Update

The Greater Washington Creative Communities Initiative, which pairs emerging artists with nonprofit organizations to create community-based arts projects, has been transferred to the Cultural Development Corporation.

Contributions to the Initiative are being administered by The Community Foundation. If you would like to make a tax-deductible gift to the Initiative, please visit our donation page HERE.

The Greater Washington Creative Communities Initiative

2008-09 Grantees

H Street Main Street & Nasar Abadey/musician - $15,000
To support the creation of "Diamonds in the Rough Suite", a compilation of three newly developed jazz musical compositions by Nasar Abadey.

Community Bridges & Carien Quiroga - $15,000
To support the creation of "In Her Shoes," a sculptural work by Carien Quiroga as well as drawings exploring issues surrounding the mother figure and generational relationships between mothers and daughters.

District of Columbia Arts Center & Quique Aviles/poet and performer - $15,000
To support the creation of "The Children of Latinia," a performance project by Quique Aviles that explores the realities and inner struggles of "hybrid" Latinos.

Institute for Policy Studies & Sarah Browning/poet - $15,000
To support the creation of "Deep Music- Poems from the Prison Crisis", a collaboration between Sarah Browning, Hope House, and the children of incarcerated fathers.

Provisions Learning Project & Edgar Endress/performance artist - $15,000
To support the creation of a "The Floating Museum," a mobile museum by Edgar Endress that travels to various public sites around the region and engages community residents.

Jane Franklin Dance & Jane Franklin/dancer and choreographer - $15,000
To support the creation of "Breaking Ground", a dance and media collaboration centered on a skateboard park that will promote a creative and inclusive interchange between dancers and skateboarders, youth and community residents.

Pyramid Atlantic & Jefferson Pinder/performance artist - $15,000
To support the creation of a dynamic audio compilation of music, performance and video piece by Jefferson Pinder that represents race through music and sound.

Washington Parks and People & Novie Trump/visual artist - $15,000
To support the creation of "Return of the Songbirds", a series of sculptures by Novie Trump that will help celebrate the return of the songbirds to Marvin Gaye Park.

Joe’s Movement Emporium & Helanius Wilkins/dancer and choreographer - $15,000
To support the "Negro Dance Theatre Project" by Helanius Wilkins to honor the legacy of black men in concert dance through live-onstage and filmed reconstruction of preparatory works from 1954-1959 by the Negro Dance Theatre.

Young Playwrights Theater & Anu Yadav/playwright and performance artist - $15,000
To support "Classlines," a new play by Anu Yadav exploring assumptions and realities surrounding race and class, privilege and entitlement, poverty and wealth.