FY 2009 Grant Awards: Learning in the Arts
for Children and Youth

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

52nd Street Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$68,000
To support Playmaking, a playwriting and dramatic performance program. Students living in the Clinton (Hell's Kitchen) neighborhood of New York City will develop new plays in collaboration with professional theater artists and directors.

826 Valencia
San Francisco, CA
$48,000
To support writing programs and the publication of student work. Professional artists will teach creative writing to underserved youth in under-performing schools.

AjA Project
San Diego, CA
$40,000
To support the Journey program, a series of after-school photography workshops is targeted to serve immigrant and refugee youth, ages 12 to 17, living in the San Diego area.

Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture
Philadelphia, PA
$40,000
To support Arabic Rhythms: A Percussion Instruction and Music Appreciation Program. Professional guest artists will provide year-round group and individual instruction in Arabic percussion at after-school and weekend workshops and apprenticeships. In addition, the project provides performance opportunities for beginning, intermediate, and advanced students ages 8 to 16, and members of the Al Bustan Percussion Ensemble.

Alabama Blues Project, Inc.
Northport, AL
$30,000
To support after-school and summer classes in blues music. Professional Alabama-based blues musicians will teach weekly beginning and advanced-level classes in blues music performance and history.

Alaska Arts Southeast, Inc. (aka Sitka Fine Arts Camp)
Sitka, AK
$50,000
To support the Sitka Fine Arts Camp. A residential summer arts camp will enable middle and high school students from throughout Alaska to study Alaskan Native arts, dance, music, theater, writing, and visual arts with professional artists from Alaska and other states.

Alleghany County Schools (aka Junior Appalachian Musicians)
Sparta, NC
$30,000
To support Junior Appalachian Musicians (JAM). The project will provide after-school classes in Appalachian traditional folk music for students in third through eighth grades in the Alleghany County JAM program; periodic planning and professional development conferences for artists in the JAM program; and a day-long summer gathering of youth participants from around the region.

American Symphony Orchestra, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$48,000
To support the Music Notes/Project CORE program. In partnership with Verona Public Schools, American Symphony Orchestra will provide music instruction in New York and New Jersey schools, integrating orchestral music into the humanities curriculum.

Art Museum of Eastern Idaho
Idaho Falls, ID
$15,000
To support the ARTworks educational outreach program. Artist residencies will take place in public schools throughout southeast Idaho supported by visits to the museum for direct exposure to original art.

ASCAP Foundation
New York, NY
$36,000
To support the Summer Music Camp. Public school students living in New York City's five boroughs will receive free classical music training with an emphasis on increased performance skills.

Asian Americans United, Inc. (Consortium)
Philadelphia, PA
$32,000
To support the Folk Arts Education Program. In partnership with the Philadelphia Chinese Opera Society, the project will provide artist residencies, folk arts educational resources, and professional development for educators.

Atlanta Shakespeare Company
Atlanta, GA
$34,000
To support Shakespeare performance residencies. High school students, grades 9 through 12, will learn all aspects of performance and technical theater and produce a Shakespearean play.

Austin Classical Guitar Society
Austin, TX
$40,000
To support the Educational Outreach Program. Classical guitar instructors will provide weekly individual lessons for economically disadvantaged students and will assist with the direction and curriculum planning of guitar classes in Austin-area schools.

Baltimore Clayworks, Inc.
Baltimore, MD
$18,000
To support the Inspiration Project: More than Skin Deep, an artist residency and workshop with ceramic artist Jenny Mendes. Targeted to  Baltimore public school art teachers, art education students, and community teaching artists, the program will help educators become comfortable working with clay as an artistic medium in their classrooms.

Barrel of Monkeys Productions
Chicago, IL
$15,000
To support an in-school literature and theater residency program. Creative writing and drama residencies will take place in underserved Chicago public schools for third- through sixth-grade students.

Baum School of Art
Allentown, PA
$10,000
To support the Inner City/Neighborhood Scholarship Program for weekly after-school arts classes in the Allentown School District. Students in grades three to five also will have the opportunity to visit and study at local galleries and museums.

Bethune Theatredanse
Los Angeles, CA
$60,000
To support Infinite Dreams, a dance and drama instruction program for special-needs youth. Residency artists will provide classes targeting underserved students from Los Angeles County schools and community sites.

Big Thought
Dallas, TX
$80,000
To support the Creative Solutions Program. Artist teachers from the Young Artists of North Texas artist roster will conduct eight community-based, after-school art education residencies and one intensive summer program in visual arts, dance, filmmaking, theater, and design targeting disadvantaged teens in Dallas.

Boston University
Boston, MA
$35,000
To support the Tanglewood Institute's Young Artists Orchestra and Young Artists Wind Ensemble programs. Students will receive extensive rigorous instrumental music training, including individual instruction, master classes, and performance opportunities.

Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras, Inc.
Boston, MA
$72,000
To support the Intensive Community Program. Targeted to inner-city and minority youth, the program offers a two-week summer music workshop, followed by weekly music lessons, ensemble classes, and performance opportunities during the school year.

Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta, Inc. (aka Youth Art Connection)
Atlanta, AS
$35,000
To support Youth Art Connection's Magnet Arts Program. Professional teaching artists will deliver a series of photography and digital arts workshops in area Boys & Girls Clubs to youth (ages 10 to 13) during the school year.

Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Spartanburg
Spartanburg, SC
$15,000
To support the Fine Arts Program. Professional artists will teach weekly classes and intensive workshops in visual arts, theater, filmmaking, and dance at after-school sites for students in second through ninth grade.

Bronx Museum of the Arts (aka Bronx Museum)
Bronx, NY
$30,000
To support school and community programs for Bronx youth. Students participating in the student docent program and the teen council program will work in a museum setting, interact with artists, and produce a series of visual works, podcasts, and DVDs.

Brooklyn Information & Culture, Inc. (aka BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn) (on behalf of BRIC Rotunda Gallery)
Brooklyn, NY
$54,000
To support the visual arts residency and teacher training program of the BRIC Rotunda Gallery. The program will combine visits to contemporary art galleries with in-school classroom workshops for underserved youth in Brooklyn.

Brooklyn Youth Chorus Academy, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$60,000
To support the Concert Chorus Training and Performance Program. Students will participate in rigorous weekly vocal music training, gaining skills in musicianship, music theory, sight singing, and ear training.

California College of the Arts (Consortium)
Oakland, CA
$36,000
To support Studio Thinking in Practice, a professional development program in the visual arts. A partnership with the Alameda County Office of Education, the program will provide professional development training and resource materials for elementary classroom teachers and teaching artists to expand their ability to deliver visual arts instruction to underserved children.

California Institute of the Arts (aka CalArts) (Consortium)
Valencia, CA
$64,000
To support the CalArts Community Arts Partnership Plaza de la Raza Youth Theater Program. In partnership with Plaza de la Raza, CalArts will provide youth with intensive arts training in all aspects of theater production, including the creation and performance of an original play in collaboration with a professional playwright.

Carnegie Hall Society, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$45,000
To support The Academy. In partnership with the Juilliard School, 34 young professional music fellows will conduct intensive in-school residencies for 24 weeks in New York City public schools.

Center for World Music
Olivenhain, CA
$25,000
To support World Music Performance for Children. Skilled artists of varied cultural backgrounds will teach African, Indian, Indonesian, and Iran folk and traditional music, dance, and storytelling to elementary, middle, and high school students in San Diego and Orange counties.

Centrum Foundation (Consortium)
Port Townsend, WA
$11,000
To support Dance This, a residential dance workshop for high school students in Seattle, Washington. In partnership with Seattle Theater Group, the program will offer classes in dance technique as well as choreography and improvisation.

Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education (aka CAPE)
Chicago, IL
$50,000
To support the Arts Education Program Design Seminar. Partnering arts organizations and schools will connect professional artists with public school students and their teachers to study artworks, develop skills to critique artworks, and produce and critique their own work in the context of the public school curriculum.

Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra
Chicago, IL
$48,000
To support the Symphony Orchestra and Concert Orchestra. Students will work with well-known guest artists and composers, receive extensive coaching, participate in rehearsals, and perform in world-class venues.

Chickasaw Nation
Ada, OK
$20,000
To support the Chickasaw Summer Arts Academy. During a two-week summer arts program, professional artists and members of the Chickasaw Nation will lead culturally informed workshops in music composition, dance, theater, visual arts and storytelling.

Child's Play Touring Theatre
Chicago, IL
$15,000
To support Writing Our World, a series of theater and creative writing residencies. Led by professional artists, kindergarten through eighth-grade students will participate in drama-based workshops that will help enhance their writing skills.

Children's Media Project
Poughkeepsie, NY
$24,000
To support DROP TV, a youth-produced television show. Working with professional media artists, high school students will study all aspects of media arts and create programs for broadcast.

Children's Theatre Company and School (Consortium)
Minneapolis, MN
$20,000
To support Neighborhood Bridges. Designed and implemented in partnership with St. Paul Public School District 625, elementary school students will learn theater and storytelling skills to enhance their literacy development.

Choral Arts Society of Washington (aka Choral Arts, CASW) (Consortium)
Washington, DC
$26,000
To support artsACESS. The project will provide professional development for teaching artists and kindergarten to 12th grade classroom teachers in partnership with the District of Columbia Public School's public and charter schools using an arts-integrated curriculum.

Christina Cultural Arts Center, Inc.
Wilmington, DE
$25,000
To support Roots and Winds. Staff arts teachers and visiting artists from Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, Dance Theater of Harlem, and Rhianna will teach a curriculum integrating dance, music, and spoken word poetry.

Circus Day Foundation
St. Louis, MO
$20,000
To support Circus Harmony, a theatrical circus arts program. Working with professional circus educators, choreographers, costume designers, and musicians, youth learn theatrical circus skills and perform for the public.

City of San Fernando, California
San Fernando, CA
$40,000
To support the Mariachi Master Apprentice Program. The City of San Fernando Department of Recreation and Community Services will hold sequential, advanced-level mariachi classes for youth ages 10 to 18. Led by NEA National Heritage Fellow Natividad Cano's Mariachi los Camperos, the classes will prepare young musicians for concert performances and mariachi conferences.

City of Santa Fe, New Mexico (aka City of Santa Fe Arts Commission)
Santa Fe, NM
$50,000
To support ArtWorks. Based on the Lincoln Center Institute's model of Aesthetic Education, professional development training will be offered to elementary school teachers, school staff, and teaching artists, resulting in lesson plans and curricula that will be implemented during the school year.

Cloud Foundation (aka Cloud Place)
Boston, MA
$54,000
To support the Teen Curatorial Program at Cloud Place. Professional artists will lead workshops in film, visual arts, design, and spoken word performance for teens. Participating youth will become curators of their own work by planning and implementing the Youth Fusion Series, a 10-night public event showcasing their work through exhibitions, screenings, and performances.

COCA - Center of Creative Arts
St. Louis, MO
$55,000
To support the Dance Outreach and Pre-Professional Dance Programs. The activities will provide intensive dance training for low-income students and residencies at elementary schools.

College for Creative Studies
Detroit, MI
$30,000
To support full-tuition scholarships for sophomore, junior, or senior high school students from Detroit and other urban areas nationwide to attend the  Pre-College Summer Experience Program. Scholarships will cover enrollment in the four week residential pre-college visual arts program.

Columbia Center for Theatrical Arts, Inc.
Columbia, MD
$10,000
To support the Teen Professional Theatre. The program will provide summer workshops, mentorships, and a culminating performance of a Broadway musical. Program partners will include the Howard County Community College and Reservoir High School.

Columbia College Chicago (on behalf of Museum of Contemporary Photography)
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support Picture Me at the Museum of Contemporary Photography. The after-school mentorship program will teach underserved youth (ages 12 to 18) how to use a fully manual 35-millimeter camera to document their lives, homes, and communities.

Coming Together Festival of Dance & Music, Inc. (aka The Vanaver Caravan)
New Paltz, NY
$10,000
To support The Vanaver Caravan's Around the Word Kinections, a dance residency program for third-grade students. Professional dancers will conduct in-school dance and world studies residencies, teaching cultural dances while exploring themes of global citizenship and diversity.

Community Access to the Arts, Inc.
Great Barrington, MA
$15,000
To support Community Access to the Arts Transitions. Faculty artists will collaborate with special education administrators and teachers in local high schools to provide arts activities for students with disabilities in order to teach students to access artistic and cultural resources in their communities after they graduate from the public school system.

Community Television Network
Chicago, IL
$56,000
To support Hard Cover: Voices and Visions of Chicago Youth. Working with professional video artists, underserved Chicago youth will learn all aspects of digital video production.

Community-Word Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$52,000
To support artist residencies in creative writing. Teams of teaching artists, in collaboration with classroom teachers, will work with students, ages 7 to 17, in eight underserved schools to develop creative writing skills.

Dance Saint Louis (Consortium)
St. Louis, MO
$20,000
To support the Extended Residency program. In partnership with St. Louis Public Schools, professional dancers from Noche Flamenca and José Limón Dance Company will conduct three-week residencies in schools and community centers.

Dance Theatre Etcetera, Inc. (Consortium)
Brooklyn, NY
$15,000
To support Scene to Screen. Teaching artists will lead after-school, weekend, and day-long film-making and theater workshops and arts retreats at schools.

Dancing Crane, Inc. (aka Dancing Crane Georgian Dance Theater)
WARWICK, NY
$25,000
To support the Children's Georgian Dance Class and Performance Ensemble. Master artists who were trained in the nation of Georgia and now live in the United States will teach traditional Georgian dance to students ages 5 to 16.

Danforth Museum Corporation
Framingham, MA
$20,000
To support collaboration between the Danforth Museum of Art and the Framingham public schools. Framingham public school educators and museum staff will work closely to update integrated visual arts and social studies curriculum and programming for approximately 650-750 third-grade students.

Danville Independent Schools (aka Danville Schools)
Danville, KY
$10,000
To support Opening Students' Minds to Arts in Culture. Artists-in-residence will to teach an arts curriculum in Native American, West African, and Appalachian arts to third- through fifth-grade students through in-school, after-school, and weekend programs.

DeCordova and Dana Museum and Park (aka DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park)
Lincoln, MA
$40,000
To support the Sculpture Park Teacher Institute: New Media Art and Technology--Nam June Paik. Teachers will connect technology and pedagogy by exploring a work in the museum's permanent collection, Requiem to the 20th Century, a sculpture by artist Nam June Paik that fuses art, technology, and social and political history.

DeEtte Holden Cummer Museum Foundation, Inc. (aka The Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens)
Jacksonville, FL
$15,000
To support Cummer in the Classroom, a visual arts program for grades pre-kindergarten through five. The program will provide free access to artworks for more than 1,900 low-income students along with professional development opportunities for teachers.

Diversity of Dance, Inc. (aka Earl Mosley's Institute of the Arts)
Brooklyn, NY
$40,000
To support Earl Mosley's Institute of the Arts, a series of school-year residencies and a residential summer dance institute. Students will receive rigorous dance training from professional dance educators through classes in technique (ballet, modern, jazz, hip-hop, African dance, and tap), composition, and repertory, as well as participate in master classes with guest artists.

Drawing Studio, Inc.
Tucson, AZ
$20,000
To support The Art of Summer, a visual arts program for youth and teens. The program will introduce students (ages nine to 18) in the metro Tucson area to the role studio art practice plays in the development of visual intelligence.

DreamYard Drama Project, Inc.
Bronx, NY
$20,000
To support DreamYard Media Studies. Professional artists experienced in teaching will lead workshops and classes in theater, visual arts, poetry, and video for teenagers in the Bronx, culminating in student productions.

Each One Reach One
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
To support the Playwriting Workshop. Designed for incarcerated San Francisco and San Mateo County teenagers, the playwriting and educational tutoring program will pair professional theater artists one-on-one with youths to create and develop original, one-act plays.

Early Stages Program, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the Storytelling Program, a theatrical artist residency program. Using folktales, fairytales, and other children's literature, teaching artists will help students enhance their proficiency in theater and language arts.

Education Through Music, Inc. (aka ETM)
New York, NY
$30,000
To support music programs in inner-city elementary schools. Activities will include weekly classes, performance opportunities, and professional development for teachers and teaching artists.

Educational Alliance, Inc. (aka The Alliance)
New York, NY
$35,000
To support the Young Artists Program. The after-school and summer visual arts program will provide free or low-cost visual arts instruction to underserved youth (ages 10 to 19).

El Puente de Williamsburg, Inc. (aka El Puente)
BROOKLYN, NY
$20,000
To support the Educational Opportunity in the Arts project. A collaborative project design team of artists, arts and classroom teachers, and administrators will develop and implement a drama, dance, script writing, and visual arts program on the topic "Coming of Age" that is integrated across school curriculum.

Elaine Kaufman Cultural Center/Lucy Moses School for Music and Dance
New York, NY
$60,000
To support the Kaufman Center's Music Program at the Special Music School. The program includes free private instrumental lessons, performance opportunities, and classes in theory, music history, and chorus for students in a school for musically gifted children in New York City.

Ellington Fund
Washington, DC
$60,000
To support Creating Opera from Classroom to Stage. Students will work with opera professionals to create an original opera, using the 2009-2010 Washington National Opera production of Porgy and Bess as a starting point.

EmilyAnn Theatre Inc.
Wimberley, TX
$15,000
To support Shakespeare Under the Stars, a summer youth theater program. High school students will learn all aspects of performance and technical theater through this hands-on program.

Epic Theatre Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the Journeys Series program. Artist residencies will take place in New York public high schools, with teaching artists leading students in the study of classical and modern plays.

Federated Dorchester Neighborhood Houses, Inc. (aka FDNH)
Dorchester, MA
$35,000
To support Art a la Carte, a visual arts education program. Urban Boston teens will connect with the local cultural community through classes, internships, work experiences, and field trips.

Figures of Speech Theatre
Freeport, ME
$18,000
To support a theater arts residency program in rural Maine. The series of week-long classroom residencies will focus on the creation and performance aspects of Chinese shadow-theater puppetry.

Fine Arts for Children and Teens, Inc.
Santa Fe, NM
$38,000
To support after-school visual arts education programs for underserved youth. Students will learn to draw, paint, collage, sculpt, and make prints and mixed-media works.

Firebird Youth Chinese Orchestra
San Jose, CA
$30,000
To support Learning the Azalea Mountain. Professional traditional Chinese musicians will teach youth to perform Azalea Mountain, composed in 1973 by Yu Huiyong.

Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, Ltd. (Consortium)
Burlington, VT
$45,000
To support Words Come Alive. Designed and implemented in partnership with the Burlington School District, summer training, workshops, and classroom collaborations will be featured activities for elementary school teachers in theater and dance.

Fort Wayne Philharmonic Orchestra, Inc. (Consortium)
Fort Wayne, IN
$18,000
To support PHIL Kids. In partnership with Community Action of Northeast Indiana, Inc., professional musicians will present live ensemble performances in preschool classrooms, and classroom teachers will participate in workshops in which they will study and learn to implement the accompanying music curriculum.

Friends of NORD, Inc. (aka NORD/NOBA Center For Dance)
New Orleans, LA
$90,000
To support free dance training at the NORD/NOBA Center for Dance. The company will offer instruction in a four-week summer intensive session as well as weekly classes in fall and spring semesters.

Friends of the Arts, Inc.
Locust Valley, NY
$20,000
To support the Jazz Sampler Project. Artists and school staff will develop and implement an arts-integrated curriculum on the history and elements of jazz.

Fulton Opera House Foundation (aka Fulton Theatre)
Lancaster, PA
$40,000
To support the Fulton Youtheatre Program. Professional actors, musicians, choreographers, and stage designers will teach a team of youth, ages 13 to 19, key elements of theater which will result in the creation and performance of a new musical based on pertinent issues from their own lives.

Futurebuilders in Support of the Trollwood Performing Arts School (aka Trollwood Performing Arts School)
Fargo, ND
$35,000
To support the Summer Mainstage Musical Program of the Trollwood Performing Arts School. The activities will immerse students in contemporary and classic musical theater while studying the basic tenets of script writing, character development, vocal performance, and stage production.

Global Action Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$56,000
To support the Urban Voices Media Arts Program. Professional media artists will work with underserved youth in digital media production to create group and individual media arts projects.

Grand Canyon Chamber Music Festival
Grand Canyon, AZ
$22,000
To support the Native American Composer Apprentice Project. Students will study one-on-one with a composer-in-residence and create original works that will be performed by the ETHEL String Quartet while the group is on tour to reservation schools.

Greater Baltimore Youth Orchestra Association
Timonium, MD
$24,000
To support Completing the Bridge, an after-school string instruction program for Baltimore City elementary school children. The program provides instruments, private and group lessons, and orchestral performance experiences at no cost.

Groundswell Community Mural Project, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$40,000
To support the Summer Leadership Institute. Teenage girls and boys from underserved areas of Brooklyn will work under the tutelage of professional artists to study the history, design, and methodology of mural painting.

Hawaii Alliance for Arts in Education (aka Hawaii Arts Alliance) (Consortium)
Honolulu, HI
$50,000
To support Arts First in consortium with the State of Hawaii Department of Education.The four-day professional development institute will bring teachers and artists together to develop arts lessons using the Arts First Toolkit, a kindergarten to fifth-grade arts-integration curriculum framework.

Hawaii Youth Symphony Association
Honolulu, HI
$56,000
To support the Symphonic Orchestra Program. Orchestral students from the Hawaiian Islands will travel  to Honolulu to rehearse and subsequently perform in one of three youth orchestras.

HeArt Project
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
To support arts workshops at Los Angeles alternative high schools. Professional artists will lead classroom residencies and develop curricula in multiple art forms.

Henry Street Settlement
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the Abrons Arts Center Dance Ensemble and the Abrons Arts Center Junior Dance Ensemble. Students will study ballet, jazz, hip-hop, tap, salsa, and flamenco, and participate in choreography workshops.

Hmong Cultural Arts, Crafts, Teaching & Museum Projects
Sacramento, CA
$53,000
To support the Hmong Cultural Arts Teaching Project. Local artists will lead year-round, daily after-school classes in pa dao (embroidery), the qeej (free-reed aerophone of bundled bamboo pipes), and folk dance movement in preparation for performances and demonstrations at public festivals and other community events.

Howard County Arts Council, Inc.
Ellicott City, MD
$10,000
To support Head StART in ART. Local professional artists who have experience teaching pre-kindergarten-age children will collaborate with teachers in the Ellicott City Head Start Center and Dasher Green Head Start Center to teach year-round, age-appropriate lessons in visual and performing arts.

Hyde Square Task Force, Inc.
Jamaica Plain, MA
$50,000
To support Ritmo en Acción, an Afro-Latin and contemporary youth dance troupe. With guidance from Boston's HYM Dance Company instructors, a core group of teens will study a variety of Latin and contemporary dances, and will be trained as instructors to teach dance to other students in Hyde Square Task Force after-school and summer programs.

Idaho Commission on the Arts (Consortium)
Boise, ID
$45,000
To support the expansion of the Arts-Powered Schools Summer Teacher Institute. In partnership with the Idaho State Department of Education, the commission will present a five-day summer institute to sustain collaborations of artists and elementary school teachers.

Ifetayo Cultural Arts Facility, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$56,000
To support a dance education program for students in schools in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn. The project includes curriculum-integrated instruction in African and Afro-Brazilian Dance to students in pre-K through third grade.

Indiana Symphony Society, Inc. (aka Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra)
Indianapolis, IN
$60,000
To support the ISO Metropolitan Youth Orchestra. The program includes weekly lessons, rehearsals, adjudications, and performance opportunities for underserved students in Indianapolis.

Inside Out Community Arts, Inc.
Venice, CA
$40,000
To support The School Project, an after-school and weekend theater-based arts program. Middle and high school students from the Los Angeles Unified School District will participate in weekly workshops, a field trip to attend a professional production, Saturday parent and child workshops, and a three-day rehearsal retreat.

Institute for Cultural Partnerships (Consortium)
Harrisburg, PA
$25,000
To support The Art of Many Voices. Students enrolled in the Midtown Learning Center, an inner-city alternative high school in the Harrisburg School District, will study basic ethnographic methodologies, compose personal narratives, and create an original play.

Jefferson Center Foundation, Ltd. (Consortium)
Roanoke, VA
$28,000
To support Sisters of the Circle. In partnership with Virginia Tech's Department of Theatre Arts, the project will bring professional artists together with teenage girls from Roanoke's refugee and immigrant communities to create an interdisciplinary performing arts piece that will be performed for the public.

Jewish Community Center on the Palisades (aka JCC Thurnauer School of Music)
Tenafly, NJ
$18,000
To support the Music Discovery Partnership. The program provides opportunities for musical instruction--including lessons, concerts, and performance opportunities-- for second- to twelfth-grade students in Englewood, New Jersey public schools.

Johns Hopkins University (on behalf of The Peabody Institute)
Baltimore, MD
$48,000
To support Tuned-In, a program that provides disadvantaged teens who are exceptionally musically talented with the opportunity for advanced musical study at the Peabody Preparatory on full scholarship. Activities include lessons, in-school mentoring, field trips, and a summer study program.

Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey, Inc.
Kansas City, MO
$40,000
To support AileyCamp and AileyCamp/The Group dance education programs. AileyCamp is an intensive summer dance program of jazz, tap, modern, and ballet; The Group is a continuation of the summer training and takes place during the school year.

Kimmel Center Inc. (Consortium)
Philadelphia, PA
$60,000
To support Jazz Education Programs. Programs include classes in the history of jazz for middle and high schools, a free two-week summer jazz camp for teens, and a performing youth jazz ensemble for 26 aspiring jazz musicians ages 10 to 14.

Levine School of Music
Washington, DC
$25,000
To support Early Childhood Music. Music educators will provide free, weekly music classes to young children in five underserved neighborhoods in Washington, DC.

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. (on behalf of Lincoln Center Institute)
New York, NY
$70,000
To support the Lincoln Center Institute's Learning Communities Initiative. Music, dance, theater, and visual arts will be integrated into the curriculum of a cluster of New York City public schools.

Literature for All of Us
Evanston, IL
$10,000
To support Books Alive!, a literary arts program. The program will target youth attending alternative schools, GED classes, and after-school programs in underserved Chicago neighborhoods.

Los Angeles County Arts Commission (Consortium)
Los Angeles, CA
$46,000
To support the Arts for All Artists-in-Residence Program. In partnership with the Los Angeles County Office of Education, the project will assist participating school districts countywide to develop artist residencies in music, dance, and visual arts for students in kindergarten through twelfth grades.

Los Angeles Opera Company (aka LA Opera) (Consortium)
Los Angeles, CA
$25,000
To support Education Pathways, an expansion of the LA Opera's professional development program for teachers. In partnership with Urban Educational Partnership, the program will provide three tiers of workshop opportunities on how to integrate opera into the classroom for classroom teachers in the Los Angeles Unified School District.

Los Angeles Philharmonic Association (Consortium)
Los Angeles, CA
$60,000
To support the Elementary School Partners Program. In partnership with the Los Angeles Unified School District, the program includes in-school music residencies and school day concerts for students, and professional development workshops for teachers.

Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center
San Pablo, CA
$56,000
To support the Mockingbird Youth Project. Master artists will teach weekly classes and workshops in Mexican traditional instrumental music, singing, and dance to children ages 4 to 18. The project will culminate with performances of Son Jarocho, African-influenced songs from southern Veracruz with syncopated rhythmic patterns.

Luna Kids Dance
Berkeley, CA
$30,000
To support the Dance Learning Institutes. The professional development project will provide teaching artists and classroom teachers with training to work together to create standards-based, individualized dance lessons and units for students.

MacPhail Center for Music
Minneapolis, MN
$90,000
To support the Music Accessibility Initiative. The program provides  quality music education to children with physical, developmental, and learning disabilities in community partner schools.

Making Books Sing, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support Literature at Play, an in-school musical theater residency and professional development program. Professional teaching artists, playwrights, and lyricist/composers will work with youth to adapt literature into full musical productions.

Mama Foundation for the Arts, Inc. (aka The Mama Foundation)
New York, NY
$25,000
To support Gospel for Teens. Students selected through an audition will learn fundamental vocal techniques, gain knowledge about the historic and cultural context of African American gospel tradition, and perform in public concerts.

Marcus A. Foster Educational Institute
Oakland, CA
$16,000
To support Higher Ground. The Prescott Circus Theatre, a youth ensemble project of the Marcus A. Foster Educational Institute, will place professional artists in residence to provide after-school classes for elementary school students in African stilt dancing.

Marquis Studios, Ltd.
Brooklyn, NY
$30,000
To support the Marquis pARTnership Program. Professional development will be provided for artists and teachers to design and implement arts curricula in New York City schools.

Marwen Foundation, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$35,000
To support the Studio Program, a visual arts education project. Students from underserved public schools will take part in after-school visual arts classes and portfolio development opportunities.

Massachusetts College of Art
Boston, MA
$30,000
To support Summer Studios, an intensive summer visual arts program for high school students. Scholarship opportunities will be expanded to more than 20 underserved youth students in Boston, Lawrence, and Lynn public school districts.

Maui Arts & Cultural Center (Consortium)
Kahului, HI
$45,000
To support Preparing Teachers to Engage Students in Learning through the Arts. In partnership with the State of Hawaii Department of Education, Maui Arts & Cultural Center will coordinate summer institutes and professional development workshops for Maui County teachers during the school year and will coordinate artist residencies.

Merit School of Music
Chicago, IL
$40,000
To support the Preparatory Program. The program will provide students with weekly, after-school instrumental music instruction in strings, woodwinds, brass, percussion, piano, and voice, as well as classes in music theory.

Metropolitan Opera Guild, Inc.
New York, NY
$80,000
To support the Opera Institute. The professional development program will provide training and materials for classroom teachers in 15 schools to prepare them to lead their students in the creation of original musical-dramatic works.

Midwest Young Artists
Highwood, IL
$66,000
To support the orchestral and chamber music programs. Through music theory classes, sectional rehearsals, and performance opportunities, students will learn to read music, play expressively, develop ensemble skills, and demonstrate musicianship.

Minnesota Center for Book Arts
Minneapolis, MN
$25,000
To support By Design, a visual arts mentorship program targeted to underserved teenagers. Professional artists will lead after-school and summer workshops in the art of bookmaking, culminating in an exhibition of student artwork.

Missoula Writing Collaborative
Missoula, MT
$18,000
To support Words Fly!, a writing residency program. The project will place writers in rural, low-income, and/or tribal reservation schools for seven-month weekly writing sessions with students ages 7 to 18.

Mosaic Youth Theater of Detroit
Detroit, MI
$80,000
To support the Youth Ensemble, Intermediate Training Program, and educational outreach programs. Professional actors and teaching artists will provide students with intensive acting, vocal, and technical theater training leading to the creation and performance of an original musical.

Museum of Glass
Tacoma, WA
$64,000
To support Science of Art, a visual arts education program that encourage students to recognize the intersection between scientific exploration and the creative process. Students will identify and apply the processes of observation, rigorous experimentation and problem-solving, and visual literacy in the creation of glass art.

New 42nd Street, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the New Victory Season-Long In-Classroom Residency Program. After experiencing professional productions at the New Victory Theater, residency artists will teach students performing arts techniques from a diverse range of cultures in a series of in-class workshops.

New England Youth Theater
Brattleboro, VT
$28,000
To support technical theater training. The program will expose underserved children in rural Vermont to professional-quality theater production and teach them all aspects of technical theater.

New York Youth Symphony, Inc.
New York, NY
$67,000
To support Making Scores. The project will consist of a series of educational courses designed to introduce aspiring young composers to fundamental principles of musical composition.

Northern Stage Company
White River Junction, VT
$33,000
To support Project Playwright, Kids to Kids-Theater Arts, and Junior Producers. Underserved youth in New Hampshire and Vermont will work with professional artists in all aspects of theater production.

Opera Carolina (Consortium)
Charlotte, NC
$20,000
To support the  Music! Words! Opera! program. Through a partnership between Opera Carolina and Cabarrus County Schools, students will learn about opera by creating an original opera and attending professional opera performances.

Orcas Center
Eastsound, WA
$15,000
To support the K-6 Dance Program. Orcas School District students in kindergarten through sixth grade will receive in-class dance instruction, have the opportunity to perform, and see a high-quality professional dance performance.

Otis Art Institute (aka Otis College of Art and Design)
Los Angeles, CA
$67,000
To support the O TEAM program. The tuition-free, after-school and summer program will provide opportunities for underserved youth to study multiple media and provide professional development for media arts teachers from the Los Angeles Unified School District.

Our Time Theatre Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
To support the Teen Play Project. The theater arts instruction program is targeted to teenagers who stutter . Students will work collaboratively to write and perform a full-length play.

Outside In Productions
Santa Fe, NM
$20,000
To support Youth With Promise in consortium with El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe. The program offers classes in dance, guitar, and visual arts for adjudicated youth while they are incarcerated and after they have been released.

Pacific Northwest Ballet Association (Consortium)
Seattle, WA
$40,000
To support DISCOVER DANCE Consortium. In partnership with Seattle Public Schools, teaching artists will provide dance residencies to students and will partner with classroom teachers to develop and implement a set of dance-infused lesson plans.

Palm Beach County Cultural Council
West Palm Beach, FL
$10,000
To support the Building Learning Communities through the Arts Funding Program. Through a new competitive funding program for cultural organizations managed by the Palm Beach County Cultural Council, organizations and teaching artists will present educational activities based on performances and/or visual arts exhibits to middle school students and their teachers.

Palo Alto Art Center Foundation
Palo Alto, CA
$15,000
To support Cultural Kaleidoscope. Local professional artists teach classes for grades one through five in poetry, ceramics, fiber arts, sculpture, printmaking, and mural painting.

Patricia M. Sitar Center for the Arts (aka Sitar Arts Center)
Washington, DC
$25,000
To support the Instrumental Music Education Project. Professional musicians will provide free after-school instrumental music lessons targeted to inner-city students.

Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County (aka Music Center)
Los Angeles, CA
$80,000
To support the Culver City Arts Integration Partnership. The program features a professional development institute for Culver City Unified School District educators, including third- and fourth-grade teachers, principals, and district leaders, as well as school residencies in dance, led by Madeleine Dahm, and theater, led by Peter Kors.

Perlman Music Program Inc.
New York, NY
$68,000
To support the Summer Music School @ PMP. The program is an intensive six-week residency which provides instruction, coaching, and mentoring opportunities to exceptionally gifted young string players.

Perpich Center for Arts Education
Golden Valley, MN
$18,000
To support the Ojibwa and Dakota Anchoring Curriculum Workshop. Summer professional development workshops for kindergarten to 12th-grade teachers will be built around Native American arts and art-making, featuring NEA National Heritage Fellow Kevin Locke.

Philadelphia Mural Arts Advocates (aka Mural Arts Program)
Philadelphia, PA
$72,000
To support the Mural Arts Program. Activities will include the Big Picture after-school mural-making program for youth, ages 10 to 14, and Mural Corps for students, ages 14 to 21.

Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York, Inc. (aka The New York Philharmonic) (Consortium)
New York, NY
$65,000
To support the New York Philharmonic's School Partnership Program. In partnership with the New York City Department of Education, students in the third through fifth grades will attend workshops led by professionally trained teaching artists.

Pillsbury United Communities (aka Pillsbury House Theatre)
Minneapolis, MN
$20,000
To support the Pillsbury House Theatre's Chicago Avenue Project. Professional playwrights, actors, and directors will work with inner-city children to create theater productions focused on themes relevant to students' lives.

Playwrights Project
San Diego, CA
$23,000
To support Write On! Underserved middle and high school students will work with teaching artists in their classrooms to create original plays - a means also to improve students' reading skills and vocabulary.

Project GRAD Houston
Houston, TX
$20,000
To support City Jazz Kidz and Junior City Jazz Kidz. Students will study jazz weekly during in-school and after-school sessions and in two summer programs.

Project New Urban Arts (aka New Urban Arts)
Providence, RI
$15,000
To support the Youth Mentorship and Artist Mentor Fellowship. During a series of 40 week-long sessions, professional artists will mentor small groups of high school students teaching them sequential, skill-building courses in the visual arts, digital media, creative movement, and poetry.

Project STEP, Inc.
Boston, MA
$72,000
To support the String Training and Educational Program (STEP). The project will prepare gifted African American and Latino children for careers in classical music as soloists, teachers, and orchestra members.

Public Corporation for the Arts of the City of Long Beach (aka Arts Council for Long Beach)
Long Beach, CA
$45,000
To support Eye on Design, a neighborhood public art education program of the Arts Council for Long Beach. Third-grade students will attend field trips to historic houses and view public art in the neighborhood; learn about public art, architecture, and design; and design their own public artworks and build maquettes.

Puget Sound Educational Service District
Renton, WA
$40,000
To support Arts Impact: Artistic Pathways to Learning. Elementary classroom teachers will be trained to provide dance, theater, and visual arts lessons that are implemented across the curriculum of the whole school.

Raw Art Works, Inc. (aka RAW)
Lynn, MA
$20,000
To support Real to Reel, a media arts education project. Underserved teens will learn all aspects of narrative and documentary filmmaking.

Reel Stories Teen Filmmaking, Inc. (aka Reel Works Teen Filmmaking)
Brooklyn, NY
$80,000
To support The Lab, Reel Impact, The Lab Master Class, and Summer Lab. Student teens recruited to participate in free after-school and summer filmmaking workshops will produce and distribute short documentaries about their lives under the mentorship of professional filmmakers.

Renaissance Arts Academy
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
To support the Conservatory. The program will support after-school and summer string ensembles, choirs, and dance classes for middle school students taught by professional performing artists.

ReStart, Inc.
Kansas City, MO
$40,000
To support Arts at ReStart for Children and Youth. Working alongside professional artists, homeless children will participate in multidisciplinary arts workshops.

Revolving Museum, Inc.
Lowell, MA
$40,000
To support Artbotics, a visual arts education program. High school students will explore the intersection between visual arts and computer science through project-based learning and public exhibitions.

River of Words
Berkeley, CA
$24,000
To support teacher training workshops in poetry composition and visual arts. Using a specially designed curriculum, teachers will learn to teach students the crafts of poetry and visual arts based on their observations of the natural environment.

RiverzEdge Arts Project Inc.
Woonsocket, RI
$20,000
To support a studio arts and design apprenticeship program for underserved youth (ages 12 to 19) in northern Rhode Island. Students will work with professional graphic design, painting, digital photography, and silkscreen artists to create art and run an arts enterprise.

Rockford Area Arts Council
Rockford, IL
$15,000
To support ArtsPlace, a youth arts apprenticeship program. Teams of 10 to 15 youth, ages 14 to 19, work under the direction of a professional artist to create public art in a specific discipline and are encouraged to apply this knowledge to their lives.

Rosie's Broadway Kids, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the ACTE II (A Commitment to Excellence) program in musical theater. The program will target exceptionally talented students from low-income families for intensive training in music, dance, and drama.

Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation
New York, NY
$25,000
To support Rush Gallery in the Schools, an after-school visual arts program. Students will have the opportunity to learn about contemporary art, interact with working artists, and create artwork in a variety of media.

Ryman-Carroll Foundation (aka Ryman Arts)
Los Angeles, CA
$67,000
To support Ryman Arts Program, pre-professional studio art classes for high school students. Students from Southern California high schools will receive free college-level studio art classes that focus on the fundamental skills of drawing and painting.

San Diego Opera Association (Consortium)
San Diego, CA
$47,000
To support the Words & Music Program. In partnership with the San Diego Unified School District, the company will provide an in-school opera residency in which students will learn to compose an original opera.

San Francisco Art and Film Program (aka San Francisco Art & Film for Teenagers)
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support the Teen Film Workshop. The project is designed to prepare students for film school and train them for future careers in the film industry.

San Francisco Art Institute
San Francisco, CA
$68,000
To support the  City Studio Programs. Students, ages 13 to 19, will receive free arts instruction on-campus at the San Francisco Art Institute and at various locations in three Bay Area counties.

San Francisco Arts Commission (on behalf of WritersCorp)
San Francisco, CA
$60,000
To support the WritersCorp program. Professional artists will teach creative writing classes targeted toward at-risk youth in underserved public schools. Student work will be published in the WritersCorp annual anthology and its chapbooks.

San Francisco Girls Chorus, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$42,000
To support the Music Education and Outreach Program. The project will provide year-round instruction in choral singing and opportunities for concert performance touring.

San Francisco Symphony (on behalf of San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra)
San Francisco, CA
$44,000
To support the Artist Development Program of the San Francisco Youth Symphony. Designed to complement the youth orchestra's core program of weekly rehearsals and concert performances, the program will provide students with coaching, mentorship, and specialized training in chamber music, instrument care, and auditioning techniques.

Scotia-Glenville Pipe Band, Inc.
Schenectady, NY
$10,000
To support Scotia-Glenville Pipe Band 2009-10 Guest Artist Instructional Workshops. Professional pipers Andrew Douglas, Jack Lee, Donald Lindsay, and Reid Maxwell will lead a series of Scottish piping and drumming workshops and a summer workshop for youth as an adjunct to their regular weekly instruction.

Seattle Arts and Lectures, Inc.
Seattle, WA
$30,000
To support Getting the Word Out. The project will advance student writing through publications, recordings, readings, performances, and collaborations with community partners.

Seattle Opera (Consortium)
Seattle, WA
$50,000
To support Opera Goes to School. In partnership with the Auburn Arts Commission, the program will provide week-long residencies to elementary schools in which Seattle Opera staff, teaching artists, and professional singers teach students about opera.

Seattle Repertory Theatre (Consortium)
Seattle, WA
$45,000
To support Bringing Theater Into the Classroom. In partnership with the Seattle Children's Theatre, the program will provide professional development and follow up classroom residencies in which professional artists and teachers combine theater education and concepts of literacy into their classroom curriculum.

Settlement Music School of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA
$20,000
To support the Advanced Study Program. The tuition-free program provides high school students with pre-professional music training through individual study classes, collaborative efforts with professional musicians and composers, and performance opportunities.

Shakespeare & Company, Inc.
Lenox, MA
$40,000
To support Shakespeare in Action, a theater arts residency program. The series of classroom and after-school sessions will focus on a language-based exploration of a Shakespearean play through master classes, rehearsals, text analysis, and student performances.

Shreveport Regional Arts Council (Consortium)
Shreveport, LA
$40,000
To support Arts in Education Residency: From Tragedy to Triumph, The Great Depression and New Deal in North Louisiana. The 11-week residency will engage middle school students studying Louisiana history to experience the creative process from its roots in research to conceptual development and the creation of a new art work.

Sloss Furnaces Foundation, Inc.
Birmingham, AL
$60,000
To support the Summer Youth Apprenticeship, a visual arts education program. High school students from the Birmingham area will apprentice with professional artists to create cast-metal sculptures.

Snow City Arts Foundation
Chicago, IL
$25,000
To support creative writing, music, and visual arts workshops with professional artists for hospitalized children.

SouthEast Effective Development (aka SEED)
Seattle, WA
$20,000
To support SummerSTAGE and Middle School Theatre Camp, summer theater training programs for youth. Youth will learn all aspects of theater production and create original plays based on Native American themes.

Sphinx Organization, Inc. (Consortium)
Detroit, MI
$50,000
To support the Sphinx Preparatory Music Institute. In partnership with Wayne State University, the program will provide Detroit-area youth with Saturday classes in instrumental performance, music theory, ear training, and music history.

Spy Hop Productions, Inc.
Salt Lake City, UT
$48,000
To support the Youth Documentary Arts Program, a media arts education program. The project will include Reel Stories, a summer documentary filmmaking workshop; Documenting Communities, a year-long exploration of communities; Loud and Clear, a youth-produced radio program; and Pitch-Nic Young Writer/Director, a mentorship program.

Street-Level Youth Media
Chicago, IL
$16,000
To support the Summer Arts Apprenticeship Program. Underserved teens will participate in a video and audio mentorship program with professional media artists.

Studio in a School Association, Inc.
New York, NY
$56,000
To support the Collaborative Community Site, a visual arts education program. Art teachers, classroom teachers, and principals will be given opportunities to observe the curricular, instructional, and administrative strategies in use at PS 255 for implementing the New York City Department of Education's Blueprint for Teaching and Learning in the Visual Arts.

TADA! Theatre and Dance Alliance Inc. (aka TADA! Youth Theater)
New York, NY
$63,000
To support the Musical Theater Writing Residency program. The program will integrate social studies topics with the writing, rehearsal, and performance of an original musical by fourth- and fifth-graders under the tutelage of teaching artists and their regular classroom teachers.

Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz
Washington, DC
$20,000
To support BeBop to Hip-Hop. Professional musicians will introduce students to the latest recording technologies and software and teach students composition, music theory, arranging, improvisation, lyric writing, turntable scratching, and sampling.

Thomas Armour Youth Ballet Inc.
South Miami, FL
$30,000
To support Community Outreach in Satellite Locations. The company will provide year-round classical training in ballet at four locations in Miami-Dade County for 5- to 13-year-old children.

Tucson Symphony Society (aka Tucson Symphony Orchestra)
Tucson, AZ
$17,000
To support the Young Composers Project. Students will learn to compose music for orchestra, culminating in a reading and recording of their newly composed pieces by the Tucson Symphony Chamber Orchestra or the Tucson String Quintet.

University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT
$90,000
To support the Side-by-Side Teacher Training Residency. Students in kindergarten through sixth grades and their teachers will acquire and practice dance skills through in-school residencies and professional development workshops for teachers.

Urban Gateways (aka Centers for Arts Education) (Consortium)
Chicago, IL
$40,000
To support the Cultural Education Project. In partnership with Chicago public schools, a series of professional development activities will bring together classroom teachers and school art specialists to develop curricula that present the visual arts, theater, and music as core classroom subjects. The project also includes artist residencies and classroom teacher-led units during the school year.

Vashon Allied Arts, Inc.
Vashon, WA
$10,000
To support Vashon Artists in Schools. Professional artists who live and work in the island community, and visiting artists who practice ethnic art forms, will collaborate with classroom teachers to design, implement, and evaluate artist residencies in Vashon Island public schools.

Venice Arts In Neighborhoods
Venice, CA
$25,000
To support the expansion of the Art Mentoring Program, which provides free, technologically intensive arts learning in photography, film, and digital arts  to low-income youth, ages 6 to 18.

Virginia Avenue Project
Santa Monica, CA
$25,000
To support the writing and performing programs One-on-One and Playwriting. Area youth will connect with professional artists through activities such as mentoring, theater workshops, a summer camp, and public performances.

VSA arts of Florida (aka Very Special Arts)
Tampa, FL
$20,000
To support Ensuring Access to the Arts for All Students. Artists who are specially trained to work with students with a range of disabilities will teach drama, music, movement, and the visual arts in classroom residencies.

Washington Chu Shan Chinese Opera Institute Inc. (aka Chu Shan Chinese Opera) (Consortium)
Silver Spring, MD
$16,000
To support the Joint Chinese Opera Education of Washington Chu Shan Chinese Opera Institute and Rockville Chinese School. Professional opera actors and teachers will instruct 5- to 18-year-old students in the singing, acting, recitation, and movement of traditional Chinese opera male (sheng) and female (dan) role types, leading to student participation in public performances.

We Tell Stories
Los Angeles, CA
$21,000
To support Open Court Intensive, a theater and literacy residency program. Program components include professional storytelling performances, planning sessions for teachers and teaching artists, workshops for students, professional development for teachers and staff, and culminating student performances.

Wingspan Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the Wingspan Arts Summer Conservatory. The conservatory is divided into two sections, Wingspan Players for younger students in grades six through eight, and Wingspan Ensemble for students with more advanced skills in grades 9 through 12.

WNYC Radio
New York, NY
$54,000
To support Radio Rookies, a media arts education program. Open to young people from across New York City's five boroughs, the program will provide training in all aspects of radio production.

Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts
Vienna, VA
$80,000
To support the Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts. Wolf Trap teaching artists and early childhood classroom teachers will collaborate in training workshops and residencies. Students will benefit from the project through classroom residencies and field trips.

Working Classroom, Inc.
Albuquerque, NM
$40,000
To support the Multicultural Street Conservatory. The project will provide year-round, tuition-free visual arts and theater education to youth ages 12 to 18.

Working Playground, Inc.
New York, NY
$58,000
To support My Medium, My Message. The project will provide foundational design experiences in the fields of animation, film, digital photography, and music production for students at the New Design High School and the Facing History School.

Writers In the Schools
Houston, TX
$34,000
To support Writing Power. Professional writers will provide year-long creative writing workshops for approximately 3,000 students in 90 elementary and middle school classrooms.

Xavier University of Louisiana
New Orleans, LA
$20,000
To support the Mardi Gras Indian Arts Summer School. Native American artists will teach youth the rich history and visual traditions of the Mardi Gras Indian art of masking.

Yale-New Haven Hospital
New Haven, CT
$20,000
To support the Digital Storytelling Project.Staff from the Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital Child Life Arts and Enrichment Program will work with a poet, video artist, photographer, and musician to provide weekly classes to teens living with chronic illness. Students will produce individual digital videos.

Young Aspirations/Young Artists, Inc. (aka YA/YA)
New Orleans, LA
$20,000
To support Living Art, a visual arts youth apprenticeship program. Through commercial art and fine art apprenticeships youth ages 14 to 18 will explore new art forms, improve technical art-related skills, and help rebuild the cultural vitality of post-Katrina New Orleans.

Young Audiences of Maryland, Inc. (Consortium)
Baltimore, MD
$25,000
To support the Teaching Artist Institute. In partnership with Arts Education in Maryland Schools, the project includes a summer seminar, quarterly follow-up workshops, classroom observations, and participation in annual conferences designed to help Maryland teachers and collaborating artists deliver standards-based curriculum to students that enhance learning in the arts and other content areas.

Young Audiences of New Jersey Inc.
Princeton, NJ
$30,000
To support Pixel Nation, a media arts education project. The program is designed to teach underserved teens all aspects of digital and video filmmaking through an interdisciplinary curriculum that emphasizes hands-on learning and art-making.

Young Audiences/New York, Inc.
New York, NY
$56,000
To support visual arts residencies for students attending underserved elementary schools in the Bronx. Teaching artists will lead workshops for students and their classroom teachers.

Young Chicago Authors
Chicago, IL
$40,000
To support Watch the Steps Press, a student writing and publication program. Developed and produced by student editorial boards, the publications will feature creative writing and artwork by youth.

Young People's Chorus of New York City, Inc.
New York, NY
$54,000
To support the Partner Schools Program. Underserved students will participate in after-school choral music education activities, including rehearsals, classes in music theory and harmonic analysis, and performances.

Young Playwrights' Theater, Inc.
Washington, DC
$32,000
To support the In-School Playwriting Program. Teaching artists will provide interactive workshops in which students learn to craft a play using improvisation, writing, editing, rehearsal, and performance.

Youth Ensemble of Atlanta
Atlanta, GA
$40,000
To support the Workshop Training Program. Youth will audition to participate in beginning, intermediate, and advanced-level classes in music, dance, theater, creative writing, and storytelling.

Youth in Focus
Seattle, WA
$38,000
To support the Core Curriculum Photography Classes program. Underserved high school students will work with professional artists during after-school hours and summer months to improve their proficiency in photography.

Youth Radio
Oakland, CA
$60,000
To support the Arts and Culture Initiative. Students will learn from professional radio journalists to plan, research, create, and produce  music journalism, commentaries, and interviews for on-air and online distribution.

YS Kids Playhouse
Yellow Springs, OH
$30,000
To support a summer theater arts program. Led by local, national, and international artists, students will write, produce, and perform two full-scale summer dramatic performances.

Number of Grants: 210          Total Amount: $6,790,000

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