State District Organization Name Discipline / Field City Project Description Fiscal Year Grant Amount To support a multidisciplinary arts program focusing on older adults. Adults residing in Jewish Community Housing for the Elderly's (JCHE) affordable, non-denominational assisted living facilities will be offered creative arts opportunities that promote healthy aging. Professional teaching artists will Friends of Jewish Community Presenting & offer sessions in art-making, drama, dance and creative movement, and MA 0 Brighton 2017 $15,000 Housing for the Elderly Inc. Multidisciplinary Works storytelling. Participants will have opportunities to share their creative talents and projects with their families and the greater community. JCHE will partner with Lesley University's Institute for Arts and Health to develop training and replication components in order to further disseminate the program model. To support a series of multidisciplinary performances and related activities. A mixed-genre performance, "Invisible: Imprints of Racism," will combine modern and street dancers with professional poets to examine issues of Presenting & MA 0 Anna Myer and Dancers, Inc. Cambridge race in urban America. In addition to a performance in Providence, Rhode 2017 $25,000 Multidisciplinary Works Island, teenagers from high poverty neighborhoods in Baltimore, Boston, and New York City will participate in workshops with the company prior to the performances. MA 0 Metheny, Patrick Music Boston N/A 2017 $25,000 MA 0 Yoon, Paul Literature Cambridge N/A 2018 $25,000 MA 0 Suneja, Shilpi Literature Cambridge N/A 2018 $25,000 MA 0 Walker, Jerald Literature Hingham N/A 2018 $25,000 MA 0 Bell, Joshua Literature Cambridge N/A 2017 $25,000 To support the translation from the Polish of a collection of poems by Zuzanna Ginczanka. Ginczanka (1917-45) was a Jewish-Polish poet and writer of radio dramas for the Polish national radio who was arrested and executed in Krakow shortly before the end of World War II. Although she published only a single collection of poetry, the book "On Centaurs" created MA 0 Valles, Alissa Literature Cambridge a sensation in Poland's literary circles between the wars. Her most famous 2018 $12,500 poem, written in captivity in 1942, was first published at the initiative of Julian Przybos, a poet who had been one of the Krakow Avantgarde. English- language readers have had relatively little access to female Polish poets; nor have they had access to Ginczanka's generation of Jewish poets since it was almost entirely destroyed.

To support an emerging collective impact initiative that will integrate the arts into the work of the Berkshire Compact for Education. The Berkshire Compact for Education is a network of regional civic, education, and business leaders who work to improve the lives of residents in rural Berkshire County, Massachusetts. Based on the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts' recent research on promising practices in increasing access to Massachusetts College of MA 1 Arts Education North Adams arts education in rural areas, the goal of the Creative Compact for Collective 2018 $75,000 Liberal Arts Impact initiative is to create a systematic approach for arts education as a key asset in increasing student engagement and success. Along with several community partners, arts leaders will convene to create an arts education blueprint that will position arts education to help address regional issues. The blueprint will be disseminated, and a plan for data collection will be designed with the Berkshire Regional Planning Commission. To support the Readers and Writers Series, developed in collaboration with the Smith College Poetry Center. The Care Center's services focus on young parents, and its clientele includes predominantly low-income families of Community Adolescent Puerto Rican descent. The project will engage this population by providing MA 1 Resources and Education Challenge America Holyoke 2017 $10,000 books by featured writers and facilitating book discussions in advance of Center public readings by each of the guest artists. Guest artists will include writers and poets Luis Alberto Urrea, Robert Pinsky, Junot Diaz, Carmen Maria Machado, Danez Smith, Ocean Vuong, Marilyn Chin and Martin Espada.

To support the publication of "Orion Magazine." Focusing on the genre of modern American environmental literature, the magazine features poetry, MA 1 Orion Society Literature Great Barrington fiction, and creative nonfiction. The magazine will be published in both print 2017 $25,000 and electronic formats, and planned online content includes blog exchanges with authors. To support the publication and promotion of books of poetry and essays in print and electronic formats. The press plans to publish titles by authors Kazim Ali, Patricia Fargnoli, Rajiv Mohabir, Lawrence Raab, and Argentine MA 1 Tupelo Press, Inc. Literature North Adams 2017 $25,000 poet Jorge Aulicino (in translation from the Spanish). Books will be promoted through author readings, and the press will offer a free, downloadable reader's guide for each title. To support development of the traveling exhibition "Enduring Ideals: Rockwell, Roosevelt, and the Four Freedoms." The multi-faceted project will explore the historic address by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to Congress in 1941, and Norman Rockwell's subsequent visual response, along with other artists of the time such as Meade Schaeffer, Al Parker, Arthur Szyk, Norman Rockwell Museum at MA 1 Museums Stockbridge Ben Shahn, Boris Artsybasheff, and Jean Carlu. The project also will include a 2017 $35,000 Stockbridge, Inc. call to artists for contemporary interpretation of the four concepts-Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Worship, Freedom from Want, and Freedom from Fear. Other project components will include the development of a catalogue, website, curriculum, digital tour, gallery interactive activities, symposia, and a social media campaign.

To support the exhibition "A Suite for Piano: Alma-Tadema and the Artistic Interior" and accompanying catalogue. The exhibition will feature furniture, paintings, sculpture, and antiquities from the Gilded Age music room designed by Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912). One of the most eminent and highly paid artists of the time, Alma-Tadema specialized in Sterling & Francine Clark Art archaeologically exact paintings evoking classical antiquity. His designs for MA 1 Museums Williamstown 2017 $30,000 Institute the music room included not only the piano and furniture, but also the embroidery scheme for the upholstery and matching curtains and portieres. In addition the works by Alma-Tadema, other highlights will be Frederic, Lord Leighton's (1830-96) ceiling painting and works by Sir Edward Poynter (1836-1919). Public lectures, a free family day, academic programs, gallery talks, audio tours, and other related events will help engage the audience. To support exhibitions of new work by artists Liz Glynn and Tanja Hollander, commissioned by MASS MoCA. Both exhibitions will explore themes related to our relationships with each other, technology, and the material world. Maine-based photographer Tanja Hollander's (b. 1972) exhibition, "Are you really my friend" will focus on Facebook, exploring its impact on a variety of Massachusetts Museum of issues and concern such as generosity, compassion, family structure, MA 1 Contemporary Art Foundation, Museums North Adams community-building, travel, and storytelling. Los-Angeles-based artist Liz 2017 $35,000 Inc. Glynn (b. 1981) will present a large-scale installation that examines the rise, fall, and resurrection of empires using materials such as wood, cardboard, papier-mache, and wax. Glynn will re-fabricate artifacts, monuments, and buildings of historic civilizations and create suspended catwalks that will allow visitors a bird's eye view. Programming includes guided public tours, gallery talks, curriculum guides, and school outreach.

To support Assets for Artists, in partnership with GreenPath. Assets for Artists serves low-income artists in New England with a cross-sector approach to capacity building, financial wellness, and asset development. In partnership with GreenPath, a nonprofit financial wellness organization, MASS MoCA will extend the reach of the program to serve artists Massachusetts Museum of nationwide. Artists will participate in extended financial wellness residencies MA 1 Contemporary Art Foundation, Creativity Connects North Adams 2017 $80,000 at MASS MoCA, during which they will have access to professional Inc. development training and personalized financial coaching. GreenPath will provide one-on-one advising from financial counselors that will include webinars and online educational tools. GreenPath also will develop and maintain an artist-focused online microsite with financial wellness information specifically for self-employed artists. To support a campus-based residency with Forklift Danceworks. Forklift Danceworks will collaborate with the Williams '62 Center for Theatre and Dance to bring together students and the college's food service team in the Williams College, The President Presenting & MA 1 Williamstown creation and performance of a new work. The dance-theater work will be 2017 $25,000 and Trustees of Multidisciplinary Works based upon the movements of the food service workers and performed by the food service workers. A toolkit also will be created as a map for other artists/presenters to create community-based art. To support expanded content for the Jacob's Pillow Dance Interactive, an online platform that provides access to dance performances from the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival archives, the implementation of a new Podcast series, and a convening on the effectiveness of the platform. Accompanied by historical and contextual information, JPDI will introduce a new series of Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, MA 1 Media Arts Becket topics for the platform's theme-based module selected by guest curators. 2017 $75,000 Inc. Additionally, JPDI will launch a podcast series that showcases live events during the festival and provides supplemental material such interviews and panel discussion from the archives to new and existing module themes. Lastly, a convening will be held on the JPDI and its usefulness to researchers and educators. To support training programs for theater students and early career theater professionals. Williamstown Theatre Festival will offer training and fellowship opportunities to emerging actors, directors, designers, technicians, artisans, and managers, providing them opportunities to gain Williamstown Theatre MA 1 Theater Williamstown experience in many aspects of theater craft and administration. In addition, 2018 $15,000 Foundation, Inc. festival staff and guest artists will mentor program participants. While engaged in training, students may be given the opportunity to take part in director-driven developmental projects, perform in productions, or teach family workshops. To support the Fall Festival of Shakespeare. The project is a long-term theater-arts residency program serving underserved high schools in Massachusetts and New York. The series of classroom and after-school sessions will focus on a language-based exploration of a Shakespearean play MA 1 Shakespeare & Company, Inc. Arts Education Lenox 2017 $25,000 through master classes, rehearsals, text analysis, and student performances, as well as professional development for classroom teachers. The project will culminate in a performance festival of full-scale productions at the company's theater in Massachusetts.

To support commissioning projects by artists Taryn Simon and Anya Gallaccio at MASS MoCA. Taryn Simon (b. 1975) is a multidisciplinary artist working in photography, text, sculpture and performance. Guided by an interest in systems of categorization and classification, her practice involves extensive research into the power and structure of secrecy and the precarious nature of survival. Anya Gallaccio's (b. 1963) work explores the Massachusetts Museum of malleability and spatial qualities of natural materials like stone, clay, and MA 1 Contemporary Art Foundation, Museums North Adams obsidian (volcanic glass). Her work's engagement with ephemerality and 2018 $20,000 Inc. decay means that these changes are often visible over the course of a single exhibition, rewarding repeat visits. Both exhibitions and the accompanying catalogues and education programming are intended for a wide range of people, regional students, and the general public, as well as an informed art audience and the professional art field, appealing to those interested in photography, built environments, architectural interventions, and time- based art. To support an impact study, community discussions, and design plans for the theater's performing arts facility. This project will comprise a thorough Double Edge Theatre assessment of the theater's past work, which will ultimately inform design MA 1 Design Ashfield 2017 $50,000 Productions, Inc. of the Farm Center performing arts facility. Double Edge Theatre will partner with the Town of Ashfield in this investigation of how to increase their impact. To support the development and premiere of "Invention of Reality." Designed for touring, the ensemble work will explore themes of migration, ancestry, memory, and the transformative power of storytelling. The work is inspired by "Where the Bird Sings Best" by Chilean-Jewish writer Alejandro Jodorowski and the tradition of magic realism in Latin America and Eastern Double Edge Theatre MA 1 Theater Ashfield Europe. Music and folk cultures from both regions, dances, and large-scale 2017 $20,000 Productions, Inc. puppetry are all central to the aesthetic of the piece. An immersive musical set design inspired by "Calder's Circus" by Alexander Calder will be created. Artistic Director Stacy Klein will direct with artistic collaborators including Argentine Co-Artistic Director Carlos Uriona, Russian composer Alexander Bakshi, and Argentine musician/dancer Micaela Farias. To support the presentation of dance artists as well as a variety of education and outreach activities at the Pillow. Creative Development Residencies will support the development of new work and the next generation of dance-makers. The artists involved may include Batsheva Dance Company, Dorrance Dance, Ronald K. Brown with Arturo Farrill, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, MA 1 Dance Becket Sonya Tayeh Dance, Ephrat Asherie, and Netta Yerulshamy. The project will 2018 $90,000 Inc. reach large audiences of both dance newcomers and aficionados, and will offer multiple entry points for learning about dance through the Pillow's extensive Audience Engagement Programs. All project activities will take place at the Pillow's 220-acre National Historic Landmark site in Becket, Massachusetts. To support the publication and promotion of books of poetry and essays, including work in translation. The press plans to publish an anthology of contemporary Native American poetry and essays; an anthology of work MA 1 Tupelo Press, Inc. Literature North Adams from the Catalan region of Spain; and titles by such authors as G.C. 2018 $20,000 Waldrep, Sharon Wang, and Baron Wormser. Books will be made available in both print and electronic forms, and the press will offer a free, downloadable reader's guide for each title. To support training programs for theater students and early career theater professionals. Williamstown Theatre Festival will offer training and fellowship opportunities to emerging actors, directors, designers, technicians, artisans, and managers, providing them opportunities to gain Williamstown Theatre MA 1 Theater Williamstown experience in many aspects of theater craft and administration. In addition, 2017 $15,000 Foundation, Inc. festival staff and guest artists will mentor program participants. While engaged in training, students may be given the opportunity to take part in director-driven developmental projects, perform in productions, or teach family workshops. To support a commission of new work by Laurie Anderson for a long-term exhibition. A combination live art studio, gallery, and archive, the "Infinite Monkey Studio Project" is an immersive installation that will encompass three rooms at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in its Massachusetts Museum of newly renovated building. Each room will have a unique identity, including MA 1 Contemporary Art Foundation, Media Arts North Adams 2017 $35,000 an interactive recording studio and virtual reality experience, and contain Inc. paintings, drawings, and a digital database of video and audio performances. Interpretive educational programming around the installation may include guided public tours, artist lectures, and school programs. To support the presentation of dance artists as well as a variety of education and outreach activities. Creative Development Residencies will support the development of new work and the next generation of dance- makers. The artists involved will include John Heginbotham, Camille A. Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Brown, Compagnie Marie Chouinard, and Northwest Dance Project. The MA 1 Dance Becket 2017 $100,000 Inc. project will reach large nationwide audiences of both dance newcomers and aficionados, and will offer multiple entry points for learning about dance through the Pillow's extensive Audience Engagement Programs. All project activities will take place at The Pillow's 220-acre National Historic Landmark site in Becket, Massachusetts. To support an arts integration program for girls in the juvenile justice system. A professional teaching artist from Enchanted Circle Theater will lead an arts integration program for teen girls in Department of Youth Collaborative for Educational Services (DYS) Treatment Centers in Massachusetts. The project activities MA 2 Arts Education Northampton 2017 $30,000 Services, Inc. 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. To support a series of multidisciplinary presentations. Music and dance artists will be presented in a series of performances and related engagement activities including mini-residencies, educational events, and Presenting & MA 2 Music Worcester Worcester open rehearsals. Featured artists will include musician/composer Chris 2017 $15,000 Multidisciplinary Works Brubeck, violinist Pamela Frank, and violinist Lara St. John (Canada), as well as Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Russian National Ballet Theatre, and choral group CONCORA. To support the redesign of massreview.org, as well as the publication and promotion of longer-form work through an e-book series and print anthology. Planned updates to the website, such as improved multimedia MA 2 Massachusetts Review Literature Amherst integration and a mobile-responsive design, will allow the magazine to 2017 $10,000 enhance its online offerings. Through its "Working Titles" initiative, the magazine plans to publish novellas and long-form nonfiction in e-book form, and will publish a print anthology of past e-book titles.

To support "The Massachusetts Review" publications in print and electronic forms. Through its Working Titles initiative, the magazine will publish longer- form fiction and nonfiction, including work in translation, in both e-book MA 2 Massachusetts Review Literature Amherst 2018 $10,000 form and in a print anthology. The magazine will also publish digital portfolios of poetry and art on its website. Activities will be promoted through social media and an e-newsletter, among other means.

To support a dance residency for students with choreographer Camille A. Brown. The residency will include the restaging and public performances of MA 2 Five Colleges, Incorporated Dance Amherst Brown's "New Second Line" by two casts of Five College Dance Department 2018 $10,000 student dancers. The residency may also include a workshop for high school dancers from the region and a public lecture-demonstration.

To support the publication and promotion of the magazine "The Common." Released biannually, "The Common" features writing that embodies a strong sense of place. The magazine's website, "The Common Online," will showcase work from print issues, as well as include exclusive content such MA 2 Trustees of Amherst College Literature Amherst 2018 $10,000 as interviews, reviews, and work in translation. The journal also plans to expand its online resources available for students and teachers. Activities will be promoted through social media and e-mail marketing campaigns, among other means. To support art classes and other programming for teens. The sequential arts classes will engage students with artist-mentors and the museum's collection. Students will develop deeper critical thinking skills through MA 2 Worcester Art Museum Museums Worcester contact with historical objects in an encyclopedic art museum. The program 2017 $20,000 offers art history classes for high school students, including an Advanced Placement program, a docent program, and a series of summer art-making workshops. To support the Folger Theatre's production of Shakespeare's "Timon of Athens." This rarely produced work tells the story of a philanthropist turned MA 2 Trustees of Amherst College Theater Amherst misanthrope, and is a commentary on materialism and greed. The 2017 $10,000 production will be directed by Robert Richmond, and will be accompanied by audience enrichment programs. To support a touring production of "Young@Heart Under the Big Tent," a new musical theater work created with a chorus of elders. Using circus as its theme, the production will feature a mix of contemporary music performed by the chorus made up of senior citizens. The chorus will collaborate with Young at Heart Chorus, the Rhode Island School of Design Industrial Design Department to create a MA 2 Musical Theater Florence 2018 $10,000 Incorporated visual design and flexible staging that blends circus tradition with cutting- edge technologies. As the chorus performs, they will be accompanied by a live band and circus acts from the Show Circus Studio of Easthampton, Massachusetts. The production will tour to as many as five venues throughout the Northeast. To support Folger Theatre's production of "Devanant's Macbeth," a Restoration version of Shakespeare's "Macbeth"by Sir William Devanant. Restoration Theater first appeared in 1660 after an 18-year ban imposed by staunch Puritan rule. It reintroduced lighthearted, lavish, and multidisciplinary plays to a society recovering from years of division and unrest. Published in 1674, "Devanant's Macbeth" represents one of the MA 2 Trustees of Amherst College Theater Amherst 2018 $10,000 most popular Restoration versions of Shakespeare's works. It fully embodies the Restoration theater style by integrating drama, song, music, and dance into a single play. Primary materials from the Folger collection will be used to inform practice and staging, including Restoration versions of the text, a Restoration promptbook, and extant musical settings for the work and scores. To support the creation of animation components for live performances of "Tales from the Forgotten Kingdom." Arts Are Essential will commission artist Kseniya Simonova to add sand animation and the duo of Jan Koester Presenting & and Sonja Rohleder to add digital shadow puppetry to "Tales from the MA 3 Arts Are Essential, Inc. Acton 2017 $10,000 Multidisciplinary Works Forgotten Kingdom." Through the use of traditional songs and stories, sung in the endangered language Ladino, the multidisciplinary theater piece will bring attention to Sephardic communities from the Balkans and Mediterranean decimated in World War II. To support the Lowell Folk Festival. The festival will showcase master folk artists from across the nation and around the world. Performances of traditional music will be offered alongside traditional dance and crafts. MA 3 Lowell Festival Foundation Folk & Traditional Arts Lowell 2017 $40,000 Additionally, the festival's foodways programming will include demonstrations of traditional cooking from the diverse ethnic population of the Lowell area. To support the Lowell Folk Festival. The festival will showcase master folk artists from across the nation and around the world. Traditional music, such as Chicago blues, Native American drumming, and Irish reels, will be MA 3 Lowell Festival Foundation Folk & Traditional Arts Lowell 2018 $35,000 presented alongside traditional dance, crafts, and ethnic foodways. In addition to the performances, many of the artists will discuss and demonstrate their skills during workshops. To support orchestral performances by musician and composer David Amram featuring local students and the Orchestra of Indian Hill. Students will be selected to particpate in a jazz improvisation program. Amram will MA 3 Indian Hill Music Challenge America Littleton instruct and practice improvisation with the students and incorporate their 2018 $10,000 new skills in a culminating free performance for the public. He will give pre- and post-concert talks, providing context for the premiere of his new work, "Greenwich Village Portraits for Saxophone and String Orchestra." To support the presentation of multidisciplinary works by several guest artists, performed in collaboration with local artists in Lawrence, Massachusetts, as well as community arts workshops. Guest artists will include muralist Alex Brien, fashion designer Corina Cornejo, and Ramon Guillermo a.k.a. DJ Erkle. The artists will present workshops for area youth MA 3 Si, Se Puede, Inc. Challenge America Lawrence 2018 $10,000 and their families. The participating youth will include low-income, inner- city Latino students currently participating in Si, Se Puede, Manos Felices, and Elevated Thought after-school programs. They will showcase their gained skills and creations in the culminating events as well as a mural unveiling. To support the production of James Scruggs' "3/Fifths." The theatrical experience will include the use of video, text, music, puppetry, and performance art to explore the root of violence perpetrated against black men. The performance will be held at the Roxbury Repertory Theater as a MA 4 Sleeping Weazel Inc Challenge America Sharon way to bring together Sleeping Weazel's regular attendees and the 2017 $10,000 predominantly African-American audience of the Roxbury. There will be facilitated post-show discussions to join these audiences in conversation with each other and Scruggs, facilitated by the artistic directors of the partner theaters. To support a production of "Richard III" in the 2018 Free Shakespeare on the Common. Audiences will experience a contemporary professional production in one of the nation's oldest public parks that is centrally Commonwealth Shakespeare located, accessible, and close to public transportation. The company will MA 4 Theater Babson Park 2018 $10,000 Company Inc. illustrate the relevance of Shakespeare's ideas and the beauty of his language, and will break down the barriers that keep people from experiencing live theater. The Boston tradition of offering free Shakespeare is in its 21st year. To support the commission, development, and production of "PermaDeath" by composer Dan Visconti and librettist Cerise Lim Jacobs. The new Friends of Madame White MA 4 Opera Brookline videogame opera work will use augmented reality, motion capture, and 3D 2018 $12,500 Snake animations, and will invite the audience to use their smartphones to participate. To support Free Shakespeare on the Common. Audiences will experience a contemporary professional production of William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet." An open-air theater set will be built in one of the nation's oldest public parks that is centrally located, accessible, and close to public Commonwealth Shakespeare MA 4 Theater Babson Park transportation. The company will illustrate the relevance of Shakespeare's 2017 $10,000 Company Inc. ideas and the beauty of his language, and will break down the barriers that keep people from experiencing live theater. The Boston tradition of offering free Shakespeare is in its 21st year and is supported by both civic leaders and the public. To support Zephyr Press in the publication and promotion of poetry titles in translation. Planned publications, which will be presented in bilingual form, MA 4 Aspect, Inc. Literature Brookline include work by Chinese and Polish poets including Tadeusz Dabrowski, 2017 $10,000 Jacek Dehnel, Zhang Er, Julia Fiedorczuk, and Ya Shi, most of whom have had little or no exposure in English. To support staff and artists salaries for classical chamber music concerts in Greater Boston homeless shelters. Following each performance, extensive MA 5 Shelter Music Boston, Inc. Challenge America Arlington 2017 $10,000 conversations about music and related topics among shelter guests, staff, and the musicians will occur. To support facilities access and training programs for media artists at the Public Radio Exchange's Podcast Garage. Artists will have access to professional equipment, technical resources, networking events, and training sessions focused on the art and business of podcast audio MA 5 PRX, Inc. Media Arts Cambridge production, covering topics such as audio engineering, sound design, 2017 $30,000 musical scoring, music rights laws, and measuring listener metrics. In addition, several public radio stations also will have the opportunity to participate in a training program on podcast business skills, production, and promotion. To support the "Classic Brattle" film series. Presented year-round, each series will be curated around a specific theme, genre, artist, and/or time MA 5 Brattle Film Foundation, Inc. Media Arts Cambridge 2017 $10,000 period. Programs are supplemented by audience discussions, visiting artists and scholars, and online resources such as film notes.

To support a series of artistic collaborations featuring Indian tabla musician Zakir Hussain. Bansuri flute maestro Rakesh Chaurasia (India) and Hussain will perform a concert fusing modern and classical Indian musical forms. Hussain also will work with NEA Jazz Master Dave Holland and Holland's CROSSCURRENTS jazz ensemble to present a concert exploring the cross- Presenting & MA 5 World Music, Inc. Cambridge cultural influences that classical Indian music and jazz have had on one 2018 $50,000 Multidisciplinary Works another. Additionally, World Music/CRASHarts has commissioned Hussain and dance ensemble Alonzo King LINES Ballet to create and perform a cross- disciplinary work. Related engagement activities for each collaboration, including workshops, master classes, pre-performance discussions, and lecture-demonstrations will be offered.

To support the Classic Repertory Company, an education and outreach program. The project will bring professional productions of Shakespeare's "Othello" and an original stage adaptation of Harper Lee's "To Kill a MA 5 New Repertory Theatre, Inc. Theater Watertown Mockingbird" to students in venues throughout New England. Productions 2017 $10,000 are selected in accordance with the Massachusetts Curriculum Guidelines, and will be supported with study guides, artist-led workshops, and post- show discussions. To support a series of site-responsive temporary public artworks in the historic Cambridge Common. A series of interactive installations, performances, public programs, and events will relate to both the historic and contemporary role of Cambridge Common as a community gathering City of Cambridge, space. Time-based works of sound, visual arts, and live performances will MA 5 Local Arts Agencies Cambridge 2017 $35,000 Massachusetts consider the concepts of connectivity and shared common civic spaces while also celebrating new bicycle and pedestrian accessibility renovations. The council will collaborate with independent curator Dina Deitsch and local community organizations such as The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, Harvard Square Business Association, and Lesley University.

To support the American premiere of "Trans Scripts, Part I: The Women" by Paul Lucas. The playwright draws upon interviews with people from North America, the United Kingdom, and Australia who identify as transgender, and weaves together their stories into a work of documentary theater. The play is performed verbatim from the accounts of six women, ranging in age, MA 5 American Repertory Theatre Theater Cambridge 2017 $50,000 ethnicity, nationality, socioeconomic status, and experience who identify as male-to-female transgender. "Trans Scripts" premiered at the 2015 Edinburgh Festival Fringe (Scotland), where it received the Fringe First Award. Jo Bonney directed a staged reading and will direct the full production. To support recording and post-production costs for a compact disc of orchestral works by an American composer. The recording will feature Boston Modern Orchestra MA 5 Music Malden works by composer David Del Tredici and will be released on the orchestra's 2017 $20,000 Project, Inc. BMOP/sound record label. Repertoire may include Del Tredici's "Child Alice" (1977-81). To support a multidisciplinary arts series celebrating Gloucester, Massachusetts. Arts organizations in Gloucester will present a variety of events--including a speaker's series, storytelling programs, musical performances, a collaborative playwriting circle, and a mosaic mural project- -which will engage community members in defining what they value about Gloucester Lyceum & Sawyer MA 6 Design Gloucester Gloucester and lay the groundwork for community development initiatives 2017 $50,000 Free Library and investments. Project partners include the City of Gloucester, Gloucester Meetinghouse Foundation, Gloucester Writers Center, and Folklore Theatre Company. These arts programs will be inspired by Gloucester's shifting demographics and changing economy, which has traditionally centered on fishing, the arts, and tourism. To support a design internship program. The interns will learn and apply Design that Matters' particular product development process, including market research, concept development, iteration and testing, and will MA 6 Design that Matters, Inc. Design Salem develop a functional prototype of a medical device for newborns in 2017 $40,000 developing countries. The program is designed for students and recent graduates who are socially-driven, entrepreneurial individuals with industrial design and engineering backgrounds. To support a design internship program which will offer hands-on experience to students and recent graduates. The interns will learn and apply Design that Matters' particular product development process, including market research, concept development, iteration and testing, and MA 6 Design that Matters, Inc. Design Salem 2018 $35,000 will develop a functional prototype of a medical device for newborns in developing countries. The program is designed for college students and young professionals with industrial design and engineering backgrounds who want to build careers that have a direct and tangible impact on society. To support the creation of a temporary, site-specific sculpture and accompanying arts programming. Montserrat will partner with visual artist John Preus to create a temporary, site-specific sculpture made of found Presenting & materials collected in the region. Preus and community members will work MA 6 Montserrat College of Art Beverly 2017 $20,000 Multidisciplinary Works together in building the sculpture titled "The Beast" made in the form of a bull. Accompanying activities devised with the community for the sculpture may include theater, music, and dance performances, as well as poetry readings, lectures, and discussions. To support Real to Reel (R2R) Film School, a media arts education program. The program will immerse youth in film history and media literacy, as well as integrate core arts education standards related to creating, presenting, MA 6 Raw Art Works, Inc. Arts Education Lynn responding, and connecting in media. Students will take fieldtrips with guest 2017 $35,000 artists to local film screenings, production houses, and colleges. The culminating activity will include a screening of the student-created films at the Peabody Essex Museum. To support a media arts education program for youth. Students will build a foundation in film history and media literacy, as well as learn the fundamentals of immersive storytelling using virtual reality technology. Guest artists will accompany students on field trips to local film screenings, MA 6 Raw Art Works, Inc. Arts Education Lynn 2018 $40,000 production houses, and colleges. The culminating activity will include a screening of the student-created films in public venues. The program curriculum spans multiple years, providing long term opportunities for youth to participate. To support the traveling exhibition "T.C. Cannon: Remember Me Blues." The exhibition will bring together approximately 70 works by Cannon, an accomplished painter, poet, and musician, influenced by his Kiowa and Caddo Native American heritage, as well as Western art and contemporary American culture. The exhibition will chart Cannon's (1946-78) artistic MA 6 Peabody Essex Museum, Inc. Museums Salem development during his career, featuring his signature painting style, that 2018 $45,000 preferences a bright palette of pinks, blues and greens, combining techniques drawn from 19th- and 20th-century artists such as Vincent van Gogh, Henri Matisse and Robert Rauschenberg. This exhibition will advance dialogue regarding the place of Native artists in the larger fabric of American art. To support design fellows salaries for the Hudson Valley Design Center. Working with residents, local organizations and regional institutions, MASS Design Group will open a design center in Poughkeepsie, New York. As a post-industrial, rust belt city, Poughkeepsie has suffered from decades of MA 7 MASS Design Group LTD Design Boston economic neglect and has had difficulty reinventing itself. The fellows will 2017 $30,000 support the new design center, utilizing physical and community infrastructure that engages residents in developing a vibrant vision of a growing local economy and rebranding Poughkeepsie as an inviting city for business innovation. To support programming to involve youth and neighborhood residents in the city planning process. In response to Boston's citywide planning process, Imagine2030, DSNI is working with local residents to ensure that they will Dudley Street Neighborhood benefit from intended improvements to housing, education, jobs, and arts MA 7 Design Roxbury 2017 $20,000 Initiative Inc. and culture. DSNI will hire several local artists, supported by DSNI's staff, who will work with youth employees to design creative interventions that build the capacity and participation of residents to more effectively participate in citywide planning efforts. To support the premiere of "Freedom Ride," an opera by composer and librettist Dan Shore at Juventas New Music Ensemble, in a semi-staged concert presentation. The opera focuses on Sylvie Davenport, a fictional African-American student from New Orleans, as she is pulled into the Civil Rights Movement. Sylvie's struggle is representative of the men and women MA 7 Juventas Music Opera Boston who participated in the Freedom Rides, and ultimately all who participated 2018 $10,000 in the Civil Rights Movement at tremendous peril to themselves and their families. The opera's universally relevant themes and important historical setting offer a valuable opportunity to reflect on a critical period of U.S. history. Conductor Lidiya Yankovskaya will lead performances in the historic Strand Theater in spring 2019.

To support the Artists' Projects and Urbano Fellows programs. Boston-area public high school students and recent graduates representing diverse communities from across the city will study contemporary multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary arts through mentorship, studio work, class discussions, site visits, public dialogue, and production of public arts events. Students participating in Artists' Projects will study with professional MA 7 Urbano Project, Inc. Arts Education Boston 2017 $45,000 practicing artists in curricula modeled on college-level arts seminars, emphasizing conceptual exploration, experimentation, revision, collaboration as well as technical skill. Students who successfully complete the projects for at least two semesters may, as Urbano Fellows, serve as peer leaders who also research and conceptualize new ideas, produce artwork, and organize public art exhibitions.

To support "Playful Perspectives," an exhibition of large-scale, site-specific interactive public art works along the Rose Kennedy Greenway. Using scaled Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy MA 7 Visual Arts Boston objects and optical illusions, artists will create whimsical work that 2017 $25,000 Greenway Conservancy challenges one's sense of perspective. Participating artists will include Meredith James, Mark A. Reigelman II, and Aakash Nihalani. To support the Boston Book Festival. The festival showcases fiction writers, poets, children's book authors and illustrators, historians, scientists, journalists, and thought leaders, and draws robust audiences from Greater MA 7 Boston Book Festival, Inc. Literature Cambridge Boston and throughout New England. As part of its One City One Story 2017 $10,000 initiative, the festival includes a town hall discussion with an author whose work of literary fiction has been distributed widely in community spaces across the city. To support a jazz concert series. The free jazz concerts at the Dudley Library Vigorous Interventions in in Roxbury, Massachusetts, will feature the Makanda Project and guest MA 7 Challenge America Dorchester 2017 $10,000 Ongoing Natural Settings, Inc. artists. The concerts will have accompanying music instruction and visual art projects, to further engage the surrounding underserved community.

To support a series of free jazz concerts featuring the Makanda Project, with community art activities. The Makanda Project, a 13-piece band, will perform with various guest artists. The project will also incorporate Vigorous Interventions in education and community involvement components, such as live painting MA 7 Challenge America Dorchester 2018 $10,000 Ongoing Natural Settings, Inc. and drawing, and free music lessons for youth. The public concerts will take place at the Bruce C. Bolling Municipal Building in Dudley Square, Roxbury, Massachusetts, in the heart of Boston's low-income African-American community.

To support a multidisciplinary series of arts events. Activities will include Inquilinos Boricuas En Accion Presenting & concerts featuring singers Vincent Garcia and Roy Brown. Bilingual MA 7 Boston 2018 $10,000 Inc. Multidisciplinary Works children's theater company Teatro SEA will perform "La Cucarachita Martina," a dramatization of the popular Puerto Rican children’s tale.

To support an annual cultural event celebrating Latino Heritage Month. This community-wide event includes public art displays, musical performances, cultural showcases, and guest artists who will visit the underserved MA 7 Sociedad Latina Challenge America Roxbury 2017 $10,000 community of Roxbury, with a predominantly African-American and Latino population. Local youth will be involved in the logistical planning and implementation of the events to teach workforce readiness skills. To support 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 opportunities, participants MA 7 Actors' Shakespeare Project Arts Education Somerville 2017 $30,000 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. To support 15 Points, a sculptural, robotic, point-light installation by artist collective rAndom International and related activities, presented in partnership with Harvard University's Biorobotics Laboratory. The installation will be accompanied by a series of activities that will engage the public in both artistic and scientific content, such as a lecture series featuring artists and experts in artificial intelligence, the human-machine MA 7 Cloud Artscience Foundation Creativity Connects Cambridge interface, evolution, and robotics. The installation will be an experiment in 2017 $90,000 the radical abstraction of the human form and movement, drawing inspiration from Picasso's "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon." It will experiment with the minimal amount of information necessary for a form to be recognized as human as well as the fundamental impact created by subtle changes within that information as the form fails to attain a lifelike appearance. To support the Premier Choir and Young Men's Ensemble, providing rigorous vocal music training for high school youth in the Greater Boston area. Young singers are trained by professional musicians during weekly rehearsals and music theory classes in which students learn sight-reading, rhythmic concepts, music terminology, vocal technique, and performance MA 7 Boston Children's Chorus, Inc. Arts Education Boston 2017 $20,000 skills. In addition, students are provided opportunities to perform concerts, tour, record, and work with composers premiering commissioned works. Both ensembles regularly appear with well-known soloists, conductors, and orchestras such as the Boston Pops, enabling the singers to perform with professional musicians. To support chamber music concerts celebrating the 20th anniversary season. Programs will include works such as Aaron Copland's "Appalachian Spring," Arthur Foote's Piano Quartet, and Charles Ives' Sonata No. 4 for Chameleon Arts Ensemble of MA 7 Music Boston violin and piano subtitled "Children's Day at Camp Meeting." Performances 2017 $10,000 Boston, Inc. will take place at the Goethe-Institut and the First Church in Boston. The project will feature online program notes and essays about the composers and works performed. To support the Premier Choir and Young Men's Ensemble, vocal music training programs for high school youth in the Greater Boston area. Young singers will be trained by professional musicians during weekly rehearsals and music theory classes in which students will learn sight-reading, rhythmic concepts, music terminology, vocal technique, and performance skills. MA 7 Boston Children's Chorus, Inc. Arts Education Boston 2018 $25,000 Students will have opportunities to perform concerts with renowned professional orchestras, tour, record, and work with visiting artists and composers premiering commissioned works. In addition to their music training, singers will participate in choir governance, community service and fundraising projects. To support Access to Theatre, a program providing after-school and summer performing arts workshops and classes for youth with and without disabilities in the greater Boston area. Students with physical, learning, cognitive, intellectual, mental health and sensory disabilities will learn Partners for Youth with acting/improvisation, movement, music, and visual arts that also promotes MA 7 Arts Education Boston 2017 $25,000 Disabilities, Inc. self-esteem, creativity, healthy lifestyles, and career development. Using a flexible structure and principles of Universal Design for Learning, the curriculum is designed around each beginning and advanced student and their participation in groups. Partners include VSA Massachusetts, Boston Center for the Arts, and the Massachusetts Hospital School. To support a production of the musical "West Side Story." A fully staged production will be presented in collaboration with the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company. Students from the Boston Conservatory and Boston Public Schools will participate and activities will culminate in a free MA 7 Boston Landmarks Orchestra Theater Boston performance at the Hatch Shell on the Esplanade to commemorate the 60th 2017 $10,000 anniversary of the musical's Broadway debut. Education and outreach activities leading up to the performance will engage Boston's urban communities in a citywide discussion surrounding the musical's themes of gang violence and cultural divides. To support the production of the public radio series "From the Top." The weekly program features performances by young classical musicians MA 7 From the Top, Inc. Media Arts Boston recorded in towns and cities across the country. Distributed by National 2017 $35,000 Public Radio, "From the Top" is also available to stream online and as an educational resource for music educators.

To support literary programming for writers of all ages and experience levels. Grub Street will offer face-to-face and online workshops; a professional conference on writing and publishing; programs for advanced writers to work year-round on a book-length project; and free workshops in MA 7 Grub Street, Inc. Literature Boston 2017 $40,000 underserved neighborhoods of Boston. The Young Adult Writers Program will provide creative instruction to teens. Programming will focus on the craft of writing, forging community, and equipping writers with tools for building careers. To support an intensive string music training program for youth. Students will receive weekly string instruction and opportunities to participate in chamber music ensembles and orchestras. They also will perform regularly in recitals and community outreach concerts. Parents will be involved with MA 7 Project STEP, Inc. Arts Education Boston 2018 $50,000 the students' music education through workshops and a Parents Council that will meet monthly. Primarily serving elementary students, music teachers will provide intermediate and advanced instruction to students who are underrepresented in the field of classical music. To support educational outreach activities. Musicians selected by audition to appear on the classical radio program "From the Top" will take part in the Center for the Development of Arts Leaders, an arts leadership and MA 7 From the Top, Inc. Music Boston outreach program. The workshops will help prepare young musicians to 2017 $45,000 connect with new audiences and to serve as positive peer role models. The musicians will perform concerts in school classrooms and community venues. To support post-production costs for a documentary about American filmmaker Shirley Clarke. Directed by Immy Humes, "A Portrait of Shirley" will chronicle Clarke's struggle as one of the only female filmmakers of her Center for Independent generation, and how she became one of the pioneers of independent film. MA 7 Media Arts Boston 2017 $15,000 Documentary, Inc. The documentary will include recently discovered video diaries from Clarke, excerpts from her films, and interviews with artists such as Jonas Mekas, Yoko Ono, and Martin Scorsese. Once it has been completed, "A Portrait of Shirley" will be distributed by Milestone Films. To support HowlRound, a knowledge commons by and for the theatre community. Through a set of communication platforms dedicated to revitalizing the American theater, the project will explore the challenges of a live art form in a digital age. Platforms will include the HowlRound Journal; HowlRound TV, an online platform featuring live streaming and a video MA 7 Emerson College Theater Boston archive of performances, conversations, and conferences; and HowlRound 2017 $40,000 Convenings, all of which will help artists to join in a national conversation, and technical support for the World Theatre Map, an interactive real time map of theater happening all over the world. HowlRound's open source online platform will enable theater artists, practitioners, and organizations to engage in fieldwide learning and knowledge sharing.

To support staff salaries for the development, production, and tour of an original performance piece. Theater Offensive's advanced youth troupe, the Creative Action Crew, will create an original performance piece based on their lives as transgender and queer youth, under the guidance of MA 7 Theater Offensive, Inc. Theater Boston 2017 $15,000 ArtsEmerson's Co-Artistic Director P. Carl. The resulting production will be presented at ArtsEmerson, and subsequently toured throughout New England. Audiences will be engaged in post-show analysis about the topics raised through forum theater techniques, discussions, and workshops. To support the world premiere of "Paradise," a new play by Laura Maria Censabella. The play tells the story of a young Yemeni-American woman inspired by the study of science and eager to re-envision her future, and her disaffected high school biology teacher with a mysterious past. An unlikely research team, they embark on a study of adolescence and risk, leading to MA 7 Underground Railway Theater Theater Cambridge 2017 $15,000 stormy conflicts over science, culture, and mentorship. Community outreach will engage a diverse audience and a series of public conversations will address questions brought up in the play regarding science and religion, tradition and emancipation, family and individualism, and the experiences of Muslim-American youth.

To support the Intensive Community Program (ICP), a string instrument training program serving students in Boston communities. The program gives access to classical music instruction to students from populations historically underrepresented in classical music. Elementary school students are recruited from public schools, inner-city churches, and community Boston Youth Symphony MA 7 Arts Education Boston organizations. Students who may not otherwise have access are able to 2017 $30,000 Orchestras, Inc. participate in weekly music lessons, ensemble classes, a summer music workshop, master classes and performance opportunities. After a few years of intensive study, students may audition into the youth symphony's entry- level orchestra, and many ICP students progress through to the youth symphony's highest level orchestras. To support after-school and summer performing arts workshops and classes for youth. Students with physical, intellectual, mental health, and sensory disabilities will learn acting, improvisation, movement, music, and visual arts skills that also promote self-esteem, creativity, healthy lifestyles, and career Partners for Youth with MA 7 Arts Education Boston development. Using a flexible structure and principles of Universal Design 2018 $25,000 Disabilities, Inc. for Learning, the curriculum is designed around each student and their participation in groups. Project partners include VSA Massachusetts, Boston Center for the Arts, Pappas Rehabilitation Hospital for Children, and Wooden Kiwi Productions. To support the Home Port Public Art Project. Project activities, including murals, performances, a new neighborhood gateway kiosk, and storytelling activities using an art truck, are intended to enhance civic engagement, restore mental health, and support community identity in the Port MA 7 Community Art Center, Inc. Design Cambridge neighborhood. Home Port is a partnership between Community Art Center 2017 $100,000 and the Cambridge Public Health Department, along with numerous other local nonprofit and municipal groups. The Port neighborhood, located in central Cambridge adjacent to many of the city's institutions of higher learning, has a large low-income population. To support a new workshop series for PuppetPalooza, an annual puppetry festival. Somerville Arts Council will offer workshops to support the creation of new works and audience development in the field of puppetry. Puppeteers will receive instruction on topics designed to facilitate City of Somerville, MA 7 Local Arts Agencies Somerville opportunities to bring puppetry to new audiences through increased 2018 $10,000 Massachusetts touring. New works will also be created during the workshops and performed for the public at the conclusion of the trainings. Participation will be open to puppeteers who are based in Massachusetts and selected through a competitive review process. To support a diversity and inclusion initiative. The initiative will provide professional development and services designed to improve arts administration skills, organizational leadership strategies, and audience Presenting & MA 7 Arts Boston, Inc. Boston engagement efforts to better reflect the racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic 2017 $35,000 Multidisciplinary Works diversity of greater Boston. Promotional campaigns created in partnership with key community stakeholders will reach underserved audiences and address barriers to participation including access and affordability. To support a community-based participatory research study examining whether the creation of a multidimensional arts and cultural center in Boston's Chinatown can buffer the negative effects of rapid gentrification on this community. The research team will examine whether the creation of a multidimensional arts and cultural center in Boston's Chinatown can buffer the negative effects of rapid gentrification on this community. Using MA 7 Tufts University Research Medford 2017 $20,000 surveys, focus groups, interviews, and field observations, the research team will collect data from Chinatown residents, community leaders, and staff and participants at a new arts center, 1CAC, located within the Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center. The study also will include reviews of documents, organizational artifacts, and administrative data about the center and its potential impacts. To support Parts In Suite, a performance program featuring repertory dance works. The dance works featured in the program may include William Forsythe's "Pas/Parts 2016," Justin Peck's "In Creases," and Jorma Elo's MA 7 Boston Ballet, Inc. Dance Boston "Bach Cello Suites." For Peck's and Elo's works, the ballets will feature live 2018 $50,000 musical performances by piano and cello soloists. Forsythe's piece includes a recorded electronic score by Thom Willems. Performances will take place at the Boston Opera House.

To support the Intensive Community Program, a string instrument training program serving students in Boston communities. Elementary school students from populations historically underrepresented in classical music will be recruited from public schools, inner-city churches, and community Boston Youth Symphony MA 7 Arts Education Boston organizations. The young musicians will participate in weekly music lessons, 2018 $35,000 Orchestras, Inc. ensemble classes, a summer music workshop, and performances throughout the community. After a few years of intensive study, students may audition for the youth symphony's entry-level orchestra and many will ultimately progress to the youth symphony's advanced level orchestras.

To support the Festival of Contemporary Music at Tanglewood Music Center. The festival, curated by Tanglewood alumni Kathryn Bates, Jacob Boston Symphony Orchestra, MA 7 Music Boston Greenberg, and Nadia Sirota, will feature chamber music and orchestral 2017 $50,000 Inc. performances by resident musicians and guest artists. Each of the curator's selections will reflect their musical influences and interests.

To support the Neighborhood Arts program. The project is a partnership with community organizations and will be carried out by Boston-based artists experienced in working with youth and committed to community involvement. Activities for audiences of all ages and abilities include free MA 7 Celebrity Series of Boston Music Boston 2017 $15,000 public concerts, interactive workshops at venues such as community centers, churches, schools, and Boys Girls Clubs in underserved neighborhoods. Committed artists include the Shaw Pong Liu, Ryan Edwards, and the Guy Mendilow Ensemble. To support performing and visual artists residencies and related activities. The residencies will be geared towards interdisciplinary art making, encouraging expression that is collaborative, participatory, and cutting- Presenting & MA 7 Boston Center for the Arts, Inc. Boston edge. Work accomplished in residencies will be eligible for Run of the Mills, 2017 $20,000 Multidisciplinary Works a series of intermittent, short-duration exhibitions, performances, and events set in the Mills Gallery. Additional performing arts residencies will be available for small theater and dance companies. To support the Tanglewood Institute's Young Artists Orchestra and Young Artists Wind Ensemble. The Boston University Tanglewood Institute is an intensive, multi-week residential summer music program in Lenox, Massachusetts, for gifted high school musicians. Participation in these two ensembles provides students with opportunities for individual practice, chamber music experiences, large ensemble rehearsal, private lessons, and master class participation. Faculty includes distinguished university MA 7 Boston University Arts Education Boston 2017 $30,000 professors, as well as accomplished professional solo, chamber, and symphony musicians. The Young Artists Orchestra and the Young Artists Wind Ensemble perform full concerts in Seiji Ozawa Hall on the main Tanglewood grounds, with weekly chamber music performances throughout the community. Attending concerts is a required component of the curriculum, including faculty recitals, peer performances, and daily concerts at the Tanglewood Music Festival. To support the premiere of "The Nefarious, Immoral, But Highly Profitable Enterprise of Mr. Burke Mr. Hare." The opera by composer Julian Grant and librettist Mark Campbell is part of the Opera Annex initiative, which presents fully staged chamber operas in unusual settings. The opera is Boston Lyric Opera Company, MA 7 Opera Boston based on the real-life 19th-century Scottish murderers William Burke and 2017 $35,000 Inc. William Hare, who profited by killing members of the underclass and selling their bodies for medical students' anatomy studies. Community engagement programs will include pre-concert talks, Opera Night at the Boston Public Library, and the Signature Series. To support musical performances and related educational and outreach activities at the Berklee BeanTown Jazz Festival. The free, multiple-stage outdoor event titled One Rhythm will showcase renowned artists from the contemporary jazz, Latin, blues, and soul genres. Additional project programming may include interactive educational activities and instrument playing, music listening sessions for children, and a guided Discover Roxbury MA 7 Berklee College of Music, Inc. Music Boston 2018 $25,000 cultural walking tour of Boston's South End which draws from the memories of musicians, club owners, and former residents of the neighborhood. Featured festival performers may include Mehmet Sanlikol's big band; Kina Zore's African band led by Michael Prentky; the Harold Tavares Band from Cape Verde; or vocalists such as Lydia Harrell and NEA Jazz Master Diane Reeves. To support the publication and promotion of "Ploughshares Solos." Serially published single stories and essays are produced and distributed electronically and subsequently collected in "Omnibus," an annual print MA 7 Emerson College Literature Boston 2017 $10,000 volume. Suited for longer-form writing, which seldom receives publication in traditional print journals, the work will be promoted through the publication's blog, e-newsletter, social media, and other platforms. To support the production of "Top Girls" by Caryl Churchill. Written during the Thatcher era, Churchill portrays a societal ambivalence toward women's ambition and success. The play opens with a gathering of boundary- breaking women from history and then moves to the early 1980s Britain to Huntington Theatre Company, MA 7 Theater Boston examine what it means for women to be workers, mothers, wives, 2018 $30,000 Inc. daughters, and sisters against a backdrop of win-at-all-costs capitalism. Performances will be held at the Boston University Theatre as part of the company's 2017-18 season. Audience engagement activities will include activity such as talkbacks, a humanities forum, and student matinees. To support the Tanglewood Institute's Young Artists Orchestra and Young Artists Wind Ensemble. The Boston University Tanglewood Institute is an intensive, multi-week residential summer music program in Lenox, Massachusetts, for gifted high school musicians. Participation in these programs will give students opportunities for individual coaching, chamber music experiences, large ensemble rehearsals, and master class MA 7 Boston University Arts Education Boston 2018 $25,000 participation. Faculty will include distinguished university professors as well as professional solo, chamber, and symphony musicians. The Young Artists Orchestra and the Young Artists Wind Ensemble will perform full concerts in Seiji Ozawa Hall on the main Tanglewood grounds and chamber music concerts throughout the community. Students will attend faculty recitals, peer performances, and daily concerts at the Tanglewood Music Festival. To support a new production of "Le Carnaval de Venise" ("The Carnival of Venice") by composer Andre Campra and a double-bill of Pergolesi's "La Serva Padrona" ("The Servant Turned Mistress") and "Livietta e Tracollo." Activities will include admission-free lectures and symposia by the creative MA 7 Boston Early Music Festival, Inc. Opera Cambridge 2017 $30,000 team, which will include Grammy Award-winning artistic directors Paul O'Dette and Stephen Stubbs, director Gilbert Blin, concert master Robert Mealy, costume designer Anna Watkins, and movement coordinator Melinda Sullivan. To support the publication of fiction, poetry, and literary criticism in the "Boston Review" and online at bostonreview.net. The bimonthly general interest magazine juxtaposes content on current affairs with poetry, fiction, MA 7 Boston Critic, Inc. Literature Cambridge and critical essays about literature and film, featuring emerging poets and 2017 $10,000 fiction witers alongside established ones. During National Poetry Month, the magazine will post a new poem each day to bostonreview.net, and will offer essays and interviews with poets in the print magazine.

To support a workshop series and online toolkit focused on sound as a modality through which researchers and community stakeholders can better understand social dynamics in urban areas. Organized by MIT's Community Innovators Lab (CoLab), the workshops and accompanying open source, online toolkit will address the fear, despair, and anger that hinders Massachusetts Institute of empathetic discourse in communities. The program will introduce aesthetic MA 7 Design Cambridge 2017 $30,000 Technology and sensory practices such as soundwalks-ambulatory listening and recording exercises-to help cultivate empathy across deep social divides. The project is a partnership with Design Studio for Social Intervention (DS4SI) and LA Listens, and is intended to help academics, design practitioners, community activists, and community members better respond to social instability and change in their communities.

MA 7 Massachusetts Cultural Council State & Regional Boston N/A 2017 $891,200 To support the presentation of "Artifact," by choreographer William Forsythe. The company will perform the full four-act version of the piece. With participation of Forsythe, stagers will set the piece on the company, giving dancers the opportunity to work directly with the choreographer. MA 7 Boston Ballet, Inc. Dance Boston Dana Caspersen, Nicholas Champion, and Richard Siegal may appear in 2017 $60,000 major non-speaking parts. Other artists associated with Forsythe and this particular work include stagers Kathryn Bennetts and Noah Gelber, technical coordinators Dietrich Kruger and Tanja Ruhl, and pianist Margo Kazimirska. The work will be performed at the Boston Opera House. New England Foundation for MA 7 State & Regional Boston N/A 2017 $1,192,175 the Arts To support a series of concerts featuring co-commissioned works in Boston and New York City with related educational activities. Composers to be featured will include Julian Anderson, George Benjamin, Sofia Gubaidulina, Boston Symphony Orchestra, and Matthias Pintscher. Concerts will take place in Symphony Hall in Boston, MA 7 Music Boston 2017 $75,000 Inc. and Carnegie Hall in New York City. Engagement activities will include Conversations with the Creators series, and Do You Hear What I Hear? series. Concerts will be broadcast live on WCRB-FM as well as available online on WGBH's BSO Concert Channel and on the BSO's website. To support concert performances of Handel's oratorio "Semele" on period instruments with related educational activities. Last performed by the society in 1999, the performance will be their first in its original un-staged MA 7 Handel & Haydn Society Music Boston format on period instruments in accordance with the composer's intent and 2017 $40,000 the work's 1744 London premiere. Educational activities will include interactive programs at regional public schools by a professional vocal quartet and pre-concert lectures. To support the Silk Road Ensemble's national performance touring project. Curated by Artistic Director Yo-Yo Ma, programming will feature works written for both Western and non-Western instrumentation. The ensemble MA 7 Silk Road Project, Inc. Music Boston 2017 $40,000 will begin the spring tour with a multidisciplinary residency and performance at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire and continue across the East Coast. To support an intensive string music training program for talented minority youth. The instrumental music training program for students in the Boston area provides weekly string instruction and the opportunities for students to participate in chamber music ensembles and orchestras. In addition to instruction, students perform regularly in recitals and community outreach MA 7 Project STEP, Inc. Arts Education Boston 2017 $50,000 concerts. Parents are involved with the students' music education through workshops and a Parents Council that meets monthly. Primarily serving elementary through high school Black and Latino students, this program provides intermediate and advanced instrumental music instruction to students who are underrepresented in the field of classical music.

To support the development of mobile and web-based platforms to expand the network of creative and professional opportunities for media makers. Association of Independents in Resources may include a talent directory, pitch page, grants database, and MA 7 Media Arts Dorchester 2017 $30,000 Radio, Inc. portal for talent curation services. Artists will have the opportunity to upload work samples and resumes to the talent directory, providing more detail to institutions searching for candidates. To support the exhibition and public programming for "Matisse in the Studio." The exhibition will showcase the variety and diversity of Matisse's (1869-1954) collection of objects, which were both the subjects of his work and the catalyst for his extended creative process. The exhibition includes MA 7 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Museums Boston pots, vases, containers, textiles, paintings, sculptures, and works on paper 2017 $30,000 by the artist. Public programming includes docent-led tours, in-gallery interactive discussions, lectures, courses led by curators, an audio guide, a free teacher workshop, and a family guide highlighting particular works and objects. To support ArtsEmerson's World On Stage series. The international, multidisciplinary series will be part of ArtsEmerson's 2017-18 season, Presenting & featuring culturally diverse works by master artists from the United States, MA 7 Emerson College Boston 2017 $60,000 Multidisciplinary Works Belgium, and Cambodia. The series will feature a variety of artist residencies, world premieres, presentations, and dialogue to engage an audience drawn from communities in the Boston area. To support the production of "The Who and The What" by Ayad Akhtar. The play follows a young Muslim-American woman who is writing a book about the role of women in Islam. The story unfolds as a multidimensional discussion of Islamic identity, how our relationship to faith changes through Huntington Theatre Company, MA 7 Theater Boston time, and a deconstruction of patriarchal assumptions in both American and 2017 $40,000 Inc. Islamic cultures. Project activities will involve engaging Greater Boston audiences in discussions about the complexities of Muslim-American identity through the performances as well as a series of talkbacks and public events. To support the publication and promotion of the journal "AGNI" and related content online. The biannual journal will be released in both print and electronic formats, with each issue featuring fiction, poetry, and essays. MA 7 Boston University Literature Boston 2017 $10,000 "AGNI Online" will offer biweekly interviews and reviews, as well as new fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. The journal will be promoted through social media and a monthly newsletter. To support the Summer Studios Youth Program, a visual arts immersion experience for high school students. Taught by local artists and art educators, students will have a foundation in both 2D and 3D art-making. Massachusetts College of Art Students also will have the option to participate in an elective studio from MA 7 Arts Education Boston 2017 $10,000 and Design the following areas: painting from observation, graphic design, fashion design, photography, jewelry and metalsmithing, and illustration. Students will develop critical thinking skills through the study of art history and gallery visits.

To support an artist-in-residence program. Artists working in a range of disciplines, including painters, sculptors, composers, poets, storytellers, Isabella Stewart Gardner MA 7 Museums Boston media artists, and writers, are invited to live on-site at the Gardner. Artists 2017 $35,000 Museum, Inc. are given a stipend, a private living space, and studio space for the creation of new work, inspired by the museum and its collection. To support the exhibition, "Futurity Island" at the MIT Museum. A large- scale, outdoor art installation designed by artists Gediminas Urbonas and Tobias Putrih will be on view as part of the 150th anniversary celebration of the founding of the MIT Department of Architecture. The exhibition will Massachusetts Institute of MA 7 Museums Cambridge invite visitors to enter a land-based, temporary pavilion and engage with 2017 $35,000 Technology historic and speculative media that investigates islands as a way to think about the future. Public programming will include curator-and-artist led tours, hands-on workshops, lectures, panel discussions, and free online courses. New England Foundation for MA 7 State & Regional Boston N/A 2017 $7,000 the Arts To support performances of Handel's oratorio "Hercules" on period instruments with related educational activities. Led by Artistic Director Harry Christophers, the performances of the 1745 work will be the first in MA 7 Handel & Haydn Society Music Boston 2018 $45,000 the society's 203-year history. Educational activities will include interactive programs at regional public schools by a professional vocal quartet, a master class, and pre-concert lectures. To support concerts and events in celebration the 100th anniversary of Leonard Bernstein's birth. Repertoire may feature performances of Bernstein's Symphonies No. 2 ("The Age of Anxiety") for orchestra and piano and No. 3 ("Kaddish") for orchestra, chorus, boychoir, soprano, and Boston Symphony Orchestra, MA 7 Music Boston speaker. Symphony No. 2 was commissioned by former music director Serge 2018 $75,000 Inc. Koussevitzky and had its world premiere at Symphony Hall in 1949, conducted by Koussevitsky, with Bernstein as piano soloist. Educational activities may include film screenings, a community chamber music concert, and an archival exhibit. To support a community dance program for youth. Students of all ages will participate in after-school dance training and leadership development. Professional dancers will provide instruction in ballet, tap, modern, hip-hop, and Caribbean soca. Students also will study choreography and dance history and showcase their original work in public performances throughout MA 8 BalletRox, Inc. Arts Education Jamaica Plain the year. Subsidized tickets are provided for students and families to attend 2018 $20,000 professional dance and theater performances in Boston. Participants will take a master class with a performer from a touring Broadway show and then attend this production. Teenage participants may serve on the Youth Council where they will function as teaching assistants and meet regularly to work on choreography, props, sets, costumes, and event logistics.

To support the BalletRox Dance! community dance program. Students of all ages will participate in after-school dance training and leadership development. Professional dancers will provide instruction in ballet, tap, modern, hip-hop, and Caribbean soca. Students also will study choreography and dance history and showcase their original work in public performances several times a year. Subsidized tickets are provided for MA 8 BalletRox, Inc. Arts Education Jamaica Plain 2017 $20,000 students and families to attend professional performances in Boston. Participants will take a master class with a performer from a touring Broadway show and then attend this production. Teenage participants may serve on the Youth Council where they will serve as teaching assistants and meet regularly to work on choreography, props, sets, costumes, and event logistics. To support a performance and youth workshops by Afro-Latin musician Zayra Pola. Pola will perform at the Three Kings Day celebration which will MA 8 Hyde Square Task Force, Inc. Challenge America Jamaica Plain include an interactive performance piece for the audience. In addition, she 2018 $10,000 will work with high school youth in an intensive workshop for emerging artists prior to the performance. To support the Common Boston festival. The open house festival provides free behind-the-scenes access to various sites across Boston to illuminate the connection between design and the quality of life. Through partnerships MA 8 BSA Foundation Design Boston 2017 $20,000 with neighborhood organizations, there will be a special emphasis on underserved and underexplored neighborhoods, including Roxbury and East Boston. To support an exhibition of augmented reality sculptures. In partnership with the National Park Service, visitors to the Salem Maritime National Historic Site in Salem, Massachusetts, will be able to experience thematic digital sculptures in virtual space using a free downloadable app for mobile devices (Android and iPhone compatible). The exhibited sculptures will be MA 8 Boston Cyberarts, Inc. Media Arts Jamaica Plain 2017 $10,000 site-specific and feature a technique of augmented reality, which integrates virtual objects into the real world using GPS coordinates. Trained staff, additional tablets, and interpretive material will be available for visitors needing assistance viewing the exhibition. The selected works will reflect Salem's economic and artistic history. To support a painting, photography, and video arts apprenticeship program for Boston-area teens. Apprentices will be mentored by professional artists and will receive training in painting, composition, color theory, photography, sound engineering, digital editing, motion graphics/animation, MA 8 Artists for Humanity, Inc. Visual Arts Boston 2017 $25,000 and video production. Studio courses will help students understand the creative process and develop fine art skills while delivering specific solutions through a series of commissioned projects for clients in both the public and private sectors.

To support an exhibition, catalogue and related programming examining art in the age of the Internet. The exhibition, "Art in the Age of the Internet, 1989 to Today," examines how the Internet has radically changed the field of art and explores themes such as the circulation and control of images and information; surveillance and resistance; the explosion of new communities and virtual worlds; and new economies of visibility initiated by social media through the presentation of work in a variety of mediums. Works by more MA 8 Institute of Contemporary Art Museums Boston 2017 $45,000 than 50 artists will be presented in the exhibition of painting, performance, photography, sculpture, video, and websites-that all investigate the extensive effects of the Internet on artistic practice and the broader culture and the democratization of culture in the current moment. An illustrated scholarly publication and extensive web platform will give access to the research process and capture ongoing dialogues; tours, public talks, and teen programs will engage audiences.

To support the creation of an online archive of the International Conference on Opportunities in the Arts. This international conference is a bridge between academic and real-world practice and helps local artists connect MA 8 TransCultural Exchange, Inc. Visual Arts Boston globally. The project will make the proceedings available to those unable to 2017 $15,000 attend due to economic, geographic, physical, or other restrictions. Artists will benefit from information about how to launch careers abroad, work with new technologies, and engage with other cultures and non-art sectors. To support a free visual arts learning program for teens. Students from the Boston area will work with professional artists to develop skills of self- expression through visual art making, creative writing, and spoken-word MA 8 Institute of Contemporary Art Arts Education Boston activities that connect with the classroom curriculum and exhibitions at the 2018 $15,000 Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. Students also will create original visual art and spoken-word works and share their pieces with peers and in public presentations. To support a concert series featuring the Boston Public Quartet and Boston's refurbished street pianos. The concert performances in underserved neighborhoods will engage the public in quality chamber music in locations that are unique, accessible, and unexpected. The Boston Public MA 8 musiConnects Inc Challenge America Roslindale 2018 $10,000 Quartet and guest pianist Joy Cline Phinney will jointly teach workshops to youth who will learn what it means for a pianist to play with a string quartet. For the culminating event the students will play alongside the Boston Public Quartet and the guest artist. To support arts instruction activities culminating in the creation of a public art project to be installed on Cape Cod. Local artists working with people with disabilities will lead a series of art classes. The students will then MA 9 Cotuit Center for the Arts Challenge America Cotuit participate in the creation of a mosaic totem sculpture of pet animals. Tessa 2017 $10,000 D'Agostino, professional artist and mosaic director, will lead the public art project. The completed artwork will be installed at the Massachusetts Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. To support residencies for dance and theater artists. Participating artists will be provided private studios, housing, and stipends, as well as mentorship MA 9 Vineyard Arts Project Limited Artist Communities Edgartown opportunities with visiting established artists. VAPL will host in-studio 2017 $15,000 performances or readings open to the public at a pay-what-you-can admission fee. To support the development of a comprehensive arts, culture, and tourism plan for the Wampanoag Tribe and the Town of Aquinnah. The project will engage the community in a planning process led by a professional planner to raise awareness of the Wampanoag Tribe's presence and cultural fabric Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head MA 9 Design Aquinnah within the town. The process will be guided by the Aquinnah Cultural Center 2017 $50,000 (Aquinnah) (ACC), a cultural arts/museum institution focused on the tribe's art and culture, in collaboration with the Town of Aquinnah. The goal is to strengthen cross-cultural understanding and awareness for the town's residents, both Wampanoag and non-Wampanoag. To support a series of art classes culminating in the creation and installation of a public art project. Local artists working with people with disabilities will lead a series of art classes, including instruction in mosaic techniques. The MA 9 Cotuit Center for the Arts Challenge America Cotuit students will participate in the creation of mosaic elements for a three- 2018 $10,000 dimensional bas relief sculptural representation of President John F. Kennedy's sailboat, the Victura. The completed artwork will be installed at Cape Cod's Barnstable Municipal Airport. To support a series of programs reflecting the culture of the working waterfront of New Bedford, Massachusetts. A year-long series of exhibits Community Economic and presentations celebrating the expressive culture of New Bedford's MA 9 Development Center of Folk & Traditional Arts New Bedford maritime community will be presented in area schools and at the New 2017 $15,000 Southeastern Mass Bedford Heritage Fishing Center. The performances will feature traditional music, storytelling, and poetry. Exhibits will include the fishing nets and knot tying, as well as model boats. To support the creation of "Transom Radio Specials." As many as two pieces will be produced on various topics in conjunction with community partners. MA 9 Atlantic Public Media Inc Media Arts Woods Hole 2017 $35,000 The programs will be available on transom.org, featured on the Transom podcast, and offered to radio stations through the Public Radio Exchange.

To support the online publication transom.org. The website offers tools and other services to help independent audio producers create personal stories and present them through public broadcast. In addition to helping craft MA 9 Atlantic Public Media Inc Media Arts Woods Hole 2017 $50,000 stories, transom.org also provides technical assistance and advice from experienced radio producers, and showcases audio and multimedia content from emerging artists.

To support contemporary dance performances and artist residencies. Residencies may include performances, showings, pop-up performances, MA 9 Yard, Inc. Dance Chilmark educational programs, and weekly seminars featuring visiting artists. Events 2018 $30,000 will be hosted at The Yard's campus and at the Martha's Vineyard Performing Arts Center and MV Ice Arena in Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts.

To support contemporary dance performances and artist residencies. Residencies will include performances, showings, pop-up performances, MA 9 Yard, Inc. Dance Chilmark educational programs, and weekly seminars featuring visiting artists. Events 2017 $30,000 will be hosted at The Yard's campus and Martha's Vineyard Regional High School Performing Arts Center in Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts.

To support a series of multidisciplinary performances and community engagement activities. Zeiterion will collaborate with partners in the fields of behavioral health, special needs education, juvenile justice, and public education to reach community members who have been marginalized due Presenting & to addiction, disability, or social challenges. Artists in disciplines including MA 9 Zeiterion Theatre, Inc. New Bedford 2017 $15,000 Multidisciplinary Works dance, music, literature, and theater will participate in performances, artist residencies, workshops, community forums, and book discussions. A youth summit will include professional development workshops for educators and school administrators, as well as a creative expression showcase by youth participants in dance, slam poetry, storytelling, and improvisation.

To support a series of multidisciplinary performances. Activities will include the Viva Portugal! Festival celebrating Portuguese culture; a Presenting & multidisciplinary production about the Cesar Chavez United Farm Workers MA 9 Zeiterion Theatre, Inc. New Bedford 2018 $35,000 Multidisciplinary Works Movement; and globalFEST, featuring Orkesta Mendoza and Las Cafeteras. Related engagement activities will include student matinees, panel discussions, master classes, and post-performance talkbacks.

To support residencies for emerging visual artists and writers. Resident artists will be provided apartments, workspaces, and a monthly stipend, as Fine Arts Work Center in MA 9 Artist Communities Provincetown well as access to a woodshop, printmaking studio, and digital media lab. 2017 $20,000 Provincetown, Inc. They may also lead workshops in local public schools and senior centers, as well as participate in community exhibitions or readings. In recognition of the New Bedford Whaling Museum High School Old Dartmouth Historical Apprenticeship Program. The apprenticeship program provides low-income MA 9 Society- New Bedford Whaling New Bedford teens in New Bedford, Massachusetts, with the opportunity to develop 21st- 2017 $10,000 Museum century skills, improve college readiness, and learn about the museum and its marine history. To support a fellowship program for emerging visual artists and writers. Resident artists will receive apartments, workspaces, and a monthly stipend, Fine Arts Work Center in MA 9 Artist Communities Provincetown as well as access to a woodshop, printmaking studio, and digital media lab. 2018 $25,000 Provincetown, Inc. They will lead workshops in local public schools and senior centers, as well as participate in community exhibitions or readings. TOTAL: $6,280,375