FY 2008 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.

826 Valencia
San Francisco, CA
$40,000
To support writing programs and the publication of student work. Professional artists will teach creative writing to at-risk youth in under-performing schools. The project will be offered free-of-charge to all Bay Area schools, and it is expected to serve more than 6,000 students, ages 6 to 18.

After School Matters, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support Animation Apprenticeship Projects. Working under the direction of professional artists, underserved teens who have advanced in the art form of animation will participate in intensive after-school and summer workshops.

Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture
Philadelphia, PA
$35,000
To support Arabic Rhythms: A Percussion Instruction and Music Appreciation Program. Lead teacher Joseph Tayoun and professional guest artists will provide year-round group and individual instruction in Arabic percussion at after-school and weekend workshops.  In addition, apprenticeships with performance opportunities for beginning, intermediate, and advanced students ages 8 to 15, and members of the Al-Bustan Percussion Ensemble will be offered.

Alabama Blues Project, Inc.
Northport, AL
$27,000
To support after-school and summer classes in blues music. Professional, Alabama-based blues musicians will teach weekly beginning and advanced level classes in blues music performance and history, as well as prepare an advanced student ensemble for public performances.

Alaska Arts Southeast, Inc. (aka Sitka Fine Arts Camp)
Sitka, AK
$40,000
To support Sitka Fine Arts Camp. While residing in a summer arts camp, middle and high school students from throughout Alaska will study Alaskan Native dance, music, theater, writing, and visual arts with professional artists from Alaska and other states.

Alleghany County Schools (aka Junior Appalachian Musicians)
Sparta, NC
$25,000
To support Junior Appalachian Musicians (JAM). The project will provide after-school classes in Appalachian traditional folk music for students in fourth through ninth grades; periodic planning and professional development conferences for artists and JAM program administrators in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia; and a day-long summer gathering of youth participants from around the region.

Allied Arts of Greater Chattanooga (Consortium)
Chattanooga, TN
$25,000
To support pARTicipate Chattanooga. In partnership with the City of Chattanooga, local teaching artists will implement a multidisciplinary arts curriculum during after-school hours in inner-city recreation centers for children, ages 6 to 15.

American Place Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support Literature to Life. Professional artists will lead in-school theater residencies for underserved middle and high school students. Each residency will begin with a performance of a play adapted from an American novel, such as The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls or Black Boy by Richard Wright.

American Symphony Orchestra, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$40,000
To support Music Notes/Project CORE. In partnership with Verona Public Schools, American Symphony Orchestra will provide music instruction in New York and New Jersey schools, integrating orchestral music into the humanities curriculum.

Appalshop, Inc.
Whitesburg, KY
$50,000
To support the Appalachian Media Institute, a documentary arts film and radio program for high school students. Professional independent filmmakers and media artists will teach students the history, aesthetics, ethics, and practice of documentary media, resulting in the production of documentary films and radio programs.

Artists Collective, Inc.
Hartford, CT
$20,000
To support jazz dance and music classes and ensembles. Professional artists will lead daily 90-minute classes in jazz music from the swing era to the avant garde and dances of Africa and the African Diaspora for children ages 10-17 in Greater Hartford.

Artists for Humanity, Inc.
Boston, MA
$18,000
To support the Youth-Run Arts Micro-Enterprise program. Through paid apprenticeships, underserved youth (ages 14 to 18) will receive studio instruction in painting, photography, sculpture, murals/set design, silk-screen, and graphic design.

ASCAP Foundation
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the Summer Music Camp. Public school students living in New York City's five boroughs will receive free classical music training with an emphasis on increased performance skills.

Asian Americans United, Inc. (Consortium)
Philadelphia, PA
$18,000
To support the Folk Arts Education Program. In partnership with the Philadelphia Chinese Opera Society, the project will provide artist residencies, folk arts educational resources, professional development for educators, events where students will experience artists and art forms, and opportunities for students to exhibit their work.

Atlanta Ballet, Inc. (Consortium)
Atlanta, GA
$15,000
To support the Centre Dance program. Planned in partnership with Fulton County Public Schools, professional dance educators will provide weekly in-school and after-school dance instruction to all kindergarten through fifth-grade students in Parklane Elementary School.

Austin Classical Guitar Society
Austin, TX
$18,000
To support the Educational Outreach Program. Classical guitar instructors will provide weekly, individual lessons for economically disadvantaged students, and will assist with the direction and curriculum planning of guitar classes in five Austin-area schools.

Baraga Houghton Keweenaw Child Development Board, Inc.
Houghton, MI
$10,000
To support Generation to Generation: Connecting the Past and the Present through Folk and Traditional Arts. Local traditional artists will give classroom demonstrations to fourth- through sixth-grade students in Baraga, Houghton, and Keweenaw counties in Michigan and lead workshops in folk arts and crafts practiced in the Upper Peninsula.

Bardavon 1869 Opera House, Inc. (Consortium)
Poughkeepsie, NY
$15,000
To support Young Playwrights Festival Program. In partnership with Poughkeepsie City School District, the project will place playwright Casey Kurti and actor Maggie Low in 13-week residencies for 6th graders in two schools, culminating in performances by professional actors of plays written by the students.

Barrel of Monkeys Productions
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support an in-school literature and theater residency program. Six-week creative writing and drama residencies will take place in underserved Chicago Public Schools for third- through sixth-grade students.

Berklee College of Music, Inc.
Boston, MA
$15,000
To support the Faculty Outreach program.  As part of the college's City Music outreach program of tuition-free music instruction for disadvantaged youth in Boston, the project provides adjunct teaching support for music programs in three Boston public schools.

Bethune Theatredanse
Los Angeles, CA
$40,000
To support Infinite Dreams, a dance and drama instruction program for special needs youth. Residency artists will provide classes targeted for underserved students from Los Angeles County schools and community sites.

Big Thought
Dallas, TX
$65,000
To support the Creative Solutions Program. Artist teachers from the Young Artists of North Texas artist roster will conduct seven community-based, after-school art education residencies and one intensive summer program in visual arts, dance, or filmmaking targeting at-risk and probate teens in Dallas.

Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras, Inc.
Boston, MA
$65,000
To support the Intensive Community Program. Targeted to inner-city and minority youth, the program offers a two-week summer music workshop, followed by weekly music lessons, ensemble classes and performance opportunities during the school year.

Boys & Girls Harbor, Inc.
New York, NY
$27,000
To support the Dance Program. Professional dancers will provide intensive dance instruction at beginning, intermediate, and pre-professional levels.  The year-long project will serve low-income students ages 4 to 19 from East Harlem and the Bronx.

Bradford County Regional Arts Council
Towanda, PA
$28,000
To support Readiness & Transitions Through the Arts. The program will integrate music, dance, storytelling, drama, and visual arts instruction at Head Start and childcare facilities for children, ages three to six.

Brooklyn Conservatory of Music
Brooklyn, NY
$18,000
To support Music Partners. The program provides in-school and after-school music therapy and music instruction to students in public and private schools, as well as childcare and social services agencies throughout the boroughs of Brooklyn, Queens, and Manhattan.

Brooklyn Information & Culture, Inc. (on behalf of Rotunda Gallery)
Brooklyn, NY
$30,000
To support a visual arts residency and teacher training program of the Rotunda Gallery. The program will combine student visits to contemporary art galleries with in-school classroom workshops for underserved youth in Brooklyn.

Brooklyn Youth Chorus, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$18,000
To support the Concert Chorus Training and Performance Program. Students will participate in rigorous, weekly, vocal music training gaining skills in musicianship, music theory, sight singing, and ear training.

Buffalo Media Resources, Inc. (aka Squeaky Wheel) (Consortium)
Buffalo, NY
$30,000
To support Squeaky Wheel's Buffalo Youth Media Institute. The citywide youth media initiative, carried out in partnership with the Preservation Coalition of Erie County, will give young people the opportunity to work with experienced media artists and local historians to produce documentaries about Buffalo's culture and history.

Caldera
Portland, OR
$75,000
To support Poetry Off The Page. Professional artists will collaborate with Caldera artist mentors to provide students with a thorough examination of the role and significance of poetry, creative writing, and spoken word in various social, cultural, and historical contexts.

California Center for the Arts, Escondido Foundation (Consortium)
Escondido, CA
$18,000
To support My Story: Literacy through the Arts. In partnership with the Escondido Union School District, this program will engage underserved fifth graders in lessons that combine digital photography with literacy, and will culminate in each student creating a unique book about an important event or tradition in his or her life. 

California College of the Arts (Consortium)
Oakland, CA
$40,000
To support Connecting the Dots: Arts Education and Community Engagement. A partnership with the Alameda County Office of Education, the program will provide professional development training and resource materials for elementary classroom teachers and teaching artists to expand their ability to deliver visual arts instruction to underserved children.

California Institute of the Arts (aka CalArts) (Consortium)
Valencia, CA
$68,000
To support the CalArts Community Arts Partnership (CAP) Plaza de la Raza Youth Theater Program. In partnership with Plaza de la Raza, CalArts will provide 50 youth with 30 weeks of intensive arts training in all aspects of theater production, including the creation and performance of an original play in collaboration with a professional playwright.

Carnegie Hall Society, Inc. (aka Carnegie Hall) (Consortium)
New York, NY
$75,000
To support LinkUP! In partnership with the New York City Department of Education, Carnegie Hall staff will develop a curriculum that will teach basic music concepts, give professional development workshops for teachers, support classroom and music teachers throughout the year, and produce public concerts in the spring when students will perform alongside a professional orchestra.

Center for Arts Education
New York, NY
$30,000
To support Arts Academy at P.S. 37R on Staten Island. Teachers, learning specialists and artists will take part in professional development workshops and design a dance, music, and visual arts curriculum that will integrate alternative instructional methods for students with cognitive and physical developmental disabilities.

Center for Urban Pedagogy, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$18,000
To support Urban Investigation, a design education program. High school students will explore the architectural inner workings of New York City's environmental design. Students will study issues such as space planning, parkland creation, and waste management systems design.

Center for World Music
El Cajon, CA
$25,000
To support World Music Performance for Children. Skilled artist teachers of varied cultural backgrounds (African, Asian Indian, Indonesian, and Iranian) and performing arts expertise (music, dance, and storytelling) will teach students living folk and traditional arts of the world. 

Charlotte Symphony Orchestra Society, Inc. (Consortium)
Charlotte, NC
$20,000
To support Interpreting History Through Art. A partnership with the Light Factory, the program is designed for eighth-grade honors students in instrumental music, chorus, and visual arts classes at the Piedmont Open 1B Middle School.  

Children's Art Carnival, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support New Generation of Artists. Professional artists will lead after-school and summer workshops for youth, ages 12 to 18 in graphic design, painting, drawing, photography, and video production.

Children's Dance Foundation
Birmingham, AL
$10,000
To support the Community Partnership Program. Students in the Movement to Music program and Dance and Science Initiative will learn movement concepts and perform in dance presentations.

Children's Theatre Company
New York, NY
$15,000
To support Building Character Onstage. Youth will participate in the creation, production, and performance of plays and musicals that reflect and explore diverse racial, ethnic, and religious communities.

Circle of Nations School, Inc. (consortium)
Wahpeton, ND
$18,000
To support S.T.A.R.S. (Science Taught by Artists Reaching Students). Three Native-American traditional artists (NEA National Heritage Fellow Mary Louise Defender Wilson, Keith Bear, and Richard LaFromboise) will collaborate with astronomer Dave Weinrich from the Minnesota State University-Moorhead  Planetarium to lead workshops for students enrolled in the Circle of Nations School, an intertribal, off-reservation boarding school.

City of San Fernando, California
City of San Fernando, CA
$38,000
To support the Mariachi Master Apprentice Program. Mariachi Los Camperos, led by NEA National Heritage Fellow, Natividad Cano, will teach sequential, advanced-level mariachi classes held weekly in evening hours for youth (ages 11 to 18) to prepare them for a culminating concert performance and mariachi conference.

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, professional development will be offered to elementary school teachers, school staff, and teaching artists, resulting in lesson plans and curriculum that will be implemented during the school year.

Cloud Foundation (aka Cloud Place)
Boston, MA
$25,000
To support the Teen Curatorial Program at Cloud Place. Professional artists will lead workshops in film, visual arts, design and spoken word performance for teens and guide them to become curators of their own work by planning and implementing Youth Fusion Series, a 10-night public event showcasing their work through exhibitions, screenings, and performances.

COCA - Center of Creative Arts
St. Louis, MO
$55,000
To support the Dance Outreach and Pre-Professional Dance Programs. The activities will provide intensive dance training for low-income students and year-long residencies at elementary schools.

College for Creative Studies
Detroit, MI
$33,000
To support Camp Portfolio and Summer Exploratory Scholarship Program. During the two consecutive 13-day arts camps, staff, visiting artists and college-aged artist mentors will teach high school students the fundamentals of sketching and drawing, two- and three-dimensional design, and digital imaging, as well as help those who are considering careers in art and design to produce a portfolio.

Columbia College Chicago (on behalf of Museum of Contemporary Photography)
Chicago, IL
$15,000
To support Picture Me at the Museum of Contemporary Photography. The after-school mentorship program will teach underserved youth (ages 12 to 18) how to use a fully manual 35-millimeter camera to document their lives, homes, and communities, and to develop and print their photographic images.

Congreso De Latinos Unidos, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$18,000
To support the Youth Artist Program. Low-income high school students participate in the development and creation of original films.

Cornell University (on behalf of Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art)
Ithaca, NY
$50,000
To support Objects and Their Makers: New Insights (OMNI), a visual arts education project based on the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art's permanent collection. The program will offer grade- and culture-specific learning units focused on the art of Africa, Asia, and the Americas and their historical context.

Dance Saint Louis (Consortium)
St. Louis, MO
$20,000
To support the Extended Residency program. In partnership with St. Louis Public Schools, professional dancers from the Paul Taylor Dance Company and Pilobolus will conduct four-week residencies in schools and community centers.

Dancing Crane, Inc.
Warwick, NY
$18,000
To support the Children's Georgian Dance Class and Performance Ensemble. Master artists who were trained in the Republic of Georgia and now live in the United States will teach children traditional Georgian dance.

Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra Association (Consortium)
Dayton, OH
$35,000
To support School Partners with Artists Reaching Kids (SPARK). Partnering with the Kettering School District, musicians will join classroom teachers from area elementary schools to create lesson plans that incorporate music concepts into classroom curricula.

Detroit Symphony Orchestra Hall (Consortium)
Detroit, MI
$25,000
To support the Detroit Symphony Orchestra's Civic Academy. In partnership with the Detroit Public Schools, the program will provide beginning-level string training through weekly rehearsals, on-stage performances, and sectional training with the orchestra's musicians.

Diversity of Dance, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$35,000
To support Earl Mosley's Institute of the Arts. Students will receive rigorous dance training from professional dance educators through classes in technique (ballet, modern, jazz, hip-hop, African dance, tap), composition, and repertory as well as participate in master classes with guest artists.

Dreams of Wilmington, Inc.
Wilmington, NC
$14,000
To support Hip to the Jive at the Dreams Center for Arts Education. During after-school classes, professional artists will teach youth, aged 12-17, about the music, dance, creative writing, and visual art that evolved during the Jazz Age and the Harlem Renaissance.

DreamYard Drama Project, Inc.
Bronx, NY
$42,000
To support Bronx Teen Arts Companies. Lead teaching artists, guest visiting artists, and other arts professionals will help teens acquire skills and knowledge to create, perform, and experience the arts. Students will curate their own gallery exhibits at Sotheby's Auction House, perform their own plays at Pregones Theater and the Theater at Scholastic Incorporated, and attend arts field trips throughout New York City.

Each One Reach One
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
To support the Playwriting Workshop. Designed for incarcerated San Francisco and San Mateo County teenagers, the playwriting and educational tutoring program will pair professional theater artists one-on-one with youths to create and develop original, one-act plays.

Eagle Rock Art Museum & Education Center, Inc.
Idaho Falls, ID
$10,000
To support the ARTworks visual arts education program.  In southeast Idaho, artists will participate in school residencies and teachers will attend professional development training to learn methods of integrating the arts into core academic coursework.  Students will study art history, receive technical instruction, and visit the museum as part of the program. 

Education Development Center, Inc.
Newton, MA
$70,000
To support SmART Schools. Arts instructors will be hired to collaborate with teams of classroom teachers to implement school-wide, arts-infused curricula in elementary schools in the Santa Monica/Malibu Unified School District in California.

Educational Alliance, Inc.
New York, NY
$26,000
To support the Young Artists Program. The after-school and summer visual arts program will be taught by practicing and exhibiting artists and will provide free or low-cost visual arts instruction to underserved teens.

Epic Theatre Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
To support the Journeys Series program. Artist residencies will take place in New York public high schools, with teaching artists leading students in the study of classical and modern plays.

Family Resources, Inc. (Consortium)
Pinellas Park, FL
$15,000
To support the Youth Arts Corps. In partnership with the Gulf Coast Museum of Art, the project will provide weekly, after-school and summer classes in literary, visual, media, and performing arts taught by professional artists who have training and experience in working with youth in juvenile detention centers, runaway and homeless shelters, and other community-based settings.

Firebird Youth Chinese Orchestra
San Jose, CA
$20,000
To support weekly classes in the music of Chinese opera arranged for different sized ensembles. Professional Chinese musicians who live in the Bay Area will help intermediate and advanced students gain a deeper understanding of the cultural and historic context of modern Chinese traditional music as well as teach them to develop their technical performing skills.

Florida Studio Theatre, Inc.
Sarasota, FL
$18,000
To support the Write a Play Tour and auxiliary activities for elementary and secondary school students. The program will include statewide touring of professional productions, playwriting workshops, teacher training, and the Young Playwrights Festival.

Friends of NORD, Inc. (aka NORD/NOBA Center For Dance)
New Orleans, LA
$50,000
To support free, year-round dance training at the NORD/NOBA Center for Dance. The company will offer instruction in a four-week summer intensive session as well as weekly classes in fall and spring semesters.

Friends of Peralta Hacienda Historical Park
Oakland, CA
$18,000
To support Project S.O.S. (Sharing Oakland's Stories) a media arts education program.  Professional dramatists, authors, filmmakers, and video artists teach students how to make documentary digital films.

Friends of the Arts, Inc
Locust Valley, NY
$40,000
To support the Jazz Sampler Project. Artists and school staff will develop and implement in the classroom goals, residency content, timelines, learning activities and resources, and evaluation and assessment tools for an arts-integrated curriculum on the history and elements of jazz.

Friends of the Children's Museum at La Habra (aka The Children's Museum at La Habra)
La Habra, CA
$15,000
To support Young at Art. In the first year of the project, professional artists from the region and education staff at the museum will develop professional development workshop content for teachers and an arts educational curriculum for kindergarten through second-grade students, and implement both in La Habra City School District during the second year.

Fulton Opera House Foundation (aka Fulton Theatre)
Lancaster, PA
$45,000
To support the Fulton Youtheatre Program. Professional actors, musicians, choreographers, and stage designers will teach a team of youth (ages 13 to 19) key elements of theater which will result in the creation and performance of a new musical based on pertinent issues from their own lives.

Futurebuilders in Support of the Trollwood Performing Arts School (aka Trollwood Performing Arts School)
Fargo, ND
$35,000
To support the Summer Mainstage Musical Program of the Trollwood Performing Arts School. The activities will immerse students (ages 13 to 18) in contemporary and classic musical theater while studying the basic tenets of script writing, character development, vocal performance, and stage production.

Gabriella Axelrad Education Foundation
Encino, CA
$30,000
To support everybody dance! The project will provide weekly dance instruction and master classes in ballet, jazz, tap, hip hop, creative movement, and modern dance.

Gateway to the Arts, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
$18,000
To support Gateway Early Learning Through the Arts. Workshops and residencies for professional teaching artists, day-care and Head Start classroom teachers, and aides will integrate pre-kindergarten arts activities developed around children's literature.

Glen Ellyn Children's Chorus (aka GECC)
Glen Ellyn, IL
$45,000
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
$68,000
To support the Urban Voices 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
$27,000
To support the Native American Composer Apprentice Project. Students will study one-on-one with composers-in-residence and create original works that will be performed by the Ethel String Quartet while on tour to reservation schools.

Greenway Arts Alliance
Los Angeles, CA
$15,000
To support Voices Unheard, a program of classes in theatre, film, creative writing, literacy, and spoken word poetry.  Professional artists will teach high school students in the Los Angeles Unified School District through weekly classes and workshops. 

Groundswell Community Mural Project, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$45,000
To support the Summer Leadership Institute. Teenage girls and boys from low-income, underserved areas of Brooklyn will work under professional artists to study the history, design, and methodology of mural painting.

Hanford Elementary School District
Hanford, CA
$18,000
To support ArtsExcel, a visual arts program. Students will benefit from an arts-infused, whole school approach designed to develop skills in art and creative problem-solving.

Harlem Children's Zone, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support The Renaissance University for Community Education (TRUCE). Artists-in-residence will lead professional development workshops in arts learning for Harlem Children's Zone staff and will teach arts classes for youth, ages 13 to 19.

Harlem School of the Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support Open Enrollment and College Prep. After-school, evening, and weekend classes in beginning to advanced instruction in music, dance, theater, and visual arts are opened to pre-kindergarten through 18 year old students, and a pre-collegiate training program is available for students ages 12 and 18 who demonstrate artistic proficiency.

Hawaii Alliance for Arts in Education (Consortium)
Honolulu, HI
$45,000
To support Arts First program. In partnership with the State of Hawaii Department of Education, the project will involve teachers and artists collaborating to deliver arts lessons using the Arts First Toolkit, a kindergarten to fifth-grade, arts-integration curriculum framework.

Hawaii Youth Symphony Association
Honolulu, HI
$32,000
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.

Hmong Cultural Arts, Crafts, Teaching & Museum Projects (aka Hmong Cultural Arts)
Sacramento, CA
$55,000
To support classes for youth in traditional Hmong folk arts. Local artists will lead year-round, after-school classes in pa dao (reverse-applique embroidery), the qeej (free-reed aerophone of bundled bamboo pipes), and folk dance movement in preparation for performances and demonstrations at public festivals and other community events.

Holter Museum of Art, Inc.
Helena, MT
$55,000
To support Cultural Crossroads, a visual arts education program.  Led by artists from diverse cultures, students in kindergarten to 12th grade will create art 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
Honolulu, HI
$18,000
To support YouthArts Downtown: Afterschool! theater arts education program.  Students will study drama with theater artists, attend professional productions, and create original works based on themes explored during the program.

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Inc. (Consortium)
Chicago, IL
$75,000
To support Movement as Partnership. In collaboration with Oak Park (School) District 97, the dance company will create comprehensive dance education programs at six elementary schools including dance residencies, professional development workshops for teachers, and in-school performances by professional dancers.

Idaho Commission on the Arts (Consortium)
Boise, ID
$38,000
To support the expansion of Arts Powered Schools Summer Teacher Institute. A five-day summer institute will be presented by the commission in partnership with the Idaho State Department of Education, to sustain collaborations of artists and elementary teachers.

In-Sight Photography Project, Incorporated (aka In-Sight)
Brattleboro, VT
$14,000
To support photography classes for youth. Intermediate and advanced black-and-white photography classes will be offered for underserved youth in rural Vermont.

Inner-City Arts (Consortium)
Los Angeles, CA
$65,000
To support Arts in the Middle (AIM), a theater and literacy immersion program. In partnership with Los Angeles Unified School District 4, AIM is targeted to students at the Berendo Middle School who lack sufficient English language skills to achieve academic success.

Inside Out Community Arts, Inc.
Venice, CA
$40,000
To support The School Project, an after-school and weekend theater-based arts program. Middle and high school students from the Los Angeles Unified School District will participate in weekly workshops, a field trip to attend a professional production, Saturday parent and child workshops, and a three-day rehearsal retreat.

Institute for Cultural Partnerships
Harrisburg, PA
$18,000
To support The Art of Many Voices, a folk arts education program.  Students at William Penn High School in Harrisburg will study basic ethnographic methodologies and compose personal narratives in class with institute's staff folklorists Amy Skillman and Lisa Rathje and will create work with resident artists in hip-hop dance, visual arts, and spoken word. 

Institute for Spanish Arts (aka Maria Benitez Teatro Flamenco)
Santa Fe, NM
$25,000
To support the Northern New Mexico Youth Spanish Dance and Music Program. Teaching artists will provide classes featuring basic flamenco, flamenco cante, bata de cola, cajon, cantes fiesteros, Spanish classical dance, and percussion and guitar throughout the year.

Intermediate District 287
Plymouth, MN
$10,000
To support the Youth Expressions Project, a theater education program. Students at two special education sites will conceptualize, develop, and perform a theater arts project as a creative and empowering expression of their life experiences.

Jack Straw Foundation (aka Jack Straw Productions) (Consortium)
Seattle, WA
$35,000
To support Do Tell: Multicultural Family Stories, a media arts education project. Developed and implemented in partnership with SouthEast Effective Development, the project will involve students creating oral history-based audio vignettes and radio theater about family stories and cultural celebrations.

Jacob Burns Film Center, Inc.
Pleasantville, NY
$10,000
To support Unscripted, a documentary filmmaking program for high school students.  During summer months, students will learn all aspects of the filmmaking craft including writing, conducting interviews, editing, filming, and directing.

Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, Inc. (Consortium)
Jamaica, NY
$15,000
To support Page to Stage, a theater education program. Developed in partnership with New York City Department of Education District 28, will engage seventh- and eighth-grade students at MS 217 in Queens. 

Jefferson Center Foundation, Ltd. (Consortium)
Roanoke, VA
$20,000
To support the Silk Road to Roanoke, a music education program.  In partnership with the Roanoke Youth Symphony Orchestra (RYSO), the project will include small ensemble performances in schools, music instruction, and professional development for classroom teachers.  

Juilliard School
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the Music Advancement Program (MAP). Juilliard music faculty will provide private lessons and classes as well as mentoring to New York City public school students.

Just Buffalo Literary Center, Inc. (Consortium)
Buffalo, NY
$30,000
To support Writing with Light. In partnership with the Center for Exploratory and Perpetual Art (CEPA), the project will engage writers and photographers to teach creative writing and basic elements of photography and guide students in documenting their communities with cameras and poetry.

Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra
Kalamazoo, MI
$25,000
To support the Education Program. The program is designed to offer a menu of opportunities in which the orchestra's musicians will provide a range of music learning experiences for community and school partners, tailored to meet the needs of each partner.

Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey, Inc.
Kansas City, MO
$45,000
To support AileyCamp and AileyCamp/The Group dance education programs. AileyCamp is an intensive summer dance program of jazz, tap, modern, and ballet.  The Group is a continuation of the summer training that takes place during the school year.

Levine School of Music
Washington, DC
$30,000
To support Early Childhood Music. Guest artists and Levine School music educators will provide free, weekly music classes to young children using diverse musical repertoire including traditional children's songs, folk music, world music, classical, and jazz idioms.

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. (on behalf of Lincoln Center Institute for the Arts in Education)
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the Focus Schools Collaborative of the Lincoln Center Institute for the Arts in Education. Music, dance, theater, and visual arts will be integrated into the curriculum of a cluster of New York City public schools.

Log Cabin Literary Center, Inc. (aka The Cabin)
Boise, ID
$20,000
To support the Writers in the Schools project.  Year-long residencies for writers in rural and urban schools will include weekly, hour-long writing workshops to help students improve their writing and reading skills, develop a portfolio of work, and participate in ongoing peer critiques.

Los Angeles County Arts Commission (Consortium)
Los Angeles, CA
$70,000
To support the Arts for All Artists-in-Residence Program. In partnership with the Los Angeles County Office of Education, the project will assist participating school districts county-wide to develop artist residencies in music, dance, and visual arts for students in kindergarten through 12th grades.

Los Angeles Opera Company (Consortium)
Los Angeles, CA
$18,000
To support 110 Project, an opera education program. In partnership with the California African American Museum, the company will create a new work to celebrate and share traditions, music, and history with cultural/artistic centers along the 35-mile 110 Freeway.

Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center
San Pablo, CA
$20,000
To support the Mockingbird Youth Project. Master artists will teach weekly classes and workshops in Mexican traditional instrumental music, singing, and dance to children ages four to 18 leading to performances of son Jarocho, African-influenced songs from southern Veracruz with syncopated rhythmic patterns.

Luna Kids Dance
Berkeley, CA
$40,000
To support the Dance Learning Institutes. The professional development project will provide teaching artists and classroom teachers with training in which they will work together to create standards-based dance lessons and units targeted to the populations they teach.

MacPhail Center for Music
Minneapolis, MN
$60,000
To support Learning With Music. Professional teaching artists will provide weekly classroom music and arts-integrated lessons to 300 children, ages three to eight, as well as provide onsite professional development and training to early childhood teachers and assistants.

Mama Foundation for the Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support Gospel for Teens. Students ages 13 to 19 who are selected through an audition will learn fundamental vocal techniques, gain knowledge about the historic and cultural context of the African American gospel tradition, and perform in public concerts.

Manhattan New Music Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support Open The World To Children With Autism. Teaching artists will be trained to collaborate with classroom teachers to teach music, theater, dance, and visual arts to students who have severe cognitive, emotional, and physical challenges.

Marin Dance Theatre
San Rafael, CA
$20,000
To support Let's All Dance! Professional dance artists will provide weekly instruction in ballet, modern, hip hop, ballroom, classical Indian, flamenco, and African dance through in-school residences at six schools.

Marwen Foundation, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$25,000
To support the Studio Program, a visual arts education project. Students from underserved public schools will receive after-school visual arts classes and portfolio-building development opportunities.

Maui Community Arts & Cultural Center (Consortium)
Kahului, HI
$40,000
To support Telling Our Stories: The Past is Our Future. In partnership with the State of Hawaii Department of Education, the center will coordinate year-long classroom instruction in Hawaiian storytelling and the elements and principles of drama leading to public student performances.

Midori Foundation, Inc. (aka Midori & Friends)
New York, NY
$25,000
To support music instruction by Midori & Friends in underserved schools throughout New York City.  Students will receive a variety of music learning experiences, and teachers will receive professional development training.

Midwest Young Artists
Highwood, IL
$42,000
To support the orchestral program and chamber music programs. Through music theory classes, sectional rehearsals, and performance opportunities, students will learn to read music, play expressively, develop ensemble skills, and demonstrate musicianship.

Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design
Milwaukee, WI
$45,000
To support the High School Pre-College Program. Consisting of a series of year-long Saturday workshops and a summer residency component, the program will provide students with a diverse array of course offerings in visual arts and design education.

Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Milwaukee, WI
$40,000
To support Arts in Community Education. In collaboration with numerous local arts organizations and public and private schools in eight area districts, professional musicians will integrate the arts into daily lessons in core subjects. 

Minnesota Center for Book Arts
Minneapolis, MN
$25,000
To support By Design, a visual arts mentorship program for disadvantaged teenagers. Professional artists will lead after-school and summer workshops in the art of bookmaking and guide youth participants through the process of creating a book to display in a culminating exhibition.

Missoula Writing Collaborative
Missoula, MT
$35,000
To support Words Fly!, a writing residency program. The project will place writers in rural, low-income, and/or tribal reservation schools for seven-month, weekly writing sessions with students, ages 7 to 18.

Mobile Symphony, Inc.
Mobile, AL
$20,000
To support Preludes, a strings instruction program. Mobile Symphony musicians will teach weekly strings classes and perform chamber music concerts for students in fifteen Mobile-area elementary schools.

Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit
Detroit, MI
$85,000
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.

Municipality of Caguas
Caguas, PR
$30,000
To support the Croillo Learning in the Arts for Children program, a visual arts education program.  Students and classroom teachers at the Jose de Diego School will benefit from a visual arts residency and professional development training program.

Musicians United for Superior Education, Inc. (aka MUSE)
Buffalo, NY
$18,000
To support the Maria Montessori Whole School Project. Teaching artists will work with Montessori school students at two Montessori Schools in whole-school residencies resulting in a student-written opera.

National Dance Institute of New Mexico
Santa Fe, NM
$42,000
To support the Albuquerque In-School Program and Advanced Training Program. Students in the third through sixth grades from Albuquerque schools will receive weekly, in-school dance classes and will perform in a performance at the end of the year.

National Dance Institute, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support dance instruction and performance programs. Designed to provide sequential dance training through ensemble performances, classes will be offered to advanced and motivated students taught by professional artists trained in the institute's teaching methods.

Native American Youth and Family Center
Portland, OR
$18,000
To support the Young Native Playwrights Project. Targeted to Native American youth, the program will pair students with professional Native and non-Native theater artists and writers to study playwriting, improvisation, and acting.

New Cleveland Opera Company (aka Cleveland Opera)
Cleveland, OH
$18,000
To support the Cleveland Opera's Music! Words! Opera! and Opera Mini-Residency programs. Music! Words! Opera! students will create and present an original operatic work for their peers, and work alongside teaching artists who stage and rehearse a condensed version of an opera masterpiece.

New England Youth Theatre
Brattleboro, VT
$18,000
To support technical theater training. The program will expose underserved children in rural Vermont to professional-quality theater production and teach them all aspects of technical theater.

New York Youth Symphony, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support Making Scores. The project will consist of a series of educational courses designed to introduce aspiring young composers to fundamental principles of musical composition.

Northern Kentucky University Research Foundation
Highland Heights, KY
$15,000
To support African Art for Kentucky Teachers. Five Ghanaian artists will be in residence to teach traditional kente weaving, bronze casting, adinkra cloth, bead making, batik, and pottery in a village-like setting during a seven-day professional development institute for art teachers and art educators from throughout Kentucky.

Otis Art Institute (aka Otis College of Art and Design)
Los Angeles, CA
$60,000
To support the O TEAM program. The tuition-free, after-school and summer visual arts education program will provide opportunities for underserved youth (ages 15 to 18) to study multiple media and develop portfolios of student work for the competitive college admissions process.

Our Time Theatre Company, Inc. (aka Our Time)
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the Teen Play Project. The theater arts instruction program is targeted to teenagers who stutter.

Pegasus Players
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support an expansion of the Young Playwrights Festival (YPF). The semester-long playwriting program at Curie Metropolitan High School will provide opportunities for youth to study works by American playwrights and create plays of their own.

Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County (aka Music Center)
Los Angeles, CA
$60,000
To support the Music Center Arts Capacity Team Project, a multidisciplinary arts education initiative.  A package of arts services, including professional development for teachers and administrators, artist's residencies, and performances by professional artists will be provided to public elementary schools in Los Angeles County.

Perlman Music Program, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the Summer Music School at The Perlman Music Program. The program is an intensive six-week residency which provides instruction, coaching, and mentoring opportunities to exceptionally gifted young string players.

Philadelphia Mural Arts Advocates (aka Mural Arts Program)
Philadelphia, PA
$40,000
To support the Mural Arts Program (MAP). 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.

Philadelphia Young Playwrights
Philadelphia, PA
$28,000
To support the Enhanced Program Activities Menu. Students will enhance their playwriting skills and deepen their understanding of theater through interactions with professional artists, trips to see professional theater, and intensive writing workshops.

Philharmonic Association, Inc.
Cary, NC
$10,800
To support Exploring Don Quixote through Telemann. Music instructors will guide students in an exploration Miguel de Cervantes' book Don Quixote through the music of Georg Philipp Telemann, including orchestra rehearsals, a study of the book, and a culminating public performance of Telemann's orchestral suite Don Quixote at the Wedding of Comacho.

Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York, Inc. (aka The New York Philharmonic) (Consortium)
New York, NY
$70,500
To support the New York Philharmonic's School Partnership Program. In partnership with the New York City Department of Education, students in the third to fifth grades will attend workshops held by professionally trained teaching artists.

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

PlatteForum
Denver, CO
$25,000
To support ArtLab: Integrated Experiences in Creating and Presenting Art. A lead artist, PlatteForum staff, and visiting resident artists from around the world will teach youth literary, visual, and theatrical arts leading to the writing, staging, and performing original work for general public.

Portland Art Museum (aka Northwest Film Center) (on behalf of Northwest Film Center)
Portland, OR
$50,000
To support the Young Filmmakers Program at the Northwest Film Center. The program will combine the study and practice of digital moving image media with a service learning instructional approach through which hands-on projects will be undertaken outside the classroom.

Portland Museum of Art
Portland, ME
$34,000
To support the Summer Institute for Teachers: Winslow Homer and a Sense of Place. Through immersion in a week-long summer workshop on the Winslow Homer's painting, Weatherbeaten (1894), teachers will explore how the artistic, historic, and social significance of a single work of art can be the impetus for sequential, arts-integrated curriculum.

Project New Urban Arts (aka New Urban Arts)
Providence, RI
$25,000
To support the Youth Mentorship Program and the Arts Mentoring Fellowship Program. The two components are based on a community plan that will enable young emerging artists to design and implement arts initiatives for high school students participating in after-school and summer visual and literary arts programs.

Project STEP, Inc.
Boston, MA
$75,000
To support the String Training and Educational Program (STEP). The project will target and prepare gifted African American and Latino children, ages 6 to 18, for careers in classical music as soloists, teachers, and orchestra members.

Provincetown Art Association and Museum
Provincetown, MA
$12,000
To support the Fall Art Camp. The program will provide opportunities for middle school-aged youth to interpret and discuss original works of art, create new work of their own, and write about their experiences as viewers and makers of visual art.

Public Corporation for the Arts of the City of Long Beach (aka Arts Council for Long Beach)
Long Beach, CA
$40,000
To support Eye on Design, a neighborhood public art education program of the Arts Council for Long Beach. Third-grade students will attend field trips to historic houses and view public art in the neighborhood, learn about public art, architecture, and design; and design their own public artworks and build maquettes.

Puget Sound Educational Service District
Renton, WA
$50,000
To support Arts Impact: Artistic Pathways to Learning. Elementary classroom teachers will be trained to provide instruction in standards based dance, theater, and visual arts lessons that have shared concepts in other core content areas.

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

Raw Art Works, Inc.
Lynn, MA
$45,000
To support Real to Reel, a media arts education project. Underserved teens will learn all aspects of narrative and documentary filmmaking.

Reel Stories Teen Filmmaking, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$60,000
To support The Lab, Reel Impact, The Lab Master Class, and Summer Lab. Student teens recruited to participate in free, after-school and summer filmmaking workshops, will produce and distribute short documentaries about their lives under the mentorship of professional filmmakers.

reStart, Inc.
Kansas City, MO
$35,000
To support Arts for Children and Youth. Professional artists from Kansas City arts organizations will lead five to six-week-long arts classes after school and on weekend for children at reStart's Family Emergency Shelter, Youth Shelter, and Transitional Housing programs.

Rhode Island Alliance for Arts Education (Consortium)
Tiverton, RI
$20,000
To support Rhode Island Arts Passport. In partnership with the Rhode Island Arts Learning Network, the project will expand to include folk and traditional arts as practiced by the masters who live in the state. 

Rhode Island School of Design
Providence, RI
$30,000
To support Project Open Door, a visual arts education program.  The free, after-school and summer program for underserved urban high school students and teachers will provide opportunities for youth to develop technical skills in the visual arts and prepare competitive college entrance portfolios.

Richmond Ballet, Inc. (Consortium)
Richmond, VA
$12,000
To support Minds in Motion (MIM) dance education program.  Created in partnership with the Virginia Air and Space Center, the 28-week program will introduce as many as 1,900 fourth-grade students to dance movement, performance skills, and choreography.

River of Words
Berkeley, CA
$20,000
To support teacher training workshops in poetry composition and visual arts. Using a specially designed curriculum, teachers will learn to teach students to create poetry based on observation of the natural environment.

Rosie's Broadway Kids, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the ACTE II (A Commitment to Excellence) program in musical theater. The program will target exceptionally talented students from low-income families for intensive training in music, dance, and drama.

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey-Camden Campus (Consortium)
Camden, NJ
$20,000
To support Picture Prompt. The program will prepare third grade instructors to implement a visual arts-integrated curriculum in partnership with the Camden City School District.

Saint Joseph Ballet Company
Santa Ana, CA
$10,000
To support the development and implementation of a dance education curriculum.  Youth, mostly from low-income families in Orange County, will attend ballet classes as well as master classes in genres such as hip hop, African dance, and jazz, and staff will receive training to implement the new program.

Salvadori Educational Center on the Built Environment
New York, NY
$10,000
To support GLOBE: Guided Learning through Our Built Environment, a design education program.  Components of the project will include professional development activities and school-based residencies for New York public elementary school students where they will learn about architecture and the built environment of their community.

San Diego Opera Association (Consortium)
San Diego, CA
$37,000
To support the Words & Music Program. In partnership with the San Diego Unified School District, the company will provide an in-school opera residency in which students will learn to compose an original opera.

San Diego Women Film Foundation
San Diego, CA
$12,000
To support Divas Direct: Film Workshop for Girls. Middle and high school-aged girls will participate in after-school and summer workshops filmmaking workshops.

San Francisco Art and Film Program
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support 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 Arts Commission (on behalf of WritersCorp)
San Francisco, CA
$40,000
To support the WritersCorp program. Professional artists will teach creative writing for at-risk youth in underserved public schools.

San Francisco Girls Chorus, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$40,000
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 Youth Symphony)
San Francisco, CA
$60,000
To support the Artist Development Program of the San Francisco Youth Symphony. Designed to complement the youth orchestra's core program of weekly rehearsals and concert performances, the program will provide students with coaching, apprenticeship, mentorship, and specialized training in chamber music, instrument care, and auditioning techniques.

Seattle Arts & Lectures
Seattle, WA
$42,000
To support Getting the Word Out. The project will advance student writing through publications, recordings, readings, performances, and collaborations with community partners.

Seattle Opera (Consortium)
Seattle, WA
$48,000
To support Opera Goes to School. In partnership with the Auburn Arts Commission, the program will provide week-long residencies to elementary schools in which Seattle Opera staff, teaching artists, and professional singers teach students about opera.

Seattle Repertory Theatre (Consortium)
Seattle, WA
$60,000
To support Bringing Theater Into the Classroom. In partnership with the Seattle Children's Theatre, the program will provide classroom residencies in which professional artists and teachers combine theater education and concepts of literacy into their classroom curriculum.

Shakespeare & Company, Inc.
Lenox, MA
$30,000
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 Shakespearean play through master classes, rehearsals, text analysis, and student performances.

Shakespeare Theatre (aka Shakespeare Theatre Company) (Consortium)
Washington, DC
$30,000
To support the Text Alive! Curriculum Enhancement Program. In partnership with the District of Columbia Public School System, the program will enable high school teachers and students to explore Shakespeare's work through a series of in-school, humanities-based workshops and an in-depth rehearsal and performance process.

Sloss Furnaces Foundation, Inc. (aka Sloss)
Birmingham, AL
$67,700
To support the Sloss Youth Apprenticeship program a visual arts education program. High school students from the Birmingham area will apprentice with professional artists to create cast-metal sculptures.

Southern Exposure (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support Mission Voices, a visual arts education project.  In partnership with the Columbia Park Boys and Girls Club of San Francisco, the community-based project will pair local artists with underserved teens living in the city's Mission District.

Spiral Q Puppet Theater (aka Spiral Q)
Philadelphia, PA
$18,000
To support the UP North Community Arts Education Program. Youth in North Philadelphia will study basic elements of parades and pageantry, construct giant puppets, silk-screen banners and flags, print posters, and choreograph movement of the puppets to original music and poetry.

Spontaneous Celebrations Inc
Jamaica Plain, MA
$18,000
To support Festival Arts After School Program. Artists will teach after-school classes for youth (ages 11 to 14) in dance, music, stilt-walking, and visual arts leading to student participation in seasonal celebrations in the Jamaica Plain and Roxbury neighborhoods.

Spy Hop Productions, Inc.
Salt Lake City, UT
$30,000
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; Loud and Clear, a youth-produced radio program; and Pitch-Nic Young Writer/Director, a mentorship program.

Studio in a School Association, Inc.
New York, NY
$60,000
To support the Collaborative Community Site program, a visual arts education program. Professional artists will lead classroom residencies and professional development seminars for visual arts and classroom teachers in Brooklyn. 

TADA! Theater and Dance Alliance, Inc. (aka TADA! Youth Theater)
New York, NY
$45,000
To support expansion of the Musical Theater Writing Residency. The program will integrate social studies topics with the writing, rehearsal, and performance of an original musical by fourth- and fifth- graders under the tutelage of teaching artists and their regular classroom teachers.

Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz
Washington, DC
$40,000
To support BeBop to Hip-Hop. Professional musicians will introduce students to the latest recording technologies and software and teach students composition, music theory, arranging, improvisation, lyric writing, turntable scratching, and sampling.

Thomas Armour Youth Ballet, Inc.
South Miami, FL
$15,000
To support Community Outreach in Satellite Locations. The company will provide year-round classical training in ballet at three locations in Miami-Dade County for 5 to 13 year-old children and opportunities for them to perform in and attend professional performances.

Town Hall Foundation (aka The Town Hall)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the Education Outreach Program, a theater education program. Summer internships and school-year classes in theater and stagecraft will be offered for students in kindergarten through twelfth grades in New York City schools.

Traveling Players Ensemble, Inc.
Great Falls, VA
$18,000
To support Traveling Players Ensemble Summer Theatre Camp. Working in ensembles of 13 to 15, students will produce and perform a classical theater piece by either Moliere or Shakespeare.

Trinkle Brass Works, Inc.
Casper, WY
$10,000
To support Grow Our Own: Preparing Youth for Lifelong Music. In collaboration with Campbell County Schools and the Powder River Symphony, professional musicians will provide classes in chamber music and curriculum support for teachers in Casper-area public schools.

Tucson Symphony Society (aka Tucson Symphony Orchestra)
Tucson, AZ
$15,000
To support the Young Composers Project (YCP). Students will learn to compose music for orchestra, culminating in a reading and recording of their newly composed pieces by the Tucson Symphony Chamber Orchestra or the Tucson String Quintet.

University of Maryland at College Park
College Park, MD
$10,000
To support Visible Voices, Hieroglyphics for Our Place & Time. A muralist and poet will lead after-school workshops for students enrolled in Charles Carroll Middle School in Prince George's County Maryland.

University of Nebraska at Lincoln (on behalf of Lied Center for the Performing Arts)
Lincoln, NE
$25,000
To support Nebraska Rural Arts Education Initiatives at the Lied Center for the Performing Arts. Professional development training for teachers, teaching artists, and administrators of rural schools with student populations that are predominantly Native American or Latino will lead to the integration of dance, music, theater, and visual arts into school curricula. 

University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
To support Thornton JazzReach. Teaching artists will provide after-school private and group instruction, master classes, and performance opportunities in instrumental and vocal jazz for students from four schools located in the diverse community surrounding the USC University Park campus. 

University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX
$20,000
To support Shakespeare at Winedale Outreach. Students in grades three through six will participate in a year-long exploration of Shakespeare's language, stories, and characters.

University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT
$58,000
To support the Side-by-Side Teacher Training Residency. Students in kindergarten through sixth grades and their teachers will acquire and practice dance skills on a weekly basis through in-school residencies and professional development workshops for teachers.

Unusual Suspects Theatre Co.
Culver City, CA
$50,000
To support theater arts education workshops. Teenage youth will participate in a series of master classes led by professional screenwriters.

Virginia Avenue Project
Santa Monica, CA
$25,000
To support the writing and performing programs, One-on-One and Three-on-Three. Area youth will connect with professional artists through activities such as mentoring, workshops, a summer camp, and public performances.

Walden School, Ltd. (aka The Walden School)
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
To support the Composition Immersion Course. A five-week summer music program for 9-to 18-year old students will include daily classes in musicianship, composition, individual tutoring, and interaction with resident guest composers and musicians, leading to performances of original student compositions. 

Walker Art Center, Inc. (Consortium)
Minneapolis, MN
$25,000
To support Art Today and Tomorrow, a visual arts education program. In collaboration with the Minneapolis Public Schools, the program will provide opportunities for teachers to incorporate concepts and practices of contemporary artists into their teaching and integrated arts curriculum.

Washington Ballet
Washington, DC
$22,000
To support dance education programs at the Town Hall Education Arts and Recreation Campus (THEARC) in Southeast Washington, DC. Known as the neighborhood of Anacostia, this area of Washington is a historically underserved area of the city where more than 8,000 of the city's youth reside.

Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts (aka Watershed)
Newcastle, ME
$23,000
To support the MudMobile, a van comprising a mobile ceramics gallery and resource center. The traveling services will include visits to as many as 24 schools throughout Maine in support of ceramics workshops at elementary and middle schools and artist residencies in four rural high schools.

Webster University (on behalf of Community Music School)
St. Louis, MO
$10,000
To support the Pre-College Student Preparatory Program (PREP). Focusing on chamber music, the program includes music instruction, performance opportunities, and artistic mentoring for middle and high school students.

Westfield Young Artists' Cooperative Theatre, Inc.
Westfield, NJ
$45,000
To support the summer performing arts program. Aspiring young actors, dancers, and musicians will be immersed in a professional-level rehearsal and performance process that will culminate in the premiere of Midnight Madness, a new musical based on Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream.

Williams College (Consortium)
Williamstown, MA
$25,000
To support Kidspace, a visual arts education project. Designed in partnership with the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (Mass MoCA), the program offers students the opportunity to study and make visual art under the direction of professional artists and provides teachers the opportunity to attend numerous training workshops.

Winthrop University (Consortium)
Rock Hill, SC
$20,000
To support the Arts in Basic Curriculum (ABC) Project Regional Outreach Network. In partnership with the South Carolina Arts Commission (as well as the South Carolina State Department of Education), a network of Regional Outreach Consultants will offer professional development to improve the quality of arts programming in underserved schools.

WNYC Radio
New York, NY
$10,000
To support Radio Rookies, a media arts education program. Open to young people from across New York City's five boroughs, the program will provide training in all aspects of radio production.

Working Classroom, Inc.
Albuquerque, NM
$40,000
To support the Multicultural Street Conservatory. The project will provide year-round, tuition-free visual arts and theater education to youth ages 12-18.

Working Playground, Inc.
New York, NY
$54,000
To support My Medium, My Message. The project will provide foundational design experiences in the fields of animation, film, digital photography, and music production for students at the New Design High School.

Writers In the Schools
Houston, TX
$55,000
To support WITS Impact: Creative Writing for Teachers and Students. Professional writers will provide in-service training for teachers and year-long, creative writing workshops for students in elementary and middle school classrooms.

Wu Yee Children's Services (aka Chinatown Beacon Center) (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support Blasted By Culture. In partnership with Chinatown Youth Development Network, the project will provide opportunities for children to learn theatrical singing and movement from the Huangmei, Beijing, and Kunqu styles of Chinese opera as well as traditional Japanese singing, dancing, and drumming.

Xavier University of Louisiana
New Orleans, LA
$15,000
To support the Mardi Gras Indian Arts Summer School. Big Chief Darryl Montana of the Yellow Pocahontas Mardi Gras Indians (who is the son of NEA National Heritage Fellow Allison Tootie Montana) and Big Chief Larry Bannock of the Golden Star Hunters Mardi Gras Indians will teach youth (ages 11 to 14) the rich history and visual traditions of the Mardi Gras Indian art of masking.

Yolo County Arts Council
Woodland, CA
$20,000
To support Storytelling through Art, an artist residency program. Professional artists will provide ongoing instruction in drawing, ceramics, painting, and dance for underserved youth in kindergarten through sixth grades.

Young Audiences of Indiana, Inc. (Consortium)
Indianapolis, IN
$15,000
To support Young-at-Arts, a multidisciplinary arts education program.  In partnership with the Day Nursery Association of Indianapolis, the project will provide age-appropriate arts activities for children (ages 3 to 6) and professional development training for their teachers.  

Young Audiences of New Jersey Inc.
Princeton, NJ
$50,000
To support Pixel Nation, a media arts education project. 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 art-making.

Young Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Detroit
Detroit, MI
$20,000
To support Fresh Eyes. Local professional artists will teach writing, video-making, visual and performing arts at a weekend arts camp and in year-round workshops for children and youth, ages 11 to 17, living in metropolitan Detroit.

Young Musicians Foundation
Beverly Hills, CA
$15,000
To support the Mentor Artists Program. Mentor music artists will provide individual and ensemble instrumental music instruction during 32-week school residencies in Los Angeles County schools.

Young People's Chorus of New York City, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the Partner Schools Program. At-risk students, ages 8 to 18, will participate in after-school choral music education activities.

Youth Ensemble of Atlanta
Atlanta, GA
$25,000
To support the Workshop Training Program. Youth will audition to participate in beginning, intermediate, and advanced-level classes in music, dance, theater, creative writing, and storytelling.

Youth in Focus
Seattle, WA
$33,000
To support the Core Curriculum Photography Classes program. Underserved high school students will work with professional artists after-school and during summer months to improve their proficiency in photography.

YS Kids Playhouse
Yellow Springs, OH
$18,000
To support a summer theater arts program. Led by local, national, and international artists, students will write, produce, and perform two full-scale summer dramatic performances.

Number of Grants: 216          Total Amount: $6,790,000

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