Our 2011 Arts and Culture Grantees
Total: 108 grants totaling $1,258,500
Goal: Nurture creativity, support arts education, and broaden cultural participation in order to enrich, develop, and strengthen communities.
Objective One: Invest in the development and the presentation of diverse artistic practices reflective of the myriad communities in the region. Total: $185,000
Objective One Grantees
Bay Area Video Coalition
To support core operations and ensure that more noncommercial artists gain access to, and acquire training in, emerging media technologies by developing new models of production, distribution, exhibition, and marketing for community benefit.
San Francisco
$10,000
CounterPULSE
To support core operations and offer comprehensive support to an ever-broadening community of emerging and established artists in an environment that encourages the creation of original work.
San Francisco
$15,000
Heyday Institute
To support core operations, including efforts to partner with other entities, including bookstores, universities and colleges, libraries, museums, cultural and community centers, and natural science centers, to present 150 book promotion events.
Berkeley
$10,000
Intersection for the Arts
To support core operations: Deliver year-round arts, education, and community engagement programs that directly address the issues and challenges facing the community in collaboration with artists and organizations that support the health, creativity, and vitality of neighborhoods.
San Francisco
$10,000
Margaret Jenkins Dance Company
To support CHIME, a mentorship program between choreographers.
San Francisco
$10,000
Museum of Children’s Art
To support core operations so that children/students will gain fundamental skills in visual art, in accordance with state standards.
Oakland
$10,000
PlayGround
To commission and develop six new plays and facilitate the premiere of three previous commissioned works by some of the most promising new writers.
San Francisco
$10,000
Playwrights Foundation
To support core operations and provide free access to a comprehensive set of programs that serve the artistic needs of playwrights as they create and develop new work.
San Francisco
$10,000
Red Poppy Art House
To support core operations and achieve institutional recognition within the arts-presenting field for its “intimate performance context” as a uniquely impactful, and yet “endangered”, form of arts presenting.
San Francisco
$10,000
San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music
To support the Musical Grant Program, a re-granting program for professional chamber music ensembles in the Bay Area.
San Francisco
$10,000
San Francisco International Arts Festival
To develop and present a bilingual stage play co-commissioned with the Central American Resource Center (CARECEN).
San Francisco
$10,000
ShadowLight Productions
To support hands-on direct community outreach for its unique shadow theatre projects, and to achieve organizational stability and sustainability for the future.
San Francisco
$10,000
Southern Exposure Gallery
To support core operations: Practice the organization’s nimble, flexible, and daring approach to meet the changing needs of visual artists, while providing a vital and critical venue for the public to experience the work and ideas of the local and national visual arts community.
San Francisco
$15,000
StageWrite
To expand and strengthen the Building Literacy through Theatre program in San Francisco elementary schools.
San Francisco
$10,000
The Shotgun Players
To support core operations and the development and production of five commissions within one season.
Berkeley
$15,000
Youth Radio
To support core operations to increase media literacy and media production skills among Bay Area youth.
Oakland
$10,000
Youth Speaks
To support core operations and present opportunities for youth to deeply engage in the art forms of the spoken and written word.
San Francisco
$10,000
Objective Two: Support arts programs that foster creativity, self-expression, cross-cultural exchange, and civic participation for children and young adults. Total $315,000
Objective Two Grantees
Alameda County Office of Education, Alliance for Arts
To support core operations and build the leadership capacity of teachers, arts teachers, and teaching artists through the Arts Integration Specialist Program.
Hayward
$10,000
Alameda Multi-Cultural Community Center
To support the Art Education Program in West End/Title I public schools and to increase opportunities for access to art education by diverse low-income students.
Alameda
$10,000
American Conservatory Theater
To support an enhanced Theater in Schools arts education program with a new Education and Community Programs Division.
San Francisco
$10,000
Asian Art Museum Foundation
To support a broad range of Education and Public Programs that explore all the cultures represented in the museum collection and are designed to reach all levels of education (K-12, college, and adult).
San Francisco
$10,000
California Alliance for Arts Education
To support core operations including the building of leadership and capacity for arts education advocacy in San Mateo County and in the Hayward School District in Alameda County.
Pasadena
$15,000
California Shakespeare Theater
To enhance arts education programming serving under-resourced public schools through school-based artist residencies, access to professional theater performances on the organization’s Main Stage, and arts integration training for teachers.
Berkeley
$10,000
Cantare Con Vivo
To support core operations so that over 1,300 underserved youth in Oakland public schools will gain musical skills, and an appreciation and understanding of music in accordance with California State Visual & Performing Arts (VAPA) standards.
Oakland
$15,000
Center for Cultural Innovation
To support professional development and peer learning opportunities for Bay Area artists and arts administrators through the Creative Capacity Fund.
Los Angeles
$20,000
Children’s Book Press
To support core operations including Phase III Early Reader Initiative.
San Francisco
$15,000
Community Music Center
To support core operations, maintain an enrollment level of 2,300 music students representing a cross section of the community, and present more than 300 concerts in diverse musical forms at the organziation’s facility or at an outreach location.
San Francisco
$10,000
Diablo Ballet
To support the Performing Arts Education & Enrichment for Kids (PEEK) Program, which is run by staff and volunteers to provide in-school dance education and free performances to under-served students who do not have access to the performing arts.
Walnut Creek
$10,000
DrawBridge
To support core operations and serve more than 1,250 unduplicated homeless and other at-risk children annually in Alameda, Marin, San Francisco, and San Mateo counties through the organization’s arts programs.
San Rafael
$15,000
Education Through Music Bay Area
To support quality arts education for students in West Contra Costa by providing music instruction to every student enrolled in three Richmond partner schools.
San Francisco
$15,000
LEAP…Imagination in Learning
To support arts education residency programs in at least 24 Bay Area schools, grades K-8.
San Francisco
$15,000
Loco Bloco Drum and Dance Ensemble
To support core operations for Afro-Latino youth performance arts education programs through a $10,000 matching grant with a 1:1 requirement and additional $5,000.
San Francisco
$15,000
Oakland Museum of California Foundation
To educate K-12 schoolchildren with curriculum-linked interdisciplinary art programs and tours of the Gallery of California, and complete new art curriculum linking the classroom to the gallery.
Oakland
$10,000
Oaktown Jazz Workshops
To support core operations so that youth musicians (ages 8-18) will learn or improve mastery of a musical instrument, and expand their appreciation for ensemble playing.
Oakland
$10,000
Out of Site: Center for Arts Education
To support core operations, specifically teaching artists, and to nurture and support emerging and experienced arts educators.
San Francisco
$15,000
Performing Arts Workshop
To support core operations and serve more than 9,000 at-risk youth at public schools, child development centers, juvenile detention centers, and transitional housing facilities in San Francisco, Alameda, Marin, and San Mateo Counties.
San Francisco
$10,000
Purple Silk Music Education Foundation
To support core operations and provide free, high-quality Chinese instrumental music and choral instruction to more than 500 public school students in Oakland.
Oakland
$10,000
San Francisco Ballet
To support the Center for Dance Education (CDE) programs of Dance in Schools and Communities (DISC) and Ballet in Schools and Communities (BISC).
San Francisco
$10,000
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
To support free school, youth, and family programs over 12 months.
San Francisco
$10,000
San Francisco Opera Association
To support OPERA ARIA (Arts Resources in Action), a comprehensive K-12 education program in partnership with the San Francisco and Alameda County Unified School Districts.
San Francisco
$10,000
San Francisco Symphony
To support operating expenses for the Adventures in Music (AIM) program in public elementary schools.
San Francisco
$10,000
Theatre Bay Area
To support core operations and work with organization’s members, local arts organizations, Bay Area artists, community partners, and funders to unite, strengthen, promote, and advance the theatre community.
San Francisco
$10,000
Youth In Arts
To support curriculum and protocols for integrated arts residencies for students of all abilities in a school-wide model program in West Contra Costa County.
San Rafael
$15,000
Objective Three: Increase opportunities for access by all to participation in diverse cultural and artistic experiences. Total $167,000
Objective Three Grantees
AXIS Dance Company
To support core operations and collaborate with choreographers, musicians, and designers to create new repertory work that challenges traditional notions about dance and disability.
Oakland
$15,000
Californians for the Arts
To support training in advocacy and provide briefings on legislation at the local and state level in San Francisco and Oakland.
San Francisco
$10,000
Canal Welcome Center
To support arts and cultural planning as the vehicle for addressing economic and social justice issues affecting Canal District families.
San Rafael
$10,000
Creative Growth Inc.
To support core operations so that adults with disabilities will have increased access to high-quality arts instruction, helping them grow and develop as artists and as people.
Oakland
$10,000
Creativity Explored of San Francisco
To support core operations so that artists with developmental disabilities will be supported in developing a visual arts practice.
San Francisco
$10,000
Each One Reach One
To support A Dream and A Plan for Tomorrow (ADAPT), a program that uses art to reduce recidivism by shifting an incarcerated youth’s focus to a future beyond prison.
South San Francisco
$15,000
Frameline
To support Frameline at the Center, a series of free monthly screenings of feature-length and short-subject films targeted to the LGBT community.
San Francisco
$10,000
Imagine Bus Project
To support Youth Studio, a weekly visual arts program for incarcerated youth at the San Francisco Juvenile Justice Center.
San Francisco
$15,000
Marin Shakespeare Company
To support a sequential standards-based theatre curriculum for public school students in Marin County, specifically in schools serving low-income youth.
San Rafael
$15,000
Museum of the American Indian
To support core operations and promote appreciation of Native American culture by producing exhibits and events, and showcasing art and culture for public appreciation and education.
Novato
$10,000
Ninth Street Media Consortium
To support the youth media program, TILT (Teaching Intermedia Literacy Tools).
San Francisco
$12,000
Oakland Ballet Company
To support the expansion of the organization’s education/outreach program in partnership with the Oakland Unified School District, focusing on Title 1 public schools.
Oakland
$10,000
Poetry FlashTo support core operations and provide Bay Area readers open access to quality, regional literary journalism.
Berkeley
$10,000
San Francisco Mime Troupe
To support core operations, including ongoing opportunities to experience theater that illustrates the great socio-political issues of our times, and provides a catalyst for reflection and activism.
San Francisco
$15,000
Objective Four: Support the use of art and cultural participation in building communities. Total: $370,500
Objective Four Grantees
3rd I South Asian Independent Film
To support core operations and build community among Bay Area South Asians by screening films that represent their lives and struggles.
San Francisco
$10,000
Abada Capoeira San Francisco Brazilian Cultural Center
To nurture positive development and long-term success of youth served through the organization’s in-school, after-school, weekend, and summer programs.
San Francisco
$15,000
African & African-American Performing Arts Coalition
To support artistic and technical consultant fees associated with the Black Choreographers Festival entitled “Here & Now – 2012.”
San Francisco
$7,500
African American Art and Culture Complex
To support the organizing, outreach, and display of a doll exhibition featuring a collection of 200 African Diaspora-inspired dolls and their makers.
San Francisco
$10,000
Apple of Discord Productions, LLC
To support the San Quentin Media Project.
Emeryville
$50,000
Arab Cultural Center
To support the organization’s cultural programs, including the 17th Annual Arab Cultural Festival.
San Francisco
$15,000
Au Co Vietnamese Cultural Center
To support the Tenderloin Southeast Asian Art and Culture Initiative, a series of activities designed to encourage cultural sharing between Southeast Asian communities in the neighborhood and with the general public.
San Francisco
$8,000
Bayview Hunters Point Center for the Arts and Technology
To support core operations so that youth participants are educated in digital media arts, build their skills with media technology, and become empowered to express themselves artistically, explore academic and community issues, and distribute youth media.
San Francisco
$15,000
Bayview Koshland Fellows
To support a community mosaic project to be mounted on public stairs in the Bayview Hunters Point District and host workshops to produce community art intended to unify disparate populations and showcase the collective history, diversity, and resiliency of residents.
San Francisco
$10,000
Campo Santo
To support core operations, which include the development and creation of plays based on themes, ideas, and questions that are socially relevant to its neighbors and community members.
San Francisco
$10,000
Chinese Culture Foundation of San Francisco
To support core operations, and support and promote the work of artists of Chinese descent that celebrate the accomplishments of the Chinese in America.
San Francisco
$15,000
Dance Brigade
To support core operations and provide an artistic home to thousands of multi-cultural artists, audience members, and youth and adult students in San Francisco that supports their creativity and promotes their values.
San Francisco
$15,000
Dimensions Dance Theater
To support core operations and develop an appreciation for the extraordinary contribution that Congolese culture has made to the music and dance of the Americas among diverse audiences.
Oakland
$10,000
East Bay Center for the Performing Arts
To support core operations and engage all children, youth, and young adult participants (roughly 2,000 in total) to see the world and themselves differently, and to see possibilities for change.
El Cerrito
$10,000
Galería/Studio 24
To support core operations and the long-term goal of becoming a sustainable organization conducting high-quality arts programs that express social justice issues from a Latino perspective and serve Latinos of all income levels.
San Francisco
$15,000
Islamic Cultural Center of Northern California
To develop a funding plan for art and cultural programs.
Oakland
$10,000
Kearny Street Workshop
To support core operations and support Asian American artists by producing, presenting, and promoting their work.
San Francisco
$10,000
Kulintang Arts, Inc.
To support core operations, and increase understanding of and community pride in Pilipino art, culture, and traditions through the development of two contemporary productions based in Pilipino history and folklore.
San Francisco
$10,000
La Peña Cultural Center
To support core operations including implementation of the organization’s newly adopted strategic plan.
Berkeley
$15,000
Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center
To support core operations, and create a cultural consultation package and train staff to be cultural consultants in order to help community groups and audiences increase their understanding of how to access and work with Mexican American and Mexican immigrant communities.
San Pablo
$15,000
Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
To support exhibition programs.
San Francisco
$10,000
Na Lei Hulu I Ka Wekiu
To produce “Hanohano Kapalakiko,” a full-length dance theater work featuring specially commissioned music and choreography that will celebrate the historical ties between San Francisco and Hawai’i.
San Francisco
$10,000
Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir
To support core operations, and maintain current level and high artistic quality of free, low-cost, and ticketed engagements for Oakland residents and audiences from other communities in the region.
Oakland
$10,000
Queer Cultural Center
To support core operations so that the Center can effectively operate its commissioning, presenting, website, education, and technical services programs at a critical financial juncture in the organization’s history.
San Francisco
$15,000
Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project
To support core operations, and enrich film culture and expand the number of high-quality films created by queer women of color by providing professional training in screenwriting, film directing, and video production.
San Francisco
$15,000
Rock Paper Scissors Collective
To support core operations, and exhibit the work of artists from underrepresented communities, as well as local youth, working with the theme of food justice.
Oakland
$10,000
SomArts Cultural Center
To support core operations, and present a dynamic array of exhibition programming similar to the number of events, audience capacity, and range of participation opportunities established in 2010-11.
San Francisco
$10,000
Youth Movement Records
To support core operations, and build a youth artistic movement based on principles of justice, equality, and social engagement that creates an alternative to the derogatory and oppressive images targeting young people through the media.
Oakland
$15,000
Objective Five: Support efforts to deepen, expand, and diversify audiences for artistic and cultural presentations. Total $196,000
Objective Five Grantees
3rd I South Asian Independent Film
To support core operations and build community among Bay Area South Asians by screening films that represent their lives and struggles.
San Francisco
$10,000
509 Cultural Center/Luggage Store
To provide partial support of a Facilities Manager position to oversee the organization’s three venues.
San Francisco
$15,000
AcroSports
To support the City Circus program, the only long-run annual circus performance in the Bay Area.
San Francisco
$10,000
AfroSolo Theatre Company
To support the 18th Annual AfroSolo Arts Festival, an artist-driven festival that addresses community issues while celebrating Black theater, dance, spoken word, music, and visual art.
San Francisco
$8,000
The Alliance for California Traditional Arts
To support core operations for Bay Area activities, which include stimulating the development and strengthening the capacity of an enormously diverse field of folk and traditional arts in the Bay Area.
San Francisco
$10,000
Cultural Odyssey
To support core operations, which include expanding, deepening, and improving relationships with community partners and segments of their community, allowing the organization to build and diversify under-served audiences.
San Francisco
$15,000
Dancers’ Group
To support core operations and reach a diverse audience of dance artists, dance lovers, and first-time viewers of all ages through free programming in non-traditional venues showcasing and supporting the full cultural, stylistic, and aesthetic range of forms of dance in the Bay Area.
San Francisco
$15,000
Destiny Arts Center
To support core operations and violence prevention through performing arts, martial arts, and youth leadership development.
Oakland
$10,000
foolsFURY Theater Company
To support core operations and greater access to programs by providing low-cost ticket options and partial scholarships to at least 30% of the students in its education and training programs.
San Francisco
$10,000
Lorraine Hansberry Theatre
To support capacity building addressing the issues of overall organizational capacity, transition strategies, long-range strategic planning, and board and program development.
San Francisco
$15,000
New Conservatory Theatre Center
To support core operations, and increase and diversify the organization’s in-house audiences, which will result in an overall increase in attendance and more diversity among audience members.
San Francisco
$10,000
Oakland East Bay Symphony
To support core operations and present live professional symphonic and collaborative artistic performances to diverse audience of 23,000 in East Bay communities.
Oakland
$10,000
Oakland Youth Orchestra
To support three free public concert programs.
Oakland
$10,000
Radar Productions
To support core operations and accelerate its evolution into a financially sustainable organization that actively stimulates the production and consumption of queer literature.
San Francisco
$10,000
Rhythmix Cultural Works
To build organizational capacity and increase the size and diversity of audiences.
Alameda
$10,000
San Francisco Chamber Orchestra
To support core operations and increase the percentage of non-traditional classical music audience members in terms of first-time chamber music concert attendees and cultural and ethnic diversity.
San Francisco
$10,000
Sixth Street Photography Workshop
To support Night and the City, which explores the art of night and portrait photography in a community collaboration.
San Francisco
$8,000
Stern Grove Festival Association
To support “Explore Music and More,” a series of interactive outreach activities for children and Festival patrons, designed to deepen their understanding of music and dance.
San Francisco
$10,000
World Arts West
To support core operations and support participation of culturally-rooted dance companies in the Festival, sharing their cultural forms with the community and allow audiences the opportunity experience and participate in the diverse artistic practices of our region.
San Francisco
$10,000