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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.
Total Dollars Awarded: $10,000
Total Grants Awarded: 1
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.
Total Dollars Awarded: $40,000
Total Grants Awarded: 4
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.
Circle of Nations School, Inc.
Wahpeton, ND
$10,000
To support a partnership project with Wahpeton Parks and
Recreation, Richland County, Three Rivers Arts Council, and
Community Center After School Program to provide after-school
workshops and classes with Native American writers, painters,
videographers and a photographer for fifth to eighth graders at
Circle of Nations School and the Richland County 21st Century
Community Learning Center. Circle of Nation School is an
intertribal residential education program for Native youth, of
which 80 percent are special education students.
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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