Past
Grantees

Nautilus Music-Theater Artistic Director Ben Krywosz, Saint Paul, Minnesota, was awarded funding to work with consultants with expertise in graphic facilitation and mindmapping techniques. Krywosz will explore and create a graphic visual vocabulary that he will teach to the emerging composers and librettists in Nautilus Rough Cuts and Composer-Librettist Studio programs. This visual facilitation approach will also assist Nautilus long-range planning, marketing, and fundraising strategies.

Nautilus Music-Theater Artistic Director BEN KRYWOSZ, Saint Paul, Minnesota, was awarded funding to work with consultants with expertise in graphic facilitation and mindmapping techniques. Krywosz will explore and create a graphic visual vocabulary that he will teach to the emerging composers and librettists in Nautilus Rough Cuts and Composer-Librettist Studio programs. This visual facilitation approach will also assist Nautilus long-range planning, marketing, and fundraising strategies.

GEORGIA LEE was awarded a grant in support of Marionette, a feature-length narrative that chronicles the struggle of Celine, a young female urbanite, against her material uber-capitalistic life. Along with her eccentric, yet oddly enlightened sister Vish, Celine is drawn into an increasingly fantastical set of adventures that are, at once, macabre and sublime as she struggles to find where she herself belongs.

Performer and composer DOUG LITTLE will study Afro-Caribbean music in Havana, Cuba, for six weeks with his Travel and Study grant. Little intends to gather inspiration and ideas for future projects with his jazz quartet and compose a suite for a saxophone quartet. He feels that studying this musical style and experiencing Cuban culture will have a profound influence on his work and make it more enduring.

THE LOFT LITERARY CENTER, Minneapolis, Minnesota, received a two-year grant of $120,000 to continue the Minnesota Writers Career Initiative. The Loft offers a broad and diverse range of workshops, public school programs, classes, readings, performances, award and fellowship programs and special events. The Minnesota Writers Career Initiative Program seeks to advance Minnesota writers who have achieved significant artistic recognition for their work and who have the potential to expand significantly that recognition and/or their existing audiences. The purpose is to utilize and leverage potential in order to bring the writers to new levels in their career development. Writers are served through a two-step process of 1) logistical and strategic planning with a consultant, resulting in the creation of a career plan; and 2) the implementation of the plan. The program is open to writers of poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, childrens literature and performance oriented work.

A two-year grant of $30,000 was approved for the LOWER EAST SIDE PRINTSHOP, New York City, in support of the participation of emerging artists in the Artist Workspace Program. Established in 1968, the Printshop is a community-based arts organization that promotes and advances the art of printmaking. Services for printmakers include a studio available at subsidized rates, free art supplies, master printer assistance, scholarships, and fellowships. The Artist Workspace Program provides critical support for emerging and under-recognized artists through studio access, financial and technical assistance, and professional growth and exposure opportunities.

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The LOWER MANHATTAN CULTURAL COUNCIL, New York City, received $20,000 in support of the World Views Artist Residency Program. The Council provides support for Lower Manhattan artists and arts organizations and fosters public participation in the arts through free performing, visual, and new media events. World Views is an artist residency program that provides alternative space for emerging artists to create new work, creates an interactive environment for artists from diverse backgrounds, provides exhibition and professional opportunities, and helps emerging artists advance their careers. Residents working in video, photography, painting, new media, sculpture, and installation are chosen through a competitive application and panel review process.

Jerome Foundation Directors authorized a grant of $8,000 to the LOWER MANHATTAN CULTURAL COUNCIL, New York City, in disaster relief funding. This was in addition to a $15,000 emergency grant, authorized in September, for the artists in the 2001 World Views Program.

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LYNN LUKKAS, Minneapolis, MN, received funding to support The Oculus Projects: South Africa, an interactive video installation that employs a machine/human interface to read the biological functions of the human body to control the projection of video and sound.

A $15,000 grant was awarded to MAD ALEX ARTS FOUNDATION, New York City, to support the participation of emerging writers in MAD ALEX Presents. MAD ALEX is dedicated to presenting the work of emerging writers and honoring those who serve as role models to younger generations by virtue of sustained commitment to their field. MAD ALEX gives opportunities to emerging writers to have their works taken seriously in a longer than usual reading format. A special initiative of reading novels-or-other-ongoing-work-in-progress is an important addition to the programs supported by MAD ALEX.

A grant of $12,500 was awarded to J. MANDLE PERFORMANCE, Brooklyn, New York, in support of the development and production of Room and development of Pedestrian Traces, in the 2001-02 season. Founded in 1996 by Julia Mandle, the organization creates and produces performances, often site-specific, in unexpected public locations and unconventional venues. Mandles productions are realized through her signature costume-defined choreographya process that involves dance movement inspired by the design and structure of clothing. Pedestrian Traces is an outdoor, site-specific performance that examines pedestrian behavior and movement patterns as they relate to urban planning. Room is a series of small-scale, indoor performance installations that explore perception in corporate work environments and how intimacy is mediated between public and private spaces.

The MANHATTAN NEW MUSIC PROJECT, New York City, received a grant of $10,000 to support the creation and performance of a new music/sonic work at outdoor public spaces in New York City. The Manhattan New Music Project presents programs in jazz and contemporary music both in concert and club settings. Incorporating lessons learned through a 2000 site-specific project, composer Paul Nash will develop, customize and deploy triggering software programming and wireless technology to support a new sonic work for ten musicians performing an open score. Nash will seek sites that have overall aesthetic appeal, contrasting architecture and/or landscape elements, a high degree of public use and pedestrian traffic and sufficient quiet for acoustic instruments to project across the space of at least one city block. The events will include live performance as well as installation elements, contributing to a robust interactive space for audiences.

ADAPTORS, INC./MARGOLIS BROWN THEATER COMPANY, Minneapolis, Minnesota, received a grant of $7,500 for its Artist-in-Residence Program, piloted last year. The Program offers comprehensive artistic support to one emerging theater artist for one season, allowing that artist to research, develop, and produce new work. Margolis Brown is a multimedia movement theater company that creates and produces works that are provocative, socially relevant, and accessible; introduces experimental physical theater to broad audiences; and fosters the development of artists through a professional training program.

Executive Director Mary Martin of the Women's Art Registry of Minnesota (WARM) was awarded a grant to take part in a Leaders Circle professional development program offered by the Management Assistance Program for Nonprofits. Martin will focus on leadership and work delegation issues in her duties as an arts administrator.

Funding was awarded to AARON MATTHEWS for A Panther in Africa, an in-depth portrait of Pete ONeal, founder of the Kansas City chapter of the Black Panthers and an American exile living in Tanzania. It is the story of how a 1960s radical who advocated violence becomes a global activist who advocates community service.

Shawn McConneloug received funding to learn more about national and international touring for her performance company Shawn McConneloug and her Orchestra. Consultants will teach McConneloug about developing a touring plan and creating a database of presenters. This is McConneloug's first touring initiative.

MEDIA ALLIANCE, New York City, supports, promotes and advocates for independent film, video, audio, radio and digital arts in New York State. In 1998, Media Alliance created an Independent Radio/Sound Art Fellowship Regrant Program, designed to provide emerging artists in the fields of radio and sound with production funds necessary to create new works. An open call encourages artists to apply as individuals. A selection panel chooses the projects to be supported. Three grants of $5,000 each are available. The Jerome Foundation awarded $23,000 for this program.

The MEDIA ARTISTS RESOURCE CENTER, St. Paul, Minnesota, promotes the production of media works by independent artists from all communities and provides access to low cost media equipment and facilities to these artists in a supportive and educational environment. It offers media arts classes, hosts media arts production events and sponsors access grant programs to encourage diversity in media arts production. A grant of $10,000 was authorized to support programs and services for emerging media artists.