NEA: 2004 GRANT AWARDS: Creativity


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2004 Grant Awards: Creativity

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

DANCE

33 Fainting Spells
Seattle, WA
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of a dance theater work, choreographed by co-artistic directors Dayna Hanson and Gaelen Hanson. Our Little Sunbeam combines material from Anton Chekhov's play Ivanov with research drawn from the U.S. Space Program.

Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$100,000
To support a United States tour in 2004. The company will present new works by Robert Battle, Alonzo King, and Jennifer Muller.

American Ballet Theatre (Ballet Theatre Foundation, Inc.)
New York, NY
$60,000
To support the rehearsal, staging, and presentation of a new production of Raymonda. The work will premiere at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City.

American Dance Festival, Inc.
Durham, NC
$60,000
To support Mapping Modern Dance, a project to commission and present American and international modern dance choreographers. Performances will be accompanied by a range of education and outreach activities.

Andanza, Inc.
San Juan, PR
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of two new works by choreographers Lolita Villanua and Carlos Ivan Santos. The works will be based on short stories by contemporary Puerto Rican writers and will premiere at the Luis A. Ferr Performing Arts Center in San Juan.

ART SWEATS, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by artistic director and choreographer David Dorfman. The work will be created with collaborators Chris Peck (music), Jane Cox (lighting design), Naoko Nagata (costume design), Samuael Topiary (video design), and Scott Pask (set design).

Aspen Ballet Company & School
Aspen, CO
$10,000
To support the presentation of L'apres midi d'un faune (Afternoon of a Faun). The piece will be choreographed by Thierry Malandain, artistic director of France's Ballet Biarritz.

Axis Dance Company
Oakland, CA
$20,000
To support the creation and presentation of a work by choreographer Ann Carlson for dancers both with and without disabilities. The work will become part of AXIS Dance Company's touring repertory and will also become part of a national dance tour.

Ballet Florida, Inc.
West Palm Beach, FL
$10,000
To support Step Ahead, a program for aspiring choreographers. The program is a series of choreographic workshops for Ballet Florida dancers that culminates in a live performance.

Ballet Hispanico of New York, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support a Choreographers Workshop and the remounting of three repertory works. Choreographers participating in the workshop will be John Carrafa and Mia Michaels.

Ballet Metropolitan, Inc.
Columbus, OH
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of a full-length ballet by choreographer Stanton Welch. Evolution will be created in three acts to the music of Carroboree by Australian John Antill, Eine Kleine Nachtmusik by Mozart, and songs by Moby.

Ballet Tech Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support tuition-free, professional ballet training for New York public school students. The training will include 1,800 ballet classes throughout the year and performance opportunities at the Joyce Theater.

Ballet West
Salt Lake City, UT
$30,000
To support the presentation of John Cranko's Onegin. Choreographed in 1965 for the Stuttgart Ballet, Onegin is renowned for its narrative choreography, inventive dance vocabulary, and dramatic characterization.

Bates College (on behalf of Bates Dance Festival)
Lewiston, ME
$20,000
To support extended residency activities. New Voices/New Works program will include Rennie Harris/Puremovement, Everett Dance Theatre, Shawn McConneloug, Tere O'Connor Dance, and Victoria Marks.

Bebe Miller Company (Gotham Dance, Inc.)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of The Landing/Place Project, choreographed by Bebe Miller. Activities will include developmental residencies, work-in-progress showings, research into digital technology and choreographic process, production and distribution of CD-ROMs, and a project Web site.

Boston Ballet, Inc.
Boston, MA
$20,000
To support the presentation of Lady of the Camellias, choreographed by Val Caniparoli. The three act ballet will be presented at The Wang Theatre and will have related outreach programs.

Capoeira Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the creation of a new work by artistic director Jelon Vieria. The work will explore Capoeira's centuries-old traditions and rituals, from basic musical rhythms to the influence of religion, in a contemporary context.

Carolina Ballet, Inc.
Raleigh, NC
$10,000
To support the presentation of the Balanchine Celebration. Music accompaniment will be provided by a solo pianist and a small orchestra comprised of members of the North Carolina Symphony.

Celebrity Series of Boston, Inc. (consortium)
Boston, MA
$20,000
To support the presentation of modern and classical companies. The project is in collaboration with The Wang Center for the Performing Arts.

Cleo Parker Robinson Dance (New Dance Theater, Inc.)
Denver, CO
$15,000
To support a national tour and residency activities. The program will include works by Katherine Dunham, Rosangela Silvestre, Jelon Vieira, Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, David Rousseve, and Ronald K. Brown.

College Community Services, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
To support the presentation of American and international dance companies. The project will include educational programs, subsidized ticket prices, and extensive outreach to Brooklyn's diverse communities.

Columbia College Chicago (on behalf of The Dance Center)
Chicago, IL
$25,000
To support the presentation of African and African American companies. Each company will conduct a one-week residency at the college.

Community Arts Project, Inc. (King Arts Complex)
Columbus, OH
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of a dance work and an exhibition on African American dance. A variety of educational and outreach activities will be provided for each event.

Contemporary Dance Theater, Inc.
Cincinnati, OH
$15,000
To support the presentation of dance companies. Artists will perform at the Jarson-Kaplan Theater and participate in a variety of community and audience development activities.

Cross Performance, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the production, residencies, rehearsals, premiere, and touring of The Geography Trilogy, Part 3: House. The work is directed and choreographed by Ralph Lemon and created in collaboration with an ensemble of multidisciplinary artists.

Cunningham Dance Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$100,000
To support the creation and presentation of a dance film and the revivals of two works by Merce Cunningham. The film will be produced by Charles Atlas, and the works to be revived are Doubletoss (1993) and Ground Level Overlay (1995).

Dance Connecticut, Inc.
Hartford, CT
$10,000
To support residency activities and the presentation of diverse dance companies. Companies to be presented in the series Hartford's Dancing at The Busnell, will include Reggie Wilson Fist and Heel Company, Maria Pages Compania, and Urban Tap.

Dance Place (D.C. Wheel Productions, Inc.)
Washington, DC
$25,000
To support performances and residencies by dancers. The artists will represent a wide spectrum of traditions and styles, including African, jazz, tap, step, hip-hop, and modern.

Dance Space Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support an Artist in Residency program. The project supports professional dancers and choreographers who are at transitional points in their careers.

Dance St. Louis
St. Louis, MO
$10,000
To support the presentation of new works by local choreographers. The works will premiere in the Contemporary Moves program at the performing arts center on the University of Missouri-St. Louis campus.

Dance Theater Workshop, Inc.
New York, NY
$70,000
To support an extended-run performance series. The Carnival series 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. Artists will participate in week-long residencies that include professional level and community-based master classes, community discussions and lecture demonstrations, and educational activities in local, middle, and high schools.

Dancers' Group (on behalf of Robert Moses' Kin)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new work. The work will look at man's inhumanity and will focus on Robert Moses' interest in religion and its impact on society.

Danspace Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
To support the seventh year of City/Dans. The program supports the new work of New York City choreographers.

Dayton Contemporary Dance
Dayton, OH
$30,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by choreographer Bebe Miller. Miller and four members of her company will share choreographic knowledge with Dayton Contemporary Dance Company dancers utilizing the technology of motion capture as a tool in the creative process.

Donna Uchizono Company (La Donna Dance, Inc.)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of Salon Dances. The work will be created by choreographer Donna Uchizono in collaboration with composer Guy Yarden.

Dova, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the creation of a dance opera by choreographer Doug Varone. The work will be created in collaboration with composer Michael Gordon and designer Allen Moyer.

Eiko & Koma (Inta, Inc.)
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the creation and presentation of an evening length work. As part of the project, Koma will create a series of pastels that will be distributed to the attendees as keepsakes

Everett Dance Theatre
Providence, RI
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of Home Movies. The work will premiere at Trinity Repertory Theater and will include performances for middle and high school students.

Florida Dance Association, Inc.
Miami Beach, FL
$35,000
To support the 26th annual Florida Dance Festival. The program offers education and training for dance students and teachers, provides creative and collaborative opportunities for dance artists, and presents performances of national and international dance companies.

Foundation for Dance Promotion, Inc.
New York, NY
$60,000
To support the presentation of a co-production with the Brooklyn Academy of Music for the company's 20th anniversary. The event will include performances of revivals, new works, and guest performers.

Garth Fagan Dance, Inc.
Rochester, NY
$20,000
To support a revival tour for the 10th anniversary of Griot New York and the creation and presentation of a new work by Garth Fagan.

Houston Ballet Foundation
Houston, TX
$30,000
To support the creation and presentation of a work choreographed by Julia Adam. The concept for the work will be a Jewish wedding, accompanied by klezmer music.

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
Chicago, IL
$30,000
To support the creation and presentation of dance works. Choreographers involved in the project include Christopher Bruce, Daniel Ezralow, Susan Marshall, Alex Ketley, Brian Enos, and artistic director Jim Vincent.

Institute for Spanish Arts
Santa Fe, NM
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new work. The work will be choreographed by Maria Benitez and Adela Clara, and feature the music of composer Luigi Boccherini.

Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Inc.
Lee, MA
$70,000
To support residencies and performances of dance companies. Festival 2004 will include work that ranges from ancient traditional forms to contemporary experimental dance.

James Sewell Ballet (Ballet Works, Inc.)
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
To support performance and education activities in Rochester, NY and St. Cloud, MN.

JAZZDANCE by Danny Buraczeski
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by Danny Buraczeski. The work entitled The Rhythm and Blues will be set to music by Sam Cooke.

Joffrey Ballet of Chicago
Chicago, IL
$30,000
To support the presentation of The Ashton Evening. The program will commemorate the centennial of the birth of Sir Frederick Ashton, the late artistic director of the Royal Ballet of London.

John Jasperse Company (Thin Man Dance, Inc.)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support a United States tour. The tour will include the evening length works Out There and tethered to wind.

Jose Limon Dance Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the staging of Lar Lubovitch's Thus is All. The piece will be set to excerpts from the Mozart operas Don Giovanni, The Marriage of Figaro, La Clemenza di Tito, and Cosi Fan Tutte, which are performed live on stage with the dancers.

Joyce Theater Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$70,000
To support dance presentation projects. The projects will feature a range of companies in 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 creation and presentation of works by Val Caniparoli and Lila York. Lila York will create a world premiere and Val Caniparoli will restage Lambarena.

Ko-Thi, Inc.
Milwaukee, WI
$20,000
To support 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. Choreographer Alonzo King will collaborate with composer/conductor Michael Tilson Thomas.

Louisville Ballet (Kentucky Dance Council, Inc.)
Louisville, KY
$10,000
To support the presentation of choreographer Paul Taylor's Company B. The work will be presented as part of the mainstage series at the Kentucky Center's Whitney Hall.

Lubovitch Dance Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by choreographer Lar Lubovitch and the re creation of older works. The work will include a commissioned score by composer Aaron Jay Kernis and will be presented at Jazz at Lincoln Center Theater.

Lula Washington Contemporary Dance Foundation
Inglewood, CA
$10,000
To support the revival of works by Donald McKayle. The McKayle program will be performed at the Luckman Fine Arts Complex in Los Angeles.

Mark Morris Dance Group (Discalced, Inc.)
Brooklyn, NY
$60,000
To support the creation and presentation of new works by Mark Morris. The works will be set to Prokofiev's Quintet in E Minor, Op. 39; Quintet for Guitar and Strings by Boccherini; and Bach's Two Part Inventions.

McCaleb Dance
La Jolla, CA
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of a dance work by choreographer Nancy McCaleb. The work, titled La Rumorosa, will be created in collaboration with Mexican composer Fernando Coronato's new work Martes.

Movement Research, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the 25th Anniversary Celebration. This celebration will include a series of dance performances, panel discussions and public talks, workshops, and film/video screenings.

Nashville Ballet
Nashville, TN
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new work. The work will be choreographed by Julia Adam in collaboration with singer/songwriters Tricia Walker, Ashley Cleveland, and Karen Stanley from the Bluebird Cafe, a venue for emerging artists.

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 more than 40 cities throughout the United States.

New Orleans Ballet Association
New Orleans, LA
$15,000
To support a series of dance performances and educational outreach activities. Companies will be presented both on the concert stage and in community settings.

New York City Ballet, Inc.
New York, NY
$90,000
To support the Balanchine Centennial Celebration. The project will consist of repertory that focuses on George Balanchine's classical and modern heritage.

North Carolina Dance Theatre
Charlotte, NC
$10,000
To support the presentation of the Balanchine Centennial Celebration. Works to be presented include Agon, the pas de deux from Stars and Stripes, and the first act of A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Pacific Northwest Ballet Association
Seattle, WA
$30,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new work. This work will be commissioned by Paul Gibson, choreographer and principal dancer with Pacific Northwest Ballet.

Paul Taylor Dance Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$100,000
To support the creation and presentation of new works by Paul Taylor. These works will be featured on tour throughout the nation and abroad, as part of Paul Taylor Dance Company's 50th anniversary.

Pennsylvania Ballet Association
Philadelphia, PA
$25,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new full-length production of Swan Lake. Choreographed by Christopher Wheeldon, the work will premiere at the Academy of Music.

Philadelphia Dance Company, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$30,000
To support the creation and presentation of new works during the company's 35th anniversary. Ronald K. Brown and Geoffrey Holder will create the works, which will then become part of the company's touring repertory.

Pick Up Performance Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by choreographer David Gordon. The work will be produced at Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church.

Pilobolus, Inc.
Washington Depot, CT
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new work. Titled MEGA WHAT, the work will be choreographed by the company's artistic directors and premiere at the Ruth Eckerd Theater in Clearwater, FL.

Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
$20,000
To support the creation and presentation of new works to the music of Bruce Springsteen. Choreographers Matjash Mrozewski and Derek Deane will create the works.

Pittsburgh Trust for Cultural Resources (on behalf of Pittsburgh Dance Council)
Pittsburgh, PA
$20,000
To support the presentation of dance companies and related residency activities. Companies to be presented include Compagnie Marie Chouinard, Nederlands Dans Theatre 1, O Vertigo, Pappa Tarahumara, and the Paul Taylor Dance Company.

Playhouse Square Foundation
Cleveland, OH
$10,000
To support the presentation of ballet companies. The project will include a student matinee, master classes for local dance students, and pre- and post-show discussions for the audience.

Regents of the University of California at Berkeley
(on behalf of Cal Performances)
Berkeley, CA
$30,000
To support performances and residency activities. The Spring 2004 Dance Series will include the Dance Theater of Harlem, Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Nederlands Dans Theater, and Frankfurt Ballet.

Rennie Harris Puremovement
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new work choreographed by Rennie Harris. The work will deconstruct the hip-hop dance style "locking" and will be presented in New York.

Richmond Ballet
Richmond, VA
$20,000
To support the restaging of works during the company's Studio Series. Works to be restaged include Djangology by Val Caniparoli, Nuevo Tango by William Soleau, and Streets and Legends by Colin Connor.

San Francisco Ballet Association
San Francisco, CA
$100,000
To support the creation and presentation of new works. The works will include a world premiere by Artistic Director Helgi Tomasson and the acquisition of Jerome Robbins' The Dybbuk Variations.

San Francisco Performances, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
To support commissions and presentations of dance companies. Both American and international companies will offer performances and residency activities.

School of Hard Knocks, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of a work by artistic director Yoshiko Chuma. Reverse Psychology, Summerstage will be presented in Central Park.

Sean Curran Company (Curran Events, Inc.)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new work choreographed by Sean Curran. Piano Dances will be a suite of six dances, set to music and lyrics by Ricky Ian Gordon.

Sens Production, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of a site-specific work. Noir, created by Noemie Lafrance, will be created for 10 dancers.

Several Dancers Core
Decatur, GA
$10,000
To support a collaboration with Berlin's Tanzcompagnie RUBATO. The project will develop a new work for CORE Performance Company, the professional dance company of Several Dancers Core, through residencies in Atlanta and Berlin.

Shapiro & Smith Dance (Contemporary Dance Arts, Inc.)
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new work. Time Between will be set to music by Bruce Springsteen, Patty Sciaffa, and Soozie Tyrell.

Shen Wei Dance Arts
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of a work choreographed by Shen Wei. The work will draw upon contemporary dance and Chinese opera, as well as elements of painting and sculpture.

Solomons Company/Dance, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new work. Richard Move will create the work for the dance trio Paradigm.

Spring Lake Productions, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new work choreographed by Martha Clarke. Toulouse Lautrec will be created in collaboration with playwright Charles L. Mee, Jr. and music director Michael Feingold.

Stephen Petronio Dance Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the 20th anniversary tour. The tour will include performances in the U.S., international tours, and a self-produced performance at The Joyce Theater.

Susan Marshall & Company (Dance Continuum, Inc.)
Putnam Valley, NY
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new work and the restaging of repertory. Susan Marshall will choreograph Stolen Moments in collaboration with her company and will reconstruct Fields of View (1994), Kiss (1988), and Trio in Four Parts (1985).

Tere O'Connor Dance (Big Tree Productions, Inc.)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of an evening length work. Artistic Director Tere O'Connor will choreograph the work, in collaboration with composer James Baker and lighting/set designer Brian MacDevitt.

Tongue
Culver City, CA
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new evening length work choreographed by Stephanie Gilliland. The work will include an aural landscape created by a sound designer.

Trisha Brown Dance Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$60,000
To support the creation of a new work and presentation of early works by Trisha Brown. The new work will be a duet for Trisha Brown and Steve Paxton, and there will be an art exhibit exploring Trisha Brown's work with visual artists.

University Musical Society
Ann Arbor, MI
$30,000
To support a multipart dance project Pop Collaborations. The project will feature residencies by Merce Cunningham Dance Company and by Lyon Opera Ballet choreographer Phillipe Decoufl.

University of Arizona (on behalf of UA presents)
Tucson, AZ
$20,000
To support the presentation of African dance. Companies to be presented include Sello Pesa (South Africa), Compagnie Rary (Madagascar), and Compagnie Kongo Ba Teria (Burkina Faso).

Velocity Dance Studio (consortium)
Seattle, WA
$10,000
To support a national dance touring alliance. The project will allow dance companies in Seattle, San Francisco, and Minneapolis to perform in each city.

VSA arts of New Mexico, Inc. (consortium)
Albuquerque, NM
$10,000
To support performances and residency activities of mixed-ability dance companies. AXIS Dance Company and Homer Avila and Dancers will be presented during the Global DanceFest.

Washington Performing Arts Society (WPAS)
Washington, DC
$20,000
To support dance presentations and residency activities. Performances will take place at Dance Place, George Mason University's Center for the Arts, and the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland.

White Bird
Portland, OR
$15,000
To support the presentation of dance companies in The White Bird/PSU Dance Series. The series will include master classes and lecture demonstrations.

World Music, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
$15,000
To support the presentation of international, national, and local dance companies. Residency activities will include workshops, master classes, and discussions.

Yard, Inc.
Chilmark, MA
$10,000
To support the Bessie Schoenberg Choreographers and Dancers Residency and Company Residency. Emerging choreographers and dance companies will be in residence for four weeks on Martha's Vineyard.

Zaccho SF
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new work. Choreographed by Joanna Haigood, the work will premiere on the S.S. Red Oak Victory, a National Memorial Ship in Richmond, CA.

ZviDance (ZGD, Inc.)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by Artistic Director Zvi Gotheiner. Titled Territories, the work will be created in collaboration with an original score by Scott Killian, lighting design by Mark London, and costumes by Naoko Nagata.

DESIGN

Artists Space, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the Architecture and Design Project Series. The exhibitions provide a venue for emerging and recognized architects and will introduce current architectural debates to a design, visual art, and general audience.

Los Angeles Forum for Architecture
Los Angeles, CA
$22,500
To support a traveling exhibition and catalogue on community and civic design projects by area architecture schools. More than 50 design/build projects have been identified and include day care facilities, educational training centers, battered women shelters, community centers, and urban gardens.

Museum of Contemporary Art
Chicago, IL
$50,000
To support the exhibition, educational programming, and temporary installation of prototype kiosks. Artist and designer Dan Peterman will create community service kiosks to be placed in the museum's plaza and then relocated to city parks.

Museum of Modern Art
New York, NY
$30,000
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/designers.

Nashville Cultural Arts Project
Nashville, TN
$10,800
To support a lecture series. Nationally recognized designers will make public presentations on cross disciplinary projects in the arts, architecture, and urban development.

National Building Museum
Washington, DC
$44,700
To support an architectural exhibit, symposium, and lectures on a collection of architectural drawings. Envisioning Architecture: Drawings form the Museum of Modern Art has toured in Europe and will appear in no other U.S. venue.

Ohio State University Research Foundation
Columbus, OH
$20,000
To support a symposium and workshop on the use of contemporary digital technologies by women architects and artists. The architects will present their work to a professional and general audience with special outreach to local high school students.

openhousenewyork inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support a site map, interpretive handouts, and Web site guide for a New York architectural tour. The weekend event tours all five boroughs and provides access to buildings and facilities not typically open to the public.

Philadelphia Art Alliance
Philadelphia, PA
$30,000
To support an exhibition and catalogue on the Olin Partnership. The exhibition will be the first retrospective of the landscape architecture firm whose work includes the Cactus Garden Promitory at the J. Paul Getty Center and restoration of Bryant Park in New York.

Praxis, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
$60,000
To support Praxis, an architectural journal. Thematic volumes will be produced to inform the architectural writer, builder, academic, and professional by exploring the balance between theory and practice.

Williams College
Williamstown, MA
$30,000
To support the traveling exhibition Screening Architecture, with accompanying educational programming and catalogue. The exhibition will focus on recent work by international artists exploring architectural issues in video and digital animation.

FOLK & TRADITIONAL ARTS

Chhandam Chitresh Das Dance Company
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support the tour of an evening length collaborative work. East as Center features master artists Chitresh Das, Govindan Kutty, and Ni Ketut Arini.

City of San Antonio, Texas Office of Cultural Affairs
San Antonio, TX
$35,000
To support the fourth International Accordion Festival. The event celebrates the accordion's central role in the traditional music of the United States and throughout the globe.

Federated Dorchester Neighborhood
(on behalf of Yorick's Marionette Theater)
Dorchester, MA
$10,000
To support the creation of hand-carved marionettes. The 14 marionettes will be used for a production titled The Magic Circus and will be presented in schools and communities throughout New England.

Japanese American National Museum
Los Angeles, CA
$40,000
To support planning and fieldwork leading to an exhibition about taiko drumming in the United States. Activities include community involvement and outreach, documentation of community performances, and oral history interviews with 10 key figures in taiko.

Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI
$65,000
To support planning and fabrication of a Native American basketry exhibition. Carriers of Culture: Contemporary Native Basket Traditions will focus on contemporary Native American basketry traditions from Hawaii and North America at the turn of the century.

People's Center, Karuk Tribe
Happy Camp, CA
$20,000
To support an exhibition, an artist-in-residence program, and a basketweavers gathering. The project is designed to encourage basketweaving among the Karuk people, to support employment and income generation, and to increase public awareness of these Native American traditional arts.

Philadelphia Folklore Project
Philadelphia, PA
$30,000
To support the Local Knowledge Project. Activities will include a series of exhibitions and discussion groups or spoken work performances that will inform,interpret, and link the exhibitions.

South Carolina Traditional
Columbia, SC
$23,000
To support a concert, program book, and a CD-ROM. The project will highlight past recipients of the South Carolina Folk Heritage Awards.

Texas Folklife Resources
Austin, TX
$45,000
To support the Community Residency Program. The program will consist of four residencies in underserved Texas towns with populations of fewer than 10,000.

University of California at (on behalf of UCSB Arts & Lectures)
Santa Barbara, CA
$15,000
To support the San Jose Taiko residency program. The week-long program will feature interactive workshops and lecture demonstrations targeted to K-12 students in schools without arts programs, as well as workshops and evening lecture demonstrations at community centers.

Utah State University (on behalf of The Mountain West Center for Regional Studies)
Logan, UT
$35,000
To support the Mountain West Symposium on Song. The three-day symposium will be a combination of musical performances, scholarly papers and lectures, and workshops exploring aspects of song.

Wisconsin Arts Board (consortium)
Madison, WI
$30,000
To support the Arts in the Curriculum: Quilts project. The project will bring together researchers, educators, artists, and a community of learners to develop new teaching and learning approaches incorporating arts into the classroom and community.

LITERATURE

92nd Street Y (Young Men's & 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 the first American readings of new works of verse drama.

Alice James Poetry Cooperative, Inc.
Farmington, ME
$24,000
To support the publication and promotion of poetry titles selected from three annual competitions. Selected poets will read from their works at venues around the country.

Antioch University (on behalf of Antioch Review)
Yellow Springs, OH
$10,000
To support publication and related expenses, including author payments, for special issues of the Antioch Review. Each issue will focus on a contemporary literary form: short fiction, poetry, and the essay.

Aspect, Inc. (Zephyr Press)
Brookline, MA
$20,000
To support the publication and promotion of books by American and Chinese writers. Zephyr Press will market its Chinese titles to Asian bookstores and cultural centers, and add an audio component to its Web site featuring authors reading their work.

Aunt Lute Foundation
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support the publication and promotion of Miko Kings by Choctaw author LeAnne Howe. Aunt Lute will coordinate an extensive eight-city tour for Ms. Howe coinciding with the broadcast of her one-hour special on the Choctaw nation on public television

Big River Association (River Styx) (on behalf of River Styx Magazine)
St. Louis, MO
$5,000
To support the publication and national distribution of issues of River Styx, St. Louis's oldest literary magazine. River Styx annually publishes the work of approximately 60 poets and 20 prose writers.

BOA Editions, Ltd.
Rochester, NY
$40,000
To support production, promotion, and related expenses for new volumes of poetry. Poets scheduled to be published include Lucille Clifton, Bill Knott, David Mura, and Lola Haskins.

Boise State University (on behalf of The Idaho Review)
Boise, ID
$10,000
To support the production and promotion of issues of The Idaho Review. The annual journal will be promoted through direct mail, a public reading, writing workshops, and a short story contest.

Boston University (on behalf of AGNI Magazine)
Boston, MA
$15,000
To support the publication and promotion of issues of AGNI. The magazine will launch a 10,000 piece direct mail campaign to readers of such publications as Poets & Writers and The American Poetry Review.

Brooklyn Public Library Foundation
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
To support the Brooklyn Authors for Brooklyn Readers series, featuring readings and interviews with WNYC radio talk show host Leonard Lopate. The library will make digital audio recordings of each program available on its Web site.

CALYX, Inc.
Corvallis, OR
$15,000
To support the 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.

CavanKerry Press, Ltd.
Fort Lee, NJ
$10,000
To support the publication and promotion of first books of poetry, including one title in the press's LaurelBooks: The Literature of Illness Series. The press will distribute free books to seniors, prisons, schools, and the community of patients and caregivers.

Central District Forum for Arts & Ideas
Seattle, WA
$12,500
To support Black to the Future: A Science Fiction Festival, featuring panels and workshops with leading African American science fiction writers. Scheduled participants include Walter Mosley, Octavia Butler, Steven Barnes, Tananarive Due, John Ridley, Samuel Delany, and Nalo Hopkinson

Coffee House Press
Minneapolis, MN
$20,000
To support the publication, promotion, and national distribution of volumes of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Scheduled writers include Lorenzo Thomas, Marjorie Welish, Eleni Sikelianos, U Sam Oeur, and Gilbert Sorrentino.

Colorado State University (on behalf of The Colorado Review)
Fort Collins, CO
$8,000
To support the publication and promotion of issues of The Colorado Review. Published three times a year, the journal will advertise in such magazines as Poets & Writers, American Poetry Review, and the AWP Writer's Chronicle.

Copper Canyon Press
Port Townsend, WA
$55,000
To support the publication, promotion, and national distribution of books of poetry. Authors include Ruth Stone, Marvin Bell, David Lee, Jane Miller, David Bottoms, and Cyrus Cassells.

Creative Nonfiction Foundation
Pittsburgh, PA
$10,000
To support the publication and promotion of a special 25th issue of Creative Nonfiction, and a national writers' conference in Pittsburgh, to celebrate the journal's 10th anniversary. The special issue will feature a new format and writing by conference participants.

Curbstone Press, Inc.
Willimantic, CT
$45,000
To support the translation, publication, and promotion of contemporary, multicultural poetry and fiction. Curbstone Press will sponsor readings in bookstores, libraries, schools, and communities with large minority populations.

Fence Magazine, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support production, promotion, and related expenses including authors' fees, for issues of Fence. The magazine will advertise in journals such as Poets and Writers, American Poetry Review, Boston Review, and Poetry Flash.

Friends of Writers, Inc. (on behalf of Four Way Books)
Marshfield, VT
$10,000
To support the publication and promotion of volumes of poetry. Scheduled authors include Tina Chang, Noelle Kocot, Gary Lilley, and Jason Schneiderman.

Gettysburg College (on behalf of Gettysburg Review)
Gettysburg, PA
$15,000
To support an increase in payments to contributors and promotional expenses for the Gettysburg Review. A direct mail campaign on behalf of the literary journal will target 50,000 potential readers across the country.

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 D.A. Powell, Fanny Howe, David Rivard, Albert Goldbarth, Carl Phillips, and Jorie Graham.

Guild Complex
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support the Performance Poetry Festival. The summer festival will bring together artists who combine theater and poetry to create lyrical monologues and experimental plays and films.

Hill-Stead Museum
Farmington, CT
$10,000
To support the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival, featuring summer readings and workshops. Proposed poets include Martha Collins, Joan Joffe Hall, Grace Paley, Rafael Campo, and Major Jackson.

Hudson Review, Inc.
New York, NY
$12,500
To support the publication and promotion of a special issue of the The Hudson Review featuring writers new to the journal. The journal will send complimentary copies of the issue to publishers and literary agents.

Humanities Tennessee
Nashville, TN
$10,000
To support The Southern Festival of Books: A Celebration of the Written Word. With an annual audience of 30,000, this free, three-day festival has featured readings and panel sessions by more than 200 authors.

Inprint, Inc.
Houston, TX
$20,000
To support the Inprint Brown Reading Series. Inprint will send brochures to more than 100 print and broadcast media groups and 6,500 households throughout Houston, and will place posters and postcards at bookstores, theaters, cafes, schools, libraries, and universities.

Just Buffalo Literary Center, Inc.
Buffalo, NY
$10,000
To support outreach programs throughout the greater Buffalo area. Proposed programs include Poetry To Go and If All of Buffalo Read the Same Book.

Kenyon Review
Gambier, OH
$15,000
To support the publication and related expenses, including increased authors' fees, for issues of The Kenyon Review. The journal will expand its publication from three issues per year to four.

Loft, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$50,000
To support The Minnesota Program for Writers. The program will feature The Mentor Series, which will connect nationally recognized writers with local writers through workshops and one-on-one instruction; and Talking Volumes, which will present recent original work by advanced writers to audiences throughout the upper Midwest.

Marygrove College
Detroit, MI
$7,000
To support a day of readings and workshops with Pearl Cleage as part of the college's Contemporary American Authors Lecture Series. The program will be promoted through direct mailings to more than 200,000 students and residents in downtown Detroit.

Milkweed Editions, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$55,000
To support the publication, promotion, and national distribution of volumes of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction by emerging and mid-career writers. Scheduled authors include Bill Holm, Dennis Sampson, Margaret Erhart, Joseph Bruchac, and Kathleen Dean Moore.

Mountain Writers Series
Portland, OR
$20,000
To support readings, residencies, and special events throughout the Pacific Northwest region. Proposed authors include Marianne Baruch, Henri Cole, Billy Collins, Bei Dao, Naomi Shihab Nye, Diane Wakoski, and Adam Zagajewski.

National Poetry Series, Inc.
Princeton, NJ
$12,000
To support evaluation fees and publication costs for poetry volumes selected from the National Poetry Series Open Competition. Chosen by a panel of distinguished poets, the five winning manuscripts will be published by HarperCollins Publishers, Louisiana State University Press, Coffee House Press, the University of Illinois Press, and Viking Penguin.

Other Voices, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support publication and related expenses, including increased authors' fees, for issues of Other Voices magazine. The journal will coordinate a special week of literary programming in conjunction with the 2004 Associated Writing Programs conference in Chicago.

Painted Bride Quarterly, Inc.
Camden, NJ
$7,000
To support the publication and promotion of the online magazine's second annual print anthology. The anthology will include four theme issues: Spaces/Places, the Reciprocity Issue, the New Jersey Issue, and the Aesthetics and Technology Issue.

Ploughshares, Inc.
Boston, MA
$16,000
To support the publication and national distribution of issues of Ploughshares to 6,000 readers across the country. The Winter 2004-05 and Spring 2005 issue will feature new work by 70 poets and 12 fiction writers.

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
$30,000
To support the publication and promotion of collections of poetry, short fiction, and creative nonfiction. Authors will conduct readings and workshops around the country.

Texas A&M Research Foundation
College Station, TX
$40,000
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
$15,000
To support readings and panel discussions by prominent authors participating in the Texas Book Festival. The 2004 festival will feature such writers as Michael Cunningham, Jane Smiley, Rudolfo Anaya, Sandra Cisneros, Jimmy Santiago Baca, and Larry McMurtry.

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 Arizona
Tucson, AZ
$15,000
To support the Visiting Poets and Writers Reading Series at the University of Arizona Poetry Center. Proposed artists include Rita Dove, Michael Palmer, Alberto Rios, Brigit Pegeen Kelly, Sue Kwock Kim, Calvin Bedient, Patricia Smith, and Gjertrud Schnackenberg.

University of Hawaii at Manoa (on behalf of Manoa)
Honolulu, HI
$25,000
To support the publication, promotion, distribution, and related expenses for issues of Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing. Scheduled issues will feature work from Mindanao, the Filipino American community, French Polynesia, and Pacific Islanders living in the United States.

University of Houston (on behalf of Arte Público)
Houston, TX
$50,000
To support the publication and promotion of Spanish language editions of Arte Público's U.S. Latino literature for young adults. The press will sponsor author readings and distribute teacher guides that include background information, author biographies, analyses of major themes, and bibliographies for further reading.

University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA
$8,000
To support publication costs and related expenses for winning selections from the Iowa Short Fiction Award and John Simmons Short Fiction Award competitions. Launched in 1970, the awards are given to two emerging writers each year.

University of Mississippi Main Campus
(on behalf of Center for the Study of Southern Culture)
University, MS
$10,000
To support the Oxford Conference for the Book. Scheduled participants include Barry Hannah, Silas House, Lee Smith, Beth Ann Fennelly, Margaret McMullan, Jewel Parker Rhodes, and William Jay Smith.

University of Missouri at Columbia (on behalf of The Missouri Review)
Columbia, MO
$30,000
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.

University of Texas at Austin (on behalf of Center for Middle Eastern Studies)
Austin, TX
$20,000
To support the publication and promotion of Arabic fiction in translation. The Center for Middle Eastern Studies will publish the work of Syrian author Walid Ikhlassi; Iraqi author Buthayna al-Nassiri; and Samir Naqqash, a Jewish author from Iraq who lives in Israel and writes in Arabic.

White Pine, Inc.
Buffalo, NY
$35,000
To support the translation, publication, and promotion of titles in the World of Voices Publishing 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 and related expenses for two special issues of The Women's Review of Books. The special issues will focus on Women in War and Peace.

LOCAL ARTS AGENCIES

Churchill Arts Council
Fallon, NV
$35,000
To support a performing arts series at the Oak Park Art Center Theatre. The series will offer audiences of northern Nevada presentations featuring artists representing international cultural traditions and aesthetics.

City of El Paso, Texas Arts and Culture (on behalf of Arts Resource Department)
El Paso, TX
$12,000
To support the Discovery Series Performances, lecture demonstrations, and master classes will be conducted by Ballet Hispanico, the Martha Graham Dance Ensemble, and the Turtle Island String Quartet in El Paso, Las Cruces, NM, and Chihuahua City, Mexico.

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Inc.
New York, NY
$45,000
To support the Workspace artist residency program. Workspace is a competitive residency program that will provide studio space to emerging and mid-career artists for the creation and exhibition of new work.

Northampton Arts Council
Northampton, MA
$10,000
To support Sisters of the South. Blues artists Beverly Guitar Watkins, Mother Pauline Goins, Cora Mae Bryant, Algia Mae Hinton, and Essie Mae Brooks will perform and present workshops as part of the council's performing arts series.

MEDIA ARTS

911 Media Arts Center
Seattle, WA
$15,000
To support the Artists-in-Residence Program and the New Works Laboratory. 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 11th New York African Film Festival and its national tour. The program will present an overview of the last 50 years of African cinema.

American Museum of the Moving Image
Astoria, NY
$15,000
To support several curated film series. Together, Master Class: The Art of Screenwriting, Great Performances: Films Selected by the New York Film Critics Circle, and Repertory Nights will involve screenings of over 70 feature films and personal appearances by filmmakers.

Ann Arbor Film Festival
Ann Arbor, MI
$20,000
To support the 42nd Ann Arbor Film Festival. More than 125 films will be presented to an audience of approximately 21,000 people in Michigan and in the states the festival tours.

Art Institute of Chicago (on behalf of Film Center)
Chicago, IL
$25,000
To support a curated film series. Celebrating American Cinema: Icons and Innovators will showcase films representing three genres - the western, the war film, and film noir - and retrospectives of the directors D. W. Griffith, Buster Keaton, Dorothy Arzner,Preston Sturges, and Orson Welles.

Arts Engine, Inc. (on behalf of Big Mouth)
New York, NY
$25,000
To support post-production and outreach costs for a documentary film by Kirsten Johnson. Life After Death Row will examine the consequences of the Supreme Court's 1972 decision to abolish the death penalty, and the more recent decision in Illinois of clemency for all of that state's death row inmates.

Asian CineVision, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the Asian American International Film Festival. The festival will travel to 10 sites throughout the United States including campuses and cultural institutions in North Carolina, Nevada, and Maryland.

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

Aurora Picture Show
Houston, TX
$11,000
To support a curated film series. Media Archeology: A 16mm Film Collectors' Series will showcase films ranging from home movies to stock footage.

Austin Film Society
Austin, TX
$20,000
To support the presentation of a curated film and video series. Over 90 films will be shown to an estimated audience of 25,000 people.

Bay Area Video Coalition, Inc. (BAVC) (consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support the Videomaker Awards. In collaboration with Southern Exposure, this program will provide independent video artists and producers with critical technical assistance and the resources they need to finish their projects.

Berks Filmmakers, Inc.
Reading, PA
$7,000
To support the exhibition of several curated film and video series. Programs will focus on avant garde cinema, documentary and animation work, presentations by filmmakers, and screenings of films by artists from the region.

Buffalo Media Resources, Inc. (Squeaky Wheel)
Buffalo, NY
$15,000
To support SWAP: Squeaky Wheel Access Program. The 17-year old program provides media equipment access, low-cost workshops, artist residencies, and resource services to film and video artists locally and nationally.

Cabin Creek Center for Work
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the production of a documentary film by Barbara Kopple. Out of Our Minds (OOOM) will follow the first year of classes at the High School for Contemporary Arts in the South Bronx.

Chicago Filmmakers
Chicago, IL
$15,000
To support the Independent Film and Video Exhibition Series and the presentation of the 16th Onion City Film Festival. The Independent Film and Video Exhibition Series emphasizes documentary and experimental films and videos and the Onion City Film Festival is dedicated to exhibiting experimental work.

Chicago International Film Festival - Cinema Chicago
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support the 40th Chicago International Film Festival. More than 60,000 people will see 130 films from around the world.

Cine Accion, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the Cine Latino Film festival and a curated film series. More than 120 films will be presented to an estimated audience of 7,000 people.

Cinema Seattle
Seattle, WA
$10,000
To support the ninth Women in Cinema Film Festival. Approximately 25 films will be presented to an audience of more than 7,500 people.

Cinema St. Louis
St. Louis, MO
$10,000
To support the 13th St. Louis International Film Festival. Over 200 short and feature-length films will be presented to an audience of 16,500 people.

Cleveland International Film Festival, Inc.
Cleveland, OH
$20,000
To support the 28th Cleveland International Film Festival, including the seventh 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 and appreciation of the art form.

Denver Film Society
Denver, CO
$20,000
To support the 27th Denver International Film Festival. The event will present more than 150 films from the United States and abroad to an audience of more than 30,000 people.

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

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 21st 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 throughout the year.

Film Arts Foundation (on behalf of Thompson Productions)
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
To support the production and post-production costs for an experimental documentary by Elizabeth Thompson. A Bird Flies Like Birds will tell the story of Carmen, a survivor of torture during the conflict in Guatemala, as she grapples and comes to terms with her past.

Film Arts Foundation (on behalf of Madcat Women's Int'l Film Festival)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the 8th MadCat Women's International Film Festival. Over 50 films will be presented to an audience of approximately 6,000 people in California and in the states the festival tours.

Film Arts Foundation (on behalf of Flower Films and Video)
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support production and post-production costs for a documentary video by Les Blank. Butch Anthony is about the life and work of the self-taught artist from Alabama.

Film Arts Foundation
San Francisco, CA
$60,000
To support educational and exhibition activities. Designed to assist media artists from beginner to advanced, the program will offer special workshops and seminars as well as enhanced exhibition opportunities.

Film Arts Foundation (on behalf of K Bik Films)
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
To support production and post-production costs for a television documentary by Ruby Yang. A Moment in Time will be a history of Chinese Americans through their movie-going experiences in American Chinatowns.

Film Society of Lincoln Center
New York, NY
$45,000
To support several curated film series. Mass Production and Individual Expression in World Cinema will examine the films produced by film studios in Asia - the Shaw Brothers in Hong Kong and Japan's Shochiku Company - and will include a retrospective of the films by director Joseph Losey.

Film/Video Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the Artist Mentor Project. Participants create individual film/video projects and have free access to on-site training, equipment and facilities, career counseling, information resources, and screenings of their work.

Filmmakers Collaborative, Inc.
Waltham, MA
$15,000
To support post-production and distribution costs for a documentary by Michal Goldman. Living in the Coops is about the United Workers Cooperative Colony, a utopian housing cooperative in the Bronx built by Jewish immigrant workers in the 1920s.

Foundation For Creative Broadcasting, Inc. (KXCI)
(on behalf of Outright Radio)
Tucson, AZ
$10,000
To support the production of radio programs to be hosted by David Gilmore. Outright Radio will focus on unique people in the gay community.

Frameline
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support the presentation of a lecture series. Close-Up: Visionaries of Modern Cinema will feature the works of film professionals whose work has influenced lesbian and gay media over the years.

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
$45,000
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-North
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
To support educational activities and access to film and video equipment for media artists in the region. Over 500 film and video makers are expected to benefit from the project.

Independent Feature Project/Midwest
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support the 13th IFP/Midwest Independent Filmmaker's Conference. The event provides opportunities for filmmakers to learn from, and meet with, industry professionals.

Independent Feature Project/West
Beverly Hills, CA
$20,000
To support the Los Angeles Film Festival. Over 150 films including dramatic features, documentaries, and short films will be presented to an anticipated audience of 35,000 people.

Independent Films
Aspen, CO
$15,000
To support the Aspen Shortsfest film festival. Short, live action, animation, and documentary films from the United States and abroad will be showcased.

Independent Media Artists of (on behalf of Latent Films)
Atlanta, GA
$35,000
To support the production of an experimental documentary film and installation work by Ariana Gerstein and Monteith McCollum. Milk will examine the controversies surrounding the many uses of this fluid food.

Independent Media Artists of Georgia, Ect., Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$10,000
To support the 28th Atlanta Film Festival. The event presents the best of current independent film and video to an average audience of 15,000 people.

Independent Pictures
Cleveland, OH
$10,000
To support the 2004 Ohio Independent Film Festival. Over 130 films will be presented to an estimated audience of 3,000 people.

Kartemquin Educational Films
Chicago, IL
$50,000
To support the production of a documentary film by Maria Finitzo. At the Heart of the Matter will examine the issue of stem cell research by following a family for whom the subject has particular relevance on several levels.

Kitchen Sisters Productions
San Francisco, CA
$50,000
To support the production of a radio series by Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva. Lost and Found Food will explore American life and culture through food.

L.A. Freewaves
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
To support the ninth biennial celebration of experimental media arts. How Can you Resist Wires and Waves will present single-channel, multi channel, installation, and new media art via on-site exhibitions, cable television, and the Web.

LogTV, Ltd.
Spencer, NY
$25,000
To support production and post-production costs for a documentary video by Slawomir Grunberg. Portraits of Emotion will follow Jonathan Lerman, a 15 year-old artistic prodigy diagnosed with autism.

Media Arts Center San Diego
San Diego, CA
$10,000
To support the 11th San Diego Latino Film Festival. The films and videos exhibited must be produced by Latinos or about the Latino experience.

MediaRites
Portland, OR
$10,000
To support the production of a radio series by Dmae Roberts. AsianAm: Profiles of Contemporary and Historic Asian Americans will feature stories about unsung heroes in Asian American history and modern times.

Mill Valley Film Festival (California Film Institute)
Mill Valley, CA
$10,000
To support a curated film/video series devoted to the presentation of documentaries. The screenings will feature guests and guided discussions among artists, filmmakers, scholars, and members of the audience.

Millennium Film Workshop, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the exhibition of experimental film and video art and a series of filmmaking workshops. Exhibitions will feature 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. Film Forum is devoted to bringing a broad array of the highest quality new work by young and emerging artists, as well as more established figures, to a large and diverse general public.

Nashville Independent Film Festival Nashville, TN
To support the Nashville Film Festival. The event f
$7,500
eatures student films and videos, documentaries, narrative films, and experimental work.

National Asian American Telecommunications
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 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 Community Cinema, Inc.
Huntington, NY
$10,000
To support two curated film series. Discovering the World of Central Asian Contemporary and Classical Films will present work from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Tadjikistan, and Film Festival from the People's Republic of China will showcase films made in China after 1949.

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc. (on behalf of Strange Attractions)
New York, NY
$41,000
To support post-production costs for an experimental documentary film by P. Friedman and R. Manley. Mana, The Power of Things will examine the meaning of the word "belief" as it applies to religion and our everyday lives.

Northwest Film Forum (on behalf of Pinwheel Productions)
Seattle, WA
$20,000
To support production and post-production costs for an experimental narrative film by Jamie Hook. Even If It Kills Me tells the story of a 39-year-old woman grappling with taking her own life.

Northwest Film Forum
Seattle, WA
$10,000
To support Deep Focus, a curated film exhibition series. The project will present director retrospectives by narrative and experimental filmmakers in Seattle's Grand Illusion Cinema and Little Theatre.

Ohio University Main Campus (on behalf of Athens Ctr. for Film and Video)
Athens, OH
$10,000
To support the 31st Athens International Film and Video Festival. The event features narrative work, documentaries, and short films produced in the United States and abroad.

Palm Springs International
Palm Springs, CA
$20,000
To support the 16th Palm Springs International Film Festival. Held in January, this event presents more than 200 films to an audience of over 75,000 people.

Provincetown International Film
Provincetown, MA
$10,000
To support the sixth Provincetown International Film Festival. Over 50 independent films will be screened to an estimated audience of 10,000 people.

Regents of the University of California (on behalf of Pacific Film Archive)
Berkeley, CA
$40,000
To support a curated film and video series. Documentary Voices will showcase documentary filmmaking as it is practiced worldwide.

Ridge Street Theater, Inc. (on behalf of Hypnotic Pictures)
New York, NY
$65,000
To support the pre-production, production, and post-production costs for an experimental narrative film by Bill Morrison. Photosensitive will tell the story of a young woman who experiences photosensitive epileptic seizures.

San Diego Asian Film Foundation
San Diego, CA
$10,000
To support the fourth San Diego Asian Film Festival. Held in the fall, the four-day event features short films, animated work, documentaries, and narrative feature films.

San Francisco Cinematheque
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support a curated film and video series. Lessons Learned will feature contemporary media artists screening their own works paired with influential works by their avant-garde forebears.

San Francisco Film Society
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support the 47th San Francisco International Film Festival. The event presents over 200 films from 50 countries to an audience of 90,000 people.

San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support the Jewish Film Festival and related activities. The festival, devoted to films on Jewish subjects, premieres films and videos by independent producers from around the world.

Sound Portraits Productions, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the creation of radio stories based on interviews collected from StoryCorps kiosks in New York City. StoryCorps, produced by David Isay, is a nationwide initiative to instruct and inspire citizens to record oral interviews.

Soundprint Media Center, Inc.
Laurel, MD
$20,000
To support the Age of Discovery. Through this international residency program, audio artists will produce documentaries focusing on youth culture.

Southern California Asian American
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
To support the 20th 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.

Southwestern Alternate Media
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.

Squaw Valley Community of Writers
Nevada City, CA
$6,000
To support the Screenwriting 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
$20,000
To support access to 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
Salt Lake City, UT
$115,000
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.

Teachers College, Columbia University
(on behalf of African Diaspora Film Festival)
New York, NY
$7,500
To support the African Diaspora Film Festival. The event will present over 70 films from the United States and abroad to an audience of over 4,000 people.

Thomas A. Edison Media Arts Consortium
Jersey City, NJ
$20,000
To support the Black Maria Film and Video Festival and its multi-state tour. Over 60 organizations host the festival each year, which draws more than 700 entries from throughout the country.

Tundra Club
Bozeman, MT
$20,000
To support the production of (((Hearing Voices))) to be curated by Barrett Golding. These radio documentaries will consist of people around the country talking about their life, their work, and their community.

University of Florida (on behalf of Documentary Institute)
Gainesville, FL
$10,000
To support the purchase of music rights for a television documentary by Sandra Dickson and Churchill Roberts. Negroes with Guns: Rob Williams and Black Power will use jazz, R&B, black protest, and gospel tracks to evoke the tensions of the 1960s.

University of Illinois at Chicago (on behalf of School of Art and Design)
Chicago, IL
$25,000
To support post-production costs for an experimental documentary by Silvia Malagrino. Burnt Oranges will examine life under the authoritarian regime that governed Argentina in the 1970s.

Upstate Films, Limited (on behalf of Timed Exposures)
Rhinebeck, NY
$25,000
To support post-production costs for a documentary film by Ralph Arlyck. Following Sean is about a young man who grew up in Haight-Ashbury section of San Francisco during the 1960s.

Video Association of Dallas, Inc.
Dallas, TX
$15,000
To support the 18th Dallas Video Festival. The event will present classic work programmed with new video art.

Video Veracity, Inc.
New Orleans, LA
$25,000
To support post-production costs for a television documentary by Rebecca Snedeker. Queen for a Day will give viewers a behind-the-scenes look at the debutante season in New Orleans.

Washington, DC International Film
Washington, DC
$20,000
To support Filmfest DC. The event includes free films for children, senior citizens, and underserved communities.

WBEZ Alliance, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$20,000
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 and share their expertise, and for listeners to hear some of the best work currently produced.

Women Make Movies, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support a broadcast outreach initiative. Women Make Movies is the leading distributor for women's media with a collection of more than 500 films and videotapes created by artists worldwide.

MULTIDISCIPLINARY

'A 'A Arts
Honolulu, HI
$10,000
To support a special issue of the journal Chain. The project will feature a series of recorded discussions between artists from diverse artistic practices and a related talk series dedicated to the theme of public art.

Art in General, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support Rock's Role (After Ryoanji). The project will include an exhibition of sound and visual work inspired by composer and artist John Cage, an exhibition catalogue, and educational activities.

Atlantic Center for the Arts, Inc.
New Smyrna Beach, FL
$10,000
To support the first phase of the Argentina/US Cultural Exchange Residency. Argentine master artists will work with U.S. and Argentine artists for three weeks of interaction, collaboration, discussions, and creative exchanges.

Boston Cyberarts, Inc.
Jamaica Plain, MA
$25,000
To support the Boston Cyberarts Artists Residency. The program will foster creative collaborations between technology-based artists and engineers and scientists at New England high technology corporations.

Builders Association, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support Avanti!, a multimedia performance integrating digital technology. The project, written by Jessica Chalmers and directed by Marianne Weems, will tell the story of the demise of the Studebaker automobile.

Bumbershoot (One Reel)
Seattle, WA
$10,000
To support Ink Spot, a literary component of the Bumbershoot festival. The project will feature works by as many as 26 artists who utilize written language in a variety of forms.

California Institute of the Arts
Valencia, CA
$30,000
To support REDCAT Intersections Initiative. The project will comprise a series of residencies, performances, and production opportunities.

Cathy Weis Projects (Roxanne Dance Foundation, Inc.)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the development and production of Electric Haiku, Part II. The new work by Cathy Weis will integrate dance, video, poetry, animation, new media, and sound art.

Corporation of Yaddo
Saratoga Springs, NY
$20,000
To support creative residencies for professional artists. Up to 100 artists, who have never been in residence at Yaddo, will be offered two-week to two-month residencies.

CrossSound, Inc.
Juneau, AK
$20,000
To support RainSongs: 3 antiphonous tales from wet lands, a touring festival of newly commissioned work. Three teams of international composers and writers will create collaborative works using Stravinsky's The Soldier's Tale and Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf as points of departure.

D.U.M.B.O. Arts Center
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
To support the d.u.m.b.o art under the bridge festival. The three-day event will feature exhibitions, site-specific installations, film and video screenings, live music, theater, and dance by artists that live and work in the 10-block area under the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges.

Dance for Power
Oakland, CA
$10,000
To support Tierra y Libertad - Let Freedom Ring. The dance theater work will draw upon Mexican and Spanish folkloric dance and music to depict themes surrounding the Mexican Revolution of 1910.

DiverseWorks, Inc.
Houston, TX
$35,000
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 up to 50 American artists. The project will provide studios, housing, meals, and professional support for media and visual artists, writers, choreographers, and composers.

Door Dog Music Productions (consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support Prince Lanling, a new dance theater performance. The work will integrate Chinese, Balinese, and Western dance music and text with projections to create a new interpretation of a Chinese folk tale.

Experimental Sound Studio
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support the Artists Residency Program and the Outer Ear Festival of Sound. The project will provide as many as six local artists with residencies to create and present new sonic art works.

Exploratorium
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
To support artist residencies and gallery installations. As many as six artists working in sound, electronic music, photography, film, and video will participate in the project.

Eyebeam Atelier, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$30,000
To support the Artist in Residence Program. The program will provide as many as 20 artists with five month residencies and stipends for the creation and presentation of new works of art created with digital tools.

Fine Arts Work Center in
Provincetown, MA
$25,000
To support the Winter Residency Program. The program will provide as many as 20 emerging writers and visual artists with housing, studios, and a monthly stipend for seven months.

First Voice, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the tour of Kuan-Yin: Our Lady of Compassion. The multidisciplinary performance work will travel to venues in the U.S. and include educational outreach activities.

Frederick Douglass Creative Arts Center
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the development of professional writers and playwrights. The project will feature writing workshops, staged readings, and the 32nd annual Black Roots Festival.

Harvestworks, Inc.
New York, NY
$18,000
To support the Creative Residency Program. The program will provide artists with studio time, technical support, and public presentation of work.

Headlands Center for the Arts
Sausalito, CA
$35,000
To support the U.S. Artists-in-Residence Program and associated public programs. The project will provide as many as 40 artists with residencies ranging from one to 11 months.

Immaterial Incorporated
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
To support artist fees and production costs for the art journal Cabinet. The quarterly publication will publish artist projects and essays on art and culture.

International Cinematexas Short
Austin, TX
$15,000
To support the Austin Eye+Ear Performance Series. The series will showcase work by artists who have not previously performed in Austin.

Jack Straw Foundation
Seattle, WA
$25,000
To support audio art residencies for the creation of new work. The program will make Jack Straw studios and facilities available to northwest artists from a variety of disciplines.

Link Arts, Incorporated
Baltimore, MD
$10,000
To support the publication of "Musae", an issue of the journal Link. The publication will feature essays on the visual and critical meaning of collections and an audio CD of epic, lyric, and sacred songs from Baltimore.

MacDowell Colony, Inc.
Peterborough, NH
$30,000
To support residencies for artists from a variety of disciplines. As many as 10 artists who have not previously been in residence at MacDowell will be provided a studio and room and board for up to two months.

Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum
Chicago, IL
$30,000
To support the Sor Juana Festival. The multidisciplinary festival will feature visual arts, film, music, dance, literature, and theater by Mexican and Mexican American women.

Movin' Spirits Dance Theater, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
To support the initial development of America the Beautiful, a new interdisciplinary performance work. The evening -length work will be choreographed by Marlies Yearby with a script and lyrics by writer and director Laurie Carlos and playwright Carl Hancock Rux.

New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.
Staten Island, NY
$20,000
To support new commissioned work and the continued development of the Turbulence Web site. The project will provide for the creation and distribution of as many as five new works of Internet based art by nationally recognized artists.

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc.
(on behalf of Bill Shannon/Crutch Productions)
New York, NY
$12,000
To support the creation of a new solo multidisciplinary project. The evening-length work will bring together elements of dance, spoken word, video, and theater.

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc.
(on behalf of Maureen Fleming Performances)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the development and production of Decay of the Angel. This evening-length, multidisciplinary work will be developed and performed in upstate New York, Boston, and Minneapolis.

Orange County/Philharmonic Society
Irvine, CA
$20,000
To support Three Tales, a video-opera by Steve Reich and Beryl Korot. The work will be presented as part of the Eclectic Orange Festival.

Performance Space 122, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the commissioning and presentation of new multidisciplinary theater works. Technical support and performance space will be provided for three artists working outside the traditional producer/playwright/actor framework.

Ping Chong & Company (Fiji Theater Company, Inc.) (consortium)
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the development and premiere of God Favors the Predator. The new multidisciplinary performance work by Ping Chong and Michael Rohd will draw from Vladimir Nabokov's 1929 novel, Laughter in the Dark.

Portland Taiko
Portland, OR
$12,000
To support On the Shoulder of Giants. The project will commission and present new works by taiko composers as well as a collaboration with choreographer Minh Tran.

Relache, Inc. (consortium)
Philadelphia, PA
$15,000
To support the commissioning of Re-Creation, a new work by pianist and composer Uri Caine. The evening- length performance integrating music, dance, and video will be based on Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8 and Darius Milhaud's ballet music La Creation du monde.

Ridge Street Theater, Inc.
New York, NY
$23,000
To support the creation and presentation of A Day in Gotham. The multimedia and orchestral work is a collaborative effort by composer Michael Gordon, filmmaker Bill Morrison, visual artist Laurie Olinder, and the American Composers Orchestra.

Roulette Intermedium, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the Festival of Mixology 2004. The series of concerts will explore the range of media art created through the use of computer software that allows for the live mixture of sound and video.

Society of Typographic Aficionados, Inc.
Buffalo, NY
$25,000
To support TypeCon2004. The four-day event focusing on typography and related art forms will offer artists and students workshops, panel discussions, online activities, and a fine arts exhibition.

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

Squonk Opera, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
$10,000
To support the creation and development of a new multidisciplinary theater work. The project will combine live music, world theater traditions, and video projections.

St. Ann Center for Restoration
Brooklyn, NY
$40,000
To support the 2004 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 works.

University of California (on behalf of Beall Center for Art and Technology)
Irvine, CA
$20,000
To support ALT+CTRL, an exhibition of alternative game art. The juried event will showcase artistry and innovation in the field of game-based artwork by artists, designers, and programmers.

University of California at Los Angeles
(on behalf of UCLA Center for Intercultural Affairs)
Los Angeles, CA
$40,000
To support American artists in the Asia Pacific Performance Exchange Fellowship Program. The six week artist residency program in Bali will bring together eight American and eight Asian artists working in music, dance, theater, and puppetry.

University of Washington (consortium)
Seattle, WA
$25,000
To support Dance and Art in Dialogue. The project will consist of an exhibition of collaborative artworks by visual artists, accompanied by live performances of Trisha Brown's choreography, as well as educational activities.

Wexner Center Foundation
Columbus, OH
$40,000
To support the commissioning of visual, performing, and media art works. The project is part of Wexner Center for the Arts' ongoing artists' residency program that provides financial, technical, and professional support for the creation, completion, and/or presentation of new work.

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
San Francisco, CA
$35,000
To support residencies for artists of multiple disciplines. Artists in residence in the visual arts, performing arts, and media arts will develop new work and engage in a variety of education and community programs.

MUSEUMS

American Folk Art Museum
New York, NY
$60,000
To support the touring exhibition The Synagogue and the Carousel: Jewish Woodcarving Traditions, with accompanying catalogue and educational programs. The exhibition will examine the transformation of Eastern European Jewish traditions found in religious carvings, tombstones, and papercuts into parallel American traditions that occured from the 1880s to early 1920s.

Americas Society, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the planning for the exhibition The Phoenix and the Hummingbird: Asia in the Arts of Latin America, 1520-1820. The exhibition will examine the cross-cultural hybridization and exchange between Asia and Latin America during the colonial era.

Arcadia University (on behalf of Art Gallery)
Glenside, PA
$25,000
To support the commission of a site-specific installation by Danish-born, Berlin-based artist Olafur Eliasson (b. 1967), with accompanying catalogue and educational programs. The installation will consist of two circular chambers that will allow viewers to explore their perceptions of pure color and its afterimages.

Asia Society
New York, NY
$100,000
To support the touring exhibition Asian Games: The Art of Contest, with accompanying catalogue and educational programs. The exhibition will explore the role of games in traditional Asian cultures from the earliest recorded time to the beginning of the modern era.

Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
$45,000
To support the touring exhibition The Kingdom of Siam: Art and Culture of Central Thailand 1350 1800, with accompanying catalogue and educational programs. The exhibition will highlight the little known arts of the Thai kingdom of Ayutthaya, and will provide American audiences with their first opportunity in 25 years to see classical art from Thailand.

Boise Art Museum
Boise, ID
$10,000
To support an exhibition of work by contemporary American glass artist William Morris. The exhibition, titled William Morris: Myth, Object, and the Animal, will include individual sculptures, room-size installations, and a new commissioned installation.

Brooklyn Institute of Arts
Brooklyn, NY
$40,000
To support the reinstallation of a collection of indigenous art from the Pacific Northwest. The new, permanent installation implemented in collaboration with Native communities will replace one that dates from the 1960s.

California Center for the Arts, Escondido Foundation
Escondido, CA
$15,000
To support an exhibition of work by French artist Niki de Saint Phalle (1930-2002), with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will complement the unveiling of the artist's monumental, sculptural environment Queen Califia's Magical Circle in Escondido.

California State University, Long Beach (on behalf of University Art Museum) (consortium)
Long Beach, CA
$75,000
To support a touring exhibition of work by contemporary German photographer Candida Hofer (b. 1944). The exhibition will be organized in collaboration with the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL.

Carnegie Institute (on behalf of Carnegie Museum of Art)
Pittsburgh, PA
$50,000
To support the 2004 Carnegie International exhibition, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. Founded in 1896 and now in its 54th installment, the International might be considered the pre-eminent international survey of contemporary art in North America.

Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
St. Louis, MO
$30,000
To support an exhibition of new work by contemporary Chinese artist Michael Lin (b. 1964), with accompanying artist's book/catalogue and education programs. Lin will transform a 3,000 square foot gallery into an all-encompassing visual, floral cornucopia.

Contemporary Arts Association of Houston
Houston, TX
$40,000
To support a touring exhibition of work by contemporary American artist Andrea Zittel (b. 1965), with accompanying catalogue and education programs. Critical Space 1991-2003, will be the first U.S. examination of her sculptural investigations of domestic and urban environments and the ways in which people adjust to contemporary life.

Contemporary Arts Center
New Orleans, LA
$30,000
To support a touring exhibition of work by African American artist Willie Birch (b. 1943), with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will consist of approximately 40 recent large-scale works on paper.

Eastman Memorial Foundation (Lauren Rogers Museum of Art) (consortium)
Laurel, MS
$22,000
To support an exhibition of work by African American artist Sam Gilliam (b. 1933), with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition is being organized in collaboration with the Baton Rouge Arts and Science Center.

Edmundson Art Foundation, Inc.
Des Moines, IA
$40,000
To support the touring exhibition Contested Fields: Identity in Sports and Spectacle, with accompanying catalogue, education programs, and artist residencies. The exhibition will present contemporary artwork that examines the role of sports culture in shaping human identities.

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

Grand Rapids Art Museum
Grand Rapids, MI
$20,000
To support a touring exhibition of American artist Ellsworth Kelly's (b. 1923) plant lithographs. Although known for his large scale two- and three-dimensional canvases of colors and minimal shapes, the exhibition will present a closer view of his more intimate and minimal renderings of plant life.

International Center of Photography (consortium)
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the touring exhibition Gustav Klutsis and Valentina Kulagina: Between the Public and the Private, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will provide a new understanding of the Russian avant-garde artists while examining the development of the photomontage art form in the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 1930s.

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Inc.
Boston, MA
$20,000
To support an artist residency and exhibition program. The program is designed to allow contemporary artists an opportunity to draw upon the museum's world renowned historical collection for inspiration and to participate in the museum's School and Community Partnership outreach programs.

Jersey City Museum, Inc.
Jersey City, NJ
$40,000
To support a touring exhibition of work by African American artist Chakaia Booker (b. 1953), with accompanying catalogue and education programs. Jersey Ride will be a mid-career presentation of the artist's work.

Jewish Museum
New York, NY
$25,000
To support artists' commissions and the exhibition of photography and video works as part of Common Ground, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. Contemporary artists will explore diversity in the context of how Jewish identity and community are represented in America's multicultural society.

Katonah Museum of Art, Inc.
Katonah, NY
$40,000
To support the touring exhibition The Eternal Presence, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will examine the visual manifestations and devotional contexts of handprints and footprints in Buddhist art and culture, primarily Tibetan.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (on behalf of List Visual Arts Center)
Cambridge, MA
$25,000
To support a touring retrospective exhibition of the work of contemporary American artists Mel Ziegler (b. 1956) and Kate Ericson (1955-1995), with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The project is a collaboration with the Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College.

Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art
North Adams, MA
$28,000
To support Project ARTFAB, with accompanying catalogues and education programs. A visual arts commissioning, residency, and support-for-artists initiative, the project will commission up to six artists to undertake major new works.

Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, NY
$100,000
To support the exhibition Byzantium: Faith and Power (1261-1557), with accompanying education programs. The exhibition will present works of art from collections around the world that demonstrate the artistic and cultural importance of the last centuries of the East Christian Byzantine world that called itself the Empire of the Romans.

Museum Associates (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
Los Angeles, CA
$100,000
To support the traveling exhibition The Course of Invention: The Arts and Crafts Movement in Europe and America, 1880-1920, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will examine the international influence of the Arts and Crafts ideals in Britain, Europe, and the United States.

Museum for African Art
Long Island, NY
$70,000
To support the touring exhibition Beauty of the Gods: Urhobo Art in a Modern World, with accompanying catalogue. The exhibition will present a comprehensive view of the traditional art and culture of the Urhobo people of the Niger Delta.

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
$75,000
To support the touring exhibition Art and the Feminist Revolution, with accompanying catalogue. The exhibition will examine the foundations and legacy of feminist art in the 1970s.

New York University (on behalf of Grey Art Gallery)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the exhibition Atsuko Tanaka and the Japanese Avant-Garde, 1954-1965, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will document Tanaka's (b. Osaka, Japan 1932) innovative performances and will present a number of her installations as well as a selection of her large abstract paintings and intricate drawings.

Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia, PA
$100,000
To support the touring exhibition Manet and the Sea, with accompanying education programs. The exhibition will be the first to highlight Edouard Manet's (1832-1883) marine paintings and those of other artists whose seascapes were substantially influenced by Manet, such as Gustave Courbet, Claude Monet, and Berthe Morisot.

Phillips Collection
Washington, DC
$80,000
To support the exhibition Calder and Miro, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will bring new insights to the mobile sculptures of Alexander Calder (1898-1976) and the poem paintings of Joan Miro (1893-1983) by interpreting their friendship as an historical and stylistic exchange.

President & Fellows of Harvard (on behalf of Harvard University Art Museums)
Cambridge, MA
$50,000
To support a touring exhibition of work by contemporary, South African-born photographer Gary Schneider (b. 1954), with accompanying catalogue and education programs. Over the past 25 years, Schneider has reinterpreted the parameters of the portrait photograph in a diverse series of projects that traverse the photographic medium.

Queens Museum of Art (consortium)
Flushing, NY
$40,000
To support the exhibition Subway Series, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The project is a collaboration with the Bronx Museum of the Arts.

Rhode Island School of Design (on behalf of Museum of Art)
Providence, RI
$45,000
To support an exhibition focusing on one of the museum's paintings Six Friends at Dieppe by Edgar Degas (1885). The work entered the museum's holding in 1931, but due to its medium (pastel on paper) has been restricted from travel on loan to exhibitions.

Seattle Art Museum
Seattle, WA
$75,000
To support the exhibition Spain in the Age of Exploration 1492-1792, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition of European art, organized in conjunction with the Patrimonio Nacional, Madrid, will provide American audiences with an opportunity to explore Spain's global role and impact on the "new world".

Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
New York, NY
$75,000
To support a retrospective exhibition of work by American artist David Smith (1906-1965). The exhibition will bring together Smith's seminal sculptures as well as important examples of his paintings and drawings revealing his singular achievements in post-war American abstraction.

St. Louis Art Museum
St. Louis, MO
$100,000
To support the touring exhibition Art from New Ireland, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will be the first major exhibition of art from the Melanesian island civilization in the southwestern Pacific.

University of California (on behalf of Berkeley Art Museum)
Berkeley, CA
$75,000
To support a touring exhibition of oil sketches by Flemish Old Master Peter Paul Rubens (1577 1640), with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The project is a collaboration with the Cincinnati Art Museum and the Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT.

University of California (on behalf of Berkeley Art Museum)
Berkeley, CA
$15,000
To support a touring exhibition of work by the architecture and multimedia artists' collaborative ANTFARM (1968-1978), with accompanying education programs. The exhibition will examine the collaborative group during its heyday and reassess and document the continuing influence of their groundbreaking innovations on a range of art forms today.

University of Houston (on behalf of Blaffer Gallery) (consortium)
Houston, TX
$20,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of American artist Jessica Stockholder (b. 1959), with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The project is a collaboration with the Weatherspoon Art Museum at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.

University of Iowa (on behalf of Museum of Art)
Iowa City, IA
$10,000
To support the planning of a touring exhibition African Fashion/Global Style, an exploration of Africa's role in global fashion markets. The exhibition will present dramatic garments by African, European, and American designers that are based on, or inspired by, distinctly African forms.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (on behalf of Ackland Art Museum)
Chapel Hill, NC
$75,000
To support a touring exhibition of work by African American artists Betye (b. 1926), Alison (b. 1956), and Lezley (b. 1956) Saar, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will showcase the artistic heritage shared by a mother and two daughters and illustrate how two generations of women use art to express changing ideas of gender, race, and ethnicity.

University of Pennsylvania (on behalf of Institute of Contemporary Art)
Philadelphia, PA
$20,000
To support an exhibition of work by Puerto Rico-born, Philadelphia-based artist Pepon Osorio (b. 1955), with accompanying catalogue and extensive education and community outreach programs. The exhibition will culminate a five-year project by Osorio, based on his artist residency at the Philadelphia Department of Human Services.

MUSIC

Albany Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Albany, NY
$25,000
To support Giving Voice, the second year of a three-year initiative designed to celebrate American music of the past, present, and future. The initiative will include the presentation of existing works by American composers as well as the creation and presentation of new works by emerging composers.

American Composers Orchestra, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
To support the Emerging Composers Program, featuring commissions and performances of new works by early-to mid-career American composers, as well as related residency activities.

American Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the presentation in thematic concert format of U.S. premieres and rarely performed works by established composers and the associated educational activities. Composers include Frank Bridge, Paul Hindemith, Anton Rubenstein, Franz Schreker, and Richard Wagner.

Apollo's Fire, The Cleveland Baroque
Cleveland Heights, OH
$10,000
To support performances and radio broadcasts of early-Romantic symphonic music on period instruments. Beethoven's Leonore Overture No. 3 and Symphony No. 7 and Schubert's Unfinished Symphony will be performed in Akron at Oberlin College and at Severance Hall in Cleveland.

Arkansas Symphony Orchestra Society, Inc.
Little Rock, AR
$10,000
To support concert performances of Giacomo Puccini's Turandot, sung in Italian with English supertitles. Two performances are planned for Robinson Center Music Hall in Little Rock.

Arts for Art, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the 9th-annual Vision Festival. This ten-day festival of avant-garde jazz will take place in the center at St. Patrick's Old Cathedral.

Aston Magna Foundation for Music
Danbury, CT
$10,000
To support the Aston Magna Festival. The 32nd annual festival will feature period instrument performances in the summer of 2004 at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY and in Great Barrington, MA.

Astral Artistic Services
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
To support debut recitals in Philadelphia and New York City and a world premiere of a new work for string quartet.

Baltimore Choral Arts Society, Inc.
Baltimore, MD
$10,000
To support the Baltimore premiere of Richard Einhorn's Voices of Light, accompanied by Carl Dreyer's silent film, The Passion of Joan of Arc. Educational activities featuring the chorus and Anonymous 4, an early music vocal ensemble, will precede the performance.

Bang on a Can, Inc.
New York, NY
$27,500
To support the annual Bang on a Can Marathon and e-Festival. The day-long new music marathon, scheduled for spring 2005, will be broadcast on WNYC-FM as well as heard live over the Internet, and will serve as the anchor presentation for the month-long Bang on a Can e-Festival.

Bangor Symphony Orchestra
Bangor, ME
$10,000
To support Back to the River-a Penobscot River Tour, featuring performances and associated educational activities centered around a new work by Thomas Oboe Lee.

Bard College
Annandale-Hudson, NY
$20,000
To support the Bard Music Festival. The festival will explore the music of Dmitri Shostakovich by presenting a wide range of musical forms including his symphonies, concerti, chamber music, songs, and choral music.

Berkeley Symphony Orchestra
Berkeley, CA
$30,000
To support the 25th anniversary season of Kent Nagano's musical leadership and legacy through a series of commissions, performances, and residency activities by Japanese composers.

Boston Baroque, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
$10,000
To support performances of Monteverdi's 1610 Vespers during a multi-state tour in celebration of Boston Baroque's 30th anniversary season. Five composers will be commissioned and their works premiered during the season: Mario Davidovsky, Donald Harris, Bernard Hoffer, Lee Hyla, and Brian Robison.

Boston Musica Viva, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
$10,000
To support the BMV Commissioning Project, an annual program that commissions a new work for each subscription concert in the season. Five composers will be commissioned and their works premiered during the season: Mario Davidovsky, Donald Harris, Bernard Hoffer, Lee Hyla, and Brian Robison.

Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Boston, MA
$75,000
To support premiere performances of four new works by American composers Milton Babbit, John Harbison, Leon Kirchner, and Charles Wuorinen. The orchestra also will perform Elliott Carter's Symphonia, a large-scale orchestral work augmented by a commissioned overture.

Bowdoin Summer Music Festival, Inc.
Brunswick, ME
$10,000
To support the 40th anniversary season of the Bowdoin Summer Music Festival and the commissioning of new works by composers Robert X. Rodriguez, Dalit Warshaw, Gia Comolli, and George Crumb.

Bronx Arts Ensemble, Inc.
Bronx, NY
$10,000
To support a one-week residency by composer and performer Papo Vasquez and the Bronx Arts Ensemble at Hostos Community College in Brooklyn. The residency will include performances of Mr. Vasquez's Afro-Cuban Jazz Suite as well as classes taught in music appreciation and composition.

Brooklyn Information & Culture, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$12,500
To support Latin music concerts at the summer-long Celebrate Brooklyn Festival. The four concerts will explore musical genres from Mexico, Puerto Rico, Colombia, and Brazil.

Brooklyn Philharmonic Symphony
Brooklyn, NY
$40,000
To support Stolen Goods, a concert featuring works by composers Lukas Foss, John Corigliano, and Richard Strauss. The Brooklyn Philharmonic, under the direction of guest conductor JoAnn Falletta, will perform in the historic Gilman Opera House at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Brooklyn Philharmonic Symphony (consortium)
Brooklyn, NY
$35,000
To support the Composer Mentorship Program. The project will provide young composers with professional development in compositional training, community outreach, educational activities and some business skills.

Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
Buffalo, NY
$22,500
To support presentations of Richard Einhorn's Voices of Light paired with Carl Dreyer's 1928 silent film The Passion of Joan of Arc. The work is scored for chorus, soloists, and orchestra and contains a libretto drawn from ancient writings of female medieval mystics including Joan of Arc herself.

Cabrillo Music Festival
Santa Cruz, CA
$10,000
To support a professional development program for conductors. In partnership with the Conductors Guild, the training will afford emerging conductors the opportunity to lead small and large ensembles, program contemporary works, and collaborate with composers.

California EAR Unit Foundation
Green Valley, CA
$10,000
To support concerts in the Woven Voices series at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The concerts will celebrate the integration of advanced technologies in music and will be broadcast over the Internet.

California State University, Sacramento (on behalf of Festival of New American Music)
Sacramento, CA
$15,000
To support the Festival of New American Music to be held on the campus of California State University, Sacramento and at various community venues.

California Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Pleasant Hill, CA
$12,500
To support the Young American Composer-in-Residence Program. The year-long residency of composer Kevin Beavers will include recorded reading sessions, high school visits, and the creation and presentation of a new work.

Carnegie Hall Society, Inc.
New York, NY
$75,000
To support the Perspectives series. Curated by pianist Leif Ove Andsnes, soprano Dawn Upshaw, composer John Harbison, and conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, the series will include 20 performances of solo, chamber, and orchestral music including premieres of commissioned pieces and professional training workshops for singers, composers, and conductors.

Celebrity Series of Boston, Inc.
Boston, MA
$15,000
To support the Boston Marquee Series. The music concerts will pay tribute to Boston-area artists, including performances by the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra, Borromeo String Quartet, pianist Andrew Rangell, and a three-concert tribute to composer Osvald Golijov.

Center for International Performance
Chicago, IL
$15,000
To support Chicago Now, a set of compact disc recordings of works by Chicago jazz musicians, accompanied by audio interviews that will be conducted by writers and historians.

Central Pennsylvania Friends of Jazz, Inc
Harrisburg, PA
$10,000
To support the 24th annual Central PA Commerce Bank Jazz Festival. The three-day festival includes concerts, clinics, and historic jazz films.

Chamber Music Conference and Composers' Forum of the East
Leonia, NJ
$10,000
To support composer residencies and a commissioning program as part of a summer chamber music conference. Activities will take place at Bennington College in Vermont and Vassar College in New York.

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
New York, NY
$25,000
To support Sound Investment, a 10-day festival celebrating 35 years of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center's commissions of new chamber music works. Performances will be held at Alice Tully Hall, and free symposia will be offered at the Society's Rose Studio.

Chamber Music Society of St. Cloud, Inc.
St. Cloud, MN
$10,000
To support chamber ensemble presentations and residencies. The Borromeo String Quartet and Imani Winds will perform concerts and conduct week-long educational residency activities in elementary schools, universities, and senior centers.

Cheyenne Symphony Orchestra
Cheyenne, WY
$10,000
To support a