Past
Grantees

FORECAST PUBLIC ART WORKS, St. Paul, Minnesota, received a two-year grant of $45,000 for the Public Art Affairs Program. FORECAST supports the development and appreciation of public art by creating opportunities for artists and communities to explore the public realm, and by producing educational materials to enhance the understanding and growth of public art. The Public Art Affairs program awards grants to emerging Minnesota artists for the development and production of public art projects throughout the state. Funding is available in the form of research and development stipends and production grants. Since 1988, this program has supported 63 public art projects.

The Foundation renewed its membership in and general operating support for THE FOUNDATION CENTER, New York City, an organization which provides useful information to grantseekers and grantmakers.

THE FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT VIDEO AND FILM, New York City, received $5,000 in support of artists services in its 1997-98 program year. The Foundation and its affiliated membership entity, the Association of Independent Film and Video Makers, has served and represented the national independent media arts community for two decades. It is one of the largest providers of information resources to the field. Constituents include artists in film and video, cable access and public television producers, media educators, librarians, public interest groups and reporters of independent media.

THE FOUNDRY THEATRE, New York City, received $7,000 to support developmental and production work with three emerging creators in the 1997-98 season. The Foundry is interested in pioneering new ways to develop theatrical material which challenges the traditional boundaries of theater while remaining accessible to audiences. The Theatre works to create an environment where the discourse which surrounds the work is as important as the work itself. With each originating artist, the Foundry designs a unique process which includes dramaturgical consultations, workshops with and without audiences, and extended, fiscally supported rehearsal periods. Originating artists determine the best means to develop their works in consultation with founder and artistic director Melanie Joseph. Funds from the Jerome Foundation will be applied to the development of new works by Carl Hancock Rux, David Hancock and Toshi Reagon.

The FRANCONIA SCULPTURE PARK, a 14-acre site located between Shafer and Taylors Falls in Minnesota, was incorporated in 1996 as a work-residence outdoor sculpture park. It shows both works created specifically for its site and pieces created elsewhere and then transported to Franconia. It conducts educational workshops and offers residency opportunities. Artists are given physical space, technical assistance and funding to produce work. Franconia encourages artists to work on a physical scale that might otherwise be unobtainable. Jerome support will subsidize fees, materials and general services to emerging artists.

FRANKLIN FURNACE, New York City, serves artists who work in alternative formats. For many years, its three primary programs were an archive of artists books, a performance art program for emerging artists and exhibitions of time-based arts. Jerome support for the Performance Artists Program and the Fund for Performance Art has been annually authorized since 1982. A grant of $32,000 was approved for the 1997-98 season. It will support a regranting program for individuals (the Fund for Performance Art), and a new initiative, Emerging Artists Live at Thinking Pictures. Each year, in the Fund for Performance Art program, Franklin Furnace solicits applications and convenes a selection panel to award grants to approximately ten artists to develop and produce major work in New York City. Franklin Furnace Live at Thinking Pictures, a media laboratory, is a curated presentation series of works made for electronic transmission. The performance space is a studio at Thinking Pictures. Thinking Pictures staff will work with the artists in animation, pre-recorded and live streamlined videotape and live chat with audience via a computer. These programs stream directly into a Netscape browser. Jerome support will be directed toward emerging performance artists.

FRANKLIN FURNACE, New York City, serves artists who work in alternative formats. For many years, its three primary programs were an archive of artists books, a performance art program for emerging artists and exhibitions of time-based arts. Jerome support for the Performance Artists Program and the Fund for Performance Art has been annually authorized since 1982. A grant of $32,000 was approved for the 1997-98 season. It will support a regranting program for individuals (the Fund for Performance Art), and a new initiative, Emerging Artists Live at Thinking Pictures. Each year, in the Fund for Performance Art program, Franklin Furnace solicits applications and convenes a selection panel to award grants to approximately ten artists to develop and produce major work in New York City. Franklin Furnace Live at Thinking Pictures, a media laboratory, is a curated presentation series of works made for electronic transmission. The performance space is a studio at Thinking Pictures. Thinking Pictures staff will work with the artists in animation, pre-recorded and live streamlined videotape and live chat with audience via a computer. These programs stream directly into a Netscape browser. Jerome support will be directed toward emerging performance artists.

Poet NANCY FREDERIKSEN will spend time in New Orleans, Louisiana and Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. She will view the final U.S. exhibition of Andrew Wyeths The Helga Pictures in New Orleans and conduct research in Wyeths home town of Chadds Ford. Frederiksen has written 28 poems and 12 sonnets on the Helga theme, and is working toward a full manuscript on this subject.

CLEA GALHANO, recorder player, received subsidy to travel to Boston attend the 1997 Boston Early Music Festival.

Clarinetist FRANK GARCIA, of Duluth, received a grant to attend the 1997 Clarinetfest, the Annual Convention of the International Clarinet Association. The festival will be held in Lubbock, Texas.

Subsidy of $6,000 was awarded to INTERMEDIA ARTS MINNESOTA, Minneapolis, acting as fiscal agent for choreographer and dancer GERRY GIROUARD, in support of a Dance/Music/Light Collaboration. Girouard proposed a dance, computer generated music and lighting project. The dance component stretches boundaries by having dancers perform sequences on the walls and ceiling as well as the floor. As the dancers move through space, they are detected by a computer which analyzes changes in light and generates corresponding sounds. Music will be composed by Todd Winkler.

Composer CHRIS GRANIAS will spend four days in Washington, DC at the Library of Congress conducting research relevant to his compositional work and related fields of interest. Granias writes in the choral and jazz idioms.

GRAYWOLF PRESS, St. Paul, Minnesota received a two-year grant of $40,000 to support the publication of emerging artists titles in 1998 and 1999. For more than 21 years, Graywolf Press has been publishing creative literature by contemporary writers. It is committed to promoting promising literary authors who may be overlooked in other publishing environments. It publishes works in poetry, fiction, memoir, criticism and creative nonfiction. Now under the direction of Fiona McCrae, Graywolf published 16 titles in the 1996-97 program year; and hopes to expand that number over the next two years.

ANN GRUNKE, a writer and teacher from St. Cloud, received a grant to study the St. Croix Valleys relevance to the completion of her novel, Laws of Nature. Her manuscript focuses on the commercial fishing business, a canning factory, railroad and barge transport and other aspects of old river life.

Sephardic ballad singer DAVID HARRIS will spend time in Virginia studying Bosnian ballad repertoire with Sephardic expert Flory Jagoda, who is also Bosnian. The study will focus on tunes, dialect, history and ornamentation which Harris will use in performance.

ELLEN HAWLEY, editor of A View From The Loft, received subsidy to attend the Stanford Professional Publishing course. This is an intensive program in book and magazine publishing for professionals. The course will assist not only Hawley but writers in the community who read the View and contribute to it.

Writer DAVID HAYNES will travel through Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona and California following the same route as a character in his novel-in-progress. He will visit historical sites and research centers along the way.

MIKE HAZARD, St. Paul, MN, $12,000. Hazard will receive funds to produce a 30-minute video titled Solar Power & Moonshine, composed as an imaginary year in the life of a videopoet named Mediamike. This first-person, narrative video is a montage of light and dark-hearted essays, random notes, chance images, documentary portraits of individuals, and lyrical videopoems.

CORN PALACE PRODUCTIONS, Minneapolis, Minnesota, develops and presents works which are multidisciplinary and performance oriented, with a strong core or through-line of music. Corn Palace has a history of commissioning, developing and presenting new works. In its seven years of operation, it has presented over 24 world premieres; and has commissioned 12 new works from a wide range of composers. Funding of $11,000 from the Jerome Foundation supports programming featuring the works of emerging composers. Of particular note this past season and coming season are Noncom Late Nights, mini festivals of bands performing in the genre of noncommercial new music. This form combines the energy of rock with the clarity and creativity of classical new music. Bands led by women composers will be featured. Also scheduled is a concert of new works by composer Brenda Hutchinson and performance artist Claire Porter.

A grant of $12,000 was authorized for IN THE HEART OF THE BEAST PUPPET AND MASK THEATRE, Minneapolis, Minnesota, in support of the 1998 Eye, Ear, Hand, Mouth: A Body of Short Puppet Works Festival. In early 1998, the Theatre will mount a festival of short works which introduce a wide array of creative artists to In the Heart of the Beast and support the individual work of company members. The works will be selected competitively as the result of an open call for proposals. This collection of original short works will include a wide variety of puppet styles from toy theater to shadow puppets. To support the participation of emerging creative artists in this festival, the Jerome Foundation authorized subsidy both for the direct expenses of the festival and for artists fees.