2004 Grant Awards: Challenge America: Access to the Arts (Standard Review)

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

ALASKA

Alaska Design Forum, Inc.
Anchorage, AK
$21,000
To support a lecture series on the built environment with internationally recognized architects and designers. Lectures will be presented in Anchorage, Fairbanks, and Juneau, and current and past lectures will be made available through a mobile design library.

Alaska Junior Theater, Inc.
Anchorage, AK
$10,000
To support the Arts Outreach Program. The project presents performing arts programming to underserved children and families in Anchorage, Kenai, Barrow, Bethel, and other rural Alaskan communities.

Anchorage Opera Company
Anchorage, AK
$12,500
To support the Summer Opera Camp, a tour, and residencies in communities throughout Alaska. During a 13-week fall residency, Studio Theatre artists will tour to Barrow, to an Inupiaq village, and to the North Slope of Alaska.

Fairbanks Symphony Association, Inc.
Fairbanks, AK
$5,000
To support an Alaskan tour by the Arctic Chamber Orchestra. As the touring ensemble of the Fairbanks Symphony, the chamber orchestra will perform in remote and underserved areas of Alaska.

ARIZONA

Arizona Opera Company
Phoenix, AZ
$10,000
To support Opera Briefs, an in-school program that will be presented throughout Arizona. The seven-week tour will feature a condensed, 45-minute, English version of Rossini's La Cenerentola.

Arizona State University (on behalf of Bilingual Review Press)
Tempe, AZ
$10,000
To support the expansion of the press's distribution list to include all titles published by Latin American Literary Review Press. Bilingual Review Press will mail its distribution catalog to more than 20,000 individuals and institutions.

Arizona Theatre Company (consortium)
Tucson, AZ
$15,000
To support a consortium project that will increase access to and appreciation of theater by underserved young people and adults in communities near the Arizona/Mexico border. Young Audiences of Santa Cruz will coordinate and promote the theater's services through schools and local community organizations.

Dine be iina, Inc.
Ganado, AZ
$20,000
To support the Sheep Is Life Cultural Development Project focused on the distinct Dinée (Navajo) rug weaving tradition. This initiative will include public programming, technical assistance to artists, and the development of strategies to assure that appropriate weaving materials and supplies are maintained.

Phoenix Art Museum
Phoenix, AZ
$30,000
To support a multimedia advertising campaign designed to reach Phoenix's Latino community through consistent television, radio, and print advertising in Hispanic media. The project will target the city's Hispanic population, estimated at 825,000 people, the ninth largest Hispanic market in the United States.

Phoenix Symphony Association (consortium)
Phoenix, AZ
$25,000
To support One Nation, a consortium project of education programs for the local Native American community. The Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community (aka the Salt River Community Schools) in Scottsdale will partner with the symphony to expand outreach efforts and increase the number of private music lessons offered.

Tucson Symphony Society (consortium)
Tucson, AZ
$20,000
To support the Southern Arizona Residency, a consortium project with the Bisbee Council on the Arts and Humanities. The project will consist of an educational component and a public concert in five rural communities in southern Arizona.

ARKANSAS

Arkansas Arts Center Foundation
Little Rock, AR
$25,000
To support the Artmobile project. The Artmobile travels an art exhibition drawn from the museum's permanent collection to more than 100 rural communities throughout Arkansas and reaches more than 90,000 people.

Arkansas Repertory Theatre Company
Little Rock, AR
$30,000
To support free, outdoor performances of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing in state parks throughout Arkansas. Prior to the performances, the theater will work closely with participating communities to offer workshops for local residents focused on the language and themes of Shakespeare's plays.

Writers' Colony at Dairy Hollow, Inc.
Eureka Springs, AR
$5,000
To support readings and workshops throughout Arkansas with the colony's writers in residence. The colony will partner with senior centers, schools, museums, cultural centers, and social service agencies to reach an estimated audience of 4,500 in underserved communities.

CALIFORNIA

509 Cultural Center
San Francisco, CA
$12,000
To support free arts programming in a low-income neighborhood. The project will feature outdoor performances, visual arts exhibitions, and the two-day 10th annual In the Street Theater Festival.

Act One, Inc.
Hollywood, CA
$10,000
To support the TV Track Curriculum. The workshop will focus on the specific requirements of screenwriting for television programs.

American Film Institute, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
To support the Directing Workshop for Women. Each year, the program provides individuals with the necessary skills and portfolios to enter the directing field.

Antenna Theater, Inc.
Sausalito, CA
$10,000
To support the High School Project. The project will consist of on-site residencies in which company artists, in collaboration with students and teachers, will create a 40-minute walk-through performance unique to each school location.

Arab American Congress of Silicon Valley
San Jose, CA
$5,000
To support the eighth annual Arab Film Festival. Held in venues in San Francisco, Berkeley, and San Jose, the festival will showcase independent filmmakers working with Arab themes.

Art Re Grup, Inc. (consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the consortium project Wunderkabinet, a large-scale interdisciplinary musical production and gallery installation. The work will be developed by composer and sound artist Pamela Z and media artists Jeanne Finley and John Muse.

Arts Center Foundation
El Cajon, CA
$10,000
To support the Plug into Arts Program. Designed to reach students ages seven to 18 throughout East County, San Diego, the program will provide performances and workshops through week-long residencies at more than 38 schools.

Arts Council Silicon Valley
San Jose, CA
$32,000
To support the Community Arts Fund (CAF) grant program. Now in its 14th year, CAF promotes multicultural diversity of Santa Clara County's arts community and extends these resources to audiences throughout the region.

ARTScorpsLA
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
To support the presentation of the Templo Verde Laboratory, a community public art project by artists Mel Chin and Tricia Ward. Working with the Temple-Beaudry community, participants will create a soil remediation/environmental art project on land donated by the Manley Oil Company, which still operates oil wells in the neighborhood.

Asian Improv aRts (consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the fifth annual Asian Pacific American Arts and Heritage Festival. The multidisciplinary and multi-venue festival is a consortium effort with the Japanese Cultural and Community Center of Northern California.

Autry Museum of Western Heritage
Los Angeles, CA
$32,000
To support Native Voices at the Autry, a multi-year theater initiative to develop and present new work for the stage by Native-American writers. Activities will include an annual young playwrights workshop, staged readings, play development support for three Native American writers, a 10-day writers retreat, and the production of a new play.

California Indian Storytelling Association
Fremont, CA
$25,000
To support the Storytelling Festivals 2004/05: Building Cultural Bridges--Continuing the Dialogue. The forums will bring together storytellers from California, Hawaii, Arizona, and Oregon, to meet and share their stories, discuss issues, and pass stories onto new generations as they educate the public.

California Shakespeare Festival
Berkeley, CA
$15,000
To support a grassroots new play development project involving community organizations and residents of Oakland, California. With playwright Naomi Iizuka and San Francisco's Campo Santo Theatre Collective, the project will develop and produce a new theater piece.

California Traditional Music Society
Tarzana, CA
$10,000
To support the Folk Music in the Schools Program. Activities include interactive and educational performances by master folk musicians, dancers and storytellers.

Cazadero Performing Arts Camp (consortium)
Berkeley, CA
$10,000
To support Jumpstart in Music, a consortium project. In collaboration with the Berkeley Unified School District, middle school music students will be offered a three-day weekend retreat of music instruction.

Chinese Cultural Productions
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support dance performances and outreach activities. The performances will combine traditional Chinese dance and music with contemporary American stagecraft, and outreach activities will include master classes, in-school assembly performance demonstrations, post-performance discussions, and community forums.

City of San Diego, California
San Diego, CA
$15,000
To support the Folk and Traditional Arts Program (FTAP) Web Site Project. The project will promote and build public awareness of folk and traditional artists in the San Diego area, and provide artists with access to resources and artists' networks that will enhance their professional capacity.

Cornerstone Theater Company
Los Angeles, CA
$45,000
To support the fifth project in the Faith Based Theater Cycle. Cornerstone, in consortium with East West Players of Los Angeles, will collaborate with the South Asian Hindu community to develop and present a new theater work.

Creative Growth, Inc.
Oakland, CA
$35,000
To support Margins and Mainstreams: Outsider and Disability Art Today. The project will include a series of arts workshops for adults with disabilities, a visiting artist program, an exhibition series, an updated media campaign, and a public symposium accompanied by a catalog.

Developmental Disabilities Service Organization, Inc.
Sacramento, CA
$20,000
To support Short Center Repertory, the Mural Project, and Project Reach In. Each project will create public accessibility to the art of people with developmental disabilities.

Dimensions Dance Theater, Inc.
Oakland, CA
$10,000
To support a free dance program for children, youths, and young adults. In the City/Rites of Passage provides dance education and training in a variety of styles, taught by professional dancers. The project is targeted to youth, ages 8 to 20, from lower-income families living in Oakland and the East Bay.

East Bay Center for the Performing Arts
Richmond, CA
$38,000
To support Call and Response and a series of special performance events. Nine multicultural resident dance, music, and theater companies will perform at San Francisco Bay Area sites.

East Los Angeles Classic Theatre
Monterey Park, CA
$20,000
To support the John Anson Ford Family Series. The company will present a new adaptation by Tony Plana of a play by William Shakespeare with original music by Joey Arreguin and choreography by Tonyo Melendez.

Ford Theatre Foundation
Hollywood, CA
$20,000
To support the Latino Audience Initiative (LAI). The project will explore programming, marketing, and audience development strategies intended to increase Latino participation and access to performing arts programs.

Galeria/Studio 24
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support development and presentation of an online record of Galeria de la Raza's exhibitions from its inception in 1970. The project is a major component of Galeria's 35th anniversary, celebrating its contributions to contemporary Latino art and culture.

Grand Performances
Los Angeles, CA
$30,000
To support the presentation of traditional and contemporary performing arts of Central Asia. Focusing on geographically themed, intergenerational, and intercultural programming, performances will include local and touring artists from Iran, Armenia, India, Pakistan, and Turkey.

Great Leap, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
To support To All Relations. The community residency project will involve story gathering, workshops, and performances in cooperation with Japanese-American, Mexican-American, and American-Muslim museums.

Henry Mancini Institute
Culver City, CA
$25,000
To support the Summer Concert Series and Community Combos. The Summer Concert Series will take place at Royce Hall, University of California in Los Angeles; Community Combos performances will take place in museums, parks, senior and community centers, and other Los Angeles venues.

Hmong Cultural Arts, Crafts, Teaching & Museum Projects
Sacramento, CA
$10,000
To support an after-school program of instruction in Hmong pa dao embroidery, kheng music, and Hmong traditional folk dances. The program is offered to youths who live in a disadvantaged area.

Imagination Workshop, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$8,000
To support the Artists Communicating Theater Program, a series of playwriting and improvisational workshops for students with disabilities. University of California Los Angeles' Neuropsychiatric Institute and several Los Angeles, Santa Monica, and Malibu schools will participate.

Japanese American Cultural and Community Center
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
To support the Silver Season and additional core programs. Performances, exhibitions, and events will commemorate the center's 25th anniversary.

L.A. Theatre Works
Venice, CA
$39,500
To support the expansion of the Alive and Aloud and Library Access national outreach programs. The project will include the production of, and curriculum development for, an audio play based on Oedipus the King.

La Pena Cultural Center
Berkeley, CA
$35,000
To support Mujeres, a series of performances and conversations featuring female artists of different generations and cultures. Artists will perform music and dance rooted in traditional African-American and Latin-American folklore, as well as contemporary works of jazz, spoken-word, and hip-hop.

Los Angeles Chamber Singers, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$25,000
To support performances and a recording project. Activities will include performances of concert programs in new venues and the recording of music by Juan Gutierrez de Padilla.

Madera County Arts Council
Madera, CA
$15,000
To support a cultural needs assessment to identify the needs and interests of the Latino population. The goal of this project, undertaken in partnership with Latinas Unidas, is to expand and diversify the audience for Madera County Arts Council programs, particularly among the local Latino population.

Mindanao Lilang-Lilang (on behalf of Palabuniyan Kulintang Ensemble)
Daly City, CA
$20,000
To support the Palabuniyan Kulintang Ensemble tour. The project will consist of a series of kulintang music and dance concerts and workshops.

MoveSpeakSpin
Santa Cruz, CA
$10,000
To support a residency project interweaving dance, mathematics, and science. The residencies will take place in Honolulu, Hawaii; Cincinnati, Ohio; and Thousand Oaks, California.

National Federation of Community Broadcasters, Inc.
Oakland, CA
$15,000
To support radio production workshops for adults and high school students. Training will take place during the 2004 Community Radio Conference and the National Youth in Radio Training Project Conference, which will be held simultaneously in Albuquerque, N.M.

Project Bandaloop (consortium)
Oakland, CA
$10,000
To support a consortium project with Myrna Loy Center/Helena Presents to present a new work titled Portal. The aerial dance work will be based on the Lewis & Clark expedition and will be presented in Helena, Montana, and Portland, Oregon.

Regents of the University of California at Berkeley (consortium) (on behalf of Cal Performances)
Berkeley, CA
$20,000
To support a consortium project for the Berkeley/Oakland AileyCamp. Cal Performances will partner with the Berkeley Unified School District to offer dance workshops for underserved youths.

Richmond Art Center (on behalf of Quilt of Many Colors)
Richmond, CA
$12,000
To support the Quilt of Many Colors Project, a series of curated exhibitions installed in the waiting room of Richmond's main public health facility. The project will promote the value of the arts in the healing process and provide access to art for approximately 15,000 users of the facility per year.

San Diego Symphony Orchestra Association
San Diego, CA
$10,000
To support free outdoor summer concerts. The San Diego Symphony, under newly appointed music director Jahja Ling, will perform in numerous venues throughout San Diego County.

ShadowLight Productions
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support an extended outreach program. The project will include the development of a quarterly online newsletter, an upgraded Web site, in-school workshops, and the engagement of a full-time outreach coordinator.

Shakespeare Festival/LA, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
To support free performances of Henry V during the 19th annual Summer Festival in Los Angeles's Pershing Square. The company plans to increase the size and diversity of audiences attending the performances by targeting residents of downtown Los Angeles and several disenfranchised and underserved populations.

Sierra Repertory Theatre, Inc.
Sonora, CA
$8,000
To support School-Family Theater Nights, a program designed to increase family and youth participation in the theater's activities. The company will expand the program to provide opportunities to underserved families, target new schools, and provide family discussion guides to enhance the experience of seeing a production.

Tenants and Owners Development Corporation (on behalf of Sixth Street Photography Workshop)
San Francisco, CA
$23,000
To support production, installation, touring, and a catalog for Stories of the City. The photography exhibit will feature the work of artists who are homeless.

Yerba Buena Arts & Events
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support Yerba Buena Dance Week at Yerba Buena Gardens. The project will include the Yerba Buena Choreographers Festival for local choreographers, a Butoh performance, and a performance by an American dance company.

COLORADO

ArtReach, Inc.
Denver, CO
$10,000
To support the Community Events program. The project will provide access to year-round arts and cultural performances, exhibitions, and workshops to disadvantaged children, adults, families, and elderly people in the Denver metropolitan community.

Crestone Performances, Inc.
Crestone, CO
$7,500
To support the Crestone Music Festival. The three-day event will include music by an Irish fiddler, taiko drummers, an a cappella vocal group that performs a variety of musical styles, a Middle Eastern instrumental ensemble, and a mariachi group.

Frequent Flyers Productions, Inc.
Boulder, CO
$10,000
To support the Aerial Dance Festival 2004. The project will include classes, workshops, and performances.

National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (consortium)
Erie, CO
$34,600
To support a consortium project for planning and implementation of the annual conference of the nation's oldest and largest professional service organization for the ceramic arts. Centering: Community, Clay, and Culture will include a series of exhibitions, critical lectures, panels, and workshop demonstrations in coordination with Baltimore Clayworks.

CONNECTICUT

Artists Collective, Inc.
Hartford, CT
$15,000
To support Rite of Passage. The project will include workshops, residencies, and intergenerational activities about the arts of the African diaspora.

Real Art Ways, Inc. (consortium)
Hartford, CT
$28,000
To support a consortium project, Acting on Faith. In partnership with the Hartford Seminary, the multidisciplinary series will feature an exhibition, concerts, films, spoken-word events, and panel discussions.

DELAWARE

Christina Cultural Arts Center, Inc.
Wilmington, DE
$10,000
To support Brownie, Mary Lou, Trane & Me, a jazz education project for children. Elementary and middle school students living in underserved urban areas of Wilmington will participate in the 25-week program.

Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Inc.
Wilmington, DE
$20,000
To support a series of community-based artist residencies and a documentary catalog. The artists will collaborate with community groups to create work based on ideas and issues relevant to the participants' lives.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Andrew Cacho African Drummers & Dancers Economic Development, Inc.
Washington, DC
$10,000
To support the Youthworks 2004 project. Training will be provided in African-Caribbean dancing, drumming, stiltwalking, and masquerades.

Cultural Landscape Foundation
Washington, DC
$22,000
To support an interactive, Web-based teaching tool on modern landscape architecture. Preeminent, private postwar gardens will be made accessible through filmed interviews with the designers, historic and contemporary photographs, and archival material.

Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz
Washington, DC
$50,000
To support Jazz in America: The National Jazz Curriculum. The free, Internet-based curriculum will teach the history and development of jazz in the United States.

Washington Chorus, Inc.
Washington, DC
$15,000
To support an outreach and education program. Activities will include free concerts for the elderly, school choir workshops, sign language interpretation, and distribution of free concert tickets to young people throughout the Washington area.

Young Playwrights' Theater, Inc.
Washington, DC
$18,000
To support the Youth to Dare Tour. The project is a month-long tour of as many as nine plays written by middle and high school students.

FLORIDA

M Ensemble Company, Inc.
Miami, FL
$11,000
To support the development and production of a new theater work. The company will present Our Short Stay, written and directed by Carlton and Barbara Molette, to underserved audiences in Miami's historical Overtown community.

Miami Children's Museum
Miami, FL
$20,000
To support an Artist-in-Residence Program. The project will target more than 7,000 children and their families from Miami's low-income communities. The museum will work with two nationally known artists, who will serve as residents for 18 months each.

Miami Hispanic Ballet, Inc.
Miami, FL
$10,000
To support the IX International Ballet Festival of Miami. The festival includes open rehearsals, workshops and master classes, a lecture, a film series, and dance performances. More than 90 dancers will participate, representing dance companies from 13 countries in Europe, as well as North, Central, and South America.

Orlando Museum of Art
Orlando, FL
$20,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of pictorial photographer Anne Brigman (1869-1950), with accompanying catalog and education programs. Brigman sought to explore the artistic potential of photography, creating images that captured the artist's imaginative vision rather than a literal record of the natural world.

Orlando Theatre Project, Inc.
Sanford, FL
$10,000
To support an intergenerational theater program that connects low-income senior volunteers with underserved teens to create an interactive theater piece addressing social issues. The completed production will tour to schools and community centers in central Florida.

Pinellas County Arts Council
Clearwater, FL
$70,000
To support the consortium project, Youth Arts Corps. In partnership with the City of St. Petersburg, this arts-based youth development program provides after-school and summer programs for youth eight to 17 and places professional artists in juvenile justice and community-based settings within Pinellas County.

Sarasota Season of Sculpture, Inc.
Sarasota, FL
$35,000
To support an outdoor sculpture exhibition featuring large-scale works by international artists. The exhibition, to be held in a bay-front park, will be curated by a selection committee comprised of artists Bruce White, Terrence Karpowicz, and Dwight Rose; and architects Charles Kuykendall and Jill Kaplan.

Tigertail Productions, Inc. (consortium)
Miami, FL
$10,000
To support a consortium project for a series of performances, workshops, panels, and symposia exploring and promoting dance for people with disabilities. DanceAbleV will take place in collaboration with the Florida Dance Festival.

GEORGIA

Alternate ROOTS, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$35,000
To support the Tour/Residency Program. The multi-state project will provide services that will enable geographically isolated artists and presenters to reach broader audiences, share information, and develop new work.

Augusta Opera Association
Augusta, GA
$10,000
To support the Outreach Program. Performances will be held in a variety of venues including middle and high schools, assisted living homes, and senior citizen centers throughout the Central Savannah River area. The company will partner with school systems in the area to expose students to the art of opera.

Ballethnic Dance Company, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$10,000
To support outreach performances, lecture demonstrations, and workshops in dance. The project will reach schools, a detention center, and community centers. Activities will be conducted by Ballethnic Dance Company members, as well as by participants in the Danseur Development Project, a program for young men, ages 6 to 21.

Colquitt Miller Arts Council (consortium)
Colquitt, GA
$25,000
To support the consortium Art with Heart project. Working in partnership with the Miller County Hospital/Nursing Home, students will be trained by local art instructors in various art forms such as weaving, basketry, quilting, painting and drawing, and will then work with nursing home residents and hospital patients to create community art projects.

Macon Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Macon, GA
$10,000
To support performances of works by African-American composers in observance of Black History Month. The Macon Symphony, under the artistic leadership of music director Adrian Gnam, will perform concerts at the Grand Opera House and Ft. Valley State University.

Phoenix Theatre Academy, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$22,000
To support the tour of the Academy Theatre for Youth's Artists-In-Schools Team. The ensemble will develop original, curriculum-based, issue-oriented plays to tour to schools and youth organizations throughout the Southeast.

Robert W. Woodruff Arts Center, Inc. (on behalf of Atlanta Symphony Orchestra)
Atlanta, GA
$40,000
To support ASO Around Georgia, a community partnership initiative. The tour will include performances and outreach activities as a means to cultivate meaningful partnerships with communities across the state.

Robert W. Woodruff Arts Center, Inc. (consortium) (on behalf of Alliance Theatre Company)
Atlanta, GA
$30,000
To support a consortium presentation of a theater series that will expose Atlanta audiences to theater companies and playwrights in a variety of styles of work. In partnership with the Jewish Theatre of the South Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta, the Alliance Theatre Company will present the work of four small Atlanta theater companies in City Series II.

HAWAII

Kalihi-Palama Culture & Arts Society, Inc.
Honolulu, HI
$10,000
To support training in traditional and contemporary art. Classes include Hawaiian, Polynesian, Okinawan, Filipino and Samoan dance; Samoan crafts; and ceramics.

Maui Community Arts & Cultural Center
Kahului, HI
$30,000
To support a presenting and residency series. The project will highlight Hawaiian-based music, dance events, and traditional storytelling.

National Organization for Traditional Artists Exchange
Honolulu, HI
$25,000
To support a folklorist position and related costs. Responsibilities include coordination of concerts, exhibitions, workshops, and fieldwork documenting traditional artists to be showcased on the Pacific Visions radio series.

Pacific Islanders in Communications
Honolulu, HI
$7,000
To support the Community Media Workshop. To be held in July 2004, the workshop will train participants in various digital media production skills.

IDAHO

Festival Dance & Performing Arts Association, Inc.
Moscow, ID
$9,000
To support the Festival Dance Youthreach Project. Touring professional dance companies provide free performances and master classes to students in north central Idaho and eastern Washington.

Idaho Shakespeare Festival
Boise, ID
$18,000
To support the Rural Outreach Project, a program touring Shakespeare productions with related educational programming for kindergarten through 12th-grade students in four states. The program consists of two components, Shakespearience and Idaho Theater for Youth.

Opera Idaho, Inc.
Boise, ID
$10,000
To support performances of Guiseppe Verdi's La Traviata. In collaboration with the Rimrock Opera Company, the project will present the production to artistically underserved populations in Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming.

ILLINOIS

Art Institute of Chicago (on behalf of Video Data Bank)
Chicago, IL
$39,500
To support the transfer of works in the videotape collection from analog to digital Betacam format. The transfer will facilitate distribution on DVD and allow the titles to be viewed through video streaming on the Web.

Centers for New Horizons, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$5,000
To support an instruction series in Afro-Caribbean, jazz, and hip-hop dance as well as African drumming. Activities are designed to increase self-esteem, develop discipline, and provide support and guidance for youth, ages six to17, while introducing them to participatory performance via dance and musical instruction.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater
Chicago, IL
$25,000
To support Team Shakespeare, a community-based, educational initiative that makes Shakespeare accessible to area students and teachers. The program features a series of designated student performances of full-length Shakespeare productions as well as an abridged touring production.

Classical Symphony Orchestra
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support free concerts by advanced student training orchestras. The Classical Symphony Orchestra, comprised of graduate and undergraduate college students, and the high school students of the Protege Philharmonic will perform concerts in the Preston Bradley Hall at the Chicago Cultural Center.

Illinois Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Springfield, IL
$10,000
To support the Music in the Parks series. The free concerts will occur in three rural Illinois communities during the 2004 Labor Day weekend. The concerts will include special activities for children and will attracted an estimated audience of 7,000.

Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support a consortium project titled the Community Change Handbook and a mosaic mural project. The project, which is intended to reach young people and involve them in positive community changes through the arts, will be carried out by the museum's subsidiary, the Yollocalli Youth Museum, and Little Black Pearl Workshop, a local African-American arts institution.

Music Theatre Workshop
Chicago, IL
$8,000
To support a performing arts and youth development program. The West Pullman Community Arts Project will use playwriting and performance training to expose underserved youths and community members to professional artists and performing experiences and train them to be leaders in their community.

Najwa
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support Cultural Empowerment Through Dance. The project will offer classes, workshops, lecture-demonstrations, and performances in dance and music to both youth and adults. Classes in African dance, drums, spoken-word/poetry, and jewelry making will be offered to youths, while seniors on Chicago's Westside will have the opportunity to see dance performances.

Neighborhood Writing Alliance
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support writing workshops, discussions, seminars, and the exchange of oral histories on the topic of work throughout underserved communities of Chicago. Stories and student writing will be featured in a special issue of the Journal of Ordinary Thought.

Quad City Arts, Inc.
Rock Island, IL
$35,000
To support the Visiting Artists Series. The project is a performing arts residency program that brings artists of national acclaim to a six-county region within Illinois and Iowa, with performances held in traditional and non-traditional venues, including factories, small businesses.

Redmoon Theater
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support a spectacle-based theater production. In collaboration with community participants, Redmoon Theater will produce the Winter Pageant, a family-oriented community theater event to celebrate the changing of the seasons and the coming of winter.

Rockford Area Arts Council
Rockford, IL
$10,000
To support artists' fees for the ArtsPlace Open House. The project will feature visual arts exhibits and performances as part of an outreach effort by ArtsPlace, an arts job-training program for Rockford teens.

Sherwood Conservatory of Music
Chicago, IL
$25,000
To support music education for underserved communities. The project will offer comprehensive programs of instruction and performance in two neighborhoods of Chicago's South Side.

Southwestern Illinois College
Belleville, IL
$15,000
To support a consortium project to expand arts programming for Kids Club, which provides day care services for children of the students, faculty, and staff of the college. In partnership with Southwestern Illinois College Foundation, the project will include artist-led workshops, field trips, exhibitions, and art projects.

YMCA of the USA
Chicago, IL
$40,000
To support the YMCA National Readings Tour and the YMCA National Writers Community. The tour will link local writers with nationally recognized writers for readings in communities such as Detroit, Phoenix, Tampa, Syracuse, Cheyenne, and Billings.

INDIANA

Fischoff Chamber Music Association, Inc.
Notre Dame, IN
$10,000
To support the Arts-in-Education Residency Program. Week-long residencies are planned with the Marian Anderson String Quartet, Quintet Attacca, Corky Siegel's Chamber Blues, and the grand prize-winning ensemble of the 2004 Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition.

IOWA

Iowa Arts Council
Des Moines, IA
$20,000
To support Cultural Express: Traditional Arts on Tour. The project will consist of exhibitions and programs featuring traditional artists in Iowa libraries and museums, supplemented by exhibits, resource lists, press kits, and activity kits for pre-program presentations.

KANSAS

University of Kansas Center for Research, Inc. (consortium) (on behalf of Lied Center of Kansas)
Lawrence, KS
$15,000
To support a consortium project for the creation and premiere of a new work for string quartet by composer Dan Coleman. In celebration of the 150th anniversary of the opening of the Kansas-Nebraska Territory, the Lied Center of Kansas and the Lied Center of Nebraska will present the Cypress String Quartet in six community residencies.

KENTUCKY

Appalshop, Inc.
Whitesburg, KY
$10,000
To support a new initiative, the Learning Center. The program will encourage community participation in the distribution of media art works in the Appalachian region, by sending six media artists to community centers, high schools, and colleges with their film and video projects.

Appalshop, Inc. (on behalf of WMMT-FM)
Whitesburg, KY
$15,000
To support a series of community-based radio broadcasts, which will air traditional music and stories. Based in eastern Kentucky, WMMT-FM serves a rural regional audience with historically strong ties to Appalachian musical traditions.

Kentucky Center for the Arts Endowment Fund, Inc.
Louisville, KY
$12,000
To support increased statewide outreach efforts. The project will make the arts more accessible to people with disabilities by supporting three performing arts centers to develop alternative format materials.

Lexington Philharmonic Society Inc.
Lexington, KY
$10,000
To support concerts in rural and inner-city communities as well as educational concerts for children and families. Activities will include ensemble concerts for families; instrument "petting zoos" in schools, public parks, and businesses; and outreach concerts in rural Kentucky communities and inner-city Lexington.

Portland Museum, Inc.
Louisville, KY
$12,000
To support story-based community performance with residents and professional artists in underserved communities. The project incorporates arts-based planning, professional performance, training, workshops, and community performance to advance the museum's new cultural plan.

LOUISIANA

Bayou Civic Club, Inc.
Larose, LA
$10,000
To support a folklorist position and related costs. Activities will include programming; technical assistance; and documentation of maritime traditions, craft skills, Cajun music, and Native American dance traditions along Bayou Lafourche.

New Orleans Ballet Association (consortium)
New Orleans, LA
$20,000
To support a consortium project to present Ronald K. Brown/Evidence in an extended dance residency. New Orleans Ballet Association and Southern University at New Orleans will engage the company for two weeks and offer residency activities such as workshops, master classes, lecture-demonstrations, humanities discussions, a student performance, and public performances.

New Orleans Center for Creative Arts Institute
New Orleans, LA
$25,000
To support the Artist in Residence Program. The project will support 150 master classes by professional artists for inner-city youth and faculty.

Performing Arts Society of Acadiana, Inc.
Lafayette, LA
$10,000
To support BRAVO! Building Relationships, Awareness, Visibility, and Opportunities. BRAVO!showcases Asian Indian, Laotian, and Colombian cultures in the southwestern region of Louisiana through performances, master classes, and lecture-demonstrations.

Shreveport Opera
Shreveport, LA
$10,000
To support the production and tour of the opera Why Dinosaurs Don't Litter by Susan M. Yankee. Community performances will be accompanied by educational residencies in eight cities and underserved areas throughout Louisiana and East Texas.

Xavier University of Louisiana
New Orleans, LA
$22,000
To support Art & Community Development in the Crescent City. The project will implement and document three model efforts involving artists, community groups, and the development of small businesses.

Young Aspirations/Young Artists, Inc.
New Orleans, LA
$15,000
To support Inner City Threads: Storytelling Quilt, an arts apprenticeship program for high school youths. Guided by a guest fiber artist and a YA/YA alumni artist, the youth apprentices will work throughout the summer to create a mural reflecting the jazz traditions of New Orleans' historic Treme neighborhood.

MAINE

Arcady Music Society
Bar Harbor, ME
$15,000
Each residency will include as many as seven performance and educational events, culminating in a formal concert in each community. Concerts will take place in eight inland rural communities in northern, central, and southeastern Maine during the six-week festival.

Center for Cultural Exchange
Portland, ME
$30,000
To support a community programs director position and related costs. The director will oversee cultural initiatives and residencies with master artists; train and supervise staff and volunteer community coordinators; and conduct fieldwork among Maine's ethnic communities.

Cultural Resources, Inc.
Rockport, ME
$20,000
To support a folklorist position and related costs. Activities will include Web site development and fieldwork on the Kennebec-Chaudiere cultural trail.

Figures of Speech Theatre
Freeport, ME
$8,000
To support residencies by theater artists in four underserved counties of rural Maine. In each community, the theater will offer public and school performances using puppets, actors, shadows, movement, and masks to create original visual theater productions.

L. A. Public Theatre, Inc.
Auburn, ME
$10,000
To support a student matinee program, free theater, and youth internships. LA Public Theatre will provide access to the theater for a diverse and underserved population of children and adults in a largely rural and economically depressed region of Maine.

Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance
Brunswick, ME
$10,000
To support a series of free literary programs throughout the state. Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance will offer readings, workshops, open mike nights, and updated literary consultation services for writers, readers, and educators.

Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts
Newcastle, ME
$18,000
To support expansion of the services of MudMobile, a statewide traveling ceramics program in a van. The project will include the development and tour of a collection of ceramic works by Maine artists.

MARYLAND

Black Leadership Council for Excellence
Bryans Road, MD
$10,000
To support the Celebrations festivals and concerts. Major components of the event will be the Festival of the Americas, the Asian and Pacific Islands Festival, and the Juneteenth Festival of African-American cultures.

Children's Chorus of Maryland, Inc.
Towson, MD
$7,500
To support Community Outreach Concerts and the Maryland Children's Choral Festival. Activities will include concerts for rural populations in Maryland and a day-long festival showcasing 10 choirs from the Baltimore metropolitan area.

Magical Experiences Arts Company
Baltimore, MD
$6,000
To support a series of performances of Once Upon a Time, a celebration of storytelling in the company's 18th-anniversary season. Performances of the company's entire repertory will be presented through arts residencies at the Maryland School for the Blind and the Regional Institute for Children and Adolescents in Baltimore.

Station Resource Group, Inc. (consortium)
Takoma Park, MD
$20,000
To support a consortium project titled the Public Radio Exchange. A peer review process for audio pieces will be Internet-based and will link public radio stations, community stations, and independent producers for the digital distribution of radio content.

MASSACHUSETTS

Boston Lyric Opera Company
Boston, MA
$25,000
To support outdoor performances of Verdi's Aida. Two free performances of the opera, to be held on the Boston Common in fall 2005, will be accompanied by community programs designed specifically for young adults and professionals.

Cambridge Arts Council
Cambridge, MA
$25,000
To support Cambridge Public Arts ACTS. In partnership with the Underground Railway Theater, theatrical performances inspired by public artworks in Cambridge will be created to better acquaint the host communities with the artworks' significance.

DeCordova & Dana Museum & Park
Lincoln, MA
$20,000
To support the development of Sculpture on Site: Learning in 3-D, an online educators' resource for sculpture and the DeCordova Park. The project will provide educators with a site that presents cross-curricular lesson plans for elementary school students.

Huntington Theatre Company, Inc. (consortium)
Boston, MA
$10,000
To support consortium project STAGES III, Story Telling for the Ages. In partnership with the Boston Center for the Arts, Inc., the project will be the third iteration of a multigenerational, multidisciplinary oral history, performance, and visual arts project that captures the stories of youths and elders residing in Boston's diverse South End community.

Wang Center for the Performing Arts, Inc.
Boston, MA
$8,000
To support a consortium project that will bring a professional Shakespeare production to public parks in Greater Boston. The Wang Center's Tour of the Parks will feature Commonwealth Shakespeare Company's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Young at Heart Chorus, Inc.
Northampton, MA
$15,000
To support the creation of an original musical theater work. After 21 years of interpreting music from the 1930s to the 1990s, the Young at Heart Chorus will commission local rock musicians and songwriters to create a musical inspired by the life experiences of chorus members.

MICHIGAN

Artrain, Inc.
Ann Arbor, MI
$35,000
To support a tour of the exhibition Native Views: Influences of Modern Culture, with education and community outreach programs. Artrain will bring the exhibition to approximately 50 underserved communities in 25 states.

Brazeal Dennard Chorale
Detroit, MI
$25,000
To support the Bridging Voices of American History project. Members of the Brazeal Dennard Youth Chorale will perform spirituals for senior citizens in assisted living and nursing facilities and conduct video oral history interviews with the residents.

Detroit Institute of Arts
Detroit, MI
$40,000
To support the planning phase of the reinstallation of the African, Egyptian, Ancient Near Eastern, and Islamic galleries. The reinstallation will illuminate direct links between modern cultures and their ancient foundations.

Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Inc. (consortium)
Detroit, MI
$40,000
To support a consortium performance tour to Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Performances in six towns and cities will take place with tour coordination handled by the Dickinson County Council for the Arts.

Midland Center for the Arts, Inc.
Midland, MI
$20,000
To support the presentation of Egypt in the Age of the Pharaohs and Treasures of Ancient Nubia, exhibitions drawn from the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. The exhibitions will be enhanced by tours, lectures, and other education programs.

Mosaic Youth Theater of Detroit
Detroit, MI
$25,000
To support a training program for youths, an annual school tour, and the performance of an original play. The Mosaic Youth Ensemble Training Program will offer free after-school theater training and performance opportunities to talented students from diverse backgrounds.

Northwestern Michigan College Foundation (on behalf of Dennos Museum Center)
Traverse City, MI
$20,000
To support the presentation of American 18th- to 20th-century paintings from the collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA). The project is made possible due to major ongoing renovations at the DIA, which will close its American galleries until the fall of 2005.

Pine Mountain Music Festival, Inc.
Hancock, MI
$10,000
To support performances of Puccini's La Boheme and a tour by the Young Resident Artists. Performances will take place in Michigan's rural Upper Peninsula in Houghton at the Rozsa Center for the Performing Arts, a three-year-old, state-of-the-art production facility.

University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
Ann Arbor, MI
$35,000
To support a traveling exhibition and catalog featuring work by artist-soldiers from both sides of the Vietnam War. Project curators Sherry Buchanan and Nam Nguyen, working with Ned Broderick, Director of the National Vietnam Veteran's Art Museum in Chicago and Nguyen Toan Thi, Director of the Ho Chi Minh City Fine Arts Museum, will make selections for the exhibition.

Waterfront Festival
Saugatuck, MI
$10,000
To support the Waterfront Film Festival. More than 6,500 people will attend 60 screenings of independent films, both narrative and documentary, at the summer festival.

MINNESOTA

Children's Theatre Company and School
Minneapolis, MN
$25,000
To support the Write Now! program. The company will offer playwriting workshops to local seventh graders, in collaboration with A Center for the Arts in Fergus Falls, Minnesota. Aided by teaching artists, each student will create an original play.

College of Saint Benedict
St. Joseph, MN
$20,000
To support a residency by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. The project will include a new work co-commissioned by the College of Saint Benedict.

Interact Center for the Visual and Performing Arts
Minneapolis, MN
$12,000
To support visiting artists residencies for culturally diverse visual and performing artists. The collaboration will include workshops and a multidisciplinary project exploring the themes of imagination and memory.

Minnesota Chorale
Minneapolis, MN
$20,000
To support the annual Bridges outreach program. The project will present artistic collaborations titled Vox Pop, in celebration of the 10th anniversary of Bridges.

Stuart Pimsler Dance & Theater
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
To support the Working with Artists, Sharing the Healing symposium. The project will explore strategies for integrating the creative processes of dance and healing.

Ten Thousand Things
Minneapolis, MN
$15,000
To support the tour of a classic play. Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand will tour to low-income audiences in the Twin Cities.

MISSISSIPPI

Mississippi Opera Association, Inc.
Jackson, MS
$10,000
To support a staged production of The Gospel at Colonus, composed by Bob Telson and libretto written by Lee Breuer. Performance of the gospel oratorio will take place at Thalia Mara Hall in Jackson.

MISSOURI

Coterie, Inc.
Kansas City, MO
$10,000
To support the Dramatic AIDS Education Project in consortium with the University of Kansas Medical Center. The company will provide customized and culturally specific AIDS education performance workshops for teens in Missouri and Kansas.

Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey, Inc. (consortium)
Kansas City, MO
$40,000
To support a consortium project for a residency by Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey will collaborate with Kaw Valley Arts and Humanities to present the company in public and school performances, while offering a variety of residency activities in Kansas City.

Metro Theater Company (consortium)
St. Louis, MO
$25,000
To support a consortium project to develop, produce, and perform Earth Songs, an original theater piece for family audiences that celebrates community through the eyes of the Earth itself. The Maryville University School of Education will provide scientific and technical consulting to assist with the development of thematically related education programs.

Missouri Association of Community Arts Agencies
Columbia, MO
$18,000
To support the expansion and marketing of macaa.net. The Web site offers multiple types of information for arts organizations, individual artists, and rural audiences throughout Missouri.

Robert L. Reed Tap Heritage Institute
St. Louis, MO
$10,000
To support the St. Louis Tap Festival. The six-day event will showcase local, national, and internationally known tap artists in performances, and the festival will also offer training for student and professional dancers.

School of Service - Access Arts
Columbia, MO
$25,000
To support continued development of Access Arts, a program committed to artistic instruction for people of all ages, backgrounds, and economic levels. Access Arts activities reach beyond a 30-mile radius surrounding the Columbia, Mo. area.

St. Louis Black Repertory Company, Inc.
St. Louis, MO
$28,000
To support components of the company's Community and Education programs. The initiative includes a professional theater intern program, touring performances, student matinees, workshops, acting classes, and a summer theater camp.

That Uppity Theatre Company
St. Louis, MO
$10,000
To support a tour of theater works about the culture of disability to schools throughout St. Louis. The DisAbility Project is an ensemble of adults with and without disabilities that creates and performs original live theater to foster community awareness and dialogue about disability.

University of Missouri at Kansas City (on behalf of Center for Creative Studies)
Kansas City, MO
$15,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of American artists Jesse Howard (1885-1983) and Roger Brown (1941-97), with accompanying catalog and symposium. Signs, Wonders, and Reflections will explore the inspiration behind their work and the connections between their ideas.

West Plains Council on the Arts, Inc. (on behalf of The West Plains Council on the Arts)
West Plains, MO
$30,000
To support a folklorist position and related costs. The folklorist will work collaboratively to expand audiences for traditional artists, artforms, and folklife of the Ozark's region.

MONTANA

Alberta Bair Theater Corporation
Billings, MT
$10,000
To support Border Crossings: Celebrating the Cultural Diversity of the Americas. The performing arts series will feature Canadian and Latin-American dance, theater, and music and will include artist residencies as well as educational outreach activities in rural Montana.

Art Mobile of Montana
Dillon, MT
$12,000
To support Art Mobile, a traveling exhibition program featuring the work of Montana artists. A specially equipped van will travel throughout the state, providing access to original art works and art instruction for schools, nursing care centers, correctional facilities, Native-American reservations, and libraries.

Intermountain Opera Association of Bozeman
Bozeman, MT
$10,000
To support performances of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor and related educational activities. Three performances will take place at Wilson Auditorium utilizing a core group of six professional singers from New York, augmented by instrumentalists and singers from the community.

Montana Committee for the Humanities
Missoula, MT
$20,000
To support the Montana Festival of the Book. More than 100 regional authors will read and discuss their work at selected venues in downtown Missoula, reaching an estimated audience of up to 5,000.

Montana State University
Bozeman, MT
$6,400
To support a visiting artist lecture series titled Contemporary Approaches to Assemblage. Artists Liza Lou, Nancy Rubins, and Robert Ebendorf will make presentations.

Montana State University
Bozeman, MT
$30,000
To support a summer tour of classic plays to underserved and rural areas throughout Montana, northern Wyoming, and eastern Idaho. Montana Shakespeare in the Parks will present As You Like It by William Shakespeare and She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith free of charge to 50 communities.

Young Men's Christian Association of Billings
Billings, MT
$8,000
To support Tumblewords, a series of readings by contemporary writers in Billings and surrounding rural communities, and the High Plains BookFest, a three-day festival featuring readings and discussions with more than 75 writers.

NEBRASKA

Opera Omaha, Inc.
Omaha, NE
$10,000
To support Opera Insights and Opera for Everyone. The two programs are part of a community access initiative designed to bring opera to the general public.

NEVADA

Las Vegas-Clark County Library District
Las Vegas, NV
$10,000
To support a residency with the Ailey II company of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater. The project will include a lecture-demonstration for elementary school students, free master classes for youths, ages 10 to 17, and a free, evening public dance performance.

NEW HAMPSHIRE

New Hampshire Mime Company
Portsmouth, NH
$10,000
To support a tour of six works exploring and celebrating the history and literature of New England, including adaptations of Our Town and The Country of the Pointed Firs. Performances will take place in town halls, libraries, museums, schools, and other facilities in rural New England communities.

Opera North
Lebanon, NH
$10,000
To support A Festival of Shakespeare in Song. The festival will feature five performances of Charles Gounod's Romeo and Juliet and four performances of Benjamin Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

NEW JERSEY

Montclair Art Museum
Montclair, NJ
$15,000
To support Project Reach Out, an off-site education program designed to serve special-needs audiences. The project will reach more than 5,000 disabled adults with sustained visual arts lessons and hands-on art activities.

New Jersey Performing Arts Center
Newark, NJ
$30,000
To support Sounds of the City and the Alternate Routes Festival. Both events aim to revitalize downtown Newark and celebrate world cultures.

New Jersey Symphony Orchestra
Newark, NJ
$20,000
To support "REACH," a statewide touring and educational outreach project. The orchestra's musicians will perform ensemble and orchestral repertoire in schools, libraries, hospitals, senior centers, and community centers throughout the state.

Northwest Jersey Folklife Project, Inc.
Oxford, NJ
$10,000
To support the Northwest Jersey Folklife Project. Fieldwork and documentation will culminate in a traveling exhibition and an accompanying brochure featuring the folk arts of the northwest New Jersey region.

Paper Mill Playhouse
Millburn, NJ
$15,000
To support an access program for persons with disabilities. Paper Mill Playhouse will provide barrier-free access, discounted tickets, and access services to patrons with hearing, visual, and other physical impairments.

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
New Brunswick, NJ
$5,000
To support the 17th annual Rutgers-Camden Writers' Conference, a free day of writing workshops for residents of Camden and South Jersey. Proposed workshop leaders include Judith Ortiz Cofer, Elizabeth Spires, Chang-Rae Lee, and Jonathan Galassi.

NEW MEXICO

Museum of New Mexico Foundation (on behalf of TREX Traveling Exhibitions)
Santa Fe, NM
$20,000
To support TREX, the traveling exhibition program of the Museum of New Mexico. The program develops touring art exhibitions and accompanying education programs that are adaptable to each venue on the exhibitions' tour.

New Mexico Symphony Orchestra
Albuquerque, NM
$22,500
To support a statewide tour to small, rural, and underserved communities of New Mexico. The project also will offer educational activities in Albuquerque area schools.

NEW YORK

Academy of American Poets, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the coordination of National Poetry Month, an annual project featuring readings, discussions, and outreach programs designed to encourage Americans to make poetry a larger part of their lives.

Adirondack Community College (on behalf of The Writers Project at ACC)
Queensbury, NY
$5,000
To support readings and workshops by nationally renowned and local writers for students and community members. The college will promote the readings through its Web site and newsletters.

Alliance of New York State Arts Councils, Inc.
Mattituck, NY
$25,000
To support the development of Online Live! A New Model for Professional Development. In Partnership with Cornell University, this interactive online conferencing, meeting and training program will serve more than 2,000 local and statewide service and discipline specific organizations within all 62 counties of the state.

American Brass Chamber Music Association, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support a tour of performances and residency activities by the American Brass Quintet. Each residency will include as many as seven performance and educational events, culminating in a formal concert in each community.

American Documentary, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the production of Borders. The series of short documentaries by independent filmmakers and Internet artists is offered to the public via the World Wide Web.

apexart curatorial program
New York, NY
$15,000
To support an international artist residency program to promote cultural exchange. Artists who reside outside of the United States and have never visited New York City are recommended for the program by curators, critics, and arts professionals from their home countries.

Aquila Theatre Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support a national tour of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and H.G. Wells's The Invisible Man. The project will be targeted to underserved, rural, and inner-city communities and will be accompanied by a full educational program of special school performances, workshops, and master classes.

Architecture for Humanity
New York, NY
$15,000
To support a workshop and international competition for the design and planning of emergency shelter sites. The project will bring together relief professionals, architects, and designers to envision innovative, sustainable shelter alternatives.

Art Education for the Blind
New York, NY
$30,000
To support Artworks: An ABSAW Collaborative Project. The Art Beyond Sight Around the World Collaborative (ABSAW) recognizes that art education and exposure to the arts are important for advancements in the education and rehabilitation of people who are blind or visually impaired.

Art Resources Transfer, Inc.
New York, NY
$60,900
To support the Distribution to Underserved Communities Program. The project will offer books, museum catalogs, videos, and other material about contemporary art free-of-charge to libraries across the nation, with a special emphasis on rural and inner-city libraries.

Arts Engine, Inc. (on behalf of MediaRights.org)
New York, NY
$12,000
To support improved access to independent films. The project will provide online access to films, filmmakers, and distributors, and will offer workshops for librarians, teachers, and nonprofit administrators to guide them in the use of independent media for their constituencies.

Asian American Arts Alliance, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support Inroads to American Arts. The project will include an online calendar, a newsletter, and a monthly showcase to increase awareness of Asian-American arts events, artists, and art groups in New York.

Bang on a Can, Inc. (consortium)
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
To support the Summer Institute of Music, a consortium residency program for composers and performers interested in experimental music. In collaboration with the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, the initiative includes free concerts and outreach activities in low-income communities and at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams.

Bard College (on behalf of Words Without Borders)
Annandale-Hudson, NY
$20,000
To support the continued development, expansion, and promotion of Words Without Borders, an interactive Web site devoted to international literature. The site features 100 works of nonfiction, short stories, poems, and novel excerpts drawn from approximately 20-25 languages.

Big Apple Circus, Ltd.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the Beyond the Ring program which provides inner-city youth with instruction and training in classical circus arts. The program consists of in-school and after-school components as well as performance opportunities.

Brooklyn Conservatory of Music
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
To support Music Partners, a music instruction program. In partnership with 25 institutions, the program will provide weekly music instruction for 3,100 individuals throughout the New York City metropolitan area.

Camera News, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support a digital media literacy and production education program. Components of the program are the Advanced Film and Video Production Workshop, Wednesday Night Media Workshops, and an Introduction to Final Cut Pro/Media Literacy Workshop Series.

Central Park Conservancy, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the Harlem Meer Performance Festival. The free summer series will showcase African-American and Latino music, featuring established and emerging artists from the local community.

City Lore, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support a documentarian position and related costs. The documentarian's work will result in ongoing exhibitions, publications, documentary films, and performances.

Commission Project, Inc.
Rochester, NY
$10,000
To support the jazz festival, Swing 'n Jazz. The three-day event will feature 30 musicians and include a concert and free workshops on improvisation throughout the Rochester area.

Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (consortium)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support a consortium project titled Lit Mag Fairs, comprised of events designed to present literary magazines at reduced cost to communities across the country. In partnership with The Kenyon Review, the council will hold events in Atlanta, Ga.; Houston, Texas; Cleveland, Ohio; Denver, Colo.; Portland, Ore.; and Hudson, N.Y.

Da Capo Chamber Players, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support a chamber ensemble performance tour and residency activities. The four-state tour will involve concerts, public school performances, open rehearsals, programs for retirement communities, and radio interviews with composers-in-residence.

Dance Theatre of Harlem, Inc.
New York, NY
$90,000
To support a comprehensive educational and community outreach initiative that exposes children and adults to dance. Arts Exposure and Dancing Through Barriers will include lecture demonstrations, video assemblies, master classes, workshops, dress rehearsals, and special student performances in cities across the United States.

Dancing in the Streets, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
$30,000
To support a consortium project for a series of dance programs in public parks in New York City neighborhoods. With partner City Parks Foundation, Dancing in the CityParks will be launched in Harlem, Manhattan; Red Hook, Brooklyn; and Long Island City, Queens.

Downtown Community Television Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the CyberStudio Training and Screening Series and Video Training Workshops. Downtown Community Television is devoted to making technologically sophisticated media available to underserved communities by providing a range of courses.

Early Music Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the first biennial New York Early Music Festival. More than 20 performances will take place during a 10-day period in October 2004 at a variety of venues across the city.

Electronic Arts Intermix, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
To support the Artists' Videotape Distribution Service. Through an online catalog, works will be made available to libraries, educational institutions, community centers, museums, and other organizations.

Ensemble Studio Theatre (consortium)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support a consortium theater festival. The Fusion Festival is a week-long celebration of new works by theater companies and artists from the Catskill Mountain area and New York City.

Farmers' Museum, Inc.
Cooperstown, NY
$7,500
To support the Cooperstown Chamber Music Festival. The three-week summer festival will include six performances, two interactive family concerts, and free educational outreach programs.

First Night Binghamton
Binghamton, NY
$10,000
To support Starry Nights on the Plaza and On the Road. Free performances will be given at the downtown Binghamton Government Plaza and at assisted living and public housing facilities.

free103point9, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$8,000
To support the Dispatch Series. The project will develop a distribution service for experimental media works by artists working with transmission media.

Glimmerglass Opera, Inc. (consortium)
Cooperstown, NY
$25,000
To support a consortium project comprising a series of access programs. In partnership with New York City Opera, the series will include the Summer Seminar Weekend, featuring co-productions of Puccini's La Fanciulla de West and Gilbert & Sullivan's Patience; the Young Artist Spring Tour; and workshops for high school students.

H.T. Dance Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support residencies and the creation of a new work. The company will reconstruct a full-length dance work that involves multigenerational community casts in Williamstown, Massachusetts; Houston, Texas; Canaan, New York; Huntington, New York; and in the Chinatown neighborhood of New York.

Harlem Textile Works, Ltd.
New York, NY
$21,000
To support Design as Enterprise. Young designers and artists will be introduced to design practices and marketable job skills in the creation of fabric designs.

Henry Street Settlement
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the Urban Youth Theater (UYT) Festival and Music for All Seasons. UYT will provide comprehensive theater training and performance opportunities to more than 60 teens, while participants in the music series will reflect the diversity of Lower East Side composers and musicians.

High 5 Tickets to the Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$8,000
To support the Take 5 reduced-price ticketing program. The adult-led, small-group program will promote parental involvement and adult mentorship in arts experiences.

Hospital Audiences, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support classes in visual, media, and computer arts taught by professional artists and offered to adults with serious mental illness. The project will provide otherwise unavailable opportunities for participants to take part in arts activities.

Ifetayo Cultural Arts Facility, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
To support a comprehensive community-engagement dance program. The project will include training, the creation of new work, performances, and parent workshops by the Ifetayo Youth Ensemble.

Instituto Arte Teatral Internacional, Inc.
New York, NY
$8,000
To support a local tour of theater works for young audiences based on the cultural traditions of Latin America and the Caribbean. The company will reach underserved audiences through performances at New York City public libraries.

International Film Seminars, Inc.
New York, NY
$17,000
To support the 50th Robert Flaherty Film Seminar. The week-long event will bring together students, scholars, filmmakers, curators, librarians, and film enthusiasts to explore and discuss the art of the moving image.

International Media Resource Exchange, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the African Diaspora in the Americas project. Films from Latin and South America will be made available to the public through distribution services and a national tour.

Isamu Noguchi Foundation Inc. (consortium)
Long Island City, NY
$18,000
To support a consortium project to conserve original theatrical sets designed by Japanese American artist Isamu Noguchi (1904-88) for American choreographer and dancer Martha Graham (1894-1991). The project is a collaboration between the Noguchi Museum and the Graham Company.

Jazz at Lincoln Center Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
$50,000
To support the Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition and Festival, a consortium project. The program provides an opportunity for thousands of students to study and perform Duke Ellington's music and will include the first regional festival coordinated by Youth Education in the Arts.

JazzReach Performing Arts in Education Association
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
To support a national tour of jazz educational outreach programs. Activities will include master classes, workshops, and clinics in 25 cities in 15 states.

Lake George Opera Festival Association, Inc.
Saratoga Springs, NY
$7,500
To support regional touring of opera for elementary, middle, and high school students. The tour will include communities in Vermont, Massachusetts, and upstate New York.

Meet The Composer, Inc.
New York, NY
$100,000
To support Creative Connections, a nationwide project that brings composers and audiences together around new musical works. The project will provide opportunities for composers to attend performances of their music and take part in pre- or post-concert discussions, open rehearsals, workshops, lecture-demonstrations, and interviews.

National Book Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support literary outreach programs that link National Book Award authors with underserved communities throughout the country. Programs include American Voices, which brings writers to American-Indian reservations nationwide, and a summer writing camp for inner-city teens and adults.

New Life Dance Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
$15,000
To support a consortium project to create a site-specific community performance work. The company will partner with Tulane University to create a work about science, art, and social change, with the performance taking place in a vacant casino building in New Orleans.

North American Cultural Laboratory, Inc.
Highland Lake, NY
$10,000
To support the Catskill Festival of New Theatre. Performances will be augmented by artist residencies, public workshops, performer training exchanges, academic forums, new play readings, and late night cabarets.

Paper Bag Players
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the development and multi-state tour of a new work for children. Founder and veteran artistic director Judith Martin will lead an ensemble of artists through the writing, musical scoring, and design of the new production.

Paramount Center for the Arts, Inc.
Peekskill, NY
$10,000
To support Beyond MCs & Microphones: Hip Hop Theater, Dance and Art. The multidisciplinary project will reach the underserved young African-American and Spanish-speaking populations in the area.

Partnership for After School Education, Inc.
New York, NY
$18,000
To support the PASE Arts Career Expo Series. Each one-day event will be offered to underserved youths, their families, and community-based organization practitioners as a means to raise awareness about the arts and careers in the arts.

Pierpont Morgan Library
New York, NY
$25,000
To support an outreach program for children in grades three to seven, with a focus on disadvantaged populations in Manhattan and the outlying boroughs. The program will be based on the library's superb collection of illuminated manuscripts and the anthropological exhibits at the American Museum of Natural History.

Playwrights Preview Productions
New York, NY
$12,000
To support Urban Stages' Outreach Program. With the Brooklyn, New York, and Queens public library systems serving as venues and partners, the company will tour new works by multi-ethnic authors to underserved communities.

Poetry Society of America
New York, NY
$25,000
To support Poetry in Motion, a program that places poetry placards in public transportation systems throughout the country. Targeted cities include Dallas, Los Angeles, Fresno, Philadelphia, Fort Collins, Minneapolis, Houston, Chicago, New York, Austin, and Portland, Oregon.

Poets & Writers, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the consortium project Carried Voices: Writers & Books in the West. In partnership with the YMCA of Billings, Poets & Writers will bring literary events to Oregon, Washington, Montana, Wyoming, and northern California.

Point Community Development Corporation
Bronx, NY
$30,600
To support the expansion of a visual arts program targeted to artists 13 years old and older. Building upon current programming that combines artistic instruction, studio access, and entrepreneurial opportunities, Point will hire professional artists to lead the workshops.

Queens Theatre in the Park, Inc. (consortium)
Flushing, NY
$10,000
To support a consortium project to present Mexican choreographers Adriana Castaos and David Barron. Queens Theatre in the Park will collaborate with LaGuardia Community College to present the work as well as to organize educational and audience outreach activities as part of the International Movements Project.

Ringside Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$40,000
To support components of STREB/Ringside's audience development and access program. The project will support residency and outreach programs for PUBLIC/ACTION NEW YORK and PUBLIC/ACTION ON TOUR. PUBLIC/ACTION programs are designed to break down the barriers between artist and audience by bringing the audience into the process of creating the artistic product.

Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Inc.
Rochester, NY
$25,000
To support Around the Town, an outreach project of community concerts for underserved and low-income residents. The orchestra will perform symphonic repertoire in six concerts located in neighborhood churches, community centers, and hospitals.

Skidmore College
Saratoga Springs, NY
$7,500
To support the Skidmore Jazz Institute at the college's Bernhard Theater. The two-week summer jazz program will include master classes, daily improvisational classes, private instruction, and a mini-festival.

Society of the Educational Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support productions of children's theater with accompanying workshops in New York, Florida, and Puerto Rico. Through the presentation of Latin American children's classics and folk tales, Sociedad Educativa de las Artes' (SEA) preserves Latin American arts and culture.

Spanish Theatre Repertory Company, Ltd.
New York, NY
$55,000
To support ACCESSO 2005: Hispanic Theatre for Latino Students. The project offers classic and contemporary Spanish, Latin American, and U.S. Latino plays to Hispanic students and communities throughout the Northeast.

Stage Directors and Choreographers Workshop Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$8,000
To support the Expanding Access and Opportunity Initiative. The foundation will host a three-day symposium that will address the lack of leadership opportunities for artists of color and gifted young visionaries.

Studio Museum in Harlem, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support Expanding the Walls: Making Connections between Photography, History, and Community. The program is designed to develop relationships with three underserved populations: youth, families, and senior citizens.

Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Syracuse, NY
$10,000
To support a concert tour to New York's North Country. The orchestra, under the direction of music director Daniel Hege, will perform concerts in rural and underserved communities.

Theatreworks/USA Corporation
New York, NY
$30,000
To support a national tour of theater productions for young audiences. Theatreworks/USA will provide audiences in 31 states and the District of Columbia with access to live theater and educational activities that complement school curricula.

Traditional Arts in Upstate New York, Inc. (TAUNY)
Canton, NY
$25,000
To support an executive director's position and related costs. Responsibilities include working with five arts and community organizations in the North Country region to plan potential collaborations on TAUNY-produced programming of traditional arts and local culture for their sites.

Wave Hill, Inc.
Bronx, NY
$10,000
To support the Family Art Project. The series of free, weekend workshops will provide families the opportunity to create nature-based art projects inspired by craft traditions from around the world.

Working Theatre Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support artist residencies and the production of two plays through the Special Constituencies and TheaterWorks initiatives. The company will produce two plays by OyamO including I Am a Man, and will offer artist residencies and workshops to low-income working people at three New York City unions.

Writers & Books, Inc.
Rochester, NY
$10,000
To support Literary Learning for a Lifetime, a series of educational and outreach programs for more than 4,500 community members. Writers & Books will offer readings, writing workshops, online classes, and a community-wide reading and discussion program entitled If All of Rochester Read the Same Book.

NORTH CAROLINA

Center for Craft, Creativity and Design
Hendersonville, NC
$10,000
To support development and production of a tool kit, exhibition, and publication on context-sensitive transportation design. Solutions for roadway improvements, bridges, mass transit, street design, and landscape design will be presented.

Center for Craft, Creativity and Design (consortium)
Hendersonville, NC
$15,000
To support a consortium project for the production of a video documentary on self-taught artists from the rural South. Using digital video footage recorded for consortium partner Folk Arts Foundation, director and videographer Patrick Long will create a documentary suitable for distribution on public television.

Charlotte Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Charlotte, NC
$20,000
To support the Mill Community Project. Activities will include the creation and presentation of a new work for chamber orchestra by composer David Crowe, based on stories by local community members whose lives changed after the closing of a textile mill in McAdenville, North Carolina.

SeeSaw Studio, Inc.
Durham, NC
$14,000
To support the Youth Design Vending Machine project. Based on the Art*o*mat model, local designers working with community youth will produce design objects for sale in a vending machine.

Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (consortium)
Winston-Salem, NC
$25,000
To support the HOME House Project, a multi-year consortium initiative on affordable housing. A traveling exhibition, publication, design fees, and educational programming will be supported during this phase of the initiative.

Western Arts Agencies of North Carolina, Inc. (consortium)
Hiddenite, NC
$35,000
To support the integration of art into the Blue Ridge Heritage Area Management Plan (BRHA). In partnership with Advantage West, the consortium project will include an arts and tourism partnership retreat to educate arts councils on shared opportunities for cultural tourism; arts and heritage tourism workshops; and individual consultations with arts organizations to further develop strategies.

NORTH DAKOTA

Plains Art Museum
Fargo, ND
$30,000
To support the Rolling Plains Art Gallery. Located in a 48-foot semi-trailer, the gallery has provided art education and exhibitions of original art to underserved rural school children and communities since 1993. The museum will organize a two-year exhibition of contemporary art in various media titled Identity and Vision in Minnesota and North Dakota.

OHIO

Canton Symphony Orchestra Association
Canton, OH
$15,000
To support the Community Heritage Celebration. A new work by composer Eric Gould, based on the history and diversity of the city's neighborhoods, will be created and presented with the involvement of school students and other community members.

Cincinnati Opera Association
Cincinnati, OH
$20,000
To support touring of a new bilingual opera, and other outreach programs. The family-friendly opera, How Nanita Learned to Make Flan, will be mounted using full costumes and sets and constructed so that it will adapt to a variety of venues.

Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Cincinnati, OH
$25,000
To support a series of orchestra outreach programs throughout the Cincinnati metropolitan area and in northern Kentucky communities. The initiative will also offer concerts at reduced prices or free of charge.

Cleveland Museum of Art (consortium)
Cleveland, OH
$50,000
To support a consortium project using interactive video technology over the Internet to deliver cultural programming to a national audience of senior citizens. In partnership with the Judson Retirement Community, the project seeks to engage and re-engage in the arts this frequently marginalized community.

Greater Columbus Arts Council, Inc.
Columbus, OH
$25,000
To support Arts CLASSified. This new searchable Web directory highlights providers of community arts education programs within Franklin County, Ohio.

GroundWorks Dancetheater
Cleveland Hts, OH
$10,000
To support the expansion of outreach activities. The project will involve learning activities based in literacy, theater, and dance for primary school students and seniors.

Mad River Theater Works
West Liberty, OH
$15,000
To support the creation of a play based on local history and folklore in collaboration with students and their families, teachers, and members of the public. The play will tour to non-traditional settings throughout Ohio and surrounding states.

Ohio Chamber Ballet
Akron, OH
$10,000
To support performances and outreach activities in Canton and Youngstown, Ohio. Ohio Ballet will partner with pre-professional ballet companies in each city, offering tickets to students and parents, and providing special master classes.

Professional Flair, Inc.
Cleveland, OH
$10,000
To support expansion of education programs and public performances. The project will offer training and performing opportunities to individuals with and without disabilities.

Toledo Orchestra Association, Inc.
Toledo, OH
$10,000
To support concerts in rural and underserved communities of northwestern Ohio and Indiana. The orchestra will expand annual outreach efforts to the towns of Marion, Zanesville, and Celina, Ohio; and Wabash, Indiana.

OKLAHOMA

Tulsa Opera, Inc.
Tulsa, OK
$10,000
To support educational and outreach programs. The project will include an Opera Express tour; a student matinee; Tulsa Youth Opera; Opera Insights 101 & 102; Music! Words! Opera!; Literacy Through Opera; Education Attic; and Opera Imaginaire.

OREGON

Eugene Ballet
Eugene, OR
$20,000
To support regional touring in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Wyoming, and Montana. The tour will consist of performance and outreach programs in rural communities.

IRCO
Portland, OR
$20,000
To support the Creating Access for Refugee and Immigrant Traditional Arts project. A team of trainers and experts will prepare a refugee and immigrant community team including artists from Bosnia, Ethiopia, Iran, and Laos, to effectively present their traditional arts within an American format of festival art.

Literary Arts, Inc.
Portland, OR
$10,000
To support the Oregon Book Awards and Author Tour. Up to 30 winners and finalists will conduct readings at sites throughout the state.

Oregon Native American Business and Entrepreneurial Network
Tigard, OR
$19,500
To support the Artist in Business program to provide technical assistance and services to artists. The program is targeted to Native American artists living on reservations in Oregon.

Oregon Symphony Association
Portland, OR
$20,000
To support the Community Music Partnership program. The orchestra will select an underserved, rural community to participate in a two-year outreach residency. Orchestra musicians will provide development for teachers, educational outreach for adults and students, and performances by the full orchestra.

Portland Art Museum (on behalf of Northwest Film Center)
Portland, OR
$15,000
To support Searchlight. Targeted to women and diverse populations, the two-year program will provide media production and literacy skills to an underrepresented community.

Wisdom of the Elders, Inc.
Portland, OR
$20,000
To support a tribal liaison position and related costs. A primary focus will be the continuation of the Turtle Island Storytellers Network, a project designed to identify, employ, and promote Native-American historians and storytellers, and document their work.

PENNSYLVANIA

Aliquippa Alliance for Unity and Development, Inc.
Aliquippa, PA
$10,000
To support Aliquippa Embraces Art: Youth and Family Program. To address changing community needs, the Alliance is transitioning its arts focus from an 11-year-old summer festival to year-round multidisciplinary arts programming.

Art Sanctuary
Philadelphia, PA
$15,000
To support the 21st annual Celebration of Black Writing, an eight-day festival in Philadelphia targeting African Americans. Potential authors include George Lamming, Paule Marshall, Albert Murray, Eloise Greenfield, Kristin Lattany, Sonia Sanchez, and Charles Fuller.

Asian Arts Initiative (consortium)
Philadelphia, PA
$15,000
To support Artists in Communities Training Program. The consortium project will train multidisciplinary artists to conduct art-making workshops and residencies in multigenerational communities throughout Philadelphia.

Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble, Inc.
Bloomsburg, PA
$20,000
To support Theatre in the Classroom, a traveling educational theater experience. The program tours adaptations of world folk literature or American history to elementary and middle schools, offering performances and residencies throughout Pennsylvania.

Chatham Baroque, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
$10,000
To support performances of Music All Over the Place. Created in collaboration with the Unseam'd Shakespeare Company, the 50-minute educational program is designed for families and students in kindergarten through fifth grades.

COSACOSA art at large, Inc.
Phildelphia, PA
$10,000
To support the Healing Art Project. Professional artists will teach hospitalized individuals and other community members artistic techniques which will result in the design and creation of permanent public art for neighborhood healthcare facilities and other public spaces.

Creative Access
Philadelphia, PA
$15,000
To support the Cultural Access Project. Creative Access (CA) will partner with theaters, performing arts centers, dance companies, museums, and arts education programs in Philadelphia to make cultural activities accessible to people who are deaf or hard-of-hearing.

Fairmount Park Art Association
Philadelphia, PA
$35,000
To support Dwelling Place, a public art project by artists Lonnie Graham, John Stone, and Lorene Cary. With community members and the large homeless population served by Project H.O.M.E. (Housing, Opportunities, Medical Care, Employment), the artists will work on a project to be installed on the former site of a neighborhood church.

Northern Tier Cultural Alliance
Mansfield, PA
$10,000
To support the Forest Heritage Intergenerational Project. Activities will include workshops led by community traditional arts scholars; training in field work techniques by ethnographers; storytelling by Native American community residents; and expeditions to artists' studios.

People's Light & Theatre Company
Malvern, PA
$35,000
To support the Audience Development Initiative. The project includes the development and presentation of a new play by Tazewell Thompson augmented by a series of panel discussions, forums, and writing workshops.

Philadelphia Orchestra Association (consortium)
Philadelphia, PA
$50,000
To support Neighborhood Concerts, a consortium project with the Cooper Health System. The orchestra will perform free concerts and ancillary activities in Philadelphia and Camden, New Jersey, reaching underserved and non-traditional audiences in neighborhood venues through performances and educational outreach efforts.

Philomel Concerts, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
To support expansion of Imagination Workshops, Kids' Concerts, and Concerts & Conversations. The educational outreach programs and family concerts will provide access to, and build long-term audiences, for early music.

Pittsburgh Film Makers, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
$32,000
To support the Artist Services Program. The program will include workshops, classes, facilities access, and community outreach.

Pittsburgh Opera, Inc. (consortium)
Pittsburgh, PA
$10,000
To support a consortium project that will bring artist residencies and opera performance touring to college campuses. In collaboration with the Appalachian College Association, the company will provide multi-day residencies on campuses in Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.

Print Center (on behalf of Philadelphia Print Collaborative)
Philadelphia, PA
$35,000
To support Printing Philadelphia, a project designed to promote the art of printmaking to a broad cross section of the public. A partnership between the academic printmaking community, neighborhood organizations, schools, and artists, the project will focus on the art of frottage (or rubbings) and will include residencies, university coursework, field trips, artist workshops, exhibitions, and a culminating art-making event.

Scribe Video Center, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$30,000
To support a workshop program and other related activities. Scribe Video Center is a community-based media arts center that provides students and artists with the tools and skills necessary to produce video art works.

Shirley Rock School of the Pennsylvania Ballet
Philadelphia, PA
$15,000
To support a comprehensive outreach program. RockReach will provide after-school and in-school dance activities for inner-city youths in Philadelphia and Camden, New Jersey.

Taller Puertorriqueno, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$32,000
To support Connections: Examining the Roots of Latino Culture and Cross-Cultural Exchanges. Performances, exhibitions, and literary events will emphasize the connections among Mexican, Puerto Rican, and other Latino groups.

UMOJA African Arts Company
Pittsburgh, PA
$10,000
To support the African Heritage Child Initiative. Students in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade will receive instruction in African culture traditions. A series of individual workshops in African drumming, dance, stories, instrument making, and visual arts will be offered in 10 community libraries.

RHODE ISLAND

Community Musicworks
Providence, RI
$10,000
To support free music education and performance programs for children and youth. The Providence String Quartet will be in residence to teach and mentor students, and perform in the community.

Four Corners Art Center (on behalf of Yorick's Marionette Theater)
Tiverton, RI
$8,000
To support The Marionettes Who Help Teach and Heal. The program will include performances and a puppet-making workshop for children in 50 hospitals.

Newport Performing Arts Center
Newport, RI
$33,000
To support the design and planning for the adaptive reuse of a historic 1868 opera house. A theater design consultant and restoration architects will work together to develop plans for the interior of the building.

Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra
Providence, RI
$15,000
To support Music for Our Schools, a performance project designed to introduce children to orchestral music. The educational outreach project will be supplemented with related curriculum materials and a Web site.

Trinity Repertory Company (consortium)
Providence, RI
$25,000
To support a consortium project to present free abridged productions of Shakespeare's works in outdoor public venues. In partnership with CapitolArts Providence, the project will expand the reach of the Trinity Summer Shakespeare Project, identify new performance venues, and maximize the program's impact.

SOUTH CAROLINA

Arts Council of Rock Hill & York County
Rock Hill, SC
$20,000
To support the Revival Design Camp Meeting and ripple-effect. The Revival Design Camp is a national model for the cross-training of professional craft artists and environmentalists working with recycled materials; ripple-effect is the artist-directed, non-profit component that manufactures and markets the resulting sustainable designs.

City of Charleston, South Carolina (on behalf of Office of Cultural Affairs)
Charleston, SC
$25,000
To support Piccolo Art Beat. This outreach project for the 2005 Piccolo Spoleto Festival will include an artist residency through which Charleston students will learn drumming techniques, make percussion instruments from found objects, and perform an original composition created during the residency.

Clemson University
Clemson, SC
$25,000
To support documentation of the creation of a nature-based sculpture by the artist Nils-Udo at the South Carolina Botanical Garden. The project will include a video for public television broadcast, a Web site, and a CD-ROM.

SOUTH DAKOTA

Washington Pavilion Management, Inc.
Sioux Falls, SD
$15,000
To support Altered Landscapes and Extreme Action. The project will involve two festivals, visual arts exhibitions, performances, films, gallery talks, workshops, and lectures held in the multidisciplinary art and science center, Washington Pavilion.

TENNESSEE

Actors Co-op, Inc.
Knoxville, TN
$6,000
To support the development, presentation, and tour of a new ensemble-created theater work. The Coal Creek Project will tour the work to underserved audiences in Kentucky and Tennessee.

Arts Center of Cannon County
Woodbury, TN
$25,000
To support a folklorist position and related costs. Responsibilities will include creation of traditional music DVDs and CDs, development of interactive museum exhibits, a community scholar initiative, and an enhanced Web site.

Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Inc.
Nashville, TN
$10,000
To support the Multiple Visit and the Art Trunk programs. The education outreach programs will make the visual arts more widely available to community organizations.

Jubilee Community Arts, Inc.
Knoxville, TN
$15,000
To support live presentations, broadcasts, and documentation of traditional music. The project will include a series of weekly concerts, performances at the Jubilee Festival, programs focusing on the traditional music of the southern Appalachian region, and research and documentation of traditional artists in East Tennessee.

Nashville Symphony Association
Nashville, TN
$20,000
To support outreach concerts in rural areas of middle Tennessee. In partnership with local community organizations, the symphony will tour to diverse and underserved communities.

TEXAS

Arlington Museum of Art, Inc.
Arlington, TX
$15,000
To support Art Around the Corner for school children. The project is a collaboration with the Arlington Independent School District and will bring as many as 1,100 fifth graders into the museum for innovative, hands-on art projects led by a local artist.

Armstrong County Museum, Inc.
Claude, TX
$10,000
To support the Rimstone Revue: Live From the Gem Theatre radio series. The series will showcase folk music and folk legends of the African, Anglo, and Hispanic settlers of the Texas Panhandle.

ArtPace, A Foundation for Contemporary Art (consortium)
San Antonio, TX
$30,000
To support a consortium project of outreach activities designed to engage children and youth in contemporary art. ArtPace and Gemini Ink will collaborate to expand a variety of programs that serve the needs of youths in organizations such as Say Si, an arts center for children; San Anto, an arts center for west-side San Antonio youths; and Fox Tech, the city's only technical high school.

Centro Cultural Aztlan, Inc.
San Antonio, TX
$15,000
To support a series of community arts programs. Through exhibitions, workshops, and performances, underserved audiences will be given the opportunity to participate in Chicano and Latino art and culture.

Conspirare, Inc.
Austin, TX
$15,000
To support a choral performance tour and residency activities. The chorus will conduct residencies at Mills College in the Bay Area and Southeastern Oklahoma State University.

Documentary Arts, Inc.
Dallas, TX
$20,000
To support the Masters of Traditional Arts Exhibition. The exhibition will be based upon the process through which the NEA National Heritage Fellows have attained mastery of culturally diverse artistic styles, whether ethnic, tribal, religious, or regional.

Esperanza Peace and Justice Center
San Antonio, TX
$35,000
To support Arte es Vida. The series will consist of presentations by literary, visual, and performing artists at schools, senior centers, and other venues in the city's Westside.

FLYworks
Houston, TX
$10,000
To support the presentation of hip-hop dance in community performances. The project will provide outreach activities and concert performances in Oshkosh, Wisconsin and Houston, Texas.

Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra Association, Inc.
Fort Worth, TX
$25,000
To support a touring program in Texas and Oklahoma. Concerts and educational programs will take place in eight rural communities, reaching areas that have no professional symphony orchestras in close proximity.

Gemini Series, Inc.
San Antonio, TX
$7,000
To support the Storybook Project, a writing residency for incarcerated teens, and Words in Common, a one-day spoken-word festival. The festival will introduce the community to emerging writers and performance poets.

Houston Grand Opera Association, Inc.
Houston, TX
$60,000
To support Discover America: Community Connections Initiative, Phase II. The initiative will focus on opera performances that reach a broad base of young and diverse audiences and are reasonably priced or free to the public.

Junebug Productions, Inc.
Austin, TX
$15,000
To support a national model initiative to document and collect stories of the civil rights movement in the United States, which will be used to formulate future theatrical works. The Color Line Project will train artists, educators, community organizations, and activists in the collection and archival of people's experiences during the civil rights era.

McAllen International Museum
McAllen, TX
$10,000
To support the creation and construction of an art outreach station titled Art on the Move. It will provide a hands-on, in-depth experience for young people in oil painting, weaving, printmaking, and sculpture.

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Houston, TX
$50,000
To support Gateway to Art/De Puertas al Arte, presenting various outreach programs to underserved audiences in the Houston metropolitan area. The off-site programs will engage residents in inner-city and suburban, low-income neighborhoods by bringing original works of art and art-making activities into their communities.

Progressive Arts Collective Pro Arts
Austin, TX
$10,000
To support a dance festival and outreach activities. The project will include the eighth annual African American Festival of Dance, a panel discussion, and a week-long series of in-school performances and workshops promoting dance appreciation and young artist training.

Society for the Performing Arts
Houston, TX
$20,000
To support a series presenting several dance companies. The Dance Series will also include education and outreach programs.

South Texas Institute for the Arts
Corpus Christi, TX
$20,000
To support of an exhibition of the work of Brazilian photographer Sebastiao Salgado (b. 1944), with accompanying education programs. The exhibition is organized and toured by Aperture, Inc.

Southeast Texas Arts Council, Inc.
Beaumont, TX
$15,000
To support a Native American festival. The festival will demonstrate elements of indigenous southeast Texas Native American culture through dance, music, lectures, storytelling, and museum exhibitions.

Texas Czech Heritage and Cultural Center
La Grange, TX
$20,000
To support a documentary on the Vrazels' Polka Band on the occasion of its 50th anniversary. The Czech musical group is widely considered to be the finest currently active within the tradition.

Writer's Garret (consortium)
Dallas, TX
$10,000
To support a consortium project titled The Writer's Studio, a radio show featuring interviews with established authors. Writer's Garret will partner with KERA Public Radio FM, where the show will be broadcast.

UTAH

Moab Music Festival, Inc.
Moab, UT
$5,000
To support an educational outreach program. Composer-in-residence Eric Thomas will teach performance and music appreciation classes at the Moab Arts and Recreation Center, which will reach approximately 175 people in the geographically remote community of Moab.

Ririe-Woodbury Dance Foundation
Salt Lake City, UT
$30,000
To support dance residency activities. The company will travel to Athens, Augusta, and Gainesville, Georgia; Nashville, Tennessee; Beaufort, South Carolina; Sarasota, Florida; and St. George, Utah. Residency activities include movement classes in local schools and movement exploration for senior citizens.

VERMONT

Flynn Theatre for the Performing Arts, Ltd. (on behalf of Burlington Discover Jazz Festival)
Burlington, VT
$20,000
To support artist residencies and performances at the Burlington Discover Jazz Festival. Educational activities will include a jazz scholar-in-residence, pre-performance lectures, and dialogues with the performing artists.

Vermont Folklife Center
Middlebury, VT
$25,000
To support the Weavings of War touring exhibition and catalog. The project will highlight both the beauty and meaning of a new and evolving genre of folk textiles.

Vermont Symphony Orchestra Association, Inc.
Burlington, VT
$20,000
To support the Made in Vermont Music Festival Tour, a series of educational activities and community concert programs in underserved rural communities. The project will present children's programs in 10 communities, followed by family concerts in each location.

Weston Playhouse Theatre
Weston, VT
$25,000
To support the expansion of the theater's education and outreach programs for intergenerational, rural, and underserved audiences. The project will include summer production internships, training and onstage experience for young performers, school matinees, a multi-state tour of a play, statewide teacher workshops, and the hiring of a full-time education director.

VIRGINIA

Cave Canem Foundation, Inc.
Charlottesville, VA
$10,000
To support a writing retreat targeting emerging African-American poets. Following the retreat, the foundation will publish an anthology of student work.

Daily Poetry Association, Inc.
Charlottesville, VA
$10,000
To support the enhancement of Poetry Daily's News, Reviews, and Special Features sections. Updated daily, these sections of the Web site will feature critical reviews of new books and a forum for discussion of poetry and related issues.

Ferrum College (on behalf of Blue Ridge Institute & Museum)
Ferrum, VA
$10,000
To support the Southwest Virginia Music Guide Project. The 14-county survey will identify traditional musicians and musical venues in the Appalachian region.

Lime Kiln Arts, Inc.
Lexington, VA
$8,000
To support a theater touring program and ancillary educational activities. Lime Kiln will tour work that showcases Appalachian folk tales and adaptations of classic literature to schools and civic groups throughout Virginia and the Southeast.

VIRGIN ISLANDS

Caribbean Dance Company of the Virgin Islands, Inc.
St. Croix, VI
$31,000
To support the Caribbean Dance Axis. The project will provide performances and post-performance discussions to diverse segments of the Virgin Islands territorial community that do not have access to live performances.

WASHINGTON

Arts and Visually Impaired Audiences
Seattle, WA
$18,000
To support the Blind Youth and Adult Audio Project. The series of workshops will introduce visually impaired people to the creative possibilities and latest techniques of audio production while they design their own radio program.

Confluences
Vancouver, WA
$34,000
To support community engagement and educational programming related to the commissioning of landscape design installations. The project will engage diverse and multigenerational groups to become involved with, and develop a deeper appreciation for, the landscape designs.

Freehold Theatre Lab Studio
Seattle, WA
$8,000
To support a tour of performances and interactive workshops to organizations that represent culturally underserved communities. The project will provide non-traditional audiences with opportunities to engage in the artistic process of theater through improvisation, performance, and script development.

Intiman Theatre
Seattle, WA
$25,000
To support matinee performances of plays through the Living History program. The project also includes week-long artist residencies in local high schools.

Northwest Heritage Resources
Olympia, WA
$15,000
To support the Washington Tradition Portal (WTP) project. The Web site will house information about traditional arts and artists, events, and organizations statewide. The project will provide a resource through which educators and community scholars can learn about and contribute to the pool of knowledge about Washington state traditions.

Pat Graney Performance, Inc.
Seattle, WA
$30,000
To support Keeping the Faith: The Prison Project. Activities will include two, two-month residencies at Washington State Corrections Center for Women in Gig Harbor, offering workshops, classes, and performances in movement, dance, creative writing, and visual arts to incarcerated women and girls.

Pratt Fine Arts Center
Seattle, WA
$18,000
To support the Master Artist Program and the Northwest Artist Program, a community education series. Locally and nationally renowned artists will be featured in workshops for Pratt students, and free lectures, exhibitions, and receptions will be offered to the public.

Seattle International Children's Festival
Seattle, WA
$40,000
To support the 19th annual Seattle International Children's Festival and the 6th annual Festival in Tacoma, and related education and outreach activities. The project also will provide teachers with an enriched curriculum by linking the festival's cultural opportunities to classroom activities.

Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Inc. (consortium)
Seattle, WA
$20,000
To support ACCESS, a consortium project of outreach performances and educational events for underserved communities. In partnership with the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center, the orchestra will engage children and families in diverse neighborhoods of Seattle.

Town Hall Association
Seattle, WA
$30,000
To support World in Seattle. The multi-component project will focus on world, traditional, and folk music and dance performances; cultural preservation issues; and artist conversations, focusing on enhancing the understanding and appreciation of the traditions of local culture communities.

Town of La Conner, Washington
La Conner, WA
$15,000
To support the Water Music Festival and a choral festival. These festivals will present early music ensembles and choruses from the state of Washington. The project, featuring ensembles such as Capella Romano, Baroque Northwest, Medieval Women's Choir, and Seattle Baroque will serve the rural community of La Conner.

Whitworth College
Spokane, WA
$15,000
To support the development of a visiting artist program in printmaking with a focus on multicultural artists. The college, through its newly established press, will host artists for print production, lectures, demonstrations, and public school presentations.

WEST VIRGINIA

West Virginia Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Charleston, WV
$15,000
To support a statewide tour to underserved rural communities. The orchestra, with music director Grant Cooper, will introduce orchestral music to new audiences throughout West Virginia.

WISCONSIN

Sheboygan Arts Foundation, Inc.
Sheboygan, WI
$45,000
To support Connecting Communities and commissioned new works. Residences totaling 33 weeks will involve 18 visual, performing, media, and literary artists. These artists will collaborate with area cultural minorities, farm families, disadvantaged youth, industrial workers, and the elderly, to develop the residencies and community-based commissions.

WYOMING

University of Wyoming
Laramie, WY
$7,500
To support a tour by pianist Christopher O'Riley to underserved rural communities. The project will include residency activities in schools and community colleges.

Total Challenge America grants: 365
Total Challenge America dollars: $6,988,000

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