State District NEA_FY Grant Date Grantee City Category Discipline Amount Project Description
CA 1 2012 1/20/12 Shasta County Arts Council Redding
Access to Artistic
Excellence Challenge America
Fast-Track $10,000 To support a design project, Sails Over Old City Hall Courtyard.
CA 1 2012 4/17/12
Squaw Valley Community of
Writers Nevada City
Access to Artistic
Excellence Media Arts $10,000
To support the Screenwriting Program, a week-long workshop that focuses on the essence of storytelling and teaches participants how to "show" rather than "tell" their stories.
CA 1 2012 9/5/12
Arts Collaborative of Nevada
County Nevada City
Access to Artistic
Excellence Design $25,000 To support the "ART OnSite: Tribute Trail."
CA 1 2013 11/2/12 Cooper, Sara E. Chico
Access to Artistic
Excellence Literature $12,500
To support the translation of the novel, THE BLEEDING WOUND, by Cuban writer Mirta Yanez.
CA 2 2012 1/30/12 Project H Design Kentfield
Access to Artistic
Excellence Design $40,000
To support Studio H, a community design/build and public education program in rural Bertie County, North Carolina.
CA 2 2012 2/1/12 Dell'Arte, Inc. Blue Lake
Access to Artistic
Excellence Theater $10,000
To support "The Mary Jane Project," an interactive installation and original theater work that will examine the culture surrounding marijuana, a crop of economic importance to the theater's home in Humboldt County, California.
CA 2 2012 3/5/12 Headlands Center for the Arts Sausalito
Access to Artistic
Excellence Artist Communities $30,000 To support artist residencies for emerging and mid-career artists.
CA 2 2012 3/5/12 Voice of Roma Sebastopol
Access to Artistic
Excellence Folk & Traditional Arts $20,000
To support Crossing Borders: The Impact of Migration on Romani Art & Families, a project showcasing Romani music, dance, films, history, art, and culture.
CA 2 2012 3/19/12 Marin Theatre Company Mill Valley
Access to Artistic
Excellence Theater $10,000
To support a production of "The Whipping Man" by Matthew Lopez, with accompanying outreach activities.
CA 2 2012 6/14/12 Youth in Arts San Rafael
Access to Artistic
Excellence Musical Theater $10,000
To support the creation and production of "Goodnight Gorilla," adapted from the popular children's book by Peggy Rathman.
CA 2 2012 9/12/12 Playhouse Arts Arcata
Access to Artistic
Excellence Design $50,000
To support the creation of a creative industry corridor in the historic Creamery District of downtown Arcata, California.
CA 2 2013 12/7/12 Chernoff, Maxine Mill Valley
Access to Artistic
Excellence Literature $25,000
CA 4 2012 8/13/12 Mariposa County Arts Council, Inc. Mariposa
Access to Artistic
Excellence Arts Education in
American Communities $10,000 To support "Music in Mariposa."
CA 5 2012 8/29/12 City of Santa Rosa, California Santa Rosa
Access to Artistic
Excellence Design $50,000
To support the development of a comprehensive public art master plan for Santa Rosa, California.
CA 6 2012 5/1/12
Instituto Mazatlan Bellas Artes de
Sacramento Sacramento
Access to Artistic
Excellence Folk & Traditional Arts $10,000
To support "Viva el Arte,"presentation of Mexican folk dance and culture in Northern California.
CA 6 2012 6/4/12 California Arts Council Sacramento Partnership State & Regional $1,092,300 To support Partnership Agreement activities.
CA 6 2013 12/18/12 University Enterprises Inc. Sacramento
Access to Artistic
Excellence Music $10,000
To support the annual Festival of New American Music featuring concerts, workshops, master classes, lectures, seminars, concert previews, and open rehearsals at California State University, Sacramento.
CA 7 2012 9/13/12
Theatre Production & Technical
Academy Folsom
Access to Artistic
Excellence Arts Education in
American Communities $10,000 To support the Theatre Production, Technical, and Design Arts Project.
CA 9 2012 6/27/12
Stockton Symphony Association,
Inc. Stockton
Access to Artistic
Excellence Arts Education $25,000
To support Harmony Stockton, a free, daily, after-school music program for third, fourth and fifth-grade students at Marshall Elementary School, in consortium with Stockton Unified School District.
CA 10 2012 8/6/12 Gallo Center for the Arts, Inc. Modesto
Access to Artistic
Excellence Arts Education in
American Communities $10,000
To support a production of "Tomas and the Library Lady", and afterschool workshops for underserved youth.
State District NEA_FY Grant Date Grantee City Category Discipline Amount Project Description
CA 11 2012 5/14/12
Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts
Center San Pablo
Access to Artistic
Excellence Folk & Traditional Arts $45,000
To support "Cultures of Mexico in California," in consortium with the Migrant Education Program, Region 16.
CA 12 2012 1/20/12 Joe Goode Performance Group San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Dance $20,000
To support the creation of a series of site specific performance work by choreographer Joe Goode.
CA 12 2012 1/20/12 San Francisco Mime Troupe, Inc. San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Musical Theater $20,000
To support the creation, production, and Bay Area parks tour of "The Last Election."
CA 12 2012 1/24/12 San Francisco Symphony San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Music $60,000
To support the "American Mavericks Festival," featuring world premieres of works by John Adams, Mason Bates, Meredith Monk and associated education activities.
CA 12 2012 1/26/12 Alonzo King's LINES Ballet San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Dance $20,000
To support the creation and presentation of work by choreographer Alonzo King, in collaboration with bassist and composer Edgar Meyer.
CA 12 2012 1/26/12 Cutting Ball Theater San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Theater $10,000
To support the commission and world premiere of "Tender Loin," written and directed by Annie Elias.
CA 12 2012 1/27/12 San Francisco Cinematheque San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Media Arts $15,000 To support curated film series of experimental and avant garde film and video.
CA 12 2012 1/27/12 San Francisco Jazz Organization San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Music $50,000 To support the 2012 SFJazz Collective Tour and Outreach Project.
CA 12 2012 1/30/12 Golden Thread Productions San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Theater $20,000
To support the ReOrient Festival, featuring short plays exploring the Middle East, a weekend forum of panels with leading experts, and presentations on theater and the Middle East.
CA 12 2012 2/1/12 Architecture for Humanity San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Design $20,000 To support the Open Architecture Challenge.
CA 12 2012 2/1/12 Center for Architecture and Design San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Design $20,000 To support the Civil Salon Project: Design Thinking for Social Innovation.
CA 12 2012 2/2/12
3rd I South Asian Independent
Film San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Challenge America
Fast-Track $10,000 To support the South Asian International Film Festival.
CA 12 2012 2/3/12 Narrative Magazine, Inc. San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Literature $15,000
To support the publication and promotion of "Narrative Magazine," a free online journal of new literature.
CA 12 2012 2/3/12 Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Music $12,500
To support performances of George Frideric Handel's oratorio "Alexander's Feast," under the direction of music director Nicholas McGegan.
CA 12 2012 2/3/12 Southern Exposure San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Arts Education $20,000
To support intensive visual arts education projects for San Francisco area teenagers in consortium with the Jewish Vocational and Career Counseling Services.
CA 12 2012 2/9/12 Eth-Noh-Tec Creations San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Challenge America Fast-Track $10,000
To support TALES of PANGU, a full-length interdisciplinary program featuring the Gay Asian Pacific Alliance Men's Chorus.
CA 12 2012 2/9/12 Root Division San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Visual Arts $21,000
To support the Second Saturday Exhibition Series, a collection of visual art events taking place in San Francisco's Mission District.
CA 12 2012 2/10/12 San Francisco Film Society San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Media Arts $40,000
To support the 55th San Francisco International Film Festival and other related exhibition programs.
CA 12 2012 2/10/12
San Francisco Museum of Modern
Art San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Museum $35,000
To support an exhibition and catalogue of the work of photographer and video artist Rineke Dijkstra (b. 1959).
CA 12 2012 2/10/12 World Arts West San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Folk & Traditional Arts $25,000 To support the 34th Annual San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival.
CA 12 2012 2/15/12 LEVYdance, Inc. San Francisco
Access to Artistic
State District NEA_FY Grant Date Grantee City Category Discipline Amount Project Description
CA 12 2012 2/16/12 Center for Asian American Media San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Media Arts $21,000 To support the 30th "San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival."
CA 12 2012 2/16/12 Playwrights Foundation, Inc. San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Theater $20,000
To support the 35th anniversary presentation of the Bay Area Playwrights Festival.
CA 12 2012 2/16/12 Playwrights Foundation, Inc. San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Theater $20,000
To support the development and premiere of THE HUNDRED FLOWERS PROJECT, a new play by Asian American playwright Christopher Chen, in consortium with Crowded Fire Theater Company.
CA 12 2012 2/17/12 CounterPulse San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Dance $15,000 To support artist residencies.
CA 12 2012 2/17/12
Voice of Witness, A Nonprofit
Public Benefit Corporation San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Literature $55,000
To support the publication and production of The Voice of Witness oral history book series.
CA 12 2012 2/21/12 Southern Exposure San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Visual Arts $25,000
To support the commissioning and presentation of new work by emerging artists for gallery exhibitions and public art projects.
CA 12 2012 2/22/12
Chhandam Chitresh Das Dance
Company San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Folk & Traditional Arts $10,000
To support the creation of a new narrative dance "Darbar," and its performance by the Chitresh Das Dance Company.
CA 12 2012 2/29/12 Z Space Studio San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Musical Theater $30,000
To support a collaboration with composer/jazz musician Marcus Shelby and actor/director/singer Margo Hall to create "Miss Black World (Michigan)."
CA 12 2012 3/1/12 Center for the Art of Translation San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Literature $7,500
To support the publication and promotion of "Two Lines," an annual anthology of international writing in translation.
CA 12 2012 3/1/12 Sixteen Rivers Press, Inc. San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Literature $7,500
To support the publication and promotion of a collection of poems, a chapbook of poetry and associated outreach activities.
CA 12 2012 3/2/12 Magic Theatre, Inc. San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Theater $30,000
To support the development and world premiere of "Bruja," an original, contemporary adaptation of Euripedes' Medea, set in modern day Cuba, by playwright Luis Alfaro and producing artistic director Loretta Greco.
CA 12 2012 3/12/12 Theatre of Yugen, Incorporated San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Theater $10,000
To support the creation and production of "Mystical Abyss," conceived and directed by Yuriko Doi and written by playwright John O'Keefe.
CA 12 2012 3/13/12 Intersection San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Theater $20,000
To support resident company Campo Santo's development of "Alleluia,The Road," a new play by Luis Alfaro, inspired by August Strindberg's "The Road to Damascus."
CA 12 2012 3/13/12 San Francisco Ballet Association San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Dance $70,000
To support the creation and presentation of new works by several choreographers.
CA 12 2012 3/15/12 Yerba Buena Arts & Events San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Presenting $35,000 To support the "Yerba Buena Gardens Festival."
CA 12 2012 3/19/12
San Francisco Art and Film
Program San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Arts Education $15,000
To support the Teen Film Workshop, an arts education project designed to prepare students for film school and train them for careers in the film industry.
CA 12 2012 3/19/12 San Francisco Symphony San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Arts Education $90,000
To support the Artistic Development Program of the San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra.
CA 12 2012 3/20/12 Exploratorium San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Museum $39,000
To support residencies and creation of art works by contemporary artists on Pier 15, the Exploratorium's new home.
CA 12 2012 3/20/12 San Francisco Opera Association San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Opera $70,000
To support the premiere of "The Gospel of Mary Magdalene" by composer and librettist Mark Adamo.
CA 12 2012 3/21/12 509 Cultural Center San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Visual Arts $25,000
To support the exhibition Pax Americana by American artist David Gurman at the Luggage Store.
State District NEA_FY Grant Date Grantee City Category Discipline Amount Project Description
CA 12 2012 3/27/12
Epiphany Productions Sonic Dance
Theater San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Dance $10,000
To support the "San Francisco Trolley Dances" and associated community outreach activities.
CA 12 2012 4/12/12
Queer Women of Color Media Arts
Project - QWOCMAP San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Media Arts $10,000 To support the Filmmaker Training Program.
CA 12 2012 4/13/12 Bay Area Video Coalition, Inc. San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Media Arts $38,000 To support the Mediamaker Fellows program.
CA 12 2012 4/17/12 San Francisco Chanticleer, Inc. San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Music $60,000 To support a national concert tour and residency program.
CA 12 2012 4/17/12 Women's Audio Mission San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Media Arts $15,000 To support Girls on the Mic.
CA 12 2012 4/18/12 Other Minds San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Music $50,000
To support the Other Minds New Music Preservation Project/radiOM.org, in consortium with Internet Archive.
CA 12 2012 4/30/12 Litquake Foundation San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Literature $10,000
To support the annual literary festival Litquake, featuring readings, performances, cross-media literary events, panel discussions, workshops, and the commissioning of original works of fiction.
CA 12 2012 5/2/12 Center for Asian American Media San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Media Arts $75,000
To support "Memories to Light: Asian American Home Movies," and associated outreach activities.
CA 12 2012 5/3/12
Gray Area Foundation for the Arts,
Inc San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Media Arts $100,000
To support the development and implementation of a series of data-driven art works intended for the public.
CA 12 2012 5/4/12
Ninth Street Media Consortium,
Inc. San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Media Arts $22,000
To support a programmatic collaboration at the Ninth Street Independent Film Center which is a consortium of eight media arts organizations, all housed in one building.
CA 12 2012 5/8/12 Yerba Buena Center for the Arts San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Presenting $50,000
To support Big Ideas, a series of multidisciplinary performances, film screenings, and exhibitions.
CA 12 2012 5/14/12 Streetside Stories, Inc. San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Arts Education $30,000 To support Growing Up With the Arts Project.
CA 12 2012 5/15/12
San Francisco Planning and Urban
Research Association San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Design $25,000 To support Grand Reductions: Ten Diagrams that Shaped the City.
CA 12 2012 5/17/12
National Alliance of Media Arts
Centers, Inc. San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Media Arts $95,000 To support the Pressing Forward project.
CA 12 2012 5/22/12 Cutting Ball Theater San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Theater $20,000
To support the Strindberg Cycle, a presentation of all five chamber plays by Swedish playwright August Strindberg, in consortium with scholars from the Unversity of California at Berkeley's Department of Scandinavian Studies.
CA 12 2012 5/22/12 Merola Opera Program San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Opera $25,000
To support master teachers and instructors at the professional level in a training program for singers, apprentice coaches, and an apprentice stage director.
CA 12 2012 5/30/12
La Pocha Nostra Inter Cultural
Performance & Community Arts San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Theater $10,000
To support a training workshop for national and international performance artists and activists at Cirque Roots, a community arts space in Tucson, Arizona, to culminate in an original public performance.
CA 12 2012 6/4/12 California Lawyers for the Arts, Inc. San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Presenting $15,000
To support training and public meetings on a variety of legal topics for arts professionals.
CA 12 2012 6/12/12
San Francisco Friends of Chamber
Music San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Music $10,000 To support Chamber Music Day, a free day-long chamber music festival.
CA 12 2012 7/5/12 Public Design Studio San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Design $40,000
To support the "1% Program," which connects nonprofits with pro bono services from architecture and design firms.
State District NEA_FY Grant Date Grantee City Category Discipline Amount Project Description
CA 12 2012 7/11/12 LEVYdance, Inc. San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Dance $40,000 To support AMP, in consortium with Headlands Center for the Arts.
CA 12 2012 7/16/12 San Francisco Performances, Inc. San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Presenting $40,000
To support the presentation of commissioned works, as well as world and regional premieres of music and dance works.
CA 12 2012 7/18/12 CounterPulse San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Dance $50,000
To support the CounterPULSE Performing Diaspora program, for dance artists who are using traditional performance as a foundation for experimentation and innovation, in consortium with the National Steinbeck Center.
CA 12 2012 7/24/12 San Francisco Arts Commission San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Arts Education $63,000
To support "WritersCorps," a creative writing program for at-risk youth in underserved public schools.
CA 12 2012 7/31/12 Bay Area Video Coalition, Inc. San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Media Arts $100,000
To support the Factory Hybrid Filmmaking Project, a pilot program for young filmmakers.
CA 12 2012 8/1/12 Abada-Capoeira San Francisco San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Arts Education $26,000
To support capoeira arts residency programs led by traditional artists in underserved Oakland and San Francisco elementary schools.
CA 12 2012 8/6/12 Grabhorn Institute San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Museum $25,000
To support Bookmaking, Writing, and Art, a series of demonstrations, lectures, and exhibitions.
CA 12 2012 8/7/12 Theatre Bay Area San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Theater $40,000 To support the Leveraging Social Media program.
CA 12 2012 8/9/12 Architecture for Humanity San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Design $50,000
To support the planning and development phase of Building Blocks for Sustainable Schools, a pilot program for greening schools nationwide, in consortium with United States Green Building Council's Center for Green Schools.
CA 12 2012 8/15/12 San Francisco Arts Commission San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Local Arts Agencies $20,000
To support the ARTery Project, featuring site-specific installations and performances to take place in the Mid-Market Cultural District.
CA 12 2012 9/7/12 Black Rock Arts Foundation San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Design $75,000 To support the Big Art for Small Towns project in Fernley, Nevada.
CA 12 2013 11/2/12 Garfinkle, Deborah H. San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Literature $12,500
To support the translation of WORM-EATEN TIME, a collection of poems by Czech writer Pavel Srut.
CA 12 2013 11/20/12 San Francisco Symphony San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Music $75,000
To support "A Beethoven Exploration" festival, directed by music director Michael Tilson Thomas.
CA 12 2013 11/30/12
National Alliance of Media Arts
Centers, Inc. San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Media Arts $75,000
To support the Empowered Networks: Transforming the Media Arts Sector in the Digital Age project.
CA 12 2013 11/30/12 Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Music $12,500 To support the concert presentation of Handel's opera "Teseo."
CA 12 2013 11/30/12 San Francisco Film Society San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Media Arts $40,000
To support the annual San Francisco International Film Festival and other related exhibition programs.
CA 12 2013 12/3/12
Kronos Performing Arts
Association San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Music $40,000
To support the commission, development, and rehearsal of a new work by Serbian American composer Aleksandra Vrebalov as part of Kronos Quartet's 40th anniversary season.
CA 12 2013 12/5/12
Cypress Performing Arts
Association San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Music $15,000
To support Call and Response, a concert program featuring a new work by composer Jennifer Higdon with related educational activities.
CA 12 2012 12/14/12
American Conservatory Theatre
Foundation San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Theater $20,000
To support the West Coast premiere of "Scorched" by Lebanese-born Canadian playwright Wadji Mouawad, directed by artistic director Carey Perloff.
CA 12 2013 12/14/12 Smuin Ballets-SF San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Dance $10,000
To support the presentation of West Coast premieres of ballets by choreographers Adam Hougland and Helen Pickett.
State District NEA_FY Grant Date Grantee City Category Discipline Amount Project Description
CA 12 2013 12/19/12
Asian Pacific Islander Cultural
Center San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Challenge America Fast-Track $10,000
To support "75x75x75," an exhibition featuring the work of Flo Oy Wong and co-curated by Pamela Wu Kochiyama and Darryl Smith.
CA 12 2013 12/20/12 Center for Asian American Media San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Media Arts $40,000 To support the 31st San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival.
CA 12 2013 12/21/12 Riley, Atsuro San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Literature $25,000
CA 13 2012 1/4/12 Berkeley Symphony Orchestra Berkeley
Access to Artistic
Excellence Music $15,000
To support commissions, premieres, a mentorship program, and residency activities with composers Paul Dresher and Steven Stucky.
CA 13 2012 1/6/12
Berkeley Society for the Preservation of Traditional Music,
Inc. Berkeley
Access to Artistic
Excellence Music $12,000
To support the Genre Bending Innovators series at Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse in Berkeley, California.
CA 13 2012 1/6/12
Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir,
Inc. Oakland
Access to Artistic
Excellence Challenge America Fast-Track $10,000
To support "Celebrating Our Traditions in Harmony," a choral concert featuring the a cappella ensemble Vocolot.
CA 13 2012 1/19/12 AXIS Dance Company Oakland
Access to Artistic
Excellence Dance $20,000
To support Dance Access & Dance Access/KIDS! education and outreach programs.
CA 13 2012 1/20/12 API Cultural Center Oakland
Access to Artistic
Excellence Challenge America Fast-Track $10,000
To support the development of A History of the Body, performed by artists from The Pagbabalik (Return) Project.
CA 13 2012 2/3/12 Creative Growth, Inc. Oakland
Access to Artistic
Excellence Visual Arts $30,000
To support Around the Corner, Around the World: American Artists with Disabilities in a Contemporary Context, a program of activities for American artists with disabilities.
CA 13 2012 2/13/12 Rhythmix Cultural Works Alameda
Access to Artistic
Excellence Challenge America Fast-Track $10,000
To support the ISLAND ARTS CONCERT SERIES and workshops, featuring musical traditions from islands around the world.
CA 13 2012 2/15/12
ALICE: Arts and Literacy in
Children's Education Oakland
Access to Artistic
Excellence Theater $15,000
To support the development and production of "From the Cradle: Family Stories of Iraqi Refugees and American Vets," an original performance work.
CA 13 2012 2/28/12
Regents of the University of
California at Berkeley Berkeley
Access to Artistic
Excellence Media Arts $30,000 To support the curated film series A Survey of Georgian Cinema.
CA 13 2012 3/6/12 Pro Arts Oakland
Access to Artistic
Excellence Visual Arts $20,000
To support the "New Works Series" featuring new work by Oakland-based artists.
CA 13 2012 3/12/12
Regents of the University of
California at Berkeley Berkeley
Access to Artistic
Excellence Museum $68,000
To support the exhibition Beauty Revealed: Images of Women in Qing Dynasty Chinese Painting at the Berkeley Art Museum, and accompanying catalogue.
CA 13 2012 3/13/12 Threepenny Review Berkeley
Access to Artistic
Excellence Literature $12,500 To support authors' fees for "Threepenny Review."
CA 13 2012 3/14/12 Shotgun Players, Inc. Berkeley
Access to Artistic
Excellence Theater $10,000
To support the creation of "The Berkeley Stories Project," a community-based play created in collaboration with residents from the city of Berkeley.
CA 13 2012 3/14/12 Art Works for Change Oakland
Access to Artistic
Excellence Visual Arts $45,000 To support the exhibition "Natures Toolbox: Biodiversity, Art, and Invention."
CA 13 2012 3/15/12 Kala Institute Berkeley
Access to Artistic
Excellence Artist Communities $20,000
To support artist residencies in visual arts, video, performance, digital media, and book arts.
CA 13 2012 3/19/12 Gamelan Sekar Jaya Berkeley
Access to Artistic
Excellence Folk & Traditional Arts $20,000 To support Artist Residencies: Master Artists from Bali.
CA 13 2012 3/23/12
Regents of the University of
California at Berkeley Berkeley
Access to Artistic
Excellence Opera $75,000
To support performances of "Einstein on the Beach" by composer Philip Glass and librettist Robert Wilson.
State District NEA_FY Grant Date Grantee City Category Discipline Amount Project Description
CA 13 2012 3/27/12 East Bay Performing Arts Oakland
Access to Artistic
Excellence Music $20,000
To support "All That Jazz," a performance project featuring guest artists including jazz composer and pianist Taylor Eigsti, vocalist Paula West, violinist and composer Daniel Bernard Roumain and related outreach activities.
CA 13 2012 4/24/12 Small Press Distribution, Inc. Berkeley
Access to Artistic
Excellence Literature $60,000
To support outreach to literary audiences through the use of accurate and timely bibliographic information on books distributed by SPD, in consortium with the New York Public Library.
CA 13 2012 5/1/12
National Federation of Community
Broadcasters, Inc. Oakland
Access to Artistic
Excellence Media Arts $20,000
To support workshops on arts and cultural programming and the art of radio at the 2012 annual Community Radio Conference.
CA 13 2012 5/14/12 Luna Kids Dance Berkeley
Access to Artistic
Excellence Arts Education $30,000
To support Dance Learning Institutes, providing professional development to dance teaching artists and classroom teachers.
CA 13 2012 6/1/12 Dimensions Dance Theater, Inc. OAKLAND
Access to Artistic
Excellence Dance $15,000 To support the educational outreach program "Rites of Passage."
CA 13 2012 6/4/12 La Pena Cultural Center, Inc. Berkeley
Access to Artistic
Excellence Presenting $25,000
To support "Hip Hop Beyond Gender," a series of performances, workshops, and other activities celebrating the role of women and transgender people in the development of hip hop culture.
CA 13 2012 6/11/12
Diamano Coura West African
Dance Co. Oakland
Access to Artistic
Excellence Folk & Traditional Arts $20,000 To support the 18th Collage des Cultures Africaines.
CA 13 2012 6/20/12 Kitka, Inc. Oakland
Access to Artistic
Excellence Music $25,000
To support an online archive that will document and preserve the vocal ensemble's 32-year performance history and educational activities.
CA 13 2012 7/2/12 Small Press Distribution, Inc. Berkeley
Access to Artistic
Excellence Literature $40,000
To support the expanded distribution of independently published books to booksellers, librarians, educators, and individual readers.
CA 13 2012 7/9/12 Crosspulse Oakland
Access to Artistic
Excellence Dance $25,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new multidisciplinary collaborative work.
CA 13 2012 7/17/12 EastSide Arts Alliance Oakland
Access to Artistic
Excellence Music $10,000
To support "Jazz in Communities," an initiative that uses jazz as a vehicle to unify and strengthen East Oakland.
CA 13 2012 7/26/12 Free History Project Berkeley
Access to Artistic
Excellence Media Arts $20,000
To support production and post production costs for "The Imagination of Jeremy Blake," an experimental non-fiction film about the young New York artist.
CA 13 2012 7/26/12 Community Works West, Inc. Oakland
Access to Artistic
Excellence Arts Education $18,000
To support "Teenalive," a visual arts residency focused on violence intervention and prevention.
CA 13 2012 8/8/12 Oakland Museum of California Oakland
Access to Artistic
Excellence Museum $70,000
To support the digitization and interpretation of the museum's photography collection of works by Andrew J. Russell (1830-1902).
CA 13 2012 8/30/12 Youth Radio Oakland
Access to Artistic
Excellence Federal Partnerships $10,000
In recognition of Youth Radio, for their youth media organization that provides free, intensive training in media arts and journalism to underserved youth.
CA 13 2013 11/2/12 Bellm, Daniel J. Berkeley
Access to Artistic
Excellence Literature $12,500
To support the translation from French of SONG OF THE DEAD, a volume of poetry by Pierre Reverdy.
CA 13 2013 11/2/12 Silver, Katherine A. Berkeley
Access to Artistic
Excellence Literature $12,500
To support the translation from Spanish of three works of contemporary fiction by Daniel Sada.
CA 13 2013 12/3/12 Creative Growth, Inc. Oakland
Access to Artistic
Excellence Visual Arts $35,000
To support Creativity/Connectivity, a yearlong program for artists with disabilities.
CA 13 2013 12/7/12 Bird Greenberg, Miriam Berkeley
Access to Artistic
Excellence Literature $25,000
CA 13 2013 12/18/12 Berkeley Repertory Theatre Berkeley
Access to Artistic
Excellence Theater & Musical
Theater $20,000
To support the world premiere of Dan LeFranc's Troublemaker, or The Freakin Kick-A Adventures of Bradley Boatright, directed by Lila Neugebauer.
State District NEA_FY Grant Date Grantee City Category Discipline Amount Project Description
CA 13 2013 12/18/12
Purple Silk Music Education
Foundation, Inc. Oakland
Access to Artistic
Excellence Arts Education $30,000
To support its Chinese music education program for youth, the Great Wall Youth Orchestra and Chorus.
CA 14 2012 2/3/12
Croatian Cultural Center of San
Francisco San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Folk & Traditional Arts $15,000 To support the 2012 San Francisco Tamburitza Festival.
CA 14 2012 5/8/12 Kulintang Arts San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Folk & Traditional Arts $15,000
To support creation of a choreographed production of the epic Filipino tale of "Ibon Ng Adarna."
CA 14 2012 7/5/12
Independent Television Service,
Inc. San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Media Arts $50,000
To support the selection, acquisition, and packaging of films for the public television series "Independent Lens."
CA 14 2012 7/6/12 San Francisco State University San Francisco
Access to Artistic
Excellence Literature $15,000
To support in-house conversion of hours of digital video-tape masters to MP4 video distribution files.
CA 14 2012 9/11/12 Peninsula Ballet Theatre San Mateo
Access to Artistic
Excellence Arts Education in
American Communities $10,000 To support "Everyone Dances."
CA 16 2012 2/27/12 Radio Bilingue, Inc. Fresno
Access to Artistic
Excellence Folk & Traditional Arts $35,000
To support Radio Bilinge's presentation of the 29th annual "Viva el Mariachi! festival."
CA 16 2012 6/11/12
Arte Americas: The Mexican Arts
Center Fresno
Access to Artistic
Excellence Visual Arts $35,000 To support new staff positions and community programming.
CA 16 2012 6/25/12
Alliance for California Traditional
Arts Fresno
Access to Artistic
Excellence Folk & Traditional Arts $45,000
To support the Traditional Arts Development program and salary support, in collaboration with the California Arts Council.
CA 16 2012 8/13/12
Alliance for California Traditional
Arts Fresno
Access to Artistic
Excellence Folk & Traditional Arts $55,000 To support a statewide traditional arts apprenticeship program.
CA 17 2013 11/30/12 Firebird Youth Chinese Orchestra San Jose
Access to Artistic
Excellence Arts Education $40,000
To support a project to teach young musicians to perform the modern Chinese traditional instrument orchestra setting of Red Detachment of Women, an important work written during the Cultural Revolution.
CA 18 2012 2/29/12 TheatreWorks Palo Alto
Access to Artistic
Excellence Musical Theater $50,000
To support the New Works Initiative for the development of new plays and musicals.
CA 18 2012 3/15/12 Stanford Jazz Workshop Stanford
Access to Artistic
Excellence Arts Education $30,000 To support the 2012 Jazz Camp and Jazz Residency Programs.
CA 18 2012 5/4/12
Abhinaya Dance Company of San
Jose, Inc. San Jose
Access to Artistic
Excellence Folk & Traditional Arts $10,000 To support the Teacher Training Program.
CA 18 2012 5/7/12 Global Lives Project Inc Mountain View
Access to Artistic
Excellence Media Arts $75,000
To support production, post-production, and distribution costs for "Producing Lives in Transit."
CA 18 2012 5/15/12 Global Lives Project Inc Mountain View
Access to Artistic
Excellence Media Arts $40,000
To support the development and pilot of an interactive web platform and video installation of the Global Lives Project.
CA 18 2012 7/30/12 Mozilla Foundation Mountain View
Access to Artistic
Excellence Media Arts $100,000
To support Open(Art) a program to commission artists and technologists to collaborate in the creation and exhibition of artwork on the open Web.
CA 18 2012 8/17/12 Stanford University Stanford
Access to Artistic
Excellence Presenting $30,000
To support Traditional Voices, New Visions performance series and related activities.
CA 18 2013 12/26/12 Stanford University Stanford
Access to Artistic
Excellence Music $32,500
To support the Bing Concert Hall inaugural season celebration with the commissioning and performances of chamber works by composer Jonathan Berger, composer and performer Laurie Anderson with Kronos Quartet, and composer Steve Reich with Alarm Will Sound.
CA 18 2013 12/28/12 Stanford Jazz Workshop Stanford
Access to Artistic
State District NEA_FY Grant Date Grantee City Category Discipline Amount Project Description
CA 19 2012 1/19/12
San Jose Multicultural Artists Guild
Inc. San Jose
Access to Artistic
Excellence Challenge America
Fast-Track $10,000 To support "Jazz Reflections" and related outreach activities.
CA 19 2012 5/31/12
Movimiento de Arte y Cultura
Latino Americana de San Jose, Inc. San Jose
Access to Artistic
Excellence Theater $15,000
To support a production of "Placas," a new bilingual theater production written by Paul S Flores.
CA 19 2012 7/3/12 San Jose Downtown Foundation San Jose
Access to Artistic
Excellence Visual Arts $25,000
To support Downtown Doors, featuring the work of Santa Clara County high school students.
CA 19 2012 7/11/12
ZeroOne - The Art and Technology
Network San Jose
Access to Artistic
Excellence Visual Arts $20,000 To support the biennial exhibition, "Seeking Silicon Valley."
CA 20 2012 1/25/12 Kuumbwa Jazz Society Santa Cruz
Access to Artistic
Excellence Music $17,500
To support the Kuumbwa Jazz Presents NEA Jazz Masters in Concert and Conversation series.
CA 20 2012 1/27/12 Monterey Jazz Festival Monterey
Access to Artistic
Excellence Music $50,000
To support artists fees and travel costs for the 55th annual Monterey Jazz Festival.
CA 20 2012 3/12/12 El Teatro Campesino San Juan Bautist
Access to Artistic
Excellence Theater $20,000
To support the commission, development, and production of "Valley of the Heart" by Luis Valdez.
CA 20 2012 5/21/12 Friends of Olympia Station Santa Cruz
Access to Artistic
Excellence Dance $20,000
To support the touring of "HereAfterHere: A Self-Guided Tour of Eternity," created by choreographer Tandy Beal.
CA 20 2012 7/23/12
Cultural Council of Santa Cruz
County Santa Cruz
Access to Artistic
Excellence Local Arts Agencies $40,000
To support a subgranting program for Santa Cruz County artists and arts organizations.
CA 20 2012 8/29/12
Monterey County Symphony
Association Monterey
Access to Artistic
Excellence Opera $17,500
To support the operatic production of "Amahl and the Night Visitors" by composer and librettist Gian Carlo Menotti.
CA 20 2013 11/28/12
Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary
Music Santa Cruz
Access to Artistic
Excellence Music $15,000
To support a professional development program for conductors and composers.
CA 20 2013 12/14/12 Kuumbwa Jazz Society Santa Cruz
Access to Artistic
Excellence Music $25,000 To support the Kuumbwa Jazz series NEA Jazz Masters in Concert.
CA 24 2012 1/4/12 Music Academy of the West Santa Barbara
Access to Artistic
Excellence Music $10,000 To support the Orchestral Leadership Program.
CA 24 2012 1/30/12
Regents of the University of
California at Santa Barbara Santa Barbara
Access to Artistic
Excellence Presenting $20,000
To support Viva el Arte de Santa Barbara!, a multidisciplinary arts project focusing on Mexican arts and artists, in consortium with Community Youth Performing Arts Center.
CA 24 2012 5/21/12 Cal Poly Corporation San Luis Obispo
Access to Artistic
Excellence Dance $10,000
To support the JumpBrush Pacific Coast Dance Convergence, a biennial dance festival.
CA 24 2012 5/30/12
Regents of the University of
California at Santa Barbara Santa Barbara
Access to Artistic
Excellence Presenting $30,000
To support the Movers & Shakers: Innovators in the Arts series at UCSB Arts & Lectures.
CA 24 2012 8/2/12
Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts
Forum, Inc. Santa Barbara
Access to Artistic
Excellence Visual Arts $15,000 To support "Forum Lounge," and related educational activities.
CA 24 2012 8/29/12 Lobero Theatre Foundation Santa Barbara
Access to Artistic
Excellence Dance $25,000
To support DANCEworks, a residency for an emerging choreographer at the historic Lobero Theatre.
CA 25 2012 7/2/12 California Institute of the Arts Valencia
Access to Artistic
Excellence Presenting $60,000
To support the 20/20 Interdisciplinary Initiative at the Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater.
CA 26 2012 1/17/12 Ojai Festivals, Ltd. Ojai
Access to Artistic
Excellence Music $15,000 To support the Ojai Music Festival.
CA 26 2013 11/30/12 Ojai Festivals, Ltd. Ojai
Access to Artistic
State District NEA_FY Grant Date Grantee City Category Discipline Amount Project Description
CA 27 2012 2/29/12 Armory Center for the Arts Pasadena
Access to Artistic
Excellence Visual Arts $35,000
To support the exhibition "Water, CA" and affiliated community outreach activities.
CA 27 2012 5/25/12 Armory Center for the Arts Pasadena
Access to Artistic
Excellence Arts Education $55,000
To support the Art Empowers Youth Initiative, in consortium with Learning Works Charter School.
CA 27 2012 6/11/12 Pacific Asia Museum Pasadena
Access to Artistic
Excellence Museum $15,000
To support the creation of digital audio tours of the museum's permanent collections.
CA 27 2012 7/10/12 Scripps College Claremont
Access to Artistic
Excellence Museum $10,000
To support "Engagement through Conservation: Conserving a Decorative and Dramatic Chinese Textile."
CA 27 2013 11/30/12 Southwest Chamber Music Society Pasadena
Access to Artistic
Excellence Music $25,000 To support the Los Angeles International New Music Festival.
CA 28 2012 1/25/12 Khakpour, Porochista Glendale
Access to Artistic
Excellence Literature $25,000
CA 28 2012 1/30/12 Engage Inc. Burbank
Access to Artistic
Excellence Presenting $25,000
To support EngAGE in Creativity, a series of multidisciplinary workshops for senior citizens.
CA 28 2012 1/30/12 Ford Theatre Foundation Hollywood
Access to Artistic
Excellence Presenting $40,000 To support the Community Bridges Program.
CA 28 2012 1/31/12
MAK Center for Arts and
Architecture West Hollywood
Access to Artistic
Excellence Design $20,000 To support Schindler Lab, round two.
CA 28 2012 3/2/12 Fountain Theatre Los Angeles
Access to Artistic
Excellence Theater $18,000
To support the development and premiere of a new play by South African playwright Athol Fugard, directed by artistic director Stephen Sachs.
CA 28 2012 4/24/12 Gay Men's Chorus of Los Angeles West Hollywood
Access to Artistic
Excellence Music $10,000
To support the A-Live Music Project, an outreach program for high school students.
CA 28 2012 5/8/12 HeArt Project Los Angeles
Access to Artistic
Excellence Arts Education $65,000
To support visual and performing arts workshops in alternative high schools throughout Los Angeles County.
CA 28 2012 6/20/12 Bethune Theatredanse Los Angeles
Access to Artistic
Excellence Arts Education $25,000
To support Infinite Dreams, a dance instruction program for special-needs youth, in consortium with Pasadena Unified School District.
CA 28 2012 7/2/12
Autry National Center of the
American West Los Angeles
Access to Artistic
Excellence Theater $10,000
To support the development and production of new works for the stage by Native American writers through the Native Voices at the Autry program.
CA 28 2012 7/5/12 Latino Public Broadcasting Burbank
Access to Artistic
Excellence Media Arts $20,000
To support post-production costs for "Mariachi High," an hour-long documentary about a year in the life of students in the top-ranked Mariachi ensemble in South Texas.
CA 28 2012 7/6/12 Blank Theatre Company Hollywood
Access to Artistic
Excellence Theater $10,000 To support the Nationwide Young Playwrights Festival.
CA 28 2012 7/23/12 Los Angeles Poverty Department LOS ANGELES
Access to Artistic
Excellence Theater $15,000
To support the third annual Festival for All Skid Row Artists, a project designed to recognize and encourage creativity in the Skid Row neighborhood of Los Angeles.
CA 28 2012 7/31/12 Bluepalm Los Angeles
Access to Artistic
Excellence Arts Education $14,000
To support the "Micheltorena Dance Project," a professional development program to establish dance and movement-based learning in Micheltorena Elementary School.
CA 29 2012 3/19/12 City of San Fernando, California San Fernando
Access to Artistic
Excellence Arts Education $50,000
To support the Mariachi Master Apprentice Program that brings together professional musicians of Mariachi Los Camperos with mariachi students.
CA 29 2012 8/30/12 City of San Fernando, California San Fernando
Access to Artistic
Excellence Federal Partnerships $10,000
In recognition of the Mariachi Master Apprentice Program, for providing middle and high-school students with intensive instructional experiences that preserve the genre of mariachi music.
State District NEA_FY Grant Date Grantee City Category Discipline Amount Project Description
CA 31 2012 3/23/12 Sinfonia Mexicana San Bernardino
Access to Artistic
Excellence Arts Education in
American Communities $10,000 To support the "Mariachi Youth Academy."
CA 31 2012 9/10/12
Redlands Community Music
Association Redlands
Access to Artistic
Excellence Arts Education in
American Communities $10,000
To support the Asian Performing Arts Series at the Redlands Bowl with supplemental educational activities led by the artists.
CA 32 2012 8/13/12 Mountain View School District El Monte
Access to Artistic
Excellence Arts Education in
American Communities $10,000 To support "Off to the Arts."
CA 33 2012 2/9/12 Museum Associates Los Angeles
Access to Artistic
Excellence Museum $35,000
To support the exhibition CHILDREN OF THE PLUMED SERPENT: THE LEGACY OF QUETZALCOATL IN ANCIENT MEXICO at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, including educational activities.
CA 33 2012 2/10/12 Peninsula Symphony Association Palos Verdes Pen
Access to Artistic
Excellence Challenge America Fast-Track $10,000
To support " Awakening Emotions," a concert featuring pianist Esther Keel, and related outreach activities.
CA 33 2012 2/10/12 Santa Monica Museum of Art Santa Monica
Access to Artistic
Excellence Museum $35,000
To support the exhibition MICKALENE THOMAS: THE ORIGIN OF THE UNIVERSE, including educational activities and an accompanying catalogue.
CA 33 2012 2/27/12
Regents of the University of
California at Los Angeles Los Angeles
Access to Artistic
Excellence Museum $34,000
To support the exhibition ALINA SZAPOCZNIKOW: SCULPTURE UNDONE 1955-1972, and related programming, at the Hammer Museum.
CA 33 2012 4/11/12 Mount Saint Mary's College Los Angeles
Access to Artistic
Excellence Music $20,000
To support the presentation of Chamber Music in Historic Sites by the Da Camera Society.
CA 33 2012 5/7/12 L.A. Theatre Works Venice
Access to Artistic
Excellence Media Arts $20,000
To support the production and distribution of "The Play's the Thing," a radio theater series intended for broadcast on satellite and public radio stations nationwide.
CA 33 2012 5/8/12 Skirball Cultural Center Los Angeles
Access to Artistic
Excellence Presenting $30,000 To support Journeys and Encounters: A Performing Arts Series at the Skirball.
CA 33 2012 5/21/12 Collage Dance Theatre Los Angeles
Access to Artistic
Excellence Dance $20,000 To support site-specific performances choreographed by Heidi Duckler.
CA 33 2012 5/23/12 Somerset Foundation, Inc. Santa Monica
Access to Artistic
Excellence Media Arts $15,000
To support the creation of a DVD version of the three-hour film "On Company Business."
CA 33 2012 6/11/12 Young Musicians Foundation Beverly Hills
Access to Artistic
Excellence Arts Education $15,000
To support the Music Mentors Program in which youth in the Debut Orchestra serve as mentors in instrumental music to 6th graders at Lennox Middle School After-School Program.
CA 33 2012 6/19/12 L.A. Theatre Works Venice
Access to Artistic
Excellence Theater $10,000
To support "The Play's the Thing," a live audio theater performance series featuring renowned actors performing classic and contemporary plays with scripts-in-hand at microphones before live audiences.
CA 33 2012 6/20/12 PEN Center USA West Beverly Hills
Access to Artistic
Excellence Literature $30,000
To support "Freedom to Write," a series of readings, panels, workshops, and outreach programs targeting writers in underserved communities.
CA 33 2012 7/16/12 Dance Camera West Los Angeles
Access to Artistic
Excellence Dance $25,000
To support the presentation of the Dance Camera West Dance Media Film Festival.
CA 33 2013 12/21/12 Vap, Sarah Santa Monica
Access to Artistic
Excellence Literature $25,000
CA 34 2012 1/26/12
Southern California Asian
American Studies Central Los Angeles
Access to Artistic
Excellence Media Arts $20,000
To support Visual Communication's 28th Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film and Video Festival.
CA 34 2012 1/30/12 Piece by Piece Los Angeles
Access to Artistic
Excellence Challenge America Fast-Track $10,000
To support the Visiting Artist Series, a sequence of workshops and lectures featuring mosaic artists Sherri Warner Hunter, Jolino Beserra, Kim Emerson, and Lillian Sizemore.
CA 34 2012 2/21/12 Plaza de la Raza Inc. Los Angeles
Access to Artistic
Excellence Folk & Traditional Arts $15,000
To support Dia De Los Muertos/Day of the Dead Festival at Plaza de la Raza, a traditional Mexican/Chicano celebration.
State District NEA_FY Grant Date Grantee City Category Discipline Amount Project Description
CA 34 2012 2/27/12 Grand Performances Los Angeles
Access to Artistic
Excellence Presenting $45,000
To support "Changing Neighborhoods: Changing Communities," a multidisciplinary arts series at California Plaza.
CA 34 2012 2/28/12 Los Angeles Opera Company Los Angeles
Access to Artistic
Excellence Opera $50,000
To support Benjamin Britten's "Albert Herring" as part of LA Opera's celebration of his centenary.
CA 34 2012 3/19/12 Ryman-Carroll Foundation Los Angeles
Access to Artistic
Excellence Arts Education $30,000
To support the expansion of pre-professional studio art classes for high school students.
CA 34 2012 3/20/12
Project X Foundation for Art and
Criticism Los Angeles
Access to Artistic
Excellence Visual Arts $15,000 To support the reviews section of "X-TRA Magazine."
CA 34 2012 4/18/12
Southern California Asian
American Studies Central Los Angeles
Access to Artistic
Excellence Media Arts $10,000
To support the Digital Histories Project, in consortium with the Little Tokyo Service Center Community Development Corportation.
CA 34 2012 5/4/12
Association for the Advancement
of Filipino American Arts & Culture Los Angeles
Access to Artistic
Excellence Folk & Traditional Arts $20,000
To support the traditional components of the 21st annual "Festival of Philippine Arts & Culture."
CA 34 2012 5/22/12 Aftermath Project Los Angeles
Access to Artistic
Excellence Visual Arts $35,000
To support the development of an interactive online archive and documentation and dissemination of the fifth annual book "War is Only Half the Story."
CA 34 2012 5/30/12
Cornerstone Theater Company,
Inc. Los Angeles
Access to Artistic
Excellence Theater $30,000
To support the development and production of the Urban & Rural Residency Project.
CA 34 2012 6/11/12 The Colburn School Los Angeles
Access to Artistic
Excellence Music $10,000 To support the Musical Encounter Program.
CA 34 2012 6/22/12
Performing Arts Center of Los
Angeles County Los Angeles
Access to Artistic
Excellence Arts Education $70,000
To support the Arts Integration Partnership, a professional development program designed to build capacity for sequential, integrated, standards-based arts instruction.
CA 34 2012 6/25/12 Diavolo Dance Theater Los Angeles
Access to Artistic
Excellence Dance $20,000
To support education and outreach programs presented in conjunction with the company's U.S. Tour.
CA 34 2012 6/26/12
Bilingual Foundation of the Arts
Fundacion Bilingue de las Artes Los Angeles
Access to Artistic
Excellence Opera $22,500
To support the Flamenco opera "Lorca, Child of the Moon" by composer Ian Krouse.
CA 34 2012 6/27/12
Los Angeles County Arts
Commission Los Angeles
Access to Artistic
Excellence Arts Education $100,000
To support Arts for All Residency Grant Program, in consortium with the Los Angeles County Office of Education, that helps school districts devise and implement plans for teaching the arts to public school students.
CA 34 2012 7/16/12 Network of Ensemble Theaters Los Angeles
Access to Artistic
Excellence Theater $35,000
To support the Ensembles All-Together Building Capacity program, a training series designed to increase the organizational capacity and sustainability of ensemble theater companies.
CA 34 2012 7/16/12 Network of Ensemble Theaters Los Angeles
Access to Artistic
Excellence Theater $25,000
To support THEATER OF PLACE CYCLE, a series of convenings that examines the arts as an integral part of the solution to challenges facing communities and explores work that lives at the intersection of art, civics, and community, in consortium with the Americans for the Arts' Animating Democracy program.
CA 34 2012 8/3/12 Renaissance Arts Academy Los Angeles
Access to Artistic
Excellence Arts Education $67,000
To support tuition-free music and dance instruction and ensemble programs for Northeast Los Angeles middle and high school students who have had no previous training.
CA 34 2012 8/7/12
Japanese American National
Museum Los Angeles
Access to Artistic
Excellence Museum $45,000
To support Giant Robot Artists' Entourage, a series of public outreach activities in conjunction with the museum's exhibition Giant Robot III.
CA 34 2012 8/7/12 The Gabriella Foundation Los Angeles
Access to Artistic
Excellence Arts Education $28,000
To support "everybody dance!" a year-round program providing weekly dance classes to students at the Gabriella Charter School.
CA 34 2012 8/15/12 Street Poets, Inc. Los Angeles
Access to Artistic
Excellence Arts Education $34,000
To support Street Poets Poetry Project, poetry writing classes targeted to high-risk youth in juvenile detention centers, continuation schools, public high schools, and community centers.
State District NEA_FY Grant Date Grantee City Category Discipline Amount Project Description
CA 34 2012 8/29/12 Latino Theater Company Los Angeles
Access to Artistic
Excellence Theater $10,000
To support a production of "The Road Weeps, The Well Runs Dry" by Marcus Gardley.
CA 34 2013 12/3/12 East-West Players, Inc. Los Angeles
Access to Artistic
Excellence Theater & Musical
Theater $40,000 To support the world premiere of Christmas In Hanoi by Eddie Borey.
CA 34 2013 12/5/12
Project X Foundation for Art and
Criticism Los Angeles
Access to Artistic
Excellence Visual Arts $20,000 To support the Reviews Section of X-TRA Magazine.
CA 34 2013 12/18/12
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra
Society, Inc. Los Angeles
Access to Artistic
Excellence Music $25,000 To support In Residence/On the Road, a residency and commissioning project.
CA 34 2013 12/18/12
Los Angeles Master Chorale
Association Los Angeles
Access to Artistic
Excellence Music $32,500 To support performances of choral music and related educational activities.
CA 34 2013 12/18/12
Southern California Asian
American Studies Central Los Angeles
Access to Artistic
Excellence Media Arts $20,000
To support Visual Communication's annual Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival.
CA 35 2012 4/11/12 City of Pomona, California Pomona
Access to Artistic
Excellence Arts Education in
American Communities $10,000
To support a multigenerational, hands-on project highlighting the collaborative nature of opera carried out by the City's Cultural Arts Commission.
CA 36 2012 3/16/12 Idyllwild Arts Foundation Idyllwild
Access to Artistic
Excellence Folk & Traditional Arts $20,000 To support the Idyllwild Arts Native American Arts Program and Festival.
CA 37 2012 2/13/12 Symphonic Jazz Orchestra Culver City
Access to Artistic
Excellence Challenge America Fast-Track $10,000
To support a community concert featuring guitarist Lee Ritenour and related outreach.
CA 37 2012 2/22/12 Global Girl Media Culver City
Access to Artistic
Excellence Arts Education $18,000 To support GlobalGirlMedia, a media arts education project.
CA 37 2012 3/5/12 Les Figues Press Los Angeles
Access to Artistic
Excellence Literature $7,500
To support the publication, distribution, and promotion of works of poetry and literary prose from the "TrenchArt" series.
CA 37 2012 4/2/12 Actors' Gang, Inc. Culver City
Access to Artistic
Excellence Theater $10,000
To support the development and presentation of a re-imagined adaptation of Shakespeare's "The Tempest," created by actor, director, and Shakespeare expert Lisa Wolpe.
CA 37 2012 5/30/12 Jazz Tap Ensemble Inc. Los Angeles
Access to Artistic
Excellence Dance $20,000
To support the production of "Masters & Mentors," the third in a series of DVD documentaries of original works by and for the Jazz Tap Ensemble.
CA 37 2012 5/30/12 University of Southern California Los Angeles
Access to Artistic
Excellence Media Arts $40,000
To support production costs for a video game based on the writings of Henry David Thoreau at Walden Pond.
CA 37 2012 6/4/12
National Association of Latino
Independent Producers, Inc. Los Angeles
Access to Artistic
Excellence Media Arts $35,000
To support the 2013 Latino Media Market that will connect filmmakers with representatives from both the nonprofit and commercial film and television fields.
CA 37 2012 6/11/12 Museum of Jurassic Technology Culver City
Access to Artistic
Excellence Folk & Traditional Arts $10,000
To support a series of concerts and events featuring folk music from Central Asia and the Near East.
CA 37 2012 7/12/12 LAXART Los Angeles
Access to Artistic
Excellence Visual Arts $50,000 To support "Made in L.A. 2012."
CA 37 2012 7/19/12 Craft in America, Inc. Los Angeles
Access to Artistic
Excellence Media Arts $75,000
To support the development and launch of short videos featuring craft artists on the "Craft in America" YouTube Channel.
CA 37 2012 8/31/12 Film Independent, Inc. Los Angeles
Access to Artistic
Excellence Media Arts $40,000 To support Talent Development Programs.
CA 37 2013 12/10/12 Sharif-Kazemi, Solmaz Los Angeles
Access to Artistic
Excellence Literature $25,000
CA 38 2012 4/5/12
Friends of Arts Education at the Cerritos Center for the Performing
Arts Cerritos
Access to Artistic
Excellence Arts Education in