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2018-2019 AIS Project Descriptions of 25

California Arts Council 2018-2019 Arts Education: Artists in Schools

Project Descriptions

The Arts Education: Artists in Schools program supports projects that integrate community arts resources—local artists and nonprofit arts organizations—into comprehensive, standards-based arts-learning for PreK-12 students during the school day. Applicants’ projects must take place

during regular school hours at the school site, and should address the unique circumstances of the school environment. Learn more at http://arts.ca.gov/programs/ae.php.

Number of Grants Awarded: 157 | Total Investment: $2,018,393

Application ID, Organization, County, Grant Award Amount

Project Description

AE-AIS-18-3099 3 Point 0 Sacramento County $13,500

With support from the California Arts Council, 3 POINT 0 will provide Dance Education in School Classes for 900 students attending Twin Rivers and Sac City USD schools. Classes introduce students to the fundamentals of dance, especially Hip Hop and are held once to twice monthly for 30-45 minutes on a rotating schedule at each school. Each school will participate in a year end assembly for students to showcase their work and for all students to participate in a large group dance experience.

AE-AIS-18-3009 916 Ink Sacramento County $4,571

With support from the California Arts Council, 916 INK will provide our in-class creative writing workshops for up to 150 students attending Luther Burbank High School's "Character & Scene" elective course. Our teaching artists give students the opportunity to write their own original pieces of poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction. Students will also be introduced to additional local guest teaching artists as they work to prepare their writing for publication.

AE-AIS-18-1974 About Productions Los Angeles County $10,264

With support from the CAC for our Young Theaterworks program, we will conduct a 20-session Chicano Legacy Project Residency at Monterey High School for highest-risk East L.A. youth. Mentored by professional writers, students will create their own scripts built from themes from our professional production, Evangeline, the Queen of Make-Believe, set around the 1968 East L.A. student walkouts. Themes include cultural identity, life choices, self-expression, and community history.

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AE-AIS-18-2659 Actors Gang Inc Los Angeles County $13,500

With support from the CAC, TAG will deliver an integrated theatre program to four Los Angeles County schools, infusing academic curriculum with skills and artistry integral to our style of theatre. Using the techniques inherent in collaboration & creation of theatrical compositions students understanding of the curriculum is deepened and made relevant. They share their understanding of the classroom material with peers. Through active post discussion, presentations are critically evaluated.

AE-AIS-18-2955 Advaita Society Alameda County $13,500

With support from the California Arts Council, Kala Art Institute (Advaita Society) will conduct visual arts residencies at Anna Yates Elementary and Emery High School in Emeryville, California. The program offers students hands-on art-making opportunities and an in-depth relationship with professional artists who model careers in the arts. The program is designed to integrate classroom curricula with Visual Arts Standards, Studio Habits of Mind frameworks and Common Core Standards.

AE-AIS-18-3088 African-American Shakespeare Company San Francisco County $15,300

provide a 4-week residency to 16 schools in the San Francisco Bay Area to combine theater and language arts towards assisting students to comprehend complex literature in the classroom. Funds will go towards supporting teaching artists and various support systems to develop the creative, expression, and analytical skills through reading, writing, and movement as it pertains to theater plays.

AE-AIS-18-2748 Ali Akbar College of Music Marin County $11,875

With support from the California Arts Council, the Ali Akbar College of Music, the nation's oldest and most prestigious North Indian Classical Music institution, will continue to offer a unique program to teach Indian Classical music on Western Instruments to students in four schools in Oakland, and San Francisco. Focusing on the basic skills and techniques of Indian Classical music, classes are designed for three grade levels (4th-6th, 7th-8th, 9th-12th) and will serve over 120 students.

AE-AIS-18-3060 American Conservatory Theatre Foundation San Francisco County $15,300

With renewed support from the California Arts Council, American Conservatory Theater will sustain and improve our ACTsmart Intensive Residency program, which provides in-depth theater education at four San Francisco high schools serving marginalized youth: Ida B. Wells High School, Downtown High School, Mission High School, and Hilltop Special Services Center (for pregnant and parenting teens).

AE-AIS-18-3097 Armory Center for the Arts Los Angeles County $17,100

With support from the California Arts Council, the Armory Center for the Arts will implement Artful Connections with Math, a visual arts-math integrated program designed and delivered by Armory Teaching Artists, in sixteen 2nd and 3rd grade classrooms in Title I schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District. The program was developed by the Armory from 2011-2014, with support from a major multi-year grant from the U.S. Department of Education.


AE-AIS-18-3003 Arts & Learning Corporation Orange County $15,300

With the support of the California Arts Council, the Arts & Learning Conservatory will provide free drumming lessons for students attending Back Bay High, a continuation school for troubled teens ages 14-18. This new program will utilize the art of drumming to help teens address their emotions, and develop their coping skills. Arts & Learning Conservatory will provide 45 students, 2 days a week for 24 weeks drumming instruction, developing life skills and healthier emotional responses.

AE-AIS-18-3001 Arts Benicia Inc Solano County $4,050

With support from the California Arts Council, Arts Benicia will partner with the Benicia Unified School District/Benicia Education Foundation in providing arts education within the STEAM Wheel program in primary grades. Funds will support two artist-teachers to provide instruction in drawing and tinkering in all four elementary schools throughout the school year, reaching students who might otherwise not have access to art instruction and experiences.

AE-AIS-18-2753 Arts Collaborative of Nevada County Nevada County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, the Arts Collaborative of Nevada County (NCArts) will work with four local schools expanding our current AIS program by one grade level to provide all 2nd, 3rd, and 4th graders weekly visual arts lessons integrating VAPA standards and Common Core academic curriculum. These model arts lessons were collaboratively developed by classroom teachers and teaching artists. Ultimately, the program will include model lessons for all students in grades 1-5.

AE-AIS-18-2962 Arts Council for Monterey County Monterey County $15,300

Professional teaching artists provide sequential music classes for all 1150 Kindergarten and Transitional Kindergarten students, supporting the Monterey Peninsula Unified School District theme “Better Together,” in ten weekly lessons that culminate in a vibrant community performance. While developing knowledge and skills in music, the students learn to value diversity and the power of teamwork. This project is the second year of a pilot for possible expansion within and beyond the district.

AE-AIS-18-2965 Arts Council Santa Cruz County Santa Cruz County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, Arts Council Santa Cruz County will provide free, sequential, standards-based dance and visual arts programs to second through fifth grade students at 4 predominantly low income elementary schools through its 16 week Artist-Teacher Partnership (ATP). ATP pairs an art teacher with a non-arts teacher to use dance and visual arts to teach English language development and writing, and science.

AE-AIS-18-2946 Arts for the Schools Nevada County $15,300

With the support from the CAC Arts For The Schools will provide our Visual Arts program for 500 students at two schools; Truckee Elementary and Glenshire Elementary. Students receiving the Visual Arts program are taught once per week a rich visual arts course that fulfills all of the grade-specific visual arts content standards. Students will work towards proficiency in visual arts and benefit from integrated lessons in science, math or social studies.

AE-AIS-18-3047 Attitudinal Healing Connection Inc Alameda County $13,500

With support from the California Arts Council, ATTITUDINAL HEALING CONNECTION INC (AHC) will present the Self as Super Hero curriculum to West Oakland Middle School and Martin Luther King Jr. Academic Middle School during spring 2019. Students will learn drawing, painting, sculpting and/or multi-media work by conceptualizing and creating their own Super Hero. They can also submit their work for public display at AHC’s annual ArtEsteem exhibition.


AE-AIS-18-2758 Boxtales Theatre Company Santa Barbara County $6,750

With support from the California Arts Council, Boxtales Theatre Company will provide three residencies at two schools in the 2018-19 school year. Each residency is 12-weeks long, offering weekly instruction and allowing students to create impactful theatre while encouraging teamwork, imagination, sensitivity to others, positive self-regard, awareness of the world around them, and a love of theatre.

AE-AIS-18-3062 Brockus Project Dance Company Los Angeles County $15,300

With support for the California Arts Council, Brockus Project Dance Company will provide 450 of hours of professional dance instruction for 250 students, grades 6-12 at four Southern California schools over the course of 40 weeks in the 2018-19 school year. Students will interact with highly skilled professional dance artists in a program that is designed to foster sequential learning and the deep engagement to art that fosters creative expression, physical activity and artistic excellence.

AE-AIS-18-2681 California Center for the Arts Escondido Foundation San Diego County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council the Education Department at the California Center for the Arts, Escondido will hire teaching artists and implement the My Story Literacy through the Arts Program. The program provides a drama and photography teaching artist in Social Studies and Language Arts classrooms, supporting 4th, 5th and 6th grade students in four schools in the Escondido Unified and San Pasqual Union School Districts.

AE-AIS-18-1965 California Dance Institute Los Angeles County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, California Dance Institute (CDI) will be able to teach its in-school arts education programming at two CDI partner schools in under-served areas of Los Angeles County, giving children the fundamentals of movement, rhythm and music through structured, energetic dance classes with live musical accompaniment for 20-24 weeks.CDI will reach 300 children with direct programming and over 1,700 students and audience members through interactive performances.

AE-AIS-18-3100 California Institute of the Arts Los Angeles County $10,753

With support from the California Arts Council, California Institute of the Arts, through the Community Arts Partnership (CAP) program, will provide a free 30-week in-school visual art program for approximately 40 second and third grade students at Newhall Elementary School, located in a low income neighborhood in Newhall, CA.

AE-AIS-18-1985 California Poets in the School San Francisco County $17,100

With support from the California Arts Council, California Poets in the Schools will deliver sustained, high quality poetry writing residencies in eleven schools throughout Sonoma County. Five of these schools are considered "at risk" in that over 50% of the youth attending qualify for free or reduced lunch and over 50% of students are performing below grade level in Language Arts. Published Poets will engage youth in a standards-based, culturally-rich curriculum celebrating great poetry.

AE-AIS-18-2920 Cantare Con Vivo Alameda County $17,100

With support from the California Arts Council, Cantare Con Vivo will bring tuition-free, in-school choral music residencies to 1,535 TK-5 students attending under-resourced Oakland public schools. Students will learn VAPA-aligned music fundamentals, engage with music from diverse cultures and build teamwork, poise and confidence through community performances. Instruction will take place over 32 weeks (grades TK-5), or through a music/history 12-week residency (grades 3-5).


AE-AIS-18-2435 Carmel Bach Festival Inc Monterey County $8,466

With support from the California Arts Council, CARMEL BACH FESTIVAL INC presents Sing Out Loud!, a songwriting residency that combines creative writing, music, movement, individual expression, and collaboration as a means to spark interest and inspired learning for 5th grade students while creating their own original songs. This residency encourages a supportive environment and creates a safe space in which Kids learn to be very generous, encouraging, and welcoming of new ideas.

AE-AIS-18-1509 Center for World Music San Diego County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, the Center for World Music will promote awareness and understanding of the rich performing arts traditions of the world through artist residencies featuring hands-on music, dance, and singing classes in K–12 San Diego area schools. Students will learn to sing, dance, and play musical instruments from around the world. They will acquire skills in rhythm and melody, gaining knowledge of world geography, history, cultures, languages, and traditions.

AE-AIS-18-2190 Central California Art League Inc Stanislaus County $11,160

With support from the California Arts Council, CENTRAL CALIFORNIA ART LEAGUE INC will will provide visual art classes for students in grades K through 6. Students will learn and use art vocabulary, practice a variety of techniques and learn to analyze works of art, including their own. Through creative activities, discussions and projects, students will acquire an overall understanding of the elements of art, as well as the historical and cultural significance of art in the wider world.

AE-AIS-18-2378 City Hearts: Kids Say Yes to the Arts LA Fringe Theatre Inc Los Angeles County $8,010

With support from the California Arts Council, CITY HEARTS: KIDS SAY YES TO THE ARTS will offer Arts in Continuum programs in Shakespeare; World Music; and Photography to traditionally underserved high school students. Provided in school, 2-3x/week in 1.5 hr. sessions over the school year at Discovery Charter Prep., a Title 1 school in Sylmar. Classes are taught by professional artists/instructors trained in VAPA standards; includes public performances/exhibits; serves 75, grades 9–12 students.

AE-AIS-18-3035 Collage Dance Theatre Los Angeles County $17,100

With support from the California Arts Council, Heidi Duckler Dance Theatre (HDDT) will bring its site specific arts education program, Duck Works, to four LA schools: Curtiss Middle School, Ánimo Charter Middle School, East LA Performing Arts Magnet, and Santee Education Complex. Through Duck Works, students will learn how to create original movement and present a final performance for their school peers. The funds will be used for HDDT’s professional Teaching Artists and the final performance.

AE-AIS-18-2281 Community School of Music and Arts Santa Clara County $15,300

With the support from the California Arts Council, Community School of Music and Arts will provide a hands-on art curriculum during the school day to children in grades K-5. Art4Schools at Castro, Mistral & Huff Schools emphasizes 4 areas: creative expression; appreciation of the cultural and historical foundations of art; understanding of the language of art; development of technical skills. Projects focus on 2-D concepts with an introduction to 3-D form tied to VAPA standards.


AE-AIS-18-2231 Community Works West Inc Alameda County $17,100

With support from the California Arts Council, Community Works West will oversee the residency of teaching artist Ashley Smiley at The Academy -- San Francisco. The teaching artist facilitates the Community Works Youth Arts Elective, a credited HS course combining standards-based arts education, creative arts expression, and restorative justice. Youth impacted by incarceration and their peers explore the personal impacts of oppression through the healing and transformative powers of the arts.

AE-AIS-18-2964 Conga Kids Los Angeles County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, Conga Kids will provide a dynamic partner dance program for 5 schools, directly impacting 500 students in underserved communities across Los Angeles County. The program teaches five dances, social skills and works to eliminate bias and break down social barriers.

AE-AIS-18-2574 CRE Outreach Foundation Inc Los Angeles County $17,100

With support from the California Arts Council, CRE Outreach will provide 900 students across Los Angeles with 14-week theatre residencies through our Creative Youth Theatre program. The program educates at-risk students through the exploration of storytelling elements and the creation of original artistic works. The program also imparts valuable life skills inherent to the play-making process including teamwork, conflict resolution, public speaking, and responsibility.

AE-AIS-18-3042 The Crowden Music Center Alameda County $9,000

With support from the California Arts Council, The Crowden Music Center will enter our 13th year of providing comprehensive and sequential music education to students at Washington Elementary School in Berkeley, and to students of Sankofa Elementary in Oakland. Classes are taught by teaching artists, and fill a need for music education in lower-income schools. This project provides access to music education for underserved youth during formative years.

AE-AIS-18-2771 Dance 4 Wellness Ventura County $13,500

With support from the California Arts Council, Dance4Wellness will continue to bring dance instruction to elementary schools in Ventura County, teaching primarily ballroom dance to students at two Title 1 schools in Port Hueneme and two schools in the Conejo Valley Unified School District. Twenty-four weeks of instruction will be taught reaching over 700 students total.

AE-AIS-18-1457 Dance Kaiso San Francisco County $8,840

With support from the California Arts Council, Dance Kaiso will conduct an African-Caribbean Performing Arts residency at Meadows-Livingstone School in San Francisco, including classes in Caribbean Dance and Caribbean Drum/Percussion+Songs taught by Dance Kaiso Directors Wilfred Mark and Robbin Frey, plus an Introduction to the Steel Drum, taught by Guest Artist Val Serrant. Student performances will be held at SF Day of the Dead, The Village Project Kwanzaa celebration and school graduation.

AE-AIS-18-2728 Destiny Arts Center Alameda County $17,100

With support from the California Arts Council, Destiny Arts Center (DAC) will bring professionally taught, California Visual and Performing Arts (VAPA) standards-aligned African dance, hip hop dance, theater, and stepping/body percussion classes to nearly 600 K-8 students at three interconnected school sites on East Oakland's Havenscourt campus. Over the course of the year, DAC will provide over 1,400 hours of arts instruction that support of youths' creative and socio-emotional development.


AE-AIS-18-2185 Diablo Ballet Contra Costa County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, Diablo Ballet will offer the PEEK program at six Title-I elementary schools from September 2018-June 2019. PEEK is a creative movement curriculum that develops students’ academic, dance/movement and prosocial skills. Increased support from the CAC will offset the cost of 9 part-time artistic salaries, transportation to-and-from schools, and to hire a VAPA Curriculum Specialist to further plan, implement, and evaluate the PEEK program.

AE-AIS-18-2542 Dimensions Dance Theater Incorporated Alameda County $14,960

With support from the California Arts Council, Dimensions Dance Theater will provide 480 students in grades 3-12 at Oakland Technical High, West Oakland Middle School and Carl B. Munck Elementary with standards-based instruction in African-derived dance during school hours over a 26-week period. ROP’s curriculum and highly qualified team of teaching artists have made this one of DDT’s most valued programs, as we bring dance learning to the most underserved youth in our community.

AE-AIS-18-2484 Dream A World Education Los Angeles County $17,100

With support from the California Arts Council, Dream A World Education will partner with Esperanza Elementary to offer a progression of primary grade arts residencies: Secrets of the Heart in kindergarten, One World Drum Circles in first grade and Dance in America in second grade. Through performances, projects and collaboration, the multidisciplinary curriculum will reinforce universal themes that teach positive core values like kindness, build self-confidence and encourage self-expression.

AE-AIS-18-2821 East Bay Center for the Performing Arts Contra Costa County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, EAST BAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS will continue partnering with 4 Title 1 elementary schools to deliver a standards-aligned, yearlong, music program for 1,757 WCCUSD students. This program offers a unique approach to teaching fundamental music skills rich in global traditions. The program addresses the schools’ wider goals of increasing equitable access to arts education, increasing family engagement, and improving school culture and climate.

AE-AIS-18-2801 East Bay Performing Arts Alameda County $13,500

With support from the California Arts Council, Oakland Symphony will transform the lives of young people through our MUSE (MUSic for Excellence) teaching artist mentoring program. By providing small group and one-on-one support, students will not only become stronger musicians, but also learn invaluable problem solving and social skills required for collaboration, receive encouragement from professional musicians, and develop self-confidence that will serve them throughout their lives.

AE-AIS-18-2983 El Dorado Arts Council El Dorado County $10,819

With support from the California Arts Council, El Dorado Arts Council will provide a professional theatre-making experience for El Dorado High School’s Theatre program. Over the course of the school year teaching artists will spend two long-term sessions with students from the Production class, culminating in public performances. The goal of this program is to foster students’ understanding of the role of performing arts within community, and to develop the basics of ensemble theatre-making.


AE-AIS-18-3004 El Teatro Campesino San Benito County $7,795

With support from the California Arts Council, El Teatro Campesino will serve over two hundred seventh graders across three San Benito County Schools with a 13-week artist residency program focusing lessons around the conquest of Mexico. Central to the lessons are learning about Aztec culture through puppetry, visual art and music. Funds will support ETC trained teaching artists, art supply costs, an experienced Project Coordinator and a performance of “La Conquista de Mexico: A Puppet Show."

AE-AIS-18-3006 Elysian Valley Arts Collective Los Angeles County $5,000

With support from the California Arts Council, ELYSIAN VALLEY ARTS COLLECTIVE will present a series of art classes at the local continuation high school. The students, in conversation with long time residents and business owners and guided by teaching artists, will interview and document the cultural and historical framework of their community through film. audio recording, and photography.

AE-AIS-18-2918 ETM-LA Inc Los Angeles County $13,500

With support from the California Arts Council, Education Through Music-Los Angeles (ETM-LA, Inc.) will assist local districts/schools in creating systematic change to close the achievement gap by providing sequential, comprehensive music instruction and equitability for children to succeed for a bright future. Students at Foster, Hooper, McKinley, and Normandie Elementary will receive free music classes taught by professional teaching artists, and perform throughout the year.

AE-AIS-18-2904 Fern Street Community Arts Inc San Diego County $13,500

With support from the California Arts Council, FERN STREET COMMUNITY ARTS will do circus residencies at three Title I schools in San Diego’s Diamond neighborhoods: 12 weeks of instruction, 1 week of culminating celebrations, and circus demos for students and parents at each school. Students will learn juggling, tightwire, tumbling, and clowning. This artistic, athletic activity develops kinesthetic awareness, spatial reasoning, critical thinking, and emotional understanding.

AE-AIS-18-3002 Festival of New American Musical Theater Foundation Los Angeles County $5,574

With the support of the California Arts Council, FNAM will be able to provide 1.5* 15-week show writing workshops with the goal of having student teams write 10 minute musicals. Residencies are tailored to school needs, e.g. we’ve done strictly show writing programs and we’ve done linked learning interdisciplinary show writing programs. This funding will expand our reach.*Revenues from our Data report, only permit us to seek funding for 1.5 residencies; we'll look elsewhere for the balance.

AE-AIS-18-2520 Friends of Olympia Station Inc Santa Cruz County $15,300

With support from CAC, Tandy Beal & Co will bring "Dance Around the World" residencies to Monterey & Santa Cruz low-income schools. Learning through creative dance, students (& teachers) increase awareness of body, space & others, focus, collaboration & kinetic problem solving. DATW aligns with VAPA & PE standards. DATW broadens a sense of place, inviting all to look outside their own worlds, & supports writing in social studies curriculum. Funds will support teachers, assistants and oversight.


AE-AIS-18-3031 Friends of West Hollywood Elementary Los Angeles County $13,500

With support from the California Arts Council, FRIENDS OF WEST HOLLYWOOD ELEMENTARY will provide a comprehensive music education program for West Hollywood Elementary students (K - 5th). The music program will offer 32 weeks of instruction through a standards-aligned curriculum taught by a credentialed teaching artist. With a focus on Common Core Strategies, the TA will collaborate with school staff to reinforce music as a core subject and support learning in a range of academic areas.

AE-AIS-18-3066 The Gabriella Foundation Los Angeles County $17,100

With support from the California Arts Council, The Gabriella Foundation will provide high-quality, sequential, standards-based school-day dance instruction to underserved youth in Los Angeles. Specifically, the $18,000 Artists in Schools grant will support 40 weeks (September through June) of dance classes for 537 students at high-need schools: Dr. Maya Angelou Community High School in South Los Angeles, and Samuel Gompers Middle School and Florence Griffith Joyner Elementary School in Watts.

AE-AIS-18-2993 Gamelan Sekar Jaya Alameda County $6,076

With support from the California Arts Council, Gamelan Sekar Jaya will collaborate with 2 Bay Area schools (International Community School & Albany High) to develop hands-on arts learning experiences based on traditional Balinese performing arts. Guided by the concepts of harmony & cooperation embedded in Balinese arts, master teaching artists will work with classroom teachers to engage a diverse cross-section of students in music, dance & puppetry over the course of extended school residencies.

AE-AIS-18-2761 Genryu Arts San Francisco County $13,500

With support from the California Arts Council, Genryu Arts will implement a 32 week long residency, 3 hours/week, for 3rd, 4th and 5th graders (105 students) at Clarendon Alternative School (SFUSD) Japanese Bilingual Bicultural Program. Funds will be used to support the teaching artist Melody Takata, guest artist fees for 3 weeks, project admin, and materials. In this coming year we will be celebrating our 20th anniversary in residency there.

AE-AIS-18-2746 Get Lit Words Ignite Inc Los Angeles County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, Get Lit – Words Ignite will advance our unique and highly impactful In-School Program in 6 high schools in Los Angeles. The only program of its kind in L.A. County, our In-School Program combines the learning of classic poetry with the creation of original poems by teens, sparking a love of language and literature. Our curriculum has been approved as a University of California ‘A-G’ college prep elective.

AE-AIS-18-3069 Ginga Arts Inc Los Angeles County $9,898

With support from the California Arts Council, Ginga Arts will run a 9-month Capoeira residency with Afro-Brazilian Capoeira master, Mestre Batata, at the Accelerated Charter Elementary School (ACES) in South Los Angeles. The residency program provides 8 hours of weekly instruction in Capoeira for all 275 students, grades K through 6, at ACES. As a multi-faceted art form, Capoeira increases students' physical activity and exposes them to dance, music, and creative artistic expression.

AE-AIS-18-2798 Granada Hills Charter High School Education Foundation Los Angeles County $3,038

With support from the California Arts Council, Granada Hills Charter High School Education Foundation will fund a professional choreographer who will teach original, creative, and intentional dance movements to students in show choir. The choreographer elevates the student performances, increasing the self-esteem of the young performers. Show choir provides an outlet for high school students to be creative, accomplish a goal, and delight the local community with their compelling artistry.


AE-AIS-18-2434 Grand Vision Foundation Los Angeles County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, Grand Vision Foundation will provide Recorders in Schools to 800 5th grade students in eight local Title I schools, building the foundation and inspiration for a lifetime of music making. In partnership with classroom teachers who extend music making throughout the week, Teaching Artists guide students through weekly lessons on music notation, recorder technique and ensemble performance, building teamwork and supporting healthy brain development.

AE-AIS-18-2916 Greenway Arts Alliance Los Angeles County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, Greenway Arts Alliance will provide our Arts Integration Residency program, directly engaging approximately 1,100 students from Fairfax High School in Los Angeles in grades 9-12 through sequential, arts-based learning that is aligned to Common Core and VAPA standards.

AE-AIS-18-3014 Guitars in the Classroom San Diego County $13,175

With support from the California Arts Council, GUITARS IN THE CLASSROOM (GITC) will deliver 16 nine-week teaching artist residencies in high arts needs, Title 1 elementary schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District. Each "pre-qualified" participating Tk-1 classroom teacher will receive weekly music leadership and integration training, co-planning and support from a highly experienced GITC teaching artist through sequential gradual coaching in standards-driven Literacy through Music.

AE-AIS-18-2989 The Harmony Project Los Angeles County $17,100

With the support of the California Arts Council, The Harmony Project will engage 120 underserved students, ages 5-14, in a weekly sequential music program offered within the school day at - and in partnership with - Grace Hopper STEM Academy and Tom Bradley Magnet. Grant funds will support 5 professional teaching artists who deliver rigorous music instruction, helping students cultivate self-confidence, creativity, critical thinking, and other essential life skills.

AE-AIS-18-2925 Hausmann Quartet Foundation San Diego County $7,500

With support from the California Arts Council, Hausmann Quartet Foundation will provide expert music teaching and chamber music coaching to the students of three San Diego area Middle Schools, heightening their musical awareness and teamwork skills through chamber music related activities. Each school will receive six 2 hour-long sessions over the course of three weeks. The funds will cover the fees and administrative costs of the Teaching Artists, the members of the Hausmann Quartet.

AE-AIS-18-3045 The heArt Project Los Angeles County $15,300

With renewed support from the California Arts Council, artworxLA’s professional teaching artists will deliver a sequential series of three multidisciplinary artmaking workshops in 4 of 28 alternative high school classrooms served in 2018/19. Students will present original work at partnering cultural institutions at the conclusion of each 11-week season. New partners selected annually - 2017/18: Autry Museum of the American West, Japanese American National Museum and L.A. Public Library.

AE-AIS-18-3034 Hernandez Mariachi Heritage Society Los Angeles County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, Hernandez Mariachi Heritage Society will implement a standards-based mariachi music education program at Magnolia Elementary School.


AE-AIS-18-2903 Hollywood Heart Los Angeles County $13,500

With support from the California Arts Council, Hollywood HEART will provide Educational Arts Workshops (EAW’s) to middle school students at Eliot Arts Magnet Academy (EAMA) in Altadena, CA. Our proposed project will provide 4 Teaching Artists to work with 6 single subject teachers over the course of 8 weeks.

AE-AIS-18-1433 Humboldt Arts Council Humboldt County $13,500

With support from the California Arts Council, the Humboldt Arts Council will place trained, experienced poetry teachers in Humboldt County schools to work with students from grades K to 12 in hands-on, sequential training in poetry writing, reading, recitation, and publishing. Funds will be used to compensate poetry teachers for their time spent teaching; preparing; responding in writing to students' work; conducting poetry readings; and creating anthologies.

AE-AIS-18-3023 Instituto Mazatlan Bellas Artes De Sacramento Sacramento County $13,497

With support from the California Arts Council, INSTITUTO MAZATLAN BELLAS ARTES DE SACRAMENTO will use three distinct approaches within two art mediums, folklórico, and visual arts to connect with approximately 400 youth at two schools to provide them with an art experience.

AE-AIS-18-2997 Intrepid Shakespeare Company San Diego County $13,500

With support from the California Arts Council, INTREPID SHAKESPEARE COMPANY will create and teach a curriculum for high school students focused on ten plays of August Wilson, an iconic playwright who chronicled the African-American experience through ten different decades of American history. The curriculum will supplement English and Theatre classes and deepen students’ understanding of the social and historical significance of August Wilson’s work as part of the American literary canon.

AE-AIS-18-2182 JC Culture Foundation Los Angeles County $5,640

With Support from the California Arts Council, JC Culture Foundation will (1) conduct a Lunar New Year Celebration Presentation; (2) invite dance teachers to choreograph a zodiac dance and teach students how to perform it; (3) invite an artist to demonstrate one of the Chinese arts, such as Chinese paper cutting or Chinese calligraphy, and teach the basics of that art; (4) invite a music producer to produce a music piece for the students to perform and teach the students.

AE-AIS-18-2143 Joe Goode Performance Group San Francisco County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, Joe Goode Performance Group will offer students at five schools training with company members. Students will create original dance theatre works using JGPG’s innovative creative methodologies. We offer techniques that tune, align, and entrain the body to itself and its surroundings with the understanding that community building, empathy promotion, social awareness and engagement all start within ourselves in our immediate physical experience.

AE-AIS-18-3068 Junior Center of Art & Science Alameda County $10,593

With support from the California Arts Council Grant, the Junior Center of Art & Science will provide a 28-lesson Artist in School Program to 4th graders at 2 culturally and ethnically diverse Title I Oakland Schools. Studying contemporary artists reflective of each community, teaching artists will engage students in activities based on identity and storytelling, study observation and analysis techniques, and guide students to create unique artworks to celebrate and unite each school community.


AE-AIS-18-1904 La Pena Cultural Center Inc Alameda County $8,059

With support from the California Arts Council, and under the lead of an artist with 25 years of experience teaching Mexican dance and music, La Peña will offer son jarocho lessons to 150 students, including concepts of beat/rhythm, layering polyrhythms, percussive and melodic rhythms, son jarocho musical structure, dynamics and melody and cultural sensitivity participating in a community art form. The 9 months in--class project will work with a school that is strongly consolidating this program

AE-AIS-18-3024 Leap Arts in Education San Francisco County $17,100

With support from the California Arts Council, Leap will provide standards-aligned artist residencies at three under-resourced, Title 1 K-6 schools in 2018-19. Approximately 1,000 students will engage in professionally-led, hands-on art making experiences in ceramics, musical theatre, and architecture, which will equip them with skills in creativity, collaboration, communication and critical thinking. All residencies will end with a capstone presentation to parents and friends.

AE-AIS-18-3029 Lineage Dance Company Los Angeles County $6,471

With support from the California Arts Council, Lineage Dance will provide one 12-week residency for grades 4-5 at Altadena Elementary, and a residency of three 6-week units for grades 7-8 at Eliot Arts Magnet in the Pasadena Unified School District, including interactive performances by the Lineage Dance Company. Students will gain knowledge of dance elements, dance vocabulary, and create and analyze choreography. Residencies will culminate each semester with performances of student work.

AE-AIS-18-2560 Living Jazz Alameda County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, Living Jazz will provide a free, in-school music residency in four Oakland public schools. The Living Jazz Children’s Project consists of a choral component focused on music fundamentals, ensemble singing and music as a tool for cultural empowerment and social change, and a complementary rhythm component teaching poly-rhythms from around the world within the context of cultural awareness and pride. Funds will support teaching and project personnel.

AE-AIS-18-3076 Loco Bloco San Francisco County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, LOCO BLOCO will provide artistic residencies during the 2018-2019 school year at Downtown High school as a part of their school day curriculum. Residencies will include instruction in Afro-Latino percussion, music and performance for high school students. Based in Creative Youth Development and Artivism frameworks, these programs focus on empowering youth to use art to overcome discrimination and create positive change.

AE-AIS-18-2892 Los Angeles Master Chorale Assn Los Angeles County $17,100

With support from the California Arts Council, Los Angeles Master Chorale will provide 100 high school students with 20 weeks of singing and music writing instruction through an in-school artist-in-residence program. 3 professional artists—a singer, composer, and lyricist—will work intensively with 2 choir classes to write lyrics and compose melodies for an original oratorio based on a curriculum-related topic culminating with the students presenting their oratorio for 2 community performances.


AE-AIS-18-2978 Los Angeles Opera Company Los Angeles County $12,293

With support from the California Arts Council, LA Opera will partner with Los Angeles Enriched Charter and East Los Angeles Performing Arts Magnet in semester long residencies that immerse students in all aspects of producing and performing in live opera. Students will participate in weekly, hands-on, VAPA focused workshops over 11 weeks led by LA Opera Teaching Artists. At the culmination of the program students will perform in a youth opera for their peers and community.

AE-AIS-18-2825 Luna Kids Dance Inc Alameda County $17,100

With support from the California Arts Council, Luna Dance Institute will continue building comprehensive, sequential dance programs via its School & Community Alliance (SCA) program. Designed to foster a culture of dance in schools and support social emotional learning, SCA is aligned with the District's “Blueprint for Teaching & Learning Dance Grades K-12". CAC will fund standards-based dance classes at 2 schools—including more inclusion classes—side-by-side coaching and family dance events.

AE-AIS-18-2054 Malashock Dance & Company San Diego County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, Malashock Dance will provide MATH IN MOTION, an inclusive dance residency program that teaches students dance technique and choreography, using mathematical concepts as tools. The curriculum integrates state standards in dance and mathematics. Over 2,000 K-8 students receive sequential lessons, taught by professional teaching artists. Students create, and perform their own choreography at a culminating event for friends and families.

AE-AIS-18-2319 Marin Shakespeare Company Marin County $13,500

With support from the California Arts Council, Marin Shakespeare Company will provide standards-based Creative Dramatics instruction to 1,800 students grades K through 5 at six public elementary schools that serve large numbers of low-income families.

AE-AIS-18-3008 Mariposa County Arts Council Inc Mariposa County $17,100

With support from the California Arts Council and in partnership with the Mariposa County Office of Ed., Mariposa County Arts Council will continue its residency program which integrates arts learning with Common Core State Standards based curricula in all the County’s elementary schools in the fields of sculpture, painting, and graphic design. The program is also a professional development opportunity for teachers as it builds their capacity to integrate the arts into the existing curriculum.

AE-AIS-18-2550 Media Arts Center San Diego San Diego County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, Media Arts Center San Diego will provide artist residencies through Youth Media Education (YME) workshops. YME cultivates media arts literacy for at-risk students (grades 4-12) at three Title I schools in San Diego, bringing professional media artists to teach 252 students for 24 weeks per school site. Each student produces a collection of 3-4 videos, developing creative, artistic, and media arts skills in alignment with VAPA standards.

AE-AIS-18-3000 Melody of China Inc San Francisco County $7,500

With support from the California Arts Council, Melody of China, Inc. will conduct its Chinese music class at Sunset Elementary School. Serving grades 2 - 5, students will have the opportunity to learn how to play a Chinese instrument of their choice, including: yangqin (hammered dulcimer), guzheng (zither), erhu (2-string bowed fiddle), ruan (moon guitar), dizi (bamboo flute), pipa (lute) and paigu (drums). The program will culminate in a musical performance for parents.


AE-AIS-18-2814 Monterey Jazz Festival Monterey County $13,500

With support from the California Arts Council, Monterey Jazz Festival will implement the Monterey Jazz in the Schools program providing high quality jazz music education at 19 schools in Monterey County, serving 750 youth. Teaching Artists partner with band directors to identify music that develops students' ability to worth together as a band, play the rhythms and language of jazz, and express themselves through improvisation, while performing side by side with the professionals.

AE-AIS-18-2783 Museum of Children’s Art Alameda County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, the Museum of Children's Arts will ensure that three Oakland public schools receive high-quality classroom-based art residencies, which consist of arts instruction for students as well as professional development workshops for classroom teachers. Taught by professional Teaching Artists, these sequential, standards-based, arts learning programs reach 9,000 predominantly low-income and academically at-risk East Bay students in grades preK-8 annually.

AE-AIS-18-1475 Museum of Photographic Arts San Diego County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, Museum of Photographic Arts will provide students in grades 4-12 with hands-on, multi-session workshops that expose them to photography as an art form and build skills in visual thinking and creative expression. The goal of the "Exposure" program is to utilize photography-based activities to increase students’ skills in 1) self-expression, 2) creativity, 3) critical analysis, and 3) production of artwork.

AE-AIS-18-2984 Music at the Mission Alameda County $4,250

With support from the California Arts Council, Music at the Mission Artist Residencies will deliver new strong standards-based music curriculum to two schools in Fremont. Teaching Artists show music students classical music composition techniques to create a new piece, mentoring them through the process, enhancing their technical abilities for learning that piece, then assisting their teachers in preparing students for a side-by-side performance with Teaching Artists at a school assembly.

AE-AIS-18-2915 Music for Minors Inc San Mateo County $13,500

With support from the California Arts Council, Music for Minors will provide its In-School Music Education Program of standards-based music education in elementary schools from San Bruno to San Jose. The comprehensive, culturally-diverse music program, presented in weekly 30-minute lessons, includes music learning objectives tailored for each grade level and gives students a variety of experiences in singing, movement, theory, dance musical games and rhythmic instruments.

AE-AIS-18-2959 Music in Schools Today San Francisco County $13,500

With support from the California Arts Council, MUSIC IN SCHOOLS TODAY will implement Music First! in Bay Area pre-schools, an artist residency and teacher-training. Music First! reinforces and supports language acquisition, literacy, socio-emotional development, musical expression and artistic excellence.

AE-AIS-18-2913 Musical Traditions San Francisco County $12,538

With support from the CAC, Musical Traditions will produce Making Theater Real & Relevant, designed and led Philippa Kelly. It will be produced in two Title 1 Oakland schools: Skyline High and Edna Brewer Middle School. In the Fall the residency will be built around Hamlet and include activities designed to enhance creative and critical thinking skills. In the Spring, the SHS students will create a student-researched, written, designed and performed social activist theater production.


AE-AIS-18-3007 New Village Arts Inc San Diego County $8,850

With support from the California Arts Council, NEW VILLAGE ARTS INC will bring VERBITAS, a documentary theatre project, into three North County San Diego high schools. Funds will be used to hire professional teaching artists to visit classrooms daily for three months and lead the students through the process of choosing a topic, interviewing relevant students and community members and turning those interviews into a theatrical production. The final performances will be open to the community.

AE-AIS-18-2934 Nimbus Arts Napa County $13,500

With support from the California Arts Council, NIMBUS ARTS will sponsor theater artists Michael and Valerie Nelson to serve as Arts Partners at Willow Elementary Arts Magnet School in Napa. This ongoing residency will continue to provide teaching and programming in drama, and drama related design, visual arts, puppetry, mask, music and literature for transitional kinders through 5th grade, serving all students throughout the school year.

AE-AIS-18-2991 No Easy Props Inc Los Angeles County $5,769

With support from the California Arts Council, No Easy Props Inc will fund three HipHop101 residences during school hours between June 30, 2018 - June 29, 2019 at Horace Mann Junior High, Charles Drew Middle School, and 109th Elementary School.

AE-AIS-18-2859 Oakland Youth Chorus Alameda County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, Oakland Youth Chorus will partner with five TK-6 elementary schools to provide year-long, sequential music instruction through our Multicultural Music Education model. Classes will promote collaboration and positive self-expression, respect for diverse cultures, and support arts-rich school environments through in-depth, long term partnerships which engage classroom teachers and teaching artists in hands-on learning for their students.

AE-AIS-18-2737 Opera Cultura Alameda County $1,725

With support from the California Arts Council, OPERA CULTURA will provide an 8 week teaching artist residency program to 8 Title One elementary classrooms in San Jose. The residency will be based on the bilingual children’s opera Coyotes and Rabbits by Héctor Armienta, based on a Mexican folk tale about the importance of literacy. The teaching artist will help students develop music skills with a connection to language arts, through a carefully designed lesson plan created around the opera.

AE-AIS-18-3078 Outside the Lens San Diego County $13,500

With support from the California Arts Council, Outside the Lens will bring a year-long digital media arts-integration program to 5th graders at a Chula Vista elementary school. Over the course of the year, students will work with digital media teaching artists, engaging with their English Language Arts curriculum through photography and filmmaking. Students outcomes include increased classroom engagement, academic success, and the acquisition of 21st century skills.

AE-AIS-18-3012 P S Arts Los Angeles County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, P.S. ARTS will provide free, VAPA Standards-based Visual Arts classes to every student at William Anderson Elementary and William Green Elementary in Lawndale Elementary School District during the 2018-2019 school year. Visual arts is a vital component of the P.S. ARTS program in LESD, representing one of the three disciplines included in our rotational arts program.


AE-AIS-18-2708 Pacific Arts Movement San Diego County $17,100

With support from the California Arts Council, Pacific Arts Movement will continue to empower high school students to learn about the art of documentary filmmaking through the Reel Voices Monarch program. In 2014, our Reel Voices summer program was extended to the Monarch School, which serves students impacted by homelessness in San Diego, to develop a year round media arts curriculum that gives the opportunity to express themselves, have a successful experience, and develop valuable skills.

AE-AIS-18-3041 Palo Alto Art Center Foundation Santa Clara County $13,500

With support from the CAC, the Palo Alto Art Center will implement Cultural Kaleidoscope, a standards-based arts-education program in which economically and culturally diverse students work with teaching artists to complete multidisciplinary art projects. This annual program partners K–5 classes from the Ravenswood City and Palo Alto Unified School Districts, and includes a culminating exhibition of student artwork displayed in the Palo Alto Art Center galleries.

AE-AIS-18-2937 Pasadena Conservatory of Music Los Angeles County $17,100

With support from the California Arts Council, the Pasadena Conservatory of Music will continue its ongoing outreach program Young Musicians at Jefferson Elementary through the 2018-2019 school year. The program provides every student at this Title-I school with weekly music classes and a comprehensive sequential curriculum rooted in California VAPA Standards in Music. AE-AIS funds would support artist salaries.

AE-AIS-18-2926 Pasadena Symphony Association Los Angeles County $7,671

With support from the California Arts Council, the Pasadena Symphony Association (PSA) will expand our Pasadena Symphony Teaching Artists program from five schools to nine schools in the Pasadena Unified School District (PUSD), providing access to quality music education to an additional 160 students. This grant will deepen the partnership between the PSA and the PUSD and support high quality music instructors in the highest-need elementary and middle schools in the district.

AE-AIS-18-2857 Performing Arts Workshop Inc San Francisco County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, Performing Arts Workshop will conduct 14 residencies in dance, music and theater engaging 330 students in three public schools in San Francisco. Each residency is a 30-week series of sequential, standards-aligned classes taught by trained Workshop teaching artists. The grant will be key in sustaining partnerships launched with CAC funding, advancing artists' teaching careers, and demonstrating the vital role artists play in a full education.

AE-AIS-18-1986 Playhouse Arts Humboldt County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, Playhouse Arts will offer arts education programs in five local elementary schools. The program consists of 10 weeks of instruction in shadow puppetry, 10 weeks of mask making, and 10 weeks of mask performance. Classes will be taught in two classrooms at each school ranging in grades from 2nd to 6th grades. Each school will receive instruction from teaching artists specializing in their subject and will conclude with a short performance.

AE-AIS-18-3013 Playwrights Project San Diego County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, Playwrights Project’s SEEDS program will engage 6-7th grade students at Creative, Performing & Media Arts Middle and 9-10th grade students at Gompers Preparatory Academy through: intensive playwriting instruction in Language Arts classes; observation and analysis of live theatre during interactive theatre sessions with professional actors; and actors reading students’ completed plays. Grant funds will pay for artists’ fees and program costs.


AE-AIS-18-2854 Plumas County Arts Commission Plumas County $17,100

With support from the California Arts Council, Plumas Arts will continue a 31-year partnership with our county's single school district, Plumas Unified School District (PUSD) and Plumas County Office of Education (PCOE) to provide K-6 grade level arts programming in all 4 elementary schools in our low-income, rural, isolated county. Standards-trained local artists present hands-on classroom programs and techniques to assist educators to incorporate The Arts into their curriculum.

AE-AIS-18-2873 Pony Box Dance Theatre Los Angeles County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, Pony Box Dance Theatre will provide weekly creative dance classes at two elementary schools, culminating in a free public performance.

AE-AIS-18-3027 Public Corporation for the Arts of the City Of Long Beach Los Angeles County $13,500

With support from the California Arts Council, Arts Council for Long Beach will present “Passport to the Arts.” This unique program celebrates the art and culture of the diverse groups that make up the Long Beach community by giving 3rd and 4th grade children a series of hands-on visual art, theatre, dance and music experiences. The project culminates in student performances or exhibitions.

AE-AIS-18-2912 Purple Silk Music Education Foundation Inc Alameda County $17,100

With support from the California Arts Council, PURPLE SILK MUSIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC will provide in-depth, sequential instruction in Chinese music (i.e., traditional Chinese instruments, opera, and folk songs) during the school day, taught by Chinese music experts, to 350 public school students (grades 3-12) at five schools in Oakland and San Francisco; CAC funds will help underwrite artist fees for the 34-week school residency program during the grant period (6/30/18-6/29/19).

AE-AIS-18-2137 Redwood Heights School Parents Fund Association Alameda County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, REDWOOD HEIGHTS PARENTS FUND will provide a 32-week visual arts program for 370 elementary students in general and special education. Artists will work with teachers to offer hands-on, sequential art lessons and arts events throughout the school year. Students of all backgrounds will develop their artistic voice, grow critical thinking skills, and deepen academic learning through this integrated learning model centering diverse local artists.

AE-AIS-18-3082 Regents of the University of California at Berkeley Alameda County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, Cal Performances will partner with seven middle and K-6 schools in Berkeley, Oakland, and Richmond, to train 59 teachers and engage 2,225 students in our model of artistic literacy through Cal Performances Classroom. Exploring a core concept in an artist’s inquiry, our model puts teachers and students into the artistic driver’s seat, cultivating skills and knowledge to make personal meaning of a live work of art.

AE-AIS-18-3089 Rogue Artists Ensemble Los Angeles County $3,656

With support from the California Arts Council, ROGUE ARTISTS ENSEMBLE will provide a 10 week Theatre and Puppetry Residency for 2nd grade students at Fenton Primary Center located in Pacoima, CA. Students will about different forms of puppetry and Theatre techniques to create short original pieces to present to their peers and teachers.


AE-AIS-18-2353 RuckusRoots Inc Los Angeles County $3,910

With support from the California Arts Council, RUCKUSROOTS INC will implement its program, Wild Art, at Eucalyptus Elementary school for grades 4 and 5. Wild Art blends visual arts and urban wildlife education and will provide 300 underserved youth in Hawthorne, CA with instruction in painting, drawing and creative reuse, as well as leadership opportunities and experiences in nature. Funds will be used to compensate teaching artists, program coordinators and to purchase necessary supplies.

AE-AIS-18-3075 Sacramento Ballet Association Sacramento County $7,266

With support from the California Arts Council, Sacramento Ballet Association will operate its outreach program, ‘Leaps and Bounds,’ which provides an on-site, year-long ballet class at two Title 1 Elementary schools. All materials are provided to the students for free along with laundry services. Additionally, students are provided field trips to the professional studios, attendance to professional productions, and the opportunity to participate in ‘The Nutcracker’ and the School’s Demonstration.

AE-AIS-18-2716 Sacramento Theatre Company Sacramento County $15,192

With support from the California Arts Council, Sacramento Theatre Company will provide in school theatre arts integration classes during the 2018-2019 school year at Washington Elementary and Isleton Elementary, directly serving 413 students. STC will provide trained teaching artists to teach each classroom 12 theatre arts integration classes. At Washington Elementary, STC will also teach 12 music integration classes in addition to their theatre classes totalling 24 visits for each class.

AE-AIS-18-3005 San Benito County Arts Council San Benito County $5,463

With support from the California Arts Council, the San Benito County Arts Council will launch the third year of its ENVIRONMENTAL LITERACY PROJECT at Cerra Vista School, engaging 100 4th graders in a 24-week residency that establishes a critical connection between students’ knowledge of the water cycle and the environment around them. Students will create ceramic landscapes and write poetry inspired by our watershed, as well as display their work in a final Student Exhibition.

AE-AIS-18-2130 San Carlos Children’s Theatre Inc San Mateo County $10,176

With support from the California Arts Council, San Carlos Children's Theater will teach drama electives consisting of improv, playwriting and scripted works in San Carlos middle schools. Approximately 110 6-8th graders from 2 middle schools will participate in this program per year. Grant funds support staffing costs of this program.

AE-AIS-18-1948 San Diego Civic Youth Ballet Inc San Diego County $17,100

With support from the California Arts Council, San Diego Civic Youth Ballet will provide dance education programming for 4, Title I elementary schools in San Diego County for 32 weeks with a culminating performance in the spring. The program will introduce students, ages 6-10, to the art form of ballet in a way that will have an enduring impact on their lives. All activities are free of charge for both the schools and the students, as well as the performance for friends and family.

AE-AIS-18-3011 San Diego Dance Theater San Diego County $13,500

With support from the California Arts Council, San Diego Dance Theater will provide 2 high-impact sustained residency programs at 2 public K-12 arts magnet schools located in San Diego. 200+ students will benefit from dance education by working professional dancers and teaching artists.


AE-AIS-18-2713 San Diego Guild of Puppetry San Diego County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, the San Diego Guild of Puppetry will develop and hone exciting, sequential, curriculum and VAPA standards based puppetry arts residencies in collaboration with teachers at our partner schools. As always, programs will be designed to meet expressed student/site needs.

AE-AIS-18-3073 San Diego Opera Association San Diego County $17,100

With support from the California Arts Council, San Diego Opera will implement the Words and Music program with the goal of improving performing arts and literacy skills of at-risk middle school students through the creation of student-written and composed works of music, poetry, and theater. Bilingual teaching artists (English and Spanish) will implement a series of standards-based lesson plans about the artistic process of composing and creating music and drama at two San Diego schools.

AE-AIS-18-2053 San Francisco Arts Commission San Francisco County $17,100

With support from the California Arts Council, San Francisco Arts Commission will support 6 teaching artists in the WritersCorps Teaching Artist in Residence Grant program to work long term and in depth in K-12 public schools (and juvenile hall) to teach creative writing and serve as positive role models. We anticipate 80% of the approximately 128 youth served will show growth in written and verbal expression. We request support for Annie Rovzar's residency at Hilltop School for Pregnant Minors.

AE-AIS-18-3064 San Francisco Children’s Art Center San Francisco County $7,650

With support for the California Arts Council, the San Francisco Children’s Art Center (SFCAC) will provide artist residencies that engage children with inquiry-based, process-oriented visual arts instruction at two sites of Potrero Kids Preschool in San Francisco. SFCAC has a long standing partnership with Potrero Kids, and funding will allow SFCAC to increase its residency duration to 40 sessions in 6 classrooms for 8-10 children each, serving 50 children for the entire school year.

AE-AIS-18-3094 San Francisco Jazz Organization San Francisco County $13,500

With support from the California Arts Council, SFJAZZ will bring Jazz in Session into San Francisco middle and high schools, illuminating the historical context of jazz, providing hands-on instrumental instruction, and offering jazz ensemble repertoire development and performance opportunities. SFJAZZ Teaching Artists work closely with partner schools to address the musical needs of students and band directors, cultivating long-term skill development and engagement with diverse jazz traditions.

AE-AIS-18-2819 San Francisco Opera Guild San Francisco County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, San Francisco Opera Guild will provide 20 opera composition residencies at eleven Bay Area schools. Over the course of 12 weeks, 600 students will write, design, and perform their own music theater pieces based on stories from class curriculum. Students will step into the shoes of different characters, and through exploration of dialogue, melody, and lyric writing, will transform their stories into brand-new works of creativity and collaboration.

AE-AIS-18-2148 San Francisco Performances Inc San Francisco County $2,257

With Support from the California Arts Council, San Francisco Performances will provide two hours per week during the school year of hands-on support for Galileo High School’s intermediate and advanced guitar students. Professional Bay Area guitarist Dave Ricketts teaches these classes, His work helps guitar students improve technique, posture, concentration and level of performance.


AE-AIS-18-1566 San Francisco Youth Theatre San Francisco County $17,100

With support from the California Arts Council, San Francisco Youth Theatre will build on an existing partnership with Cesar Chavez Elementary School. Two teaching artists with an assistant will teach a total of seven classes for students in Bilingual preK/K, General Ed K, and two Special Education classes for K-2 students who are deaf or hard of hearing. Students will learn acting, movement and music skills, while discovering new ways to communicate with each other and their teachers.

AE-AIS-18-3055 San Jose Jazz Santa Clara County $12,150

With support from the California Arts Council, San Jose Jazz will provide general music to 800 early elementary students at four Title 1 schools in the Franklin-McKinley School District. These sites have limited access to arts education, a high percentage of ELL students, and high percentage of students with free or reduced lunch. The artist will integrate language arts, social-emotional learning, and standards-based music instruction, all within a culturally responsive teaching environment.

AE-AIS-18-2157 San Jose Museum of Art Association Santa Clara County $13,500

With CAC support, SJMA will offer "Sowing Creativity" a series of ten-week STEAM education programs lead by SJMA’s experienced teaching artists to third, fourth, and fifth grade students at four San Jose Title One schools. The students at these schools have previously participated in the third-grade curriculum, "Investigating Perception" and students, teachers, and administrators are enthusiastic to expand the program to multiple grades.

AE-AIS-18-1544 San Pedro City Ballet Los Angeles County $13,500

With support from the California Arts Council, SAN PEDRO CITY BALLET will provide two 10-week sessions of CSS/VAPA based instruction in modern & ballet to four schools sites in LAUSD. Totaling 4 hours per week per school site for 20 weeks =80 hours per school site X 4 sites =320 teaching hours.Each 10 week session will end with a culminating event showcasing the progress of the students.Students, parents, administrators, teachers & LAUSD Administrators will be invited to the culminating event.

AE-AIS-18-2999 Sanchez Art Center San Mateo County $11,123

With support from the California Arts Council, Sanchez Art Center will provide quality VAPA standards-based visual arts education to the only pubic school in Pacifica that, due to its socio-economic demographic, would otherwise not have an art instructor. This 2018-2019 project will provide each of the 560 students of Sunset Ridge Elementary School with 15 art lessons during the academic year. The program began in 2008 and was awarded the J. Russell Kent Award in 2014.

AE-AIS-18-2948 Santa Barbara Dance Institute Santa Barbara County $13,500

With support of the California Arts Council, SBDI will partner with two public elementary schools to provide standards based, in-school educational programs for 170 mostly low--income students. Their classes will culminate in an original public performance before a broad and diverse community audience. Using SBDI’s values of trust, teamwork, and individual expression, students will develop critical life skills, build confidence, and experience the exhilarating feeling of success.


AE-AIS-18-2951 Santa Cecilia Opera and Orchestra Association Los Angeles County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, Santa Cecilia Orchestra will continue its successful Orlantha Ambrose String Program at Monte Vista Elementary School, giving children access to instrumental lessons with professional musicians. The Monte Vista student body is predominantly Latino and impoverished, with little access to the arts. Our program will allow them to participate in the creative process, while developing traits like concentration and perseverance.

AE-AIS-18-3077 Santa Clarita Community College District Los Angeles County $8,544

With support from the California Arts Council, Santa Clarita Community College District will work with four Title I elementary schools in the Santa Clarita Valley for a dance residency with Do U Dance. Students will learn and be able to identify the structure of a dance, understand that dance is a form of non-verbal communication that can carry personal meaning, and use choreographic devices to create a dance that is visually interesting.

AE-AIS-18-2199 Shadowlight Productions San Francisco County $12,750

With support from the California Arts Council, SHADOWLIGHT PRODUCTIONS will instruct shadow theatre residencies at three public schools in the SF Bay Area and one charter school in Palisades, California, focusing on connecting cultures, building community and creating collaborative artistic experiences. Each immersive residency is part of the partnering schools' arts integration efforts and will culminate in original shadow theatre projects performed for their peers and the general public.

AE-AIS-18-2924 Shakespeare’s Associates Inc Alameda County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, Shakespeare's Associates Inc (dba Livermore Shakespeare Festival) will administer, coordinate and execute So Wise So Young; a 10 week in-school literacy program for 2nd graders using Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream in all 41 second grade classrooms in the Livermore Valley Joint Unified School District.

AE-AIS-18-3054 Sol-La Music Academy Los Angeles County $13,500

With support from the California Arts Council, SOL-LA Music Academy will provide outstanding music instruction and instruments to 270 K-8th grade students at Saint Anne School. Saint Anne School is Santa Monica’s only nonpublic Title I School, with at least 40% of families qualifying as low income according to federal standards. SOL-LA uses sequential, standards-based music education to transform the lives of these underserved students and their families.

AE-AIS-18-3018 Southland Sings Los Angeles County $13,500

With support from the California Arts Council, Southland Sings will deliver a sequential, expressive, hands-on arts learning program at four schools serving diverse groups of children with unusual needs. Our “My Story, My Voice: Poetry to Song” program promotes life skills such as critical thinking, problem solving, collaboration and positive self-expression through the arts through the creation of an original work of musical theater.

AE-AIS-18-2895 Stagebridge Alameda County $7,058

With support from the California Arts Council, Stagebridge will place teaching artists and senior volunteers in 13 classrooms (grades 2-5) at four Title I East Bay elementary schools for 16-week residencies of the Storybridge Listening & Speaking program, which introduces urbanyouth to storytelling and dramatic performance focused around creating "Grandparent Tales" developed from oral history interviews with family elders.


AE-AIS-18-2538 Stagewrite: Building Literacy Through Theatre San Francisco County $17,100

With support from the California Arts Council, StageWrite's Building Literacy through Theatre program engages students in dynamic, interactive theatre arts activities to advance their school success. Funds underwrite fees for two artists whose 12-week residencies in fall & spring semesters at two elementary schools serving 724 students in grades K-5 with sequential theatre instruction. We will be in our 13th year in partnership with Starr King and our 5th year at Daniel Webster School.

AE-AIS-18-2996 Studio Channel Islands Art Center Ventura County $7,631

With the support from California Arts Council, STUDIO CHANNEL ISLANDS ART CENTER will develop a series of visual arts exhibitions which respond to the Linda Stein exhibition Have Art Will Travel. This exhibition invites students to transform themselves into superheros and to challenge social injustice, prejudice and intolerance within society. Students will work with graphic artists to create characters, performances and dramatic events which illustrate how young people can become heroes.

AE-AIS-18-2906 Symphonic Jazz Orchestra Los Angeles County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, the Symphonic Jazz Orchestra will continue its flagship "Bach to Bebop" music residency for 2nd graders in four schools within Culver City Unified and 5th graders at Colin Powell Academy for Success in Long Beach. The four-unit program culminates in a school-wide assembly where the students perform the songs they composed. Grant funds will primarily be used to pay the teaching artists and visiting musicians throughout the yearlong residency.

AE-AIS-18-2203 Theatre for Children Inc Sacramento County $13,500

With support from the California Arts Council, B STREET THEATRE will deepen and broaden its three-day playwriting workshops at Encina Preparatory High School to create a 12-week residency program in playwriting and play presentation for English Language Development and other high school students. These students, all past participants in B Street's three-day workshops, will have the opportunity to engage in a year-long, in-depth training in storytelling, production and performance.

AE-AIS-18-1997 Theatre of Hearts Inc Los Angeles County $17,100

With support from the California Arts Council, Theatre Of Hearts/Youth First (TOHYF) will deliver 18 multidisciplinary, standards-based Artist-In-Residence (AIR) Programs, comprised of 432 program hours during school hours for schools in a low income neighborhood in Los Angeles, where quality arts instruction is limited. Each AIR Program culminates with a Work-In-Progress Presentation, in which students showcase their original artworks to peers, family members, and the community-at-large.

AE-AIS-18-2977 Thingamajigs Alameda County $13,500

With support from the California Arts Council, Thingamajigs will present Thingamakids!, in-school workshops designed to teach musicianship through the process of building musical instruments out of reused objects and materials found in our everyday lives. Students receive firsthand experience working with local artists that they can apply to their everyday lives in a lifelong capacity. In addition to music, students learn how math, physics, and design are used to create instruments.


AE-AIS-18-1558 Unusual Suspects Theatre Co Los Angeles County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, The Unusual Suspects Theatre Company will provide 3 in-class, multi-week theatre-arts residencies to serve roughly 380 underserved students with our standards-based VAST Enrichment Program. Youth will gain language, communication & teamwork skills as they collaborate in small groups to create & perform short theatre pieces. Funds will support two paid, professional teaching artists (TAs) in each residency, and staff who help implement the program.

AE-AIS-18-2907 Venice Arts Los Angeles County $10,944

With support from the California Arts Council, Venice Arts will continue to partner with Phoenix Continuation High School to provide two standards-based sequential 12-week intensive documentary workshops series in photography. Students will explore community stories through photography, writing assignments, lab workshops, and journaling. Workshops develop creative and technical skills, and close mentoring positively impacts both social development and academic achievement.

AE-AIS-18-3071 Viver Brasil Dance Company Los Angeles County $13,500

With support from the CAC, Viver Brasil will expand its community engagement program Samba in the Streets (SITS) to an in-school residency with Audubon Middle School and FoShay Learning Center. Aesthetic expression that offers a pathway to joy, resistance and resilience, SITS classes teach Afro-Brazilian culture through traditional orixa, social (samba de roda) and contemporary carnival (samba reggae/samba afro), dances, drum rhythms and songs.

AE-AIS-18-2980 West Creative Performing Arts Santa Cruz County $13,500

With support from the California Arts Council, WEST will continue THE POWER OF PLAY, an inclusive theatre arts program in three underserved/alternative schools in Santa Cruz County Professional teaching artists engage K-12 students in theatre classes with culminating performances, setting the stage for academic achievement through dramatic learning. Creating arts literacy equally and innovatively, the program aligns with the National Core Arts Standards and develops executive function.

AE-AIS-18-2921 Yolo County Arts Council Inc Yolo County $17,100

With support from the California Arts Council, YOLO COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL will provide a ceramics based art program taught by an experienced, mid-career, professional teaching artist at two elementary schools to 1,040 students who will develop artistic abilities, explore creativity and gain skills such as problem solving, collaborating, and positive self-expression. These Woodland & rural Esparto schools serve populations where >50% of students are low income and English learners.

AE-AIS-18-1550 Young Artists Conservatory of Music Solano County $13,500

With support from the California Arts Council, YOUNG ARTISTS CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC will allow us to serve children in the Vallejo City Unified School District. Our goal is to enhance child development and academic achievement by supplementing teacher instruction with music education. Through choral instruction students learn the rudiments of music (rhythm, melody, scales). The primary teacher is present to provide support. Two concerts give children the experience and excitement of performance.


AE-AIS-18-3079 Young Audiences of Northern California San Francisco County $6,375

With support from the California Arts Council, Young Audiences of Northern California will bring teaching artists Kirah Caminos and Kirk Waller to Tenderloin Community School to implement dance and theatre residency programs. These residencies will build upon the previous school year’s work, thus delivering sustained and impactful arts education to 245 students in grades K through 2nd, 4th and 5th.

AE-AIS-18-2026 Arts For Learning San Diego San Diego County $13,500

With support from the California Arts Council, Arts for Learning San Diego will partner with Ocean Beach Elementary to provide all students with two 12 week residencies in the visual & performing arts, lead by professional teaching artists. Students will share their arts learning with their community, friends and family through popular culminating performances and exhibits.These residencies, ensure that each student receives comprehensive arts education in visual, written and performing arts.

AE-AIS-18-2968 Young Musicians Foundation Los Angeles County $17,100

With support from the California Arts Council, the Young Musicians Foundation’s Teaching Artist Program (TAP) will serve a combined 320 students at New Los Angeles Charter Elementary School, Sacred Heart Elementary School, LA Promise Fund Charter Middle School 1. All programming will be delivered during school hours. Students will engage in tuition-free music instruction in instruments and voice twice weekly for 32 weeks from September 2017–May 2018.

AE-AIS-18-3095 Youth Art Exchange San Francisco County $15,300

With support from the California Arts Council, Youth Art Exchange (YAX) will deliver visual and performing arts classes at three San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) high schools during the school day. The arts residencies, led by our faculty of professional artists, engage youth in studying disciplines through projects conducted in the context of their city and communities. Programming focuses on learning technical arts and leadership skills, and the development of artistic practices.

AE-AIS-18-3015 Youth In Arts Marin County $17,100

With support from the California Arts Council, YOUTH IN ARTS will continue a long partnership with Laurel Dell Elementary School and advance our work in achieving a sequential TK-5 visual and performing arts curriculum grounded in personal voice and identity for Laurel Dell's predominantly low-income Latinx students. This year we will also begin to develop and test new model assessment tools in collaboration with the Marin County Office of Education (MCOE) and Dominican University.

AE-AIS-18-1460 Youth Speaks Inc San Francisco County $13,500

With support from the California Arts Council, Youth Speaks will bring its High School Residency program to Emiliano Zapata Street Academy and June Jordan School for Equity. Youth Speaks Poet Mentors will work with classroom teachers to provide intensive spoken word workshops during school hours, for students who have limited access to the arts. With the guidance of an adult mentor, they will grow their skills to find, develop, publicly present, and apply their voices for societal change.

AE-AIS-18-3053 Z Space Studio San Francisco County $8,084

With support from the California Arts Council, Word for Word's Youth Arts program will lead two in-depth public school residencies for 6th-8th grade English Language Learners at Francisco Middle School in San Francisco and 6th grade English Language Arts students at Life Academy of Health and Bioscience in Oakland. Residencies will include twice or thrice weekly class sessions with teaching artists and culminate in performances at the school sites.


AE-AIS-18-2945 Zimmer Children’s Museum Los Angeles County $3,634

With support from the California Arts Council, youTHink and the ZIMMER CHILDREN’S MUSEUM will provide an artist-led in-school residency program in four public high schools in the 2018-19 school year. Teaching artists will lead the 12-session series for 9th grade students. Based on the success of other multi-year youTHink programs, the program is designed so that participating students may participate for all four high school years.

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