Past
Grantees

In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre (HOBT), Minneapolis, Minnesota, received a two-year grant of $50,000 for the Puppet Lab Program, a 6-month mentorship program for four early career Minnesota-based artists or artist teams to create new puppet performance in 2018–19 and 2019–20.

International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), Brooklyn, New York, received a two-year grant of $40,000 to support six (three per year) early career New York City-based composers for year-long collaborative residencies to commission, develop, and perform innovative new works through the OpenICE program.

Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning (JCAL), Jamaica, New York, received a two-year grant of $60,000 for the Artist Residency & Training Workshop Inc. (ARTWorks, Inc.), a 10-month residency and professional development training for early career/emerging and underrepresented visual artists in 2018–19 and 2019–20.

James Sewell Ballet, Minneapolis, Minnesota, received a one-year grant of $17,000 to support the development and premiere of new work by two Minnesota or New York City-based early career choreographers in 2019.

Jazz Gallery, New York City, received a two-year grant of $80,000 for the Residency Commission Program, granting six New York City-based early-career artists season-long residencies to research, compose, workshop, and premiere new works in 2018–19 and 2019–20. The composers to be supported in 2018–19 are saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins, pianist Shai Maestro, and guitarist-vocalist Camila Meza.

The artist will travel to Dusseldorf, Germany for 8 days to attend European Buck Session's 11th year anniversary gathering (E.B.S.), an annual Krump dance event in Germany.

The artist will travel to Kathmandu, Nepal for 30 days. Joshi plans to research the internationally infamous “Royal Hotel” in Kathmandu, Nepal and the role it played in Nepal’s transformation from a closed kingdom to a colonial fantasy land in the 1950s. He is working on a new film that features the Hotel’s rise to fame and it’s eventual demise.

The artist will travel to Guangzhou and Fujian provinces, China for 17 days. Kamps will experience cross-cultural immersion as a form of research to complete his novel Drawing Water.

The artist will  travel to Seoul and Gwangju, South Korea for 31 days. Key will research the false national media coverage and news suppression during the Gwangju Uprising (a historic revolt in 1980 against South Korea's militarized regime that sparked the nation’s democratization movement), as well as collect oral histories from surviving members of her family in Gwangju who witnessed the event.

The artists will travel to Northwestern Ontario for research and development on a feature film about the groundbreaking and turbulent life of legendary Ojibway artist Norval Morrisseau (1931 - 2007).

The Kitchen, New York City, received a one-year grant of $26,000 for the Multidisciplinary Commissions Program for New York City-based early career artists to create and present new work in visual arts, dance, music, and theater in 2018–19. The commissioned artists are Jibade-Khalil Huffman, Moriah Evans, Leila Bordreuil, and Morgan Bassichis.

The artist will travel to Boston, Massachusetts for 4 days to interview relatives about his late father and complete research for a book-length collection of poems.

The artist will travel to to the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, UK for 10 days to study the physiological ramifications of memory and its imposed effect on agency, in order to develop experimental movement methods of performance generation. She will be studying with Professor Nicola Clayton FRS in order to analyze the experience of subjective thinking.

Kundiman, New York City, received a two-year grant of $60,000 for the Kundiman Asian American Writers Mentorship Lab, serving nine New York City-based early career artists annually for a 6-month mentorship program that will combine mentorship, writing workshops, master classes, and a culminating reading in 2019 and 2020.

Lanesboro Arts, Lanesboro, Minnesota, received a two-year grant of $36,000 for the Lanesboro Artist Residency Program, providing 2–3 Minnesota or New York City early career/emerging artists per year with 2- or 4-week residencies to live, work and create in Lanesboro’s rural community in 2018–19 and 2019–20.

The Lark, New York City, received a one-year grant of $30,000 for the New Voices Fellowship program, a one-year fellowship for two early career New York City-based playwrights of color under 30 in 2019–20.

The Laundromat Project, New York City, received a two-year grant of $70,000 for the Create Change Artist Residencies and Commissions program, serving five socially-engaged New York City-based early career artists per year and providing a unique platform for the creation of innovative, high-quality public art endeavors of any medium in neighborhoods across New York City in 2018–19 and 2019–20.

The Loft Literary Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, received a two-year grant of $150,000 for the new Mirrors and Windows Mentorship Program, a 6-month mentorship program for 12 underrepresented Minnesota emerging/early career writers of color to create and develop new books for children and young adults in 2018 and 2019; and continued support for the year-long Loft Mentor Series Fellowships in support of diverse Minnesota emerging/early career writers creating and developing new work in fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction in 2019.

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC), New York City, received a one-year grant of $28,000 for Workspace, a 9-month residency for 15–30 emerging career artists to create, experiment with, and present new work in 2018–19.

The artist will travel to Shanghai, Hangzhou, Ningbo and Beijing, China to conduct oral interviews with extended family members and to study Chinese Socialist Realist monuments in support of her Cultural Revolution memoir project.