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1999 Grant Awards: Creation & Presentation
Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change,
contingent upon prior Endowment approval.
Direct Impact Grants
1078 Gallery, Inc.
Chico, CA
$9,900
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support Watershed, an exhibition and lecture series of the work of two California artists. The artists' work reflects upon and interprets water as a physical material, as well as an economic resource, recreational site, and natural habitat.
33 Fainting Spells
Seattle, WA
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support the creation and presentation of an interdisciplinary work for three performers. The work, entitled 33 Fainting Spells, will be based on Russian theater pioneer Vsevolvod Meyerhold's 1935 adaptation of three short stories by Anton Chekhov.
A Contemporary Theatre, Inc.
Seattle, WA
$8,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the costs associated with the development and production of a play for the mainstage. The classic Yiddish play, God of Vengeance, adapted by Donald Margulies and directed by Gordon Edelstein, is scheduled to premiere during the 1999 season.
Aaron Davis Hall, Inc.
New York, NY
$80,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Presenting
To support performance opportunities by African-American and Latino performing artists. The project will include commissioning support and facility space for creation of new works and performances, including residency activities and open rehearsals.
About Productions
Los Angeles, CA
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater To support costs associated with the development and presentation of an original interdisciplinary, theater-based production, as well as a free educational panel discussion for the public. Properties of Silence tells the story of a contemporary woman's journey with Sor Juana de la Cruz, Mexico's foremost poet of the Colonial era.
Actors Theatre Of Louisville
Louisville, KY
$61,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support expenses associated with the commission, development, and production of a new play for the Humana Festival of New American Plays. Charles L. Mee will be commissioned to write a millennial work that examines the current intellectual, moral and cultural climate and will premiere at the Humana Festival in March 2000.
Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Inc.
Montgomery, AL
$16,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support expenses associated with the development of a new play through the Southern Writers' Project. The project will develop playwright Romulus Linney's stage adaptation of Ernest J. Gaines's novel, A Lesson Before Dying.
Albany Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Albany, NY
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the third of a three-year celebration of the American symphonic repertoire entitled Redefining the American Orchestra. The Albany Symphony Orchestra and two smaller ensembles made up of orchestra musicians will commission, present, tour, and record music of recognized and emerging American composers to broaden the American symphonic repertoire.
Alfred University
Alfred, NY
$18,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support an artists residency program, and other activities for a project entitled, Questioning Order/New Taxonomies. This project consists of residencies, artist presentations, and writers' lectures and will explore ways that we as a society categorize, classify, and make order in the world.
Alliance for Progress of Hispanic-Americans, Inc. (Alpha Teen Theatre)
Manchester, NH
$12,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support a playwrights' residency project at Alpha Teen Theatre. The project will consist of residencies by and commissions to playwrights Josephina Lopez and Wendy Kesselman, and for the expenses associated with a production of Lopez's play Real Women Have Curves.
Alternative Center for International Arts, Inc. (Alternative Museum)
New York, NY
$7,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support an exhibition entitled Expansion Arts: Artists of Our Times II. It will feature artists who employ new technologies in their work to convey societal and aesthetic issues.
AMAN Folk Ensemble
Long Beach, CA
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of The Immigrants, AMAN's first evening-length work. This work will highlight the traditional dance and music brought to the United States from around the world.
AMAS Musical Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$6,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Musical Theater
To support the workshop production of an original multimedia musical work. AMAS Musical Theatre will present a workshop production of Noah's Wife, a musical revue that explores and celebrates women's rights.
American Composers Orchestra, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support 20th Century Snapshots, a millennium project featuring significant and rarely performed works of the last 100 years, reflecting on American and world events, trends, and culture and presenting these along side new works by emerging composers. The project involves a national composition search, orchestral reading sessions, concerts, and audience development initiatives to document and disseminate the work of American composers.
American Dance Festival, Inc.
Durham, NC
$70,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the commission and presentation of a range of companies that represent Expressionism in dance. Project activities will occur in 1998-99 and will include performances, commissions, reconstruction of dances, panel discussions, and choreographic residencies.
American Music Theater Festival, Inc. (Consortium)
Philadelphia, PA
$79,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Musical Theater
To support a consortium project to commission and produce a series of new musical theater works. The American Music Theater Festival and Spoleto Festival, USA will collaborate for the creation and presentation of four new musicals that will explore legendary events and mythic stories that have marked contemporary American society.
American Musical Theater of San Jose
San Jose, CA
$6,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Musical Theater
To support the commission of a composer, lyricist, and playwright to develop a new musical theater work and workshops of the piece. American Music Theater of San Jose will develop a new musical work entitled Swing Camp, based on the experiences of Japanese-Americans interned in camps during World War II.
American Repertory Theatre
Cambridge, MA
$31,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support a Loeb Stage production of Henrik Ibsen's The Master Builder, The project will serve approximately 20,000 people through mainstage public performances, student matinees, symposiums, and pre-performance discussions.
Amherst Saxophone Society, Inc.
Williamsville, NY
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the Amherst Saxophone Quartet's residency in western New York. The residency will include a concert series, free outdoor concerts, residency activities at the University of Buffalo, a virtual residency of distance learning through the Center for Applied Research in Technology at Buffalo State College, and a video tape series designed to reach audiences that do not have access to the high-speed network.
Anchorage Concert Association, Inc.
Anchorage, AK
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the presentation of Pacific Northwest Ballet. The presentation will involve two public performances and one school performance of recently premiered repertory works.
Anchorage Museum Association
Anchorage, AK
$10,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the Museum's Light Art Festival during the winter of 1999-2000, with accompanying catalogue and lecture series. The project will feature the work of four to six artists who will be invited to Anchorage to create site-specific works using light.
Anderson Ranch Arts Foundation
Snowmass Village, CO
$18,600
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support the artist residency program at Anderson Ranch in the Rocky Mountains. Eighteen artists will provided time, space, and equipment during residencies ranging from two to six months in 1999 and 2000.
Archipelago Company, Inc.
Chapel Hill, NC
$8,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the development and production of a new work written and directed by Ellen Hemphill. The new work, Change Partners, will be supported by live Tango music and dance and will be performed and co-produced by Manbites Dog Theatre (North Carolina) in spring 1999.
Arkansas Art Center
Little Rock, AR
$12,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the traveling exhibition Victor Koulbak: Silverpoint Drawings, 1983-1997, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. Koulbak (b. 1946), a Russian-born artist who currently lives in Paris, has been working with silverpoint for the past fourteen years.
Arkansas Repertory Theatre Company
Little Rock, AR
$13,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the production of Cookin' at the Cookery, a work written and directed by Marian Caffey. Presented on the mainstage in January 1999, the musical is based on the life of blues and jazz legend, Alberta Hunter, who made her 1977 debut (at age 82) at the Cookery in New York's Greenwich Village.
Art in General, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support artist residencies and resulting exhibitions as well as accompanying publications. The proposed artists will be in residence for periods of one to three months in 1999 and 2000.
Art Institute of Chicago (Film Center)
Chicago, IL
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support a film exhibition series which will examine world cultures in cinema at the turn of the millennium. Global Cinema: The Intersection of Cultures in Cinema Around the World will feature films from the Islamic Diaspora, Africa, the United States, Israel, Hong Kong, and the European Union.
ArtLies
Houston, TX
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support the "Reviews" section of Art Lies, a quarterly publication that covers the visual arts in Texas. The project will cover the "Reviews" section for four issues of the Houston-based magazine to be published in 1999 and 2000.
Asian-American Theater Workshop Co.
San Francisco, CA
$16,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the creation of an original theatrical work about Asian Pacific Island American and Chicano/Latino issues and the intersection of the two communities. The work, tentatively entitled Party Like It's 1999, will engage writers and performers from four different theater groups to develop a collection of comedy skits, monologues, and musical numbers.
Austin Film Society
Austin, TX
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the exhibition of films and videos free of charge to members of the Austin community. The Free Cinema Project will present these films and videos in an historical and cultural context, while fostering in audiences an understanding of and appreciation for cinema as an art form.
Bailes Flamencos
San Francisco, CA
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a flamenco dance piece influenced by ballet. Artistic Director Rosa Montoya and choreographer Carlos Carvajal will create a piece to Maurice Ravel's Rapsodie Espagnole.
Ballet Arizona
Phoenix, AZ
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support a statewide tour in Arizona of two recently commissioned works with themes that are relevant to Hispanic-Americans and Native-Americans. The works to be included on the tour are Dias de Muertos, choreographed by Ballet Arizona Artistic Director Michael Uthoff, and a new work that Michael Uthoff and Native-American composer R. Carlos Nakai are creating for the 1998-1999 season.
Ballet Hispanico of New York, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support New Voices for the Millennium, a five-week choreographer's workshop for five choreographers, and the presentation of the works at the Tribeca Center for the Performing Arts. Artistic Director Tina Ramirez has selected the following choreographers for this project: Mia Michaels, Regina Miranda, Hector Montero, David Rousseve, and Pedro Ruiz.
Ballet West
Salt Lake City, UT
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the presentation of two new works for Ballet West's 1998-99 season. The first work is a new piece by Val Caniparoli and the second work is Polish Pieces by Dutch choreographer Hans van Manen.
Bargemusic, Ltd.
Brooklyn, NY
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support performances of young artists at Bargemusic. During 1999-2000, Bargemusic will engage artists through their Young Artist in Performance Fund, where young and emerging artists are given the opportunity to perform at Bargemusic with seasoned professionals.
Bates College
Lewiston, ME
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support commissioning, presentation, outreach, and educational activities for dance artists as part of the 1999 Bates Dance Festival. Artists participating in Bates Dance Festival's commissioning and residency program include Mark Dendy, Doug Varone, Rennie Harris, Sean Curran, and Victoria Marks.
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts
Omaha, NE
$28,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support three to six month residencies for up to 12 artists to create new work. Participating artists are provided with housing and workspace, technical assistance, and a monthly stipend.
Berkeley Repertory Theatre
Berkeley, CA
$31,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the expenses associated with the workshop development process for a production. The three-play cycle of Aeschylus, The Oresteia, as adapted by Stephen Wadsworth and directed by Wadsworth and Tony Taccone will receive a workshop with designers, actors and musicians.
Berks Filmmakers, Inc.
Reading, PA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the exhibition of curated film and video series. Programs will include in-person presentations, avant-garde cinema, documentary and animation work, and screenings by artists from the region.
Berkshire Opera Company, Inc.
Great Barrington, MA
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support the commission and premiere production of the opera Summer by composer Stephen Paulus with libretto by Joan Vail Thorne in 1998-2000. The opera is based upon Edith Wharton's novel of the same name.
Boise State University (Boise Chamber Music Series)
Boise, ID
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support artists' fees for two concerts in the series of touring professional chamber music ensembles and educational outreach activities. The four concert series of the 1999-2000 season will be presented in the Morrison Center Recital Hall in Boise.
Borderlands Theater (Teatro Fronterizo, Inc.)
Tucson, AZ
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the residencies of two guest playwrights and one composer to create two new plays about the theme of "border." Borderlands Theater will develop one play from an existing script with music to be composed for it and produce another play from a newly-commissioned script.
Boston Ballet, Inc.
Boston, MA
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support staging of Michael Corder's Danses Concertantes. The piece, set to music by Igor Stravinsky, will be part of a repertory program scheduled for the spring portion of Boston Ballet's 1999-2000 season.
Boston Dance Umbrella, Inc.
Boston, MA
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the research, development, and implementation of a new International Festival of Aerial Dance. The festival will showcase eight to ten works by both seasoned aerial dancers and by leading artists who are beginning to explore movement possibilities of working off the ground.
Boston Early Music Festival, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
$35,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support artist fees, travel, subsistence, and administrative expenses associated with production of the opera Ercole Amante by Francesco Cavalli and supplementary music performances celebrating the theme Music of the Mediterranean during the tenth biennial Boston Early Music Festival & Exhibition in 1999. This will be the first complete and fully-staged production of Ercole Amante (Hercules in Love) since 1662.
Boston Lyric Opera Company
Boston, MA
$60,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support a new production of the opera Akhnaten by American composer Philip Glass during 1999-2000. Demonstrating a commitment to 20th century opera, Boston Lyric Opera seeks to establish a place for this minimalist work in the standard repertory by programming it in the company's Egyptian theme season.
Boston Musica Viva, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
$6,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by Hale Smith and librettist Raymond Patterson based on an African folktale designed for young audiences. The proposed work, Ayobami, is an African folktale that will involve children, teenagers, and adults performing with Boston Musica Viva, Boston television celebrity Joyce Kulhawik, and other artists.
Bronx Arts Ensemble, Inc.
Bronx, NY
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support artists' fees for concerts in the Bronx at The New York Botanical Gardens and Hostos Center for Arts and Culture. Three different programs at the two sites, occurring between December 1998 and March 1999, will feature a newly commissioned work, each by composers Robert Kapilow, Roberto Sierra, and Jeffrey Levine.
Bronx Council on the Arts, Inc. (Longwood Arts Project)
Bronx, NY
$18,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support one-year residencies for four artists to create new work. An exhibition of the artists' completed works, a documentary publication, and an artist/mentor program will complement the residencies.
Brooklyn Academy of Music, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$85,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Presenting
To support the 1999 Next Wave Festival. Presented each fall for a period of two to three months, the Festival showcases a combination of mature, experimental artists and emerging talent working in music, dance, theater and the visual arts, as well as hybrid forms of these disciplines.
Brooklyn Friends of Chamber Music, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by Kevin Beavers for mezzo-soprano and strings. The performers will be Stephanie Houtzeel, mezzo-soprano, and the Cassatt String Quartet and will be premiered in the 1999-2000 season.
Brown University (Rites & Reason Theatre)
Providence, RI
$20,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Musical Theater
To support the completion of the score, final development of the script, and production of Mystic Falls, a musical rooted in Trinidadian mythology and culture. Rites and Reason Theatre will collaborate with playwright Rosa Guy on the dramaturgy of a new musical that will be presented as a Gallery Production which allows for further feedback in the development process.
Builders Association, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support the development of Brecht & Reagan, a multidisciplinary theater piece. This work will draw from the public testimony of Brecht before the House Committee on Un- American Activities in 1947 and former President Reagan's testimony in the Iran Contra trial of John Poindexter, his former national security adviser.
California College of Arts and Crafts
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the exhibition Searchlight: Consciousness at the Millennium, with accompanying interpretive materials, public programs, and artists' residencies. The exhibition will examine how 20th-century artists have explored a variety of means in their investigations of consciousness.
California State University Sacramento Trust Foundation (The Festival of New American Music)
Sacramento, CA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the Festival of New American Music to be held on the campus of California State University (Sacramento) and at various community venues. The focus of the 1999 Festival will include musical theater, advancements in computer-generated music, and new and unusual instruments.
California Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Walnut Creek, CA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the young American Composer-in-Residence program. California Symphony Orchestra's Young American Composer-in-Residence program will provide the professional orchestral resources that will enable a talented, emerging, young composer to hone his/her craft during the residency with the Orchestra.
Capoeira Foundation, Inc. (DanceBrazil)
New York, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support creation and presentation of a new work based on a story of A Escave Anastacia (Anastacia, the Slave). Artistic Director Jelon Vieira will collaborate with composer/musician Cyro Baptista to create the work for DanceBrazil.
Carnegie Institute (Carnegie Museum of Art)
Pittsburgh, PA
$130,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the 1999 Carnegie International, a triennial exhibition of contemporary art. A comprehensive catalogue, extensive educational programming, and special events will accompany the 53rd International that attracts a large and international audience.
Carter Family Puppet Theater (NW Puppet Center & Carter Family Marionettes)
Seattle, WA
$9,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the expenses associated with the development and production of new puppet theater works. Two puppet plays on the theme Quest of the Common Man, including a Chinese classic tale entitled Pigsy Gets Married and the 20th century classic The Hobbit, will be created, developed and produced at the Northwest Puppet Center in Seattle, Washington.
Center for Land Use Interpretation
Culver City, CA
$33,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support the Wendover Artists Residency program. Approximately 12 artists will receive stipends and materials to enable them to create new work in response to the remote landscape on the border of Nevada and Utah.
Center for Photography at Woodstock, Inc.
Woodstock, NY
$12,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support the artist residency program at the Center for Photography at Woodstock. The Center will host photographers for one-month periods in 1999.
Center on Contemporary Art
Seattle, WA
$18,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support the commissioning of a series of public art projects. The project, entitled Land/Use/Action, will utilize the talents of a range of artists, both local and national, who will undertake site-specific visual, installation, or performance work.
Center Stage Associates, Inc.
Baltimore, MD
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the expenses associated with the production of a play in which deaf and hearing actors will be utilized. Rehearsals for the production of Brendan Behan's play, The Hostage, will explore language and systems of communication that can be implemented onstage.
Center Theatre Group of Los Angeles (Mark Taper Forum)
Los Angeles, CA
$47,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the development and production of a new music theater performance piece. Ain Gordon and David Gordon's newest work, The First Picture Show, performance incorporating multi-media elements of silent film and slide projections with movement, dialogue and song, will be produced during the 1998-99 season.
Central City Opera House Association
Denver, CO
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support a production of the opera Street Scene by Kurt Weill in 1999. This opera is the fourth in the company's American Series and the first production of the opera in Colorado.
Chicago Filmmakers
Chicago, IL
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support Kino Eye, a weekly screening of independent film and video; and Talking Pictures, a screening and lecture series on avant-garde film and video.
Chicago Latino Cinema
Chicago, IL
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the 15th Chicago Latino Film Festival. Held annually in the spring, this festival offers over 100 films to an average audience of 30,000 people.
Chicago Theatre Group, Inc. (Goodman Theatre)
Chicago, IL
$79,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the expenses associated with the rehearsal and production of the world premiere of a new play. The new work entitled OO BLA DEE, written by Regina Taylor and directed by Tazewell Thompson, is planned for production in February and March 1999.
Children's Theatre Company and School
Minneapolis, MN
$62,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the Threshold project which will develop significant new work in the field of theater for young people. The project involves collaborations with another theater company, a playwright, and movement theater, multimedia artists.
Childsplay, Inc.
Tempe, AZ
$16,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the translation, development and production of a play for young audiences. Pojken och Stjarnan (The Boy and Star), a Swedish play written by Barbro Lindgren, will be translated into English by Anne-Charlotte Hanes Harvey, produced in theaters in Tucson and Tempe and made available for production by other young audience theaters.
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Cincinnati, OH
$45,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support orchestral and chamber music concerts featuring principal and section orchestra musicians as soloists with the orchestra and in chamber ensembles. The goal of this project is to raise the esprit de corps and keep a high interest level within the ranks while providing an expanded range of performances to audiences.
Cine Accion, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the eighth annual Cine Latino Film Festival. Scheduled to be held in September 2000, this event will showcase the work of Latino producers.
Circuit Network
(as fiscal agent for La Pocha Nostra)
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support rehearsal and production costs of La Pocha Nostra's Borderscape 2000 for performances in San Francisco. Borderscape will be an original performance piece that explores the American experience from a Chicano perspective.
City Lights Youth Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Musical Theater
To support the commission, development, and performance of a new musical for young people by Will Holt. City Lights Youth Theatre's artistic staff and students will collaborate with the composer Will Holt in the development of a new musical, School and Cool, a work for and about young people.
City of El Paso
El Paso, TX
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Local Arts Agency
To support the 1999 String Series. The Series will feature solo guitarists Fabio Zanon, Sharon Isbin, and Carlos Barbosa in performance at the Chamizal National Memorial Theater in El Paso for audiences from El Paso and bordering cities of Mexico.
City of Las Vegas Charleston Heights Arts Center
Las Vegas, NV
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the presentation of Second Hand Dance at the 20th anniversary of the Choreographers Showcase. The company will provide workshops for choreographers, dancers, and the public; a special performance before the Showcase; and an original dance piece for the Showcase.
City of Regent
(as fiscal agent for Enchanted Highway)
Regent, ND
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support the commission of a public art piece along a North Dakota highway. Artist Gary Greff will be commissioned to design and fabricate Geese in Flight, a large-scale metal sculpture approximately 90 feet high.
City Parks Foundation (Summerstage)
New York, NY
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Presenting
To support New Works, New Voices, commissions and presentations of work throughout the 1999 summer season. Through the commissioning of new work, this project will present New York and United States debuts of international artists and provide showcase opportunities for emerging artists as well as develop creative links between artists of different genres and traditions.
Civic Fine Arts Association
Sioux Falls, SD
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the presentation in Sioux Falls of the traveling exhibitions Beadworks, American Glass, Jazz: William Claxton Photographs, and a site-specific installation by Chris Larson. The exhibitions will be presented on the occasion of the opening of the Center's new space in the Washington Pavilion of Arts and Sciences.
College Community Services, Inc. (Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts)
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the presentation of the 1999-2000 World of Dance Series program. Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts' World of Dance Series premieres new and emerging artists in dance and presents the more folkloric dance companies from other countries.
Colorado Dance Festival, Inc.
Boulder, CO
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support in 1999-2000 the presentation of Colorado Dance Festival's Let's Dance Together: The Americas! program. This is the third year of a four year project that celebrates the dances of the Americas and the Caribbean, and will include performances and educational and outreach activities designed to attract dance professionals and community members.
Colorado Music Festival
Boulder, CO
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the Music in the American Century project during the Colorado Music Festival. The project will focus on performances of works of the 20th century that have had the largest influence on the development of western musical style and of works that illustrate influences and interactions of European and American cultures on contemporary musical styles.
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center
Colorado Springs, CO
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support an exhibition of Chinese art from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City that will be paired with pieces from the Center's permanent collection. The exhibition is the second in The Nature of Looking series that examines groupings of prominent works from different cultures rarely seen in this region.
Columbia College
Chicago, IL
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the presentation of dance performances in 1999-2000. The Columbia College- Dance Center's program will include a co-presentation with local artists; the 9th annual DanceAfrica Chicago Festival; performances and residency activities of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company; and a festival of artists from the Pacific Rim.
Columbia University in the City of New York (Miller Theater)
New York, NY
$6,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the presentation of Latin Jazz Masters, a series of two concerts. Scheduled to be performed in the spring of 1999, the concerts will feature jazz artists Chico O'Farrill and Tito Puente and their bands.
Columbus College Foundation
Columbus, GA
$35,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Festival of the Deep South, a week-long celebratory event to include performances of traditional music, dance, oral traditions, forums and live demonstrations of crafts and traditional skills.
Community Visual Art Association
Jackson, WY
$14,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support the Borders Project, a public art project examining issues of Mexican immigration, the environment and land use, and the local community. These activities are a component of a citywide Hispanic Cultural Festival celebrating the millennium.
Composers Conference & Chamber Music Center, Inc.
Wellesley, MA
$6,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support The Composer's Project at Wellesley College which will enable young composers to study with senior composers and players, including the presentation and recording of their works in four free concerts by new music experts. Ten young composers will be given the chance to attend the 55th Annual Composers Conference to be held in the summer of 1999.
Connecticut Player's Foundation, Inc. (Long Wharf Theater)
New Haven, CT
$41,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the presentation of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing in the spring of 1999. The Long Wharf Theatre will set the production of Much Ado About Nothing in Harlem of 1919 when the principal black units of the American expeditionary force marched up Lenox Avenue.
Contemporary American Theater Festival, Inc.
Shepherdstown, WV
$6,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support expenses associated with the rehearsal and production of a new play. Holy Hell, adapted by Jon Klein from the contemporary novel Raising Holy Hell by Bruce Olds and directed by Darrell Larson, will premiere in the summer of 1999.
Contemporary Art Institute of New York, Inc. (Downtown Arts Festival)
New York, NY
$16,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Presenting
To support the Downtown Arts Festival. The Festival is a ten-day event that presents a broad sampling of the contemporary arts communities located in lower region of New York City.
Contemporary Arts Center
New Orleans, LA
$12,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support venue fee subsidy, support services, and career development opportunities for local and regional performing artists. The Center's Performance Support Program assists artists who lack access to professional venues by providing technical support, marketing, and other services.
Cornerstone Theater Company
Santa Monica, CA
$33,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the creation, production, and tour of a new work to be created in collaboration with residents of four Los Angeles area neighborhoods. The new play, The BH Bridge Show, written by playwright Lisa Loomer and directed by Bill Rauch, will be presented in venues in Boyle Heights, Broadway/Hill (Chinatown), Baldwin Hills and Beverly Hills and tour to Bunker Hill in downtown Los Angeles.
Coro de Ninos de San Juan, Inc.
San Juan, PR
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support Christmas Concerts and a local tour to rural areas in Puerto Rico. The 1999 Christmas Concert is at the Performing Arts Center Festival Hall in San Juan and the tour will consist of eight free performances.
Coterie, Inc.
Kansas City, MO
$16,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support "Inspecting Identity", a three play project for multigenerational audiences. The productions under consideration include Little Tommy Parker Celebrated Minstrel Show by Carlyle Brown, Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell, and a commissioned work by Laurie Brooks Gollobin entitled Wrestling Season.
Currier Gallery of Art
Manchester, NH
$33,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the presentation, with extensive educational programming, of the traveling exhibition Maxfield Parrish, 1870-1966. This will be the first major museum exhibition of this popular native son's work in New Hampshire in over 40 years and the Currier expects to bring a sense of his achievements to a substantial New England audience.
D.C. Wheel Productions, Inc. (Dance Place)
Washington, DC
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the presentation of a series of professional performances and residencies as part of Dance Place's 1999-2000 programming. This series will feature a roster of culturally and aesthetically diverse dancers and companies.
Da Camera Society of Texas
Houston, TX
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the presentation of two multi-media concert productions. Both presentations, The Musical World of Thomas Mann and Moondrunk, a work which features Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire, integrate aspects of a traditional chamber music concert with video, slide technology, and lighting and will be presented during the 1999-2000 season.
Dagmar Collective, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support the collaboration of performance artist John Kelly and composer David Del Tredici to create a new work. Entitled The Solid Ground, the piece is a song cycle for countertenor and piano, written by Mr. Del Tredici and based on the poetry of and performed by Mr. Kelly.
Dale Warland Singers
Minneapolis, MN
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support an Americana concert featuring newly commissioned arrangements of traditional American folk songs and spirituals. The program will be developed for several performances on subscription concerts in the spring of 2000, a family concert, educational programs to area schools, touring programs, a radio broadcast and an eventual recording after the project period.
Dallas Opera
Dallas, TX
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support a new production of the opera La Clemenza di Tito by Mozart during
1999-2000. This production will be a Dallas Opera premiere.
Dallas Symphony Association, Inc.
Dallas, TX
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support performances of a series of programs called New Artists for the New Century. The performances of seven different programs during the 1999-2000 season feature guest artists considered to be rising stars in the field of classical music, premieres of new works commissioned by the Symphony, or "second hearings" of late 20th century orchestral works worthy of consideration for inclusion in the standard orchestral repertoire.
Dance Theater Workshop, Inc.
New York, NY
$70,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the presentation of Dance Theater Workshop's 1999-2000 Carnival and MainEvents program. Carnival features the work of nine artists at various stages of their careers, and MainEvents provides established, mid-career companies with extended performance runs of up to three weeks.
Dance Umbrella
Austin, TX
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support Moving to the Millenium through Culture, Form, and Content, a continuing project of Dance Umbrella's presenting activities. The project will feature such artists as Soweto Street Beat, La Tania, Diavolo, Robert Henry Johnson, Robert Moses, Donald Byrd the Group, and Kirk Franklin.
Dancers Collective of Atlanta, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support commissioning, presenting and educational activities for Dancers Collective of Atlanta during 1999-2000. Artists included in the project are David Dorfman, Philadanco, and Mark Morris Dance Group.
DanceWorks, Inc. (Pentacle) (Consortium)
New York, NY
$70,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support two cycles of an international dance creative residency program designed to provide new support structures for choreographers often characterized as mid-career. Pentacle, Danspace Project, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, and Multi-Arts Projects and Productions will work with selected artists from New York, London, and Lisbon.
Danmari, Ltd. (The Yass Hakoshima Mime Theatre)
Montclair, NJ
$12,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the creation and presentation of Daybreak in a Buddhist Monastery, by Yass Hakoshima. Two performances will be held at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center and at the Asian Society of New York City.
Danspace Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the presentation of Danspace Project's 25th Anniversary Silver Series. The series will include performance work by artists who have contributed to the history of Danspace; archival films and videos; and recountings of oral histories that will be gathered and edited.
Dartmouth College (Hood Museum of Art)
Hanover, NH
$13,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the planning phase of a traveling exhibition of art of the peoples of the Papuan Gulf region of New Guinea. The proposed exhibition will examine the major forms of artistic expression (e.g., bioma figures, gope or ancestor boards, masks, etc.) characteristic of the peoples living on the southern coast of Papua New Guinea.
Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra Association
Dayton, OH
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the presentation of Classical Connections performances. This informal concert format is designed to help audience members become more knowledgeable about and comfortable with symphonic music and will occur in February, April, and October of 1999.
Deaf West Theatre Company, Inc.
North Hollywood, CA
$12,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the commissioning, development, and production of a new work, Silent Slaves, based on a fictional, deaf Mexican family and slave trading in America. To be presented at Actors Alley at the El Portal (North Hollywood) and adapted for a one-hour, youth-oriented version for school groups, the play will be a collaboration between the deaf and hearing, co-written by a deaf playwright.
Deep Ellum Theatre Group (Undermain Theatre)
Dallas, TX
$12,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the presentation and publication of a new play, Three Mountains, by playwrights Octavio Solis and Erik Ehn. The finished production will incorporate video and super 8 film elements.
Denver Center for the Performing Arts (Denver Center Theatre Company)
Denver, CO
$11,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the expenses associated with a new play development program entitled the
US West TheatreFest. The project includes world premieres of Nagle Jackson's The Elevation of Thieves and a new play to be chosen from readings during the 1998 TheatreFest, and an annual two-week project devoted to the development, rehearsal and public reading of up to eight new plays.
Des Moines Symphony Association
Des Moines, IA
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a celebration of the end of the millennium by performing the premiere performance of a new work by composer David Ott and a retrospective of major 20th century American and Mexican orchestral works and significant education and outreach activities. The piece, to be performed in April 2000, will recognize major 20th century space travel, especially the 30th anniversary of the moon landing.
Discalced, Inc. (Mark Morris Dance Group)
New York, NY
$70,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a dance based on the abridged version of Virgil Thomson's 1934 opera Four Saints in Three Acts. Choreographed by Mark Morris for the Mark Morris Dance Group, this complete theatrical production features a libretto by Gertrude Stein, and will premiere in London.
Djerassi Resident Artists Program
Woodside, CA
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support ten artists' residencies. The project will provide residencies for two media/new genre artists, two visual artists, three composers, and three choreographers, providing them with studios, living accommodations and meals.
DOVA, Inc. (Doug Varone and Dancers)
New York, NY
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the presentation of Doug Varone and Dancers' performances at The Joyce Theater. The performances will include the creation and premiere of a new work by choreographer Doug Varone; the reconstruction of one or more repertory pieces; and the contracting of live musical accompaniment (Bang on a Can All Stars) for a New York premiere.
Downtown Arts Project (The State Theatre)
Modesto, CA
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support artists' fees and expenses for performances by two chamber ensembles. The Mendelssohn String Quartet with guests Robert Mann and Bonnie Hampton and the Munich Chamber Orchestra will be presented in the 1999-2000 season at The State Theatre.
Duke University (Consortium)
Durham, NC
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support a consortium with the African-American Dance Ensemble and Triangle Opera Theater and Duke Artist Series for residency activities and presentation of a dance opera. The three act dance opera will be choreographed by Chuck Davis with music composed by William Banfield and libretto by Penelope Bridges.
DVQ Association (The Da Vinci Quartet)
Colorado Springs, CO
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a series of performance events highlighting the role of Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge in the development of chamber music in the United States during this century. Events will take place at the Houston Fine Arts Center on the campus of Denver University and at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center in the 1998-99 season.
Earplay
San Francisco, CA
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support concerts of contemporary chamber music. Performances by Earplay, a contemporary music ensemble, will take place at the Yuerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco and center around the theme of the end of the millennium by pairing 20th century classics with new pieces by some of the coming century's talented young composers.
Earshot Jazz Society of Seattle
Seattle, WA
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a celebration of the centenary of Duke Ellington's birth. Included in the 1999 year-long celebration will be concerts, lectures, symposia, collaborations, and educational activities plus the performance, recording for radio broadcast and compact disc, of Ellington's Sacred Music.
EBS Productions, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the 1999 International Film Financing Conference. This annual event was established to encourage and increase collaborations between American producers and international film production entities.
El Teatro de la Esperanza
San Francisco, CA
$16,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the Tu-Solo-Tu Festival, a performance series of new solo works created and developed by Latino solo artists. Bay Area and nationally selected artists will explore Chicano and Mexican theatrical forms (teatro revista/actos/carpa/corrido), as applied to solo performance and contemporary themes.
Ensemble Studio Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$12,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the annual Marathon Festival of One-Act Plays. One-act plays from established, emerging, and new writers will be selected and presented during six weeks beginning in early May 1999.
Ensemble Theatre
Houston, TX
$8,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the presentation of a play commissioned by Celeste Bedford-Walker. The play will address the challenges confronted by high school students in alternative learning environments.
ETA Creative Arts Foundation
Chicago, IL
$24,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support residencies of African-American playwrights for the development of original scripts and subsequent mounting of world premieres on the mainstage. The Playwright's Discovery Initiative will engage two playwrights in three to six weeks residencies, collaborating with the production team on the play refinement process.
Exit Art/The First World, Inc.
New York, NY
$18,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support the planning for Futurama, an exhibition and catalogue of the work of young and emerging artists from around the world. The organization hopes to engage a multi-ethnic and multi-national audience through the presentation of artwork from various cultures and countries.
Exploratorium
San Francisco, CA
$38,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support a residency project in which several artists will create new works as part of a new museum exhibit area called Seeing. Each of the works will engage visitors in examining the scientific, social, and cultural influences that shape how we see the world.
Fabric Workshop, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the Artist-in-Residence program, which will provide opportunities for several artists to create new work incorporating fabric. The completed projects will be presented in a series of solo exhibitions, and the public will be able to follow the artists' creative process through an open studio program.
Facets Multi-Media Inc.
Chicago, IL
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the annual Chicago International Children's Film Festival and related media arts programs for children. These include animation workshops, a media arts camp, media literacy courses, special exhibition of films for children throughout the year, curriculum development (in conjunction with the festival), and expanding Facets' Web site.
Figures of Speech Theatre
Freeport, ME
$6,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the creation and production of an original puppet theater adaptation of the Comanche story She-Who-is-Alone. The work will emphasize visual metaphor, myth, and transformation through the interplay of actors, puppets, masks, and movement.
Fiji Theater Company, Inc. (Ping Chong and Company)
New York, NY
$41,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the development and presentation of Secret History, an interdisciplinary theater work by director Ping Chong. The play will premiere at LaMama Experimental Theatre Company in New York during the 1999-2000 season.
Film Arts Foundation
San Francisco, CA
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support Providing the Tools, a new initiative to help media artists produce, exhibit, and distribute their work. This includes a targeted expansion of Film Arts Foundation's (FAF) classes, monthly publication, web site, facilities offerings, and marketing its exhibition program.
Film Society of Lincoln Center
New York, NY
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support Politics and Cinema: Three Artistic Voices. This film series will study the works of the Dutch filmmaker Joris Ivens, filmmaking in the Soviet 1960s, and include a retrospective of Cuban cinema from 1930 to the present.
Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown
Provincetown, MA
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support seven-month residencies for emerging writers and visual artists. Support includes housing, work space and monthly stipends for up to 20 residencies.
Flynn Theatre for the Performing Arts, Ltd.
Burlington, VT
$22,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Presenting
To support presenting, residency, and commissioning fees and other associated costs for Culture Complex, a series of performing arts residencies. Artists to be involved include Robert LePage, a joint presentation of Junebug/Pregones/Roadside Theaters, Chen Shi- Zheng, Yara Arts Group/Buryat National Theater, Fred Ho, and the Asian-American Jazz Orchestra.
Fort Wayne Philharmonic Orchestra, Inc.
Fort Wayne, IN
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a new concert series, Fort Wayne Philharmonic 'Unplugged'. This project will feature the Philharmonic's "core" chamber orchestra performing classical repertoire in an informal, non-traditional atmosphere.
Foundation for Dance Promotion, Inc. (Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company)
New York, NY
$35,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support creation of two new works choreographed by Bill T. Jones. The new works, a jazz project and The Echo, will be created for the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company.
Friends of Olympia Station, Inc. (Pickle Family Circus)
Santa Cruz, CA
$24,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Musical Theater
To support the creation of a new American circus work featuring from the New Pickle Circus performers and jazz band in collaboration with the African-American a cappella group Street Sounds. The creative team of New Pickle artistic director Tandy Beal; Louise Robinson, co-founder of Sweet Honey in the Rock and artistic director of Street Sounds; and Zane Mark, musical director of Bring In Da Noise, Bring In Da Funk, will create a circus work enhanced by gospel, rap, blues, hip-hop, and jazz.
Fua Dia Congo
Oakland, CA
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support Malaki Matanga, a two-day presentation of music and dance blending two ancient cultural traditions and rituals from Central Africa.
Fund for the Borough of Brooklyn, Inc. (Celebrate Brooklyn)
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the second year of Celebrate Brooklyn's dance initiative. The Celebrate Brooklyn performing arts festival will include five commissions, residencies, and performance opportunities for emerging and established artists and their companies.
Fund for Women Artists
Northampton, MA
$9,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support a collaboration between women theater artists to develop a new work. The project will bring playwright/author Pearl Cleage, dramaturg/director Andrea Hairston, writer/performer Diane Beckett, and performer/movement coach Joy Voeth together for a four-week period to create the first draft of a new play based on the life of African-American blues singer Big Mama Thornton.
Gamelan Sekar Jaya
El Cerrito, CA
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the creation and presentation of new works by composers Richard Marriott, Michael Tenzer and I Nyoman Windha written for Western and Balinese instruments to be performed during Gamelan Sekar Jaya's 20th anniversary festival. The festival will take in the Bay Area during two weeks in October 1999.
Garth Fagan Dance, Inc.
Rochester, NY
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a new work and the revival of two early works choreographed by Garth Fagan. The new work will premiere in New York City and during the company's home season in Rochester, New York.
George Coates Performance Works
San Francisco, CA
$12,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the development and production of a new music theater work. George Coates Performance Works will present The Blind Messenger, a musical theater work with a mixed voice chorus that will be based on an original score by Chinese American composer Forrest Fang with projected stage sets created by fine art photographer Steven Joseph.
Glimmerglass Opera, Inc. (Consortium)
Cooperstown, NY
$75,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support a consortium project with New York City Opera for the commissioning and production of Central Park, three one-act operas, in 1999-2000. The three operas, sharing a common setting in Central Park, will be performed as a single production, and feature composer/librettist teams: Deborah Drattell/Wendy Wasserstein, Michael Torke/A.R. Gurney, and RobertBeaser/Terrence McNally.
Goodspeed Opera House Foundation, Inc.
East Haddam, CT
$33,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Musical Theater
To support the development and production of a new musical Glimmerglass. The Goodspeed Opera House will develop with composer Doug Cohen, lyricist Ted Drachman, and book writer Jonathan Bolt a new musical based on James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking Tales.
Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center
San Antonio, TX
$75,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support Gateways, a large scale multidisciplinary project to increase cultural exchange and collaboration between artists in the United States and Mexico. GCAC will commission a new choreography work that involves bi-national collaboration and will present this and other works that focus on border themes by U.S. Latino and Mexican visual artists, writers, musicians, dancers, filmmakers, and theater artists.
Guthrie Theater Foundation
Minneapolis, MN
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the production of The Iceman Cometh by Eugene O'Neill. The 1939 rarely seen play, directed by Artistic Director Joe Dowling and performed as part of the theater's 1999-2000 season, will be attended by more than 40,000 people from the Twin Cities and Upper Midwest.
Hallwalls, Inc.
Buffalo, NY
$24,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support production costs, artist fees, travel, and subsistence for the multidisciplinary Hallwalls Artist-in-Residence Project. The selected artists will have access to equipment, technical support, workspace, and will provide public presentations to interact with local artists and audiences.
Hambidge Center for Creative Arts & Sciences, Inc.
Rabun Gap, GA
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support costs for residencies, stipends and travel expenses for underserved artists. The project will expand the current program specifically designated for underserved artists in memory of artist Nellie Mae Rowe to include up to five artists for twelve-week residencies.
Handel and Haydn Society
Boston, MA
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support rehearsal and performance fees for the Handel/Haydn Millennium Project which includes a performance of Haydn's Mass in the Time of War and a semi-staged production of Handel's opera Semele. The performances will take place during the 1999-2000 season in Boston's Symphony Hall.
Hartford Stage Company, Inc.
Hartford, CT
$33,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the production of Tennessee Williams' Camino Real as part of the second annual Williams Marathon. Hartford Stage Company's Williams Marathon will be an extensive inquiry into the life and work of the playwright Tennessee Williams with a full production each year and will include symposia, play readings, workshops, and lectures.
Harvestworks, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the Artists' Access Program. This program will provide up to 20 artists with residencies to create new work using digital media equipment; and will offer classes for artists in the use of digital technology.
Headlands Center for the Arts
Sausalito, CA
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support the US Artists-in-Residence (US AIR) and Public Programs providing housing, travel, meals and a stipend for U.S. artists. US AIR will give up to 20 artists the opportunity to focus on creative development and to participate in public programs which introduce the larger community to the range of possibilities for art's function in contemporary life.
Heckscher Museum
Huntington, NY
$12,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the exhibition Betty Parsons: Her Art and Her Artists, and an accompanying catalogue. The exhibition will include works created by this New York art dealer in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s, as well as works by artists from Parson's personal collection.
Helena Presents, Inc.
Helena, MT
$26,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Presenting
To support Cultural Crossings IV, a thematic, performing arts presentation and residency series. Artists to be included are musician Robert Mirabel, David Dorfman Dance and Dan Froot, Zeitgeist with Paul Dresher, jazz artist Donald Byrd, and musicians Fred Ho and Philip Aaberg, among others.
Henson Foundation
New York, NY
$9,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support a commission to create and produce a new work of puppet theater. Chicago's Redmoon Theater will receive a commission to create a new work based on Shakespeare's classic Macbeth; the developed work will premiere in Chicago in September 1999.
Heritage & Tradition, Inc. (AVAZ)
Los Angeles, CA
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support creation of two new works. Ney Navaz will be choreographed by Associate Director Jamal and Gol-Ozar will be choreographed by Artistic Director Anthony Shay for AVAZ.
His Majestie's Clerkes
Chicago, IL
$6,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support historically informed concert performances of little known works by Marc-Antoine Charpentier, a French Baroque composer. Two performances of this program will take place in April 2000.
Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival
Hot Springs, AR
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the 1999 Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival. Attended by over 12,000 people, this festival is dedicated to the art of non-fiction film.
House Foundation for the Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the creation of a new music-theater piece. This piece will include an ensemble of 12 dancers and singers with choreography and music by Meredith Monk and installations by visual artist Ann Hamilton.
Houston Ballet
Houston, TX
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support Houston Ballet's regional touring initiative, the Texas Touring Program, in its 1999-2000 season. This touring program will be an annual statewide event, dedicating one or two weeks of each year to touring performances in the Texas communities.
Houston Center for Photography
Houston, TX
$35,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support Gallery X, a series of five solo exhibitions featuring the work of emerging artists. This program offers photographers of limited exhibition experience the opportunity of an exhibition and catalogue to document their work.
Hudson River Museum of Westchester
Yonkers, NY
$14,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support an exhibition entitled Drip, Blow, Burn, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will showcase the work of American artists who employ wind, water, and fire as integral components of their work.
Imago, Theatre Mask Ensemble
Portland, OR
$9,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the creation of an original work by Imago's Co-Artistic Director Carol Trifle. Imago will incorporate the spoken word, movement, multimedia imagery, and dance to explore human relationships, comedy, and the transitory nature of life.
Independent Eye, Ltd.
Philadelphia, PA
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the development and initial presentation of a new work, a collection of short dramatic pieces drawn from the mythologies of underworld journeys. The new play, Going to Hell (working title), will be created and performed by Independent Eye's co-directors Conrad Bishop and Elizabeth Fuller for presentation in Philadelphia in the year 2000.
Independent Media Artists of Georgia, Etc.
Atlanta, GA
$8,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the 1999 Atlanta Film and Video Festival. This event presents the best of current independent film and video to an average audience of 7,000 people.
Indiana Repertory Theatre, Inc. (Consortium)
Indianapolis, IN
$39,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the commissioning, development, and workshop of a new stage adaptation by playwright and educator Charles Smith of Indiana native Theodore Dreiser's novel, Sister Carrie. This consortium project between Indiana Repertory Theatre and Ohio University Theatre Department, Athens, Ohio will extend the new work development process into a new model of professional and education collaboration.
Indiana State Symphony Society, Inc. (Indianapolis Symphony)
Indianapolis, IN
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the Music of Spain Festival, consisting of performances by the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra of classical symphonic music by Spanish composers and composers influenced by the Spanish culture and style of music composition and educational activities. The three-week festival is currently scheduled to take place in January 2000.
International Association of Jazz Educators
Manhattan, KS
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support artists' fees and production costs related to the annual International Association of Jazz Educators Conference. The 27th annual conference will be held in New Orleans in January 2000 and will bring together more than 6,000 jazz educators, musicians, students, and industry personnel from around the world for workshops, clinics, master classes and performances.
Iowa State University (University Museums)
Ames, IA
$6,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support an exhibition of the work of Danish-born American artist Christian Petersen (1885-1961), with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will review Petersen's contribution to American Regionalist Art as a sculptor, primarily on the ISU campus.
Jack Straw Foundation
Seattle, WA
$22,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support the creation of new works by Northwest audio artists produced in the studio of Jack Straw Productions and presented to the public through a variety of events and radio programs. The project includes residencies for ten Northwest audio artists and two commissions for new work.
Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Inc.
Lee, MA
$70,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the commissions, creative residencies, and world premiere performances by four choreographers during Jacob Pillow's 1999 Festival. Jacob's Pillow has chosen to commission choreographers Trisha Brown, Sean Curran, Doug Varone, and Ron Brown to create new works.
Jazz in the City
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the 1999 San Francisco Jazz Festival, Jazz in the City's core production. A jazz celebration which includes concerts in numerous Bay Area venues, the two-week fall Festival comprises of more than 20 jazz concerts performed by both emerging artists and world-renowned musicians, in total attracting more than 50,000 patrons.
Jazz Institute of Chicago, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the presentation of Jazz and the Millennium: Louis Armstrong's Legacy for the Future. This September 1999 concert presentation will explore the influences of Armstrong's innovations from the 20's to the present, including a commissioned composition by Lester Bowie celebrating and honoring Armstrong's contributions to one of America's most important native art forms.
Jewish Museum
New York, NY
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the exhibition The Wertheimer Portraits of John Singer Sargent and an accompanying catalogue. These twelve portraits of London art dealer Asher Wertheimer and his family were painted between 1898 and 1908, and this will be the first time they have been exhibited together in over 70 years.
Joe Goode Performance Group
San Francisco, CA
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support artists fees and associated costs for the creation and presentation of a new work. The creation of this new piece, under the working title Gender Heroes will involve the six company members and Artistic Director Joe Goode.
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Washington, DC
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the Mary Lou Williams Women in Jazz Festival. The May 1999 Festival will showcase the talents of some of the finest women musicians in jazz music and highlight their contributions to the development of jazz.
John Harms Concerts, Inc. (John Harms Center for Performing Arts)
Englewood, NJ
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the Dance Residency Program, held in conjunction with the 1998-99 Dance Series. The Dance Residency Program will be piloted at three Englewood public elementary schools as well as community venues.
Joyce Theater Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$70,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the presentation of six dance projects during The Joyce Theater Foundation's 1999-2000 season. These projects include the presentation of the Altogether Different Summer Series, Ballet British Columbia, Shapiro & Smith Dance, Stephen Petronio Company, Nederlands Dans Theater 3, & Joyce SoHo Presents.
Juneau Jazz & Classics
Juneau, AK
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the production and presentation of a 10-day festival of classical and jazz music. Activities for the May 1999 festival include a series of concerts, workshops, open rehearsals, free performances, radio broadcasts, and in-school concerts for high school students provided by 24 musicians.
Junebug Productions
New Orleans, LA
$35,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support residencies and a performance series by three artists. Junebug has planned a performance series of plays to add to the repertory and programming focusing on New Orleans themes and neighborhoods.
KanKouran West African Dance Company
Washington, DC
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the 16th Annual Conference and Concert '99, a week-long series of workshops in traditional African dance and music culminating in a self-produced full concert.
Kansas City Ballet Association, Inc. (State Ballet of Missouri)
Kansas City, MO
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support in 1999-2000, the creation and presentation of a new ballet. The work, entitled Suite Kander, will be choreographed by Ann Reinking to live music by John Kander for the State Ballet of Missouri.
Kansas City Chamber Orchestra, Inc.
Prairie Village, KS
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the creation and presentation of a concerto for violin and string orchestra by Kansas City composer Jean Belmont. The work will be premiered by the Kansas City Chamber Orchestra during the 1999-2000 season.
Kearny Street Workshop, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support the commissioning and exhibition of new work by the artist Flo Oy Wong exploring immigration issues. The project, entitled made in usa: Angel Island Shhh, will explore the practice of falsifying identities by Chinese immigrants during the entry interrogation process at the Angel Island Immigration Station from 1910 to 1940.
Kentucky Dance Council (Louisville Ballet)
Louisville, KY
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the creation of a new contemporary ballet entitled Lucy, the Ballet. This work will be choreographed by Louisville Ballet's Artistic Director Alun Jones and set to an original composition by Shirl Jae Atwell, a Louisville, Kentucky composer.
Kings Majestic Corporation
Brooklyn, NY
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by jazz pianist Randy Weston.
Kitka, Inc.
Oakland, CA
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a performance series and Northern California tour of concerts and community outreach activities that present vocal music rooted in Balkan and Slavic women's singing traditions. The fall 1999 performances will take place in Oakland and will include a world premiere of, Women in Black, a multi-disciplinary work involving the collaboration of the Thais Mazur Dance Project, a company of dancers with and without physical disabilities, set designer Lauren Elder, and instrumentalist and composer Katrina Wreede.
Knoxville Opera Company
Knoxville, TN
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support an arena production of the opera Aida by Giuseppi Verdi in 1999. The opera, featuring a cast of over 300, will celebrate Knoxville Opera Company's 20th anniversary and Knoxville's Annual Dogwood Arts Festival.
Kuumbwa Jazz Society
Santa Cruz, CA
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support artists' fees for weekly jazz concerts featuring nationally known, emerging and regional jazz artists. The concerts will occur throughout 1999 and will be presented at the Kuumba Jazz Society.
La Mama Experimental Theatre Club, Inc.
New York, NY
$8,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support a multidisciplinary, theatrical adaptation of Charlotte Bronte's novel, Jane Eyre, utilizing puppets, slides, film, and live actors, singers, and musicians in an operatic format. Experimental theater collaborators will work to unravel the essential elements of this classic to create a dream-like environment in which artists and audience see the story unfold from Jane Eyre's perspective.
La Pena Cultural Center, Inc.
Berkeley, CA
$7,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a series of concerts and lecture-demonstrations entitled Jazz Translations, featuring musicians who perform various forms of jazz such as Latin jazz, Asian jazz, straight ahead jazz, and jazz which combines hip-hop, poetry and dance. These programs will take place at the La Pena Cultural Center and in the San Antonio neighborhood of East Oakland in 1998-99.
Lake George Arts Project, Inc.
Lake George, NY
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support costs related to the presentation of jazz artists and ensembles during the annual Lake George Jazz Weekend. This two-day jazz festival will be held in mid-September 1999 at Shepherd Park on the shores of Lake George, New York.
Light Work Visual Studies, Inc.
Syracuse, NY
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support residencies for up to 15 artists and publication of their work in Contact Sheet. The Artist-In-Residence program is open to photographers and artists working in related electronic media to provide them with the time, resources, and technical support to create new work.
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$62,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Presenting
To support Lincoln Center Festival 99. In July 1999, major artists and ensembles from the United States and abroad will be presented alongside Lincoln Center artistic fare in a format that features both the classical and the contemporary arts.
LINES Contemporary Ballet
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a world premiere ballet by Artistic Director Alonzo King. The piece will be set to previously unrecorded music by Henryk Gorecki.
Loft, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support Double Take, a series of collaborative public programs exploring relationships between literature and other art forms and pastimes. The project will commission a diverse slate of Minnesota writers to create original works inspired by music, sports, visual arts, and literature of the past, and present the resulting works at interdisciplinary events cosponsored by cultural institutions and community organizations.
Long Beach Symphony Association
Long Beach, CA
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the presentation of Latin American composers by the Long Beach Symphony. Under the direction of Music Director JoAnn Falletta, the proposed works will be augmented with the visual element of Argentinean and flamenco dancers and will take place in the fall of 1999.
Lookingglass Theatre Company
Chicago, IL
$12,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support creation and presentation of a new adaptation of Ovid's The Metamorphoses.
Los Angeles Philharmonic Association
Los Angeles, CA
$200,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the second year of The Surprising Century, a two-year retrospective examining the diversity of the 20th century music. During 1999-2000, performances will include atypical works by well-known composers, works of very different musical styles by contemporary composers, and repertoire by lesser-known composers of this century.
Los Angeles Poetry Festival
Los Angeles, CA
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the Fin de Millennium Poetry Festival, a city-wide celebration of poetry featuring well-known Los Angeles writers as well as national literary figures. Scheduled for November 1999, the festival will feature poetry readings in venues such as Beyond Baroque Literary Center, the Japanese American Museum, Self-Help Graphic, and the World Stage.
Los Angeles Poverty Department
Los Angeles, CA
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the ARTIFACTS Project, the creation and presentation of a new play considering the meaning of physical objects in personal memory.
Lyric Opera of Chicago
Chicago, IL
$100,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support artists' fees and related costs for the production of the world premiere of the opera A View from the Bridge by composer William Bolcom and co-librettists Arthur Miller and Arnold Weinstein in 1999-2000. The opera is based on the original play of Arthur Miller and is the third new work commissioned through the Lyric Opera of Chicago's "Toward the 21stCentury" program.
Mabou Mines Development Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$31,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the final rehearsal and presentation of Animal Magnetism, an original theatrical production written and directed by Terry O'Reilly. For presentation in fall 1999 at the P.S. 122 Theater in New York City, the play deals with culture and assimilation of first and third-world populations as seen through the metaphor of the separation between species.
Madame Walker Building Urban Life Center, Inc. (Madam Walker Theatre Center)
Indianapolis, IN
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the Madame Walker Center's Theatre Series presentation of a production by Root Wy'mn Theatre Company of Austin, Texas.
Madison Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Madison, WI
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support Decade by Decade: A Century of Music and Art, a five-concert chamber music series featuring work from 1951 to the present. Scheduled for 1999-2000, this project will emphasize trends in modern music: the avant-garde, conservativism, folk, atonalism, nationalism, and "chance."
Main Line Art Center
Haverford, PA
$38,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support Points of Departure: Art on the Line, a series of site-specific installations in historic train stations along Philadelphia's Main Line. Nationally recognized artists will be commissioned to create new work for train stations from Amtrak's 30th Street to Bryn Mawr.
Maryland Art Place, Inc.
Baltimore, MD
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support a four-day residency and workshop for two nationally known critics and the publication of a catalogue. Critics Sue Canning and Laurence Hegarty will conduct workshops with local artists and writers and participate in a public forum to discuss current issues in art criticism.
Mattress Factory, Ltd.
Pittsburgh, PA
$35,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support an exhibition of site-specific installations by artists from Japan, Korea, China, Thailand, Singapore, and Indonesia. The exhibition will be the culmination of one-month residencies by the artists and will coincide with the triennial 1999 Carnegie International exhibition of contemporary art.
McCarter Theatre Company
Princeton, NJ
$62,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the world premiere of Nilo Cruz's Two Sisters and a Piano. The production will run for 20 performances, plus student matinees.
Memphis Concert Ballet Corporation (Ballet Memphis)
Memphis, TN
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the creation of a signature piece for Ballet Memphis by choreographer Trey McIntyre. The piece will celebrate the rich musical heritage of Memphis and its impact around the world.
Merced County Courthouse Museum/Historical Society
Merced, CA
$6,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the traveling exhibition Forty Acre Dreams: Agriculture and Immigration in the Great Central Valley, with accompanying audio oral histories and brochure. The project explores the social landscape of the Valley and its largely immigrant communities.
Miami Arts Project
Miami, FL
$38,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support the Miami Arts Project, a public art project designed to examine the evolution of Miami's development. Centered around the work of the Rome-based team Stalker and several American artists, the project is the investigation of abandoned areas of the city through the process of actually walking or "stalking" the city.
Miami City Ballet, Inc.
Miami Beach, FL
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of Evening of Ballroom Ballet. This work includes the creation of three separate sections over a three-year period, with the full- length ballet being presented in 2000-01.
Miami Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Coral Gables, FL
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support Hispanic Heritage Celebration, a two-concert project that will feature Hispanic musicians as soloists and works by Latin composers. The Miami Symphony, under the direction of Maestro Manuel Ochoa, will perform works by Rodrigo, Turina, and Villa-Lobos during the fall of 1999.
Midwest Center for the Literary Arts, Inc. (The Writer's Place)
Kansas City, MO
$8,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the fifth annual Poets-at-Large, a festival featuring poetry readings and discussions at artists' studios within the Kansas City metropolitan area. Scheduled for April 2000, the festival will be hosted by the Center's programming arm, The Writers Place, and feature poets such as Lorna Dee Cervantes, Gwendolyn Brooks, Mart n Espada, Albert Goldbarth, Linda Hogan, and N. Scott Momaday.
Millay Colony for the Arts, Inc.
Austerlitz, NY
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support one month residencies for nine writers, composers and visual artists at the Millay Colony. Artists selected from across the country will receive housing, studio space and meals.
Millennium Film Workshop, Inc.
New York, NY
$8,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the exhibition of experimental film and video art and the provision of filmmaking workshops.
Mills College (Center for Contemporary Music)
Oakland, CA
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support concerts of contemporary music at Mill College Center for Contemporary Music during 1999-2000. The guest composers/performers invited to participate are electronic music innovators, who will provide informal lectures and demonstrations during their "residency."
Mills College (Mills College Art Gallery)
Oakland, CA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support No Two Alike, a survey exhibition of the ceramic art of George Ohr (1857-1918). This will be the first museum exhibition on the West Coast of the artist's work.
Minnesota Film Center
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the 18th annual Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival. Held annually in the spring, this event draws over 23,000 people to see over 90 films from the United States and abroad.
Monterey Jazz Festival
Monterey, CA
$20,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the 1999 Monterey Jazz Festival, held at the Monterey County Fairgrounds. Three key components of the Festival include a commissioned work to be premiered at the Festival, artists in residence, and artists' fees for emerging jazz musicians.
Mount Saint Mary's College
Los Angeles, CA
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support 12 "Chamber Music in Historic Sites" concerts to be presented by the Da Camera Society of Mount Saint Mary's College. Taking place during the 1999-2000 season, the concerts match musical programs from a variety of cultures and periods with sites of architectural and historical significance in the Los Angeles area and have related outreach activities.
Movement Research, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support educational and performance activities of the 6th International Improvisation Festival/NY. The Festival encourages the exchange of information and ideas between the dance community, visual artists, and musicians throughout the world.
Moving Image, Inc. (Film Forum)
New York, NY
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the New York City theatrical premieres of American independent and foreign films. Film Forum is devoted to bringing a broad array of the highest quality new work, by both young and emerging artists as well as more established figures, to a large and diverse general public.
Murray State University (University Art Galleries)
Murray, KY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support an exhibition of the work of African-American artist Ellis Wilson (1899-1977) with accompanying catalogue and symposium. The exhibition will consist of 45-50 paintings drawn from some 35 private collections and museums.
Museum Associates (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
Los Angeles, CA
$130,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the exhibition Made in California, 1900-2000, with an accompanying catalogue, in celebration of the last 100 years of California art and culture. The exhibition will contain approximately 300 works in a wide range of media, including painting, sculpture, photography, graphic and decorative arts, architecture, fashion, film, and music.
Museum for Contemporary Arts
Baltimore, MD
$54,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the exhibition X Site 98--Visibility, a series of installations of new work, community based educational activities, and an accompanying catalogue. The participating artists are renowned for their exploratory work in the fields of cultural history, heritage, and place of origin.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Chicago, IL
$12,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support two exhibitions, Artist Author: The Book as Art Since 1980 and Artists' Books Before 1980: Selections from the Collection, and an artist residency program. These activities are part of "Artist/Author Month" and will also include an artists' book fair and symposium, public programs on artists' books, and school tours of the exhibition.
Museum of Jurassic Technology
Culver City, CA
$13,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support a series of microscopy exhibitions, with an accompanying catalogue and lecture series. The exhibition will travel to several museums around the country.
Music From China, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY $20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support a consortium project with the Asia Society to develop, workshop, and premiere the new opera Chinatown by Jason Kao Hwag in 1998-2000. The opera will be based on the oral histories and the individual stories of the people of Chinatown who originate from a diversity of cultures.
Music of the Baroque
Chicago, IL
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the presentation of a modern revival of Egisto, a baroque opera by Francesco Cavalli. The rehearsals and performances of this opera will take place during 1999-2000 under the direction of Music Director Thomas Wilkman.
Musical Traditions
San Francisco, CA
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the commission of works from composers Martin Bresnick and Terry Riley and the preparation for the premieres and touring of these works by the Musical Traditions' six-member Electro-Acoustic Band. This 20-month project, under the artistic direction of Paul Dresher, will take place from November 1998 through June 2000.
National Alliance for Musical Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$9,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Musical Theater
To support the costs to produce and present the National Alliance for Musical Theatre's 1999 Festival of New Musicals. The Festival of New Musicals consists of readings of eight new musicals over two days for an invited audience of producers and professionals in the field.
National Symphony Orchestra Association
Washington, DC
$85,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the National Symphony Orchestra's Percussion Festival, a week-long event of performances and educational activities highlighting the musical element of rhythm. Co-directed by percussionist Evelyn Glennie, the April 1999 Festival will feature Ms. Glennie in a performance of a commissioned work by Michael Daugherty, as well as Nexus and the Manhattan Percussion Ensemble.
Nevada Museum of Art
Reno, NV
$12,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the exhibition From Exploration to Conservation: Picturing The Sierra Nevada, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. Organized jointly with the Wilderness Society, the exhibition will examine how the Sierra Nevada has been represented in American art over the past 150 years.
New Community Cinema Club, Inc.
Huntington, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support Cinema of Diversity, four weekend-long mini film festivals. Each festival will be devoted to a different theme: women's issues, independent and international film, Latino and Hispanic culture, and Asian work.
New Dramatists, Inc.
New York, NY
$12,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the expenses associated with the Writer Development: New Works Process. The project will support 50 playwrights and more than 250 actors, singers and directors in the year-round, artist-initiated development and presentation of new plays and musicals for the American theater.
New Federal Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$37,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the expenses associated with the development and production of a new work. The Trial of William Freeman will be adapted by playwright Ron Milner from the novel by Earl Conrad and produced in a five-week run during the 1999-2000 season.
New Hampshire Symphony
Manchester, NH
$9,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the presentation of three new works by contemporary American composers. During 1998-99, the New Hampshire Symphony will perform Tison Street's Jewel Suite, Mark Kuss' Piano Concerto, and Symphony Seven by Charles Wuorinen.
New Theater, Inc. (Teatro Nuevo)
Coral Gables, FL
$9,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support expenses associated with the commission, development and production of new plays. The project will support the fourth annual New Plays Project, a mini-festival of new one-act plays by six Florida playwrights in January 2000.
New York New Music Ensemble
New York, NY
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support two concerts of previously commissioned works from the past 22 years of New York New Music Ensemble's history and associated residency activities at Hunter College. The presentation of these works during fiscal year 1999 will be integrated into the curriculum of the College's music students and will involve participation by the composers.
New York Shakespeare Festival (The Public Theater)
New York, NY
$104,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support expenses associated with world premieres of new plays developed at The Public Theater. The plays, Thulani Davis's Everybody's Ruby and Anne Garcia-Romero's Santa Concepcion, have received readings, workshops, and preliminary productions under the auspices of the LuEsther Lab which is devoted to the creation and development of new work.
New York Theatre Workshop, Inc.
New York, NY
$33,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Musical Theater
To support the development and production of a new musical theater work that will be adapted from a novel. New York Theatre Workshop will commission writer/composer Paul Scott Goodman to develop a musical adaptation of Bright Lights Big City by Jay McInerney.
Newark Museum Association
Newark, NJ
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the reinstallation of the museum's permanent collection of world renowned Tibetan art. From the Sacred Realm: Treasures of Tibetan Art in the Collection of the Newark Museum will present all aspects of the collection for the first time since 1981.
Nikolais/Louis Foundation for Dance (Murray Louis and Nikolais Dance)
New York, NY
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support performances and workshops at Joyce/Soho Theater. Artistic Director Murray Louis and the company will preview two new works at the Joyce/Soho, and conduct workshops on the choreographic process.
North Carolina Central University
Durham, NC
$12,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the exhibition Charles White: American Draftsman, with an accompanying lecture series and catalogue. The project will commemorate the career of this African-American artist on the 20th anniversary of his death.
North Carolina Dance Theatre
Charlotte, NC
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support creation of a one-act version of The Sleeping Beauty. The work will be choreographed and staged by Artistic Directors Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux and Patricia McBride.
Northlight Theatre
Skokie, IL
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support artists' fees for the research, development, and creation of Atlanta, a new play by Tanya White. Atlanta will be based on the 1936 murders of 13 African-American children in Atlanta and will incorporate personal interviews and discussions with families who lost their children.
Oberlin Dance Collective
San Francisco, CA
$8,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Presenting
To support artists' fees and associated costs for 1999 presentations--Open Field Improvisation Swap/Meet, the Wild Cabaret Series, World Music Sundays, and Two-Year Residency Artists. The Oberlin Dance Collective (ODC) Theater's goal is to facilitate and promote artistic excellence in the creation and presentation of new performance work by predominantly Bay Area artists.
Odyssey Theatre Foundation (Odyssey Theatre Ensemble)
Los Angeles, CA
$39,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support expenses associated with the development and production of an adaptation. A new version of Kenneth Cavander's play The Greeks, a two-evening, seven-hour compilation of the Greek tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripedes and the poetry of Homer, will be developed for performances to mark the Odyssey Theatre's 30th anniversary.
Ojai Festivals, Ltd.
Ojai, CA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support artists' fees associated with the 1999 Ojai Festival. Directed by conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen, the Festival will celebrate its 53rd anniversary with performances by ensembles, soloists, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
OK Mozart, Inc.
Bartlesville, OK
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the 1999 OK Mozart Festival in several locations in the Bartlesville, Oklahoma community. Under the artistic leadership of Ransom Wilson, performances will range from orchestral to chamber and recitals, and will include the premiere of Ochelata's Wedding, an OK Mozart-commissioned opera buffa by composer Jean-Michel Damase.
Old Globe Theatre
San Diego, CA
$31,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support expenses associated with the development and production of a new family musical. A production of the Dr. Seuss story How The Grinch Stole Christmas will be presented during the winter of 1998-99 to an audience of approximately 40,000.
Omaha Theater Company
Omaha, NE
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the presentation of a company-created production of a children's play adapted from children's literature. The Boxcar Children, written and published by Gertrude Chandler Warner in 1942, will be adapted by the company's Artistic Director James Larson, directed by Productions Director Stephanie Anderson, and presented in early 1999 to more than 30,000 young people and their families.
On the Boards
Seattle, WA
$70,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support Redefining Performance at the Turn of the Century-An Interdisciplinary Approach, a project consisting of five intensive creation and performance residencies. Participating artists were selected because of their interest and accomplishment in collaborative efforts to blend artistic disciplines and develop new performance forms.
One Seventy One Cedar, Inc. (One Seventy One Cedar Arts Center) (Consortium)
Corning, NY
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support a consortium project for the presentation of the third annual Subscription Dance Series. Companies in the One Seventy One Cedar Arts Center and Clemens Center consortium project include: Garth Fagan Dance, Trinity Irish Dance Co., and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago.
Ontological-Hysteric Theater, Inc.
New York, NY
$31,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the creation and production of a new work for the theater. Ontological-Hysteric Theater Artistic Director Richard Foreman will write, direct, and design a new play entitled Dismembered.
Opera Association of Central Ohio
Columbus, OH
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support artists' fees and related costs for the development and world premiere of the opera Vanqui composed by noted jazz musician Leslie Burrs with libretto by novelist John A. Williams in 1998-1999. The project will include a workshop concert version in February followed by the premiere in the fall.
Opera Factory
Chicago, IL
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support performances of Antologia de la Zarzuela, an anthology of Spanish lyric theater. Participating artists include Pascual Olivera and Angela Del Moral as directors, choreographers, and dancers.
Opera San Jose, Inc.
San Jose, CA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support artists' fees and related costs for the world premiere production of The Nutcracker and the Mouse King by composer Craig Bohmler with libretto by Daniel Helfgot in 1999-2000. This newly commissioned opera is loosely based on E.T.A. Hoffmann's short story of the same name.
Opera Theatre of Saint Louis
St. Louis, MO
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support artists' fees and related costs for a production of the opera Treemonisha by Scott Joplin in 2000. This production of Scott Joplin's only surviving opera is being performed during the company's 25th anniversary season.
Oregon Ballet Theatre
Portland, OR
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support creation of an original evening-length ballet, Peter Pan. This new work will be choreographed by Oregon Ballet Theatre Resident Choreographer Trey McIntyre.
Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association
Ashland, OR
$91,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support costs of the New Play Development Program, including the development and rehearsal of new plays and the creation of new works through commissions, workshops, and staged readings. Among the new plays selected will be Octavio Solis' El Paso Blue, Jerry Turner's translation and adaptation of Ibsen's Rosmersholm, Douglas Langworthy's translation and adaptation of Bertolt Brecht's The Good Person of Szechwan, and Paul Schmidt's translation of Medea.
Oregon Symphony Association
Portland, OR
$55,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the expansion of Oregon Symphony's regional touring program with additional tour concerts, educational services, and "Distance Learning" programs. During fiscal year 1999-2000, the Symphony will add "mini-tours" to the regular annual tour to one of three geographic zones it visits on a rotational basis.
Other Minds
San Francisco, CA
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support artists' fees and expenses related to the fifth Other Minds Festival. This week-long international contemporary music festival will take place in the spring of 1999 in the San Francisco Bay area.
Otis Art Institute
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support an exhibition of the work of Los Angeles artist Patrick Hogan (1947-88), with an accompanying catalogue and educational activities. Hogan was an important figure in the burgeoning Los Angeles art community of the 1970s and 1980s.
Painted Bride Art Center
Philadelphia, PA
$8,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Presenting
To support the LIVE! By Popular Demand Festival. This two-month series will celebrate popular art forms in a contemporary context, featuring multidisciplinary work rooted in community and specific ethnic cultures.
Pan Asian Repertory Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$16,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the production of two plays that celebrate the artistry of Asian-American theater. In accordance with its mission of offering relevant works to the Asian-American community, Pan Asian Repertory Theatre will produce Carry The Tiger To The Mountain by Cherylene Lee and The Joy Luck Club by Susan Kim.
Pennsylvania Ballet Association
Philadelphia, PA
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a work by Trey McIntyre for Pennsylvania Ballet's 1998-99 season. The new work will premiere in April 1999 and be performed five additional times.
Penumbra Theatre Company, Inc.
St. Paul, MN
$16,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support public performances of a play about intergenerational and African-American Jewish relations and a related series of community, educational discussions about the issues raised in the play. The work, The Day the Bronx Died by Michael Henry Brown, will include 18 performances using a mix of Penumbra theater professionals and area theater students in a residency-like educational experience.
People's Light & Theatre Company
Malvern, PA
$63,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the creation of a three-week summer performance series and festival. People's Light & Theatre Company will produce a three-week festival format in which artists, members of the community, and the company will join in a marathon of presenting evolving work.
Perry County Council of the Arts
Newport, PA
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Local Arts Agency
To support the 16th Anniversary Little Buffalo Festival of the Arts. Held at the Little Buffalo State Park, this regional festival celebrating arts and world cultures will draw audiences from throughout south central Pennsylvania.
Philadelphia Dance Company, Inc. (Philadanco)
Philadelphia, PA
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the creation of a program of four works by leading African-American choreographers from different generations. Emerging choreographers Ronald K. Brown and David Brown, and established choreographers Milton Myers and Walter Nicks will each create a work for the program, On the Shoulders of Our Ancestors.
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia, PA
$48,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the exhibition Pondering Balance: The Arts of Baroque Pennsylvania, with an accompanying catalogue. The exhibition will present the first comprehensive examination of the decorative arts and fine arts of early colonial Philadelphia and the surrounding Delaware Valley between 1680 and 1755.
Philadelphia Orchestra Association
Philadelphia, PA
$125,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support commissions and performances of new work by the Philadelphia Orchestra between 1999 and 2001. This two-year project will result in seven commissions from composers both in the United States and abroad to celebrate the millennium and the Orchestra's centennial in the year 2000.
Philadelphia Singers
Philadelphia, PA
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the commission of a work from Ezra Laderman for chorus and orchestra based on the poetry of American poet Daniel Hoffman. This work will be premiered in January 1999.
Philadelphia Theatre Company
Philadelphia, PA
$12,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the development and production of a group of one-act plays by the playwright David Ives. Philadelphia Theatre Company is seeking support for the extra costs attached to the development and physical production demands of producing five one-act plays under the title The Lives of Saints.
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
San Francisco, CA
$23,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the presentation of Handel's oratorio Semele for the opening of the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra's 19th season in September 1999. In addition to the performances, the�Orchestra will conduct an educational program for audiences of all ages exploring the Handel oratorio, Semele in particular.
Phoenix Boys Choir Association
Phoenix, AZ
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support choral performances by the Phoenix Boys Choir and ongoing community music education initiatives during 1998-99. To honor Artistic Director Harvey K. Smith's 40th anniversary and final year with the Choir, performances will feature Michael Abels' Gospel Spirituals and Abels' orchestration of Ned Rorem's What is Pink to be performed by guest ensemble Quintessence.
Phoenix Symphony Association
Phoenix, AZ
$22,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the commissioning and premiere of a new work by American composer James DeMars for orchestra and African drum ensemble during 1999-2000. The work will be premiered in the spring of 2000 by the Phoenix Symph ny and will feature Omar Thiam and Tubara Diouf from the Senegalese ensemble Jam Bugum and the Arizona State University African Drum Ensemble.
Photographic Resource Center, Inc.
Boston, MA
$18,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support the planning phase of Photography in Human Experience, a new curatorial program for the Center. The project will include exhibitions, educational activities, and a Web site.
Pine Mountain Music Festival
Hancock, MI
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support the commissioning and world premiere of an opera composed by Paul Seitz with libretto by Kathleen Masterson about the 1913 Italian Hall disaster in Calumet, Michigan in 1998-2000. The tragedy about which the opera is written involved the Calumet Theatre that served as a morgue for 75 people (mostly children) who were crushed to death trying to escape the Italian Hall during a false fire alarm.
Pittsburgh Dance Council, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the presentation of Pittsburgh Dance Council's Distinctly Different Series. Companies in the series include LINES Contemporary Ballet, Dallas Black Dance Theater's Porgy & Bess, Philadanco, and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.
Pittsburgh Dance Council, Inc. (Consortium)
Pittsburgh, PA
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Presenting
To support the Pittsburgh Millennium Project. The Project involves a series of presentations sponsored jointly by the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Pittsburgh Dance Council, Pittsburgh Public Theater, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, and the Three Rivers Arts Festival.
Pittsburgh Filmmakers, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support artists' residencies and the purchase of an Avid Film Composer. The artists in residence will create new work and offer workshops and classes; the Avid Film Composer will enable media artists to edit their films digitally.
Pittsburgh Symphony Society
Pittsburgh, PA
$55,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the creation of new programming to meet the needs of the Pittsburgh Symphony's evolving audiences. This two-year project will be comprised of a three-concert series in 1998-99 called Soundbytes: More Here than Meets the Ear and a chamber music initiative in 1999-2000 entitled Community of Musicians that will showcase members of the Pittsburgh Symphony in diverse settings in the community.
Plam Dancers, Inc. (Doug Elkins Dance Co.)
New York, NY
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support creation of a new work. Artistic Director Doug Elkins will collaborate with composer Andre Gribou to create a new piece to live music for Doug Elkins Dance Company.
Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey, Inc.
Madison, NJ
$6,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the development and production of a new play. Playwrights Theatre of New Jersey will develop and produce a workshop performance of Dolores Whiskeyman's new play, Radium Girls, which tells the story of women who worked at the US Radium Corporation in Orange, New Jersey.
Playwrights' Center, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$12,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support expenses associated with a professional workshop for the development of new American plays. PlayLabs is a two-week conference that culminates in a weekend of staged public readings of the new work of six playwrights.
Plymouth Music Series
Minneapolis, MN
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the world premiere performances of a new score for Kurt Weill's monumental 1937 stage work The Eternal Road. The June 1999 concerts will feature Plymouth's Ensemble Singers, Chorus, and Orchestra, and a cast of actors and soloists, as well as the Minnesota Chorale as guest chorus.
Poetry Project, Limited
New York, NY
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the Monday Night and Wednesday Night Reading and Performance Series, which will feature live presentations by more than 100 poets and performers. Poets under consideration include John Ashbery, Ishmael Reed, Jamaica Kincaid, Robert Creely, Russell Banks, Jessica Hagedorn, and Sonia Sanchez.
Portland Art Museum
(as fiscal agent for Rose Bond Productions)
Portland, OR
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the production of an animated videotape by Rose Bond. Memoria Mortalis will be about the role of art in the impending death of a loved one.
Portland Maine Symphony Orchestra
Portland, ME
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a two-day residency by the Portland Symphony Orchestra at the University of Maine-Machias. This four-month project, which will occur during January through April 1999, will provide audiences living in the area of the Machias campus the opportunity to experience live performances by professional artists.
Portland Performing Arts, Inc.
Portland, ME
$60,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Presenting
To support Conversations Across Cultures: Regional Tours of Community-Based Programs. Conversations Across Cultures is a program of regional touring initiatives.
Primary Stages Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$9,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the New American Writers Group, a program designed to encourage and develop early-career and emerging playwrights. The program is comprised of weekly group meetings to present new material by emerging artists and formal and informal, private readings of full works-in-progress.
Project Row Houses
Houston, TX
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support a residency program to commission artist installations in several shotgun style row houses in Houston. This project will provide eight artists with the opportunity to create work at Project Row Houses (PRH) in 1999.
Public Art Fund, Inc.
New York, NY
$12,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support the commission of a temporary installation by the artist Andrea Zittel. The work will be sited for one year at the southeast corner of Central Park in New York City at the Doris Freedman Plaza.
Puerto Rico Community Foundation, Inc.
San Juan, PR
$7,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Presenting
To support Vive Las Artes. This multidisciplinary presenting project is designed as an island initiative that will serve a broad scope of audiences.
Quad City Arts, Inc.
Rock Island, IL
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Local Arts Agency
To support a component of the Visiting Artist Series which will provide interactive programming for youth. Artists from the 1999-2000 roster have been identified to work with administrators of schools that serve at-risk youth to develop an on-going program.
Ragdale Foundation
Lake Forest, IL
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support travel costs, living and studio space, meals and a stipend for two and four week artists' residencies. Up to 12 artists will be selected from Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, or Wisconsin, and up to 12 from Wyoming, Arkansas, Hawaii, Idaho, North Dakota, West Virginia, Delaware, South Carolina, Missouri, Alaska, Oklahoma or New Hampshire.
Rangoli Foundation for Art & Culture
Sherman Oaks, CA
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the second annual Rangoli Festival, a weekend-long event designed to share the cultural heritage, artistry, and creativity of artists from India and other traditions. The festival will include traditional Bharata Natyam dance with live orchestra as well as guest performances by African, Cambodian and Hawaiian dancers.
Red Eye Collaboration
Minneapolis, MN
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support artists' fees for the development of company artist-originated works to be presented in repertory in a multi-work, festival format. The four works presently in development and planned for finished staging in 1999, include: Leslie Mohn's Putana Moksha; Carolyn Goelzer's solo piece J; Charles Schuminski's Talking Off the Top of My Head; and Steve Busa's The Futuristic Project.
Redmoon Theater
Chicago, IL
$31,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the Halsted Street Tour, a mobile spectacle that travels through Chicago's longest thoroughfare. The outdoor show will be made of masks, puppets, and objects combined with the performance techniques of clowning, mime, and movement.
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley (Cal Performances)
Berkeley, CA
$45,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Presenting
To support Women on the Edge of the Millennium. Specifically, this project will feature presentations of Twyla Tharp, Laurie Anderson, and Martha Clarke.
Regents of the University of California at Riverside (Cultural Events Program)
Riverside, CA
$8,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Presenting
To support artists' fees and associated costs for a program of artists' residencies. Three artists will perform and take part in multiple residency activities as part of collaborations between the University and community organizations.
Research Foundation of State University of New York at Albany (Neuberger Museum of Art)
Purchase, NY
$28,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the 1999 Biennial Exhibition of Public Art on the campus of Purchase College and an accompanying catalogue. The artists will be selected by a national jury from a pool of nominees submitted by a geographically diverse committee.
Research Foundation of the City University of New York (Hunter College)
New York, NY
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support an exhibition of Italian Renaissance drawings, Giulio Romano Master Designer, and an accompanying catalogue. The exhibition will celebrate the artist's 500th anniversary as one of the most versatile and influential artists of the Italian late Renaissance.
Research Foundation of the State University of New York at Albany (Community Performance Series-Potsdam)
Albany, NY
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the presentation of newly composed music during the 1999 and 2000 June In Buffalo Festivals. This annual Festival on the campus of SUNY-Buffalo presents concerts, hosts composers-in-residence, and provides lectures and master classes with senior and emerging composers.
Research Foundation of the State University of New York at Albany (June in Buffalo)
Albany, NY
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support artists' fees for the presentation of world class artists in concert on the Guest Artist Series. This project will celebrate the 11th anniversary year of The Community Performance Series in upstate New York during 1999-2000.
Rhapsody In Taps, Inc.
Long Beach, CA
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the creation of a new work by guest choreographer Brenda Bufalino. The work will be composed to original music and feature seven dancers.
Richmond Art Center
Richmond, CA
$14,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support Spaces of Nature, an exhibition of artists' installations addressing issues pertaining to the environment. The exhibition will include the work of eight Bay Area artists who will create new work during a residency at the Center.
Ringside, Inc. (Streb/Ringside)
New York, NY
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the creation of a full-evening stage show to be presented on Streb/Ringside's box truss performance structure. The show, choreographed by Elizabeth Streb, will consist of two new action effects called the Catapult and the Air-Tunnel.
Rockford College
Rockford, IL
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Presenting
To support UnCommon Lives: Extraordinary Women in the Arts. This project is a week-long, public art series providing artists a platform from which to display their talents and insights through residencies, workshops and performances.
Roswell Museum & Art Center Foundation
Roswell, NM
$9,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support one-year residencies for five visual artists. Participating artists will be provided with a professionally equipped studio, a house, and a monthly stipend for a one-year period of uninterrupted time to concentrate on the development of their work.
Roulette Intermedium, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support artists' fees and production expenses for concerts by artists using technology to redefine generally accepted ideas about sound in music. This 1999 project will involve at least 12 composers and interdisciplinary artists.
Rova Saxophone Quartet
San Francisco, CA
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support artists' fees and expenses related with a collaborative project and festival. This 1998-99 project will involve Graham Connah, Sam Rivers, and Orkestrova--a large ensemble of Bay area musicians organized by Rova Saxophone Quartet.
Roxanne Dance Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support two new pieces Sabbath and Grounded, conceived by choreographer/artistic director Cathy Weiss to be created collaboratively using the Internet. Artists will explore the use of the Internet to communicate non-text ideas using sound and motion.
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Piscataway, NJ
$8,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support residencies for four artists to create new works in printmaking and papermaking using imagery of the Holocaust. An exhibition of the artists' completed works, a documentary publication, and public lectures by the artists will complement the residencies.
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Piscataway, NJ
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Design
To support the initial planning of an exhibition on the Garden City movement. The exhibition, to be held at the Stedman Gallery on the Rutgers-Camden campus, will examine this urban planning concept and its relevance to the work of contemporary designers and planners.
San Diego Repertory Theatre, Inc.
San Diego, CA
$59,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the development and presentation of new work by two Latino playwrights. The San Diego Repertory Theater will produce two workshop of The Mummified Fetus, by Luis Valdez and rehearse and present the professional premiere of El Otro by Octavio Solis.
San Francisco Ballet Association
San Francisco, CA
$100,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the commission and acquisition of ballets for an American Works Program as part of San Francisco Ballet's 67th repertory season. The program will focus on ballets by the country's leading classical and contemporary ballet choreographic talent.
San Francisco Camerawork, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$28,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support an exhibition and an accompanying issue of the journal Camerawork. To commemorate San Francisco Camerawork's 25th anniversary, the project will present the work of photographers who have made seminal contributions to the medium.
San Francisco Chanticleer, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the commissioning of new vocal works from five composers for San Francisco Chanticleer.
San Francisco Cinematheque
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support From the Bay and Beyond, a film and video exhibition series that will premiere new work in San Francisco and the mentoring of a new generation of media arts curators.
San Francisco Mime Troupe, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$28,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Musical Theater
To support the development and production of an original musical comedy. The San Francisco Mime Troupe will develop a new work to premiere in San Francisco and tour Bay Area parks and venues throughout California.
San Francisco Symphony
San Francisco, CA
$150,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the San Francisco Symphony's A Celebration of East and West, a three-week exploration of music emerging from cross-cultural influences. This project by Michael Tilson Thomas will be presented in June 1999.
San Jose Repertory Theatre
San Jose, CA
$12,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support a world-premiere production of Legacy, a work that celebrates the millennium through narrative, song, and dance. The play by Ronnie Gilbert, with an original musical score by Jeff Langley, is an adaptation of Studs Terkel's book, Coming of Age: The Story of Our Century by Those Who've Lived It.
Sandglass Center for Puppetry and Theater Research, Inc. (Sandglass Theater)
Putney, VT
$6,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support expenses associated with the development, performance and touring of a new work of puppet theater. Master puppeteer Eric Bass will create, develop, and perform a new puppet theater work entitled Little Heroes that will premiere in Putney, Vermont and tour internationally.
Santa Rosa Symphony Association
Santa Rosa, CA
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support an interdisciplinary educational project by the Santa Rosa Symphony with Santa Rosa High School Choir. This 1998-99 project will culminate in performances of Benjamin Britten's War Requiem.
Saratoga International Theater Institute
New York, NY
$12,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support two new productions, Alice: Underground and The Audience Project (working title). Both were conceived and will be directed by Anne Bogart for remounting in New York City after each is created earlier in the year with collaborating theaters, Wexner Arts Center and City Theater, and Actors Theater of Louisville, respectively.
Saratoga Springs Performing Arts Center
Saratoga Springs, NY
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the Saratoga Chamber Music Series during the 1999 Saratoga Springs Performing Arts Center (SPAC) Festival. Directed by Chantal Juillet, this component of the Festival will feature artists including Martha Argerich, Truls Monk, Nelson Friere, Itzhak Perlman, and others in programs of chamber music to be performed at the Little Theater at SPAC in upstate New York.
School of Hard Knocks, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a new work entitled Footprints of War. The piece will be choreographed by Artistic Director Yoshiko Chuma with music composed by Alvin Curran and performed live by members of the sextet, Bang on a Can All Stars.
Sculpture Space, Inc.
Utica, NY
$12,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support an artists' residency program for sculptors. Ten artists from outside New York State will be given the opportunity to come to Sculpture Space, a well-equipped fabrication site in Utica, New York to create new work.
Seattle Art Museum
Seattle, WA
$35,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support planning for the exhibition Encompassing Heaven and Earth: Ancient Chinese Art from Sichuan. The project will be the first to explore in depth the ancient culture of this region and will involve negotiations and research in China, as well as coordination of an international team of scholars who will contribute to the catalogue.
Seattle Children's Theatre Association
Seattle, WA
$31,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the expenses associated with the development and production of a new play for young audiences. Adapted from Karen Cushman's Newbery Award winning book The Midwife's Apprentice, a new play by Constance Congdon will be presented during the 1999-2000 season.
Seattle International Children's Festival
Seattle, WA
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Presenting
To support artists' fees and associated costs for a program of Songs and Stories, new initiatives in performance for young people. The project will include the commission of two new works and a series of in-school residencies and community partnerships.
Seattle Opera Association, Inc.
Seattle, WA
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support artists' fees and associated costs for a production of the opera Der Freischutz by Carl Maria von Weber in 1998-1999. The opera will receive eight performances at the Opera House in Seattle.
Seattle Repertory Theatre
Seattle, WA
$79,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the expenses associated with the production of large-scale classic plays. Two large-scale classic plays, Brecht's The Life of Galileo and Moliere's Don Juan, will be produced on the mainstage during the 1999-2000 season.
Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Seattle, WA
$55,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support Celebrate American Music project by the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Gerald Schwartz. This 1999-2000 project will continue the Symphony's tradition of incorporating American repertoire into its season.
Self-Help Graphics & Art, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$12,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support the Collaboration Printmaking Project to provide artists the opportunity to create new work. The printmaking studio allows artists to work with each other and a master printer and experiment with different techniques in silkscreen painting.
Shadowlight Productions
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support the premiere and presentation of an original interdisciplinary work, In the Name of Gold. This company's full-length interdisciplinary performance piece drawn from the life of John Sutter, America's first millionaire, will commemorate the California Sesquicentennial.
Shakespeare Festival of Dallas (Consortium)
Dallas, TX
$8,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support a consortium project to produce a Shakespearean play. Shakespeare Festival of Dallas and the Undermain Theatre (Deep Ellum) will jointly conceive and produce A Winter's Tale scheduled for a six-week run during the spring of 2000.
Sheldon Arts Foundation
St. Louis, MO
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support Connections to Jazz, a project of three programs and related educational and outreach activities presented by the Sheldon Arts Foundation. This 1998-99 project will feature three ensembles: Turtle Island String Quartet, Calliope - A Renaissance Band, and Folk Music in the Melting Pot.
Signature Theatre Company Co.
New York, NY
$39,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the expenses associated with a playwright's commission and the production of a new play. Cuban American playwright, Maria Irene Fornes, will receive a commission to create a new work during her resident season in 1999-2000.
Signature Theatre, Inc.
Arlington, VA
$16,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Musical Theater
To support the development and production of a new musical theater work for the stage. Signature Theatre will collaborate with composer Michael John LaChiusa and playwright John Strand to create a new musical, The Highest Yellow, based on the life of Dr. Felix Rey, who treated Vincent Van Gogh at the height of his illness.
Sinking Creek Film Celebration, Inc.
Nashville, TN
$8,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the 1999 Nashville Independent Film Festival. This event features student films and videos, documentaries, narrative films, and experimental work.
Sitka Summer Music Festival, Inc.
Sitka, AK
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the presentation of professional chamber music through touring concerts in urban and rural communities of Alaska. During 1999-2000, the Sitka Music Festival's 15 touring concerts will serve Anchorage, Kenai, Homer, Sitka, Pelican, Gustavus and Juneau.
Skaneateles Festival, Inc. (Consortium)
Skaneateles, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support artists' fees and associated costs for a consortium project with Syracuse Opera for a production of Noye's Fludde by Benjamin Brittan in 1998-1999. This one-act opera, written by Benjamin Britten in 1958 and based on a Chester Miracle play, will be performed five times during the festival's 20th anniversary year.
Skysaver Productions, Inc.
New York, NY
$9,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the expenses associated with the development and production of a new work of puppet theater. The Lives of the Artists is inspired by the writings of 16th century art historian Giorgi Vasari.
Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Inc.
Staten Island, NY
$22,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support Through the Looking Glass: Visions of Childhood, a series of exhibitions examining artists' reflections on childhood. The exhibitions will address the innocence and magic of discovery that define childhood, and how as adults such memories are manifested in an artist's work.
Society for New Music
Syracuse, NY
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the Society for New Music's winter concerts of new music in Syracuse, New York, and a commission from Christopher Hopkins. During 1999-2000, the Society will feature works that combine instruments with electronics, including the premiere of regional composer Hopkin's Electric Harmonies for the Next Millennium.
Socrates Sculpture Park, Inc.
Long Island City, NY
$12,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support the Outdoor Studio Program, which provides artists with the opportunity to create large-scale outdoor sculpture. Up to 25 artists will be provided with studio space, equipment, technical assistance, and a stipend in order to create new work.
South Carolina Arts Commission (Consortium)
Columbia, SC
$82,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support a consortium exhibition project, Views from the Edge of the Century, which will highlight specific periods of South Carolina's visual arts heritage. Five South Carolina museums will co-organize a series of exhibitions, each focusing on a specific aspect of the state's visual arts heritage.
South Coast Repertory, Inc.
Costa Mesa, CA
$29,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the expenses associated with the Pacific Playwrights Festival. This new program includes a three-week play development project that will culminate in a four-day weekend presentation of four readings and two workshop/productions.
Southern California Asian American Studies Central, Inc. (Visual Communications)
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the 14th Annual Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film and Video Festival. Held in the summer, this is Southern California's premiere showcase of independent Asian international and Asian-Pacific-American film and video work.
Southwest Alternate Media Projects
Houston, TX
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the production and statewide distribution of The Territory, a 14-part public television series of independent film and video works. This 23-year-old series is the longest running public television showcase of media art in the United States, and reaches more than 12 million viewers on PBS stations throughout Texas.
Space One Eleven, Inc.
Birmingham, AL
$22,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support an exhibition featuring the work of contemporary Southern artists. The exhibition will be a citywide project held at four different venues in Birmingham.
Spoleto Festival U.S.A.
Charleston, SC
$65,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Presenting
To support a series of commissions and presentations of new works. All aspects of the project will be marketed to a national audience along with the full 1999 Spoleto Festival USA program to include over 125 performances of classical ballet, modern and post-modern dance, opera, chamber music, symphonic and choral concerts, jazz, theater and the visual arts.
St. Ann Center for Restoration and the Arts, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$12,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support expenses associated with residencies and the development of new puppet theater works by master and emerging artists at the Puppet Lab. The commission, development and production of two new works, Ether Telegrams by Janie Geiser and Unfinished Eye by Stephen Kaplin, audience outreach programs and the development of new puppet theater works by emerging artists are included.
Standby Program, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the provision of state-of-the-art broadcast quality post-production video equipment to artists and independent producers. Standby's access program is a unique model of collaboration between a non-profit arts organization and privately owned businesses.
State of Alabama Ballet, Inc.
Birmingham, AL
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of Coppelia. The ballet will be restaged by Artistic Director Wes Chapman and Ballet Master Roger Van Fleteren, with assistance of a guest rehearsal coach.
Sundance Institute for Film and Television
Salt Lake City, UT
$100,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the Sundance Film Festival in the year 2000, and the Directing and Screenwriting Labs. Founded in 1981 to enhance the artistic vitality of American film, this nonprofit organization's goals include identifying and nurturing filmmakers from culturally diverse backgrounds, developing and exhibiting films that explore the human condition, discovering new voices, and encouraging artists from other disciplines to translate their talents into filmmaking.
Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Syracuse, NY
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra's 1999-2000 touring project to underserved rural communities throughout central and northern New York State. With this project, the Symphony will continue to build its regional presence in underserved rural areas and emphasize American works in its programming.
Tacoma Art Museum (Consortium)
Tacoma, WA
$52,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the exhibition Inside Out: New Chinese Art, a consortium project co-presented by the Henry Art Gallery at the University of Washington. Cooperative education programs will include a lecture, panel discussions, artist's visits, a contemporary Chinese film series, a national symposium, and K-12 programs.
Talking Band, Inc.
New York, NY
$8,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Musical Theater
To support the development and production of a new music theater work. Talking Band will create Bitterroot, a new musical based on the life of Meriwether Lewis, written and directed by Paul Zimet and composed by Peter Gordon.
Target Margin Theater, Inc.
New York, NY
$6,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the expenses associated with the production of a play. Anton Chekhov's The Seagull will be produced in February 1999 for a four to six-week run.
Teatro Avante, Inc.
Miami, FL
$29,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the International Hispanic Theater Festival in 1999. The Festival hosts 10-15 productions of contemporary and classical works by Hispanic playwrights from companies around the world and includes an educational component with workshops, seminars, an International Children's Day, and a conference called "Differences Among Us -- Part VI."
Teatro de la Luna (Consortium)
Washington, DC
$9,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the expenses associated with a consortium project to produce the second International Festival of Hispanic Theater. Teatro de la Luna and the Arlington County, Virginia, Cultural Affairs Division will jointly produce the festival that offers three weeks of Spanish-language theater, round table discussions and debates in June 1999 at the Gunston Arts Center in Arlington.
Tectonic Theater Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$16,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the development of a new play written and directed by Moises Kaufman. The new work, entitled And Yet it Moves, will weave the stories of Galileo's recanting of his scientific works before the Inquisition with those of the writer's own father's experience surviving the Holocaust.
Temple University (Tyler School of the Arts)
Philadelphia, PA
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support Tyler School of the Arts' Arranged Introductions initiative providing residencies for Philadelphia artists. Up to five selected artists will work with community centers in underserved neighborhoods throughout Philadelphia for 10 months.
Tennessee Humanities Council
Nashville, TN
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the 1999 Southern Festival of Books: A Celebration of the Written Word, a free literary festival that will reach an estimated audience of 30,000 people. Organized by the Tennessee Center for the Book, the festival will feature 200 authors in panel discussions, readings, and autograph-signings.
Texas Fine Arts Association
Austin, TX
$6,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the exhibition Artistic Centers in Texas: Houston/Galveston, with accompanying education materials, which will travel throughout Texas. This will be the first in a series of three exhibitions designed to survey Texas' emerging artists by focusing on the state's major artistic centers.
Texas Folklife Resources (Consortium)
Austin, TX
$130,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a consortium effort by Texas Folklife Resources and the Texas Commission on the Arts. This collaborative project of week-long residencies by esteemed traditional musicians includes demonstrations, workshops and performances held in underserved communities throughout Texas, such as Johnson City, Mt. Veron, Pecos, and San Benito.
Theater For You, Inc.
Boise, ID
$8,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the creation and presentation of plays for young audiences and the subsequent touring of those works to schools throughout Idaho and the Northwest. The Incredible Disappearing Lady by Maria Headley and Bremen Town Blues by Mark Rosenwinkel will both employ musical scores written by composer Michael Keck.
Theatre Rhinoceros
San Francisco, CA
$12,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the commissioning, development and presentation of a new play and for the expenses associated with a playwriting workshop. Playwright Ricardo Bracho's new play Fed-Up: A Cannibal's Own Story will be developed and produced in February 1999 in addition to his leading a 12-week playwriting workshop for young men and women of color.
Toledo Museum of Art
Toledo, OH
$85,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Design
To support a touring exhibition of 20th century industrial design, with an accompanying catalogue. The exhibition will showcase Toledo's contributions to 20th century industrial design as well as present the city's role in defining American Modernism.
Top Shows Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support artists' fees and costs associated with the creation and production of an opera High Noon (working title) by composer Stewart Wallace with libretto by Michael Korie in 1998-1999. The opera will exploit the mythology of the American west, and in particular, the concept of the showdown as a persistent American institution for conflict resolution.
Town of Abita Springs, Louisiana
(as fiscal agent for In the Pines, Inc.)
Abita Springs, LA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Piney Woods Opry, a re-creation of an old-fashioned country music live radio jamboree in Abita Springs.
Trinity Repertory Company
Providence, RI
$33,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support expenses associated with the development and premiere of a new work. Playwright Robert Alexander will collaborate with Trinity Rep Artistic Director Oskar Eustis, members of the Trinity company, and other actors to develop a new work, entitled A Preface to the Alien Garden, which will premiere in February 1999 for a five-week run.
Trisha Brown Dance Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$70,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the creation of two new works by choreographer Trisha Brown. Trisha Brown will collaborate with jazz artist Billy Taylor and Chinese-American composer Tan Dun to create the works.
Troy Savings Bank Music Hall Corporation
Troy, NY
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the presentation of concerts and related activities focusing on the music of Duke Ellington. This 1999 project will feature artists such as The Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, pianists Marian McPartland and Marcus Roberts, as well as a residency with vibraphonist Stefon Harris.
Trustees of Boston College (McMullen Museum)
Chestnut Hill, MA
$42,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the exhibition Fragmented Devotion: Medieval Objects from the Schnutgen Museum and Cathedral in Cologne, and an accompanying catalogue. The project will explore modes of collecting, displaying, and interpreting fragments of medieval art, and will invite a broad audience to reflect critically on the use and abuse of Christian imagery from the medieval period to the present.
Trustees of Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH
$7,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Presenting
To support the 1999-2000 Visiting Performing Artist Series. The Series consists of approximately 30-35 live performing arts events encompassing classical, jazz, contemporary, ethnic and folk music; modern and ethnic dance; classical, modern and post-modern theater; puppetry; and multimedia performance art.
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
$17,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the planning phase of the reinstallation of the Italic, Etruscan, and Roman World gallery spaces of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. The primary goal of the project is to present to the public the cultural life of the peoples of the Italic peninsula from the 9th century B.C. to the 4th century A.D.
Trustees of the Walters Art Gallery
Baltimore, MD
$130,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the conservation and reinstallation of the museum's collection of Christian medieval art. The collection is among the world's finest and represents the artistic heritage of the Orthodox East (Byzantium, Russia, and Ethiopia) and the Romanesque and Gothic periods of the European Catholic West.
Unidentified Moving Objects Company (UMO Ensemble)
Vashon Island, WA
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the expenses associated with the development and production of a new work. Part III of Millennium Circus, an interdisciplinary, collaborative work integrating the skills of circus with theatrical performance will be directed by Pickle Family Circus founder Larry Pisoni and will premiere in June 1999.
United Indians of All Tribes Foundation
Seattle, WA
$12,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support an exhibition surveying 25 years of the work of Bob Haozous. A Chiricahua Apache, Bob Haozous' work will be exhibited in the fall of 1999 at the Sacred Circle Gallery of American Indian Art.
University City Science Center
Philadelphia, PA
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support Artists' Use of Cyberspace, a commissioning project for artists to create original works on the Internet. This project will present the work of three artists online in 1999.
University Musical Society
Ann Arbor, MI
$35,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the presentation of Donald Byrd's The Harlem Nutcracker in collaboration with the Detroit Opera House and the Arts League of Michigan. The presentation will also include a variety of residency and educational activities.
University of Chicago (Smart Museum)
Chicago, IL
$22,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the exhibition Transforming Images: The Art of Silverhorn and His Successors and an accompanying catalogue. The exhibition will include approximately 30 drawings by this famous Kiowa Plains Indian artist whose life (1841-1941) spanned the pre and post-reservation periods.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL
$22,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Presenting
To support artists' fees and associated costs for a series of major arts presentation events. The University's Krannert Center seeks to use this project to celebrate and share with community how high quality artists of our time are processing tradition and creation.
University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA
$100,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Presenting
To support the commission and presentation of new works of dance, music, and interdisciplinary solo performance. The University's Hancher Auditorium will stage a "Millennium Festival" featuring world or American premieres by major performing artists.
University of Kansas
Lawrence, KS
$28,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Presenting
To support the presentation of four companies/ensembles that showcase the influence of African-American culture on today's performing artists. This project represents year two of a four-year effort to explore key cultural influences on the performing arts as we near the millennium.
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities (Weisman Art Museum)
Minneapolis, MN
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the exhibition World Views: Maps and Art, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The project will explore the relationship between maps and art and demonstrate how artists use maps to explore a range of cultural, social and artistic issues.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Playmakers Repertory Theatre)
Chapel Hill, NC
$12,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the development and production of a new play. A new work by playwright/director Tazewell Thompson based on the life of African-American human rights activist Ida B. Wells will premiere in February 1999.
University of North Texas
Denton, TX
$12,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support an exhibition and catalogue of the work of New York African-American artist Whitfield Lovell. The artist will also participate in a residency project that will result in the creation of new work based on the history of African-Americans in North Texas.
Urban Glass/New York Contemporary Glass Center, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support a series of collaborative workshops to be taught by Joyce Scott and Susan Plum. To be held during Urban Glass' summer school program, the workshops will culminate in an installation in the fall of 1999.
Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts
Grand Rapids, MI
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support The Independent Spirit in American and Foreign Films, an exhibition series of recently released American independent and foreign films. This program will be anchored by a Directors Series whereby certain filmmakers will be invited to present his/her work and lead audience discussions and workshops.
Vasulkas, Inc.
Santa Fe, NM
$8,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the experimentation and exploration of computer imaging tools by Steina Vasulka. The image processing equipment will be used to create installation pieces; the MIDI interface allows the artist to use performance based violin compositions to manipulate video images.
Victory Gardens Theater
Chicago, IL
$8,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the expenses associated with a new play development and presentation program. The program will provide a commission, a residency and a workshop production to at least three playwrights.
Video Association of Dallas, Inc.
Dallas, TX
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the 1999 Dallas Video Festival. Over a four-day period, this event will present over 250 screenings of work by national and international artists to an estimated audience of over 8,000 people.
Vineyard Theatre and Workshop Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Musical Theater
To support the development and production of a new musical theater work. The Vineyard Theatre will develop and present Dream True: My Life with Vernon Dexter with book and direction by Tina Landau and additional lyrics and music by Ricky Ian Gordon.
Virginia Avenue Project
Santa Monica, CA
$16,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support a program dedicated to the creation and production of new plays for and by young people between the ages of six and eighteen. The One-on-One, Playmaking and Replay Productions project offers acting and writing workshops and productions where children are teamed with professional adult artists.
Visual Studies Workshop, Inc.
Rochester, NY
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support a series of events in celebration of the Workshop's 30th anniversary. Three exhibitions, a special issue of the journal Afterimage, a symposium and lecture series, and development of a Web site data base on the history of the organization are planned.
Vivian Beaumont Theater, Inc. (Lincoln Center Theatre)
New York, NY
$51,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Musical Theater
To support the production of a new musical theater work. Lincoln Center Theater (LTC) will develop and produce Marie Christine, a new musical by composer/lyricist Michael John LaChiusa to be choreographed by Graciela Daniele.
Vocal Arts Society
Washington, DC
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support artists' fees for a solo recital series presented by the Vocal Arts Society. Eight vocal artists will perform at the French Embassy, the Lisner Auditorium, and other recital halls in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area during 1999-2000.
Voices of Change
Dallas, TX
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a residency of composer Alvin Singleton with the Voices of Change in November 1999. Singleton and Voices of Change will appear in area schools and at community concerts around Dallas.
Walker Art Center, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$85,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Presenting
To support artists' fees and associated costs for the series Creation and Community. This multidisciplinary series involves commissions and large-scale residencies a diverse range of contemporary performing artists.
Washington Drama Society, Inc. (Arena Stage)
Washington, DC
$33,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the One-on-One, Playmaking and Replay Productions project, which offers acting and writing workshops and productions where children are teamed with professional adult artists. A new play, part of a series of new works based on American themes and entitled A Civil War Christmas, will be written by Paula Vogel and directed by Molly D. Smith for a mainstage production beginning in December 1999.
Washington Performing Arts Society
Washington, DC
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support dance presentations and residency activities for the 1999-2000 dance program. Artists under consideration include David Dorfman, Stephen Petronio, Ping Chong, a Hip Hop Festival, and New Europe 1999.
Washington University
St. Louis, MO
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Presenting
To support artists' fees and associated costs for the OVATIONS! series. This series of music, dance, theater, and interdisciplinary performing arts involves ambitious works whose size, cost and audience appeal precludes them from appearing in other larger venues in the area.
Washington, D.C. International Film Festival, Inc.
Washington, DC
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the 1999 Washington, D.C. International Film Festival. Held annually in the spring, this event includes free films for children, senior citizens, and underserved communities.
Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts
Newcastle, ME
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support an international symposium and a two-week residency for ten artists to create new work in clay. Participating artists will be provided with travel, room and board, a studio and materials, and access to equipment and a technical assistant.
Wexner Center Foundation
(as fiscal agent for Wexner Center for the Arts)
Columbus, OH
$85,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support the Wexner Center for the Arts artists' residency program which provides financial, technical and professional support for the creation, completion or presentation of works. The 1999-2000 residencies will be complemented by presentations of leading artists to commemorate the Center's tenth anniversary and the Millennium.
Whispering Voice, Inc. (David Rousseve/REALITY)
New York, NY
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the creation of two new works choreographed by David Rousseve. These new works will be a solo work and group work developed with Rousseve's dance company, David Rousseve/REALITY.
White Columns, Inc.
New York, NY
$24,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support the White Room Program, a series of solo exhibitions featuring the work of emerging artists. This program introduces artists not yet affiliated with a New York commercial gallery and originates from an extensive slide review program.
Wilma Theater
Philadelphia, PA
$16,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support expenses associated with the production of a play as well as community outreach efforts and public symposia. Orpheus Descending by Tennessee Williams will receive its first professional production in Philadelphia, forty years after its New York City premiere.
Woods-Marchand Foundation (Westmoreland Museum of Art)
Greensburg, PA
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the reinstallation of the museum's permanent collection of American fine and decorative arts. Eight galleries currently housing over 450 works will be transformed into a more cohesive and dynamic presentation.
Wooster Group, Inc.
New York, NY
$41,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the development and production of a multi-media work for theater that continues the exploration of American vernacular and themes. The Wooster Group will present the American premiere of North Atlantic, an original mixed-media ensemble piece with text by Jim Strahs.
Workshop of the Players Art Foundation, Inc. (WPA Theatre)
New York, NY
$16,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Musical Theater
To support the commission of a musical theater piece. Workshop of the Players Art Foundation (WPA Theatre) will commission composer Jonathan Sheffer for the production of Blood On The Dining-Room Floor.
World Music Institute, Inc.
New York, NY
$26,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Presenting
To support the Institute's subscription series of music and dance performances. The subscription series includes up to 30 concerts that take place in various New York City theaters.
Writer's Center
Bethesda, MD
$12,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support honoraria and related expenses for writers' residencies in edge cities and rural areas bordering the Washington metropolitan area. The Writer's Center will work with six civic groups and community cultural organizations to establish readings and workshops in areas of population growth.
Writer's Garret, Inc.
Dallas, TX
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support publication and related expenses for TEX!, a free multicultural literary magazine distributed in newspapers throughout Texas, and a series of promotional readings by poets and writers featured in the magazine. TEX! is circulated to 100,000 readers as an insert in The Dallas Morning News, Wichita Falls Times Record News, and Today Newspapers.
Writers Room, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support subsidized workspace for emerging writers using The Writers Room, an urban writer's colony in New York City. The organization also will provide full annual scholarships for four writers.
X-Art Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support the production, exhibition and Internet dissemination of Blast 7, a multimedia publication. The project includes two public symposia and a Web Site to coordinate project activity.
Yale University School of Drama (Yale Repertory Theatre) (Consortium)
New Haven, CT
$24,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support a consortium project to research, develop and produce a new work. Yale Repertory Theatre in collaboration with the Ralph Lemon Company/Cross Performance Inc. will develop the third part of GEOGRAPHY TRILOGY entitled Part 2: Asia to premiere in the winter of 2000.
Yerba Buena Gardens Cultural Center, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$45,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support Instrumentals, a project which explores the intersection of sculpture and music/sound composition. Activities include exhibitions, artist residencies, a film program, and extensive educational activities.
Young Men's & Young Women's Hebrew Association
(Unterberg Poetry Center of the 92nd Street Y)
New York, NY
$75,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the National Readings Tour will feature 40 writers reading to audiences in communities such as Savannah, Georgia; Bangor, Maine; Voorhees, New Jersey; Bellingham, Washington; Las Vegas, Nevada; Miami, Florida; Tampa, Florida and Billings, Montana. Authors confirmed for the series include Edward Albee, Athol Fugard, Susan Sontag, Alice Walker, Maxine Hong Kingston, Wendell Berry, and Rose Tremain.
Zivili Kolo Ensemble, Inc.
Granville, OH
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the creation, rehearsal and production of a new work based on traditional dance and music from the southern Slavic nations. This piece will utilize videotape, slide images, dance, music, and narrative derived from personal experiences in refugee camps.
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