1999 Grant Awards: Heritage & Preservation

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

National/Multistate Impact | Grants With Activity Primarily In One State

Grants With A National or Multi-State Impact

42nd Street Moon
San Francisco, CA
$9,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Musical Theater
To support the production of a CD recording. 42nd Street Moon will produce for the stage and record on compact disc the 1918 Jerome Kern/P.G. Wodehouse musical, Oh Lady? Lady!!

American Textile History Museum
Lowell, MA
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the touring exhibition Textile Art from Southern Appalachia: The Quiet Work of Women, with related educational programs and a catalogue. Over 60 examples of textile work by 19th and early 20th century Appalachian handweavers will be presented to the public for the first time.

Andrew Cacho African Drummers and Dancers Economic Development, Inc. (Fiscal Agent for Olatunji Center for African Culture)
Washington, DC
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support development of traditional dances to be taught as part of Olatunji Center's curriculum as well as development of the study unit for teaching of the dances. The dances will be presented during the company's touring schedule throughout the United States.

Appalshop, Inc.
Whitesburg, KY
$100,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support multidisciplinary arts activities which identify and celebrate the cultural traditions of Blackey, Kentucky, a community emblematic of American post-industrial rural towns. The project includes transformation of the C. B. Caudill Store, a Depression-era general store, into a museum and community cultural center.

Art Institute of Chicago (Video Data Bank)
Chicago, IL
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the preservation of early video art works by Steina and Woody Vasulka and the Videofreex. Once re-mastered, the tapes will be archived at Video Data Bank (VDB) and copies will be made available to artists, scholars, media programmers, and cultural and educational centers through the organization's distribution service.

Asian American Arts Centre, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support the production and publication of a book documenting the organization's twenty-five year history and archiving its collection of videos, slides and written materials of the Asia American artists. The project includes providing online address to the publication through the Center's Web site.

Bay Area Video Coalition, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the provision of national video preservation services to artists and arts organizations and other related activities. This includes the recording, retrieval, and preservation of video art and art on video, the dissemination of information to the interested public, and developing a curriculum on video preservation for conservators.

Brooklyn Museum of Art
Brooklyn, NY
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support a touring exhibition entitled From Hip to Hip Hop: Black Fashion and a Culture of Influence, and an accompanying brochure and public programs. The project will examine the definition of the country's African American cultural heritage through dress.

Brown University (Consortium)
Providence, RI
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the consortium project to commission Repertory Etudes and document endangered seminal dance works by founding members of the New Dance Group. This consortium project between Brown University and the Southeast Center for Dance Education addresses the American Dance Legacy Institute's central mission of gathering, documenting, and preserving the archival and repertory materials of American dance artists.

California Indian Basketweavers Association
Nevada City, CA
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Western Regional Basketweavers Gathering. Basketweavers from 13 western states will share basketry skills, meet with resource managers, attend workshops, and participate in public demonstrations of basketry and basketry-related arts.

Carter Family Memorial Music Center, Inc.
Hiltons, VA
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a series of weekly concerts and an annual two-day festival of traditional mountain music performed on acoustic instruments. These concerts will be simultaneously recorded for inclusion in a public archive used by practitioners and students of this traditional art form.

Chicago Sinfonietta, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$22,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the first three of a set of six compact discs in the African Heritage Symphonic Series on the Cedille record label. The series will feature recordings of composers of African descent as well as re-recordings of selected works from the Black Composers Series on Columbia Records that was first issued in the mid-1970's.

Colorado Dance Festival, Inc. (International Tap Association)
Boulder, CO
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support Tap 2000, a project that brings together four generations of twenty-four tap artists to examine issues of the field. Tap 2000 is an intergenerational, multicultural, oral history, publication, archive, and new technologies project examining the legacy and future of the art of tap, the results of which will be distributed to the dance field.

Contemporary Arts Educational Project, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the publication and national distribution of books in Sun & Moon Press's Green Integer series. Literary nonfiction by authors such as Will Alexander, Louis-Ferdinancd Celine, Gertrude Stein, Charles Henry Ford, Knut Hamsun, and Mark Twain will be included in the series.

Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (Fiscal Agent for The Paris Review)
New York, NY
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support eight Writers-at-Work interviews in The Paris Review. Potential interviewees include Jorie Graham, John Edgar Wideman, Adrienne Rich, Jamaica Kincaid, Galway Kinnell, August Wilson, David Foster Wallace, T. C. Boyle, Shelby Foote, and Carolyn Kizer.

Dance Pioneers
Honolulu, HI
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the production and post-production of a video documentary intended for national broadcast on the American choreographer and dancer Donald McKayle. Produced in collaboration with Hawaii Public Television, Donald McKayle:Heartbeats of a DanceMaker will chronicle the artist's struggle from his Harlem roots to become a leading statesman and ambassador of American Dance.

Frick Art & Historical Center, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support an exhibition exploring the impact on 19th century visual culture of the collaboration between artist Jean-Leon Gerome and publisher Adolphe Goupil. Co-organized with the Musee Goupil in Bordeaux and the Dahesh Museum in New York, the exhibition will illustrate how taste and collecting were influenced by marketing and technology, such as photography and fine art printing processes.

Institute for Community Research
Hartford, CT
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the second year of a collaborative cross-state apprenticeship project implemented by the Institute for Community Research and the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts. The second year of this apprenticeship program will expand in scope by locating and adding ten more traditional pairs of artists from communities not yet served.

Institute for Cultural Partnerships
Harrisburg, PA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support On Tour Productions, a regional touring and recording program. This program will feature such artistic traditions as Puerto Rican plena music, Hungarian string band music, Trinidadian steel drum music and African American tap dancing.

Jewish Heritage Writing Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support annual residencies coupling young established writers with Holocaust survivors to produce publishable literary memoirs.

Los Pleneros de la 21, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a series of Puerto Rican Folk Music programs across a six-state area. These programs will include: a Touring and Residency Project, The Bomba and Plena Children's Workshop, An Evening With the Masters, and Fiesta de Cruz (Feast of the Cross).

Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra
New Orleans, LA
$12,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the tricentennial celebration of Louisiana's colonization and the preservation of its heritage of French, Creole, and African-American cultures. The project activities, part of a state wide celebration called FrancoFete, includes an international search for published and unpublished compositions by Louisiana composers, a concert by the Louisiana Philharmonic, and a compact disc recording using original scores and period instruments.

Museum of Chinese In The Americas
New York, NY
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a traveling exhibit entitled, Fly to Freedom: The Art of the Golden Venture Refugees. Exhibit components include an updated video on the artists and their plight, an education kit for grades 3 to 8, and an updated booklet with images and essays about the artists and their work.

National Council for the Traditional Arts
Silver Spring, MD
$100,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support expanded folk arts programming in the celebration of the millennium. Programming will include: 1) large urban festivals with multiple outdoor stages; 2) national tour to underserved communities; 3) folk arts programs and cultural interpretation in National Parks; and 4) fieldwork that will reassert the critical role of research in creating and understanding of tradition.

National Park Foundation
Washington, DC
$35,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the 7th Annual Independence Day Concert at the Washington Monument and its National Public Radio broadcast. This event to be held on the National Mall at the Sylvan Theater, is widely known for its innovative large stage and broadcast presentation of the nation's finest traditional music and musicians.

National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States
Washington, DC
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support the development of the design and materials for a workshop to strengthen cultural heritage tourism partnerships. The goal of the workshop is to build skills and creative problem solving abilities.

New Rivers Press, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the publication and national distribution of an anthology featuring fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry by Americans of Southeast Asian descent. Co-edited by Cheng Lok Chua and Shirley Lim, Tilting the Continent will feature emerging writers of Bruneian, Burmese, Cambodian, Filipino, Hmong, Indonesian, Laotian, Malaysian, Singaporean, Thai, and Vietnamese heritage.

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc. (Fiscal Agent for Check Your Body at the Door)
New York, NY
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the post-production costs of Check Your Body at the Door, a video documentary about the dances and dancers of the New York club scene, intended for national PBS broadcast. Filmed in the clubs and at the studio, the documentary focuses on a group of dancers, aged 16 to 46, who practice a variety of dance styles, from free-form house-jazz to hip hop, vogueing, fast footwork, and numerous freestyles.

New York Public Library Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations (New York Public Library for the Performing Arts)
New York, NY
$60,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the national video documentation services at the Dance Collection and the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive at the Library for the Performing Arts. The Library for the Performing Arts (LPA) is a unique national resource center that documents the heritage of creativity in dance, music, recorded sound, theatre, film, and related fields.

Non-Traditional Casting Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$12,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support costs for the Artist Files/Artist Files Online and the resource guide, Listening with an Open Eye. The two services will expand opportunities for and access to artists of color and artists with disabilities in the American non-profit professional theater.

Northeast Document Conservation Center, Inc.
Andover, MA
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support an internship in the preservation of works of art on paper for a professional from the Museum of Anthropology, History, and Art at the University of Puerto Rico. The intern will receive intensive training under the supervision of an experienced paper conservator who is fluent in Spanish.

Northwest Native American Basketweavers Association
Olympia, WA
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the 1999-2000 Master Basketweavers Annual Regional Gathering of Native American Master Basketweavers and their apprentices and families. The Gathering is designed to showcase the basketweavers' artistic styles and techniques through demonstrations and discussions.

OLLANTAY Center for the Arts, Inc.
Jackson Heights, NY
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support costs for the publication and distribution of OLLANTAY Theater magazine. OLLANTAY Theater magazine highlights Latino Theatre through essays and interviews by and with Latino artists and writers.

Philadelphia Folklore Project (Fiscal Agent for Rennie Harris Pure Movement)
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support documentation of hip hop dance and presentation of lecture-demonstrations and performances by Rennie Harris PureMovement. The goal of this project is to have an audio and visual record of hip hop dance, with the research and performances taking place in cities across the United States.

Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York, Inc. (New York Philharmonic Orchestra)
New York, NY
$150,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a festival of concerts, lectures, and a film screening, in celebration of the 100th anniversary of Aaron Copland's birth by the New York Philharmonic. Slated for November and December of 1999, this three-week long festival will present a comprehensive cross-section of Copland's compositions.

Poets House, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the seventh annual Poetry Publication Showcase, a month-long exhibit of new poetry books designed to gather and preserve the breadth of poetry in print. Poets House will present the Showcase to 18,000 librarians at the American Library Association Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana, and will publish the Directory of American Poetry Books, the only bibliographic resource that tracks the annual publication of poetry in America.

Preserve, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support publications in print, on the Internet, and in a CD/ROM sampler. These publications, distributed nationally, support the knowledge, theory, and practice concerning dance documentation and preservation.

Review of Contemporary Fiction, Inc.
Normal, IL
$45,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the restoration of major works of modern and contemporary fiction by Dalkey Archive Press. Authors whose works will be republished include William Gass, Ishmael Reed, Gertrude Stein, Stanley Elkin, Flann O'Brien, William Eastlake, Jos Lezama Lima, and Elaine Kraf.

San Francisco Contemporary Music Players
San Francisco, CA
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the performance, recording, and production of a compact disc of previously unrecorded chamber works of University of California-Berkeley composition faculty member Andrew Imbrie. The performance and recording is in honor of Mr. Imbrie's 80th birthday.

School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL
$21,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support documentation of over two decades of lectures and presentations of the Visiting Artists Program. Audio tapes, video tapes, and paper files on featured artists will be preserved and archived and made available to the public through local and international library catalogues.

Southern Arts Federation, Inc. (Consortium)
Atlanta, GA
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a consortium project of a tour of master jazz artists to Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) in southeastern states. Consortium members include the Kentucky Center for the Arts in Louisville, the Contemporary Arts Center in New Orleans, and the Arts Center in Carrboro, North Carolina.

Trinity Irish Dancers, Ltd. (Trinity Irish Dance Company)
Chicago, IL
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support presentation of Irish dance through Trinity Irish Dance Company's 1999-2000 tour. While on tour, Trinity dancers will conduct master classes for young people in communities across the United States.

University of Houston (Arte Publico Press)
Houston, TX
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the Pioneers of Modern Hispanic Literature series, a project by Arte Publico Press to restore to print foundational literary works from the 1960's and 70's. The press will publish and promote the work of authors such as Jaime Carrero, Abelardo Delgado, Angela de Hoyos, and Jos Yglesias, making them once again available to a nationwide audience.

University of Iowa (Museum of Art)
Iowa City, IA
$14,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the touring exhibition Renewing Tradition: The Revitalization of Bogolan in Mali and Abroad and an accompanying catalogue. The project will explore the contemporary popularization of the traditional Malian textile art of bogolan or mudcloth.

University of New Orleans Foundation (Consortium)
New Orleans, LA
$60,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a consortium project, the American Routes Radio and Folk Masters Recording Project, and related costs. This consortium effort is in collaboration with the New Orleans Urban Folklife Society and the Smithsonian Folkways Recordings.

Vermont Folklife Center
Middlebury, VT
$35,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support Shop Talk: New England Trades in Transition, and I've Heard Say: New England Family Sagas, two multi-media touring exhibits highlighting the living heritage of folk storytelling in New England. The proposed exhibits are targeted to both rural and urban locales throughout New England.

Western Folklife Center
Elko, NV
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the production of book/tapes on the folk traditions of ten tourist destinations in the American West. Based on performances of music, poetry and story coupled with interviews of local scholars, the book/tapes will feature the voices of folk, ethnic and tribal people who have shaped tradition in these places.

Women's Philharmonic
San Francisco, CA
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the restoration, performance, and recording of orchestral music of Florence B. Price (1888-1953). Florence Price was one of the first African-American women to write orchestral music.

Words Given Wings Literary Arts Project (Mercury House)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the republication by Mercury House of literary books that have become financially inviable for commercial presses. Each book will be selected by an established contemporary writer who will provide an introductory essay.

World Music Institute, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a consortium project, World Music America, a touring program of concerts and workshops by traditional musicians and dancers. This consortium effort is in collaboration with World Music (Massachusetts); International House (Pennsylvania); Institute of the Arts (North Carolina); Old Town School of Music (Illinois) and World Arts West (California).

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