Past
Grantees

Poet Michael Dennis Browne received $3,000 to support four weeks in the United Kingdom to explore largely unfamiliar areas of his country of origin and write about the experience. Browne left the British Isles 27 years ago. His desire is to respond to the long-term prompting of an inner voice and journey on foot in a number of landscapes.

Emilie Buchwald, editor and publisher of Milkweed Editions, received $1,000 to spend a week in Bologna, Italy to attend the Bologna Children's Book Fair. There she'll meet children's book editors from other countries and renew and update her knowledge on children's literature.

Performer and choreographer Joe Chvala was awarded $600 to spend a week studying tap rhythm in Boston and New York City. In New York City, he'll take classes at Brenda Buffalino's Woodpecker Studios, where he intends to study with Barbara Duffy, a member of the Manhattan Tap Orchestra. Chvala also will attend a summer tap festival in Boston

Writer Kathleen Coskran received $940 to spend a month in Montauk, New York, as a writer in residence at the William Flanagan Memorial Creative Persons Center. There she'll work on a collection of short stories focused on personal revelations that emerge in cross-cultural situations.

Multimedia artist Betsy Damon received $2,500 toward eight weeks of travel in China. For the last eight years, Damon has been creating metaphors and images of relationships between humans and water, studying how water functions to give and support life. She plans to visit a sacred water site in China to document the site, interview area residents and work with Dr. Mitchell Xiao, a biochemist at the Cheng Du University of Science and Technology. Damon hopes to understand how a water source becomes sacred. She'll compile imagery, myths and scientific information which will result in installation works, a book and a film which explores water sites in the world.