Past
Grantees

Musician and composer John Devine, received $2,500 to spend two weeks in New York City, studying extended conducting technique with composer/conductor Butch Morris. Devine will study conduction and induction, methods of conducting improvisational ensembles created by Morris. He plans to attend performances at night, in addition to studying with Morris and his ensemble during the day.

Writer Norita Dittberner-Jax received $3,000 to support four weeks of travel in Germany. She plans to visit Cologne, Munich, Berlin and Nuremberg, areas associated with particular facets of the Third Reich. The trip is central to a current prose/memoir work-in-progress entitled The Small Life Hidden in the Large.

Michael Engel, dancer and choreographer, received $3,000 to support two weeks in Tempe, Arizona, to study with dancer/choreographer Daniel Nagrin. Engel will work with the choreographer on Nagrin's solo dances and learn Nagrin's solo Word Games.

Juanita Espinosa, Director of the Native Arts Circle, received $1,000 to attend the annual assembly of the Fifth World Assembly of Community Radio Broadcasters in Oaxtepec, Mexico. Special attention at the conference will be given to Native stations of the Americas. Among the offerings are seminars titled Native Radio in the Americas and Women in Community Radio. Espinosa hopes to make connections that will lead to wider dissemination of an interview project she's developing with Native grandmothers.