2002 Grant Awards: State Listings

Creativity/Organizational Capacity/Literature Fellowships

Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

CALIFORNIA

A Traveling Jewish Theatre
San Francisco, CA
$22,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the creation, development and presentation of a new theater work. Una Noche de Suenos Vidi: A Dream of Flowers is an ensemble-created theater work directed by Artistic Director Helen Stoltzfus.

About Productions
Los Angeles, CA
$5,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and production of a new performance work. On Earth as it is in Heaven is an ensemble-created interdisciplinary theater work.

American Conservatory Theater Foundation
San Francisco, CA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the production of a new translation of Maxim Gorky's Vassa Zheleznova by American playwright Constance Congdon. Artistic Director Carey Perloff will direct the production featuring Olympia Dukakis and members of the theater's new core acting ensemble.

American Film Institute, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the Directing Workshop for Women. Each year, this program provides individuals with the necessary skills and portfolio to enter the directing field.

American Indian Film Institute
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 2002 annual American Indian Film Festival and the quarterly film journal Indian Cinema Entertainment. At the 27th anniversary festival, documentaries and feature films will be presented along with work by emerging Native filmmakers.

American Musical Theatre of San Jose
San Jose, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the creation of original songs for the Neighborhood Access-Musicals in the Neighborhood program that serves a multi-ethnic community. The organization will commission composer Craig Bohmler and lyricist Marion Adler to create a new libretto and original songs for a touring production in the Santa Clara Valley.

Art of the Matter (on behalf of the Dance-Network)
San Francisco, CA
$5,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the San Francisco Butoh Festival 2002. The program will revolve around Setsuko Yamada, one of Japan's leading female contemporary choreographers, and offer a program of symposia, workshops, master classes and performances.

Aunt Lute Foundation
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support publication and promotion of Fish-Hair Woman, a novel by Australian Filipina author Merlinda Bobis. The press will organize a reading tour for Ms. Bobis to 13 cities around the country with large Filipina and Filipina American communities.

Axis Dance Company
Oakland, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support creation of a work for dancers with and without disabilities by French Canadian choreographer Sonya Delwaide. The dance, titled Les Saisons, will involve solo, duet and ensemble work.

Bay Area Video Coalition, Inc. (consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the Artist Equipment Access Program. The program provides training, technical assistance and equipment access services to artists and independent producers.

Berkeley Repertory Theatre
Berkeley, CA
$60,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and presentation of a new play by Tony Kushner. Homebody/Kabul will be produced during the spring of 2002.

Bilingual Foundation of the Arts
Los Angeles, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and presentation of a classic Hispanic play. The production of The Mayor of Salamea by Pedro Calderon de la Barca will be directed by Artistic Director Margarita Galban.

BorderZone Arts (Intersection)
San Francisco, CA
$7,500
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the presentation and promotion of writers' residencies in San Francisco. Proposed artists include Jessica Hagedorn, Mike Davis, Kevin Powell and Suzan Lori Parks. Each residency will include a public reading and at least one free outreach event tailored to the writer's interests and expertise.

Brava! for Women in the Arts
San Francisco, CA
$13,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the world premiere production of Okra by Anne Galjour. The project is a new play exploring the mysteries of family and the complexity of race relations between Cajun and Creole communities in a small town in Louisiana.

Cabrillo Music Festival
Santa Cruz, CA
$7,500
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a new music conductor training program. This summer program will partner with the Conductors Guild in providing 15 conductors opportunities in conducting small and large ensembles, programming contemporary works and collaborating with composers.

California EAR Unit Foundation
Green Valley, CA
$5,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the presentation of works by contemporary composers such as Morton Subotnick, Mario Davidovsky and Salvatore Martirano. The performances will be part of the Woven Voices Series scheduled at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

California Lawyers for the Arts, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Organizational Capacity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support the expansion of ArtHouse. The two-year project will provide technical services, legal referral and mediation programs to enable Bay area artists and arts organizations to develop long-term control of affordable space.

California State University, Sacramento
(on behalf of the Festival of New American Music)
Sacramento, CA
$12,500
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Festival of New American Music to be held on the campus of California State University and at various community venues. The annual festival will focus on many facets of new American music, including the latest developments in computer-generated music, new and unusual instrumental design, and exploration of contemporary music and improvisation.

California Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Pleasant Hill, CA
$12,500
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Young American Composer-in-Residence Program - A Homecoming. During the orchestra's 15th anniversary season, prior participants of the program along with the current composer-in-residence will be featured in concerts in the spring of 2002.

Casa Familiar, Inc.
San Ysidro, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support an ideas competition, educational workshop, community events, and a publication examining the San Diego - Tijuana border region. This conceptual competition will generate ideas for the redesign of the border condition currently demarcated by a ten-foot high steel wall.

Chadwick, Cydney Marie
Petaluma, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a Creative Writing Fellowship.

Chhandam Chitresh Das Dance Company
San Rafael, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the presentation of a collaborative work. Chitresh Das, Malonga Casquelourd of Fua Dia Congo, and Ritesh Das of Toronto Tabla Ensemble will present a new work designed to connect the cultural roots of India, Africa and modern day North America through rhythm, music and dance.

Combined Organizations for the Visual Arts
(on behalf of the Border Arts Workshop)
San Diego, CA
$27,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the exhibition From Baja to Buffalo: Art in the Context of Collaborative Empowerment, to be held at Southwestern College in Chula Vista, CA. Six international artists familiar with the region will make work that responds to real estate development issues and displacement of communities along the Mexican/United States border.

Cornerstone Theater Company
Los Angeles, CA
$45,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Catholic Immigrant Project, the world premiere of Bill Cain's adaptation of the medieval Mystery Plays. The project is the first community residency of the company's Faith Based Theater cycle.

Corporation of the Fine Arts Museums (consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support an exhibition of the work of Dutch artist Michael Sweerts (1618-1664), with accompanying education programs. The exhibition is being organized in collaboration with the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, CT, and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.

Dell'Arte, Inc.
Blue Lake, CA
$17,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the creation of a new theater work. A new play based on the development of a Native American casino in Dell'Arte's rural community will be created in the Dentalium project.

Diamano Coura West African Dance Co.
Oakland, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support Collage de la Cultures Africaines. The two-day festival with workshops will feature companies representing the African diaspora and the Polynesian Islands.

Djerassi Resident Artists Program
Woodside, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support one-month residencies for artists during the 2002 season. The project will provide studios, living accommodations, meals and professional support for 10 media artists, visual artists, choreographers and composers.

EBS Productions, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 2002 International Film Financing Conference. This annual event encourages and increases collaborations between American producers and international film production entities.

Eggers, Paul Samuel
Forest Ranch, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a Creative Writing Fellowship.

Evidence Room Theater Project
Los Angeles, CA
$5,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the presentation of a new theater work. The Don Juan Myth by playwright Peter J. Nieves will be presented during the spring of 2002.

Exploratorium
San Francisco, CA
$60,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support artists residencies to create installations for the museum's collection of science exhibitions. The project will include a symposium of artists and scientists to discuss the implications of their artwork and its relation to the latest research in biology.

Felstiner Jr., Louis John
Stanford, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the translation from French of the collected correspondence between poet Paul Celan and his wife, French artist Gisele Celan-Lestrange. Written between 1951 and 1970, when Celan committed suicide, the more than 600 letters explore critical aesthetic questions and include first drafts of renowned poems.

Film Arts Foundation (on behalf of Nathaniel Dorsky Film & Video)
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production of an experimental silent film by Nathaniel Dorsky. This new work will explore the meaning of devotion.

Film Arts Foundation (on behalf of Waveland Productions)
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support production, post-production and distribution costs for a documentary program by John Hewitt. Smokestack Lightnin' tells the story of the blues artist Chester Arthur Burnett, also known as Howlin' Wolf.

Film Arts Foundation
San Francisco, CA
$57,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the Artist to Artist project. This mentorship program will encourage emerging and mid-career artists to connect with more established media-makers to further develop their skills.

Film Arts Foundation (on behalf of Locomotion Films)
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production of an experimental documentary film by Jay Rosenblatt. Phantom Limb will be about loss and grief.

Film Arts Foundation (consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$60,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the Ninth Street Media Arts consortium, a project in which four media arts organizations, all housed in the same building, will share resources, staff and facilities. Already viewed as a national model of partnership, the consortium will formalize its processes to include joint decision-making, governance and program delivery.

Film Arts Foundation
(on behalf of Wadi Rum Films & Little Dust Productions)
San Francisco, CA
$55,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support post-production costs for a documentary film by Roko Belic, Jazmine Dellal and Adrian Belic. Freedom Writers is a story about a low-income high school English class and its extraordinary teacher.

Foothill Theatre Company
Nevada City, CA
$6,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the rewriting, development and production of Grinder's Stand by Oakley Hall III. Written entirely in verse, the piece will explore the life of Meriwether Lewis and the questions surrounding his mysterious death.

Frameline
San Francisco, CA
$16,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the presentation of a film series. Modern Masters of Lesbian and Gay Cinema will feature the works of six filmmakers who have influenced lesbian and gay media for the past quarter-century.

Friends of the Schindler House
Los Angeles, CA
$17,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the exhibition Houses and Artists. The exhibition will consist of up to 12 houses designed by contemporary artists in collaboration with the New York-based architecture firm Open Office.

Gamelan Sekar Jaya
El Cerrito, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support the restaging and touring of Kawit Legong: Prince Karma's Dream. This large scale dramatic work will combine Balinsese dance, music and shadow puppetry.

Geffen Playhouse, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the commission and development of a new work by playwright Donald Marguiles. The project represents the theater's commitment to the development of new works and will be a learning tool for the theater's literary and dramaturgical staff.

Hae Kyung Lee Dancers (Artist Consortium)
Rosemead, CA
$5,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation of a full-evening work by choreographer Hae Kyung Lee, in collaboration with film director Allen Yamashita and composer Steve Moshier. The multimedia work with live musicians will take place at the Japan America Theater in Los Angeles.

Headlands Center for the Arts
Sausalito, CA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support the U.S. Artists-in-Residence Program and associated public programs. The project will provide three-month residences for up to 30 artists and 15-20 educational programs for artists and audiences.

Headlands Center for the Arts (consortium)
Sausalito, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support an arts festival program entitled Awake: Art, Buddhism, and the Dimensions of Consciousness. In six West Coast arts institutions, the program includes artist residency projects, quarterly consortium meetings, and artists crossing the boundaries between various genres.

Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery
San Marino, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the presentation of a retrospective of British artist George Romney (1734-1802), with accompanying education programs. Organized by the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool, England, the exhibition will mark the bi-centenary of Romney's death.

Heyday Books (Clapperstick Institute)
Berkeley, CA
$9,500
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support Heyday Books's publication and related costs for an anthology of Hispanic, Latino and Chicano writers who have lived in or written about California. Co-edited by Francisco Jimenez and Juan Velasco, the anthology will include novel excerpts, short stories, letters, literary essays, autobiographies, reminiscences, interviews, journalism, theater pieces and poetry.

Icarus Puppet Company
San Diego, CA
$6,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the creation and production of a new theater work. Artistic Director Mark Robertson will design the puppets and Rosemary Tyrrell will write the script for a new work titled We Didn't Think.

Idris Ackamoor & Cultural Odyssey
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the creation and production of a new theater work. Performing artists Rhodessa Jones and Idris Ackamoor will collaboratively create They Speak Through Us, an exploration of the legacy of 20th-century African American performance.

Independent Eye, Ltd.
Sebastopol, CA
$5,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production of two radio programs by Conrad Bishop and Elizabeth Fuller. Hitchhiking Off the Map will combine documentary and drama techniques to explore transformations in people's lives.

Independent Feature Project/West
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 2002 Los Angeles Film Festival. Over 100 films, including dramatic features, documentaries, shorts and music videos, will be presented.

Ink People, Inc.
Eureka, CA
$31,000
CATEGORY: Organizational Capacity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support the continuation and expansion of services for emerging Humboldt County arts organizations. This project will enable arts organizations to explore creative ideas, develop organizational capacity, and enhance leadership capabilities by offering shared resources, technical assistance, support and guidance.

Interfaze Educational Productions
(on behalf of Warzinake Productions)
Berkeley, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support Archeology of Memory: Three Cantos. The multidisciplinary project based on the memories of Chilean exiles living in the United States will involve the composition and recording of a musical suite and the publication of a book.

Intersection (on behalf of Campo Santo)
San Francisco, CA
$5,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and production of a new work by Octavio Solis. Written specifically for and with Campo Santo, the play will tell the story of San Francisco, exploring forgotten places and reclaiming its history, vitality, diversity and beauty in the midst of rapid change.

iotaCenter (Iota Fund)
Los Angeles, CA
$16,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support Kinetica 4, a traveling film exhibition program. The project will primarily feature films by Jordan Belson and James Whitney.

Jazz Tap Ensemble, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation of new works and the training of artists. Artistic Director Lynn Dally will identify and develop future tap artists, create original choreography, and re-interpret existing company repertoire.

Joe Goode Performance Group
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a world premiere. Mythic, choreographed by Joe Goode, will be a large-scale work of dance theater.

Kelsey Street Press
Berkeley, CA
$5,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the production, promotion and related expenses, including artists' fees, of volumes of poetry by women. Titles include The Girl Riding Through the Story Garden by Patricia Dienstfrey; Nest by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge; and Frayed Edges, a collaboration between poet Ann Lauterbach and visual artist Ann Hamilton.

Kitchen Sisters Productions
San Francisco, CA
$60,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production of Lost & Found Sound & Beyond, a collection of new radio stories by Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva (aka the Kitchen Sisters). Exploring American life through recorded sound, the works will be aired on National Public Radio's All Things Considered.

Kitka, Inc.
Oakland, CA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support The Rusalki Cycle, a "futuristic" folk opera scored for Kitka's voices and an ensemble of Western classical and East European folk instruments. Composer Richard Einhorn and theatrical designer Ellen Sebastian Chang will collaborate with Kitka to produce this contemporary musical presentation.

Kronos Performing Arts Association
San Francisco, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the development and presentation of a new work by composer Terry Riley. Kronos Quartet will perform the work, which will include taped electronics based upon sounds of space.

Kulintang Arts
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support the commissioning of Heroes, a performance work based on escrima (a style of Pilipino martial arts). The project will be presented as part of the Post-Modern American Pilipino Performance Project.

Kuumbwa Jazz Society
Santa Cruz, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a commission and presentation of a new work by composer and guitarist Anthony Wilson. The work will be premiered by Mr. Wilson's ensemble following a five-day artists-in residency program for high school and college students in the Bay Area.

L.A. Freewaves
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support Appropriate/Appropriated, the eighth celebration of independent video and new media. The biannual event will include work by artists creating single channel work, installations, CD-ROMs and innovative Web sites.

La Pocha Nostra Inter Cultural and Community Arts Projects
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support the Museum of Fetish-ized Identity. This original performance/installation piece by Guillermo Gomez-Peña and Juan Ybarra will premiere in San Francisco in 2002.

Latino Entertainment Media Institute
Burbank, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Organizational Capacity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the Conversations With program, a series of discussions with celebrated directors, writers and actors centered on the guests' education, career achievements and other professional accomplishments. The intimate presentations, modeled after Inside the Actor's Studio, give invaluable information to individuals seeking a career or advancement in the entertainment industry.

Lilly Cai Chinese Dance Company (Chinese Cultural Productions)
San Francisco, CA
$5,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of Jade Warriors: The Chinese American Dance Spirit. The concert will consist of stories about the strength, passion and character of Chinese American women.

LINES Contemporary Ballet
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support creation of a new dance work. This work will be choreographed by Alonzo King to music by Polish composer Pawel Syzmanski.

LINES Contemporary Ballet (on behalf of La Tania Flamenco Music & Dance)
San Francisco, CA
$5,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a new work. The work, titled Agua, Fuego y Tierra, will be choreographed by La Tania.

Long Beach Opera
Long Beach, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a new production of Handel's Orlando. The production, set in a contemporary context, will employ American directors and designers and will be sung in English.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Museum Associates)
Los Angeles, CA
$100,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the exhibition Noh and Kyogen Theater in Japan, with accompanying catalogue and exhibition programs. The exhibition is being co-organized with the Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan.

Los Angeles Master Chorale Association
Los Angeles, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support choral concerts as part of the inaugural season of new music director, Grant Gershon. Three concerts in the spring of 2002 will take place in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion and at Royce Hall on the campus of UCLA.

Los Angeles Philharmonic Association
Los Angeles, CA
$100,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Los Angeles premiere of El Nino by American composer John Adams. This oratorio, which includes music, film and dance, will be conducted by music director Esa Pekka Salonen and directed by Peter Sellars.

Lula Washington Contemporary Dance Foundation
Inglewood, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support creation of a new work, set to music by contemporary jazz artists with African influences. Lula Washington will choreograph Experimentations in Jazz to music by McCoy Tyner, John Coltrane and Boujoubumbastic, a jazz/Sengalese Kora music group.

Magic Theatre, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$17,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and production of Wintertime written by Charles L. Mee and developed in collaboration with director Kenn Watt and the Fifth Floor acting ensemble. Wintertime will be developed in residence at the Magic through workshops with actors during a significant portion of the development period.

Mark Taper Forum (Center Theatre Group of Los Angeles)
Los Angeles, CA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and production of a collaborative project consisting of several short plays set in Los Angeles and linked by themes of transformation over time. The Los Angeles Project (working title) will be written, directed and produced by the theater's artistic staff in collaboration with other Los Angeles artists.

Media Arts Center San Diego
San Diego, CA
$5,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the ninth annual San Diego Latino Film Festival. The films and videos exhibited must be produced by Latinos or be about the Latino experience.

Merola Opera Program
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support costs for the training program's visiting artists' workshops. The program offers advanced training and performance opportunities to young artists pursuing a professional operatic career.

Mills College
Oakland, CA
$5,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the presentation of four concerts by the Center for Contemporary Music. During 2002-03, guest composers Mary Ellen Childs and Carter Scholz and composer/performers Denman Maroney and Dana Reason, will participate in performances of their work at the Mills College Concert Hall.

Monterey Jazz Festival
Monterey, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Monterey Jazz Festival, held at the Monterey County Fairgrounds. Three key components of the festival are a commissioned work to be premiered at the festival, artists-in residence and performances by emerging jazz musicians.

Mount Saint Mary's College (on behalf of the Da Camera Society)
Los Angeles, CA
$17,500
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Chamber Music in Historic Sites to be presented by the Da Camera Society of Mount Saint Mary's College. Taking place during 2002-03, the concerts match musical programs from a variety of cultures and periods with sites of architectural and historical significance in the Los Angeles area.

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
$45,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a touring exhibition of drawings by American artist Willem de Kooning, with accompanying catalogue. The exhibition will highlight de Kooning's most significant abstract renderings of the female form.

Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
La Jolla, CA
$45,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a touring exhibition of the work of American artist Ellsworth Kelly (b. 1923), with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will focus on Kelly's figure/ground paintings of the late 1950s and mid-1960s.

Museum of Craft & Folk Art
San Francisco, CA
$7,500
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the exhibition Fusing Traditions: Transformations in Glass by Native American Artists, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will bring together the work of the first generation of Native American studio glass artists for the first time.

Musical Traditions, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support residency activities, final development and video documentation of Sound Stage, a new music theater work by Paul Dresher. The premiere and residency activities will take place at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in April 2002.

National Alliance of Media Arts Centers
San Francisco, CA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Organizational Capacity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the enhancement of the National Alliance of Media Arts Centers' Web site. The alliance is the main service organization for media arts organizations.

National Asian American Telecommunications Association
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival. The 10-day event showcases the work of new Asian Pacific American film and video makers.

NewTown Pasadena Foundation
Pasadena, CA
$8,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support the presentation of two public art projects. On the Bowl, a large scale exhibition of new media projections, and Art InTents 2, an outdoor event featuring site-specific installations and performances, will take place at city-owned venues.

Oakland East Bay Symphony
Oakland, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support commissions and premieres of new works by American composers. The Oakland East Bay Symphony will perform works by Brian Current, Marco Beltrami, Noah Schwartz, Ellen Hoffman and Jack Perla.

ODC Theater
San Francisco, CA
$12,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support an artist-in-residence program. Based on artistic quality and the opportunity for the residency to invigorate the community, three residencies will be organized during 2002.

Ojai Festivals, Ltd.
Ojai, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the 2002 Ojai Music Festival. The six-day festival will explore music composed towards the end of the lives of various composers with the theme "Last Thoughts: Beethoven, Shostakovich and Others."

Opera Pacific
Santa Ana, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a new production of Jake Heggie's new American opera Dead Man Walking with libretto by Terrence McNally. Five performances of this production will take place at the Orange County Performing Arts Center in Costa Mesa, CA.

Orange County Philharmonic Society
Irvine, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the presentation of La Pasion Segun San Marcos by Osvaldo Golijov. Offered as part of the Eclectic Orange Festival's Passion series, the Southern California premiere performances will take place in Segerstrom Hall in October 2002.

Other Minds
San Francisco, CA
$7,500
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the commission and presentation of a new work by Ornette Coleman. It will be premiered by the composer and the Ornette Coleman Trio in collaboration with Global Expressions, an ensemble of virtuoso musicians, at the Other Minds Festival in San Francisco.

Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the presentation of Handel's oratorio Jeptha. The Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, under the direction of music director Nicholas McGegan, will give five performances at venues throughout the Bay Area.

Poetry Flash (consortium)
Berkeley, CA
$7,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the seventh annual Watershed Festival set in the Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park in downtown Berkeley. The festival features a day of readings by poets and writers such as Joy Harjo, Jane Hirschfield, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Kay Ryan, Diane di Prima, Gary Snyder, Maxine Hong Kingston, Jim Dodge and Brenda Hillman.

Rhapsody In Taps, Inc.
Long Beach, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support creation of a new work by tap dancer Sam Weber. Weber will create the work for seven tap dancers and five jazz musicians and it will premiere at the Japan America Theatre in Los Angeles.

San Diego Repertory Theatre
San Diego, CA
$60,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the presentation of two theater works through the Calafia at Five/El Año Quinto Festival. The community-based festival will feature Culture Clash from Coast to Coast and the revival of the musical Corridos by Luis Valdez.

San Francisco Ballet Association
San Francisco, CA
$70,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of works by emerging and established choreographers. The company will acquire a work by Hans van Manen and commission works by choreographers Helgi Tomasson, Julia Adam and Yuri Possokhov.

San Francisco Camerawork, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$21,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support an exhibition of work by Daniel Joseph Martinez entitled Interrogation of the Social, accompanied by the publication Camerawork: A Journal of Photographic. This project will attempt to further conversations about contemporary cultural issues instigated by artists utilizing photography and related technologies.

San Francisco Chanticleer, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Chanticleer: An American Journey, a 25th anniversary celebration. The project includes commissions, concerts, a compact disc recording, a composer's symposium and multiple education residencies.

San Francisco Cinematheque
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support On The Edge, a series of residencies for artists, scholars and curators focusing on experimental cinema. Each residency will be one week long, with lectures, workshops, panels, and screenings.

San Francisco Jazz Organization
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Sonny Rollins: Living Legend, a presentation project by the San Francisco Jazz Organization. Artistic director Joshua Redman will program and participate in a weekend festival celebrating the artistry of saxophonist Sonny Rollins.

San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 2002 Jewish Film Festival and related activities. The festival, devoted to Jewish-subject films, will be held in July and August of 2002 in San Francisco, Berkeley, Palo Alto and Marin County.

San Francisco Mime Troupe, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the development, production and national tour of an original musical comedy. The new work will focus on national or community events in San Francisco and will tour Bay Area parks and venues throughout California.

San Francisco Opera Association
San Francisco, CA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a new production and the North American premiere of the opera St. Francois d'Assise by Olivier Messiaen. This work, composed in 1983, will receive six performances at the War Memorial Opera House.

San Francisco School of Circus Arts
San Francisco, CA
$22,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the creation, development and presentation of a new circus performance. The New Pickle Circus, San Francisco School of Circus Arts' performing company, will present a holiday show for regional touring.

San Francisco Symphony
San Francisco, CA
$100,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support A Russian Festival, a three-week festival exploring the works of Russian composers who exerted a significant influence on the music of the twentieth century. Music director Michael Tilson Thomas will direct the San Francisco Symphony, the San Francisco Symphony Chorus, and guest artists in concerts at the Davies Symphony Hall.

San Jose Repertory Theatre
San Jose, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and world premiere of a play. Las Meninas by playwright Lynn Nottage will be directed by Michael Edwards.

Santa Monica Museum of Art
Santa Monica, CA
$12,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the touring exhibition Unusual Behavior: The Art of Richard Jackson, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will survey the work of this Los Angeles-based artist's 40-year career, including his wall paintings, stacked canvas works and painting machines.

Self-Help Graphics & Art, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$27,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support Treinta: 30 years of Chicano Art, Culture and Printmaking. This project allows artists to create new work in a printmaking studio in a collaborative atmosphere with a master printer, experimenting with different techniques in the silkscreen format.

ShadowLight Productions
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support the world premiere of Californio. This new shadow-theater performance piece will focus on Latino identity and heritage in California.

South Coast Repertory, Inc.
Costa Mesa, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and world premiere productions of Horton Foote's Getting Frankie Married-and Afterwards and British playwright Lucinda Coxon's Nostalgia. The productions will culminate the theater's Mainstage and Second Stage seasons and run concurrently with the theater's Pacific Playwrights Festival.

Southern California Asian American Studies Central, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$17,500
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 17th annual Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film and Video Festival. Held in the summer, the event is Southern California's showcase of independent Asian international and Asian Pacific American film and video work.

Squaw Valley Community of Writers
Nevada City, CA
$5,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the Screenwriters Program. The eight-day workshop is centered on the essence of storytelling and provides participants with an understanding of the language and grammar of film necessary for a clear, readable and intelligent script.

Theatre of Yugen, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the tour of a new theater piece. Theater of Yugen will tour At the Hawk's Well, a Noh Play recreated from the work by W. B. Yeats.

Theatre Rhinoceros
San Francisco, CA
$7,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and production of a new play. Strangers in Paradox is a multimedia theater work by Kate Bornstein.

TheatreWorks
Palo Alto, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the development and production of a new musical. TheatreWorks will produce the world premiere of Kept, with music by Henry Krieger and book and lyrics by Bill Russell.

Threepenny Review
Berkeley, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support authors' fees and promotional costs for issues of the Threepenny Review. Featuring work by 100 established and emerging writers, the proposed issues will be promoted through a direct mail subscription campaign targeting 100,000 readers.

University of California at Berkeley (on behalf of Cal Performances)
Berkeley, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the seventh Berkeley Festival and Exhibition, a biennial early music festival. Cal Performances and San Francisco Early Music Society will present this weeklong event on the campus of University of California-Berkeley and other sites around San Francisco.

University of California at Berkeley (on behalf of Pacific Film Archive)
Berkeley, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support 50 Years of Bay Area Avant-Garde Film and Video. This curated, two-part exhibition series will present a comprehensive overview of the Bay Area's contribution to experimental cinema.

University of California at Los Angeles
(on behalf of the Fowler Museum of Cultural History)
Los Angeles, CA
$27,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the touring exhibition Apartheid and After: The Art of Willie Bester, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. This exhibition will be the first retrospective to trace the work and career of this contemporary South African artist.

Walden School, Ltd.
San Francisco, CA
$5,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support an artist residency with a jazz quintet. During the summer of 2002, the jazz quintet The Onus will be in residence for two weeks at the Walden School in Dublin, NH.

Waters, Mary
Long Beach, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a Creative Writing Fellowship.

Western Alliance of Arts Administrators Foundation
San Francisco, CA
$12,000
CATEGORY: Organizational Capacity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Leadership Development Program designed to serve the touring and presenting field in the West. This project will include an annual Leadership Institute and a Leadership Circle, activities at the alliance's annual conference, an on-line resource bank and scholarships for emerging leaders.

Women's Philharmonic
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Music in the Making, a new music reading session. Held at the Yerba Buena Center for the Performing Arts in March 2002, the sessions will showcase American women composers in the early phases of their careers.

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
San Francisco, CA
$45,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support residencies for artists of multiple disciplines. Artists-in-residence in the visual arts, performing arts, and film and video will be given the opportunity to develop new work, reformulate existing works and engage in a variety of education and community programs.

Z Space Studio
San Francisco, CA
$12,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support developmental services for four established writers with roots in San Francisco Bay Area theater. Through the Studio's acclaimed Z Commissions program, the artists will have access to a wide range of artistic, technical and facility resources, including a three-week workshop production.

Zaccho SF
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of Ghost Architecture choreographed by Artistic Director Joanna Haigood. This piece will examine the relationship between space and time and how that relates to architecture.

ZYZZYVA, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$5,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support publication, promotion and related costs, including authors' fees, for issues of Zyzzyva, a magazine featuring the work of West Coast writers. Each issue includes approximately 20 writers, one-third of whom have never been in print.

Total Dollars Awarded: $2,921,500
Total Grants Awarded: 133

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