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Joshua Weinstein

2011
Film
New York City
New York City Film Production
$18,000
JOSHUA WEINSTEIN received $18,000 for Off Duty, a feature length documentary that reveals the gritty life of New York City taxi drivers during the current economic downturn. At the center of the film is Eric Ying, a recent immigrant from China, who is struggling to reinvent himself as a cabbie. Like many Americans today, Eric Ying is unemployed and dreams of running his own business. With a wife and two young sons to support, he turns to a seemingly simple job: driving a taxicab. But it is a Herculean task for someone who can barely speak his customers language as well as navigate the citys 6,174 miles of streets. Off Duty exposes a conflicted version of capitalism, one in which a person will do anything to help feed his family, even at the expense of others, something that is never more apparent than on the roads of New York City. The film also observes the garage fraternity of cab drivers, which offers a rare place of community in a world of insecurities.
Film

Britni West

2011
Film
Minnesota
Minnesota Film Production
$20,000
BRITNI WEST received $20,000 for Tired Moonlight, a feature-length narrative.  This film tells the story of lonely, middle-aged Dawn. Combustible dreams fail to ignite as she is confronted by lost love in a glorified-pit-stop town. Every town has a post office, lovers, guns, switchblades and beer. You just have to know where to look and when to look the other way. Pitting grand landscapes against dinners of fried chicken and the roar of V8 engines on Saturday nights, Tired Moonlight wanders through Solitaire games (always won), secrets lost in cavernous hearts, and the fifty miles of bad road that always gets you home. 
Film

Matt Wolf

2011
Film
New York City
New York City Film Production
$15,000
A grant was awarded to MATT WOLF in support of an experimental documentary titled Arthur Russell Video EP, about the life and visionary music of avant-garde cellist and disco producer Arthur Russell. When Arthur Russell ran away from Oskaloosa, Iowa as a teenager, he made his way to a Buddhist commune in San Francisco. By 1973 the twenty-two year old had moved to New York, where future collaborator Allen Ginsberg fortuitously became his next-door neighbor. Soon Arthur met Tom Lee, and the two became longtime boyfriends. Shortly after arriving in the East Village, Russell discovered the Gallery, an underground disco, where he met the influential DJ Nicky Siano. Arthur went on to produce some of the most vanguard disco hits of the era. At this time, Russell also produced luminous works for solo voice and cello. These breathy revelations fell somewhere between the liminal spaces of downtown New York and Iowa cornfields. Arthur died of AIDS in 1992. In the approximate length of an EP record, a series of video tracks, like chapters, will feature an array of materials illuminating Russells life and work. Each track can play individually like an experimental music video. But in combination, these chapters will form and extraordinary portrait.
Film

Geo Wyeth

2011
Music
New York City
Travel and Study
$2,280
GEO WYETH, composer, Brooklyn, New York, will travel to Lancaster County, South Carolina & surrounding areas, investigating the controversial life of J. Marion Sims, the father of modern gynecology (and his great-great-great-great grandfather). Wyeth plans to keep an audio journal of short sensory clips, engage with the citizens of the surrounding area on the topic of Sims life, and research collections of his diaries and letter at area Universities as material for new work. This distant relative was lauded by the medical establishment, but exposed more recently for his inhumane and racist experimental operations on black slave women.
Music

Christine Wong Yap

2011
Visual Arts
New York City
Travel and Study
$2,314
CHRISTINE WONG YAP, interdisciplinary artist, Astoria, New York, will travel to Philadelphia and Berkeley to advance her understanding of positive psychology by attending the conference of the International Positive Psychology Association, and interviewing a leading social psychologist about cognitive science, creativity, and contemporary art during a visit to a contemporary art exhibition. Yap anticipates this experience will provide inspiration for her work. As an artist examining optimism and pessimism, she is interested in how art about happiness can be critically engaging on its own terms.
Visual Arts

Chris Yon

2011
Dance
Minnesota
General Program
$8,500
SPRINGBOARD FOR THE ARTS, Saint Paul, Minnesota, as fiscal sponsor for choreographer CHRIS YON, received $8,500 in support of the development and production of a new work titled The Very Unlikeliness (Im Going to KILL You!). The mission of Springboard for the Arts is to cultivate a vibrant arts community by connecting artists with the skills, contacts, information, and services they need to make a living and a life. Springboard has supported the arts community with management and consulting services for more than 20 years. Chris Yon, choreographer and performer, is developing The Very Unlikeliness (Im Going to KILL You!), an evening-length duet. Its currently structured in four parts, which reflect four areas of continued interest, four drawers for different choreographic propensities. The duet will organize information in a way that is unpredictable and often impenetrable. It will combine rhythms and gestures into accumulating repetitive sequences that are formal, soulful, still, slick, mysterious, and melancholic. These dizzying structures will give way to a gut-bucket essence.
Dance

Zeitgeist

2011
Music
Minnesota
General Program
$23,500
ZEITGEIST, Saint Paul, Minnesota, received a two-year grant of $23,500 in support of the Zeitgeist/Composer Workshop. Zeitgeists mission is to enliven todays music and expand its public with performances that absorb, stimulate, and hearten. It forges new links between musicians and music lovers through concerts, commissions, recordings, and dialogue with audiences. The Zeitgeist/Composer Workshop is designed to give emerging composers the opportunity to develop creative ideas and stretch artistic boundaries in an environment that celebrates exploration and experimentation. The focus is not on the completion of a composition but rather on the generation and development of ideas and the exploration of musical possibilities.
Music

Zenon Dance Company and School, Inc.

2011
Dance
Minnesota
General Program
$26,000
Jerome Foundation awarded a grant of $26,000 to the ZENON DANCE COMPANY AND SCHOOL, Minneapolis, Minnesota, in support of the development and production of new works by three emerging choreographers. Zenons mission is to sustain an artistically excellent, professional dance company by presenting the commissioned works of emerging and locally, nationally, and internationally recognized modern and jazz choreographers to the broadest and most diverse audiences and communities possible, including those with disabilities. It accomplishes this through performance, education, and outreach. Artistic Director Linda Z. Andrews selects emerging professional choreographers to set new works on the company. The choreographers bring excitement and risk to the works.
Dance

luciana achugar

2010
Dance
New York City
General Program
$8,000
The BROOKLYN ARTS EXCHANGE, Brooklyn, New York, as fiscal sponsor for choreographer LUCIANA ACHUGAR, received $8,000 in support of the creation, development, and production of the work PURO DESEO. The mission of BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange is to advance artistic development and unite diverse constituencies by providing support for emerging performing artists, arts education for Brooklyn youth from low/moderate income families, teaching residencies in Brooklyn public schools, and an annual presenting season in its theater. achugars PURO DESEO embraces the darkness of the cavernous black box and its inherent magic and mystery. achugar draws inspiration from paranormal phenomena, the occult, and representations of monstrosity in Gothic film and literature. Through a visceral and intuitive experience of sound, movement, and the exaggerated presence of light, long-time collaborator Michael Mahalchick and achugar build their performance as an incantation. PURO DESEO will be produced at The Kitchen in the spring of 2010.
Dance

American Composers Forum

2010
Music
Minnesota
General Program
$197,000
The AMERICAN COMPOSERS FORUM, Saint Paul, Minnesota, received a two-year grant of $197,000 in support of various programs supporting emerging composers. The Forum enriches lives by nurturing the creative spirit of composers and communities. It provides new opportunities for composers and their music to flourish, and engages communities in the creation, performance, and enjoyment of new music. Jerome support is directed toward the Jerome Fund for New Music, which provides support to emerging composers based in New York City and Minnesota. Dollars will support commissions and enhancement funds to further the development and reach of the commissions. This is an open application program with selection by an independent panel. Jerome funding also supports the Minnesota Emerging Composer Awards. Through a nomination process, emerging composers working in world music, jazz, and electronic forms are commissioned to create and produce new works.
Music

Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies

2010
Multi-disciplinary
Minnesota
General Program
$32,000
Jerome Foundation Directors authorized a two-year grant of $32,000 to the ANDERSON CENTER FOR INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES, Red Wing, Minnesota, in support of 12 residencies for emerging artists based in Minnesota and New York City. The Anderson Center is a regional cultural resource that provides a supportive environment for the pursuit of creative projects by artists while also advancing appreciation of the arts by presenting cultural programs and events for residents of the Red Wing area and other communities in southeast Minnesota. Residencies of two to four weeks duration from May 1 through October 31 enable artists to advance work-in-progress or initiate new work. A Residency Program selection panel reviews applications submitted in response to an open call and awards residencies. Jerome-supported artists are in residence during the month of August each year.
Multi-disciplinary

Pramila Vasudevan / Aniccha Arts

2010
Dance
Minnesota
General Program
$7,000
PANGEA WORLD THEATER, Minneapolis, Minnesota, as fiscal sponsor for ANICCHA ARTS, also based in Minneapolis, received $7,000 for the creation, development, and production of a new work for a fall 2010 concert. Pangea World Theater illuminates the human condition, celebrates cultural differences, and promotes human rights by creating and presenting international, multidisciplinary theater. Aniccha Arts is an interactive performance dance company whose members strive to find a strong relationship among dance, sound, and media through interactivity while decreasing the divide among audience and stage. Artistic Director Pramilla Vasudevan will work with collaborators to create Words To Dead Lips (dont say it unless I can eat it), an interactive performance that uses a childs perspective to ruminate on the fulfillment of human potential through indoctrination in the historical context of war in America. The piece employs technology as a mechanism for integrating and exploring the relationship of dance, visual media, and sound in three physical spaces.
Dance

Art in General

2010
Visual Arts
New York City
General Program
$38,000
ART IN GENERAL, New York City, received a two-year grant of $38,000 in support of the New Commissions Program. Art in General supports artists in the production and presentation of new work. It is a resource for emerging artists and developing practices. The 2010-11 exhibition season will mark the sixth year of the New Commissions Program through which the organization has supported and presented 29 significant new works by emerging artists. The program commissions five to seven New York-based emerging artists each year to create new projects in any medium or form. The artists receive commissions; production fees; an exhibition venue; a critical publication; and conceptual, logistical and organizational support.
Visual Arts

Reuben Atlas

2010
Film
New York City
New York City Film Production
$15,000
A grant was awarded to REUBEN ATLAS for The Brothers Hypnotic, a feature-length documentary about an all-brass band of brothers from the South Side of Chicago. Brotherhood has long been a guiding ideal in the African American community. For the eight young men who make up the Hypnotic Brass Ensemble, brotherhood has the dual significance of family ties and racial solidarity. Theyre all sons of Phil Cochran, a legendary Chicago trumpeter who turned his back on commercial music to pursue astral jazz (with Sun Ra), proto-funk, and Black Power. What was Cochrans ultimate avant-garde experiment? His own sons. They lived an insular communal existence with Cochran and their two mothers Mama Maia and Mama Aquilla complete with homemade clothes, veganism, and invented holidays. Starting at age three and continuing well into adulthood, the boys performed in the family band and were developed as artists and complex human beings under the ever-watchful eye of their determined father.
Film

Kimberly Bartosik / daela

2010
Dance
New York City
General Program
$10,000
THE FIELD, New York City, as fiscal sponsor for choreographer KIMBERLY BARTOSIK, received $10,000 in support of the development and production of a new work. The Field encourages and cultivates appreciation of the performing arts, and frequently acts as a fiscal sponsor for independent artists in the development, creation, and presentation of music, dance, theater, film and video works. Bartosiks choreographic project, i like penises: a little something in 24 acts, is an evening-length spectacle reflecting on ideas of exchangeability, accumulation, and replacement. In this work for four dancers and three designers, Bartosik will examine the American ethos of dont fix it, replace it. Bartoskis work is built upon the development of a virtuosic movement language, rigorous conceptual explorations, and the creation of highly theatricalized environments.
Dance

Signe Baumane

2010
Film
New York City
New York City Film Production
$10,000
Support was awarded to SIGNE BAUMANE for A Guide to Survival, an animated feature that explores the link between the filmmakers bouts with depression and the depression of her Latvian grandmother, Anna. Where does depression come from? Does it live in a far away country and once in a while come to bestow its evil gifts? Or does it live near its sufferer, or actually inside its sufferer and, like a puppet master with strings attached to the limbs, jerk its sufferer around in a mad, painful dance? A Guide to Survival is a film about the depression and mental illness running in the family of the filmmaker. The story explores her familys history along with Latvias tragic place in two world wars. It also shows how historic events collided with the lives of individual people, forcing them to make difficult choices. The films story connects the past with the present through the filmmakers present day struggles with her inner demons in New York City, and her grandmothers struggles of the past in Latvia. The filmmaker will attempt to answer the question, Can you beat the genes?
Film

Keith Bearden

2010
Film
New York City
New York City Film Production
$20,000
A grant was awarded to KEITH BEARDEN for God Hates Kansas, an experimental feature-length narrative that was inspired by Katsuhito Ishiis neo-surrealist drama Cha no Aji. This is the story of an average American family living in small-town Kansas: Mom, twice divorced, out of shape, over-medicated and over-worried, tries to eradicate her normal fears and problems until she becomes the perfect woman of her dreams. Eloise, a shy nine-year-old, precociously fixates on finding true love and the perfect marriage her Mom never had. Dylan, the 22-year-old slacker son who is still at home, has rock star dreams that are five times bigger than his talent or ambition. Uncle John, a regular small town, church-going guy has a big secret: hes gay, and at almost 50, has lost a lot of time in coming to terms with his true self. God Hates Kansas is neither anti-God, nor anti-Kansas. It is a film about how there is great beauty in simple dreams, and the persons we want to be, and lives we want to.
Film

Patricia Benoit

2010
Film
New York City
New York City Film Production
$15,000
PATRICIA BENOIT received support for Ayiti, Ayiti, a feature-length narrative that examines the social and intimate landscapes of exile through three intersecting storylines. Driven from Haiti to New York, Vita, Yannick and Max struggle to adjust to life in a new land. Vita reunites with her husband and tries to forget a history of assault; Yannick arrives at her sisters in Long Island, unwilling to buy into her sisters American dream; and Max shows up at the doorstep of his estranged son, who spends his days fighting everything his father represents. A final scene of reckoning brings the three together, face to face with the inescapable truths of their past. Through suspense, humor, and drama, Ayiti, Ayiti explores the personal fallout of political bloodshed, and the possibility of love, hope and endurance in a time of violence. The film presents what Benoit describes as an honest, complex portrayal of the diverse lives often ignored in the rush towards sensational headlines and shocking news footage of Haiti. This is Benoits debut as a feature-filmmaker. In addition to directing the work, she is also its writer.
Film

The BodyCartography Project

2010
Dance
Minnesota
General Program
$10,000
SPRINGBOARD FOR THE ARTS, St. Paul, Minnesota, as fiscal sponsor for THE BODYCARTOGRAPHY PROJECT, received $10,000 to support the creation, development, and presentation of the new works Symptom, Closer, and River. Springboards mission is to cultivate a vibrant arts community by connecting artists with the skills, contacts, information, and services they need to make a living and a life. The BodyCartography Project, led by Olive Bieringa and Otto Ramstad, investigates the physical resonance of space in urban, wild, domestic, and social landscapes through dance, video and installation work. Symptom will examine the human body as object of study and producer of knowledge, investigating notions of social bodies versus biological bodies, teasing out dynamics of sibling rivalry, and exploring the gaps among seeing, knowing, and empathy. Research and development will be undertaken for new projects Closer and River. Closer will be a performance installation work exploring intimacy and aesthetic experience at the subtle edges of sensory perception. In River, at sites of environmental significance along the Mississippi River, The BodyCartography Project will develop installations (performance, aural, or visual) in collaboration with ecologists, geologists, biologists, and other artists.
Dance
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Deborah Black and Karl Cronin

2010
Dance
New York City
Travel and Study
$3,190
DEBORAH BLACK and KARL CRONIN, Ridgewood (Queens), New York, will travel to Childress, Texas. The duo will research and document the experience of being in a small American town, population under 7,000, which was destroyed by the drought and windstorms of the 1930s caused by land misuse. The information gathered from the trip will be used as the foundation for a full-length movement piece, Childress.
Dance