2012 Grant Awards: Art Works

[ August 11, 2011 deadline ]

Arts Education | Dance | Design | Folk & Traditional Arts | Literature
Local Arts Agencies | Media Arts | Museums | Music | Musical Theater
Opera | Presenting | Theater | Visual Arts

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

Media Arts

Atlantic Public Media Inc (aka APM)
Woods Hole, MA
$50,000
To support Transom.org, a website that acts as a showcase, workshop, audition space, library, and master class for producers. The project encourages both emerging and experienced independent audio producers to tell their stories on public radio.

Bay Area Video Coalition, Inc. (aka BAVC)
San Francisco, CA
$38,000
To support the Mediamaker Fellows program, which will provide independent video artists and producers with the technical assistance and resources they need to finish their projects. Eight emerging and mid-career artists will be selected for the year-long program, have access to BAVC's state-of-the-art facilities, and receive technical training through BAVC's digital media workshops.

Downtown Community Television Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$100,000
To support workshops, facilities access, and related activities. Downtown Community Television is devoted to making technologically sophisticated media available to underserved communities by providing a range of courses and services.

Film Independent, Inc. (aka FIND)
Los Angeles, CA
$40,000
To support Talent Development Programs. Components include Project Involve, a mentorship program; Filmmaker Labs, a hands-on workshop program; and Filmmaker Forum, a series of panel discussions and master classes.

Games for Change
New York, NY
$50,000
To support the 9th Annual Games for Change Festival. The conference includes workshops, panel discussions, presentations, game arcades, and opportunities for game developers to present their projects to designers and funders for feedback.

Global Lives Project, Inc.
Mountain View, CA
$75,000
To support production, post-production, and distribution costs for Producing Lives in Transit. Global Lives will work with 10 media artists in different countries to create day-in-a-life portraits of people who work in various transportation jobs such as bus fare collectors, flight attendants, bicycle rickshaw drivers, etc.

Hudson West Productions
Croton-on-Huson, NY
$50,000
To support production, post-production and distribution costs for the cross media platform piece Rescoring Richter. Produced by David Glenn Davidson, the project includes creation of original music by various composers for the 1920s films of Hans Richter, video documentation of the composers as they work, and the development of an educational component.

IFP-Minnesota (aka IFP MN)
St. Paul, MN
$25,000
To support educational activities, access to film and video equipment for media artists in the region, and a screening series. Workshops include Elements of Screenwriting, Location Audio, and Producing the Documentary. Its facility houses 16mm camera packages, audio, lighting, and electrical equipment, and video and film editing stations. The film screening program will bring independent films and their makers to the region.

Independent Feature Project, Inc. (aka Independent Filmmaker Project)
Brooklyn, NY
$70,000
To support Independent Film Week, providing independent filmmakers from across the country the opportunity to present their work to the industry. One-on-one meetings between producers and financers, distributors, exhibitors, funders, and broadcasters are held throughout the week in New York City; screenings are offered throughout the day, while seminars and workshops are held concurrently at nearby locations.

Long Haul Productions, Inc
Three Oaks, MI
$70,000
To support production and post-production costs for a series of audio documentaries by Dan Collison and Elizabeth Meister, including related expenses to expand the stories on the web. American Anthology will examine a wide range of issues such as healthcare, immigration, and climate change.

Media Alliance, Inc.
Troy, NY
$20,000
To support the Youth Media Sanctuary: YMS Megaphone. Targeted to teenagers, YMS Megaphone provides young people with the tools and skills necessary to produce video artworks.

Media Working Group, Inc.
Portland, OR
$100,000
To support post-production and related outreach and distribution costs for a documentary by Helen DeMichiel. The Lunch Love Community Documentary Project is about the school lunch reform movement that began in Berkeley, California, and is now spreading across the United States.

National Alliance of Media Arts Centers, Inc. (aka National Alliance for Media Arts + Culture) (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$80,000
To support services to the not-for-profit media arts field. National Alliance for Media Arts + Culture will focus on three core areas: 1) a six-month leadership institute; 2) providing technical assistance to its constituency; and 3) expanding its online and social media network.

National Association of Latino Independent Producers, Inc. (aka NALIP)
Santa Monica, CA
$35,000
To support the ninth Latino Media Market that will connect filmmakers with representatives from both the not-for-profit and commercial film and television fields. Participating organizations include Miramax Films, HBO, American Documentary/POV, Fine Line Features, and the Sundance Channel.

National Federation of Community Broadcasters, Inc. (aka NFCB)
Oakland, CA
$20,000
To support workshops specifically focused on arts and cultural programming and the art of radio at the 2012 annual Community Radio Conference. Workshops to be offered include Storytelling in Sound and Pictures, The Future of Music, and Interviewing on the Fly.

Native American Public Telecommunications, Inc.
Lincoln, NE
$70,000
To support the television series Growing Native, directed and produced by Chris Eyre and Beverly Morris. The 10-part series is a travelogue that covers indigenous cuisines and food histories of the Americas as a way to offer viewers an opportunity to learn about sustainability from the Native American community.

New Orleans Video Access Center, Inc. (aka NOVAC)
New Orleans, LA
$10,000
To support the Community Filmmakers Education Program. To be held in conjunction with the 2013 Jazz and Heritage Festival, the Community Filmmakers Education Program will be a conference with panels and seminars ranging from concept development to alternative distribution methods.

Ninth Street Media Consortium, Inc. (aka Ninth Street Independent Film Center)
San Francisco, CA
$22,000
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 Collaborative Connections Initiative includes a residency program, a media education program for youth, and access for filmmakers and other not-for-profits to a state-of-the-art screening room.

Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the Filmmaker Training Program. The 16-week, hands-on workshops provide underserved students with skills in scripting, storyboarding, production planning, cinematography, directing and editing.

Ragtag Programming for Film and Media Art
Columbia, MO
$25,000
To support educational programs and related activities. Programs will be geared to emerging filmmakers, high school and college students, and the general public.

Rhizome Communications, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support Rhizome Editorials, an online scholarly publication about new media art. Coverage includes artists' interviews, emerging trends in new media art technology, and critical and theoretical essays.

Salt Lake City Film Center & Artists Collaborative (aka SLC Film Center)
Salt Lake City, UT
$60,000
To support post-production costs for a documentary film by Fred Wiseman. Berkeley Film (working title) focuses on the students, professors, administrators, regents, and the public at the University of California, Berkeley.

Scribe Video Center, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$75,000
To support workshop programs and related activities. Scribe Video Center is a community-based media arts center that provides students and artists with the tools and skills necessary to produce video artworks.

Somerset Foundation, Inc.
Santa Monica, CA
$15,000
To support the creation of a DVD version of the three-hour film On Company Business. Produced by Howard Dratch and aired on PBS in 1980, On Company Business explores the CIA's involvement in foreign policy since its inception in 1947.

Southern California Asian American Studies Central (aka Visual Communications) (Consortium)
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
To support the Digital Histories Project. In partnership with the Little Tokyo Service Center Community Development Corporation, Visual Communications provides hands-on video production training to senior citizens.

Squaw Valley Community of Writers
Nevada City, CA
$10,000
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.

Standby Program, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
To support access to state-of-the-art, broadcast-quality production and post-production video equipment for media artists and independent producers. Standby's access program is a unique model of collaboration between a not-for-profit arts organization and privately owned businesses, wherein Standby has agreements with several of the best video editing facilities in New York so media artists may use their services during off-hours (evenings and weekends) at rates discounted by as much as 80% off the usual commercial rates, which range from $250 to $800 per hour.

Sundance Institute
Park City, UT
$125,000
To support the Feature Film Program. The program offers emerging screenwriters, directors, producers, and composers the opportunity, support, and resources needed to successfully create new work. More than 1,000 artists apply to the program, which offers two screenwriter labs, one filmmaker lab, a screenplay reading series, an independent producers conference, a composers lab, film festival networking opportunities, and a Native American initiative.

Tribeca Film Institute
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the Transmedia Engagement Project. Because the word "transmedia" means many different things to independent media makers, Tribeca Film Institute, working with experts in the field, will develop a creator-driven set of measures and language to describe it.

UnionDocs, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$30,000
To support production and post-production costs for the interactive documentary Living Los Sures (about a neighborhood in Brooklyn), to be created by Union Docs' artist fellows. Union Docs fellows will produce companion documentaries that update, annotate, and spiral off from the film Los Sures, made in 1984 by Diego Echeverria.

Women\'s Audio Mission (aka WAM)
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support Girls on the Mic. Targeted to girls aged 8-18, Girls on the Mic teaches digital media production and music recording technology skills.

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