2002 Grant Awards: Heritage/Preservation

Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

DANCE

American Bolero Dance Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,000
To support the American Bolero Apprenticeship Program. Participants in the program will be taught traditional Spanish dance.

American Dance Festival, Inc. (consortium)
Durham, NC
$20,000
To support a three-week Dance Critics Workshop. The critics will attend performances followed by sessions on writing, discussion and analysis, the history of dance and dance criticism.

Batoto Yetu, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the expanded production of a dance drama created by Artistic Director Julio T. Leitao. The production, titled The Quest, will showcase African dance and folklore.

Dance Heritage Coalition, Inc.
Washington, DC
$30,000
To support Phase II of Facing the Magnetic Media Crisis. The project will reformat or copy 175 tapes that have been subject to physical deterioration, or format or machinery obsolescence as well as convene a Technology Working Group meeting.

Floricanto Dance Theatre
Whittier, CA
$13,000
To support the creation and presentation of a full-length work choreographed by Artistic Director Gema Sandoval. The work will be based on the Mexican Day of the Dead (dia de los muertos) celebrations.

George Balanchine Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support two core video archive programs. The Archive of Lost Choreography retrieves fragments of Balanchine works that are no longer performed and the Interpreters Archive preserves the coaching of Balanchine roles by those who worked directly with him.

International Tap Association
Boulder, CO
$10,000
To support Tap 2003, a project examining the legacy and future of the art of tap. The project will bring together four generations of tap artists to examine the aesthetic, philosophical and practical issues for the field.

Katha Dance Theatre
Crystal, MN
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new production, Ramayana. The piece will use the dance, music, storytelling and mask theater traditions of India, Cambodia, Indonesia, Thailand and Laos.

Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance
New York, NY
$35,000
To support the Martha Graham Media Project. The project will catalogue between 1500 and 2000 recordings, preserve 500 items, and make a selection of these works accessible to the public.

National Institute of Flamenco
Albuquerque, NM
$10,000
To support the 2002 Festival Flamenco Internacional. The festival consists of two weeks of classes in flamenco dance, choreography, singing, guitar and percussion, culminating in public performances.

New York Baroque Dance Co., Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the Baroque Ballet Workshop, a residency program to be held in Hunter, NY, San Rafael, CA and Dallas, TX. The focus of the project is to strengthen professional and public knowledge of Baroque dance heritage through classes, concerts and lectures, passing on artistic repertoire, techniques and traditions.

New York City Ballet, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support Phase II of the Archive Project. The project is an effort to organize, preserve and make accessible original materials from New York City Ballet's past.

Sundar Kala Kendra Foundation
Walnut, CA
$10,000
To support creation and presentation of a dance drama choreographed by Artistic Director Anjani Ambegaokar. The production will be performed in classical kathak dance style accompanied by live musicians.

Tulane University
New Orleans, LA
$10,000
To support artist fees for the sixth annual New Orleans Jazz Dance Festival. The activities of the festival are designed to preserve, understand and respect the diverse cultural heritage of 20th century American jazz dance.

University of California at Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA
$20,000
To support the post-production phase of Mary Anthony: A Life in Modern Dance. This is a video documentary of the life and work of a dance artist and pioneer.

DESIGN

Alaska Design Forum, Inc.
Anchorage, AK
$22,500
To support the book project QUONSET: The Ongoing History of Quonset Huts in Alaska. Through research and documentation the Alaska Design Forum intends to show the impact Quonset huts have had on the built environment and culture of post-World War II Alaska.

Architects/Designers/Planners for Social Responsibility
Berkeley, CA
$10,000
To support New Village Journal, a publication that presents case studies of grassroots projects about cultural heritage and neighborhood spirit that serve immigrant communities, children, youth, the physically ill and others. Examples of cultural and physical renewal in some of the most challenged urban neighborhoods will be presented.

Connecticut Architecture Foundation
(on behalf of Architecture Resource Center)
$15,000
New Haven, CT
To support the publication Hartford: Making of a Capital. The project encompasses a design based, interdisciplinary, cultural heritage education program and curriculum materials for middle schools.

Cranbrook Educational Community
(on behalf of Cranbrook Academy of Art and Art Museum)
$15,000
Bloomfield Hills, MI
To support a conservation plan for the Saarinen House and adjoining mirrored Milles House, both designed by the prominent early 20th century architect Eliel Saarinen. The project will develop objectives and criteria for the long-term conservation of the buildings' fabric, interior finishes and collection.

Emerald Necklace Conservancy
Boston, MA
$20,000
To support the rehabilitation of a Henry Hobson Richardson designed gatehouse. The project will serve as the first permanent exhibition and visitor center exploring the Olmsted-designed parks and waterways constituting the Emerald Necklace park system.

Film Arts Foundation (on behalf of Mother Lode Productions)
San Francisco, CA
$22,500
To support the community distribution strategy for the documentary Downside UP. The documentary relates the conversion of a New England industrial mill into MASS MoCA, America's largest contemporary art museum.

Historic Richmond Foundation
Richmond, VA
$20,000
To support feasibility, schematic designs, and construction documents for the restoration and conservation of Monumental Church. The restoration of this national historic landmark will make the building available as an active community center.

National Trust for Historic Preservation (on behalf of Lyndhurst)
Washington, DC
$20,000
To support the reinstallation of the A.J. Davis 1842 Gothic Revival parlor at Lyndhurst. A.J. Davis was one of America's earliest architects to unify space and furnishings and the Lyndhurst parlor is considered one of the masterpieces demonstrating this unification.

National Trust for Historic Preservation
Washington, DC
$30,000
To support research, technical assistance, organization and material development for Community-Centered Historic Schools, a preservation tool that will help citizens save endangered historic schools. The materials developed for the project will provide evidence that it is economically wiser to maintain and update historic neighborhood schools.

Partners for Sacred Places, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$20,000
To support Sacred Trust, a national conference to disseminate a wide range of practical information about preserving historic religious properties. The conference will feature 20 comprehensive sessions led by nationally known experts on religious architecture, building maintenance and repair, building management, community outreach, and fundraising.

Preservation Alliance of New Orleans, Inc.
New Orleans, LA
$20,000
To support selected commissions for affordable houses inspired by the architecture of existing New Orleans historical houses. Architects to design and produce plans for the housing will be chosen by an advisory committee.

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, NY
$10,000
To support documentation of the acoustical properties of Troy Music Hall using the latest measurement technology for sound documentation. The documentation of Troy Music Hall will aid in the design, understanding and preservation of musical performance spaces.

University of Maryland Baltimore County Campus
(on behalf of Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery)
$20,000
Baltimore, MD
To support production of the traveling exhibition Typographically Speaking: The Art of Matthew Carter, an accompanying publication, and educational programming. The exhibition will present Carter-designed typefaces and analysis from designers and institutions that have worked with or commissioned Carter's typefaces.

FOLK & TRADITIONAL ARTS

Albuquerque Arts Alliance
Albuquerque, NM
$20,000
To support a cultural survey of various ethnic populations that reside in the greater Albuquerque areas. The survey will assist arts organizations in tailoring their programs and services to meet the specific needs of these underserved populations.

Alianza Dominicana, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the Dominican Folk Instrument and Dance Apprenticeship Project. The project will expand the Conjunto Folklorico ensemble's activities by adding a much needed folk instrument component.

Allegheny Echoes, Inc.
Marlinton, WV
$6,000
To support workshops in traditional Appalachian music and poetry. The workshops are designed to preserve, present and pass down the traditional arts of West Virginia.

Alliance of New York State Arts Councils
(on behalf of Nassau County Firefighters Emerald Society Pipes and Drums)
Mattituck, NY
$10,000
To support drum and pipe workshops. The workshops are designed to preserve, present and pass down Irish drum and bagpipe traditions.

Angkor Dance Troupe, Inc.
Lowell, MA
$20,000
To support the Masters of Cambodian Dance Apprenticeship Program. The project goals are to improve the technical and artistic ability of dancers in the troupe, increase dancers' understanding of the spiritual and ritual functions of dance in Cambodian culture, and utilize the expertise of visiting masters to develop dances not currently performed by the troupe.

Arlington County Cultural Affairs Division
Arlington, VA
$20,000
To support the folk arts outreach program. Projects include an oral history and ethnographic video, provision of rehearsal facilities and technical assistance to folk artists, and expansion of a youth program in folklore fieldwork.

Asociacion De Musicos Latino Americanos, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$15,000
To support Tesoros Culturales (Cultural Treasures) Program. The project will consist of a series of workshops and performances of Latin traditional music and dance.

Brooklyn Arts Council
Brooklyn, NY
$8,000
To support fieldwork and the Praise in the Park: Musical Expressions of Faith concert. The concert will present exemplary musicians, dancers and ritual practitioners working in Brooklyn's varied religious traditions.

California Indian Basketweavers Association
Nevada City, CA
$30,000
To support the California Indian Basketweavers Gathering. The gathering brings basketweavers and students together to teach and learn from one another and to celebrate their artistry. It provides opportunities for basketweavers to educate the public, exhibit and sell their work, and discuss ideas relevant to their traditions.

Calista Elders Council, Inc.
Anchorage, AK
$40,000
To support the revitalization of the Yup'ik Messenger Feast Project. This project will document, through film, photographs, a bilingual catalog and museum exhibit, an inter-village event during which two villages take turns hosting each other for a three day celebration of feasting, singing, dancing and gift exchanges.

Cambodian American Heritage, Inc.
Fort Washington, MD
$10,000
To support instruction in Cambodian classical and folk dances. The project will culminate with a concert in conjunction with and in observance of the Cambodian New Year.

Center for Traditional Music and Dance, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
To support the creation of a Mariachi Education Program. The program will offer intensive instruction in mariachi repertoire, instruments and vocal technique.

Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum, Inc.
St. Michaels, MD
$20,000
To support apprenticeships in traditional wooden boat building. Working under the guidance of a master shipwright, the apprentices will learn the art of wooden boat building while restoring the last remaining skipjacks licensed to dredge for oysters on the Chesapeake Bay.

City Lore, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the touring exhibition Que bonita bandera!: The Puerto Rican Flag as Folk Art. The traveling exhibition will feature traditional mundillo and vejigante masks as well as murals and assemblages of objects which utilize the image of the flag.

City Lore, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the third People's Poetry Gathering. The gatherings have featured more than 30 different genres of traditional poetry, ranging from occupational traditions -- loggers, cowboys, hobos, fishermen -- to ethnic traditions, such as Cambodian ayai or the Brazilian cordel (clothesline) poetry.

Clark County, NV, Cultural Affairs Division
Las Vegas, NV
$25,000
To support the folk arts program. Activities will include locating, documenting and archiving folk arts in Clark County and coordinating the annual International Food and Folklife Festival of Southern Nevada.

Columbus State University
Columbus, GA
$20,000
To support Baskets, Ballsticks, and Busk: Interpreting Southeastern Indian Culture Through Art, Games and Dance. The multifaceted program will include a staff development course for teachers focusing on southeastern Indian culture, a program for school children, an academic symposium, and a Southeastern Indian Heritage Day.

Comanche Indian Tribe
Lawton, OK
$8,000
To support the third Reunion of Shoshonean Speaking Peoples. Through the two day gathering, Shoshonean tribes of similar origin will share group stories, oral histories, traditions and groups' concerns.

Davis & Elkins College (on behalf of Augusta Heritage Center)
Elkins, WV
$30,000
To support the West Virginia Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program and the October Old-Time Fiddlers' Reunion. Apprenticeships normally take place in the home or workplace of the master artist where context, values and lore are shared along with the art itself.

Dutchess County Arts Council, Inc.
Poughkeepsie, NY
$6,000
To support One River, Many Streams. The festival features performances, demonstrations and displays of folk and traditional performing and material arts practiced in the Mid-Hudson Valley.

Florida Division of Historical Resources
Tallahassee, FL
$26,000
To support the Central Florida folklore program and other related costs. Activities will include folk arts documentation in Orlando's African American communities, documentation and programming for the regional bus system, exhibits and curricula planning.

Folklore Village Farm, Inc.
Dodgeville, WI
$20,000
To support the 2002 Midwest Folklife Festival. The festival will feature over 60 ethnic and folk artists from Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa in concert, demonstration and narrative settings.

Fresno Arts Council
Fresno, CA
$30,000
To support the Alliance for California State Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program and other related costs. The project will support one-on-one learning for 40 master-apprenticeship pairs, an artist's gathering, and Web site outreach.

Hmong Cultural Arts, Crafts, Teaching & Museum Projects
Elverta, CA
$15,000
To support an after-school program of instruction in Hmong pa dao embroidery, kheng music and Hmong and traditional folk dances. The after-school program is offered to at-risk youths who live in a disadvantaged area troubled by juvenile delinquency.

Hostos Community College Advisory Council, Inc.
Bronx, NY
$25,000
To support BomPlenazo 2002. Project activities include a concert series, school lecture/demonstrations; percussion, dance and crafts workshops; and an exhibit of photos and artifacts related to bomba and plena.

Indiana University (on behalf of Traditional Arts Indiana)
Bloomington, IN
$20,000
To support the initial phase of the Indiana County Fair Documentation Project. Documentation will include photography and on-the-spot interviews and field notes which will result in a comprehensive and contemporary photo-ethnography of midwest county fairs.

Institute for Community Research, Inc.
Hartford, CT
$20,000
To support the fifth year of the Southern New England Apprenticeship Project. The project will link artists to members of their ethnic group in other locations, and will enhance public activities in ethnic and occupational communities shared by artists in Connecticut, Rhode Island and Massachusetts.

IRCO
Portland, OR
$30,000
To support a statewide tour and an accompanying catalogue of the exhibition In My Country. The exhibition will be based on a weekly sewing circle of refugee and immigrant traditional fiber artists.

La Troupe Makandal, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$6,000
To support Carnival. A street procession held in the early morning hours of Labor Day, Carnival features a blend of traditional African and Christian cultural elements.

Los Angeles County Arts Commission
Los Angeles, CA
$25,000
To support the Peer Mentorship and Project Grant Programs. These programs will increase the effectiveness and business acumen of folk arts organizations, and encourage the expression of the myriad cultural traditions that have a home in Los Angeles County.

Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center
San Pablo, CA
$20,000
To support the Community Heritage Project. The project provides an integrated program of arts training in traditional Mexican music and dance.

Los Pleneros de la 21, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the Puerto Rican Music Project. Project activities include an array of year-round concerts, performance lectures, workshops, community festivals, classes for youth and adults and out-of-state residencies.

Los Reyes de Albuquerque Foundation
Albuquerque, NM
$10,000
To support and perpetuate nuevomexicano folk traditions and to present specially arranged performances of the Fiesta de los Novios. Nuevomexicano presentations will be held at child daycare centers and at urban, rural and Pueblo senior centers. The Fiesta de los Novios will be presented at local schools and community centers for youth ages 6-14.

Maine Indian Basketmakers Alliance
Old Town, ME
$25,000
To support the Next Generation Project. The intertribal/intergenerational project will engage tribal members between the ages of 13-30 in one-on-one apprenticeships with master weavers.

Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI
$40,000
To support the Great Lakes Folk Festival. The festival will showcase the traditional cultural treasures of the Upper Midwest and provide a sampling of the best of traditional artists from around the country and the world.

Mind-Builders Creative Arts Co. (consortium)
Bronx, NY
$10,000
To support the folklorist-in-training project. The project will recruit and train local youth between the ages of 13 and 17 to help identify, document and present folk artists and tradition bearers found in their family and neighborhood.

Moanalua Gardens Foundation, Inc.
Honolulu, HI
$10,000
To support the Prince Lot Hula Festival. This festival shares the beauty and artistry of the hula, while including authentic Hawaiian demonstrations and exhibits in an effort to educate and perpetuate the culture.

National Council for the Traditional Arts
Silver Spring, MD
$75,000
To support urban festivals, a national tour to immigrant communities, and programs and cultural interpretations in national parks. This project honors folk, tribal and ethnic communities across the nation by developing audiences and giving national exposure to excellent folk artists.

New York Folklore Society, Inc.
Schenectady, NY
$25,000
To support the continuation of the Mentoring and Professional Development Program for Folklife and the Traditional Arts and expansion of the services to the field through the Building Capacity and Artist Promotion and Marketing Programs. The services will provide professional development support and outreach to underserved rural and community folk arts organizations.

Northwest Native American Basketweavers Association
Olympia, WA
$20,000
To support the 2002 Master Basketweavers Gathering. The gathering is designed to honor Native American basketweavers by showcasing their basketry, producing a public market day featuring basketry and related fiber arts, and prsenting discussions of pertinent issues with public agency managers.

Odunde, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$20,000
To support the ODUNDE Festival. The festival is the oldest African American festival in Philadelphia and features local African American dancers, musicians and performers including hip hop, tap dance, gospel, steel drum, stepping, double-dutch, drill teams and many other community-rooted art forms.

Office of Human Concern, Inc.
(on behalf of The Multicultural Center of Northwest Arkansas)
$15,000
Rogers, AR
To support the Marshallese Traditional Arts Summer Program. Elders will be encouraged to pass on dance, music, song and handicraft traditions and techniques to their youth.

Oregon Historical Society
Portland, OR
$25,000
To support Portraits of Oregon. The project will engage 4-H clubs in five rural Oregon counties to document the folklife and cultural heritage of these important economic, geographic and cultural communities.

Philadelphia Folklore Project
Philadelphia, PA
$30,000
To support Art Happens Here. The project will document and present Philadelphia folk artists and their arts to audiences in community sites within the region through exhibitions and artists residencies.

Texas Folklife Resources
Austin, TX
$45,000
To support the second International Accordion Festival. The event celebrates the accordion's central role in the traditional music of the United States and the world.

United Cambodian Community, Inc.
(on behalf of Arts of Apsara Performing Arts & Cultural Center)
$20,000
Long Beach, CA
To support the Arts of Apsara Performing Arts Program. The project will consist of master/apprentice workshops in traditional Cambodian dance and music, public presentations, and the promotion of the program's resident performing ensemble.

University of Missouri at Columbia (consortium)
Columbia, MO
$20,000
To support the Traditional Arts Apprenticeship Program. The project is designed to document, conserve and present the state's living folk arts and folklife.

University of New Orleans Foundation
(on behalf of American Routes)
$30,000
New Orleans, LA
To support special field recorded segments of American Routes, a two-hour radio program broadcast through Public Radio International. These segments, including field recordings of musicians in performance as well as interviews with featured artists and community members, will enhance and provide context for the ongoing in-studio radio presentations.

Viet Olympiad
Garden Grove, CA
$15,000
To support a performance of Cai Luong classical Vietnamese musical theater. Cai Luong is dear to the hearts of both old and young in the Vietnamese community because its music and lyrics express their deepest feelings, stirring people to laugh, cry, fall in love, feel angry and, most often, express sadness.

Western Folklife Center
Elko, NV
$25,000
To support continued fieldwork on the cowboy poetry tradition. The fieldwork will add substantially to Western Folklife Center's body of work on cowboy poets and cowboy poetry, illuminating the variety of reasons each poet has for writing by providing more depth to the biographical, social, familial, cultural, literary and artistic record.

World Music Institute, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
$30,000
To support touring concerts of traditional Kurdish, Greek, Ethiopian, Afro-Cuban and Indian music and dance. The project will showcase music and dance rarely offered in this country, providing a window onto these cultures and offering assistance to artists striving to preserve culturally valuable forms of music and dance.

LITERATURE

Americas Society, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support Central American Writing Today, a program of bilingual author readings and school visits, and publication and marketing of Review: Latin American Literature and Arts. Scheduled writers include Claribel Alegria of Nicaragua and El Salvador; Roberto Quesada of Honduras; and Ernesto Cardenal and Sergio Ramírez of Nicaragua.

ArtSanctuary
Philadelphia, PA
$5,000
To support the 18th Annual Celebration of Black Writing. Scheduled speakers include Major Jackson, Elizabeth Nunez, Paule Marshall and Dr. Manthia Diawara, chair of the African Studies Department at New York University.

Center for Book Culture
Normal, IL
$40,000
To support the restoration and promotion of major works of modern fiction by Dalkey Archive Press. Authors whose works will be republished as part of the press's International Recovery Project include Susan Daitch, Osman Lins, Brigid Brophy, Ann Quin, Nigel Dennis, and Louis Paul Boon.

Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center
San Antonio, TX
$5,000
To support Latina Letters: A Conference on Latina Literature and Identity. Proposed authors include Migdalia Cruz, Aurora Levins Morales, Demetria Martínez, Dolores Prida and Ana Castillo.

Naropa University
Boulder, CO
$20,000
To support the preservation of recordings of central literary figures who have visited the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics since 1974. Authors featured on the tapes include Robert Creeley, Barbara Guest, Amiri Baraka, John Ashbery, Gary Snyder, Rikki Ducornet, Ishmael Reed and Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

Paris Review Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$5,000
To support eight Writers-at-Work interviews in The Paris Review. Potential interviewees include Michael Ondaatje, Jorie Graham, David Foster Wallace, John Edgar Wideman, Ann Beattie, Adrienne Rich, Wole Soyinka, Edward Hirsch, Richard Powers, Stephen King and Annie Proulx.

Poets House, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the tenth annual Poetry Publication Showcase, a series of programs designed to preserve and display the breadth of poetry in print. Poets House will exhibit new poetry books to 20,000 librarians at the American Library Association Conference in Atlanta, and will publish the Directory of American Poetry Books, the only bibliographic resource that tracks the annual publication of poetry.

San Francisco State University (on behalf of the Poetry Center)
San Francisco, CA
$7,500
To support the restoration of historical film footage from the Poetry Center's American Poetry Archives. Authors featured in these original recordings include Ernest J. Gaines, Audre Lorde, Allen Ginsberg, Charles Reznikoff, William S. Burroughs and Ted Hughes.

Words Given Wings Literary Arts Project
San Francisco, CA
$5,000
To support Mercury House's publication and national distribution of an anthology of fiction, drama, poetry and nonfiction by Carl Sadakichi Hartmann, with an introduction by Japanese American poet Lawson Fusao Inada. A Japanese-German American naturalized in 1894, Hartmann devoted most of his life to championing American art and artists.

LOCAL ARTS AGENCIES

Americans for the Arts
Washington, DC
$75,000
To support the preservation of Americans for the Arts' policy, research and training documents through digitization and the creation of an online archive Digitizing and archiving these documents, published as early as 1985, will make this collection accessible to the arts policy and administration fields at the local, state and national levels.

MEDIA ARTS

Anthology Film Archives
New York, NY
$12,000
To support a curated film series. The Iron Lens will focus on the rise of experimental film in Pittsburgh during the 1970s.

Bay Area Video Coalition, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$50,000
To support the provision of national video preservation services to artists and arts organizations and other related activities. Services include: the recording, retrieval and preservation of video art and art on video, and the dissemination of information to the interested public.

District of Columbia Jewish Community Center, Inc.
(on behalf of Washington Jewish Film Festival)
$5,000
Washington, DC
To support the 13th Annual Washington Jewish Film Festival. To be held in the fall of 2002, this event celebrates Jewish culture and the richness of the Jewish experience through the language of film.

Electronic Arts Intermix, Inc.
(on behalf of Independent Media Arts Preservation)
$10,000
New York, NY
To support workshops and consultations to teach arts organizations how to care for and preserve their media collections. The Independent Media Arts Preservation organization was formed to support the preservation of art works reflecting the early history of independent media.

George Eastman House
Rochester, NY
$25,000
To support the preservation of five films made in the United States between 1917 and 1923. The films are especially notable because they are early classics from the careers of Douglas Fairbanks, Viola Dana, Harold Lloyd and Mae Murray.

Museum of Modern Art
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the preservation of critically endangered films from the museum's nationally recognized collection that are crucial to the history of film as an art form. The museum's Film Department saves 50 - 100 films from disintegration each year by transferring them from unstable nitrate stock to acetate and also preserves fading and damaged acetate films.

National Center for Jewish Film
Waltham, MA
$20,000
To support the preservation of three historically and culturally significant films in jeopardy of decomposing. The center's collection contains the only surviving copies of these films.

New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc. (consortium)
Staten Island, NY
$10,000
To support the cataloging and preservation of work from the radio series New American Radio. New American Radio (1989-1998) was a weekly series that encouraged artists from all disciplines to create radiophonic art works.

University of California at Los Angeles
(on behalf of UCLA Film & Television Archive)
$7,500
Los Angeles, CA
To support a curated film series. The retrospective will feature Ida Lupino as both an actress and a director.

Vasulkas, Inc.
Santa Fe, NM
$5,000
To support the restoration and transfer of hundreds of hours of reel-to-reel and videotape to a digital format. The Vasulka Archive and the Media Study/Buffalo Collection contain a broad variety of video artworks that span the medium's lifetime.

MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Appalshop, Inc.
Whitesburg, KY
$52,000
To support year one of the Living Archive. This three-part initiative will preserve Appalshop's large body of on-site audio and video work through creating an accessible archive, fostering discourse with constituents, and sharing learnings with the field.

BOMB Magazine (New Art Publications)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the development of an on-line archive of artist-to-artist interviews. The project will feature selections from BOMB Magazine's collection of interviews, video and audio clips, original poetry, and visual art by highlighted artists.

Cedar Cultural Center (Minnesota STAR, Inc.)
Minneapolis, MN
$22,000
To support the Fourth Annual Nordic Roots Festival. The festival will present traditional roots based music and dance groups from Finland, Sweden and Norway, and indigenous S mi musicians.

Chinese-American Arts Council, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the Summer Cultural Festival. This series will feature Chinese opera, traditional dance, folk music, visual arts and demonstrations.

El Pueblo, Inc.
Raleigh, NC
$10,000
To support La Fiesta del Pueblo, a showcase for Latin American art, culture and heritage. The event will feature folkloric dance, poetry readings, storytelling, music, visual arts, youth performances and a community-based mural project.

First Voice, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$12,000
To support the documentation of a performance of Sun Cycles for archival purposes. The performance will offer a contemporary interpretation of a creation myth using the Japanese art form, Gagaku.

Iroquois Indian Museum
Howes Cave, NY
$16,000
To support Haudenosaunee Happenings. The project will present a wide spectrum of visual and performing arts events by Iroquois Nation artists.

Lira Ensemble
Chicago, IL
$5,000
To support performances of a Polish American Christmas Gala. The concerts will feature song and dance from the regions that are the ancestral homes of many Polish Americans in the Midwest.

Myrna Loy Center for the Performing & Media Arts
Helena, MT
$15,000
To support Echoes of Discovery. This performance will coincide with the bicentennial of Lewis and Clark's Corps of Discovery and reflect on the mythic role of the Northwest Passage.

New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations
(on behalf of New York Public Library for the Performing Arts)
New York, NY
$58,000
To support the documentation of dance and theater performances and the preservation of oral histories by seminal artists. Sixteen performances and four oral histories will be recorded, and 70 hours of audio materials will be conserved.

The Kitchen (Haleakala, Inc.)
New York, NY
$28,000
To support a partnership to enhance access to historically significant collections of video art and documentation. The Kitchen and consortium partner Electronic Arts Intermix will share an archivist and oversee the restoration and distribution of extensive performance and video art archives.

Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (consortium)
Blacksburg, VA
$10,000
To support an Internet publishing project. The initiative will include the Web-based dissemination of The Citizen Artist and the commissioning of new critical writing on the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange's Hallelujah project.

Wing Luke Memorial Foundation
Seattle, WA
$24,000
To support the Heritage Enrichment Project. This three-part project will offer middle school students access to museum arts and heritage education, a performing arts residency, and a Cambodian youth-developed performance.

MUSEUMS

African American Museum in Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA
$25,000
To support the exhibition Biennial 2002: Crafts, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. This will be the first exhibition of African American crafts organized by the museum and will feature work by 15 African American artists from various regions of the United States.

Barnes Foundation
Merion Station, PA
$25,000
To support research, cataloguing and photographic documentation of the Early American ceramics collection. The project is the first step toward a future publication of the collection.

Brooklyn Historical Society
Brooklyn, NY
$15,000
To support the exhibition The Art of Work and related programming. A series of public programs and video segments will be created to accompany the society's new permanent exhibition, Brooklyn Works: 350 Years of Making a Living in Brooklyn.

Burchfield-Penney Art Center
Buffalo, NY
$12,000
To support a retrospective exhibition of the work of Milton Rogovin (b. 1909), with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The exhibition, generated by a recent gift of Rogovin's work to the center, will feature works that represent all phases of the artist's career.

Carnegie Institute (on behalf of Museum of Art)
Pittsburgh, PA
$25,000
To support a post-graduate conservation fellowship position. The fellow will survey approximately 1,000 paintings in preparation for new construction projects, during which the paintings storage will be moved, and will participate in all staff discussions regarding conservation and collection management issues.

Chinese Historical Society of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
$5,000
To support the development of an archive storage facility to house both current collections and future donations. This phase of the project will include researching appropriate software, creating a centralized database of collection objects, hiring curatorial staff to oversee cataloguing and documentation, and acquisition of archival storage materials.

Cincinnati Museum Association
Cincinnati, OH
$50,000
To support the reinstallation from the permanent collection of objects in the newly renovated Cincinnati Wing, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. The project will use the museum's comprehensive holdings of work produced by artists in Cincinnati during the 19th and 20th centuries to demonstrate the pivotal role the city played in the history of American art.

Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts
Philadelphia, PA
$20,000
To support a one-year postgraduate internship in paper conservation. The project will involve training in the treatment of works on paper such as drawings, prints and watercolors, as well as manuscripts, maps, photographs, parchment and books.

Eastman Memorial Foundation
(on behalf of Lauren Rogers Museum of Art)
$27,000
Laurel, MS
To support the production of a catalogue of the Native American basket collection. Collected at the turn of the 19th century by Laurel resident Catherine Marshall Gardiner, the collection is considered to be one of the most comprehensive in the world.

Evergreen House Foundation
Baltimore, MD
$30,000
To support the conservation of works by Russian artist Leon Bakst (1866-1924) in the permanent collection. The collection consists of theater sets, backdrops, drawings, curtains and stencils designed by the artist for Evergreen's theater.

Friends, Foundation of the California African American Museum
Los Angeles, CA
$24,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of African American artist Grafton Tyler Brown (1816 1918), with accompanying catalogue. Brown was one of a small number of African American professional landscape painters in the United States in the 19th century and one of the earliest African American painters in the West.

George Eastman House (consortium)
Rochester, NY
$55,000
To support the touring exhibition Young America: The Daguerreotypes of Southworth and Hawes, and accompanying education programs. The exhibition is being co-organized with the International Center of Photography in New York City.

Hampton University (on behalf of University Museum)
Hampton, VA
$15,000
To support the publication of a special issue of the museum's journal, the International Review of African American Art. The issue will present recent research of art historians on the topic "Oh I wish I was in the land of cotton: Dixie Myths and Downhome Realities in Post-Migration African American Art."

Hyde Collection Trust
Glens Falls, NY
$22,000
To support conservation treatment of the collection of Italian Renaissance and 18th century French furniture, with accompanying interpretive and educational programs. The project is part of a major renovation, reinstallation and reinterpretation of historic Hyde House.

Lyme Historical Society (on behalf of Florence Griswold Museum)
Old Lyme, CT
$5,000
To support a planning project to develop a furnishings plan for the 1817 Florence Griswold House, now an art museum and National Historic Landmark. The plan will form the basis for a long-term exhibition portraying the house's former role as a boarding house for artists, circa 1905-1915, and the center of the Lyme Art Colony.

Mexican Museum
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
To support curatorial research and planning for an exhibition titled La Tercera Raiz (The Third Root): The African Presence in Mexico. Through visual, literary, media and performing arts, the exhibition will expand scholarship and introduce the American public to a relatively unknown Afro Mestizo component of Mexican cultural heritage.

Mint Museum of Art, Inc.
Charlotte, NC
$15,000
To support the preparation of a manuscript for a catalogue of the North Carolina pottery collection. The comprehensive collection, of approximately 2,700 pieces, spans three centuries and includes works from all the major pottery centers in the state.

Northeast Document Conservation Center
Andover, MA
$22,000
To support What's Wrong with this Picture?, a pilot workshop for museum professionals on preserving and digitizing photographs. The workshop will be developed and offered at Montana State University-Bozeman to serve archivists and curators at tribal colleges.

Peabody Essex Museum, Inc.
Salem, MA
$25,000
To support a permanent installation of Native American art in a newly renovated and expanded gallery space. Using a combination of traditional and multimedia interpretive tools, the museum will display its collections of Native American art representing the Plains, Northwest Coast, Arctic, Southwest and Central and South America regions.

Preservation Trust of Vermont
Burlington, VT
$30,000
To support the preservation and treatment of painted theater curtains in Vermont. This will be the first comprehensive survey of, and stabilization effort for, these highly decorated stage curtains.

Randolph-Macon Woman's College
(on behalf of Maier Museum of Art)
$18,000
Lynchburg, VA
To support the conservation treatment of paintings and works on paper by American artist Arthur B. Davies (1862-1928) in the permanent collection. It is anticipated that the conservation will form the basis for a traveling exhibition that was not possible in the past because of the condition of the works.

Textile Conservation Workshop, Inc.
South Salem, NY
$18,000
To support a master-apprenticeship for in-depth training in textile conservation. As a regional conservation laboratory, the program fills a gap not covered by formal conservation courses in graduate school programs.

Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian
Santa Fe, NM
$7,000
To support the completion of a detailed condition survey of the museum's Navajo folk art and pottery collections with accompanying conservation-related education programs. This project is part of a broad conservation plan that will include systematic surveying and treatment of the museum's permanent collection.

MUSIC

California State University
(on behalf of Luckman Fine Arts Complex)
$25,000
Los Angeles, CA
To support the Mingus at 80 Festival: A Los Angeles Homecoming. The festival will feature jazz performances, a film screening and classroom presentations. Musician and composer James Newton conceived the festival to bring new light to a wide range of Mingus's works and highlight the breadth of his artistic prodigy.

California State University, Long Beach Foundation
Long Beach, CA
$15,000
To support the preservation of the Gerry Mulligan Collection archive at the University's California Institute for the Preservation of Jazz. Original materials from the collections of Mrs. Franca Mulligan (widow of Gerry Mulligan) will be catalogued.

Campbellsville University
Campbellsville, KY
$10,000
To support the National Civil War Band Festival on the campus of Campbellsville University in central Kentucky. This three-day event in July 2003 will feature historically-accurate performances of band music from the American Civil War era, with concurrent lectures, recitals and exhibits by musicians and scholars from across the country.

Elkhart Centre, Inc.
Elkhart, IN
$7,500
To support the Elkhart Jazz Festival. Held over three days in June, the festival includes concerts, master classes and school clinics. Proposed artists for the 2002 festival include the Dukes of Dixieland, Boston Brass, the Swamp Dogs, Rob Parton and the JazzTech Band, the Brubeck Brothers, and many other national and local artists.

Louisville Orchestra, Inc.
Louisville, KY
$60,000
To support the preservation and dissemination of the archived recordings collection. The two year project (2002-04) will resurrect hundreds of original autograph scores and world premiere master tapes commissioned and recorded by the orchestra on its First Edition label.

Manchester Craftsmen's Guild
Pittsburgh, PA
$56,000
To support MCGJazz series performances and the preservation and distribution of the MCGJazz archival materials including two compact disc recordings of live performances. Project plans include presenting eight performances in 2002-03, digitizing archival pieces, creating a database for more efficient archival management, and transfering audio and video masters and photographs to multi-media storage.

Music From China
New York, NY
$10,000
To support thematic concerts of new music for traditional Chinese instruments. Music From China will perform Chinese music, including a Cantonese opera, at several sites in New York City.

Pacific Chorale
Santa Ana, CA
$11,500
To support the recording of choral works by American composer Vincent Persichetti. The Pacific Chorale and the Pacific Symphony, under the direction of John Alexander, will perform and record Te Deum, Op. 93 and Stabat Mater, Opus 92 for release by RCM Records.

Syracuse Children's Chorus, Inc.
Syracuse, NY
$5,000
To support the recording of choral works by American composer Gregg Smith. The Syracuse Children's Chorus will release the compact disc recording for national distribution.

Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz
Washington, DC
$32,500
To support the Internet-based Jazz Resource Library. The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz will update and promote this resource on two of its Web sites.

Washington Men's Camerata, Inc.
Washington, DC
$7,500
To support the preservation and archiving of men's choral music. The project will involve the cataloguing and lending system for a national repository library of this substantial collection.

MUSICAL THEATER

Auditorium Theatre Council
Chicago, IL
$22,000
To support the concert stagings of two musicals in an annual series of three seldomly performed American musicals for Chicago audiences. The Auditorium Theater Council annually presents two or three American musicals to celebrate the artistry of musical theater writers and composers and a uniquely American art form, the Broadway musical.

City Center 55th Street Theater Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the restoration, remounting and concert staging of a musical in the City Center Encores! project. City Center will remount and produce House of Flowers by Harold Arlen and Truman Capote in its 2,753-seat theater.

National Black Touring Circuit, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the Gospel in Theater Project. National Black Touring Circuit will present three theater pieces that include the music of the Great Divas of Gospel and the sermons and music of James Weldon Johnson.

PRESENTING

Queens Theatre in the Park, Inc.
Flushing, NY
$25,000
To support the Latino Cultural Festival and the yearlong Latino Cultural Series. The festival, a three-week summer event, and the series, a seven-event program, will feature music, dance, theater, film and children's productions in celebration of Latino and Latin American artists' contributions to the cultural life of Queens and the greater New York metropolitan area.

THEATER

Gala, Inc. Grupo de Artistas Latinoamericanos
Washington, DC
$20,000
To support a production of Cervantes: Master Between Acts, an evening of short farces by the Spanish Golden Age writer Miguel de Cervantes. Written in both verse and prose to be performed between the acts of Spanish classical plays, these short farces or entremeses are humorous and satirical, reflecting the popular culture and customs of 17th century Spain.

International Arts Relations, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the development and presentation of a new play entitled Our Wide, Wide Sea, by Afro-Cuban playwright Alberto Pedro. The play will be co-produced in both New York City and Los Angeles.

Irondale Productions, Inc. (consortium)
Brooklyn, NY
$8,000
To support the next phase of development of the Network of Ensemble Theaters (NET), a service organization for ensemble-based theaters. NET was created to document and preserve the ways in which ensembles create work, while serving the needs of those companies and mentoring artists who will form the next generation of American ensembles.

New York University
New York, NY
$8,000
To support the publication and distribution of four volumes of The Drama Review, an international journal of live performance. The Drama Review is committed to documenting important new work and to reassessing traditional notions of performance.

OLLANTAY Center for the Arts, Inc.
Jackson Heights, NY
$9,000
To support the publication and distribution of two volumes of OLLANTAY Theater Magazine, a semi-annual journal of Latino theater. The magazine is dedicated to the preservation and promotion of Latino culture in the United States through the investigation and publication of works by Latino artists.

Pleiades Theatre Company, Inc.
Louisville, KY
$5,000
To support the creation, development and presentation of a new theater work by women playwrights from Kentucky. Up to four women playwrights will collaborate to create a play that will explore the lives of a diverse group of women from Kentucky's history.

UNIMA-USA
Atlanta, GA
$5,000
To support publications which promote the interests and international visibility of American puppeteers. UNIMA-U.S.A.'s publications document puppet theater works and provide technical assistance to puppet artists.

University of California at San Diego
La Jolla, CA
$5,000
To support the publication and distribution of two issues of Theatre Forum. The journal documents and disseminates innovative theatre works internationally.

University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA
$5,000
To support the preservation and publication of collections which document the origins and development of the American circus. Professor LaVahn G. Hoh of the Drama Department of the University of Virginia will collect and develop an electronic archive/exhibit to display these materials on-line.

VISUAL ARTS

Arizona State University (on behalf of Bilingual Review Press)
Tempe, AZ
$11,000
To support documentation and preservation of work by Chicano art organizations since the 1960s in a publication. The book, published by the Bilingual Review Press, will document the artistic production of more than 25 organizations from various regions of the country.

Art Institute of Chicago (on behalf of Video Data Bank)
Chicago, IL
$30,000
To support the preservation of On Art and Artists. The project will accommodate the preservation of nearly 42 artist interviews and a publication to promote the availability of the video tapes.
Black Liberated Arts Center, Inc.
Oklahoma City, OK
$10,000
To support a photographic exhibition and catalogue documenting the contributions of African Americans to the cultural and architectural development of Oklahoma City. The exhibition, consisting of historical photographs and contemporary work by photographer Ron Tarver, will concentrate on specific neighborhoods within the city.

Chicago Public Art Group
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support the restoration of five murals by early founders and leaders in Chicago's community arts mural movement. The restoration will be undertaken by professional conservators Nathan Zakheim Asssociates of Santa Monica, CA, and when possible, will involve repainting by the original artists.

City of Columbus, Ohio (on behalf of Burkhart Mural Task Force)
Columbus, OH
$10,000
To support final conservation and reinstallation of a seven-canvas mural by Emerson Burkhart. Commissioned by the Columbus Board of Education with funding from the Public Works of Art Project (a precursor to the Works Progress Administration), the mural, Music, was originally installed in 1934 in a high school auditorium.

Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support an archival project to create a digital record and searchable database of the 25-year history of this pioneering alternative artists' organization. The project will create an accessible, interactive and ongoing record of the organization's work, including exhibitions of artists' books, temporary installations, performance art, and live on the Internet netcasts.

National Conference of Artists, Inc.
Bronx, NY
$10,000
To support conference activities associated with Renewing our Spiritual Connections throughout the African Diaspora to be held in Ghana. The two-week event includes exhibitions, symposia, demonstration and training workshops, and studio tours of Ghanaian artists.

Northwest Designer Craftsmen
Seattle, WA
$10,000
To support the Living Treasures Project, a video documentary series on craftspeople of the Northwest. The broadcast quality, half-hour videos feature the work, philosophy and achievements of the Northwest's most influential elder craft professionals and craft advocates.

Penland School of Crafts, Inc.
Penland, NC
$15,000
To support research, development and production of a publication documenting Penland's 75th anniversary. Designed to complement a traveling exhibition and other public programming organized by Penland and the Mint Museum of Craft and Design, the publication will function as a book about craft rather than simply a catalogue of the exhibition.

Saint Joseph's University
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
To support the publication of a book that documents the variety of stained glass windows in Catholic churches within the five-county Archdiocese of Philadelphia. The richness and variety of Philadelphia's stained glass will be examined in the context of the social and economic fabric of the city and its surroundings.

UrbanGlass
Brooklyn, NY
$12,000
To support the 25th anniversary publication documenting Urban Glass' history and its contributions to the more experimental side of the studio glass movement. The publication, Glass, will be a double issue that includes an illustrated chronology and a complete photographic record of all exhibitio ns and artist residencies.

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