National Endowment for the Arts FY 2017 Spring Grant Announcement

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by  Roman Ivanchenko

National Endowment for the Arts
FY 2017 Spring Grant Announcement

Artistic Discipline/Field Listings

Project details are accurate as of June 5, 2017. For the most up to date project information, please use
the NEA's online grant search system.

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1. Art Works grants by discipline/field
 Arts Education
 Dance
 Folk & Traditional Arts
 Literature
 Local Arts Agencies
 Media Arts
 Museums
 Music
 Opera
 Presenting & Multidisciplinary Works
 Theater & Musical Theater
 Visual Arts

2. Research: Art Works Grants

3. Our Town Grants

4. Partnerships (State & Regional)
Arts Education
Number of Grants: 113 Total Dollar Amount: $3,375,000

Abada-Capoeira San Francisco
$10,000 San Francisco, CA
To support the expansion of a capoeira residency and performance program for students in San
Francisco area schools. Students will learn capoeira, a traditional Afro-Brazilian art form that combines
ritual, self-defense, acrobatics, and music in a rhythmic dialogue of the body, mind, and spirit. Students
will develop their physical and cognitive skills through weekly classes with professional artists, learning
the physical elements of the art form, the music, historical and cultural information, and performance
concepts. Students will work in partners and as a group, interacting in an atmosphere that encourages
creativity and spontaneity. Emphasis will be placed on teamwork, concentration, and the use of
movement, rhythm, and song as methods of expression.

Actors' Shakespeare Project (aka ASP)
$30,000 Somerville, MA
To support Shakespeare Inside and Out youth theater programs. Participating youth (many of whom are
involved in the court system) develop artistic, literacy, social, and pre-professional skills through the
study of Shakespeare and other ensemble-based theater projects. Through residencies, after-school
programs, a summer intensive, and leadership development, participants have the opportunity to create
and share their own work. This project supports the Massachusetts Department of Youth Service's goal
to create systemic change by incorporating arts education into all of its facilities. All activities culminate
in a public performance and youth-led, post-show discussions.

American Festival for the Arts (aka AFA)
$15,000 Houston, TX
To support Summer Music Conservatory, a music education program for students from the greater
Houston area. For several weeks during the summer, professional musicians and music educators will
provide instruction in strings, piano, choir, wind and brass instruments, and music composition.
Students will participate in large ensembles, chamber or small ensembles, individual coaching sessions,
and musicianship classes. In summer 2017, the program will expand to include elementary level piano
and orchestra. Conservatory faculty and guest conductors will ensure students gain skills and knowledge
in music as well as learn the value of teamwork, discipline, motivation, and leadership. Students are
selected through an audition process, and scholarships are widely available.

Architecture Resource Center Inc. (aka ARC)
$10,000 New Haven, CT
To support the Design Connections Partnership. The professional development program, which
integrates arts learning in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) subjects, will serve
teachers in New Haven Public Schools. Master teaching artists, architects, and designers from
Architecture Resource Center and Yale University will mentor and collaborate with classroom teachers
and art teachers through professional development sessions and school residencies. Students will learn
how to express themselves through the visual arts, how to communicate their ideas, how to work in
teams to solve problems, and how to apply academic concepts in their lives and their communities.

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Arts Every Day, Inc (aka Arts Every Day)
$50,000 Baltimore, MD
To support Baltimore Arts Equity Initative (BAEI), a collective impact project to develop infrastructure
and an implementation approach for arts education in Baltimore City Public Schools. Arts Every Day will
engage key stakeholders, including Baltimore Arts Education Coalition, Arts Education in Maryland
Schools, Maryland State Department of Education, Maryland Out of School Time, Family League of
Baltimore, Baltimore Neighborhood Indicators Alliance, and T. Rowe Price Foundation to support and
expand upon Baltimore City Public Schools' Fine Arts Plan. In the first year, the project's leadership team
and committees will research local and national collective impact arts education models, assess needs,
define shared goals and indicators, and connect the BAEI plan to citywide cultural planning processes. In
the second year of the project, BAEI will pilot an arts-rich program in several schools, collect data,
leverage new and existing resources, adopt and implement district policies that meet state arts
education standards, and produce and present a State of the Arts progress report. The majority of
students in Baltimore City Schools are eligible for free or reduced lunch, an indicator of poverty.

Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University
$15,000 Chicago, IL
To support the Auditorium Theatre ArtsXChange program. Teaching Artist Mentors will be hired to
provide year-long professional development to Chicago Public School teachers through workshops and
classroom residencies. Teachers and their mentors will work together to design, facilitate, and assess
student art-making, with teachers providing more instructional leadership over time. The residencies
include opportunities for teachers and their students to experience matinee performances at the
Auditorium Theatre, a national historic landmark. The project is aligned with the Chicago Public Schools
Arts Education Plan.

Austin Chamber Music Center (aka ACMC)
$20,000 Austin, TX
To support year-round chamber music instruction. The program includes a two-and-a-half week summer
chamber music workshop, a ten-day chamber music residential camp, an academic year Saturday
Chamber Music Academy, and an in-school coaching program at Austin-area schools. The summer
workshop occurs simultaneously with the Austin Chamber Music Festival, and festival artists such as the
Vienna Piano Trio and the Tokyo String Quartet will present master classes to participants. Students in
the chamber music residential camp will have the benefit of learning from professional artists-in-
residence. In the Saturday Chamber Music Academy and in-school programs, professional teaching
artists will provide chamber music coaching, music theory and composition classes, and master classes
to elementary, middle, and high school students.

Austin Classical Guitar Society (aka Austin Classical Guitar (ACG))
$55,000 Austin, TX
To support Classical Guitar Education in the Schools. The project is a classical guitar instruction program
for students in Central Texas that includes professional development for teachers. Classical guitar
instructors will provide lessons to elementary, middle, and high school students in music theory, guitar
finger positioning, and performance technique. Public, private, and charter schools will be served,
including a braille-adapted course at Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired and special classes
for court-involved youth in Travis County. Additional program components will include guest artist
performances in the schools and the opportunity for students to audition for the Classical Guitar Youth

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Orchestra. Through national teacher training workshops, hundreds of music educators in cities around
the country will learn the Austin Classical Guitar curriculum for use in their own guitar classes.

Austin Independent School District (aka AISD)
$100,000 Austin, TX
To support the collective impact project Breaking Down Barriers: Sustaining Creative Learning Campuses
in Austin. Creative Learning Initiative seeks to provide a quality arts-rich education for each and every
child in AISD and professional development and ongoing support for teachers in arts-based instructional
strategies. The collaboration of AISD, the City of Austin, MINDPOP, local artists, businesses, and
philanthropic organizations has supported AISD campuses in the completion of foundational phases to
increase their capacity to become arts-rich schools. This project will facilitate the transition of campuses
to their sustaining phases by offering individualized coaching to campus leaders, support for the
creation of campus-specific sustainability plans, and resources and handbooks to guide planning and
decision-making, as well as a Leadership Institute and follow-up Learning Exchanges.

BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn, Inc. (aka BRIC)
$50,000 Brooklyn, NY
To support the expansion of 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-school classroom workshops and student exhibitions. Classroom teachers 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.

Baltimore School for the Arts Foundation, Inc. (aka Baltimore School for the Arts, TWIGS)
$20,000 Baltimore, MD
To support the expansion of TWIGS (To Work In Gaining Skills), a free multidisciplinary arts education
program. Students from underserved communities will take classes in dance, music, visual arts, theater,
media arts, and stage production during after-school hours and on Saturdays. The project curriculum
will build upon the natural talents and interests students have in the arts while developing beneficial life
skills and expanding their arts literacy. In addition, students will receive additional hours of audition
preparation with teaching artists. Support will allow the Baltimore School for the Arts to expand the
dance and music classes to 28 weeks. Project partners will include the Boys and Girls Club of
Metropolitan Baltimore, the Family League of Baltimore, and the Baltimore City Council.

Barrel of Monkeys Productions (aka Barrel of Monkeys)
$10,000 Chicago, IL
To support creative writing and theater residency programs. Creative writing and drama residencies will
take place in underserved elementary schools and will promote literacy, writing skills, and social and
emotional development, while exposing students to the performing arts. The curriculum includes
theater games, collaborative story writing activities, group performance opportunities, and individual
writing time, with the objectives of building students' creative writing skills, collaborative abilities, and
confidence in self-expression. Each residency will culminate in a schoolwide performance of stories
written by the students and adapted into sketches and songs by professional actors and musicians. The

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project is in alignment with citywide efforts to improve the delivery of arts education to Chicago public
school students.

Broadway Center for the Performing Arts (aka Broadway Center)
$10,000 Tacoma, WA
To support Latino Folkloric Arts Education Initiative. Students will participate in after-school and
summer immersion programs in ballet folklorico and world drumming. Students will perform at various
community venues for their peers, teachers, parents, and the community. Best practices and scalable
models from the initiative will be disseminated through a white paper, presentations at regional arts
conferences, and publications.

Caldera (aka Camp Caldera)
$35,000 Portland, OR
To support a year-round transmedia arts project for Oregon youth from underserved communities. The
Geography of We program includes an overnight summer arts camp, in-school and after-school arts
learning sessions, Saturday classes, spring break workshops, and professional development for teaching
artists. Focused on storytelling techniques that range from traditional forms to digital media,
professional artists in film, animation, photography, writing, music, painting, sculpture, and design will
guide students to explore their identity through the central theme of air. Students will create and
showcase both web-based and physical maps that link their art to a sense of place.

California Institute of the Arts (aka CalArts) (On behalf of Community Arts Partnership)
$35,000 Valencia, CA
To support the CalArts Community Arts Partnership Summer Arts (CAPSA) program. In partnership with
the Los Angeles Unified School District, CalArts art faculty will provide high school students tuition-free,
intensive arts instruction in acting, animation, creative writing, dance, music, and visual art. Participants
will go on field trips to arts exhibitions, theatrical productions, screenings, and concerts. The project
culminates in documentation of student work for portfolios and auditions, and a day-long performance
and exhibition for parents and the surrounding community.

Cantare Con Vivo
$10,000 Oakland, CA
To support the Children's Choirs of Oakland program. Program components will include tuition-free, in-
school music classes for students of all grade levels in the Oakland Unified School District. Teaching
artists will teach fundamental music skills and integrate music into language arts and social studies,
covering topics such as Native American and early colonial music, sea shanties, spirituals, and music of
the Civil Rights Era. In after-school choir classes, students will learn vocal music concepts and sing in a
variety of languages such as Hebrew, Arabic, Spanish, Italian, Latin, Mandarin, and Japanese. The
program will also feature the Honor Choir, the Spira Choir, and the Nova Choir for middle and high
school students, who will have multiple opportunities to perform in concerts and community events.

Center for World Music (aka Center for World Music and Related Arts)
$15,000 Encinitas, CA
To support artist-teachers and related costs for World Music and Dance in the Schools. Artists from
around the globe will provide weekly hands-on instruction in the traditional music and dance of Asia,
Latin America, Africa, and Europe for San Diego-area school students. The artist-teachers, who are
culture-bearers and experts in their fields, will use teaching styles that reflect the culture from which

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their art forms come and the traditions that they uphold. By introducing students to master artists, they
will learn about unique musical and dance traditions from many different cultures, explore and
understand their place in the world, and develop creativity and self-confidence.

Changing Worlds
$10,000 Chicago, IL
To support the Peacemakers Project. Residencies at partner school sites will be led by a teaching artist
and literacy specialist team working in collaboration with a classroom art teacher and a language arts
teacher during the school day. The curriculum will promote long-term academic success and civic
engagement through integrating peacemaking with arts learning and creative writing. Students will
examine issues affecting their neighborhoods, create original writings and works of art about the
contributions of community members to peacemaking, and implement a strategy to share the message
of peacemaking in their communities.

Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education (aka CAPE)
$75,000 Chicago, IL
To support Collaboration Laboratory. The project is an after-school and weekend professional
development and coaching for Chicago Public School administrators and teachers. Participants will learn
how to use inquiry-based, arts integrated teaching. Teaching artists and teachers will collaborate in
using new skills learned in the classroom through residencies during the school year. CAPE's long-
standing partners, including arts organizations, galleries, and community groups throughout Chicago,
provide resources such as teaching artist development, and insight on school and community needs.

City and County of San Francisco, California (aka San Francisco Arts Commission) (On behalf of
WritersCorps)
$34,000 San Francisco, CA
To support San Francisco WritersCorps. The project is a creative writing program that serves youth from
underserved communities. Working primarily in language arts classrooms and using creative writing
activities thematically linked to literature, writers will work in schools for approximately eight months to
supplement the curricula and strengthen students' writing skills. Activities will take place during and
after the school day, primarily in underserved public schools, juvenile halls, arts and social service
organizations, and public libraries. Support for teaching artists includes monthly cohort meetings and
professional development trainings. Students' work will be published in anthologies, chapbooks, and
broadsides; recorded for social media; and performed at a variety of poetry events, including the annual
literary festival WordStorm.

Collaborative for Educational Services, Inc.
$30,000 Northampton, MA
To support the Speak Up, Speak Out: Girls in the Juvenile Justice System Explore Arts and Self project. A
professional teaching artist from Enchanted Circle Theater will lead an arts integration program for teen
girls in Department of Youth Services (DYS) Treatment Centers in Massachusetts. The project activities
will build self-awareness, positive self-presentation skills, and artistic expression for girls in trauma and
transition. The project curriculum will incorporate self-reflection to gauge artistic vision, communication
skills, productivity, and motivation.

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Community-Word Project, Inc. (aka CWP)
$25,000 New York, NY
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 and create painted canvas
murals based on a line of poetry chosen from one 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.

Country Music Foundation, Inc. (aka Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum)
$25,000 Nashville, TN
To support Words & Music. Museum educators and professional songwriters provide year-long
professional developmment for teachers in the Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools to incorporate
into class curriculum the Words & Music Teacher's Guide and sequential lesson plans to teach students
about the art of songs and the aesthetic techniques of creating lyrics. In the classroom, teachers will
lead their students in creating and revising their lyrics through a process of experimentation with
traditional song structures and components of effective lyrics. Folk and country music songwriting is
based in oral traditions and passed along from mentors to apprentices through co-writing and creative
problem solving. Students will gain access to these traditions by working with professional songwriters
from the Nashville music industry, who will guide the students to set their lyrics to music. In alignment
with the school district's Music Makes Us initiative, teachers receive training to link Words & Music to
English Langauge Arts curricula, including composition and revision, vocabulary, themes, messages,
titles, and rhyme.

Critical Exposure (aka Critical Exposure)
$15,000 Washington, DC
To support a photography education and youth empowerment program. During the school year and in
the summer, high school students from underserved neighborhoods will explore their artistic and
leadership potential in their schools and communities through photography and creative writing
workshops led by teaching artists. In collaboration with classroom educators in D.C. public schools,
teaching artists will guide students to create their own visual stories of identity and perseverance.
Student work will be exhibited in galleries, libraries, and other public spaces throughout D.C. Project
partners will include Women Photojournalists of Washington, the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting,
and FotoWeek DC.

DC Youth Orchestra Program (aka DCYOP)
$15,000 Washington, DC
To support the Children's Orchestra, an after-school string orchestra program for D.C. public school
students in Title I elementary schools. At no cost to the students or the school, teaching artists will
provide as many as two hours of instrumental music instruction three times each week through group
lessons and string orchestra rehearsals. The project has served two schools and is expanding to a third
school. In addition, the project will include side-by-side performances and master classes with
professional musicians, such as those from the National Symphony Orchestra, and the opportunity to
perform in professional concert venues, such as The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and
THEARC.

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Deep Center, Incorporated (aka Deep Center)
$20,000 Savannah, GA
To support Savannah Stories, a creative writing literacy program for youth. After-school workshops will
take place in public schools and community centers and will be led by professional teaching writers
trained in Deep Center's curriculum. Workshops will include instruction in creative writing skills, one-on-
one mentoring, and feedback. Student work will be featured in printed anthologies and performed at
public readings and book launch events. The program serves middle and high school youth.

Diversity of Dance, Inc. (aka Earl Mosley's Institute of the Arts)
$20,000 Brooklyn, NY
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 participate in technique classes such as ballet, modern, African, jazz, and
hip-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.

DreamYard Project, Inc. (aka DreamYard)
$40,000 Bronx, NY
To support professional development and coaching of elementary school teachers. The project will
expand the number of classroom teachers collaborating with teaching artists to develop curriculum that
integrates music, poetry, dance, and visual arts and implement it during in-school, after-school, and
summer residencies. The professional development and residencies are aligned with New York City
Department of Education's Blueprint for Teaching and Learning in the Arts and the John F. Kennedy
Center for the Performing Arts' approach to arts integration. Online student learning portfolios will
measure the effectiveness of the project and remain as an archive of their original work, creative
process, and personal reflections.

Dynamic Forms, Inc. (aka Mark DeGarmo Dance)
$25,000 New York, NY
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. Students will create original choreography
around themes such as 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.

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ETM-LA, Inc. (aka Education Through Music-Los Angeles)
$25,000 Burbank, CA
To support weekly, year-long music instruction for students in Los Angeles public schools. Teaching
artists will provide general music and instrumental music instruction to students through in-school
classes in strings, ukulele, band, guitar, recorder, and chorus. Students will perform in mid-year and
year-end student concerts at school as well as in the community. The program will include professional
development for classroom teachers to learn how to integrate the arts into the curriculum. Participating
schools host community events and festivals, and students will have the opportunity to attend events
such as professional symphony concerts.

Education Through Music, Inc. (aka ETM)
$45,000 New York, NY
To support the Bronx Partner School Program. The year-long music education program for youth in the
Bronx will include weekly music instruction for students by qualified teaching artists; customized,
ongoing training and professional development for school music teachers, classroom teachers, and
principals; and outreach to parents and the community. Through long-term partnerships with schools,
project activities will support student learning in music as well as build capacity among school and
community members to sustain music programs. The program will include resource manuals for
teachers, school performances by professional artists, and performance opportunities for students at
community events, including an annual festival that will bring Education Through Music schools
together.

Elaine Kaufman Cultural Center-Lucy Moses School for Music and Dance (aka Kaufman Music
Center)
$20,000 New York, NY
To support 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 at the
Special Music School at P.S. 859, the only K-12 public school for musically gifted students in the New
York City Department of Education. The school's curriculum is based on a standardized course of
academic study, delivered alongside a conservatory-quality music program during the regular school
day. Working with an accomplished faculty, students will become proficient and knowledgeable
musicians performing regularly and interacting with notable guests and resident artists such as flutist
James Galway and violinist Joshua Bell.

Engaging Creative Minds (aka ECM)
$36,000 Charleston, SC
To support Engaging Creative Minds' Tri-County Continuous Improvement and Evaluation System.
Curriculum coaches work with school-based teams of teachers from Charleston County School District to
select an art form to address learning standards that are difficult for students to grasp. Planning
together, the teaching artists and teachers develop a curriculum unit and work in classrooms with
students. Teaching artists engage students in creative ways to reach higher levels of learning through
the arts while also providing professional development for teachers to learn to integrate similar creative
approaches into their curriculum.

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Epic Theatre Center, Inc. (aka Epic Theatre Ensemble)
$35,000 New York, NY
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 performance for community audiences.
Students also may elect to 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.

Eskolta School Research and Design, Inc. (aka Eskolta)
$25,000 New York, NY
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
studies, strengthen social-emotional competencies, and offer potential 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 for
their schools and at Red Hook Fest.

Fine Arts Association Willoughby (aka Fine Arts Association)
$10,000 Willoughby, OH
To support the Arts Carts Program. Students at Title I elementary schools will participate in an
immersive program that integrates language arts with theater and visual arts. Students will explore
literature through reading and storytelling sessions. The books will serve as a foundation for drama and
visual arts workshops led by trained instructors. Basic props and scenery will be created for use at a
Family Literacy Night to showcase student performances and an exhibition of visual arts.

Folk Arts-Cultural Treasures Charter School (aka FACTS)
$20,000 Philadelphia, PA
To support professional development workshops and mentoring for classroom teachers, residencies by
folk artists, and student folk art ensembles. During monthly meetings by the Folk Arts Committee,
partners identify art forms connected to the heritage of the students and select artists who have
experience teaching in school settings to participate. Artists collaborate with teachers to explore
authentic assessment focused on culturally specific aesthetics. Students learn how aesthetics and
systems of shared values inform creation, performance, and assessment within particular art forms.
Students also practice in ensembles, including West African dance and drumming, Chinese opera, and
Indonesian dance.

Ghetto Film School, Inc. (aka Ghetto Film School)
$30,000 Bronx, NY
To support The Fellows Program at The Cinema School. The project is a cinematic storytelling program
for high school students from underserved communities. Students will participate in the Frick Collection
Thesis Project, which explores the tensions and intersections between fine arts and media arts

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