2001 Grant Awards: Heritage/Preservation
Dance | Design | Folk & Traditional Arts | Literature | Media Arts
Multidisciplinary | Museums | Music | Musical Theater | Opera
Presenting | Theater | Visual Arts
Some details of the projects listed in this grant announcement are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.
DANCE
Alliance for the Arts
New York, NY
$15,000
To support further exploration of motion capture technology as a documentation and preservation tool for dance. The Estate Project fo$15,000r Artists with AIDS will select an advisory committee to select a small group of dance works to document. (Multistate)
American Tap Dance Orchestra, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,000
To support a tap dance festival in New York City. The festival includes a week of courses, master classes, panel discussions, film presentations and a children's program.
Arts Resources in Collaboration, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the restoration of 40 hours of Eye On Dance original sessions. The restored master sessions will be packaged along with the Eye on Dance programs and distributed nationally to libraries and educational institutions and broadcast on PBS in the New York City, tri-state area. (Multistate)
Atlanta Ballet, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$10,000
To support development of a strategic plan for the research and documentation of the history of Atlanta Ballet. The project will include implementation of this plan, and the establishment of an official Atlanta Ballet archive.
Brown University (on behalf of The American Dance Legacy Institute)
Providence, RI
$50,000
To support the continuation of preservation and education activities. These activities include: preserving works by Talley Beatty, Pearl Primus and Jean-Leon Destine; editing videos of repertory etudes and reconstructions; and expanding access for special needs students.
Colorado Dance Festival, Inc. (on behalf of the nternational Tap Association)
Boulder, CO
$10,000
To support Tap 2002, a project examining the legacy and future of the art of tap. This project will bring together four generations of tap artists to examine the aesthetic, philosophical and practical issues for the field.
Cortez & Co. Dance Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,000
To support the development of a work based on Philippine folk dance and music. My Last Farewell: Jose Rizal, Philippine National Hero will be based on Jose Rizal, leader of the Philippine revolt against Spanish colonization, and his inevitable public execution.
Dance Heritage Coalition, Inc.
Washington, DC
$30,000
To support the National Dance Heritage Videotape Registry. Phase I of Facing the Magnetic Media Crisis will address videotape vulnerability and format obsolescence and will develop an education program to inform the field about videotape preservation practices.
Dance Notation Bureau, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the updating and copying of existing scores in the Dance Notation Bureau archive. The goal of the project is to ensure that all scores in the archive represent the work and guarantee that the artist's work is passed on accurately.
Danza Floricanto/USA (Floricanto Dance Theatre)
Whittier, CA
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of a work based on Mexican folk dance, music and art. The piece will be created in conjunction with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's upcoming exhibit, The Road to Aztlan: Art from a Mythic Homeland.
Florene Litthcut's Inner City Children's Touring Dance Company, Inc.
Miami, FL
$5,000
To support a tap residency for inner-city youth consisting of lecture-demonstrations, symposia, film/video presentations and dance clinics. Preserving Dance Traditions: Rhythm Tap will include artists Laurie Johnson, Ted Levy, Marshall Davis, Jr., Edwin Holland and Margot Webb.
George Balanchine Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the documentation, dissemination and reconstruction of George Balanchine's work for Broadway, operettas, musical theater and film. Popular Balanchine will involve the collection of documents pertaining to these works and the reconstruction and preservation of some of the dances. (Multistate)
Guateque Folkloric Taller of Puerto Rico, Inc.
Corozal, PR
$5,000
To support after-school and Saturday training workshops in traditional and folk expressions of music and dance. There will be three introductory master classes, eight training classes and a public performance.
Kaisahan of San Jose Dance Co., Inc.
San Jose, CA
$5,000
To support the teaching of Filipino folk arts to students, ranging in ages from six to 60. Classes are taught by Artistic Director Helen Moreno and are held at regional community centers, culminating in a public recital.
Kayamanan Ng Lahi Philippine Folk Arts
Culver City, CA
$5,000
To implement and evaluate the Philippine Dance Gathering and Workshops, a five-day event designed for dancers, dance students, teachers and dance enthusiasts. The project will include hands-on workshops and panel/roundtable discussions.
Ko-Thi, Inc.
Milwaukee, WI
$20,000
To support Ko-Thi's educational outreach programs. These programs include Get-to-Know Ko Thi community concerts, master classes, studio dance and drumming instruction, Drumtalk school residencies and the Ton Ko-Thi children's performing ensemble.
Kuumba House, Inc.
Houston, TX
$5,000
To support a full-length African ballet created by Artistic Director Lindi Yeni. Amasiko depicts the traditional African origins of the ceremonies and folklore that are the basis for the African American holiday of Kwanzaa.
New York Baroque Dance Co., Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the Baroque Ballet Workshop, a residency program to be held in Hunter, NY and Marin County, CA. The focus of the project is to strengthen the professional and public knowledge of dance heritage through classes, lectures and concerts that will pass on artistic repertoire, techniques and traditions. (Multistate)
Repertory Dance Theatre
Salt Lake City, UT
$20,000
To support a program featuring dances by Helen Tamiris, Doris Humphrey and Martha Graham. The project will involve three components: a concert during the 2002 Arts and Cultural Olympiad, documentation on video of works by Tamaris and Humphrey, and development of a curriculum package explaining the works.
Rincones & Company Dance Theater (D.C. Dance Theater, Inc.)
Washington, DC
$5,000
To support the development and touring of works based on Latino culture. The Other Face of Latin America will include the work of Latin American choreographers, composers, poets and performers and will tour to Boston, Miami and Los Angeles. (Multistate)
San Francisco Performing Arts Library and Museum (on behalf of the LEGACY Oral History Project)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the LEGACY Oral History Project. LEGACY will train 32 volunteer interviewers to record, edit and complete six research quality oral history documents of Bay Area dance community members.
Trinity Irish Dance Company
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support the creation of new works and a progressive Irish tour. The company will conduct educational outreach programs for young people in the communities visited. (Multistate)
Tulane University
New Orleans, LA
$10,000
To support artists fees for the fifth annual New Orleans Jazz Dance Festival. The project will include classes, lectures, demonstrations and performances by legendary dancers of tap and jazz.
DESIGN
Berkeley Architectural Heritage Association (Consortium)
Berkeley, CA
$13,000
To support a consortium project to produce a publication on landscape projects of the Great Depression. Eight organizations will assist the Berkeley Architectural Heritage Association to document and analyze the parks, gardens, amphitheaters and other landscapes created during the 1930s. (Multistate)
Cornerstones Community Partnerships
Santa Fe, NM
$30,000
To support educational training workshops on the preservation of historic adobe structures. The project will support rural communities throughout New Mexico in the preservation of historic buildings that are central to the Hispanic and Native American cultures of the Southwest.
Historic Preservation Foundation of North Carolina
Raleigh, NC
$15,000
To support a publication on methods to preserve endangered historic properties. The Historic Preservation Foundation's endangered historic properties program has successfully saved more than 475 properties.
Landscape Architecture Foundation (Consortium)
Washington, DC
$33,000
To support a consortium project to produce Cultural Landscapes as Classrooms, a learning tool that combines education, landscape architecture and historic preservation. The Cultural Landscape Foundation, Friends of Mount Auburn Cemetery, the Chicago Park District, the Savannah College of Art and Design, and the Ranchos Los Alamitos Foundation will cooperate to create a CD-ROM and Website to be used by consortium members and distributed to pilot schools and libraries. (Multistate)
Manitoga, Inc.
Garrison, NY
$20,000
To support a short film on the home, studio and work of Russel Wright, an influential 20th century American industrial designer. The film will provide an overview of Wright's work, impact and his design philosophy and will be used for interpretation at his home and studio.
Municipal Art Society of New York
New York, NY
$50,000
To support an invitational design competition to create site-specific, community-based designs to commemorate cultural history. Place Matters, a project of the Municipal Art Society and City Lore, will identify five sites throughout New York City important to each community's collective history and experience.
Philadelphia City Planning Commission
Philadelphia, PA
$20,000
To support and develop a process to document and preserve significant buildings and artifacts. The buildings and artifacts are located in underserved areas of Philadelphia and are threatened by demolition.
Research Foundation of State University of New York (on behalf of The Urban Design Project, School of Architecture and Planning)
Albany, NY
$20,000
To support a publication, exhibit and lecture series on the industrial landmarks of Buffalo, NY. The project will be an ongoing symposium which will research, document, interpret and evaluate the importance of industrial grain elevators in social, art and architectural history.
Save Our Seminary at Forest Glen
Silver Spring, MD
$10,000
To support the restoration of the stone and concrete terrace surrounding a historic structure in the National Park Seminary Historic District. The project will include the stabilization of the terrace and retaining wall and correction of drainage problems.
FOLK & TRADITIONAL ARTS
Alaska Native Heritage Center, Inc.
Anchorage, AK
$15,000
To support the Native Clothing exhibition. The project will highlight master artisans and apprentices from Native cultures throughout the state of Alaska who will demonstrate, share and preserve traditional clothing techniques.
Association for Cultural Equity
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the preservation and dissemination of 4,400 hours of audio tape documenting folk music and dance from the United States. This material will be disseminated in part through CDs distributed to parts of the country where the original material was collected, and more broadly via an interactive relational database for searching and communicating with the collection on the Web. (Multistate)
California Indian Basketweavers Association
Nevada City, CA
$30,000
To support the California Indian Basketweavers Gathering. The annual gathering contributes greatly to the revitalization of indigenous basketweaving traditions in California by bringing together basketweavers to learn from one another, share experiences, discuss issues and demonstrate, sell and exhibit their work.
Center for Traditional Music and Dance, Inc.
New York, NY
$100,000
To support the Community Cultural Initiative. This multifaceted project is designed to contribute to the Soviet Jewish, Filipino and Mexican communities efforts to become self-sufficient managers of their music and dance traditions.
Centrum Foundation
Port Townsend, WA
$15,000
To support the Festival of American Fiddle Tunes Archives Project. The goals of this project are to expand efforts to preserve, catalog, curate, produce and disseminate materials from this 24 year collection.
City Lore, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$35,000
To support The Poetry Dialogues. This consortium project in collaboration with Intersection for the Arts will identify young hip-hop poets from the Latino, African American and Filipino communities in New York and pair them with traditional poetry masters from an older generation for a series of workshops.
Clark County - Board of County Commissioners
Las Vegas, NV
$35,000
To support a folk arts coordinator's position and other related costs. The folk arts coordinator will locate, document and archive folk arts in Clark County and will provide technical support to the folk artists in finding venues and locating grants and other funds for their work.
Cultural Crossroads, Inc.
Baton Rouge, LA
$12,000
To support the Rural and Coastal Roots of Jazz in South Louisiana Project. This multi-faceted project will include an interactive multimedia CD-ROM, a Web site, CD curriculum guides and public programs.
Davis & Elkins College (on behalf of the Augusta Heritage Center)
Elkins, WV
$20,000
To support the West Virginia Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program and Old-Time Fiddlers' Reunion. Apprenticeships are conducted through the tradition of one-on-one teaching between members of the same ethnic group, folk group or regional community, ensuring the continuance of local traditions.
Delta Blues Education Fund
Clarksdale, MS
$10,000
To support the Delta Blues Education Program. Apprentices of this year-long project will learn the Delta blues tradition directly from master blues musician Johnnie "Mr. Johnnie" Billington and other program graduates.
Dutchess County Arts Council, Inc.
Poughkeepsie, NY
$5,000
To support the fourth year of the One River Many Streams Festival. The festival will feature performances, demonstrations, discussions and displays of folk and traditional performing and material arts practiced in the Mid-Hudson Valley region.
Florida Division of Historical Resources (on behalf of Florida Folklife Programs)
Tallahassee, FL
$20,000
To support a folklife coordinator's position and other related costs. This position will be the first step towards creating an independent central Florida folk arts position that will fulfill the documentation, presentation and educational needs in the region.
Fresno Arts Council (Consortium)
Fresno, CA
$50,000
To support field surveys in California's San Joaquin Valley. The proposed project will serve to identify artists and their needs, present a public program in each county, and make survey results accessible through a central computer database.
Fund for Folk Culture
Santa Fe, NM
$10,000
To support the Connecting Local Cultures Initiative. The proposed initiative will enable the Fund for Folk Culture to more fully develop and expand their Web site's capability as an interactive learning site for folk arts programming and other related activities. (Multistate)
Great Promise, Inc.
Austin, TX
$5,000
To support the Austin Powwow and Heritage Festival. Native American traditional craftspeople will present and demonstrate their art forms in area schools.
Greater Wenatchee Community Foundation
Wenatchee, WA
$20,000
To support the Mariachi Northwest Festival. In addition to the festival, the project will include a concert and a conference comprised of three days of workshops in mariachi music, Mexican dance and traditional Mexican roping (reata).
Historical Association of Southern Florida, Inc.
Miami, FL
$15,000
To support the South American Traditions Project. The proposed project will consist of field research and educational programming on the cultural traditions of Venezuelans, Colombians, Peruvians and Brazilians in greater Miami.
Hmong Cultural Arts, Crafts, Teaching & Museum Projects
Elverta, CA
$10,000
To support a program of instruction in Hmong pa dao embroidery, folk dance and traditional musical instruments. This after-school program is offered in collaboration with two elementary schools for 250 at-risk Asian youths who live in a disadvantaged area troubled by juvenile delinquency.
Institute for Community Research
Hartford, CT
$15,000
To support the Southern New England Apprenticeship Project. The fourth year of this collaborative cross-state apprenticeship project will continue to bring together master artists and apprentices from Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut, adding new artists located through increased fieldwork in the region. (Multistate)
International Refugee Center of Oregon (Consortium)
Portland, OR
$65,000
To support a touring exhibition and catalog. In My Country: A Gathering of Refugee and Immigrant Fiber Traditions, in partnership with the Oregon Historical Society Folklife Program, will travel through Oregon and will be based on a weekly sewing circle where traditional fiber artists of diverse cultures who gather to do hand work, share ideas and stories, practice their English and offer mutual support in the resettlement process.
Japanese American Cultural and Community Center (Consortium)
Los Angeles, CA
$15,000
To support the 2001 North American Taiko Gathering. The project will offer a three-day conference with master classes, community leadership dialogues, a week-long Summer Taiko Institute and Taiko Jam concerts. (Multistate)
Jubilee Community Arts, Inc.
Knoxville, TN
$10,000
To support the Knoxville Folk Arts Initiative. The proposed project will consist of research and documentation of artists in metropolitan Knoxville along with a series of concerts and radio programs.
Kunqu Society, Inc.
Scarsdale, NY
$10,000
To support a full-staged performance of Joy of the Fishermen. Joy of the Fishermen is a famous Kunqu drama written during the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) and rarely performed in its entirety.
Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center
San Pablo, CA
$25,000
To support the Community Heritage Project. The project is designed to help low-income and at risk youth develop art skills in a social context by providing them with opportunities for self and community expression through traditional Mexican music, dance and visual art forms.
Los Pleneros de la 21, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the Puerto Rican Music Project. The Puerto Rican Music Project will include a Touring and Residency Project, The Bomba and Plena Children's Workshop, an Evening with the Masters and Fiesta de Cruz (Feast of the Cross). (Multistate)
Los Reyes de Albuquerque Foundation
Albuquerque, NM
$10,000
To support and perpetuate Nuevomexicano folk traditions and to present specially arranged performances of the Fiesta de los Novios. Presentations will be held at child daycare centers and at urban, rural and pueblo senior centers. The Fiesta de los Novios presentations will take place at Albuquerque schools and community centers for children ages six to 14.
Maine Acadian Heritage Council (Consortium)
Madawaska, ME
$18,000
To support des Arts traditionels de l'Acadie. The program will be presented in a folklife festival performance and demonstration format and consist of a combination of music and dance performances and occupational and craft demonstrations.
Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance
Old Town, ME
$20,000
To support the Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program. Master basketmakers from the Maliseet, Micmac, Passamaquoddy and Penobscot Tribes will teach tribal apprentices the ancient art of brown ash and sweetgrass basketry.
Mattatuck Historical Society, Inc.
Waterbury, CT
$5,000
To support the preservation of film, audio, and video tapes that document the traditional music and dance of ethnic immigrant traditions in western Connecticut. These records are enormously valuable in that they reveal how recent immigrants learned to form associations and maintained defining traditions in a new country through their music.
Mind-Builders Creative Arts Co. (Consortium)
Bronx, NY
$5,000
To support the Community Folklife Project. This project will support the folklorist-in-training program for young people, ages 13-18.
Minnesota STAR, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$5,000
To support the Third Annual Nordic Roots Festival. The festival focuses on the presentation and dissemination of Nordic music and dance and will feature bands from Finland, Sweden and Norway as well as indigenous Sami musicians.
Moanalua Gardens Foundation, Inc.
Honolulu, HI
$12,000
To support the 31st Annual Prince Lot Hula Festival. The festival celebrates and shares the unique culture, language and values of Hawaiians through hula demonstrations and an exhibit.
Music From China (Consortium)
New York, NY
$5,000
To support the Chinese Youth Orchestra Project. Students in grades fourth through sixth will learn about the music and culture of China through participatory workshops and performances by professional musicians, followed by a free after-school music instruction program. (Multistate)
National Council for the Traditional Arts
Silver Spring, MD
$95,000
To support programming that honors and presents the diverse traditional arts of folk, tribal and ethnic communities across the nation. Programming will include urban festivals, a national tour to immigrant communities, programs and cultural interpretation in national parks, and fieldwork that will reassert the critical role of research in creating an understanding of tradition. (Multistate)
Nebraskans for Public Television, Inc. (on behalf of Nebraska ETV Network)
Lincoln, NE
$20,000
To support the documentary film Polka Passion! The one-hour television special will be shot at a major polka festival in Pulaski, WI and will comprise three major genres of polka - Polish, Solvenian and German. (Multistate)
New Orleans Museum of Art (Consortium)
New Orleans, LA
$15,000
To support Working on a Building: New Orleans Building Arts Through The Generations. This multi-faceted project, in collaboration with the University of New Orleans, will include an exhibition on building arts with an accompanying catalogue, CD-ROM and an interactive exhibition Web site.
Northwestern State University of Louisiana
Natchitoches, LA
$10,000
To support a conference on southeastern basketry. Native American basketmakers from across the southeastern region of the United States will gather for a series of informational workshops designed to identify and access museum collections and funding sources, develop partnerships, identify environmental issues and network with other basketmakers. (Multistate)
Office of Human Concern
Rogers, AR
$10,000
To support traditional Marshall Island crafts, music and dance workshops. Elders will be encouraged to pass on traditions and techniques to their youth and educate the community concerning their culture.
Persian Arts Society, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
To support a series of workshops in the theory and practice of Persian music for adults and youth in southern California. The proposed workshops will be enhanced by lectures, teacher recitals and, as appropriate, student recitals.
Philadelphia Folklore Project
Philadelphia, PA
$45,000
To support Art Happens Here IV. The proposed project will document and present Philadelphia folk artists and their arts to audiences in community sites throughout the region through traveling exhibitions and artist residencies.
Point Community Development Corporation
Bronx, NY
$35,000
To support Mambo to Hip Hop. Mambo to Hip Hop will document and present the continuity between the mambo and hip-hop eras, cultures and styles in the south Bronx through concerts and a series of community conversations.
Puerto Rico Industrial Development Co.
San Juan, PR
$20,000
To support Puerto Rico's Apprenticeship Program in Traditional Arts. The apprenticeship program provides master artisans with the opportunity to perpetuate their craft by sharing their knowledge with one or two apprentices.
RASIKA, India Arts and Culture Council
Portland, OR
$5,000
To support the Prodigies of India - Classical Music Project. This collaborative project between renowned artists Balamurali Krishna (vocal-viola), Mandolin Shrinivas (mandolin), N. Ravikiran (Lute) and Shashank (flute) will feature a unique music fusion of the classical music of India with concerts in Oregon and Washington. (Multistate)
Searchlight Educational Media, Inc.
Berkeley, CA
$25,000
To support programs designed to highlight and disseminate the Afro-Puerto Rican tradition of bomba and the video documentary Bomba! Dancing the Drum. The proposed project will bring the residency tour to Puerto Rico, create and market a package of educational materials, and market the film to festivals and community cable access media with Latino constituencies. (Multistate)
SER de Albuquerque
Albuquerque, NM
$30,000
To support Mariachi Spectacular. The conference will offer a series of master level workshops in mariachi music to students who have been in training for many years and who are ready for a higher level of instruction as they start to perform professionally.
ShadowLight Productions
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support Tales from Native California. Tales from Native California will consist of six to ten stories translated for shadow theater performances and recorded on video.
Slavonic Mutual Benevolent Society of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
$5,000
To support the Third Annual San Francisco Tamburitza Festival. The festival will feature traditional artists and ensembles performing the tamburitza music indigenous to the Balkans.
Storytelling Association of Alta California (on behalf of the California Indian Storytelling Association)
Concord, CA
$10,000
To support the Indian Storytelling Symposia and Festivals of California. The proposed project will bring together Native storytellers and tradition bearers from diverse tribes within California with guest Native storytellers from the western states.
Tohono O'odham Community Action
Sell, AZ
$23,000
To support a basketweaving gathering and market, basketweaving classes, public basketweaving demonstrations and other related events. The proposed project will help to increase the foundation of basketry in the Tohono O'odham culture.
United Cambodian Community, Inc. (on behalf of The Arts of Apsara Cultural Center)
Long Beach, CA
$15,000
To support the Arts of Apsara Performing Arts Program. The proposed project consists of master/apprentice workshops in traditional Cambodian classical dance and music.
University of Alaska at Fairbanks
Fairbanks, AK
$10,000
To support a promotional video, Gifts from Our Land: Alaska Native Artists at Work. The central theme of this video will be the critical relationship between Alaska Native artists, their work and the land that sustains them economically and spiritually.
University of Missouri at Columbia (Consortium)
Columbia, MO
$35,000
To support the Missouri River Traditions Project. The proposed project will document traditions along the Missouri River in preparation for celebratory activities at the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial. (Multistate)
University of Missouri at Columbia (Consortium)
Columbia, MO
$20,000
To support the Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program. The apprenticeship program is designed to document, conserve and present the state's living folk arts and folklife.
University of New Mexico Main Campus (Consortium)
Albuquerque, NM
$10,000
To support a consortium project consisting of the digitization of Native American cultural materials. A tribal virtual museum will contain a collection of exhibitions, instructional materials and documentation that will utilize available technologies to increase public awareness and appreciation of Native cultural traditions and preserve the art, artifacts and built elements of Native American culture.
University of New Orleans Foundation
New Orleans, LA
$20,000
To support special field recorded segments of American Routes, a two-hour radio program broadcast through Public Radio International. These segments, including field recordings of musicians in performance, as well as interviews with featured artists and community members, enhance and provide context for the ongoing in-studio radio presentations. (Multistate)
Vermont Folklife Center
Middlebury, VT
$20,000
To support the statewide Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program. The apprenticeship program encourages the preservation of living traditional arts by funding master artists to work with less experienced apprentices in order to pass along time-honored skills and knowledge.
Washington Chu Shan Chinese Opera Institute, Inc.
Silver Spring, MD
$7,000
To support An Invitation to Participate in a Traditional Chinese Folk Arts Training Program. The proposed project will encompass the different disciplines of Taiwanese puppetry, Taiwanese opera, Beijing opera, acrobatics and martial arts culminating in two public performances.
West Virginia State College Foundation, Inc. (on behalf of Black Sacred Music Festival, Inc.)
Institute, WV
$5,000
To support the 11th Annual Black Sacred Music Festival. The festival consists of instructional workshops in metered hymns, improvisational hymns, spirituals, shape notes (colored sacred harp) and quartet and gospel music culminating in a concert with teachers and students.
Western Folklife Center
Elko, NV
$70,000
To support the documentation of sheep ranching artistic traditions, including poetry, story, song and material culture. The results of this research will lead to the production of a nationally broadcast radio show, an exhibition and public performances in northern Nevada and southern Idaho. (Multistate)
LITERATURE
Contemporary Arts Educational Project, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
To support the publication and national distribution of books in Sun & Moon Press's Green Integer series. Dedicated to the tradition of belles lettres, Sun & Moon will publish nine works of literary nonfiction representing the muses of classical mythology. (Multistate)
Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (on behalf of The Paris Review)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support eight Writers-at-Work interviews in The Paris Review. Potential interviewees include Jorie Graham, Lorrie Moore, David Foster Wallace, Ann Beattie, Adrienne Rich, Michael Ondaatje, Edward Hirsch, Richard Powers, Stephen King and Annie Proulx. (Multistate)
Poets House, Inc.
New York, NY
$45,000
To support the ninth annual Poetry Publication Showcase, a month-long exhibit of new poetry books designed to preserve and display the breadth of poetry in print. Poets House will present the Showcase to 18,000 librarians at the American Library Association Conference in San Francisco, and will publish the Directory of American Poetry Books, the only bibliographic resource that tracks the annual publication of poetry in America. (Multistate)
Review of Contemporary Fiction, Inc.
Normal, IL
$50,000
To support the restoration and promotion of major works of modern fiction by Dalkey Archive Press. Authors whose works will be republished include William Eastlake, Henry Green, Stanley Elkin, Gilbert Sorrentino, Ann Quin, Danilo Ki, David Antin,Maria Dermoût and Camilo Jose Cela. (Multistate)
San Francisco State University
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support the restoration of historical film footage from the Poetry Center's American Poetry Archives. Authors featured in these original recordings include William Stafford, Audre Lorde, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs and Ted Hughes. (Multistate)
Words Given Wings Literary Arts Project
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support Mercury House's republication and national distribution of John A. Williams's Night Song, with an introduction by Ishmael Reed. Set in New York City in the 1950s, Night Song is one of the first works of fiction by a black author that depicts the world of black jazz musicians in America. (Multistate)
MEDIA ARTS
Anthology Film Archives
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the preservation of #18, a film by Harry Smith. Working with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Anthology Film Archives will restore the artwork and strike prints so it will be available for future screenings.
Association of Moving Image Archivists
Beverly Hills, CA
$5,000
To support a small-gauge film symposium. To be held during the annual Association of Moving Image Archivists conference in 2001, this meeting will recognize the artistic, historical and cultural significance of non-professional film formats.
Bay Area Video Coalition, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$60,000
To support the provision of national video preservation services to artists and arts organizations and other related activities. This includes: the recording, retrieval, and preservation of video art and art on video; the dissemination of information to the interested public; and development of a video preservation training curriculum and materials for the field.
District of Columbia Jewish Community Center, Inc. (on behalf of the Washington Jewish Film Festival)
Washington, DC
$5,000
To support the 12th Annual Washington Jewish Film Festival. To be held in the fall of 2001, this event celebrates Jewish culture and the richness of the Jewish experience through the language of film.
Electronic Arts Intermix (on behalf of Independent Media Arts Preservation)
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the Media Arts Cataloging Project. This Web-based tutorial will enable artists and organizations to catalogue their media materials using a shared, compatible database and make the information available to other artists, media arts organizations, scholars, educators and students. (Multistate)
George Eastman House
Rochester, NY
$50,000
To support the preservation of five films made in the United States between 1919 and 1925. These films are especially notable for their outstanding use of pioneering color techniques.
iotaCenter
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
To support cataloging and related activities. The iotaCenter collection contains work by some of the most important film and video abstract artists including Oskar Fischinger, Pat O'Neill and James Whitney.
Museum of Modern Art
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the preservation of early video art works from the Museum's nationally recognized collection that are crucial to the history of video as an art form. The Museum of Modern Art established its video program in 1974 and its collection includes work from the 1960s to the present.
National Center for Jewish Film
Waltham, MA
$20,000
To support the preservation of two historically and culturally significant films in the National Center for Jewish Film (NCJF) collection that are in jeopardy of decomposing. The NCJF holds the only surviving copies of these films.
University of California Regents (on behalf of UCLA Film and Television Archive)
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
To support a retrospective film series of James Wong Howe. One of the master cinematographers of Hollywood's Golden Age, Mr. Howe is well known for photography that flatters actors.
Vasulkas, Inc.
Santa Fe, NM
$10,000
To support the Electronic Art Archive and Server. Video art works and related materials will be digitized and made available to artists, scholars and the general public on-line. (Multistate)
MULTIDISCIPLINARY
Bayside Settlement House
San Diego, CA
$10,000
To support the preservation of traditional Hmong culture. This three-part project will offer instruction in traditional folk song, dance and music to adults and youths.
BOMB Magazine (New Art Publications)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support AMERICAS 2002. This publication will feature interviews between Latin American artists, writers and musicians and original translations of poetry and fiction.
Chinese-American Arts Council, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the Summer Cultural Festival. The series will feature Chinese opera, traditional dance, folk music, visual arts and demonstrations.
DiverseWorks, Inc. (Consortium)
Houston, TX
$15,000
To support the creation and distribution of a CD-ROM documenting DiverseDialogues. The project will utilize a combination of video and audio clips, still images and artist statements to document 19 residencies.
El Pueblo, Inc.
Raleigh, NC
$10,000
To support La Fiesta del Pueblo, a showcase for Latin American art, culture and heritage. The event will feature folkloric dance, poetry readings, storytelling, music, visual arts, youth performances, and a community-based mural project.
La Peña Cultural Center (Consortium)
Berkeley, CA
$25,000
To support the development and presentation of Bata Ketu. This percussion, vocal and dance piece tracing the roots of African dance and music in the Americas will be featured in performances and public workshops in three California cities.
Latin American Youth Center
Washington, DC
$30,000
To support a museum training and mentorship program for young adults at the Latino Community Heritage Center. Training in curation, design and programming will be conducted by staff of the Smithsonian Institute.
Lira Ensemble
Chicago, IL
$8,000
To support performances of a Polish American Christmas Gala in the Midwest. The concerts will feature song and dance from the regions that are the ancestral homes of the majority of Polish Americans in the Midwest. (Multistate)
New York Public Library Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations (on behalf of theNew York Public Library for the Performing Arts)
New York, NY
$60,000
To support the documentation of dance and theater performances and the preservation of oral histories. Sixteen performances and four oral histories will be recorded and 70 hours of audio materials will be conserved.
Spontaneous Celebrations (on behalf of the Brazilian Cultural Center of New England)
Jamaica Plain, MA
$8,000
To support Roots of Bahia, an international gathering of capoeira Angola masters. The event will feature four days of performances, lectures, demonstrations and workshops.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (on behalf of Arts Carolina)
Chapel Hill, NC
$25,000
To support the 2001 Carolina Jazz Festival. Activities will include public concerts, a visual arts exhibition, a public lecture series and symposium, a theater production, and a film series.
Wing Luke Memorial Foundation
Seattle, WA
$31,000
To support the Heritage Enrichment Project. This three-part project will offer middle-school students access to museum arts and heritage education, an artist residency exploring Japanese American heritage, and a youth-developed Cambodian dance and music performance.
MUSEUMS
Baltimore Museum of Art, Inc.
Baltimore, MD
$40,000
To support the publication of an illustrated catalogue of the most significant works in the museum's African art collection. The book will provide primary information on the history of African art with objects selected to represent Africa in the broadest terms of media, style, function, cultural background, chronology and geography.
Bronx Museum of the Arts
Bronx, NY
$25,000
To support the planning, production and printing of a catalogue documenting the museum's permanent collection. The collection comprises approximately 350 20th century and contemporary works of art in various media by artists of African, Asian and Latin American descent.
Butler Institute of American Art
Youngstown, OH
$5,000
To support the conservation of a selection of paintings in the Institute's permanent collection. The project is another step in the museum's long-term plan to conserve and reinstall its major works.
Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine
New York, NY
$27,000
To support two apprentice conservators to assist in the conservation of two 17th-century Barberini tapestries so that they will be presentable for public viewing. The tapestries are part of an important series of twelve tapestries illustrating scenes in the life of Christ.
Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts
Philadelphia, PA
$15,000
To support a one-year postgraduate internship in paper conservation. The project will involve training in the treatment of works on paper such as drawings, prints and watercolors, as well as manuscripts, maps, photographs, parchment and papyrus.
J.B. Speed Art Museum
Louisville, KY
$20,000
To support the documentation, preservation and interpretation of the museum's English period room dating from c. 1610. The project will include technical analysis, research, reinterpretation and refinement of conservation and maintenance procedures.
Judah L. Magnes Museum
Berkeley, CA
$25,000
To support a conservation survey and the digital documentation of the museum's collection of Judaica. The project aims to improve collection maintenance, prepare objects for the move to a new facility, and make them accessible to the public on an expanded Web site.
Mattress Factory, Ltd.
Pittsburgh, PA
$40,000
To support the publication of a ten-year retrospective catalogue. The catalogue will document the site-specific works created by contemporary artists at the Mattress Factory from 1990 through 1999.
Museum of Northern Arizona
Flagstaff, AZ
$40,000
To support the publication of a catalogue to accompany the international touring exhibition, The Magic of the Painted Room. The exhibition focuses on the 600-year old tradition of mural art from the Native American Southwest. (Multistate)
New Britain Museum of American Art
New Britain, CT
$20,000
To support the installation of climate-controlled storage facilities and state-of-the-art storage equipment at the New Britain Museum. The project is the result of a comprehensive long-range plan to properly care for the museum's significant collection of more than 5,000 works of American art.
Nordic Heritage Museum Foundation
Seattle, WA
$20,000
To support a touring exhibition of traditional Norwegian weaving, with accompanying catalogue and an international textile conference. The project will explore the themes of textile art in the context of women's history and cultural heritage.
Northern Illinois University
De Kalb, IL
$25,000
To support the photo-documentation and conservation treatment of the museum's collection of 19th century American operatic theater maquettes. The collection consists of 120 scenic maquettes deeded to the University Art Museum by the Lyric Opera of Chicago.
Oakland Museum of California Foundation
Oakland, CA
$53,500
To support the production of digital video interviews with visual artists represented in the museum's permanent collection. The interviews will expand upon ongoing documentation of important works of art in the collection.
Old Dartmouth Historical Society - New Bedford Whaling Museum
New Bedford, MA
$17,000
To support an exhibition of the work of American artist William Bradford (1823-1892). Bradford first specialized in marine scenes, then traveled north to the Arctic, establishing himself as a painter of the polar world.
Peabody Essex Museum, Inc.
Salem, MA
$45,000
To support a retrospective exhibition of the work of master cabinetmakers John and Thomas Seymour, with accompanying catalogue. The Seymours are considered by many authorities in the field to be the finest furniture makers active in America during the Federal period, c. 1790 1815.
Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support the development and publication of a retrospective catalogue documenting the exhibitions and programming presented from 1990 through 2000. The publication will be a companion volume to The First 75 Years, which documented the history of the Society from 1915 to 1990.
Research Foundation of State University of New York (on behalf of the Dorsky Museum)
Albany, NY
$5,000
To support conservation treatment of several paintings in the Dorsky Museum's permanent collection. Included are significant works by American artists Milton Avery, George Bellows, George Inness and Austin Mecklem.
Research Foundation of State University of New York (on behalf of the Neuberger Museum)
Albany, NY
$15,000
To support the conservation treatment of significant works in the Neuberger Museum's collection of outdoor sculpture. The collection comprises 20 works in a variety of media distributed throughout the campus of Purchase College.
Rhode Island Historical Society
Providence, RI
$5,000
To support the conservation treatment of portraits of George and Martha Washington in the Society's permanent collection. The portraits, which date from ca. 1850-1860, are attributed to Rhode Island artist Jane Stuart (1812-1888).
School of American Research
Santa Fe, NM
$25,000
To support the production of a two-volume publication on the School's permanent collection of pottery from the New Mexico Pueblos of Zia and Santa Ana. Written by a pottery expert, a museum specialist, and an anthropologist, the work will document the Pueblos' traditional and contemporary artistry.
Textile Conservation Workshop, Inc.
South Salem, NY
$15,000
To support a master-apprenticeship for in-depth training in textile conservation. As a regional conservation laboratory, the program fills a gap not covered by formal conservation courses in graduate school programs.
University of Memphis (on behalf of The Art Museum)
Memphis, TN
$29,000
To support the touring exhibition Coming Home: Self-Taught Artists, the Bible, and the American South, with accompanying catalogue. The exhibition explores the impact of the Bible on contemporary Southern self-taught artists as well as the religious function of their art.
University of Wisconsin at Madison (on behalf of the Elvehjem Museum of Art)
Madison, WI
$17,000
To support the development and publication of an illustrated catalogue of the Elvehjem Museum's Watson Collection of Indian Miniature Paintings. The proposed catalogue will be the sixth in a series of publications documenting important subgroups in the museum's permanent collection.
Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian
Santa Fe, NM
$6,000
To support a conservation survey of the museum's permanent collection of Navajo and Pueblo Indian textiles. The project is part of a comprehensive conservation plan that includes the systematic survey and treatment of the museum's collections coordinated with conservation related educational programming.
MUSIC
American Brass Chamber Music Association, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,000
To support the release of a compact disc recording of works by American composers performed by the American Brass Quintet (ABQ). The recording will feature works by Samuel Adler, Robert Beaser, William Schuman, Andrew Thomas and Melinda Wagner for release on the Summit Records label as part of ABQ's 40th anniversary. (Multistate)
Bach Choir of Pittsburgh, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
$7,500
To support performances and a compact disc recording of choral and brass arrangements of holiday music. The Pittsburgh Symphony Brass will be featured along with the Bach Choir of Pittsburgh for the performances and subsequent recording. (Multistate)
Borough of Manhattan Community College Performing Arts Center, Inc. (on behalf of the Tribeca Performing Arts Center)
New York, NY
$7,500
To support Lost Jazz Shrines-Cafe Society. The legacy of the jazz nightclub (1938-48) will be examined through re-created performances, lectures, recordings and study guides.
Brazeal Dennard Chorale
Detroit, MI
$19,500
To support Remembering, Discovering, Preserving. A collection of Negro spirituals will be recorded for compact disc and featured as part of an educational outreach program for Detroit area schools. (Multistate)
Carnegie Hall Corporation (Consortium)
New York, NY
$80,000
To support The Silk Road Festival. Music commissions, public concerts and community outreach and education programs will feature Yo-Yo Ma and international musicians trained in classical Western and Eastern traditions.
Chicago Sinfonietta
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support the recording of compact discs for the African Heritage Symphonic Series. The third and fourth in a series of four compact discs, the recordings will feature works by composers from the last quarter of the 20th century and performances by Chicago Sinfonietta, conducted by Paul Freeman. (Multistate)
Instituto Pro Musica de California
San Francisco, CA
$7,500
To support the preservation, publishing and performance of works by Mexican, Spanish and Latin American baroque composers. In celebration of Corpus Christi, seven concerts are planned throughout California by the Coro Hispano de San Francisco, a community chorus, and Conjunto Nuevo Mundo, its professional component.
International Association of Jazz Educators
Manhattan, KS
$25,000
To support the creation of a Web site that will enhance the profiles of NEA American Jazz Masters fellows by recording the annual awards ceremony, providing an archive of past recipients and establishing links to other pertinent Web sites.
Louisville Orchestra, Inc.
Louisville, KY
$57,500
To support the preservation and dissemination of the archived recordings collection. This two year project will resurrect hundreds of original autograph scores and world premiere master tapes commissioned and recorded by the Orchestra on its First Edition label. (Multistate)
New World Records, Inc. (Recorded Anthology of American Music, Inc.)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the conservation and compact disc re-issuance of recordings from the Anthology of American Music. This project will involve transferring to compact disc format the original master tapes, which are deteriorating. (Multistate)
Southern Arts Federation, Inc. (Consortium)
Atlanta, GA
$25,000
To support the tour of a master jazz artist. Performances and educational outreach activities will be presented at historically Black colleges and universities and other colleges, high schools and middle schools in nine southeastern states. (Multistate)
Tudor Choir
Seattle, WA
$6,000
To support a compact disc recording of early American Shapenote music. The Tudor Choir, conducted by Doug Fullington, will record a variety of music in this 18th and 19th century tradition on the Loft Recordings record label.
Washington Men's Camerata, Inc.
Washington, DC
$5,000
To support the preservation and archiving of men's choral music. This project will involve the development of a cataloguing and lending system for a national repository library of this substantial collection. (Multistate)
MUSICAL THEATER
City Center 55th Street Theater Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the production of three musicals in the concert series Encores! Great American Musicals in Concert. Encores! is an annual series of rarely-heard American musicals, performed in City Center's 2,753-seat theater.
OPERA
Chicago Classical Recording Foundation
Chicago, IL
$7,500
To support the world premiere recording of the opera The Good Soldier Schweik by Robert Kurka. The cast and orchestra of Chicago Opera Theater's March 2001 performance will be featured on the recording of this two-act work. (Multistate)
Videmus, Inc.
Greenville, NC
$10,000
To support a recording of the opera Highway 1, U.S.A. by William Grant Still. Although the work was recorded during a live performance in May 1963, Videmus will re-record the complete opera in a studio setting using current recording technology. (Multistate)
PRESENTING
Center for Cultural Exchange (Consortium)
Portland, ME
$25,000
To support African in Maine. The project will involve a series of artist residencies, workshops, performances and CD releases in support of Maine's Somali, Sudanese and Congolese communities.
Oakland Asian Cultural Center
Oakland, CA
$5,000
To support Traditions and Transformations. This presentation program will feature the traditions of Asian and Pacific Island cultures and artists and focus on the merging of old and new sensibilities of the Asian Pacific experience.
Queens Theatre in the Park, Inc.
Flushing, NY
$15,000
To support the Latino Cultural Festival. This three-week summer event will feature music, dance, theater, film and children's productions in celebration of Latino and Latin American artists' contributions to the cultural life of Queens and the greater New York metropolitan area.
THEATER
A Traveling Jewish Theatre
San Francisco, CA
$18,000
To support the development and presentation of a new theater piece. Based on the biblical Song of Songs, the play will be written and directed by co-artistic director Naomi Newman.
Barter Foundation, Inc.
Abingdon, VA
$10,000
To support the archival preservation of historical materials of Barter Theater. The project includes the cataloging and organizing of Barter's records and materials.
El Teatro Campesino
San Juan Bautista, CA
$10,000
To support the production of La Pastorela. El Teatro Campesino will collaborate with community members to present the traditional medieval mystery play that depicts the journey of shepherds to the site of the Nativity.
GALA, Inc. (Grupo de artistas Latinoamericanos)
Washington, DC
$15,000
To support the commissioning of a new English translation and production of a classical Spanish play. GALA will produce La verdad sospechosa by Mexican author Juan Ruiz de Alarcon.
International Arts Relations, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$5,000
To support the development of award-winning playwright Carmen Rivera's monologue A Kiss Under the Mango Tree into a full-length play. A consortium project between INTAR and the Latino Experimental Fantastic Theatre, the play will be developed in a workshop setting with several public readings scheduled throughout the process to assist the playwright.
Irondale Ensemble Project (Irondale Productions, Inc.) (Consortium)
New York, NY
$15,000
To support a week-long gathering of the Network of Ensemble Theaters (NET) in Fayette, ME. Irondale Ensemble Project is coordinating a combined retreat, conference and festival in conjunction with Dell Arte Players, Touchstone Theater, Sandglass Theater and other NET members to re-affirm their commitment to the collaborative creation process and connect with fellow practitioners. (Multistate)
New York University (on behalf of The Drama Review)
New York, NY
$8,000
To support the production of four issues of The Drama Review, an international journal of live performance. The Drama Review is committed to important new work and to reassessing traditional notions of performance.
OLLANTAY Center for the Arts, Inc.
Jackson Heights, NY
$8,000
To support the production and publication of two volumes of OLLANTAY Theater Magazine, a semi-annual journal of Latino theater. The magazine is dedicated to the preservation and promotion of Latino culture in the United States through the investigation and publication of works by Latino artists.
Teatro Humanidad Cansada
Austin, TX
$8,000
To support the establishment of a play development program and a new plays festival. The project will include the development and staged reading of one play and a festival of selected bilingual plays for future presentations.
UNIMA-U.S.A., Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$5,000
To support publications that promote the interests and visibility of American puppeteers throughout the world. UNIMA-U.S.A.'s publications document puppet theater works and provide technical assistance to puppet artists.
University of Virginia (on behalf of Rectors and Visitors of the University of Virginia)
Charlottesville, VA
$7,000
To support the addition of digitized programs, prompt books, playbills and other theatrical ephemera to a growing on-line archive of historical materials related to Uncle Tom's Cabin. In its theatrical version, Uncle Tom's Cabin is credited as the most frequently performed play in American history. (Multistate)
Wooster Group, Inc.
New York, NY
$18,000
To support the Digital Archive project. The Wooster Group and The Performing Garage will document and make their 30-year history available through the Internet. (Multistate)
VISUAL ARTS
Chinese Culture Foundation of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
$12,000
To support planning and implementation of an exhibition tentatively entitled Room within a Room: Intimacy Inside Chinese Women Chambers. The project will explore the status of women in traditional Chinese society and the art forms that surrounded them in their intimate quarters.
Daguerreian Society
Pittsburgh, PA
$14,000
To support development of a comprehensive database on the Internet of daguerreotypes from institutional and private collections. The database will be useful to many disciplines and specialists including architects, fashion and costume historians, work and labor historians, social historians, etc. (Multistate)
Exit Art/The First World, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$29,000
To support a project exploring the experimental theater movement of the last 40 years through the work of five directors: Richard Foreman, Elizabeth LeCompte, Peter Schumann, Robert Wilson and the late Reza Abdoh. The exhibition, installation and film project will address how these directors played a critical role in eliminating barriers that once separated theater and the visual arts, as well as choreography and literature.
Orange Show Foundation
Houston, TX
$6,000
To support structural stabilization and conservation of this Houston folk art environment. The project will involve preparation of engineering plans and execution of structural stabilization for the most endangered areas, repair and conservation of structural works, and conservation treatment of objects.
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