Table Of ContentNational Endowment for the Arts  
FY 2017 Spring Grant Announcement
 
 
Artistic Discipline/Field Listings 
 
Project details are accurate as of June 5, 2017. For the most up to date project information, please use 
the NEA's online grant search system. 
 
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1.  Art Works grants by discipline/field 
  Arts Education 
  Dance 
  Folk & Traditional Arts 
  Literature 
  Local Arts Agencies 
  Media Arts 
  Museums 
  Music 
  Opera 
  Presenting & Multidisciplinary Works 
  Theater & Musical Theater 
  Visual Arts 
 
2.  Research: Art Works Grants 
 
3.  Our Town Grants 
 
4.  Partnerships (State & Regional)
Arts Education  
Number of Grants: 113         Total Dollar Amount: $3,375,000  
 
Abada-Capoeira San Francisco 
$10,000  San Francisco, CA 
To support the expansion of a capoeira residency and performance program for students in San 
Francisco area schools. Students will learn capoeira, a traditional Afro-Brazilian art form that combines 
ritual, self-defense, acrobatics, and music in a rhythmic dialogue of the body, mind, and spirit. Students 
will develop their physical and cognitive skills through weekly classes with professional artists, learning 
the physical elements of the art form, the music, historical and cultural information, and performance 
concepts. Students will work in partners and as a group, interacting in an atmosphere that encourages 
creativity and spontaneity. Emphasis will be placed on teamwork, concentration, and the use of 
movement, rhythm, and song as methods of expression.         
 
Actors' Shakespeare Project (aka ASP) 
$30,000  Somerville, MA 
To support Shakespeare Inside and Out youth theater programs. Participating youth (many of whom are 
involved in the court system) develop artistic, literacy, social, and pre-professional skills through the 
study of Shakespeare and other ensemble-based theater projects. Through residencies, after-school 
programs, a summer intensive, and leadership development, participants have the opportunity to create 
and share their own work. This project supports the Massachusetts Department of Youth Service's goal 
to create systemic change by incorporating arts education into all of its facilities. All activities culminate 
in a public performance and youth-led, post-show discussions.         
 
American Festival for the Arts (aka AFA) 
$15,000  Houston, TX 
To support Summer Music Conservatory, a music education program for students from the greater 
Houston area. For several weeks during the summer, professional musicians and music educators will 
provide instruction in strings, piano, choir, wind and brass instruments, and music composition. 
Students will participate in large ensembles, chamber or small ensembles, individual coaching sessions, 
and musicianship classes. In summer 2017, the program will expand to include elementary level piano 
and orchestra. Conservatory faculty and guest conductors will ensure students gain skills and knowledge 
in music as well as learn the value of teamwork, discipline, motivation, and leadership. Students are 
selected through an audition process, and scholarships are widely available.         
 
Architecture Resource Center Inc. (aka ARC) 
$10,000  New Haven, CT 
To support the Design Connections Partnership. The professional development program, which 
integrates arts learning in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) subjects, will serve 
teachers in New Haven Public Schools. Master teaching artists, architects, and designers from 
Architecture Resource Center and Yale University will mentor and collaborate with classroom teachers 
and art teachers through professional development sessions and school residencies. Students will learn 
how to express themselves through the visual arts, how to communicate their ideas, how to work in 
teams to solve problems, and how to apply academic concepts in their lives and their communities.         
 
 
 
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Arts Every Day, Inc (aka Arts Every Day) 
$50,000  Baltimore, MD 
To support Baltimore Arts Equity Initative (BAEI), a collective impact project to develop infrastructure 
and an implementation approach for arts education in Baltimore City Public Schools. Arts Every Day will 
engage key stakeholders, including Baltimore Arts Education Coalition, Arts Education in Maryland 
Schools, Maryland State Department of Education, Maryland Out of School Time, Family League of 
Baltimore, Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance, and T. Rowe Price Foundation to support and 
expand upon Baltimore City Public Schools' Fine Arts Plan. In the first year, the project's leadership team 
and committees will research local and national collective impact arts education models, assess needs, 
define shared goals and indicators, and connect the BAEI plan to citywide cultural planning processes. In 
the second year of the project, BAEI will pilot an arts-rich program in several schools, collect data, 
leverage new and existing resources, adopt and implement district policies that meet state arts 
education standards, and produce and present a State of the Arts progress report. The majority of 
students in Baltimore City Schools are eligible for free or reduced lunch, an indicator of poverty.         
 
Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University 
$15,000  Chicago, IL 
To support the Auditorium Theatre ArtsXChange program. Teaching Artist Mentors will be hired to 
provide year-long professional development to Chicago Public School teachers through workshops and 
classroom residencies. Teachers and their mentors will work together to design, facilitate, and assess 
student art-making, with teachers providing more instructional leadership over time. The residencies 
include opportunities for teachers and their students to experience matinee performances at the 
Auditorium Theatre, a national historic landmark. The project is aligned with the Chicago Public Schools 
Arts Education Plan.         
 
Austin Chamber Music Center (aka ACMC) 
$20,000  Austin, TX 
To support year-round chamber music instruction. The program includes a two-and-a-half week summer 
chamber music workshop, a ten-day chamber music residential camp, an academic year Saturday 
Chamber Music Academy, and an in-school coaching program at Austin-area schools. The summer 
workshop occurs simultaneously with the Austin Chamber Music Festival, and festival artists such as the 
Vienna Piano Trio and the Tokyo String Quartet will present master classes to participants. Students in 
the chamber music residential camp will have the benefit of learning from professional artists-in-
residence. In the Saturday Chamber Music Academy and in-school programs, professional teaching 
artists will provide chamber music coaching, music theory and composition classes, and master classes 
to elementary, middle, and high school students.         
 
Austin Classical Guitar Society (aka Austin Classical Guitar (ACG)) 
$55,000  Austin, TX 
To support Classical Guitar Education in the Schools. The project is a classical guitar instruction program 
for students in Central Texas that includes professional development for teachers. Classical guitar 
instructors will provide lessons to elementary, middle, and high school students in music theory, guitar 
finger positioning, and performance technique. Public, private, and charter schools will be served, 
including a braille-adapted course at Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired and special classes 
for court-involved youth in Travis County. Additional program components will include guest artist 
performances in the schools and the opportunity for students to audition for the Classical Guitar Youth 
 
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Orchestra. Through national teacher training workshops, hundreds of music educators in cities around 
the country will learn the Austin Classical Guitar curriculum for use in their own guitar classes.         
 
Austin Independent School District (aka AISD) 
$100,000  Austin, TX 
To support the collective impact project Breaking Down Barriers: Sustaining Creative Learning Campuses 
in Austin. Creative Learning Initiative seeks to provide a quality arts-rich education for each and every 
child in AISD and professional development and ongoing support for teachers in arts-based instructional 
strategies. The collaboration of AISD, the City of Austin, MINDPOP, local artists, businesses, and 
philanthropic organizations has supported AISD campuses in the completion of foundational phases to 
increase their capacity to become arts-rich schools. This project will facilitate the transition of campuses 
to their sustaining phases by offering individualized coaching to campus leaders, support for the 
creation of campus-specific sustainability plans, and resources and handbooks to guide planning and 
decision-making, as well as a Leadership Institute and follow-up Learning Exchanges.         
 
BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn, Inc. (aka BRIC) 
$50,000  Brooklyn, NY 
To support the expansion of visual arts education programs and curatorial fellowships for students in 
New York City. Students from underserved communities will develop critical thinking and language skills 
through discussions of visual arts at the BRIC Media House Gallery, visits to contemporary art galleries, 
and in-school classroom workshops and student exhibitions. Classroom teachers will participate in staff 
development workshops that include hands-on arts experiences and integrating the arts into their 
teaching practice. In addition to the school residencies, students will develop, manage, and curate BRIC's 
Youth Media Festival in Brooklyn through the Youth Curatorial Fellowship, a dual-track fellowship 
focused on curation and professional development.         
 
Baltimore School for the Arts Foundation, Inc. (aka Baltimore School for the Arts, TWIGS) 
$20,000  Baltimore, MD 
To support the expansion of TWIGS (To Work In Gaining Skills), a free multidisciplinary arts education 
program. Students from underserved communities will take classes in dance, music, visual arts, theater, 
media arts, and stage production during after-school hours and on Saturdays. The project curriculum 
will build upon the natural talents and interests students have in the arts while developing beneficial life 
skills and expanding their arts literacy. In addition, students will receive additional hours of audition 
preparation with teaching artists. Support will allow the Baltimore School for the Arts to expand the 
dance and music classes to 28 weeks. Project partners will include the Boys and Girls Club of 
Metropolitan Baltimore, the Family League of Baltimore, and the Baltimore City Council.         
 
Barrel of Monkeys Productions (aka Barrel of Monkeys) 
$10,000  Chicago, IL 
To support creative writing and theater residency programs. Creative writing and drama residencies will 
take place in underserved elementary schools and will promote literacy, writing skills, and social and 
emotional development, while exposing students to the performing arts. The curriculum includes 
theater games, collaborative story writing activities, group performance opportunities, and individual 
writing time, with the objectives of building students' creative writing skills, collaborative abilities, and 
confidence in self-expression. Each residency will culminate in a schoolwide performance of stories 
written by the students and adapted into sketches and songs by professional actors and musicians. The 
 
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project is in alignment with citywide efforts to improve the delivery of arts education to Chicago public 
school students.         
 
Broadway Center for the Performing Arts (aka Broadway Center) 
$10,000  Tacoma, WA 
To support Latino Folkloric Arts Education Initiative. Students will participate in after-school and 
summer immersion programs in ballet folklorico and world drumming. Students will perform at various 
community venues for their peers, teachers, parents, and the community. Best practices and scalable 
models from the initiative will be disseminated through a white paper, presentations at regional arts 
conferences, and publications.         
 
Caldera (aka Camp Caldera) 
$35,000  Portland, OR 
To support a year-round transmedia arts project for Oregon youth from underserved communities. The 
Geography of We program includes an overnight summer arts camp, in-school and after-school arts 
learning sessions, Saturday classes, spring break workshops, and professional development for teaching 
artists. Focused on storytelling techniques that range from traditional forms to digital media, 
professional artists in film, animation, photography, writing, music, painting, sculpture, and design will 
guide students to explore their identity through the central theme of air. Students will create and 
showcase both web-based and physical maps that link their art to a sense of place.         
 
California Institute of the Arts (aka CalArts) (On behalf of Community Arts Partnership) 
$35,000  Valencia, CA 
To support the CalArts Community Arts Partnership Summer Arts (CAPSA) program. In partnership with 
the Los Angeles Unified School District, CalArts art faculty will provide high school students tuition-free, 
intensive arts instruction in acting, animation, creative writing, dance, music, and visual art. Participants 
will go on field trips to arts exhibitions, theatrical productions, screenings, and concerts. The project 
culminates in documentation of student work for portfolios and auditions, and a day-long performance 
and exhibition for parents and the surrounding community.         
 
Cantare Con Vivo 
$10,000  Oakland, CA 
To support the Children's Choirs of Oakland program. Program components will include tuition-free, in-
school music classes for students of all grade levels in the Oakland Unified School District. Teaching 
artists will teach fundamental music skills and integrate music into language arts and social studies, 
covering topics such as Native American and early colonial music, sea shanties, spirituals, and music of 
the Civil Rights Era. In after-school choir classes, students will learn vocal music concepts and sing in a 
variety of languages such as Hebrew, Arabic, Spanish, Italian, Latin, Mandarin, and Japanese. The 
program will also feature the Honor Choir, the Spira Choir, and the Nova Choir for middle and high 
school students, who will have multiple opportunities to perform in concerts and community events.         
 
Center for World Music (aka Center for World Music and Related Arts) 
$15,000  Encinitas, CA 
To support artist-teachers and related costs for World Music and Dance in the Schools. Artists from 
around the globe will provide weekly hands-on instruction in the traditional music and dance of Asia, 
Latin America, Africa, and Europe for San Diego-area school students. The artist-teachers, who are 
culture-bearers and experts in their fields, will use teaching styles that reflect the culture from which 
 
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their art forms come and the traditions that they uphold. By introducing students to master artists, they 
will learn about unique musical and dance traditions from many different cultures, explore and 
understand their place in the world, and develop creativity and self-confidence.         
 
Changing Worlds 
$10,000  Chicago, IL 
To support the Peacemakers Project. Residencies at partner school sites will be led by a teaching artist 
and literacy specialist team working in collaboration with a classroom art teacher and a language arts 
teacher during the school day. The curriculum will promote long-term academic success and civic 
engagement through integrating peacemaking with arts learning and creative writing. Students will 
examine issues affecting their neighborhoods, create original writings and works of art about the 
contributions of community members to peacemaking, and implement a strategy to share the message 
of peacemaking in their communities.         
 
Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education (aka CAPE) 
$75,000  Chicago, IL 
To support Collaboration Laboratory. The project is an after-school and weekend professional 
development and coaching for Chicago Public School administrators and teachers. Participants will learn 
how to use inquiry-based, arts integrated teaching. Teaching artists and teachers will collaborate in 
using new skills learned in the classroom through residencies during the school year. CAPE's long-
standing partners, including arts organizations, galleries, and community groups throughout Chicago, 
provide resources such as teaching artist development, and insight on school and community needs.         
 
City and County of San Francisco, California (aka San Francisco Arts Commission) (On behalf of 
WritersCorps) 
$34,000  San Francisco, CA 
To support San Francisco WritersCorps. The project is a creative writing program that serves youth from 
underserved communities. Working primarily in language arts classrooms and using creative writing 
activities thematically linked to literature, writers will work in schools for approximately eight months to 
supplement the curricula and strengthen students' writing skills. Activities will take place during and 
after the school day, primarily in underserved public schools, juvenile halls, arts and social service 
organizations, and public libraries. Support for teaching artists includes monthly cohort meetings and 
professional development trainings. Students' work will be published in anthologies, chapbooks, and 
broadsides; recorded for social media; and performed at a variety of poetry events, including the annual 
literary festival WordStorm.         
 
Collaborative for Educational Services, Inc. 
$30,000  Northampton, MA 
To support the Speak Up, Speak Out: Girls in the Juvenile Justice System Explore Arts and Self project. A 
professional teaching artist from Enchanted Circle Theater will lead an arts integration program for teen 
girls in Department of Youth Services (DYS) Treatment Centers in Massachusetts. The project activities 
will build self-awareness, positive self-presentation skills, and artistic expression for girls in trauma and 
transition. The project curriculum will incorporate self-reflection to gauge artistic vision, communication 
skills, productivity, and motivation.         
 
 
 
 
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Community-Word Project, Inc. (aka CWP) 
$25,000  New York, NY 
To support the Collaborative Arts Residencies Program. Teams of teaching artists working with 
classroom teachers and librarians will lead a literature program that incorporates performance and 
visual arts. Students will study a diverse group of authors and learn to write and revise individual and 
collaborative work. In addition, students will participate in public readings and create painted canvas 
murals based on a line of poetry chosen from one of their poems. Their work also will be included in an 
anthology of poetry and prose. Each program site will host culminating performances and exhibitions of 
students' work for peers, teachers, and families. Youth from underserved elementary and secondary 
schools and public libraries are expected to participate in the program throughout the school year.         
 
Country Music Foundation, Inc. (aka Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum) 
$25,000  Nashville, TN 
To support Words & Music. Museum educators and professional songwriters provide year-long 
professional developmment for teachers in the Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools to incorporate 
into class curriculum the Words & Music Teacher's Guide and sequential lesson plans to teach students 
about the art of songs and the aesthetic techniques of creating lyrics. In the classroom, teachers will 
lead their students in creating and revising their lyrics through a process of experimentation with 
traditional song structures and components of effective lyrics. Folk and country music songwriting is 
based in oral traditions and passed along from mentors to apprentices through co-writing and creative 
problem solving. Students will gain access to these traditions by working with professional songwriters 
from the Nashville music industry, who will guide the students to set their lyrics to music. In alignment 
with the school district's Music Makes Us initiative, teachers receive training to link Words & Music to 
English Langauge Arts curricula, including composition and revision, vocabulary, themes, messages, 
titles, and rhyme.         
 
Critical Exposure (aka Critical Exposure) 
$15,000  Washington, DC 
To support a photography education and youth empowerment program. During the school year and in 
the summer, high school students from underserved neighborhoods will explore their artistic and 
leadership potential in their schools and communities through photography and creative writing 
workshops led by teaching artists. In collaboration with classroom educators in D.C. public schools, 
teaching artists will guide students to create their own visual stories of identity and perseverance. 
Student work will be exhibited in galleries, libraries, and other public spaces throughout D.C. Project 
partners will include Women Photojournalists of Washington, the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, 
and FotoWeek DC.         
 
DC Youth Orchestra Program (aka DCYOP) 
$15,000  Washington, DC 
To support the Children's Orchestra, an after-school string orchestra program for D.C. public school 
students in Title I elementary schools. At no cost to the students or the school, teaching artists will 
provide as many as two hours of instrumental music instruction three times each week through group 
lessons and string orchestra rehearsals. The project has served two schools and is expanding to a third 
school. In addition, the project will include side-by-side performances and master classes with 
professional musicians, such as those from the National Symphony Orchestra, and the opportunity to 
perform in professional concert venues, such as The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and 
THEARC.         
 
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Deep Center, Incorporated (aka Deep Center) 
$20,000  Savannah, GA 
To support Savannah Stories, a creative writing literacy program for youth. After-school workshops will 
take place in public schools and community centers and will be led by professional teaching writers 
trained in Deep Center's curriculum. Workshops will include instruction in creative writing skills, one-on-
one mentoring, and feedback. Student work will be featured in printed anthologies and performed at 
public readings and book launch events. The program serves middle and high school youth.         
 
Diversity of Dance, Inc. (aka Earl Mosley's Institute of the Arts) 
$20,000  Brooklyn, NY 
To support Arts Express, a series of dance residencies. Student teams will study dance pioneers in a 
dance history project during the school year where they are encouraged to learn from one another in an 
exchange of techniques, ideas, and experiences that culminates in written, oral, and performance 
presentations. Students and dance artists will come together during an intensive residential summer 
program. Students also will participate in technique classes such as ballet, modern, African, jazz, and 
hip-hop. They will learn about fitness, wellness and nutrition, and will participate in repertory rehearsals 
and guest master workshops. Students will participate in question-and-answer talks with the 
professional dancers to learn about their artistic journeys and discuss college and career opportunities. 
Intended to serve high school students from different states, the master residencies will culminate with 
a spring concert performance.         
 
DreamYard Project, Inc. (aka DreamYard) 
$40,000  Bronx, NY 
To support professional development and coaching of elementary school teachers. The project will 
expand the number of classroom teachers collaborating with teaching artists to develop curriculum that 
integrates music, poetry, dance, and visual arts and implement it during in-school, after-school, and 
summer residencies. The professional development and residencies are aligned with New York City 
Department of Education's Blueprint for Teaching and Learning in the Arts and the John F. Kennedy 
Center for the Performing Arts' approach to arts integration. Online student learning portfolios will 
measure the effectiveness of the project and remain as an archive of their original work, creative 
process, and personal reflections.         
 
Dynamic Forms, Inc. (aka Mark DeGarmo Dance) 
$25,000  New York, NY 
To support Partnerships in Learning through Dance and Creativity, a year-long dance program in New 
York City public schools. Mark DeGarmo Dance teaching artists will provide year-round dance instruction 
in performance, choreography, and improvisational skills. Students will reflect on their work through 
dance journals, learn dance vocabulary, and dance notation. Students will create original choreography 
around themes such as Community, Animals, Humor, Social Justice: African-American History, or 
Freedom and Democracy's Rights & Responsibilities. Program teaching methods are designed with 
special education students in mind to ensure inclusive participation at every partner school. Selected 
student work will be performed at in-school events and at the MoveUP! Dance Festival.         
 
 
 
 
 
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ETM-LA, Inc. (aka Education Through Music-Los Angeles) 
$25,000  Burbank, CA 
To support weekly, year-long music instruction for students in Los Angeles public schools. Teaching 
artists will provide general music and instrumental music instruction to students through in-school 
classes in strings, ukulele, band, guitar, recorder, and chorus. Students will perform in mid-year and 
year-end student concerts at school as well as in the community. The program will include professional 
development for classroom teachers to learn how to integrate the arts into the curriculum. Participating 
schools host community events and festivals, and students will have the opportunity to attend events 
such as professional symphony concerts.         
 
Education Through Music, Inc. (aka ETM) 
$45,000  New York, NY 
To support the Bronx Partner School Program. The year-long music education program for youth in the 
Bronx will include weekly music instruction for students by qualified teaching artists; customized, 
ongoing training and professional development for school music teachers, classroom teachers, and 
principals; and outreach to parents and the community. Through long-term partnerships with schools, 
project activities will support student learning in music as well as build capacity among school and 
community members to sustain music programs. The program will include resource manuals for 
teachers, school performances by professional artists, and performance opportunities for students at 
community events, including an annual festival that will bring Education Through Music schools 
together.         
 
Elaine Kaufman Cultural Center-Lucy Moses School for Music and Dance (aka Kaufman Music 
Center) 
$20,000  New York, NY 
To support the Music Program at Special Music School P.S. 859. Teaching artists will provide free private 
instrumental lessons, performance opportunities, and classes in theory, music history, and chorus at the 
Special Music School at P.S. 859, the only K-12 public school for musically gifted students in the New 
York City Department of Education. The school's curriculum is based on a standardized course of 
academic study, delivered alongside a conservatory-quality music program during the regular school 
day. Working with an accomplished faculty, students will become proficient and knowledgeable 
musicians performing regularly and interacting with notable guests and resident artists such as flutist 
James Galway and violinist Joshua Bell.         
 
Engaging Creative Minds (aka ECM) 
$36,000  Charleston, SC 
To support Engaging Creative Minds' Tri-County Continuous Improvement and Evaluation System. 
Curriculum coaches work with school-based teams of teachers from Charleston County School District to 
select an art form to address learning standards that are difficult for students to grasp. Planning 
together, the teaching artists and teachers develop a curriculum unit and work in classrooms with 
students. Teaching artists engage students in creative ways to reach higher levels of learning through 
the arts while also providing professional development for teachers to learn to integrate similar creative 
approaches into their curriculum.         
 
 
 
 
 
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Epic Theatre Center, Inc. (aka Epic Theatre Ensemble) 
$35,000  New York, NY 
To support year-round in-school and after-school theater residencies. Led by teaching artists, youth will 
study classical and modern plays in residencies tailored to the specific needs of underserved public high 
schools. The in-school residencies will include research, script analysis, character development, 
improvisation, creation of original work, and rehearsal and performance for community audiences. 
Students also may elect to participate in after-school and summer programs. Participants in the after-
school Shakespeare Remix will study, rehearse, and perform an adaptation of a Shakespearean play 
alongside professional theater artists. Epic NEXT, a six-week summer intensive will provide extended 
skill building through one-on-one mentorships and creation and touring of new work.         
 
Eskolta School Research and Design, Inc. (aka Eskolta) 
$25,000  New York, NY 
To support Arts Forward, a multidisciplinary arts program. Year-round, in- and after-school arts 
instruction will be provided for over-age and under-credited students with histories of chronic truancy 
and/or special needs. The program will build art-making skills and re-engage youth in their curricular 
studies, strengthen social-emotional competencies, and offer potential career paths. Residencies led by 
teaching artists will be offered in a variety of arts disciplines, including spoken word poetry, digital 
media production, African dance and culture, Latin percussion, and hip-hop dance. Students will have 
the opportunity to attend professional performances and screenings and will showcase their work for 
their schools and at Red Hook Fest.         
 
Fine Arts Association Willoughby (aka Fine Arts Association) 
$10,000  Willoughby, OH 
To support the Arts Carts Program. Students at Title I elementary schools will participate in an 
immersive program that integrates language arts with theater and visual arts. Students will explore 
literature through reading and storytelling sessions. The books will serve as a foundation for drama and 
visual arts workshops led by trained instructors. Basic props and scenery will be created for use at a 
Family Literacy Night to showcase student performances and an exhibition of visual arts.         
 
Folk Arts-Cultural Treasures Charter School (aka FACTS) 
$20,000  Philadelphia, PA 
To support professional development workshops and mentoring for classroom teachers, residencies by 
folk artists, and student folk art ensembles. During monthly meetings by the Folk Arts Committee, 
partners identify art forms connected to the heritage of the students and select artists who have 
experience teaching in school settings to participate. Artists collaborate with teachers to explore 
authentic assessment focused on culturally specific aesthetics. Students learn how aesthetics and 
systems of shared values inform creation, performance, and assessment within particular art forms. 
Students also practice in ensembles, including West African dance and drumming, Chinese opera, and 
Indonesian dance.         
 
Ghetto Film School, Inc. (aka Ghetto Film School) 
$30,000  Bronx, NY 
To support The Fellows Program at The Cinema School. The project is a cinematic storytelling program 
for high school students from underserved communities. Students will participate in the Frick Collection 
Thesis Project, which explores the tensions and intersections between fine arts and media arts 
 
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