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1999 Grant Awards: Heritage & Preservation
Some details of the projects listed in this grant announcement are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.
Grants With Activity Primarily In One State
A:shiwi A:wan Museum and Heritage Center
Zuni, NM
$8,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the exhibition With Our Ancestors: Contemporary Zuni Art Inspired by Ancient Hawikku and an accompanying catalogue and educational programs. The project will feature works by contemporary Zuni artists who are exploring themes from the ancestral community of Hawikku.
Alabama Folklife Association, Inc.
Birmingham, AL
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a fieldwork survey of folk gardening traditions in Alabama. The field documentation will emphasize the traditional arts, cultural esthetics and folk life related to gardens and yards in the state and will result in the production of a free standing portable exhibit with an accompanying book.
Alaska Native Heritage Center, Inc.
Anchorage, AK
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support an artist-in-residence program. Native youth will be exposed to visual and performing artists as positive role models and encouraged to perpetuate these skills.
American Indian Contemporary Arts
San Francisco, CA
$12,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support three thematic exhibitions of Native American artists' work. The project will include a regional exhibition featuring the work of Alaskan Native artists, a solo exhibition by Hopi painter Michael Kabotie, and a millennium exhibition.
Apache Tribe of Oklahoma
Anadarko, OK
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support workshops in the creating and decorating of material culture items associated with the Apache Tribe of Oklahoma. The workshops will be taught by tribal elders.
Arts & Cultural Council for Greater Rochester, Inc.
Rochester, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a multi-component project celebrating Hungarian-American heritage, history and traditional culture. Components include an exhibition of folk art materials never previously exhibited, demonstrations, and performances.
Arts Resources in Collaboration, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the restoration of 65 deteriorating master EYE ON DANCE videotapes produced between 1987 and 1989. The restored tapes will be rebroadcast on EYE ON DANCE, distributed nationally to libraries and educational institutions, and housed at the New York Public Library Dance Collection.
Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support conservation of 22 lacquer decorative art objects and an accompanying symposium and publication. An additional goal of the project is to help establish professional standards for the treatment of lacquer objects.
Baltimore Museum of Art, Inc. (Consortium)
Baltimore, MD
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support a consortium project with the Walters Art Gallery to catalogue the museums' collections of 19th century French drawings. Together, the museums house nearly 1,000 drawings by artists such as Delacroix, Daumier, Barye, and Degas that are relatively unfamiliar to scholars and the general public.
Barter Foundation, Inc.
Abingdon, VA
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support costs for the indexing, cataloguing, and preservation of Barter Theatre's archives and peripheral collections. Materials will be available to researchers and publicists for placement on the Internet for potential exhibition and publication.
Before Columbus Foundation
Oakland, CA
$7,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the 20th annual American Book Awards, which celebrate the tradition of multicultural writing in America. Before Columbus Foundation will coordinate an award ceremony at Book Expo America in April 1999, and assist publishers to promote winning titles.
Borough of Manhattan Community College Performing Arts Center, Inc. (Tribeca Performing Arts Center)
New York, NY
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support concerts at the Tribeca Performing Arts Center celebrating The Five Spot Cafe, an historic New York City jazz venue featuring the music of artists closely identified with this jazz landmark. In addition to the concerts, there will be panel discussions with music critics, historians, and artists who played at The Five Spot, film/video screenings, and an exhibit of paintings and photos in the lobby.
Buffalo Bill Memorial Association
Cody, WY
$35,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support reinstallation of the collection of the Plains Indian Museum. The project will address the collection as a reflection of tribal values, beliefs, histories, and economies, as well as integrate works by contemporary Native artists.
Cambodian American Heritage, Inc.
Fort Washington, MD
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support performances of Cambodian traditional, classical and folk dances and instruction in Cambodian music. Participating artists include a seasoned cadre of dance and music instructors and a dance troupe of 40-50 student performers.
Center for Traditional Music and Dance
New York, NY
$70,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Community Cultural Initiatives. This multi-faceted program is designed to help community and cultural activists, artists and educators within the Dominican, Asian/Indian, West African, Soviet Jewish and Filipino communities become self-sufficient managers of their communities music and dance traditions.
Central Park Conservancy, Inc.
New York, NY
$45,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Design
To support the restoration of the arcade and tile ceiling of Bethesda Terrace in Central Park. The project will complete restoration of the entire historic structure and reopen to public view a unique work of Victorian decorative art that has been in storage since 1983 due to issues of structural safety.
Centro Binacional Para El Desarroyo Indigena Oaxaqueno
Santa Cruz, CA
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support Los Angeles, Fresno, and San Diego productions of the Guelaguetza, an annual festival traditional to Oaxaca City. Also known as Fiesta de los lunes del cerro (the Festival of the Mondays in the Hills), Guelaguetza is held on the two Mondays following July 16.
Centro de la Raza
Seattle, WA
$8,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support an apprenticeship program in Chicano silkscreen art for at-risk youth. The project will provide an opportunity for five high school or college students to learn the techniques, skills, and aesthetic principles of Chicano silkscreen art.
Chinese-American Arts Council, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support a summer cultural festival. The festival will include three fully staged Chinese operas, performed by internationally known performers from China, Taiwan and the United States.
Chinese Culture Foundation of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support a series of exhibitions featuring contemporary and traditional Chinese art. The project includes paintings by Hong Kong artist Li Wei On, paper-folding constructions by Chinese American artist Nancy Loo Bjorge, and 40 paintings from the collection of the Shanghai Museum.
Chrysler Museum, Inc.
Norfolk, VA
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the conservation of 79 significant pieces in the museum's collection of British and American silver. The project will result in the collection being made more available for study, exhibition, and loan to other institutions.
City Center 55th Street Theater Foundation
New York, NY
$9,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Musical Theater
To support the restoration of the complete score of an American musical for performance in a concert series. The restored score is intended for performance by a full orchestra, principals, and ensemble in the City Center Encores! Great American Musicals in Concert series.
City Lore, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support The Second Annual People's Poetry Gathering. The second gathering will take place in Lower Manhattan during April, National Poetry Month, in the year 2000 and will highlight the African finah or jali style of historical epic poetry along with other indigenous, immigrant and emerging oral poetry traditions.
City of Philadelphia Office of Art & Culture
Philadelphia, PA
$16,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Local Arts Agency
To support the conservation of Pegasus, a set of over life-size bronze figures. Sculpted by Austrian artist, Vincenz Bildhaur Pilz in 1863, the Pegasus sculptures located at Memorial Hall in Fairmount Park are significant in the city's collection of public art in terms of their historic and aesthetic value.
City of St. Mary's (Fiscal Agent for Yupiit Yuraryarait Foundation)
St. Mary's, AK
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the 1999 Yup'ik Dance Festival. This four-day festival will feature dance groups from 18 remote villages in Southwest Alaska performing at least one masked dance and creating a mask for the event.
Clark County Department of Parks and Recreation
Las Vegas, NV
$35,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a folk arts program associate position and other related costs. The program associate will conduct fieldwork surveys and research to identify, collect, and document folk arts and artists throughout the county.
Columbia University in the City of New York (Wallach Art Gallery)
New York, NY
$12,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the exhibition Projects in Multiple Dimensions: Allan Kaprow and Robert Watts and an accompanying catalogue. The project will examine the work of two artists who were at the forefront of the 1960s avant-garde and whose work influenced later minimalist, conceptualist, video, and performance work.
Columbus Museum, Inc.
Columbus, GA
$7,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the conservation of the Philadelphia double portrait Mrs. Caleb Newbold and Her Son Thomas, painted by Thomas Sully in 1813. The project will stabilize the surface of the painting and produce a documentary video illustrating the importance of long-term conservation for public appreciation.
Connecticut Historical Society
Hartford, CT
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support conservation of the society's collection of 18th and 19th century sign paintings. The project will result in an exhibition and catalogue that will explore the design, production, and meaning of sign painting as a mode of artistic expression in early America.
Conservancy for Historic Battery Park, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Design
To support the design development phase of a master plan to restore New York's historic Battery. The area includes Battery Park and Castle Clinton National Monument and receives four million visitors each year, many of whom are on route to the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island.
Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support a one-year internship in paper conservation. The project will involve training in the treatment of works on paper such as drawings, prints, and watercolors, as well as manuscripts, maps, photographs, parchment, and papyrus.
Cornerstones Community Partnerships
Santa Fe, NM
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Design
To support the preservation of historic adobe structures through technical assistance workshops for community-based restoration projects. The project will support rural communities throughout New Mexico in their preservation of historic buildings that are central to the Hispanic and Native American cultures of the Southwest.
County of Fayette
Uniontown, PA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Design
To support the restoration of Courtroom No. 1 in the Fayette County Courthouse. The building was designed in the Richardsonian style about 1885 and contains ceiling frescoes that depict the growth of the county's economy.
Dance Notation Bureau, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the updating of scores in Dance Notation Bureau's library. The updating of the scores will involve recopying, updating the notation, and/or compiling addenda into the body of the score.
Davenport Museum of Art
Davenport, IA
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support documentary research on 49 paintings from the 16th-19th centuries. The project will prepare the works for a reinstallation of the museum's European collection.
Davis & Elkins College (Augusta Heritage Center)
Elkins, WV
$14,100
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the West Virginia State Apprenticeship Program. This program will pair traditional artists with a new generation of practitioners for one-on-one instruction and outreach initiatives.
Delaware Art Museum
Wilmington, DE
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the development and implementation of a conservation plan for the museum's extensive collection of work by the American artist John Sloan (1888-1951). The museum is the country's largest repository of Sloan's art and houses over 3,700 paintings, drawings, and etchings as well as the artist's complete biographical archive.
Delta Blues Education Fund
Clarksdale, MS
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Delta Blues Education Program. This year long project will include classes, performances and residencies by master Delta blues musicians with a core group of apprentices.
Dia Center for the Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support publication of a catalogue documenting the work of American sculptor Dan Flavin (1933-96). The project will involve research to locate the artist's estimated 2,000 works as well as several site-specific installations and also will result in a computerized database and complete bibliography.
Evansville Philharmonic Orchestral Corp.
Evansville, IN
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a program of orchestral gospel music. The two performances of the program will take place in January 2000 and will include a 175-member chorus made up of community church choir singers as well as members of the Evansville Philharmonic Chorus.
Five Rivers Community Development Corporation (Fiscal Agent for Global Arts/Media Foundation)
Georgetown, SC
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the 1999 Deep South Blues & Gospel Network Tour. This project is designed to: 1) test new and creative ways for reaching rural and underserved audiences; 2) expand and strengthen the African American Blues & Gospel Tour Network; 3) present a roster of traditional blues and gospel artists; and, 4) increase those artists' experience, readiness and capacity for touring.
Floricanto Dance Theatre (Danza Floricanto/USA)
Whittier, CA
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the research, documentation, and presentation of the cultural traditions of Mexico, Guatemala, and El Salvador. The research will be the basis for a full evening program that would celebrate the dance and musical legacy that Latinos in the United States bring to the 21st century.
Florida Division of Historical Resources (Florida Folklife Program)
Tallahassee, FL
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the statewide Florida Folklife Apprenticeship Program. The apprenticeship program preserves Florida's folk arts traditions by focusing particularly on traditional arts not previously supported by the program.
Friends of Support Services for the Arts, Inc./Mural Resource Center
San Francisco, CA
$7,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support development of the San Francisco Mural Archive at the San Francisco Public Library. The project will result in an image and text electronic database of the murals created in the Bay Area from 1900 to the present and will be accessible on CD-ROM.
Fund for Folk Culture
Santa Fe, NM
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Folk and Traditional Culture in Building and Strengthening Communities initiative. This initiative will target arts organizations and folk cultural specialists to provide service to the field and support for community-based arts and artists.
GALA, Inc. (Grupo de Artistas Latinoamericanos)
Washington, DC
$13,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Musical Theater
To support the United States premiere of a Chilean musical play. GALA will produce the musical play, La pergola de las flores (the Flower Pergola) by Chilean folklorist and playwright Isidora Aguirre, in an original English language translation of songs and text.
George Eastman House
Rochester, NY
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support Repatriated American Films, a project to preserve and restore twelve previously "lost" American films discovered in foreign archives. These films recently were returned to the U.S. from film vaults and archives in Eastern Europe, New Zealand, Norway, Great Britain, France, and Australia.
Grace Cathedral Corporation
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Design
To support the restoration of stained glass windows created by the American master craftsman Charles J. Connick for the cathedral in 1930-45. Grace Cathedral is the third largest Episcopal cathedral in the country and provides the Bay Area with a wide variety of community services.
Harvard University (Harvard University Art Museums)
Cambridge, MA
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support conservation of the painting The Liberality of Titus (c. 1637) by Jacques Stella (French, 1596-1657) in the collection of the Fogg Art Museum. The project will combine new scholarly research with the latest conservation technologies to restore and reframe the painting and produce an accompanying publication.
Historic RittenhouseTown, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$3,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support conservation of an American Square Piano manufactured in 1794. The project will enable the piano to be placed in a period room in the 1845 Enoch Rittenhouse Home, a National Historic Landmark that is presently undergoing preservation.
Historical Association of Southern Florida, Inc.
Miami, FL
$35,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support At the Crossroads: Santeria Arts in Miami, a multimedia exhibition with a series of educational programs on artistic traditions of the Orisha religion in Miami. Among the art forms to be featured in this exhibit are altars, garments, metalwork, beadwork, herbs, foodways, music, dance and verbal expression.
Hmong United Association of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a video documentary on traditional Hmong dances, folksongs, and oral musical traditions. The intended audiences will be children in grades K-12 in the after school and summer programs, as well as the general public.
Idris Ackamoor and Cultural Odyssey
San Francisco, CA
$27,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the production of a video to document the Medea Project:Theater for Incarcerated Women. The video will focus on the realization of theater art as activism through the six Medea Project productions, resulting in a preserved documentary for future artists, scholars, and general audiences.
International Arts Relations, Inc.
New York, NY
$9,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support expenses associated with the production of a new play. The world premiere of Maria Irene Fornes' play, Manual For a Desperate Crossing, based on the journey of the Cuban Rafter immigrants to the United States, will be staged as a multi-media environmental event.
Irish Repertory Theatre Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the production of a play by Irish playwright Sean O' Casey. Red Roses For Me (1943) is a rarely performed, later play of O'Casey's with a large ensemble cast.
Iroquois Indian Museum
Howes Cave, NY
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support travel costs for Iroquois Arts II, a project to identify and document Iroquois artists in New York State and Ontario, Canada. Travel costs will also allow some of the artists to travel to the museum to conduct demonstrations and lectures about their work.
Japanese American Cultural and Community Center (Consortium)
Los Angeles, CA
$8,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the 1999 Summer Taiko Institute, a two-week consortium project of intensive workshops in the art of Japanese American taiko drumming for young taiko performers. This consortium effort is in collaboration with Kinnara, Inc., Los Angeles, California; San Jose Taiko, San Jose, California; and Soh Daiko, New York, New York.
Japanese American National Museum
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the conservation of 50 paintings by Japanese American artist Henry Sugimoto (1900 90). The project will also entail photographic and digital documentation of the works in the museum's collection and result in an exhibition in the year 2000.
Kentucky Art and Craft Foundation, Inc.
Louisville, KY
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support a retrospective exhibition entitled Fifteen Years of Contemporary Crafts in Kentucky. The project will also include workshops and demonstrations by selected artists, video documentation of some of their unique styles and techniques, and a catalogue.
Kentucky Historical Society
Frankfort, KY
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Third Annual Festival of Kentucky Folklife, to be held on the grounds of the Old State Capitol, the Captiol Plaza and the River Park in Frankfort. The 1999 Festival will draw on research along the Highway 23 (Country Music Highway) corridor and present the folk art of communities in that region.
Lao Vathana Association
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support workshops in traditional Lao dance and music. These workshops will be taught by three Lao dancers and one musician who all received training at the Lao National School of Performing Arts in Vientiane before coming to the United States as refugees at the end of the Vietnam War.
LINES Contemporary Ballet (Fiscal Agent for La Tania Flamenco Music)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the development of Passage of the Muse, a 45-minute flamenco choreography for theater based on the Cante Hondo (Deep Song). Composed to original music by Juan Antonio Suarez, the piece will include a reciting of poetry by a Spanish actress, singing of traditional lyrics by flamenco singers, two guitarists, a cellist, three additional dancers, and slides of paintings.
Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center
San Pablo, CA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Community Heritage Project. This project will provide traditional Mexican music, dance, and arts and crafts instruction to youth and their families, and provide strong community support while passing on artistic traditions.
Los Reyes de Albuquerque Foundation
Albuquerque, NM
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support and perpetuate the traditional Nuevomexicano music, songs and culture of northern New Mexico and southern Colorado through presentations at child day-care centers and urban, rural, and Pueblo senior centers. Each presentation consists of brief talks with songs and dances in a relaxed, friendly setting where the audience is encouraged to sing along, dance or simply enjoy the music.
Lower East Side Printshop, Inc.
New York, NY
$6,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support the archival preservation and digital cataloguing of a collection of prints, artists books, and artist-made posters. The collection contains over 2,000 pieces created by artists over the 30-year history of the organization.
Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance
Old Town, ME
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the first comprehensive guide to Native American culture in Maine. The guide will serve as a directory of Native American artists, craftspeople, festivals, cultural events, exhibits, museums and tradition-related businesses.
Majikina Honryu Organization, Los Angeles
W. Los Angeles, CA
$8,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a formal dance concert program in conjunction with the organization's 22nd anniversary and the dawn of the millennium. The program Urizun No Kaze- Shinseiki: Kibo o to Heiwa (Period of Tranquility - the Millennium: Hope and Peace), will feature traditional classical and folk Okinawan dances, as well as dances that are more original creations.
Makah Cultural and Research Center
Neah Bay, WA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the creation of a 45 foot-tall, round totem pole carved by 79 year-old Makah master carver, Frank Smith, Jr. This pole, along with an already existing 15 foot pole, will be installed in the Makah Culture and Research Center's new Totem Pole Garden.
Malden Public Library
Malden, MA
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Design
To support the conservation of original furniture designed by architect H. H. Richardson for the Converse Memorial Building and Art Gallery in 1885. The furniture is the largest collection of works created by the architect and is particularly significant because it remains in the original building for which it was designed.
Marin Museum Society, Inc.
Novato, CA
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the Cradlebasket Project, a traveling exhibit that will focus on the cradlebasket as a symbol of cultural continuity among the indigenous people of California. Examining cradlebaskets as social documents, the project will demonstrate how history, culture and art are intertwined in these unique objects.
Maryland Historical Society
Baltimore, MD
$8,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the conservation of 63 portrait miniatures. The project follows a condition survey of 450 miniatures in the society's collection that recommended urgent treatment for the most actively deteriorating and highly vulnerable works.
Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
Jamaica Plain, MA
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support a conservation survey of five artworks in the Boston area subway system's public art collection. The project will include studies of a mural by Morgan Buckley, two benches by William Keyser, a neon sculpture by Alejandro and Moira Sina, a sculptural installation by Mags Harries, and a tile wall by Joyce Kozloff.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, NY
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the conservation of the Cesnola Collection of ancient art from Cyprus. The project is an essential prerequisite for the reinstallation of 1,100 Cypriot objects in four newly renovated galleries in the museum's Greek and Roman wing.
Moonstone, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support Moonstone's 16th Annual Celebration of Black Writing, to take place during February 2000. Proposed speakers include Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Nikki Giovanni, Charles Johnson, George Wolfe, and Virginia Hamilton.
Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute
Utica, NY
$6,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the conservation of 23 watercolors from the museum's permanent collection. The works include examples by many of the foremost practitioners of the medium and will be a part of the upcoming touring exhibition American Twentieth Century Watercolors from the Munson Williams-Proctor Institute.
Muntu Dance Theatre
Chicago, IL
$12,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the reconstruction of Purification Ritual by Muntu founding Artistic Director Alyo Tolbert. The reconstruction will premiere in December 1999 as part of the company's annual concert series, and as part of a year-long, citywide celebration of the millennium.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Boston, MA
$65,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support documentation of the Museum's 20,000-object textile and costume collection. Each object in the collection will be photographed with a high-resolution digital camera in order to create an electronic database of images and object information that will be available to the public via the World Wide Web.
Museum of Modern Art
New York, NY
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the preservation of critically endangered films from the Museum's nationally recognized collections that are crucial to the history of film as an art form. The Film Department at the Museum saves over 100 films from disintegration each year by transferring them from unstable nitrate stock to acetate, and also preserves fading and damaged acetate films.
National Center for Jewish Film
Waltham, MA
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the preservation of three classic Yiddish feature films that are in jeopardy of decomposing. The National Center for Jewish Film holds the only surviving copies of these films.
New York Baroque Dance Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the development of accompanying educational materials and post-production costs of a documentary video designed to preserve Baroque dance. The video will help pass on eighteenth century performance techniques, repertoire, and traditions to future generations.
New York Historical Society
New York, NY
$8,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the creation of a digital archive of 1,200 images from the museum's American paintings collection. The project is part of a new computerized informational and collections management system that will result in an illustrated on-line museum collection catalogue.
New York Historical Society (Consortium)
New York, NY
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support a consortium project for an exhibition and series of public programs in honor of New York City Ballet's 50-year history. The exhibition, entitled Dance For a City: Fifty Years of New York City Ballet, is being organized by The New-York Historical Society and New York City Ballet and will include public programs and a fully-illustrated catalogue.
New York University (Fiscal Agent for The Drama Review)
New York, NY
$6,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support fees to authors and translators for the publication The Drama Review. New York University serves as the editorial office for this quarterly journal of performance studies.
Northwest Heritage Resources
Olympia, WA
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a tape/booklet interpreting Northwestern Washington traditional arts and heritage tours. The tape/booklet will offer tourists traveling through the region on bicycle or by motor vehicle examples of traditional arts such as songs, crafts, narratives and music from Washington communities.
Norton Gallery and School of Art, Inc.
West Palm Beach, FL
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support a conservation survey of the museum's Chinese collection. The project will consist of a detailed physical examination and written description of each of the 450 objects in the collection, as well as written proposals for individual conservation treatments.
Nritya Jyoti Dance Theatre
Crystal, MN
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support creation and presentation of a new dance theatre piece entitled Ghazal, based upon the ancient Asian Indian poetry called ghazals. Artistic Director Rita Mustaphi will collaborate with composer Debasis Sarkar and drum artist Gopal Misra, both from India, to create the music that will accompany the dance.
Orange Show Foundation
Houston, TX
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support a conservation survey and treatment plan for this folk art environment. The project will engage the services of an architect and a conservator who will assess the immediate and long-range conservation needs of the Orange Show.
Oregon Historical Society
Portland, OR
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support Voices of the Oregon Country, seven one-hour radio programs. Voices of the Oregon Country is a collection of tape-recorded interviews over a ten-year period of Oregonian traditional artists around the state.
Philadelphia Folklore Project
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Artists Aid project. This project will offer technical assistance support to diverse and exceptional Philadelphia regional folk artists.
Philadelphia Folklore Project (Consortium)
Philadelphia, PA
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support Art Happens Here, a consortium project with research and public programs to document and present Philadelphia folk artists and their arts. This consortium effort is in collaboration with the Ga-Adangbe Association and Walt Whitman Cultural Arts Center.
Philbrook Museum of Art, Inc.
Tulsa, OK
$35,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support documentation, conservation, and publication of the museum's collection of over 1,000 Native American baskets. Although the collection is one of the most outstanding in the country, it remains relatively unknown and the majority of the objects have never been fully documented.
Philippine Information Education Resource Center (Fiscal Agent for Palabuniyan Kulintang E
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support Let's Play the Kulintang, a 30-minute instructional video with an accompanying compact disc. The compact disc will consist of 12 musical compositions and rituals of southern Philippine culture to be taught by National Heritage Fellow and kulintang master Danongan S. Kalanduyan.
Pueblo of Pojoaque, NM
Santa Fe, NM
$17,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support instruction and training in the traditional arts and crafts of the Tewa pueblo. The project will ensure the preservation of traditional techniques in jewelry, stone and clay sculpture, pottery, moccasin making, belt and sash weaving, bustle making, and hide tanning, as well as painting and drawing.
Public Corporation for the Arts Long Beach
Long Beach, CA
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a Los Angeles County survey and networking project in the folk arts. This project is designed to link connections between traditional artists in the Los Angeles area with the statewide apprenticeship program, database, folk arts touring, and other ongoing California folk arts projects.
Puerto Rico Industrial Development Company
San Juan, PR
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support Puerto Rico's Apprenticeship Program in Traditional Arts. The apprenticeship program encourages the transmission of a lifetime worth of knowledge, skills and techniques to a new generation of artisans.
Regents of the University of California at Berkeley (Pacific Film Archive)
Berkeley, CA
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the preservation of key films and videos from the Bay Area avant-garde movement. The films and videos to be included in this project have been chosen for their significance to the history of the Bay Area avant-garde cinema, as well as for the urgency of their conservation needs, to ensure their survival and their availability to the public.
San Diego Area Dance Alliance (Consortium)
San Diego, CA
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support a consortium project for the Nations of San Diego International Dance Festival. The Festival, organized by the San Diego Area Dance Alliance and San Diego Repertory Theatre, is an annual series of performances of international and ethnically specific dance performed at the Lyceum Theatre in San Diego.
San Francisco State University (The Poetry Center)
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the restoration of historical film footage from the Poetry Center's American Poetry Archives, and the development and promotion of the Writing and Community Series, dedicated to videotaping established and emerging writers.
Saving and Preserving Arts and Cultural Environments
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support the updating of a scholarly archive documenting over 700 contemporary folk art environments around the country. The project will also result in the distribution of information related to the preservation of these environments.
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Inc.
New York, NY
$22,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support the preservation of the schools audiotape archive that documents over 500 artists' lectures dating from 1952 to the present. The archive represents the breadth of post-war American art, from early lectures by Ben Shahn and Isabel Bishop to recent tapes of Fred Wilson and Kiki Smith.
Southern Methodist University
Dallas, TX
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the reconstruction, documentation, and performance of three seminal musical theatre ballets by Agnes de Mille. The works selected include the "Civil War Ballet" from Bloomer Girl, the dance suite "Goldrush" from Paint Your Wagon, and the dance sequences from Oklahoma!
Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Chicago, IL
$7,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the Steppenwolf Theatre Ensemble Project. Through a nine-week intensive residency program for actors, the Ensemble Project will pass on the technique, history and traditions of Steppenwolf's unique style of theater.
Texas Folklife Resources
Austin, TX
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support several statewide tours and education programs featuring the finest and most authentic traditional artists and musicians from the regions. Traveling to rural and urban communities, these tours will reach about 75,000 Texans.
Textile Conservation Workshop, Inc.
South Salem, NY
$12,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support a year long apprenticeship for an intern to receive in-depth training in textile conservation. As a regional conservation laboratory, the program fills a gap not covered by formal conservation courses in graduate school programs.
Tohono O'odham Community Action
Sell, AZ
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support: 1) classes and mentoring programs; 2) weaving demonstrations at museums; and 3) establishment of a marketing cooperative. This project is designed to preserve and rejuvenate the Tohono O'odham basketweaving traditions.
Traditional Arts in Upstate New York, Inc.
Canton, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the St. Lawrence River Stories project. Local storytellers will be identified, interviewed, and presented in a public series of storytelling sessions in river communities.
Trustees of the Berkshire Museum
Pittsfield, MA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the conservation and reinstallation of works by Alexander Calder and his father, A. Stirling Calder. The museum's collection includes works made by Alexander Calder in the 1920s and 1930s as well as an architectural commission by A. Stirling Calder.
Tucson-Pima Arts Council, Inc.
Tucson, AZ
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a folklorist residency and community scholar program. In the Pima County Folklore Project, a folklorist will spend one month in each of ten diverse rural communities throughout Pima County working with trained community members researching, documenting and recording the community's culture, heritage, and the arts.
Tung Ching Chinese Center for the Arts, Inc.
Flushing, NY
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support programs at the Tung Ching Chinese Center for the Arts, Inc. Programs will include: 1) the presentation of a program of mixed Chinese opera works Theatre Festival and China Day by professional performers in Manhattan; and 2) opera training programs in Flushing.
United Cambodian Community Arts of Apsara (Arts of Aspara)
Long Beach, CA
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Cambodian Arts Preservation Initiative. This initiative will include artist residencies in Cambodian music, dance and visual art, a Khmer weaver project, and public presentations.
University of Kansas Main Campus (Spencer Museum)
Lawrence, KS
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support documentation of the permanent collection. The project will include publication of a new handbook of the collection, photography and digitization of significant works in the collection, as well as expansion of the museum's Web site to include a larger sample of the most important works in the collection.
University of Missouri at Columbia
Columbia, MO
$12,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Missouri Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program. Each master and apprentice team will be documented through taped interviews, taped performances, and photography, and will be evaluated by an outside evaluator.
University of Utah (Utah Museum of Fine Arts)
Salt Lake City, UT
$8,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the conservation of four 17th century European tapestries. The project will enable the works to be reinstalled for the opening of the museum's new building in the spring of 2000.
University of Wisconsin at Madison (Elvehjem Museum of Art)
Madison, WI
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the production of two illustrated catalogues that will document two important components of the museum's collection. The publications will document the Watson Collection of Indian miniature paintings and the collection of ancient Greek coins and vases.
Vermont Museum and Gallery And Alliance, Inc.
Woodstock, VT
$8,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the Vermont Collections Care Program which provides technical assistance to Vermont's historical societies, museums, and galleries. Collection care workshops, general collection condition surveys, and on-site training will be offered for the staff and volunteers of the organization's 225 member institutions.
Virgin Islands Humanities Council (Consortium)
St. Thomas, VI
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Virgin Islands Humanities Council Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program, a consortium project including presentations in schools and public settings. This consortium effort is in collaboration with the Virgin Islands Cultural Heritage Institute and the University of the Virgin Islands Summer Institute.
Western Pennsylvania Conservancy/Fallingwater
Mill Run, PA
$78,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Design
To support the conservation of Fallingwater, a National Historic Landmark designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in 1935. The project will entail the structural strengthening and restoration of the building in three stages over a one-year period.
Western Washington University (Western Galleries)
Bellingham, WA
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the publication of a catalogue documenting the university's outdoor sculpture collection. The catalogue will include a history of this important public art collection, statements by 23 commissioned artists, and photographic documentation of the works.
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