2001 Grant Awards: Creativity

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

Dance | Design | Folk & Traditional Arts | Literature | Local Arts Agencies
Media Arts | Multidisciplinary | Museums | Music | Musical Theater
Opera | Presenting | Theater | Visual Arts

DANCE

171 Cedar Arts Center (One Seventy One Cedar, Inc.) (Consortium)
Corning, NY
$10,000
To support a consortium project for the fifth annual Dance Series. 171 Cedar Arts Center and the Clemens Center will present Garth Fagan Dance, Sean Curran Dance and JAZZDANCE by Danny Buraczeski.

33 Fainting Spells
Seattle, WA
$5,000
To support a biennial festival of new and celebrated work in dance film and video, New Dance Cinema 2001. In partnership with Wiggly World/Northwest Film Forum and On the Boards, the festival will feature the work of choreographers, videographers and filmmakers from across North America and Europe in a four-night program.

Alex Theatre (Alex Regional Theatre Board)
Glendale, CA
$10,000
To support the presentation of four dance companies and related residency activities for local schools and communities. Companies to be presented during Dance at the Alex include: Julio Bocca & Ballet Argentino, Iona Pears Dance Company, Pilobolus and Paul Taylor Dance Company.

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (Dance Theater Foundation, Inc.)
New York, NY
$100,000
To support a United States tour in 2001. The company will perform approximately 95 shows in 30 cities and 16 states across the United States. (Multi-state)

American Ballet Theatre (Ballet Theatre Foundation, Inc.)
New York, NY
$60,000
To support the commissioning, rehearsal and presentation of an original one-act ballet, The Pied Piper, with choreography by David Parsons and a score by composer John Corigliano. The piece is scheduled to premiere at the Detroit Opera House with additional performances at the Metropolitan Opera House. (Multi-state)

American Dance Festival, Inc.
Durham, NC
$60,000
To support the commissioning of a range of modern dance choreographers, as well as presenting historic works in modern dance history. The second and final year of Landmarks and Landscapers in Modern Dance - A Millennial Retrospective/Prospective will include performances and educational outreach activities.

Anchorage Concert Association
Anchorage, AK
$20,000
To support a residency of The Moscow Festival Ballet. The project will include live performances, character dance, classical ballet and dance history classes for two full-length ballets: Don Quixote and Giselle.

Art of the Matter [on behalf of d-net (dance network)]
San Francisco, CA
$5,000
To support the San Francisco Butoh Festival 2001. The Festival will feature: NIBROLL, a Japanese group; Katsura Kan, master Butoh artist from Thailand; and other performances, workshops, master classes and a symposium.

AXIS Dance Company
Oakland, CA
$10,000
To support a dance by choreographer Stephen Petronio for dancers with and without disabilities. The dance will focus on current issues in pop culture including gender, fashion, music and visual arts.

Bailes Flamencos
San Francisco, CA
$5,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new work.

Ballet Concierto de Puerto Rico
San Juan, PR
$10,000
To support the 16th Annual Choreographers Festival. This annual event brings together choreographers from Latin America and the Caribbean to develop new works for Ballet Concierto.

Ballet Hispanico of New York, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support Ballet Hispanico's 30th anniversary project in 2001. The project will include the creation of new ballets, revival of three works and touring engagements across the United States. (Multi-state)

Ballet Memphis
Cordova, TN
$10,000
To support a repertory show entitled Dancing Together II. The company will perform an encore of Trey McIntyre's Second Before the Ground. Rennie Harris Puremovement, a Philadelphia hip hop troupe, will perform a piece from its repertory.

Ballet West
Salt Lake City, UT
$20,000
To support creation of a new work by Lila York, who has worked previously with the company. The new piece will be performed in Salt Lake City's Capitol Theatre.

Bates College (on behalf of the Bates Dance Festival)
Lewiston, ME
$15,000
To support commissioning, presentation, outreach and educational activities for the Bates Dance Festival 2001. Dance artists participating include Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, Rennie Harris Puremovement, Herbin Van Cayseele/Urban Tap and Bebe Miller.

Bebe Miller Company (Gotham Dance, Inc.)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support presentation and touring of a new work and creation and presentation of a related media work. Choreographer Bebe Miller will collaborate with dramaturg Talvin Wilks, composer Hahn Rowe, and visual artist Scott Pask to create the works, which will tour to several states. (Multi-state)

Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company (Foundation for Dance Promotion, Inc.)
New York, NY
$50,000
To support the creation of two works by choreographer Bill T. Jones. These works will be performed to live music in an evening of chamber works.

Boston Ballet, Inc.
Boston, MA
$20,000
To support the creation and staging of a new production by choreographer Christopher Wheeldon. The work will premiere at the Wang Theatre and receive a total of 12 performances.

Broadway Center for the Performing Arts
Tacoma, WA
$10,000
To support presentation of national and local dance companies. The Broadway Center will work with one contemporary dance company, one Latino dance company, and one local African dance troupe to present original works and offer extended residency opportunities in contemporary, classical, Latino and West African dance forms.

Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts at Brooklyn College
(College Community Services, Inc.)
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
To support the World of Dance Series. The series premieres new and emerging artists in dance, as well as folkloric companies from around the world.

Carolina Ballet, Inc.
Raleigh, NC
$5,000
To support a new production of Carmina Burana with choreography by Lynn Taylor-Corbett and the staging of two more of her ballets, Chiaroscuro and Great Galloping Gottschalk. These works will be presented in five performances at the Raleigh Memorial Auditorium.

Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble (New Dance Theatre, Inc.)
Denver, CO
$18,000
To support the commissioning of a work. The Coming of Dawn, a full-evening ballet inspired by two novels from author Octavia Butler, was choreographed by Winifred R. Harris, artistic director of Between Lines, with music by Terri Lynne Carrington and Ed Barguiarena.

Colorado Ballet Company, Inc.
Denver, CO
$5,000
To support a regional tour of Cinderella. The company will present performances in Sterling, Crested Butte and Pueblo, CO.

Colorado Dance Festival, Inc.
Boulder, CO
$25,000
To support dance presentations featuring 70 artists and a variety of activities. Dance styles represented by the companies will include the lindy hop, hip hop, and postmodern dance influenced by social/vernacular dance forms.

Columbia College (on behalf of The Dance Center)
Chicago, IL
DISCIPLINE/FIELD: Dance
$20,000
To support two dance presentation projects. The Dance Center will present DanceAfrica Chicago 2001 and a series of international artists.

Columbia Festival of the Arts (Columbia Festival, Inc.)
Columbia, MD
$10,000
To support a long-term, residency partnership with two companies. Columbia Festival will present the Washington Ballet and the Next Ice Age in performances, open rehearsals, dance and skating workshops and dialogue.

Cuyahoga Community College (Consortium)
Cleveland, OH
$10,000
To support a consortium project presenting the third year of a dance series. Cuyahoga Community College's Office of Cultural Arts and DANCECleveland will offer the Move it Out series for the presentation of Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, Mark Morris Dance Group and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago.

Dallas Black Dance Theatre
Dallas, TX
$15,000
To support works by three choreographers: Donald McKayle, Donald Byrd and Ron Brown. The artists will also teach classes, participate in community outreach activities and make informal presentations that will be documented and later used as part of Dallas Black Dance Theatre's 25th anniversary presentation.

Dance Films Association, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,000
To support the 29th international dance film festival. Dance on Camera Festival 2001 On Tour will take place in California, Colorado, Illinois, Massachusetts, Ohio, Oregon and Utah. Lectures, panels and workshops will accompany the films. (Multi-state)

Dance Place (D.C. Wheel Productions, Inc.)
Washington, DC
$20,000
To support a series of professional performances and residencies by dance artists as part of Dance Place's 21st series. The series will feature a roster of culturally and aesthetically diverse dancers and companies. (Multi-state)

Dance St. Louis
St. Louis, MO
$10,000
To support the commissioning of an original work by the Paul Taylor Dance Company. The work will premiere at the Fox Theatre in St. Louis and include residency activities by the company and Taylor 2.

Dance Theater Workshop, Inc.
New York, NY
$70,000
To support two series, Carnival and TheMainEvent. The Carnival program features the work of artists at various stages of their careers and TheMainEvent will present established mid-career companies.

Dance Umbrella
Austin, TX
$15,000
To support four dance presentations. The Transformation of Spirit series will include a performance by Margie Gillis and a performance by Salia Ni Seydou Company, based in Burkina Faso, West Africa; the Discover Dance series will include a performance by Ballet Folklorico Do Brasil and a performance by 33 Fainting Spells.

Dance Umbrella Boston, Inc.
Boston, MA
$30,000
Boston, MA
To support a series of performances and community outreach activities that will explore the impact of Bill T. Jones's work on the contemporary dance and visual arts communities. The Bill T. Jones Legacy Project will feature performances by the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, as well as the company's former dancers Sean Curran, Heidi Latsky and Larry Goldhuber.

DanceBrazil (Capoeira Foundation, Inc.)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the creation and premiere of two new works. The first work will be based on the early 19th century uprising of enslaved Africans in Brazil who were also followers of Islam, and the other will be based on the ritual of Ogun, one of the gods of the Afro-Brazilian religion of Candomble.

Dancers Collective of Atlanta, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$5,000
To support four dance presentations. The artists include Stephen Petronio Company, The PerksDanceMusicTheatre, Creach/Company and Bebe Miller Company.

David Dorfman Dance (Art Sweats, Inc.)
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the creation and first performances of a new company work. Artistic Director David Dorfman will collaborate with composer Hahn Rowe, set designer Scott Pask, and a video designer to create the piece.

David Gordan/Pick Up Company (Pick Up Performance Company, Inc.)
New York, NY
$15,000
To support artistic and technical fees in the creation and performance of a new work. Choreographed by David Gordon with an original musical score by composer Jeanine Tesori, the piece will be presented for a two-week run at Danspace Project at St. Mark's Church in New York.

Diavolo Dance Theatre
Los Angeles, CA
$5,000
To support staff salaries and artists fees for out-of-state touring. The company will travel to New York, New Jersey, Texas, Kansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois and California. (Multi-state)

Doug Elkins Dance Company (Plam Dancers, Inc.)
New York, NY
$5,000
To support creation of a new work and maintenance of other repertory for presentation in concerts. The new work, titled Crash Comfort, will premiere at the Joyce Theater in New York.

Doug Varone and Dancers (DOVA, Inc.)
New York, NY
$15,000
To support Doug Varone and Dancers' 15th anniversary season at the Joyce Theater in New York. The project will include a new work by Doug Varone to George Antheil's Ballet Mecanique, the reconstruction of two dances, and the presentation of current repertory, as well as creative residencies in New York, Oregon and California. (Multi-state)

Eiko & Koma (Inta, Inc.)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support a collaboration to create an evening of music and dance and a living installation for gallery spaces. Eiko and Koma will collaborate with cellist Joan Jeanrenaud and dancer choreographer Anna Halprin to create a work, and will develop a living installation for presentation in gallery spaces in the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and Dancing in the Streets in New York City. (Multi-state)

Forces of Nature, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,000
To support creation and presentation of a dance theater work. Artistic Director Abdel Salaam will further develop Rhythm Legacy, a work that explores the impact of African sounds and rhythms on movement.

Garth Fagan Dance, Inc.
Rochester, NY
$25,000
To support presentation of new work by Garth Fagan, set to the music of Wynton Marsalis. The piece will be performed with live accompaniment by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra.

Headlong Dance Theater
Philadelphia, PA
$5,000
To support a music/dance collaboration. Headlong Dance Theater will collaborate with sound designer and composer Rick Henderson to revise Story of Panic and create a new work entitled Folk Dances.

Houston Ballet
Houston, TX
$30,000
To support the commissioning and performance of new works. These works include the U.S. premiere of a new version of the classic Firebird by James Kudelka, and a world premiere by Lila York.

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
Chicago, IL
$30,000
To support new works from three artists: an emerging American artist, a mid-career American dance maker, and an international choreographer. The New Works and Residency Program will enable each artist to spend a one-week residency at the company's studios conducting master classes, workshops and/or public classes or lectures.

Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Inc.
Lee, MA
$70,000
To support dance commissions, performances and outreach activities. Artists presented include Urban Bush Women, a Cambodian Project, jazz tap artist Herbin Tamango Van Cayseele, the New Amsterdam Ballet Project, the José Limón Company and a site-specific work by Ann Carlson.

Jazz Tap Ensemble
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
To support a program that pays tribute to the masters of rhythm tap dance. The program will feature new works created for Jazz Tap Ensemble by tap masters Fayard Nicholas, Gregory Hines, Jimmy Slyde, Eddie Brown and Bill Irwin, along with reconstructions of choreography for film by Charles "Honi" Coles, Steve Condos, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Fred Astaire and the Nicholas Brothers.

JAZZDANCE by Danny Buraczeski
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
To support creation and production of a new work. Choreographer Danny Buraczeski will collaborate with composer Philip Hamilton to create Across the Water.

Joe Goode Performance Group
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support collaboration with a composer to create a new piece of dance theater. Joe Goode and composer Beth Custer will create What the Body Knows, based on small incidents in people's lives.

Joffrey Ballet of Chicago, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support the acquisition and revival of four ballets. These ballets include Robert Joffrey's Astarte, Antony Tudor's Lilac Garden, and John Cranko's Taming of the Shrew and Romeo and Juliet.

John Jasperse Company (Thin Man Dance, Inc.)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support presentation of Place in its domestic performances in 2001. The company will present Place at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) and participate in developmental residencies at the Portland Institute for Contemporary Arts, the Frankfurt Ballet and at BAM. (Multi-state)

José Limón Dance Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support remounting of a work by José Limón. Psalm, which premiered in 1967, will be created with new music by Jon Magnussen.

Joyce Theater Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$70,000
To support dance presentation projects at the Joyce Theater. These projects include: The 2001 Altogether Different series, Diavolo, Guangdong Modern Dance Company (China), Ballet Preljocaj (France), Compagnie Josef Nadj (France), Joyce SoHo Presents, Sean Curran Company and Pilobolus Dance Theatre.

Kansas City Ballet Association, Inc.
Kansas City, MO
$10,000
To support production costs and artists' fees for Phase II of the Renard Project. This is an archival/reconstruction effort to produce the Balanchine/Stravinsky ballet Renard.

Li Chiao-Ping Dance, Inc.
Oregon, WI
$5,000
To support the production, presentation and touring of a new work. Venous Flow: States of Grace will be created by Li Chiao-Ping and visual artist Douglas Rosenberg, and will use their auto accident to explore the physical nature of hope and renewal in the face of adversity. (Multi state)

LINES Contemporary Ballet
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support creation of a new work. Artistic Director Alonzo King will create a piece to music by Nzamba Lela, a group of musicians from the Central African Republic.

LINES Contemporary Ballet (on behalf of Yaelisa & Caminos Flamencos)
San Francisco, CA
$5,000
To support a multimedia dance project and gallery installation. The project, choreographed by Yaelisa, incorporates flamenco dance and music, classical music and spoken text with onstage projections of flamenco photography by Lena Herzog.

Liz Lerman Dance Exchange (Dance Exchange, Inc.)
Takoma Park, MD
$20,000
To support Hallelujah, a multi-city initiative to create dances. The project will involve a Web site, video documentation, an artist training institute, travel support for local artists/communities appearing in the production, a gathering of presenter partners, and an overall evaluation. (Multi state)

Los Lupenos De San José, Inc.
San José, CA
$5,000
To support the creation of a new work. Dance and music representing Mexican, Chilean, and Chinese traditions will be woven into a dramatic text based on the legendary Robin Hood figure, Juaquin Murietta.

Louisville Ballet (Kentucky Dance Council)
Louisville, KY
$5,000
To support a program of four works. The program will include Red Rose, by Stephen Mills of Ballet Austin; With Chaplin, by Amy Moore-Morton of Appalachian Ballet Company; Under Paradise, by Sarah Slipper of Oregon Ballet Theater; and Le Spectre de la Rose by Michel Fokine.

María Benitez Teatro Flamenco (Institute for Spanish Arts)
Santa Fe, NM
$20,000
To support the creation and tour of a new work. El Vito, a Spanish folkloric song by Federíco Garcia Lorca, will be choreographed by María Benitez and Antonio Granjero, and tour in New Mexico, Texas, Mississippi and Missouri. (Multi-state)

Merce Cunningham Dance Company (Cunningham Dance Foundation, Inc.)
New York, NY
$90,000
To support the creation of one work and the revival of two works. Merce Cunningham will choreograph the works, which will be presented on a national tour. (Multi-state)

Meredith Monk/The House (House Foundation for the Arts, Inc.)
New York, NY
$30,000
To support residencies and a national tour. Choreographer Meredith Monk and visual artist Ann Hamilton collaborated to create A New Work, which examines the two disciplines of art and science. (Multi-state)

Monte/Brown Dance (E. Monte Motion, Inc.)
New York, NY
$5,000
To support Monte/Brown's 20th anniversary at the Joyce Theater in New York. The project will feature the creation and presentation of a major new collaborative work as well as several revivals, creating a retrospective look at the artistic directors' creative development.

Movement Research, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,000
To support the 9th Improvisation Festival/NY. The festival is a celebration of dance improvisation and will offer performances, classes, workshops, education outreach and panel discussions.

Murray Louis and Nikolais Dance (Nikolais/Louis Foundation for Dance, Inc.)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the creation of two new works by Murray Louis and the revival of several major works from Alwin Nikolais' repertory. These works will be presented at the Joyce Theater in New York.

Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company
Fort Lee, NJ
$5,000
To support creation and presentation of a new dance. Dragons on the Wall will feature a collaboration between choreographer Nai-Ni Chen and poet Bei Dao, with original music by Joan La Barbara.

Nashville Ballet
Nashville, TN
$5,000
To support the creation of a ballet. Artistic Director Paul Vasterling will collaborate with country music artist Hal Ketchum to create a ballet exploring the maturing and aging of a man in a modern society.

National Institute of Flamenco, Inc.
Albuquerque, NM
$5,000
To support commissioning of a piece for New World Flamenco, a national flamenco dance company. Susana Di Palma will choreograph an original flamenco ballet that will tour throughout New Mexico.

National Performance Network, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$70,000
To support 40 dance residencies and related educational activities in over 40 cities throughout the United States. The National Performance Network offers artists a defined system of fee subsidy in order for them to engage in extended residencies in communities. (Multi-state)

New Orleans Ballet Association
New Orleans, LA
$10,000
To support two dance presentations. A Celebration of African American Dance II will feature Garth Fagan Dance and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater.

New York City Ballet, Inc.
New York, NY
$100,000
To support a choreographer to serve as an artist-in-residence. Christopher Wheeldon will create two new ballets, participate in a new choreographic institute, and play an active role in New York City Ballet's education programs, lecture/demonstrations and other outreach activities.

North Carolina Dance Theatre
Charlotte, NC
$10,000
To support commissioning of a new work. Choreographer Mark Diamond will create a new work based on Tennessee Williams' play A Streetcar Named Desire.

Pacific Northwest Ballet Association
Seattle, WA
$50,000
To support the commissioning and world premieres of works by emerging and recognized choreographers, and the acquisition of five ballets. These productions will be part of the Repertory Expansion Project.

Pascal Rioult Dance Theatre (Harmonia Dance, Inc.)
New York, NY
$5,000
To support the creation of two new works by Artistic Director Pascal Rioult. Choreographed to the music of Maurice Ravel, these works will become part of Rioult's Ravel Project.

Pat Graney Performance, Inc.
Seattle, WA
$10,000
To support editing and production of three existing works into one performance. Triptych will consist of former parts of Faith, Sleep and Tattoo, created and directed by Pat Graney.

Paul Taylor Dance Company (Paul Taylor Dance Foundation, Inc.)
New York, NY
$80,000
To support the creation and presentation of work through tandem touring by the Paul Taylor Dance Company and Taylor 2. The tours include education activities, community outreach events and performances. (Multi-state)

Pennsylvania Ballet Association
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
To support creation and presentation of two new ballets. Choreographers Val Caniparoli and Trey McIntyre will each create a world premiere for Pennsylvania Ballet.

Pilobolus, Inc.
Washington, CT
$10,000
To support a new full-company work. The work will premiere during the Olympic games in Salt Lake City as part of the Cultural Olympiad. (Multi-state)

Pittsburgh Dance Council, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
$20,000
To support the presentation of five companies. The companies include Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane and Company, Stephen Petronio Company, Rennie Harris Puremovement, Tango Mujer and the Sean Curran Company.

Prometheus Dance, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
$5,000
To support further creation and presentation of an evening-length dance/theater piece. Apokalypsis, choreographed by Artistic Directors Diane Arvanites-Noya and Tommy Neblett with an original score by John Kusiak, was inspired by the worldwide displacement of refugees.

Ralph Lemon Company (Cross Performance, Inc.)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the creation of a new work by choreographer Ralph Lemon. Home: Part 3 of the Geography Trilogy will include research, workshops, rehearsals and development, selection of artists and design team, and creative workshops/residencies that will take place in several cities. (Multi-state)

Rhapsody In Taps, Inc.
Long Beach, CA
$5,000
To support creation and performances of a work by Artistic Director Linda Sohl-Donnell and Balinese musician/composer/dancer I Nyoman Wenten. The work, titled Nusantra, brings together American tap dance and Balinese gamelan music.

Richmond Ballet
Richmond, VA
$10,000
To support commissioning of a new work. Choreographer Kirk Peterson will create a piece for Richmond Ballet that will premiere at the Modlin Center at the University of Richmond.

Ronald K. Brown/evidence (Evidence, Inc.)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the creation of a new work choreographed and written by Ronald K. Brown. Titled Walking Out the Dark, the dance will include music by Philip Hamilton and costumes by Omotayo Wunmi Olaiya.

San Francisco Ballet Association
San Francisco, CA
$70,000
To support three commissions by emerging and established choreographers. Choreographers Christopher Wheeldon, Stanton Welch and Artistic Director Helgi Tomasson will create new works for the company that will be performed at the War Memorial Opera House.

Shapiro and Smith Dance (Contemporary Dance Arts, Inc.)
Minneapolis, MN
$5,000
To support a collaboration with the klezmer quartet Brave Old World to create a new work with premieres in Minneapolis and New York. The goal of the project is to create a blend of music and dance that builds on Jewish traditions. (Multi-state)

Soweto Street Beat Dance Theatre, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$5,000
To support the development of a new performance. The Zulu Kingdom, created by Artistic Director Isabelle Doll Ngcobo, will be performed in venues across the United States, along with mini-performances in 300 schools. (Multi-state)

Stephen Petronio Dance Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support a dance event to celebrate the company's 15th anniversary. Magazine 15 will consist of pieces created by Stephen Petronio over the years.

Streb/Ringside (Ringside, Inc.)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the creation of a full-evening show, based on inspirations from American stunt artists. Streb/Ringside will develop this show, entitled Action Heroes, in collaboration with production designer Skip Mercier, writer Laura Flanders and the structural engineering firm Buro Happold.

Susan Marshall & Company (Dance Continuum, Inc.)
Putnam Valley, NY
$10,000
To support a tour and related residency activities for a full-evening dance work. Four Loves in Seven Stages, by choreographer Susan Marshall, will tour to Pennsylvania, Washington, Minnesota, Florida, Texas and New York. (Multi-state)

The New Victory Theater (New 42nd Street, Inc.)
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the presentation of a dance series during the New 42nd Street's fifth anniversary. 4th Step Lively: Dance at The New Victory will consist of 58 public and education performances by Parsons Dance Company, Urban Tap and the Dutch dance company Introdans.

Trisha Brown Dance Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
To support the creation of two new works. Choreographer Trisha Brown will create a new staging of the opera Luci Mie Traditrici (My Betraying Eyes), and an abstract dance piece, both set to music by contemporary composer Salvatore Sciarrino.

University of California at Berkeley (on behalf of Cal Performances)
Berkeley, CA
$20,000
To support the presentation of four dance projects. Cal Performances will present Merce Cunningham Dance Company, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, and two European companies, Nederlands Dans Theatre (Netherlands) led by Jiri Kylian and the dance ensemble of Schaubuehne am Lehniner Platz (Germany) led by Sasha Waltz.

Wagon Train Project, Inc.
Lincoln, NE
$10,000
To support choreographers in residencies to create site-specific/community works. Stephen Koplowitz, Janet Lilly and Sarah Skaggs will present works that provide a center point for Wagon Train Project's 10th Anniversary.

Wally Cardona Quartet (WCV, Inc.)
Brooklyn, NY
$5,000
To support creation and presentation of a new work. The final stage of Trance Territory will be created and then toured across the United States. (Multi-state)

Washington Ballet
Washington, DC
$10,000
To support the production and presentation of a collaborative project. Choreographer Septime Webre will collaborate with musicians Sweet Honey in the Rock and visual artist Sam Gilliam to create a piece that will be presented at the Columbia Festival of the Arts in Columbia, MD and at the Kennedy Center for Performing Arts in Washington, DC. (Multi-state)

Washington Performing Arts Society
Washington, DC
$25,000
To support dance presentations and residency activities during 2001-02. Ron Brown/evidence, H.T. Chen and Dancers, Kwikstep and Rocafella, David Neumann, and Elizabeth Streb/Ringside will offer performances and other activities in Maryland and the District of Columbia. (Multi-state)

Zaccho Dance Theatre (Zaccho S. F.)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support creation and presentation of a new aerial dance work. Artistic Director Joanna Haigood will create a new piece that draws inspiration from the paintings of Marc Chagall.

Zhongmei Chinese Dance Company
New York, NY
$5,000
To support the creation of new dances by Zhongmei Li. The dances are inspired by Buddhist wall paintings in the great cave complex of Dunhuang, along the historic Silk Road in northwestern China.

Zivili Kolo Ensemble, Inc.
Granville, OH
$10,000
To support creation and presentation of new works. These new works will incorporate traditional dance, music and cultural characteristics of populations from the former Yugoslavia.

DESIGN

Artists Space, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the Architecture and Design Project Series of exhibitions and a publication. Artists Space will introduce cutting edge architecture and design to general and visual arts audiences and allow participating architects to realize an idea through an installation. (Multi-state)

California College of Arts and Crafts
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support four issues of the Design Book Review, a publication that examines architecture, urbanism, landscape architecture and design. The goals of the Design Book Review are to help readers understand the making of built landscape, material culture and graphic design encountered every day. (Multi-state)

Community Architexts Association
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support the design development and implementation of Work-Shift, a community-based public design program in Cedar Rapids, IA. The project will collect and articulate the statements of displaced factory workers and alternative school students in a post-industrial community. (Multi state)

Denver Art Museum
Denver, CO
$10,000
To support an exhibition and catalogue titled American Design, 1975 - 2000. The project will focus on areas of contemporary American design and offer a critical analysis of the design arts.

Dorchester House Multi-Service Center
(on behalf of Louis D. Brown Peace Institute)
Dorchester, MA
$20,000
To support a communication design project in which family members of children killed through violence express their loss through graphic design installations. Installations will be created by a designer working with the survivors and installed as billboards on city buses.

Guggenheim Museum (Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation)
New York, NY
$50,000
To support educational programming for a traveling exhibition on architect Frank Gehry's work. The project will examine Gehry's innovative contributions to the field of architecture and design. (Multi-state)

Harvard University (Consortium)
Cambridge, MA
$25,000
To support a consortium project for a traveling exhibition and lecture series on the democratic monument in America. Harvard University and Parsons School of Design will explore new concepts of the monument that emerged with 20th century ideals of American democracy. (Multi-state)

Kent State University Main Campus (Consortium)
(on behalf of Urban Design Center of Northeast Ohio)
Kent, OH
$20,000
To support a consortium project for a design charrette to generate concepts for a gateway to the Ohio & Erie Canal National Heritage Corridor in downtown Cleveland. The City of Cleveland, the Waterfront Coalition, Flats Oxbow, the Ohio Canal Corridor, the Ohio and Erie Canal Corridor Association and the National Park Service will participate.

Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
To support a design competition to transform a postwar enclosed mall in Los Angeles. This phase of the project will include programming, a request for qualifications and the competition.

Mississippi State University (Consortium)
Mississippi State, MS
$9,000
To support a consortium project for the design of an affordable, innovative prototype for a cooperative living arrangement. The Jackson Community Design Center of MSU along with Stewpot Community Services will bring together a low-income, single parent family and an elderly or disabled individual in a housing prototype.

Museum of Contemporary Art
Los Angeles, CA
$50,000
To support a retrospective exhibition and accompanying publication on the modernist architect R.M. Schindler. The publication will feature critical contributions from multiple authors to present original research that explores Schindler's architectural work. (Multi-state)

Pamphlet Architecture, Ltd.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support an open competition for architects, landscape architects, urbanists and planners who have been out of school for one to ten years. The juried competition will offer a venue for designers to do work that is both exploratory and experimental, with winning proposals published in book form or presented on a Web site. (Multi-state)

Research Foundation of the City University of New York
New York, NY
$30,000
To support an architectural exhibition series, corresponding catalogues and a symposium to examine the relationship of place to new architecture. The central theme of Whereabouts: New Architectures with Local Identities will demonstrate design projects capable of promoting and redefining local identity.

Thread Waxing Space (Consortium)
New York, NY
$40,000
To support a consortium project for a touring exhibition, symposium and publication presenting architectural materials from the Fonds Regional D'Art Contemporain du Center in Orleans, France. The exhibition is being organized by Thread Waxing Space along with the Pratt Institute and the University of Kansas School of Architecture and Design. (Multi-state)

University of Pennsylvania (on behalf of The Institute of Contemporary Art)
Philadelphia, PA
$30,000
To support a collaborative work between architects and an industrial designer to create a site specific installation using new technology that combines real and virtual space. The installation will travel to an additional venue and will include slide lectures by the artists and a symposium on architecture and new technology. (Multi-state)

Van Alen Institute: Projects in Public Architecture
New York, NY
$45,000
To support an open competition to redesign the Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. State Office Building Plaza. The goal of the competition is to encourage designers and artists to create a contemporary space that will be the focal point for public life in Harlem.

FOLK & TRADITIONAL ARTS

Ballet Folklorico Ollin, Inc.
Panorama City, CA
$5,000
To support FIESTA NAVIDAD. FIESTA NAVIDAD is a touring concert of mariachi music and folklorico dancing that tells the Christmas story of La Posada, a Mexican tradition marking the journey of Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem. (Multi-state)

BorderZone Arts)
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support an exhibition of Native American and Australian Aboriginal art. The exhibit will showcase the work of indigenous artists as well as the legal and cultural issues of cultural appropriation and the protection of traditional indigenous art motifs.

Chhandam Chitresh Das Dance Company
San Rafael, CA
$17,000
To support the development and production of the new work Sadhana. Sadhana will incorporate Kathak dance of North India and multimedia forms as a forum for portraying the artistry, technique, vision and life experience of Chitresh Das and his journey, bridging the gap between the ancient origins of the art form and modern American society.

Diamano Coura West African Dance Co.
Oakland, CA
$7,000
To support Collage de la Cultures Africaines, a one-day festival with workshops. The project is designed to bring together diverse artists, arts organizations and businesses to stage multicultural performances, organize collaborative workshops, and coordinate conferences and projects that address issues affecting artists, youth and community.

Evergreen State College
Olympia, WA
$15,000
To support the first U.S.-based Indigenous Visual Artists of the Pacific Rim Gathering. This gathering will bring together internationally renowned indigenous artists to share teachings and techniques in printmaking, painting, weaving, beadwork, ceramics and carving.

Film Arts Foundation (on behalf of Sageland Pictures)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support production and distribution costs for the documentary, The Valley's Cultural Patchwork. This film will profile four artists representing the Armenian, Okie, Mexican American and Hmong traditions.

Indian Country Development Corporation
Phoenix, AZ
$5,000
To support a touring exhibit of Native American, Native Hawaiian and Alaska Native National Heritage Fellows. The exhibit will travel to seven Native communities and will examine the role of tradition in Native American, rural and reservation communities. (Multi-state)

Iowa Arts Council (Consortium)
Des Moines, IA
$50,000
To support the Festival of Iowa Folklife: Cultural Crossroads. The consortium project, with partners the Grout Museum District and the Waterloo Center for the Arts, both located in Waterloo, IA, will feature traditional music, dance, food, crafts, workshops and demonstrations that reflect the transitional nature of folk traditions.

Kanabec County Historical Center (on behalf of Bow Bridge Fiddlers)
Milaca, MN
$5,000
To support the 5th Annual Fiddle and Guitar Workshop. The workshop will be designed to allow all participants, regardless of age or skill level, the opportunity through theory and technique classes to learn to play instruments.

Kankouran West African Dance Company
Washington, DC
$15,000
To support the 17th Annual African Dance and Music Conference and Concert 2001. The conference will feature a series of traditional African dance, music, history and related cultural arts workshops culminating in a self-produced concert.

Master Musicians Festival, Inc.
Somerset, KY
$5,000
To support the Master Musicians Festival. This three-day event will honor master musicians over the age of 50, and will offer workshops and master classes to attendees and students.

Philadelphia Folklore Project (Consortium)
Philadelphia, PA
$30,000
To support Philly Dance Africa. The consortium project, with Odunde, Inc. of Philadelphia will present African dancers in six school-based residencies and performances at the 2001 ODUNDE community festival.

Puerto Rican Folkloric Dance, Inc.
Austin, TX
$5,000
To support bomba percussion, songs, dance and history workshops. The workshops will be taught by the world renowned Modesto Cepeda and will culminate with a one-day performance for the Austin community.

Radio Bilingüe
Fresno, CA
$60,000
To support the Viva El Mariachi and Tejano/Norteño Music and Dance Festivals. The festivals are designed to celebrate the rich musical heritage of Mexican immigrants and to pass on the tradition to youth. (Multi-state)

Sirong Ganding, Inc. (on behalf of Mindanao Kulintang Ensemble)
New York, NY
$5,000
To support The Mindanao Kulintang Ensemble Tour 2001. The tour will include workshops conducted by leading scholars in Filipino musical traditions and performances by Mindanao Kulintang Ensemble. (Multi-state)

Texas Folklife Resources (Consortium)
Austin, TX
$80,000
To support the Community Residency Program. This consortium project with the Texas Commission on the Arts will consist of 20 week-long residencies in Texas towns with populations between 500 and 7,500.

University of Mississippi Main Campus (Consortium)
University, MS
$20,000
To support a touring exhibit of traditional Choctaw and contemporary baskets and photographs. Designed to tour the region of the original Choctaw, this consortium project with the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians will travel to Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana.

Women Make Movies (on behalf of Bluestocking Films)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support Hula Beyond Hawaii, a documentary that will explore the Hawaiian community living on the mainland. Hula Beyond Hawaii is the first film to focus on the mainland Hawaiian community that has struggled to maintain its Hawaiian culture and identity on different shores.

LITERATURE

92nd Street Y (Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association)
New York, NY
$45,000
To support The Unterberg Poetry Center's Reading Series, featuring readings, performances, literary tributes and live interviews. The center will present a series of modern adaptations of verse dramas and a comprehensive survey of British literature in partnership with the New York Public Library. (Multi-state)

Alice James Poetry Cooperative, Inc.
Farmington, ME
$5,000
To support publication and promotion of five books of poetry selected from Alice James Poetry Cooperative's two annual competitions: the Beatrice Hawley Award and the New York/New England Award. Titles will be promoted to more than 8,000 individuals, bookstores, libraries and literary organizations nationwide. (Multi-state)

Amherst College (on behalf of Folger Shakespeare Memorial)
Amherst, MA
$5,000
To support the Folger Poetry Series at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC. The series will present ten readings by poets such as Elizabeth Alexander, Marie Howe, Billy Collins, Carol Ann Duffy, Alberto Rios, and Jim Harrison.

Another Chicago Magazine (Left Field Press, Inc.)
Chicago, IL
$5,000
To support the publication and national distribution of two issues of Another Chicago Magazine. (Multi-state)

Arroyo Arts Collective
Los Angeles, CA
$5,000
To support Poetry in the Windows, a project to display multilingual poetry posters in merchants' windows along a major commercial corridor in Northeast Los Angeles, reaching an estimated audience of 15,000 people during May 2001. The collective will distribute 1,000 brochures describing the featured poems.

Aunt Lute Foundation
San Francisco, CA
$35,000
To support publication and related costs for a new series of books by Native American women. Aunt Lute Books will tour its featured authors to areas of the country with large Native American populations, including Washington, California, Montana, Minnesota and parts of the South and Southwest. (Multi-state)

Bamboo Ridge Press
Honolulu, HI
$5,000
To support the publication, distribution and promotion of one issue of Bamboo Ridge, an annual journal of Hawaiian literature and arts. Authors featured in the issue will promote the journal through readings and workshops at the University of Hawaii and community colleges, educational conferences, bookstores and local organizations throughout Hawaii, Maui and Kauai.

Bard College (on behalf of Conjunctions)
Annandale-Hudson, NY
$10,000
To support publication, circulation and related expenses, including authors' fees, for the 37th and 38th issues of Conjunctions. Each issue will be distributed to bookstores throughout the country and to subscribers in more than 40 states and fifteen countries. (Multi-state)

Beyond Baroque Foundation
Venice, CA
$10,000
To support Site & Beyond, a seven-month program of literary activities reaching more than 10,000 individuals throughout the Los Angeles area. Beyond Baroque will expand its reach to present readings, residencies and workshops at the World Stage in South Los Angeles and Self Help Graphics in East Los Angeles.

BOA Editions, Ltd.
Rochester, NY
$10,000
To support production, promotion and related expenses for new volumes of poetry and collections of essays on poetry. Scheduled titles include Book of My Nights by Li-Young Lee, Rancho Notorious by Richard Garcia, and The Rat Trinity by Laure-Anne Bosselaar. (Multi state)

Boston Book Review (Harvard Readers Guild)
Cambridge, MA
$7,500
To support increased payments to contributing poets and writers of the Boston Book Review. The journal will publish the winning entry of the first PEN/Amazon short story contest and reintroduce original fiction to the magazine. (Multi-state)

Boston University (on behalf of AGNI Magazine)
Boston, MA
$5,000
To support publication costs and related expenses for two issues of AGNI. The journal will publish a general issue and an issue exploring ways in which writers can help advance human rights. (Multi-state)

Bridge Center for Contemporary Art (on behalf of Cinco Puntos Press)
El Paso, TX
$15,000
To support the production and national distribution of books exploring the Mexican and American Chicano experience published by Cinco Puntos Press. The volumes will be promoted at readings and on the Web, and be made available to trade bookstores throughout the nation by Consortium Book Sales and Distribution. (Multi-state)

Bright Hill Press, Inc.
Treadwell, NY
$5,000
To support the Word Thursdays reading series and the Speaking the Words tour of poets and writers. Bright Hill Press will present readings by 39 artists at the Delaware County Historical Association and other venues throughout the Catskill region.

CALYX, Inc.
Corvallis, OR
$15,000
To support Calyx Journal's New Writers, New Readers program. Components of the project include the publication of four issues of the literary magazine, increased honoraria to writers and artists, its new writer reading series, and a direct mail subscription campaign. (Multi-state)

Coffee House Press
Minneapolis, MN
$50,000
To support the publication, promotion and national distribution of fiction and creative nonfiction by contemporary women writers. Selected writers include Norah Labiner, Anne Waldman, Carol Ann Sima, Mary Caponegro, Judith Kitchen, Maxine Chernoff and Nancy Lord. (Multi-state)

Copper Canyon Press
Port Townsend, WA
$35,000
To support the publication and national distribution of books of poetry by poets at critical stages of their careers. Promotional author readings will be scheduled throughout the country at bookstores, libraries and literary conferences. (Multi-state)

Curbstone Press, Inc.
Willimantic, CT
$65,000
To support the continuation of 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. (Multi-state)

Divinity
St. Louis, MO
$10,000
To support the Langston Hughes St. Louis/World Black Poetry Festival. Participating poets include Sonia Sanchez, Amiri Baraka, Reggie Gibson, Ntozake Shange, Kamaau Daood, Yusef Komanyakaa, Abiodun Oyewole, Quincy Troupe, Eugene B. Redmond and Shirley LeFlore.

Feminist Press, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the publication and national distribution of books in the Feminist Press International Women's Writing Project. Works proposed for publication include Still Alive: A Jewish Childhood Under the Nazis by Ruth Kluger, and The Dark Holds No Terrors, a novel by Shashi Deshpande set in her native India. (Multi-state)

Fiction Collective, Inc.
Tallahassee, FL
$5,000
To support the publication, promotion and distribution of two novels published by Fiction Collective Two. The press will publish Aunt Rachel's Fur by Raymond Federman and Girl Beside Him by Arts Endowment Literature Fellowship recipient Chris Mazza. (Multi-state)

Graywolf Press
St. Paul, MN
$30,000
To support the publication, promotion and national distribution of volumes of creative nonfiction by Graywolf Press. Scheduled authors include John D'Agata, Albert Goldbarth, Kim Stafford and W.D. Snodgrass. (Multi-state)

Guild Complex
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support the 10th Annual Musicality of Poetry Series, which features performances and workshops linking poetry with live music. Proposed artists include Joy Harjo and her band Poetic Justice, performance poet Kamau Daaood with jazz trumpeter Orbert Davis, and novelist Jessica Hagedorn with hip hop turntablist Madrid.

HEArt-Human Equity Through Art
Pittsburgh, PA
$5,000
To support publication expenses, including artists' fees, for issues of HEArt Quarterly. Writers under consideration for the issues include Lucille Clifton, Sharon Olds, Sherman Alexie, Sandra Cisneros, Yusef Komunyaaka and Henry Louis Gates. (Multi-state)

Hudson Valley Writers' Center, Inc.
Sleepy Hollow, NY
$7,500
To support the Literary Presentation Series, featuring live readings by distinguished writers, and Open Mike Nights, a series of readings by local regional poets and writers. Coordinated by poet Nick Carb , the Literary Presentation Series will feature 25 public readings at the restored Philipse Manor Railroad on the east bank of the Hudson River; Sunnyside, the historic home of Washington Irving in Tarrytown, NY; and at several educational institutions in Westchester County.

Intersection
San Francisco, CA
$7,500
To support the presentation and promotion of writers' residencies in San Francisco. Proposed artists include Walter Mosley, Dave Hickey, Lucy Lippard and Luis Rodriguez.

Just Buffalo Literary Center, Inc.
Buffalo, NY
$20,000
To support a series of readings and workshops in Buffalo, New York. Scheduled writers include Richard Powers, Samuel Delaney and Marjorie Agosin. Richard Powers and Samuel Delaney will present mainstage readings to be broadcast by National Public Radio affiliate WBFO FM.

King Arts Complex (Community Arts Project, Inc.)
Columbus, OH
$7,500
To support Sister Talk, a series of presentations, lectures and workshops celebrating the accomplishments of African American women in literature. Featured artists include Sonia Sanchez, Ntozake Shange, J. California Cooper and Julia Hare.

Latin American Literary Review Press
Pittsburgh, PA
$15,000
To support the publication and national distribution of volumes of fiction by Latin American writers. Scheduled titles include Scent of Love, a collection of short stories by Brazilian novelist Edla van Steen, The Song of the Distant Root by Chilean novelist Elizabeth Subercaseaux, and Strange Forces by Argentinian Leopoldo Lugones. (Multi-state)

Line Press, Inc.
Ashland, OR
$12,500
To support the publication, promotion and national distribution of a new series of first books of poetry by Story Line Press. Based on the recommendations of established authors and editors of prominent poetry-publishing houses, Story Line Press will publish eight manuscripts from unpublished poets. (Multi-state)

Loft, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$40,000
To support The Minnesota Program for Writers, which provides mentors for emerging writers throughout the state. The program features The Mentor Series, which brings nationally recognized writers to the Twin Cities to work with local writers through workshops and one-on one instruction; and The Inroads Program, a mentoring series targeting emerging writers of color.

Log Cabin Literary Center, Inc.
Boise, ID
$10,000
To support BookFest, Idaho's only free literary festival. The Log Cabin Literary Center will bring writers of national stature to a regional and rural audience of 1,400 people.

Louisiana State University (on behalf of Louisiana State University Press)
Shreveport, LA
$10,000
To support production costs and related expenses for books of poetry published by Louisiana State University Press. Scheduled titles include Betty Adcock's Intervale: New and Selected Poems, Kelly Cherry's Rising Venus, Alice Derry's So, You're German? and Calvin Forbes's The Shine Poems. (Multi-state)

Marygrove College
Detroit, MI
$10,000
To support a series of lectures and readings as part of Defining Detroit, a city-wide celebration honoring Detroit's tricentennial. Scheduled participants include native Detroiters Philip Levine, Lawrence Joseph, Toi Derricotte, Pearl Cleage and Joyce Carol Oates, who spent formative years in Detroit during the 1960's.

Midwest Center for the Literary Arts, Inc.
Kansas City, MO
$10,000
To support Poets-at-Large 2001, a festival featuring poetry readings and discussions at artists' studios within the Kansas City metropolitan area. Scheduled for April 2001, the festival will be hosted by the Center's programming arm, The Writers Place, and feature poets such as Lorna Dee Cervantes, Amiri Baraka, Martin Espada, Linda Hogan and Naomi Shihab Nye.

Mountain Writers Series
Portland, OR
$25,000
To support readings, residencies and special events throughout the Pacific Northwest region. Proposed authors include Sherman Alexie, Sandra Cisneros, Robert Creeley, Rita Dove, Thom Gunn, Heather McHugh, Clarence Major, C.D. Wright and Marvin Bell. (Multi-state)

North Carolina State University (on behalf of Obsidian III)
Raleigh, NC
$10,000
To support publication and related costs, including artists' fees, of two issues of Obsidian III. Scheduled for publication is an issue exploring African American children's literature and a general issue featuring writers from all parts of the African Diaspora. (Multi-state)

Other Voices, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$5,000
To support the publication and promotion of two issues of Other Voices. A direct mail campaign will target potential subscribers nationwide. (Multi-state)

Painted Bride Quarterly, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$5,000
To support the creation of an online archive of writing published by Painted Bride Quarterly. The archive will include material published by the journal since its inception in 1973, and feature writers such as John Ashbery, Ethridge Knight, Sonia Sanchez, Robert Creeley, Clarence Major and Allen Ginsberg. (Multi-state)

Ploughshares, Inc.
Boston, MA
$11,000
To support the publication and national circulation of two issues of Ploughshares to 6,000 readers across the country. The winter 2001-02 and spring 2002 issues will feature new work by 70 poets and 12 fiction writers. (Multi-state)

Poetry Project, Ltd.
New York, NY
$18,000
To support the Monday Night and Wednesday Night Reading and Performance Series, which will feature live presentations by more than 100 poets and performers. Writers under consideration include Don DeLillo, Barbara Guest, Victor Hernandez Cruz, Lynne Tillman, Rick Moody, U Sam Oeur and Andrei Codrescu.

Sarabande Books, Inc.
Louisville, KY
$25,000
To support the production and promotion of books by mid-career writers. Scheduled authors include Michael Burkard, Eleanor Lerman and Ralph Angel. (Multi-state)

Seattle Arts & Lectures (Consortium)
Seattle, WA
$12,000
To support a collaboration between Seattle Arts & Lectures and Literary Arts, Inc. in Portland, OR, to bring distinguished writers to both cities for a series of readings and lectures. The series will feature seven events in each city, reaching a total audience of 28,000. (Multi-state)

Symphony Space, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support Selected Shorts: A Celebration of the Short Story, a series of live readings featuring classic and new short fiction read by distinguished stage and screen actors. (Multi-state)

The Sun (Sun Publishing Company, Inc.)
Chapel Hill, NC
$5,000
To support an increase in payments to contributors of The Sun, a literary magazine reaching 50,000 subscribers from every state. Founded in 1974 by editor Sy Safransky, The Sun is a monthly magazine of essays, fiction, interviews, poetry, art and photography. (Multi-state)

Threepenny Review
Berkeley, CA
$12,000
To support authors' fees and promotional costs for four issues of the Threepenny Review. Featuring work by 100 established and emerging writers, the issues will be promoted through a direct mail subscription campaign targeting 70,000 readers. (Multi-state)

Trafika (Trafika Press, Inc.)
Brooklyn, NY
$5,000
To support publication and related expenses, including artists' fees for issues of Trafika, a literary journal focusing on contemporary international authors. In the proposed issues, the magazine will introduce American readers to writers from the Ukraine, Mozambique, Sweden, Cuba and Poland. (Multi-state)

University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ
$10,000
To support Wide Open: Poetry in the Larger World, a series of readings and residencies at the University of Arizona's Poetry Center. Featured writers include Carl Dennis, Billy Collins, Terese Svoboda, Anne Carson, David Breskin, Beth Lisick and Ariana Waynes.

University of Hawaii (on behalf of MANOA)
Honolulu, HI
$20,000
To support publication, promotion, distribution and related expenses for two issues of Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing. Scheduled issues will feature new writing from Japan and Viet Nam, and include poetry and prose by American writers from diverse cultural backgrounds. (Multi-state)

University of Houston (on behalf of Arte Público Press)
Houston, TX
$50,000
To support Arte Público Press's publication and promotion of books by emerging, Hispanic women authors. Authors will present readings in urban areas with large Hispanic populations throughout the United States. (Multi-state)

University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA
$7,000
To support publication costs and related expenses for two winning selections from the Iowa Short Fiction Award competition. Titles will be selected by Sioux writer Susan Power, author of The Grass Dancer. (Multi-state)

University of Missouri at Columbia (on behalf of The Missouri Review)
Columbia, MO
$15,000
To support publication, promotion and related expenses for issues of The Missouri Review. The magazine will enhance its Web site and target 50,000 potential readers through a national direct mail campaign. (Multi-state)

University of Texas at Austin (on behalf of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies)
Austin, TX
$10,000
To support the publication of new works of modern Arabic fiction in translation. Scheduled titles include Passage to Dusk by Lebanese writer Rashid Daif and Children of the Waters by Egyptian author Ibtihal Salem. (Multi-state)

University of Virginia (on behalf of Callaloo)
Charlottesville, VA
$25,000
To support Writing the Self and Community, a series of public readings and writing workshops organized by the journal Callaloo to be held at historically black colleges and universities around the country. Participating writers include Edwidge Danticat, Lucille Clifton, Gloria Naylor, Carl Phillips, Natasha Trethewey and Reginald McKnight. (Multi-state)

University of Virginia (on behalf of University of Virginia Press)
Charlottesville, VA
$18,000
To support publication and promotion of translations of contemporary Francophone literature from the Caribbean and Africa as part of the University of Virginia Press's CARAF Books Series. Scheduled authors include Ahmadou Kourouma of Côte d' Ivoire, and Mongo Beti, a native of Cameroon. (Multi-state)

White Pine, Inc.
Buffalo, NY
$25,000
To support the publication and promotion of titles in the World of Voices Poetry Project. Authors to be published include Maurice Kenny, Joel Oppenheimer, Christopher Merrill and Japanese poet Miyazawa Kenji. (Multi-state)

Woodland Pattern Book Center, Inc.
Milwaukee, WI
$40,000
To support a series of readings, exhibits and workshops in Milwaukee's inner city. Scheduled authors include Elaine Equi, Maureen Owen, Lyn Hejinian, Luci Tapahonso, Leslie Scalapino, Arthur Sze and Wang Ping.

Writers Room, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support subsidized work space for emerging writers using The Writers Room, an urban writers' colony in New York City. Founded in 1978, the organization expects to welcome 80 new members in FY 2001.

ZYZZYVA
San Francisco, CA
$8,500
To support authors' fees and promotional costs for issues of Zyzzyva, a magazine featuring the work of West Coast writers. The issues will be promoted through a direct mail subscription campaign targeting 100,000 readers. (Multi-state)

LOCAL ARTS AGENCIES

Churchill Arts Council
Fallon, NV
$10,000
To support a performing arts series. This series of seven performing arts events will offer a variety of cultural traditions including African, Mexican, Celtic and Zydeco to the citizens of Churchill County and northern Nevada.

City of Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department
Los Angeles, CA
$55,000
To support a Design Fellowship Program and exhibition catalogue featuring work of the fellowship winners. The Design Fellowship Program represents an expansion of the City of Los Angeles Individual Artist Fellowship Program and will provide seven $10,000 fellowships to design artists living in Los Angeles County.

Quad City Arts, Inc.
Rock Island, IL
$25,000
To support the Visiting Artist Series. Community outreach efforts and arts-in-education components of the series will place selected artists in residency activities in rural communities throughout Iowa and Illinois. (Multi-state)

MEDIA ARTS

American Museum of the Moving Image
Astoria, NY
$25,000
To support three film retrospectives: The Cutter's Way: The Art and Craft of Film Editing; Shadow Play: Early Film and the Avant Garde; and The Lubitsch Touch. Over 100 films will be presented to an estimated audience of over 5,000 people.

Ancestral Films, Inc. (Consortium)
Houston, TX
$5,000
To support a consortium project, The Films of Gordon Parks: Retrospective of a Living Legend. This curated series will recognize Mr. Parks for his artistic achievements. Project partners are the Museum of Fine Arts Houston and Project Row Houses.

Ann Arbor Film Festival
Ann Arbor, MI
$15,000
To support the 39th Ann Arbor Film Festival and its national tour. Over 100 films will be presented to an audience of over 21,000 people in Michigan and the states to which the festival tours. (Multi-state)

Art Institute of Chicago (on behalf of Film Center)
Chicago, IL
$30,000
To support a curated film series titled Bridging the Culture Gap Through Cinema. This multifaceted project will showcase work by American independent filmmakers and international directors.

Asian CineVision, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the 2001 Asian American International Film Festival and its national tour. After its run in New York, the festival will travel to 10 sites including those in Connecticut, Florida, North Carolina, Texas and Pennsylvania. (Multi-state)

Asian Media Access
Minneapolis, MN
$7,500
To support the curated film series Generation Y: The Impact of the 1997 Hong Kong-China Reunification on Chinese Youth. Films will be presented to gain insight on what the reunification means to the youth of Hong Kong, Taiwan and China.

Austin Film Society
Austin, TX
$30,000
To support the exhibition of films and videos, free of charge, to members of the Austin community. The Free Cinema Project will present these films and videos in a historical and cultural context while fostering an understanding and appreciation for cinema as an art form.

Berks Filmmakers, Inc.
Reading, PA
$10,000
To support the exhibition of several curated film and video series. Programs will include in person presentations, avant-garde cinema, documentary and animation work, and screenings by artists from the region.

Chicago Filmmakers
Chicago, IL
$15,000
To support the curated film series Kino Eye Cinema and the presentation of the Onion City Film Festival. Kino Eye Cinema places special emphasis on documentary and experimental films and videos; the Onion City Film Festival is dedicated to exhibiting experimental work.

Cine Acción
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the 2002 Cine Latino Film Festival. The festival attracts over 5,000 people and is the only West Coast venue to present work by and about Latinos.

Cinema Arts Centre (New Community Cinema Club, Inc.)
Huntington, NY
$10,000
To support Cinema of Diversity, three weekend-long film festivals. Each festival will be devoted to a different theme: the International Women's Film and Video Festival, the Festival of Films from the People's Republic of China, and the Huntington International Independent Film Festival.

Cleveland Film Society
Cleveland, OH
$25,000
To support the 25th annual Cleveland International Film Festival including the 4th annual Midwest Independent Filmmakers Conference. Held in the spring, the event presents current work from around the world and complements it with educational programs to increase the audience's understanding and appreciation for the art form.

CultureWorks, Ltd.
Philadelphia, PA
$25,000
To support post-production costs for a four-hour documentary radio series by Steve Rowland on jazz artist John Coltrane. Tell Me How Long Trane's Been Gone will present listeners with an overview of John Coltrane and his extraordinary accomplishments, and will discuss the impact of his music on the culture at large. (Multi-state)

EBS Productions, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support the 2001 International Film Financing Conference. This annual event was established to encourage collaborations between American producers and international film production entities.

Experimental Television Center, Ltd.
Newark Valley, NY
$10,000
To support a year-long residency program for 45-50 media artists from throughout the United States. The Experimental Television Center provides film and video artists access to sophisticated production facilities.

Facets Multimedia, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$60,000
To support the annual Chicago International Children's Film Festival and related media arts programs for children. Activities include animation workshops, a media arts camp, media literacy courses, special exhibitions of films for children throughout the year, curriculum development and an expansion of Facet's Web site.

Film Arts Foundation (on behalf of Bruno Films)
San Francisco, CA
$60,000
To support the production of an experimental documentary film by Ellen Bruno on aging, sickness and death. Skin and Bones will be a meditation on the impermanence of life. (Multi-state)

Film Arts Foundation (on behalf of Xochitl Films)
San Francisco, CA
$60,000
To support the post-production costs for an experimental documentary film by Lourdes Portillo. Señorita Extraviada will explore the untold story of the continuing serial murders of young women in the U.S.-Mexican border town of Juarez. (Multi-state)

Film Arts Foundation (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$60,000
To support a consortium project in which five media arts organizations, all housed in the same building, will share resources, staff and facilities. The Ninth Street Media Arts consortium, already viewed as a national model of partnership, will formalize its processes to include joint decision-making, governance and program delivery.

Film Arts Foundation
San Francisco, CA
$60,000
To support Direct the Future, an initiative that will provide filmmakers with equipment to create new work. Film Arts Foundation (FAF) has, for 24 years, offered media makers traditional 16mm film production tools. As part of Direct the Future, FAF will expand into the digital realm to complement its ongoing activities.

Film Forum (Moving Image, Inc.)
New York, NY
$60,000
To support the New York City theatrical premieres of American independent and foreign films. Film Forum is devoted to bringing a broad array of the highest quality new work by young and emerging artists, as well as more established figures, to a large and diverse general public.

Film Society of Lincoln Center
New York, NY
$40,000
To support two curated film series. Cinemas/Societies in Transition: The Politics and Practice of National Self-definition will feature German film from 1945-1962 and Chinese film from 1945 1965; a retrospective of the comedic filmmaker Leo McCary will also be presented.

Four Oaks Foundation (on behalf of DocuClub)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the exhibition of documentary films. DocuClub's mission is to aid filmmakers in the making of their documentaries by providing a supportive community to screen their films, provide feedback, and assist in the completion and distribution of the work.

Friends of the Mary Riepma Ross Film Theater, Inc.
Lincoln, NE
$10,000
To support the 2001 Great Plains Film Festival. Held biennially in the summer, the festival provides a showcase for film and video artists working in the American 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.)

Global Action Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support Urban Voices, a media production and literacy program for more than 150 economically disadvantaged young people. Through the workshops, these young producers will gain skills and the ability to deconstruct mainstream media images.

Greenway Arts Alliance (on behalf of Displaced Films)
Los Angeles, CA
$35,000
To support post-production costs for a six-hour documentary television series by David Zeiger about students in their last year of high school. Intended for national PBS broadcast, Senior Year will follow 15 seniors from Fairfax High School in Los Angeles through their trials and tribulations. (Multi-state)

Hot Springs Documentary Film Institute
Hot Springs, AR
$7,500
To support the 2001 Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival. Attended by over 16,000 people, this festival is dedicated to the art of non-fiction film.

Independent Films
Aspen, CO
$10,000
To support the Aspen Shortsfest film festival. Short, live action, animation and documentary films from the United States and abroad will be showcased.

Independent Media Artists of Georgia, Etc.
Atlanta, GA
$7,500
To support the 25th Atlanta Film and Video Festival. This event presents the best of current independent film and video to an average audience of 6,000 people.

Interfaze Educational Productions, Inc.
Berkeley, CA
$15,000
To support the production of a documentary film by Marilyn Mulford and Claudio Duran on the experiences of Chilean artist-exiles. Archeology of Memory will combine archival footage, interviews, storytelling and reenactments to illustrate remembrances of this historical time. (Multi state)

International Latino Cultural Center (Chicago Latino Cinema)
Chicago, IL
$25,000
To support the 17th Chicago Latino Film Festival. Held annually in the spring, this festival offers over 100 films to an average audience of over 45,000 people.

Jewish Film Festival
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support the 2001 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 San Francisco, Berkeley, Palo Alto and Marin County; the Web site will serve as an information resource and include an image library and archive. (Multi-state)

Kartemquin Educational Films
Chicago, IL
$47,000
To support production and post-production costs of a documentary film titled Refrigerator Mothers by Gordon Quinn, J.J. Hanley and David Simpson about autism. The film will paint an intimate portrait of an entire generation of mothers, already laden with the challenge of raising profoundly disordered children, who lived for years under the dehumanizing shadow of "mother blame." (Multi-state)

Living Archives, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
To support the production of a documentary film by Nick Doob on the lives, work and marriage of Carmen de Lavallade and Geoffrey Holder. It will include footage of their work ranging from the early 1950's to the work they are currently creating and performing. (Multi-state)

MediaRites
Portland, OR
$12,500
To support the production of two one-hour radio documentaries by Dmae Roberts. Heart of Nature will profile children with disabilities; Spirit of Justice will explore how artistic endeavors affect young people in the juvenile justice system. (Multi-state)

Millennium Film Workshop, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the exhibition of experimental film and video art and the provision of filmmaking workshops. Millennium's exhibition programs feature the work of avant-garde cinema and video from the United States and abroad.

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc. (on behalf of Strange Attractions)
New York, NY
$47,000
To support the production of an experimental documentary film by Peter Friedman and Roger Manley. Beyond Belief: the Meaning and Power of Things will examine the meaning of the word "belief" as it applies to religion and to our everyday lives. (Multi-state)

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc.
(on behalf of Parents of Cerebral Palsy Film Company)
New York, NY
$25,000
To support production and post-production costs for a documentary film by Charles Schultz on Samuel Mockbee and his students. Founded by Mr. Mockbee, The Rural Studio (both the name of the film and the program) guides Auburn University architecture students as they design and construct homes and community spaces within economically depressed Hale County, AL. (Multi state)

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc. (on behalf of the African Film Festival)
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the exhibition and tour of a series of films from Africa. The theme of the 2001 festival is "40 Years of African Cinema -- Then and Now." (Multi-state)

Persona Grata Productions, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support the production of an experimental narrative film by Paul Kwan and Arnold Iger. Agnosia: Confessions of a Tasteless Critic will take an offbeat look at the relationship between food, culture and memory. (Multi-state)

Portland Art Museum (on behalf of Northwest Film Center)
Portland, OR
$40,000
To support the Northwest Film and Video Festival and its tour throughout the Northwest. The festival is an annual event that showcases new work by media artists living in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia. (Multi-state)

Promises Film Company
Berkeley, CA
$47,000
To support the post-production costs for a documentary film by B.Z. Goldberg and Justine Shapiro on the Middle Eastern conflict. Through the voices of children, Promises will examine the deep-rooted boundaries that lie between seven children who live in Jerusalem. (Multi-state)

San Francisco Cinematheque
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support the curated film series San Francisco Cinematheque: 40 Years in Focus. For four decades, the San Francisco Cinematheque has dedicated itself to, and premiered the work of, experimental film and video artists.

Sinking Creek Film Celebration, Inc.
Nashville, TN
$5,000
To support the 2001 Nashville Independent Film Festival. This event features documentaries, narrative films, experimental work, and student films and videos.

Sound Portraits Productions, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
To support the production of ten radio documentaries by David Isay. American Talkers, to be aired on National Public Radio's "Weekend Edition," will present the voices of ordinary Americans who have an extraordinary penchant for storytelling. (Multi-state)

Soundprint Media Center, Inc.
Laurel, MD
$30,000
To support The Pairing Project in which six emerging radio producers work with Soundprint and their local public radio stations to create new audio documentaries. The stations will play a mentoring role, providing the producers with editing facilities and administrative support, while Soundprint staff conduct workshops to establish a common level of production values and techniques. (Multi-state)

Southwestern Alternate Media Projects, Inc.
Houston, TX
$25,000
To support the production and statewide distribution of The Territory. As the longest running public television showcase of media art in the United States, this 13-part series presents independent film and video works to over 12 million viewers throughout Texas.

Squaw Valley Community of Writers
Nevada City, CA
$5,000
To support the Screenwriters Program. This eight-day workshop is centered on the essence of storytelling and teaches participants how to show rather than tell their stories.

Squeaky Wheel (Buffalo Media Resources, Inc.)
Buffalo, NY
$5,000
To support a media artist-in-residence and the upgrade of film/digital editing equipment. With the improved equipment, the artist-in-residence will be invited to Squeaky Wheel to complete his/her work.

Standby Program, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the provision of state-of-the-art, post-production video equipment to artists and independent producers. Standby's access program is a unique model of collaboration between a nonprofit arts organization and privately owned businesses.

Sundance Institute for Film and Television
Salt Lake City, UT
$110,000
To support a colloquium on documentary film and a series of educational workshops and labs that offer emerging screenwriters, directors, producers, and composers the opportunity, support and resources needed to successfully develop new creative work.

Thomas A. Edison Media Arts Consortium
Jersey City, NJ
$18,000
To support the 2000 Black Maria Film and Video Festival and its multi-state tour. Over 60 organizations throughout the United States host the festival each year and it draws over 800 entries annually from all over the country. (Multi-state)

Tundra Club
Bozeman, MT
$40,000
To support the production of Hearing Voices, a radio series curated by Barrett Golding. These radio documentaries will feature people around the country sharing their thoughts, myths and memories. (Multi-state)

University of Texas Institute of Texan Cultures at San Antonio
San Antonio, TX
$20,000
To support the production of a six-hour radio documentary series on the social history of rural Southern working class music. Honky Tonks, Hymns and the Blues will combine narration, archival recordings, oral histories, interviews and recent recordings to shed new light on the development of indigenous music. (Multi-state)

Video Association of Dallas, Inc.
Dallas, TX
$10,000
To support the 15th Annual Dallas Video Festival. Over a four-day period, the event will present over 200 screenings of work by national and international artists to an estimated audience of over 6,000 people.

Visual Communications
(Southern California Asian American Studies Central, Inc.)
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
To support the 15th annual Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film and Video Festival. Held in the summer, this is Southern California's showcase of independent film and video work from Asian and Asian-Pacific American filmmakers.

Washington, DC International Film Festival
Washington, DC
$25,000
To support the 2001 Washington DC International Film Festival. Held annually in the spring, this event includes free films for children, senior citizens and underserved communities.

MULTIDISCIPLINARY

American Music Theater Festival, Inc. (Consortium)
Philadelphia, PA
$30,000
To support The Philadelphia/Camden Arts Partnership, a consortium project with the Walt Whitman Cultural Center of Camden, NJ. During 2001-03, three newly commissioned works by composer Dwight Andrews will be developed and produced with the involvement of the artist and the urban adult and youth communities of Philadelphia and Camden. (Multi-state)

Appalshop, Inc. (on behalf of American Festival Project)
Whitesburg, KY
$40,000
To support the American Festival Project. Artists from several disciplines will work as partners with small Appalachian communities on collaborative art and performance projects during 2001 02. (Multi-state)

Bang on a Can, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support a consortium with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the production of a new work, Shadow Bang. This U.S.f-Bali collaborative work will premiere in Boston and New York City in the fall of 2001. (Multi-state)

Chinese Cultural Productions
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support the development and presentation of new interdisciplinary works. Chinese Cultural Productions will premiere works that reflect a convergence of performing arts and digital technology.

Circuit Network (on behalf of La Pocha Nostra)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support artist residencies by La Pocha Nostra. Week-long residencies will take place in Anchorage, AK; San Antonio, TX; Santa Fe, NM; Denver, CO; and Grinnell, IA during 2001. (Multi state)

Corporation of Yaddo
Saratoga Springs, NY
$17,000
To support residencies for professional artists. In 2001, artists will come from across the United States for one-month residencies that offer uninterrupted time and privacy for thinking, experimenting and creating.

DiverseWorks, Inc.
Houston, TX
$40,000
To support DiverseDialogues, an artist residency program. This program aims to promote the interchange of ideas among national, regional and Houston artists and multiple communities in the greater Houston area.

Djerassi Resident Artists Program
Woodside, CA
$10,000
To support one-month residencies for 10 American artists during the 2001 season. This project will provide studios, living accommodations, all meals and professional support for three composers, three choreographers, two visual artists and two media/new genres artists.

Downtown Arts Projects
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the Downtown Arts Festival. This three-week event will present a broad sampling of contemporary art from New York City including visual art, dance, theater, music, film/video, spoken word and digital media.

Experimental Sound Studio
Chicago, IL
$8,000
To support production residencies for Chicago-area artists through an Artists' Residency Program. Six 40-hour residencies will be offered between June and December 2001 for the completion of works in four categories: Sound Works, Performing Arts Collaboration, Soundtrack Design for Film and Video, and Creative Use of Radio.

Exploratorium
San Francisco, CA
$38,000
To support 2nd Wednesdays. This series of evening performances and installations will be presented in a cafe atmosphere; selected evenings will be broadcast live over the Internet for national audiences. (Multi-state)

Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown
Provincetown, MA
$15,000
To support the Winter Residency Program. Approximately 20 emerging writers and visual artists will be provided with housing, studios and a modest monthly stipend from October 2001 through April 2002.

First Voice, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support phase two of SUN CYCLES. This work combines spoken word, jazz, solo performance and multimedia production with Japanese Gagaku, Noh theater and other Asian performing arts traditions. (Multi-state)

Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center
San Antonio, TX
$45,000
To support the development of Nueva Obras/New Works. This project will serve up to 60 emerging artists who will be able to receive funding, mentoring, publicity assistance and presentation of new work.

Hallwalls, Inc.
Buffalo, NY
$30,000
To support the Hallwalls Artist-in-Residence Project. Six creative residency projects will be the result of artist collaborations in Buffalo between 2001 and 2002.

Harvestworks, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support Harvestworks' Artists' Access Program. This program provides artists with low cost or free access to advanced multimedia facilities and instruction courses in New York City.

Headlands Center for the Arts
Sausalito, CA
$35,000
To support the U.S. Artists-in-Residence Program and public programs. These programs will provide three-month residences for up to 30 artists and 15-20 educational programs for artists and audiences between February 1 and December 31, 2001.

Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture
(Hostos Community College Advisory Council, Inc.)
Bronx, NY
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of Barrios. This new work is centered around the idea and the reality of a series of well-known crossroads and neighborhoods in New York City's Latino communities.

Jack Straw Foundation
Seattle, WA
$10,000
To support audio art residencies for the creation and presentation of new work. The work will be done in Jack Straw studios by artists from a variety of disciplines working creatively with sound.

Justice Matters Institute (on behalf of Asian Improv aRts)
San Francisco, CA
$5,000
To support Day of Remembrance. This annual cultural arts and education presentation is organized in remembrance of the World War II incarceration of more than 120,000 Japanese American and Japanese Peruvian civilians.

Louisville Visual Art Association
Louisville, KY
$5,000
To support an exhibit of woodcuts and a workshop-style presentation of Limbus: a Mechanical Opera. The woodcuts and opera are the extraordinary creations of artist/composer Jay Bolotin.

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (on behalf of Bustlelamp Productions)
New York, NY
$30,000
To support Spectropia. This piece will be an evening-length interactive media performance by two players on multiple screens. (Multi-state)

Mark Morris Dance Group (Discalced, Inc.)
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the production of Lou Harrison's opera Young Caesar. The production, directed and choreographed by Mark Morris, will include all eighteen members of the Mark Morris Dance Group, 15 vocal soloists, and a full chorus and orchestra.

Miami Valley Cooperative Gallery (Consortium)
Dayton, OH
$5,000
To support a consortium with Culture Works to present the Dayton Asian and Asian American Art and Media Festival. The Festival will feature an exhibit of work by Asian American artists and screenings of contemporary film and video works by Asian and Asian American media artists.

Mixed Bag Productions
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support Monk at the Met. Eight world premiere performances will take place in June 2001.

Montclair State University
Upper Montclair, NJ
$10,000
To support a multimedia theatre production based on Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage and Her Children. A new text will be created to explore the African American female experience with race, class and gender.

New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. (Consortium)
Staten Island, NY
$15,000
To support an Internet performance project. Performances will be made available in real time to audiences at various geographic locations and simultaneously to individuals on the Internet. Afterwards, the pieces will be available in an online archive. (Multi-state)

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc.
(on behalf of Maureen Fleming Performance)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support Mother/Child created by Maureen Fleming Performance. The new work will be performed in Santa Cruz, Minneapolis, Cleveland and New York and will include a residency component involving local performing artists. (Multi-state)

North Arkansas Symphony Society
Fayetteville, AR
$10,000
To support Crossover 2001. This project will commission an orchestral work by a Brazilian and an American composer and choreography by Dance Brazil's resident choreographer Jelon Vieira.

On the Boards
Seattle, WA
$30,000
To support the three year initiative Redefining the Performing Artist: An Interdisciplinary Approach. The initiative will consist of four performance residencies and a local festival in which new productions will premiere.

Painted Bride Art Center
Philadelphia, PA
$20,000
To support Abriendo Puertas (Opening Doors). This five-week festival will celebrate the artistic contributions of contemporary women from the Latin Diaspora.

Roulette Intermedium, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support a Festival of Experimental Music Theater. This series of concerts will focus on ways in which artists are using or adapting new technologies to make music theater.

Shadowlight Productions
San Francisco, CA
$17,000
To support the commissioning of Dreaming California. This new, shadow theater performance piece focuses on the history of Latinos in California.

Temple University (on behalf of Tyler School of Art/Art Works in Different Places)
Philadelphia, PA
$35,000
To support a series of commissioned works. Presented in the fall/spring 2001, the new works will tour in several communities.

Theatre of Yugen, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support a new multidisciplinary production by Erik Ehn. Based on the life of 19th century writer and Japan scholar Lafacido Hearn, the production will combine Western naturalism with Asian theater and dance styles as well as multimedia audiovisual techniques.

University of Massachusetts at Amherst (Consortium)
Amherst, MA
$45,000
To support the creation of a new theater work and the Future Aesthetics Festival. The proposed project, a collaboration between the University's New World Theater and Performance Space 122, will explore new theater aesthetics focusing on theater of the spoken word, contemporary music, performance poetry and hip hop. (Multi-state)

Walker Art Center, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$55,000
To support the commissioning of an artist residency project, Advent of Change: Creative Convergence in Form, Context, and Community. This project will involve a range of artists including those working in dance, music, video, puppet theater, installation, performance, sculpture, film and new media.

Wexner Center for the Arts (Wexner Center Foundation)
Columbus, OH
$75,000
To support the commissioning of visual, performing and media art works for the Wexner Center's residency program. The program provides financial, technical and professional support for the creation and/or presentation of new works.

MUSEUMS

Albright College (on behalf of the Freedman Gallery) (Consortium)
Reading, PA
$15,000
To support the planning of an exhibition and festival titled Mexico 2002. The project is a consortium between the Freedman Gallery, the Freyberger Gallery at Penn State, the Reading Public Museum, and the Sharadin Gallery at Kutztown University.

Americas Society, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the planning of the exhibition The Image of the Indian: Ethnicity, Visuality, and Patterns of Meaning in Colonial Mexico. The exhibition will examine the multiplicity of visual representations of Indians in Spanish colonial art and how those images contributed to the formation of identity.

Amherst College (on behalf of the Mead Art Museum)
Amherst, MA
$20,000
To support the touring exhibition Casa Mañana: The Morrow Collection of Mexican Popular Arts, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will be drawn from the collection amassed by Dwight and Elizabeth Morrow in the late 1920's when Dwight Morrow served as the American ambassador to Mexico.

Asia Society
New York, NY
$90,000
To support the exhibition Monks and Merchants: Silk Road Treasures from Northwest China, 4th to 7th Century, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. Centered on recently excavated material from the Gansu and Ningxia provinces, the exhibition will explore China's interactions with its neighbors during this period when it was more receptive to foreign influences. (Multi-state)

Bellevue Art Museum
Bellevue, WA
$25,000
To support the Residency/New Works program planned for the inaugural year of the new Bellevue Art Museum. The program will bring artists and audiences together to collaborate on the production of new work.

Boise Art Museum
Boise, ID
$30,000
To support an exhibition of the work of contemporary American artist Gary Hill, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will consist of up to four video installations and a new commissioned work to premiere in Boise.

California State University, Long Beach Foundation
(on behalf of University Art Museum)
Long Beach, CA
$25,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of American artist Tom Wesselman, with accompanying catalogue and education materials. The exhibition will be the first full-career survey of the artist's small scale works. (Multi-state)

Cheney Cowles Museum (Eastern Washington State Historical Society)
Spokane, WA
$15,000
To support an exhibition of the work of contemporary American artist James Lavadour, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. This will be the first in a series of one person exhibitions titled Social Landscapes, presenting artists who explore contemporary society's relationship to the land and nature.

Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art
Cleveland, OH
$20,000
To support the exhibition Reclaiming Space, and an accompanying catalogue. The exhibition will present an international group of contemporary artists whose work addresses the challenge of human existence in the face of an increasingly complex, global society.

Columbia University in the City of New York (on behalf of the Wallach Gallery)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support an exhibition of the work of American architect Percival Goodman, and an accompanying catalogue. Titled Percival Goodman: Architect, Teacher, Planner, and Poet, this will be the first retrospective exhibition of Goodman's work.

Columbus Museum of Art
Columbus, OH
$50,000
To support the touring exhibition Circle of Bliss: The Tantric Tradition of Tibet and Nepal, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will examine Tibetan art in the context of past and present-day Buddhist ritual. (Multi-state)

Des Moines Art Center (Edmundson Art Foundation, Inc.)
(on behalf of Des Moines Art Center)
Des Moines, IA
$30,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of contemporary American artist Ellen Gallagher, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will consist of new works created specifically for the project, including a site-specific sculpture. (Multi-state)

Detroit Institute of Arts
Detroit, MI
$75,000
To support The Legacy of Michelangelo: The Medici and Late Renaissance Art in Florence (1537-1631), a major international loan exhibition with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will include drawings by Michelangelo and Cellini, significant paintings by Bronzino, Pantormo, and Salviati and intricate decorative arts by Buontalenti.

Dia Center for the Arts (Consortium)
New York, NY
$35,000
To support a public art project by contemporary American artist George Trakas on the Hudson River waterfront in Beacon, NY. Dia has formed a consortium with Scenic Hudson Land Trust, Inc. to carry out the project.

Drawing Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the touring exhibition Heavenly Visions: Shaker Gift Drawings and Gift Songs, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will consist of drawings, manuscripts and lyric verses created in Shaker communities from 1837 to 1855. (Multi-state)

Fabric Workshop and Museum
Philadelphia, PA
$50,000
To support a program of residencies and solo exhibitions by contemporary artists. Working collaboratively with the Fabric Workshop staff, each artist will create a new work using the materials, techniques and concepts of fabric in new and experimental ways.

Hudson River Museum
Yonkers, NY
$20,000
To support an exhibition titled Magic of Light, with accompanying catalogue. The exhibition will feature works from the 1960s to the present that use light as a sculptural element and will include a number of site-specific commissions.

Indianapolis Museum of Art
Indianapolis, IN
$30,000
To support the exhibition Gifts to the Tsars, 1500-1700: Treasures from the Kremlin, and accompanying education programs. Objects in the exhibition will be loaned by the Armory, the principal component of the State Museum Preserve of History and Culture at the Moscow Kremlin.

Institute for Contemporary Art, P.S. 1 Museum and the Clocktower Gallery
Long Island City, NY
$15,000
To support an exhibition of the work of contemporary Canadian artist Janet Cardiff, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will include the artist's site specific audio walks as well as a number of indoor sound pieces and multimedia installations.

James A. Michener Art Museum
Doylestown, PA
$20,000
To support an exhibition of the work of furniture designer George Nakashima (1905-1990), with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will reexamine Nakashima's practice within the larger context of European Modernism.

Japan Society, Inc.
New York, NY
$80,000
To support the national tour of a retrospective exhibition of the work of artist Yoko Ono. This is the first major museum exhibition of Ono's long artistic career in the fields of visual art, music, film and performance. (Multi-state)

Jewish Museum
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the exhibition Experiencing Emancipation: European Jewish Artists Confront Modernity, 1833-1914, and an accompanying catalogue. The exhibition will examine the range of stylistic and thematic responses to the process of acculturation and the changing political and social status of Jews in the 19th century.

Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Inc.
Wausau, WI
$20,000
To support a touring exhibition titled Sign of the Times: Meaning and Design in Textiles, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will examine the origin and evolution of design motifs in an array of historical and contemporary textiles from around the world.

Menil Collection (Menil Foundation, Inc.)
Houston, TX
$25,000
To support the exhibition Pop Art: US/UK Connections, and accompanying educational materials and programs. The exhibition will examine the development of classic Pop art through a critical transatlantic cultural exchange which occurred in the decade between 1956 and 1966.

Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, NY
$75,000
To support an exhibition of Islamic glass produced from the 7th through the 19th centuries, titled Glass of the Sultans. The exhibition will showcase approximately 150 of the most important extant glass objects, borrowed from public and private collections around the world, beginning with their 7th-century, Roman-inspired origins to the products of18th and 19th century India and Iran.

Mint Museum of Art, Inc.
Charlotte, NC
$90,000
To support the exhibition The Sport of Life and Death: The Mesoamerican Ballgame, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will be the first major traveling exhibition to explore a fundamental theme of ancient Mesoamerican art -- the world's first team sport played with a rubber ball. (Multi-state)

Moore College of Art (on behalf of the Goldie Paley Gallery)
Philadelphia, PA
$30,000
To support the exhibition Poetics + Technology: Art at the Start of the Digital Age, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The project offers the opportunity to explore topics such as the nature of artistic production in the technological age and artists' evolving perspectives vis-a-vis the role of the gallery as an interactive cybersite.

Museum of Contemporary Art (Consortium)
Chicago, IL
$50,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of American artist H.C. Westermann, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. Collaborating with the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art will present comprehensive exhibitions of Westermann's sculpture and prints. (Multi-state)

Museum of Contemporary Art (Consortium)
Chicago, IL
$100,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of contemporary South African artist William Kentridge, with accompanying catalogue. The exhibition will be organized as a consortium of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York. (Multi-state)

Museum of Photographic Arts
San Diego, CA
$40,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of contemporary Italian photographer Mario Giacomelli, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The retrospective exhibition will include the artist's earliest work as well as his current projects -- photographs that span the last half of the 20th century. (Multi-state)

New Museum of Contemporary Art
New York, NY
$20,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of contemporary Venezuelan artist José Antonio Hernández-Diez, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. Hernández -Diez creates multimedia installations that examine stereotypical views of Latin American identity. (Multi-state)

Newark Museum Association (Consortium)
Newark, NJ
$50,000
To support the exhibition Dutch Intimacy and Opulence: The Art of the Home and Private Life, 1640-1700, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The project is a consortium between the Newark Museum and the Denver Art Museum. (Multi-state)

North Carolina Central University (on behalf of the Art Museum)
Durham, NC
$25,000
To support an exhibition of the work of African American artist Malvin Gray Johnson, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will explore Johnson's brief but influential career as a participant in the Harlem Renaissance.

North Carolina Museum of Art Foundation, Inc.
Raleigh, NC
$40,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of American artist Stanton Macdonald-Wright, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The artist played a central role in the emergence of modernist painting and theory in both America and Europe. (Multi-state)

North Dakota Museum of Art
Grand Forks, ND
$40,000
To support the commissioning of a new work by contemporary American artist Mary Lucier, with an accompanying catalogue. The work will be a video installation piece addressing the emptying out of the Great Plains.

Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia, PA
$60,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of American artist Thomas Eakins, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will be the first comprehensive survey of Eakin's work in the United States in nearly 20 years. (Multi-state)

Phillips Collection
Washington, DC
$100,000
To support the touring exhibition Over the Line: The Art and Life of Jacob Lawrence, with accompanying education programs. This will be the first retrospective exhibition to fully examine the evolution of Lawrence's style, technique and methods in light of the latest scholarship. (Multi-state)

Red Cloud Indian School, Inc. (Consortium)
Pine Ridge, SD
$10,000
To support an exhibition of the work of Native American artist Arthur Amiotte, with accompanying catalogue. The project is a consortium between the Heritage Center Based at Red Cloud; University of South Dakota, Vermillion; Washington Pavilion of Arts and Sciences, Sioux Falls; South Dakota Art Museum, Brookings; Journey Museum, Rapid City; Akta Lakota Museum, Chamberlain; and Northern State University, Aberdeen.

Research Foundation of State University of New York
(on behalf of the Neuberger Museum)
Albany, NY
$37,000
To support the touring exhibition Central African Art from the Lawrence Gussman Collection, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will present approximately 75 works from the Gussman Collection, which was dispersed among the Neuberger, the National Museum of African Art in Washington, and the Israeli Museum in Jerusalem. (Multi-state)

Rollins College (on behalf of the Cornell Fine Arts Museum)
Winter Park, FL
$37,000
To support the exhibition Cosimo Roselli: Painter of the Sistine Chapel, with accompanying catalogue. The exhibition will illuminate this important, but largely neglected, Florentine Renaissance artist.

Saint Louis Art Museum
St. Louis, MO
$80,000
To support the exhibition The Gentileschi: Father and Daughter Painters. The exhibition is being organized in collaboration with the Soprintenza per i Beni Artistici, Rome and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. (Multi-state)

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
San Francisco, CA
$95,000
To support a traveling retrospective exhibition of the work of American artist Eva Hesse (1936 1970), with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The most comprehensive presentation of Hesse's work to date, the exhibition will offer new research into her career and reveal her significant influence on contemporary artistic practice and thought. (Multi-state)

SECCA (Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art)
Winston-Salem, NC
$25,000
To support a residency project by multimedia American artist Lesley Dill, with accompanying education programs. Dill will be the tenth artist to participate in SECCA's ongoing Artist and Community residency program.

University of California at Berkeley (on behalf of University Art Museum)
Berkeley, CA
$10,000
To support a touring retrospective exhibition of the work of American artist Joe Brainard, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. While Brainard was an active figure in the New York art and literary world in the 1960s and 70s, his work has not been the subject of a substantive exhibition. (Multi-state)

University of Michigan at Ann Arbor (on behalf of the Museum of Art)
Ann Arbor, MI
$40,000
To support a touring exhibition of Armenian art, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will examine Armenian works of art from the 6th to the 7th century and their relationship to the cultural and artistic identity of Armenia. (Multi-state)

University of North Carolina at Greensboro
(on behalf of the Weatherspoon Art Gallery)
Greensboro, NC
$15,000
To support the touring exhibition Priceless Children: Lewis Hine and the Photo-Secession (1890-1925), with accompanying catalogue. The exhibition will contrast Hine's social documentary photographs with pictorialist images depicting contrary views of the history of childhood in America at the turn of the century. (Multi-state)

University of Pennsylvania
(on behalf of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology)
Philadelphia, PA
$50,000
To support the reinstallation of the Museum's renowned permanent collections of Etruscan and Roman art and artifacts. Three renovated galleries with newly conceived thematic installations are planned.

University of Wyoming (on behalf of the Art Museum)
Laramie, WY
$27,000
To support the exhibition The Legacy of Lord Carnarvon: Miniatures from Ancient Egypt and the Valley of the Kings, with accompanying catalogue and lecture series. The exhibition and catalogue will present and discuss antiquities and photographs from the fifth Earl of Carnarvon, participant and funder of Howard Carter's explorations, which led to the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamen.

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Richmond, VA
$60,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of contemporary African American artist Martin Puryear, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. This will be the first exhibition of the artist's work in the United States in the last decade. (Multi-state)

Wadsworth Atheneum
Hartford, CT
$40,000
To support the exhibition Gaugin's Nirvana, Painters at Le Pouldu, 1889-90, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. Centered on Gaugin's portrait of his patron the Dutch artist Meyer de Haan, in the Atheneum's permanent collection, the exhibition will explore for the first time the influences of both artists on each other's work.

Walters Art Gallery (Consortium)
Baltimore, MD
$50,000
To support the commission of temporary works of public art on the occasion of the reopening of the Walters' newly renovated 1974 building. The project is a consortium with the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore.

Williams College (on behalf of the Museum of Art)
Williamstown, MA
$30,000
To support the exhibition Chain Reaction, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition will feature drawings of fantastical machines from the College's collection of works by early 20th-century cartoonist Rube Goldberg, as an introduction for contemporary works similarly concerned with humorous explorations of mechanical devices and functions.

Yellowstone Art Center Foundation
Billings, MT
$20,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of contemporary American artist Terry Allen, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The multidisciplinary project will include an exhibition, site-specific installations and a music/theater piece.

MUSIC

Albany Symphony Association, Inc.
Albany, NY
$25,000
To support Composing the Future, a multi-faceted project celebrating American composers and their music. During 2001-02, the Albany Symphony Orchestra (ASO) and two smaller ensembles made up of ASO musicians will commission, present and record for national distribution the music of established and emerging American symphonic repertoire. (Multi-state)

American Composers Orchestra, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
To support the Emerging American Composers Project, featuring composers of diverse racial and stylistic backgrounds in commissions and performances of new works, as well as outreach and residency activities. During 2001-02, the American Composers Orchestra will mark its 25th anniversary with six world premieres in four orchestral concerts at Carnegie Hall and will continue its new music reading sessions.

Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Ann Arbor, MI
$5,000
To support the performance of an updated version of Camille Saint-Saens's Carnival of the Animals set to slam poetry (poetry with performance elements), a premiere of a new work by a University of Michigan doctoral candidate in composition, and youth concerts focusing on the theme "All Creatures, Great and Small."

Apollo's Fire, The Cleveland Baroque Orchestra
Cleveland, OH
$6,000
To support a festival and symposium titled The Monteverdi Experience. Activities will take place during 2001 and will include performances of Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610, concerts, lectures, recitals, a baroque dance class and a panel discussion. (Multi-state)

Baltimore Choral Arts Society, Inc.
Baltimore, MD
$10,000
To support the presentation of Dave Brubeck's oratorio Gates of Justice for chorus, brass, percussion and jazz quartet. The Baltimore Choral Arts Society and the Dave Brubeck Quartet will perform the oratorio at Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall in March 2001.

Bang on a Can, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the annual Bang on a Can Marathon. This December 2001 day-long festival of new music will take place in New York City.

Boise State University (on behalf of the Boise Chamber Music Society)
Boise, ID
$5,000
To support concerts and educational events by professional chamber music ensembles. The concerts will be presented during 2001-02 at the Morrison Center Recital Hall in Boise.

Boston Baroque, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
$10,000
To support concert performances and the first recording of The Beneficent Dervish, a newly discovered, fairy-tale opera written by Mozart and his friends and colleagues in the final year of his life. The concerts will take place in Boston's Jordan Hall at New England Conservatory during 2001. (Multi-state)

Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Inc.
Boston, MA
$5,000
To support the American Orchestral Music Initiative. During 2001, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project will perform and record three American orchestral works for international distribution. (Multi-state)

Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. (on behalf of Tanglewood Music Center)
Boston, MA
$50,000
To support the Festival of Contemporary Music. In August 2001, Tanglewood Music Center (TMC) will present the week-long event within the Tanglewood Festival featuring five to seven concerts by ensembles of TMC fellows and guest artists and by the TMC Orchestra.

Bronx Arts Ensemble, Inc.
Bronx, NY
$7,500
To support a residency by the Bronx Arts Ensemble Orchestra and Chorus and Roberto Sierra as composer-in-residence at the Hostos Community College in the South Bronx. The week-long residency in November 2001 will include performances of Roberto Sierra's oratorio Bayoan.

Brooklyn Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$25,000
To support the premiere performances of newly commissioned works by composers Michael Hersch and Christopher Theofanidis. Each work will be performed by the Brooklyn Philharmonic at the Brooklyn Academy of Music Opera House during 2001.

California EAR Unit Foundation
Green Valley, CA
$5,000
To support the creation and presentation of three new works by composers Jin Hi Kim, Annie Gosfield and Laetitia Sonami. The performances will be part of the Woven Voices Series scheduled at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art during 2001-02.

California State University Sacramento Trust Foundation
(on behalf of the Festival of New American Music)
Sacramento, CA
$5,000
To support the Festival of New American Music to be held on the campus of California State University and at various community venues. In November 2001, the 25th Annual Festival will focus on many facets of new American music, including a concert presented by composer Rand Steiger on the latest developments in computer-generated music and premieres of works by Kurt Rohde, Carols Sanchez-Guiterez and Richard Festinger.

Carnegie Hall (Carnegie Hall Corporation)
New York, NY
$85,000
To support Philip Glass 2002 - Celebration of a National Treasure, a series of programs including the creation and presentation of a new orchestral work by Mr. Glass, as well as other performances that encompass artistic presentations, audience development, elementary education and teacher training. While Mr. Glass's participation will occur throughout the season, the highlight of the celebration will take place February 1-3, 2002.

Central Pennsylvania Friends of Jazz
Harrisburg, PA
$5,000
To support an annual jazz festival and related activities. During June 2001, Central Pennsylvania Friends of Jazz will present concerts, a riverboat jazz cruise and several Jazzwalks in Harrisburg.

Chamber Music Conference and Composers's Forum of the East
Melville, NY
$7,500
To support a composer residency and commissioning program as part of a summer chamber music conference. During the 2001 summer conference, composers Stephen Jaffee and Gregory Mertl will participate in week-long residencies and senior composer-in-residence Chen Yi will participate in a three-week residency.

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$25,000
To support A Great Day in New York--A Celebration of Composers, a consortium project with the Elaine Kaufman Cultural Center/Lucy Moses School for Music and Dance. Nine concerts and companion lectures with composers will take place in Alice Tully and Merkin Concert Halls during 2001.

Chicago Chamber Musicians
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support First Monday, a free noontime concert series by the Chicago Chamber Musicians at the Chicago Cultural Center that will be broadcast live by the WFMT-FM radio station. The format for the series in 2001-02 takes on a 45-minute interactive approach offering audiences the opportunity to learn from the musicians themselves about the music that is performed. (Multi state)

Choral Arts Society of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA
$7,500
To support performances of British composer Gerald Finzi's Intimations of Immortality, a large scale work scored for tenor, chorus and orchestra, and the creation and performances of a new work by Jake Heggie with associated educational activities. These two works will be performed on the same program in the spring of 2001 at Philadelphia's Academy of Music and again in West Chester, PA following a high school symposium and dress rehearsal for 600 students.

City of El Paso Arts Resources Department
El Paso, TX
$5,000
To support the World on a String Guitar Festival. This classical guitar festival of performances and master classes will take place in April 2001 at the Chamizal National Memorial Theater in El Paso.

Cleveland State University (on behalf of the Cleveland Chamber Symphony)
Cleveland, OH
$7,500
To support jazz artist residencies with the Cleveland Chamber Symphony. During 2001-02, several jazz soloists, ensembles and composers will be invited to collaborate with the chamber orchestra for the creation, presentation and recording of new work.

Colonial Symphony
Basking Ridge, NJ
$5,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new work for orchestra, chorus and soloists by composer-in-residence David Sampson. The new work will premiere in Morristown, NJ in the spring of 2002 and is intended to showcase New Jersey musicians, singers, poets and Mr. Sampson.

Composers Conference and Chamber Music Center, Inc.
Wayland, MA
$5,000
To support a composer mentorship project enabling emerging composers to study with senior composers and musicians, and for concert presentations and recordings of their work by new music experts at Wellesley College. Ten composers will participate in this project during July and August 2001.

Concert Artists Guild, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support national concert presentations of emerging classical musicians on the Concert Artists Guild roster, the 50th Anniversary Guild Artists Festival, and Festival Tour. Featuring contemporary music and collaborations between Guild artists, 50 concerts will be presented in New York and across the country, with performances broadcast on radio and the Web. (Multi state)

Concert Competitions and Musical Development, Inc.
Ann Arbor, MI
$25,000
To support the Sphinx Competition for gifted emerging musicians. During 2001, the Competition's semi-finalist string players will perform with the Sphinx Symphony at the Honors and Finals Concerts in Ann Arbor's Hill Auditorium.

Concerto Soloists of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA
$5,000
To support the creation and premiere of a new work by American composer Luis Prado. Concerto Soloists of Philadelphia and pianist Gary Graffman will perform Prado's concerto for piano left hand and chamber orchestra at the new Pennsylvania Regional Performing Arts Center in 2002.

Cuyahoga Community College (on behalf of Tri-C JazzFest Cleveland)
Cleveland, OH
$15,000
To support the 22nd annual Tri-C JazzFest. The festival's artists will bridge music of the world through the diversity of jazz compositions in concerts, educational activities and national radio broadcasts aired on WCPN-FM in Cleveland. (Multi-state)

Da Camera Society of Texas
Houston, TX
$10,000
To support concerts and pre-concert panel discussions that combine music and literature. Two concert productions will take place in Houston's Wortham Theater Center with panel discussions at the University of Houston in February and April 2002.

Dale Warland Singers
Minneapolis, MN
$5,500
To support a recording project by the Dale Warland Singers of two choral works by American composer Dominick Argento. This 2001 project will complete the chorus's current cycle of recordings that began with Bernstein and Britten in September 1999 with a grant from the Sewell Family Foundation.

Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra Association
Dayton, OH
$10,000
To support Classical Connections, a series of concerts with an informal format that combines discussion, demonstration and performance. There are four concerts scheduled in 2001 to take place in Memorial Hall in Dayton.

Des Moines Children's Choruses, Inc.
Des Moines, IA
$5,000
To support the Des Moines International Children's Choral Festival. The biennial festival of concerts, community outreach performances, master classes, competition events, and workshops is scheduled for a week in July 2001.

Des Moines Symphony Association
Des Moines, IA
$5,000
To support a world premiere performance of a new work by James Poulsen and a composer residency with Michael Daugherty. The composers will participate with the Des Moines Symphony in community outreach activities during 2000-01.

Detroit Public Library
Detroit, MI
$10,000
To support a celebration of the well known concert singer Roland Hayes. In March 2001, the Detroit Public Library will present a musical biography on the life of Mr. Hayes, as well as a concert featuring internationally recognized classical performers.

Dorian Woodwind Quintet Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new work in five movements for wind quintet. In celebration of the ensemble's 40th anniversary in the fall of 2001, each movement of the work will be written by a different composer -- Bruce Adolphe, Richard Rodney Bennett, Lee Hoiby, George Perle, and Joan Tower -- and will be performed in New York City; Terre Haute, IN; and Sacramento, CA. (Multi-state)

Early Music America, Inc. (Consortium)
Cleveland, OH
$25,000
To support a consortium project presenting early music concerts in a number of different U.S. cities. During 2001-03, Early Music America and eight consortium partners will develop a touring roster of American early music ensembles and present 32 public concerts. (Multi-state)

Earplay
San Francisco, CA
$5,000
To support contemporary, classical chamber music concerts. Four concerts by the Earplay ensemble will take place in the winter and spring of 2001 at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.

Eos Music, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the presentation of a concert and symposium dedicated to American composer Bernard Herrman. During 2001, Eos Music will perform Herrman's orchestral works and neglected repertoire, and showcase his compositions in a film festival.

Fort Wayne Philharmonic Orchestra, Inc.
Fort Wayne, IN
$12,500
To support Unplugged, Fort Wayne Philharmonic's informal classical concert series. During 2001-02, Unplugged concerts will be hosted by a local television personality and feature casually-dressed orchestra members under live video images projected on a large screen.

Gregg Smith Singers, Inc.
Yonkers, NY
$5,000
To support reading workshops of new choral works by emerging composers. During the 2001 02 season, the Gregg Smith Singers will hold workshops in conjunction with performances in New York City and at the Adirondack Festival of American Music in Saranac Lake, NY.

Handel & Haydn Society
Boston, MA
$20,000
To support performances of a semi-staged production of Handel's opera Ariodante. The presentations will take place in Boston's Symphony Hall during 2001-02.

Hesperus
Arlington, VA
$7,500
To support performances of Gideon's Trumpet: African American Music in the Americas From Columbus to Memphis Minnie. This scripted concert with two actor/singers and five instrumentalists will be performed in Arlington, VA in February 2001 and will trace the history of African American music from 1500-1930 in Latin America, the Caribbean and North America.

Houston Friends of Music
Houston, TX
$5,000
To support the presentation of chamber music concerts with associated master classes and demonstrations. From January to April 2001, three string quartets will be presented at Stude Concert Hall on the campus of Rice University.

Houston Symphony Society
Houston, TX
$22,500
To support a new chamber orchestra series. During 2001-02, select Houston Symphony principal musicians comprising the newly named Houston Symphony Chamber Players will perform four concerts in the 1,110-seat Cullen Theater.

Indiana State University
Terre Haute, IN
$5,000
To support the 35th annual Contemporary Music Festival. This two-day festival will take place on the campus of Indiana State University, Terre Haute in the fall of 2001.

Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra (Indiana State Symphony Society, Inc.)
Indianapolis, IN
$25,000
To support CREATExcellence, a composer-in-residency initiative. The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra will host two American composers and premiere their new works during the 2002 season.

International Association of Jazz Educators
Manhattan, KS
$30,000
To support artists' fees and production costs for concert presentations during the 29th Annual International Association of Jazz Educators Conference and Music Festival. The January 2002 conference will be held in Long Beach, CA. (Multi-state)

Jazz at Lincoln Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
To support the restoration and presentation of jazz masterworks. During 2001, Jazz at Lincoln Center will create transcriptions from original recordings by composers and arrangers, such as Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Fletcher Henderson, and perform them in New York and on tour throughout the United States. (Multi-state)

Jazz In Flight
Oakland, CA
$7,500
To support Jazz in Flight's annual Eddie Moore Festival. The festival, scheduled in August 2001, will be the 12th annual tribute to jazz drummer Eddie Moore, and will feature new, innovative and cross-cultural jazz to Bay Area audiences.

Jubilate, Inc.
Miami, FL
$5,000
To support orchestral and choral concerts of music written or influenced by African Americans. The four programs will take place from January to May 2001 in Palm Beach and Miami-Dade counties in Florida.

Juneau Jazz & Classics
Juneau, AK
$5,000
To support the production and presentation of a festival of classical and jazz music, including performances and workshops. Twenty-four musicians will participate in the 10-day, May 2001 festival of open rehearsals, free performances, local radio broadcasts and in-school concerts for students.

Kansas City Symphony
Kansas City, MO
$30,000
To support a celebration of the orchestral music of Igor Stravinsky. The Celebrating Stravinsky festival will occur from January to March 2001.

Kitka, Inc.
Oakland, CA
$25,000
To support a series of programs titled Tradition & Innovation: Eastern European Folk Music in America, including the commissioning of new works. During 2001 and 2002, Kitka -- a professional women's vocal ensemble -- will produce four programs that explore Bulgarian, Greek, Jewish and early music from Eastern Europe in collaboration with four American ethnic music groups.

Kronos Quartet (Kronos Performing Arts Association)
San Francisco, CA
$35,000
To support Visual Music and Tropicalismo!, two presentation projects by the Kronos Quartet that will tour in a number of different states. During 2001-02, Kronos will explore adventurous works and new ways to bridge associations between the string quartet and traditional instruments. (Multi-state)

Kuumbwa Jazz Society
Santa Cruz, CA
$10,000
To support the commission and presentation of a new work by composer and pianist Billy Childs for jazz chamber sextet and woodwind quintet. The work will premiere in the fall of 2001 following a five-day, artists-in-residency program for high school and college students in the Bay Area.

Lafayette College
Easton, PA
$10,500
To support jazz ensemble residencies and performances at Lafayette College. The Lafayette Jazz 2001 project will feature jazz artists Roy Hargrove, David Murray, Uri Caine, Geoff Keezer, Stefon Harris and Orin Evans.

Litchfield Performing Arts, Inc.
Litchfield, CT
$7,500
To support the Litchfield Jazz Festival and Summer Music School. During 2001, the Festival will feature jazz performances and master classes in Goshen and Waterbury, CT.

Los Angeles Master Chorale Association
Los Angeles, CA
$12,500
To support performances of American choral music that will celebrate the 54-year career of Music Director Paul Salamunovich. In addition to conducting his favorite choral works, Mr. Salamunovich will narrate his experiences with composers, conductors and arrangers who influenced choral music in America.

Los Angeles Philharmonic Association
Los Angeles, CA
$100,000
To support the 20th anniversary celebration of the Philharmonic's New Music Group. Throughout 2001-02, the New Music Group will perform works featuring composers William Kraft, John Harbison, Steven Stucky and Esa-Pekka Salonen.

Master Chorale of Tampa Bay (Choral Masterworks Festival, Inc.)
Tampa, FL
$5,000
To support a composer-in-residence project for the creation and presentation of a new choral work. During 2001, composer Paul Basler will participate with the Master Chorale of Tampa Bay in rehearsals and performances of his new work, as well as educational outreach programming in public schools in the Tampa Bay area.

Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,000
To support the commission and premiere of four new works by American composers. The Metamorphosen Chamber Orchestra will perform the works at Boston's Jordan Hall during
2001-02.

Mills College
Oakland, CA
$5,000
To support the presentation of four concerts by the Center for Contemporary Music. During 2001-02, guest composers James Tenney, Myra Melford, Leo Wadada Smith and Lois Vierk will participate in performances of their work at the Mills College Concert Hall in Oakland.

Minnesota Orchestral Association
Minneapolis, MN
$75,000
To support the creation and performance of up to 11 commissions by the Minnesota Orchestral Association in the second phase of its centennial celebration. For two seasons starting in 2001-02, the Minnesota Orchestra will premiere these new works. (Multi-state)

Monadnock Music
Peterborough, NH
$7,500
To support free concerts by soloists, ensembles and a chamber orchestra presented in churches and meeting houses in 17 rural towns of the Monadnock region of southwestern New Hampshire. From July 7 through August 31, 2001, three free concerts per week are planned.

Monterey Jazz Festival
Monterey, CA
$15,000
To support the 2001 Monterey Jazz Festival, held at the Monterey County Fairgrounds. Three key components of the festival are a commissioned work to premiere at the festival, artists in residence and performances by emerging jazz musicians.

Mount Saint Mary's College
Los Angeles, CA
$17,500
To support Chamber Music in Historic Sites to be presented by the Da Camera Society of Mount Saint Mary's College. Taking place during 2001-02, the concerts match musical programs from a variety of cultures and periods with sites of architectural and historical significance in the Los Angeles area.

Music at Angel Fire, Inc.
Angel Fire, NM
$12,500
To support Music at Angel Fire's 18th Anniversary Festival. The 2001 festival will tour the rural, northern New Mexico communities of Angel Fire, Raton, Las Vegas (NM) and Taos. (Multi-state)

Music From China, Inc.
New York, NY
$12,500
To support the creation and presentation of new music by Chinese American composers using traditional Chinese and Western instruments. Concerts will take place in New York, Connecticut, Ohio and in Los Angeles throughout the 2001-02 season. (Multi-state)

Musical Arts Association
Cleveland, OH
$75,000
To support Restoring a Landmark - Restoring Tradition, a celebration of the reinstallation of the Cleveland Orchestra's historic E.M. Skinner organ in the renovated Severance Hall. During 2001, the orchestra will perform repertoire scored with the organ; present organ recitals; and schedule discussions, lectures and open rehearsals. (Multi-state)

Musicorda, Inc.
South Hadley, MA
$5,000
To support a 15th anniversary celebration of concerts and the creation and presentation of new works by Gabriela Lena Frank. The six concerts in July and August 2001 will feature former Musicorda students who are now concertizing soloists and quartet musicians.

Nashville Chamber Orchestra (Consortium)
Nashville, TN
$10,000
To support a consortium project with the Nashville Independent Film Festival for the creation and presentation of a short concert film for chamber orchestra by filmmaker John Lloyd Miller and composer Conni Ellisor. The filmmaker and composer will collaborate so that the original music will be "conducted" by the film using video monitors and a rear-projection screen. The premiere performance will be in November 2001.

National Symphony Orchestra Association
Washington, DC
$50,000
To support a festival of British music. In 2001, the National Symphony Orchestra will present a three-week festival of nine orchestral concerts that explore known and lesser-known repertoire and British influences on classical music.

New Jersey Symphony Orchestra
Newark, NJ
$22,500
To support the creation and presentation of new orchestral works. The three commissioned works by composers Bun-Ching Lam, Hannibal Lokoumbe and Thomas Oboe Lee will premiere in the springs of 2001 and 2002.

New York Festival of Song Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support thematically-based song recitals presented by the New York Festival of Song. The six programs will take place during 2001 in The Sylvia and Danny Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College and in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall.

New York New Music Ensemble
New York, NY
$5,000
To support the rehearsals and performances of "revivals," works by American composers previously commissioned for and premiered by the New York New Music Ensemble. During 2001, the ensemble will perform these works in New York City and on tour in cities in New York, California, Georgia, Illinois and Pennsylvania. (Multi-state)

New York Philharmonic (Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York, Inc).
New York, NY
$75,000
To support a presentation project by the New York Philharmonic under the direction of Music Director Kurt Mazur. During 2001-02, the Philharmonic will perform two large-scale choral works featuring the Westminster Symphonic Choir, the American Boychoir, and New York Choral Artists. (Multi-state)

New York's Ensemble for Early Music (Early Music Foundation, Inc.)
New York, NY
$7,500
To support a three-part performance project. During 2001, the Early Music Foundation will present Daniel and the Lions, a medieval music-drama; produce two recordings; and prepare three concert programs for national touring. (Multi-state)

Northwest Sinfonietta, Inc.
Tacoma, WA
$5,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new symphonic work by composer-in-residence Daniel Ott to mark Northwest Sinfonietta's 10th anniversary season. The first performances will take place in February 2001 in Seattle and Tacoma, WA.

Oakland East Bay Symphony
Oakland, CA
$12,500
To support three commissions and two West Coast premieres of new works by American composers. During 2001, the Oakland East Bay Symphony will perform works by Chen Yi, Michael Abels, David Conte and Ellen Hoffman.

Ojai Festivals, Ltd.
Ojai, CA
$15,000
To support the 2001 Ojai Music Festival. Directed by conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen, the six-day festival will celebrate its 55th anniversary with performances by ensembles, soloists and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

OK Mozart, Inc.
Bartlesville, OK
$20,000
To support the 2001 OK Mozart Festival. Performances will be held throughout the Bartlesville community over a nine-day period in June 2001 and will include music for orchestra, chamber ensemble and chorus.

Oregon Symphony Association
Portland, OR
$20,000
To support the presentation of American orchestral works. During 2001-02, the Oregon Symphony will incorporate works by composers such as Barber, Bernstein, Ives, Kernis and Menotti into its programs.

Pacific Chorale
Santa Ana, CA
$10,000
To support the commission of a collaborative work for chorus and orchestra, to be accompanied by an original film. During 2001-02, composer Eric Whitacre and filmmaker Dikayl Dunkley will create the new work for its premiere by the Pacific Chorale.

Peoria Symphony Orchestra
Peoria, IL
$5,000
To support the Peoria Symphony's Musical Matinees, a series of shorter, afternoon concerts for families. During 2001-02, the Symphony will perform four concerts at the Peoria Civic Center.

Philadelphia Chamber Music Society
Philadelphia, PA
$12,500
To support a vocal music presenting project. Four soloists and two choruses will be presented during 2001 in the Greater Philadelphia area.

Philadelphia Orchestra Association
Philadelphia, PA
$100,000
To support the creation and presentation of new works celebrating the Philadelphia Orchestra's centennial anniversary. The works of the three composers to be commissioned -- Michael Daugherty, Aaron Jay Kernis and Jennifer Higdon -- will have premieres and subsequent performances during the 2001-02 season. (Multi-state)

Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
San Francisco, CA
$5,000
To support the presentation of 18th-century Spanish composer Antonio Literes's baroque zarzuela work, Jupiter y Semele. The Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, under the direction of guest conductor Eduardo López Banzo, will give five performances at four venues in the Bay Area during February 2002.

Phoenix Symphony Association
Phoenix, AZ
$12,500
To support the creation and presentation of a new orchestral work by Kenneth Frazelle. The work, to be written in the style of Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante, will premiere in February 2001.

Pittsburgh Symphony Society
Pittsburgh, PA
$85,000
To support the presentation of three weekend programs by the Pittsburgh Symphony. During 2001, the Symphony will also conduct related lectures and discussions in collaboration with community partners.

Plymouth Music Series
Minneapolis, MN
$25,000
To support the 2001 Witness program featuring commissions of new work and the works of neglected and forgotten composers, as well as planning for the 2002 program. The program by the Plymouth Music Series Ensemble Singers, Chorus and Orchestra will include educational events for the annual February Witness concert, a young people's concert, a school residency program in Minneapolis and St. Paul public schools, and regional and national broadcasts on public radio. (Multi-state)

Portland Symphony Orchestra (Consortium)
Portland, ME
$12,500
To support the Portland Symphony Orchestra's residencies in rural Maine, a consortium project with the University of Maine at Presque Isle and the University of Maine at Machias. The seven month project will provide audiences with the opportunity to experience live performances by professional musicians.

ProMusica Chamber Orchestra of Columbus, Inc.
Columbus, OH
$5,000
To support the commission of a new work by composer Oliver Lake. The World Saxophone Quartet and the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra will premiere the work in November 2001 at the Southern Theatre in Columbus.

Relache, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$7,500
To support the 21st Century Composer Series. During 2001, Relache will commission and perform five new works by emerging composers.

Robert W. Woodruff Arts Center (Consortium)
(on behalf of Atlanta Symphony Orchestra)
Atlanta, GA
$50,000
To support A King Celebration, a consortium project of performances, educational outreach activities and national radio broadcast in tribute to the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The consortium member of this 2001 project is Morehouse College, in partnership with National Public Radio, Spelman College and the King Center. (Multi-state)

Rova Saxophone Quartet
San Francisco, CA
$5,000
To support Rovate IV: An Improviser's Festival, Rova Saxophone Quartet's collaborative project and festival. This 2001 project will feature premieres of new works by Wadada Leo Smith, Graham Connah and John Schott.

Saint Louis Symphony Society
St. Louis, MO
$65,000
To support a Philip Glass celebration. The week-long schedule of events in April 2001 includes an organ recital by Mr. Glass, a radio show, an evening of films about and by Glass, an interactive lecture/demonstration and educational activities, culminating in the St. Louis premiere performance of Mr. Glass's Timpani Concerto.

Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society
St. Paul, MN
$50,000
To support performances by the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra in rural communities of the upper Midwest. During the 10-month project, the Orchestra will tour to as many as 15 towns in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, North Dakota and South Dakota. (Multi-state)

San Francisco Contemporary Music Players
San Francisco, CA
$5,000
To support a concert of contemporary chamber music titled USA: 21st Century Visions. The March 2001 concert, celebrating the 30th anniversary of the ensemble, will consist of previously commissioned works by composers Steven Mackey and Pablo Ortiz, music by composer Kui Dong, and the winning composition of the 2000 Wayne Peterson Prize.

San Francisco Jazz Organization
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
To support The Legacy of Jazz Trumpet, a creation and presentation project by the San Francisco Jazz Organization. Artistic director Joshua Redman will participate in the two weekend festivals during 2001.

Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival
Santa Fe, NM
$12,500
To support the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival 2001, SpringMusic 2001, and educational programs by the Festival Institute. The summer festival and mini-festival in the spring will feature world premieres by resident composers Peter Lieberson and Per Norgard, performances by the Santa Fe Desert Chorale, a jazz series, youth concerts, and 26 chamber music concerts. (Multi state)

Seattle Pro Musica Society
Seattle, WA
$5,000
To support the performance of two choral works. During 2001, Seattle Pro Musica will premiere The Glory and the Dream by Sir Richard Rodney Bennett and perform Ein Deutsches Requiem by Johannes Brahms.

Seattle Symphony Orchestra
Seattle, WA
$40,000
To support Music as Culture-Bearer, a project of performances and education activities. Centered around the Orchestra's Silk Road Festival, featuring cellist Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Project, this 2001-02 project will explore music of other cultures.

Sheldon Arts Foundation
St. Louis, MO
$10,000
To support American Women Singing, a presentation project of five programs. During 2001, women singers from the fields of early jazz, contemporary jazz, opera, early music and folk music will be featured in concert at the historic Sheldon Concert Hall.

Sixth World Symposium on Choral Music (WCS6, Inc.)
Minneapolis, MN
$25,000
To support the creation and presentation of new choral works at the World Symposium on Choral Music. This triennial gathering of choral musicians from around the world will be held in Minneapolis in August 2002 and will commission five American composers -- Dominck Argento, Chen Yi, John Corigliano, Moses Hogan and Stephen Paulus.

Skidmore College
Saratoga Springs, NY
$5,000
To support the presentation of Skidmore College's Summer 2001 Concert Series. The free, public concerts will be presented during the Skidmore Jazz Institute at the Bernhard Theater on the campus of Skidmore College.

Society for New Music
Syracuse, NY
$5,000
To support winter concerts and the creation and presentation of a commissioned work by Ping Jin. During 2001-02, the Society's winter season includes seven concerts with six run-out performances.

Sospeso, Ltd.
New York, NY
$5,000
To support Americans Unheard, chamber music concerts by Ensemble Sospeso that will explore seldom-heard works by contemporary composers. Concerts are scheduled during the winter and spring of 2001 in the Miller Theater on the campus of Columbia University and in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall.

St. Louis Chamber Chorus
St. Louis, MO
$5,000
To support a program titled Songs of Mary, works written throughout the world in honor of the religious figure, the Virgin Mary. The concert is scheduled for November 2001.

St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble
New York, NY
$20,000
To support a community-centered residency initiative. During 2001-02, St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble will work with presenters to develop and implement residencies in the northeastern United States. (Multi-state)

Stanford Jazz Workshop
Stanford, CA
$7,500
To support a commission and presentation of a new work by composer Sam Rivers. The composition will be scored for a 17-piece jazz orchestra and premiered at the 2001 Stanford Jazz Festival.

Syracuse Children's Chorus, Inc.
Syracuse, NY
$5,000
To support the commission, performance and recording of a new work by American composer Libby Larsen. Syracuse Children's Chorus will premiere the work for children's voices and instrumental ensemble during 2002.

Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Syracuse, NY
$15,000
To support a touring project to underserved, rural communities throughout central and northern New York State. The Syracuse Symphony Orchestra's 2001-02 project will continue to build the orchestra's regional presence in New York State.

Troy Savings Bank Music Hall Corporation
Troy, NY
$10,000
To support the commission and presentation of a new work by Stefon Harris. This 2001 project will feature composer residency activities, including a concert for young people, an open rehearsal and lecture/demonstrations at the 1,200-seat Troy Savings Bank Music Hall.

Twentieth Century Consort
Takoma Park, MD
$5,000
To support the preparation of music scores and new chamber works. Six works that were previously commissioned by the Consort will be heard in three concerts from January through May 2001.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL
$12,000
To support the presentation of the complete string quartets of Beethoven, the creation and presentation of new work, and educational activities at the Krannert Center. The Alexander String Quartet will perform the string quartets during three one-week residencies that will also include the premiere of a new string quartet by each of the three composers to be commissioned.

Vanguard Jazz Orchestra (Sixteen As One Music, Inc.)
New York, NY
$7,500
To support the creation and presentation of a new work for jazz orchestra. The orchestra will commission Slide Hampton to write the work which will be recorded and performed by the Orchestra. (Multi-state)

Vocal Arts Society
Washington, DC
$10,000
To support a solo recital project. Performances will be held at the French Embassy in Washington, DC during 2001-02, feature 11 vocal artists as well as the Peabody Trio, and include a world premiere song cycle by Lori Laitman.

Walden School, Ltd.
San Francisco, CA
$5,000
To support a residency with a new music ensemble at Walden School, a summer music school for young composers ages nine to 18. During the summer of 2001, the sextet Non Sequitur will be in residence for two weeks at the School in Dublin, NH. (Multi-state)

Yellow Barn Music School and Festival
Putney, VT
$5,000
To support artist residencies and chamber music performances. The Summer 2001 Festival will provide chamber music performances to the predominantly rural population in Putney.

Young Concert Artists, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the presentation of the Young Artists Series, recitals and concerto debuts by young musicians who are winners of the annual Young Concert Artists' Auditions. This 2001 project will feature ten concerts in New York City and five concerts in Washington, DC. (Multi-state)

MUSICAL THEATER

AMAS Musical Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$8,000
To support the showcase production of A Virtual Woman. AMAS Musical Theatre will present an original musical that investigates women's rights at the turn of the century and chronicles the triumphs and tribulations of women and their struggle for equal rights.

Brown University (on behalf of Rites and Reasons)
Providence, RI
$15,000
To support the development and production of a new musical, Hot Comb: The Madame J. Walker Story. Rites & Reason Theatre will create a new musical that illuminates the life and political times of America's first Black multi-millionnairess.

Express Theatre
Houston, TX
$7,000
To support the second China Cultural Exchange Program. The Beijing Childrens Art Theatre will collaborate with Express Theatre to present 18 performances of a new musical in Houston and Beijing.

Goodspeed Opera House Foundation, Inc.
East Haddam, CT
$55,000
To support the development and production of King of Hearts, an existing musical based on the 1966 movie Le Roi de Couer by Phillippe de Broca, Maurice Bessy and Daniel Boulanger. Composer Peter Link, book writers Joseph Stein and Steve Tesich, and lyricist Jacob Brackman will adapt the 1978 Broadway musical for the mainstage of the Goodspeed Opera House in 2001.

Group I Acting Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the production and tour of O Pioneers! The Acting Company will tour this first production nationally in The American Century Project, a five-year initiative to commission the adaptation of American novels and short stories for the stage. (Multi-state)

La Jolla Playhouse (Theatre & Arts Foundation of San Diego County)
La Jolla, CA
$45,000
To support the development and production of a new musical theater work entitled Incident at Laurel Creek. The La Jolla Playhouse has commissioned composer Mike Reid and bookwriter lyricist Sara Schlesinger to write an original musical that reflects upon the social and political devastation of the Civil War by depicting the impact it had on ordinary people.

Long Wharf Theatre (Connecticut Players Foundation, Inc.)
New Haven, CT
$65,000
To support the adaptation and production of a new version of the 1964 musical production Golden Boy. The playwright Keith Glover will collaborate with composer and lyricist Charles Strouse to adapt Golden Boy for a 2001 production at the Long Wharf Theatre.

Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma, Inc.
Oklahoma City, OK
$8,000
To support the production of the 1986 Tony Award-winning musical, Sweet Charity. The musical will be one of five musicals included in Lyric Theatre's 2001 summer season and will run for two consecutive weeks in July.

Ma-Yi Filipino Theatre Ensemble, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the premiere of a new musical. Tentatively titled Project Balangiga, the musical will portray events that occurred during the Philippine American war of 1901.

Nashville Academy Theatre and Nashville Children's Theatre Association
Nashville, TN
$10,000
To support the further development and production of a new play for young audiences. Nashville Children's Theatre will work with playwright Mary Hall Surface and composer David Maddox to further develop Sing Down Moon for a stage production during its 2000-01 season.

National Alliance for Musical Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the 13th Annual Festival of New Musicals. The National Alliance for Musical Theatre will host the festival in September 2001 featuring the production and presentation of readings of eight to 10 new musicals over two days.

New Freedom Theatre, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$50,000
To support the full production of an adaptation for the stage of the classic film Sparkle. New Freedom Theatre will produce Sparkle in the spring of 2001.

Portland Stage Company (Consortium)
Portland, ME
$22,000
To support the development and co-production of Leaving Queens, with book and lyrics by Kate Moira Ryan and music by Kim D. Sherman. The Portland Stage Company in partnership with the Womens's Project and Productions will collaborate on a new musical about an Irish American woman discovering her family history. (Multi-state)

Salvage Vanguard Theater
Austin, TX
$10,000
To support the development and production of a new music/theater work, The Baba Yaga. Salvage Vanguard Theater will create an experimental music/theater piece that will explore traditional Slavic folk tales and stories about the witch known as the Baba Yaga.

San Francisco Mime Troupe, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$22,000
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. (Multi-state)

The Directors Company (Staret... The Directors Company)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support The Harold Prince Musical Theatre Program. The Directors Company started this program to ensure the vitality of the American musical theater and to provide developmental support to emerging musical theater artists.

Theatre de la Jeune Lune
Minneapolis, MN
$28,000
To support the creation of a hybrid event of theater and opera based on The Marriage of Figaro. Theatre de la Jeune Lune will create the multi-disciplinary musical work by using excerpts from the playwright Beaumarchais's famous play and Mozart's great comic and political opera.

Theatre Rhinoceros, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$7,000
To support the development and production of a new musical theater work. Theatre Rhinoceros will produce a work inspired by the stories from Last Rights, Marvin K. White's acclaimed collection of poetry about being Black and gay.

Village Theatre
Issaquah, WA
$15,000
To support Village Originals, a developmental program that supports writers of new musicals. Village Theatre creates three new musical workshops productions each year in its Village Originals series.

Vineyard Theatre and Workshop Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$26,000
To support the production of a new musical based on the music and lyrics of songwriter Laura Nyro. Vineyard Theatre will produce a musical in 2001conceived and directed by Diane Paulus, with the working title of Soul Picnic.

Walnut Street Theatre Corporation
Philadelphia, PA
$20,000
To support the production of a new sung-through tango musical by Lori McKelvey. Set in 1840s Argentina, Camila is based on a true story of a young woman who falls in love with a priest and the consequences of their love.

Western Michigan's Cherry County Playhouse, Inc.
Muskegon, MI
$5,000
To support the development and production of a new musical for teen-age audiences nationwide. The Cherry County Playhouse will develop a new musical theater work entitled Crash Nation that explores the emotional highs and lows of teenagers' lives.

Wilma Theater
Philadelphia, PA
$25,000
To support the production of the Philadelphia premiere of Passion with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine. The Wilma Theater will produce Passion during its 2001 season.

Workshop of the Players Art Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the creation and presentation of The Wayside Motor Inn, by Steven Lutvak and Ron McGee. WPA Theatre will present this musical adaptation of the A.R. Gurney play of the same name.

York Theatre Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$8,000
To support a Developmental Reading Series that presents new plays and musicals by emerging playwrights, composers and lyricists. The York Theatre Company will solicit and present rehearsed, staged readings of 30 new works-in-progress.

OPERA

Albuquerque Opera Theatre (Opera Southwest)
Albuquerque, NM
$5,000
To support the premiere of the opera Mirage by Santa Fe (James) Galloway. The opera, based on the composer/playwright's prize-winning play and reflecting the mysticism of the Hispanic oral tradition in New Mexico, will be given two performances during 2001-02.

Ash Lawn-Highland Summer Festival
Charlottesville, VA
$5,000
To support a new production of the opera Little Women by Mark Adamo. This work, based on the novel by Louisa May Alcott and commissioned by the Houston Grand Opera in 1998, will be presented in the summer of 2001.

Austin Lyric Opera
Austin, TX
$25,000
To support a new production of the opera Ghosts of Versailles by John Corigliano. The January 2002 Austin premiere will be followed by three additional performances at the 2860-seat Bass Concert Hall.

Berkshire Opera Company
Pittsfield, MA
$7,500
To support a production of The Saint of Bleeker Street by Gian Carlo Menotti. In 2001, this production will initiate the company's American Opera Project, which will feature rarely performed operatic works by established American composers.

Boston Early Music Festival & Exhibition, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
$40,000
To support the 11th-biennial festival featuring a production of the opera Thesee by Jean Baptiste Lully and music performances in celebration of the "French Influence in Europe." Six performances will take place at Boston's 700-seat Copley Theatre and three additional performances will open the 2001 Tanglewood Summer Festival in Lenox, MA.

Central City Opera House Association
Denver, CO
$12,000
To support the first American production of Glorianna by Benjamin Britten. Ten performances of the opera will be staged during the 2001 summer festival season in the restored Central City Opera House, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Chicago Opera Theater
Chicago, IL
$6,000
To support a new production of the satirical opera The Good Soldier Schweik by American composer Robert Kurka with libretto by Lewis Allen. This second mounting by Chicago Opera Theater will receive five performances at the Athenaeum Theatre in Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood in March 2001.

Dallas Opera
Dallas, TX
$50,000
To support the commissioning and production of Tobias Picker's Therese Raquin, a new American opera based upon Emile Zola's 1867 novel, with libretto by Gene Scheer. An estimated audience of 25,000 is expected to attend five performances of the opera at The Music Hall at Fair Park in Dallas.

Florida Grand Opera
Miami, FL
$40,000
To support a new production of Marc Blitzstein's Regina. The opera will receive five performances in Miami and an additional two in Fort Lauderdale during 2002.

Glimmerglass Opera, Inc.
Cooperstown, NY
$50,000
To support a new production of Emmanuel Chabrier's L'Etoile (1877). The opera will receive 11 performances during the company's 27th festival season in 2001.

Harrisburg Opera Association
Harrisburg, PA
$6,000
To support a new production of Leonard Bernstein's Candide. Collaborating with Theatre Harrisburg, the company will present six performances of the work at the recently completed Sunoco Performance Theatre in Whitaker Center in 2001.

June Opera Festival of New Jersey
Princeton, NJ
$7,500
To support a new production of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas. Four performances of this work at the 1,000-seat McCarter Theatre in Princeton during the summer festival season in 2001 will introduce New Jersey audiences to baroque opera.

Lyric Opera of Chicago
Chicago, IL
$75,000
To support a new production of Verdi's Otello and the Chicago premiere of Kurt Weill's Street Scene. In 2001 at the Ardis Krainik Theatre in the Civic Opera House, Otello, which opens the Lyric Opera's 47th season, will receive 11 performances, and Street Scene will receive 10 performances. (Multi-state)

Metropolitan Opera Association, Inc.
New York, NY
$100,000
To support new productions of Giuseppe Verdi's Nabucco and Sergey Prokofiev's The Gambler. During 2001, after an absence of 40 years from its stage, Nabucco will receive nine performances, and The Gambler will receive six. (Multi-state)

Michigan Opera Theatre
Detroit, MI
$25,000
To support the commission of an American opera, Margaret Garner by Richard Danielpour, with libretto by author Toni Morrison. The opera is based on the true story of a woman born into slavery around 1840, who, with her two children, tries to escape to a free state.

Minnesota Opera Company
Minneapolis, MN
$20,000
To support a production of Kurt Weill's Street Scene. This production, which represents an expansion of the season from four to five operas, will receive six performances at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts in St. Paul during 2001.

New York City Opera, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support a new production of Douglas Moore's The Ballad of Baby Doe. As part of its cycle of important American works, New York City Opera will introduce this signature piece to a new generation with seven performances at Lincoln Center's State Theater in 2001.

Opera Ebony, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the remounting, performance and national tour preparation of The Meetin', a jazz/folk opera with score and libretto by Pamela Baskin-Watson. In celebration of Black History Month during 2001, two performances of this one-act opera, based on the play Mother & Child by Lanston Hughes, will be performed at the Marian Anderson Theatre, Aaron Davis Hall, on the campus of the City College of New York.

Opera Theatre of Saint Louis
St. Louis, MO
$60,000
To support a new production of Miss Havisham's Fire by Dominick Argento, with libretto by John Olon-Scrymgeour. Five performances will be presented in repertory at Webster University's Loretto-Hilton Center in St. Louis as part of the 2001 spring festival season.

Portland Baroque Orchestra (Consortium)
Portland, OR
$7,500
To support a consortium with New York Dance Baroque Company for a partially staged version of Jean Philippe Rameau's opera-ballet Pygmalion. This 45-minute production will be presented four times in the Portland metropolitan area in 2002.

Portland Opera Association, Inc.
Portland, OR
$15,000
To support the Oregon premiere of Francis Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmelites. Four performances of this Portland premiere are expected to attract an audience of 12,000 at the Portland Civic Auditorium in 2001.

San Diego Opera Association
San Diego, CA
$12,500
To support a new production of Mozart's The Magic Flute. British fashion designer Zandra Rhodes will create the costumes, and Dresden Music Festival's general director Michael Hampe, will design the sets for this production scheduled for five performances at the Civic Theatre in 2001.

San Francisco Opera Association
San Francisco, CA
$50,000
To support the western premiere of the 19th century Armenian opera Arshak II by Tigran Chukhadjian. The opera will receive six performances at San Francisco's 3,148-seat War Memorial Opera House in 2001.

Santa Fe Opera
Santa Fe, NM
$60,000
To support the commissioning of three full-length operas by American composers. During 2001 03, Santa Fe Opera will commission Bright Sheng, Aaron Jay Kernis and a third composer to be announced.

Seattle Opera
Seattle, WA
$50,000
To support performances of Richard Wagner's four-opera Ring des Nibelungen cycle. The complete cycle will be performed three times at the Seattle Center Opera House in the summer of 2001.

Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, Inc.
Tampa, FL
$12,000
To support the world premiere of Sacco and Vanzetti by composer/librettist Anton Coppola. In 2001, the opera will receive three performances at Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center's 2,427 seat Carol Morsani Hall.

PRESENTING

651 ARTS (Kings Majestic Corporation)
Brooklyn, NY
$30,000
To support a series of presentations by performing artists of African descent. Each presentation will include public performance, commissioning, reconstruction support and community residency activity.

Aaron Davis Hall, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
To support the commissioning and presentation of works in a range of art forms by established and emerging artists of color. Artists are provided with support and space for creation of new work and engaged in residency activities and open rehearsals designed to build new audiences.

Brooklyn Academy of Music, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$80,000
To support the 18th Annual Next Wave Festival. Presented each fall for a period of two to three months, the Festival showcases a combination of mature, experimental artists and emerging talent working in music, dance, theater and the visual arts, as well as hybrid forms of these disciplines.

Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH
$20,000
To support My/Our Voice: Insiders and Outsiders, a multidisciplinary series of commissions, presentations and interactive Web sites. The College's Hopkins Center will partner with arts presenters in New England and across the country to develop additional presentations. (Multi state)

Flynn Theatre for the Performing Arts, Ltd.
Burlington, VT
$40,000
To support a series of eight dance-theater-music residencies. With this project, the Flynn will demonstrate a commitment to live music performance.

John Harms Concerts, Inc.
Englewood, NJ
$25,000
To support a series of dance presentations and Something Else, featuring new work by multidisciplinary artists. Presentations will be augmented by in-school workshops, artist discussions, lecture/demonstrations and other activities with community groups.

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$80,000
To support Lincoln Center Festival 2001. For three weeks in July 2001, major artists and ensembles from the United States and abroad will be presented in concert halls and theaters at Lincoln Center and at neighboring venues.

Maui Community Arts & Cultural Center
Kahului, HI
$8,000
To support Global Rhythms, a presenting series of artists representing a range of performing arts disciplines and countries. A goal of the program is to bring to the Maui community artists of quality in a mix of the familiar with art forms that have not been presented before on Maui.

Northwest Asian American Theatre
Seattle, WA
$8,000
To support the International Asian Arts Festival. The Festival involves the presentation of varied artists, new and traditional, over a four-week period.

Performing Arts Chicago
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support PAC'd Studio, a local artist series and a Theater for Family Audiences program. These efforts will be undertaken in cooperation with the School of the Art Institute of Chicago using the recently vacated Goodman Theatre complex.

Philadelphia Fringe Festival
Philadelphia, PA
$15,000
To support the 2001 Festival. The Festival features contemporary performing arts events over a two-week period.

Spoleto Festival USA
Charleston, SC
$50,000
To support presentations during the year 2001 festival season. Spoleto Festival USA is planning to present a series of performances within the overall festival aimed at challenging audience expectations, both about traditional performance forms and classic or familiar works.

The Kitchen (Haleakala, Inc.) (Consortium)
New York, NY
$35,000
To support a consortium project with Mass MoCA involving the commissioning and presentation of interdisciplinary projects. Artists will have access to both organizations' facilities (in New York City and North Adams, MA), allowing a choice between city or rural environments. (Multi state)

University of California-Davis
Davis, CA
$10,000
To support the New Millennium Project. This project will showcase new artists and new work and seeks to develop new audiences in the region, with particular emphasis on reaching traditionally underserved populations.

University of Kansas Center for Research, Inc. (on behalf of the Lied Center)
Lawrence, KS
$25,000
To support French Connections, a series of performances that explores the cultures of France, Canada, French Louisiana, Haiti, Senegal and Cambodia. This project represents year four of a four-year effort to explore key cultural influences on the performing arts as we enter the new millennium.

University of Pennsylvania (on behalf of the Annenberg Center)
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
To support the 2001 Philadelphia International Children's Festival. The Festival will present 50 one-hour international performances for children ages four to 12.

Washington Performing Arts Society (Consortium)
Washington, DC
$30,000
To support ArteAmerica, a consortium project with the GALA Hispanic Theatre and the Latin American Youth Center. The project features a series of performances, residencies and outreach activities.

World Music Institute, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the series Masters of Asian Music and Dance. This series of concerts will feature music and dance from south, central and west Asia, including classical and folk artists of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan.

WYO Theatre, Inc.
Sheridan, WY
$6,000
To support the Children's Educational and Families' Series. This series consists of performances in conjunction with school-based residency activities. (Multi-state)

THEATER

Actors Theatre Of Louisville, Inc.
Louisville, KY
$35,000
To support the production of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler. The production will be developed and directed by Anne Bogart and company members of the SITI Theater of New York, NY.

Actors Theatre of Phoenix
Phoenix, AZ
$5,000
To support the presentation of American Safari, a surrealistic road trip through the wildlife of the American Backyard. The play, written and directed by Kari Margolis with original music by Tony Brown, is a new multimedia, physical theater production.

Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Inc.
Montgomery, AL
$25,000
To support the development and production of The Negro of Peter the Great, by playwright Carlyle Brown. Based on Alexander Pushkin's unfinished novella of the same title, the play will assist in the company's efforts to increase and diversify audiences.

Alley Theatre
Houston, TX
$15,000
To support the production of The General from America, written and directed by Richard Nelson. Corin Redgrave is to play the role of Benedict Arnold, the American general and traitor in the Revolutionary War in this dramatization of Arnold's life.

American Repertory Theatre Company, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
$44,000
To support the American Repertory Theatre Company's production of Richard II by William Shakespeare. Theater director Robert Woodruff will join American Repertory Theatre as guest director for this production.

Archipelago Inc.
Chapel Hill, NC
$5,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new theater piece. Lou the Muse (working title) will be co-written, co-directed and choreographed by Artistic Director, Ellen Hemphill.

Arden Theatre Company
Philadelphia, PA
$24,000
To support The Independence Foundation New Play Showcase in 2001. This continuing program is designed to create and produce new works of American theater.

Arena Stage (Washington Drama Society, Inc.)
Washington, DC
$50,000
To support productions of Constant Star by Tazewell Thompson and Tom Walker by John Strand. These two new American plays exemplify Arena Stage's commitment to American playwrights.

Arkansas Repertory Theatre Company
Little Rock, AR
$12,000
To support the world premiere of The Left Hand Singing, by Barbara Lebow. Frank Wittow, of Atlanta's Academy Theatre, will direct the play which explores issues in the civil rights struggles of both the 1960s and the present, through the lives of three students and their families.

Asian American Theater Company Workshop
San Francisco, CA
$9,000
To support an intergenerational, multimedia, docutheater project written and directed by Chay Yew. The script will focus on the histories of four Chinese women living in San Francisco between 1850 and 2000.

Autry Museum of Western Heritage
Los Angeles, CA
$12,000
To support the second and third year of the three-year Native American Theater Initiative. The goal of this project is to cultivate new work for the stage by Native American writers and create new opportunities for Native American actors, directors and key theater artists to practice and advance their craft.

Berkeley Repertory Theatre
Berkeley, CA
$75,000
To support the presentation of a Greek trilogy. Presented in two parts over two evenings, The Oresteia will be the inaugural production in the new theater space.

Blackberry Productions
New York, NY
$9,000
To support the creation of new theater works. The Second Coming: Harlem Renaissance II is a three-fold presentation that includes two plays, community-based arts education workshops and residencies, and an arts-in-education exhibit.

Brava! for Women in the Arts
San Francisco, CA
$11,000
To support the presentation of a world premiere play. Apertura Modotti will be presented in the spring of 2001 at the renovated Brava Theater Center in the Mission District.

Builders Association, Inc.
New York, NY
$9,000
To support the development and presentation of a new ensemble-created, multimedia theater work. The premiere theater piece will draw on the history of American musical theatrical entertainment.

California Shakespeare Festival
Berkeley, CA
$10,000
To support the production of Frederico Garcia Lorca's La Casa de Bernarda Alba. Translated by playwrights Nilo Cruz and Karin Coonrod and directed by Karin Coonrod, the world premiere will feature a multi-ethnic, female, volunteer cast from the community.

Carter Family Puppet Theater
Seattle, WA
$10,000
To support the development and presentation of three plays representing a diversity of contemporary American cultures. The theater works will feature the artistry of Chinese water puppetry, vaudeville and African American folktales of the Appalachian region.

Center Stage Associates, Inc.
Baltimore, MD
$50,000
To support the adaptation and presentation of J. M. Barrie's Peter Pan. The production will include deaf and hearing actors and musicians.

Chicago Dramatists Workshop
Chicago, IL
$5,000
To support the development and production of a full-length play selected from the works in progress by Chicago Dramatists Resident and Network Playwrights. The production serves as the final stage in Chicago Dramatists' unique series of workshops and is a vital tool in the growth of playwrights and the development of new scripts.

Children's Theatre Company and School
Minneapolis, MN
$48,000
To support Threshold 2001, a new play development program which will include three commissions, development workshops and two mainstage productions. Proposed projects include a stage adaptation by Nilo Cruz of A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings and a visually based music theater piece, Mississippi Panorama, created by writer/scenic designer Michael Somers and playwright/performance artist Kevin Kling.

Childsplay, Inc.
Tempe, AZ
$20,000
To support an American production of a play for young audiences. Pero or the Mysteries of the Night was adapted by a Dutch theater company from the French children's book Pierrot ou les secrets de la nuit by Michel Tournier.

Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park
Cincinnati, OH
$16,000
To support the creation and presentation of a world premiere play. Dark Paradise: The Legend of the Five Pointed Star will be presented as a part of the 2000-01 mainstage season.

City Theatre Company, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
$13,000
To support new play commissions. The goal of the New Plays On Stage series is to commission and produce 15 world premieres in five years.

Classic Stage Company (CSC Repertory, Ltd.)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new theater piece. The Greek Project (Antigone) will be a new version of Sophocles' play.

Contemporary Arts Center (Consortium)
New Orleans, LA
$10,000
To support the presentation of new theater works and to present a series of interactive neighborhood outreach programs. Contemporary Arts Center, Junebug Productions and Ashe Cultural Center will collaborate on this project.

Coterie, Inc.
Kansas City, MO
$17,000
To support the presentation of theater works for young audiences. Through Strength and Loyalty: A Three Play Project for Multigenerational Audiences, Coterie intends to pursue its mission to produce plays that will challenge its audience and artists.

Court Theatre Fund
Chicago, IL
$23,000
To support the presentation of a new theater piece. Piano by Trevor Griffiths will make its American premiere in the spring of 2001.

Dallas Children's Theater, Inc.
Dallas, TX
$6,000
To support the development, presentation and tour of a new theater piece. African Tales of Earth and Sky by Linda Daughterty will tour to inner city schools in Dallas and surrounding areas.

Deaf West Theatre
North Hollywood, CA
$15,000
To support the creation of a new theater piece and video. Mark Medoff, author of Children of a Lesser God, has been commissioned to write a new deaf and hearing theater piece.

Dell'Arte, Inc.
Blue Lake, CA
$16,000
To support the development and production of the Paradise Project. Using Milton's Paradise Lost as a springboard to create a new site-specific theater piece, the work will explore the current environmental conflict over the future of the rural California north coast region.

Denver Center Theatre (Denver Center for the Performing Arts)
Denver, CO
$22,000
To support the New Play Development Program. The project includes full productions of three new scripts, a week-long new play festival, and a commission to write a new children's play.

Detroit Repertory Company (Millan Theatre Company)
Detroit, MI
$10,000
To support the development and production of three new plays in conjunction with a marketing campaign to increase and diversify audiences. The company will present Eulogy: What I Would Have Said, Given the Gift of Articulation by Daphne R. Hull; Moms Mabley: The Naked Truth by Linda Boston; and T for 2 by Gina Barnett.

Do Jump! Extremely Physical Theater
Portland, OR
$5,000
To support the creation of a new aerial piece The piece will premiere as part of Do Jump's repertory show in the Spring.

Drama League of New York, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the continuation and expansion of the Directors Project, a five-pronged effort to nurture and develop new theater artists. Sixteen years ago, the Fall and Summer Programs inaugurated the Directors Project by providing valuable opportunities for new directors to work with professionals in off-Broadway or regional theaters.

ETA Creative Arts Foundation
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support a collaborative residency for two playwrights under the aegis of the Playwrights Discovery/Development Initiative. Each playwright will spend three to six weeks refining the selected play while being involved in rehearsals as the director, dramaturg and actors seek to realize the vision of the author on stage.

Eugene O'Neill Memorial Theater Center, Inc.
Waterford, CT
$33,000
To support the National Playwrights Conference and the National Music Theater Conference. The projects include the creation and development of new plays and musical theater works.

Foundry Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$6,000
To support developmental workshops. The project will include two extensive workshops on the adaptation of The Roaring Girle by Thomas Middleton and Thomas Dekker.

Free Street Programs, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$13,000
To support creation of new theater work by teen artists. TeenStreet is a theater program that hires low-income Chicago teens as writers and performers.

Fund for Women Artists, Inc.
Florence, MA
$8,000
To support the creation and presentation of Abundance by Marty Pottenger through a series of residencies in five major cities in the United States. This multimedia theater project will explore the similarities and differences between the lives of parents at the extremes of the economic spectrum. (Multi-state)

Geva Theatre, Inc.
Rochester, NY
$25,000
To support a production of The Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare. Geva Theatre will set the classic play in contemporary Italy with a young and racially mixed cast.

Goodman Theatre (Chicago Theatre Group, Inc.)
Chicago, IL
$65,000
To support artists fees, staff salaries and other production costs for House and Garden by Alan Ayckbourn. Artistic Director Robert Falls will direct these two linked plays that will be performed simultaneously in the Albert Ivar Goodman and Owen Bruner Goodman Theatres.

Great Lakes Theater Festival (Consortium)
Cleveland, OH
$15,000
To support a consortium adaptation and production of Peter Pan set in Cleveland of 2001. Great Lakes Theater Festival and the Cleveland Municipal School will work with Cornerstone Theater in all phases of the community-based production.

Guthrie Theater Foundation
Minneapolis, MN
$55,000
To support the production of Blood Wedding by Garcia Lorca. The Guthrie's production will feature a new translation and adaptation by Argentinian playwright Lillian Garrett-Groag and will be directed by Chilean choreographer/movement specialist Marcela Lorca.

Hartford Stage Company, Inc.
Hartford, CT
$40,000
To support the adaptation and production of Oedipus Rex by Sophocles. Hartford Stage's multi cultural production of this Greek tragedy for 21st century American audiences will be adapted by the playwright Adrienne Kennedy and directed by Jonathan Wilson.

Heart of the Beast Theatre, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$22,000
To support the creation of an original puppet and mask pageant. Seed Circus (working title) will be presented and toured during the 2001-02 season. (Multi-state)

Henson International Festival of Puppet Theater, Inc.
New York, NY
$12,000
To support the commission, development and presentation of a new work by Eric Bass and the Sandglass Theater of Putney, VT. Based on Shakespeare's classic play Richard III, the play will be presented at the 2002 International Festival.

Home for Contemporary Theatre & Art, Ltd.
New York, NY
$12,000
To support the development and presentation of a new theater work. Dead Tech will feature dance, music, text and gestural vocabulary in the production.

Honolulu Theatre for Youth
Honolulu, HI
$22,000
To support the development and production of Beyond the Falls by Gary Pak. The play is a dance-theater piece created in collaboration with local artists and company members.

Horizon Theatre Company
Atlanta, GA
$6,000
To support the New South for the New Century Play Festival. The program will include two full productions of new works, up to six staged readings of new plays, and the Young Playwrights Festival.

Huntington Theatre Company, Inc.
Boston, MA
$25,000
To support the production of Moliere's Amphitryon. The production, a new translation by playwright Richard Wilbur, will be performed in contemporary English verse.

Hyde Park Theatre/Frontera Productions
Austin, TX
$10,000
To support the development and production of the new play The Invisible Medium by playwright W. David Hancock. The production will be directed by artistic director Vicki Boone.

Imago, Theatre Mask Ensemble
Portland, OR
$10,000
To support the creation and development of a new theater piece based on the work of George Jean Melies, inventor, producer, director, set designer and actor. Imago Artistic Directors Carol Triffle and Jerry Mouad will collaborate on the concept, writing and design elements with Katie Griesar, resident composer who will create an original score.

Indiana Repertory Theatre, Inc. (Consortium)
Indianapolis, IN
$8,000
To support a consortium project to produce play development workshop sessions, staged readings and playwriting activities for students, as well as the co-commission and workshop of a play by James Still in 2001. Indiana Repertory Theatre and the Bonderman Playwriting Symposium (an independent component of Indiana University/Purdue University, Indianapolis) will collaborate on the project.

INTAR (International Arts Relations, Inc.)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support production costs for Three New Latino Voices: the world premieres of land, by Michael John Garces; Cuchifrito, by Eduardo Andino; and Young Valiant, by Oliver Mayer. INTAR's artistic director, Max Ferra, will direct the first two and Michael John Garces will stage Young Valiant.

Intersection (on behalf of Campo Santo)
San Francisco, CA
$5,000
To support the development and world premiere of a play. Hotel Angulo by Luis Saguar will be preformed in April 2001.

Intiman Theatre
Seattle, WA
$16,000
To support a presentation of An Enemy of the People. Henrik Ibsen's provocative play will open in the fall of 2001.

Jump-Start Performance Company
San Antonio, TX
$8,000
To support a series of new works. Color Adjustments: Excavating the Hidden History of Texas is a series of four new works about the history of south Texas.

Kitchen Dog Theater Company
Dallas, TX
$5,000
To support the third annual New Work Festival. The project includes up to seven staged readings of new plays and the presentation of a new play based on the legend of the Lady of Guadalupe.

La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the creation, development and production of Dionysus Filius Dei. The world premiere theatrical/dance/opera piece, written and directed by artistic director Ellen Stewart, will be performed by the Great Jones Repertory Company.

Lincoln Center Theatre (Vivian Beaumont Theater, Inc.)
New York, NY
$56,000
To support a world-premiere production. The Ten Unknowns, a new play by Jon Robin Baitz will be directed by Daniel Sullivan.

Lookingglass Theatre Company
Chicago, IL
$14,000
To support the creation and development of 40 Days, written and directed by Artistic Director Laura Eason. Using factual accounts of the Red River floods in 1997 and earlier, Ms. Eason will collaborate with Lookingglass's Director of Artistic Development Heidi Stillman, set designer Dan Ostling, and costume designer Mara Blumenfeld to create the overwhelming effect of flooding on a fictional North Dakota town.

Lost Nation Theater, Inc.
Montpelier, VT
$5,000
To support the production of Emily Mann's Having Our Say and accompanying educational/outreach activities. Lost Nation has organized a series of community-building activities, including forums with presentations by guest speakers, open town-meeting style discussions, and in-school workshops to further explore the issues of racial prejudice.

M Ensemble Company, Inc.
Miami, FL
$5,000
To support the presentation of a two-act play. Robert Johnson Tricks the Devil by Bill Harris will be performed in February 2001.

Mabou Mines (Mabou Mines Development Foundation)
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new theater work. Ecco Porco by Lee Breuer will premiere in the spring of 2001.

Magic Theatre, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support the presentation of two new play festivals. The Playwrights at Borders and Science on Stage Festivals will take place during the 2001 season.

Mark Taper Forum (Center Theatre Group)
Los Angeles, CA
$50,000
To support the development and mainstage production of a new play by Peter Parnell based on the life of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Richard Feynman. The Mark Taper Forum will produce this work with Alan Alda as Feynman.

McCarter Theatre Company
Princeton, NJ
$55,000
To support the presentation of The School for Scandal by Richard Brinsley Sheridan. This restoration comedy of errors will be presented during the 2000-01 mainstage theater season.

Mettawee Theatre Company
Salem, NY
$14,000
To support the presentation of an original play based on the stories of the Quechua, the native people of the Peruvian mountains. The ensemble-created theater piece, will tour throughout rural communities in upstate New York and New England. (Multi-state)

Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Inc.
Milwaukee, WI
$30,000
To support the stage production of Helen Edmunson's adaptation of the novel Anna Karenina. The production was originally produced by the Shared Experience Theater of England and fits the Milwaukee Repertory Theater's tradition of producing adaptations of novels for the stage.

Mum Puppettheatre
Philadelphia, PA
$6,000
To support the development, production and initial performances of The Adventures of a Boy and His Dog on the High Seas. This collaborative music and puppet theater piece is the outgrowth of Mum Puppettheatre's well-loved work for young audiences, The Adventures of a Boy and His Dog in Outer Space.

National Black Touring Circuit, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support a summer theater festival in Harlem, celebrating its rich cultural heritage. Woodie King, Jr. will be the producer for a series of plays performed at different venues featuring notable African American artists.

New City Art Center (New City Theater)
Seattle, WA
$6,000
To support the development and production of the third part of W. David Hancock's trilogy in which young people curate the memories of older people through the relics or artwork they have left behind. According to the playwright, the plays use audience interaction to ask questions about who defines art, memory and history.

New Dramatists, Inc.
New York, NY
$22,000
To support the expansion, in the 2001-02 season of the New Works Process to a series of three- to five-day workshops with commensurate increases in artists compensation and associated costs. This 51-year old institution devotes itself to the development of new plays and musicals through its workshops and readings.

New Federal Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the restoration of The Conjure Man Dies by Rudolph Fisher. New Federal Theatre's production of the play will be the first since the Works Progress Administration (WPA) presented this work in 1936.

New Theatre, Inc.
Coral Gables, FL
$6,000
To support the commission and production of a new play by the playwright Mario Diament. The politically focused play, with the working title of Smithereens, traces the lives of three Argentinians through three decades of contemporary Latin American history.

New York Shakespeare Festival
New York, NY
$55,000
To support the staging of William Shakespeare's Othello at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park. The New York Shakespeare Festival will make the performances accessible to the diverse communities of New York City by offering a comprehensive program of outreach and education initiatives to accompany the production.

New York Theatre Workshop, Inc.
New York, NY
$32,000
To support the Artist Development Programs, which provide artists opportunities to develop new work and collaborate with and observe the work of other artists. Programs included are: Usual Suspects, Mondays @ 3, Just Add Water Festival, Artist Fellows and the Vassar Residency.

Northlight Theatre, Inc.
Skokie, IL
$8,000
To support the creation and development of a new play by playwright Jenny O Neill. The play will be based on the personal stories of the members of the World War II Women Airforce Service Pilots.

Omaha Theater Company for Young People
Omaha, NE
$6,000
To support the development and presentation of Stephen Crane's Red Badge of Courage. The production will be adapted for the stage by playwright Joe Sutton and director Everett Quinton. (Multi-state)

Ontological-Hysteric Theater, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the development and presentation of a new theater work by Richard Forman. Transcendent Race Car Drivers (How the Mind Really Works) -- the working title -- will be presented at the St. Mark's Theater in New York City.

Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association
Ashland, OR
$70,000
To support the development and presentation of Oo-Bla-Dee by Regina Taylor. The play, interpreted and directed by Artistic Director Tim Bond, is a jazz-infused theater piece.

Other Theater, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the development and production of a new play. Memory/Motion/Memory by playwright John Belluso will be performed by artists with disabilities and directed by David Chaikin.

Pan Asian Repertory Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the development and production of a new play with music and movement by Ernest Abuba. Kwatz!, a Tibetan exclamation meaning awakening, depicts an immigrant's journey in his mind through his past and present as he recovers from a brutal attack.

Pangea World Theater
Minneapolis, MN
$5,000
To support the collaborative development and production of a multidisciplinary theater work. Imagining Worlds will combine the talents of poet Li-Young, theater director Dipankar Mukherjee, painter Shanu Lahiri, dancer Ananya Chatterjea, and sculptor/set designer Seitu Jones in depicting the cultural diasporas and the search for spiritual wholeness.

Paper Bag Players
New York, NY
$20,000
To support a multi-state tour of the revival of Fortunately, a Paper Bag classic for children ages four through nine. Artistic Director Judith Martin is updating the popular 1965 production through an increased use of song, dance, graphic design and audience participation. (Multi-state)

Pasadena Playhouse State Theatre of California, Inc.
Pasadena, CA
$10,000
To support the production of The Tempest using live Latino musical accompaniment. Artistic Director Sheldon Epps envisions a multicultural company of 16 actors and four to six musicians performing a musical score to be commissioned for the production.

People's Light & Theatre Company
Malvern, PA
$30,000
To support a commission to revise Les Trois Dumas by Charles Smith, subsequent workshops and a mainstage production of this script. The playwright will work with resident dramaturg Lee Devin to extensively rewrite this play, which traces three generations of the family of author Alexandre Dumas.

Perseverance Theatre, Inc.
Douglas, AK
$28,000
To support Spring, a new annual festival of new theatrical work. The festival will include an original Alaskan adaptation of Herman Melville's Moby Dick, and the West Coast premiere of Susan-Lori Parks' In The Blood, an inner-city reworking of The Scarlet Letter.

Philadelphia Theatre Company
Philadelphia, PA
$12,000
To support production costs for the world premiere of a new play by John Henry Redwood. Israel Hicks will stage this script which tells the story of an African American woman, Mattie Cheeks, as she struggles to keep her family together while her husband is working away from home.

Phoenix Theatre, Inc.
Indianapolis, IN
$5,000
To support Fourplay, a series of plays that explore sexual mores at the beginning of a new century. The plays will be presented in repertory over three months at the Phoenix Theatre.

Pig Iron Theatre Company
Philadelphia, PA
$8,000
To support the development and presentation of an original, ensemble-created theater piece directed by Joseph Chaikin. Pig Iron's collective of co-artistic directors will work with Mr. Chaikin over a ten-week period to formulate Nights, drawing on the image of an empty office at night to evoke improvisations and a shared vocabulary.

Ping Chong and Company (Fiji Theater Company, Inc.)
New York, NY
$24,000
To support the creation by Ping Chong of a new multidisciplinary movement theater work, which will explore the ironic transformation of martial arts from spiritual tradition to popular culture phenomenon. The piece, currently titled Shaolin 2002, will use kung fu as both an expressive form worthy of appreciation on its own terms and as a metaphor for the appropriation of traditional culture by the global marketplace.

Playwrights Foundation
San Francisco, CA
$5,000
To support the Bay Area Playwrights Festival. The festival supports the development and presentation of new works by emerging playwrights.

Playwrights Horizons, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the New Theater Wing Developmental Program. The program is a series of artistic initiatives that supports both emerging and established writers in the development and presentation of new works.

Playwrights' Center, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
To support the PlayLab program. The program supports the development and presentation of new American plays.

Pontine Movement Theatre (New Hampshire Mime Company)
Portsmouth, NH
$6,000
To support Pontine Movement Theatre's 2001 Touring Program of artistic and educational programs. The theater will perform for general audiences, K-12 schools, colleges and universities throughout New England and in several states outside the region. (Multi-state)

Portland Center Stage
Portland, OR
$8,000
To support the Annual Playwrights Festival. The festival supports the creation and development of new works by young writers.

Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre Co., Inc.
New York, NY
$12,000
To support the commission, development and production of a drama with music based on the life of La Lupe, the Cuban singer of the 1960s and 1970s. Carmen Rivera, once one of the young members of Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre's in-house playwriting unit, will write the script.

Puppet Company
Glen Echo, MD
$6,000
To support the redesign of one and the remounting of two important puppet repertory pieces, in anticipation of the theater's move into a specially designed facility. By introducing new elements of design and staging, script revisions and, in some instances, new marionettes, The Puppet Company is preparing for the new and larger theater.

Redmoon Theater
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support the 7th Annual All Hallows Eve Ritual Celebration and a series of workshops. Redmoon Theater will lead workshops to train members of 14 local community organizations in performance and the building of performance installations so they can participate in the parade and community arts event.

Robert W. Woodruff Arts Center (on behalf of Alliance Theatre Company)
Atlanta, GA
$35,000
To support the regional premiere of a new play, a staged reading in the theater's Groundworks Development Program, and educational activities related to play development. Alliance Theater Company will produce Hearts by Will Holtzman, offer a staged reading of The Called by Eugene Lee, and provide forums to educate audiences about the development process.

Sacramento Theatre Company
Sacramento, CA
$12,000
To support the creation, development and presentation of a new work by playwright Velina Hasu Houston. The production will be a trilogy of plays entitled The American Dream.

Salt Lake Acting Company
Salt Lake City, UT
$5,000
To support the production of a new play by playwright Julie Jensen. The project will include the commissioning and development of the new work.

San Diego Repertory Theatre
San Diego, CA
$60,000
To support the Kaleidoscope project. The project will include individual and collaborative performances of new works and the presentation of Mad Dancers by playwright Yehuda Hyman.

Saratoga International Theater Institute, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the ensemble creation of a new theater piece that builds on the ideas and processes of contemporary American visual artist Robert Rauschenberg. The theater company, SITI, and playwright Charles Mee will use a combination of found texts and speeches to explore the nature of contemporary American consciousness. (Multi-state)

Seattle Children's Theatre Association
Seattle, WA
$25,000
To support the creation and presentation of The Golem, a world-premiere production written by Kurt Beattie. This 16th century story of a rabbi, who molds a large, man-like creation from clay and then calls it to life, is a cautionary tale of the use and abuse of power.

Seattle Fringe Festival
Seattle, WA
$5,000
To support encore performances of the Artistic Picks of the Fringe at one of Seattle's three major theaters. Three theater companies are selected by judges out of the 75 participants in the annual Seattle Fringe Theatre Festival to present additional performances at one of the major theater houses.

Seattle Repertory Theatre
Seattle, WA
$57,000
To support the production of a new translation/adaptation of Moliere's Don Juan by Stephen Wadsworth. Mr. Wadsworth will also direct this classic analysis of the boundaries of morality and social behavior.

Second Stage Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support production costs for the New York premiere of Cellini, written and directed by John Patrick Shanley. The script, which is based on the autobiography of Italian Renaissance sculptor Benvenuto Cellini, contemplates the artist's balancing act between the demands of his vision and those of his patrons.

Shakespeare Theatre
Washington, DC
$80,000
To support the production of Friedrich Schiller's 18th century classic, Don Carlos. Artistic Director Michael Kahn will direct the production in the 2000-01 season.

Signature Theatre Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the world premiere of a new play by Edward Albee. Signature Theatre Company's past Playwright-in-Residence Edward Albee will return to the theater during its 10th anniversary celebration.

Signature Theatre, Inc.
Arlington, VA
$25,000
To support the development and presentation of a new play. The play will be the world premiere production of In the Absence of Spring by playwright and director Joe Calarco.

Skysaver Productions, Inc.
New York, NY
$12,000
To support the development and presentation of Tamurlaine the Great. The play will be written and directed by Artistic Director Theodora Skipitares.

South Coast Repertory, Inc.
Costa Mesa, CA
$32,000
To support the development and production of a new play. The play is the premiere presentation of The Beard of Avon by playwright Amy Freed.

Stages Theatre Company, Inc.
Hopkins, MN
$10,000
To support the development and production of a play by Mark Rosenwinkel which examines the effects of the war in Bosnia on its civilians. Stone Hearts, based on doctoral research conducted by Cheryl Robertson, was commissioned by Stages Theatre for its Next Stage pre professional training program.

Steppenwolf Theatre Company
Chicago, IL
$35,000
To support the world premiere of Giles Havergal's adaptation of David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. In 1998 Steppenwolf commissioned Mr. Havergal to create a stage version of the classic novel as part of its New Plays Initiative.

Studio Theatre, Inc.
Washington, DC
$20,000
To support a new translation/adaptation and production of the Greek classic Prometheus Unbound. The director Joy Zinoman envisions a cast of six major characters and a chorus of twenty Oceanides.

Sundance Childrens Theatre, Inc.
Salt Lake City, UT
$15,000
To support a summer 2001 workshop for theater artists with artist-mentors to guide the development of new scripts, stage adaptations of previous narrative works and new interpretations of classic texts. The Sundance Theatre Laboratory, established in 1980 as part of the Sundance Theatre Program, is an annual, 18-day workshop that brings together about 75 playwrights, directors, actors and artist-mentors to develop new theater works.

Syracuse Stage (SU Theatre Corporation)
Syracuse, NY
$20,000
To support the development and staged readings of two new plays during the New Play Festival. The festival will feature Germany Surrenders by Micheal Lowe and a second play to be announced.

Target Margin Theater, Inc.
New York, NY
$12,000
To support a production of Christopher Marlowe's play Dido Queen of Carthage. The play will be the centerpiece of Target Margin's 2000-01 season.

Teatro Avante, Inc.
Coral Gables, FL
$30,000
To support a theater festival of Hispanic works. The XVI International Hispanic Theatre Festival will be held in June 2001.

Teatro de la Luna (Consortium)
Washington, DC
$11,000
To support a consortium presentation of the IV International Festival of Hispanic Theater Festival. Teatro De la Luna, in collaboration with the Arlington County Cultural Affairs Division, will offer six weeks of Spanish-language theater featuring emerging trends in Latin American theater.

Theater for the New City Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$14,000
To support the Emerging Playwrights Program. The program will support up to ten emerging playwrights in the development and presentation of their works.

Theater Mu
Minneapolis, MN
$6,000
To support the development and production of a new theater piece by Andrew Kim. A group of artists will participate in a series of improvisational workshops to blend traditional Asian folk myths with stories of contemporary Asian Americans.

Theatre for a New Audience, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support a new production of Edward Bond's Saved, directed by Robert Woodruff. First staged in 1965 at London's Royal Court Theatre, Saved depicts the harsh realities faced by a poor family in post-war England.

Theatre Grottesco North America, Inc.
Santa Fe, NM
$7,000
To support the development and presentation of a play. This is Life As We Know It... will be written and directed by Artistic Director John Flax.

Theatre X, Inc.
Milwaukee, WI
$6,000
To support the development and production of a new play by John Schneider in collaboration with a multi-ethnic ensemble of actors and musicians. Mr. Schneider and his co-creators will explore the concept of social constructs as applied to the Tales of the Arabian Nights.

Trinity Repertory Company
Providence, RI
$40,000
To support the production of a revised adaptation by Peter Parnell of the John Irving novel The Cider House Rules. Trinity Rep Artistic Director Oskar Eustis, who worked with Parnell on early script development workshops, will direct this two-part production.

Unicorn Theatre
Kansas City, MO
$14,000
To support the production of a new play by Ron Simonian. Producing Director Cynthia Levin will direct the premiere of Animal Art, Simonian's fifth collaboration with Unicorn.

Unidentified Moving Objects Company, Inc.
Vashon, WA
$5,000
To support the production of a new, interdisciplinary collaborative theater piece. Martha Enson, a member of Unidentified Moving Objects Company Ensemble conceived this work that explores the power of cities, real and imagined, how they shape us, and how we shape them with our hopes, fears and desires.

University Musical Society
Ann Arbor, MI
$50,000
To support two theater presentations during the International Theater Festival. The productions will be presented by the Royal Shakespeare Company, Ping Chong and Company and the Sequentia Ensemble.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
(on behalf of Playmakers Repertory Company)
Chapel Hill, NC
$12,000
To support the development and production of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. The project will be led and co-directed by theater artist Trazana Beverly.

University of Utah (on behalf of Pioneer Theatre Company)
Salt Lake City, UT
$10,000
To support the commissioning, development and staged reading of three new plays. Playwrights Robert Schenkkan, Arthur Kopit and Jeffrey Hatcher will each write a play about the American West.

Victory Gardens Theater
Chicago, IL
$15,000
To support the commissioning of a play, the development of another, and the development and production of a third and new play. The works will be created by three ensemble playwrights.

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Washington, DC
$30,000
To support the production of a play. The production of In the Blood by Suzan Lori Parks will include comprehensive project-based outreach activities.

Yale University (on behalf of Yale Repertory Theatre)
New Haven, CT
$25,000
To support a production of William Congreve's The Way of the World, directed by Stan Wojewodski, Jr. Yale Repertory Theatre will present this classic comedy of manners as part of a joint celebration of the 300th anniversary of the play and of Yale University.

Z Space Studio
San Francisco, CA
$12,000
To support the Z Commissions program. The project supports the creation, development and staged reading of up to 10 commissioned plays by Bay Area writers.

VISUAL ARTS

Abington Art Center
Jenkintown, PA
$20,000
To support ARTerial Routes: Artistic Motives, a series of artists' billboards installed on major roadways in and around Philadelphia. The project will be curated by Julie Courtney, who has extensive experience in presenting the work of artists in unexpected places.

Advaita on behalf of Kala Institute
Berkeley, CA
$25,000
To support the Artist-in-Residence Fellowship Program at Kala, a professional printmaking workshop. Nine artists will have 24-hour access for six-month periods to work at this 8,500 square-foot facility.

Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts
Helena, MT
$10,000
To support the Visiting Artists Program at this 26-acre ceramic arts colony. Artists will be given access to their own studio and extensive firing facilities for one-month residencies.

ArtLies
Houston, TX
$10,000
To support the reviews section of ArtLies, a quarterly publication that covers the visual arts in Texas. First published in 1993, ArtLies seeks to expand news coverage and critical dialogue of the visual arts. (Multi-state)

Baltimore City Foundation, Inc. (on behalf of Link Arts, Inc.)
Baltimore, MD
$7,000
To support an issue of the journal LINK: A Critical Journal on the Arts in Baltimore and the World and related programming. A book-length arts journal, LINK examines contemporary culture and the arts. (Multi-state)

Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts
Omaha, NE
$40,000
To support residencies for artists to create new work. Participating artists are provided with housing and work space, technical assistance and a monthly stipend for three- to six-month periods.

Berkeley Art Center Association
Berkeley, CA
$25,000
To support an exhibition and catalogue of photographs documenting the cultural and political upheavals in Northern California during the 1960s and early 1970s entitled The Whole World is Watching. Co-curators Ken Light from the University of California, Berkeley and photographer Harold Adler will select images.

Brandywine Graphic Workshop, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$28,000
To support an exhibition, catalogue and tour of The African American Presence in Printmaking: 1750-2000. The exhibition will be curated by Claude Elliott, Assistant Curator of Prints at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum and assisted by a national advisory committee of specialists in printmaking and African American art history. (Multi-state)

Bronx Council on the Arts (on behalf of Longwood Arts Project)
Bronx, NY
$57,400
To support cyberspace residencies and an artists' team project in which artists will create new work using advanced computer technology. An exhibition of completed works will be hosted on Longwood's online cyber gallery, and public programs and demonstrations will complement the residencies.

Center for Land Use Interpretation
Culver City, CA
$28,000
To support the Wendover Artists Residency program. Artists will receive stipends and materials to enable them to create new work in response to the remote landscape on the border of Nevada and Utah. (Multi-state)

Center for Photography at Woodstock, Inc.
Woodstock, NY
$14,000
To support a residency program that will host photographers for one-month periods. The Center will provide the resident artists with an honorarium, studio and darkroom access, equipment, lodging and meals.

Center on Contemporary Art
Seattle, WA
$6,500
To support a site-specific, commissioned installation by the artist Hirokazu Fukawa. You Are Floating Through the Deep Black Void will explore the artist's relationship with his autistic son.

CEPA Gallery (Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Art)
Buffalo, NY
$27,000
To support an exhibition Paradise in Search of a Future, featuring work that explores travel and tourism as significant cultural practices. This multi-site exhibition is based on the premise that National Geographic magazine had an enormous influence on how Westerners see and represent culture in the 20th century.

Cincinnati Association for the Performing Arts
(on behalf of the Weston Art Gallery)
Cincinnati, OH
$18,000
To support the commissioning of site-specific artists' projects for the Weston Art Gallery. Works by artists Joel Otterson, Anthony Luensman and Toi Ungkavatanapong will be on view for three month exhibitions.

City of Charleston Office of Cultural Affairs (Consortium)
Charleston, SC
$60,000
To support a public art program designed to address Charleston's historical role as the port of entry for the slave trade. In consortium with Spoleto Festival USA, and under the working title Proposals for a Monument to the Middle Passage, the project will consist of an exhibition of monument concepts, artists' residencies and opportunities for dialogue via radio programs, the Internet, community interviews and local presentations.

City of Regent (on behalf of The Enchanted Highway)
Regent, ND
$5,500
To support the commissioning of a public art piece for The Enchanted Highway, a site along a North Dakota highway. Artist Gary Greff will design and fabricate a large-scale, metal sculpture depicting a large-mouth bass to complement other works at the site including grasshoppers, pheasants and geese.

Dieu Donné Papermill, Inc.
New York, NY
$27,000
To support a touring exhibition and catalogue, Rags to Riches: 25 Years of Paper Art, in celebration of Dieu Donné Papermill's anniversary. The exhibition will feature specially commissioned work by three artists as well as approximately 30 works selected from more than 500 artists who have experimented with hand papermaking at Dieu Donné since 1976. (Multi state)

Documents Magazine, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$5,000
To support the "Discussions with Artists" series in three issues of Documents magazine. The articles will provide artists with an opportunity to discuss their work in an interdisciplinary forum and an accessible format. (Multi-state)

En Foco, Inc.
Bronx, NY
$20,000
To support production of three issues of Nueva Luz, a bilingual photographic journal. Each issue will feature the work of three emerging photographers of color, an essay by a guest critic/editor, and a comprehensive listing of career opportunities and other resources for photographers. (Multi-state)

Escuela de Artes Plásticas de Puerto Rico
San Juan, PR
$58,700
To support the Artist-in-Residence Program bringing contemporary artists to Puerto Rico for four month residencies. Installation artists Sylvia Benitez, a Baltimore native of Puerto Rican descent, and Cildo Meireles from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, will lead workshops and give lectures to the school's student population of 300 and an estimated 3,000 from the general public.

Forecast Public Artworks
St. Paul, MN
$10,000
To support the publication of two issues of Public Art Review. One issue will focus on the administration of public art projects, and the second will consider public art in transportation. (Multi-state)

Forum for Contemporary Art
St. Louis, MO
$27,400
To support a residency and traveling exhibition by San Francisco artist Enrique Chagoya. The exhibition The Adventures of the Reverse Anthropologist will include works created between 1995 and 2000.

Foundation for Advanced Critical Studies
Los Angeles, CA
$38,000
To support five editions of Art Issues, a journal of contemporary art criticism. Based in Los Angeles, the publication covers new developments in the visual arts on a national basis. (Multi state)

International Sculpture Center, Inc.
Hamilton, NJ
$15,000
To support the "Departments" section in ten issues of Sculpture magazine. The section includes short feature articles on emerging, mid-career and under-recognized artists and on public art sites and projects. (Multi-state)

Light Work Visual Studies, Inc.
Syracuse, NY
$50,000
To support a residency program for artists and the publication of their work in Contact Sheet - The Light Work Annual. The participating artists' work will also be made available on Light Work's online image database, a collection of over 1,700 prints, essays and biographical information.

Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$27,000
To support the presentation of new work by three emerging and/or under-recognized artists. Figurative sculptor Keith Edmier, media artist David Askevold, and painter Ellen Gallagher will participate in a three-week residency during which they will produce or complete work for an exhibition.

Maryland Art Place, Inc.
Baltimore, MD
$25,000
To support a residency and workshop program for two nationally known critics, and publication of a catalogue. Critics Zoe Anglesey and E. Ethelbert Miller will conduct workshops with local artists and writers and participate in a public forum to discuss current issues in art criticism.

Mexic-Arte Museum
Austin, TX
$20,000
To support an exhibition series featuring the work of emerging artists. The Diversity and Emergence Series is juried by a panel of artists and curators who review proposals by artists whose works include historical, social, literary, and/or personal experiences with Latin American issues.

Photographic Resource Center, Inc.
Boston, MA
$27,000
To support an exhibition series examining photography's historic relationship to the unknown. The Photography in Human Experience series will examine the cross-disciplinary complexities that photography dealt with from its invention to the close of the 20th century.

Pilchuck Glass School
Seattle, WA
$35,000
To support planning and implementation of a year-round artists residency program. Artists will be provided with time, resources, facilities and technical assistance on Pilchuck's campus.

Public Art Fund, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support publication of a book documenting projects undertaken by the Public Art Fund. The book, edited and organized by writer and critic Jeffrey Kastner, will explore in depth approximately 15 public art projects.

Roswell Museum and Art Center Foundation
Roswell, NM
$14,000
To support one-year residencies for visual artists. Participating artists will be provided with a professionally equipped studio, living accommodations, a monthly stipend and concentrated time to develop their work.

Sculpture Space, Inc.
Utica, NY
$15,000
To support an artists' residency program for sculptors. Artists from outside New York State will be given the opportunity to create new work during two-month residencies at a former steam engine and boiler works plant.

Self-Help Graphics & Art, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$25,000
To support Generations in Print: A Portfolio by Mujeres, Maestros + Techies, an opportunity for artists to create new work in a printmaking studio. The program will allow three atelier groups of artists to work with each other and with a master printer to experiment with different techniques.

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support a nine-week residency program for emerging artists. Artists will be provided with a private studio, full room and board, and weekly private and group critiques by guest artists.

Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Inc.
Staten Island, NY
$35,000
To support an exhibition of new work by artists responding to issues surrounding the closing of the world's largest landfill, Fresh Kills on Staten Island. Tentatively titled Fresh Kills, the exhibition and related events will investigate and celebrate the landfill as it exists today, the future deposition of garbage once the dump closes, and the adaptation of the landfill to the largest public green space in New York City.

Space One Eleven, Inc.
Birmingham, AL
$15,000
To support a residency program by Alabama artist Lonnie Holley. Holley will conduct workshops, master classes and demonstrations during an extended 18-month residency.

SPACES
Cleveland, OH
$25,000
To support an exhibition and catalogue for Drawing on Language, featuring the work of artists who examine how they have employed drawing to investigate language and text. Three guest curators will collaborate on the project, which includes a series of public discussions as well as poetry and spoken-word performances.

United Indians of All Tribes Foundation
Seattle, WA
$20,000
To support the first solo exhibition in the United States featuring the work of Michael Belmore, an Ojibway born in Thunder Bay, Ontario. Belmore will present recent work from an installation series inside the gallery, as well as a temporary outdoor piece outside the Sacred Circle Gallery at the Daybreak Arts Center in Seattle.

University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Charlotte, NC
$15,000
To support an exhibition and lecture series, Beyond the Physical: Substance, Space and Light, featuring works by artists working in large-scale ceramic sculpture. The project will coincide with the annual conference of the National Council for Education in the Ceramic Arts in Charlotte.

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