2003 GRANT AWARDS - Creativity


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2003 Grant Awards: Creativity

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

Some details of the projects listed in this grant announcement are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

DANCE

171 Cedar, Inc.
Corning, NY
$10,000
To support performance and residency activities. The 6th annual Cedar/Clemens Center Dance Series will include Philadanco, Pennsylvania Ballet and Shelley Oliver Tap.

African American Dance Ensemble, Inc.
Durham, NC
$10,000
To support the creation of a ballet suite, Luyala, based on the dance opera of the same name. Dr. Chuck Davis and Dr. William Banfield, the original choreographer and composer for the dance opera, will produce the ballet suite.

Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater
New York, NY
$100,000
To support a national tour in 2003. The company will perform approximately 95 shows and conduct outreach activities in 17 cities and 12 states across the United States.

American Ballet Theatre (Ballet Theatre Foundation, Inc.)
New York, NY
$70,000
To support the commissioning and presentation of original one-act ballets from Australian choreographers, Natalie Weir and Stanton Welch. The project will feature John Adam's Harmonium, and Carl Orff's Carmina Burana, with the New York Choral Society and American Ballet Theatre's resident orchestra.

American Dance Festival, Inc.
Durham, NC
$70,000
To support the commissioning and presentation of a range of modern dance choreographers. In addition to performances during American Dance Festival's 70th anniversary in 2003, the program will include educational activities.

Andanza, Inc.
San Juan, PR
$10,000
To support the commissioning of a work by choreographer Rodrigo Pederneiras and the creation of works by dancers of Andanza. The pieces will be presented in a production at the Luis A. Ferre Performing Arts Center.

Axis Dance Company
Oakland, CA
$15,000
To support the creation of a work for dancers with and without disabilities by choreographer Ann Carlson. The work will become part of AXIS Dance Company's touring repertory, and also will become part of a national, physically integrated dance tour.

Ballet Austin, Inc.
Austin, TX
$10,000
To support the creation of dance works set to the music of Austin bands. 3 by 3ŠBy 3 Live Bands will include works by choreographers Dwight Rhoden, Gina Patterson and Artistic Director Stephen Mills.

Ballet Hispanico of New York, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the creation of an evening-length presentation that will be performed at City Center. Graciela Daniele will restage her 1988 work, Cada Noche Tango, and choreographers Luis Perez and Sergio Trujillo will create additional sections.

Ballet Memphis Corporation
Cordova, TN
$10,000
To support two world premieres during the Dancing Together III repertory show. The premieres will be created by choreographer Trey McIntyre and Associate Artistic Director Karl Condon.

Ballet West
Salt Lake City, UT
$25,000
To support the presentation of Glen Tetley's Rite of Spring. The piece will be presented in Salt Lake City's Capitol Theatre.

BalletMet Columbus (Ballet Metropolitan, Inc.) Columbus, OH
$10,000
To support the commission of a world premiere. Australian choreographer Stanton Welch will create Don Quixote for BalletMet's 25th anniversary.

Bates College (on behalf of Bates Dance Festival) Lewiston, ME
$20,000
To support commissioning, presentation, outreach and educational activities. New Voices/New Works will include Doug Varone and Dancers, Dayton Contemporary Dance Company, Stephen Koplowitz/Robert Een and a group of disabled artists.

Bebe Miller Company (Gotham Dance, Inc.)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the research and development of an evening-length work. The Landing/Place Project will integrate live performance and interactive digital media.

Better Family Life, Inc.
St. Louis, MO
$10,000
To support a national dance festival. Black Dance-USA: A Celebration in Movement, will consist of performances, dance workshops, discussion sessions, dance films, and African percussion and song classes.

Boston Ballet, Inc.
Boston, MA
$25,000
To support the presentation of Romeo and Juliet by Dutch choreographer Rudi van Dantzig. The production will be presented at the Wang Theatre and will include a variety of educational outreach programs.

Capoeira Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new work based on the fusion of the Brazilian traditional art form of capoeira and modern dance. The work, created by Artistic Director Lelon Vieira and set to music by Brazilian composer Tot Gira, will premiere at the Joyce Theater.

Carolina Ballet, Inc.
Raleigh, NC
$10,000
To support the presentation of The Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen. Lynn Taylor-Corbett has been commissioned to stage part of this new evening-length ballet.

Celebrity Series of Boston, Inc.
Boston, MA
$25,000
To support the presentation of modern and classical dance companies. The project is a collaboration between Celebrity Series and the Wang Center for the Performing Arts, and will include educational activities.

Cleo Parker Robinson Dance (New Dance Theatre, Inc.)
Denver, CO
$15,000
To support the creation and presentation of several works and artist residencies. The company will host artists Abdel Salaam, Bill T. Jones and Jawole Willa Jo Zollar to choreograph and conduct workshops and master classes.

COCA (Center of Contemporary Arts)
St. Louis, MO
$10,000
To support the presentation of dance companies and related residency activities. The Family Theatre series will include Step Afrika, Philadanco and MOMIX.

Colorado Ballet Company
Denver, CO
$10,000
To support the commissioning of a new work. Doug Varone will create the work, which will be presented at the Joyce Theater in New York.

Columbia College (on behalf of The Dance Center)
Chicago, IL
$25,000
To support dance presentation projects. Artists and companies will be in residence offering community engagement and public education programs.

Columbia Festival of the Arts
Columbia, MD
$10,000
To support a year-long residency project for a hip-hop dance company with a history of working with inner-city youth. Rennie Harris Puremovement will present Facing Mekka and will work with low income teens to develop their own works.

Contemporary Dance Theater, Inc.
Cincinnati, OH
$10,000
To support the presentation of artists. Local and national artists will be presented along with residency activities in the Guest Artist Series.

Cross Performance, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support research, community engagement and artistic development of a new work. House: Part 3 of the Geography Trilogy, choreographed by Ralph Lemon, will explore the complicated past and the rich folk culture of the Southern U.S.

Cunningham Dance Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$90,000
To support the creation and presentation of a major new work by Merce Cunningham. The work will be created in collaboration with a music group and visual artist Robert Rauschenberg.

Curran Events, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the presentation of Sean Curran Company at the New Victory Theater. The company will perform a world premiere and repertory works.

Dallas Black Dance Theatre
Dallas, TX
$20,000
To support a New York residency. The residency will include public performances and several outreach activities in schools, churches and community centers.

Dance Continuum, Inc.
Putnam Valley, NY
$10,000
To support creation and presentation of new works choreographed by Susan Marshall. Sleeping Beauty and True Stories will premiere in at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave Festival and then tour nationally.

Dance Place (D.C. Wheel Productions, Inc.)
Washington, DC
$25,000
To support performances and residencies by dance artists. The series will feature a roster of culturally and aesthetically diverse dancers and companies.

Dance Theater Workshop, Inc.
New York, NY
$70,000
To support an extended-run production series in Dance Theater Workshop's new performance center. The Carnival program features artists at various stages in their careers, and TheMainEvent series will present established, mid-career artists.

Dance Umbrella
Austin, TX
$20,000
To support the presentation of dance events. All artists will participate in residencies that will include professional-level master classes and workshops, pre- and post-performance discussions, panels and lecture demonstrations.

DANCECleveland (Cleveland Modern Dance Association)
Cleveland, OH
$15,000
To support presentations and extended educational residencies. Artists to be presented include Doug Varone & Dancers, Pilobolus Dance Theater, Gina Gibney Dance, Creach/Company, Twyla Tharp Dance and Garth Fagan Dance.

Dancers' Group (on behalf of Robert Moses' KIN)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new work. The piece will be the first part in a series of new works that looks at man's inhumanity to man, and will continue the choreographer's exploration of religion and spirituality.

Dansology, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the creation of the third piece in a trilogy. The Anatomy of Happiness will be a multi media dance work, with choreography and music by Artistic Director Koosil-ja Hwang and video by Caspar Stracke.

Danspace Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
To support the sixth year of City/Dans. The program supports New York choreographers through various stages of their development and provides audiences with a deeper understanding of dance.

David Dorfman Dance (Art Sweats, Inc.)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of a suite of new solos and duets by Artistic Director David Dorfman. The new works, designed to be performed together or independently, will become part of the company's active touring repertory.

David Gordon/Pick Up Performance Company
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the creation and presentation of two new works. Choreographed by David Gordon, the works will premiere in New York City.

Dayton Contemporary
Dayton, OH
$35,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new work. The work will be a collaboration between choreographer Ronald K. Brown and jazz musician/composer Mulgrew Miller, and will premiere with Miller's jazz ensemble.

Donna Uchizono Company (La Donna Dance, Inc.)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of new work. Choreographer Donna Uchizono will create a work that examines the ideas of letting go.

Dova, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the presentation of Doug Varone and Dancers at the Joyce Theater. The engagement will include the creation and presentation of a new work, Deconstructing English, as well as a New York premiere, a revival and current repertory dances.

Eiko & Koma (Inta, Inc.)
New York, NY
$30,000
To support a new evening-length work suitable for intimate venues. Instead of constructing an elaborate set, Koma will create a series of pastels that will be distributed to the audience as keepsakes.

Everett Dance Theatre
Providence, RI
$12,000
To support the creation of a new evening-length work focusing on home and family. The piece will look at the stories of the individual family to uncover universal themes such as mental health, substance abuse, isolation and assimilation.

Evidence, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the reconstruction and tour of the evening-length piece Dirt Road. The piece combines music and dance with text by the poets Essex Hemphill and Donald Woods, and choreographer Ronald K. Brown.

Florida Dance Association Inc.
Miami Beach, FL
$35,000
To support the 25th annual Florida Dance Festival. The program offers training for dance students and teachers, provides creative and collaborative opportunities for dance artists and presents public performances.

Foundation for Dance Promotion, Inc.
New York, NY
$60,000
To support a self-produced performance and residency in Harlem, New York. The project will include performances at Aaron Davis Hall and audience development activities.

House Foundation for the Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
To support the remounting and presentation of Artistic Director Meredith Monk's ATLAS: an opera in three parts. The piece will be presented at the University of California, Los Angeles and Berkeley.

Houston Ballet Foundation
Houston, TX
$40,000
To support the world premiere of dance works. Choreographers Ben Stevenson, Paul Taylor and Trey McIntyre will create the works.

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
Chicago, IL
$30,000
To support the creation and presentation of new works and acquisitions during the company's 25th anniversary. The works will be presented during the company's spring engagement at the Ford Center of the Performing Arts Oriental Theatre.

Images of Cultural Artistry Inc.
Washington, DC
$10,000
To support the presentation of African and African-American dance. Dancing in the Circle of Our Ancestors will occur during the International Association of Blacks in Dance conference.

Institute for Spanish Arts
Santa Fe, NM
$10,000
To support a spring tour around the country. The project will begin at the Joyce Theatre in New York and culminate in a grand finale at the Lensic Performing Arts Center in Santa Fe.

Intersection for the Arts (on behalf of Summerfest/dance)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the presentation of the 12th annual summer series. The project will include works by Bay Area choreographers at the Cowell Theater.

Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Inc.
Lee, MA
$70,000
To support the residencies and performances of dance companies. Six artists will be presented during the series Breaking Ground in Context.

James Sewell Ballet (Ballet Works, Inc.)
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
To support performance and education activities in Rochester and St. Cloud, Minnesota. In Rochester, the company will perform at the Mayo Civic Center and teach master classes at the Rochester Ballet School, and in St. Cloud the company will perform at the Paramount Theater.

Jazz Tap Ensemble Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
To support Jazz Tap Ensemble: The Next Generation II. Artistic Director Lynn Dally will mentor the choreographic development of young artists.

JAZZDANCE by Danny Buraczeski
Minneapolis, MN
$15,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new work. Danny Buraczeski will choreograph the work using Judy Garland as an inspiration.

Joe Goode Performance Group
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by Artistic Director Joe Goode. Folk will focus on the lives of rural Americans and will be set to music inspired by Celtic music and early blue grass.

Joffrey Ballet of Chicago, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$30,000
To support the presentation of historic ballets from the Ballets Russes. The ballets include Les Noces, Parade and Le Sacre du Printemps.

John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Washington, DC
$30,000
To support a festival presentation of ballet companies. The International Ballet Festival will include a variety of educational and outreach initiatives.

John Jasperse Company (Thin Man Dance, Inc.)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the second phase of a creation of a new work. The evening-length work examining the hierarchical mode of perception will premiere in Germany.

John Kelly & Co. (Dagmar Collective, Inc.)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the final creation of a dance theater work by John Kelly, in collaboration with lyricist Mark Campbell and composer Michael Torke. The Paradise Project is an inspiration from the 1945 French film Les Enfant du Paradis (Children of Paradise) by Marcel Carne.

Jose Limon Dance Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the commission and presentation of a work by an international choreographer. German choreographer Susanne Linke will collaborate with composer Wolfgang Bley-Borkowski and designer Marion Williams to create the work.

Joyce Theater Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$70,000
To support dance presentation projects at the Joyce Theater. The projects include the Altogether Different series, the Dance Presentation Program and Joyce Soho Presents.

Kansas City Ballet Association, Inc.
Kansas City, MO
$20,000
To support the presentation of works by choreographers. Merce Cunningham's Duets, Jerome Robbins' Afternoon of a Faun, Nacho Duato's Jardi Tancat and Alonzo King's Handel Trio will be part of the company's 45th anniversary.

Ko-Thi, Inc.
Milwaukee, WI
$20,000
To support two annual festivals. The Kuumba and Harvest Festivals will be held at the Pabst Theater.

LINES Contemporary Ballet
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by Artistic Director Alonzo King. The piece will be based on folk music from the American South and will premiere at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

Lubovitch Dance Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of a world premiere by Lar Lubovitch. The work will be presented during the company's 35th anniversary at City Center Theater with re-creations of earlier work.

Margaret Jenkins Dance Studio, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by Margaret Jenkins. Delay 2 will premiere during the company's 30th anniversary season.

Mark Morris Dance Group (Discalced, Inc.)
Brooklyn, NY
$60,000
To support the creation of new works by Mark Morris. The works will be set to the music of 20th century composers Olivier Messiaen, Darius Milhaud and Igor Stravinsky.

Miami City Ballet, Inc.
Miami Beach, FL
$30,000
To support the presentation of a world premiere. The Neighborhood Ballroom, choreographed by Artistic Director Edward Villella, is a new work in four acts.

Miami Light Project, Inc.
Miami, FL
$5,000
To support the creation and presentation of an evening-length dance theater work. Hip-Hop Elements will be choreographed by Miami-based Ricardo "Speedy Legs" Fernandez.

Movement Research, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the 11th Improvisation Festival/NY. The festival is a celebration of dance improvisation, and will offer performances, classes, workshops, educational outreach and panel discussions.

Nashville City Ballet
Nashville, TN
$10,000
To support the creation of new works. Choreographers Heather Maloy and James Buckley, as well as Artist Director Paul Vasterling, will choreograph the works to music by faculty members of Vanderbilt's Blair School of Music.

National Performance Network, Inc.
New Orleans, LA
$70,000
To support the creation of work and dance touring. The project will include dance residencies and related educational and outreach activities in over 21 communities throughout the United States.

New Orleans Ballet Association
New Orleans, LA
$15,000
To support the presentation of a series of dance companies representing modern, ballet and ethnic dance. National, international and local dance companies will perform in 17 concerts.

New York City Ballet, Inc.
New York, NY
$100,000
To support the New York Choreographic Institute. The Institute provides both established and pre professional choreographers with the resources to experiment with the process of creating new work.

North Carolina Dance Theatre
Charlotte, NC
$10,000
To support the presentation of a work. The company will present Na Floresta, by Spanish choreographer Nacho Duato.

Oakland Ballet Association, Inc.
Oakland, CA
$10,000
To support the commission of a new holiday production. The work will be choreographed by Siri Sat Nam Singh.

ODC Theater
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the first San Francisco International Festival of Contemporary Dance. The Festival will present emerging artists from the San Francisco Bay area and from around the world.

Pacific Northwest Ballet Association
Seattle, WA
$45,000
To support the world premiere of a new production of Swan Lake. Choreographed by Kent Stowell, the new production will coincide with the opening of Marion Oliver McCaw Hall, the new home of Pacific Northwest Ballet.

Pascal Rioult Dance Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the re-creation and presentation of Harvest. The 10-year old piece was originally performed to a score by folk composer Douggie MacLean.

Pat Graney Company
Seattle, WA
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new work. The Vivian Girls, inspired by artist Henry Darger, will be choreographed by Pat Graney, with music by Amy Denio and Irish musician Martin Hayes.

Paul Taylor Dance Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$90,000
To support the creation and touring of work by Paul Taylor. The project will include a joint performance by the Taylor Company and the Houston Ballet at the Kennedy Center.

Pennsylvania Ballet Association
Philadelphia, PA
$25,000
To support the presentation of ballet. The company will premiere The Firebird, choreographed by James Kudelka, and Concerto 488, by Lila York.

Philadanco (Philadelphia Dance Company, Inc.)
Philadelphia, PA
$35,000
To support the commissioning of a new work. Alonzo King will create the work, which will appear during the company's residency at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts.

Pilobolus, Inc.
Washington Depot, CT
$10,000
To support a collaboration to create a new work. Pilobolus will work with the St. Lawrence String Quartet and composer Christos Hatzsis to create The Gathering.

Pittsburgh Dance Alloy
Pittsburgh, PA
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of new works. The project will include choreography by Bebe Miller, Galina Borissova, and Mark Taylor; a production by Sarah Skaggs; and the commissioning of a new score by composer Alice Shields.

Pittsburgh Trust for Cultural Resources (on behalf of Pittsburgh Dance Council)
Pittsburgh, PA
$20,000
To support the presentation of dance companies. Participants include Dayton Contemporary Dance Co., Grupo Corpo Brazilian Dance Theatre, Streb/Ringside, George Piper Dances and Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Co.

Ragamala Music and Dance Theater
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
To support the presentation of a work. Bhakti (Devotion), choreographed by Associate Artistic Director Aparna Ramaswamy, will be presented at the Southern Theater.

Regents of the University of California at Berkeley (on behalf of Cal Performances)
Berkeley, CA
$30,000
To support the commissioning of work, performances and residency activities of dance companies. The Dance Masters project will include the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and the Mark Morris Dance Group.

Richmond Ballet
Richmond, VA
$25,000
To support the Studio Theatre Series. The program will present works by emerging choreographers for a total of 40 performances.

Ririe-Woodbury Dance Foundation
Salt Lake City, UT
$10,000
To support a residency at the University of Utah with choreographer Carolyn Carlson. The teaching residency and creative workshop will include the development of a full-length work.

San Francisco Ballet Association
San Francisco, CA
$80,000
To support the presentation of work. The project will include company premieres of works by George Balanchine and Frederick Ashton, and an evening-length ballet by Mark Morris.

Shapiro & Smith Dance (Contemporary Dance Arts, Inc.)
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new work. The work will juxtapose the classic and contemporary figures of Medea.

Southern Theater Foundation
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
To support the presentation of dance companies. The presentations will be part of Word in Motion, a series of family-focused workshops.

Spanish Dance Arts Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the presentation of a retrospective of the company's work. The retrospective is being created to celebrate the company's 20th anniversary in 2003.

Stephen Petronio Company
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the presentation and touring of new works. Stephen Petronio will collaborate with visual artists Cindy Sherman, Donald Baechler and Stephen Hannock to create Fallen Man, Rock Star and Stupid Cowboy.

Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, Inc.
Tampa, FL
$20,000
To support the residency of The Washington Ballet. The project will include performances, a new work, master classes, student workshops and community outreach.

The Field (Performance Zone, Inc.) (on behalf of Tere O'Connor Dance)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of an evening-length work. Choreographed by Tere O'Connor, the work will intermingle dance and film with environmental themes, and will include residencies in New York, Virginia and Massachusetts.

Tigertail Productions, Inc.
Miami, FL
$5,000
To support dance presentations during the 9th Tigertail Florida/Brazil and Guests Festival. The Festival will include performances, workshops, panels and symposia focusing on the Asian diaspora.

Trisha Brown Dance Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$60,000
To support the creation of a new work. The work will premiere at the International Festival de la Danse in Cannes, France.

Tulsa Ballet Theatre, Inc.
Tulsa, OK
$10,000
To support a repertory program of commissioned works. Choreographers Nicolo Fonte, Val Caniparoli and Mauricio Wainrot will create one-act ballets for the Festival of Creations program.

University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA
$15,000
To support commissions and presentations by dance companies. Hancher Auditorium will present Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, Paul Taylor Dance Company and the Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Tawain.

Velocity Dance Center
Seattle, WA
$10,000
To support a national dance touring alliance. The project will enable dance companies in Seattle, WA; San Francisco, CA; Philadelphia, PA; and Minneapolis, MN to perform in each city.

Washington Ballet
Washington, DC
$20,000
To support the commissioning of a new ballet by Trey McIntyre. The work will convey a dream journey set to popular music and will premiere at the Kennedy Center.

White Bird
Portland, OR
$15,000
To support the presentation of dance companies as part of The White Bird/Portland State University Dance Series. The series will include workshops and a co-commissioned work.

World Music, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
$15,000
To support dance residencies and the presentation of Boston-based dance companies. The project will include performances, master classes, workshops, conversations with Boston choreographers and post-concert sessions.

WPAS (Washington Performing Arts Society)
Washington, DC
$25,000
To support dance presentations and residency activities. Companies will perform at Dance Place, George Washington University's Lisner Auditorium and the Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center at the University of Maryland.

Yard, Inc.
Chilmark, MA $5,000
To support the Bessie Schoenberg Choreographers and Dancers Residency and a company residency. Four emerging choreographers and eight dancers will be in residence for five weeks and two dance companies will be in residence for four weeks.

Zaccho SF
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the presentation of an evening-length work. Dances Around the House will be created by choreographers Remy Charlip and Joanna Haigood, and will premiere at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

Zorongo Flamenco Dance Theatre
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new work. The work, titled Manton, will be choreographed by Artistic Director Susana di Palma.

Zvi Gotheiner and Dancers
New York, NY
$10,000
To support a national tour and related residency activities. The company will tour Rites, choreographed by Artistic Director Zvi Gotheiner.

DESIGN

Architectural League of New York
New York, NY
$25,000
To support WorldView reports. The reports include web-based presentations on the architecture and urban design of cities and regions around the world.

Center for the Study of Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
$50,000
To support the City Projects film series. The series will examine Los Angeles' reaction to the built environment.

Harlem Textile Works, Ltd.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support Design as Enterprise. Master artists will provide young designers and artists the opportunity to learn design practices and marketable job skills in the creation of fabric designs.

Kent State University Main Campus
Kent, OH
$20,000
To support a design charrette to generate concepts for Cleveland's Lake Erie waterfront. The charrette will stimulate public discussion about the lakefront site and opportunities for its redevelopment.

Museum of Contemporary Art
Chicago, IL
$40,000
To support the commission of a temporary structure in the museum's public plaza. The project seeks to create innovative works of architecture and to educate new audiences about design and public space.

Museum of Modern Art
New York, NY
$35,000
To support the design and production of a site-specific architectural installation at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center. The project will create a public venue and provide critical exposure to emerging architects and designers.

Regents of the University of California at Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA
$35,000
To support a publication and educational outreach project for a Mobile Dwelling Unit. The installation will be explore the conversion of a standard shipping container into a home.

Skyscraper Museum
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the commission of an architectural installation at the Skyscraper Museum. Artist James Turrell and architect Roger Duffy will create an entrance canopy that employs light to define space and volume.

Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences
Staten Island, NY
$25,000
To support an exhibition on the Snug Harbor Cultural Center. The exhibition will include historical, archival and newly commissioned work to demonstrate contemporary art and its meaning in a historical setting.

Storefront for Art and Architecture
New York, NY
$30,000
To support a traveling exhibition Architecture of the Cuban Revolution, 1959-1969. Featuring over 100 photographs taken from 1959 to 1969, the exhibit will include a lecture series, panel discussion and publication.

TNS (The Natural Step)
San Francisco, CA
$35,000
To support the research and development of a sustainable product design approach and toolkit. Case studies for sustainable product design will be documented and disseminated through a publication and articles in appropriate design journals.

University of Illinois at Chicago (on behalf of City Design Center)
Chicago, IL
$35,000
To support Out of the Box: Design Innovations in Manufactured Housing, an exhibition and catalog featuring low-cost housing. Nationally recognized designers have been invited to consider innovation in design, materials and manufacturing techniques for low-cost, factory-built housing.

Van Alen Institute: Projects in Public Architecture
New York, NY
$25,000
To support New Directions, a touring exhibition and accompanying publication. The project will present public spaces that reveal innovative thinking in urban design, planning and programming.

William Marsh Rice University
Houston, TX
$35,000
To support the development, creation and presentation of an adaptive, web-based master plan for Houston's Fifth Ward. The plan will assist this older, inner-city neighborhood to direct development forces in a manner sensitive to the current residents and built environment.

FOLK & TRADITIONAL ARTS

Arpana Dance Company
Irvine, CA
$7,000
To support the creation of a new work, Life as a River. Through the traditional dance form of Bharata Natyam, this work will present the essence of prose, poetry, legend and music referencing the River Ganga.

Asia Society
New York, NY
$35,000
To support a local tour of traditional Burmese music and dance performances and workshops. Performances will include traditional chamber music, outdoor ceremonial music and pagoda festival music featuring a hsain wain ensemble.

City of Monroe
Monroe, LA
$20,000
To support the Louisiana Folklife Festival. Based on targeted fieldwork and research, this annual festival celebrates the folklife of La. and the surrounding region.

Master Musicians Festival, Inc.
Somerset, KY
$10,000
To support the 2003 Master Musicians Festival. The festival presents performers of many cultures alongside indigenous musicians, simultaneously promoting diversity and the region's rich musical heritage.

National Council for the Traditional Arts
Silver Spring, MD
$46,000
To support a series of touring concerts and accompanying educational and outreach programs featuring traditional artists. The tour is designed to create new ways for presenters to work together to increase the effectiveness and reach of touring programs and provide opportunities to reach new audiences.

NNABA (Northwest Native American Basketweavers Association)
Omak, WA
$20,000
To support the 2003 Master Basketweavers Gathering. The gathering will honor 35 Native American master basketweavers by showcasing their basketry, demonstrating artistic styles and producing a public art market.

Northwest Folklife Festival
Seattle, WA
$30,000
To support the Maritime Cultures in the Atlantic Northeast and the Pacific Northwest project. Curatorial teams from each region will help determine programming for the 2003 Northwest Folklife Festival showcasing the conservation of maritime culture.

Philadelphia Folklore Project
Philadelphia, PA
$40,000
To support Philly Dance Africa. The project identifies, presents, links and advances significant contemporary local African dancers and musicians.

Puerto Rican Folkloric Dance, Inc.
Austin, TX
$10,000
To support Jibaro music and dance workshops. The workshops will be led by Joaquin Nieves Caldero and the Guateque Folkloric Ballet of Puerto Rico and will culminate in a series of concerts.

Radio Bilingue, Inc.
Fresno, CA
$46,000
To support the !Viva El Mariachi! Festival. The annual festival showcases local, national and international mariachi groups while providing workshops so that mariachi masters can pass along the rich, musical heritage.

Texas Folklife Resources
Austin, TX
$46,000
To support the Community Residency Program. The program will consist of 15 week-long residencies in underserved Texas towns with populations under 10,000.

Young Women's Christian Association
Duluth, MN
$30,000
To support Dance, Dance Music and the Culture of Dance. The programming module will appear at major regional folk festivals in Minnesota and Iowa, presenting traditional dance, music and visual arts related to folk dance and music.

LITERATURE

'A 'A Arts
Philadelphia, PA
$5,000
To support publication costs and related expenses for a special issue of Chain devoted to translation. The issue will feature multiple translations of selected works and statements from translators about the process of translation.

92nd Street Y (Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association)
New York, NY
$50,000
To support the Unterberg Poetry Center Reading Series, featuring readings, performances, literary tributes and live interviews. The center also will present first American readings of new works of verse drama.

Alice James Poetry Cooperative, Inc.
Farmington, ME
$25,000
To support the publication of poetry titles selected from two competitions: the Beatrice Hawley Award and the New York/New England Award. Selected poets will read from their works at venues around the country.

American Poetry Review
Philadelphia, PA
$15,000
To support publication and national distribution of The American Poetry Review. The journal will seek to increase its distribution to more than 2,000 bookstores and newsstands around the country.

Arroyo Arts Collective
Los Angeles, CA
$6,000
To support Poetry in the Windows, a project to display multilingual poetry posters along a major commercial corridor in Los Angeles. The collective will distribute 1,000 brochures describing the featured poems and reach an estimated audience of 15,000 people during June of 2003.

Aunt Lute Foundation
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support the publication and promotion of an anthology of 20th century U.S. women writers. Writers featured in the anthology will conduct readings around the country of their own work and work of earlier U.S. women writers who influenced them.

Bamboo Ridge Press
Honolulu, HI
$10,000
To support publication, promotion and distribution costs for issues of Bamboo Ridge. Proposed issues include a 25th anniversary edition and a special issue on Hawaiian writers of Korean heritage.

Bard College (on behalf of Conjunctions)
Annandale-Hudson, NY
$15,000
To support publication, circulation and related expenses, including authors' fees, for issues of Conjunctions. Each issue will be distributed to bookstores throughout the country and subscribers in more than 40 states and 15 countries.

BOA Editions, Ltd.
Rochester, NY
$50,000
To support the production, promotion and related expenses for new volumes of poetry. Scheduled poets to be published include Willis Barnstone, Wayne Dodd and Louis Simpson.

CALYX, Inc.
Corvallis, OR
$20,000
To support publication and promotion of issues of Calyx, a journal of art and literature by women. The journal will increase honoraria to writers and artists, launch a direct mail subscription campaign and coordinate a reading series for emerging Calyx authors.

Coffee House Press
Minneapolis, MN
$50,000
To support the publication, promotion and national distribution of new collections of poetry. Scheduled writers include Wang Ping, Lorenzo Thomas, Brenda Coultas and Yuko Taniguchi.

Contemporary Arts Educational Project, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
To support the publication and promotion of six plays by contemporary American playwrights as part of the Green Integer series. Scheduled playwrights include Kelly Stuart, Pedro Pietri, Fiona Templeton, John O'Keefe, Mac Wellman and Naomi Iizuka.

Copper Canyon Press
Port Townsend, WA
$65,000
To support the publication, promotion and national distribution of books of poetry in translation. The list will include bilingual editions of classic works, new editions of out-of-print translations, essays on the art of translation and reissues of significant backlist collections.

Curbstone Press, Inc.
Willimantic, CT
$20,000
To support the translation and publication of poetry and fiction by writers from Vietnam, Guatemala, Cuba and the Dominican Republic. Curbstone Press will sponsor readings by international writers in bookstores, libraries, schools and communities with large minority populations.

Feminist Press, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the publication and national distribution of books in the International Women's Writing Project. The press will publish books by writers in Japan, Iran and northern India, and the anthology Women on War.

Fiction Collective Two
Tallahassee, FL
$10,000
To support the publication, promotion and national distribution of new works of fiction. The press will promote the books through direct mail, press releases to city and community newspapers and author readings nationwide.

Graywolf Press
St. Paul, MN
$70,000
To support the publication, promotion and national distribution of volumes of poetry and creative nonfiction. Scheduled authors include Tony Hoagland, Kim Stafford, Elizabeth Alexander, Vijay Seshadri, and Jorie Graham.

Guild Complex
Chicago, IL
$12,000
To support Poetry Multiplied, a reading series for 2003. Proposed participants include Jimmy Santiago Baca, August Wilson, Jessica Hagedorn and Cornelius Eady.

Howard County Poetry and Literature Society, Inc.
Columbia, MD
$20,000
To support the presentation and promotion of writers' residencies and television interviews featuring nationally recognized authors. Proposed authors include Julia Alvarez, Michael Chabon, Billy Collins, Elizabeth Spires, Stanley Plumly, Reuben Jackson, Henry Taylor, Paul Muldoon, Seamus Heaney and Michael Collier.

Hudson Valley Writers' Center, Inc.
Sleepy Hollow, NY
$10,000
To support the Literary Presentation Series, featuring live readings by distinguished writers. The readings will be held at the restored Philipse Manor Railroad on the Hudson River and Sunnyside, the historic home of Washington Irving in Tarrytown, New York.

Humanities Tennessee
Nashville, TN
$15,000
To support The Southern Festival of Books: A Celebration of the Written Word in 2003. With an annual audience of 30,000, this free, three-day festival features readings and panel sessions by more than 200 authors.

Intersection for the Arts
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the presentation and promotion of writers' residencies in San Francisco. Proposed artists include bell hooks, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Dave Eggers and Ruben Martinez.

Just Buffalo Literary Center, Inc.
Buffalo, NY
$15,000
To support readings, residencies and outreach programs throughout the Greater Buffalo area. Proposed participants include Jewelle Gomez, Jessica Hagedorn, Sonia Sanchez, Kimiko Hahn, Jim Carroll, Dorothy Allison and Victor Hernandez Cruz.

Loft, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$45,000
To support the Minnesota Program for Writers, which provides workshops and mentors for emerging writers throughout the state. The program features The Mentor Series, which connects nationally recognized writers with local writers; and Talking Volumes, presenting recent original work by advanced writers.

Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College
Baton Rouge, LA
$30,000
To support production costs and related expenses for books of poetry. Scheduled titles include Dabney Stuart's The Man Who Loved Cezanne, David Huddle's Grayscale, Catharine Brosman's The Muscled Truce and R.T. Smith's Brightwood.

Milkweed Editions, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$55,000
To support the publication, promotion and national distribution of volumes of poetry and creative nonfiction by mid-career writers. Scheduled authors include Deborah Keenan, Janisse Ray, John Caddy, Gary Paul Nabhan, Bill Holm, David Brendan Hopes and Paul Gruchow.

Mountain Writers Series
Portland, OR
$30,000
To support readings, residencies and special events throughout the Pacific Northwest region. Proposed authors include Alice Fulton, Robert Hass, Jane Hirshfield, Yusef Komunyakaa, Li-Young Lee, W.S. Merwin, Sharon Olds, Carl Phillips and Sherman Alexie.

National Poetry Series, Inc.
Princeton, NJ
$10,000
To support judging fees and publication costs for volumes of poetry selected from the National Poetry Series Open Competition. Chosen by poets, the winning manuscripts will be published by HarperCollins, Louisiana State Univ. Press, Sun & Moon Press, the Univ. of Illinois Press and Viking Penguin.

Open City, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support publication and related costs, including artists' fees, for issues of Open City. New issues will include fiction, poetry and essays from contributors such as Lev Rubinshtein, Lara Vapnyar, Amine Zaitzeff, James Lasdun and Alicia Erian.

Ploughshares, Inc.
Boston, MA
$16,000
To support the publication and national circulation of issues of Ploughshares to 6,000 readers across the country. The Winter 2003-04 and Spring 2004 issues will feature new work by 70 poets and 12 fiction writers.

Poetry Center of Chicago
Chicago, IL
$7,500
To support readings featuring emerging and nationally renowned writers. Proposed participants include Rita Dove, Li-Young Lee, Jose Saramago, Anne Waldman, Yusef Komunyakaa, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, David Mamet and Stephen Dunn.

Poetry Project, Ltd.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the Monday Night and Wednesday Night Reading and Performance Series, featuring more than 100 poets and performers. Writers under consideration include Paul Auster, Quincy Troupe, Maxine Chernoff, Arthur Sze, Robert Creeley and Barbara Guest.

Poetry Slam, Inc.
Whitmore Lake, MI
$20,000
To support the 14th Annual National Poetry Slam in Chicago, Ill. This four-day festival will showcase more than 250 poets from across the nation and abroad to an estimated audience of 10,000.

Rain Taxi Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
To support the publication, promotion and national distribution of issues of Rain Taxi Review of Books. The quarterly magazine has a current national circulation of 20,000 copies.

Sarabande Books, Inc.
Louisville, KY
$25,000
To support the publication and promotion of collections of poetry and short fiction. Sarabande will create readers' guides that include interviews, discussion questions, and biographical and review material, and will make the authors available for online chats.

Seattle Arts & Lectures
Seattle, WA
$10,000
To support a series of readings and lectures in Portland, Oregon, and Seattle, Washington. Proposed participants include Carol Anne Duffy, Louise Gluck, Linda Gregg, Susan Howe, Galway Kinnell, Yusef Komunyakaa, Paul Muldoon, Harriet Mullen and Carl Phillips.

Texas A&M Research Foundation
College Station, TX
$38,000
To support Writing the Self and Community, a series of public readings and writing workshops organized by the journal Callaloo. The journal will sponsor two-week summer workshops at Texas A&M University, and one-day workshops at historically black colleges and universities around the country.

Texas Book Festival
Austin, TX
$10,000
To support readings and panel discussions by prominent authors participating in the 2003 Texas Book Festival. The festival will feature such writers as Michael Cunningham, Ai, Rudolfo Anaya, Sandra Cisneros, Jimmy Santiago Baca and Frank McCourt.

The Idaho Review (Boise State University)
Boise, ID
$7,500
To support the production and promotion of issues of The Idaho Review. The journal will promote its issues through direct mail, a public reading and a short story contest.

The Missouri Review (University of Missouri at Columbia)
Columbia, MO
$25,000
To support publication, promotion and related expenses for issues of The Missouri Review. The magazine will enhance its web site, increase authors' fees and target 50,000 potential readers through a national direct mail campaign.

Threepenny Review
Berkeley, CA
$20,000
To support authors' fees and promotional costs for issues of the Threepenny Review. Featuring work by 100 established and emerging writers, the proposed issues will be promoted through a direct mail subscription campaign targeting 100,000 readers.

University of Hawaii at Manoa
Honolulu, HI
$20,000
To support publication, promotion, distribution and related expenses for issues of Manoa: A Pacific Journal of International Writing. Scheduled issues will feature Cambodian and Cambodian-American writing and postmodern Chinese fiction.

University of Iowa Press (University of Iowa)
Iowa City, IA
$8,000
To support publication costs and related expenses for two winning selections from the Iowa Short Fiction Award competition. Titles will be selected by Jayne Anne Phillips, author of Machine Dreams.

University of Nebraska Press (University of Nebraska at Lincoln)
Lincoln, NE
$50,000
To support the publication and distribution of literary work in translation. The press will publish anthologies of new French-African short stories, Islandic Literature and contemporary Jewish writing from Sweden and Brazil.

White Pine Inc.
Buffalo, NY
$30,000
To support the translation, publication and promotion of titles in the World of Voices Project. White Pine will market the series through targeted mailings and print ads, and will continue to upgrade its web site to include book excerpts, reviews and study guides.

Women's Review, Inc.
Wellesley, MA
$10,000
To support publication costs for two special issues of The Women's Review of Books. The special issues will focus on women and aging.

Woodland Pattern Book Center
Milwaukee, WI
$25,000
To support a series of readings, exhibits and workshops in Milwaukee's inner city. Proposed visiting authors include Kathleen Fraser, Ed Friedman, Suheir Hammad, Lisa Jarnot, Joanne Kyger, Nathaniel Mackay, Sianne Ngai, Anne Waldman and Luci Tapahonso.

Writer's Center
Bethesda, MD
$10,000
To support readings and workshops in rural towns in Maryland and Virginia. Proposed visiting writers include Cynthia Ozick, Jane Smiley, Stanley Plumly, Thomas Lux, E. Ethlebert Miller and Henry Taylor.

The Writers Room, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support subsidized work space for emerging writers using the Writers Room, an urban writer's colony in New York City. For $225 each per quarter year, The Writers Room provides 400 authors with workspace 24 hours a day.

The Writers' Room of Boston, Inc.
Boston, MA
$5,000
To support subsidized workspace for emerging writers using the Writers' Room of Boston. For $175 each per quarter year, the Writers' Room of Boston provides 40 authors with workspace 24 hours a day.

ZYZZYVA, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the publication, promotion and related costs for issues of Zyzzyva, a magazine featuring the work of West Coast writers. Each issue includes approximately 20 writers, one-third of whom have never been in print.

LOCAL ARTS AGENCIES

Arts Council of Fayetteville/Cumberland County, Inc.
Fayetteville, NC
$35,000
To support the commissioning of Star Gate 2003, a kinetic sculpture by internationally known artist Tom Grubb. The creation of the sculpture will be the focal point of the arts component of the Festival of Flight celebration commemorating the Wright Brothers' first flight in 1903.

Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support Migrations: Humanity in Transition and The Children of Sebastiao Salgado, a photographic survey. As part of its national and international tour, the exhibition will be presented in the main exhibit hall of the Chicago Cultural Center and at the Harold Washington Library Center.

Churchill Arts Council
Fallon, NV
$15,000
To support a series of performances at the Oats Park Art Center Theatre. The series will consist of four jazz concerts by artists including piano trios and female vocalists, as well as improvisational world music.

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Inc.
New York, NY
$55,000
To support an exhibition and publication project and the newly designed Downtown Residency Program. The exhibition and publication reflect the diverse body of work created through the Council's World Trade Center (WTC) artist residency program from 1997 through 2001.

Westchester Arts Council
White Plains, NY
$30,000
To support the commissioning of a series of site-specific installations by regional artists. Four works will be selected by an independent curator and panel that will respond to the historic significance, scale and architectural details of the Arts Exchange's Grand Banking Room.

MEDIA ARTS

(BAVC) Bay Area Video Coalition, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
To support the Videomaker Awards and the Artist-in-Residence Program. These programs will provide independent video artists and producers with critical technical assistance and the resources they need to finish their projects.

911 Media Arts Center
Seattle, WA
$17,500
To support the Artists-in-Residence Program. Through equipment access and technical support, the program nurtures emerging and established media artists in the creative use of new technologies.

African Film Festival, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the 9th New York African Film Festival and its national tour. The program will present the most accomplished African films from the past 20 years, including a retrospective of Abderrahmane Sissako's career.

American Film Institute Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$25,000
To support the Directing Workshop for Women. Each year, the program provides individuals with the necessary skills and portfolio to enter the directing field.

American Museum of the Moving Image
Astoria, NY
$15,000
To support three curated film series. World Film Showcase, Sound and Silents: Films in Two Versions, and New York Film Critics Series will include screenings of over 50 films and appearances by filmmakers and critics.

Ann Arbor Film Festival
Ann Arbor, MI
$15,000
To support the 41st Ann Arbor Film Festival. Over 125 films will be presented to an audience of over 30,000 people in Michigan and the states to which the festival tours.

Art Institute of Chicago (on behalf of Gene Siskel Film Center)
Chicago, IL
$35,000
To support a curated film series. Pan-Asian Cinema: A Non-Western Aesthetic will showcase work from Asia and the sub-continent.

Arts Engine, Inc. (on behalf of MediaRights.org)
New York, NY
$15,000
To support web-based information services for independent filmmakers. MediaRights.org's mission is to build bridges between documentary filmmakers and grassroots audiences.

Arts Engine, Inc. (on behalf of Big Mouth Productions)
New York, NY
$35,000
To support production and post-production costs for a documentary film by Kirsten Johnson. The Class of '72 will explore the lives of people who were on death row when the Supreme Court abolished the death penalty on June 29, 1972.

Asian CineVision, Inc.
New York, NY
$18,000
To support the Asian American International Film Festival. The festival will travel to 10 sites throughout the United States including Connecticut, Texas, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts.

Asian Media Access, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$5,000
To support the eighth annual Chinese Film Showcase. The curated film series will feature films and videos from Hong Kong, China and Taiwan.

Aspen Filmfest (Independent Films)
Aspen, CO
$14,000
To support the Aspen Shortsfest film festival. Short, live action, animation and documentary films from the United States and abroad will be showcased.

Association of Independents in Radio
Brooklyn, NY
$30,000
To support the Residency Project. Experienced radio producers will work at individual public radio stations to create new work on their own and with the staff at each station.

Austin Film Society (on behalf of Passage Productions)
Austin, TX
$10,000
To support post-production costs for a documentary film by Susanne Mason. Let It Roll: A History of the Texas Penitentiary recounts the inmate-led revolt against prison conditions in Texas during the 1960s and 1970s.

Austin Film Society
Austin, TX
$25,000
To support the presentation of a curated film and video series. Over 70 films will be shown to an estimated audience of 36,000 people.

Berks Filmmakers, Inc.
Reading, PA
$10,000
To support the exhibition of several curated film and video series. Programs will include avant-garde cinema, documentary and animation work, presentations by filmmakers and screenings of films by artists from the region.

BFVF (Boston Film Video Foundation, Inc.)
Brighton, MA
$25,000
To support professional and artistic development opportunities for media artists in the New England region. Through a comprehensive media arts education program, the Boston Film/Video Foundation (BFVF) provides a full range of services to its constituency.

Black Maria, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the production of an interactive cinema work by Grahame Weinbren. The Nights: An Arabesque, based on The Thousand and One Nights, will be an installation that allows viewers to navigate from one story to the next.

California Newsreel (Resolution, Inc.)
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
To support the television series Africa in the Picture. Resolution, working with PBS Plus, will package and present three African feature films during February 2003.

Chicago Filmmakers
Chicago, IL
$15,000
To support the Independent Film and Video Exhibition Series and the presentation of the Onion City Film Festival. The Independent Film and Video Exhibition Series places special emphasis on documentary and experimental work; the Onion City Film Festival presents experimental work.

Cine Accion
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the Cine Latino Film Festival. Over 90 films will be presented to an estimated audience of 5,000 people.

Cinema Arts Centre (New Community Cinema)
Huntington, NY
$10,000
To support a weekend film festival series. The programs will showcase African/African-American film and video, Latino/Hispanic films, works directed by women and a Chinese Film Festival.

Cinema Seattle
Seattle, WA
$10,000
To support the 8th annual Women in Cinema Film Festival. Approximately 35 films will be presented to an audience of over 7,000 people.

Cinema/Chicago
Chicago, IL
$15,000
To support the 39th Chicago International Film Festival. Over 60,000 people will see 125 films from around the world.

Cleveland International Film Festival, Inc.
Cleveland, OH
$25,000
To support the 27th annual Cleveland International Film Festival, including the sixth annual Midwest Independent Filmmakers Conference. The event presents current work from around the world and complements it with educational programs to increase the audience's understanding of, and appreciation for, the art form.

Columbia University Teachers College (on behalf of African Diaspora Film Festival)
New York, NY
$7,500
To support the African Diaspora Film Festival. The event will present over 50 films from the United States and abroad to an audience of over 4,000 people.

Day, Swing, Grave Productions
Culver City, CA
$20,000
To support production and post-production costs for a documentary film by Meena Nanji and Amie Williams. View Through a Grain of Sand will examine the lives of three women refugees from Afghanistan now living in Pakistan.

DC Productions, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support the production of a radio documentary series by Dan Collison. Homeplace will examine the meaning of home to Americans living in communities struggling to survive.

Denver Film Society
Denver, CO
$15,000
To support the 26th Denver International Film Festival. The event will present over 150 films from the United States and abroad to an audience of over 30,000 people.

Digital Innovations Group
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the second cycle of the Crossover program. The program combines the sensibilities and storytelling skills of independent filmmakers with the tools necessary to create interactive works.

Doc Arts, Inc.
Durham, NC
$20,000
To support the 6th Full Frame Documentary Film Festival. The event will showcase work by emerging, established and international documentarians.

Downtown Community Television Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support ConnecTV. The two-year training/mentorship program will provide up to 20 producers with disabilities the skills and resources to create their own television and Internet broadcasts.

Experimental Television Center, Ltd.
Newark Valley, NY
$10,000
To support a year-round residency program for media artists. The Experimental Television Center provides film and video artists access to sophisticated production facilities.

Facets Multi-Media, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$60,000
To support the annual Chicago International Children's Film Festival and related media arts programs for children. Activities will include animation workshops, a media arts camp, media literacy courses, curriculum development and special exhibitions of films for children and their families.

Film Arts Foundation (on behalf of Suzan Pitt Films)
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
To support the production of a narrative animated film by Suzan Pitt. El Doctor is the story of a very old doctor whose views are transformed when a fictional saint visits him.

Film Arts Foundation (on behalf of Manning Sax Productions)
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
To support production and post-production costs for a one-hour film by Erin Sax and Caitlin Manning. The Prison Show is about a 20-year-old call-in radio program that reaches inmates in Texas prisons and the community that has formed around the show.

Film Arts Foundation (on behalf of 3 Dogs Productions)
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
To support the post-production costs for an experimental documentary film by Naomi Uman. Mala Leche will examine the life of an immigrant family living in the small agricultural town of Pixley, California.

Film Arts Foundation
San Francisco, CA
$55,000
To support the Masters Project. Designed to assist mid-career media artists, the program will offer special workshops and seminars as well exhibition opportunities.

Film Arts Foundation (on behalf of Flower Films and Video)
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support the post-production costs for a documentary by Les Blank. White Feathers, Black Bones is about the life and vision of David Hoffman, an American tea importer.

Film Arts Foundation (on behalf of CineMamas Productions)
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support post-production costs for a one-hour documentary by Victoria Funari. Maquilopolis will profile women workers in Tijuana's assembly factories.

Film Arts Foundation
San Francisco, CA
$60,000
To support the Ninth Street Media Arts Consortium. Four media arts organizations, all housed in the same building, will share resources, staff and facilities that serve media artists and audiences.

Film Institute of Northern California (on behalf of the Mill Valley Film Festival)
Mill Valley, CA
$5,000
To support a curated film series. Cinema Africa, Wild Stories will take place during the 26th Mill Valley Film Festival.

Film Society of Lincoln Center
New York, NY
$45,000
To support Images Across the Divide. The curated film series will showcase films from Turkey, Spain and the Middle East.

Film/Video Arts, Inc.
Broadway, NY
$20,000
To support the Intern Program and the Artist Mentoring Project. In both programs, participants create individual film/video projects and have free access to on-site training, equipment and facilities, and career counseling.

Film/Video Arts, Inc. (on behalf of Chimpanzee Productions)
Broadway, NY
$60,000
To support the production of an experimental documentary film by Thomas Allen Harris. The Twelve Disciples of Nelson Mandela is about the first wave of exiles to leave South Africa in 1960 to tell the world about apartheid.

Foundation for Independent Video and Film
New York, NY
$45,000
To support the publication of The Independent Film and Video Monthly and its online companion resource. The nationally distributed magazine provides information on all aspects of independent film and video production including practical, aesthetic and scholarly articles.

Friends of the Mary Riepma Ross Film Theater, Inc.
Lincoln, NE
$10,000
To support the Great Plains Film Festival. The festival provides a showcase for film and video artists working in the American heartland.

Friends of Walter C. Pierce Community Park
Washington, DC
$15,000
To support the production of a radio series by Katie Davis. Neighborhood Stories will be composed of essays, sound portraits and oral histories of the Adams Morgan neighborhood of Washington, D.C.

IFP MSP (Independent Feature Project/North)
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
To support the purchase of film and video equipment for use by media artists in the region. Over 100 film and video makers are expected to benefit from the project.

IMAGE (Independent Media Artists of Georgia, Etc., Inc.)
Atlanta, GA
$10,000
To support the 27th Atlanta Film and Video Festival. The event presents the best of current independent film and video to an average audience of 13,000 people.

Independent Eye, Ltd.
Sebastopol, CA
$10,000
To support the production of a radio series by Conrad Bishop and Elizabeth Fuller. Hitchhiking Off the Map will combine documentary and drama techniques to explore transformations in people's lives.

Independent Feature Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the IFP Market. The conference and exhibition provides independent filmmakers from across the country the opportunity to present their work to the industry.

Independent Feature Project/Midwest
Chicago, IL
$7,500
To support the 12th IFP/Midwest Independent Filmmaker's Conference.

Independent Feature Project/West
Beverly Hills, CA
$10,000
To support the Los Angeles Film Festival. Over 100 films including dramatic features, documentaries and short films will be presented to an anticipated audience of 30,000 people.

International Latino Cultural Center of Chicago
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support the 19th Chicago Latino Film Festival. Over a two-week period, Chicago Latino Cinema (CLC) will exhibit the work of directors of Ibero or Latin American descent, as well as films directly related to Latino culture.

Kitchen Sisters Productions
San Francisco, CA
$60,000
To support the production of Lost & Found Sound & Beyond, a collection of new radio stories by Davia Nelson and Nikki Silva. Exploring American life through recorded sound, the works will be aired on National Public Radio's All Things Considered.

Media Arts Center San Diego
San Diego, CA
$10,000
To support the tenth San Diego Latino Film Festival. The films and videos exhibited must be produced by Latinos or be about the Latino experience.

Media Process Educational Films
Chicago, IL
$25,000
To support production and post-production costs for a television documentary by Robert Hercules and Cheri Pugh. The Mengele Twins is about Eva Kor, a surviving twin of the atrocities committed by Josef Mengele, who used twins as human guinea pigs during the Third Reich.

Millennium Film Workshop, Inc.
New York, NY
$12,000
To support the exhibition of experimental film and video art and filmmaking workshops. Exhibitions will feature the work of avant-garde cinema and video from the United States and abroad.

Moving Image, Inc.
New York, NY
$65,000
To support the theatrical premieres of American independent and foreign films. Moving Image (aka Film Forum) is devoted to bringing a broad array of the highest-quality new work by emerging artists, as well as more established figures, to a large and diverse general public.

NAATA (National Asian American Telecommunications Association)
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival and other exhibition activities. The film festival will showcase the work of new Asian Pacific American film and video makers.

National Association of Latino Independent Producers, Inc.
Santa Monica, CA
$15,000
To support the Annual National Conference targeted to Latino film and video producers. Through plenary sessions, hands-on workshops, seminars, exhibits and screenings, the event explores the state of the industry and technology for Latino media makers.

National Audio Theatre Festivals, Inc.
Hempstead, NY
$10,000
To support the Audio Theatre Workshop. The series of classes trains audio artists in script writing, performance for radio and technical skills to produce innovative live radio drama.

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc. (on behalf of Strange Attractions, Inc.)
New York, NY
$60,000
To support post-production costs for an experimental documentary film by Peter Friedman and Roger Manley. Beyond Belief: The Power of Things will examine the meaning of the word "belief" as it applies to religion and our everyday lives.

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc. (on behalf of Only Child Motion Pictures, Inc.)
New York, NY
$15,000
To support post-production costs for a documentary produced by Ira Wohl and Katie Cadigan. John Cadigan will direct People Say I'm Crazy.

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc. (on behalf of Gravity Hill Films)
New York, NY
$50,000
To support the production of an experimental film by Jem Cohen. Chain will examine the homogenization of our landscapes.

Northwest Film Center (Portland Art Museum)
Portland, OR
$40,000
To support the Northwest Film and Video Festival and its tour throughout the Northwest. The festival showcases new work by media artists living in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia.

Northwest Film Forum
Seattle, WA
$10,000
To support production and editing facilities for independent filmmakers at WigglyWorld Studios. Out of the Can offers flatbed-editing facilities; Roll Camera provides 16mm camera and sound packages; and New Model Edit offers a non-linear editing suite.

Ohio University Main Campus (on behalf of Athens International Film Festival)
Athens, OH
$10,000
To support the 30th Athens International Film and Video Festival. The event features narrative work, documentaries and short films produced in the United States and abroad.

Pittsburgh Film Makers, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
$10,000
To support a series of media arts workshops. Designed for children, non-traditional students and experienced producers, these classes will be offered at night and on weekends to encourage broader community participation.

Public Art Films, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
To support post-production costs for a documentary film by Tony Silver. Arisman: Facing the Audience is a portrait of Marshall Arisman, a painter, illustrator, sculptor, printmaker and teacher.

Reel Sisters
Brooklyn, NY
$7,500
To support the Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival and Lecture Series. The event is dedicated to presenting the work of women of color.

San Francisco Cinematheque
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support a curated film/video series. What About Now? New Media Perspectives will focus on experimental work by young and emerging artists from across the United States.

San Francisco Film Society
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the 46th annual San Francisco International Film Festival. The event presents more than 200 films from 50 countries to an audience of 87,000 people.

San Francisco Jewish Film Festival
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
To support the Jewish Film Festival and related activities. The festival, devoted to Jewish-subject films, premieres both films and videos by independent producers from around the world.

Scribe Video Center, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$35,000
To support a workshop program. Classes will assist independent artists, community organizations, and the interested novice in understanding the language and craft of storytelling through film and electronic media.

Sinking Creek Film Celebration, Inc.
Nashville, TN
$10,000
To support the Nashville Independent Film Festival. The event features student films and videos, documentaries, narrative films and experimental work.

Sound Portraits Productions, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support production and post-production costs for an audio installation by David Isay. Remember the Forgotten Ones will be based on the oral histories of photographer Milton Rogovin.

Soundprint Media Center, Inc.
Laurel, MD
$20,000
To support artists' fees for a documentary radio series. A Day in the Life of programs, produced by independent radio artists, will capture 24 hours in the life of a subject and condense it into a half hour documentary.

Squaw Valley Community of Writers
Nevada City, CA
$5,000
To support the Screenwriters Program. The workshop is centered on the essence of storytelling and teaches participants how to "show" rather than "tell" their stories.

Standby Program, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support state-of-the-art, broadcast quality, post-production video equipment for artists and independent producers. Standby's access program is a unique model of collaboration between a nonprofit arts organization and privately owned businesses.

Sundance Institute for Film and Television
Salt Lake City, UT
$115,00O
To support a series of educational workshops and labs that offer emerging screenwriters, directors, producers, and composers the opportunity, support and resources needed to successfully develop new creative work.

SWAMP (Southwestern Alternate Media Projects, Inc.)
Houston, TX
$25,000
To support the production and statewide distribution of The Territory. As the longest running showcase of media art in the United States, the public television series presents independent film and video works to over 12 million viewers throughout Texas.

Thomas A. Edison Media Arts Consortium
Jersey City, NJ
$18,000
To support the Black Maria Film and Video Festival and its multi-state tour. Over 60 organizations throughout the United States host the festival each year which draws over 700 entries from all over the country.

Vasulkas, Inc.
Santa Fe, NM
$15,000
To support the creation of a video installation work by Steina Vasulka. The piece will consist of seven channels of spherical images projected on large round screens with discreet sound sources.

Video Association of Dallas, Inc.
Dallas, TX
$10,000
To support the 17th Annual Dallas Video Festival. The event will present classic work programmed with new video art.

Visual Communication (Southern California Asian American Studies Central, Inc.)
Los Angeles, CA
$18,000
To support the 18th annual Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film and Video Festival. The event is Southern California's showcase of independent Asian international and Asian-Pacific American film and video work.

Washington, DC International Film Festival
Washington, DC
$25,000
To support the Washington D.C. International Film Festival. The event includes free films for children, senior citizens and underserved communities.

WBEZ Alliance, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$15,000
To support the Third Coast International Audio Festival. Established in 2001 as a "Sundance for Radio," the festival provides an opportunity for documentarians, feature reporters and audio artists from around the globe to gather to share expertise.

Women Make Movies, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the distribution of selected films on DVD from the Women Make Movies collection. In honor of their 30th anniversary, 10 films will be digitized and made available to schools, libraries and cultural institutions.

ZeroOne - The Art and Technology Network
Palo Alto, CA
$60,000
To support the production of a video game artwork by Bill Viola. The Night Journey - An Interactive Artworld is based on the universal story of a mystic's journey through seven different levels towards enlightenment.

MULTIDISCIPLINARY

3 Legged Race, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$12,000
To support the 5th annual Summer Blizzard. The series will focus on the development and presentation of four new, large-scale dance, circus arts and interdisciplinary works.

651 ARTS (Kings Majestic Corporation) (on behalf of Fist & Heel Performance Group)
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
To support the development of Black Burlesque (revisited). The project is a collaboration between Fist and Heel Performance Group (NYC) and Black Umfolosi (Zimbabwe) with the Noble Douglas Dance Company (Trinidad and Tobago).

American Music Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$23,000
To support the commissioning of collaborative Web-based works. Composers will be paired with visual or performing artists to create new works of art that incorporate music and new media.

Appalshop, Inc. (on behalf of American Festival Project)
Whitesburg, KY
$35,000
To support the American Festival Project's Primary Labs and Traveling Council. The project supports artists in the creation of community arts projects in underserved regions of Appalachia.

Arts at St. Ann's (St. Ann Center for Restoration and the Arts, Inc.)
Brooklyn, NY
$35,000
To support the 2003 Puppet Lab and Labapalooza! Mini-Festival of New Puppet Theater from The Lab. The project is an ongoing professional workshop where emerging and mid-career puppet artists and collaborators meet weekly to create new, interdisciplinary puppet theater works.

Boston Cyberarts, Inc.
Jamaica Plain, MA
$20,000
To support the Boston Cyberarts Festival. Ten events will be developed and produced for the 2003 festival.

Builders Association, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support Alladeen, a cross-media performance based on the legend of Alladin. The project will be created in collaboration with the London-based South Asian performance company, Moti Roti.

CalArts (California Institute of the Arts)
Valencia, CA
$25,000
To support REDCAT InterArts. The new project will comprise five residencies by innovative artistic teams from a range of disciplines.

Carnegie Mellon University (on behalf of Studio for Creative Inquiry)
Pittsburgh, PA
$40,000
To support a one-year Artist Residency Project with an emphasis on artists collectives. Three artists/collectives and an art critic/curator will be provided with the opportunity to develop new work and convene a panel on the collective art-making process.

CDDC (Chhandam Chitresh Das Dance Company)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support a collaboration between two Bengali artists, dancer and choreographer Chitresh Das and Paris-based painter Shahabuddin. The project will expand upon a work-in-progress performance presented in 2001.

Center for Cultural Exchange
Portland, ME
$30,000
To support the creation of Orientalism. This new work by Armenian-American composer Alan Shavarsh Bardezbanian will explore the West's relationship with Islamic and Asian cultures.

Chashama, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the Artist in Residence Program. The program offers free rehearsal, performance, studio and gallery space to emerging and established artists based in New York City.

Contemporary Arts Center
New Orleans, LA
$20,000
To support Hip Hop: Kicking Rhyme. The program will feature a multidisciplinary performance event, a visual art exhibition and a theater residency.

Corporation of Yaddo
Saratoga Springs, NY
$25,000
To support residencies for professional artists. Up to 100 artists who have never before been in residence at Yaddo will be provided with residencies running from two weeks to one month.

Creative Time, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the New York Project. Three artists will create audio narratives about the New York City neighborhoods in which they live.

DiverseWorks ArtSpace
Houston, TX
$40,000
To support the commissioning and presentation of new works. The project will include a series of visual arts exhibitions, performances, artist residencies and educational activities.

Djerassi Resident Artists Program
Woodside, CA
$35,000
To support one-month residencies for American artists. The project will provide studios, living accommodations, meals and professional support for media artists, visual artists, writers, choreographers and composers.

Exploratorium
San Francisco, CA
$35,000
To support the commissioning of up to six new works. The commissioned pieces will be integral to two museum initiatives in science and education.

Eyebeam Atelier, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$27,000
To support the Artist in Residence Program. Sixteen artists will be provided with stipends for the development, creation and presentation of new digital art through this five-month residency program.

Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Inc.
Provincetown, MA
$30,000
To support the Winter Residency Program. The program will provide 20 emerging writers and visual artists with housing, studios and a monthly stipend for a seven-month period.

Five Myles, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the construction and production of an abstract theater work based on The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster. This new work will be a collaboration among architect Burzeen Contractor, composer Jane Wang, puppeteer Hanne Tierney and designer Trevor Brown.

Frederick Douglass Creative Arts Center
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the development of professional writers and playwrights. This project will feature writing workshops, a reading series of original plays for stage and screen and the 31st annual Black Roots Festival.

Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center
San Antonio, TX
$40,000
To support Voces Femeninas: Woman Artists Across Las Generaciones. This year-long project will pair established and emerging dancers, writers, and theater artists to explore the contributions of women artists to Latino/Chicano culture.

Hallwalls, Inc.
Buffalo, NY
$25,000
To support the Hallwalls Artist-in-Residence Project. The project will enable two visual artists, one media artist and two musicians to create and present new works.

Harvestworks, Inc.
New York, NY
$22,000
To support the Artists' Access Program in digital media. The program will provide artists with studio residencies, classes and public presentation of work.

Headlands Center for the Arts
Sausalito, CA
$45,000
To support the U.S. Artists-in-Residence Program and associated public programs. The project will provide three-month residences for up to 30 artists.

Hesperus
Arlington, VA
$10,000
To support the Robin Hood Project. The project components include a concert, film screening, play and lecture designed to deepen the public's understanding of Medieval and Renaissance music and culture.

Indo-American Cultural Center
Venice, CA
$10,000
To support the enhancement and expansion of current artist services. Components of the project will include the Artwallah festival of visual arts, a mentoring program and the commissioning of 10 new projects on the South Asian diasporic experience.

International Cinematexas Short Film Festival
Austin, TX
$20,000
To support the Austin Eye+Ear Performance Series. The series will showcase work by artists who have not previously performed in Austin.

Jack Straw Memorial Foundation
Seattle, WA
$30,000
To support audio art residencies. The program will make available Jack Straw studios and facilities to Northwest artists from a variety of disciplines.

La Pocha Nostra
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support the creation and U.S. presentation of EX-CENTRIS. This series of performance installations will be directed by Guillermo Gomez-Pena at sites in the U.S., Spain and England.

Maine Arts Commission
Augusta, ME
$40,000
To support Connecting Maine Artists. This is an expansion of an on-going program that provides artists statewide with a curriculum of professional development opportunities and resources.

MASS MoCA (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art Foundation, Inc.)
North Adams, MA
$40,000
To support MASS Manufacturing. Seven new works will be created through this residency and commissioning program.

Movin' Spirits Dance Theater, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$12,000
To support The Women's Project "Under Construction". The evening-length performance work will use a combination of live music, video, language and dance to explore the stories and personal histories of women.

New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.
Staten Island, NY
$15,000
To support new commissioned work and the continued development of the Turbulence Web site. The project will provide for the creation and distribution of five new works of Internet-based art by national artists and the development of a new interface for the web site.

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc. (on behalf of Bill Shannon/Crutch Productions)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the creation of a new dance/multimedia project. The evening-length work will bring together elements of break-dancing, skateboarding, contemporary music and video to explore street dance within a theater context.

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc. (on behalf of Yin Mei Dance)
New York, NY
$17,000
To support the development and production of part one of the Nomad Trilogy. Nomad I will be a multi-media, dance theater work examining the theme of spiritual exploration.

NewTown Pasadena Foundation
Altadena, CA
$10,000
To support the presentation of two public art projects. Who's in Control, Anyway?, an exhibition exploring audience interactivity and Trail Markers 3, will feature site-specific installations and performances.

Red Wing Performing Group, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
To support the creation and premiere of the Hiroshima Maidens. This bunraku-style puppet work will be written and directed by Dan Hurlin.

Regents of the University of California at Los Angeles
(on behalf of Center for Intercultural Performance)
$35,000
To support the Art of Rice Traveling Theater. The evening-length production with original music, dance and theater will be created by 15 artists of varying disciplines from Asia and the United States during a four-week residency.

Rotunda Gallery (Brooklyn Information & Culture, Inc.)
(on behalf of Celebrate Brooklyn Performing Arts Festival)
$15,000
To support Live Music for Film. The project will feature screenings of two classic silent films accompanied by live performances of original music.

Roulette Intermedium, Inc.
New York, NY
$12,000
To support the Festival of Mixology 2003. This series of eight concerts will focus on the ways in which artists are experimenting with new technological interfaces between sound and video.

Saratoga International Theater Institute, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support SYSTEMS/LAYERS. This collaborative work will incorporate seven actors, five musicians and film projection to re-examine the boundaries between theater, music and dance.

South Florida Composers Alliance, Inc.
Miami, FL
$10,000
To support the Sound Arts Workshop residency program. The project will provide four interdisciplinary artists with access to equipment, technical assistance and artist fees for the creation of sound-based work.

Temple University
Philadelphia, PA
$12,000
To support the development and production of La maquina del tiempo. This new interdisciplinary work by choreographer Merian Soto will explore the influence of salsa on musical and dance forms.

Temple University (on behalf of Art Works in Different Places)
Philadelphia, PA
$30,000
To support the commissioning and presenting of two new works. Art Works in Different Places will produce a new public artwork by visual artist Buster Simpson and an evening-length performance piece by composer Myra Melford.

The Kitchen (Haleakala, Inc.)
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the Sidney Kahn Summer Institute. Students and young professionals in the performing and media arts will receive intensive training in the design and development of multimedia work.

Wexner Center for the Arts
Columbus, OH
$75,000
To support the commissioning of visual, performing and media art works. The project is a part of the Wexner Center for the Arts' ongoing artists residency program that provides support for the creation, completion and/or presentation of art.

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
To support residencies for artists of multiple disciplines. Artists in residence in the visual arts, performing arts, film and video will be given the opportunity to develop works and engage in a variety of education and community programs.

MUSEUMS

American Folk Art Museum
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the touring exhibition Tools of Her Ministry: The Art of Sister Gertrude Morgan, with accompanying catalog.

Art Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL
$100,000
To support the touring exhibition Hero, Hawk, and Open Hand: Ancient Indian Art of the Woodlands, with accompanying catalog.

Asia Society
New York, NY
$45,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of Thai artist Montien Boonma, with accompanying catalog and education programs.

Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
$75,000
To support the exhibition Arts of the Goryeo Dynasty, with accompanying catalog and education programs.

Brandeis University (on behalf of Rose Art Museum)
Waltham, MA
$15,000
To support the exhibition Coexistence: Contemporary Cultural Production in South Africa, with accompanying education programs.

Bronx Museum of the Arts
Bronx, NY
$25,000
To support an exhibition of the work of contemporary Brazilian artist Valeska Soares, with accompanying catalog and education programs.

Carnegie Mellon University (on behalf of Regina Gouger Gallery)
Pittsburgh, PA
$20,000
To support the touring exhibition Comic Release, with accompanying catalog and education programs.

Chrysler Museum of Art
Norfolk, VA
$35,000
To support the touring exhibition Gustave Doré: Works from North American Collections, with accompanying catalog.

Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, OH
$70,000
To support the touring exhibition Gaudi to Dali: Barcelona and Modernity, 1868-1939, with accompanying catalog.

Contemporary Arts Center
Cincinnati, OH
$35,000
To support the Center's inaugural exhibition in its new space in spring 2003.

Contemporary Arts Museum
Houston, TX
$25,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of artist Matthew Ritchie, with accompanying catalog and education programs.

Dallas Museum of Art
Dallas, TX
$25,000
To support the exhibition New Art in Texas, with accompanying catalog and education programs.

Denver Art Museum
Denver, CO
$100,00O
To support the exhibition Gateway to the Sun: The Tiwanaku Civilization of Ancient South America, with accompanying catalog.

Des Moines Art Center (Edmundson Art Foundation, Inc.)
Des Moines, IA
$20,000
To support the exhibition Magic Markers: Objects of Transformation, with accompanying catalog and education programs.

Fabric Workshop, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$50,000
To support the artist-in-residence program. Each artist will create new work using innovative fabrics, materials and construction techniques in exploratory ways.

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA
$100,000
To support the traveling exhibition Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya, with accompanying catalog and education programs.

Henry Gallery Association, Inc.
Seattle, WA
$25,000
To support artists' residencies and commissions. The project will place art-making on view, with artists creating in "real time" with galleries.

Institute of Contemporary Art
Boston, MA
$20,000
To support the touring exhibition Made in Mexico, with accompanying catalog and education programs. The exhibition will explore the ways in which Mexico City has been a locus for creativity and experimentation for artists and intellectuals in the 20th century.

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Inc.
Boston, MA
$60,000
To support the Gardner's artist-in-residence program, with accompanying exhibitions and publications.

J.B. Speed Art Museum
Louisville, KY
$30,000
To support Presence, a series of exhibitions of contemporary art, with accompanying publications and education programs.

Japan Society, Inc.
New York, NY
$60,000
To support the exhibition Early Buddhist Art from Korea and Japan, 6th - 9th Centuries, with accompanying catalog and education programs.

Japanese American National Museum
Los Angeles, CA
$33,000
To support the planning of an exhibition of the work of Japanese-American photographer Toyo Miyatake (1895-1979).

Mattress Factory, Ltd.
Pittsburgh, PA
$40,000
To support an artist-in-residence program. Invited artists will live and work on site from one to eight weeks to create new site-specific installations.

Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Minneapolis, MN
$35,000
To support the touring exhibition Romantic Paintings in England and France, with accompanying education programs.

Museum Associates (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
Los Angeles, CA
$60,000
To support the touring exhibition Geometry of Innocence: Objects + Systems + Concepts, 1940s 1970s, with accompanying catalog.

Museum for African Art
Long Island City, NY
$40,000
To support the touring exhibition Material Differences in African Art, with accompanying catalog and education programs.

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
$55,000
To support the touring exhibition A Minimal Future: Art as Object 1958-1968, with accompanying catalog.

New Museum of Contemporary Art
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the exhibition Living Inside the Grid, with accompanying catalog.

New York University (on behalf of Grey Art Gallery)
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the touring exhibition Park Avenue Cubists, with accompanying catalog and education programs.

North Carolina Museum of Art Foundation, Inc.
Raleigh, NC
$15,000
To support the exhibition Defying Gravity: Contemporary Art and Flight, with accompanying catalog and education programs.

North Dakota Museum of Art
Grand Forks, ND
$20,000
To support commissions for contemporary photographers Jim Dow and Robert Polidori and catalogs of their work.

Oakland Museum of California Foundation
Oakland, CA
$80,000
To support a touring retrospective exhibition of the work of contemporary American artist David Ireland, with accompanying catalog.

Parrish Art Museum, Inc.
Southampton, NY
$10,000
To support an exhibition of the work of Italian-born, American artist Constantino Nivola (1911-1988), with accompanying catalog.

Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia, PA
$100,000
To support the exhibition The Art and Fashion of Elsa Schiaparelli (1890-1973).

Queens Museum of Art
Flushing, NY
$30,000
To support the touring exhibition Joan Jonas: Performance Installations, with accompanying catalog and education programs.

Regents of the University of California at Berkeley (on behalf of Berkeley Art Museum)
Berkeley, CA
$25,000
To support the touring exhibition Everything Matters: Paul Kos, A Retrospective, with accompanying catalog and education programs.

Regents of the University of California at Los Angeles
(on behalf of UCLA Hammer Museum
$85,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of American artist Lee Bontecou (b. 1931), with accompanying catalog.

Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
$40,000
To support the presentation of Delhi-based artist Amar Kanwar's new film, Of Poets and Prophesies, with accompanying publications.

Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (Scottsdale Cultural Council)
Scottsdale, AZ
$35,000
To support the touring exhibition Hair Stories, with accompanying catalog and education programs.

Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Inc.
Staten Island, NY
$20,000
To support the coordination, promotion, interpretation, Web site and documentation of the Buddhism Project.

Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania (on behalf of Institute of Contemporary Art)
Philadelphia, PA
$30,000
To support an exhibition of the work of contemporary-American artist Barry Le Va (b. 1941), with accompanying catalog and symposium.

University of Chicago (on behalf of Smart Museum of Art)
Chicago, IL
$32,000
To support an artist-in-residence program featuring contemporary African-American photographer Dawoud Bey.

University of Michigan at Ann Arbor (on behalf of Museum of Art)
Ann Arbor, MI
$55,000
To support the touring exhibition The Time in Between: Betye Saar and the Persistence of Photography.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (on behalf of Ackland Art Museum)
Chapel Hill, NC
$25,000
To support the exhibition series Seeking the Light: Spirituality and Contemporary Art, with accompanying catalog.

University of South Florida (on behalf of Contemporary Art Museum)
Tampa, FL
$15,000
To support an artist residency and exhibition of work by Brazilian-born, New York-based artist Vik Muniz, with accompanying catalog.

University of Wisconsin at Madison (on behalf of Elvehjem Museum of Art)
Madison, WI
$30,000
To support the touring exhibition With Friends: The Art and Lives of Six Magic Realists, 1940-1965.

University of Wyoming (on behalf of Art Museum)
Laramie, WY
$25,000
To support a series of one-person exhibitions and residencies by contemporary artists.

Whitney Museum of American Art
New York, NY
$25,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of artist Elie Nadelman (1882-1946) with accompanying catalog and education programs.

Williams College Museum of Art
Williamstown, MA
$40,000
To support a touring exhibition of the work of African-American artist Kara Walker, with accompanying catalog.

Music

Albany Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Albany, NY
$19,000
To support the creation and presentation of new works by emerging composers. A total of 16 new works will be commissioned and performed by the orchestra and a smaller new music ensemble comprised of orchestral musicians.

Alpenglow Chamber Music Festivals, Inc.
Dillon, CO
$8,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by Dan Coleman. A portion of the work will be composed prior to the August 2003 festival and the remaining portions will be composed with input from audiences at the festival.

American Composers Orchestra, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
To support Improvise!, a series of concerts, commissions and educational activities focused on improvisation and the symphony orchestra. Activities will occur in April 2004 at various venues in New York City including Carnegie Hall, Aaron Davis Hall, the Knitting Factory, and at Miller Theater at Columbia University.

Amherst Saxophone Society Inc.
Williamsville, NY
$10,000
To support presentations and radio broadcasts of music for saxophone quartets. Performances will take place during 2003 at a church, at the Ujima Theatre, and at WBFO-FM's Allen Hall on the campus of SUNY/Buffalo in front of a live studio audience for future broadcast.

Apollo's Fire, The Cleveland Baroque Orchestra
Cleveland Hts., OH
$12,500
To support the presentation, educational activities and national radio broadcast of the Saint Matthew's Passion by Bach, on period instruments. Under the direction of conductor Jeannette Sorrel, the two performances will be sung in English and will take place in March 2003 in Akron and at Severance Hall in Cleveland.

Aspen Music Festival
Aspen, CO
$35,000
To support the American Academy of Conducting, a professional development program for post conservatory musicians. Under the direction of music director David Zinman and conductor Murry Sidlin, the summer 2003 project will engage 24 participants in an extensive conducting institute.

Baltimore Choral Arts Society, Inc.
Baltimore, MD
$17,500
To support the presentation of an oratorio by Dave Brubeck, Beloved Son, including educational activities. Under the direction of Music Director Tom Hall, the performance will take place in March 2003 on the campus of Morgan State University.

Bang on a Can, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the annual Bang on a Can Marathon and E-Festival. The day-long new music Marathon will be broadcast on WNYC-FM as well as live over the Internet, and will serve as the anchor presentation for the month-long Bang on a Can E-Festival.

Berkeley Symphony Orchestra
Berkeley, CA
$25,000
To support the creation and presentation of a secular oratorio by Kurt Rohde. The work, Bitter Harvest (a love story), scheduled to be premiered in the spring of 2004, will explore the psychological roots of racial prejudice among American farmers.

Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Inc.
Roslindale, MA
$10,000
To support the American Orchestra Music Initiative in the presentation and recording of works by American composers. Works by John Harbison and Augusta Read Thomas will receive their regional premieres in Boston during 2003 and will be recorded by Albany Records for the first time.

Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. (on behalf of Tanglewood Music Center)
Boston, MA
$50,000
To support the Festival of Contemporary Music. The Tanglewood Music Center will present the week long event featuring five to seven concerts by ensembles of Tanglewood fellows and guest artists.

Bravo! Colorado at Vail-Beaver Creek
Vail, CO
$12,500
To support the 16th annual Vail Valley Music Festival. The summer 2003 festival will feature chamber and orchestral concerts, open rehearsals, public workshops, educational-outreach concerts and young artist programs.

Brevard Music Center, Inc.
Brevard, NC
$10,000
To support guest-artist teachers and scholarships for the Advanced Chamber Music (ACM) Program. The 12 participants will receive professional development under the guidance of guest master teachers in residence through the summer 2003 session.

Brooklyn Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$40,000
To support The American Lollapalooza Project, a series of concerts, a commission and education outreach activities. The works of seven American composers, both established and emerging, will be presented in a pair of concerts with accompanying community and education events in February 2003.

Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra Society, Inc.
Buffalo, NY
$30,000
To support Intimate Portraits, a series of concerts for chamber orchestra. Each of the three concerts planned during the 2002-03 season will showcase different sections of the orchestra: winds, brass, percussion and strings.

Cabrillo Music Festival
Santa Cruz, CA
$10,000
To support a new music conductor training program. The summer 2003 professional development program will partner with the Conductors Guild to provide 20 conductors with training opportunities.

California State University Sacramento Trust Foundation
(on behalf of Festival of New American Music)
Sacramento, CA
$15,000
To support the Festival of New American Music that will focus on many facets of new American music. The annual festival will be held on the California State University Sacramento campus and at various community venues.

California Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Pleasant Hill, CA
$10,000
To support the Young American Composer-in-Residence Program (YACR). The 18-month residency program in 2003 and 2004 will include recorded reading sessions, commissions and premieres of three new works, and pre-concert discussions.

Cape & Islands Chamber Music Festival, Inc.
North Chatham, MA
$10,000
To support the 2003 Cape & Island Chamber Music Festival. The 17 chamber music concerts and special programs will use the ocean as a programming theme during the three-week August festival held in venues across Cape Cod.

Carnegie Hall
New York, NY
$100,00O
To support the Perspectives series, including performances, premieres of commissioned pieces and training workshops. Developed by pianists Mitsuko Uchida and Emanuel Ax, soprano Dawn Upshaw and conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, the series will include 23 self-curated performances in 2003 04.

Center for International Performance and Exhibition
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support Explorations in Sound: The Innovative Composers Project. Jim Baker, Edward Wilkerson, Jr., and Michael Zerang will be offered year-long residencies to create new work and collaborate with other artists during 2003.

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support Chamber Music Society Two (CMS2), a professional development program for artists in the early stages of their careers. Musicians participating in the two-year residency will receive coaching and performance opportunities with master artists of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

Chatham Baroque, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
$10,000
To support the production of early English operas in concert version. Chatham Baroque will collaborate with other area choral and instrumental ensembles to present John Blow's Venus and Adonis and Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas.

Chicago Chamber Musicians
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by Bruce Adolphe for children and adults based on a Shakespearean theme. Witches, Wizards, Spells and Elves: The Magic of Shakespeare will be premiered during February 2003 at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater.

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Chicago, IL
$90,000
To support MusicNOW, a series of concerts of the music of living composers, recorded for radio broadcast. The 13 concerts scheduled in the spring of 2003 will include works by eight composers including world premieres of two commissions.

Chicago Symphony Orchestra (on behalf of Civic Orchestra of Chicago)
Chicago, IL
$35,000
To support a professional development program for pre-professional musicians. The program prepares the 96 musicians of the Civic Orchestra to compete for positions in leading professional orchestras by offering coaching, mock audition seminars and master classes.

Choral Arts Society of Washington
Washington, DC
$25,000
To support the presentation and national radio broadcast of the 15th annual Choral Tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr. Choral Arts Society, Howard University Choir, a children's choir and a gospel choir will combine forces for performances conducted by Norman Scribner.

Cleveland Orchestra
Cleveland, OH
$90,000
To support a performance project titled A Sound Beginning. The project will introduce new works to the Cleveland Orchestra's repertoire and celebrate the new leadership of music director Franz Welser Most.

Colorado Music Festival
Boulder, CO
$10,000
To support the artist-in-residence program. Two-week residencies for each of three guest artists engaged for the 2003 Festival will include performances, community outreach and education activities.

Columbus Symphony Orchestra
Columbus, OH
$15,000
To support the Contemporary Music Festival. In a consortium with Ohio State University, the performances by the Columbus Symphony Orchestra will include student and faculty ensembles, local artists and music scholars.

Concert Artists Guild, Inc.
New York, NY
$22,500
To support career development of emerging classical musicians through national concert engagements. In diverse venues across the country, 100 performance opportunities will allow artists on the Concert Artists Guild (CAG) roster to hone performance skills and improve powers of communication.

Coro de Ninos de San Juan, Inc.
San Juan, PR
$12,500
To support the presentation of an annual Christmas concert. Two choral performances will take place in the Antonio Paoli Festival Hall at the Luis A. Ferre Performing Arts Center in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in December 2003.

Cuyahoga Community College
Cleveland, OH
$20,000
To support the 24rd annual Tri-C JazzFest. The 2003 festival will focus on the impact that electronics, rock, hip-hop, fusion and the guitar have had on jazz through concerts, educational activities and radio broadcasts.

Da Camera Society of Texas, Inc.
Houston, TX
$15,000
To support the presentation of concerts and related panel discussions exploring modernism through music. Three new productions are planned to accompany the Masterworks of the Museum of Modern Art exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston in 2003-04.

Dale Warland Singers
St. Paul, MN
$10,000
To support the creation, performance and radio broadcast of new choral works. Two 10-12 minute works will be commissioned and premiered as part of the 30th anniversary celebration: one each by Aaron Jay Kernis and Dale Warland.

Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Detroit, MI
$50,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new composition by Michael Daugherty and related residency activities. The new work, a violin concerto, will be premiered by violinist Pamela Frank and recorded for broadcast in May 2003.

Elaine Kaufman Cultural Center/Lucy Moses School for Music & Dance
(on behalf of Merkin Concert Hall)
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the creation and presentation of new works for beginning piano students. A total of 20 composers will write new piano works that are suitable for beginners in the first two years of the five year 50th anniversary celebration of Merkin Concert Hall.

Emmanuel Music, Inc.
Boston, MA
$10,000
To support Harbison and His World, a retrospective of concerts and lectures on the chamber music of John Harbison. A series of ten concerts, including a world premiere to take place at the Walsh Theater at Suffolk University in Boston, will examine the composer's works and influences on his music.

Eos Orchestra
New York, NY
$15,000
To support Mass en Masse, a concert that will examine the mass as a musical art form. This celebration of the mass form will explore how three composers of diverse styles have adapted it.

Eugene Symphony Association, Inc.
Eugene, OR
$10,000
To support the 10th anniversary performance of John Adams' Violin Concerto and educational activities associated with the project. The concert will feature the violinist for whom the work was written, Jorja Fleezanis, and will include string and composition workshops, a new music recital and a lecture.

Fort Wayne Philharmonic Orchestra, Inc.
Fort Wayne, IN
$17,500
To support Unplugged, Fort Wayne Philharmonic's informal classical concert series. During 2002-03, Unplugged concerts will be hosted by a local celebrity and feature casually dressed orchestra members under live video images projected on a large screen.

Friends of Chamber Music
Kansas City, MO
$15,000
To support the International Chamber Music Series. The four presentations will take place in the spring of 2003 in the Folly Theater in St. Louis or the Carlsen Center at Johnson County Community College.

Grand Rapids Symphony Society
Grand Rapids, MI
$10,000
To support the creation, presentation and recording of works by Adolphus Hailstork for the 75th anniversary season. The recording will couple Mr. Hailstork's newly commissioned work, Symphony #3, with his never-recorded Symphony #2.

Handel & Haydn Society
Boston, MA
$27,500
To support Exploring the Italian Baroque, a series of concerts for chorus and orchestra. Three concerts, all under the direction of Music Director Grant Llewellyn, are planned during 2003-04 that will be enhanced by lectures, discussions and articles by Baroque scholars.

Highlights In Jazz
New York, NY
$7,500
To support jazz concerts. Two concerts are planned in the spring of 2004 that celebrate Highlights In Jazz's 31st anniversary season.

Houston Symphony Society
Houston, TX
$40,000
To support the Concerto Commissioning Project--the creation and presentation of a new concerto for a principal player in the orchestra. Samuel Adler will compose a concerto for French horn, with William Ver Meulen, Principal Horn of the Houston Symphony, as soloist.

Indiana State University
Terre Haute, IN
$10,000
To support the 37th annual Contemporary Music Festival. The two-day festival will take place on the campus of Indiana State University in Terre Haute during the fall of 2003.

Jazz at Lincoln Center Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
To support the U.S. tour of the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra and the establishment of a new resident ensemble, the Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra. The tour will reach 17 cities and 12 states, including Hawaii, and locations throughout the Midwest and the South.

Jazz Forum Arts, Inc.
Dobbs Ferry, NY
$10,000
To support the Berkshire Jazz Festival. The two-day outdoor festival staged during August 2003 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts will include concerts and workshops.

Jazz In Flight
Oakland, CA
$10,000
To support the Eddie Moore Jazz Festival. The 14th annual Festival will be held over two weekends in August 2003 at various venues in Oakland and Emeryville, California.

Kansas City Symphony
Kansas City, MO
$15,000
To support the Strategic Programming Initiative, a series of concerts and educational activities. The four concert programs will each be performed three times during the spring of 2003.

Kent State University Main Campus
Kent, OH
$10,000
To support faculty artists' fees for professional development of advanced music students at the Kent/Blossom Music program. A total of 44 nationally selected, post-secondary music students will spend six summer weeks under the instruction of Cleveland Orchestra musicians, the Miro Quartet and other artists.

Kitka, Inc.
Oakland, CA
$40,000
To support the development, recording, songbook publication, presentation and national tour of a holiday concert. Wintersongs is a collection of rarely performed traditional, contemporary and original seasonal vocal music from a variety of Eastern European ethnic and spiritual traditions.

Kronos Performing Arts Association
San Francisco, CA
$50,000
To support commissioning and residency activities in celebration of Kronos Quartet's 30th anniversary season. Activities include a call for scores from composers under the age of 30, the commissioning of a new work and a collaboration with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company.

Kuumbwa Jazz Society
Santa Cruz, CA
$10,000
To support creation and presentation of a new work by pianist/composer Rebeca Mauleon including residency activities. The new work, performed with her five-piece Afro-Caribbean ensemble and special guests, will be premiered in the fall of 2003.

Lafayette College
Easton, PA
$12,500
To support performances, two commissions and a jazz ensemble residency. Jazz at Lafayette will celebrate the college's 20th anniversary of jazz presenting and feature jazz artists Dave Holland, Stefon Harris, David Sanchez, Victor Lewis and Mulgrew Miller.

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Society, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$22,500
To support a commission and premiere of a work for chamber orchestra by composer-in-residence designate Pierre Jalbert. The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra will perform the work at the Alex Theatre in Glendale and Royce Hall on the campus of the University of California-Los Angeles.

Los Angeles Master Chorale Association
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
To support performances of Handel's Messiah by the Los Angeles Master Chorale and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. The collaborative project will be directed by music director Grant Gershon and presented at UCLA's Royce Hall and the Alex Theatre in Glendale.

Los Angeles Master Chorale Association
Los Angeles, CA
$18,000
To support three final concerts by the Los Angeles Master Chorale at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion prior to its move to the Walt Disney Hall. Performances will include an early American a cappella work by William Billings, Rezos by Tania Leon, Tangos by Astor Piazzola and The Desert Music by Steven Reich.

Los Angeles Philharmonic Association
Los Angeles, CA
$90,000
To support world premieres of commissioned works by John Adams, Tan Dun, Liza Lim, Magnus Lindberg, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Steven Stucky. The project will include educational and outreach activities focusing on the project's programming themes.

Marlboro School of Music, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$25,000
To support the Invited Master Artist Project. The multifaceted summer 2003 project will provide young musicians with enhanced experiences and the opportunity to study with master concert artists.

Marilyn Horne Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$12,500
To support performances by young artists in four vocal recitals. The foundation will present the artists at the 125-seat Kosciuszko Foundation and 457-seat Merkin Hall as part of its On Wings of Song series which will be later broadcast on WQXR-FM radio.

Mills College
Oakland, CA
$7,500
To support the presentation of four concerts by the Center for Contemporary Music. Guest composers/performers Mark Trayle and Myra Melford, and composers Lois Vierk and James Tenney, will participate in performances of their work.

Minnesota Orchestral Association
Minneapolis, MN
$70,000
To support the creation and presentation of three new works by American composers John Corigliano, Aaron Jay Kernis and Stephen Paulus. The project will be part of Minnesota Orchestra's Centennial Commissioning Project, a ten-year effort that began in 1999.

Monadnock Music
Peterborough, NH
$10,000
To support free concerts by soloists, ensembles and chamber orchestras presented in 18 rural towns. During July and August of 2003, Monadnack Music, under the direction of Music Director James Bolle, will present three free concerts per week.

Monterey Jazz Festival
Monterey, CA
$25,000
To support the 2003 Monterey Jazz Festival at the Monterey County Fairgrounds. Three key components of the festival are a commissioned work to be premiered at the festival, artists in residence and performances by emerging jazz musicians.

Mount Saint Mary's College (on behalf of Da Camera Society)
Los Angeles, CA
$17,500
To support Chamber Music in Historic Sites, a series of chamber music concerts to be presented by the Da Camera Society. Taking place during 2003-04, the concerts match musical programs from a variety of cultures and periods with sites of architectural and historical significance in the Los Angeles area.

Music from Angel Fire
Angel Fire, NM
$12,500
To support Music at Angel Fire's 20th Anniversary Festival. The festival will tour the rural, northern New Mexico communities of Angel Fire, Las Vegas and Taos.

Music From China
New York, NY
$10,000
To support one-week residencies by Music From China at Indiana State University and Indiana University. The ensemble will perform a repertoire of traditional Chinese music and new compositions, as well as lectures and demonstrations, composers' seminars, and community outreach concerts.

Musical Traditions, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support a collaborative commissioning and performance project with the Russian ensemble Opus Posth. The Paul Dresher Ensemble and Opus Posth will participate in a 2003 mini-festival featuring the premiere of new works.

Nashville Chamber Orchestra
Nashville, TN
$10,000
To support the American Song Festival, a six-concert project celebrating the American art song. The festival, directed by music director Paul Gambill, will include the commission and premiere of a new work by Dr. J. Mark Scearce based on a text by Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison.

National Symphony Orchestra Association
Washington, DC
$65,000
To support Soundtracks: Music and Film, a festival examining the history of music in film. Music director Leonard Slatkin and guest conductor John Williams will conduct the National Symphony Orchestra in performances, and will lead discussions and demonstrations.

New Jersey Symphony Orchestra
Newark, NJ
$30,000
To support a three-week Winter Festival, an exploration of American roots in works at the turn of the 20th century. The orchestra will perform works by Chadwick, MacDowell, Ives, Gottschalk and Still.

New School University (on behalf of New School Concerts)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the New York String Seminar Program for emerging young musicians. The professional development program, directed by violinist and conductor Jaime Laredo, will culminate in two concerts at Carnegie Hall in December 2003.

New Sounds Music, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support Eight Premieres featuring the PRISM Quartet. The new works of James Primosch, Brian Fennelly, Ronald Caltabiano, Matt Levy and two student commissioning award winners will be performed in New York and Philadelphia.

New World Symphony, Inc.
Miami Beach, FL
$50,000
To support the Musician Professional Development Program. The program will prepare young artists for musical leadership positions in the orchestral field through performance, multidisciplinary coaching and community outreach.

New York Philharmonic
New York, NY
$100,000
To support Ives in Perspective, a three-week festival featuring the music of composer Charles Ives (1874-1954) and his contemporaries. This 50th-anniversary commemoration of Ives's death will include chamber music, song recitals, scholarly seminars, an exhibition and other activities.

Oakland East Bay Symphony
Oakland, CA
$10,000
To support commissions and premieres of new works by American composers. The Oakland East Bay Symphony will perform commissioned works by Jake Heggie, Omar Sosa and Michael Kaulkin, as well as new works by Joshua Feltman and Noah Schwartz.

Ojai Festivals, Ltd.
Ojai, CA
$22,500
To support the Ojai Music Festival. The festival will explore the influence of Pierre Boulez on the music of the 20th century.

OK MOZART, Inc.
Bartlesville, OK
$12,500
To support the OK Mozart Festival. Performances will be held throughout the Bartlesville community and will include music for orchestra, chamber ensemble and chorus.

Orange County Philharmonic Society
Irvine, CA
$12,500
To support the co-commission and performance of Terry Riley's Sun Rings, with sound and images from NASA's Voyager missions. Offered as part of the fifth annual Eclectic Orange Festival, the Southern California premiere will be performed by the Kronos Quartet and the Pacific Chorale.

Oregon Symphony Association
Portland, OR
$15,000
To support the performance and recording of orchestral works by American composers. The Oregon Symphony will premiere a commission by composer John Peel and record John La Montaine's Wilderness Journal and Andre Previn's Piano Concerto.

Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the commissions of new work by composers Gunther Schuller and Olly Wilson. The two chamber orchestral works will be performed during the 2003-04 season.

Other Minds
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the commissioning and presentation of two new works by Rova: Arts Saxophone Quartet members, Jon Raskin and Bruce Ackley. The works will be premiered by the quartet and an ensemble of virtuoso musicians at the Other Minds Festival in San Francisco.

Pacific Chorale
Santa Ana, CA
$10,000
To support a performance of Antonin Dvorak's Stabat Mater with four vocal soloists and the Pacific Symphony. This large-scale work, to be conducted by the Chorale's music director John Alexander, will be presented at the 3,000-seat Orange County Performing Arts Center.

Pacific Symphony Association
Santa Ana, CA
$50,000
To support The American Composers Festival: Beyond Category, a performance project showcasing American composer William Bolcolm. Repertoire for the 2003 spring festival will include Bolcolm's Songs of Innocence and Experience.

Philadelphia Chamber Music Society
Philadelphia, PA
$12,500
To support the presentation of vocal music concerts. During 2002-03, a series of performances of art songs, cabaret songs, vocal chamber music and choral concerts will be presented.

Philadelphia Orchestra Association
Philadelphia, PA
$90,000
To support Robert Schumann: Poet and Romantic, a five-week festival exploring the music of Schumann and composers linked to him. Wolfgang Sawallisch, in his final season as music director, will conduct the Philadelphia Orchestra in Philadelphia and New York City.

Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support the presentation of Handel's oratorio Jephtha in September 2003. The Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, under the direction of music director Nicholas McGegan, will give five performances at venues throughout the Bay Area.

Pittsburgh Symphony, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
$30,000
To support Reflections on Shostakovich, a thematic project exploring Dmitri Shostakovich's music and his influence on other composers. The 2003 project, directed by music director Mariss Jansons, will include the commission and premiere of a new work by Michael Hersch.

Plymouth Music Series
Minneapolis, MN
$25,000
To support the Witness program, an annual celebration of musical contributions by African-American composers. The program will include educational events, a young people's concert, a school residency program and radio broadcasts.

Portland Maine Symphony Orchestra
Portland, ME
$15,000
To support the recording, editing and mastering of concerts for statewide radio broadcasts. The Portland Symphony Orchestra performances will reach more than 52,500 people via Maine Public Radio stations during 2003.

Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
$10,000
To support the scoring of New Morning for the World: Daybreak of Freedom by Joseph Schwantner. The work, originally written for narrator and full orchestra in 1982, is a memorial to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

ProMusica Chamber Orchestra of Columbus, Inc.
Columbus, OH
$10,000
To support a commission of a new work by composer Michael Daugherty. The ProMusica Chamber Orchestra, under the direction of music director Timothy Russell, will premiere the work as part of its 25th-anniversary celebration.

Relache, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
To support the commissioning of new chamber work by composers Fred Frith, Cynthia Folio and Leroy Jenkins. Relache will premiere the compositions as part of its Future Sounds series.

Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra, Inc.
Providence, RI
$10,000
To support the commission and premiere of a piano concerto by Richard Cumming. The work will be written for pianist John Browning on the occasion of his 70th birthday in 2003.

Robert W. Woodruff Arts Center, Inc.
(on behalf of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra)
$65,000
To support A King Celebration, a project in tribute to the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The project will be comprised of performances, educational outreach activities and a national radio broadcast.

Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society
St. Paul, MN
$50,000
To support the commissioning and premiere of new works by Americans Dominick Argento and George Tsontakis and Brazilian Sergio Assad. Performances will be held at St. Paul's Ordway Center for the Performing Arts and the Ted Mann Concert Hall on the campus of University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.

San Francisco Chanticleer, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
To support the New Music Advisor project. During 2003, composer Jeeyoung Kim will create new work and collaborate with Chanticleer's artistic staff.

San Francisco Contemporary Music Players
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support world premieres of six commissioned works. The chamber works- by composers Kui Dong, Ellen Harrison, Wendell Logan, Betty Olivero, Shulamit Ran and David Soley- will be performed in California and New England.

San Francisco Symphony
San Francisco, CA
$100,000
To support Wagner, Weill, and the Weimar Republic, a project that will explore the music of Germanic composers. Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas will direct the San Francisco Symphony, the San Francisco Symphony Chorus and guest artists in concerts during the two-week festival.

Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival
Santa Fe, NM
$15,000
To support the 31st Annual Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. The 2003 summer festival will include a diverse range of repertoire, guest composers and world premieres, as well as free community and youth concerts.

Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival
Santa Fe, NM
$30,000
To support a commission and performances of a new work by American composer Morton Subotnick. The Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival will premiere the work, which will have subsequent performances by Ensemble Sospeso and the Southwest Chamber Music Society.

Seattle Chamber Players
Seattle, WA
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new theatrical chamber music work by composer Paul Dresher. The premiere will take place at Benaroya Hall and will be sung by tenor John Duykers.

Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Seattle, WA
$65,000
To support Then and Now, a performance project that will feature music from the last 100 years. It will include a May festival, The World Looks West, and a number of educational and outreach activities.

SFJAZZ (San Francisco Jazz Organization)
San Francisco, CA
$27,500
To support the 21st Annual San Francisco Jazz Festival in 2003. Executive Director Randall Kline will direct the programming of more than 24 events during the two-week festival.

Society for New Music
Syracuse, NY
$10,000
To support winter concerts and the creation and presentation of a commissioned work by Marc Mellits. The winter season includes seven concerts with eight repeat performances in venues such as colleges, universities and libraries.

Sospeso Ltd.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support Sound on Film, a concert that will combine live instrumental performance with film. The project represents Ensemble Sospeso's continued exploration of expressive possibilities of using recent technology and new media.

Sphinx Organization, Inc.
Dearborn, MI
$60,000
To support a professional development project for emerging young string instrumentalists. The Sphinx Symphony Concert and Sphinx Honors Concert will present young musicians in concert at Orchestra Hall in Detroit.

St. Louis African Chorus
St. Louis, MO
$10,000
To support programs V and VII of the African Choral Odyssey series. During 2003, the St. Louis African Chorus will perform music of southern and eastern Africa in St. Louis and New York.

Stanford Jazz Workshop
Stanford, CA
$22,500
To support the 2003 Stanford Jazz Festival. The summer festival will feature such artists as Elvin Jones, Ray Brown, Andrew Hill, Harold Mabern Regina Carter, Geri Allen and Branford Marsalis.

Virginia Arts Festival, Inc.
Norfolk, VA
$12,500
To support the 2003 Virginia Arts Festival. Performances range from jazz and gospel to contemporary chamber music.

Vocal Arts Society
Washington, DC
$20,000
To support the presentation of solo vocal recitals. Performances will be held at the Terrace Theater in the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. and will feature eight singers.

Voices of Change
Dallas, TX
$10,000
To support the commissioning and presentation of a new work by composer Robert Xavier Rodriguez. Based on Nortan Juster's classic 1963 children's book, The Dot and The Line, the composition will feature a narrator and chamber ensemble.

Young Concert Artists, Inc.
New York, NY
$22,500
To support the presentation of the Young Concert Artists Series of recitals and concerto debuts by young musicians. The 2003 project will feature nine concerts in New York City and five in Washington, D.C.

MUSICAL THEATER

American Repertory Theatre Company, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
$45,000
To support the commissioning, development and production of a new musical theater work. Story In Story Out will be written by composer, musician and performer Rinde Eckert and developed with Artistic Director Robert Woodruff and members of the company.

Classic Stage Company
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the creation and production of a music theater work adapted from an American classic novel. John Moran will adapt The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, by Mark Twain, for the stage.

George Mason University
Fairfax, VA
$20,000
To support the re-mounting and tour of two musicals for family audiences. Sing Down The Moon and Perseus Bayou will be remounted in the 1,900-seat Concert Hall at George Mason University's Center for the Arts and sent on tour in repertory.

Goodspeed Opera House Foundation, Inc.
East Haddam, CT
$53,000
To support the development and re-creation of a musical theater work. After commissioning a re orchestration, book re-writes, and dance and vocal arrangements, Goodspeed Opera House will produce A Tree Grows in Brooklyn at its East Haddam mainstage theater.

Illusion Theater &School, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$35,000
To support the commission and creation of a new musical theater work. Composer and lyricist Rob Hartmann and adaptor Peter Rothstein will create a new musical entitled The Century Ballroom with choreography by Danny Buraecski.

Lincoln Center Theatre (Vivian Beaumont Theater, Inc.)
New York, NY
$45,000
To support the premiere production of a new musical work. Joe Mantello will direct A Man Of No Importance, with libretto by Terrence McNally, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens and score by Stephen Flaherty.

Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma, Inc.
Oklahoma City, OK
$15,000
To support a production of The Wizard of Oz. The productions will serve as the centerpiece for Lyric's summer season and a three-week Lyric Academy "Camp Oz."

Mabou Mines
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the premiere of a large-scale dance/puppet opera entitled Red Beads. Artistic Director Lee Breuer, Puppetry Director Basil Twist, choreographers David Neumann, Clove Galilee and Mary Overlie, and composer Ushio Torikai have developed the new work.

Music-Theatre Group, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the production of a new musical theater work. Based on the story of Tokyo Rose, the piece will be created and directed by Sonolo Kawahara with original music by composer Diedre Murray.

Musical Theatre Works, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the rehearsal and staged reading of Shimmer, a new musical-in-progress, based on Sarah Schulman's novel. Shimmer will receive three professional staged readings at the 99-seat Linhart Theatre.

National Alliance for Musical Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the 15th Annual Festival of New Musicals. The Festival will showcase 10-15 new musicals before an invited audience of producers and musical theater professionals.

New Professional Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the development and production of a new musical theater work. New Professional Theater will produce Skindiver, a new work written by playwright Charles Randolph Wright with music by Nona Hendrix.

New Tuners Theatre (Performance Community)
Chicago, IL
$9,000
To support the public presentation of new musicals-in-progress. The Stages Festival presents up to two- dozen musicals that are selected from over 100 submissions and are performed as concert readings or skeletal productions.

Park Square Theatre Company
St. Paul, MN
$12,000
To support a production of Stephen Sondheim's Pacific Overtures. The work will provide an opportunity for collaboration with Theater Mu, the area's only Asian-American theater company.

Roundabout Theatre Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the production of a new musical. The Look of Love, co-conceived by David Thompson, Scott Ellis and David Loud with choreography by Ann Reinking, will feature the music and lyrics of Burt Bacharach and Hal David.

San Francisco Mime Troupe, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$27,000
To support the development, production and national tour of an original musical comedy. San Francisco Mime Troupe will premiere a new work that focuses on national or community events in San Francisco and will tour Bay Area parks and venues throughout California.

Second Stage Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
To support the world premiere of a new musical work. Second Stage Theatre will produce Little Fish, written by Michael John LaChuisa, with direction and choreography by Graciela Daniele.

Signature Theatre, Inc.
Arlington, VA
$30,000
To support the re-creation of an original 1960s musical theater work. Artistic Director Eric Schaeffer will direct and collaborate with Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt to create a new production of the 1962 musical 110 In The Shade.

Talking Band, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the development and production of a new music-theater work. Belize will be written by Paul Zimet and composed by Ellen Maddow.

Tectonic Theater Project, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the development of a new theatrical piece based on Mozart's Apollo et Hyacinthus. The company will undertake a three-week workshop of the piece, which will be conceived and directed by Moises Kaufman.

The Directors Company
New York, NY
$18,000
To support the Harold Prince Musical Theatre Program. Under the guidance of Master Director Harold Prince the program provides artists with the artistic, production and administrative support needed to develop their new musicals.

Theatreworks/USA Corporation
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the New Works Development Program. Two works in progress will be developed through a seven-stage process culminating in full productions and national tours.

Trinity Repertory Company
Providence, RI
$50,000
To support the world premiere of a new musical. Trinity Repertory Company will produce The Long Christmas Ride Home by Paula Vogel.

Village Theatre
Issaquah, WA
$10,000
To support a musical theater development program. Five staged readings and five table readings of new musical works will take place in Village Theatre's development program, Village Originals.

Vineyard Theatre &Workshop Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the development, lab production and full production of a new musical theater piece. The Miracle Brothers, by Kirsten Childs, is the first commission of the Kitty Carlisle Hart Music Theatre Lab of Vineyard Theatre.

Willows Theatre Company/The Benefactors
Concord, CA
$30,000
To support the commission, development and production of a large-scale outdoor musical. The musical Sacagawea will explore the voyage of discovery of the Lewis &Clark expedition and the relationship between William Clark and the young Indian guide, Sacagawea.

OPERA

Austin Lyric Opera
Austin, TX
$25,000
To support the southwestern premiere of Dead Man Walking by Jake Heggie with libretto by Terrence McNally. Performances will be held in Bass Concert Hall on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin in January 2003.

Boston Early Music Festival &Exhibition, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
$20,000
To support the 12th biennial festival featuring the baroque opera Die schoene und getreue Ariadne by Johann Georg Conradi. This will be the first production of the opera since 1691.

Central City Opera House Association
Denver, CO
$20,000
To support a new production of Goyescas by Enrique Granados to be sung in Spanish. This work has rarely been performed in the United States since its American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera in 1916.

Chicago Opera Theater
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support a double-bill production featuring Hans Krasa's Brundibar and Bohuslav Martinu's Comedy on the Bridge. In 2003, five performances of the operas will be given with a variety of outreach events that will focus on the historical and musical aspects of each opera.

Dallas Opera
Dallas, TX
$35,000
To support a production of Pique Dame by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Four performances of Richard Jones' 2000 Barclay Stage Award-winning production will be given at the Music Hall at Fair Park in 2003, reaching an estimated audience of 21,000.

Glimmerglass Opera, Inc.
Cooperstown, NY
$50,000
To support a new production of Good Soldier Schweik by Robert Kurka and Lewis Allan. The opera will be given nine performances during the summer of 2003.

Kentucky Opera Association
Louisville, KY
$22,500
To support a new production of Don Pasquale by Gaetano Donizetti. As a centerpiece of the 50th anniversary season, two performances will be given at the Kentucky Center for the Arts' Whitney Hall with a final dress rehearsal targeted for students.

Lyric Opera Center for American Artists
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support faculty costs for the singer training and professional development program. The multidisciplinary curriculum includes language, theatrical and voice instruction as well as master classes and career development guidance.

Lyric Opera of Chicago
Chicago, IL
$100,000
To support a new production of Benvenuto Cellini by Hector Berlioz. Ten performances of the opera at the Civic Opera House's Aardis Krainik Theatre will reach an estimated audience of 35,000 in 2003.

Madison Opera, Inc.
Madison, WI
$10,000
To support a consortium with Opera Pacific for a new production of Il Barbiere di Siviglia by Gioacchino Rossini. In 2003, performances will be held at the Oscar Mayer Theatre which is being expanded to an 850-seat house.

Minnesota Opera Company
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
To support the North American premiere of the Handmaid's Tale by Danish composer Paul Ruder. Five performances of the opera at the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts are expected to reach an audience of more than 9,200.

New Orleans Opera Association
New Orleans, LA
$10,000
To support the commissiong and production of The Baroness by Thea Musgrave. This historical opera, based on the life of the Baroness Micaela Almonaster Pontalba of New Orleans, will be the centerpiece for the celebration of the Louisiana Purchase Bicentennial.

New York City Opera, Inc.
New York, NY
$75,000
To support a new production of The Rape of Lucretia by Benjamin Britten. Four performances of the opera will be held at Lincoln Center's New York State Theater.

Opera Carolina
Charlotte, NC
$10,000
To support a production of Cold Sassy Tree by Carlisle Floyd. Three performances of this east coast premiere will be given at the Blumenthal Performing Arts Center and are expected to reach an audience of 4,200.

Orlando Opera Company, Inc.
Orlando, FL
$10,000
To support the expansion of the Resident Artist Program. During a nine-month residency, eight singing-actors will be given stylistic training in the zarzuela, launching a new artistic initiative targeted to reach the Hispanic population

OTSL (Opera Theatre of Saint Louis)
St. Louis, MO
$70,000
To support a new production of Nixon in China by John Adams with libretto by Alice Goodman. Six performances at Webster University's Loretto-Hilton Center are expected to draw an audience of 5,700.

Pittsburgh Opera, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
$10,000
To support the regional premieres of A Midsummer Night's Dream by Benjamin Britten and The Three Penny Opera by Kurt Weill. Four performances of A Midsummer Night's Dream will take place at the Byham Theatre; two performances of The Three Penny Opera will be performed at the Brew House.

Portland Opera Association Inc.
Portland, OR
$20,000
To support the west-coast premiere of A View from the Bridge by William Bolcom. Adapted from the play by Arthur Miller, the opera's libretto is by Mr. Miller and Arnold Weinstein.

San Diego Opera Association
San Diego, CA
$25,000
To support production costs for Therese Raquin by Tobias Picker. Four performances at the San Diego Civic Theatre are expected to reach an audience of more than 9,300 with an additional 2,500 high-school students attending a student dress rehearsal.

San Francisco Opera Association
San Francisco, CA
$50,000
To support a production of Virgil Thomson's The Mother of Us All, with libretto by Gertrude Stein. Six performances at the War Memorial Opera House in 2003 are expected to reach an audience of more than 17,500.

Santa Fe Opera
Santa Fe, NM
$75,000
To support the world premiere of Madame Mao by Bright Sheng with libretto by Colin Graham. Four performances at the Santa Fe Opera House in 2003 will reach an estimated audience of 10,000.

Sarasota Opera Association, Inc.
Sarasota, FL
$20,000
To support the commissioning of a children's opera by John Kennedy. Designed for the company's Youth Opera Program, all roles in this opera will be sung by children.

Seattle Opera
Seattle, WA
$50,000
To support a new production of Mourning Becomes Electra by Marvin David Levy. Eight mainstage performances in Marion Oliver McCaw Hall, related community and education events, and live radio broadcasts are expected to reach an audience of more than 58,000.

Skylight Opera Theatre Corp.
Milwaukee, WI
$12,500
To support workshops of the opera Midnight Angel by David Carlson. Two two-day workshops with orchestral reduction by Ronald Foster will be held in 2003.

The Met (Metropolitan Opera Association, Inc.)
New York, NY
$100,000
To support a new production of Les Troyens by Hector Berlioz. In 2003, nine performances of this opera will celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of the composer.

Tulsa Opera, Inc.
Tulsa, OK
$25,000
To support production costs for I Capuleti e i Montecchi by Vincenzo Bellini. Three performances in Chapman Music Hall of the Tulsa Performing Arts Center are expected to reach a capacity audience of 7,100.

Utah Opera Company
Salt Lake City, UT
$25,000
To support a new production of Cold Sassy Tree by Carlisle Floyd. Five performances at the Capitol Theatre in Salt Lake City are expected to reach an audience of 9,500 from the Wasatch Front and neighboring states.

PRESENTING

651 ARTS (Kings Majestic Corporation)
Brooklyn, NY
$42,000
To support U.S. and international artists of African descent by providing creative residency and performance opportunities. 651 ARTS will create a stepping stone for artists whose work would not be showcased in other venues, so that they may reach new audiences and receive professional exposure.

Aaron Davis Hall, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
To support commissioning and programmatic activities for the development and presentation of works by artists of color. Support for major productions will include developmental residencies, as well as educational outreach programs with community groups.

Anchorage Concert Association, Inc.
Anchorage, AK
$15,000
To support a six-day dance and music residency. This residency of Pilobolus and the St. Lawrence String Quartet will include performances, pre- and post-performance discussions, master classes and school-based activities.

Brooklyn Academy of Music, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$50,000
To support New Discoveries and Strategic Alliances, as part of the annual spring season and the Next Wave Festival. New Discoveries focuses on cutting-edge New York or U.S. debuts and Strategic Alliances features new work by artists with whom the Brooklyn Academy has continuing relationships.

Central Park Summers (City Parks Foundation)
New York, NY
$15,000
To support New Works/New Voices for Central Park SummerStage. This project will be a continuation of annual efforts to present new cross-disciplinary work or debut presentations by emerging, regional and international artists.

Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH
$25,000
To support To Bridge, a series of commissions, performances and educational residencies. To Bridge productions will feature artists able to communicate across generations and approach new work from a multidisciplinary perspective.

Dixon Place (Open Channels NY, Inc.)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support Mondo Cane!, a commissioning program for theater and dance artists. Open Channels will provide developmental residencies and financial support for a production of a finished piece or a work-in-progress.

Flynn Center for the Performing Arts, Ltd.
Burlington, VT
$55,000
To support the China Project, commissions of new interdisciplinary work and presentations of international dance companies. Part of a 40-event season, this project will include activities for local school enrichment, audience education and professional development.

Jump-Start Performance Company
San Antonio, TX
$10,000
To support the fourth Festival de Libre Enganche, a three-week exploration of the diversity and commonalities of Latin American experience. Jump-Start will present theater, dance, music, video and visual arts, along with workshops for artists and community members.

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc.
New York, NY
$100,000
To support performances and related activities of the three-week Lincoln Center Festival 2003. Totaling approximately 120 performances, the festival will feature traditional, contemporary, national and international multidisciplinary works, as well as symposia.

Miami-Dade Community College
Miami, FL
$30,000
To support the Cultura del Lobo performance series. In addition to presentations of challenging, culturally-specific works throughout Miami, the series will extend participating artists' involvement with the community.

Museum of Contemporary Art
Chicago, IL
$33,000
To support a series of large-scale performance projects based on interdisciplinary and collaborative practice. In its fifth season of performing arts programming, the museum will produce, co-commission or provide developmental residencies for new works.

National Black Arts Festival
Atlanta, GA
$30,000
To support major performance projects at the summer National Black Arts Festival 2003, which will focus on the next generation. Presentations of hip-hop, new performance pieces and intergenerational work will be supplemented by educational activities that place works in their cultural context.

New Haven International Festival of Arts & Ideas, Inc.
New Haven, CT
$25,000
To support the development of new works as part of the festival in 2003. To foster contemporary culture and community interaction, the Festival will sponsor presentations that relate to communities in New Haven.

On the Boards
Seattle, WA
$15,000
To support the New Performance Series and the Northwest New Works Festival. The New Performances Series will include challenging new works by artists; the Northwest New Works Festival is an annual juried showcase of new works by regional artists.

Ordway Center for the Performing Arts
St. Paul, MN
$20,000
To support the third annual Flint Hills International Children's Festival. Over four school days and one weekend, the Festival will showcase American and international events suitable for children, ages four to 14, and their families.

Painted Bride Art Center
Philadelphia, PA
$25,000
To support multidisciplinary projects that examine the artist as an interpreter of other peoples' stories. Dance, theater and music events, as well as a panel discussion and magazine publication, will explore or exemplify work inspired by personal testimony.

Philadelphia Fringe Festival
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
To support the Spotlight and juried shows at the seventh annual Philadelphia Fringe Festival. Over 16 days, the Festival will provide a high profile outlet for cutting-edge performance and developmental opportunities for artists.

Portland Taiko
Portland, OR
$10,000
To support ArtExplosion 2003, a showcase for Portland's Asian-American performing artists. In addition to supporting two days of performances, ArtExplosion 2003 will commission new multidisciplinary and collaborative works.

Regents of the University of California at Davis
(on behalf of Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts)
$30,000
To support the New Works/Contemporary Artists project. To build audiences for contemporary work in the region, this project will present productions in conjunction with the opening of the Mondavi Center for the Performing Arts.

University Musical Society
Ann Arbor, MI
$40,000
To support expansion of the African American Stories series. Projects will be presented in conjunction with residency activities that engage artists with school and community groups in both Ann Arbor and Detroit.

University of Kansas Center for Research, Inc.
Lawrence, KS
$15,000
To support major performance projects during the 10th anniversary season of the Lied Center. In addition to the productions, the Lied Center will enhance community residency activities and expand the mentoring program.

Walker Art Center, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$65,000
To support The Art of Process: Creation in Community, designed to seek input in the development of large-scale work. As part of a four-year initiative, the Walker will commission artists to create works that engage communities and audiences in dialogues about culture, politics, history, race and global equity.

Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts
Vienna, VA
$20,000
To support commissioning and artist fees for STREB and Dayton Contemporary Dance Company. The ensembles will perform as part of Face America 2003, a series celebrating America's National Parks.

World Music Institute, Inc.
New York, NY
$38,000
To support concerts and lecture/demonstrations that illustrate African influences on contemporary music and dance in the Americas. To demonstrate the interplay among forms, traditional music from the Caribbean, South America and Mexico will be showcased with genres such as jazz and funk.

Washington Performing Arts Society
Washington, DC
$40,000
To support ArteAmerica, a series of performances, residencies and radio programs that celebrate Latino culture. In a consortium with GALA Hispanic Theatre and the Latin American Youth Center, these will be sponsored events in venues throughout Washington and on radio.

THEATER

15 HEAD, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$8,000
To support the development and creation of a design-based theatrical work. Sacred Space will be developed using 15 Head's unique, cross-disciplinary, collaborative rehearsal process.

A Contemporary Theatre, Inc.
Seattle, WA
$18,000
To support the world premiere production of a new play by Craig Lucas. Set in Freud's Vienna in 1938, The Singing Forest, traces the intertwining lives of several psychiatrists, psychoanalysts and their extended families.

About Face Theatre Collective
Chicago, IL
$7,000
To support the world premiere production of Fascination/Borderland by playwright and novelist Jim Grimsley. This project will consist of the fusion of the two plays: Fascination, about society's obsession with serial murder, and The Borderland, which looks at domestic violence.

About Productions
Los Angeles, CA
$8,000
To support continued development and performances of By the Hand of the Father. This interdisciplinary theater work combines spoken word, music and video in a non-linear format to dramatize the distinct 20th century journey of the Mexican-American father.

ACTCo (African Continuum Theatre Coalition, Inc.)
Washington, DC
$15,000
To support the presentation of a new theater work. Wedding Dance by playwright Dominic Taylor will be presented as part of the Project Guidestar Residency Program.

Actors Theatre Of Louisville, Inc.
Louisville, KY
$45,000
To support the 27th annual Humana Festival of New American Plays. Artistic Director Marc Masterson will program this annual signature event and provide artistic oversight.

Adobe Theatre Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$7,000
To support the rehearsal and presentation of A Fish Story. The production is the result of three years of readings and workshops sponsored by Adobe.

Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Inc.
Montgomery, AL
$30,000
To support the production of a new play. The Venus de Milo is Armed by Kia Corthron will be presented as part of the Southern Writers' Project.

American Conservatory Theater Foundation
San Francisco, CA
$38,000
To support the world premiere production of a new play by Chay Yew. Night for Day will be the first piece to emerge from a series of commissions of Asian American artists intended to extend the theater's reach into the Bay Area's Asian-American community.

Apple Tree Theatre (Eileen Boevers Performing Arts Workshop)
Highland Park, IL
$15,000
To support a co-production of Nilo Cruz's Two Sisters and a Piano. Directed by Henry Godinez, the play tells the story of two sisters under house arrest in Cuba and their struggle to live life fully.

Arden Theatre Company
Philadelphia, PA
$27,000
To support the Independence Foundation New Play Showcase. The program will include the world premiere production of Tooth and Claw by Michael Hollinger, and staged readings of three additional new plays.

Arena Stage
Washington, DC
$25,000
To support the development and production of An American Daughter by Wendy Wasserstein. The production will be directed by Artistic Director Molly Smith. Set in Washington, D.C., the play comments on the intersection of political and private life in a bold manner.

Arts International, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
To support the presentation of works from the International Hispanic Theatre Festival in New York City. The Festival will include performances by theater companies from Spain and Latin America, as well as a comprehensive educational program.

Barter Theatre
Abingdon, VA
$15,000
To support the development and production of a new theater work. Keep on The Sunny Side, by writer Douglas Pote, will feature the story and songs of the Carter Family.

Berkeley Repertory Theatre
Berkeley, CA
$60,000
To support the production of a new theater work. The Continental Divide by David Edgar is a pair of new plays about the contradictions in the U.S. politics of the late 20th century.

BAPA (Bethesda Academy of Performing Arts)
Bethesda, MD
$10,000
To support the development and production of a new theater work about King Arthur, focusing on adoption. British playwright Charles Way will be commissioned to write King Arthur, a work targeted to young audiences.

Black Ensemble Theater Corporation
Chicago, IL
$25,000
To support a tour of The Jackie Wilson Story by the company's new touring ensemble. Developed by Artistic Director Jackie Taylor, the piece depicts the successes and tragedies in the life of musical legend Jackie Wilson.

Brava! for Women in the Arts
San Francisco, CA
$14,000
To support a large-scale outdoor collaborative theatrical production. Using traditional and experimental forms, Entre Vivos y Muertos, entre La Tierra y el Cielo will be created for the annual Day of the Dead activities in San Francisco's Mission District.

Brown University
Providence, RI
$16,000
To support the commission, development and workshop of a new play. Playwright Richard Wesley will write a new play entitled Big Ideas that examines the black middle-class in the post-Civil Rights era.

Carpetbag Theatre, Inc.
Knoxville, TN
$8,000
To support the development of a new work entitled Six Ensemble Actors in Search of Their Story. Combining live actors, digital images, narrative and documentation collected during the creative process, the piece will reveal the art of ensemble development as the work is performed.

Center Stage Associates, Inc.
Baltimore, MD
$42,000
To support a production of Friedrich Schiller's Mary Stuart directed by Artistic Director Irene Lewis. This reinvestigation of Schiller's 1799 work will be offered as part of the 2002-03 subscription season.

Chicago Dramatists
Chicago, IL
$7,000
To support the development and production of a full-length play. Chicago Dramatists will present Only the Sound by resident playwright Jenny Laird, a participant in the play development program.

Child's Play Touring Theatre
Chicago, IL
$12,000
To support the development of a new program called Writing Our World (WOW!). Using stories and poems written by children and collected by Child's Play's global writing exchange, the WOW! Show will be presented to young audiences around the country.

Children's Theatre Company and School
Minneapolis, MN
$50,000
To support a play development laboratory entitled Threshold 2003. Funding will support a mainstage production of Korczak's Children by Jeffrey Hatcher and the development costs of Kia Corthron's play Snapshot, Silhouette.

Childsplay, Inc.
Tempe, AZ
$25,000
To support an artistic collaboration between playwright Barry Kornhauser and director Eric Johnson. Together they will collaborate on a new work that explores the power and possibilities of myth in the lives of today's young people.

Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park
Cincinnati, OH
$25,000
To support a production of the winner of the 2002-2003 Rosenthal New Play Prize. The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Carson Kreitzer will receive developmental workshops and readings in preparation for a full production.

Cleveland Public Theatre, Inc.
Cleveland, OH
$20,000
To support the research and development of The Great Divide (working title). The middle phase of this three-year project will include the formation of the artistic team.

Clubbed Thumb, Inc.
New York, NY
$7,000
To support Summerworks 2003. The eighth annual new works festival will include three fully produced works and four play readings.

Coconut Grove Playhouse State Theatre of Theatre of Florida
Miami, FL
$20,000
To support the production of Blue and Once Removed. These works by Charles Randolph-Wright and Eduardo Machado feature African-American and Hispanic themes.

Contemporary American Theater Festival
Shepherdstown, WV
$15,000
To support the development and production of a new theater work. Volunteers by playwright Craig Wright will be presented in the summer of 2003.

Cornerstone Theater Company
Los Angeles, CA
$50,000
To support the Black AIDS: Black Faith Project. A collaboration with African-American clergy and African-Americans affected by HIV/AIDS will result in the creation and production of a new play.

Coterie, Inc.
Kansas City, MO
$20,000
To support the development and presentation of a new play and the creation, development and production of a second new work. Everyday Heroes will be presented in the fall of 2003, and a second commissioned play will be presented in the spring of 2004.

Court Theatre Fund
Chicago, IL
$15,000
To support professional development for artists. The Resident Artists and Resident Apprentices programs include mentoring, workshops, residencies in schools and teacher training.

Cuarzo Blanco, Inc.
San Juan, PR
$10,000
To support the production of El Nuevo Macbeth, a new version of Shakespeare's classic tragedy. This Spanish-language production will include text, dance and incidental live music.

Dallas Children's Theater, Inc.
Dallas, TX
$15,000
To support the development and world premiere production of Coyote Stories. Creators Linda Daugherty and Denise Chavez will explore a collection of Hispanic stories and folk characters using the coyote, or trickster, to take a dynamic look into Hispanic culture.

Dallas Theater Center
Dallas, TX
$20,000
To support the Big D Festival of the Unexpected, a two-week festival of new works. Activities in the festival will include workshops, full productions and staged readings of new works, as well as music, visual arts and youth programs.

Dell'Arte, Inc.
Blue Lake, CA
$20,000
To support the national tour of two original theater works and residencies comprised of workshops and community activities. Dell'Arte Company will present Second Skin and Pirates to audiences in major urban areas, rural community centers, universities and to other ensemble-based theaters.

Detroit Repertory Company (Millan Theatre Company)
Detroit, MI
$10,000
To support a production and special marketing initiatives for a play about racism, compassion and brotherhood. John Henry Redwood's No Niggers, No Jews, No Dogs will be directed by Ed Smith.

District of Columbia Jewish Community Center Inc.
Washington, DC
$10,000
To support the development and production of a new play through the Voices from a Changing Israel series. The series, offering plays chronicling life in the Middle East, will feature the presentation of In the Dark by Motti Lerner during the 2003 season.

Double Edge Theatre Productions, Inc.
Ashfield, MA
$10,000
To support the development and presentation of a new theater work. The UnPossessed, an ensemble-created theater work, will be directed by Artistic Director Stacy Klein.

Drama League of New York, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the Drama League Directors Project. The Directors Project is a national apprenticeship for young directors that will provide opportunities for new directors to work with professionals in off Broadway or regional theaters.

El Centro Su Teatro
Denver, CO
$25,000
To support the Touring Teatro Encuentro project. Su Teatro, Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center and Xicanindio Artes will conduct workshop productions of El Sol Que Tu Eres/The Sun That You Are, by Anthony Garcia, in four cities.

Encore Theatre Company
San Francisco, CA
$7,000
To support the commission, workshop and production of a new play by Adam Bock. The work, tentatively titled Thursday, will make use of an associative narrative structure to explore the question: How do repeated images create story?

Ensemble Studio Theatre
New York, NY
$12,000
To support an annual writers residency. The Next Step Fellowship program includes a weeklong retreat for five emerging writers, followed by public readings of their new full-length plays.

East-West Players
Los Angeles, CA
$35,000
To support the theater's comprehensive education program. Scholarships and membership subsidies will be provided on a competitive basis to make the programs more accessible to emerging artists from underrepresented Asian-Pacific communities.

Famous Door
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support productions of The Cider House Rules: Parts I and II. These two epic plays will be performed by an ensemble company sequentially and then in rotating repertory at Chicago's Victory Gardens Theater.

Flying Machine Theater, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$7,000
To support the development and production of a new theater work. Utopians is an ensemble-created theater work.

Foothill Theatre Company
Nevada City, CA
$8,000
To support the premiere production of P.J. Barry's Bad Axe. The theater previously presented a staged reading of the work as a part of their New Voices of the Wild West series.

Foundry Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$12,000
To support the commission, research, development and workshop of Fifth Exotic, a new play by Ralph Pena. The project will include a research and documentation phase in Los Angeles, a second draft closed reading of the script, and a two-week workshop of the play's third draft.

Geva Theatre, Inc.
Rochester, NY
$25,000
To support the development and production of a world premiere work by Jose Cruz Gonzalez. September Shoes will be directed by Michael John Garces.

GOH Productions (Seven Loaves, Inc.)
New York, NY
$8,000
To support the development and production of a new theater work. The Life and Times of Lee Harvey Oswald will be written and directed by Artistic Director Vit Horejs.

Goodman Theatre
Chicago, IL
$60,000
To support the world premiere production of a new play by August Wilson, directed by Marion McClinton. Gem of the Ocean is the next play in Wilson's ambitious project chronicling each decade of the 20th century.

Great Small Works, Inc.
New York, NY
$7,000
To support performances of the Sixth Toy Theater Festival and A Mammal's Notebook: The Erik Satie Cabaret. The three-week festival will include a Temporary Toy Theater Museum, family programs, a symposium and public workshops at the HERE Art Center.

Group I Acting Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
To support the premiere production, touring and educational programming related to American Dreams: Lost and Found. Adapted by Richard Corley from the book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Studs Terkel, American Dreams will be the third production in the company's American Century Project.

Guthrie Theater Foundation
Minneapolis, MN
$45,000
To support the Midwest regional premiere of Wintertime by Charles L. Mee. Associate Artistic Director John Miller-Stephany will direct the piece as part of the Guthrie Lab season.

Hartford Stage Company, Inc.
Hartford, CT
$40,000
To support the production of a new adaptation of Sophocles' Electra. Directed by TCG Resident Director Jonathan Wilson, the production will incorporate a multi-ethnic cast, complementary public programs and many educational events.

Heart of the Beast Theatre, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$25,000
To support the creation, development and production of a new play. Queen Nanny, Queen Nanny by playwright Ben Kreilkamp and company artist/director Elisha Whittington will include original music by Jamaican composer Devon Evans.

HERE (Home for Contemporary Theatre and Art, Ltd)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the HERE Artist Residency Program (HARP), a professional development program for mid career artists and collaborative artist teams. HARP serves artists through workshops, panel discussions, productions and career development services.

History Theatre, Inc.
St. Paul, MN
$8,000
To support the commissioning and production of a stage adaptation of Sinclair Lewis' Pultizer Prize winning novel Main Street. Nationally recognized playwright Craig Wright will continue his relationship with the theater through his work on this production.

Historyonics Theatre Company
St. Louis, MO
$8,000
To support the creation of a play about the life of Arthur Ashe. Using only actual words from history, those words spoken by or about Ashe, playwright Caitlin McQuade will craft the script for Controlled Cool: The Arthur Ashe Story.

Honolulu Theatre for Youth
Honolulu, HI
$23,000
To support the production of a play. Y. York's Garden of Rikki Tikki Tavi will be directed by Artistic Director by Mark Lutwak and presented to Oahu children and families in the spring of 2003.

Horizon Theatre Company
Atlanta, GA
$12,000
To support PlayWorks, the new play development activities associated with the New South for the New Century Play Festival. The PlayWorks program will feature developmental workshops for playwrights culminating in public staged readings.

Huntington Theatre Company, Inc.
Boston, MA
$35,000
To support the professional premiere of a new work developed by Darko Tresnjak. The Blue Demon is based on fables and folk tales from Jewish, Christian and Muslim traditions.

Idris Ackamoor & Cultural Odyssey
San Francisco, CA
$23,000
To support the First Contact II initiative. The program will offer career development services for young emerging performance artists and the presentation of two weekends of performances.

Imago, The Theatre Mask Ensemble
Portland, OR
$12,000
To support the creation and production of a new original work. Squid will be developed by a team of performers, designers, fabricators and musicians in an experimental laboratory.

Indiana Repertory Theatre, Inc.
Indianapolis, IN
$45,000
To support the commissioning, research, development and initial workshops of a new play. In partnership with Conner Prairie, a living history museum, the theater will commission playwright James Still to explore the life of 19th century Indiana frontiersman William Conner.

INTAR (International Arts Relations, Inc.)
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the production of a new play. Under the Mango Tree, by Carmen Rivera, will be produced on INTAR's mainstage theater in 2003.

Intersection for the Arts (on behalf of Campo Santo)
San Francisco, CA
$7,000
To support the development and production of a new play. True Cross is the third play in a triptych written specifically for Campo Santo by writer Denis Johnson.

Intiman Theatre
Seattle, WA
$30,000
To support the production of a play by William Shakespeare. Artistic Director Bartlett Sher will direct a production of Twelfth Night, a high Shakespearean comedy.

Irondale Ensemble Project
Brooklyn, NY
$12,000
To support the development and production of a new theater piece. The History of Public Education, an ensemble-created piece directed by Artistic Director Jim Nelson, will be presented in 2003.

Kitchen Dog Theater Company
Dallas, TX
$10,000
To support the New Works Festival and the Playwrights Under Progress (PUP) Fest. The festival will feature the full production of Curanderas! Serpents of the Clouds by Elaine Romero, staged readings of new works and staged readings of new plays by teens.

La Jolla Playhouse
La Jolla, CA
$35,000
To support the commission, development and production of a new adaptation of William Wycherly's The Country Wife. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Paula Vogel will create a unique contemporary stage adaptation of the classic Restoration drama.

La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
To support production of a new adaptation of Antigone by Ellen Stewart with original music by Elizabeth Swados. The piece will be directed by Stewart and performed by the Great Jones Repertory Company, La MaMa's permanent resident acting and production company.

Long Wharf Theatre
New Haven, CT
$35,000
To support the production of a play. Mourning Becomes Electra by Eugene O'Neill will be directed by Artistic Director Gordon Edelstein and presented in the fall of 2002.

Lookingglass Theatre Company
Chicago, IL
$22,000
To support the world premiere production of Studs Terkel's Race: How Blacks and Whites Think and Feel about the American Obsession. Created by Lookingglass ensemble members David Schwimmer and Joy Gregory, the adaptation will feature the company's unique blend of drama, music and movement.

Ma-Yi Filipino Theatre Ensemble, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the development, workshop and production of three original commissioned works by emerging Asian American writers. Ma Yi Theatre will produce How To Be A Good Son by Julia Cho, Whorled by Edward Bok Lee and Infinitude by Sung Rno.

Magic Theatre, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$16,000
To support the development and production of a new work. Zacharia Mosley's Neon Blues, by Neena Beber, will be presented in the spring of 2003.

Manhattan Theatre Club, Inc.
New York, NY
$42,000
To support the development of new plays and musicals. The Play and Musical Development Program is a comprehensive program intended to serve artists at all stages of their careers.

Margolis Brown Theater Company (Adaptors, Inc.)
Minneapolis, MN
$12,000
To support continued development, set redesign and presentation of American Safari. The project is an original work developed by company co-founders Kari Margolis and Tony Brown.

Mark Taper Forum
Los Angeles, CA
$55,000
To support the world premiere of a full-length play written and performed by Culture Clash. The Mark Taper Forum will present Chavez Ravine, a play about a Los Angeles family and the impact of city politics on its destiny.

MCC Theater (Manhattan Class Company, Inc.)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the New York premiere production of Kate Robin's play Intrigue with Faye. This multimedia production will combine live action, recorded video and live videotaping and playback.

McCarter Theatre Company
Princeton, NJ
$50,000
To support a production of a play by Anton Chekhov. Artistic Director Emily Mann will adapt and direct Uncle Vanya as the fifth play of the 2002-03 Mainstage Theater Series.

Mettawee Theatre Company
Salem, NY
$17,000
To support the development, production and touring performances of an original outdoor play. Artistic Director Ralph Lee will direct and design the work based on wisdom tales of the ancient Near East, incorporating masks and puppets with an original score.

Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Inc.
Milwaukee, WI
$25,000
To support a production of Helen Edmonson's adaptation of Mill on the Floss. The theater will expand the adaptation with a larger cast, more extensive creative elements and an original score.

Missouri Repertory Theatre, Inc.
Kansas City, MO
$15,000
To support the first major Midwest production of Indian Ink by Tom Stoppard. Artistic Director of Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Risa Brainin, will direct.

Mixed Blood Theatre Company
Minneapolis, MN
$18,000
To support the commission and production of original works by Minnesota and Michigan immigrant playwrights. The project is part of the company's New America initiative.

Nashville Children's Theatre
Nashville, TN
$12,000
To support the production of two plays through the New Horizons Initiative. A Bridge to Terabithia, by Katherine Paterson, and Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse, by Kevin Kling, will be directed by Artistic Director Scot Copland and presented in the spring of 2003.

National Circus Center
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
To support the creation, production and touring of an original circus piece. The New Pickle Circus, the professional performing company of Circus Center, will create and perform a new holiday show.

Nevada Shakespeare Company
Reno, NV
$8,000
To support the development and production of a new play. Based on Amigas: Letters of Friendship and Exile by Emma Sepulveda and Marjorie Agosin, an adaptation by Artistic Director Jeanmarie Simpson and associate artist L. Martina Young will be presented in the summer of 2003.

New 42nd Street, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the presentation of three theater productions. The New Victory Theater will present Twinkle Twinkle Little Fish, Snow White and A Midsummer Night's Dream.

New Dramatists, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the expansion of the new playwright development process. The program will increase actor and director compensation, along with a portion of artistic staff salaries and program expenses.

New Harmony Project, Inc.
Indianapolis, IN
$12,000
To support the development of new works for the theater. The New Harmony Project will host an 18 day conference for playwrights to develop new scripts through workshops, readings and rehearsals.

New York Theatre Workshop, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the world premiere production of Kate Moria Ryan's Cavedweller, adapted for the stage from the novel by Dorothy Allison. Developed at the theater through readings, workshops and residencies, the play will be directed by Michael Grief.

Northlight Theatre
Skokie, IL
$15,000
To support further script development and the world premiere production of a new play by Jenny Laird. Sky Girls will be directed by Artistic Director B.J. Jones.

Northwest Puppet Center (Carter Family Puppet Theater)
Seattle, WA
$12,000
To support the creation of The Sneeze of Hercules. Based on an Italian comedy last performed in the 18th century, the work will incorporate marionettes, masked actors, live music and opera singers.

O'Neill Center
Waterford, CT
$40,000
To support the O'Neill Playwrights Conference and the O'Neill Music Theater Conference. These annual events offer playwrights, composers and librettists opportunities to develop new work.

Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park, Inc.
Edmond, OK
$8,000
To support the production of two Shakespearean plays. During the summer of 2003, Oklahoma Shakespeare in the Park will produce As You Like It and Othello.

Ontological-Hysteric Theater, Inc.
New York, NY
$32,000
To support the development and production of a new play. Maestro!, by Artistic Director Richard Foreman, will be produced at the Ontological-Hysteric Theater in St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery.

Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association
Ashland, OR
$55,000
To support two concurrent world premiere productions. Daughters of the Revolution and Mothers Against, by Tony Award-winning British playwright David Edgar, will be directed by Tony Taccone of Berkeley Repertory Theatre.

Pangea World Theater
Minneapolis, MN
$7,000
To support the creation, development and staged readings of up to four new plays through the Voices of Exile Series. The company will commission up to four local writers from the Hmong community to create a new play about the immigrant experience.

Paper Bag Players
New York, NY
$20,000
To support a multi-state tour of a new theater work for children. The company will tour a one-hour show for children developed and produced by Artistic Director Judith Martin.

Penumbra Theatre Company, Inc.
St. Paul, MN
$30,000
To support the regional premiere of a play by August Wilson. As part of its 25th anniversary season, Penumbra Theatre will produce and present King Hedley II.

People's Light & Theatre Company
Malvern, PA
$42,000
To support the second workshop and production of a new play by playwright Lillian Groag. Ms. Groag will be in residence at People's Light & Theatre Company to develop the script and direct the production of Midon.

Perseverance Theatre, Inc.
Douglas, AK
$30,000
To support SPRING, an annual festival of emergent theatrical works. The project will include world premiere productions of plays by Kevin Kuhlke and Bridget Carpenter, and development of a work by Chay Yew.

Philadelphia Theatre Company
Philadelphia, PA
$12,000
To support a production of August Wilson's King Hedley II, directed by Seret Scott. The theater will reengage the design team from its past production of Wilson's Seven Guitars for this project.

Pig Iron Theatre Company
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
To support the development and production of a new theater work. The Lucia Joyce Cabaret is an ensemble-created piece directed by company member Deborah Stein.

Ping Chong and Company (Fiji Theater Company, Inc.)
New York, NY
$35,000
To support the development and production of a new multidisciplinary theatrical work. The Africa Project will explore European colonialism in Africa through dance, music, media and theater.

Playwrights Foundation, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$7,000
To support the 26th annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival. The festival is a series of staged readings of new work by vanguard regional and national writers.

Playwrights Horizons, Inc.
New York, NY
$45,000
To support the New Theater Wing Developmental Program. The program is a series of artistic initiatives that supports both emerging and established writers in the development and presentation of new works.

Playwrights' Center, Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$12,000
To support the development and production of three new works through the NewStage Directions initative. The Playwrights' Center and three local theater companies will collaborate to fully develop and produce a new theater work by a Playwrights' Center member.

Portland Center Stage
Portland, OR
$20,000
To support a playwright residency and the development and production of a new play. Itamar Moses will be in residence at Portland Center Stage to develop Outrage, a satire about personal beliefs in contemporary society.

Portland Stage Company
Portland, ME
$25,000
To support the development, staged readings, workshops and production of a new theatrical work. Women And The Sea is comprised of two dramatic pieces that capture the life on the ocean in Maine.

Pregones Touring Puerto Rican Theater Collection, Inc.
Bronx, NY
$30,000
To support the creation of two new original works through the Citystage 2003 project. The Citystage initiative brings the works of Pregones Theater to associate venues in the Bronx, Queens and Manhattan.

Primary Stages Company, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the commissions of three works to debut in the theater's new performance space. Playwrights Mac Wellman, Edwin Sanchez and Julia Jordan will be commissioned and provided with developmental support for their work.

PRTT (Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre Co., Inc.)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the Playwrights Unit. The company will commission up to 14 emerging Latino playwrights to create new works, resulting in staged readings and one full production.

Puppet Co.
Glen Echo, MD
$8,000
To support the creation and production of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. This will be the first repertory piece to premiere in The Puppet Co.'s new facility in Glen Echo Park, Md.

Puppet Showplace, Inc.
Brookline, MA
$8,000
To support two artistic initiatives. The Puppets at Night series will present productions for adults including four bi-monthly PuppetSLAMS, and the Puppets at Dorchester series will bring puppetry to underserved youth.

Redmoon Theater
Chicago, IL
$22,000
To support the creation and presentation of a public outdoor spectacle production. Artistic Director Jim Lasko will collaborate with composer/musician Mark Messing and scenic artist Stephanie Nelson to create a theatrical event entitled Nina.

Research Foundation of State University of New York
(on behalf of Performing Arts Center, Purchase College)
$25,000
To support the presentation of four theater ensembles in the Theater Masterpieces series. The series will present the Abbey Theatre of Dublin, Theatre de la Jeune Lune of Minneapolis, Aquila Theatre Company of London and New York, and 4D Art of Quebec.

Riverside Repertory Theatre
Albuquerque, NM
$15,000
To support a theater festival. The Revolutions International Theatre Festival will bring international and national companies to perform and provide training for students and artists in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Riverside Theatre
Iowa City, IA
$15,000
To support a Shakespeare theater festival. The Riverside Theatre Shakespeare Festival will present A Midsummer Night's Dream and Macbeth in an outdoor theater, as well as offer educational programming.

Round House Theatre
Bethesda, MD
$25,000
To support the East Coast premiere production of When Grace Comes In by Heather McDonald. Associate Artist Jane Beard collaborated with McDonald during the development phases of the script, and will play the principal role in the production.

Salt Lake Acting Company
Salt Lake City, UT
$6,000
To support the development and workshops of a new play by J.T. Rogers. Rogers will develop a script through a workshop process culminating in a free, public reading.

San Diego Repertory Theatre
San Diego, CA
$55,000
To support components of the theater's The Future of the Border/El Futuro de la Frontera project. Playwrights Bernardo Solano and Luis Valdez will work in residency, culminating in the world premiere of Solano's new play Nuestro Pueblo and a workshop of Valdez' Earthquake Sun.

San Jose Repertory Theatre
San Jose, CA
$25,000
To support the final development and world premiere production of a new play by Philip Kan Gotanda. Eric Simonson will direct the premiere of The Wind Cries Mary with Gotanda in residence.

Seattle Children's Theatre Association
Seattle, WA
$35,000
To support the development and production of a new theater work. Go Dog Go, adapted by playwright and director Steven Dietz and writer/choreographer Allison Gregory, will feature music by Michael Koener.

Seattle Repertory Theatre
Seattle, WA
$45,000
To support the production of a classic play. Artistic Director Sharon Ott will direct a production of Mrs. Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw.

Seven Stages, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$20,000
To support the production of a contemporary play. Legendary theater artist Joseph Chaikin will direct Broken Glass by Arthur Miller.

Shakespeare Theatre
Washington, DC
$55,000
To support the production of a classic play. Artistic Director Michael Khan will direct the Washington, D.C. premiere of The Silent Woman by Ben Johnson.

Skysaver Productions, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the creation and production of a theater work adapted from a literary classic. Based on Homer's Odyssey, Theodora Skipitares will create Odyssey, a fusion between a 4,000 year-old form of shadow puppetry, hands-on animation and music.

Soho Repertory Theatre, Inc.
New York, NY
$8,000
To support the development and production of a new play. Artistic Director Daniel Aukin will direct Suitcase by Melissa James Gibson.

South Coast Repertory, Inc.
Costa Mesa, CA
$30,000
To support the world premiere production of Lynn Nottage's Intimate Apparel. This play was originally co-commissioned with Center Stage in Baltimore, and its premiere will be a co-production.

Stage Directors and Choreographers Workshop Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$8,000
To support a three-day directing symposium for the professional development of directors and choreographers. The symposium will focus on methods of creation, collaboration and presentation of new plays in the new millennium.

Studio Arena Theatre
Buffalo, NY
$25,000
To support the creation, development and production of a new theater work. The Mythology of Bowling will be written by Carter Lewis and directed by Artistic Director Gavin Cameron Webb.

Sundance Children's Theatre Inc.
Salt Lake City, UT
$18,000
To support the Sundance Theatre Laboratory, a professional development program for theater artists. The program is dedicated to championing an eclectic and diverse group of artists representing the full breadth of the American theatrical landscape.

Syracuse Stage
Syracuse, NY
$20,000
To support the commission, development and production of a new play. Playwright Tina Howe will write a new play specifically for the Tony Award-winning actress Elizabeth Franz.

Target Margin Theater, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$15,000
To support the development and production of a play adapted from a literary classic. Target Margin Theater will translate and produce for the stage both parts of Goethe's Faust.

Tears of Joy Theatre
Vancouver, WA
$12,000
To support the creation and tour of a play for the puppet stage. Author Eric Kimmel and African American musician storyteller Nyewusi Askari will collaborate with Artistic Director Nancy Aldrich to develop a production entitled The Anansi Stories.

Teatro Avante, Inc.
Coral Gables, FL
$45,000
To support the 18th International Hispanic Theatre Festival. The festival presents multi-lingual theater productions of contemporary and classical works by acclaimed international companies from Latin America, Europe and the United States.

Teatro de la Luna - The Moon Theater
Washington, DC
$12,000
To support the Sixth International Festival of Hispanic Theater. In partnership with Arlington County, the festival will offer Spanish-language theater with interpretation into English, focusing on emerging trends in Latin American theater.

Teatro Nuero
Coral Gables, FL
$12,000
To support the production of a new play. Playwright Michael McKeever has committed to write a new play entitled A Town Like Irving about prejudice and civil liberties in American culture.

Teatro Vision de San Jose
San Jose, CA
$15,000
To support the final development and production of a new play. A Song for Miranda, by Latino playwright Jose Cruz Gonzalez, is a commission in a new works initiative entitled the Codices Project.

The Present Company
New York, NY
$18,000
To support the New York International Fringe Festival. FringeNYC is a celebration of the work of emerging theater companies and performing artists, held annually on the historic Lower East Side of Manhattan.

Theater By The Blind Corporation
New York, NY
$13,000
To support programs for the professional development of blind and visually impaired theater artists. Activities include an elaborate reading service by sighted actors; conversion of scripts to accessible formats including Braille, large print and cassette; and public staged reading opportunities.

Theater for the New City Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$12,000
To support two world-premiere productions by writers in the Emerging Playwrights Program. The Golden Bear by Laurel Hessing and Let the Rhythm Hit'Em by Andre Brown will be developed and produced with the playwrights involved in the rehearsal and production process.

Theater Mu Inc.
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
To support the world premiere production of Falling Flowers, an original theater work developed by Theater Mu and playwright Jeany Park. Jennifer Wear will direct the production for performances at Mixed Blood Theater in Minneapolis.

Theatre de la Jeune Lune
Minneapolis, MN
$28,000
To support the production of a new translation/adaptation of a work by Carlo Goldoni. One of the Last Nights of the Carnival will be collaboratively developed by the theater's ensemble of artists under the direction of Artistic Director Vincent Gracieux.

Theatre for a New Audience, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
To support to production of two plays. The company will present The General from America by playwright and director Richard Nelson, and Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare.

Theatre of Yugen, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the development and presentation of a new theater work. Noh Frankenstein will be adapted by playwright and director Erik Ehn and performed by the company's ensemble members in the Japanese Noh tradition.

TheatreWorks
Palo Alto, CA
$25,000
To support the premiere production of a new play. The Legacy Codes by Cherylene Lee will be produced at TheatreWorks in Palo Alto, Calif.

Unicorn Theatre
Kansas City, MO
$15,000
To support the world premiere of a new play. Loving Lucy, by playwright Phillip blue owl Hooser, is part of a trilogy of works presented by the Unicorn Theater about the challenges faced by female performers.

Unidentified Moving Objects, Inc.
Vashon, WA
$8,000
To support the development and production of a new theater work. Fatal Peril by playwright Adam Rapp will be developed in collaboration with director and ensemble member Ruth Zapora, and will be presented in the fall of 2003.

Unity Theatre Ensemble
Florissant, MO
$7,000
To support the creation, development and presentation of a new play. A Day Late and A Dollar Short will be adapted and directed by Artistic Director Ralph E. Green and will be presented during the spring of 2003.

Victory Gardens Theater
Chicago, IL
$13,000
To support the creation, development and production of a new play. Unspoken Prayers, by Claudia Allen, will be directed by Artistic Director Dennis Zacek.

Western Stage Auxiliary Corporation
Salinas, CA
$13,000
To support the development and production of an adaptation of Victor Villasenor's epic novel Rain of Gold. The theater will adapt the novel and develop the script through readings and presentations in preparation for its full production.

Wilma Theater
Philadelphia, PA
$25,000
To support a production of a play adapted from a classic work. Big Love, by Charles L. Mee, is a modern adaptation of Aeschylus's The Suppliant Women, a Greek tragedy thought by some to be the earliest surviving play of the Western world.

Women's Project & Productions, Inc.
New York, NY
$18,000
To support the professional development activities of women theater artists through the Developmental Theatre Program. Program activities will include the Director's Forum, Playwrights Lab, First Looks rehearsed readings and Work-in-Progress workshops.

Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
Washington, DC
$33,000
To support a production of The Day Room by novelist and playwright Don DeLillo. The play will be directed by Artistic Director Howard Shalwitz and will feature long-time company members who appeared in the theater's 1989 production of the same play.

Wooster Group, Inc.
New York, NY
$32,000
To support the creation and presentation of Poor Theater, a production based on the work of the late Polish director Jerzy Grotowski. Contributors to the project will include Wooster Group members Willem Dafoe, Elizabeth LeCompte, Kate Valk and a circle of project associates.

Young Playwrights Festival
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the Young Playwrights Festival 2003. The annual festival is designed to train young playwrights, serve emerging playwrights with development opportunities and expose audiences to new plays.

Z Space Studio (on behalf of Afro Solo Theatre Co.)
San Francisco, CA
$8,000
To support the commission and production of a new hip-hop theater piece. Danny Hoch will direct Flow, a solo performance piece in the form of hip-hop rhymes with choreography by Robert Moses to be produced by the Afro Solo Company.

Z Space Studio
San Francisco, CA
$13,000
To support the final development and production of a new play. The Jonestown Project, by playwright Leigh Fondakowski, will premiere in conjunction with the 25th anniversary of the 1978 Jonestown tragedy that occurred in Jonestown, Guyana.

VISUAL ARTS

Abington Art Center
Jenkintown, PA
$17,000
To support a comprehensive planning process for the Art Center's sculpture garden. Guided by public art and curatorial consultant Jennifer McGregor, the project is designed to build on past successes of the site.

Advaita Society (Kala Institute)
Berkeley, CA
$13,000
To support the Artist-in-Residence Fellowship Program. Artists will be provided with a stipend and 24 hour access for a six-month period to this 8,500 square-foot facility.

Alternative Museum (TAM)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the Emerging Web Curators Initiative which will assist and promote individuals interested in curating online. The Alternative Museum will provide honoraria for artists and guest curators, technical and/or professional support and online exhibitions.

Arlington County Cultural Affairs Division
Arlington, VA
$20,000
To support a public art project documenting the daily lives of citizens in Arlington County. Using small video cameras mounted on the participants, video will be projected at seven public outdoor sites and streamed live on the web.

Art in General, Inc.
New York, NY
$45,000
To support artist residencies and exhibitions as well as accompanying publications, educational outreach and public programs. The proposed artists will be in residence for periods of two months, with two New York-based artists participating in an international exchange, working in Krakow and Warsaw, Poland.

Art Papers, Inc.
Atlanta, GA
$22,000
To support reviews of contemporary artists' work in the bi-monthly journal Art Papers. The reviews section includes an average of 32 articles by writers, many of whom will be publishing for the first time.

ArtLies
Houston, TX
$13,000
To support the reviews section of ArtLies, a quarterly publication that covers the visual arts in Texas. First published in 1993, ArtLies seeks to expand its news coverage and critical dialogue of the visual arts.

Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts
Omaha, NE
$40,000
To support residencies for artists to create new work. Participating artists will be provided with housing, workspace, technical assistance and a monthly stipend for three- to six-month periods.

Bronx Council on the Arts, Inc. (on behalf of Longwood Arts Gallery)
Bronx, NY
$31,000
To support cyberspace residencies that enable artists to work with advanced computer technology. An exhibition of completed works will be hosted on Longwood's online cyber gallery; public programs and demonstrations will complement the residencies.

California College of Arts and Crafts
Oakland, CA
$35,000
To support artists residencies and other activities on the 20th anniversary of Capp Street Project. Artists such as Ann Veronica Janssens, Mike Kelley and Roni Horn will create new work while in residence; an accompanying catalog, symposium and public programs are planned.

CEPA Gallery (Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Art)
Buffalo, NY
$13,000
To support artist residencies for Art Works!, a community-based program that brings artists to work directly with the community. The month-long residencies are project-based and targeted to specific community concerns and issues.

CITYArts, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the creation of a mural celebrating the history of Latino music in East Harlem. The project, which will be installed on an exterior wall of P.S. 72, is part of the Community Identity neighborhood revitalization program that addresses social issues through the creation of art.

ConjunctionArts (Collaborative Urban Sculpture)
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
To support residencies for artists in collaboration with progressive organizations and businesses existing outside of traditional art contexts. The program will link artists with non-arts organizations to establish creative works that respond to the missions of their partnering organizations.

Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis/ Forum for Contemporary Art
St. Louis, MO
$26,000
To support an exhibition and catalog for Trick of the Eye, featuring the work of the artist Yun Fe Ji. A Chinese-born artist Ji uses traditional materials such as inks, muted pigments, Chinese brushes and handmade mulberry paper to illuminate historic and contemporary concerns.

CPW (Center for Photography at Woodstock, Inc.)
Woodstock, NY
$12,000
To support a residency program for photographers. Artists will be provided with an honorarium, studio and darkroom access, equipment, lodging and meals for a one-month residency.

Creative Growth, Inc.
Oakland, CA
$15,000
To support a publication documenting the work of the artist Donald Mitchell. Mitchell has been producing work since 1976 at Creative Growth, an arts center dedicated to working with artists with physical, mental and developmental disabilities.

CW&TW (Center for Women & Their Work)
Austin, TX
$27,000
To support a series of solo exhibitions targeted to young and emerging women artists of Texas. The exhibitions will be accompanied by catalogs and educational and outreach activities.

En Foco, Inc.
Bronx, NY
$22,000
To support production of three issues of Nueva Luz, a bilingual photographic journal. Each issue will feature the work of emerging photographers of color, an essay by a guest critic, a comprehensive listing of career opportunities and other resources.

Enchanted Highway, Inc.
Regent, ND
$5,000
To support installation costs for a public art piece for The Enchanted Highway, located along a North Dakota highway. Artist Gary Greff will install a large-scale metal sculpture depicting a spider web to complement other works at the site including grasshoppers, pheasants and geese.

Exit Art/The First World, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support The L Factor. The exhibition will examine the culture emerging out of the fusion of Hispanic and Latino influences in contemporary American life.

FORECAST Public Artworks
St. Paul, MN
$18,000
To support the publication Public Art Review, a journal detailing trends and new projects in the public art field. One issue will focus on cross-disciplinary public art projects; another will examine the use of light in public art.

Houston Center for Photography
Houston, TX
$25,000
To support a traveling exhibition and catalog featuring work by artists who specialize in photograms. Artists Joy Gregory and the collaborative team of Francoise and Daniel Cartier will be commissioned to make new work.

International Print Center New York
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the New Prints Program, a series of exhibitions designed to bring printmaking to a wider audience. A selection committee will jury submissions with a particular emphasis on prints from small community based workshops, university and regional presses.

International Sculpture Center, Inc.
Hamilton, NJ
$20,000
To support a series of articles and reviews on emerging and under-recognized artists for Sculpture magazine. Articles solicited will focus on work of current artists, events and public art projects.

Light Work Visual Studies, Inc.
Syracuse, NY
$45,000
To support a residency program for artists and the publication of their work in Contact Sheet - The Light Work Annual. Participating artists' work will also be made available on Light Work's online database, an ever-expanding collection of over 1,900 images, essays, and biographical information.

Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
To support the commission and exhibition of a site-specific public artwork by Maria Elena Gonzalez. Gonzalez will build and install Magic Carpet/Home during a residency by working with members of a public housing complex in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles.

Mexic-Arte
Austin, TX
$17,000
To support a series of exhibitions featuring the work of contemporary Latino artists. The project will include two exhibitions by prominent artists and a series of shows for emerging artists.

Montalvo Association
Saratoga, CA
$12,000
To support the installation of a large outdoor sculpture by Patrick Dougherty. The artist will work with community volunteers during a three-week residency to realize the site-specific work of woven and twisted tree saplings.

Peace for the Streets by Kids from the Streets
Seattle, WA
$25,000
To support the public art project Transitions. Artists Bradley McCallum and Jacqueline Tarry will create a series of street installations addressing issues of homelessness and youth.

PEACH Club/Gallery 312, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support When the Bough Breaks, a large-scale mixed media project by Esther Parada. The project will incorporate digital photography and video to explore the loss of American tree species, issues of racial diversity, new definitions of family and the nature of communities.

Pilchuck Glass School
Seattle, WA
$25,000
To support planning and implementation of a summer artists residency program. Artists will be provided with time, resources, facilities and technical assistance on Pilchuck's campus.

Printed Matter, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support continued development of a web-based catalogue raisonne documenting the history of artists' books. While Printed Matter has been compiling a resource since its inception in 1976, new technologies have presented opportunities to expand the audience for the genre.

Project Row Houses
Houston, TX
$42,000
To support a residency program to commission artist installations in several shotgun-style row houses. Artists will be provided with a commissioning fee, a materials stipend, travel costs and per diem.

Public Art Fund, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support In the Public Realm, a commissioning opportunity for emerging artists to develop art projects in an urban context. The temporary projects will be documented in a series of publications.

Real Art Ways, Inc.
Hartford, CT
$30,000
To support an exhibition series Don't Trust Anyone Over 30, featuring the work of artists age 30 and under. An open call will be issued to artists of that age group living in New York and the New England region, and a jury will select the recipients of solo exhibitions.

Revolving Museum, Inc.
Lowell, MA
$26,000
To support the public art series On Track & Off the Beaten Path. The project will unite artists, local organizations and city leaders in a collaborative effort to transform the underutilized train tracks and alleyways of Lowell's historic district.

Roswell Museum and Art Center Foundation
(on behalf of Roswell Artist in Residence Program)
$16,000
To support one-year residencies for visual artists. Participating artists will be provided with a professionally equipped studio, living accommodations, a monthly stipend and concentrated time to develop their work.

San Francisco Camerawork, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
To support Off the Grid, an exhibition and catalog featuring artists who reexamine or reject standard photographic techniques. An entire issue of Camerawork: A Journal of Photographic Arts will document the exhibition.

Sculpture Center, Inc.
Long Island, NY
$12,000
To support In Practice, an exhibition series for under-recognized sculptors. Artists, selected from an open call by a committee of artists and curators, will be provide with an honorarium and fees for materials so that they can create new work.

Sculpture Space, Inc.
Utica, NY
$15,000
To support an artists' residency program for sculptors. Artists from outside New York state will be given the opportunity to create new work during two-month residencies at a former steam engine and boilerworks plant.

Self-Help Graphics & Art, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$35,000
To support The Life and Death Printmaking Project. The project provides an opportunity for artists to create new work in a collaborative atmosphere with a master printer and to experiment with different techniques in the silkscreen format.

Serie Project, Inc.
Austin, TX
$12,000
To support a serigraph printmaking residency program for artists at all stages in their careers. The apprentices will be trained in printing, marketing, promotion and arts administration.

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Inc.
New York, NY
$11,000
To support a residency program for emerging artists. Artists will be provided with a private studio, full room and board, and weekly private and group critiques by guest artists.

Smack Mellon Studios, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$20,000
To support a program to assist artists in response to New York City's current artist housing/studio crisis. Nine to twelve artists will be selected for residency periods of one year that will include access to studio space, technical assistance and an honorarium.

Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Inc.
Staten Island, NY
$33,000
To support Engaged Vision/Engaged Mind, an exhibition of contemporary artists who have a connection to Buddhism. The project, featuring work by artists such as John Cage, Ad Reinhardt and Kristin Jones, will include a catalog.

Society of North American Goldsmiths, Inc.
Missoula, MT
$10,000
To support the 35th annual conference focusing on jewelry, design and the metal arts. To be held in San Francisco, the conference will include demonstrations, presentations, technical workshops and exhibitions.

Socrates Sculpture Park, Inc.
Long Island City, NY
$40,000
To support a residency and exhibition opportunity for sculptors to realize large-scale work at a riverfront park in an industrial neighborhood. Artists are provided with access to space, facilities, materials, equipment, technical assistance and a stipend.

Visual Arts Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support Vectors: Digital Art of Our Time, a touring exhibition and catalog. The exhibition will include seminal and new works of digital art including prints, Internet art, computer animation, interactive installations, CD-ROMs, and digital audio and music.

Women's Studio Workshop, Inc.
Rosendale, NY
$15,000
To support residencies for two mid-career artists at a print- and paper-making facility. Artists will be provided with a stipend, housing, materials allowance and travel costs for a six-week residency.

GRANTS AWARDED: 792
TOTAL DOLLARS AWARDED: $19,972,000

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