NEA: FY 2005 GRANT AWARDS: Access to Artistic Excellence

FY 2005 Grant Awards: Access to Artistic Excellence

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

MULTIDISCIPLINARY

651 ARTS (Kings Majestic Corporation)
Brooklyn, NY
$40,000
To support the Artist Development Initiative program. Resources will be made available for artists whose work is grounded in the African American cultural experience to create new or present existing works.

Akhra:The Dancing Grounds, Inc. (consortium)
Somerville, MA
$15,000
To support a consortium project to create and present Hands: Rhythm Project. In partnership with the Seattle International Children's Festival, composer Nandlal Nayak and choreographer Wendy Jehlen will create a work that will bring together musicians and dancers from the United States, India, and Japan.

Arts at St. Ann's (St. Ann Center for Restoration and the Arts, Inc.)
Brooklyn, NY
$20,000
To support the 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 interdisciplinary puppet theater works.

ArtWallah (Indo-American Cultural Center)
Venice, CA
$15,000
To support ArtWallah, a festival of South Asian arts. The festival showcases artists whose ancestry originates from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, and the Maldives.

Builders Association, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support creation and development of Super Vision, a multimedia performance exploring how humans are perceived as accumulations of electronic personal data, and how this perception is changing us. The project is a collaboration with dbox, a multidisciplinary studio whose work explores the intersection of visual arts and architectural design through 3-D digital media.

CalArts (California Institute of the Arts)
Valencia, CA
$25,000
To support the REDCAT Intersections residency program at the Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Center. The program includes a series of residencies, performances, and exhibitions.

Center for Land Use Interpretation
Culver City, CA
$10,000
To support the Wendover Artist Residency Program. Both emerging and established artists will be selected to create new works that capture the landscapes in Utah, Nevada, and southern Idaho.

Clemson University (on behalf of Brooks Center for the Performing Arts)
Clemson, SC
$20,000
To support the Women's Arts Festival. Designed to enhance appreciation of women in the arts, the festival will feature a reading by playwright Suzan Lori-Parks, a concert, an exhibition, a panel discussion and a lecture-presentation.

Columbia College Chicago (on behalf of Center for Asian Arts & Media)
Chicago, IL
$15,000
To support the 2005 Woman Warrior Festival, a biennial event celebrating the accomplishments of women of Asian and Pacific Islander descent in the arts. Thematic presentations will include lectures, panel discussions, workshops, exhibitions, film screenings, performances, and readings.

Contemporary Arts Center
New Orleans, LA
$25,000
To support performances scheduled on the Uptown/Downtown series. The Center will present renowned jazz pianist Muhal Richard Abrams, a ballet oratorio by Jay Weigel, and dance performance group Urban Bush Women.

Cross Performance, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the tour of The Geography Trilogy, Part 3: House, a dance/theater work choreographed and directed by Ralph Lemon. The Geography Trilogy is a decade-long, autobiographical work that explores race, culture, modernity, and individual identity.

d.u.m.b.o. arts center
Brooklyn, NY
$15,000
To support the d.u.m.b.o (Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass) festival. The annual three-day festival will feature exhibitions, site-specific installations, film and video screenings, live music, theater, and dance by artists that live and work in the 10-block area under the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges.

Dance Brigade (consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support a consortium project involving residencies by contemporary Russian dance/movement theater companies. In partnership with UCLA Live, the companies will work with students and local arts groups while in residence in Los Angeles and San Francisco.

Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH
$45,000
To support the Visiting Performing Artist Series at the Hopkins Center. Residencies will feature presentations of new and existing works by theater artists, choreographers and dance companies, musicians, and traditional artists from around the world.

DiverseWorks, Inc.
Houston, TX
$30,000
To support the commissioning and presentation of new works. The project will include visual arts exhibitions, performances, artist residencies, and educational activities.

Djerassi Resident Artists Program
Woodside, CA
$30,000
To support artist residencies. The project will provide studios, living accommodations, meals, and professional support for American writers, composers, choreographers, and media and visual artists.

Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$20,000
To support the commission, presentation, and documentation of an audio/visual installation in an abandoned, 19th-century historic site. Audio artists Janet Cardiff and George Bures Miller will collaborate with composer David Lang to create a multimedia vocal and percussion installation with visual components.

eighth blackbird performing arts association
Evanston, IL
$15,000
To support the creation of a multimedia work titled Slide, which will explore the role of perception in the context of psychological experiments. The work involves a collaboration by eight blackbird, a chamber music sextet, composer/musician Steven Mackey, and actor Rinde Eckert.

Experimental Sound Studio
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support the Artists Residency Program and the Outer Ear Festival of Sound. The project will provide local sound artists with residencies to create and present new sonic art works.

Exploratorium
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support artist residencies focused on miniature programmable technologies in sound, film, kinetic sculpture, and activated environments. The artists will develop and present hands-on public art and technology workshops at the Exploratorium and other science centers in the United States.

Eyebeam Atelier, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$20,000
To support the Artist in Residence Program. Artists will participate in five-month residencies and receive stipends for the development, creation, and presentation of new works of art created with new technologies and digital tools.

Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Inc.
Provincetown, MA
$20,000
To support the Residency Fellowship Program. Emerging contemporary visual artists and writers will be provided housing, studios, and a monthly stipend during their residency.

Frederick Douglass Creative Arts Center
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the development of professional writers and playwrights. The project will feature writing workshops, staged readings, and the 33rd annual Black Roots Festival.

Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center
San Antonio, TX
$25,000
To support the Techno-Arte series of dance and theater performances and a visual art exhibit. The series will focus on media and technology projects that integrate Latino traditional art forms.

Hallwalls, Inc.
Buffalo, NY
$20,000
To support the Artist in Residence Project for the creation and presentation of new works. Artists will receive stipends, allotments for materials and fabrication, and workspace; access to equipment and technical support; and opportunities for public presentation and interaction with local artists and community members.

Headlands Center for the Arts
Sausalito, CA
$30,000
To support the U.S. Artists-in-Residence Program and associated public programs. The project will provide U.S. artists with residencies ranging from one to six months.

Immaterial Incorporated
Brooklyn, NY
$15,000
To support Cabinet Magazine, a quarterly journal that publishes the work of contemporary artists and essays on art and culture. Each issue of Cabinet features regular columns, essays, and a themed art project that can take the form of an audio CD, CD-ROM, postcards, posters, or Web-based projects.

Jack Straw Foundation
Seattle, WA
$25,000
To support a residency program for the creation of new audio art works. The program will make available Jack Straw studio space and other facilities to Northwest artists who work in diverse disciplines.

Miami Light Project, Inc. (consortium)
Miami, FL
$30,000
To support the consortium project Global Hip-Hop Network. In partnership with the Caribbean Cultural Center in New York, the Network is an annual celebration of hip-hop music, dance, theater, spoken word, visual art, film, and video that features work by hip-hop artists.

MOSAIC, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the remounting of Cabaret Schoenberg, an interpretation of composer Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire, stylized to evoke the original cabaret setting. Director Hans Peter Cloos (Germany) and designer Jean Kalman (France) will collaborate with the MOSAIC ensemble to meld the components of music, theater, film, and slide projections.

National Black Arts Festival
Atlanta, GA
$50,000
To support a series of performances titled Next Generation. At the annual festival, performances will be supplemented by educational activities and humanities-based events designed to deepen the audience's connection to artists and the works being presented.

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc. (on behalf of Art Research Collaboration , Inc.)
New York, NY
$15,000
To support Interactive Alexandria, a multi-sensory, new media online artistic work. Originally conceived as an installation, the Web-based work will feature the charred remnants of 150 books as a metaphorical image for extinction and loss.

New York Foundation for the Arts, Inc. (on behalf of dance & be still arts)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the development of The America Project, a multimedia music/theater work by poet, playwright, and performer Sekou Sundiata. The work will explore the deeper meaning of democracy in Western society.

Painted Bride Art Center
Philadelphia, PA
$20,000
To support Language Speaks, an exploration into the use of language. Activities such as performances, a gallery exhibition, workshops, and post-performance discussions will be included in the project.

The Kitchen (Haleakala, Inc.)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the Sidney Kahn Summer Institute, a laboratory for students and young professionals who are interested in the creation of multimedia works. The intensive three-week program immerses participants in the artistic, technical, and philosophical approaches to contemporary performance through various workshops, screenings, and artist discussions.

The Thing, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support a new media residency program titled THING.Clouds: A Wireless Media Project. A public Internet network in Manhattan and Brooklyn will allow easy access and connections among various artists, enabling them to create multidisciplinary works.

Thunder Bay Ensemble, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the creation of a new collaborative performance work. The ensemble will create a new work in conjunction with European performance groups Artus (Hungary) and Toaca (Romania).

Tigertail Productions, Inc.
Miami, FL
$25,000
To support dance and music performances during the 25th Anniversary Season. The celebration will include a series of week-long artist residencies, panel discussions, workshops, and outreach activities targeting Miami's diverse Caribbean, Central, and South American communities.

University Cultural Center Association
Detroit, MI
$15,000
To support the Detroit Festival of the Arts. The annual three-day multidisciplinary, international arts celebration held in downtown Detroit provides free music, dance, and theater performances, and includes public art and literary events.

University of Massachusetts at Amherst (on behalf of New World Theater)
Amherst, MA
$25,000
To support New Works for a New WORLD (NW2), a play-development laboratory. New World Theater will target support to works-in-progress by artists of color.

University of Notre Dame du Lac (on behalf of Institute of Latino Studies)
Notre Dame, IN
$20,000
To support Poetas y Pintores (Poets and Painters). Latino visual artists will draw inspiration from works of Latino poets, resulting in the creation of new visual art works which will be part of a traveling exhibition.

Wexner Center for the Arts (Wexner Center Foundation)
Columbus, OH
$40,000
To support the commissioning of visual, performing, and media art works. The project is part of an ongoing artists' residency program that provides technical and professional support for the creation, completion, and/or presentation of new work.

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
San Francisco, CA
$35,000
To support artists residencies. Artists working in the visual, performing, and media arts will develop new work and engage in a variety of educational and community programs.

Youth Speaks, Inc. (consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
To support a consortium project for the creation of a collaborative work titled Scourge, which explores Haiti's history through spoken word, dance, and music. In partnership with the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the work will be premiered at the Bay Area Hip Hop Theater Festival.

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