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2004 Grant Awards: State Listings

Creativity/Leadership Initiatives/Literature Fellowships
Services to Arts Organizations & Artists

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

CALIFORNIA

42nd Street Moon
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
$10,000
To support the restoration, revival and staged concert performance of Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg's 1937 musical, Hooray For What.

A Traveling Jewish Theatre
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$25,000
To support the development and production of a new theater work through the Middle-East Project (working title). Artistic Director Aaron Davidson will oversee the collaboration between the ensemble and guest artists Meiran Kupperberg and Ibraham Guani.

About Productions
Los Angeles, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$10,000
To support the creation and production of a new theater piece entitled They Shoot Mexicans, Don't They? This interdisciplinary, company-created piece will incorporate text, dance, music, drama, and film to explore the role of Latin American artists and culture in the early Hollywood entertainment industry.

American Conservatory Theater Foundation
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$45,000
To support the development and world premiere production of Levee James, a new play by Sherry Shephard-Massat.

American Musical Theatre of San Jose (AMTSJ)
San Jose, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
$25,000
To support the development of a new musical, Campaign of the Century, adapted from the book by Greg Mitchell. Librettist Robert Friedman and songwriter/composer Steven Lutvak will collaborate on the project with the artistic staff of American Musical Theatre of San Jose.

Art Re Grup, Inc. (THE LAB)
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$10,000
To support professional artists fees for Inside of Inside, a collaborative exhibition of over 100 works by women artists exploring the concept of home. To support professional artists fees for Inside of Inside, a collaborative exhibition of over 100 works by women artists exploring the concept of home.

Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
$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.

Aunt Lute Foundation
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$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

Aurora Theatre Company
Berkeley, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$10,000
To support the production of Antigone Falun Gong, a new play by Cherylene Lee.

Axis Dance Company
Oakland, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$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.

Barbash, Thomas
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$20,000
To support a creative writing fellowship.

Bay Area Video Coalition, Inc. (BAVC) (consortium)
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$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.

Berkeley Art Center Association
Berkeley, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$18,000
To support Sacred Spaces, an exhibition of installations and sculpture examining the notion of sacred public spaces in an urban setting. Terri Cohn, critic, writer, and art historian, will curate the project.

Berkeley Repertory Theatre
Berkeley, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$25,000
To support a production of Our Town by Thornton Wilder. Activities surrounding the production will include student matinees and an enhanced in-school residency program.

Berkeley Symphony Orchestra
Berkeley, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$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.

Cabrillo Music Festival
Santa Cruz, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$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.

Caldwell, Barbara
Cupertino, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$20,000
To support a creative writing fellowship.

California Center for the Arts, Escondido Foundation
Escondido, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
$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 EAR Unit Foundation
Green Valley, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$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 Institute of the Arts
Valencia, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$30,000
To support REDCAT Intersections Initiative. The project will comprise a series of residencies, performances, and production opportunities.

California Lawyers for the Arts, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Services to the Field FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$30,000
To support the expansion of ArtHouse. The program will provide technical support, seminars, and Web-based information on how to develop affordable space to arts organizations in California.

California State University, Long Beach (on behalf of University Art Museum) (consortium)
Long Beach, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
$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.

California State University, Sacramento
(on behalf of Festival of New American Music) (consortium)
Sacramento, CA
$15,000
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
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
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$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.

Chhandam Chitresh Das Dance Company
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
$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.

Cine Accion, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$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.

Circus Center
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$25,000
To support the creation, rehearsal, and presentation of an original circus production. The New Pickle Circus will integrate the work of guest artists and company performers to create a circus performance featuring acrobatic skills.

Cooper, Bernard G.
Los Angeles, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$20,000
To support a creative writing fellowship.

Cornerstone Theater Company
Los Angeles, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$55,000
To support The Jewish Project, a collaboration bringing members of L.A.'s diverse intra-faith community together to create and perform a play. Playwright Lisa Loomer will conduct research and collect stories to develop a play that explores the contemporary Jewish Diaspora, including tensions between segments of the community.

Cypress Performing Arts Association
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support Call and Response, a performance and outreach project by the Cypress String Quartet. Through four concerts and outreach activities Call and Response will bring music into communities of the San Francisco Bay Area.

Dance for Power
Oakland, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$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.

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

Dell'Arte, Inc.
Blue Lake, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$18,000
To support the development and tour of a new play created in collaboration with playwright Lauren Wilson. The play, based on the book In the Land of the Grasshopper Song, will be directed by Artistic Director Michael Fields and performed by the company's core ensemble.

Djerassi Resident Artists Program
Woodside, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$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
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$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.

East Bay Center for the Performing Arts (on behalf of Latino Arts Network)
Richmond, CA
CATEGORY: Services to the Field FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$28,000
To support the Arts and Technology Services program. Consultants will work with 10 mid-sized California cultural centers to enhance their technological infrastructure.

East-West Players (EWP)
Los Angeles, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$37,000
To support the world premiere production of Mixed Messages by Cherylene Lee. East West Players' Producing Artistic Director Tim Dang will direct the piece.

Exittheatre
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$8,000
To support the presentation of new works by women writers through DIVAfest 2004. The festival will feature productions of up to eight new plays, including Boxcar Bertha by Kerry Reid, two staged readings of works in progress, and a benefit reading of works by local writers.

Exploratorium
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$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.

Film Arts Foundation (consortium)
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$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 Thompson Productions)
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$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 K Bik Films)
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$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 Arts Foundation (on behalf of Flower Films and Video)
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$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 (on behalf of Madcat Women's Int'l Film Festival)
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$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
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Services to the Field FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$40,000
To support the Ninth Street Media Arts Consortium. Four media arts organizations, housed in the same building, will share resources, staff, and facilities that serve artists and audiences.

First Voice, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$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.

Foothill Theatre Company
Nevada City, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$12,000
To support New Voices of the Wild West, an annual new play festival. The festival will include a world premiere production of What in the World's Come Over You? by Red Shuttleworth, as well as staged readings of other new plays.

Frameline
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$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.

Friends of the Schindler House
(on behalf of MAK Center for Art and Architecture Los Angeles)
West Hollywood, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$18,000
To support an exhibition and catalogue on the French conceptual artist Yves Klein. Yves Klein: Air Architecture will focus on his architectural designs, a lesser known aspect of the artist's work.

Garcia, Cristina
Santa Monica, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$20,000
To support a creative writing fellowship.

Greenwood-Stewart, Tammy
San Diego, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$20,000
To support a creative writing fellowship.

Headlands Center for the Arts
Sausalito, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$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.

Healdsburg Jazz Festival
Healdsburg, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$10,000
To support the sixth annual Healdsburg Jazz Festival. The week-long festival of jazz concerts also will include educational activities such as demonstrations, presentations, and student mentoring.

Hollywood Theater of the Ear (consortium)
Los Angeles, CA
CATEGORY: Services to the Field FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$5,000
To support the publication of The Well Tempered Audio Dramatist. Working with the National Audio Theatre Festivals, Hollywood Theater of the Ear will provide nuts-and-bolts instruction on the writing, producing, and directing of audio drama.

Idris Ackamoor & Cultural Odyssey
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$28,000
To support the development and production of a new work by Rhodessa Jones and Idris Ackamoor to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the company. The performance will feature a unique interdisciplinary performance style, developed over nearly twenty-five years by Jones and Ackamoor, which combines music, theater, spoken-word, and movement.

Independent Eye, Ltd.
Sebastopol, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$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/West
Beverly Hills, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$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 Television Service, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Services to the Field FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$40,000
To support the International Public Television (INPUT) Conference in 2005. The conference, to be held in San Francisco, will bring together media artists and public television professionals from around the world to view productions and exchange information.

Ink People, Inc.
Eureka, CA
CATEGORY: Services to the Field FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$25,000
To support the DreamMaker program. The incubator project will provide emerging Humboldt County arts organizations with administrative support, technical assistance, individualized coaching, and workshops in nonprofit management.

Installation Gallery
San Diego, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$20,000
To support the commission of temporary outdoor works for the San Diego/Tijuana region's inSITE exhibition. Participating artists will be selected by a team of critics and curators that will include Osvaldo Sanchez, Sally Yard, and Adriano Pedrosa.

Japanese American National Museum
Los Angeles, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
$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.

Kitchen Sisters Productions
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$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.

Kitka, Inc.
Oakland, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$37,000
To support the presentation, tour, and recording of Spirit Voices: A Cathedral Concert. Designed to be performed in cathedrals, the 80-minute musical program of sacred and secular music will incorporate simple choreography.

Kronos Performing Arts Association
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$40,000
To support the Northern Lights Project. The series of activities will include commissioning, touring, and performances by composers and ensembles from the world's northern climates.

L.A. Freewaves
Los Angeles, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$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.

La Jolla Chamber Music Society
La Jolla, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$12,500
To support SummerFest, a three-week festival of chamber music. Among the artists to be featured in concert are the Orion String Quartet and composers-in-residence Chen Yi and Leon Kirchner.

La Jolla Playhouse (Theatre & Arts Foundation of San Diego)
La Jolla, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
$35,000
To support the commission and development of a music drama work. In 2004, writer Jessica Hagedorn, composer Mark Bennett, and director Michael Greif will create Disposable, a piece loosely based on the life of Andrew Cunanan, the serial killer notorious for murdering fashion designer Gianni Versace.

LINES Contemporary Ballet
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new work. Choreographer Alonzo King will collaborate with composer/conductor Michael Tilson Thomas.

Long Beach Opera
Long Beach, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
$10,000
To support a new production of Die Schweigsame Frau (The Silent Woman) by Richard Strauss. Two performances of the opera will be held at the Carpenter Performing Arts Center in Long Beach.

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra
Los Angeles, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$20,000
To support educational activities and emerging guest artists' fees. Activities include two pairs of concerts featuring area-debut performances by two artists and a Meet the Music school outreach session in an area elementary school.

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra (consortium)
Los Angeles, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$25,000
To support performances of J.S. Bach's cantatas by the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Society and Los Angeles Master Chorale. The concerts will be conducted by Bach scholar Helmuth Rilling and presented in Royce Hall on the campus of the University of California-Los Angeles and at the newly constructed Walt Disney Concert Hall.

Los Angeles County Arts Commission
Los Angeles, CA
CATEGORY: Services to the Field FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
$55,000
To support the Initiative of International Arts Collaborations. The initiative will provide opportunities for Los Angeles-based artists and arts organizations to interact with visiting international artists.

Los Angeles Forum for Architecture
Los Angeles, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
$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.

Los Angeles Master Chorale Association
Los Angeles, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$17,500
To support concerts for the inaugural season of the Walt Disney Concert Hall. Activities include performances of Duke Ellington's Sacred Concert and the world premiere of Steve Reich's Steel to Stone.

Los Angeles Philharmonic Association (consortium)
Los Angeles, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$100,000
To support Building Music, a project exploring the relationship between music and architecture. Celebrating the opening of Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Los Angeles Philharmonic will perform music written for or about landmark buildings.

Los Angeles Philharmonic Association
Los Angeles, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$50,000
To support First Nights: An Introduction to the Great Works. The Los Angeles Philharmonic, with music director Esa-Pekka Salonen, will re-create the world premieres of cornerstone works by Beethoven, Stravinsky, Berlioz, and Steven Stucky through readings and theatrical presentations.

Lula Washington Contemporary Dance Foundation
Inglewood, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$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 Taper Forum (Center Theatre Group of Los Angeles)
Los Angeles, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$55,000
To support the development and production of Sex Parasite, a new play by Jessica Goldberg. Luis Alfaro, producer of the Taper Too performance space, will oversee the production process.

McCaleb Dance
La Jolla, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$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.

Media Arts Center San Diego
San Diego, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$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.

Mill Valley Film Festival (California Film Institute)
Mill Valley, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$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.

Mills College
Oakland, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$7,500
To support the presentation of concerts by the Center for Contemporary Music. Guest composers and performers Anne LeBaron, Larry Polansky, Olivia Block, and Denman Maroney will participate in performances of their work at the Mills College Concert Hall in Oakland, CA.

Montalvo Association
Saratoga, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$12,000
To support the installation of indoor and outdoor works by the artist Chris Drury. Using found, natural materials, the artist will work with community volunteers during a three-week residency to realize the works.

Monterey Jazz Festival
Monterey, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$22,000
To support the 2004 Monterey Jazz Festival at the Monterey County Fairgrounds. The key components of the festival will be the premiere of a commissioned work, artists in residence, and performances by emerging jazz musicians.

Mount Saint Mary's College (on behalf of Da Camera Society)
Los Angeles, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$20,000
To support Chamber Music in Historic Sites, a series of chamber music concerts and outreach activities. The concerts will match musical programs from a variety of cultures and periods with sites of architectural and historical significance in the Los Angeles area.

Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino
San Jose, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$12,000
To support the commission of a site-specific installation and production of a catalogue by the artists collective Torolab entitled Tijuana, San Jose, and other Bordertown Dilemmas. Torolab is a group of artists, architects, designers, writers, filmmakers, and musicians all living and working in Tijuana.

Museum Associates (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
Los Angeles, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
$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 of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
$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.

National Alliance of Media Arts
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Services to the Field FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$40,000
To support the Open Knowledge Initiative. Designed to strengthen the media arts field infrastructure, this Web-based program will convene artists and arts administrators to exchange information, build coalitions, develop strategies, and offer support.

National Asian American Telecommunications
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$20,000
To support the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival and other exhibition activities. The film festival will showcase the work of new Asian Pacific American film and video makers.

National Association of Latino Independent Producers, Inc.
Santa Monica, CA
CATEGORY: Services to the Field FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$5,000
To support the Latino Media Resource Project. The online database will provide a one-stop source of information targeted to Latino independent producers.

New Conservatory Theatre Center
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$15,000
To support the creation, development, and production of a new play by Terrence McNally. The project will be commissioned and developed through the Playwrights Commission & Residency Program and directed by Artistic Director Ed Decker.

Oakland East Bay Symphony (OEBS)
Oakland, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$10,000
To support premiere performances of new works by American composers. Composers will include Ingram Marshall, Anthony De Ritis, Bright Sheng, and Jackie Hairston.

Odyssey Theatre Foundation
Los Angeles, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$12,000
To support the creation, development, and production of KOAN. Artistic director Ron Sossi will direct the play and oversee the collaboration with the company's ensemble and guest artists.

Ojai Festivals, Ltd.
Ojai, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$20,000
To support the Ojai Music Festival. The 58th annual music festival, directed by Kent Nagano, will present the Los Angeles Opera Orchestra, Apollo's Fire, pianist Till Filner, and pianist and composer Ichero Nodaira.

Orange County/Philharmonic Society
Irvine, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$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.

Orringer, Julie
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$20,000
To support a creative writing fellowship.

Other Minds
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$10,000
To support OM10, the 10th annual Other Minds new music festival. At least two new works will be premiered by virtuoso musicians during the Other Minds Festival in San Francisco.

Pacific Chorale
Santa Ana, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$10,000
To support the West Coast premiere of Argentinian composer Luis Bacalov's Misa Tango, performed with the Pacific Symphony.

Pacific Symphony Association
Santa Ana, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$55,000
To support the American Composers Festival: Tradewinds from China. The Pacific Symphony will present new and existing works by Chinese American composers in concert and through educational programs.

Palm Springs International
Palm Springs, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$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.

Parvin, Roy
Fortuna, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$20,000
To support a creative writing fellowship.

People's Center, Karuk Tribe
Happy Camp, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
$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.

Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$15,000
To support the presentation of Handel's oratorio Samson in San Francisco, Berkeley, and Palo Alto, California. The performances, directed by music director Nichalos McGegan, will be preceded by free concert lectures.

Playwrights Foundation, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$10,000
To support the 27th Annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival. The festival is a series of staged readings of new work by vanguard regional and national writers.

Poetry Flash
Berkeley, CA
CATEGORY: Services to the Field FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$10,000
To support the publication and distribution of issues of Poetry Flash, a free tabloid of event listings, readings, workshops, and literary news. Divided geographically, Poetry Flash lists programs throughout California, the Pacific Northwest, and the Southwest, and is distributed to 22,000 readers nationwide.

Project X Foundation for Art and Criticism
Santa Monica, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$7,500
To support the reviews section of X-Tra, a quarterly publication that covers the visual arts. Published since 1997, X-Tra is distributed free to galleries, museums, and art schools throughout the Los Angeles area and to subscribers across the country.

Ruland, Jim
Playa del Rey, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$20,000
To support a creative writing fellowship.

San Diego Asian Film Foundation
San Diego, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$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 Diego Opera Association
San Diego, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
$20,000
To support a new production of The Pearl Fishers by George Bizet. Four performances with sets and costumes by British fashion icon Zandra Rhodes will be held at the Civic Theatre.

San Diego Repertory Theatre
San Diego, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$50,000
To support the final research, development, and world premiere production of Earthquake Sun by Luis Valdez. Earthquake Sun is a multilingual, multicultural piece inspired by the Mayan performance style.

San Francisco Ballet Association
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$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 Chanticleer, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$35,000
To support the commission and presentation of a concert-length choral music and theater work based on 12th-century composer and spiritual leader Hildegard von Bingen. Composers Steven Stucky, Regis Campo, and Jeeyoung Kim will collaborate with Chanticleer and music director Joseph Jennings in creating the new work.

San Francisco Cinematheque
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$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
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$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 Jazz Organization (SFJAZZ)
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$30,000
To support the 22nd Annual San Francisco Jazz Festival. Events will take place in multiple performance spaces throughout San Francisco during the two-week festival.

San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$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.

San Francisco Mime Troupe, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
$25,000
To support the development, production, and national tour of an original musical comedy. San Francisco Mime Troupe will premiere a new work that focuses on national or community events.

San Francisco Opera Association
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
$40,000
To support the United States premiere of Le Grand Macabre by Gyorgy Ligeti. Six performances of the opera will take place at the 3,148-seat War Memorial House.

San Francisco Performances, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$30,000
To support commissions and presentations of dance companies. Both American and international companies will offer performances and residency activities.

San Francisco Symphony
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$100,000
To support the Beethoven and His Contemporaries Festival and national broadcasts of the performances. The three-week, ten-concert festival will include Beethoven's orchestral, operatic, and chamber repertoire, and will include works of other late 18th- and early 19th-century composers.

San Jose Repertory Theatre
San Jose, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
$20,000
To support the development and workshop performance of a new musical. San Jose Repertory Theatre has commissioned librettist Mary Bracken Phillips and composer Craig Bohmler to create The Mystery of Winchester House under its Silicon Valley New Works Initiative.

Santa Rosa Symphony Association
Santa Rosa, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$15,000
To support Dvorak in America, a festival on the life and music of Antonin Dvorak, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the composer's death. Plans include three chamber music concerts, three open rehearsals for area school students, and a concert using slides, musical excerpts, and commentary by music director Jeffrey Kahane.

Self-Help Graphics & Art, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$25,000
To support Reconfiguring the Future: Chicano Art in Postmodern Aztlan. The project will provide an opportunity for artists to create new work in a printmaking studio.

Slater, Deirdre
Oakland, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$20,000
To support a creative writing fellowship.

South Coast Repertory, Inc.
Costa Mesa, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$55,000
To support the development and production of Safe in Hell by Amy Freed. The play will be directed by Artistic Director David Emmes.

Southern California Asian American
Los Angeles, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$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.

Squaw Valley Community of Writers
Nevada City, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$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.

Stanford Jazz Workshop
Stanford, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$22,500
To support the Stanford Jazz Workshop's jazz residency program, an intensive professional development program for emerging and established jazz musicians. The project will include artists such as Gene Bertoncini, Jimmy Cobb, Regina Carter, Ray Drummond, Hank Jones, and Ellis Marsalis serving as performers and faculty members.

Theatre Bay Area
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Services to the Field FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$15,000
To support components of a major upgrade to the Theatre Bay Area Web site. A members-only area will be added to increase professional communication among Bay Area artists and organizations and the site will be assessed for accessibility.

Theatre of Yugen
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$10,000
To support the development and production of a play based on a literary classic. This theatrical adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's novella, The Old Man and the Sea, will fuse the author's unique writing style with the structure and stylistic elements of Japanese Noh and Kyogen theater.

TheatreWorks
Palo Alto, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
$25,000
To support the production of a new musical. Memphis, a new work by Joe DiPietro, is inspired by legendary deejay Dewey Phillips and rock-and-roll music.

Threepenny Review
Berkeley, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$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.

Tongue
Culver City, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$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.

University of California (on behalf of Pacific Film Archive)
Berkeley, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$40,000
To support a curated film and video series. Documentary Voices will showcase documentary filmmaking as it is practiced worldwide.

University of California at Berkeley (on behalf of Cal Performances)
Berkeley, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$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.

University of California (on behalf of Berkeley Art Museum)
Berkeley, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
$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
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
$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 California (on behalf of Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts)
Davis, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
$30,000
To support the New Works/Contemporary Artists project. Local, national, and international contemporary artists in theater and dance will offer performances and related audience outreach activities.

University of California (on behalf of Beall Center for Art and Technology)
Irvine, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$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 (on behalf of UCLA Center for Intercultural Affairs)
Los Angeles, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$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 California (on behalf of UCLA Performing Arts)
Los Angeles, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
$25,000
To support the 2004 UCLA Live International Theatre Festival. Approximately 45 performances will be presented, featuring performing artists/ensembles who extend the boundaries of theater using unique combinations of media and pioneering new approaches to historic literary and dramatic texts.

University of California at (on behalf of UCSB Arts & Lectures)
Santa Barbara, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
$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.

University of California at Santa Barbara (on behalf of Center for Chicano Studies)
Santa Barbara, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$10,000
To support the creation, development and production of a new theater work through the New Voices/New Visions Summer Lab initiative. The Center for Chicano Studies, in collaboration with Chicano Poet/Performance-Artist Jimmy Santiago and theater collective Campo Santo, will produce a new work exploring the lives of Chicano working class.

Western Stage Auxiliary Corporation
Salinas, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$15,000
To support the development and production of a new theatrical work for the stage. The Salinas Stories Project will combine material gleaned from historical texts, interviews, and community stories to recount the experiences of Salinas's Japanese American residents who were incarcerated in internment camps.

Winer, Andrew
Laguna Beach, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$20,000
To support a creative writing fellowship.

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$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.

Z Space Studio (consortium)
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$30,000
To support a pilot New Works Initiative that tests a multi-institutional model for development and production of new works for the theater. Jointly managed by Z Space and the Magic Theatre, the pilot will bring together 15 distinguished writers and eight California producing companies.

Zaccho SF
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$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.

California Total Dollars Awarded: $3,745,500
California Total Grants Awarded: 149


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