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2000 Grant Awards: Heritage & Preservation
Some details of the projects listed in this grant announcement are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.
National/Multistate Impact | Grants With
Activity Primarily In One State
Grants With A National or Multi-State Impact
7 Loaves, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a consortium project of Czechoslovakian puppet plays. In partnership with
the Bohemian Citizen's Benevolent Society, Bohemian Benevolent and Literary Society
and the U.S. Branch of the Czechoslovak Society for Arts and Letters, 7 Loaves, Inc.
will produce a mini-festival of two traditional Czech puppet plays.
Ali Akbar College of Music
San Rafael, CA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support an on-line catalogue of Ali Akbar Khan's creative works. The annotated
catalogue will document approximately 950 extant recordings of Khan's live
performances as well as more than 3,000 hours of tapes of his master classes.
Alliance for the Arts
New York, NY
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the Dance Initiative of the Estate Project. The initiative includes a program
of publications, research on the impact of AIDS on the dance community, and
preservation services using new technologies.
American Folklore Society
Harrisburg, PA
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a gathering of experts to formulate recommendations for the preservation
and accessibility of America's folk heritage sound recording collections. The two-day
symposium will explore the urgent and current challenges facing sound archives in
terms of preservation, public accessibility, and intellectual property rights.
American University
Washington, DC
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Design
To support the publication of the Frederick Law Olmsted Papers in a large format
volume. This volume will contain landscape plans and historic photos of over one
hundred of Olmsted's projects such as city and regional plans, residential
communities and institutions.
Andrew Cacho African Drummers and Dancers Economic Development, Inc.
(Fiscal agent for Olatunji Center for African Culture)
Washington, DC
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support preservation of traditional African dances. The dances will be taught as
part of the curriculum in school performances, institute workshops, and concerts, and
will be presented during the company's touring schedule throughout the United
States.
Anthology Film Archives
New York, NY
$8,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the publication of Volume II of The Legend of Maya Deren. Maya Deren
(1917 - 1961) is considered a pioneer both as a female film director and as a pivotal
figure in experimental filmmaking.
Arhoolie Foundation
El Cerrito, CA
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the preservation of the Frontera Collection. The Frontera Collection is the
largest and most complete collection of Mexican American vernacular music,
including corridos, canciones, boleros, and instrumental music recorded in the
United States between 1904 and 1954.
Art in the Public Interest
Saxapahaw, NC
$6,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support costs associated with the documentation of the history of selected
community-based ensemble theaters. The pilot project will consist of site visits to
eight established ensemble theaters in the U.S. to inventory their documentary
resources in the publication of a report to be made available to the public through the
Internet.
Asian American Arts Centre, Inc.
New York, NY
$9,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support an archival effort to digitize the Asian American Artists Slide Archive. The
collection, to be stored on CD-ROM format, will make a 55-year history of Asian
American artists and their work available on the Centre's Web site.
Bay Area Video Coalition, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the provision of national video preservation services to artists and arts
organizations and other related activities. This includes the recording, retrieval, and
preservation of video art and art on video, the dissemination of information to the
interested public, and a symposium on video preservation for conservators.
California State University, Long Beach Foundation
Long Beach, CA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the establishment of the Gerry Mulligan Collection archive at the
University's California Institute for the Preservation of Jazz. Original materials from the
collections of Mrs. Franca Mulligan and the Library of Congress will be copied and
made accessible through the archive and the Internet, and a Gerry Mulligan Festival in
2001 will celebrate the archive's opening to the public.
Cambridge Arts Council
Cambridge, MA
$42,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support a national conference and production of a handbook on the conservation
of contemporary public art. The conference, the first of its kind in the country, will
respond to critical needs in the field, as a result of the proliferation of public art
programs in the U.S. within the last three decades.
Carter Family Memorial Music Center, Inc.
Hiltons, VA
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a series of weekly concerts and a festival of traditional mountain music.
These concerts will be simultaneously recorded for inclusion in a public archive used
by practitioners and students of this traditional art form.
Center for Traditional Music and Dance
New York, NY
$75,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support New York: The Global City, a series of compact disc recordings. The
recordings will feature examples of traditional music collected over the last 30 years
by the Center for Traditional Music and Dance in the course of its work with ethnic
communities throughout New York City.
Chicago A Cappella
Chicago, IL
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the recording project Go Down, Moses, a collection of spirituals tracing the
roots of African-American spirituals. This nationally distributed compact disc
recording will include styles of spirituals sung by pre-Civil War generations and more
recent styles of spirituals.
Chicago Architecture Foundation
Chicago, IL
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Design
To support a travelling exhibit, publication and lecture series on the architectural
development and social history of the Bungalow as a vernacular architectural type.
Chicago Sinfonietta
Chicago, IL
$22,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the recording of the African Heritage Symphonic Series with the Chicago
Sinfonietta under the direction of Dr. Paul Freeman. This 2000-02 project will feature
the recording of work by twentieth-century composers and the re-recordings of
selected works from the Black Composers Series (Columbia Records), first issued in
the mid-1970's.
City Lore, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the People's Poetry Gathering Year Round. Funding for this program will
allow City Lore, Inc. to: 1) complete a 69-minute documentary on the Gathering; 2)
document the 2001 Gathering; 3) produce radio modules for National Public Radio's
Weekend All Things Considered; and 4) create a virtual Gathering on the Web.
Coffee House Press
Minneapolis, MN
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the publication, promotion, and national distribution of new and out-of-print
books by writers associated with the Black Arts Movement. Selected writers include
John A. Williams, William Melvin Kelley, and Clarence Major.
Colorado Dance Festival, Inc. (Fiscal agent for International Tap Association)
Boulder, CO
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support Tap 2001, a project examining the legacy and future of the art of tap. This
project will bring together four generations of 24 leading tap artists to examine
essential aesthetic, philosophical, and practical issues for the field in the new
millennium.
Composers Recordings, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the release of compact disc recordings of works by American composers
Tim Berne, Leroy Jenkins, and William Roper. This 2000-02 project will feature the
composers performing with their ensembles as part of a new jazz and improvised
music series to be launched by Composers Recordings, Inc.
Connecticut Historical Society
Hartford, CT
$11,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the traveling exhibition Lions and Eagles and Bulls, with accompanying
catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will consist of thirty-four 18th- and
19th-century American sign paintings, all from the society's collection of 66 works, the
largest in the country.
Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
New York, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Design
To support the conversion of the National Graphic Design Image Database into a
Virtual Scholars Program to create a model on-line dialogue about the heritage of
American graphic design. The Virtual Scholars Program will transform the electronic
dialogue into a formal, collaborative, archival and educational program.
Cortez & Company Dance Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the creation and touring of the Planet Soup Project. The project is a
lecture- demonstration of authentic folk dances incorporated in Cortez's 1999 dance
work Planet Soup.
Dance Notation Bureau, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the development of a multimedia database template for the dance
community. The database will contain videotapes of performances and rehearsals of
work, Labanotated scores, photos, text, and production information.
Dia Center for the Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the documentation of contemporary American artist Michael Heizer's City
in Garden Valley, NV. City is a monumental earthwork project being constructed in the
Nevada desert.
Electronic Arts Intermix (on behalf of Independent Media Arts Preservation)
New York, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the Media Arts Cataloging Project. This Web-based tutorial will enable
artists and organizations to catalog their media materials using a shared, compatible
database and make the information available to other artists, media arts
organizations, scholars, curators, educators and students.
Florida International University
Miami, FL
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Design
To support a publication of essays exploring the design and architecture projects
produced by the New Deal in South Florida during the Great Depression. Essays will
address issues that surfaced between residents and tourists concerning ecology and
technology that continue to the present.
Fondo Del Sol Visual Arts Center
Washington, DC
$17,400
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support Roots of Heritage, a series of traveling exhibitions with accompanying
catalogues and education materials. The exhibitions present the work of
contemporary Latino, Caribbean, and African American artists.
Friends of Terra Cotta, Inc.
New York, NY
$7,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Design
To support a project to catalogue and create an on-line database for a unique
architectural terra cotta collection. The collection includes original manufacturing
documents, drawings, watercolors, historic catalogues, magazines, objects and other
materials related to the use of architectural terra cotta.
George Balanchine Foundation Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support a consortium project with the University of Utah for the compilation of
complete dossiers of Balanchine's popular work. Balanchine's work for Broadway,
operetta, and films will be recreated and preserved on videotape for study and
performance.
Gettysburg College (on behalf of the Art Gallery)
Gettysburg, PA
$7,150
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the traveling exhibition Re-Scripting the Story: Mary Beth Edelson 1970
2000, with accompanying catalogue. The project will examine the work of this
internationally prominent artist who was one of the pioneers of the feminist art
movement in the 1970's.
Hawaii Craftsmen
Honolulu, HI
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support an accessible video archive of Hawaii's living folk arts masters and their
arts. This project will document the techniques, works, and community interactions of
ten traditional master artists as well as videotape oral histories of their experiences
as artists.
Historical Association of Southern Florida, Inc.
Miami, FL
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the production of a multimedia exhibition and educational program series
on artistic traditions associated with the Orisha religion (Santeria) in Miami.
Traditions will include altars, garments, beadwork, metalwork, woodcarving,
herbalism, foodways, music, dance, and verbal expression.
Institute for Community Research
Hartford, CT
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the third year of a collaborative cross-state apprenticeship project. The
collaborative, traditional arts apprenticeship program in Rhode Island and
Connecticut will expand to include Massachusetts artists and communities.
Jewish Heritage Writing Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the National Initiative in the Literature of the Holocaust, a residency
program coupling young, established writers with Holocaust survivors to produce
publishable literary memoirs. Jewish Heritage will partner with schools, museums,
and community organizations in urban and rural towns across the country to produce
and promote quality manuscripts.
José Limón Dance Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the preservation of two of José Limón's works, The Winged and Missa
Brevis. The company will plan residencies in Houston, San Jose, and New York City
to record material and develop educational and learning tools.
Lira Ensemble
Chicago, IL
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support the Polish-American Christmas Galas. The celebrations will involve four
performances in four Midwest cities in November and December 2000.
Los Pleneros de la 21
New York, NY
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Puerto Rican Music Project. The Puerto Rican Music Project will
include a Touring and Residency Project, The Bomba and Plena Children's
Workshop, An Evening with the Masters, and Fiesta de Cruz (Feast of the Cross).
Mayor's Advisory Committee on Art and Culture
(on behalf of School 33 Art Center)
Baltimore, MD
$8,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support publication of a book documenting School 33 Art Center's history of
presenting contemporary art in Baltimore. Since its founding in 1979, School 33 has
consistently presented programming to make contemporary art and artists
accessible.
Melodious Accord, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the recording of compositions for chorus and instruments by American
composer Alice Parker. This 2000-02 project will feature Melodious Accord under the
artistic direction of Alice Parker.
Music From China, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a consortium project, Search the Academy, a performance of traditional
Cantonese opera preceded by a lecture-demonstration. This program is a
component of Four Corners: The Millennium Shows, a series of performance pieces,
art exhibitions, and film screenings to be presented by consortium partner The New
York Public Library in celebration of the coming of the new year.
Musikanten Inc.
Bethesda, MD
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the premiere recording of choral works by American composer Robert
Evett, performed by Musikanten. This 2000-02 project will include Evett's a cappella
settings of sacred verse.
NAMES Project Foundation
San Francisco, CA
$47,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support ongoing archival efforts to document the AIDS Memorial Quilt. Archival
efforts will result in a searchable, on-line database accessible to a global audience.
National Council for the Traditional Arts
Silver Spring, MD
$110,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support programming in celebration of the millennium that honors and presents
the diverse traditional arts of folk, tribal, and ethnic communities across the nation.
Programming will include urban festivals, a national tour to immigrant communities,
programs and cultural interpretation in National Parks, and fieldwork that will reassert
the critical role of research in creating an understanding of traditions.
National Park Foundation
Washington, DC
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the eighth Annual Independence Day Concert and its National Public
Radio broadcast. This event, to be held on the west side of the Washington
Monument grounds, is widely known for its innovative large stage and broadcast
presentation, and features the nation's finest performing traditional artists
representing America's diverse, living cultural heritage.
New Art Publications
New York, NY
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support BOMB Magazine's online archive. The archive will draw from over 600
interviews with and between artists, writers, musicians, directors, and actors.
New Jersey Symphony Orchestra (Consortium)
Newark, NJ
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a consortium project by the New Jersey Symphony and Rutgers State
University's Institute of Jazz Studies, celebrating the rediscovery of 23 "lost" scores of
jazz great Charlie "Bird" Parker. During the year 2000, the Symphony and guest jazz
artists will tour performances of these works to Washington D.C., Pittsburgh,
Philadelphia, and Newark; and a scholars' symposium will be held at Rutgers State
University.
New York Baroque Dance Co., Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the Baroque Ballet Workshop, a residency program to be held in Delaware
County, NY and Marin County, CA. The focus of the project is to strengthen the
professional and public knowledge of dance heritage through classes, lectures, and
concerts that will pass on artistic repertoire, techniques, and traditions.
New York Public Library Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations
New York, NY
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the national video documentation services at the Dance Collection and the
Theatre on Film and Tape Archive at the Library for the Performing Arts. The Library is
a unique national resource center that documents the heritage of creativity in dance,
music, recorded sound, theatre, film, and related fields.
New York University (on behalf of The Drama Review)
New York, NY
$7,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support authors' and translators' fees and other costs for TDR: The Drama Review,
a quarterly journal of live performance. The four issues of FY 2000 will include
writings and translations from both novice and experienced scholars, writers, and
artists.
Northeast Document Conservation Center
Andover, MA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the second phase of a project that trains staffs of Puerto Rican institutions
in the care of works of art on paper. The project includes an internship at the
Northeast Document Conservation Center for a museum professional from the
University of Puerto Rico, San Juan.
Northern Forest Center, Inc.
Concord, NH
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support Ways of the Woods, a performance and demonstration series to be
mounted in conjunction with a traveling exhibition. This series will present artistic
traditions and heritage of the Northern Forest region of Maine, New Hampshire,
Vermont and New York.
OLLANTAY Center for the Arts, Inc.
Jackson Heights, NY
$12,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the bi-annual production and publication of OLLANTAY Theater Magazine.
The magazine publishes plays, essays, articles and interviews with the purpose of
preserving and disseminating Latino theater and is distributed nationally to libraries,
colleges and individuals.
Paris Press, Inc.
Ashfield, MA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support publication costs and related expenses for The Complete Poems of Muriel
Rukeyser, a first-time collection spanning the full breadth of the poet's work. The
volume will include a subject-name index, a chronology, an introduction by an
established writer, and a preface by a well-known cultural figure.
Poets House, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the eighth annual Poetry Publication Showcase, a month-long exhibit of
new poetry books designed to gather and preserve the breadth of poetry in print.
Poets House will present the Showcase to 18,000 librarians at the American Library
Association Conference in Chicago, Illinois, and will publish the Directory of American
Poetry Books, the only bibliographic resource that tracks the annual publication of
poetry in America.
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley (on behalf of the Berkeley Art
Museum)
Berkeley, CA
$18,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support a touring retrospective exhibition of the work of Korean-American artist
Theresa Cha, with an accompanying catalogue. Cha came of age as an artist in the
San Francisco Bay Area in the 1970's, actively participating in the development of a
series of important artistic movements, including conceptual, performance, and video
art.
Review of Contemporary Fiction, Inc.
Normal, IL
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the restoration and promotion of major works of modern and
contemporary fiction by Dalkey Archive Press. Authors whose works will be
republished include Ishmael Reed, Gertrude Stein, Stanley Elkin, Flann O'Brien, Mario
Vargas Llosa, Gilbert Sorrentino, Augusto Roa Bastos, Christine Schutt, and Elaine
Kraf.
Rhizome Communications, Inc.
New York, NY
$17,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support development of an on-line database for cyberspace art work. The project
will assist in the interpretation, presentation, and preservation of artists' work created
on and for the Internet.
Searchlight Educational Media, Inc.
Berkeley, CA
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a multi-phased series of public programs that will highlight and
disseminate the Afro-Puerto Rican tradition of bomba and the new video
documentary, Bomba! Dancing the Drum. The story is compelling in its historical
depth and dedication to sustaining the bomba tradition while advocating for its
recognition as a vital expression of the Puerto Rican experience.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation/Guggenheim Museum (Consortium)
New York, NY
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support a conservation research project on copper alloy sheet metal sculptures by
American artist Donald Judd. The project is a collaboration among the Guggenheim,
the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Williamstown Conservation Center, the Chinati
Foundation, and the Museum of Modern Art.
San Francisco State University (on behalf of The Poetry Center)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the production and distribution of a comprehensive catalog of The Poetry
Center's audio and video recordings.
Suomi College (on behalf of the Finnish-American Heritage Center)
Hancock, MI
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the second annual Sibelius Academy Music Festival. In the year 2000,
Suomi College will host this festival of concerts on its campus and at three other
venues throughout the United States.
Trinity Irish Dance Company
Chicago, IL
$9,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support presentation of progressive Irish dance through a United States
Millennium tour. The company will hold lecture-demonstrations for audiences in the
communities it visits.
University of Arizona (on behalf of University of Arizona Press)
Tucson, AZ
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of books by Native American authors in the
University of Arizona Press's Sun Tracks Series. Scheduled authors include William
Penn, Ralph Salisbury, Devon Mihesuah, Simon Ortiz, Nora Naranjo-Morse, and Luci
Tapahonso.
University of New Orleans Foundation (Consortium)
New Orleans, LA
$35,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a consortium project, the American Routes and Folk Masters Recording
Project, and related costs. In partnership with the New Orleans Urban Folklife Society,
these two-hour, weekend-oriented radio programs combine popular, jazz, and
classical forms with field-recorded features and interviews.
University of North Carolina at Wilmington (Consortium)
Wilmington, NC
$8,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support a consortium project with the Henry Miller Library to identify
and locate a limited number of significant private collections of audio
recordings of the author Henry Miller.
Viet Olympiad (on behalf of Dan Cai Luong Hai Ngoai)
Westminster, CA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a Vietnamese Cai Luong recording project. The proposed CD and
accompanying booklet will aid listeners in understanding and appreciating the beauty
and the history of Vong Co, an important repertory form in the Cai Luong Theater.
White Pine, Inc.
Buffalo, NY
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the publication and national distribution of books by Latin American
women in translation as part of White Pine's Secret Weavers Series. Books
published by the press are distributed to bookstores in all 50 states by Consortium
Book Sales and Distribution.
Wood Turning Center (Consortium)
Philadelphia, PA
$18,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support a traveling exhibition devoted to the history of 20th century wood turning in
the United States, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The
exhibition is being co-organized with the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, CT.
World Music Institute, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support World Music America, a consortium project. This touring program of
concerts and workshops is conducted in partnership with World Music, Inc,
International House of Philadelphia, Duke University, Old Town School of Music,
World Arts West, Middlebury College, and Cedar Cultural Center.
Yale University (on behalf of the Art Gallery)
New Haven, CT
$37,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the publication of The Portrait in Little: American Miniatures at Yale
University. This fully illustrated catalogue will document the gallery's collection of 250
portrait miniatures.
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