Past
Grantees

Writer and teacher KATE DAYTON received a grant to travel to Belgium to study agricultural, religious and photographic traditions as well as the landscape, to inform her novel-in-progress Available Light.

The NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS, as fiscal agent for artist KYLE DECAMP, received subsidy of $10,000 in support of the Out of Breathproject. This is the second grant the Foundation has authorized for the development of new work by Kyle deCamp, whose pieces are concerned with different modes of creation and performance in the world of art and popular culture. They focus on absent subjects, in specific historical moments. Out of Breathis a multimedia performance invoking the life and work of American actress/anti-star Jean Seberg (1938 - 1979).

Painter JIM DENOMIE received funding to spend five weeks in residence at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, Vermont. He will work on a series of paintings titled The History of the United States.

MATT EHLING, St. Paul, MN, received a $8,000 grant in support of Access, a 60-minute documentary journey through the American spectrum of political and social opinion as reflected through the medium of public access television.

EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO, New York City, received a grant of $18,000 in support of the participation of emerging artists in the Contempornea exhibition series and the group exhibition S-Files 2000. The fourth year of the Contempornea series will feature two emerging artists who will be given a high-visibility gallery in which to create major installations. S-Files is an innovative new series that features the works of emerging Latino artists of different cultural backgrounds, and who are working in a variety of media, selected from the museum's extensive Artist Files.

A mid-career grant of $15,000 was awarded to Elizabeth Streb/Ringside, New York City, in support of a collaboration with individuals from the Georgia Institute of Technologys Interactive Media Center. Streb will introduce the new technology into the box truss performance structure and stage show that she created in 1997. Streb will create two works. IMPACTS will electronically capture a moment in time when a dancer impacts a structure. The concept of the work entitled TRANSMISSION is to examine the quantum physics of particles through a barrier. Streb is well known for risk taking in the realm of movement and dance. Jerome Foundation awards mid-career grants to established artists whose projects provide an opportunity for significant career development and places the artist in a position of artistic risk and challenge.

ALICE ELLIOTT received funding for I'm a Collector!, a feature-length documentary about Larry Selman, the mentally challenged neighbor of Elliott, who raises thousands of dollars each year for charity from neighborhood residents.

A two-year grant of $40,000 was awarded to ENSEMBLE STUDIO THEATRE (EST), New York City, in continued support for the development of new work by emerging theater artists. EST was founded in 1971 primarily to nurture individual theater artists and to develop new American plays; its membership is now comprised of nearly 500 theater artists. Current funding supports ETSs multifaceted playwright development program, which includes Youngblood, a series of works by artists in their early to late 20s; Internfest, a presentation of new work developed by an intern company; Octoberfest, a month-long festival of member initiated projects; First Look, a series of staged readings; the Spring Marathon of One-Act Plays; and a cabaret series titled Hell's Kitchen Sink.

A grant was awarded to Galumph Performance Troupe artists ERIK ESSE, CHRIS GRIFFITH, SHARI ARONSON and ANNE SAWYER to travel to the National Puppetry Festival in Seattle, Washington. They will present Tales from Tumtumera, see other pieces, develop professional contacts, and gain valuable feedback on their work.

The ETHOS PERCUSSION GROUP, queens, New York, received $22,500 in support of its Emerging Composer Commissioning Program. Founded in 1990, Ethos is dedicated to the advancement of the percussive arts in performance and education. It embraces musical styles from around the globe. Programming highlights are the players' vibrant musicianship as well as an extensive and unique collection of instruments. Jerome funds will support three commissions by emerging composers. Extensive developmental work with the composer is undertaken for each project.

RODNEY EVANS received support for Brother to Brother, an experimental narrative that follows the emotional and psychological journey of an eighteen year old gay, African-American artist as he discovers the hidden legacies of the Gay and Lesbian community within the Harlem Renaissance.

EVERGREEN CHRONICLES, a gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender literary and cultural publication, offers cultural commentary, visual art, poetry and fiction. A grant of $18,000 was authorized to subsidize two Novella issues and the general publication of works by emerging artists in the journal. Evergreen looks for work that challenges and explores gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender cultures. Through a competitive application and review process, Evergreen sponsors an annual Novella project in which two novellas are awarded publication subsidies in addition to modest honoraria for the two writers. The Novella publication, containing two works, is issued as one of Evergreens three annual issues.

The Jerome Foundation Directors offered continued support of $13,000 to Eye of the Storm, Minneapolis, Minnesota, in support of a playwrights commissioning program in the 1999-2000 season. Eye of the Storm has developed a three tier commissioning program that will enable several playwrights to create short works that will act as the seeds for new plays. Others will be commissioned to write complete works. With this program, Eye of the Storm will continue to commission works that involve risk taking, for which it has become known.

JENNIFER FIEBER received a grant for The Sundays of Life, an experimental film that explores the tension between observable objects and their connotations.

A grant of $31,400 was awarded to FilmNorth (formerly Independent Feature Project/North), Minneapolis, Minnesota, in support of a collaborative endeavor drawing upon the resources and sponsorship of Intermedia Arts Minnesota, the Walker Art Centers Film/Video Department and Twin Cities Public Television. This consortium is resurrecting the series MNTV, which features works by Minnesota film and video artists, broadcast in four hour-long programs that highlight the freshest, most innovative short films created by Minnesota makers within the last 36 months. The curated programs will be surrounded by such material as interviews with the filmmakers, and profiles of individuals and organizations that contribute to a vibrant media community in Minnesota. An open call for entries will be undertaken. Each member of the consortium will have a representative staff member as curator. Up to eight film/videos will be incorporated in each program.

Arts Administrator LISA FIRST received funding to travel to Prague, Czechoslovakia, to research and document Czech contemporary dance forms, which will inform her work as the organizer of an international dance festival.

KATHLEEN FLUEGEL, Director of Development for the Weisman Art Museum, will spend three weeks in Belgrade and Zagreb, Yugoslavia, in a learning residency with the Fund for an Open Society. She will learn from non-governmental leaders, offer her skills and experience of twenty years in the independent sector and establish relationships with potential partners for cultural exchanges with the Weisman Art Museum.

The Foundation Center received a $2,000 commitment toward its 1999 operating year.

THE FOUNDRY THEATRE, New York City, received $20,000 in support of developmental commitments to new and emerging writers in its 1999-2000 season. The Foundry, established by Artistic Director Melanie Joseph, is a cross between a producing theater and an artistic think tank. Integral to its mission is to commission, support, develop and produce the work of emerging artists who challenge the ideas of what theater is, and what it can mean. An investment, both creative and financial, in the long-term development of each work has been an important standard that the Foundry strives to sustain.

A two-year grant of $44,000 was awarded to FRANCONIA SCULPTURE PARK, Shafer, Minnesota, in support of programs serving emerging artists. The Park is an outdoor sculpture park, on a 16-acre site, 45 minutes north of the Twin Cities. It provides artists with work space and exhibition opportunities. Franconia actively solicits proposals from individual artists through regional and national contacts. An artistic review committee determines the artists who are invited for residencies. Last year, new works by 29 artists were exhibited on site. In the summers of 1999 and 2000, Franconia will involve at least 33 emerging artists in residencies of varying lengths as they produce new works for the Park.