Past
Grantees

Karim Anouz is in the midst of completing a three-chapter film titled National Passion, inspired by the journals of Argentinean writer Tulio Carella. The film interweaves the foreigner's diaries with stories of local men in Northeastern Brazil who meet the European-looking traveler. The film is a study of sexuality, and a venture into the history of homosexuality identity.

Artists Space, New York City, received $12,000 in support of the participation of emerging American artists in its 1994-95 exhibition program. Two shows, Selections from the Slide File, begin and close the 1994-95 exhibition year.

The Asian American Renaissance, St. Paul, Minnesota, received a two-year grant of $40,000 in support of the organization's activities on behalf of emerging artists. The Renaissance is founded on the belief that the arts are crucial to the development of the Asian American community. Jerome Foundation subsidy was offered for one of the Renaissance's two major goals: to support and develop Asian American arts and artists. Jerome subsidy underwrites three of the programmatic areas of the Renaissance: exhibition/performance, education and artist services. Jerome first supported the Renaissance in 1992.

Dancer and performer E. E. Balcos was awarded a grant for a month-long stay in the Philippines. He'll work with dance companies and study dance in community life in Manila and surrounding areas, to deepen awareness of his Asian heritage and experience artistic expression through the country's folk dances and culture.

Producer ERIK BELGUM will travel to Amsterdam, Holland, to visit the Dutch Electronic Music Studio STEIM for one week and to New York City to develop projects with New American Radio.

Novelist BARRIE JEAN BORICH will travel for four weeks in Tokyo, Osaka and Kobe, Japan, to undertake research for a book project.

Donald Byrd/The Group, New York City, received a two-year grant of $16,000 in support of the current and the 1995-96 seasons. Donald Byrd/The Group tours extensively and performs regularly in its home city. In December of 1994, the company will perform at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and in January at the Joyce Theater. Byrd's new work, The Beast: The Domestic Violence Project, explores domestic violence as the genesis of widespread in the world. Byrd is also working on a new dance theater work with music by Duke Ellington titled The Harlem Nutcracker. This is the second grant that the Jerome Foundation has offered to choreographer Donald Byrd and his company.