Arts Education

RECIPIENT	PURPOSE	1994 AWARDS	1994 PAYMENTS
Art Education for the Blind New York, NY	For a multisensory art history teaching system that gives the blind access to the visual arts through literary texts, interpretive sound compositions, and raised line drawings.	$45,000	$45,000
Central City Hospitality House San Francisco, CA	To expand art training and exhibition programs for homeless and low-income people.	20,000	20,000
East Bay Music Center Richmond, CA	For the Faculty Development/Integrated Curriculum Project, which provides integrated training in dance, music and theatre for youth in at-risk situations and links performances to community events and traditions.	50,000	50,000
Fund for Independent Publishing New York, NY	For a publishing program in the arts and arts education emphasizing affordable arts education materials, the work of cultural heritage museums, and books concerning freedom of expression. (2 years)	150,000	75,000
Harvard University Cambridge, MA	For phase two of Harvard Project Zero's Project Co-Arts, a national project to design ways in which the effectiveness of community arts education programs can be demonstrated and evaluated. (1993 award: $100,000/2 years)		46,000
International Arts Relations  New York, NY	For the High School Volunteer Internship Program, which will place African American and Hispanic youth with multicultural arts institutions to learn employable skills and develop new audiences for the arts. (1993 award: $75,000/3 years)		20,000
Meet the Composer New York, NY	For the Midwest expansion of Meet the Composer's arts education program, which enlists professional composers to work with public school students and teachers in creating a new musical repertory for school bands, choruses, and orchestras. (1993 award: $50,000/2 years)		25,000
National Endowment for the Arts Washington, DC	For the President's Committee for the Arts and Humanities' "At-Risk Youth Campaign," to develop a coordinated federal agency strategy incorporating arts and humanities programs into a national policy addressing youth violence.	35,000	35,000
New Museum New York, NY	For the High School Art Program, an interdisciplinary, culturally inclusive museum teacher training and education program about contemporary art, to be disseminated nationally through the publication of a curriculum guide. (1993 award: $100,000/2 years)		50,000
Original Ballets Foundation New York, NY	For the expansion of Eliot Feld's New Ballet School, a tuition-free professional ballet training program for public school children.	50,000	50,000
Parrish Art Museum Southampton, NY	For a collaboration with the Southampton School District in which high school students curated an exhibition investigating key issues concerning the arts in the 1930s.	25,000	25,000
Plains Art Museum Moorhead, MN	For the museum's educational outreach programs for children in rural Minnesota and North Dakota, including the Rolling Plains Art Gallery, which brings exhibitions of original art to over 20 communities throughout the region.	20,000	20,000
Plaza de la Raza Los Angeles, CA	For general support to Plaza de la Raza, an educational and cultural organization serving Mexican/Chicano youth and fostering artistic expression among Latinos in greater Los Angeles. (1993 award: $60,000/2 years)		30,000
Studio Museum in Harlem New York, NY	For arts education and public education programs on the art of Black America and the African Diaspora, including arts instruction, exhibition tours, artists' residencies, internships, and public events.	50,000	50,000
Triangle Children's Museum Chapel Hill, NC	For the development of a mobile arts education center specializing in design and invention, which will serve urban and rural at-risk children in the Triangle area of North Carolina.	40,000	40,000

Creative Autonomy / Arts Advocacy

RECIPIENT	PURPOSE	TOTAL AWARDS	1994 PAYMENTS
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation New York, NY	For the Arts Censorship Project, a program of litigation, legal advocacy, public education, and media advocacy to help artists and arts organizations whose First Amendment rights are jeopardized by threats of censorship. (1992 award: $250,000/3 years)		$150,000
Illinois Arts Alliance Foundation Chicago, IL	For the training of board members of arts organizations in grassroots advocacy techniques and for a column on freedom of artistic expression in the group's quarterly newsletter.	20,000	20,000
Institute for Alternative Journalism San Francisco, CA	To enhance and expand the reach of AlterNet, an electronic news wire for the alternative press, and to offer an on-line forum on the "culture wars," concentrating on issues of freedom of expression and censorship.	35,000	35,000
National Campaign for Freedom of Expression  Seattle, WA	For general support to help the Campaign develop a five-year strategic plan and expand its public awareness and education programs.	100,000	50,000
People For the American Way Washington, DC	For Artsave, a nationwide research, technical assistance, and public education project to protect freedom of expression in the visual and performing arts.	75,000	75,000
Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression Charlottesville, VA	For the development of "Brazen Voices," a public television documentary on the historical context and current atmosphere surrounding the First Amendment, and for the creation of educational materials to accompany the film in its academic distribution.	30,000	30,000
WGBH Educational Foundation Boston, MA	For a four-part documentary series and national education campaign on "Challenging Art," examining how important works of art, now considered classics, were attacked and censored in their own time.	100,000	100,000

New Agendas/Access-Diversity

RECIPIENT	PURPOSE	TOTAL AWARDS	1994 PAYMENTS
American Symphony Orchestra New York, NY	To build theme-based programs around diverse cultural subjects and to collaborate with leading non-musical cultural institutions to develop new audiences for classical music. (1993 award: $50,000/2 years)		$25,000
Armory Center for the Arts Pasadena, CA	For the Community Arts Partnership, a collaboration with the California Institute of the Arts, centered around a photography instruction and exhibition program for at-risk teenagers in the local school district. (1993 award: $50,000/2 years)		25,000
Arts Midwest Minneapolis, MN	For the Minority Arts Administration Fellowship Program, to encourage people of color to pursue careers in arts administration.	40,000	40,000
Brooklyn Academy of Music Brooklyn, NY	For the Community Arts Partnership Project, a collaboration with 651/Kings Majestic Corporation, designed to make professional theatre spaces at the Academy and Majestic Theatre available to Brooklyn's artists and community-based arts organizations.	20,000	20,000
California Institute of the Arts Valencia, CA	For the Community Arts Partnerships, to make CalArts' resources available to community-based arts organizations in the Los Angeles area, such as Plaza de la Raza and the Armory Center for the Arts. (1993 award: $50,000/2 years)		25,000
Center for Media Education Washington, DC	To strengthen the participation of the arts community in the debate over the rapidly developing "information superhighway."	75,000	75,000
Charter Oak Temple Restoration Association Hartford, CT	For the Neighborhood-Based Cultural Planning Model, to bring Hartford residents together with city planners, social service agencies, and artists to revitalize the deteriorating downtown neighborhood.	60,000	60,000
Cornerstone Theater Company Santa Monica, CA	For a theatre project in the Watts section of Los Angeles employing and training local actors and writers and presenting five theatre pieces.	50,000	50,000
Film / Video Arts New York, NY	To further the career development of emerging media artists by providing mentors, equipment, and screening opportunities for completing and promoting their work.	30,000	30,000
Houston Foto Fest Houston, TX	For "American Voices," a touring exhibition and bilingual book on contemporary photography from the Chicano, Puerto Rican, and Cuban American cultures.	30,000	30,000
Independent Curators New York, NY	For three national multicultural traveling exhibitions and their accompanying educational materials: "Transformers," about the relationship of culture and ethnicity to personal identity; "Image and Memory: Latin American Photography 1880-1992;" and "Asian-American Video."	50,000	50,000
Japanese American Cultural and Community Center Los Angeles, CA	For the Japanese American Artists Registry, Referral, and Resource Program, to help preserve and promote the work of contemporary Japanese American artists. (2 years)	50,000	25,000
Kings Majestic Corporation Brooklyn, NY	For the Community Arts Partnership Project, a collaboration with the Brooklyn Academy of Music, designed to make professional theatre spaces at the Academy and Majestic Theatre available to Brooklyn's artists and community-based arts organizations.	30,000	30,000
National Asian American Telecommunications Association San Francisco, CA	For the Living Room Festival, a 13-part series of films and videos organized by minority arts organizations about their communities.	25,000	25,000
National Association of Latino Arts and Culture San Antonio, TX	For the National Latino Arts Mentor Program to provide mentoring support from within the Latino community for the next generation of Latino artists and art administrators. (18 months)	50,000	50,000
National Gallery of Art Washington, DC	To increase opportunities for minority college graduates to pursue careers in the museum professions through a nine-month paid internship program at the National Gallery. (1993 award: $50,000/2 years)		25,000
Plaza de la Raza Los Angeles, CA	To support Plaza de la Raza's collaboration with the California Institute for the Arts through the Community Arts Partnerships. Plaza de la Raza will conduct a theatre program for at-risk youth from Los Angeles's Latino community. (1993 award: $50,000/2 years)		25,000
San Francisco Foundation San Francisco, CA	For a statewide economic impact study of the arts in California, including small-budget and multicultural organizations often omitted from traditional studies.	20,000	20,000
Smithsonian Institution Washington, DC	For support of the Experimental Gallery, a museum laboratory and gallery space that encourages innovation in exhibition technique and style. (1992 award: $50,000, partial return)	(22,402)	(22.402)
Theatre Communications Group New York, NY	For the Advocacy for the American Theatre initiative, to establish a membership program of institutions and individuals to strengthen a grassroots public advocacy network for the arts. (1993 award: $100,000/2 years)		50,000
Trustees of Princeton University Princeton, NJ	To establish an academic research center for arts and cultural policy studies at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.	45,602	45,602
University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM	To support Arts of the Americas, a series of multicultural arts activities and exchanges between UNM and New Mexico's indigenous communities as well as communities in Central and South America. (1993 award: $60,000/2 years)	30,000	30,000
Visual Arts Research and Resource Center Relating to the Caribbean New York, NY	For research, publications, and regional meetings leading to a national conference on the future of community-based cultural organizations.	75,000	75,000
Visual Studies Workshop Rochester, NY	For a 12-month internship program to provide training for African American, Latino, Native American, and Asian American writers in arts criticism and editorial work.	25,000	25,000
	TOTAL FOR 1994	$1,498,200	$1,874,200