2002 Grant Awards: Challenge America: Positive Alternatives for Youth

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

ALABAMA

Gateway
Birmingham, AL
$5,000
To support a partnership project with VSA arts of Alabama to provide after-school visual arts workshops for students ages 12 to 18 with severe emotional and behavioral problems who live in a residential treatment facility. Students will be instructed in drawing, painting, sculpture and print making, while developing social skills such as greater self-awareness.

Huntsville Housing Social Services
Huntsville, AL
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Huntsville Housing Authority Cultural Arts Conservatory, Huntsville Art League, Huntsville Museum of Art, and the Second Mile Pre-School to provide weekly visual arts classes to pre-school aged children who live in Huntsville's public housing communities. The program includes visits to the Huntsville Museum of Art and access to the museum's educational programs.

Total Dollars Awarded: $15,000
Total Grants Awarded: 2

ALASKA

Perseverance Theatre, Inc.
Douglas, AK
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Tinglit and Haidda Housing Authority, Yaakoos Alternative School, Juneau School District, Tlinglit and Haida Healthy Nations, Juneau Boys & Girls Club, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Juneau, Juneau Young Families Program, and Juneau Youth Services to assist the 2002 STAR program. The STAR program will provide summer training in acting, directing and playwriting for students, ages eight to 18, who live in a rural, isolated area of Alaska.

Total Dollars Awarded: $10,000
Total Grants Awarded: 1

ARIZONA

Arts Express, Inc.
Tucson, AZ
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Arts Express, Tucson Unified School District, and the Tucson Symphony Women's Association to assist the Fine Arts Youth Academy, a four-week summer program. Students will participate in band, orchestra, Mariachi, folklorico music, choral music, visual arts and drama activities led by Joan Ashcroft, Director of Fine and Performing Arts for the Tucson Unified School District.

Grand Canyon Music Festival
Grand Canyon, AZ
$5,000
To support a partnership project with the Grand Canyon Music Festival and the Heard Museum to provide a Native American composer-residency for Native American students, ages 15 to 18, in the Phoenix area. Composer and member of the Mohican Nation, Brent Michael Davids, will work with 15 to 20 students to compose music for string quartet, with selected works performed in public at the Heard Museum.

Total Dollars Awarded: $15,000
Total Grants Awarded: 2

ARKANSAS

Fort Smith Symphony Association, Inc.
Fort Smith, AR
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Fort Smith Public Schools and its Orchestra Parents for the implementation of the third year of the symphony's youth orchestra program. Students, many of them from low-income households, rehearse once a week after school throughout the fall and participate in two culminating performances playing side-by-side with orchestra members.

Total Dollars Awarded: $10,000
Total Grants Awarded: 1

CALIFORNIA

24th Street Theatre Company
Los Angeles, CA
$5,000
To support a partnership project with the University of Southern California's Family of Five Schools (including the 32nd Street/USC Performing Arts Magnet, Foshay Learning Center, Norwood Street Elementary, Vermont Avenue Elementary, and Leticia B. Weems Elementary) to assist the After 'Cool program. This project will engage 300 children, ages eight to 15, living in the Pico Union and South Central Los Angeles neighborhoods in five, eight-week theater workshops under the direction of professional actors and writers.

Alameda County Office of Education
Hayward, CA
$10,000
To support a partnership project with ASCEND School, Museum of Children's Art, Oakland Youth Chorus, and the Bay Area Coalition of Equitable Schools to provide artist-teacher collaborations to develop a standards-based curriculum integrating music and visual arts with other core subjects. The selected artists will lead arts instruction for approximately 320 children, grades K through seven, for two hours per week during the academic year.

Armory Center for the Arts
Pasadena, CA
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Navarro Avenue Tremond Howard Association to assist ten students, ages 15 to 22, to receive job training as apprentice art educators at a community-based arts center in a high minority area of Northwest Pasadena. Students will participate in training workshops, observation sessions and gain employment as artists' assistants near the end of the yearlong project.

Arts Council of Napa Valley
Napa, CA
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Playground Fantastico Design & Youth Committees and Nuestra Esparenza CLARO/CLARA Programs to provide a tile design and mural installation project in a neighborhood park located in the Ridgeview area of Napa, an economically disadvantaged Latino community. Thirty students ages 13 to 15 will participate in two, three-week workshops throughout the summer led by a professional tile artist.

California Traditional Music Society
Tarzana, CA
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Los Angeles Unified School District #6 to expand its Folk Music in the Schools program to reach 10,000 children in 10 elementary schools located in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods. A series of folk music, dance and storytelling presentations, the project will expand knowledge of the folk and traditional arts throughout the school year.

Dramatic Results
Long Beach, CA
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Garfield Elementary School and Long Beach Unified School District to provide after-school multidisciplinary instruction for 48 academically low-achieving students, ages nine to 12. Classes will be held for four, 12 week sessions with an artist-to-student ratio of four to one.

Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center
San Pablo, CA
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Dover, J.O. Ford, Lake and Peres elementary schools that will train six Latino students to teach and mentor while assisting in an after-school traditional Mexican music program for younger children. Training sessions will take place three days per week and culminate in part-time teaching positions with LCMAC.

Madera County Arts Council
Madera, CA
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Housing Authority of the City of Madera, Madera Opportunities for Resident Enrichment and Services, City of Madera Redevelopment Agency, and the Madera Downtown Association that will help an existing after-school mural planning and production project include elementary school aged children who live in public housing. The mural project will engage students and children in developing art skills while exploring the cultural history of Madera.

Marin Interfaith Youth Outreach
San Rafael, CA
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Latin Film Festival of the San Francisco Bay Area for the Youth in Film/Video Project that will provide 30 students, ages 17 to 20, with yearlong, after-school instruction in film and video editing and production. Between six and 10 new films will be created by the student participants and debuted at the Latino Film Festival, which attracts more than 7,000 attendees each year.

Media Arts Center San Diego
San Diego, CA
$5,000
To support a partnership project with the Metropolitan Area Advisory Committee on Anti-Poverty for the Teen Producers Project to provide after-school media arts education program including media literacy workshops, video production, and family screenings for 45 ethnically diverse children living in public housing. Fifteen students will participate in each of three, 12-week sessions culminating in the presentation of video projects to more than 200 community members.

Nevada Joint Union High School District
Grass Valley, CA
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Artists' Alliance of California, Artsnet/Australia, Nevada Union High School & Partnership Academy, Nevada County Arts Council, and Nevada County Juvenile Hall to support Art-Bytes, a year-long arts and technology program for students living in the geographically isolated area of western Nevada County. The program supports Art-Bytes Net Radio, an interactive, online station offering access to music, literature, visual arts exhibitions and the performing arts

Northern Valley Catholic Social Service
Redding, CA
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Old City Hall Arts Center-Shasta County Arts Council to provide after-school and summer visual arts and literary arts instruction for students living in transitional housing. Students engage in a variety of art activities such as mask-making, ceramics, painting, journaling and writing taught by arts instructors selected by the Shasta County Arts Council.

Performing Arts Workshop Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$5,000
To support a partnership project with the Hamilton Family Center to provide 10 artist residencies serving more than 150 students living in two San Francisco homeless shelters. Professional artists will lead multiple, one-hour classes in dance, theater and creative writing over a 12-month period.

San Diego Youth & Community Services, Inc.
San Diego, CA
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the San Diego Playwrights Project; Lamb's Players Educational Outreach Program Theatre; La Jolla Playhouse, Diversionary Theater; and Stone, Paper, Scissors to provide dramatic arts and mentorship training to approximately 10 teenage students. Students will perform plays and lead discussions about social issues of importance to teens resulting in 10 performances.

Shakespeare - San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the East Bay Conservation Corps; San Jose Department of Parks, Recreation and Neighborhood Services; The Ark Refuge; and Morrill Middle School to implement Midnight Shakespeare, an in-depth study of Shakespeare for youth in economically diverse neighborhoods in San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose.

Sherman Heights Community Center Corporation
San Diego, CA
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Combined Organizations for the Visual Arts and Collaborativo SABER to provide after-school workshops in painting, drawing, sculpture and mural design led by artist Jean Cornwell. Sixty teenage students will participate in the 45-week session to develop their artistic skills and prepare for an exhibition of their work.

Southern California Asian American Studies Central, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Little Tokyo Service Center Community Development Corporation to provide media arts instruction in animation, video production and graphic design during an intensive two-week program called Community Arts Boot Camp.

Theatre of Hope, Inc.
North Hollywood, CA
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Los Angeles Family Housing and Traditional Living, and the Strathern Court HUD Section 8 Housing Project to provide a 12-week summer and visual arts workshop series for teenage students. Sessions will provide professional instruction in areas such as script development, improvisational skills, dance and set design culminating in a performance of their work.

United Cambodian Community, Inc.
Long Beach, CA
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Cambodian Association of America to assist the Cambodian Community Fold Dance Project, a 30-week series of Cambodian folk dance workshops for students in K through twelfth grades taught by master dancer Phang Chamrouen. Students will learn traditional dance forms characteristic of Cambodian art.

University of California at Santa Barbara (on behalf of Isla Vista)
Santa Barbara, CA
$5,000
To support a partnership project with the University of California at Santa Barbara's Office of the Isla Vista, Art Studio, and Art Museum; and Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum to provide an after-school visual art and art history program, known as Viva el Arte, for 20 fifth and sixth grade students. Students will discuss 20th century art history, visit art museums and create works of their own one afternoon per week throughout the entire school year.

Total Dollars Awarded: $180,000
Total Grants Awarded: 20

COLORADO

Arts Alive Fort Collins
Fort Collins, CO
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Larimer Center for Mental Health and Larimer County Department of Human Services to provide after-school instruction in the visual arts for students between the ages of nine and 16 who have histories of abuse, delinquency or emotional problems. Students will work with an artist/therapist throughout the summer and school year to express their emotions through the arts and share their imaginations with the community.

Aspen Ballet Company & School
Aspen, CO
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Glenwood Springs Elementary School, Sopris Elementary School, and Glenwood Springs Middle School to provide an after-school traditional Mexican folk dance program offering dance instruction to over 120 predominantly Latino students in fourth through tenth grades. Students will perform in the community, including at a Cinco de Mayo festival in western Colorado.

Business of Art Center
Manitou Springs, CO
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Hillside Community Center, West Center for International Learning, FutureSelf, and Big Brothers Big Sisters to provide a year-long, after-school sequential youth development program for 45 teenage girls. Girls will be paired with a professional female artist to study theatre, visual art, dance and folk art as a means to building stronger self-images and learning skills including problem solving and teamwork.

Colorado Children's Chorale
Denver, CO
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Denver Public Schools to assist the ninth year of the Chorale Conservatory partnership that brings chorale conductors into eight economically disadvantaged areas of Denver. Musicians will also collaborate with teachers to strengthen teaching skills and lesson plans to meet curriculum goals.

Durango Latino Education Coalition
Durango, CO
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Durango Arts Center to expand an after-school modern Latin and Mexican folklore dance group for students from Durango's Hispanic community. Approximately 30 students will participate in weekly rehearsals and performances that improve skills in folkloric dance, connect young people with community artists, and broaden the community's access to the Mexican dance heritage.

Kim Robards Dance, Inc.
Denver, CO
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Teen Quest and the Denver Area Youth Services to assist the Crafting Confidence Through Kinetic Connection project artist residency program linking professional dancers with incarcerated teenage girls.

Su Teatro
Denver, CO
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Adams County School District 14 to provide after-school theater training for teenage students to develop a touring theatrical show based on traditional Teatro Chicano performance pieces, songs and storytelling.

Total Dollars Awarded: $70,000
Total Grants Awarded: 7

CONNECTICUT

Amistad Foundation, Inc.
Hartford, CT
$5,000
To support a partnership project with Connecticut Transit to provide for Art-on-the-Go, an after school project for 10 teenage African American students to assist in the design of advertisements for the Amistad Foundation. The ads will be placed on the outside of 228 area transit buses. Throughout the project, students will learn about the foundation's collection and work with professional museum staff, graphic designers, marketing specialists and art educators to design and produce professional advertisements.

Artists Collective, Inc.
Hartford, CT
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the New England Cognitive Center to assist a summer job training program that provides instruction in computer graphics and imaging, silk screening, cartoon illustration, and writing and publishing skills. Students will learn a variety of computer based art-making tools and then combine their illustrations with original written material to produce a personal book documenting their new skills.

Farmington Valley Arts Center, Inc.
Avon, CT
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Southend Community Services (Our Piece of the Pie) to provide an after-school program for students who live in the Connecticut State Department of Children and Families residential facility and school. Students will work with professional artists and business trainers to design, produce and market visual art works as part of the school's efforts to utilize the arts as a tool for education, behavioral and emotional therapy, and recreation.

Hartford Children's Theatre, Inc.
Hartford, CT
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Organized Parents Make a Difference to provide an after-school theater workshop program for up to 120 students in six schools. Participating students live in low-income households in the Hartford area.

International Performing Arts, Inc.
Bridgeport, CT
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Burroughs Community Center, St. Ann's School, Longfellow School, and Harborview Market to provide an after-school music education program to teach up to 30 middle school students about world music and cultural history. Master teaching artists from Africa, Asia and the Americas will lead weekly instruction, and perform for students and their families at 24 concerts throughout the school year.

Music and Arts Center for Humanity, Inc.
Bridgeport, CT
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Bridgeport Board of Education, Workplace, Lighthouse, Progressive Training, and Casey Family Services to provide job training project for approximately 100 teenage students to work as apprentices with professional artists in eight studios. Students will receive training in a variety of disciplines, including graphic design and illustration, photography and music in addition to courses in job readiness.

New Haven International Festival of Arts & Ideas, Inc.
New Haven, CT
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Dixwell, Dwight, Fair Haven, Hill, Newhallville and West Rock neighborhoods to enable the Visions 7 Voices Artist Residencies program to provide up to 300 students the opportunity to work with professional artists as they create public art pieces for display in each neighborhood. The pieces will become a permanent part of each community's landscape and contribute to their economic and social vitality.

Total Dollars Awarded: $65,000
Total Grants Awarded: 7

DELAWARE

Possum Point Players, Inc.
Georgetown, DE
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Sussex Academy of Arts and Sciences to implement a high school theater curriculum. Students live in the rural area of Sussex County where cultural resources are limited and many households are low income.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

D.C. Creative Writing Workshop, Inc.
Washington, D.C.
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Charles Hart Middle School that will assist three writers-in-residence to offer workshops and training for every English teacher and weekly creative writing instruction for every English class in southeast D.C. neighborhoods. The project will reach 600 students and culminate in the publication of three issues of a literary magazine.

Dance Institute of Washington
Washington, D.C.
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the National Park Service, Perry School Community Services Center, KanKouran West African Dancers/Drummers, Planned Parenthood, Women Investing in a Secure Retirement, American Lung Association, George Washington University Medical Center, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and College Bound to provide job training for teenage students in the performing arts, arts management and stage production.

Historical Society of Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Shaw EcoVillage Eco Design Group to provide a job training program for teenage students. Students will work with graphic artists and design professionals to develop a visual marketing campaign and public art proposals for selected areas in or around a Washington, D.C. subway route. Students will explore the importance of good design to public projects, their city's cultural history, and the skills needed to find solutions for community problems.

Total Dollars Awarded: $30,000
Total Grants Awarded: 3

FLORIDA

Cathedral Arts Project, Inc.
Jacksonville, FL
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Spring Park Elementary School and West Jacksonville Elementary School to provide after-school instruction in the visual arts for up to 360 students in elementary schools in low-income neighborhoods of Jacksonville. Classes will be held twice a week and provide students with a strong foundation in the visual arts.

City of Wildwood
Wildwood, FL
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Maddads of Wildwood, Boys & Girls Club of Lake and Sumter Counties, Wildwood Police Department, Young Performing Artists, and the Steele Organization to provide multidisciplinary arts instruction for 50 students who live in a rural area with limited cultural resources. Courses will be offered throughout the summer and after-school hours for students to learn technical art and develop critical thinking skills.

Family Worship Center
Gainesville, FL
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Gainesville Community Playhouse, Acrosstown Repertory Theater, Alachua County School Board, and the City of Gainesville to assist Art Academies, an after-school multidisciplinary arts program serving students living in low-income households. The expanded program will include one new eight week workshop with classes in dance, theater, vocal performance and the visual arts.

Florida Division of Historical Resources
Tallahassee, FL
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Duval, Leon, Saint Johns and Orange Counties Public Schools to provide the Educator/Artist Inreach Project, a series of professional development workshops in traditional music and dance for elementary school teachers. In-school performances for students will take place in up to 10 schools in low income communities in rural and urban areas throughout Florida. As a result, teachers will acquire skills to better teach folklife studies and students will gain knowledge of folklife in their communities.

Hippodrome State Theatre, Inc.
Gainesville, FL
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Alachua Halfway House and Hipprodrome's Improvisational Teen Theatre Program to provide after-school theater workshops for girls in a residential commitment facility for female juvenile offenders. For seven weeks, artists will work with participants to teach the principles of group ensemble work and improvisation as they explore critical life issues. Students will also develop greater communication skills, cultural awareness, team cooperation and dramatic skills.

Magnet Educational Choice Association, Inc.
Miami, FL
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Arts for Learning/Miami, Miami-Dade County Public Schools, Young Audiences, Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, and Florida International University for the Middle School Arts Integration Initiative for a program that integrates the arts with the middle school curriculum through artist and teacher collaboratives. Up to five artist residencies in multidisciplinary programs will take place throughout the school year.

Norton Gallery and School of Art, Inc.
West Palm Beach, FL
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Boys and Girls Clubs of Palm Beach County, Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office, Martin County Parks and Recreation Department, and the City of Bell Glade Housing Authority for Progressive After School Art Community Education to provide up to 500 students, ages 5 to18, with visual arts instruction in neighborhood community centers and frequent museum visits.

Total Dollars Awarded: $70,000
Total Grants Awarded: 7

GEORGIA

Apple Corps, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$5,000
To support a partnership project with the Atlanta Public Schools that will provide for the South East Young Artists Enrichment Project, an after-school visual arts program for students who live in the economically disadvantaged southeast and inner city areas of Atlanta. Throughout the school, professional artists will lead studio arts classes supplemented by regular weekend visits to area museums by students and their families.

Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Bethune Elementary School, Operation Peace, Morehouse College, Spellman College, and Georgia State University's Department of Art Education that will enable the Family History Artbook Project, a 12-week after school project using the visual arts as a tool to help fourth-and fifth-grade students learn about their communities, families, and personal histories. Mentors from Morehouse and Spellman Colleges will assist students in developing their interviewing skills and assembling their materials for publication.

Independent Media Artists of Georgia, Etc., Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the IMAGE Film & Video Center and VSA arts of Georgia that will implement MEDIA, the Media Education Initiative Atlanta, a three to four month series of media arts workshops for teenage students who have limited access to media production expertise or equipment. Students will receive hands-on training in production technology, as well as internship opportunities at Atlanta area production companies. The project will culminate in the screening of each student's film at the 2002 Atlanta Film & Video Festival.

VSA arts of Georgia, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Atlanta Area School for the Deaf, Georgia Academy for the Blind, and the Georgia School for the Deaf that will provide visual and theater residencies in three schools for 120 students who have disabilities. Professional artists will collaborate with teachers and school administrators to increase students' access to quality arts instruction.

Young Audiences of Atlanta, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$5,000
To support a partnership project with Girls Inc. of Greater Atlanta that will provide two four week multidisciplinary artist residencies during Girls Inc.'s 2002 summer camp. More than 480 economically disadvantaged, culturally diverse girls will participate in visual arts, dance and storytelling activities led by professional female artists.

Total Dollars Awarded: $40,000
Total Grants Awarded: 5

HAWAII

Hui No'eau Visual Arts Center
Makawao, HI
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Hui Malama Learning Center, The Alternative Learning Center, Maui Youth and Family Services, Horizons Academy, and the Maui Farm to provide visual arts instruction for 13 to18 year olds who reside in rural Maui County. Participating youth come from low-income families in which, for many, English is a second language.

Maui Academy of Performing Arts
Wailuku, HI
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Maui Arts & Cultural Center, Hana Arts, and public schools in Hana, Molokai, and Lanai (Maui County), to implement Stepping into Story Through Drama, a program of drama instruction for children in Kindergarten to fifth grade in remote areas of Hana, Molokai and Lanai. This four-phase program includes professional development for teachers, in-school residencies and touring productions from the Maui Academy.

Total Dollars Awarded: $20,000
Total Grants Awarded: 2

IDAHO

Buhl Arts Council
Buhl, ID
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Buhl Joint School District, Buhl Chamber of Commerce, Buhl Economic Development Council and the City of Buhl to provide after-school visual arts instruction for youths whose environment includes gang violence and drug use. A series of five six-week sessions in a variety of visual arts media will culminate in a public exhibition.

Total Dollars Awarded: $10,000
Total Grants Awarded: 1

ILLINOIS

Art Resources in Teaching
Chicago, IL
$5,000
To support a partnership project with the Nancy B. Jefferson Alternative School, which is housed within the Cook County Juvenile Correctional Facility that will implement two 11-session residencies in which two murals will be created. Over half of the students placed in the Juvenile Detention Center come from poverty-level neighborhoods and test below level in academic skills.

Chicago Chamber Musicians
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Burr Elementary School located in Wicker Park neighborhood that will implement a music education program for students in all grade levels attending the school. The program consists of weekly instruction, ensemble participation, attendance at in-school ensemble performances by the CCM, and attending CCM First Monday Concerts free of charge with transportation provided.

Community Television Network
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Manley Career Academy, a Chicago public high school in the North Lawndale neighborhood, to provide weekly after-school media arts instruction to low-income African American high school students. Forty five students will receive digital video production and postproduction training during three sessions in the fall, spring and summer semesters.

Garfield Park Conservatory Alliance
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Chicago Public Art Group and Chicago Transit Authority that will engage youth from Chicago's West Side neighborhoods in the creation of a mosaic for a new elevated train station at Garfield Park Conservatory.

Guild Complex
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Young Chicago Authors, Bromley Project and Interfaith Youth Corps that will implement the Writing Through the Prism of Self and Community summer literary program for youth. Forty students from inner-city neighborhoods will participate in the six-week session that will include two evening classes per week led by two instructors and four youth apprentices who are alumni of the program.

Pros Arts Studio
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Dvorak Park, Casa Aztlan, Mujeres Latinas En Accion, and Chicago Access Network Television that will implement Teen Express: Arts Workshops for Youth, a program of arts instruction for youths in the inner city Latino community in the Pilsen neighborhood. Instruction through Teen Express will be offered in three different community site: Clay Studio will be offered at Casa Aztlan; mural painting will be offered at Dvorak; and Video Pen Pals will be offered at Mujeres Latinas en Accion.

Rockford Area Arts Council
Rockford, IL
$10,000
To support a partnership with the New American Theatre and Rockford Public School District that will provide job training for up to 60 teenage students who live in rural areas surrounding Rockford. Students will work as apprentices for professional artists in a number of arts disciplines and gain in-depth artistic training as well as basic job skills.

Street-Level Youth Media
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Uhlich Children's Home that will provide digital design workshops through use of after school drop-in media studio. Street-Level's staff of professionally trained media artists will teach approximately 40 low income inner-city youths to use digital design tools and software programs.

Sun Foundation for Advancement in the Environmental Sciences and Arts
Washburn, IL
$5,000
To support a partnership project with Blue Heron Farm, Regional Superintendents of Public Schools, and the Illinois Arts Council that will implement a one-week summer arts camp serving approximately 325 children, ages seven to 18, from the upper Illinois River Valley. Students will participate in classes in the visual and performing arts taught by professional artist-instructors that will culminate in student exhibitions, presentations and performances.

Total Dollars Awarded: $80,000
Total Grants Awarded: 9

INDIANA

Bloomington Juvenile Correctional Facility, Indiana Department of Correction
Bloomington, IN
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Indiana University Creative Learning Center to provide yearlong multidisciplinary arts instruction for students, ages 13 to18, living in a residential juvenile offender facility.

Interaction Theater, Inc.
Indianapolis, IN
$5,000
To support a partnership project with The Rise Extended Living Shelter that will provide theater training, especially improvisational acting, for children living in this shelter for battered families. Instruction will be offered on a weekly basis during after-school hours to youths living in the shelter, and counselors will be available to provide support to program participants.

Young Audiences of Indiana, Inc.
Indianapolis, IN
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Marion County Juvenile Detention Center that will provide a series of arts residencies in music, dance, storytelling, visual arts and theater for juvenile offenders. Marion County includes the city of Indianapolis, and most of the youths detained in the center come from inner-city Indianapolis neighborhoods.

Total Dollars Awarded: $25,000
Total Grants Awarded: 3

IOWA

Cedar Rapids Symphony Orchestra Association, Inc.
Cedar Rapids, IA
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Johnson School of the Arts, a public school within the Cedar Rapids Community School District, that will provide in- and after-school music instruction for second- through fifth-grade students. Students attending this school are from a neighborhood of low-income families in which violence and family instability are prevalent.

Civic Center of Greater Des Moines
Des Moines, IA
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Public Library of Des Moines and Heartland Area Education Agency that will help implement the Child's Play Touring Theatre, a theater education program. The program includes professional development for classroom teachers, in-school residencies in which students create stories, songs and poems, and attendance at the performance by the Child's Play Touring Theatre group of the students' works in the Civic Center.

Des Moines Community Playhouse
Des Moines, IA
$5,000
To support a partnership project with the Des Moines Public Schools that will implement Shared Cultures: Telling our Stories/Discovering Out Arts, a two-part program for English as a Second Language youths to improve their new language skills and to build bridges with other immigrants in the community. Students will use the art of storytelling to develop the story of their family's immigration to the United States, and attend a summer day camp in which immigrant artists teach their art.

Riverside Theatre $10,000
Iowa City, IA
To support a partnership project with the United Action for Youth, and provide theater education for youths in predominantly rural Johnson County. Participants will receive weekly after-school instruction during the academic year, concluding with performance festivals of participants' work.

Total Dollars Awarded: $35,000
Total Grants Awarded: 4

KANSAS

Alaadeen Enterprises, Inc.
Overland Park, KS
$5,000
To support a partnership project with the Oregon Trail Junior High, Olathe North High School, and Santa Fe Trail Junior High that will provide a two-week residency and associated performances, by Ahmad Alaadeen, a jazz master of the Kansas City style. Mr. Alaadeen will hold workshops with the schools' jazz bands and individual musicians and discuss his experiences and jazz history with larger student groups. In addition, the Oregon Trail band will perform with Mr. Alaadeen at nine elementary schools and all three school bands will join for a final public performance in the historic jazz district in Kansas City.

Total Dollars Awarded: $5,000
Total Grants Awarded: 1

KENTUCKY

Americana Community Center, Inc.
Louisville, KY
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Kentucky Theater Project, Iroquois High School, Iroquois Arts Association, and the City of Louisville Office of International and Cultural Affairs to implement a 19-week summer and after-school music and theater program for 36 immigrant and refugee secondary school students. Participating students will learn the fundamentals of performance art, musical theater and poetry while developing an original musical theater production based on their own multicultural experiences to bridge language and cultural barriers.

Appalshop, Inc.
Whitesburg, KY
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Appalachian Regional Education Network and Letcher, Cordia, Fleming and Whitesburg high schools to provide seven artist residencies in eastern Kentucky high schools. Professional media artists will lead one to two weeks of instruction in photography, video, sound art and bookmaking to strengthen literacy.

Carnegie Visual & Performing Arts Center, Inc.
Covington, KY
$5,000
To support a partnership project with the Islamic Education Council, Insight Communications, and The Artery for A Child's Eye View, to provide a 10-week series of multidisciplinary immersion workshops introducing 50 children and youths to Islamic culture and history through the arts. Each workshop will be videotaped for broadcast on a northern Kentucky television station.

Clay County District Cooperative Extension Education Fund
Manchester, KY
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Clay County Public Library, Clay County Public School District, and the Eastern Kentucky Storytelling Guild to provide multidisciplinary, after-school workshops for approximately 700 students living in the rural and economically disadvantaged eastern area of Clay County. Instruction in a variety of media, including music, creative writing, and the visual arts, will take place in family resource centers of nine elementary schools and the public library to provide quality arts instruction to children living in a culturally isolated community.

Richmond Area Arts Council, Inc.
Richmond, KY
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Madison County Schools, Eastern Kentucky University, and the Kentucky Arts Council to provide multidisciplinary, after-school workshops for 115 elementary school children who live in a largely rural and isolated region. In addition to the workshops, 40 students will participate in a program of instruction in playing violin, viola and cello.

Total Dollars Awarded: $45,000
Total Grants Awarded: 5

LOUISIANA

Louisiana Arts & Science Center, Inc.
Baton Rouge, LA
$5,000
To support a partnership project with the Arts Council of Greater Baton Rouge to provide visual arts workshops to 500 youths, ages four to 13, during weekends and non-school days. This project will provide reduced or free attendance and promotion materials to reach underserved areas.

Young Aspirations/Young Artists, Inc.
New Orleans, LA
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Why Five Studios, Delgado Community College, Louisiana Children's Museum, and Historic New Orleans Collection that will implement Art-pentry, an interior design and production program during summer and after-school hours for high school students. Ten students will be selected to train in furniture, fabric, accessory and other design disciplines to create a prototype child's bedroom that will be installed in the Louisiana Children's Museum.

Total Dollars Awarded: $15,000
Total Grants Awarded: 2

MAINE

Bates College
Lewiston, ME
$5,000
To support a partnership project with the United Baptist Church, The Dance Center, and Lewiston School District to conduct the Youth Arts Program, providing an intensive three-week summer contemporary dance and music program for up to 70 students living in rural Maine. Students will attend the Bates Dance Festival and perform in two public concerts.

Center for Cultural Exchange
Portland, ME
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Temple Watt Samaki, Portland Public Schools, Portland Housing Authority, and Cambodian Arts and Scholarship Foundation that will implement "Dance in the Diaspora," a series of summer classes in Cambodian classical and folk dance for 35 Cambodian immigrant students in grades K through 12. The program culminates in a public performance at the 2003 Cambodian New Year Festival.

Community Health & Counseling Services
Bangor, ME
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Department of Probation and Parole of Penobscot County, Levant School, Maine Arts Commission, Maine Alliance for Arts Education, Robinson Ballet, and the Children's Cabinet to provide after-school multidisciplinary arts workshops for up to 80 students, grades four to five, living in rural Maine.

Johnson Hall, Inc.
Gardiner, ME
$5,000
To support a partnership project with the Boys and Girls Club of Greater Gardiner and the Gardiner Public Library to provide six weeks of after-school performing and visual arts instruction to approximately 30 middle school-aged students.

Total Dollars Awarded: $30,000
Total Grants Awarded: 4

MARYLAND

Center Stage Associates, Inc.
Baltimore, MD
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Fusion Partnerships, Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, Paul Laurence Dunbar High School, St. Frances Academy and Notre Dame Preparatory School to implement the Recasting the Circle/Encountering the Dimensions of Community program for high school students from diverse backgrounds in Baltimore City and County. Project participants will receive weekly instruction throughout the school year, and are provided with opportunities to work with guest artists and ultimately create an original play at Center Stage.

House of Mercy, Inc.
Baltimore, MD
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Hampden Family Center, PhotoWorks, and the American Friends Service Committee to provide after-school photography instruction for students in the communities of Hampden and Poppleton. Photographers Marshall Clarke and Uli Loskot will teach students camera techniques and darkroom skills, encouraging students to explore their creativity. Ultimately students will create exhibits of their photographs, a book about their communities and two group media messages that will be shown on billboards in Baltimore City.

Total Dollars Awarded: $20,000
Total Grants Awarded: 2

MASSACHUSETTS

Angkor Dance Troupe, Inc.
Lowell, MA
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Big Brothers/Big Sisters of Greater Lowell, the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, and Lowell National Historical Park to provide after-school and summer instruction in traditional Cambodian dance to inner-city youth, many of whom are the children of Cambodian refugees of the Khmer Rouge holocaust. Three world-renowned master teachers and five assistant teachers will provide instruction.

Community Art Center, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Boston University College of Communication Alumni Office, Cambridge Community Television, Cambridge Housing Authority's Work Force and Office of Workforce Development to provide for a three-phase project of media arts instruction. Student participants who come from low-income families will work in teams with visiting media artists in curating a film festival, producing original videos, photographs, and computer designs, and participating in an intensive summer creative workshop.

Fuller Museum of Art
Brockton, MA
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Brockton Alliance for Youth, Massachusetts Cultural Council Youthreach Initiative, and the Brockton Community Schools that will train teen-age girls to be docents at the Fuller Museum of Arts, employing them as museum interpreters for fourth-and fifth-grade girls, and mounting an exhibition on the theme of healthy self-esteem. Since 1996, the Brockton Alliance for Youth has trained Teen Docent Program participants in making healthy choices, such as avoiding teen pregnancy, HIV prevention, and resisting peer pressure.

Partners for Youth with Disabilities, Inc.
Boston, MA
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Until Tomorrow Productions, Boston Center for Independent Living, and VSA arts of Massachusetts that will implement Access to Theater, a summer institute for teenage students with disabilities. Students will be mentored by adult artists with disabilities and work together to develop theatrical skills and enhanced self-confidence.

Raw Art Works, Inc.
Lynn, MA
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the AT&T Broadband that will provide instruction in the art and technology of digital video. Project participants will create short films individually and in teams that will tell the stories of their lives and their views of life. Final films will be screened at RAW Space and through the local cable channel at AT&T Broadband.

SMARTS Collaborative
Attleboro, MA
$5,000
To support a partnership project with Learning by Design, Taunton Public Schools and Southeastern Regional Planning and Economic Development District: Taunton Heritage River Program, to provide a design charette involving 20 Parker Middle School students working with architects, planners and an art educator to define design problems at sites along the Taunton River and develop design solutions. The 25-hour charette will take place in and after school to provide students with opportunities to use the design process and literacy skills to formulate and express their ideas about their local environment.

Worcester Center for Crafts, Inc.
Worcester, MA
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Grafton Street and Lincoln Street Elementary Schools that will provide CraftReach, a program that brings students to the Worcester Center for Crafts for hands-on studio activities directly related to history and social studies curricula. CraftReach will directly serve approximately 160 urban, low-income minority students in the fourth, fifth and sixth grades.

Total Dollars Awarded: $65,000
Total Grants Awarded: 7

MICHIGAN

Matrix Theatre Company, Inc.
Detroit, MI
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Belle Isle Nature Center, The Greening of Detroit, Detroit Summer, and Detroit Recreation Department to provide a theater-based experience for 15 urban teenagers from various ethnic backgrounds from Detroit's Empowerment Zone. Participants will engage in puppetry, theater, visual arts and environmental workshops with other urban children and youth to prepare a performance about the history of the ecosystem and envision a new play about the future of Detroit's ecosystem.

Michigan Opera Theatre
Detroit, MI
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Marygrove College and InsideOut to provide instruction for children and youth from low-income, inner-city neighborhoods through Learning at the Opera House, a nine-week summer program of classes and workshops.

Petoskey Theatre Festival
Petoskey, MI
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Visions of Peace Drum and Dance Company, VSA arts of Michigan, Concord Academy and the City of Petoskey Department of Parks and Recreation to provide arts instruction and performances for children and youths in rural northern Michigan. Activities include a summer arts day camp, family performances, a daylong arts discovery festival for special needs students, and an artist mentoring program for high school students with special needs.

Wild Swan Theatre
Ann Arbor, MI
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Taylor Teen Health Center and Michigan Media Production that will provide a 16-week after-school workshop for fifth- and sixth-grade students, in which students will collaboratively create and perform an original play. Sessions will be held in The Clubhouse, a meeting place in the public housing community where most of the participants live. The culminating performance will be videotaped for broadcast on public access television.

MINNESOTA

Anishinaabe Center
Detroit Lakes, MN
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Holms Community Center that will implement a mural project for Native American youth who are members of the Young Warrior Society. Sponsored by the Anisinaabe Center in Detroit Lakes, a rural community, the project will involve local community members and an artist to design and paint a mural in the newly opened Holmes Community Center.

Center for Hmong Arts & Talent
St. Paul, MN
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the McDonough Homes and the Mt. Airy housing site that will provide an after-school program offering classes in various arts disciplines for up to 500 Hmong and non-Hmong students. Students will participate in studio arts classes as well as participate in museum visits in the Twin Cities area.

Guthrie Theater Foundation
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
To support a partnership project with two alternative high schools, Tower View Alternative High School in rural Minnesota and The Connection Center in urban Minneapolis, that will guide students in the creation of original dramatic works through the residency program, Stories on Stage. Over three weeks during the summer session, a Guthrie teaching artist, together with teachers at each school and a teaching assistant, will lead workshops for a group of up to 20 students in each school.

Mixed Blood Theatre Company
Minneapolis, MN
$5,000
To support a partnership project with YouthCARE, City of Minneapolis Summer Youth Employment and Training Program, to provide youth with summer apprenticeships in which they attend technical theater workshops, tour local theaters, colleges and universities, meet with a mentor from the business community, and create and perform a fully mounted production.

Saint John's University (on behalf of Fine Arts Programming)
Collegeville, MN
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Cantus, Saint John's Boys Choir, and Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Minnesota that will pilot a weeklong summer choral workshop culminating in a final performance for students in surrounding rural communities. The artistic directors of both Cantus and the Saint John's Boys Choir will direct choral activities.

University of Minnesota-Twin Cities (on behalf of City Songs)
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Community Celebration of Place, Music Tech, Rondo Community Education Center, and Talmud Torah Hebrew Day School that will provide music and dance instruction and performance opportunities for children from Twin Cities low-income neighborhoods. Participants attend twice weekly after-school rehearsals, participate in approximately 20 public performances for local organizations, and attend field trips to cultural institutions and events.

Total Dollars Awarded: $55,000
Total Grants Awarded: 6

MISSISSIPPI

Foundation for the Revitalization of Artesia, Mississippi, Inc.
Artesia, MS
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Columbus-Lowndes Parks and Recreation Department, Columbus Arts Council and the Town of Artsia that will implement residencies by Blues musician Johnnie Billington and drummer and storyteller Charles "Wsir"" Johnson. The residency program takes place after school and children and youths from isolated areas will be provided transportation to and from the classes.

Total Dollars Awarded: $10,000
Total Grants Awarded: 1

MISSOURI

Bethel German Communal Colony, Inc.
Bethel, MO
$5,000
To support a partnership project with Missouri State Old Time Fiddler's Association, Shelby County Communities Taking Action, University of Missouri Outreach and Extension, and Old Time Fiddling and Dance Network that will implement a summer youth fiddle camp and festival. Selected students, many from rural areas across the country, will study with master musicians, and learn traditional folk tunes handed down from generation to generation, as well as learn jig and square dancing techniques.

Center of Contemporary Arts
St. Louis, MO
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Adams Elementary, Langston Middle and Blewett Middle Schools in the St. Louis Public School District to provide in school residencies by four nationally-known artists exhibiting in the Center of Contemporary Art (COCA) gallery. Artists Amos Kennedy, Joyce Scott, Adriane Herman and Brian Reeves will be paired with COCA artist-instructors in providing instruction to fifth- through eighth-grade students from low-income families from inner-city neighborhoods.

City of Columbia, Missouri, Office of Cultural Affairs
Columbia, MO
$5,000
To support a partnership project with Columbia Public Schools, Parks and Recreation Department and Voluntary Action Center to implement the Columbia's Art Related Experience Gallery that provides cultural work training and life planning instruction for selected junior and high school students who are economically, socially and academically disadvantaged.

Coterie, Inc.
Kansas City, MO
$5,000
To support a partnership project with Kansas City Public Schools, Blue Valley Public Schools and area private high schools to implement the Young Playwrights' Project of after-school playwrighting workshops and seminars, which are led by a professional playwright. The culminating event, Young Playwrights' Festival, is a professional staged reading of students' works.

Kansas City Ballet Association, Inc.
Kansas City, MO
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Primitivo Garcia World Language School, Gladstone Academy, and St. Francis Xavier Elementary School to provide dance classes to fourth- and fifth- graders in coordination with their classroom teachers. The participating schools are in low-income neighborhoods with large Hispanic and African American populations.

Kansas City Friends of Alvin Ailey, Inc.
Kansas City, MO
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Kaw Valley Arts and Humanities, Inc. and Unified School District (USD) 500 that will conduct Ailey in Action, a series of weekly dance workshops throughout all five high schools and eight middle schools in USD 500. Approximately 2,100 students from each of the 13 schools will participate in four eight week sessions.

Total Dollars Awarded: $45,000
Total Grants Awarded: 6

MONTANA

Custer County Art & Heritage Center
Miles City, MT
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the schools in Custer County, Big Horn Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, and the counties of Carter, Prarie, Fallon, Garfield, Powder Rier, Rosebud and Treasure to provide in-school workshops with visiting visual artists for 900 kindergarten to eighth-grade students. The area covered by this project covers nine counties and 24,000 square miles.

Holter Museum of Art, Inc.
Helena, MT
$10,000
To support a partnership project with three Helena School District high schools to provide artist residencies in Native American drumming and dance, painting and poetry for Native American, academically at-risk youth from rural and low-income neighborhoods.

Missoula Community Access Television, Inc.
Missoula, MT
$10,000
To support a partnership project with The New Crystal Theatre and Missoula County Public Schools to implement a program that includes collaboration between media artist Mary Canty and five English and social studies teachers. The program will include participation by 150 students, and the resulting production will be aired twice a month by Missoula Community Access Television with a potential audience of 22,000 households.

Missoula Writing Collaborative
Missoula, MT
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Two Eagle River School, Lone Rock School, and Lowell School that will place four writers in weekly residencies during the school year. This project serves youth from Salish and Kootenai tribes, Hmong and transient communities from the rural low-income areas around Missoula.

Piegan Institute, Inc.
Browning, MT
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Sundance Institute's Native American Program to provide workshops in digital video led by Darren Kipp and Sundance Fellows that will reach 20 youths. The workshops will be screened at the Sundance Film Institute in 2004. The project uses filmmaking and Blackfeet language to help the youth participants explore the social life of the community.

Whitefish Community Theatre
Whitefish, MT
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Muldown, Bissell and West Glacier Elementary Schools and the Whitefish PTA that will provide after-school theater workshops for third and fourth graders and for children ages eight to 14 during a summer camp. Youth participants are from rural, low-income communities in Flathead County in northwest Montana.

Young Men's Christian Association of Billings
Billings, MT
$10,000
To support a partnership project with 45 rural schools in Montana and northern Wyoming to provide day-long intensive workshops in various art forms and Poets on the Prairie intensive writing workshops at four high schools in or near Billings.

Total Dollars Awarded: $70,000
Total Grants Awarded: 7

NEBRASKA

Friends of Lied/Lied Center for Performing Arts - Nebraska
Lincoln, NE
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Omaha Nation School District and the University of Nebraska Teachers College that will develop a kindergarten to twelfth grade arts education program for the tribal school district.

Total Dollars Awarded: $10,000
Total Grants Awarded: 1

NEVADA

Youth ArtWorks
Reno, NV
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Sierra Arts Foundation, Reno Police Department, Nevada Museum of Art, Northwest Reno Library and the Nevada Festival Ballet to implement cultural job training program for teens. Participants will receive training in mural painting, dance, writing and printmaking.

Total Dollars Awarded: $10,000
Total Grants Awarded: 1

NEW HAMPSHIRE

Friends of the Music Hall
Portsmouth, NH
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the New Hampshire Theater Project, Portsmouth Middle School and Portsmouth Alternative School to provide a summer artist residency program for youth in music, dance, playwriting, production and marketing, culminating in a public performance. Portsmouth Alternative School serves emotionally and learning disabled students.

Moving Company Dance Center
Keene, NH
$5,000
To support a partnership project with ACTING OUT (a drama program of Monadnock Family Services), Keene Institute of Music and Related Arts, Colonial Theater and City of Keene Youth Services Division to conduct a summer program in dance theater for youth ages nine to 15 living in rural southwestern New Hampshire.

Total Dollars Awarded: $15,000
Total Grants Awarded: 2

NEW JERSEY

Communities In Schools of New Jersey, Inc.
Newark, NJ
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Rutgers University, Newark Department of Visual and Performing Arts, Communities in Schools of Newark and the Essex Division of Cultural and Historic Affairs to provide after-school classes in urbanscape drawing, art exhibition and marketing during fall and spring, and summer employment in public arts and greeting card design.

Community Agencies Corporation of New Jersey
Newark, NJ
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Arts Horizons, Inc. and the City of Newark Board of Education to provide after-school workshops in improvisational theater, dance, mask making and songwriting for third and fourth graders in Newark. Arts Horizon and school health clinic staff will select students.

Institute for Arts and Humanities Education
New Brunswick, NJ
$10,000
To support a partnership project with New Jersey State Museum, State Theater, Paper Mill Playhouse, Growing Stage Theater, and Wheaton Village that will provide arts and career training for youth's ages 14 to 18 from rural and inner city neighborhoods of New Jersey at a summer institute. The institute will lead to a late summer performing arts tour, fall internships, and a public event in the winter.

Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company, Inc.
Fort Lee, NJ
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Harlem School of the Arts Dance Department for weekend workshops in Asian American heritage and arts.

Newark Museum Association
Newark, NJ
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Children's Hospital at Newark Beth Israel Medical Center that will provide an ongoing artist residency by children's book illustrator E.B. Lewis at Newark Museum. The artist will work with high school interns to create personally illustrated books leading to an exhibit at the Children's Hospital.

Perkins Center for the Arts
Moorestown, NJ
$10,000
To support a partnership project with St. Joseph's Pro Cathedral School and the Boys and Girls Club of Camden County to provide twice weekly after school classes in computer graphics at the Perkins Center for youth ages six to 11. Additional classes will be held in papermaking, wood sculpture, painting and other visual arts for student's ages 11 through 15 at the Cathedral School.

Suburban Community Music Center, Inc.
Murray Hill, NJ
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company, Union County Division of Cultural and Heritage Affairs, Housing Authority of the City of Elizabeth, and Boys and Girls Club of Elizabeth to conduct after-school classes in modern dance and vocal and instrumental music for children ages seven to 13. The participants live in public housing in predominantly low-income, African-American and Hispanic neighborhoods.

Young Audiences of New Jersey
Princeton, NJ
$5,000
To support a partnership project with Homefront, a social service agency for Trenton homeless families or those making transition back to a home, that will support the month long Ennis Beley Project summer photography project named after an innocent youth killed in a drive-by-shooting in the 1990s.

Total Dollars Awarded: $75,000
Total Grants Awarded: 8

NEW MEXICO

National Hispanic Cultural Center of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the INTEL Corporation, Tortuga Project, Los Luna High School and Pueblo of Isleta to provide weekend classes for youth in Adobe Photoshop, computer design, and creation of a 10 foot square mural based on cultural themes relevant to Albuquerque's South Valley, predominantly Hispanic and Native American communities.

New Mexico Symphony Orchestra
Albuquerque, NM
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Albuquerque Public Schools Rio Grande Cluster, Bernalillo County Parks and Recreation, and Albuquerque Technology-Vocational Institute South Valley Campus to provide school-based individual lessons and ensemble music activities. Schools in the Rio Grande Cluster are in mostly rural low-income communities that are 84 percent Hispanic.

Outside In Productions
Santa Fe, NM
$10,000
To support a partnership project with El Museo Cultural, Intermountain Youth Centers, Youth Shelter and Family Services, Cornell/Abraxas Sante Fe County Youth Development Program, and the Sante Fe Boys and Girls Club that will offer weekend lessons in guitar, hip hop dance and aerosol art for juvenile offenders on probation.

Wise Fool New Mexico
Santa Fe, NM
$5,000
To support a partnership project with the Arts for the Heart Studio, Picuris-Peasco Community Coalition, Rocky Mountain Youth Corp, and Rio Arriba Family Care Network to provide summer arts workshops in playwriting, puppetry, mask making, theatrical performance and mural art that interprets traditional Native American and Hispanic stories.

Working Classroom, Inc.
Albuquerque, NM
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Cesar Chavez Community Centers, Albuquerque Department of Families and Children, and Hayes and Van Buren Middle Schools to provide visual arts workshops for approximately 80 Mexican, Vietnamese, African American, Native American, and Anglo middle and high school students.

Total Dollars Awarded: $45,000
Total Grants Awarded: 5

NEW YORK

Bronx Arts Ensemble, Inc.
Bronx, NY
$10,000
To support a partnership project with four Community School District 9 elementary and intermediate schools that will provide in-school music instruction in one of the poorest Congressional districts in the nation. Instruction will be offered in keyboard, violin, recorder, band instruments, drumming and chorus, and will be integrated into the daily curriculum.

Brooklyn Information & Culture, Inc. (on behalf of The Rotunda Gallery)
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
To support a partnership project with PS 190 in Brooklyn that will offer visual arts classes for kindergarten to fifth-grade students from a low-income, inner city area that is 72 percent African American and 27 percent Hispanic. Of the 422 elementary school students, only 12 percent meet state and city reading standards and seven percent meet math standards.

Buffalo Media Resources, Inc.
Buffalo, NY
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the African American Cultural Center to provide weekly workshops in media literacy and digital arts for girls ages nine to 15.

Center for Creative Education
Stone Ridge, NY
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Boys and Girls Club of Kingston and the Kingston Housing Authority to provide after-school classes in West African and Afro-Latino music and dance for youth ages 10 to 17. Most of the student participants are of African or Hispanic descent.

Children's Art Carnival, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Aaron Davis Hall to launch the Urban Stock Pilot Program, a six-week project that will teach teenage youths from Harlem all aspects of theater production. About 25 youth will be paid as interns to develop an original street opera, which will be performed at the end of the project.

Children's Media Project
Poughkeepsie, NY
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Youth Resource Development that will implement an after-school program in media arts production for high school youths leading to production of public service announcements. Youths will work with media professionals.

City Lore, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Public School 11 in Queens that will provide three long-term residencies by traditional dancers Donny Golden, a National Heritage Fellow, and Lu Yu, and folklorists on City Lore's education staff. During the residencies, students will be engaged in research, including conducting interviews and documenting Irish and Chinese history and traditions in the neighborhood. Activities will lead to the creation and presentation of a dance drama.

CITYarts, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Stuyvesant High School Art Club, Parks Department of New York City, and Washington Market Community Park that will conduct the public mural project, Alice in Wall Street Land, emphasizing students' belief in peace despite the events of September 11, 2001. The mural, which will be located 35 Cooper Square in lower Manhattan, will contribute to the rebuilding of New York's spirit.

Community School District 6
New York, NY
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Multicultural Music Group, Inc. to sponsor an orchestral music program for third graders at P.S. 192 in the Hamilton Heights neighborhood in Harlem. Ninety-one percent of the school students are Dominican with the remaining composed of Puerto Ricans, Ecuadorians, Mexicans, African Americans, and Asians.

Community Works
New York, NY
$10,000
To support a partnership project with IMPACT Repertory Theatre and Frederick Douglass Academy II in Harlem that will offer an after school multidisciplinary arts program for students between the ages of 10 and 12. The project is part of a youth leadership project called "Joining Forces."

Dynamic Forms, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support a partnership project with elementary schools in Queens and Manhattan, Clemente Soto Velez Cultural and Education Center, Tribeca Performing Arts Center, and NYC Center for Arts Education to offer dance and creative movement classes to second to fifth grade students. Students in the schools served are 42 percent Hispanic and 20 percent Asian, and 82 percent are eligible for free lunch.

Friends of the Arts, Inc.
Locust Valley, NY
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the National Center for Disability Services, Chechov Theatre Ensemble, Henry Viscardi School for Children with Disabilities, and the Herricks Middle School that will provide a residency to develop theatre and performance skills in a diverse group, coupling disabled students with children without disabilities. During the ten-session residency, students will develop performance techniques, rehearse a script composed of choral teams, and prepare a public performance for the community.

Harlem School of the Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,000
To support a partnership project with The Valley, Inc., that will provide a six-week video workshop for African American, Caribbean and Latino youths in Central Harlem. The participants will create a work about the events of September 11 and how it has affected their lives.

La Troupe Makandal, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$5,000
To support a partnership project with the St. Jude Community Center, Tonel Lakay, and Flatbush Beacon School that will offer after-school classes in traditional music and dance of Haiti in two Caribbean community centers and a school in the African American/Caribbean community of Flatbush in Brooklyn. Master drummer Frisner Augustin, who is La Troupe Makandal's Artistic Director and an NEA National Heritage fellow, will instruct.

Locust Street Neighborhood Art Classes, Inc.
Buffalo, NY
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Colored Musicians Club that will offer weekend classes in visual arts and jazz music for African American youths, ages four to 18, in Buffalo's low-income, inner-city east side.

Manhattan Class Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the New York City Alternative High School that will provide summer theatre classes for students ages 13 to 18.

Manhattan Community Access Corporation
New York, NY
$5,000
To support a partnership project with Sarah Powell Huntington House, a transitional residence to reunify mothers leaving prison with their children, to provide workshops in digital video production. Participants, who are primarily African American and Latina mothers ages 13 to 17, will use their life stories as the theme for films produced in the workshops.

Mill Street Loft, Inc.
Poughkeepsie, NY
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Vassar Warner Home and Poughkeepsie Middle School that will offer classes for teenage girls in writing and visual arts. Participating students will document the lives of elderly residents as the theme for a montage of photography and poetry, part of the Program for Adolescent Student Women of Real Direction, a Mill Loft project for girls socially or economically disadvantaged and/or at risk of delinquent behavior.

Starfish Theatreworks, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Legacy High School and the Board of Education Alternative School Office that will conduct summer teacher training programs and in-school theater arts classes for 25 teenage students. The program, Find Your Voices, is designed for inarticulate teens.

Town Hall Foundation
New York, NY
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Promesa and Seamen's Society for Children & Families that will provide intensive theater workshops for runaway and homeless youths living in transitional homes in the Bronx and Staten Island.

Transart & Cultural Services, Inc.
West Park, NY
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Newburgh Enlarged School District and Back-A-Yard Theatre to provide visual arts classes, led by Jose Ortiz, for predominantly African American and Latino teenage students enrolled in South Junior High School. Newburgh was identified in the U.S. Census and by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development as a high poverty, low-employment area.

Woodstock Youth Theatre
Bearsville, NY
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Woodstock Day Schools that will offer summer theater workshops in West African and Native American drumming and dance for approximately 60 children in rural Ulster County. The workshops will culminate in performances for families.

Total Dollars Awarded: $205,000
Total Grants Awarded: 22

NORTH CAROLINA

Alexander Chamber Foundation, Inc.
Taylorsville, NC
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Hiddenite Center, Department of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the Taylorsville Police Department, and the Alexander County Schools to provide summer classes in furniture making, pottery, cabin design and construction and other art forms representing the heritage of the Appalachian area for middle school youths. Teachers, counselors, and youth authorities in the mountainous rural county in central North Carolina will identify participating youths.

Alleghany County Schools
Sparta, NC
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Mountain Millennium 21st Century Community Learning Center, Alleghany Fiddler's Convention, and Alleghany Arts Council to offer after-school classes for approximately 70 middle school students in low-income Alleghany County. Local traditional musicians will lead classes in Appalachian folk music and audio and video documentation.

Center for Documentary Studies
Durham, NC
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the City of Durham Parks and Recreation Department, John Avery Boys & Girls Club, Durham Schools 21st Century Community Learning Centers, and the West End Community Center that will conduct a six-week intensive summer documentary photography program for teenage youths. Outreach in both English and Spanish by staff at the Center for Documentary Studies along with staff of the community partners will reach three groups of 10 youths from throughout Durham County.

Community School of the Arts
Charlotte, NC
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Siegle Avenue Partners for weekly after-school classes in visual arts that will be led by Community School for the Arts staff artist, T.J. Reddy. Project participants will be youths living in Piedmont Courts public housing and the surrounding community.

Elizabeth City State University
Elizabeth City, NC
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Herrington Village Apartments that will engage Elizabeth City State University art professors to hold a series of after-school visual art lectures for mostly African American youths of varying ages.

Hiddenite Center, Inc.
Hiddenite, NC
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Alexandria County N.A.A.C.P., Helping Hands Cooperative Parish, and the Alexander Juvenile Detention Center that will provide classes in regional traditional arts including pottery, basketry, weaving, woodwork, quilting and square dancing. Six to eight weeks of classes will be offered to students at the Hiddenite Center or Alexander Juvenile Detention Center.

Total Dollars Awarded: $60,000
Total Grants Awarded: 6

NORTH DAKOTA

ArtWise
Grand Forks, ND
$5,000
To support a partnership project with 12 elementary schools in the Grand Forks Public School District and Grand Forks Airforce Base to conduct a program in art history, criticism and aesthetics for students in kindergarten through fifth grade. ArtWise was formed in 1993 by parents who believed that art education is an important part of overall education.

Future Builders in Support of the Trollwood Performing Arts School
Fargo, ND
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Fargo Housing and Redevelopment Authority, Dakota Boys Ranch, North Dakota Juvenile Court, Clay County Joint Powers Collaborative and the Fargo Park District to offer summer arts classes for Bosnian youth referred by social service and youth agencies, juvenile courts, and school staff. Fargo ranks fourth in the nation for the number of resettled refugees per capita, and the Bosnian community now represents a third of the 5,500 refugees who have settled there.

Sleepy Hollow Summer Theatre
Bismarck, ND
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Bismarck Public Schools, Medcenter One, Bismarck Parks and Recreation District, and the Bismarck Tribune to provide instruction in theater arts which will culminate in the production of a summer musical.

Total Dollars Awarded: $35,000
Total Grants Awarded: 4

OHIO

Association for the Advancement of Arts Education
Cincinnati, OH
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Hyde Park Elementary School that will integrate music, dance, theater and visual arts instruction into the kindergarten to eighth grades in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Cityfolk, Inc.
Dayton, OH
$10,000
To support a partnership project with K-12 Gallery for Young People, Artemis Center for Alternatives to Domestic Violence, Antioch College, and the University of Dayton to provide summer teacher development and youth arts workshops, with follow-up classroom arts instruction in the fall.

Cleveland Public Theatre, Inc.
Cleveland, OH
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Youth Development Center at the Hudson Detention Center that will provide theatre arts education for 30 teens that have been charged with misdemeanors. The 13-week program will culminate in a performance for youth peers in the facility.

Great Lakes Theater Festival, Inc.
Cleveland, OH
$5,000
To support a partnership project with The Wallpaper Project that will provide a classroom-based theatre arts program for kindergarten through twelfth-grade students in 14 Auglaze County schools in rural southwestern Ohio.

Mad River Theater Works
West Liberty, OH
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Ben-El Child Development Center and Adriel School that will provide theatre workshops for students, ages six to 18. Project participants are residents in facilities for youth disabled by severe behavioral problems and mental or emotional disorders.

Opera Association of Central Ohio
Columbus, OH
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Columbus Symphony Orchestra and the Columbus Children's Choir to provide instruction in opera. Participants, ages eight to 18, will receive instruction and take part in activities both after-school and during summer camps.

Sunday Creek Associates
Shawnee, OH
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Arts For All, Ohio University School of Film, Holland Community Technology Center, Southern Perry Unified Recreation, and Southern Local School District to provide after-school workshops in digital video production. Participants are children and youths who reside in Shawnee, a rural Appalachian town in Perry County.

Unicorn Players, Inc.
Portsmouth, OH
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Sciotoville Theater Project and Sciotoville Community School to conduct a summer theatre program in Shakespeare for approximately 20 youths ages 12 to 16. The program will culminate in a touring production of Romeo and Juliet in rural Appalachian Sciotoville, Ohio.

Wexner Center Foundation
Columbus, OH
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Department of Art, Advanced Computing Center for the Arts and Design, and Chadwick Aboretum at Ohio State University, the Davis Performing Arts Center, and Center of Science and Industry to conduct summer multidisciplinary arts workshops for children and youth at the Wexner Center.

Total Dollars Awarded: $85,000
Total Grants Awarded: 9

OREGON

Caldera
Portland, OR
$5,000
To support a partnership project with three youth service organizations and two schools that will provide two eight-day summer residencies for approximately 40 children each at a 90-acre rural site in the Cascade Mountains. Professional artists will conduct two classes daily in creative writing, photography, painting, sculpture, performance and African dance and drumming, with additional sessions in conflict resolution and environmental studies. The project purposely combines low-income and minority students from Friends of the Children, Open Meadow Alternative School, and Self Enhancement, Inc., in Portland, with isolated rural youth from the Cascade Youth and Family Center and the Sisters School District in central Oregon.

Central Oregon Community Action Agency Network
Redmond, OR
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Central Oregon Housing Authority and Arts Central that will conduct 15 weeklong summer arts residencies at low-income housing communities in central Oregon. This project provides on-site programming that would otherwise be unavailable to participants in an area with no public transportation.

Eastern Oregon Regional Arts Council, Inc.
La Grande, OR
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Eastern Oregon Arts in Education, Mexican American Citizens League, and Oregon Folklife Program to conduct "Youth on the Move," an after-school and summer folk arts program for Latino children ages 8 to 18 in rural Nyssa, Oregon. National Heritage Award winner Eva Castellanoz will be the principal artist involved in teaching folk arts and traditions to promote a sense of pride in an isolated, low income Mexican-American population concerned with youth gang violence.

Haven Project
Portland, OR
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Worksystems, Inc., and the Portland Art Museum to develop the TEAM Project, which will provide 34 internships for high school students to be mentored for eight months one-on-one by theatre professionals. Students will participate in introductory workshops, complete tasks assigned by mentoring theatre designers, playwrights, and technicians, and assist in all phases of the development of a full-length workshop production.

Lincoln County School District
Newport, OR
$5,000
To support a partnership project with the Oregon Coast Council for the Arts and the Freed Gallery to provide four, three-week after-school artist residencies in the visual arts for 80 students. Underserved children in this entirely rural area will visit galleries and artists' studios, as well as receive hands-on instruction in drawing, painting, collage and mixed media.

Oregon Historical Society
Portland, OR
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Oregon Historical Society/Oregon Folklife Program, Ayala Foundation for Education Equity, Jackson County Library Services, and the Housing Authority of Jackson County to conduct after-school and Saturday artists residencies for youth ages 10 to 19 in traditional Latino arts and culture. Approximately 300 youth in rural southern Oregon will receive instruction in folk dancing, weaving and embroidery, music, and paper flower making from master folk artists.

Portland Art Museum
Portland, OR
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Self Enhancement, Inc., that will implement History on the Line, an after-school and weekend documentary video project for high school students to explore the history and development of their economically disadvantaged, multi-ethnic neighborhoods as they're changed by the opening of rail transit in north Portland. Artists associated with the Northwest Film Center of the Portland Art Museum will mentor about 12 youths in media arts.

Portland Center Stage
Portland, OR
$5,000
To support a partnership project with three Portland High schools to expand the Visions and Voices program, in-school residencies by theatre artists who provide instruction and assist students in expressing their life experiences in short plays, some of which will be performed by professional actors for the public. Portland Center Stage will introduce the nine-week program into two high schools where students are economically disadvantaged or have been unsuccessful in traditional academic surroundings.

RASIKA
Portland, OR
$5,000
To support a partnership project with Oregon Libraries that will present Cultural Bridge of India, a series of three lecture demonstrations during non-school hours in traditional Indian music, dance, and visual arts and crafts. Attendees will observe master artists and performers as well as be encouraged to participate in traditional Indian arts and crafts.

Total Dollars Awarded: $70,000
Total Grants Awarded: 9

PENNSYLVANIA

Arts Centre of York, Inc.
York, PA
$5,000
To support a partnership project with the York County Juvenile Probation Department to conduct ArtWorks! an after-school program in the visual arts for first-time teen offenders. Coupled with life skills workshops, youths will receive instruction in basic design and then develop a group work. This project will support three eight-week sessions for approximately 15 youth each.

Asian Arts Initiative
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Termite TV Collective, to allow two video artists to conduct the Life Stories Video Project. Up to 15 inner-city youth, ages 14 to 19, will receive instruction in video and research techniques in order to document interviews with people in the Asian American community in south Philadelphia. The students will learn about their own community and the resultant 27-minute film will introduce others to the history and culture of the area.

Asociacion De Musicos Latino Americanos, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Taller Puertorriqueno and elementary, middle and high schools in Philadelphia, that will provide non-school hour instruction in Latino music and dance to promote the understanding of Latino and Latino American culture. The program will reach approximately 75 youth not previously served.

Clay Studio
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Philadelphia Youth Study Center, a secured facility for youths who are awaiting trial or are in protective custody, to teach ceramics on-site on weekends in six-week sessions, reaching approximately 250 juveniles during the year. This project teaches core skills, allows youths to express themselves in a disciplined art medium, and creates a unique environment where staff attending the sessions can provide support in a casual, constructive setting.

Congreso De Latinos Unidos, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Taller Puertorriqueno that will provide adjudicated youths with six weeks of daily instruction about Latino artists and culture during the summer. About 30 youths who live in one of Philadelphia's most impoverished communities will attend these visual arts classes. During the school year, the same youth will participate weekly in Expressive Art Therapy sessions, led by a treatment program coordinator and visiting community artists.

COSACOSA art at large, Inc.
Phildelphia, PA
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Nicetown-Tioga Branch of the Free Library of Philadelphia to conduct an after-school multimedia project called Memory Mine. For two months, a steel sculptor, storyteller, and photographer/media specialist will conduct multilingual workshops for youth, ages 10 to 18, from a neighborhood with the highest juvenile arrests in Philadelphia. They will research and document the community's culture and development, culminating in a steel sculpture, an audio theatre piece on CD, and an interactive Web exhibition.

Pennsylvania Youth Theatre
Bethlehem, PA
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Lehigh University, Repertory Dance Theatre, East Hills Middle School, Young People's Phiharmonic/Junior Strings Philharmonic, and the County of Lehigh to provide a wide variety of in- and after-school drama classes, touring shows, dance instruction, and opportunities to design sets and costumes for youth of all ages in eastern Pennsylvania. In addition, this project will support scholarships and ticket subsidies for children who cannot afford instruction or tickets to attend performances of the theatre company.

Philadelphia Folklore Project
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Asian Americans United that will provide after-school instruction in traditional Chinese arts to youth in Philadelphia's Chinatown. Not served by a library, school, or recreation center, and suffering from widespread poverty and racial tension, about 60 neighborhood children will receive instruction by Sifu Cheung in the lion and dragon dance and by Oliver Nie in classical folk dance and singing.

Pittsburgh Opera, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Pittsburgh Filmmakers and the Steel Valley School District that will continue the Behind the Scenes project, which allows high school students to explore some aspects of opera production by creating a video. Filmmakers from Pittsburgh Filmmakers will mentor about 25 students as they select a topic, delve into the opera's archives, interview opera personnel and performers, and shoot video behind the scenes at rehearsals.

Total Dollars Awarded: $85,000
Total Grants Awarded: 9

RHODE ISLAND

Community Musicworks
Providence, RI
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the West End Community Center, Met School, Providence City Arts for Youth, Trinity Encore, and the CVS/Highlander Charter School, that will provide year-long after-school residencies by the Providence Quartet at three community centers and two schools. Members of the Quartet will teach string lessons to approximately 70 students as part of this project, which will primarily African American and Hispanic youths ages seven to 16 from low-income, racially-diverse neighborhoods of Providence.

Newport Art Museum and Art Association
Newport, RI
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Boys & Girls Club of Newport County that will provide after-school arts classes at two community sites and the museum's Center for Creative Studies. Approximately 500 youths ages six to 18 from low income families will receive instruction in various media with professional quality supplies and facilities. A writing and reading component accompany the classes.

Stopover Services of Newport County, Inc.
Middletown, RI
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Tiverton Middle School, Newport Art Museum, and Off the Curb to conduct a multidisciplinary after-school program for youths ages 10 to 14 in Tiverton, a rural community in Rhode Island. Computer animation, hip hop dance, theatre, creative writing and mural painting will be provided twice a week in three eight week sessions to approximately 100 students.

Total Dollars Awarded: $30,000
Total Grants Awarded: 3

SOUTH CAROLINA

Columbia Museum of Art
Columbia, SC
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Bateburg/Leesville School District and Richland School Districts 1 and 2 to implement a summer visual arts camp for approximately 200 students, ages seven to 18. The students live in economically disadvantaged rural and urban areas surrounding Columbia.

Puck's Theatre
Hartsville, SC
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Communities in the Schools/Lee County and the Darlington County School District that will provide after-school theatre, dance, and music instruction to rural youth experiencing developmental and academic challenges. Workshops will be given twice a week in one-month sessions, after which participants will perform a piece related to socially relevant issues.

School District Five of Lexington and Richland Counties
Ballentine, SC
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Cultural Council of Richland and Lexington Counties and the Irmo Chapin Recreation Commission to provide after school programs for third through fifth graders in the District's 21st Century Community Learning Center. Students will work with sculptors commissioned to create a public artwork in the community.

Spartanburg County Art Association (Museum of Art)
Spartanburg, SC
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Junior League of Spartanburg, Spartanburg Housing Authority, and City of Spartanburg to continue the Colors program at the Spartanburg Museum, an after-school project for kindergarten through twelfth grade. Since 1993, this program has provided an open studio for low-income, primarily African American youth, who receive artist-led instruction in drawing, painting, collage and sculpture throughout the school year.

Spoleto Festival USA
Charleston, SC
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Charlestown County School District, Housing Authority of Charlestown, Drayton Hall, Avery Research Center, Historic Charleston Foundation, Middleton Place Foundation and the National Park Service to hire approximately 15 African American and other minority high school students in the Youth Fellows Program. Participants will tour Charleston sites, learn to place their own life experiences in the context of history, and serve as cultural arts and education professionals to interpret the festival's art installation sites and serve as leaders of public discussion.

Sumter County-South Sumter Resource Center
Sumter, SC
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Free Arts Studio, that will provide resources to instruct approximately 40 youth, ages 12 to 25, in visual arts media throughout the year. Seven artist/teachers, joined by teachers and administrators from the Resource Center, will conduct workshops for primarily African American youth who have been referred to the center because they are juvenile offenders or require alternative education programs. The youth will create artwork for senior citizens as well as a community park site.

Total Dollars Awarded: $60,000
Total Grants Awarded: 6

SOUTH DAKOTA

Canton School District 41-1
Canton, SD
$5,000
To support a partnership project with the Theater Department of Augustana College to conduct a summer theater camp for youth in third through eighth grades who live in an isolated rural area of South Dakota. Students will learn about traditional Norwegian arts, food and crafts and create theater pieces for the local Norland Fest based on stories learned in camp workshops.

Young Men's Christian Association (Sioux Falls)
Sioux Falls, SD
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Sioux Falls Public Library, Washington Pavilion of the Arts and Sciences, and Sioux Falls Middle Schools that will add residencies by literary artists to the YMCA's after-school program. The program reaches middle school students, primarily from low-income families. Writers will conduct one-hour workshops in two schools and conduct a reading for the public at various sites, which the children can attend.

Young Men's Christian Association of Rapid City
Rapid City, SD
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Rural American Initiatives and Sioux Pottery that will provide pottery classes as part of the Midnight Alternatives program, reaching primarily Sioux teens on Saturday evenings throughout the school year. Leonard Little Feather will conduct five six-week sessions that illustrate the significance of traditional Sioux pottery and teach the skills necessary for the craft. The teens' work will be displayed at a gallery.

Total Dollars Awarded: $25,000
Total Grants Awarded: 3

TENNESSEE

Children's Museum of Oak Ridge, Inc.
Oak Ridge, TN
$5,000
To support a partnership project with the Lake City Family Resource Center and two Anderson County elementary schools to provide visual and musical arts experiences to fourth and fifth graders in a low-economic area of Appalachia. The museum will tour artists and "art trunks" to the schools, sponsor performances by three musical groups that emphasize storytelling and demonstration, and conduct a field trip to the museum and arts project for children at the summer Camp Discovery.

Total Dollars Awarded: $5,000
Total Grants Awarded: 1

TEXAS

Centro Cultural Aztlan, Inc.
San Antonio, TX
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Edgewood School District, City Public Service, San Antonio Water Systems, and Las Palmas Merchants Association that will offer Pluma y Verso Juvenil, an after-school creative writing program for middle and high school students in the low-income, Hispanic neighborhoods of Edgewood. Approximately 300 youth will attend 10-week sessions led by artists/teachers with experience in youth programs.

City of El Paso, Arts Resources Department
El Paso, TX
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Centro de Salud Familiar La Fe and the Bridge Center for Contemporary Art that will provide a summer program for inner-city, minority teens to explore the cultural history of El Paso and to express themselves in photography, ceramics, percussion, video and poetry. Approximately 120 youth will participate in the Drop in on the Arts project.

Jump-Start Performance Company
San Antonio, TX
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Alamo Children's Advocacy Center, Say Sí! and Gemini Link that will launch Fusions, an artist/therapist collaboration to provide multi-disciplinary arts activities to abused children, ages 4 to 17. In addition to joining in classroom instruction, therapists and artists will participate in cross-training sessions.

Junior Players Guild
Dallas, TX
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Camp Fire that will provide after-school and summer theater workshops at 14 Camp Fire Kids Clubs located in low income housing complexes. During the sessions, instructors will focus on theater basics, oral and writing skills, and play making from personal experience. This project will reach approximately 350 students.

New Braunfels Museum of Art & Music
New Braunfels, TX
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the New Braunfels Housing Authority, Communities in Schools of Comal County, and the New Braunfels Children's Museum to provide a multifaceted program of training in the visual arts to children and youths living in public housing. Participants will take part in field trips to art and history museums, summer art camp and Saturday workshops during the fall, all guided by professional artists. Approximately 250 youth will be served.

Project Row Houses
Houston, TX
$10,000
To support a partnership project with University of Houston Continuing Education, Multicultural Education throughout the Arts, America Reads and Counts, and Community Builders Cadre to conduct two after-school and summer programs in an effort to discourage gang violence between African American and Latino youth. Local artists, high school and college students, and parents will teach art classes for approximately 50 elementary through junior high school African American students. The Art/Life program will involve 15 African American and Latino youth in the revitalization of six row houses and adjacent lots through design, building crafts, art and landscape.

San Anto Cultural Arts, Inc.
San Antonio, TX
$5,000
To support a partnership project with the San Antonio Housing Authority, City of San Antonio Office of Cultural Affairs, Cassiano Homes Residents Association, and Benavidez Framing and Design to launch a photography project to document life in the Cassianos housing project before its demolition in 2003. Teens in 10 families will participate in workshops to train their families in photography and facilitate the collection of pictures for an exhibit that documents the rich cultural life in this impoverished, high crime neighborhood. The youth will learn marketable skills in computer layout and design, and photojournalism.

South Texas Institute for the Arts
Corpus Christi, TX
$10,000
To support a partnership project with school districts within a 75-mile radius of Corpus Christi and Texas A & M University to launch Artreach, a program to send an artist into fifth through eighth grade classes in rural Texas, where half the school districts are in economically depressed areas. The artist will tour with artworks from the Arts Museum of South Texas and conduct hands-on activities. In addition, teachers will be linked online and able to exchange curriculum and communicate with the artist.

Texas A&M International University
Laredo, TX
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Hecho en Encinal, the South Texas Writing Project, and the Cotulla School District to provide after-school arts workshops to middle and high school youth in an isolated, rural area where poverty strikes 71 percent of the residents. A writing project will develop an anthology of youth writing and foster readings and broadcasts on radio and local public TV. A subsequent visual arts series will utilize the written materials to create related artwork, including books that will be exhibited.

Texas Folklife Resources
Austin, TX
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Kealing Junior High to offer a summer institute that will teach seventh- and eighth-grade African American and Latino students how to interview artists, and research and document folk art in the Rosewood neighborhood. Approximately 100 participants will also attend five performances, take workshops with five additional artists, and attend five field trips to cultural institutions.

Upstart, Inc.
Bastrop, TX
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Mt. Rose Missionary Baptist Church and Genesis High School to launch Art and Me/On TV, an after-school program for minority students, ages 14 to 18, in a rural community to create video documentaries on four local artists. Artists will train about 12 youth in pre- and post-production skills, and the videos will be broadcast on public TV to the local community.

Writers In the Schools
Houston, TX
$10,000
To support a partnership project with two local high schools and The Menil Collection to provide writing workshops for Latino students, ages 14 to 19. Writer teachers will convene classroom teachers to share techniques and curriculum and then launch workshops for approximately 200 students. Some material will be developed from observation of art at The Menil Collection, where a two-evening series of readings will showcase the best work, and every student's work will be published in an anthology.

Total Dollars Awarded: $115,000
Total Grants Awarded: 12

UTAH

ARTS-KIDS, Inc.
Park City, UT
$10,000
To support a partnership project with public elementary and middle schools in rural communities in northeastern Utah, to provide weekly after-school sessions in music, dance, and the visual and dramatic arts. The program will target approximately 65 children with behavioral and social problems and promote cross-cultural understanding.

Nizhoni Bridges, Inc.
Bluff, UT
$5,000
To support a partnership project with the College of Eastern Utah, San Juan School District, Utah Arts Council, and Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry that will add an arts component to a 10 day summer camp for high school students in one of the poorest U.S. counties, where 63 percent of the population is Native American. Twenty youth will engage in environmental studies on a three-day rafting trip and seven-day camping experience, during which three artists will provide arts instruction.

Paradigm Dance Project
Salt Lake City, UT
$5,000
To support a partnership project with Jackson Elementary to conduct a 16-week, after-school dance program for students in grades four through six. About 50 youth from a low-income neighborhood in Salt Lake City will receive modern dance and movement training and give two performances at the end of the session.

Total Dollars Awarded: $20,000
Total Grants Awarded: 3

VERMONT

Frog Hollow Craft Association, Inc.
Middlebury, VT
$10,000
To support a partnership project with elementary and middle schools in Burlington and the Leicester Central School to provide after-school art and crafts classes in Middlebury and Burlington to youth from low-income urban areas or rural areas. About 1,500 children will attend from schools that do not provide similar arts education or from areas of economic distress.

In Sight Photography Project, Inc.
Dummerston, VT
$5,000
To support a partnership project with the 17th Flat Street Boys & Girls Club and Marlboro College that will conduct Incentive Class, a workshop for advanced students in photography, ages 11 to 18. Professional artists and students from Marlboro College will instruct approximately 16 youth from a primarily rural community who suffer from substance abuse or learning difficulties.

Vermont Arts Exchange
North Bennington, VT
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Southwest Vermont Supervisory District, Better Bennington Corporation, Sunrise Family Resource Center, United Counseling Center, and the town of Bennington to conduct after-school and summer multidisciplinary arts programs for youth ages 5 to 17. Approximately 500 children from a rural area will participate in artist-led classes.

Total Dollars Awarded: $25,000
Total Grants Awarded: 3

VIRGINIA

Arlington Arts Center
Arlington, VA
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Humanities Project and English for Students of Other Languages, both in the Arlington Public Schools, that will integrate visual arts into the curriculum for elementary and middle school classrooms, particularly those with high percentages of second language learners. The project will provide professional development for classroom teachers and instruction in the special needs of second language learners for the artists in a county where students speak 60 different languages.

Arts Enter Cape Charles, Inc.
Cape Charles, VA
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Northampton County Public Schools and the Town of Cape Charles Youth Center to offer weekend classes in dance and the visual arts to students in grades four through 12. Students come from an area with a majority African American population, most of who live in poverty. Students will participate either in a performance or exhibit of their work at the end of the sessions.

Boat People S.O.S., Inc.
Falls Church, VA
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Vietnamese Public Television, Literary and Art Club, Cultural Society, Vietnamese Public Radio, and the Association of Former Vietnamese Political Prisoners that will train Vietnamese American youths, ages eight to 18, in traditional Vietnamese dance, music, instruments and poetry. The youth will develop a theater presentation that depicts the history of Vietnamese refugees. A video of the performance will be shown on public TV and at other venues to introduce audiences to traditional Vietnamese arts.

Eastern Shore's Own, Inc.
Belle Haven, VA
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Star Transit, New Road Community Development Group of Exmore, Northampton County 4-H, and Transformation Church of God and Christ to provide multidisciplinary arts classes, after-school and in the summer for children in grades K to 12. Approximately 150 low-income children from rural counties on Virginia's eastern shore will receive training in drama, dance, painting, pottery, music and photography.

Youth Entertainment Studios, Inc.
Chesapeake, VA
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Tidewater Detention Home, Portsmouth Parks and Recreation Department, and the Refuge Church of God in Christ that will offer workshops in song writing and seminars in music production/technology to teens living in the Tidewater Detention Home. Approximately 30 youths will create and produce their own songs and learn marketing and management skills related to the music business.

Total Dollars Awarded: $50,000
Total Grants Awarded: 5

WASHINGTON

911 Media Arts Center
Seattle, WA
$10,000
To support a partnership project with KCTS and the Metro YMCA that will implement Reel Girls, a media awareness and production class, after school and on weekends. Approximately 50 teenage girls of diverse ethnic backgrounds will participate in the training and also work with media artist Kathleen Sweeney to create a work of video self portraits, which will be screened for the public.

Associated Recreation Council (on behalf of Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center)
Seattle, WA
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Seattle Parks and Recreation Teen Life Center, Seattle Theatre Group, Seattle Boys & Girls Clubs, Seattle Housing Authority, and Seattle Public Schools to provide an eight-week summer musical theater training program for youths. Approximately 75 youths will participate, learning every aspect of theatrical production in order to produce four performances at the end of the sessions.

CCY Council
Walla Walla, WA
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Blue Mountain Arts Alliance, City of Walla Walla Parks and Recreation, Little Theatre of Walla Walla, Dance Center, and KVEW-TV that will provide a two-phase arts program for middle and high school youths, called Looking Outside and In. Visual artists will instruct youth in creating paintings on found window frames, and teens will create a musical theatre piece based on themes expressed in the paintings. Participants will take on all performing and production tasks that culminate in a public performance.

Eastern Washington University (on behalf of Stage Door to the Future)
Cheney, WA
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Boys & Girls Club of Fairchild Air Force Base, Eastern Washington University Division of Education Outreach, United States Air Force, Chewelah School District, and the Cheney School District that will provide scholarships and training to rural youth in theater performance. This project will support approximately 18 disadvantaged rural youths' participation in Stage Door to the Future I, a two week workshop in acting, puppetry, costume and makeup and stage combat.

Seattle Center Foundation
Seattle, WA
$5,000
To support a partnership project with 25 Seattle arts organizations, including Cornish College of the Arts, Seattle Symphony, Pacific Northwest Ballet, and Seattle Children's Theatre, to conduct a two-week summer arts camp for seventh and eighth graders in King County at the Seattle Center. About 290 students, 25 with special developmental or physical disabilities, will take part in artist-led instruction in theater, dance, music, media and science.

Seattle Children's Theatre Association
Seattle, WA
$10,000
To support a partnership project with four elementary, middle and high schools in Seattle and Tacoma that will provide in-school artist residencies in theatre for deaf or hard of hearing students. The artist/teachers employ American Sign Language to engage approximately 60 children in basic theater workshops that lead to the rehearsal and performance of a short play.

SouthEast Effective Development
Seattle, WA
$5,000
To support a partnership project with the Filipino Community of Seattle, Filipino Youth Activities, Filipino American National Historical Society, Pista sa Nayon, and SouthEast Seattle Arts Council, that will join with the Rainer Valley Youth Theatre to produce a play on the culture of the community of Filipinos. Students ages 12 to 21, will be involved in all aspects of the development and performance of the musical theatre piece.

Unidentified Moving Objects, Inc.
Vashon, WA
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Ruth Dykeman Children's Center that will implement an eight-week summer residency to provide psychiatrically and emotionally impaired youth with instruction in creative writing, mask-making and theatrical improvisation. About 35 youths will attend highly structured classes that will lead to the publication of a book of students' writings and a performance. The students represent a wide range of cultural backgrounds, including Bosnian and Albanian refugees, African Americans and Hispanics.

Vashon Island School District No. 402
Vashon, WA
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Vashon Allied Arts and the Parent's Art Network to continue Vashon Artists in Schools, a multi- faceted program for grades K to 12 that will provide multidisciplinary arts education to students in this isolated, rural island community. About 1,000 students will participate in in-school artist residencies. In addition, the program provides professional development for teachers, artist/mentors for advanced high school students, opportunities to participate in public art projects, and training for artists.

Total Dollars Awarded: $80,000
Total Grants Awarded: 9

WEST VIRGINIA

Carnegie Hall, A Corporation
Lewisburg, WV
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Greenbrier County Schools, United Way, and Charleston Gazette Charities to conduct the Carnegie Kid's College, a two-week summer program in the arts for children in Kindergarten to sixth grade. Up to 225 students from this isolated rural area will participate in workshops in the visual and performing arts.

Davis & Elkins College
Elkins, WV
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Board of Education in two rural counties to continue after-school workshops in traditional Appalachian folk arts. The Augusta Heritage Center at Davis & Elkins will coordinate instruction by folk artists in music, dance and other regional arts in two ten-week sessions during the school year. The participating teens will be drawn from isolated, rural communities as well as urban areas suffering low income and high unemployment.

Morgan Arts Council, Inc.
Berkeley Springs, WV
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Boys & Girls Club of Morgan County that will expand previous theater arts programming to reach more youths in summer camp and after-school offerings during the year. About 90 students in this rural community, without adequate recreation opportunities for its youth, will participate classes focused on classes in movement and circus skills, creative dramatics, acting, and stagecraft, and will produce performances.

Total Dollars Awarded: $30,000
Total Grants Awarded: 3

WISCONSIN

Peninsula Art School of Door County, Inc.
Fish Creek, WI
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Sturgeon Bay High School, Door Peninsula Astronomical Society, and Crossroads at Big Creek to create the StarGarden Sculpture Park. High school students will collaborate with visual artist Jean Humke to design, site and construct the first public art space in a largely rural area. About 50 students will take an astronomy course and then devote five weeks to creating seating and lounging sculptures that will permit stargazers to observe the night sky.

Skylight Opera Theatre Corp.
Milwaukee, WI
$5,000
To support a partnership project with Vieau Elementary School to offer Stories that Sing, a six week residency in musical theater that helps fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-grade students from a low income, ethnically diverse section of Milwaukee to stage stories with songs, dance and dramatic content.

Walker's Point Center for the Arts, Ltd.
Milwaukee, WI
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Milwaukee Christian Center and the Albert Kagel Elementary School to implement Hands On, an after-school and summer program for elementary age children in the low-income neighborhood of Walker's Point. Children receive instruction in the visual and performing arts from a variety of artists, supported often by volunteers, interns and curators from the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design.

Total Dollars Awarded: $25,000
Total Grants Awarded: 3

WYOMING

Casper Recreation Division
Casper, WY
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Casper Children's Theatre that will provide after-school and summer classes to children, ages 4 to 16, in all phases of theatrical production. Students from this isolated rural community will perform and build sets and costumes for performances developed in the workshops.

Young Musicians, Inc.
Evanston, WY
$10,000
To support a partnership project with the Unita School District, Lifelong Learning Center, Wyoming Alliance for Arts Education, and Wyoming Arts Council to continue a one-week summer music camp for youth in grades six through 12. Now in its eighth year, the Summer Music Program offers a wide variety of training, including classes in voice, band, orchestra, jazz, and digital and Broadway music with professional musicians from around the country as faculty.

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