2002 Grant Awards: State Listings
Creativity/Organizational Capacity/Literature Fellowships
Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change,
contingent upon prior Endowment approval.
NEW YORK
651 ARTS (Kings Majestic Corporation)
Brooklyn, NY
$45,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support a series of presentations by performing artists of African descent. The project will
include public performances, commissioning or reconstruction support, and community residency
activities.
92nd Street Y (Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Assoc.)
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the Unterberg Poetry Center Reading Series, featuring readings, performances, literary
tributes and live interviews. The center will present first American readings of new works of verse
drama.
Aaron Davis Hall, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the commissioning and presentation of works in a broad range of art forms by established
and emerging artists of color. Artists are provided with support and space for the creation of new
work and engage in residency activities designed to build new audiences.
African Film Festival, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the exhibition and tour of a series of films from Africa. The theme of the 2002 festival
is "The Next Generation: African Cinema Today."
Albany Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Albany, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Composing the Future, a multi-faceted project celebrating American composers and their
music. The Albany Symphony Orchestra (ASO) and two smaller ensembles made up of ASO musicians will
commission, present and record for national distribution the music of established and emerging
American composers.
Albright-Knox Art Gallery (Buffalo Fine Arts Academy)
Buffalo, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a touring exhibition of the work of Italian artist Amadeo Modigliani (1840-1920), with
accompanying catalogue and education programs. This will be the first major Modigliani exhibition
in the United States in more than 40 years.
Alliance of New York State Arts Councils, Inc. (consortium)
Mattituck, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Organizational Capacity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the E-Institute for Leadership, developed in partnership with the New York State School
of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University. The E-Institute will provide an
opportunity for 30 state and local arts service professionals to participate in a series of
primarily technology-based learning activities designed to sharpen arts leadership skills.
Alliance of Resident Theatres/New York, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Organizational Capacity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Nancy Quinn Fund and the Theatre Leadership Institute technical assistance programs.
The two initiatives provide management-related technical assistance to small and mid-size theater
companies nationally.
Alternative Center for International Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$8,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the Internet Art Curators Initiative which will assist and promote individuals that are
interested in curating on-line. The Alternative Museum will provide honorarium for artists and
guest curators, technical and/or professional support, and on-line exhibitions.
Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, Inc.)
New York, NY
$100,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a United States tour in 2002. The company will perform approximately 95 shows in 24
cities and 16 states across the country.
American Ballet Theatre (Ballet Theatre Foundation, Inc.)
New York, NY
$60,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the commissioning and presentation of two works. American Ballet Theatre will commission
James Kudelka's The Firebird and perform Frederick Ashton's The Dream.
American Composers Orchestra, Inc.
New York, NY
$45,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Emerging American Composers Project, featuring composers of diverse racial and
stylistic backgrounds in commissioning and performances of new works, as well as outreach and
residency activities. The orchestra will perform several world premieres in concerts at Carnegie
Hall and will continue its new music reading sessions.
American Museum of the Moving Image
Astoria, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support three curated film series. The Vanguard: African American Film Pioneers, Rudolph
Valentino, and Masters of Cinematography will include screenings of over 60 feature films and 20
personal appearances.
American Music Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Organizational Capacity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a professional development program for composers, performers and other new music
professionals. The center will provide professional skills training and career development through
a series of in-depth workshops conducted in more than six cities nationwide.
American Symphony Orchestra League
New York, NY
$140,000
CATEGORY: Organizational Capacity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support initiatives that enhance the range of skills of orchestra leaders and help orchestra
institutions become more effective and efficient. These initiatives will help nearly 900 orchestras
of every size and type in all 50 states develop artistic and management talent, identify and
promote new tools and models, and provide technical assistance.
Amherst Saxophone Society, Inc.
Williamsville, NY
$5,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the presentation of music for saxophone quartet. Performances will take place at a
church in Buffalo, NY, at Slee Concert Hall on the campus of SUNY/Buffalo and in front of a live
radio audience at WBFO-FM studios.
Antrim, Donald E.
Brooklyn, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a Creative Writing Fellowship.
Architectural League of New York
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support Life: An International Look at Contemporary Housing Design, a traveling
exhibition showcasing and analyzing significant recent work in urban housing around the world.
Projects selected for the exhibition will reflect the highest design standards as well as
demonstrate a marked contribution to their urban environments.
Art & Science Collaborations, Inc.
Staten Island, NY
$8,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support ArtSci2002. This international symposium will promote new forms of collaboration between
artists and scientists.
Art in General, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the joint commission of a sculptural installation by Maria Elena Gonzalez. The work will
first be installed at DiverseWorks ArtSpace in Houston, then travel to the venues of consortium
partners Art in General in New York and the Art Museum of the University of Memphis.
Art in General, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
$17,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support Art in General on Canal, a commissioning project for temporary, public work by artists
and artists' collaboratives with accompanying publications, programs and educational outreach. Art
in General, as part of its 20th anniversary programming will develop site specific works and
performances in spaces along Canal Street in downtown New York City.
Artists Space, Inc.
New York, NY
$22,500
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To present design exhibitions on the theme of information technology as part of the Architecture
and Design Project Series. The exhibitions will examine new methods for integrating technology and
information systems into the designed and built environment.
Asia Society
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the exhibition The New Way of Tea, with accompanying catalogue and education
programs. Organized with the Japan Society in New York, the exhibition will examine the teahouses
and utensils associated with the tea ceremony juxtaposed with new works by contemporary artists who
have been inspired by the tea ceremony.
Asia Society (consortium)
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the exhibition Hunt for Paradise: Court Arts of Safavid Iran, 1501-76, with
accompanying catalogue and education programs. This will be the first comprehensive international
exhibition of the art of 16th-century Iran and will include some rarely seen objects from public
and private collections from around the world.
Asian CineVision, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 2002 Asian American International Film Festival and its national tour. After its run
in New York, the festival will travel to 10 sites throughout the United States including Wisconsin,
Florida, North Carolina, Texas and Pennsylvania.
Association of Hispanic Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Organizational Capacity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support the development of an on-line information network and database registry. The services
will facilitate communication among Latino artists and arts organizations and assist in the
promotion of their activities.
Association of Independents in Radio
Brooklyn, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Organizational Capacity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support expansion of the publication Airspace and the redesign of the association's Web
site. These two communication vehicles deliver a broad range of services to independent radio
producers.
Ballet Hispanico of New York, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support creation of a new work by Pedro Ruiz. The work will be based on the Cuban folktale of
Cecelia Valdes and will be created for twelve dancers.
Bang on a Can, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support Banglewood, a summer professional development institute for musicians in North Adams,
MA. Emerging composers, performers, conductors, and listeners will participate in learning and
making music with composer-in-residence Steve Reich, faculty from Bang on a Can All-Stars, the
string quartet Ethel, and others.
Bang on a Can, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the annual Bang on a Can Marathon. In the fall of 2002, the day-long festival of new
music will take place at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and will then be broadcast over the Internet
as part of the first Bang on a Can E-Festival.
Bard College (on behalf of Conjunctions)
Annandale-Hudson, NY
$11,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support publication, circulation and related expenses, including authors' fees, for issues of
Conjunctions. Each issue will be distributed to bookstores throughout the country and
subscribers in more than 40 states and 15 countries.
Batki, John J.
Syracuse, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the translation from Hungarian of Geza Ottlik's novel Buda. Published
posthumously, this experimental novel is an outgrowth of the author's earlier magnum opus,
School on the Border, which is his only novel translated into English and is now out of
print.
Batt, Herbert
Buffalo, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the translation from Chinese of Horatio Alger Comes to China, a collection of
short stories by different authors about the self-made person.
Bender, Karen E.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a Creative Writing Fellowship.
Big Dance Theater, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$5,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation of an original dance adaption of Franz Kafka's short story The Country
Doctor. Annie-B Parson will create choreography and sound design for the piece.
Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Co. (Foundation for Dance Promotion, Inc.)
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support design and rehearsal of a program of revivals of seminal works choreographed by Bill T.
Jones and Arnie Zane over the past 20 years. This project will help renew and disseminate a body of
dance works that has had a major impact on contemporary modern dance.
Blackberry Productions
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the creation of new theater works. Harlem Renaissance II is a three-fold event featuring
two repertory theater performances, arts education residencies, and a visual arts exhibit.
BOA Editions, Ltd.
Rochester, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support production, promotion and related expenses for new volumes of poetry. Scheduled poets to
be published include Ellen Bass, Wendy Mnookin, Adrie Kusserow and Olga Orozco.
Bononno, Robert
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the translation from French of Seven Years in the Life of a Woman: Isabelle Erhardt,
Letters and Journals. Eberhardt's writings from her travels with the French Foreign Legion
reveal a woman tormented by uncertainty and ill health, but filled with a romantic vision of the
desert.
Bronx Arts Ensemble, Inc.
Bronx, NY
$7,500
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support a residency by the Bronx Arts Ensemble Orchestra and Paquito D'Rivera as
composer-in-residence at the Hostos Community College in the South Bronx. The week-long residency
will include performances of Paquito D'Rivera's orchestrated Song for Peace, originally
written for piano and voice.
Bronx Council on the Arts
Bronx, NY
$78,000
CATEGORY: Organizational Capacity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the Cultural Venture Fund. This initiative provides funding and consultants to assist
Bronx arts organizations in the development of arts-related entrepreneurial ventures.
Bronx Council on the Arts (on behalf of Longwood Arts Project)
Bronx, NY
$36,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support cyberspace residencies and an artists' team project in which artists will create new
work using advanced computer technology. An exhibition of completed works will be hosted on
Longwood's on-line cyber gallery and public programs and demonstrations will complement the
residencies.
Brooklyn Academy of Music, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support the 2002 Next Wave Festival, the festival's 25th anniversary. Presented each fall for
two to three months, the festival showcases a combination of mature, experimental artists and
emerging talent working in music, dance, theater and the visual arts, as well as hybrid forms.
Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts
(College Community Services, Inc.)
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the World of Dance Series. The series will include dance companies from the United
States and around the world.
Brooklyn Information & Culture, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$12,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Celebrate Brooklyn-Urban Voices/Rural Stories, a series of concerts and professionally
moderated dialogues with artists and audiences. Music, dance and spoken word will be featured in
this series of writing and performance.
Budnitz, Judith
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a Creative Writing Fellowship.
Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, Inc.
Katonah, NY
$5,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Caramoor Virtuosi, a professional development program. The program is designed to
identify fine young American musicians and make a significant contribution to their professional
development through concerts and radio broadcasts.
Carnegie Hall Corporation
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the presentation of William Bolcom's Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Music
director Leonard Slatkin will direct the National Symphony Orchestra in the performance of this
musical work at Carnegie Hall.
Chamber Music America, Inc.
New York, NY
$100,000
CATEGORY: Organizational Capacity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the National Leadership Development Initiative. This project will provide professional
services in several areas, including consultancies, on-site technical assistance, special
publications, a Web site and a national conference.
Cherry Lane Alternative
New York, NY
$5,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support playwriting commissions and mentor fees for Mentor Project 2001. Mentors will include
David Henry Hwang, Craig Lucas, Marsha Norman, Alfred Uhry and Michael Weller.
Cinema Arts Centre (New Community Cinema)
Huntington, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support The Weekend Mini-Focus Series: A Journey Across Four Continents. The curated film series
will showcase American independents, African/African American cinema, films from the Peoples
Republic of China, and Latino/Hispanic work.
Circum-Arts Foundation Inc. (on behalf of MOSAIC)
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support phase two of the Twentieth Century Music Project. This new music and dance work will be
a collaborative effort among MOSAIC, Donald Byrd/The Group, composers Steve Mackey and Tania Leon,
and video artist Star Reese.
City Parks Foundation-SummerStage
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support New Works, New Voices, 2002. This ongoing initiative is devoted to fostering
collaborations between artists of different disciplines and presenting new works resulting from
such collaborations
Clubbed Thumb, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the commission, development and production of a new theater work. The company will
produce Flesh in the Desert by Carson Kreitzer.
Collaborative Urban Sculpture, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a pilot program to develop residency opportunities for artists in collaboration with
progressive organizations operating outside the traditional arts community. The program will link
artists with non-arts organizations to establish creative works that will respond to the missions
of their partnering organizations.
Columbia University in the City of New York
(on behalf of Wallach Art Gallery)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support an exhibition of the work of Mexican artist Fernando Leal (1896-1964) with accompanying
catalogue and education programs. Leal was an influential member of the Mexican avant-garde
throughout the 1920s and 1930s.
Cornell University (on behalf of Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art)
Ithaca, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the touring exhibition Byrdcliffe: An American Arts and Crafts Colony. The
exhibition and accompanying catalogue will celebrate the centennial of Byrdcliffe, a colony founded
as a center for artists and craftsmen in Woodstock, NY, in 1902.
Corporation of Yaddo
Saratoga Springs, NY
$18,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support one-month residencies for professional artists. In 2002, 10 artists will come from
across the United States for residencies that offer uninterrupted time and private space for
experimentation and creation.
Council of Literary Magazines and Presses
New York, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Organizational Capacity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support new and enhanced services for independent literary publishers. Scheduled activities
include an interactive Web site, a national conference and updated publications such as a
triquarterly newsletter CLMPages and the Directory of Literary Magazines &
Presses.
Creative Time, Inc.
New York, NY
$26,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a publication chronicling Creative Time's 30-year history in the creation of public art
in the late 20th century. The book will serve as a forum for the presentation of new artworks and
will provide artists from the organization's past and present with the opportunity to create
book-specific works.
Cross Performance, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a series of workshops in the United States and China. The workshops will
result in the creation of Home: Part 3 of The Geography Trilogy, choreographed and
directed by Ralph Lemon.
Cunningham Dance Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$90,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation of one new work and the revival of two existing works. Merce Cunningham
will choreograph the works, which will be presented on a national tour.
Dance Brazil (Capoeira Foundation, Inc.)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and premiere of a new work. Artistic Director Jelon Vieira will collaborate
with Brazilian composer Marcelo Zarvos, and the music will be performed live with the dance.
Dance Kumikokimoto (Dansology, Inc.)
New York, NY
$5,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support creation of a new work. Argus is a multimedia performance piece featuring
choreography and music by Artistic Director Koosil-ja Hwang and video by Caspar Stracke.
Dance Theater Workshop, Inc.
New York, NY
$70,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support an extended-run production series. The Carnival program features the work of artists at
various stages in their careers and TheMainEvent series will present established mid career
companies/artists.
Danspace Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the fifth year of City/Dans in 2002. This program supports the presentation of New
York-based choreographers.
David Dorfman Dance (Art Sweats, Inc.)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a new work. Artistic Director David Dorfman will create
the work to the music of Robert Fripp.
Design Trust for Public Space, Inc.
New York, NY
$27,500
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support research, planning and design of a park and its boundaries for a wetland within an urban
neighborhood. Eib's Pond Park is a 17-acre wetland park in northeast Staten Island with a poorly
planned surrounding community that houses a large number of low-income families.
Dia Center for the Arts
New York, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the next phase in the completion of American artist James Turrell's Roden Crater
project. Turrell is in the process of transforming a crater into a monumental work of art that
relates to changing experiences of the surrounding environment, sky and land.
Dieu Donné Papermill, Inc.
New York, NY
$14,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support Dieu Donné Lab Grant, a papermaking residency program for mid-career artists who
have never before worked with papermaking. The grant includes a stipend, studio access for six
months materials, and 12 days of instruction.
DocuClub (Four Oaks Foundation)
New York, NY
$7,500
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the exhibition of documentary films. DocuClub's mission is to facilitate filmmakers in
the making of their documentaries by providing a supportive community to screen, provide feedback,
and assist in the completion and distribution of the work.
Doug Varone and Dancers (Dova, Inc.)
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support creation and presentation of a new evening-length work by Doug Varone. The work will
involve the commissioning of a sound score and film and include a set design, guest dancers and
actors.
Drama League of New York, Inc.
New York, NY
$12,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Drama League Directors Project. The Directors Project is a national apprenticeship
for young directors that will provide opportunities for new directors to work with professionals in
off-Broadway or regional theaters.
Drawing Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the touring exhibition Ocean Flowers and Ferns: Botanical (Photogenic) Drawings,
with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will feature hand drawn natural
history illustrations and experimental botanical photograms from the mid-19th century.
Early Music Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support performances of baroque music on period instruments by the early music ensemble New
York's Grande Bande. This will be the inaugural year of a three-year plan to present concerts
illustrating the chronological development of the orchestra.
Eiko & Koma (Inta, Inc.)
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support creation of a new work. The dance will be a "living" installation conceived for
gallery-like spaces.
En Foco, Inc.
Bronx, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support production of three issues of Nueva Luz, a bilingual photographic journal. Each
issue will feature the work of three emerging photographers of color, an essay by a guest
critic/editor, and a comprehensive listing of career opportunities and other resources for
photographers.
Ensemble Studio Theatre
New York, NY
$12,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Going to the River play development program. Activities include a two-week festival
of five workshop productions and a monthly reading series of new works.
Eos Music, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support the production of Master Peter's Puppet Show. This fully staged puppet opera,
featuring puppeteer Basil Twist, will be performed at three venues as part of the seventh Festival
of New Puppetry.
Evidence, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation of two final sections in a series of dances, choreographed by Ronald K.
Brown. Titled Walking Out the Dark, the material developed will explore the dances and music
of Cuba as well as spiritual dances and music from West Africa.
Exit Art/The First World, Inc.
New York, NY
$26,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support Terrorvision, examining the media's role in both the creation and perpetuation of
societal fear and terror through the use of images. Images gathered from news broadcasts,
photojournalism and movies will be juxtaposed with work by contemporary artists that responds to or
further disseminates the notions of fear and terror.
Experimental Television Center, Ltd.
Newark Valley, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support a year-long residency program for media artists from throughout the United States. The
Experimental Television Center provides film and video artists access to sophisticated production
facilities.
Feminist Press, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and national distribution of books in the International Women's Writing
Project. Works proposed for publication include Dance With a Poor Man's Daughter by South
African author Pamela Jooste and Lindsey Collen's The Rape of Sita, a novel exploring the
political and cultural landscape of Mauritian society.
Fence Magazine, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support production, promotion and related expenses, including artists' fees, for issues of
Fence. The magazine will increase payments to contributors and advertise in journals such as
Poets and Writers, American Poetry Review, Boston Review and Poetry
Flash.
Fiction, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of a double issue of Fiction. The 330-page issue
will include short stories, novel excerpts, translations and essays.
Field Papers, Inc.
Cambridge, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation of small chamber pieces. Choreographer Dana Reitz will create solos for
herself and other dancers, which will be adaptable to a variety of performance spaces.
Film Forum (Moving Image, Inc.)
New York, NY
$60,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the 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
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support three curated film series. A New Wind from the East will showcase films from India,
Egypt and South Korea.
Film/Video Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the Internship Program. Each year, Film/Video Arts provides emerging artists with
mentoring opportunities, training and access to equipment.
Folksbiene Yiddish Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support seasonal productions of Kids and Yiddish, a children's educational musical that
illuminates the Yiddish language through audience participation. The play is designed to preserve
the Yiddish culture and heritage, allowing the language to evolve and grow with future generations
of children.
Foundation for Independent Video and Film
New York, NY
$45,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the publication of The Independent Film and Video Monthly and maintenance of its
on-line companion resource. This nationally distributed magazine provides information on all
aspects of independent film and video production including practical, esthetic and scholarly
articles.
Foundation for Independent Video and Film (consortium)
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Organizational Capacity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the continuation of The Media Arts Environmental Scanning Tour of Regional Organizations
in partnership with the National Alliance of Media Arts Centers. The foundation and the alliance
have implemented a series of forums bringing together media artists and administrators to address
issues affecting the professional needs of those working in the field.
Foundry Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$11,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of TALK, a new play by Carl Hancock Rux. TALK is constructed
as a phonetic opera and discourse on art, post-modernism and the mortality of invention in the 21st
century, in the style of a Greek symposium.
Franzen, Jonathan
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a Creative Writing Fellowship.
Frederick Douglass Creative Arts Center
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support the development of professional writers in all genres. This three-part project will
feature writing workshops, a reading series of original plays for stage and screen, and the 30th
annual Black Roots Festival of Poetry, Prose, Drama and Music.
Friends of the High Line
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support a juried design competition to generate creative schemes for the reuse of the High Line,
an abandoned elevated rail structure. The High Line runs for one and a half miles from the
meatpacking district through Chelsea and up to the Javitz Center.
GAle GAtes et al.
Brooklyn, NY
$8,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support the production and presentation of Wine-Blue-Open-Water. This
performance/installation will offer audiences an immersive theatrical environment based on Homer's
Odyssey.
Garth Fagan Dance, Inc.
Rochester, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation of a new work. The work will be set to the music of John Adams and focus on
solos, duets and trios and involve the entire company.
Geva Theatre, Inc.
Rochester, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the production of a new musical. Geva Theatre will produce Convenience by
Associate Artist Gregg Coffin, a musical that the theater has developed over the last two
years.
Glimmerglass Opera, Inc.
Cooperstown, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a new production of Joseph Haydn's Orlando Paladino. Ten performances of the
opera will be directed by James Robinson and conducted by Guido Johannes Rumstadt during the
company's 2002 festival season.
Group I Acting Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the production and national tour of a play. The company will tour an adaptation of Mark
Twain's Puddn'head Wilson.
Hallwalls, Inc.
Buffalo, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support the Hallwalls Artist-in-Residence Project. The project will enable two visual artists,
one media artist, and one jazz musician to create and present new works.
Harvestworks, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support the Artists' Access Program in digital media. The program will provide artists with
studio residencies, classes and public presentation of work.
Heckscher Museum
Huntington, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the touring exhibition Out of the Shadows: Helen Torr: A Retrospective, with
accompanying catalogue. The exhibition will place the work of this modernist painter, long
overshadowed by her husband, artist Arthur Dove, in a brighter light.
Home for Contemporary Theatre and Art, Ltd.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the HERE Artist Residency Program (HARP), a professional development program for
mid-career artists and collaborative artist teams. HARP serves artists through workshops, panel
discussions, productions and career development services.
House Foundation for the Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a new music-theater collaboration. Meredith Monk and theater-artist Ong Keng Sen of
Theatreworks in Singapore will create a work involving American and Asian artists.
Hudson Valley Writers' Center, Inc.
Sleepy Hollow, NY
$7,500
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the Literary Presentation Series, featuring live readings by distinguished writers, and
Open Mike Nights, a series of readings by local regional poets and writers. The Literary
Presentation Series will feature public readings at the restored Philipse Manor Railroad, the
historic home of Washington Irving in Tarrytown, NY and at other educational institutions in
Westchester County.
Independent Feature Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the Independent Feature Film Market. Held in the fall, this six-day conference provides
independent filmmakers from across the country the opportunity to present their work to the
industry.
INTAR (International Arts Relations, Inc.)
New York, NY
$28,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the translation, development and production of a new musical work. INTAR will produce
the world premiere of Havana Under The Sea by Abilio Estevez, a musical about the Cuban
troubadours.
J Mandle Performance, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support Pedestrian Traces, an urban outdoor performance in collaboration with an
architect and urban designer. The site-specific performance will provide an opportunity to educate
and inform audiences about their impact on the shape of public spaces.
Jazz at Lincoln Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$75,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra's Jump In spring tour. The tour, which will include
educational programming, will travel to 26 cities and 16 states across the United States.
Jewish Museum
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the touring exhibition New York: Capital of Photography, with accompanying
catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will highlight the role that Jewish photographers
played in the development of the genre known as "street photography" and the impact of their work
on the perception of New York City.
John Jasperse Co. (Thin Man Dance, Inc.)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation of a new evening-length work. Clear Field will be choreographed by
John Jasperse to music by composer Michael Floyd.
José Limón Dance Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the restaging of a work. The company will perform Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman's
1935 New Dance, which is the final part of the epic New Dance Trilogy.
Joyce Theater Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$70,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support dance presentation projects at the Joyce Theater. The projects include: the 2002
Altogether Different series, the Dance Presentation Program, and Joyce SoHo Presents.
La Donna Dance, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a new dance work. The Salon Project will be a
collaboration between choreographers Donna Uchizono and Valeria Solomonoff and composer Guy
Yarden.
La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, Inc.
New York, NY
$32,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the production of a play. Carmilla, by playwright Wilford Leach, will be directed
by Artistic Director Ellen Stewart.
Light Work Visual Studies, Inc.
Syracuse, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a residency program for artists and the publication of their work in Contact Sheet -
The Light Work Annual. Participating artists' work will also be made available on Light Work's
on-line image database, an ever-expanding collection of over 1,900 prints, essays and biographical
information.
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support Lincoln Center Festival 2002. For three weeks in July 2002, major artists and ensembles
from the U.S. and abroad will be presented in concert halls and theaters at Lincoln Center and
neighboring venues.
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
New York, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
To support the World Views Visual Arts Residency. Until the events of September 11, the program
operated on the 92nd floor of the World Trade Center's Tower One. An alternative site is being
explored.
Ma-Yi Filipino Theatre Ensemble, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of The Last of the Suns by Alice Tuan, a biting satire about three
generations of the Sun family. Using hip, street-smart dialogue, Tuan weaves parallel narratives
that mix Chinese folklore with the banalities of consumerist America.
Mabou Mines Development Foundation
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and premiere of an original work based on the life of James Joyce's
daughter Lucia. Cara Lucia will visually, linguistically and musically explore the life of Lucia
Joyce in relation to her father and his work.
Mad Alex Arts Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support artists' fees and related expenses for readings by emerging and well established writers
in the New York City area. Previous guests include Jayne Cortez, Robert Creeley, David Henderson,
Grace Paley, Ed Friedman, Kimiko Hahn, Gordon Lish, Lynne Tillman and Hugh Seidman.
Mark Morris Dance Group (Discalced, Inc.)
Brooklyn, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation of Henry Purcell's opera King Arthur for the English National Opera,
directed and choreographed by Mark Morris. The production will feature all 18 members of the Mark
Morris Dance Group, 10 actors, five vocalists, a 20-person chorus, and a 32-person orchestra.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, NY
$100,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the exhibition The Timeless Genius of Leonardo da Vinci, with accompanying
education programs. The exhibition will reintroduce American audiences to this icon of artistic,
humanistic, scientific and technological genius on a broader scale than ever before in this
country.
Metropolitan Opera Association, Inc.
New York, NY
$100,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a production of Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari's opera Sly. Nine performances will be given
at the Lincoln Center Opera House.
Mettawee Theatre Company
Salem, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the presentation of an original play based on a Chinese folk tale. The ensemble created
theater piece will tour throughout rural communities in upstate New York and New England.
Millennium Film Workshop, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,500
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the exhibition of experimental film and video art and the provision of filmmaking
workshops. Exhibition programs will feature the work of avant-garde cinema and video from the U.S.
and abroad.
Movement Research, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the 10th Improvisation Festival/NY. The festival is a celebration of dance improvisation
and will offer classes, workshops, educational outreach and panel discussions.
Museum of American Folk Art
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a touring exhibition drawn from the museum's permanent collection, with accompanying
catalogue and education programs. Works dating from the colonial period to the present will be
included.
Museum of Modern Art (consortium)
New York, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support the design and production of a site-specific architectural installation at P.S.1
Contemporary Art Center. The project will create a public venue and provide critical exposure to
emerging architects/designers.
Music From China (consortium)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the commission, copying costs, musician fees and outreach activities for the
presentation of Beautiful Warrior, a family musical for Chinese and Western instruments by
composer Jin Xiang. The premiere is planned for March 2002 in New York City.
Music-Theatre Group, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the creation of a new musical theater piece. Composer Diedre Murray in collaboration
with Diane Paulus and Randy Weiner will create a new work, Prophet Motive, set in an African
American church in New York.
Musical Theatre Works, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support rehearsal and production of an original musical. The project will be based on Joan
Rivers' teleplay The Girl Most Likely To, with music by Zina Goldrich, lyrics by Marcy
Heisler, and book by Doublas Berstein and Denis Markell.
National Alliance for Musical Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the 14th annual Festival of New Musicals. The festival showcases eight to 10 new
musicals before an invited audience of producers and musical theater professionals.
National Audio Theatre Festivals, Inc.
Hempstead, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the annual Audio Theatre Workshop. The series of classes trains audio artists from
across the country in script writing, performance for radio, and technical skills development to
produce innovative live radio drama.
New Dramatists, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the expansion of the New Works Process. The program will increase actor and director
compensation, along with a portion of artistic staff salaries and program expenses.
New Federal Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the presentation of a new theater work. Leaving Watermaine by playwright Nancy N.
Ewing tells the story of a middle-class African American family living in Watermaine, GA during
1940's.
New Group, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the production of a new musical. Supermax, by composer Stewart Wallace and
librettist Michael Korie, is a recently commissioned musical theater work that depicts the banality
of evil in American society.
New Museum of Contemporary Art
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a series of new media presentations by contemporary artists in the Media Z Lounge. The
Lounge programs investigate the impact of digital media on contemporary visual culture.
New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.
Staten Island, NY
$12,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support new commissioned work and the continued development of the Turbulence Web site. The
project will provide for the creation and distribution of six new works of Internet based art by
national artists and assist in the maintenance of the Web site.
New Sounds Music, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the creation and presentation of a new work for saxophone quartet by Steven Mackey to be
premiered by the Prism Quartet. Performances and residency activities are planned for Philadelphia
and New York City in October 2002.
New York City Ballet, Inc.
New York, NY
$100,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the 10th anniversary of the Diamond Project. The company will premiere six new ballets
and re-stage past Diamond Project ballets.
New York City Opera, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support a new production of Handel's Agrippina. Six performances of this opera, performed
in Lincoln Center's New York State Theater, will celebrate the fifth anniversary of the company's
Handel cycle.
New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc.
(on behalf of Only Child Motion Pictures)
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support production and post-production costs for a documentary produced by Ira Wohl and Katie
Cadigan. John Cadigan will direct People Say I'm Crazy.
New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc. (on behalf of Picture Projects)
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support the traveling exhibition 360degrees: Perspective on the U.S. Criminal Justice
System. This multimedia installation will explore the historical context of the criminal
justice system.
New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc. (on behalf of Nobody's Girls)
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support finishing costs for a documentary on the children's opera Brundibar, produced by
Mirra Bank. The dance company Pilobolus and author/illustrator Maurice Sendak are collaborating to
revive the opera. The film will track its development from rehearsals through premiere.
New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc.
(on behalf of Bill Shannon/Crutch Productions)
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support the creation of an interdisciplinary dance piece. The evening-length work will
incorporate hip-hop dance, film projection and music.
New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc. (on behalf of Yin Mei Dance)
New York, NY
$5,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support national touring of Asunder. The work is choreographed by Yin Mei with set by Cai
Guo Qiang, music by Robert Een, and poetry by Mark Strand.
New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc. (on behalf of Urban Tap)
New York, NY
$5,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support national and international touring of Caravane. Created by choreographer Tamango,
the project includes musicians on percussion, cello, trumpet and voice and features tap, hip-hop,
capoeira and African stilt dancers.
New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc.
(on behalf of Lumiere Productions)
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support research and development costs for a documentary series by Ali Pomeroy, Cal Skaggs and
David Van Taylor. To Tell the Truth will explore the history of nonfiction film, shedding
light on the art of filmmaking itself and on the way documentarians have helped shape popular
history.
New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc.
(on behalf of Mrex Productions)
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support post-production costs for an experimental documentary by Reiko Tahara. Enmyoin
tells the story of a 95-year old Japanese female Buddhist priest.
New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc.
(on behalf of Art Research Collaboration, Inc.)
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support development of a cyber-based work, Decompression, designed to document and
interpret an environmental art work. The project will attempt to explore the progress and
development of a reef, Ocean Landmark, created by the artist Betty Beaumont in 1980 using
500 tons of industrial coal waste.
New York Philharmonic
(Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York, Inc.)
New York, NY
$85,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the Influence & Influences Festival dedicated to cellist and conductor Mstislav
Rostropovich. The festival will consist of 11 concerts in Avery Fisher Hall, including a production
of Shostakovich's opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, two chamber music concerts, a master class,
educational programs and symposia.
New York Shakespeare Festival
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support productions of Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt and Shakespeare's The Merchant of
Venice. All tickets for the productions will be free, and performances will be accompanied by
comprehensive outreach and education initiatives.
New York Theatre Workshop, Inc.
New York, NY
$34,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a production of Peter Gaiten's Flesh and Blood, adapted from the novel by Michael
Cunningham. Flesh and Blood explores the legacy of hope and expectation as passed down
through three generations of an American family in the 20th century.
New York University (on behalf of Grey Art Gallery)
New York, NY
$27,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a retrospective exhibition of the work of American artist Nancy Burson, with
accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition is being organized in collaboration
with the Blaffer Gallery at the University of Houston.
Nikolais/Louis Foundation for Dance, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation of a new work by Murray Louis. This work will be set on students at Florida
State University in Tallahassee.
Ontological-Hysteric Theater, Inc.
New York, NY
$26,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the creation and production of a new theater work. Artistic Director Richard Foreman
will write, direct and design a new play entitled Disoriented.
Open City, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support publication and related costs, including artists' fees, for issues of Open City.
New issues will include fiction, poetry and essays from ethnically diverse contributors such as
Ariel Leve, Paco Brown, Vince Passaro, Honor Moore and Will Eno.
Opera Orchestra of New York, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
To support the Young Artists Program, a specialized training and professional development program
for opera singers. The program offers individual instruction and ensemble training, and teaches
essential professional techniques, technical skills, and work habits needed for a successful career
in opera.
Other Theater, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support artists' fees and salaries during the development and presentation of a new theater
work. The production Body Songs by playwright John Belluso will be directed by Joseph
Chaikin and performed by artists with disabilities.
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
Long Island City, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the presentation of the exhibition The Short Century: Independence and Liberation
Movements in Africa 1945-1994, with accompanying education programs. The exhibition explores
the political, philosophical, cultural and social developments that led to the dismantling of
colonialism in Africa through a program of artwork, film, photography, music, literature and
performances by 57 artists.
Pan Asian Repertory Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the presentation of a new play. Artistic Director Ron Nakahara will direct Forbidden
City Blues by Artistic Associate Alexander Woo.
Paper Bag Players
New York, NY
$18,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support a mult-istate tour of a new theater work for children ages four through nine. The
company will tour Dancing Houses (working title), a humorous musical fantasy by Artistic
Director Judith Martin.
Pascal Rioult Dance Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support creation of the culminating work in Pascal Rioult's Ravel Project. The piece will be
created to Ravel's Bolero, and will have its premiere at the company's 10th anniversary
performances at the Joyce Theater in New York City.
Paul Taylor Dance Foundation, Inc.
(on behalf of Paul Taylor Dance Company)
New York, NY
$80,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of work nationwide through tandem touring by the Paul
Taylor Dance Company and Taylor 2. The tours include performances, education activities and
community service events.
Pentacle (DanceWorks, Inc.)
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Organizational Capacity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the fourth cycle of an artist mentorship program. The Help Desk provides technical
assistance for emerging and mid-career choreographers.
Performance Space 122, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support art performance/performance art. Through this new initiative six artists will be
commissioned to create new works that emphasize visual elements.
Pick Up Performance Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a new work. The Private Lives of Dancers will be
choreographed to live piano by Artistic Director David Gordon.
Ping Chong and Company (Fiji Theater Company, Inc.)
New York, NY
$27,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the presentation and tour of a new puppet theater work. The company will tour
Obon by Artistic Director Ping Chong.
Playwrights Horizons, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the New Theater Wing Developmental Program. The program is a series of artistic
initiatives that support both emerging and established writers in the development and presentation
of new works.
Poetry in Review Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$7,500
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication, promotion and related expenses of issues of Parnassus: Poetry in
Review. Proposed authors include Mary Karr, Marjorie Perloff, Eric Ormsby, William Logan,
Marilyn Chin, David Barber, Thomas M. Disch, Helene J.F. de Aguilar and Jay Ladin.
Poetry Project, Ltd.
New York, NY
$18,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the Monday Night and Wednesday Night Reading and Performance Series, which will feature
live presentations by more than 100 poets and performers. Writers under consideration include Paul
Auster, Amiri Baraka, Carolyn Chute, Victor Hernandez Cruz, Barbara Guest, Rick Moody and U Sam
Oeur.
Poets & Writers, Inc.
New York, NY
$75,000
CATEGORY: Organizational Capacity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication of Poets & Writers Magazine and the continued development and
promotion of Poets & Writers's Web site. Other activities include the Literary Horizons, a
series of seminars, panels, lectures and pamphlets providing writers with practical information on
the business of writing.
Pregones Touring Puerto Rican Theater Collection, Inc.
Bronx, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the production of two new works through the CityStage project. The initiative will
include the development and presentation of new works and the upgrading of research programs that
facilitate the creation of new works.
Present Theatre Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$13,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the New York International Fringe Festival, a celebration of emerging theater companies
and performing artists from around the world. The festival's goals are to unite the next generation
of theater artists, to provide a forum for producers and artists to meet, and to increase the
public's awareness of the vitality and diversity of live theater.
Public Art Fund, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support In the Public Realm, a commissioning opportunity to enable emerging artists to realize
temporary art projects in an urban context. Projects will be documented in a series of
publications.
Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Inc.
Rochester, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the creation and presentation of two new works for soloist and orchestra by Augusta Read
Thomas and Jeff Tyzik. The works will be premiered in celebration of the Philharmonic's 80th
anniversary season in 2002-03 and each will feature musicians from the orchestra as soloists.
Schwartz, Lynne S.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the translation from Italian of a collection of essays by Natalia Ginzburg. Essays will
be selected from three volumes, the latter two of which have yet to be published in the U. S.:
Le piccole virtu (The Little Virtues), Mai devi domandarmi, and Vita
immaginaria.
Sculpture Space, Inc.
Utica, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support an artists' residency program for sculptors. Artists from outside New York State will be
given the opportunity to create new work during two-month residencies at a former steam engine and
boilerworks plant in Utica.
Second Stage Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and New York premiere of Sorrows and Rejoicings, written and
directed by Athol Fugard. The play tells the personal story of an Afrikaner poet who returns home
after being politically exiled.
Seven Loaves, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the production of a new theater work with music. Seven Loaves will create a new piece
entitled Peter Pan to be produced by the Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre.
Sheep Meadow Press
Riverdale-on-Hudson, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of books of poetry, and translations of established
foreign poets. The press will organize author readings and advertise in magazines such as
Crossroads, Parnassus, The New York Review of Books, American Poetry
Review and Poets and Writers.
Signature Theatre Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the world premiere of a new play by playwright-in-residence Lanford Wilson. Mr. Wilson
will participate in the selection of designers, actors and other artistic personnel in consultation
with the artistic director.
SITI (Saratoga International Theater Institute, Inc.)
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development and premiere of SCORE, the final part of a solo trilogy about the
creative spirit developed by the SITI Company and Anne Bogart and arranged by Irish writer Jocelyn
Clark. SCORE is a one-man play based on the life and work of American conductor/composer
Leonard Bernstein.
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Inc.
New York, NY
$8,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a nine-week residency program for emerging artists. Artists will be provided with a
private studio, full room and board, and weekly private and group critiques by guest artists.
Skysaver Productions, Inc.
New York, NY
$12,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the creation and production of a new theater work in puppetry arts. Skysaver Productions
will create a work entitled Helen based on the play by Euripides.
Smack Mellon Studios, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a program to provide artists with access to studio space, equipment and technical
support in response to the current artist housing/studio crisis in New York City. Nine to 12
artists will be selected by a panel of artists, curators and critics for residency periods varying
from one month to one year.
Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Inc. (consortium)
Staten Island, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support Site-Ations, a project involving the creation of site-specific works with consortium
members Vanguard Visions and the Council on the Arts and Humanities for Staten Island. The project
will examine the relationship between context, meaning, sense of place and the visual.
Society for New Music
Syracuse, NY
$5,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support winter concerts and the creation and presentation of a commissioned work by Dan Trueman.
During 2002-03, the society's winter season includes seven concerts with eight repeat performances
in venues such as colleges, universities and libraries.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation Center
New York, NY
$45,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support a touring exhibition of the work of American artist James Rosenquist, with accompanying
education programs. This will be the first survey of this internationally recognized artist's work
since 1972.
Spring Lake Productions, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the revival of the 1986 piece Vienna: Lusthaus, choreographed and directed by
Martha Clarke. The work will include new choreographed sections along with other additions by
collaborators, composer Richard Peaslee and writer Charles L. Mee, Jr.
St. Ann Center for Restoration and the Arts, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$35,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support the 2002 Puppet Lab and Labapalooza! Mini-Festival of New Puppet Theater from The Lab.
The project is an ongoing professional workshop where emerging and mid-career puppet artists and
collaborators meet weekly to create new, interdisciplinary puppet theater works.
St. Bonaventure University (on behalf of Quick Art Center)
St. Bonaventure, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the exhibition Projection Grand Piano, with accompanying catalogue and education
programs. This exhibition will feature the work of American artist/musician Ken Butler,
specifically an interactive audio-visual assemblage sculpture of reconfigured objects, machine
parts and other audio-visual items made of wood, metal and plastic.
Standby Program, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
To support the provision of state-of-the-art, broadcast-quality, post-production video equipment to
artists and independent producers. Standby's access program is a unique model of collaboration
between a nonprofit arts organization and privately owned businesses.
Staret... The Directors Company
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support The Harold Prince Musical Theatre Program. The Directors Company started this program to
ensure the vitality of American musical theater and to provide developmental support to emerging
musical theater artists.
State University of New York, Research Foundation
(on behalf of Performing Arts Center at Purchase College)
Albany, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the presentation of a series of theatrical performances by four avant-garde ensembles.
The gogmagos of London, Theatre de la Jeune Lune (Minneapolis), Les Deux Mondes (Canada), and
Squonk (Philadelphia) have each expanded theatrical vocabulary through music, dance and visual
effects.
Stephen Petronio Dance Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a new work. Choreographer Stephen Petronio was inspired
to create this work from a series of portraits created by Donald Baechler at the Gellert Hotel in
Budapest, Hungary.
Sullivan, Robert
Brooklyn, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a Creative Writing Fellowship.
Susan Marshall + Co. (Dance Continuum, Inc.)
Putnam Valley, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation of two new dance works choreographed by Susan Marshall. Titled Heavy
Air and The Chorus, these works will premiere at Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave
Festival.
Symphony Space, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story. The project is a series of
live readings featuring classic and new short fiction read by distinguished stage and screen
actors.
Syracuse Stage (SU Theatre Corporation)
Syracuse, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the world premiere of a newly translated and adapted classic theater work. Syracuse
Stage will present Joachim Neugroschel's translation and adaptation of The Dybbuk.
Talking Band, Inc.
New York, NY
$7,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development, rehearsal and production of Squantz Pond, a new theater piece
with music written and composed by Ellen Maddow. The production will be developed through workshops
in the Talking Band Performance Lab, inviting both company members and younger artists into the
development process.
Tectonic Theater Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$7,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the development of a new play titled And Yet It Moves. Using Bertolt Brecht's
Galileo as a base text, Artistic Director Moisés Kaufman will parallel the lives of
the author and his subject to explore the topic of artistic discoveries.
The Field (Performance Zone, Inc.)
New York, NY
$11,000
CATEGORY: Organizational Capacity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support a 2002 series of workshops and residencies. Fieldwork offers over 400 artists a method
of strengthening their creative process via a group feedback structure and will take place in
several cities across the United States.
The Kitchen (Haleakala, Inc.)
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support The Sidney Kahn Summer Institute. Students and young professionals in the performing and
media arts will receive intensive training in the design and development of multimedia work.
The New Victory (New 42nd Street, Inc.)
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the presentation of a dance series. Camut Band (Spain), Donald Byrd/the Group (New
York), and Noche Flamenca (Spain/New York) will perform 65 public and education shows.
Theater By The Blind Corporation
New York, NY
$12,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support expanding efforts in the training and professional development of blind and visually-
impaired theater artists. Theater By The Blind responds to a lack of access to theater texts for
blind and visually impaired individuals by offering an elaborate reading service by sighted actors
and staged reading performance opportunities.
Theatre Communications Group, Inc.
New York, NY
$125,000
CATEGORY: Organizational Capacity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support professional and leadership development programs and resources for the nonprofit
American professional theater field. The programs are targeted to artistic and managing leaders,
middle managers, and trustees and are designed to increase organizational effectiveness and improve
management expertise.
Theatre for a New Audience, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the production of a Shakespearean play. The artistic director of Seattle's Intiman
Theater Company, Bartlett Sher, will direct the production of Cymbeline.
Trisha Brown Dance Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support the creation of two new works choreographed by Trisha Brown. A new piece will be created
to Franz Schubert's song cycle Winterreisse and Trisha Brown will create a solo for herself
that combines her work in the visual arts with her work in dance.
University of Rochester (on behalf of Memorial Art Gallery)
Rochester, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the touring exhibition George Bellows at Woodstock (1920-24), with accompanying
catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will examine this short period in Bellows' career
during which his work was influenced by the extremities of realism and abstraction, as well as the
landscapes and communities of Woodstock.
Van Alen Institute: Projects in Public Architecture (consortium)
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Organizational Capacity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
To support research, a conference and a publication designed to strengthen urban public
architecture. Urban Design: Premises, Pedagogies, Practices, a two day conference, will bring
together groups who rarely have the opportunity for reflection and discussion of urban design as a
discipline.
Vineyard Theatre & Workshop Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the development and full production of a new musical. Vineyard Theatre will produce
Brutal Imagination, a new musical theater piece with text by Cornelius Eady and score by
Diedre Murray.
Visual Studies Workshop, Inc.
Rochester, NY
$10,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support a residency program, providing artists with access to high quality equipment and
materials. Participating artists receive a stipend, travel costs, use of the facilities, training
and housing for the one-month residencies.
Vivian Beaumont Theater, Inc.
New York, NY
$55,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
To support the world-premiere production of a new musical. Vivian Beaumont Theater will present
Thou Shall Not, directed and choreographed by Susan Stroman, music and lyrics by Harry
Connick, Jr., and book by David Thompson.
Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
CATEGORY: Organizational Capacity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
To support the expansion of pro bono and low cost legal services. The program will provide
representation, advocacy and mediation services to artists and arts organizations throughout New
York State.
Wally Cardona Quartet (WCV, Inc.)
Brooklyn, NY
$5,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support creation and presentation of a new evening-length work choreographed by Wally Cardona.
Morphmaniac will be performed in non-proscenium stage settings in several states.
Western Wind Vocal Ensemble, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the creation of the music and libretto of a new music theater work by Eric Salzman and
Valeria Vasilevski. The Western Wind Vocal Ensemble will present the work in a concert version.
White Pine, Inc.
Buffalo, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support the translation, publication and promotion of titles in the World of Voices Project.
White Pine will partner with the Buffalo School System and Just Buffalo Literary Center to bring
its authors and books to local high schools and colleges.
Whitney Museum of American Art
New York, NY
$45,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
To support the touring exhibition The Paintings of Joan Mitchell, with accompanying
catalogue. This is a major retrospective that will cover the artist's entire career, from the early
works of 1949 until her death in 1992.
Women's Project & Productions, Inc.
New York, NY
$18,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the Developmental Theatre Program that develops the work of women theater artists. The
program is comprised of the Directors Forum, Playwrights Lab, First Looks Rehearsed Readings, and
Works-in-Progress initiatives.
Women's Studio Workshop, Inc. (consortium)
Rosendale, NY
$13,000
CATEGORY: Organizational Capacity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
To support the New York State Workspace Consortium. The project will focus on professional
development, leadership training, networking and technical assistance designed to meet the
consortium's needs.
Wooster Group, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the creation of a theatrical adaptation of William Faulkner's 1930 novel As I Lay
Dying. The work will continue the theater's exploration of American vernacular as well as
family psychodrama.
Working Theatre Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$7,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
To support the commissioning, development and world premiere production of a work by Linda
Faigao-Hall. The 7th of October offers a compelling look at homophobia in the workplace
through the eyes of a construction worker.
World Music Institute, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
To support American Roots: From the Old Country to the New. Concerts will feature music and dance
from Europe as well as American forms.
Wysong, Maurice Brennen
Geneva, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
To support a Creative Writing Fellowship.
Young Concert Artists, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
To support the presentation of the Young Concert Artists Series--recitals and concerto debuts by
young musicians who are winners of the annual Young Concert Artists' Auditions. This 2002 project
will feature five concerts in New York City and seven concerts in Boston.
Zvi Gotheiner + Dancers (ZGD, Inc.)
New York, NY
$5,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
To support creation and presentation of a new work. Choreographed by Zvi Gotheiner, the piece will
deal with environmental issues.
Total Dollars Awarded: $5,907,500
Total Grants Awarded: 231
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