2001 Grant Awards: Creativity

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

Dance | Design | Folk & Traditional Arts | Literature | Local Arts Agencies
Media Arts | Multidisciplinary | Museums | Music | Musical Theater
Opera | Presenting | Theater | Visual Arts

DANCE

171 Cedar Arts Center (One Seventy One Cedar, Inc.) (Consortium)
Corning, NY
$10,000
To support a consortium project for the fifth annual Dance Series. 171 Cedar Arts Center and the Clemens Center will present Garth Fagan Dance, Sean Curran Dance and JAZZDANCE by Danny Buraczeski.

33 Fainting Spells
Seattle, WA
$5,000
To support a biennial festival of new and celebrated work in dance film and video, New Dance Cinema 2001. In partnership with Wiggly World/Northwest Film Forum and On the Boards, the festival will feature the work of choreographers, videographers and filmmakers from across North America and Europe in a four-night program.

Alex Theatre (Alex Regional Theatre Board)
Glendale, CA
$10,000
To support the presentation of four dance companies and related residency activities for local schools and communities. Companies to be presented during Dance at the Alex include: Julio Bocca & Ballet Argentino, Iona Pears Dance Company, Pilobolus and Paul Taylor Dance Company.

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (Dance Theater Foundation, Inc.)
New York, NY
$100,000
To support a United States tour in 2001. The company will perform approximately 95 shows in 30 cities and 16 states across the United States. (Multi-state)

American Ballet Theatre (Ballet Theatre Foundation, Inc.)
New York, NY
$60,000
To support the commissioning, rehearsal and presentation of an original one-act ballet, The Pied Piper, with choreography by David Parsons and a score by composer John Corigliano. The piece is scheduled to premiere at the Detroit Opera House with additional performances at the Metropolitan Opera House. (Multi-state)

American Dance Festival, Inc.
Durham, NC
$60,000
To support the commissioning of a range of modern dance choreographers, as well as presenting historic works in modern dance history. The second and final year of Landmarks and Landscapers in Modern Dance - A Millennial Retrospective/Prospective will include performances and educational outreach activities.

Anchorage Concert Association
Anchorage, AK
$20,000
To support a residency of The Moscow Festival Ballet. The project will include live performances, character dance, classical ballet and dance history classes for two full-length ballets: Don Quixote and Giselle.

Art of the Matter [on behalf of d-net (dance network)]
San Francisco, CA
$5,000
To support the San Francisco Butoh Festival 2001. The Festival will feature: NIBROLL, a Japanese group; Katsura Kan, master Butoh artist from Thailand; and other performances, workshops, master classes and a symposium.

AXIS Dance Company
Oakland, CA
$10,000
To support a dance by choreographer Stephen Petronio for dancers with and without disabilities. The dance will focus on current issues in pop culture including gender, fashion, music and visual arts.

Bailes Flamencos
San Francisco, CA
$5,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new work.

Ballet Concierto de Puerto Rico
San Juan, PR
$10,000
To support the 16th Annual Choreographers Festival. This annual event brings together choreographers from Latin America and the Caribbean to develop new works for Ballet Concierto.

Ballet Hispanico of New York, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support Ballet Hispanico's 30th anniversary project in 2001. The project will include the creation of new ballets, revival of three works and touring engagements across the United States. (Multi-state)

Ballet Memphis
Cordova, TN
$10,000
To support a repertory show entitled Dancing Together II. The company will perform an encore of Trey McIntyre's Second Before the Ground. Rennie Harris Puremovement, a Philadelphia hip hop troupe, will perform a piece from its repertory.

Ballet West
Salt Lake City, UT
$20,000
To support creation of a new work by Lila York, who has worked previously with the company. The new piece will be performed in Salt Lake City's Capitol Theatre.

Bates College (on behalf of the Bates Dance Festival)
Lewiston, ME
$15,000
To support commissioning, presentation, outreach and educational activities for the Bates Dance Festival 2001. Dance artists participating include Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, Rennie Harris Puremovement, Herbin Van Cayseele/Urban Tap and Bebe Miller.

Bebe Miller Company (Gotham Dance, Inc.)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support presentation and touring of a new work and creation and presentation of a related media work. Choreographer Bebe Miller will collaborate with dramaturg Talvin Wilks, composer Hahn Rowe, and visual artist Scott Pask to create the works, which will tour to several states. (Multi-state)

Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company (Foundation for Dance Promotion, Inc.)
New York, NY
$50,000
To support the creation of two works by choreographer Bill T. Jones. These works will be performed to live music in an evening of chamber works.

Boston Ballet, Inc.
Boston, MA
$20,000
To support the creation and staging of a new production by choreographer Christopher Wheeldon. The work will premiere at the Wang Theatre and receive a total of 12 performances.

Broadway Center for the Performing Arts
Tacoma, WA
$10,000
To support presentation of national and local dance companies. The Broadway Center will work with one contemporary dance company, one Latino dance company, and one local African dance troupe to present original works and offer extended residency opportunities in contemporary, classical, Latino and West African dance forms.

Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College
(College Community Services, Inc.)
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
To support the World of Dance Series. The series premieres new and emerging artists in dance, as well as folkloric companies from around the world.

Carolina Ballet, Inc.
Raleigh, NC
$5,000
To support a new production of Carmina Burana with choreography by Lynn Taylor-Corbett and the staging of two more of her ballets, Chiaroscuro and Great Galloping Gottschalk. These works will be presented in five performances at the Raleigh Memorial Auditorium.

Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble (New Dance Theatre, Inc.)
Denver, CO
$18,000
To support the commissioning of a work. The Coming of Dawn, a full-evening ballet inspired by two novels from author Octavia Butler, was choreographed by Winifred R. Harris, artistic director of Between Lines, with music by Terri Lynne Carrington and Ed Barguiarena.

Colorado Ballet Company, Inc.
Denver, CO
$5,000
To support a regional tour of Cinderella. The company will present performances in Sterling, Crested Butte and Pueblo, CO.

Colorado Dance Festival, Inc.
Boulder, CO
$25,000
To support dance presentations featuring 70 artists and a variety of activities. Dance styles represented by the companies will include the lindy hop, hip hop, and postmodern dance influenced by social/vernacular dance forms.

Columbia College (on behalf of The Dance Center)
Chicago, IL
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
$20,000
To support two dance presentation projects. The Dance Center will present DanceAfrica Chicago 2001 and a series of international artists.

Columbia Festival of the Arts (Columbia Festival, Inc.)
Columbia, MD
$10,000
To support a long-term, residency partnership with two companies. Columbia Festival will present the Washington Ballet and the Next Ice Age in performances, open rehearsals, dance and skating workshops and dialogue.

Cuyahoga Community College (Consortium)
Cleveland, OH
$10,000
To support a consortium project presenting the third year of a dance series. Cuyahoga Community College's Office of Cultural Arts and DANCECleveland will offer the Move it Out series for the presentation of Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, Mark Morris Dance Group and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago.

Dallas Black Dance Theatre
Dallas, TX
$15,000
To support works by three choreographers: Donald McKayle, Donald Byrd and Ron Brown. The artists will also teach classes, participate in community outreach activities and make informal presentations that will be documented and later used as part of Dallas Black Dance Theatre's 25th anniversary presentation.

Dance Films Association, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,000
To support the 29th international dance film festival. Dance on Camera Festival 2001 On Tour will take place in California, Colorado, Illinois, Massachusetts, Ohio, Oregon and Utah. Lectures, panels and workshops will accompany the films. (Multi-state)

Dance Place (D.C. Wheel Productions, Inc.)
Washington, DC
$20,000
To support a series of professional performances and residencies by dance artists as part of Dance Place's 21st series. The series will feature a roster of culturally and aesthetically diverse dancers and companies. (Multi-state)

Dance St. Louis
St. Louis, MO
$10,000
To support the commissioning of an original work by the Paul Taylor Dance Company. The work will premiere at the Fox Theatre in St. Louis and include residency activities by the company and Taylor 2.

Dance Theater Workshop, Inc.
New York, NY
$70,000
To support two series, Carnival and TheMainEvent. The Carnival program features the work of artists at various stages of their careers and TheMainEvent will present established mid-career companies.

Dance Umbrella
Austin, TX
$15,000
To support four dance presentations. The Transformation of Spirit series will include a performance by Margie Gillis and a performance by Salia Ni Seydou Company, based in Burkina Faso, West Africa; the Discover Dance series will include a performance by Ballet Folklorico Do Brasil and a performance by 33 Fainting Spells.

Dance Umbrella Boston, Inc.
Boston, MA
$30,000
Boston, MA
To support a series of performances and community outreach activities that will explore the impact of Bill T. Jones's work on the contemporary dance and visual arts communities. The Bill T. Jones Legacy Project will feature performances by the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, as well as the company's former dancers Sean Curran, Heidi Latsky and Larry Goldhuber.

DanceBrazil (Capoeira Foundation, Inc.)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the creation and premiere of two new works. The first work will be based on the early 19th century uprising of enslaved Africans in Brazil who were also followers of Islam, and the other will be based on the ritual of Ogun, one of the gods of the Afro-Brazilian religion of Candomble.

Dancers Collective of Atlanta, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$5,000
To support four dance presentations. The artists include Stephen Petronio Company, The PerksDanceMusicTheatre, Creach/Company and Bebe Miller Company.

David Dorfman Dance (Art Sweats, Inc.)
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the creation and first performances of a new company work. Artistic Director David Dorfman will collaborate with composer Hahn Rowe, set designer Scott Pask, and a video designer to create the piece.

David Gordan/Pick Up Company (Pick Up Performance Company, Inc.)
New York, NY
$15,000
To support artistic and technical fees in the creation and performance of a new work. Choreographed by David Gordon with an original musical score by composer Jeanine Tesori, the piece will be presented for a two-week run at Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church in New York.

Diavolo Dance Theatre
Los Angeles, CA
$5,000
To support staff salaries and artists fees for out-of-state touring. The company will travel to New York, New Jersey, Texas, Kansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois and California. (Multi-state)

Doug Elkins Dance Company (Plam Dancers, Inc.)
New York, NY
$5,000
To support creation of a new work and maintenance of other repertory for presentation in concerts. The new work, titled Crash Comfort, will premiere at the Joyce Theater in New York.

Doug Varone and Dancers (DOVA, Inc.)
New York, NY
$15,000
To support Doug Varone and Dancers' 15th anniversary season at the Joyce Theater in New York. The project will include a new work by Doug Varone to George Antheil's Ballet Mecanique, the reconstruction of two dances, and the presentation of current repertory, as well as creative residencies in New York, Oregon and California. (Multi-state)

Eiko & Koma (Inta, Inc.)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support a collaboration to create an evening of music and dance and a living installation for gallery spaces. Eiko and Koma will collaborate with cellist Joan Jeanrenaud and dancer choreographer Anna Halprin to create a work, and will develop a living installation for presentation in gallery spaces in the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and Dancing in the Streets in New York City. (Multi-state)

Forces of Nature, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,000
To support creation and presentation of a dance theater work. Artistic Director Abdel Salaam will further develop Rhythm Legacy, a work that explores the impact of African sounds and rhythms on movement.

Garth Fagan Dance, Inc.
Rochester, NY
$25,000
To support presentation of new work by Garth Fagan, set to the music of Wynton Marsalis. The piece will be performed with live accompaniment by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra.

Headlong Dance Theater
Philadelphia, PA
$5,000
To support a music/dance collaboration. Headlong Dance Theater will collaborate with sound designer and composer Rick Henderson to revise Story of Panic and create a new work entitled Folk Dances.

Houston Ballet
Houston, TX
$30,000
To support the commissioning and performance of new works. These works include the U.S. premiere of a new version of the classic Firebird by James Kudelka, and a world premiere by Lila York.

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
Chicago, IL
$30,000
To support new works from three artists: an emerging American artist, a mid-career American dance maker, and an international choreographer. The New Works and Residency Program will enable each artist to spend a one-week residency at the company's studios conducting master classes, workshops and/or public classes or lectures.

Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Inc.
Lee, MA
$70,000
To support dance commissions, performances and outreach activities. Artists presented include Urban Bush Women, a Cambodian Project, jazz tap artist Herbin Tamango Van Cayseele, the New Amsterdam Ballet Project, the José Limón Company and a site-specific work by Ann Carlson.

Jazz Tap Ensemble
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
To support a program that pays tribute to the masters of rhythm tap dance. The program will feature new works created for Jazz Tap Ensemble by tap masters Fayard Nicholas, Gregory Hines, Jimmy Slyde, Eddie Brown and Bill Irwin, along with reconstructions of choreography for film by Charles "Honi" Coles, Steve Condos, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Fred Astaire and the Nicholas Brothers.

JAZZDANCE by Danny Buraczeski
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
To support creation and production of a new work. Choreographer Danny Buraczeski will collaborate with composer Philip Hamilton to create Across the Water.

Joe Goode Performance Group
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support collaboration with a composer to create a new piece of dance theater. Joe Goode and composer Beth Custer will create What the Body Knows, based on small incidents in people's lives.

Joffrey Ballet of Chicago, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support the acquisition and revival of four ballets. These ballets include Robert Joffrey's Astarte, Antony Tudor's Lilac Garden, and John Cranko's Taming of the Shrew and Romeo and Juliet.

John Jasperse Company (Thin Man Dance, Inc.)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support presentation of Place in its domestic performances in 2001. The company will present Place at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) and participate in developmental residencies at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Arts, the Frankfurt Ballet and at BAM. (Multi-state)

José Limón Dance Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support remounting of a work by José Limón. Psalm, which premiered in 1967, will be created with new music by Jon Magnussen.

Joyce Theater Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$70,000
To support dance presentation projects at the Joyce Theater. These projects include: The 2001 Altogether Different series, Diavolo, Guangdong Modern Dance Company (China), Ballet Preljocaj (France), Compagnie Josef Nadj (France), Joyce SoHo Presents, Sean Curran Company and Pilobolus Dance Theatre.

Kansas City Ballet Association, Inc.
Kansas City, MO
$10,000
To support production costs and artists' fees for Phase II of the Renard Project. This is an archival/reconstruction effort to produce the Balanchine/Stravinsky ballet Renard.

Li Chiao-Ping Dance, Inc.
Oregon, WI
$5,000
To support the production, presentation and touring of a new work. Venous Flow: States of Grace will be created by Li Chiao-Ping and visual artist Douglas Rosenberg, and will use their auto accident to explore the physical nature of hope and renewal in the face of adversity. (Multi state)

LINES Contemporary Ballet
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support creation of a new work. Artistic Director Alonzo King will create a piece to music by Nzamba Lela, a group of musicians from the Central African Republic.

LINES Contemporary Ballet (on behalf of Yaelisa & Caminos Flamencos)
San Francisco, CA
$5,000
To support a multimedia dance project and gallery installation. The project, choreographed by Yaelisa, incorporates flamenco dance and music, classical music and spoken text with onstage projections of flamenco photography by Lena Herzog.

Liz Lerman Dance Exchange (Dance Exchange, Inc.)
Takoma Park, MD
$20,000
To support Hallelujah, a multi-city initiative to create dances. The project will involve a Web site, video documentation, an artist training institute, travel support for local artists/communities appearing in the production, a gathering of presenter partners, and an overall evaluation. (Multi state)

Los Lupenos De San José, Inc.
San José, CA
$5,000
To support the creation of a new work. Dance and music representing Mexican, Chilean, and Chinese traditions will be woven into a dramatic text based on the legendary Robin Hood figure, Juaquin Murietta.

Louisville Ballet (Kentucky Dance Council)
Louisville, KY
$5,000
To support a program of four works. The program will include Red Rose, by Stephen Mills of Ballet Austin; With Chaplin, by Amy Moore-Morton of Appalachian Ballet Company; Under Paradise, by Sarah Slipper of Oregon Ballet Theater; and Le Spectre de la Rose by Michel Fokine.

María Benitez Teatro Flamenco (Institute for Spanish Arts)
Santa Fe, NM
$20,000
To support the creation and tour of a new work. El Vito, a Spanish folkloric song by Federíco Garcia Lorca, will be choreographed by María Benitez and Antonio Granjero, and tour in New Mexico, Texas, Mississippi and Missouri. (Multi-state)

Merce Cunningham Dance Company (Cunningham Dance Foundation, Inc.)
New York, NY
$90,000
To support the creation of one work and the revival of two works. Merce Cunningham will choreograph the works, which will be presented on a national tour. (Multi-state)

Meredith Monk/The House (House Foundation for the Arts, Inc.)
New York, NY
$30,000
To support residencies and a national tour. Choreographer Meredith Monk and visual artist Ann Hamilton collaborated to create A New Work, which examines the two disciplines of art and science. (Multi-state)

Monte/Brown Dance (E. Monte Motion, Inc.)
New York, NY
$5,000
To support Monte/Brown's 20th anniversary at the Joyce Theater in New York. The project will feature the creation and presentation of a major new collaborative work as well as several revivals, creating a retrospective look at the artistic directors' creative development.

Movement Research, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,000
To support the 9th Improvisation Festival/NY. The festival is a celebration of dance improvisation and will offer performances, classes, workshops, education outreach and panel discussions.

Murray Louis and Nikolais Dance (Nikolais/Louis Foundation for Dance, Inc.)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the creation of two new works by Murray Louis and the revival of several major works from Alwin Nikolais' repertory. These works will be presented at the Joyce Theater in New York.

Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company
Fort Lee, NJ
$5,000
To support creation and presentation of a new dance. Dragons on the Wall will feature a collaboration between choreographer Nai-Ni Chen and poet Bei Dao, with original music by Joan La Barbara.

Nashville Ballet
Nashville, TN
$5,000
To support the creation of a ballet. Artistic Director Paul Vasterling will collaborate with country music artist Hal Ketchum to create a ballet exploring the maturing and aging of a man in a modern society.

National Institute of Flamenco, Inc.
Albuquerque, NM
$5,000
To support commissioning of a piece for New World Flamenco, a national flamenco dance company. Susana Di Palma will choreograph an original flamenco ballet that will tour throughout New Mexico.

National Performance Network, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$70,000
To support 40 dance residencies and related educational activities in over 40 cities throughout the United States. The National Performance Network offers artists a defined system of fee subsidy in order for them to engage in extended residencies in communities. (Multi-state)

New Orleans Ballet Association
New Orleans, LA
$10,000
To support two dance presentations. A Celebration of African American Dance II will feature Garth Fagan Dance and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.

New York City Ballet, Inc.
New York, NY
$100,000
To support a choreographer to serve as an artist-in-residence. Christopher Wheeldon will create two new ballets, participate in a new choreographic institute, and play an active role in New York City Ballet's education programs, lecture/demonstrations and other outreach activities.

North Carolina Dance Theatre
Charlotte, NC
$10,000
To support commissioning of a new work. Choreographer Mark Diamond will create a new work based on Tennessee Williams' play A Streetcar Named Desire.

Pacific Northwest Ballet Association
Seattle, WA
$50,000
To support the commissioning and world premieres of works by emerging and recognized choreographers, and the acquisition of five ballets. These productions will be part of the Repertory Expansion Project.

Pascal Rioult Dance Theatre (Harmonia Dance, Inc.)
New York, NY
$5,000
To support the creation of two new works by Artistic Director Pascal Rioult. Choreographed to the music of Maurice Ravel, these works will become part of Rioult's Ravel Project.

Pat Graney Performance, Inc.
Seattle, WA
$10,000
To support editing and production of three existing works into one performance. Triptych will consist of former parts of Faith, Sleep and Tattoo, created and directed by Pat Graney.

Paul Taylor Dance Company (Paul Taylor Dance Foundation, Inc.)
New York, NY
$80,000
To support the creation and presentation of work through tandem touring by the Paul Taylor Dance Company and Taylor 2. The tours include education activities, community outreach events and performances. (Multi-state)

Pennsylvania Ballet Association
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
To support creation and presentation of two new ballets. Choreographers Val Caniparoli and Trey McIntyre will each create a world premiere for Pennsylvania Ballet.

Pilobolus, Inc.
Washington, CT
$10,000
To support a new full-company work. The work will premiere during the Olympic games in Salt Lake City as part of the Cultural Olympiad. (Multi-state)

Pittsburgh Dance Council, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
$20,000
To support the presentation of five companies. The companies include Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane and Company, Stephen Petronio Company, Rennie Harris Puremovement, Tango Mujer and the Sean Curran Company.

Prometheus Dance, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
$5,000
To support further creation and presentation of an evening-length dance/theater piece. Apokalypsis, choreographed by Artistic Directors Diane Arvanites-Noya and Tommy Neblett with an original score by John Kusiak, was inspired by the worldwide displacement of refugees.

Ralph Lemon Company (Cross Performance, Inc.)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the creation of a new work by choreographer Ralph Lemon. Home: Part 3 of the Geography Trilogy will include research, workshops, rehearsals and development, selection of artists and design team, and creative workshops/residencies that will take place in several cities. (Multi-state)

Rhapsody In Taps, Inc.
Long Beach, CA
$5,000
To support creation and performances of a work by Artistic Director Linda Sohl-Donnell and Balinese musician/composer/dancer I Nyoman Wenten. The work, titled Nusantra, brings together American tap dance and Balinese gamelan music.

Richmond Ballet
Richmond, VA
$10,000
To support commissioning of a new work. Choreographer Kirk Peterson will create a piece for Richmond Ballet that will premiere at the Modlin Center at the University of Richmond.

Ronald K. Brown/evidence (Evidence, Inc.)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the creation of a new work choreographed and written by Ronald K. Brown. Titled Walking Out the Dark, the dance will include music by Philip Hamilton and costumes by Omotayo Wunmi Olaiya.

San Francisco Ballet Association
San Francisco, CA
$70,000
To support three commissions by emerging and established choreographers. Choreographers Christopher Wheeldon, Stanton Welch and Artistic Director Helgi Tomasson will create new works for the company that will be performed at the War Memorial Opera House.

Shapiro and Smith Dance (Contemporary Dance Arts, Inc.)
Minneapolis, MN
$5,000
To support a collaboration with the klezmer quartet Brave Old World to create a new work with premieres in Minneapolis and New York. The goal of the project is to create a blend of music and dance that builds on Jewish traditions. (Multi-state)

Soweto Street Beat Dance Theatre, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$5,000
To support the development of a new performance. The Zulu Kingdom, created by Artistic Director Isabelle Doll Ngcobo, will be performed in venues across the United States, along with mini-performances in 300 schools. (Multi-state)

Stephen Petronio Dance Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support a dance event to celebrate the company's 15th anniversary. Magazine 15 will consist of pieces created by Stephen Petronio over the years.

Streb/Ringside (Ringside, Inc.)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the creation of a full-evening show, based on inspirations from American stunt artists. Streb/Ringside will develop this show, entitled Action Heroes, in collaboration with production designer Skip Mercier, writer Laura Flanders and the structural engineering firm Buro Happold.

Susan Marshall & Company (Dance Continuum, Inc.)
Putnam Valley, NY
$10,000
To support a tour and related residency activities for a full-evening dance work. Four Loves in Seven Stages, by choreographer Susan Marshall, will tour to Pennsylvania, Washington, Minnesota, Florida, Texas and New York. (Multi-state)

The New Victory Theater (New 42nd Street, Inc.)
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the presentation of a dance series during the New 42nd Street's fifth anniversary. 4th Step Lively: Dance at The New Victory will consist of 58 public and education performances by Parsons Dance Company, Urban Tap and the Dutch dance company Introdans.

Trisha Brown Dance Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
To support the creation of two new works. Choreographer Trisha Brown will create a new staging of the opera Luci Mie Traditrici (My Betraying Eyes), and an abstract dance piece, both set to music by contemporary composer Salvatore Sciarrino.

University of California at Berkeley (on behalf of Cal Performances)
Berkeley, CA
$20,000
To support the presentation of four dance projects. Cal Performances will present Merce Cunningham Dance Company, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and two European companies, Nederlands Dans Theatre (Netherlands) led by Jiri Kylian and the dance ensemble of Schaubuehne am Lehniner Platz (Germany) led by Sasha Waltz.

Wagon Train Project, Inc.
Lincoln, NE
$10,000
To support choreographers in residencies to create site-specific/community works. Stephen Koplowitz, Janet Lilly and Sarah Skaggs will present works that provide a center point for Wagon Train Project's 10th Anniversary.

Wally Cardona Quartet (WCV, Inc.)
Brooklyn, NY
$5,000
To support creation and presentation of a new work. The final stage of Trance Territory will be created and then toured across the United States. (Multi-state)

Washington Ballet
Washington, DC
$10,000
To support the production and presentation of a collaborative project. Choreographer Septime Webre will collaborate with musicians Sweet Honey in the Rock and visual artist Sam Gilliam to create a piece that will be presented at the Columbia Festival of the Arts in Columbia, MD and at the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington, DC. (Multi-state)

Washington Performing Arts Society
Washington, DC
$25,000
To support dance presentations and residency activities during 2001-02. Ron Brown/evidence, H.T. Chen and Dancers, Kwikstep and Rocafella, David Neumann, and Elizabeth Streb/Ringside will offer performances and other activities in Maryland and the District of Columbia. (Multi-state)

Zaccho Dance Theatre (Zaccho S. F.)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support creation and presentation of a new aerial dance work. Artistic Director Joanna Haigood will create a new piece that draws inspiration from the paintings of Marc Chagall.

Zhongmei Chinese Dance Company
New York, NY
$5,000
To support the creation of new dances by Zhongmei Li. The dances are inspired by Buddhist wall paintings in the great cave complex of Dunhuang, along the historic Silk Road in northwestern China.

Zivili Kolo Ensemble, Inc.
Granville, OH
$10,000
To support creation and presentation of new works. These new works will incorporate traditional dance, music and cultural characteristics of populations from the former Yugoslavia.

DESIGN

Artists Space, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the Architecture and Design Project Series of exhibitions and a publication. Artists Space will introduce cutting edge architecture and design to general and visual arts audiences and allow participating architects to realize an idea through an installation. (Multi-state)

California College of Arts and Crafts
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support four issues of the Design Book Review, a publication that examines architecture, urbanism, landscape architecture and design. The goals of the Design Book Review are to help readers understand the making of built landscape, material culture and graphic design encountered every day. (Multi-state)

Community Architexts Association
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support the design development and implementation of Work-Shift, a community-based public design program in Cedar Rapids, IA. The project will collect and articulate the statements of displaced factory workers and alternative school students in a post-industrial community. (Multi state)

Denver Art Museum
Denver, CO
$10,000
To support an exhibition and catalogue titled American Design, 1975 - 2000. The project will focus on areas of contemporary American design and offer a critical analysis of the design arts.

Dorchester House Multi-Service Center
(on behalf of Louis D. Brown Peace Institute)
Dorchester, MA
$20,000
To support a communication design project in which family members of children killed through violence express their loss through graphic design installations. Installations will be created by a designer working with the survivors and installed as billboards on city buses.

Guggenheim Museum (Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation)
New York, NY
$50,000
To support educational programming for a traveling exhibition on architect Frank Gehry's work. The project will examine Gehry's innovative contributions to the field of architecture and design. (Multi-state)

Harvard University (Consortium)
Cambridge, MA
$25,000
To support a consortium project for a traveling exhibition and lecture series on the democratic monument in America. Harvard University and Parsons School of Design will explore new concepts of the monument that emerged with 20th century ideals of American democracy. (Multi-state)

Kent State University Main Campus (Consortium)
(on behalf of Urban Design Center of Northeast Ohio)
Kent, OH
$20,000
To support a consortium project for a design charrette to generate concepts for a gateway to the Ohio & Erie Canal National Heritage Corridor in downtown Cleveland. The City of Cleveland, the Waterfront Coalition, Flats Oxbow, the Ohio Canal Corridor, the Ohio and Erie Canal Corridor Association and the National Park Service will participate.

Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
To support a design competition to transform a postwar enclosed mall in Los Angeles. This phase of the project will include programming, a request for qualifications and the competition.

Mississippi State University (Consortium)
Mississippi State, MS
$9,000
To support a consortium project for the design of an affordable, innovative prototype for a cooperative living arrangement. The Jackson Community Design Center of MSU along with Stewpot Community Services will bring together a low-income, single parent family and an elderly or disabled individual in a housing prototype.

Museum of Contemporary Art
Los Angeles, CA
$50,000
To support a retrospective exhibition and accompanying publication on the modernist architect R.M. Schindler. The publication will feature critical contributions from multiple authors to present original research that explores Schindler's architectural work. (Multi-state)

Pamphlet Architecture, Ltd.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support an open competition for architects, landscape architects, urbanists and planners who have been out of school for one to ten years. The juried competition will offer a venue for designers to do work that is both exploratory and experimental, with winning proposals published in book form or presented on a Web site. (Multi-state)

Research Foundation of the City University of New York
New York, NY
$30,000
To support an architectural exhibition series, corresponding catalogues and a symposium to examine the relationship of place to new architecture. The central theme of Whereabouts: New Architectures with Local Identities will demonstrate design projects capable of promoting and redefining local identity.

Thread Waxing Space (Consortium)
New York, NY
$40,000
To support a consortium project for a touring exhibition, symposium and publication presenting architectural materials from the Fonds Regional D'Art Contemporain du Center in Orleans, France. The exhibition is being organized by Thread Waxing Space along with the Pratt Institute and the University of Kansas School of Architecture and Design. (Multi-state)

University of Pennsylvania (on behalf of The Institute of Contemporary Art)
Philadelphia, PA
$30,000
To support a collaborative work between architects and an industrial designer to create a site specific installation using new technology that combines real and virtual space. The installation will travel to an additional venue and will include slide lectures by the artists and a symposium on architecture and new technology. (Multi-state)

Van Alen Institute: Projects in Public Architecture
New York, NY
$45,000
To support an open competition to redesign the Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. State Office Building Plaza. The goal of the competition is to encourage designers and artists to create a contemporary space that will be the focal point for public life in Harlem.

FOLK & TRADITIONAL ARTS

Ballet Folklorico Ollin, Inc.
Panorama City, CA
$5,000
To support FIESTA NAVIDAD. FIESTA NAVIDAD is a touring concert of mariachi music and folklorico dancing that tells the Christmas story of La Posada, a Mexican tradition marking the journey of Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem. (Multi-state)

BorderZone Arts)
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support an exhibition of Native American and Australian Aboriginal art. The exhibit will showcase the work of indigenous artists as well as the legal and cultural issues of cultural appropriation and the protection of traditional indigenous art motifs.

Chhandam Chitresh Das Dance Company
San Rafael, CA
$17,000
To support the development and production of the new work Sadhana. Sadhana will incorporate Kathak dance of North India and multimedia forms as a forum for portraying the artistry, technique, vision and life experience of Chitresh Das and his journey, bridging the gap between the ancient origins of the art form and modern American society.

Diamano Coura West African Dance Co.
Oakland, CA
$7,000
To support Collage de la Cultures Africaines, a one-day festival with workshops. The project is designed to bring together diverse artists, arts organizations and businesses to stage multicultural performances, organize collaborative workshops, and coordinate conferences and projects that address issues affecting artists, youth and community.

Evergreen State College
Olympia, WA
$15,000
To support the first U.S.-based Indigenous Visual Artists of the Pacific Rim Gathering. This gathering will bring together internationally renowned indigenous artists to share teachings and techniques in printmaking, painting, weaving, beadwork, ceramics and carving.

Film Arts Foundation (on behalf of Sageland Pictures)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support production and distribution costs for the documentary, The Valley's Cultural Patchwork. This film will profile four artists representing the Armenian, Okie, Mexican American and Hmong traditions.

Indian Country Development Corporation
Phoenix, AZ
$5,000
To support a touring exhibit of Native American, Native Hawaiian and Alaska Native National Heritage Fellows. The exhibit will travel to seven Native communities and will examine the role of tradition in Native American, rural and reservation communities. (Multi-state)

Iowa Arts Council (Consortium)
Des Moines, IA
$50,000
To support the Festival of Iowa Folklife: Cultural Crossroads. The consortium project, with partners the Grout Museum District and the Waterloo Center for the Arts, both located in Waterloo, IA, will feature traditional music, dance, food, crafts, workshops and demonstrations that reflect the transitional nature of folk traditions.

Kanabec County Historical Center (on behalf of Bow Bridge Fiddlers)
Milaca, MN
$5,000
To support the 5th Annual Fiddle and Guitar Workshop. The workshop will be designed to allow all participants, regardless of age or skill level, the opportunity through theory and technique classes to learn to play instruments.

Kankouran West African Dance Company
Washington, DC
$15,000
To support the 17th Annual African Dance and Music Conference and Concert 2001. The conference will feature a series of traditional African dance, music, history and related cultural arts workshops culminating in a self-produced concert.

Master Musicians Festival, Inc.
Somerset, KY
$5,000
To support the Master Musicians Festival. This three-day event will honor master musicians over the age of 50, and will offer workshops and master classes to attendees and students.

Philadelphia Folklore Project (Consortium)
Philadelphia, PA
$30,000
To support Philly Dance Africa. The consortium project, with Odunde, Inc. of Philadelphia will present African dancers in six school-based residencies and performances at the 2001 ODUNDE community festival.

Puerto Rican Folkloric Dance, Inc.
Austin, TX
$5,000
To support bomba percussion, songs, dance and history workshops. The workshops will be taught by the world renowned Modesto Cepeda and will culminate with a one-day performance for the Austin community.

Radio Bilingüe
Fresno, CA
$60,000
To support the Viva El Mariachi and Tejano/Norteño Music and Dance Festivals. The festivals are designed to celebrate the rich musical heritage of Mexican immigrants and to pass on the tradition to youth. (Multi-state)

Sirong Ganding, Inc. (on behalf of Mindanao Kulintang Ensemble)
New York, NY
$5,000
To support The Mindanao Kulintang Ensemble Tour 2001. The tour will include workshops conducted by leading scholars in Filipino musical traditions and performances by Mindanao Kulintang Ensemble. (Multi-state)

Texas Folklife Resources (Consortium)
Austin, TX
$80,000
To support the Community Residency Program. This consortium project with the Texas Commission on the Arts will consist of 20 week-long residencies in Texas towns with populations between 500 and 7,500.

University of Mississippi Main Campus (Consortium)
University, MS
$20,000
To support a touring exhibit of traditional Choctaw and contemporary baskets and photographs. Designed to tour the region of the original Choctaw, this consortium project with the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians will travel to Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana.

Women Make Movies (on behalf of Bluestocking Films)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support Hula Beyond Hawaii, a documentary that will explore the Hawaiian community living on the mainland. Hula Beyond Hawaii is the first film to focus on the mainland Hawaiian community that has struggled to maintain its Hawaiian culture and identity on different shores.

LITERATURE

92nd Street Y (Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association)
New York, NY
$45,000
To support The Unterberg Poetry Center's Reading Series, featuring readings, performances, literary tributes and live interviews. The center will present a series of modern adaptations of verse dramas and a comprehensive survey of British literature in partnership with the New York Public Library. (Multi-state)

Alice James Poetry Cooperative, Inc.
Farmington, ME
$5,000
To support publication and promotion of five books of poetry selected from Alice James Poetry Cooperative's two annual competitions: the Beatrice Hawley Award and the New York/New England Award. Titles will be promoted to more than 8,000 individuals, bookstores, libraries and literary organizations nationwide. (Multi-state)

Amherst College (on behalf of Folger Shakespeare Memorial)
Amherst, MA
$5,000
To support the Folger Poetry Series at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC. The series will present ten readings by poets such as Elizabeth Alexander, Marie Howe, Billy Collins, Carol Ann Duffy, Alberto Rios, and Jim Harrison.

Another Chicago Magazine (Left Field Press, Inc.)
Chicago, IL
$5,000
To support the publication and national distribution of two issues of Another Chicago Magazine. (Multi-state)

Arroyo Arts Collective
Los Angeles, CA
$5,000
To support Poetry in the Windows, a project to display multilingual poetry posters in merchants' windows along a major commercial corridor in Northeast Los Angeles, reaching an estimated audience of 15,000 people during May 2001. The collective will distribute 1,000 brochures describing the featured poems.

Aunt Lute Foundation
San Francisco, CA
$35,000
To support publication and related costs for a new series of books by Native American women. Aunt Lute Books will tour its featured authors to areas of the country with large Native American populations, including Washington, California, Montana, Minnesota and parts of the South and Southwest. (Multi-state)

Bamboo Ridge Press
Honolulu, HI
$5,000
To support the publication, distribution and promotion of one issue of Bamboo Ridge, an annual journal of Hawaiian literature and arts. Authors featured in the issue will promote the journal through readings and workshops at the University of Hawaii and community colleges, educational conferences, bookstores and local organizations throughout Hawaii, Maui and Kauai.

Bard College (on behalf of Conjunctions)
Annandale-Hudson, NY
$10,000
To support publication, circulation and related expenses, including authors' fees, for the 37th and 38th issues of Conjunctions. Each issue will be distributed to bookstores throughout the country and to subscribers in more than 40 states and fifteen countries. (Multi-state)

Beyond Baroque Foundation
Venice, CA
$10,000
To support Site & Beyond, a seven-month program of literary activities reaching more than 10,000 individuals throughout the Los Angeles area. Beyond Baroque will expand its reach to present readings, residencies and workshops at the World Stage in South Los Angeles and Self Help Graphics in East Los Angeles.

BOA Editions, Ltd.
Rochester, NY
$10,000
To support production, promotion and related expenses for new volumes of poetry and collections of essays on poetry. Scheduled titles include Book of My Nights by Li-Young Lee, Rancho Notorious by Richard Garcia, and The Rat Trinity by Laure-Anne Bosselaar. (Multi state)

Boston Book Review (Harvard Readers Guild)
Cambridge, MA
$7,500
To support increased payments to contributing poets and writers of the Boston Book Review. The journal will publish the winning entry of the first PEN/Amazon short story contest and reintroduce original fiction to the magazine. (Multi-state)

Boston University (on behalf of AGNI Magazine)
Boston, MA
$5,000
To support publication costs and related expenses for two issues of AGNI. The journal will publish a general issue and an issue exploring ways in which writers can help advance human rights. (Multi-state)

Bridge Center for Contemporary Art (on behalf of Cinco Puntos Press)
El Paso, TX
$15,000
To support the production and national distribution of books exploring the Mexican and American Chicano experience published by Cinco Puntos Press. The volumes will be promoted at readings and on the Web, and be made available to trade bookstores throughout the nation by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution. (Multi-state)

Bright Hill Press, Inc.
Treadwell, NY
$5,000
To support the Word Thursdays reading series and the Speaking the Words tour of poets and writers. Bright Hill Press will present readings by 39 artists at the Delaware County Historical Association and other venues throughout the Catskill region.

CALYX, Inc.
Corvallis, OR
$15,000
To support Calyx Journal's New Writers, New Readers program. Components of the project include the publication of four issues of the literary magazine, increased honoraria to writers and artists, its new writer reading series, and a direct mail subscription campaign. (Multi-state)

Coffee House Press
Minneapolis, MN
$50,000
To support the publication, promotion and national distribution of fiction and creative nonfiction by contemporary women writers. Selected writers include Norah Labiner, Anne Waldman, Carol Ann Sima, Mary Caponegro, Judith Kitchen, Maxine Chernoff and Nancy Lord. (Multi-state)

Copper Canyon Press
Port Townsend, WA
$35,000
To support the publication and national distribution of books of poetry by poets at critical stages of their careers. Promotional author readings will be scheduled throughout the country at bookstores, libraries and literary conferences. (Multi-state)

Curbstone Press, Inc.
Willimantic, CT
$65,000
To support the continuation of Literature in Translation: Opening Doors Between Cultures, a project to publish and distribute contemporary poetry and fiction by writers from Latin America and Vietnam. Curbstone Press will sponsor readings by international writers in bookstores, libraries, schools and community centers. (Multi-state)

Divinity
St. Louis, MO
$10,000
To support the Langston Hughes St. Louis/World Black Poetry Festival. Participating poets include Sonia Sanchez, Amiri Baraka, Reggie Gibson, Ntozake Shange, Kamaau Daood, Yusef Komanyakaa, Abiodun Oyewole, Quincy Troupe, Eugene B. Redmond and Shirley LeFlore.

Feminist Press, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the publication and national distribution of books in the Feminist Press International Women's Writing Project. Works proposed for publication include Still Alive: A Jewish Childhood Under the Nazis by Ruth Kluger, and The Dark Holds No Terrors, a novel by Shashi Deshpande set in her native India. (Multi-state)

Fiction Collective, Inc.
Tallahassee, FL
$5,000
To support the publication, promotion and distribution of two novels published by Fiction Collective Two. The press will publish Aunt Rachel's Fur by Raymond Federman and Girl Beside Him by Arts Endowment Literature Fellowship recipient Chris Mazza. (Multi-state)

Graywolf Press
St. Paul, MN
$30,000
To support the publication, promotion and national distribution of volumes of creative nonfiction by Graywolf Press. Scheduled authors include John D'Agata, Albert Goldbarth, Kim Stafford and W.D. Snodgrass. (Multi-state)

Guild Complex
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support the 10th Annual Musicality of Poetry Series, which features performances and workshops linking poetry with live music. Proposed artists include Joy Harjo and her band Poetic Justice, performance poet Kamau Daaood with jazz trumpeter Orbert Davis, and novelist Jessica Hagedorn with hip hop turntablist Madrid.

HEArt-Human Equity Through Art
Pittsburgh, PA
$5,000
To support publication expenses, including artists' fees, for issues of HEArt Quarterly. Writers under consideration for the issues include Lucille Clifton, Sharon Olds, Sherman Alexie, Sandra Cisneros, Yusef Komunyaaka and Henry Louis Gates. (Multi-state)

Hudson Valley Writers' Center, Inc.
Sleepy Hollow, NY
$7,500
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. Coordinated by poet Nick Carb , the Literary Presentation Series will feature 25 public readings at the restored Philipse Manor Railroad on the east bank of the Hudson River; Sunnyside, the historic home of Washington Irving in Tarrytown, NY; and at several educational institutions in Westchester County.

Intersection
San Francisco, CA
$7,500
To support the presentation and promotion of writers' residencies in San Francisco. Proposed artists include Walter Mosley, Dave Hickey, Lucy Lippard and Luis Rodriguez.

Just Buffalo Literary Center, Inc.
Buffalo, NY
$20,000
To support a series of readings and workshops in Buffalo, New York. Scheduled writers include Richard Powers, Samuel Delaney and Marjorie Agosin. Richard Powers and Samuel Delaney will present mainstage readings to be broadcast by National Public Radio affiliate WBFO FM.

King Arts Complex (Community Arts Project, Inc.)
Columbus, OH
$7,500
To support Sister Talk, a series of presentations, lectures and workshops celebrating the accomplishments of African American women in literature. Featured artists include Sonia Sanchez, Ntozake Shange, J. California Cooper and Julia Hare.

Latin American Literary Review Press
Pittsburgh, PA
$15,000
To support the publication and national distribution of volumes of fiction by Latin American writers. Scheduled titles include Scent of Love, a collection of short stories by Brazilian novelist Edla van Steen, The Song of the Distant Root by Chilean novelist Elizabeth Subercaseaux, and Strange Forces by Argentinian Leopoldo Lugones. (Multi-state)

Line Press, Inc.
Ashland, OR
$12,500
To support the publication, promotion and national distribution of a new series of first books of poetry by Story Line Press. Based on the recommendations of established authors and editors of prominent poetry-publishing houses, Story Line Press will publish eight manuscripts from unpublished poets. (Multi-state)

Loft, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$40,000
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.

Log Cabin Literary Center, Inc.
Boise, ID
$10,000
To support BookFest, Idaho's only free literary festival. The Log Cabin Literary Center will bring writers of national stature to a regional and rural audience of 1,400 people.

Louisiana State University (on behalf of Louisiana State University Press)
Shreveport, LA
$10,000
To support production costs and related expenses for books of poetry published by Louisiana State University Press. Scheduled titles include Betty Adcock's Intervale: New and Selected Poems, Kelly Cherry's Rising Venus, Alice Derry's So, You're German? and Calvin Forbes's The Shine Poems. (Multi-state)

Marygrove College
Detroit, MI
$10,000
To support a series of lectures and readings as part of Defining Detroit, a city-wide celebration honoring Detroit's tricentennial. Scheduled participants include native Detroiters Philip Levine, Lawrence Joseph, Toi Derricotte, Pearl Cleage and Joyce Carol Oates, who spent formative years in Detroit during the 1960's.

Midwest Center for the Literary Arts, Inc.
Kansas City, MO
$10,000
To support Poets-at-Large 2001, a festival featuring poetry readings and discussions at artists' studios within the Kansas City metropolitan area. Scheduled for April 2001, the festival will be hosted by the Center's programming arm, The Writers Place, and feature poets such as Lorna Dee Cervantes, Amiri Baraka, Martin Espada, Linda Hogan and Naomi Shihab Nye.

Mountain Writers Series
Portland, OR
$25,000
To support readings, residencies and special events throughout the Pacific Northwest region. Proposed authors include Sherman Alexie, Sandra Cisneros, Robert Creeley, Rita Dove, Thom Gunn, Heather McHugh, Clarence Major, C.D. Wright and Marvin Bell. (Multi-state)

North Carolina State University (on behalf of Obsidian III)
Raleigh, NC
$10,000
To support publication and related costs, including artists' fees, of two issues of Obsidian III. Scheduled for publication is an issue exploring African American children's literature and a general issue featuring writers from all parts of the African Diaspora. (Multi-state)

Other Voices, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$5,000
To support the publication and promotion of two issues of Other Voices. A direct mail campaign will target potential subscribers nationwide. (Multi-state)

Painted Bride Quarterly, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$5,000
To support the creation of an online archive of writing published by Painted Bride Quarterly. The archive will include material published by the journal since its inception in 1973, and feature writers such as John Ashbery, Ethridge Knight, Sonia Sanchez, Robert Creeley, Clarence Major and Allen Ginsberg. (Multi-state)

Ploughshares, Inc.
Boston, MA
$11,000
To support the publication and national circulation of two issues of Ploughshares to 6,000 readers across the country. The winter 2001-02 and spring 2002 issues will feature new work by 70 poets and 12 fiction writers. (Multi-state)

Poetry Project, Ltd.
New York, NY
$18,000
To support the Monday Night and Wednesday Night Reading and Performance Series, which will feature live presentations by more than 100 poets and performers. Writers under consideration include Don DeLillo, Barbara Guest, Victor Hernandez Cruz, Lynne Tillman, Rick Moody, U Sam Oeur and Andrei Codrescu.

Sarabande Books, Inc.
Louisville, KY
$25,000
To support the production and promotion of books by mid-career writers. Scheduled authors include Michael Burkard, Eleanor Lerman and Ralph Angel. (Multi-state)

Seattle Arts & Lectures (Consortium)
Seattle, WA
$12,000
To support a collaboration between Seattle Arts & Lectures and Literary Arts, Inc. in Portland, OR, to bring distinguished writers to both cities for a series of readings and lectures. The series will feature seven events in each city, reaching a total audience of 28,000. (Multi-state)

Symphony Space, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story, a series of live readings featuring classic and new short fiction read by distinguished stage and screen actors. (Multi-state)

The Sun (Sun Publishing Company, Inc.)
Chapel Hill, NC
$5,000
To support an increase in payments to contributors of The Sun, a literary magazine reaching 50,000 subscribers from every state. Founded in 1974 by editor Sy Safransky, The Sun is a monthly magazine of essays, fiction, interviews, poetry, art and photography. (Multi-state)

Threepenny Review
Berkeley, CA
$12,000
To support authors' fees and promotional costs for four issues of the Threepenny Review. Featuring work by 100 established and emerging writers, the issues will be promoted through a direct mail subscription campaign targeting 70,000 readers. (Multi-state)

Trafika (Trafika Press, Inc.)
Brooklyn, NY
$5,000
To support publication and related expenses, including artists' fees for issues of Trafika, a literary journal focusing on contemporary international authors. In the proposed issues, the magazine will introduce American readers to writers from the Ukraine, Mozambique, Sweden, Cuba and Poland. (Multi-state)

University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ
$10,000
To support Wide Open: Poetry in the Larger World, a series of readings and residencies at the University of Arizona's Poetry Center. Featured writers include Carl Dennis, Billy Collins, Terese Svoboda, Anne Carson, David Breskin, Beth Lisick and Ariana Waynes.

University of Hawaii (on behalf of MANOA)
Honolulu, HI
$20,000
To support publication, promotion, distribution and related expenses for two issues of Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing. Scheduled issues will feature new writing from Japan and Viet Nam, and include poetry and prose by American writers from diverse cultural backgrounds. (Multi-state)

University of Houston (on behalf of Arte Público Press)
Houston, TX
$50,000
To support Arte Público Press's publication and promotion of books by emerging, Hispanic women authors. Authors will present readings in urban areas with large Hispanic populations throughout the United States. (Multi-state)

University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA
$7,000
To support publication costs and related expenses for two winning selections from the Iowa Short Fiction Award competition. Titles will be selected by Sioux writer Susan Power, author of The Grass Dancer. (Multi-state)

University of Missouri at Columbia (on behalf of The Missouri Review)
Columbia, MO
$15,000
To support publication, promotion and related expenses for issues of The Missouri Review. The magazine will enhance its Web site and target 50,000 potential readers through a national direct mail campaign. (Multi-state)

University of Texas at Austin (on behalf of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies)
Austin, TX
$10,000
To support the publication of new works of modern Arabic fiction in translation. Scheduled titles include Passage to Dusk by Lebanese writer Rashid Daif and Children of the Waters by Egyptian author Ibtihal Salem. (Multi-state)

University of Virginia (on behalf of Callaloo)
Charlottesville, VA
$25,000
To support Writing the Self and Community, a series of public readings and writing workshops organized by the journal Callaloo to be held at historically black colleges and universities around the country. Participating writers include Edwidge Danticat, Lucille Clifton, Gloria Naylor, Carl Phillips, Natasha Trethewey and Reginald McKnight. (Multi-state)

University of Virginia (on behalf of University of Virginia Press)
Charlottesville, VA
$18,000
To support publication and promotion of translations of contemporary Francophone literature from the Caribbean and Africa as part of the University of Virginia Press's CARAF Books Series. Scheduled authors include Ahmadou Kourouma of Côte d' Ivoire, and Mongo Beti, a native of Cameroon. (Multi-state)

White Pine, Inc.
Buffalo, NY
$25,000
To support the publication and promotion of titles in the World of Voices Poetry Project. Authors to be published include Maurice Kenny, Joel Oppenheimer, Christopher Merrill and Japanese poet Miyazawa Kenji. (Multi-state)

Woodland Pattern Book Center, Inc.
Milwaukee, WI
$40,000
To support a series of readings, exhibits and workshops in Milwaukee's inner city. Scheduled authors include Elaine Equi, Maureen Owen, Lyn Hejinian, Luci Tapahonso, Leslie Scalapino, Arthur Sze and Wang Ping.

Writers Room, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support subsidized work space for emerging writers using The Writers Room, an urban writers' colony in New York City. Founded in 1978, the organization expects to welcome 80 new members in FY 2001.

ZYZZYVA
San Francisco, CA
$8,500
To support authors' fees and promotional costs for issues of Zyzzyva, a magazine featuring the work of West Coast writers. The issues will be promoted through a direct mail subscription campaign targeting 100,000 readers. (Multi-state)

LOCAL ARTS AGENCIES

Churchill Arts Council
Fallon, NV
$10,000
To support a performing arts series. This series of seven performing arts events will offer a variety of cultural traditions including African, Mexican, Celtic and Zydeco to the citizens of Churchill County and northern Nevada.

City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department
Los Angeles, CA
$55,000
To support a Design Fellowship Program and exhibition catalogue featuring work of the fellowship winners. The Design Fellowship Program represents an expansion of the City of Los Angeles Individual Artist Fellowship Program and will provide seven $10,000 fellowships to design artists living in Los Angeles County.

Quad City Arts, Inc.
Rock Island, IL
$25,000
To support the Visiting Artist Series. Community outreach efforts and arts-in-education components of the series will place selected artists in residency activities in rural communities throughout Iowa and Illinois. (Multi-state)

MEDIA ARTS

American Museum of the Moving Image
Astoria, NY
$25,000
To support three film retrospectives: The Cutter's Way: The Art and Craft of Film Editing; Shadow Play: Early Film and the Avant Garde; and The Lubitsch Touch. Over 100 films will be presented to an estimated audience of over 5,000 people.

Ancestral Films, Inc. (Consortium)
Houston, TX
$5,000
To support a consortium project, The Films of Gordon Parks: Retrospective of a Living Legend. This curated series will recognize Mr. Parks for his artistic achievements. Project partners are the Museum of Fine Arts Houston and Project Row Houses.

Ann Arbor Film Festival
Ann Arbor, MI
$15,000
To support the 39th Ann Arbor Film Festival and its national tour. Over 100 films will be presented to an audience of over 21,000 people in Michigan and the states to which the festival tours. (Multi-state)

Art Institute of Chicago (on behalf of Film Center)
Chicago, IL
$30,000
To support a curated film series titled Bridging the Culture Gap Through Cinema. This multifaceted project will showcase work by American independent filmmakers and international directors.

Asian CineVision, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the 2001 Asian American International Film Festival and its national tour. After its run in New York, the festival will travel to 10 sites including those in Connecticut, Florida, North Carolina, Texas and Pennsylvania. (Multi-state)

Asian Media Access
Minneapolis, MN
$7,500
To support the curated film series Generation Y: The Impact of the 1997 Hong Kong-China Reunification on Chinese Youth. Films will be presented to gain insight on what the reunification means to the youth of Hong Kong, Taiwan and China.

Austin Film Society
Austin, TX
$30,000
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 a historical and cultural context while fostering an understanding and appreciation for cinema as an art form.

Berks Filmmakers, Inc.
Reading, PA
$10,000
To support the exhibition of several 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.

Chicago Filmmakers
Chicago, IL
$15,000
To support the curated film series Kino Eye Cinema and the presentation of the Onion City Film Festival. Kino Eye Cinema places special emphasis on documentary and experimental films and videos; the Onion City Film Festival is dedicated to exhibiting experimental work.

Cine Acción
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the 2002 Cine Latino Film Festival. The festival attracts over 5,000 people and is the only West Coast venue to present work by and about Latinos.

Cinema Arts Centre (New Community Cinema Club, Inc.)
Huntington, NY
$10,000
To support Cinema of Diversity, three weekend-long film festivals. Each festival will be devoted to a different theme: the International Women's Film and Video Festival, the Festival of Films from the People's Republic of China, and the Huntington International Independent Film Festival.

Cleveland Film Society
Cleveland, OH
$25,000
To support the 25th annual Cleveland International Film Festival including the 4th annual Midwest Independent Filmmakers Conference. Held in the spring, the event presents current work from around the world and complements it with educational programs to increase the audience's understanding and appreciation for the art form.

CultureWorks, Ltd.
Philadelphia, PA
$25,000
To support post-production costs for a four-hour documentary radio series by Steve Rowland on jazz artist John Coltrane. Tell Me How Long Trane's Been Gone will present listeners with an overview of John Coltrane and his extraordinary accomplishments, and will discuss the impact of his music on the culture at large. (Multi-state)

EBS Productions, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support the 2001 International Film Financing Conference. This annual event was established to encourage collaborations between American producers and international film production entities.

Experimental Television Center, Ltd.
Newark Valley, NY
$10,000
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.

Facets Multimedia, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$60,000
To support the annual Chicago International Children's Film Festival and related media arts programs for children. Activities include animation workshops, a media arts camp, media literacy courses, special exhibitions of films for children throughout the year, curriculum development and an expansion of Facet's Web site.

Film Arts Foundation (on behalf of Bruno Films)
San Francisco, CA
$60,000
To support the production of an experimental documentary film by Ellen Bruno on aging, sickness and death. Skin and Bones will be a meditation on the impermanence of life. (Multi-state)

Film Arts Foundation (on behalf of Xochitl Films)
San Francisco, CA
$60,000
To support the post-production costs for an experimental documentary film by Lourdes Portillo. Señorita Extraviada will explore the untold story of the continuing serial murders of young women in the U.S.-Mexican border town of Juarez. (Multi-state)

Film Arts Foundation (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$60,000
To support a consortium project in which five media arts organizations, all housed in the same building, will share resources, staff and facilities. The Ninth Street Media Arts consortium, already viewed as a national model of partnership, will formalize its processes to include joint decision-making, governance and program delivery.

Film Arts Foundation
San Francisco, CA
$60,000
To support Direct the Future, an initiative that will provide filmmakers with equipment to create new work. Film Arts Foundation (FAF) has, for 24 years, offered media makers traditional 16mm film production tools. As part of Direct the Future, FAF will expand into the digital realm to complement its ongoing activities.

Film Forum (Moving Image, Inc.)
New York, NY
$60,000
To support the New York City theatrical premieres of American independent and foreign films. Film Forum is devoted to bringing a broad array of the highest quality new work by young and emerging artists, as well as more established figures, to a large and diverse general public.

Film Society of Lincoln Center
New York, NY
$40,000
To support two curated film series. Cinemas/Societies in Transition: The Politics and Practice of National Self-definition will feature German film from 1945-1962 and Chinese film from 1945 1965; a retrospective of the comedic filmmaker Leo McCary will also be presented.

Four Oaks Foundation (on behalf of DocuClub)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the exhibition of documentary films. DocuClub's mission is to aid filmmakers in the making of their documentaries by providing a supportive community to screen their films, provide feedback, and assist in the completion and distribution of the work.

Friends of the Mary Riepma Ross Film Theater, Inc.
Lincoln, NE
$10,000
To support the 2001 Great Plains Film Festival. Held biennially in the summer, the festival provides a showcase for film and video artists working in the American heartland (Colorado, Kansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, Wyoming, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan.)

Global Action Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support Urban Voices, a media production and literacy program for more than 150 economically disadvantaged young people. Through the workshops, these young producers will gain skills and the ability to deconstruct mainstream media images.

Greenway Arts Alliance (on behalf of Displaced Films)
Los Angeles, CA
$35,000
To support post-production costs for a six-hour documentary television series by David Zeiger about students in their last year of high school. Intended for national PBS broadcast, Senior Year will follow 15 seniors from Fairfax High School in Los Angeles through their trials and tribulations. (Multi-state)

Hot Springs Documentary Film Institute
Hot Springs, AR
$7,500
To support the 2001 Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival. Attended by over 16,000 people, this festival is dedicated to the art of non-fiction film.

Independent Films
Aspen, CO
$10,000
To support the Aspen Shortsfest film festival. Short, live action, animation and documentary films from the United States and abroad will be showcased.

Independent Media Artists of Georgia, Etc.
Atlanta, GA
$7,500
To support the 25th Atlanta Film and Video Festival. This event presents the best of current independent film and video to an average audience of 6,000 people.

Interfaze Educational Productions, Inc.
Berkeley, CA
$15,000
To support the production of a documentary film by Marilyn Mulford and Claudio Duran on the experiences of Chilean artist-exiles. Archeology of Memory will combine archival footage, interviews, storytelling and reenactments to illustrate remembrances of this historical time. (Multi state)

International Latino Cultural Center (Chicago Latino Cinema)
Chicago, IL
$25,000
To support the 17th Chicago Latino Film Festival. Held annually in the spring, this festival offers over 100 films to an average audience of over 45,000 people.

Jewish Film Festival
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support the 2001 Jewish Film Festival and expansion of the organization's Web site. The festival, devoted to Jewish-subject films, will be held over a one-month period in San Francisco, Berkeley, Palo Alto and Marin County; the Web site will serve as an information resource and include an image library and archive. (Multi-state)

Kartemquin Educational Films
Chicago, IL
$47,000
To support production and post-production costs of a documentary film titled Refrigerator Mothers by Gordon Quinn, J.J. Hanley and David Simpson about autism. The film will paint an intimate portrait of an entire generation of mothers, already laden with the challenge of raising profoundly disordered children, who lived for years under the dehumanizing shadow of "mother blame." (Multi-state)

Living Archives, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
To support the production of a documentary film by Nick Doob on the lives, work and marriage of Carmen de Lavallade and Geoffrey Holder. It will include footage of their work ranging from the early 1950's to the work they are currently creating and performing. (Multi-state)

MediaRites
Portland, OR
$12,500
To support the production of two one-hour radio documentaries by Dmae Roberts. Heart of Nature will profile children with disabilities; Spirit of Justice will explore how artistic endeavors affect young people in the juvenile justice system. (Multi-state)

Millennium Film Workshop, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the exhibition of experimental film and video art and the provision of filmmaking workshops. Millennium's exhibition programs feature the work of avant-garde cinema and video from the United States and abroad.

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc. (on behalf of Strange Attractions)
New York, NY
$47,000
To support the production of an experimental documentary film by Peter Friedman and Roger Manley. Beyond Belief: the Meaning and Power of Things will examine the meaning of the word "belief" as it applies to religion and to our everyday lives. (Multi-state)

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc.
(on behalf of Parents of Cerebral Palsy Film Company)
New York, NY
$25,000
To support production and post-production costs for a documentary film by Charles Schultz on Samuel Mockbee and his students. Founded by Mr. Mockbee, The Rural Studio (both the name of the film and the program) guides Auburn University architecture students as they design and construct homes and community spaces within economically depressed Hale County, AL. (Multi state)

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc. (on behalf of the African Film Festival)
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the exhibition and tour of a series of films from Africa. The theme of the 2001 festival is "40 Years of African Cinema -- Then and Now." (Multi-state)

Persona Grata Productions, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support the production of an experimental narrative film by Paul Kwan and Arnold Iger. Agnosia: Confessions of a Tasteless Critic will take an offbeat look at the relationship between food, culture and memory. (Multi-state)

Portland Art Museum (on behalf of Northwest Film Center)
Portland, OR
$40,000
To support the Northwest Film and Video Festival and its tour throughout the Northwest. The festival is an annual event that showcases new work by media artists living in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia. (Multi-state)

Promises Film Company
Berkeley, CA
$47,000
To support the post-production costs for a documentary film by B.Z. Goldberg and Justine Shapiro on the Middle Eastern conflict. Through the voices of children, Promises will examine the deep-rooted boundaries that lie between seven children who live in Jerusalem. (Multi-state)

San Francisco Cinematheque
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support the curated film series San Francisco Cinematheque: 40 Years in Focus. For four decades, the San Francisco Cinematheque has dedicated itself to, and premiered the work of, experimental film and video artists.

Sinking Creek Film Celebration, Inc.
Nashville, TN
$5,000
To support the 2001 Nashville Independent Film Festival. This event features documentaries, narrative films, experimental work, and student films and videos.

Sound Portraits Productions, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
To support the production of ten radio documentaries by David Isay. American Talkers, to be aired on National Public Radio's "Weekend Edition," will present the voices of ordinary Americans who have an extraordinary penchant for storytelling. (Multi-state)

Soundprint Media Center, Inc.
Laurel, MD
$30,000
To support The Pairing Project in which six emerging radio producers work with Soundprint and their local public radio stations to create new audio documentaries. The stations will play a mentoring role, providing the producers with editing facilities and administrative support, while Soundprint staff conduct workshops to establish a common level of production values and techniques. (Multi-state)

Southwestern Alternate Media Projects, Inc.
Houston, TX
$25,000
To support the production and statewide distribution of The Territory. As the longest running public television showcase of media art in the United States, this 13-part series presents independent film and video works to over 12 million viewers throughout Texas.

Squaw Valley Community of Writers
Nevada City, CA
$5,000
To support the Screenwriters Program. This eight-day workshop is centered on the essence of storytelling and teaches participants how to show rather than tell their stories.

Squeaky Wheel (Buffalo Media Resources, Inc.)
Buffalo, NY
$5,000
To support a media artist-in-residence and the upgrade of film/digital editing equipment. With the improved equipment, the artist-in-residence will be invited to Squeaky Wheel to complete his/her work.

Standby Program, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the provision of state-of-the-art, post-production video equipment to artists and independent producers. Standby's access program is a unique model of collaboration between a nonprofit arts organization and privately owned businesses.

Sundance Institute for Film and Television
Salt Lake City, UT
$110,000
To support a colloquium on documentary film and a series of educational workshops and labs that offer emerging screenwriters, directors, producers, and composers the opportunity, support and resources needed to successfully develop new creative work.

Thomas A. Edison Media Arts Consortium
Jersey City, NJ
$18,000
To support the 2000 Black Maria Film and Video Festival and its multi-state tour. Over 60 organizations throughout the United States host the festival each year and it draws over 800 entries annually from all over the country. (Multi-state)

Tundra Club
Bozeman, MT
$40,000
To support the production of Hearing Voices, a radio series curated by Barrett Golding. These radio documentaries will feature people around the country sharing their thoughts, myths and memories. (Multi-state)

University of Texas Institute of Texan Cultures at San Antonio
San Antonio, TX
$20,000
To support the production of a six-hour radio documentary series on the social history of rural Southern working class music. Honky Tonks, Hymns and the Blues will combine narration, archival recordings, oral histories, interviews and recent recordings to shed new light on the development of indigenous music. (Multi-state)

Video Association of Dallas, Inc.
Dallas, TX
$10,000
To support the 15th Annual Dallas Video Festival. Over a four-day period, the event will present over 200 screenings of work by national and international artists to an estimated audience of over 6,000 people.

Visual Communications
(Southern California Asian American Studies Central, Inc.)
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
To support the 15th annual Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film and Video Festival. Held in the summer, this is Southern California's showcase of independent film and video work from Asian and Asian-Pacific American filmmakers.

Washington, DC International Film Festival
Washington, DC
$25,000
To support the 2001 Washington DC International Film Festival. Held annually in the spring, this event includes free films for children, senior citizens and underserved communities.

MULTIDISCIPLINARY

American Music Theater Festival, Inc. (Consortium)
Philadelphia, PA
$30,000
To support The Philadelphia/Camden Arts Partnership, a consortium project with the Walt Whitman Cultural Center of Camden, NJ. During 2001-03, three newly commissioned works by composer Dwight Andrews will be developed and produced with the involvement of the artist and the urban adult and youth communities of Philadelphia and Camden. (Multi-state)

Appalshop, Inc. (on behalf of American Festival Project)
Whitesburg, KY
$40,000
To support the American Festival Project. Artists from several disciplines will work as partners with small Appalachian communities on collaborative art and performance projects during 2001 02. (Multi-state)

Bang on a Can, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support a consortium with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the production of a new work, Shadow Bang. This U.S.f-Bali collaborative work will premiere in Boston and New York City in the fall of 2001. (Multi-state)

Chinese Cultural Productions
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support the development and presentation of new interdisciplinary works. Chinese Cultural Productions will premiere works that reflect a convergence of performing arts and digital technology.

Circuit Network (on behalf of La Pocha Nostra)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support artist residencies by La Pocha Nostra. Week-long residencies will take place in Anchorage, AK; San Antonio, TX; Santa Fe, NM; Denver, CO; and Grinnell, IA during 2001. (Multi state)

Corporation of Yaddo
Saratoga Springs, NY
$17,000
To support residencies for professional artists. In 2001, artists will come from across the United States for one-month residencies that offer uninterrupted time and privacy for thinking, experimenting and creating.

DiverseWorks, Inc.
Houston, TX
$40,000
To support DiverseDialogues, an artist residency program. This program aims to promote the interchange of ideas among national, regional and Houston artists and multiple communities in the greater Houston area.

Djerassi Resident Artists Program
Woodside, CA
$10,000
To support one-month residencies for 10 American artists during the 2001 season. This project will provide studios, living accommodations, all meals and professional support for three composers, three choreographers, two visual artists and two media/new genres artists.

Downtown Arts Projects
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the Downtown Arts Festival. This three-week event will present a broad sampling of contemporary art from New York City including visual art, dance, theater, music, film/video, spoken word and digital media.

Experimental Sound Studio
Chicago, IL
$8,000
To support production residencies for Chicago-area artists through an Artists' Residency Program. Six 40-hour residencies will be offered between June and December 2001 for the completion of works in four categories: Sound Works, Performing Arts Collaboration, Soundtrack Design for Film and Video, and Creative Use of Radio.

Exploratorium
San Francisco, CA
$38,000
To support 2nd Wednesdays. This series of evening performances and installations will be presented in a cafe atmosphere; selected evenings will be broadcast live over the Internet for national audiences. (Multi-state)

Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown
Provincetown, MA
$15,000
To support the Winter Residency Program. Approximately 20 emerging writers and visual artists will be provided with housing, studios and a modest monthly stipend from October 2001 through April 2002.

First Voice, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support phase two of SUN CYCLES. This work combines spoken word, jazz, solo performance and multimedia production with Japanese Gagaku, Noh theater and other Asian performing arts traditions. (Multi-state)

Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center
San Antonio, TX
$45,000
To support the development of Nueva Obras/New Works. This project will serve up to 60 emerging artists who will be able to receive funding, mentoring, publicity assistance and presentation of new work.

Hallwalls, Inc.
Buffalo, NY
$30,000
To support the Hallwalls Artist-in-Residence Project. Six creative residency projects will be the result of artist collaborations in Buffalo between 2001 and 2002.

Harvestworks, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support Harvestworks' Artists' Access Program. This program provides artists with low cost or free access to advanced multimedia facilities and instruction courses in New York City.

Headlands Center for the Arts
Sausalito, CA
$35,000
To support the U.S. Artists-in-Residence Program and public programs. These programs will provide three-month residences for up to 30 artists and 15-20 educational programs for artists and audiences between February 1 and December 31, 2001.

Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture
(Hostos Community College Advisory Council, Inc.)
Bronx, NY
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of Barrios. This new work is centered around the idea and the reality of a series of well-known crossroads and neighborhoods in New York City's Latino communities.

Jack Straw Foundation
Seattle, WA
$10,000
To support audio art residencies for the creation and presentation of new work. The work will be done in Jack Straw studios by artists from a variety of disciplines working creatively with sound.

Justice Matters Institute (on behalf of Asian Improv aRts)
San Francisco, CA
$5,000
To support Day of Remembrance. This annual cultural arts and education presentation is organized in remembrance of the World War II incarceration of more than 120,000 Japanese American and Japanese Peruvian civilians.

Louisville Visual Art Association
Louisville, KY
$5,000
To support an exhibit of woodcuts and a workshop-style presentation of Limbus: a Mechanical Opera. The woodcuts and opera are the extraordinary creations of artist/composer Jay Bolotin.

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (on behalf of Bustlelamp Productions)
New York, NY
$30,000
To support Spectropia. This piece will be an evening-length interactive media performance by two players on multiple screens. (Multi-state)

Mark Morris Dance Group (Discalced, Inc.)
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the production of Lou Harrison's opera Young Caesar. The production, directed and choreographed by Mark Morris, will include all eighteen members of the Mark Morris Dance Group, 15 vocal soloists, and a full chorus and orchestra.

Miami Valley Cooperative Gallery (Consortium)
Dayton, OH
$5,000
To support a consortium with Culture Works to present the Dayton Asian and Asian American Art and Media Festival. The Festival will feature an exhibit of work by Asian American artists and screenings of contemporary film and video works by Asian and Asian American media artists.

Mixed Bag Productions
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support Monk at the Met. Eight world premiere performances will take place in June 2001.

Montclair State University
Upper Montclair, NJ
$10,000
To support a multimedia theatre production based on Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children. A new text will be created to explore the African American female experience with race, class and gender.

New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. (Consortium)
Staten Island, NY
$15,000
To support an Internet performance project. Performances will be made available in real time to audiences at various geographic locations and simultaneously to individuals on the Internet. Afterwards, the pieces will be available in an online archive. (Multi-state)

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc.
(on behalf of Maureen Fleming Performance)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support Mother/Child created by Maureen Fleming Performance. The new work will be performed in Santa Cruz, Minneapolis, Cleveland and New York and will include a residency component involving local performing artists. (Multi-state)

North Arkansas Symphony Society
Fayetteville, AR
$10,000
To support Crossover 2001. This project will commission an orchestral work by a Brazilian and an American composer and choreography by Dance Brazil's resident choreographer Jelon Vieira.

On the Boards
Seattle, WA
$30,000
To support the three year initiative Redefining the Performing Artist: An Interdisciplinary Approach. The initiative will consist of four performance residencies and a local festival in which new productions will premiere.

Painted Bride Art Center
Philadelphia, PA
$20,000
To support Abriendo Puertas (Opening Doors). This five-week festival will celebrate the artistic contributions of contemporary women from the Latin Diaspora.

Roulette Intermedium, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support a Festival of Experimental Music Theater. This series of concerts will focus on ways in which artists are using or adapting new technologies to make music theater.

Shadowlight Productions
San Francisco, CA
$17,000
To support the commissioning of Dreaming California. This new, shadow theater performance piece focuses on the history of Latinos in California.

Temple University (on behalf of Tyler School of Art/Art Works in Different Places)
Philadelphia, PA
$35,000
To support a series of commissioned works. Presented in the fall/spring 2001, the new works will tour in several communities.

Theatre of Yugen, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support a new multidisciplinary production by Erik Ehn. Based on the life of 19th century writer and Japan scholar Lafacido Hearn, the production will combine Western naturalism with Asian theater and dance styles as well as multimedia audiovisual techniques.

University of Massachusetts at Amherst (Consortium)
Amherst, MA
$45,000
To support the creation of a new theater work and the Future Aesthetics Festival. The proposed project, a collaboration between the University's New World Theater and Performance Space 122, will explore new theater aesthetics focusing on theater of the spoken word, contemporary music, performance poetry and hip hop. (Multi-state)

Walker Art Center, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$55,000
To support the commissioning of an artist residency project, Advent of Change: Creative Convergence in Form, Context, and Community. This project will involve a range of artists including those working in dance, music, video, puppet theater, installation, performance, sculpture, film and new media.

Wexner Center for the Arts (Wexner Center Foundation)
Columbus, OH
$75,000
To support the commissioning of visual, performing and media art works for the Wexner Center's residency program. The program provides financial, technical and professional support for the creation and/or presentation of new works.

MUSEUMS

Albright College (on behalf of the Freedman Gallery) (Consortium)
Reading, PA
$15,000
To support the planning of an exhibition and festival titled Mexico 2002. The project is a consortium between the Freedman Gallery, the Freyberger Gallery at Penn State, the Reading Public Museum, and the Sharadin Gallery at Kutztown University.

Americas Society, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the planning of the exhibition The Image of the Indian: Ethnicity, Visuality, and Patterns of Meaning in Colonial Mexico. The exhibition will examine the multiplicity of visual representations of Indians in Spanish colonial art and how those images contributed to the formation of identity.

Amherst College (on behalf of the Mead Art Museum)
Amherst, MA
$20,000
To support the touring exhibition Casa Mañana: The Morrow Collection of Mexican Popular Arts, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will be drawn from the collection amassed by Dwight and Elizabeth Morrow in the late 1920's when Dwight Morrow served as the American ambassador to Mexico.

Asia Society
New York, NY
$90,000
To support the exhibition Monks and Merchants: Silk Road Treasures from Northwest China, 4th to 7th Century, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. Centered on recently excavated material from the Gansu and Ningxia provinces, the exhibition will explore China's interactions with its neighbors during this period when it was more receptive to foreign influences. (Multi-state)

Bellevue Art Museum
Bellevue, WA
$25,000
To support the Residency/New Works program planned for the inaugural year of the new Bellevue Art Museum. The program will bring artists and audiences together to collaborate on the production of new work.

Boise Art Museum
Boise, ID
$30,000
To support an exhibition of the work of contemporary American artist Gary Hill, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will consist of up to four video installations and a new commissioned work to premiere in Boise.

California State University, Long Beach Foundation
(on behalf of University Art Museum)
Long Beach, CA
$25,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of American artist Tom Wesselman, with accompanying catalogue and education materials. The exhibition will be the first full-career survey of the artist's small scale works. (Multi-state)

Cheney Cowles Museum (Eastern Washington State Historical Society)
Spokane, WA
$15,000
To support an exhibition of the work of contemporary American artist James Lavadour, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. This will be the first in a series of one person exhibitions titled Social Landscapes, presenting artists who explore contemporary society's relationship to the land and nature.

Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art
Cleveland, OH
$20,000
To support the exhibition Reclaiming Space, and an accompanying catalogue. The exhibition will present an international group of contemporary artists whose work addresses the challenge of human existence in the face of an increasingly complex, global society.

Columbia University in the City of New York (on behalf of the Wallach Gallery)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support an exhibition of the work of American architect Percival Goodman, and an accompanying catalogue. Titled Percival Goodman: Architect, Teacher, Planner, and Poet, this will be the first retrospective exhibition of Goodman's work.

Columbus Museum of Art
Columbus, OH
$50,000
To support the touring exhibition Circle of Bliss: The Tantric Tradition of Tibet and Nepal, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will examine Tibetan art in the context of past and present-day Buddhist ritual. (Multi-state)

Des Moines Art Center (Edmundson Art Foundation, Inc.)
(on behalf of Des Moines Art Center)
Des Moines, IA
$30,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of contemporary American artist Ellen Gallagher, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will consist of new works created specifically for the project, including a site-specific sculpture. (Multi-state)

Detroit Institute of Arts
Detroit, MI
$75,000
To support The Legacy of Michelangelo: The Medici and Late Renaissance Art in Florence (1537-1631), a major international loan exhibition with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will include drawings by Michelangelo and Cellini, significant paintings by Bronzino, Pantormo, and Salviati and intricate decorative arts by Buontalenti.

Dia Center for the Arts (Consortium)
New York, NY
$35,000
To support a public art project by contemporary American artist George Trakas on the Hudson River waterfront in Beacon, NY. Dia has formed a consortium with Scenic Hudson Land Trust, Inc. to carry out the project.

Drawing Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the touring exhibition Heavenly Visions: Shaker Gift Drawings and Gift Songs, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will consist of drawings, manuscripts and lyric verses created in Shaker communities from 1837 to 1855. (Multi-state)

Fabric Workshop and Museum
Philadelphia, PA
$50,000
To support a program of residencies and solo exhibitions by contemporary artists. 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.

Hudson River Museum
Yonkers, NY
$20,000
To support an exhibition titled Magic of Light, with accompanying catalogue. The exhibition will feature works from the 1960s to the present that use light as a sculptural element and will include a number of site-specific commissions.

Indianapolis Museum of Art
Indianapolis, IN
$30,000
To support the exhibition Gifts to the Tsars, 1500-1700: Treasures from the Kremlin, and accompanying education programs. Objects in the exhibition will be loaned by the Armory, the principal component of the State Museum Preserve of History and Culture at the Moscow Kremlin.

Institute for Contemporary Art, P.S. 1 Museum and the Clocktower Gallery
Long Island City, NY
$15,000
To support an exhibition of the work of contemporary Canadian artist Janet Cardiff, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will include the artist's site specific audio walks as well as a number of indoor sound pieces and multimedia installations.

James A. Michener Art Museum
Doylestown, PA
$20,000
To support an exhibition of the work of furniture designer George Nakashima (1905-1990), with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will reexamine Nakashima's practice within the larger context of European Modernism.

Japan Society, Inc.
New York, NY
$80,000
To support the national tour of a retrospective exhibition of the work of artist Yoko Ono. This is the first major museum exhibition of Ono's long artistic career in the fields of visual art, music, film and performance. (Multi-state)

Jewish Museum
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the exhibition Experiencing Emancipation: European Jewish Artists Confront Modernity, 1833-1914, and an accompanying catalogue. The exhibition will examine the range of stylistic and thematic responses to the process of acculturation and the changing political and social status of Jews in the 19th century.

Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Inc.
Wausau, WI
$20,000
To support a touring exhibition titled Sign of the Times: Meaning and Design in Textiles, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will examine the origin and evolution of design motifs in an array of historical and contemporary textiles from around the world.

Menil Collection (Menil Foundation, Inc.)
Houston, TX
$25,000
To support the exhibition Pop Art: US/UK Connections, and accompanying educational materials and programs. The exhibition will examine the development of classic Pop art through a critical transatlantic cultural exchange which occurred in the decade between 1956 and 1966.

Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, NY
$75,000
To support an exhibition of Islamic glass produced from the 7th through the 19th centuries, titled Glass of the Sultans. The exhibition will showcase approximately 150 of the most important extant glass objects, borrowed from public and private collections around the world, beginning with their 7th-century, Roman-inspired origins to the products of18th and 19th century India and Iran.

Mint Museum of Art, Inc.
Charlotte, NC
$90,000
To support the exhibition The Sport of Life and Death: The Mesoamerican Ballgame, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will be the first major traveling exhibition to explore a fundamental theme of ancient Mesoamerican art -- the world's first team sport played with a rubber ball. (Multi-state)

Moore College of Art (on behalf of the Goldie Paley Gallery)
Philadelphia, PA
$30,000
To support the exhibition Poetics + Technology: Art at the Start of the Digital Age, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The project offers the opportunity to explore topics such as the nature of artistic production in the technological age and artists' evolving perspectives vis-a-vis the role of the gallery as an interactive cybersite.

Museum of Contemporary Art (Consortium)
Chicago, IL
$50,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of American artist H.C. Westermann, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. Collaborating with the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art will present comprehensive exhibitions of Westermann's sculpture and prints. (Multi-state)

Museum of Contemporary Art (Consortium)
Chicago, IL
$100,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of contemporary South African artist William Kentridge, with accompanying catalogue. The exhibition will be organized as a consortium of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York. (Multi-state)

Museum of Photographic Arts
San Diego, CA
$40,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of contemporary Italian photographer Mario Giacomelli, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The retrospective exhibition will include the artist's earliest work as well as his current projects -- photographs that span the last half of the 20th century. (Multi-state)

New Museum of Contemporary Art
New York, NY
$20,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of contemporary Venezuelan artist José Antonio Hernández-Diez, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. Hernández -Diez creates multimedia installations that examine stereotypical views of Latin American identity. (Multi-state)

Newark Museum Association (Consortium)
Newark, NJ
$50,000
To support the exhibition Dutch Intimacy and Opulence: The Art of the Home and Private Life, 1640-1700, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The project is a consortium between the Newark Museum and the Denver Art Museum. (Multi-state)

North Carolina Central University (on behalf of the Art Museum)
Durham, NC
$25,000
To support an exhibition of the work of African American artist Malvin Gray Johnson, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will explore Johnson's brief but influential career as a participant in the Harlem Renaissance.

North Carolina Museum of Art Foundation, Inc.
Raleigh, NC
$40,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of American artist Stanton Macdonald-Wright, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The artist played a central role in the emergence of modernist painting and theory in both America and Europe. (Multi-state)

North Dakota Museum of Art
Grand Forks, ND
$40,000
To support the commissioning of a new work by contemporary American artist Mary Lucier, with an accompanying catalogue. The work will be a video installation piece addressing the emptying out of the Great Plains.

Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia, PA
$60,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of American artist Thomas Eakins, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will be the first comprehensive survey of Eakin's work in the United States in nearly 20 years. (Multi-state)

Phillips Collection
Washington, DC
$100,000
To support the touring exhibition Over the Line: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence, with accompanying education programs. This will be the first retrospective exhibition to fully examine the evolution of Lawrence's style, technique and methods in light of the latest scholarship. (Multi-state)

Red Cloud Indian School, Inc. (Consortium)
Pine Ridge, SD
$10,000
To support an exhibition of the work of Native American artist Arthur Amiotte, with accompanying catalogue. The project is a consortium between the Heritage Center Based at Red Cloud; University of South Dakota, Vermillion; Washington Pavilion of Arts and Sciences, Sioux Falls; South Dakota Art Museum, Brookings; Journey Museum, Rapid City; Akta Lakota Museum, Chamberlain; and Northern State University, Aberdeen.

Research Foundation of State University of New York
(on behalf of the Neuberger Museum)
Albany, NY
$37,000
To support the touring exhibition Central African Art from the Lawrence Gussman Collection, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will present approximately 75 works from the Gussman Collection, which was dispersed among the Neuberger, the National Museum of African Art in Washington, and the Israeli Museum in Jerusalem. (Multi-state)

Rollins College (on behalf of the Cornell Fine Arts Museum)
Winter Park, FL
$37,000
To support the exhibition Cosimo Roselli: Painter of the Sistine Chapel, with accompanying catalogue. The exhibition will illuminate this important, but largely neglected, Florentine Renaissance artist.

Saint Louis Art Museum
St. Louis, MO
$80,000
To support the exhibition The Gentileschi: Father and Daughter Painters. The exhibition is being organized in collaboration with the Soprintenza per i Beni Artistici, Rome and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. (Multi-state)

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
San Francisco, CA
$95,000
To support a traveling retrospective exhibition of the work of American artist Eva Hesse (1936 1970), with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The most comprehensive presentation of Hesse's work to date, the exhibition will offer new research into her career and reveal her significant influence on contemporary artistic practice and thought. (Multi-state)

SECCA (Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art)
Winston-Salem, NC
$25,000
To support a residency project by multimedia American artist Lesley Dill, with accompanying education programs. Dill will be the tenth artist to participate in SECCA's ongoing Artist and Community residency program.

University of California at Berkeley (on behalf of University Art Museum)
Berkeley, CA
$10,000
To support a touring retrospective exhibition of the work of American artist Joe Brainard, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. While Brainard was an active figure in the New York art and literary world in the 1960s and 70s, his work has not been the subject of a substantive exhibition. (Multi-state)

University of Michigan at Ann Arbor (on behalf of the Museum of Art)
Ann Arbor, MI
$40,000
To support a touring exhibition of Armenian art, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will examine Armenian works of art from the 6th to the 7th century and their relationship to the cultural and artistic identity of Armenia. (Multi-state)

University of North Carolina at Greensboro
(on behalf of the Weatherspoon Art Gallery)
Greensboro, NC
$15,000
To support the touring exhibition Priceless Children: Lewis Hine and the Photo-Secession (1890-1925), with accompanying catalogue. The exhibition will contrast Hine's social documentary photographs with pictorialist images depicting contrary views of the history of childhood in America at the turn of the century. (Multi-state)

University of Pennsylvania
(on behalf of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology)
Philadelphia, PA
$50,000
To support the reinstallation of the Museum's renowned permanent collections of Etruscan and Roman art and artifacts. Three renovated galleries with newly conceived thematic installations are planned.

University of Wyoming (on behalf of the Art Museum)
Laramie, WY
$27,000
To support the exhibition The Legacy of Lord Carnarvon: Miniatures from Ancient Egypt and the Valley of the Kings, with accompanying catalogue and lecture series. The exhibition and catalogue will present and discuss antiquities and photographs from the fifth Earl of Carnarvon, participant and funder of Howard Carter's explorations, which led to the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamen.

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Richmond, VA
$60,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of contemporary African American artist Martin Puryear, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. This will be the first exhibition of the artist's work in the United States in the last decade. (Multi-