1998 Grant Awards: Creation & Presentation

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

National/Multi-State Imapct | Direct Impact

The following grants have national or multi-state impact.

80 Langton Street, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$32,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support development of a traveling retrospective exhibition of the work of artist Jim Pomeroy (1945-1992), to coincide with 25th anniversary activities for New Langton Arts. (National/Multi-State Impact)

A Traveling Jewish Theatre (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$47,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the second year of an alternative touring network for ensemble theaters by the Network of Ensemble Theatres (NET), a consortium comprised of A Traveling Jewish Theatre, Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble, Cornerstone Theater Company, Dell"Arte Players Company, The Independent Eye, Irondale Ensemble Project, and Touchstone Theatre. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Albany Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Albany, NY
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the Albany Symphony Orchestra in the second year of a three-year project celebrating American symphonic repertoire by commissioning, performing, and recording works of recognized and emerging American composers during 1998-99 culminating in the First Annual Festival of American Music. (National/Multi-State Impact)

American Brass Chamber Music Association, Inc.
New York, NY
$7,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a domestic tour of the American Brass Quintet with associated outreach activities and the commission of a new work by David Sampson during 1998-1999. (National/Multi-State Impact)

American Indian Film Institute
San Francisco, CA
$16,200
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the 1998 American Indian Film Festival and the publication of the nationally distributed film journal Indian Cinema Entertainment. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Antioch College
(For Antioch Review)
Yellow Springs, OH
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the publication and national distribution to thousands of bookstores and newsstands of the 190th issue of the Antioch Review, which will focus on the influence of jazz and blues in the shaping of American culture and feature writers such as Gerald Early, Ishmael Reed, Paul Berliner, Ralph Ellison, and Marion McPartland. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Armenian Film Foundation
Thousand Oaks, CA
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the post-production costs for a documentary film, intended for national distribution and broadcast, by Dr. J. Michael Hagopian on the Armenian genocide as it affected the city of Kharpert. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL
$120,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support a touring exhibition of the work of the renowned Victorian photographer Julia Margaret Cameron, with accompanying catalogue and educational programs, scheduled to travel to New York and California. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Asia Society (Consortium)
New York, NY
$120,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the traveling exhibition "Inside Out: New Chinese Art," a consortium project with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art with accompanying brochure and educational programs. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Asian CineVision, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the 1998 Asian American International Film Festival and its national tour. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Atlanta Art Papers, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$22,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support the commission and production of critical reviews of contemporary visual artists and artists" projects for the bi-monthly journal Art Papers. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Aunt Lute Foundation
San Francisco, CA
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the publication and national distribution of four books in Aunt Lute"s Translation Series: two anthologies of South American and Chinese women writers, the first novel of Chinese writer Ding Xiaoqi, and Cuban writer Mirta Yanez"s Havana Is A Very Big City; and to support two nine-city national reading tours of Mirta Yez and Ding Xiaoqi. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Ballet Concierto de Puerto Rico, Inc.
Santurce, PR
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support costs related to 1998 touring for Ballet Concierto"s spring and fall performances in four cities in the United States, as well as Israel and Egypt. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Ballet Theatre Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$120,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the American Ballet Theatre"s 1998-99 Audience and Repertory Enhancement Project which will build an ongoing presence for the ballet in American cities through performances and extensive outreach and educational activities. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Bamboo Ridge Press
Honolulu, HI
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support Voices: The Local Experience in Contemporary Hawaiian Literature, a project to publish and distribute to 3,000 English teachers and 20,000 readers two anthologies during 1998-99: Growing Up Local, about growing up in Hawaii, and Discoveries in Honolulu Fiction; and the production of two audiotape selections. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Bang On A Can, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support the creation, presentation and tour of a music-theater piece, Crime Does Not Pay, as a consortium project with the Arts Festival Association of Atlanta, that combines Bang on a Can artists" new music with comic book visuals by Ben Katchor to explore distinctly American ideas about art, politics, American music, and cartoons of the 20th century. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Bang On A Can, Inc.
New York, NY
$13,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the 12th annual Bang on a Can Festival in 1999 including concerts in New York and concerts across the United States, bringing new and diverse music to new audiences. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Bard College
(For Conjunctions Magazine)
Annandale-Hudson, NY
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the publication and distribution of two issues of the magazine Conjunctions: "Ten-Thousand Leaves," which will celebrate the publication of 10,000 pages of innovative writing during the journal"s 17-year history; and "The New Question," an issue which will reach 248 libraries as well as individual subscribers. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Big Apple Circus, Ltd.
New York, NY
$100,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the creation and presentation of an original circus performance, tentatively entitled The Magical Fair, conceived and directed by Guy Caron, to be produced at Lincoln Center in New York City and toured to Reston, VA, during the 1998-99 season. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Billings Symphony Society
Billings, MT
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the Billings Symphony"s outreach to underserved populations in rural, tribal, and urban southeast Montana and northeast Wyoming. (National/Multi-State Impact)

BOA Editions, Ltd.
Rochester, NY
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support production, promotion, and related costs for the publication and national distribution of four collections of poetry through the Imaginary Gardens With Real Toads publishing project, including titles by authors such as Pulitzer Prize-winning poet W. D. Snodgrass, Naomi Shihab Nye, Debra Kang Dean, and Bob Hicock. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Boston, MA
$120,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the centennial celebration of the opening of Symphony Hall with performances of eight retrospective works from the list of Boston Symphony Orchestra commissions and premieres and to commission and perform four new works during the 1998-1999 and 1999-2000 seasons. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences (Brooklyn Museum of Art)
Brooklyn, NY
$87,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support a touring exhibition titled "Vital Forms in America: 1941-1962," examining art and design of the period, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Carnegie Hall Corporation
New York, NY
$170,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support The American Project, a comprehensive presentation program designed to showcase and broadcast distinctive American music and distinguished musicians from throughout the United States at Carnegie Hall during 1998-1999. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Chicago Chamber Musicians
Chicago, IL
$12,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a free, monthly, noontime concert series by the Chicago Chamber Musicians at the Chicago Cultural Center to be broadcast live on radio. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Choral Arts Society of Washington
Washington, DC
$12,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the Eleventh Annual Multicultural Choral Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1999 featuring a new work by an African-American composer, which will be broadcast on public radio and television, as well as associated outreach programs in Washington, DC area Partnership Public schools. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Circuit Network
San Francisco, CA
$8,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support the creation and production at Theater Artaud of a large-scale multimedia work, Borderscape 2000, by Guillermo Gomez-Pena and Roberto Sifuentes in collaboration with other artists that will explore immigrant and race issues through a futuristic setting in an America governed by a Chicano President and a Native-American Vice President.
(National/Multi-State Impact)

Climate Theatre
(Fiscal Agent for First Voice Theatre)
San Francisco, CA
$9,400
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support First Voice Theatre"s residency and workshop production of Uncle Gunjiro"s Girlfriend in San Francisco, Salt Lake City, and Chicago, and its world premiere in San Francisco in 1998. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Coffee House Press
Minneapolis, MN
$60,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the publication and national distribution of eight books by Asian-American writers, including works by Cambodian-American writer U Sam Ouer, Indian-American writer G.S. Sharat Chandra, emerging Chinese-American writer Wang Ping, and an anthology of writing that explores the immigration experience. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Community Arts Partnership of Tompkins County, Inc.
(Fiscal Agent for OffLine)
Ithaca, NY
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support OffLine"s curation and national distribution of independently produced film and video through public access television. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Concert Artists Guild, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support career development activities for young classical musicians through national concert presentations that are an initiative of the Guild"s Management Program and through the Artists-in-Radio residency program during 1998-1999. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Corporation of the Fine Arts Museums
(Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco)
San Francisco, CA
$120,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support a traveling exhibition titled "Picasso and the War: 1937-1945," with accompanying catalogue and education programs, scheduled to open in San Francisco and then travel to New York. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Council of Literary Magazines and Presses
(Fiscal Agent for The Paris Review)
New York, NY
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support The Paris Review New Poets, New Writers project during 1998 and 1999, consisting of three readings by emerging writers in different states, the increase of the Paris Review"s Discovery Prize, and the publication and circulation of a special issue featuring poets and writers who have not yet published a book; the project will reach readers nationwide. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Country Roads, Inc.
Arlington, MA
$70,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support "Spirited Objects: Traditional Craft for the 21st Century", a national traveling exhibition with catalog, publications, educational resources, website "tour" and extensive public programming. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Cross Performance, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the development of "Part 2: Asia," and early development of "Part 3: America," all sections of an interdisciplinary work choreographed by Ralph Lemon and titled The Geography Trilogy, that will be developed in workshops across the country. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Cunningham Dance Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$120,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the creation and presentation and national touring of dance works by choreographer Merce Cunningham. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Curbstone Press
Willimantic, CT
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support Living Literature Face to Face: Multicultural Literature for all Ages, a project comprising publication of five new literary works by authors such as Luis Rodriguez and Wayne Karlin; and a poetry bus tour of New England featuring Martin Espada, Cheryl Savageau, and Jack Agueros. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Da Camera Society of Texas
Houston, TX
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support "Music and the Literary Imagination," a three-concert series linking chamber music and poetry of American, Polish and Russian origin, which will be presented as part of the Houston-based subscription series, as well as part of a national tour during the 1998-99 season. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Da Capo Chamber Players, Inc.
New York, NY
$6,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support in 1998-1999 artists" fees and production costs for four chamber music concerts and mini-residencies in upstate New York, Massachusetts, California, and Pennsylvania. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Dagmar Collective, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support touring of the dance work titled Find My Way Home for singers and dancers and choreographed by John Kelly. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Dairy Barn Inc., Southeastern Ohio Cultural Arts Center
Athens, OH
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support the development and touring of "Beadworks," a national juried exhibition of contemporary bead artists, accompanied by a catalogue. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Dale Warland Singers
Minneapolis, MN
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the New Music Presentation Program, including the commissioning and performance of new music broadcast on National Public Radio, as well as related education and pre-concert programs held throughout the Minneapolis/St. Paul metropolitan area. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Dance Continuum, Inc.
Putnam Valley, NY
$35,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the creation and presentation and touring of a full-length dance work choreographed by Susan Marshall with lighting design by William Forsythe. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Dance Theater Foundation, Inc.
(Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre)
New York, NY
$120,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of new works, by the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre and the company"s 40th anniversary celebration tour of the United States. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Dartmouth College
(For Hood Museum of Art)
Hanover, NH
$97,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support a traveling exhibition of the important body of work produced by the great Mexican artist Jose Clemente Orozco while he lived in the United States from 1927 to 1934, organized by the College"s Hood Museum of Art, with an accompanying catalogue and education programs. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Debussy Trio Music Foundation
Los Angeles, CA
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the creation and presentation of a new piece for harp, flute, and viola by Bruce Broughton to be premiered on tour in Prague in 1999 with other performances scheduled on a domestic tour beginning in Orange County, California during the 1999-2000 season. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Dialogue, Inc.
Columbus, OH
$7,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support fees for writers and photographers for the "Reviews" section of five issues of Dialogue: the arts in the Midwest. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Dieu Donne Papermill, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support a residency for artist Winifred Lutz to create new work in hand papermaking, which will be presented in a touring exhibition and documented by a catalogue. (National/Multi-State Impact)

DiverseWorks Artspace (Consortium)
Houston, TX
$32,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support a traveling exhibition and bilingual catalogue featuring the work of Chilean-born artist and poet Cecilia Vicuna, through a consortium project with Hallwalls in Buffalo and Art in General in New York City. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Dorian Woodwind Quintet Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a domestic tour of the Dorian Woodwind Quintet with associated outreach activities and for the commission of a new work by Daniel Asia during 1998-1999. (National/Multi-State Impact)

El Teatro de la Esperanza
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the 1998-1999 tour of Deporting The Divas in the Southwest and Midwest and the creation of a modern adaptation of El Popul Vuh for the main stage and future tour. (National/Multi-State Impact)

EN FOCO, Inc.
Bronx, NY
$17,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support three issues of Nueva Luz, a bilingual photographic journal, each featuring the work of three photographers. (National/Multi-State Impact)

ETV Endowment of South Carolina, Inc.
Spartanburg, SC
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the production and national broadcast the weekly radio series, "Marian McPartland"s Piano Jazz," aired on 258 stations in the United States and distributed internationally. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Eugene Symphony Association, Inc.
Eugene, OR
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support "Tango! The First 100 Years," a serious, comprehensive study of Tango music and dance, developed in collaboration with dance master-choreographer Hector Zaraspe and culminating in master classes, recitals, and symphonic concerts in Eugene, Florence, and Roseburg (OR) during 1999. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Film Arts Foundation
(Fiscal Agent for Makepeace Productions)
San Francisco, CA
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the production of a one-hour documentary by Anne Makepeace, examining the life and work of the photographer Edward S. Curtis from the perspective of his Indian subjects and their descendants, intended for national broadcast on PBS. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Film Arts Foundation
(Fiscal Agent for Selver Productions)
San Francisco, CA
$35,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the post-production costs for a documentary video by Veronica Selver on KPFA-FM, the flagship station of the Pacifica Network, intended for national distribution and broadcast. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Fondo del Sol
Washington, DC
$8,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the traveling exhibition "Latina-USA" presenting the work of Latina artists over the last 25 years, with accompanying catalogue and education programs, scheduled to open in Washington and subsequently travel to Texas, Arizona, and Illinois. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Forecast Public Artworks
St. Paul, MN
$9,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support production of two issues of Public Art Review to be published in winter 1998/1999 and spring/summer 1999. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Friends of the Bass Museum, Inc.
Miami Beach, FL
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the traveling exhibition "L. Murray Dixon and Morris Lapidus in Miami Beach: The Making of a City," and the simultaneous publication of an accompanying catalogue on these two pre-eminent Art Deco architects. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Gotham Dance, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the development and touring of a new work for the Bebe Miller Company titled Going to the Wall with related residencies and video documentation, and additional residency and touring costs. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Greater Washington Educational
Telecommunications Association, Inc. (WETA)
Washington, DC
$100,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support two new programs of "The Kennedy Center Presents," a series of performing arts television specials to be nationally broadcast in 1998-1999. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Guild Complex
(For Tia Chucha Press)
Chicago, IL
$9,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the publication of four books of poetry by Tia Chucha Press which will be distributed nationwide by Northwestern University Press during 1998 and 1999, including a new volume of poetry by Michael Weaver, a bilingual collection of Spanish-language poets, and a 10th anniversary anthology of poets who have appeared at the Guild Complex. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Henson Foundation
New York, NY
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the 1998 International Festival of Puppet Theater, a two-week festival of performances by contemporary puppet artists from around the world, including a national touring network of presenters and educational and outreach activities. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Holter Museum of Art, Inc. (Consortium)
Helena, MT
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support an exhibition organized in collaboration with the Archie Bray Foundation examining the influence of the Foundation on the ceramic arts in the United States, with accompanying catalogue and education programs, and scheduled to tour to museums in 13 states across the country. (National/Multi-State Impact)

House Foundation for the Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the touring of A Celebration Service, a non-sectarian worship service of choreography and music by Meredith Monk. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Illinois State University
(For University Galleries)
Normal, IL
$6,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the first traveling exhibition of the work of Chinese-American artist Martin Wong, organized by the University Galleries, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Institute for Spanish Arts aka El Instituto del Arte Espanol
Santa Fe, NM
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support a residency and tour of the Maria Benitez Teatro Flamenco Dance Company, to include student performances, master classes, lecture-demonstrations, and New York City performances. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Institute of International Education, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$35,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Presenting
To support "INROADS/The Americas," a multidisciplinary arts festival and conference in Miami, sponsored by the consortium of Arts International in New York, Miami-Dade Community College, Teatro Avante in Coral Gables, and the Florida Dance Association. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Inta, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the presentation of Eiko & Koma in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Ann Arbor, Michigan, and the creation of an outdoor, site-specific work. (National/Multi-State Impact)

International Association of Jazz Educators
Manhattan, KS
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support artists" fees and production costs related to the 26th annual International Association of Jazz Educators (IAJE) Conference in Anaheim, California in January 1999 which brings together more than 7,000 jazz educators, musicians, students, and industry personnel from around the world for workshops, clinics, master classes, and performances. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Jacob"s Pillow Dance Festival, Inc. (Consortium)
Lee, MA
$60,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support a consortium of presenters in five states to commission, develop, and present dance works by choreographers Dianne McIntyre, Bebe Miller, Bill T. Jones, Danny Buraczeski, and Donald Byrd. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Japanese American National Museum
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the completion of a one-hour documentary video on the Japanese-American photographer Toyo Miyatake (1895-1979) to accompany the museum"s exhibition of his work in the year 2000, and intended for national and international distribution and broadcast. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Jazz Institute of Chicago, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the 1998 Chicago Jazz Festival, a series of free jazz concerts including a commissioned work by Chicago composer/arranger Edward Wilkerson for his ensemble Shadow Vignettes, and national radio broadcasts. (National/Multi-State Impact)

JAZZDANCE by Danny Buraczeski
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the creation, presentation and touring of a collaboration between JAZZDANCE choreographer Danny Buraczeski and jazz composer Philip Hamilton. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Jefferson Academy of Music (Consortium)
Westerville, OH
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a consortium project involving both the Jefferson Academy of Music and the Chamber Music Society of St. Cloud to commission a new work by composer Gunther Schuller for violin, cello, piano, and French horn, to be performed by the Walden Horn Trio with cellist Fred Sherry during residencies in Ohio and Minnesota in 1998-99. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Junebug Productions (Consortium)
New Orleans, LA
$87,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the consortium of Junebug Productions, Pregones Theater, New York, and Roadside Theater, Kentucky, for the collaborative creation in 1998-1999 of a new theater piece for touring. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the completion costs for a documentary film intended for national distribution and broadcast, by John Altman and Aimee Larrabee on the Tallgrass Prairie that once blanketed the middle third of North America. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Katonah Museum of Art, Inc.
Katonah, NY
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support a traveling exhibition that will examine American painter Edward Hopper"s (1882-1967) depictions of women in his work, with an accompanying catalogue and education programs. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Kelsey Street Press
Berkeley, CA
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the publication of two books during 1998-99 which will be distributed throughout the country: California poet Susan Gervitz"s Black Box Cutaway and Laura Mullens"s The Tales of Horror; and to support a reprinting of Myung Mi Kim"s first book, Under Flag, which is taught in writing classes and cultural studies programs nationwide. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Kentucky Educational Television Foundation, Inc.
Lexington, KY
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the production of three episodes of "American Shorts," a series of television dramas adapted from short plays commissioned and premiered by American regional theater companies, intended for national broadcast and educational use. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Kronos Performing Arts Association
San Francisco, CA
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support phase two of the 25th Anniversary Commissioning and Performance Project in 1998-99 involving collaborative residencies at the Hancher Auditorium (Iowa); University of Arizona (Tucson); and the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor). (National/Multi-State Impact)

Latin American Literary Review Press
Pittsburgh, PA
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the publication and national distribution of six books by Latin American writers, including a three-volume trilingual anthology: Poetry in Native Languages: Mapudungun, Nahuatl, Quecha; and titles such as Argentine author Alicia Steimberg"s Magicians and Watchmakers, Puerto Rican writer Giannina Braschi"s Yo-Yo Boing, and Luisa Vallenzuela"s Keep Smiling. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Lehman College Art Gallery, Inc.
Bronx, NY
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support a traveling exhibition of contemporary Chinese art at the end of the 20th century which addresses the issues of modern versus traditional means of communication, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Light Factory
Charlotte, NC
$11,300
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support a touring exhibition of photographs entitled "Send It On Down" by Deborah Luster, an Arkansas-born photographer whose work documents folklife of the South. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies
Los Angeles, CA
$5,600
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support commissions, presentations, and tours of two artists" projects featuring the photography-based work of Christine Fernandez and Matthew Fukuda. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Lyric Opera of Chicago
Chicago, IL
$120,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support technical, staging, rehearsal, and performance costs for Lyric Opera of Chicago"s premiere of Mourning Becomes Electra by Marvin David Levy in 1998-99. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Manchester Music Festival
Manchester Center, VT
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a tour of the Manchester Music Festival Orchestra to schools in Vermont, New Hampshire, New York, and Massachusetts. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Manhattan Tap, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the creation, presentation and touring of a new dance work by choreographer Heather Cornell and music by Keith Terry. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Margaret Jenkins Dance Studio, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the creation, presentation and touring of a dance-theater collaboration titled Time After between the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company and actress Olympia Dukakis. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Media Project
Portland, OR
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the production costs for "Oregon Country: At the Crossroads," a four-part documentary radio series produced by Barbara Bernstein that will examine the pressures of population growth, urbanization and social dislocation as these issues relate to Oregon and to the American West at large. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Metropolitan Opera Association, Inc.
New York, NY
$200,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support the creation and presentation of the Met"s 1998-99 New Production Series at Lincoln Center, consisting of Le Nozze di Figaro (Mozart), Lucia di Lammermoor (Donizetti), Moses und Aron (Schoenberg), Susannah (Floyd), LaTraviata (Verdi), and resulting broadcasts. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Mettawee Theatre Company, Inc.
Salem, NY
$10,622
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the production and tour of an original play entitled Three Ghost Stories which incorporates the use of masks, giant puppets and an original score to be performed throughout New York State and New England, primarily in rural communities, during the summer of 1998. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Montclair Art Museum
Montclair, NJ
$72,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the traveling exhibition "Paris 1900," a recreation of the original installation of American art at the Universal Exposition in Paris in 1900, with accompanying catalogue and education programs, scheduled to travel to Pennsylvania, Ohio, Virginia, and the Musee Carnavalet in Paris. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Moore College of Art and Design
Philadelphia, PA
$13,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the first comprehensive traveling exhibition of the work of Italian Futurist artist Benedetta Cappa Marinetti (1917-1944), organized by the College"s Goldie Paley Gallery, with accompanying catalogue and education programs, scheduled to travel to New York and other venues. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Chicago, IL
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support a traveling 35-year retrospective exhibition of the work of American artist Robert Heinecken (b.1931), with accompanying catalogue and education programs, scheduled to travel to Tucson, Arizona, Los Angeles, California, and other venues. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Houston, TX
$120,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support a retrospective exhibition of the work of Hungarian-born photographer Brassa. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Music-Theatre Group, Inc.
New York, NY
$45,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Musical Theater
To support the remounting and tour of Vienna Lusthaus by Martha Clarke and Richard Peaslee and for the commissioning, development, presentation, and tour of My Sister"s Name by Eve Ensler. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Musical Traditions
San Francisco, CA
$12,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support the 1998-99 commissioning and premiere of Ravenshead by composer Steve Mackey and librettist/singer Rinde Eckert, co-commissioned with Penn State University and co-produced by the Berkeley Repertory Theater. (National/Multi-State Impact)

National Alliance for Musical Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Musical Theater
To support the National Alliance for Musical Theatre"s 1998 Festival of New Musicals, a two-day festival to produce and present readings of new musicals for an invited audience of producers and professionals from all over the country. (National/Multi-State Impact)

National Blak Touring Circuit, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the Ed Bullins Project of four rehearsed readings and four fully staged productions of Ed Bullins" one-act plays during a ten-week retrospective of his life and work, as well as a tour of the work to major U. S. cities and to the 1998 National Black Theatre Festival. (National/Multi-State Impact)

National Museum of Women in the Arts, Inc.
Washington, DC
$6,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support a traveling retrospective exhibition of the work of Mexican Surrealist painter Remedios Varo, with accompanying education programs. (National/Multi-State Impact)

National Performance Network
New York, NY
$32,750
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Presenting
To support artist fees as part of a 1998-99 multidisciplinary artist project of the National Performance Network which includes 28 artist residencies at 23 NPN cultural organizations such as Helena Presents (MT), On The Boards (WA),La Pena Cultural Center (CA), Dancers Collective of Atlanta (GA), Alverno College (WI), and the Wexner Center for the Arts (OH).
(National/Multi-State Impact)

National Poetry Series, Inc.
Hopewell, NJ
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support production subsidies for the five winners of the 1999 National Poetry Series Open Competition, for publication and national distribution by presses such as W.W. Norton, Viking-Penguin, Sun & Moon Press, Milkweed Editions, and the University of Illinois Press. (National/Multi-State Impact)

National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States
Washington, DC
$87,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support an exhibition of the work of American sculptor Daniel Chester French (1850-1931), to be installed at the artist"s home and studio, Chesterwood, in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, with accompanying brochure and education programs. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Nelson Gallery Foundation
Kansas City, MO
$120,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the traveling exhibition, "Kuba: Art of a Central African Kingdom" (south-central Zaire), organized by the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, with accompanying catalogue and education programs, scheduled to travel to Washington, DC, and other venues. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Nevada Museum of Art
Reno, NV
$6,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the traveling photography exhibition "The Altered Landscape," with accompanying catalogue and education programs. (National/Multi-State Impact)

New Images Productions, Inc.
Berkeley, CA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the research and development of a television documentary on the life and work of the American writer Ralph Ellison (1914-1994), intended for national broadcast and educational use. (National/Multi-State Impact)

New Observations, Ltd.
New York, NY
$9,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support a two-part special issue of the journal New Observations focusing on the role of the contemporary artist as cultural archaeologist. (National/Multi-State Impact)

New Radio & Performing Arts, Inc.
(Fiscal Agent for Exit 3 Productions)
Staten Island, NY
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the production of new half-hour radio programs for the series "JAZZPLAY," hosted by Gregory Hines, to be distributed nationally by National Public Radio. (National/Multi-State Impact)

New Radio & Performing Arts, Inc.
Staten Island, NY
$49,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the research and production costs for "Revisiting America," a 26-part documentary radio series on the natural and cultural legacy of America"s national parks, to be produced by Regine Beyer and Helen Thorington and intended for national broadcast. (National/Multi-State Impact)

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc.
(Fiscal Agent for Film Two Productions)
New York, NY
$35,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the production costs for a documentary film on Black feminism, to be directed by Kathe Sandler and intended for national distribution and broadcast. (National/Multi-State Impact)

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc.
(Fiscal Agent for Fourth Floor Productions)
New York, NY
$35,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the production of "Stairway to Heaven," a documentary film intended for national distribution, by Errol Morris on the life and career of Temple Grandin, an austistic university professor who designed a humane slaughterhouse. (National/Multi-State Impact)

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc.
(Fiscal Agent for African Film Festival)
New York, NY
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the 1998 New York African Film Festival and the 1998-1999 tour of selected films to ten sites around the country. (National/Multi-State Impact)

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc.
(Fiscal Agent for Only Child Motion Pictures)
New York, NY
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the completion costs for a documentary film by the Academy Award-winning filmmaker Ira Wohl entitled "Best Man: Best Boy and All of Us Twenty Years Later" a follow-up piece about his developmentally disabled cousin, Philly, intended for national broadcast and distribution. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Newark Public Radio, Inc.
Newark, NJ
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the production of "JazzSet with Branford Marsalis," a weekly radio series distributed by NPR and broadcast on more than 200 public radio stations. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Niagara University
(For Castellani Art Gallery)
Niagara University, NY
$8,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support a traveling exhibition of Iroquois beadwork, organized by the University"s Castellani Art Gallery in collaboration with the McCord Museum of Canadian History, Montreal. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Oakland Community College
(For Witness Magazine)
Farmington Hills, MI
$9,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the production, national circulation, and distribution during 1998 of a special issue of the magazine Witness on American Families, featuring writers such as Linda Pastan, John Edgar Wideman, Sue Miller, Stuart Dybeck, Allan Gurganus, Jayne Anne Phillips, and Edward Hoagland. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Oberlin College
(For Oberlin College Press)
Oberlin, OH
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the publication and national distribution during 1998-99 of Poets Reading: The Field Symposia, an anthology of essays by contemporary poets such as Margaret Atwood, Gerald Stern, Yusef Komunyakaa, Agha Shahid Ali, Donald Justice, James Merrill, Sandra McPherson, Richard Wilbur, and Robert Bly, responding to works by major poets of the past.
(National/Multi-State Impact)

OK MOZART, Inc.
Bartlesville, OK
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the 14th annual OK Mozart International Festival, featuring Ransom Wilson and Solisti New York Orchestra, at the Bartlesville Community Center and other sites in June of 1998. (National/Multi-State Impact)

One Seventy One Cedar, Inc. (Consortium)
Corning, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support artists" fees for Alvin Ailey, Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, and Margie Gilles in the second annual subscription dance series presented as a consortium by One Seventy One Cedar, Inc. and Chemung County Performing Arts for audiences in New York and Pennsylvania. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Opera Orchestra of New York, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support the 1998-99 concert production of the opera I Masnadieri by Giuseppi Verdi, and resulting broadcasts. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Orchestral Association (Chicago Symphony Orchestra)
Chicago, IL
$170,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the series "Roots and Branches: A Retrospective of Twentieth Century Music" featuring performances of unique symphonic works of this century along with classes, lectures, and seminars; as well as media projects, commercial recordings, national radio broadcasts, and publications to document the project. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Other Pictures, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the completion of a documentary film about the life and work of the book artist John Eric Broaddus, intended for public television broadcast and distribution to schools, colleges, libraries, and art museums. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Parents for Torah for All Children
Brooklyn, NY
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the production of a documentary film by Menachem Daum and Oren Rudavsky on how Holocaust survivors have dealt with their crisis of faith, intended for national distribution and broadcast. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Paris Gibson Square, Inc.
Great Falls, MT
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support a traveling exhibition of the work of contemporary American artists Roy De Forest (b. 1930) and Gaylen Hansen (b. 1921), with accompanying catalogue and education programs, and subsequent travel to Oregon, Washington, and California. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Paul Taylor Dance Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$110,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the tandem touring throughout the United States of the Paul Taylor Dance Company and Taylor 2. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Pennsylvania Public Radio Associates, Inc.
Uwchland, PA
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the production of concerts and feature programs for "Echoes," a daily two-hour nationally broadcast radio series that brings contemporary music to 135 stations in 36 states each year. (National/Multi-State Impact)

People's Light & Theatre Company (Consortium)
Malvern, PA
$18,800
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support a 1998-1999 consortium project of People"s Light and Theatre Company and Indiana Repertory Theatre for the commission, development, and production of a new play by the playwright James Still. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Philadelphia Orchestra Association
Philadelphia, PA
$120,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support three thematically-based festivals -- including performances, recitals, lectures, panel discussions, demonstrations, and film screenings -- to be presented at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia and Carnegie Hall in New York. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Plam Dancers, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the creation of new work, presentation expenses for performances at the Joyce Theater, and for national touring costs for the Doug Elkins Dance Company. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Ploughshares, Inc.
Boston, MA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the publication and national circulation of the winter and spring 1999 issues of Ploughshares to thousands of readers. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Plymouth Music Series
Minneapolis, MN
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the 1999 Witness program, featuring composer Alvin Singleton and former Poet Laureate Rita Dove in performing collaborative work and in educational events for the Witness Subscription Concert, the Young People"s Concert, broadcasts on public radio, commissions, recordings, and the school residency program in Minneapolis and St. Paul public schools. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Present Music, Inc.
Milwaukee, WI
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a residency by composer-performer Paul Dresher with the Present Music ensemble in Milwaukee, including music and technology workshops, open rehearsals, pre-concert lectures, radio broadcasts, and performances during spring, 1999. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Public Television Playhouse
New York, NY
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the post-production costs for a nine-part documentary series, "An American Love Story," by Jennifer Fox, which is intended for national broadcast on PBS in the fall of 1998. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Queens County Art and Cultural Center, Inc.
Queens, NY
$22,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the traveling exhibition "Global Conceptualism/Local Contexts," with accompanying catalogue and education programs. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Regents of the University of California at Berkeley (Consortium)
Berkeley, CA
$75,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support a consortium to co-produce and present the first Western production of Peony Pavilion, a masterpiece of Chinese opera, directed by Peter Sellars, music by Tan Dun, and text in English and Chinese by Cyril Birch, with Chinese and American artists at Cal Performances in Berkeley, Lincoln Center Festival in New York, and the Goodman Theatre in Chicago.
(National/Multi-State Impact)

Regents of the University of California at Berkeley (Consortium)
Berkeley, CA
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support CIAO (Conceptual and InterMedia Arts Online), a consortium project including the UC-Berkeley Art Museum, the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, and the University of Iowa's Alternative Traditions in the Visual Arts. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Regents of the University of California at Los Angeles
(For Fowler Museum of Cultural History)
Los Angeles, CA
$17,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support a touring exhibition of ceremonial textiles of the Minangkabau people of Indonesia, with accompanying catalogue and education programs, organized by the UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
(For Zimmerli Art Museum)
Piscataway, NJ
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support an exhibition of the prints of internationally recognized American artist Michael Mazur, with accompanying catalogue and education programs, scheduled to open at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and tour to New Jersey and California. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society
St. Paul, MN
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a retrospective of Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra commissions, including performances and broadcasts throughout the Chamber Orchestra"s 40th anniversary season and community activities by visiting composers. (National/Multi-State Impact)

San Francisco Camerawork, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$13,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support two exhibitions and accompanying issues of Camerawork: A Journal of Photographic Arts. (National/Multi-State Impact)

San Francisco Craft and Folk Art Museum
San Francisco, CA
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support a traveling exhibition of the work of American artist June Schwarcz, scheduled to travel to Honolulu and New York. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Santa Monica College
(For KCRW-FM)
Santa Monica, CA $25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the production of an unabridged dramatic reading, with complete audio/music score, of Walter Mosley"s novel, Black Betty, intended for national distribution and broadcast. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Seem-To-Be-Players, Inc.
Lawrence, KS
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the national tour of Reliable Junk, an original award-winning play designed for middle school students and their families, scheduled to be performed in Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, Florida, Tennessee, Arkansas and Alaska. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Simon Wiesenthal Center, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support a traveling exhibition of work by Bauhaus artist Friedl Dicker-Brandeis (1898- 1944) and her students, produced at the Terezin concentration camp between 1942 and 1944, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Skaneateles Festival, Inc.
Skaneateles, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the commissioning of a composition for children by Joseph Talken for narrator and chamber orchestra and its premiere at the 1999 Skaneateles Festival with a subsequent recording and performances at other festivals across the country. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Skylight Opera Theatre Corp. (Consortium)
Milwaukee, WI
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support a consortium with the Opera Company of Philadelphia for a premiere production of the opera Ballymore by Richard Wargo in 1998-99. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Smith College
(For Museum of Art)
Northampton, MA
$27,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Design
To support the development, touring and catalogue costs for "Equal Partners," an exhibition documenting architectural firms founded jointly by men and women, scheduled to open at the Smith College of Art in the fall of 1998, and subsequently to travel to additional venues across the country. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Inc.
Staten Island, NY
$34,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support an interdisciplinary program of performance, exhibitions, residencies, and other programs, including a tour in New England states, developed around a new work by Ellen Driscoll, Ahab"s Wife, examining Melville"s Moby Dick from a new perspective. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Society of North American Goldsmiths
Tampa, FL
$5,300
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support publication of four issues of the Society"s Metalsmith magazine.
(National/Multi-State Impact)

Sound Portraits Productions, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the production of "On the Air: Yiddish-American Radio 1925-1955," a series of six half-hour radio documentaries celebrating the golden age of Yiddish radio in the United States, intended for national broadcast on NPR in the year 2000. (National/Multi-State Impact)

South Carolina Educational Communications
Spartanburg, SC
$100,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support "The American Music Theatre," a series of four nationally-broadcast public television programs of 20th Century American operas, operettas, and musicals, with accompanying multimedia educational components. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art
Loretto, PA
$8,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support a traveling exhibition of the work of American artist Will Barnet (b. 1911), with accompanying catalogue and education programs, scheduled to travel to Missouri, Wisconsin, Connecticut, and Oklahoma. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Spaces
Cleveland, OH
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support the exhibition "Regional Forecast," a collaborative effort between Hallwalls in Buffalo, Spaces in Cleveland, and the Brew House/Space 101 in Pittsburgh, featuring work of artists from the region which reflects the economic, political, social, and artistic concerns of this post-industrial
area. (National/Multi-State Impact)

St. Louis Art Museum
St. Louis, MO
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support a major traveling exhibition exploring the aesthetic, cultural, and psychological dimensions of masks, with an accompanying catalogue and education programs, scheduled to travel to Houston, Texas and Washington, DC. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Stuart Pimsler Dance & Theater
Columbus, OH
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the creation, presentation and touring of a stage work titled Out of This World by co-artistic directors Start Pimsler and Susanne Costello, in collaboration with composer Ingram Marshall and soprano Madeline Rivera. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Symphony Space, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story, including the presentation of leading stage and screen actors reading classic and contemporary short fiction before a live audience, and the production and national broadcast of new radio programs in 1998-99.
(National/Multi-State Impact)

Theater For You, Inc.
Boise, ID
$18,800
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support Idaho Theater for Youth"s 1998-1999 development and tour of Wesley Middleton"s play and accompanying sound score for young audiences, The Tomato Plant Girl, to students in Idaho and neighboring schools in bordering states. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Theatre of Yugen, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the East Coast tour to Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, and Washington, DC of Blood Wine, Blood Wedding, a large-scale fusion work that draws from traditional Kabuki and flamenco theater forms and fuses them to contemporary American theater and dance. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Theatreworks/USA Corporation
New York, NY
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Musical Theater
To support Theatreworks/USA"s national tour in 1998 of Paul Robeson, All American, and Young Tom Edison to both urban and rural areas which include underserved communities and those with limited access to the live performing arts. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Thomas A. Edison Media Arts Consortium
(Fiscal Agent for Black Maria Film and Video Festival)
Jersey City, NJ
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the Black Maria Film and Video Festival and multi-state tour to more than 50 organizations during 1998-1999. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Threepenny Review
Berkeley, CA
$12,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support writers" fees for 100 authors whose work will appear in the Threepenny Review during 1998 and 1999; and to support promotional costs for four issues, including a direct mail campaign targeting midwestern and southern states. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Trisha Brown Dance Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$90,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the creation, presentation and national touring of O2 based on dances from Trisha Brown"s production of the opera, l"Orfeo. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Twin Cities Public Television, Inc.
St. Paul, MN
$75,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the development and production of new programs for "ALIVE TV," a public television series presenting new and experimental work in film, video, and animation, to be made available through national broadcast and through short-form modules designed for the Internet. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Unidentified Moving Objects Company, Inc.
Vashon, WA
$7,800
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support this multidisciplinary performance company"s tour of original, non-traditional theater works to audiences in rural areas and small towns in New Mexico, Nevada, California, Oregon, and Washington, including workshops as well as participation in large community events. (National/Multi-State Impact)

University of Kansas Main Campus (Consortium)
Lawrence, KS
$13,750
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Presenting
To support a consortium project of the presentation of a new collaborative work by Philip Glass and Robert Wilson entitled, Monsters of Grace, to be presented at six sites. (National/Multi-State Impact)

University of Missouri at Columbia
(For Missouri Review)
Columbia, MO
$12,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the publication and national distribution during 1998-99 of one general issue to reach readers from all fifty states and to be placed in 350 public libraries nationwide. (National/Multi-State Impact)

University of Utah
(For Quarterly West)
Salt Lake City, UT
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the publication and national circulation during 1998 and 1999 of two issues of the literary magazine Quarterly West to readers and institutions throughout the United States, and the promotion of the magazine at the 1999 Associated Writing Programs Conference.
(National/Multi-State Impact)

University of Wisconsin-Madison
(For Elvehjem Museum of Art)
Madison, WI
$87,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the presentation at the University"s Elvehjem Museum of Art of the exhibition "Great Cities, Small Treasures: The Ancient World of the Indus Valley," organized by the Asia Society in New York, with accompanying education programs. (National/Multi-State Impact)

West Virginia Public Broadcasting Foundation, Inc.
Charleston, WV
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the production and broadcast of "Mountain Stage," a weekly, two-hour radio program presenting contemporary music seasoned with traditional folk roots performers, distributed nationally by Public Radio International to more than 100 stations. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Western Public Radio, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$185,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support "Lost and Found Sound: An American Record," a series of public radio programs which, through richly layered audio stories created by noted radio producers and other artists, will chronicle, reflect, and celebrate the 20th century through sound, intended for national broadcast in 1999-2000. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Western Wind Vocal Ensemble, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a recording, a concert, a radio program for national broadcast, and a publication project of vocal works by composer Robert Dennis written for and performed by the Western Wind Ensemble during 1998-99. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Whispering Voice, Inc.
New York, NY
$18,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the touring of a new dance theater work titled Love Songs by David Rousseve/ REALITY. (National/Multi-State Impact)

White Pine, Inc.
Fredonia, NY
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the publication and national distribution of four books in the World of Voices publishing program, including Magic Sites: Women Travelers of the Americas, an anthology of women"s travel writing, Stories for a Winter"s Night: Short Fiction by Native-American Writers; and A World of Voices: Celebrating Diversity. (National/Multi-State Impact)

WigglyWorld
Seattle, WA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support script development and pre-production costs for a feature-length film, for national distribution, about a young man who must separate from his mother and make his own way in the world, to be directed by Susan McNally, as part of the organization"s Reel Alternatives initiative. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Worcester Art Museum
Worcester, MA
$120,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support a major exhibition of art and artifacts from the lost Roman city of Antioch (modern Turkey), with accompanying catalogue and education programs, scheduled to travel to Texas and Ohio. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Young Men"s Christian Associations of the USA
Chicago, IL
$60,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the expansion of the National Writer"s Voice National Readings Tour during 1998-99 to bring 40 writers to over 20 YMCA centers in GA, VA, NC, ME, NJ, NM, MT, KY, MO, FL, MI, and SD; and to support the training of local YMCA personnel to develop and maintain local literature programs. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Zeitgeist
St. Paul, MN
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support an inaugural tour in Montana, Wisconsin and Minnesota and recording of Sound Stage written by Paul Dresher for Zeitgeist in 1999. (National/Multi-State Impact)

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