Arts Education

RECIPIENT	PURPOSE	TOTAL AWARDS	1993 PAYMENTS
Blues in the Schools Education Fund Charleston, SC	To support the national expansion of a multicultural after-school education program that teams professional blues artists with at-risk middle school students for classes in blues music, history, and performance.	$20,000	$20,000
The Center for Contemporary Arts of Santa Fe Santa Fe, NM	To create an innovative teen center providing arts programming and creative opportunities for Santa Fe's ethnically and culturally diverse teenagers. (1992 award, $150,000/3 years)		50,000
Community Music School of Springfield Springfield, MA	For the African American Intensive Music Studies Program, to revive and maintain an appreciation for the jazz tradition among African-American inner-city youth in Springheld, MA, through free instruction in jazz instruments, singing, and history, as well as monthly master classes by noted jazz artists.	20,000	20,000
The Fund for Independent Publishing New York, NY	For a publishing program in the herds of art and arts education, centered on developing affordable arts education materials, publishing the work of cultural heritage museums, and producing books concerning freedom of expression.	75,000	75,000
Harvard University Cambridge, MA	For phase two of Harvard Project Zero's Project CoArts, a national project to design ways in which the effectiveness of community arts education programs can be demonstrated and evaluated. (2 years)	100,000	54,000
International Arts Relations New York, NY	For the High School Volunteer Internship Program, designed to develop partnerships within high schools and non profit arts institutions. African American and Latino students receive course credit and build employable skills through their work in non profit theatres. (3 years)	75,000	40,000
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 the creation of a new musical repertory for school bands, choruses, and orchestras. (2 years)	50,000	25,000
Muse Film and Television New York, NY	For the Musel Museum Outreach Program, an innovative video pilot project designed to make student visits to museums more participatory, enjoyable, and informative. MUSE will select four regionally and culturally diverse museums to serve as pilot sites.	60,000	60,000
The New Museum New York, NY	For the High School Art Program, an interdisciplinary, culturally inclusive museum education program about contemporary art, to be disseminated nationally through the publication of a curriculum guide. The education program includes teacher training. (2 years)	100,000	50,000
Plaza De La Raza Los Angeles, CA	For general support of Plaza De La Raza, an educational and cultural organization serving Mexicanos/Chicanos and other Latinos in greater Los Angeles. (2 years)	60,000	30,000

Creative Autonomy / Arts Advocacy

RECIPIENT	PURPOSE	TOTAL AWARDS	1993 PAYMENTS
American Civil Liberties Union New York, NY	To provide legal assistance to creative artists and arts organizations whose First Amendment rights are jeopardized by threats of censorship, through the Arts Censorship Project, a program of litigation, public education, and media advocacy. (1992 award, $250,000/3 years)		$50,000
National Assembly of State Arts Agencies Washington, DC	For a national teleconference to connect state and local arts groups with policy makers in the Clinton administration, and for the National Advocacy Service Program to provide small and midsize arts and arts service organizations with free advocacy services and materials.	20,000	20,000
The National Cultural Alliance Washington, DC	For a high visibility, national public education and advertising campaign entitled "Arts and Humanities: There's something in it for you." The campaign will celebrate the arts and humanities through thousands of activities in every state.	40,000	40,000
National Public Radio Washington, DC	In support of a Cultural Desk within the News Division to cover stories relating to cultural pluralism and freedom of expression. (1992 award, $200,000/2 years)		100,000
People For the American Way Washington, DC	For Artsave, a nationwide project to protect artistic freedom of expression. In 199394, Artsave will launch Developing Community Common Ground to promote constructive dialogue on the local level that addresses censorship controversies and explores common ground and values among opposing parties.	100,000	100,000
Poets & Writers New York, NY	In support of The Literary Network, to build a national information/education network of writers and literary organizations to address debates on public policy and the arts. (1992 award, $120,000/2 years)		60,000
Tides Foundation/Youth Action's Democracy Project San Francisco, CA	For YouthAction's Democracy Project, which will include a Cultural Democracy Seminar to generate new strategies for sustained youth involvement in support of artistic and cultural expression.	30,000	30,000

New Agendas / Access-Diversity

RECIPIENT	PURPOSE	TOTAL AWARDS	1993 PAYMENTS
Alternate Roots Atlanta, GA	To support the Community/Artists Partnership Program to develop, document, and disseminate new ways of presenting the performing arts within communities, through the establishment of performing arts residencies. (1992 award, $100,000/2 years)		$50,000
American Documentary New York, NY	To develop E.C.U.: Extreme Close Up, a new series based on the groundbreaking "video diary" genre of filmmaking. The series will be open to sectors of the population which are traditionally under represented on television.	40,000	40,000
American Symphony Orchestra New York, NY	To build theme-based programs around diverse cultural subjects and to collaborate with leading cultural institutions to develop new audiences for classical music. (2 years)	50,000	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. (2 years)	50,000	25,000
Arts Resources and Technical Services Los Angeles, CA	For the Arts Leadership Initiative, a program to develop a new generation of multicultural leaders for the boards of directors of Los Angeles cultural institutions.	50,000	50,000
The Asia Society New York, NY	To support the Contemporary Arts Initiative, a national project which will present contemporary Asian and Asian American visual, media, and performing arts. (1992 award, $100,000/2 years)		50,000
Atlatl Phoenix, AZ	For Native Arts Network: OnLine, an interactive computer network, through Artswire, to link Native American cultural programs and agencies nationwide and to assure Native American artists access to resources and referrals for mainstream art networks.	50,000	50,000
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. CalArts will work with Plaza De La Raza and the Armory Center for the Arts to help support their programs in theatre, music, and photography. (2 years)	50,000	25,000
The Film Society of Lincoln Center New York, NY	To create a multiuse audience database which will target populations in New York's multicultural communities.	30,000	30,000
Franklin Furnace Archive New York, NY	To develop a long range plan for fiscal stabilization and to ensure that Franklin Furnace continues to be responsive to the changing needs of emerging artists in the economic and political climate of the 90's.	20,000	20,000
National Gallery of Art Washington, DC	To increase opportunities for minority college graduates to pursue careers in museum professions through a 9 month paid internship program at the National Gallery. (2 years)	50,000	25,000
New York University New York, NY	For Black Cinema: A Celebration of PanAfrican Film, an international conference and film festival to explore the history of Black cinema and to examine ways in which the academic community can encourage a wider range of cultural and aesthetic perspectives in contemporary film.	33,750	33,750
Plaza De La Raza Los Angeles, CA	To support Plaza De La Raza's collaboration with California Institute for the Arts through the Community Arts Partnerships. Plaza De La Raza will focus on its comprehensive theatre program for at-risk youth from Los Angeles' Latino community. (2 years)	30,000	30,000
S.U. Theatre Corp. Syracuse, NY	For the Cultural Diversity Program, a full-fledged campaign to diversify Syracuse Stage's theatrical repertoire, staff, and audience.	50,000	50,000
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. (2 years)	100,000	50,000
Ukiah Players Theatre Ukiah, CA	For the Mendocino People's Portrait, a national model of new approaches to community-based arts. Community members will collaborate with artists to create self-portraits based on their vision of the concerns of the community.	50,000	50,000
The 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. (2 years)	60,000	30,000
Visual Arts Research and Resource Center New York, NY	For regional forums to address the need for a cultural policy to define the and Resource Center future direction of multicultural organizations. The forum will work to develop regional networks and partnerships of multicultural programmers.	43,750	43,750
Western Folklife Center Elko, NV	For a project to document, present, and preserve the folk arts of the Native American ranching tradition, to be developed in collaboration with the Shoshone, Navajo, Crow, and Apache tribes.	30,000	30,000
	TOTALS FOR 1993	$1,547,500	$1,516,500