 ARCHIVE
June 8, 2005
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Ron
Tierney, (415) 345-7540
SAN FRANCISCO — Six Bay Area nonprofit arts organizations
will receive grants totaling slightly more than $92,000 through
Fort Mason Foundation’s Shulte Grants for the Arts and
Crafts program.
“We are very excited by this third round of Shulte grants,"
said Alexander Zwissler, the foundation’s executive director.
"They represent a wide range of programs with emphasis
on arts education for Bay Area youth.”
PROGRAMS RECEIVING GRANTS
Door
Dog Music Productions will produce eight different
youth groups in the Youth World Music Showcase, a collaborative
effort that will develop new perspectives for the next generation
of artists and audiences.
The Greater Bay Area Arts Education Network will hold
a conference, “Catalyst 2006: Arts, Learning, and Creating
Positive Social Change,” illuminating the role of the
arts in K-12 education and lifelong learning.
In collaboration with Paintbrush
Diplomacy, the Presidio
Performing Arts Foundation
will create an exhibition, “Dancing Across Cultures,”
that will exhibit museum-quality costumes and young people’s
artwork to deepen understanding of the lives of youth around
the world.
The San
Francisco Children’s Art Center will offer three-hour,
hands-on workshops focusing on art education that includes
parents, teachers, and children. Participants will learn about
the relevance and pivotal role of art in early childhood development
Fotovision
will produce several documentary-related activities—photography
workshops, book creation, filming for DVD, lectures, and exhibitions—to
create a new body of work about the current social and economic
fabric of California.
Artist Summer
Brenner will create the “Where I’m From
Project,” a transcultural, transgenerational text and
visual conversation between middle school students and elders
in San Francisco’s Bayview–Hunters Point neighborhood.
The theme highlights the meaning of origin.
The programs will take place at Fort Mason Center and the
Herbst International Exhibition Hall in the San Francisco
Presidio in 2005 and 2006.
The grants are made possible through a bequest of the estate
of Mrs. Leta Shulte. Administered by the Fort Mason Foundation,
the program is designed to foster, promote, and provide education
in the arts and crafts for both children and adults. In addition,
the program’s purpose is to launch new cultural endeavors
and to strengthen existing institutions that support artists.
Previous award winners include A
Home Within, Shadowlight
Productions, Young
Audiences of Northern California, the American
Institute of Graphic Arts, the Museum
of Craft and Folk Art, and quiltmaker Joe
Cunningham.
Located on 13 waterfront acres near San Francisco’s
Marina District and the Golden Gate Bridge, Fort Mason Center
is a successfully converted military base that is both an
historic landmark and an ever-changing reflection of the dynamic
Bay Area community. The Center, operated by the Fort Mason
Foundation, houses 35 permanent nonprofit residents, including
four museums, six theaters, and City College of San Francisco’s
Art Campus. More than 15,000 events take place here each year,
and more than 1.5 million people visit annually.
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