2013 Grant Awards: Art Works

[ March 8, 2012 deadline ]

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

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

Arts Education

Alaska Arts Southeast, Inc. (aka Sitka Fine Arts Camp)
Sitka, AK
$33,000
To support arts education at the Sitka Fine Arts Camp, a residential multidisciplinary summer arts camp for middle and high school students in Alaska. Students will be taught dance, theater, music, creative writing, visual arts, and Alaskan Native arts by a faculty of artists and educators from around Alaska and the nation.

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

Ann Arbor Teen Center, Inc. (aka Neutral Zone)
Ann Arbor, MI
$15,000
To support the Art for Life visual arts education program at Neutral Zone. Teens receive rigorous, advanced technical and conceptual mentorship on their artwork, create a professional portfolio and resume, research contemporary artists to inform their practice, learn exhibition production procedures, and learn about helping the community through art.

Appalshop, Inc.
Whitesburg, KY
$15,000
To support the Appalachian Media Institute youth media programs for high school students. Professional independent filmmakers and media artists will teach students the history, aesthetics, ethics, and practice of documentary media, resulting in the production of documentary films and radio programs.

Arts Corps
Seattle, WA
$50,000
To support Advance Teen Artist Program that provides Seattle area youth weekly, year-round, after-school, advanced arts classes in music, spoken word poetry, theater, and dance taught by professional teaching artists. Arts Corps will provide professional development for artists and manage the classes that take place in Youngstown Cultural Arts Center.

Asian Arts Initiative
Philadelphia, PA
$15,000
To support Youth Arts Workshop after-school, weekend, and summer classes and long-term apprenticeships for youth in grades five through 12. Students will study with artists in workshops and apprenticeships, produce original works in open-studio time, and document their experiences through youth-produced media.

Bayview Hunters Point Center for Arts & Technology
San Francisco, CA
$18,000
To support the BAYCAT Youth Powered Media Program. Students will develop skills such as artistic expression, critical thinking, and effective communication, while receiving comprehensive instruction in digital media arts technology.

Boston University
Boston, MA
$60,000
To support the Tanglewood Institute Young Artists Orchestra and Young Artists Wind Ensemble programs. The programs provide an intense summer music training experience for students, including opportunities to attend professional performances and to interact closely with master artists-in-residence throughout the summer.

Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras, Inc.
Boston, MA
$60,000
To support the Intensive Community Program, a string instrument program. Targeting inner-city youth, the program offers a two-week summer music workshop, followed by weekly music lessons, ensemble classes, and performance opportunities during the school year.

California Institute of the Arts (aka CalArts)
Valencia, CA
$45,000
To support the CalArts Community Arts Partnership Summer Arts Program, a three-week program of day-long classes in visual arts, dance, creative writing, animation, digital filmmaking, theater, photography, and music led by CalArts faculty, student, and alumni instructors. Students will learn from professional artists, experience art at Los Angeles arts institutions, and create original art that is presented to the public at the culmination of the program.

Center of Creative Arts
St. Louis, MO
$27,000
To support three dance outreach programs. The Pre-Professional Dance program will provide intensive dance training to students (ages 11 to 18); the Talent Identified Program prepares intermediate students for advanced study and transition to the Honors Dance Program; the Dance Outreach program will provide dance instruction in jazz, modern, hip-hop, and tap to elementary school children in St. Louis Public Schools.

Children's Media Project (aka CMP)
Poughkeepsie, NY
$40,000
To support DROP Media Lab, a year-round, community-based, media arts education program for youth between ages 14 and 18. Participating youth will hone media literacy, pre-production, production, and post-production skills in after-school and summer intensive sessions, ultimately creating complete half-hour episodes of DROP TV.

City of San Fernando, California
San Fernando, CA
$57,000
To support the Mariachi Master Apprentice Program that brings together professional musicians of Mariachi Los Camperos with mariachi students. Internationally renowned musicians will teach mariachi arrangements of sones, rancheras, jarabes, huapangos, and polkas and performance skills including how to play effectively in live recording sessions during after-school and weekend instructional workshops held at Las Palmas Park and San Fernando Middle School.

CityDance Ensemble, Inc.
Washington, DC
$20,000
To support the Conservatory Professional Guest Artist Project. Pre-professional dance students, ages 13 to 19, will study diverse dance styles and artistic viewpoints with internationally known guest choreographers and dance companies, such as Maleek Washington, Vishal Kanoi, and the Moscow Ballet.

Community Television of Southern California (aka KCET)
Burbank, CA
$25,000
To support Departures: Youth Voices, a multimedia literacy curriculum for high school students. Students will learn the tenets of multimedia production and storytelling as producers of KCET's web series titled Departures.

Dancewave, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$55,000
To support Dancewave Company, a program of pre-professional dance training for students to learn and perform works of major modern choreographers. Students study diverse styles and artistic viewpoints with internationally renowned and emerging choreographers and develop skills required to pursue a professional dance career.

DreamYard Project, Inc. (aka DreamYard)
Bronx, NY
$30,000
To support Out of School Programs (OSP) after-school, weekend, and summer arts classes and workshops. The programs are ACTION Project for arts and activism, the Bronx Acting Ensemble for pre-professional theater training, the Bronx Art Collective for visual art, the Bronx Poetry Program, and OSP Minis for visual art, dance, and theater workshops for elementary school children.

East Bay Center for the Performing Arts
Richmond, CA
$65,000
To support Young Artists Diploma Program. The Pre-Diploma Program provides arts education for youth ages three to 18 and the four-year Diploma Program serves middle and high school students. Professional artists from the fields of dance, media, music, and theater will teach classes and private lessons in the after-school and summer programs.

El Paso Symphony Orchestra Association, Inc.
El Paso, TX
$27,000
To support the El Paso Symphony Youth Orchestras program. Students advance their musical skills in lessons and participation in small group ensembles based on age including The El Paso Youth Orchestra, the El Paso Symphony Youth String Ensembles, the El Paso Youth Symphonic, and the El Paso Youth String Philharmonic.

Firebird Youth Chinese Orchestra
San Jose, CA
$40,000
To support a project to teach young musicians the traditional instrument orchestra setting of Red Detachment of Women, and important work written during the Cultural Revolution. During weekly classes held at the San Jose City College Music Department, students will practice the score individually, in sections, and as a full ensemble leading to concert performances throughout the Bay Area.

Girls Write Now, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the Mentoring Program, which pairs girls with professional women writers as their personal mentors. Through weekly, one-on-one writing sessions, monthly genre-based group workshops, a public reading series, and creation of literary portfolios, mentors help girls develop their independent voices, explore professions in writing, and learn how to make healthy choices in school, career, and life.

Grand Canyon Chamber Music Festival
Grand Canyon, AZ
$35,000
To support the Native American Composer Apprentice Project. Students from eight Navajo and Hopi Reservation schools and Salt River High School will study one-on-one with a composer-in-residence for up to four weeks and create original work that will be performed by the ETHEL and Catalyst string quartets.

Granville Studio of Visual Arts
Granville, OH
$15,000
To support Journey: Art of the Self-Portrait, a studio arts program for high school students. Students will gain curatorial skills by developing a public exhibition of their own art work in a community setting. Teaching artists will document each phase of the project using photography, journaling, and video of peer critiques.

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

Heart of Los Angeles Youth, Inc. (aka Heart of Los Angeles (HOLA))
Los Angeles, CA
$50,000
To support the Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles at Heart of Los Angeles (YOLA at HOLA), an after-school music program for students. Professional artists will lead students in ensemble and orchestra rehearsals, musicianship and singing classes. Also, students are supported by daily academic tutoring.

Henry Street Settlement (aka Abrons Arts Center)
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the Abrons Arts Center Dance Ensemble and Junior Dance Ensemble. The Dance Ensemble provides free dance training for teens who are interested in pursuing dance in higher education or as a career; while the Junior Dance Ensemble prepares younger students for advanced dance training.

Houston Children's Chorus
Houston, TX
$18,000
To support Music in the Schools, an after-school, weekly choral music program. Professional musicians will provide after-school ensemble and one-on-one instruction, in preparation for a collaborative performance with the Houston Children's Chorus at the end of each semester.

Inside Out Community Arts, Inc.
Venice, CA
$20,000
To support The School Project, an after-school and weekend theater-based arts program. Led by professional artists and supported by high school and college alumni of the program, middle and high school students from the Los Angeles Unified School District will participate in weekly and Saturday workshops, attend a professional production, and take part in a three-day rehearsal retreat that will culminate in a free public performance of student plays.

Levine School of Music
Washington, DC
$15,000
To support the Early Childhood and Elementary Music program. Music educators will provide free, weekly music classes to young children and their daycare providers in four underserved neighborhoods in Washington, DC.

Mama Foundation for the Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
To support Gospel for Teens for auditioned students to learn fundamental vocal techniques, gain knowledge about the historic and cultural context of African American gospel tradition, and perform in public concerts. The project provides pre-professional training to youth and helps to preserve the pedagogy of gospel music education and appreciation outside of the church.

Marwen Foundation, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$60,000
To support the Marwen Studio, a free program which offers out-of-school, visual art courses. Practicing artists design and teach sequential, hands-on art-making courses in a range of disciplines, including painting, drawing, photography, 3D (sculpture, ceramics), design arts, time-based media (video, animation), and intermedia (mixed media, new media).

Midwest Young Artists
Highwood, IL
$20,000
To support orchestra, chamber music, and music theory programs. The program provides students with performance opportunities, rehearsals, classes, master classes and performance competitions.

Mill Street Loft, Inc.
Poughkeepsie, NY
$24,000
To support the Art Institute of Mill Street Loft visual arts education programs. Professional teaching artists will lead after-school, evening, and full-time summer programs focused on portfolio development in the visual arts for teens.

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

Music for All, Inc.
Indianapolis, IN
$20,000
To support the Directors' Academy component of the Summer Symposium at Ball State University. During the week-long, instrumental music, professional development program, music teachers improve their classroom rehearsal techniques, conducting, score study, and repertoire selection by working with field experts and a live student ensemble.

National String Project Consortium
San Rafael, CA
$20,000
To support professional development for orchestra teachers through partnerships with universities. Participants will get hands-on, practical experience in teaching orchestral music during their college years, under the supervision of the director and master teacher at each site, while third and fourth grade children in the programs will learn to play the violin, viola, cello, or bass.

New Urban Arts (aka New Urban Arts)
Providence, RI
$20,000
To support the Youth Mentorship in the Arts program and the Summer Art Inquiry program for teens. Under the mentorship of professional artists in the community, youth will display work through multiple platforms including gallery exhibitions, student publications, fashion shows, and social media.

Our Time Theatre Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the Our Time NYC Program. Led by professional theater artists and targeted to teens who stutter, the program will allow students ages eight to 18 to meet weekly for nine months to study the structure of playwriting and the importance of theme; develop vocal strength and breath support through singing exercises; and work collaboratively to write, direct, and perform short plays and films which will be presented at the Five Angels Theater in New York City.

Patricia M. Sitar Center for the Arts (aka Sitar Arts Center)
Washington, DC
$15,000
To support the Youth Documentary Filmmaking Program. Underserved middle and high school students will create a documentary film profiling a local community hero.

Perlman Music Program Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the Summer Music School. The intensive, seven-week summer residency program will provide instruction, coaching, and mentoring opportunities to exceptionally gifted young string players.

Project STEP, Inc.
Boston, MA
$40,000
To support the Preparatory Division and Pre-College Division string instrument programs. Professional musicians provide private string lessons, theory classes, piano classes, master classes, chamber music, and orchestra instruction to students in fourth through twelfth grade.

Providence City Arts for Youth, Inc. (aka CityArts)
Providence, RI
$35,000
To support year-round, after-school and summer arts learning in a variety of disciplines that offers urban youth time to practice and create in studios with professional artist mentors. CityArts Community Youth Arts Program takes place in a newly renovated education building.

Purple Silk Music Education Foundation, Inc.
Oakland, CA
$30,000
To support intermediate and advanced instruction in Chinese string, wind, and percussion instruments taught by professional musicians culminating in public performances in the Chinese community and on college campuses. During 20 weeks of classes, students will increase their musical proficiency, learn about the Beijing Opera, and perform instrumental repertory from Farewell My Concubine arranged for Chinese folk music orchestra.

Raw Art Works, Inc.
Lynn, MA
$35,000
To support Real to Reel Film School. Young filmmakers learn to use technology including cameras, film editing, lighting, and sound systems, while developing skills in self-efficacy, leadership, and cooperation.

Reel Stories Teen Filmmaking, Inc. (aka Reel Works)
Brooklyn, NY
$32,000
To support Reel Works, a media arts education program for underserved Brooklyn teens. Students will produce and distribute short documentaries about their lives under the mentorship of professional filmmakers.

RiverzEdge Arts Project Inc.
Woonsocket, RI
$18,000
To support the Studio Arts & Enterprise Project. Students will work with master teaching artists while being paid stipends to create client portfolios and community works.

Rosie's House: A Music Academy for Children
Phoenix, AZ
$18,000
To support the Afterschool Music Program. Professional music educators provide students with weekly, tuition-free music lessons in strings, winds, piano, and choir.

Rosie's Theater Kids, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the ACTE II (A Commitment to Excellence) program in musical theater. Targeted to exceptionally talented students from low-income families, professional teaching artists and guests from the Broadway stage will provide instruction after-school and during a summer intensive, which culminates in a student performance for family and friends.

Roundabout Theatre Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the Student Production Workshop. Targeted to youth most at-risk of dropping out of high school, students will study acting, playwriting, design, technical theater, and directing with professional artists in this 40-week theater program.

Ryman-Carroll Foundation (aka Ryman Arts)
Los Angeles, CA
$45,000
To support the expansion of pre-professional studio art classes for high school students in Los Angeles. Offered free-of-charge, classes are taught by experienced teaching artists and focus on the fundamental skills of drawing and painting in a rigorous and supportive environment.

San Francisco Art and Film Program
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support the Teen Film Workshop, an arts education project designed to prepare students for film school and train them for careers in the film industry. Students will participate in lectures and film viewings, which will provide them with a foundation in theory. They then apply what they have learned as they design and produce individual films and a group film.

San Francisco Girls Chorus, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the Music Education and Performance Program. The program will provide nine months of instruction in choral singing and opportunities for concert performance, using a five-level, graduated curriculum and repertoire that spans six centuries and includes 14 languages.

San Francisco Symphony (on behalf of San Francisco Youth Symphony)
San Francisco, CA
$65,000
To support the Artist Development Program of the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra. Designed to complement the youth orchestra's core program of weekly rehearsals and concert performances, the free program will provide students with coaching, mentorship, and specialized training in chamber music.

Society of the Third Street Music School Settlement, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the Pathways to Learning and Honors Enrichment music education programs. Professional musicians provide instruction to students in early childhood music, band, orchestras, choirs, dance, chamber music, jazz, and rock.

Spy Hop Productions, Inc.
Salt Lake City, UT
$25,000
To support the Youth Documentary Arts Program, a media arts education program. The project will include Reel Stories, a summer documentary filmmaking workshop; Documenting Communities, a year-long exploration of communities; Loud and Clear, a youth-produced radio program; and Pitch-Nic Young Writer/Director, a mentorship program.

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

Stanford Jazz Workshop
Stanford, CA
$40,000
To support the 2013 Stanford Jazz Workshop: Jazz Camp and Jazz Residency. Students will study with professional jazz educators and musicians, with a focus on ear training, improvisation, and playing in small ensembles.

Thomas Armour Youth Ballet Inc.
South Miami, FL
$20,000
To support the Dance as a Vehicle for Success project. The program will provide free, weekly classes to students focused on developing ballet, tap, and Horton Modern technique and repertory.

Thomas Armour Youth Ballet, Inc.
South Miami, FL
$20,000
To support the Dance as a Vehicle for Success project. The program will provide free, weekly classes to students focused on developing ballet, tap, and Horton Modern technique and repertory.

Tucson Symphony Society (aka Tucson Symphony Orchestra )
Tucson, AZ
$10,000
To support the Young Composers Project. Students will learn to compose original works for orchestra and their training will culminate in a reading and recording of their pieces by the Tucson Symphony Chamber Orchestra or the Tucson String Quintet.

Unusual Suspects Theatre Co.
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
To support theater arts education residencies. Led by professional artists, students will study theater arts to improve their knowledge about theater, literacy, and communication skills, create their own plays, and collaboratively produce and perform in each other's plays.

Venice Arts In Neighborhoods
Venice, CA
$25,000
To support the expansion of the Art Mentoring Program. The project will provide free, technologically intensive, arts instruction to underserved youth with a focus on art creation in photography, filmmaking, and digital media.

Virginia's Heritage Music Trail The Crooked Road
Abingdon, VA
$10,000
To support Crooked Road's Traditional Music Education Program of professional development for teachers and after-school classes for children programs in rural southwest Virginia counties. In the spring and summer, classroom teachers will be trained to use an Appalachian music lesson plan followed by assembly programs and classroom visits by Emily Spencer and the Mount Rogers Community Band.

Webster University (on behalf of Community Music School)
St. Louis, MO
$15,000
To support the Community Music School's Pre-College Student Preparatory Program. Designed to augment the individual study of exceptionally talented music students in the St. Louis area, the program trains students in chamber music, music theory, music history and literature, and provides performance opportunities and artistic mentoring.

Westhab, Inc.
Elmsford, NY
$20,000
To support StoryArts classes in theater, video documentation, music, and visual arts that will be given to youth ages seven to 18 who live in homeless shelters and transitional or permanent low-income housing. Musicians, actors, directors, dancers, choreographers, video, and visual artists will teach children to tell stories leading to final performances that weave together what students learned.

Wide Angle Youth Media, Inc.
Baltimore, MD
$25,000
To support the expansion of Baltimore Speaks Out! a media arts project for middle school students. Students will learn how to create and showcase their own videos about issues facing youth in their community.

Working Classroom, Inc.
Albuquerque, NM
$35,000
To support Multicultural Street Conservatory, a year-round introductory, intermediate, and advanced level program of theater and visual arts residencies by nationally prominent artists from diverse backgrounds for 10 to 18-year-old students. Students will study playwriting, performance, and visit exhibitions. Advanced students will produce work for theater productions, public art projects, and gallery installations.

Young Chicago Authors
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support creative writing workshops for youth, teachers, and teaching artists. Master teaching artists will lead free after-school, weekend, and summer writing programs for students, ages 13 to 21; and will provide professional development for classroom teachers, teaching artists, and advanced students interested in becoming workshop leaders.

Young People's Chorus of New York City, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the Partner Schools Program. At-risk students from up to 15 New York City public schools will receive scholarships to participate in free, after-school, choral music education activities, including weekly rehearsals, music theory, harmonic analysis classes, and performance experiences.

Youth in Focus
Seattle, WA
$20,000
To support the Core Curriculum Photography Classes program. Underserved high school students will work with professional artists to explore black-and-white photography as well as other digital media in the open darkroom and digital lab.

YS Kids Playhouse
Yellow Springs, OH
$10,000
To support the Summer Theater Arts Immersion program. Led by local, national, and international artists, students will study acting, technical theater, and music and create original and adapted performances that will be presented to the public.

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