2003 GRANT AWARDS - Creativity


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2003 Grant Awards: Creativity

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

Some details of the projects listed in this grant announcement are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

DANCE

171 Cedar, Inc.
Corning, NY
$10,000
To support performance and residency activities. The 6th annual Cedar/Clemens Center Dance Series will include Philadanco, Pennsylvania Ballet and Shelley Oliver Tap.

African American Dance Ensemble, Inc.
Durham, NC
$10,000
To support the creation of a ballet suite, Luyala, based on the dance opera of the same name. Dr. Chuck Davis and Dr. William Banfield, the original choreographer and composer for the dance opera, will produce the ballet suite.

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
New York, NY
$100,000
To support a national tour in 2003. The company will perform approximately 95 shows and conduct outreach activities in 17 cities and 12 states across the United States.

American Ballet Theatre (Ballet Theatre Foundation, Inc.)
New York, NY
$70,000
To support the commissioning and presentation of original one-act ballets from Australian choreographers, Natalie Weir and Stanton Welch. The project will feature John Adam's Harmonium, and Carl Orff's Carmina Burana, with the New York Choral Society and American Ballet Theatre's resident orchestra.

American Dance Festival, Inc.
Durham, NC
$70,000
To support the commissioning and presentation of a range of modern dance choreographers. In addition to performances during American Dance Festival's 70th anniversary in 2003, the program will include educational activities.

Andanza, Inc.
San Juan, PR
$10,000
To support the commissioning of a work by choreographer Rodrigo Pederneiras and the creation of works by dancers of Andanza. The pieces will be presented in a production at the Luis A. Ferre Performing Arts Center.

Axis Dance Company
Oakland, CA
$15,000
To support the creation of a work for dancers with and without disabilities by choreographer Ann Carlson. The work will become part of AXIS Dance Company's touring repertory, and also will become part of a national, physically integrated dance tour.

Ballet Austin, Inc.
Austin, TX
$10,000
To support the creation of dance works set to the music of Austin bands. 3 by 3ŠBy 3 Live Bands will include works by choreographers Dwight Rhoden, Gina Patterson and Artistic Director Stephen Mills.

Ballet Hispanico of New York, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the creation of an evening-length presentation that will be performed at City Center. Graciela Daniele will restage her 1988 work, Cada Noche Tango, and choreographers Luis Perez and Sergio Trujillo will create additional sections.

Ballet Memphis Corporation
Cordova, TN
$10,000
To support two world premieres during the Dancing Together III repertory show. The premieres will be created by choreographer Trey McIntyre and Associate Artistic Director Karl Condon.

Ballet West
Salt Lake City, UT
$25,000
To support the presentation of Glen Tetley's Rite of Spring. The piece will be presented in Salt Lake City's Capitol Theatre.

BalletMet Columbus (Ballet Metropolitan, Inc.) Columbus, OH
$10,000
To support the commission of a world premiere. Australian choreographer Stanton Welch will create Don Quixote for BalletMet's 25th anniversary.

Bates College (on behalf of Bates Dance Festival) Lewiston, ME
$20,000
To support commissioning, presentation, outreach and educational activities. New Voices/New Works will include Doug Varone and Dancers, Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, Stephen Koplowitz/Robert Een and a group of disabled artists.

Bebe Miller Company (Gotham Dance, Inc.)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the research and development of an evening-length work. The Landing/Place Project will integrate live performance and interactive digital media.

Better Family Life, Inc.
St. Louis, MO
$10,000
To support a national dance festival. Black Dance-USA: A Celebration in Movement, will consist of performances, dance workshops, discussion sessions, dance films, and African percussion and song classes.

Boston Ballet, Inc.
Boston, MA
$25,000
To support the presentation of Romeo and Juliet by Dutch choreographer Rudi van Dantzig. The production will be presented at the Wang Theatre and will include a variety of educational outreach programs.

Capoeira Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new work based on the fusion of the Brazilian traditional art form of capoeira and modern dance. The work, created by Artistic Director Lelon Vieira and set to music by Brazilian composer Tot Gira, will premiere at the Joyce Theater.

Carolina Ballet, Inc.
Raleigh, NC
$10,000
To support the presentation of The Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen. Lynn Taylor-Corbett has been commissioned to stage part of this new evening-length ballet.

Celebrity Series of Boston, Inc.
Boston, MA
$25,000
To support the presentation of modern and classical dance companies. The project is a collaboration between Celebrity Series and the Wang Center for the Performing Arts, and will include educational activities.

Cleo Parker Robinson Dance (New Dance Theatre, Inc.)
Denver, CO
$15,000
To support the creation and presentation of several works and artist residencies. The company will host artists Abdel Salaam, Bill T. Jones and Jawole Willa Jo Zollar to choreograph and conduct workshops and master classes.

COCA (Center of Contemporary Arts)
St. Louis, MO
$10,000
To support the presentation of dance companies and related residency activities. The Family Theatre series will include Step Afrika, Philadanco and MOMIX.

Colorado Ballet Company
Denver, CO
$10,000
To support the commissioning of a new work. Doug Varone will create the work, which will be presented at the Joyce Theater in New York.

Columbia College (on behalf of The Dance Center)
Chicago, IL
$25,000
To support dance presentation projects. Artists and companies will be in residence offering community engagement and public education programs.

Columbia Festival of the Arts
Columbia, MD
$10,000
To support a year-long residency project for a hip-hop dance company with a history of working with inner-city youth. Rennie Harris Puremovement will present Facing Mekka and will work with low income teens to develop their own works.

Contemporary Dance Theater, Inc.
Cincinnati, OH
$10,000
To support the presentation of artists. Local and national artists will be presented along with residency activities in the Guest Artist Series.

Cross Performance, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support research, community engagement and artistic development of a new work. House: Part 3 of the Geography Trilogy, choreographed by Ralph Lemon, will explore the complicated past and the rich folk culture of the Southern U.S.

Cunningham Dance Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$90,000
To support the creation and presentation of a major new work by Merce Cunningham. The work will be created in collaboration with a music group and visual artist Robert Rauschenberg.

Curran Events, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the presentation of Sean Curran Company at the New Victory Theater. The company will perform a world premiere and repertory works.

Dallas Black Dance Theatre
Dallas, TX
$20,000
To support a New York residency. The residency will include public performances and several outreach activities in schools, churches and community centers.

Dance Continuum, Inc.
Putnam Valley, NY
$10,000
To support creation and presentation of new works choreographed by Susan Marshall. Sleeping Beauty and True Stories will premiere in at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival and then tour nationally.

Dance Place (D.C. Wheel Productions, Inc.)
Washington, DC
$25,000
To support performances and residencies by dance artists. The series will feature a roster of culturally and aesthetically diverse dancers and companies.

Dance Theater Workshop, Inc.
New York, NY
$70,000
To support an extended-run production series in Dance Theater Workshop's new performance center. The Carnival program features artists at various stages in their careers, and TheMainEvent series will present established, mid-career artists.

Dance Umbrella
Austin, TX
$20,000
To support the presentation of dance events. All artists will participate in residencies that will include professional-level master classes and workshops, pre- and post-performance discussions, panels and lecture demonstrations.

DANCECleveland (Cleveland Modern Dance Association)
Cleveland, OH
$15,000
To support presentations and extended educational residencies. Artists to be presented include Doug Varone & Dancers, Pilobolus Dance Theater, Gina Gibney Dance, Creach/Company, Twyla Tharp Dance and Garth Fagan Dance.

Dancers' Group (on behalf of Robert Moses' KIN)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new work. The piece will be the first part in a series of new works that looks at man's inhumanity to man, and will continue the choreographer's exploration of religion and spirituality.

Dansology, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the creation of the third piece in a trilogy. The Anatomy of Happiness will be a multi media dance work, with choreography and music by Artistic Director Koosil-ja Hwang and video by Caspar Stracke.

Danspace Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
To support the sixth year of City/Dans. The program supports New York choreographers through various stages of their development and provides audiences with a deeper understanding of dance.

David Dorfman Dance (Art Sweats, Inc.)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of a suite of new solos and duets by Artistic Director David Dorfman. The new works, designed to be performed together or independently, will become part of the company's active touring repertory.

David Gordon/Pick Up Performance Company
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the creation and presentation of two new works. Choreographed by David Gordon, the works will premiere in New York City.

Dayton Contemporary
Dayton, OH
$35,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new work. The work will be a collaboration between choreographer Ronald K. Brown and jazz musician/composer Mulgrew Miller, and will premiere with Miller's jazz ensemble.

Donna Uchizono Company (La Donna Dance, Inc.)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of new work. Choreographer Donna Uchizono will create a work that examines the ideas of letting go.

Dova, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the presentation of Doug Varone and Dancers at the Joyce Theater. The engagement will include the creation and presentation of a new work, Deconstructing English, as well as a New York premiere, a revival and current repertory dances.

Eiko & Koma (Inta, Inc.)
New York, NY
$30,000
To support a new evening-length work suitable for intimate venues. Instead of constructing an elaborate set, Koma will create a series of pastels that will be distributed to the audience as keepsakes.

Everett Dance Theatre
Providence, RI
$12,000
To support the creation of a new evening-length work focusing on home and family. The piece will look at the stories of the individual family to uncover universal themes such as mental health, substance abuse, isolation and assimilation.

Evidence, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the reconstruction and tour of the evening-length piece Dirt Road. The piece combines music and dance with text by the poets Essex Hemphill and Donald Woods, and choreographer Ronald K. Brown.

Florida Dance Association Inc.
Miami Beach, FL
$35,000
To support the 25th annual Florida Dance Festival. The program offers training for dance students and teachers, provides creative and collaborative opportunities for dance artists and presents public performances.

Foundation for Dance Promotion, Inc.
New York, NY
$60,000
To support a self-produced performance and residency in Harlem, New York. The project will include performances at Aaron Davis Hall and audience development activities.

House Foundation for the Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
To support the remounting and presentation of Artistic Director Meredith Monk's ATLAS: an opera in three parts. The piece will be presented at the University of California, Los Angeles and Berkeley.

Houston Ballet Foundation
Houston, TX
$40,000
To support the world premiere of dance works. Choreographers Ben Stevenson, Paul Taylor and Trey McIntyre will create the works.

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
Chicago, IL
$30,000
To support the creation and presentation of new works and acquisitions during the company's 25th anniversary. The works will be presented during the company's spring engagement at the Ford Center of the Performing Arts Oriental Theatre.

Images of Cultural Artistry Inc.
Washington, DC
$10,000
To support the presentation of African and African-American dance. Dancing in the Circle of Our Ancestors will occur during the International Association of Blacks in Dance conference.

Institute for Spanish Arts
Santa Fe, NM
$10,000
To support a spring tour around the country. The project will begin at the Joyce Theatre in New York and culminate in a grand finale at the Lensic Performing Arts Center in Santa Fe.

Intersection for the Arts (on behalf of Summerfest/dance)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the presentation of the 12th annual summer series. The project will include works by Bay Area choreographers at the Cowell Theater.

Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Inc.
Lee, MA
$70,000
To support the residencies and performances of dance companies. Six artists will be presented during the series Breaking Ground in Context.

James Sewell Ballet (Ballet Works, Inc.)
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
To support performance and education activities in Rochester and St. Cloud, Minnesota. In Rochester, the company will perform at the Mayo Civic Center and teach master classes at the Rochester Ballet School, and in St. Cloud the company will perform at the Paramount Theater.

Jazz Tap Ensemble Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
To support Jazz Tap Ensemble: The Next Generation II. Artistic Director Lynn Dally will mentor the choreographic development of young artists.

JAZZDANCE by Danny Buraczeski
Minneapolis, MN
$15,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new work. Danny Buraczeski will choreograph the work using Judy Garland as an inspiration.

Joe Goode Performance Group
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by Artistic Director Joe Goode. Folk will focus on the lives of rural Americans and will be set to music inspired by Celtic music and early blue grass.

Joffrey Ballet of Chicago, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$30,000
To support the presentation of historic ballets from the Ballets Russes. The ballets include Les Noces, Parade and Le Sacre du Printemps.

John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Washington, DC
$30,000
To support a festival presentation of ballet companies. The International Ballet Festival will include a variety of educational and outreach initiatives.

John Jasperse Company (Thin Man Dance, Inc.)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the second phase of a creation of a new work. The evening-length work examining the hierarchical mode of perception will premiere in Germany.

John Kelly & Co. (Dagmar Collective, Inc.)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the final creation of a dance theater work by John Kelly, in collaboration with lyricist Mark Campbell and composer Michael Torke. The Paradise Project is an inspiration from the 1945 French film Les Enfant du Paradis (Children of Paradise) by Marcel Carne.

Jose Limon Dance Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the commission and presentation of a work by an international choreographer. German choreographer Susanne Linke will collaborate with composer Wolfgang Bley-Borkowski and designer Marion Williams to create the work.

Joyce Theater Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$70,000
To support dance presentation projects at the Joyce Theater. The projects include the Altogether Different series, the Dance Presentation Program and Joyce Soho Presents.

Kansas City Ballet Association, Inc.
Kansas City, MO
$20,000
To support the presentation of works by choreographers. Merce Cunningham's Duets, Jerome Robbins' Afternoon of a Faun, Nacho Duato's Jardi Tancat and Alonzo King's Handel Trio will be part of the company's 45th anniversary.

Ko-Thi, Inc.
Milwaukee, WI
$20,000
To support two annual festivals. The Kuumba and Harvest Festivals will be held at the Pabst Theater.

LINES Contemporary Ballet
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by Artistic Director Alonzo King. The piece will be based on folk music from the American South and will premiere at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

Lubovitch Dance Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of a world premiere by Lar Lubovitch. The work will be presented during the company's 35th anniversary at City Center Theater with re-creations of earlier work.

Margaret Jenkins Dance Studio, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by Margaret Jenkins. Delay 2 will premiere during the company's 30th anniversary season.

Mark Morris Dance Group (Discalced, Inc.)
Brooklyn, NY
$60,000
To support the creation of new works by Mark Morris. The works will be set to the music of 20th century composers Olivier Messiaen, Darius Milhaud and Igor Stravinsky.

Miami City Ballet, Inc.
Miami Beach, FL
$30,000
To support the presentation of a world premiere. The Neighborhood Ballroom, choreographed by Artistic Director Edward Villella, is a new work in four acts.

Miami Light Project, Inc.
Miami, FL
$5,000
To support the creation and presentation of an evening-length dance theater work. Hip-Hop Elements will be choreographed by Miami-based Ricardo "Speedy Legs" Fernandez.

Movement Research, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the 11th Improvisation Festival/NY. The festival is a celebration of dance improvisation, and will offer performances, classes, workshops, educational outreach and panel discussions.

Nashville City Ballet
Nashville, TN
$10,000
To support the creation of new works. Choreographers Heather Maloy and James Buckley, as well as Artist Director Paul Vasterling, will choreograph the works to music by faculty members of Vanderbilt's Blair School of Music.

National Performance Network, Inc.
New Orleans, LA
$70,000
To support the creation of work and dance touring. The project will include dance residencies and related educational and outreach activities in over 21 communities throughout the United States.

New Orleans Ballet Association
New Orleans, LA
$15,000
To support the presentation of a series of dance companies representing modern, ballet and ethnic dance. National, international and local dance companies will perform in 17 concerts.

New York City Ballet, Inc.
New York, NY
$100,000
To support the New York Choreographic Institute. The Institute provides both established and pre professional choreographers with the resources to experiment with the process of creating new work.

North Carolina Dance Theatre
Charlotte, NC
$10,000
To support the presentation of a work. The company will present Na Floresta, by Spanish choreographer Nacho Duato.

Oakland Ballet Association, Inc.
Oakland, CA
$10,000
To support the commission of a new holiday production. The work will be choreographed by Siri Sat Nam Singh.

ODC Theater
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the first San Francisco International Festival of Contemporary Dance. The Festival will present emerging artists from the San Francisco Bay area and from around the world.

Pacific Northwest Ballet Association
Seattle, WA
$45,000
To support the world premiere of a new production of Swan Lake. Choreographed by Kent Stowell, the new production will coincide with the opening of Marion Oliver McCaw Hall, the new home of Pacific Northwest Ballet.

Pascal Rioult Dance Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the re-creation and presentation of Harvest. The 10-year old piece was originally performed to a score by folk composer Douggie MacLean.

Pat Graney Company
Seattle, WA
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new work. The Vivian Girls, inspired by artist Henry Darger, will be choreographed by Pat Graney, with music by Amy Denio and Irish musician Martin Hayes.

Paul Taylor Dance Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$90,000
To support the creation and touring of work by Paul Taylor. The project will include a joint performance by the Taylor Company and the Houston Ballet at the Kennedy Center.

Pennsylvania Ballet Association
Philadelphia, PA
$25,000
To support the presentation of ballet. The company will premiere The Firebird, choreographed by James Kudelka, and Concerto 488, by Lila York.

Philadanco (Philadelphia Dance Company, Inc.)
Philadelphia, PA
$35,000
To support the commissioning of a new work. Alonzo King will create the work, which will appear during the company's residency at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts.

Pilobolus, Inc.
Washington Depot, CT
$10,000
To support a collaboration to create a new work. Pilobolus will work with the St. Lawrence String Quartet and composer Christos Hatzsis to create The Gathering.

Pittsburgh Dance Alloy
Pittsburgh, PA
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of new works. The project will include choreography by Bebe Miller, Galina Borissova, and Mark Taylor; a production by Sarah Skaggs; and the commissioning of a new score by composer Alice Shields.

Pittsburgh Trust for Cultural Resources (on behalf of Pittsburgh Dance Council)
Pittsburgh, PA
$20,000
To support the presentation of dance companies. Participants include Dayton Contemporary Dance Co., Grupo Corpo Brazilian Dance Theatre, Streb/Ringside, George Piper Dances and Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Co.

Ragamala Music and Dance Theater
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
To support the presentation of a work. Bhakti (Devotion), choreographed by Associate Artistic Director Aparna Ramaswamy, will be presented at the Southern Theater.

Regents of the University of California at Berkeley (on behalf of Cal Performances)
Berkeley, CA
$30,000
To support the commissioning of work, performances and residency activities of dance companies. The Dance Masters project will include the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and the Mark Morris Dance Group.

Richmond Ballet
Richmond, VA
$25,000
To support the Studio Theatre Series. The program will present works by emerging choreographers for a total of 40 performances.

Ririe-Woodbury Dance Foundation
Salt Lake City, UT
$10,000
To support a residency at the University of Utah with choreographer Carolyn Carlson. The teaching residency and creative workshop will include the development of a full-length work.

San Francisco Ballet Association
San Francisco, CA
$80,000
To support the presentation of work. The project will include company premieres of works by George Balanchine and Frederick Ashton, and an evening-length ballet by Mark Morris.

Shapiro & Smith Dance (Contemporary Dance Arts, Inc.)
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new work. The work will juxtapose the classic and contemporary figures of Medea.

Southern Theater Foundation
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
To support the presentation of dance companies. The presentations will be part of Word in Motion, a series of family-focused workshops.

Spanish Dance Arts Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the presentation of a retrospective of the company's work. The retrospective is being created to celebrate the company's 20th anniversary in 2003.

Stephen Petronio Company
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the presentation and touring of new works. Stephen Petronio will collaborate with visual artists Cindy Sherman, Donald Baechler and Stephen Hannock to create Fallen Man, Rock Star and Stupid Cowboy.

Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, Inc.
Tampa, FL
$20,000
To support the residency of The Washington Ballet. The project will include performances, a new work, master classes, student workshops and community outreach.

The Field (Performance Zone, Inc.) (on behalf of Tere O'Connor Dance)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of an evening-length work. Choreographed by Tere O'Connor, the work will intermingle dance and film with environmental themes, and will include residencies in New York, Virginia and Massachusetts.

Tigertail Productions, Inc.
Miami, FL
$5,000
To support dance presentations during the 9th Tigertail Florida/Brazil and Guests Festival. The Festival will include performances, workshops, panels and symposia focusing on the Asian diaspora.

Trisha Brown Dance Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$60,000
To support the creation of a new work. The work will premiere at the International Festival de la Danse in Cannes, France.

Tulsa Ballet Theatre, Inc.
Tulsa, OK
$10,000
To support a repertory program of commissioned works. Choreographers Nicolo Fonte, Val Caniparoli and Mauricio Wainrot will create one-act ballets for the Festival of Creations program.

University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA
$15,000
To support commissions and presentations by dance companies. Hancher Auditorium will present Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, Paul Taylor Dance Company and the Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Tawain.

Velocity Dance Center
Seattle, WA
$10,000
To support a national dance touring alliance. The project will enable dance companies in Seattle, WA; San Francisco, CA; Philadelphia, PA; and Minneapolis, MN to perform in each city.

Washington Ballet
Washington, DC
$20,000
To support the commissioning of a new ballet by Trey McIntyre. The work will convey a dream journey set to popular music and will premiere at the Kennedy Center.

White Bird
Portland, OR
$15,000
To support the presentation of dance companies as part of The White Bird/Portland State University Dance Series. The series will include workshops and a co-commissioned work.

World Music, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
$15,000
To support dance residencies and the presentation of Boston-based dance companies. The project will include performances, master classes, workshops, conversations with Boston choreographers and post-concert sessions.

WPAS (Washington Performing Arts Society)
Washington, DC
$25,000
To support dance presentations and residency activities. Companies will perform at Dance Place, George Washington University's Lisner Auditorium and the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland.

Yard, Inc.
Chilmark, MA $5,000
To support the Bessie Schoenberg Choreographers and Dancers Residency and a company residency. Four emerging choreographers and eight dancers will be in residence for five weeks and two dance companies will be in residence for four weeks.

Zaccho SF
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the presentation of an evening-length work. Dances Around the House will be created by choreographers Remy Charlip and Joanna Haigood, and will premiere at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

Zorongo Flamenco Dance Theatre
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new work. The work, titled Manton, will be choreographed by Artistic Director Susana di Palma.

Zvi Gotheiner and Dancers
New York, NY
$10,000
To support a national tour and related residency activities. The company will tour Rites, choreographed by Artistic Director Zvi Gotheiner.

DESIGN

Architectural League of New York
New York, NY
$25,000
To support WorldView reports. The reports include web-based presentations on the architecture and urban design of cities and regions around the world.

Center for the Study of Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
$50,000
To support the City Projects film series. The series will examine Los Angeles' reaction to the built environment.

Harlem Textile Works, Ltd.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support Design as Enterprise. Master artists will provide young designers and artists the opportunity to learn design practices and marketable job skills in the creation of fabric designs.

Kent State University Main Campus
Kent, OH
$20,000
To support a design charrette to generate concepts for Cleveland's Lake Erie waterfront. The charrette will stimulate public discussion about the lakefront site and opportunities for its redevelopment.

Museum of Contemporary Art
Chicago, IL
$40,000
To support the commission of a temporary structure in the museum's public plaza. The project seeks to create innovative works of architecture and to educate new audiences about design and public space.

Museum of Modern Art
New York, NY
$35,000
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 and designers.

Regents of the University of California at Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA
$35,000
To support a publication and educational outreach project for a Mobile Dwelling Unit. The installation will be explore the conversion of a standard shipping container into a home.

Skyscraper Museum
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the commission of an architectural installation at the Skyscraper Museum. Artist James Turrell and architect Roger Duffy will create an entrance canopy that employs light to define space and volume.

Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences
Staten Island, NY
$25,000
To support an exhibition on the Snug Harbor Cultural Center. The exhibition will include historical, archival and newly commissioned work to demonstrate contemporary art and its meaning in a historical setting.

Storefront for Art and Architecture
New York, NY
$30,000
To support a traveling exhibition Architecture of the Cuban Revolution, 1959-1969. Featuring over 100 photographs taken from 1959 to 1969, the exhibit will include a lecture series, panel discussion and publication.

TNS (The Natural Step)
San Francisco, CA
$35,000
To support the research and development of a sustainable product design approach and toolkit. Case studies for sustainable product design will be documented and disseminated through a publication and articles in appropriate design journals.

University of Illinois at Chicago (on behalf of City Design Center)
Chicago, IL
$35,000
To support Out of the Box: Design Innovations in Manufactured Housing, an exhibition and catalog featuring low-cost housing. Nationally recognized designers have been invited to consider innovation in design, materials and manufacturing techniques for low-cost, factory-built housing.

Van Alen Institute: Projects in Public Architecture
New York, NY
$25,000
To support New Directions, a touring exhibition and accompanying publication. The project will present public spaces that reveal innovative thinking in urban design, planning and programming.

William Marsh Rice University
Houston, TX
$35,000
To support the development, creation and presentation of an adaptive, web-based master plan for Houston's Fifth Ward. The plan will assist this older, inner-city neighborhood to direct development forces in a manner sensitive to the current residents and built environment.

FOLK & TRADITIONAL ARTS

Arpana Dance Company
Irvine, CA
$7,000
To support the creation of a new work, Life as a River. Through the traditional dance form of Bharata Natyam, this work will present the essence of prose, poetry, legend and music referencing the River Ganga.

Asia Society
New York, NY
$35,000
To support a local tour of traditional Burmese music and dance performances and workshops. Performances will include traditional chamber music, outdoor ceremonial music and pagoda festival music featuring a hsain wain ensemble.

City of Monroe
Monroe, LA
$20,000
To support the Louisiana Folklife Festival. Based on targeted fieldwork and research, this annual festival celebrates the folklife of La. and the surrounding region.

Master Musicians Festival, Inc.
Somerset, KY
$10,000
To support the 2003 Master Musicians Festival. The festival presents performers of many cultures alongside indigenous musicians, simultaneously promoting diversity and the region's rich musical heritage.

National Council for the Traditional Arts
Silver Spring, MD
$46,000
To support a series of touring concerts and accompanying educational and outreach programs featuring traditional artists. The tour is designed to create new ways for presenters to work together to increase the effectiveness and reach of touring programs and provide opportunities to reach new audiences.

NNABA (Northwest Native American Basketweavers Association)
Omak, WA
$20,000
To support the 2003 Master Basketweavers Gathering. The gathering will honor 35 Native American master basketweavers by showcasing their basketry, demonstrating artistic styles and producing a public art market.

Northwest Folklife Festival
Seattle, WA
$30,000
To support the Maritime Cultures in the Atlantic Northeast and the Pacific Northwest project. Curatorial teams from each region will help determine programming for the 2003 Northwest Folklife Festival showcasing the conservation of maritime culture.

Philadelphia Folklore Project
Philadelphia, PA
$40,000
To support Philly Dance Africa. The project identifies, presents, links and advances significant contemporary local African dancers and musicians.

Puerto Rican Folkloric Dance, Inc.
Austin, TX
$10,000
To support Jibaro music and dance workshops. The workshops will be led by Joaquin Nieves Caldero and the Guateque Folkloric Ballet of Puerto Rico and will culminate in a series of concerts.

Radio Bilingue, Inc.
Fresno, CA
$46,000
To support the !Viva El Mariachi! Festival. The annual festival showcases local, national and international mariachi groups while providing workshops so that mariachi masters can pass along the rich, musical heritage.

Texas Folklife Resources
Austin, TX
$46,000
To support the Community Residency Program. The program will consist of 15 week-long residencies in underserved Texas towns with populations under 10,000.

Young Women's Christian Association
Duluth, MN
$30,000
To support Dance, Dance Music and the Culture of Dance. The programming module will appear at major regional folk festivals in Minnesota and Iowa, presenting traditional dance, music and visual arts related to folk dance and music.

LITERATURE

'A 'A Arts
Philadelphia, PA
$5,000
To support publication costs and related expenses for a special issue of Chain devoted to translation. The issue will feature multiple translations of selected works and statements from translators about the process of translation.

92nd Street Y (Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association)
New York, NY
$50,000
To support the Unterberg Poetry Center Reading Series, featuring readings, performances, literary tributes and live interviews. The center also will present first American readings of new works of verse drama.

Alice James Poetry Cooperative, Inc.
Farmington, ME
$25,000
To support the publication of poetry titles selected from two competitions: the Beatrice Hawley Award and the New York/New England Award. Selected poets will read from their works at venues around the country.

American Poetry Review
Philadelphia, PA
$15,000
To support publication and national distribution of The American Poetry Review. The journal will seek to increase its distribution to more than 2,000 bookstores and newsstands around the country.

Arroyo Arts Collective
Los Angeles, CA
$6,000
To support Poetry in the Windows, a project to display multilingual poetry posters along a major commercial corridor in Los Angeles. The collective will distribute 1,000 brochures describing the featured poems and reach an estimated audience of 15,000 people during June of 2003.

Aunt Lute Foundation
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support the publication and promotion of an anthology of 20th century U.S. women writers. Writers featured in the anthology will conduct readings around the country of their own work and work of earlier U.S. women writers who influenced them.

Bamboo Ridge Press
Honolulu, HI
$10,000
To support publication, promotion and distribution costs for issues of Bamboo Ridge. Proposed issues include a 25th anniversary edition and a special issue on Hawaiian writers of Korean heritage.

Bard College (on behalf of Conjunctions)
Annandale-Hudson, NY
$15,000
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.

BOA Editions, Ltd.
Rochester, NY
$50,000
To support the production, promotion and related expenses for new volumes of poetry. Scheduled poets to be published include Willis Barnstone, Wayne Dodd and Louis Simpson.

CALYX, Inc.
Corvallis, OR
$20,000
To support publication and promotion of issues of Calyx, a journal of art and literature by women. The journal will increase honoraria to writers and artists, launch a direct mail subscription campaign and coordinate a reading series for emerging Calyx authors.

Coffee House Press
Minneapolis, MN
$50,000
To support the publication, promotion and national distribution of new collections of poetry. Scheduled writers include Wang Ping, Lorenzo Thomas, Brenda Coultas and Yuko Taniguchi.

Contemporary Arts Educational Project, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
To support the publication and promotion of six plays by contemporary American playwrights as part of the Green Integer series. Scheduled playwrights include Kelly Stuart, Pedro Pietri, Fiona Templeton, John O'Keefe, Mac Wellman and Naomi Iizuka.

Copper Canyon Press
Port Townsend, WA
$65,000
To support the publication, promotion and national distribution of books of poetry in translation. The list will include bilingual editions of classic works, new editions of out-of-print translations, essays on the art of translation and reissues of significant backlist collections.

Curbstone Press, Inc.
Willimantic, CT
$20,000
To support the translation and publication of poetry and fiction by writers from Vietnam, Guatemala, Cuba and the Dominican Republic. Curbstone Press will sponsor readings by international writers in bookstores, libraries, schools and communities with large minority populations.

Feminist Press, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the publication and national distribution of books in the International Women's Writing Project. The press will publish books by writers in Japan, Iran and northern India, and the anthology Women on War.

Fiction Collective Two
Tallahassee, FL
$10,000
To support the publication, promotion and national distribution of new works of fiction. The press will promote the books through direct mail, press releases to city and community newspapers and author readings nationwide.

Graywolf Press
St. Paul, MN
$70,000
To support the publication, promotion and national distribution of volumes of poetry and creative nonfiction. Scheduled authors include Tony Hoagland, Kim Stafford, Elizabeth Alexander, Vijay Seshadri, and Jorie Graham.

Guild Complex
Chicago, IL
$12,000
To support Poetry Multiplied, a reading series for 2003. Proposed participants include Jimmy Santiago Baca, August Wilson, Jessica Hagedorn and Cornelius Eady.

Howard County Poetry and Literature Society, Inc.
Columbia, MD
$20,000
To support the presentation and promotion of writers' residencies and television interviews featuring nationally recognized authors. Proposed authors include Julia Alvarez, Michael Chabon, Billy Collins, Elizabeth Spires, Stanley Plumly, Reuben Jackson, Henry Taylor, Paul Muldoon, Seamus Heaney and Michael Collier.

Hudson Valley Writers' Center, Inc.
Sleepy Hollow, NY
$10,000
To support the Literary Presentation Series, featuring live readings by distinguished writers. The readings will be held at the restored Philipse Manor Railroad on the Hudson River and Sunnyside, the historic home of Washington Irving in Tarrytown, New York.

Humanities Tennessee
Nashville, TN
$15,000
To support The Southern Festival of Books: A Celebration of the Written Word in 2003. With an annual audience of 30,000, this free, three-day festival features readings and panel sessions by more than 200 authors.

Intersection for the Arts
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the presentation and promotion of writers' residencies in San Francisco. Proposed artists include bell hooks, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Dave Eggers and Ruben Martinez.

Just Buffalo Literary Center, Inc.
Buffalo, NY
$15,000
To support readings, residencies and outreach programs throughout the Greater Buffalo area. Proposed participants include Jewelle Gomez, Jessica Hagedorn, Sonia Sanchez, Kimiko Hahn, Jim Carroll, Dorothy Allison and Victor Hernandez Cruz.

Loft, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$45,000
To support the Minnesota Program for Writers, which provides workshops and mentors for emerging writers throughout the state. The program features The Mentor Series, which connects nationally recognized writers with local writers; and Talking Volumes, presenting recent original work by advanced writers.

Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College
Baton Rouge, LA
$30,000
To support production costs and related expenses for books of poetry. Scheduled titles include Dabney Stuart's The Man Who Loved Cezanne, David Huddle's Grayscale, Catharine Brosman's The Muscled Truce and R.T. Smith's Brightwood.

Milkweed Editions, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$55,000
To support the publication, promotion and national distribution of volumes of poetry and creative nonfiction by mid-career writers. Scheduled authors include Deborah Keenan, Janisse Ray, John Caddy, Gary Paul Nabhan, Bill Holm, David Brendan Hopes and Paul Gruchow.

Mountain Writers Series
Portland, OR
$30,000
To support readings, residencies and special events throughout the Pacific Northwest region. Proposed authors include Alice Fulton, Robert Hass, Jane Hirshfield, Yusef Komunyakaa, Li-Young Lee, W.S. Merwin, Sharon Olds, Carl Phillips and Sherman Alexie.

National Poetry Series, Inc.
Princeton, NJ
$10,000
To support judging fees and publication costs for volumes of poetry selected from the National Poetry Series Open Competition. Chosen by poets, the winning manuscripts will be published by HarperCollins, Louisiana State Univ. Press, Sun & Moon Press, the Univ. of Illinois Press and Viking Penguin.

Open City, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support publication and related costs, including artists' fees, for issues of Open City. New issues will include fiction, poetry and essays from contributors such as Lev Rubinshtein, Lara Vapnyar, Amine Zaitzeff, James Lasdun and Alicia Erian.

Ploughshares, Inc.
Boston, MA
$16,000
To support the publication and national circulation of issues of Ploughshares to 6,000 readers across the country. The Winter 2003-04 and Spring 2004 issues will feature new work by 70 poets and 12 fiction writers.

Poetry Center of Chicago
Chicago, IL
$7,500
To support readings featuring emerging and nationally renowned writers. Proposed participants include Rita Dove, Li-Young Lee, Jose Saramago, Anne Waldman, Yusef Komunyakaa, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, David Mamet and Stephen Dunn.

Poetry Project, Ltd.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the Monday Night and Wednesday Night Reading and Performance Series, featuring more than 100 poets and performers. Writers under consideration include Paul Auster, Quincy Troupe, Maxine Chernoff, Arthur Sze, Robert Creeley and Barbara Guest.

Poetry Slam, Inc.
Whitmore Lake, MI
$20,000
To support the 14th Annual National Poetry Slam in Chicago, Ill. This four-day festival will showcase more than 250 poets from across the nation and abroad to an estimated audience of 10,000.

Rain Taxi Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
To support the publication, promotion and national distribution of issues of Rain Taxi Review of Books. The quarterly magazine has a current national circulation of 20,000 copies.

Sarabande Books, Inc.
Louisville, KY
$25,000
To support the publication and promotion of collections of poetry and short fiction. Sarabande will create readers' guides that include interviews, discussion questions, and biographical and review material, and will make the authors available for online chats.

Seattle Arts & Lectures
Seattle, WA
$10,000
To support a series of readings and lectures in Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington. Proposed participants include Carol Anne Duffy, Louise Gluck, Linda Gregg, Susan Howe, Galway Kinnell, Yusef Komunyakaa, Paul Muldoon, Harriet Mullen and Carl Phillips.

Texas A&M Research Foundation
College Station, TX
$38,000
To support Writing the Self and Community, a series of public readings and writing workshops organized by the journal Callaloo. The journal will sponsor two-week summer workshops at Texas A&M University, and one-day workshops at historically black colleges and universities around the country.

Texas Book Festival
Austin, TX
$10,000
To support readings and panel discussions by prominent authors participating in the 2003 Texas Book Festival. The festival will feature such writers as Michael Cunningham, Ai, Rudolfo Anaya, Sandra Cisneros, Jimmy Santiago Baca and Frank McCourt.

The Idaho Review (Boise State University)
Boise, ID
$7,500
To support the production and promotion of issues of The Idaho Review. The journal will promote its issues through direct mail, a public reading and a short story contest.

The Missouri Review (University of Missouri at Columbia)
Columbia, MO
$25,000
To support publication, promotion and related expenses for issues of The Missouri Review. The magazine will enhance its web site, increase authors' fees and target 50,000 potential readers through a national direct mail campaign.

Threepenny Review
Berkeley, CA
$20,000
To support authors' fees and promotional costs for issues of the Threepenny Review. Featuring work by 100 established and emerging writers, the proposed issues will be promoted through a direct mail subscription campaign targeting 100,000 readers.

University of Hawaii at Manoa
Honolulu, HI
$20,000
To support publication, promotion, distribution and related expenses for issues of Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing. Scheduled issues will feature Cambodian and Cambodian-American writing and postmodern Chinese fiction.

University of Iowa Press (University of Iowa)
Iowa City, IA
$8,000
To support publication costs and related expenses for two winning selections from the Iowa Short Fiction Award competition. Titles will be selected by Jayne Anne Phillips, author of Machine Dreams.

University of Nebraska Press (University of Nebraska at Lincoln)
Lincoln, NE
$50,000
To support the publication and distribution of literary work in translation. The press will publish anthologies of new French-African short stories, Islandic Literature and contemporary Jewish writing from Sweden and Brazil.

White Pine Inc.
Buffalo, NY
$30,000
To support the translation, publication and promotion of titles in the World of Voices Project. White Pine will market the series through targeted mailings and print ads, and will continue to upgrade its web site to include book excerpts, reviews and study guides.

Women's Review, Inc.
Wellesley, MA
$10,000
To support publication costs for two special issues of The Women's Review of Books. The special issues will focus on women and aging.

Woodland Pattern Book Center
Milwaukee, WI
$25,000
To support a series of readings, exhibits and workshops in Milwaukee's inner city. Proposed visiting authors include Kathleen Fraser, Ed Friedman, Suheir Hammad, Lisa Jarnot, Joanne Kyger, Nathaniel Mackay, Sianne Ngai, Anne Waldman and Luci Tapahonso.

Writer's Center
Bethesda, MD
$10,000
To support readings and workshops in rural towns in Maryland and Virginia. Proposed visiting writers include Cynthia Ozick, Jane Smiley, Stanley Plumly, Thomas Lux, E. Ethlebert Miller and Henry Taylor.

The Writers Room, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support subsidized work space for emerging writers using the Writers Room, an urban writer's colony in New York City. For $225 each per quarter year, The Writers Room provides 400 authors with workspace 24 hours a day.

The Writers' Room of Boston, Inc.
Boston, MA
$5,000
To support subsidized workspace for emerging writers using the Writers' Room of Boston. For $175 each per quarter year, the Writers' Room of Boston provides 40 authors with workspace 24 hours a day.

ZYZZYVA, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the publication, promotion and related costs for issues of Zyzzyva, a magazine featuring the work of West Coast writers. Each issue includes approximately 20 writers, one-third of whom have never been in print.

LOCAL ARTS AGENCIES

Arts Council of Fayetteville/Cumberland County, Inc.
Fayetteville, NC
$35,000
To support the commissioning of Star Gate 2003, a kinetic sculpture by internationally known artist Tom Grubb. The creation of the sculpture will be the focal point of the arts component of the Festival of Flight celebration commemorating the Wright Brothers' first flight in 1903.

Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support Migrations: Humanity in Transition and The Children of Sebastiao Salgado, a photographic survey. As part of its national and international tour, the exhibition will be presented in the main exhibit hall of the Chicago Cultural Center and at the Harold Washington Library Center.

Churchill Arts Council
Fallon, NV
$15,000
To support a series of performances at the Oats Park Art Center Theatre. The series will consist of four jazz concerts by artists including piano trios and female vocalists, as well as improvisational world music.

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Inc.
New York, NY
$55,000
To support an exhibition and publication project and the newly designed Downtown Residency Program. The exhibition and publication reflect the diverse body of work created through the Council's World Trade Center (WTC) artist residency program from 1997 through 2001.

Westchester Arts Council
White Plains, NY
$30,000
To support the commissioning of a series of site-specific installations by regional artists. Four works will be selected by an independent curator and panel that will respond to the historic significance, scale and architectural details of the Arts Exchange's Grand Banking Room.

MEDIA ARTS

(BAVC) Bay Area Video Coalition, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
To support the Videomaker Awards and the Artist-in-Residence Program. These programs will provide independent video artists and producers with critical technical assistance and the resources they need to finish their projects.

911 Media Arts Center
Seattle, WA
$17,500
To support the Artists-in-Residence Program. Through equipment access and technical support, the program nurtures emerging and established media artists in the creative use of new technologies.

African Film Festival, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the 9th New York African Film Festival and its national tour. The program will present the most accomplished African films from the past 20 years, including a retrospective of Abderrahmane Sissako's career.

American Film Institute Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$25,000
To support the Directing Workshop for Women. Each year, the program provides individuals with the necessary skills and portfolio to enter the directing field.

American Museum of the Moving Image
Astoria, NY
$15,000
To support three curated film series. World Film Showcase, Sound and Silents: Films in Two Versions, and New York Film Critics Series will include screenings of over 50 films and appearances by filmmakers and critics.

Ann Arbor Film Festival
Ann Arbor, MI
$15,000
To support the 41st Ann Arbor Film Festival. Over 125 films will be presented to an audience of over 30,000 people in Michigan and the states to which the festival tours.

Art Institute of Chicago (on behalf of Gene Siskel Film Center)
Chicago, IL
$35,000
To support a curated film series. Pan-Asian Cinema: A Non-Western Aesthetic will showcase work from Asia and the sub-continent.

Arts Engine, Inc. (on behalf of MediaRights.org)
New York, NY
$15,000
To support web-based information services for independent filmmakers. MediaRights.org's mission is to build bridges between documentary filmmakers and grassroots audiences.

Arts Engine, Inc. (on behalf of Big Mouth Productions)
New York, NY
$35,000
To support production and post-production costs for a documentary film by Kirsten Johnson. The Class of '72 will explore the lives of people who were on death row when the Supreme Court abolished the death penalty on June 29, 1972.

Asian CineVision, Inc.
New York, NY
$18,000
To support the Asian American International Film Festival. The festival will travel to 10 sites throughout the United States including Connecticut, Texas, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts.

Asian Media Access, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$5,000
To support the eighth annual Chinese Film Showcase. The curated film series will feature films and videos from Hong Kong, China and Taiwan.

Aspen Filmfest (Independent Films)
Aspen, CO
$14,000
To support the Aspen Shortsfest film festival. Short, live action, animation and documentary films from the United States and abroad will be showcased.

Association of Independents in Radio
Brooklyn, NY
$30,000
To support the Residency Project. Experienced radio producers will work at individual public radio stations to create new work on their own and with the staff at each station.

Austin Film Society (on behalf of Passage Productions)
Austin, TX
$10,000
To support post-production costs for a documentary film by Susanne Mason. Let It Roll: A History of the Texas Penitentiary recounts the inmate-led revolt against prison conditions in Texas during the 1960s and 1970s.

Austin Film Society
Austin, TX
$25,000
To support the presentation of a curated film and video series. Over 70 films will be shown to an estimated audience of 36,000 people.

Berks Filmmakers, Inc.
Reading, PA
$10,000
To support the exhibition of several curated film and video series. Programs will include avant-garde cinema, documentary and animation work, presentations by filmmakers and screenings of films by artists from the region.

BFVF (Boston Film Video Foundation, Inc.)
Brighton, MA
$25,000
To support professional and artistic development opportunities for media artists in the New England region. Through a comprehensive media arts education program, the Boston Film/Video Foundation (BFVF) provides a full range of services to its constituency.

Black Maria, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the production of an interactive cinema work by Grahame Weinbren. The Nights: An Arabesque, based on The Thousand and One Nights, will be an installation that allows viewers to navigate from one story to the next.

California Newsreel (Resolution, Inc.)
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
To support the television series Africa in the Picture. Resolution, working with PBS Plus, will package and present three African feature films during February 2003.

Chicago Filmmakers
Chicago, IL
$15,000
To support the Independent Film and Video Exhibition Series and the presentation of the Onion City Film Festival. The Independent Film and Video Exhibition Series places special emphasis on documentary and experimental work; the Onion City Film Festival presents experimental work.

Cine Accion
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the Cine Latino Film Festival. Over 90 films will be presented to an estimated audience of 5,000 people.

Cinema Arts Centre (New Community Cinema)
Huntington, NY
$10,000
To support a weekend film festival series. The programs will showcase African/African-American film and video, Latino/Hispanic films, works directed by women and a Chinese Film Festival.

Cinema Seattle
Seattle, WA
$10,000
To support the 8th annual Women in Cinema Film Festival. Approximately 35 films will be presented to an audience of over 7,000 people.

Cinema/Chicago
Chicago, IL
$15,000
To support the 39th Chicago International Film Festival. Over 60,000 people will see 125 films from around the world.

Cleveland International Film Festival, Inc.
Cleveland, OH
$25,000
To support the 27th annual Cleveland International Film Festival, including the sixth annual Midwest Independent Filmmakers Conference. The event presents current work from around the world and complements it with educational programs to increase the audience's understanding of, and appreciation for, the art form.

Columbia University Teachers College (on behalf of African Diaspora Film Festival)
New York, NY
$7,500
To support the African Diaspora Film Festival. The event will present over 50 films from the United States and abroad to an audience of over 4,000 people.

Day, Swing, Grave Productions
Culver City, CA
$20,000
To support production and post-production costs for a documentary film by Meena Nanji and Amie Williams. View Through a Grain of Sand will examine the lives of three women refugees from Afghanistan now living in Pakistan.

DC Productions, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support the production of a radio documentary series by Dan Collison. Homeplace will examine the meaning of home to Americans living in communities struggling to survive.

Denver Film Society
Denver, CO
$15,000
To support the 26th Denver International Film Festival. The event will present over 150 films from the United States and abroad to an audience of over 30,000 people.

Digital Innovations Group
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the second cycle of the Crossover program. The program combines the sensibilities and storytelling skills of independent filmmakers with the tools necessary to create interactive works.

Doc Arts, Inc.
Durham, NC
$20,000
To support the 6th Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. The event will showcase work by emerging, established and international documentarians.

Downtown Community Television Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support ConnecTV. The two-year training/mentorship program will provide up to 20 producers with disabilities the skills and resources to create their own television and Internet broadcasts.

Experimental Television Center, Ltd.
Newark Valley, NY
$10,000
To support a year-round residency program for media artists. The Experimental Television Center provides film and video artists access to sophisticated production facilities.

Facets Multi-Media, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$60,000
To support the annual Chicago International Children's Film Festival and related media arts programs for children. Activities will include animation workshops, a media arts camp, media literacy courses, curriculum development and special exhibitions of films for children and their families.

Film Arts Foundation (on behalf of Suzan Pitt Films)
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
To support the production of a narrative animated film by Suzan Pitt. El Doctor is the story of a very old doctor whose views are transformed when a fictional saint visits him.

Film Arts Foundation (on behalf of Manning Sax Productions)
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
To support production and post-production costs for a one-hour film by Erin Sax and Caitlin Manning. The Prison Show is about a 20-year-old call-in radio program that reaches inmates in Texas prisons and the community that has formed around the show.

Film Arts Foundation (on behalf of 3 Dogs Productions)
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
To support the post-production costs for an experimental documentary film by Naomi Uman. Mala Leche will examine the life of an immigrant family living in the small agricultural town of Pixley, California.

Film Arts Foundation
San Francisco, CA
$55,000
To support the Masters Project. Designed to assist mid-career media artists, the program will offer special workshops and seminars as well exhibition opportunities.

Film Arts Foundation (on behalf of Flower Films and Video)
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support the post-production costs for a documentary by Les Blank. White Feathers, Black Bones is about the life and vision of David Hoffman, an American tea importer.

Film Arts Foundation (on behalf of CineMamas Productions)
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support post-production costs for a one-hour documentary by Victoria Funari. Maquilopolis will profile women workers in Tijuana's assembly factories.

Film Arts Foundation
San Francisco, CA
$60,000
To support the Ninth Street Media Arts Consortium. Four media arts organizations, all housed in the same building, will share resources, staff and facilities that serve media artists and audiences.

Film Institute of Northern California (on behalf of the Mill Valley Film Festival)
Mill Valley, CA
$5,000
To support a curated film series. Cinema Africa, Wild Stories will take place during the 26th Mill Valley Film Festival.

Film Society of Lincoln Center
New York, NY
$45,000
To support Images Across the Divide. The curated film series will showcase films from Turkey, Spain and the Middle East.

Film/Video Arts, Inc.
Broadway, NY
$20,000
To support the Intern Program and the Artist Mentoring Project. In both programs, participants create individual film/video projects and have free access to on-site training, equipment and facilities, and career counseling.

Film/Video Arts, Inc. (on behalf of Chimpanzee Productions)
Broadway, NY
$60,000
To support the production of an experimental documentary film by Thomas Allen Harris. The Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela is about the first wave of exiles to leave South Africa in 1960 to tell the world about apartheid.

Foundation for Independent Video and Film
New York, NY
$45,000
To support the publication of The Independent Film and Video Monthly and its online companion resource. The nationally distributed magazine provides information on all aspects of independent film and video production including practical, aesthetic and scholarly articles.

Friends of the Mary Riepma Ross Film Theater, Inc.
Lincoln, NE
$10,000
To support the Great Plains Film Festival. The festival provides a showcase for film and video artists working in the American heartland.

Friends of Walter C. Pierce Community Park
Washington, DC
$15,000
To support the production of a radio series by Katie Davis. Neighborhood Stories will be composed of essays, sound portraits and oral histories of the Adams Morgan neighborhood of Washington, D.C.

IFP MSP (Independent Feature Project/North)
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
To support the purchase of film and video equipment for use by media artists in the region. Over 100 film and video makers are expected to benefit from the project.

IMAGE (Independent Media Artists of Georgia, Etc., Inc.)
Atlanta, GA
$10,000
To support the 27th Atlanta Film and Video Festival. The event presents the best of current independent film and video to an average audience of 13,000 people.

Independent Eye, Ltd.
Sebastopol, CA
$10,000
To support the production of a radio series by Conrad Bishop and Elizabeth Fuller. Hitchhiking Off the Map will combine documentary and drama techniques to explore transformations in people's lives.

Independent Feature Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the IFP Market. The conference and exhibition provides independent filmmakers from across the country the opportunity to present their work to the industry.

Independent Feature Project/Midwest
Chicago, IL
$7,500
To support the 12th IFP/Midwest Independent Filmmaker's Conference.

Independent Feature Project/West
Beverly Hills, CA
$10,000
To support the Los Angeles Film Festival. Over 100 films including dramatic features, documentaries and short films will be presented to an anticipated audience of 30,000 people.

International Latino Cultural Center of Chicago
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support the 19th Chicago Latino Film Festival. Over a two-week period, Chicago Latino Cinema (CLC) will exhibit the work of directors of Ibero or Latin American descent, as well as films directly related to Latino culture.

Kitchen Sisters Productions
San Francisco, CA
$60,000
To support the production of Lost & Found Sound & Beyond, a collection of new radio stories by Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva. Exploring American life through recorded sound, the works will be aired on National Public Radio's All Things Considered.

Media Arts Center San Diego
San Diego, CA
$10,000
To support the tenth San Diego Latino Film Festival. The films and videos exhibited must be produced by Latinos or be about the Latino experience.

Media Process Educational Films
Chicago, IL
$25,000
To support production and post-production costs for a television documentary by Robert Hercules and Cheri Pugh. The Mengele Twins is about Eva Kor, a surviving twin of the atrocities committed by Josef Mengele, who used twins as human guinea pigs during the Third Reich.

Millennium Film Workshop, Inc.
New York, NY
$12,000
To support the exhibition of experimental film and video art and filmmaking workshops. Exhibitions will feature the work of avant-garde cinema and video from the United States and abroad.

Moving Image, Inc.
New York, NY
$65,000
To support the theatrical premieres of American independent and foreign films. Moving Image (aka Film Forum) is devoted to bringing a broad array of the highest-quality new work by emerging artists, as well as more established figures, to a large and diverse general public.

NAATA (National Asian American Telecommunications Association)
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival and other exhibition activities. The film festival will showcase the work of new Asian Pacific American film and video makers.

National Association of Latino Independent Producers, Inc.
Santa Monica, CA
$15,000
To support the Annual National Conference targeted to Latino film and video producers. Through plenary sessions, hands-on workshops, seminars, exhibits and screenings, the event explores the state of the industry and technology for Latino media makers.

National Audio Theatre Festivals, Inc.
Hempstead, NY
$10,000
To support the Audio Theatre Workshop. The series of classes trains audio artists in script writing, performance for radio and technical skills to produce innovative live radio drama.

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc. (on behalf of Strange Attractions, Inc.)
New York, NY
$60,000
To support post-production costs for an experimental documentary film by Peter Friedman and Roger Manley. Beyond Belief: The Power of Things will examine the meaning of the word "belief" as it applies to religion and our everyday lives.

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc. (on behalf of Only Child Motion Pictures, Inc.)
New York, NY
$15,000
To support 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 Gravity Hill Films)
New York, NY
$50,000
To support the production of an experimental film by Jem Cohen. Chain will examine the homogenization of our landscapes.

Northwest Film Center (Portland Art Museum)
Portland, OR
$40,000
To support the Northwest Film and Video Festival and its tour throughout the Northwest. The festival showcases new work by media artists living in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia.

Northwest Film Forum
Seattle, WA
$10,000
To support production and editing facilities for independent filmmakers at WigglyWorld Studios. Out of the Can offers flatbed-editing facilities; Roll Camera provides 16mm camera and sound packages; and New Model Edit offers a non-linear editing suite.

Ohio University Main Campus (on behalf of Athens International Film Festival)
Athens, OH
$10,000
To support the 30th Athens International Film and Video Festival. The event features narrative work, documentaries and short films produced in the United States and abroad.

Pittsburgh Film Makers, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
$10,000
To support a series of media arts workshops. Designed for children, non-traditional students and experienced producers, these classes will be offered at night and on weekends to encourage broader community participation.

Public Art Films, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
To support post-production costs for a documentary film by Tony Silver. Arisman: Facing the Audience is a portrait of Marshall Arisman, a painter, illustrator, sculptor, printmaker and teacher.

Reel Sisters
Brooklyn, NY
$7,500
To support the Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival and Lecture Series. The event is dedicated to presenting the work of women of color.

San Francisco Cinematheque
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support a curated film/video series. What About Now? New Media Perspectives will focus on experimental work by young and emerging artists from across the United States.

San Francisco Film Society
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the 46th annual San Francisco International Film Festival. The event presents more than 200 films from 50 countries to an audience of 87,000 people.

San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
To support the Jewish Film Festival and related activities. The festival, devoted to Jewish-subject films, premieres both films and videos by independent producers from around the world.

Scribe Video Center, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$35,000
To support a workshop program. Classes will assist independent artists, community organizations, and the interested novice in understanding the language and craft of storytelling through film and electronic media.

Sinking Creek Film Celebration, Inc.
Nashville, TN
$10,000
To support the Nashville Independent Film Festival. The event features student films and videos, documentaries, narrative films and experimental work.

Sound Portraits Productions, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support production and post-production costs for an audio installation by David Isay. Remember the Forgotten Ones will be based on the oral histories of photographer Milton Rogovin.

Soundprint Media Center, Inc.
Laurel, MD
$20,000
To support artists' fees for a documentary radio series. A Day in the Life of programs, produced by independent radio artists, will capture 24 hours in the life of a subject and condense it into a half hour documentary.

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

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

Sundance Institute for Film and Television
Salt Lake City, UT
$115,00O
To support a series of educational workshops and labs that offer emerging screenwriters, directors, producers, and composers the opportunity, support and resources needed to successfully develop new creative work.

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

Thomas A. Edison Media Arts Consortium
Jersey City, NJ
$18,000
To support the Black Maria Film and Video Festival and its multi-state tour. Over 60 organizations throughout the United States host the festival each year which draws over 700 entries from all over the country.

Vasulkas, Inc.
Santa Fe, NM
$15,000
To support the creation of a video installation work by Steina Vasulka. The piece will consist of seven channels of spherical images projected on large round screens with discreet sound sources.

Video Association of Dallas, Inc.
Dallas, TX
$10,000
To support the 17th Annual Dallas Video Festival. The event will present classic work programmed with new video art.

Visual Communication (Southern California Asian American Studies Central, Inc.)
Los Angeles, CA
$18,000
To support the 18th annual Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film and Video Festival. The event is Southern California's showcase of independent Asian international and Asian-Pacific American film and video work.

Washington, DC International Film Festival
Washington, DC
$25,000
To support the Washington D.C. International Film Festival. The event includes free films for children, senior citizens and underserved communities.

WBEZ Alliance, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$15,000
To support the Third Coast International Audio Festival. Established in 2001 as a "Sundance for Radio," the festival provides an opportunity for documentarians, feature reporters and audio artists from around the globe to gather to share expertise.

Women Make Movies, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the distribution of selected films on DVD from the Women Make Movies collection. In honor of their 30th anniversary, 10 films will be digitized and made available to schools, libraries and cultural institutions.

ZeroOne - The Art and Technology Network
Palo Alto, CA
$60,000
To support the production of a video game artwork by Bill Viola. The Night Journey - An Interactive Artworld is based on the universal story of a mystic's journey through seven different levels towards enlightenment.

MULTIDISCIPLINARY

3 Legged Race, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$12,000
To support the 5th annual Summer Blizzard. The series will focus on the development and presentation of four new, large-scale dance, circus arts and interdisciplinary works.

651 ARTS (Kings Majestic Corporation) (on behalf of Fist & Heel Performance Group)
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
To support the development of Black Burlesque (revisited). The project is a collaboration between Fist and Heel Performance Group (NYC) and Black Umfolosi (Zimbabwe) with the Noble Douglas Dance Company (Trinidad and Tobago).

American Music Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$23,000
To support the commissioning of collaborative Web-based works. Composers will be paired with visual or performing artists to create new works of art that incorporate music and new media.

Appalshop, Inc. (on behalf of American Festival Project)
Whitesburg, KY
$35,000
To support the American Festival Project's Primary Labs and Traveling Council. The project supports artists in the creation of community arts projects in underserved regions of Appalachia.

Arts at St. Ann's (St. Ann Center for Restoration and the Arts, Inc.)
Brooklyn, NY
$35,000
To support the 2003 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.

Boston Cyberarts, Inc.
Jamaica Plain, MA
$20,000
To support the Boston Cyberarts Festival. Ten events will be developed and produced for the 2003 festival.

Builders Association, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support Alladeen, a cross-media performance based on the legend of Alladin. The project will be created in collaboration with the London-based South Asian performance company, Moti Roti.

CalArts (California Institute of the Arts)
Valencia, CA
$25,000
To support REDCAT InterArts. The new project will comprise five residencies by innovative artistic teams from a range of disciplines.

Carnegie Mellon University (on behalf of Studio for Creative Inquiry)
Pittsburgh, PA
$40,000
To support a one-year Artist Residency Project with an emphasis on artists collectives. Three artists/collectives and an art critic/curator will be provided with the opportunity to develop new work and convene a panel on the collective art-making process.

CDDC (Chhandam Chitresh Das Dance Company)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support a collaboration between two Bengali artists, dancer and choreographer Chitresh Das and Paris-based painter Shahabuddin. The project will expand upon a work-in-progress performance presented in 2001.

Center for Cultural Exchange
Portland, ME
$30,000
To support the creation of Orientalism. This new work by Armenian-American composer Alan Shavarsh Bardezbanian will explore the West's relationship with Islamic and Asian cultures.

Chashama, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the Artist in Residence Program. The program offers free rehearsal, performance, studio and gallery space to emerging and established artists based in New York City.

Contemporary Arts Center
New Orleans, LA
$20,000
To support Hip Hop: Kicking Rhyme. The program will feature a multidisciplinary performance event, a visual art exhibition and a theater residency.

Corporation of Yaddo
Saratoga Springs, NY
$25,000
To support residencies for professional artists. Up to 100 artists who have never before been in residence at Yaddo will be provided with residencies running from two weeks to one month.

Creative Time, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the New York Project. Three artists will create audio narratives about the New York City neighborhoods in which they live.

DiverseWorks ArtSpace
Houston, TX
$40,000
To support the commissioning and presentation of new works. The project will include a series of visual arts exhibitions, performances, artist residencies and educational activities.

Djerassi Resident Artists Program
Woodside, CA
$35,000
To support one-month residencies for American artists. The project will provide studios, living accommodations, meals and professional support for media artists, visual artists, writers, choreographers and composers.

Exploratorium
San Francisco, CA
$35,000
To support the commissioning of up to six new works. The commissioned pieces will be integral to two museum initiatives in science and education.

Eyebeam Atelier, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$27,000
To support the Artist in Residence Program. Sixteen artists will be provided with stipends for the development, creation and presentation of new digital art through this five-month residency program.

Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Inc.
Provincetown, MA
$30,000
To support the Winter Residency Program. The program will provide 20 emerging writers and visual artists with housing, studios and a monthly stipend for a seven-month period.

Five Myles, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the construction and production of an abstract theater work based on The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster. This new work will be a collaboration among architect Burzeen Contractor, composer Jane Wang, puppeteer Hanne Tierney and designer Trevor Brown.

Frederick Douglass Creative Arts Center
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the development of professional writers and playwrights. This project will feature writing workshops, a reading series of original plays for stage and screen and the 31st annual Black Roots Festival.

Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center
San Antonio, TX
$40,000
To support Voces Femeninas: Woman Artists Across Las Generaciones. This year-long project will pair established and emerging dancers, writers, and theater artists to explore the contributions of women artists to Latino/Chicano culture.

Hallwalls, Inc.
Buffalo, NY
$25,000
To support the Hallwalls Artist-in-Residence Project. The project will enable two visual artists, one media artist and two musicians to create and present new works.

Harvestworks, Inc.
New York, NY
$22,000
To support the Artists' Access Program in digital media. The program will provide artists with studio residencies, classes and public presentation of work.

Headlands Center for the Arts
Sausalito, CA
$45,000
To support the U.S. Artists-in-Residence Program and associated public programs. The project will provide three-month residences for up to 30 artists.

Hesperus
Arlington, VA
$10,000
To support the Robin Hood Project. The project components include a concert, film screening, play and lecture designed to deepen the public's understanding of Medieval and Renaissance music and culture.

Indo-American Cultural Center
Venice, CA
$10,000
To support the enhancement and expansion of current artist services. Components of the project will include the Artwallah festival of visual arts, a mentoring program and the commissioning of 10 new projects on the South Asian diasporic experience.

International Cinematexas Short Film Festival
Austin, TX
$20,000
To support the Austin Eye+Ear Performance Series. The series will showcase work by artists who have not previously performed in Austin.

Jack Straw Memorial Foundation
Seattle, WA
$30,000
To support audio art residencies. The program will make available Jack Straw studios and facilities to Northwest artists from a variety of disciplines.

La Pocha Nostra
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support the creation and U.S. presentation of EX-CENTRIS. This series of performance installations will be directed by Guillermo Gomez-Pena at sites in the U.S., Spain and England.

Maine Arts Commission
Augusta, ME
$40,000
To support Connecting Maine Artists. This is an expansion of an on-going program that provides artists statewide with a curriculum of professional development opportunities and resources.

MASS MoCA (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art Foundation, Inc.)
North Adams, MA
$40,000
To support MASS Manufacturing. Seven new works will be created through this residency and commissioning program.

Movin' Spirits Dance Theater, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$12,000
To support The Women's Project "Under Construction". The evening-length performance work will use a combination of live music, video, language and dance to explore the stories and personal histories of women.

New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.
Staten Island, NY
$15,000
To support new commissioned work and the continued development of the Turbulence Web site. The project will provide for the creation and distribution of five new works of Internet-based art by national artists and the development of a new interface for the web site.

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc. (on behalf of Bill Shannon/Crutch Productions)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the creation of a new dance/multimedia project. The evening-length work will bring together elements of break-dancing, skateboarding, contemporary music and video to explore street dance within a theater context.

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc. (on behalf of Yin Mei Dance)
New York, NY
$17,000
To support the development and production of part one of the Nomad Trilogy. Nomad I will be a multi-media, dance theater work examining the theme of spiritual exploration.

NewTown Pasadena Foundation
Altadena, CA
$10,000
To support the presentation of two public art projects. Who's in Control, Anyway?, an exhibition exploring audience interactivity and Trail Markers 3, will feature site-specific installations and performances.

Red Wing Performing Group, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
To support the creation and premiere of the Hiroshima Maidens. This bunraku-style puppet work will be written and directed by Dan Hurlin.

Regents of the University of California at Los Angeles
(on behalf of Center for Intercultural Performance)
$35,000
To support the Art of Rice Traveling Theater. The evening-length production with original music, dance and theater will be created by 15 artists of varying disciplines from Asia and the United States during a four-week residency.

Rotunda Gallery (Brooklyn Information & Culture, Inc.)
(on behalf of Celebrate Brooklyn Performing Arts Festival)
$15,000
To support Live Music for Film. The project will feature screenings of two classic silent films accompanied by live performances of original music.

Roulette Intermedium, Inc.
New York, NY
$12,000
To support the Festival of Mixology 2003. This series of eight concerts will focus on the ways in which artists are experimenting with new technological interfaces between sound and video.

Saratoga International Theater Institute, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support SYSTEMS/LAYERS. This collaborative work will incorporate seven actors, five musicians and film projection to re-examine the boundaries between theater, music and dance.

South Florida Composers Alliance, Inc.
Miami, FL
$10,000
To support the Sound Arts Workshop residency program. The project will provide four interdisciplinary artists with access to equipment, technical assistance and artist fees for the creation of sound-based work.

Temple University
Philadelphia, PA
$12,000
To support the development and production of La maquina del tiempo. This new interdisciplinary work by choreographer Merian Soto will explore the influence of salsa on musical and dance forms.

Temple University (on behalf of Art Works in Different Places)
Philadelphia, PA
$30,000
To support the commissioning and presenting of two new works. Art Works in Different Places will produce a new public artwork by visual artist Buster Simpson and an evening-length performance piece by composer Myra Melford.

The Kitchen (Haleakala, Inc.)
New York, NY
$25,000
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.

Wexner Center for the Arts
Columbus, OH
$75,000
To support the commissioning of visual, performing and media art works. The project is a part of the Wexner Center for the Arts' ongoing artists residency program that provides support for the creation, completion and/or presentation of art.

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
To support residencies for artists of multiple disciplines. Artists in residence in the visual arts, performing arts, film and video will be given the opportunity to develop works and engage in a variety of education and community programs.

MUSEUMS

American Folk Art Museum
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the touring exhibition Tools of Her Ministry: The Art of Sister Gertrude Morgan, with accompanying catalog.

Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL
$100,000
To support the touring exhibition Hero, Hawk, and Open Hand: Ancient Indian Art of the Woodlands, with accompanying catalog.

Asia Society
New York, NY
$45,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of Thai artist Montien Boonma, with accompanying catalog and education programs.

Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
$75,000
To support the exhibition Arts of the Goryeo Dynasty, with accompanying catalog and education programs.

Brandeis University (on behalf of Rose Art Museum)
Waltham, MA
$15,000
To support the exhibition Coexistence: Contemporary Cultural Production in South Africa, with accompanying education programs.

Bronx Museum of the Arts
Bronx, NY
$25,000
To support an exhibition of the work of contemporary Brazilian artist Valeska Soares, with accompanying catalog and education programs.

Carnegie Mellon University (on behalf of Regina Gouger Gallery)
Pittsburgh, PA
$20,000
To support the touring exhibition Comic Release, with accompanying catalog and education programs.

Chrysler Museum of Art
Norfolk, VA
$35,000
To support the touring exhibition Gustave Doré: Works from North American Collections, with accompanying catalog.

Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, OH
$70,000
To support the touring exhibition Gaudi to Dali: Barcelona and Modernity, 1868-1939, with accompanying catalog.

Contemporary Arts Center
Cincinnati, OH
$35,000
To support the Center's inaugural exhibition in its new space in spring 2003.

Contemporary Arts Museum
Houston, TX
$25,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of artist Matthew Ritchie, with accompanying catalog and education programs.

Dallas Museum of Art
Dallas, TX
$25,000
To support the exhibition New Art in Texas, with accompanying catalog and education programs.

Denver Art Museum
Denver, CO
$100,00O
To support the exhibition Gateway to the Sun: The Tiwanaku Civilization of Ancient South America, with accompanying catalog.

Des Moines Art Center (Edmundson Art Foundation, Inc.)
Des Moines, IA
$20,000
To support the exhibition Magic Markers: Objects of Transformation, with accompanying catalog and education programs.

Fabric Workshop, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$50,000
To support the artist-in-residence program. Each artist will create new work using innovative fabrics, materials and construction techniques in exploratory ways.

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
$100,000
To support the traveling exhibition Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya, with accompanying catalog and education programs.

Henry Gallery Association, Inc.
Seattle, WA
$25,000
To support artists' residencies and commissions. The project will place art-making on view, with artists creating in "real time" with galleries.

Institute of Contemporary Art
Boston, MA
$20,000
To support the touring exhibition Made in Mexico, with accompanying catalog and education programs. The exhibition will explore the ways in which Mexico City has been a locus for creativity and experimentation for artists and intellectuals in the 20th century.

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Inc.
Boston, MA
$60,000
To support the Gardner's artist-in-residence program, with accompanying exhibitions and publications.

J.B. Speed Art Museum
Louisville, KY
$30,000
To support Presence, a series of exhibitions of contemporary art, with accompanying publications and education programs.

Japan Society, Inc.
New York, NY
$60,000
To support the exhibition Early Buddhist Art from Korea and Japan, 6th - 9th Centuries, with accompanying catalog and education programs.

Japanese American National Museum
Los Angeles, CA
$33,000
To support the planning of an exhibition of the work of Japanese-American photographer Toyo Miyatake (1895-1979).

Mattress Factory, Ltd.
Pittsburgh, PA
$40,000
To support an artist-in-residence program. Invited artists will live and work on site from one to eight weeks to create new site-specific installations.

Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Minneapolis, MN
$35,000
To support the touring exhibition Romantic Paintings in England and France, with accompanying education programs.

Museum Associates (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
Los Angeles, CA
$60,000
To support the touring exhibition Geometry of Innocence: Objects + Systems + Concepts, 1940s 1970s, with accompanying catalog.

Museum for African Art
Long Island City, NY
$40,000
To support the touring exhibition Material Differences in African Art, with accompanying catalog and education programs.

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
$55,000
To support the touring exhibition A Minimal Future: Art as Object 1958-1968, with accompanying catalog.

New Museum of Contemporary Art
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the exhibition Living Inside the Grid, with accompanying catalog.

New York University (on behalf of Grey Art Gallery)
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the touring exhibition Park Avenue Cubists, with accompanying catalog and education programs.

North Carolina Museum of Art Foundation, Inc.
Raleigh, NC
$15,000
To support the exhibition Defying Gravity: Contemporary Art and Flight, with accompanying catalog and education programs.

North Dakota Museum of Art
Grand Forks, ND
$20,000
To support commissions for contemporary photographers Jim Dow and Robert Polidori and catalogs of their work.

Oakland Museum of California Foundation
Oakland, CA
$80,000
To support a touring retrospective exhibition of the work of contemporary American artist David Ireland, with accompanying catalog.

Parrish Art Museum, Inc.
Southampton, NY
$10,000
To support an exhibition of the work of Italian-born, American artist Constantino Nivola (1911-1988), with accompanying catalog.

Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia, PA
$100,000
To support the exhibition The Art and Fashion of Elsa Schiaparelli (1890-1973).

Queens Museum of Art
Flushing, NY
$30,000
To support the touring exhibition Joan Jonas: Performance Installations, with accompanying catalog and education programs.

Regents of the University of California at Berkeley (on behalf of Berkeley Art Museum)
Berkeley, CA
$25,000
To support the touring exhibition Everything Matters: Paul Kos, A Retrospective, with accompanying catalog and education programs.

Regents of the University of California at Los Angeles
(on behalf of UCLA Hammer Museum
$85,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of American artist Lee Bontecou (b. 1931), with accompanying catalog.

Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
$40,000
To support the presentation of Delhi-based artist Amar Kanwar's new film, Of Poets and Prophesies, with accompanying publications.

Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (Scottsdale Cultural Council)
Scottsdale, AZ
$35,000
To support the touring exhibition Hair Stories, with accompanying catalog and education programs.

Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Inc.
Staten Island, NY
$20,000
To support the coordination, promotion, interpretation, Web site and documentation of the Buddhism Project.

Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (on behalf of Institute of Contemporary Art)
Philadelphia, PA
$30,000
To support an exhibition of the work of contemporary-American artist Barry Le Va (b. 1941), with accompanying catalog and symposium.

University of Chicago (on behalf of Smart Museum of Art)
Chicago, IL
$32,000
To support an artist-in-residence program featuring contemporary African-American photographer Dawoud Bey.

University of Michigan at Ann Arbor (on behalf of Museum of Art)
Ann Arbor, MI
$55,000
To support the touring exhibition The Time in Between: Betye Saar and the Persistence of Photography.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (on behalf of Ackland Art Museum)
Chapel Hill, NC
$25,000
To support the exhibition series Seeking the Light: Spirituality and Contemporary Art, with accompanying catalog.

University of South Florida (on behalf of Contemporary Art Museum)
Tampa, FL
$15,000
To support an artist residency and exhibition of work by Brazilian-born, New York-based artist Vik Muniz, with accompanying catalog.

University of Wisconsin at Madison (on behalf of Elvehjem Museum of Art)
Madison, WI
$30,000
To support the touring exhibition With Friends: The Art and Lives of Six Magic Realists, 1940-1965.

University of Wyoming (on behalf of Art Museum)
Laramie, WY
$25,000
To support a series of one-person exhibitions and residencies by contemporary artists.

Whitney Museum of American Art
New York, NY
$25,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of artist Elie Nadelman (1882-1946) with accompanying catalog and education programs.

Williams College Museum of Art
Williamstown, MA
$40,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of African-American artist Kara Walker, with accompanying catalog.

Music

Albany Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Albany, NY
$19,000
To support the creation and presentation of new works by emerging composers. A total of 16 new works will be commissioned and performed by the orchestra and a smaller new music ensemble comprised of orchestral musicians.

Alpenglow Chamber Music Festivals, Inc.
Dillon, CO
$8,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by Dan Coleman. A portion of the work will be composed prior to the August 2003 festival and the remaining portions will be composed with input from audiences at the festival.

American Composers Orchestra, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
To support Improvise!, a series of concerts, commissions and educational activities focused on improvisation and the symphony orchestra. Activities will occur in April 2004 at various venues in New York City including Carnegie Hall, Aaron Davis Hall, the Knitting Factory, and at Miller Theater at Columbia University.

Amherst Saxophone Society Inc.
Williamsville, NY
$10,000
To support presentations and radio broadcasts of music for saxophone quartets. Performances will take place during 2003 at a church, at the Ujima Theatre, and at WBFO-FM's Allen Hall on the campus of SUNY/Buffalo in front of a live studio audience for future broadcast.

Apollo's Fire, The Cleveland Baroque Orchestra
Cleveland Hts., OH
$12,500
To support the presentation, educational activities and national radio broadcast of the Saint Matthew's Passion by Bach, on period instruments. Under the direction of conductor Jeannette Sorrel, the two performances will be sung in English and will take place in March 2003 in Akron and at Severance Hall in Cleveland.

Aspen Music Festival
Aspen, CO
$35,000
To support the American Academy of Conducting, a professional development program for post conservatory musicians. Under the direction of music director David Zinman and conductor Murry Sidlin, the summer 2003 project will engage 24 participants in an extensive conducting institute.

Baltimore Choral Arts Society, Inc.
Baltimore, MD
$17,500
To support the presentation of an oratorio by Dave Brubeck, Beloved Son, including educational activities. Under the direction of Music Director Tom Hall, the performance will take place in March 2003 on the campus of Morgan State University.

Bang on a Can, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the annual Bang on a Can Marathon and E-Festival. The day-long new music Marathon will be broadcast on WNYC-FM as well as live over the Internet, and will serve as the anchor presentation for the month-long Bang on a Can E-Festival.

Berkeley Symphony Orchestra
Berkeley, CA
$25,000
To support the creation and presentation of a secular oratorio by Kurt Rohde. The work, Bitter Harvest (a love story), scheduled to be premiered in the spring of 2004, will explore the psychological roots of racial prejudice among American farmers.

Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Inc.
Roslindale, MA
$10,000
To support the American Orchestra Music Initiative in the presentation and recording of works by American composers. Works by John Harbison and Augusta Read Thomas will receive their regional premieres in Boston during 2003 and will be recorded by Albany Records for the first time.

Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. (on behalf of Tanglewood Music Center)
Boston, MA
$50,000
To support the Festival of Contemporary Music. The Tanglewood Music Center will present the week long event featuring five to seven concerts by ensembles of Tanglewood fellows and guest artists.

Bravo! Colorado at Vail-Beaver Creek
Vail, CO
$12,500
To support the 16th annual Vail Valley Music Festival. The summer 2003 festival will feature chamber and orchestral concerts, open rehearsals, public workshops, educational-outreach concerts and young artist programs.

Brevard Music Center, Inc.
Brevard, NC
$10,000
To support guest-artist teachers and scholarships for the Advanced Chamber Music (ACM) Program. The 12 participants will receive professional development under the guidance of guest master teachers in residence through the summer 2003 session.

Brooklyn Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$40,000
To support The American Lollapalooza Project, a series of concerts, a commission and education outreach activities. The works of seven American composers, both established and emerging, will be presented in a pair of concerts with accompanying community and education events in February 2003.

Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra Society, Inc.
Buffalo, NY
$30,000
To support Intimate Portraits, a series of concerts for chamber orchestra. Each of the three concerts planned during the 2002-03 season will showcase different sections of the orchestra: winds, brass, percussion and strings.

Cabrillo Music Festival
Santa Cruz, CA
$10,000
To support a new music conductor training program. The summer 2003 professional development program will partner with the Conductors Guild to provide 20 conductors with training opportunities.

California State University Sacramento Trust Foundation
(on behalf of Festival of New American Music)
Sacramento, CA
$15,000
To support the Festival of New American Music that will focus on many facets of new American music. The annual festival will be held on the California State University Sacramento campus and at various community venues.

California Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Pleasant Hill, CA
$10,000
To support the Young American Composer-in-Residence Program (YACR). The 18-month residency program in 2003 and 2004 will include recorded reading sessions, commissions and premieres of three new works, and pre-concert discussions.

Cape & Islands Chamber Music Festival, Inc.
North Chatham, MA
$10,000
To support the 2003 Cape & Island Chamber Music Festival. The 17 chamber music concerts and special programs will use the ocean as a programming theme during the three-week August festival held in venues across Cape Cod.

Carnegie Hall
New York, NY
$100,00O
To support the Perspectives series, including performances, premieres of commissioned pieces and training workshops. Developed by pianists Mitsuko Uchida and Emanuel Ax, soprano Dawn Upshaw and conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, the series will include 23 self-curated performances in 2003 04.

Center for International Performance and Exhibition
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support Explorations in Sound: The Innovative Composers Project. Jim Baker, Edward Wilkerson, Jr., and Michael Zerang will be offered year-long residencies to create new work and collaborate with other artists during 2003.

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support Chamber Music Society Two (CMS2), a professional development program for artists in the early stages of their careers. Musicians participating in the two-year residency will receive coaching and performance opportunities with master artists of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

Chatham Baroque, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
$10,000
To support the production of early English operas in concert version. Chatham Baroque will collaborate with other area choral and instrumental ensembles to present John Blow's Venus and Adonis and Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas.

Chicago Chamber Musicians
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by Bruce Adolphe for children and adults based on a Shakespearean theme. Witches, Wizards, Spells and Elves: The Magic of Shakespeare will be premiered during February 2003 at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater.

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Chicago, IL
$90,000
To support MusicNOW, a series of concerts of the music of living composers, recorded for radio broadcast. The 13 concerts scheduled in the spring of 2003 will include works by eight composers including world premieres of two commissions.

Chicago Symphony Orchestra (on behalf of Civic Orchestra of Chicago)
Chicago, IL
$35,000
To support a professional development program for pre-professional musicians. The program prepares the 96 musicians of the Civic Orchestra to compete for positions in leading professional orchestras by offering coaching, mock audition seminars and master classes.

Choral Arts Society of Washington
Washington, DC
$25,000
To support the presentation and national radio broadcast of the 15th annual Choral Tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr. Choral Arts Society, Howard University Choir, a children's choir and a gospel choir will combine forces for performances conducted by Norman Scribner.

Cleveland Orchestra
Cleveland, OH
$90,000
To support a performance project titled A Sound Beginning. The project will introduce new works to the Cleveland Orchestra's repertoire and celebrate the new leadership of music director Franz Welser Most.

Colorado Music Festival
Boulder, CO
$10,000
To support the artist-in-residence program. Two-week residencies for each of three guest artists