Grants: Year 1990

Arts Advocacy / Creative Autonomy

RECIPIENT PURPOSE 1990 AWARDS 1990
PAYMENTS
GRANTS PAYABLE 12/31/90
American Association of Museums/National Cultural Alliance
Washington, DC
To build a national coalition that develops public support for the arts and humanities. $50,000   $50,000
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation
New York, New York
To create the Project on Art Censorship. 200,000 100,000 100,000
American Council for the Arts
Washington, DC and New York, NY
For nationwide work advising arts administrators, elected officials, and the general public on critical, current topics in American arts and culture. 55,000 55,000  
Contemporary Arts Center
Cincinnati, Ohio
General support. 30,000 30,000  
New York Foundation for the Arts
New York, New York
To launch a national, public information and education effort concerning the role of the individual artist in contemporary society. 40,000 40,000  
People for the American Way
Washington, DC
To develop Artsave, a nationwide research, technical assistance and education project to protect freedom of expression in the visual and performing arts. 55,000 55,000  
Theatre Communications Group
New York, New York
To launch a 5-year plan to support the changing needs of American theater nationwide in the areas of cultural diversity, problems of individual artists, and public advocacy on behalf of the theater. 50,000 50,000  

Arts Education

RECIPIENT PURPOSE 1990 AWARDS 1990
PAYMENTS
GRANTS PAYABLE 12/31/90
Affiliate Artists, Inc.
New York, New York
For evaluation and development methods to replicate the Detroit Arts-in-Education program in seven cities for schools whose students are academically at risk. $50,000 $50,000  
Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation
New York, New York
To replicate the Kansas City AileyCamp, which uses dance as a vehicle to promote self esteem and creativity in children. 50,000 50,000  
Educational Video Center
New York, New York
To train at-risk high school students to produce video documentaries about issues in their lives. 50,000 50,000  
52nd Street Project
New York, New York
To enable homeless children to work with professional theater artists to create theater. 5,000 5,000  
Woodland Joint Unified School District
Knights Landing, California
To bring the Art Ark to the Grafton Elementary School. 550 550  
New York University
New York, New York
For the Goldwater Poetry Teacher Training Fellowships. Fellows teach severely disabled adults to write poetry. 2,000   2,000
Urban Gateways
Chicago, Illinois
To launch the Chicago Arts Partners Program. 50,000   50,000

New Agendas / Access & Diversity

RECIPIENT PURPOSE 1990 AWARDS 1990
PAYMENTS
GRANTS PAYABLE 12/31/90
Acting Company
New York, New York

 

For the Expanded Diversity Project, to increase the multicultural composition for company, staff, and national audience. $50,000 $50,000  
Alternative Museum
New York, New York
For an affordable, traveling exhibition about contemporary social issues. 10,000 10,000  
American Festival Project/Appalshop
Whitesburg, Kentucky
To further the collaborative, community based arts and education work in Appalachia. 40,000 40,000  
Appalshop
Whitesburg, Kentucky
General support. 60,000 60,000  
Arena Stage
Washington, D.C.
To develop a multicultural acting company and create a minority fellowship program. 50,000 50,000  
California Institute of the Arts
Valencia, California
To create collaborations between the Institute and community based arts groups. 150,000   150,000
California Newsreel
San Francisco, California
For the Library of African Cinema project. 25,000 25,000  
District Curators
Washington, D.C.
To present and produce multicultural contemporary performing arts. 7,500 7,500  
International Film Circuit
New York, New York
To implement a nonprofit film import, distribution and exhibition plan to make quality films from other cultures available in the United States. 25,000 25,000  
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Los Angeles, California
For the educational component of Degenerate Art: the Fate of the Avant Garde in Nazi Germany. 40,000 40,000  
Lincoln Center Theater
New York, New York
To build an audience of nontraditional theater goers through a subsidized membership program. 50,000 50,000  
Museum of Contemporary Art
Los Angeles, California
For First Visit and Beyond, a community outreach program to multicultural museum audiences. 50,000   50,000
New York Foundation for the Arts
New York, New York
For a delegation from New York's culturally specific institutions to the 1990 conference of the Association of American Cultures. 5,000 5,000  
Spoleto Festival
Charleston, South Carolina
For the site-specific, international sculpture show. 50,000 50,000  
Women's Project and Productions, Inc.
New York, New York
For the Director's Forum to develop, promote and produce talented women directors. 25,000 25,000  
World Music Institute
New York, New York
To promote and present music nationwide, particularly from recent immigrant groups. 30,000 30,000  

Arts Entrepreneurs

RECIPIENT PURPOSE 1990 AWARDS 1990
PAYMENTS
GRANTS PAYABLE 12/31/90
En Garde Arts
New York, New York
To support theater inspired by sites of architectural, social and historical significance. $35,000 $35,000  
Independent Curators
New York, New York
For bilingual educational material in connection with the exhibit Through the Paths of Echoes: Contemporary Art in Mexico and for travel to institutions with Hispanic audiences. 25,000 25,000  
Labor Heritage Foundation
Washington, DC
To preserve and make accessible the work of artist Ralph Fasanella, documenting working class life and the labor movement. 24,000 24,000  
Tibet House
New York, New York
To bring Tibetan art and culture to an American audience. 7,000   7,000
Triplex: Under One Roof
New York, New York
To support new, interdisciplinary, cross-cultural works for the stage. 25,000 25,000
TOTAL 1990 GRANTS $1,471,050 $1,062,050 $409,000