FY 2010 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.

826 Valencia
San Francisco, CA
$28,000
To support writing programs and the publication of student work. Professional artists will teach creative writing to underserved youth in under-performing schools in the Bay Area.

A VOICE
Pablo, MT
$40,000
To support Our Community Record. The project will teach the students on the Flathead Reservation to explore and document their community, culture, and history through storytelling and photographic studies.

AjA Project
San Diego, CA
$40,000
To support the Journey program. The 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.

Alabama Blues Project, Inc.
Northport, AL
$15,000
To support after-school and summer classes in blues music. Professional local blues musicians will teach weekly beginning and advanced classes in blues music performance and history.

Alaska Arts Southeast, Inc. (aka Sitka Fine Arts Camp)
Sitka, AK
$55,000
To support the Sitka Fine Arts Camp. Middle and high school students from throughout Alaska will study Alaskan Native arts, dance, music, theater, writing, and visual arts with professional artists from Alaska and other states at a summer arts camp.

Albany County School District #1
Laramie, WY
$32,000
To support Imagine Learning from the Masters. Professional artists and writers will work with students to create their own art and writing projects in this after-school project.

Alleghany County Schools (aka Junior Appalachian Musicians)
Sparta, NC
$10,000
To support the Junior Appalachian Musicians. The project will provide after-school classes in Appalachian traditional folk music and dance to students in third through eighth grades in Alleghany County, and professional development for the teaching artists.

Apollo Theater Foundation
New York, NY
$15,000
To support The Oral History Project. During a six-week, in-school oral history program, fourth- and fifth-grade students will learn to interview adults in their community to document the rich history of the Apollo Theater as a cultural icon, and interpret what they learn though original storytelling and dramatic presentations.

Appalshop, Inc.
Whitesburg, KY
$76,000
To support the Appalachian Media Institute, a documentary arts film and radio program for high school students. Professional independent filmmakers and media artists will teach students the history, aesthetics, ethics, and practice of documentary media, resulting in the production of documentary films and radio programs.

Architecture Resource Center, Inc.
New Haven, CT
$15,000
To support Design Connections, a design education initiative. Architects, city planners, and museum educators will assist teachers in integrating the design arts into the classroom curriculum.

Arlington Arts Center
Arlington, VA
$20,000
To support the Public Art Learning Project. Middle school students will learn about, respond to, and create public art through site visits and visual arts workshops.

Art Resources in Teaching (aka A.R.T.)
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support the American Art Summer Institute and Elementary Visual Art Residencies. Teachers will work with professional artists to develop art-making skills through lessons in art history, peer critique, and related hands-on art projects.

Art Students League of Denver
Denver, CO
$30,000
To support New Generation of Artists, a series of weekly after-school and summer art camps in the visual arts. Professional artists will serve as faculty and provide one-on-one and class instruction.

Artists for Humanity, Inc.
Boston, MA
$70,000
To support Youth-Run Arts Micro-Enterprise, a visual arts education program. Through paid apprenticeships, underserved youth will receive studio instruction in painting, photography, and web design.

Arts Council for Chautauqua County
Jamestown, NY
$14,000
To support the Jamestown High School Media Arts Project. Media arts educators will provide instruction in filmmaking, recording, broadcasting, and digital design to high school students throughout the school year.

Arts for All, Inc. (aka Third St. Kids)
Tucson, AZ
$40,000
To support Out-of-School Time Arts Classes by the Third St. Kids. Daily classes in dance, drama, music, visual art, and ceramics will be taught by artists with and without disabilities.

Arts Horizons, Inc.
Englewood, NJ
$26,000
To support the Special Education Artists Academy. Teachers for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder in New York City District 75 Special Education Services, as well as three public schools in the Bronx, Manhattan, and Queens, will be trained to teach music, dance, and theater and will then partner with artists in their classrooms.

ArtStart
St. Paul, MN
$18,000
To support Gathering at the River, a visual arts residency. Professional artists will work with classroom teachers to integrate visual arts and science studies to increase students' knowledge about the intersections among art, culture, and the environment using the Mississippi River as a focus.

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 music training, with an emphasis on increased performance skills.

Asian Americans United, Inc. (Consortium)
Philadelphia, PA
$21,000
To support the Folk Arts Education Program. In consortium with the Philadelphia Chinese Opera Society, the project will provide artist residencies, folk arts educational resources, and professional development for educators.

Atlanta Ballet, Inc. (Consortium)
Atlanta, GA
$18,000
To support the Centre Dance program. Planned in partnership with Fulton County Public Schools, professional dance educators will provide weekly in-school and after-school dance instruction to kindergarten through fifth-grade students.

Atlanta Shakespeare Company (aka The New American Shakespeare Tavern)
Atlanta, GA
$30,000
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 Chamber Music Center
Austin, TX
$50,000
To support year-round chamber music instruction for students ages 5 to 19. Professional musicians will provide chamber music coaching, teach music theory and composition classes, and conduct master classes.

Austin Classical Guitar Society
Austin, TX
$44,000
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.

Bardavon 1869 Opera House, Inc. (Consortium)
Poughkeepsie, NY
$17,000
To support the Young Playwrights Festival Program. In partnership with Poughkeepsie City School District, the project will place playwright Casey Kurti and actor Geordarna Poulten in 10-week residencies for sixth-graders in four schools, culminating in performances by professional actors of plays written by the students.

Barrel of Monkeys Productions
Chicago, IL
$18,000
To support in-school and after-school literature and theater residency programs. Creative writing and drama residencies will take place in underserved Chicago public schools for third- through sixth-grade students.

Barry University
Miami Shores, FL
$35,000
To support the Carnival Arts program. Local artists will conduct a series of workshops in traditional carnival arts from Brazil, Cuba, Haiti, Trinidad, Colombia, Italy, West Africa, and New Orleans for teen residents in the Florida Network of Youth and Family Services' youth crisis shelters.

Berkshire Arts and Technology Charter Public School (aka BArT Charter Public School)
Adams, MA
$25,000
To support Arts Across the Curriculum. Through residencies, workshops, and other professional development activities, middle and high school students will be involved in rigorous arts learning, while teachers simultaneously address learning standards in social studies and science.

Bluepalm: Art and Culture Education
Los Angeles, CA
$14,000
To support the professional development component of the dance program in Bluepalm's Charter Arts Initiative. Classroom teachers at four charter schools will work with dance teaching artists to create and deliver standards-based dance lessons in their classrooms.

Boston Children's Chorus, Inc.
Boston, MA
$17,000
To support the Seeds to Song project. A new choir, Choral Union, will be created and will provide weekly music training to a diverse group of middle and high school students who possess vocal talent but little or no training in music theory.

Boston University
Boston, MA
$80,000
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 for 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.

Bronx Museum of the Arts
Bronx, NY
$30,000
To support the Teen Council. Students will receive training in media arts to produce a series of visual works, podcasts, and DVDs.

BuildaBridge International
Philadelphia, PA
$20,000
To support the Discovery Program. Philadelphia-based professionals practicing visual arts, dance, drama, creative writing, and culinary arts will be trained to teach children of a variety of ages, backgrounds, capabilities, and experiences who live in transitional homes and homeless shelters.

Caldera (aka Camp Caldera)
Portland, OR
$50,000
To support Art & Design, a visual arts education program. Students will learn basic principles of design and then implement the principles in a variety of graphic design projects including product design, fashion design, advertising, magazine layout, and architecture.

Cathedral Arts Projects Inc
Jacksonville, FL
$17,000
To support Changing Young Lives Through the Arts. Every week of the school year, Duval County Public School students will receive two afternoons of instruction in dance, music, and visual arts from teaching artists who serve as mentors.

Center for Arts Education
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the School Arts Support Initiative. Teaching artists in underserved New York City middle schools will design and lead a series of classroom lessons that will integrate the imparting of artistic skills and techniques, the study of representative works of art, and the creation or performance of original work in one or more artistic domains.

Center for Hmong Arts & Talent (aka CHAT)
Saint Paul, MN
$15,000
To support Art Saves Us. Hmong mentoring artists will provide after-school and summer instruction in break dancing, choral singing, drama, creative writing, drawing, painting, video making, music production, and puppetry.

Center for the Art of Translation (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
To support Poetry Inside Out. In partnership with the Teachers and Writers Collaborative, the program will introduce bilingual students, ages 8 to 18, to Spanish literature with the goal of increasing language proficiency in both English and Spanish through literary translation.

Center for World Music (aka Center for World Music and Related Arts)
El Cajon, CA
$50,000
To support the World Music Performance for Children program. Skilled artists of varied cultural backgrounds will teach living folk and traditional music, dance, and storytelling of Africa, India, Indonesia, and Iran through direct experience, exploration, and participation to elementary, middle, and high school students in San Diego and Orange counties.

Changing Worlds
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support Literacy and Cultural Connections. Teaching artists in collaboration with literacy specialists and classroom teachers will provide weekly arts residencies in Chicago Public School students in second to eighth grade.

Chicago Public Art Group
Chicago, IL
$24,000
To support the City as Site: North and South Lawndale Project. Youth will work with professional artists to create a series of temporary public art projects in the Little Village and North Lawndale neighborhoods of Chicago's West Side.

Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra
Chicago, IL
$40,000
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.

Children's Media Project
Poughkeepsie, NY
$34,000
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
New York, NY
$29,000
To support Building Character Onstage. Youth will participate in the creation, production, and performance of plays and musicals that reflect and explore diverse racial, ethnic, and religious communities.

Children's Theatre Company and School (Consortium)
Minneapolis, MN
$42,000
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.

Choralis Foundation
Falls Church, VA
$12,000
To support the 2010 Choralis Summer Choral Festival (Summerfest), an intensive, week-long choral instruction program for teens. Students will participate in individual and group instruction in choral literature and history, music theory and sight singing, and have the opportunity to perform a master choral work.

Circus Day Foundation (aka Circus Harmony)
Florissant, MO
$24,000
To support Circus Harmony, a theatrical circus arts program. Working with professional circus educators, choreographers, costume designers, and musicians, youth will learn theatrical circus skills and perform for the public.

City of Atlanta Bureau of Cultural Affairs
Atlanta, GA
$29,000
To support ARTSCooL, a summer arts employment program. During a two-month period, high school students will research, study, perform, and exhibit works of art that they create with guidance from professional artists.

City of San Fernando, California
San Fernando, CA
$38,000
To support the Mariachi Master Apprentice Program. Led by Mariachi los Camperos, the City of San Fernando Department of Recreation and Community Services will hold weekly sequential, advanced-level mariachi classes in evening hours for youth, ages 10 to 18 to prepare the young musicians for performances and mariachi conferences.

City of Santa Fe, New Mexico (aka City of Santa Fe Arts Commission)
Santa Fe, NM
$40,000
To support the City of Santa Fe Arts Commission's ArtWorks. The program provides professional development in aesthetic education for elementary school teachers, school staff, and teaching artists, resulting in arts lesson plans that will be implemented during the school year.

City of Springfield, MA, Public School District
Springfield, MA
$30,000
To support Springfield Public School's Explorations in Latin Cultures. Teaching artists will collaborate with classroom teachers to incorporate Puerto Rican and Mexican visual arts, dance, and music into the first- through eighth-grade curriculum at Zanetti Montessori School.

Cleveland Play House
Cleveland, OH
$17,000
To support Full Contact: Center Stage Schools. Staff and teaching artists will work with diverse high school students to build theater skills and create original plays.

COCA - Center of Creative Arts
St. Louis, MO
$36,000
To support the Dance Outreach and Pre-Professional Dance Programs. The activities will provide year-long residencies in elementary schools and intensive dance training for low-income students.

Columbia College Chicago (on behalf of Center for Community Arts Partnerships)
Chicago, IL
$38,000
To support Raw Voices: Youth Document Their World at the Center for Community Arts Partnerships. Columbia College Chicago faculty and professional teaching artists will teach students to produce a variety of media arts projects.

Columbia College Chicago (on behalf of Museum of Contemporary Photography)
Chicago, IL
$24,000
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 digital as well as fully manual 35-millimeter cameras to document their lives, homes, and communities.

Community Music Center
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support the Young Musicians Programs. Middle and high school students will participate in weekly instrumental music classes, individual private lessons, guest artist workshops, and have opportunities for performance.

Community Television Network
Chicago, IL
$38,000
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 Works West, Inc.
Berkeley, CA
$15,000
To support Integrated Arts for Incarcerated Youth. The project will provide an integrated visual arts and language arts curriculum at Buena Vista School, the educational facility serving incarcerated youth at the Alameda County Juvenile Justice Center.

Community-Word Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$45,000
To support artist residencies in creative writing. Teams of teaching artists, in collaboration with classroom teachers, will work with students, ages 7 to 17, attending underserved schools to develop creative writing skills.

Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
New York, NY
$90,000
To support the Saturday Outreach Program. The project will provide underserved New York City high school students 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
$55,000
To support the Objects and Their Makers: New Insights (OMNI) program at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art. OMNI will offer grade- and culture-specific learning units including classroom instruction by museum staff, museum visits, a teacher institute, and artist-led workshops focused on the arts of Africa, China, Japan, Tibet, Southeast Asia, pre-Columbian art, and Native American art.

Coronado Unified School District
Coronado, CA
$13,000
To support the Collaborative Arts Project. Professional artists will lead workshops for students (grades 9 to 12) that will result in the presentation of student work in coordination with the installation of Peter Terezakis's work Sacred Sky, Sacred Earth on the beach in Coronado.

Country Music Foundation, Inc. (aka Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum)
Nashville, TN
$35,000
To support the Words & Music Songwriting Outreach Program of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. Students in grades 3 through 12 will learn to write song lyrics in their classrooms using a specially developed curriculum and will work with professional Nashville songwriters to refine writing and set the words to music.

Dance St. Louis (Consortium)
St. Louis, MO
$16,000
To support the Extended Residency dance program. In partnership with St. Louis Public Schools, professional dancers from Giordano Jazz Dance Chicago and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater will conduct three-week residencies in seven schools and community centers.

Dance Theatre Etcetera, Inc. (Consortium)
Brooklyn, NY
$32,000
To support Art for At-Risk Youth. With Good Shepherds Services Dance Theatre Etcetera, the project will provide in-school and after-school arts courses and workshops in visual arts, theater, poetry, and filmmaking at three Brooklyn high schools that specialize in serving chronically truant youth.

Dancewave, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$28,000
To support Kids Company, a program in which teens train with emerging American choreographers. Designed to provide a solid foundation in dance technique and choreographic styles, students train for approximately 14 weeks with each guest artist.

Dancing Crane, Inc. (aka Dancing Crane Georgian Dance Theater)
Warwick, NY
$20,000
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.

Detroit Symphony Orchestra Hall (Consortium)
Detroit, MI
$70,000
To support the Power of Dreams String Music Project. In partnership with Wayne State University, the program offers group string lessons and performance opportunities to elementary-aged students, taught by qualified music education students from Wayne State University.

District 75/New York City Department of Education
New York, NY
$14,000
To support the PS 37R Arts Academy. Marquis Studios teaching artists working closely with classroom teachers and other school staff will lead visual arts and creative movement residencies in four classrooms of children who have autism spectrum disorders (ASD).

Drawing Studio, Inc.
Tucson, AZ
$17,000
To support The Art of Summer, a visual arts program for youth and teens. The program will introduce students ages 9 to 18 in the metropolitan Tucson area to the role studio art practice plays in the development of visual intelligence.

Dreams of Wilmington, Inc. (aka DREAMS Center for Arts Education)
Wilmington, NC
$10,000
To support Then and Now: Exploring Traditional and Contemporary Folk Art in the Carolinas. Led by professional teaching artists, students will learn traditional art forms that evolved across the Carolinas.

DreamYard Drama Project, Inc.
Bronx, NY
$37,000
To support the DreamYard Out of School Programs for Teens. Professional artists will mentor Bronx middle and high school students to develop skills in poetry, theater, dance, and visual arts and prepare them for culminating exhibitions and performances.

Dynamic Forms, Inc. (aka Mark DeGarmo & Dancers)
New York, NY
$11,000
To support Partnerships in Literacy Through Dance and Creativity. Teaching artists will partner with classroom teachers in Lower Manhattan to help students develop dance and literacy skills.

Each One Reach One
South San Francisco, CA
$17,000
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 youth to create and develop original, one-act plays.

El Paso Symphony Orchestra Association, Inc.
El Paso, TX
$33,000
To support the El Paso Symphony Youth Orchestra programs. The project includes yearly auditions, weekly rehearsals, master classes, and quarterly concerts for students in eight performing ensembles.

El Puente de Williamsburg, Inc. (Consortium)
Brooklyn, NY
$20,000
To support the El Puente Summer Arts Camp. With partnering organization Teatro Circulo, Ltd., the summer camp will provide pre-professional, technical training in dance, drama, and visual arts.

El Puente de Williamsburg, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$45,000
To support Educational Opportunity in the Arts. The project will implement the Integrated Arts Project model curricula integrating academic and artistic disciplines at two New York City public high schools, the El Puente Academy and the Academy for Young Writers.

Elaine Kaufman Cultural Center/Lucy Moses School for Music and Dance (aka Music Program of Special Music School/Merkin)
New York, NY
$67,000
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 to students in a school for musically gifted children in New York City.

EmilyAnn Theatre, Inc. (aka The EmilyAnn Theatre & Gardens)
Wimberley, TX
$25,000
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
$32,000
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.

Estill County Board of Education
Irvine, KY
$10,000
To support artist residencies and professional development for teachers. Kindergarten through eighth-grade students will participate in a series of residencies with Appalachian writers, musicians, and visual artists.

Fairfax County Public Schools
Falls Church, VA
$35,000
To support Voices of Now. Professional teaching artists from Washington, DC-based Arena Stage will work with middle school youth in a year-long theater arts after-school program in which students will learn about theater, playwriting, and performance.

Firebird Youth Chinese Orchestra
San Jose, CA
$44,000
To support Learning Compositions by Peng Xiuwen. Professional traditional Chinese musicians will teach youth through classes and ensembles to perform compositions by Peng Xiuwen (1931-96).

Flint Institute of Arts
Flint, MI
$15,000
To support ARTreach, a visual arts education program. Institute staff and classroom educators will create arts learning activities integrating a studio component organized around major themes explored in the core curriculum to strengthen literacy.

Focus: HOPE
Detroit, MI
$30,000
To support the Excel Photography Program. High school students will learn technical and artistic photographic skills from professional photographers.

Fort Worth Independent School District
Fort Worth, TX
$30,000
To support Wall Visions. Professional artists and classroom teachers will collaborate to teach one team of students public art through the planning, design, and painting of three public murals, while another team learns documentary filmmaking and records the process.

Friends of NORD, Inc. (aka NORD/NOBA Center For Dance)
New Orleans, LA
$25,000
To support free, year-long dance training at the NORD/NOBA Center for Dance. The company will offer instruction in a summer intensive session as well as weekly classes in fall and spring semesters.

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)
Moorhead, MN
$30,000
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.

Gabriella Axelrad Education Foundation (aka "everybody dance!")
Los Angeles, CA
$25,000
To support everybody dance! The project will provide year-long, weekly dance instruction and master classes in jazz, tap, ballroom, creative movement, and modern dance to Gabriella Charter School students.

Genesee Street Corporation (aka Genesee Center for the Arts & Education)
Rochester, NY
$30,000
To support the Urban Youth Arts Education photography program at the Genessee Center for the Arts & Education. Mentored by professional photographers, students will learn about and practice the art of photography, reflect on their work and the work of others, and express their own creative vision by making and displaying their own work.

Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
Santa Fe, NM
$23,000
To support the Art and Leadership Program for Girls and Boys. Teaching artists will work with youth in Santa Fe and northern New Mexico to learn to create art using a variety of techniques and engage in discussion workshops providing a secure base for self-expression on themes of culture, identity, and body image.

Glen Ellyn Children's Chorus (aka Anima)
Glen Ellyn, IL
$51,000
To support the Ensemble Program and Honors Chorus Workshop. Year-round choral ensembles at various skill levels will serve as a basis for sequential music education of chorus members.

Global Kids, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
To support the Undesirable Elements theater project. Led by professional artists, high school students will study music, poetry, dance, and storytelling to create and perform an original theater work.

Grand Canyon Chamber Music Festival
Grand Canyon, AZ
$27,000
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 on tour to reservation schools.

Grand Forks Public School District 1 (aka Summer Performing Arts/SPA)
Grand Forks, ND
$15,000
To support the Summer Performing Arts Program. Under the guidance of professional artists and teachers, students will work on all aspects of a musical theater production.

Groundswell Community Mural Project, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$50,000
To support the Summer Leadership Institute. Teens will work under the tutelage of professional artists to create large-scale works of public art in New York City neighborhoods.

HartBeat Ensemble
Hartford, CT
$17,000
To support the Youth Play Institute. Urban and suburban high school students will participate in month-long, after-school play-building residencies taught by working theater professionals.

Henry Street Settlement (aka Henry Street Settlement/Abrons ArtsCenter)
New York, NY
$20,000
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 a 16-week choreography workshop.

Hernandez Mariachi Heritage Society (aka Mariachi Heritage Society)
South El Monte, CA
$30,000
To support after-school mariachi music instruction for students in Los Angeles taught by members of Mariachi Sol. Students, from beginners to advanced, will learn to sing, play their chosen instruments, and perform in public through standards-based curriculum.

Hmong Cultural Arts, Crafts, Teaching & Museum Projects
Sacramento, CA
$30,000
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
$12,000
To support Head StART in ART. Building on an ongoing partnership with Head Start programs, up to six teaching artists will conduct residencies in visual and performing arts at two Head Start centers.

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Inc. (Consortium)
Chicago, IL
$49,000
To support the Movement as Partnership program. With Oak Park District 97, the dance company will conduct 10-week dance residencies at elementary schools, including dance sessions for students, professional development workshops for teachers, and in-school performances by professional dancers.

Idaho Commission on the Arts (Consortium)
Boise, ID
$40,000
To support the Arts Powered Schools Teachers Institute 2010. With the Idaho State Department of Education, the institute will offer a week-long residential professional opportunity designed to immerse educators in strategies for teaching and learning through the arts.

Ifetayo Cultural Arts Facility, Inc. (aka Ifetayo Cultural Arts Academy)
Brooklyn, NY
$36,000
To support a dance education program for students in two schools in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn. The project includes 16 weeks of instructing teaching artists in African and Afro-Brazilian dance to students in pre-kindergarten through third grade.

IndepenDANCE, Inc. (aka Moving in the Spirit)
Atlanta, GA
$15,000
To support Moving in the Spirit's Stepping Stones dance program. Professional dance instructors will teach weekly, after-school dance classes and will provide leadership training for students at community sites around the Atlanta region.

Inside Out Community Arts, Inc.
Venice, CA
$38,000
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.

InsideOut Literary Arts Project, Inc.
Detroit, MI
$28,000
To support the Voices High School Literary Expansion program. Teams of two writers-in-residence will visit Detroit public high schools to present a literature program to enhance the schools' curriculum throughout the school year.

Institute for Cultural Partnerships (Consortium)
Harrisburg, PA
$20,000
To support The Art of Many Voices. Students enrolled in Midtown Learning Center, an inner-city alternative high school of the partnering Harrisburg School District, will study basic ethnographic methodologies, compose personal narratives, and create an original play.

Interlochen Center for the Arts
Interlochen, MI
$45,000
To support Guest Artist-Faculty in Residence. Guest artist master classes, seminars, and lectures in creative writing, dance, motion picture arts, music, theater arts, and visual arts will be offered for students (ages 8 to 18) enrolled in the summer arts camp and year-round arts academy.

Japan Society, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$15,000
To support Responding to, a visual arts education program. In partnership with the Smithtown School District, the project will pair two culturally and socio-economically disparate student groups for community-building through the study of Japanese art, art history, and culture.

Junior Appalachian Musicians, Inc
North Wilkesboro, NC
$23,000
To support professional development and support services to bluegrass and old-time music and dance teaching instructors. Through workshops, consultations, and web-based resources, the Junior Appalachian Musicians (JAM) Support Center will support musicians and staff members in three states.

Junior Players Guild
Dallas, TX
$10,000
To support the Discover Theater Camps and Discover Shakespeare Camp, free summer theater education programs for youth, ages 7 to 18. The programs include theater camps, a Shakespeare camp, and a full production of a Shakespeare play produced in cooperation with Shakespeare Dallas.

Just Buffalo Literary Center, Inc. (Consortium)
Buffalo, NY
$33,000
To support Soundscapes. With the Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Art, artists will teach visual, literary, and sound art to seventh-grade students in two Buffalo public schools.

Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra
Kalamazoo, MI
$30,000
To support education and community programs. The program is designed to offer a menu of opportunities in which the orchestra's musicians will provide a range of music learning experiences for community and school partners, tailored to meet the needs of each partner

Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey, Inc.
Kansas City, MO
$20,000
To support AileyCamp and AileyCamp/The Group. AileyCamp is an intensive summer dance program of jazz, tap, modern, and ballet; The Group is a continuation of the summer training that takes place during the school year.

Kid Serve Youth Murals
San Francisco, CA
$8,000
To support mural arts residencies. Professional artists will guide youth through the process of designing and creating three permanent outdoor mosaic murals in their communities.

Latino Arts, Inc.
Milwaukee, WI
$18,000
To support the Latino Arts Strings and Mariachi Juvenil programs. Students will receive sequential, skills-based individual and small-group lessons and perform in mariachi bands, a youth orchestra, and guitar ensembles.

Lawrence Children's Choir, Inc.
Lawrence, KS
$8,000
To support the Cadenza choir. First- through third-grade choral students will attend weekly rehearsals, learning musical concepts and performance techniques such as singing with accurate pitch, dynamics, and phrasing.

Learning By Design in Massachusetts, Inc.
Boston, MA
$60,000
To support Architecture: Learning by Design. Using Boston architecture as a basis for observation and study, a core group of teachers and designers will plan and execute a series of professional development workshops for kindergarten through eighth-grade teachers from underserved area schools.

Levine School of Music
Washington, DC
$28,000
To support the Early Childhood Music program. Music educators will provide free, weekly music classes to young children in underserved neighborhoods in Washington, DC.

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. (on behalf of Lincoln Center Institute for the Arts and Education)
New York, NY
$70,000
To support Lincoln Center Institute for the Arts in Education's Focus Schools Collaborative. 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
$28,000
To support Books Alive!, a literary arts program. The project will target youth attending alternative schools, General Equivalency Degree (GED) classes, and after-school programs in underserved Chicago neighborhoods.

Littleton Children's Chorale (aka Young Voices of Colorado)
Littleton, CO
$10,000
To support vocal music education programs. Young singers in the Traditional Education Program will learn choral music in one of five levels of performing ensembles. The Outreach Programs will provide scholarships for students, clinics for music teachers, a student honor choir, and a boys choir.

Los Angeles County Arts Commission (Consortium)
Los Angeles, CA
$50,000
To support the Arts for All Artists-in-Residence Program. In partnership with the Los Angeles County Office of Education, the project will assist 34 school districts county-wide to develop and implement artist residencies in music, dance, and visual arts for students in kindergarten through 12th grade.

Los Angeles Philharmonic Association (Consortium)
Los Angeles, CA
$40,000
To support Youth Orchestra LA. In partnership with the City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks, the program promotes healthy communities by providing free music instruments, after-school music instruction, and ensemble performance opportunities to students in the Los Angeles area.

Louisville Orchestra, Inc. (Consortium)
Louisville, KY
$20,000
To support Changing Education Through Music Integration. In partnership with the Kentucky Center for the Arts, teaching artists, music specialists, and elementary classroom teachers will participate in year-round professional development learning to integrate music throughout the school curriculum.

Luna Kids Dance
Berkeley, CA
$33,000
To support the Dance Learning Institutes. The project includes summer professional development in teaching dance for artists and teachers followed by periodic workshops and meetings during the school year.

Madison Cultural Arts District (aka Overture Center for the Arts)
Madison, WI
$35,000
To support Overture Center for the Arts' Arts Education Initiative - Phase 2 Implementation. After-school and in-school artist residencies will be offered for sixth-grade students enrolled in the Madison Metropolitan School District.

Marquis Studios, Ltd.
Brooklyn, NY
$36,000
To support the Marquis pARTnership Program. Professional development will be provided for artists and teachers to design and implement arts curriculum in New York City schools.

Marwen Foundation, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$60,000
To support the Marwen Studio Program. Professional visual artists will design and teach courses in painting, drawing, photography, three-dimensional design, video, animation, and mixed-media arts.

Maryland State Department of Education (Consortium)
Baltimore, MD
$40,000
To support the Fine Arts Summer Camp for Maryland's Gifted and Talented Students. Middle and high school students from around the state will audition to study with artists in a residential setting on the campus of project partner Salisbury University.

Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Boston, MA
$42,000
To support Summer Studios, an intensive summer visual arts program. Scholarship opportunities will be expanded to nearly 25 underserved youth in the Boston, Lawrence, and Lynn Public School Districts in Massachusetts.

Matrix Theatre Company
Detroit, MI
$27,000
To support the Matrix School of Theater. The year-long theater training program serves youth, ages 5 to 18, in the areas of playwriting, puppetry, and performance.

Maui Arts & Cultural Center (Consortium)
Kahului, HI
$35,000
To support The Art of Partnerships: Arts Integration Collaboration. With the Hawaii Department of Education (Maui District), the project will provide professional development for teachers, artists, and principals and support arts residencies in public schools that integrate Hawaiian storytelling, drama, dance, visual arts, and creative writing across the curriculum.

Metropolitan Opera Guild, Inc.
New York, NY
$51,000
To support the Dissemination of Opera Institute Practice. Two Guild-trained artist resource consultants will provide workshops with five Los Angeles Opera teaching artists, building the capacity of the Los Angeles Opera to support classroom teachers in arts learning.

Mexican Heritage Corporation (aka Mexican Heritage Plaza) (Consortium)
San Jose, CA
$21,000
To support the Mariachi Youth Program. Students in the San Jose Unified School District will learn to play the violin, trumpet, guitar, vihuela, or guitarron, from professional mariachi musicians.

Midwest Young Artists
Highwood, IL
$55,000
To support 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.

Mill Street Loft, Inc.
Poughkeepsie, NY
$27,000
To support the Art Institute of Mill Street Loft summer arts education programs. Professional teaching artists will lead after-school, evening, and full-time summer programs focused on portfolio development in the visual arts for teens.

Minneapolis College of Art and Design
Minneapolis, MN
$42,000
To support the Summer Expressions Sessions. The intensive residential pre-college program provides students with opportunities to elect majors in animation, graphic design, painting, photography, and video.

Mobile Symphony, Inc.
Mobile, AL
$26,000
To support Preludes, a strings instruction program. Mobile Symphony musicians will teach weekly strings classes and perform chamber music concerts for students in ten Mobile area elementary schools.

Mosaic Youth Theater of Detroit
Detroit, MI
$78,000
To support the Main Stage Training Program. 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.

Motion Media Arts Center (aka Austin School of Film @ Motion Media Arts Cen)
Austin, TX
$37,000
To support the Center for Young Cinema Program. With guidance from professional media artists, students will learn all aspects of filmmaking and will create, present, and distribute their work.

Mount Wachusett Community College Foundation, Inc.
Gardner, MA
$8,000
To support the High School Arts Collaborative Project. Art teachers from rural central Massachusetts will receive free hands-on instruction from professional artists in visual arts methods, techniques, and media.

Music Theatre Workshop
Chicago, IL
$14,000
To support Teens Together. Students will learn playwriting and performance skills in a year-round series of Saturday and summer programs.

Musicopia, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$30,000
To support Exploring Ourselves and Our Cultures. Professional teaching artists will provide long-term music residencies to students focusing on music that reflects their culture, and provide professional development sessions in music integration for 100 academic and music teachers.

Nashville Symphony Association (Consortium)
Nashville, TN
$40,000
To support the Pearl-Cohn Initiative. In partnership with the W.O. Smith/Nashville Community School, the program provides private lessons, master classes, musical instruments, travel subsidies to and from music lessons and concert events, and performances by professional musicians to students at Pearl-Cohn Cluster schools.

National Dance Institute New Mexico (aka NDI-NM)
Santa Fe, NM
$50,000
To support the Dancing to Excellence: Albuquerque Program. Students attending Albuquerque public elementary schools will receive weekly, in-school and after-school dance classes and will perform in a culminating performance at the end of the year.

National Dance Institute, Inc. (aka NDI)
New York, NY
$55,000
To support the Advanced Scholarship Program. Licensed dance instructors will provide year-long, sequential dance training to advanced and motivated students, culminating in dance performances featuring choreography by Jacques d'Amboise and other NDI master teachers.

New 42nd Street, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$35,000
To support the New Victory in the Classroom Residency Program. Designed and implemented in partnership with New York City Department of Education School District 15, the residency program allows students to experience professional productions at the New Victory Theater, after which residency artists teach performing arts techniques from a diverse range of cultures in a series of in-class workshops.

New England Dinosaur, Inc. (aka MICHAEL MAO DANCE)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support ESLdance: Learning English Through Dance, a 10-week dance program aimed at immigrant youth. Teaching artists from Michael Mao Dance teach students American Modern Dance and use movement to illustrate the structure of spoken American English.

New England Youth Theater
Brattleboro, VT
$30,000
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
$80,000
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.

Northern Kentucky University Research Foundation
Highland Heights, KY
$48,000
To support the African Art Institute for Teachers. The project will present a nine-day institute at Northern Kentucky University for Kentucky art teachers and art educators, and will repeat the program at Hutchinson Community College in Kansas.

Oakland East Bay Symphony (Consortium)
Oakland, CA
$18,000
To support MUSic for Excellence (MUSE). In partnership with the Oakland Unified School District, professional musicians of the symphony will provide mentoring and music instruction as well as instrumental music clinics to students.

Ordway Center for the Performing Arts (Consortium)
Saint Paul, MN
$5,000
To support Dance to Learn. In partnership with St. Paul Public Schools, kindergarten through eighth-grade teachers will participate in professional development in which they will collaborate with teaching artists to design integrative learning experiences through dance.

Our Piece of the Pie, Inc.
Hartford, CT
$30,000
To support the Journey of the Heartwood. Students will participate in one of two programs to learn traditional skills in boat-building or folk instrument-making. Boatwrights and instrument makers will teach students in traditional methods the cultural contexts of the objects they will learn to craft.

Our Time Theatre Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
To support the Teen Play Program. The theater arts instruction project is targeted to teenagers who stutter. Led by professional theater artists, students will meet weekly for nine months to study the structure of playwriting and the importance of theme, and develop vocal strength and breath support through singing exercises.

Outside In Productions (Consortium)
Santa Fe, NM
$20,000
To support Youth With Promise. In partnership with El Museo Cultural de Santa Fe, the program will offer classes in dance, guitar, and visual arts for adjudicated youth.

Pacific Northwest Ballet Association (Consortium)
Seattle, WA
$51,000
To support the DISCOVER DANCE Consortium. In partnership with Seattle Public Schools, teaching artists will provide dance residencies to students in approximately eight area schools and will partner with classroom teachers to develop and implement a set of dance-infused lesson plans.

Partners for Youth with Disabilities, Inc.
Boston, MA
$50,000
To support Access to Theatre. Youth (ages 13 to 24) with and without disabilities will learn from artists in after-school and summer performing arts drama, prose and poetry, visual arts, and music programs, workshops, and leadership opportunities.

Pasadena Unified School District
Pasadena, CA
$70,000
To support My Masterpieces: Discovering Art in My Community. Through the collaboration of multiple Pasadena museums and cultural institutions, a sequential and comprehensive arts curriculum integrating classroom instruction with field trips will be available for students and teachers in the Pasadena Unified School District.

Pensacola Opera, Inc. (Consortium)
Pensacola, FL
$20,000
To support From Words to Music, an in-school project in which students produce an opera. In partnership with the School District of Escambia County, students learn to write, compose, design, produce, and perform their own operas based on a text that they study in the classroom.

Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County (aka Music Center)
Los Angeles, CA
$60,000
To support the Arts Integration Partnership. Music Center artists will lead professional development to build capacity for sequential, integrated arts instruction for Culver City Unified School District elementary and middle school teachers, principals, and district leadership.

Performing Arts Workshop, Inc. (aka The Workshop)
San Francisco, CA
$26,000
To support the Artists-in-Schools program. Professional artists will provide standards-aligned learning opportunities in creative movement, theater arts, creative writing, world dance, and music to youth in schools and child development centers.

Perlman Music Program, Inc.
New York, NY
$75,000
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.

Philadelphia Mural Arts Advocates (aka Philadelphia Mural Arts Program)
Philadelphia, PA
$74,000
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.

Philadelphia Young Playwrights
Philadelphia, PA
$36,000
To support the Classics Program. Students will enhance their playwriting skills and deepen their understanding of theater through interactions with professional artists, trips to see professional theater, and intensive writing workshops.

Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York, Inc. (aka The New York Philharmonic) (Consortium)
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the New York Philharmonic's School Partnership Program. In partnership with the New York City Department of Education, teaching artists will provide weekly in-school workshops in orchestral music, recorder instruction, composition, and recital preparation for students, as well as professional development workshops for teachers.

Pillsbury United Communities (aka Pillsbury House Theatre)
Minneapolis, MN
$17,000
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.

PlatteForum
Denver, CO
$32,000
To support ArtLab: Integrated Experiences in Creating and Presenting Art. Visiting resident artists from around the world will teach students literary, visual, and theatrical arts leading to the production of an original work for the general public.

Playwrights Project
San Diego, CA
$18,000
To support SEEDS (Stimulating Educational Excellence with Drama Standards). Underserved middle and high school students will work with teaching artists in their classrooms to create original plays as a means to also improve reading skills and their vocabulary.

Portland Museum of Art
Portland, ME
$37,000
To support Art in Process: Winslow Homer, High School Students, and Creativity. The project will provide intensive learning experiences for high school students about Winslow Homer, the role of his studio in his career, and his creative artistic process.

Portland Symphonic Girlchoir Association
Portland, OR
$10,000
To support the Living Composers Music Project. Students will participate in weekly rehearsals in five progressive choirs, focusing on technique and performance of new repertoire.

Prescott Circus Theatre
Oakland, CA
$10,000
To support Higher Ground, a youth ensemble program. Professional artists will be placed in residencies to provide after-school classes in African stilt dancing for elementary school children.

Project STEP, Inc.
Boston, MA
$38,000
To support the String Training and Educational Program (STEP). The program provides comprehensive, instrumental music training and prepares gifted minority students for serious study in classical music.

Providence City Arts for Youth, Inc. (aka CityArts)
Providence, RI
$20,000
To support the Community Youth Arts Program. Urban youth will receive free access to intensive studio arts instruction in a variety of disciplines during after-school hours and in the summer.

Provincetown Art Association and Museum
Provincetown, MA
$10,000
To support Art on the Edge, a free community-based arts immersion program. The project will provide opportunities for middle school-aged youth to interpret and discuss original works of art, create their own work, and write about their experiences as viewers and makers of visual art.

Public Corporation for the Arts of the City of Long Beach (aka Arts Council for Long Beach) (Consortium)
Long Beach, CA
$50,000
To support Eye on Design, a visual arts and design education program of the Arts Council for Long Beach. Third-grade students in Long Beach Unified Public Schools will learn about neighborhood public art and design from local artists.

Purple Silk Music Education Foundation, Inc.
Oakland, CA
$16,000
To support Strengthening Learning in the Arts. Professional Chinese musicians will teach students a repertory of music from around the world arranged for Chinese traditional instruments.

Reel Grrls
Seattle, WA
$33,000
To support Reel Grrls, an after-school media arts program. Designed for teenage girls, activities will involve after-school and weekend programs to explore media literacy, video production, and issues of personal identity

Reel Stories Teen Filmmaking, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$52,000
To support The Lab, Reel Impact, The Lab Master Class, and The 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 (aka RenArts)
Los Angeles, CA
$40,000
To support The Conservatory. The project will provide after-school and summer programs led by professional artists in music and dance for middle and high school students.

ReStart, Inc.
Kansas City, MO
$30,000
To support Arts at ReStart for Children and Youth. Artists will provide weekly workshops in film, photography, opera, architecture, poetry, visual art, dance, and theater to homeless children and youth.

RiverzEdge Arts Project, Inc.
Woonsocket, RI
$15,000
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 artists to create art in the apprentice program and learn arts marketing skills.

Rockford Area Arts Council
Rockford, IL
$18,000
To support ArtsPlace. Teams of 10 to 15 students, ages 14 to 19, will work one-on-one with professional artists 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
$60,000
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.

Rosie's House: A Music Academy for Children
Phoenix, AZ
$25,000
To support the Music Education Program, a semester-long, tuition-free music instruction program. Professional musicians teach group and private instrumental lessons to up to 50 students in the Phoenix metropolitan area.

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (Consortium)
New Brunswick, NJ
$22,000
To support Artists Mentoring Against Racism, Drugs, & Violence: Healing Through the Arts Summer Camp. With assistance from the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital, artists will provide multidisciplinary arts instruction during a summer camp for youth, ages 10 to 16.

San Diego Opera Association (Consortium)
San Diego, CA
$41,000
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
$22,000
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 Arts Commission (on behalf of San Francisco WritersCorps)
San Francisco, CA
$50,000
To support the WritersCorp program. Professional artists will teach creative writing targeted toward at-risk youth in underserved public schools.

San Francisco Ballet Association (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$26,000
To support Dance in Schools and Communities. In partnership with the San Francisco Unified School District, teaching artists will provide 10 weeks of free, interactive movement and music instruction to students in the second through fourth grade and their teachers.

San Francisco Girls Chorus, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$38,000
To support the Music Education and Performance Program. The project will provide year-round instruction in choral singing and opportunities for concert performance.

San Francisco Symphony (on behalf of San Francisco Youth Symphony)
San Francisco, CA
$76,000
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.

School Board of Sarasota County
Sarasota, FL
$15,000
To support The Arts: Language for Learning program. A five-day professional development institute and mid-year follow-up sessions will train classroom teachers to analyze, interpret, and reflect on works of art and create lessons that integrate arts learning with other subjects.

School District of Pickens County
Easley, SC
$26,000
To support Preserving Our Southern Appalachian Music. Local professional musicians of the Young Appalachian Musicians program will provide after-school and summer classes in old-time guitar, mandolin, fiddle, and banjo playing, and singing

Seattle Arts and Lectures, Inc.
Seattle, WA
$28,000
To support the Writers in the Schools program. The project will advance student writing through publications, recordings, readings, performances, and collaborations with community partners.

Seattle Repertory Theatre (Consortium)
Seattle, WA
$68,000
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 training and mentoring program provides high school students with pre-professional music instruction through individual study, ensemble classes, collaborative efforts with professional musicians and composers, and performance opportunities.

Shakespeare & Company, Inc.
Lenox, MA
$40,000
To support the Fall Festival of Shakespeare, 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.

Shakespeare Festival/LA, Inc. (aka SF/LA) (Consortium)
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
To support Will Power to Youth. Presented in collaboration with St. Louis Black Repertory Company, the program will provide intensive study of Shakespeare and all aspects of theater.

Shakespeare Theatre (aka Shakespeare Theatre Company) (Consortium)
Washington, DC
$45,000
To support the Text Alive! Curriculum Enhancement Program. In partnership with the District of Columbia Public School System, the program will enable high school teachers and students to explore Shakespeare's work through a series of in-school, humanities-based workshops and an in-depth rehearsal and performance process.

Sloss Furnaces Foundation, Inc.
Birmingham, AL
$68,000
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 multidisciplinary educational workshops in creative writing, theater, music, and visual arts. Local artists will teach hospitalized children creative writing, music, painting, photography, and filmmaking.

Society of Illustrators, Inc. (aka Museum of American Illustration)
New York, NY
$31,000
To support the Summer Illustration Art Academy at the Museum of American Illustration. A collaborative effort with the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, the project will provide intensive visual arts instruction for underserved youth in New York City.

Sonoran Art Foundation, Inc. (aka Sonoran Glass Art Academy)
Tucson, AZ
$18,000
To support the Youth Glass Arts Education Program. Through school-based and community-based programs, youth will receive intensive arts instruction through classroom instruction, workshops, and special events.

Southern Exposure (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$31,000
To support Mission Voices. In partnership with the Jewish Vocational and Career Counseling Service, the project will focus on arts-based community development by pairing local artists with underserved teens in the San Francisco area.

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

Spiral Q Puppet Theater
Philadelphia, PA
$22,000
To support Lifting Our Cultures and Families. Artists will teach fifth-grade students at Feltonville Intermediate School the arts of giant puppetry, storytelling, and neighborhood parades.

Spy Hop Productions, Inc.
Salt Lake City, UT
$33,000
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.

St. Louis Children's Choirs
St. Louis, MO
$10,000
To support the Ensemble Training and Performance Program. Students will participate in one of six performing groups, rehearsing weekly and performing throughout the year.

State University of New York at Buffalo
Buffalo, NY
$10,000
To support Engaged in Music: Student Music Learning Through Professional Youth Concert Experiences. Students will acquire music skills through active engagement at professional orchestra concerts as well as pre- and post-concert experiences.

Street-Level Youth Media
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support the Summer Arts Apprenticeship Program. Underserved teens will participate in a video and audio mentorship program with professional media artists.

Street-Level Youth Media (Consortium)
Chicago, IL
$16,000
To support My Community Matters. A collaboration among Street-Level Youth Media, the Chicago Children's Museum, and partnering Chicago public schools, the project will provide youth ages 12 to 14 with opportunities to implement classroom-based media production workshops in video, audio, and graphic design.

Streetside Stories, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support the Bay Area Youth Story Project. Workshops for middle school students providing instruction in the composition of autobiographical narratives, theater performance, and storytelling will culminate in a published anthology of the students' work.

Stuart Pimsler Dance & Theater (Consortium)
Minneapolis, MN
$11,000
To support Family Albums, a dance project celebrating family histories and cultural legacies. In partnership with West Metro Education Program #6069 (WMEP), professional dancers will present two three-week dance residencies for fourth- and fifth-grade students at two WMEP schools.

TADA! Theatre and Dance Alliance, Inc. (aka TADA! Youth Theater)
New York, NY
$69,000
To support the Musical Theater Writing Residency program. The project 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.

Texas Folklife Resources
Austin, TX
$51,000
To support Stories From Deep in the Heart. High school students will learn folklore, documentation, and radio journalism through 18-month in-school, after-school, and summer workshops led by professional folklorists, journalists, and radio producers.

Tincan
Spokane, WA
$26,000
To support Film for Change (F4C). During this year-long film production experience, teens will work with professional musicians, actors, directors, writers, and video artists to produce a short fictional film with the issue of poverty as the thematic focus.

Town Hall Foundation
New York, NY
$16,000
To support the Education Outreach Program, a theater/musical theater education program. Summer internships and school-year classes in theater and stagecraft will be offered for students in kindergarten through 12th grades in New York City schools.

Tucson Symphony Society (aka Tucson Symphony Orchestra)
Tucson, AZ
$14,000
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 Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL
$40,000
To support World Music and Dance in the Schools, a two-year program to provide semester- or school-year-long instruction in various world arts traditions in public schools in Champaign and Urbana, Illinois

University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT
$80,000
To support the Tanner Dance program's Side-by-Side Teacher Training Residency. Students in kindergarten through sixth grades and their teachers will acquire and practice dance skills on a weekly basis through in-school residencies and professional development workshops for teachers.

University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
Milwaukee, WI
$45,000
To support the Prototyping/Fabrication Camp. High school students will explore the full range of traditional and digital design modeling and fabrication techniques in the design profession as they will work back and forth between pencil, object, and computer to design and realize a three-dimensional design detail or artifact.

Upham's Corner Community Center (aka Bird Street Community Center)
Dorchester, MA
$25,000
To support the Youth Arts Entrepreneurship program at the Bird Street Community Center. Local artists and arts organizations will provide teens classes in video production, glass blowing, fashion design, and dance during a summer and after-school program.

Upstream Arts, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$35,000
To support the Performing Arts Residencies in Special Education Classrooms. Artist residencies will be held in special education classrooms of Minneapolis elementary, middle, and high schools.

Urban Gateways (aka Centers for Arts Education)
Chicago, IL
$32,000
To support the Cultural Education Project at the Centers for Arts Education. 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.

Urban Youth Harp Ensemble, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$24,000
To support harp instruction for high school students in Atlanta Public Schools. Students develop ensemble and solo performance skills and build their appreciation for harp and orchestral music by attending concerts and master classes.

UrbanArts, Inc.
Boston, MA
$55,000
To support the URBANO Project, the Teen Curatorial Program, and Artists' Workshops. The UrbanArts Institute at Massachusetts College of Art and Design will partner with the URBANO Project to support these two projects that were formerly supported and housed by the Cloud Foundation at Cloud Place.

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
$42,000
To support the Art Mentoring program. The project will provide free, technologically intensive arts instruction to underserved youth with a focus on art creation in photography, filmmaking, and digitally-based media.

Vermont Studio Center, Inc. (Consortium)
Johnson, VT
$23,000
To support the Learning in Art & Culture Teachers Fellowship Program. With assistance from the Lamoille North Supervisory Union, professional development will be provided for visual arts and English teachers through residencies that give teachers time and space to create art and engage and encounter other professional artists.

Vineyard Playhouse Company, Inc.
Vineyard Haven, MA
$23,000
To support the Fourth Grade Theater Project. Students learn all aspects of theater production both in and after school. The program includes classroom visits with professional artists who teach basic elements of scriptwriting and hands-on experience at the theater with technical and administrative professionals, and culminates in four performances of an original script.

Virginia Avenue Project
Santa Monica, CA
$15,000
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 Hawaii Pacific
Waianae, HI
$60,000
To support the Hawaii Arts@Work apprentice training program. Students will be matched with master artists based on media and style to begin a five-month apprentice training project.

Webster University (on behalf of Community Music School College Prep)
St. Louis, MO
$24,000
To support the Pre-College Student Preparatory Program (PREP) at the Community Music School. Focusing on chamber music, the program includes music instruction, performance opportunities, and artistic mentoring for middle and high school students.

Williams College (Consortium)
Williamstown, MA
$95,000
To support Kidspace, a visual arts education program. Designed in conjunction with the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, the program will offer students the opportunity to study and make visual art under the direction of professional artists and will provide numerous professional development opportunities for teachers.

Wingspan Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$18,000
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
$62,000
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.

Working Classroom, Inc.
Albuquerque, NM
$48,000
To support the Multicultural Street Conservatory. The Working Classroom Theater and Visual Arts Training Program will provide professional training in visual arts and theater in both English and Spanish.

Working Playground, Inc.
New York, NY
$66,000
To support My Medium, My Message: Critical Response. The project will provide foundational design experiences in the fields of animation, film, digital photography, and music production for high school-aged students.

Writers In the Schools (aka WITS)
Houston, TX
$72,000
To support Writing Power. Professional writers will provide year-long creative writing workshops for approximately 3,000 students in 30 Houston-area elementary and middle schools.

Young Audiences of New Jersey, Inc.
Princeton, NJ
$18,000
To support the Emerging Artists' Creativity Institute. Performing, visual, media, and literary arts students from across New Jersey will be mentored by professional teaching artists to collaboratively study multidisciplinary work for live performances, exhibitions, and online presentations.

Young Chicago Authors
Chicago, IL
$28,000
To support the Saturday Writing Program, a creative writing and publication program. Professional writers will lead workshops in poetry, fiction, playwriting, creative nonfiction, screen plays, and editing.

Young Dancers in Repertory, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$8,000
To support the Center for Dance Studies and Teenage Touring Ensemble. Dance educators will teach Humphrey-Weidman and other modern dance techniques, classical ballet, and other dance forms to pre-professional students during a 10-month period.

Young Men's & Young Women's Hebrew Association (aka 92nd Street Y)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the Musical Introduction Series. Students will participate in teaching artist residencies and attend live musical performances by professional musicians at the 92nd Street Y.

Young People's Chorus of New York City, Inc.
New York, NY
$60,000
To support the Partner Schools Program. Targeted at-risk students from New York City public schools will participate in after-school choral music education activities.

Young Playwrights' Theater, Inc.
Washington, DC
$60,000
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
$25,000
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
$25,000
To support the Core Curriculum Photography Classes program. Underserved high school students will work with professional artists during after-school hours and during summer months to improve their proficiency in photography.

YS Kids Playhouse
Springfield, OH
$37,000
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: 254          Total Amount: $8,395,000

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