FY 2012 Grant Awards: State Listings

Art Works II/Arts in Media/Partnerships

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

NEW YORK

3-Legged Dog, Inc. (aka 3LD)
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support 3LD/3D+. This program provides resources such as touring circuits, production assistance, internet, and HD cinema for American artists to expand their international audiences.

Aaron Davis Hall, Inc. (aka Harlem Stage)
New York, NY
$60,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the commissioning and presentation of the WaterWork, Harlem Stride, and E-Moves series at Harlem Stage. Artists including pianist Jason Moran, bassist/singer Meshell Ndegeocello, choreographer Kyle Abraham, and writer/performer Carl Hancock Rux, will create and perform new works, or will participate in residencies that will advance the development of new works scheduled for production the following season.

Academy of American Poets, Inc.
New York, NY
$60,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support National Poetry Month in April 2013, Poets.org, the journal American Poet, and a poetry conference in New York City. For National Poetry Month, the world's largest celebration of poetry, the Academy will distribute 200,000 free posters, sponsor readings and events across the country, and conduct a nationwide media campaign to encourage poetry coverage and book reviews.

Alliance for Inclusion in the Arts
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Inclusion Project, a program that promotes and advocates the full inclusion of people of color and those with disabilities in all areas of the not-for-profit theater field. Alliance for Inclusion in the Arts provides resources and leadership on issues of diversity through various projects such as the Consulting, Information, and Resource Service, which provides one-on-one consultancies to theater professionals and organizations; and the National Diversity Forum, a series of gatherings designed to address diversity-related issues and bring about changes in policy and hiring practices.

Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, Inc.
New York, NY
$80,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the ART.WRITE.NOW. exhibition and public program series. An exhibition of more than 600 works of art and writing by teens in grades 7 through 12 will be displayed at the World Financial Center's Courtyard Gallery in Lower Manhattan for three weeks and will be accompanied by group tours, artist talks, literary readings, and creative workshops.

Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York, Inc. (aka A.R.T./New York)
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support programs that provide A.R.T./New York's member theaters with tools and resources to strengthen and sustain their operations. Services include a series of management training workshops, long-term consultancies, peer-to-peer roundtables, and an internship program that offers staffing support.

Alpha Workshops, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support Decorative Arts Training. The project involves multiple 10-week beginner courses and a 26-week advanced course that are targeted to low-income, HIV-positive individuals.

American Brass Chamber Music Association, Inc. (aka American Brass Quintet)
Putnam Valley, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a multi-state performance tour by the American Brass Quintet and related residency activities. Each two- to three-day residency will include as many as seven performances and educational events, based on the repertoire of American composers such as Stephen Foster, Trevor Gureckis, Anthony Plog, David Sampson, and Joan Tower.

American Documentary, Inc. (aka P.O.V.)
Brooklyn, NY
$100,000
CATEGORY: Arts in Media   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the selection, acquisition, packaging, and promotion of films for broadcast on the public television series P.O.V. (Point of View). As the longest-running PBS series devoted exclusively to independent, nonfiction film, P.O.V. brings documentary artworks to national audiences. An additional 20-50 million people access the series through online partnerships, community outreach, education activities, field work, and national media campaigns.

American Institute of Graphic Arts (aka AIGA)
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the National Design and Social Impact Mentorship Program. The program serves to encourage middle- and high-school students to pursue design as a career path by demonstrating the industry's vitality and the potential for social impact.

American Institute of Graphic Arts
New York, NY
$100,000
CATEGORY: Arts in Media   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support a series of educational videos about accomplished designers. Created in honor of the centennial year of the American Institute of Graphic Arts, the series, 100 Years of Design, will feature 52 short video portraits reflecting the evolution of American culture over the last century. The videos will be distributed online and as podcasts.

American Lyric Theater Center, Inc. (aka ALT)
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support artist fees for the Composer Librettist Development Program, a full-time resident artist initiative to provide professional training for emerging opera composers and librettists. Artists are selected annually to participate in the tuition-free program that provides training by master artists such as composer-librettist Mark Adamo, stage director Rhoda Levine, composer Anthony Davis, librettist William Hoffman, and dramaturg Cori Ellison.

American Symphony Orchestra League (aka League of American Orchestras) (Consortium)
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Advancing the Public Value of American Orchestras, a pilot project to map community involvement, engage governing boards in the issue, and develop messaging strategies. In partnership with the Pacific Symphony and nine other orchestras, the League will pilot a mapping project that will provide visual representation of orchestra connections to their community; equip orchestra governing boards to advance strategic conversations about deepening community engagement; and assist orchestras in the development of public communications that illuminate their public value.

API Arts and Outreach, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Arts in Media   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support research and pre-production costs for Manga High, a documentary film about youth participating in the Comic Book Project. Founded by Michael Bitz, a professor of education at Columbia University, the Comic Book Project teaches students to express themselves through graphic storytelling. Research and pre-production activities will include creating a website.

Architectural League of New York
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support Emerging Voices: 30 Years. The project will include the production of a book, exhibition, and series of symposia that will document the first 30 years of the prestigious Emerging Voices program, a juried lecture series and award program that has had a profound impact on the field of architecture.

Art 21, Inc. (aka Art21)
New York, NY
$100,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the planning and development of public programs and educational resources to accompany season seven of Art:21. Activities will include the development and distribution of series-related curricular resources, preview screenings, workshops for educators across the United States, and a year-long professional development program for K-12 teachers.

Art 21, Inc.
New York, NY
$100,000
CATEGORY: Arts in Media   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the seventh season of the public television series Art21--Art in the Twenty-First Century. Through four, one-hour programs, the series will introduce a broad audience to diverse contemporary visual art and artists. The series will include an interactive website. Also, episodes will be streamed at PBS.org as well as on other online platforms. More than 350 public screenings are planned at museums, libraries, and other venues.

Art Education for the Blind, Inc. (aka Art Beyond Sight)
New York, NY
$100,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support development by Art Beyond Sight of a pilot certification program to address museum efforts for inclusion of audiences with disabilities. The project, developed in consultation with museum studies graduate programs, includes a formal needs assessment, development of curricula based on the assessment, piloting at six universities, evaluation of the curricula's effectiveness, and publication and dissemination of the results.

Art Resources Transfer, Inc. (aka A.R.T. Press)
New York, NY
$75,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the Distribution to Underserved Communities Library Program. The program will collect and distribute books on contemporary art and culture free-of-charge to rural and inner-city public libraries, schools, and alternative reading centers nationwide.

Arts Council for Chautauqua County
Jamestown, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the Jamestown High School Media Arts Project to integrate the media arts into the core curriculum. Classes will incorporate video and audio production, editing, photography, graphics, web design, animation, and on-screen performance to prepare students to pursue media arts in higher education and as a career.

Arts Engine, Inc. (aka Media That Matters Film Festival)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Arts in Media   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the Media That Matters Film Festival and outreach campaign. The 12th film festival will premiere in New York City and feature 12 short films, curated from a selection of 500 entries. The festival will travel to approximately 80 communities across the United States. After its initial New York screening, the films with accompanying materials will be available online for free and for purchase as a DVD.

Arts Resources in Collaboration, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the Eye On Dance Archive Legacy Project. Materials in this archive include videotapes of dance performances and conversations, photographs, dance periodicals, artist notes, studies, and educational material dating back to 1976.

ASCAP Foundation
New York, NY
$19,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the Summer Music Camp. Developed in partnership with Manhattan School of Music, the four-week camp will provide free instrumental music training to public school students with an emphasis on increasing performance skills.

Asian American Arts Alliance, Inc. (aka a4)
Brooklyn, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support professional development programs. This project helps artists to hone entrepreneurial skills and develop practical and creative strategies for career growth.

Ballet Tech Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$60,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a tuition-free ballet training program. The program, founded by choreographer Eliot Feld, provides pre-professional arts training including an integrated public academic education and a student performance troupe.

Bang on a Can, Inc. (Consortium)
Brooklyn, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Summer Institute of Music, an experimental music residency for composers and performers. In partnership with the City of North Adams, Massachusetts, the three-week institute will create an environment fostering experimentation and originality and include free concerts and outreach activities in low-income communities and at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art featuring Bang on a Can All-Stars, guest composers, performers, and student musicians.

Bard College (on behalf of Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts)
Annandale-Hudson, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support a series of performances during the SummerScape Festival at the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts. The festival will focus on the works of composer Carl Hancock Rux and his contemporaries by presenting rarely performed and contemporary works in opera, music, dance, and theater.

Baryshnikov Dance Foundation (aka Baryshnikov Arts Center)
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support a series of residencies, performances, festivals, and screenings at the Jerome Robbins Theater and the Howard Gilman Performance Space. Dance, music, theater, film, and multimedia artists will participate in a variety of residency activities.

Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation
New York, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the expansion of the online digital archive, Women of 20th Century American Architecture. The expansion will involve a jury to select and research the work of significant women architects and designers who helped shape the built environment in the United States prior to 1970.

Bloomingdale School of Music
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Bloomingdale Student New Music Project. Plans include a series of commissions; workshops; a composer residency by David Crowell; a Carnegie Hall concert of works by student composers, Crowell, and other professional composers; and website features that will focus on advancing awareness of the process of creating and performing original music among children and the community.

Bowery Arts and Science, Ltd. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support Live From The PoeMobile, a project designed to promote poetry traditions in New York City's diverse ethnic groups. In collaboration with the literary organization Ratapallax, Bowery Arts and Science will identify poets whose art best represents various ethnic communities and present their poetry in performances that also feature traditional music from that community.

Bowery Arts and Science, Ltd.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support poetry, prose, and spoken-word presentations and workshops at the Bowery Poetry Club. Programs include World of Poetry, featuring poetry in translation; Page Meets Stage, pairing two poets with one reading, one performing; Summer Institute for Social Justice & Applied Poetics, an education-through-the-arts initiative targeting at-risk teens; Urbana/Word Shop, a weekly poetry slam; and the Segue Readings, highlighting diverse and cutting-edge aesthetics.

Bronx River Art Center, Inc. (aka BRAC)
Bronx, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support advanced technology upgrades for artist- and student-led community development tours, an exhibition, and a residency program. The three-part initiative will develop an interactive gallery experience using iPads and augmented reality software applications to create an interactive guide to programming; the exhibition and residency programs will include tours of current urban development projects underway in the BRAC community and provide residencies in vacant West Farms Square neighborhood commercial spaces.

Brooklyn Academy of Music, Inc. (aka BAM)
Brooklyn, NY
$80,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the 2012 Next Wave Festival. The festival will present performing artists such as the Builders Association, Wynton Marsalis, Garth Fagan, Miguel Gutierrez, and the Civilians, and will include in-school workshops and artist talks.

Brooklyn Arts Council, Inc. (aka BAC)
Brooklyn, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support HarborLore: Where the River Meets the Sea in Brooklyn's Folk Imagination. The project will research and document traditions practiced in Brooklyn that address the manifestation of human interaction with bodies of water: rivers, harbors, oceans.

Brooklyn Public Library
Brooklyn, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support readings and discussions with local and international authors. The project includes four series: the Brooklyn Independents, featuring poets from four independent presses; the Russian Literary Series, featuring Russian writers reading and presenting in Russian to Brooklyn's large population of Russian speakers; Gotham: Writers in the City, featuring New York writers and moderated by WNYC radio host Leonard Lopate; and Popular Nonfiction, featuring an essayist, biographer, memoirist, travel writer, and other nonfiction authors.

Builders Association, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the pre-production and tour of House/Divided. The multimedia work, based on John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, will explore the changing meaning of home and place, and include live performance and video.

Carnegie Hall Society, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$75,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support performances and educational activities by Ensemble ACJW, the performance arm of The Academy, a competitive professional development program for young post-graduate musicians. A partnership with the Juilliard School, project plans include performances at Carnegie Hall, the Juilliard School, and Skidmore College; professional development for 20 participating musicians in audience engagement skills; and educational activities in 20 public elementary, middle, and high schools where each musician will spend 25 days over the course of the school year working with music teachers and focusing on building students' musical skills.

Cave Canem Foundation, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$58,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the 2012 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, as well as workshops in New York City and an annual week-long writing retreat, all targeting emerging African American poets. The foundation's flagship program is a retreat at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg, Pennsylvania, which brings together 54 emerging poets for workshops and readings with award-winning faculty such as Nikky Finney, Terrance Hayes, and Amiri Baraka.

CAVE Organization, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the LUDUS Training Program and resident company LEIMAY. International butoh dance masters will lead master classes and lecture on their work in teaching/performance residencies at CAVE studio in Brooklyn, as well as offer workshops and create a new work with the dance community in New York.

Center for Art, Tradition and Cultural Heritage (aka CATCH) (Consortium)
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To Support Self-Representations: Romani Music and Culture in Diaspora. In collaboration with the Voice of Roma, the project will present an academic symposium on Romani identity, culture, and representations in panel discussions, paper presentations, films, and performances, featuring scholars of Romani culture and leading Romani musicians.

Center for Traditional Music and Dance, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support Community Cultural Initiatives, a program designed to assist New York City's immigrant communities in preserving and sharing performing arts traditions. The program will include field research, artistic presentations, and educational programs in New York's Colombian, Ukrainian, and Haitian communities.

Chez Bushwick, Inc. (aka Jonah Bokaer)
Brooklyn, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of Eclipse by choreographer Jonah Bokaer, in collaboration with visual artist Anthony McCall, composer Chris Garneau, and lighting designer Aaron Copp. Bokaer uses the metaphor of the astronomical event of an eclipse to create a work that unfolds in four episodes, in which sequences of dancers in duets and trios will perform inside a 45' x 45' square space.

Children\'s Media Project
Poughkeepsie, NY
$45,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support Power Up!, a program of professional development and school residencies in media arts education for Arlington Central Schools District middle schools in Dutchess County, New York. A pilot team of eighth-grade Arlington Middle School teachers will work together in professional development workshops to integrate media arts residencies across all core subject areas.

Children\'s Theatre Company
NEW YORK, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the participation of underserved students ages 5 through 19 in productions of original musicals. Participating students will rehearse and perform in productions of Henry "Box" Brown; Providence: The Story of Roger Williams; The Ugly Duckling; and Rescue Me: A Musical History of Women, while receiving instruction and training in acting, dance, and music through residencies with professional teaching artists.

City Futures Inc. (aka Center for an Urban Future)
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support Designing New York: A Policy Convening. The convening will bring together key leaders in economic development, government, higher education, and design companies to discuss and guide future collaborations that foster growth of the New York design sector.

City Lore, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support History Happens Here: Community-Based Place Marking, an innovative web-based resource. In collaboration with Municipal Art Society, the project will include development of an enhanced online toolkit to assist communities with identifying and marking places of significance.

City Lore, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support a folk arts in education program for urban elementary and middle schools, called Artful Stories. The project integrates folk arts into the schools' arts, social studies, and English language arts curricula through artist residencies co-designed by folk artists and classroom teachers.

Civilians, Inc. (Consortium)
Brooklyn, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development of a new model for community engagement around the premier of The Great Immensity, a play that explores the environmental crisis. In collaboration with presenting partner ArtsEmerson, the project will develop a new model for in-depth community engagement by connecting creative artists with first-rate scientific and policy thinkers and will open dialogue between the arts and sciences to a diverse public.

Collaborative Arts Project 21, Inc. (aka CAP21)
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support The New Works Development Program, a training program for musical theater artists. The program will include writer's residencies, workshops, seminars, and dramaturgical sessions for participating artists.

College Art Association of America, Inc. (aka CAA)
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the presentation ARTspace, artist-focused public programming during CAA's annual conference. The program is an open forum for artists to exchange ideas through panel discussions, interviews, video and multimedia screenings, live performances, and mentoring workshops.

Community-Word Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$70,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support Collaborative Creative Writing Residencies. Led by teams of teaching artists in collaboration with classroom teachers, students ages 7 to 16 will study a diverse group of authors, learn to write and revise individual and collaborative work, participate in public readings and an anthology, and create murals based on a line of poetry chosen from one of their poems.

Cool Culture, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$95,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support The Strengthening Neighborhoods' Art Access Project for Brooklyn residents and pre-school programs. The program's focus will be to strengthen relationships between residents of disadvantaged communities in Chinatown, Harlem, and Bedford Stuyvesant/Crown Heights with local cultural institutions to increase participation of low-income parents and children in culturally significant educational programming.

Cornell University (on behalf of Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art)
Ithaca, NY
$45,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the Objects and Their Makers: New Insights (OMNI) program at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art. OMNI will offer grade- and culture-specific learning units, including classroom instruction by museum staff, museum visits, a teacher institute, and artist-led workshops focused on the arts of Africa, China, Japan, Tibet, Southeast Asia, pre-Columbian art, and Native American art.

Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (aka CLMP)
New York, NY
$100,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support technical assistance and capacity-building programs for large, mid-size, and small independent and not-for-profit magazines and presses. As the only service organization of its kind, CLMP provides resources that include an interactive website offering access to media databases and virtual roundtable discussions, as well as workshops, one-on-one mentoring, and networking opportunities.

Creative Capital Foundation
New York, NY
$55,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support career development workshops to help artists with business skills. The Professional Development Program teaches working artists about self-management, strategic planning, fundraising, and promotion.

Creative Time, Inc.
New York, NY
$48,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support The Last Pictures with related public programs and publication. In collaboration with philosophers, scientists, writers, historians, mathematicians, and archeologists, New York-based artist Trevor Paglen (b.1974) will select images that highlight man's relationship to nature and the relationship of the body to viruses and technology. The images will then be etched onto an archival disc made of silicon carbide, encased in gold, and attached to a satellite and launched into orbit to circle the earth in virtual perpetuity.

Cross Performance, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support a residency for interdisciplinary artist Ralph Lemon and a team of collaborating artists at the Park Avenue Armory. The residency will support the creation of a series of installations, exhibitions, and media and dance works through collaboration with visual artists Nari Ward and Christian Marclay, designer Jim Findlay, and dancers from the Lyon Opera Ballet.

Da Capo Chamber Players, Inc.
New York, NY
$12,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a tour of contemporary chamber music performances and residency activities. The tour to California, Nebraska, Ohio, and Vermont will involve concerts, public school performances, open rehearsals, and programs for retirement communities and will feature performances of works by composers Samuel Adler, William Bolcom, Gabriela Lena Frank, Kyle Gann, John Harbison, Shirish Korde, Anthony Korf, Chinary Ung, and Shen Yiwen.

Dance Films Association, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a national tour of the Dance on Camera Festival. The world's oldest annual film/video festival will include domestic and international programs, and a student film competition culminating in a student short presentation.

Dance Ring (aka New York Theatre Ballet)
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the restaging and presentation of Antony Tudor's Dark Elegies for New York Theatre Ballet's Signatures '13: A Tudor Retrospective program. Dark Elegies is danced to composer Gustav Mahler's song cycle Kindertotenlieder (Songs on the Death of Children), a work consisting of five songs sung by a baritone, with lyrics based on poems by Friedrich Ruckert.

Dancing in the Street, Inc.
Bronx, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the sixth annual festival Hip-Hop Generation Next: From the South Bronx to South America. In partnership with the Casita Maria Center for Arts and Education, the festival will include a commissioned hip-hop work by Emilio "Buddha Stretch" Austin, Jr., and Adesola Osakalumi in collaboration with Fabiano "B-boy Neguin" Lopes; a concert featuring Latin music, hip-hop, and reggaeton (a Puerto Rican urban form of music with roots in Latin and Caribbean music); a block party; films and panel discussions; and ArtWorks, a paid internship for teens.

Design Trust for Public Space, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support Public Space Is, an interactive, multimedia website. The website will engage the public to explore the value of public space in today's complex cityscape by highlighting case studies, urban innovators, and best practices in public space design, planning, and policy.

Digital Innovations Group Inc. (aka Weblab)
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Arts in Media   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support research, development, production, and post-production for the fourth episode in the six-part series, To Tell the Truth. That episode, "Seeing is Believing: Observational Cinema Strikes Back (1948-68)" will focus on the post-WWII documentary boom, the birth of "observational cinema," and its influence on early television. The complete series will offer a comprehensive history of documentary film, with each episode covering a different era. To Tell the Truth is intended for national broadcast on PBS.

District 75/NYC Department of Education
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support Teaching Artist Training Institute at schools for special-needs students in Staten Island, New York. Specially trained teaching artists collaborate with classroom teachers and occupational, speech, and physical therapists to provide 12-week residencies in visual arts and physical theater for students with autism.

Downtown Community Television Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$100,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
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.

Drama League of New York, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Directors Project, a comprehensive national career development program for emerging theater directors. Intended to bridge the gap between academic study and professional success, the program consists of a four-month directing fellowship in New York; the Hanger Residency Program, which allows directing fellows the opportunity to run a theater's second stage; a Musical Theater Fellowship; the New Directors/New Works program; a Classical Fellowship for Directors of Color; and a United States/Bulgaria cultural exchange opportunity.

El Puente
Brooklyn, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support year-round in-school, after school, and intensive summer residencies that integrate dance, drama, and visual arts into other subjects for students in New York City Public Schools. Professional teaching artists will lead multi-level, theme-based arts projects, classes, and pre-professional training in ballet, modern, jazz, hip-hop, bomba, drama, media arts, studio and public art, and spoken word.

Elaine Kaufman Cultural Center/Lucy Moses School for Music and Dance (aka Kaufman Center)
New York, NY
$55,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the Kaufman Center's Music Program at the Special Music School. The program provides free private instrumental lessons, performance opportunities, and classes in theory, music history, and chorus to students in a school for musically gifted children in New York City.

Eldridge Street Project, Inc. (aka Museum at Eldridge Street)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the 13th annual Egg Rolls & Egg Creams Festival. The event celebrates traditions and art forms from the Chinese and Eastern European Jewish communities that have lived side-by-side on the Lower East Side for generations.

Electronic Arts Intermix, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Arts in Media   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the Digital Resources Initiative, a two-part project. The Educational Streaming Initiative will make the collection of more than 3,500 media art works by videomakers such as Nam June Paik and Woody Vasulka available through a subscription-based service. The Digital Resources Initiative will provide online access to a repository of artist information.

Eugenio Maria de Hostos Community College Foundation (aka Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture)
Bronx, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support BomPlenazo 2012, the Seventh Biennial of Afro Puerto Rican Culture. The project will focus on Puerto Rican music and dance, with an emphasis on traditions practiced in and around the municipality of Santurce, in the San Juan metropolitan area.

Exploring the Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$13,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support a program for students to develop their artistic technique and explore career options by working as apprentices with professional artists and at arts organizations. Student apprentices in dance, instrumental music, and vocal music will apprentice with artists from the Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, Sweet Plantain String Quartet, and the Collegiate Chorale.

Flea Theater, Inc.
New York, NY
$100,000
CATEGORY: Arts in Media   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production of a new play using interactive technology. The project entitled Virtual Theater Collaborative will apply video game technology to professional theater productions to create a new medium for the performing arts. The project will allow audiences to experience the play differently with options of participating in the story as any of the characters, as production personnel, or from a traditional vantage point in front of the action.

Flushing Council on Culture and the Arts, Inc. (aka Flushing Town Hall)
Flushing, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support Cultural Crossroads 4: Bridging Cultures, Bridging Communities, Bridging Generations, including performances, outreach, and new initiatives. NEA Jazz Masters Toshiko Akiyoshi, Barry Harris, and Jimmy Heath, as well as Red Baraat, Zemog el Gallo Bueno, and Joe Bataan Tentet are among the numerous proposed artists who will participate in the jazz and world music programming scheduled to take place at the Flushing Town Hall.

Flux Factory, Inc.
Long Island City, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a series of exhibitions, workshops, and other educational programming.

Fordham University
Bronx, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Research
To support a study of the impact of arts programming on the social skills and mental health outcomes of at-risk youth. Data will be examined from two Florida programs that served youth who either had been arrested or had received multiple suspensions from school.

Fourth Arts Block, Inc. (aka FABNYC)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support Connect the Blocks, a series of workshops, events, and online resources for independent dancemakers in New York City. Fourth Arts Block, a neighborhood-wide coalition of cultural groups for the East 4th Cultural District, and OurGoods, a barter network for the creative community, will partner to offer an online platform that connects people for resource sharing, increases affordable rental space hours for rehearsals as part of FABNYC's Dance Block program, expands a Load Out! program of unwanted items to twice a year, and facilitates other events.

Fractured Atlas Productions, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support an expansion of Open Arts Network. This project will focus on acquiring partners in new regions, especially rural areas, and giving them technology and business infrastructure resources.

Fractured Atlas Productions, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support an expansion of Chicago Artist Resource. In partnership with the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, Fractured Atlas will expand Chicago Artists Resource into a national network of local professional development resources for artists.

Fund for the City of New York, Inc
New York City, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the expansion of ArtHome: Artist Homeownership Program. ArtHome improves conditions for artists by providing them with homeownership counseling, foreclosure prevention counseling, and loan qualification opportunities.

Games for Change
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
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.

Games for Change
New York, NY
$75,000
CATEGORY: Arts in Media   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the development, production, and hosting for a game for Facebook based on the book, Half the Sky by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. Half the Sky, the book, documents the true stories of women around the world who ultimately overcome tremendous obstacles. In the game, players will be responsible for the safety and well-being of their own village by focusing on economic factors, physical security, health, and education.

Glimmerglass Opera, Inc.
Cooperstown, NY
$70,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a new production of Lost in the Stars by composer Kurt Weill and librettist Maxwell Anderson, based on the novel Cry the Beloved Country. Along with Cape Town Opera, the production's creative team will comprise American stage director Tazewell Thompson; American lighting designer Robert Wierzel; Cape Town's resident designer Michael Mitchell; Cape Town choreographer Sibonakaliso Ndaba; American bass baritone Eric Owens; and 10 Cape Town cast members.

Global Kids, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the participation of New York City public high school youth in the study and performance of music, poetry, dance, and personal storytelling in the Undesirable Elements theater project. Working with educators and professional theater artists, students will construct scripts based on personal and historical narratives; study music and dance traditions from a variety of cultures; and integrate music, dance, and theater into a performance piece.

Global Village Media, Inc. (aka formerly ICP)
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Arts in Media   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support production and post-production costs for a filmed version of Liz Lerman's 50-minute dance, A Matter of Origins. Lerman's dance is inspired by physics and combines art and science with HD technology to tell the true story of Edith Warner hosting Manhattan Project scientists at her desert tea house. Once completed, the film will air as part of the PBS ARTS block of programming.

Gotham Arts Exchange, Inc.
New York, NY
$70,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the Artist Access and Mentoring Program, part of the Gotham Dance Festival, and Focus Dance, an American platform of dance artists presented at the Association of Performing Arts Presenters. The Artist Access and Mentoring Program will allow emerging artists Jodie Gates, Peter Quanz, and Andrea Miller to further develop their audiences by presenting them on a shared bill during a two-week festival at the Joyce Theater in New York City.

Haleakala, Inc. (aka The Kitchen)
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support archiving The Kitchen's three decades of audio and video performances. The project includes the re-mastering of up to 75 video tapes; the production of 6 additional videotaped interviews; and the further cataloguing and preservation of the paper archive.

Hallwalls, Inc. (aka Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center)
Buffalo, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Artist in Residence Project, including the creation and presentation of new visual arts, media arts, and music works. Artists including composer Elliott Sharp, multimedia artist Deborah Stratman, and visual/video artists Emily Vey Duke and Cooper Battersby (Canada) will receive stipends; allotments for materials, fabrication, and workspace; access to equipment and technical support; and opportunities for public presentation and interaction with local artists and community members.

Harvestworks, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Creative Residency Program. Artists will be commissioned to create art worksfor public performance and digital broadcast using new and evolving technologies.

Hester Street Collaborative, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the Ground Up design education program. Students at New York City public schools will study their built and social environments; gain art-making, critical thinking, and problem solving skills; and apply this knowledge and skill to the improvement of a public space in their school or neighborhood with a built project or art installation.

Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Inc.
Cold Spring, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet directed by Associate Artistic Director Christopher V. Edwards. The production will occur under an open-air tent theater perched on the banks of the Hudson River on the grounds of the historic 19th-century Boscobel estate in Garrison, New York.

Hudson West Productions
Croton-on-Huson, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
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.

Independent Feature Project, Inc. (aka Independent Filmmaker Project)
Brooklyn, NY
$70,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
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.

Independent Production Fund, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Arts in Media   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the research, development, and partial production for a public television program and related multi-media activities. The Art Instinct: Science and Sight will examine recent discoveries revealing how the biology of human visual perception interacts with creativity in the creation and perception of visual art. In addition to the television program, the project will include an interactive website, social media, mobile applications for phones and tablets, and a civic engagement campaign.

Irondale Productions, Inc. (aka Irondale Ensemble Project)
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the 1599 Project, a repertory of full-length chamber versions of all the plays created by Shakespeare in 1599, including Hamlet, Henry V, As You Like It, and Julius Caesar. The repertory, performed by the company's core ensemble and directed by Artistic Director Jim Niesen, will explore the politics of the plays as they addressed a tumultuous year in the court of Queen Elizabeth I and draw connections to present-day America.

Isadora Duncan Foundation for Contemporary Dance, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a month-long offering of performances, classes, workshops, and pre-performance lectures and seminars celebrating the legacy of Isadora Duncan. The Foundation's resident performing company, Lori Belilove & the Isadora Duncan Dance Company, and the junior company, The Belilovables, will perform a retrospective of Duncan's work at the Judson Memorial Church.

Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum (aka The Noguchi Museum)
Long Island City, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support conservation of drawings by Isamu Noguchi (1904-85). These rarely seen works on paper have been inaccessible to researchers, curators, and the public at large; once conserved, they will shed important light on Noguchi's working process.

Jacob Burns Film Center, Inc. (Consortium)
Pleasantville, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support Minds in Motion, an animator-in-residence program. In partnership with Yonkers Public School District, professional animators will provide the opportunity for students to create an animated film and present their work to the community at a red carpet premiere.

JazzReach Performing Art & Education Association
Brooklyn, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support JazzReach's 2012-13 educational programming. The programming will integrate live music, live narration, video projections, lighting design, and interactive, post-show discussions in addition to clinics and master classes for student musicians and ensembles.

Just Buffalo Literary Center, Inc. (Consortium)
Buffalo, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support Picturing Poetry, a program of multidisciplinary arts education in Buffalo Public Schools. In partnership with the Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Art, professional artist instructors will teach a 10-week literary and photographic arts program to 4th through 6th grade students both in person and online, leading to student creation of individual and collaborative works of art.

Just Buffalo Literary Center, Inc.
Buffalo, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support Babel, a program that brings renowned international writers to western New York for readings and related outreach activities. Proposed authors include Nobel and other prize winning writers such as Nadine Gordimer, Seamus Heaney, Haruki Murakami, Elias Khoury, Herta Muller, JMG LeClezio, and Julia Alvarez.

Kings Majestic Corporation (aka 651 ARTS)
Brooklyn, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Arts in Media   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the research, development, and production costs of FLY: Five First Ladies of Dance, a documentary by filmmaker Alla Kovgan. The subjects of the feature-length film will be the veteran Black female dancers and choreographers Bebe Miller, Germaine Acogny, Dianne McIntyre, Jawole Zollar, and Carmen de Lavallade. Also, the structure of the project will allow short film portraits to be distributed individually or together on different platforms such as broadcast, film screenings, DVDs, iTunes and video-on-demand.

Kundiman, Inc.
Sunnyside, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support readings, the 2012 Asian American Poetry Retreat, and the Kavad Oral History Poetry Project: Together We Are New York. The oral history project is a multi-faceted initiative comprised of recorded interviews with Asian immigrants by Asian American poets, who use the stories they hear as jumping off points for poetic responses and performances.

La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Arts in Media   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support Culturehub, an incubator for creativity focused on the intersection of art and technology. Founded in 2009, Culturehub is an immersive video-conferencing system that provides interactive experiences allowing participants in one place to create work with collaborators at another site. This material will be live-streamed online and archived on the Culturehub website.

La Troupe Makandal, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support Haiti Drums and Dances, a program that provides classes in traditional Afro-Haitian drumming and dance. NEA National Heritage Fellow Frisner Augustin will offer drumming instruction, while Haitian native Pierre Desrameaux will teach dance to children and adults.

Let's Breakthrough, Inc.
New York, NY
$75,000
CATEGORY: Arts in Media   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the development of an interactive video game for social change. The video game will use various art forms and pop culture conventions (animations, music, documentary videos, graphic art) to engage general audiences with a particular focus on youth in a creative exploration of democracy, diversity, and social change. The game will be playable both online and as a mobile app.

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. (on behalf of Lincoln Center Institute)
New York, NY
$60,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support Lincoln Center Institute's (LCI) school partnerships. In each partner school, students will experience and study art with their classroom teachers and teaching artists who guide students in discovering and interpreting art by asking questions and practicing art at LCI's studio theater and New York art institutions.

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$60,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the presentation of the Lincoln Center Festival 2012. Performances will focus on dance, theater, opera, and music with artists including the Druid Theatre Company (Ireland), composer Jacob ter Veldhuis (Netherlands), flamenco ensemble Ojos de Brujo (Spain), and the Paris Opera Ballet.

Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of America, Inc. (aka LMDA)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support Going Local: Imagining Atlanta through Dramaturgy, LMDA's 2012 annual conference. Conducted in partnership with Atlanta's Alliance Theatre and Kennesaw University, the event will bring together dramaturgs, academics, students, and interested theater artists for an in-depth look at how Atlanta-based performing arts companies forge lasting connections with their audiences.

Living Archives, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Arts in Media   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support production costs for Dad Strangelove, a personal documentary by Nile Southern about his father, the author and screenwriter Terry Southern. Southern's influence on art and culture can be seen in films such as Easy Rider, Dr. Strangelove, and A Clockwork Orange, and with the novels Candy and The Magic Christian.

Local Learning: The National Network for Folk Arts in Education
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support outreach and technical assistance activities which incorporate folk arts into K-12 education and support folk arts in education (FAIE) practitioners. This project includes ongoing publications and an online newsletter; the work of an NEA National Heritage Fellow through a "virtual residency" on the website; the publication of an outreach brochure and a quarterly e-bulletin; the hiring of an FAIE consultant to oversee Local Learning working groups; and hosting a professional development conference.

Los Pleneros de la 21, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support school residencies that teach music, song, dance, and other traditional Puerto Rican cultural traditional expressions in partnership with Children's Aid Society. During an in-school and after-school program, traditional artists of Los Plenereos de la 21, led by NEA National Heritage Fellow Juan Gutiérrez, will teach kindergarten through 12th-grade students a curriculum of bomba and plena dance and music.

Los Pleneros de la 21, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support The Puerto Rican Music Project. The project comprises a series of local and touring concerts, workshops, and lectures that will facilitate the appreciation and understanding of Puerto Rico's traditional music and dance.

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Inc.
New York, NY
$75,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the artist residency programs, Workspace and Swing Space. The juried artist workspace programs will provide artists with the space and opportunity to create and present innovative new work.

Mabou Mines Development Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support touring performances of Lucia's Chapters of Coming Forth by Day. Written and directed by Sharon Fogarty and featuring Ruth Maleczech and Paul Kandel, the piece explores the life, death, and imagined afterlife of Lucia Joyce, the adored daughter of Irish novelist and poet James Joyce.

Making Books Sing, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support Louis Armstrong: Jazz Ambassador, written by Myla Churchill and directed by Carlos Armesto.

Manhattan School of Music
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Harlem Nights performance and educational series. Planned are seven concerts; a lecture series; and an Arts-in-Education component around performances of Ask Your Mama:12 Moods for Jazz, a multimedia interdisciplinary work based on Langston Hughes's cycle of 12 poems, co-created by soprano Jessye Norman and composer Laura Karpman.

Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, Inc.
New York, NY
$80,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the Graham and Greek Myth project which will explore Martha Graham's landmark works based on Greek stories and dramas. Works will include a reconstruction of Graham's Phaedra, Cave of the Heart, Errand into the Maze, and excerpts from the full-length Clytemnestra.

Martina Arroyo Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support Prelude to Performance, a professional development program to provide vocal and theatrical training to emerging opera artists. The six-week intensive program will train as many as 40 aspiring opera professionals in the areas of movement, music, language, and role study with coaching sessions by singer and NEA Opera Honoree Martina Arroyo, conductors Willie Waters and Robert Lyall, and stage directors Laura Alley and Matthew Lata.

Media Alliance, Inc.
Troy, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
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.

Metropolitan Opera Association, Inc. (aka The Met) (Consortium)
New York, NY
$75,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program. This partnership between the Juilliard School and the Met will produce a new fully-staged or concert opera production, which will allow students the platform to express their own insights while training under some of the world's most well-known singers and stage directors.

Metropolitan Opera Association, Inc. (aka The Metropolitan Opera)
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Arts in Media   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support production and post-production costs associated with the national telecasts of Great Performances at the Met. Captured in high-definition video, the productions will be broadcast on 360 PBS stations. The 2012-13 series will present as many as 12 telecasts of fully-staged operas.

Metropolitan Opera Guild, Inc.
New York, NY
$75,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support Opera-Based Teaching and Learning in public elementary schools in New York City, New Jersey, and the greater Boston area. Composers, librettists, and other opera professionals will collaborate with classroom teachers to guide students through composing and performing their own operas.

Midori Foundation, Inc. (aka Midori & Friends)
New York, NY
$60,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support Adventures in Making Music, year-long, in-school residencies providing instrumental music instruction for public school students. Program components include twice-weekly classes in strings, brass, percussion, guitar, and voice.

Mind-Builders Creative Arts Co.
Bronx, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support training for students in basic folklore research, documentation, and presentation. Students will receive training to identify, document, and present the traditions of folk artists they "discover" in their families, community, and city, and produce four public presentations of the folk artists and their traditions in classrooms and to the general public.

Muller Works Foundation (aka Jennifer Muller/The Works)
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support New Views/Next Stages, a series of education and community outreach initiatives to build new audiences for dance. The project will include in-school arts programs for students in New York City public schools, a presenting series to mentor new voices in dance and theater, an extensive roster of public performances, a choreographic laboratory for company members, and a college residency commissioning program.

Museum of Chinese in the Americas
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Chinese Holiday Festival Series. The project will celebrate the traditions of Chinese Americans through festivals connected to significant Chinese holidays, including the Lunar New Year (winter), Qing Ming/Day of the Dead (spring), Dragon Boat Festival (summer), and Mid-Autumn Moon Festival (fall).

Music From China, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Music From China Youth Orchestra educational program. The ensemble's artistic director, Wang Guowei, and other instrumentalists will train young musicians on traditional Chinese instruments, such as the erhu (fiddle), liuqin (mandolin), zheng (zither), yangqin (hammered dulcimer), and dizi (flute).

National Black Programming Consortium
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Arts in Media   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the acquisition, packaging, and distribution of a curated film series about arts and culture in the African Diaspora. In its fourth year on public television, AfroPop: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange, will reach national audiences through American Public Television syndication. The series is aired on 333 stations in 40 states. Traffic to the website averages 50,000 page views per month.

National Guild for Community Arts Education, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the national Conference for Community Arts Education in Dallas. The program includes a leadership development institute in Philadelphia, regional professional development events in five cities, and dissemination of best practices information to the field via the Internet and hard-copy publications.

National Jazz Museum (aka National Jazz Museum in Harlem)
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support The Savory Concert Series. A series of five concerts around the historical jazz recordings, part of the museum's Savory Collection, are to be held on-site and at select other locations nationwide. Featured musicians will include NEA Jazz Master Branford Marsalis, Christian McBride, Aaron Diehl, and Jonathan Batiste.

New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.
Staten Island, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support commissioned artwork for the Turbulence.org website. The project will provide for the creation, presentation, and distribution of new Internet-based works by nationally recognized artists.

New York City Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$80,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support Encores!, a series of staged concert productions of classic and lesser-known musicals performed by Broadway talent with original orchestrations and books. Accompanying educational programs will afford public school students in grades 5 through 12 the opportunity to engage with musical theater as an art form and learn about the historical context of each piece.

New York Folklore Society, Inc.
Schenectady, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the New York Folklore Society's statewide professional development services to folk artists, folklorists, and organizations. These services include mentoring and professional development, as well as support for field work and presentation in the state's Capitol Region. Additionally, supervision and maintenance will be provided for the professional listserv of folklorists and cultural specialists.

New York Folklore Society, Inc.
Schenectady, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Upstate Latino Dance Symposium. A conference will explore dance instruction, performance, and professional development workshops for instructors on topics of recruiting and retaining youth.

New York Foundation for Architecture, Inc. (aka Center for Architecture Foundation)
New York, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support Learning By Design: NY, design education residencies. The residencies will be held in K-12 public schools across New York City and the curriculum for each residency will be designed around each school's neighborhood.

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc. (aka NYFA)
Brooklyn, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the expansion of NYFA Source database. The expansion will include enhancement of international opportunity listings, broadened outreach of services to regional arts agencies and organizations, and a technology upgrade to include the introduction of open source software.

New York Live Arts Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$60,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the Dance Leadership and Residency Program, an innovative initiative that will offer two-year residencies to mid-career artists with salary and health benefits. In partnership with Arizona State University, the project invests intensely in an artist's career development and longevity.

New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations (on behalf of Dorothy and Lewis Cullman Center )
New York, NY
$60,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the recording and preservation of live dance and theater performances and oral histories in the field of dance. The program will add recordings to the collections of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Jerome Robbins Dance Division and Theater on Film and Tape Archive.

New York Shakespeare Festival (aka The Public Theater) (on behalf of Joe's Pub)
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Commissioning and New Work Development Initiative. The series of commissions and performances will prepare potential artists, such as Rhythm and Blues singer Bettye LaVette, singer/banjo player Abigail Washburn, and vocalist/composer Everett Bradley, for future touring of new works through creation and production support.

New York State Council on the Arts
New York, NY
$727,700
CATEGORY: Partnership   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: State & Regional
To support Partnership Agreement activities.

New York University
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the production of four issues of TDR: The Drama Review, a quarterly journal of live performance. The publication, produced in conjunction with MIT Press, includes scholarly essays, original scripts, interviews, and reviews by scholars and artists, with illustrations by renowned performing arts photographers.

North American Cultural Laboratory, Inc.
Highland Lake, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Deep Space Performance Residency Series, offering theater companies time and space to develop new work in an invigorating work environment. The program provides rehearsal space, housing, and artist fees for ensemble theater groups at its center in the Catskill Mountain region for the development of new devised, ensemble work.

Odysseus Group
New York City, NY
$100,000
CATEGORY: Arts in Media   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support Power Poetry, a project geared towards youth writing and sharing their poems with each other. Based on To Be Heard, a film that tells the story of three Bronx high school students who change their lives through their own poetry, Power Poetry is a website that will encourage young people to express themselves through spoken and written words via texting. Outreach activities include partnerships with spoken word groups and community and youth organizations.

One Story, Inc. (Consortium)
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the development of Subscription Manager, an online fulfillment application. In partnership with Ploughshares, which will be one of the early beta-testers, One Story will build its application to allow literary journals to bill and renew subscribers more efficiently, thereby increasing productivity.

Open Channels New York, Inc. (aka Dixon Place)
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Mondo Cane!, a program of commissions and performances. The program will include residencies, mentorships, free rehearsal and performance space, workshops, technical assistance, and marketing and publicity support for performing artists including choreographers Rachel Klein and Ephrat Asherie, playwright Tina Satter, and performer Daniel Alexander Jones.

Opera America (Consortium)
New York, NY
$100,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support The New Works Forum, a new convening on a national platform dedicated to enhancing the quality and quantity of new American operas. As producer, Gotham Chamber Opera will oversee the selection of artists, provide technical support staff, and supervise rehearsals for the showcases.

Opera America, Inc.
New York, NY
$120,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support professional development forums, multimedia tools, research and publications, electronic platforms, and field research that will benefit opera organizations and artists nationwide. The national service organization for opera will provide essential support to member artists and companies in realizing artistic excellence and service to their local communities.In addition, Opera America will organize National Opera Week and related activities for participating opera organizations nationwide.

Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a touring project in multiple venues in Colorado, New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. The programming for the tour will include guest-artists mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke, baritone Nathan Gunn, composer Tan Dun, the Wayne Shorter Quartet, pianist Richard Goode, and composer-in-residence Gabriel Kahane.

Pamphlet Architecture, Ltd.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the publication of Pamphlet Architecture and the affiliated design competition. Through an open call for proposals and a juried competition, design experts and authors will select design proposals that are both exploratory and experimental for publication in the Pamphlet.

Pan Asian Repertory Theatre, Inc. (aka Pan Asian Rep)
New York, NY
$45,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the premiere production of Dojoji and the Man Inside the Bell. This new theatrical version of an ancient Japanese legend and Buddhist parable will integrate poetic dialogue, live music, and traditional Japanese dance with a new English-language script.

Paper Bag Players, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and national tour of an original work for young audiences. Under the artistic direction of Ted Brackett, the show will explore the importance of valuing one's self and individuality and will be targeted to children ages four to nine.

PEN American Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$100,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the 2013 PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature. The largest international literary festival in the country, PEN World Voices will feature readings, performances, discussions, conversations, and screenings in both large-scale and intimate public venues.

PERFORMA, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,500
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the PERFORMA Institute. PERFORMA, a group of New York City-based presenting partners and arts organizations dedicated to contemporary art, has created the PERFORMA Institute for educational activities such as a conference with the theme "NYC," online and print publications, a curatorial network program, and an online repository of emerging innovators and scholars.

Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York, Inc. (aka The New York Philharmonic) (Consortium)
New York, NY
$100,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the New York Philharmonic's School Partnership Program. In partnership with the New York City Department of Education, the program includes year-long, in-school music residencies, attendance at New York Philharmonic concerts, and professional development for teachers and school administrators.

Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York, Inc. (aka The New York Philharmonic)
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Arts in Media   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production of national radio broadcasts of performances by the New York Philharmonic during its 2012-13 season. WFMT Radio Network distributes The New York Philharmonic This Week to 336 radio stations throughout the country. Visitors to the Philharmonic's website can listen to programs via audio streaming and can access material on the featured music and artists.

Poetry Project, Limited (aka Poetry Project at St. Mark's)
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the Monday Night and Wednesday Night Reading Series. The Poetry Project has been sponsoring readings at the landmark St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery in New York's East Village for 45 years, allowing both emerging and established poets to perform new work for a broad audience.

Poetry Society of America
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support Poetry in Motion, which replaces advertisements with poetry placards on trains and buses around the country, as well as nationwide poetry events and chapbooks. Poetry in Motion will reach an estimated eight million transit riders, with new programs planned for Santa Cruz, California; Missoula, Montana; and East Lansing, Michigan.

Poets & Writers, Inc.
New York, NY
$90,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication of Poets & Writers Magazine and the expansion of the Poets & Writers website. The service organization will strengthen links between its print and online content, expand the functionality of its directory of writers, launch a mobile-friendly version of the website, and provide advice columns on such topics as agents, promotion and publicity, MFA programs, and digital publishing.

Poets House, Inc.
New York, NY
$100,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a series of talks, panels, readings, and outreach to library staff in Queens, New York, on how to incorporate poetry into existing programs and services. Activities will include Passwords, in which poets discuss an influential poet or poetic tradition; an exhibition on the visual poetics of Sylvia Plath; and symposia exploring poetry and science, and Native American poetry in the 21st century.

Pratt Institute
Brooklyn, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support Design Initiative for Community Empowerment (DICE). Through DICE, underserved Brooklyn high-school students will be provided an introduction to design through guided studio work, public exhibitions, and visits from accomplished designers along with counseling about college.

Printed Matter, Inc.
New York, NY
$32,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the ongoing expansion of The Research Room, an online archive of artists' publications. The Research Room is a bibliographic and educational resource containing a comprehensive history of publications by visual artists and independent publishers. It provides access to 20,000 titles by more than 6,000 artists.

Public Art Fund, Inc.
New York, NY
$43,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the creation and presentation of contemporary art installations by emerging artists in public spaces throughout New York City. Artists will create large-scale temporary works for non-traditional exhibition spaces.

Puppetry in Practice, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support Bridging Brooklyn: A Journey Through Time, an in-school theater and professional development program. Students and teachers will use an interdisciplinary theater approach to explore the history and impact of the Brooklyn Bridge on their neighborhood.

Radio Diaries, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Arts in Media   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support production of America's Lost Stories radio programs and companion website. The four new programs will be audio diaries and first-person documentaries that weave together home recordings, contemporary and archival interviews, and historical news audio. The website will bring each story to life with primary sources, interactive materials, and a discussion board.

Radio Foundation, Inc. (aka RadioArt)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Arts in Media   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production for radio and audio media of James Joyce's Ulysses. Produced by Larry Josephson, The Complete Ulysses will be a reading of the entire novel by a company of actors including Alec Baldwin, John Lithgow, Jerry Stiller, Anne Meara, Bob Dishy, along with Caraid O'Brien as Molly Bloom. In addition to airing on more than 250 public radio stations, distribution channels include Sirius/XM, satellite radio, Internet radio, iPhone, other smartphone apps, and on CD.

Red Bull Theater, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of John Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, directed by Artistic Director Jesse Berger. This rarely-performed, but often-discussed classic play is considered a masterpiece of the Jacobean period.

Red Hot Organization
New York, NY
$80,000
CATEGORY: Arts in Media   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support Red Hot + Bach. This multi-media production will be devoted to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. Components will include music recordings, video documentaries, and related content available online and on mobile devices. The mobile app will have geo-locating services to find a Bach concert in the user's region, a Bach trivia game, and the ability to do a Bach mashup.

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support artist residencies at the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center. Artists will use the center's facilities to create works investigating the intersection of art, media, technology, and science.

Rhizome Communications, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
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.

Ringside Inc. (aka STREB )
Brooklyn, NY
$60,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the audience development and access programs Public/Action New York and Public/Action on Tour, based on Extreme Action, a method of movement developed by choreographer Elizabeth Streb. Performances and classes for students will take place at Streb Lab for Action Mechanics (SLAM), the company's home in Brooklyn; while the tour program will involve a series of residencies throughout the United States comprising rehearsals and performances, a youth education program, adult workshops, lecture-demonstrations, and panel discussions.

Riverside Theatre
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support NuDance 2012. The NuDance series will present new works by emerging and mid-career dance artists and allow them time and space to prepare for presentation.

Saratoga International Theatre Institute, Inc. (aka SITI Company)
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a residency and the development of touring versions of Cafe Variations. This large-scale music/theater/dance piece is constructed from fragments of works by playwright Charles Mee about basic human needs for love and meaning in life. It will be excerpted to produce smaller touring works for presenting houses and community centers nationwide.

School of American Ballet, Inc. (aka SAB)
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the tuition-free Boys Program and community outreach activities. The project will comprise no-fee auditions, free ballet classes, free public ballet demonstrations, and a series of lecture-demonstrations to the general public and underserved students throughout New York City.

Seagle Music Colony (aka Oscar Seagle Association, Inc.)
Schroon Lake, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support Young Professionals Bringing Opera to Grade Schools. Up to four singers will study and perform in operas and musicals at Seagle Music Colony and in eight other Adirondack and Champlain Valley communities.

Society of the Educational Arts, Inc. (aka Teatro SEA)
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support Teatro SEA's expansion of an ongoing tour of children's theater in Spanish to underserved Latino neighborhoods in New York City and Puerto Rico. Performances in libraries, schools, museums, parks, and community theaters will include Latinized Children's Classics, Latin American Folktales, Children's Classics from Spain, and a youth and adult series, each featuring original music, sets, costumes, and puppetry.

Spanish Dance Arts Company, Inc. (aka Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana) (Consortium)
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support Flamenco for Disabled Teens. In partnership with the New York City Board of Education – District 75 students with a range of disabilities will learn flamenco style dance through workshops with professional dancers.

Spanish Theatre Repertory Company, Ltd. (aka Repertorio Español)
New York, NY
$75,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support Teatro Acceso Education Outreach Program. The program will feature free online resources for students and teachers, in-school residencies by teaching artists, and matinee and touring performances of classical and contemporary Spanish-language plays for student audiences including simultaneous English translation through an infrared listening system.

St. Luke\'s Chamber Ensemble, Inc. (aka Orchestra of St. Luke's)
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Orchestra of St. Luke's OSL Subway Series of free chamber music concerts. The orchestra will present ensembles of its musicians in hour-long performances throughout the city, featuring repertoire of traditional and contemporary music by composers from Ludwig von Beethoven to John Adams.

Stage Directors and Choreographers Workshop Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Professional Training, Community, and Access Program, which provides professional, paid learning opportunities to directors and choreographers at all levels of their careers. Free and low-cost auxiliary programs are offered to the general public as well as theater professionals.

Standby Program, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
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.

StoryCorps, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Arts in Media   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support production of StoryCorps radio segments for weekly broadcast on NPR's Morning Edition. A collaboration with the Library of Congress and public radio stations, StoryCorps is a nationwide project aimed at inspiring Americans to record one another's stories in sound. The two-minute segments are heard by nearly 14 million daily listeners on 700 NPR stations.

Storyville Center for the Spoken Word (aka The Moth)
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the Moth Mainstage, a series of themed storytelling performances in New York City and around the country. Performers develop, edit, and present true, first-person stories, live and without notes. Scheduled participants include Karen Russell, Garrison Keillor, Tony Kushner, Armistead Maupin, and James McBride.

Storyville Center for the Spoken Word (aka The Moth)
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Arts in Media   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production and distribution of the radio series The Moth Radio Hour. The series showcases the art of storytelling through first-person accounts recorded before live audiences. Distributed by Public Radio Exchange, the series is heard on 239 stations. The podcast receives an average of 1.3 million downloads each month, and videos of stories are uploaded to YouTube every week. The storytellers will perform more than 180 live shows across the country in 2012-13.

Sylvan Winds, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a performance and recording project, American Music from the Gilded Age. The wind ensemble will perform works by American composers Charles T. Griffes, William Grant Still, Walter Piston, May Aufderheide, Charlotte Blake, Phoebe Knapp, Christiaan Kriens Ronde, and Nicolai Berezowsky.

Symphony Space, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Arts in Media   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production and recording costs of public radio series Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story, and distribution of related CDs. Selected Shorts features leading stage and screen actors reading both classic and new short fiction by established and emerging authors of diverse cultures. The program is broadcast on approximately 150 public radio stations and garners more than 300,000 podcast downloads.

TADA! Theatre and Dance Alliance Inc. (aka TADA! Youth Theater)
New York, NY
$65,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the Musical Theater Writing Residency Program. Under the tutelage of teaching artists and their regular classroom teachers, students will learn to integrate social studies topics with the research, writing, rehearsal, and performance of an original musical based on a topic relevant to their cultural backgrounds.

Teachers and Writers Collaborative (Consortium)
New York, NY
$42,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support the Writers in the Schools Alliance Digital Resource Center, online professional development tools for teaching artists. Designed and implemented with Writers in the Schools Houston, the project will improve teaching skills, disseminate information, and provide increased communications capacity through a blog, linked discussion forum, webinars, video consultations, a searchable database of archived teaching materials, and an online anthology of student writing.

Tectonic Theater Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$45,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and presentation of Square Peg Round Hole: A Theatrical Exploration of the Autistic Spectrum. Using technology, personal narratives, scientific data, and explorations of theatrical form, the play will investigate what it means to live in a world outside the bounds of "normal."

theater et al, inc. (aka The Chocolate Factory Theater)
Long Island City, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Art Creation Residencies at the Chocolate Factory. Residencies ranging in duration from one to eight weeks will provide artists the opportunity to create new multidisciplinary work.

Theatre Communications Group, Inc. (aka TCG) (Consortium)
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support National Performing Arts Conference online. In partnership with the American Music Center and nine other arts organizations, TCG will create a comprehensive web resource to provide communication and information.

Theatre Communications Group, Inc. (aka TCG)
New York, NY
$70,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support professional development programs for theater staff, artists, and trustees, including the annual TCG National Conference, Fall Forum, and educational and leadership teleconferences. The 2012 National Conference will be held in Boston and TCG also will continue to publish print and online resources including the Theatre Directory, Theatre Facts, and the TCG Bulletin, made available to their 519 member theaters and 12,000 individual members.

Theatre Development Fund, Inc. (aka TDF)
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the National Open Captioning Initiative. The program will provide theaters with open captioning services to increase access to deaf and hard-of-hearing audiences and will also train organizations to implement their own open captioning programs, following in the footsteps of successful past participants including the Alabama Shakespeare Festival and Seattle Repertory Theatre.

Theatreworks/USA Corporation
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support a national tour of original theater productions for young audiences. The tour will include The Civil War, a historical musical recounting the tensions between the states and the journey of an escaped slave; The Velveteen Rabbit, the story of a stuffed rabbit and the power of a child's imagination; Martha Speaks, a musical adaptation of the children's book series by Susan Meddaugh; and Bunnicula, a new musical based on the popular children's series by James and Deborah Howe.

Traditional Arts in Upstate New York, Inc. (aka TAUNY)
Canton, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support From Shop to Screen: TAUNY Video Series to Present Traditional Art Forms. The project will work with Mountain Lake PBS to produce a series of short videos documenting the work of artisans who maintain traditional art forms in the 14-county rural region served by both TAUNY and Mountain Lake.

Tribeca Film Institute (Consortium)
New York, NY
$55,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support Tribeca Teaches, a media arts education program. In partnership with the non-profit community service organization CAMBA, Inc., this in-school and after-school residency program is designed to give young people the filmmaking skills they need to tell their own stories and explore critical connections between their personal experiences, school curricula, and wider communities.

Tribeca Film Institute
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
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.

Triple Canopy (aka Canopy Canopy Canopy, Inc.)
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Arts in Media   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support development and promotion costs of an online magazine. Each bimonthly, electronic issue will contain an interdisciplinary selection of nine artistic and literary projects: artworks that employ interactive tools to engage readers and viewers, critical essays and nonfiction projects produced for a general audience, and multi-media essays and narrative nonfiction. During production of each issue, contributors will be encouraged to work with staff to develop a public program.

Trust Under Clause Fourth of the Will of Antony Tudor (aka Antony Tudor Ballet Trust)
Ocean Beach, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the development of lesson plans to be integrated into the artist-in-residency programs of the Antony Tudor Dance Studies Curriculum. These lesson plans, in the form of Power Point presentations, fulfill the mission of the Trust by continuing to promote Antony Tudor's works and teachings to students of dance and university arts departments.

UBW, Inc. (aka Urban Bush Women)
Brooklyn, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by Artistic Director Jawole Willa Jo Zollar in collaboration with choreographer Liz Lerman. The evening-length work, My Legs Were Praying, will commemorate the 40th anniversary of the passing of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel and the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., through dance, voice, and text. Zollar and Lerman will create workshops that will contextualize the performances.

UnionDocs, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
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.

University of Rochester (on behalf of Memorial Art Gallery)
Rochester, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support conservation treatment of drawings and an oil on canvas by the artist Carl W. Peters (1897-1980) from the collection of the Memorial Art Gallery. The conservation and research of the preparatory drawings, made for 13 extant Works Progress Administration murals in Rochester, will be included in an online exhibition and will lay the groundwork for future exhibition and collaborative programming opportunities.

University Settlement Society of New York (aka Creative Center for Women with Cancer)
New York City, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the National Training Institute for Artists and Administrators in Creative Aging and a residency program. The week-long training institute taught by professionals in the fields of arts and aging will be targeted to artists and healthcare professionals who work with older adults in various institutional settings and will offer practical applications for the development of meaningful creative activities

Urban Arts Partnership
New York, NY
$52,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support My Medium, My Message: Critical Response. The project will provide foundational design experiences in the fields of animation, film, digital photography, and music production for high school students.

Van Alen Institute: Projects in Public Architecture (aka VAI)
New York, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the advancement of design excellence in the public realm. The project will engage experienced designers to work on key initiatives that improve the public realm, such as Designing the Parks, a public-private collaboration to promote well-designed public parks in America, and the Lower Mississippi River Delta Design Initiative to create a sustainable future for the coastal Louisiana landscape.

Voices UnBroken
Bronx, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support outreach programs for youth who are incarcerated, detained, or in the foster care system. Activities will include creative writing workshops, monthly open-mics, and performances featuring professional writers reading alongside workshop participants.

Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support legal classes for artists. Three separate discipline programs taught by attorneys will focus on legal issues for visual artists, filmmakers, and fashion designers.

Wave Hill, Inc.
Bronx, NY
$55,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the Family Art Project. The series of weekend workshops will provide a forum for children, parents, grandparents, or other adult caregivers to create art inspired by Wave Hill's gardens, landscapes, visual arts exhibitions, and various cultural traditions.

Westchester Arts Council, Inc. (aka ArtsWestchester)
White Plains, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support Having a Ball, featuring Peter Pucci and his dance company, Pucci Plus Dancers. Dancer/choreographer Pucci will use his sports-based choreography to engage teenagers in a community dance project.

White Columns, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the maintenance and expansion of Archive in Progress, a publicly accessible online archive. The archive will eventually contain a comprehensive history of the organization's more than 40-year history, showcasing exhibition materials, exhibition reviews, out-of-print publications, un-published images, and other forms of documentation and printed ephemera acquired throughout years.

WNET.ORG (aka WNET, Thirteen)
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Arts in Media   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the development and production of the television series American Masters for PBS broadcast. Definitive documentary profiles of major cultural figures will be made available in 2013-14 to millions of viewers in all 50 states. In 2011, most programs, as well as outakes and interviews, were streamed for free, on-demand.

WNET.ORG (aka WNET, Thirteen)
New York, NY
$75,000
CATEGORY: Arts in Media   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support development and production of a pilot episode for the The Elastic Animation Festival television series. The pilot episode will include animated works from the United States and abroad.

WNET.ORG (aka WNET, Thirteen)
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Arts in Media   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the development and production of performing arts specials for the television series Great Performances for broadcast on PBS. In 2013-14 several new American productions will be developed for Great Performances. The website provides information about the artists, works presented, links to video clips, artist interviews, a searchable database, and for some programs, turnkey lesson plans.

WNYC Radio
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Arts in Media   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support production costs for the documentary film Stories from the Jazz Loft. During the years 1957 to 1965, photographer W. Eugene Smith documented the activities in his Sixth Avenue loft in New York City, taking more than 45,000 pictures of the scenes on the street and in his apartment. Once completed, the film will be broadcast on network and cable television, exhibited at film festivals, and made available via web streaming and on DVD.

Women Make Movies, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Arts in Media   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support production and post-productions costs for a documentary on Ellis Haizlip. Mr. Soul! Ellis Haizlip and the Birth of Black Power TV will tell the biographical story of Ellis Haizlip who was the producer and host of the groundbreaking television series Soul which aired on public television from 1968 to 1973. Once completed, the film will be distributed theatrically and offered to PBS for national broadcast.

Women Make Movies, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Arts in Media   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support production, post-production, and website development for the transmedia documentary Feed Me a Story.  The documentary will focus on the culture of food. The Web site will be a video cookbook where participants can share recipes and stories about food. Also, the website will provide users with maps of the food’s origin. Once completed, the film will air on PBS.

Wooster Group, Inc.
New York, NY
$90,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development of a production of Troilus & Cressida. Created in collaboration with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the production will premiere in the cultural program of the 2012 London Summer Olympic Games.

Working Theatre Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the TheaterWorks! program. The adult education program teaches low- and middle-income workers to write and perform their own short plays based on their work lives, and to learn to use art as a tool of expression and communication. The program will culminate in a performance at an off-Broadway theater with professional directors, actors, and crew.

World Music Productions, Inc. (aka Afropop Worldwide)
Brooklyn, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Arts in Media   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production and distribution of the weekly public radio program Afropop Worldwide. The series showcases the contemporary musical cultures of Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas, and is distributed by Public Radio International to more than 100 radio stations in the United States. The website offers feature stories and a database on the artists presented in the series. Traffic to the site continues to grow with as many as 100,000 unique visitors per month.

Writers and Books, Inc.
Rochester, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support lectures about literature and in-person and online writing workshops for youth and adults. Workshops are offered on such topics as playwriting, screenwriting, fiction, poetry, memoir, journalism, comedy, and performance.

Young Audiences, Inc. (aka Young Audiences Arts for Learning) (Consortium)
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Arts Education
To support Immersive Game Design: A 21st-Century Learning Strategy, a digital gaming initiative for middle and high school students. In partnership with the Laguna College of Art and Design, students will learn how to build a game from start to finish, working collaboratively with guidance from their classroom teachers and multidisciplinary artists. During the school year, three Young Audiences (YA) affiliate sites--YA of Northeast Ohio, Arts Partners Wichita, and YA of Indiana--will field test the program.

Young Men\'s & Young Women\'s Hebrew Association (aka 92nd Street Y) (on behalf of Unterberg Poetry Center)
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the Unterberg Poetry Center's Main Reading Series. Serving the New York community since 1939, the center features readings, literary tributes, interviews, performances, and dialogues between writers and audiences about literary and related topics.

Young People\'s Chorus of New York City, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Radio Radiance, an innovative educational outreach project directed by Artistic Director Francisco J. Núñez. In partnership with American Public Media Group (APM), the chorus will bring new choral music by living composers, such as Tom Cabaniss, Susie Ibarra, Kevin James, and Julia Wolfe, to young people and general audiences through live radio broadcasts via APM to at least six cities, locally through WNYC Public Radio in New York City, and via podcasts.

Young Playwrights, Inc. (aka Young Playwrights Festival)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Art Works   FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the creation and production of the Young Playwrights Festival. Approximately 10 writers, chosen by a selection committee, will attend a week-long writers' conference and, while in residence, will receive dramaturgical and development support throughout the rehearsal process.

Number of Grants: 225          Total Amount: $9,417,200

 
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