Past
Grantees

Twin Cities Theatres of Color Coalition, also known as TCTOCC (fiscal sponsor Propel Nonprofits) received a $90,000 three-year grant ($30,000 per year) for strategic planning and capacity building. TCTOCC includes Pangea World Theater, Penumbra Theater, New Native Theatre, Teatro del Pueblo and Theater Mu.

Abrons Arts Center (fiscal sponsor Henry Street Settlement), New York City, received a two-year grant of $60,000 for the AIRspace Residency Program in 2018–19 and 2019–20, supporting four early career New York City-based performing artists per year. The artists selected for 2018–19 are NIC Kay, Jonathan Gonzalez, Salome Asega, and Korde Tuttle.

The artist will  travel to Leavenworth, Lawrence, Topeka, Manhattan, Strong City, El Dorado, Wichita and Republic, KS and Beatrice, NE for 25 days. Alberti will take a 25-day car trip from Minnesota to Kansas to conduct extensive research in local history in support of his first book, a historical novel tentatively titled El Dorado.

American Composers Forum, St. Paul, Minnesota, received a two-year grant of $160,000 for the ACF CREATE commissioning program for Minnesota and New York City-based early career composers and the Minnesota Emerging Composers Awards for early career composers in the creation and presentation of new work in 2018 and 2019.

Americans for the Arts, Washington, DC, received a one-time grant of $6,500 in support of its 2019 National Conference, to be held in the Twin Cities. The grant includes general conference support and for scholarships for early career artists based in Minnesota or the five boroughs of New York City to attend the conference.

Anderson Center, Red Wing, Minnesota, received a one-year grant of $21,250 to support five residencies of early career/emerging artists from Minnesota and New York City.

The artist will travel to Windhoek, Tsumeb, Etosha National Park, and Seringkop farm, Namibia and Nantes, Notre-dame-des-landes, and the Zone-a-defendre (Zad), France for 33 days. Arnold plans to explore land disputes in two different cultural contexts (occupation as resistance to development in La Zone-de-Défendre, France and occupation as indigenous land reclamation near Tsumeb, Namibia) as research for a documentary on the nature of land ownership struggles.

ArtChangeUS (fiscal sponsor NEO Philanthropy), New York City, received a one-time grant of $9,000 in support of early career artists’ participation and scholarships at the REMAP Twin Cities convening in 2018.

Asian American Writers’ Workshop, New York City, received a one-year grant of $35,000 for The Margins Fellowship, a publishing/fellowship program awarding stipends, publishing opportunities, and residencies to four emerging writers of Asian American descent in 2019.

The artist will travel to Bethlehem, Palestine for 31 days. Awadallah plans to research Arabic folk dances, the momentum and shape of Arabic calligraphy, and the movement of bodies living under occupation in Bethlehem, Palestine as research for her contemporary Arab dance and aesthetic grounding as a Palestinian American choreographer, while also making lasting connections with Arab dance and theatre organizations and family members in her ancestral village.

Baxter Street/Camera Club of New York, New York City, received a two-year grant of $40,000 to support four early career/emerging New York City lens-based artists to develop, create, and exhibit new work in 2018–19 and 2019–20.

Bronx Documentary Center, Bronx, New York, received a two-year grant of $80,000 for BDC Films, providing 12 early career/emerging documentary filmmakers skills-based trainings, a stipend, access to equipment and workspace, professional development workshops, mentorship, and a public platform to share new documentary work in 2018–19 and 2019–20.

Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, New York, received a two-year grant of $54,000 for the Artist in the Marketplace (AIM) program, offering 36 early career artists a free 15-week professional development seminar program, studio visits, portfolio reviews, clinics, and opportunities to meet and interact with curators and art world professionals, culminating in public presentations of new and recent work and a publication in 2018 and 2019.

Brooklyn Arts Exchange (BAX), Brooklyn, New York, received a two-year grant of $80,000 for Artist in Residence Programs providing New York City-based early career dance, theater and performance artists space, stipends, artistic mentorship, and technical and administrative support for the development of new work in 2018–19 and 2019–20.

The artist will travel to Haiti for 31 days. In preparation for a feature-length experimental film about women, family, and land in Haiti, Bruno will conduct research and collect individual stories, particularly from matriarchs, which deal with common generational land disputes that violently and deeply divide families across the Caribbean.

The Camargo Foundation received $115,000 in support of its ongoing programs, activities, and related administrative costs in 2018.

The Camargo Foundation received a one-time grant of $750,000 to support a Board-designated fund to be used for programs, activities, services, facilities and other needs.

Cave Canem, Brooklyn, New York, received a one-year grant of $25,000 to support two workshops for 30 early career/emerging poets to create new work and study with renowned instructors in 2019.