FY 2007 Grant Awards: Learning in the Arts
for Children and Youth
Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change, contingent upon prior
Endowment approval.
52nd Street Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$63,000
To support Playmaking, a playwriting and dramatic performance program. Students living in the Clinton (Hell's Kitchen) neighborhood of New York City will develop new plays in collaboration with professional theater artists and directors.
AjA Project
San Diego, CA
$15,000
To support the Journey program. The series of after-school photography workshops is targeted to serve refugee youth, ages 12 to 17, living in the San Diego area.
Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture
Philadelphia, PA
$18,000
To support Arabic Rhythms: A Percussion Instruction and Music Appreciation Program. Professional musicians will offer weekly group instruction, individual apprenticeships, rehearsals for public performances, and master classes in Arabic percussion to advanced students (ages 8-15) who also will participate with their teachers in weekend outreach workshops for peer-age audiences.
Alleghany County Schools
Sparta, NC
$15,000
To support Junior Appalachian Musicians (JAM). The program will include after-school instruction in Appalachian traditional folk music and dance for students in third through eighth grades; a performance at a day-long summer gathering; interactive Web site pedagogical forums for artists, teachers, and administrators; and publication of teaching resources in Old Time Herald, a folk music quarterly magazine.
Allegro Foundation
Charlotte, NC
$12,000
To support dance classes targeted for children with physical and learning disabilities. Working with Charlotte-Mecklenburg public schools, the foundation will provide weekly dance instruction by specially trained peer tutors.
Alley Theatre
Houston, TX
$15,000
To support Playwriting 360 Degrees. The program will provide sequential, in-class playwriting instruction for high school students during a 12-week period.
Art Resources in Teaching
Chicago, IL
$27,000
To support visual artist residencies in Chicago public schools. Elementary- and middle-school students and their teachers will work with professional artists to develop art-making skills through lessons in art history, peer critique, and related hands-on art projects.
Art Start
St. Paul, MN
$25,000
To support River EcoJourneys, a visual arts residency program. Professional artists will work with classroom teachers at two elementary schools in St. Paul to integrate visual arts and science studies to increase students' knowledge about the intersections between art and nature.
Artists for Humanity, Inc.
South Boston, MA
$15,000
To support the Youth-Run Arts Micro-Enterprise program. Through paid apprenticeships, underserved youth (ages 14 to 18) will receive studio instruction in painting, photography, sculpture, murals/set design, silk-screen, and graphic design.
Arts Connection, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support steel pan music residency programs. Components will include 25 weeks of in-school and after-school steel pan classes given by professional teaching artists, student ensemble performances, and family events at each of the participating schools.
Arts Corps
Seattle, WA
$25,000
To support the All-City Program. Local artists will teach advanced-level weekly classes in choral singing, poetry writing and performance, collage and painting, break dancing, and digital photography.
Arts Horizons Inc.
Englewood, NJ
$18,000
To support Musical Motto. Experienced teaching artists will lead four, 32-week classroom residencies that integrate music theory, composition, and theater leading to student productions held in three New York City Special Education District 75/Citywide schools for autistic and/or emotionally disturbed students, ages 9 to 18.
Asian Americans United, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$18,000
To support the Folk Arts Education Program. In partnership with the Philadelphia Chinese Opera Society, the organization will develop arts-integrated curricula for kindergarten through eighth-grade students enrolled in the Folk Arts Cultural Treasures School (FACTS); provide professional development for teachers and artists; and engage artists for in- and after-school residencies.
Austin Museum of Art, Inc.
Austin, TX
$20,000
To support Seeing Special Things. The year-long, sequential visual arts program, serving approximately 450 underserved elementary students, is designed to enhance classroom arts education and develop visual literacy and critical thinking skills.
Bardavon 1869 Opera House, Inc.
Poughkeepsie, NY
$30,000
To support a 20-week course in playwriting for sixth-grade students. In partnership with Poughkeepsie School District, the program culminates with students directing guest actors in rehearsals of student plays and a public performance at the Bardavon Opera House.
Bethune Theatredanse
Los Angeles, CA
$40,000
To support Infinite Dreams. Residency artists will provide weekly dance instruction for approximately 1,200 underserved, special needs students, ages 6 to 21, from 12 Los Angeles and Orange County schools and community sites.
Beverly Arts Center
Chicago, IL
$18,000
To support Artreach. Professional theater and visual artists will lead students enrolled in elementary schools on Chicago's South Side in field trips, lessons, and hands-on projects.
Big Buddy Program
Baton Rouge, LA
$10,000
To support the WordPlayTeen Writing Project. Designed to foster development of literary skills, the project will include creative writing workshops, open microphone readings, poetry slams, publications, leadership development, and resources for educators.
Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$23,000
To support the Youth Art Connection Program. Students, ages 6 to 12, will develop knowledge and skills in the visual arts by participating in a series of age-specific, evening workshops.
Buffalo Media Resources, Inc.
Buffalo, NY
$28,000
To support the Buffalo Youth Media Institute. The citywide youth media initiative, carried out in collaboration with the Preservation Coalition of Erie County, will give young people the opportunity to work with experienced media artists and local historians to produce documentaries about Buffalo's culture and history.
Caldera
Portland, OR
$65,000
To support Perspectives in Photography. The year-long program in 10 Oregon middle and high schools will provide training in digital photography.
California College of the Arts
Oakland, CA
$68,000
To support the 100 Families Project. In collaboration with the Attitudinal Healing Connection, the program will increase students' visual arts skills by having them create new work drawn from their own family life experiences and through the study of exemplary works of art by a broad group of professional artists.
Carnegie Hall Society, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
To support LinkUP! Classroom teachers whose schools are administered by the New York Department of Education will use a curriculum designed to teach fourth- through sixth-grade students basic music concepts as well as prepare them for concerts they will attend at Carnegie Hall.
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA
$35,000
To support Arts Greenhouse. Poets, actors, musicians, and audio technologists from the community and Carnegie Mellon Center for the Arts in Society will give workshops in contemporary urban performing arts.
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA
$20,000
To support Architecture Building Communities. Designed and implemented in partnership with Bloomfield-Garfield Corporation (a community-based nonprofit), the program offers high school students from three urban Pittsburgh neighborhoods the opportunity to study architecture and local history as well as to design projects for vacant lots in their communities.
Cathedral Arts Projects Inc
Jacksonville, FL
$25,000
To support a free, after-school art, music, and dance program targeted to at-risk elementary school children. Teaching artists will provide two hours of instruction two days each week in chorus, dance, a musical instrument, or the visual arts during the after-school hours at elementary schools and community-based organizations.
Center for the Art of Translation
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support Poetry Inside Out. The program will introduce bilingual students, ages 8 to 13, to Spanish literature with the goal of increasing language proficiency in both English and Spanish through literary translation.
Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education
Chicago, IL
$75,000
To support the Teaching Arts Excellence Through Learning Partnerships. Partnering arts organizations and schools will bring professional artists together with public school students and their teachers to study art works, develop skills to critique art works, and produce and critique their own work in the context of the public school curriculum.
Chicago Children's Choir
Chicago, IL
$25,000
To support choral festival activities featuring singers from the Choir's DiMension program. Targeted toward young male students with changing voices, the choir participants will attend weekly rehearsals with their director as well as all-day workshops with a distinguished guest conductor, resulting in festival performances with a professional men's vocal ensemble and also on the group's own.
Children's Dance Foundation
Birmingham, AL
$10,000
To support the Community Partnership Program. Students in the Movement to Music program and Dance and Science Initiative will participate in dance classes with professional teaching artists, learning movement concepts that culminate in student performances.
Children's Dance Theatre University of Utah
Salt Lake City, UT
$39,000
To support the Virginia Tanner Creative Dance Program's Side-by-Side Teacher Training Residency. Students in kindergarten through sixth grades and their teachers will acquire and practice dance skills on a weekly basis, create performance works, and assess, both formally and informally, their own skills levels based on the state standards in dance.
Chula Vista Elementary School District
Chula Vista, CA
$60,000
To support an expansion of Community of Teachers and Artists (CoTA). The professional development project features side-by-side collaborations of teachers and artists who conceive and implement instruction strategies and methods that integrate the arts into all facets of the elementary school curriculum.
Citizens' Advice Bureau, Inc.
Bronx, NY
$15,000
To support Jams to Hip Hop: The Bronx Music Project. A partnership with the Caribbean Cultural Center, the program will provide music instruction and assembly performances to low-income children and teens in the South Bronx at schools, family shelters, and the Citizen's Advice Bureau community center.
City and Borough of Juneau School District
Juneau, AK
$10,000
To support Prologue, a theater education program. In partnership with Perseverance Theatre, every ninth-grade student in Juneau will study and perform portions of Shakespeare's Henry IV under the direction of professional actors.
City of San Fernando, California
San Fernando, CA
$40,000
To support the Mariachi Master Apprentice Program. Mariachi los Camperos, led by NEA National Heritage Fellow Natividad Cano, will teach sequential, advanced-level mariachi classes held weekly in evening hours for youth, ages 11 to 18, to prepare them for a culminating concert performance and mariachi conference.
COCA - Center of Creative Arts
St. Louis, MO
$35,000
To support the Dance Outreach and Pre-Professional Dance Programs. The activities will provide intensive dance training for low-income students and year-long residencies at elementary schools.
Columbia College Chicago
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support the Picture Me program at the Museum of Contemporary Photography. The after-school mentorship program will take place at three public schools for underserved teens, ages 12 to 18, created in collaboration with Gallery 37/After School Matters.
Community-Word Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$45,000
To support artist residencies in creative writing. Teams of teaching artists, in collaboration with classroom teachers, will work with as many as 915 students, ages 7 to 17, in seven underserved schools to develop creative writing skills.
Conscious Youth Media Crew
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support digital multimedia and video training. Participants will study media literacy, creative writing, film arts appreciation, story development, screenwriting, basic photography, hands-on learning with still and digital video camcorders, sound and lighting equipment, and Final Cut Pro digital editing tutorials.
Corporacion de las Artes Musicales
San Juan, PR
$15,000
To support the youth symphony orchestra after-school and summer programs. Students will participate in music activities for 10 hours a week, including individual instrumental lessons, theory classes, music appreciation classes, study of orchestral repertoire, and rehearsals.
Cultural Education Collaborative, Inc.
Charlotte, NC
$40,000
To support ArtStart. Teachers and teaching artists will collaborate to integrate arts into the curriculum for third and fourth graders.
Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra Association
Dayton, OH
$30,000
To support School Partners with Artists Reaching Kids (SPARK). Partnering with the Kettering School District, musicians will join classroom teachers from area elementary schools to create lesson plans that incorporate music concepts into classroom curricula.
Deaf West Theatre Company, Inc.
North Hollywood, CA
$55,000
To support Dramatic Gestures. Deaf, hard-of-hearing, and hearing elementary and middle school students will experience deaf culture through artist residency activities.
Detroit Adventure
Detroit, MI
$18,000
To support an artist residency program at the Academy of the Americas. Singer and songwriter Julie Beutel, urban poet David Blair, and artists from the Matrix Theatre and Detroit Film Center will participate in classroom residencies for sixth- and seventh-grade students.
Detroit Symphony Orchestra Hall
Detroit, MI
$10,000
To support the Civic Wind Ensemble and Civic Jazz Ensemble. In partnership with Michigan State University's Department of Music, the program will provide pre-professional training to student musicians through participation in wind and jazz ensembles.
Door - A Center of Alternatives, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support The Lab, a music education program. The program will provide instruction in music performance, composition, and appreciation, with a focus on "urban music," such as jazz, rock, and hip-hop, for 50 students, ages 12 to 18,
DreamYard Drama Project, Inc.
Bronx, NY
$40,000
To support Bronx Writes. Professional poets, playwrights, writers, actors, and filmmakers will collaborate with fourth- through eighth-grade teachers in a year-long poetry program in schools, culminating in student poetry events and electronic media portfolios.
Each One Reach One
Pacifica, CA
$18,000
To support the Playwriting Workshop. Designed for incarcerated San Francisco and San Mateo County teenagers, the playwriting and educational tutoring program will pair professional theater artists one-on-one with youths to create and develop original, one-act plays.
East Side Arts Council
St. Paul, MN
$12,000
To support artist residencies in the theater arts. A series of two- to four-week artist residencies and a 10-week, after-school program targeted to students in the fifth and sixth grade (in primarily Latino neighborhoods) will focus on the basic tenets of drama, performance, and script writing.
Education Through Music, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support music programs in inner-city elementary schools. Activities will include weekly classes, performance opportunities, and professional development for teachers.
Educational Video Center
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the Documentary Workshop Program. Using the process of documentary filmmaking as an educational platform, students will learn basic techniques in camera operation, lighting design, and editing to create films about their communities.
El Paso Symphony Orchestra Association, Inc.
El Paso, TX
$15,000
To support youth orchestral music activities. The project includes yearly auditions, weekly rehearsals, master classes, and quarterly concerts for 350 students, starting at age seven.
Epic Theatre Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$36,000
To support the Journeys Series program. As many as 20 artist residencies will take place in New York public high schools, with teaching artists leading students in the study of classical and modern plays.
Family Resources, Inc.
Pinellas Park, FL
$40,000
To support Youth Art Corps. A partnership with the Gulf Coast Museum of Art, the project will provide training and place professional artists in juvenile detention centers, runaway and homeless shelters, and other community-based settings.
Federated Dorchester Neighborhood Houses, Inc.
Dorchester, MA
$30,000
To support Art a la Carte. Professional artists will lead field trips to museums and galleries and provide weekly classes in intermediate and advanced painting, sculpture, photography, computer-assisted art, and African dance for college-bound teenagers who wish to major in the arts.
Figures of Speech Theatre
Freeport, ME
$18,000
To support a theater arts residency program in rural Maine. The series of week-long classroom residencies will focus on the creation and performance aspects of Chinese shadow theater puppetry.
Fine Arts for Children and Teens, Inc.
Santa Fe, NM
$35,000
To support in-depth, visual arts education programs. Components will include ARTreach, an integrated in-school program for students; ARTclub, an after-school arts learning program; ARTbarn, a community-based, year-long program held at FACT's Community Studio; ARTcamp, a summer arts camp; and professional development workshops for teachers.
Firebird Youth Chinese Orchestra
San Jose, CA
$30,000
To support classes in traditional Chinese instrumental music. Youth will receive year-round, weekend lessons and ensemble classes in Chinese music.
Friends of the Arts, Inc
Locust Valley, NY
$35,000
To support Jazz Sampler. Professional artists will lead workshops and residencies in the basic elements and history of jazz for students in kindergarten through sixth grade.
From the Top, Inc.
Boston, MA
$18,000
To support the Make Your Own Radio Show (MYORS) program. Using From the Top's radio show as a model, students chosen from approximately 15 schools in 10 cities will learn all aspects of radio production with guidance from professional musicians and sound engineers.
Glen Ellyn Children's Chorus
Glen Ellyn, IL
$32,000
To support the Ensemble Program and the Honors Chorus Workshop. Year-round choral ensembles at various skill levels will serve as a basis for sequential music education of chorus members.
Grand Canyon Chamber Music Festival, Inc.
Grand Canyon, AZ
$25,000
To support the Native American Composer Apprentice Project. Students will compare and contrast Native American music with European classical music and compose new string quartets that will be performed by the Ethel String Quartet while on tour to reservation schools.
Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras
Boston, MA
$35,000
To support the Incentive Community Program (ICP). Targeted to inner-city and minority youth, the program offers weekly music lessons, ensemble classes, and instrument rental.
Groundswell Community Mural Project, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$30,000
To support the Voices Her'd and Guys Speak Out mural projects. Teenage girls and boys from low-income, underserved areas of Brooklyn will work under a professional artist to study the history, design, and methodology of mural painting.
Harlem Children's Zone, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support The Renaissance University for Community Education (TRUCE) project. Artists-in-residence will lead professional development workshops on arts learning for Harlem Children's Zone staff and also will teach arts classes for youth, ages 12 to 19.
Hmong Cultural Arts, Crafts, Teaching & Museum Projects
Sacramento, CA
$55,000
To support classes in traditional Hmong folk arts. Local artists will lead year-round, after-school classes in pa dao (reverse-appliqué embroidery), the qeej (free-reed aerophone of bundled bamboo pipes), and folk dance movement in preparation for performances and demonstrations at public festivals and other community events.
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$55,000
To support whole-school dance programs in elementary schools. With Oak Park School District 97, Hubbard Street dance company will create dance education programs at six elementary schools.
In Progress
St. Paul, MN
$15,000
To support The Critical Eye, a digital arts project. Targeted to underserved youth in six culturally diverse communities in the Twin Cities metro area, including Hmong, Native American, Latino, and African American communities, the program will teach youth to create art using new technologies such as digital photography, digital video cameras, and computer software applications.
IndepenDANCE, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$20,000
To support the Stepping Stones dance program. Professional dance instructors will teach weekly, after-school dance classes for 200 students, ages 3 to 16, at community sites around the region, primarily in underserved urban neighborhoods.
Indiana Symphony Society, Inc.
Indianapolis, IN
$20,000
To support Arts Everyday. Serving six schools in four school districts, the music education program is expected to provide in-school arts instruction for 2,700 elementary students and more than 130 classroom teachers.
Inner-City Arts
Los Angeles, CA
$60,000
To support Arts in the Middle (AIM), a theater and literacy immersion program. In partnership with Los Angeles Unified School District, AIM is targeted to students at the Berindo Middle School who lack sufficient English language skills to achieve academic success.
Inside Out Community Arts, Inc.
Venice, CA
$35,000
To support continuation of The School Project. The after-school and weekend theater-based arts program will serve middle and high school students from the Los Angeles Unified School District.
InsideOut Literary Arts Project, Inc.
Detroit, MI
$10,000
To support writing residencies and puppetry workshops. The program will provide as many as 25 weekly creative writing workshops, lead by an InsideOut writer-in-residence, to approximately 180 students in six classrooms in two Detroit public elementary schools.
Institute for Arts and Humanities Education
New Brunswick, NJ
$40,000
To support Pixel Nation, a media arts education project. The program is designed to teach at-risk teens all aspects of digital and video filmmaking through an interdisciplinary curriculum that emphasizes hands-on learning and art making.
J.B. Speed Art Museum
Louisville, KY
$20,000
To support the Art Explorer Program. Designed and implemented in partnership with Jefferson County Board of Education, the program will use a range of interactive experiences to engage elementary students in the visual arts, literature, and humanities.
Jack Straw Foundation
Seattle, WA
$15,000
To support Do Tell: Multicultural Family Stories, a media arts education project. Developed and implemented in partnership with SouthEast Effective Development, the project will involve students creating oral history-based audio vignettes and radio theater about family stories and cultural celebrations.
Jackson Symphony Orchestra Association
Jackson, MI
$20,000
To support JSO Goes to School. Students will work with composer-in-residence Dr. Jonathan Bruce Brown and musicologist Anna Celenza to explore and create music in an eight-week music composition program.
Junior Players Guild
Dallas, TX
$20,000
To support Passing Zone Partnership, an after-school program of arts classes in theater, visual arts, dance, creative writing, and music. Elementary school students will attend classes held in 21st Century Community Learning Center sites in the Dallas Independent School District.
Just Buffalo Literary Center, Inc.
Buffalo, NY
$20,000
To support Picturing Poetry. Implemented in partnership with the Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Art, the program will introduce students to poetry and photography, including the creation of collaborative works of art and a student forum for the free-flow exchange of ideas.
Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey, Inc.
Kansas City, MO
$32,000
To support AileyCamp and AileyCamp/The Group. Both dance education programs will be organized in partnership with the KAW Valley Arts & Humanities, Inc. AileyCamp is an intensive summer dance program of jazz, tap, modern, and ballet; The Group is a continuation of the summer training that takes place during the school year.
Kids on the Hill, Inc.
Baltimore, MD
$15,000
To support a visual arts education program for high school-aged youth. Led by teaching artists, youth will meet weekly after school during a 12-month period to study drawing, painting, metal fabrication, sculpture, photography, and video production.
Levine School of Music
Washington, DC
$10,000
To support Early Childhood Music. The 30-week program is designed to incorporate musical activities that also will support the development of young children's cognitive abilities and their social skills.
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$60,000
To support the Focus Schools Collaborative. Professional development training led by Lincoln Center artists will be offered to classroom teachers who will be implementing the whole-school arts integration programs in their respective schools.
Los Angeles County Arts Commission
Los Angeles, CA
$60,000
To support the Arts for All Residency Program. A partnership with the Los Angeles County Office of Arts Education, the project will assist participating school districts county-wide to develop artist residencies in music, dance, and visual arts for students in kindergarten through 12 grade.
Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts
Old Lyme, CT
$15,000
To support the ArtReach visual arts education program. Scholarships will be made available to underserved children to strengthen their pre-college portfolio, enhancing their competitiveness in college applications.
MacPhail Center for Music
Minneapolis, MN
$50,000
To support Pathways to Performance. The program will provide students, ages 6 to 14, weekly music lessons and opportunities to perform.
Maine Alliance for Arts Education
Augusta, ME
$40,000
To support Building Community Through the Arts. An experienced professional theater or dance educator will teach sessions for high school students, leading to the creation and performance of an original short drama or dance movement work by the students.
Marcus A. Foster Educational Institute
Oakland, CA
$10,000
To support Higher Ground, an after-school program in African stilt dancing. The Prescott Circus Theatre (a youth ensemble of the Institute) will place in residence professional artists to provide training in African stilt dancing for elementary school children.
Marwen Foundation, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$25,000
To support the Studio Program, a visual arts education project. Students from underserved public schools will receive after-school visual arts classes and portfolio-building development opportunities.
Master Chorale of Washington, Inc.
Washington, DC
$10,000
To support the Partners in Peace All-City Honors Chorus Education Initiative. The 10-week program of choral music instruction and humanities lessons for middle- and high-school students will culminate in a free concert at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
Maui Community Arts & Cultural Center
Kahului, HI
$50,000
To support Telling Our Stories: The Past Is Our Future. A partnership with the Maui District State Department of Education, the project will involve kumu hula (hula teacher) Pono Murray and his group Aheleakala in a residency to teach students about the long history of Hawaiian story telling and poetry as interpreted through chant, dance, drama, and music.
Metropolitan Opera Guild, Inc.
New York, NY
$42,000
To support the Opera Institute. Students and classroom teachers from 15 elementary and middle schools throughout New York and New Jersey will explore the operatic art form through the study of great operas and the creation and presentation of their own opera.
Minnesota Center for Book Arts
Minneapolis, MN
$25,000
To support By Design, a visual arts mentorship program for disadvantaged teenagers. Professional artists will lead after-school workshops in the art of bookmaking and guide youth participants through the process of creating a book to display in a culminating exhibition.
Minnesota Orchestral Association
Minneapolis, MN
$38,000
To support the UPbeat music education program. Partnering with Minneapolis Public Schools, the orchestra will introduce every third-grade student in the Minneapolis Public School system to Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov's orchestral work Scheherazade through teacher workshops, classroom visits by orchestra musicians, and in-depth curriculum materials.
Missoula Writing Collaborative
Missoula, MT
$25,000
To support a writing residency program. The project will place writers in rural, low-income, and/or tribal reservation schools for seven-month weekly writing sessions with students, ages 7 to 18.
Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit
Detroit, MI
$75,000
To support the Ensemble Training Program. Professional actors and teaching artists will provide students with intensive acting, vocal, and technical theater training, leading to the creation and performance of an original musical.
Motion Media Arts Center
Austin, TX
$34,000
To support the Austin School of Film's Youth Program, activities designed to advance media literacy. With guidance from professional media artists, students will learn all aspects of filmmaking and will create, present, and distribute their work.
Museum of Chinese in the Americas
New York, NY
$30,000
To support Community Stories: A Documentary Photography Project. Youth will document their own communities through the art of photography by exploring themes relevant to the museum and the Chinese community.
Museum of Northwest Art
La Conner, WA
$30,000
To support the MoNA Link Program. Students will participate in multiple museum visits, receive hands-on lessons, and exhibit their work; teachers will participate in a five-day summer institute and throughout the year receive ongoing training and mentoring from museum staff.
Museum of Photographic Arts
San Diego, CA
$15,000
To support the Exposures Program. Planned in collaboration with the San Diego County Office of Education and San Diego City Schools, the free, multi-session program will incorporate critical thinking and visual literacy and integrate photography with history and language arts.
National Dance Institute New Mexico
Santa Fe, NM
$37,000
To support the Albuquerque In-School Program. Students in the third through sixth grades from Albuquerque schools will receive weekly, in-school dance classes and an opportunity to participate in a culminating production at the National Hispanic Cultural Center's Roy E. Disney Theater.
National Dance Institute, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support dance instruction and performance programs. Designed to provide sequential dance training through ensemble performances, classes will be offered to advanced and motivated students taught by professional artists trained in the Institute's teaching methods.
New York Youth Symphony, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support Making Score. The project will consist of a series of educational courses designed to introduce aspiring young composers to fundamental principles of music composition.
Opera Carolina
Charlotte, NC
$10,000
To support Music!Words!Opera! Professional artists and technicians will work with students in the classroom to write and produce an original opera.
Opera Theatre of Saint Louis
St. Louis, MO
$50,000
To support Artists-In-Training. A partnership with the University of Missouri at St. Louis, the program will provide opportunities for urban high school students to pursue individual vocal coaching from professional voice teachers.
Orlando Opera Company, Inc.
Orlando, FL
$30,000
To support opera education activities. The company will present in-school performances in 100 schools and youth concerts (for all third- through fifth-grade students) at Bob Carr Performing Arts Center, support the Orlando Youth Opera program, and conduct opera residencies.
Our Time Theatre Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the Teen Play Project. The theater arts instruction program is targeted to teenagers who stutter.
Outside In Productions
Santa Fe, NM
$20,000
To support Youth With Promise. A partnership with El Museo Cultural de Sante Fe, the program will offer classes in dance, guitar, and visual arts for incarcerated youth and after they have been released.
Patricia M. Sitar Center for the Arts
Washington, DC
$20,000
To support the Instrumental Music Education Project. Professional musicians will provide after-school, free one-on-one instrumental music lessons targeted to inner-city students.
Pegasus Players
Chicago, IL
$15,000
To support an expansion of the Young Playwrights Festival (YPF). The semester-long playwriting program at Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. College Prep High School will provide opportunities for youth to study works by American playwrights and create plays of their own.
Performing Arts Center of Los Angeles County
Los Angeles, CA
$76,000
To support the Music Center's Arts Capacity Team Project (ACT 3). Teams of teachers, artists, and school administrators will collaborate to advance arts learning for students, while building school capacity to implement standards-based arts instruction.
Philadelphia Mural Arts Advocates
Philadelphia, PA
$50,000
To support the Mural Arts Program (MAP). Activities will include the Big Picture after-school mural-making program for youth, ages 10 to 14, and Mural Corps for students, ages 14 to 21.
Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
To support the New York Philharmonic's School Partnership Program. A partnership with the New York City Department of Education, the program involves third- and fifth-grade students in workshops held by professionally trained teaching artists.
Phillips Collection
Washington, DC
$65,000
To support Art Links to Literacy, a museum education project. Targeted to underserved elementary students, and in partnership with Turning the Page, the project will include a family workshop series, professional development for teachers, and student art exhibits.
Pillsbury United Communities
Minneapolis, MN
$20,000
To support continuation of the Pillsbury House Theatre's Chicago Avenue Project. Professional playwrights, actors, and directors will work with inner-city children to create theater productions focused on themes relevant to students' lives.
PlatteForum
Denver, CO
$18,000
To support ArtLab. Teenagers will work beside practicing poets, photographers, and visual and media artists two to three days a week for 10 weeks during the school year, and in the summer will assist the artists as mentors for younger children.
Playwrights Project
San Diego, CA
$25,000
To support Write On! Underserved eighth- and ninth-grade students will work with teaching artists in their classrooms to create original plays - a means also to improve students' reading skills and their vocabulary.
Plaza de la Raza Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$35,000
To support the Mariachi Mentorship Program. Members of Monumental de América, under the musical direction of Juan Jose Almaguer, will teach after-school and weekend classes in mariachi history and culture, music dictation, singing, and performance.
Project New Urban Arts
Providence, RI
$25,000
To support the Youth Mentorship Program and the Teaching Artist Residency Component. The project is based on a community plan that enables young emerging artists to design and implement arts initiatives as mentors to high school students in after-school and summer studio arts programs in the visual and literary arts.
Project STEP, Inc.
Boston, MA
$65,000
To support the String Training and Educational Program (STEP). Targeted to gifted African American and Latino children, ages 6 to 18, activities are designed to prepare the students for professional careers in classical music as concert soloists, teachers, and/or orchestral players.
Public Corporation for the Arts of the City of Long Beach
Long Beach, CA
$40,000
To support Eye on Design, a neighborhood public art education program of the Arts Council for Long Beach. In the second of a three-year project, third-grade students will attend field trips to historic houses and view public art in the neighborhood; learn about public art, architecture, and design; and design their own public art works and build maquettes.
Purple Silk Music Education Foundation, Inc.
Oakland, CA
$45,000
To support the Great Wall Youth Orchestra and Chorus. Children and youth will participate in weekly, beginner, and advanced individual lessons in Chinese music and group ensemble classes.
Raw Art Works, Inc.
Lynn, MA
$40,000
To support Real to Reel, a media arts education project. Underserved teens will learn all aspects of narrative and documentary filmmaking.
Reel Stories Teen Filmmaking, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$35,000
To support The Lab. Students, ages 15 to 19, recruited to participate in free, after-school filmmaking workshops, will produce short documentaries about their lives under the mentorship of professional filmmakers.
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
$45,000
To support Jazz Infusion Education and Performance activities of the Young Musician's Program. Complementing existing classical music training, the program will provide students with year-round instruction, including a seven-week intensive summer workshop, and master classes and rehearsals throughout the school year.
ReStart, Inc.
Kansas City, MO
$35,000
To support Arts at ReStart, a media arts education project. Professional artists will lead year-round, weekly after-school and weekend classes that will explore media literacy, video production, and issues of personal identity for children who live in shelters for homeless families.
Richmond Ballet
Richmond, VA
$30,000
To support Minds in Motion (MIM). Created in partnership with the Valentine Richmond History Center, the 28-week program will introduce as many as 1,500 fourth-grade students to dance movement, performance skills, and choreography.
Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the Rush Gallery in the Schools program. Students from two Brooklyn schools will learn all aspects related to managing a contemporary art gallery.
Ryman-Carroll Foundation
Los Angeles, CA
$45,000
To support pre-professional drawing and painting classes and the Outreach Drawing Workshop Series. Teens from Los Angeles will receive tuition-free studio instruction by master artist-teachers.
Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra
St. Louis, MO
$30,000
To support Adopt-A-School. The program includes orchestral musicians and staff presenting a 12-week music education curriculum to second-grade students in four urban schools, and transporting them to Powell Symphony Hall for educational concerts.
San Francisco Art and Film Program
San Francisco, CA
$18,000
To support continuation of the Teen Film Workshop. The project is designed to prepare students for film school and train them for future careers in the film industry.
San Francisco Art Institute
San Francisco, CA
$40,000
To support City Studio. At each of three sites, an SFAI faculty member and a group of approximately 15 students will work with professional artists to study photography, digital media, game design, and architecture.
San Francisco Arts Commission
San Francisco, CA
$40,000
To support the WritersCorp program. Professional artists will teach creative writing to at-risk youth in underserved public schools.
San Francisco Ballet Association
San Francisco, CA
$40,000
To support Dance in Schools and Communities. Implemented with the San Francisco Unified School District, the residency program will provide free, interactive movement and music instruction to as many as 3,500 students in second through fourth grade and their teachers.
San Francisco Girls Chorus, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support the Music Education and Outreach Program. The project will provide an introduction to choral singing and serve as the foundation for the concert performance and touring ensembles.
San Francisco Symphony
San Francisco, CA
$50,000
To support the Artist Development Program. The program will provide students with coaching, apprenticeship, mentorship, and specialized training in chamber music, instrument care, and auditioning techniques.
Seattle Arts & Lectures
Seattle, WA
$40,000
To support Getting the Word Out. The project will advance student writing through publications, recordings, readings, performances, and collaborations with community partners.
Seattle Opera
Seattle, WA
$40,000
To support Opera Goes to School. In partnership with the Auburn Arts Commission, the project involves Seattle Opera staff, teaching artists, and professional singers teaching students about opera during week-long residencies at eight elementary schools.
Seattle Repertory Theatre
Seattle, WA
$75,000
To support Bringing Theater Into the Classroom. A partnership with the Seattle Children's Theatre, the program will provide classroom residencies in which professional artists and teachers combine theater education and concepts of literacy into their classroom curriculum.
Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestras
Seattle, WA
$10,000
To support the Academic Year Orchestral Program. Students will gain music skills from sectional coaching, weekly orchestral rehearsals, and mentoring activities provided by the Seattle Symphony musicians.
Settlement Music School of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA
$20,000
To support the Advanced Study Program. The tuition-free program provides students with pre-professional musical training through individual study classes, collaborative efforts with professional musicians and composers, and performance opportunities.
Shakespeare & Company, Inc.
Lenox, MA
$50,000
To support Shakespeare in Action, a theater arts residency program. The series of classroom and after-school sessions will focus on a language-based exploration of a Shakespearean play through master classes, rehearsals, text analysis, and student performances.
Shakespeare Festival/LA, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$35,000
To support Will Power to Youth (WPY), a partnership with Richmond Shakespeare (VA). At-risk youth from Richmond's Gang Reduction and Intervention Program will adapt Romeo and Juliet to be performed for the general public.
Sloss Furnaces Foundation, Inc.
Birmingham, AL
$63,000
To support the Sloss Youth Apprenticeship program. High school students from the Birmingham area will apprentice with professional artists to create cast-metal sculptures.
Snow City Arts Foundation
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support creative writing, music, and visual arts workshops for hospitalized children. Working alongside professional artists, the children who participate will receive classroom credit for their accomplishments, in accordance with an agreement reached with the Chicago Public Schools.
Southern Exposure
San Francisco, CA
$35,000
To support Mission Voices. The project will focus on arts-based community development by pairing local artists with underserved teens at the Columbia Park Boys and Girls Club of San Francisco.
Spy Hop Productions, Inc.
Salt Lake City, UT
$15,000
To support the Youth Documentary Arts Program. The project will include Reel Stories, a summer documentary filmmaking workshop; Documenting Communities, a year-long exploration of communities; and Loud and Clear, a youth-produced radio program.
Street-Level Youth Media
Chicago, IL
$30,000
To support Street-Level at My Museum. During various in-school, after-school, and summer workshops, elementary school students will create media art works for display at the Chicago Children's Museum.
Strings for Schools, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$30,000
To support Exploring Ourselves and Our Cultures. In an ongoing partnership with the Clay Studio and Philadelphia Young Playwrights, the program will provide music, playwriting, and ceramic arts classes to students in kindergarten through eighth grade.
Tacoma Art Museum
Tacoma, WA
$15,000
To support Youth Connect: Tacoma Art Museum High School Internship Program. After studying with museum staff, 11th-and 12th- grade high school interns will provide elementary or home-school classrooms with art-based lessons and will serve as docents for a museum tour.
TADA! Theater and Dance Alliance, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support expansion of the Musical Theater Writing Residency. The program will integrate social studies topics with the writing, rehearsal, and performance of an original musical by fourth and fifth graders under the tutelage of teaching artists and their regular classroom teachers.
University of Kentucky Research Foundation
Lexington, KY
$15,000
To support the Asian Folk Music Outreach Program. Resident ethnomusicologists Han Kuo-Huang and Cecilia Wang and visiting experts, including Pat Sheehan Campbell, Marvelene Moore, and Judith Tucker, will lead professional development workshops for fifth- and sixth-grade public school teachers.
University of Wyoming
Laramie, WY
$50,000
To support the Ann Simpson Artmobile and a summer teachers institute. Using the resources of the traveling artmobile, students throughout the state will study original visual artwork, interact with visiting artists and scholars in the classroom, and participate in hands-on art making activities.
Venice Arts In Neighborhoods
Venice, CA
$50,000
To support the Arts Mentoring Program, a visual arts education project. Free photography workshops for underserved youth will be offered after school and during summer months.
Video Machete
Chicago, IL
$15,000
To support Global Youth multimedia workshops. Targeted to immigrant youth, the project will include in-school, after-school, and summer training in digital video production, graphic design, and Web design.
Virginia Avenue Project
Santa Monica, CA
$23,000
To support the writing and performing programs, One-on-One and Playmaking. Area youth will connect with professional artists through activities such as mentoring, workshops, a summer camp, and public performances.
Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts
Newcastle, ME
$25,000
To support the MudMobile, a van comprising a mobile ceramics gallery and resource center. The traveling services will include visits to as many as 24 schools throughout Maine in support of ceramics workshops at elementary and middle schools and artist residencies in four rural high schools.
Wellpinit School District #49
Wellpinit, WA
$18,000
To support the development of a Native American arts curriculum. Tribal elders will teach basketry, plateau flute, and drumming lessons, incorporating the curriculum into other academic subjects.
Westhab, Inc.
Elmsford, NY
$30,000
To support StoryArts. Classes in theater, video documentation, music, and visual arts will be offered to youth, ages 7 to 18, who live in homeless shelters and transitional or permanent low-income housing.
Wild Space, Inc.
Milwaukee, WI
$10,000
To support Dancing Aloud. Students and teachers from four Milwaukee Public School sites will participate in a dance residency program in which they will create original dances based on stories from their reading curriculum.
William A. Farnsworth Library & Art Museum, Inc.
Rockland, ME
$20,000
To support Building Bridges, a visual arts mentoring program. Organized in partnership with the Island Institute, teenage youth who live on isolated islands in Penobscot Bay off Maine's mid-coast will be paired with professional artist-mentors to develop skills in painting and drawing.
Williams College
Williamstown, MA
$18,000
To support continuation of Kidspace, a visual arts education project. Designed in conjunction with the Clark Art Institute, the program offers students the opportunity to study and make visual art under the direction of professional artists and provides teachers the opportunity to attend numerous training workshops.
Wisdom of the Elders, Incorporated
Portland, OR
$20,000
To support curriculum development for workshops in Northwest Native American arts. Nancy Nusz (Director of the Oregon Folklife Program of the Oregon Historical Society), Dr. Don Addison (Choctaw ethnomusicologist), and six tribal artists will develop workshops in storytelling, carving, music, and dance targeted to underserved youth in Oregon and Washington tribal communities.
WNYC Radio, Inc.
New York, NY
$60,000
To support Radio Rookies, a media arts education program. Open to young people from across New York City's five boroughs, the program will provide training in all aspects of radio production.
Writers In the Schools
Houston, TX
$50,000
To support WITS Impact: Creative Writing for Teachers and Students. Professional writers will provide in-service training for teachers and year-long creative writing workshops for approximately 1,200 students in 36 elementary and middle schools.
Young Audiences of Indiana, Inc.
Indianapolis, IN
$45,000
To support Young-at-Arts. In partnership with the Day Nursery Association, professional artists who are trained and experienced in early childhood arts education will lead age-appropriate learning experiences in music, dance, theater, and visual arts.
Young Men's & Young Women's Hebrew Association
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the Musical Introduction Series. The project involves classroom artist residencies, live musical performances by professional musicians at the 92nd Street Y, and post-performance discussions for New York City school children.
Young People's Chorus of New York City, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
To support the Partner Schools Program. At-risk students, ages 8 to 18, will participate in after-school choral music education activities.
Youngstown State University
Youngstown, OH
$10,000
To support Telling My Story. Students in the 7th through 12th grades from the Adams Alternative School will study photography, writing, reading, and recording, and as the culminating activity, they will create a book of photographs and a CD of their oral memoirs.
Youth Radio
Berkeley, CA
$40,000
To support the Arts and Culture Desk. Professional journalists and producers will lead training sessions on arts reporting and media production skills targeted to underserved youth, ages 14 to 18.
Youth Speaks, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$40,000
To support Chapter ONE (Oral Narrative Experience). Urban youth in San Francisco and Oakland will participate in literary arts workshops, performances, and publication opportunities as part of the school day and after-school hours.
Number of Grants: 171 Total Amount: $5,291,000
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