Winners
| Recipient | Project | Applicant(s) |
Amount |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| University of Miami | To create a post-graduate residency program for up-and-coming artists, to be mentored by renowned international artists. | President Donna E. Shalala |
 |
$1,800,000 |
| Miami Music Project | To build a year-round classical music education program for Miami-Dade middle schoolers together with an annual festival. |
James Judd Juvenal Correa-Salas |
  |
$1,000,000 |
| Miami World Cinema Center | To benefit Miami’s growing independent film community by establishing an institute for cultivating, funding and advising local filmmakers. |
Patrick de Bokay Josh Miller Sam Rega |
   |
$750,000 |
| Seraphic Fire | To build a little league-like network of youth choirs across Miami-Dade. | Patrick Dupré Quigley |
 |
$684,750 |
| YoungARTS | To provide recognition, financial support and mentoring from renowned professionals to South Florida’s promising young artists through a regional competition. | Christina DePaul |
 |
$600,000 |
| Young at Art of Broward, Inc. | To create South Florida’s first art museum specially designed for children. | Mindy Shrago |
 |
$500,000 |
| LegalArt | To build a communal live/work space for artists that will become an incubator for creative works in Miami. | Carolina Garcia |
 |
$400,000 |
| O Cinema, The Independent | To benefit Miami’s growing independent film community by establishing an institute for cultivating, funding and advising local filmmakers. |
Kareem Tabsch Vivian Marthell |
  |
$400,000 |
| Classical South Florida | To ensure the development of South Florida’s only classical radio station by supplying challenge funds to motivate listeners’ financial support. | Doug Evans |
 |
$250,000 |
| Miami City Ballet | To support an artistic collaboration between the Cleveland Orchestra and the Miami City Ballet. |
Dan Lewis Mike Eidson |
  |
$250,000 |
| Miami Light Project | To present more original, locally-produced performance art by expanding the Here & Now Festival. | Beth Boone |
 |
$200,000 |
| ArtCenter/South Florida | To give local artists access to computers and cutting-edge software by constructing a digital arts center. | Jeremy Chestler |
 |
$150,000 |
| Bas Fisher Invitational | To provide young, unrepresented artists with free exhibition space and events by supporting a local art gallery. |
Naomi Fisher Jim Drain Kathryn Marks |
   |
$150,000 |
| Miami Downtown Development Authority | To offer a new concert series, create a sense of community and increase entertainment offerings in Downtown Miami. | Leo Zabezhinsky |
 |
$150,000 |
| City of Miami Beach | To continue Miami Beach’s Sleepless Night, a free celebration of the arts with performances and exhibits at more than 80 venues on the 13-hour night that marks the end of Daylight Savings Time. | Gary Farmer |
 |
$150,000 |
| Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts | To provide free, monthly gospel concerts at the Arsht Center. | Scott Shiller |
 |
$100,000 |
| Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts | To plan for an annual performing arts festival celebrating hemispheric arts. | Larry Wilker |
 |
$100,000 |
| ArtFormz, LLC | To create an outdoor exhibit of 10 giant, inflatable sculptures to be displayed in Miami’s Bayfront Park during Art Basel week. |
Alejandro Mendoza Alette Simmons-Jimenez |
 |
$90,000 |
| New World School of Arts | To create studios in Wynwood for New World School of the Arts seniors conducting their final projects. | Mercedes Quiroga |
 |
$90,000 |
| Haitian Neighborhood Center Sant La | To present a live concert series featuring world-class Haitian jazz musicians. | Gepsie Metellus |
 |
$80,000 |
| Miami Poster Project | To create an annual poster competition that captures Miami’s spirit. | Philip Brooker |
 |
$75,000 |
| Design and Architecture Senior High School | To convert an unused parking lot into a public art space and botanical refuge for high school students. | Stacey Mancuso |
 |
$40,000 |
| Miami Lyric Opera | To help Miami’s alternative opera company promote and cultivate local talent while presenting quality operas. | Raffaele Cardone |
 |
$40,000 |
| Naomi Fisher Performance Works | To launch a series of performance art projects presented outside in South Florida’s subtropical landscape. | Naomi Fisher |
 |
$40,000 |
| Gean Moreno | To promote local artists and their work by creating a nonprofit publishing house for Miami-based art books. | Gean Moreno |
 |
$30,000 |
| Just Ripe Events | To expand Leggo My Demo, an Internet-based community platform that showcases new electronic music. | Chris Chrebet |
 |
$30,000 |
| Miami-Dade Department of Cultural Affairs | To increase the public’s awareness and appreciation of Miami-Dade’s Art in Public Places collection by creating an easily accessible digital inventory. | Michael Spring |
 |
$30,000 |
| Frost Art Museum | To give permanent access to the Frost Museum’s extensive art collection through an interactive, virtual gallery. | Carol Damian |
 |
$25,000 |
| Upper Eastside Garden | To transform Miami’s Upper Eastside Garden into a botanical park and expand its artistic mini-golf course. | Peter Rozek |
 |
$25,000 |
| Twenty Twenty Projects | To provide a free display space for local artists at one of Miami’s December art fairs. | Scott Murray |
 |
$20,000 |
| Gold Coast Jazz Society | To launch free, monthly jazz ‘jam’ sessions where students of all levels can play alongside professionals. | Pam Dearden |
 |
$18,000 |
