Past
Grantees

Writer and teacher DIANE GLANCY will spend 12 days in Hierapolis in Western Turkey and Caesarea on the Mediterranean, the places that constitute the setting for her novel in progress, The Parting. She writes from the land, traveling to the places the characters live to hear their voices in her imagination. She will find the ruins of old Caesarea and continue to Hierapolis, following the movements of her characters. Glancys novel is based, in part, on a minister (Philip) and his four daughters, taken from Acts 21:9.

SARAH GOODMAN was awarded a grant in support of Build Me Up, Break Me Down, a documentary that examines the daily reality of three diverse youth in the US Army. It will explore their motives for joining and the impact of training on their respective identities.

Funding was awarded to JACQUELINE GOSS for Kishlak Dwellers, an animated video illustration of Soviet scientist A.R. Lurias 1933 book Cognitive Development: Its Cultural and Social Foundation. This animated video will present data collected from three years of experiments with Uzbek farmers who lived in the outer regions of the Soviet Union in the early 1930s.

A grant of $10,000 was made to GRANTMAKERS IN THE ARTS, Seattle, Washington, in support of programs and services and Jerome Foundations 2002 and 2003 organizational membership. Grantmakers in the Arts was established in 1985 as the national affinity organization for private, corporate, community, and family foundations that make arts and culture grants. The organization provides publications, research, information services, and meetings to strengthen the field of private sector arts grantmaking with the aim of promoting more meaningful support of arts and culture.

GRAYWOLF PRESS, St. Paul, Minnesota, received a two-year grant of $50,000 in support of the publication of emerging author titles. Graywolf is dedicated to the creation and promotion of thoughtful and imaginative contemporary literature essential to a vital and diverse culture. It publishes authors whose works convey distinct visions by way of unique voices and vigorous engagement with the possibilities of language. For over 25 years, it has been committed to supporting the work and careers of emerging literary authors whose work may be overlooked in other publishing environments and may not have received the critical audience attention it deserves. The editorial team at Graywolf reviews hundreds of manuscripts and publishes approximately 18 books of creative contemporary literature each year, of which at least a third are titles by emerging authors. Graywolfs lists contain a mixture of poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction, local as well as national and international writers, and established authors alongside new talent. In the two years covered by this grant, Graywolf will publish 12 books by emerging poets and prose writers.

JOHN GWINN, a media artist, media arts teacher, and administrator will attend the Interactive Screen Workshop at the Banff New Media Institute in Alberta, Canada. Titled Interactive Screen 0.3, this is an international project development laboratory and networking opportunity for new media creators, technologists and researchers. The Workshop is led by an international faculty with participation by leading creative artists. It will combine formal and informal exchanges, and skill development workshops to explore issues in the conceptualizing, writing, designing, developing, planning and financing of ideas and projects that explore the potential of interactive content and software.

AARON DAVIS HALL, New York City, received $20,000 in support of commissions of new work from emerging creative artists through the Fund for New Work. Aaron Davis Hall is a multidisciplinary arts presenter providing programming in dance, theater, music, art, and film. A critical part of the Hall's mission is fostering the creation, development, and presentation of new works by artists of color, especially African American and Latino artists. Through its performance series NewFacesNewVoiceNewVisions, the Hall presents talented artists who bring new energy to their fields. The Fund for New Work provides commissioning dollars, rehearsal space, and other services designed to help artists prepare their works for presentation. Jerome Foundation dollars are dedicated, each year, to six to ten emerging creative artists.

The Jerome Foundation Board authorized a grant of $17,000 to IN THE HEART OF THE BEAST PUPPET AND MASK THEATRE, Minneapolis, Minnesota, in support of the creation and presentation of new works by emerging puppet artists. In the Heart of the Beast is a professional puppet and mask theater that explores and celebrates the human experience and the wonders of the worlds natural and cultural richness through performance, ceremony and teaching. The funding authorized will allow In the Heart of the Beast to award six commissions to emerging artists, selected through a competitive application process to create 20-30 minute productions, in any puppetry form. In the Heart of the Beast will present their works-in-progress in March of 2004 and then produce them during the 2004 May Day Parade and Festival.

HERE ARTS CENTER, New York City, received a two-year grant of $38,000 in support of the production of four new works by HERE resident artists in the 2003-04 season. HERE supports a wide variety of artistic projects in theater, dance, new media, music and visual arts. Readings, works-in-progress, full productions, and exhibitions are offered. Resident artists are selected through an application process open to individual artists and collaborative teams working in live performance. Artists must be emerging, and developing a distinctive hybrid form of work or interested in stretching the boundaries of form. They are expected to actively participate in the HERE community via a peer-based program of exchanging resources, ideas, critique and support. The artists receive a monthly stipend as well as access to free rehearsal space, performing opportunities, production equipment, office time and caf hospitality. The program aims to be a fertile art incubator, encouraging individual growth and collaboration.

Poet and teacher KATE LYNN HIBBARD will travel to Provincetown, Massachusetts, where she will spend one week studying with writer Catherine Bowman at the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center and one additional week writing and revising work produced during the workshop. Bowman teaches an intensive poetry writing workshop focusing on craft and process. Hibbard will also explore the intersection of creative writing and visual art.

The HIGHPOINT CENTER FOR PRINTMAKING, Minneapolis, Minnesota, received $15,000 to support Jerome Printmaking Residencies for Emerging Artists. Highpoint is dedicated to advancing the art of printmaking through educational programs, studio access, and collaborative publishing opportunities. One year ago, the Jerome Foundation made a grant to Highpoint to support a pilot residency program for emerging printmakers. This new grant supports a second year of the program. In 2004, Highpoint will offer three eight-month residencies for emerging print artists at the Center, followed by an exhibition of their work.

GAO HONG, pipa master residing in Northfield, will spend four weeks in Beijing, China, to study rare pieces and techniques of the Pudong Style of pipa playing from the sole living master of the style, Lin Shicheng. Mr. Sincheng is 80 years old and has many secrets of Pudong, which he has not passed on to anyone. Hong plans to learn as many Pudong pieces as possible and will perform and record them in the future.

The Jerome Foundation provided $20,000 to INTAR HISPANIC AMERICAN ARTS CENTER, New York City, in support of the NewWorks Lab, which supports the evolution of writers, directors, actors, and other artists from the Latino community, and provides a home for the development of new works in a creative environment, without the pressures of meeting outside critical standards. Jerome support is directed to emerging playwrights in the Lab. The Lab is comprised of a Reading Series, which includes eight works, and a production component consisting of four projects ready for workshop development. INTAR is a multi-arts center that creates, produces, presents and documents the work of Latino artists from the United States and abroad.

INTERMEDIA ARTS, Minneapolis, Minnesota, received a two-year grant of $70,000 in continued support of Naked Stages. Intermedia Arts is a multidisciplinary arts center that builds understanding among people through art. It offers presentations in visual arts, media arts, performance and interdisciplinary forms, which focus on local and regional artists and addressing social themes relevant to their communities. Naked Stages provides to emerging performance artists professional training, opportunities to create new works and present them to the public for feedback, and critical assessment and career building skills to advance their works.

Funding was awarded to SHAUN IRONS & LAUREN PETTY for Artificial Paradise, a four-channel video/audio installation inspired by the mysterious and strange beauty of the miracles performed by Jesus as described in the New Testament; exploring the connections among miracles, faith, deceit and illusion. Irons and Petty are attracted to the notion that people are willing to suspend belief that their lives could be magnificently and instantly altered, releasing them from the tension and banality of daily existence. The work will be a meditation on the need for faith and the desire for the miraculous in contemporary life.

ANNEMARIE JACIR received funding for Travelogue: Fractured Landscapes, a film that is both a visual poem and narrative exploration of how the rhythms of daily life are interrupted for a mixed group of artists traversing the emotional and material geography of a landscape fractured by political and military turmoil.

Jerome Directors authorized a $10,500 grant to SPRINGBOARD FOR THE ARTS, St. Paul, Minnesota, acting as fiscal agent for CATALYST, DANCES BY EMILY JOHNSON. The Foundation has provided annual support to choreographer Emily Johnson and her dance company since 2001. This grant was offered in support of the creation and development of two new works. The first, With Perfect Aim, is a duet focusing on the ability loved ones have to harm (with intent or not) the very people they love. The second new work, Safehold, is a trio dealing with the evolution of patterns and how they become engrained in everyday life and are relied upon more frequently than the more difficult original thought.

A two-year grant of $47,000 was awarded to THE JUNGLE THEATER, Minneapolis, Minnesota, in support of the development and production of new plays by emerging playwrights. The Jungles goals are to maintain a high standard of artistic excellence, present works that preserve and build our theatrical heritage, encourage and support established and emerging artists in all areas of theater production, broaden access to theater, and contribute to the vitality of its community. Jerome dollars are directed to the annual Play Reading Series, the production of new scripts by emerging playwrights on the mainstage, and other strategies to develop new plays by emerging playwrights.

SCOTT KING, a letterpress printer, editor and poet, Northfield, will spend 15 days as an apprentice to Michael and Winifred Bixler, who have been producing metal type for letterpress printers for four decades, from their base in Skaneateles, New York. Their foundry specializes in classic English Monotype book typefaces. King operates Red Dragonfly Press. The Bixlers will teach him how to operate a Monotype typecaster. This will enrich the work of his Press. It is a long-term goal of King's to own and operate a foundry in the Midwest to support a growing community of letterpress printers.