Throughout the works of many of this year’s winners is an emphasis on breaking down silos – between institutions and community-based organizations, between artists and community members, between artists and climate scientists and between local and international artists. Another strong theme amongst this year’s winners is the development of new models for resourcing the creation of art. With diverse approaches ranging from the development of 3D high-definition films of dance productions aimed at broadening potential audiences to personalized teams of professional mentors gathered to support artists, many of the projects find a unique way to support art-making.
2011 Recipients:
Brooklyn Academy of Music to explore and develop creative approaches to serving local artists, community-based organizations, and audiences
Casita Maria to host Dancing in the Streets as a company in residence and work together with their community to develop a performance series illuminating the South Bronx's cultural legacy
CEC ArtsLink to launch One Big City, a series of public events created collaboratively by New York City and international visiting artists engaging with and responding to New York City’s diaspora communities, presented at local cultural venues
Center for Urban Pedagogy to develop a design clinic that helps community organizations to demystify and visualize complex urban issues
Chimpanzee Productions, to bring to life New York City's hidden visual history using personal family photographic archives and stories through the interactive Digital Diaspora Family Reunion: One City, One Family project
Dance Films Association to produce, market and distribute high definition and 3D films of NYC dance companies' performances in partnership with TenduTV
El Puente to investigate the overlap between the creative, health and sustainability practices of their Southside Williamsburg community
Greenpoint Manufacturing and Design Center to develop a city-wide network of Naturally Occurring Cultural Districts in partnership with Arts + Community Change, Fourth Arts Block, El Museo del Barrio, El Puente, NY Chinatown History Project, Queens Museum of Art, and others
Groundswell Community Mural Project to partner with The Majora Carter Group for youth, artists and other community members to identify transportation-related concerns in the South Bronx and recommend design, signage and policy solutions with the Department of Transportation
Misnomer Dance Theater to utilize behavioral science for a stakeholder-engagement program for NYC's performing arts organizations in partnership with strategy and marketing firm Orcasci
National Association of Latino Independent Producers to provide professional mentoring to New York Latino/a and Native writers, producers and directors of narrative and documentary projects to create and advance new films
New York Foundation for the Arts in partnership with Mary Miss Studio for a public art installation along the length of Broadway that makes the city's sustainability initiatives tangible to citizens at street level through collaborations between the artist, scientists and the community
New York Live Arts, which is the re-imagining of the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company and Dance Theater Workshop, to support a new mid-career resident artist program
New York University and The Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics for their collaboration with a series of NYC arts organizations to support and train performance-based political artists to develop and share new work
Performance Zone (The Field) in partnership with OurGoods to expand OurGoods.org, an online barter network for creative people
Wildlife Conservation Society to build an online forum that allows the public to develop and share their own preferred ecological climate-resilient designs for Manhattan
