Past
Grantees

Hawa Allan, New York City, received $5,000 to conduct interviews in Minnesota, Toronto and London as part of a research project on resettled Somali communities.

Fabian Almazan, New York City, received $20,000 to compose new work for his ensemble Rhizome in a jazz-rooted improvisatory context; travel back to Cuba to collect audio samples and experience traditional, folkloric music from the region of his birth; continue experimenting with ways to run acoustic instruments, such as a grand piano, through audio-processing software; and work with a piano maker to pursue his interest in updating the piano as a modern instrument, adding built-in pick-ups.

Alwan for the Arts, New York City, received $10,270 as fiscal sponsor for a four-week Jerome@Camargo residency in 2017 for Amir ElSaffar, New York, New York.

American Composers Forum received $200,000 ($100,000 per year for two years) to support  the Jerome Fund for New Music and the Minnesota Emerging Composer’s Award (MECA) program.

The Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies received $42,500 ($21,250 per year for two years) to support Jerome Fellows in 2016 and 2017, providing ten Minnesota or New York City emerging artists (5 per year) month-long residencies, including living stipends, weekly honoraria, and travel stipends.

Northern Lights.mn, Minneapolis, Minnesota, as fiscal sponsor for Aniccha Arts/Pramila Vasudevan, Minneapolis, Minnesota, received $26,000 over two years in support of the development and production of 3600 Cuts in 2017 and 2018.

Art in General, Brooklyn, New York, received $40,000 over two years to support the New Commissions program in 2017 and 2018.

Art Matters received $25,540 in support of sponsoring artist residencies for emerging artists at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France.

Asian American Writers' Workshop, New York City, received $48,000 over two years in support of the Margins Fellows, awarded to three emerging New York City-based writers per year in 2017 and 2018.

BAAD!/Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, in partnership with Pepatian, received $37,000 ($18,500 per year for two years) to support Open Call for FY16 and FY17.

E.G. Bailey, Minnesota, received $15,000 to support Keon, a 25-minute narrative short. The film follows Keno and his brothers, young African Americans negotiating the demands of family, friends and dreams when they are confronted by two officers.

Jeff Bennett, Minnesota, received $5,000 to follow a path across the western United States in research for an anticipated character's journey.

Kim Brandt, New York City, received $5,000 to visit and research the works of land artists Nancy Holt, Robert Smithson, Michael Heizer and Walter De Maria. By experiencing in person these unique artistic approaches to human-land relationships, Brandt wants to deepen and broaden her choreographic explorations between the body and nature, generating somatic, experiential and intellectual research to support the creation of a new choreographic body of work related to these themes.

Bronx Museum of the Arts received $40,000 ($20,000 per year for two years) to support the 2016 and 2017 Artists in the Marketplace Program and the 2017 Biennial Exhibition for New York City-based emerging artists.

Brooklyn Arts Exchange received $44,000 ($22,000 per year for two years) to support the 2016-17 and 2017-18 Artist in Residence Program, providing six artists per year with stipends and 300 hours of free rehearsal space.

DAVID GARRETT BYARS was awarded $25,000 in support of the documentary No Man's Land. Bitter antagonism between right-wing militia and the federal government has boiled over into rebellion and bloodshed. No Man's Land follows this insurrection, from inception to demise, and the elements that made it possible.

The Camargo Foundation received $115,000 in support of its ongoing programs, activities, and related administrative costs in 2016.

Camera Club of New York received $36,000 ($18,000 per year for two years) to support four solo exhibitions by New York City-based emerging artists in the Workspace Residency Program.

Cave Canem Foundation received $55,000 ($11,000 per workshop over 2.5-years) to support New York City-based workshops for emerging poets, including a fall workshop in 2016 and spring and fall workshops in 2017 and 2018, including five 10-session workshops (30 program hours each) serving emerging adult African-American, Arab American, and poets of color living in New York City's five boroughs.

The Cedar Cultural Center received $76,000 ($38,000 per year for two years) to support the Commissions program for emerging Minnesota composers in 2016-17 and 2017-18.