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1998 Grant Awards: Education & Access
Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change,
contingent upon prior Endowment approval.
Direct Impact Grants
52nd Street Project
New York, NY
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support two cycles of a summer program in 1998 which pairs disadvantaged children ages eight
through twelve with professional theater artists who write, direct, and appear in plays starring
the child which are rehearsed during a week in the country and produced Off-Broadway.
A Noise Within
Glendale, CA
$13,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support a variety of educational programs including the Student Outreach Program of
performances and discussions, Conservatory Classes in classical theater, the Professional Intern
Program for theater artists, a comprehensive Summer With Shakespeare program, and touring
performance workshops throughout California during 1998-99.
Adams County School District 14
Commerce City, CO
$90,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Next Generation Project: Connecting Youth, Teachers, and Community through
Mariachi, Folklorico, and Southwest Music and Dance Traditions, intended to preserve and enhance
music and dance traditions by creating instructional resources and apprenticeship opportunities
that respond to the move to develop national educational standards in the arts.
Alley Theatre
Houston, TX
$12,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the development and tour in Texas of a production based on the life of Barbara Jordan,
which will be presented as part of the Alley Theatre's Living History Series during the 1998-99
season.
American Ballroom Theater Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support American Ballroom Theater's Dancing Classrooms program that integrates dance education
into the school day of upper elementary public school children in the New York metropolitan area
during the 1998-99 academic year.
American Film Institute
Los Angeles, CA
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the conversion of filmographic information from the American Film Institute Catalog
of American Feature Films and the National Moving Image Database into digital format, to
provide public access to this material through AFI's website.
American Music Theater Festival
Philadelphia, PA
$46,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary (Consortium)
To support The Digital Youth Network, a music theater, technology, and education consortium
project with WHYY Public TV and Philadelphia middle schools to link through live video and Internet
communications, inner-city students creating original works with their peers in other
communities.
Andrew Cacho African Drummers and Dancers
Economic Development, Inc.
Washington, DC
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support Summerworks '98, a summer training program in African dancing and drumming for young
people in Washington, DC.
Arizona Theatre Company
Tucson, AZ
$16,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the implementation of Phase II of the Accessibility Initiative, consisting of three
components: audio description for the visually impaired, sign language interpretation, and a
program that will seek to involve the state's diverse population in the theater's work at its
Phoenix location during the 1998-99 season.
Armory Center for the Arts
Pasadena, CA
$75,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support, in collaboration with four community organizations, an advanced arts training and
mentorship program including workshops and classes in the visual and performing arts for young
people ages 11-18 during 1998-2000.
Artists Collective, Incorporated
Hartford, CT
$80,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support professional training classes during 1998-99 in dance, music, theater, and visual arts
to broaden understanding and appreciation of the African Diaspora in the Hartford community through
the arts, educational forums, and special events.
Arts & Culture Council for Greater Rochester, Inc.
Rochester, NY
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Local Arts Agency
To support the development of Culture and Arts for Rochester On Line (CAROL), a collaborative web
site for artists and cultural organizations in Rochester that will provide an interactive cultural
events calendar and provide opportunities for arts organizations to develop interactive educational
materials for K-12 audiences.
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Baltimore, MD
$100,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support, during the 1998-99 school year, the third year of Arts Excel, a five-year partnership
between the Orchestra and 11 schools in Baltimore City and County, to create and implement a
K-12 arts-integrated curriculum, featuring interdisciplinary lessons in music, language arts,
history, science, and math.
Bates College
Lewiston, ME
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the expansion of Bates Dance Festival's Community Crossover Programs that increase the
local community's access to and knowledge of dance through workshops, discussions, classes, and
performances for people of all ages.
Berkeley Symphony Orchestra
Berkeley, CA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a comprehensive education program at Berkeley public elementary schools during the
l998-99 academic year, with teacher training, commissioning and student interaction with the
composer, an introductory orchestral concert, classroom visits, and a culminating presentation at
which students perform with Berkeley Symphony professional musicians.
Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble, Inc.
Bloomsburg, PA
$14,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support Theatre in the Classroom, an arts education program which tours original, ensemble
developed adaptations of world folk literature to elementary and middle schools across Pennsylvania
during the 1998-99 season.
Boston Film/Video Foundation, Inc.
Boston, MA
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support a comprehensive media arts education program which encompasses a wide range of classes,
seminars, and workshops offered to a variety of students from the New England region.
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Boston, MA
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a 1998 summer program of performance-oriented, music professional training at the
Tanglewood Music Center for instrumentalists, conductors, composers, and ensembles-in residence
(selected by competitive auditions held in a number of American cities, with emphasis on reaching
talented minority students), and a week-long contemporary music festival.
Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences
Brooklyn, NY
$65,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum (Consortium)
To support the implementation of The Brooklyn Expedition, a consortium, interactive, educational
multimedia project -- part of a long-term museum-library collaboration among the Brooklyn Museum of
Art, the Brooklyn Public Library, and the Brooklyn Children's Museum.
Brooklyn Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$22,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support More Than Music, the Brooklyn Philharmonic's in-school educational program, which
incorporates interdisciplinary instruction, with such themes as "Dvorak in America" and "Flamenco"
and will expand in 1998-99 to include exploration of Chinese and Chinese-American music for Western
instruments, and the music of American composer Charles Ives.
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra Society, Inc.
Buffalo, NY
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra's (BPO) regional touring activities during the
1998-99 season, including in-school and evening live performances of classical music, not readily
available for residents of the Albion, Warsaw, Catteraugus, and Wellsville School Districts in
upstate New York -- small rural communities surrounding Erie County where BPO resides.
Cantata Singers, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support, during the 1998-99 school year, Classroom Cantatas, an interactive, educational
program that introduces inner-city elementary, middle and high school students in the Boston Public
Schools to composition and performance preparation.
Cedar Rapids Symphony Orchestra Association, Inc.
Cedar Rapids, IA
$9,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support in 1998-99 the Cedar Rapids Symphony Orchestra's educational programming which will
provide a range of activities from basic music education to advanced training for exceptional
students, in collaboration with the Cedar Rapids Community School District and the Grant Wood Area
Education Agency; outreach concerts in neighborhood schools and a satellite program in rural
communities.
Centro Cultural Aztlan, Inc.
San Antonio, TX
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support activities in 1998-99 of the 20-year anniversary project, Native Roots/New Visions
including a conference for visual and literary artists, an integrated exhibit of visual arts and
literature, a bilingual creative writing workshop, and development of a print and electronic
multimedia publication.
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support Meet the Music!, a series of family concerts that integrates programs with narration,
scripted dialogue, staging and costumes, children performing, and audiences interacting with
artists and composers, offered in Alice Tully Hall and Merkin Concert Hall during the 1998-99
season.
Chicago Theatre Group, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$60,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the Goodman Theatre Student Subscription Series, a free arts-in-education program that
provides a sustained, in-depth introduction to theater through matinees and extensive educational
materials to high school students, teachers, and parents during the 1998-99 season.
Children's Art Carnival
New York, NY
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support professionally directed training and exhibition or broadcast opportunities in the
visual and communications arts in 1998 for minority, at-risk youth ages 12-21 interested in
pursuing careers in the arts.
Children's Museum
Boston, MA
$64,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education (Consortium)
To support, between 1998 and 1999, Head Start on KidStage, a consortium effort among the
Children's Museum, City Stage Company, and Action for Boston Community Development, to provide
theater arts education and access programs to Head Start teachers, children, and families,
featuring performances and introductions to theater arts education.
Children's Theatre Company and School
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Musical Theater (Consortium)
To support Summer in the Cities '98, a consortium project of the Children's Theatre Company and
School, Plymouth Music Series, and the Saint Paul Public Housing Agency that will offer an
intensive musical theater workshop designed to serve ethnically and racially diverse students, ages
9 - 11, who live in public housing in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Christina Cultural Arts Center, Inc.
Wilmington, DE
$19,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support a series of arts education programs in 1998 for underserved low-income children ages
3-18, including a preschool arts academy, after-school community based arts instruction, artists'
residencies, public performances, and exhibitions.
City Art Works
Seattle, WA
$9,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support a series of up to eight week-long workshops for professional artists from the Pacific
Northwest given by master visiting artists in a variety of media -- glass, sculpture, jewelry,
metalsmithing, painting, and printmaking -- providing artists in the region with access to artists
of great renown.
City Lights Youth Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the participation of students from District Five (Central Harlem) schools for two years
in City Lights Youth Theatre's after-school programs which include dramatic arts classes,
workshops, and productions.
City of Atlanta Bureau of Cultural Affairs
Atlanta, GA
$42,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Local Arts Agency
To support ArtsCool, a summer apprentice program, to provide young people in the Atlanta
metropolitan area with the opportunity to work with professional artists and instructors to develop
skills in the visual and literary arts, and also to learn about opportunities for careers in the
arts.
City of San Diego, California
San Diego, CA
$100,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Local Arts Agency
To support the expansion and enhancement of the Neighborhood Arts Program which directly funds
arts and cultural programs and services in nine San Diego neighborhoods through collaborations with
nonprofit arts and cultural organizations, individual artists, and communities.
Cityfolk
Dayton, OH
$12,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support Jazz Week 1999, a week-long residency engagement of Puerto Rican pianist and
percussionist Eddie Palmieri and his orchestra involving a series of jazz education programs in
middle, high school, and college music classes; evening workshops; a jazz assembly of student
musicians at Stivers Auditorium; and a Saturday night Latin Jazz concert at University of Dayton's
ballroom.
Clay Studio
Philadelphia, PA
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support the Claymobile, a travelling van that brings equipment, materials, a teacher and an
intern, to conduct ceramics classes in schools, community centers, after-school programs, and
homeless shelters in low-income, inner-city neighborhoods in the Philadelphia region.
Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, OH
$18,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the Cleveland Museum's CMArt Suitcase program as part of a pilot project to revitalize
the Museum's Extensions Service, a dynamic educational outreach activity that brings original works
of art to classrooms throughout the Cleveland area.
Cleveland Play House
Cleveland, OH
$44,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support the development, during the 1998-99 season, of a curriculum-based education plan for
15,000 middle and high school students throughout Ohio, based on one of the Play House's
professionally staged productions.
Colorado Symphony Association
Denver, CO
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the 1998-99 Audience Building Initiative, a multifaceted educational concert series
presented at such venues as Boettcher Concert Hall and Fiddler's Green Amphitheater, and on big
screens in downtown Denver and at Cherry Creek Mall, utilizing an interactive music and visual
program, new works, and orchestral fusions with jazz, blues, salsa, rock, and gospel.
Community Works, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support Passing it On: Community Artists Making a Difference, a year-long, multi-disciplinary
immersion project for 12th grade students to promote broad-based knowledge of the arts in general
and sequential training in the specific discipline of a mentor established artist.
Cultural Council of Santa Cruz County
Aptos, CA
$80,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support, during 1998 and 1999, the final year of the pilot phase of Spectra Plus, a model
project to firmly embed the arts into Santa Cruz County's entire K-6 school curriculum, through
curriculum and teacher professional development.
Dallas Symphony Association, Inc.
Dallas, TX
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support an educational outreach program for 60,000 elementary students in Dallas and
surrounding areas during the 1998-99 school year by providing youth concerts, including co-
curricular lesson plans with math, social studies, science, and language arts; Symphony YES
performances by orchestra musicians in 100 schools; and Amazing Music Family Concerts at Meyerson
Symphony Hall.
DeCordova and Dana Museum and Park
Lincoln, MA
$60,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support Art Works for Schools, a teacher training and curriculum development program featuring
a series of workshops conducted by museum educators, education researchers, theater artists, and
art and non-art classroom teachers.
Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts
Wilmington, DE
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support an artists residency project to bring three artists, Linda Lorrie Gross, Mei-ling Hom,
and Eve Andree Laramee, to underserved communities in Delaware.
Delaware Theatre Company
Wilmington, DE
$9,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the 1998-99 Children at Risk Program which offers a variety of no-cost theater classes,
residencies, and a video program to mentally challenged, chronically ill, or hearing impaired
children, inner-city parochial school students, and incarcerated youth.
Detroit Symphony Orchestra Hall, Inc.
Detroit, MI
$100,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the Orchestra Place/High School Initiative, a model partnership between the Detroit
Symphony Orchestra and Detroit High School for the Fine and Performing Arts, with a mostly
African-American student population, instituting a wide range of student-music programs during the
l998-99 season.
Downtown Community Television Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the Video Training Workshops Program which provides a comprehensive range of courses in
electronic media to urban youth and community-based videographers, making a technologically
sophisticated medium available to an underserved population.
Downtown Statesville Development Corporation
Statesville, NC
$12,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support Land and Legend of Iredell County - Where Do We Go From Here? -- a one-year project
that includes curriculum developed for high school advanced art students, a permanent exhibit of
student-created images depicting sites and individuals important to local history, a musical audio
inspired by the same, historical research, and art works by lead artists in the project.
Durham Arts Council, Inc.
Durham, NC
$54,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Local Arts Agency
To support DAC In Reach, programs which will use writing and the performing and visual arts to
work with at-risk youth and youth service providers in Durham and Orange counties.
East Bay Center for the Performing Arts
Richmond, CA
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support arts training, performance opportunities and arts presentations for the underserved,
multi-ethnic community of Richmond, California, during 1998-99.
East-West Players, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$14,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the professional training of Asian Pacific American theater artists through a program
comprised of an actors' conservatory, the David Henry Hwang Writers Institute, and actors network
during 1998-99.
EBS Productions, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the 1998 International Film Financing Conference, an annual event established to
encourage and increase collaborations between American independent producers and international film
production entities.
Fairbanks Symphony Association, Inc.
Fairbanks, AK
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the 23rd Annual String Chamber Music Symposium in January 1999, a training program for
string players throughout the state, under the direction of a quartet-in-residence, held on the
campus of the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.
Fargo-Moorhead Orchestral Association
Fargo, ND
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support musicians' fees for the presentation of the 1998-99 educational concerts at North
Dakota State University's Fine Arts Center (reaching 6,000 children), including daytime Young
People's Concerts; Pizza Pop Concert for Teens; a Family concert, featuring the Young Artist Solo
Competition winner, broadcast over NPR's KCCM; and concerts for local and rural junior high
schools.
Florida Dance Association
Miami, FL
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support more than 350 classes, performances, and community activities presented by local,
national and international dance artists during the Florida Dance Festival's 1998 season in Miami,
Florida.
Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra Association, Inc.
Ft. Worth, TX
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the 1998-99 Adventures in Music, the Fort Worth Symphony's education and outreach
program designed to mentor young musicians, introduce new listeners to orchestral music, develop
appreciation for and commitment to music, and support the work of other arts education programs
throughout Fort Worth and the state of Texas, reaching more than 47,000 young people.
Foundation for Art Resources, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$12,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support On the Verge: Alternative Art in L.A., a public lecture series about the state of
contemporary art, and the production of a CD-ROM documenting the Foundation's 20-year history.
Fountain Theatre
Los Angeles, CA
$14,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the creation, development, and public presentation of a new play written and performed
by the Voices Workshop, a free program that teaches theater skills to persons with HIV/AIDS.
Frederick Douglass Creative Arts
New York, NY
$35,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support the development of African American writers through intensive workshops in all genres,
staged readings, and the 26th Annual Black Roots Festival.
Fredric R. Mann Music Center
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a performance of Gustav Mahler's 8th Symphony (for orchestra, soloists, double chorus,
and boys' chorus) and a free children's concert for more than 5,000 attendees, associated with the
Mann Music Center's presentation of the 1998 Summer Festival of the Philadelphia Orchestra, at
Fairmont Park.
Friends of Nord, Inc.
New Orleans, LA
$7,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the Step Up Artist-in-Residence Program that provides dance training and performance
opportunities for students in New Orleans with Pilobolus Too and ballet mistress Karen Brown.
Friends of the D.C. Youth Orchestra Program
Washington, DC
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support Young Virtuosi Chamber Music, a two-year project from 1998-2000 to train school-age
(9-16 years old) musicians in the art of chamber music performance, encompassing weekly rehearsals
of the chamber orchestra, string quartets, woodwind quintets, brass quintets, and a percussion
ensemble; coaching sessions; and a series of chamber music concerts at local facilities.
Galeria Studio 24
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support Regeneration, a project designed to increase participation by young Latinos in the
programs and exhibitions of Galeria Studio 24, providing a base can gain the information and skills
needed to launch careers in the arts.
Geneseo Migrant Center, Inc.
Geneseo, NY
$29,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support a multidisciplinary training program for migrant farm workers in the visual,
performing, and literary arts and the development of a video and publications for use in
replicating the projects.
Glass Art Society, Inc.
Seattle, WA
$9,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support various Internet efforts to increase public access to the Glass Art Society's
activities as well as improve service to its members by hosting a virtual conference and improving
the quality of its website.
Glen Ellyn Children's Chorus
Glen Ellyn, IL
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the outreach programs of the Glen Ellyn Children's Chorus during 1998-99, including the
Musical Experience for Children program targeting children from kindergarten through second grade
living in low-income, ethnically and culturally diverse neighborhoods, and a 500-voice Honors
Chorus Workshop.
Glimmerglass Opera, Inc.
Cooperstown, NY
$38,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support a series of audience development and outreach programs involving seminars, recitals and
touring productions of the operas Of Mice and Men and The Mother Of Us All to
rural communities, schools, colleges, concert halls, and museums in central New York and New York
City during 1998-1999.
Grand Canyon Chamber Music Festival, Inc.
Grand Canyon, AZ
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the Grand Canyon Music Festival's public service tour of Northern Arizona in September
1998, which will reach school children in rural, isolated areas of the state at the Grand Canyon
and on the Navajo and Hopi Indian Reservations.
Grand Rapids Symphony Society
Grand Rapids, MI
$55,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support the full implementation, over the course of two school years, of the Symphony's new
Artists-in-Residence program for elementary students (grades K-6) jointly planned by the Symphony
and West Michigan school personnel to be comprehensive and related to state curriculum
standards.
Grass Roots Art and Community Efforts
Hardwick, VT
$9,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support a weekly community visual arts workshop for students, the elderly, and the
developmentally disabled in Greensboro, Vermont, as well as accompanying exhibitions and
documentation.
Great Leap, Incorporated
Santa Monica, CA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support To All Relations, a multidisciplinary work that will be developed in 1998
through a series of summer arts workshops in music, dance, and theater with multi-ethnic
communities and at-risk students in Southern California.
Greater Augusta Arts Council, Inc.
Augusta, GA
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support expansion of the Arts Infusion program in inner-city Richmond County elementary schools
during the 1998-99 school year.
Hartford Ballet, Inc.
Hartford, CT
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support expansion and enhancement of the School of the Hartford Ballet's Dance Program for City
Youth, which offers educational programs ranging from performance training to dance as a component
of social studies.
Henry Street Settlement
New York, NY
$45,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support the 1998-99 Building Bridges-Building Audiences project of the Abrons Arts Center to
expand its function as a community resource through performances in selected folk arts,
exhibitions, and educational programs reflective of the Latino, African American, Asian and Jewish
cultures of New York City's Lower East Side.
High 5 Tickets to the Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support publication of the Spanish language edition of a catalog that lists information and
purchasing instructions for $5 and two-for-$5 tickets to cultural events for teenagers in all five
New York City boroughs.
Houston Grand Opera Association, Inc.
Houston, TX
$100,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support the third year of the Community Connections Initiative which involves free outdoor
performances, artist residencies, discounted mainstage performances, expansion of the Opera's
arts-in-education program, and an in-school tour of an opera on drug abuse prevention during
1998-1999.
Hyde Park Art Center
Chicago, IL
$7,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support a youth mentorship art initiative at four Chicago Park District sites in which
teenagers work side by side with artists, participating both as students and as mentors to younger
children ages 6-12 during after-school visual arts workshops.
Indiana Repertory Theatre, Inc.
Indianapolis, IN
$42,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the Discovery Series during the 1998-99 season, an educational program directly related
to middle and high school curricula, which includes three fully-produced plays, detailed classroom
materials, actor visits to schools, and workshops for teachers.
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Inc.
Indianapolis, IN
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the museum's Community Connections program, which is conducted by a group of
African-American high school students, providing thematic presentations and participatory
activities, linked to the museum's special exhibitions and collections throughout Indiana, targeted
for rural and inner-city community organizations.
Institute for Contemporary Art/P. S. 1
Long Island City, NY
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the integration of new digital technology into P.S. 1's educational programming by
expanding its website -- "Out of Site" -- designed and created by Wagner High School students, to
include exhibitions and curricula from P.S. 1's twenty-year history, making it accessible to
audiences nationwide.
Intermedia Arts of Minnesota, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$17,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support Thicker Than Water: Art as a Family Value, a project that examines how creativity is
nurtured within families and in society, focusing on Minnesota artist families, and including
exhibitions, performances, workshops, educational programs, and publications.
International Film Seminars, Inc.
New York, NY
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the 1998 International Flaherty Film Seminar and three regional seminars to bring
students, scholars, filmmakers, curators, film enthusiasts, and librarians together to explore and
discuss the art of the moving image and its potential to illuminate the human spirit.
International Folk Art Foundation
Santa Fe, NM
$13,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support Casa Colonial, the installation of an interactive Spanish colonial period home that
will be used for curriculum-based, hands-on interpretation about the traditional arts of New
Mexico.
Japanese American Cultural and Community Center
Los Angeles, CA
$16,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support Accessing Japanese Culture, a project including classes, workshops, exhibits, tours,
and teacher training, designed to present and perpetuate Japanese cultural art forms in the United
States by building interest in and audiences for traditional art forms, including classical dance,
the tea ceremony, calligraphy, taiko drumming, and ikebana flower arrangement.
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Washington, DC
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Presenting
To support Performing Arts for Everyone, a program of free performances, bi-annual open houses,
and discount ticket programs that significantly expands the Center's reach to the local community
and to visitors to the nation's capital.
Kalamazoo Symphony Society
Kalamazoo, MI
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the 1998-99 Youth Education Project, which will reach 40,000 children from Kalamazoo
County and surrounding areas, and includes: youth concerts and lecture/demonstrations; Family
Discovery Series, including a pre-concert "Petting Zoo"; artist residencies in high schools and
master classes for college level students; and open evening rehearsals.
Kalihi Palama Culture & Arts Society, Inc.
Honolulu, HI
$7,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Kalihi-Palama Culture & Community Arts Project designed to transmit and present
the art forms of the multi-ethnic peoples living in Hawaii through instruction in traditional art
forms, such as Tahitian music and dance, Hawaiian traditional chant and dance, Filipino music and
dance, and Samoan dance and crafts.
Kansas City Symphony
Kansas City, MO
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support Kansas City Symphony's 1998-99 orchestral residency at the Paseo Academy of Visual and
Performing Arts, a magnet high school, coordinated by Composer-in-Residence, James Mobberley and
assisted by Kansas City Symphony musicians/mentors. This project has the potential to serve as a
national model, using guidelines developed by the Symphony.
Ko-Thi, Inc.
Milwaukee, WI
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the company's educational outreach efforts through classes and lectures that focus on
dance performance, and the music, philosophy and history of African culture; with performances, and
community activities throughout Wisconsin.
Kohl Children's Museum
Wilmette, IL
$22,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the design, development, and production of The Music Exhibit, a hands-on, three-year
exhibition to introduce children to diverse musical forms, melody, harmony, tempo, and rhythm; to
create new technology and software for homes, schools, and cultural organizations; and provide
internships and performances opportunities for college students.
Lane Arts Council
Eugene, OR
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Local Arts Agency
To support the Summer Arts Connection, an access and training project to teach young people to
assist professional artists in workshops for children in rural Oregon communities.
Lark Society for Chamber Music
Portland, ME
$7,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a year-long residency in 1998-99 of the Portland String Quartet in the Maranacook
Community School in Readfield, Maine, which integrates the study of United States= history,
English, music, and art and culminates in a community concert of works written by American
composers performed by professional and student musicians.
Levine School of Music
Washington, DC
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the Levine School of Music's 1998-99 Public Housing Youth Orchestra program which
provides free weekly, after-school music instruction, artist mentoring, and performance
opportunities for at-risk youth living in Washington, D.C.'s public housing communities.
Lime Kiln Arts, Inc.
Lexington, VA
$10,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support Lime Kiln Arts' Touring and Artists-In-Residence programs which serve rural communities
in Virginia, and to expand these programs to new underserved communities.
Little City Foundation
Palatine, IL
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support a multi-phase exhibition of artwork created by artists with developmental disabilities
at a variety of venues B including cultural centers, businesses, schools, and health care
facilities -- in the greater Metropolitan Chicago area.
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Society, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support CIAO! (Community Intergenerational Arts Outreach), an educational outreach effort with
two complementary programs: Meet the Music for junior and senior high school students in
cooperation with the Los Angeles Unified School District, anchored by a concert series performed in
school auditoriums and community neighborhoods.
Lyric Opera Center for American Artists
Chicago, IL
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support the 1998-99 Training Program, a comprehensive professional development program for
young opera artists that includes theatrical training, language instruction, vocal coaching, and
workshops with master artists and composers.
Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Inc.
Kansas City, MO
$55,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support Opera for Teens, a project to expand the Lyric Opera's education programs in breadth
and depth for 6th- to 12th-grade students in four school districts in the Kansas City metropolitan
area over a two-year period, using the productions of Never Lost A Passenger: Harriet Tubman
and the Underground Railroad and Joshua's Boots.
Mad River Theater Works
West Liberty, OH
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Musical Theater
To support Mad River Theater Works' creation, in collaboration with rural communities in Ohio, of
a play with music exploring the history of the Underground Railroad, and a regional tour of the
production.
Manchester Craftsmen's Guild
Pittsburgh, PA
$124,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support Art to Create Community, a project which will expand educational and presenting
activities by offering workshops, performances, lectures, exhibitions, and teen mentoring programs
in community settings.
Manhattan School of Music
New York, NY
$65,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support a two-year expansion and institutionalization of Music Teaches, a sequential music
education program for children in Harlem, Washington Heights, the South Bronx and upper West Side
that includes training conservatory students to be effective teaching artists, extending the reach
of current programs, and sharing this model through distance-learning technology.
Manhattan Theatre Club, Inc.
New York, NY
$125,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support expansion of a multi-faceted education program which provides in-depth theater
education to over 3,000 intermediate and high school students in 40 schools in New York City,
professional development for classroom teachers and teaching artists, and on-the-job training for
early-career professionals.
Marlboro School of Music, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the Invited Master Artist Initiative, a 1998 summer program that will enable young
musicians from across the country to study vocal lieder and woodwind repertoire with renowned
international concert artists; and allow emerging composers the opportunity to have their works
rehearsed, performed, and recorded.
Mayfair, Inc.
Allentown, PA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support four artists' residencies in the community, resulting in the creation of new work and
the performance of existing work by professional artists and community members, and extending the
outreach of the 1998 Mayfair Festival.
MERIT Music Program, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$32,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support faculty for the 1998-99 BEGIN (Bringing Educational Goals to Inner-City Neighborhoods)
project, in partnership with organizations in Chicago that will provide music theory and
instrumental lessons to approximately 4,000 low-income students in preparation for advanced study
at the Tuition-Free Conservatory.
Miami-Dade Community College
Miami, FL
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support the development of discipline-based residencies in new music, Hispanic theater, and
jazz as part of arts access and audience building efforts of the New Audience for the Performing
Arts project.
Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Milwaukee, WI
$200,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support the two-year expansion of Arts in Community Education into the eighth grade, and a
study of the feasibility of expansion into high schools in the metropolitan Milwaukee area.
Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts
Minneapolis, MN
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the first year of a three-year plan to better serve families and African-American
visitors, by offering learning experiences which encourage long-term and frequent patronage.
Minnesota Chorale
Minneapolis, MN
$8,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the l998-99 Bridges program, a collaboration between the Minnesota Chorale, Leigh
Morris Chorale and other partner choirs from inner-city churches to explore African-American sacred
music, both notated and non-notated repertoire, for a performance at the First Baptist Church in
Minneapolis.
Minnesota Opera Company
Minneapolis, MN
$8,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support the commission, production and 1998-99 Upper Midwest tour of The Faerie Tayle
Opera, the first in a series of short operas for children based on folk stories from around
the world, written, composed, and performed by local artists.
Minnesota Orchestral Association
Minneapolis, MN
$75,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the Orchestra's statewide educational/outreach efforts in 1998-99, including Adopt-a
School visits to inner-city schools for 5,000 elementary and middle school children; Young People's
Concerts (45,000 students); a music residency program with visits to rural towns; and a program to
reach senior residents in convalescent and nursing homes.
Molly Olga Neighborhood Art Classes, Inc./Locust Street Art Buffalo, NY
$13,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support Locust Street Art's project, Artist as Role-Model: Access Through Identification, a two
year project to help three alumni artists return to teach art classes to low-income, inner-city
children.
Moonstone, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support Moonstone's 15th Annual Celebration of Black Writing, featuring writers and critics
including Henry Louis Gates, Nikki Giovanni, Charles Johnson, George Wolfe, and Virginia
Hamilton.
MOSAIC Youth Theatre of Detroit
Detroit, MI
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support during 1998-99, a nine-month, free theater training and performance program conducted
by theater artists from the region for youth, ages 12-20, which culminates in a professional
production and tour to schools, community centers, and a professional theater.
Museum of Fine Arts
Boston, MA
$65,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the publication of an illustrated and innovative handbook to expand the accessibility
of the Museum>s collections and increase local, national, and international audiences'
understanding of a wide variety of artworks.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
(on behalf of Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens)
Houston, TX
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the Bayou Bend Navigator, an interactive Internet website and CD-ROM which will expand
access to Bayou Bend's collections of American decorative arts, assembled by Texas philanthropist
Ima Hogg, and considered to be among the most distinguished of such collections in the world.
Music Center of Los Angeles County
Los Angeles, CA
$45,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Presenting
To support artistic and marketing development for Music Center On Tour, an in-school residency
program that introduces the arts and the creative process to more than 850,000 students.
Music Center Opera Association/Los Angeles Music Center Opera
Los Angeles, CA
$100,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support Los Angeles Opera's developmental and sequential arts education programs including:
Elementary In-School Opera Program, Secondary In-School Opera Program, Student Matinee Program,
teacher training, website for Education Programs, and evaluation in 1998 1999.
Musicorda, Inc.
South Hadley, MA
$6,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a six-week summer residency in 1998 by pre-professional string quartets during the
Musicorda Festival, including intensive study and rehearsals with distinguished faculty, and
performances for the Children's String Workshop and Young Artists Series.
Nashville Symphony Association
Nashville, TN
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the 1998-99 Step by Step Education Program of the Nashville Symphony, developed in
collaboration with Nashville elementary schools, music teachers, education consultants, and
symphony musicians as a curriculum-based, arts instruction project for children grades three
through eight.
Nebraska Choral Arts Society
Omaha, NE
$7,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support Ragazzi, a Nebraska Children's Choir located in South Omaha, which provides
performance-based, musical training opportunities for economically disadvantaged young singers in
grades two through six.
New Dance Theatre, Inc.
Denver, CO
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support costs and activities of the 1999 International Association of Blacks in Dance
Conference in Denver, Colorado, that will focus on art as a platform for intervention and
prevention in the lives of at-risk youth.
New England Dinosaur, Inc.
New York, NY
$12,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support in 1998-99 the expansion and evaluation of The Michael Mao ESL Project B L. E. T. Dance
(Learning English Through Dance), which provides recent Chinese immigrants, all English as a Second
Language high school students in New York City, with movement and dance classes to increase their
comprehension and command of spoken English, while introducing them to modern dance.
New Jersey Symphony Orchestra
Newark, NJ
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the 1998 Spotlight Concerts, multi-sensory, semi-staged educational performances for
children in grades one through six in more than 100 communities throughout 17 New Jersey counties,
based on the theme Music in Motion, including the transfer of a Teacher's Resource Manual to the
Internet for a new, interactive musical education site.
New Mexico Symphony Orchestra
Albuquerque, NM
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support statewide touring of the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra in l998-99 to underserved
communities, youth concerts, and an educational program which includes ensemble demonstrations in
schools, orchestral concerts at Popejoy Hall for 10,000 fourth graders, and musicians' visits to
high school bands and orchestras for master classes and private instruction.
New Orleans Ballet Association
New Orleans, LA
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the Louisiana Presenters Network, a statewide consortium of arts organizations,
institutions of higher learning, and local arts agencies in commissioning and sponsoring an
extended statewide residency for Donald Byrd's "JazzTrain" that will include workshops, master
classes, and a six-city performance tour.
New Orleans Video Access Center, Inc.
New Orleans, LA
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support access to production equipment and educational activities for low-income artists and
students.
New School for Social Research
New York, NY
$6,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the New York String Orchestra Seminar, designed for advanced young musicians
(auditioned nationwide) to work with master artists to learn orchestral and chamber ensemble
repertoire during a 10-day seminar of workshops and rehearsals, culminating in a series of concerts
at Carnegie Hall.
New Sounds Music, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a one-year residency in Philadelphia by the PRISM Quartet, Saxophone, and MIDI Ensemble
and composer Jennifer Higdon in collaboration with the Settlement Music School, Free Library of
Philadelphia, and Kardon Institute of the Arts for People with Disabilities, including community
educational and outreach activities.
New Wave Corporation/Midwest Radio Theatre Workshop Columbia, MO
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the 18th annual Midwest Radio Theater Workshop's national radio theater production
conference in 1998, to train audio artists from across the country in script writing, performance
for radio, and technical skills to produce innovative live radio drama.
New York Folklore Society
Newfield, NY
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Mentoring and Professional Development Program for Folklife and the Traditional
Arts, a model project providing assistance to folk artists in New York State through consultancies
and professional exchanges.
New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$6,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support printing costs for ten issues of the New York City Poetry Calendar, a free
tabloid magazine which is the central resource for information about literary readings, lectures,
and workshops in metropolitan New York.
New York Historical Society
New York, NY
$22,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the creation of an electronic database containing approximately 15,000 records of 18th,
19th, and 20th-century American paintings, drawings, sculpture, silver, medals, and coins from the
Society's collections.
New York University
New York, NY
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support, during 1998-99, expansion of the Creative Arts Team's current pre-K and Head Start
Early Learning Through the Arts program in classrooms which serve special education
populations.
North Carolina Symphony Society, Inc.
Raleigh, NC
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the 1998-99 concert series presented statewide with educational concerts, and a
workshop for 250 music school teachers from throughout North Carolina addressing programs targeted
for 80,000 youngsters.
North Carolina Writers' Network
Carrboro, NC
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support School Without Walls, a project which provides training, mentoring, and encouragement
to writing students and disabled youth throughout North Carolina.
Oakland Youth Chorus
Oakland, CA
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the 1998-99 Oakland Youth Chorus's tuition-free, after-school musical training program
for young singers in cities and schools in the San Francisco Bay Area region, designed to increase
the students' vocal and musical skills, and improve social and family skills.
Ohio Alliance for Arts Education
Columbus, OH
$100,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education (Consortium)
To support two years of the Ohio Arts Education Assessment Project, a consortium effort among the
Alliance, Ohio Arts Council, and the Ohio Department of Education to create, test, refine and
disseminate assessment instruments for grades four and eight in dance, drama/theater, music, and
visual arts, and to enable Ohio teachers and administrators to plan and conduct arts assessment in
their schools.
Old Creamery Theatre Company, Inc.
Amana, IA
$8,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the development and touring to rural and urban communities throughout Iowa of a
production of stories and music based on students' writings about cross-cultural conflicts and non
violent conflict resolution.
Orchestral Association/Civic Orchestra of Chicago
Chicago, IL
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the scholarship program of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago which enables student
musicians (nationally recruited with emphasis on minority musicians) to pay for additional training
and music activities related to the 1998-99 program and, in particular, the MusiCorps ensemble
residency.
Out North Theatre Company
Anchorage, AK
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support the company's 1998 On Stage creative writing and performing arts instruction program
that nurtures the creative as well as social and intellectual development of high-risk adolescents
in the local community.
Pacific Northwest Ballet Association
Seattle, WA
$65,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the pilot year of Discover Dance and complementary programming, to help develop a
broader and more diverse audience in the greater Seattle region.
Pacific Symphony Association
Santa Ana, CA
$55,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support Class Act, a program which will support and enhance music education for up to 17,000
students at 20 elementary schools in Orange County during the 1998-99 school year through a series
of activities, including repeated interaction with an Orchestra musician and direct exposure and
interactive experiences with the Orchestra and the music it performs.
People's Music School, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the String Development Project which will provide tuition-free string instruction for
inner-city string students of Chicago, and broaden the School's string program and chamber music
offerings.
Philadelphia Orchestra Association
Philadelphia, PA
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music (Consortium)
To support the second year of the Music Education Partnership, a consortium project between the
Philadelphia Orchestra and Settlement Music School, in collaboration with the School District of
Philadelphia, involving Phase I and II of a four-phase music appreciation and awareness program for
more than 11,000 K-6 grade students.
Phoenix Art Museum
Phoenix, AZ
$11,250
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the production of a Spanish translation of a self-guided, random access, audio tour of
the museum's permanent collection, including tracts for 250 objects, and a 40-minute family and
children's tour.
Pinellas County Arts Council
Clearwater, FL
$95,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Local Arts Agency (Consortium)
To support a consortium project with the Arts Council of Hillsborough County, the Pinellas Arts
Council, and Districts Five and Six of the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice that will
establish a Juvenile Justice Arts activity site in St. Petersburg that will coordinate artists'
residencies for a four-county area.
Pittsburgh Chamber Music Society, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the Society's 1998-99 chamber music outreach program that enables the Muir String
Quartet and Pittsburgh Piano Trio to provide year-long coaching and mentoring for student musicians
and performances for underserved audiences in the community, in collaboration with Pittsburgh's
City Music Center, Board of Education, and Jewish Community Center.
Pittsburgh Symphony Society
Pittsburgh, PA
$55,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support, during the 1998-99 season, the Pittsburgh Symphony's K-12 Strategic Education
Initiative to develop and continue partnerships with schools throughout Western Pennsylvania, which
will enhance curriculum by creating comprehensive, sequential, and cross-disciplinary programs.
Plaza de la Raza, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support the 1998 series of drama, dance, music, visual arts workshops, and master classes at
Plaza de la Raza's School of Performing and Visual Arts, taught by community-based artists for
Latino youth ages 10-18.
Point Breeze Performing Arts Center
Philadelphia, PA
$55,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support the 1998 after-school sequential instructional programs in the performing arts for this
low income neighborhood's children and youth, ages four through 18.
Portland Art Museum / Northwest Film Center
Portland, OR
$78,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support a two-year statewide effort by the Northwest Film Center to unite a broad range of arts
and education organizations to bring media literacy to the forefront of K-12 education in the
coming century.
Portland Repertory Theater
Portland, OR
$6,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the Playwrights In Progress program, an eight-week, in-school playwriting workshop, and
the Young Playwrights Festival that gives one-act plays written by local youth full professional
productions.
Project Artaud
San Francisco, CA
$17,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts (Consortium)
To support a consortium project to expand the summer arts education program, Mission Voices, for
Mission District youth organized in collaboration with social service organizations in San
Francisco to encourage creative expression.
Project Row Houses
Houston, TX
$35,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts (Consortium)
To support planning and implementation of a retreat for organizations interested in developing
multidisciplinary, community-based arts programs similar to those at Project Row Houses in Houston,
Texas, and Space One Eleven in Birmingham, Alabama.
Richmond Symphony
Richmond, VA
$18,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music (Consortium)
To support the three-week 1998 Summer Music Camp, a consortium project which provides musical
training with professional instructors, to beginning and advanced students from the schools of
Richmond, as well as from Henrico and Chesterfield Counties, in collaboration with the Richmond
Public Schools and Richmond Department of Parks and Recreation.
San Francisco Arts Education Project
San Francisco, CA
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support Give and Take: Artists and Youth in Dialogue, an artist-in-residence program for the
1998-99 school year, which matches Bay Area artists with students for workshops and studio visits
culminating in a public exchange, catalog, and panel discussions.
San Francisco Foundation Community Initiative Funds
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education (Consortium)
To support Phase II-Cycle I of a consortium effort among the Commission, the Arts Education
Funders' Collaborative, the Arts Providers Alliance, the San Francisco Foundation, and the San
Francisco Unified School District, to strengthen arts education development in San Francisco public
elementary schools and pre-K child development centers.
San Francisco Girls Chorus, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the 1998-99 Master Teacher Program, providing sequential vocal training, language
exposure, and performance opportunities for young concert and touring ensemble singers (Chorissima
and Virtuose Choruses) and continued professional development for the artistic staff, including
conductor/vocal workshops and coaching.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
San Francisco, CA
$33,750
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support Widening the Circle, Bridging the Gap, a combination of outreach and education programs
and materials to promote access, expand opportunities for arts education, and serve a larger and
more diverse audience.
Sawtooth Center for Visual Art
Winston-Salem, NC
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support a forum to examine the state of non-degree-granting craft and art schools for artists,
educators, administrators, and students.
Scribe Video Center, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support film, video, and audio workshops for emerging and mid-level media artists, and help
participants create new work.
Senior Arts Project
Albuquerque, NM
$8,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support a 1998 series of collaborative cross-generational events, entitled "Connecting People
Through Arts," which includes workshops, performances, exhibits, and an oral history project
conducted in conjunction with several other arts organizations and the City of Albuquerque.
Shakespeare & Company, Inc.
Lenox, MA
$70,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support, from May 1998 through April 2000, an arts education project consisting of professional
development for teachers, collaborative classroom activities, and student performances in
collaboration with eight high schools in western Massachusetts.
Shakespeare Theatre
Washington, DC
$35,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the Shakespeare Theatre's annual free classical theater production, The Shakespeare
Theatre Free For All at the Carter Barron outdoor amphitheater which engages diverse
communities within the Washington area.
Southwest Chamber Music Society
Pasadena, CA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the 1998 Artists in Schools Mentorship Program at the John Muir High School which
provides students with weekly coaching, private instruction, performance opportunities, counseling
and enrichment activities, free tickets, and open discussions with composers from the Breaking the
Code of Contemporary Music series.
Spokane Symphony Society
Spokane, WA
$9,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the 1998-99 Symphony Ensembles for Education (SEED) program which will provide
underserved populations of all ages throughout the Inland Northwest with interactive, educational
music performances by ensembles of Symphony musicians.
Spoleto Festival U.S.A.
Charleston, SC
$60,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance (Consortium)
To support a statewide consortium project of dance companies, presenters and the state arts agency
to present residencies by the Paul Taylor Dance Company and Taylor 2, that will serve rural and
urban audiences throughout South Carolina.
Symphony Society of San Antonio
San Antonio, TX
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support Face to Face/De Cara a Cara, a model project which teaches elementary through
college-level students various aspects of orchestral composition through interactive laboratory
work with Composer-in-Residence Robert Rodriguez and the San Antonio Symphony Orchestra during
1998-99, including a video by Paragon Cable documenting the creative, educational process.
Taller Puertorriqueno, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$47,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support the 1998 multidisciplinary arts and cultural education programs, including visual arts
exhibitions and visiting artists in theater, music, literature, and crafts to promote a better
understanding of the Puerto Rican and Latin American cultures in the Philadelphia area.
Teatro Hispano de Dallas
Dallas, TX
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support Teatro Teach 2000, a comprehensive bilingual education project that provides free
summer programs for children; low-cost acting classes for adults; professional training for members
of the acting company; paid apprenticeships in technical and administrative areas; and bilingual
publication of training materials and original commissioned works.
Theatre Development Fund, Inc.
New York, NY
$13,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support training in theatrical sign language interpretation at the Juilliard School as part of
Theatre Development Fund's Theatre Access Project.
Trinity Repertory Company
Providence, RI
$35,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the stabilization and expansion of Trinity Repertory Company's Project Discovery
program which teaches techniques and strategies to enhance family involvement in the education of
children through the use of the dramatic arts.
Trustees of the Corcoran Gallery of Art
Washington, DC
$28,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the development of a teachers' curriculum guide, slide package, and student workbook
based on works of art by African-American artists in the Gallery's permanent collection to be used
to teach area middle-school students about the cultural contributions made by African American
artists.
University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
$100,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support How to Read a Film, an educational initiative which will introduce and contextualize
the moving image arts for children and young people through exhibitions, in-person presentations,
critical program notes and special activities designed to broaden the understanding and
appreciation of the art of film and provide the basic tools for media literacy.
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, MI
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support a visiting artist series entitled Photo-Active Feminist Artists, with ten contemporary
women photographers known for their community activism complementing course work for art students
at the University of Michigan.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support an integrated artistic initiative, The World Religions Project, using the Ackland Art
Museum's permanent collection, to engage diverse local and regional audiences in a greater
understanding of religious traditions, including the production of an exhibition, a catalogue, an
interactive, multimedia learning resource on the World Wide Web, and a CD-ROM.
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY
$22,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the Memorial Art Gallery's inaugural Masterpiece in Context project which will feature
John Singleton Copley's unfinished portrait of Nathaniel Hurd, with related objects borrowed from
other museums, a catalogue, a self-guide brochure, a CD-ROM, and five interactive kits linking the
exhibition to other portraits in the collection.
Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts
Grand Rapids, MI
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support a program which teaches photography and related skills to teenagers from the inner city
of Grand Rapids, Michigan, by teaming students with professional photographers for extensive
one-on-one learning.
Vermont Symphony Orchestra Association, Inc.
Burlington, VT
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the Rural Education Concert Tour for underserved, rural communities as part of the
Orchestra's Made for Vermont statewide tour during the fall of 1998, highlighting members of the
orchestra and an emerging composer from the Northeast region.
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Richmond, VA
$45,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum (Consortium)
To support a consortium project involving the design and implementation of an electronic art
classroom and lesson database for educators and a three-week educators' institute to train teachers
in curriculum planning, in collaboration with the Department of Art Education at Virginia
Commonwealth University.
Virginia Opera Association, Inc.
Norfolk, VA
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support fully produced in-school, age-appropriate operas in conjunction with existing curricula
for language arts, music, social studies, visual arts, and foreign language for children in grades
K 12 reaching an estimated 200,000 children in school districts throughout Virginia during
1998-99.
Walt Whitman Cultural Arts Center, Inc.
Camden, NJ
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support the 1998 Arts Enrichment Project, an educational initiative that helps teachers,
business leaders, and professional artists introduce everyday applications of the creative arts to
low-income youth, providing a valuable foundation for higher education.
We Tell Stories, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support free performances of a repertory of original works of literature, folklore, and
mythology for youth at all county and city branch public libraries in Los Angeles during
1998-99.
Westchester Philharmonic, Inc.
Hartsdale, NY
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the Philharmonic's new Classic Kids Program of discount-ticket packages designed to
expand youth attendance of the Mainstage Sunday series at the Performing Arts Center of SUNY's
Purchase College; and its Philharmaniacs family concerts to be performed at various venues over
seven weekends during 1998-99.
Western Folklife Center
Elko, NV
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts (Consortium)
To support Voices of the West/Voices of Youth, a consortium project of the Folklife Center, the
Nevada State Council on the Arts, the school district, and the Shoshone-Paiute tribe to immerse
youth in the artful documentation of their communities and cultural heritage through photography,
audio recording, and writing, and culminating with local, statewide, and national
presentations.
Wheaton Cultural Alliance, Inc.
Millville, NJ
$16,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Down Jersey Folklife Educational Curriculum Project, intended to plan, write, and
implement an educational curriculum for students visiting the Down Jersey Folklife Center.
Whitney Museum of American Art
New York, NY
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support New Perspectives on American Art and Culture, a series of professional development
seminars and two summer institutes for elementary, junior, and high school teachers based on the
Whitney Museum's newly installed permanent collection galleries and the two-part special exhibition
"American Century: 1900-2000."
Wisconsin Alliance for Arts Education
Madison, WI
$34,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education (Consortium)
To support a consortium project among the Alliance, the Wisconsin Arts Board, the Wisconsin
Department of Public Instruction, and the University of Wisconsin at Madison to develop and
document standards-based arts curriculum, and instruction and assessment models to increase
students' comprehensive understanding in the arts, and achievement in performance, and
production.
Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts
Vienna, VA
$52,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support Pages: Early Childhood Literacy Readiness Project, a performing arts-based program to
help parents and teachers improve reading readiness among at-risk pre-school and kindergarten-aged
children in Baltimore's and Washington, DC's Head Start centers and Prince George's County
(Maryland) Public Schools.
Women's Studio Workshop
Rosendale, NY
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support visiting artists Irene Chan of San Francisco and Marie Kennedy of Oxford, Iowa, in an
eight-week residency program for public school students in the Kingston and New Paltz, New York,
school districts.
Yale University
New Haven, CT
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival's 1998 professional training initiative, Project
Access, with notable guest artists developing musicians' audience communication skills and
interaction techniques, and presenting effective outreach programs for underserved communities.
Young Aspirations/Young Artists, Inc.
New Orleans, LA
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Design
To support a training program in commercial and fine arts designed to enhance the skills and
education of artistically gifted inner-city teens and young adults in New Orleans.
Young Audiences, Inc., Denver Area Chapter
Denver, CO
$52,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Arts Education
To support the refinement and dissemination of Young Audiences' integrated arts-in-education
program activities to better serve rural and underserved Colorado artists and schools.
Young Men's Christian Association of Billings
Billings, MT
$12,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support in-school arts programming that will bring writers, visual artists, dancers, actors,
and musicians to more than 35 towns, 18 counties and two reservations around Montana during
1998-99.
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