FY 2005 Grant Awards: State Listings
Access to Artistic Excellence/Literature Fellowships
Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change,
contingent upon prior Endowment approval.
CALIFORNIA
American Bach Soloists
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support historically informed performances of J.S. Bach's St. Matthew Passion (1729). The performances will feature period instruments and free lectures by Bach scholars.
American Conservatory Theater Foundation
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the adaptation and production of a rarely produced play. Playwright David Mamet will adapt the original version of the 1905 play The Voysey Inheritance by Harley Granville-Barker. Carey Perloff will direct the production.
American Film Institute Inc. (consortium)
Los Angeles, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a consortium project featuring a series of presentations of American social documentaries from the 1930s accompanied by live music and narration. The Post-Classical Ensemble will perform live music.
Anjani's Kathak Dance of India (Sundar Kala Kendra Foundation)
Walnut, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the creation of a new work titled Amrapali-Raj Narthaki, the story about a famous court dancer during the Buddha period in India. Featuring the classical Kathak dance style, this is the first production of this work in the greater Los Angeles area.
Antenna Theater
Sausalito, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support The High School Project. The program will support communication among young people and their communities through the collaborative creation of original, multidisciplinary theater works.
Artist Consortium
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation of an evening-length work by choreographer Hae Kyung Lee. The work will be created in collaboration with composer Steve Moshier and scenic designer Yael Pardess.
ArtWallah (Indo-American Cultural Center)
Venice, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support ArtWallah, a festival of South Asian arts. The festival showcases artists whose ancestry originates from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, and the Maldives.
Asian American Theater Workshop Co.
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the NewWorks Incubator, a workshop program that will develop, produce, and electronically publish new plays about the Asian Pacific American experience. Under the oversight of playwright Philip Kan Gotanda, the program will combine a research and development model with a conservatory approach to create new plays.
Association of California Symphony Orchestras
Sacramento, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support professional and leadership development and technical assistance programs for California orchestras. Plans include an annual statewide conference and workshops for artistic and administrative staff, trustees, and volunteers from more than 150 orchestras.
Balcom, John J.
Monterey, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the translation from Chinese of selected poems by Lo Fu. Born
in China's Hunan Province, Lo Fu served in the military during the Sino-Japanese
War (1939-45), began writing poetry in the 1940s, and moved to Taiwan
in 1949. His 12 volumes of poetry include Death of a Stone Cell
(1965), a long poem conceived while the poet was stationed on the island
of Quemoy during its bombardment; Wound of Time (1981), which
addresses China's literary tradition and history; and House of Moonlight,
which examines the poet's nostalgia for a China to which he cannot return.
Lo Fu's books have received major literary awards in Taiwan, including
the China Times Literary Award and the National Literary Award.
John Balcom is an associate professor at the Monterey Institute. His
translations include Death of a Stone Cell by Lo Fu, The
Four Seasons by Xiang Yang, My Village by Wu Sheng, and
Black and White by Lin Hengtai.
BAVC (Bay Area Video Coalition, Inc.)
San Francisco, CA
$75,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support ongoing, low-cost video preservation services to artists and arts organizations throughout the nation. Services include the recording, retrieval, and preservation of video art and art on video, and the dissemination of information to the public.
Berkeley Repertory Theatre
Berkeley, CA
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the premiere production of a new play, Stories From Jonestown and the Peoples Temple by writer/director Leigh Fondakowski. The play examines issues of faith, community, responsibility, and the cult personality.
Berkeley Symphony Orchestra
Berkeley, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the creation and presentation of Manzanar: An American Story, a new oratorio written and directed by playwright Philip Kan Gotanda and composed jointly by Naomi Sekiya, David Benoit, and Jean-Pascal Beintus. The 55-minute work for narrators, chorus, soloists, and orchestra explores the progression of American freedom using the Japanese internment camp Manzanar as a touchstone.
Bilingual Foundation of the Arts
Los Angeles, CA
$12,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the production of a classic Spanish play. Margarita Galban will direct Fenisa's Hook/El Anzuelo De Fenisa, a comedy created in 1617 by Spain's Golden Age playwright Lope Felix de Vega.
Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Univ (Stanford University) (on behalf of Stanford Lively Arts)
Stanford, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. The project will include a variety of outreach activities, such as seminars, dance courses, master classes, open rehearsals, lecture demonstrations, and discussions.
Brava! For Women in the Arts
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the creation and workshop production of a new play, A/Way: The Urban Tao by Kate Rigg. The play will look at contemporary Asian American experience through the lens of the Chinese philosophical classic, the Tao Te Ching.
Cabrillo Music Festival
Santa Cruz, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a professional development program for conductors. In partnership with the Conductors Guild, the training will offer emerging conductors the opportunity to lead small and large ensembles, program contemporary works, and collaborate with composers.
CalArts (California Institute of the Arts)
Valencia, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support the REDCAT Intersections residency program at the Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Center. The program includes a series of residencies, performances, and exhibitions.
California Film Institute
Mill Valley, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support a curated film and video series featuring documentaries. The screenings will include guided discussions among guest artists, filmmakers, scholars, and members of the audience.
California Newsreel (Resolution Inc.)
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support South Africa After Ten Years of Freedom: A Cinematic Overview. As part of its Library of African Cinema, Resolution will include 10 new titles, in both documentary and narrative genres, which explore South Africa's progress since the end of apartheid. The films will be made available to the institutional market, film festivals, media arts centers, and broadcast outlets.
California Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Walnut Creek, CA
$12,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Young American Composer-in-Residence Program. The year-long residency with composer Kevin Beavers will include recorded reading sessions, high school visits, and the creation and presentation of a new work.
Center for Land Use Interpretation
Culver City, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support the Wendover Artist Residency Program. Both emerging and established artists will be selected to create new works that capture the landscapes in Utah, Nevada, and southern Idaho.
Children's Book Press
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of bilingual children's books for Mexican-American and Arab-American communities. The press will promote the books to librarians, educators, and the general public at book fairs around the country.
Circus Center
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the creation and performance of an original circus production by the Center's professional performing troupe, the New Pickle Circus. The production will continue New Pickle's work toward the development of a new American circus aesthetic.
City of Santa Rosa, California
Santa Rosa, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a public art project by artist Ned Kahn, who was selected by the city's Art in Public Places Committee through a process that included community input. The large-scale work will cover a section of a building in a heavily trafficked neighborhood, and will resemble a vertical sheet of rippling water.
Cornerstone Theater Company, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$60,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a consortium project for the development and production of a new play. With the National Conference for Community and Justice, Bill Rauch will direct the Faith-Based Bridge Project. This epic play by James Still is the culmination of a series of community story circles, inter-faith dialogues, and town meetings into a play that explores the religious diversity of contemporary Los Angeles.
CounterPULSE (on behalf of Jess Curtis/Gravity)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by choreographer Jess Curtis. The work will be presented at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in the United States and at Tanzbaustelle and Fabrik Potsdam in Germany.
Crowded Fire Theater Company
San Francisco, CA
$8,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the world premiere production of a new play. Liz Duffy Adams will write a new play titled All the Truth in the World, which explores a post-apocalyptic landscape in which the characters struggle to cope with catastrophe.
CSULB Foundaton (on behalf of Carpenter Performing Arts Center)
Long Beach, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the creation of a new work, Seasons of Migration. The project will explore the expressive boundaries of Cambodia's classical dance by making contemporary ideas feel timeless and by making the ancient feel utterly modern.
Dance Brigade (consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support a consortium project involving residencies by contemporary Russian dance/movement theater companies. In partnership with UCLA Live, the companies will work with students and local arts groups while in residence in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Dell'Arte, Inc.
Blue Lake, CA
$22,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the creation, development, production, and tour of a new play, Out on a Limb to be directed by Artistic Director Michael Fields and performed by the company's core ensemble. The project is based on a local event and explores the destiny of the nation's forests.
Djerassi Resident Artists Program
Woodside, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support artist residencies. The project will provide studios, living accommodations, meals, and professional support for American writers, composers, choreographers, and media and visual artists.
EarthWays Foundation Inc. (consortium)
Malibu, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the consortium project World Festival of Sacred Music-Los Angeles. Collaborating with the UCLA Center for Intercultural Performance, the festival encourages participants to travel throughout Los Angeles, crossing not only neighborhood borders but also cultural, racial, religious, and ideological boundaries.
East-West Players
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the commission, development, and premiere production of a new musical. The artistic team of lyricist Aaron Coleman, book writer Sachi Oyamo, and composer Nathan Wang will create a new production titled Imelda.
Exitheatre
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the fifth annual DIVAfest, a festival dedicated to fostering new works by women writers. The project features commissioning, development, and the full production of new works by, for, and about women.
Exploratorium
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support artist residencies focused on miniature programmable technologies in sound, film, kinetic sculpture, and activated environments. The artists will develop and present hands-on public art and technology workshops at the Exploratorium and other science centers in the United States.
Explorit Science Center
Davis, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the commissioning of a work of art by American artist Chris Daubert at the entry way to the Center's new building. The entrance will be designed, in collaboration with the architects, to engage children in the interaction between art, design, and science.
Fairchild, B.H.
Claremont, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a creative writing fellowship.
Film Arts Foundation (on behalf of Madcat Women's
International Film Festival)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media
Arts
To support the 9th MadCat Women's International Film Festival and national
tour. More than 50 films will be presented to an audience of approximately
7,000 people.
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco (Corporation of the Fine Arts Museums)
San Francisco, CA
$100,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the touring exhibtion Daughter of Re: Hatshepsut, King of Egypt, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition, organized in collaboration with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, will highlight the art created during the reign of the female pharaoh Hatshepsut, who ruled circa 1479-1468 B.C.
Frameline
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support a curated film and video series. Open Screen will present short and feature-length work of all genres to an estimated audience of 2,000 people.
Ghiberti Foundation (consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$12,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a consortium project titled New Music Festival in an Old Cathedral. The 2005 summer festival will take place at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco in partnership with the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT) of the University of California at Berkeley.
Headlands Center for the Arts
Sausalito, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support the U.S. Artists-in-Residence Program and associated public programs. The project will provide U.S. artists with residencies ranging from one to six months.
Hirshfield, Jane
Mill Valley, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a creative writing fellowship.
HUC Skirball Cultural Center
Los Angeles, CA
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a touring exhibition of the work of German artist Max Liebermann,
with accompanying catalogue and education programs. Liebermann was celebrated
as the leader of German Impressionism and the acknowledged head of the
Berlin art community from the 1890s to 1932.
id Theatre, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$8,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, a new work development program for professional and student playwrights. Selected playwrights from rural Idaho are given the opportunity to develop their plays with the support of a professional artistic team.
Idris Ackamoor & Cultural Odyssey
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the creation and production of My Life in the Concrete Jungle, written and directed by Rhodessa Jones with music by Idris Ackamoor. Inspired by Amos Tutulola's My Life in the Bush of Ghost, the piece will be a modern day musical myth that tells the story of lost souls in modern society.
IFP Los Angeles (Independent Feature Project/West)
Beverly Hills, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the Los Angeles Film Festival. More than 175 films including dramatic features, documentaries, and short films will be presented to an anticipated audience of 40,000 people.
Isles, John A.
Alameda, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a creative writing fellowship.
ITVS (Independent Television Service, Inc.)
San Francisco, CA
$60,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media
Arts
To support the 2005 International Public Television (INPUT) Conference.
Held in San Francisco, the conference will bring together media artists
and public television professionals from around the world to view productions
and exchange information.
Jarvis Conservatory
Napa, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the 11th annual Zarzuela Festival and workshop to educate emerging professional singers about this Spanish operatic art form. The four-week workshop will educate as many as 25 singers and dancers through coaching, master classes, and technique training, and will culminate in five performances of El Barberillo de Lavapies by Francisco Asenjo Barbieri, libretto by Luis Mariano de Larra.
Joe Goode Performance Group
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a new dance theater work by choreographer and artistic director Joe Goode. The work will incorporate youth-produced videos and be presented at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
Kala Institute
Berkeley, CA
$18,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the Artist in Residence Program. Artists will be provided a stipend and 24 hour access to this 8,500 square-foot facility for a six-month period.
Kern County Youth Mariachi Foundation
Bakersfield, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the implementation of a Mariachi Appreciation Program. Young people ages 9 to 18 will attend workshops taught by professionals on the theory, musical technique, history, and culture associated with this Mexican musical tradition.
Kronos Performing Arts Association
San Francisco, CA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Seven Women/One Voice: An Exploration of Distant Places. Seven collaborations will take place with women artists of diverse multi-national musical perspectives.
Kuumbwa Jazz Society
Santa Cruz, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support 30 & Swingin', a 30th-anniversary series of concerts. Plans include the presentation of four concerts and educational activities for students.
La Jolla Music Society
La Jolla, CA
$18,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support SummerFest. The three-week seaside music festival will include performances of a new string quartet by Mark O'Connor and the West Coast premiere of Esa-Pekka Salonen's Mania, a concerto for cello and chamber ensemble.
Lee, Karen An-hwei
Santa Ana, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a creative writing fellowship.
LINES Contemporary Ballet
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a work choreographed by artistic
director Alonzo King. The work will be created in collaboration with Moroccan
musicians, and will be presented at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Theater
in San Francisco and at Mountain View Center for the Arts in Mountain
View, CA.
Local Government Commission
Sacramento, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support a charrette process that will provide a forum for the residents of La Habra, California to assist in the development of a residential, mixed-use project. The design will serve as a model for other communities seeking to accommodate the growing Latino population in Southern California.
Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Society, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support performances of commissioned works. Plans include the world and West Coast premieres of three works by Robert Aldridge, Donald Crockett, and Joel McNeely.
Los Angeles County Arts Commission
Los Angeles, CA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the Community Anchor Program (CAP). Selected Los Angeles County arts organizations will compete for grant awards to further develop and enhance artistic resources and to receive technical assistance through individualized coaching in human resource and board management issues.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Museum Associates)
Los Angeles, CA
$75,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the touring exhibition Lords of Creation: The Origins of Sacred Maya Kingship, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition is the first to investigate the emergence of divine kingship among the ancient Maya and examine the central role that kings played in Mayan society and art.
Los Angeles Master Chorale Association
Los Angeles, CA
$18,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the creation and presentation of a new choral work by Billy Childs. The full-length work is based on texts by children in the Terezin concentration camp during World War II, and will premiere at Walt Disney Concert Hall in April 2005.
Los Angeles Opera Company
Los Angeles, CA
$65,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the production of a newly commissioned opera by Elliot Goldenthal and co-librettist and director Julie Taymor titled Grendel: Transcendence of the Great Big Bad. Grendel is based on John Gardner's novel of the same name and is drawn from the 9th-century poem, Beowulf.
Los Angeles Philharmonic Association
Los Angeles, CA
$100,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support The American Composers Project. Plans include repeat performances of previously commissioned works by Tan Dun and John Adams and the premiere of a new commission by Peter Lieberson.
Lula Washington Dance Theatre (Lula Washington Contemporary Dance Foundation)
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of the company's 25th anniversary home concert and showcase concerts at the International Association of Blacks in Dance conference in Los Angeles. The company will also tour across the United States.
Magic Theatre, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the commission, development, and production of a new play, Dear Sara Jane (working title) by Victor Lodato. The play portrays a woman awaiting the return of her soldier-husband, and explores issues of national identity, the ethical contradictions of war, and the price of domestic peace.
Magnificat
Oakland, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support partially-staged performances of Alessandro Stradella's comic opera Il Trespolo tutore (The Tutor in Love). The project will feature a small ensemble of period instruments and singers under the artistic direction of Warren Stewart.
Margaret Jenkins Dance Company (Margaret Jenkins Dance Studio, Inc.)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and world premiere of a new work by Margaret Jenkins. The work will be presented in a variety of sites at the Yerba Buena Gardens in San Francisco.
Media Arts Center San Diego
San Diego, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 12th San Diego Latino Film Festival. The event presents more than 100 films from Latin America and features filmmaker Q&A sessions, panel discussions, and workshops for high school students.
Merola Opera Program
San Francisco, CA
$17,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a professional training program for singers, apprentice coaches, and an apprentice stage director. Participants receive private coaching and attend master classes that serve as forums for intergenerational exchange between opera's veterans and newcomers.
MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles)
Los Angeles, CA
$70,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the touring exhibition Visual Music: 1905-2005, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will trace the influence of music on the visual arts from early abstraction through experimental film to contemporary installation art.
Monterey Jazz Festival
Monterey, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the annual Monterey Jazz Festival at the Monterey County Fairgrounds. Key components of the festival will be the premiere of a commissioned work by Artist-in-Residence Carla Bley and performances by emerging jazz musicians.
Mount Saint Mary's College (on behalf of Da Camera Society)
Los Angeles, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Chamber Music in Historic Sites, a series of chamber music concerts and outreach activities. Presented by the Da Camera Society under the artistic direction of Dr. MaryAnn Bonino, the concerts will match musical programs from a variety of cultures and periods with sites of architectural and historical significance in the Los Angeles area.
Musical Traditions, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support presentations of new music theater and chamber opera productions. The project includes Artistic Director Paul Dresher's seminal music theater work Slow Fire, a new music theater project by Rinde Eckert titled Horizon, and the premiere and touring of The Tyrant, Dresher's new chamber opera.
NAATA (National Asian American Telecommunications Association)
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival and other exhibition activities. The film festival will showcase the work of new Asian-Pacific American filmmakers and videographers.
New Langton Arts
San Francisco, CA
$18,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a survey exhibition on San Francisco artist Tony Labat. The exhibition will include a new public artwork, a catalogue, a Web component, and screenings documenting his contributions to the emerging genres of video, installation, and performance art.
Oakland East Bay Symphony
Oakland, CA
$12,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support premiere performances of new works by American composers. The project will include works by Hector Armienta, Kenji Bunch, Laurence Rosenthal, and Chen Yi.
ODC/San Francisco (Oberlin Dance Collective of California)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation of a new work by choreographer Brenda Way. On a Train Heading South will be created in collaboration with composer Jack Perla and video artist Jim Campbell.
Ojai Festivals, Ltd.
Ojai, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Ojai Music Festival. The 59th annual music festival, directed by guest music director Oliver Knussen, will present the Cleveland Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, pianist Peter Serkin, Schoenberg Ensemble, and Finnish cellist Anssi Karttunen and composer/pianist Magnus Lindberg.
Old Globe Theatre
San Diego, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the world premiere of a new musical about the Irish author James Joyce, titled Himself And Nora. The project will be written by Sheila Walsh and composer Jonathan Brielle; Tony Award winner Joseph Hardy will direct the production.
Opera Pacific
Santa Ana, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support performances of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera, Pirates of Penzance at the Pacific Amphitheatre. The project will be an extension of the annual Opera Under the Stars series, an effort to introduce opera to more people from the Southern California region.
Orange County Museum of Art
Newport Beach, CA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a touring retrospective exhibition of work by American artist Mary Heilman, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. Heilman has been a pioneer in American visual arts, infusing abstract painting with influences from popular culture and craft traditions.
Other Minds
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support OM11, an annual new music festival performed at Yerba Buena Center. Composers will participate in a four-day residency that will include a panel discussion and a free workshop and lecture-demonstration.
Pacific Chorale
Santa Ana, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the West Coast Premiere of a work by American composer Stephen Paulus. The Pacific Chorale and Pacific Symphony will perform the new work under the artistic direction of John Alexander at the Orange County Performing Arts Center in Costa Mesa.
Pacifica Foundation
Studio City, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the preservation of arts-related recordings in the Pacifica archive material. Of the 40,500 tapes housed in the archive, approximately 25 percent represent arts programming. Preservation activities will focus on radio dramas in the collection, and on copies of the publication, Folio.
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the presentation of George Frederic Handel's opera Atalanta in San Francisco, Berkeley, Lafayette, and Palo Alto, California. The performances, directed by music director Nicholas McGegan, will be preceded by free concert lectures.
Philharmonic Society of Orange County
Irvine, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the presentation of Orion, a new work by American composer Philip Glass. The West Coast premiere will feature Glass and an ensemble of composers and musicians during the annual Eclectic Orange Festival.
Playwrights Foundation, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the 28th Annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival. The festival includes an artists' retreat, artistic collaborations, development of short plays, a commissioning program, symposia, outreach activities, and a series of staged readings of new work by vanguard regional and national writers.
Poetry Flash
Berkeley, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and distribution of issues of Poetry Flash, a free tabloid of event listings, readings, workshops and literary news. Distributed to 22,000 readers nationwide, Poetry Flash also includes poems, reviews, essays, and interviews.
Project X Foundation for Art and Criticism
Los Angeles, CA
$13,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the reviews section of X-Tra, a quarterly visual arts publication. Published since 1997, X-Tra is distributed free-of-charge to galleries, museums, and art schools throughout the greater Los Angeles area, and to subscribers across the country.
Public Architecture (Public Design Studio)
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support and develop a network for architecture professionals to pledge one percent of their billable hours to pro bono work. Using an interactive website, participating architects will be connected with not-for-profit organizations and communities seeking design services.
Radio Bilingue, Inc.
Fresno, CA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Viva El Mariachi Festival. The festival showcases local, national, and international mariachi groups as well as workshops for youth and community members where mariachi masters can share their musical heritage.
Red Hen Press
Granada Hills, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of works by California poets. The press will sponsor author readings as part of California's Poetry in the Schools program, and donate books to students at each reading.
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley (on behalf of Cal Performances)
Berkeley, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support performances and outreach activities by dance companies from the United States and overseas. International Dance Masters artists will include Trisha Brown Dance Company, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Mark Morris Dance Group, Eifman Ballet (Russia), Kirov Ballet (Russia), and the National Ballet of China.
Regents of the University of California at Davis
Davis, CA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support New Works Rooted in Old World Traditions. The project will present the reinterpretations of classic and traditional art forms through new contemporary performing arts productions at the Mondavi Center.
Regents of the University of California at Los Angeles (on behalf of Hammer Museum)
Los Angeles, CA
$70,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a touring exhibition titled Show and Tell: Masters of 20th-century American Comics, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition is being organized in collaboration with the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
Regents of the University of California at Los Angeles (on behalf of UCLA Live)
Los Angeles, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the International Theatre Festival. Performances will feature artists and ensembles that extend the boundaries of theater by using unique combinations of media and pioneering new approaches to historic literary and dramatic texts.
Regents of the University of California at Riverside
Riverside, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support performances and residency activities. The Spring 2005 Dance Series will include the United Kingdom's Random Dance, AXIS Dance Company, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, and Brian Brooks Moving Company.
Robert Moses' Kin
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation of a new work by choreographer Robert Moses. The President's Daughter will premiere as the centerpiece of the company's 10th anniversary.
San Diego Museum of Art
San Diego, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the exhibition Domains of Wonder: Paintings from India at the San Diego Museum of Art (SDMA), with accompanying catalogue and education programs. Drawn from SDMA's collection of South Asian art, the exhibition will present paintings from various Indian court artists, illustrating nearly 800 years of the best of Indian art from the 14th through the 19th centuries.
San Diego Opera Association
San Diego, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a production of Vanessa, by composer Samuel Barber and libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti, including outreach activities. Relevant components will include a student dress rehearsal for youth from San Diego County and Tijuana, Mexico schools, opera preview lectures, and the artists' roundtable, where the public can meet the singers, conductor, and director.
San Francisco Ballet Association
San Francisco, CA
$100,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of new works. Paul Taylor, Christopher Wheeldon, and Lar Lubovitch will create world premieres for the company.
San Francisco Cinematheque
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support a curated film and video series. Lights! Camera! Action! Performance On and Off Screen will feature media artists who combine film and video projection with live performance.
San Francisco Film Society
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 48th San Francisco International Film Festival. The festival presents more than 200 films from 50 countries to an audience of 95,000 people.
SFJAZZ (San Francisco Jazz Organization)
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the residency and touring activities of the San Francisco Jazz Collective ensemble. Events will include open rehearsals, world premieres of new work, educational outreach activities, and a national tour.
San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the Jewish Film Festival and related activities. The festival, devoted to films on Jewish subjects, premieres films and videos by independent producers from around the world.
San Francisco Mime Troupe, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the development, production, and tour of Behind Every Child, an original musical comedy that explores how critical thinking in our education system contributes to our democracy. As the centerpiece of its annual summer tour of free shows, Behind Every Child will tour to venues throughout California including underserved rural communities.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
San Francisco, CA
$75,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a touring retrospective of the work of American artist Richard Tuttle with accompanying catalogue and education programs. Tuttle is celebrated as one of the most significant artists associated with Postminimalism.
San Francisco Opera Association
San Francisco, CA
$100,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a production of Doctor Atomic, a work that examines the story of American scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer. The work is composed by John Adams, libretto by Alice Goodman, and stage directed by Peter Sellars. The world premiere and six other performances will take place at San Francisco's War Memorial Opera House in October 2005.
San Francisco Performances, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the presentation of chamber music, vocal and instrumental recitals, jazz, and contemporary dance. Related workshops and lectures will help audiences to increase their understanding and enjoyment of the live performances.
San Francisco Symphony
San Francisco, CA
$100,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Gershwin, Bernstein, and Yiddish Theater, a festival exploring the influence of Jewish culture on music in America between 1900 and the 1940s. The San Francisco Symphony, under the direction of Michael Tilson Thomas, will perform three different programs at Davies Hall.
San Francisco Symphony (consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Cleveland-San Francisco Exchange, a consortium project with the Cleveland Orchestra to present each orchestra in the other's home city. Plans include performances by the Cleveland Orchestra in Davies Hall in San Francisco.
Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, Inc.
Santa Barbara, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a residency for American artist Patrick Dougherty, with accompanying brochure and education programs. Dougherty will be commissioned to create a large-scale sculpture on the Garden's grounds using his signature material, twisted and interwoven tree saplings.
Santa Monica Museum of Art
Santa Monica, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the touring exhibition Semina Culture: Wallace Berman and his Circle, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. In 1955 Berman published the first volumes of Semina, a free-form art and poetry journal recording the Beat art of the period.
Santa Rosa Symphony Association
Santa Rosa, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Vienna's Golden Age Festival, featuring the music of Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, and Schubert. The Santa Rosa Symphony and the Santa Rosa Symphony Chamber Players, under the direction of Jeffrey Kahane, will perform in several venues.
Sledgehammer Theatre
San Diego, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the production of a new play, The Frankenstein Project 2005, based on Mary Shelley's novel and directed by Kirsten Brandt. The play examines issues of mortality, biotechnology, and the responsibility of the artist in the process of creation.
Small Press Distribution, Inc.
Berkeley, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a distribution initiative targeting individuals, libraries, and bookstores in all 50 states. Publications from approximately 500 small and independent presses will be included.
South Coast Repertory, Inc.
Costa Mesa, CA
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and production of a new play, Vesuvius by Lucinda Coxon. Against the backdrop of Pompeii, Vesuvious explores the complicated ways people deal with changing perceptions in the wake of sudden disaster.
Stanford Jazz Workshop
Stanford, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the annual Stanford Jazz Festival. The festival will feature artists such as Regina Carter, NEA Jazz Master Slide Hampton, Toshiko Akiyoshi, and Branford Marsalis.
Summerfest/Dance (DanceArt, Inc.)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of the 14th annual summer festival. Summerfest will take place over three weeks and feature the work of 32 choreographers.
Theatre & Arts Foundation of San Diego County
La Jolla, CA
$38,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development of a new play through the 2005 Page to Stage program. The company will present a workshop production of Nobody by Melissa James Gibson, a modern interpretation of Homer's The Odyssey in which children take on the roles of storytellers and gods.
Theatre for Children, Inc.
Sacramento, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the commission, development, and production of a new play through the Theater Fast Forward program. The company will premiere Comfort Food a play about America's obsession with food and weight, by Kira Obolensky.
TheatreWorks
Palo Alto, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support an annual New Works Festival. As a component of the New Works Initiative, the festival will include staged readings and the California premiere of Crowns, a work by Regina Taylor that celebrates African American women and their church heritage.
Threepenny Review
Berkeley, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support authors' fees and promotional costs for issues of the Threepenny Review. Featuring work by established and emerging writers, the proposed issues will be promoted through a direct mail subscription campaign targeting 90,000 readers.
Visual Communications (VC) (Southern California Asian American Studies Central)
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 20th Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film and Video Festival and other exhibition activities. The eight-day festival is Southern California's showcase of independent Asian International and Asian Pacific American film and video work.
Yerba Buena Arts & Events
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support music performances at the annual Yerba Buena Gardens Festival. Among the artists to be featured will be the San Francisco Symphony, San Francisco Opera, the Lamplighters, and San Francisco Lyric Opera.
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
San Francisco, CA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support artists residencies. Artists working in the visual, performing, and media arts will develop new work and engage in a variety of educational and community programs.
Youth Speaks, Inc. (consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support a consortium project for the creation of a collaborative work titled Scourge, which explores Haiti's history through spoken word, dance, and music. In partnership with the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the work will be premiered at the Bay Area Hip Hop Theater Festival.
CALIFORNIA total grants: 130
CALIFORNIA total dollars: $3,398,000
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