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Kayla Farrish, Spectacle, BAAD!/Pepatián Dance Your Future, 2018.

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The Southern Theater Foundation

2000
Multi-disciplinary
Minnesota
General Program
$70,000
THE SOUTHERN THEATER, Minneapolis, Minnesota, received a two-year grant of $70,000 in support of productions by and services for emerging creative artists. The Southern Theater produces work that is highly experimental and exploratory, and which looks for new ways to articulate aesthetic ideas. The Southern presents alternative performance by artists working at the grassroots of the Twin Cities varied cultural, political and economic communities--artists who are creating works that respond to issues and life situations that are often invisible to mainstream society. The Southern's commitment to emerging artists who are developing new work that reflects personal growth coincides with the Jerome Foundation's priorities.
Multi-disciplinary

Sandra Spieler

2000
Theater
Minnesota
Travel and Study
$1,606
Funding was awarded to SANDRA SPIELER, Artistic Director of in the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theatre to spend 37 days in Korea and Germany. While in Korea, Spieler will visit with Dr. Dong Il Lee and learn about mask and ritual theater. In Germany, she will attend a special session of the International School of Theater Anthropology.
Theater

Carla Stetson

2000
Visual Arts
Minnesota
Travel and Study
$840
CARLA STETSON, a sculptor, received a grant spend time working at the Ochs Brick Manufacturing Plant in Springfield, Minnesota, to carve, shape and lay out bricks, which she will then use to construct a prototype sculptural bench. This is a hands-on investigation about brick and the way it can be used in functional exterior sculptures.
Visual Arts

Eve Sussman

2000
Film/Video & New Media
New York City
New York City Film and Video
$13,000
EVE SUSSMAN received funding for China/White - Scenes from an Exile, a panoramic film/video that will be shown as a gallery installation. It is about two principal characters, HER and HIM, who are caught in the turmoil of emotional, psychological and physical exile and take their dysfunctional communication to its erotic limit. Their condition is contrasted by the presence of LEAH, THE DOG, THE SOOTHSAYER and THE STRANGER, who foil the couple's unbearable existentialism.
Film/Video & New Media

Reiko Tahara

2000
Film/Video & New Media
New York City
New York City Film and Video
$12,000
REIKO TAHARA, was awarded a grant for Enmyoin, a documentary that will provide critical social analysis, from the filmmaker's point of view, of Sister Enmyoin, a 95-year-old Japanese female Buddhist priest who passed away in August 1999.
Film/Video & New Media

Richard Terrill

2000
Literature
Minnesota
Travel and Study
$2,440
Writer RICHARD TERRILL, of Mankato, was awarded a grant to travel to New York City, Florida, Wisconsin, Chicago and Indiana performing readings and making author appearances regarding his memoir on playing jazz entitled Fakebook (New York, Limelight Editions, 2000).
Literature

Sai Thao

2000
Film/Video & New Media
Minnesota
Travel and Study
$4,563
SAI THAO, a video artist, received a grant to travel to Bangkok, Phetchabun and Louangphrabang, in Thailand and Laos. As a young Hmong woman, Tauo grew up hearing the stories of these areas, but has no firsthand experience; therefore, she will return to her parents roots and discover her own culture.
Film/Video & New Media

Theater for the New City

2000
Theater
New York City
General Program
$40,000
THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY, New York City, received a two-year grant of $40,000 to provide commissions to ten emerging playwrights each year and provide production subsidies to produce their works. Theater for the New City discovers new plays, nurtures and develops playwrights and acts as a bridge between playwrights and audiences. Each year, it produces 30 to 40 new American plays. All production decisions are made by the playwrights. Jerome support allows emerging writers to develop their craft by seeing their works fully produced, in a theater, with professional actors, designers and technicians. Theater for the New City nurtures and realizes the playwrights vision through the testing ground of production.
Theater

Erin Thompson

2000
Dance
Minnesota
Travel and Study
$1,800
Teacher, dancer, and choreographer ERIN THOMPSON was awarded a grant to spend eight days in an intensive workshop retreat entitled Dancespa, which is presented by Chicago-based company Jan Erkert & Dancers. Thompson will expand her teaching skills in this rejuvenative atmosphere.
Dance

Hanne Tierney

2000
Multi-disciplinary
New York City
General Program
$15,000
The Jerome Foundation, on a very limited basis, makes grants to established mid-career artists if they are facing particularly steep challenges and are at critical junctures in their work and careers. A grant of $15,000 was awarded to FIVE MYLES, Brooklyn, New York, to support the creation and production of a new work by puppet theater artist HANNE TIERNEY. Tierneys project represents new artistic territory for her, an investigation into changing the relationship between audience and performance, to let the audience experience a sense of complete participation in the action on stage. Shell change this relationship through the unorthodox use of video projection. Her new work titled How Wang-Fo Was Saved, based on an old Chinese legend and a story by Margaret Yourcenar, tells the story of the triumph of art over life.
Multi-disciplinary

VocalEssence

2000
Music
Minnesota
General Program
$47,000
The mission of the Plymouth Music series is to explore the interaction of voices and instruments through innovative programming of music, past and present. we seek to engage and enrich our audiences, who expect fro us the unexpected. Our focus is on commissioned and first performances of music as well as important, but rarely heard, works of the past. The PLYMOUTH MUSIC SERIES, Minneapolis, Minnesota, received a two-year grant of $47,000 in continued support of the Orchestra Reading Project. The Series, founded in 1969 by conductor Philip Brunelle, maintains a 105-voice chorus with a paid professional core of 24 voices performing as the Ensemble Singers. The Orchestra Reading Project was initiated in 1994. As of May 2000, 66 composers have heard a professional orchestra perform their works for the first time. Musicians are contracted for rehearsals, which serve as reading sessions for in-progress and recently completed orchestral works by emerging composers. A wide public announcement garners applications, which the Plymouth Music Series reviews in cooperation with the American Composers Forum. Eligibility is restricted to orchestral works that have received neither readings nor performances. Various enhancements strengthen the appeal of this program and add to the central experience of hearing ones work read by a group of capable and committed musicians.
Music

VSA Arts of Minnesota

2000
Multi-disciplinary
Minnesota
General Program
$35,000
The Jerome Foundation Directors made a two-year grant of $35,000 to VSA ARTS OF MINNESOTA, Minneapolis, Minnesota, in support of the Artist Recognition Grant program and services to professional artists. The mission of this organization is to make the arts accessible to people with all types of disabilities throughout the State of Minnesota. Its four-part approach includes an information and referral resource center, training, community awareness of arts access and advocacy on behalf of artists with disabilities. Each year, VSA issues an open call for artists and reviews those proposals via an independent multidisciplinary panel. Jerome funding will enable VSA Arts of Minnesota to continue a regranting program for emerging artists and to increase the level of subsidy awarded.
Multi-disciplinary

Gary Wahl

2000
Visual Arts
Minnesota
Travel and Study
$3,380
GARY WAHL, an artist and education coordinator living in Rochester, Minnesota, received funding to spend 16 days in various locations in Italy, taking the railroad to visit archeological, architectural and historic sites. He will observe physical conditions and conceptual effects of overlapping art historical periods. Wahl is primarily a sculptor whose work has been influenced by ruins and historical remnants.
Visual Arts

Walker Art Center

2000
Dance
Minnesota
General Program
$40,000
The Jerome Foundation Directors authorized a two-year grant of $40,000 to the WALKER ART CENTER, Minneapolis, Minnesota, in support of choreographic commissions in Momentum: New Dance Works. A unique multidisciplinary arts center with an international reputation, the Walker has developed and sustained artistic programming that champions the new and untested while charting groundbreaking historical research of the work of 20th Century masters. The Momentum series will commission, develop and present new contemporary dance works by 12 emerging Minnesota choreographers. The Series will be curated and co-presented by the Walker, the Southern Theater and the Minnesota Dance Alliance. It will run one week per month during winter/spring 2001 and 2002. In addition to performing, the choreographers will participate in post-performance discussions and critical feedback sessions.
Dance

Walker Art Center

2000
Film/Video & New Media
Minnesota
General Program
$40,000
The WALKER ART CENTER, Minneapolis, Minnesota, through the curatorial leadership of Steve Dietz, created an Emerging Artists/Emerging Medium program for which Jerome Foundation provided artist commissioning monies of $40,000 for the creation of new on-line works for the Walker's web site gallery. This virtual gallery may be found at http://www.walkerart.org/gallery9/. By highlighting and supporting the work of emerging new media artists, the Walker creates a context, supportive and critical, that helps establish individual artists of merit and advance new media as a serious avenue of creative expression. These new works help other organizations understand better how to utilize the vast potential of new media and the Internet to advance artistic missions. An open call is posted on the web for any artist wishing to submit a proposal. The program offers commissions, technical assistance and critical, contextual writing about the new works.
Film/Video & New Media

Claude Wampler

2000
Multi-disciplinary
New York City
General Program
$12,000
PERFORMANCE SPACE 122, New York City, acted as fiscal agent for a request by multimedia artist CLAUDE WAMPLER to support the development and production of new work in the 2000-01 season. Wampler is a visual and performance artist whose work encompasses video, painting, photography, lighting, sculpture, costume and text. Funding from Jerome Foundation will feed the development of Ambulance, Present Absence and Painting, the movie.
Multi-disciplinary

Susan Steger Welsh

2000
Literature
Minnesota
Travel and Study
$2,100
SUSAN STEGER WELSH is a poet who received funding to attend a writers workshop in Hofss, a fishing town on the north coast of Iceland.
Literature

Hannah Weyer

2000
Film/Video & New Media
New York City
New York City Film and Video
$15,000
Funding was awarded to HANNAH WEYER, for La Escuela (School), a feature-length documentary that follows a Mexican-American migrant teenager over the course of her freshman year in high school.
Film/Video & New Media

White Columns

2000
Visual Arts
New York City
General Program
$40,000
WHITE COLUMNS, New York City, received a two-year grant of $40,000 to support programs serving emerging artists in the 2000 and 2001 exhibition seasons. Jerome funding goes toward group exhibitions, White Room solo shows, slide review and the maintenance of the Artist Slide File. The Artist Slide File contains images from approximately 3,500 emerging artists, and may be viewed by appointment. The annual schedule consists of six thematic group exhibitions and 12 White Room shows featuring the work of over 200 emerging visual artists. A good portion of the Jerome Foundation grant is used to pay artists fees.
Visual Arts

Diane Wilson

2000
Literature
Minnesota
Travel and Study
$1,420
A grant was awarded to writer DIANE WILSON to travel to the Crow Creek and Santee Reservations in South Dakota. Wilsons mother is an enrolled member of the Rosebud Tribe in South Dakota and Wilsons research and writings will include stories from the lives of four generations of women focusing on cultural identity, interracial marriage, religion, poverty and the governments assimilation policies.
Literature

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