State District Organization Name Discipline / Field City Project Description Fiscal Year Grant Amount

To support the translation of Pedro Alejandro Paterno's "Ninay," the first novel from the Philippines published in Spanish. Paterno (1857-1911) was among the first Filipino authors to write in the colonial language, and was part of a group of young Filipino expatriates in Madrid known as "ilustrados" who set out through their work to display the cultural history of the NY 0 Augenbraum, Harold Literature Big Indian Philippines, which both secular and religious Spanish colonizers denied 2018 $12,500 before the late-19th century. "Ninay" centers on a young Filipino man in the 19th century who has lived abroad for most of his life but has returned home. While home he visits houses afflicted by cholera during the epidemic in Manila and begins to discover his culture. The novel is sprinkled with flora, fauna, and place-names that Paterno explains in extensive footnotes.

NY 0 Mengiste, Maaza Literature Flushing N/A 2018 $25,000 NY 0 Barkan, Todd Music Bronx N/A 2017 $25,000 NY 0 Nafis, Angel Literature Brooklyn N/A 2017 $25,000 NY 0 Parker, Morgan Literature Brooklyn N/A 2017 $25,000 NY 0 Bennett, Joshua Literature Yonkers N/A 2017 $25,000 NY 0 Flournoy, Angela Literature Brooklyn N/A 2018 $25,000 NY 0 Rankine, Camille Literature New York N/A 2017 $25,000 Verlee Harris Khadan, NY 0 Literature Sunnyside N/A 2017 $25,000 Jeanann To support the development and production of "The 1993 Melancholy Experience" by Kenny Finkle. The play is conceived as an audio movie with music for audiences to listen to with their eyes closed. Performed live like an NY 0 Keen Theater Company Inc. Theater New York old-fashioned radio play, the story is a series of interconnected episodes with 2017 $10,000 original songs taking place in and around the East Village neighborhood of New York City in the year 1993. Each story explores the many ways America was on the verge of massive change.

To support the translation from the German of the sci-fi adventure novel "Mountains Seas and Giants" by Alfred Doblin. Doblin (1878-1957) was a German-Jewish war-time doctor, psychiatrist, public intellectual, and giant of 20th-century literature along with his friends Bertolt Brecht and Thomas Mann. Despite his immensely prolific writing career with an oeuvre of 30 large volumes, he was known largely for a single book, Berlin Alexanderplatz, after which he was forced into exile by the Nazis. Published in 1924, his 630- NY 0 Searls, Damion Literature Brooklyn 2017 $12,500 page novel, Mountains Seas and Giants, is a history of war-torn civilization and the conflict between technology and nature, from the aftermath of World War I into the 27th century. It presciently describes ecological catastrophe, mass migrations, state surveillance, terrorism, genetic engineering, and biological warfare. Gunter Grass described it as "Doblin's great, exalted novel, forgotten and awaiting rediscovery, written as though in visionary overdrive." This will be the first time it appears in English. To support the translation from the French of the novel "Lalana" by Malagasy author Michele Rakotoson. Rakotoson (b. 1968) is one of the most successful authors in Madagascar with an oeuvre of dozens of novels, short stories, memoirs, plays, and children's literature, as well as a track record of championing the next generation of Malagasy writers through readings, salons, conferences, and publishing assistance. Compared with the rest of the Francophone world, literature from Madagascar is underrepresented in NY 0 Charette, Allison Literature Fairport 2018 $12,500 English translation; the first ever English translation of a novel by a Malagasy author was published in 2017. "Lalana" tells the story of a young man dying of AIDS in the slums of the capital city who is so desperate to see the ocean for the first time that his friend borrows a car, springs him from the hospital, and drives him east into the country where they encounter a cast of characters trying to reconcile old beliefs and traditions with a contemporary world.

NY 0 Kalfar, Jaroslav Literature Brooklyn N/A 2018 $25,000 To support the translation from the Urdu of the novel "The Chronicle" by Pakistani author Intizar Husain. A professional journalist, Husain (1923-2016) wrote more than 40 books, including novels, short stories, novellas, poetry, and one travelogue, all of which earned him numerous awards including Pakistan's Star of Excellence. "Newsweek Pakistan" recognized him as the most important living writer in Pakistan. "The Chronicle" is the second novel NY 0 Reeck, Matthew Literature Brooklyn 2018 $12,500 in a trilogy that stems from Husain's experience of migrating to Pakistan after the partition of India in 1947 and explores such themes as South Asia's past, the politics of the partition, and the contemporary state of Pakistan. This 295- page novel spans more than 100 years of South Asian life, from the Rebellion of 1857 to the presidency of Zia-ul-Haq (who was the 6th President of Pakistan, 1978-88).

To support the translation from the Yiddish of selected humoresques by Joseph Tunkel (1881-1949). Tunkel—better known by his pen name Der Tunkeler—was one of the most significant and prolific humorists of modern Yiddish literature, yet he has been almost entirely untranslated into English. At the time of his death, he had published more than 30 books, including one- act plays, novellas for children, collections of humoresques (humorous NY 0 Turner, Rima Literature Ithaca monologues and sketches), as well as some 1,500 articles in the Yiddish 2018 $12,500 press. He was born in modern-day Belarus, but throughout his adult life moved to Lithuania, Ukraine, New York City, and Poland until he was sent to a concentration camp during World War II, from which he escaped back to New York City. This collection will include approximately 50 humoresques that highlight timeless human foibles while providing historical value as they engage with the political, cultural, and literary landscape of his day.

NY 0 Wood, Ellicott Literature Brooklyn N/A 2018 $25,000 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. NY 0 Dynamic Forms, Inc. Arts Education New York Students will create original choreography around themes such as 2017 $25,000 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.

NY 0 Brackeen, JoAnne Music New York N/A 2017 $25,000 NY 0 Delgado, Diana Literature Brooklyn N/A 2017 $25,000

To support the retranslation from the Kannada of the novel "Avasthe" by Indian writer U. R. Ananthamurthy. Kannada is a major language of India, spoken by roughly 60 million people in the state of Karnataka. Ananthamurthy (1932-2014) is considered to be one of the most celebrated writers of contemporary India. He wrote more than 20 novels, short story collections, poetry books, books of essays, and a play; he also is a recipient of numerous awards, including the Jnanpith Award, India's highest literary NY 0 Hegde, Narayan Literature Setauket 2018 $12,500 honor. His recent passing caused a wave of grief across Karnataka where he received a full state funeral covered by major media. First published in 1978 and made into a feature film in India, "Avasthe" is the third novel in a trilogy that chronicles the social and political changes in India immediately after the country's independence from colonial rule. While the other two books in the trilogy are available in English translations, "Avasthe" remains virtually unknown outside southern India.

NY 0 Sears, Jennifer Literature Brooklyn N/A 2018 $25,000 To support creative writing workshops. The project includes weekly literary memoir writing workshops for women and adolescent girls in Long Island jails, as well as workshops in Long Island communities. The Young Writers Herstory Writers Workshop, NY 1 Literature Centereach Program will bring students from Long Island school districts to college 2017 $20,000 Inc campuses to develop their writing. Through the project, Herstory will provide individuals from isolated populations with the tools to transform their personal stories into moving narratives. To support multidisciplinary artist residencies and related activities. Emerging artists will receive two months of living space, access to mentors, off-site studio space, and collaborations with the arts and cultural Guild Hall of East Hampton, NY 1 Artist Communities East Hampton community of the region. As many as five artists will be selected through a 2018 $15,000 Inc. competitive application process. The AIR (Artist-In-Residence) Coordinator will work with each participant to shape their residency and introduce them to community members. To support multidisciplinary arts events. The Babylon Citizens Council on the Arts will present art exhibitions, theatrical performances, and a community Babylon Citizens Council on sketch project to attract visitors to areas of downtown Babylon, New York. In NY 2 Babylon 2017 $10,000 the Arts, Inc. partnership with Project9Line, an organization that supports returning military members, the council also will conduct specific multidisciplinary programming for veterans.

To support the creation of site-specific artworks for a new affordable housing development. As part of an effort to link art and architecture, artists will work to create an immersive environment for residents and visitors. New Transitional Services for NY 3 Visual Arts Whitestone York-based artist Laini Nemett will paint murals documenting the 2017 $20,000 New York construction of the building from its initial stages. Additional locations for temporary installations inside the building will provide local artists with annual, rotating exhibition opportunities. In recognition of the Creative Readers program. The weekend arts and Port Washington Public literacy inclusion program turns books into multi-sensory experiences for NY 3 Port Washington 2017 $10,000 Library elementary students with special needs through mentorship, circle time discussions, and art activities. To support a series of maritime folk arts programs. The programs will explore the distinctive maritime traditions found on Long Island's north and south NY 3 Long Island Traditions Inc. Folk & Traditional Arts Port Washington shores. Classroom discussions, museum presentations, and hands-on 2017 $15,000 demonstration programs will feature traditional decoy carvers, boat builders and model makers, trap makers, net menders and other traditional art forms.

To support the development and performance of a new work by composer Judith Sainte Croix. Quintet of the Americas and Judith Sainte Croix will develop a new multi-movement work that will allow local groups to perform Quintet of the Americas, with Quintet of the Americas. Each movement will be developed through NY 3 Challenge America Douglaston 2018 $10,000 Inc. workshops with the Jackson Heights Orchestra, as well as students and seniors in the community. The new works will be performed by the Quintet of the Americas, with the orchestra and students. Performances will be held in multiple community spaces and at local events. To support a curated film series and discussion program. Cinema Arts Centre's monthly film series will present documentaries addressing various New Community Cinema social issues, in alignment with the organization's mission to use the power NY 3 Media Arts Huntington 2017 $10,000 Club, Inc. of film to expand community awareness. Guest speakers and leading experts from the community will facilitate issue-oriented discussions with audiences after each screening. To support the Hofstra University Museum's educational outreach program. Museum staff will work with local schools to determine the cultural curricula for the year, identify objects in the permanent collection to highlight, and NY 4 Hofstra University Hempstead develop the lesson plans and materials for the program. Students will engage 2017 $10,000 in interactive classroom activities, visit the museum, and have post-visit sessions with the museum's educators to reinforce the cultural works studied. To support Delightful Festival, a series of cultural events presenting music performances and film screenings. Each festival focuses on the culture of NY 5 A Better Jamaica, Inc. Challenge America Jamaica African, Asian, Caribbean and Latino communities found in Jamaica, New 2017 $10,000 York. A variety of partnering cultural organizations serving these communities will assist the programs. To support the Making Moves Dance Festival. JCAL will provide emerging dance groups with assistance to produce new dance works, emphasizing support for locally based choreographers and companies. Jamaica, New York, Jamaica Center for Arts and is an ethnically diverse community comprising large numbers of African-, NY 5 Challenge America Jamaica 2017 $10,000 Learning, Inc. Caribbean-, Latin-, and Asian-Americans. The festival will include a dance residency, a new commissioned work, and public performances. Other activities will include a question-and-answer session with the audience and creative movement activities as part of the family outreach program. To support the Jamaica Dance Festival. The festival will include a series of free dance performances held in Jamaica, New York. Professional dance NY 5 A Better Jamaica, Inc. Challenge America Jamaica companies representing the diversity of the community will perform. Local 2018 $10,000 student ensembles will be engaged through performance opportunities as the opening act at each event. To support a series of global music, dance, theater, and multidisciplinary Flushing Council on Culture performances and associated activities. Events will include multiple public NY 6 Local Arts Agencies Queens 2017 $30,000 and the Arts, Inc. concerts; family shows, workshops, and educational activities; and Global Mashups, featuring public shows and dance lessons pairing diverse cultures.

To support the provision of moving image, audio, and time-based media artwork preservation services. In partnership with such facilities as Mercer Media, Color Lab, and Chromavision, Standby provides preservation services NY 6 Standby Program, Inc. Media Arts Flushing 2017 $25,000 to artists at reduced rates without incurring the costs of equipment purchase and maintenance. Through its program, Standby will preserve hundreds of hours of work. To support an artist residency program and exhibition series. The residency program is intended to cultivate social engagement and civic awareness via contemporary art practices. Artists will be asked to create new work and develop public programming that will reach the broader Newark, New Jersey, community and help promote the culminating exhibition of each NY 7 Project for Empty Space Inc Visual Arts Brooklyn 2018 $20,000 artist's representative work. A variety of artists will be selected, including a focus on women artists, social impact projects, and research opportunities that do not necessarily result in object-making or presentation. Artists will be selected to receive studio space and a materials stipend for one year at Gateway Project Spaces in downtown Newark. To support the Brooklyn Book Festival. The festival features writers of fiction, nonfiction, comics, graphic novels, poetry, and books for children/young adults. Reflecting the global spirit of New York City, the festival showcases many international authors, with recent participants hailing from such NY 7 Brooklyn Book Festival, Inc Literature Brooklyn 2017 $10,000 countries as Cameroon, Egypt, Jamaica, and Mexico. The festival's Literary Marketplace provides an opportunity for readers to explore as many as 200 booths featuring independent presses, booksellers, and nonprofit literary organizations. To support guest mentors, creative consultants, and filmmaker travel for the Chicken Egg Pictures Accelerator Lab program. Intended to serve women directors, the program brings together artists and supports film projects NY 7 Chicken & Egg Pictures, Inc. Media Arts Brooklyn through intensive mentorship, labs, and professional development activities. 2017 $45,000 Throughout the program, workshops will cover topics such as fundraising and pitching skills, character and story development, marketing, and distribution in a collaborative environment. To support a teaching artist mentoring and professional development program. Participants will learn strategies and best practices for teaching the arts and plan and develop units of study. During the school year, new teaching artists will shadow teaching artist-mentors in school residencies. As Together in Dance, Inc. A teaching artists begin to lead instruction, the mentors will schedule regular NY 7 Arts Education Brooklyn 2017 $15,000 New Jersey Nonprofit Corp. site visits to assess the progress of the work and provide ongoing support and feedback sessions. Together in Dance serves students who often have limited access to experience the arts in public school communities located in neighborhoods throughout Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, and the Bronx. To support the digital design of a model for +POOL's water filtration system, which will eventually allow people to swim in New York Harbor. + POOL is a proposed plus-shaped water-filtering, floating pool that will filter river water through the walls of the pool without using chemicals. The 2D and 3D digital model will inform the development of new permitting standards and regulatory structures for in-water architecture and public swimming facilities NY 7 Friends of + POOL Design New York 2018 $30,000 that are more environmentally friendly and safer for users. Though initially focused on New York, +POOL's technology could be applied by other communities with similarly polluted rivers. +POOL will to make the river accessible but also support the preservation, restoration, and conservation of natural bodies of water; promote water stewardship; and educate the public about the importance of clean water. To support the exhibition "Psychogeography of Port-au-Prince" and accompanying publication. Comprising photographs, ethnographic objects, maps, and performances by selected Haitian artists, the exhibition will examine the history and mythology of Haiti's capital city. The exhibition will highlight the city's many diverse centers of cultural production, street life, Pioneer Works Art NY 7 Visual Arts Brooklyn religious heritage, mythology, and varied architectural presence to create a 2017 $30,000 Foundation compelling narrative of a historically significant, and intensely complex, city in flux, through the presentation of works by contemporary artists. Panel events, artist and curator talks, and other events that support Haitian artists will accompany the exhibition, developed in partnership with Clocktower Gallery, the Haitian Cultural Exchange, and StoryCorps. To support the development and tour of a devised documentary theater piece. The ensemble work will be comprised of primary-source accounts from women and girls in New York City and will be developed, written, and NY 7 Girl Be Heard Institute Theater Brooklyn performed by Girl Be Heard Company members. The show will premiere at 2017 $20,000 an Off-Off Broadway theater venue and tour to theater festivals. Post-show talkbacks will enable audiences to engage with performers and directors to deepen the audience's understanding of and connection to the play's issues. To support the production of theater and workshops for servicemembers and veterans. The company will present contemporary works at Fort Hamilton in New York City, and at Fort Belvoir. Theater will be used as a tool Arts in the Armed Forces to ease the transition from military active duty to civilian life and remind NY 7 Theater Brooklyn 2017 $10,000 Inc. soldiers, sailors, and airmen that they are an integral part of the American community. The performances will consist of both full-length plays and a selection of monologues followed by informal question-and-answer sessions in which the audience can interact candidly with the artists. To support Light + POOL, a public art installation in the East River. The project is a precursor to the planned installation of + POOL, a water filtering, floating swimming pool that cleans natural water systems and is currently NY 7 Friends of + POOL Design New York being designed for installation in New York City. The art installation will trace 2017 $30,000 the exact size, 200 feet x 200 feet, and "plus" shape of the future pool, with LED-illuminated buoys staggered every four feet that illuminate and change in color based on the quality of the water in real time.

To support residencies for visual artists and related activities. The program will support residencies for artists of diverse backgrounds with an emphasis Triangle Arts Association on the creation of community and cross-cultural exchange. To accompany NY 7 Visual Arts Brooklyn 2017 $25,000 Limited the residencies, Triangle Arts Association will host open studio weekends, lectures, artist talks, screenings, exhibitions, curator-led tours, and educational activities that are free and open to the public. To support the creation of a toolkit for effective artist and municipal partnerships, a Knowledge Building project. In response to increasing interest in incorporating art practices into the work of municipal agencies, A Blade of Grass will collaborate with Americans for the Arts to develop a toolkit and training materials for municipal agency leaders and artists to partner successfully. The project collaborators will conduct a national field NY 7 A Blade of Grass Fund Design Brooklyn 2017 $100,000 scan of existing programs and develop an interactive toolkit complete with framing, case studies, web-based videos, and tools to guide planning, implementation, and evaluation. The resources will be refined through pilot workshops, and disseminated broadly. This project is expected to clarify effective artist-civic partnership models, and to provide a practical guide for navigating challenges that might occur. To support a residency program for socially engaged artists. Participating artists will receive a stipend, training, and mentoring to develop socially Presenting & NY 7 A Blade of Grass Fund Brooklyn engaged art work. The artists and outside partners will produce ethnographic- 2017 $25,000 Multidisciplinary Works style evaluations, short documentary films, public programs, and dynamic web content for practitioners and general audiences. To support Shelter from Harm, a research program to determine how the design of public services can mitigate trauma for vulnerable New Yorkers. Public Policy Lab will work with New York City agencies, social services experts, and select stakeholder groups to determine which public services could most benefit from being collaboratively redesigned. The design team NY 7 Public Policy Lab Inc. Design Brooklyn 2018 $40,000 (comprising Public Policy Lab staff and designers engaged for this project) will then co-design, prototype, and test new tools and services. The project will focus specifically on how better design of public services, communications, and spaces can help mitigate the effects of challenging life circumstances. To support a touring project of Yarn/Wire residencies, collaborations, and performances. The contemporary music ensemble--a two-keyboard, two- percussion quartet--will present public concerts, master classes and NY 7 Yarn Wire, Inc Music Ridgewood workshops at colleges and universities in Michigan, Massachusetts, New 2017 $10,000 York, and Virginia. The diverse repertoire will include works by composers such as Tyondai Braxton, Mei-Fang Lin, Alex Mincek, Tristan Perich, Steve Reich, and Chiyoko Szlavnics. To support a series of exhibitions with an emphasis on international exchange. Participating artists will use historic imagery to explore contemporary issues in their work and include Sana Obaid (United Arab NY 7 Open Source Gallery, Inc. Visual Arts Brooklyn Emirates), Liinu Gronlund (Finland), Kimberly Mayhorn (United States), as 2017 $20,000 well as a theme-based exhibition curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud (United States). Each exhibition will include an artist presentation and a moderated lecture series. To support a residency for socially engaged artists and related activities. As many as nine emerging artists will receive a stipend, training, and mentoring. Presenting & NY 7 A Blade of Grass Fund Brooklyn Artists such as scholar Jan Cohen-Cruz will produce short documentary films, 2018 $15,000 Multidisciplinary Works public programs, and dynamic web content for practitioners and general audiences. To support staff salaries and administrative costs for the After-School Theater Program. Taught by professional teaching artists, youth from underserved communities across New York City will be guided through a free, year-long program that uses improvisation, acting games, and writing exercises to develop creativity, collaboration, and acting and improvisational techniques. During Saturday Master Class, students will learn how to NY 7 Opening Act, Inc Arts Education Brooklyn audition for college theater programs, take part in a workshop on the 2017 $20,000 process of applying for college and financial aid, and engage in mentoring sessions with professionals in the field. Select students will be invited to audition for the Summer Theater Arts and Leadership Conservatory and to join the Student Leadership Council. The culmination of the program is an original production, created and performed by the students in professional theaters. To support an after-school theater program. Taught by professional teaching artists, youth from underserved communities will be guided through a free, year-long program that uses improvisation, acting games, and writing exercises to develop creativity, collaboration, and acting and improvisational techniques. During Saturday Master Class, students will learn how to audition for college theater programs, take part in a workshop about applying for college and financial aid, and engage in mentoring sessions with NY 7 Opening Act, Inc Arts Education Brooklyn 2018 $25,000 professionals in the field. Select students will be invited to audition for the Summer Theater Arts and Leadership Conservatory and to join the Student Leadership Council. These students, along with alumni of the program, will further develop their leadership skills, create original theater, and serve as ambassadors for the organization. The culmination of the program is an original production, created and performed by the students in professional theaters. To support an artist residency program. Participating artists will receive project management, logistical and technical support, access to studio space, and the opportunity for weekly curatorial studio visits. All applications are NY 7 Residency Unlimited Inc. Visual Arts Brooklyn reviewed by a panel that includes other artists, art administrators, 2017 $20,000 independent curators, and advisers. Each residency will last approximately three months and will conclude with a public presentation of the artists' new work. Presenting & NY 7 Tamizdat Incorporated Brooklyn N/A 2017 $10,000 Multidisciplinary Works To support a series of exhibitions with an emphasis on global perspectives and international exchange. The exhibitions will address themes of place, NY 7 Open Source Gallery, Inc. Visual Arts Brooklyn identity, immigration, and loss. Participating artists will include Betty Yu, 2018 $20,000 Immy Mali, Khaled Jarrar, Tomas Rivas, and Xyza Bacani. Each exhibition will include an artist presentation and a moderated lecture series.

To support a national tour of concerts, educational residencies, OpenICE engagement activities, and the commissioning of new work. Plans will include concerts, workshops, and educational activities. Each residency may International Contemporary NY 7 Music Brooklyn feature concerts of newly commissioned works alongside established 2017 $30,000 Ensemble Foundation, Inc. repertoire, free hour-long performances with discussions, educational events for students to create new works, public discussions, open rehearsals, and digital online documentation with videos of performances. To support the Homeless Troupes Forum Theatre Project. Conducted in partnership with community-based organizations serving homeless and at- risk youth and adults, the project will offer homeless participants an ongoing theater skills training program and the opportunity to create and present their own stories on stage. Performances will take the form of "Forum Theatre of the Oppressed NY 7 Theater Brooklyn Theater," in which the action of the play is stopped and audience members 2017 $20,000 NYC, Inc. are invited to step into the role of the protagonist and experiment with alternative solutions to the problems presented on stage. The program will build a sense of community, increase the participants' confidence and self- esteem, and invite audiences to participate in community-led problem- solving. To support workshops, seminars, and trainings to media artists through the UnionDocs Intensives program. Focused on documentary production and emerging technologies, instructors and guest artists will present workshops NY 7 UnionDocs, Inc. Media Arts Brooklyn 2017 $25,000 and training sessions on topics such as podcasting, audience-driven outreach, working with archives, low budget cinematography, virtual reality, and site-specific storytelling. To support the Documentary Bodega Series and related public programming featuring independent media artists. The multimedia presentations in this series combine film, video, audio, photography, oral history, and performance work based on nonfiction storytelling, accompanied by discussions with guest artists or subject experts. As many as 100 public NY 7 UnionDocs, Inc. Media Arts Brooklyn 2018 $20,000 events will be produced, highlighting works not found in commercial venues. Recently presented programs include "The New Black" by Yoruba Richen, a selection of short films by Cao Guimaraes, and a podcast workshop featuring Sruthi Pinnamaneni ("Reply All"), Benjamen Walker ("Theory of Everything"), Megan Tan ("Millennial Podcast"), and Jonathan Mitchell ("The Truth"). To support an archival, recording and production project with NEA Jazz Master Anthony Braxton. The project will include the pre-production of NEA Jazz Master Anthony Braxton's four-act opera "Trillium X;" post-production and release of a 12-CD box set of the artist's Syntactical Ghost Trance Music NY 7 Tri-Centric Foundation Inc Music Brooklyn for vocal choir; a more than 10-hour long multi-media box set documenting 2017 $10,000 his current septet performing the artist's newest compositional system, ZIM Music. In addition, the foundation will oversee the archiving and digitization of Braxton's scores, with the goal of making them accessible to musicians of all levels. To support the creation of a new work "The Disappearance Portraits" by Jonah Bokaer. In collaboration with composers of the Soundwalk Collective, NY 7 Chez Bushwick, Inc. Dance Brooklyn Bokaer will create a live performance work. The artists will incorporate the 2017 $10,000 changing landscape of the Mediterranean basin through choreography and sound field recordings. To support creative writing tutoring and instruction, as well as the publication of student work. Designed to improve students' writing skills, confidence, interest in writing, and self-efficacy, the organization will offer in- school programs; a free after-school writing and tutoring program; and in- NY 7 826NYC, Inc. Literature Brooklyn 2017 $10,000 depth creative writing workshops on topics such as novel writing, journalism, and genre writing. Each program will culminate in the publication of student work, celebrating students' talents and providing participants with a sense of accomplishment. To support the publication and promotion of "One Story" and "One Teen Story." The magazines, which are geared to readers of literary fiction and readers of young adult fiction respectively, follow a unique model of NY 7 One Story, Incorporated Literature Brooklyn distributing one new story to subscribers each month. Stories selected for 2018 $10,000 publication are edited with the precision and care typically given to longer- form work such as novels. The magazines will be promoted through direct- mail campaigns and new print marketing materials, among other means. To support Art Dialogue, a professional development series for artists and curators. Selected artists will receive studio visits and feedback from a guest curator who works outside of the immediate community. Each curator will present a series of public programs hosted by local cultural partners, taking NY 7 Art Council Inc. Visual Arts Brooklyn 2017 $20,000 place in the curator's home city as well as in the artist's community. Programming includes discussions, artist interviews, or presentations about an emerging artist's work, disseminated through Artadia's website. Host cities include Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco. .

To support the creation and distribution of the publication "Esopus." The publication will feature long-form contemporary artists' projects and writing NY 7 Esopus Foundation, Ltd. Visual Arts Brooklyn on the arts by creative practitioners from various disciplines. Esopus also will 2018 $25,000 include fiction and poetry, visual essays, interviews, archival material, and a themed CD of music commissioned from established or emerging musicians.

To support the "Making Policy Public" publication series. The publications are visual explanations of critical government policy issues, presented in the form of a pamphlet that unfolds into a large-format color poster. The Center for Urban Pedagogy, pamphlets are produced through the collaboration of competitively selected NY 7 Design Brooklyn 2017 $45,000 Inc. artists and designers, community organizations, and CUP staff, and are distributed free-of-charge through design and advocacy channels. These publications create new opportunities for artists and designers to engage with important social issues in diverse communities. To support Making Policy Public, a series of publications which will help people in underserved communities understand how they are affected by specific public policies. The program's graphic publications will provide clarity about public policies and ordinances, presented in the form of a pamphlet Center for Urban Pedagogy, NY 7 Design Brooklyn that unfolds into a large-format color poster. The pamphlets are produced 2018 $50,000 Inc. through the collaboration of competitively selected artists and designers, community organizations, and CUP staff, and are distributed free-of-charge through community organizations. These publications create new opportunities for artists and designers to engage with diverse communities.

To support a design project that engages entrepreneurs across the Navajo Nation to develop a plan for Native entrepreneurship. Hester Street, in partnership with Catapult Design, will conduct a series of design workshops with Native entrepreneurs that explore the entrepreneurial ecosystem, barriers to success, opportunities for partnership, and community resource assets. Using design and a collaborative community engagement process, the Hester Street Collaborative NY 7 Design New York project's goal is to create a set of solutions that address community needs 2018 $40,000 Inc. and priorities, helping Native entrepreneurs establish successful businesses and employ others in their community. Despite a ready labor force and expansive business opportunity, more than 40% of Navajo Nation tribal members are unemployed and many new businesses fail to stay open. The Navajo Nation holds the largest reservation in the United States, spanning Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah.

To support the publication of "One Teen Story." Geared to readers of young adult fiction, the publication follows a unique model of distributng one new NY 7 One Story, Incorporated Literature Brooklyn short story to subscribers each month. Each story, which goes through a 2017 $10,000 rigorous editorial process, is published as a chapbook with an illustrated cover and is available in both print and electronic formats. To support Artadia's Art Dialogue, a professional development program for curators and artists. The program creates professional networking opportunities for practicing artists, which includes studio visits with prominent curators in several U.S. cities such as Atlanta, Chicago, Houston, NY 7 Art Council Inc. Visual Arts Brooklyn Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco. In addition to studio visits, the 2018 $30,000 visiting curator will present a free public lecture to the community, which will be made available online. Additionally, each curator will present an online summary of their studio visits and community conversations as a means to document the development of contemporary art in U.S. cities.

To support educational programming. Presentations in rural, suburban, and urban communities across the nation will integrate live music by JazzReach's resident ensemble Metta Quintet with live narration, video projections, JazzReach Performing Art & lighting design, interactive post-show discussions. Supplementary activities NY 7 Music Brooklyn 2017 $20,000 Education Association may include clinics and master classes for student musicians and ensembles. Several distinct programs, as well as a two-week JazzReach Summer Institute, will foster greater awareness, appreciation, and understanding of the American jazz tradition and are available for students grades K-12. To support the creation and touring of a new multidisciplinary dance theater production. Adapted and directed by Annie-B Parson and Paul Lazar, co- artistic directors of Big Dance Theater ensemble, the work will be an evening- Presenting & NY 7 Big Dance Theater, Inc. Brooklyn length, large-scale dance theater production, based on the observations of 2017 $25,000 Multidisciplinary Works 17th-century English diarist Samuel Pepys. The work will feature choreography by Parson, video design by Jeff Larson, and sound design by Tei Blow. To support the development of a place-based community health plan for the Rockaway area of New York City. Hester Street staff and community partner organizations will engage local residents in the creation of a local community Hester Street Collaborative NY 7 Design New York health plan that addresses critical healthcare access problems and long-term 2017 $40,000 Inc. equity issues. The project will focus its efforts on local low-income public housing residents in Arverne and Edgemere, two high-need neighborhoods heavily impacted by Hurricane Sandy in New York City's borough of Queens. To support the Concert Ensemble training and performance program. Learning through the "Cross-Choral Training Method," a curriculum designed by Brooklyn Youth Chorus (BYC), middle and high school students learn vocal Brooklyn Youth Chorus music and professional-level performance techniques using a sequential, NY 7 Arts Education Brooklyn 2017 $30,000 Academy, Inc. experiential, and developmentally appropriate method. The Concert Ensemble is the most advanced of the BYC's seven choral divisions, and the group often collaborates with composers on commissioned works. Students will have the opportunity to perform multiple times throughout the year.

To support the translation, publication, and promotion of international literature, including titles for children. Planned books include fiction and nonfiction from countries such as Argentina, Bulgaria, Cuba, Spain, and South NY 7 Archipelago Books, Inc. Literature Brooklyn Africa, as well as illustrated children's books from Brazil, Norway, and France. 2017 $80,000 Books will be distributed worldwide, and planned book tour events will feature authors and translators in readings and discussions at book festivals, cultural centers, and children's museums, among other locations.

To support the translation, publication, and promotion of international literature. Planned titles include poetry, fiction, and nonfiction from such countries as Colombia, Lebanon, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, and Rwanda. In addition, through its children's imprint, Elsewhere Editions, the press plans NY 7 Archipelago Books, Inc. Literature Brooklyn 2018 $60,000 to publish an illustrated children's book from France. Planned book tour events will feature authors and translators in readings and discussions in locations such as festivals, cultural centers, bookstores, and community centers.

To support training for artists and administrators who work with elderly people and people living with illness. The project will present both didactic and theoretical information to assist participants in designing, implementing, and evaluating arts programming. The training will include outlets for University Settlement NY 7 Visual Arts New York creative expression and will serve as a treatment modality that can alleviate 2017 $15,000 Society of New York symptoms associated with illness and aging. The sessions will include specific workshops and seminars addressing dementia and Alzheimer's disease. A week-long training institute will bring together healthcare artists, artists-in- residence, art therapists, and administrators for hands-on workshops. To support free after-school and summer filmmaking workshops for teens. Students will produce and distribute short documentaries about their lives under the mentorship of professional filmmakers. The intensive after-school Reel Stories Teen NY 7 Arts Education Brooklyn workshops will challenge students to develop personal narratives and to 2017 $25,000 Filmmaking, Inc. connect their own stories to broader issues they face in their community. Participants will receive a youth media "digital badge" as a representation of the skills and accomplishments they achieve in film and media education.

To support the New Commissions Program. The program will provide support for local and international artists to create new work. Selected artists will receive an artist fee, production budget, curatorial support, and NY 7 Art in General, Inc. Visual Arts Brooklyn 2017 $40,000 access to equipment and technology culminating in an exhibition. Free public programming and online education initiatives will be prepared in conjunction with each artist's exhibition.

To support the Creating Space initiative. This series of multidisciplinary performances, community workshops, residencies, youth programs, and other programming will explore equity for people of various races, ages, and Presenting & NY 7 Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Inc. Brooklyn ethnicities. By continuing to develop Creating Space, BAX will deepen its 2017 $20,000 Multidisciplinary Works mission to provide an intentional artistic home for all artists, through providing space, financial support, and artistic/administrative services to diverse constituencies. To support the Artist in Residence Program and related activities. Artists from dance, theater, and performance arts fields will receive support including stipends, mentorship, and rehearsal/performance space for the NY 7 Brooklyn Arts Exchange, Inc. Artist Communities Brooklyn presentation of new artwork. In addition, an Arts Services Day will offer a 2018 $20,000 free series of workshops, panels, presentations, and information sessions about services, programs, and issues relevant to independent working artists in New York City. To support curation, programming, production, and promotion costs for the public television series "America ReFramed." "America ReFramed" broadcasts documentary films exploring timely domestic issues through personal storytelling. Select episodes are accompanied by a post-film NY 7 American Documentary, Inc. Media Arts Brooklyn 2017 $65,000 conversation on topics addressed in the documentary with a panel of journalists, academics, educators, and activists. Broadcast on the WORLD Channel, episodes of the series are also made available online for free at www.worldchannel.org and www.pbs.org. To support the production of the "Afropop Worldwide" radio program. Hosted by Cameroonian broadcaster George Collinet, the program showcases the contemporary musical cultures of Africa and the African diaspora. Featuring live concert recordings, historical material, visits to World Music Productions, international music capitals, and interviews with established and emerging NY 7 Media Arts Brooklyn 2017 $40,000 Inc. artists, the Peabody Award-winning radio series is produced for public radio broadcast and is currently distributed by PRI Public Radio International to more than 100 stations in the United States. Each episode will be made available online, alongside additional online content such as music mixes, reviews, interviews, videos, and web-exclusive podcasts. To support artist residencies. Research and project resident artists will be provided with studio space and administrative support. Artists will be NY 7 Eyebeam Atelier, Inc. Artist Communities Brooklyn encouraged to share their work with the public through exhibitions and 2017 $20,000 installations, performances, panel discussions, workshops, hackathons, and other opportunities to introduce the work to a broad audience. To support production of "The History of Now." Produced by Joe Richman, "The History of Now" is a series of audio diaries and first-person documentaries uncovering hidden chapters of 20th-century American history. The series will combine radio art, oral history, and journalism, and cover stories ranging from the U.S. Navy constructing underwater habitats NY 7 Radio Diaries, Inc. Media Arts Brooklyn for scientific exploration in the 1960s, to how a 1950s housewife became the 2017 $50,000 subject of a bestselling book, hit song, and feature film after she was hypnotized and claimed to be an Irish woman from the 1800s. Once completed, the programs will air on National Public Radio programs and made available as a podcast or streaming on the NPR and Radio Diaries websites. To support the Summer Leadership Institute. Under the guidance of professional artists, teens from underserved communities will create large- Groundswell Community scale public artworks themed on critical issues in their own neighborhoods. NY 7 Arts Education Brooklyn 2017 $45,000 Mural Project, Inc. Youth will learn about public art, artists, and artmaking traditions while engaging in sequential skill-building activities that build technical skills in composition and artmaking in a variety of media.

To support Independent Film Week. The program provides independent filmmakers and new media creators from across the country the opportunity to present their work to the domestic and international film industry. Independent Feature NY 7 Media Arts Brooklyn Throughout the week-long program in New York City, one-on-one meetings 2017 $40,000 Project, Inc. are held between producers and distributors, exhibitors, funders, and broadcasters. The program is also accompanied by film screenings, seminars, panel discussions, and case studies.

To support the Artist Studio Program. Participating artists will be provided access to studio space, specialized equipment, technical support, NY 7 Smack Mellon Studios, Inc. Visual Arts Brooklyn 2017 $40,000 professional development opportunities, and a stipend. Artists will be selected from an open call by a panel of artists, curators, and critics.

To support the Artist Studio Program, an annual residency and fellowship for emerging and underrepresented artists. As many as six resident artists will receive financial, technical, and administrative support for their projects. NY 7 Smack Mellon Studios, Inc. Visual Arts Brooklyn 2018 $25,000 Residents will be provided with studio space, and opportunities will be available for professional development through a series of open and private studio visits with curators, art dealers, collectors, and other art professionals.

To support the pARTnership Program, which integrates arts activities with instruction in academic core subjects in underserved schools throughout New York City. Teaching artists, classroom teachers, school therapists, and NY 7 Marquis Studios, Ltd. Arts Education Brooklyn 2017 $25,000 administrators will meet to design the program to advance their schools' educational goals including those for special needs students. Residencies include music, visual arts, and dance. To support Eyebeam Bootcamp, an intensive training camp for art and technology practitioners. The two-day training will include artist presentations and critiques, and explore such topics as virtual and NY 7 Eyebeam Atelier, Inc. Media Arts Brooklyn 2017 $10,000 augmented reality, resource mapping, and business as a social contract. As many as 100 participants are expected to attend, and the sessions will be livestreamed and archived online as a public resource. To support the Rhizome Commissions program. Focused on the intersection of art and technology, the program will provide emerging artists with professional development resources and the opportunity to present their Rhizome Communications, work online and at public venues. Additionally, Rhizome staff will meet with NY 7 Media Arts New York 2017 $25,000 Inc. artists monthly to offer curatorial feedback, technical support, and advice on exhibition spaces. Works completed during the Commissions program will be uploaded into Artbase (Rhizome's digital archive) ensuring preservation and ongoing public access. To support the Rhizome Editorial Program, an online scholarly resource devoted to contemporary digital art. Featuring news, reviews, and critical Rhizome Communications, essays on emerging fields of art and technology, the publication also includes NY 7 Media Arts New York 2017 $20,000 Inc. in-depth profiles and interviews with new media artists, curators, and writers. Content will be made available online at www.rhizome.org and on mobile platforms. To support core programs that showcase the work of emerging and mid- career African-American and minority poets. At the annual retreat, participants will convene for five days of writing, reading, discussion, and mentorship. In addition, New York City-based workshops will provide Cave Canem Foundation, NY 7 Literature Brooklyn opportunities for emerging poets to create new work and participate in a 2017 $40,000 Inc. supportive writers' community. Project activities also will include the selection of a manuscript for the Cave Canem Poetry Prize, as well as the New Works Reading Series, which will present poets reading from recently published collections. To support arts instruction for youth. Youth in community centers in North Brooklyn will receive year-round after-school, weekend, and summer arts El Puente de Williamsburg, instruction in dance, theater, visual arts and music. Students will create and NY 7 Arts Education Brooklyn 2017 $10,000 Inc. perform original work based on culturally relevant social justice themes. Teaching artists will receive ongoing training in the program's approach, curriculum, and assessment. To support residency and exhibition opportunities for artists in the hand papermaking tradition. Dieu Donne will offer residencies to mid-career and emerging artists through the Lab Grant and the Workspace Residency NY 7 Dieu Donne Papermill, Inc. Visual Arts Brooklyn programs, providing each artist with stipends, one-on-one collaboration with 2017 $25,000 master papermakers, and an exhibition. Participating artists experiment in a medium that is outside of their traditional practice and receive training on specialized equipment. To support the HOT! Festival. Dixon Place will present theater, dance, music, Open Channels New York, Presenting & literature readings, puppetry, spoken-word, and performance art. The NY 7 New York 2017 $15,000 Inc. Multidisciplinary Works centerpiece of the festival will be a commission of Los Angeles-based, Sri Lankan American theater/performance artist D'Lo. To support Town Hall gatherings, professional development, and a fellowship program. Town Halls will assist artists and cultural workers with exchanging information and resources for their own professional and organizational Asian American Arts Presenting & development. Each convening will include featured presentations about NY 7 Brooklyn 2017 $10,000 Alliance, Inc. Multidisciplinary Works themes such as world music, photography, and social change. Year-round professional development includes a fellowship program, as well as talks and workshops for artists from diverse disciplines that provide opportunities for peer discussion, practical learning, and critical feedback.

To support the 2017 Summer Series, held in outdoor settings throughout the New York City region. Screenings of feature-length and short independent NY 7 Rooftop Films, Inc. Media Arts Brooklyn films are accompanied by live music, performances, and question-and- 2017 $65,000 answer sessions with guest artists. Films presented are either New York or U.S. premieres. To support the 2018 Summer Series, held in outdoor settings throughout the New York City region. Screenings of feature-length and short independent films are accompanied by live music, performances, and question-and- answer sessions with guest artists. Almost all of the films presented are either world, U.S., or New York premieres. Recently screened works include NY 7 Rooftop Films, Inc. Media Arts Brooklyn 2018 $50,000 "The Fits" by Anna Rose Holmer, "Romeo is Bleeding" by Jason Zeldes, and "The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble" by Morgan Neville. Previous locations for the Summer Series include the Old American Can Factory in Brooklyn, the Socrates Sculpture Park in Long Island City, the New Design High School in Manhattan, and The William Vale in Williamsburg.

To support a commissioning and performance project of contemporary Chinese music. Titled "Hundred Antiques," the new work by Chinese- American composer Zhou Tian will be written for erhu, pipa, violin, and cello, inspired by a traditional Chinese style of decorative arts and textiles known NY 7 Music From China, Inc. Music New York as the Hundred Antiques. Programming will include composer Zhou Long's 2018 $10,000 "Rites of Chimes" for traditional and Western instruments with ancient Chinese bronze bells. Performances will be held at Merkin Concert Hall in New York, Freer Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and Towson University in Towson, Maryland. To support the Documentary Bodega Series. The multimedia presentations in this series combine film, video, audio, photography, writing, and NY 7 UnionDocs, Inc. Media Arts Brooklyn 2017 $20,000 performance work based on nonfiction storytelling, accompanied by discussions with guest artists or subject experts. To support the Egg Rolls Egg Creams Empanadas Festival. The event will celebrate traditions and art forms from the Chinese, Eastern European Jewish, and Puerto Rican communities located in close proximity to one NY 7 Museum at Eldridge Street Folk & Traditional Arts New York 2017 $20,000 another on New York City's Lower East Side. Featured performances will include selections from Chinese opera and Jewish klezmer music, as well as "bomba" and "plena", traditional Puerto Rican music and dance. To support the Time and Space initiative. The project employs a model of producing and presenting that offers enhanced development periods, production resources, and extended performance engagements of new works. Works produced under the initiative will include The Donmar NY 7 St. Ann's Warehouse Inc. Theater Brooklyn 2017 $40,000 Warehouse's "The Tempest," Phyllida Lloyd's final production in a trilogy of all-female Shakespearean productions, and Kneehigh Theater's "946: The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips," a new play that explores the little known history of Black GIs stationed in Cornwall as D-Day approaches.

To support the development and production of new theater works. St. Ann's employs a model of producing and presenting that offers enhanced development periods, production resources, and extended performance engagements of new works. Proposed works include a new chamber production of "Oklahoma!" directed by Daniel Fish that highlights the NY 7 St. Ann's Warehouse Inc. Theater Brooklyn 2018 $40,000 musical's juxtaposition of the lighthearted romance between a farm girl and a cowboy with its dark portrayal of a community circling the wagons against a reviled outsider; and St. Ann's Puppet Lab and Labapalooza! Festival which provides intensive development and presentation opportunities for puppet artists and their collaborators.

To support the curation, acquisition, packaging, and promotion of films for broadcast on the public television series "POV." As the longest-running television series devoted exclusively to the art of independent nonfiction storytelling, "POV" will premiere a series of documentary films on the PBS broadcast schedule. Through this program, approximately 14-16 filmmakers will work with "POV" to craft a strategic broadcast plan which includes a NY 7 American Documentary, Inc. Media Arts Brooklyn national press campaign, outreach and educational activities in partnership 2017 $100,000 with public television stations, educators and community-based organizations, a stand-alone website and other materials and services geared to providing the most effective springboard possible for the films. In addition to public broadcast, the films are made available online and presented at free screenings in partnership with schools, libraries, and community organizations across the country.

To support the distribution and packaging of digital documentary works related to the public television series "POV." As the longest-running television series devoted exclusively to the art of independent nonfiction storytelling, "POV" will complement its broadcast of feature-length documentaries on PBS with curated digital short films, as well as original documentary works to be to be distributed via Snapchat and Instagram. NY 7 American Documentary, Inc. Media Arts Brooklyn Produced and distributed in partnership with organizations such as 2018 $15,000 StoryCorps and "The New York Times," works will be available for free through the Snapchat and Instagram apps and online at the POV website. Previous Emmy-nominated independent digital works made available to national audiences include the interactive documentary "Empire" by Eline Jongsma and Kel O'Neill, and the animated short series "StoryCorps: Military Voices." To support a commissioning and performance project of contemporary Chinese music in New York and Pittsburgh. Titled From Roots to Reality, the project will feature the premiere performances of new works by composers Matthew Rosenblum, Tian Zhou, and Wang Guowei written for traditional Chinese and Western instruments. Activities will include an artist residency NY 7 Music From China, Inc. Music New York by Music From China's Long Wind Quartet (an ensemble of erhu, pipa, flute, 2017 $10,000 and piano) at University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, as well as lectures, workshops, and educational programming for children and youth. Performances will be presented in New York venues such as the Chatham Square Library, Leonard Nimoy Thalia theater at Symphony Space, and Christ St. Stephen's Church. To support a series of world music and dance performances. Concerts, workshops, and demonstrations will feature artists performing evolving traditions from around the world. Performers for the series will include NY 7 World Music Institute, Inc. Folk & Traditional Arts Brooklyn acclaimed female vocalists from Spanish-speaking and Portuguese-speaking 2018 $20,000 traditions, as well as Indian sitar legend Krishna Bhatt, and Soo Yeon Lyuh, a Korean haegum player and composer who will perform with the Kronos Quartet. To support a series of workshops and performances at Brooklyn community festivals. Many of the area's traditional arts performances are presented in large venues, providing limited opportunities for the artists to explain the relevant cultural significances of their work. To bridge this gap, a series of NY 7 Brooklyn Arts Council, Inc. Folk & Traditional Arts Brooklyn workshops and performances will be scheduled in conjunction with several 2017 $35,000 Brooklyn community festivals to enable the artists to talk in detail about their traditions. This series of smaller performances will conclude with a one-day multi-ethnic festival that, in addition to larger stages, will include smaller performance spaces facilitating audience interaction.

In recognition of Teen Innovators at BLDG 92. The nine-month after-school program develops college and career readiness by immersing 11th and 12th NY 7 Brooklyn Historical Society Brooklyn 2017 $10,000 grade students in the history of Brooklyn Navy Yard Center though humanities-based learning and paid internship opportunities. To support the publication and promotion of books of poetry and prose, including work in translation and texts in hybrid forms. Planned titles will be released through the press's Emerging Writers Program; Eastern European Poets Series; Lost Literature Series; Emergency Playscripts Series, which NY 7 Ugly Duckling Presse, Ltd. Literature Brooklyn 2017 $10,000 presents scripts that can expand the practice of theater; and Dossier Series, which presents work with a unique investigative impulse. Books will be promoted through the website, an e-newsletter, social media, and other means. To support the publication of books of poetry and prose, including work in translation and texts in hybrid forms. Planned titles will be released through the press's Emerging Writers Program; Eastern European Poets Series; Lost NY 7 Ugly Duckling Presse, Ltd. Literature Brooklyn Literature Series, which focuses on 20th-century work that has been 2018 $10,000 neglected or never translated; and Dossier Series, which presents work that exhibits a unique investigative impulse. Books will be promoted through an e- newsletter and social media, among other means. To support the Theater for All outreach program. Performances of the company's new work "That's Quite Absurd!" will be given at theaters, elementary schools, and community centers. An eight-week workshop led by NY 7 Paper Bag Players, Inc. Theater New York company artists will give children the opportunity to develop stories, design 2017 $20,000 production elements, and perform. A study guide integrated with the production of "That's Quite Absurd!" will be provided to participating teachers. To support choral training and performance opportunities for students in Concert Ensemble, a youth chorus. Learning through the "Cross-Choral Training" curriculum designed by BYC, middle and high school students will develop music literacy skills though sight reading, ear training, and score Brooklyn Youth Chorus analysis. By cross-training the voice in a range of vocal genres, singers will NY 7 Arts Education Brooklyn 2018 $35,000 Academy, Inc. develop strength, flexibility, pitch range, and build vocal capacity to sing in several musical styles from classical to contemporary. The Concert Ensemble is the most advanced of the BYC's seven choral divisions, and students will have the opportunity to perform multiple times a year throughout the New York City area. To support the touring of "Elements of Oz." The multimedia performance piece is based on a mash-up of texts including excerpts from the original "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" book by L. Frank Baum and testimonials from fans about their various interpretations of the classic film. These conversations Presenting & NY 7 Builders Association, Inc. Brooklyn range from discussions with the Friends of Dorothy fanclub, to the influence 2017 $20,000 Multidisciplinary Works of debates over the gold standard in the 1880s, to using Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" as the movie soundtrack. Using a simple stage set and three performers, this production uses both traditional stagecraft and mixed media technology. To support a commissioning program for artists to create work. The program will offer approximately 15 international and national artists the opportunity to produce and present new artworks and projects. Each artist receives an artist's fee, production fee, and curatorial and organizational support. NY 7 Art in General, Inc. Visual Arts Brooklyn Supported artists spend six months to two years in production before the 2018 $30,000 culmination of a solo exhibition in New York City. Artists will participate in free educational public programs, such as panel discussions, artist talks, performances, conferences, workshops, and lectures that connect them to the surrounding community. To support the Egg Rolls Egg Creams Empanadas Festival. The event will celebrate traditions and art forms from the Chinese, Eastern European Jewish, and Puerto Rican communities living in close proximity to one another in New York City's Lower East Side. Featured performances will NY 7 Museum at Eldridge Street Folk & Traditional Arts New York 2018 $20,000 include selections from Chinese opera and Jewish klezmer music, as well as "bomba" and "plena" (traditional Puerto Rican music and dance). Additionally, festival visitors will have the opportunity to sample ethnic foods, such as egg rolls, egg creams, and empanadas. To support an exhibition celebrating the 30th anniversary of the organization's Artist's Fellowship Program. The exhibition will focus on artists who received early career support from NYFA, providing a historical overview of important ideas, social themes, and formal innovations, illustrated with New York Foundation for NY 7 Visual Arts Brooklyn representative works from significant artists in a variety of disciplines, 2017 $25,000 the Arts, Inc. including painting, photography, sculpture and video, as well as digital and interdisciplinary work. The exhibition will be presented to the public at State University of New York museums (Alfred, Cortland, New Paltz, and Plattsburgh). To support production, post-production, and promotion costs for an online video interview series on audience outreach and engagement. This series will focus on emerging filmmakers who have successfully reached audiences in New York Foundation for television and independent film without high promotional budgets or NY 7 Media Arts Brooklyn 2017 $10,000 the Arts, Inc. established reputations. As many as three filmmakers will be featured. Once completed, the series will be available as a resource on the New York Foundation on the Arts' website and YouTube channel, and offered to film schools and cultural organizations. To support the presentation of dance works on a national tour. The company will present some of Paul Taylor's master works, as well as his most recent dances, to audiences across the United States. Touring is a vital part of the Paul Taylor Dance foundation's mission to preserve and proliferate the modern dance art form NY 7 Dance New York 2017 $75,000 Foundation, Inc. and to celebrate the artistry of Taylor. National tour activities will include performances in theaters and performing arts centers, as well as master classes, open rehearsals, talkbacks, and other forms of community engagement. To support the presentation of multidisciplinary performances. The Abrons Arts Center will present work by artists in disciplines including theater,and Presenting & NY 7 Henry Street Settlement New York dance. Featured presentations will include works by the Target Margin 2017 $15,000 Multidisciplinary Works Theater ensemble, New York City Players, and choreographer Jan Martens (The Netherlands). To support the publication of "Recommended Reading," a free online fiction magazine. Each week, the magazine publishes one piece of fiction with a personal foreword by a well-known writer or editor. In addition to publishing NY 8 Electric Lit, Inc. Literature Brooklyn original fiction, the magazine regularly showcases work from small and 2018 $15,000 independent presses, literary magazines, and other publishers, providing an avenue for readers to discover new authors, including international writers in translation. To support the Biodesign Challenge. The design competition and summit invites students from university art and design programs around the United States to envision how to use biotechnology in areas such as energy, materials, and medicine. The challenge concludes with the Biodesign NY 8 Genspace NYC, Inc. Design Brooklyn Summit, where top teams from each school showcase their ideas to an 2017 $33,000 audience of designers, scientists, artists, industrial partners, and "Popular Science" magazine staff. Designs also will be featured at events (including Biofabricate 2017), partnering museums (including the Museum of Modern Art), galleries, and on an ongoing Popular Science blog. To support the publication and promotion of "Recommended Reading," a weekly digital fiction magazine. Each week, the magazine publishes one piece of fiction, introduced or recommended by a well-known author, editor, or NY 8 Electric Lit, Inc. Literature Brooklyn 2017 $10,000 publisher. The magazine provides an avenue for readers to discover new authors, including international writers in translation. New issues are available online free-of-charge. To support an ongoing dance engagement program composed of a broad range of free and low-cost artistic offerings. Based in the company's artistic and administrative home in a historic church in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, the program will include public dance classes, informal showings, monthly NY 8 Gallim Dance Company, Inc Dance Brooklyn workshops, wellness panels, and an artist-in-residence program. This 2018 $10,000 iteration will mark the seventh season of the program and for this season the company will launch professional dancer development. Dancers and artists- in-residence will be presented with the opportunity to develop technically, aesthetically, and creatively. To support a performance project. The artists' service organization will partner with National Sawdust, a Brooklyn-based, artist-led, nonprofit venue, in a project titled New Amsterdam Presents Record Release Performance NY 8 New Amsterdam Presents Music Brooklyn 2017 $15,000 Series. Programming will feature theGrammy Award-winning vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth, the JACK Quartet, the Jasper Quartet, and the percussion trio Tigue. To support a dance engagement program in Brooklyn's Clinton Hill community. This program will engage the community with a range of free NY 8 Gallim Dance Company, Inc Dance Brooklyn and low cost artistic offerings at the company's home studio in Brooklyn's 2017 $10,000 Clinton Hill community. Offerings include dance classes, informal showings, monthly workshops, wellness panels, and an artist-in-residence program. To support the publication and promotion of "Words Without Borders: The Online Magazine for International Literature." The free, monthly online magazine will focus on literature in translation from regions such as Francophone Africa, Bulgaria, Catalonia, Colombia, and Tunisia. The magazine also will present issues with themes such as climate, divided NY 8 Words Without Borders Literature Brooklyn 2017 $35,000 nations, and the kitchen. The journal's educational initiative, Words Without Borders Campus, contextualizes material for high school and college audiences, and "Dispatches," a long-format blog, provides regular commentary, reviews, interviews, and essays related to international literature. To support the Biodesign Challenge, a competition and summit for design students to envision how biotechnology can be integrated into their work. College student teams, advised by design faculty and biotechnology experts in the realms of energy, materials, medicine, and more, will create speculative products and processes that utilize biological systems. The Challenge concludes with the two-day Biodesign Summit, where top teams NY 8 Genspace NYC, Inc. Design Brooklyn 2018 $40,000 from each school showcase their ideas to an audience of designers, scientists, artists, industrial partners, and media. Designs also will be showcased at events and galleries around the U.S. The program's ultimate goal is to explore design's essential role in developing and critiquing this emerging technology, so that when designers are asked to work with living systems, they do so thoughtfully and ethically. To support a mentorship program for emerging writers, as well as the publication and promotion of new books and the journal "A Public Space." In addition to receiving rigorous editorial guidance and publication in the A Public Space Literary journal, selected emerging writers will give a public reading in New York City NY 8 Literature Brooklyn 2018 $25,000 Projects Inc. and have the opportunity to meet with members of the publishing community. Publications through A Public Space Books will include a title by Sally Potter and a selection of journals and other written materials by the artist Dorothea Tanning. To support the premiere of "Primer for a Failed Superpower." Created by a diverse group of composers from varied musical backgrounds, the work will consist of new arrangements of seminal protest songs from the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries, exploring poverty, war, racial injustice, and the Theatre of the Emerging environment. Performers will include a multigenerational mix of teens, NY 8 Theater Brooklyn 2017 $10,000 American Moment, Inc. ensemble performers in their 30s, and Baby Boomers. The work will explore how personal power changes with age, and how American identity is experienced and handed down by each generation. Performance will be framed as community events, with participatory opportunities for audience members before and after each performance. To support a touring production of "Sleep," an original theatrical work inspired by the short story by Haruki Murakami. The work tells the story of a Japanese housewife who wakes from a haunting dream and permanently NY 8 Ripe Time, Inc. Theater Brooklyn stops sleeping, catapulting her from the threshold of a surreal, sleep- 2018 $10,000 deprived state, through an explosive deconstruction of her life as a wife and mother. The production will be performed in the No Boundaries series at Yale Repertory Theatre, and at Z Space in San Francisco. To support free writing workshops. Workshop sessions will serve at-risk youth; adults in substance abuse recovery; incarcerated and formerly incarcerated individuals; seniors; individuals with disabilities; and others. NY 8 NY Writers Coalition Inc. Literature Brooklyn Workshops provide participants with an opportunity to find and hone their 2017 $15,000 voices and be a part of a supportive artistic community. The project will include publishing and readings of participants' work. The workshops will take place in locations throughout New York City. To support professional development programs for early career playwrights. Programs will include a year-long fellowship that will offer a playwright individualized development support for one or more ongoing projects. In Page Seventy-Three NY 8 Theater Brooklyn addition, the Interstate 73 writers' group will allow emerging playwrights to 2017 $15,000 Productions, Inc. develop new plays through bi-monthly group meetings and public or private readings. The project also will include a week-long summer residency program at Yale University. To support the development of an assessment report on the impact of the company's outreach in the local community. Consulting group ARTS Action Research will work with the company to develop outcomes, propose NY 8 Batoto Yetu, Inc. Dance Brooklyn protocols for qualitative and quantitative measures, and assist with creation 2017 $10,000 of new assessment of tools. The final report will reflect on the company's 25 year history and will be used to improve the organization's programs and services. To support the creation and premiere of "Times Square." The musical is based on a 1980s cult film of the same name by Allan Moyle and Jacob Brackman. Two runaway girls in New York City transcend difficult circumstances to fight intolerance and injustice. One girl is a volatile street kid who dreams of being a musician and the other is a withdrawn daughter NY 8 Civilians, Inc. Theater Brooklyn 2017 $15,000 of a wealthy lawyer and major New York City developer who is profiting from the gentrification of Times Square. The Civilians' adaptation is written by Tony Award-nominated writer Jim Lewis, with music by veteran singer- songwriter Jill Sobule and her longtime collaborator, composer Robin Eaton. Artistic Director Steve Cosson will direct the premiere.

To support the development and premiere of "School Project" by Ethan Lipton and directed by Steve Cosson. The Civilians will examine the history of the charter school movement in the United States with a script drawn verbatim from interviews conducted by Lipton, Cosson, and an ensemble cast of actors with students, educators, parents, researchers, and policymakers. Charter school proponents argue that parents should be able to choose what school to send their children to; while critics argue that NY 8 Civilians, Inc. Theater Brooklyn charters are often fraudulent, exploitative and discriminatory. Lipton's play 2018 $10,000 will tell stories from both sides of this debate, portraying the complexity of the issues and the raw emotions surrounding the policy and business of childhood education. A technical residency and workshop performances will occur in partnership with Duke Performances, the Center for Documentary Studies, and the Department of Theatre at Duke University. A second technical residency and series of workshop performances will occur in New York City with a producing partner, followed by the premiere and tour.

To support the creation of a new work and restaging of older works by Artistic Director Mark Morris. The choreographer will create a new work to music by composer Lou Harrison for premiere at the Tanglewood Music Festival in Lenox, Massachusetts. The piece will be part of an all-Harrison program to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the composer's birth. The company also will restage Morris' 18-minute work for 7 dancers, "Dancing NY 8 Discalced, Inc. Dance Brooklyn Honeymoon" (1998) for performance at the Krannert Center for the 2017 $70,000 Performing Arts in Urbana, Illinois, and at the George Mason Center for the Arts in Fairfax, Virginia. The work is set to music transcribed and arranged by Ethan Iverson, from historical recordings of Gertrude Lawrence and Jack Buchanan, which will be performed live by the MMDG Music Ensemble. All performances will include audience engagement activities as part of Access/MMDG programming to contextualize the performances. To support full-productions of five new operas as part of a series celebrating America's diversity. AOP will partner with opera presenting organizations to produce these new operas. "The Summer King" by composer Daniel Sonenberg, with libretto by Sonenberg and Daniel Nester and additional lyrics by Mark Campbell is two-act opera that will be performed in partnership with Michigan Opera Theatre in Detroit in spring 2018. "The Echo Drift" by composer Mikael Karlsson and librettist Elle Kunnos de Voss is a 70-minute monodrama that will be performed in partnership with the American Opera Projects, NY 8 Opera Brooklyn Prototype Festival in New York City in winter 2018. "Rated R for Rat" by 2018 $20,000 Inc. composer and librettist Wang Jie is a double-bill chamber opera that will premiere in partnership with Festival Opera at the San Francisco Conservatory in 2018. "Six. Twenty. Outrageous." by composer Daniel Thomas Davis with libretto by Davis and Adam Frank is a three-act opera that will be performed in partnership with Symphony Space in New York City in winter 2019. "As One" by composer Laura Kaminsky and librettists Mark Campbell and Kimberly Reed is a chamber opera that will be performed in partnership with Anchorage Opera and Hawaii Opera Theatre in winter 2018.

To support Youth Arts Academy dance programming. Pre-school through high school-age youth will study ballet, contemporary, Horton technique, tap, and African dance year round and during a summer intensive. Taught by Bedford Stuyvesant NY 8 Arts Education Brooklyn professional dancers, the goals of the pre-professional dance program are to 2017 $25,000 Restoration Corporation expose youth to various genres of dance, improve their proficiency, provide experiences with professional dancers in residence, and build students' confidence through performance opportunities for diverse audiences. To support dance instruction for youth. Pre-school through high school-age students will study ballet, contemporary dance, Horton technique, tap, and African dance year-round and during a summer intensive. Taught by Bedford Stuyvesant professional dancers, the goals of this pre-professional dance program are to NY 8 Arts Education Brooklyn 2018 $35,000 Restoration Corporation expose youth to various genres of dance, improve their artistic proficiency, provide experiences with professional dancers in residence, and build students' confidence through performance opportunities in front of diverse audiences. To support a national performance tour and community engagement programs. The company will feature new multidisciplinary works alongside seminal repertory work. By offering performances and a range of innovative NY 8 UBW, Inc. Dance Brooklyn engagement programs that respond to communities' self-identified needs, 2017 $35,000 Urban Bush Women will serve dance audiences, artists, students, activists, people of color, and fans of inventive, socially conscious performance in a variety of venues and spaces. To support the Next Wave Festival. The festival will feature new work by Brooklyn Academy of Music, Presenting & artists working in all disciplines. BAM will also present productions for New NY 8 Brooklyn 2017 $40,000 Inc. Multidisciplinary Works York City high school students, as well as provide pre-show workshops in their classrooms. To support the publication and promotion of "Words Without Borders: The Online Magazine for International Literature." Issues of the free, monthly online magazine will focus on literature in translation from such locations as Argentina, Georgia, Hungary, Lebanon, and Macau. The journal's educational NY 8 Words Without Borders Literature Brooklyn 2018 $35,000 initiative, Words Without Borders Campus, contextualizes material for younger audiences, and "WWB Daily," a long-format blog, provides regular commentary, book reviews, and interviews related to international literature.

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To support the creation of a new dance work and restaging of older works by Artistic Director Mark Morris. The new work will be set to composer Franz Schubert's “Piano Quintet in A Major” and will premiere at the Mostly Mozart Festival. The company also will restage Morris' "I Don't Want to Love" NY 8 Discalced, Inc. Dance Brooklyn (1996), a work for seven dancers set to seven madrigals by Claudio 2018 $60,000 Monteverdi, as well as "Love Song Waltzes" (1989), "Pas de Poisson" (1990), "One Charming Night" (1985), and "From Old Seville" (2001). All performances will include audience engagement activities to contextualize the performances. To support a mentorship program for emerging writers, as well as the publication and promotion of books and the journal "A Public Space." In addition to receiving rigorous editorial guidance and publication in the A Public Space Literary NY 8 Literature Brooklyn journal, selected emerging writers will give a public reading in New York City 2017 $20,000 Projects Inc. and have the opportunity to meet with members of the publishing community. The newly launched A Public Space Books will release a title from Bette Howland, whose work has been featured in the journal. To support a performing artists series at the Celebrate Brooklyn Performing Arts Festival and related activities. The series will feature public performances by contemporary artists illuminating the cultures of four BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn, Presenting & distinct immigrant communities in America-African, Mexican, French- NY 8 Brooklyn 2017 $50,000 Inc. Multidisciplinary Works Algerian and Malian-with classic, traditional, and contemporary music and dance. All performances will be accessible for free at the Prospect Park Bandshell. Scheduled artists include vocalist Lila Downs (Mexican- American)and others. To support a performance series and resident teaching facility for emerging composers and contemporary music performers. Hosted by the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams, the festival will feature concerts by the Bang on a Can All-Stars, resident teaching faculty, NY 8 Bang on a Can, Inc. Music Brooklyn and students in galleries and in community venues. Community engagement 2017 $55,000 activities will include a family concert and a free performance at Windsor Lake Park. The finale of the festival will be the annual Bang on a Can Marathon, an event featuring musicians and composers from around the world. To support the publication of "BOMB Magazine." Visual art content for the quarterly publication will highlight the work of selected artists, both in print and online, through the presentation of interviews, artist portfolios, artist- NY 8 New Art Publications, Inc. Visual Arts Brooklyn generated texts, and new literature including fiction and poetry. Through 2017 $35,000 collaborative dialogue, artists working across various genres and media reveal their ideas, concerns, and creative processes. The magazine's content is digitized and indexed into a searchable, online-archived resource.

To support 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- BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn, school classroom workshops and student exhibitions. Classroom teachers NY 8 Arts Education Brooklyn 2017 $50,000 Inc. 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. To support commissions and performances at the Celebrate Brooklyn Performing Arts Festival and related activities. BRIC will commission a new piece of music and performance by Grammy-Award winning jazz pianist and BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn, Presenting & NY 8 Brooklyn composer Robert Glasper, tentatively titled "Democracy Suite." In addition, 2018 $40,000 Inc. Multidisciplinary Works BRIC will commission three Brooklyn-based composers to create original scores to be performed live alongside silent films that explore themes of democracy. To support a performance touring project. Performances will feature a new work for soprano and percussion quartet by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw. Soprano Dawn Upshaw will join the ensemble in NY 8 So Percussion Inc. Music Brooklyn performances of the work, which was commissioned by Music Accord, a ten- 2017 $15,000 member commissioning collective of presenters across the country. The concert program will include works from the first four "American Songbooks" by composer George Crumb.

To support the GENERATE new works development program. GENERATE will assist artists in the creation and presentation of new works through Presenting & NY 8 Roulette Intermedium, Inc. Brooklyn commissioning fees, rehearsal space, production support, technical 2017 $25,000 Multidisciplinary Works assistance, publicity, and documentation of their work. The program will support composers, choreographers, and multidisciplinary artists. To support research and design activities that will further develop a pilot program to legalize basements as part of the Basement Apartments Safe for Everyone (BASE) coalition. Due to archaic building codes, the majority of New York City families cannot currently use their basements to house their own family members or as rental units to support their income. BASE has NY 8 Pratt Institute Design Brooklyn proposed that New York City add a new category of residence to the 2018 $35,000 building, housing, and zoning codes to create an Accessory Dwelling Unit option. This project will build on a pilot already underway, exploring architectural housing prototypes of Accessory Dwelling Units and related building codes and presenting their findings to relevant city agencies and community groups. To support the GENERATE new works development program. GENERATE will assist artists in the creation and presentation of new works through Presenting & NY 8 Roulette Intermedium, Inc. Brooklyn commissioning fees, rehearsal space, production support, technical 2018 $10,000 Multidisciplinary Works assistance, publicity, and documentation of their work. The program will support composers, choreographers, and multidisciplinary artists.

To support the Pratt Young Scholars Program. Teenagers from underserved communities will attend Pratt Institute's Saturday Art School and the Design Initiative for Community Empowerment (DICE), an after-school program that introduces youth to design. In addition to participating in a sequential visual NY 8 Pratt Institute Arts Education Brooklyn 2017 $25,000 arts education program, students will participate in a college readiness program and a mentorship program. Additionally, students have access to a career exploration program designed to equip participants for post- secondary success. To support a series of arts education workshops. Workshops led by teaching artists will introduce elementary school teachers to the concept of "peripheral thinking" as defined by the contemporary South African artist William Kentridge. The concept encourages children to combine contextual Franklin Furnace Archive, NY 8 Visual Arts Brooklyn data from all five of their senses when learning, making the absorption of 2017 $25,000 Inc. information related to science, history, and math more interactive and memorable. The project will include planning sessions with administrators, classroom teachers, and teaching artists; lesson planning with individual teachers; and ongoing assessment. To support the preservation and digitization of video works from the Franklin Furnace collection. VHS tapes and other video works at risk of deterioration showcasing performance art from the 1980s and 1990s will be archived, digitized, and made available to the public using online platforms such as Vimeo and ArtStor. Through a partnership with New York University, works Franklin Furnace Archive, NY 8 Media Arts Brooklyn in the collection have also been included in the Hemispheric Institute Digital 2018 $12,000 Inc. Video Library, which features artist profiles, primary source documents, and other materials on the history of performance art. The Franklin Furnace collection's previously preserved works include videos and rare performances by artists such as Hannah Wilke, the Blue Man Group, and Les Levine.

To support the publication of "GLASS: The UrbanGlass Art Quarterly." Content for the magazine will provide a scholarly view of the field of glass as UrbanGlass New York an artistic medium to its subscribers. Each edition of the magazine will NY 8 Contemporary Glass Center Visual Arts Brooklyn include as many as three feature-length pieces on the venues, personalities, 2018 $20,000 Inc. and events affecting the field, as well as reviews of national and international exhibitions. Public discussions and lectures, documented in a quarterly blog, are planned to complement the themes and issues raised in the magazine. To support staff salaries for the production of "StoryCorps" radio segments for weekly broadcast on NPR's "Morning Edition." With the help of a facilitator, participants record interviews with family members, friends, teachers, and other members of their community in a mobile sound booth. Select interviews are edited into two-minute segments and broadcast on NY 8 StoryCorps, Inc. Media Arts Brooklyn "Morning Edition." All of the interviews are housed at the Library of Congress 2017 $100,000 as part of America's oral history, with special initiatives designed to document stories from LGBTQ and veteran communities. "StoryCorps" segments are available for streaming and download through iTunes, online at storycorps.org and the NPR and Public Radio Exchange websites, and through social media platforms. To support the development and co-production of "Stoned Prince" by composer Hannah Lash and librettist Royce Vavrek. A contemporary story of a rebel who will never be king, the opera will examine the public and American Opera Projects, imagined private life of His Royal Highness Prince Harry. Development NY 8 Opera Brooklyn 2017 $15,000 Inc. workshops will occur in partnership with loadbang at AOP (spring 2018). The world premiere will occur at the Chatter in Albuquerque (spring 2019), with a subsequent regional premiere at Tannery Arts Center in Santa Cruz (summer 2019). To support the Summer Festival of Music, a performance series and residency program for emerging composers and contemporary music performers. Hosted by the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams, the festival will feature concerts by the Bang on a Can All- NY 8 Bang on a Can, Inc. Music Brooklyn Stars, resident teaching faculty, and students of the festival in galleries and in 2018 $50,000 community venues. Community engagement activities will include a family concert and a free performance at Windsor Lake Park. The finale of the festival will be the annual Bang on a Can Marathon, an event featuring musicians and composers from around the world. To support the 2018 Next Wave Festival and related activities. BAM's festival will feature new work by artists working in all disciplines, including "Humans," a new physical theater work from Yaron Lifschitz and his troupe Circa. The festival also will feature "Halfway to Dawn: The Strayhorn Project," Brooklyn Academy of Music, Presenting & a new dance work from David Rousseve based on the life and music of jazz NY 8 Brooklyn 2018 $20,000 Inc. Multidisciplinary Works legend Billy Strayhorn and the New York premiere of "The White Album," a new theatrical work from Lars Jan and Early Morning Opera, based on Joan Didion's book of essays. BAM will present as many as three productions for New York City high school students, as well as provide workshops in their classrooms. To support the publication and promotion of new books of poetry. Showcasing work that exhibits experimental and intersectional impulses, planned publications include a bilingual German/English edition of work by NY 9 Belladonna Series, Inc. Literature Brooklyn 2017 $10,000 Uljana Wolf, as well as a collection by Jennifer Firestone. The books will be promoted through social media and an e-newsletter, as well as at the annual Association of Writers and Writing Programs conference. To support the creation and presentation of new works. Jack Arts will commission and present new works by artists that may include Presenting & choreographer Ni'ja Whitson, director Charlotte Brathwaite, playwright NY 9 Jack Arts, Inc. Brooklyn 2017 $20,000 Multidisciplinary Works Azure D. Osborne-Lee, and choreographer Barak ade Soleil. Artists will be provided production support, rehearsal space, and professional development services in marketing, grant writing, and budgeting. To support workshops, learning exchanges, and related activities for artists to engage communities in cross-cultural partnerships. Activities will take Presenting & place in communities in New York and Kentucky, among other locations. NY 9 Arts & Democracy, Inc. Brooklyn 2017 $20,000 Multidisciplinary Works Creative resources such as a cultural organizing toolkit and e-newsletters will support efforts of artists and arts organizations to make a difference in their communities. To support the Haiti X New York artist residency program. Haiti-based artists Presenting & in the performing and visual arts will participate in week-long residencies in NY 9 Haiti Cultural Exchange Brooklyn 2017 $10,000 Multidisciplinary Works New York City. Residency activities will include workshops for artists, as well as performances and panel discussions that are free and open to the public.

To support the publication and promotion of new books of poetry. Planned titles include collections by Celina Su and Lyn Hejinian. Books will be NY 9 Belladonna Series, Inc. Literature Brooklyn promoted through author pages on the press's website, social media, an e- 2018 $10,000 newsletter, print advertising, and at the annual Association of Writers and Writing Programs conference, among other means. To support a national touring performance project by The Knights. The orchestral collective will perform a range of repertoire, from early music to contemporary works by composers such as John Adams and Thomas Ades, as well as transcriptions of original music from Middle Eastern, Balkan, and NY 9 Music Forward Music Brooklyn klezmer sources. Community engagement programs, such as conversations, 2017 $25,000 class visits, open rehearsals, side-by-side workshops, and master classes, will be incorporated alongside performances. Venues will range from outdoor parks and summer music festivals to university auditoriums in states such as California, Illinois, Massachusetts, and New York. To support Artists-In-Residence 2017. The program will provide artists working across the disciplines of music, sound art, performance art, and Presenting & dance with yearlong residencies which will include a stipend and rehearsal NY 9 Issue Project Room, Inc. Brooklyn 2017 $15,000 Multidisciplinary Works space, as well as marketing, curatorial, and technical support. During the course of the residency period, recipient artists will premiere new works in free public performance events in New York City.

To support residencies for emerging artists. The program will provide artists working across music, sound art, performance art, and dance disciplines with Presenting & year-long residencies which will include a stipend and rehearsal space, as NY 9 Issue Project Room, Inc. Brooklyn 2018 $15,000 Multidisciplinary Works well as marketing, curatorial, and technical support. During the course of the residency period, recipient artists will premiere new works in free public performance events in New York City. To support performances and associated activities by Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company. Guest artist Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company combines classical Chinese arts with modern dance. Associated activities will include College Community NY 9 Challenge America Brooklyn performances for students and a question-and-answer session with the 2017 $10,000 Services, Inc. artists. Marketing efforts will include a Chinese-language marketing plan, implemented through a partnership with the Brooklyn Chinese-American Association. To support a concert performance and related educational activities by jazz trumpeter and composer Etienne Charles and his sextet. Guest artist Etienne College Community Charles' Creole Soul music project melds modern jazz, Caribbean folk music, NY 9 Challenge America Brooklyn 2018 $10,000 Services, Inc. calypso, Haitian music, and kongo grooves with soul, blues, bop, and swing. As many as two public performances will be held; additional activities will include a jazz master class for local students and an artist talk.

To support the commission and development of "Bhutto" by composer Mohammed Fairouz with libretto by Mohammed Hanif and Mohammed Fairouz. The opera traces the life and legacy of Benazir Bhutto-through her NY 9 Beth Morrison Projects Opera Brooklyn father's death, her ascension to Prime Minister of Pakistan, and her 2017 $15,000 assassination-and shares a story of a father and daughter, of dynasty and party, of East and West, of separation and reconciliation. The work will be scored for four principal singers, a full chorus, and full orchestra.

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 NY 9 Diversity of Dance, Inc. Arts Education Brooklyn participate in technique classes such as ballet, modern, African, jazz, and hip- 2017 $20,000 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.

To support the traveling exhibition "Georgia O'Keeffe: Living Modern." Traveling to North Carolina and Massachusetts, the exhibition will offer a unique perspective on the iconic American artist, Georgia O'Keeffe (1887- 1986). Featuring her works and a half-century survey of her public persona, Brooklyn Institute of Arts & NY 9 Museums Brooklyn clothes, homes, and consciously designed Modernist life. The exhibition 2017 $40,000 Sciences demonstrates the unified Modernist aesthetic and philosophy that she manifested in every part of her life through numerous works of art including approximately 30 paintings, more than 30 garments, as well as photographs and printed ephemera about her two homes.

To support a production of George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion." Artistic NY 10 Bedlam Inc. Theater New York Director Eric Tucker will employ environmental staging and diverse casting to 2018 $10,000 tell this famous tale about gender power dynamics, ethnicity, and class. 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 Eskolta School Research and studies, strengthen social-emotional competencies, and offer potential NY 10 Arts Education New York 2017 $25,000 Design, Inc. 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 in public performances.

To support the premiere and tour of an inclusive movement installation featuring people with disabilities. The installation, "ON DISPLAY: TIMESTAMPed" is a work specifically designed for large sites featuring a large number of diverse performers spanning age, race, gender, and ability. The NY 10 Latsky Dance, Inc. Dance New York premiere will be held in a meditative sculpture court along the High Line in 2017 $10,000 New York City and at the Whitney Museum, and will be juxtaposed with frenetic, passionate dances in and outside the elevated park. Cast members can also be facilitators who engage local performers in the tour's host cities to be a part of the work. To support an artist-in-residence program in ceramics. Created to enrich the practice of an American artist through exposure to traditional Italian craftsmanship techniques, the program will invite one artist to work with master artisans in the Umbria region of Italy. Selected through an open- NY 10 Civitella Ranieri Foundation Visual Arts New York 2017 $15,000 application process, the artist will produce new work and will receive housing, work space, technical assistance, and transportation costs Outreach activities will include artist talks in Umbria and a variety of cultural venues New York City. To support a temporary public art project. Professional artists will work with local middle school and high school students to create the artwork for NY 10 ArtBridge Projects Inc Challenge America New York 2017 $10,000 installation. Student artwork will be photographed and reproduced on vinyl banners which will be installed along temporary scaffolding. To support artist and administration fees for Winter Jazzfest. The festival will feature more than 100 performances by as many as 400 artists in various Greenwich Village venues such as the New School. The multi-night festival NY 10 Search and Restore Inc. Music Brooklyn 2017 $10,000 will take place concomitant with the Association of Performing Arts Presenters' conference and will focus on developing new audiences for jazz and improvisational music. To support the Art Action Academy, a professional development program for artists. The Center for Artistic Activism will collaborate with Queens Museum Center for Artistic Activism, Presenting & NY 10 New York to deliver several weeks of professional development for local artists. The 2017 $15,000 Inc. Multidisciplinary Works curriculum will incorporate lectures, participatory exercises, and group projects to in order to provide artists training, support, and experience. To support a photography-based educational program for individuals on probation. With assistance from the New York City Department of Probation, the educational program and its accompanying publication will equip and train individuals on probation with the skills needed to document their lives with captioned photographs and develop a written narrative strengthening NY 10 Seeing for Ourselves Inc Visual Arts New York 2018 $22,000 the power of each image. The core program will include a 12-week course combining a lecture with a workshop. Each week a different facet of photography will be covered and participants will be asked to put the lessons into practice. Participants will join in the selection of the strongest images to be presented in the culminating exhibition and publication.

To support instruction for youth in traditional music and dance from Peru. Students will learn dances including the "Zamba Malato" and the "Marinera Nortena," as well as songs in both Spanish and Qechwa, the language of indigenous Peruvians. Additionally, classes about traditional Peruvian musical instruments-such as the "cajo" (box drum), the "zampona" (panpipes), and NY 10 Pachamama Peruvian Arts Folk & Traditional Arts New York 2017 $20,000 "charango" (a guitar-like instrument)-will be offered. Instruction will be designed for beginning, intermediate, and advanced students, and will conclude with performance opportunities for the students. The project is open to all students, but has a focus on the youth of New York City's Peruvian immigrant community. To support the world premiere production of "Folk Wandering," a new folk musical conceived by Jaclyn Backhaus and Andrew Neisler. The musical weaves together tales from tenement Manhattan, the deserts of Utah, and Pipeline Theatre Company, rural 1950s Indiana, telling the stories of Americans dreaming of treading NY 10 Musical Theater New York 2018 $10,000 Inc. new ground. Featuring a folk rock score written with an ensemble of nine New York-based singer-songwriters, the project is designed to evoke a sense of longing, hope, and community that mirrors the spirit of its collaborative creation. To support residencies for theater artists and organizations at SPACE on Ryder Farm. The project will consist of three programs: the Working Farm, a five-week residency program for playwrights culminating in staged readings; NY 10 Space on the Farm Theater New York the Family Residency program for artist parents and their children; and 2017 $15,000 institutional residencies for theaters to develop work or advance organizational planning. Residencies include housing, meals, administrative, and artistic support at the 130-acre Ryder Farm in Brewster, New York.

To support the 2018 Athena Film Festival and related public programming. Devoted to films that highlight female leadership, the festival will showcase feature-length, documentary, shorts, and virtual reality works, accompanied by discussions with visiting artists. In addition, the festival will feature panels, NY 10 Barnard College Media Arts New York master classes, and workshops, with a focus on professional development for 2018 $15,000 women in the film industry. All panels, workshops, and trainings will be live- streamed for audiences who cannot attend the festival in person. Previously screened works at the festival include "Queen of Katwe" by Mira Nair, "Dolores" by Peter Bratt, and "The Fits" by Anna Rose Holmer. To support CALL/City as Living Laboratory's community walks, workshops, and art installations about Tibbetts Brook. This project, led by CALL, SLO Architecture, and artist Bob Braine, will engage the local community to build support for recreating Tibbetts Brook. This ecologically important stream is Mary Miss - City as Living currently diverted into a sewer under Broadway, where it is combined with NY 10 Design NEW YORK 2018 $25,000 Laboratory sewage and pumped to the Wards Island sewage treatment plant. The project is being developed in collaboration with the Friends of Van Cortland Park and the Bronx Council for Environmental Quality, and will provide an example for other designers and artists to address similar concerns in their own neighborhoods.

To support the creation and production of a permanent collection catalogue. The catalogue will feature approximately 150 works from the museum's collection of more than 1,500 objects. The collection includes vast holdings of work made by artists in the last half of the 20th century, such as Catherine Opie, Keith Haring, Andy Warhol, David Wojnarowicz, David Hockney, Peter Leslie-Lohman Museum of Hujar, and Robert Indiana. Historic work dating back to the 17th, 18th, and NY 10 Museums New York 2017 $25,000 Gay and Lesbian Art 19th centuries is in the collection as well, including late 19th-century French academic drawings and the writings of the art historian Johann Joachim Wincklemann. The catalogue will include critical essays by noted scholars and each object will be fully captioned with the artist's name, title, year and medium. Images will illustrate different mediums including drawing, painting, sculpture, photography and mixed media. To support a tour of "Into Sunlight" by Robin Becker Dance. The project will encompass performances, facilitated post-performance discussions, and NY 10 Life Through Dance Inc. Dance New York 2017 $10,000 movement workshops focused towards the military/veteran community and their families. To support the commission of new video work in response to contemporary issues around race and HIV/AIDS. Artists Cheryl Dunye, Kia Labeija, Brontez Purnell, Tiona McClodden, and Thomas Allen Harris will create videos in diverse formats, including found footage, still photos, live performance, and scripted narrative, to weave together connections between personal stories, NY 10 Visual AIDS for the Arts, Inc. Visual Arts New York public memories, racial injustice, and the complexities of the AIDS pandemic. 2017 $15,000 The videos will be packaged together in a reel that will be shared with museums, galleries, universities, and alternative spaces nationwide to be screened on or around World AIDS Day and online. An accompanying publication may include commissioned artworks, bios, statements by the artists, and a discussion guide for topics around race and HIV/AIDS.

To support a multidisciplinary Chinese Opera festival. The festival will be held at Pace University in Manhattan and feature international guest artists, local New York Chinese Opera artists, and aspiring youth performers. Outreach activities, intended to serve NY 10 Challenge America New York 2017 $10,000 Society Inc. Chinese-American communities in New York City, will include a series of workshops and lectures about Chinese Opera. The project will include performances by Peking Opera artists Xiaoqui Chi and Qiang Zhu. To support ProjectArt's mentor-led visual arts education program. In partnership with the Detroit Public Library system, art classes will be offered after-school and on weekends in underutilized library classrooms by professional artist mentors. The year-long program will engage youth from NY 10 Art Creates Us Inc. Visual Arts New York 2018 $20,000 underserved communities in painting, drawing, collage, sculpture, and art history classes and workshops. Designed by teaching artists, the curriculum will be project-based, developmentally appropriate, and contextually relevant. To support the annual Congress. Held in New York City, the Congress will bring together presenters, artists, arts managers, consultants, and funders International Society for the Presenting & from around the world to discuss emerging trends, build networks, and NY 10 New York 2017 $20,000 Performing Arts Foundation Multidisciplinary Works facilitate opportunities to find presenting partners. Activities will include panel discussions, pitch sessions, professional exchange programs, and seminars for emerging leaders. To support an artist residency program. Selected through an open call, artists will receive a project stipend, artist fee, critical feedback, and marketing and staff support for residencies to create new work in the organization's NY 10 Recess Activities, Inc. Visual Arts New York storefront space in Soho. Each residency focuses on community 2017 $20,000 engagement, allowing the artists to establish meaningful interactions with the public through the use of Recess's storefront studio and exhibition venue. To support The Playground Operas. In keeping with the organization's mission to bring opera to audiences (rather than audiences to opera), an opera performance designed specifically for the playground will reach students, families, and local community members that pass the schoolyard on a daily basis. Elementary school students will be immersed in the creation, NY 10 Opera on Tap Opera Brooklyn 2017 $10,000 production, and performance of an opera. Professional performers will serve as teaching artists working with students in the school. The program will culminate in performances on the school's playground and will feature students alongside professional opera singers accompanied by a chamber ensemble. To support The Playground Operas, a school-day residency program focused on the creation and performance of opera. Elementary school classrooms will be transformed into opera production teams, with teaching artists and performers guiding an exploration of the operatic experience from inception to performance. Residency will consist of structured 45- to 60-minute NY 10 Opera on Tap Opera Brooklyn workshops in which teaching artists will collaborate with students and 2018 $10,000 teachers in the creation and production of an opera, and the final session will culminate with a performance on the school's playground. Workshops will be designed to make opera accessible to new audiences, and to provide an opportunity for youth to sing in the final performance. The program will primarily take place at PS 129 in New York City. To support performances as part of the eighth annual Green Mountain Project in New York and Boston. Created by Jolle Greenleaf and Scott Metcalfe in 2010, the Green Mountain Project will celebrate the under- performed music of Italian Baroque composer Claudio Monteverdi and his NY 10 TENET NYC, Inc. Music New York 2017 $10,000 contemporaries. In addition, newly recreated Vespers programs, such as Praetorius German Vespers (the fourth in a cycle of new Vespers), will be part of the programming. Performances take place in accessible historic churches. To support the publication of literary content in the online magazine "Triple Canopy." With a focus on publishing poetry and prose projects that are uniquely suited to the online medium, the magazine's staff will offer NY 10 Canopy Canopy Canopy, Inc. Literature New York intensive editorial and technical assistance to writers as they develop and 2018 $15,000 finalize the presentation of their work. The magazine will be promoted through an e-newsletter and social media, and select writers will present their work in public programs that will be recorded and published online. To support professional training and lifelong learning programs for working theater artists at HB Studio. The project will offer artists opportunities to strengthen core competencies, experiment with new skills that expand their NY 10 Herbert Berghof Studio, Inc Theater New York repertoire, and build a community of peers. Courses will be offered in the 2017 $10,000 fundamentals of acting, playwriting, and directing. Master teachers will provide artists with mentorship through artist-centered feedback sessions, end-of-course assessments, and career planning sessions. To support a professional development program for organizations and artists on organizational and financial management. Creative Capital will offer local arts organizations across the country workshops and webinars about Presenting & NY 10 Creative Capital Foundation New York strategic planning, fundraising, financial management, communications, 2017 $40,000 Multidisciplinary Works Internet tools, and community engagement. Participating artists will be provided practical tools, entrepreneurial skills, and management strategies to build sustainable careers and business practices. To support photography workshops for veterans with disabilities and a traveling exhibition featuring work by photographer John Isaac and workshop participants The workshops will teach technical photographic and editing skills to disabled veterans and will include a master class, trips to sites Josephine Herrick Project NY 10 Challenge America New York around New York City, and a trip to Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, to take 2018 $10,000 Inc. photographs inspired by the theme of war and its aftermath. The participants will then identify their strongest works to include in an exhibition that will run work by former United Nations chief photographer John Isaac. To support The Bats, a residency program for apprentice actors. Competitively selected emerging actors will be provided an opportunity to perform alongside seasoned professional actors in theatrical works by established playwrights. Participants also will be trained to create their own NY 10 Flea Theater, Inc. Theater New York 2017 $20,000 theater works through workshops and master classes. The program combines professional development, training, and apprenticeship models to help young people gain access to the performing arts community in New York City, and launch their artistic careers.

To support a citywide international exhibition. "Prospect.4: The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp" will explore global issues from an American perspective and within the local context of New Orleans by presenting artwork by emerging and established national and international artists at sites around the city. With an emphasis on reaching a low-income audience, the project will NY 10 US Biennial, Inc Visual Arts New York 2017 $50,000 include the development of a "P.4 Festival" which will include events, educational programs, lectures, workshops, performances and activities for all ages at different venues every weekend of the triennial. Other public programs may include performances, panel discussions, and events with the participation of the P.4 artists. A major symposium is also planned. To support the creation of a new work by Monica Bill Barnes. This developmental phase will consist of rehearsals, workshops, design meetings, residency activities, venue tryouts, touring performances, and a series of Monica Bill Barnes & NY 10 Dance New York previews resulting in a premiere. The overall goal will be to create a 2018 $15,000 Company boundary-breaking dance show that will be ready for a multi-week performance premiere in New York City and that will spark additional national touring. To support BAC Residencies and BAC Presents. Residencies will provide artists working in all disciplines with space and resources, including Presenting & NY 10 Baryshnikov Arts Center New York administrative and technical support, to research and develop new projects. 2017 $45,000 Multidisciplinary Works BAC Presents will feature local and international artists in multiple disciplines. To support SpringboardNYC and the Theatre Intern Network. Both programs will offer professional development and training for aspiring stage actors and individuals beginning careers in theater administration and management. Springboard participants, selected from a national applicant pool, will come NY 10 American Theatre Wing Inc. Theater New York to New York City for two weeks to learn industry skills and career 2017 $35,000 development tools that help them translate their academic training into productive careers in the theater. A year-round program for interns and early career professionals enables members to build networks and make informed career choices by providing educational and career opportunities. To support the television series "Working in the Theatre." Offering a behind- the-scenes look at the artistic process of creating theatrical works, the series features interviews with artists, directors, actors, and set designers working NY 10 American Theatre Wing Inc. Media Arts New York 2017 $25,000 in contemporary theater companies across the country. "Working in the Theatre" is distributed through CUNY-TV and accessible for free through multiple online platforms. To support ACTE II, a program that provides summer and after-school musical theater training. Professional teaching artists and guests from the Broadway stage will lead the program for ethnically diverse, middle and high school students from low-income families. During the summer program and during the afternoon and weekend classes throughout the school year, NY 10 Rosie's Theater Kids, Inc. Arts Education New York 2017 $50,000 students will study traditional skill-building curricula in dance, drama, and music as core disciplines necessary for participation in musical theater. Sessions will culminate in final public performances. Staff also will offer students tutoring, mentoring, SAT preparation, and assistance in the preparation for applications to performing arts high schools and colleges. To support the Summer Theatre Conservatory training program. The program will provide pre-professional training through tuition-free classes and performance opportunities for middle and high school students. NY 10 Wingspan Arts, Inc. Theater New York 2017 $10,000 Program participants from all over the country will come to New York to work with professional theater artists, take classes in acting, voice, and movement, and perform in plays and musicals. To support the Helen Deutsch Writing Workshops for veterans and their family caregivers. Serving wounded veterans of the wars in Afghanistan and Writers Guild of America, Iraq, the weekend-long workshop series will be offered in New York City. Led NY 10 Literature New York 2017 $12,000 East Foundation Inc. by established writers and focused on the craft and process of writing, the workshops will provide mentorship and safe, informal spaces in which participants can engage with storytelling as a means of expression. To support the Composer Librettist Development Program. The project is a resident artist program providing training and intensive mentorship for emerging opera composers, librettists, and dramaturgs. Selected composers American Lyric Theater and librettists will create newly commissioned operas. Classroom training will NY 10 Opera New York 2017 $35,000 Center, Inc. be based on a core curriculum with workshops by professionals. Program participants will receive individual and group mentorship and will participate in libretto, piano/vocal, and orchestral workshops of the operas in development under the auspices of the program.

To support a series of contemporary art exhibits and accompanying educational workshops. The project will include art education workshops for children and their families from underserved communities working alongside contemporary visual artists and performers working in a variety of media, Children's Museum of the visual, and performing arts. Through existing relationships with New York NY 10 Museums New York 2017 $20,000 Arts City Title I schools and community groups, the museum will sponsor artist- led interactive workshops and performances that explore identity, artistic practices, and modern interpretations of cultural traditions. Workshops will allow children and their families the opportunity to engage in unique creative outlets, influencing their social, emotional, and intellectual development.

To support the Summer Music School, a residential summer music program held on Shelter Island, New York. Under the guidance of Toby and Itzhak Perlman, the Summer Music School's faculty includes professional string musicians from around the country, who provide mentoring and coaching in violin, viola, cello, and bass to exceptionally talented students. Faculty members live on campus, dine with students, and are engaged with all NY 10 Perlman Music Program Inc. Arts Education New York aspects of camp life, offering students unique access to highly regarded 2017 $40,000 professionals including Mr. Perlman himself. In addition to rigorous musical study, the curriculum is balanced with activities to improve musicianship through emphasis on listening, interpretation, team building, and problem solving skills. Students will have daily private lessons, time for individual practice, ensemble rehearsals, and multiple opportunities to perform for the public. To support the production of the free online video game "Mission US: No Turning Back." Intended to serve elementary and middle school children, the interactive game will focus on the first-person experience of a young African- American girl living in Mississippi during the Civil Rights movement. NY 10 WNET Media Arts New York Incorporating specific historical events and Civil Rights figures as well as 2017 $20,000 primary documents, photography, archival film, music, and animation, the game is designed for use by youth independently and in classroom settings. When completed, the game will be made available to audiences for free on online platforms. To support programming pairing girls with professional women writers as their personal mentors. Guided by their mentors, girls will create, revise, publish, and present their work publically and using digital media. Through weekly one-on-one sessions and monthly genre-based group workshops, girls will hone their writing and digital media skills and practice public NY 10 Girls Write Now, Inc. Arts Education New York 2017 $35,000 speaking. Mentors and girls also will participate in Craft Talks by women authors, College Bound workshops, a public reading series, and creation of digital literary portfolios to develop their independent voices, explore professions in writing, and learn how to make healthy choices in school, career, and life. To support the Tribeca Interactive Co/Lab. Exploring storytelling in a digital age, the five-day Co/Lab will convene journalists, lawyers, artists, and NY 10 Tribeca Film Institute Media Arts New York community partners in New York City. The participants will work 2017 $15,000 collaboratively to create prototype projects that explore the intersection of interactive technology and the concepts of mapping and relocation.

To support the Tribeca Community Screening Series, a free curated series of independent films and programming presented in partnership with the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Now in its fourth year, the series presents films within diverse communities at informal learning spaces, such as prisons, and trains incarcerated populations on film facilitation and curriculum NY 10 Tribeca Film Institute Media Arts New York writing. This year, films will be presented at the Otisville Correctional Facility. 2018 $20,000 Where possible, filmmakers will attend the community screenings to meet the inmates, participate in discussions, and exchange new perspectives that can inform their artistic practice. During the project period, as many as three study guides will be created by inmates and distributed to urban, rural, and digital learning spaces across New York State.

To support the publication and promotion of books of poetry and fiction. The press plans to publish poetry collections by authors Aaron Coleman, Cynthia Cruz, Blas Falconer, Margaree Little, and Kevin Prufer, as well as a short story NY 10 Four Way Books, Inc. Literature New York 2018 $45,000 collection by C. Dale Young. The books will be promoted on social media, through readings and events across the country, and on digital platforms, among other means. To support the creation and presentation of "The Museum Workout." Audiences will participate in a guided exercise tour of an art museum, following the choreographed movement of Monica Bill Barnes and her long time dancing partner Anna Bass. Created in collaboration with artist and author Maira Kalman, "The Museum Workout" changes the way audiences experience their time in an art museum. Barnes and Bass will take Monica Bill Barnes & NY 10 Dance New York participants jogging through the museum and stop in front of select pieces to 2017 $20,000 Company perform repetitive exercises. Kalman will curate the tour and her recorded voice narrates the audience's experience. The work will offer a gentle disruption to the normally contained museum environment, invigorating participants by creating a new physical relationship with the art of the ages. "The Museum Workout" will premiere at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. To support a production William Shakespeare's "King Lear" in public parks throughout New York City. The production will be staged using the company's unique style of "panoramic theater," in which audience members New York Classical Theatre, NY 10 Theater New York physically follow the actors from place to place throughout each venue. The 2018 $15,000 Inc. theater also will offer open rehearsals. Productions will take place in Central Park, Prospect Park, Rockefeller Park, Carl Schurz Park, Battery Park, and Brooklyn Bridge Park.

To support the Summer Music School, a residential summer music program. Under the guidance of Toby and Itzhak Perlman, the Summer Music School's faculty will include professional string musicians from around the country, who will provide mentoring and coaching in violin, viola, cello, and bass to talented students. Faculty members will live on the campus on Shelter Island, New York, dine with students, and engage with all aspects of camp life, NY 10 Perlman Music Program Inc. Arts Education New York 2018 $30,000 offering students unique access to professional musicians, including Mr. Perlman himself. In addition to rigorous musical performance study, the curriculum is balanced with activities to improve musicianship through emphasis on listening, interpretation, team building, and problem solving skills. Students will have daily private lessons, time for individual practice, ensemble rehearsals, and multiple opportunities to perform for the public.

To support The Moth Mainstage. The series of curated and directed storytelling events will be performed live in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Sioux Falls, South Dakot. Each Moth Mainstage show features as many as five Storyville Center for the NY 10 Literature New York storytellers, ranging from nationally recognized raconteurs to local voices, 2017 $20,000 Spoken Word telling personal stories around a theme selected in consultation with local partners. The Moth's artistic team works with each storyteller to facilitate storytelling with a structured and compelling narrative. To support the creation of a new work by Artistic Director Tere O'Connor. The choreographer will explore merging stage space with notions of landscape and building. Inspiration for the work comes from reflecting on NY 10 Big Tree Productions, Inc. Dance New York 2017 $10,000 large landscapes of space and how minimal the human figure can appear in that context. The score will be created by James Baker and the lighting by Michael O'Connor. To support the New York premiere of "Villa" by Chilean playwright and director Guillermo Calderon at the Play Company. The play tells the story of Chilean citizens grappling with what to do with Villa Grimaldi, a historical site where thousands were tortured and killed by the Pinochet regime. In the Play Production Company, NY 10 Theater New York play, three women are charged with deciding the future of the estate, and 2017 $10,000 Inc. they wrestle with how the Chilean people can come to terms with the unwanted legacy of an unspeakable past. This will be the first English language production of the play in the United States, and special outreach will be conducted to attract Chilean and South American audiences. To support performances and related educational activities during a residency in St. Louis, Missouri. Plans include performances of "The Cave" by Steve Reich at an area school. The subject matter for Reich's work--the NY 10 Alarm Will Sound, Inc. Music New York 2017 $12,500 shared roots of Christians, Muslims, and Jews--will be integrated in an accompanying school curriculum. Students will be invited to rehearsals and facilitator-led discussions. To support the Open Access Program, a play scouting initiative that supports writers and new play development. The program is designed to develop the NY 10 Lark Theatre Company, Inc. Theater New York unheard voices of all cultures. Activities will include a review of new scripts, 2017 $25,000 developmental readings during Playwrights' Week, and networking opportunities. To support the Open Access Program, a play scouting initiative that supports writers and new play development. The program is designed to develop the unheard voices of all cultures. Activities will include a review of new scripts, NY 10 Lark Theatre Company, Inc. Theater New York developmental readings, and networking opportunities. There also will be a 2018 $30,000 forum for playwrights to develop and publicly present new work as well as build professional and creative relationships, and selected works will be further developed in workshops and public readings. To support residencies in the United States for international artists and managers. Artists primarily from countries in Eastern Europe, Eurasia, Central Asia, and the Eastern Mediterranean will be selected through an NY 10 CEC ArtsLink, Inc. Artist Communities New York open call juried process and then placed in artist communities and nonprofit 2017 $25,000 cultural organizations throughout the United States. Resident artists will be matched with organizations providing experiences relevant to their professional and creative goals. To support the creation and presentation of a new work, "La Ronde." Based on the Arthur Schnitzler play of the same name, "La Ronde" will be choreographed by Artistic Director Martin Santangelo and principal dancer Soledad Barrio. Guitarists Eugenio Iglesias and Salva de Maria will compose NY 10 Noche Flamenca, Inc. Dance New York 2017 $10,000 the music. The work will be performed as a series of duets with pairings to include various combinations of dancers, singers and guitarists, all given equal weight as they are in classic flamenco, and possibly featuring artists from other disciplines. To support an initiative examining shared space in New York City. Project participants will examine the role of public space in urban life, considering how parks and plazas can better address the needs of diverse communities Design Trust for Public NY 10 Design New York and maximize health, social, economic, and environmental benefits. The 2017 $35,000 Space Inc. initiative will commence with a request for proposals, resulting in several projects that will deliver a work of art and design intended to explore this public space theme. To support the Mentor Project. The annual project partners established dramatists with emerging writers in a hands-on new play development program that will include readings, one-on-one workshops, master classes, NY 10 Cherry Lane Alternative Inc. Theater New York 2017 $20,000 and will culminate with a Studio Showcase Production. Each of the chosen finalists' plays will be provided with a director, set, lighting, costume, and sound designers. To support a series of public art installations for the High Line Park in New York City. As part of the series, artists will be selected to create new work using a broad variety of media, from traditional sculptural media to sound installation and performance. The artworks, installed for one year, will explore the theme of the interplay between nature, humans, and NY 10 Friends of the High Line Visual Arts New York technology, which traverse the precarious balance between the natural and 2017 $40,000 the man-made, drawing inspiration from the High Line itself--a hybrid space with industrial origins and a vibrant ecosystem. Community outreach programming will be developed, including field trips for public school students, in-school and after-school partnerships, and informal drop-in activities for families. To support a group exhibition of public art installations for High Line Park in New York City. Approximately ten artists will be commissioned for the year- long outdoor exhibition focused on the influences that shape and define the role of art in public space. Artists will be encouraged to work in a variety of NY 10 Friends of the High Line Visual Arts New York 2018 $20,000 media to create work that will be installed at numerous locations along the 1.5-mile linear park. Educational programming will include field trips for public school students, in-school and after-school activities for youth participants and families, and specialized summer camps. To support the New Prints program and related public programming. Contemporary prints by artists at all stages of their careers will be selected through an open call process and installed in exhibitions at the center's Chelsea Gallery. A selection committee comprising curators, artists, International Print Center NY 10 Visual Arts New York collectors, and administrators will jury submissions with a focus on selecting 2017 $20,000 New York works by emerging artists. Each exhibition will be accompanied by artists talks, moderated panel discussions led by guest jurors, and instructional workshops aimed at increasing public awareness of the medium and the artist's own work through direct engagement activities. To support the Red Hook Fest featuring dance and music artists. Performances will take place in multiple venues throughout the Red Hook area of Brooklyn, including Louis J. Valentino, Jr. Park and Pier, P.S. 15 Presenting & NY 10 Dance Theatre Etcetera, Inc. Brooklyn Playground, and select neighborhood streets. The festival will engage 2018 $20,000 Multidisciplinary Works community members of all ages through pre-festival workshops, performance opportunities for local youth, and public involvement in all stages of planning and implementation. To support the TFI Interactive program. Artists, technologists, musicians, journalists, filmmakers, game designers, and community leaders will assemble during the program to explore new modes of digital storytelling. Presentations and panel discussions by media artists and field experts will be NY 10 Tribeca Film Institute Media Arts New York 2017 $15,000 complemented by a makerspace, in which creators can experiment with new media tools, and a showcase of multimedia narrative projects that incorporate technologies such as robotic hardware, mobile devices, and virtual reality. To support the Wavelengths World Music pre-conference and staffing costs for the Touring Fund. In partnership with Rock Paper Scissors, globalFEST will co-produce the annual Wavelengths World Music pre-conference prior to the Association of Performing Arts Presenters conference. The series of Presenting & NY 10 globalFEST, Inc. New York discussions and workshops will be designed for artists, presenters, agents, 2017 $20,000 Multidisciplinary Works and other music industry professionals specializing in world music. The project also will support staff costs of administering the Touring Fund, a program providing support to international and U.S.-based world music artists. To support the touring of Eiko Otake's solo project for non-theatrical spaces, "A Body in Places." These non-theatrical spaces can be as large as a transportation hub or as tiny as a boutique. What they have in common is proximity, which fosters the possibility of an intimate connection between NY 10 Inta, Inc. Dance New York 2018 $30,000 performer and observer. Eiko's goal is to incite empathy and thereby foster awareness of the environmental and social issues that concern her. The tour may include engagements at Wesleyan University, Connecticut; Alfred University, New York; and Colorado College, Colorado, among others.

To support an archiving project to preserve the history of Jane Comfort and Company. The company will greatly expand the archive page of its website, tracing the genesis and development of each of Comfort's works. Journalist and Emmy award-winning documentary filmmaker Alexandra Nikolchev will NY 10 Racing Thoughts, Inc. Dance New York 2018 $10,000 create a video documenting interviews of Comfort and former company members and collaborators discussing the genesis of the works, and clips of past performances. This video will be available to universities along with company dialogues about its history, master classes, and panel discussions.

To support the 21st Century Studio Project, an initiative to integrate technology-based media into existing sequential visual arts curricula. Studio in a School Students will receive instruction in animation. Emphasis will be placed on the NY 10 Arts Education New York 2017 $25,000 Association, Inc. creation of physical art that will be incorporated into digital media projects. Classroom educators and teaching artists will receive training on the creation of media arts-integrated units in other disciplines. To support a production of "The Whirligig," a new play by Hamish Linklater. The play tells the story of a young girl in rural Massachusetts who is dying as a result of drug addiction. Chronicling the events of a day-in-the-life of a fractured community, the play explores how addiction shapes the lives of NY 10 New Group, Inc. Theater New York 2017 $20,000 those in rural America. The theater will augment the production with a series of initiatives designed to raise cultural consciousness around the issues posed by the play, and will develop a related curriculum in its Scene 1 program for New York public high school students. To support the re-choreographing of "Carmina Burana," and touring of "Neither." "Neither" is Artistic Director Shen Wei's newest work. He will also NY 10 Shen Wei Dance Arts, Inc. Dance New York re-imagine and re-choreograph an evening-long of "Carmina Burana." The 2017 $20,000 company will host showings, lecture-demonstrations, and symposia to contextualize both works. To support a performance of a work by Shen Wei in New York City. Taking place at the historic United Palace Theater, the performance is designed to reach new communities and is scheduled to coincide with the Lunar New NY 10 Shen Wei Dance Arts, Inc. Dance New York Year. A pre-curtain showing featuring students in the company's arts-in- 2018 $15,000 education programs that serve at risk populations, predominately recent immigrants from the Dominican Republic and China, will help bring families and new audiences to the theater along with the company's NYC fans. To support the 20th anniversary MATA Festival of new music. Founded in 1996 by composers Philip Glass, Eleonor Sandresky, and Lisa Bielawa, the multi-day festival will present ensembles, such as Contemporaneous (USA) NY 10 Music at the Anthology, Inc. Music New York and Liminar Ensemble (Mexico), as well as its own Friends of MATA, in 2018 $10,000 performances of new works written by emerging composers of all ages selected from a call for scores. Festival performances will be presented at The Kitchen in New York City. To support Playmaking, a series of playwriting classes for youth. The two stages of the program--"Stage-One" and "Playback"--offer direct one-on-one collaboration for students with professional theater artists, who teach children how to write for theater, critique work, and perform for the public. Students in both stages participate in out-of-town weekend retreats to work NY 10 52nd Street Project, Inc. Arts Education New York 2017 $10,000 intensively with adult mentors who guide them through revision and rehearsals of their work. Students' shows are fully produced and presented to the public at 52nd Street's 150-seat theater. The project is offered free-of- charge to all children in New York City's Hell's Kitchen neighborhood who express an interest in participating. To support the publication and promotion of books of poetry and short fiction. The press plans to publish poetry collections by authors Maggie Anderson, Andrea Cohen, Vincent Guerra, Nathan McClain, Kamilah Aisha NY 10 Four Way Books, Inc. Literature New York Moon, Christina Pugh, and Allison Benis White, as well as a short story 2017 $40,000 collection by Glen Pourciau. The books will be promoted on social media, through readings and events across the country, and on digital platforms, among other means. To support the Satellite Schools Program, providing free choral music education in New York City Public Schools. Elementary, middle, and high school students in several boroughs of the city will participate in after-school choral music education activities, including weekly rehearsals, music theory and harmonic analysis classes, and performance experiences. Students will Young People's Chorus of learn vocal technique, how to read music, how to navigate a musical score, NY 10 Arts Education New York 2017 $35,000 New York City, Inc. and will develop aural skills through ear training. Students will learn songs in a variety of languages while gaining an understanding of the context that illuminates a song's meaning in a particular culture. Satellite School chorus participants will perform in concerts at their own schools and around the city, and also will perform in a culminating concert featuring all partner schools. To support the development and a production of a new play by Bekah Brunstetter. The new work was commissioned by TBTB and will feature an integrated company of artists with and without disabilities. Brunstetter has worked with the company since 2011, and has written five plays about Theater Breaking Through NY 10 Theater New York disability for its short play festivals. For the commissioned work, Brunstetter 2018 $10,000 Barriers Corp. will collaborate with core company actors in order to draw from their lives and experiences, to create a play that focuses on relationships, power struggles, and how we balance our inner vulnerabilities with the image we project to the public. To support the HERE Artist Residency Program. The project will focus on mid- career performing and visual artists. Resident artists will collaborate and Home for Contemporary experiment with new approaches that expand the parameters of NY 10 Theater New York 2017 $60,000 Theatre and Art, Ltd. performance work. The development of participating artists' work will be nurtured through cross-disciplinary exchange, workshops, panel discussions, artist retreats, career development services, and productions.

To support the HERE Artist Residency Program for midcareer performing and visual artists. Resident artists will collaborate and experiment with new Home for Contemporary approaches that expand the parameters of performance work. The NY 10 Theater New York 2018 $40,000 Theatre and Art, Ltd. development of participating artists' work will be nurtured through cross- disciplinary exchange, workshops, panel discussions, artist retreats, career development services, and productions.

To support Tap City, an annual tap dance festival. Activities will include master classes, choreography residencies, tap films presentations, and American Tap Dance performances assembling professionals and students from around the world. NY 10 Dance New York 2018 $10,000 Foundation, Inc. The Tap Treasures audience engagement program will offer opportunities to learn about tap's history. The festival will conclude with Tap it Out, a free, public outdoor event. To support the premiere of "This Ain't No Disco," by Peter Yanowitz and Stephen Trask. The musical will immerse audiences in the glamorous and volatile world of 1970s celebrity culture. The story tracks two young people and their fifteen minutes of fame in the New York City nightclub scene at the NY 10 Atlantic Theater Company Musical Theater New York uptown Studio 54 and the downtown Mudd Club. They begin a journey of 2018 $30,000 reinvention and self-discovery as they form their own found-families within the diverse community of the club scene. The piece is a celebration of individuality and self-expression and champions the power of inclusion and acceptance. To support The Field's creative resources and capacity-building programs for national dance artists. Participating artists will take advantage of Fieldwork, a peer-driven feedback exchange program and subsidized rehearsal residencies. Led by local artists and companies, the National Field Network spans several U.S. cities. Field Leadership offers job training for underserved NY 10 Performance Zone, Inc. Dance New York 2017 $15,000 early-career artists and under-resourced arts administrators. Participants will develop quantifiable skills for value-based marketing, community engagement, project documentation, fundraising, and operations management. The goals of The Field's programs are to enhance participating artists' resilience and support their creative and economic viability. To support educational programs and career development for organists, choral conductors, and composers. Plans include Pipe Organ Encounters, educational programs for youth and adults; regional conventions in cities across the country; a professional certification program for organ playing and NY 10 American Guild of Organists Music New York 2017 $25,000 choral conducting; and multiple commissions of new works for organ. Promotion of programs and news of conventions, educational activities, and Guild certification will be published in the monthly "The American Organist" magazine. To support ARTspace. A component of the annual conference of the College Art Association, sessions include live interviews with artists, panel discussions, mentoring workshops, as well as film and multimedia College Art Association of NY 10 Visual Arts New York screenings. Topics may range from career-oriented issues such as residency 2017 $25,000 America, Inc. programs, studio health and safety, materials and conservation, and exhibition strategies to discussions about art criticism as they affect the working artist. To support updates to theparisreview.org, an interactive literary website. The Paris Review digital archive, which features content from the magazine's last 64 years, will be indexed to make every work easily searchable online. In Paris Review Foundation, addition, it will be expanded to include more visual art from the magazine's NY 10 Literature New York 2017 $10,000 Inc. issues. New content online will include segments of "My First Time," an original video series in which writers discuss how they got their start. "The Paris Review" will promote its literary content through newsletters and social media. To support mainstage productions and the Women's Project Lab Pipeline Festival. The productions will be performed Off-Broadway and will be selected from work previously developed through the WP Lab. The Lab is a residency program for early to mid-career women playwrights, directors, and Women's Project & producers that provides members with training, resources, new work NY 10 Theater New York 2017 $45,000 Productions development opportunities, a professional network, entrepreneurial and leadership training, rehearsal space, and opportunities for production. The program culminates in the Pipeline Festival, featuring new works created by collaborative teams composed of WP Lab playwrights, directors, and producers. To support professional development programs for artists. Fractured Atlas will work with communities in California, Michigan, New Mexico, and Texas to deliver education programs for artists not currently using online Presenting & NY 10 Fractured Atlas, Inc. New York fundraising tools. Fractured Atlas will partner with local arts agencies and 2017 $10,000 Multidisciplinary Works foundations to identify areas of need in each locale. Training will be tailored for each community, and may include topics such as fundraising, donor cultivation, audience development, budgeting, and entrepreneurship. To support revival productions of "First Love" by Charles Mee and "The Man Who Had Three Arms" by Edward Albee. The Cherry Lane Theatre's Founder's Project embraces artistic community members who over the NY 10 Cherry Lane Alternative Inc. Theater New York course of their professional lives have helped to shape the Off-Broadway 2018 $15,000 theater movement. Productions feature playwrights, directors, designers, and cast members who are more than sixty years old. The Founder's Project show will be performed in the 179-seat Mainstage Theater. To support the MOCA Family Festival series. The traditions of Chinese Americans will be celebrated through events connected to significant Museum of Chinese in the Chinese holidays, including the Lunar New Year, Qing Ming, Dragon Boat NY 10 Folk & Traditional Arts New York 2017 $10,000 Americas Festival, and Mid-Autumn Moon Festival. The celebrations will preserve Chinese cultural traditions by featuring performances and craft workshops appropriate to the holiday. To support the Audrey Residencies, a new play and artist development program at New Georges. The program provides participating artists with focused studio development time, monthly community gatherings with other resident artists, and stipends. Participating artists also will have access to NY 10 Theater Labrador, Inc. Theater New York artistic resources for their projects, including casting and dramaturgy. 2018 $15,000 Resident artists will participate in a retreat and have the opportunity for work-in-progress showings of their work, as well as a culminating summit featuring excerpts, readings, and open-studio events to share progress achieved through the residencies. To support the annual MATA Festival of New Music. Founded in 1996 by composers Philip Glass, Eleonor Sandresky, and Lisa Bielawa, the multi-day festival will present ensembles in performances of new works written by NY 10 Music at the Anthology, Inc. Music New York emerging composers of all ages selected from a call for scores. The 2017 $10,000 performances will be presented at Whitebox Gallery and The Kitchen in New York City. In addition, MATA will host a week-long sound art exhibition at Whitebox Gallery. To support a contemporary dance production of "The Tale of Genji" by Armitage Gone! Dance. Based on a classic novel, the dance production will NY 10 Armitage Foundation Ltd. Dance New York be modernized through a feminist lens. The work, influenced by Lady 2018 $10,000 Murasaki Shikibu's "The Tale of Genji," will explore spirit possession. Education and outreach activities may include a lecture and workshop.

To support Design for Democracy, a program partnership with Nonprofit VOTE. Both entities share national reach and a non-partisan commitment to civic engagement through voter education, registration, access, and American Institute of participation. With the premise that good design makes for clear choices, NY 10 Creativity Connects New York 2017 $90,000 Graphic Arts AIGA and Nonprofit VOTE will develop a range of new educational graphics, toolkits, field guides, and local events. Design for Democracy will tap into AIGA's 70 chapters (26,000 members) to harness new ideas and resources towards a robust national awareness campaign.

To support a new production of "Rusalka" by composer Antonin Dvorak. Set in a nature-filled fairytale world, juxtaposed by a contrastingly stark and corrupt human world, Rusalka (a water nymph) falls in love with a human prince and wishes to become mortal. Although her wish is granted and the Metropolitan Opera Prince initially embraces her, he later rejects her for a foreign princess. NY 10 Opera New York 2017 $90,000 Association, Inc. Realizing his mistake, the Prince rushes back to Rusalka risking his own life to restore her immortality. The creative team will include director Mary Zimmerman, set designer Dan Ostling, costume designer Mara Blumenfeld, and conductor Mark Elder. The cast will include soprano Kristine Opolais in the title role, tenor Brandon Jovanovich, and bass-baritone Eric Owens. To support a new production of Mozart's "Cosi fan tutte." The story explores the nature of fidelity as two young men disguise themselves and attempt (successfully) to seduce each other's girlfriends. While ordinarily set in 18th- century Naples, this co-production with English National Opera will unfold in colorful, "carnivalesque" 1950s Coney Island-where the notion of disguising Metropolitan Opera oneself is eminently plausible-complete with bearded ladies, fire-eaters, and NY 10 Opera New York 2018 $75,000 Association, Inc. a Ferris wheel. The creative team will include director Phelim McDermott, conductor David Robertson, set designer Tom Pye, costume designer Laura Hopkins, and lighting designer Paule Constable. The cast will include sopranos Amanda Majeski and Tony Award-winner Kelli O'Hara, mezzo- soprano Serena Malfi, tenor Ben Bliss, and baritones Adam Plachetka and Christopher Maltman. To support the New School Concerts' New York String Seminar, a pre- professional training program. The seminar will be directed by violinist and conductor Jaime Laredo and will culminate in concerts at Carnegie Hall. The NY 10 New School University Music New York 2018 $15,000 extensive professional artistic training experience will be offered with full scholarships to high school and college string players, selected through national live auditions. To support architectural design education residencies in New York City public schools. Working closely with classroom teachers to create a customized program, the Center for Architecture Foundation will use the study of New York Foundation for architecture and design to promote learning and discovery across core NY 10 Arts Education New York 2018 $18,000 Architecture, Inc. subject areas, employing visual tools and activities to inspire creative thinking and problem solving. The residencies will be held in K-12 public schools and the curriculum for each residency will focus on design themes relevant to each school's neighborhood. To support Changemakers, a media arts and social justice program for high school students. Through residencies during the school year and through summer programs, teaching artists will provide students from Title I public schools in New York City with instruction in animation, coding, film, digital NY 10 Urban Arts Partnership Arts Education New York 2017 $50,000 photography, and music production. Students will create original media works that address critical community issues. Other program components will include professional development for media arts educators and student field trips to cultural institutions. To support the creation of "Ballistics" by Doug Varone, a new work comprising ten short dances. Inspired by poems of former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins, the work will be set to a commissioned score by composer David NY 10 DOVA, Inc. Dance New York 2018 $30,000 Van Tieghem. Varone will use storytelling and integrate filmed and live choreography. The multigenerational cast will give periodic public showings throughout the creation process. To support the after-school music education program of the Harlem School of Music. The center will provide after-school sessions that will include private and group lessons, performance opportunities, and other community Opus 118 Harlem School of outreach activities for students of all ages from one of New York City's most NY 10 Music New York 2018 $17,500 Music economically challenged neighborhoods. Weekly private and group string instruction as well as classes on note reading, theory, and the musical styles of different cultures will engage students of East Harlem at local elementary schools. To support the presentation of dance works as part of the company's 40th Anniversary Retrospective. The concert will feature excerpts from well- known pieces by Jane Comfort with past company members participating, and a new work with the current company. The concert will be a live NY 10 Racing Thoughts, Inc. Dance New York performance history of Jane Comfort, an artist who originated dance/text 2017 $10,000 performance in the 1970s, and who has continued to expand dance theater for decades. A retrospective of live works with some of the original performers will offer a rare glimpse of a pioneer artist's path, and of a downtown community's past. To support the Red Hook Fest featuring dance and music artists. Performances will take place in multiple venues throughout the Red Hook Presenting & NY 10 Dance Theatre Etcetera, Inc. Brooklyn area of Brooklyn. The festival will engage community members of all ages 2017 $20,000 Multidisciplinary Works through pre-festival workshops, performance opportunities for local youth, and community involvement in all stages of planning and implementation.

To support SummerStage, a series of multidisciplinary performances. Presenting & Concerts, performances, and events will be held in Central Park and at other NY 10 City Parks Foundation New York 2017 $40,000 Multidisciplinary Works parks in all five boroughs. The performances will be programmed by curators who specialize in music, dance, theater, and children's programming.

To support the world premiere production of "Everybody," a new play by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, directed by Lila Neugebauer. Taking inspiration from the roots of western drama, notably Greek tragedy and the English medieval theater, the play will explore the notion of theater as a moral act. NY 10 Signature Theatre Company Theater New York Recognizing that these early forms were the product of homogenous 2017 $50,000 cultures, the piece will challenge how the reality of modern American history intersects with literary tradition. The production will be Jacobs-Jenkins' second production through Signature's Residency Five program, which supports playwrights over a five-year period as they build a body of work. To support the Distribution to Underserved Communities Library Program. Books, museum catalogues, videos, and other material about contemporary art will be distributed free-of-charge to rural and inner-city public libraries, schools, and alternative reading centers nationwide. Through an online NY 10 Art Resources Transfer, Inc. Visual Arts New York 2017 $15,000 catalogue, educators and librarians may select books specific to the interests and needs of the communities they serve. Materials are classified thematically and accompanied by resources that enable participants to make informed selections. To support the Dance Presentation Program. The Joyce will present a mix of established and emerging dance companies from the United States and abroad. Each company will receive a performance opportunity that is designed to promote their work while connecting them with the audience. Joyce Theater Foundation, NY 10 Dance New York Programs to encourage deeper involvement may include post-performance 2017 $100,000 Inc. Curtain Chats with most companies, engaging youth and young adults through master classes and through Joyce Ambassadors, weekend Family Matinee performances for children and families, and special outreach experiences such as free lecture-discussions and dance workshops. To support a festival celebrating Jerome Robbins' centennial, including a world premiere of a new ballet by Justin Peck. Multiple ballets by Robbins will be presented at the festival, as well as a new commission by Justin Peck inspired by Robbins and set to a score by Leonard Bernstein. A centerpiece of NY 10 New York City Ballet, Inc. Dance New York 2018 $75,000 the festival will be the world premiere of a new work showcasing dances that Robbins created for Broadway. Robbins' ballets are noted for their diversity, brilliance, lyric beauty, and humor. The ballets chosen for the festival are a representative snapshot of his wide-ranging repertory. To support the exhibition "Scaffolding: A (Flexible) Social History." The exhibition will explore the history of scaffolding and its unique capacity to go New York Foundation for beyond typical construction applications, providing temporary structures for NY 10 Design New York 2017 $30,000 Architecture, Inc. public performance, community gathering, and shelter for displaced persons. The topic is of special interest in New York City, where more than 200 miles of scaffolding are installed in the city at any given time.

To support the New York premiere of Eve Ensler's "In the Body of the World." The one-woman play is based on Tony Award-winner Ensler's memoir, which celebrates the strength and joy that connects a single body to the planet. Manhattan Theatre Club, NY 10 Theater New York While working in the Congo, where war continues to inflict devastating 2018 $30,000 Inc. violence on women, she was diagnosed with stage III/IV uterine cancer. This diagnosis catalyzed a critical physical and emotional healing process which provided the inspiration for her memoir, and later her one-woman show. To support the Youth Documentary Workshop. With a focus on youth from underserved New York City communities, young artists will have the opportunity to participate in after-school documentary film workshops and trainings. Through a collaborative process, students will gain leadership and NY 10 Educational Video Center Media Arts New York media literacy skills while developing hands-on experience with research, 2017 $45,000 camerawork, audio, editing, screenwriting, and animation techniques. Final works will be publicly screened. In addition, young artists in the advanced workshops will work alongside mentors from the documentary field to develop further professional experience.

To support the creation of Strange Loop, a new stand-alone touring work by Artistic Director Doug Varone. The new work is partially inspired by physicist NY 10 DOVA, Inc. Dance New York 2017 $40,000 Douglas Hofstader's book, "I Am a Strange Loop." The work will be developed in rehearsals in New York City and during a residency at Purchase College.

To support development and performances of a new theater production that will celebrate the life and work of Polish artist Tadeusz Kantor. The artist's life and practice chronicle the major artistic movements and historical transformations of the 20th century. The work will explore Kantor's work in NY 10 Wooster Group, Inc. Theater New York 2017 $20,000 visual art, film, and theater through a contemporary lens. Kantor's daughter Dorota Krakowska will serve as dramaturg for the production. Development and work-in-progress showings will take place in New York, and the finished work will premiere at the SummerScape Festival on the Bard College campus. To support the creation and presentation of "The B-Side: Negro Folklore from Texas State Prisons, a Record Album Interpretation." In collaboration with performer Eric Berryman, the company will develop a new work based on a recording called "Negro Folklore from Texas State Prisons," recorded in 1964 NY 10 Wooster Group, Inc. Theater New York by folklorist Bruce Jackson. The recording contains work songs, blues, 2018 $20,000 spirituals, preaching, and stories specific to the culture of Texas's segregated agricultural prison farms. The project will include live performances at the Performing Garage in New York City, the Center for the Arts in Buffalo, and REDCAT in Los Angeles. To support the Playwrights Lab. The project is a series of extended workshops, readings, structured retreats, and new play development partnerships. Supported with managerial, directorial, and dramaturgical NY 10 New Dramatists, Inc. Theater New York resources, resident writers will explore their work at any step in the creative 2018 $80,000 process. Past resident and alumni playwrights whose work has benefitted from Playwrights Lab activities include Annie Baker, Lucas Hnath, Tarell Alvin McCraney, Lynn Nottage, Robert Schenkkan, and Doug Wright.

To support the Out of Doors festival. The annual summer festival will fill the plazas of Lincoln Center's campus with performances of music, dance, Lincoln Center for the Presenting & theater, poetry, spoken-word, and family-friendly events. Performances will NY 10 New York 2017 $55,000 Performing Arts, Inc. Multidisciplinary Works feature artists with complementary styles from differing cultural and aesthetic traditions to allow broad cultural exchange, and to introduce audiences to new styles and genres. To support a series of concerts focusing on the works of Felix Mendelssohn with related educational activities. Programs will feature a selection of his most popular works performed alongside music by his friends, idols, and artistic heirs. Works may include his Piano Trio No. 1 Op. 49 and String Quartet Op. 44, No. 2 paired with Schubert's "Quartettsatz" and Mozart's Chamber Music Society of Adagio in B Minor for piano. Musicians to be featured include violinist Paul NY 10 Music New York 2017 $60,000 Lincoln Center, Inc. Huang, cellists David Finckel and Paul Watkins, pianist Wu Han, pianist- composer Huw Watkins, violist Paul Neubauer, and many others. Three ensembles will perform during the series: the Escher String Quartet, the Orion String Quartet, and the Schumann Quartet. Educational activities include lectures by Resident Lecturer Bruce Adolphe and printed program notes by musicologist Dr. Richard Rodda. To support Orchestra of St. Luke's Subway Series of free chamber music. The orchestra will present ensembles of its musicians in hour-long performances throughout the city, featuring repertoire of chamber music from the St. Luke's Chamber NY 10 Music New York Renaissance period to the present. Performances in all five boroughs of New 2018 $15,000 Ensemble, Inc. York City. Activities include added engagement for concertgoers with post- concert talks, family workshops, and integrated programming with community partners. To support a summer and after-school musical theater training program for youth. Professional teaching artists from Broadway will lead the program for ethnically diverse, middle and high school students from low-income families. During the summer program and the afternoon and weekend classes throughout the school year, students will study traditional skill- NY 10 Rosie's Theater Kids, Inc. Arts Education New York 2018 $30,000 building curricula in dance, drama, and music as core disciplines necessary for participation in musical theater. Sessions will culminate in final public performances. Staff will also offer students tutoring, mentoring, SAT preparation, and assistance on applications to performing arts high schools and colleges. To support artist residencies. Artists from various disciplines will receive commissioning fees and training to create new works in emerging technologies, such as biosensors, immersive audio and video, camera and Presenting & NY 10 Harvestworks, Inc. New York eye tracking systems, data sonification and visualization, apps for 2017 $15,000 Multidisciplinary Works smartphones and tablets, and new computer interfaces and controllers. Harvestworks also will offer project management support and group tutorials. To support opera-based teaching and learning in public elementary schools in New York City and New Jersey. Composers, librettists, and other opera professionals will collaborate with classroom teachers to guide students through writing, composing, staging, and performing their own operas at a culminating event. The project emphasizes partnerships between classroom teachers and Metropolitan Opera Guild teaching artists, who collaborate to Metropolitan Opera Guild, NY 10 Arts Education New York design and deliver a year-long program of arts instruction that is integrated 2017 $60,000 Inc. with classroom curriculum. Classroom teachers and music specialists will receive professional development in the principles of opera-based training, build their own music skills and knowledge of opera, and learn to facilitate the creative process with students. Many of the students and teachers will have an opportunity to attend a final dress rehearsal at the Metropolitan Opera.

To support curated musical performances as part of the Gig Fund program. Free-of-charge blues and jazz performances in nontraditional performance Jazz Foundation of America, NY 10 Music New York spaces will connect underserved artists with underserved audiences. 2018 $15,000 Inc. Individual engagements will feature primarily older musicians with demonstrated financial need who reside in the participating cities.

To support the premiere of "Tell Hector I Miss Him" by Paola Lazaro-Munoz. The drama depicts daily life in La Perla, a low-income neighborhood in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Lazaro-Munoz uses dialogue that is colloquial and NY 10 Atlantic Theater Company Theater New York grounded in real-life interactions to portray emotionally complex characters, 2017 $35,000 from local drug dealers to the owner of the neighborhood cantina. Diverse narrative threads and relationships are interwoven to create a vivid picture of Puerto Rican life. To support the exhibition "ART.WRITE.NOW," and related programming. Featuring works of art and writing by students, the exhibition will be complemented by artist talks, educational programs, workshops, and Alliance for Young Artists & NY 10 Visual Arts New York gatherings for the program's alumni. A printed catalogue will be produced 2017 $25,000 Writers, Inc. and a digital gallery of the artwork will be hosted online. The exhibition will debut in New York City before many of the works tour to venues across the United States. To support the Scholastic Art Writing Awards' exhibition program Art.Write.Now. The exhibition will feature visual and literary work by middle school and high school students recognized by the Scholastic Art Writing Awards, a national award program for creative teenagers. The exhibition program includes a ten-day exhibition at the Parsons School of Design in New Alliance for Young Artists & NY 10 Visual Arts New York York City, a year-long exhibition at both the U.S. Department of Education 2018 $30,000 Writers, Inc. and the Institute of Museum and Library Services in Washington, D.C., and a traveling component to various U.S. cities such as Elmira, New York, and Youngstown, Ohio. The exhibitions will be accompanied by a catalogue and each tour venue will have the option of hosting a Scholastic Art Writing workshop for youth and educators. To support the ReelAbilities: NY Disabilities Film Festival. Dedicated to exploring and reflecting the lives, experiences, and stories of people with different abilities, the festival will screen short and feature-length narrative and documentary films by and about people living with disabilities at multiple locations throughout the New York City metro area. All screenings will include talkbacks and conversations with filmmakers, artists, and guest Jewish Community Center in NY 10 Media Arts New York experts. New to the festival this year is the Film My Story Competition, in 2018 $25,000 Manhattan, Inc. which individuals with disabilities will have the opportunity to share their stories. The winning story will be filmed and screened as part of the festival. The program also will offer free daytime screenings and panel discussions to students and educators and include associated public events and workshops such as dance, music, and theatrical performances that complement the themes of the festival. To support the premiere of "KPOP." The theater will partner with Ma-Yi Theater Company and the Woodshed Collective to investigate the cultural and sociopolitical impact of the global phenomenon of Korean Pop (K-Pop) music. A large-scale, multimedia, and immersive theatrical set and NY 10 Ars Nova Theater I, Inc. Theater New York experience will center on the inner workings of a fictional Korean Pop music 2017 $15,000 label. The theater complex will be transformed into a music factory pulsing with nonstop K-Pop music as audience members will be immersed in a "band- training hub." The artistic team of Teddy Bergman, Helen Park, Max Vernon, and Jason Kim will collaborate on the production. To support the premiere of "The Lucky Ones," by married duo Abigail and Shaun Bengson. The new musical is based on a true story from Abigail's young adulthood in rural Vermont. The work blends music, dance, NY 10 Ars Nova Theater I, Inc. Musical Theater New York storytelling, and theater to recount her family's tragedy when her brother 2018 $15,000 committed a murder. Themes of spirituality, passion, community, grief, and redemption are explored in the indie-rock musical. The premiere will be directed by Anne Kauffman and choreographed by Sonya Tayeh. To support the 21st New York International Children's Film Festival and related public programming. Intended to serve youth from preschool to high school, the festival presents a broad variety of films including animated, live- action, and experimental shorts and features from around the world. The New York International NY 10 Media Arts New York festival's Film-Ed program presents weekday screenings to public schools 2018 $10,000 Children's Film Festival Inc. followed by question-and-answer sessions with the filmmakers. The majority of the educational screenings are free, and its themes and subject matters are designed align with school curriculum and promote media literacy and critical thinking. To support the presentation of national and international works of theater for young audiences at the New Victory Theater. Works to be presented will include "The Way Back Home" by Teater Refleksion (Arhus, Denmark); "X" and "Julius Caesar" by The Acting Company (New York, New York); "Nivelli's NY 10 New 42nd Street, Inc. Theater New York 2017 $30,000 War" by Cahoots NI (Belfast, Northern Ireland); and "Aging Magician," produced by Beth Morrison Projects and VisionIntoTalent (New York, New York). Each of the productions will include a variety of public outreach activities such as family workshops and pre-show Arts Express events. To support production of the television series "American Masters" for PBS broadcast. Definitive documentary profiles of major cultural figures will be made available to millions of viewers in all 50 states. First broadcast in 1986, NY 10 WNET Media Arts New York 2017 $75,000 "American Masters" has captured and preserved America's cultural history for 30 years. In addition to broadcast nationwide, "American Masters" is available to stream online and on mobile devices. To support BAC Residencies and BAC Presents. Residencies will provide artists working in all disciplines with space and resources, including Presenting & NY 10 Baryshnikov Arts Center New York administrative and technical support, to research and develop new projects. 2018 $25,000 Multidisciplinary Works BAC Presents will feature local and international artists in multiple disciplines. To support the exhibition "Charlotte Posenenske: 1954-1968" and accompanying catalogue. The exhibition will feature Posenenske (1930-85), an influential yet overlooked figure in the history of both minimal and post- minimal art. Approximately 70 original prototypes, and authorized reproduction works from international and private collections will be exhibited alongside German artists Joseph Beuys, Imi Knoebel, Blinky NY 10 Dia Center for the Arts Museums New York 2017 $25,000 Palermo, and Frank Erhard Walther, as well as American artists Carl Andre and Sol LeWitt. The presentation will offer the most comprehensive museum exhibition of Posenenske's work to be mounted in the United States to date and will contextualize her work and legacy within international contemporary art of the 1960s and '70s. The exhibition will be accompanied by public programs to engage the audience. To support professional training programs for directors, choreographers, and theater professionals. The foundation will offer paid learning opportunities to professionals at all levels of their careers through observerships, Stage Directors and fellowships, and guest artist appointments. The programs will be designed to NY 10 Choreographers Workshop Theater New York 2017 $25,000 engage directors and choreographers with their peers, mentors, and the Foundation, Inc. public, connecting artists across generations and genres. Free and low-cost public programs also will be offered such as open forum discussion events, and a monthly podcast program featuring master artists. To support the creation and presentation of "NYsferatu". More Art will commission multimedia artist Andrea Mastrovito (Italy) to create an animated retelling of F.W. Murnau's 1922 silent film "Nosferatu." Mastrovito will update the film to reflect contemporary issues surrounding immigration. Presenting & Recent immigrants will participate in workshops during which they will view NY 10 More Art Inc New York 2017 $15,000 Multidisciplinary Works and discuss the original film, as well as work with Mastrovito to rewrite the film's title cards to reflect their personal experiences. More Art will collaborate with community partners to put out an open call for musical scores to be a part of the final product. Free public screenings, panel discussions, workshops, and public forums will be offered.

To support a professional development training program concentrating on art and inclusion. The program provides year-long training for approximately 64 teaching artists to help them develop tools to impart artistic skills to Children's Museum of the children with disabilities, including those diagnosed along the autism NY 10 Museums New York 2018 $25,000 Arts spectrum. Course offerings include a variety of topics including universal design, disability training etiquette, instruction regarding adaptive devices, and CPR. The teaching artists then train approximately 200 school teachers in more than 60 elementary schools throughout New York City's five boroughs.

To support the Cinema Tropical Film Series. The series highlights Latin- American cinema in venues throughout New York City. Curated programs NY 10 Cinema Tropical Inc. Media Arts New York include the 2017 Cinema Tropical Film Festival and the premiere of 2017 $15,000 contemporary Latin-American films in partnership with the Film Society of Lincoln Center. To support a series of curated programs highlighting Latin American cinema. Taking place at venues throughout New York City, the series includes screenings as well as in-person or virtual discussions with artists and filmmakers. Curated programs include the 2018 Cinema Tropical Film Festival NY 10 Cinema Tropical Inc. Media Arts New York at Museum of the Moving Image, a monthly series at Anthology Film 2018 $10,000 Archives, and a new partnership with Lincoln Center focusing on the premiere of contemporary Latin American films touring the international film circuit. Whenever possible, screenings will include discussions with filmmakers or special guests in-person or via Skype. To support the development of instructional content and techniques to make art, art history, and visual culture accessible to people who are blind or have low vision. The project will take place in New York City and will employ a team consisting of a resident artist who is blind or has low vision and one or more museum or community-based art instructors. Instructional modules NY 10 Art Beyond Sight, Inc. Visual Arts New York 2017 $15,000 will be developed to provide a framework for learning that corresponds to the specialized techniques used by resident artists such as maximizing the senses, leveraging the mind's eye, and depicting the unseen. Content will focus on subject selection, mental organization of composition, and color theory. To support expansion of professional development programs to new school partners. Educational Video Center will train classroom teachers to facilitate and evaluate student-produced documentary video projects designed to build digital and film literacy, critical thinking, and group collaboration skills. Professional development tools will include an online website featuring NY 10 Educational Video Center Arts Education New York 2017 $50,000 resources, research, and video clips of best practices, monthly coaching meetings to learn how to critically examine student work, and school site visits and observations. Some schools will integrate documentary arts projects into core content area while other schools will have the capacity to create a documentary arts elective. To support Young People's Concerts Play!, an interactive online platform for the New York Philharmonic's Young People's Concerts. Designed for both home and classroom use, YPC Play! includes concerts from previous seasons, Philharmonic-Symphony video demonstrations from YPC instructors, classroom guides, and NY 10 Media Arts New York 2017 $35,000 Society of New York, Inc. interactive features that allow users to develop a deeper understanding of the music being performed. Intended for ages six to eighteen, the platform is available for free on the New York Philharmonic website to audiences across the United States. To support the Dancing Across Cultural Borders festival and a concert series of traditional music. The festival will present traditional dance from around the world, including Korea, Mexico, Philippines, and Spain, as well as Lotus Fine Arts Productions, NY 10 Folk & Traditional Arts New York Balinese, Okinawan, and Tibetan cultures. Concerts featuring indigenous 2017 $20,000 Inc. music from Africa, India, Latin America, the Middle East, and Southeast Asia are also scheduled. The concerts will include pre- and post-performance lectures and demonstrations, enhancing audience appreciation. To support Third World Newsreel's Media Production Training program. Devoted to supporting emerging filmmakers from underserved communities, the program features an intensive series of professional development NY 10 Camera News, Inc. Media Arts New York 2017 $20,000 workshops for selected artists to support the creation of media artworks. Evening seminars featuring accomplished filmmakers will be offered free to the public. To support educational programs and career development for organists, choral conductors, and composers. Plans include Pipe Organ Encounters, educational programs for youth and adults; national and regional conventions in cities across the country; a professional certification program NY 10 American Guild of Organists Music New York 2018 $25,000 for organ playing and choral conducting; and the premieres of previously commissioned works for organ. Promotion of programs and news of conventions, educational activities, and Guild certification will be published in the monthly "The American Organist" magazine. To support the New York premiere of "Feeding the Dragon," a new play by Sharon Washington. The work is an autobiographical story about a young girl's experience living in the attic of the New York Public Library, where her father's job involved keeping the furnace constantly burning. The play Primary Stages Company, explores the power of family secrets, the importance of forgiveness, and the NY 10 Theater New York 2018 $25,000 Inc. wonders of language and literature. The theater plans to create supplemental opportunities to deepen audience engagement, including extensive outreach to pro-literacy groups and New York Public Library affiliates, post-show discussions, and free student matinees for New York City public high school students. To support production and distribution of "The Moth Radio Hour," dedicated to the art and craft of storytelling. The new season will continue to feature first-person stories from writers, actors, performers, and other individuals Storyville Center for the NY 10 Media Arts New York that are recorded live and distributed by the Public Radio Exchange to public 2017 $75,000 Spoken Word radio stations across the country. "The Moth Radio Hour" is available to international audiences through multiple platforms, including a podcast and mobile app.

To support performances of "La Pazza Vita" (The Crazy Life). The Hudson Guild Theatre Company will collaborate with the dance company Matthew Presenting & Westerby Company and the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus to create a new work NY 10 Hudson Guild New York 2017 $15,000 Multidisciplinary Works inspired by Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini. The piece will feature circus arts, contemporary dance, and theater performed by an intergenerational cast of local residents and professional artists. To support the Ecstatic Music Festival at Merkin Concert Hall. Programs will focus on collaborations between two or more performers, ensembles, and/or composers, each working in a different musical genre. Collaborations Elaine Kaufman Cultural will include Roomful of Teeth with indie rock musician Nick Zammuto and NY 10 Center-Lucy Moses School Music New York 2017 $15,000 pop band San Fermin with the contemporary classical NOW Ensemble. for Music and Dance Educational outreach activities may include live webcasts, on-demand streaming, and mini-residencies by artists for students in the Kaufman Music Center's Face the Music youth ensemble. To support faculty costs for 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 Elaine Kaufman Cultural at the Special Music School at P.S. 859, the only K-12 public school for NY 10 Center-Lucy Moses School Arts Education New York 2017 $20,000 musically gifted students in the New York City Department of Education. The for Music and Dance school's curriculum is based on a standardized course of academic study, delivered alongside a conservatory-quality music program during the regular school day. To support the creation and distribution of "Aperture" magazine and related public programming. Aperture covers urgent topics in the evolution of photography through issues that address global and local themes. As many NY 10 Aperture Foundation, Inc. Visual Arts New York as four themed issues will be created. Public programs will be developed to 2017 $30,000 complement each issue and to encourage critical dialogue and audience engagement. Programming will be presented at Aperture and other venues throughout New York City and made available online. To support production and post-production costs for the public television series "Great Performances at the Met." Each broadcast of the Metropolitan Opera's performances will include special programming, such as short Metropolitan Opera NY 10 Media Arts New York documentaries and interviews with production cast and crew that will enable 2017 $50,000 Association, Inc. viewers to experience the opera on stage and behind the scenes. Since 1977, "Great Performances at the Met" has been distributed through PBS to audiences nationwide. To support the Saturday Matinee weekly radio broadcasts of full-length opera performances. The broadcasts will be paired with live commentary from on-air hosts Mary Jo Heath and Ira Siff, who also lead the program's intermission features. During intermission, the broadcast will incorporate live and recorded interviews with directors, singers, costume designers, and Metropolitan Opera others involved in the creative process, as well as the Opera Quiz, which NY 10 Media Arts New York 2017 $50,000 Association, Inc. features quiz questions from the listening audience. The Met broadcasts are the longest-running continuous classical music program in radio history, and the series has won several Peabody Awards for excellence in broadcasting. In addition to playing the live broadcasts through the airwaves, many radio stations will offer the chance to stream the broadcasts through their websites. To support the Ecstatic Music Festival at Merkin Concert Hall. Programs will focus on collaborations between two or more performers, ensembles, and/or composers, each working in a different musical genre. Festival Elaine Kaufman Cultural programming will include composer Adam Schatz with his big band Civil NY 10 Center-Lucy Moses School Music New York 2018 $15,000 Engineering in collaboration with composer and vocalist Xenia Rubinos, and for Music and Dance toy pianist Margaret Leng Tan together with pianists Suzanne Farrin and Kelly Moran. Outreach activities will include live webcasts and on-demand streaming.

To support the Directors Project. The initiative is a comprehensive national career development program for emerging theater directors. The program includes six different areas of focus that will address the varying needs of emerging directors. Fellows work with leading theater artists and direct their Drama League of New York, own projects in New York, New York; Ithaca, New York; and Pittsfield, NY 10 Theater New York 2017 $45,000 Inc. Massachusetts, and additional select theaters throughout the country. One component of the Directors Project is the U.S./Bulgaria Stage Directors Exchange, a partnership with the Bulgarian cultural organization Art/Office. Since 2009, fellows from both countries have traveled to their partner nation for performance, educational, and collaborative opportunities. To support New School Concerts' New York String Orchestra Seminar program for emerging young musicians. The program will be directed by violinist and conductor Jaime Laredo and will culminate in concerts at NY 10 New School University Music New York 2017 $20,000 Carnegie Hall. The extensive training experience will be offered with full scholarships to high school and college string players, selected through national live auditions. To support the creation of an archive focused on the work of AIGA Medalists. AIGA will collect, digitize, and make the work of its end-of-career medalists available online via the AIGA Design Archive. The archive is intended to be a American Institute of dynamic knowledge platform that uses visual storytelling to share the legacy NY 10 Design New York 2017 $40,000 Graphic Arts of designers, both historical and contemporary. AIGA medals have been awarded since 1920 to notable designers who have set standards of design excellence during their lifetime or have made individual contributions to innovation within the practice of design in the United States. To support a project exploring the cultural heritage of drill teams in African- American communities. Team members will undertake research at the New Storefront for Art and Presenting & NY 10 New York York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, and 2017 $30,000 Architecture Multidisciplinary Works utilize that research to create an exhibition and choreograph a performance with a local drill team. To support a production of Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure" directed by British director Simon Godwin. The production will explore the play's central conflict of clashing ideologies in a diverse world. Godwin will collaborate with designer Paul Wills and voice coach Alison Bomber. In Theatre for a New NY 10 Theater New York conjunction with the production, a series of related events will be planned as 2017 $50,000 Audience, Inc. part of the theater's Humanities programs, including free "TFANA Talks" post- show discussions, and the publication of 360 VIEWFINDER on the theater's website, a platform that offers context on the production's themes and interviews with the creative team. To support the development of a workshop production of "Pull Yourself Together!" The work is a new multidisciplinary performance piece conceived and directed by Artistic Director Ivan Talijancic in collaboration with the NY 10 WaxFactory, Inc. Theater New York 2017 $10,000 company's extended artistic ensemble. Inspired by Anton Chekhov's play "The Seagull," the work will investigate how the century-old play resonates with 21st-century America. To support the Evening Lecture Series, a program to engage the public in discussion of critical issues in the visual arts. The free program includes artists, scholars, critics, philosophers, curators, and art historians. Each New York Studio School of lecture, panel discussion, and dialogue is recorded and entered into the NY 10 Drawing, Painting and Visual Arts New York 2017 $15,000 school's library and archives. In an effort to make the lecture series Sculpture, Inc. accessible to national and international audiences, the project includes expansion of the digital archive, making both historic and new lectures accessible online. To support American Roundtable: Notes from Everywhere, an online conversation and compendium of commissioned writing and media. American Roundtable will offer on-the-ground perspectives from diverse communities on how the designed environment at all scales is being affected Architectural League of New by transformations in the economy, and how architects, designers, planners, NY 10 Design New York 2018 $35,000 York activists, and others are interpreting and responding to these changes. Topics will range from the impacts of energy production on small rural communities to vacancy in hollowed-out, formerly industrial cities. The program's purpose is to observe, analyze, and offer innovative design concepts that address built environment challenges. To support Perspectives in World Cinema, a series of curated film festivals. Throughout the year, the program's curated series and film festivals feature classic and contemporary works of American and international cinema. Film Society of Lincoln NY 10 Media Arts New York Programs to be presented include series on documentary film; Asian, Jewish, 2017 $85,000 Center, Inc. and French cinema; and films by new and emerging artists. During events high school students will have the opportunity to view festival works in private screenings accompanied by visiting directors. To support a retreat, reading series, and workshops to cultivate and showcase Asian-American writers and literature. The annual retreat fosters professional development, artistic accomplishment, and community bonds among promising Asian-American writers and the established writers that NY 10 Kundiman, Inc. Literature New York 2017 $15,000 serve as their teachers and mentors. The Reading Series, which takes place throughout the year, showcases Asian-American writers in locations nationwide. Kundiman also will offer workshops such as a creative nonfiction weekend intensive. To support the Publishing Residency Program. The residency will provide emerging artists with studio space, technical assistance, a materials budget, Lower East Side Printshop, NY 10 Visual Arts New York and a stipend to develop new work. Resident artists will collaborate with 2017 $20,000 Inc. print professionals, receive catalogue documentation, promotion, and exhibition opportunities. To support "Poets Writers" magazine and pw.org. The magazine will publish content such as news and trends affecting creative writers; professional advice on writing and publishing; essays on craft; and a comprehensive listing NY 10 Poets & Writers, Inc. Literature New York of writing contests and deadlines. Pw.org will offer free access to resources 2017 $75,000 for navigating the literary marketplace, and the online Directory of Poets and Writers will be updated with new features to help writers find colleagues, publish and promote their work, and advance their careers.

To support the exhibition "Vestiges Verse: Notes from the Newfangled Epic," and accompanying catalogue. The exhibition will feature the work of self- taught artists and their many narratives, in the form of fictionalized autobiographies, life-long unfinished stories, newly discovered writings, and unpublished manuscripts. Some of the artists to be presented include Henry Darger (1892-1973), a reclusive janitor whose book manuscript and accompanying illustrations were found after his death, and Agatha NY 10 American Folk Art Museum Museums New York 2018 $30,000 Wojciechowsky (1896-1986), psychic medium and self-taught artist who prolifically filled dozens of notebooks with writing, symbols and images. Other artists that are expected to be featured in the exhibition include Sam Doyle, Josep Baque, James Edward Deeds, Charles A. A. Dellschau, Susan T. King, Raphael Lonne, Carlo Keshishian, and Adolf Wolfli. Public programs will include lectures, educational programs, workshops, film screenings, and a symposium dedicated to new scholarship.

To support the presentation of American independent and foreign art films at Film Forum. This year-round film exhibition program presents New York City theatrical premieres of American independents and foreign art films, many of which will receive their United States premiere. Screenings often include question-and-answer sessions with the filmmakers, which are recorded and made available as a podcast on iTunes and the Film Forum NY 10 Film Forum Media Arts New York 2018 $65,000 website. Since 1970, Film Forum has been committed to presenting documentaries, fiction features, and shorts by both emerging and established directors including Laurie Anderson, Penny Lane, Albert Maysles, Stanley Nelson, and Raoul Peck. The premiered films frequently go on to play in theaters, schools, film societies, festivals, and other venues across the nation. To support the Tribeca All Access program. The professional development program serves directors, writers, producers, and developers from underrepresented communities in the film industry. The year-round program NY 10 Tribeca Film Institute Media Arts New York 2017 $20,000 provides artists based in the United States and Puerto Rico with customized mentorship, business seminars, training workshops, and other resources to support the completion of narrative, documentary, and interactive projects. To support technical assistance and capacity building for small presses and literary magazines. CLMP will provide independent publishers with services and resources including one-on-one mentoring; virtual and live workshops Council of Literary NY 10 Literature New York and roundtables; networking opportunities; digital resource libraries and 2017 $75,000 Magazines and Presses databases; and moderated listservs. Through this project, CLMP will support independent literary publishers across North America in staying current and competitive in the ever-changing marketplace. To support the Artists Media Distribution Service and the expansion of online resources featuring works by historic and contemporary media artists. Electronic Arts Intermix's (EAI) distribution service engages broad audiences across the nation, making historic and contemporary media art works publicly available through multiple platforms and digital access channels. The archive contains more than 3,700 works ranging from video pioneers of the 1960s and 1970s, such as Martha Rosler, Joan Jonas and Nam June Paik, to NY 10 Electronic Arts Intermix, Inc. Media Arts New York 2018 $20,000 new digital works by emerging artists, such as Sondra Perry, Jacolby Satterwhite, and Wu Tsang. During the project period, EAI will continue to add new works to the archive and expand its digital resources, which includes a free online catalogue, a subscription-based streaming service, and free on-site viewing room. Through distribution of the archived collection, the project generates direct income for artists through royalties from rentals and sales. To support the presentation of dance artists. The Joyce will present a mix of established and emerging dance companies from the United States and abroad. Each company will receive a performance opportunity that is Joyce Theater Foundation, designed to promote their work while connecting them with the audience. NY 10 Dance New York 2018 $90,000 Inc. Programs to encourage deeper involvement may include post-performance Curtain Chats, engaging youth and young adults through master classes, weekend Family Matinee performances for children and families, and special outreach experiences such as free lecture-discussions and dance workshops. To support Community Cultural Initiatives. Field research will identify and document folk artists in New York City's Haitian, Sri Lankan and Central Asian Center for Traditional Music NY 10 Folk & Traditional Arts New York communities. CTMD staff will work with these immigrant groups to assess 2017 $30,000 and Dance, Inc. their needs and facilitate performances that promote and perpetuate their traditional arts. To support the Archive Residency program at the New Ohio Theatre. The program provides independent emerging ensemble companies with the resources to develop and premiere a new work. Ensembles are provided with development time and space, an opportunity to present at the Ice Factory NY 10 Soho Think Tank, Inc. Theater New York 2017 $10,000 summer festival, and a world premiere production in the New Ohio Theatre's mainstage season. The program features a guaranteed artist fee, professional press and marketing support, technical support, artistic and organizational mentoring, and the security of an institutional home. To support productions of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's "The Rivals" and Shakespeare's "Macbeth" in public parks throughout New York City. The productions will be staged using the company's unique style of "panoramic New York Classical Theatre, NY 10 Theater New York theater," in which audience members physically follow the actors from place 2017 $20,000 Inc. to place throughout each venue. The theater also will offer open rehearsals of both plays. Productions will take place in Central Park, Prospect Park, Rockefeller Park, Carl Schurz Park, Battery Park, and Brooklyn Bridge Park. To support the reconstruction, touring, educational work and preservation of Trisha Brown's legacy. The new program "Trisha Brown: In Plain Site," will adapt Brown's works into site-specific performance experiences. In collaboration with presenters, the work will reach new audiences by creating programs that highlight the unique features of the local community. NY 10 Trisha Brown Company, Inc. Dance New York Proscenium works can be toured alongside the site-specific program, and will 2017 $80,000 revive additional works out of Brown's repertory. Educational activities will be available at Gibney Dance Center and Bard College. The Trisha Brown Archive is being prepared for placement into a public institution, and elements will be showcased alongside the performance activities and in stand-alone exhibitions. To support the presentation of ballets during the Here/Now Festival. The four-week festival will feature ballets that have been commissioned by NYCB NY 10 New York City Ballet, Inc. Dance New York during the past three decades. The festival will include two newly 2017 $100,000 commissioned ballets, one by Resident Choreographer Justin Peck and one by Alexei Ratmansky. To support the creation of a new dance by Lar Lubovitch and accompanying public engagement activities. During the creation period, Lubovitch will work Lubovitch Dance with as many as 12 dancers in the company, developing the movement ideas NY 10 Dance New York 2017 $20,000 Foundation, Inc. and choreography for the new dance. The world premiere of the work will take place in New York City with educational and outreach programs tailored to the performances. To support the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's 2017 United States tour. The tour will feature a new production of Ailey's "Masekela Language," Kyle Abraham's "Untitled America," and world premieres by Mauro Bigonzetti and Hope Boykin. The company will continue to tour Ailey's Alvin Ailey Dance NY 10 Dance New York masterwork "Revelations," as well as Robert Battle's "The Hunt," Ronald K. 2017 $100,000 Foundation, Inc. Brown's "Open Door," and Rennie Harris' "Exodus." In addition to performances, the company will offer outreach activities such as master classes, lecture-demonstrations, talkback sessions, and residencies involving local community members with The Ailey Experience and AileyCity. To support the Audrey Residencies, a new play and artist development program at New Georges. The program includes focused studio development time, monthly gatherings with other resident artists, and stipends. NY 10 Theater Labrador, Inc. Theater New York 2017 $20,000 Participating artists also will have access to artistic resources, including casting and dramaturgy. Resident artists will participate in a retreat and have the opportunity for work-in-progress showings of their work. To support the world premiere of "Amy and the Orphans," a new play by Lindsey Ferrentino. The play follows two adult siblings as they struggle to break the news of their father's death to their younger sister Amy, who has Down syndrome and has lived away from them in a state home for years. Roundabout Theatre NY 10 Theater New York The play explores family, responsibility, and guilt, as the siblings struggle to 2018 $20,000 Company, Inc. reconcile how little they know about each other. The play is written specifically for an actress with Down syndrome, and has been developed with actress Jamie Brewer, best known for her roles in the "American Horror Story" series, who will perform in the world premiere. To support the production of Martyna Majok's "Cost of Living." Majok writes about people with physical disabilities, who comprise a substantial yet marginalized community in the United States. An unemployed truck driver Manhattan Theatre Club, recalls his final moments with his wife before a car accident left her a NY 10 Theater New York 2017 $35,000 Inc. quadriplegic and changed the focus of their relationship from divorcing to caregiving. Another situation is of a college educated immigrant who takes a job to make ends meet as a personal caregiver for a graduate student who has cerebral palsy. To support the presentation of work by multimedia artist Charles Atlas at The Kitchen. Atlas will collaborate with performance artists, choreographers, and Presenting & musicians to create and present new multidisciplinary works. The project will NY 10 Haleakala, Inc. New York 2017 $25,000 Multidisciplinary Works feature an exhibition of video and photographic pieces in The Kitchen's gallery spaces, as well as a related performance work in the theater space. Atlas and his collaborators also will participate in public discussions. To support the Instituto Coreografico (Choreographic Institute), a choreographic creation and mentorship program serving emerging and underrecognized Latino choreographers. Choreographer Gustavo Ramirez Sansano will be in residence at Ballet Hispanico to create and develop a new Ballet Hispanico of New dance work. Ballet Hispanico's artistic director will offer support and insights NY 10 Dance New York 2018 $20,000 York, Inc. to the choreographer as a dedicated mentor. At the end of each residency, Ballet Hispanico will perform an excerpt of the choreographer's work to audience members and a panel, who will offer feedback. A filmmaker will document the choreographer's process and work with a mentor to learn the nuances of filming dance. To support a period of creative development and rehearsal in preparation for performances. The company will feature new works and revive Graham classics around the theme of gender, particularly the intersection of love and the struggle for power in relationships between men and women. The Martha Graham Center of company will turn to established and emerging choreographers to create NY 10 Dance New York 2017 $80,000 Contemporary Dance, Inc. new works for the gender project, placing special emphasis on commissioning new work from women. Education and outreach activities will also be offered, such as the Graham Studio Series, which brings audience members into the company's Westbeth studios to experience the creative process first hand. To support a production of Meredith Monk's "Quarry." Monk will collaborate with the Center for the Art of Performance at the University of California, Los House Foundation for the Presenting & Angeles to remount a production of "Quarry," originally composed in 1975- NY 10 New York 2018 $30,000 Arts, Inc. Multidisciplinary Works 76. Monk and other members of the original cast will select local artists from Los Angeles to both teach and remount the work with university students and faculty from the theatre, music, and dance departments.

To support the creation, presentation, and touring of works by several dance artists. Art Bridgman Myrna Packer will tour "Truck." Beth Gill will create and Foundation for Independent premiere a new work in conjunction with the exhibition, "Merce NY 10 Dance New York 2017 $40,000 Artists, Inc. Cunningham: Common Time." John Heginbotham will create and premiere "we recognized each other because we knew each other." Pam Tanowitz will create and premiere "New Work for Goldberg Variations." To support the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's 2018 national tour. Repertory pieces in the tour may include historical and contemporary dance works by a variety of choreographers. The company will continue to tour Alvin Ailey Dance NY 10 Dance New York Ailey's masterwork "Revelations," as well as works such as Kyle Abraham's 2018 $90,000 Foundation, Inc. "Untitled America," Mauro Bigonzetti's "Deep" Hope Boykin's "r-Evolution, Dream.," Johan Inger's "Walking Mad," and Billy Wilson's "The Winter in Lisbon." 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 Community-Word Project, NY 10 Arts Education New York and create painted canvas murals based on a line of poetry chosen from one 2017 $25,000 Inc. 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.

To support a production of "A Parallelogram" by Bruce Norris. Set in a near future world where human connection is deteriorating as technology becomes more valued, the play tells the story of Bee, a young woman who discovers that she can see and interact with her future self. The work explores ideas of fate, destiny, and whether or not we can change our future, NY 10 Second Stage Theatre, Inc. Theater New York 2017 $25,000 and challenges audiences to consider what would happen if we lost the connections that make us human. The theater will host a series of audience engagement activities in conjunction with the production, including a free Second Generation Night for community college students, free tickets to student groups, and talkbacks after preview performances. To support the world premiere of "Napoli, Brooklyn," a new play by Meghan Kennedy. Set against the backdrop of the crash of a United Airlines flight in Brooklyn in December 1960, the play explores sisterhood, freedom, and Roundabout Theatre forgiveness through the lens of a first-generation Italian-American family. NY 10 Theater New York 2017 $20,000 Company, Inc. The play raises questions about personal identity, and how it is shaped by love, religion, violence, and national identity. The theater has an ongoing relationship with Kennedy, whose previous work has been developed through the Roundabout Underground program for emerging writers.

To support the New York premiere production of "Bella: An American Tall Tale," a new musical by Kirsten Childs, directed by Robert O'Hara. Told in the style of a Western dime novel reimagined with a multicultural cast of characters, the musical tells the story of Bella, a young Black woman in late 19th-century America, riding a train west to meet her soldier sweetheart. NY 10 Playwrights Horizons, Inc. Theater New York The work reframes the mythology of conquering the West from the 2017 $45,000 perspective of cultures and ethnicities whose stories are seldom told. "Bella" will be developed collaboratively with Dallas Theater Center as part of Playwrights Horizons' Musicals in Partnership initiative, which allows for an immediate second production following a world premiere for the continued development and refinement of a new musical. To support the world premiere production of "Dance Nation," a new play by Clare Barron. The play follows a dance troupe of teenage girls, fighting for the best parts in an upcoming national dance competition. As they compete, they face the ferocity, vulnerability, and strains of female adolescence. The NY 10 Playwrights Horizons, Inc. Theater New York 2018 $45,000 theater will supplement the run of the show with materials meant to enhance the experience for the audience and continue the conversation started by the play, including interviews with the playwright and director and essays about the themes of the production. To support registrar costs for "The Age of Empires: Chinese Art of the Qin and Han Dynasties (221 BC-AD 220)." The exhibition will synthesize the Metropolitan Museum of archaeological finds and historical research of the last 50 years of more than NY 10 Museums New York 2017 $50,000 Art four centuries of the Qin and Han dynasties. Approximately 180 objects including ceramics, metalwork, textiles, sculpture, painting, calligraphy, and architecture models will be featured. To support the tour of "Julius Caesar" and "X." The Acting Company will tour two fully produced productions including Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" and the world premiere of "X," a new commission by Marcus Gardley about the Group I Acting Company, life and assassination of Malcolm X. Together these plays will offer a dynamic NY 10 Theater New York 2017 $15,000 Inc. and stark contrast between ancient Rome and Civil Rights-era America and draw vivid parallels between two forceful political leaders who lived two thousand years apart. The company will inspire audiences to reassess racial oppression, religious bigotry, and political assassination. To support the League of American Orchestras' strategic services designed to strengthen orchestras through learning, leadership development, research, and communications within the field. The League will host a national conference focusing on best practices. Training and development opportunities will be provided to expand leadership skills. The Emerging Leaders Program will help strengthen the skills of competitively selected orchestra professionals through a structured curriculum, mentoring, and directed on-the-job training. The National Conductor Preview will enable American Symphony NY 10 Music New York orchestra managers to become acquainted with conductors in the early 2018 $90,000 Orchestra League stages of their careers. The Knowledge Center will conduct, analyze, and disseminate a wide range of surveys. The Hub, a special section of the League's website, comprises online information aggregating the latest thinking, news, reviews, and personnel shifts in the orchestra world. The League's "Symphony" magazine and its free digital companion, "SymphonyOnline," feature articles that provide information and viewpoints, chronicle the changing cultural scene, and shed light on innovation in orchestras. To support Musical Connections, an in-school music composition residency program. Throughout the school year, teaching artists will lead in-class sessions through which elementary students learn the fundamental building blocks of music. Students also will be engaged in hands-on music-making and composition activities. Participating classes will attend dress rehearsals or Little Orchestra Society- performances of a concert series as well as additional pre- and post-concert NY 10 Arts Education New York 2017 $15,000 Orpheon Inc. workshops, connecting the process of composing with live orchestral music. The program will include professional development workshops for classroom and music teachers as well as workshops for parents. Near the end of each residency, there are celebration events in which professional musicians perform the students' works-in-progress for an audience of families, teachers, and administrators. To support Orchestra of St. Luke's Subway Series of free chamber music. The orchestra will present ensembles of its musicians in hour-long performances St. Luke's Chamber throughout the city, featuring repertoire of chamber music from the NY 10 Music New York 2017 $15,000 Ensemble, Inc. Renaissance period to the present. Performances will take place in nontraditional and emerging art spaces, including locations in mass transit hubs, in all five boroughs of New York City. To support musician salaries and guest artist fees for a performance touring project. During a national tour, the chamber orchestra will present diverse programming and be joined by guest artists including pianist Andre Watts, Orpheus Chamber violinist Lisa Batiashvili, cellist Truls Mork, and trumpeter Tine Thing Helseth. NY 10 Music New York 2017 $40,000 Orchestra, Inc. Orchestra musicians will conduct in-school classroom visits at partner public schools throughout the tour. The project will engage audiences through live performances in states such as Alabama, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky and Nebraska. To support in-school design and architecture residencies for public school students in the greater New York City area. Salvadori teaching artists will use the built environment--buildings, bridges, parks and the urban landscape--to teach students the design process and realize the math, science, and social NY 10 Salvadori Center Ltd. Arts Education New York 2017 $25,000 history embedded in the structures within their communities. The program will culminate in a one-day Annual Design Charrette in which students work with professional architects, designers, and engineers to design, develop, and build a project in response to a design challenge. To support the Creative Residency Program. Artists from various disciplines will receive commissioning fees and training to create new works in emerging Presenting & technologies, such as biosensors, immersive audio and video, camera and NY 10 Harvestworks, Inc. New York 2018 $20,000 Multidisciplinary Works eye tracking systems, apps for smartphones and tablets, and new computer interfaces and controllers. Harvestworks also will offer project management support and group tutorials. To support new music through online resources at NewMusicBox.org and newmusicusa.org. The project will include professional development, technical assistance, and editorial coverage of composers and artist residencies nationwide. New Music USA, a merger of two longstanding NY 10 New Music USA Inc Music New York 2017 $60,000 organizations of services to the field of new music (American Music Center and Meet the Composer), is committed to increasing opportunities for composers, performers, and audiences by fostering vibrant American contemporary music. To support a series of chamber music concerts focusing on presentations made in the 1820s by the Austrian violinist Ignaz Schuppanzigh with related Chamber Music Society of educational activities. Schuppanzigh, a close collaborator of Beethoven and NY 10 Music New York 2018 $50,000 Lincoln Center, Inc. Schubert, is widely acknowledged by historians as the father of the chamber music concert series. Educational activities will include lectures and printed program notes by scholars. To support design development of a public space prototype for the Lillian Wald Houses in New York City. The Design Trust for Public Space, working with their team of design fellows in partnership with the New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA), is engaging residents to re-imagine a currently fenced-in, inaccessible open space as a lively, usable, active public space Design Trust for Public NY 10 Design New York which will benefit the residents of Wald Houses and the surrounding 2018 $42,500 Space Inc. community. The prototype is a model that could be used for affordable housing developments across the city's five boroughs and in cities around the world. Focusing on connectivity between the development and surrounding streets, the prototype will encourage social interaction and promote public health. To support media arts instruction for underserved youth. Youth will receive instruction in the fundamentals of journalism, audio production, and storytelling from New York Public Radio's experienced radio producers and NY 10 New York Public Radio Arts Education New York 2018 $10,000 arts educators. Upon completion of the training, students will be encouraged to pitch stories to the newsroom, apply for internships at New York Public Radio, attend conferences, and mentor new student participants.

To support the "Selected Shorts" literary series. The series of live events presents prominent actors performing works of fiction by a range of writers. NY 10 Symphony Space, Inc. Literature New York Based in New York City, the program also tours throughout the United 2017 $10,000 States. The series is broadcast on more than 150 public radio stations and made available through the "Selected Shorts" podcast. To support a tour of the puppet show, "Muntergang and Other Cheerful Downfalls." The show is inspired by the Modicut Yiddish Puppet Theater and will be created in collaboration with the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. The theater will examine the artistry of Modicut's founders, Yosl Cutler and NY 10 Great Small Works, Inc. Theater New York Zuni Maud, who brought folklore and expressionistic style to high art venues, 2017 $10,000 and fun and satire to working class audiences in the art-making milieu of 1920s Lower East Side New York City. The project is an extension of the theater's ongoing efforts to reinvigorate Yiddish culture and to introduce it to audiences of all ages and backgrounds. To support the presentation of Eiko Otake's solo project, "A Body in Places." Eiko has designed her work for non-theatrical spaces where no barriers separate performer from viewer. Perormances will take place at Topaz Arts NY 10 Inta, Inc. Dance New York 2017 $40,000 in Queens, the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in Manhattan, and in other New York City landmarks such as the Met/Breuer Building and The Cloisters, as part of the Performa 2017 Festival. To support the Gig Fund program. Free-of-charge blues and jazz performances in non-traditional performance spaces in selected cities will be Jazz Foundation of America, NY 10 Music New York curated to connect underserved artists with underserved audiences. Each 2017 $15,000 Inc. engagement will be at least an hour-long and feature musicians with demonstrated financial need who reside in the participating cities. To support New Group/ New Works, a play and musical development program. The program will consist of developmental in-house and public readings of new plays, and workshops of new musicals. The project will include readings of plays commissioned from Francine Volpe, Mark Gerrard, and Amina Henry. The third annual Spring Reading Festival will offer a high- NY 10 New Group, Inc. Theater New York 2018 $10,000 profile introduction of new writers and plays to the industry and theatergoers. The musical theater development arm of the program will advance work on several projects including Christopher Shinn's "The World Will Not Contain Us," a new musical with music and lyrics by David Hancock Turner. To support SummerStage, a series of multidisciplinary performances and related activities. Performances and related events will be held at the Rumsey Playfield stage in Central Park and at other stages in all five Presenting & boroughs. Curators specializing in music, dance, theater, and children's NY 10 City Parks Foundation New York 2018 $45,000 Multidisciplinary Works programming will select the artists. During its more than 30-year history, SummerStage has presented performers such as Sun Ra, Youssou N'Dour, Curtis Mayfield, David Byrne, Max Roach, Patti Smith, Miriam Makeba, Celia Cruz, and Hugh Masekela. To support a production of "Paradise Blue" by Dominique Morisseau. The play examines the history of marginalized black Americans living in the working class city of Detroit. The second of three installments in Morisseau's NY 10 Signature Theatre Company Theater New York Detroit Project, "Paradise Blue" is set in a jazz club in 1949 and explores loss, 2018 $50,000 loyalty, and longing for a brighter future. Tickets for every seat to every performance will be subsidized at $30 each through the Signature Ticket Initiative, which supports accessibility to the arts for all. To support a series of presentations of theater for young audiences at the New Victory Theater. Presented works will include "Black Beauty" by Red Bridge Arts and Traverse Theatre (Edinburgh, Scotland); "Seedfolks" by NY 10 New 42nd Street, Inc. Theater New York Minneapolis-based Children's Theatre Company; and "Undesirable Elements" 2018 $25,000 by Ping Chong + Company (New York, NY). Each of the productions will include a variety of public outreach activities including interactive lobby exhibits and hands-on family workshops. To support the filming of new coaching sessions for the Balanchine Video Archives. The Video Archives were devised to capture the first-hand memories and insights of dancers who worked with George Balanchine. The dancers are filmed coaching young dancers in their roles, and are then George Balanchine NY 10 Dance New York interviewed by a dance critic or historian to discuss Balanchine's ideas and 2017 $20,000 Foundation, Inc. his impact upon the dancers. An archival product is created and master recordings are deposited in the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. The videos are electronically available to educational systems everywhere through Alexander Street Press. To support poetry programming for adults and youth. Activities include performances, workshops, walking tours, and a temporary library in New York City's Madison Square Park; a symposium on poetry and spiritual traditions; exhibitions, such as a display of all poetry books published in the NY 10 Poets House, Inc. Literature New York 2017 $45,000 U.S. in the past year; and workshops, mentoring, and networking opportunities for emerging poets. Programs for youth will include free class trips and writing workshops led by visiting poets, as well as poetry murals and writing stations at Governors Island. To support the world premiere of "How to Transcend a Happy Marriage," a new play by Sarah Ruhl at Lincoln Center Theater. The play is a modern Vivian Beaumont Theater, morality tale in which two couples disrupt their lives when they decide to NY 10 Theater New York 2017 $45,000 Inc. reignite their youthful, rebellious spirits. Originally commissioned by Lincoln Center Theater, the production will be directed by Ruhl's long-time collaborator Rebecca Taichman. To support a revival of "My Fair Lady" by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe at Lincoln Center Theater. The production will be directed and designed by Tony Award-winners Bartlett Sher and Michael Yeargan. Adapted from George Bernard Shaw's "Pygmalion," the musical examines Vivian Beaumont Theater, questions about class hierarchy, human behavior, and relationships between NY 10 Musical Theater New York 2018 $35,000 Inc. the sexes, themes that continue to have resonance and meaning for contemporary audiences. The production will be the focus of the Open Stages education program, which will offer classroom workshops and free performances to New York City public high school students followed by post- show talkback sessions with cast members.

To support Collage Collaborations, a series of arts workshops for children and their adult caregivers. In partnership with three New York City artists of color- -Alexandria Smith; Naomi Reis; and Tai Hwa Goh--CMOM will investigate the artistic process of collage within the context of early childhood development. Children's Museum of NY 10 Museums New York The artists will work with children five and under, introducing them to the 2017 $15,000 Manhattan possibilities of art-making using a wide variety of materials such as wood, fur, and grass. The children also will be introduced to basic concepts related to color, shape, texture, and form. The project will culminate in the creation of a collaborative work which will be exhibited alongside works by each artist.

To support the New York Philharmonic's Philharmonic Schools program, a music education program in New York City public schools. The program will engage elementary students at partner schools through year-long, in-school residencies. Students will build skills and knowledge in music through structured listening activities, playing recorders and percussion, and Philharmonic-Symphony NY 10 Arts Education New York participating in group music composition. Participants will have the 2017 $40,000 Society of New York, Inc. opportunity to attend in-school Teaching Artist Ensemble performances as well as a Young People's Concert for Schools at Lincoln Center. Philharmonic teaching artists will design and deliver the program in close collaboration with classroom teachers, who will receive extensive professional development and curriculum resources. To support the weekly public radio broadcast, "The New York Philharmonic This Week." Hosted by Alec Baldwin, the program will feature performances, intermission segments, and interviews with Maestro van Zweden, composers, scholars, and guest artists and conductors. The broadcasts will Philharmonic-Symphony NY 10 Media Arts New York reflect the New York Philharmonic's commitment to both contemporary 2017 $30,000 Society of New York, Inc. works and historic masterpieces and feature works from such artists as Esa- Pekka Salonen and Leonard Bernstein. In addition, previous broadcasts, live performances, and program notes will be available for free on the Philharmonic's Watch Listen website. To support a tuition-free education program and related community outreach activities. In addition to no-fee auditions and free ballet classes focusing on boys' participation, free ballet demonstrations and a series of School of American Ballet, lecture-demonstrations will be offered to the public and students from NY 10 Dance New York 2017 $40,000 Inc. underserved areas throughout Connecticut, New Jersey, New York City, and Pennsylvania. The classes will be taught primarily by former New York City Ballet (NYCB) dancers, and students may appear in productions staged by NYCB and School of American Ballet. To support the creation of new distribution channels for editorial output. The Architectural League will develop and deploy new content delivery formats, including digital magazines, printed chapbooks, video series, and podcasts, to Architectural League of New diversify the ways in which audiences around the country access their NY 10 Design New York 2017 $40,000 York programming to learn about design, architecture, and citymaking. The project seeks to find present platforms that will appeal to a new, general audience, perhaps unfamiliar with the jargon and internal debates of design, yet still keenly interested in its topics.

To support Perspectives in World Cinema, a series of curated screenings and film festivals featuring classic and contemporary works of American and international cinema. Programs to be presented throughout the year include a series on documentary film; Asian, Jewish, and French cinema; and films by new and emerging artists. Several of the programs are presented in partnership with organizations such as The Jewish Museum, The Museum of Film Society of Lincoln Modern Art, uniFrance, and Subway Cinema. In previous years, the program NY 10 Media Arts New York 2018 $45,000 Center, Inc. has included works by international filmmakers such as Agnes Varda, Pawel Pawlikowki, Harun Farocki, Alejandro G. Inarritu, Hou Hsiao-hsien, and Chantal Akerman. During events such as the New York Film Festival, high school students also will have the opportunity to view festival works in private screenings accompanied by visiting directors. Films recently screened in the program include "Julieta" by Pedro Almodovar, "The Monument Hunter" by Jeronimo Rodriguez, and "I Am Not Your Negro" by Raoul Peck.

To support the publication of "American Poets" magazine, the promotion of National Poetry Month, and the continuation of the digital Poem-a-Day series. The Poem-a-Day series distributes a new poem by a contemporary Academy of American NY 10 Literature New York poet each weekday through e-mail, social media, and syndication. In 2017 $75,000 Poets, Inc. addition, Poets.org, which receives as many as 16 million unique visitors annually, will be updated to feature additional poems, poet bios, videos, lesson plans and activities, and book reviews. To support the Process Space Artist Residency Program. Visual and performing arts project-based residencies will be offered to mid-career and established artists and arts groups. Selected artists will receive use of studio Lower Manhattan Cultural or rehearsal space. The residencies will take place at LMCC's Arts Center at NY 10 Local Arts Agencies New York 2017 $40,000 Council, Inc. Governors Island, as well as LMCC's main offices and donated spaces throughout Lower Manhattan. Open Studios will be held throughout the year, inviting the public to attend events such as open rehearsals, studio openings, workshops, readings, and other events. To support a commission and world premiere performances of a new work by composer Julian Revie by the American Brass Quintet. The new work, scored for choir and brass quintet, will be performed alongside a historical American Brass Chamber NY 10 Music New York survey of works from the eighth century to the present. The performances, 2017 $15,000 Music Association in partnership with Miami-based vocal ensemble Seraphic Fire, will take place in venues in South Florida. Performances may be preceded by panel discussions with Revie and performing musicians.

To support the Artists Media Distribution Service and related activities. EAI's distribution service engages broad audiences across the nation, making historic and contemporary media art works publicly available through multiple platforms and digital access channels. The archive contains more than 3,700 works ranging from video pioneers of the 1960s, such as Joan NY 10 Electronic Arts Intermix, Inc. Media Arts New York 2017 $30,000 Jonas, Nam June Paik, and Dara Birnbaum, to new digital works by emerging artists, such as Sondra Perry, Takeshi Murata, and Shana Moulton. As many as 700 works will be digitized and added to the archive during the project period. Through distribution of the archived collection, the project generates direct income for artists through royalties from rentals and sales.

To support workshops, facilities access services, and related activities. Downtown Community Television Center (DCTV) is devoted to making technologically sophisticated media equipment and training available to Downtown Community artists and underserved communities through a range of services. Offered at NY 10 Media Arts New York 2017 $75,000 Television Center, Inc. a low cost, the program's workshops include topics such as cinematography and audio production, editing, animation, interviewing techniques, new media, and documentary storytelling. DCTV also offers panels, master classes, and film screenings. To support free media arts training for youth from underserved New York City communities. Students will learn the fundamentals of media production, including how to write, storyboard, direct, and edit a short film. Additionally, Downtown Community NY 10 Arts Education New York students will participate in filmmaking and media literacy classes as part of 2018 $20,000 Television Center, Inc. an after-school curriculum. Participants also will receive academic counseling, connect with teaching artists on resources for college readiness, and seek assistance with their college applications. To support the theatrical premieres of American independent and foreign films at Film Forum. This year-round film exhibition program presents New York City theatrical premieres of American independent and foreign art films, many of which will receive their United States premiere. Since 1970, Film Forum has been committed to presenting documentaries, fiction features, NY 10 Film Forum Media Arts New York 2017 $80,000 and shorts by both emerging and master directors. The premiered films frequently go on to play nationwide in theaters, schools, film societies, festivals, and beyond. Screenings often include question-and-answer sessions with the filmmakers, which are recorded and made available as a podcast on iTunes and the Film Forum website. To support Community Cultural Initiatives. The performing traditions of New York City's immigrant communities will be identified, documented, and Center for Traditional Music supported through performances and educational programs. Fieldwork will NY 10 Folk & Traditional Arts New York 2018 $35,000 and Dance, Inc. document traditional arts of Central Asian groups, including Uzbek and Tajik communities, as well as migrants from Sri Lanka. Additionally, a weekly after- school program will offer classes in Columbian music and dance. To support Trisha Brown Dance Company's touring, educational work, and the preservation of Trisha Brown's legacy. Performances of "Trisha Brown: In Plain Site" is a program that adapts Brown's works into site-specific performance experiences and collaborates with presenters to reach new audiences. An additional work out of Brown's repertory will be revived as NY 10 Trisha Brown Company, Inc. Dance New York part of the proscenium works series. The company will continue its 2018 $80,000 educational activities with New York City partner Gibney Dance Center, and will continue to be the company-in-residence at Bard College (New York). The Trisha Brown Archive is being prepared for placement into a public institution, and elements will be showcased alongside the performance activities and in stand-alone exhibitions. To support the creation of new online exhibits of materials archived by the Martha Graham Dance Company, through a collaboration with the Google Cultural Institute. The digitized content will include rare films owned and restored by the company, including unique photographs, videos, and Martha Graham Center of NY 10 Creativity Connects New York educational projects, such as a comprehensive examination of the Graham 2017 $100,000 Contemporary Dance, Inc. Technique. Google will design and maintain the site housing the exhibits, which will be disseminated to the public through the Google Arts and Culture App. The exhibits will serve as a model for other arts organizations that wish to share their own creative projects online. To support the presentation and touring of new and existing works by Meredith Monk. Monk and her Vocal Ensemble will present her new work, "Cellular Songs," a music-theater piece that weaves together vocal and instrumental music, choreography, and video installations at various venues House Foundation for the Presenting & NY 10 New York throughout the United States. Monk's ensemble also will present her existing 2017 $20,000 Arts, Inc. Multidisciplinary Works work "A Celebration Service," which draws on a variety of musical traditions and includes chants and songs, choreography, and readings from multicultural texts. Local artists also will perform with Monk and her ensemble throughout the tour. To support the creation, presentation, and touring of works by Faye Driscoll and John Heginbotham. Driscoll will develop and premiere her "Thank You for Coming" series at Montclair University, with the participation of local Foundation for Independent NY 10 Dance New York students, to create a piece rooted in the space of its creation. Heginbotham 2018 $40,000 Artists, Inc. will tour mixed repertory and a new evening-length work created in collaboration with author and designer Maria Kalman, with live music and accompanying engagement activities. To support a new play by Jackie Sibblies Drury, directed by Sarah Benson. Inspired by Drury's experience living abroad with her husband, the play will explore the impact of living within a culture that is foreign to one's own, and the paranoia and self-policing that emerge when individuals feel they are Soho Repertory Theatre, being watched. The production will feature a diverse cast of NY 10 Theater New York 2017 $30,000 Inc. intergenerational actors, and will explore ways of disrupting the "fourth wall" to enhance the experience of the show for audience members. The theater also plans to support an active off-stage dialogue about the social themes and issues raised by the play through live events, video, and other online content. To support the commission and tour of new plays. The Acting Company will perform a main stage production on tour in repertory with a thematically related classical play: "Evicted," a stage adaptation of Matthew Desmond's best-selling book by Marcus Gardley. It follows a diverse array of Group I Acting Company, impoverished people in Milwaukee as they cope with the challenges of the NY 10 Theater New York 2018 $10,000 Inc. housing crisis and are funneled into a court system; and "Sonnet Project," by Meg Miroshnik, which will adapt the themes and actual text of Shakespeare's 154 sonnets to create a new perspective on the evolution of love and relationships and invite a wider audience into deeper engagement with Shakespeare's famed poems. To support the Ensemble Studio Theatre's 36th Marathon of One-Act Plays. NY 10 Ensemble Studio Theatre Theater New York The theater festival will feature productions and premieres of fifteen new 2017 $10,000 short plays by living American playwrights. To support a production of "Against the Hillside" by Sylvia Khoury. The story portrays the relationship between a Pakistani family in South Waziristan and the family of the American drone pilot who is watching them from a high- NY 10 Ensemble Studio Theatre Theater New York tech trailer on the other side of the world in Las Vegas, Nevada. The unique 2018 $10,000 nature of this relationship is explored as well as the psychological and moral impact that is experienced by both those who are watching and those who are being watched. To support the Playwrights' Lab. The project is a series of extended workshops, readings, structured retreats, and new play development NY 10 New Dramatists, Inc. Theater New York partnerships. Supported with managerial, directorial, and dramaturgical 2017 $80,000 resources, resident writers will explore their work at any step in the creative process. To support Arts in the Middle, a professional development program for teachers. In partnership with the New York City Department of Education, Lincoln Center Education's specially trained faculty of teaching artists will provide professional development for middle school teachers to co-lead classroom units for their students in theater, dance, music, and visual arts. As Lincoln Center for the NY 10 Arts Education New York part of the professional development and classroom curriculum, teachers 2017 $80,000 Performing Arts, Inc. and their students will have opportunities to visit Lincoln Center and other cultural institutions to experience the art forms they are teaching and learning together. A third-party researcher will collect data on implementation and outcomes in order to develop a model that can be used in partnerships with other schools. To support production and post-production costs for the publicly broadcast series, "Live from Lincoln Center." Hosted by Audra McDonald, the Emmy Award-winning series features live performances of music, drama, and dance Lincoln Center for the NY 10 Media Arts New York by leading artists from around the world and will air to national audiences on 2017 $75,000 Performing Arts, Inc. PBS and be made available for free online at www.pbs.org. Additional online features accompanying the series include special performance segments, artist interviews, and video shorts. To support an exhibition exploring the artistic achievements of Armenia at The Met. The exhibition will feature more than 100 gilded reliquaries, illuminated manuscripts, liturgical furnishings, textiles, church models, khachkars (stone slabs), and printed books. Dating from the Armenian conversion to Christianity under King Tiridates III (r. 287-330) to the 17th century, the exhibition presents a rare opportunity for the display of such Metropolitan Museum of works. The exhibition will demonstrate how Armenians created their own NY 10 Museums New York 2018 $65,000 Art distinctive visual culture based on their early conversion to Christianity and used it over the centuries to link their communities along trade routes expanding east and west from their homeland near Mount Ararat, the biblical resting place of Noah's ark. A catalogue will complement the exhibition, adding to the scholarly investigation of the importance of Armenians in a global context and their remarkable artistic achievements of the Middle Ages. To support Pentacle's comprehensive management support for the dance community. The program provides mentoring, administrative support (direct staffing and internships), information sharing, and technical assistance to small dance companies and project-based choreographers in New York, New NY 10 DanceWorks, Inc. Dance New York 2017 $40,000 Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and California. Through the initiative, Pentacle helps a diverse, national group of dance makers become more stable and more connected to new and varied networks to support their ongoing organizational and artistic growth. To support Pentacle's research and comprehensive management support for the dance community. Activities include mentoring, administrative support such as direct staffing and internships, information sharing, and technical assistance to small dance companies and project-based choreographers in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and California. This programming will help a diverse, national group of dance NY 10 DanceWorks, Inc. Dance New York 2018 $40,000 makers become more stable and more connected to new and varied networks to support their ongoing organizational and artistic growth. Pentacle will conduct research for a comprehensive service strategy through its Administrative Resource Team (ART) Program that will build upon its findings to create scalable and flexible infrastructure support services for its broader national constituency of artists.

To support the League of American Orchestras' strategic services designed to strengthen orchestras through learning, leadership development, research, and communications within the field. The League will host a national conference focusing on best practices. Training and development opportunities will be provided to expand leadership skills. The Emerging Leaders Program will help strengthen the skills of competitively selected emerging leaders through a structured curriculum, mentoring, and directed American Symphony NY 10 Music New York on-the-job training. The Knowledge Center will conduct, analyze, and 2017 $90,000 Orchestra League disseminate a wide range of surveys. The Hub, a special section of the League's website, comprises online information aggregating the latest thinking, news, reviews, and personnel shifts in the orchestra world in one location. The League's "Symphony" magazine and its free digital companion, "SymphonyOnline," feature articles that provide information and viewpoints, chronicle the changing cultural scene, and shed light on innovation in orchestras. To support new music through online resources at NewMusicBox.org and newmusicusa.org. The project will include professional development, technical assistance, and editorial coverage of composers and artist residencies nationwide. New Music USA, a merger of two longstanding NY 10 New Music USA Inc Music New York 2018 $60,000 organizations of services to the field of new music (American Music Center and Meet the Composer), is committed to increasing opportunities for composers, performers, and audiences by fostering vibrant American contemporary music. To support a jazz festival at the Snug Harbor Cultural Center in Staten Island, Universal Temple of the New York. The festival will include performances, as well as jazz-themed NY 11 Staten Island 2017 $10,000 Arts, Inc. workshops in music, dance, vocal, poetry, and visual art, and a panel discussion. To support two art projects helping communities in New York City. Engineer and artist Yvonne Shortt's "Women Who Build, Artists Who Own" will focus on teaching women and girls the basics of construction through skill-building workshops. Writer and educator Clarivel Ruiz's "Dominicans Love Haitians" Presenting & NY 12 Culture Push, Inc. New York will join Dominican and Haitian culture in New York City through a series of 2018 $10,000 Multidisciplinary Works live events which will include poetry, music, storytelling, art, and performance. Each artist or artist group will receive a stipend, mentorship, the opportunity to publish work in an online journal, and the opportunity to have their work exhibited and performed. To support the AXS Map Gallery project, to provide information about the accessibility of galleries and art spaces. Using the AXS Map app, project participants will identify galleries and art spaces in several cities and rate the NY 12 When I Walk Inc. Media Arts Long Island City 2017 $10,000 accessibility of their entrances, bathrooms, and other amenities. Reviews and accessibility information will be added to the online review catalogue and interactive map on the AXS Map website, www.axsmap.com.

To support artist residency and facilities access programs. Devoted to supporting creative intersections between art and technology, CultureHub will offer facilities, workspace access, and technical support for media artists NY 12 CultureHub, Inc Media Arts New York through both one-week and year-long residencies. Through the program, 2017 $15,000 artists will have access to specialized media arts production equipment, materials, and professional consultation while developing their projects, as well as opportunities for public presentations. To support the Refest festival and related public programming. Devoted to showcasing artists working at the intersection of media arts, performance, and technology, the festival will be accompanied by panels, discussions, artist demonstrations, and a youth workshop. Panels and discussions also NY 12 CultureHub, Inc Media Arts New York will be live streamed on Howlround.tv for free to national audiences. Festival 2018 $15,000 activities will take place in The Downstairs, a multidisciplinary performance venue at La MaMa Experimental Theater Club, and in partnership with organizations such as New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program and Belarus Free Theatre. To support creation and presentation of a documentary film and new music project. Filmmaker Murat Eyuboglu and composer Paola Prestini will collaborate to create a feature-length film that will explore the social and ecological histories of the Amazon River Basin. The team will commission Presenting & composers from the United States and Brazil to create new music for the NY 12 Original Music Workshop Brooklyn 2017 $30,000 Multidisciplinary Works film. "The Amazon" will reach audiences of all ages across the country through performance engagements featuring the film played with a live score, traditional theatrical screenings, and an audio recording. A textbook designed to accompany the film when being shown in classrooms also will be developed. To support an artist residency program at National Sawdust. Artists from a variety of artistic disciplines will receive support for the development of new multidisciplinary works. In addition to artist fees, participants will have Presenting & NY 12 Original Music Workshop Brooklyn access to rehearsal space, as well as marketing and audience development 2018 $35,000 Multidisciplinary Works support. National Sawdust will assist the artists in finding artistic collaborators to further their work as needed. At the end of each residency, the artist or ensemble will present a work-in-progress showing for the public.

To support a convening exploring the nature of graffiti in urban vacant lots. The program will bring together artists, scientists, and community activists from various cities to discuss nature-themed graffiti. The convening will NY 12 Nature of Cities Inc. Design New York 2017 $20,000 initiate a dialogue about the meaning of street art, the ecological and social roles of urban vacant land, justice, and the potential power of urban land in vibrant placemaking. To support literary programming and updates to poetsbridge.org. Providing an avenue for creative writing instruction and community outside of traditional workshops and writing programs, poetsbridge.org is a free online NY 12 Brooklyn Poets, Inc. Literature Brooklyn 2017 $10,000 network that connects poets who are seeking critiques with mentors who offer critiquing services at their own prices. Project activities also include a Brooklyn-based reading series.

To support the touring of dance works by Artistic Director Kyle Abraham. The company will present Abraham's "Dearest Home" and "Live! The Realest MC" in select U.S. cities and abroad. Performances will be accompanied by Kyle Abraham Abraham In NY 12 Dance New York engagement activities such as Unifying Uniqueness, a workshop wherein 2018 $15,000 Motion participants learn phrases of material from AIM's repertory as a means to better understand the work. Technique classes will focus on four specific core values: exploration, musicality, abandonment, and intuition. To support the final development and premiere of a new work by Artistic Director Kyle Abraham. "Dearest Home" is an interactive dance work developed focused on loving, longing, and loss. Comprised primarily of solos Kyle Abraham Abraham In NY 12 Dance New York and duets generated in conversation and collaboration with a variety of age 2017 $20,000 Motion groups and self-identified subcultures, "Home" interweaves movement with cross-cultural conversation and community action. The work will premiere at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.

To support the establishment of a Queens-based dance workshop for teens and young adults. The company will offer instruction in technique, choreography, and technical aspects of dance-making. Lang will use her NY 12 Jessica Lang Dance, Inc Dance Long Island City 2017 $10,000 LANGuage creativity curriculum to tap into the powerful tools of teamwork, awareness, imagination, and personal potential. The company aims to draw students from the New York metropolitan area. To support the creation and presentation of a new work by Jessica Lang in tribute to the music of Tony Bennett. Drawing from her early training in jazz and musical theater, Lang will incorporate both Bennett's music and paintings into the new work. The company will partner with the Kaufman NY 12 Jessica Lang Dance, Inc Dance Long Island City 2018 $15,000 Astoria Studios in Queens and the Dance Films Association to utilize their sound stages and equipment to include a film element in the new work. The work will premiere at SUNY Purchase in New York State and may become a regular part of the company's touring repertory.

To support the U.S. premiere of "La mere coupable" ("The Guilty Mother") by composer Darius Milhaud and librettist Madeleine Milhaud. The 1966 opera is based on the final installment of Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais' trilogy of Figaro plays. In it, the familiar characters of Figaro and Rosina must grapple with the destructive impact of their earlier decisions in Mozart's "The NY 12 On Site Opera, Inc. Opera New York 2017 $10,000 Barber of Seville" and "The Marriage of Figaro." The proposed creative team includes conductor Geoffrey McDonald and stage director Eric Einhorn. The company will partner with the International Contemporary Ensemble and with the Darius Milhaud Society on the production that will commemorate the 125th anniversary of Milhaud's birth. To support a production of "The Mecca Tales," a new play by Rohina Malik. Produced in partnership with Crossroads Theatre Company, the play tells the story of five Muslim women on a first time pilgrimage to Mecca known as the Hajj. When their bus breaks down just a few miles short of their destination, Voyage Theater Company, NY 12 Theater New York each woman's spiritual journey is tested in unexpected ways. The theater is 2017 $10,000 Inc. planning a series of post-performance talkbacks with guest speakers and panelists from the American Muslim Women's Association, The Sisterhood of Salam-Shalom, the Center for Ethnic, Racial, and Religious Understanding, and the Westchester Coalition Against Islamophobia.

To support the NLE Curatorial Lab, a professional development residency program for curators. The program will provide opportunities for participants to develop skills in presenting site responsive and socially engaged art projects. Participants will interact with established curators, artists, critics, scholars, and community stakeholders to present art work and artists that NY 12 No Longer Empty Visual Arts New York 2017 $15,000 respond to issues and aspirations relevant to the community. In an effort to combine a theoretical foundation with practical experience, the residency will result in a culminating exhibition with corresponding public programming giving emerging curators hands-on experience while expanding the field of social practice. To support Dance/NYC's Symposium, town hall meetings, the Junior Committee, a conference, and continued expansion of the organization's website. The Symposium includes panel discussions, case study presentations, individual consultations, and interactive workshops. Town halls generate discussions that are responsive to breaking news, issues, emerging models, and changes in field leadership. The Junior Committee Dance Service New York develops field leaders of the future by providing leadership training and NY 12 Dance New York 2018 $20,000 City, Inc. professional development for emerging artists, managers, and educators. The conference for immigrant artists hosts events that seek to share resources, promote dialogue, foster peer-learning, and encourage increased professional opportunities for immigrant artists. The Dance/NYC website houses a community calendar, employment information, field news, directory of inclusive workspaces recommended for disabled artists, and policy research. To support professional development and technical assistance services to New York City's experimental dance and performance communities. The Artist-in-Residence program allows artists access to rehearsal space throughout the year at further subsidized rates. The Performance Studio Center for Performance NY 12 Dance Brooklyn Open House allows artists from the CPR community to present works-in- 2017 $15,000 Research, Inc. progress and participate in question-and-answer sessions. The Technical Residency provides access to performance space, technical resources, and staff in the late stages of a work with an option to present at the conclusion of participation. To support the creation and presentation of dance works by Artistic Director Kathryn Posin. A revised version of "Climate Control," "Two Etudes," and the Kathryn Posin Dance revival of "Galena Summit" will be presented in performance. These works NY 12 Dance New York 2017 $10,000 Foundation will be reimagined for a concert together at the New York Live Arts Theater. Related activities may include open rehearsals, lecture-demonstrations, and question-and-answer sessions after performances. To support the Page One Program, a year-long production residency for an emerging playwright. The program will support the development and Off- Broadway premiere of a new work, and provide artist services to the playwright through a residency program. The play will be given intensive NY 12 Playwrights Realm Inc Theater New York development resources in the form of readings and workshops with a 2017 $15,000 professional director and actors, as well as marketing, publicity, and a fully supported professional production. The Page One Playwright will receive a stipend, health insurance, office space, and professional development opportunities and resources. To support the Games for Change (G4C) Arcade. An online portal housing the works of independent game developers addressing positive social change, the G4C Arcade will provide a public platform for the discovery of high- quality games for young learners while bringing the work of independent NY 12 Games for Change Media Arts New York game developers to new audiences. The G4C Arcade is developed and 2017 $45,000 promoted in conjunction with local cultural centers, libraries, and community- based organizations. In addition to the online portal, a public digital arcade will tour to such Pittsburgh, Los Angeles, and New York City throughout the year.

To support the 15th Games for Change Festival and the VR for Change Summit, a program exploring storytelling through virtual reality. Designers, developers, practitioners, educators, entrepreneurs, and other experts will convene during the Games for Change Festival for panels, showcases, and discussions focused on the creation of digital games for social change. Previously presented works at the festival include the award-winning games "Walden," "Tracking Ida," and "Never Alone." Through the festival's NY 12 Games for Change Media Arts New York 2018 $20,000 marketplace, participants can explore new platforms, games, and technology from exhibitors such as E-Line Media, Serious Games, and Carnegie Mellon University's Entertainment Technology Center. Festival events will be live streamed for national audiences and made available in an online archive. Additional festival programs include the VR for Change Summit, a day-long event devoted to bringing together virtual reality practitioners to discuss the technology's role in creative storytelling. To support the Powerhouse Season, a summer residency program. The project is an artist residency program for playwrights, directors, actors, New York Stage and Film designers, and apprentices to develop new plays and musicals. Held on the NY 12 Theater New York 2017 $40,000 Company, Inc Vassar College campus, the program will allow artists to present fully mounted mainstage productions as well as workshops and readings of works- in-progress. To support the 14th Games for Change Festival and Games and Media Summit. Designers, developers, practitioners, educators, entrepreneurs, and other experts will convene during the Games for Change Festival for panels, NY 12 Games for Change Media Arts New York showcases, and discussions focused on the creation of digital games for 2017 $25,000 social change. The Games and Media Summit is a day-long event featuring game designers, researchers, and artists advancing games in the media arts field. To support fieldwork and artist presentations focusing on the Post-Soviet Diaspora. Fieldwork will identify and document traditional artists from the Center for Art, Tradition and NY 12 Folk & Traditional Arts New York former Soviet Union, now living in New York City. A lecture, performance, 2017 $25,000 Cultural Heritage and concert featuring Ukranian, Georgion, and Yidish choral groups will occur in the city's boroughs. To support a multidisciplinary arts apprenticeship program for teens. Professional artists in theater, music, dance, and visual arts will mentor public high school students in New York City and Los Angeles. Junior and senior high school students will develop artistic skills and learn about careers NY 12 Exploring the Arts, Inc. Arts Education New York in the arts by apprenticing with artists and local arts organizations. During 2018 $10,000 the school year, students will work on art projects, learn from their mentors, shadow staff, assist with administrative projects, observe rehearsals, and attend shows. Stipends will be paid to students to recognize their time commitment and expertise.

To support staff salaries and trainer fees for a decorative arts training program. With a focus primarily on HIV-positive individuals from low-income communities, the program includes an introductory course offered on a quarterly basis and an advanced course offered twice a year. Through the NY 12 Alpha Workshops, Inc. Design New York courses, qualified instructors teach marketable decorative arts techniques 2017 $30,000 such as gilding, faux finishes, stamping, and stenciling. Students also learn about Venetian plaster, mural painting, and mold-making/casting, and develop job skills that qualify them for employment in Alpha's studio or in other positions in the field once they graduate from the program.

To support a decorative arts training program. With a focus primarily on HIV- positive individuals from low-income communities, the program includes an introductory course offered on a quarterly basis and an advanced course offered twice a year. Through the courses, qualified instructors teach NY 12 Alpha Workshops, Inc. Design New York marketable decorative arts techniques such as gilding, faux finishes, 2018 $30,000 stamping, and stenciling. Students also learn about Venetian plaster, mural painting, and mold-making/ casting, and develop job skills that qualify them for employment in Alpha's own studio or in other positions in the field once they graduate from the program. To support services to the opera field. Activities include national convenings such as Forums, the Women's Opera Network, Opera Conference, Regional NY 12 Opera America Opera New York Symposia, New York Producers' Symposium, and the Strategy Committee. 2017 $90,000 Sessions include discussions about current challenges, opportunities and best practices in teh oeprat field.

To support At The Crossroads, a series of multidisciplinary presentations. Artists will create and present site-specific works at Times Square public plazas. Selected presentations include audio-based stories collected by Times Square District Presenting & NY 12 New York multidisciplinary artist Aman Mojadidi presented in repurposed phone 2017 $30,000 Management Association Multidisciplinary Works booths; a presentation of Lars Jans' "Holoscenes;" a collaborative public art project created by Anne Carson and Amy Khoshbin; "Portals," an interactive installation from Structured Studios; and nightly video art installations. To support the Crossing the Line Festival. The festival will present interdisciplinary performances and events throughout New York City by national and international artists. Featured artists include theater artist French Institute Alliance Presenting & Aaron Landsman, choreographer Padmini Chettur (India), choreographer NY 12 New York 2017 $10,000 Francaise Multidisciplinary Works Faustin Linyekula (Congo), theater artist Tiago Rodrigues (Portugal), theater artist Adelheid Roosen (The Netherlands), choreographer Bouchra Ouizguen (Morocco/France), and theater artists Daria Deflorian and Antonio Tagliarini (Italy). To support interactive theater performances for children who are patients at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, DC. In partnership with the hospital's Creative and Therapeutic Arts Services Department, Only Make NY 12 Only Make Believe, Inc. Theater New York Believe will expand its current programming offerings to include patients in 2017 $10,000 the Radiology Unit. In addition, live performances will be offered to children confined to their hospital rooms via the hospital's closed-circuit television station. To support Bellevue Literary Press in the publication and promotion of books of fiction and nonfiction. Focusing on work that is concerned with the intersection of arts and sciences, planned books include titles by such New York University School authors as Norman Lock and Gerald Weissmann and will be made available in NY 12 Literature New York 2018 $30,000 of Medicine both print and electronic forms. The press also plans to offer a curated online interview series featuring authors in dialogue with figures whose work explores the ways in which the arts and sciences can be brought together to educate and inspire. To support the Crossing the Line Festival. The festival will present interdisciplinary performances and events throughout New York City by French Institute Alliance Presenting & national and international artists. Featured artists may include NY 12 New York 2018 $10,000 Francaise Multidisciplinary Works choreographer Trajal Harrell, actress and playwright Anna Deavere Smith, and a collaboration between poet Claudia Rankine and choreographer Will Rawls, among others. To support artist residencies and related activities. Individual artists and artist collectives will be provided space, resources, and financial support to Byrd Hoffman Watermill NY 12 Artist Communities New York create and publicly present their work at The Watermill Center. Residencies 2017 $15,000 Foundation will be designed to overlap to foster spontaneous collaborations and peer review among participating artists.

To support Lumberyard in the City, a series of production residencies and performance opportunities for contemporary dance and performance artists. NY 12 American Dance Institute Dance New York Resources to artists will include rehearsal time and space, production 2017 $10,000 residency support, and presentation. Additional audience enrichment events may be developed in consultation with the artist.

To support multidisciplinary art presentations. The Park Avenue Armory will present the Artists Studio Series, curated by jazz musician Jason Moran and Seventh Regiment Armory Presenting & featuring performances and collaborations by artists in disciplines including NY 12 New York 2017 $55,000 Conservancy, Inc. Multidisciplinary Works music, poetry, and visual arts. Additionally, conductor Matthias Pintscher and Ensemble Intercontemporain will stage a large-scale production of composer Pierre Boulez's "Repons" in the Drill Hall. To support the creation and presentation of site-specific performing arts works. The Park Avenue Armory will work with multidisciplinary artist William Kentridge (South Africa) on the creation and premiere of "The Head and the Load," designed specifically for the Armory's large-scale Drill Hall. Seventh Regiment Armory Presenting & The work, created through a collaboration with composers Philip Miller NY 12 New York 2018 $50,000 Conservancy, Inc. Multidisciplinary Works (South Africa) and Thuthuka Sibisi (South Africa), will feature actors and live musicians performing in an immersive installation. The Armory also will partner with the Young Vic (United Kingdom) to adapt and present a production of Federico Garcia Lorca's "Yerma," directed by Simon Stone (Australia). To support the Summer Design Studio, a design education project. Through the lens of design thinking, students will gain skills in literacy, mathematics, and entrepreneurship. Students also will create a business plan and create mock-ups to scale their products for market. In the project component Civic NY 12 Publicolor Inc. Arts Education New York Engagement through Design Academy, students will take a hands-on 2017 $15,000 approach to transform community environments through design principles and further promote the value of civic engagement. At the end of the program, the student-produced art work will be exhibited at the Pratt Institute's Steuben Gallery. To support the adaptation and production of Shakespeare's "Measure for Measure." The theater is known for reintroducing audiences to classic, well- known literature through experimental productions. During its 25th Elevator Repair Service NY 12 Theater New York anniversary season, the theater will collaborate with The Public Theater to 2017 $35,000 Theater, Inc. create a high-energy "Measure for Measure" that experiments with extremes of speed and physicality. The production will focus on the sonic and musical qualities of Shakespeare's poetic language. To support Bellevue Literary Press in the publication and promotion of books of fiction and nonfiction in print and electronic formats. Focusing on work that is concerned with the intersection of arts and sciences, the project New York University School includes titles by authors Pascale Kramer (in translation from the French), NY 12 Literature New York 2017 $30,000 of Medicine Peter LaSalle, Norman Lock, and John McWhorter. The press also plans to offer an online interview series featuring authors in dialogue with figures whose work explores the ways that the arts and sciences can be brought together to educate and inspire. To support a series of folk arts education projects. Local Learning will assist Local Learning: The National educators in integrating folk arts into classroom curricula and museum NY 12 Network for Folk Arts in Folk & Traditional Arts New York 2017 $40,000 education programs. Additionally, Local Learning will publish online the Education "Journal of Folklore and Education." To support the creation, production, and touring of multidisciplinary performance works. MAPP will produce and tour "Demolishing Everything with Amazing Speed" by puppeteer/performance artist Dan Hurlin; "The MAPP International Presenting & NY 12 New York Peculiar Patriot," by playwright/performer Liza Jessie Peterson; and "Poor 2017 $10,000 Productions Inc. Multidisciplinary Works People's TV Room" by choreographer/performance artist Okwui Okpokwasili. Each project also will include a suite of related engagement activities that will be made available to touring partners and presenters. To support SAY: Confident Voices-Youth Arts Education Program. The year- round after-school performing arts program will serve youth who stutter. Professional teaching artists, volunteers, and alumni mentors will engage Stuttering Association for youth in a variety of programs focusing on songwriting, playwriting, creative NY 12 Arts Education New York 2017 $30,000 the Young Inc. writing, storytelling, and directing. Program participants will work collaboratively to write, direct, and perform one-act plays and songs that will be performed in a variety of venues, including a festival. Students of all ages will participate in the program. To support an after-school performing arts program that will primarily serve youth who stutter. Professional teaching artists, volunteers, and alumni mentors will engage youth year-round in a variety of programs focusing on Stuttering Association for NY 12 Arts Education New York songwriting, playwriting, creative writing, storytelling, and directing. 2018 $20,000 the Young Inc. Program participants will work collaboratively to write, direct, and perform one-act plays and songs that will be showcased in a variety of venues, including a festival. Students of all ages will participate in the program. To support research and development of a site-specific dance theater piece at the historic Hotel Florence in Chicago's Pullman National Monument. The project includes a creative intensive to develop the work, which will be Presenting & performed by dancer, actors, community residents of all ages, and trained NY 12 Equus Projects, Inc. New York 2017 $15,000 Multidisciplinary Works horses. The project will bring visibility to the role George Pullman and his company played in rise of the African American middle class, the labor movement, the shift from horse power to rail power in the late 1800's, and notions of a utopian community. To support interactive theater performances for children at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C. In partnership with the hospital's Creative and Therapeutic Arts Services Department, Only Make NY 12 Only Make Believe, Inc. Theater New York Believe will provide three six-week cycles of performances in the Child 2018 $15,000 Psychiatry Unit. In addition, live performances will be offered to children confined to their hospital rooms via the hospital's closed-circuit television station. To support multidisciplinary artist residencies and related activities at The Watermill Center. Individual artists and artist collectives will receive space, Byrd Hoffman Watermill resources, and financial support to create and publicly present their work at NY 12 Artist Communities New York 2018 $20,000 Foundation the center. Residencies will overlap, which may foster spontaneous collaborations and peer review among participating artists. The residencies will include artists of varying genres and different phases of their careers.

To support the world premiere and tour of a concert program on the history and culture of the circus. With original music by the members of the string Ethel's Foundation for the NY 12 Music New York quartet Ethel, the evening-long program will feature narration and projected 2017 $10,000 Arts images and film. Educational and community engagement programs will be developed in tandem with the touring engagements.

To support the FIGMENT arts festival. The free, multidisciplinary arts festival will engage artists and community members in Boston, New York City, San Presenting & NY 12 Figment Project Inc. New York Diego, Chicago, and Oakland through participatory artworks. The project will 2018 $10,000 Multidisciplinary Works utilize public spaces, including parks, throughout the five cities and work with each city's diverse populations. To support Prelude to Performance. Experienced instructors will train aspiring opera professionals in the areas of movement, music, language, and role study through the tuition-free vocal and theatrical professional Martina Arroyo Foundation, development program. Selected emerging artists will participate in the six- NY 12 Opera New York 2017 $20,000 Inc. week training. The program will culminate in a fully staged public performance of as many as two complete staged operas with orchestra and chorus in the original language at the Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College in summer 2017. To support Dance/NYC's Symposium, Town Hall meetings, the Voices on Race and Dance series, the Junior Committee, and continued expansion of the organization's website. The Symposium includes panel discussions, case study presentations, individual consultations, and interactive workshops to share information, generate dialogue and form partnerships, and stimulate engagement in New York City dance. Town Halls generate discussions that are responsive to breaking news, issues, emerging models, or changes in field Dance Service New York leadership. The Voices on Race and Dance series will offer at least three NY 12 Dance New York 2017 $20,000 City, Inc. convenings on bright spots for racial equity work in dance, generate short- and long-term public dialogue, and advance thought leadership of creative communities of color in New York City. The Junior Committee develops field leaders of the future by providing leadership training and professional development for emerging artists, managers, and educators. The Dance/NYC website houses a community calendar, employment information, field news, directory of inclusive workspaces recommended for disabled artists, and policy research.

To support production and promotion of the public television series "Art in the Twenty-First Century." The series will introduce a broad audience to diverse contemporary visual art and artists. Each episode will profile several NY 12 Art 21, Inc. Media Arts New York 2017 $90,000 artists who are living and working in artistic centers across the globe. Broadcast nationally on PBS, the series will be made available to stream online and presented at free screenings across the country. To support the publication of the "IFAR Journal" and initial development of a digital version. IFAR Journal discusses scholarly, legal, and ethical issues concerning the ownership, transfer, and authenticity of art objects. Published quarterly since 1998, the journal covers a range of art world issues International Foundation for NY 12 Museums New York such as attribution/authenticity; ownership; theft; provenance; and other 2017 $30,000 Art Research, Inc. legal, ethical, and scholarly matters concerning art objects. Each issue also contains the "Stolen Art Alert," which has enabled the recovery of scores of stolen art works. Development of a digital version will enable the journal to reach a larger audience.

To support the Summerworks festival. The annual festival of new plays will include an opening night event of short, site-specific, and thematically linked NY 12 Clubbed Thumb, Inc. Theater New York 2017 $15,000 pieces and readings of works-in-progress by early career playwrights. In addition, up to three newly commissioned plays will be produced.

To support the annual festival of new plays Summerworks 2018. The festival will include an opening night event of short, site-specific, and thematically NY 12 Clubbed Thumb, Inc. Theater New York 2018 $15,000 linked pieces and readings of works-in-progress by early career playwrights. The festival will also include productions of commissioned new plays. To support Van Alen Institute's semi-annual public program series, an accessible forum for addressing contemporary issues of architecture and design in urban life. This week-long, festival-style series of public events features performances, exhibits, lectures, tours, and workshops in locations Van Alen Institute: Projects NY 12 Design New York throughout New York City which engage design professionals and local 2018 $40,000 in Public Architecture residents. The program, organized around a particular theme, aims to improve the public's understanding of cities via different lenses, tackling compelling questions about what makes cities work and what is needed to catalyze change. To support a series of performances based on Ralph Ellison's literature, and related activities. The project will provide the communities of Harlem and the Bronx with cultural programming that addresses the themes of racism, art, Young Audiences/New York, and social change, as well as the American dream. All performances will take NY 12 Challenge America New York 2017 $10,000 Inc. place at Harlem Stage, including offerings for the public and for students. Additional project activities will include discussion forums, artist residencies teaching monologue writing in participating schools. The events will be free and open to the public, and will feature guest artists.

To support performance opportunities and a professional development program for emerging jazz artists. The Debut Series program will be expanded to offer performance opportunities at the Jazz Gallery and partner venues. Other project components will include business and marketing skills training for emerging artists; opening the venue to participating artists for NY 12 Jazz Gallery Music New York 2018 $25,000 rehearsals and workshops at no charge; and a mentorship program pairing emerging artists with seasoned jazz musicians. A Jazz Composers Workshop co-curated by bandleader, composer-arranger and pianist Miho Hazama will enable emerging composers to workshop and present new works for large ensembles or big bands at the Jazz Gallery.

To support a tour of children's theater in Spanish by Teatro SEA. The tour to Puerto Rico and underserved Latino neighborhoods in New York will provide Spanish-speaking youth and family audiences with performances designed to Society of the Educational instill cultural pride and build self-esteem and identity. Through new NY 12 Theater New York 2017 $25,000 Arts, Inc. partnerships with libraries, schools, museums, and community theaters in predominantly Latino neighborhoods, the company will increase its audience development efforts for its home-base theater. Performances will be augmented by post-performance workshops and resource guides. Tectonic Theater Project, NY 12 Theater New York N/A 2017 $50,000 Inc. To support the presentation of a site-specific work by choreographers Michelle Dorrance and Nicholas Van Young in the Guggenheim Rotunda. Dorrance and Van Young will lead a company of dancers and musicians in Presenting & NY 12 Works and Process, Inc. New York performing a multidisciplinary piece utilizing movement and sound. The 2018 $20,000 Multidisciplinary Works performative soundscape will employ a variety of instruments and objects, and incorporate the architecture of the rotunda as both a stage and a musical instrument. To support a multidisciplinary presenting series. A year-long series conceived as a response to the 2016 Orlando massacre as well as other attacks against the LGBTQ community, the "Fearless" series will focus on the themes of Clemente Soto Velez Presenting & understanding and unity. The series will feature underrepresented theater, NY 12 Cultural & Educational New York 2017 $20,000 Multidisciplinary Works music, dance, interdisciplinary, and film artists of Latino, Muslim, and other Center, Inc. minority backgrounds. Participants will be selected for their proven artistic excellence and need for basic resources, including event space as well as technical, marketing, and financial support. To support the Performa 17 Biennial. The Biennial will feature events of live performance, including newly commissioned works in disciplines such as dance, visual arts, music, and multidisciplinary work. Commissioned artists Presenting & will receive fees, residency opportunities, and tailored curatorial and NY 12 Performa Inc. New York 2017 $30,000 Multidisciplinary Works production support to realize their work. Curatorial threads for the Biennial will include the 100th anniversary of Dada; an initiative focused on the work of artists from Kenya, Morocco, Senegal and South Africa; and an exploration of the intersections between dance and architecture.

To support SYNTAX/SYNAPSE, a series of creative investigations exploring intersections between fiction and neuroscience, in partnership with Princeton University. The Center for Fiction will partner with the Princeton Social Neuroscience Lab to organize a year-long series that will examine how the brain works in conjunction with how novels impact our understanding of humanity. Planned activities include public events featuring a writer and a neuroscience practitioner in conversation, activities for at-risk school Mercantile Library children with authors and scientists, a writing workshop informed by NY 12 Association of the City of Creativity Connects New York laboratory practices, monthly writing group meetings between practitioners 2017 $50,000 New York of science and fiction (in association with the collaborative science writing group Neuwrite), and a series of commissioned essays that will grow out of the public programming component. Potential themes for investigation include the construction of possible worlds, the use and function of cognitive rewards, empathy, problem-solving, and connection building. Writers such as Rivka Galchen, Charles Fernyhough, Zadie Smith, and Teju Cole, and neuroscientists such as Susana Martinez-Conde and Lisa Genova, are being considered for participation, as well as other thinkers and scholars.

To support the exhibition of the augmented reality comic book and art project, "Priya's Mirror." The exhibition features the work of artist Dan Goldman, who created the character of Priya, an Indian superhero and rape survivor who uses her power of persuasion to motivate societal change. The NY 12 Rattapallax, Incorporated Visual Arts New York exhibition will showcase interactive artwork from the comic book using 2017 $10,000 augmented reality technology. Viewers will scan the artwork in the exhibition using an app which allows them to see animation, videos, and interactive elements. Animated videos will be shown on large video monitors and animation of the comic book will be projected on a 50-foot wall. To support a tuition-free music composition program. Students will receive training in music composition by working closely with acclaimed, professional composers. Through seminar-style sessions and semi-private lessons, students will explore musical styles of a wide variety of composers, New York Youth Symphony, NY 12 Arts Education New York with a focus on instrumentation and orchestration. Students will cultivate 2018 $15,000 Inc. their own artistic voices by composing original works and receiving feedback from professional musicians and composers. The program culminates in a public performance of student compositions, during which students will speak from the stage about the inspiration of their work. To support expansion of the Debut Series. The program will offer expanded opportunities for emerging artists including: a mentorship component pairing emerging artists with seasoned jazz musicians, business and NY 12 Jazz Gallery Music New York 2017 $20,000 marketing skills training, performance opportunities at the Jazz Gallery and selected partner venues, and the opportunity to use the venue's rehearsal or workshop space at no charge. 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 NY 12 Epic Theatre Center, Inc. Arts Education New York performance for community audiences. Students also may elect to 2017 $35,000 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.

To support a community engagement performance project. The programming of live performances by various artists, including Grammy Award-winning saxophonist Chad Lefkowitz-Brown, will engage underserved families, particularly those affected by autism spectrum disorder in states such as California, Maryland, New York, and Texas. Through research-based methodology developed by founder and child psychiatrist Dr. Robert NY 12 Music for Autism, Inc. Music New York 2017 $20,000 Accordino, the interactive "autism-friendly" concerts will be designed specifically for individuals on the autism spectrum. Repertoire will range from jazz to Broadway classics and Western classical music. Venues will be open spaces to allow audience members to move around freely. Due to the interactive nature of the performances, audiences will be limited to 150 members per concert.

To support a production of "Can You Forgive Her?," a new play by Gina Gionfriddo. The play relates the events of one explosive Halloween night when two couples find themselves engaged in incendiary conversations about the differences between haves and have-nots in America, and whether Vineyard Theatre & NY 12 Theater New York it is possible to heal from inherited trauma and transcend the financial 2017 $30,000 Workshop Center, Inc. situation into which one is born. In conjunction with the production, the Vineyard Theatre will offer student matinees to New York City public high school students, who will participate in pre- and post-show workshops with the theater's education staff and members of the production's creative team. To support the creation of a new dance work, public engagement activities through New York City, and a national tour. The new dance, "Pa' Triana Voy," is a 30-minute work for 6 dancers and four musicians created in collaboration with Flamenco Vivo and choreographer Jose Maldonado, with an original Spanish Dance Arts NY 12 Dance New York score by Gaspar Rodriguez. The work will be created through a series of 2018 $10,000 Company, Inc. residencies in New York and Durham, North Carolina, and will premiere on the BAM Fisher stage. The project will incorporate a robust public engagement component throughout the development process, as well as during the performance phase. To support the Vision Festival. The week-long festival will include dance, Presenting & NY 12 Arts for Art, Inc. New York spoken-word, visual arts, and music, with an emphasis on the 2018 $15,000 Multidisciplinary Works improvisational free jazz aesthetic. To support the 24th New York African Film Festival and touring program. Held in the spring, the festival showcases contemporary and classic films from Africa and the African diaspora. Screenings will be supplemented by NY 12 African Film Festival Media Arts New York 2017 $10,000 filmmaker discussions and educational programming. The touring program will highlight film selections from the 23rd and 24th festival, and will travel to several U.S. cities. To support professional development services for artists. The Actors' Fund will partner with local organizations in as many as ten cities throughout the Presenting & United States to offer workshops for performing arts professionals. The NY 12 The Actors' Fund of America New York 2018 $20,000 Multidisciplinary Works workshops will be tailored to each city's needs, and topics may include managing a dance career, setting entrepreneurship goals, and finding affordable health insurance. To support the development of "The Hello Girls," a new musical by composer and lyricist Peter Mills and book writer/director Cara Reichel. Set primarily during World War I, the musical will tell the story of the first women to officially serve in the United States military during the war. Answering a Prospect Theater Company recruiting call for American telephone operators who could speak French, NY 12 Theater New York 2017 $10,000 Inc. the women served in the Signal Corps of the American Expeditionary Forces, but among the American soldiers and officers who relied on them, they quickly became known as the "Hello Girls," and were generally regarded as a crucial part of the war effort. Development activities will include readings and workshops, and a culminating public reading in the spring of 2019. To support the development and world premiere production of "One Thousand Nights and One Day," a new musical with book and lyrics by Jason Grote and music by Marisa Michelson. The work deconstructs "The Arabian Prospect Theater Company Nights," interweaving the traditional Persian stories with the story of a NY 12 Musical Theater New York 2018 $10,000 Inc. modern-day New York couple of Jewish and Arab descent. Based on Grote's critically acclaimed 2007 play "1001," the musical is designed to challenge audiences and to investigate the impact of inherited stories on everyday relationships. To support staff and promotional costs for "Getting to Zero: The City and Waste." This year-long series of tours, lectures, and conferences will explore how New York City's goal of putting zero waste into landfills by 2030 will transform the physical city. The program will deepen public understanding NY 12 openhousenewyork inc. Design New York 2017 $40,000 about how designed buildings and landscapes have our built environment has been shaped over time in response to changing attitudes about garbage, and consider what possibilities a radical transformation in waste management could have for new concepts in architecture and the city. To support services to the New York nonprofit theater field. Essential support will be provided to member companies through management training workshops, long-term consultancies, peer-to-peer roundtables, organizational tools, and resources to strengthen and sustain their Alliance of Resident NY 12 Theater New York operations. Member services will focus on specific challenges in the field and 2017 $30,000 Theatres/New York, Inc. help theaters create a more efficient and effective infrastructure to ensure their human and financial resources are invested wisely. Aspiring artists from around the United States will meet with member theaters at an annual Internship Fair to provide staffing support to these companies.

To support an exhibition, "The World is Sound" at the Rubin Museum of Art. The first of a six-part series ("The Senses") exploring the five senses and the mind, the exhibition will introduce visitors to the ever-present yet often unrecognized role of the senses in our daily lives. The presentation will be the first of its kind to draw connections between sound and historical concepts, artworks, Asian religious and philosophical traditions, world Shelley and Donald Rubin NY 12 Museums New York cultures, and the sciences, and will juxtapose traditional artworks from the 2017 $25,000 Cultural Trust museum's collection with contemporary works and new commissions by leading sound artists. Programming will feature tours for K-12 students and individuals with special needs, art-making programs for families, in-gallery curator and artist talks, and free evening concerts. In addition, the Rubin Museum of Art will host a 24-hour Raga Festival with music collective Brooklyn Raga Massive to celebrate Diwali.

To support the development of "I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings" at New York City Children's Theater. The play for young audiences will be based on Maya Angelou's National Book Award-nominated memoir. The work will chronicle Angelou's early years and the hardships she faced growing up as a NY 12 Making Books Sing, Inc. Theater New York 2017 $10,000 Black female in the South. The story recounts how literature and language can help a community to overcome racism and trauma. Pulitzer Prize finalist Dael Orlandersmith will transform the celebrated book into a theatrical play for audiences ages 12 and older. To support commissions and an artist residency. Artists will be commissioned and a residency offered for artists from diverse disciplines, such as animation, game design, Internet art, textile arts, painting, and drawing, to American Museum of the create a large-scale public video installation for the museum's 50-foot media NY 12 Media Arts Astoria 2017 $10,000 Moving Image wall. The artist-in-residence will have access to equipment, technical support, and curatorial guidance while developing a project, and all selected artists will have the opportunity to present their work to the public through artist talks and lectures. To support the implementation of the National Blueprint for Creative Youth Development, a collective impact project. The project will support implementation of the Blueprint's strategies for achieving shared goals to increase access to arts education for youth during out-of-school time. Strategies include adopting effective business models; developing revenue sources; documenting and communicating the benefit of CYD programs for National Guild for youth; using shared terminology, data, and assessment tools; and connecting NY 12 Community Arts Education, Arts Education New York programs with in-school arts education and non-arts community 2017 $100,000 Inc. development initiatives. Under the leadership of the Guild as the backbone organization, the National CYD Partnership, with key stakeholders from the arts, humanities, youth development and CYD-related sectors such as community development and workforce development, will coordinate and foster participation and engagement of local and national community stakeholders through active working groups and online platforms that promote collaboration, knowledge sharing, and data collection.

To support the Urban Voices media arts program. Professional media artists will work with youth from underserved communities in digital media NY 12 Global Action Project, Inc. Arts Education New York production to create group and individual media arts projects. The project 2017 $20,000 will culminate in a public screening of student work for families, friends, and peers to view media and engage youth in dialogue about their films.

To support the final development and presentation of "Grand Rounds," a dance-theater work. Choreographer Tamar Rogoff will partner with Dance Tamar Rogoff Performance Presenting & for Parkinson's Disease (Dance for PD) participants, as well as professional NY 12 New York 2017 $20,000 Projects Multidisciplinary Works dancers, actors, and athletes, to explore themes of aging, healing, and death. The multigenerational cast will present their work at the La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club. To support a training program for emerging artists and cultural leaders. Programming will usher artists through an educational series that will first engage them with guest speakers and community conversations; move on to private and small group consultations, as well as public feedback sessions; Queens Council on the Arts, NY 12 Local Arts Agencies Astoria continue with participation in the Leader Circle, a facilitated peer group 2018 $25,000 Inc. generating new artwork and events; and culminate with the opportunity to be trained as a future Leader Circle facilitator. This pilot program will focus on the Queens, New York, communities of Jamaica and Jackson Heights, two areas identified as priority sites for services in QCA's strategic plan. To support the creation and development of new work by Artistic Director John Jasperse. Project activities will include ongoing part-time rehearsals, periodic open rehearsals, and several work-in-progress public showings in New York City, including a showing to be coordinated with the annual NY 12 Thin Man Dance, Inc. Dance New York 2017 $20,000 Association of Performing Arts Presenters conference in January 2018. Funds from the NEA will be used for artist wages, rehearsal space, and production costs for showings, and will also be used towards artist fees and travel costs associated with creative residency opportunities that arise. To support studio arts training and college portfolio preparation for students. High school students from underserved communities will receive free studio visual arts education in the subjects of drawing, sculpture, and graphic Cooper Union for the design. Sequential visual arts sessions will provide intensive training and NY 12 Advancement of Science Arts Education New York portfolio development opportunities during weekend and after-school hours. 2018 $30,500 and Art Students will visit museums, galleries, and artists' studios and will also attend writing workshops aimed at increasing student exposure to technology- based techniques. Project counselors will provide critiques of participants' portfolios and will mentor those pursuing collegiate studies. To support the creation and presentation of "Everywhere All the Time," by Sean Curran with live musicians, Third Coast Percussion. Curran plans to develop the work with physical concepts of tension and will explore, NY 12 Curran Events, Inc. Dance New York 2017 $10,000 metaphorically, the psychological effects of tension. The company will work with presenters to design engagement activities to complement the performances. New York State Council on NY 12 State & Regional New York N/A 2017 $736,720 the Arts

To support the 63rd Robert Flaherty Film Seminar. Held at Colgate College in Hamilton, New York, the seminar brings together students, scholars, filmmakers, curators, writers, media professionals, and film enthusiasts to International Film Seminars, explore the art of the moving image. During the week-long intensive seminar, NY 12 Media Arts New York 2017 $25,000 Inc. participants view and discuss a thematic series of curated films and videos, including documentary, narrative, experimental, installation, and new media works. This year's selection will include a focus on contemporary filmmaking that explores critical aspects of gesture in front of and behind the camera.

To support a qualitative study exploring the sustainability and potential impact of artistic practices that thrive in organizations largely excluded from the arts philanthropic support system. Examples of these organizations are social clubs, religious institutions, and small businesses. The project will address research questions such as 1) how can the public and private sectors establish guidelines and structures to create greater equity in culture and the NY 12 City Lore, Inc. Research New York arts; 2) how can fostering community-based cultural practices promote 2017 $20,000 cultural equity and improve the quality of life in neighborhoods and communities; and 3) what can be done to encourage the view that "community anchors" belong within the arts sector and to ensure they have access to its resources? Researchers will interview leaders from community- anchor centers in Baltimore, Detroit, New Orleans, Los Angeles, and Philadelphia. To support the presentation of several curated film and video series. Anthology's exhibition program includes public screenings of independent NY 12 Anthology Film Archives Media Arts New York and foreign films unlikely to have a commercial release, retrospectives and 2017 $20,000 themed series, revivals of overlooked films, and in-person appearances from contemporary artists. The majority of films screened are U.S. premieres. To support legal services and education programs intended primarily for senior artists. The Artists Over Sixty program provides legal services to senior artists in need through free legal clinics. In addition, artists receive advice on Volunteer Lawyers for the NY 12 Local Arts Agencies New York arts- and age-related legal issues from volunteer attorneys at in-house 2018 $30,000 Arts, Inc. consultations. Education programs, including classes, workshops, and lectures, are tailored to meet the individual needs of senior artists and the attorneys who serve them. To support the publication of the "IFAR Journal" and the next development phase of a digital version. IFAR Journal discusses scholarly, legal, and ethical issues concerning the ownership, transfer, and authenticity of art objects. Published quarterly since 1998, the journal covers a range of art world issues International Foundation for NY 12 Museums New York such as attribution/authenticity; ownership; theft; provenance; and other 2018 $40,000 Art Research, Inc. legal, ethical, and scholarly matters concerning art objects. Each issue also contains the "Stolen Art Alert," which has enabled the recovery of scores of stolen art works. Development of a digital version will enable the journal to reach a larger audience. To support a series of group exhibitions of contemporary book arts and related media. Organized by guest curators, each exhibition will emphasize diverse artistic practices through the presentation of a wide range of book Center for Book Arts NY 12 Visual Arts New York arts formats, from handmade book arts objects to site-specific installations 2017 $20,000 Incorporated with mixed media components. The series will take place in the center's gallery space and will be accompanied by artists' talks and full-color print brochures. To support SupaFriends, a media arts education training program primarily serving LGBTQ youth. Professional media artists will work with teens from underserved communities in digital media production to create group and NY 12 Global Action Project, Inc. Arts Education New York individual media arts projects. Participants will gain leadership skills by 2018 $15,000 engaging in thoughtful dialogue about their films through facilitated public screenings of student work for family members, peers, and the larger community. To support the exhibition, "Victorian Radicals," bringing together paintings, works on paper, and decorative arts. Through the presentation of approximately 145 objects by pioneering artists, the exhibition will present the avant-garde practices of the Victorian period, emphasizing the response of Britain's first modern art movements to unfettered industrialization. The artists' attention to detail, use of vibrant colors, and engagement with both American Federation of NY 12 Museums New York literary themes and contemporary life will be illustrated through a selection 2018 $40,000 Arts, Inc. of paintings, drawings, and watercolors presented alongside superb examples of decorative art by artists such as Ford Madox Brown, Edward Burne-Jones, William Holman Hunt, John Everett Millais, William Morris, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Elizabeth Siddall, among others. A catalogue will be produced to complement the exhibition, which is expected to travel to Memphis, Vero Beach, New Haven, and Oklahoma City. To support production of the Van Alen Sessions video series. The short videos will use narrative filmmaking to examine vital issues facing cities and the public realm, covering a broad range of topics that relate to the livability of cities, such as tunnels and power lines. The program will investigate how Van Alen Institute: Projects cities change over time and shape our routines and relationships, telling the NY 12 Design New York 2017 $50,000 in Public Architecture stories of people who are affected by cities on a daily basis, alongside insight from experts. The videos in the series will be created in partnership with filmmakers and architects, artists, and urban planners, and will be presented in public programs in the Van Alen Institute gallery as well as online through the website and social media networks.

To support SITI Work/Space, a new model for creating work as an ensemble. Inspired by the visual artist's studio model in which a variety of different pieces are created simultaneously, the company will develop a series of smaller plays in its New York rehearsal studio. The project will support the development of "This American Moment," a new play by SITI Company members with playwright Lucas Hnath and dramaturg Megan Carter; "Chess Saratoga International NY 12 Theater New York Match," a new work inspired by composer, music theorist, and writer John 2017 $25,000 Theatre Institute, Inc. Cage; "Hanjo," produced in collaboration with the Japan Foundation; and "Katzelmacher," a new work inspired by the structure of the Rainer Werner Fassbinder film of the same name. Addressing the question of how to create more modular, touring work as the company matures, the initiative is designed to make the creation process more accessible to local audiences, and to serve as a prototype for other ensemble companies.

To support online publications, literary events and workshops, and community programs. Online publications include "The Margins," which Asian American Writers' seeks to invent the future of Asian-American literary culture, as well as a NY 12 Literature New York 2017 $25,000 Workshop, Inc. planned online portfolio of literature from Asia. Workshops will nurture emerging writers. The organization also will offer community programs for youth, and events in Asian languages in immigrant neighborhoods. To support issues of "TDR: The Drama Review," a quarterly journal of live performance. The publication is read by artists, scholars, and higher education students across the country and around the world. The journal includes essays, original scripts, interviews, reviews by significant scholars NY 12 New York University Theater New York and artists, and photographs by renowned performing arts photographers. 2017 $10,000 Each issue also includes special sections, such as the "Books" section for reviews of influential books in the field, and "Provocation," a two-page spread for authors, activists, and artists to initiate discussion about performance or visual arts. To support the presentation of the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) and choreographer Jerome Bel at the Skirball Center for the Performing Presenting & NY 12 New York University New York Arts. The artists will perform and participate in engagement activities with 2018 $20,000 Multidisciplinary Works students and the general public, including discussions, master classes, panels, and pre-show lectures. To support the commission and development of "The Chinese Lady" by Lloyd Suh. The playwright will mine the long and mainly forgotten histories of Asians in America, particularly those of Chinese heritage. Afong Moy was the first Chinese female immigrant brought to America in 1834. The U.S. Ma-Yi Filipino Theatre importers, the Carne Brothers, transported Moy and put her on display in a NY 12 Theater New York 2017 $15,000 Ensemble, Inc. museum exhibition before paying audiences. During the creation and workshop process, members of the Asian American communities in New York and the Tri-State area will be invited to attend symposia, talkbacks, and panel discussions surrounding issues of immigration, representation, and diversity. The project will culminate in a public reading of the play. To support the presentation of new works at the COIL Festival. PS122 will commission and present works from artists in disciplines including dance, Presenting & NY 12 Performance Space 122, Inc. Brooklyn theater, and performance art. Featured artists may include choreographer 2017 $20,000 Multidisciplinary Works Antony Hamilton (Australia), theater artist Yehuda Duenyas, crossdisciplinary artist Yara Travieso, and choreographers Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith.

To support the presentation of free and low-cost public performance programs. The programs will include Movement Research at the Judson Church and Movement Research Festivals. The programs will provide artists with critical spaces to try out new ideas and show works-in-process. The NY 12 Movement Research, Inc. Dance New York 2017 $20,000 programs will foster discourse among a diverse community of artists and art audiences and continue an important legacy fostered by Movement Research to provide a supportive and fertile environment for artists' research and experimentation. To support dance presentations, residencies, and developmental activities for choreographers. Each of these activities contributes to Danspace's Choreographic Center Without Walls, a support system for artists across NY 12 Danspace Project, Inc. Dance New York various career stages and points in the developmental process of their work. 2018 $40,000 This framework will provide curatorial support, research, production residencies, and contextualization around artists and their work through public discussions and online publications.

To support the publication of the online magazine "Guernica," and related activities. Guernica publishes reportage, narrative, memoir, fiction, and NY 12 Guernica Inc. Literature New York poetry from both established and emerging writers. In addition to releasing 2017 $10,000 its online magazine twice a month, "Guernica" provides new content each day on its website and releases quarterly themed special issues.

To support a multidisciplinary exhibition of sculptural glass platforms by artist Josiah McElheny and related performing arts activities. Madison Square Park will work with sculptor and glassblower McElheny to create three large, Madison Square Park Presenting & colorful industrial glass structures, inspired by parts of a building, which will NY 12 New York 2017 $20,000 Conservancy, Inc. Multidisciplinary Works serve as platforms for a series of artist residencies. The park will work with organizational partners to select dance, music, and poetry artists to present free site-specific works on the structures. Docent-led tours, workshops, and open rehearsals also will be offered. To support the creation of a temporary public art installation in Madison Square Park. The program will commission sculptures by the artist Diana Al- Madison Square Park Hadid (b. 1981). Public programming includes a scholarly catalogue, NY 12 Visual Arts New York 2018 $35,000 Conservancy, Inc. interactive family programs, a public art symposium, and artist and curator talks. The display of the sculptures will run concurrently with an exhibition of Al-Hadid's work at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. To support the documentation and preservation of theater and dance performances. The library will record oral histories of important figures in the field of dance, as well as preserve previously documented oral histories New York Public Library, about dance. Once recorded and preserved, the documentations of live Presenting & NY 12 Astor, Lenox and Tilden New York performances will be added to the collections of the New York Public Library 2017 $35,000 Multidisciplinary Works Foundations for the Performing Arts' Theatre on Film and Tape Archive (TOFT) and the Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image (JRA). TOFT and JRA will make the documentations available to arts professionals, artists, scholars, and the public free-of-charge. To support the development and premiere of "Where the Sea Breaks Its Back." The interdisciplinary work by Ping Chong, Ryan Conarro, and Gary Upay'aq Beaver (Central Yup'ik) will use puppetry, video, movement, and storytelling to create a collage about the epic landscape and stark realities of NY 12 Fiji Theater Company, Inc. Theater New York Alaska. The title is the translation of the Aluutiq indigenous word for Alaska 2017 $25,000 and will serve as a metaphor for the personal and cultural clashes at its heart. Historical narratives will depict the collision of interlopers and colonizers with the Alaskan climate and peoples. It will premiere at the University of Alaska Anchorage. To support the creation of the "Vicksburg Project," a song cycle performance by Eve Beglarian and Karen Kandel. Interlocked songs will trace women's experiences in Vicksburg, Mississippi, from four different eras: the Civil War 1860s, the Jim Crow/Great Migration 1910s, the Civil Rights 1960s, and the Mabou Mines Development NY 12 Theater New York current decade. Beglarian and Kandel will write songs for each of the periods 2018 $20,000 Foundation, Inc. from the perspectives of a white Southern woman, a black Southern woman, and a cross-dressing or gender-flexible Northern woman. The historical fragments will coalesce into a tale about Vicksburg, a small but significant town in the painful history of our country. To support artist commissioning programs at Joe's Pub. Joe's Pub will commission artists through three programs, New York Voices, the Legacy Artist Residency, and Joe's Pub Working Group. New York Voices will provide support for the development of new music-theater works. Artists will be provided developmental workshops, rehearsal space, commissioning fees, New York Shakespeare Presenting & NY 12 New York and a creative team to assist them through the process. The Legacy Artist 2018 $30,000 Festival Multidisciplinary Works Residency is a year-long residency for an established artist, who will receive support to curate and perform programming throughout the year. The Working Group is an application-based cohort of emerging artists, who will receive curatorial support, an honorarium, and professional development resources, for their works-in-process. To support the production of free, high-definition webcasts of "Jazz at Lincoln Center" concerts. Anchored by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (JLCO) under the direction of Artistic Director Wynton Marsalis, "Jazz at NY 12 Jazz at Lincoln Center, Inc. Media Arts New York 2017 $50,000 Lincoln Center" concerts present performances from iconic and emerging artists to demonstrate the breadth, diversity, and interconnectedness of American music. To support the Young Concert Artists Series. The project will comprise a professional development program of recitals and concerto debuts in NY 12 Young Concert Artists, Inc. Music New York 2017 $20,000 Washington, D.C., and New York City. Young Concert Artists will offer career management to emerging classical performers. To support the Young Concert Artists Series. The project will comprise a professional artistic development program of recitals and concerto debuts in Washington, D.C., and New York City. YCA will offer career management to NY 12 Young Concert Artists, Inc. Music New York 2018 $15,000 emerging classical music performers. In addition, YCA will partner with schools and community centers to host residencies while the artists are on tour. To support touring engagements of roster artists. In diverse venues across the country, performance opportunities will enable artists and ensembles on NY 12 Concert Artists Guild, Inc. Music New York the guild's roster to polish their performance and communication skills. The 2017 $10,000 guild's mentorship supports artists as they prepare programs, go on tour, and refine the educational and outreach aspects of their presentations.

To support touring engagements of roster artists. In diverse venues across the country, performance opportunities will enable artists and ensembles on the guild's roster to polish their performance and communication skills. NY 12 Concert Artists Guild, Inc. Music New York Performances will feature a range of repertoire with related community 2018 $10,000 engagement activities. The guild's mentorsh