FY 2007 Grant Awards: State Listings
Access to Artistic Excellence/Literature Fellowships
Some details of the projects listed in this grant announcement are subject to change, contingent
upon prior Endowment approval.
CALIFORNIA 18th Street Arts Complex
Santa Monica, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the 2007 Residency Program. American and international artists will be hosted for periods ranging from one month to one year. American Conservatory Theatre Foundation
San Francisco, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the world premiere production of After the War, a new play by Philip Kan Gotanda. The playwright will collaborate with artistic director Carey Perloff, composer Anthony Brown, and members of the American Conservatory Theatre core company of actors. Art Center College of Design
Pasadena, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support a publication that documents a collaborative emergency preparedness project. The Inevitable: Earthquake Los Angeles Volume 2 will present effective disaster responses using design innovations and solutions. Asian American Theater Workshop Co.
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the commissioning, development, and production of a new play with accompanying outreach activities. Playwright Philip Kan Gotanda will create a play based on the children's book The 5 Chinese Brothers by Claire Huchet Bishop, to be directed by Ellen Sebastian Chang. Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the exhibition The Arts of Mewar, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. This will be the first exhibition outside of India to focus on the former princely state of Mewar. Association of California Symphony Orchestras (aka ACSO)
Sacramento, CA
$25,000
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. Aunt Lute Foundation (aka Aunt Lute Books)
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of new works of multicultural fiction by women writers. The press will tour its writers to diverse communities across the country. AXIS Dance Company
Oakland, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a work by choreographer Joe Goode. The work will premiere in Oakland, and become part of the company's touring repertory. Barnstone, Anthony D.
Whittier, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a creative writing fellowship. Bay Area Video Coalition, Inc. (aka BAVC)
San Francisco, CA
$70,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support ongoing, low-cost audio and video preservation services to artists and arts organizations throughout the nation. Services include the recording, retrieval, and preservation of audio/video art and of performances archived on various media, and the dissemination of information to the public. Berkeley Repertory Theatre (aka Berkeley Rep)
Berkeley, CA
$30,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the development and production of a musical adapted from Virginia Woolf's 1927 novel To The Lighthouse. Playwright Adele Edling Shank, composer Paul Dresher, and associate artistic director Les Waters will collaborate on the stage adaptation. Berkeley Symphony Orchestra (aka BSO)
Berkeley, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Pushing the Boundaries of the Cello. Two concerts and related educational activities will explore the multi-faceted range of the instrument with a series of world premiere performances of cello concertos composed by Tod Machover, David Sanford, and Annie Gosfield and performed by cellists Matt Haimovitz and Felix Fan. Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music (aka Cabrillo Music Festival)
Santa Cruz, CA
$12,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a professional development program for conductors. The training program will offer emerging conductors the opportunity to lead small and large ensembles in rehearsals and public performances, to program contemporary works, and collaborate with composers. Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music (aka Cabrillo Music Festival) (Consortium)
Santa Cruz, CA
$22,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the co-commissioning of an orchestra concerto by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Christopher Rouse. Both the festival orchestra and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra will perform the work under the direction of music director Marin Alsop. California Film Institute
Mill Valley, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 30th Mill Valley Film Festival. Programming includes short films, documentaries, independent American films, and films from abroad. California Institute of the Arts (aka CalArts)
Valencia, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the 2007 REDCAT Intersections Initiative. The project will feature a series of residencies, performances, and exhibitions. California State University Long Beach Foundation (on behalf of California Institute f/t Preservation of Jazz)
Long Beach, CA
$17,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Silver Serenade: A Tribute to the Musical Legacy of Horace Silver. The three-day festival honoring the 1995 NEA Jazz Master Horace Silver will feature performances of newly commissioned arrangements, panel discussions, and educational outreach activities in inner-city area schools. California State University Sacramento Trust Foundation (on behalf of Festival of New American Music)
Sacramento, CA
$12,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Festival of New American Music. The annual two-week festival, held on the university campus and at various community venues, will feature concerts, workshops, master classes, lectures, seminars, concert previews, and open rehearsals. California Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Walnut Creek, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Young American Composer-in-Residence Program. The year-long residency with an emerging composer will include recorded reading sessions, high school visits, and the creation and presentation of a new work. Center for Asian American Media
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the San Francisco Asian American Film Festival and other exhibition activities. The film festival will showcase the work of new Asian Pacific American film and video makers, and include seminars, panels, and community screenings.
Center Theatre Group of Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the production of a new play. The Mark Taper Forum will produce the premiere production of Distracted by Lisa Loomer. Chhandam Chitresh Das Dance Company
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support India Jazz Suites, a collaboration between Indian kathak master Pandit Chitresh Das and African American tap dancer Jason Samuels Smith. Portions of the work will focus entirely on rhythms, with varying combinations of footwork, recitation of the North Indian classical language, and percussion on tabla and jazz drums. Circuit Network
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and presentation of a new play. Circuit Network will present the premiere of Palestine, New Mexico, a new play by Latino theater ensemble Culture Clash. Corporation of the Fine Arts Museums (aka Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco)
San Francisco, CA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the touring exhibition Shifting Currents of Asian American Art: 1900-70, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition seeks to advance scholarship and provide greater awareness of this under-represented and under-appreciated subgroup within American art history. CounterPULSE
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the Artist in Residence program for local emerging choreographers. The project will include developmental feedback sessions, public workshops, outreach to local non-dance communities, and the presentation of original works of contemporary choreography. Damah (aka Damah Film Festival)
Culver City, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the sixth Damah Film Festival and tour. More than 70 short films will be presented to an audience of 5,000 people. A "best of the festival" DVD is produced and distributed to various locations in the United States and abroad.
Dance Brigade: A New Group from Wallflower Order (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support a commissioned work and a site-specific performance at San Francisco International Airport. In collaboration with QCC: Center for GLBT Art and Culture, choreographer Joanna Haigood, filmmaker Julie Dash, and composer/instrument maker Walter Kitundu will create and perform Departure and Arrival. DanceArt, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the 16th annual West Wave Dance Festival. The festival presents emerging and mid-career Bay Area artists, and will take place at Theater Artaud in San Francisco. The three-week festival will include the work of more than 40 choreographers, with nine different programs presented during 12 nights of performances. Dancers' Group
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the expansion of IN DANCE publication in print, and through a Web site and podcasts. The project will expand readership, make dance more visible to the public, and create networking, resource, and other opportunities for dance artists, locally and nationally. Dell'Arte, Inc.
Blue Lake, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development, production, and regional tour of an original theater work. The Melodrama Project is inspired by author David Belasco's The Poor of New York. Detorie, Michelle
Goleta, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a creative writing fellowship. Dimensions Dance Theater, Inc.
Oakland, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by choreographer Deborah Vaughan. Cross Currents, created in collaboration with composer Anthony Brown, will be based on the migration of African Americans to the Bay Area. Djerassi Resident Artists Program
Woodside, CA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support artist residencies. The project will provide studios, living accommodations, meals, and professional assistance to American writers, composers, choreographers, and media and visual artists. EastSide Arts Alliance
Oakland, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Malcolm X JazzArts Festival. The all-day, free jazz festival will include performances of African American jazz; Asian jazz; Latin jazz; and jazz combined with hip hop, soul, and spoken word. Encore Theatre Foundation (aka Encore Theatre Company)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the West Coast premiere of a contemporary play. The Shaker Chair by resident playwright Adam Bock will be directed by Anne Kauffman. Eth-Noh-Tec Creations
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the creation of new Asian storytelling pieces as part of an apprentice training program. Using the spoken word, movement, and music, the Eth-Noh-Tec ensemble will create and perform new works for audiences throughout the Bay Area. Exitheatre (aka EXIT Theatre)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support DIVAfest 2007, the sixth annual theater festival dedicated to producing new plays by women writers. The festival will feature the world premiere of Crystal Daze and Muddy Deaths, a new play by Deborah Eubanks, as well as workshops and staged readings of other new plays by women. Exploratorium
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a residency program for artists to investigate the nature of place. As many as six artists will be provided with housing, workspace, technical assistance, and a monthly stipend. Friends of Peralta Hacienda Historical Park
Oakland, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Coordinated Arts and Education Program (CAEP). The organization's gardens will be the focus for community participation, cultural exchange, and artistic expression to emphasize and preserve the traditional art of gardening and cooking as practiced in the community. Golden Thread Productions
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the annual ReOrient Festival of plays exploring the Middle East. The festival will feature full productions of new plays by Middle Eastern playwrights with post-play discussions. Headlands Center for the Arts (aka Headlands)
Sausalito, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support residencies for emerging and mid-career artists. Resident artists will receive monthly stipends, living quarters, meals, travel expenses, and studio space in which to create new work, investigate surrounding communities, and share ideas and their works with other artists. Healdsburg Jazz Festival, Inc. (aka Healdsburg Jazz Festival)
Healdsburg, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the ninth annual Healdsburg Jazz Festival. The 11-day June festival will include jazz concerts as well as educational activities such as demonstrations, presentations, and student mentoring. Proposed artists include NEA Jazz Masters Kenny Burrell and Wayne Shorter.
Heyday Institute (aka Heyday Books)
Berkeley, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of creative nonfiction by California Indian authors. The press will schedule group readings at large and small venues throughout the state. Idris Ackamoor & Cultural Odyssey
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and production of a new theater work with community outreach activities. The artistic team of Rhodessa Jones and Idris Ackamoor will use music, theater, dance, and video production to examine the subject of reparations for African Americans in The Breach (working title). Independent Feature Project/West (aka IFP/Los Angeles)
Los Angeles, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 13th Los Angeles Film Festival. More than 250 films including dramatic features, documentaries, and short films will be presented to an anticipated audience of 60,000. Independent Television Service, Inc. (aka ITVS)
San Francisco, CA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support ITVS Presents. This daily one-hour program of independent films will be broadcast on PBS's Public Square, a new digital channel and interactive Web site. Approximately 200 works will be broadcast to an estimated audience of 4.6 million people. Ink People, Inc. (aka The Ink People Center for the Arts)
Eureka, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the DreamMaker Program: Creating Healthy Communities through Arts and Cultural Solutions. The program provides a series of workshops, technical assistance, shared resources, and individualized training for Humboldt County cultural groups. Intersection (aka Intersection for the Arts)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and world premiere of a new play with outreach and education activities. Danny Scheie will direct Fe in the Desert by playwright Jessica Hagedorn. Jess Curtis/Gravity, Inc.
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. Under the Radar will be created for performers with and without disabilities and will be a study in the physical limitations and abilities of a range of different performers using the vocabularies of contemporary dance, partner-based acrobatics, contact dance, aerial performance, and physical theater.
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 dance theater work by choreographer Joe Goode titled Humansville. The work will be created in collaboration with composer Joan Jeanrenaud and videographer and filmmaker Austin Forbord. Kronos Performing Arts Assn (aka Kronos Quartet)
San Francisco, CA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Kronos in Time: Past, Present, and Future Tense. The three-part project will feature a revival of the quartet's 1998 staged production of George Crumb's Black Angels, residency partnerships with three U.S. presenters, and three commissioned works. Kuumbwa Jazz Society (aka Kuumbwa Jazz Center)
Santa Cruz, CA
$17,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support concerts of jazz artists that expose artists and audiences to unique combinations of jazz styles from various historical periods. Among the performances are appearances by NEA Jazz Masters Sonny Rollins and McCoy Tyner. La Jolla Chamber Music Society (aka formerly known as)
La Jolla, CA
$17,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support SummerFest. Under the direction of Music Director and violinist Cho-Liang Lin, the three-week festival will include chamber music, jazz presentations, and educational activities. Laguna Playhouse
Laguna Beach, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support production of a play. Master of the House by Shmuel Hasfari will be directed by artistic director Richard Stein. Latino Film Festival of Marin, Inc.
San Rafael, CA
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the International Latino Film Festival. Held in the fall, the festival presents more than 40 films to an audience of 12,000 people. The festival takes place in various Bay area communities including San Francisco, San Rafael, and San Jose. Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Society, Inc. (aka Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra)
Los Angeles, CA
$22,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support concerts featuring emerging artists and related educational activities. British conductor Edward Gardner and Los Angeles violinist Lindsay Deutsch each will be featured in two repeated programs, including outreach to local elementary students.
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Inc. (aka LACE)
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a mobile community-based public art project. Targeted to specific Los Angeles neighborhoods, Karaoke Ice is a project by a collaborative team of artists that includes Nancy Nowacek, Katie Salen, and Marina Zurkow. Los Angeles County Arts Commission
Los Angeles, CA
$60,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support leadership development opportunities for municipal arts staff and commissioners. Project activities will include an internship program and the provision of grants for cultural planning or assessments that will culminate in a written plan with implementation strategies. Los Angeles Master Chorale Association (aka Los Angeles Master Chorale (LAMC))
Los Angeles, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a concert series dedicated to American composers. Plans include three concerts featuring the world premiere of Christopher Rouse's Requiem; the West Coast premiere of Steve Reich's Daniel Variations; and a concert devoted to jazz composer Mary Lou Williams, performed by the Luckman Jazz Orchestra and Albert McNeil Jubilee Singers. Los Angeles Philharmonic Association
Los Angeles, CA
$100,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Tristan Project. Richard Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde will be presented in a semi-staged concert production in Los Angeles and New York City. There will be two concerts designed for families, as well as pre-concert lectures as part of the Upbeat Live lecture series. MadCat Women's International Film Festival (aka MadCat)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 11th MadCat Women's International Film Festival and national tour. Approximately 80 films will be presented to an audience of 7,000 people in cities including Baltimore, MD, Albuquerque, NM, and DeLand, FL.
Margaret Jenkins Dance Studio, Inc. (aka Margaret Jenkins Dance Company)
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 Margaret Jenkins. Other Suns is informed by Jenkins' investigations across cultures, and by her recent travels in foreign countries. Media Arts Center San Diego
San Diego, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 13th San Diego Latino Film Festival. The program will present more than 100 films from Mexico, Argentina, and other Latin American countries to an estimated audience of 17,000. 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 will receive private coaching and attend master classes that serve as forums for intergenerational exchange between opera's veterans and newcomers. Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the creation and presentation of Representa! In collaboration with La Pea Cultural Center, writer/performer Paul S. Flores, Cuban American rap artist Julio Cardenas, and writer/performer Danny Hoch will perform a bilingual work offering a new perspective on United States and Cuban relations. Monsour, Leslie
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a creative writing fellowship. Montalvo Association (aka Montalvo Center for the Arts)
Saratoga, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support residencies for emerging and mid-career artists working in the visual, literary, and performing arts. Arrangements will be made for artists to present or exhibit their work at Villa Montalvo and other Bay Area venues. Monterey County Symphony Association (aka Monterey Symphony)
Carmel, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support concert programs featuring works by Beethoven, contemporaries Marques y Garcia, Prokofiev, and Tchaikovsky. Performances will be held in Salinas and Carmel and will reach approximately 4,000 people. Monterey Jazz Festival
Monterey, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the 50th Monterey Jazz Festival at the Monterey County Fairgrounds. Key components of the project will be the premiere of a commissioned work by artist-in-residence NEA Jazz Master Gerald Wilson and performances by emerging jazz musicians. Mount Saint Mary's College (on behalf of Da Camera Society)
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Da Camera Society's presentation of Chamber Music in Historic Sites. The series of chamber music concerts and outreach activities will match musical programming from a variety of cultures and periods with sites of architectural and historical significance in the Los Angeles area. Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
La Jolla, CA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the touring exhibition Jasper Johns: Light Bulb, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will focus on one of Johns's (b. 1930) earliest sculptures (from 1958) and examine how he and we perceive, label, and categorize objects. Music Circle
Pasadena, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support instruction in classical Indian music by renowned vocalists Uday Bralwalkar and his drummer accompanist Manikrao Munde. National Film Preservation Foundation
San Francisco, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production of a DVD anthology, The American Avant-Garde, 1945-1985. The set will include films from four decades of experimental cinema, films such as Stan Brakhage's Reflections on Black (1955). Once completed, the Foundation will send free copies to all 50 state libraries. Oakland East Bay Symphony (aka OEBS)
Oakland, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support premiere performances of new works by American composers. The project will include works by Nolan Gasser, Pierre Jalbert, Andrew Norman, and Argentine-born Osvaldo Golijov. The composers also will participate in pre-concert lectures.
Oberlin Dance Collective
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by artistic director and choreographer Brenda Way. A Pleasant Looking Woman in Sensible Clothes will be created in collaboration with composer David Lang, Japanese video artist Hiraki Sawa, and lighting/stage designer Alex Nichols, and will be performed at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. ODC Theater
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support residencies for established and emerging performing artists. The theater will provide rehearsal space, technical support, production assistance, and performance opportunities. Ojai Festivals, Ltd. (aka Ojai Music Festival)
Ojai, CA
$18,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Ojai Music Festival. The 61st annual music festival, directed by artistic director Thomas W. Morris and pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, will present the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Los Angeles Master Chorale with guest conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen, duo pianists Amy Williams and Helena Bugallo, and percussion ensemble Nexus. Pacific Chorale
Santa Ana, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the closing concert of the chorale's inaugural year in the new Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall. The Pacific Chorale and Pacific Symphony, under the artistic direction of John Alexander, will perform Osvaldo Golijov's Oceana and Ralph Vaughan Williams's Symphony No. 1 (A Sea Symphony). Pacific Symphony Association (aka Orange County's Pacific Symphony)
Santa Ana, CA
$45,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Los Sonidos de Mexico (Sounds of Mexico) Festival. The orchestra will explore works by Mexican composers through performances and educational presentations, and will premiere a commissioned work for percussion by Mexican composer Daniel Catan. Pacifica Foundation
North Hollywood, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the preservation of arts-related recordings in the Pacifica archive. Of the 50,000 tapes housed in the archive, approximately 25 percent represent arts programming. Palm Springs International Film Festival
Palm Springs, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 18th Palm Springs International Film Festival. Held in January, the event presents more than 225 films to an audience of approximately 110,000 people. Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
San Francisco, CA
$12,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support performances of a semi-staged concert version of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera in two acts, Il re pastore (1775). Under the direction of music director Nicholas McGegan, the performances on period instruments will highlight one of Mozart's early and rarely performed works. Playwrights Foundation, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the 30th Annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival. The project includes an artists' retreat, artistic collaborations, development of new theater works, a commissioning program, symposia, outreach activities, and a series of staged readings of new work by emerging and established writers. Poetry Flash
Berkeley, CA
$5,000
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. Divided geographically, Poetry Flash lists programs throughout California, the Pacific Northwest, and the Southwest. Project Bandaloop
Oakland, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of Interiors, by artistic director Amelia Rudolph, in collaboration with set designer Erik Flatmo. The work will be performed on tour across the United States. Public Design Studio (aka Public Architecture)
San Francisco, CA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the 1% Solution, a network for architecture professionals to pledge one percent of their billable hours to pro bono work. Using an interactive Web site, willing architects will be connected with not-for-profit organizations and communities seeking design services. Radio Bilingüe, Inc.
Fresno, CA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the Viva El Mariachi Festival. The project will showcase local, national, and international mariachi groups and provide workshops for youth and community members. Red Hen Press, Inc.
Granada Hills, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication, promotion, and distribution of new works of fiction and creative nonfiction. Authors include California poet Jack Foley and German author and freelance journalist Antje Rávic Strubel. Regents of the University of California at Berkeley (on behalf of Pacific Film Archive)
Berkeley, CA
$12,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the production of a DVD of the Japanese film Hodo no sasayaki (Whispering Sands). Made in 1936, Whispering Sands stars Betty Inada, a Japanese American who left the United States and went to Japan, where she found fame as a singer and film actress. Regents of the University of California at Berkeley (on behalf of Berkeley Art Museum) (Consortium)
Berkeley, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support Rare Art, a collaborative project between the Berkeley Art Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, and an accompanying catalogue. In collaboration with RARE, a Virginia-based conservation organization, the project will send 10 artists to 10 World Heritage Sites to create work based on their experiences in those locations. Regents of the University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the Masters Series. International master artists will perform in the series and participate in pre-performance lectures and student matinee sessions. Regents of the University of California at Davis
Davis, CA
$35,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Works from the Pacific Rim for the New California. Performances by Asian artists about Asian culture will take place in 2007 and will be supplemented by educational activities. Regents of the University of California at Los Angeles (on behalf of UCLA Film and Television Archives)
Los Angeles, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the preservation of films by the comic Charley Chase, a director, performer and singer popular in the 1920s and 30s. Once preserved, the UCLA Film and Television Archives will make the films available through the Archives' ongoing loan program. 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 innovative approaches to historic literary and dramatic texts. Regents of the University of California at Santa Cruz (on behalf of Shakespeare Santa Cruz)
Santa Cruz, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the production of a series of classic plays to be performed in repertory by Shakespeare Santa Cruz. Outdoor productions of Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida and Romeo and Juliet will be performed alongside a non-Shakespearean classic work linked to the theme of young love against a background of conflict. Ronk, Martha
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a creative writing fellowship. Sacramento Philharmonic Orchestra Association, Inc. (aka Sacramento Philharmonic)
Sacramento, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support an all-Beethoven concert in celebration of the orchestra's 10th anniversary season. Under the artistic direction of Michael Morgan, the performance will feature Chinese pianist Chu-Fang Huang, preceded by a week of school outreach visits. San Diego Opera Association
San Diego, CA
$27,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a new production of Wozzeck by Alban Berg. Activities designed around the production will include a student dress rehearsal for youth from San Diego County and Tijuana, Mexico, schools; pre-performance lectures; and an Artists' Roundtable, where the public will have an opportunity to meet the singers, conductor, and director. San Diego Repertory Theatre (aka San Diego REP)
San Diego, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and world premiere of a new multi-lingual political comedy by Paul Magid, inspired by Miguel Cervantes' Don Quixote de la Mancha. The project is a collaboration with the Flying Karamazov Brothers and will be directed by artistic director Sam Woodhouse. San Francisco Ballet Association
San Francisco, CA
$90,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of world premieres during the company's 75th Anniversary festival. Performances will take place at San Francisco's War Memorial Opera House. San Francisco Camerawork, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the photography exhibition The Katien Project. The project will feature new work by Japanese artist Katsushige Nakahashi. 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. Bay Area Cinematic Roots and Reiteration will showcase artists who have been involved in Bay Area filmmaking during the last 40 years, including Bruce Baillie, Chick Strand, and Anita Chang. San Francisco Contemporary Music Players
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support performances of works by composers Edmund Campion, Ellen Harrison, Brian Ferneyhough, Marco Stroppa, Manolis Manousakis, and James Matheson. San Francisco Film Society
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 50th San Francisco International Film Festival. The festival presents more than 200 films from 50 countries to an audience of 90,000 people. San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Affiliates Program for chamber music ensembles. The project will include presentation of concerts and Web site improvements as well as services such as technical assistance workshops, educational outreach coaching, and the publication of a newsletter. San Francisco Jazz Organization (aka SFJAZZ)
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the residency and touring activities of the SFJAZZ 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
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 27th San Francisco Jewish Film Festival and related activities. The festival, devoted to films on Jewish subjects, presents the premieres of films and videos by independent producers from around the world. San Francisco Mime Troupe, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the creation and tour of a new musical theater work. Melt Down (working title) will tour in Bay Area parks and to rural communities in northern and central California. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (aka SFMOMA)
San Francisco, CA
$50,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the touring exhibition Take Your Time: Olafur Eliasson, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. This will be the first American retrospective exhibition of thisIcelandic-born (b. 1967) artist's career, surveying his sculpture, installation work, and photography. San Francisco Opera Association
San Francisco, CA
$100,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the world premiere of Appomattox by composer Philip Glass and librettist Christopher Hampton. The opera is based on the final encounter of Union General Ulysses S. Grant and Confederate General Robert E. Lee during the last days of the Civil War. 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 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 A Prokofiev Festival. The two-week series of performances and educational activities will explore the work of Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev, including The Love for Three Oranges, The Scythian Suite, and Piano Concerto No. 2. The festival will be broadcast on 300 local and national radio stations. San Jose Children's Musical Theater (aka Children's Musical Theater San Jose)
San Jose, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the training of young artists, workshops, and the production of a musical. Young performers will receive introductory training with professional theater artists and perform in a presentation of the musical Evita with lyrics by Tim Rice and music by Andrew Lloyd Webber. Santa Rosa Symphony Association
Santa Rosa, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Early Romantics Festival. The project will feature the chamber music of Schubert, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Chopin, and Lizst performed by the Santa Rosa Symphony Chamber Players, and will culminate with an orchestral concert which will be broadcast on local radio. Schuster, Cindy
Irvine, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships: Translation Projects FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the translation from Spanish of an anthology of the Argentine writer Rodolfo Walsh's short fiction. The book will include 12 short stories selected from various collections of his work. Rodolfo Walsh (1927-77) is considered one of the finest Latin American authors of the 20th century. He worked for many years as a journalist, and helped in the founding of the news agency Prensa Latina. In addition to his fiction, Walsh also wrote plays, essays, and translations from English. In 1977, he was was assassinated after making public an open letter to the military junta denouncing the crimes of the regime.
Cindy Schuster teaches Spanish at the University of California at Irvine where she is a PhD. candidate. Her work has appeared in Words Without Borders, Poetry International, and the Boston Herald. She co-translated Cubana: Contemporary Fiction by Cuban Women with Dick Cluster.
Searls, Damion
Corralitos, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships: Translation Projects FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the translation from German of a new selection of Rainer Maria Rilke's poetry and prose. The Inner Sky: Poems, Notes, Dreams will include several pieces of previously untranslated prose, along with other works not currently available in English. Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is widely considered the greatest German-language poet of the 20th century. His major works include New Poems, Duino Elegies, Sonnets to Orpheus, and The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge.
Damion Searls teaches writing at Harvard University. He has received grants, awards, and fellowships from the Fulbright Foundation, the Robert Bosch Foundation, the American Literary Translator's Association, and the Austrian Ministry of Arts. He has also translated work by Ingeborg Bachmann. ShadowLight Productions
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and production of a new play. Ghosts of the River by Octavio Solis will be directed by artistic director and Balinese puppet master Larry Reed. Silent Film Festival (aka San Francisco Silent Film Festival)
San Francisco, CA
$7,500
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 12th San Francisco Silent Film Festival. Newly composed live music will accompany the films presented at the festival's nine programs. Films to be exhibited include William Wyler's The Shakedown (1929) and Mack Sennet's Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914).
Small Press Distribution, Inc.
Berkeley, CA
$40,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a distribution initiative targeting bookstores, libraries, and academic settings in all 50 states. Publications from approximately 470 small and independent presses will be included. Southern California Asian American Studies Central (aka Visual Communications (VC))
Los Angeles, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 23rd 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. Stanford Jazz Workshop
Stanford, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the annual Stanford Jazz Festival. The programming will feature NEA Jazz Master Ron Carter, emerging jazz artists, and free events such as outdoor concerts, informal jam sessions, and performances by students participating in the concurrently running jazz camp and jazz residency program. Stockton Symphony Association, Inc. (aka Stockton Symphony)
Stockton, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a composer residency program with Christopher Brubeck. The residency will include a commission and premiere of a new work, community outreach, and performances in the California communities of Stockton, Tracy, Manteca, and Calaveras County. Sundar Kala Kendra Foundation (aka Anjani's Kathak Dance of India)
Walnut, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk and Traditional Arts
To support the creation and presentation of a new work exploring Hindi film songs through Kathak dance. Tejada, Robert
San Diego, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships: Translation Projects FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the translation from Spanish of a selection of poems by the Cuban writer José Lezama Lima. The poems will be taken from two collections, The Fragments Drawn By Charm (1978) and Enemy Rumor (1941), and will include more than 160 pages from the former, as well as substantial sections from the latter. In addition to poetry, José Lezama Lima (1910-76) is celebrated for his essays, anthologies of Cuban poetry, and two novels. Born in the city of Marianao, Lezama lived through a troubled era in Cuba's history including Castro's regime.
Roberto Tejada is an assistant professor of Art History, Theory, and Criticism in the Visual Arts Department at the University of California at San Diego. He is a past recipient of the Chavez Fellowship in Latin American Studies. He has previously translated José Lezama Lima's poetry for the book Poets for the Millennium (2005). Theatre of Yugen, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the creation, development, and production of a play. The Cycle Plays will include a series of theater works developed by the company ensemble in collaboration with playwright and director Eric Ehn. TheatreWorks
Palo Alto, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the 6th annual New Works Festival. Director Kent Nicholson will produce the cornerstone program of the New Works Initiative with two weeks of readings, workshops, and performances. 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. The proposed issues will be promoted through a direct-mail campaign, collaborative literary events with other organizations, advertising, appearances at local book fairs, and the journal's Web site. Tia Chucha's Centro Cultural, Inc. (on behalf of Tia Chucha Press)
Sylmar, CA
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of new and reprinted works of poetry. Authors include Linda Susan Jackson, Manazar Gamboa, and Michael Warr. Turner, Brian
Fresno, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a creative writing fellowship. Western Stage Auxiliary Corporation (aka The Western Stage)
Salinas, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the development and production of a new musical. Artistic director Jon Patrick Selover will direct La Llorona/The Weeping Woman-a Mexican Musical Novela by composer/lyricist/author Hector Armienta. Williamson, Elizabeth
Berkeley, CA
$10,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships: Translation Projects FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the translation from French of a selection of plays by Michel Azama. This volume will make three of Azama's best-known plays (Les Sas, Zoo de nuit, and Vie et Mort de Pier Paolo Pasolini) available to an American audience for the first time. Born in 1947, Michel Azama has served as dramaturge for the Nouveau Théâtre de Bourgogne, and as editor-in-chief for the theater review, Les Cahiers de Prospero. He is currently the President of the L'EAT-Auteur Dramatique in France.
Elizabeth Williamson was educated at Oxford University and Bennington College. She has directed plays at the Bay Area Playwrights Festival and at Berkeley Repertory Theater. Nicholas Elliott, co-translator, was educated at Bennington College, and has translated works by Marc-Alain Ouaknin and Jacques Dubois.
Yerba Buena Arts & Events
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the 2007 Yerba Buena Gardens Festival. The project will connect the diverse communities of the Bay area in shared arts and cultural experiences presented by several local organizations. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support a series of multidisciplinary projects. The programs of film, visual, and performance work will be presented in conjunction with curatorial themes that aim to contextualize the season's offerings. Youth Speaks, Inc. (aka Youth Speaks/The Living Word Project) (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support a commissioned work, War Peace: Homeland. In collaboration with San Francisco Jazz, the spoken-word musical theater work will reunite the American forms of jazz, tap, and poetry in the context of the 21st century. Z Space Studio (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the second phase of the Western Presenters' Consortium Initiative. In partnership with Lensic Arts of Santa Fe, Z Space will lead a consortium of performing arts presenters in the commissioning, development, and touring of new theatrical works ZYZZYVA, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$5,000
CATEGORY: Access to Artistic Excellence FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication, promotion, and related costs for issues of Zyzzyva, a journal featuring the work of West Coast writers. Each issue includes approximately 20 writers, one-third of whom have never been in print.
Number of Grants: 136 Total Amount: $2,960,500
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