Applicant: La Associación de Barranquiteños de New Jersey (Newark, NJ)
Project:
8th Annual
Arts
and
Music
Fair
Description: The Annual Arts and Music Fair is a free, family friendly celebration of
Hispanic and Puerto Rican Culture. It showcases the rich cultural diversity with a goal to
inspire artistic expression among Newark’s residents who have limited opportunities for
art education and exploration. As a component of the festival, students participate in
painting workshops and drumming lessons together with local and national artists
displaying their work at the event. Funds would be used to bring international professional
artists to the festival for participation.
Applicant:
The
Barat
Foundation
(Newark,
NJ)
Project:
Mural
Program
with
Eagle
Academy
Description: This project at Newark’s Eagle Academy will allow for the creation of a
mural approximately 100 square feet in size, painted on three sheets of 4’ x 8’ plywood.
The mural will visually represent the mission, tradition, values, culture and history of the
school. The mural will be created through a diverse participatory model intended to
broaden the creation and understanding of art, under the guidance of working artists in
residence. The artists will be working with students and staff at Eagle Academy during
enrichment periods for a maximum of 40 hours, two to eight hours per week including
Saturdays as scheduling permits.
Applicant:
Center
for
Court
Innovation
(Newark,
NJ)
Project:
Entryway
of
DREAMS
Description: Entryway of DREAMS is a collaboration between the Newark Youth Court
and BRICK Avon Academy. BRICK students and Youth Court members will work together
on developing and creating a visual art project that will improve the physical entrance of
their school. This project aims to instill in participants the value of teamwork and foster a
sense of community among BRICK students and Youth Court members.
Applicant:
City
Without
Walls (Newark,
NJ)
Project: Newark
New
Media
Description: Newark New Media is a student apprenticeship program run in conjunction
with East Side High School. It gives 5 to 8 middle school students who have an interest
in learning new media techniques the opportunity to participate in a semester long
afterschool program. They will be taught various new media techniques while working on
a single film project. This year will be the first time the project is offered to elementary
school students.
Applicant:
GlassRoots,
Inc.
(Newark,
NJ)
Project:
Hotshop
in
the
Park
Description: GlassRoots proposes to build a portable hotshop studio that would offer the
public a behind-the-scenes glimpse at the art of glassblowing in three parks this summer.
The portable studio will have furnaces that fire up to a toast 2,100 degrees—hot enough
to turn solid glass into a malleable liquid that can be fashioned into anything from an
aquatic sculpture to a martini glass. GlassRoots will provide community members—adults
and children—with rare access to hot glass making processes, enabling them to
experience firsthand the full potential of glass as a material for design.
Applicant:
Index
Art
Center
(Newark,
NJ)
Project:
Filmideo
Description: IAC is seeking funding for its annual video and film
exhibition/series Filmideo. If awarded, funds will be used to cover costs for audio and
video hardware, catalog fees, and honoraria for two guest curators. Filmideo supports
emerging artists and alternative art formats. It is an open-ended educational experience
for a broad audience base and supplies free community arts programming for
underserved audiences.
Applicant: Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience
Project:
The
Institute
Dance
Symposium
Series
Description: The Institute’s semi-annual Dance Symposium Series will explore both
traditional and contemporary dance forms in 2014-2015. Cross-Currents: A
Symposium on Traditional & Contemporary Chinese Dance with Nai-Ni-Chen Dance
Company will be presented on September 24, 2014; Urban Muse: A Symposium on
Modern Dance with Lula Washington Dance Theater will be presented on February
26, 2015 in conjunction with the Institute’s 35th annual Marion Thompson Wright Lecture
Series. Each symposium will feature a workshop or audience enrichment activity within
the Newark community, and a performance during the evening. For the Newark
community, this is an opportunity for cultural enrichment and access—especially by
under-served populations—to professional quality Arts Programming and Arts
educational activities presented within the city.
Applicant:
Jamie
Bruno
and
Isabelle
Malebranche
(Newark,
NJ)
Project:
Common
Goods
Summer
Program
Description: The Common Goods Summer Program (CGSP) is a six week long social
responsibility program for high school students focused on local sustainability and arts
education. It is a modular program with four phases meant to build compassionate
communication; introduce grassroots ideas surrounding sustainable values, infrastructure
and business; and the creative and artistic troubleshooting of solutions to urban issues.
The program begins with workshops and roundtable discussions, culminating in a pop-up
exhibition and presentation of student work in mid-August. The project brings arts
education, design thinking and grassroots sustainable values to underserved urban high
school students. It provides youth access to new ideas in art and social practice. It also
addresses youth employment in low income neighborhoods by providing hourly stipends
through the Newark Youth One Stop Career Center.
Applicant:
Newark
Print
Shop
(Newark,
NJ)
Project:
Open
Studios
Program
+
Exhibition
Description: The Print Club Open Studios Program is structured to address the demand
for accessibility to facilities and equipment for the Greater Newark Community. Currently
the only active workshop space, the Newark Print Shop addresses the need for
accessible maker space through its weekly open studio workshops called Print Club. This
weekly session is for artists of all levels to come and make art together. The Newark Print
Shop has an open doors policy for people to come and use the facilities. Funds will be
used to supply materials for participants to create prints of varying types, with selected
pieces made during the year’s Print Club sessions curated for a special exhibition to be
held during Newark Arts Council’s Open Doors festival of 2014. The exhibition will seek
to showcase prints created in Newark by artists at varying levels as well as educate the
general public about the art of fine printmaking. The project as a whole acts as a catalyst
for community engagement in an active working space and a platform for collaborative
art making and idea exchange.
Applicant: Sharron Miller’s Academy for the Performing Arts (Montclair, NJ)
Project: 2014-15 SMAPA Dance Residency Program at Quitman St. Community
School
Description: Sharron Miller’s Academy for the Performing Arts requests support for artist
fees related to the continuation and expansion of SMAPA’s in-school dance residency
partnership which will benefit an estimated 365 K-8th grade students at Newark’s Quitman
Street Community School through 18 weekly dance classes conducted by skilled teaching
artists during the 2014-2015 school year (34 week program). The expansion allows for a
new full-year 6th-8th grade preparatory elective class held once a week, continuing the
students’ cumulative K-5th grade dance training. It eliminates a serious competitive
disadvantage they would otherwise experience if they were interested in auditioning for
Newark’s Arts High School.