2003 Grant Awards: State Listings

Creativity/Organizational Capacity/Literature Fellowships
Leadership Initiatives

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

CALIFORNIA

(BAVC) Bay Area Video Coalition, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$25,000
To support the Videomaker Awards and the Artist-in-Residence Program. These programs will provide independent video artists and producers with critical technical assistance and the resources they need to finish their projects.

About Productions
Los Angeles, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$8,000
To support continued development and performances of By the Hand of the Father. This interdisciplinary theater work combines spoken word, music and video in a non-linear format to dramatize the distinct 20th century journey of the Mexican-American father.

Advaita Society (Kala Institute)
Berkeley, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$13,000
To support the Artist-in-Residence Fellowship Program. Artists will be provided with a stipend and 24 hour access for a six-month period to this 8,500 square-foot facility.

American Conservatory Theater Foundation
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$38,000
To support the world premiere production of a new play by Chay Yew. Night for Day will be the first piece to emerge from a series of commissions of Asian-American artists intended to extend the theater's reach into the Bay Area's Asian-American community.

American Film Institute Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$25,000
To support the Directing Workshop for Women. Each year, the program provides individuals with the necessary skills and portfolio to enter the directing field.

Arpana Dance Company
Irvine, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk & Traditional Arts
$7,000
To support the creation of a new work, Life as a River. Through the traditional dance form of Bharata Natyam, this work will present the essence of prose, poetry, legend and music referencing the River Ganga.

Arroyo Arts Collective
Los Angeles, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$6,000
To support Poetry in the Windows, a project to display multilingual poetry posters along a major commercial corridor in Los Angeles. The collective will distribute 1,000 brochures describing the featured poems and reach an estimated audience of 15,000 people during June of 2003.

Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
$75,000
To support the exhibition Arts of the Goryeo Dynasty, with accompanying catalog and education programs.

Aunt Lute Foundation
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$15,000
To support the publication and promotion of an anthology of 20th-century U.S. women writers. Writers featured in the anthology will conduct readings around the country of their own work and work of earlier U.S. women writers who influenced them.

Axis Dance Company
Oakland, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$15,000
To support the creation of a work for dancers with and without disabilities by choreographer Ann Carlson. The work will become part of AXIS Dance Company's touring repertory, and also will become part of a national, physically integrated dance tour.

Berkeley Repertory Theatre
Berkeley, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$60,000
To support the production of a new theater work. The Continental Divide by David Edgar is a pair of new plays about the contradictions in the U.S. politics of the late 20th century.

Berkeley Symphony Orchestra
Berkeley, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$25,000
To support the creation and presentation of a secular oratorio by Kurt Rohde. The work, Bitter Harvest (a love story), scheduled to be premiered in the spring of 2004, will explore the psychological roots of racial prejudice among American farmers.

Brava! for Women in the Arts
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$14,000
To support a large-scale outdoor collaborative theatrical production. Using traditional and experimental forms, Entre Vivos y Muertos, entre La Tierra y el Cielo will be created for the annual Day of the Dead activities in San Francisco's Mission District.

Cabrillo Music Festival
Santa Cruz, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$10,000
To support a new music conductor training program. The summer 2003 professional development program will partner with the Conductors Guild to provide 20 conductors with training opportunities.

CalArts (California Institute of the Arts)
Valencia, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$25,000
To support REDCAT InterArts. The new project will comprise five residencies by innovative artistic teams from a range of disciplines.

California College of Arts and Crafts
Oakland, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$35,000
To support artists residencies and other activities on the 20th anniversary of Capp Street Project. Artists such as Ann Veronica Janssens, Mike Kelley and Roni Horn will create new work while in residence; an accompanying catalog, symposium and public programs are planned.

California Lawyers for the Arts, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Organizational Capacity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$40,000
To support the expansion of ArtHouse. The program will provide workshops and Web-based resources on how to develop affordable space for arts organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area and Southern California.

California Newsreel (Resolution, Inc.)
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$25,000
To support the television series Africa in the Picture. Resolution, working with PBS Plus, will package and present three African feature films during February 2003.

California State University Sacramento Trust Foundation
(on behalf of Festival of New American Music)
Sacramento, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$15,000
To support the Festival of New American Music that will focus on many facets of new American music. The annual festival will be held on the California State University Sacramento campus and at various community venues.

California Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Pleasant Hill, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$10,000
To support the Young American Composer-in-Residence Program (YACR). The 18-month residency program in 2003 and 2004 will include recorded reading sessions, commissions and premieres of three new works, and pre-concert discussions.

CDDC (Chhandam Chitresh Das Dance Company)
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$10,000
To support a collaboration between two Bengali artists, dancer/ choreographer Chitresh Das and Paris-based painter Shahabuddin. The project will expand upon a work-in-progress performance presented in 2001.

Center for the Study of Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
$50,000
To support the City Projects film series. The series will examine Los Angeles' reaction to the built environment.

Cine Accion
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$10,000
To support the Cine Latino Film Festival. Over 90 films will be presented to an estimated audience of 5,000 people.

Cohen, Nancy
Sherman Oaks, CA
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$20,000
Recipient, 2002 Creative Writing Fellowship (Poetry).

Contemporary Arts Educational Project, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$20,000
To support the publication and promotion of six plays by contemporary American playwrights as part of the Green Integer series. Scheduled playwrights include Kelly Stuart, Pedro Pietri, Fiona Templeton, John O'Keefe, Mac Wellman and Naomi Iizuka.

Cornerstone Theater Company
Los Angeles, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$50,000
To support the Black AIDS: Black Faith Project. A collaboration with African-American clergy and African-Americans affected by HIV/AIDS will result in the creation and production of a new play.

Creative Growth, Inc.
Oakland, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$15,000
To support a publication documenting the work of the artist Donald Mitchell. Mitchell has been producing work since 1976 at Creative Growth, an arts center dedicated to working with artists with physical, mental and developmental disabilities.

Dancers' Group (on behalf of Robert Moses' KIN)
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new work. The piece will be the first part in a series of new works that looks at man's inhumanity to man, and will continue the choreographer's exploration of religion and spirituality.

Day, Swing, Grave Productions
Culver City, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$20,000
To support production and post-production costs for a documentary film by Meena Nanji and Amie Williams. View Through a Grain of Sand will examine the lives of three women refugees from Afghanistan now living in Pakistan.

Dell'Arte, Inc.
Blue Lake, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$20,000
To support the national tour of two original theater works and residencies comprised of workshops and community activities. Dell'Arte Company will present Second Skin and Pirates to audiences in major urban areas, rural community centers, universities and to other ensemble-based theaters.

Djerassi Resident Artists Program
Woodside, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$35,000
To support one-month residencies for American artists. The project will provide studios, living accommodations, meals and professional support for media artists, visual artists, writers, choreographers and composers.

East Bay Center for the Performing Arts (on behalf of Latino Arts Network of CA)
Richmond, CA
CATEGORY: Organizational Capacity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$25,000
To support the Arts and Technology Services program. Consultants will work with 12 mid-sized California cultural centers to integrate digital technologies into their programs and operations.

Encore Theatre Compa
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$7,000
To support the commission, workshop and production of a new play by Adam Bock. The work, tentatively titled Thursday, will make use of an associative narrative structure to explore the question of: How do repeated images create story?

EWP (East-West Players)
Los Angeles, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$35,000
To support the theater's comprehensive education program. Scholarships and membership subsidies will be provided on a competitive basis to make the programs more accessible to emerging artists from underrepresented Asian Pacific communities.

Exploratorium
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$35,000
To support the commissioning of up to six new works. The commissioned pieces will be integral to two museum initiatives in science and education.

Film Arts Foundation (on behalf of Manning Sax Productions)
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$25,000
To support production and post-production costs for a one-hour film by Erin Sax and Caitlin Manning. The Prison Show is about a 20-year-old call-in radio program that reaches inmates in Texas prisons and the community that has formed around the show.

Film Arts Foundation
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$55,000
To support the Masters Project. Designed to assist mid-career media artists, the program will offer special workshops and seminars as well exhibition opportunities.

Film Arts Foundation (on behalf of Suzan Pitt Films)
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$25,000
To support the production of a narrative animated film by Suzan Pitt. El Doctor is the story of a very old doctor whose views are transformed when a fictional saint visits him.

Film Arts Foundation (on behalf of 3 Dogs Productions)
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$25,000
To support the post-production costs for an experimental documentary film by Naomi Uman. Mala Leche will examine the life of an immigrant family living in the small agricultural town of Pixley, California.

Film Arts Foundation (on behalf of Flower Films and Video)
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$20,000
To support the post-production costs for a documentary by Les Blank. White Feathers, Black Bones is about the life and vision of David Hoffman, an American tea importer.

Film Arts Foundation
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$60,000
To support the Ninth Street Media Arts Consortium. Four media arts organizations, all housed in the same building, will share resources, staff and facilities that serve media artists and audiences.

Film Arts Foundation (on behalf of CineMamas Productions)
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$20,000
To support post-production costs for a one-hour documentary by Victoria Funari. Maquilopolis will profile women workers in Tijuana's assembly factories.

Film Institute of Northern California (on behalf of the Mill Valley Film Festival)
Mill Valley, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$5,000
To support a curated film series. Cinema Africa, Wild Stories will take place during the 26th Mill Valley Film Festival.

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
$100,000
To support the traveling exhibition Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya, with accompanying catalog and education programs.

Foothill Theatre Company
Nevada City, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$8,000
To support the premiere production of P.J. Barry's Bad Axe. The theater previously presented a staged reading of the work as a part of their New Voices of the Wild West series.

Gregorek, Jerzy
Santa Monica, CA
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$10,000
To support the translation from Polish of selected peoms by Maurycy Szmel. Gregorek will collaborate with his wife, Aniela Gregorek.

Headlands Center for the Arts
Sausalito, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$45,000
To support the U.S. Artists-in-Residence Program and associated public programs. The project will provide three-month residences for up to 30 artists.

Idris Ackamoor & Cultural Odyssey
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$23,000
To support the First Contact II initiative. The program will offer career development services for young emerging performance artists and the presentation of two weekends of performances.

Independent Eye, Ltd.
Sebastopol, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$10,000
To support the production of a radio series by Conrad Bishop and Elizabeth Fuller. Hitchhiking Off the Map will combine documentary and drama techniques to explore transformations in people's lives.

Independent Feature Project/West
Beverly Hills, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$10,000
To support the Los Angeles Film Festival. Over 100 films including dramatic features, documentaries and short films will be presented to an anticipated audience of 30,000 people.

Indo-American Cultural Center
Venice, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$10,000
To support the enhancement and expansion of current artist services. Components of the project will include the Artwallah festival of visual arts, a mentoring program and the commissioning of 10 new projects on the South Asian diasporic experience.

Intersection for the Arts (on behalf of Summerfest/dance)
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$10,000
To support the presentation of the 12th annual summer series. The project will include work by Bay Area choreographers at the Cowell Theater.

Intersection for the Arts (on behalf of Campo Santo)
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$7,000
To support the development and production of a new play. True Cross is the third play in a triptych written specifically for Campo Santo by writer Denis Johnson.

Intersection for the Arts
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$10,000
To support the presentation and promotion of writers' residencies in San Francisco. Proposed artists include bell hooks, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Dave Eggers and Ruben Martinez.

Japanese American National Museum
Los Angeles, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
$33,000
To support the planning of an exhibition of the work of Japanese American photographer Toyo Miyatake (1895-1979).

Jazz In Flight
Oakland, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$10,000
To support the Eddie Moore Jazz Festival. The 14th annual Festival will be held over two weekends in August 2003 at various venues in Oakland and Emeryville, California.

Jazz Tap Ensemble Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$10,000
To support Jazz Tap Ensemble: The Next Generation II. Artistic Director Lynn Dally will mentor the choreographic development of young artists.

Joe Goode Performance Group
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by Artistic Director Joe Goode. Folk will focus on the lives of rural Americans and will be set to music inspired by Celtic music and early blue grass.

Kitchen Sisters Productions
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$60,000
To support the production of Lost & Found Sound & Beyond, a collection of new radio stories by Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva. Exploring American life through recorded sound, the works will be aired on National Public Radio's All Things Considered.

Kitka, Inc.
Oakland, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$40,000
To support the development, recording, songbook publication, presentation and national tour of a holiday concert. Wintersongs is a collection of rarely performed traditional, contemporary and original seasonal vocal music from a variety of Eastern European ethnic and spiritual traditions.

Kronos Performing Arts Association
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$50,000
To support commissioning and residency activities in celebration of Kronos Quartet's 30th anniversary season. Activities include a call for scores from composers under the age of 30, the commissioning of a new work and a collaboration with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company.

Kuumbwa Jazz Society
Santa Cruz, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$10,000
To support creation and presentation of a new work by pianist/composer Rebeca Mauleon including residency activities. The new work, performed with her five-piece Afro-Caribbean ensemble and special guests, will be premiered in the fall of 2003.

La Jolla Playhouse
La Jolla, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$35,000
To support the commission, development and production of a new adaptation of William Wycherly's The Country Wife. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel will create a unique contemporary stage adaptation of the classic Restoration drama.

La Pocha Nostra
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$15,000
To support the creation and U.S. presentation of EX-CENTRIS. This series of performance installations will be directed by Guillermo Gomez-Pena at sites in the U.S., Spain and England.

LINES Contemporary Ballet
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by Artistic Director Alonzo King. The piece will be based on folk music from the American South and will premiere at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Society, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$22,500
To support a commission and premiere of a work for chamber orchestra by composer-in-residence designate Pierre Jalbert. The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra will perform the work at the Alex Theatre in Glendale and Royce Hall on the campus of the University of California-Los Angeles.

Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$20,000
To support the commission and exhibition of a site-specific public artwork by Maria Elena Gonzalez. Gonzalez will build and install Magic Carpet/Home during a residency by working with members of a public housing complex in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles.

Los Angeles County Arts Commission
Los Angeles, CA
CATEGORY: Organizational Capacity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Local Arts Agencies
$42,000
To support an arts-marketing workshop and small grant program. The marketing training session will be open to Southern California artists and arts organizations of all genres, and will qualify participants to apply for a marketing implementation grant.

Los Angeles Master Chorale Association
Los Angeles, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$10,000
To support performances of Handel's Messiah by the Los Angeles Master Chorale and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. The collaborative project will be directed by music director Grant Gershon and presented at UCLA's Royce Hall and the Alex Theatre in Glendale.

Los Angeles Master Chorale Association
Los Angeles, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$18,000
To support three final concerts by the Los Angeles Master Chorale at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion prior to its move to the Walt Disney Hall. Performances will include an early American a cappella work by William Billings, Rezos by Tania Leon, Tangos by Astor Piazzola and The Desert Music by Steven Reich.

Los Angeles Philharmonic Association
Los Angeles, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$90,000
To support world premieres of commissioned works by John Adams, Tan Dun, Liza Lim, Magnus Lindberg, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Steven Stucky. The project will include educational and outreach activities focusing on the project's programming themes.

Magic Theatre, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$16,000
To support the development and production of a new work. Zacharia Mosley's Neon Blues, by Neena Beber, will be presented in the spring of 2003.

Margaret Jenkins Dance Studio, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$15,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by Margaret Jenkins. Delay 2 will premiere during the company's 30th anniversary season.

Mark Taper Forum
Los Angeles, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$55,000
To support the world premiere of a full-length play written and performed by Culture Clash. The Mark Taper Forum will present Chavez Ravine, a play about a Los Angeles family and the impact of city politics on its destiny.

McDaniel, Jeffrey B.
Los Angeles, CA
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$20,000
Recipient, 2002 Creative Writing Fellowship (Poetry).

Meads, Kathy A.
Ben Lomond, CA
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$20,000
Recipient, 2002 Creative Writing Fellowship (Poetry).

Media Arts Center San Diego
San Diego, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$10,000
To support the tenth San Diego Latino Film Festival. The films and videos exhibited must be produced by Latinos or be about the Latino experience.

Mills College
Oakland, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$7,500
To support the presentation of four concerts by the Center for Contemporary Music. Guest composers/performers Mark Trayle and Myra Melford, and composers Lois Vierk and James Tenney, will participate in performances of their work.

Montalvo Association
Saratoga, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$12,000
To support the installation of a large outdoor sculpture by Patrick Dougherty. The artist will work with community volunteers during a three-week residency to realize the site-specific work of woven and twisted tree saplings.

Monterey Jazz Festival
Monterey, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$25,000
To support the 2003 Monterey Jazz Festival at the Monterey County Fairgrounds. Three key components of the festival are a commissioned work to be premiered at the festival, artists in residence and performances by emerging jazz musicians.

Mount Saint Mary's College (on behalf of Da Camera Society)
Los Angeles, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$17,500
To support Chamber Music in Historic Sites, a series of chamber music concerts to be presented by the Da Camera Society. Taking place during 2003-04, the concerts match musical programs from a variety of cultures and periods with sites of architectural and historical significance in the Los Angeles area.

Museum Associates (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
Los Angeles, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
$60,000
To support the touring exhibition Geometry of Innocence: Objects + Systems + Concepts, 1940s 1970s, with accompanying catalog.

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
$55,000
To support the touring exhibition A Minimal Future: Art as Object 1958-1968, with accompanying catalog.

Musical Traditions, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$10,000
To support a collaborative commissioning and performance project with the Russian ensemble Opus Posth. The Paul Dresher Ensemble and Opus Posth will participate in a 2003 mini-festival featuring the premiere of new works.

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

National Association of Latino Independent Producers, Inc.
Santa Monica, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$15,000
To support the Annual National Conference targeted to Latino film and video producers. Through plenary sessions, hands-on workshops, seminars, exhibits and screenings, the event explores the state of the industry and technology for Latino media makers.

National Circus Center
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$25,000
To support the creation, production and touring of an original circus piece. The New Pickle Circus, the professional performing company of Circus Center, will create and perform a new holiday show.

NewTown Pasadena Foundation
Altadena, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$10,000
To support the presentation of two public art projects. Who's in Control, Anyway?, an exhibition exploring audience interactivity and Trail Markers 3, will feature site-specific installations and performances.

Oakland Ballet Association, Inc.
Oakland, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$10,000
To support the commission of a new holiday production. The work will be choreographed by Siri Sat Nam Singh.

Oakland East Bay Symphony
Oakland, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$10,000
To support commissions and premieres of new works by American composers. The Oakland East Bay Symphony will perform commissioned works by Jake Heggie, Omar Sosa and Michael Kaulkin, as well as new works by Joshua Feltman and Noah Schwartz.

Oakland Museum of California Foundation
Oakland, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
$80,000
To support a touring retrospective exhibition of the work of contemporary American artist David Ireland, with accompanying catalog.

ODC Theater
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$10,000
To support the first San Francisco International Festival of Contemporary Dance. The Festival will present emerging artists from the San Francisco Bay area and from around the world.

Ojai Festivals, Ltd.
Ojai, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$22,500
To support the Ojai Music Festival. The festival will explore the influence of Pierre Boulez on the music of the 20th century.

Orange County Philharmonic Society
Irvine, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$12,500
To support the co-commission and performance of Terry Riley's Sun Rings, with sound and images from NASA's Voyager missions. Offered as part of the fifth annual Eclectic Orange Festival, the Southern Calif. premiere will be performed by the Kronos Quartet and the Pacific Chorale.

Other Minds
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$10,000
To support the commissioning and presentation of two new works by Rova: Arts Saxophone Quartet members, Jon Raskin and Bruce Ackley. The works will be premiered by the quartet and an ensemble of virtuoso musicians at the Other Minds Festival in San Francisco.

Pacific Chorale
Santa Ana, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$10,000
To support a performance of Antonin Dvorak's Stabat Mater with four vocal soloists and the Pacific Symphony. This large-scale work, to be conducted by the Chorale's music director John Alexander, will be presented at the 3,000-seat Orange County Performing Arts Center.

Pacific Symphony Association
Santa Ana, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$50,000
To support The American Composers Festival: Beyond Category, a performance project showcasing American composer William Bolcolm. Repertoire for the 2003 spring festival will include Bolcolm's Songs of Innocence and Experience.

Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$15,000
To support the presentation of Handel's oratorio Jephtha in September 2003. The Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, under the direction of music director Nicholas McGegan, will give five performances at venues throughout the Bay Area.

Playwrights Foundation, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$7,000
To support the 26th annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival. The festival is a series of staged readings of new work by vanguard regional and national writers.

Poetry Flash
Berkeley, CA
CATEGORY: Organizational Capacity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$10,000
To support the Audience Access Project, providing guidance on how to reach target audiences to literary organizations, presenters, publishers and writers in Calif. The organization will provide outlets for promotion on its Web site and Poetry Flash, a free tabloid of event listings, readings, workshops and calls for submissions.

Public Art Films, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$10,000
To support post-production costs for a documentary film by Tony Silver. Arisman: Facing the Audience is a portrait of Marshall Arisman, a painter, illustrator, sculptor, printmaker and teacher.

Radio Bilingue, Inc.
Fresno, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Folk &Traditional Arts
$46,000
To support the !Viva El Mariachi! Festival. The annual festival showcases local, national and international mariachi groups while providing workshops so that mariachi masters can pass along the rich, musical heritage.

Regents of the University of California at Berkeley (on behalf of Berkeley Art Museum)
Berkeley, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
$25,000
To support the touring exhibition Everything Matters: Paul Kos, A Retrospective, with accompanying catalog and education programs.

Regents of the University of California at Berkeley (on behalf of Cal Performances)
Berkeley, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$30,000
To support the commissioning of work, performances and residency activities of dance companies. The Dance Masters project will include the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and the Mark Morris Dance Group.

Regents of the University of California at Davis
(on behalf of Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts)
Davis, CA
$30,000
To support the New Works/Contemporary Artists project. To build audiences for contemporary work in the region, this project will present productions in conjunction with the opening of the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts.

Regents of the University of California at Los Angeles
(on behalf of Center for Intercultural Performance)
Los Angeles, CA
$35,000
To support the Art of Rice Traveling Theater. The evening-length production with original music, dance and theater will be created by 15 artists of varying disciplines from Asia and the United States during a four-week residency.

Regents of the University of California at Los Angeles
(on behalf of UCLA Hammer Museum)
Los Angeles, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Museum
$85,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of American artist Lee Bontecou (b. 1931), with accompanying catalog.

Regents of the University of California at Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
$35,000
To support a publication and educational outreach project for a Mobile Dwelling Unit. The installation will be explore the conversion of a standard shipping container into a home.

San Diego Opera Association
San Diego, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
$25,000
To support production costs for Therese Raquin by Tobias Picker. Four performances at the San Diego Civic Theatre are expected to reach an audience of more than 9,300 with an additional 2,500 high-school students attending a student dress rehearsal.

San Diego Repertory Theatre
San Diego, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$55,000
To support components of the theater's The Future of the Border/El Futuro de la Frontera project. Playwrights Bernardo Solano and Luis Valdez will work in residency, culminating in the world premiere of Solano's new play Nuestro Pueblo and a workshop of Valdez' Earthquake Sun.

San Francisco Ballet Association
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$80,000
To support the presentation of work. The project will include company premieres of works by George Balanchine and Frederick Ashton, and an evening-length ballet by Mark Morris.

San Francisco Camerawork, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$25,000
To support Off the Grid, an exhibition and catalog featuring artists who reexamine or reject standard photographic techniques. An entire issue of Camerawork: A Journal of Photographic Arts will document the exhibition.

San Francisco Chanticleer, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$25,000
To support the New Music Advisor project. During 2003, composer Jeeyoung Kim will create new work and collaborate with Chanticleer's artistic staff.

San Francisco Cinematheque
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$15,000
To support a curated film/video series. What About Now? New Media Perspectives will focus on experimental work by young and emerging artists from across the United States.

San Francisco Contemporary Music Players
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$10,000
To support world premieres of six commissioned works. The chamber works- by composers Kui Dong, Ellen Harrison, Wendell Logan, Betty Olivero, Shulamit Ran and David Soley- will be performed in California and New England.

San Francisco Film Society
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$10,000
To support the 46th annual San Francisco International Film Festival. The event presents more than 200 films from 50 countries to an audience of 87,000 people.

San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$25,000
To support the Jewish Film Festival and related activities. The festival, devoted to Jewish-subject films, premieres both films and videos by independent producers from around the world.

San Francisco Mime Troupe, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
$27,000
To support the development, production and national tour of an original musical comedy. San Francisco Mime Troupe will premiere a new work that focuses on national or community events in San Francisco and will tour Bay Area parks and venues throughout California.

San Francisco Opera Association
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Opera
$50,000
To support a production of Virgil Thomson's The Mother of Us All, with libretto by Gertrude Stein. Six performances at the War Memorial Opera House in 2003 are expected to reach an audience of more than 17,500.

San Francisco Symphony
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$100,000
To support Wagner, Weill, and the Weimar Republic, a project that will explore the music of Germanic composers. Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas will direct the San Francisco Symphony, the San Francisco Symphony Chorus and guest artists in concerts during the two-week festival.

San Jose Repertory Theatre
San Jose, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$25,000
To support the final development and world premiere production of a new play by Philip Kan Gotanda. Eric Simonson will direct the premiere of The Wind Cries Mary with Gotanda in residence.

Self-Help Graphics &Art, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Visual Arts
$35,000
To support The Life and Death Printmaking Project. The project provides an opportunity for artists to create new work in a collaborative atmosphere with a master printer and to experiment with different techniques in the silkscreen format.

SFJAZZ (San Francisco Jazz Organization)
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$27,500
To support the 21st Annual San Francisco Jazz Festival in 2003. Executive Director Randall Kline will direct the programming of more than 24 events during the two-week festival.

South Coast Repertory, Inc.
Costa Mesa, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$30,000
To support the world premiere production of Lynn Nottage's Intimate Apparel. This play was originally co-commissioned with Center Stage in Baltimore, and its premiere will be a co-production.

Squaw Valley Community of Writers
Nevada City, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$5,000
To support the Screenwriters Program. The workshop is centered on the essence of storytelling and teaches participants how to "show" rather than "tell" their stories.

Stanford Jazz Workshop
Stanford, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Music
$22,500
To support the 2003 Stanford Jazz Festival. The summer festival will feature such artists as Elvin Jones, Ray Brown, Andrew Hill, Harold Mabern Regina Carter, Geri Allen and Branford Marsalis.

Teare, Brian
East Palo Alto, CA
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$20,000
Recipient, 2002 Creative Writing Fellowship (Poetry).

Teatro Vision de San Jose
San Jose, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$15,000
To support the final development and production of a new play. A Song for Miranda, by Latino playwright Jose Cruz Gonzalez, is a commission in a new works initiative entitled the Codices Project.

Theatre Bay Area
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Organizational Capacity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$20,000
To support the development and pilot phase of the Mentoring Initiative. In order to expand the quality and visibility of the Bay Area theater community, this project will craft mentoring partnerships between emerging and established theater companies.

Theatre of Yugen, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$10,000
To support the development and presentation of a new theater work. Noh Frankenstein will be adapted by playwright and director Erik Ehn and performed by the company's ensemble members in the Japanese Noh tradition.

TheatreWorks
Palo Alto, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$25,000
To support the premiere production of a new play. The Legacy Codes by Cherylene Lee will be produced at TheatreWorks in Palo Alto, Calif.

Thomas, Robert W.
S. San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$20,000
Recipient, 2002 Creative Writing Fellowship (Poetry).

Threepenny Review
Berkeley, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$20,000
To support authors' fees and promotional costs for issues of the Threepenny Review. Featuring work by 100 established and emerging writers, the proposed issues will be promoted through a direct mail subscription campaign targeting 100,000 readers.

TNS (The Natural Step)
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Design
$35,000
To support the research and development of a sustainable product design approach and toolkit. Case studies for sustainable product design will be documented and disseminated through a publication and articles in appropriate design journals.

Visual Communication (Southern California Asian American Studies Central, Inc.)
Los Angeles, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$18,000
To support the 18th annual Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film and Video Festival. The event is Southern California's showcase of independent Asian international and Asian-Pacific American film and video work.

Western Alliance of Arts Administrators Foundation
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Organizational Capacity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Presenting
$30,000
To support development of a web platform to improve the efficiency of the Western Alliance's administration and service provision. Through a database-driven Web site, WAA will make its services more accessible to the field, and expedite communications among its members, staff, arts organizations and performing artists.

Western Stage Auxiliary Corporation
Salinas, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$13,000
To support the development and production of an adaptation of Victor Villasenor's epic novel Rain of Gold. The theater will adapt the novel and develop the script through readings and presentations in preparation for its full production.

Willows Theatre Company/The Benefactors
Concord, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Musical Theater
$30,000
To support the commission, development and production of a large-scale outdoor musical. The musical Sacagawea will explore the voyage of discovery of the Lewis &Clark expedition and the relationship between William Clark and the young Indian guide, Sacagawea.

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Multidisciplinary
$30,000
To support residencies for artists of multiple disciplines. Artists in residence in the visual arts, performing arts, film and video will be given the opportunity to develop works and engage in a variety of education and community programs.

Young, Gary
Santa Cruz, CA
CATEGORY: Literature Fellowships FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$20,000
Recipient, 2003 Creative Writing Fellowship (Poetry).

Z Space Studio (on behalf of Afro Solo Theatre Co.)
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$8,000
To support the commission and production of a new hip-hop theater piece. Danny Hoch will direct Flow, a solo performance piece in the form of hip-hop rhymes with choreography by Robert Moses to be produced by the Afro Solo Company.

Z Space Studio
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Theater
$13,000
To support the final development and production of a new play. The Jonestown Project, by playwright Leigh Fondakowski, will premiere in conjunction with the 25th anniversary of the 1978 Jonestown tragedy that occurred in Jonestown, Guyana.

Zaccho SF
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Dance
$10,000
To support the presentation of an evening-length work. Dances Around the House will be created by choreographers Remy Charlip and Joanna Haigood, and will premiere at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

ZeroOne - The Art and Technology Network
Palo Alto, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Media Arts
$60,000
To support the production of a video game artwork by Bill Viola. The Night Journey - An Interactive Artworld is based on the universal story of a mystic's journey through seven different levels towards enlightenment.

ZYZZYVA, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
CATEGORY: Creativity FIELD/DISCIPLINE: Literature
$10,000
To support the publication, promotion and related costs for issues of Zyzzyva, a magazine featuring the work of West Coast writers. Each issue includes approximately 20 writers, one-third of whom have never been in print.

Total Dollars Awarded: $3,746,500
Total Grants Awarded: 145

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