Arts Advocacy / Creative Autonomy

RECIPIENT	PURPOSE	TOTAL AWARDS	1991 PAYMENTS	GRANTS PAYABLE 12/31/91
American Association of Museums/National Cultural Alliance Washington, DC	To build a national coalition that develops public support for the arts and humanities.	$50,000*	$50,000
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation New York, New York	To support the Arts Censorship Project, whose focus is to protect the First Amendment rights of artists and art institutions.	200,000*	100,000
Artist Trust for Washington Seattle, Washington	For the National Campaign for Freedom of Expression to enable the creative community to respond to threats of censorship.	35,000	35,000
Contemporary Arts Center Cincinnati, Ohio	To produce and distribute a videotape of a presentation in Phoenix, Arizona, on the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, detailing the criminal prosecution of the museum.	5,000	5,000
Hollywood Policy Center Foundation Culver City, California	For the Freedom of Expression/Art in America public education advertising campaign whose goal is the preservation of artistic freedom.	50,000	50,000
Illinois Arts Alliance Foundation Chicago, Illinois	To strengthen the advocacy skills of arts organizations' Boards of Trustees and to produce an advocacy handbook for Illinois.	10,000	10,000
New England Foundation Cambridge, Massachusetts	To convene a New England Artists Congress to respond to the funding crisis and generate advocacy strategies.	20,000	20,000
People for the American Way Washington, DC	To continue the advocacy work of Artsave, a national research, technical assistance and education project to protect freedom of artistic expression.	75,000	75,000
Social Policy Corporation New York, New York	To help the New Press develop a publishing program in the fields of art censorship and art education.	150,000	75,000	75,000

Arts Education

RECIPIENT	PURPOSE	TOTAL AWARDS	1991 PAYMENTS	GRANTS PAYABLE 12/31/91
Children's Museum Boston, Massachusetts	To bring members of ethnic communities into the Museum to serve as co-curators for ethnic exhibitions and the Museum's collections.	$50,000	$50,000
Cultural Council Foundation New York, New York	To support the Poetry Exchange which integrates poetry with music, movement and art in an interdisciplinary method of arts education for youth-at-risk.	20,000	20,000
52nd Street Project New York, New York	To replicate and market this model program which brings together children-at-risk and theater professionals on an ongoing basis to create and present new plays.	40,000	40,000
Foundation for Independent Artists New York, New York	For the development by Urban Bushwomen of a community engagement program based on traditional ethnic cultures, for performing arts touring companies.	25,000	25,000
Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts	For Harvard Project Zero to design and implement Project Co-Arts, a two-year national study to better analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of community arts education programs.	250,000	150,000	100,000
Meet the Composer New York, New York	To support composers' residencies in public schools.	40,000	40,000
New York University New York, New York	For the Goldwater Poetry Teacher Training Fellowships. Fellows teach severely disabled adults to write poetry.	2,000*	2,000
Original Ballets Foundation New York, New York	A two-year grant to support the New Ballet School of the Feld Ballet to offer free ballet training and a pre-professional program for public school children.	100,000	50,000	50,000
Tennessee Department of Education Nashville, Tennessee	To produce a videotape of the Tennessee Arts Academy training program for arts educators, levels K-12.	10,000	10,000
Theater Chamber Players Washington, DC	To encourage the talents of young, gifted inner-city musicians in the DC Youth Orchestra by providing master classes taught by the Theater Chamber players.	15,000	15,000
Urban Gateways Chicago, Illinois	To bring together Chicago's cultural resources and public school system to develop creative approaches to arts education.	50,000	50,000

New Agendas / Access & Diversity

RECIPIENT	PURPOSE	TOTAL AWARDS	1991 PAYMENTS	GRANTS PAYABLE 12/31/91
Academy of American Poets New York, New York	To increase program diversity with two series: (1) A Language for Nature: Writers on the Environment; and (2) A Festival of Asian and Asian-American Poetry.	$30,000	$30,000
Alternative Media Information Center New York, New York	To support regional news bureaus at media arts centers and public access cable stations for the Deep-Dish Television Network.	40,000	40,000
Arts Resources and Technical Services Los Angeles, California	For the Multicultural Arts Management Internship Program which recruits summer interns for Los Angeles cultural institutions	30,000	30,000
California Institute of the Arts Valencia, California	A two-year grant to support collaborations between the Institute and community-based arts groups	150,000*	150,000
Creative Time New York, New York	To assist visual and performing artists to create new work for presentation in public spaces throughout New York City.	10,000	10,000
DIA Art Foundation New York, New York	For a Black Popular Culture symposium produced in collaboration with the Studio Museum of Harlem, and for the publication of the symposium as a book.	15,000	15,000
Downtown Community Television Center New York, New York	To support video training workshops for the Latino community and to increase post-production services for community organizations.	30,000	30,000
Japanese American Cultural and Community Center Los Angeles, California	A two-year grant to support Celebrate California, a performing arts festival of work from diverse ethnic communities presented to new audiences.	50,000	25,000	25,000
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts New York, New York	To support the new Department of Jazz for the development of educational programs to bring Lincoln Center jazz concerts to community sites.	35,000	35,000
Los Angeles County Museum of Art Los Angeles, California	To support the production of a documentary film on the exhibition Degenerate Art: The Fate of the Avant-Garde in Nazi Germany	50,000	50,000
Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles California	For First Visit and Beyond, a community outreach program for multicultural museum audiences.	50,000	50,000
National Theatre for the Deaf Chester, Connecticut	To extend the work of the leading theater of the deaf.	15,000	15,000
New York Community Trust New York, New York	For the creation of the Arts Forward Fund, an innovative funding consortium to explore the options for long-term survival of arts organizations in New York City.	50,000	50,000
New York Foundation for the Arts New York, New York	For a national research project on the recruitment of multicultural trustees for the boards of arts organizations.	30,000	30,000
New York Shakespeare Festival New York, New York	To support Festival Latino's productions by leading Latin American theater companies.	25,000	25,000
Studio Museum in Harlem New York, New York	To support the museum's exhibition, publication, and education programs.	50,000	50,000
Symphony Space New York, New York	To support outreach to Black and Latino audiences for musical events at Symphony Space.	10,000	10,000
Tibet House New York, New York	To bring Tibetan art and culture to an American audience.	7,000	7,000
Walker Art Center Minneapolis, Minnesota	To complement the Interrogating Identity exhibition with residencies and multidisciplinary programs by artists of color.	25,000	25,000
Washington Performing Arts Society Washington, DC	To increase cultural diversity in the Society's board, staff, and programming.	40,000	40,000