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2000 Grant Awards: Creation & Presentation
Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change,
contingent upon prior Endowment approval.
Direct Impact Grants
52nd Street Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support two creation and performance programs of The 52nd Project. The One-on-One and
Two-on-Two programs offer inner-city youth personal mentoring relationships with
professional theater artists.
621 Gallery, Inc.
Tallahassee, FL
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support a national juried exhibition entitled H2O, examining the aesthetic,
recreational, and environmental issues associated with water. Funding will support the development
of the exhibition and educational materials and the publication of a catalogue.
A Contemporary Theatre Inc.
Seattle, WA
$35,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Musical Theater
To support the development of a musical theater piece adapted from Franz Kafka's The Penal
Colony. The collaboration among Philip Glass, Rudy Wurlitzer, Joanne Akalaitis and A
Contemporary Theatre will create a small-scale opera in one act to be performed by two vocalists
and two actors with a string trio.
A Traveling Jewish Theatre
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the creation, development, and presentation of See Under: Love. The production,
inspired by the work of the same name by Israeli novelist and critic David Grossman, will be
developed by A Traveling Jewish Theatre and premiered as part of the 2000-2001 season.
Aaron Davis Hall, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Presenting
To support performance opportunities for African American, Latino, and other multidisciplinary
performing artists of color. The project involves commissioning and programmatic support, including
rehearsal and performance space, for the development and presentation of new works.
Actors Theatre Of Louisville, Inc.
Louisville, KY
$45,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the commission, workshop, and production of a full-length play. Mac Wellman will be
commissioned to write a new work for the 25th anniversary of the Humana Festival of New American
Plays.
Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Inc.
Montgomery, AL
$18,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the premiere production of A Lesson Before Dying. Based on the novel by Ernest
Gaines, the play will be adapted by playwright Romulus Linney.
Alex Regional Theatre Board (The Alex Theatre)
Glendale, CA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the presentation of four contemporary dance companies and related residency activities
for local schools and communities. Companies presented during Dance at the Alex include
Momix, Meredith Monk/The House, Paul Taylor Dance Company, and Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
Aljira, Inc.
Newark, NJ
$12,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support a series of solo exhibitions by four accomplished artists -- all over 60 years of age.
The exhibitions will be complemented by workshops, master classes, and lectures for students at
partner institutions such as Rutgers University, the Center for Innovative Print and Paper, and the
Newark Museum.
Alliance for Media Arts
Miami, FL
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support equipment access, workshops and other resource services for media artists. Film and
video makers in South Florida can participate in all aspects of media production through these
activities.
Aman Folk Ensemble
Long Beach, CA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support planning and rehearsal time for an evening-length work. The work will explore the music
and dance of populations known for their nomadic lifestyles.
AMAS Musical Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Musical Theater
To support the development and production of two new musical theater pieces for the mainstage. AMAS
Musical Theatre will produce The Princess and the Black-Eyed Pea by Karole Foreman and
Andy Chuckerman and The Happy Hour, book and music by Michael Valenti, in its 1999-2000
mainstage season.
American Dance Festival, Inc.
Durham, NC
$70,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the commission and presentation of a range of companies that showcase American modern
dance. Landmarks and Landscapers in American Modern Dance-A Millennial
Retrospective/Prospective will include performances, commissions, panel discussions, and
choreographic residencies.
American Jazz Philharmonic
Culver City, CA
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the commissioning of two composers for symphonic jazz works to be premiered by the
American Jazz Philharmonic (AJP), and residency activity at the Henry Mancini Institute in Los
Angeles. During 2001, two composers one established and one emerging will be chosen to write works
for the 72-piece AJP that will be performed in a spring concert and during the summer Mancini
Institute concert series.
American Museum of the Moving Image
Astoria, NY
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the exhibition of a retrospective film program. The New York Film Underground,
1962-1969, will examine and reevaluate the canon of established avant-garde classics.
American Music Theater Festival
Philadelphia, PA
$60,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Musical Theater
To support the development, workshop and production series of three new works of music theater from
artists of color. The new works will draw upon themes of the African American experience, a novel
of the civil rights era, and a socially conscious classic from a major Brazilian writer.
American Poetry Review
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support The American Poetry Review's Distinguished Poets' Residencies, which will bring
two nationally prominent poets to Philadelphia to meet with students, teachers, and the general
public. Residents will present free literary activities including readings, workshops for teachers
and emerging writers, visits to area high school English classes, and lectures to be broadcast on
live radio.
American Repertory Theatre
Cambridge, MA
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support American Repertory Theatre's production of Shakepeare's A Winter's Tale.
Members of the resident ensemble will act in the play under the direction of guest director
Slobodan Vnkovski.
American Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
New York, NY
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support Classics Declassified, a set of concerts in a non-traditional format designed
to make classical music accessible to a broad and more diversified public. Presented at Cooper
Union, an alternative venue selected for its informal appeal and accessibility in New York City,
the American Symphony Orchestra aims to attract new listeners to classical music and to expand
audiences for concert performances in 2000 and 2001.
American Theater Company/American Blues Theatre
Chicago, IL
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the commission and presentation of a new adaptation of Euripides Medea.
Nicholas Rudall will translate the piece that Artistic Director Brian Russell will direct as part
of American Theater Company's 1999-2000 season.
Amherst College (Folger Consort)
Amherst, MA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support performances of A Millennium Greeting, a celebration of the millennium with
both new and early music, including the performance of an early music-inspired commissioned work by
James Primosch. The two performances at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. will bring
together plainchant and folk tunes of the tenth century performed by the Folger Consort with
contemporary works performed by the 20th Century Consort and the Cathedral Choirs.
Amherst Saxophone Society, Inc.
Williamsville, NY
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the Amherst Saxophone Quartet's commissioning, residency, and performance project,
featuring a new work by Terry Riley and live-audience radio broadcasts of performances over WBFO-FM
in western New York. Free, outdoor concerts and residency activities are planned for several venues
during the year 2000, including on the Buffalo campus of the State University of New York
(SUNY).
Ancestral Films, Inc.
Houston, TX
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the third Houston Pan-Cultural Film Festival. Held biannually, this event brings films
from all over the world to Houston audiences.
Anchorage Concert Association
Anchorage, AK
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support a one-week residency of Hawaiian Dance Company Halau o Kekuhi. The residency will
include 15-20 education/outreach activities and two public performances.
Anderson Ranch Arts Foundation
Snowmass Village, CO
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support an artist residency program for up to 12 artists. Participating artists will be provided
time, space, and equipment during residencies ranging from two to six months.
Arden Theatre Company
Philadelphia, PA
$22,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the New/Emerging Theatre Work Fund. The NETWork Fund supports efforts to
create, develop, and produce new works of American theater.
Arizona Theatre Company
Tucson, AZ
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support The Shakespeare Project. This project will encompass productions of three plays
by William Shakespeare presented on the mainstage, one in each of three seasons, along with
ancillary educational, outreach, and community programs.
Arkansas Art Center
Little Rock, AR
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the reinstallation of the museum's permanent collection. The project evolves out of the
Center's recent addition to its building, and the renovation of existing galleries.
Ars Nova Chamber Singers, Inc.
Boulder, CO
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the presentation of five performances of contemporary choral music throughout the state
of Colorado. In May 2000, the Ars Nova Singers will perform concerts in Boulder, Englewood, Denver,
and Pueblo, Colorado.
Art in General, Inc.
New York, NY
$27,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support four artist residencies and resulting exhibitions as well as accompanying publications.
Participating artists will be in residence for periods of one to three months to create new work
and organize educational activities.
Art Institute of Chicago (The Film Center)
Chicago, IL
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support an extended film exhibition project, Visions for the Future. This curated multi
faceted series, accompanied by guest lectures, will draw audiences' attention to the future as it
has been conceived by artists in the past and will educate filmgoers about pivotal works and
directors who are shaping filmmaking today.
Art Re Grup, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$14,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support an international exchange of artists from London and San Francisco. Six or more artists
from each city will exhibit their work in various venues in both London and San Francisco during
the summer and fall of 2000.
Art Sweats, Inc. (David Dorfman Dance)
New York, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of an evening-length work by choreographer David Dorfman
and composer Amy Denio. The new work will premiere in the fall of 2000.
Artists Space, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Design
To support one design and three architecture exhibits for the creation of new, site specific work.
Themes to be explored include public and private space, defective design elements, nontraditional
materials and multi- disciplinary collaboration.
Asian Media Access
Minneapolis, MN
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the curated film series, Women in Chinese Cinema. Films from Hong Kong, Taiwan,
and China will celebrate women's contribution to cinema both in front of, and behind, the
camera.
ASSITEJ-USA, Incorporated
Nashville, TN
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support a national festival for the field of professional theater for young audiences. One
Theatre World 2000 Festival/Symposium, convened by ASSITEJ/USA, will be held in Washington, D.C.
during 2000.
Association to Preserve the Eatonville Community, Inc.
(P.E.C.)
Eatonville, FL
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support a six-day residency and three dance performances of the Dayton Contemporary Dance
Company. The company will be presented as part of the Eleventh Annual Zora Neale Hurston Festival
of the Arts and Humanities.
Austin Film Society
Austin, TX
$35,000
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.
Austin Lyric Opera
Austin, TX
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support a production of Bizet's Carmen in an untraditional venue. In 2000-2001, Austin
Lyric Opera will take audience members out of the concert hall into an environment in which they
are surrounded by the performance, in this case an airplane hangar.
Ballet Concierto de Puerto Rico
San Juan, AZ
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the creation of a ballet by choreographer Jimmy Gamonet de los Heros. The ballet will be
based on a story by Puerto Rican author Rosario Ferre.
Ballet Metropolitan, Inc. (BalletMet
Columbus)
Columbus, OH
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the commissioning of a new work. Birgit Scherzer will premiere the work during the
company's 2000-01 season.
Ballet Theatre Foundation, Inc. (American Ballet
Theatre)
New York, NY
$100,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the Repertory Works Expansion Project for the 2000-2001 season. American Ballet Theatre
will premiere one-act repertory ballets from choreographers Mark Morris and Paul Taylor.
Bang on a Can, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the annual Bang on a Can Marathon. The December 2000 day long festival of new music will
take place at the Brooklyn Academy of Music as part of the Next Wave Festival.
Bargemusic, Ltd.
Brooklyn, NY
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support young artists' chamber music performances with professional musicians at Bargemusic.
Bargemusic will engage young and emerging artists through their Young Artist in Performance
Fund for concerts during 2000-2001.
Bates College
Lewiston, ME
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support extended creative residencies and commissioning, presentation, outreach, and educational
activities in Portland and Lewiston, Maine. Dance artists participating in the Bates Dance Festival
2000 include Sara Pearson, Patrik Widrig, Mark Dendy, David Dorfman, and Ronald K. Brown.
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts
Omaha, NE
$38,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support residencies for up to 15 artists to create new work. Participating artists are provided
with housing and work space, technical assistance, and a monthly stipend for three-to six-month
periods.
Berkeley Repertory Theatre
Berkeley, CA
$63,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the development and production of a new adaptation of The Alchemist. Joan
Holden's adaptation of Ben Jonson's The Alchemist will receive a four-day workshop and
full production directed by Tony Taccone.
Berkeley Symphony Orchestra
Berkeley, CA
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support an orchestral reading project, Under Construction, affording composers the
opportunity to hear their orchestral works performed for the first time. The Berkeley Symphony
Orchestra (BSO) will perform these works as they evolve throughout the 1999 2000 year.
Berks Filmmakers, Inc.
Reading, PA
$5,000
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.
Beyond Baroque Foundation
Venice, CA
$18,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the Word Beyond Millennium Project, an eight-month program of literary
activities reaching 15,000 individuals throughout the Los Angeles area. Beyond Baroque will present
residencies, workshops, and readings by writers such as Victor Hernandez Cruz, Marilyn Chin, John
Edgar Wideman, Amy Gerstler, Albert Goldbarth, and W.S. Merwin.
Bilingual Foundation of the Arts (Fundacion Bilingue de las Artes, Inc.)
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the development and presentation of Don Quixote, Somewhere in La Mancha. The
production is an adaptation of Miguel de Cervantes's classic novel Don Quixote.
Bismarck-Mandan Orchestral Association
Bismarck, ND
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the creation and presentation of new orchestral works by two composers, Valerie Budayr
and Thomas Porter. The two works will commemorate the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1804-1806 and
their Native American guide Sakakawea in time for the Lewis and Clark bicentennial.
Boise State University (Boise Chamber Music Society)
Boise, ID
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support concerts and educational events by touring, professional chamber music ensembles. The
concerts will be presented during 2000-2001 at the Morrison Center Recital Hall in Boise.
Boston Ballet, Inc.
Boston, MA
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by choreographer Daniel Pelzig. The piece
will be created to Samuel Barber's Concerto for Violincello and Orchestra.
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. (Tanglewood Music
Center)
Boston, MA
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the Festival of Contemporary Music at the Tanglewood Music Center. During
August 2000, the week-long Festival will feature up to seven concerts of the Tanglewood Music
Center Orchestra, and one concert of the Boston Symphony Orchestra as part of Tanglewood's 10-week
summer festival.
Brandywine Graphic Workshop, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$27,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support Hidden Images: Contemporary Cuban Graphic Art, an exhibition and related
educational programming at several Philadelphia cultural organizations. Planned in consultation
with nonprofit Cuban arts organizations, the project will focus on a large body of printmaking and
other works on paper produced in the last two decades.
Bristol Riverside Theater Company
Bristol, PA
$18,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the commissioning and development of a new work by playwright John Henry Redwood. The
two-year project will include playwright residency fees and developmental costs.
Broadway Center for the Performing Arts
Tacoma, WA
$8,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Presenting
To support The American Heritage Series. This series will feature six performing artists:
Mavis Staples (Gospel), Ramsey Lewis and Billy Taylor (Jazz), Ricky Skaggs (Bluegrass), the
Preservation Hall Jazz Band (New Orleans Jazz), BeauSoliel (Acadian), and Dona Rosita's Jalapeno
Kitchen (Latina Drama).
Bronx Council on the Arts (Longwood Arts Project)
Bronx, NY
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support nine-month cyberspace residencies for up to four artists to create new work using
advanced computer technology. An exhibition of the artists' completed works will be hosted on
Longwood's online cyber gallery, and public programs and demonstrations will complement the
residencies.
Brooklyn Academy of Music, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$85,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Presenting
To support the 17th Annual 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 Information & Culture, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$6,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Presenting
To support the Celebrate Brooklyn's first Family Festival. This initiative will involve a mix of
music, film, dance, storytelling, and performance art- a microcosm of Celebrate Brooklyn's diverse
programming with a special emphasis on family-oriented presentations.
Brown University (Fiscal Agent for Rites & Reason Theatre)
Providence, RI
$12,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the George Houston Bass Play-Rites Festival of New Plays. The project will also include
up to four play readings during the festival.
Bruce Museum, Inc.
Greenwich, CT
$22,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the exhibition The American Avant Garde: A Decade of Change 1936-1946, and an
accompanying catalogue. The exhibition will be the first to examine the importance of this period
in the style of the artists who later became known as Abstract Expressionists.
Buffalo Media Resources,Inc. (Squeaky
Wheel)
Buffalo, NY
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support a media artist-in-residence program and the purchase of a non-linear editing system.
With this new equipment, artists will be invited to Buffalo Media Resources (Squeaky Wheel) for a
week-long stay to complete their works.
Builders Association, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the New York premiere of JET LAG. JET LAG is a collaboration between
The Builders Association and Diller + Scofidio to be presented in the spring of 2000.
Bushfire Theatre of Performing Arts
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Musical Theater
To support the main stage production of BO, a new musical. In its 1999-2000 season,
Bushfire Theatre will produce the new musical BO, written by Clyde Santana with Gail
Davis, with music by Ted Fergerson, based on the life of the great hoofer Bill "Bojangles"
Robinson.
Cabrillo Guild of Music, Inc./Cabrillo Music
Festival
Santa Cruz, CA
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the presentation of orchestra programs featuring modern symphonic works by living
American composers, with accompanying activities for young audiences during the Cabrillo Music
Festival. The year 2000 Festival will include 12 contemporary American symphonic works in four
programs with seven American composers participating.
California EAR Unit Foundation
Green Valley, CA
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the presentation of concerts by the California EAR Unit celebrating the integration of
advanced technologies in music. The two concerts, scheduled for January and October 2000 at the Los
Angeles County Museum of Art and over the Internet, are part of the Woven Voices Series,
where programming cutting-edge composers from modern masters to the new music "digerati."
California State University Sacramento Trust Foundation
(The Festival of New American Music)
Sacramento, CA
$5,000
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 2000 Festival will focus on
advancements in computer-generated music featuring composer Rand Steiger; new and unusual
instruments with Newband (Harry Partch Ensemble) and Margaret Leng-Tan on toy piano; and an
exploration of contemporary music and improvisation featuring John Zorn.
Cantata Singers, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a performance of Donald Sur's oratorio Slavery Documents with associated
educational and outreach activities. The work, scheduled to be performed in March 2001 at Symphony
Hall in Boston, is based on historical documents from the antebellum period of the American Civil
War, and features a chorus of 80 singers, a 74-member orchestra, and five soloists.
Carter Family Puppet Theater
Seattle, WA
$8,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the Imaginative Reinterpretations of Ancient Archetypes Project. Productions
under consideration include The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkein, and the tour of Raven and
the Box of Daylight, a play based on a Northwest Coast Native American legend.
Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Art
Buffalo, NY
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support an exhibition and related programs entitled Unlimited Partnerships: Collaboration in
Contemporary Art, to coincide with CEPA's 25th anniversary. The project will include
community-wide gallery exhibitions, site-specific installations, public art projects, public
transit art, and collaborative projects between artists and students.
Center for Photography at Woodstock, Inc.
(CPW)
Woodstock, NY
$14,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support a residency program that will host up to six photographers for one-month periods in
2000. The Center will provide the resident artists with an honorarium, studio and darkroom access,
equipment, lodging, and meals.
Center for Puppetry Arts
Atlanta, GA
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support performances and arts education activities organized around the work of Jon Ludwig, the
Center's Associate Artistic Director. Two productions, Wrestling Macbeth and
Space, written and directed by Jon Ludwig, will be supplemented with educational workshops and
a residency.
Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena Gardens
San Francisco, CA
$45,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support Under 18, an arts and educational festival that will explore youth and culture
through visual arts exhibitions, music performances, film and video productions, artists
residencies, and educational symposia. Planned for three months during 2000 and 2001, Under
18, is designed to attract and involve the San Francisco youth and teen populations, their
parents, and those who work with youth.
Center on Contemporary Art (CoCA)
Seattle, WA
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support New Prometheans: An International Fire Arts Festival, featuring artists whose
primary medium is fire. The international event will be held at a decommissioned nuclear power
facility in rural southwest Washington and the University of Washington in Seattle.
Center Stage Associates, Inc.
Baltimore, MD
$55,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the production of Peter Weiss' The Investigation. Center Stage's Artistic
Director Irene Lewis will direct this harrowing distillation of the Frankfurt nazi war crimes
trials held in 1964.
Center Theatre Group of Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
$45,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the Millennium Project. Center Theatre Group/Mark Taper Forum will produce a
year -long program designed to create a meaningful theatrical response to the end of the 20th
century and the beginning of the new millennium.
Central Council Tlingit/Haida Indian Tribes
Juneau, AK
$24,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the carving of a 30-foot welcoming pole. The carving of the welcoming pole will be
accompanied by an apprenticeship program in which Tlingits will work with a master carver on pieces
associated with the theme of the pole.
Chamber Music Northwest
Portland, OR
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the creation and presentation of a work by bassist-composer Edgar Meyer in celebration
of Chamber Music Northwest's 30th anniversary season and David Shifrin's 20th year as artistic
director. The work will be a trio for clarinet, bass, and cello written for Mr. Shifrin, with the
premiere scheduled for July 2000.
Chamber Music Society of St.Cloud, Inc.
St. Cloud, MN
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the presentation of the Skampa String Quartet and Christopheren Nomura in a concert
commemorating the Holocaust. The concert, co-sponsored with the St. Cloud State University and its
Center for Holocaust Education, will feature the American premiere of Terezin Ghetto
Requiem by contemporary Czech composer Sylvie Bodorova, with accompanying residency and
educational activities at the K-12 and college levels.
Charleston Symphony Orchestra (Consortium)
Charleston, SC
$32,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a consortium project of a concert version of Porgy & Bess by George
Gershwin. Together with the College of Charleston School of the Arts and the South Carolina
Historical Society, the Charleston Symphony Orchestra will produce the three concert performances
in April 2000 at Gaillard Municipal Auditorium in Charleston.
Chautauqua Institution (Chautauqua Opera)
Chautauqua, NY
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support the Chautauqua Opera's year 2000 production of Street Scene by Kurt Weill. This
production will celebrate Weill's 100th birthday and will be part of a series of events devoted to
showing the stylistic range of the composer.
Chhandam Chitresh Das Dance Company
San Rafael, CA
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a consortium project to produce a dance drama. This collaborative effort between
Chhandam Chitresh Das Dance Company and Gamelan Sekar Jaya is based on the Mahabharata, an
epic story of Hinduism and its association with mythology.
Chicago Filmmakers
Chicago, IL
$12,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support Kino Eye, curated exhibitions 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 16th Chicago Latino Film Festival. Held annually in the spring, this festival offers
over 100 films to an average audience of over 40,000 people.
Chicago Opera Theater
Chicago, IL
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support the 1999-2000 Midwest premiere of Akhnaten by American composer Philip Glass.
The opera, composed in 1984, is the third in a trilogy of Glass's portrait operas.
Chicago Shakespeare Theater (Shakespeare Repertory)
Chicago, IL
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support compensation for artists involved in the creation of All's Well That Ends Well.
This will be the final production of the 1999-2000 inaugural season at Chicago Shakespeare Theater
at Navy Pier.
Chicago Theatre Group, Inc. (Goodman
Theatre)
Chicago, IL
$65,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the development and production of a new play. In Boy Meets Girl, by playwright
Rebecca Gilman, the new production will include student matinee performances, post performance
discussions, and teacher seminars.
Children's Theatre Company and School
Minneapolis, MN
$45,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the Threshold 2000 Project. This project will continue to develop new works in
the field of theater for young people and will include two main stage productions and two workshops
of works commissioned by Children's Theatre Company and School.
Childsplay, Inc.
Tempe, AZ
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support two premiere productions and the early development of a commissioned work. The project
includes productions of Salt & Pepper by Jose Cruz Gonzalez and Even Steven Goes
To War by Allison Gregory, as well as workshops and dramaturgical assistance for the
development of a new work by Laurie Brooks Gollobin.
Chinese Cultural Productions
San Francisco, CA
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support performances by the New Century Chamber Orchestra, the Alexander String Quartet, and
erhu instrumentalist Jie-Bing Chen in a full-length concert of string compositions by
composer Gang Situ. These concerts, featuring original works that explore contemporary American
art, culture, and society, will be held at San Francisco's Herbst Theater in the year 2000.
Choral Arts Society of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the creation and presentation of a new work for chorus and orchestra by David Shapiro,
based on a setting of Philip Levine's Pulitzer Prize-winning poem On the meeting of Hart Crane
and Garcia Lorca. Two performances are scheduled in March 2000, along with educational and
outreach activities for 1,000 high school music and literature students.
Choral Masterworks Festival, Inc.
Tampa, FL
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support concerts of choral works and associated educational outreach activities by the Master
Chorale of Tampa Bay. The two works on the program, African Sanctus by British composer
David Fanshawe and Missa Kenya by American composer Paul Basler, will be performed in
February and March 2000.
Cincinnati Ballet Company, Inc.
Cincinnati, OH
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the creation of a new work by Australian choreographer Stanton Welch. Welch will
create Ballet 2000 (working title) to usher in the millennium.
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Cincinnati, OH
$35,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support music concerts featuring principal and section orchestra musicians as soloists with the
orchestra and its chamber ensembles. Aimed at raising the esprit de corps and maintaining a high
level of interest among the ranks of musicians, these concerts will provide an expanded range of
performances available to Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra audiences during 2000 2001.
Cine Accion
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the 2001 Cine Latino Film Festival. Scheduled to be held in September 2001, this event
will showcase the work of Latino producers.
Cinema Seattle
Seattle, WA
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support Sister Cities 2000 Festival, a curated film series within the Seattle
International Film Festival. This mini-festival will feature one or more films from each of
Seattle's twenty sister cities.
Circuit Network (Fiscal Agent for La Pocha Nostra)
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support the creation and development of workshop performances of Califas 2000 by
composer Guillerimo Galinda, with a bilingual libretto by Guillermo Gomez-Pena and Robert
Sifuentes. This interdisciplinary opera, set at the end of the 21st century, is a collaborative
work with choreographer Sara Shelton Mann, visual artist Enrique Chagoya, video artist Gustavo
Vanzquez, and lighting designer Jack Carpenter.
Circus Arts Foundation of Missouri
St. Louis, MO
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support artists fees for the premiere production of Le Cirque Calder. The production
will include lectures and demonstrations on circus arts.
City of El Paso Arts Resources Department
El Paso, TX
$12,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Local Arts Agency
To support the World on a String Festival, a classical guitar series that includes master
classes. The series will feature the Assad Brothers, David Russell, Rafael Jimenez, Mario Otero,
and Carlos Benitez-Villarreal in performances at the Chamizal National Memorial Theater in El Paso
for local audiences, including those traveling from border cities of Mexico.
City of Regent (Fiscal Agent for Enchanted Highway)
Regent, ND
$5,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support the commissioning of a public art project for The Enchanted Highway, along a
North Dakota highway. Artist Gary Greff will design and fabricate a large-scale, painted metal
sculpture which will be approximately 100 feet high and 70 feet wide.
City of San Antonio, Office of Cultural Affairs
San Antonio, TX
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the International Accordion Festival (IAF). The IAF will develop over two years into an
annual event with three components: 1) a festival (indoor and outdoor performances), 2) a trade
show (point of sale and professional exchange opportunities) and, 3) symposia (workshops and
seminars).
City Parks Foundation
New York, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Presenting
To support Central Park's SummerStage New Works, New Voices 2000 project. This project involves the
New York and U.S. debuts of international artists, showcase opportunities for emerging artists, and
workshops among these creative artists of different genres and traditions.
City Theatre Company, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
$12,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the productions of two commissioned works, Jeffrey Hatcher's The Last Female Stage
Beauty and an adaptation of Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. These plays
are part of City Theatre's New Play Commissioning Program.
City Theatre, Inc.
Coral Gables, FL
$7,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the fifth annual Summer Shorts Festival featuring premieres of short (one-act) comedies,
dramas, and musicals. The month-long festival presents fully produced works culled from over 500
U.S. and international submissions by established and emerging playwrights.
Cleveland International Film Festival,
Inc.
Cleveland, OH
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the 24th annual Cleveland International Film Festival and the 3rd annual Midwest
Independent Filmmakers Conference. Held in the spring, this event presents current work from around
the world and complements it with educational programs which will help deepen the audience's
understanding of and appreciation for the art form.
CNS Productions, Inc.
South Salem, NY
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support Voices of the Century -- 20th Century Choral Masterpieces, a series of concerts
performed by the New York Virtuoso Singers. A total of six concerts at Merkin Concert Hall,
occurring between January 2000 and April 2001, will be devoted to a cappella works, illuminating
the achievements of 20th century composers from throughout the western world.
College Community Services, Inc. (Brooklyn Center for
the Performing Arts)
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the presentation of the 2000-2001 World of Dance series program. The series
premieres new and emerging artists in dance as well as folkloric dance companies from around the
world.
Colorado Dance Festival, Inc.
Boulder, CO
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the 2000-2001 presentation of Let's Dance Together! the Americas program. This
is the final year of a four-year project that celebrates the dances of North/South/Central America
and the Caribbean.
Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center
Colorado Springs, CO
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the third exhibition in The Nature of Looking series, which examines a small
grouping of prominent works of art rarely seen in the region, with accompanying education programs.
This exhibition, The Spiritual in Art, will showcase pieces of religious and iconographic
art borrowed from the Denver Art Museum.
Columbia College (on behalf of The Dance Center)
Chicago, IL
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support four components of the Dance Center's 2000-2001 public programming. The components
include the 10th anniversary of DanceAfrica Chicago; presentation of David Dorfman Dance; a four-
to six-week festival of contemporary Canadian dance; and 9 to 12 performances of new works from
Chicago- based companies.
Columbia College Chicago (Center for Black Music Research)
Chicago, IL
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the phaseout and consolidation of the Center for Black Music Research ensembles into
one: the New Black Music Repertory Ensemble. A comprehensive audience development plan aims to
integrate and solidify the three performing ensembles for this year 2000 merger, while embracing
the purposes and repertoires of all three.
Community Architexts Association
Chicago, IL
$16,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Design
To support a public design installation in order to develop communication infrastructures for
disadvantaged women. The result will be an installation of the women's statements onto a prominent
building's facade and signage that will eventually be available for local business use.
Community Arts Project, Inc.
Columbus, OH
$6,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Presenting
To support Black History and the New Millennium, a series placing special emphasis on the
artistic contributions of Black males. Funds will support artists' fees, educational activities,
marketing, and free tickets targeting underserved youth and adult populations.
Composers Conference and Chamber Music Center,
Inc.
Wayland, MA
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the Composer's Project enabling young composers to study with senior composers and
musicians, and for concert presentations and recordings of their work by new music experts at
Wellesley College. Ten young composers, blindly selected by a professional jury from an applicant
pool of about 100, will participate in this project, part of the 56th Annual Composers Conference
in 2000.
Connecticut Players Foundation, Inc. (Long Wharf
Theatre)
New Haven, CT
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support a program that fosters the development of new work and supports the careers of American
playwrights. Long Wharf Theater's Playwright Program will provide writers with the opportunity to
experience their work in the context of full productions.
Connecticut Players Foundation, Inc. (Consortium)
(Long Wharf Theatre)
New Haven, CT
$23,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support The New Haven Project, a consortium project to create a new community-based theater
piece. Long Wharf Theatre will participate with Cornerstone Theater Company and three
not-for-profit organizations in a consortium project created to build bridges in New Haven's
communities.
Contemporary American Theater Festival,
Inc.
Shepherdstown, WV
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the premiere production of a play by Wendy MacLeod entitled Marriage of the
Minds. The Contemporary American Theater Festival has commissioned Wendy MacLeod to write a
play about the complex relationship between Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes as poets and parents.
Contemporary Arts Center
Cincinnati, OH
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the planning process for a new impermanent collection program. The Center's objective is
to select a group of visiting curators and identify available works of art for a series of
long-term loan exhibitions.
Contemporary Arts Center
New Orleans, LA
$12,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support the 2000 Performance Support Program. This program will provide full box-office
services, technical and marketing support, and fee subsidies to over 30 local and regional
performing arts organizations for use of the Contemporary Arts Center's professional performance,
rehearsal, and meeting place.
Contemporary Dance Theater, Inc.
Cincinnati, OH
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the continuation of the Guest Artist Series. Contemporary Dance Theater will
present local and national artists in eight to ten performances.
Corporation of Yaddo
Saratoga Springs, NY
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support travel expenses and special equipment rental costs for artist residencies. Artists will
be selected from among writers, visual artists, composers, choreographers, and artists working in
photography, film, video performance art, and multi-media.
Coterie, Inc.
Kansas City, MO
$17,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the Three Great Writers Project, the production of three plays. Plays under
consideration include Edgar Allen Poe's Tintinnabulations, Tennessee William's The
Glass Menagerie, and Charles Dickens' Great Expectations.
Court Theatre Fund (Consortium)
Chicago, IL
$28,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support a co-production by Court Theatre and Freedom Theatre of Desire Under The Elms.
Freedom Theatre's Artistic Director Walter Dallas will direct the play at each theater.
Creative Time, Inc.
New York, NY
$32,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support the commissioning of three temporary public art works as part of a series addressing the
implications of genetic research on the future. Artists Alexis Rockman, Julian LaVerdiere/Paul
Myoda, and Julia Scher will create works for various public sites in New York City as well as the
Internet.
Crossroads, Inc.
New Brunswick, NJ
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support a program that commissions writers from diverse backgrounds to explore cultural themes
and adapt literature by African American authors for the stage. Crossroads Theatre Company's
commissions will be presented during Crossroads' expanded, annual Genesis Festival of New
Plays.
CSC Repertory, Ltd.
New York, NY
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the production of Ferdinand Bruckner's work Race (Die Rassen). The
company has commissioned an English translation of the German play and will include the production
as part of its main stage season.
Cuyahoga Community College (Consortium)
Cleveland, OH
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support a consortium project to present the second year of a dance series. Cuyahoga Community
College's Office of Cultural Arts and DanceCleveland, America's oldest association of modern dance
and movement, will offer the Move It Out series with four companies: Shapiro & Smith,
Doug Elkins Dance Company, Sean Curran Company, and Race Dance.
D.C. Wheel Productions, Inc. (Dance Place)
Washington, DC
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support a series of professional performances and residencies by dance artists as part of the
20th anniversary programming. The series will feature a roster of culturally and aesthetically
diverse dancers and companies.
Da Camera Society of Texas
Houston, TX
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support Britain and America: The Post-War Years and Growing Up American: The Pop
Influence concert productions, lectures, and panel discussions in connection with two visual
art exhibitions. These events will be created as musical parallels to the upcoming, Houston
exhibits at the Menil Collection and at the Contemporary Arts Museum of Houston in January
2001.
Dagmar Collective, Inc. (John Kelly and
Company)
New York, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support a four-week run of a dance/theater piece. Find My Way Home, created by John
Kelly, will be presented in New York City.
Dallas Opera
Dallas, TX
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support a new production of the opera Wozzeck by Alban Berg in 2000-2001. Five
performances of this 20th-century work will be presented for the first time to audiences in the
North Texas region.
Dallas Theater Center
Dallas, TX
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the presentation of the Big D Festival of the Unexpected. This
two-week festival of new works brings artists from throughout North America to Dallas to showcase
their creations.
Dance Continuum, Inc. (Susan Marshall &
Company)
Putnam Valley, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support creation of a new dance/theater work choreographed by Susan Marshall. The piece will
combine dance, music, and text.
Dance Theater Workshop, Inc.
New York, NY
$70,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support an extended-run production series. The Carnival program features the work of 12 artists
at various stages of their careers, and MainEvents will present three established, mid career
companies.
Dance Umbrella
Austin, TX
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support a five-part dance series. Transformation of Spirit will include performances by
John Kelly & Company, Buto-Sha Tenkei, Ronald K. Brown/evidence, Jane Comfort, and Margie
Gillis.
Dance Umbrella Boston, Inc.
Boston, MA
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of four contemporary dance works. Companies in the series
include Pilobolus Dance Theatre, Bill T. Jones, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, and Urban Bush
Women.
Danmari Ltd.
Montclair, NJ
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the development and production of a new work entitled Chinmokuza. The Yass
Hakoshima Mime Theatre will create a new work that is based on the philosophical principles of
Buddhist aesthetics.
Danspace Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the third year of a program for New York choreographers. The goals of City/Dans are to
nurture these artists throughout various stages of their development and to provide audiences with
a deeper understanding of the full range of choreographers in New York.
Dartmouth College (Hopkins Center)
Hanover, NH
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the Hopkins Center Festival of International Puppetry. The 3rd biannual Hopkins Center
Festival of International Puppetry will feature national and international artists in the fall of
2000.
Dayton Contemporary Dance Guild, Inc. (Dayton
Contemporary Dance Company)
Dayton, OH
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the commissioning of a new work. Artistic Directors Danial Shapiro and Joanie Smith of
Shapiro & Smith Dance (Minneapolis, Minnesota) will create the piece.
Deaf West Theatre Company, Inc.
North Hollywood, CA
$12,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Musical Theater
To support a multi-disciplinary production of Oliver and post-production workshops in
schools that serve deaf and disadvantaged youth. In its production of Oliver, DeafWest
Theatre intends to create a new genre of musical theater that will be presented in both American
sign language and voice for audiences of all ages.
Denver Art Museum
Denver, CO
$95,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the commissioning of Wheel, a permanent outdoor sculpture installation by
Cheyenne/Arapaho artist Edgar Hachivi Heap of Birds. Wheel will be part of the museum's
ongoing outdoor sculpture initiative.
Denver Center for the Performing Arts
Denver, CO
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the New Play Development Program. Programming includes the production of new scripts, a
new play festival, and commissioned works.
Des Moines Symphony Association
Des Moines, IA
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the creation and performance of a new work for orchestra by Steve Heitzeg celebrating
the heritage of the family farm, and orchestral concerts featuring all-Mexican repertoire. The
commission by Minnesota composer Steve Heitzeg, Symphony to the Prairie Farm, and the two Mexican
repertoire concerts will be part of a community festival of Mexican culture.
Discalced, Inc (Mark Morris Dance Group)
New York, NY
$70,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support a three-month, retrospective performance series. The retrospective will cover the
20-year life of the Mark Morris Dance Group and will include 14 performances over three weeks at
the Brooklyn Academy of Music Opera House.
District Curators, Inc.
Washington, DC
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support the production of the fully-staged, jazz opera The E&O Line, and its video
documentation in high-definition format. Co-produced with Washington, D.C.'s Catholic University of
America and Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the production, inspired by the story of
Orpheus and Eurydice, has a theme of trains, electronics, gospel, jazz, and blues.
DiverseWorks, Inc.
Houston, TX
$18,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support The Matthew Shipp Trio and the John Jasperse Dance Company in residence as a part of the
DiverseDialogues artist residency program. The Matthew Shipp Trio and the John Jasperse
Dance Company will be engaged for two-week residencies in the year 2000.
Djerassi Resident Artists Program
Woodside, CA
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support up to 10 residencies for established artists to work on their creative projects.
Residencies of four weeks will be provided for two media or new genre artists, three composers, and
three choreographers from March through November 2000.
Dona Ana Arts Council (Fiscal Agent for Border Book Festival)
Las Cruces, NM
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the sixth annual Border Book Festival, which will occur during March 2000. Highlighting
the theme, The Dreams of Children, the festival will feature writers such as Julia
Alvarez, Rita Dove, John Edgar Wideman, Luci Tapahonso, Victor Mart nez, and Carmen Lomas
Garza.
Donald Byrd Dance Foundation, Inc. (Donald Byrd/The
Group)
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the creation of a new work. Choreographer Donald Byrd will create a reinterpretation of
the ballet Sleeping Beauty.
DOVA, Inc. (Doug Varone and Dancers)
New York, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of an evening-length work. Doug Varone will choreograph
the piece, and it will be presented in lower Manhattan during a two-week engagement in the spring
of 2001.
Drama League of New York, Inc.
New York, NY
$12,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support The Directors Project. The project is a four-component apprenticeship program for early
career, American theater directors.
Drawing Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$18,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the exhibition Beyond Reason: Drawings from the Prinzhorn Collection, with
accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will include approximately 250
drawings made by patients at the psychiatric institute at the University of Heidelberg,
Germany.
Early Music Guild of Seattle
Seattle, WA
$6,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a J. S. Bach Festival to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the composer's death. The
year 2000 Festival will celebrate the opening of a new performance facility in Seattle, and include
performances by three early-music ensembles: the Seattle Baroque Orchestra, the Tudor Choir, and
Gallery Concerts.
East Tennessee Community Design Center
Knoxville, TN
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Design
To support a design advocacy project that explores alternative design and development practices to
increase community livability. The goal of FutureScapes, a design advocacy project, is to
promote economic development while maintaining cultural traditions and landscapes, including both
the natural and built environment.
EBS Productions, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the 2000 International Film Financing Conference. This annual event was established to
encourage and increase collaborations between American producers and international film production
entities.
Ensemble Studio Theatre
New York, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the annual Marathon of New One-Act Plays. The Marathon features 12 to 15 short works
from established and emerging writers which are presented in three series over the course of six
weeks.
Essex Community Heritage Organization,
Inc.
Essex, NY
$24,670
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Design
To support a juried design competition for a new visitors interpretive center within the Essex
Village Historic District. The competition will provide multiple designers' concepts and
presentations for the new visitors center, which will make a 20th century contribution to the
architecturally significant historic Essex community.
ETA Creative Arts Foundation
Chicago, IL
$12,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the Playwright's Discovery/Development Initiative (PDI). This project will bring two
African American playwrights into a collaborative theater residency at ETA.
Eugene O'Neill Memorial Theater Center,
Inc.
Waterford, CT
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the National Playwrights Conference and the National Music Theater Conference. The
project includes the creation and development of new plays and musical theater works.
Evidence, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the creation of a new dance work by Ronald K. Brown. High Life will reflect the
dynamics and acculturation process that is initiated by migration and immigration.
Exit Art/The First World, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support planning for the exhibition A Hip-Hop History, which will examine the cultural
impact of this 20-year-old musical style. The project will explore the effects of Hip-Hop on the
visual arts, particularly in fashion, advertising, periodicals, and graphic design.
Experimental Sound Studio
Chicago, IL
$6,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support six artist residencies for Chicago-area artists. The six residencies will facilitate the
artists' production and completion of finished work in sound, soundtrack designs for film and
video, or for performing arts collaborations.
Experimental Television Center, Ltd.
Newark Valley, NY
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support a year-long residency program for 45-50 media artists from throughout the United States.
The Experimental Television Center provides film and video artists access to sophisticated
production facilities.
Fabric Workshop and Museum
Philadelphia, PA
$60,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support a program of residencies and solo exhibitions by contemporary artists and accompanying
education programs. Working collaboratively with the Fabric Workshop staff, each artist will create
a new work using the materials, techniques, and concepts of fabric in new and experimental
ways.
Facets Multimedia, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$60,000
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 exhibitions of films for children throughout the year, curriculum development, and
expanding Facet's Web site.
Fairmount Park Art Association
Philadelphia, PA
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support the commissioning of the three public art projects for New*Land*Marks: Public art,
Community, and the Meaning of Place. The project will bring together artists and communities
to plan and create unique, original, and permanent public art works as a model of neighborhood
development.
Fern Street Community Arts, Inc.
San Diego, CA
$6,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support a tour of the Fern Street Circus. In June 2000, Fern Street Circus will have its first
tour to Pasadena, California.
Field Papers Inc.
Bennington, VT
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the creation of a new work. Choreographer Dana Reitz will investigate the
interrelationship of movement, material environment, and light.
Film Arts Foundation
San Francisco, CA
$60,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support Film Arts Foundation's (FAF) presentation services for media artists. This includes the
annual Film Arts Festival of Independent Cinema; the curated programs Short Circuit Film and True
Stories; and its Web site.
Film Arts Foundation (Fiscal Agent for Eric Slade Productions)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the post-production costs for a documentary portrait of Harry Hay by Eric Slade and Jack
Walsh. Using archival footage, interviews, and photographs, this documentary will chronicle Hay's
life.
Film Society of Lincoln Center (Consortium)
New York, NY
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support American Independent Visions, a consortium project with the Independent Feature Project.
This program offers four selected films a one-week theatrical run at the Walter Reade Theater, with
a minimum of 20 screenings, thereby providing filmmakers a venue for their films that have yet to
receive distribution.
Film Society of Lincoln Center
New York, NY
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Art
To support three curated film series. Turning Points: Defining Moments in Film History
will examine German Expressionism, Italian Neo-Realism, and the shift from silent to sound
films.
Film/Video Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the Internship Program, the Artist Mentor Project, and the purchase of a non-linear
editing system. Through the Internship Program and Artist Mentor Project, emerging media artists
are given instruction and guidance to complete their film/video projects; the purchase of an Avid
will allow these makers access to this sophisticated, but prohibitively expensive technology that
is commonly used in both commercial and non-profit productions.
First Stage Milwaukee, Inc.
Milwaukee, WI
$12,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the commission, development, and production of 10 Minutes till Bedtime! First
Stage Milwaukee will collaborate with Milwaukee Dance Theatre to produce a theatrical adaptation of
this children's story by Peggy Rathman.
Florida Grand Opera
Miami, FL
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support a new production of Katya Kabanova by Leos Janacek in 2000-2001. This
production will mark the first time the opera has been performed in the Southeast and will feature
five performances in Miami-Dade County and two performances at the Broward Center for the
Performing Arts in Broward County.
Flying Foot Forum (Joe Chvala and the Flying Foot Forum)
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the creation of a full-length percussive dance/theater piece. One's All, Two's All,
Zig Zall Zan, choreographed by Joe Chvala, will incorporate percussive dance, puppetry, music,
song, nonsense text, and percussive sets, props, and costumes.
Flynn Theatre for the Performing Arts, Ltd.
Burlington, VT
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Presenting
To support Ancient to the Future/African-American Music, Dance and Spoken Word, a series
of performing arts residencies. Artists to be involved include Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance
Company; the Sekou Sundiata/Craig Harris spoken word/music theater work Elijah; Ronald K.
Brown's Hi-Life; Rome and Jewels, Rennie Harris' adaption of Romeo and
Juliet; jazz artist David Murray's Fo Deuk Revue; Senegalese rappers Positive Black
Soul; and Wofa, a music ensemble from the Soussou clan of Guinea.
Foothill Theatre Company
Nevada City, CA
$6,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the development and production of a new play based on the life and work of the 19th
century writer/illustrator Mary Hallock Foote. An adaptation of Wallace Stegner's novel, the
project will include a mainstage production and educational/outreach activities.
Fort Wayne Philharmonic Orchestra, Inc.
Fort Wayne, IN
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support Unplugged, Fort Wayne Philharmonic's informal classical concert series. During
2000-2001, Unplugged concerts will be hosted by a local television personality and feature
casually dressed orchestra members under live video images projected on a large screen.
Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra Association
Ft. Worth, TX
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support performances at the Concerts in the Garden Summer Music Festival by the Fort Worth
Symphony Orchestra and guest artists. The 10th annual Festival in the summer of 2000 consists of 18
concerts of music of various cultures performed for audiences of all ages and ethnic
backgrounds.
Fotofest, Inc.
Houston, TX
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support FotoFest 2000, a biennial photographic festival that includes exhibitions, residencies,
lectures, educational tours, and services for artists. FotoFest works with over 80 organizations in
the area to present this month-long event that attracts over 200,000 visitors worldwide.
Foundation for Dance Promotion, Inc. (Bill T.
Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company)
New York, NY
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the creation of an evening-length work choreographed by Bill T. Jones. Oh? You
Walk? has evolved out of Jones' desire to explore the themes of migration and longing for
one's original home.
Foundry Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Musical Theater
To support the commission, development and production of a new musical adapted from Herman
Melville's classic novel, Moby Dick. The Foundry Theatre has commissioned celebrated
composer/performer/librettist Rinde Eckert and award-winning playwright W. David Hancock to
collaborate on the creation of this new musical work.
Free Street Programs
Chicago, IL
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the TeenStreet Theater Project. The project includes a new initiative: the establishment
of an alternative theater curated, produced and promoted by teens.
Friends of Lied/Lied Center for the Performing Arts Nebraska
Lincoln, NE
$13,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the commission of a bilingual play with music. The piece will be created by three
theater companies and will include multiple weeks of residency activities in the 1999- 2000 Lied
Center season.
Garth Fagan Dance, Inc.
Rochester, NY
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support creation of a new work by artistic director Garth Fagan. Collaborators will include Jazz
at Lincoln Center, the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, and Wynton Marsalis, its artistic
director.
Gemini Ink (Fiscal Agent for Wings Press)
San Antonio, TX
$5,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the production, promotion, and related expenses for volumes in Wings Press's Poes a
Tejana publishing project. Wings Press will publish first books by young Hispanic women living
in Texas, and poetry chapbooks by established Tejana poets.
George Coates Performance Works
San Francisco, CA
$12,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the production of The Archbishop's Ceiling by Arthur Miller. The production
will be presented in the theater's neo-gothic cathedral.
Glimmerglass Opera, Inc.
Cooperstown, NY
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Opera
To support a new production of the operetta The Glassblowers by John Philip Sousa in the
year 2000. This production will receive a minimum of 10 performances and will continue Glimmerglass
Opera's American opera cycle for a fifth year.
Goodspeed Opera House Foundation, Inc.
East Haddam, CT
$75,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Musical Theater
To support the development and production of Dear World. The Goodspeed Opera House will
further develop this work by composer and lyricist Jerry Herman and book writers Jerome Lawrence
and Robert Lee prior to main stage production.
Great Lakes Theater Festival
Cleveland, OH
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the development and production of The Wild Duck by Henrik Ibsen, adapted by
playwright Anthony Clarvoe. The project will include educational and outreach activities to
supplement the production.
Gregg Smith Singers, Inc.
Yonkers, NY
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support composer reading workshops for emerging composers of new choral works. During the
2000-2001 season, the Gregg Smith Singers will hold workshops in conjunction with performances in
New York City and at the Adirondack Festival of American Music (Saranac Lake, New York).
Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center
San Antonio, TX
$65,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support the commission and production of an original play, La Chata, based on the life
of Mexican-American theater artist Beatriz "La Chata" Noloesca; and for the presentation of artwork
by visual artists, musicians, writers, and filmmakers from the U.S. and Mexico. This project is a
part of Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center's 2000 Gateways Creation and Presentation Program.
Guild Complex
Chicago, IL
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the 2000 Musicality of Poetry Series, which features performances and workshops
linking poetry with live music. Proposed artists include Sterling Plumpp and Bluesman Billy Branch,
David Hernandez with bassist and composer Mitch "Mitar" Covic, and performance poet Jean Howard
with the Mass Ensemble.
Guthrie Theater Foundation
Minneapolis, MN
$75,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support a production of Sean O'Casey's 1926 play The Plough and the Stars. The Guthrie
Theater's production will be directed by Artistic Director Joe Dowling.
Hallwalls, Inc.
Buffalo, NY
$24,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support the Hallwalls Artist-in-Residence Project, HARP 2000-2001. Seven resident artists
ranging from sculptor to poet to filmmakers and theater artists will be provided with travel,
housing, and living expenses; workspace, materials, and equipment; promotion and publicity; and
technical support for presentation or installation of their work at local-area public schools and
community sites.
Handel & Haydn Society
Boston, MA
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support concert performances of Mendelssohn's Elijah. This concert will be held in
conjunction with the 100th anniversary of Boston's Symphony Hall, along with public forums,
lectures, and school programs.
Hartford Stage Company, Inc.
Hartford, CT
$45,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the premiere of Since You Been Gone by the novelist Walter Mosley. Hartford
Stage will provide developmental support and a production of Walter Mosley's first play.
Harvestworks, Inc.
New York, NY
$18,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support short-term residencies through the Harvestworks' Artists' Access Program. During the
year 2000, up to 20 artists will be provided low-cost or free access to the sophisticated
multimedia facilities at Harvestworks, along with technical and engineering support for the
production of public performance, exhibition, or broadcast works.
Headlands Center for the Arts
Sausalito, CA
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support U.S. Artists-in-Residence (US AIR) in providing housing, travel, meals, and stipends to
artists for their creative development projects and participation in Headlands public programs. US
AIR will offer up to 20 three-month, fully sponsored residencies during the year 2000.
Heart of the Beast Theatre
Minneapolis, MN
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the creation and production of a new puppet and mask play. Heart of the Beast Theater
will present Seed: Awesome Vessel of Power during its 1999-2000 season.
Helena Presents
Helena, MT
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Presenting
To support Cultural Crossings, a thematic, performing arts presentation and residency
series.
Highlights in Jazz
New York, NY
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support costs associated with the production of two thematic jazz concerts. The concerts,
Jazz Arrangers' Workshop and Jazz/Salsa/Klezmer, will be presented as part of an
eight concert jazz series at the Pace University Downtown Theater in New York City.
Home for Contemporary Theatre and Art
New York, NY
$18,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Musical Theater
To support the development and premiere of Night Vision, a cross-cultural opera. Composer
Fred Ho, librettist Ruth Margraff and director Tim Maner will collaborate on this work that draws
from a variety of cultural traditions.
Honolulu Theatre for Youth
Honolulu, HI
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the development and production of four to five short plays. Mixed Plate Special -
Stories That Feed Us will be developed from stories of the myriad cultures that shape modern
Hawaii and will be written by Hawaiian writers.
Houston Ballet Foundation
Houston, TX
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the creation of five new works for the 2000 season. Trey McIntyre and Stanton Welch will
create new dance works for the subscription season, while premieres for the Cullen Contemporary
Series will be created by Natalie Weir and two company dancers.
Houston Independent School District
Houston, TX
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support a public art commission by Luis Jimenez at Cesar E. Chavez High School. The artist will
create a sculpture to be installed at the school's principal entrance and a mural for the wall of
the student commons.
Howard County Poetry and Literature Society, Inc.
(HoCoPoLitSo)
Columbia, MD
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the presentation and promotion of writers' residencies and television interviews
featuring nationally recognized authors. Proposed authors include Julia Alvarez, Ernest J. Gaines,
Adrienne Rich, Edward Hirsch, Marilyn Chen, Jill Ker Conway, Yusef Komunyakaa, Maeve Binchy, Gish
Jen, Maxine Hong Kingston, Luci Tapahonso, and Peter Mathiessen.
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
Chicago, IL
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support dances by three leading and emerging choreographers. The New Works and Residency Program
also will enable the choreographers to conduct weeklong workshops for professional and young,
pre-professional dance students.
Hudson Valley Writers' Center, Inc.
Sleepy Hollow, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the Literary Presentation Series, featuring live readings by distinguished
writers, and Open Mike Nights, a series of readings by local regional poets and writers.
Recent readers at Hudson Valley Writers Center include Pulitzer Prize-winner Frank McCourt, Quincy
Troupe, Sharon Olds, Cornelius Eady, Stuart Dybek, Toi Derricotte, T.C. Boyle, and Eamon
Grennan.
Huntington Theater Company, Inc.
Boston, MA
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support a world premiere adaptation of the Edwin O'Connor novel The Last Hurrah. The
production will be adapted and directed by Eric Simonson.
Hyde Park Theatre Frontera Productions
Austin, TX
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the creation and production of Bitta Fruit by Sharon Bridgeforth. The project
includes a series of companion outreach activities.
Icarus Puppet Company
San Diego, CA
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the creation and presentation of a new work, Animal of Life. The play will be
presented through the Puppets on Wheels program.
Illusion Theater & School, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$18,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the presentation of the FRESH INK Series. Programming will include the
presentation of new works and the development of works in progress.
Imago, Theatre Mask Ensemble
Portland, OR
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the creation, development and production of two new plays. The two co-artistic directors
of the company will each create an original work.
Independent Feature Project
New York, NY
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the Independent Feature Film Market. Held annually in September, this event allows
independent filmmakers to present their work to representatives from the commercial film
industry.
Independent Media Artists of Georgia, Etc.,
Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the 2000 Atlanta Film and Video Festival. This event presents the best of current
independent film and video to an average audience of 6,500 people.
Indiana State University
Terre Haute, IN
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the 34th Annual Contemporary Music Festival. This three-day festival will bring together
composers, the Louisville Orchestra, and a chamber ensemble; and host over ten guest lecturers,
open rehearsals, and music seminars.
Installation Gallery
San Diego, CA
$37,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support the commissioning of up to ten temporary public art works for inSITE2000. The
project is a collaborative effort among 25 cultural institutions in the San Diego/Tijuana area.
International Arts Relations, Inc.
(INTAR)
New York, NY
$23,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support a production of Unmerciful Good Fortune, written by Edwin Sanchez and directed
by Max Ferra. Edwin Sanchez is a graduate of INTAR's Hispanic Playwrights- in-Residence Laboratory
and an important new voice in American theater.
Intersection
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the presentation and promotion of writer's residencies in San Francisco. Proposed
artists include Benjamin Alire Saenz, Luis Rodriguez, John Trudell, bell hooks, Lynne Tillman, and
Christina Garcia.
Irondale Productions, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the creation of a new musical theater piece, The Murals of Rockefeller Center.
The production will be a fully scored opera/theater work that uses historical characters to explore
the American character.
Jack Straw Foundation
Seattle, WA
$22,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support the Artist Support Program (ASP) in providing residencies for Northwest artists working
creatively with the audio-sound medium. Twenty-one artists will create new works for presentation
in the public arena during the year 2000.
Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Inc.
Lee, MA
$70,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the premiere of new works by six choreographers. Each engagement will offer a one to
two-week adult education curriculum of performances, participatory events, and public programs.
Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning
Jamaica, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support Visions of the Future II, an exhibition project that will commission new work by seven
emerging artists. Artists will be invited to submit specific proposals that reflect their vision of
the future.
Japan Society, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support productions of the Japanese "noh" play Taniko featuring theater artist
Tessenkai and an American opera Der Jasager by Kurt Weill. Both the play and the opera
will be presented at the Japan Society's auditorium in April 2000 and examined in a symposium,
lecture demonstration, and workshop as part of the Kurt Weill Centenary 2000, a worldwide
celebration through events commemorating the 100th anniversary of the composer's birth.
Jazz in Flight
Oakland, CA
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support Jazz in Flight's year-round concert series and week-long Annual Eddie Moore Festival.
These projects, which present more than 40 musicians annually, provide venues and exposure to
innovative jazz artists, and serve to educate San Francisco Bay Area audiences about jazz music and
its roots.
Jazz in the City
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the 2000 San Francisco Jazz Festival. The 18th annual, two-week festival will produce
more than 30 jazz concert performances featuring emerging and world-renowned artists in numerous
Bay Area venues during fall 2000.
Jazz Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a concert presentation by jazz and world music artist Steve Coleman. The performance, a
part of the Chicago Field Museum's World Music Festival 2000, will reunite Mr. Coleman's Mystic
Rhythm Society with members of the AfroCuba de Matanzas.
JAZZDANCE by Danny Buraczeski
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support creation of a 30-minute dance work by Danny Buraczeski. The work, entitled
Silence, will be set on the full company of eight dancers to the music of jazz pianist Bill
Evans, using a piece called Symbiosis.
Jewish Arts Foundation
Palm Beach, FL
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the Tenth Palm Beach Jewish Film Festival. This event is devoted to Jewish-subject films
from international and American independent sources that otherwise would not be screened in Palm
Beach.
Joffrey Ballet of Chicago, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the acquisition and presentation for an all-Copland evening, celebrating the 100 year
anniversary of the composer's birth. Using the choreography of Martha Graham, Eugene Loring, Randy
Duncan, and Tony Powell, the evening will explore four choreographers and their approach to
music.
Joyce Theater Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$70,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support nine dance presentation projects. Presentations will include: Ronald K. Brown/evidence;
Susan Marshall & Co.; the Altogether Different Series; H*Art*Chaos; Margie Gillis;
Joyce Soho Presents; Pilobolus; Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo; and Rennie Harris
PureMovement.
Jump-Start Performance Co.
San Antonio, TX
$8,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the production and tour of a revival of La Frontera. This part of the
Jump-Start Millennium Initiative will include a commemorative publication with a companion Web
site.
June Watanabe in Company
San Rafael, CA
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a new work. 5/15/45 - the last dance, will be
a performance/installation/community dance for non-proscenium sites that will explore Japanese
American incarceration during World War II.
Juneau Jazz & Classics
Juneau, AK
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the production and presentation of a festival of classical and jazz music including
performances and workshops. Twenty-four musicians are planned for the ten-day May 2000 festival of
open rehearsals, free performances, local radio broadcasts, and in-school concerts for
students.
Junebug Productions
New Orleans, LA
$12,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Presenting
To support a series of residencies and performances entitled Solo Flights ... Not Alone.
The series will include solo performances by Jorge Merced of Pregones Theater, musician Tiye
Giraud, theater artist Brenda Wong Aoki, and storyteller John O'Neal performing solo works as part
of the Color Line Project featuring discussions with prominent scholars and civil rights
veterans.
Kentucky Dance Council (Louisville Ballet)
Louisville, KY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support a Choreographer's Showcase. The Showcase will exhibit works by emerging choreographers
from across the nation.
Kings Majestic Corporation (651 ARTS)
Brooklyn, NY
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support a new dance series. Companies to be presented in Black Dance: Tradition and
Transformation 2000 include: Philadanco, Urban Bush Women, Bre Dance Ensemble, M'Zawa Danz,
and one international company.
Kitchen Dog Theater Company
Dallas, TX
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the development and production of the second annual New Works Festival. The New Works
Festival is an outgrowth of Kitchen Dog Theater's membership in the National New Play Network
(NNPN), a national alliance of non-profit theaters dedicated to the creation, production, and
dissemination of new works.
KITKA, Inc.
Oakland, CA
$42,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the New Folksongs Project, with commissions and residencies of American composers in
celebration of KITKA's 20th anniversary. KITKA, a professional women's vocal ensemble, will
commission the works of composers Chen Yi, David Lang, Linda Tillery with Janet Kutulas, and
Pauline Oliveros for a series of concerts and educational activities around the San Francisco Bay
Area.
Kumu Kahua Theatre
Honolulu, HI
$7,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the development and presentation of an original commissioned work. Kumu Kahua Theatre
has commissioned Fijian/Rotuman playwright Vilsoni Hereniko to create a work concerning Pacific
issues.
Kuumbwa Jazz Society
Santa Cruz, CA
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support weekly jazz concerts featuring national, regional, and emerging jazz artists. The
concerts will occur throughout the year 2000 and will be presented at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center.
L.A. Freewaves
Los Angeles, CA
$10,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support Airways, the seventh celebration of independent video and new media. This
biannual event will include work by artists creating single channel work, installations, CD-ROMs,
and innovative Web sites.
La Mama Experimental Theatre Club, Inc.
(Consortium)
New York, NY
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the adaptation of the classic Greek play Seven Against Thebes by Aeschylus. The
production will be created and staged under the direction of Andrei Serban with original music
composed by Liz Swados, and will be performed by members of La MaMa's Great Jones Repertory
Company.
Lancaster Museum of Art
Lancaster, PA
$8,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support an artist-in-residence project featuring American artist Patrick Dougherty, with
accompanying catalogue and education programs. As part of the residency, Dougherty will design and
construct a site-specific sculpture on the museum's grounds.
Lansing Symphony Association, Inc.
Lansing, MI
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a residency by the Chester String Quartet with the Greater Lansing Symphony Orchestra.
The ensemble musicians will serve as principals or associate principals for specific concerts to
enhance the string sections in the orchestra, participate in outreach services, and perform a
chamber series in downtown Lansing.
Light Factory
Charlotte, NC
$14,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support the exhibition and national tour of Cuban Allure: Photography, Film, and Video.
The project will feature the work of five Cuban-born artists: Juan Carlos Alom, Marta Mar a Perez
Bravo, Arturo Cuenca, Luis Mallo, and Mar a Martinez-Canas.
Light Work Visual Studies, Inc.
Syracuse, NY
$45,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support a residency program for up to 15 artists and publication of their work in Contact
Sheet - The Light Work Annual. The participating artists' work also will be made available on
Light Work's online image database, a collection of over 1,700 prints, essays, and biographical
information.
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts,
Inc.
New York, NY
$70,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Presenting
To support Lincoln Center Festival 2000. For three weeks in July 2000, major artists and ensembles
from the U.S. and abroad will be presented in concert halls and theaters at Lincoln Center and at
neighboring venues.
LINES Contemporary Ballet
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support creation and presentation of a new ballet by choreographer Alonzo King. The ballet will
have stage effects designed and created by interdisciplinary artist Ed Tannenbaum in consultation
with lighting designer Axel Morgenthaler.
Loft, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$35,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support The Minnesota Program for Writers, which provides mentors for emerging writers
throughout the state. The program features The Mentor Series, which brings nationally
recognized writers to the Twin Cities to work with local writers through workshops and one on-one
instruction, and The Inroads Program, a mentoring series targeting emerging writers of
color.
Long Beach Symphony Association
Long Beach, CA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a commissioning and presenting project by the Long Beach Symphony. The new work by
composer Behzad Ranjbaran will be premiered by the Symphony at the Terrace Theater in Long Beach
during 1999-2000.
Lookingglass Theatre Company
Chicago, IL
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the adaptation and presentation of Studs Terkel's Race. Lookingglass Theatre
ensemble member David Schwimmer will adapt Race for the stage and will serve as the
project's director.
Los Angeles Baroque Orchestra
Santa Monica, CA
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support Los Angeles Baroque Orchestra's performances of Baroque music played on period
instruments. Entitled Yearning for an Age of Enlightenment, this project will include a
guest appearance by countertenor Brian Asawa and performances of a symphony by Joseph Boulogne
Saint-Georges.
Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies
Los Angeles, CA
$17,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support commissions, presentations, and touring of two artists' projects featuring
photography-based work. Selected by a curatorial committee, the artists' work will be documented in
a catalogue featuring original essays.
Los Angeles Master Chorale Association
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the planning, preparation, presentation, and broadcast of the Made in L.A. centerpiece
concert devoted to choral works by composers and poets who have lived and worked in Los Angeles.
Composers whose works will be performed during 1999-2000 include Igor Stravinsky, Halsey Stevens,
Erich Korngold, Arnold Schoenberg, William Grant Still, and Elinor Remick Warren.
Los Angeles Philharmonic Association
Los Angeles, CA
$100,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a festival by the Los Angeles Philharmonic celebrating the music of Igor Stravinsky on
the 30th anniversary of the composer's death. The 2001 Stravinsky Festival, under the artistic
direction of Music Director Esa-Pekka Salonen, will present the composer's diverse orchestral and
chamber music works in several venues in Los Angeles.
Lower East Side Printshop, Inc.
New York, NY
$12,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support an artists' residency program for up to eight artists for two months each. Participating
artists will have the opportunity to create new work with financial and technical assistance
through unlimited access to a fully equipped studio, materials, master print assistance, and an
honorarium.
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
New York, NY
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Local Arts Agency
To support the Creative Communities Performances Series. Performing arts groups will
perform at the World Trade Center Plaza and at several sites throughout Manhattan.
Ma-Yi Filipino Theatre Ensemble, Inc.
New York, NY
$9,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the development and production of a play by playwright Han Ong. The production will be
an adaptation of a literary work; outreach activities will supplement the production.
Mabou Mines Development Foundation
New York, NY
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Musical Theater
To support the development and production of Red Beads, a new puppet opera. Mabou Mines
will develop Red Beads with libretto and direction by founding member and co- artistic
director Lee Breuer, music composition by UshioTorikai, and puppet direction by Basil Twist.
MacDowell Colony, Inc.
Peterborough, NH
$12,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support residencies for up to ten visual artists for five-week periods. The Colony will provide
a private studio and room and board to emerging visual artists -- painters, sculptors, printmakers,
and photographers.
Mad Alex Arts Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support artists' fees and related expenses for readings by emerging and well established writers
in the New York City area. Previous guests include Jayne Cortez, Robert Creeley, David Henderson,
Grace Paley, Ed Friedman, Kimiko Hahn, Gordon Lish, Lynne Tillman, and Hugh Seidman.
Manhattan Tap, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support creation of a tap dance work which blends tap dance with Brazilian-jazz. The new work
will be choreographed by Heather Cornell, with music by Claudio Roditi.
Manhattan Theatre Club, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the production of Y2K by Arthur Kopit. The project will include education and
outreach activities to supplement the production.
Maryland Art Place, Inc.
Baltimore, MD
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support a residency and workshop program for two nationally known critics, and publication of a
catalogue. Critics Calvin Reid and Gregory Volk 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
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support an exhibition of work by artists who work with sound as a primary component of their
site-specific installations. The goal of the project is to present to American audiences works in
this genre which often have been seen and heard in Europe, but not in the United States.
Maui Community Arts & Cultural Center
Kahului, HI
$8,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Presenting
To support Mixed Plate (No Ka Oi), a presenting series of artists representing a
range of performing art disciplines. Goals for this project are to present on Maui a range of
artists of high quality; build audiences for fine arts programming; and begin a subscription
program, never before attempted on the island.
McCarter Theatre Company
Princeton, NJ
$38,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the production of Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet. The play will be
presented as a main stage production directed by Scott Zigler.
McLean Project for the Arts, Inc.
McLean, VA
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support an exhibition, catalogue, and educational programs featuring the work of the late
painter Simon Gouverneur. Gouverneur, of Venezuelan and Afro-Caribbean heritage, was a critically
acclaimed, abstract symbolist painter born in the Bronx in 1934.
Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh (Consortium)
Pittsburgh, PA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a consortium project with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra for commissioning a new work
by American composer Libby Larsen. The resulting work will be premiered during the Pittsburgh
Symphony's 2000-2001 subscription season
Miami Book Fair International, Inc.
Miami, FL
$45,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the presentation of midlist and international literary writers at the Miami Book Fair
International through the organization's Congress of Authors program. The Book Fair will ensure
that authors whose work is unlikely to be promoted through book tours financed by publishers can
attend and read at the eight-day event, which is attended by 250,000 individuals.
Miami Light Project, Inc. (Consortium)
Miami Beach, FL
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support a consortium project with Collage Dance Theatre (Los Angeles) for the creative
development, production, and world premiere of UnderEden, a site-specific work that
combines movement, text, and music. UnderEden will be developed for the Eden Roc Hotel
site in collaboration with Miami Beach community groups and guest artists, and through studies of
historical materials; its world premiere is planned for fall 2000.
Midwest Center for the Literary Arts, Inc./The
Writer's Place
Kansas City, MO
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support Poets-at-Large 2000, a festival which features 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, Martin Espada, Albert Goldbarth, Linda Hogan, and N. Scott
Momaday.
Millennium Film Workshop, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the provision of filmmaking workshops. These include lectures, question and answer
sessions with artists, hands-on demonstrations, and the presentation and discussion of film and
video art works.
Milwaukee Ballet Company, Inc.
Milwaukee, WI
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of two ballets. Choreographer Kathryn Posin will create
the works based on the music, culture, and ideas of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Inc.
Milwaukee, WI
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the creation and presentation of an adaptation of Ibsen's play Enemy of the
People. Ibsen's script, adapted by Steven Dietz, will be re-titled One Man Town and
will be placed in a Wisconsin setting.
Mississippi Boychoir
Columbus, MS
$6,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the commission of a new work by Samuel Jones for orchestra, boys' choir, and narrator,
based on Eudora Welty's The Shoe Bird. This project, scheduled for 1999-2000, will
celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Mississippi Boychoir.
Mockingbird Public Theatre
Nashville, TN
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the Second Annual New Southern Theatre Festival. This festival will give regional
playwrights an opportunity to exhibit and to receive critical appraisal of new work.
Monadnock Music
Peterborough, NH
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a festival of free concerts presented in churches and meetinghouses in 17 rural towns of
the Monadnock region of southwestern New Hampshire. The Summer 2000 Festival will include American
contemporary music, including works by Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, John J. Becker, and Leo Sowerby.
Montana Ballet Company
Bozeman, MT
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the presentation of an opera/ballet with live orchestra. A Tale of Two Russias,
a ballet in two acts, will be accompanied by the Helena Symphony.
Monterey Jazz Festival
Monterey, CA
$12,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the 2000 Monterey Jazz Festival, held at the Monterey County Fairgrounds. Three key
components of the Festival are a commissioned work to be premiered at the Festival, artists in
residence, and performances by emerging jazz musicians.
Mount Saint Mary's College
Los Angeles, CA
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support Chamber Music in Historic Sites, a concert series to be presented by the Da
Camera Society of Mount Saint Mary's College. Taking place during 2000-01, the concerts match
musical programs from a variety of cultures and periods with sites of architectural and historical
significance in the Los Angeles area.
Mountain Writers Series
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