GRANTEES

ArtStart Grantees 2024-2025

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African Drumming Program at Keys 2 Success

Organization	Project Title
Keys 2 Success	African Drumming Program at Keys 2 Success
Project Summary
Keys 2 Success offers free piano education to youth in Newark; the African Drumming program will expand the genre offerings to our students while adding an accessible alternative for new students. This program explores cultural traditions and fostering community through ensemble playing. It aligns with K2S’s mission of inclusivity by celebrating African musical heritage.

Art with the Elders

Individual Artist	Project Title
Nichole Donnell	Art with the Elders
Project Summary
Brick City Presents with the support of the office of Councilwoman Lamonica Mclver will offer. “Art with our Elders”. “Art with the Elders” will encompass workshops featuring a mix of paint & chats, movie screening, crochet workshop, and a music exhibitions workshops curated especially for the senior community.

Artist in Residency

Organization	Project Title
Obscura Darkroom NJ	Artist in Residency
Project Summary
Obscura Darkroom NJ residency program is a Photography-based residency. Our goal is to expand and educate the community in the art of Analog photography and darkroom techniques. Obscura Darkroom NJ creates an opportunity for artists at any stage of their career utilizing film or darkroom as the main driver of their work. Open to anyone age eighteen and above. This residency will run for 3 months.

Blind Divas

Organization	Project Title
Lisa Durden	Blind Divas
Project Summary
“Blind Divas” is a powerful documentary showcasing the remarkable journey of Krystle Allen and Naquela Wright-Prevo, two Black women entrepreneurs from Newark, New Jersey, who confront the challenges of vision loss with unwavering determination. Through their resilience and friendship, they emerge as champions within the blindness community, inspiring audiences with their strength and vision for the future. This film is a testament to triumph over adversity and the indomitable human spirit.

Carter Glennon Center for Arts and Nature Raise the Roof Program

Organization	Project Title
Carter Glennon Center Arts and Nature A NJ Non Profit Corporation	Carter Glennon Center for Arts and Nature Raise the Roof Program
Project Summary
We will operate a one week summer music camp for under served youths in Newark’s central ward. This year we are targeting youths ages 8 thought high school. The program will be a day program running during the day only from M-F. We will provide music instruction in the morning and art instruction in the afternoon.

Community Institute

Organization	Project Title
The Institute of Music for Children	Community Institute
Project Summary
The Community Institute works with community leaders and educators to integrate professional artists into classrooms and community settings. This is one of our core programs, providing multi-media and performing arts residencies in 4-6 sites in Newark Public Schools. Residencies from our teaching artists provide classes and programming in schools and community settings to 225 at-risk youth at 4-6 public and charter schools each year.

Coffee & Convo: Community Engagement Seminars for Artists

Organization	Project Title
Blue Butterfly Arts & Media (A NJ Nonprofit Corporation)	Coffee & Convo: Community Engagement Seminars for Artists
Project Summary
Coffee & Convo is a series of four Saturday (or Sunday) morning Community Engagement Seminars (networking events) offered to Newark artists of all disciplines.

Elder Stories

Organization	Project Title
I Dance Because	Elder Stories
Project Summary
Elder Stories is a multimodal presentation of elders’ lived experiences and lessons learned. Elders represent living libraries for young people. The elders’ stories will be told literary, visually, and choreographically through the eyes of Newark artists and Newark Public School children. This project is about making connections with our elders.

Jungle Jams: Nature Exploration Through Music and Movement

Organization	Project Title
Honeypot Montessori, Incorporated	Jungle Jams: Nature Exploration Through Music and Movement
Project Summary
Jungle Jams, a Honeypot Montessori community engagement initiative, offers an immersive exploration where nature blends seamlessly with music and movement. Tailored for children aged 3 to 8, this innovative program combines the wonders of the natural world with the art of theater to ignite curiosity and inspire a love for learning and nature. Jungle Jams provides a transformative journey through nature education and arts education, fostering connections with nature while cultivating engagement within our community.

Lincoln Park Youth Arts Collective

Organization	Project Title
Lincoln Park Coast Cultural District	Lincoln Park Youth Arts Collective
Project Summary
Lincoln Park Coast Cultural District’s Young Artist Collective (YAC) is an arts meets tech education program for youth aged 9-17 – Generation Alpha – that will provide them with knowledge and employable skills needed to be successful in the 21st Century. LPCCD’s YAC is aligned with our mission of planning, designing and developing a comprehensive arts and cultural district in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of downtown Newark.

Living in Color

Organization	Project Title
J. D. Johnson School of Performing Arts	Living in Color
Project Summary
Dance and Art has been used as a platform for raising awareness for social issues throughout history, and it is a powerful medium for helping to encourage social change. Our workshop focuses on dispelling stereotypes and promoting positive self-images. Through dance and surrealist artistry, we’ll educate children on different ways to express themselves when faced with adversity. The “Living in Color” workshop engage communities and create a platform for social change.

Look What I Made With Bump Pro--Workshops and Fashion Show

Organization	Project Title
Clinton Hill Community Action	Look What I Made With Bump Pro–Workshops and Fashion Show
Project Summary
Clinton Hill Community Action will present a new program within its South Ward ArtsXchange offerings, consisting of a series of 6 workshops focused on upcycling as a participatory art form, culminating with a fashion show/exhibition. The workshop series represents the expansion of a popular one-day workshop that drew 40 participants last fall. The fashion show will serve as a live exhibition of the participants’ original designs.

Lyrics Matter Hip Hop S.T.E.A.M. Team

Organization	Project Title
Lyrics Matter Foundation	Lyrics Matter Hip Hop S.T.E.A.M. Team
Project Summary
Lyrics Matter Foundation’s “Hip Hop S.T.E.A.M. Team” is a music makerspace / performing arts meets tech education program for youth aged 16-24. Over a semester (15 weeks), students will meet weekly for 3 hours and learn hands on through an interactive curriculum led by experienced arts educators and music industry professionals. Lyrics Matter Foundation’s “Hip Hop S.T.E.A.M. Team” is slated to launch in Fall school semester 2024.

Makers Space

Organization	Project Title
Newark Public Library	Makers Space
Project Summary
The initiative aims to create a Makers Space within the Newark Public Library, focusing on engaging teens and young adults in visual arts. It will be a hub for nurturing artistic ideas through various creative tools and resources where young individuals can explore and develop their artistic talents, fostering innovation and expression within the community.

Mighty Writers Newark Community Storytelling Fellowship

Organization	Project Title
Mighty Writers	Mighty Writers Newark Community Storytelling Fellowship
Project Summary
Mighty Writers will host a 16-week community storytelling fellowship to 10 teens ages 15-17 led by a Newark theater artist in Fall 2024 (Sep-Dec).

Moncur Music Lives On

Organization	Project Title
House of Love Soup Kitchen/Pantry	Moncur Music Lives On
Project Summary
“Moncur Music Lives On” will introduce recently discovered, never-released music by Grachan Moncur III. His compositions will be performed at Clement’s Place, a renowned jazz club in Newark. Grachan, acclaimed jazz composer and trombonist, was an innovative force in the music world for over sixty years. Grachan, a native Newarker, was knowledgeable and adept in the genre of bebop, and the first trombonist associated with the Avant Garde.

Newark LGBTQ Film Festival 2025

Organization	Project Title
Newark LGBTQ Community Center	Newark LGBTQ Film Festival 2025
Project Summary
We seek funding for the Newark LGBTQ Film Festival’s Filmmaker Luncheon. We aim to empower LGBTQIA+ BIPOC creatives to use film as a vehicle of artistic expression and advocacy. With Newark Arts’ support, we plan to scale the luncheon for Spring 2025 festival, bringing aspiring filmmakers together with veterans in the film and TV industry for inspiration, networking, and resource connections.

Sensational Summer @ NSA

Organization	Project Tittle
Newark School of the Arts	Sensational Summer @ NSA
Project Summary
Sensational Summer @ NSA’s summer intensive provides a vital opportunity for underserved students to engage in artistic exploration and academic enrichment during the summer months to prevent summer learning loss. With the support of this grant, we will be able to continue our mission of empowering youth through the arts and ensuring that all students have access to the transformative power of creativity.

Setting Boundaries: Avoiding the Drama

Organization	Project Title
Drama With A Twist	Setting Boundaries: Avoiding the Drama
Project Summary
“Setting Boundaries: Avoiding the Drama” is a trauma-informed violence prevention workshop designed with the intentional use of applied theatre where youth examine healthy and unhealthy behaviors in peer relationships using the expressive arts.

Unmasking – Suicide Prevention for Seniors

Organization	Project Title
A Penny For Your Thoughts Foundation	Unmasking – Suicide Prevention for Seniors
Project Summary
“Unmasking: Suicide Prevention for Seniors” is a pioneering initiative aimed at addressing the critical yet often overlooked issue of suicide, substance use, and mental health challenges among the elderly in Essex County. This project leverages the transformative power of the arts as a catalyst to foster understanding, provide therapeutic interventions, and stimulate community engagement, particularly targeting the senior demographic.

ArtStart Grantees 2023-2024

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Tappin' Into Nork

Individual Artist	Project Title
Maurice Chestnut	Tappin’ Into Nork
Project Summary
Maurice Chestnut (Tap Artist and Choreographer) and Armando Diaz (videographer) will select a local business in wards specified above and produce a tap dance short to promote businesses featuring tap students from Newark School of the Arts. Students will showcase the arts in the city of Newark. These clips will celebrate the culture of dance in our city while promoting local businesses. Locations include: Nacho Taco, Ivy Hill Laundromat, Newark Cheesesteak, Deaf’s Delight Cafe https://youtu.be/ObqamXwsuvY

Triumph Mural

Individual Artist	Project Tittle
Brenda Echeverry	Triumph Mural
Project Summary
The project consists of the installation of an outdoor mural at Triumph the Church of the New Age’s location in Newark. The mural is meant to beautify the site and increase community engagement at the center.

Arts & Entertainment, Fiction & Film Workshop & Masterclasses

Individual Artist	Project Title
Andrea Clinton	Arts & Entertainment, Fiction & Film Workshop & Masterclasses
Project Summary
With the film studios and other opportunities coming to Newark, we would like to teach Fiction, Film and Theatre Writing, Producing and Acting to residents of Newark. Andrea Clinton is a residency partner with Express Newark and would like to teach these workshops at the Express Newark facility in Haynes and other Rutgers Newark class setting.

Squash & Shekere: Making Music in the Garden

Organization	Project Title
Where’s Your Tree?	Squash & Shekere: Making Music in the Garden
Project Summary
Where’s Your Tree? presents “Squash & Shekere: Making Music in the Garden,” at the Giving One Tenth Community Garden, facilitated by the renowned percussionist-educator Ahmondylla Best. Families can decorate their shekeres from dried gourds and learn about the instrument’s African roots and routes through interactive song-making and performance. Explore the versatility of squash as a locally grown, nourishing food and musical instrument used by celebrated bands. Don’t miss these rhythmic and educational workshops!

505 Block Party (Dancing in the Street)

Individual Artist	Project Title
Kimberllyn “Olive” Xavier Oliveira	505 Block Party (Dancing in the Street)
Project Summary
The 505 Block Party is an effort to unite the neighborhood surrounding The Gant Gilbert Arts Collective building and South Ward as a whole. Join in a day of camaraderie with fellow Newarkers on September 2, 2023 from 1-6PM at 505 Clinton Ave. There will be activities to delight folks of all ages including a beginner’s yoga class, a seed planting workshop, and a collective canvas for all to paint on. Come on down!

Art at the Willows

Individual Artist	Project Tittle
Nichole (Nikki) Donnell	Art at the Willows
Project Summary
Art at the Willows will provide art programming. Offerings include paint, poetry, and family movie night curated by local teaching artist followed by stake holder chats to foster the growing artist community. The Willows and the Ingerman sister locations are one of the first artist preferred housing spaces in Newark NJ. “Art at the Willows” will activate these spaces with artist activity as we build community within the existing diverse community of Newark.

Arts Always for All III

Organization	Project Tittle
Ivy Hill Vailsburg Center for Arts Culture and Community Activism	Arts Always for All III
Project Summary
In its eighth year, ACCA Creates continues to provide arts education via our Third Annual one-week Dance Intensive and our six-week Summer Arts Day Camp one culminating in an Informal Dance Showcase, and the other in a production that will be presented in five locations including the North and South Wards. Summer Arts includes community activism, creative writing, dance, theater, vocal music, piano in collaboration with Keys2Success, and Cooperative Games supporting positive play among children.

Back 2 The Future

Organization	Project Tittle
Drama With A Twist	Back 2 The Future
Project Summary
Artists take elders and youth “Back 2 the Future”, in an intergenerational arts program. Newark students at Elliott Street Elementary School will meet in person with adult seniors living with first and mid stages of Alzheimer’s and dementia. Students and adult seniors will explore theatre, art, film and music together. A culmination session invites participants, students, school administration and participating artists to celebrate works created during program.

Breakin in the Bricks

Organization	Project Title
Newark School of the Arts	Breakin in the Bricks
Project Summary
The Breakin in the Bricks festival will be a one-day event that will showcase the different elements of hip hop, including music, dance, graffiti, and spoken word. The event will be held in the heart of Newark, NJ, and will be open to the public. The festival will provide a safe and inclusive space for people of all ages and backgrounds to come together and celebrate hip hop culture.

Carter Glennon Center for Arts and Nature Summer Music and Arts Camp

Organization	Project Title
Carter Glennon Center Arts and Nature A NJ Non Profit Corporation	Carter Glennon Center for Arts and Nature Summer Music and Arts Camp
Project Summary
Carter Glennon runs a one-week sleep away summer camp to be held on a college campus in New Jersey which will serve Newark youth. The program allows students to develop skills on their current musical instrument under the guidance of professional musicians and to engage with nature through field trips to nearby hiking trails and arboretums as well as experienced a taste of college life in the atmosphere of Drew University.

Community Arts Crochet Club and Community Service Project

Organization	Project Title
Arts ETC	Community Arts Crochet Club and Community Service Project
Project Summary
We are asking for funds to support our Community Arts Crochet Club at Arts High School. The crochet club has been very successful and we would like to continue it for a second year to reach more students. We would also like to add a community service incentive to motivate students to do community service and to provide support to students who conceive of community service projects that will impact their communities.

Community Institute

Organization	Project Title
The Institute of Music for Children	Community Institute
Project Summary
The Institute of Music for Children’s mission is to engage children and youth in artistic expression and the creative process. Guided by its vision of HARMONY (Helping Achieve Responsible, Motiviated, Optimistic, Neighborhood Youth,) we are buildig a community of high-achieving citizens who are arts makers through professional instruction, mentorship, and family engagement. Commuity Institute is one of our core programs, providing mult-media and performing arts residencies in three to five sites in Newark Public Schools.

Dancing with the Blind 2024 #Goinggrowingandglowing

Organization	Project Title
Eyes Like Mine Inc	Dancing with the Blind 2024 #Goinggrowingandglowing
Project Summary
At “DWB”, we welcome community members to participate with an initial meet and greet to discuss the layers of participation. We offer scheduled rehearsal time for both sighted and vision impaired to be trained as a group dance routine. We schedule photo shoots, Video diaries about the dancers’ experience, and an opportunity for two communities to unite And build memorable bonds. In conclusion, we perform in front of audience to find The ultimate winning team!

Digital Media Arts Boot Camp

Organization	Project Title
Keys 2 Success	Digital Media Arts Boot Camp
Project Summary
Keys 2 Success’s Urban Fellowship program employs teens from Newark and other urban areas to perform a wide range of teaching, mentorship, and media tasks. In the summer of 2023, 4 Urban Fellows will participate in a Media Arts Bootcamp to learn to record, edit, and distribute video, photo, and audio content online and in media, including coding. They will also use these skills to lead a coding course within K2S’s STEAM summer program.

Don't Touch My Hair

Individual Artist	Project Title
Ayana Morris	Don’t Touch My Hair
Project Summary
“Don’t Touch My Hair” is a blunt statement to America to stop the policing of black hair. Black hair is seen as “unprofessional” but its display seems to spark an ironic curiosity. Some willingly act on this curiosity and commit the faux pax of touching a black woman’s hair. This boldness is why the phrase “don’t touch my hair” is more than a request, it’s a rallying cry.

MW Newark Theater Art Workshops For Academic Success

Organization	Project Title
Mighty Writers	MW Newark Theater Art Workshops For Academic Success
Project Summary
Mighty Writers requests $3,000 to implement an eight-week summer camp in Newark located at 59 Lincoln Park. We will teach 50 kids and youth ages 7-15 in various literary art activities during cinema, art and cinema weeks. We will invite teaching artists and musicians. Students will watch and explore movie theories, read poetry, and learn music from expert educators in Newark City.

Our Fathers: Dismantling Stereotypes Surrounding Black Fatherhood in America

Organization	Project Title
I’M SO NEWARK	Our Fathers: Dismantling Stereotypes Surrounding Black Fatherhood in America
Project Summary
OUR FATHERS is a feature-length documentary film about the myths and damaging stereotypes about black fatherhood popularized by media, family members, and society. This film will examine the ongoing effects of racism and discrimination black men who are fathers face in America today. OUR FATHERS will showcase black dads from various economic situations, individual relationships with their children, and the impact of fatherhood in communities of color.

Stitch With Love

Individual Artist	Project Title
Rashidah Nelson	Stitch With Love
Project Summary
Inspiring the beautiful people of Newark to create art built from love, compassion and individuality.

Through the Eyes of Newark's Youth: What is a Community?

Organization	Project Title
Boys and Girls Club of Newark	Through the Eyes of Newark’s Youth: What is a Community?
Project Summary
At BGCN, we believe the connection between social justice, community public health issues, and the arts are important. Racial inequality, income inequity, and the opioid crisis are just three of the social and public health issues that some Newark communities face, and impact the youth growing up here. This project, Through the Eyes of Newark’s Youth: What is a Community?, will allow youth to self express and show the world their freedom to be themselves.

Wynona Lipman Project

Organization	Project Title
Wynona Lipman Project	Wynona Lipman Project
Project Summary
Our organization is embarking on our second documentary, this one on Sen. Wynona Lipman (1923-1999) , NJ’s First African American Woman Senator. Her foray into politics led her to becoming the Director of the Essex County Board of Freeholders (now Commissioners), before being elected to the State Senate in 1971 (29th District). She was succeeded by Mayor Sharpe James and currently by Sen. Teresa Ruiz now serves in her seat.

ArtStart Grantees 2022-2023

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Teen Music Production at Gant-Gilbert Arts Collective

Organization	Project Title
The Producer’s Edge	Teen Music Production at Gant-Gilbert Arts Collective
Project Summary
Producer’s Edge will lead an after-school teen music production program at the brand new Gant-Gilbert Arts Collective. This STEAM + Language Arts educational program will teach musical composition, audio engineering, and creative writing. Recording sessions will take place in a portable vocal booth where the students will create their own original songs.

Life Through My Eyes

Organization	Project Tittle
Aurway, Inc.	Life Through My Eyes
Project Summary
Aurway will provide holistic arts programming to several Newark school communities through the presentation of an original musical Life Through My Eyes by Lawrence Dandridge coupled with collaboration from other local organizations ImSoYoga Newark and Aya Paper Co. to provide tools and services that will help students develop stronger relationships with both mental health awareness and practice using the arts as a primary catalyst.

Arts Always for All Take III

Organization	Project Title
Ivy Hill Vailsburg Center for Arts Culture and Community Activism, ACCA Creates!	Arts Always for All Take III
Project Summary
Ivy Hill Vailsburg Center for Arts Culture and Community Activism (ACCA) provides year-round arts and cultural classes – visual art/scene design, vocal music, piano, theater arts/scene design, dance, community activism, creative writing, poetry/short story, Tai Chi, and gentle stretch – to people of all ages. This summer ACCA Creates will offer a combined step dance and piano workshop.

Back to the Future: An Intergenerational Arts Program

Organization	Project Title
{LIPS} Newark \| Living Inkubator Performance Space	Back to the Future: An Intergenerational Arts Program
Project Summary
Artists take elders and youth “Back 2 the Future”, in a virtual intergenerational art program. Newark students at Roberto Clemente Elementary School and Elliott Street Elementary School will meet virtually with adult seniors living with first and mid-stages of Alzheimer’s and dementia. Students and adult seniors will explore theatre, art, poetry, and music together. A culmination session invites participants, students, school administration, and participating artists to celebrate works created during the program.

The Institute of Music for Children

Organization	Project Title
The Institute of Music for Children	Community Institute
Project Summary
The Institute of Music for Children’s mission is to engage children and youth in artistic expression and the creative process. Guided by its vision of HARMONY (Helping Achieve Responsible, Motivated, Optimistic, Neighborhood Youth), we are building a community of high-achieving citizens who are arts makers through professional instruction, mentorship, and family engagement. Community Institute provides multi-media and performing Arts Residencies in three to five sites within Newark Public Schools.

GlassRoots Outside/Inside Newark Neighborhoods

Organization	Project Tittle
GlassRoots	GlassRoots Outside/Inside Newark Neighborhoods
Project Summary
GlassRoots has a history of collaborating with community-based organizations in local neighborhoods throughout Greater Newark, and we plan to build on these collaborations going forward. Our participation at these festivals: addresses civic and social needs and empowers residents, stimulates creativity and community engagement, and engages diverse populations.

Healing Through the Arts

Organization	Project Tittle
Newark School of the Arts	Healing Through the Arts
Project Summary
“Healing Through the Arts” is a special event designed to provide opportunities for self-care, resiliency and healing through participation in arts activities. The event will feature visual arts courses in crafting and painting, yoga, meditation, dance, and music that will serve as a medium for expression to address and improve mental health and depression.

Conversation Centered Around Black Bodies: The Voices of Young People

Organization	Project Title
Yendor	Conversation Centered Around Black Bodies: The Voices of Young People
Project Summary
An honest exploration of race and intersectionality among young Black and Brown people in America. In this film series young actors will bring to life stories around the concerns and issues that plague youth, and open up important conversations about these challenges.

Lincoln Park Coast Cultural District's Young Artist Collective

Organization	Project Title
Lincoln Park Coast Cultural District	Lincoln Park Coast Cultural District’s Young Artist Collective
Project Summary
Young Artist Collective (YAC) is an arts meets tech education program for youth aged 10-17, Generation Alpha. It will provide them with knowledge and employable skills needed to be successful in the 21st Century. YAC is aligned with Lincoln Park Coast Cultural District’s mission of planning, designing and developing a comprehensive arts and cultural district in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of downtown Newark.

Newark Rebellion: Art Activism Workshop

Organization	Project Title
Mighty Writers	Newark Rebellion: Art Activism Workshop
Project Summary
Newark Rebellion one-day showcase workshop, teens will learn to research play topics and write about cultural or historical issues such as the Newark Rebellion. Teens will delve into Pia Wilson’s play, “Down Neck”, which is based on the 1967 Newark race conflict. The workshop will culminate with students sharing their written works in the form of monologues, short screenplays, and narratives. Students learn performance writing and develop an understanding of theater.

KEEP ART ALIVE "An Interactive S.T.E.A.M. Summer Program"

Organization	Project Title
STEAM 4 URBN YOUTH, INC	KEEP ART ALIVE “An Interactive S.T.E.A.M. Summer Program”
Project Summary
STEAM URBAN is proud to present year two of KEEP ART ALIVE! “An Interactive S.T.E.A.M Summer Program. Expanding our programming capacity to provide 40 students, K-8, with a Nature infused, Plant Based, Pride of Self, and Community Exploration program they can feel empowered about. STEAM URBAN is an expressive arts and STEM-disciplined education program for Black and Brown students of all ages. We design innovative educational experiences taught by our Radical Educators.

Carter Glennon Center for Arts and Nature

Organization	Project Title
Carter Glennon Center for Arts and Nature	Carter Glennon Center for Arts and Nature
Project Summary
Carter-Glennon runs a one-week sleep away summer camp to be held on a college campus in New Jersey which will serve Newark youth. The program will allow students to develop skills on their current musical instrument under the guidance of professional musicians and to engage with nature through field trips to nearby hiking trails and arboretums, as well as experiencing a taste of college life in the atmosphere of Drew University.

Treasures of the Philippines

Organization	Project Title
Quitman St. Community School	Treasures of the Philippines
Project Summary
“Treasures of the Philippines” global arts enrichment program aims to expand students’ overall growth to give scholars a chance to become global citizens with a wider perception of the world. The purpose of these activities of painting, crafts and mural sessions is to develop adventurers who will begin to see, imagine, discuss, and place themselves at global man-made and natural landmarks from the Philippines to gain a better understanding about cultures, countries, and humanity.

Community Arts Crochet Club

Organization	Project Title
Arts ETC	Community Arts Crochet Club
Project Summary
We are looking for funding to support our Community Arts Program and to add a crochet club to address the need for SEL activities. Due to the pandemic, students need a variety of ways to cope with the new challenges they are facing. We feel adding the crochet club to our program is one way to address that need. The program runs after-school at Arts High School and would be open to all students.

"Pushcart Players' Diversity Initiative with Newark Arts"

Organization	Project Title
Pushcart Players	“Pushcart Players’ Diversity Initiative with Newark Arts”
Project Summary
Pushcart Players supports educational performances in Newark schools. Pushcart will produce two new musicals that align with Pushcart’s Diversity Initiative. The ArtStart grant would pay for actor and stage manager salaries in addition to the playwright’s commission. As a result, performances would be discounted for underserved schools.

Pop Up Puppet Family Literacy Events

Organization	Project Title
Educational Arts Team	Pop Up Puppet Family Literacy Events
Project Summary
Educational Arts Team will bring their Family Arts and Literacy events to four Newark Public Schools. These interactive and creative family workshops offer parents and caregivers an opportunity to be actively involved in their children’s academic and social growth, while helping build positive family relationships. The sessions engage families in storytelling and puppetry activities that encourage creative expression, strengthen language arts learning, and support the development of communication and interpersonal skills

Tubman Monument Poetry Videos

Organization	Project Title
DreamPlay Media	Tubman Monument Poetry Videos
Project Summary
We will produce a series of poetry videos inspired by the prospective Harriet Tubman Monument / Tubman Square in Newark. These engaging videos will be produced locally and will feature up to four local poets who are being commissioned by the City of Newark to create original works.

Abenaavi Arts: Art & Tech

Organization	Project Title
Jojo Abenaavi Wright	Abenaavi Arts: Art & Tech
Project Summary
Abenaavi Arts: Art & Tech (AAAT) program provides creative guidance to Newark’s young artists giving them hands-on experience in creating and preparing art for digital displays, such as non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Youth in AAAT gain experience designing the layout, atmosphere, and displays in a virtual art gallery. AAAT aims to Reduce the digital divide Empower our youth to create in Newark Empower youth to share and profit on a global scale.

Planet Newark

Organization	Project Title
Al-Munir LLC	Planet Newark
Project Summary
Planet Newark is a multidisciplinary approach to reducing the impacts of violence & trauma in the North Broadway and South Broad St neighborhoods. Planet Newark utilizes placemaking and arts & culture therapy to combat racism & poverty by empowering Black & Brown Newark Youth to engage in urban farming, community mapping, theater arts, and public art creation.

Autumn Notes

Organization	Project Title
Keys 2 Success	Autumn Notes
Project Summary
“Autumn Notes” is a Garden Concert Series jointly hosted by Keys 2 Success (K2S), Kids In BusinessⓇ (KIB), and ACCA Creates!. These three organizations share a common goal of serving young children in the most underserved areas of Newark. Hosting performances at nontraditional locations will change perceptions of Newark and catalyze further collaboration with other communities to address related family and community needs such as good nutrition and healthy lifestyles.

Discovery Charter School Podcasting Workshop

Organization	Project Title
Discovery Charter School	Discovery Charter School Podcasting Workshop
Project Summary
Discovery Charter School students will create a podcast allowing them to share their unique perspectives as elementary and middle school students in this unprecedented time. Led by Discovery teacher Cheryl Rogers, whose experience in the arts, journalism, and radio make her the ideal mentor. The students will explore storytelling through the medium of podcasting, while learning professional radio production skills including recording, mixing and editing.

Creative Rag Doll Work Shops

Organization	Project Title
Hector Perez	Creative Rag Doll Work Shops
Project Summary
Rag dolls are a practice of handicrafts in many traditional societies. Through this type of art, we explore the intersectionality of gender, race, class, and ethnicity. Our Creative Rag Doll Projects empower individuals in vulnerable and underserved communities. We work together to further serve the needs of senior adults who benefit from creative outlets that enhance their skills and provide an opportunity for mental/emotional stimulation.

ROLE: Repertory Onstage Learning Experience

Organization	Project Title
SAS PERFORMING ARTS COMPANY and STUDIOS INC.	ROLE: Repertory Onstage Learning Experience
Project Summary
SAS Performing Arts, is dedicated to grow, sustain, and educate our community by presenting classic and contemporary works in various genres that are fully accessible and cost-efficient. We focus on emerging artists to help them study and achieve their goals in a safe, inclusive, socially impactful, and relevant environment. We are committed to equity, diversity, and inclusion in all aspects of our organization as we strive to fulfill our core values: Study…Create…Focus…Achieve..and Perform.

Obscura Darkroom

Organization	Project Title
Obscura Darkroom	Obscura Darkroom
Project Summary
Obscura Darkroom’s mission is to educate on the beauty and importance of photography as an artistic medium and offer low-cost access to a darkroom for Newark residents and the student population. Obscura Darkroom will offer darkroom hours, photography classes, workshops and a gallery dedicated to analog photography. Photography can be either a primary or supplementary tool in telling stories and forms of artistic expression for local community removing barriers to their participation in self- expression.

SUN PRINTS PROJECT

Organization	Project Tittle
Newark Print Shop	SUN PRINTS PROJECT
Project Summary
Newark Print Shop’s “Sun Prints Project” will introduce area youth to sun printing using nature as inspiration. Sun prints, also known as cyanotypes, are a photographic process using light-sensitive paper to reproduce images of plant specimens. Through this initiative, Newark Print Shop will partner with Apiary in the Sky Community Garden to offer a series of fun and engaging sun printing workshops, engaging area youth in skills-based learning of this exciting form of printmaking.

ArtStart Grantees 2021-2022

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Arts Always for All Take II

Organization	Name	Project Title	Ward
Ivy Hill Vailsburg Center for Arts Culture and Community Activism	Marcia Heard	Arts Always for All Take II	All 5 Wards
Project Summary
ACCA provides year-round arts and cultural health classes to people of all ages. Studio arts and cultural health classes include visual art/scene design, vocal music, instrumental music-recorder and piano, theater arts/scene design, dance, community activism, two creative writing salons: poetry/short story/graphic novel, Tai Chi, Gentle Stretch. ACCA will also offer two maker workshops beginning this summer.

Back to the Future: A Virtual Intergenerational Arts Program

Organization	Name	Project Title	Ward
Lillian Ribeiro	Lillian Ribeiro	Back to the Future: A Virtual Intergenerational Arts Program	All 5 Wards
Project Summary
Newark artists, Lillian Ribeiro and Malik Whitaker, and Orange local, Ricardo Pena, will go “Back to the Future”, in a virtual intergenerational art program with Newark students at Elliott Street Elementary School and senior adults from all wards of Newark to explore theatre, art and music through oral histories of the Renaissance City. A culmination session invites Ironbound Senior Center participants, students, school administration and participating artists to celebrate works created during the program.

Brick City Dance: A Renaissance Endeavor

Organization	Name	Project Title	Ward
Janelle Ings, Cindy Nicholson, and Susan Pope	Janelle Ings, Cindy Nicholson, and Susan Pope	Brick City Dance: A Renaissance Endeavor	All 5 Wards
Project Summary
Brick City Dance: A Renaissance Endeavor is a documentary that will highlight twenty years of dance education in the Newark Public School system. It will serve as a resource for all educators. The documentary will include a historical timeline of dance education programs within the Newark Board of Education (NBOE). NBOE’s dance education programs have expanded to twenty-nine schools since 2001. Dance education is a vital component within NBOE. Dance strengthens literacy, cultural awareness, and foster’s creativity.

Community Institute

Organization	Name	Project Title	Ward
The Institute of Music for Children	Tierney Fitzmartin	Community Institute	South
Project Summary
The Institute of Music for Children’s mission is to engage children and youth in artistic expression and the creative process. Guided by its vision of HARMONY (Helping Achieve Responsible, Motivated, Optimistic, Neighborhood Youth), the Institute is building a community of high-achieving citizens who are arts makers through professional instruction, mentorship, and family engagement. Community Institute is one of its core programs, providing multi-media and performing Arts Residencies in four to six sites within Newark Public Schools.

Elliott - Telling Our Stories: African Dance, Drum, and Art

Organization	Name	Project Title	Ward
Elliott Street School	Ellen Tiedeken	Elliott – Telling Our Stories: African Dance, Drum, and Art	North
Project Summary
Elliott Street School’s project embraces the arts as a strategy to immerse its 3rd, 4th and 5th grade students in West African culture, including dance and drum performance, history, storytelling, mask-making, crafts and field trips. “Telling Our Stories in African Dance, Drum and Art” includes a six-week residency by The Center for Modern Dance Education with three culminating performances in Elliott Street School’s Multi-Purpose Room and outdoor schoolyard and two days of ceramic mask-making workshops with Day-in-Clay.

GlassRoots Portable Hotshop at Newark Porchfest

Organization	Name	Project Title	Ward
GlassRoots	Lisa Duggan	GlassRoots Portable Hotshop at Newark Porchfest	Central
Project Summary
It will be hot enough to melt glass at Newark Porchfest 2021 on 9/25/21, as GlassRoots’ portable hotshop offers the art of glassblowing up close, and, safely, outside. The hotshop’s furnace fires up to 2,100°; hot enough to turn solid glass into a malleable liquid that can be fashioned into glass art. Attendees will view glassblowing demonstrations, experiencing the full potential of glass as a material for design and gaining an understanding of the craft.

InJustice@BrickCity

Organization	Name	Project Title	Ward
Hellane Freeman	Hellane Freeman	InJustice@BrickCity	All 5 Wards
Project Summary
The InJustice@BrickCity concept examines the Environmental/Social Injustice disadvantages within an underserved and marginalized society, via the use of new media art, photography, graffiti, and spoken word. The project deals explicitly with the unequal/ failed distribution of environmental/social benefits and the burdens people experience, at home, at work, or just being in their skin.

Keep Art Alive Summer Project

Organization	Name	Project Title	Ward
STEAM 4 URBN Youth Inc. AKA STEAM Urban	Amanda Ruiz	Keep Art Alive Summer Project	South West
Project Summary
STEAM Urban proudly presents: Keep Art Alive the summer project. Taking an innovative approach to ART through environmental justice, art activism, and hands-on experience, STEAM Urban is a movement dedicated to redesigning the way education looks and feels for Black & Brown students. Providing thought-provoking programming to dismantle misrepresentation, Keep Art Alive provides families access to FREE, consistent and quality programming.

Maybe Something Beautiful at Weequahic Family Success Center

Organization	Name	Project Title	Ward
Newark Emergency Services for Families	Ms. Amina Bey	Maybe Something Beautiful at Weequahic Family Success Center	South
Project Summary
“Maybe Something Beautiful” melds literacy, art therapy, and community engagement to create a mural at Newark Emergency Services for Families’ (NESF) Weequahic Family Success Center. Through storytimes, we introduce the character “Mira”, who shows us how imagination becomes inspiration and that even the smallest things can make a big impact. Based on the true story of San Diego’s Urban Art Trail, this project complements the current public arts mural renaissance in Newark.

New Jersey Youth Poet Laureate

Organization	Name	Project Title	Ward
Newark Symphony Hall	Victoria Briones	New Jersey Youth Poet Laureate	All 5 Wards
Project Summary
Newark Symphony Hall is the new host of the New Jersey Youth Poet Laureate program, in partnership with award-winning youth literary arts organization Urban Word. This initiative encompasses not only the multi-tiered Youth Poet Laureate competition, but also community engagement through educational and artistic programming.

New Music Commissions by Black Composers for Keyboard Ensembles

Organization	Name	Project Title	Ward
Keys 2 Success	Jee-Hoon Yap Krska	New Music Commissions by Black Composers for Keyboard Ensembles	All 5 Wards
Project Summary
Keys 2 Success brings quality music education to PreK-8 students in the most underserved areas of Newark. Free, daily piano lessons are delivered in a group setting in their own environments, bringing together staff and volunteers to remove barriers and support students as they develop into future leaders. The “New Music Commissions by Black Composers for Keyboard Ensembles” reclaims classical music for students of color by creating and teaching students music by accomplished Black composers.

Newark PorchFest 2021

Organization	Name	Project Title	Ward
Forest Hill Community Association	Daniel Zanella	Newark Porchfest 2021	North
Project Summary
Newark PorchFest returns on 9/25/21 as a celebration of community arts with the following goals: 1. Provide a free, fun event that brings diverse arts programming to residents & visitors 2. Showcase local musicians & artists (both professional and amateur) 3. Provide positive promotion for Newark, the North Ward & the Forest Hill Historic District 4. Continue building pride and a sense of community in Forest Hill 5. Raise funds to support community arts initiatives.

Newark Print Shop's Y.E.S. Program (Young Entrepreneur Screenprinters)

Organization	Name	Project Title	Ward
Newark Print Shop	Lisa Conrad	Newark Print Shop’s Y.E.S. Program (Young Entrepreneur Screenprinters)	Central
Project Summary
Newark Print Shop’s YES PROGRAM will introduce middle school and high school aged students to screenprinting as a contemporary and entrepreneurship art practice. Through this educational silkscreen program, Newark Print Shop will stimulate creative engagement and empower local teenage youth through the fine art of silkscreen printing. Students will demonstrate an understanding of the design and screenprinting process by engaging in skills-based learning of the medium culminating in a personal brand and apparel line.

PES STORY LAB

Organization	Name	Project Title	Ward
Project for Empty Space	Rebecca Jampol	PES STORY LAB	Central
Project Summary
The PES Story Lab partners with creatives and practitioners to develop printed matter, cultivating discourse around important social justice issues. PES Story Lab aims to promote artists whose work is oriented around social impact and create brave spaces for those artists and their audiences alike.

SMAPA 2021-22 In-School Dance Residency at Newark’s Quitman Street Community School

Organization	Name	Project Title	Ward
Sharron Miller’s Academy for the Performing Arts, Inc.	Sharron Miller	SMAPA 2021-22 In-School Dance Residency at Newark’s Quitman Street Community School	Central
Project Summary
During 2021-22, SMAPA will continue its successful in-school dance residency partnership at Newark’s Quitman Street Community School benefiting 160+ 3rd-5th grade students (eight weekly classes, 28 weeks, two student performances). SMAPA’s innovative curriculum led by skilled teaching artists features tap for 3rd grade and West African for 4th and 5th grades. The success of SMAPA’s program has resulted in Quitman’s recent hiring of a dance teacher to teach other grade levels (separate from this grant).

Thirteenth Avenue Courtyard Mural

Organization	Name	Project Title	Ward
I Have A Dream Foundation – NJ	Elizabeth Weisholtz	Thirteenth Avenue Courtyard Mural	West
Project Summary
I Have A Dream Foundation is painting a collaborative mural in the courtyard of Thirteenth Avenue School. This preK-8 school in the West Ward has a STEAM theme, and the courtyard is the site of the school’s new garden and “outdoor education center.” The mural will integrate the themes of the garden and STEAM education while reflecting the voices of the youth, as students across the school will participate in its design and painting.

To Be Or Not To Be: A Bootcamp For Young Artists

Organization	Name	Project Title	Ward
Arts ETC	Toni Thomas	To Be Or Not To Be: A Bootcamp For Young Artists	All 5 Wards
Project Summary
The Arts ETC project will have an online interactive workshop for high school students who want to have a career in the arts. The project is designed for students in Newark’s public and charter high schools who have a strong interest in the arts and want to pursue a career in such. The program would have presenters that would discuss topics such as writing an artist statement, building a resume, and starting a business.

ArtStart Grantees 2020-2021

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Arts Always for All

Organization	Name	Project Title
Ivy Hill Vailsburg Center for Arts Culture and Community Activism	Marcia Heard	Arts Always for All
Project Summary
Ivy Hill Vailsburg Center for Arts, Culture, and Community Activism (ACCA), promotes individual/ community participation in cultural, and civic life through arts, culture, and community activism classes/experiences. Creating, providing, disseminating programs of distinction. Fostering wellness, and aesthetic engagement of all participants/observers, through intellectual, aesthetic, arts classes, workshops, lectures, and productions. ACCA serves all ages, abilities, racial, religious, ethnic and economic backgrounds, seeking partnerships that help enrich existing institutions and strengthen neighborhoods through the arts.

Arts Residencies in Newark Schools

Organization	Name	Project Tittle
Institute of Music for Children	Jennifer North	Arts Residencies in Newark Schools
Project Summary
The mission of Institute of Music for Children is to engage children and youth in artistic expression and the creative process. Guided by its vision of HARMONY (Helping Achieve Responsible, Motivated, Optimistic, Neighborhood Youth), the Institute is building a community of high-achieving citizens who are arts lovers and arts makers through professional instruction, mentorship, and family engagement. One of the Institute’s core programs is the Community Institute, that provides multi-media and performing Arts Residencies in four to six sites within the Newark Public Schools and other community venues.

Beat the Blight Campaign

Organization	Name	Project Title
Clinton Hill Community Action	Khaatim Sherrer El	Beat the Blight Campaign
Project Summary
Clinton Hill has five times the number of abandoned properties than any other Newark neighborhood. Due to extended vacancy, these properties have become eye sores and havens for crime. When asked, residents cited these properties as one of the top issues to address. Clinton Hill Community Action is employing a “decorative board up” strategy in partnership with the Neighborhood Foundation and Yendor Productions to clean up, secure and transform abandoned properties in Clinton Hill.

Dance Education at Quitman Street Community School

Organization	Name	Project Title
Sharron Miller’s Academy for Performing Arts, Inc.	Sharron Miller	Dance Education at Quitman Street Community School
Project Summary
Sharron Miller’s Academy for the Performing Arts (SMAPA) will continue its successful in-school dance residency partnership at Newark’s Quitman Street Community School, benefiting an estimated 370 K-8th grade students through 19 weekly dance classes conducted by skilled teaching artists (28-week program, culminating with two year-end performances). SMAPA’s innovative curriculum features creative movement (K/1st grade), tap (2nd/3rd grades), West African (4th grade), jazz/hip-hop (5th grade), and a 6th-8th grade elective.

Feminist Artist in Tech collaboration with The Honk-Tweet

Organization	Name	Project Tittle
Project for Empty Space	Rebecca Jampol	Feminist Artist in Tech collaboration with The Honk-Tweet
Project Summary
PES hosts an annual Feminists Incubator where six female identified artists are awarded a short term residency. This program provides workspace for creatives who are addressing topics of female safety, ownership, and agency. Historically, this program has been open to multidisciplinary artists. This year, we have expanded the scope of the program to include artists working in tech and digital media. This proposal is in support of the expanded version of the Feminist Incubator.

Keys and the Orchestra

Organization	Name	Project Title
Keys 2 Success	Jee-Hoon Krska	Keys and the Orchestra
Project Summary
Keys and the Orchestra”, a season-long collaboration between Keys 2 Success and The Baroque Orchestra of New Jersey. This partnership will sponsor four side-by-side concerts in the 2020-2021 concert season hosted throughout New Jersey.

LITTLE NEWARK PRINT SHOP

Organization	Name	Project Tittle
Newark Print Shop	Lisa Conrad	LITTLE NEWARK PRINT SHOP
Project Summary
LITTLE NEWARK PRINT SHOP is a series of fine art printmaking projects designed for pre-school and elementary-aged children, offered both virtually through video and hands-on in our downtown Newark studio. Participants of this program will learn various printmaking techniques, including collagraph and relief printing, through dynamic, fun, and meaningful projects, offered both in-person and online, ensuring we reach all that wish to participate.

Newark Short Film Awards 2020

Organization	Name	Project Title
I’m So Newark	Matt Williams	Newark Short Film Awards 2020
Project Summary
The Newark Short Film Awards (NSFA) will be held on Saturday, October 10. NSFA is presented in partnership with Express Newark and NYC Filmmakers at 54 Halsey Street, Newark. This is a Full Day of Creativity providing filmmaking workshops, networking, movie screenings, professional headshots, and an overall support system for artists, actors, writers, and filmmakers.

Spark with the Art

Organization	Name	Project Title
Essex County Parks League	Douglas Freeman	Spark with the Art
Project Summary
The Spark with the Art program is designed to teach youth age children how to paint and use their imagination, hands and mind to craft imagines on canvas and other crafts by an instructor. The program is expected to also work in conjunctions with the WPSA and their planned 2020 art program in Weequahic Park.

The Bead Shop

Organization	Name	Project Tittle
GlassRoots	Barbara Heisler	The Bead Shop
Project Summary
The Bead Shop provides hands on instruction in glass art making coupled with basic entrepreneurship training to young adults, particularly women, who are currently unemployed or underemployed and need additional income in order to support themselves and their families.

The Gem Project Fellowship

Organization	Name	Project Title
The Gem Project, Inc.	Amanda Ebokosia	The Gem Project Fellowship
Project Summary
The Gem Project’s mission is to improve high school to college graduation rates of marginalized populations, through service-learning initiatives with a social justice approach. In our ArtStart project youth and young adults will learn about Afrofuturism, while having the opportunity to work and be trained as youth organizers through a virtual training environment.

Touring The Art of Nat Turner Park

Organization	Name	Project Title
United Parks As One	Carla Robinson	Touring The Art of Nat Turner Park
Project Summary
Developed by United Parks As One and The Friends of Nat Turner Park, in partnership with Pink Dragon Artist Syndicate, Eyes Like Mine, and Chiffani PR, Touring The Art Of Nat Turner Park, is a free guided walking tour of public artwork by Jerry Gant located at the entrance plazas at Nat Turner Park in Newark’s Central Ward.

Transforming Stables to Support Stability

Organization	Name	Project Title
Newark Community Street Team	Solomon Middleton-Williams	Transforming Stables to Support Stability
Project Summary
Newark Community Street Team (NCST) is Newark’s community-based violence reduction initiative. NCST is resident-run, with a mission to reduce violence in the South and West Wards of Newark through resident leaders, peaceful resolution and providing community presence in the interest of prevention. NCST will create an interior mural for a more welcoming, warm and soothing area in NCST’s revitalizing space, as part of our Healing Journeys program. This program supports community residents’ mental health and wellness with an emphasis on healing from trauma. The space was previously used by Newark Police Department as stables for their police horses and is in dire need of beautification. We would like the Mural Project to establish lovely visuals for participants and those who spend time in our space, and reflect NCST’s holistic view of public safety.

We Do What We Do Because…

Organization	Name	Project Title
Woman In Media – Newark	Pamela Morgan	We Do What We Do Because…
Project Summary
Woman In Media Newark will produce “We Do What We Do Because…,” our 2020 Women’s History Month Film Festival as a virtual film festival, including film screenings and live discussions, in response to the postponement of our 2020 Women’s History Month film festival due to COVID-19.

Youth Impact Arts Initiative

Organization	Name	Project Title
Newark Community Solutions/National Center for Civic Innovation	Kelly Mulligan	Youth Impact Arts Initiative
Project Summary
The Youth Impact Arts Initiative (YIAI) will introduce arts-based programming into Youth Impact Newark’s (formerly Newark Youth Court) core restorative justice work. Youth Impact Newark will hire a local teaching artist to develop a workshop curriculum for program participants. This workshop will focus on healthy means of self-expression and dealing with stress, and it will look to connect participants with free arts programming in Newark.

ArtStart Grantees 2019-2020

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1st Annual Mixtape Sessions Music Conference

Organization	Name	Project Title
Lincoln Park Coast Cultural District (LPCCD)	Adam Cruz	1st Annual Mixtape Sessions Music Conference
Project Summary
The 1st Annual Mixtape Sessions Music Conference brings together music business practitioners and industry leaders to discuss current music business news and trends, engage with fellow creatives and network with artists of all music genres. Panel discussions will explore some of the main issues and competitors in music today, including “free” access, piracy and streaming services. What value do we place on music today? What is your role? Join us and find out!

Participatory Arts Program for Seniors

Organization	Name	Project Tittle
Arts Unbound	Margaret Mikkelsen	Participatory Arts Program for Seniors
Project Summary
Arts Unbound’s Newark Participatory Arts Program for Seniors will build on the success of the pilot program at Grace West Manor and St. Mary’s Villa by providing an extension of art instruction with a peer-to-peer training component. The peer-to-peer component will capitalize on the positive KASB outputs from the pilot program in 2018. Seniors will teach other seniors how to create works of art as a mechanism to increase social connectedness and create a sense of belonging to a larger community.

Self Made: Women Business Owners in Newark's South and West Wards

Organization	Name	Project Title
Gallery Aferro	Carrie Stetler	Self Made: Women Business Owners in Newark’s South and West Wards
Project Summary
Carrie Stetler and Tinnetta Bell present photojournalistic profiles of women business owners in Newark’s neglected South and West Wards. The project localizes the nationwide explosion of Black woman-owned businesses, celebrating their creativity, determination and connection to community. Stories will be published in a mini-magazine with information on support and funding for these start-ups, including local resources. Bell’s images will be exhibited at Akwaaba Gallery in the West Ward.

Gone Too Soon: The Life, Legacy and Loss of Newark’s Cultural Icons

Organization	Name	Project Title
Celeste Bateman & Assocs., LLC	Celeste Bateman	Gone Too Soon: The Life, Legacy and Loss of Newark’s Cultural Icons
Project Summary
Gone Too Soon: The Life, Legacy and Loss of Newark’s Cultural Icons is a documentary project that will examine the lives and document the artistic, cultural and educational contributions of Newark cultural icons who have gone to the ancestors within a short timeframe, 2014-2019, through interviews, photographs and historical footage.

Botany, Horticulture and Art

Organization	Name	Project Title
Central High School	Lucinda Eason	Botany, Horticulture and Art
Project Summary
As an academy specific project, ESA students will engage in integrating Botany, Horticulture and Art in a collaborative learning experience. Art will display a person’s face with the hair being trees, shrubs or plants growing behind the fence. The faces painted on the fence with be of a diverse population to illustrate multicultural acceptance and community unity as we offer to the community beautiful art work displaying the interwoven cultures our community possesses.

A Book of Creative Writings

Organization	Name	Project Title
Link Community Charter School	Erica Bradshaw	A Book of Creative Writings
Project Summary
This project would allow the seventh and eighth grade students of Link Community Charter School to create, illustrate, and publish a book of the Creative Writings created during the school year. Students would learn the process of editing their original works, which would include and not be limited to essays, plays, poems, and short stories, for publication.

Dancing with the blind

Organization	Name	Project Title
Eyes Like Mine Inc	Krystle Allen	Dancing with the blind
Project Summary
“Dancing with the blind” is an accessible dance performing arts program merging the sighted and vision impaired communities through a series of dance fit orientation and training. It is a spin off of “dancing with the stars” in the instance where the stars are the blind supported by their sighted dance partner. The overall scope is to drive awareness to the topic of vision loss, encourage individuals from both communities to participate in dance fitness, and challenge competitive spirits.

I am from…We are from…Queer Camp

Organization	Name	Project Title
Hetrick-Martin Institute – New Jersey	Lillian Rivera	I am from…We are from…Queer Camp
Project Summary
HMI – New Jersey will develop and implement a two-week interdisciplinary arts camp for LGBTQIA young people, in partnership with Artist in Residence, Barbara M. Bickart (www.barbarabickart.com), who’s developed an interdisciplinary socially engaged art practice for over twenty years. Grounded in the tenets of self-portraiture, participants will explore their multifaceted identities, individually and collaborattively through a series of visual arts prompts. I am from…We are from…Queer Camp is crucial and beneficial for LGBTQ young people in Newark in order to see themselves reflected within their work and in their own living/learning environment and community. Self-reflection, in the context of art making, is an act of personal empowerment and one that promotes positive self-esteem and transformation. In the case of LGBTQ young people, it is sometimes an act of Heroism.

Summer Arts!, Dance Intensive, and Fall for Arts!

Organization	Name	Project Title
Ivy Hill Vailsburg Center for Arts, Culture, and Community Activism	Marcia Heard	Summer Arts!, Dance Intensive, and Fall for Arts!
Project Summary
ACCA offers three programs: Summer Arts!, Dance Intensive, Fall for Arts! all based on the premise that all people are gifted. It is a matter of time, physical, economic access. The Dance Intensive 13-21yrs, June 24-28 offers Dunham Technique, Tap, and more. Summer Arts 8-18yrs, July 1-August 10, 2019, 9am-3 pm, offers arts classes, dance, music, theater arts, visual arts, and community activism. Fall for Arts is inter-generational, working with all ages Senior Citizens through five years.

Keys at Pennington Court

Organization	Name	Project Title
Keys 2 Success	Jee-Hoon Krska	Keys at Pennington Court
Project Summary
3 years since the birth of our program in 2016, we are now expanding to a 2nd program site. “Keys at Pennington Court” will enable us to further expand our reach to students from households with no access to arts programing. By hosting classes daily year-round close to home, at Pennington Court, we provide piano lessons to students in a familiar environment, and encourage parental involvement. Centered around the keyboard, which is particularly effective in helping students grasp musical concepts while promoting intellectual development, our program provides: 1) music theory training to give them a conceptual framework; 2) keyboard ensemble training to develop musical and collaboration skills; and 3) performance opportunities to develop self-confidence and poise while gaining exposure to the world outside of their community.

School Time Samba!

Organization	Name	Project Title
Lincoln School	Jeffrey Cierniak	School Time Samba!
Project Summary
School Time Samba! is a drumming ensemble focused on music and culture, styled after the samba schools of Rio de Janerio. Last year the School Time Samba! involved ten students and their music teacher playing authentic samba rhythms in a highly energized group. With the help of Dr. Philip Galinsky of Samba New York! and one of his show group members, the Lincoln Bateria achieved a high level of proficiency in a three month time span. This coming year, we hope to expand and refine our ensemble.

H2O (Hip-Hop Odyssey) ReBoot: Transforming Equity Through Hip-Hop Media and Technology

Organization	Name	Project Title
Hip-Hop Association	Martha Diaz	H2O (Hip-Hop Odyssey) ReBoot: Transforming Equity Through Hip-Hop Media and Technology
Project Summary
Founded in 2002 by Martha Diaz, H2O (Hip-Hop Odyssey) ReBoot: Transforming Equity Through Hip-Hop Media and Technology is a 2-day interactive, S.T.E.A.M. based film festival that will be an anchor program of the Lincoln Park Music Festival’s Closing Weekend, starting in 2019. Re-launching H2OFF as a S.T.E.A.M. based program aligns with Lincoln Park Coast Cultural District’s mission and vision 2.0 – the “Creative Economy”.

Clinton Hill Community Journal Project

Organization	Name	Project Title
Newark Community Solutions/National Center for Civic Innovation	James Larson	Clinton Hill Community Journal Project
Project Summary
Newark Community Solutions will create the Clinton Hill Community Journal project. The Community Journal will feature the artwork of residents from around the Clinton Hill neighborhood of Newark, New Jersey through the creation of a mobile curbside studio that will be stocked with art supplies. The artwork will highlight, capture, and celebrate the strengths of the residents of Clinton Hill.

Children’s Paint ‘N Sip

Organization	Name	Project Tittle
Newark Public Library	Marian Calle	Children’s Paint ‘N Sip
Project Summary
The Newark Public Library will present “Children’s Paint ‘N Sip” for children ages 5-12 from September 2019 through May 2020. The program will feature a local artist who will guide children to create a masterpiece on canvas they can take home while enjoying light refreshments. With the support of a teaching artist, step-by-step instructions and high quality materials, children will learn valuable painting techniques they can utilize for future projects.

NEXT STOP ART

Organization	Name	Project Title
Urban Essex Coalition for Smart Growth	Lillian Cho	NEXT STOP ART
Project Summary
Urban Essex Coalition for Smart Growth is partnering with Pink Dragon Artist Syndicate (PDAS) and La Casa de Don Pedro to host NEXT STOP ART, a temporary art + placemaking event at NJ Transit’s Broad Street Station plaza on October 12, 2019. The event seeks to promote live art-making and community engagement by transforming the station area into a creative community space for local residents and visitors with free printmaking workshops, a parklet, and a “Civic Engagement Ticket Booth”.

PARTNER Grants 2019-2020

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Art and Artifacts

Organization	Name	Project Title
Art and Artifacts	Matt Gosser	General Operating Support

Barat Foundation

Organization	Name	Project Title
Barat Foundation	Gary & Chandri Barat	General Operating Support

Our Neck of the Woods: Summer Fun Concerts at the Sound Stage

Organization	Name	Project Title
Clinton Hill Sound Stage	CFNJ	Our Neck of the Woods: Summer Fun Concerts at the Sound Stage

Tap With Me

Organization	Name	Project Title
DreamPlay Media	Igor Alves	Tap With Me

Newark First Fridays

Organization	Name	Project Title
Newark First Fridays	Isaiah Little	Newark First Fridays

Newark PorchFest

Organization	Name	Project Title
Forest Hill Community Association	Daniel Zanella	Newark PorchFest
Project Summary
The inaugural Newark PorchFest is a free family-friendly community music and visual arts festival taking place on Saturday afternoon September 28, 2019 in Newark’s Forest Hill Historic District with proceeds from refreshment sales and other donations benefitting the Newark Community School of the Arts. Neighbors donate the use of their porches to serve as community stages for performances by a diverse selection of area artists (amateur or professional) who donate their services to participate.

Gallery Aferro

Organization	Name	Project Title
Gallery Aferro	Emma Wilcox & Evonne M. Davis	General Operating Support

Summer Youth Leadership Corp

Organization	Name	Project Tittle
GlassRoots	Barbara Heisler	Summer Youth Leadership Corp
Project Summary
At GlassRoots, Summer Youth Leadership Corp local high school students create, learn, and grow intellectually, socially and emotionally. This intensive program offers in-depth leadership training and opportunities to mentor younger students in our summer camp programs; with a focus on developing communication, teamwork, personal identity, professionalism, and project management. We use the power of art to coach, teach and inspire youth to recognize their potential and realize their dreams.

Summertime Arts Programing

Organization	Name	Project Tittle
Greater Newark Conservancy	Nebojsa Zlatanovic	Summertime Arts Programing
Project Summary
Greater Newark Conservancy provides summertime arts programming for Newark preschoolers that blends exposure to nature with a rich and valuable hands-on artistic experiences in a safe and welcoming environment. With access to a lush pond and surrounded by a garden alive with flora and fauna, children draw and paint their views and perspectives of nature, a timeless story as old as humanity itself.

Index Art Center

Organization	Name	Project Title
Index Art Center	Lowell Craig	General Operating Support

Multimedia and Performing Arts Program

Organization	Name	Project Title
The Institute of Music for Children	Jennifer North	Multimedia and Performing Arts Program
Project Summary
The Institute of Music for Children’s Multimedia and Performing Arts (MPA) Program in Newark works with school leaders and educators to integrate professional artists into the classroom. The program matches Institute teaching artists and a staff-based project manager with Newark schools to bring multimedia production and performing arts education to students. Teaching Artists will serve 200 students ages 5-18 in the 2019/2020 school year with culturally sensitive art forms and adult mentorship.

Newark Latino Film Festival

Organization	Name	Project Title
Newark Latino Film Festival	Ramon G. Nazario	General Operating Support

Newark Print Shop

Organization	Name	Project Title
Newark Print Shop	Lisa Conrad	General Operating Support

Music and Movement Class for Caregivers and Babies

Organization	Name	Project Title
Newark School of the Arts	Carmen Santos-Robson	Music and Movement Class for Caregivers and Babies
Project Summary
During the first three years of life, a baby’s brain will make more neural connections (millions per second) than any other time; ever. In today’s fast paced world we find little time for bonding. Music and Movement Class for caregivers and babies (0-3) brings families together, promote healthy brain development, and encourage music making at the most basic level in the home as well as supporting language development, literacy and helping to build social and emotional skills.

Quitman Street Community School Dance Residency

Organization	Name	Project Title
Sharron Miller’s Academy for the Performing Arts, Inc.	Sharron Miller	Quitman Street Community School Dance Residency
Project Summary
During 2019-20, SMAPA will continue its successful in-school dance residency partnership at Newark’s Quitman Street Community School benefiting 350+ K-8th students (19 weekly classes, 30 weeks, 2 student performances), while expanding SMAPA’s pre-K pilot of 6 classrooms to 8 sessions each (80+ children). SMAPA’s innovative curriculum features creative movement (pre-K-1st grades), tap (2nd/3rd grades), West African (4th grade), theater dance and jazz (5th grade), and a 6th-8th grade elective.

Cool CAT Parent & Me Pop-Ups

Organization	Name	Project Title
Cool CAT	Tamara Remedios	Cool CAT Parent & Me Pop-Ups
Project Summary
The Cool CAT Pop-Up engages BOTH parent and preschool child in an after-school hands-on process art activity that creatively empowers parents and introduces them to the larger Newark cultural community. The program is in partnership with The Leaguers – child care centers for children 0-5 in Newark.

ArtStart Grantees 2018-2019

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AMB Groovy Tots

Organization	Name	Project Title
AMB Dance Theater	Alicia Blanks	AMB Groovy Tots
Project Summary
Wiill offer dance classes for toddlers aged 3-5 showcasing different styles of dance including ballet, jazz, lyrical, acro, African, and hip-hop. Classes will help little ones build coordination, listening skills, cooperation and build their self-esteem. Classes will be bilingual and include those appropriate for children with special needs.

Art Grows in Newark

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Newark Science and Sustainability	Roxana Marroquin	Art Grows in Newark
Project Summary
Will integrate free art activities with urban agricultural practices to foster creative self-expression, environmental stewardship, community engagement, and a culture of hope and social change at an early age. The program will take place inside The Garden of Hope, a community garden initiative of Newark Science and Sustainability in collaboration with artist Roxana Marroquin and early childhood childcare providers.

Photos courtesy of Newark SAS.

Arts and the Environment

Organization	Name	Project Tittle
Greater Newark Conservancy	Jerry Gant	Arts and the Environment
Project Summary
Will introduce pre-k children to the arts in a unique way, where plants, trees, and other wonders of nature located in the gardens at Greater Newark Conservancy will be used as a vessel to create art in various forms. Memorable take-home projects and a sculpture project that will beautify a neighborhood, will be orchestrated under the direction of local artist, Jerry Gant, and created by the vision of Newark preschoolers.

Senior Personal History Project

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Arts Unbound	Margaret Mikkelsen	Senior Personal History Project
Project Summary
Will lead 30 Newark seniors through a personal history art project over 10 weeks starting in September 2018. Fifteen seniors will be residents of Grace West Manor in the Central Ward, and the other 15 will be residents of St. Mary’s Villa in the West Ward. Participants will learn elements of art and design to create intricate collages reflecting their own personal history. The works along with accompanying writings by the seniors will be exhibited at the senior residences.

Youth Leadership Corp

Organization	Name	Project Tittle
GlassRoots	Barbara Heisler	Youth Leadership Corp
Project Summary
Will host its summer arts program, Youth Leadership Corp (YLC), which leverages the fascination with glass and creating art to keep students engaged in learning during the summer months – rather than losing ground gained during the school year – and teaches critical 21st century skills too often overlooked by traditional classroom approaches. Lasting six weeks, the YLC is an opportunity for local high school students to create, learn, and grow intellectually, socially and emotionally.

Newark Multimedia and Performing Arts Residency Program

Organization	Name	Project Title
The Institute of Music for Children	Michael Pittman	Newark Multimedia and Performing Arts Residency Program
Project Summary
Will lead the Newark Multimedia and Performing Arts (MPA) Residency Program, a managed residency model that works deeply with school leaders and educators to bring professional artists into Newark classrooms. The program develops students’ comprehension and appreciation of arts and technology; encourages work that is empowering and uplifting; creates a strong sense of community in the classroom; and enhances current arts programming.

Keys on Tour

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Ironbound Community Corporation	Jee-Hoon Krska	Keys on Tour
Project Summary
Will lead “Keys on Tour,” a series of performances around New Jersey by Keys 2 Success students. Keys 2 Success is a music program serving underserved Newark elementary school students. Performing regularly in ensemble settings, before diverse audiences, is a powerful tool for teaching our students critical life skills, including teamwork, long-term planning and preparation, presenting with poise in unfamiliar and new environments, and developing a sense of belonging to something bigger.

School Time Samba!

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Lincoln School	Jeffrey Cierniak	School Time Samba!
Project Summary
Will engage students at the Lincoln School in the Vailsburg community of Newark with a percussion heavy ensemble that focuses on energy, movement, and rhythms that will get everybody moving. While a music community is being established at Lincoln School, the arts are still underserved. This program will create an ensemble that is attractive to young people who may be hesitant to join a more traditional ensemble.

Musica Sacra Workshops

Organization	Name	Project Title
Newark Boys Chorus School	Richard Willett	Musica Sacra Workshops
Project Summary
Will strengthen, expand and share the treasure of the Chorus with the City of Newark and beyond. These activities will be conducted in conjunction with Musica Sacra, the premier professional vocal ensemble in New York City. There will be three interrelated components: Musica Sacra; Frost Valley Music Camp; Concert Chorus Performances.

Brick by Brick Playwrighting Workshop

Organization	Name	Project Title
Newark Community Solutions	Brett Vetterlein	Brick by Brick Playwrighting Workshop
Project Summary
Is a justice initiative that provides community service and social service mandates as alternatives to incarceration for low-level cases in the Newark Municipal Court. Newark Community Solutions seeks ways to build community and provide meaningful experiences for its clients and partners, and will take part in a multi-part play writing workshop for residents whose lives have been touched by the justice system and/or addiction.

Newark in Tune

Organization	Name	Project Tittle
Newark Patchbay	Spencer Frohwirth	Newark in Tune
Project Summary
Will create a modern hip-hop musical, painting an intimate portrait of growing up with the vibrant perspective of a young artist in the dynamic and complex city of Newark. Talented singers, dancers, actors, and musicians from middle school through local undergraduate programs will represent the creativity and diversity of the city, both as paid artists and ambassadors of truth.

Ritmo y Rima/Rhythm and Rhyme StoryTime

Organization	Name	Project Tittle
Newark Public Library	Marian Calle	Ritmo y Rima/Rhythm and Rhyme StoryTime
Project Summary
Will create “Ritmo y Rima/Rhythm and Rhyme StoryTime” for children ages 2-6 from July 2018 through March 2019. The bilingual program will feature stories and rhymes about children pursuing creative arts in English and Spanish. Through the use of music, movement and props, children will engage in creative expression and establish essential skills in literacy. Each of the monthly sessions will include an instrument-making workshop.

Pint-Sized Print Club

Organization	Name	Project Title
Newark Print Shop	Lisa Conrad	Pint-Sized Print Club
Project Summary
Pint-sized print club is designed to offer quality arts programming to an often overlooked community, our pre-school aged children. This program will be offered in conjunction with the Cool Cats Family Pass and Open Doors Kids. “Pint-Sized Print Club” is a free drop-in program where our littlest printers are invited to explore printmaking and create prints in a variety of age-appropriate media. This program is designed for pre-school children and their families.

Film/TV Production Class

Organization	Name	Project Tittle
Rafael Hernandez School of Performing Arts	Tierney Fitzmartin	Film/TV Production Class
Project Summary
Will create a TV/Film Production Class to reach 100 6-8 th grade students across four 50-minute periods each week. Students will explore film techniques and create a bi-weekly school news channel to showcase student talent, build confidence, and nurture an inclusive and student-led school culture. Students will meet professional artists and develop skills needed to pursue careers within the entertainment and technological fields.

Art Activism Program

Organization	Name	Project Title
The Gem Project	Amanda Ebokosia	Art Activism Program
Project Summary
Will help youth and young adults learn about Art Activism, while having the opportunity to study activist artists who focus on social issues. 30 high school youth will work to spread awareness to a social issue with a call to action by visual artwork. Youth will also provide their own recommendations to a related policy, while showcasing their own visual art renditions of past/current activist artists’ artwork.

Photo by KelCHer Visuals.

Versatile Vailsburg

Organization	Name	Project Title
United Vailsburg Services Organization	Tenisha Malcolm	Versatile Vailsburg
Project Summary
Versatile Vailsburg is a new initiative and partnership between UVSO and the Newark School of the Arts. Project goals are to: develop personal artistic interest, offer youth textile exploration, and provide full exposure to art techniques including: screen printing, dye labs, sewing machines, carving, and weaving. The culmination of the project will result in textile art pieces designed and created by youth that will be displayed during UVSO’s Multicultural Extravaganza Week, March 18 – 22, 2019.

Summer Arts!

Organization	Name	Project Title
Ivy Hill Vailsburg Center for Arts, Culture, and Community Activism	Marcia Heard	Summer Arts!
Project Summary
Will host Summer Arts!, which will offer arts classes, dance, music, theater arts, visual arts, and community activism classes, for 8-18 yrs, and culminates in an art exhibit and a Musical Theater Revue whose theme is African Americans in Musical Theater on Stage and in Film.

Painting it Forward

Organization	Name	Project Title
FP Youth Outcry Foundation, Inc.	Suliman Onque	Painting it Forward
Project Summary
Is an arts program that will engage young people and local artists with the intention of beautifying selected Newark locations through two mural installation projects. Over the course of six weeks, up to 50 young people will work with artist, Suliman Onque and his team, “3-The=Art-Way,” to design 2 murals that will be installed at two Newark locations.

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Graphic Design Program

Organization	Name	Project Title
South Street School	Cynthia Armstrong	Graphic Design Program
Project Summary
Recognizing that our students need opportunities that would allow self-expression through varied creative outlets, we at South Street School would like to provide students in grades five through seven with that opportunity in the form of an after-school graphic design program. Our program would immerse our students in valuable hands-on learning experiences that will ultimately transform them into becoming authentic innovators that may one day change the world of tomorrow.

13th Ave School Tap Dance

Organization	Name	Project Title
Thirteenth Avenue School	Tia Collier	13th Ave School Tap Dance
Project Summary
Thirteenth Avenue School would like to diversify art education for our students by collaborating with the Newark School of the Arts to offer our students tap dance instruction. The proposed project will expose students to professional dance and offer an alternative form of engagement outside of the standard school classroom.

Keys 2 Success

Organization	Name	Project Tittle
Ironbound Community Corporation	Jee-Hoon Krska	Keys 2 Success
Project Summary
We are writing to request funding to launch a one-week intensive summer drum camp in July 2017 affiliated with the Keys 2 Success music program. This camp is designed to build off the success of the Keys 2 Success weekly 45-minute in school ensemble percussion training session that has been conducted throughout the spring of 2017 in South Street School in the Ironbound section of Newark.

Rafael Hernandez School Opera Program

Organization	Name	Project Tittle
Rafael Hernandez School of Performing Arts	Katherine Brodhead	Rafael Hernandez School Opera Program
Project Summary
Rafael Hernandez School aims to partner with the Metropolitan Opera Guild in a year-long opera program for our 5th grade students and teachers. As a result of the partnership, over 120 students across four 5th grade homerooms will create and perform their own class operas based on stories, poetry, or historical events from literacy class. This project integrates theater with the goal of engaging students and families while building confidence, collaboration, and creativity.

Newark Multimedia and Performing Arts (MPA) Residency

Organization	Name	Project Tittle
Institute of Music for Children	Michael Pittman	Newark Multimedia and Performing Arts (MPA) Residency
Project Summary
The Newark Multimedia and Performing Arts (MPA) Residency Program features deep collaborations with Institute teaching artists and Newark school’s administration leaders and classroom educators. The program aims to develop students’ comprehension and appreciation of the arts, technology, and music; encourage school work that is empowering, uplifting, and positive; create a strong sense of community in the classroom; and enrich and enhance the school’s current arts programming through technology and collaboration of new artists and educators.

In-School Dance Residency Program

Organization	Name	Project Title
Sharron Miller’s Academy for Performing Arts, Inc.	Sharron Miller	In-School Dance Residency Program
Project Summary
During the 2017-18 school year, Sharron Miller’s Academy for the Performing Arts (SMAPA) will continue its successful in-school dance residency partnership at Newark’s Quitman Street Community School, benefiting an estimated 370 K-8th grade students through 19 weekly dance classes conducted by skilled teaching artists (28-week program, culminating with two year-end performances). SMAPA’s innovative curriculum features creative movement (K/1st grade), tap (2nd/3rd grades), West African (4th grade), jazz/hip-hop (5th grade), and a 6th-8th grade elective.

Lower Broadway Creative Mondays

Organization	Name	Project Title
Activism Through Arts	Celeste Banks	Lower Broadway Creative Mondays
Project Summary
Activism Through Arts would like to offer the program “Lower Broadway Creative Mondays”, which is an opportunity for Newark residents to take free visual arts and dance classes at “The Painter’s Palette NJ”, which is located on 9 7th Avenue. Classes will be provided on Mondays and will alternate between Dance and Painting classes for adults and children.

Dramatic Impact

Organization	Name	Project Title
Dramatic Impact	Dani Kopoulos	Dramatic Impact
Project Summary
Dramatic Impact will bring their Family Literacy event to four Newark schools: Louise A. Spencer/Miller, Belmont Runyon, BRICK Avon and Brick Peshine. The interactive family workshops offer parents and caregivers an opportunity to be actively involved in their children’s academic and social growth, while helping build positive family relationships. The sessions engage families in storytelling and puppetry activities that strengthen language arts literacy skills and support the development of communication and interpersonal skills.

Granny Bombers and Tiny Taggers

Organization	Name	Project Tittle
Elizabeth Youth Theater Ensemble	Angela Kariotis	Granny Bombers and Tiny Taggers
Project Summary
“Granny Bombers Tiny Taggers” is an intergenerational art and oral history project. Senior citizens from Newark’s Ironbound Senior Center and 5th graders from nearby Ann St School will create “blossoms” out of yarn during instructional “knit-ins” and share personal testimonies through theater-making techniques. The material generated will be transformed into a play. Newark area actors will be engaged to perform the free show at LIPS Gallery.

Newark Girl Scouts Mural

Organization	Name	Project Title
Yendor Productions	Rodney Gilbert	Newark Girl Scouts Mural
Project Summary
Yendor Production in partnership with the Girls Scouts plan to create a mural dedicated Girl Scout and its legacy. A Yendor artist and girl scouts will design and produce a mural in Newark by partnering with local troops to celebrate the long legacy and current leadership activities of Newark girls. Having over forty murals Yendor welcomes this opportunity to work with and honor the Girl Scouts.

Youth Leadership Corp

Organization	Name	Project Tittle
GlassRoots	Barbara Heisler	Youth Leadership Corp
Project Summary
GlassRoots Summer Youth Leadership Corps provides in-depth training on leadership/mentorship skills, while exposing youth to careers in art and preparing them to serve as mentors in an our summer glass-experience program. The Youth Leadership Corps (YLC) is ‘staffed’ by students who have participated in our other long term programs and who are ready to be trained as mentors.

Aferro Mobile Portrait Studio

Organization	Name	Project Tittle
Gallery Aferro	Emma Wilcox	Aferro Mobile Portrait Studio
Project Summary
Gallery Aferro will offer a second season of the Aferro Mobile Portrait Studio, going throughout city neighborhoods creating free portraits for everyday Newarkers of all ages. A documentation team of community youth will create a capstone for the project by documenting the project and creating a how-to manual for everyone to make their own Mobile Portrait Studio.

Newark Community Solutions Art Display

Organization	Name	Project Title
Center for Court Innovation/Newark Community Solutions	Serin Choi	Newark Community Solutions Art Display
Project Summary
Launched in 2011 by the Center for Court Innovation, Newark Community Solutions is a community justice initiative that applies a problem-solving approach to low-level cases in Newark Municipal Court. Newark Community Solutions believes that treating defendants and victims with dignity and respect enhances the public’s trust in justice. Newark Community Solutions proposes to display art in the main corridors that reflect the strength, diversity, and history of the Newark community.

Artfront Galleries a NJ Non Profit Corporation

Organization	Name	Project Title
ArtFront Galleries	Susan O’Rourke	Artfront Galleries a NJ Non Profit Corporation
Project Summary
In the Fall 2017 and the Spring 2018 create a series of multi-week art galleries in the NHA Recreation Centers: Waterfront, Clubhouse, and TREC. Each gallery will include an artist talk and a community art event. Student interns will learn the “business of art”. Primary among the many benefits is to bring rich cultural experiences to the under served populations of Newark in the North, western edge of Central, West and South Wards.

Building on Books: OUR CITY

Organization	Name	Project Title
Newark Mommies	Endelea Meadows	Building on Books: OUR CITY
Project Summary
Building On Books is a monthly story time with a coordinating activity for children (under age 5) and their caregivers. In our first two years, we tied children’s literature to crafts and dance. Our new series, “Building on Books: OUR CITY,” will coordinate activities inspired by the city of Newark. In addition to reading children’s literature about cities and communities, the city of Newark will be both a medium and canvas.

ArtStart Grantees 2016-2017:

Applicant: GlassRoots
Project: FACES OF NEWARK AT 350
Description: GlassRoots will use ArtStart funding to create a moveable glass mosaic representing faces of Newark at its 350th anniversary, to facilitate the connection of the residents and members of the Newark community with this historic event. The project anticipates creating between 350-500 mosaic tiles by its end. The project will also be replicated virtually, with an online mosaic-expanding our reach.

Applicant: Collaborative Audio Lab and Spence Frohwirth (Newark, NJ)
Project: Newark In Tune
Description: In partnership with Gallery Aferro, Collaborate Audio Lab’s (CAL) project Newark in Tune will work to mobilize Newark’s rich diversity of arts institutions, musicians, and talented youth towards a common goal. Spencer Frohwirth, a resident educator, musician, audio engineer, and founding member of CAL will direct the creation of a city-wide anthem that will represent our urban experience and combined hopes for the future of this wonderful city.

Applicant: Institute of Music for Children
Project: Mobile Multi-media Lab at BRICK Academies
Description: In 2015-16, the Mobile Media Lab will travel to 2 schools in Newark. In each, 2 classes of 25 at-risk teens (ages 12-19) will meet with 2 Master Teaching Artists for 12 1-hour sessions over the course of 3 months. Each site will choose to study Digital Video or Electronic Music Production (or at times, both). Combined, these in-school residencies will bring teens over 360 direct hours of arts technology time and connect them to industry professionals and opportunities.

Applicant: Newark Print Shop (Newark, NJ)
Project: Paper In the Alley
Description: The Newark Print Shop will host Paper in the Alley with artists Anne McKeown and Lisa Conrad as project facilitators. This project is a free workshop offered to the public to learn the fine art of papermaking from processing raw fiber to pulling sheets of beautiful handmade paper. The project will occur over a two day period, open and accessible to the general public, on Friday, July 17th and Saturday, July 18th.

Applicant: Bridges Outreach, Inc.
Project: Perspectives
Description: Bridges will give digital cameras to people in Newark who are homeless so that they can express their world through photography and so that others may see their city as they see it. This project will give voice to homeless people in Newark where the largest population of street homeless in Essex County live. Homeless photographers will have the opportunity to work with Akintola Hanif, a Newark-based photographer and professor of photography at Rutgers University – Newark. The six-month project will culminate in a studio exhibit in Newark with approximately 30 photographs.

Applicant: Artfront Galleries
Project: 30 Day “Pop-Up Galleries”
Description: Creating 2 pop-up galleries in the Lower Broadway Neighborhood of Newark is the goal of this project. These galleries will pre-set a range of visual arts as well as spoken word performances of local Newark poets. In addition to providing access to art for Newark residents with limited opportunity, these galleries will bring traffic to neglected blocks thus benefiting both local residents and small businesses and offer opportunities for high school volunteers to learn the business of art.

Applicant: Newark Mommies / Tamara Remedios
Project: Building on Books
Description: “Building on Books” is a newly designed arts program that turns popular children’s literature into inspired art activities specifically designed for children aged five and under. Created by the founders of Newark Mommies, “Building on Books” will be a regularly scheduled series that emphasizes early literacy sensory exploration, skills development and creativity. Rotating through the branches of the Newark Public Library, mommies and their young children will explore creative art projects that include paint, drawings, collages, crafts, and more.

Applicant: Sharron Miller’s Academy for the Performing Arts (Montclair, NJ)
Project: 2015-16 SMAPA Dance Residency Program at Quitman St. Community School
Description: 32 week in-school residency partnership (K-1st, seven Creative Movement classes each week; 2nd-3rd, six rhythm Tap classes each week; 4th/5th, five cultural dance classes each week; 6th-8th, one preparatory elective class each week.

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African Drumming Program at Keys 2 Success

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Art with the Elders

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Artist in Residency

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Blind Divas

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Carter Glennon Center for Arts and Nature Raise the Roof Program

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Community Institute

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Coffee & Convo: Community Engagement Seminars for Artists

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Elder Stories

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Jungle Jams: Nature Exploration Through Music and Movement

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Lincoln Park Youth Arts Collective

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Living in Color

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Look What I Made With Bump Pro--Workshops and Fashion Show

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Lyrics Matter Hip Hop S.T.E.A.M. Team

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Makers Space

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Mighty Writers Newark Community Storytelling Fellowship

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Moncur Music Lives On

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Newark LGBTQ Film Festival 2025

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Sensational Summer @ NSA

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Setting Boundaries: Avoiding the Drama

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Unmasking – Suicide Prevention for Seniors

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