FY 2011 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
$15,000
To support Playmaking, a series of playwriting classes for youth. The three stages of the program - "Stage-One," "Replay," and "Playback" - offer direct one-on-one collaboration for students with professional theater artists, who teach children how to write for theater, critique work, and perform for public.

826 Valencia
San Francisco, CA
$27,000
To support creative writing programs and publication of student work. Taught by professional artists, students from under-performing schools will learn writing and editing skills through one-on-one tutoring sessions, workshops, field trips, and artist residencies; their work will be published in chapbooks, quarterlies, an anthology, and student newspapers.

826LA
Venice, CA
$18,000
To support creative writing programs and the publication of student work. Taught by professional authors, screenwriters, journalists, and artists, programs are all provided free-of-charge to students at under-performing schools throughout Los Angeles.

Abada-Capoeira San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
To support after-school and summer classes in the aesthetic movement, songs, musical instruments, and history of capoeira. Led by Mestranda Márcia "Cigarra" Treidler, students will learn capoeira movements, sing an appropriate repertory of songs in Portuguese, play traditional instruments, and perform creatively in the roda, the circle formed by students and teachers coming together.

AjA Project
San Diego, CA
$34,000
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
$30,000
To support in-school and after-school instruction in Arab percussion, melody, and singing and presentations of classical Arab music by the Arabesque Music Ensemble. Beginning and intermediate-level workshops are held weekly in Philadelphia public schools and advanced students perform with profession musicians as members of the Arabesque Music Ensemble.

Alabama Blues Project, Inc.
Northport, AL
$10,000
To support after-school and summer classes in blues music instruction led by professional musicians. Beginning, intermediate, and advanced-level students learn to sing and play blues on guitars and harmonicas; they also study the cultural background of the music with an emphasis on Alabama blues history.

Alameda County Office of Education (aka Alliance for Arts Learning Leadership)
Hayward, CA
$35,000
To support the Alliance for Arts Learning Leadership's professional development for teachers at Alameda County public elementary schools. Teams of one teaching artist or arts teacher and two classroom teachers will develop insight, understanding, and skills required to provide visual and performing arts and arts-integrated lessons across the curriculum.

Alaska Arts Southeast, Inc. (aka Sitka Fine Arts Camp)
Sitka, AK
$52,000
To support arts education at the Sitka Fine Arts Camp, a residential multidisciplinary summer arts camp for middle and high school students in Alaska. Students will be taught dance, theater, music, creative writing, visual arts, and Alaskan Native arts by a faculty of artists and educators from around Alaska and the nation.

Appalshop, Inc.
Whitesburg, KY
$38,000
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.

Arab Community Center for Economic & Social Services (aka ACCESS)
Dearborn, MI
$35,000
To support the SURA Arts Academy, a weekly photography and film instruction program for middle school students in Dearborn and Detroit. Students work alongside professional photographers and filmmakers from Detroit's College for Creative Studies/cw.

Art Center at Fuller Lodge
Los Alamos, NM
$5,000
To support the arts education project Connections: An Exploration of Indigenous Art, Culture, and Creativity. Youth from the Espanola school system will study historic and contemporary folk and traditional arts and receive opportunities to work with artists and craftspeople to create works in tin, wood, fiber, and straw.

Artists for Humanity, Inc.
Boston, MA
$10,000
To support Arts Micro-Enterprise, a visual arts education program. Through paid apprenticeships, underserved youth will receive studio instruction in painting, photography, and mural arts; students also will gain business skills in the arts such as coordinating and marketing art exhibitions, making presentations to corporate clients, and working in a team environment.

Arts Corps
Seattle, WA
$55,000
To support the Teen Artist Program that provides Seattle area youth after-school advanced arts classes in music, spoken word, theater, and dance taught by professional teaching artists. Arts Corps will provide professional development for artists and manage classes that take place in a community center with a media lab, movement studio, full theater, classroom space, and recording studio.

ASCAP Foundation
New York, NY
$40,000
To support Summer Music Camp. The program provides New York City public school students five weeks of intensive musical training and performance experience free-of-charge at the Manhattan School of Music.

Asian Arts Initiative (Consortium)
Philadelphia, PA
$30,000
To support workshops and long-term apprenticeships for youth. A partnership with Termite TV Collective, the project will allow students to study with artists in workshops and apprenticeships, produce original works in open-studio time, and document their own experiences through youth-produced media.

Austin Chamber Music Center
Austin, TX
$39,000
To support year-round chamber music instruction. Professional musicians will provide chamber music coaching, teach music theory and composition classes, and conduct master classes for students.

Austin Classical Guitar Society
Austin, TX
$35,000
To support the Educational Outreach Program. Classical guitar instructors will provide weekly, individual lessons for students and will assist with the direction and curriculum planning of guitar classes in up to 14 Austin-area schools.

Austin Film Festival, Inc.
Austin, TX
$8,000
To support Storytelling through Film. Teaching artists will work with high school students for 11 weeks, providing instruction on story structure, screenwriting, and film production.

Austin Film Society (Consortium)
Austin, TX
$35,000
To support AFS Film Club, an after-school filmmaking program. In partnership with the Austin Independent School District, students will develop and create original short films, which are then showcased to the public via community screenings and an online film festival.

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc. (Consortium)
Baltimore, MD
$38,000
To support the OrchKids program. In partnership with the Baltimore City Public School system, OrchKids provides free training to students in instrumental and choral music throughout the school year.

Baraga Houghton Keweenaw Child Development Board, Inc. (aka BHK Child Development)
Houghton, MI
$10,000
To support Generations to Generations, a series of classes, demonstrations, and field trips to regional heritage centers that teach elementary school students the historical, cultural, and social contexts of folk and traditional arts of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Folk and traditional artists will teach Finnish kantele, dance, rag rug weaving, basketry, copper art, and woodwork, and guide students on field trips.

Bardavon 1869 Opera House, Inc.
Poughkeepsie, NY
$17,000
To support the Young Playwrights Festival Program, residencies for fourth and sixth-graders. In partnership with Poughkeepsie City School District, professional artists will teach students to write dialogues and monologues for short plays, dramatic movement, character development, and speech; selected works will be rehearsed and performed by a cast of professional actors and presented for the public at each school.

Barrel of Monkeys Productions
Chicago, IL
$8,000
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 to promote literacy and writing skills, build self-esteem, teach children to communicate effectively through their writing, and expose them to the performing arts.

Berkshire Arts and Technology Charter Public School (aka BArT Charter School)
Adams, MA
$23,000
To support Exploring Big Questions: Inquiry and the Arts, an arts-integrated project that brings together teaching artists, art teachers, and teachers of other subjects to develop curricula that use the arts to develop the critical thinking skills. Arts integrated units will be taught throughout the year and will incorporate visiting artist residencies in folk music, storytelling, theater, and visual arts.

Boston Children's Chorus, Inc.
Boston, MA
$18,000
To support the Seeds to Song Project. Young singers are trained in choral music and participate in Concert Choir, Premier Choir, Young Men's Ensemble, and the Choral Union, designed for singers with no previous music theory training.

Boston University
Boston, MA
$75,000
To support the Tanglewood Institute Young Artists Orchestra and Young Artists Wind Ensemble programs. The programs provide a concentrated summer musical training experience to students, providing opportunities to attend professional performances and to interact closely with master artists-in-residence throughout the summer.

Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras, Inc.
Boston, MA
$78,000
To support the Intensive Community Program, a string instrument program. Targeting inner-city youth, the program offers a two-week summer music workshop, followed by weekly music lessons, ensemble classes, and performance opportunities during the school year.

Brooklyn Information & Culture, Inc. (aka BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn)
Brooklyn, NY
$50,000
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.

California Institute of the Arts (aka CalArts) (Consortium)
Valencia, CA
$55,000
To support the CalArts Community Arts Partnership (CAP) 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.

California State University San Marcos (on behalf of Center ARTES)
San Marcos, CA
$18,000
To support Center ARTES' TELL! (Theater for English Language Learning), a year-long intensive theater program. Two professional bilingual actors will engage the students in theater activities that promote vocal projection, rhythm, tone, use of the imagination, and improvisation, culminating in a theatrical performance written and performed by the fourth graders along with college interns from the university's theater program.

Capitol Region Education Council
Hartford, CT
$25,000
To support the Center for Creative Youth, a pre-professional intensive five-week summer arts residency program for college-bound high school students on the campus of Wesleyan University. Students take creative writing, dance, music, theater, photography, filmmaking, drawing, painting, and sculpting classes with professionals and experience performances and presentations by guest artists.

Carnegie Institute
Pittsburgh, PA
$25,000
To support Artists and School Partnerships: Teaching the Creative Process, a visual arts education project at the Andy Warhol Museum. Under the guidance of practicing artists, students use contemporary media and themes and the artistic practice of Andy Warhol as springboards to explore all aspects of the creative process.

Cathedral Arts Projects, Inc.
Jacksonville, FL
$10,000
To support weekly after-school classes in dance, music and visual arts for underserved, school-aged children in Northwest Florida. The Duval County School system and other local arts and community partners provide facilities and administrative support.

Center for Documentary Arts
Salt Lake City, UT
$25,000
To support Exhibits That Teach, an artist-in-residency program. Students will engage in long-term projects that involve the study of the documentary arts genre, explore the cultural contexts that inform the exhibits, and create original artworks.

Center for Urban Pedagogy, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$30,000
To support Urban Investigations, after-school arts education programs for public high school students in New York City. Workshops employ art, design, and multimedia to explore the inner workings of the city's environment, architecture, and infrastructure.

Center for World Music (aka Center for World Music and Related Arts)
El Cajon, CA
$30,000
To support a cadre of skilled native and native-trained artists to teach music, dance, and storytelling of Indonesia, Mexico, the Middle East, Africa, India, and Europe. The program consists of long-term weekly classes (13-28 weeks per year), assembly performances by the center's artist teachers, and performances by students.

Center of Creative Arts (aka COCA)
St. Louis, MO
$30,000
To support Dance Outreach and Pre-Professional Dance Programs. The Pre-Professional Dance program will provide intensive dance training and comprehensive support services to students ages 11 through 1modern, hip-hop, and tap to elementary school children in St. Louis Public Schools.

Centrum Foundation (Consortium)
Port Townsend, WA
$8,000
To support Dance This at Centrum, a week-long intensive residential workshop for high school dancers. In partnership with the Seattle Theatre Group, participants will be trained by dance artists in a range of genres culminating in a showcase performance.

Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education (aka CAPE)
Chicago, IL
$53,000
To support Arts Education Program Design Seminar, a two-year professional development project for a network of artists and teachers to design, implement, and assess arts integrated teaching and learning through artist residencies. During the two-year period, participants will attend professional development workshops; tailor concepts, frameworks and planning tools for each school-based partnership; co-plan and implement curriculum units; and share and reflect on results.

Children's Dance Foundation
Birmingham, AL
$10,000
To support Community Partnership Program, which provides weekly dance classes to children with physical, mental, or emotional challenges. Dance artists will teach students in social service agencies, child development centers and preschools, and elementary schools.

Circus Day Foundation (aka Circus Harmony)
Florissant, MO
$40,000
To support Circus Harmony, a theatrical circus arts program. Students in the year-long program will work with professional circus educators, choreographers, costume designers, and musicians to learn theatrical circus skills thorough sequential, skills-based classes and perform for the public.

City Arts, Inc.
Washington, DC
$23,000
To support the Urban Arts Mentoring Program. High school students in underserved District of Columbia Public Schools receive paid training and arts instruction while working with professional muralists and mosaic artists to create public art throughout the city.

City of Atlanta, Georgia (aka Office of Cultural Affairs )
Atlanta, GA
$25,000
To support ARTSCOOL, a summer arts employment program that will provide apprenticeships for youth ages 14 to 18 in visual, literary, media, and performing arts, culminating in public exhibitions and performances. Under the guidance of a team of professional artists, apprentices will earn a stipend while researching, studying, performing, and exhibiting works of art that they create.

City of San Fernando, California
San Fernando, CA
$57,000
To support the Mariachi Master Apprentice Program that brings together professional musicians of Mariachi Los Camperos with mariachi students. Led by NEA National Heritage Fellow Nati Cano, the master musicians will teach mariachi arrangement and performance skills on violins, guitars, guitarrones, vihuelas, trumpets, and folk harp through traditional and popular mariachi music forms including sones, rancheras, jarabes, huapangos, and polkas.

Cobb County School District (Consortium)
Marietta, GA
$24,000
To support Alliance Theatre/Georgia Wolf Trap Early Learning Through the Arts, a professional development program for teachers. Through seminars, residencies, and one-on-one mentoring led by professional teaching artists, early childhood educators will learn to use standards-based theater arts strategies in the classroom to enhance student learning.

College for Creative Studies
Detroit, MI
$25,000
To support the Precollege Summer Experience program. Students will create original art works, explore various careers in art and design fields, meet working artists, and develop a portfolio.

Colorado Humanities
Denver, CO
$34,000
To support Writers in the Schools (WITS), a creative writing program in elementary, middle, and high schools in seven counties throughout Colorado. The project will send trained, published writers to help students develop their reading, writing, and public speaking skills, while encouraging self-expression and creativity.

Columbia College Chicago (on behalf of Museum of Contemporary Photography)
Chicago, IL
$25,000
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.

Columbus Museum of Art
Columbus, OH
$23,000
To support Columbus In-Focus, a digital photography education program. Students will work together to explore the power of documentary photography as an art form that captures history, culture, communities, and individual stories by examining original art at the museum. They will receive first-hand experience with practicing artists and create their own documentary photography using digital cameras.

Communities in Schools of Greenwood Leflore, Inc.
Greenwood, MS
$20,000
To support Core Arts, a program that provides after-school and summer arts education for court-involved youth ages 10 to 17 in alternative schools, detention centers, and the state training schools in Mississippi. Professional visual artists, sculptors, musicians, theater artists, ceramics artists, and writers conduct intensive arts education and rigorous arts production residencies in juvenile justice settings, culminating in public exhibitions, student publications, and performances.

Community Television Network (aka Community TV Network (CTVN))
Chicago, IL
$30,000
To support after-school, weekend, and summer digital media arts production programs at CTVN Arts Center, satellite locations, and in-school classes at alternative high schools. Students will study technical proficiency (in camera, sound, edit, lighting), incorporate media concepts of narrative structure and style, and create work for Hard Cover: Voices and Visions of Chicago's Youth, a public cable access television show.

Community-Word Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$45,000
To support artist residencies in creative writing led by teams of teaching artists, in collaboration with classroom teachers. Students, ages 7 to 17, will study a diverse group of authors, learn to write and revise individual and collaborative work, participate in public readings and an anthology, and create murals based on a line of poetry chosen from one of their poems.

Conscious Youth Media Crew
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support an after-school multimedia arts youth internship program. Teaching artists join community media makers in training and mentoring young urban teens to create original, social issue documentary and narrative shorts, audio segments, music videos, and feature length films.

Country Music Foundation, Inc. (aka Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum)
Nashville, TN
$45,000
To support a songwriting program in schools for students in third to twelfth grade in Nashville, Knoxville, and Chattanooga. Museum staff and professional songwriters train language arts and music teachers to use the Country Music Foundation Words & Music Teachers Guide to teach students the process of writing song lyrics.

Dancewave, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$15,000
To support Dancewave Company I & II, pre-professional dance training companies. Students have the opportunity to train with renowned American choreographers.

Dancing Crane, Inc. (aka Dancing Crane Georgian Dance Theater)
Warwick, NY
$13,000
To support intermediate and advanced-level classes in dance, songs, instrumental music, and theater of Georgia and the surrounding Caucasus region. Classes meet each week throughout the year and lead to student performances in festivals and other community events as well as an annual fall concert that features the student performing ensemble Pesvebi.

Dayton Contemporary Dance Guild, Inc. (aka Dayton Contemporary Dance Company)
Dayton, OH
$25,000
To support Dancing to the Curriculum, an in-school dance residency program. Program components include weekly arts integrated dance instruction for students and professional development for educators, focusing on integrating dance into the curriculum.

Diversity of Dance, Inc. (aka Earl Mosley's Institute of the Arts)
Brooklyn, NY
$50,000
To support Earl Mosley's Institute of the Arts, a residential summer dance institute. The program is a four-week, day and residential intensive summer institute, designed to increase students' skills in dance, choreography, and related performing arts.

Dynamic Forms, Inc. (aka Mark DeGarmo & Dancers)
New York, NY
$11,000
To support the Mark DeGarmo & Dancers' Partnerships in Literacy Through Dance & Creativity at PS 142, Amalia Castro School. Dance teaching artists will team with the school's music and visual arts teachers to help students develop dance and literacy skills.

Each One Reach One
S. San Francisco, CA
$14,000
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, which will be performed by professional actors at staged readings for the participants' parents, teachers, and peers.

Early Stages Program, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support Storytelling Across the Curriculum, a theater artist residency program. Using folktales, fairytales, and other children's literature, teaching artists, working collaboratively with classroom teachers and administrators, will help students enhance their proficiency in theater and language arts.

East Bay Center for the Performing Arts
Richmond, CA
$35,000
To support group classes and private lessons and a training program in dance, media, music, and theater taught by professional artists for middle and high school students from West Contra Costa County.

El Puente de Williamsburg, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$40,000
To support Arts for Social Change Program, a project of multi-level, pre-professional classes, leading to theme-based arts projects at community-based Youth Leadership Centers in Brooklyn. Sequentially developed arts classes in ballet, hip-hop, bomba, modern dance, theater, filmmaking, and visual arts are offered in daily after school classes from September through June, and on weekdays during a seven-week summer intensive program.

Elaine Kaufman Cultural Center/Lucy Moses School for Music and Dance (aka Kaufman Center)
New York, NY
$28,000
To support music, chorus, and private instrumental lessons at a New York City public school for musically gifted children, as well as after-school classes for graduates who have been through the program in their elementary schools and are now in city high schools. Students take private lessons and learn a structured, sequential music curriculum, with many opportunities to perform, that is closely integrated with other academic subjects.

Elevating Soulciety (aka Soulciety)
Hayward, CA
$15,000
To support Elevation Arts Academy, a dance program focusing on urban dance. The program serves at-risk youth, encouraging the study and fundamentals of urban dance techniques, including capoeira, popping and locking.

Epic Theatre Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support in-school residencies led by teaching artists in the study of classical and modern plays. Tailored to the specific needs of public high schools, residencies will include research, script analysis, creation of original work, and rehearsal and performance for community audiences.

Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art (aka The Carle Museum)
Amherst, MA
$15,000
To support Picture This! Bridging Arts and Literacy, a visual arts education program featuring picture book art. Project components include professional development for teachers, interactive classroom visits with professional artists, and family museum visits culminating in a student exhibition at the Carle Museum.

Firebird Youth Chinese Orchestra
San Jose, CA
$25,000
To support a project to teach young musicians to perform the 1965 Chinese traditional instrument orchestra setting of On the Docks by Yu Huiyong, an influential music scholar and composer during the Cultural Revolution. During weekly classes held at the San Jose City College Music Department, students will practice the score in individually, in sections, and as full ensemble leading to a culminating concert performance.

Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, Ltd. (Consortium)
Burlington, VT
$24,000
To support Words Come Alive, professional development workshops for classroom teachers. Designed and implemented in partnership with the Burlington School District, kindergarten through eighth grade teachers will learn to integrate theater and dance instruction into the curriculum during summer training, workshops, and classroom collaborations.

Gabriella Axelrad Education Foundation (aka everybody dance!)
Los Angeles, CA
$35,000
To support  weekly dance classes to students at everybody dance!. Students will work with professional dance instructors, attend performances, and have the opportunity to perform in public.

Ghetto Film School, Inc.
The Bronx, NY
$75,000
To support the Fellows Program, a free three-course immersion arts education program focused on narrative film storytelling. Working together, fellows study with a professional screenwriter, compete for crew positions (e.g., director or cinematographer), and receive advanced instruction in specialized areas.

Girls Write Now, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the Mentoring Program, which matches girls with professional women writers as their personal mentors. Through weekly one-on-one writing sessions, monthly genre-based group workshops, a public reading series, and creation of literary portfolios, mentors help girls develop their independent voices, explore professions in writing, and learn how to make healthy choices in school, career, and life.

Glen Ellyn Children's Chorus (aka Anima)
Glen Ellyn, IL
$45,000
To support Anima's Ensemble Program and Honors Chorus Workshop. Year-round choral ensembles at various skill levels will serve as a basis for sequential music education for students.

Grand Canyon Chamber Music Festival
Grand Canyon, AZ
$20,000
To support the Native American Composer Apprentice Project. Students will study one-on-one with a composer-in-residence for three weeks and create original work that will be performed by the New York City-based ETHEL String Quartet.

Groundswell Community Mural Project, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$38,000
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.

Hawaii Alliance for Arts in Education (aka Hawai`i Arts Alliance) (Consortium)
Honolulu, HI
$40,000
To support a professional development project for teachers and teaching artists to learn to use the Arts First Essential Arts Toolkit: Hawai`i Fine Arts Grade Level Guide for the K-5 Classroom, followed by collaborative residencies. In each school teams of elementary teachers and one teaching artist will collaborate to plan and implement standards-based arts content.

HeArt Project
Los Angeles, CA
$30,000
To support year-long workshop series at alternative high schools throughout Los Angeles County. Each school site will host workshops led by professional artists in the classroom during the school day that teach the visual and performing arts coordinated with programs in partnering Los Angeles cultural institutions including museums, theaters, and community centers.

Henry Street Settlement (aka Abrons Arts Center)
New York, NY
$18,000
To support the Abrons Arts Center Dance Ensemble and Junior Dance Ensemble. The Dance Ensemble provides free dance training for teens who are interested in pursuing dance in higher education or as a career; while the Junior Dance Ensemble prepares younger students for advanced dance training.

Hester Street Collaborative Inc.
New York, NY
$28,000
To support the Ground Up design education program. Students at three New York City public schools will study their built and social environments; gain art-making, critical thinking, and problem solving skills; and apply this knowledge and skill to the improvement of a public space in their school or neighborhood with a built project or art installation.

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Inc. (Consortium)
Chicago, IL
$90,000
To support the Movement as Partnership, a program of dance residencies. With Oak Park District 97, the dance company will conduct 10-week residencies, including dance sessions for students, professional development for teachers, and in-school performances.

Hyde Square Task Force, Inc.
Jamaica Plain, MA
$20,000
To support Ritmo en Acción, a dance skills program focusing on Afro-Latin styles. Through peer-to-peer training, core dancers ages 14 through 18 are trained as performers, instructors, and cultural stewards in Afro-Latin styles, including palo, bomba, and plena.

Idaho Commission on the Arts (Consortium)
Boise, ID
$30,000

To support ArtsPowered Schools, a week-long professional development institute for elementary school teachers. In partnership with the Idaho State Department of Education, the arts commission will pair teachers with artists in visual arts, music, drama, or dance to foster their creativity and help them to develop arts-integrated lesson plans.

Ifetayo Cultural Arts Academy, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$40,000
To support a dance education program at two Brooklyn public schools. The project includes weekly instruction by teaching artists in African and Afro-Brazilian dance to students in pre-Kindergarten through fifth grade.

In-Sight Photography Project, Inc.
Brattleboro, VT
$10,000
To support the Community Partner Program, a mobile digital photography lab. In-Sight will teach up to 60 students, ages 11 to 18, in rural Southern Vermont the art of photography free-of-charge during eight- to ten-week-long workshops offered in the fall, spring, and summer.

Inner-City Arts
Los Angeles, CA
$45,000
To support Learning and Achieving Through the Arts, a theater immersion program for underserved students. Through multi-week, artist-led sessions, students and their teachers will participate in hands-on workshops in all aspects of theater, culminating in a performance for their family and peers at the Rosenthal Theater.

Inside Out Community Arts, Inc.
Venice, CA
$38,000
To support The School Project, an after-school and weekend theater-based arts program. Led by professional artists and supported by high school and college alumni of the program, middle and high school students from the Los Angeles Unified School District will participate in weekly workshops, attend a professional production, and take part in a three-day rehearsal retreat, culminating in a free public performance of student plays.

InsideOut Literary Arts Project
Detroit, MI
$80,000
To support the Voices High School Literary Expansion program, in which teams of writers-in-residence will visit Detroit public high schools to present a literature program to enhance the schools' curriculum throughout the school year. Services will include year-long creative writing residencies in selected classes; creative writing teaching units developed with classroom teachers; guest poets; one-on-one mentoring in a writing center; publication in literary journals; and public performances.

Institute of Contemporary Art (Consortium)
Boston, MA
$30,000
To support ICA WallTalk, a visual and verbal learning program for middle and high school students. In partnership with Boston College Charter District, WallTalk offers students opportunities to present their work through an open mic event and culminating publication.

International Center of Photography (aka ICP) (Consortium)
New York, NY
$50,000
To support ICP at The Point. In partnership with Point Community Development Corporation, students will learn technical photography skills, darkroom printing processes, and develop skills to organize exhibitions and promote their work.

InterSchool Orchestras of New York
New York, NY
$30,000
To support InterSchool Orchestras. The program will provide instruction in instrumental, ensemble, and performance skills to students, as well as performance opportunities.

Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD
$48,000
To support the Music Teacher Mentoring Program and Tuned-In. Peabody Institute faculty will mentor Baltimore public school music teachers; these teachers will identify students to receive Tuned-In music lessons and ensemble training at Peabody Preparatory.

Just Buffalo Literary Center, Inc. (Consortium)
Buffalo, NY
$35,000
To support Reclaiming Buffalo, a community-based after-school program to teach students of diverse cultures and backgrounds photographic and literary arts. A partnership with the Center for Exploratory and Conceptual Art, the program will involve up to eight artists working with as many as 100 students, ages 9 to 14, to photograph dilapidated buildings and vacant lots in the students' communities.

Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra
Kalamazoo, MI
$24,000
To support Growing Up Musical, a series of community music education programs. Members of the Kalamazoo orchestra will provide in-class workshops, school presentations, an instrument petting zoo, residencies, coaching, and classes in music theory and composition for community and school partners.

Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey, Inc.
Kansas City, MO
$25,000
To support AileyCamp and AileyCamp/The Group. AileyCamp is an intensive summer dance program in jazz, tap, modern, and ballet. The Group takes place during the school year and is a continuation of this summer training.

Lawrence Children's Choir, Inc.
Lawrence, KS
$10,000
To support the Cadenza chorus, part of the Lawrence Children's Choir program. First- through third-grade choral students will attend weekly rehearsals; learn musical concepts and performance techniques, including singing with accurate pitch; vocal technique; music reading; dynamics; and phrasing.

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. (on behalf of Lincoln Center Institute)
New York, NY
$65,000
To support professional development for teachers to teach students to experience and create art through inquiry, research, reflection, and artistic processes. The project will take place in Focus Schools in New York City that integrate Lincoln Center Institute's art program into school curriculum.

Living Arts
Detroit, MI
$30,000
To support El Arte: Arts-Infused Education in arts residencies in southwest Detroit public schools. Local professional artists will collaborate with classroom teachers to design and teach lessons that infused pantomime, theater, music, dance, visual arts, songwriting, video-animation, and poetry into the curriculum.

Los Angeles County Arts Commission (Consortium)
Los Angeles, CA
$80,000
To support Arts for All, a program for Los Angeles County school districts to develop quality, standards-based music, theater, dance, and visual arts residency programs for K-12 students advancing long-range arts education plans and achieving district goals for student learning in the arts. Arts for All will train teaching artists and arts administrators to plan and implement state arts education standards and will support artist residencies.

Los Angeles Philharmonic Association (Consortium)
Los Angeles, CA
$75,000
To support Youth Orchestra LA. In partnership with the Heart of Los Angeles Youth, the program provides free instruments, after-school music instruction, ensemble performance opportunities, and early childhood music classes to students, as well as workshops for parents.

Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center
San Pablo, CA
$33,000
To support the Mockingbird Youth Project.

Los Pleneros de la 21, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$13,000
To support Bomba & Plena: In the House, a series residencies to teach traditional Puerto Rican song and dance for students in sixth to twelfth grade in New York City. Led by NEA National Heritage Fellow Juan Gutiérrez and musicians of his professional ensemble, Los Pleneros de la 21, the project will feature 10-week residencies will culminate in concerts for community and school audiences where students perform alongside the artists.

Luna Kids Dance
Emeryville, CA
$20,000
To support Dance Learning Institutes. Through the Summer Institute and Advanced Summer Institutes, educators come together to improve their knowledge, skills, and understanding of how to engage kindergarten through 12th-grade students in standards-based dance learning.

Madison Cultural Arts District (aka Overture Center for the Arts)
Madison, WI
$37,000
To support the Arts Education Initiative. In partnership with the Madison Ballet, Madison Symphony Orchestra, Madison Opera, Children's Theater of Madison, and Madison Museum of Contemporary Art and Madison Metropolitan School District schools, Overture Center for the Arts will oversee a year-long interdisciplinary after-school arts program led by professional artists for sixth-grade students.

Madison Music Makers, Inc.
Madison, WI
$25,000
To support Madison Music Makers. The program provides free after-school instrumental music lessons and performance opportunities to students in the local community.

Making Books Sing, Inc.
New York, NY
$28,000
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 and classroom teachers to adapt literature into full musical productions.

Malashock Dance & Company
San Diego, CA
$10,000
To support Academics in Motion, a dance education program. Teaching artists provide weekly dance classes in which students build skills in choreography, musicality, and dance technique.

Manchester Craftsmen's Guild (aka MCG Youth & Arts) (Consortium)
Pittsburgh, PA
$48,000
To support Clay Connections: Bridging High School and Higher Education through Regional and Global Art. A partnership with West Virginia University, project components include courses, exhibitions, residencies, workshops, and experiential learning opportunities that will advance knowledge, skill, and cultural exploration of ceramic art through direct contact with American and Chinese master artists.

Marquis Studios, Ltd.
Brooklyn, NY
$35,000
To support collaborations of teaching artists, classroom teachers, and school arts specialists to design residencies in a variety of disciplines. The project will integrate visual art, music, theater, and dance into the school curriculum and engage students to express themselves creatively.

Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the Teens@Graham program, a dance education program. Program components include classes, summer intensives, and a young artist program for teenagers who demonstrate a serious desire to study Graham Technique and repertory.

Marwen Foundation, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$55,000
To support the Marwen Studio, a visual arts education program. Practicing artists will design and teach sequential, free-of-charge courses in a range of disciplines, including painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, ceramics, design arts, time-based media (video, animation), and mixed media.

Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Boston, MA
$60,000
To support Summer Studios, a four-week summer visual arts program. The program includes intense hands-on studios, an analytical/theoretical framework for considering the arts, and museum and gallery visits and tours.

Matrix Theatre Company
Detroit, MI
$27,000
To support Theatre Education for All, a year-long theater training program. Three terms during the school year, each lasting 10 weeks, will focus on skill-building and production of an all-school play, resulting in a performance in May; the summer program will provide an intensive creative experience in a specific skill, story, or theme.

Maui Arts & Cultural Center (Consortium)
Kahului, HI
$50,000
To support professional development to train Maui teachers to integrate visual arts and storytelling into the curriculum, as well as arts integrated collaboration classroom residencies in Pomaikai Elementary School and Samuel Enoka Kalama Intermediate School. A partnership with the Hawaii Department of Education-Maui District, teachers and teaching artist teams will collaborate on arts integrated units of study during a summer institute and periodic workshops.

Mercy Life Center Corp (aka Mercy Behavioral Health )
Pittsburgh, PA
$24,000
To support Mercy Behavioral Health's Pittsburgh Dancing Classrooms, a dance education program in ballroom dance. Students are trained in merengue, tango, foxtrot, rumba, and swing.

Methow Arts Alliance
Twisp, WA
$15,000
To support artists residencies and field trips for kindergarten through sixth-grade students in rural northeastern Washington State school districts. The project will begin with professional development for participating artists, classroom teachers, and school administrators in the summer and lead to sequential lessons in visual arts, music, dance, theater, and literary arts during the school year.

Metropolitan Arts Council
Greenville, SC
$15,000
To support SmartARTS program that trains and mentors teachers in advanced arts integration by facilitating their understanding and comfort in teaching dance, theater, visual arts, creative writing, and music with model arts integration units.

Mexican Heritage Corporation (aka Mexican Heritage Plaza) (Consortium)
San Jose, CA
$20,000
To support classes led by local professional mariachi musicians in the San Jose schools. Students will be taught to sing and play the violin, trumpet, guitar, vihuela, and guitarrón using standards-based curriculum that addresses historical and cultural as well as musical skills.

Midwest Young Artists
Highwood, IL
$58,000
To support the Orchestral, Chamber Music, and Music Theory programs. Through music theory classes, sectional rehearsals, and performance opportunities, students will learn to read music, play expressively, develop ensemble skills, and demonstrate musicianship.

Mosaic Youth Theater of Detroit
Detroit, MI
$60,000
To support the Main Stage Training Program. Professional actors and teaching artists will provide students ages 11-18 with intensive acting, vocal, and technical theater training leading to the creation and performance of an original musical that will be performed at the Detroit Institute of the Arts and toured at approximately 12 universities nationwide.

Museum of Contemporary African Diasporian Arts
Brooklyn, NY
$38,000
To support Museum of Contemporary African Diasporian Arts Artists-in-Schools. Professional artists will work closely with classroom teachers to implement art instruction, research, and coordinate relevant field trips focused on art of the African Diaspora; students will curate an exhibition in conjunction with museum staff.

Museum of Photographic Arts
San Diego, CA
$55,000
To support Collaborative Arts Resources for Education (CARE) program. The project will feature a school-based artist residency and teacher professional development component which combines the resources of  the Museum of Photographic Arts, La Jolla Playhouse, the Mingei International Museum, and the Timken Museum of Art.

Music and Arts Center for Humanity, Inc.
Bridgeport, CT
$15,000
To support the Alvin Ailey Dance Camp and Dance II programs. Alvin Ailey Dance Camp is a six-week summer camp that focuses on dance, nutrition, and positive behavior. Dance II is a school year program that continues the learning and training begun during summer camp.

Music for All, Inc.
Indianapolis, IN
$24,000
To support the Music for All Summer Symposium Teachers' Academy, a week-long national instrumental music and leadership professional development program. Using experiential learning, the academy trains teachers who work directly with student musicians.

Nashville Symphony Association (Consortium)
Nashville, TN
$18,000
To support One Note, One Neighborhood, a free music education program. In partnership with W.O. Smith/Nashville Community Music School, professional musicians will provide hands-on music lessons, concerts, field trips, and teacher professional development during and after school.

National Dance Education Organization
Silver Spring, MD
$30,000
To support an online dance professional development course. Dance educators will receive training to understand and integrate the Professional Teaching Standards for Dance Arts into their teaching practice.

National Dance Institute New Mexico
Santa Fe, NM
$30,000
To support Dancing to Excellence in Albuquerque. Students 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.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the Advanced Scholarship Program. Licensed dance instructors will provide year-long, sequential dance training to students, culminating in dance performances.

Neighborhood Music School, Inc.
New Haven, CT
$18,000
To support Instrumental Impact. Students will participate in ongoing instrumental instruction, weekly individual lessons, weekly ensemble rehearsals, field trips, master classes, and multiple performance opportunities.

New 42nd Street, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$20,000
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 Youth Theater
Brattleboro, VT
$18,000
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 under the direction of professional theater artists and craftspeople.

New Orleans Ballet Association (aka NOBA) (Consortium)
New Orleans, LA
$70,000
To support the NORD/NOBA Center for Dance. In partnership with the New Orleans Recreation Department, NOBA will provide students free, year-round dance training in two tracks: the Open Track is open to any student interested in dance and the Pre-professional Track is focused on intensive dance learning.

New School University (Consortium)
New York, NY
$50,000
To support PetLab, a professional development project based on the principles of game design. In partnership with the Institute of Play, participants will engage in and instruct others in design-based processes, including problem-solving, sketching, prototyping, testing, and modifying.

New York Historical Society (Consortium)
New York, NY
$25,000
To support ArtSpeaks!, a teacher professional development program for teams of high school teachers of art, social studies, and English Language Learners from New York City's international high schools. In partnership with the Central Park Conservancy, the program will train teachers in various forms of art making and art study to create a cohesive vocabulary to foster art-making skills, language development, and content learning for newcomer students in the classroom.

Northampton County Area Community College (aka Northampton Community College)
Bethlehem, PA
$25,000
To support music, movement, and visual arts residencies for children in kindergarten and preschool classrooms, and professional development to teachers. Children will be engaged with age-appropriate activities to learn verbal and symbolic literacy, painting, drawing, sculpting, dance movement, and basics skills for listening, responding to, and creating simple melodies.

Old Town School of Folk Music, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$48,000
To support third- and eighth-grade folk and traditional arts residencies led by professional teaching artists using a curriculum based on the Chicago Guide for Teaching and Learning in the Arts, National Standards for Arts Education, and the Illinois State Board of Education State Goals. In addition to engaging students in culturally diverse, arts-enriched educational experiences during two separate eight-week residencies culminating in a student performances, artists will attend professional development seminars.

Opera New Jersey, Inc.
Princeton, NJ
$16,000
To support Discover Opera Stages. During this multi-year opera program, students create dramatic interpretations of an existing opera work and attend an opera performance.

Ordway Center for the Performing Arts (Consortium)
Saint Paul, MN
$10,000
To support Dance to Learn. In partnership with St. Paul Public Schools, kindergarten through eighth-grade teachers will participate in professional development, collaborating with teaching artists to design integrative learning experiences through dance.

Our Time Theatre Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$45,000
To support the Our Time NYC Program. Led by professional theater artists and targeted to teenagers who stutter, the program will allow students ages 13-19 to meet weekly for nine months to study the structure of playwriting and the importance of theme, develop vocal strength and breath support through singing exercises, and work collaboratively to write and perform a full-length play that will tour nationally in the summer months.

Pacific Northwest Ballet Association (Consortium)
Seattle, WA
$58,000
To support Discover Dance Consortium, a project that provides dance education to Seattle Public Schools. Pacific Northwest Ballet teaching artists give professional development workshops and resources for classroom teachers and are in residence in classrooms, teaching students to learn and develop basic dance skills, including concepts and movement dynamics that will eventually be used to create a new piece.

Partners for Youth with Disabilities, Inc.
Boston, MA
$40,000
To support Access to Theatre, a program that provides year-round after-school and summer performing arts workshops and classes for youth. Students will learn theater, set design, prose and poetry writing, visual arts, and music and will perform and exhibit their original works work alongside professional collaborating artists at the Boston Center for the Arts.

Perlman Music Program, Inc.
New York, NY
$75,000
To support the Summer Music School @ PMP. The intensive six-week summer residency program will provide instruction, coaching, and mentoring opportunities to exceptionally gifted young string players.

Philadelphia Mural Arts Advocates (aka City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program)
Philadelphia, PA
$65,000
To support the Mural Arts Program. Students develop personal portfolios and collaborate with professional artists and community members and stakeholders to plan, design, and execute large-scale, sophisticated murals and other works of public art.

Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York, Inc. (aka The New York Philharmonic) (Consortium)
New York, NY
$45,000
To support the New York Philharmonic's School Partnership Program. In partnership with the New York City Department of Education, the program includes year-long in-school music residencies, attendance at New York Philharmonic concerts, and professional development for teachers and school administrators.

Pillsbury United Communities (aka Pillsbury House Theatre)
Minneapolis, MN
$45,000
To support Chicago Avenue Project (CAP), a year-round program with acting and writing classes, one-act productions, and a writing retreat for youth. The primary goal of CAP is to engage students as actors, writers, theater artists and artisans through classes, rehearsals, and one-on-one contact with professional artists.

Playwrights Project
San Diego, CA
$11,000
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 and vocabulary skills, culminating in a reading of students' work by professional actors.

Progressive Arts Alliance, Inc.
Cleveland, OH
$30,000
To support Access Arts and Media, a program providing multidisciplinary arts residencies for kindergarten through eighth-grade students and the RHAPSODY Hip-Hop Summer Arts Camp for middle and high school students. Students at Carver and Orchard Schools will learn printmaking, stop motion animation, West African drumming, and documentary film making; summer camp students will create complex rhythms tracks, design and create large-scale paintings, write poetry, and produce hip-hop events.

Project New Urban Arts
Providence, RI
$23,000
To support free youth art education programs. Professional artists will mentor students in art galleries and studios across Providence.

Project STEP, Inc.
Boston, MA
$60,000
To support the Youth Preparatory Division and Preparatory Division programs. Program components include private strings lessons, theory classes, piano classes, master classes, chamber music and orchestra participation, as well as attendance at music camps.

Providence City Arts for Youth, Inc. (aka CityArts)
Providence, RI
$40,000
To support year-round after-school and summer arts learning in a variety of disciplines that offers urban youth who need to gain academic skills time to practice and create in studios with professional artist mentors. CityArts Community Youth Arts Program takes place in a newly renovated education building that houses fully equipped ceramics studio, dance studio, art and nature lab, MacMedia Lab, gallery, printmaking studio, and performance spaces.

Provincetown Art Association and Museum
Provincetown, MA
$25,000
To support Art Reach/Art on the Edge, a program providing in-depth visual arts education to area high school and middle school students throughout the school year. Selected older teens also have the opportunity to train and participate as mentors for the younger students.

Public Corporation for the Arts of the City of Long Beach (aka Arts Council for Long Beach)
Long Beach, CA
$48,000
To support Eye on Design Phase II, a public art education program for elementary schools that teaches the local history of architecture, design, and public arts through classes and field trips led by professional artists and community partners. Students learn how artists seek a public art commission, including research of the community and proposed site for artwork, creating and presenting proposals to a selection panel, one of which will actually be built in the community during Phase III.

Puget Sound Educational Service District
Renton, WA
$30,000
To support Arts Impact: Artistic Pathways to Learning, a two-year professional development program for kindergarten to fifth-grade classroom teachers in King and Pierce Counties, Washington State. Teachers receive in-depth and sustained training from experienced artist-mentors to gain knowledge in state standards-based arts concepts and skills and to develop confidence and competence to infuse the arts into other content areas of their teaching.

Purple Silk Music Education Foundation, Inc.
Oakland, CA
$15,000
To support intermediate and advanced instruction in Chinese string, wind, and percussion instruments taught by professional musicians to students, culminating in performances at Chinese community events and concert tours on California college campuses. During 20 weeks of intensive classes, students will increase their musical proficiency and learn new repertory commissioned for them.

Raw Art Works, Inc. (aka RAW)
Lynn, MA
$40,000
To support Real to Reel Film School. Young filmmakers learn to use technology including cameras, film editing, lighting, and sound systems while developing skills in self-efficacy, leadership, and cooperation.

Reel Stories Teen Filmmaking, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$40,000
To support a series of filmmaking workshops for teens. Students will meet renowned filmmakers while studying the craft of filmmaking to produce their own short documentaries, screenplays, and short films.

Regional Arts & Culture Council
Portland, OR
$25,000
To support Right Brain Initiative, a professional development seminar that brings together school administrators, teachers, and teaching artists to integrate the arts into Portland-area schools' curricula. The project will provide hands-on training for teachers and artists to integrate and assess arts learning across the curriculum, leading to classroom collaborations in theater, music, dance, and visual arts.

Renaissance Arts Academy (aka RenArts)
Los Angeles, CA
$45,000
To support a comprehensive after-school and summer program, providing professional instruction and apprenticeship in classical arts disciplines to middle and high school students. The students choose to participate in one or more of the conservatory's programs: three orchestras, two choirs, six dance companies, chamber groups, and percussion ensembles.

Richmond Ballet, Inc. (aka Richmond Ballet, The State Ballet of Virginia) (Consortium)
Richmond, VA
$20,000
To support Minds in Motion, a weekly school dance and performance program. In partnership with Richmond Public Schools, fourth-grade students will learn dance, choreography, and performance skills.

River of Words
Berkeley, CA
$11,000
To support teacher training workshops in poetry composition and visual arts. Co-founded in 1995 by former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Hass and author Pamela Michael, the program uses a specially designed curriculum to help teachers 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
$13,000
To support Studio Arts Project, in which artists and designers mentor youth as they learn the principles and practice of art and design. Youth create their own works and commissioned work for clients in one of four studios: visual arts, graphic design, screen-printing, and digital photography.

Rosie's Broadway Kids, Inc.
New York, NY
$70,000
To support the ACTE II (A Commitment to Excellence) program in musical theater. Targeted to exceptionally talented students from low-income families for intensive training in theater arts, professional teaching artists and guests from the Broadway stage will provide instruction after-school and during a summer intensive, which culminates in a student performance for family and friends.

Ruby's Clay Studio & Gallery
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the Mud Bus, a mobile ceramic studio equipped with materials and tools needed to teach ceramic classes to youth in underserved communities in San Francisco. Families are invited to attend an opening reception for the professionally presented display of the students' work at Ruby's Gallery at the end of the program.

Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation
New York, NY
$15,000
To support Rush Gallery in the Schools. Students will learn about contemporary art in the classroom, interact with working artists, create artwork in a variety of media, and run their own in-school gallery.

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (Consortium)
New Brunswick, NJ
$10,000
To support Artists Mentoring Against Racism, Drugs, & Violence Healing Through the Arts Summer Camp. During the five-week program, artists will teach photography, dance, visual arts, and theater to Latino and African American youth in New Brunswick, culminating in showcases, performances, and a community mural project.

Ryman-Carroll Foundation (aka Ryman Arts)
Los Angeles, CA
$47,000
To support pre-professional studio art classes for high school students. Offered free of charge, classes are taught by experienced teaching artists and focus on the fundamental skills of drawing and painting in a rigorous and supportive environment.

Salvadori Educational Center on the Built Environment (aka Salvadori Center)
New York, NY
$28,000
To support GLOBE: Guided Learning through Our Built Environment, a three-year residency with New York City public schools. Working collaboratively, students will learn geometry by constructing model bridges, physics by building simple machines, and ratio and proportion by making scale models of New York City bridges.

San Diego Opera Association (Consortium)
San Diego, CA
$45,000
To support Words & Music Program. In partnership with the San Diego Unified School District, students will study major opera works and subsequently will compose an original opera, which will be performed by professional singers for the public.

San Francisco Art and Film Program (aka San Francisco Art & Film for Teenagers)
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support the Teen Film Workshop, an arts education project designed to prepare students for film school and train them for film careers. Students will attend lectures and films, learn a foundation in theory, and then design and produce individual films and a group film.

San Francisco Arts Commission (on behalf of San Francisco WritersCorp)
San Francisco, CA
$70,000
To support the WritersCorps, a creative writing program targeted toward at-risk youth in underserved public schools. Working primarily in language arts classrooms and using creative writing activities thematically linked to literature, writers will work in under-performing schools for approximately eight months to supplement the curricula and strengthen students' writing skills.

San Francisco Ballet Association (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$40,000
To support an interactive dance and music education program in partnership with the San Francisco Unified School District. Master teacher, Charles McNeal, and additional dancer instructors, musicians, and an ethnomusicologist will introduce students in grades two through seven to universal dance concepts -- space, time, energy, and force -- and the traditional music of Latin and Central America, Africa, the United States, and Europe.

San Francisco Girls Chorus, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$45,000
To support the Music Education and Performance Program. The program will provide nine months of instruction in choral singing and opportunities for concert performance, using a five-level graduated curriculum and repertoire that spans six centuries and includes 14 languages.

San Francisco Symphony (on behalf of San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra)
San Francisco, CA
$78,000
To support the Artist Development Program of the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra. 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.

SAY Sí (aka San Antonio Youth YES!)
San Antonio, TX
$20,000
To support Project Say Sí, a multidisciplinary "open studio" visual arts program. High school students will conceptualize, produce, refine, and eventually exhibit and sell their own artwork in a manner that parallels the working process of professional artists.

Seattle Arts and Lectures, Inc.
Seattle, WA
$18,000
To support the Writers in the Schools program. Working with professional writers-in-residence throughout the year, students will focus on creative writing and performance; read their poems, plays, and stories in school and for their community; and produce anthologies that showcase each school's student work.

Seattle Repertory Theatre (Consortium)
Seattle, WA
$39,000
To support Bringing Theatre into the Classroom, a professional development program for teachers. A partnership with the Seattle Children's Theatre, the program will provide summer 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
$32,000
To support the Advanced Study Program. The nine-month 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
$75,000
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, student performances, as well as professional development for classroom teachers.

Sloss Furnaces Foundation, Inc.
Birmingham, AL
$66,000
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
$20,000
To support year-round arts workshops for hospitalized children who are unable to attend school. Patients write poems and short stories; film, direct, act, and edit their own short films; and learn to read music and use digital music and video editing software with professional artists who bring advanced arts technology to the hospital environment.

Society of Illustrators, Inc. (aka Museum of American Illustration)
New York, NY
$23,000
To support the Summer Illustration Art Academy. Students ages 9 to 13 will have the opportunity to visit a variety of local cultural institutions and work alongside renowned illustrators.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation (aka Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum) (Consortium)
New York, NY
$45,000
To support the Learning through Art program, a two-year professional development project for New York City museum educators. In partnership with City Access New York, teaching artists and Guggenheim museum educators will seek to expand their capacity to teach students with special needs and teaching artists partner with classroom teachers to plan art residencies.

Sonoran Art Foundation, Inc. (aka Sonoran Glass Art Academy)
Tucson, AZ
$15,000
To support the Youth Glass Arts Education Program. Students will learn centuries-old glass making techniques, how to properly use tools and equipment, application of various coloring methods, and how to create a wide range of forms.

Southern Exposure (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$50,000
To support intensive visual arts education projects for San Francisco area teenagers. In partnership with the Jewish Vocational and Career Counseling Service, Southern Exposure will have youth work alongside teaching artists to produce three major projects and exhibitions to be presented in the Southern Exposure Gallery.

Spanish Dance Arts Company, Inc. (aka Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana) (Consortium)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support Cultural Arts Exchange, a flamenco dance program of Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana. In partnership with Graham County Schools, teaching artists will work with elementary students during intensive workshops in flamenco, making the connection between flamenco and local Appalachian music and dance.

St. Louis ArtWorks
St. Louis, MO
$15,000
To support the summer arts apprenticeship program. Through paid apprenticeships, teenagers from the St. Louis metro area will receive instruction and hands-on experience in specific artistic disciplines, such as painting, printmaking, and sculpture, in the ArtWorks studios.

St. Louis Children's Choirs
St. Louis, MO
$15,000
To support the Ensemble Training and Performance Program. Students will participate in one of six performing groups, rehearse weekly, and perform throughout the year. They will learn sight-reading, music theory, vocal technique, and will perform original commissioned works.

Stagebridge (Consortium)
Oakland, CA
$25,000

To support Stories and Music United, an integrated performing arts curriculum that will combine storytelling, music, and movement for second-, third-, and fourth-grade students in Oakland. A partnership with the Northern California Orff-Schulwerk Association, the project will form teams of a Stagebridge storytellers and Northern California Orff-Schulwerk Association music teachers who will work with students to create multidisciplinary performance pieces combining the two art forms.

Stanford Jazz Workshop
Stanford, CA
$35,000
To support the 2011 Jazz Camp and Residency Programs. On Stanford University's campus, students will study with professional jazz educators and musicians, with a focus on ear training, improvisation, and playing in small ensembles.

Storycatchers Theatre
Chicago, IL
$7,000
To support Teens Together, a year-round series of creative writing and performance programs for youth. The program uses writing, storytelling, and performance skills workshops to develop creativity and self-expression, build communication and decision-making skills, and provide participants with valuable leadership opportunities.

Street Poets, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$23,000
To support Street Poets Workshops, poetry writing classes targeted to high-risk youth in juvenile detention centers, continuation schools, public high schools, and community centers. Through writing workshops, field trips to live poetry performances, discussion groups, and publication of their own work, professional artists will introduce youth to a wide range of poetry, teach creative writing, and help youth develop their artistic voice.

Streetside Stories, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
To support planning, implementation, and assessment of an after-school literary and media arts project for kindergarten through eighth-grade students in Oakland and San Francisco. Teaching artists will teach students to write and revise stories that develop character, setting, and dialogue and read them in public, or use drawings, photography, audio, video, and music to develop short recorded stories.

Telling Room
Portland, ME
$14,000
To support The Way Life Should Be, a free literary arts project. Designed in partnership with the SALT Institute for Documentary Studies, the year-long project will help immigrant students use a variety of media to creatively document stories from their homeland and the impact of resettlement in Maine, culminating in an anthology of student writing, short films, and photographs.

Thomas Armour Youth Ballet, Inc.
SOUTH MIAMI, FL
$15,000
To support dance training, primarily in classical ballet. The program will offer free classes to students focused on developing ballet technique and building a repertory.

Tribeca Film Institute (Consortium)
New York, NY
$45,000
To support Tribeca Teaches: Films in Motion. The in-school and after-school residency program, in partnership with CAMBA, is designed to give young people the filmmaking skills they need to tell their own stories and explore critical connections between their personal experiences, their school curricula, and their wider communities.

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

University of Houston (on behalf of Blaffer Gallery)
Houston, TX
$20,000
To support the young artist apprenticeship program, a free after-school arts education program. Students will work with two artist mentors four days a week for six weeks each fall and spring and exhibit their work at the Blaffer Art Museum.

University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT
$70,000
To support the University of Utah Tanner Dance Program's Side-by-Side Dance Training Residency Program. Students in kindergarten through sixth grade and their teachers will acquire and practice dance skills on a weekly basis through in-school residencies and professional development workshops for teachers.

Unusual Suspects Theatre Company
Los Angeles, CA
$38,000
To support theater arts education workshops. Led by professional artists, students will study theater arts to improve their knowledge about theater, literacy, and communication skills; create their own plays; and collaboratively produce and perform in each other's plays.

Upstream Arts, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$40,000
To support arts residencies in special education classrooms of Minneapolis public elementary, middle, and high schools. Local professional actors, dancers, and musicians will lead interactive activities to teach the fundamentals of arts forms while developing and strengthening the social and communication skills of students with disabilities.

Urban Youth Harp Ensemble, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$30,000
To support the Urban Youth Harp Ensemble. The program provides daily harp instruction to students at Carver School of the Arts, and is designed to teach harp technique, music theory, and music history.

UrbanArts, Inc. (aka The UrbanArts Institute at the Massachusetts)
Boston, MA
$50,000
To support Urbano Project, a college-level arts program for teens who are guided by professional artists to create work that will be presented to the public at an annual series of spoken word performances and open mic nights, film screenings, and exhibitions. Students meet for at least three hours each week to study the history and practice of visual art, film, spoken word poetry, or graphic design, and to prepare an exhibition or performance.

Vineyard Playhouse Company, Inc.
Vineyard Haven, MA
$8,000
To support the Fourth Grade Theater Project. Students will learn all aspects of theater production in- and after-school through classroom visits with professional artists who teach basic elements of scriptwriting; hands-on experience at the theater with technical and administrative professionals; and four performances of an original script.

Walden School
San Francisco, CA
$35,000
To support Composition Immersion Course. Over the five-week summer program, students train in musicianship, composition, receive individual tutoring, and interact with a Composer-in-Residence and an Ensemble-in-Residence.

Washington Chu Shan Chinese Opera Institute, Inc. (aka Chu Shan Chinese Opera) (Consortium)
Silver Spring, MD
$10,000
To support basic, intermediate, and advanced Chinese opera classes. Professional Chinese opera actors teach Rockville Chinese School students the "four skills" of singing, acting, speaking, and martial arts; as well as the "five methods": hand gestures, expression of the eye, dramatic spirit, skill in combat roles, and stage movement.

Washington State Arts Commission (Consortium)
Olympia, WA
$20,000
To support the Teaching Artist Training Lab, a professional development program for teaching artists to work with assessing standards-aligned arts lessons for kindergarten through 12th-grade students. In partnership with Seattle's Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs, the project begins with a two-day training session, followed by periodic professional development workshops during school residencies, and concludes with a final two-day workshop.

Washington State University
Pullman, WA
$35,000
To support workshops for youth and adult leaders to experience exemplary works of art, receive docent training, produce art under the mentorship of artists, and receive curriculum to bring arts instruction back to their local 4-H clubs. Multi-level evaluation strategies will be employed in order to assess the efficacy of leader training and improve workshops and curriculum.

Washington University
St. Louis, MO
$23,000
To support Architecture for Young People, a problem solving workshop about architecture, community, and the environment for fourth- through ninth-grade students. Students will do 2-D and 3-D hands-on problem solving, use the libraries and computer labs on campus, and be welcomed to the field of architecture through seminars with professional designers.

Water Street Glassworks
Benton Harbor, MI
$13,000
To support Fired Up!, an after-school arts program in glassblowing, glass fusing, and glass beadmaking for under-served teens in Benton Harbor, Michigan. Students will work with professional glass artists from the Benton Harbor Arts District to produce work for summer community art fairs.

Webster University (on behalf of Community Music School)
St. Louis, MO
$28,000
To support the Community Music School's Pre-College Student Preparatory Program. Designed to augment the individual study by exceptionally talented music students in the St. Louis area, the program trains students in chamber music, music theory, music history and literature, and provides performance opportunities and artistic mentoring.

Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum
Topanga, CA
$15,000
To support Classics Off the Page, a Shakespeare residency and professional development program. After attending a performance of a Shakespearean play, students and teachers from WISH Charter Elementary School will work with professional artists-in-residence to learn all aspects of theatrical production and create improvised versions of the play that will be performed for the community.

Wingspan Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$18,000
To support the Wingspan Arts Summer Conservatory, including Wingspan Players for younger students in grades six through eight and Wingspan Ensemble for students with more advanced skills in grades nine through 12. Students in each section will have a variety of classes from which to choose, including acting, voice, movement, dialect, or musical theater dance; students will do dramaturgical research about playwrights, play setting, and characters; and each section will produce two plays, one musical and one dramatic.

WNYC Radio
New York, NY
$75,000
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
$42,000
To support Multicultural Street Conservatory, a program of theater and visual arts residencies by nationally prominent artists from diverse backgrounds for 11- to 18-year-old students. All students will study play writing, performance, and visit exhibitions; advanced students will produce work for theater productions, public art projects, and gallery installations.

Writers In the Schools (aka WITS)
Houston, TX
$48,000
To support Many Voices, One Houston, year-long creative writing workshops for students. Professional writers will visit classrooms to provide instruction on the creative writing process of brainstorming, drafting, editing, revising, and publishing; students will have writing opportunities each day, perform in classroom readings at the end of the year, and will be published in an anthology of student writing.

Yale-New Haven Hospital
New Haven, CT
$35,000
To support Child Life Arts and Enrichment Program Digital Storytelling Project that brings professional artists to teach hospitalized youth how to create digital stories. Through interactions with artists, young patients who are either living with chronic illness, including sickle cell anemia, diabetes, asthma, cancer, and cystic fibrosis, or who experience a lengthy or difficult hospital stay due to an acute illness or injury, learn arts skills and produce work that reflects their perspective on living with illness and artistically transforms their experience.

Young Audiences/New York, Inc.
New York, NY
$28,000
To support visual arts residencies for underserved youth at Bronx Elementary School. Teaching artists from the Young Audiences roster will collaborate with classroom teachers to lead quality arts education residences in the fall and spring. Students will go on field trips to cultural institutions and participate in family workshops that take place in the evenings or on weekends.

Young Dancers in Repertory, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
To support the Center for Dance Studies and Teenage Touring Ensemble. Dance educators will teach Humphrey-Weidman and other contemporary dance techniques, classical ballet, and other dance forms to pre-professional students over 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. Classroom teachers attend professional development workshops that introduce them to the work of professional performing groups and through classroom residencies students gain an understanding of basic musical concepts, experiencing music in relation to history and culture.

Young Musicians Foundation
Beverly Hills, CA
$25,000
To support Harp In Our Public Schools Project. The 32-week residency program will provide harp instruction to elementary and middle school students, and provide opportunities for the students to perform in recitals.

Young People's Chorus of New York City, Inc.
New York, NY
$38,000
To support the Partner Schools Program. Targeted at-risk students from 12 New York City public schools will participate in after-school choral music education activities, including weekly rehearsals, music theory and harmonic analysis classes, and performance experiences.

Young Playwrights' Theater, Inc.
Washington, DC
$36,000
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. Each student will write a short play, which will be performed by professional actors in the classroom to help students revise their work. Selected student work will be presented at the New Play Festival at Gala Hispanic Theater.

Young Playwrights, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$15,000
To support Diary 21/Are We Writing Loud Enough, a theater education project. Designed and implemented by Vineyard Theatre and the Anne Frank Center USA, students in grades six through 12 will use Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl as the inspiration for an original play that will be written, rehearsed, and performed for the public by participants.

Young Storytellers Foundation
Los Angeles, CA
$12,000
To support the Young Storytellers Foundation screenwriting project expansion to middle and high schools schools in Culver City, California. The program emphasizes learning through game play, dramatic structure, oral storytelling, and writing.

Youth Ensemble of Atlanta
Atlanta, GA
$38,000
To support the Workshop Training Program, a free, audition-based program that provides beginning, intermediate, and advanced-level classes in music, dance, theater, creative writing, and storytelling. Students will collaboratively create an original musical drama to be performed in a variety of venues that focuses attention on issues youth are facing in their daily lives..

Youth in Focus
Seattle, WA
$22,000
To support core photography classes offered free of charge to underserved youth, including up to four quarters of sequential film and digital photography classes. Students will participate in open critique sessions, review and analyze professional work, participate in at least one field trip to a local art museum, and curate an exhibition of students' best work.

Youth Radio
Oakland, CA
$45,000
To support the I Am an Artist media arts project. Participating youth will increase their knowledge and practice of different art forms as they begin to view the parallels between their production of converged media content (audio, video, music) and their roles as artists in its creation.

Youth Speaks, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$35,000
To support the Youth Speaks Residency Program. Professional poet-mentors will work in and after-school to teach students poetry, creative writing, and spoken word performance, culminating in a variety of publications and public performance opportunities at festivals and poetry slams.

YS Kids Playhouse
Yellow Springs, OH
$22,000
To support the Summer Theater Arts Immersion program. Led by local, national, and international artists, students will write, produce, and perform two full-scale summer dramatic performances of original works that explore important themes and cross-cultural issues of our time.

Number of Grants: 229          Total Amount: $7,385,000

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