Application Cycle

Fiscal Year 2010 (submit March 2009)

• MULTIDISCIPLINE Organizations that provide programs or services in two or more distinct artistic disciplines such as local arts agencies, community art centers, festivals, and multiservice organizations
• MUSIC I Opera, chorus, and musical theater
• MUSIC II Community music schools, early and new music, jazz, world music, wind ensembles, and multidisciplinary music series
• THEATER Classical and contemporary theater companies, theater festivals, theater education, children's and youth theater, and theater service organizations

Fiscal Year 2011 (submit March 2010)

• DANCE Ballet, contemporary and folk dance companies, dance presenters, dance colonies, dance education, and dance service organizations
• MUSIC III Orchestras
• MUSIC IV Chamber music and classical music series
• VISUAL ARTS Art museums, galleries, artist collaboratives, and visual arts education

• HISTORY History museums and societies, historic preservation, and history education
• LITERATURE Small presses, writers' institutes, literature festivals, and writers' associations
• MEDIA ARTS Cable access television, independent theaters, film festivals, documentary producers, and film/video education
• PRESENTING & SPONSORING Performing arts presenters, humanities forums, and performance venues
• SCIENCE Interpretive science centers such as aquariums, arboretums, botanical gardens, nature centers, natural history and anthropology museums, planetariums, and science and technology centers
• SERVICE Organizations that provide vital services to a particular discipline or segment of the cultural community but are not themselves involved in the creative process