1999 Grant Awards: Creation & Presentation

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

National/Multi-State Impact | Direct Impact

Grants With A National or Multi-State Impact

80 Langton Street, Inc. (New Langton Arts)
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support the commission of a new work by artist Anna Gaskell. The exhibition, to be held during New Langton's year-long 25th anniversary celebration (1999-2000), will have its West Coast premiere in early 2000 and travel nationally. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Academy of Indian Performing Arts, Inc.
North Potomac, MD
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the national tour of Kanya (woman), a multimedia work based on Indian classical dance, music, and poetry. Choreographed by Artistic Director Jothi Raghavan, the tour will travel to approximately 14 states across the United States. (National/Multi-State Impact)

American Brass Chamber Music Association, Inc. (American Brass Quartet)
New York, NY
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a domestic tour of the American Brass Quintet with associated outreach activities. Funds will be used toward subsidizing presenting fees in underserved and economically depressed areas. (National/Multi-State Impact)

American Indian Film Institute
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the 1999 annual American Indian Film Festival and the quarterly film journal Indian Cinema Entertainment. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Americas Society, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the touring exhibition Delving Deeper: Latin American Art from the Guggenheim Museum, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will present a selection of one of the significant but virtually unknown collections of Latin American art from the 60's and 70's in the United States. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Apollo's Fire, the Cleveland Baroque Orchestra
Cleveland, OH
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a multi-state tour and a compact disk recording of Bach's St. John's Passion in English on period instruments. The March 1999 tour will include performances in Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Scranton, New York City, Cleveland, and Akron. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services
Dearborn, MI
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support a five-city tour of three Arabic traditional music groups. Shahrayar Ensemble, a Palestinian group from Israel; Doula, an Arab group from Canada; and Kan Zaman Community Ensemble from Los Angeles will perform in Detroit, Chicago, New York, Boston, and Los Angeles. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Arizona State University (The Department of Public Events, Gammage Auditorium)
Tempe, AZ
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support commissioning, residency and performance artist fees for a new work by the Margaret Jenkins Dance Company. Time After (working title), will include a narrative element performed by Olympia Dukakis and will be choreographed by Margaret Jenkins. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Arizona State University (University Art Museum)
Tempe, AZ
$8,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support a touring exhibition of the work of Mexican printmaker Leopoldo Mendez (1902-69) and an accompanying catalogue. The exhibition will be the first of the artist's work in the United States in almost 50 years and the catalogue will be the first comprehensive publication in English. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Art Sweats, Inc. (David Dorfman Dance)
New York, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the production of David Dorfman Dance's third community based project, and the creation and presentation of a duet by David Dorfman and Dan Froot. The community project, entitled Arts in Action: The No Roles Barred Project, will be created by choreographer David Dorfman and his company by involving arts funders, presenters, community leaders, and dance artists. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Arts Midwest (Consortium)
Minneapolis, MN
$62,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the Heartland/Guthrie Theater New Millennium Tour, involving a multi-member consortium of arts presenters in a number of states, during which the Guthrie Theater will give public performances and conduct residency activities at each presenter site. The five-week long Heartland Tour will include travel to presenter sites in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, and Wisconsin. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Asian CineVision, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the 1999 Asian-American International Film Festival and its national tour. After its run in New York, the festival then travels to ten sites throughout the United States including Boston; Houston; Madison, Wisconsin; Philadelphia; Ithaca, New York; Durham, North Carolina; Chicago; and Tampa, Florida. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Atlanta Art Papers, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$28,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support reviews of contemporary artists' work in the bi-monthly journal Art Papers. The reviews section will include critical writing from less established writers, many of whom will be publishing for the first time. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Ballet Folklorico Ollin, Inc.
Panorama City, CA
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support Fiesta Navidad, a touring concert of mariachi music and folkloric dance that tells the Christmas story of La Posada, a Mexican tradition marking the journey of Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem. Fiesta Navidad will tour California and Arizona, with performances also planned for Washington, D.C. and Brooklyn, New York. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Ballet Theatre Foundation, Inc. (American Ballet Theatre)
New York, NY
$100,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support planning, rehearsal, and performance costs of American Ballet Theatre's Audience and Repertory Enhancement Project in six hub cities. The performances and outreach and educational activities will take place in Detroit, Michigan; Washington, D.C.; Costa Mesa and Los Angeles, California; Newark, New Jersey; and New York. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Bamboo Ridge Press
Honolulu, HI
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the publication, distribution, and promotion of an anthology of prose and poetry by American women writers of mixed Asian ancestry. Free readings by selected writers are planned for venues such as the University of Hawaii Center Campus in Honolulu; the Volcano Art Center on the island of Hawaii; and the Japanese-American National Museum in Los Angeles, California. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Bang On A Can, Inc.
New York, NY
$12,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the annual Bang On A Can Festival. The 2000 Festival will include 22 concerts in New York and across the United States in eight weeks, bringing new and diverse music to new audiences. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Bard College (Conjunctions)
Annandale-Hudson, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support publication, circulation, and related expenses, including authors' fees, for two issues of Conjunctions. Each issue will be distributed to subscribers in 33 states and to bookstores throughout the country. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Big Apple Circus, Ltd.
New York, NY
$75,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the creation, performance, and tour of A Clown's Dream during the Big Apple Circus' 1999-2000 Millennium Season. A Clown's Dream will be developed at the Creative Center and the home of Big Apple Circus in Walden, New York, performed at Lincoln Center in New York York City, and will tour to 12 other locations in the East and Midwest. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Birmingham Museum of Art
Birmingham, AL
$53,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: MUSEUM
To support an exhibition, Chokwe: Art and Initiation Among Chokwe and Related People, with an accompanying catalogue. The exhibition will tour nationally, and include works created by Chokwe, Lwena, Lunda, and other related peoples of Angola, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Zambia. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Blues Foundation, Inc.
Memphis, TN
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
TO support artists' fees related to the production and national broadcast of Beale Street Caravan, a series of weekly, half-hour public radio programs featuring performances by Blues artists. The series is broadcast on more than 260 public and community radio stations nationwide, and internationally on The Armed Services Radio Network and on NPR Worldwide's America One. (National/Multi-State Impact)

BOA Editions, Ltd.
Rochester, NY
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the production, promotion and related expenses for new volumes of poetry comprising Cutting Through the Passable Truths publishing project. Scheduled titles include Mark Irwin's White City; Alpay Ulku's Meteorology; and David Ignatow's posthumous collection, Stones Will Pay Me Heed. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Brandywine Graphic Workshop, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support a series fo residencies and an exhibition of collaborative work by African-American artists and writers. The artists will collaborate with writers to produce a suite of prints and accompanying text exploring African-American historical and social themes. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Bridge Center for Contemporary Art (as fiscal agent for Cinco Puntos Press)
El Paso, TX
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the publication and national distribution of books exploring the Mexican and American Chicano experience. The volumes will be promoted at readings in the Southwest, California, and Oregon, and made available to trade bookstores throughout the nation by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution. (National/Multi-State Impact)

California State University, Long Beach Foundation
Long Beach, CA
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support a touring exhibition of the work of American artist Linda Stark (b. 1956) with accompanying catalogue and education programs. This will be a mid-career survey of paintings by this Los Angeles-based artist and will travel to three other museums around the country. (National/Multi-State Impact)

CALYX, Inc.
Corvallis, OR
$18,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support Calyx Journal's New Writers, New Readers program. Components of the project include an expanded format for the literary magazine, increased honoraria to writers and artists, a new writer reading series, and a direct mail subscription campaign. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Cape and Islands Community Public Radio, Inc.
Woods Hole, MA
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the development of a model project which will integrate art into the "sonic identity" of two new regional radio stations in Massachusetts; and to disseminate information about this model to radio stations throughout the country. Working with audio artists, writers, painters, photographers, musicians, historians, and other members of the local community, the stations will infuse their broadcasts with soundscapes, radio poetry and essay, acoustical, musical, and literary works intended to sustain local community and a sense of place. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Capital Concerts, Inc.
Washington, DC
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support The National Memorial Day Concert and A Capitol Fourth, two patriotic concerts at the U.S. Capitol to be nationally broadcast live on PBS in 1999. A national television audience of 10-12 million watches these 90-minute programs each year. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Carnegie Hall Corporation
New York, NY
$100,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support The American Project, a comprehensive presentation program designed to showcase and broadcast distinctive American music and distinguished musicians from throughout the United States at Carnegie Hall. This project reflects Andrew Carnegie's vision of excellence on stage, democratic access to great performances, and wish that Carnegie Hall would "intertwine itself with the history of our country." (National/Multi-State Impact)

Center for Puppetry Arts, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$104,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the adaptation and production of new works, educational programs and museum activities throughout the Southeast organized around the artistic vision of Associate Producer Bobby Box. The project will include the development and production of a new work based on Cervantes' Don Quixote and a new work based on J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Chicago Chamber Musicians
Chicago, IL
$12,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a free, year-round, monthly noontime concert series by the ChicagoChamber Musicians at the Chicago Cultural Center to be broadcast live on a Chicago area public radio station. As one of three community outreach programs, the First Monday series will offer year-round performances to diverse audiences in downtown Chicago in 1998-99. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Chicago New Art Association
Chicago, IL
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support the exhibition review section of the New Art Examiner. The Chicago-based, nationally distributed periodical is published ten times a year. (National/Multi-State Impact)

City Lore, Inc. (as fiscal agent for Insignia Films)
New York, NY
$75,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the completion of The Amato Opera, a one-hour PBS documentary film by Stephen Ives. This film will provide national audiences with a behind-the-scenes look at a small classical opera company's 50th anniversary season. (National/Multi-State Impact)

City Theatre Company, Inc. (Consortium)
Pittsburgh, PA
$16,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support a consortium project that will create a new work based on Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. City Theatre, the Sarasota International Theatre Institute (SITI), and the Wexner Center for the Arts at Ohio State University propose the collaborative creation of a new work, Alice: Underground, to be directed by Anne Bogart of SITI. (National/Multi-State Impact)

CODA: Choreographers Organization for Dance, Inc. (Creach/Koester)
New York, NY
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support a collaboration with Proyecto Ensamble/Tiempo de Bailar, a Mexico City-based dance group, to create an evening-length work. Creach/Koester and Proyecto Ensamble/Tiempo de Bailar will come together to create a dance work that will tour to sites in both the United States and Mexico during 1999. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Coffee House Press
Minneapolis, MN
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the publication, promotion, and national distribution of books by contemporary African-American writers. Proposed volumes include titles by John A. Williams, Ted Joans, Clarence Major, and Quincy Troupe. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Competition Project, Inc.
Louisville, KY
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Design
To support the addition of 4-color illustrations to the publication Competitions. Published quarterly, Competitions disseminates information on design competitions in architecture, urban design, and public art. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Concert Artists Guild, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by Ben Johnston to be performed by the New Century Saxophone Quartet. Performances will be scheduled during 1999-2000 at the North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, The Kosciuszko Foundation in New York City, and the Playhouse in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, and at sites across the country during 1999-2000. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Concert Artists Guild, Inc.
(as fiscal agent for New Century Saxophone Quartet)
New York, NY
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support career development activities for young classical musicians through national concert presentations that are an initiative of the Guild's Management Program and through the Artists-in-Radio residency program. Funds are requested for costs of 100 concerts and residencies across the United States in a wide variety of venues in cities, suburbs, and rural areas. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Contemporary Arts Association of Houston
Houston, TX
$14,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the traveling exhibition Other Narratives, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will present the work of contemporary artists who use written and/or pictorial narrative as the basis for their art. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Copper Canyon Press
Port Townsend, WA
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the publication and national distribution of books of poetry by mid-career poets. Promotional author readings will be scheduled throughout the country at bookstores, libraries, and literary conferences. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Creative Nonfiction Foundation
Pittsburgh, PA
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of one issue of Creative Nonfiction. A direct mail campaign will target 50,000 potential subscribers nationwide. (National/Multi-State Impact)

CultureWorks, Ltd.
Philadelphia, PA
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the completion and national distribution of a 13-hour radio biography on Leonard Bernstein, by the producer Steve Rowland. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Cunningham Dance Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$100,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of two new works by choreographer Merce Cunningham. The new works will be presented in four states. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Curators of the University of Missouri at Columbia
Columbia, MO
$9,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the publication and national distribution of issues of the Missouri Review. The magazine will produce one general issue and a special issue focusing on History in Literature, to reach an audience of 40,000 readers from all fifty states and to be placed in 350 public libraries nationwide. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Curbstone Press
Willimantic, CT
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support Literature in Translation: Opening Doors Between Cultures, a project to publish and distribute contemporary poetry and fiction by writers from Latin America and Vietnam. Curbstone Press will sponsor readings by international writers in bookstores, libraries, schools, and community centers. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Da Capo Chamber Players, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support artists' fees and production costs for tour concerts and mini-residencies in upstate New York, Illinois, Kansas, and Pennsylvania. These four tour concerts and mini-residencies of two separate programs will bring new American chamber music to rural audiences and to students of all ages and backgrounds, helping expand artistic horizons. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Dance Continuum, Inc. (Susan Marshall & Company)
Putnam Valley,, NY
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support a U.S. touring presentation and related residency activities of The Descent Beckons, choreographed by Artistic Director Susan Marshall with lighting design by William Forsyth and Jennifer Tipton, and original music by David Lang. Susan Marshall & Company will premiere at the University of Iowa's Hancher Auditorium, and tour to several states. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Dance Exchange, Inc. (Liz Lerman Dance Exchange)
Takoma Park, MD
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the creation of the first phase in the development of Hallelujah, a major initiative in dance/theater performance and participatory artmaking. Hallelujah will be a series of evening-length performances combining movement, music, and words that will bring Liz Lerman Dance Exchange on stage with people from host communities around the United States. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Dance Theater Foundation, Inc. (Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater)
New York, NY
$100,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the presentation of Dance Theater Foundation's 40th Anniversary. Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater will tour to several states, with approximately 100 performances in more than 20 cities from coast to coast. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Dance Theater Workshop, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Presenting
To support New Europe 1999: A Reconsideration of the European Cultural Landscape, a consortium project. The project involves a North American touring and residency festival showcasing a young generation of European dance, theater, and music artists. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Dell'Arte, Inc.
Blue Lake, CA
$16,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support "Back Road to the City," a tour of rural communities and several cities on the West Coast of original ensemble theater works Out of the Frying Pan and Mad Love. The tour will include open dress rehearsals and performances in rural communities of Northern California and Southern Oregon as well as urban centers in Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Dialogue, Inc.
Columbus, OH
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support publication of the "Focus" section in each of six issues of this regional art journal. Each section will highlight a particular community or topic through a series of feature articles. (National/Multi-State Impact)

District Curators, Inc.
Washington, DC
$45,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support Multi-Works a project for the creation, presentation and touring of new American stage works and the development of related media productions. This initiative is designed to stimulate the creation of new work and its perpetuation through presenting, touring and media broadcast. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Documents Magazine, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support the "Discussions with Artists" series in three issues of the publication. The articles will provide artists with an opportunity to discuss their work in an interdisciplinary forum and an accessible format. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Dorian Woodwind Quintet Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a domestic tour of the Dorian Woodwind Quintet with associated outreach activities. Funds will be used to subsidize presenter fees in underserved communities across the country in the 1999-2000 season. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Drama League of New York, Inc.
New York, NY
$16,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the Director's Project, a program for early career directors. Chosen from a nationwide applicant pool, participants will have the opportunity to work in residence at various professional companies throughout the country and develop new work. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Drawing Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$12,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the first major American museum retrospective of the work of Los Angeles-based artist Raymond Pettibon. Jointly organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, the exhibition will include over 500 drawings, a small group of handmade books, and a site-specific wall drawing installation. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Early Music Foundation, Inc. (The New York Ensemble for Early Music)
New York, NY
$17,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support multiple performances of two early music pieces in New York City and on tour and a premiere recording. Performances of two pieces, The Apostolic Mass by Ademar Chabbanes and The Wise and Foolish Virgins, a medieval music drama, both first performed one thousand years ago, will celebrate the millennium with performances scheduled in 1998-99 and in 1999-2000, resulting with a recording of the Chabbanes work. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Educational Broadcasting Corporation
(as fiscal agent for Zipporah Films, Inc.)
New York, NY
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support post-production costs for a documentary film by Fred Wiseman on Madison Square Garden. Intended for a national PBS broadcast, the film will show the private and public spaces of this pre-eminent sports and entertainment arena. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Emory University (Carlos Museum)
Atlanta, GA
$28,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the touring exhibition Tyranny and Transformation in Roman Portraiture, with an accompanying catalogue and educational programs. This will be the first exhibition to explore the historical legacy of Roman imperial images being altered for political or ideological reasons. (National/Multi-State Impact)

En Foco, Inc.
Bronx, NY
$22,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support production of three issues of Nueva Luz, a bilingual photographic journal. To be published in 1999 and 2000, each issue of Nueva Luz will feature the work of three photographers. (National/Multi-State Impact)

ETV Endowment of South Carolina
Spartanburg, SC
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the production and 1999 national broadcast of the weekly radio series, Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz. The series is distributed by National Public Radio and is carried by more than 260 stations in the United States and distributed internationally. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Eugene Symphony Association, Inc.
Eugene, OR
$6,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support presentations and broadcast of Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky coupled with works by American composers Gershwin and Bernstein with associated outreach and educational activities. This May 1999 program will close the 1999-2000 season and serve as a springboard for the creation of the Eugene Symphony Chorus. (National/Multi-State Impact)

evidence, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the creation of a new work by choreographer Ronald K. Brown. The new work will be created during a 4-week residency. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Experimental Television Center, Ltd.
(as fiscal agent for Cine-matrix Film and Design Studio)
Newark Valley, NY
$75,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the production of an experimental documentary film by Alan Berliner on the power, meaning, and mystery of people's names. Intended for theatrical distribution and national broadcast on PBS, the film will tell the diverse stories evoked by our names, how they have shaped and influenced our characters, our behavior, and how they make others see us as well as we see ourselves. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Feminist Press, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the publication and national distribution of books in the Feminist Press International Women's Writing Project. Works proposed for publication include Marjorie Agosin's Always From Somewhere Else: A Memoir of My Chilean Jewish Father; Dacia Mariani's historical novel, The Silent Duchess; and an anthology, The House of Memory: Stories by Jewish Women Writers of Latin America. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Film Arts Foundation
(as fiscal agent for K. Bik Films)
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support post-production costs for a television documentary by Ruby Yang on four young residents of Hong Kong. Intended for national broadcast on PBS, the documentary will chronicle one year in the lives of these young people during Hong Kong's transition from British to Chinese sovereignty. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Film Arts Foundation (as fiscal agent for Xochitl Films)
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support post-production costs for a documentary video by Lourdes Portillo on the slain singer Selena Quintanilla. Planned for festival showings and broadcast on public television, the film's focus will be on Selena's influence in the Latino community. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Forecast Public Artworks
St. Paul, MN
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support publication of two issues of Public Art Review. The Fall/Winter issue will celebrate the magazine's tenth anniversary by examining public art's response to the new millennium, and the Spring/Summer 2000 issue will look at the use of sound in public art. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Forum for Contemporary Art
St. Louis, MO
$12,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support wysiwyg, an exhibition of new work by sculptor Michael Rees. The exhibition will tour to the Birmingham Museum in Alabama and be accompanied by a catalogue, an artist's book, and a computer animated CD-ROM. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Foundation for Advanced Critical Studies, Inc.
West Hollywood, CA
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support Art Issues, the Foundation's journal of contemporary art criticism. The project will cover five issues of this Los Angeles-based magazine to be published in 1999. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the development and presentation of The Alamo Piece, by solo theater artists Sigfrido Aguilar and Jim Calder. The two-man performance work will be presented at venues in the Northeast and along the Texan-Mexican border. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Free Street Programs, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$16,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the TeenStreet Theater, a program that employs low-income Chicago youth as writers and performers for its performances. One of four Free Street programs, TeenStreet Theater tours the Midwest (Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Illinois) and Europe; performs at its home base in Pulaski Park; conducts workshops; and produces videos. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Friends of the Mary Riepma Ross Film Theater, Inc.
Lincoln, NE
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the 1999 Great Plains Film Festival. Held biennially in the summer, this festival provides a showcase for film and video artists working in the heartland (Colorado, Kansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, Wyoming, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan). (National/Multi-State Impact)

Fund for Independent Publishing
New York, NY
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the continued expansion of The New Press's International Literature Publishing Program. The press will publish work by writers such as Wole Soyinka, Julio Cortazar, and Marie Darrieussecq, and develop outreach campaigns to targeted bookstores and community organizations. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Gamelan Pacifica
Seattle, WA
$24,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Multidisciplinary
To support production costs for Kali, a new music theater work. This piece will juxtapose the singing styles of distinctly different cultural backgrounds and combine Hindu mythology and western sensibility. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Gettysburg College
Gettysburg, PA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support payments to contributors and promotional expenses for the Gettysburg Review. A direct mail campaign on behalf of the literary journal will target 50,000 potential readers across the country. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Gotham Dance, Inc. (Bebe Miller Company)
New York, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the national tour of Going to the Wall, community activities, and creation and world premiere of a new solo choreographed and performed by Bebe Miller. The tour will travel to seven cities, and nine weeks of community activities will relate to the issues of cultural identity in the work. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Grand Canyon Chamber Music Festival, Inc.
Grand Canyon, AZ
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the creation and presentation with radio broadcast of a new work by Katherine Hoover combining Native-American and contemporary classical traditions scored for flute and percussion. The piece will be performed during the September 1999 Festival by native American flute player R. Carlos Nakai, flutist Clare Hoffman, and percussionist Gordon Gottlieb. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Graywolf Press
St. Paul, MN
$60,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the publication, promotion, and national distribution of titles in Graywolf Press's literary nonfiction publishing program. Scheduled titles include work by Sven Birkerts, Alice Fulton, Jan Zita Grover, and Barrie Boruch. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association, Inc. (WETA)
Arlington, VA
$100,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support two new programs of The Kennedy Center Presents, a series of performing arts television specials to be nationally broadcast on PBS in 1999-2000. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Group 1 Acting Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the production and tour of Moliere's Tartuffe. The Acting Company will tour Tartuffe to at least 20 communities across the country and will present it in New York City during its 1998-99 season. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Guild Complex (Tia Chucha Press)
Chicago, IL
$8,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the publication of books of poetry by Tia Chucha Press which will be distributed nationally by Northwestern University Press. The press will publish the winner of the Ana Castillo Poetry Prize, an emerging African-American poet selected by Elizabeth Alexander and Afaa M. Weaver, and a first book by an Asian-American writer selected by Kyoko Mori. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Henry Gallery Association, Inc.
Seattle, WA
$22,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support a mid-career retrospective exhibition of the work of photographer Uta Barth, with an accompanying catalogue. The exhibition will include approximately 70 works and a site-specific installation and will tour to other museums in this country and abroad. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
Chicago, IL
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support Hubbard Street Dance Chicago's 1999-2000 United States tour. The project will include fall and spring multi-state domestic tours and a three to four week engagement in downtown Chicago. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Hyde Park Theatre (Frontera Productions)
Austin, TX
$8,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the residency and commissioning of playwright Sharon Bridgforth. The two-year residency activities will include the development of a new play; workshops for writers and company members; outreach programming focused on teenagers; and touring of Bridgforth's play, blood pudding. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Illinois State University (University Galleries)
Normal, IL
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support a touring exhibition entitled Post-hypnotic, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. This will be the first large-scale museum exhibition addressing the resurgence of optical effects in the work of abstract artists throughout the United States. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Independent Curators, Inc.
New York, NY
$14,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the touring exhibition Power of the Word, which will present contemporary interpretations by Chinese-born artists of Chinese calligraphy. The exhibition will tour to six to eight venues and be accompanied by a catalogue and educational programs. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Independent Media Artists of Georgia, Etc., Inc.
(as fiscal agent for Bay Bottom News, Inc.)
Atlanta, GA
$75,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the production and post-production of Blacksouth: The Life Journey of Zora Neale Hurston, a documentary feature film by Kristy Andersen and Julie Dash, intended for national distribution and broadcast. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Institute of Contemporary Art
Boston, MA
$28,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the exhibition Sites Unseen-Shimon Attie: Photographs and Public Projects, 1992-1998, with an accompanying catalogue and video. This traveling exhibition will be the first in-depth exhibition of the artist's work. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Inta, Inc. (Eiko & Koma)
New York, NY
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the creation by dancer-choreographers Eiko & Koma and composer Joseph Jennings of the first phase of The Caravan Project. The work will premiere with live music at Art Awareness in Lexington, New York, and later travel to several states. (National/Multi-State Impact)

International Center of Photography
New York, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the touring exhibition George Tice: Urban Landscapes 1967-1997, with accompanying education programs. The exhibition of approximately 125 prints from Tice's Urban Landscapes series comprises a meditation upon 20th-century American life through a landscape of diners, luncheonettes, movie theaters, shoe repair shops, vacant lots, beaches, housing developments, train lines, water towers, gas stations, and telephone booths. (National/Multi-State Impact)

International Folk Art Foundation
(as fiscal agent for Museum of International Folk Art)
Santa Fe, NM
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the exhibition Antecedentes: Hispana and Hispano Artists of Early Twentieth-Century New Mexico. The project will be a comprehensive look at the time between 1900 and 1950 when the borders between "folk" and "fine" art collapsed and the colonial arts of Spanish New Mexico were linked with contemporary Hispano, Chicano, and Latino art. (National/Multi-State Impact)

International Sculpture Center, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$12,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support a project, Finding Common Ground, to examine contemporary issues in public art. A series of articles, regional meetings, and educational programs will be planned to occur between 1999 and 2000. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Jazz at Lincoln Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a national tour of the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra in celebration of the 100th anniversary of Duke Ellington's birth. The tour will go to 36 cities in 19 states and take place between March and May 1999. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Jazz Tap Ensemble
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the national touring production of Noce (Night). This new dance theatre piece, created by Artistic Director Lynn Dally and video designer Dennis Diamond, will premiere in New York and subsequently travel to Boston, Washington, and Arizona. (National/Multi-State Impact)

JAZZDANCE by Danny Buraczeski
Minneapolis, MN
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support rehearsal and performance costs for a week-long self produced engagement. Performances will take place at The Joyce Theater in New York City, and repertory will include Ezekiel's Wheel with live musical accompaniment as well as other works by Artistic Director Danny Buraczeski performed to taped music. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Jewish Film Festival
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the 1999 Jewish Film Festival and expansion of the organization's Web site. The festival, devoted to Jewish-subject films, will be held over a one month period in July and August in San Francisco, Berkeley, Palo Alto, and Marin County; the Web site will serve as an information resource and include an image library and archive. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Jose Limon Dance Foundation
New York, NY
$35,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the expansion of Jose Limon Dance Company's performances, outreach activities, and residency program. The performances and outreach activities will take place in New York City and San Jose, California, and the residency program will be expanded for underserved audiences in upstate New York. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Katonah Museum of Art, Inc.
Katonah, NY
$6,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support a traveling exhibition of 20th-century Latin American still life painting, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will present the still life genre as a barometer of artistic, social, and political issues in modern Latin America. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Kronos Performing Arts Association
San Francisco, CA
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support Triad 2000, three projects assembled on the advent of the millennium: a program of new arrangements for voice and string quartet comprised of works from a range of international women vocalists, a collaboration with Romanian composer Taraf de Haidouks, and rehearsal and studio recording costs for a new work for "triple" quartet by Steve Reich. The pieces will be developed in partnership with U.S. presenters and will be performed for both rural and urban communities nationwide during the 1999-2000 season. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Lakota Fund
(as fiscal agent for Lee Productions, Inc.)
Kyle, SD
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the production and national distribution of Oyate Ta Olawan (Songs of the People), a series of half-hour radio programs featuring traditional Native-American music. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Latin American Literary Review Press
Pittsburgh, PA
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support publication costs, promotion, and related expenses, including authors' royalties, for volumes of fiction by Latin American writers. The publishing house also will sponsor readings by writers such as Gloria Duran, Jorge Stamadianos, and Cristina Peri-Rossi at bookstores, universities, high schools, and middle schools in Washington, New York, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Light Factory
Charlotte, NC
$8,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support As Long As the Waters Flow: Native Americans in the South and East, a touring exhibition with related educational programs. Comprising photographic portraits and written interviews of contemporary Native-Americans, the exhibition will include 50 works representing tribes east of the Mississippi River, Louisiana, and East Texas. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Society, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the Regency Series of chamber music repertoire at UCLA's Royce Hall. This series will offer concerts by the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra on the west side of Los Angeles during 1998-99 to complement the Orchestra's concerts at the Alex Theatre in Glendale. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College
Baton Rouge, LA
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support production costs and related expenses for books of poetry published by Louisiana State University Press. Scheduled titles include Roland Flint's Easy, Brendan Galvan's The Strength of a Named Thing, David Huddle's Summer Lake: New and Selected Poems, Sue Owen's My Doomsday Sampler, and Deborah Pope's Falling Out of the Sky. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Lula Washington Contemporary Dance Foundation
Inglewood, CA
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support a tour to rural sites in the South and research for Lula Washington's Rite of Spring 2000 project. States on the tour include Florida, Tennessee, South Carolina, Kentucky, and Georgia. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Madame Walker Building Urban Life Center, Inc. (Consortium)
Indianapolis, IN
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the research and development stages of Blues Migration, an oral history project that will explore the migration of African-American people and the migration of the blues. This consortium effort is in collaboration with cultural centers in Tennessee, Illinois, North Carolina, Texas and Columbus, Ohio. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Metro Theater Company
St. Louis, MO
$29,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the development, production, and tour of Iceman, a new play by Nicholas Kryah. Metro Theater Company will produce and tour Iceman nationwide in its 1999-2000 season. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Mettawee Theatre Company, Inc.
Salem, NY
$16,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the creation of a new work and a tour in Upstate New York and New England. Mettawee Theatre Company will create a play based on the mythology of birds as reflected in international folklore that will incorporate masks, giant puppets, and an original score. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Milkweed Editions, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the publication and national distribution of books in Milkweed Edition's The World As Home publishing program. This series of literary nonfiction titles will explore the relationship between humanity and the natural and physical world. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Minnesota Orchestral Association
Minneapolis, MN
$70,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the commission and premiere of a dramatic musical work for soloists, orchestra and chorus by composer Dominick Argento during the years 1999 and 2000. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Mint Museum of Art, Inc.
Charlotte, NC
$12,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the exhibition Harvey Littleton: Reflections, 1946-1994, and an accompanying catalogue and education programs. The project will examine Littleton's long career as a glass artist and his influence as a teacher and an advocate for the American studio crafts movement. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Mostly Music, Inc. (Consortium)
Chicago, IL
$6,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a consortium project with the Orion Ensemble entitled An Inside Look at Contemporary Music: Four American Composers Consider Their Work. Four composers, six musicians, and a moderator will participate in a two-day program of open rehearsals with each composer, panel discussions, formal concerts for general audiences, and student lecture/demonstrations. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Mountain Writers Series
Portland, OR
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the Community Residencies Program, which brings writers of national stature to Portland, Oregon; and the Northwest Regional Residencies Program which tours writers to rural areas in Oregon, Washington, and Alaska. Scheduled authors include James Tate, Dara Wier, Sandra Cisneros, Alberto Rios, Andrea Barrett, and Yvengy Yevtushenko. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Museum for African Art
New York, NY
$57,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the touring exhibition Liberated Voices: Contemporary South African Art since Mandela, and an accompanying catalogue. The exhibition will feature the work of contemporary South African artists in the post-Apartheid era and will travel to six additional sites. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
$32,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support In Memory of My Feelings: Frank O'Hara and American Art, a traveling exhibition and catalogue. The exhibition will examine a key period in American art during the 1950s and 60s, including works by several artists whose works were closely tied to O'Hara's poems. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
La Jolla, CA
$57,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support a national touring exhibition and catalogue called Lateral Thinking: A Contemporary Collection. The exhibition will include works collected by the Museum of Contemporary Art over the past 15 years and will tour to several small to mid-sized museums around the country. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Museum of Photographic Arts
San Diego, CA
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the touring exhibition Abelardo Morell and the Camera Eye, with an accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will be the first to represent the full extent of the photographer's work and will travel to several other venues. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Museums at Stony Brook (Consortium)
Stony Brook, NY
$12,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support a traveling exhibition entitled George Washington: American Symbol, a consortium project with the Museum of Our National Heritage, and accompanying education programs. The exhibition will trace images of George Washington over a period of two centuries, 1799-1999. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Music at Angel Fire, Inc.
Angel Fire, NM
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support artists' fees and expenses related to the production of 14 professional chamber concerts during the Music at Angel Fire's 16th Anniversary Festival. The 1999 Festival will take place from August 21 through September 6 in three unique geographic locations: the rural northern New Mexico communities of Angel Fire, Raton, Las Vegas, and Taos. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Music-Theatre Group, Inc.
New York, NY
$39,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Musical Theater
To support the production and tour of a new music-theatre piece and the commissioning, development, and production of a new work. Music-Theatre Group will produce and tour Running Man, a new musical by Cornelius Eady and Diedre Murray, and commission and produce The Saragossa Manuscript, by Roman Paska and Richard Einhorn. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Musical Arts Association (The Cleveland Orchestra)
Cleveland, OH
$150,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support A Century of American Music -- at the End of a Century, a project showcasing American music from the past 100 years. During 1999, The Cleveland Orchestra will perform four programs with a total of 14 performances of diverse works by American composers from early Charles Ives to a new work by Peter Lieberson, with related broadcasts, talks, residencies, and recital. (National/Multi-State Impact)

National Performance Network
New York, NY
$70,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support 40 dance residencies and related educational and outreach activities for communities in up to 21 states in 1998-99. The National Performance Network offers artists a defined system of fee subsidy in order for them to engage in extended residencies in communities. (National/Multi-State Impact)

National Poetry Series, Inc.
Hopewell, NJ
$7,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support production subsidies for the publication of five poetry volumes selected from the National Poetry Series 2000 Open Competition. Chosen by distinguished poets, the five winning manuscripts will be published by Milkweed Editions, W.W. Norton, Sun & Moon Press, the University of Illinois Press, and Viking Penguin. (National/Multi-State Impact)

National Theatre of the Deaf, Inc.
Chester, CT
$41,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the expenses associated with the development, production and touring of a new work. A production of an original piece by playwright Romulus Linney based upon the work of Willard R. Trask, entitled The Unwritten Song, will be further developed for production through a series of workshops for a premiere. (National/Multi-State Impact)

New Observations, Ltd.
New York, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support a special issue of the journal New Observations. To be published in 1999, the issue will address the role of the contemporary artist as cultural archaeologist. (National/Multi-State Impact)

New Radio & Performing Arts, Inc.
Staten Island, NY
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the commissioning of art works for the World Wide Web. Established and emerging artists will use the latest in multimedia technologies to develop new art works that explore the specific characteristics of the Internet environment. (National/Multi-State Impact)

New Radio & Performing Arts, Inc.
(as fiscal agent for Exit Three Productions)
Staten Island, NY
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the production of new half-hour radio programs for the series JAZZPLAY, hosted by Gregory Hines, to be distributed nationally by National Public Radio. (National/Multi-State Impact)

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc.
(as fiscal agent for African Film Festival)
New York, NY
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the exhibition and tour of a series of films from the African Diaspora. This week-long program will focus on films from Portuguese-speaking countries such as Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, Cape Verde, and Guinea-Bissau. (National/Multi-State Impact)

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc.
(as fiscal agent for Fourth Floor Productions)
New York, NY
$75,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the production of a documentary film by Errol Morris on an obsessive book collector. Intended for theatrical distribution and national broadcast on PBS, The Eighty Books of Zamorano will introduce viewers to the underground world of book thieves by focusing on biblio-criminal Stephen Blumberg. (National/Multi-State Impact)

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc.
(as fiscal agent for Mystery City Films)
New York, NY
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the production of a narrative feature-length film by Leslie McCleave. Road, which is intended for festival screenings and theatrical release, is the story of a young couple re-examining their relationship while on a short road trip. (National/Multi-State Impact)

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc.
(as fiscal agent for Robert Levi Films, Inc.)
New York, NY
$75,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the production of a 90-minute documentary film about Billy Strayhorn, the pioneering African-American composer, arranger, and pianist who was one of Duke Ellington's major collaborators. The program will be distributed on videocassette for educational and home use following its 1999 national broadcast. (National/Multi-State Impact)

New York University (Grey Art Gallery)
New York, NY
$48,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the traveling exhibition Projected Selves: Cahun, Deren, Sherman and Photographic Transformation, and an accompanying catalogue. The project features three different generations of women photographers, all of whom use theatricality and role playing in their work. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Newark Pulic Radio, Inc.
Newark, NJ
$70,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the production of JazzSet with Branford Marsalis, a weekly radio series of jazz concerts performed at venues across the United States. The series is distributed by National Public Radio and is broadcast on more than 200 public radio stations. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Niagara University
Niagara Univ., NY
$12,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the touring exhibition The Creeley Collaborations, which will document projects between poet Robert Creeley and well-known contemporary visual artists, with an accompanying catalogue. Collaborative projects between Creeley and artists such as George Baselitz, Francesco Clemente, Jim Dine, Robert Indiana, Marisol, and Susan Rothenberg will also be documented on a CD-ROM. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Oakland Museum of California Foundation
Oakland, CA
$18,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support a traveling exhibition on the art of photography in California from 1850 to 2000. The exhibition will be accompanied by a collection handbook and education programs and will travel to several other museums around the country. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Pacific Film and Literary Association
Corte Madera, CA
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support publication, promotion, and related expenses, including writers' fees, for one issue of Volt: A Magazine for the Arts. The organization also will publish an online anthology of writing from Volt and undertake a subscription drive targeting libraries and booksellers across the country. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Paper Bag Players, Inc.
New York, NY
$29,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support costs associated with the production of a new play for young people that will tour to a number of locations on the East Coast. The one-hour touring show, called Hot Feet, will explore issues of safety, crowding, ethnicity, and cultural customs, through art, music, dance, and real life drama, usually interactive with the young audience members. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Paul Taylor Dance Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$100,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support tandem tours by the Paul Taylor Dance Company and Taylor 2, a chamber sized company. The tandem tours will include performances in New London, Connecticut; Detroit, Michigan; the Washington, D.C. area; four cities in Iowa; and five cities in Montana. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Philadelphia, PA
$22,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support a touring exhibition of the work of Maxfield Parrish and an accompanying catalogue. The project will explore the relationship between the artist's "fine" and "commercial" art, issues regarding public taste and market dynamics, and the qualities of Parrish's work that have contributed to his rediscovery by many contemporary artists. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Pennsylvania Public Radio Associates, Inc.
Uwchland, PA
$35,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the production of concerts and feature programs for Echoes, a nationally broadcast radio series of contemporary music. The series serves a weekly audience of 275,000 listeners on 152 stations in 38 states and Puerto Rico. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Performance Community Inc. (New Tuners Theatre) (Consortium)
Chicago, IL
$16,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Musical Theater
To support a consortium project to commission and develop a new musical. New Tuners Theatre will collaborate with Lehman Engel Musical Theatre Workshop of Los Angeles, California and North Shore Music Theatre of Beverly, Massachusetts to commission a new musical based on the Civil War legend of Tom Dooley. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Phillips Collection
Washington, DC
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the touring exhibition Georgia O'Keeffe: The Real Meaning of Things, and an accompanying catalogue. Co-organized with the Dallas Museum of Art, the exhibition will be the first in-depth exploration of the artist's unique contribution to still-life. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Ploughshares, Inc.
Boston, MA
$11,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the publication and national circulation of two issues of Ploughshares to 6,000 readers across the country. The Winter 2000 issue will be guest-edited by Madison Smartt Bell and Elizabeth Spires; Paul Muldoon will guest-edit the second issue, to be published in Spring 2000. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Poetry in Review Foundation, Inc. (Parnassus: Poetry in Review)
New York, NY
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the publication of a special 25th anniversary issue of Parnassus: Poetry in Review focusing on international poetry. This issue will emphasize Middle Eastern poetry and feature retrospective essays on poets such as Miroslav Holub and Anna Akhmatova. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Portland Art Museum (Northwest Film Center)
Portland, OR
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the Northwest Film and Video Festival, an animation series, and a program featuring work produced through the Western States Regional Fellowship Program. These curated events will tour throughout the Northwest to Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, Montana, British Columbia, and some other sites within the United States. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Radio Bilingue, Inc.
Fresno, CA
$80,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Folk & Traditional Arts
To support the Viva el Mariachi! Festival, a two-day celebration designed to celebrate and preserve mariachi music. The concert will be broadcast over numerous affiliated radio stations in several Western states. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Regents of the University of California at Los Angeles
(Fowler Museum of Cultural History)
Los Angeles, CA
$38,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the publication of a catalogue to accompany a major national touring exhibition entitled Ways of the Rivers which will explore the arts of the Niger Delta region in sub-Saharan Africa. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Robert W. Woodruff Arts Center, Inc. (Atlanta Symphony Orchestra) (Consortium)
Atlanta, GA
$85,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a consortium project to include performances, related educational and outreach activities, and a national radio broadcast in a tribute to the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Consortium members of this 1998-99 project include: Robert W. Woodruff Arts Center/Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Morehouse College, and National Public Radio (NPR). (National/Multi-State Impact)

Robert W. Woodruff Arts Center, Inc. (High Museum of Art)
Atlanta, GA
$28,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the touring exhibition John Twachtman: An American Impressionist, with an accompanying catalogue and education programs. As the artist's first retrospective in over 30 years, the exhibition will emphasize new scholarship and highlight lesser-known works that have recently been re-discovered. (National/Multi-State Impact)

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
San Francisco, CA
$95,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the touring exhibition Sol Lewitt: A Retrospective, with an accompanying catalogue and public programs. The exhibition will survey the artist's 40-year career and will include his three-dimensional structures and wall drawings as well as works on paper, artist's books, drawings, and photographs. (National/Multi-State Impact)

San Jose Museum of Art Association
San Jose, CA
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the planning and catalogue for the traveling exhibition Parallels and Intersections, an exhibition of work by California women artists. The exhibition will travel to Washington, D.C.; Santa Monica, California; and several other venues around the country. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Santa Monica Museum of Art
Santa Monica, CA
$6,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support a traveling exhibition of the work of American artist Jim Isermann (b. 1955) with accompanying education programs. The exhibition will travel to Houston; Denton, Texas; Greensboro, North Carolina, and Philadelphia. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Sarabande Books, Inc.
Louisville, KY
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support production, promotion, and related expenses, including authors' royalties, for volumes in Sarabande Books's Three Faces of Eve publishing project. Designed to highlight the work of emerging women writers, the project will include books by Kathleen Halme, Cathleen Calbert, and Becky Hagenstorm. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Scribe Video Center, Inc.
(as fiscal agent for Legacy Productions, Inc.)
Philadelphia, PA
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support research, development, and production of a documentary film on the African-American artist Elizabeth Catlett Mora, by the filmmaker Juanita Anderson. Intended for national broadcast and educational distribution, the program will be filmed at locations throughout the United States and Mexico. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Sioux City Symphony Orchestra Association
Sioux City, IA
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support outreach concerts in conjunction with educational residencies by the Sioux City Symphony in neighboring communities in the tri-state region of Iowa, Nebraska, and South Dakota. During 1998-99, the Symphony will collaborate with local community centers, schools, churches, and educational institutions and perform ten concerts, five in the winter and five in the summer. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Social Media Productions
New York, NY
$75,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support research and development, scripting, and pre-production of a three-part documentary television series about 19th century American music, intended for national broadcast. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Society of North American Goldsmiths
Tampa, FL
$18,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Visual Arts
To support publication of four issues of the Society's magazine, Metalsmith. To be published quarterly in 1999, Metalsmith is devoted to aesthetic, technical, critical, and historical aspects of metalsmithing. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation
New York, NY
$22,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support a touring exhibition of the work of Italian-born, New York-based artist Francesco Clemente (b. 1952), with accompanying education programs. A mid-career retrospective, this will be the first comprehensive exhibition in the United States of Clemente's work. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Sound Portraits Productions, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the production of two radio documentaries by David Isay. Created for National Public Radio's All Things Considered, these programs will focus on people who live on the edge of society. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Soundprint Media Center, Inc.
Laurel, MD
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the production and distribution of newly commissioned documentaries for Soundprint, a weekly radio series which presents the art of the radio documentary to national audiences through broadcast and the Internet. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Storefront for Art and Architecture
New York, NY
$40,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Design
To support a re-development plan for an urban community in East Detroit. The master plan project, entitled Home: Made in Detroit: In Search of Labor, Education, and Housing, will be drafted by artists and designers in a collaborative effort among the University of Detroit Mercy School of Architecture, Storefront, Cranbrook Academy of Art, and representatives of specific neighborhoods in this four square mile area. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Story Line Press, Inc.
Brownsville, OR
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the publication, promotion, and national distribution of anthologies featuring contemporary American poetry. Scheduled titles include The Story Line Anthology of Cowboy Poetry and The Forms of Poetry: A Contemporary Handbook. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Stuart Pimsler Dance & Theater
Columbus, OH
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the expansion of Out of this World/The Life After Project in new communities throughout the United States. Sites for the project include the University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida; University of North Carolina, Pembroke, North Carolina; and Walton Arts Center, Fayetteville, Arkansas. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Studio Museum in Harlem, Inc.
New York, NY
$42,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the touring exhibition African-American Artists and American Modernism and an accompanying catalogue. The project will celebrate the museum's 30th anniversary while assessing the contributions of 20th-century African-American artists to the American Modernist movement. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Sylvan House, Inc.
Orange, CT
$250,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support Broadway: The American Musical, a six-part television series on the history of this American art form, intended for national PBS broadcast. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Symphony Space, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story, including the presentation of ten evenings of live readings and the production and national distribution of new radio programs. The series, which is aired by nearly 150 NPR stations, presents leading stage and screen actors reading both classic and contemporary fiction by established and emerging authors of diverse cultures. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Tears of Joy Theatre
Vancouver, WA
$8,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Theater
To support the development, production, and tour of a new play based on Australian Aboriginal tales. Tears of Joy Theatre will develop Singing Our Way Home -- a Journey through Australian Dreamtime using puppetry, movement, and music and it will be performed as part of the theater's Family Series and Theatre Adventures Programs. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Tennessee Botanical Gardens & Fine Arts Center, Inc.
Nashville, TN
$48,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support the traveling exhibition and catalogue entitled The Art of William Edmondson. This exhibition will be the first retrospective of this artist and first time these 40 sculptures have been assembled to travel around the country. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Tennessee Dance Theatre
Nashville, TN
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support a tour for two dance workshops and a performance of Cissy Welcome's Shimmy- She-Wobble. The workshops and performance will take place in Senatobia, Mississippi. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Theatreworks/USA Corporation
New York, NY
$47,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Musical Theater
To support the national tours of two new musicals throughout urban and rural areas of 22 states and the District of Columbia. Theatreworks/USA will produce and tour Gold Rush and Lyle, Lyle Crocodile for young people nationwide and in the process will build musical theater audiences for the future. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Thomas A. Edison Media Arts Consortium
Jersey City, NJ
$12,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the 1999 Black Maria Film and Video Festival and its multi-state tour. Over 50 organizations throughout the United States host the festival each year. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Threepenny Review
Berkeley, CA
$12,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support authors' fees and promotional costs for four 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 75,000 readers in the Midwest and the South. (National/Multi-State Impact)

UBW, Inc. (Urban Bush Women)
New York, NY
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
To support the creation and presentation of a new work. Urban Bush Women's Artistic Director Jawole Willa Jo Zollar will collaborate with David Murray, jazz composer and performer, and the work will tour to several sites in the United States. (National/Multi-State Impact)

University of Alaska at Anchorage
Anchorage, AK
$7,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support publication expenses and related costs for a special issue of Alaska Quarterly Review featuring fiction and essays written in the first person. "One Blood: The Narrative Impulse" will include work by 30 writers and be distributed nationally by B. DeBoer and Ingram Periodicals. (National/Multi-State Impact)

University of Arizona (Center for Creative Photography)
Tucson, AZ
$55,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support The Garry Winogrant Game of Photography: Obsession, Chance, Mastery, a touring exhibition, catalogue, and education programs. The project will bring together a team of scholars and curators to reassess the contributions of this influential artist. (National/Multi-State Impact)

University of Hawaii at Manoa
Honolulu, HI
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support publication, promotion, distribution, and related expenses for issues of Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing. Scheduled issues will feature new writing from Singapore, Indonesia, Australia, Korea, and Japan; and include poetry and prose by American writers from diverse cultural backgrounds. (National/Multi-State Impact)

University of Massachusetts at Amherst (Consortium)
Amherst, MA
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a consortium project of performances, a commission from Lee Hyla, and tour by the Lydian String Quartet to five states in New England. This 1998-2000 commissioning and touring project will include educational outreach activities. (National/Multi-State Impact)

University of Massachusetts at Boston
Boston, MA
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support production costs and related expenses for volumes of fiction and poetry by Vietnamese veterans and survivors of the Vietnam-American War published by the University of Massachusetts Press. Projected titles include translations of Nguyen Quang Sang's Chiec Luoc Nga (An Ivory Comb) and an anthology of short stories by contemporary Vietnamese women writers. (National/Multi-State Impact)

University of Missouri at Kansas City
Kansas City, MO
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the production of radio programs featuring minority writers for the nationally broadcast radio series, New Letters on the Air, and the publication of work by writers featured on the radio show in the literary magazine, New Letters. The organization also will produce a Minority Voices Reading Series featuring writers such as Garrett Hongo and Gloria Naylor. (National/Multi-State Impact)

University of Nebraska at Lincoln
Lincoln, NE
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support publication costs and related expenses, including translators' fees, for works of international fiction and literary nonfiction published by the University of Nebraska Press. Scheduled titles include translations of Patrick Chamoiseau's Antan d'enfance, Edouard Glissant's Le quatrime siecle, Maryse Conde's Pays Mele, suivi de Nanna-ya, and Raymond Queneau's Contes et propos. (National/Multi-State Impact)

University of New Orleans Foundation
New Orleans, LA
$35,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the production and national distribution of American Routes, a weekly radio series from New Orleans devoted to the roots of popular music. (National/Multi-State Impact)

University of Pittsburgh Main Campus
Pittsburgh, PA
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the production and promotion of books in the University of Pittsburgh Press Pitt Poetry Series. Proposed titles include new collections of poetry by Billy Collins, Alicia Suskin Ostriker, Minnie Bruce Pratt, Michael Walleghen, and Dean Young. (National/Multi-State Impact)

University of South Carolina at Columbia (University of South Carolina Press)
Columbia, SC
$15,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the publication and promotion of volumes in the James Dickey Contemporary Poetry Series. Selected and edited by Richard Howard, titles in the poetry series will be promoted through national advertising, author readings, the distribution of advance review copies, and a direct mail campaign targeting members of the Modern Language Association and the Academy of American poets. (National/Multi-State Impact)

University of South Florida (Contemporary Art Museum)
Tampa, FL
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support a touring exhibition of the work of the contemporary Dutch artist Joep van Lieshout, with an accompanying catalogue and education programs. (National/Multi-State Impact)

WBEZ Alliance, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$85,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support production and national distribution costs of the weekly one-hour radio series This American Life, hosted by Ira Glass. Broadcast on 253 public radio stations throughout the United States, the series presents commissioned stories about contemporary American life by writers, performers and radio producers.
(National/Multi-State Impact)

Weir Farm Heritage Trust
Wilton, CT
$7,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support a traveling exhibition of the work of American artist J. Alden Weir, with an accompanying catalogue. The exhibition will explore Weir's contributions to American Impressionism and the influence of his country home on his work. (National/Multi-State Impact)

West Virginia Public Radio
Charleston, WV
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the production and national broadcast of the radio series Mountain Stage. This weekly two-hour program, which presents contemporary music and traditional roots performers, is distributed by Public Radio International to more than 100 stations throughout the United States. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Western Michigan University
Kalamazoo, MI
$10,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the publication, promotion, and distribution of books by emerging writers in the New Issues Press Poetry Series. Dedicated to publishing first books of poetry, the press will publish volumes selected by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Philip Levine and other distinguished writers. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Western Wind Vocal Ensemble, Inc.
New York, NY
$9,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a commissioned work from Bobby McFerrin for the Western Wind Vocal Ensemble. This 1998-99 project will include a weeklong workshop with Mr. McFerrin and the Ensemble and several performances of the new work. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian
Santa Fe, NM
$12,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Museum
To support an exhibition of Pueblo Indian figurative ceramics, with an accompanying catalogue and documentary video. The exhibition will present figurines made in Pueblo communities as early as 1880 as well as contemporary work. (National/Multi-State Impact)

WHYY, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$50,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the production and national broadcast of the radio series Fresh Air with Terry Gross. This award-winning daily journal of contemporary arts, culture, and issues is broadcast on 213 public radio stations and is heard by 2.2 million people each week. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Women Make Movies
(as fiscal agent for Oren Rudavsky Productions)
New York, NY
$30,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the post-production costs for a documentary film by Oren Rudavsky and Judy Katz. The film, which is intended for national distribution and broadcast, will focus on a group of women who are trying to become mothers. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Women's Philharmonic (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$75,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support a consortium project of ten commissions and premier performances of the new works by the Women's Philharmonic, the American Composers Orchestra, and The Lubbock Symphony. Entitled Fanfares, this two-year project will result in the creation of ten new works by American women composers and multiple performances around the country. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company (Consortium)
Washington, DC
$63,500
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Musical Theater
To support a consortium for the collaborative commission, workshop and joint premiere of a new musical. Woolly Mammoth Theatre of Washington, D.C., the Illusion Theatre of Minneapolis, and the Empty Space Theatre of Seattle propose the collaborative development and production of Punch In America, with book and lyrics by Jon Klein and music and lyrics by Chris Jeffries. (National/Multi-State Impact)

World Music Productions
Brooklyn, NY
$25,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Media Arts
To support the production and national distribution of the weekly public radio series, Afropop Worldwide. The series, which showcases the musical cultures of Africa, the Caribbean, and the Americas, is distributed by Public Radio International to 99 stations in the United States, and by the Voice of America throughout Africa. National/Multi-State Impact)

Yale University (Yale Review)
New Haven, CT
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support authors' payments, editorial expenses, and related costs for issues of the Yale Review. Founded in 1911, the literary magazine is distributed to 1,200 libraries and 300 bookstores across the country. (National/Multi-State Impact)

YMCA of the USA
Chicago, IL
$60,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Literature
To support the Writer's Voice National Readings Tour, which will bring distinguished writers to YMCA Writers Voice Centers throughout the country, and the Writer's Community, a program which places poets and writers in long-term residencies at local YMCA Centers. The National Readings Tour will feature 40 writers reading to audiences in communities such as Savannah, Georgia; Bangor, Maine; Voorhees, New Jersey; Bellingham, Washington; Las Vegas, Nevada; Miami, Florida; Tampa, Florida; Billings, Montana; and Silver Bay, New York. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Young Concert Artists, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the presentation of recitals and concerto debuts by young musicians who are winners of the annual Young Concert Artists' Auditions. This 1998-99 project will feature five concerts in New York and three concerts in Washington, D.C. (National/Multi-State Impact)

Zeitgeist
St. Paul, MN
$5,000
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Music
To support the commission, development/rehearsal, and performances of a new musical work that will include significant theatrical elements. During 1998 through 2000, composer Jerome Kitzke will be commissioned to create the new work; it will be developed during a series of rehearsal residencies in St. Paul and presented in the Twin Cities and by The Wagon Train Project in Lincoln, Nebraska. (National/Multi-State Impact)

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