FY 2006 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access to Artistic Excellence II/Arts on Radio and Television/
Folk & Traditional Arts Infrastructure/Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth/Partnership Agreements

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

NEW YORK

52nd Street Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$60,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support Playmaking, a playwriting and dramatic performance program for youth residing in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of New York City. Components Stage One, Replay, and Playback are part of a sequential learning approach for children to develop new plays under the supervision of professional theater artists and directors.

Absolute Ensemble, Ltd. (aka Kristjan Jarvi's Absolute Ensemble)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a national tour of Arabian Night. The program will feature Middle Eastern oud and nay flute guest artists in a melding of Western and Middle Eastern musical traditions.

Academy of American Poets, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a consortium project to coordinate National Poetry Month. In partnership with the National Council of Teachers of English, the Academy will sponsor readings, discussions, and outreach programs designed to encourage Americans to make poetry a larger part of their lives.

Adirondack Community College
Queensbury, NY
$7,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support readings and workshops by nationally renowned and local writers for students and community members. The college will promote the readings through its Web site and newsletters.

Alianza Dominicana, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Dominican Folk Instrument and Dance Apprenticeship Project. The apprenticeship activities will be enhanced by adding a carnival mask-making component.

Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York, Inc. (aka A.R.T./New York)
New York, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Nancy Quinn Fund and the Harold and Mimi Steinberg Theatre Leadership Institute technical assistance programs. The initiatives provide management-related assistance to small and mid-sized theater companies nationally.

American Brass Chamber Music Association, Inc. (aka American Brass Quintet)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a multistate tour of performances and residency activities. Each two- to three-day residency will include as many as seven performance and educational events by the American Brass Quintet.

American Composers Orchestra, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support New Music Readings, a consortium project to present concerts and educational activities in Philadelphia. In collaboration with the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Pennsylvania, the orchestra will perform in concert and assist in the coordination of orchestral reading sessions for emerging composers in the area.

American Documentary, Inc. (aka P.O.V.)
New York, NY
$220,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the selection, acquisition, packaging, and promotion of films for broadcast on the public television series P.O.V. ("Point of View"). As the longest running PBS series devoted exclusively to the art of independent, non-fiction film, P.O.V. brings documentary artworks - rarely found in the mainstream media - to national audiences.

American Friends of James Joyce (aka AFJJ)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support a seminar program, teacher professional development, and a study guide based on James Joyce's book Dubliners. Targeted to high school students, the project will use a "shared inquiry" model for interactive discussion, journal writing, and preparation of an essay for an end-of-year contest.

American Symphony Orchestra League (Consortium)
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the New Listeners Initiative, a consortium project to develop an interactive Web site. In partnership with the Association of California Symphony Orchestras and other state and regional orchestra associations, www.MeetTheMusic.org will serve to familiarize new listeners with narratives and audio samplings of orchestral works.

American Tap Dance Foundation, Inc. (aka ATDF)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the sixth annual New York City Tap Festival. The project will include performances, master classes, tap workshops, panel discussions, and film seminars.

Art 21, Inc.
New York, NY
$170,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the fourth year of Art:21 - Art in the Twenty-First Century. A public television series about contemporary visual art and artists in the United States, the project will yield four one-hour programs as well as ancillary outreach activities.

Art 21, Inc. (aka Art21)
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support outreach programs and curriculum materials for Art:21-Art in the Twenty-First Century. The public television series about contemporary visual art presents intimate profiles of America's diverse artists and the contexts in which they work.

Art Resources Transfer, Inc. (aka A.R.T. Press)
New York, NY
$22,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the Distribution to Underserved Communities Program. The project will offer books, museum catalogues, videos, and other material about contemporary art free-of-charge to libraries across the nation, with a special emphasis on rural and inner city libraries.

Artists Talk On Art (aka ATOA)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support an archival project to preserve and make available more than 30 years of artist presentations. The project will involve the transfer from analog to digital media of more than 850 slide lectures, panel discussions, and question-and-answer sessions.

Arts Center of the Capital Region (aka Arts Center Council)
Troy, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support exhibitions, workshops, and master classes exploring the region's ceramic arts heritage. Two exhibitions will be held concurrently, one developed in collaboration with the collections staff at the Rensselaer County Historical Society and the other guided by guest curator, Thomas Piche that will showcase the area's leading contemporary ceramic artists.

Arts Resources in Collaboration, Inc. (aka ARC)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the digitization of Eye on Dance, an educational series of interviews with dancers and choreographers. The digitized sessions will be distributed nationally to libraries and educational institutions and broadcast on New York City PBS and cable stations.

Asian American Arts Alliance, Inc. (aka A4)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Funding Technical Assistance Program. Artists and arts groups will participate in seminars with potential funders as well as technical assistance sessions on preparing grant applications.

Association of Independents in Radio, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support online and print resources for independent audio producers. Airmedia.org provides reference guides, directories, and interactive information. Airspace, published four times a year, offers practical advice on production issues, grant opportunities, training, and discussions of current issues within the field.

Ballet Tech Foundation, Inc. (aka Ballet Tech)
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a tuition-free ballet training program serving New York City public school children. The program provides pre-professional arts training, including an integrated public academic education and a student performance.

Bang on a Can, Inc. (Consortium)
Brooklyn, NY
$12,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Summer Institute of Music, a consortium project for composers and performers of experimental music. In partnership with the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, the residency program will include free concerts and outreach activities in low-income communities and at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams.

Bardavon 1869 Opera House, Inc. (aka Bardavon) (Consortium)
Poughkeepsie, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support a consortium project titled the Young Playwrights Festival. In partnership with the Poughkeepsie City School District, the Opera House will provide a course in playwriting for students in the 6th grade, leading to performances of original student work, performed by professional artists.

Batoto Yetu, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of Life of Nzinga by Artistic Director Julio Leitao. The work will be created for youth accompanied by percussionists and puppets.

Big Apple Circus, Ltd. (aka Big Apple Circus)
New York, NY
$23,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Circus of the Senses program. The project will make circus performances accessible to audiences of physically and developmentally disabled children.

Bowery Arts and Science, Ltd.
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production of a documentary film by Robert Levi on jazz musician and NEA Jazz Master Hank Jones. Hank Jones: From the Inside will be a one-hour, musical-performance film featuring the life and work of one of America's greatest living jazz pianists and arrangers.

Bowery Arts and Science, Ltd. (on behalf of Urban Word) (Consortium)
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support a documentary film titled DeAf Jam and an accompanying DVD. The film will trace the journey of a group of deaf teenagers as they discover and explore American Sign Language poetry.

Brooklyn Arts Council, Inc. (aka BAC)
Brooklyn, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support Folk Feet IV: Celebrating Traditional Dance in Brooklyn. The festival will include concerts and workshops and will feature artists from Brooklyn's traditional dance communities.

Brooklyn Conservatory of Music
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Music Partners, a weekly music instruction program. Instruction will be provided to 3,500 individuals at 31 partner institutions including public schools; pre-schools and day care centers; and special education, youth, and senior centers in the New York City metropolitan area.

Brooklyn Information & Culture, Inc. (aka BRIC) (on behalf of Rotunda Gallery)
Brooklyn, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support the Mini-Museum. The visual arts program will combine student visits to contemporary art galleries with in-school classroom workshops for underserved youth in Brooklyn.

Brooklyn Institute of Arts & Sciences (aka Brooklyn Museum of Art)
Brooklyn, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the First Saturdays educational program. The program provides educational programming to nearly 88,000 visitors of diverse ages, interests, and backgrounds each year.

Brooklyn Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Inc. (aka Brooklyn Philharmonic )
Brooklyn, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support the School Residency Initiative. The program will provide 12 weeks of music education programs for elementary school students, professional development for teachers, workshops, demonstrations, and field trips.

Buffalo Media Resources, Inc. (aka Squeaky Wheel)
Buffalo, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support SWAP: Squeaky Wheel Access Program. The 20-year-old program provides media equipment access, low-cost workshops, artist residencies, and resource services to film and video artists locally and nationally.

Buffalo Media Resources, Inc. (aka Squeaky Wheel) (Consortium)
Buffalo, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support a consortium project titled Portraits of Main Street, a nine-month, city-wide youth media arts initiative that will be carried out in collaboration with the Preservation Coalition of Erie County. Young people will have the opportunity to work with experienced media artists and local historians to produce documentaries about the culture and history of Main Street in Buffalo.

Camera News, Inc. (aka Third World Newsreel)
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support a digital media literacy and production education program. Components of the program will be the Advanced Film and Video Production Workshop, Wednesday Night Media Workshops, and an Introduction to Final Cut Pro/Media Literacy Workshop Series.

Carnegie Hall Society, Inc. (aka Carnegie Hall) (Consortium)
New York, NY
$65,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support a consortium project titled LinkUP! Classroom teachers whose schools are administered by the New York Department of Education will use a curriculum designed to teach their students basic music concepts, including how to read and write music notation, compose and perform works, and appreciate the concerts they will attend at Carnegie Hall.

Cave Canem Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$17,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a writing retreat targeting emerging African American poets. Cave Canem also will present readings across the country to promote its 10th Anniversary Anthology, and a 10th Anniversary Celebration consisting of workshops, panels, and public readings.

Center for Traditional Music and Dance, Inc. (aka CTMD)
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support continuation of the Community Cultural Initiatives (CCI) in Peruvian and Chinese communities. The project is designed to nurture and preserve community-based artistic documentation and the presentation of projects in immigrant and ethnic neighborhoods throughout the New York metropolitan area.

Center for Traditional Music and Dance, Inc. (aka CTMD) (Consortium)
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support a consortium project for the New York World Festival 2007. A partnership with World Music Institute, Inc., the festival will celebrate the musical traditions of communities surrounding the Mediterranean and their New York counterparts and will feature international artists and local community-based ensembles as part of Central Park's Summer Stage series.

Central New York Jazz Arts Foundation, Inc.
Syracuse, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support jazz workshops and performances. The Central New York Jazz Orchestra will conduct free workshops coached by guest artists and followed by performances in the Carrier Theater of the John H. Mulroy Civic Center.

Central Park Conservancy, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Harlem Meer Performance Festival. The free summer series will showcase African American and Latino music and feature established and emerging artists from the area's African American and Latino communities.

Chashama, Inc. (aka chashama)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the provision of free performance, exhibition, and work space for ensembles and visual artists. Venues to be made available will include a black box theater, galleries, and window stages.

Children's Media Project
Poughkeepsie, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support DROP TV. The hands-on television production workshop program is geared towards teenagers. The program includes instruction in lighting, camera composition, interviewing techniques, directing, editing, and critical viewing skills and concepts.

Circus Amok, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the 2006 Summer Parks Tour of ensemble performance works in public spaces throughout New York City. Performances will be offered free-of-charge in ethnically and economically diverse communities.

City Center 55th Street Theater Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the restoration, remounting, and staged concert productions of musicals in the Encores! series. The annual series of rarely heard American musicals will be performed in New York City Center's 2,753-seat theater.

City Lore, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support BreakOut, a consortium project. In partnership with The Point, the project is a celebration of grassroots breakdance and freestyle rap traditions to take place at Lincoln Center Out of Doors.

City Lore, Inc. (on behalf of National Network for Folk Arts in Education)
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support a national inititive to foster the inclusion of folk arts as a basic element of K-12 arts education. The effort will integrate folk arts and artists into school curricula by connecting educators and students to folklorists, folk artists, and folk arts materials and training.

City Lore, Inc. (on behalf of Trova, Inc.) (Consortium)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the eighth International Troubadour Celebration. Trovadores, improvisatory singer-poets, will perform Puerto Rico's traditional jibaro music.

City of New York/Parks & Recreation
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the documentation and conservation of a terrazzo art pavement designed by architect Philip Johnson for the 1964 World's Fair. Public programs and activities will engage the local community and a Web site will disseminate conservation information to a national audience.

City Parks Foundation (aka Central Park Summerstage)
New York, NY
$18,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support New Works, New Voices 2006. New cross-disciplinary work and debut presentations by emerging, regional, and international artists will be featured during the 21st anniversary of the Central Park Summerstage program.

Clarkson University
Potsdam, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the research, preservation, and documentation of 1960s and 1970s avant garde jazz recordings by bassist and percussionist Juma Sultan. Activities will include transference of recordings from analog data to digital formats, research of copyright ownership, Web site dissemination, and video documentation.

College Art Association of America, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support professional development workshops for undergraduate and graduate art students. The workshops, to be held in Denver and Atlanta, will use a holistic approach regarding the career of an artist.

College Art Association of America, Inc. (on behalf of Art Spaces Archive Project)
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support an assessment of collections and archival needs of organizations in the alternative arts movement. A steering committee of professionals in the field will select 10 organizations from a list of more than 1,500 organizations to receive the first assessments.

Community-Word Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$12,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support artist residencies in creative writing. Teams of teaching artists, in collaboration with classroom teachers, will work with as many as 650 students, ages seven to 17, in six underserved schools, to develop creative writing skills.

Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
New York, NY
$45,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support the Saturday Outreach Program and the Outreach Track. The projects will provide underserved New York City high school students with free studio visual arts education in the subjects of drawing, basic design, sculpture, and graphic design.

Cornell University (on behalf of Herbert F Johnson Museum of Art)
Ithaca, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support the Objects and Their Makers: New Insights program. OMNI will offer grade- and culture-specific learning units, including classroom instruction by museum staff, museum visits, artist-led workshops, and a teacher institute focused on Chinese art and culture.

Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (aka CLMP)
New York, NY
$32,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support new and enhanced services for large, mid-size, and small independent literary publishers. Scheduled services include an interactive Web site, workshops, one-on-one training, and technical assistance publications.

Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (aka CLMP) (Consortium)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a consortium project to present literary magazine and small press fairs to communities across the country. In partnership with The Kenyon Review, the council will hold events in Pittsburgh, PA; Houston, TX; Columbus, OH; Portland, OR; Hudson, NY; Atlanta, GA; and Denver, CO.

CSC Repertory, Ltd. (aka Classic Stage Company)
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a tour of Greek plays adapted by Obie Award-winning playwright Charles L. Mee. The Trojan Trilogy will tour to New York City public schools, introducing students to classical theater.

Cultural Resources Council of Syracuse & Onondaga County, Inc. (aka Cultural Resources Council) (Consortium)
Syracuse, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support Heartland Passage, a consortium project. A collaboration with the New York Folklore Society, the project will consist of field research documenting the living cultural heritage of communities along the Erie Canal, culminating in a series of presentations at the Canal Days Festivals.

Da Capo Chamber Players, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a chamber ensemble performance tour and residency activities. The four-state tour will include concerts, public school performances, open rehearsals, and programs for retirement communities.

Dance Films Association, Inc. (aka DFA)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the national tour of the Dance on Camera Festival. The festival will include domestic and international films and related outreach activities.

Dance Notation Bureau, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the addition of new dance scores to an archive of notated dances. The scores will be documented using Labanotation, a method of recording dance movement.

Dance Space Center, Inc. (aka Dance New Amsterdam, Inc.)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the Artist in Residence Program. The program offers emerging choreographers the opportunity to create and perform work, as well as public classes, workshops, lecture demonstrations, informal showings, and a concert in Dance New Amsterdam's facility in lower Manhattan.

Dance Theatre of Harlem, Inc. (aka DTH)
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support an educational and community outreach initiative that exposes children and adults to dance. Dancing Through Barriers will include lecture-demonstrations, video assemblies, master classes, workshops, dress rehearsals, open rehearsals, performances, and teacher professional development workshops in cities across the United States.

Dancewave, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support Kids Company, a program for teens to work with ballet and modern dance choreographers. Educational activities will include twice-weekly rehearsals, classes, and performance opportunities for students.

Dancing in the Street, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a series of dance programs in public parks in New York City neighborhoods. In collaboration with City Parks Foundation and three Red Hook organizations, Dancing in CityParks will feature Tamango, Ballet Hispanico, and Step Afrika! in Coffey Park, located in Red Hook, Brooklyn.

Dieu Donne Papermill, Inc. (aka dieu Donne)
New York, NY
$12,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the third phase of an archival project. The project includes hiring professional archival and curatorial consultants to continue organizing the archive and begin the consolidation of the archive and slide registry into an in-house resource center.

Downtown Community Television Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support workshops, facilities access, and related activities. Downtown Community Television is devoted to making technologically sophisticated media available to underserved communities by providing a range of courses and services.

DreamYard Drama Project, Inc.
Bronx, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support expansion of the Action Project. Artists will be trained to teach youth in long-term, year-round mentorships in multiple art forms.

Dynamic Forms, Inc. (aka Mark DeGarmo & Dancers)
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support Partnerships in Literacy Through Dance and Creativity. Teaching artists will partner with as many as 26 classroom teachers of students in pre-kindergarten to 5th grade of the Amalia Castro School in Lower Manhattan to help students develop dance and literacy skills.

Early Music Foundation, Inc. (aka Early Music New York) (Consortium)
New York, NY
$12,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a consortium project titled New York Early Music Celebration. Early Music America will coordinate educational activities for the project, including pre-concert lectures and a two-day scholarly symposium.

Early Stages Program, Inc. (aka Early Stages)
New York, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support the Responsive Writing Program. Students will be exposed to a range of art forms and will learn to write critically about professional theater performances and museum exhibits.

Education Through Music, Inc. (aka ETM)
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support music programs in inner-city elementary schools. Activities will include weekly classes, performance opportunities, and professional development for teachers.

Educational Broadcasting Corporation (aka Thirteen/WNET New York)
New York, NY
$53,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support post-production costs for a documentary film by Fred Wiseman. Idaho Legislature (working title) will cover the day-to-day activities of the Idaho State legislature.

Educational Broadcasting Corporation (aka Thirteen/WNET New York)
New York, NY
$525,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the development and production of the television series American Masters for PBS broadcast. Definitive documentary profiles of major cultural figures will be made available in 2007-08 to millions of viewers in all 50 states over 345 public television stations.

Educational Broadcasting Corporation (aka Thirteen/WNET New York)
New York, NY
$525,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the development and production of the television series Great Performances and Dance in America for broadcast on PBS. Regardless of geographic or economic limitations, American television audiences in all 50 states will be provided free access to a diverse range of cultural programming in 2007.

Educational Broadcasting Corporation (aka Thirteen/WNET New York)
New York, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production and evaluation of the pilot episode for an animated art education series for children. ARTOPIA will be a daily half-hour public television program on the visual arts for five- to eight-year olds.

Educational Broadcasting Corporation (aka Thirteen/WNET New York)
New York, NY
$80,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the development and production of a public television series chronicling comedy in the United States. Intended for primetime broadcast on PBS, Make 'Em Laugh: The Funny Business of America will consist of six one-hour programs exploring the archetypes of American comedy and their evolution over the last hundred years.

El Puente de Williamsburg, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support the Integrated Arts Project. Teaching faculty at El Puente Academy for Peace and Justice will choose a topic to be integrated across curricula by the Integrated Arts Design Team, which includes classes in drama, dance, script writing, and visual arts.

Electronic Music Foundation, Ltd. (aka EMF)
Albany, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the United States Electronic Music Database. The online searchable database will include information on American electronic music compositions created during the 20th century.

Epic Theatre Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support the Journeys Series program. Approximately 12 artist residencies will take place in New York City public high school English and government classrooms, with teaching artists leading students in the study of classical Greek plays.

Experimental Television Center Ltd.
Newark Valley, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support a year-round residency program for media artists. The Experimental Television Center provides film and video artists access to sophisticated production facilities.

Fashion Institute of Technology (aka Museum at FIT)
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support online access to visual and informational documentation of costume and textile masterworks in the collection. Public access to these permanent collection objects will contribute knowledge and understanding in the growing field of fashion and textile studies.

Film/Video Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support pre-production costs for a documentary film by Thomas Allen Harris. Reflections in Black: Black Photographers from 1840 to the Present will examine the lives of pioneering photographers, artists, entrepreneurs, and activists who used the photographic image as an art form and as means of fostering respect for their race.

First Night Binghamton (aka Southern Tier Celebrates!)
Binghamton, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support a series of free multicultural performances at various regional venues. Artists will perform at the downtown government plaza, the Broome County Forum Theatre, nursing homes, city housing authority units, the Urban League, and downtown Court Street.

Foundation for Independent Video and Film (aka Association for Independent Video and Film)
New York, NY
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the Information Services Project. Consisting of the publication The Independent Film and Video Monthly, the electronic newsletter Splice!, one-on-one artist advice and referral services, and online directories, the project will serve a constituency of more than 300,000 individuals, including artists and members of the public.

Fractured Atlas Productions, Inc. (aka Fractured Atlas)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the expansion of Open Arts Network. Professional development and health insurance services will be provided to emerging artists in New York City, the District of Columbia, Austin, and San Francisco.

Global Action Project, Inc. (aka G.A.P.)
New York, NY
$75,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support Urban Voices TV, a pre-professional media arts program. Professional media artists will work with youths in digital media production to create group and individual media arts projects.

Gregg Smith Singers, Inc.
Yonkers, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the cataloguing of the music library and re-issuance of out-of-print recordings. In celebration of the Singers' 50th anniversary, the library of mostly American scores along with program notes, performance history, and a discography will be catalogued in preparation for housing at a suitable university repository.

Groundswell Community Mural Project, Inc. (aka Groundswell)
Brooklyn, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support the Guys Speak Out mural project. Targeted teenage boys from low-income, underserved areas of Brooklyn will study works by artists such as Leon Golub, Kehinde Wiley, and Jean Michel Basquiat, in order to explore social issues and artistic techniques, and create three original murals.

H.T. Dance Company, Inc. (aka H.T. Chen & Dancers)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a performance and an educational program. The company will present Heart of Grace, a work that brings the traditional lion dance into a contemporary context, and the student program Heart of the Lion.

Haleakala, Inc. (aka The Kitchen) (Consortium)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a consortium project of literary performances to showcase small, alternative literary publications and their writers. In partnership with Open City, Inc., The Kitchen will promote the monthly series to its mailing list of 23,000 individuals.

Harlem Children's Zone, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support The Renaissance University for Community Education. Artists-in-residence will lead professional development workshops on arts learning for Harlem Children's Zone staff and also will teach arts classes for youth, ages 12 to 19.

Harlem School of the Arts, Inc. (aka HSA)
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support Opportunities for Learning. Teams of teachers and artists will collaborate to integrate arts into 1st to 3rd grade classrooms at Public School 153.

Harlem Textile Works, Ltd. (aka HTW)
New York, NY
$32,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support a youth apprenticeship program for surface design and printmaking. Young designers and artists will be introduced to design practices and marketable job skills.

Hatch-Billops Collection, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Artist & Influence. Interviews and videotaped documentation on a number of artists will be conducted and featured in the annually published journal.

Heckscher Museum (aka Heckscher Museum of Art)
Huntington, NY
$7,200
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support the Junior Docent and High School Docent programs. Students in the 5th and 9th grades will be trained to become museum docents, learning to research, interpret, and speak knowledgeably about works of art.

Henry Street Settlement (aka Abrons Art Center)
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support the Abrons Arts Center Dance Ensemble. The program will provide advanced training for teens, ages 12 to 18, to prepare them for entry into post-secondary dance programs.

High 5 Tickets to the Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Take 5. The adult-led, reduced-price ticketing program will promote parental involvement and adult mentorship in arts experiences.

Hostos Community College Advisory Council, Inc. (aka Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture)
Bronx, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support BomPlenazo 2006, a multifaceted fetival. The project consists of concerts, workshops, panels, lecture-demonstrations, and a photography exhibit exploring and presenting Puerto Rico's African-rooted bomba and plena traditions as they are practiced today.

Hudson Review, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a series of literary presentations in New York City. The Hudson Review will sponsor symposia on such topics as criticism and translation, and a concert featuring songs based on poems by three poets published in the journal.

Hudson Vagabond Puppets, Incorporated (aka HVP)
Blauvelt, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support a national tour of a musical puppetry work. Mammoth Follies, a vaudeville-style dinosaur review, is part of the company's touring repertoire and is designed to serve children in grades pre-K through fourth.

Hudson Valley Writers' Center, Inc.
Sleepy Hollow, NY
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support readings by emerging and established writers. The center will develop outreach committees to seek ways to meet the needs of youth, African Americans, Hispanics, and communities north of Sleepy Hollow.

Independent Feature Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the IFP Market, a conference and exhibition that provide independent filmmakers from across the country the opportunity to present their work to the industry. The IFP Market provides financing, distribution, and exhibition venues to independent film directors and producers whose work may not otherwise receive attention.

Independent Production Fund, Inc.
New York, NY
$45,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support script revision and production costs for a documentary film by Perry Miller Adato. Paris-The Luminous Years will consist of two, one-hour programs exploring the birth and flowering of Modernism in Paris from 1905 to 1930.

Infinity Dance Theater Company, Ltd.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a national workshop series that offers instruction in modern dance technique for dancers with disabilities. Workshops will be conducted in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Maryland, West Virginia, and Ohio.

Instituto Arte Teatral Internacional, Inc. (aka IATI)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the expansion of a touring theater program that serves Latino communities in the metropolitan New York area. Original contemporary plays by Latin American playwrights will be performed in Spanish with English subtitles at public libraries throughout Queens and Brooklyn.

International Film Seminars, Inc. (aka IFS, The Flaherty)
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 52nd Robert Flaherty Film Seminar. The week-long event, to be held at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York, will bring together students, scholars, filmmakers, curators, librarians, and film enthusiasts to explore and discuss the art of the moving image.

International Foundation for Art Research
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the Art Law/Cultural Property Website Initiative. The project will result in a searchable, interactive tool to help museums and the general public navigate the development of laws and ethical practices concerning the acquisition, authenticity, and ownership of art objects.

Irish Classical Theatre Company, Inc. (aka ICTC)
Buffalo, NY
$12,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Toward the Somme (1986) by Rank McGuiness. The program will be accompanied by outreach activities involving veteran groups and military personnel, and student matinees will be offered to schools in the Buffalo Niagara Region.

Irondale Productions, Inc. (aka Irondale Ensemble Project)
Brooklyn, NY
$12,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the production of An Ensemble's Legacy: A Repertory History of Company-Developed Work. During the first season in its first permanent home in 23 years, the Irondale Ensemble Project will present its most significant ensemble developed-pieces created from 1989 to 2002.

Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum (aka Noguchi Museum)
Long Island City, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the digitization of photographic objects in the archives. This will be the first step in the creation of an electronic finding aid for the museum's archives.

Jazz Alliance International, Inc. (aka JAI)
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the NEA Jazz Masters Residency Program. As many as 25 residencies by NEA Jazz Masters will take place on the campuses of Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

Jazz Foundation of America, Inc. (aka JFA)
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a mentorship program by experienced jazz musicians. Performances and discussions for New York City school students will offer senior jazz musicians the opportunity to convey their life stories and share their artistry.

JazzReach Performing Arts & Education Association (aka JazzReach, Inc.)
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a national tour educational outreach programs on jazz. Activities will include master classes, workshops, and clinics in 40 communities in 20 states.

Just Buffalo Literary Center, Inc.
Buffalo, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support outreach programs throughout the greater Buffalo area. Proposed programs include World of Voices, which brings international writers to western New York for week-long residencies.

Just Buffalo Literary Center, Inc. (Consortium)
Buffalo, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support a consortium project titled Picturing Poetry. Implemented in partnership with the Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Art, the program will introduce students to poetry and photography. Activities include the creation of collaborative works of art and a student forum for the free-flow exchange of ideas.

Katonah Museum of Art, Inc.
Katonah, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a touring exhibition of early Cycladic art, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The Cyclades, an archipelago of more than 30 islands at the center of the Aegean Sea, gave rise in the third millennium B.C to a vibrant and enduring sculptural tradition.

La Troupe Makandal, Inc. (Consortium)
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support Krik! Krak!, a consortium project. A collaboration with the Tonel Lakay Dance Theatre, the project will consist of instruction in traditional Haitian music and dance.

League of Professional Theatre Women
New York City, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the production and distribution of Women In Theatre - Dialogues with Notable Women in American Theater. The television series will highlight the accomplishments of women in American theater.

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$150,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production and broadcast of the television series Live From Lincoln Center. In 2007, the series will be aired on PBS stations in all 50 states, reaching an average of five million viewers per program.

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. (on behalf of Lincoln Ctr. Institute for the Arts in Education)
New York, NY
$75,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support the Focus Schools Collaborative. Professional development training led by Lincoln Center artists will be offered to pre-kindergarten to 12th grade classroom teachers who will be implementing the whole-school arts integration programs in their respective schools.

Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of America, Inc. (aka LMDA)
New York, NY
$8,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support an annual conference for professionals in literary management and dramaturgy. Conference speakers and panels will explore present treands within the field, international influences and exchange, and the increasingly active role of dramaturgs and literary managers as project generators.

Long Island Traditions, Inc.
Port Washington, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support artist gatherings, concert performances, and lecture/demonstration workshops by traditional Indian artists. The program will examine the music, dance, and narrative traditions within the growing East Asian Indian/Pakistani populations of Queens, Long Island, and Westchester counties.

Long Island University
Brookville, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Saturday Afternoon Jazz Workshops. A total of 40 New York City high school students will participate in the program, which includes instruction in jazz theory, harmony, and improvisation as well as a public concert by participants.

Los Pleneros de la 21, Inc. (aka Los Pleneros)
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Puerto Rican Music Project. Project activities will include concerts, performances, lectures, workshops, classes for youth and adults, and residencies.

Manhattan Community Access Corporation (aka Manhattan Neighborhood Network Youth Channel)
New York, NY
$28,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support Youth MIC, a media arts education program. Targeted to youth ages 12 to 18, the program will provide advanced training in multi-media, video, and Web site production.

Marquis Studios, Ltd.
Brooklyn, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support the Marquis pARTnership Program. Professional development will be provided for artists and teachers to design and implement arts curriculum in six schools throughout New York City.

Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, Inc.
New York, NY
$80,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the programs Graham: Lost and Found and Graham and the Classic Greek Theater. These programs will be launched in celebration of the company's 80th anniversary.

Meet The Composer, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Creative Connections, a nationwide consortium project that brings composers and audiences together around new musical works. Through a parthership with the Association of Performing Arts Presenters, the project will provide opportunities for composers to attend performances of their music and take part in pre- or post-concert discussions, open rehearsals, workshops, lecture-demonstrations, and interviews.

Metropolitan Opera Association, Inc. (aka The Met)
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support production costs for a national PBS telecast of an all-star gala concert program. The three-hour program will feature world famous singers performing in honor of the four-decade career of the Metropolitan Opera's retiring general manager, Joseph Volpe.

Midori Foundation, Inc. (aka Midori & Friends)
New York, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support Adventures in Making Music and the Adventure Concert Series. The program will offer free, twice-weekly instruction in woodwind, brass, percussion, and violin to inner-city youth.

Mint Theater Company
New York, NY
$12,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the production of a classic play. Artistic Director Jonathan Bank will direct the first New York production of Susan and God by Rachel Crothers since its premiere in 1937.

Museum of Chinese in the Americas
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support Community Stories: A Documentary Photography Project. Youth will document their own communities through the art of photography.

Museum of the City of New York
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the conservation and reformatting of deteriorating negatives produced by the Lucas studios from 1936 to the 1950s. This nationally significant collection holds, in most cases, the only surviving images of shows as performed by their original casts during Broadway's golden age.

National Academy of Design (aka National Academy, Museum & School of Fine Art)
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a digitization project to catalogue and photograph the Museum's collection of American art and make it available to a worldwide audience through an online catalogue. The Academy proposes to digitize up to 1,000 highlights of the paintings and sculpture collections.

National Center for Creative Aging, Inc. (aka Elders Share the Arts) (Consortium)
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support a consortium project, The Long Way Home: The Coming of Age of Elder Artists in the Neighborhoods of New York City. In partnership with the Whitney Museum of American Art, professional artists will work with senior New York residents in creating visual and literary artworks for exhibition at the museum.

National Dance Institute, Inc. (aka NDI)
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support dance instruction and performance programs. Designed to provide sequential dance training through ensemble performances, classes are offered to advanced and motivated students and led by professional artists trained in the Institute's teaching methods.

National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support professional development programs for leaders in the community arts education field. The programs will include a national conference, the Arts Management in Community Institutions Training Institute, and the creation of the Online Resource Center.

Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza Performing Arts Center (aka The Egg)
Albany, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support The New York Living Legacy Project. Artists Leon Bates, Bill Charlap, Jane Monheit, and Richard Glazier will explore the contributions of George and Ira Gershwin to American jazz, classical, opera, and popular music.

New Art Publications (aka BOMB Magazine)
Brooklyn, NY
$28,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the seventh annual issue of AMERICAS. The publication will feature original translations of poetry and fiction and will include interviews with Latin American and Caribbean writers, artists, musicians, and architects.

New Millennium Ensemble, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a recording project of five works of chamber music by Richard Festinger. The compact disc recording will be released on Albany Records.

New York Baroque Dance Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the Monteverdi to Mozart Project, Part I. The project will document and preserve master works from the baroque and classical periods.

New York Classical Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support free performances of classical plays in New York's Central Park. The productions will be staged in locations throughout the park using a variety of settings to create accessible performance environments.

New York Folklore Society, Inc.
Schenectady, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support expansion of the Mentoring and Professional Development Program. The project will include a community partner initiative and an artist roundtable.

New York Folklore Society, Inc.
Schenectady, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the outreach coordinator position and related costs. Activities will include professional forums, artists' roundtables, and a community scholar field school.

New York Foundation for Architecture, Inc. (aka Center for Architecture Foundation) (Consortium)
New York, NY
$31,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support a consortium project that includes the creation of a multimedia installation and Web site and a conference about architecture and planning projects. The New York City Department of City Planning will participate in the conference and provide content information for the installation and Web site.

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc. (aka NYFA)
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support NYFA Source. The project involves nationwide outreach to arts organizations and artists and enhancements to the ways users can access the largest and most comprehensive, free, online information repository of opportunities for artists.

New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations (aka New York Public Library)
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the production, documentation, and preservation of significant dance and theater performances and oral histories by notable performing artists. Performances and oral histories will be recorded and deteriorating oral history material will be conserved.

New York Shakespeare Festival (aka Public Theater) (Consortium)
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support a consortium project with the Berkeley Repertory Theatre for the premiere production of a new musical theater work. Annie Dorsen will direct Passing Strange by singer/songwriter Stew (Mark Stewart) and music collaborator Heidi Rodewald.

New York State Council on the Arts
New York, NY
$795,900
CATEGORY: Partnership  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

New York University
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the final phase of a three-year preservation plan to save and make accessible culturally significant videotapes from the Fales Library's Downtown Collection. More than 1,700 videotapes of dance and theater performances, artists' interviews, and performance art from New York (1970s to 1990s) are included in the collection, many of which are in danger of being lost.

New York Youth Symphony, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support Making Score. The project will consist of a series of educational courses designed to introduce aspiring young composers to fundamental principles of musical composition.

Non-Traditional Casting Project, Inc. (aka NTCP)
New York, NY
$23,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Inclusion Project, which will include Artist Files Online and the National Diversity Forum. The project is designed to assist nonprofit theaters in achieving greater diversity.

North American Cultural Laboratory, Inc. (aka NACL)
Highland Lake, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Catskill Festival of New Theatre. In addition to performances, activities will include artist residencies, public workshops, performer training exchanges, academic forums, new play readings, and late-night cabarets.

Opus 118 Music Center (aka Harlem Center for Strings)
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support music lessons targeted to underserved, inner city youth. Opus 118's Conservatory Program will be offered to low-income children in East Harlem.

Our Time Theatre Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support the Teen Play Project. The program will provide theater arts instruction to teenagers who stutter. Weekly classes will cover the structure of playwriting, the importance of theme, and singing exercises, culminating in the writing and performance of a full-length play.

Pan Asian Repertory Theatre, Inc. (aka Pan Asian Rep)
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the production of a play adapted from a literary work. Artistic Producing Director Tisa Chang will direct the production of The Joy Luck Club by Susan Kim, based on the novel by Amy Tan.

Paper Bag Players, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and multi-state tour of a new work for children. Founder and Artistic Director Judith Martin will lead an ensemble of artists through the writing, musical scoring, and design of a new production for children, ages four to nine.

Paramount Center for the Arts, Inc.
Peekskill, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support a series of programs designed to increase community engagement in the arts and create new audiences. Project components will include presentations of affordable multidisciplinary and multicultural performances; artist residency and outreach activities; and community partnerships and collaborations.

PEN American Center, Inc. (aka PEN)
New York, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the 3rd Annual PEN World Voices: The New York Festival of International Literature. The five-day festival will feature tributes, forums, conversations, readings, and roundtable discussions in both large-scale and intimate public venues.

Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York, Inc. (aka New York Philharmonic)
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production of national radio broadcasts of performances by the New York Philharmonic from its 2006-07 season. Approximately 5 million listeners will hear each two-hour program in the 39-week series.

Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York, Inc. (aka New York Philharmonic) (Consortium)
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support the School Partnership Program, a consortium project between the New York Philharmonic and the New York City Department of Education. Students in the 2nd to 5th grade will attend workshops held by trained teaching artists.

Poetry Project, Ltd.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the Monday Night and Wednesday Night Reading and Performance Series. The series will feature live presentations by more than 130 poets and performers.

Poetry Society of America (aka PSA)
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the continuation of Poetry in Motion, a program that places poetry placards in public transportation systems throughout the country. Targeted cities include Kansas City, MO; Milwaukee, WI; Houston, TX; Fort Collins, CO; Fresno, CA; Minneapolis, MN; Philadelphia, PA; New York, NY; and Portland, OR.

Poets & Writers, Inc.
New York, NY
$60,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication of Poets & Writers Magazine and the continued development and promotion of Poets & Writers' Web site. The Web site provides links to over 1,000 other Web sites dedicated to helping writers.

Poets & Writers, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$12,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the consortium project Carried Voices: Writers & Books in the West. In partnership with the YMCA of Billings, the project will bring literary events to Oregon, Washington, Montana, Wyoming, and northern California.

Poets House, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support Building and Breaking, a series of outreach events to coordinate with a permanent move to a new facility. Poets House will sponsor readings, panel discussions, walking tours, and the 2007 Showcase, an exhibition designed to preserve and display the breadth of poetry in print.

Public Art Fund Inc.
New York, NY
$17,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support In the Public Realm. The project provides emerging artists with the opportunity to develop temporary art projects in an urban context that will be documented in a series of publications.

Queens Museum of Art
Queens, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support Queens Teens. The after-school docent program will introduce and train local high school students in the administrative skills necessary to run a working art museum.

Queens Theatre in the Park, Inc.
Flushing, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the tenth annual Latino Cultural Festival and the sixth annual Latino Cultural Series. The programs will feature music, dance, theater, film, visual art exhibitions, and residency workshops.

Radio Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production of a series of radio documentaries that will examine the role of Jewish-Americans in the arts. Produced by Larry Josephson, the programs will augment the original nine-part series Only in America: A Celebration of 350 Years of American Jewish History.

Rattapallax, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the development, presentation, and promotion of a DVD featuring poetry and literary films. The DVD will accompany Rattapallax magazine and be released at a literary film festival at the Langston Hughes Community and Cultural Center in Queens, New York.

Reg Lenna Civic Center, Incorporated
Jamestown, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the New American Voices series. Programmed to broaden this rural community's access to the performing arts, the series will focus on African American, Puerto Rican, and Native American artists.

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (on behalf of FELIX)
Troy, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the next issue of Felix: A Journal of Media Arts and Communication. The publication will be entitled "TOOLS: Analogs and Intersections."

Research Foundation of State University of New York (on behalf of SUNY Fredonia)
Albany, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support artist residencies in rural communities. Artists Bobby McFerrin, Tafelmusik, and Meridian Arts Ensemble will perform concerts, conduct master classes, and participate in lecture-demonstrations throughout rural Chautauqua County, New York.

Rhizome Communications, Inc. (aka Rhizome.org)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support enhancement of ArtBase, an online repository of new media art. Project activities will include improvements to the technical infrastructure, expansion of programming, and coordination of anniversary events.

Ringside, Inc. (aka STREB)
Brooklyn, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support components of STREB/Ringside's audience development and access program, PUBLIC ACTION. The project will support residency and outreach programs for PUBLIC/ACTION NEW YORK and PUBLIC/ACTION ON TOUR.

Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Inc.
Rochester, NY
$22,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Symphony 101, an outreach project of community concerts for underserved and low-income residents. Host and Music Director Christopher Seaman and the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra will offer a symphonic repertoire and informal lectures designed for first-time concertgoers

Soho Repertory Theatre, Inc. (aka Soho Rep)
New York, NY
$12,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the 2006 Writer/Director Lab and Phase 2 new play development programs. Both programs are aimed at moving new plays from development to mainstage production within a supportive community of playwrights using structured feedback and response.

Sokolow Theatre Dance Ensemble, Ltd.
New York, NY
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the reconstruction and video documentation of Magritte, Magritte, choreographed by Anna Sokolow in 1970. The work will be added to the video collection of Anna Sokolow's work at the Lincoln Center Library for the Performing Arts.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation (aka Guggenheim Museum)
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a research project titled Reversal versus Retirement: Study and Treatment of Black Painting, 1960-66 by Ad Reinhardt, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. Reinhardt (1913 - 1967) was a key figure in the minimalist painting movement of the 1960s.

Sound Portraits Productions, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support production of a radio documentary by David Isay and Nicole LeBlanc. Losing My Father will follow LeBlanc's father's journey as he battles cancer.

Sound Portraits Productions, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production of radio segments created from selected StoryCorps interviews. A collaboration between Sound Portraits Productions, the Library of Congress, and public radio stations, StoryCorps is a nationwide project aimed at inspiring Americans to record one another's stories in sound.

Spanish Theatre Repertory Company, Ltd. (aka Repertorio Español)
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Teatro Accesso program. The company will tour classic and contemporary Spanish, Latina American, and U.S. Latino theater works to underserved schools and Latino communities throughout the New York metropolitan area and the northeastern United States.

Standby Program, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support access to state-of-the-art, broadcast quality, production and post-production video equipment for artists and independent producers. Standby's access program is a unique model of collaboration between a nonprofit arts organization and privately owned businesses.

Sugarloaf Music Series, Inc. (aka Sugarloaf Music Series)
Chester, NY
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a two-day Latin jazz festival. Jazz trumpeter Ray Vega and his ensemble will perform for rural, underserved communities of Chester and Warwick, New York.

Symphony Space, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production of the public radio series Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story, and the distribution of related CDs. The series, which will air on more than 143 NPR stations, will present leading stage and screen actors reading both classic and new short fiction by established and emerging authors of diverse cultures.

Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Syracuse, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a concert tour to New York's North Country. The orchestra, under the direction of Music Director Daniel Hege, will perform concerts in rural and underserved communities, including three educational concerts programmed for school-age children.

TADA! Theater and Dance Alliance, Inc. (aka TADA!)
New York, NY
$55,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support the Musical Theater Writing Residency. The program will integrate social studies topics with the writing, rehearsal, and performance of an original musical by 4th and 5th graders.

Textile Conservation Workshop, Inc.
South Salem, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a master apprenticeship for in-depth training in textile conservation. As part of a regional conservation laboratory, the apprenticeship program fills a gap not covered by formal conservation courses in graduate school programs.

Theatre Communications Group, Inc. (aka TCG)
New York, NY
$115,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the 2006 TCG National Conference, professional development programs, field research, and publication resources for the staff and trustees of professional, nonprofit theaters nationwide. Conferences and training programs are designed to increase management expertise and organizational efficiency, and ongoing industry research provides the field with benchmarks and data to assist member theaters in measuring their performance.

Theatre Development Fund, Inc. (aka TDF)
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Interpreting for the Theatre initiative. The program is an intensive one-week institute for theater sign-language interpreters.

Theatreworks/USA Corporation (aka Theatreworks)
New York, NY
$55,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support a national tour of theater productions for young audiences. Theatreworks/USA will provide audiences in as many as 35 states and the District of Columbia with access to live theater and educational activities that complement school curricula.

Town Hall Foundation (aka Town Hall)
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support the Education Outreach Program. Summer internships and school-year classes in theater and stagecraft will be offered for students in kindergarten to 12th grade in New York City schools.

Traditional Arts in Upstate New York, Inc. (aka TAUNY) (Consortium)
Canton, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support a consortium project for a cultural resources survey of maritime, manufacturing, agricultural, military, and ethnic communities of Jefferson County. A partnership with the Antique Boat Museum, the project will result in an annotated inventory for future use in planning and presenting tradtional arts programming.

Troika Ranch, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of a dance and digital media project and the creation of a new work. The project will include performances, media workshops, symposia, and research residencies in California, Nebraska, and New York.

University of Rochester
Rochester, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support Eastman Pathways. The program offers music lessons and performance opportunities for urban youth at the Eastman Community Music School.

University of Rochester (on behalf of Memorial Art Gallery)
Rochester, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support conservation treatment of a 16th-century Flemish tapestry in the museum's permanent collection. Musical Game Park: A Forest Scene with Peasants is an important Flemish tapestry dating to about 1575-1600.

Wave Hill, Inc.
Bronx, NY
$8,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the Family Art Project. The series of free weekend workshops provides families the opportunity to create nature-based art projects inspired by craft traditions from around the world.

Westchester Arts Council, Inc.
White Plains, NY
$23,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the commission of a mural by artist Richard Haas. Haas' proposed work would grace an exterior wall of a sculpture court within Arts Exchange, a mutli-use cultural facility owned and operated by the Arts Council.

Westchester Philharmonic, Inc. (Consortium)
White Plains, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a consortium project of family concerts. In partnership with the Paramount Center for the Arts in Peekskill, New York, two concerts will be presented, each featuring the work A Family for Baby Grand by Brad Ross.

Wildlife Conservation Society (Consortium)
Bronx, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a consortium project to curate permanent poetry installations at New York zoos. In collaboration with Poets House, conservation poet Sandra Alcosser will select poems, develop an online database, and work with designers to integrate poetry into wildlife exhibits.

Women's Studio Workshop, Inc. (Consortium)
Rosendale, NY
$17,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a consortium project to host artist residencies. In partnership with the Kingston City School District, the residency program offers emerging artists paid professional opportunities to work for an extended period of time in a technically equipped studio space as well as training in teaching and mentoring.

Wooster Group, Inc.
New York, NY
$28,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and workshop production of a play. Artistic Director Elizabeth LeCompte will direct a new adaptation of Willliam Shakespeare's Hamlet and oversee the collaboration of the company and guest artists in the development of the piece.

Working Playground, Inc.
New York, NY
$45,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support Fine Art Fundamentals of Design. The project will provide foundational design experiences for students in the 9th and 10th grade at New Design High School.

Working Theatre Company, Inc. (aka Working Theater)
New York, NY
$12,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the TheaterWorks! program. The initiative will offer artist residencies and workshops to low-income working people in New York City unions.

World Music Institute, Inc. (aka WMI)
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Festival of Indian Music and Dance. The festival will feature classical musicians of North and South Indian traditions, folk music and dance of Bengal and the Punjab, and representatives of the classical Indian dance traditions of bharatanatyam, Kathak, Orissi, and Kuchi pudi.

World Music Productions, Inc. (aka Afropop Worldwide)
Brooklyn, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production and distribution of the weekly public radio program Afropop Worldwide. The series showcases the contemporary musical cultures of Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas, and is distributed by Public Radio International to approximately 100 radio stations in the United States.

Writers & Books, Inc.
Rochester, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support Literary Learning for a Lifetime, a series of educational and outreach programs. The project will offer readings, writing workshops, and online classes for adults and intergenerational groups.

Writers Room, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support subsidized work space for emerging writers. The Writers Room is an urban writers' colony in New York City.

Young Men's & Young Women's Hebrew Association (aka 92nd Street Y)
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth
To support the Musical Introduction Series. The project involves classroom artist residencies, live musical performances by professional musicians at the 92nd Street Y, and post-performance discussions for New York City school children.

Young Men's & Young Women's Hebrew Association (aka 92nd Street Y) (on behalf of Unterberg Poetry Center)
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence  FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the Unterberg Poetry Center Reading Series. The project will feature readings, performances, literary tributes, and live interviews by established and emerging authors.

Number of Grants: 214          Total Amount: $7,143,100

 
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