FY 2006 Grant Awards: Learning in the Arts
for Children and Youth

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

James Joyce Centre
New York, NY
$10,000
To support a seminar program, teacher professional development, and a study guide based on James Joyce's book Dubliners. Targeted to high school students, the project will use a "shared inquiry" model for interactive discussion, journal writing, and preparation of an essay for an end-of-year contest.

52nd Street Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$60,000
To support Playmaking, a playwriting and dramatic performance program for youth residing in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of New York City. Components Stage One, Replay, and Playback are part of a sequential learning approach for children to develop new plays under the supervision of professional theater artists and directors.

826 Valencia
San Francisco, CA
$12,000
To support writing programs and the publication of student work. Professional artists will teach creative writing to at-risk youth in under-performing schools.

AjA Project
San Diego, CA
$10,000
To support The Journey, a writing and photojournalism project. Young refugees from war-torn countries will learn to take black-and-white and digital photographs, shoot and edit video, write and recite poetry, create Web-based presentations, and express themselves through art, culminating in public exhibits and events.

Alabama Blues Project, Inc.
Tuscaloosa, AL
$10,000
To support after-school and summer classes in blues music. Professional Alabama-based blues musicians will teach weekly beginner and advanced classes in blues music performance and history, leading to public performances by the advanced student ensemble.

Alamo Community College District/ St. Philip's College
San Antonio, TX
$10,000
To support the Academy of Fine Arts. St. Philip's College arts faculty, San Antonio Symphony musicians, and other professional artists will give weekend and summer classes in music, theater, and visual arts for middle and high school students.

Alleghany County Schools (aka Junior Appalachian Musicians )
Sparta, NC
$10,000
To support Junior Appalachian Musicians. The project will provide after-school classes in Appalachian traditional folk music for students in 4th through 9th grades; a pedagogical conference for artists, teachers, and administrators; and a day-long summer gathering of all youth participants.

Allegro Foundation (formerly Pacific Foundation for the Performing Arts)
Charlotte, NC
$20,000
To support dance classes targeted for children with physical and learning disabilities. Working with Charlotte-Mecklenburg public schools, the foundation will provide weekly dance instruction by specially-trained peer tutors.

Allied Arts of Greater Chattanooga
Chattanooga, TN
$15,000
To support Book it! Project consultant Claudia Cornett will offer professional development courses in literature curricula for 3rd- and 4th-grade teachers leading to classroom residencies by theater and dance artists.

American Composers Forum (Consortium)
St. Paul, MN
$45,000
To support a consortium project titled Composer Apprentice National Outreach Endeavor. In partnership with the Minnesota Humanities Commission, Native American composers Brent Michael Davis and Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate and music educator Elizabeth Jaakola will teach orchestration and choral arranging to Native American students in Denver.

Andanza, Inc. (Consortium)
San Juan, PR
$45,000
To support a consortium project titled Danza con Andanza. Designed to reach economically underserved children and their families, the program will provide weekly dance classes and performance opportunities in local communities in partnership with the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture.

Appalshop, Inc. (aka WMMT-FM)
Whitesburg, KY
$45,000
To support a documentary arts film program for high school students. Using a new curriculum, professional independent filmmakers will teach students the history, aesthetics, ethics, and practice of documentary filmmaking, resulting in the production of a documentary film.

Armory Center for the Arts
Pasadena, CA
$45,000
To support the continuation of FLARE: Fun with Language, Arts & Reading. The program provides as many as 750 children in the 3rd to 8th grade with an opportunity to work directly with teaching artists in one-on-one studio classes, arts mentoring relationships, and vocabulary-building seminars to strengthen their understanding of the visual arts and language skills.

Art Resources in Teaching (aka A.R.T.)
Chicago, IL
$30,000
To support visual artist residencies in Chicago public schools. Elementary- and middle-school students and their teachers will work with professional artists to develop artmaking skills through lessons in art history, peer critique, and related hands-on art projects.

Artists Collective, Inc.
Hartford, CT
$35,000
To support after-school and weekend classes in music and dance led by professional artists, serving youth ages 4 to 18 in greater Hartford. Students will receive sequential instruction in African, Afro-Cuban, jazz and modern dance, tap, and ballet, as well as jazz and steel pan music.

Arts for Learning/Miami, Inc. (aka A4L/Miami)
Miami, FL
$35,000
To support Dancing and Drumming in the African Diaspora. Members of local African and Afro-Latin performing ensembles will collaborate with teachers to develop curriculum and use it in classroom sessions for students in Miami-Dade County Public Schools.

Asian Arts Initiative
Philadelphia, PA
$30,000
To support the Youth Arts Workshop. Local artists will lead teenage youth in after-school and summer workshops and classes in theater, videography, mural painting, and public art.

Atlanta Ballet, Inc. (Consortium)
Atlanta, GA
$15,000
To support a consortium project, Centre Dance. In partnership with the Fulton County Board of Education, Atlanta Ballet will provide in-school and after-school dance training to underserved African American students in three schools.

Atlanta Opera
Atlanta, GA
$20,000
To support opera programs in partnership with the City of Atlanta's Bureau of Cultural Affairs and Atlanta City Public Schools. Pre-concert teaching materials and in-class workshops will prepare teachers and their students for matinee performances of Rossini's Barber of Seville or Gounod's Romeo and Juliet.

Bad Dog Rediscovers America (aka Bad Dog, BDRA)
Salt Lake City, UT
$25,000
To support visual artist residencies at elementary schools in the Salt Lake City area. Professional artists will work with local teachers to provide curriculum-based arts programming that will help students develop their technical skills, refine their understanding of color theory, and explore the principles of design.

Bardavon 1869 Opera House, Inc. (aka Bardavon) (Consortium)
Poughkeepsie, NY
$25,000
To support a consortium project titled the Young Playwrights Festival. In partnership with the Poughkeepsie City School District, the Opera House will provide a course in playwriting for students in the 6th grade, leading to performances of original student work, performed by professional artists.

Ben-El Child Development Center
Urbana, OH
$10,000
To support Youthworks, a community-based theater program for children with special needs. Through arts education sessions held at the Ben-El Partial Hospitalization Center, youth will develop critical thinking skills and knowledge of the theater in areas such as character development, improvisation, and storytelling.

Bethune Theatredanse
Los Angeles, CA
$45,000
To support Infinite Dreams. Residency artists will provide weekly dance instruction for approximately 1,200 underserved, special-needs students, ages six to 21, from 11 Los Angeles County schools.

Big Thought
Dallas, TX
$43,000
To support Creative Solutions, an arts program targeting students at risk. Weekly classes in a specific art form will be taught by teachers from the Young Artists of North Texas artists roster.

Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$20,000
To support The Studio, an after-school visual arts program for inner-city teens. The project includes mixed-media workshops leading to a final exhibition in the Youth Art Connection Gallery.

Brooklyn Information & Culture, Inc. (aka BRIC) (on behalf of Rotunda Gallery)
Brooklyn, NY
$20,000
To support the Mini-Museum. The visual arts program will combine student visits to contemporary art galleries with in-school classroom workshops for underserved youth in Brooklyn.

Brooklyn Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Inc. (aka Brooklyn Philharmonic )
Brooklyn, NY
$20,000
To support the School Residency Initiative. The program will provide 12 weeks of music education programs for elementary school students, professional development for teachers, workshops, demonstrations, and field trips.

Brown University (on behalf of The Arts Literacy Project)
Providence, RI
$40,000
To support the ArtsLiteracy Project. In preparation for their classroom residencies, teachers and artists will attend professional development workshops, led by program staff, that are designed to increase literacy of youth through the study of performing and visual arts.

Buffalo Media Resources, Inc. (aka Squeaky Wheel) (Consortium)
Buffalo, NY
$20,000
To support the Buffalo Youth Media Institute, a consortium project with the Preservation Coalition of Erie County.

Caldera (aka Camp Caldera)
Portland, OR
$75,000
To support the Celebration of the Drum. Professional musicians will conduct residencies and give performances in symphonic percussion, Japanese taiko, Afro-Brazilian, Ghanaian, and other West African drumming traditions.

California Alliance for Arts Education (on behalf of State Education Agencies Dir. of Arts Ed)
Pasadena, CA
$30,000
To support the development of curriculum and electronic networking for the State Education Agencies Directors of Arts Education (SEADAE). A writing curriculum will be developed and piloted in classrooms, and the results will be evaluated and used to create a toolkit of resources available on the SEADAE Web site.

California College of the Arts
Oakland, CA
$60,000
To support the 100 Families Project. Visual arts instruction for youth, ages five to 18, who will draw upon experiences from their own family life as a foundation from which to create new work.

California Institute of the Arts (aka CalArts) (Consortium)
Valencia, CA
$60,000
To support the Community Arts Partnership, a consortium project. In partnership with Plaza de la Raza, CalArts will provide rigorous, after-school theater arts learning workshops to underserved students. In addition, students will work with a professional playwright and specially trained CalArts student mentors to write and perform scripts reflective of the Latino and Chicano cultural histories of the local community.

Carnegie Hall Society, Inc. (aka Carnegie Hall) (Consortium)
New York, NY
$65,000
To support a consortium project titled LinkUP! Classroom teachers whose schools are administered by the New York Department of Education will use a curriculum designed to teach their students basic music concepts, including how to read and write music notation, compose and perform works, and appreciate the concerts they will attend at Carnegie Hall.

CELLspace
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support Mission Urban Arts. Artists from local arts organizations will lead arts classes in the context of youth social service. Classes offered include hip-hop poetry and breakdancing, congolese drumming and dancing.

Center for World Music
El Cajon, CA
$20,000
To support World Music in the Schools. Traditional artists will teach Balinese gamelan and dance, Peruvian panpipes, Brazilian drumming, Karnatic singing, and Bharata Natyam dance to elementary, middle, and high school students in San Diego and Orange counties.

Chicago Architecture Foundation (aka CAF) (Consortium)
Chicago, IL
$45,000
To support a consortium project titled the Education-to-Career Program. The project will introduce underserved high school students to architecture and design using a new curriculum created in partnership with Chicago Public Schools.

Children's Dance Theatre University of Utah (aka Virginia Tanner Creative Dance Program)
Salt Lake City, UT
$55,000
To support the Side-by-Side Teacher Training Residency. The program will provide students and teachers, kindergarten to 6th grade, with year-long residencies in dance.

Choral Arts Society of Washington (aka Choral Arts)
Washington, DC
$30,000
To support artsACCESS. Project activities will include professional development for teachers and the development of a curriculum that will integrate music learning into other subjects for elementary school students.

City of San Fernando, California
San Fernando, CA
$40,000
To support the Mariachi Master Apprentice Program. Evening mariachi classes for youth will culminate in a concert performance and mariachi conference. Classes include instruction in violin, guitarrńn, vihuela, trumpet, and folk harp playing techniques.

City of Santa Fe, New Mexico (aka City of Santa Fe Arts Commission)
Santa Fe, NM
$55,000
To support ArtWorks. Based on the Lincoln Center Institute's model of Aesthetic Education, a summer professional development institute on art in education will be offered to elementary school teachers, school staff, and teaching artists, resulting in lesson plans and a curriculum that will be implemented during the school year.

City Stage Company (aka City Stage)
Boston, MA
$10,000
To support artist residencies in the theater arts. Professional artists will work at one elementary school and one high school to lead students in the rehearsal and performance of classic works of literature.

Clay County Board of Education (aka Clay County Public Schools)
Manchester, KY
$25,000
To support artist residencies in Clay County public schools. A sequence of teacher professional development seminars followed by artist residencies will take place in eight elementary schools and one middle school.

Clay Studio (Consortium)
Philadelphia, PA
$25,000
To support a consortium project titled Exploring Ourselves and Our Culture. With Philadelphia Young Playwrights and Strings for Schools, Clay Studio will offer classes in clay, music, and theater in the context of cultures of the world for students in public schools.

COCA - Center of Creative Arts (aka COCA)
St. Louis, MO
$40,000
To support the Dance Outreach and Pre-Professional Dance Programs. The activities will provide intensive training for low-income students and year-long residencies at elementary schools.

Columbia College Chicago (on behalf of Museum of Contemporary Photography)
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support Picture Me, a photography mentorship program for teens, ages 12 to 18. The project will include after-school activities at two Chicago public schools; an intensive summer session for underserved teens at the Jane Addams Hull House; development of a youth photography curriculum; and an annual exhibition of student work that explores the role of photography in literacy.

Community Television Network (aka Community TV Network)
Chicago, IL
$85,000
To support the Hard Cover project. Working with professional video artists, underserved Chicago teenagers will learn all aspects of digital video production.

Community Visual Art Association of Jackson Hole (aka Art Association)
Jackson, WY
$10,000
To support Young Artists Revolutionary Designs. The after-school program will provide high school students with visual arts training through the study, design, fabrication, and marketing of metal works.

Community-Word Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$12,000
To support artist residencies in creative writing. Teams of teaching artists, in collaboration with classroom teachers, will work with as many as 650 students, ages seven to 17, in six underserved schools, to develop creative writing skills.

Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Nation
Pablo, MT
$30,000
To support Our Community Record Two Eagle River School, a photography program for high school youth. Students residing on the Flathead Tribal Reservation will learn to develop their photographic skills, present their original work in public, and be given the opportunity to express artistic vision within the larger community.

Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
New York, NY
$45,000
To support the Saturday Outreach Program and the Outreach Track. The projects will provide underserved New York City high school students with free studio visual arts education in the subjects of drawing, basic design, sculpture, and graphic design.

Cornell University (on behalf of Herbert F Johnson Museum of Art)
Ithaca, NY
$40,000
To support the Objects and Their Makers: New Insights program. OMNI will offer grade- and culture-specific learning units, including classroom instruction by museum staff, museum visits, artist-led workshops, and a teacher institute focused on Chinese art and culture.

Dancewave, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$25,000
To support Kids Company, a program for teens to work with ballet and modern dance choreographers. Educational activities will include twice-weekly rehearsals, classes, and performance opportunities for students.

Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra Association (aka Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra) (Consortium)
Dayton, OH
$30,000
To support a consortium project titled School Partners with Artists Reaching Kids. Musicians will join classroom teachers from Kettering School District's elementary schools to create lesson plans that incorporate music concepts into classroom curricula.

Denver Center for the Performing Arts (aka Denver Center Theatre)
Denver, CO
$40,000
To support Living History, a school-based theater education program. High school students will learn techniques of theatrical performance, improvisation, and extemporaneous debate in a program that will address social issues relevant to young people.

Detroit Symphony Orchestra Hall (aka Detroit Symphony Orchestra)
Detroit, MI
$55,000
To support music education activities at the new Detroit School of the Arts. Students will receive year-round music activities, performances, and coaching opportunities.

DreamYard Drama Project, Inc.
Bronx, NY
$30,000
To support expansion of the Action Project. Artists will be trained to teach youth in long-term, year-round mentorships in multiple art forms.

Dynamic Forms, Inc. (aka Mark DeGarmo & Dancers)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support Partnerships in Literacy Through Dance and Creativity. Teaching artists will partner with as many as 26 classroom teachers of students in pre-kindergarten to 5th grade of the Amalia Castro School in Lower Manhattan to help students develop dance and literacy skills.

Early Stages Program, Inc. (aka Early Stages)
New York, NY
$35,000
To support the Responsive Writing Program. Students will be exposed to a range of art forms and will learn to write critically about professional theater performances and museum exhibits.

East Bernstadt Independent Board of Education
East Bernstadt, KY
$18,000
To support classes in folklore fieldwork and folk dances, music, and visual arts of Mexico and the Appalachian region. The project will include professional development workshops for teachers and artists, classroom residencies, field trips to state and community folklife festivals, and periodic evaluation of students.

East Side Arts Council
St. Paul, MN
$20,000
To support artist residencies in the theater arts. A series of two- to four-week artist residencies and a 10-week after-school program for students in the 3rd and 4th grade (in primarily Latino neighborhoods) will focus on the basic tenets of drama, performance, and script writing.

Education Development Center, Inc.
Newton, MA
$75,000
To support SmART Schools. Arts instructors will be hired to collaborate with teams of classroom teachers to implement school-wide arts-infused curriculum in schools throughout Vermont.

Education Foundation of Harris County
Houston, TX
$25,000
To support Historias de mi Corazon, a media literacy project. Latino students, ages 12 to 14, will be targeted to learn about video production in order to capture and archive oral histories of their families and communities.

Education Through Music, Inc. (aka ETM)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support music programs in inner-city elementary schools. Activities will include weekly classes, performance opportunities, and professional development for teachers.

El Puente de Williamsburg, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$25,000
To support the Integrated Arts Project. Teaching faculty at El Puente Academy for Peace and Justice will choose a topic to be integrated across curricula by the Integrated Arts Design Team, which includes classes in drama, dance, script writing, and visual arts.

Epic Theatre Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the Journeys Series program. Approximately 12 artist residencies will take place in New York City public high school English and government classrooms, with teaching artists leading students in the study of classical Greek plays.

Family Resources, Inc. (Consortium)
St. Petersburg, FL
$20,000
To support a consortium project titled Youth Art Corps. With the City of St. Petersburg, the center will train and place professional artists in juvenile detention centers, runaway and homeless shelters, and other community-based settings to teach after-school and summer classes in music and visual arts.

Fine Arts for Children and Teens, Inc. (aka FACT)
Santa Fe, NM
$30,000
To support in-depth, visual arts education programs. Components will include ARTreach, an integrated in-school program for students; ARTclub, an after-school arts learning program; ARTbarn, a community-based, year-long program held at FACT's Community Studio; ARTcamp, a summer arts camp; and professional development workshops for teachers.

Firebird Youth Chinese Orchestra
San Jose, CA
$40,000
To support classes in traditional Chinese instrumental music. Youth will receive year-round, weekend lessons and ensemble classes in Chinese music.

Gabriella Axelrad Education Foundation (aka "everybody dance!")
Encino, CA
$15,000
To support everybody dance! The project will provide weekly dance classes in jazz, tap, modern, hip-hop, and creative movement. Classes will be offered after school and on Saturdays at two inner-city sites for more than 400 underserved youth, ages four to 17.

Glen Ellyn Children's Chorus
Glen Ellyn, IL
$30,000
To support the Ensemble Program and the Honors Chorus Workshop. Year-round choral ensembles at various skill levels will serve as a basis for sequential music education of chorus members.

Global Action Project, Inc. (aka G.A.P.)
New York, NY
$75,000
To support Urban Voices TV, a pre-professional media arts program. Professional media artists will work with youths in digital media production to create group and individual media arts projects.

Grand Canyon Chamber Music Festival, Inc.
Grand Canyon, AZ
$20,000
To support the Native American Composer Apprentice Project. Students will compare and contrast Native and European classical music and compose new string quartets that will be performed by the Ethel String Quartet while on tour to reservation schools.

Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras (aka GBYSO)
Boston, MA
$45,000
To support the Incentive Community Program. Components of the project include weekly music lessons, ensemble classes, and instrument rental for inner-city and minority youth.

Greenway Arts Alliance
Los Angeles, CA
$15,000
To support the Arts Recovery Project. Professional artists will teach in-school and after-school classes in theater, film, and poetry to youth.

Groundswell Community Mural Project, Inc. (aka Groundswell)
Brooklyn, NY
$35,000
To support the Guys Speak Out mural project. Targeted teenage boys from low-income, underserved areas of Brooklyn will study works by artists such as Leon Golub, Kehinde Wiley, and Jean Michel Basquiat, in order to explore social issues and artistic techniques, and create three original murals.

Harlem Children's Zone, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
To support The Renaissance University for Community Education. Artists-in-residence will lead professional development workshops on arts learning for Harlem Children's Zone staff and also will teach arts classes for youth, ages 12 to 19.

Harlem School of the Arts, Inc. (aka HSA)
New York, NY
$15,000
To support Opportunities for Learning. Teams of teachers and artists will collaborate to integrate arts into 1st to 3rd grade classrooms at Public School 153.

Hawaii Opera Theatre (aka HOT)
Honolulu, HI
$20,000
To support opera residencies at Oahu elementary schools. An original student-written opera integrating elements of Hawaiian music, language, and mythology will be produced and performed by school students.

Hawaii Youth Symphony Association (aka HYSA)
Honolulu, HI
$20,000
To support the Symphonic Orchestra Program. Orchestra students from the Hawaiian Islands are brought to Honolulu to rehearse and subsequently perform in one of three youth orchestras.

Heckscher Museum (aka Heckscher Museum of Art)
Huntington, NY
$7,200
To support the Junior Docent and High School Docent programs. Students in the 5th and 9th grades will be trained to become museum docents, learning to research, interpret, and speak knowledgeably about works of art.

Henry Street Settlement (aka Abrons Art Center)
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the Abrons Arts Center Dance Ensemble. The program will provide advanced training for teens, ages 12 to 18, to prepare them for entry into post-secondary dance programs.

Hmong Cultural Arts, Crafts, Teaching & Museum Projects (aka Hmong Cultural Arts)
Sacramento, CA
$30,000
To support classes in traditional Hmong folk arts. Local artists will lead year-round, after-school classes in Hmong music, pa dao (reverse appliqué embroidery), and folk dance in preparation for performances and demonstrations at public festivals and other community events.

Holter Museum of Art, Inc.
Helena, MT
$45,000
To support an artist-in-residence program. Led by artists from diverse cultures, students in kindergarten to 12th grade will create and interact with artwork at the museum, exploring the role of heritage and place as it shapes personal and cultural identity.

Honolulu Theatre for Youth (Consortium)
Honolulu, HI
$40,000
To support a consortium project for English as Second Language (ESL) students to develop original plays based on native oral traditions. In a partnership with Hawaii's State Department of Education's English for Second Language Learners Program, the project is designed to increase elementary school students' communication skills and their understanding of theater.

Howard County Arts Council, Inc.
Ellicott City, MD
$21,500
To support Head StART in ART. Local professional artists who have experience teaching pre-kindergarten-age children will collaborate with teachers in the Ellicott City Head Start Center to teach year-round, age-appropriate lessons in visual and performing arts.

Illusion Theater & School, Inc. (aka Illusion Theater)
Minneapolis, MN
$23,300
To support the Twin Cities Peer Education Residencies and the National Peer Education Program. The project will provide 25 communities in multiple states with theater arts education classes for urban and rural high school-aged youth.

Indiana Symphony Society, Inc. (aka Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra)
Indianapolis, IN
$20,000
To support continuation of the School Partner Program. The professional development project provides Indianapolis public school teachers with the training and skills necessary to teach an arts-integrated curriculum, and it supplies the resources necessary to implement the program for students in kindergarten to 5th grade.

Indianapolis Museum of Art (aka IMA)
Indianapolis, IN
$10,000
To support Thinking Through Art. Working in partnership with the Indiana Department of Education and the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, the museum will offer training and resources for classroom teachers to implement a statewide arts curriculum, including the production of new CDs with images from partnering museums.

Inside Out Community Arts, Inc.
Venice, CA
$25,000
To support continuation of The School Project. The after-school and weekend theater-based arts program will serve middle and high school-aged youth from the Los Angeles Unified School District.

Institute for Arts and Humanities Education
New Brunswick, NJ
$40,000
To support Pixel Nation, a media arts education program. The program is designed to teach at-risk teens all aspects of digital and video filmmaking through an interdisciplinary curriculum that emphasizes hands-on learning and artmaking.

Just Buffalo Literary Center, Inc. (Consortium)
Buffalo, NY
$30,000
To support a consortium project titled Picturing Poetry. Implemented in partnership with the Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Art, the program will introduce students to poetry and photography. Activities include the creation of collaborative works of art and a student forum for the free-flow exchange of ideas.

K12 Gallery (aka K12 Gallery for Young People)
Dayton, OH
$10,000
To support the creation of new works for the exhibition Celebrating African American Contributions: The Art of a Culture. Students will work with professional teaching artists as they conceptualize, paint, and install an exhibition of visual images depicting the diverse heritage of prominent African Americans in United States history.

Kingsport Ballet (Consortium)
Kingsport, TN
$10,000
To support a consortium project titled DANCE CO (Developing Artists and Nurturing Cultural Education through Community Outreach). The project will provide classical ballet instruction to children, ages six to 12, from underserved schools and the Boys and Girls Club of Kingsport.

Kohl Children's Museum
Wilmette, IL
$20,000
To support Early Childhood Connections. The program includes classroom and museum activities, field trips, professional development for teachers, parent workshops, and family celebrations.

Levine School of Music
Washington, DC
$28,000
To support Early Childhood Music. The program incorporates musical activities that will support the development of young children's cognitive abilities and social skills.

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. (on behalf of Lincoln Ctr. Institute for the Arts in Education)
New York, NY
$75,000
To support the Focus Schools Collaborative. Professional development training led by Lincoln Center artists will be offered to pre-kindergarten to 12th grade classroom teachers who will be implementing the whole-school arts integration programs in their respective schools.

Log Cabin Literary Center, Inc. (Consortium)
Boise, ID
$10,000
To support a consortium project titled, Writers in the Schools. Administered in partnership with the Idaho Department of Education, the project will provide year-long residencies for writers in rural and urban schools.

Los Angeles Children's Chorus
Pasadena, CA
$20,000
To support Choral Music Education and Performance. Young singers will learn a range of choral repertoire and be taught music theory during their weekly chorus rehearsals.

Los Angeles County Arts Commission (Consortium)
Los Angeles, CA
$85,000
To support the Arts for All Residency Program, a consortium project. A partnership with the Los Angeles County Office of Arts Education, the project will assist participating school districts county-wide in developing artist residencies in music, dance, and visual arts for students in kindergarten to 12th grades.

Los Angeles Jewish Symphony
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
To support A Patchwork of Culture: Exploring the Sephardic-Latino Connection. The program is designed to teach students in the 3rd to 5th grades about the similarities and differences between Sephardic and Latin American music.

Los Angeles Opera Company (Consortium)
Los Angeles, CA
$45,000
To support the production of Benjamin Britten's Noye's Fludde, a consortium project with the St. John Eudes Church. Members of the children and adult choirs of the church will join the company's opera professionals to perform the work.

Los Angeles Philharmonic Association (Consortium)
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
To support the Community Partnership Project, a consortium project. With the Byzantine-Latino Quarter Foundation Community Center, the orchestra's education staff and musicians will teach classroom and after-school lessons in music appreciation and instrumental performance in the Pico Union neighborhood of Los Angeles.

Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts
Old Lyme, CT
$40,000
To support the ArtReach visual arts education program. Scholarships will be made available to underserved children to strengthen their pre-college portfolio, enhancing their competitiveness in college applications.

Lyric Opera of Kansas City, Inc.
Kansas City, MO
$20,000
To support opera training for youth, which culminates in the performance of Hans Krasa's opera Brundibar. Rehearsals will begin during a summer camp and continue after school, working with a professional stage director, conductor, set and costume designers, Czech-language coach, and the company's adult choir.

Manhattan Community Access Corporation (aka Manhattan Neighborhood Network Youth Channel)
New York, NY
$28,000
To support Youth MIC, a media arts education program. Targeted to youth ages 12 to 18, the program will provide advanced training in multi-media, video, and Web site production.

Marquis Studios, Ltd.
Brooklyn, NY
$20,000
To support the Marquis pARTnership Program. Professional development will be provided for artists and teachers to design and implement arts curriculum in six schools throughout New York City.

Miami Light Project, Inc. (Consortium)
Miami, FL
$15,000
To support a consortium project that provides artist residencies, workshops, and concerts for youth in underserved areas of Miami-Dade County. In partnership with consortium partner Youth Expressions, music, dance, and theater workshops in the context of hip-hop culture will be offered to youth during a four-week summer program and year-round residencies.

Miami-Dade County Public Schools (on behalf of New World School of the Arts)
Miami, FL
$65,000
To support an Artists in Residence program. Visiting artists will guide high school students in the creation, performance, and exhibition of artworks that are rooted in Afro-Caribbean, Latin, Spanish, and African American traditions.

Midori Foundation, Inc. (aka Midori & Friends)
New York, NY
$35,000
To support Adventures in Making Music and the Adventure Concert Series. The program will offer free, twice-weekly instruction in woodwind, brass, percussion, and violin to inner-city youth.

Milwaukee Art Museum, Inc.
Milwaukee, WI
$20,000
To support Artworks. The after-school program will partner teenage interns and professional artists to create a public work of art. Later, the teens will transfer knowledge they have acquired to younger children.

Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design (aka MIAD)
Milwaukee, WI
$20,000
To support the Teach/DESIGN program. Design professionals will provide hands-on residences for approximately 100 students in four middle and high schools.

Milwaukee Youth Symphony Orchestra, Inc. (aka MYSO)
Milwaukee, WI
$15,000
To support the Progressions program. The after-school scholarship program will provide hands-on music training and orchestral music experience to predominantly African American and Latino students in the 3rd and 4th grade.

Missoula Writing Collaborative
Missoula, MT
$12,000
To support a writing residency program. The project will place writers in rural, low-income, and/or tribal reservation schools for eight months for weekly writing sessions with students.

Mosaic Youth Theater of Detroit (aka Mosaic)
Detroit, MI
$55,000
To support the Ensemble Training Program. Professional actors and teaching artists will provide students with intensive acting, vocal, and technical theater training, leading to the creation and performance of an original musical.

Museum of Chinese in the Americas
New York, NY
$25,000
To support Community Stories: A Documentary Photography Project. Youth will document their own communities through the art of photography.

Music and Arts Center for Humanity, Inc. (aka MACH)
Bridgeport, CT
$25,000
To support the Cultural Alternatives Division. Artists will be hired to provide comprehensive and sequential interdisciplinary, pre-school, in-school, after-school, and summer programming for special needs children and youth.

National Dance Institute New Mexico
Santa Fe, NM
$20,000
To support the North Program. Underserved children in the 3rd and 4th grades from schools in rural, northern New Mexico will receive weekly, in-school dance classes and an opportunity to perform in an original dance production.

National Dance Institute, Inc. (aka NDI)
New York, NY
$15,000
To support dance instruction and performance programs. Designed to provide sequential dance training through ensemble performances, classes are offered to advanced and motivated students and led by professional artists trained in the Institute's teaching methods.

New York Youth Symphony, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support Making Score. The project will consist of a series of educational courses designed to introduce aspiring young composers to fundamental principles of musical composition.

Nogales Unified School District #1
Nogales, AZ
$10,000
To support Mariachi Apache, the Nogales High School Mariachi Program. Local mariachi, Gilbert Velez will teach mariachi classes in three levels of proficiency to students in 9th to 12th grade, and take ensembles to mariachi festivals and community events.

Opera Carolina
Charlotte, NC
$20,000
To support Music!Words!Opera! Throughout a year-long project, professional artists and technicians will work with students in the classroom to write and produce an original opera.

Opera Theatre of Saint Louis (Consortium)
St. Louis, MO
$25,000
To support Artists-In-Training, a consortium project with the University of Missouri-St. Louis. The program will provide opportunities for urban high school students to pursue individual vocal coaching from professional voice teachers.

Our Time Theatre Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the Teen Play Project. The program will provide theater arts instruction to teenagers who stutter. Weekly classes will cover the structure of playwriting, the importance of theme, and singing exercises, culminating in the writing and performance of a full-length play.

P.S. Arts
Santa Monica, CA
$15,000
To support weekly theater and visual arts classes. Taught by resident theater and visual artists, the weekly, year-long instruction is provided for every elementary and middle school student enrolled at Camino Nuevo Charter Academy in the McArthur Park community of Los Angeles.

Palo Alto Art Center Foundation
Palo Alto, CA
$15,000
To support Cultural Kaleidoscope. The artist-in-residency program will partner kindergarten to 6th-grade classes from culturally diverse schools in the Palo Alto Unified School District with those in the Ravenswood School District.

Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County (aka Music Center)
Los Angeles, CA
$75,000
To support Arts Capacity Team program. Professional development for teachers will lead to artists residencies in kindergarten to 5th-grade classrooms and the incorporation of arts education programs into the school's core curriculum.

Performing Arts Workshop, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support the Artists-in-Schools program. Artists-in-residence will provide four schools with a combination of world dance, theater, music, and creative writing residencies, including eight, 30-week intensive residencies and eight, 15-week moderate residencies, totaling 360 hours of direct arts instruction.

Philadelphia Mural Arts Advocates (aka Mural Arts Advocates)
Philadelphia, PA
$40,000
To support the Mural Arts Program. Activities will include the Big Picture after-school mural-making program for youths, ages 10 to 14, and Mural Corps for students, ages 14 to 21.

Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York, Inc. (aka New York Philharmonic) (Consortium)
New York, NY
$50,000
To support the School Partnership Program, a consortium project between the New York Philharmonic and the New York City Department of Education. Students in the 2nd to 5th grade will attend workshops held by trained teaching artists.

Phoenix Boys Choir Association
Phoenix, AZ
$25,000
To support expansion of the Neighborhood Choir Program. The program offers entry-level training in voice, music theory, and performance for elementary school-age children in the Phoenix area.

Pillsbury United Communities (aka Pillsbury House Theatre)
Minneapolis, MN
$20,000
To support continuation of the Chicago Avenue Project. Professional playwrights, actors, and directors will work with inner-city children to create theater productions focused on themes in students' lives.

Portland Art Museum (aka Northwest Film Center) (on behalf of Northwest Film Center)
Portland, OR
$40,000
To support the Service Learning Center. The Northwest Film Center will create and administer its new center as a joint initiative of the School of Film, Young Filmmakers Program, and three partnering high schools.

Portland Museum of Art
Portland, ME
$45,000
To support Artful Assessment: Looking to Learn and Student Achievement. The project will increase access to the museum's collection for students in the 3rd to 5th grades and help teachers design and implement new methods of assessment in the arts.

Portland Youth Philharmonic Association
Portland, OR
$20,000
To support an orchestral training program. Refinements to the existing program will include the addition of wind ensemble opportunities, advanced music theory courses, and community master classes.

Project STEP, Inc.
Boston, MA
$24,000
To support the String Training and Educational Program. The project will prepare gifted African American and Latino children, ages 6 to 18, for careers in classical music as soloists, teachers, and orchestra members.

Public Corporation for the Arts of the City of Long Beach (aka Arts Council for Long Beach)
Long Beach, CA
$20,000
To support phase one of EYE on DESIGN in Alamitos Beach townsite, and an exibition and associated costs to complete phase two in Willmore City. Local professional artists teach 3rd-grade students about the design arts, including architecture of homes in their historic neighborhood and public arts in Long Beach.

Puget Sound Educational Service District (aka PSESD)
Burien, WA
$50,000
To support Arts Impact. A summer visual and performing arts institute for teachers will be followed by artist residencies in kindergarten to 5th-grade classrooms in Pierce County.

Queens Museum of Art
Queens, NY
$40,000
To support Queens Teens. The after-school docent program will introduce and train local high school students in the administrative skills necessary to run a working art museum.

Reel Grrls
Seattle, WA
$25,000
To support Reel Grrls, an after-school media art program. Designed for teenage girls, activities will involve after-school and weekend programs to explore media literacy, video production, and issues of personal identity.

ReStart, Inc.
Kansas, MO
$20,000
To support Arts at reStart. Professional artists will lead year-round weekly multidisciplinary arts workshops for children, ages 5 to 18, who live in shelters for homeless families, leading to presentation of youth work.

Richmond Ballet (aka Richmond Ballet, the State Ballet of Virginia) (Consortium)
Richmond, VA
$30,000
To support a consortium project titled Minds in Motion, which introduces students to dance movement, performance skills, and choreography. Created in partnership with the Virginia Historical Society, the year-round program will be offered to as many as 16 elementary schools with 1,300 4th-grade students.

Riverside Theatre, Inc. (aka Riverside Children's Theatre)
Vero Beach, FL
$20,000
To support RCTV, an educational television program. Students will research, write, videotape, and edit the program under the direction of professional staff.

Ryman-Carroll Foundation
Los Angeles, CA
$55,000
To support pre-professional Drawing and Painting Classes and the Outreach Drawing Workshop Series. Teens from Los Angeles will receive tuition-free studio instruction in drawing and painting by master artist-teachers.

San Francisco Art and Film Program
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
To support continuation of the Teen Film Workshop. The project is designed to prepare students for film school and train them for future careers in the film industry.

San Francisco Ballet Association (aka San Francisco Ballet) (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$35,000
To support a consortium project titled Dance in Schools and Communities. The residency program, implemented with the San Francisco Unified School District, will provide interactive movement and music instruction at no charge to as many as 3,500 2nd- to 4th-grade students and teachers.

San Francisco Girls Chorus, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
To support the Music Education and Outreach Program. The project will provide an introduction to choral singing and will serve as the foundation for the concert performance and touring ensembles.

San Francisco Symphony (on behalf of San Francisco Symphony youth Orchestra)
San Francisco, CA
$50,000
To support the Artist Development Program. Designed to complement the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra's core program of weekly rehearsals and concert performances, the program will provide students with coaching, apprenticeship, mentorships, and specialized training in chamber music, instrument care, and auditioning techniques.

Seattle Repertory Theatre (Consortium)
Seattle, WA
$70,000
To support a consortium project titled Staged Reading and Bringing Theater Into the Classroom. In partnership with the Seattle Children's Theatre, the program provides classroom residencies in which professional artists and teachers combine theater education and concepts of literacy into their classroom curriculum.

Settlement Music School of Philadelphia (aka Settlement Music School)
Philadelphia, PA
$40,000
To support the Advanced Study Program. The tuition-free program provides students with pre-professional music training through individual study classes, collaborative efforts with professional musicians and composers, and performance opportunities.

Shakespeare & Company, Inc.
Lenox, MA
$50,000
To support Shakespeare in Action, a theater arts residency program. The series of classroom and after-school sessions will focus on a language-based exploration of a Shakespeare play through master classes, rehearsals, text analysis, and student performances.

Sloss Furnaces Foundation
Birmingham, AL
$63,000
To support the Summer Youth Apprenticeship program. High school students from the Birmingham area will apprentice with professional artists to create cast-metal sculptures.

Snow City Arts Foundation
Chicago, IL
$18,000
To support creative writing, music, and visual arts workshops for hospitalized children. Working alongside professional artists, children will participate in creative writing, music, and visual arts workshops.

Southwest School of Art & Craft
San Antonio, TX
$12,000
To support a design study program. Approximately 100 5th-grade students from four inner-city schools will explore architectural principles through study of two landmark buildings, the San Antonio Public Library and the former Ursuline Convent and Academy.

Spy Hop Productions
Salt Lake City, UT
$60,000
To support the Youth Documentary Arts Program. The project will include Reel Stories, a summer documentary filmmaking workshop; Documenting Communities, a year-long exploration of communities; and Loud and Clear, a youth-produced radio program.

St. Louis Children's Choirs
St. Louis, MO
$25,000
To support sequential choral music training. The project will provide students with age-appropriate classes structured to develop a foundation in the skills, knowledge, and art of choral singing.

Strings for Schools, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$23,000
To support expansion of the Immersion in Latino Music and Culture artist residencies in public schools. The Philadelphia School District will help identify schools in predominantly Latino areas of North Philadelphia to serve as hosts for the artist residencies.

TADA! Theater and Dance Alliance, Inc. (aka TADA!)
New York, NY
$55,000
To support the Musical Theater Writing Residency. The program will integrate social studies topics with the writing, rehearsal, and performance of an original musical by 4th and 5th graders.

Theatre Of Hearts, Inc. (aka Theatre Of Hearts/Youth First)
Los Angeles, CA
$25,000
To support an artists-in-residence program. Designed for youth with learning challenges, the program places master artists in alternative schools to lead a special artistic "intervention" curriculum.

TLC-Treatment and Learning Centers, Inc.
Rockville, MD
$10,000
To support weekly music, movement, drama, and visual arts classes. Based in Orff Schulwerk Education Theory, the instruction will be targeted towards elementary and middle school students with moderate to severe language-learning disabilities.

Town Hall Foundation (aka Town Hall)
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the Education Outreach Program. Summer internships and school-year classes in theater and stagecraft will be offered for students in kindergarten to 12th grade in New York City schools.

University of Massachusetts at Amherst (on behalf of New World Theater)
Amherst, MA
$80,000
To support Project 2050. The cross-cultural theater project is designed to prepare youth from diverse racial, ethnic, and economic backgrounds for the shifts in demographics expected by the year 2050.

University of Rochester
Rochester, NY
$10,000
To support Eastman Pathways. The program offers music lessons and performance opportunities for urban youth at the Eastman Community Music School.

University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
Milwaukee, WI
$30,000
To support the Community Strings Partnership, a collaborative effort between the Strings Pedagogy program and the Latino Arts Strings program. The sequential, after-school music project will engage students, ages six to 18, in the weekly study of their selected instrument for as many as 44 weeks.

Unusual Suspects Theatre Company
Culver City, CA
$50,000
To support the expansion of theater arts education workshops. Youth, ages 14 to 18, will participate in a series of master classes led by prominent professional screenwriters.

Urban Gateways (aka Centers for Arts Education) (Consortium)
Chicago, IL
$40,000
To support a consortium project titled Arts Driven, Standards Led, Cultures Engaged. A partnership with the Chicago Public Schools, the project will include a summer teachers institute to study culturally-based aesthetics of Mexican visual arts and dance.

Vashon Allied Arts, Inc. (aka VAA)
Vashon Island, WA
$10,000
To support Vashon Artists in Schools. Professional artists who live and work in the island community and visiting artists who practice ethnic art forms will collaborate with classroom teachers to design, implement, and evaluate artist residencies in Vashon Island Public Schools.

Village of Arts and Humanities, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$20,000
To support Learning Through the Arts. The program will offer teenagers a range of after-school, weekend, and summer activities, including workshops in public art and mural painting, a hip-hop festival, and multi-media exhibitions that celebrate life in North Philadelphia neighborhoods.

Virginia Avenue Project
Santa Monica, CA
$20,000
To support the writing and performing programs titled One-on-One and Playmaking. Mentorships, workshops, a summer camp, and public performances will be offered that will connect area youth with professional artists.

Viva Vox Organization
St. Louis, MO
$15,000
To support Imagine Arts Mentoring Program. Local artists will lead visual and performing arts workshops for residents of Lakeside Center, a facility for youth who have been placed by the family court system.

Worcester Center for Crafts, Inc.
Worcester, MA
$18,000
To support the Teen Apprentice Program and CraftReach. The projects will engage urban elementary school students and underserved high school students in hands-on arts workshops.

Working Classroom, Inc.
Albuquerque, NM
$30,000
To support introductory, intermediate, and advanced workshops and classes in a range of arts, including theater, film, video, and visual arts for culturally diverse youth, ages 12 to 18. Students will learn to draw, paint, work with mixed media, and perform plays.

Working Playground, Inc.
New York, NY
$45,000
To support Fine Art Fundamentals of Design. The project will provide foundational design experiences for students in the 9th and 10th grade at New Design High School.

Writers In the Schools (aka WITS)
Houston, TX
$12,000
To support Urban Stories. The project will provide long-term creative writing workshops in as many as 50 underserved elementary school classrooms.

Young Audiences of Indiana, Inc. (Consortium)
Indianapolis, IN
$40,000
To support a consortium project for early-childhood arts education. Age-appropriate learning experiences in music, dance, theater, and visual arts will occur in multiple sessions, taking place in the facilities of the Day Nursery Association.

Young Audiences of Northern California
San Jose, CA
$15,000
To support Arts and English Language Development. School staff and artists will develop, implement, and assess arts learning in elementary schools.

Young Chicago Authors
Chicago, IL
$43,000
To support the production of student publications. Developed and produced by student editorial boards, the publications will feature creative writing and artwork by youth, ages 15 to 19.

Young Men's & Young Women's Hebrew Association (aka 92nd Street Y)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the Musical Introduction Series. The project involves classroom artist residencies, live musical performances by professional musicians at the 92nd Street Y, and post-performance discussions for New York City school children.

Zeum
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support the Zeum After School Program. Youth from San Francisco's South of Market neighborhood will receive in-depth instruction in figure design and clay animation to create short animation films.

Number of Grants: 179          Total Amount: $5,448,000

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