FY 2011 Grant Awards: State Listings

Access to Artistic Excellence II/ Arts on Radio and Television/
Learning in the Arts for Children & Youth/Partnerships

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

CALIFORNIA

826 Valencia
San Francisco, CA
$27,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
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
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
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
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
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.

Actors' Gang, Inc.
Culver City, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support national and international touring performances of Break the Whip. The play is the first piece in a series of history plays written and directed by Academy Award-winner and Artistic Director Tim Robbins that explore the birth of the "American community".

Aftermath Project
Los Angeles, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support production of the fourth volume of War Is Only Half the Story. Featuring work by award-winning artists, the book will document photographic work that reveals the consequences of war.

AjA Project
San Diego, CA
$34,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
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.

Alameda County Office of Education (aka Alliance for Arts Learning Leadership)
Hayward, CA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
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.

Alliance for California Traditional Arts
Fresno, CA
$55,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support a statewide traditional arts apprenticeship program. Funding will support contracts with master artists, documentation, a two-day artists' gathering, and a public showcase of their work.

Alliance for California Traditional Arts (Consortium)
Fresno, CA
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support an organizational and artistic development program and provide partial support of the executive director, associate director, and operations manager positions. In conjunction with the California Arts Council, ACTA will help traditional artists and organizations with technical assistance through consultancies, mentorships, and travel opportunities.

Antenna Theater
Sausalito, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the presentation of Harder Right at the San Francisco Arts Festival. The site-specific, multidisciplinary work will be presented at the Fort Mason Center and will incorporate dance, music, masks, still and video projections, and sound collages.

API Cultural Center (aka Oakland Asian Cultural Center)
Oakland, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support Converging Diasporas, performances based in the traditions of three Asian immigrant communities living in the Oakland metropolitan area. Students, taught by master artists, will present a program of Philippine music and dance, a Lunar New Year Festival and Student Showcase, and the Treasure of Mongolia Festival, featuring Mongolian folk dance and music.

Architecture for Humanity
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the expansion of the Open Architecture Network. Both the content and the accessibility of the website (openarchitecturenetwork.org) will be improved to provide design services, information, and resources to underserved populations.

Arts Council Silicon Valley
San Jose, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the Community Arts Fund (CAF), a subgranting program that supports artistic programming presented by arts organizations in Santa Clara County. The CAF, one of the Council's three funding categories for arts organizations, will provide project support with grants ranging from $1,500 to $4,000 for arts activities reflective of the area's multicultural constituency.

Arts for LA
Los Angeles, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Community Arts Team Initiative. This program creates five self-sustaining teams in communities throughout Los Angeles County, with the goal of building local leadership to preserve and enhance local cultural infrastructure.

Autry National Center of the American West (aka The Autry)
Los Angeles, CA
$80,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Native Voices at The Autry program with accompanying educational outreach activities. New works by Native American writers will be developed at an annual playwrights' retreat through professional workshops and publicly staged readings.

AXIS Dance Company (Consortium)
Oakland, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation of a new work titled Full of Words, choreographed by Marc Brew, a United Kingdom-based choreographer who has a disability. In partnership with Very Special Arts of New Mexico, the company will be in residency in Albuquerque, and will present the work along with activities for youth and adults.

Balboa Art Conservation Center
San Diego, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a post-graduate internship in paintings conservation. Designed to provide a broad range of supervised and guided treatment experiences, the program allows the intern to gain greater proficiency and experience in the areas of examination, treatment, and analysis.

Bay Area Video Coalition, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the Mediamaker Awards program, that will provide independent video artists and producers with the technical assistance and resources they need to finish their projects. There will be eight emerging and mid-career artists selected for the year-long program; they will have access to Bay Area Video Coalition's state-of-the-art facilities as well as receiving technical training through BAVC's digital media workshops.

Berkeley Symphony Orchestra (Consortium)
Berkeley, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support music instruction for school students and Family Concerts. In partnership with the Berkeley Unified School District, plans include music lessons for students that will perform with the symphony in Family Concerts.

Black Storytellers of San Diego
Chula Vista, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support Common Threads: International Storytelling, Dance and Drum Conference and Festival. The three-day event will provide professional development training and workshops for K-12 educators and students on the connections between oral traditions and performance arts with a focus on practical approaches, application, implementation, and inclusion of folk arts in education.

Cal Poly Corporation (on behalf of Cal Poly Arts)
San Luis Obispo, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support La Guitarra California Festival. The three-day biennial festival presented by Cal Poly Arts will feature classical and contemporary guitar music and include concerts by artists including Pepe Romero and the San Francisco Guitar Quartet, a lecture, master class, workshops, a guitar-building exhibit, and a collection of rare and historic guitars on display.

California Arts Council
Sacramento, CA
$1,162,700
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

California Indian Storytelling Association
Fremont, CA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the storytelling symposium and festival Casting A Net of Story and Song: The Art and Practice of Native Fishing Cultures. The project will provide a forum for the presentation of stories, focused on the art and practice of fishing as reflected in traditional narratives of indigenous peoples from New Zealand, Hawaii, and the Pacific Coast of the United States.

California Institute of the Arts (aka CalArts) (on behalf of REDCAT (Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater))
Valencia, CA
$55,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the 20/20 Interdisciplinary Initiative at the Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater. The project will feature a series of residencies, commissions, performances, and festivals.

California Institute of the Arts (aka CalArts) (Consortium)
Valencia, CA
$55,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
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 Presenters
Sacramento, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the 28th annual Artist Information Exchange. This is a peer-to-peer exchange with presenters, art administrators, and artists from more than 100 not-for-profit organizations and 32 affiliates.

California Shakespeare Theater (aka Cal Shakes)
Berkeley, CA
$12,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of The Taming of the Shrew, directed by Shana Cooper. The rehearsal period will include the multidisciplinary "Essence Piece" process developed by Cooper, in which the cast and design team explore the text through non-verbal forms, thereby creating a physical and visual vocabulary unique to the production.

California State University Chico Research Foundation (on behalf of University Public Events)
Chico, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the 2011 Chico World Music Festival. The free, three-day event held in September will feature international and American jazz, traditional music, and dance artists in performances, workshops, hands-on classes, and children's programs.

California State University San Marcos (on behalf of Center ARTES)
San Marcos, CA
$18,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
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.

Catticus Corporation
Berkeley, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the completion of a documentary film about Charles Eames (1907-78) and Ray Eames (1912-88). The Architect and the Painter: The Creative Lives of Charles and Ray Eames will be a feature-length public television biography of the husband-and-wife team who are widely regarded as among the most influential American industrial designers of the 20th century.

Center for Architecture + Design (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$12,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the Architecture and the City Festival: Film Series. Activities to be co-presented with the San Francisco Public Library include the Meet the Filmaker and Architect, and a new participatory component that encourages audience members to consider their relationship to place by creating short films or videos.

Center for Asian American Media
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production and post-production of a public television program about ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro. The one-hour film portrait will capture the artist's performances before sold-out crowds, as well as intimate moments of life on the road and visits home to his native Hawaii, where he has risen from local hero to international star.

Center for Land Use Interpretation
Culver City, CA
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support an artist residency at Wendover Regional Arts Complex in Wendover, Utah. The residency will enable artists to create and present work in Westover, a unique landscape in a remote and geographically isolated area which includes the Great Salt Lake and its desert and salt-flat environs.

Center for the Art of Translation
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support Lit & Lunch, a reading series spotlighting international writers and translators. The readings are available on the center's website with full audio, photographs, and selections of presented materials.

Center for the Art of Translation (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support training for teachers and writers on the integration of poetry and translation into New York City classrooms. In partnership with Teachers & Writers Collaborative, the center will create an online community to share and discuss research findings, experiences, curriculum, and student work.

Center for World Music (aka Center for World Music and Related Arts)
El Cajon, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
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.

Chinese Cultural Productions (aka Lily Cai Dance Company)
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a tour of the Lily Cai Chinese Dance Company to five California communities. With the tour, Cai will provide Chinese American audiences access to professional performing arts experiences and will introduce many new audience members to contemporary Chinese American dance and music.

City of Rancho Cucamonga (aka MainStreet Theatre Company)
Rancho Cucamonga, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of A Wrinkle In Time, adapted by John Glore from the book by Madeleine L'Engle. Directed by Mark Rucker, associate artistic director at American Conservatory Theatre, the story is about the battle of good and evil and the ultimate power of love.

City of San Fernando, California
San Fernando, CA
$57,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
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.

City of San Jose, California Office of Cultural Affairs, Office of Economic Development (aka City of San Jose Office of Cultural Affairs)
San Jose, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the development of key multimedia elements to enhance public access to the artworks and related cultural history elements of the Alum Rock Cultural History Corridor. Project activity will highlight site-specific artworks and artist-designed markers identifying acclaimed artists such as Luis Valdez and Los Tigres Del Norte and their connections to the Alum Rock community.

Conscious Youth Media Crew
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
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.

Cornerstone Theater Company, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$75,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support Cornerstone Institute Summer Residency program in Fowler, California, to provide training to artists and community members in community-based theater methodology. During the four-week residency, institute students will partner with community members and Cornerstone Theater artists to create and perform a community-specific new play or adaptation of a classic.

Craft in America, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$100,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the public television series Craft in America. Intended for broadcast in fall 2011, two new one-hour prime-time documentary programs will feature craft artists from various regions of the country, working in materials such as wood, glass, and fiber.

Crosspulse
Oakland, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support The International Body Music Festival'.

Cultural Council of Santa Cruz County
Santa Cruz, CA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support a subgranting program for Santa Cruz County artists and arts organizations. Funding supports cultural festivals, community celebrations, and the presentation of traditional art forms in Santa Cruz County.

Dance Camera West
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of the 2012 Dance Camera West Dance Media Film Festival. The festival will include a series of dance film screenings from around the world at various venues in Los Angeles.

Deaf West Theatre Company, Inc.
North Hollywood, CA
$60,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the creation and production of a new adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac using American Sign Language and spoken English. The world premiere adaptation will be modified and directed by Stephen Sachs, co-founder of The Fountain Theatre in Los Angeles, and will be performed by a company of hearing, deaf, and hard-of-hearing actors.

Dell'Arte, Inc. (aka Dell\'Arte International)
Blue Lake, CA
$18,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the creation and tour of the original theater work Three Trees. The production will be developed utilizing European and American circus clown traditions and the company will tour it throughout rural Northern California and Southern Oregon using a wagon to transport the show to outdoor venues.

Each One Reach One
S. San Francisco, CA
$14,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
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.

Earplay (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support educational activities for youth. In partnership with the San Francisco Community Music Center, ensemble musicians will work with students at the music center and in San Francisco public schools providing individual instruction, group lessons, workshops, and free tickets to performances.

East Bay Center for the Performing Arts
Richmond, CA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
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.

East-West Players, Inc. (aka EWP)
Los Angeles, CA
$60,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of A Widow of No Importance by Shane Sakhrani. The play portrays a South Asian Indian widow who, committed to her traditional beliefs, is bound by tradition not to leave her flat and yet vows to see her modern daughter married.

EastSide Arts Alliance
Oakland, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Jazz in Communities, which uses jazz as a vehicle to unify and strengthen East Oakland. Components include the free, annual Malcolm X JazzArts Festival; Bop Gun, weekly jazz jam sessions pairing hip-hop youth with established jazz musicians; as well as workshops, lectures, film, and jazz concerts featuring artists like Ambrose Akinmusire, Nasheet Waits, and Vijay Iyer.

El Teatro Campesino (Consortium)
San Juan Bautist, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a staging of La Pastorela, The Shepherds Play, in the historic Mission of San Juan Bautista. In partnership with San Benito County, this work will be told through dance, music, and theater, portraying the journey of the pastores (shepherds) to find the holy manger in Bethlehem.

Elevating Soulciety (aka Soulciety)
Hayward, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
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.

Epiphany Productions Sonic Dance Theater
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of the eighth annual San Francisco Trolley Dances, a series of site-specific dance performances that will take place along one of San Francisco's trolley lines, free-of-charge.

Escondido Arts Partnership
Escondido, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the Art and Science and Recycled Materials exhibition series. The series, offered free-of charge, feature artwork that underscores the importance of recycling and conserving natural resources.

Firebird Youth Chinese Orchestra
San Jose, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
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.

Floricanto Dance Theatre (aka Danza Floricanto/USA)
Pasadena, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support Danza Floricanto/USA's creation and presentation of Alma Llanera-Spirit of the Plains, a new dance work inspired by Rudolfo Ananya's novel Bless Me Ultima. The company also will reprise two traditional folk dance works in its repertoire, Day of the Dead and Navidad, and will conduct workshops, lecture-demonstrations, educational assemblies, and residences in conjunction with the performances.

Foundation for World Arts (aka World Festival of Sacred Music-Los Angeles) (Consortium)
Los Angeles, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the creation and national tour of The Water is Rising. In partnership with Earthways Foundation, performers from the coral atolls of Tuvalu, Tokelau, and Kiribati in the Pacific Ocean will bring attention to the earth's rising sea levels through performances and educational activities.

Free History Project
San Francisco, CA
$26,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support production and post-production costs for an experimental documentary film by Sam Green. Fog City will be a documentary about weather and landscape and will include a collage of moving images that illuminates and explores fog in the urban environment.

Friends of Lincoln Theater (aka Lincoln Theater Napa Valley)
Yountville, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Mexican Performing Arts Series. Participating artists will include music group Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán, and traditional and contemporary dance troupe Compañía Mazatlán Bellas Artes.

Gabriella Axelrad Education Foundation (aka everybody dance!)
Los Angeles, CA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
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.

Hartnell College Foundation (on behalf of Western Stage)
Salinas, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support a production of the musical Let The Eagle Fly- The Story of Cesar Chavez, with book by John Reeger, music and lyrics by Julie Shannon, direction by producer, writer, choreographer Lorenzo Aragon, and musical direction by Don Dally. The musical portrays Chavez's life as an influential civil rights leader.

HeArt Project
Los Angeles, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
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.

Heyday Institute (aka Heyday Books)
Berkeley, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support an outreach and publicity campaign to develop new audiences for the literary anthology Best of California 2011. The press will conduct a major book tour throughout California and host events in partnership with local organizations.

Imagination Workshop, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support Imagination Workshop: Youth at Risk. This theater arts program for young people at risk of gang involvement or marginalization pairs professional theater artists with youth participants to create original performance pieces that are presented publicly at the Rio de Los Angeles Community Center.

Imagine Bus Project
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support art making activities for incarcerated youth at the San Francisco Juvenile Justice Center. The Youth Studio curriculum will offer skill building projects that incorporate art fundamentals such as design, composition, drawing, and painting. Students will collaborate on a large-scale mural project honoring Cheyenne Bell, the late founding director of the Community Programs Division for the San Francisco Juvenile Probation Department.

Independent Television Service, Inc. (aka ITVS)
San Francisco, CA
$170,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the selection, acquisition, and packaging of films for the public television series Independent Lens. This weekly PBS series provides the public with access to innovative, dramatic, animated, and documentary works by independent filmmakers.

Inner-City Arts
Los Angeles, CA
$45,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
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
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
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.

International City Theatre
Long Beach, CA
$12,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Performing Arts Classroom Teaching Program. The program will bring artist educators into Long Beach Unified School District's third-grade classrooms to incorporate hands-on theater instruction and performance.

Jazz Tap Ensemble Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the production of Jazz Tap Originals - Acoustic Percussion, the third DVD in a series that chronicles the creative life of Jazz Tap Ensemble, with a focus on the tap dancer as percussionist and artist. The DVD will be approximately 60 minutes in length, and will include works by such tap artists as Fred Strickler, Sam Weber, Keith Terry, and Artistic Director Lynn Dally.

Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the production and presentation of the multidisciplinary performance Mu. Theater artist Brenda Wong Aoki, composer Mark Izu, choreographer Kimi Okada, and director Jael Weisman will weave elements of Asian, African, and Hawaiian dance and music to create a multimedia pageant play.

Khmer Arts Academy
Long Beach, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support Cambodian classical dance training. Students are taught in weekly workshops by experienced master artists, including NEA National Heritage Fellow Sophiline Cheam Shapiro.

Kitchen Sisters Productions
San Francisco, CA
$100,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production and national distribution of a series of audio documentaries to be produced by Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva. Hidden Kitchens World will explore life and culture through food across the globe with stories ranging from the Quaker chocolate communities of England to honey hunters in India and bread bakeries in Morocco.

Kitchen Sisters Productions (aka The Kitchen Sisters)
San Francisco, CA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production and national distribution of a series of audio documentaries to be produced by Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva. New programs from the public radio series and website The Secret Life of Girls Around the World will focus on women and girls in the arts.

Kitka, Inc.
Oakland, CA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Polyphonia, a creative development, touring, and educational project. The choral concert program will explore traditional and contemporary harmonies of Eastern Europe and the Caucasus and will be preceded by educational activities such as vocal workshops, choral master classes, and school presentations.

KQED
San Francisco, CA
$200,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production of a television series exploring music from around the world. SOUND TRACKS: Music Without Borders will be a prime-time, six-hour public television mini-series that will present musical performances in the context of well-reported and well-crafted stories.

L.A. Freewaves
Los Angeles, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support Out the Window, a commissioning and exhibition project. L.A. Freewaves will commission 60 video artists to create 2-minute works to be shown on 2,200 Los Angeles metro buses every day over the course of two months.

LA Stage Alliance
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the PatronManager program, a web-based customer relationship management system for small and mid-sized theater companies in Southern California. Executive Director Terence McFarland will provide managerial leadership to expand the reach of the program, which provides an integrated database solution for all ticketing, marketing, and development activities.

LEVYdance, Inc. (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the design and construction of prototypes for a multimedia and live art installation conceptualized by choreographer Benjamin Levy. The Exploratorium (San Francisco's museum of science, art, and human perception) will partner with Levy during the project's research and development phase to create the initial prototype installations in the museum's West Gallery.

Library Foundation of Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support ALOUD at Central Library, a literary outreach program targeting young and ethnically diverse audiences. Events will be promoted through blogs, online chats, Facebook, Twitter, emails, and video podcasts available through the Los Angeles Public Library Web site, iTunes, and a local television station.

Lobero Theatre Foundation
Santa Barbara, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support DANCEworks, a four-week residency by an emerging choreographer on stage at the historic Lobero Theater. SUMMERDANCE Santa Barbara will collaborate on the project to provide an artist with significant time and space to develop new work on an actual stage (instead of in a studio) and will culminate with public performances of the new work.

Los Angeles Children's Chorus
Pasadena, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a regional tour to Mid-Atlantic states. Performances and educational activities will take place in collaboration with the American Boychoir in Princeton, New Jersey; the Philadelphia Boys Choir; and the Children's Chorus of Washington, DC.

Los Angeles County Arts Commission (Consortium)
Los Angeles, CA
$80,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
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 Forum for Architecture and Urban Design (aka LA Forum)
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support a retrospective exhibition and related catalogue and symposium. The retrospective will include materials documenting the LA Forum's 25-year history. The symposium will feature academics and design professionals who will gather to discuss the efficacy of the forum's work and also to consider possible future trajectories for Los Angeles.

Los Angeles Opera Company (aka LA Opera) (Consortium)
Los Angeles, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support Opera Prep, a comprehensive outreach program aimed at reaching high school students. In partnership with the Los Angeles Unified School District, the year-long initiative will engage students in all aspects of the business of opera, including artistic, technical, and administrative activities.

Los Angeles Philharmonic Association (Consortium)
Los Angeles, CA
$75,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
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 Angeles Poverty Department (aka LAPD)
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the creation and production of the Biggest Recovery Project Community Anywhere performance project. The production will tell the story of the building and growth of Skid Row, a recovery community in downtown Los Angeles, and is intended to foster dialogue with other recovery communities in more affluent parts of Los Angeles County.

Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center (Consortium)
San Pablo, CA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support Cultures of Mexico in California, a project that uses vernacular Mexican music and dance to examine cultural identity among Mexican immigrants and Mexican Americans. In collaboration with the Migrant Education Program, Region 1, the project will present performances of traditional Mexican music and dance, screenings of documentary films, lectures, and workshops on traditional Mexican arts and their role in the community.

Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center
San Pablo, CA
$33,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
To support the Mockingbird Youth Project.

Luna Kids Dance
Emeryville, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
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.

Malashock Dance & Company
San Diego, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
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.

Marsh, a breeding ground for new performance
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the remounting of Marsh Youth Theater's Jip, His Story with a cast of high school student actors from its theater arts program. Based on the Newbery Award-winning book by Katherine Paterson, the musical explores the pre-Civil War era in the United States.

Mary Pickford Institute for Film Education
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the post-production phase of a documentary film about Jack Cole, a man widely acknowledged as the father of American jazz dance. The film will fuse narrative on Cole's life with archival footage, re-staged works, and interviews with dance luminaries about the breadth of his influence on the American dance field.

Mexican Heritage Corporation (aka Mexican Heritage Plaza) (Consortium)
San Jose, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
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.

Mo'olelo Performing Arts Company
San Diego, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of 26 Miles by Quiara Alegria Hudes. Directed by Executive Artistic Director Seema Sueko, the play is about a half-Cuban, half-Jewish 15-year old who surmounts an attempted suicide and parental dysfunction to reunite with her estranged mother for a road trip.

Motion: The Women's Performing Collective
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the continuing development and premiere of The Kepler Project. Written by Artistic Director Nina Wise in collaboration with Dr. Ralph Abraham, one of the pioneers of chaos theory, and Ryan J. Wyatt, director of Morrison Planetarium, The Kepler Project will integrate text, music, movement, and animated graphics to investigate events of the 1600s (such as scientific discoveries) and cast light on the transformation that may occur in our own lifetimes.

Museum of Performance & Design (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the inventory, digitization, and conservation services for the legacy materials of Bay Area dance companies Joe Goode Performance Group and the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company. In partnership with Joe Goode Performance Group, the museum will gather the sizable collections of legacy materials and make them available via the websites of the museum, each company, and the Dance Heritage Coalition's Secure Media Network.

Museum of Performance & Design
San Francisco, CA
$19,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support phase II of Full Spectrum: Preserving Rare & Diverse Bay Area Dance Video, 1985-2000. The project will create archival-quality digital masters of 300 selected dance recordings which are currently housed in fragile and obsolete formats.

Museum of Photographic Arts
San Diego, CA
$55,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
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.

National Alliance of Media Arts Centers, Inc. (aka NAMAC)
San Francisco, CA
$85,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support services to the not-for-profit media arts field. NAMAC will focus on three core areas: 1) providing technical assistance to its constituency; 2) expanding its online information and social media network; and 3) planning for its 2012 national conference.

National Alliance of Media Arts Centers, Inc. (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$64,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a professional development program for leaders of visual arts organizations. In collaboration with Headlands Center for the Arts, the program will offer a five-day Leadership Institute for 20 visual arts leaders and technical assistance to as many as 20 visual arts leaders to travel to other organizations to observe administrative and programmatic innovations with the intent of improving their own organization.

National Association of Latino Independent Producers, Inc. (aka NALIP) (Consortium)
Santa Monica, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support Doing Your Doc: Diverse Visions, Regional Voices, a series of regional conferences. In collaboration with the Center for Documentary Studies (aka the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival), NALIP will offer seminars in four different cities concentrating on documentary film development and production for emerging documentarians from underserved communities.

National Association of Latino Independent Producers, Inc. (aka NALIP)
Santa Monica, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the eighth Latino Media Market that will connect filmmakers with representatives from both the not-for-profit and commercial film and television fields. Organizations that will participate include Miramax Films, HBO, American Documentary/POV, Fine Line Features, and the Sundance Channel.

Network of Ensemble Theaters
Los Angeles, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Ensembles ABCs (All-Together Building Capacity) program. The program is designed to increase the organizational capacity and sustainability of ensemble theater companies through a series of artist-centered professional development workshops on financial literacy, touring, and governance.

Network of Ensemble Theaters (Consortium)
Los Angeles, CA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the 2011 National Summit of Ensemble Theaters in Minneapolis. Hosted in partnership with The Minnesota Theatre Alliance, the summit is a program of Springboard for the Arts, and will foster dialogue on issues facing the ensemble field, provide professional development opportunities, present performances by member ensembles, and create a forum for critical discussion.

New Conservatory (aka New Conservatory Theatre Center)
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the New Conservatory Theatre Center's YouthAware Educational Theatre program. YouthAware travels to schools to perform professional theatrical productions with an educational component that feature characters and story lines addressing diversity, substance abuse, school safety, body image, and HIV prevention.

Ninth Street Media Consortium, Inc. (aka Ninth Street Independent Film Center)
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support a programmatic collaboration at the Ninth Street Independent Film Center, a consortium of eight media arts organizations, all housed in one building. The collaboration involves the continuing implementation of a shared information technology department for the occupants and a facilities department.

Old Globe Theatre (Consortium)
San Diego, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Student Access to the Arts and Free Student Matinee Program. The Old Globe Theatre will partner with the San Diego County Office of Education to provide free student matinees of its five regular season productions during the school year. Students may attend a free in-school workshop with a Globe Teaching Artist and view online study guides before seeing the show.

Opera San Jose, Inc.
San Jose, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support educational outreach activities for youth and adults. Members of the resident ensemble will perform a one-act opera based on Engelbert Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel, and will participate in season previews, opera history seminars, and vocal and drama master classes.

Other Minds (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a project to convert archival recordings for free public access via the Internet. In partnership with Internet Archive, Other Minds will select and prepare the materials featuring performances, interviews, and conversations recorded live by leading composers and artists of 20th-century American music and make them available for a worldwide audience.

Otis Art Institute (aka Otis College of Art and Design)
Los Angeles, CA
$75,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the development of digital strategies and public events to increase awareness and broaden the audience for the Otis Report on the Creative Economy. The report captures the economic force of the creative industries in Southern California and provides raw data to substantiate the economic impact of creativity in the region.

Pacific Asia Museum
Pasadena, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support reinstallation of the museum's Korean collection. The 50 works dating from the 12th to the 21st century will be grouped by religious practice in Korea -- Buddhism, Shamanism, and Confucianism.

Pacific Chorale
Santa Ana, CA
$42,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Choral Connections, an expansion of the educational outreach program. Under the direction of Artistic Director John Alexander, the program will offer at least 100 high school students a two-week choral boot camp, with intensive training by members of the chorale's John Alexander Singers, as well as an expansion of its high school initiatives for student choristers and choral teachers.

Paradigm Productions, Inc.
Berkeley, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support production and post-production costs for a personal documentary by Rick Tejada-Flores. In The Road to Chulumani, the filmmaker will examine his family's history as it relates to Bolivia (his grandfather was President of Bolivia from 1934-1936) and the repercussions for both his family and the country itself.

Pasadena Arts Council
Pasadena, CA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the presentation of newly commissioned artworks for the AxS Festival 2011, celebrating the arts and sciences. Under the theme of Fire and Water, the festival will bring together area arts, cultural, and research institutions to offer performances, exhibitions, presentations, and public conversations celebrating the arts and sciences.

PCPA Foundation (aka PCPA Theaterfest)
Santa Maria, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support PCPA Theaterfest's presentation of My Fairytale, a family-friendly musical featuring music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, with guest direction by his son Scott Schwartz. Originally performed as Mit Eventyr in Denmark to honor the 200th anniversary of Hans Christian Anderson's birth, the subsequently refined and English language version by Schwartz portrays Anderson's choice to write fairytales rather than adult plays for the Danish intelligentsia.

PEN Center USA West (aka PEN USA)
Beverly Hills, CA
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support Freedom to Write, a series of outreach programs targeting writers in underserved communities. The project includes PEN in the Classroom, providing creative writing residencies for at-risk youth; Emerging Voices, a fellowship program for aspiring writers; and Writers' Toolbox, a series of discussions about the craft and business of writing.

PhotoAlliance
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the Photography Lecture Series. The series will offer regional emerging photographic artists the opportunity to share their work with the community and share the stage with internationally-renowned photographic artists.

Playhouse Arts (aka Arcata Playhouse)
Arcata, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the 6th annual Playhouse Family Fun Series. Co-Artistic Directors Jacqueline Dandeneau and David Ferney will lead the project and programming of culturally diverse theater performances at the Arcata Playhouse.

Playwrights Project
San Diego, CA
$11,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
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.

Project Bandaloop
San Francisco, CA
$12,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the multimedia element of a new dance/theater work titled IdEgo, choreographed by Artistic Director Amelia Rudolph in collaboration with multimedia designer Austin Forbord. Remote performance footage of the company will be integrated with an on-site live video feed and projected close-ups of the dancers, among other effects.

Public Corporation for the Arts of the City of Long Beach (aka Arts Council for Long Beach)
Long Beach, CA
$48,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
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.

Public Design Studio (aka Public Architecture) (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the migration of the Designers Accord, a global coalition of designers, educators, and business leaders to Public Architecture's 1% Program. The amalgam will expand the variety of pro bono design services available to not-for-profit organizations through the 1% Program.

Purple Silk Music Education Foundation, Inc.
Oakland, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
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.

QCC-The Center for Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Art & Culture (aka Queer Cultural Center) (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the East Bay Queer Arts Festival. A partnership with La Peña Cultural Center, the festival will include literary and stage readings, film screenings, and performing arts presentations.

Radio Bilingüe, Inc. (Consortium)
Fresno, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support broadcasts featuring traditional music from Colombia at the 2011 Smithsonian Folklife Festival. In collaboration with radio station KPOO-FM, San Francisco, Radio Bilingüe will produce and broadcast two one-hour live and tape delayed programs including panel discussions with artists, as well as eight one-hour programs featuring a combination of musical concerts and artist interviews.

Red Hen Press, Inc. (Consortium)
Pasadena, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support poetry workshops and readings throughout southern California. In partnership with the Poetry Society of America, the press will place poets in one high school in Los Angeles and one elementary school in Pasadena, as well as sponsor readings at the Geffen Playhouse in Westwood and the Boston Court Theater in Pasadena.

Regents of the University of California at Berkeley (on behalf of Pacific Film Archive) (Consortium)
Berkeley, CA
$65,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support Behind the Scenes, an artist residency program specifically for film specialists working outside of the directorial role (screenwriters, editors, and cinematographers). A partnership between the San Francisco Film Society and Pacific Film Archive, the artist-in-residence will conduct workshops and master classes, deliver lectures and presentations, and participate in public screenings in Berkeley and San Francisco.

Regents of the University of California at Davis (on behalf of Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts)
Davis, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Life Out of Balance series. The Mondavi Center will explore three major dislocations in American life (the Vietnam War, Hurricane Katrina, and 9/11) through film screenings and performances; artists will include choreographer Trey McIntyre with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, and composers Phil Kline and NEA Opera Honorees John Adams and Philip Glass.

Regents of the University of California at Irvine (on behalf of The Beall Center for Art and Technology)
Irvine, CA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the exhibition eyecode, with accompanying catalogue and public programs. The exhibition of work by American artist Golan Levin (b. 1972) will focus on his use of new technologies to create life-like interactive projections and sculptural installations.

Regents of the University of California at San Diego
La Jolla, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the production of two issues of TheatreForum, an international theater journal. The publications will include the scripts for two previously unpublished plays by U.S. and international playwrights, and up to 10 articles focused on bringing readers increased understanding of the range and diversity of contemporary theater throughout the world.

Renaissance Arts Academy (aka RenArts)
Los Angeles, CA
$45,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
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.

River of Words
Berkeley, CA
$11,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
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.

Rova:Arts
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the creation and presentation of Grand Electric Skull. The multimedia work will be created by the Rova Saxophone Quartet, video artist Nate Boyce, and composer/conductor Gino Robair and will culminate in a performance at San Francisco's Jewish Community Center.

Ruby's Clay Studio & Gallery
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
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.

Ryman-Carroll Foundation (aka Ryman Arts)
Los Angeles, CA
$47,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
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.

Sacramento Philharmonic Orchestra Association, Inc. (Consortium)
Sacramento, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support an educational outreach program featuring Carnegie Hall's LinkUP! for Music Orchestra Rocks program. The orchestra, in partnership with the Sacramento City Unified School District, will present the performance and education program in 16 schools.

San Diego Chamber Orchestra (aka Orchestra Nova San Diego)
San Diego, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a webcast recording project by Orchestra Nova San Diego. Concert performances, conducted by Artistic Director and Conductor Jung-Ho-Pak, will be held at the Irwin M. Jacobs Qualcomm Hall, recorded and broadcast for free viewing on the Internet.

San Diego Museum of Art
San Diego, CA
$60,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support reinstallation of the permanent collection galleries of East Asian art. With the reinstallation, visitors will be introduced to approximately 400 works of art from Japan, Korea, and China from 1000 BCE until the present day

San Diego Opera Association (Consortium)
San Diego, CA
$45,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
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 Diego State University Foundation
San Diego, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Heartpower, an outreach performance project by young musicians for audiences throughout underserved communities in the San Diego area. Concerts and workshops will be conducted in diverse community and social service centers, such as juvenile justice system facilities, homeless veteran centers, and public libraries.

San Diego Symphony Orchestra Association
San Diego, CA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a touring performance project in Southern California. The project will be led by Music Director Jahja Ling and will be the orchestra's first tour in Southern California outside of San Diego.

San Diego Youth Symphony & Conservatory
San Diego, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Community Opus Project, a music education and outreach program. The project will provide beginning strings instruction to Latino students, incorporating their families into the music making experience.

San Francisco Art and Film Program (aka San Francisco Art & Film for Teenagers)
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
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
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support an exhibition and related activities featuring the work of Elizabeth Axtman, David Huffman, and Travis Somerville. The multi-sited exhibition, focusing on three Bay Area artists whose work explores race in America, will be installed in two of the commission's gallery spaces and will also include an online component and a community-based, site-specific location.

San Francisco Arts Commission (on behalf of San Francisco WritersCorp)
San Francisco, CA
$70,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
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
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
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 Chamber Orchestra, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the premiere of a new work by composer-in-residence Gabriela Lena Frank, in collaboration with playwright Nilo Cruz. Based on a Peruvian folk tale, Isicha and the Pistago will be developed for youth audiences and their families and performed as part of the orchestra's free-admission Family Concert Series.

San Francisco Chanticleer, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a national concert tour and residency program. Repertoire will be selected by Music Director Matthew Oltman, and all of the ensemble singers will participate in the educational programs as part of the residency activities.

San Francisco Chanticleer, Inc. (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support youth and adult choral workshops, as well as a California-wide musical history project, Mission Road II, with high school choral singers. In partnership with the Paso Robles Joint Unified School District, San Francisco Chanticleer will offer choral coaching and present youth choral festivals.

San Francisco Cinematheque
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production and publication of Cinematograph 8: Oral Histories. The journal will bring together discussions with noted filmmakers (Stan Brakhage, Hollis Frampton, Trinh Minh-ha) recorded at San Francisco Cinematheque events over the past several decades along with newly commissioned interviews with emerging filmmakers.

San Francisco Girls Chorus, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$45,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
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 Jazz Organization (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Discover Jazz lecture series. A partnership with the Museum of the African Diaspora and the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival, the six-course interactive lecture series at the Museum of the African Diaspora is led by musician and ethnomusicologist John Santos who invites participants to a multimedia educational experience that includes jazz video, classic and new jazz audio recordings, and lecture-demonstrations.

San Francisco Performances, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the presentation of commissioned works, as well as world and regional premieres of music and dance works. Related workshops, master classes, and lectures will help audiences increase their understanding and enjoyment of the live performances. Artists include the Brentano and Alexander String Quartets, jazz pianist Fred Hersch, and choreographer Karole Armitage.

San Francisco State University
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the Poetry Center Digital Archive. The university will preserve, transfer, catalog, and make accessible for free 125 rare, at-risk original videos of poetry readings between 1973 and 2000 and early analog audio recordings from 1953 to 1974.

San Francisco State University (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a recording of composer Richard Festinger's The Coming of Age, a chamber work for soprano and chamber ensemble. The work will be performed by consortium partner New York New Music Ensemble, guest violist Lois Martin, and soprano Elizabeth Farnum.

San Francisco Symphony (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$100,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support The American Orchestra Series, the orchestra's 100th anniversary celebration, which will feature six orchestral residencies at Davies Symphony Hall. In partnership with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the project will feature the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, and Philadelphia Orchestra in performances and related educational activities.

San Francisco Symphony
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Arts on Radio and Television   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production of a television program featuring the San Francisco Symphony with Director Michael Tilson Thomas. The two-hour special, SFS@100, will capture the San Francisco Symphony's Centennial Season Opening Gala concert that will take place September 2011.

San Francisco Symphony (on behalf of San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra)
San Francisco, CA
$78,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
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.

Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Inc.
Santa Barbara, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support Forum Lounge, a series of performance-based contemporary art events. The program will promote performance art in and beyond the communities the institution serves by presenting music, dance, video, and multi-media performances free of charge.

Santa Barbara Opera Association
Santa Barbara, CA
$28,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a new production of Orfeo ed Euridice by Chrisoph Willibald Gluck. The company will work with choreographer Yannis Adoniou from KUNST-STOFF dance company in San Francisco and with Santa Barbara's State Street Ballet.

Scripps College (on behalf of Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery)
Claremont, CA
$60,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support conservation of Chinese paintings dating from the 16th to 19th centuries. There will be five paintings conserved using traditional and modern conservation techniques as perfected by the highly respected Japanese conservator, Hisaji Sekichi.

Self-Help Graphics and Arts, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a Printmaking Studio Program in celebration of the organization's 40th Anniversary. Artists will explore themes Art on the Frontline of East L.A. and The Jornalero (Day Laborers) Papers, and experiment with various production methods to create limited edition serigraphs in the printmaking studio at Self-Help Graphics.

Shakespeare - San Francisco (aka San Francisco Shakespeare Festival)
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support Free Shakespeare in the Park with a production of Cymbeline, directed by award-winning director Ken Kelleher. As many as 29 public performances will be presented in public parks in four different Bay Area regions: Pleasanton, Cupertino, San Francisco, and one venue still to be determined.

Small Press Distribution, Inc. (Consortium)
Berkeley, CA
$38,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the expanded distribution of independently published books to booksellers and librarians. In partnership with the American Booksellers Association, Small Press Distribution will extend its reach by attending book festivals and trade shows in targeted regions, and through mailings to independent booksellers nationwide.

Southern California Institute of Architecture (Consortium)
Los Angeles, CA
$70,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the creation of an online archive of historic videotaped lectures about architecture, urban design, and community development. Southern California Institute of Architecture in partnership with the MAK Center for Art and Architecture will preserve and steward more than 550 recorded lectures that date from the mid-1970s.

Southern Exposure (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
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.

Southwest Chamber Music Society
Pasadena, CA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Ten Freedom Summers, a recording and national performance tour of a new work by composer and trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith inspired by the Civil Rights Movement from 1954 to 1964. In celebration of its 25th anniversary, the ensemble and Smith's Golden Quartet, a jazz ensemble of multi-instrumentalists, will premiere and record the large multi-concert work in a cycle of three evenings in Los Angeles for Cambria Master Recordings, which will be distributed internationally by Naxos of America.

Squaw Valley Community of Writers (aka Squaw Valley Screenwriters)
Nevada City, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the Screenwriting Program, a week-long workshop that focuses on the essence of storytelling and teaches participants how to "show" rather than "tell" their stories. During the project, professional staff will provide 25 students with an introduction to the language and grammar of film to help them write clear, readable, and intelligent scripts.

Stagebridge (Consortium)
Oakland, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts

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
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
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.

Street Poets, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$23,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
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
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
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.

TapFound, Inc. (aka Taproot Foundation)
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support infrastructure building programs for arts organizations in Chicago and New York. Teams of business experts will advise a number of arts organizations on marketing, information technology, strategy management, and leadership development.

TeAda Productions (Consortium)
Santa Monica, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support Refugee Nation: Healing Through Oral History and Theater. Conducted in collaboration with Latino Theater Company, the project will provide training workshops in oral history and community-based performance to local Latino and Southeast Asian artists that will culminate in a professional production of Refugee Nation at the Los Angeles Theater Center.

The Other Side of The Hill Productions Inc. (aka The Road Theatre Co.)
North Hollywood, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support The Road Theatre Co.'s development and production of The Baby Project by Lori Ada Jaroslow and collaborators Fonda Feingold, Noriko Olling, and director Shannon MacMillan. Begun as a solo piece by Jaroslow, the musical portrays a single bisexual woman who navigates the world of medically-assisted fertility in her desire to become a mother.

Theatre Bay Area
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support Mission Accomplished, a program aimed at capacity building for small and mid-size theaters. The year-long project will provide learning opportunities for staff and artists in all departments of participating theaters, impart an intensive set of tools and processes to define the organizations' central goals, and identify benchmarks for excellence.

Theatre Bay Area (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the next phase of Intrinsic Impact, a nationwide study that attempts to quantify and standardize the measurement of patron captivation at performing arts events. Conducted in partnership with the Alliance of Resident Theatres (A.R.T./New York), the next phase will focus on development and dissemination of a suite of tools that will enable theaters to assess the intrinsic impact of their programming on audience members.

Unusual Suspects Theatre Company
Los Angeles, CA
$38,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
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.

Velaslavasay Panorama
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support An Evening of Kwun and Yueju Chinese Opera, performances of Chinese opera which will demonstrate two Chinese operatic traditions. The project will feature scenes from China's most famous classical operas, The Peony Pavilion, in the Kwun Style, and The Butterfly Lovers, in the Yueju style, which will be preceded by lectures orienting the audience to the history and presentation style of Chinese Opera.

Walden School
San Francisco, CA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
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.

Western Jazz Presenters Network, Inc.
La Jolla, CA
$17,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the presentation and tour of two of jazz pianists, Jason Moran and Danilo Perez, through the Western United States. Each artist will be showcased in a trio setting for a total of 21 concert performances in Arizona, California, Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, and Washington.

Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum
Topanga, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
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.

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$55,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support The Africa Contemporary Arts Consortium, an arts exchange between the United States and the African continent. In partnership with the Bates Dance Festival and nine other leading performing arts presenters from around the U.S., the program will support internal networking and external programming.

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
San Francisco, CA
$60,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Big Ideas, a series of multidisciplinary performances, film screenings, and exhibitions. The program of film, visual, and performance works will be presented in conjunction with curatorial themes, and artists will include photographer Ryan McGinley and sculptor Michael Arcega.

Young Musicians Foundation
Beverly Hills, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
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 Storytellers Foundation
Los Angeles, CA
$12,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
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 Radio
Oakland, CA
$45,000
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
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
CATEGORY: Learning in the Arts   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Learning in the Arts
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.

Z Space Studio (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support Z Space Technical Development Residencies for local and national performing arts groups. In partnership with Mixed Bag Productions, Z Space will make their new theater facility available to the selected groups Living Word Project, LEVYdance, Big Art Group, and Mixed Bag Productions, and will cover all technical and production costs to enable the organizations to further develop their work.

Number of Grants: 193          Total Amount: $7,250,700

 
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