Self-Help Graphics and Arts, Inc. June 2011 Website $30,000 To support the development of a new strategic plan designed specifically for Self-Help Graphic's new facility in Boyle Heights. Focus Area: Arts Term: 12 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro
League of Women Voters of California Education Fund June 2011 Website $150,000 To conduct research analyzing the implementation of Propositions 11 and 20, which established the California Citizen's Redistricting Commission. Focus Area: California Democracy Term: 12 months Region Served: Statewide
Khmer Arts Academy June 2011 Website $150,000 To bring interactive lectures and dance demonstrations to nontraditional arts venues in Cambodian communities throughout California. Focus Area: Arts Term: 36 months Region Served: Statewide
Los Angeles Poverty Department June 2011 Website $26,000 To support the "Festival for All Skid Row Artists", which seeks to broaden audiences by showcasing the works of Skid Row artists in downtown Los Angeles. Focus Area: Arts Term: 24 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro
Ebony Repertory Theatre, Inc. June 2011 Website $50,000 For a cultural participation project that offers hip hop, jazz, rhythm tap and street dance through word-of-mouth marketing to reach younger African American audiences in Los Angeles. Focus Area: Arts Term: 12 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro
Friends of the Levitt Pavilion - Greater Los Angeles & Pasadena June 2011 Website $50,000 To support the production of ten concerts and outreach activities aimed at diversifying audiences from the underserved area of Northwest Pasadena. Focus Area: Arts Term: 24 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro
San Diego Dance Theater June 2011 Website $50,000 To create two site-specific community dance projects in partnership with the dance communities in Stockton and Riverside, modeled after San Diego Dance Theater's Trolley Dances. Focus Area: Arts Term: 24 months Region Served: Central Valley - San Joaquin Valley
First Night Monterey, Inc. June 2011 Website $40,000 To support a bilingual and bicultural music and arts series in Greenfield that will diversify audiences to better reflect Monterey County's Latino demographics. Focus Area: Arts Term: 24 months Region Served: Central Coast Region
Inyo Council for the Arts June 2011 Website $50,000 To encourage the participation of American Indian and Latino communities through additional cultural villages at the annual Millpond Music Festival. Focus Area: Arts Term: 24 months Region Served: Sierra
San Diego Youth Symphony June 2011 Website $50,000 For the "Community Opus Project", which will diversify audiences through community music programs and performances in underserved regions of San Diego. Focus Area: Arts Term: 24 months Region Served: San Diego and Imperial
Southern California Institute Of Architecture June 2011 Website $10,000 To commission the creation of "Spline Pavilion", a site-specific and experiential architectural sculpture, which challenges viewers' perceptions of how to engage with a piece of art in a gallery setting. Focus Area: Arts Term: 12 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions June 2011 Website $50,000 To commission and present a major multimedia installation accompanied by three convenings that bring together artists and audiences in real-space and online. Focus Area: Arts Term: 24 months Region Served: Los Angeles Metro
Somos Mayfair, Inc. June 2011 Website $38,000 To develop, produce and present an original theater work created in collaboration with diverse Mayfair residents that reflects the stories of the local community. Focus Area: Arts Term: 12 months Region Served: Bay Area Region
Roseville Arts June 2011 Website $46,000 To diversify participation by attracting youth through the active creation and exhibition of art in non-traditional arts venues in Roseville. Focus Area: Arts Term: 21 months Region Served: Central Valley - Sacramento Metro
Sacramento Youth Symphony June 2011 Website $18,000 For a collaboration with South Asian Heritage Arts in North American to offer "Spirit of India," a concert that blends musical traditions to target Asian Indians in Sacramento. Focus Area: Arts Term: 11 months Region Served: Central Valley - Sacramento Metro
Lux Art Institute June 2011 Website $50,000 To diversify audiences by offering programming that appeals to college students and young professionals and reaches them through a variety of social networking approaches. Focus Area: Arts Term: 24 months Region Served: San Diego and Imperial