Multidisciplinary: FY2002 Grants

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

Access | Challenge America Access | Creativity | Heritage/Preservation

Organizational Capacity | Panelists

Access

509 Cultural Center
San Francisco, CA
$17,000
To support free arts programming in a low-income neighborhood of San Francisco. This project will feature outdoor arts presentations, exhibitions and the eighth annual In the Street Theater Festival.

ARTREACH, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$5,000
To support the Outreach Project, an expansion of ARTREACH's ticketing program. This project will provide tickets to arts events and increase outreach to human service agencies that assist people with disabilities and the economically disadvantaged.

Asian American Arts Alliance, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the maintenance and expansion of the Asian American Arts Calendar/NY. This Web based resource project will promote greater visibility and access to Asian American arts and cultural activities in New York City.

Asian Arts Initiative (consortium)
Philadelphia, PA
$40,000
To support the Artist Community Training Program. The program will prepare artists to conduct art-making workshops and residencies in multigenerational community settings across Philadelphia.

Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, Inc.
East Cambridge, MA
$10,000
To support Crossing John at the Crossroads. This multidisciplinary production by Gilbert McCauley and Bill Lowe examines the history of jazz.

Central City Hospitality House
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the expansion of the Community Arts Program. The project will consist of a weekly series of artist workshops and exhibitions in both on-site and off-site galleries for homeless residents of San Francisco's Tenderloin district.

Centro Cultural Aztlan, Inc.
San Antonio, TX
$17,000
To support a series of special community arts programs. Through exhibitions, literary events, workshops and performances, underserved audiences will be given the opportunity to participate in and appreciate Chicano/Latino art and culture.

Community School of the Arts
Charlotte, NC
$15,000
To support after-school and intergenerational arts programming. Children and adults from the Southside Homes public housing community will participate in on-site workshops and lessons in visual art, drama and music.

Creative Access
Philadelphia, PA
$12,000
To support the Cultural Access Project. The project will provide accessible programming at museums and venues featuring local/regional theater and touring Broadway productions for deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals living in the Greater Philadelphia area.

Cuyahoga Valley Environmental Education Center
Peninsula, OH
$30,000
To support an artists-in-residence program. Six artists in various disciplines will be engaged to create models for interacting with students and the public in a residential environmental program.

Dixon Place (Open Channels NY, Inc.)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the Intergenerational Performance Workshops. The program will provide artistic outlets for underserved seniors, youth and audiences residing at public housing facilities in the Rosehill section of Manhattan.

Earthways Foundation, Inc. (consortium)
Malibu, CA
$27,000
To support the second World Festival of Sacred Music/LA. This intercultural celebration will present international indigenous, classical, and folk dance and music at venues throughout Los Angeles.

East Bay Center for the Performing Arts
Richmond, CA
$47,000
To support Call and Response and a series of special performance events. Ten culturally specific and multicultural resident dance, music and theater companies will perform at sites in and near Richmond.

Elders Share the Arts (consortium)
Brooklyn, NY
$20,000
To support the National Center for Creative Aging, a national arts-in-aging training program. Project activities will include the maintenance of current arts-in-training programs in five regions, expansion of training to additional cities, creation of a network newsletter and the development of an online component highlighting model programs.

Flint Cultural Center Corporation
Flint, MI
$22,000
To support a summer festival and yearlong artist residencies. The two-day Summer Family Celebration festival and community engagement residencies led by Urban Bush Women and the Color Line Project are designed to develop new audiences.

Flint Institute of Music
Flint, MI
$10,000
To support music outreach activities for underserved communities. Performances and other activities for children and adults will be presented at public housing projects, recreation centers and senior centers.

Gateway Performance Productions
Atlanta, GA
$10,000
To support an outreach program of tour performances and community and school-based workshops and residencies. Programs of mask theater, dance, mime and puppetry will be presented at sites throughout Georgia and New Mexico.

Great Leap, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$12,000
To support To All Relations: Re-spiriting Detroit. This intergenerational residency project will utilize dance, music and storytelling to create a work based on the community movement to rebuild Detroit.

Hatch-Billops Collection, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support Artist and Influence. This project will document visual artists, writers, filmmakers, poets and arts administrators through recorded interviews, television broadcasts on Manhattan Cable and publication of a journal.

Henry Street Settlement
New York, NY
$33,000
To support Arts for Everyone. Low-cost, theme-based performances and ancillary events will be presented at The Abrons Arts Center and feature a range of artists who reflect the diversity of the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

High 5 Tickets to the Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the Take 5 reduced ticketing program. This adult-led, small-group program is designed to make the arts accessible to younger teens, many of who may not be able to attend an art event on their own.

Japanese American Cultural and Community Center
Los Angeles, CA
$40,000
To support Crossing Bridges and the 20th Anniversary Celebration. This yearlong series of festivals, exhibitions, performances and educational activities will highlight multicultural artists and art forms with an emphasis on the Asian Pacific American community and its artists.

Legion Arts, Inc.
Cedar Rapids, IA
$15,000
To support a neighborhood-based artist residency program. Over a two-year period, 30 to 40 nationally recognized visual artists, musicians and theater makers will engage Cedar Rapids community groups in collaborative activities.

Little City Foundation
Palatine, IL
$15,000
To support Have Art, Will Travel. This series of mobile arts classes is designed for children and adults with developmental disabilities and provides them with at-home/work instruction in visual, performing and media arts.

National Performance Network, Inc. (consortium)
New Orleans, LA
$28,000
To support Weaving the Web of Community. The project will create partnerships between cultural and civil rights organizations to create collaboratively produced performance work.

Senior Arts Project
Albuquerque, NM
$6,000
To support the Senior Arts Festival Internacional. The project will feature a series of workshops, a daylong intergenerational celebration for seniors and school children and a social dance.

The Field (Performance Zone, Inc.) (consortium)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support GoTour. This Web-based interactive touring planner will connect nationwide independent performing artists and their audiences with venues and artist resources.

VSA arts of Massachusetts
Boston, MA
$30,000
To support the expansion of the National Cultural Access Initiative. The project will demonstrate the principles of universal design through a national tour of JazzArtSigns.

Young Audiences of Greater Dallas, Inc.
Dallas, TX
$10,000
To support Library Live! This program will provide families in inner-city Dallas and outlying areas with access to free family-oriented performances and workshops in 39 North Texas libraries.

Young Audiences/New York, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support FamilyLink. This intergenerational program will provide underserved public school students and families with access to arts education programming and New York City's cultural resources.

Young Men's Christian Association of Billings
Billings, MT
$17,000
To support Painting Stories: Exploring the Narrative Voice in the New West. This series of readings, artist workshops and community discussions will be held at seven tribal colleges in Montana.

Challenge America Access

Alternate ROOTS, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$60,000
To support networking, communication and audience development programs. The project will provide services that will enable geographically isolated artists and presenters to reach broader audiences.

Pat Graney Performance, Inc.
Seattle, WA
$50,000
To support the national expansion of Keeping the Faith - the Prison Project. Through this residency program, artists in three U.S. cities will be trained to create their own arts programming in prisons.

Sheboygan Arts Foundation, Inc.
(on behalf of John Michael Kohler Arts Center)
$60,000
Sheboygan, WI
To support Connecting Communities. This series of five community-based residencies will facilitate collaborations between visual and performing artists and the Hmong and Hispanic communities, youth at-risk, industrial employees, and elderly audiences from Sheboygan County.

VSA arts of Washington
Seattle, WA
$40,000
To support the Cultural Access Project of Washington State. The project will serve people with disabilities by assisting in the evaluation and education of arts organizations that seek to incorporate access into all facets of their facilities and programming.

Walt Whitman Cultural Arts Center, Inc.
Camden, NJ
$45,000
To support the expansion of the artist residency and workshop program. Up to ten recognized community teaching artists and local artists will work with underserved city residents.

Creativity

'A 'A Arts
Honolulu, HI
$8,000
To support a special issue of the journal Chain and a related reading/talk series dedicated to the theme of dialogue. This project will feature a series of discussions between prominent artists from diverse cultures whose work addresses similar concerns.

33 Fainting Spells
Seattle, WA
$10,000
To support the creation of Dirty Work. The project will encompass both movement research and 16mm filmmaking.

Art & Science Collaborations, Inc.
Staten Island, NY
$8,000
To support ArtSci2002. This international symposium will promote new forms of collaboration between artists and scientists.

Centrum Foundation
Port Townsend, WA
$30,000
To support the expansion of Centrum's residency program. Through this project, Centrum will convert its current print center to non-toxic materials, host an international residency with Mexican and Latino artists, and develop a theater residency program.

Chatham Baroque, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
$5,000
To support a program of Spanish baroque music and dance. The project will be performed in collaboration with two dancers, a harpist and a percussionist.

Circum-Arts Foundation, Inc. (on behalf of MOSAIC)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support phase two of the Twentieth Century Music Project. This new music and dance work will be a collaborative effort among MOSAIC, Donald Byrd/The Group, composers Steve Mackey and Tania Leon, and video artist Star Reese.

Corporation of Yaddo
Saratoga Springs, NY
$18,000
To support one-month residencies for professional artists. In 2002, 10 artists will come from across the United States for residencies that offer uninterrupted time and private space for experimentation and creation.

DiverseWorks, Inc.
Houston, TX
$45,000
To support the artist residency program DiverseDialogues and the commissioning and presentation of new works. The project will bring nationally recognized artists to Houston to engage the community in the creation of new work.

Djerassi Resident Artists Program
Woodside, CA
$20,000
To support one-month residencies for artists during the 2002 season. The project will provide studios, living accommodations, meals and professional support for 10 media artists, visual artists, choreographers and composers.

Eos Music, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the production of Master Peter's Puppet Show. This fully staged puppet opera, featuring puppeteer Basil Twist, will be performed at three venues as part of the seventh Festival of New Puppetry.

Experimental Sound Studio
Chicago, IL
$8,000
To support production residencies for Chicago-area artists through the Artists' Residency Program. Six 40-hour residencies will be offered in 2002 for the completion of works in four categories: Sound Works, Performing Arts Collaboration, Soundtrack Design for Film and Video, and Creative Use of Radio.

Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Inc.
Provincetown, MA
$25,000
To support the Winter Residency Program. The program will provide 20 emerging writers and visual artists with housing, studios and modest monthly stipend for a seven-month period.

Frederick Douglass Creative Arts Center
New York, NY
$50,000
To support the development of professional writers in all genres. This three-part project will feature writing workshops, a reading series of original plays for stage and screen, and the 30th annual Black Roots Festival of Poetry, Prose, Drama and Music.

GAle GAtes et al.
Brooklyn, NY
$8,000
To support the production and presentation of Wine-Blue-Open-Water. This performance/installation will offer audiences an immersive theatrical environment based on Homer's Odyssey.

Gamelan Sekar Jaya
El Cerrito, CA
$30,000
To support the restaging and touring of Kawit Legong: Prince Karma's Dream. This large scale dramatic work will combine Balinese dance, music and shadow puppetry.

Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center
San Antonio, TX
$50,000
To support phase one of the S.A/L.A. Project, a cultural exchange between artists from West San Antonio and East Los Angeles. In the first year of the project, Los Angeles artists will partner with local artists in San Antonio for a series of presentations and residencies for local youth.

Hallwalls, Inc.
Buffalo, NY
$30,000
To support the Hallwalls Artist-in-Residence Project. The project will enable two visual artists, one media artist, and one jazz musician to create and present new works.

Harvestworks, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the Artists' Access Program in digital media. The program will provide artists with studio residencies, classes and public presentation of work.

Headlands Center for the Arts
Sausalito, CA
$35,000
To support the U.S. Artists-in-Residence Program and associated public programs. The project will provide three-month residences for up to 30 artists and 15-20 educational programs for artists and audiences.

Interfaze Educational Productions (on behalf of Warzinake Productions)
Berkeley, CA
$20,000
To support Archeology of Memory: Three Cantos. The multidisciplinary project based on the memories of Chilean exiles living in the United States will involve the composition and recording of a musical suite and the publication of a book.

Jack Straw Productions
Seattle, WA
$15,000
To support audio art residencies for the creation and presentation of new work. The program will make Jack Straw studios and facilities available to Northwest artists from a variety of disciplines.

Junebug Productions, Inc.
Austin, TX
$10,000
To support the completion, premiere and tour of Like Poison Ivy. This multimedia play will be rewritten for a premiere in New Orleans and subsequent performances in five additional cities.

Kulintang Arts
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the commissioning of Heroes, a performance work based on escrima (a style of Pilipino martial arts). The project will be presented as part of the Post-Modern American Pilipino Performance Project.

La Pocha Nostra Inter Cultural and Community Arts Projects
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the Museum of Fetish-ized Identity. This original performance/installation piece by Guillermo Gomez-Pena and Juan Ybarra will premiere in San Francisco in 2002.

MacDowell Colony, Inc.
Peterborough, NH
$25,000
To support residencies for artists from a variety of disciplines. Through this project, artists will be provided with a studio and room and board for five weeks in order to foster the creation of new works of art.

National Black Arts Festival
Atlanta, GA
$40,000
To support a series of performances by artists in various disciplines as part of the 2002 National Black Arts Festival. The performances will include commissions, residency activities, workshops and educational forums.

New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.
Staten Island, NY
$12,000
To support new commissioned work and the continued development of the Turbulence Web site. The project will provide for the creation and distribution of six new works of Internet based art by national artists and assist in the maintenance of the Web site.

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc.
(on behalf of Bill Shannon/Crutch Productions)
$10,000
New York, NY
To support the creation of an interdisciplinary dance piece. The evening-length work will incorporate hip-hop dance, film projection and music.

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc.
(on behalf of Picture Projects)
$30,000
New York, NY
To support the traveling exhibition 360degrees: Perspective on the U.S. Criminal Justice System. This multimedia installation will explore the historical context of the criminal justice system.

NewTown Pasadena Foundation
Pasadena, CA
$8,000
To support the presentation of two public art projects. On the Bowl, a large scale exhibition of new media projections, and Art InTents 2, an outdoor event featuring site-specific installations and performances, will take place at city-owned venues.

Northwest Asian American Theatre
Seattle, WA
$9,000
To support the final residency of the International Artists Program. This project will focus on the creation of a collaborative multimedia sound and movement theater work by Byron Au Yong and Lee Swee Keong.

Painted Bride Art Center
Philadelphia, PA
$30,000
To support Asiatopia, a month-long festival celebrating the art of Asian Americans. The event will include visual art, dance, and music components and educational residencies.

Painted Bride Art Center (on behalf of Spoken Hand)
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
To support Flammable Contents: ZH/RH/SH. This project will bring together composer Zakir Hussain, hip-hop choreographer Rennie Harris, and Spoken Hand (a 15-member handing drumming orchestra) to create and perform a new work.

Performance Space 122, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support art performance/performance art. Through this new initiative six artists will be commissioned to create new works that emphasize visual elements.

Performing Arts Chicago
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support the PAC Studio. This theater/movement series will present performances by the Builders Association, Richard Maxwell, Elevator Repair Service and Anne Bogart/SITI Company, and include residencies and lecture/demonstrations.

Portland Taiko
Portland, OR
$10,000
To support the Rock the Boat Project. This collaboration of Portland Taiko, Asian American theater duo Eth-Noh-Tec, and master drummer Kenny Endo will fuse taiko (the Japanese word for drum), theater and performance art.

ShadowLight Productions
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support the world premiere of Californio. This new shadow-theater performance piece will focus on Latino identity and heritage in California.

Spoleto Festival USA (consortium)
Charleston, SC
$40,000
To support the restaging of Meredith Monk's 1976 work Quarry. The project will include a choir of outstanding voices from local schools and arts organizations.

Spoleto Festival USA
Charleston, SC
$60,000
To support the 2002 Spoleto Festival USA. The event will include dance, opera and theater performances; a visual arts exhibition; and jazz, chamber, orchestral and new music series.

Squonk Opera, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
$18,000
To support the development and national tour of Hell, a multimedia, music theater work. The production will combine projected movies, installations, live music and puppetry.

St. Ann Center for Restoration and the Arts, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$35,000
To support the 2002 Puppet Lab and Labapalooza! Mini-Festival of New Puppet Theater from The Lab. The project is an ongoing professional workshop where emerging and mid-career puppet artists and collaborators meet weekly to create new, interdisciplinary puppet theater works.

The Kitchen (Haleakala, Inc.)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support The Sidney Kahn Summer Institute. Students and young professionals in the performing and media arts will receive intensive training in the design and development of multimedia work.

University of New Mexico Main Campus
(on behalf of the Arts Technology Center)
$10,000
Albuquerque, NM
To support residencies by artists to create new work utilizing high performance computing and virtual reality software. The participants will collaborate with scientists and engineers to explore the artistic development of three-dimensional virtual reality software.

Wexner Center Foundation
Columbus, OH
$85,000
To support the commissioning of visual, performing and media art works. This project is a part of the Wexner Center for the Arts' ongoing artists residency program that provides financial, technical and professional support for the creation, completion and/or presentation of art.

Writers' League of Texas (on behalf of Cinematexas)
Austin, TX
$20,000
To support the Austin Eye+Ear Performance Series. Through a combination of performances, premieres and a commission, the event will bring contemporary new music and performance art to Austin-area audiences.

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
San Francisco, CA
$45,000
To support residencies for artists of multiple disciplines. Artists-in-residence in the visual arts, performing arts, film and video will be given the opportunity to develop new work, reformulate existing works and engage in a variety of education and community programs.

Heritage/Preservation

Appalshop, Inc.
Whitesburg, KY
$52,000
To support year one of the Living Archive. This three-part initiative will preserve Appalshop's large body of on-site audio and video work through creating an accessible archive, fostering discourse with constituents, and sharing learnings with the field.

BOMB Magazine (New Art Publications)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the development of an on-line archive of artist-to-artist interviews. The project will feature selections from BOMB Magazine's collection of interviews, video and audio clips, original poetry, and visual art by highlighted artists.

Cedar Cultural Center (Minnesota STAR, Inc.)
Minneapolis, MN
$22,000
To support the Fourth Annual Nordic Roots Festival. The festival will present traditional roots based music and dance groups from Finland, Sweden and Norway, and indigenous S mi musicians.

Chinese-American Arts Council, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the Summer Cultural Festival. This series will feature Chinese opera, traditional dance, folk music, visual arts and demonstrations.

El Pueblo, Inc.
Raleigh, NC
$10,000
To support La Fiesta del Pueblo, a showcase for Latin American art, culture and heritage. The event will feature folkloric dance, poetry readings, storytelling, music, visual arts, youth performances and a community-based mural project.

First Voice, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$12,000
To support the documentation of a performance of Sun Cycles for archival purposes. The performance will offer a contemporary interpretation of a creation myth using the Japanese art form, Gagaku.

Iroquois Indian Museum
Howes Cave, NY
$16,000
To support Haudenosaunee Happenings. The project will present a wide spectrum of visual and performing arts events by Iroquois Nation artists.

Lira Ensemble
Chicago, IL
$5,000
To support performances of a Polish American Christmas Gala. The concerts will feature song and dance from the regions that are the ancestral homes of many Polish Americans in the Midwest.

Myrna Loy Center for the Performing & Media Arts
Helena, MT
$15,000
To support Echoes of Discovery. This performance will coincide with the bicentennial of Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery and reflect on the mythic role of the Northwest Passage.

New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations
(on behalf of New York Public Library for the Performing Arts)
New York, NY
$58,000
To support the documentation of dance and theater performances and the preservation of oral histories by seminal artists. Sixteen performances and four oral histories will be recorded, and 70 hours of audio materials will be conserved.

The Kitchen (Haleakala, Inc.)
New York, NY
$28,000
To support a partnership to enhance access to historically significant collections of video art and documentation. The Kitchen and consortium partner Electronic Arts Intermix will share an archivist and oversee the restoration and distribution of extensive performance and video art archives.

Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (consortium)
Blacksburg, VA
$10,000
To support an Internet publishing project. The initiative will include the Web-based dissemination of The Citizen Artist and the commissioning of new critical writing on the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange's Hallelujah project.

Wing Luke Memorial Foundation
Seattle, WA
$24,000
To support the Heritage Enrichment Project. This three-part project will offer middle school students access to museum arts and heritage education, a performing arts residency, and a Cambodian youth-developed performance.

Organizational Capacity

African Grove Institute for the Arts
Newark, NJ
$25,000
To support the development of a regional council structure. Project activities will include the creation of strategic plans and quarterly conferences for six regional councils serving African diaspora theater and performing arts.

Alliance of Artists' Communities
Portland, OR
$45,000
To support U.S. artists' communities. The organization will conduct professional development seminars, establish a leadership council, and develop resources on best practices in the field of artists' communities.

Appalshop, Inc.
Whitesburg, KY
$20,000
To support a conference for non-traditional arts presenters organized by the American Festival Project. The event will offer guidance on how to initiate, manage and sustain community centered arts projects in underserved rural and urban areas.

Artist Trust
Seattle, WA
$15,000
To support the maintenance and expansion the Information Services program. The project will provide professional development information and resources to the artists of Washington State.

Arts & Business Council of Chicago
Chicago, IL
$40,000
To support phase two of smARTscope. This project will provide Chicago-area arts groups with a comprehensive assessment of the business side of their operations.

Association of Hispanic Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the development of an on-line information network and database registry. The services will facilitate communication among Latino artists and arts organizations and assist in the promotion of their activities.

Atlatl, Inc.
Phoenix, AZ
$45,000
To support the 2002 Native Arts Network Conference. The conference will provide professional development, networking and other services to enhance leadership in the field of Native American arts.

California Lawyers for the Arts, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
To support the expansion of ArtHouse. The two-year project will provide technical services, legal referral and mediation programs to enable Bay area artists and arts organizations to develop long-term control of affordable space.

Ink People, Inc.
Eureka, CA
$31,000
To support the continuation and expansion of services for emerging Humboldt County arts organizations. This project will enable arts organizations to explore creative ideas, develop organizational capacity, and enhance leadership capabilities by offering shared resources, technical assistance, support and guidance.

National Association of Latino Arts and Culture
San Antonio, TX
$60,000
To support Building Our Community Culture. This two-part project will consist of a national conference and leadership institute.

National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts
Englewood, NJ
$45,000
To support Project Impact. This three-part leadership training initiative will include a series of conferences, a management training institute, and a mentoring and partnership program.

New Mexico CultureNet
Santa Fe, NM
$30,000
To support InterLAC. This project will link local arts councils throughout New Mexico via Web-based services, in-person workshops, and an annual conference.

Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the expansion of pro bono and low cost legal services. The program will provide representation, advocacy and mediation services to artists and arts organizations throughout New York State.

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