costumes by Jill Anderson.

Westchester Arts Council, Inc. (Consortium)
White Plains, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
A consortium project to support a regional folk arts performance and education program. In collaboration with Northern Westchester Center for the Arts, the project is designed to bring traditional, ethnic, and community-based artists to several regions of Westchester County in order to expand audiences for local traditional performing artists and to provide learning opportunities in educational settings.

Whitney Museum of American Art
New York, NY
$80,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the touring exhibition Picasso and American Art, with an accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will explore the ways in which Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) has affected art-making in the United States throughout the 20th century to the present day.

Women Make Movies, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the Women Make Movies Distribution Service. Its collection of more than 500 titles includes documentary, narrative, experimental, animation, and mixed-genre work created by artists worldwide, including Lourdes Portillo, Jane Campion, and Trinh Minh-ha.

Women's Project & Productions (Women's Project)
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Developmental Theater Programs, designed to help launch the professional careers of emerging women theater artists. Individual components will include the Directors Forum, the Playwrights Lab, the Pink Room Reading Series, and the Women's Work Festival of Plays.

Women's Studio Workshop, Inc.
Rosendale, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support residencies for artists at a print and paper making facility. Participating artists will produce a print portfolio and limited edition artist's book.

York Theatre Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$8,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the development of new musicals. The annual Developmental Reading series will feature more than 40 readings of new musicals offered free-of-charge to composers, lyricists, and the general public.

Young Concert Artists, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Young Concert Artists Series. The professional development program of recitals and concerto debuts in New York City and Washington, DC, will include the commissioning of a new work by a young composer and provide career management for emerging classical performers and composers.

Young Playwrights Inc. (Young Playwrights Festival)
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Young Playwrights Festival 2006. The festival will feature workshops, staged readings, and full productions of plays by young playwrights.

ZGD, Inc. (aka ZviDance)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of works by artistic director and choreographer Zvi Gotheiner. The works include Les Noces, set to music by Stravinsky and commissioned music by Scott Killian, and 12A, a work that will interweave Bach music and music by Scott Killian.

Number of Grants: 203          Total Amount: $5,653,000

 
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