NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS
 
TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES:
 

I t is my pleasure to transmit herewith the Annual Report of the National Endowment for the 

Arts for Fiscal Year 1997. 

The Arts Endowment awards more than a thousand grants each year to non-profit arts organizations for projects which touch the lives of millions of Americans. While it would take several 

books to detail the profound effects of Arts Endowment support on our citizens and communities, this single year’s report of grants displays the sprawling diversity of our nation’s culture and 

reveals the unfettered creativity of our artists. 

From seeing a classic production at a theater in Connecticut to visiting an art museum in Arizona, from hearing symphony musicians in an Iowa school to participating in a fine arts training 

program for inner-city students in Louisiana, people who benefit from Arts Endowment grants 

have made the arts an integral part of their lives. They know that the ability to create and sustain 

art must be developed and nurtured. 

Arts Endowment grants in 1997 continue the agency’s tradition of supporting: 

 ̄ projects in theater, dance, music, visual arts, and the other artistic disciplines, demonstrating that 

our diversity is an asset--and helping us to interpret the past, understand each other in the present, and envision the future; 

 ̄ folk and traditional arts programs, which strengthen and display our rich cultural heritage; and 

 ̄ arts education, which fuels our children’s skills, intellect, and fullness of life. 

We take pride in the power of imagination that animates and sustains our democracy. We are, 

and always will be, a nation of creators and innovators. This small agency fosters the creativity that 

has made democracy the call heard around the world. May it long continue to preserve such creativity and freedom. 

William J. Clinton 

President of the United States 

PRESIDENT’S HESSAGE
 

THE YEAR IN REVIEW 5
 

NATIONAL COUNCIL ON THE ARTS
 

GRANTS AND AWARDS 

Grants to Organizations 

Creation & Presentation 9
 

Education & Access 50
 

Heritage & Preservation 66
 

Planning & Stabilization 78
 

Partnership Agreements 89
 

Leadership Initiatives 

Millennium Projects 93
 

International Programs 97
 

Other Initiatives 102
 

Grants to Individuals 

Literature Fellowships 107
 

American Jazz Master Fellowships 110
 

National Heritage Fellowships 112
 

Policy, Research, & Technology 114
 

AccessAbility 116
 

National Medal of Arts 118
 

PANELS 120
 

FINANCIAL SUHMARY 126
 

Contents 

World Music, Inc. in Cambridge, Massachusetts hosted a 

residency of Bale Folclorico da Bahia, of Brazil, which included 

performances and master dance classes. Photo courtesy of 

Bale Folclorico da Bahia. 
Basic pot formation is taught at satellite sites of the Claymobile, a traveling ceramics class organized by the Clay Studio in Philadelphia. 

Photo courtesy of the Clay Studio, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 
1997." THE YEAR IN REVIEW 

The National Endowment for the Arts was established by Congress in 1965 

as an independent Federal agency. Its mission is: 

To foster the excellence, diversity, and vitality of the arts in the United States, and
 

To broaden public access to the arts.
 

A New Look for Grants 

This annual report documents the first year of 

sweeping changes in the Arts Endowment’s 

grantmaking structure, as foretold in last year’s 

annual report. After 30 years, the Endowment 

reorganized its grant programs from disciplinebased categories into broad-based, thematic 

categories to meet the financial and social challenges of the times. Stimulated by a 39 percent 

Congressional budget cut in 1996, the reorganization included staff reductions, elimination 

of most individual grants, and elimination of 

seasonal support and general operating grants 

for organizations, who now are generally limited to one grant application per year. In Fiscal 

Year 1997 the Endowment awarded over 1,OOO 

grants totaling $90.6 million in the following 

areas: Grants to Organizations, Partnership 

Agreements, Leadership Initiatives, and Grants 

to Individuals. 

Grants to Organizations fall into four major categories: Creation & Presentation, Education ~ Access, Heritage ~ Preservation, and 

Planning ~ Stabilization. These awards support 

exemplary projects in the full range of arts disciplines, including dance, design, folk and traditional arts, literature, media arts (film, television, and radio), museums, music, musical 

theater, opera, presenting, theater, visual arts, 

arts education, and multidisciplinary forms. 

Grants are awarded on the basis of artistic excellence and merit, the impact of the project, 

and the applicant’s ability to carry out the project. Nonprofit, tax-exempt organizations may 

apply for one grant each year, excluding applications submitted as part of a consortium. All 

Endowment funds awarded as grants to organizations must be matched by non-federal 

sources at least 1-to-1. 

Partnership Agreements support the designated state, jurisdictional, and regional arts 

agencies. They represent a consolidation of the 

Basic State Grants, Arts-In-Education Partnership Grants, and Underserved Communities 

Set-Aside Grants issued in previous years. 

Partnership Agreements remain strong stimuli 

for state governments to provide funding for 

the arts. 

Leadership Initiatives allow the National 

Endowment for the Arts to take an active role 

in developing and carrying out pioneering or 

hallmark projects in the arts--such as activities that mark the new millennium, have international significance, or link the arts in new 

ways with non-arts fields of human activity. 

The success of many of these initiatives depends on the effective collaborations established by the Arts Endowment with other Federal agencies and with local and national 

nonprofit institutions. 

Individuals may apply directly for Literature Fellowships. Awards in the other two categories of grants for individuals--the American 

Jazz Master Fellowships and the National Heritage Fellowships--are made solely on the basis 

of nominations submitted to the agency. 

Research and Public Policy 

As the the lead government agency for public 

arts funding in the United States, and as the nation’s largest single funding source for the nonprofit arts, the Endowment carries out various 

research and public policy activities pertaining 

to America’s cultural life. 

In 1997 the National Endowment for the 

Arts released American Canvas, a report examining the economic and social conditions of the 

nonprofit arts in America. The report is the result of a privately supported, year-long series of 
six regional public forums held across the country. It offers practical recommendations and 

calls on all Americans to help preserve our nation’s cultural legacy for future generations. 

Another outcome of the American Canvas 

President and confirmed by the U.S. Senate. 

Late in 1997, Congress changed the Council 

structure so that, beginning in 1998, this body 

is comprised of 14 private citizens appointed 

by the President and six members of Congress 

process will occur in 1998 when the Endowmentwho serve in a non-voting capacity. 

will institute a pilot program ArtsREACH, designed to increase the level of direct grant assistance to arts organizations in underserved areas. 

The Endowment’s Office of Policy, Research, 

and Technology carried out a number of other 

research studies, including the 1997 Survey of 

Public Participation in the Arts that assessed frequency of and barriers to American arts participation. This report will be published in 

1998. For a second year, the Office conducted 

Open Studio: The Arts Online, a project providing free Internet access to artists and arts organizations nationwide. The Office of AccessAbility continued to address arts accessibility 

issues for persons with special needs, by working with arts organizations and other Federal 

agencies, and by organizing special projects 

such as the first national forum on careers in 

the arts for people with disabilities. 

The Arts Endowment also administers the 

annual nomination process for the National 

Medal of Arts, which was created by Congress 

in 1984, is conferred by the President, and recognizes extraordinary contributions to the life 

of the arts in the United States. 

Operations 

Jane Alexander was nominated by President 

William J. Clinton and served as the sixth 

Chairman of the National Endowment for the 

Arts from October, 1993 to October, 1997. Following her departure, President Clinton nominated William Ivey to serve as the Endowment’s seventh Chairman. 

The National Council on the Arts advises 

the Chairman on policies, programs, procedures, and grants. Council members represent 

various arts disciplines and usually serve sixyear terms, staggered so that approximately 

one-third of the body rotates every two years. 

From 1965 through 1997, the Council was comprised of 26 private citizens appointed by the 

Panels of experts, including professional 

artists, arts administrators, and knowledgeable 

laypersons, review all of the Arts Endowment’s 

grant applications. In 1997, applications were 

reviewed initially by panels in single artistic 

disciplines, and then by combined, multidisciplinary panels organized by grant category. In 

1998, applications will be reviewed entirely by 

panels organized by artistic discipline. 

The staff is comprised of a senior executive 

team, directors and staff specialists with expertise in the arts, and administrative personnel. 

The staff receives and processes applications, 

provides technical assistance and information 

to constituents, processes awards and rejections, and remains informed of trends and developments in the arts field. Staff members also 

keep the American public apprised of the Endowment’s work and the accomplishments of 

its grantees. 

This Annual Report 

The organization of this annual report reflects 

the changes in the Endowment’s grantmaking 

structure that took effect during the Fiscal Year 

which began on October 1, 1996 and ended on 

September 30, 1997. All grants, cooperative 

agreements, and interagency agreements executed that year are described. The narratives 

preceding each section provide an overview of 

Endowment programs. Because organizational 

grants are no longer awarded by artistic discipline, the discipline of each project is indicated 

in parentheses as part of each grant listing. A 

summary of financial transactions based on the 

new structure and a history of Endowment appropriations are included at the end. 

For applications, publications, research reports or 

other information, consult the National Endowment 

for the Arts’ Web site at http://arts.endow.gov or call 

(2o2) 682-54oo. 
NATIONAL COUNCIL ON THE ARTS 1997 

Jane Alexander 

Chairman, z993-97 

Appointed for Term ending in 1996" 

William Bailey 

Painter 

Branford, CT 

Trisha Brown 

Dance Company 

Director/ 

Choreographer 

New York, NY 

Donald Hall 

Poet 

Danbury, NH 

Hugh Hardy, FAIA 

Architect 

New York, NY 

Marta Istomin 

Music School 

President/Musician 

Washington, DC 

Colleen JenningsRoggensack 

Arts Presenter 

Phoenix, AZ 

*Members serve until 

Senate confirmation of their 

Louise McClure 

Arts Patron/Trustee 

McCall, ID 

Roberta Peters 

Opera Singer/Trustee 

Scarsdale, NY 

William E. 

Strickland, Jr. 

Arts Administrator/ 

Ceramist 

Pittsburgh, PA 

George White 

Theater Director/ 

Producer 

Waterford, CT 

Terms Expiring in 1998 

Ronald Feldman 

Art Gallery Owner 

New York, NY 

Barbara V~. Grossman 

Scholar/Trustee 

Newton, MA 

Leo J. O’Donovan, S.J. 

University President 

Washington, DC 

Kenneth M. Jarin 

Patron/Trustee 

Philadelphia, PA 

Wallace D. McRae 

Rancher/Poet 

Forsyth, MT 

Jorge Perez 

Patron/Trustee 

Miami, FL 

Judith O. Rubin 

State Arts Council 

Member 

New York, NY 

Rachael Worby 

Conductor 

Wheeling, WV 

Terms Expiring in 2000 

Patrick Davidson 

Television Producer 

Camarillo, CA 

Terry Evans 

Photographer 

Chicago, 1L 

William Po Foster 

Music Educator 

Tallahassee, FL 

Ronnie F. Heyman 

Pa tron/Trustee 

New York, NY 

Speight Jenkins 

Opera Company 

Director 

Seattle, WA 

Richard J. Stern 

Patron/Trustee
 

Chicago, IL
 

Luis Valdez 

Theater Company 

Director 

San Juan Bautista, CA 

Townsend D. Wolfe, III 

Museum Director
 

Little Rock, AR
 
GRANTS AND AWARDS
 

Edward Hopper, Early Sunday Morning (detail), 1930. Oil on canvas. From the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, 

New Yorlq New York. The work will tour as part of the exhibition "The American Century: 1900-2000," a millennium project 

supported by the Arts Endowment. Photo © Whitney Museum of American Art. 
Grants to Organizations
 

CREATION & PRESENTATION
 

T he Creation & Presentation category 

attracted more of the Endowment’s 

grant applications than any other category in 1997. The purposes of these grants are: 

1) to assist with the creation of new artistic 

work, and 2) to encourage the public presentation, exhibition, performance, and publication 

of artistic works of all cultures and periods. 

This is the category to which America’s arts organizations apply for their basic public programming, be it an exhibition, a reading or 

publication, a screening or broadcast, or a performance of dance, music, theater, or opera. 

These activities form the very essence of why 

most of the nation’s arts organizations exist. 

The majority of Creation & Presentation 

grants this year were awarded to support the 

public presentation of existing works of art. Examples include the Anchorage, Maska Concert 

Association’s dance residency activities with the 

Paul Taylor Dance Company and Taylor 2; the 

publication of four volumes of poetry by Copper Canyon press; and the Des Moines International Children’s Choral Festival and Workshop. 

Slightly under half of the grants in this category were awarded for the creation of new 

works and their public presentation. Examples 

include a residency and commissioning of new 

work by photographer Abelardo Morrell and 

the organization and tour of the resulting exhibition by Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner 

Museum; the creation and presentation of a 

one-ring theater circus based on the work of 

the American artist Alexander Calder by Circus 

Flora of St. Louis; and the development and 

presentation of an original theater-jazz piece 

based on the John Clellon Holmes novel The 

Horn by City Lit Theatre Company and local 

high school students in Chicago. 

A much smaller percentage of grants went 

to institutions that supported the creation of 

new works without an immediate venue for 

public presentation, for example: the creation 

of new works of art in various disciplines by 

artists from other parts of the country working 

in residence at the Headlands Center for the 

Arts in Sausalito, California. 

Arts Endowment grants in this category not 

only support the presentation of works to the 

public. They also fund a wide range of accompanying educational and interpretive programs 

which provide a broader historical or cultural 

context to enhance viewers’ and listeners’ appreciation and understanding of the art form. 

For example, Endowment funds made possible 

both the Boston Camerata’s concert program of 

Shaker hymns and chants for New England audiences and a related educational outreach 

component for high school students. 

The reach of projects funded through Creation & Presentation ranges from audiences in 

the hundreds to those in the millions. This 

year’s Federal investment in the Creation & Presentation category spawned not only excellence 

in the arts in the United States, but also their remarkable and vigorous diversity. 
NEA 1997 ANNUAL REPORT
 

Grants to 

Organizations 

IO 

Creation & 

Presentation 

Creation & Presentation 

496 awards $23,333,355 

The discipline designations in 

parentheses refer to the project, 

not necessarily the organization. 

Aaron Davis Hall, Inc. 

New York, NY $55,000 

(presenting) 

To support the a997-98 series 

of performances by AfricanAmerican dance and multidisciplinary artists. 

Actors Theatre 

of Louisville, Inc. 

Louisville, KY $70,000 

(theater) 

To support the a3th annual 

Classics in Context Festival 

which will include four one-act 

plays by playwright Thornton 

Wilder. 

Alabama Shakespeare 

Festival, Inc. 

Montgomery, AL $25,ooo 

(theater) 

To support the development of 

up to four new plays to be included in the workshop phase of 

the Alabama Shakespeare Festival’s Southern Writers’ Project, 

through a series of rehearsals, 

readings, and evaluation. 

Albany Symphony 

Orchestra, Inc. 

Albany, NY $30,000 

(music) 

To support performances in 

schools by a a3-member ensemble, commissioning and performance of new works by a multimedia new music ensemble, 

and the presentation of an 

American work on each classical program during the season. 

Alfred University 

Alfred, NY $20,000 

(visual arts) 

To support Light and Shadow, 

a visiting artists program that 

will include temporary public 

art projects, seminars, workshops, and lectures by artists 

and writers. 

Alternative Center for 

International Arts, Inc. 

(Alternative Museum) 

New York, NY $35,000 

(visual arts) 

To support "Life, Liberty and the 

Pursuit of Happiness," a photographic exhibition that will examine human rights issues. 

Aman Folk Ensemble 

Long Beach, CA $4o, ooo 

(dance) 

To support community-based 

residencies in Florida, Arkansas, 

and North Carolina which will 

enable the company to expand 

its repertoire and develop new 

works. 

American Brass Chamber 

Music Association, Inc. 

New York, NY Szo, ooo 

(music) 

To support the commissioning 

of a brass quintet by composer 

Anthony Plog and touring performances of the new work 

along with other works by the 

American Brass Quintet. 

American Composers 

Orchestra, Inc. 

New York, NY $45,000 

(music) 

To support the presentation of 

new works by emerging American composers through two activities: orchestral reading sessions and world premiere 

performances of commissioned 

works in Carnegie Hall. 

American Conservatory 

Theater Foundation 

San Francisco, CA $60,000 

(theater) 

To support the commissioning 

and workshop of an adaptation 

and an original score for H. 

Leivick’s Yiddish theater classic, 

The Golem, by playwright Tony 

Kushner and composer David 

Lang. 

American Dance Festival, Inc. 

Durham, NC $200,000 

(dance) 

To support too Years of Modern 

Dance, a series of events including performances, commissions, reconstructions, panel 

discussions, and choreographic 

residencies. 

American Indian Film Institute 

San Francisco, CA $18,5oo 

(media arts) 

To support the 1997 American 

Indian Film Festival and the 

publication of the magazine 

Indian Cinema Entertainment. 
GRANTS AND AWARDS 

American Museum of the 

Moving Image 

Astoria, NY $25,000 

(media arts) 

To support the presentation of 

curated film and video series, 

an exhibition of the technologies used to create moving images, and related educational 

activities. 

American Music Theater 

Festival 

Philadelphia, PA $162,500 

(multidisciplinary) 

To support CrossWaves 2, a national initiative and festival producing new multidisciplinary 

work linking music theater with 

new technologies, and presenting this work to live audiences. 

American Repertory Theatre 

Cambridge, MA $9o, ooo 

(theater) 

To support the development 

and production of Peter Pan 

Variations, adapted from J.M. 

Barrie’s novel. 

American Women Composers 

Midwest, Inc. 

Chicago, IL $6,ooo 

(music) 

To support the American 

Women Composers 15th 

Anniversary Gala Opening 

Concert. 

Americas Society, Inc. 

New York, NY $32,500 

(museum) 

To support a touring retrospective exhibition of the work of 

Mexican artist Maria Izquierdo, 

with accompanying education 

programs. 

Amherst Saxophone 

Society, Inc. 

Williamsville, NY $9,000 

(music) 

To support a residency of the 

Amherst Saxophone Quartet 

during 1997-98 in western 

New York. 

Anchorage Concert 

Association, Inc. 

Anchorage, AK $50,000 

(dance) 

To support a series of dance 

residency activities with the 

Paul Taylor Dance Company 

and Taylor 2. 

Grants to 

Organizations 

II 

Creation & 

Presentation 

Malachy Cleary and Kim Awon appeared in Thornton Wilder’s The Rivers Under the 

Earth, part of the Brown-Forman Classics in Context Festival at the Actors Theatre 

of Louisville, Kentucky. Photo by Richard Trigg. 
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Grants to 

Organizations 

12 

Creation & 

Presentation 

Arizona Theatre Company 

Tucson, AZ $40,000 

(theater) 

To support the commissioning 

and production in Tucson and 

Phoenix of a new play with music, entitled A House Divided by 

Steven Dietz, set against the 

backdrop of the Lincoln-Douglas 

debates of 1858. 

Art Awareness, Inc. 

Lexington, NY $15,ooo 

(visual arts) 

To support artists’ residencies 

and exhibitions to take place 

during 1997. 

Art in General, Inc. 

New York, NY $20,000 

(visual arts) 

To support three site-specific 

projects: a group exhibition, an 

artist’s residency, and up to two 

street-level window installations. 

Art Institute of Chicago 

Chicago, IL $200,000 

(museum) 

To support the traveling exhibition "Art and Archaeology of 

Ancient West Mexico," with an 

accompanying catalogue and 

education programs. 

Art Institute of Chicago 

(for the Film Center at the 

School of the Art Institute of 

Chicago) 

Chicago, IL $55,000 

(media arts) 

To support Cinema in a Chinese 

Sphere: Before and After 1997, a 

film exhibition series which will 

examine and compare the cinemas of Hong Kong, Taiwan, 

mainland China, and the North 

American Chinese diaspora. 

Arts Network of Washington 

State 

Olympia, WA $95,000 

(local arts agencies) 

To support the Rural Arts Touring Initiative that will develop a 

rural arts touring circuit in the 

central-northeastern portion of 

the state. 

Asia Society 

New York, NY $125,ooo 

(museum) 

To support a consortium project 

with Tibet House and the American Federation of Arts for the 

touring exhibition "Mandala: 

The Architecture of Enlightment;’ with accompanying catalogue and education programs. 

Asian CineVision, Inc. 

New York, NY $30,000 

(media arts) 

To support the 1997 AsianAmerican International Film 

Festival. 

Atlanta Art Papers, Inc. 

Atlanta, GA $20,000 

(visual arts) 

To support three special feature 

sections to be published by Atlanta Art Papers: "Artists Collaborating with Communities;’ 

"Access to the Arts at the End of 

the Millenium--an Online 

Symposium;’ and "Book Art After the Print Era." 

Aunt Lute Foundation 

San Francisco, CA $30,000 

(literature) 

To support publication costs 

and an author’s tour for a first 

novel by Ginu Kamani, a work 

tracing the struggles of a South 

Asian family and the changing 

roles of its female members after migrating to the United 

States. 

Available Potential Enterprises, 

Ltd. (No Theatre) 

Northampton, MA Szo, ooo 

(theater) 

To support the creation and 

production of a new theater 

work and the revival and restaging of two plays from No 

Theatre’s repertory. 

Ballet Arizona 

Phoenix, AZ $7o, ooo 

(dance) 

To support the production of 

Day of the Dead, a new ballet 

inspired by the Mexican traditions associated with the celebration of the same name, to be 

choreographed by Artistic Director Michael Uthoff. 

Ballet Tech Foundation, Inc. 

New York, NY $90,000 

(dance) 

To support the touring of Ballet 

Tech in the Northeast during 

the 1997-98 season. 

Ballet Theatre Foundation, Inc. 

(American Ballet Theatre) 

New York, NY $15o, ooo 

(dance) 

To support a performance series 

for American Ballet Theatre at 

City Center in New York, featuring works commissioned 

over the company’s 56-year history and new ballets created for 

the smaller scale of the theater. 
GRANTS AND AWARDS 

Bard College 

Annandale-Hudson, NY 

$15,000 

(literature) 

To support publication costs 

and related expenses, including 

authors’ fees, for two theme issues of Conjunctions. 

Bay Area Dance Series 

Oakland, CA $z5,ooo 

(dance) 

To support the commissioning 

of new ballets by up to six 

emerging choreographers for the 

second annual Pas de Si&le-­

Dancing Towards the Millennium, a showcase for new ballet 

choreographers. 

Bemis Center for 

Contemporary Arts 

Omaha, NE $20,000 

(visual arts) 

To support stipends for approximately twelve American artists 

to participate in three- to sixmonth residencies at the Bemis 

Center in Omaha. 

Berkeley Art Center 

Association 

Berkeley, CA $15,ooo 

(visual arts) 

To support the creation, exhibition, and accompanying catalogue of an installation by 

Berkeley artist Mildred Howard 

in celebration of the Center’s 

3oth anniversary. 

Berkeley Repertory Theatre 

Berkeley, CA $1oo, ooo 

(theater) 

To support the development 

and production of Philip Kan 

Gotanda’s new play about the 

famous Siamese twins, Chang 

and Eng Bunker. 

Berkeley Symphony Orchestra 

Berkeley, CA $15,ooo 

(music) 

To support the Berkeley Symphony Orchestra’s Composers 

Project and the expansion of its 

main performance component 

titled "Under Construction;’ 

doubling the number of new 

works performed and taped for 

project composers. 

Berks Filmmakers, Inc. 

Reading, PA $12,5oo 

(media arts) 

To support the exhibition of independent film and video in 

1997-98. 

BOA Editions, Ltd. 

Rochester, NY $4o, ooo 

(literature) 

To support the editing, publishing, and promotion of volumes 

of poetry in the Other Heartbeats series. 

Boise State University 

Boise, ID ¢5,000 

(music) 

To support concerts of the 

Boise Chamber Music Series 

and related educational services 

during 1997-98. 

Borderlands Theater Teatro 

Fronterizo, Inc. 

Tucson, AZ $6,000 

(theater) 

To support the eighth Border 

Playwrights Project, a national 

and international search for 

full-length scripts for development with the playwright, including staged readings. 

Boston Ballet, Inc. 

Boston, MA $75,000 

(dance) 

To support a revival of the 

company’s 199o production of 

Swan Lake, the first AmericanSoviet collaboration on a classical ballet. 

Boston Camerata, Inc. 

Boston, MA $20,000 

(music) 

To support a concert program 

of Shaker hymns and chants for 

audiences in Boston, New York, 

and New England, along with an 

educational outreach component 

for high school students. 

Boston Early Music Festival, Inc. 

Cambridge, MA $35,000 

(opera) 

To support artists’ fees and related costs for the production of 

Orfeo by Luigi Rossi during the 

Boston Early Music Festival, 

with additional performances 

celebrating music of the Italian 

and French Baroque. 

Boston Lyric Opera Company 

Boston, MA $40,000 

(opera) 

To support expenses for the 

production of The Ballad of 

Baby Doe by Douglas Moore 

during 1997-98. 

Grants to 

Organizations 

13 

Creation & 

Presentation 
NEA 1997 ANNUAL REPORT
 

Grants to 

Organizations 

14 

Creation & 

Presentation 

Brandywine Graphic 

Workshop, Inc. 

Philadelphia, PA $35,000 

(visual arts) 

To support Brandywine’s Asian 

Artists Initiative which includes 

the exhibition "Japanese and 

Japanese American Contemporary Artists’ Prints," Japanese 

artists’ printmaking residencies, 

an exhibition catalogue, and educational programs. 

Bronx Arts Ensemble, Inc. 

Bronx, NY $18,ooo 

(music) 

To support concerts at new 

sites--the New York Botanical 

Garden and the Hostos Center 

for the Arts and Culture in the 

Bronx--featuring the world 

premiere of a new work, a new 

children’s concert series, and a 

special concert. 

Bronx Council on the Arts, Inc. 

Bronx, NY $20,000 

(visual arts) 

To support Longwood Arts Project’s Studio Fellowship Program in 1997-98, which will " 

provide up to three artists with 

studio space and a stipend to 

produce new work over the 

course of one year. 

Bronx Museum of the Arts 

Bronx, NY $45,000 

(museum) 

To support an exhibition of the 

work of Asian-American artist 

Tomie Arai, with accompanying 

catalogue and education programs. 

Brooklyn Academy of 

Music, Inc. 

Brooklyn, NY $2oo, ooo 

(presenting) 

To support the 1997 Next Wave 

Festival. 

Brooklyn Historical Society 

Brooklyn, NY $50,000 

(museum) 

To support the exhibition "Multiple Visions, Multiple Voices," 

featuring commissioned works 

by contemporary artists including a collective. 

Brooklyn Institute of Arts and 

Sciences 

Brooklyn, NY ¢200,000 

(museum) 

To support the second phase of 

the Brooklyn Museum’s reinstallation of its Ancient Egyptian art collection, with accompanying education programs. 

Brown University 

Providence, RI $20,000 

(musical theater) 

To support, at the University’s 

Rites and Reasons Theatre, the 

production of Ophelia’s Cotillion, a new musical drama by 

Elmo Terry-Morgan and Clarice 

LaVerne Thompson, which 

takes place during the turn of 

the century in the world of 

Philadelphia’s African-American aristocracy. 

Cabin Creek Center for Work 

and Environmental Studies, Inc. 

New York, NY $50,000 

(media arts) 

To support post-production 

costs for Woodstock 1994: The 

Film, a feature-length documentary film by Barbara Kopple. 

California E.A.R. Unit 

Foundation 

Los Angeles, CA $15,ooo 

(music) 

To support the creation of new 

works for chamber ensemble in 

collaboration with AfricanAmerican composer-performer 

George Lewis, multimedia artist 

Mlison Knowles, and AfricanAmerican performance artist 

Pamela E. 

California State University, 

Sacramento Trust Foundation 

Sacramento, CA $15,ooo 

(music) 

To support the presentation of 

the 2oth annual Festival of New 

American Music. 

Canton Symphony Orchestra 

Association 

Canton, OH $7,500 

(music) 

To support a one-week residency by the music ensemble 

Tales & Scales with the Canton 

Symphony Orchestra. 

Capital Concerts, Inc. 

Washington, DC $30,000 

(media arts) 

To support the 1997 national 

television broadcasts of"A National Memorial Day Concert" 

and "A Capital Fourth;’ two patriotic holiday concerts at the 

U.S. Capitol, which are aired 

live. 

Capp Street Project 

San Francisco, CA $50,000 

(visual arts) 

To support the residencies and 

resulting exhibitions of up to 

five artists during 1997-98. 
GRANTS AND AWARDS
 

Caribbean Dance Company, Inc. 

St. Croix, VI $z5,ooo 

(dance) 

To support the research, rehearsal, and staging of two new 

pieces for the company’s repertory: "Big Drum Dance" from 

Carriacou in the Grenadines, 

and an exploration of the origins of St. Croix’s "Crucian 

Quadrille." 

Carnegie Hall Corporation 

New York, NY $z6o, ooo 

(music) 

To support production costs of 

the American Project, a comprehensive presenting program 

designed to showcase distinguished American music and 

musicians. 

Carnegie Institute 

Pittsburgh, PA $40,000 

(museum) 

To support the exhibition 

"Pittsburgh Revealed: Photographs Since 185o;’ with accompanying catalogue and education programs at the 

Carnegie Museum of Art. 

Carter Family Puppet Theater 

Seattle, WA $1o, ooo 

(theater) 

To support the creation and 

presentation of the Indian epic, 

The Ramayana, to be performed by actors and puppets. 

Celebrity Series of Boston, Inc. 

Boston, MA $45,o00 

(music) 

To support CityMusic, a citywide arts initiative designed to 

broaden interest in the performing arts through commissions, 

performances, and workshops. 

Center for Exploratory and 

Perceptual Art 

Buffalo, NY $40,000 

(visual arts) 

To support Uncommon Traits: 

Re/Locating Asia, a project that 

explores the critical and cultural boundaries of AsianAmerican and Asian-Canadian 

experiences. 

Center for Land Use 

Interpretation 

Culver City, CA $20,000 

(visual arts) 

To support an artist-in-residence 

and exhibition program in 

Wendover, on the Nevada and 

Utah border, that reflects national land use issues. 

Center for Puppetry Arts, Inc. 

Atlanta, GA $125,ooo 

(theater) 

To support performance, education, and museum activities 

associated with presentations of 

Aladdin and The Body Detective: 

An Internal Investigation. 

Center Stage Associates, Inc. 

Baltimore, MD $1oo, ooo 

(theater) 

To support a production of Lorraine Hansberry’s Les Blancs, directed by Center Stage Associate 

Artist Marion Isaac McClinton 

in collaboration with composer 

Max Roach and choreographer 

Dianne Mclntyre. 

Center Theatre Group of Los 

Angeles (Mark Taper Forum) 

Los Angeles, CA $5o, ooo 

(theater) 

To support the development of 

an adaptation of I. Anthony 

Lukas’ Pulitzer Prize-winning 

work of non-fiction, Common 

Ground, by playwright Kevin 

Heelan. 

Centro Cultural de la Raza, Inc. 

San Diego, CA $45,000 

(multidisciplinary) 

To support Ambientaciones Y 

Tiempo, a multidisciplinary 

project that will present existing 

and commissioned work by visual, performing, and interdisciplinary artists. 

Charlin Jazz Society, Inc. 

Washington, DC $11,ooo
 

(music)
 

To support International E/lington, a program series focusing 

on compositions Duke Ellington wrote in tribute to the 

many countries he visited 

throughout his career. 

Chicago Children’s Theatre, Inc. 

Chicago, IL Szo, ooo 

(theater) 

To support the production and 

presentation of The Magically 

Marvelous, Wonderfully Wacky, 

Seriously Silly Center Ring 

Circus, written and directed by 

Steve Smith. 

Chicago New Art Association 

Chicago, IL $22,500 

(visual arts) 

To support the exhibition review section of the NewArt 

Examiner, a Chicago-based, nationally distributed periodical. 

Childsplay, Inc. 

Tempe, AZ $20,000 

(theater) 

To support the production of 

Still Life with Iris by playwright 

Steven Dietz. 

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Cincinnati Symphony 

Orchestra 

Cincinnati, OH $70,000 

(music) 

To support concerts featuring 

orchestral musicians as soloists, 

and chamber music concerts by 

ensembles comprised of orchestral musicians. 

Cine Accion, Inc. 

San Francisco, CA $15,ooo 

(media arts) 

To support the 1998 presentation of the annual Festival Cine 

Latino. 

Circuit Network 

San Francisco, CA $15,ooo 

(multidisciplinary) 

To support the creation of an 

original multimedia work by 

Guillermo Gomez-Pena and 

Roberto Sifuentes. 

MoNca Bell and John Preston perform in the Alabama Shakespeare Festival’s touring 

production of The Taming of the Shrew. Photo by ASF/Scarsbrook. 

Circus Arts Foundation of 

Missouri (Circus Flora) 

St. Louis, MO $15,ooo 

(theater) 

To support Circus Flora’s creation and presentation of a 

one-ring theater circus based 

on the life and works of American artist Alexander Calder. 

City Lit Theatre Company 

Chicago, IL $25,000 

(theater) 

To support a collaborative development and presentation, 

working with local high school 

students, of an original theaterjazz performance piece based 

on John Clellon Holmes’s novel, 

The Horn. 

City Parks Foundation 

New York, NY $1o, ooo 

(dance) 

To support Central Park Summerstage’s 1997 dance series, 

which will include the commissioning of a new work as well as 

performances by contemporary 

and emerging dance companies. 

Cityfolk 

Dayton, OH $22,000 

(dance) 

To support the creation of a 

collaborative work by Rhythm 

in Shoes, Keith Terry, and 

Crosspulse which will include 

extensive residency and other 

educational outreach activities. 
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College of Wooster 

Wooste5 OH $18,ooo 

(museum) 

To support a traveling exhibition of the work of contemporary artist Hung Liu, with an 

accompanying catalogue. 

Colorado Dance Festival, Inc. 

Boulder, CO $40,000 

(dance) 

To support Let’s Dance: The 

Americas!, a festival featuring 

performances, residencies, lecture-demonstrations, panel discussions, classes, workshops, 

and other educational outreach 

activities. 

Columbia College 

Chicago, IL $40,000 

(dance) 

To support some of the Dance 

Center’s 1997-98 presentations 

including Dance Africa/Chicago 

1997: Celebrate Africa/Celebrate 

Chicago; the Festival of Solo 

Artists; and the Festival of European Premieres. 

Columbus Symphony 

Orchestra, Inc. 

Columbus, OH $75,000
 

(music)
 

To support Project Harmony, a
 

series of orchestral concerts featuring ethnically diverse artists, 

composers, and themes. 

Community Arts Project, Inc. 

Columbus, OH $1o, ooo 

(music) 

To support artists’ fees and expenses associated with jazz presentations at the Martin Luther 

King, Jr. Performing and Cultural Arts Complex during 

1997-98. 

Composers Conference and 

Chamber Music Center, Inc. 

Wellesley, MA $1o, ooo 

(music) 

To support costs associated 

with the 53rd Annual Composers Conference in 1997. 

Concerned Citizens for 

Humanity, Ltd. 

Hartford, CT $75,000 

(design) 

To support the creation of 

STOPAIDS, a statewide design 

project tailored to educate atrisk youth and persons with 

hearing disabilities on the problem of HIV/AIDS. 

Concert Artists Guild, Inc. 

New York, NY $18,000 

(music) 

To support artists’ fees, staff 

salaries, and production costs 

for national concert presentations tied to the Guild’s Artistsin-Radio Residencies and Management Program. 

Contemporary Art for San 

Antonio (Blue Star Art Space) 

San Antonio, TX $20,000 

(visual arts) 

To support Texas Dialogues, a 

series of exchange exhibitions 

between the Blue Star Art Space 

in San Antonio and the Contemporary Art Center in Fort 

Worth, DiverseWorks in Houston, and Bridge Center for Contemporary Art in E1 Paso. 

Contemporary Arts 

Association of Houston 

(Contemporary Arts I~luseum) 

Houston, TX $50,000 

(museum) 

To support an exhibition of the 

work of American artist James 

Turrell, with an accompanying 

catalogue and education programs. 

Contemporary Dance 

Theater, Inc. 

Cincinnati, OH $12,000 

(dance) 

To support residencies and performances by up to four contemporary dance companies. 

Copper Canyon Press 

Port Townsend, WA $40,000 

(literature) 

To support publication costs, 

royalties, and related expenses 

for up to four volumes of poetry. 

Corcoran Gallery of Art, 

Trustees of the 

Washington, DC $50,000 

(museum) 

To support a traveling exhibition of portraits by American 

artist Joshua Johnston, with accompanying education programs. 

Cornerstone Theater Company 

Santa Monica, CA $7o, ooo 

(theater) 

To support the commissioning 

of playwright Chay Yew to create a theater work to be produced at the Pacific Asia Museum in collaboration with 

Cornerstone, guest artists, and 

members of the Los Angeles 

Chinese-American community. 

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Coro de Ninos de San Juan, Inc. 

San Juan, PR $20,000 

(music) 

To support Christmas concerts 

at the Performing Arts Center 

Festival Hall in San luan and a 

local tour to rural areas in 

Puerto Rico. 

Coterie, Inc. 

Kansas City, MO 514,ooo 

(theater) 

To support Community of Families, a series of three plays for 

Coterie Theater’s diverse family 

audience, followed by post-performance community dialogues. 

Court Theatre Fund 

Chicago, IL 540,000 

(theater) 

To support the presentation of 

The Iphigenia Cycle, a new 

adaptation of two classic 

tragedies of Euripides, translated by Nicholas Rudall and directed by Joanne Akalaitis. 

Creative Time, Inc. 

New York, NY 550,000 

(visual arts) 

To support a series of sitespecific installations by Shimon 

Attie which explore New York’s 

immigration history. 

Crossroads, Inc. 

New Brunswick, NJ 515o, ooo 

(theater) 

To support the production and 

touring expenses of The Darker 

Face of the Earth, by Rita Dove 

in collaboration with choreographer Diane Mclntyre and 

composer Olu Dara. 

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Cunningham Dance 

Foundation, Inc. 

New York, NY 5200,000 

(dance) 

To support the creation and 

tour of two new works by Artistic Director Merce Cunningham for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. 

Curbstone Press 

Willimantic, CT 540,000 

(literature) 

To support Living Literature 

Face to Face: Latino and Latin 

American Literature for M1 

Ages, a literary publishing and 

touring project. 

Cuyahoga Community College 

Cleveland, OH 530,000 

(dance) 

To support a collaboration with 

DANCECleveland in which 

contemporary dance companies 

will be presented during 

1998-99. 

D.C. Wheel Productions, Inc. 

(Dance Place) 

Washington, DC 518,ooo 

(dance) 

To support dance performances 

and residencies with guest 

artists for Dance Place. 

Da Camera Society of Texas 

Houston, TX 525,000 

(music) 

To support the creation and 

presentation of three original 

concert programs for the Da 

Camera Society’s series Music 

and the Literary Imagination, 

which links chamber music 

with literature in dramatic and 

theatrical settings. 

Dale Warland Singers 

Minneapolis, MN $2o, ooo 

(music) 

To support American Voices, a 

project including world premieres of new choral works by 

American composers and educational and outreach activities. 

Dance Continuum, Inc. (Susan 

Marshall & Company) 

New York, NY 535,000 

(dance) 

To support the creation of Pygmalion Unveiled by Susan Marshall, a dance work in three 

acts--each act exploring a different perspective of the Pygmalion fable. 

Dance Theater Foundation 

(Alvin Ailey American Dance 

Theater) 

New York, NY 515o, ooo 

(dance) 

To support costs associated 

with the Alvin Ailey American 

Dance Theater’s 1998 United 

States tour. 

Dance Theater Workshop, Inc. 

New York, NY 51oo, ooo 

(presenting) 

To support the multidisciplinary residency and communications project Building Cultural Community: Artists, 

Cultural Organizers and the 

Public’s Trust, during the 

1997-98 National Performance 

Network season. 

Dance Theater Workshop, Inc. 

(as fiscal agent for National 

Dance Performance Network) 

New York, NY 51oo, ooo 

(presenting) 

To support the Community Animation Project, designed to pro­
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mote public interest in the performing arts through the creation and extended presentation 

of innovative work, interactive 

residencies, and special events. 

Dancing in the Street, Inc. 

New York, NY $z8,ooo 

(dance) 

To support the seventh annual 

Dances for Wave Hill, a threeweek series of site-specific performances, commissions, and 

workshops presented at the 

Bronx’s Wave Hill, one of America’s foremost public gardens. 

Danspace Project, Inc. 

New York, NY $2o, ooo 

(dance) 

To support Dans/City, a program of presentation and support for New York-based choreographers, which includes 

subsidized rehearsal space and 

technical support staff, and 

12-13 weeks of performances. 

Dayton Contemporary Dance 

Guild, Inc. (Dayton 

Contemporary Dance 

Company) 

Dayton, OH $25,000 

(dance) 

To support the reconstruction 

of works by African-American 

choreographers Talley Beatty, 

Donald McKayle, and Eleo Pomare during 1997-98. 

Dayton Philharmonic 

Orchestra Association 

Dayton, OH $26,000 

(music) 

To support presentation of up 

to three Classical Connections 

concerts in 1997-98, including 

special educational programs 

for adult audiences. 

Deep EIlum Theatre Group 

(Undermain Theatre) 

Dallas, TX $1o, ooo 

(theater) 

To support the creation and 

production of the second play 

in the Texas Series, to be developed from oral histories gathered from residents throughout 

Texas and from contributions 

by ensemble members. 

Delaware Symphony 

Association 

Wilmington, DE $1o, ooo 

(music) 

To support concerts in largely 

rural Kent and Sussex counties 

during 1997-98. 

Dell’Arte, Inc. 

Blue Lake, CA $22,000 

(theater) 

To support the creation, presentation, and regional tour of 

two original works for Project 

REACH: The Weave, created in 

collaboration with the Karuk 

tribe, and a children’s/family 

theater work, Out of the Frying 

Pan. 

Des Moines Children’s 

Choruses, Inc. 

Des Moines, IA $25, ooo 

(music) 

To support the Des Moines 

International Children’s Choral 

Festival and Workshop. 

Des Moines Symphony 

Association 

Des Moines, IA $12,ooo 

(music) 

To support the co-commissioning with the Indianapolis Symphony of a concerto for orchestra and trio by David Ott, its 

preparation, and performance, 

working with community resources including local schools 

and colleges. 

Detroit Symphony Orchestra 

Hall, Inc. 

Detroit, MI $1oo, ooo 

(music) 

To support Detroit Symphony 

Orchestra Hall’s AfricanAmerican Composers Residency 

and National Symposium during 1997-98. 

Discalced, Inc. (Mark Morris 

Dance Group) 

New York, NY $15o, ooo 

(dance) 

To support Mark Morris’ 

conception, choreography, and 

direction of Jean-Philippe 

Rameau’s 1745 opera Platee, 

which is considered to be a precursor to much of classical music’s comic opera. 

District Curators, Inc. 

Washington, DC $50,000 

(presenting) 

To support the 1997 Jazz Arts 

Festival including the creation 

of new works and the use of a 

range of indoor and outdoor 

sites for workshops, educational programs, and performances. 

Djerassi Foundation 

Woodside, CA $20,000 

(multidisciplinary) 

To support direct costs for onemonth residencies for up to 15 

artists in 1997. 

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Double Edge Theatre 

Productions, Inc. 

Ashfield, MA $~o, ooo 

(theater) 

To support the development 

and presentation of"The 

Crowning Song" which includes 

Keter, the third segment of Song 

Trilogy, in conjunction with 

gatherings, etudes, and presentations of documentary materials from cultural exchanges. 

DOVA, Inc. (Doug Varone 

Dance Company) 

New York, NY $35,ooo 

(dance) 

To support the creation and 

production of a new work by 

choreographer Doug Varone, as 

well as the presentation of 

repertory works. 

Drama League of New York, Inc. 

New York, NY $5,000 

(theater) 

To support costs associated 

with the summer directing and 

fall production programs of the 

Directors Project. 

Early Music Foundation, Inc. 

New York, NY $14,ooo 

(opera) 

To support artists’ fees and related costs for a tour and New 

York performances of Herod 

and the Innocents and The Play 

of Mary Magdalene in 1997-98. 

Early Music Guild of Seattle 

Seattle, WA $7,750 

(music) 

To support artists’ fees for performances of Handel’s 

Carmelite Vespers, one of the 

composer’s early works. 

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Earplay 

San Francisco, CA $5,000 

(music) 

To support a new music concert 

series performed by Earplay at 

the Center for the Arts at Yerba 

Buena Gardens in San Francisco during 1997-98. 

Earshot Jazz Society of Seattle 

Seattle, WA $15,ooo 

(music) 

To support the 1997 Earshot 

Jazz Festival, a series of concerts, residencies, and community events. 

East Tennessee Community 

Design Center, Inc. 

Knoxville, TN $5o, ooo 

(design) 

To support FUTURESCAPES, a 

project that brings design professionals to underserved areas 

exploring the art of alternative 

design and development practices. 

Educational Broadcasting 

Corporation (WNET) 

New York, NY $117,335 

(media arts) 

To support the post-production 

costs of a documentary film by 

Fred Wiseman about the meaning of community as it relates 

to the town of Belfast, Maine. 

El Paso Symphony Orchestra 

Association 

El Paso, TX $1o, ooo 

(music) 

To support musicians’ salaries 

for the 1997-98 Classical Subscription Series. 

El Teatro de la Esperanza 

San Francisco, CA $22,500 

(theater) 

To support artists’ fees, rehearsal space, and promotional 

costs for a tour of Basement 

Refugees and Deporting the Divas to rural areas of the Southwest and Midwest. 

En Foco, Inc. 

Bronx, NY $22,000 

(visual arts) 

To support the publication and 

national distribution of Nueva 

Luz, a bilingual photographic 

journal. 

En Garde Arts, Inc. 

New York, NY $1o, ooo 

(theater) 

To support the production of a 

new site-specific work, written 

by Naomi Iizuka and directed 

by Anne Hamburger, to take 

place on a pier on the Hudson 

River in New York City. 

Ensemble Theatre 

Houston, TX $30,000 

(theater) 

To support the commission and 

production of a play with music, Distant Voices, created from 

the researched and remembered 

lives of the people buried in 

College Memorial Park in 

Houston. 

ETA Creative Arts Foundation 

Chicago, IL $40,000 

(music) 

To support the presentation of 

performances by female performers who have made a con­
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tribution to the advancement of 

the African musical heritage, 

during the eighth annual 

African Festival of the Arts. 

ETV Endowment of South 

Carolina, Inc. 

Spartanburg, SC $50,000 

(media arts) 

To support the 1997-98 production of the nationally-broadcast 

radio series Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz. 

Eugene O’Neill blemorial 

Theater Center, Inc. 

Waterford, CT 550,000 

(theater) 

To support the 1997 New Works 

for Contemporary Theater project, which includes the development of both musicals and 

non-musical plays. 

Eugene Symphony 

Association, Inc. 

Eugene, OR 51o, ooo 

(music) 

To support orchestra musicians’ 

salaries, guest artists’ and conductors’ fees, and related expenses for performance of concerts in the Symphonic 

Subscription Series during 

1997-98. 

Evansville Philharmonic 

Orchestral Corp. 

Evansville, IN 59,000 

(music) 

To support a special gospel music concert, featuring an AfricanAmerican chorus and a 200­

member community choir 

comprised of local church choirs 

and soloists, in February 1998. 

Experimental Television 

Center, Ltd. 

Newark Valley, NY $12,5oo 

(media arts) 

To support a media artists’ residency program, including access 

to an image processing system. 

Fabric Workshop, Inc. 

Philadelphia, PA 535,000 

(museum) 

To support an exhibition of 

work drawn from the Fabric 

Workshop’s permanent collection, with an accompanying 

catalogue and education programs. 

Facets Multi-Media Inc. 

Chicago, IL $55,000 

(media arts) 

To support the 1997 Chicago International Children’s Film Festival. 

Fiji Theater Company, Inc. 

New York, NY $50,000 

(theater) 

To support the creation and 

premiere of a new work by Ping 

Chong, employing both live 

performers and puppets, and 

based on Lafcadio Hearn’s 

translations of Iapanese ghost 

stories, Kwaidan: Stories and 

Studies of Strange Things. 

Film Arts Foundation 

San Francisco, CA $65,000 

(media arts) 

To support the production of a 

documentary film by Mlie Light 

and Irving Saraf about the 

imaginative world of seven people with physical disabilities. 

Film Arts Foundation 

(as fiscal agent for Light/Saraf 

Films) 

San Francisco, CA 524,000 

(media arts) 

To support New Artists/New 

Visions, which will provide 300 

new film and video artists with 

the training, tools, and mentoring opportunities they need to 

create their first film or video. 

Film Society of Lincoln 

Center, Inc. 

New York, NY $60,000 

(media arts) 

To support three film exhibition 

series examining the cinematic 

achievements of Argentina and 

Hungary, as well as the films of 

director G.W. Pabst. 

Film/Video Arts, Inc. 

New York, NY $50,000 

(media arts) 

To support artists’ residencies 

and workshops for emerging 

and established media artists to 

develop their skills in working 

with digital technologies. 

Fine Arts Work Center in 

Provincetown, Inc. 

Provincetown, MA $15,ooo 

(multidisciplinary) 

To support the Residency Fellowship Project for Emerging 

Writers and Artists--a sevenmonth residency which provides housing, studios, and 

monthly stipends to young 

artists and writers in the early 

stages of their careers. 

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First Stage Milwaukee, Inc. 

Milwaukee, WI ‘$20,000 

(theater) 

To support the development 

and production of a new play 

for young audiences by Pulitzer 

Prize-winning playwright, 

Robert Schenkkan. 

Fisk University 

Nashville, TN ‘$55,000 

(museum) 

To support the exhibition 

"W.E.B. DuBois, Charles S. 

Johnson, and the New Negro 

Arts Movement," with accompanying catalogue and education programs at the Aaron 

Douglas Gallery. 

Florida Orchestra, Inc. 

Tampa, FL ‘$40,000 

(music) 

To support the month-long 

Bay-thoven Festival of music 

performances in venues 

throughout the Tampa Bay area 

in February 1998. 

Flynn Theatre for the 

Performing Arts, Ltd. 

Burlington, VT ‘$50,000 

(presenting) 

To support the z997-98 Creation and Community Project, 

a series of commissions, performances, and community-based 

residencies, as well as the Discover lazz Festival and the Storytelling Festival. 

Forum for Contemporary Art 

St. Louis, MO ,$15,ooo 

(visual arts) 

To support residencies by artists 

Philomena Williamson, Danny 

Tisdale, and Kara Elizabeth 

Walker to work with high 

school youth in the development of exhibitions and the 

publication of a catalogue. 

Foundation for Dance 

Promotion, Inc. (Bill T. 

Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Co.) 

New York, NY ,$50,000 

(dance) 

To support the creation and 

development of We Set Out 

Early... Visibility Was Poor, an 

evening-length work by Bill T. 

Jones which will premiere at 

the John F. Kennedy Center for 

the Performing Arts. 

Free Street Programs, Inc. 

Chicago, IL ‘$20,000 

(theater) 

To support TeenStreet, a jobs 

program offered to low-income, 

inner-city teenagers involving 

creative writing and theater 

performance. 

Friends of the North Dakota 

Museum of Art 

Grand Forks, ND $35,000 

(museum) 

To support an exhibition of the 

work of American artists 

Hillary Leone and Jennifer 

Macdonald, with an accompanying catalogue and education 

programs. 

Friends of Olympia Station, Inc. 

(New Pickle Family Circus) 

Santa Cruz, CA $50,000 

(theater) 

To support the creation and 

presentation of Circus Kaleidoscope, a group of circus works 

from the New Pickle Circus to 

be directed by artistic director 

Tandy Beal with master acrobatic trainer Lu Yi. 

G.A.L.A., Inc. (GALA Hispanic 

Theater) 

Washington, DC ‘$32,500 

(theater) 

To support the production of 

Los Hermanos Queridos (Dear 

Brothers), by Argentine playwright Carlos Gorostiza, in 

Spanish, with an original English language translation and 

adaptation. 

Gainesville Friends of Jazz, Inc. 

Gainesville, FL ‘$5,000 

(music) 

To support the Jazz at the 

Thomas monthly concerts, including the Women in Jazz, 

Women’s History Month, Black 

History Month, Jazz Around 

Town, and Jazz in the Schools 

presentations. 

Garth Fagan Dance, Inc. 

Rochester, NY ‘$70,000 

(dance) 

To support the creation of a new 

work which involves a collaboration with live jazz, and the restaging of up to three works 

from the company’s repertoire. 

Genesee Valley Arts 

Foundation, Inc. (GeVa 

Theatre) 

Rochester, NY ‘$20,000 

(theater) 

To support the production of 

Pierre Corneille’s The Illusion as 

adapted by Tony Kushner, in 

collaboration with the International Museum of Photography 

and Film of the George Eastman House. 
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Bonnie Rich and spirits of her departed relatives celebrate the Day of the Dead at the conclusion of Dias de Muertos, produced by 

Ballet Arizona in Phoenix. Photo by Tim Fuller. 

George Coates Performance 

Wo rks 

San Francisco, CA $25,000 

(theater) 

To support the development 

and production of 2o/2o Blake, 

a live, multimedia theater piece 

devoted to the work of the early 

romantic poet and artist 

William Blake. 

Goodspeed Opera House 

Foundation, Inc. 

East Haddam, CT $50,000 

(musical theater) 

To support the creation and 

presentation of up to four new 

musicals as part of the New 

Musical Development Program. 

Gotham Dance, Inc. (Bebe 

Miller Company) 

New York, NY $20,000 

(dance) 

To support the performance 

and development of new work 

and national touring for the 

Bebe Miller Dance Company. 

Grass Roots Art and 

Community Efforts 

Hardwick, VT SZO, OOO 

(visual arts) 

To support the publication 2o 

Years of G.R.A.C.E -- An Inside 

View, a collection of work and 

biographies of self-taught artists 

in northern rural Vermont. 

Graywolf Press 

St. Paul, MN $90,000 

(literature) 

To support publication costs 

and related expenses, including 

royalty payments, for volumes 

of creative nonfiction. 
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Greater Washington 

Educational 

Telecommunications 

Association, Inc. (WETA) 

Arlington, VA Szoo, ooo 

(media arts) 

To support "The Kennedy Center Presents;’ two performing 

arts television specials to be nationally broadcast in 1997-98. 

Guadalupe Cultural Arts 

Center 

San Antonio, TX $z45,ooo 

(multidisciplinary) 

To support the presentation of 

Gateways: New Creative Collaborations with Mexico, a series of 

arts events which will involve 

U.S. Latino and Mexican borderlands visual artists, writers, 

musicians, dancers, filmmakers, 

dramatists, and actors; and to 

support a staff position for the 

National Association of Latino 

Arts and Culture. 

Guild Complex 

Chicago, IL $9,o15 

(literature) 

To support Poets Across the Generations, a series of readings featuring writers of three generations on each program. 

Guild Complex 

(as fiscal agent for Tia Chua 

Press) 

Chicago, IL $1o, ooo 

(literature) 

To support production costs 

and related expenses for up to 

four books of poetry. 

Guthrie Theater Foundation 

Minneapolis, MN $z25,ooo 

(theater) 

To support a production of Black 

No More, adapted by Syl Jones 

from George S. Schuyler’s novel. 

Handel and Haydn Society 

Boston, MA $40,000 

(music) 

To support artists’ fees and 

related costs for the Symphony 

Series in 1997-98. 

Hartford Stage Company 

Hartford, CT $90,000 

(theater) 

To support the production of a 

new adaptation, commissioned 

from the playwright Jose 

Rivera, of Calderon’s seldomproduced 17th century masterpiece of the Spanish Golden 

Age, Life Is A Dream. 

Harvestworks, Inc. 

New York, NY $37,500 

(media arts) 

To support three artists’ residencies, the commission of four 

new works, and increased access 

for artists to sophisticated production equipment. 

Headlands Center for the Arts 

Sausalito, CA $2o, ooo 

(multidisciplinary) 

To support residencies for one 

invited national artist and up to 

eight artists from Ohio and/or 

North Carolina, sponsored in 

collaboration with the Ohio 

and North Carolina state arts 

agencies during 1997-98. 

Heart of the Beast Theatre 

Minneapolis, MN $35,ooo 

(theater) 

To support the development and 

production of a new experimental theater piece which will blend 

music, ritual, puppetry, and poetry into an artistic ceremony. 

Helena Presents 

Helena, MT $50,000 

(presenting) 

To support the Cultural 

Crossings series, including performances, residencies, and 

teacher-training and school 

activities. 

Henry Gallery Association, Inc. 

Seattle, WA $50,000 

(museum) 

To support an exhibition of 

work by contemporary American artists Tony Oursler, Inigo 

Manglano-Ovalle, and lennifer 

Steinkamp, and education programs at the University of 

Washington’s Henry Gallery. 

Hiddenlte Center, Inc. 

Hiddenite, NC $1oo, ooo 

(local arts agencies) 

To support artists’ fees and the 

development of a computer 

network for the Southern Circuits Consortium. 

Honolulu Theatre for Youth 

Honolulu, HI $40,000 

(theater) 

To support the commissioning 

and development of up to two 

new plays and the presentation 

of one of the plays through 

Hothouse, the Center for New 

Play Development program. 
GRANTS AND AWARDS
 

Hostos Community College 

Advisory Council 

Bronx, NY $~8,ooo 

(music) 

To support a series of six Latin 

jazz concerts at the Hostos Center in x997-98. 

Hostos Community College 

Advisory Council 

(for the Latin American 

Writers Institute) 

Bronx, NY $20,000 

(literature) 

To support the LibroFest Latino 

BookFest and the U.S. Latino Poetry Festival in the South Bronx. 

House Foundation for the Arts, 

Inc. (Meredith Monk/The 

House) 

New York, NY $55,000 

(dance) 

To support the creation, development, production, and tour 

of The Grandmother Project, a 

new work by Meredith Monk. 

Howard County Poetry and 

Literature Society, Inc. 

Columbia, MD $20,000 

(literature) 

To support a residency and media project featuring nationally 

known and regional writers. 

Hubbard Street Dance Chicago 

Chicago, IL $70,000 

(dance) 

To support salary costs for 

dancers and space rental for rehearsal time in order to maintain 

the active repertoire, revive older 

pieces, and create new works. 

Illusion Theater and School, Inc. 

Minneapolis, MN $zl,ooo 

(theater) 

To support the annual Fresh Ink 

series of new works and worksin-progress. 

Imago, The Theatre Mask 

Ensemble 

Portland, OR $1o, ooo 

(theater) 

To support the creation and presentation of a new theater work 

exploring a surrealistic view of 

metaphor, to premiere in Portland, Oregon in the fall of 1997. 

Independent Eye, Ltd. 

Philadelphia, PA $z4,5oo 

(theater) 

To support expansion and enhancement of the high school 

touring repertory which will include presenting A Friend from 

High School and Dividing Lines 

throughout the Mid-Atlantic, 

and creating a new work, 

Frankenstein. 

Independent Media Artists of 

Georgia, Etc., Inc. 

Atlanta, GA $50,000 

(media arts) 

To support the scripting and 

pre-production costs of the 

documentary feature film 

BlackSouth: The Life Journey of 

Zora Neale Hurston, by filmmakers Kristy Andersen and 

Julie Dash. 

Indiana Repertory Theatre, Inc. 

Indianapolis, IN $40,000 

(theater) 

To support the consortium request with Mad River Theater 

Works for the costs of commissioning, producing, and touring 

a play based on the real-life 

story of Frances Slocum. 

Indiana State Symphony 

Society, Inc. 

Indianapolis, IN $45,000 

(music) 

To support the Indianapolis 

Symphony’s American Music 

Festival in June 1998 of works 

by American composers, including works originally composed for film and live theater. 

Installation Gallery 

San Diego, CA $20,000 

(visual arts) 

To support the development 

and realization of new works in 

public spaces by four American 

artists: Vito Acconci, Judith 

Barry, Gary Simmons, and Nari 

Ward. 

Institute for Spanish Arts 

(Maria Benitez Teatro 

Flamenco) 

Santa Fe, NM $25,000 

(dance) 

To support the self-produced 

and touring performances of El 

Amor Brujo, choreographed by 

Maria Benitez for Maria Benitez 

Teatro Flamenco. 

Inta, Inc. (Eiko & Koma) 

New York, NY $35,000 

(dance) 

To support a new dance work, 

River, accompanied by the Kronos Quartet. 

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International Association of 

Jazz Educators 

Manhattan, KS $40,000 

(music) 

To support artists’ fees and production expenses for the presentation of internationally 

prominent jazz artists at the 

1998 International Association 

of Jazz Educators Conference 

and Music Festival. 

International Center of 

Photography 

New York, NY $1oo, ooo 

(museum) 

To support a traveling exhibition 

of the work of American photographer Weegee, with accompanying education programs. 

International Sculpture 

Center, Inc. 

Washington, DC $20,000 

(visual arts) 

To support Sculpture at the End 

of the zoth Century, a project for 

Sculpture magazine that includes 

a series of articles surveying 

contemporary sculptors and a 

series of commissioned projects. 

Interreligious Council of 

Central New York 

Syracuse, NY $37,500 

(multidisciplinary) 

To support the Southeast Asian 

Center’s public presentations 

and workshops of a wide range 

of culturally based art forms 

taught by elders to refugee 

youth and the community. 

Isabella Stewart Gardner 

Museum, Inc. 

Boston, MA $40,000 

(museum) 

To support an artist’s residency 

and touring exhibition of new 

work by photographer Abelardo 

Morell, with an accompanying 

catalogue and education programs. 

Jacksonville Symphony 

Association 

Jacksonville, FL $35,000 

(music) 

To support commissioning and 

performances of an orchestral 

work by Richard Danielpour for 

symphony orchestra, mezzo soprano, and baritone. 

Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, 

Inc. 

Lee, MA $85,ooo 

(dance) 

To support the New England 

Dance Project, a consortium of 

four presenting organizations, 

which will encourage the development and performances of 

up to four artists’ projects. 

Japan Society, Inc. 

New York, NY $60,000 

(presenting) 

To support the Japanese Theatre in the World project, a major part of the celebration of 

the Society’s 9oth anniversary. 

Jazz in the City 

San Francisco, CA $1oo, ooo 

(music) 

To support artists’ fees, publicity, and marketing costs for the 

1997 San Francisco Jazz Festival. 

Jazz in Flight 

Oakland, CA $1o, ooo 

(music) 

To support the eighth annual 

Eddie Moore Festival in the 

summer of 1997. 

Jazz Institute of Chicago, Inc. 

Chicago, IL $6,000 

(music) 

To support musicians’ fees for 

the a997 Chicago Jazz Festival. 

Jazz Tap Ensemble 

Los Angeles, CA $5o, ooo 

(dance) 

To support the assembly of a 

touring version of Interplay, 

created for the company by tap 

master Jimmy Slyde, as well as 

works by company members. 

Jewish Film Festival 

San Francisco, CA $15,ooo 

(media arts) 

To support the 1997 annual Jewish Film Festival. 

Jewish Museum 

New York, NY $75,000 

(museum) 

To support an exhibition of the 

work of American artist Ben 

Shahn, with an accompanying 

catalogue and education programs. 

Joe Goode Performance Group 

San Francisco, CA $25,000 

(musical theater) 

To support the creation of a 

new contemporary musicaldance theater work in collaboration with composer-lyricist 

Robin Holcomb. 

John F. Kennedy Center for the 

Performing Arts 

Washington, DC $98,500 

(dance) 

To support a dance series during the a997-98 season that celebrates the contributions made 

by African-American dancers 

and choreographers to American modern dance and ballet. 
GRANTS AND AWARDS
 

Johns Hopkins University 

Baltimore, MD $50,000 

(media arts) 

To support the production and 

national radio broadcast of the 

Baltimore Symphony Casual 

Concerts with David Zinman. 

Jomandi Productions, Inc. 

Atlanta, GA $35,000 

(theater) 

To support the development of 

original repertoire through the 

readings of two new musical 

plays, Higher Ground and On 

Sacred Ground, culminating in 

the full production of one of 

the new works. 

Jos6 Limon Dance Foundation 

New York, NY $77,500 

(dance) 

To support artistic salaries and 

touring expenses associated 

with the revival and presentation of classic modern dances 

choreographed by Mr. Limon 

and his mentor Doris 

Humphrey, marking the company’s golden anniversary. 

Joyce Theater Foundation, Inc. 

New York, NY $200,000 

(dance) 

To support the Altogether Different dance series which showcases small dance companies, 

and up to three international 

presentations. 

Jump-Start Performance 

Company 

San Antonio, TX $10,000 

(theater) 

To support the creation and 

production of original company-produced performance 

works and the ongoing WIP 

( Wednesdays-in-Performance, 

Works-in-Progress) series. 

Juneau Jazz & Classics 

Juneau, AK $12,ooo 

(music) 

To support fees and travel costs 

for American artists for the 1997 

Juneau Jazz and Classics Festival, 

including a series of concerts, 

workshops, open rehearsals, free 

performances, radio broadcasts, 

and school assemblies. 

Junebug Productions 

New Orleans, LA $75,000 

(theater) 

To support the Environmental 

Justice Project, a public festival 

of arts events which will include 

the commissioning and presenting of original works. 

Kansas City Symphony 

Kansas City, MO $50,000 

(music) 

To support costs associated 

with up to six sets of the symphony’s Classical Series concerts during 1997-98. 

Karamu House 

Cleveland, OH $20,000 

(musical theater) 

To support the production of 

Langston Hughes’ Black Nativity, to be performed at the 

Cleveland Convention Center 

Music Hall. 

Katonah Museum of Art, Inc. 

Katonah, NY $20,000 

(museum) 

To support a traveling exhibition of the work of artist Pavel 

Tchelitchew, with an accompanying catalogue and education 

programs. 

Kearny Street Workshop, Inc. 

San Francisco, CA $1o, ooo 

(music) 

To support the commissioning 

of a work by Horace Tapscott 

and its performance by Jon Jang 

and the Pan Asian Arkestra at 

the Asian American Jazz Festival in San Francisco in 1998. 

King County Arts Commission 

Seattle, WA $60,000 

(locals arts agencies) 

To support dance presentations 

by the King County Performance Network, a consortium 

of local arts agencies. 

Kings Majestic Corporation 

Brooklyn, NY $50,000 

(presenting) 

To support performances by international artists during the 

1997 and 1998 World Series, a 

festival that explores ways world 

cultures influence each other 

and how they have helped 

shape American art. 

Kitka, Inc. 

Oakland, CA $1o, ooo 

(music) 

To support the choral touring 

program Braided Voices in 

1997-98, showcasing traditional 

and contemporary songs from 

Balkan and Slavic women’s traditions. 

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Knoxville Symphony 

Society, Inc. 

Knoxville, TN $z5,ooo 

(music)
 

To support two performances
 

of Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana, 

presented as a choral cantata. 

Koncepts Cultural Gallery 

Oakland, CA $15,ooo 

(multidisciplinary) 

To support the presentation of 

poetry and music performances 

designed to develop new audiences and provide opportunities for under-recognized 

artists. 

Kronos Performing Arts 

Association 

San Francisco, CA $1oo, ooo 

(music) 

To support the 25th Anniversary 

Commissioning and Performance Project in which at least 

ten new works will be commissioned and performed in as 

many as twenty communities. 

Kuumbwa Jazz Society 

Santa Cruz, CA $15,ooo 

(music) 

To support weekly performances by emerging and established jazz artists, and educational outreach activities that 

include jazz residencies. 

La Pena Cultural Center, Inc. 

Berkeley, CA S25,ooo 

(presenting) 

To support the multidisciplinary performing arts series 

Multicultural Majority: Exploring Cultural Identity. 

Lafayette College 

Easton, PA $22,500
 

(music)
 

To support the 1997-98 performance series Seeing the Music,
 

Hearing the Dance.
 

Lake George Arts Project, Inc. 

Lake George, NY $9,000 

(music) 

To support artists’ fees and production costs for the Lake 

George Jazz Weekend during 

1997. 

Lakota Fund 

Kyle, SD $25,000 

(media arts) 

To support the production of 

Oyate Ta Olowan (Songs of the 

People), a series of half-hour 

radio programs featuring traditional Native American music. 

Lansing Symphony 

Association, Inc. 

Lansing, MI $15,ooo 

(music) 

To support a one-year string 

quartet residency program in 

1998-99, that will include performances in schools and at 

area public functions, bookstores, libraries, and businesses; 

mentoring programs for students; and full concerts. 

Library of American Landscape 

History, Inc. 

Amherst, MA $10,000 

(design) 

To support the development of 

a traveling photographic exhibition based on the book Landscapes of the American Country 

Place Era, which features private 

residences circa 1920. 

Light Factory 

Charlotte, NC $2o, ooo 

(visual arts) 

To support the exhibition, catalogue and tour of "Women of 

the Photo League," which will 

examine the active role played 

by women in the photographic 

documentation of urban and 

rural life between 1936 and 1951. 

Light Work Visual Studies, Inc. 

Syracuse, NY $5o, ooo 

(visual arts) 

To support up to 15 one-month 

residencies for artists to work in 

the photography and computer 

lab facilities, in 1997-98. 

Lincoln Center for the 

Performing Arts, Inc. 

New York, NY $15o, ooo 

(presenting) 

To support the Lincoln Center 

Festival 97 of opera, dance, theater, music, and video, featuring 

American and international 

artists and companies. 

LINES Contemporary Ballet 

San Francisco, CA $40,000 

(dance) 

To support the creation of a 

new ballet by Artistic Director 

Alonzo King, scored by Moses 

Sedler, to be presented during 

the 1997-98 season. 

LINES Contemporary Ballet (as 

fiscal agent for La TaniaFlamenco Music and Dance) 

San Francisco, CA $23,5oo 

(dance) 

To support the revival and tour 

of Abrazo by La Tania-Flamenco Music and Dance. 
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Chanticleer, an "orchestra of voices" from San Francisco, is performing newly discovered works from Mexico’s Baroque period. 

Photo by Guido Harari. 

Long Beach Symphony Lookingglass Theatre Company CD-ROM project by Christine 

Association Chicago, IL $40,000 Tamblyn to be presented in a 

Long Beach, CA $18,ooo (theater) publicly accessible digital sta­

(music) To support the production of tion in the Center’s gallery. 

To support a consortium pro- George, an adaptation by the 

ject involving the Akron, Long playwright John McCray of the Los Angeles Philharmonic 

Beach, and Wichita Symphony novel Le Mot Suisit Le Lifby Association 

Orchestras to commission, per- French writer Henri Troyat. Los Angeles, CA $2oo, ooo 

form, and broadcast orchestral (music) 

works by American composers. Los Angeles Center for To support a festival of works of 

Photographic Studies Gyorgy Ligeti, including perforLos Angeles, CA $20, ooo mances, symposia, and docu­

(visual arts) mentary screenings. 

To support a large-scale exhibition of photography by 

Clement Shuji Hanami and a 
Grants to 

Organizations 

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Presentation 

Los Angeles Poverty 

Department 

Los Angeles, CA $20,000 

(theater) 

To support a collaboration between the Los Angeles Poverty 

Department and the theater 

group Contraband to train 

artistic ensembles and teach 

workshops. 

Lucinda Childs Dance 

Foundation, Inc. 

New York, NY $4o, ooo 

(dance) 

To support the development of 

a new dance by Lucinda Childs. 

Lyric Opera Center for 

American Artists 

Chicago, IL $25,ooo 

(opera) 

To support the world premiere 

of Between Two Worlds by Shulamit Ran, with libretto by 

Charles Kondek, based on 

S. Ansky’s play, The Dybbuk. 

Lyric Opera of Chicago 

Chicago, IL $200,000 

(opera) 

To support production costs for 

the world premiere of the opera 

Amistad, by Anthony Davis with 

libretto by Thulani Davis, during 1997-1998. 

MA-YI Filipino Theater 

Ensemble, Inc. 

New York, NY $z9,ooo 

(theater) 

To support the production of 

Nick ]oaquin’s Portrait of An 

Artist, in conjunction with the 

international celebration of lOO 

years of Philippine independence. 

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Madison Opera, Inc. 

Madison, WI $20,000 

(opera) 

To support the production of 

Help. Help. The Globolinks by 

Gian Carlo Menotti. 

Madison Symphony Orchestra, 

inc. 

Madison, WI $20,000 

(music) 

To support artists’ fees and related costs for the music series 

Classical Cache, featuring rarely 

performed 20th century works, 

primarily by American composers. 

Maine College of Art 

Portland, ME $30,000 

(design) 

To support an exhibition entitled "Constructed Views: Reimagining the Coastal Landscape," focusing on several of 

Maine’s coastal parks as nature 

experiences, and a symposium 

of regional and national design 

professionals. 

Manhattan Class Company, Inc. 

New York, NY $z6,ooo 

(theater) 

To support Manhattan Class 

Company’s Summer Play Party 

of works written by high school 

students, and its companion 

program, the MCC Theater 

Pass, offering free admission to 

students, their families and 

friends. 

Manhattan Tap, Inc. 

New York, NY $15,ooo 

(dance) 

To support the creation of a 

new work choreographed by 

Heather Cornell in collaboration with composer-dancerbody percussionist Keith Terry. 

Manhattan Theatre Club, Inc. 

New York, NY $80,000 

(theater) 

To support a major creation 

and development initiative 

during 1997-99 consisting of 

two new musicals (one by 

Susan Birkenhead and Lucy 

Simon, and one by Frederick 

Freyer and Patrick Cook) and 

four new plays (one each by 

Cheryl West, Elizabeth Egloff, 

Regina Taylor, and Mary Zimmerman). 

Martha Graham School of 

Contemporary Dance 

New York, NY $40,000 

(dance) 

To support the revival and reconstruction of the classic Secular Games, including a new 

score commissioned from Pat 

Metheny. 

Maryland Art Place, Inc. 

Baltimore, MD $15,ooo 

(visual arts) 

To support the 1997-98 Critics’ 

Residency Program, to encourage and disseminate regional 

art criticism and cultivate the 

general public’s understanding 

of contemporary art. 
GRANTS AND AWARDS 

McCarter Theatre Company 

Princeton, NJ $70,000 

(theater) 

To support the production of 

The House of Bernarda Alba by 

Frederico Garcia Lorca, to be 

directed by Emily Mann. 

Metropolitan Museum of Art 

New York, NY $200,000 

(museum) 

To support the exhibition "Flowers Underfoot: Indian Carpets 

of the Mughal Era," and accompanying education programs. 

Metropolitan Opera 

Association, Inc. 

New York, NY $350,000 

(opera) 

To support five new productions during 1997-1998. 

Mettawee Theatre 

Company, Inc. 

Salem, NY $z7,ooo 

(theater) 

To support a new production 

and the twenty-first annual tour 

of outdoor performances in 

New York State and New England. 

Miami Art Museum of Dade 

County 

Miami, FL $50,000 

(museum) 

To support an exhibition of the 

work of Cuban-American artist 

Carlos Mfonzo and an accompanying catalogue. 

Miami City Ballet, Inc. 

Miami Beach, FL SZOO, OOO 

(dance) 

To support the acquisition of 

Paul Taylor’s "Funny Papers" 

and the creation of The House 

of Bernarda Alba, choreographed by resident choreographer Jimmy Gamonet De Los 

Heros. 

Mid Atlantic Arts 

Foundation, Inc. 

Baltimore, MD $13o, ooo 

(visual arts) 

To support Artist as Catalyst, a 

new program intended to facilitate collaborative relationships 

between visual artists, critics, 

community organizations, and 

arts centers, that will result in 

the creation of new works. 

Milkweed Editions, Inc. 

Minneapolis, MN $40,000 

(literature) 

To support publication costs, 

authors’ royalties, and national 

distribution of up to six books. 

Millay Colony for the Arts, Inc. 

Austerlitz, NY 

(multidisciplinary) $1o, ooo 

To support one-month artists’ 

residencies for up to nine artists. 

Millennium Film Workshop, Inc. 

New York, NY $20,000 

(media arts) 

To support the exhibition of 

experimental film and video 

art, including in-person presentations, and filmmaking workshops. 

Mills College 

Oakland, CA $5,000 

(music) 

To support artists’ fees and related costs for contemporary 

music concerts in 1997-98. 

Minnesota Orchestral 

Association 

Minneapolis, MN $1oo, ooo 

(music) 

To support, in collaboration 

with the Science Museum of 

Minnesota, the creation and 

performances of an interactive 

work for full orchestra, actors, 

and participatory audience, involving fifth- and sixth-grade 

school children. 

Mixed Blood Theatre Company 

Minneapolis, MN $25,000 

(theater) 

To support the creation and 

production of a new work by a 

company member. 

Moanalua Gardens 

Foundation, Inc. 

Honolulu, HI $30,000 

(folk and traditional arts) 

To support the Prince Lot Hula 

Festival and a series of introductory workshops on the history 

and significance of ancient and 

modern native Hawaiian hula. 

Monadnock I~lusic 

Peterborough, NH $15,ooo 

(music) 

To support musicians’ fees and 

related costs for free concerts in 

rural towns and villages during 

the Monadnock Music Festival 

in 1997. 

Mostly Music, Inc. 

Chicago, IL $5,000 

(music) 

To support The Rise of an American Music Identity: (1) Roots 

and Branches and (2) Flowering 

of the New Music, a three-year 

retrospective of 20th century 

American chamber music. 

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Cityfolk will present a new collaboration between Rhythm in Shoes, the music and dance ensemble pictured above, and 

Crosspulse, a music and movement ensemble, in April 1999 at Memorial Hall in Dayton, Ohio. Photo by Andy Snow. 

Mount Saint Mary’s College 

Los Angeles, CA $20,000 

(music) 

To support artists’ fees, related 

marketing and production 

costs, and educational outreach 

activities for the Da Camera 

Society’s 25th anniversary series, titled Chamber Music in 

Historic Sites. 

l~loving Image, Inc. 

New York, NY $30,000
 

(media arts)
 

To support Truth 24 Frames Per
 

Second: American Cinema VeritY,
 

196o-z97o, a film series examining this crucial decade in documentary filmmaking. 

Muntu Dance Theatre 

Chicago, IL $20,000 

(dance) 

To support the commissioning 

of Amaniyea Payne to choreograph Roots ’n’ Blues, an exploration of African-American cultural expressions which are 

rooted in African origins. 
GRANTS AND AWARDS 

Museum of African American 

History 

Detroit, MI $25,000 

(music) 

To support the creation, presentation, and installation of the 

audio component of a longterm exhibition, featuring 

African-American history and 

culture. 

Museum of Contemporary Art, 

Los Angeles 

Los Angeles, CA $27,700 

To amend a previous grant to 

support the traveling exhibition 

"Out of Actions: Performance 

and the Object," an accompanying catalogue, and education 

programs. 

Museum of Contemporary Art, 

San Diego 

La ]olla, CA $1oo, ooo 

(museum) 

To support The PanAmerican 

Project, a series of exhibitions, 

educational programs and residencies concerned with contemporary artists throughout 

the Americas. 

Museum of Jurassic Technology 

Culver City, CA $z5,ooo 

(museum) 

To support an exhibition titled 

"The World Is Bound in Secret 

Knots: Gaspard Schott and the 

Bibliotheca Unbrarum of the 

Musaeum Kirchianum," with an 

accompanying catalogue. 

Music at Angel Fire, Inc. 

Angel Fire, NM $9,000 

(music) 

To support a touring and outreach program serving the rural 

communities of Angel Fire, Raton, Taos, and Las Vegas, New 

Mexico; youth concerts in Taos 

and Colfax counties; and regional and national broadcasts. 

Music From China, Inc. 

New York, NY $13,ooo 

(music) 

To support a one-week residency by Music from China at 

the Peabody Conservatory in 

Baltimore. 

Music-Theatre Group, Inc. 

New York, NY $65,000 

(musical theater) 

To support a national tour of 

Juan Darien and the development, production, and tour of 

You Don’t Miss Water. 

Nashville Symphony 

Association 

Nashville, TN $30,000 

(music) 

To support the commissioning 

of a work by composer Michael 

Abels and its performance for 

the 1998 Martin Luther King, ]r. 

Concert titled "Let Freedom 

Ring," both in full concert and 

in specially designed performances in local schools. 

National Alliance for Musical 

Theatre, Inc. 

New York, NY $z5,ooo 

(musical theater) 

To support the z997 Festival of 

New Musicals. 

National Symphony Orchestra 

Association 

Washington, DC $70,000 

(music) 

To support a seven-week concert series in 1998, featuring the 

performance of compositions 

drawn from manuscript collections of the Library of Congress 

and including outreach programs with local schools as well 

as national broadcasts. 

National Theatre of the Deaf, 

Inc. 

Chester, CT $40,000 

(theater) 

To support an original translation and adaptation of Henrik 

Ibsen’s Peer Gynt combining 

American Sign Language with 

the spoken word, for the company’s touring performances in 

the Midwest, Southern, Atlantic, and New England states. 

New City Theater 

Seattle, WA $z5,25o 

(theater) 

To support the commission and 

production of a new play by 

Richard Foreman for Theater 

Zero, the resident company of 

the New City Theater and Art 

Center. 

New Community Cinema Club, 

Inc. 

Huntington, NY $20,000 

(media arts) 

To support the 17th Annual International Women’s Film and 

Video Festival and the z4th Long 

Island Film Festival in 1997. 

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Organizations 

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New Dramatists, Inc. 

New York, NY $15,ooo 

(musical theater) 

To support actor and director 

fees and artistic program 

salaries for the new play and 

musical workshop-presentation 

components of the New 

Dramatists’ playwright development program. 

New Federal Theatre, Inc. 

New York, NY $50,000 

(theater) 

To support the development, 

workshop, and production of 

Christopher Columbus by Nikos 

Kazantzakis. 

New Hampshire Mime 

Company 

Portsmouth, NH SlO, OOO 

(theater) 

To support Pontine Movement 

Theatre’s 1997-98 touring program, which includes original 

adaptations of Our Town and 

The Country Of The Pointed 

Firs; a new work, Voices From 

The Spirit Land; and educational programs. 

New Jersey Shakespeare 

Festival of Morris County, Inc. 

Madison, NJ $1o, ooo 

(theater) 

To support Shakespeare Live, a 

new school touring program 

that will bring abbreviated 

Shakespeare productions to 

young audiences in New Jersey 

on a year-round basis. 

New Museum of Contemporary 

Art 

New York, NY $5o, ooo 

(museum) 

To support an exhibition of the 

work of Brazilian artist Cildo 

Meireles, with an accompanying 

catalogue. 

New Music Consort, Inc. 

New York, NY $1o, ooo 

(music) 

To support artists’ fees and production costs for concerts of 

new music in several locations 

in Manhattan and Queens. 

New Orleans Ballet Association 

New Orleans, LA $37,500 

(dance) 

To support the presentation of 

performances by the Pittsburgh 

Ballet Theatre and the Jos6 

Limon Dance Company. 

New Radio & Performing 

Arts, Inc. 

Staten Island, NY $35,000 

(media arts) 

To support the production and 

1998 broadcast of New American 

Radio, an innovative radio series presenting half-hour works 

created by new and established 

artists specifically for the radio 

medium. 

New Theater, Inc. 

Coral Gables, FL $5,ooo 

(theater) 

To support the presentation of 

the 1997 New Works Project, a 

festival of new plays by Florida 

playwrights. 

New York City Ballet, Inc. 

New York, NY $125,ooo 

(dance) 

To support the revival and presentation of lerome Robbins’ 

Les Noces, set to a musical and 

vocal score by Igor Stravinsky. 

New York Foundation for the 

Arts (as fiscal agent for Check 

Your Body at the Door) 

New York, NY $3o, ooo 

(media arts) 

To support the post-production 

costs of a video project to document the work and lives of New 

York dancers. 

New York Foundation for the 

Arts (as fiscal agent for Nobody 

Knows Productions) 

New York, NY S175,ooo 

(media arts) 

To support the production and 

post-production of a featurelength documentary film on the 

achievements of the American 

theater director and producer 

Joseph Papp, by filmmakers 

Tracie Holder and Karen 

Thorsen. 

New York Foundation for the 

Arts (as fiscal agent for Art 21, 

Inc.) 

New York, NY Suo, ooo 

(media arts) 

To support post-production 

costs of a documentary series, 

An American Love Story, by 

Iennifer Fox. 
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New York School for Circus 

Arts (Big Apple Circus, Ltd.) 

New York, NY $75,00o 

(theater) 

To support the development 

and tour of a circus show celebrating the Big Apple Circus’ 

2oth birthday, to be performed 

in the Northeast and Midwest. 

New York Shakespeare Festival 

(The Public Theater) 

New York, NY $162,5oo 

(theater) 

To support production costs of 

Henry VIII, at the Delacorte 

Theater in Central Park, and 

Macbeth, at the Public Theater, 

during the summer and fall of 

1997. 

New York Theatre Workshop, 

inc. 

New York, NY $35,ooo 

(theater) 

To support the development 

and production of the musical 

Bright Lights, Big City by Paul 

Scott Goodman based on the 

novel by Jay McInerney. 

Newark Museum Association 

Newark, NJ $100,000 

(museum) 

To support the traveling exhibition "Wrapped in Pride: GhanaJan ’Kente’ and African-American Identity;’ with an 

accompanying catalogue and 

education programs. 

Newark Public Radio, Inc. 

Newark, NJ $35,000 

(media arts)
 

To support JazzSet with Branford Marsalis, a nationally
 

broadcast radio series.
 

Niagara Council of the Arts, 

Inc. 

Niagara Falls, NY $13,500 

(local arts agencies) 

To support a consortium for a 

writing and community programs residency for poet and 

writer Joan Murray. 

Nikolais/Louis Foundation for 

Dance 

New York, NY $25,000 

(dance) 

To support expenses incurred 

for dance rehearsals and performances at the Joyce Theater. 

North Carolina Museum of Art 

Foundation, Inc. 

Raleigh, NC $zo, ooo 

(museum) 

To support the publication of a 

book of responses by North 

Carolina writers to works of art 

in the museum’s permanent 

collection, and honoraria for 

the authors to present readings 

of their work. 

North Country Chamber 

Players, Inc. 

Franconia, NH $5,ooo 

(music) 

To support a newly-commissioned composition, ensemble 

residencies, and related costs for 

an American chamber music 

retrospective. 

Oakland Ballet 

Oakland, CA $20,000 

(dance) 

To support the commissioning 

and presentation of a new work 

by Betsy Erickson and associated outreach activities. 

Ohio Chamber Orchestra 

Society 

Beachwood, OH $15,ooo 

(music) 

To support the Orchestra’s 1997 

Cain Park free concerts: one 

celebrating the musical traditions of Eastern European and 

Jewish peoples; the other featuring signers from the local 

deaf community. 

Ohio Historical Society 

Columbus, OH $75,000 

(multidisciplinary) 

To support the National AfroAmerican Museum and Cultural Center’s exhibition based 

on African-American dance, 

and the commissioning of related choreography. 

Ojai Festivals, Ltd. 

Ojai, CA $20,000 

(music) 

To support artistic fees associated with the 51st Ojai Music 

Festival in June 1997. 

OK MOZART, Inc. 

Bartlesville, OK $6o, ooo 

(music)
 

To support the 1997 OK
 

MOZART International Festival, including the world premiere of a new opera, Ochelata’s
 

Wedding, a range of concerts
 

and related events, and national
 

broadcasts.
 

Old Globe Theatre 

San Diego, CA $75,000 

(theater) 

To support the development 

and production of To Gleam It 

Around, To Show My Shine by 

Bonnie Lee Moss Rattner, an 

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adaptation of Zora Neale 

Hurston’s novel Their Eyes Were 

Watching God, with music composed by Wynton Marsalis. 

171 Cedar, Inc. 

Corning, NY $15,ooo 

(dance) 

To support a consortium project of neighboring presenters 

to launch a premier dance series 

in the southern tier of New York. 

Ontological-Hysteric Theater, 

Inc. 

New York, NY $30,000 

(theater) 

To support the creation and 

production of an original work 

to be written, directed, and designed by Richard Foreman, entitled Benita Canova. 

OPERA America, Inc. 

Washington, DC $5o, ooo 

(opera) 

To support OPERA America’s 

13o professional opera companies nationwide by facilitating 

productions of second and subsequent performances of new 

American works. 

Opera Carolina 

Charlotte, NC $20,000 

(opera) 

To support production costs of 

The Crucible by Robert Ward 

and accompanying educational 

events during 1997-98. 

Opera Pacific 

Irvine, CA $35,ooo 

(opera) 

To support a production of The 

Daughter of the Regimen t by 

Donizetti. 

Opera Theatre of Saint Louis 

St. Louis, MO $z7o, ooo 

(opera) 

To support the creation, development, world premiere, and 

tour of a new children’s opera, 

Black Cowboys by Adolphus 

Hailstork, and a workshop of 

Loss of Eden by Cary John 

Franklin. 

Orchestral Association 

(Chicago Symphony Orchestra) 

Chicago, IL $15o, ooo 

(music) 

To support a residency devoted 

exclusively to the performance 

of new, modern, and contemporary classical music, directed 

by Principal Guest Conductor 

Pierre Boulez. 

Oregon Shakespeare Festival 

Association 

Ashland, OR $zoo, ooo 

(theater) 

To support the New Play Development Program that includes 

the commissioning and development of new plays by the following artists of national 

stature: Sandra Deer, Anthony 

Clarvoe, lerry Turner and Octavio Solis. 

Oregon Symphony Association 

Portland, OR $zoo, ooo 

(music) 

To support the performance of 

orchestral works that have been 

inspired by works of visual art, 

preo and post-concert discussions, children’s outreach programs, and collaborations between the orchestra and visual 

arts organizations. 

Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, 

Inc. 

New York, NY $5o, ooo 

(music) 

To support the preparation and 

performances of new works by 

American composers Elizabeth 

Brown, David Rakowski, and 

Ornette Coleman; and related 

pre-concert lectures, program 

notes, and open rehearsals. 

Other Minds 

San Francisco, CA $1o, ooo 

(music) 

To support costs associated with 

the 1997 Other Minds Festival. 

Owensboro Symphony 

Orchestra, Inc. 

Owensboro, KY $2o, ooo 

(music) 

To support in-school performances by small ensembles of 

the symphony’s principal musicians during 1997-99. 

Painted Bride Art Center, Inc. 

Philadelphia, PA $35,ooo 

(presenting) 

To support the Bride’s Onda 

Latina programming unit. 

Paper Bag Players, Inc. 

New York, NY $4o, ooo 

(theater) 

To support the creation and 

presentation of a one-hour 

show for children, to be performed regionally in a variety 

of venues. 
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Pat Graney Performance 

Seattle, WA 535,000 

(multidisciplinary) 

To support the creation of a 

new work through the collaboration of choreographer Pat 

Graney, visual artist Marilyn 

Lysohir, and composer Ellen 

Fullman. 

Paul Taylor Dance Foundation, 

Inc. 

New York, NY $15o, ooo 

(dance) 

To support touring performances and educational activities by the Paul Taylor Dance 

Company and Taylor 2, in 

Alaska, Texas, and the San Francisco Bay Area in 1997-98. 

Pennsylvania Public Radio 

Associates, Inc. 

Uwchland, PA $30,000 

(media arts) 

To support the production of 

concerts and feature programs 

for Echoes, a daily, two-hour, 

nationally broadcast radio series that brings new music to 

more than loo stations 

throughout the country. 

People’s Light & Theatre 

Company 

Malvern, PA 530,000 

(theater) 

To support the commissioning 

and development of works for 

Free Fest, a free-to-the-public 

outdoor event, as well as the 

Family Series, a series of plays 

for family audiences. 

Perseverance Theatre, Inc. 

Douglas, AK $40,000 

(theater) 

To support the development 

and production of Johnny’s Girl 

by Maskan writer Kim Rich, to 

be performed in Juneau, Anchorage, Fairbanks, and village 

communities. 

Persona Grata Productions, Inc. 

San Francisco, CA $35,ooo 

(media arts) 

To support the production of A 

Wok in Progress, an experimental video documentary by Paul 

Kwan and Arnold Iger. 

Philadelphia Chamber Music 

Society 

Philadelphia, PA 5zo, ooo 

(music) 

To support the Philadelphia 

Chamber Music Society’s 

Jazz/Cross Over Series. 

Philadelphia Museum of Art 

Philadelphia, PA 5200,000 

(museum) 

To support the traveling exhibition, "Art in Rome in the Eighteenth Century." 

Philadelphia Orchestra 

Association 

Philadelphia, PA 575,000 

(music) 

To support a series of concerts 

and related programs included 

in the Philadelphia Orchestra’s 

festivals in 1997-98. 

Philharmonia Baroque 

Orchestra 

San Francisco, CA 535,000 

(music) 

To support costs related to the 

West Coast premiere of Handel’s 

Hercules. 

Philharmonic Symphony 

Society of New York, Inc. (New 

York Philharmonic) 

New York, NY 515o, ooo 

(music) 

To support the "American Classics," the second of a four-year 

survey of 2oth century American music performed by the 

New York Philharmonic, to focus on vocal works and shorter 

orchestral compositions. 

Phoenix Art Museum 

Phoenix, AZ 575,000 

(museum) 

To support the traveling exhibition "Old Master Paintings on 

Copper, 1525-1775," with an 

accompanying catalogue and 

education programs. 

Phoenix Bach Choir 

Phoenix, AZ $5,000 

(music) 

To support costs of two concerts during 1997. 

Photographic Resource 

Center, Inc. 

Boston, MA 525,000 

(visual arts) 

To support the exhibition 

"Recollecting a Culture: Photographs from the FotoKino 

Archive, 1949-1989," with an 

accompanying catalogue and 

public education programs. 

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The Pick Up Performance 

Company, Inc. 

New York, NY $30,000 

(theater) 

To support the development of 

a new work, The First Picture 

Show, directed and choreographed by David Gordon with 

music composed by Philip 

Glass, through workshops in 

New York City and Los Angeles. 

Pierpont Morgan Library 

New York, NY $200,000 

(museum) 

To support an exhibition of European master drawings from 

Moscow and St. Petersburg, 

with an accompanying catalogue and education programs. 

Pilchuck Glass School 

Seattle, WA $15,ooo 

(visual arts) 

To support the 1997 Artist-inResidency Program, which will 

provide up to ten nationally 

known artists with the time, resources, facilities, and technical 

support to create and present 

new works in glass. 

Pittsburgh Children’s 

Festival, Inc. 

Pittsburgh, PA $15,ooo 

(presenting) 

To support the United States 

debut of two multidisciplinary 

puppet companies from the 

Netherlands during the 1997 

Festival. 

Pittsburgh Dance Alloy 

Pittsburgh, PA $15,ooo 

(dance) 

To support the research and 

creation of a new eveninglength work by David Dorfman 

and Mark Taylor for a consortium involving Pittsburgh 

Dance Alloy and the David 

Dorfman Dance Company. 

Pittsburgh Dance Council, Inc. 

Pittsburgh, PA $40,000 

(dance) 

To support the first year of a 

multi-year residency with the 

Philadelphia-based dance company Philadanco. 

Pittsburgh Symphony Society 

Pittsburgh, PA $75,ooo 

(music) 

To support the orchestra’s Faust 

Weekend, American Treasures 

series, and performance of the 

newly commissioned Concerto 

for Orchestra by Richard 

Danielpour during 1997-98. 

Plam Dancers, Inc. (Doug 

Elkins Dance Company) 

New York, NY $z4,ooo 

(dance) 

To support the creation of a 

new work by Artistic Director 

Doug Elkins. 

Playwrights’ Center, Inc. 

Minneapolis, MN $20,000 

(theater) 

To support PlayLabs, a national 

play development conference 

enabling playwrights to work 

with professional actors and directors, and culminating in 

staged public readings of their 

works. 

Playwrights Horizons, Inc. 

New York, IVY $75,000 

(theater) 

To support the activities of the 

African-American Playwrights 

Unit which includes a Monday 

night reading series and the 

production of Mud, River, Stone 

by Lynn Nottage. 

Plymouth Music Series 

Minneapolis, MN $35,000 

(music) 

To support Plymouth’s eighth 

annual Witness ’98 program 

celebrating Black History 

Month and including commissioning, performing, national 

broadcast, and in-depth school 

residency programs. 

Poetry Project, Ltd. 

New York, NY $2o, ooo 

(literature) 

To support the Poetry Project’s 

Wednesday and Monday Night 

Reading and Performance Series. 

Portland Art Museum 

Portland, OR $40,000 

(media arts) 

To support the Northwest Film 

and Video Festival, which showcases work by media artists living in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, 

Oregon, Washington, and 

British Columbia. 

Portland Performing Arts, Inc. 

Portland, ME $75,000 

(presenting) 

To support the Dialogues Project involving the creation, presentation, and touring of three 

programs: Cambodian/Contem­
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porary Dance; Gospel 

Choir/Contemporary Jazz Commissioning; and Los Ritmos 

Hispanos. 

Pregones Touring Puerto Rican 

Theatre Collection, Inc. 

Bronx, NY $55,000 

(theater) 

To support a touring project 

that will consist of residencies 

at theaters and cultural centers 

throughout the Northeast over 

a two-year period. 

Present Music, Inc. 

Milwaukee, WI $7,000 

(music) 

To support artists’ fees in connection with the creation of a 

new work by Turkish-American 

composer Kamran Ince, with 

performances in Madison and 

Milwaukee and broadcasts on 

Wisconsin Public Radio and 

National Public Radio. 

Printed Matter, Inc. 

New York, NY $17,ooo 

(visual arts) 

To support the publication of 

Printed Matter’s annual catalogue of artists’ publications. 

Project Artaud 

San Francisco, CA $20,000 

(visual arts) 

To support the Urban Renewal 

Laboratory Project, in which 

artists, architects, urban planners, computer programmers, 

and young people will collaborate to create a virtual model 

city online and an actual model 

city within the gallery. 

Project Row Houses 

Houston, TX $4o, ooo 

(visual arts) 

To support up to seven sitespecific installations by regionally and nationally recognized 

artists in renovated "shotgun" 

style 19th century houses. 

Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre 

Company, Inc. 

New York, NY $40,000 

(theater) 

To support the production of 

Baile Cangrejero, a collage of 

Afro-Caribbean poetry with 

music and choreography inspired by the African heritage 

common to the Spanish-speaking peoples of the Caribbean, 

during the 1997 summer tour. 

Quad City Arts, Inc. 

Rock Island, IL $25,000 

(local arts agencies) 

To support the Visiting Artist 

Series. 

Queens County Art and 

Cultural Center, Inc. 

Queens, NY $50,000 

(museum) 

To support an exhibition of the 

work of Cai Guo Qiang at the 

Queens Museum, with an accompanying catalogue and education programs. 

Quintessence Chamber 

Ensemble, Inc. 

Phoenix, AZ $7,000 

(music) 

To support artists’ fees and related costs for cross-cultural 

concerts for school children of 

the Crow Indian Reservation in 

Montana during 1997. 

Randolph Street Gallery, Inc. 

Chicago, IL $30,000 

(visual arts) 

To support Trace, a multidisciplinary project exploring the 

role of race and ethnicity in the 

construction of contemporary 

American identity. 

REPOhistory, Inc. 

New York, NY $z2,5oo 

(visual arts) 

To support Circulation, a public 

art project consisting of signs 

installed on light poles around 

New York City, created by teams 

of artists and historians. 

Rhode Island School of Design 

Providence, RI Szoo,ooo 

(museum) 

To support the re-installation 

of the museum’s classical antiquities permanent collections, 

accompanying education programs, and electronic publication. 

Ridiculous Theatrical 

Company, Inc. 

New York, NY $3o, ooo 

(theater) 

To support the production of 

Charles Ludlum’s The Grand 

Tarot directed by Everett Quinton; and Georg Ostermanto’s 

No Damn Good directed by 

Chuck Brown. 

Ringside, Inc.
 

(Elizabeth Streb/Ringside)
 

New York, NY $35,000 

(dance) 

To support the creation of two 

new works by Elizabeth Streb: 

"Across," which will feature 

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dancers on wheel-based platforms; and "Drop," which will 

explore the definition of 

ground. 

Robert W. Woodruff Arts 

Center, Inc. 

Atlanta, GA $75,000 

(theater) 

To support the Alliance Theatre 

Company’s creation and production of a new gospel musical, Jubilee, staged readings of 

other new works; and the addition of a full-time dramaturge 

for the Alliance Theatre Compan~ 

Rutgers, The State University 

of New Jersey 

New Brunswick, NI $50,00o 

(museum) 

To support the traveling exhibition "Russian Graphic Arts, 

1895-1935," and an accompanying catalogue, organized by the 

University’s lane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum. 

St. Luke’s Chamber 

Ensemble, Inc. 

New York, NY $5o, ooo 

(music) 

To support the Orchestra of St. 

Luke’s zsth Anniversary New 

Music Project, which involves 

commissions, performances, 

and a national radio broadcast. 

Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra 

Society 

St. Paul, MN $75,000 

(music) 

To support the Saint Paul 

Chamber Orchestra’s 1997-98 

Masterwork Series, its flagship 

program showcasing chamber 

orchestra repertoire. 

San Antonio, City of 

San Antonio, TX $7o,000 

(presenting) 

To support artists’ fees and related costs for up to four, oneweek residencies at the Carver 

Community Cultural Center 

during 1997-98. 

San Diego Commission for Arts 

& Culture 

San Diego, CA $15o, ooo 

(locals arts agencies) 

To support the creation of sitespecific artworks at the Point 

Loma Wastewater Treatment 

Plant. 

San Diego Opera Association 

San Diego, CA $50,000 

(opera) 

To support the presentation of 

Romeo et ]uliette by Charles 

Gounod. 

San Diego Repertory Theatre, 

Inc. 

San Diego, CA $40,000 

(theater) 

To support production costs for 

the premiere of A Quiet Love by 

Rick Najera. 

San Francisco Ballet 

Association 

San Francisco, CA $z25,000 

(dance) 

To support the creation of a 

new work by Artistic Director 

Helgi Tomasson; a collaboration with American Ballet Theatre and choreographer Lar 

Lubovitch; and the acquisition 

and commissioning of works by 

other choreographers. 

San Francisco Chanticleer, Inc. 

San Francisco, CA $20,000 

(music) 

To support the performance of 

newly discovered music written 

by native-born composers in 

Mexico during the Baroque Period, as well as concerts in San 

Francisco, Sacramento, Santa 

Clara, Petaluma, and Carmel. 

San Francisco Cinematheque 

San Francisco, CA $z2,5oo 

(media arts) 

To support the exhibition of alternative film and video art, including retrospectives of established media artists, and a 

multifaceted, four-part series 

devoted to new work that expands the boundaries of media 

art. 

San Francisco Contemporary 

Music Players 

San Francisco, CA $9,000 

(music) 

To support the presentation, in 

San Francisco, of five previously 

commissioned chamber works 

by composers Alvin Curran, 

Roberto Sierra, Hyo-Shin Na, 

Mario Davidovsky, and Yehudi 

Wyner. 

San Francisco Mime Troupe, 

Inc. 

San Francisco, CA $45,000 

(theater) 

To support the development 

and production of an original 

musical comedy play that will 

premiere in San Francisco, and 

then tour to Bay Area parks and 

throughout California. 
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Through Independent Media Artists of Georgia, Etc. in Atlanta, filmmakers Kristy 

Andersen and Julie Dash are producing a documentary about Zora Neale Hurston, 

an African-American novelist who recorded Black Southern folk culture. Art by 

Charles Greacon, courtesy of Kristy Andersen. 

San Francisco Symphony San Jose Symphony Association 

San Francisco, CA $175,ooo San Jose, CA $3o, ooo 

(music) (music) 

To support the San Francisco To support the presentation of 

Symphony’s Celebration of the Voices of America, a concert 

Sacred and Profane Festival in thematically based on celebratJune 1997, including perfor- ing the cultural diversity of 

mances, pre-concert lectures, America. 

chamber music performances, 

and recitals. 

Sandglass Center for Puppetry 

and Theater Research, Ltd. 

Putney, VT $1o, ooo 

(theater) 

To support the development, 

production, and tour of Never 

Been Anywhere, a collaboration 

between Sandglass Theater, a 

Vermont writer, and a composer. 

Santa Fe Opera Association 

Santa Fe, NM $1oo, ooo 

(opera) 

To support the world premiere 

of the opera Ashoka’s Dream, 

commissioned by the Santa Fe 

Opera and written by American 

composer Peter Lieberson. 

Santa Monica College 

Santa Monica, CA $32,000 

(media arts) 

To support the production and 

radio broadcast of a dramatic 

reading of Ross Macdonald’s 

novel The Zebra-Striped Hearse. 

Seattle Children’s Theatre 

Association 

Seattle, WA $35,000 

(theater) 

To support the commissioning 

and production of Pink and Say 

by Patricia Polacco with stage 

adaptation by OyamO. 

Seattle Group Theatre 

Seattle, WA $37,500 

(theater) 

To support the development 

and production of Keepers of 

the Dream, a multimedia performance piece inspired by the 

critically acclaimed anthology 

I Dream a World by Brian 

Lanker. 

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Seattle International Children’s 

Festival 

Seattle, WA $2o, ooo 

(presenting) 

To support Window on the 

World: African Arts, a series of 

dance and music performances 

during the 1997 Festival. 

Seattle Opera Association, Inc. 

Seattle, WA $1oo, ooo 

(opera) 

To support the costs for a new 

production of Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss, and a 

premiere of Florencia en el 

Amazonas by Daniel Catan. 

Seattle Symphony Orchestra, 

Inc. 

Seattle, WA $1oo, ooo 

(music) 

To support the Celebrate American Music project, through 

which music by American composers will be performed in various concert series and featured 

in education programs. 

Seattle Youth Symphony 

Orchestra 

Seattle, WA $15,ooo 

(music) 

To support the 1997 Marrowstone Music Festival, a summer 

music festival sponsored by the 

Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra. 

Self-Help Graphics & Art, Inc. 

Los Angeles, CA $55,ooo 

(visual arts) 

To support the Professional 

Artists Printmaking Project 

which will provide up to 40 

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the opportunity to create new 

work, using silkscreen techniques in the printmaking 

studio. 

Seven Loaves, Inc. 

(Czechoslovak-American 

Marionette Theater) 

New York, NY $15,ooo 

(theater) 

To support the production and 

presentation of the fifth annual 

puppetry festival Magic of 

Czech Puppetry, featuring plays 

by the Czechoslovak-American 

Marionette Theatre. 

Seven Stages, Inc. 

Atlanta, GA $25,000 

(theater) 

To support the production of 

Arthur Miller’s All My Sons directed by Joseph Chaikin. 

Shadow Box Theatre, Inc. 

New York, NY $5,000 

(theater) 

To support a free theater arts 

package including tickets to 

productions, a teacher learning 

guide, a set of storybooks, and 

an audio tape for each class of 

underprivileged children attending a production. 

Shakespeare Repertory 

Chicago, IL $20,000 

(theater) 

To support the composition of 

original music and musicians’ 

appearances with actors as an 

integral part of mainstage productions. 

Sheldon Arts Foundation 

St. Louis, MO $20,000 

(music) 

To support America’s Music, a 

proiect that will include residencies and performances of 

iazz, folk music, and American 

music for brass, as well as special activities for young people. 

Shreveport Regional Arts 

Council 

Shreveport, LA $155,ooo 

(locals arts agencies) 

To support the implementation 

of a series of four national 

artists’ collaborations featuring 

Willie Middlebrook, William 

Joyce, The Builder’s Association, and Roberto Salas. 

Side Street Projects 

Santa Monica, CA $20,000 

(visual arts) 

To support Millennium Shifts, a 

two-year proiect that will present up to four visual artists’ 

projects, either in gallery installations or on Web sites. 

Sirong Ganding, Inc. 

New York, NY $25,000 

(folk and traditional arts) 

To support the United Statesbased Mindanao Kulintang Ensemble’s tour of performances 

and workshops of Filipino 

kulintang music in several 

states with large Filipino-American populations. 
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Society for New Music 

Syracuse, NY $14,500 

(music) 

To support costs associated 

with the Winter Series, including artists’ fees for up to six 

concerts of new music and the 

commissioning of a new work 

by composer Dana Wilson. 

Socrates Sculpture Park, Inc. 

Long Island City, NY $2o, ooo 

(visual arts) 

To support the Outdoor Studio 

program, providing up to 20 

artists with studio space, equipment, technical assistance, and 

a stipend to create site-specific 

and monumental sculpture. 

Soho Repertory Theatre, Inc. 

New York, NY $5,ooo 

(theater) 

To support the creation and 

production of a new play by 

Mac Wellman, to be adapted 

from the G.K. Chesterton classic The Man Who Was 

Thursday. 

Solomon R. Guggenhelm 

Foundation 

New York, NY $200,000 

(museum) 

To support a traveling retrospective exhibition of the work 

of American artist Robert 

Rauschenberg and accompanying education programs. 

Sound Portraits Productions, 

Inc. 

New York, NY $50,000 

(media arts) 

To support the first year of the 

Public Radio Writer’s Initiative, 

in which the award-winning radio producer David Isay and 

American nonfiction authors 

will collaborate to create radio 

documentaries for national 

broadcast. 

South Bend Symphony 

Orchestra Association, Inc. 

South Bend, IN $6,305 

(music) 

To support the Summer-Time 

Honors Festival in 1998, bringing musicians together with 

students from high schools in 

the South Bend-Mishawaka 

area. 

South Coast Repertory, Inc. 

Costa Mesa, CA $60,000 

(theater) 

To support a production of 

Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, a 

Theatre Discovery Project presentation, to be mounted in the 

spring of 1998. 

Southern California Asian 

American Studies Central 

(Visual Communications) 

Los Angeles, CA $26,200 

(media arts) 

To support Re-Mapping L.A., a 

series of film/video exhibitions 

and workshops examining Los 

Angeles’ Asian communities 

and the mainstream media perception of those communities, 

and the publication of one issue 

of the journal In Focus. 

Spaces 

Cleveland, OH $15,ooo 

(visual arts) 

To support "Collection Service;’ 

an exhibition of work relating 

to the urban environment of 

Cleveland by artists Anton Van 

Dahlen, loyce Scott, and Paul 

Ramirez-lonas. 

Spanish Theatre Repertory 

Co., Ltd. 

New York, NY $50,000 

(theater) 

To support the Voces Nuevas 

project, Latino plays documenting the experiences of Hispanics 

born and/or raised in the 

United States, that will tour in 

various states. 

Speculum Musicae, Inc. 

New York, NY $5,000 

(music) 

To support concerts in New 

York City in 1997-98, emphasizing works of American composers, both established and 

emerging. 

Spoleto Festival U.S.A. 

Charleston, SC $50,000 

(presenting) 

To support the production of 

Wozzeck and the presentation of 

Theatre de la Jeune Lune, Lulu 

Noire, In Xanadu, and the Solo 

Voices series during the 1997 

Festival. 

Springfield Symphony 

Orchestra 

Springfield, MA $2o, ooo 

(music)
 

To support the A Little Lunch
 

Music... lunchfime concert
 

series.
 

Standby Program, Inc. 

New York, NY $15,ooo 

(media arts) 

To support the provision of 

state-of-the-art, broadcast quality, post-production video 

equipment to film and video 

artists and independent producers. 

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State University of New York at 

Albany, Research Foundation of 

Albany, NY $17,ooo 

(music) 

To support lune in Buffalo, a 

composers’ seminarJworkshop 

sponsored by the State University of New York at Buffalo in 

1997. 

Stephen Petronio Dance 

Company, Inc. 

New York, NY $25,000 

(dance) 

To support the creation of a 

new dance work choreographed by Stephen Petronio, 

with music by Andy Teirstein 

to be performed by professional musicians working with 

a changing roster of schoolaged musicians. 

Storefront for Art and 

Architecture, Inc. 

New York, NY $20,000 

(design) 

To support "Beirut," a photodocumentary exhibition with 

accompanying CD-ROM that 

uses architectural investigation 

to examine the destruction of 

Beirut during the 1991 civil war. 

Studio Museum in Harlem, Inc. 

New York, NY $75,000 

(museum) 

To support the traveling exhibition "Norman Lewis: Black 

Paintings, 1944-1977," with an 

accompanying catalogue and 

education programs. 

Sun Cities Chamber Music 

Society 

Sun City, AZ $5,000 

(music) 

To support the presentation of 

the Emerson String Quartet 

during 1998, including a public 

concert and public elementary 

school residencies. 

Sundance Institute for Film and 

Television 

Salt Lake City, UT $200,000 

(media arts) 

To support the 1998 Sundance 

Film Festival, the directing and 

screenwriting labs, and the producers’ conference. 

Sutherland Community Arts 

Initiative 

Chicago, IL $5,500 

(music) 

To support the 1997 JAAZ 

Festival. 

Syracuse Children’s Chorus, Inc. 

Camillus, NY $11,ooo 

(music) 

To support a consortium comprised of the Syracuse Children’s Chorus, the Chicago 

Children’s Choir, and the San 

Francisco Girls’ Chorus that 

will commission and perform a 

new work by composer-conductor Calvin Custer. 

Syracuse Symphony 

Orchestra, Inc. 

Syracuse, NY $50,000 

(music) 

To support performances in 

rural and underserved communities throughout central and 

northern New York State. 

Talking Band, Inc. 

New York, NY $15,ooo 

(musical theater) 

To support the rehearsal and 

production of the premiere of 

Black Milk Quartet. 

Tears of Joy Theatre 

Vancouver, WA $30,000 

(theater) 

To support the creation and 

presentation, using puppets and 

masks, of Bridge of the Gods, 

working with Native American 

artists to adapt this legend, 

credited to the Klickitat people, 

for the stage and performing it 

in other locales. 

Teatro Avante, Inc, 

Miami, FL $35,000 

(theater) 

To support the 12th International Hispanic Theatre Festival, featuring contemporary 

and classical works by Hispanic 

playwrights produced by internationally known companies. 

Temple University 

Philadelphia, PA $20,000 

(multidisciplinary) 

To support a consortium project for workshop and presentation expenses for an opera by 

composer Leroy Jenkins, visual 

artist Homer Jackson, and 

choreographer Ronnie Harris. 

Texas Folklife Resources 

Austin, TX $15o, ooo 

(folk and traditional arts) 

To support a consortium project comprised of a series of residencies by distinguished Texan 
GRANTS AND AWARDS 

traditional artists of various 

cultural backgrounds in underserved communities throughout the Lone Star state. 

Thalia Spanish Theatre, Inc. 

Sunnyside, NY $19,ooo 

(folk and traditional arts) 

To support a series of performances of classic Spanish dance 

and flamenco, Argentine folkloric and tango music and 

dance, and Mexican folkloric 

music and dance. 

Theater for the New City 

Foundation, Inc. 

New York, NY $30,000 

(theater) 

To support artists’ fees for the 

Playwright Development Project, which will develop and 

produce new plays by American 

playwrights. 

Theater For Youth, Inc. 

Boise, ID $22,5oo 

(theater) 

To support the completion and 

production, by the Idaho Theater for Youth and the Boise 

Philharmonic Orchestra, of an 

original theatrical/musical work 

for young audiences entitled 

The Last Paving Stone. 

Theatre and Arts Foundation of 

San Diego County (La Jolla 

Playhouse) 

La Jolla, CA $4o, ooo 

(theater) 

To support the development 

and production of Dogeaters by 

Jessica Hagedorn. 

Theatre de la Jeune Lune 

Minneapolis, MN $52,500 

(theater) 

To support the development, 

including the commission of an 

original score, and production 

of a new work about Elizabeth 

II, Queen of England, which 

will explore the role of the 

monarchy in today’s world. 

Theatre for a New 

Audience, Inc. 

New York, NY $45,000 

(theater) 

To support the second year of a 

residency by director Julie Taymot. 

Threepenny Review 

Berkeley, CA $12,ooo 

(literature) 

To support authors’ fees and 

promotional expenses for up to 

four issues of The Threepenny 

Review. 

A Traveling Jewish Theatre 

San Francisco, CA $125,ooo 

(theater) 

To support the Network of Ensemble Theatres consortium-­

the Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble, Cornerstone Theater 

Company, Dell’Arte Players 

Company, Independent Eye, 

Irondale Ensemble Project, and 

Touchstone Theatre--in creating an alternative touring network. 

Tulsa Opera, Inc. 

Tulsa, OK $25,000 

(opera) 

To support production costs for 

the contemporary American 

opera Dreamkeepers. 

Twin Cities Public Television, 

Inc. (KTCA) 

St. Paul, MN $1oo, ooo 

(media arts) 

To support the development 

and production of the 1998 telecast of Alive TV, a series presenting new and experimental 

work in film, video, and animation. 

United Indians of All Tribes 

Foundation 

Seattle, WA $4o, ooo 

(visual arts) 

To support exhibitions of work 

by four contemporary Native 

American artists: James 

Lavadour, Edgar Heap-of-Birds, 

]aune Quick-to-See Smith, and 

Tom Rudd, at the Sacred Circle 

Gallery of American Indian Art. 

University Musical Society 

Ann Arbor, MI $50,000 

(presenting) 

To support the series Unfamiliar Things, focusing on the presentation of contemporary music and dance, and classical 

theater. 

University of California at 

Berkeley, Regents of the 

(for Cal Performances) 

Berkeley, CA $162,500 

(dance) 

To support a series of residencies, performances, and teaching 

opportunities for area artists, 

school children, and senior citizens, with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, the Dance 

Theatre of Harlem, and the 

Mark Morris Dance Group. 

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Presentation 

University of California at 

Berkeley, Regents of the 

(for the University Art Museum) 

Berkeley, CA $12o, ooo 

(museum) 

To support a touring exhibition 

of the work of American artist 

Joan Brown, organized in conjunct:ion with the Oakland Museum, with an accompanying 

catalogue and education programs. 

University of California at 

Berkeley, Regents of the 

(for Cal Performances) 

Berkeley, CA $82,500 

(music) 

To support the fifth biennial 

Berkeley Festival & Exhibition, 

a consortium project with the 

San Francisco Early Music 

Society. 

University of California at Los 

Angeles, Regents of the 

Los Angeles, CA $5o, ooo 

(media arts)
 

To support the 1998 Los Angeles
 

International Women’s Film
 

Festival.
 

University of Chicago 

Chicago, IL $4o, ooo 

(museum) 

To support the University’s Renaissance Society for an exhibition of the work of AfricanAmerican artist Kerry James 

Marshall, with an accompanying catalogue, education programs, and collaborations with 

other area institutions. 

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University of Hawaii at Manoa 

Honolulu, HI $5o, oo0 

(literature) 

To support a direct mail campaign, production, and related 

expenses including honoraria 

for writers and visual artists, for 

four issues of Manoa: A Pacific 

lournal of International Writing. 

University of Houstonm 

University Park 

(for the Blaffer Gallery) 

Houston, TX $25,ooo 

(museum) 

To support a traveling exhibition of the work of AfricanAmerican artist Michael Ray 

Charles, with an accompanying 

catalogue and education programs, organized by the University’s Blaffer Gallery. 

University of Houstonm 

University Park 

(for Arte Publico Press) 

Houston, TX $50,000 

(literature) 

To support the continued establishment ofArte Publico Press’s 

young adult imprint, Pinata 

Books, through the publication 

and promotion of new titles. 

University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign 

Champaign, IL $30,000 

(presenting) 

To support the 1997-98 New Visions series of performances, 

residencies, and community 

and educational programs featuring contemporary performing artists at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts. 

University of Virginia 

Charlottesville, VA $35,000 

(literature) 

To support the program Writing the Self and Community: 

CALLALO0 Writing Workshops for Historically Black Institutions. 

Victoria Regional Museum 

Association, Inc. 

Victoria, TX $5,ooo 

(museum) 

To support the exhibition "The 

Horse Re-Defined," with accompanying catalogue and education programs. 

Victory Gardens Theater 

Chicago, IL $2o, ooo 

(theater) 

To support a residency or commission for one playwright, a 

script development workshop 

for a second playwright, and the 

production of a play that has 

benefited from the company’s 

script development resources. 

Video Association of Dallas, Inc. 

Dallas, TX $12,5oo 

(media arts) 

To support the 1997 Dallas 

Video Festival. 

Virginia Symphony 

Norfolk, VA $2o, ooo 

(music) 

To support a fully staged production of William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s 

Dream, with incidental music 

by Felix Mendelssohn, in collaboration with the Virginia 

Stage Company in 1997-98. 
GRANTS AND AWARDS 

Visual AIDS for the Arts, Inc. 

New York, NY $15,ooo 

(visual arts) 

To support the exhibition 

"Arts Communities/AIDS Communities: Realizing the Archive 

Project." 

Visual Studies Workshop, Inc. 

Rochester, NY $50,000 

(visual arts) 

To support a multifaceted visual 

arts project designed to stimulate community dialogue about 

contemporary land use issues. 

Vivian Beaumont Theater, Inc. 

(Lincoln Center Theater) 

New York, NY $50,000 

(theater) 

To support artists’ fees and royalties for the 1997 productions 

of God’s Heartby Craig Lucas, 

and a revival of Lillian Hellman’s Little Foxes. 

Voices of Change 

Dallas, TX $13,ooo 

(music) 

To support a residency for composer Roberto Sierra, including 

concerts, broadcast of a television program, work in classrooms, speaking engagements, 

and a publication. 

Wadsworth Atheneum 

Hartford, CT $95,000 

(museum) 

To support a traveling exhibition of works from the Serge Lifar collection of designs and 

costumes for the Ballets Russes, 

with an accompanying catalogue and education programs. 

Rosalind Elias (Grandmother) tells Ashley Putnam (Ela) of her vision that Ela must 

use her spiritual gifts to save Dr. Adam Wade in a contemporary American opera, 

Dreamkeepers, produced by the Tulsa Opera in Oklahoma. Photo by Bob McCormick 

Walker Art Center, Inc. 

Minneapolis, MN $50,000 

(museum) 

To support the exhibition "Art 

Performs Life: Cunningham/ 

Monk/lones," with an accompanying catalogue and education 

programs. 

Washington, DC International 

Film Festival, Inc. 

Washington, DC $25,000 

(media arts) 

To support the 1997 Washington, DC International Film Festival, including free films for 

children (Filmfest DC for Kids), 

senior citizens (Cinema for Seniors), and underserved communities; and other educational 

programs. 
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Organizations 

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Presentation 

Washington Drama Society, 

Inc. (Arena Stage) 

Washington, DC $125,000 

(theater) 

To support the production 

phase of a new work by Anna 

Deavere Smith, a consortium 

project with Arena Stage in 

Washington, DC, the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles, and 

the Goodman Theatre in 

Chicago. 

Washington Performing Arts 

Society 

Washington, DC $1o, ooo 

(presenting) 

To support programming in 

European classical music, 

gospel choirs, and contemporary dance. 

Washington Square Arts, Inc. 

New York, NY $z25,ooo 

(media arts) 

To support the first phase of 

The World of Poetry project, 

including the production of 

filmed poetry for distribution 

to public television, and related 

activities. 

We Tell Stories, Inc. 

Los Angeles, CA $30,000 

(theater) 

To support the creation and 

presentation throughout the 

United States of "The Village of 

Liver and Onions" from Carl 

Sandburg’s The Rootabaga Stories, primarily for young audiences. 

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Wexner Center Foundation 

Columbus, OH $175,ooo 

(multidisciplinary) 

To support artists’ residencies 

for artists of national 

significance working in the visual, performing, and media 

arts. 

Whispering Voice, Inc. 

New York, NY $4o, ooo
 

(dan~e)
 

To support the creation of Love
 

Songs, choreographed by David
 

Rousseve, which, through the
 

dance and elaborate set designs,
 

will represent issues of love,
 

loss, heartache, and joy.
 

White Columns, Inc. 

New York, NY $35,ooo 

(visual arts) 

To support the White Room 

Program, a series of solo exhibitions for emerging artists not 

affiliated with a New York commercial gallery. 

White Pine, Inc. 

Fredonia, NY $3o, ooo 

(literature) 

To support publication costs, 

artists’ fees, and related expenses for new titles in the 

World of Voices multicultural 

publishing series. 

Williams College 

Williamstown, MA $35,000 

(museum) 

To support the traveling exhibition "1oo Years of Difference: 

The Hampton Project;’ with an 

accompanying catalogue and 

education programs, organized 

by the Williams College Museum of Art. 

Wooster Group, Inc. 

New York, NY $7o, ooo 

(theater) 

To support the second phase of 

development of House-Lights, 

based on Gertrude Stein’s Dr. 

Faustas Lights the Lights, into 

which film influences of the 

195os and 196os will be introduced and a theatrical component will be added. 

Worcester Art Museum~ 

Worcester, MA $75,ooo 

(museum) 

To support a traveling exhibition of Abstract Expressionist 

prints, with an accompanying 

catalogue and education programs. 

WNYC Foundation 

New York, NY $30,000 

(music) 

To support an artist-in-residence program for the commissioning of new works, and for 

live concert broadcasts from 

Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, the Bronx, and Manhattan 

featuring the commissioned 

pieces. 

Wolf Trap Foundation for the 

Performing Arts 

Vienna, VA $25,000 

(music) 

To support The Wolf Trap Discovery Series, chamber music 

concerts recorded live at The 

Barns of Wolf Trap and distributed nationally as a series of 

one-hour radio programs. 
GRANTS AND AWARDS
 

Women in Translation 

Seattle, WA $15,ooo 

(literature) 

To support publication costs 

and related expenses, including 

royalty payments, for up to two 

volumes of translation by 

women authors. 

Words Given Wings Literary 

Arts Project 

San Francisco, CA $30,000 

(literature) 

To support publication costs, 

authors’ advances, and related 

expenses of four books by Mercury House. 

World Music, Inc. 

Cambridge, MA $20,000 

(dance) 

To support the second annual 

World of Dance, a performance 

and residency project which 

will present outstanding dance 

ensembles from around the 

world. 

World l~usic Institute, Inc. 

New York, NY $50,000 

(presenting) 

To support the 1997-98 A World 

of Music and Dance series with 

major artists from the Americas, Asia, the African Diaspora, 

the Middle East, and Europe. 

X-Art Foundation, Inc. 

New York, NY $20,000 

(m ultidisciplinary) 

To support the production, exhibition, and Internet dissemination of issues of Blasts: 

Drama, a multimedia publication. 

Xicanindio Artes, Inc. 

Mesa, AZ $1o, ooo 

(multidisciplinary) 

To support the production of 

Mexican Cowboys and Indian 

Lowriders, a performance/installation by Guillermo GomezPena, Roberto Sifuentes, and local artists. 

Yale University 

New Haven, CT $1oo, ooo 

(theater) 

To support the production of 

Bertolt Brecht’s Rise and Fall of 

the City of Mahagonny during 

the 1998 centenary of his birth. 

Young Concert Artists, Inc. 

New York, NY ¢50,000 

(music) 

To support the New York and 

Washington, DC Young Concert 

Artists Series in 1997-98, presenting the winners of the annual Young Concert Artists’ Auditions in concerts and school 

programs. 

Young Men’s & Young Women’s 

Hebrew Association 

New York, NY $75,000 

(literature) 

To support Authors & Audiences, the Unterberg Poetry 

Center’s program of literary 

readings, literary interviews, 

panel discussions, and a literacy 

project involving the Union 

Settlement Association in 

Harlem. 

Young Men’s Christian 

Associations of the USA 

Chicago, IL $78,000 

(literature) 

To support the continued expansion of the National Readings Tour of the National 

Writer’s Voice Project, to include new sites in New Mexico, 

South Dakota, New Jersey, California, North Carolina, New 

Hampshire, and Florida. 

Zeitgeist 

St. Paul, MN $1o, ooo 

(music) 

To support the commissioning 

and performance of a new work 

by Paul Dresher. 

1$14,ooo was obligated in FY 

1997, with the balance carried 

over to the next year, subject to 

grantee meeting matching fund 

requirements. 

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EDUCATION & ACCESS
 

three decades the Arts Endowment 

supported lifelong learning in the 

arts and affirmed its mission of broadening public access to the arts. The Education 

and Access grant category established in a997 

expands opportunities in these two areas. 

The Endowment maintains that children 

from pre-kindergarten through twelfth grades 

should have a sequential education in the arts 

that is linked to content standards, taught by 

qualified teachers, and regularly involves artists 

and works of art. Education & Access grants 

support assessment programs, curriculum development, and partnerships with arts organi5O zations. These grants fund teacher and artist 

training, such as the national network of the 

Teachers and Writers Collaborative that brings 

writers into schools nationwide; after-school 

programs, such as that of the Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit; and programs for at-risk youth, 

such as the Art on Saturdays program at the 

Tacoma Art Museum in the state of Washington. Grants also support partnerships with local community centers such as the Billings, 

Montana YMCA writing workshops for youths 

and teachers. 

The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra credits the Endowment’s creation of the Education 

& Access category for its ability to compete successfully for a major grant to expand its Arts in 

Community Education (ACE) program. ACE 

provides sequential music instruction to thousands of Milwaukee children by integrating it 

throughout the curriculum, involving parents, 

giving family concerts and providing all the 

necessary training and materials for teachers. 

Education & Access grants also support preprofessional training and professional development for artists. For example, the ]uilliard 

School’s Seaver/NEA Conductors Award to cultivate talented young conductors, the Texas Fine 

Arts Association’s exhibitions for emerging and 

mid-career American artists, and the Boston 

Symphony’s professional opera training program at Tanglewood Music Center all received 

1997 Endowment sponsorship. Other projects, 

such as the Hartford, Connecticut Artists’ Collective professional training program in the 

African Diaspora’s cultural heritage, or the 

nearby Charter Oak Temple Restoration Association’s summer arts program for youth and 

families, benefit all generations. 

Access projects funded in 1997 include a variety of programs that reach people with limited 

opportunities to experience the arts first-hand. 

Touring programs such as Junebug Production’s 

Junebug/Jack Project Louisiana tour, outreach 

programs like Philadelphia’s Claymobile for inner-city and low-income communities, and national radio or television broadcasts such as 

WNET’s Great Performances series receive funding through Education & Access grants. These 

grants make available the work of ethnically diverse, older, or physically challenged individuals, through programs such as the artists’ residencies of Taller Puertorriqueno in Philadelphia 

and the International Festival of Wheelchair 

Dance, organized by Boston Dance Umbrella. 
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171 awards $10,787,262 

The discipline designations in 

parentheses refer to the project, not necessarily the organization. 

Adelante Corporation 

San Francisco, CA $z2,ooo 

(theater) 

To support the Young People’s 

Theatre Enhancement Project, 

an after-school program that 

teaches at-risk Latino middle 

and high school youth a comprehensive range of theater 

skills. 

Alliance for Young Artists & 

Writers, Inc. 

New York, NY $25,000 

(museum) 

To support a touring exhibition, with an accompanying 

catalogue, of works of art by 

secondary school students from 

all over the United States who 

are winners of the Scholastic 

Art Awards. 

Alternate ROOTS, Inc. 

Atlanta, GA SzOO, OOO 

(multidisciplinary) 

To support the Services to Underserved Artists, Presenters 

and Their Communities project, 

which provides residency fees, 

publications, and ongoing technical assistance. 

American Composers Forum 

St. Paul, MN $200,000 

(music) 

To support the production and 

field-testing of a new music 

primer, which includes a compendium of newly commissioned American compositions, 

to be used by band students in 

late elementary, middle, and junior high schools. 

American Documentary, Inc. 

New York, NY $400,000 

(media) 

To support the development, 

acquisition, and completion of 

programs for the z998 broadcast 

of the television series, P.. O. V. 

(Point of View).	 Grants to 

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Baltimore Symphony Orchestra violinist Leonid Berkovich plays with this first grade student at Landsdowne Elementary School in
 

Landsdowne, Maryland, one of eleven schools participating in the Orchestra’s Arts Excel program. Photo by Michael Ciesielski.
 
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Access 

American Film Institute 

Los Angeles, CA $2oo, ooo 

(media arts) 

To support education and 

training projects of the American Film Institute, including the 

development of media arts curricula and training models for 

new digital technologies, and 

online access to AFI’s information resources. 

American Library Association 

Chicago, IL $80,000 

(literature) 

To support expansion of Writers Live at the Library to the 

Southeast, the continuation of 

the program in the Midwest, 

and the development of national networks for literary programming. 

Americans for the Arts 

Washington, DC $162,5oo 

(local arts agency) 

To support the implementation 

of the Local Arts Agency Education and Accessibility Learning 

Initiative, which will strengthen 

the quality of programming, 

educational planning, and accessibility of local arts agencies. 

Appalshop, Inc. 

Whitesburg, KY $z5o, ooo 

(folk and traditional arts) 

To support the Appalachian 

Music Initiative, providing underserved Appalachian audiences with access to exemplary 

arts and educational activities 

centering on mountain musical 

traditions. 

Artists Collective, Inc. 

Hartford, CT $z19,ooo 

(multidisciplinary) 

To support year-round professional training in dance, theater, music, and visual arts for 

children and adults which 

broadens their understanding 

and appreciation of the culture, 

heritage, and arts of the African 

diaspora. 

Arts in Progress, Inc. 

Boston, MA $39,000 

(arts education) 

To support Pathways and Partnerships for Learning, a series 

of activities to assist teachers 

and administrators in several 

Boston middle and high schools 

to meet the new state arts standards and the Boston Arts-inEducation Policy. 

Arts I~atter (Gallery 37) 

Chicago, IL $25,ooo 

(visual arts) 

To support the production of a 

video and manual of Gallery 

37’s programs that provide employment for high school students in the arts through partnerships among local 

government, the business community, and arts organizations. 

ArtsConnection, Inc. 

New York, NY $15o, ooo 

(arts education) 

To support the creation of a 

national model for a sequential, 

academically integrated, K-6 

arts curriculum, providing 

teachers with new ways to engage students and make connections among different subject areas. 

Atlatl, Inc. 

Phoenix, AZ $40,000 

(multidisciplinary) 

To support exhibitions, professional development workshops, 

and the publication of a 

newsletter, artist registry, and 

directory. 

Ballet Hispanico of New York 

New York, NY $54,500 

(dance) 

To support the development of 

a model study unit, utilizing 

concerts, study guides, teacher 

training, and residencies to celebrate dance and the cultural 

contributions made by Hispanics to the United States. 

Baltimore Symphony 

Orchestra, Inc. 

Baltimore, MD $1oo, ooo 

(arts education) 

To support development and 

dissemination of a replicable 

model program that improves 

student attendance, attitudes, 

and performance through artsintegrated teaching and partnerships between schools and 

artists. 

Berkeley Repertory Theater 

Berkeley, CA $75,000 

(theater) 

To support the Asian PacificAmerican Audience Initiative 

jointly with the Asian-American Theater Company. 
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Bloomsburg Theatre 

Ensemble, Inc. 

Bloomsburg, PA $22,000 

(theater) 

To support Theatre in the 

Classroom’s production of StorySpinners: Tales from the Appalachians. 

Boston Dance Umbrella, Inc. 

Cambridge, MA $40,000 

(dance) 

To support the 1997 International Festival of Wheelchair 

Dance, which will include performances, workshops, lecturedemonstrations, seminars, and 

a conference. 

Boston Film/Video 

Foundation, Inc. 

Boston, MA $40,000 

(media arts) 

To support a comprehensive 

media arts education program. 

Boston Symphony Orchestra, 

Inc. 

Boston, MA $1oo, ooo 

(opera) 

To support the expansion of the 

vocal program at Tanglewood 

Music Center to include professional opera training during 

1997-98. 

Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro 

Atlanta, Inc. 

Atlanta, GA $35,000 

(visual arts) 

To support a collaboration between the Boys & Girls Clubs of 

Metro Atlanta and the Metropolitan Atlanta United Way in 

which six artists-in-residence 

will work with Atlanta young 

people. 

Brooklyn Institute of Arts and 

Sciences 

Brooklyn, NY $156,00o 

(arts education) 

To support the New York City 

Museum School, a collaborative 

project of five museums and the 

New York City Public Schools, 

to assess and refine the curriculum, and to develop enhanced 

models for documentation and 

its nationwide dissemination. 

California Institute of the Arts 

Valencia, CA $2oo, ooo 

(multidisciplinary) 

To support the Community 

Arts Partnership Consortium 

project which provides a multicultural alternative to conventional arts training and sets national standards for arts 

education and community involvement. 

California Poets in the Schools 

San Francisco, CA $20,000 

(literature) 

To support LitArts PULSE (Poetry in the Urban Landscape 

Statewide Education), a program designed to increase the 

literary arts audience in Fresno, 

East Los Angeles, and part of 

Orange County. 

Camera News, Inc. (Third 

World Newsreel) 

New York, NY $25,000 

(media arts) 

To support the launching of 

an interactive Web site, the 

publication of a 3oth anniversary catalogue, and a production workshop. 

Cedar Rapids Symphony 

Orchestra Association, Inc. 

Cedar Rapids, IA $12,ooo 

(arts education) 

To support expansion of a collaboration between the Cedar 

Rapids Symphony Orchestra 

and the local public schools, and 

to support the salary of an education program coordinator. 

Chamber Music Society of 

Lincoln Center, Inc. 

New York, NY $18,000 

(music) 

To support the Meet the Music 

family concert series which includes narration, visuals, 

scripted dialogue, and performances by children, with audience interaction. 

Charter Oak Temple 

Restoration Association, Inc. 

Hartford, CT Szo, ooo 

(multidisciplinary) 

To support after-school and 

summer arts programming 

for neighborhood youth and 

families. 

Chicago Children’s Choir 

Chicago, IL ¢30,000 

(arts education) 

To support an increase in students’ access to choral music 

training by the Chicago Children’s Choir through establishing additional in-school and after-school programs. 

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Access The Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra Instrument Petting Zoo raises a student’s sense of potential. Photo by John A. Lacko Photography. 

Chicago Theatre Group, Inc. 

Chicago, IL $z25,5oo 

(theater) 

To support the Goodman 

Theatre’s Student Subscription 

Series that offers an in-depth 

introduction to theater for 

Chicago public high school students, teachers, and parents. 

Chicago Youth Symphony 

Orchestra 

Chicago, IL $20,000 

(music) 

To support the expansion of 

Music Pathways, an in-school 

outreach project based on the 

musical and literary movement 

known as the Harlem Renaissance. 

Children’s Art Carnival 

New York, NY $25,000 

(multidisciplinary) 

To support the Communication 

Arts Production Apprenticeship 

Training Program, a program 

that helps youth with an interest in careers in the arts prepare 

for entry into specialized high 

schools, colleges, and entry level 

art jobs. 

Chinese Music Society of North 

America 

Naperville, IL $23,000 

(folk and traditional arts) 

To support a series of lectures 

and educational concerts of 

Chinese music by the Chinese 

Classical Orchestra and the Silk 

and Bamboo Ensemble. 

City Art Works 

Seattle, WA $20,o0o 

(visual arts) 

To support the Pratt Summer 

Intensives Program, a series of 

week-long workshops for artists 

and public programs presented 

by visiting artists of national 

and international stature. 

Clay Studio 

Philadelphia, PA $2o, ooo 

(visual arts) 

To support circulation of the 

Claymobile, a traveling ceramics class in a van, to inner-city 

and low-income Philadelphia 

communities. 
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Columbus Museum of Art 

Columbus, OH $1oo, ooo 

(museum) 

To support the installation of 

"Eye Spy: Adventures in Art," 

the inaugural exhibition and 

programmatic core of the museum’s new Children’s Education Center. 

Connecticut Public 

Broadcasting 

Hartford, CT $60,000 

(media arts) 

To support the acquisition, development, and production 

costs for 1997 and 1998 broadcasts of New Television, a series 

of half-hour television programs presenting video artworks from around the world. 

Cornell University 

Ithaca, NY $18,ooo 

(museum) 

To support the teachers institute and the African component 

of the program Objects and 

Their Makers: New Insights, 

which provides rural schools 

access to the Herbert E Johnson 

Museum of Art’s collections. 

Dance Exchange, Inc. (Liz 

Lerman Dance Exchange) 

Takoma Park, MD $20,000 

(dance) 

To support an extended 

residency at the National Institutes of Health that will 

include working with doctors, 

researchers, administrators, 

patients, and visitors to explore, 

through dance, the relationship 

between art and science. 

Dance Theater Foundation, Inc. 

(Alvin Ailey American Dance 

Theater) 

New York, NY $200,000 

(dance) 

To support a consortium project to expand Mvin Ailey’s 

summer dance camps for innercity youth to Philadelphia and 

Chicago. 

Dance Theatre of Harlem, Inc. 

New York, NY $2oo, ooo 

(dance) 

To support Dancing Through 

Barriers, a touring educational 

initiative which introduces the 

discipline of dance to over 

6o,ooo children each year. 

Delaware Theatre Company 

Wilmington, DE $20,000 

(theater) 

To support the Children At Risk 

Program, a theater education 

program targeting underserved 

student populations through 

five specialized teaching components. 

Downtown Community 

Television Center, Inc. 

New York, NY $35,ooo 

(media arts) 

To support educational 

activities, including production 

training, workshops, and programs targeted to underserved 

youth. 

Duke University 

Durham, NC $50,000 

(arts education) 

To support a partnership between the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University 

and the Durham Public Schools 

for the creation of an expanded 

curriculum for Literacy 

through Photography, a program to teach writing. 

Earmark, Inc. 

West Chester, PA $42,000 

(media arts) 

To support the production of 

Artbeat, a nationally broadcast 

weekly radio magazine on the 

arts and culture. 

East Bay Center for the 

Performing Arts 

Richmond, CA $50,000 

(multidisciplinary) 

To support the Production and 

Performance Program which 

includes an ensembles/mentorship project, a teacher intern 

program, festivals and productions, and a young artists repertory series. 

East-West Players, Inc. 

Los Angeles, CA $25,000 

(theater) 

To support East-West Players’ 

professional training program 

comprised of the Conservatory, 

the David Henry Hwang Writers Institute, and the Actors 

Network. 

Educational Broadcasting 

Corporation (WNET) 

New York, NY Sl, ooo, ooo 

(media arts) 

To support the development 

and production of performance 

specials and arts documentaries 

to be nationally broadcast in 

1998 on the Great Performances, 

Dance in America, and American Masters television series. 

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Organizations 

Education & 

Access 

Educational Video Center, Inc. 

New York, NY $25,000 

(arts education) 

To support continued development of the High School Documentary Workshop, Media Arts 

Portfolio Assessment, and replication of the workshop model 

throughout New York City 

schools through the Teacher 

Development Program. 

Electronic Arts Intermix, Inc. 

New York, NY $25,000 

(media arts) 

To support the design and production of an online catalogue 

of the Artists’ Videotape Distribution Service and the offering 

of selected tapes from its collection to public libraries. 

Esperanza Peace and Justice 

Center 

San Antonio, TX $15,ooo 

(m ultidisciplinary) 

To support the Breaking Barriers/Building Bridges project, 

which consists of art and film 

exhibitions, performances, and 

community discussion groups 

that focus on issues of race, 

gender, and class. 

Eugene Ballet 

Eugene, OR $20,000 

(dance) 

To support an educational outreach initiative which will allow 

the Eugene Ballet to conduct 

residencies and in-school performances in areas that are not 

traditionally served by other 

dance companies or performing 

groups. 

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52nd Street Project 

New York, NY $5o, ooo 

(theater) 

To support Playmaking, three 

progressively challenging playwriting programs for youths 

between the ages of nine and 

thirteen from New York’s Clinton (Hell’s Kitchen) neighborhood. 

Fitton Center for Creative Arts 

Hamilton, OH $5o, ooo 

(arts education) 

To support the Arts Basic Center for the Development of Educators (ABCDE), a project to 

provide quality professional development opportunities for 

teachers and education administrators in a five-state region. 

Five Colleges, Inc. 

Amherst, MA $zo, ooo 

(museum) 

To support the development of 

a database of the combined 

holdings of this six-museum 

consortium, which will make 

available to the public more 

than 80,000 objects-- the scope 

of which is rarely found outside 

a major urban museum. 

Florida Dance Association 

Miami, FL $25,000 

(dance) 

To support the 1997 Florida 

Dance Festival, which includes 

performances, lectures, classes, 

and symposia on topics ranging 

from Butoh dancing to injury 

prevention. 

Fort Worth Symphony 

Orchestra Association, Inc. 

Ft. Worth, TX $30,000 

(music) 

To support Adventures in Music, an education and outreach 

program for Fort Worth and 

other Texas communities. 

Foundation for Architecture 

Philadelphia, PA $167,98o 

(design) 

To support the development of 

new resource materials and activities for the foundation’s Architecture in Education Program. 

Foundation for Independent 

Video & Film, Inc. 

New York, NY $35,000 

(media arts) 

To support the publication of 

The Independent Film and Video 

Monthly. 

Frederick Douglass Creative 

Arts 

New York, NY $25,000 

(muItidisciplinary) 

To support the Dramatic Writing program. 

Glen Ellyn Children’s Chorus 

Glen Ellyn, IL $15,ooo 

(music) 

To support educational outreach programs through workshops for educators and their 

choruses, and a children’s 

choral learning program. 
GRANTS AND AWARDS
 

Growth and Prevention 

Theater 

Seattle, WA $5,790 

(theater) 

To support the development of 

a new theater piece addressing a 

critical social issue in the community. 

Hawaii Alliance for Arts in 

Education 

Honolulu, HI $50,000 

(folk and traditional arts) 

To support the integration of 

Hula Ki’i, a complex of Hawaiian traditional arts, into school 

curricula and other means of 

lifelong learning on the islands 

of Moloka’i, Oahu, and Kaua’i. 

Henry Street Settlement 

New York, NY $90,000 

(multidisciplinary) 

To support Building Bridges-­

Building Audiences, a project 

designed to heighten awareness 

of the Abrons Art Center as an 

arts resource within the richly 

diverse community of the 

Lower East Side. 

Houston Grand Opera 

Association, Inc. 

Houston, TX $2oo, ooo 

(opera)
 

To support the Community
 

Connections Initiative during
 

1997-98.
 

H.T. Dance Company, Inc. 

(Chen and Dancers) 

New York, NY $49,000 

(dance) 

To support the development of 

Adopted Land, a new educational program to be integrated 

into Chen & Dancers’ local, national, and international residency-based touring. 

Hudson River Museum of 

Westchester 

Yonkers, NY $z6,ooo 

(museum) 

To support a program for students of the Museum Junior 

High School to explore contemporary art focusing on the expressive and symbolic nature of 

clothing and costume. 

Illinois Alliance for Arts 

Education, Inc. 

Chicago, IL $40,000 

(arts education) 

To support expansion of the 

Chicago ARTSMART Awareness 

Campaign and Hotline services 

for five new communities. 

Illinois State University 

Normal, IL $45,000 

(literature) 

To support the development 

and maintenance of a Web site 

by the Unit for Contemporary 

Literature, in order to furnish 

home pages for independent literary presses and writers’ conferences. 

Indiana Repertory Theatre, Inc. 

Indianapolis, IN $50,000 

(theater) 

To support the Discovery Series, an educational program 

which includes three fully-produced plays and detailed materials chosen for their direct relationship to the middle and 

high school curriculum. 

Inner-City Arts 

Los Angeles, CA $11o, ooo 

(arts education) 

To support a project to engage 

visiting artists and Inner-City 

Arts’ professional staff in creating a sequential arts education 

program for grades two 

through six in the Los Angeles 

Unified School District. 

Japanese American Cultural 

and Community Center 

Los Angeles, CA $75,000 

(multidisciplinary) 

To support the JapaneseAmerican Artists and Audiences 

Project, which consists of presentations of works by JapaneseAmerican artists, corollary 

lectures, workshop series, and 

residencies. 

Jazzmobile, Inc. 

New York, NY $40,000 

(music) 

To support the Saturday Jazz 

Workshop Program offering 

musical training to predominantly inner-city minority 

students. 

Juilliard School 

New York, NY $25,000 

(music) 

To support the Music Advancement Program, an initiative for 

financially disadvantaged minority children in New York 

City public schools, providing 

free music instruction to 

African-American and Hispanic-American children. 

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Organizations 

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Access 

Juilliard School 

(for the Seaver/NEA 

Conductors Award) 

New York, NY $1o, ooo 

(music) 

To support the Seaver/NEA 

Conductors Award, a publicprivate partnership dedicated 

to identifying and cultivating 

exceptionally talented young 

American conductors at the 

start of their professional careers. 

Junebug Productions 

New Orleans, LA $30,000 

(theater) 

To support a consortium of 

Louisiana presenters and the 

Louisiana Presenters Network 

for the Junebug/Jack Project to 

tour throughout Louisiana. 

Kalamazoo Symphony Society 

Kalamazoo, MI $1o, ooo 

(music) 

To support education programs, including youth concerts, the youth scholarship 

program, the instrument petting zoo, professional musicians 

in schools, and a student composition concert. 

Kansas Arts Commission 

Topeka, KS $57,500 

(multidisciplinary) 

To support artists’ residencies 

in underserved communities 

and professional development 

workshops for underserved 

artists. 

Kent State University 

Kent, OH $12,ooo 

(music) 

To support summer school 

scholarships for nationally selected advanced music students 

at Kent/Blossom Music, a sixweek career development program of the Cleveland Orchestra and Blossom Music Center. 

Kentucky Arts Council 

Frankfort, KY S7,5oo 

(local arts agencies) 

To support the creation and implementation of a Peer Advisor 

Network. 

Ko-Thi, Inc. 

Milwaukee, WI $40,000 

(dance) 

To support studio classes, inschool concerts, lecturedemonstrations, and professional training for promising 

school-age children. 

Koahnic Broadcast Corporation 

Anchorage, AK $35,000 

(media arts) 

To support the KBC Training 

Center’s Media Education Initiative, including summer media training for Alaska Native 

youth and professional training 

and workshops for Native 

American radio producers 

throughout the United States. 

L.A. Freewaves 

Los Angeles, CA $1o, ooo 

(media arts) 

To support L.A. Freewaves Goes 

to High School and L.A. Freewaves Goes to the Library, 

which will bring cutting-edge 

video art to Los Angeles high 

schools and libraries. 

Lark Society for Chamber 

Music 

Portland, ME $4,800 

(music) 

To support the Portland String 

Quartet in a high school residency project, Parallels in U.S. 

History and the "Lively Arts" 

from 173o to the Present, which 

will conclude with a performance for the school and community. 

Levine School of Music 

Washington, DC $25,000 

(music) 

To support the Public Housing 

Youth Orchestra Program 

which provides after-school activities in music education and 

performance for at-risk youth, 

ages five to eighteen, residing in 

Washington, DC public housing 

communities. 

Lincoln Center for the 

Performing Arts, Inc. 

New York, NY $2oo, ooo 

(media arts) 

To support a consortium proiect to produce and broadcast 

the 1998 public television series 

Live From Lincoln Center. 
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Little City Foundation 

Palatine, IL $5,000 

(visual arts) 

To support a two-phase exhibition of artwork created by people with developmental disabilities in the Chicago 

metropolitan area. 

Los Angeles Department of 

Cultural Affairs 

Los Angeles, CA $z2o, ooo 

(local arts agencies) 

To support the Art Partners 

program, a three-way alliance 

among community-based arts 

organizations, private underwriters, and local government. 

Mad River Theater Works 

West Liberty, OH $15,ooo 

(musical theater) 

To support artists’ salaries during the creation of a new play 

developed in collaboration with 

students, teachers, school administrators, and the general 

public in Champaign County, 

Ohio, and based on the local 

history of the region. 

Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild 

Pittsburgh, PA $115,ooo 

(multidisciplinary) 

To support the Arts Education 

and Community Access Programs, which include visual and 

performing arts presentations 

and performances, Web page 

development, multimedia training, and video/audio recording. 

Manhattan School of Music 

New York, NY $50,000 

(music) 

To support Music in Action, an 

artist training and community 

outreach program that helps 

students develop and perform. 

Mayfair, Inc. 

Allentown, PA $9,000 

(presenting) 

To support The Community As 

Artist, a project consisting of 

six artists’ residencies. 

Meet the Composer 

New York, NY $200,000 

(music) 

To support the Community 

Residencies Initiative, a project 

placing composers in shortand long-term residencies with 

community organizations. 

Metro Theater Company 

St. Louis, MO $40,000 

(theater) 

To support a nationwide performance tour with accompanying education programs for 

students, teachers, parents, and 

the community. 

Metropolitan Opera Guild, Inc. 

New York, NY $60,000 

(arts education) 

To support the establishment of 

a Western Region Teacher 

Training Center and a Midwest 

Region Artist Training Center 

for the Guild’s Creating Original 

Opera program. 

Milwaukee Symphony 

Orchestra, Inc. 

Milwaukee, WI $200,000 

(arts education) 

To support the expansion of the 

Orchestra’s Arts in Community 

Education Partnership, which 

consists of a series of multicultural, integrated arts experiences, to middle schools in the 

Milwaukee area. 

Minnesota Alliance for Arts in 

Education 

St. Paul, MN $7,000 

(arts education) 

To support the writing, production, and national dissemination, via print and the Internet, 

of a publication which documents the Alliance’s Integrating 

the Arts into Schools through 

Technology project. 

Minnesota Chorale 

Minneapolis, MN $5,000 

(music) 

To support a concert and related events focusing on 

women, presented as part of the 

Bridges program, which seeks 

to overcome cultural, economic, generational, and other 

barriers through the building of 

musical and social bridges. 

Minnesota Public Radio 

St. Paul, MN $50,000 

(media arts) 

To support the production of 

St. Paul Sunday, a weekly radio 

series demonstrating the vitality, diversity, and excellence of 

chamber music to the widest 

possible audience. 

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Organizations 

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Education & 

Access 

Montana State University 

Bozeman, MT $8,950 

(visual arts) 

To support Art and the Natural 

World, a consortium proiect of 

week-long residencies in Montana by three artists: Chuck 

Forsman, Melissa Miller, and 

Michael Paha. 

Mosaic Youth Theatre of 

Detroit 

Detroit, MI $30,000 

(theater) 

To support the Mosaic Youth 

Ensemble Project, a free ninemonth-long, after-school theater training and performance 

program culminating in a professional-level production. 

Museum of Contemporary Art, 

Los Angeles 

Los Angeles, CA $80,000 

(museum) 

To support artists participating 

in the conceptualization, design, and implementation of exhibition-related education projects for audiences of all ages 

and demographic backgrounds. 

Museum of Photographic Arts 

San Diego, CA $60,000 

(museum) 

To support the development 

and distribution of, and training of teachers to use, a comprehensive curriculum resource 

that helps teach visual literacy 

and critical thinking through 

photography. 

Music Center of Los Angeles 

County 

Los Angeles, CA $50,00o 

(presenting) 

To support the artistic development process and marketing 

development efforts of Music 

Center On Tour. 

Music Center Opera 

Association (L.A. Opera) 

Los Angeles, CA $z5o, ooo 

(opera) 

To support the L.A. Opera’s Educational Continuum during 

1997-98. 

Musical Arts Association 

(Cleveland Orchestra) 

Cleveland, OH $2o, ooo 

(music) 

To support an education and 

outreach program by the Cleveland Orchestra that includes interactive school video conferences, appearances by guest 

artists and conductors in 

schools, and classroom lessons 

by college music education students. 

Musicorda, Inc. 

South Hadley, MA $8,000 

(music) 

To support residencies in the 

Summer String Program, 

which places recently formed 

string quartets at Musicorda 

for instrumental study, performance opportunities, and outreach activities. 

National Black Touring 

Circuit, Inc. 

New York, NY $25,000 

(theater) 

To support the Theatre/Poetry/ 

New Music Proiect about the 

story of the Harlem Renaissance. 

National Conference of State 

Legislatures 

Denver, CO $35,000 

(arts education) 

To support expansion and 

maintenance of the national 

arts education information 

clearinghouse of state legislation and policies. 

National Public Radio 

Washington, DC $200,000 

(media arts) 

To support the Classical Music 

Initiative. 

New School for Social Research 

New York, NY $30,000 

(music) 

To support the New York String 

Orchestra Seminar of orchestra 

rehearsals and a performance at 

Carnegie Hall under the direction of conductor Jaime Laredo, 

as well as chamber music 

coaching. 

New Wave Corporation 

(KOPN) 

Columbia, MO $15,ooo 

(media arts) 

To support the Midwest Radio 

Theater Workshop’s national 

week-long workshop in live radio production, concluding 

with the live broadcast and cassette distribution of three radio 

plays. 

New York Historical Society 

New York, NY $26,000 

(design) 

To support "Kid City," a permanent interactive exhibit designed to help children understand their urban environment 

and its history. 
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The Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, DC offered Ali’s Well That Ends Well as part of the Free for All outreach program. Education & 

Photo by Carol Rosegg. 

New York University 

New York, NY $40,000 

(arts education) 

To support expansion of the 

Creative Art Team’s (CAT) Early 

Learning Through the Arts program to New York City prekindergarten and Head Start 

classrooms that do not receive 

CAT’s services and have limited 

or no access to the arts. 

Orchestral Association 

(Chicago Symphony Orchestra) 

Chicago, IL $6z,ooo 

(music) 

To support scholarships for 

members of the Civic Orchestra 

of Chicago, the training orchestra sponsored by the Chicago 

Symphony Orchestra. 

Pacific Northwest Ballet 

Association 

Seattle, WA $75,000 

(dance) 

To support the continuation of 

the Community Futures Initiative, which provides exposure to 

and training in classical ballet 

to school-aged children. 

Pacific Symphony Association 

Santa Ana, CA $50,000 

(music) 

To support the implementation 

of the second and third years of 

a three-year initiative for adult 

music education and audience 

development among Orange 

County’s ethnic communities. 

Access 

PEN American Center, Inc. 

New York, NY $50,000 

(literature) 

To support the Phase III Project, an expansion of PEN 

American Center’s Readers & 

Writers Program. 

Pennsylvania Young Playwrights 

Program, Inc. 

Philadelphia, PA $1z7,ooo 

(arts education) 

To support a playwriting project that enables students to express their experiences with violence in their daily lives and 

community, to shape these stories artistically, and to share 

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Philadelphia Orchestra 

Association 

Philadelphia, PA $zo8,ooo 

(music) 

To support the first phase of a 

consortium music education 

project designed to enhance 

music appreciation and awareness by Philadelphia public 

school students, through exposure to musical instruments, 

performers, and performances. 

Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, Inc. 

Pittsburgh, PA $5o, ooo 

(dance) 

To support free ballet classes, 

student matinee performances, 

lecture demonstrations, workshops, teacher training, and the 

production and publication of 

audiovisual and printed resource material. 

Plaza de la Raza, Inc. 

Los Angeles, CA $3o, ooo 

(multidisciplinary) 

To support 32 five-week intensive workshops in dance, music, 

theater, and visual arts. 

Poetry Society of America 

New York, NY $67,000 

(literature) 

To support Poetry Without 

Walls, a project designed to 

bring poetry directly to diverse 

audiences nationwide. 

Professional Flair, Inc. 

Cleveland, OH $25,000 

(dance) 

To support the expansion of 

Professional Flair’s dance 

troupe (a pioneer dance company in showcasing dancers 

with disabilities), in order to 

accommodate the increased 

demand for its lecture-demonstrations. 

Ravinia Festival Association 

Highland Park, IL $43,952 

(music) 

To support professional jazz 

artist fees, student artist jazz 

camp scholarships, and educational supplies and materials 

for the Jazz in the Schools Mentor Program of the Ravinia Festival and Chicago Public 

Schools. 

Rebekah Films, Inc. 

Brooklyn, NY $25,ooo 

(media arts) 

To support the production of a 

9o-minute performance-based 

documentary on black music of 

the 197os by the filmmakers 

Demetria Royals and Louise 

Diamond. 

Regional Arts & Culture 

Council 

Portland, OR $zo9,5oo 

(local arts agencies) 

To support a consortium project to design, implement, and 

evaluate a two-year program of 

performances and residency activities in designated neighborhoods of the greater Portland 

metropolitan region. 

Resolution, Inc. 

San Francisco, CA $25,000 

(media arts) 

To support Envisioning Community: New African Cinema 

1995-97, a touring film series, 

video collection, and monograph designed to introduce 

American audiences to the most 

important emerging trends in 

African cinema. 

Revolving Museum 

Boston, MA $15,ooo 

(multidisciplinary) 

To support the transformation 

of an abandoned dry dock into 

a public art carnival that will 

involve teams of artists, youth, 

and community members. 

Ririe-Woodbury Dance 

Foundation 

Salt Lake City, UT $45,ooo 

(dance) 

To support the implementation 

of the Community Based Programming Project, which will 

allow the Ririe-Woodbury 

Dance Company to develop extended residencies at sites it 

tours by working in advance 

with the presenters. 

Rochester Institute of 

Technology 

Rochester, NY $12,ooo 

(theater) 

To support a special performing 

arts tour of the Appalachian reo 

gion by Sunshine Too, a professional touring troupe of The 

National Technical Institute for 

the Deaf. 

San Francisco Girls Chorus, Inc. 

San Francisco, CA $z2,1oo 

(music) 

To support the Master Teacher 

Program, an individual vocal 

instruction program for chorus 

members. 
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San Francisco Opera 

Association 

San Francisco, CA SzOO, OOO 

(opera) 

To support artists’ fees and 

salaries for the chorus, weekly 

performers, and stage crew for a 

Broadway-style production of 

Giacomo Puccini’s Madame 

Butterfly at the Golden Gate 

Theatre during 1997. 

San Francisco 

Performances, Inc. 

San Francisco, CA $~o, ooo 

(presenting) 

To support four specific initiatives: an Alexander String 

Quartet residency; programs in 

the San Francisco Public 

Schools; development of a Living Creators program; and an 

initiative to expand access to 

dance. 

Seattle Art Museum 

Seattle, WA $50,000 

(museum) 

To support Growing Up With 

Art, a collaborative initiative 

between the museum and area 

schools. 

Shakespeare Theatre 

Washington, DC $30,000 

(theater) 

To support outreach programs 

to high school students, people 

with disabilities, and other underserved audiences through 

the Shakespeare Theatre Free 

for M1, an annual, free, classical 

theater production. 

South Dakotans for the Arts 

Deadwood, SD $60,000 

(local arts agencies) 

To support ArtsCorr, a partnership program that will provide 

arts experiences for young people incarcerated in South 

Dakota’s State Juvenile Correction facilities. 

Southwest Chamber Music 

Society 

Pasadena, CA $1o, ooo 

(music) 

To support a mentorship program with the music society’s 

ensemble and the John Muir 

High School in Pasadena, California providing coaching sessions, private instruction, performance experience, and 

career advice to students. 

Stagebridge 

Oakland, CA $1o, ooo 

(theater) 

To support Storybridge, an 

inter-generational arts and literacy project in which low-income older adults interact with 

at-risk children, through a program of storytelling in the 

schools and various community 

venues. 

Symphony Society of San 

Antonio 

San Antonio, TX $60,000 

(music) 

To support Face to Face--De 

Cara a Cara, a composer-in-residence proiect with Robert 

Xavier Rodriguez that includes 

community outreach activities. 

Tacoma Art Museum 

Tacoma, WA $20,000 

(museum) 

To support Art on Saturdays, a 

program that teaches at-risk 

youth and their primary caretakers visual literacy through a 

side-by-side art learning 

process. 

Taller Puertorriqueno, Inc. 

Philadelphia, PA $5o, ooo 

(multidisciplinary) 

To support the residencies and 

presentation of work by Encarnacion Diaz, Lenides Lopez, 

Grupo Bridge, The Tri City 

Band, Mma Villegas and Theater Group, Marta Sanchez, Susan Donato, and other regional 

artists. 

Teachers and Writers 

Collaborative 

New York, NY $72,000 

(literature) 

To support the establishment 

of a national network of writers 

and teachers of the literary arts 

and to provide mentor workshops bringing writers into 

school communities nationwide. 

Teatro de la Luna 

Washington, DC $8,000 

(theater) 

To support costs associated 

with the production of El Dia 

Que Me Quieras (The Day You 

Love Me), by the contemporary 

Venezuelan writer Jose Ignacio 

Cabrujas. 

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Access 

Texas Commission on the Arts 

Austin, TX $128,5oo 

(multidisciplinary) 

To support Internet access for 

rural constituents by providing 

internet accounts, 15 hours of 

free access time per month, and 

internet training and technical 

assistance. 

Texas Fine Arts Association 

Austin, TX $20,000 

(museum) 

To support the circulation of 

exhibitions of contemporary art 

by emerging and mid-career 

American artists to smaller museums, university galleries, and 

community art galleries 

throughout Texas. 

Theater by the Blind 

Corporation 

New York, NY $20,000 

(theater) 

To support the development, 

presentation, and touring of 

original theater work by and 

about blind people, developed 

through playwriting workshops 

and performances. 

Trinity Repertory Company 

Providence, RI $75,000 

(theater) 

To support the financial stabilization and consolidation of 

the Project Discovery program, 

and to provide for its strategic 

expansion in areas most desired 

by the local educational community. 

University of California at Los 

Angeles, Regents of the 

Los Angeles, CA $60,000 

(museum) 

To support the educational programming that will accompany 

the exhibition, "Picturing 

Childhood: Illustrated Children’s Books from the University of California Collection," at 

the Armand Hammer Museum 

of Art. 

University of North Carolina at 

Chapel Hill 

Chapel Hill, NC $50,000 

(museum) 

To support the World Religions 

Project, using the Ackland Art 

Museum’s religious artwork to 

promote broader understanding of world religions at the 

school, university, and community levels. 

UrbanArts, Inc. 

Boston, MA $50,000 

(multidisciplinary) 

To support Youth Works/Art 

Works, an arts education program which provides a way for 

urban teens to play a vital role 

in community revitalization efforts through creative writing, 

photography, and urban design. 

Utah Symphony Society 

Salt Lake City, UT $45,000 

(music) 

To support the expansion and 

interactive video enhancement 

of off-site educational outreach 

concerts for students in the region, incorporating rural 

schools in Idaho, Nevada, Utah, 

and Wyoming. 

Ventures in Education, inc. 

New York, NY $50,000 

(arts education) 

To support institutionalization 

of the Architectural Youth Program in rural and urban communities, expand the rural integrated curriculum model into 

the urban sites, and continue 

the national expansion to new 

sites. 

Vermont Symphony Orchestra 

Association, inc. 

Burlington, VT $30,000 

(music) 

To support the presentation of 

concerts to rural, underserved 

Vermont communities during 

the fall of 1997, including local 

school visits. 

Very Special Arts New Mexico 

Albuquerque, NM $90,000 

(arts education) 

To support ARTS WORK: Transition to Work Through the 

Arts Partnership, a pilot project 

between Very Special Arts New 

Mexico and the Mbuquerque 

Public Schools in association 

with Albuquerque arts-related 

businesses. 

Vigilante Players, Inc. 

Bozeman, MT $z5,ooo 

(theater) 

To support a regional tour in 

six rural northwestern states 

with shows from the existing 

repertoire and two new works. 

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts 

Richmond, VA $75,000 

(museum) 

To support the development of 

a Welcome Center, located at 

the entrance to the permanent 
GRANTS AND AWARDS 

collection galleries, equipped 

with a video introduction to the 

collections, interactive computers, and a random access audio 

guide. 

Washington Drama Society, 

Inc. (Arena Stage) 

Washington, DC $80,000 

(theater) 

To support the Living Stage 

company’s Community Collaborations Initiative, which maximizes access and active participation in the creative arts by 

at-risk, inner-city youths. 

Washington Opera 

Washington, DC $50,000 

(opera) 

To support the Look-In education program for elementary 

school children and teachers at 

the Kennedy Center Opera 

House during 1997-98. 

WHYY, Inc. 

Philadelphia, PA $40,000 

(media arts) 

To support the production of 

Fresh Air with Terry Gross, a 

daily radio journal of contemporary art and culture featuring 

interviews and commentary by 

distinguished experts. 

Wichita Art Museum 

Foundation, Inc. 

Wichita, KS $z6,ooo 

(museum) 

To support expanded use and 

development of the Art Resource Center, a new lending 

library of audiovisual and multimedia materials about the 

visual arts that serves teachers, 

parents, and community 

groups. 

William Marsh Rice University 

Houston, TX $25,000 

(design) 

To support a quarterly publication schedule of CITE, a review 

of architecture, urban planning, 

and design, between May 1997 

and March 1998. 

Women Make Movies 

New York, NY $59,000 

(media arts) 

To support the production of 

"Judith Jamison;’ the pilot program for the television series, 

American Artists: Memories of 

Childhood by the filmmaker 

Peggy Stern. 

Woolly Mammoth Theatre 

Company 

Washington, DC $20,000 

(multidisciplinary) 

To support the Arts for Youth 

Consortium, an educational 

program for inner-city youths 

that includes a videography 

project, a play production project, and community-based acting classes. 

World Music Productions 

Brooklyn, NY $36,000 

(media arts) 

To support the production of 

Afropop Worldwide, a national 

radio series celebrating the musical cultures of Africa, the 

Caribbean, and the Americas, 

including feature programs on 

United States cities. 

Writers In The Schools 

Houston, TX $36,000 

(literature) 

To support the Apprenticeship 

Initiative which will provide assistance to fledgling school and 

community literature residency 

programs in four states. 

Wyoming Arts Council 

Cheyenne, WY $zo5,3oo 

(arts education) 

To support explorations in and 

use of arts technology within 

Wyoming schools and communities. 

Young Aspirations/Young 

Artists, Inc. 

New Orleans, LA $5o, ooo 

(design) 

To support a training program 

in commercial and fine arts, 

designed to enhance the skills 

of artistically gifted, inner-city 

students. 

Young Audiences/New York, Inc. 

New York, NY $7o, ooo 

(arts education) 

To support CommunityLink, a 

new, comprehensive arts education initiative, which will focus 

on school-based programming, 

family and community activities, as well as increased use of 

technology. 

Young Men’s Christian 

Association of Billings 

Billings, MT $12,89o 

(literature) 

To support literary programming by the Writer’s Voice of 

the Billings Young Men’s Christian Association. 

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HERITAGE & PRESERVATION
 

T he purpose of Heritage & Preservation 

projects is to honor, assist, make visible, or conserve those forms of artistic 

expression reflecting the many cultural traditions and artistic achievements that make up 

our national cultural bounty. 

Heritage grants awarded this year will support the presentation of culturally specific and/ 

or time-honored artistic traditions to the public. Under a997 funding, the National Council 

for the Traditional Arts will conduct a "passing 

the torch" national visibility project to present 

traditional folk artists through large festivals 

across the country, national tours, compact disc 

recordings, and nationally distributed radio 

programs. CultureWorks in Philadelphia will 

produce a thirteen-hour radio biography of 

Leonard Bernstein. The Corporation of the 

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco will present Art of the Americas, a series of exhibitions 

drawn from the museums’ North American, 

Native American, Pre-Columbian, and Spanish 

Colonial textiles and graphics collections. Many 

Heritage projects this year include performances of works by major African-American 

composers and jazz and blues musicians, and 

presentation of significant African and AfricanAmerican dance works. 

Preservation grants in 1997 supported the 

conservation of significant art works in American collections, including public art, such as 

tapestries, murals, paintings, textiles, sculpture 

and architecture. Examples include: conservation of Albert Bierstadt’s The Oregon Trail, 

Rembrandt Peale’s Porthole Portrait of George 

Washington and John Koch’s Music in the collection of the Butler Institute of American Art 

in Youngstown, Ohio; restoration of the 

Minton tile ceiling in Central Park’s Bethesda 

Terrace arcade; final conservation of the Los 

Angeles mural America Tropical by the Mexican 

muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros; and conservation and exhibition of nine Dutch and French 

tapestries at the J.B. Speed Art Museum in 

Louisville, Kentucky. 

Both conservation of skills and skills in conservation are important elements of Heritage & 

Preservation grants. Folk arts apprenticeship 

programs were funded in seven states--Georgia, 

Hawaii, New Mexico, North Dakota, Rhode 

Island, Washington, and West Virginia--to support master traditional artists in passing along 

their unique artistic skills to apprentices in art 

forms ranging from fiddling to saddlemaking. 

Also funded were major training and technical 

assistance projects involving the conservation 

of artwork, from videos and photographs to 

textiles and the adobe architecture of the 

Southwest. 
 

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Heritage & Preservation 

122 awards $6,152,025 

The discipline designations in 

parentheses refer to the project, not necessarily the organization. 

Abhinaya Dance Company of 

San Jose Inc. 

San lose, CA $15,ooo 

(dance) 

To support an East Indian 

mother-daughter dance performance series which will explore 

the process of change and the 

transference of cultural traditions from one generation to 

the next. 

African-American Dance 

Ensemble, Inc. 

Durham, NC $50,000 

(dance) 

To support expansion of the 

Dance Ensemble’s African 

repertoire to include, in addition to its traditional West 

African work, the dances and 

music of Zimbabwe and Southern Africa. 

Akron Art Museum 

Akron, OH $25,000 

(museum) 

To support the design and 

printing of Akron Art Museum: 

An Introduction to the 

Collection, the first publication 

to provide an overview of the 

museum’s collection. 

Alabama Folklife Association, 

Inc, 

Birmingham, AL $15,ooo 

(folk and traditional arts) 

To support the documentation 

of Primitive Baptist hymn 

singing in Alabama through a 

publication, cassette recordings, 

and compact discs. 

Alabama State Council on the 

Arts 

Montgomery, AL $50,000 

(folk and traditional arts) 

To support the production of 

Traditional Music of Alabama, a 

package of four compact discs, 

and an accompanying book. 

Alaska State Council on the 

Arts 

Anchorage, AK $60,000 

(folk and traditional arts) 

To support a two-year project 

to establish a traditional arts 

program with three components: technical assistance contracts; a festivals and gatherings 

fund; and staff services and 

support to grantees. 

American Indian 

Contemporary Arts 

San Francisco, CA $4o,0oo 

(visual arts) 

To support three exhibitions of 

contemporary work by American Indians living throughout 

the United States. 

American Indian Services, Inc. 

Sioux Falls, SD $32,000 

(multidisciplinary) 

To support the creation of a juried exhibition and a mentorship program for Indian youth, 

increase exhibitions of Northern Plains artists, and research 

the traditional Northern Plains 

natural dyeing techniques of 

porcupine quills. 

Anthology Film Archives 

New York, NY $12,5oo 

(media arts) 

To support the preservation and 

first retrospective exhibition of 

the films and videotapes of the 

pioneer media artist Ed Emshwiller. 

Appalshop, Inc. 

Whitesburg, KY $75,ooo 

(theater) 

To support Roadside Theater as 

part of a consortium to develop, test, and document a nationally applicable model to 

create original, rural drama that 

honors and preserves local traditions and speaks to contemporary issues. 

Arts Resources in 

Collaboration, Inc. 

New York, NY $19,ooo 

(dance) 

To support preservation of 30 

deteriorating Eye on Dance series master videotapes that contain extensive information 

about the American dance 

legacy, including footage of minority dance artists and underdocumented choreographers. 

Asian American Writers’ 

Workshop, Inc. 

New York, NY $3o, ooo 

(literature) 

To support East Is East: Celebrating the Asian American Literary Tradition in New York 

City, a project that includes 

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public readings, book publications, and creation of a map 

tracing the Asian American literary traditions in the city. 

Bay Area Video Coalition, Inc. 

San Francisco, CA $125,720 

(media arts) 

To support the provision of 

video preservation services to 

artists and arts organizations, 

including the recording, retrieval, and preservation of art 

on video. 

Bella Lewitzky Dance 

Foundation 

Los Angeles, CA $23,500 

(dance) 

To support documentation of 

the dances and technique of 

choreographer Bella Lewitzky. 

Butler Institute of American Art 

Youngstown, OH $5,ooo 

(museum) 

To support the conservation of 

three paintings from the museum’s permanent collection: 

Mbert Bierstadt’s The Oregon 

Trail, Rembrandt Peale’s Porthole Portrait of George Washington, and John Koch’s Music. 

California Indian 

Basketweavers Association 

Nevada City, CA $6o,5oo 

(folk and traditional arts) 

To support the seventh and 

eighth statewide gatherings of 

Indian basketweavers in 1997 

and 1998 and the first Western 

Regional Basketweavers Gathering in 1999. 

Capoeira Foundation, Inc. 

New York, NY $25,000 

(folk and traditional arts) 

To support the creation of a 

National Capoeira Network 

through the establishment of 

programs in partnership with 

African-American and Latino 

cultural organizations and the 

development of a Web site. 

Carter Family Memorial Music 

Center, Inc. 

Hiltons, VA $13,5oo 

(folk and traditional arts) 

To support artists’ fees to present a weekly series and an annual festival of old time traditional music played on acoustic 

instruments. 

The African-American Dance Ensemble of Durham, North Carolina dances in the lamban style, indigenous to the Sene Gambis 

area of West Africa. Photo by Rebecca Lesher. 
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Cedarburg Corporation 

Cedarburg, WI $87,91o 

(~olk and traditional arts) 

To support a traveling exhibition of Wisconsin folk art in 

coniunction with the celebration of the state sesquicentennial in 1998. 

Central Park Conservancy, Inc. 

New York, NY $50,000 

(design) 

To support the restoration of 

the Minton tile ceiling in Central Park’s Bethesda Terrace 

arcade. 

Chinese-American Arts 

Council, Inc. 

New York, NY $38,350 

(folk and traditional arts) 

To support full-length productions of traditional Cantonese 

and Peking opera, concerts of 

Chinese string and percussion 

music, and performances of 

Chinese regional and tribal folk 

dance. 

Cincinnati Museum Association 

Cincinnati, OH $20,000 

(museum) 

To support the conservation of 

furniture, from the collection of 

the Cincinnati Art Museum, 

which was carved in Cincinnati 

during the Aesthetic Movement 

at the turn of the 2oth century. 

City Center 55th Street 

Theater Foundation 

New York, NY $30,000 

(theater) 

To support the reconstruction 

of the score of an important 

American musical that will be 

performed in City Center’s musical theater series Encores! 

Great American Musicals in 

Concert. 

City Lore, Inc. 

New York, NY $7o, ooo 

(folk and traditional arts) 

To support a consortium that 

will sponsor the First Annual 

People’s Poetry Gathering, 

bringing together a variety of 

poets and poetry from around 

the nation for a series of public 

events. 

City Lore, Inc. 

New York, NY $40,000 

(folk and traditional arts) 

To support the expansion of 

"American Talkers;’ a set of storytelling modules to be featured 

on National Public Radio’s All 

Things Considered and Weekend 

Edition. 

City Lore, Inc.
 

(for the National Task Force on
 

Folk Arts in Education)
 

New York, NY $30,000 

(folk and traditional arts) 

To support the National Task 

Force on Folk Arts in Education 

in developing a mid-Atlantic 

regional network of educators, 

folklorists, folk artists, parents, 

students, and arts education 

advocates. 

Cleveland State University 

Cleveland, OH $30,000 

(music) 

To support the performance 

and recording of the orchestral 

music of George Walker by the 

Cleveland Chamber Symphony. 

Contemporary Arts 

Educational Project, Inc. 

Los Angeles, CA $75, ooo 

(literature) 

To support Sun & Moon Press’s 

publication and promotion of 

the anthology From the Other 

Side of the Century: a New 

American Drama, 196o-1995, 

and its individual volumes of 

contemporary plays. 

Cooper Union for the 

Advancement of Science and 

Art 

New York, NY $3o, ooo 

(design) 

To support the Archive Dissemination Project, a relational database of the center’s collection of 

American design history. 

Cornerstones Community 

Partnerships 

Santa Fe, NM $75,ooo 

(design) 

To support technical assistance 

and training to rural communities in preserving historic buildings and building practices central to the Hispanic and Native 

American culture of the region. 

Corporation of the Fine Arts 

Museums of San Francisco 

San Francisco, CA $60,000 

(museum) 

To support Art of the Americas, 

a series of exhibitions drawn 

from the museums’ North 

American, Native American, 

Pre-Columbian, and Spanish 

Colonial textiles and graphics 

collections, with brochures and 

education programs. 

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Creative Arts Guild, Inc. 

Dalton, GA $2z, ooo 

(folk and traditional arts) 

To support a traditional arts 

program including a traditional arts performance series, 

instructional workshops, and 

school programs. 

CultureWorks, Ltd. 

Philadelphia, PA $75,000 

(media arts) 

To support the completion of a 

13-hour radio biography of 

Leonard Bernstein. 

Dance Notation Bureau, Inc. 

New York, NY $2o, ooo 

(dance) 

To support the documentation 

and preservation of three seminal dances: Alvin Ailey’s Revelations, Talley Beatty’s Road of 

the Phoebe Snow, and Bill T. 

Jones’ D-Man in the Waters, 

through the use of Labanotation. 

Davenport Museum of Art 

Davenport, IA $20,000 

(museum) 

To support the conservation of 

16th through 18th century European paintings to be installed in 

the museum’s new permanent 

galleries in the year 2000. 

Davis & Elkins College 

Elkins, WV $50,000 

(folk and traditional arts) 

To support the statewide West 

Virginia Folk Arts Apprenticeship Program. 

Delaware Art Museum 

Wilmington, DE $6,5z5 

(museum) 

To support conservation treatment of American paintings 

from the 18th through the early 

2oth centuries. 

Dia Center for the Arts, Inc. 

New York, NY $60,000 

(visual arts) 

To support the publication of 

two scholarly monographs of 

contemporary German artists: 

Joseph Beuys: Codices Madrid, 

and Blinky Palermo: To the People of New York City. 

East Durham Irish Culture & 

Sports Centre, Inc. 

East Durham, NY $z5,ooo 

(folk and traditional arts) 

To support the Catskills Irish 

Arts Week, a traditional arts education and performance program. 

El Pueblo de Los Angeles 

Historical Monument Authority 

Commission 

Los Angeles, CA $60,000 

(visual arts) 

To support the final conservation phase of America Tropical, 

a mural painted in 1932 by the 

great Mexican muralist David 

Mfaro Siqueiros. 

El Teatro Campesino 

San Juan Bautista, CA 

$55,300 

(theater) 

To support salaries, fees, and 

related production expenses for 

La Pastorela, a religious drama 

and Christmas tradition involving members of the community. 

Erlck Hawkins Dance 

Foundation, Inc. 

New York, NY $5o, ooo 

(dance) 

To support the assembly, cataloguing, documentation, and 

preservation of Erick Hawkins’ 

dances and archival material, 

ensuring the long-term availability of his legacy for present 

and future generations. 

Ethnic Folk Arts Center, Inc. 

New York, NY $80,000 

(folk and traditional arts) 

To support the Community 

Cultural Initiative, which encourages community-based 

conservation and support of 

traditional music and dance in 

several New York City ethnic 

communities. 

Evergreen State College 

Olympia, WA $22,000 

(folk and traditional arts) 

To support artists’ fees, travel 

costs, and related expenses for 

the Third Annual Basketmakers 

Gathering, a collaborative 

effort between Evergreen State 

College Longhouse and the 

Washington State Arts Commission. 

Founders Society Detroit 

Institute of Arts 

Detroit, MI $60,000 

(museum) 

To support costs associated 

with the conservation and installation of textiles from seven 

areas of the museum’s permanent collection: African, Ancient, Asian, Native American, 

Near Eastern, Pre-Columbian, 

and 2oth century. 
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Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc. 

New York, NY $50,000 

(visual arts) 

To support the cataloguing and 

documentation of 2o years of 

contemporary art, to include 

text by Martha Wilson, copies 

of selected documents, black 

and white photographs, and 

video segments. 

Fresno Arts Council, Inc. 

Fresno, CA $6o, ooo 

(folk and traditional arts) 

To support the Textile Arts of 

Laos project, identifying local 

Laotian artists, developing an 

educational curriculum, and 

mounting an exhibit at the 

Fresno Art Museum, with accompanying programs and 

publications. 

George Eastman House 

Rochester, NY $1oo, ooo 

(media arts) 

To support the restoration of a 

group of culturally significant 

American films produced in the 

United States between 1915 and 

1955, which illustrate a variety 

of interpretations of women. 

Georgia Council for the Arts 

Atlanta, GA $4o, ooo 

(folk and traditional arts) 

To support a two-year, 

statewide program of traditional arts apprenticeships in 

Georgia. 

Hawaii State Foundation on 

Culture and the Arts 

Honolulu, HI $85,000 

(folk and traditional arts) 

To support a two-year, 

statewide, traditional arts apprenticeship program, and the 

production of a radio series featuring excerpts of documentary 

interviews with apprenticeship 

participants. 

Historical Association of 

Southern Florida, Inc. 

Miami, FL $9,800 

(folk and traditional arts) 

To support educational programming that will accompany 

a multimedia exhibition entitled "Caribbean Percussion Traditions in Miami;’ including a 

publication, two seminar-performances, and a series of 

demonstrations. 

Hmong Cultural Arts, Crafts, 

Teaching, and Museum Projects 

Sacramento, CA $40,000 

(folk and traditional arts) 

To support a two-year, afterschool program of instruction 

in traditional Hmong folk 

dance and Pa Dao embroidery 

in Sacramento-area schools 

with a strong Asian student 

population. 

Ink People, Inc. 

Eureka, CA $20,000 

(folk and traditional arts) 

To support a gathering of western coastal Native American regalia makers, ongoing regalia 

making workshops, and research 

and distribution of guidelines to 

legally obtain controlled materials used in regalia making. 

Institute for African-American 

Folk Culture, Inc. 

New York, NY $15,ooo 

(folk and traditional arts) 

To support a series of hip-hop 

concerts at the National Black 

Theater in Harlem, showcasing 

community-based artists, and a 

panel discussion series to explore the nature and issues of 

hip-hop culture. 

Iowa Arts Council 

Des Moines, IA $50,000 

(folk and traditional arts) 

To support the development of 

a Statewide Folk Arts Network 

and a mentoring initiative. 

J.B. Speed Art Museum 

Louisville, KY $1oo, ooo 

(museum) 

To support the conservation 

and exhibition of Dutch and 

French tapestries in the museum’s collection. 

Jewish Historical Society of 

Maryland, Inc. 

Baltimore, MD $60,ooo 

(museum) 

To support the documentation, 

through architectural plans 

and photographs, of 18 preWorld War II synagogues; and 

an exhibition, "Synagogues of 

Maryland." 

Kariyushi Kal 

San Jose, CA $20,000 

(folk and traditional arts) 

To support a festival of Okinawan music and dance in San 

Jose. 

Kings Majestic Corporation 

Brooklyn, NY $6o, ooo 

(dance) 

To support the presentation of 

a performance series that will 

showcase the dance companies 

of five pioneering, female, 

African-American artistic 

directors. 

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La Compania de Teatro de 

Albuquerque, Inc. 

Albuquerque, NM $1o, ooo 

(theater) 

To support the development 

and production of the play La 

Posada Magica by Octavio Solis. 

Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts 

Center 

San Pablo, CA $24,000 

(folk and traditional arts) 

To support the Community 

Heritage Project, a program of 

instruction in and presentation 

of traditional Mexican music, 

dance, and artisan forms for 

young artists. 

Los Pleneros de la 21, Inc. 

New York, NY $6,600 

(folk and traditional arts) 

To support An Evening with the 

Masters, a concert-dance celebration honoring masters and 

practitioners of Puerto Rican 

traditional music in New York 

City. 

Los Reyes de Albuquerque 

Foundation 

Albuquerque, NM $20,000 

(folk and traditional arts) 

To support a year-long series of 

performances of traditional 

New Mexican Hispanic music 

designed for children and for 

elderly, disabled, homeless, institutionalized, and other special needs audiences. 

Maine Arts Commission 

Augusta, ME $35,000 

(folk and traditional arts) 

To support The Generations 

Program: Apprenticeships & 

Gatherings, which passes on 

artistic skills and cultural 

knowledge from one generation 

to the next among members of 

Maine’s Native American and 

Franco-American communities. 

Media Alliance, Inc. 

New York, NY $30,000 

(media arts) 

To support a video preservation 

initiative in New York State. 

Michigan State University 

East Lansing, MI $199,92o 

(folk and traditional arts) 

To support "Native Quilting," a 

major exhibition featuring 

North American Indian and 

Native Hawaiian quiltmaking. 

Middle Atlantic Folklife 

Association 

Chester, PA $z26,ooo 

(folk and traditional arts) 

To support a consortium project, 

including a touring program of 

exhibits and artists’ residencies, 

that will give traditional artists 

greater access to resources and 

wider visibility. 

Middlesex, County of 

North Brunswick, NJ $20,000 

(folk and traditional arts) 

To support a series of performances and residencies featuring three components: "Storytellers Cottage," "Puppet 

Masters," and a three-part segment exploring drumming and 

dollmaking from three cultures. 

Municipal Art Society of 

New York 

New York, NY $60,000 

(visual arts) 

To support the restoration of a 

mural series by Barry Faulkner, 

Scenes from the History of New 

York, painted between 1916 and 

192o for Washington Irving 

High School. 

Museum of Modern Art 

New York, NY $163,500 

(media arts) 

To support the preservation of 

American films in the museum’s collection, including 

hand-colored and tinted works 

of early cinema, independent 

silent films from the Biograph 

Collection, and five films by 

Joseph Cornell. 

Music From China, Inc. 

New York, NY $25,000 

(folk and traditional arts) 

To support a series of concert 

programs that focus on separate 

Chinese traditional and contemporary art forms tailored to 

a variety of audiences. 

National Center for Jewish Film 

Waltham, MA $50,000 

(media arts) 

To support the restoration and 

preservation of two classic 

American Yiddish feature films, 

Motl, the Operator and The 

Singing Blacksmith. 

National Council for the 

Traditional Arts 

Silver Spring, MD $200,000 

(folk and traditional arts) 

To support the presentation of 

outstanding folk artists at the 

National Folk Festival, the Lowell Folk Festival, and the Washington Irish Folk Festival; in 

two national tours; on new 

compact disk recordings; and 

on nationally distributed radio 

programs. 
Jane Dumas, Celia Silva, and Manuela Aguiar from tribe Kumeyaay are twining with the juncus technique at the June 1997 

California Indian Basketweavers Gathering in Thousand Oaks, California. Photo by Linda Yamane. 

National Park Foundation 

Washington, DC $50,000 

(folk and traditional arts) 

To support the fifth annual 

American Roots Fourth of July 

concert and radio broadcast 

held on the grounds of the 

Washington Monument and 

featuring the cultural and artistic diversity of American traditional music. 

National Trust for Historic 

Preservation in the U.S. (as 

fiscal agent for Lyndhurst) 

Washington, DC $30,000 

(design) 

To support the preparation of a 

new furnishing plan for the 

Lyndhurst mansion in Tarrytown, New York. 

Nevada State Council on the 

Arts 

Carson City, NV $60,000 

(folk and traditional arts) 

To support the identification, 

documentation, archiving, 

fieldwork, and programming 

of local traditional arts in several model community sites 

throughout Nevada. 

New Mexico Arts Division 

Santa Fe, NM $30,400 

(folk and traditional arts) 

To support a statewide Master 

Apprenticeship Program in 

New Mexico. 

New York Baroque Dance 

Company, Inc. 

New York, NY $15,ooo 

(dance) 

To support the documentation 

and presentation of baroque 

dance through a tour of performances, lecture-demonstrations, and a traveling exhibition 

of videotapes, photographs, 

publications, set designs, and 

costumes. 

New York Folklore Society 

Newfield, NY $30,000 

(folk and traditional arts) 

To support the Folk Artists SelfManagement Project, a consortium project to provide technical 
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assistance for state folk artists 

through workshops and the 

publication of a self-management skills handbook. 

New York Public Library Astor, 

Lenox and Tilden Foundations 

New York, NY 5200,000 

(media arts) 

To support video documentation of dance and theater performances, preserving 20 

significant performances and 

making them available for research, at the New York Public 

Library for the Performing Arts. 

New York University 

New York, NY 55,000 

(theater) 

To support authors’ and translators’ fees and the publication 

of four 1997 issues of TDR: The 

Drama Review. 

Non-Traditional Casting 

Project, Inc. 

New York, NY 530,000 

(theater) 

To support the Inclusion Project which consists of Artists’ 

Files/Artists’ Files Online, a 

computerized directory of 3,500 

actors of color or with disabilities; New Traditions, a journal 

about cultural diversity in the 

theater field; and the Resource 

Guide, on how to include actors 

who are deaf or hearing-impaired in productions. 

North Dakota Council on the 

Arts 

Bismarck, ND 56o, ooo 

(folk and traditional arts) 

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mances and artists’ residencies 

utilizing previous Apprentice 

Program master artists and/or 

apprentices. 

Northeast Document 

Conservation Center, Inc. 

Andover, MA 54o, ooo 

(museum) 

To support a series of training 

workshops in the Northeast on 

the care of photographs, with 

follow-up consultation to program participants, and the production of a manual on preserving photographs. 

Oakland Youth Chorus 

Oakland, CA 515,ooo 

(music) 

To support the research, cataloguing, preserving, and recording of choral works by American composers of color, 

performed by the Oakland 

Youth Chorus during the past 

twelve years. 

Oberlin College 

Oberlin, OH $25,200 

(museum) 

To support the preservation of 

and access to the archives of 

American artist Eva Hesse at the 

Allen Memorial Art Museum. 

Ollantay Center for the 

Arts, Inc. 

Jackson Heights, NY 530,000 

(theater) 

To support costs associated 

with the publication of Anthology of Latino Theater and issues 

of Ollantay Theater Magazine. 

Orchestra 200 I, Inc. 

Philadelphia, PA 515,ooo 

(music) 

To support the recording of a 

compact disc of George 

Crumb’s "Three Early Songs," 

"Dream Sequence," and "Ancient Voices of Children;" and 

David Crumb’s "Variations for 

Cello and Chamber Orchestra." 

Phillips Academy 

Andover, MA 5125,ooo 

(museum) 

To support the Addison Gallery 

of American Art as part of a 

consortium project consisting 

of the touring exhibition "To 

Conserve a Legacy: American 

Art from Historically Black Colleges and Universities;" conservation of works of art; and publication of a catalogue. 

Poets House, Inc. 

New York, NY 550,000 

(literature) 

To support the Poetry Publication Showcase and its presentation to the American Library 

Association’s annual conference. 

Portland Performing Arts, Inc. 

Portland, ME 550,000 

(presenting) 

To support the House Island 

Consortium’s work involving 

long-term artists’ residencies, 

school programs, public workshops and concerts, and local 

ethnic-historical documentation. 
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Preserve, Inc. 

Falls Church, VA $30,000 

(dance) 

To support Preserve’s work in 

dance documentation and 

preservation through publications, a Web site, and workshops on the use of computer 

technology as it relates to 

the safeguarding of the dance 

heritage. 

Princeton University 

Princeton, N] $20,000 

(museum) 

To support the conservation 

of ancient Greek Attic vases 

and fragments in the Princeton 

University Art Museum’s collections. 

Public Corporation for the Arts 

of the City of Long Beach 

Long Beach, CA $30,000 

(folk and traditional arts) 

To support fieldwork to identify 

local traditional artists, and to 

develop a series of folk art presentations in the Long Beach 

area. 

Pueblo of Pojoaque, New 

Mexico 

Santa Fe, _NM $25,000 

(folk and traditional arts) 

To support the Pueblo Traditional Arts Preservation Workshops, a series of intensive 

arts workshops taught by elder 

Native American master 

artisans. 

Radio Bilingue, Inc. 

Fresno, CA $90,000 

(folk and traditional arts) 

To support a Mexican-American Folk Music Festival project 

consisting of a series of cultural 

celebrations, featuring both 

mariachi music and norteno-tejano conjunto music. 

Recorded Anthology of 

American Music, Inc. (Hew 

World Records) 

New York, NY $69,760 

(music) 

To support the preservation 

and restoration of archival 

master tapes in danger of disintegrating. 

Review of Contemporary 

Fiction, Inc. 

Normal, IL $1oo, ooo 

(literature) 

To support the recovery, publication, and promotion of outof-print works of modern and 

contemporary fiction by Dalkey 

Archive Press. 

Rhode Island State Council on 

the Arts 

Providence, RI $40,000 

(folk and traditional arts) 

To support a combined program of apprenticeships, educational workshops, a public 

showcase for emerging artists, 

and artist exchanges to expand 

the support given to traditional 

master artists. 

San Francisco State University 

San Francisco, CA $50,000 

(literature) 

To support the Poetry Center’s 

preservation of filmed and 

videotaped literary performances, and the recording, cataloguing, and promotion of literary events. 

Sealaska Heritage Foundation 

Juneau, AK $20,000 

(theater) 

To support the Naa Kahidi Theater’s week-long encampment 

with a tribal elder to learn stories, songs, and performance 

traditions, and to translate 

these into a new piece for performance. 

Smith College 

Northampton, MA $50,000 

(museum) 

To support the publication of 

Masterworks of American Painting and Sculpture, a catalogue of 

works in the permanent collection of the college’s Museum of 

Art. 

South Carolina Arts 

Commission 

Columbia, SC $40,000 

(folk .and traditional arts) 

To support the South Carolina 

Institute for Community Scholars in the Traditional Arts, a 

specialized training program to 

equip local cultural workers 

with greater knowledge in the 

development and presentation 

of folk artists. 

Southern Arts Federation, Inc. 

Atlanta, GA . $15o, ooo 

(folk and traditional arts) 

To support Southern Connections, a two-year training and 

touring program that promotes 

indigenous southern artists and 

presents their talents to regional, national, and international audiences. 

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Southwest Museum 

Los Angeles, CA $75,000 

(museum) 

To support the conservation 

treatment of Navaio textiles 

dating from about 183o to 195o. 

Texas Folklife Resources 

Austin, TX $7o, ooo 

(folk and traditional arts) 

To support a year-long series of 

single-event concert presentations, the Touring Traditions 

program, and a folk arts-in-education residency component. 

Textile Conservation 

Workshop, Inc. 

South Salem, NY $z6,ooo 

(museum) 

To support a year-long apprenticeship for in-depth training in 

textile art. 

A Traveling Jewish Theater 

San Francisco, CA $45,ooo 

(theater) 

To support the development 

and production of a new bilingual ensemble work, Diamonds 

in the Dark, which translates the 

rich and unusual culture of Yiddish poetry for English-speaking audiences of diverse backgrounds. 

Tung Ching Chinese Center for 

the Arts, Inc. 

Flushing, NY $19,ooo 

(folk and traditional arts) 

To support a series of performances in the New York City 

area highlighting four styles of 

Chinese opera: Shaoxing, Cantonese, Beijing, and Kunqu. 

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Student Harley Brewer softens elk hide on a stretcher at the Pojoaque Pueblo’s Poeh 

Cultural Center and Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Photo by Vernon G. Lujan. 

University of Arizona American Indian apprentices 

Tucson, AZ $25,ooo and a post-graduate conserva­

(museum) tion fellow at the Arizona State 

To support conservation treat- Museum. 

ment of significant Native 

American works of art, and information exchange between 
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University of California at 

Berkeley, Regents of the 

Berkeley, CA $135,5oo 

(media arts) 

To support The Next Century 

of American Film, a preservation and exhibition project that 

celebrates the excellence, health, 

and diversity of the American 

film heritage and safeguards it 

for future generations. 

University of Minnesota, Twin 

Cities Campus 

Minneapolis, MN $75,600 

(museum) 

To support the conservation of 

Marsden Hartley paintings and 

the publication of a catalogue 

to accompany a national touring exhibition of the artist’s 

work from the collection of the 

Weisman Art Museum. 

University of New Hampshire 

Durham, NH $1oo,24o 

(folk and traditional arts) 

To support a two-year research 

and presentation project among 

New Hampshire folk artists, including an interpretive exhibition and preparation of a component for the Smithsonian 

Festival of American Folklife. 

University of New Mexico 

Albuquerque, NM $1o, ooo 

(folk and traditional arts) 

To amend a previous grant to 

support costs associated with 

the national touring exhibition 

"Cuando Hablan los Santos 

(When the Spirits Speak)." 

University of North Carolina at 

Greensboro 

Greensboro, NC $6,000 

(museum) 

To support the conservation of 

prints by Henri Matisse, part of 

the Etta Cone Collection donated to the University’s Weatherspoon Art Gallery in 195o. 

Vermont Museum and Gallery 

Alliance, Inc. 

Shelburne, VT $1o, ooo 

(museum) 

To support the Vermont Collections Care Program--including 

care of collections surveys, 

training workshops, and services-for the art and historical 

collections of Vermont. 

Washington State Arts 

Commission 

Olympia, WA $6o, ooo 

(folk and traditional arts) 

To support a two-year segment 

of the Washington State Arts 

Commission Folk Arts Program’s statewide Apprenticeship Program. 

Western Washington 

University 

Bellingham, WA $15,ooo 

(museum) 

To support the conservation 

and management of the Washington Art Consortium’s collection of American works on paper and photographs. 

WGBH Educational Foundation 

Boston, MA $1oo, ooo 

(media arts) 

To support the preservation of 

video art works from the 

archives of the New Television 

Workshop (1967-93). 

Wolf Trap Foundation for the 

Performing Arts 

Vienna, VA $IOO, OOO 

(folk and traditional arts) 

To support the Folk Masters 

Concert, Radio & Recordings 

Project, a consortium effort 

including a concert series, a 

compact disc series of Folk 

Masters recordings, and the 

American Routes radio series. 

Women’s Philharmonic 

San Francisco, CA $4o, ooo 

(music) 

To support costs related to 

researching, reconstructing, 

publishing, performing, 

promoting, and disseminating 

orchestral works by historical 

American women composers. 

World Music Institute, Inc. 

New York, NY $85,ooo 

(folk and traditional arts) 

To support World Music America, a consortium project to 

present the United States tour 

of traditional musicians and 

dancers representing South and 

Southeast Asia, the Middle East, 

and North and West Africa. 

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PLANNING & STABILIZATION
 

lanning & Stabilization grants assist arts 

anizations in strengthening their organizational capacity through planning, 

improving management systems, implementing proiects to generate revenues, and fiscal 

capitalization initiatives, such as creating or 

augmenting cash reserves or endowments. 

These grants help arts organizations, large and 

small, to continue their artistic missions effectively and creatively. Proiects focus on organizational planning, stabilization, or both. Agency 

funds awarded to build organizational endowments or cash reserves must be matched 3-to-x. 

Planning & Stabilization grants awarded for 

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other organizational grant categories. 

The following examples illustrate how Planning & Stabilization grants awarded in 1997 are 

helping a variety of arts organizations in communities throughout the country. A grant to 

Folklore Village Farm in Dodgeville, Wisconsin 

funded a comprehensive planning project. Located in rural southwestern Wisconsin, Folklore 

Village has greatly expanded its programming 

in the past five years to include a new Paths to 

Tradition concert series, folklife exhibits, school 

programs, instructional workshops, and other 

outreach programs. The grant will enable the 

organization to examine what direction it 

should take with an additional 9o acres of land 

it recently inherited. 

A Planning & Stabilization grant to the 

Cumberland County Playhouse in Crossville, 

Tennessee will facilitate the stabilization of the 

organization’s operations by increasing earned 

income through a tourism campaign. Cumberland County Playhouse serves more than 

lOO,OOO rural citizens and visitors each year 

with over 4oo performances of theater, music, 

and dance that reflect the heritage of Cumberland area artists as well as our nation’s cultural 

diversity. To attract larger audiences, the Playhouse will create a destination image for the 

Cumberland Mountain region, promoting itself 

along with the area’s other cultural attractions. 

The MERIT Music Program in Chicago received a major grant to support augmentation 

of an existing endowment. MERIT will use this 

award, plus the significant matching funds it 

will generate, as part of a planned $2.5 million 

endowment campaign. MERIT has provided 

high quality, tuition-free music instruction to 

talented Chicago youth of diverse cultural and 

socio-economic backgrounds for 17 years, and 

this grant will help the organization to expand 

its work. 
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At the Birmingham, Alabama Museum of Art, visitors examine Nancy Graves’ Rotara, 1986. Photo © The Birmingham News, 1998 

(www.al.com). All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission. 

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The discipline designations in 

parentheses refer to the project, 

not necessarily the organization. 

Academy of American Poets, 

Inc. 

New York, NY $30,000 

(literature) 

To support the planning and 

prototype development of a national Poetry Book Club. 

Alliance of Resident Theatres 

New York, NY $50,000 

(theater) 

To support expanded efforts to 

identify, reach, and build new 

audiences for Off Broadway 

through a variety of programs 

including Hot Seats, Hot 

Groups, Hot Line, and Hot Page. 

Alternate ROOTS, Inc. 

Atlanta, GA $32,000 

(multidisciplinary) 

To support a consortium project which involves the planning 

of a nationwide network of individuals and organizations 

who provide training in community-based arts. 

American Alliance for Health, 

Physical Education, Recreation, 

and Dance 

Reston, VA $16,20o 

(arts education) 

To support implementation of 

the third and final phase of a 

five-year business plan for the 

National Dance Association, including strategies for partnerships with business and an assessment of the structure of its 

board of directors. 

American Music Center, Inc. 

New York, NY $25,ooo 

(music) 

To support the implementation 

of a stabilization plan that will 

encourage and assure future 
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earned revenues for this organization that serves a national 

membership. 

American Symphony Orchestra 

League 

Washington, DC SUO, OOO 

(music) 

To support the implementation 

of the Human Resources Development Initiative, a comprehensive program designed to 

help the League’s member orchestras nationwide to move 

toward organizational stability. 

Amigos del Museo del Barrio 

New York, NY $87,500 

(museum) 

To support planning and staff 

training that will expand audiences and increase the financial 

stability of the museum. 

Appalshop, Inc. 

Whitesburg, KY $50,000 

(presenting) 

To support the American Festival Project’s First Annual Training Institute. 

Architectural League of 

New York 

New York, NY $75,000 

(design) 

To support the augmentation of 

a cash reserve/working capital 

fund. 

Arizona Commission on 

the Arts 

Phoenix, AZ $85,000 

(multidisciplinary) 

To support the Earned Revenue 

Development Program which 

serves ethnic arts organizations 

in their efforts to diversify revenue sources through grants 

and technical assistance. 

Arizona Theatre Company 

Tucson, AZ $25,000 

(theater) 

To support a partnership with 

Childsplay, Inc., a theater for 

young audiences, to share expertise and develop artistic collaborations. 

Artist Trust: A Resource for 

Washington 

Seattle, WA $1oo, ooo 

(multidisciplinary) 

To support the establishment of 

an endowment. 

Arts and Science Council 

CharlottelMecklenburg, Inc. 

Charlotte, NC $zoo, ooo 

(local arts agencies) 

To support the Technology Project, a comprehensive technology enhancement effort by the 

Council in conjunction with its 

affiliates and neighboring arts 

councils, including hiring a staff 

person to provide technical 

support. 

Association of Hispanic Arts, 

Inc. 

New York, NY $20,000 

(multidisciplinary) 

To support a comprehensive, 

strategic planning project that 

will address the organization’s 

mission, purposes, and all key 

areas of organizational operations. 

Association of Performing Arts 

Presenters~ Inc. 

Washington, DC $55,000 

(presenting) 

To support a comprehensive assessment of the continuing education needs of the presenting 

field. 

Atlatl, Inc. 

Phoenix, AZ $80,000 

(multidisciplinar£) 

To support the Native Arts Network Associates consortium in 

their efforts to strengthen the 

development of the field of native arts, including the establishment of a cash reserve. 

Balboa Art Conservation 

Center 

San Diego, CA S3o, ooo 

(museum) 

To support the Center’s enhanced marketing/outreach 

efforts and the improvement of 

collections storage needs of 

small to mid-sized museums 

throughout California, Arizona, 

Washington, and Oregon. 

Bang On A Can, Inc. 

New York, NY $93,5oo 

(music) 

To support the establishment of 

a cash reserve, salaries for the 

artistic directors, and a new 

staff position to handle booking 

and tour management for the 

Bang on a Can All-Stars. 

Bangor Symphony Orchestra 

Bangor, ME $70,000 

(music) 

To support the augmentation of 

an endowment. 

Birmingham Museum of Art 

Birmingham, AL $200,000 

(museum) 

To support the augmentation of 

an endowment. 
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Boston Baroque, Inc. 

Cambridge, MA $25,000 

(music) 

To support the augmentation of 

a cash reserve. 

Brava! for Women in the Arts 

San Francisco, CA $75,ooo 

(theater) 

To support an audience and facility development project for 

the new Brava Theater Center. 

Bronx Council on the Arts, Inc. 

Bronx, NY $81,ooo 

(local arts agencies) 

To support costs for staffing the 

Community Development Initiative, including consultants 

and related expenses. 

Brooklyn Conservatory of 

Husic 

Brooklyn, NY $1o, ooo 

(music) 

To support a strategic planning 

process. 

Center for Women and Their 

Work, Inc. 

Austin, TX $1o, ooo 

(visual arts) 

To support a marketing and advertising plan for the Center for 

Women and Their Work’s 

gallery gift shop. 

Centrum Foundation 

Port Townsend, WA $98,950 

(folk and traditional arts) 

To support planning and stabilization efforts to strengthen the 

Foundation’s board of directors, carry out market research 

and new initiatives, expand 

marketing staff, and establish a 

cash reserve. 

Chamber Music America, Inc. 

New York, NY $75,ooo 

(music) 

To support the National Capacity Building Project, a technical 

assistance initiative to help 

member ensembles and presenters strengthen their organizational capacities. 

Chenango County Council of 

the Arts, Inc. 

Norwich, NY $1o, ooo 

(presenting) 

To support a long-term planning process focused on financial management and the development of a capital campaign 

and endowment. 

Chicago, City of 

Chicago, IL $8o, ooo 

(locals arts agencies) 

To support a collaboration between the Chicago Coalition of 

Community Cultural Centers 

and the Chicago Department of 

Cultural Affairs in the development of earned income venues 

and the expansion and enhancement of online services. 

Chicago Public Art Group 

Chicago, IL $5o, ooo 

(visual arts) 

To support the establishment of 

a cash reserve. 

Children’s Theatre Company 

and School 

Minneapolis, MN $250,000 

(theater) 

To support the augmentation of 

an endowment and the establishment of a cash reserve. 

Chorus America, Association of 

Professional Vocal Ensembles 

Philadelphia, PA $40,000 

(music) 

To support the Professional 

Management Development 

Program, improving managerial 

and fiscal stability of the choral 

field through a series of seminars, conferences, and workshops. 

Classic Stage Company 

Repertory, Ltd. 

New York, NY $15,ooo 

(theater) 

To support fees for a campaign 

consultant and related costs for 

planning the 3oth Anniversary 

Season Campaign. 

Colorado Music Festival 

Boulder, CO $40,000 

(music) 

To support the augmentation of 

an endowment. 

Council of Literary Magazines 

and Presses 

New York, NY $87,950 

(literature) 

To support an internal planning 

process to strengthen the Council, and a comprehensive planning process leading to the creation of a national service 

organization for the literature 

field. 

Cultural Arts Council of 

Houston 

Houston, TX $225,000 

(local arts agencies) 

To support a stabilization project that will strengthen the 

Council’s capacity to deliver 

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services through its Management Assistance and Organizational Development Enterprise 

program. 

Cumberland County 

Playhouse, Inc. 

Crossville, TN $6o, ooo 

(multidisciplinary) 

To support the development of 

the theater’s cultural tourism 

campaign for the Cumberland 

Mountains region, including 

the integration of the ticket 

office into the region’s lodgings 

reservations and multi-ticketing 

service. 

DanceWorks, Inc. (Pentacle) 

New York, NY $50,000 

(dance) 

To support the establishment of 

a dance docent program and 

the expansion of the international program. 

Donald Byrd Dance 

Foundation, Inc. 

Brooklyn, NY $4o, ooo 

(dance) 

To support a one-year comprehensive organizational evaluation which will result in a fiveyear plan for the Donald Byrd 

Dance Company. 

Drawing Center, Inc. 

New York, NY $55,000 

(visual arts) 

To support a comprehensive organizational planning process 

that includes a feasibility study 

for an endowment campaign 

for the Center. 

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Cumberland County Playhouse’s cultural tourism campaign includes a tickets and 

lodging brochure and a regional cultural itinerary. Brochures courtesy of the 

Cumberland County Playhouse, Crossville, Tennessee. 

80 Langton Street, Inc. 

San Francisco, CA $20,000 

(multidisciplinary) 

To support the expansion of the 

use of computers and digital 

networks in marketing, outreach, and audience development efforts. 

Florida Alliance for Arts 

Education 

Orlando, FL $36,400 

(arts education) 

To support an organizational 

assessment and strategic plan 

for Arts for a Complete Education/Florida Mliance for Arts 

Education. 
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Folklore Village Farm, Inc. 

Dodgeville, WI $20,280 

(folk and traditional arts) 

To support a comprehensive 

planning project to accomplish 

key elements of Folklore Village 

Farm’s a995-98 strategic plan 

and to develop its 1999 long 

range plan. 

Friends of the Music Hall 

Portsmouth, NH $22,500 

(presenting) 

To support acquisition of software, hardware, and training 

for administrative and operational activities in conjunction 

with the implementation of a 

new box office and ticket delivery system. 

Fund for the Borough of 

Brooklyn, Inc. 

Brooklyn, NY $15,ooo 

(presenting) 

To support a marketing and 

public relations effort around 

the Celebrate Brooklyn festival’s 

temporary relocation from the 

Prospect Park Bandshell to alternate sites throughout the 

borough. 

Glimmerglass Opera, Inc. 

Cooperstown, NY Szoo, ooo 

(opera) 

To support the augmentation of 

a cash reserve. 

Harvard University 

Cambridge, MA $z5o, ooo 

(museum) 

To support augmentation of 

Harvard University’s endowment for the benefit of the Fogg 

Art Museum, the BuschReisinger Museum, the Sackler 

Museum, and the Straus Center 

for Conservation. 

Hudson River Museum of 

Westchester 

Yonkers, NY $27,000 

(museum) 

To support a two-year planning 

process to strengthen the partnership between the Hudson 

River Museum and the Museum 

Junior High School. 

Independent Feature 

Project, Inc. 

New York, NY $75,000 

(media arts) 

To support the upgrading of 

communications and information systems, in order to stabilize and strengthen programs 

and services. 

International House of 

Philadelphia 

Philadelphia, PA $80,000 

(media arts) 

To support a new marketing 

initiative to expand audiences 

and increase income for film 

and video activities of the 

Neighborhood Film/Video 

Project. 

Jacob’s Pillow Dance 

Festival, Inc. 

Lee, MA $125,ooo 

(dance) 

To support the establishment of 

a cash reserve. 

Jazz at Lincoln Center, Inc. 

New York, NY $2oo, ooo 

(music) 

To support the augmentation of 

an endowment. 

L.A. Theatre Works 

Venice, CA Szoo, ooo 

(media arts) 

To support the first phase of a 

direct mail marketing campaign 

to distribute radio dramas on 

audiocassette nationally. 

La Mama Experimental 

Theatre Club, Inc. 

New York, NY $1oo, ooo 

(theater) 

To support research and implementation of a marketing outreach program including computer upgrades for marketing, 

fundraising, and audience outreach efforts, and additional 

performances of the La Mama 

Matinee project. 

La Pena 

Austin, TX $15,ooo 

(multidisciplinary) 

To support development of a 

strategic plan for the establishment of the Latino Arts Consortium of Austin. 

The Loft, Inc. 

Minneapolis, MN $75,000 

(literature) 

To support Writing Into the Future, a stabilization project consisting of technological modernization and targeted 

planning. 

Los Angeles County Arts 

Commission 

Los Angeles, CA $15o, 000 

(locals arts agencies) 

To support a two-year cultural 

tourism initiative that will 

market the arts of Los Angeles, 

San Diego, and San Francisco 

nationally and internationally. 

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Louisiana Philharmonic 

Orchestra 

New Orleans, LA $75,000 

(music)
 

To support increased compensation for orchestra musicians
 

during 1997-98.
 

Madison Repertory 

Theatre, Inc. 

Madison, WI Szoo, ooo 

(theater) 

To support a feasibility study 

directed to facility development 

and to augment a cash reserve. 

Magic Theatre, Inc. 

San Francisco, CA $30,000 

(theater) 

To support the design and implementation of an organizational model, strategic planning, 

and systems implementation, 

and a program to develop coproducing partnerships and 

multidisciplinary projects at 

Magic Theatre, Inc. 

Massachusetts Museum of 

Contemporary Art Foundation, 

Inc. 

North Adams, MA $25,000 

(museum) 

To support a planning effort 

that will examine the feasibility 

of a long-term collaboration 

with the Dia Center for the 

Arts, whereby the Dia Center 

would lend most of its collection and provide special changing exhibitions to the Massachusetts Museum of 

Contemporary Art. 

Menil Foundation, Inc. 

Houston, TX $z5o, ooo 

(museum) 

To support the augmentation of 

an endowment. 

MERIT Music Program, Inc. 

Chicago, IL $200,000 

(music) 

To support the augmentation of 

an endowment. 

Miami Book Fair International, 

Inc. 

Miami, FL $75,ooo 

(literature) 

To support the augmentation of 

an endowment. 

Miami-Dade Community 

College 

Miami, FL $1oo, ooo 

(multidisciplinary) 

To support the establishment of 

an endowment for the Wolfson 

Campus Cultural Affairs Department. 

Milwaukee Repertory 

Theater, Inc. 

Milwaukee, WI $200,000 

(theater) 

To support the augmentation of 

an endowment. 

Minnesota Dance Alliance 

Minneapolis, MN $2z,ooo 

(dance) 

To support a planning process 

which will strengthen the organization’s internal structures, 

making it a more viable institution within the dance field and 

the Minneapolis community. 

Missouri Association of 

Community Arts Agencies 

Columbia, MO $50,000 

(local arts agencies) 

To support a consortium project designed to stabilize the 

Statewide Assemblies of Local 

Arts Agencies, including a national training meeting and 

meetings during the Americans 

for the Arts annual convention. 

Montana Arts Council 

Helena, MT $99,951 

(multidisciplinary) 

To support the Arts Are Central 

grant program, that will work 

to make the arts central to rural 

and underserved communities 

by creating long term partnerships between arts organizations and other community 

sectors. 

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 

Boston, MA $250,000 

(museum) 

To support the augmentation of 

an endowment. 

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston 

Houston, TX $300,000 

(museum) 

To support the augmentation of 

an endowment. 

Musical Traditions 

San Francisco, CA $15,ooo 

(music) 

To support expenses for facility 

improvement and salaries to 

promote producing and organizational partnerships. 

National Asian American 

Telecommunications 

Association 

San Francisco, CA $85,000 

(multidisciplinary) 

To support the establishment of 

a cash reserve. 
GRANTS AND AWARDS 

National Association of Artists’ 

Organizations, Inc. 

Washington, DC 560,000 

(multidisciplinary) 

To support a consortium to 

develop and implement a technical assistance initiative for the 

members of the organizations 

who comprise the association. 

National Trust for Historic 

Preservation in the U.S. 

Washington, DC 51oo, ooo 

(design) 

To support a pilot partnership 

with statewide preservation organizations to improve community preservation outreach. 

Native Arts Circle, Inc. 

Minneapolis, MN $11,300 

(multidisciplinary) 

To support the creation of a 

formal volunteer program. 

Nebraska Arts Council 

Omaha, NE 540,000 

(multidisciplinary) 

To support a clerical staff position and the research and development costs necessary to improve existing earned income 

projects and design new ones. 

New Federal Theatre, Inc. 

New York, NY 51oo, ooo 

(theater) 

To support a consortium with 

New York’s Pan Asian Repertory 

Theater and INTAR Hispanic 

American Arts Center to implement an audience development 

project designed to increase and 

diversify audiences in the three 

theaters. 

New York Foundation for 

the Arts 

New York, NY 587,353 

(multidisciplinary) 

To support a planning and 

stabilization project that will 

strategically position and 

strengthen NYFA’s growing informational services, increase 

earned income, streamline systems, and enhance partnerships. 

On the Boards 

Seattle, WA $1oo, ooo 

(dance) 

To support the establishment of 

a cash reserve. 

171 Cedar, Inc. 

Corning, NY 515,ooo 

(multidisciplinary) 

To support the planning 

and development of an effective arts education extension 

program for children living in 

the rural areas of the South 

Finger Lakes Region of New 

York State and northern Pennsylvania. 

Opera Colorado 

Denver, CO 520,000 

(opera) 

To support analysis and planning costs for the establishment 

of an endowment campaign. 

OperaDelaware, Inc. 

Wilmington, DE SzOO, OOO 

(opera) 

To support the augmentation of 

an endowment. 

PEN Center USA West 

Los Angeles, CA 522,000 

(literature) 

To support a formal evaluation 

and planning process for PEN 

Center USA West. 

Philadelphia Dance Company 

(Philadanco) 

Philadelphia, PA 550,000 

(dance) 

To support the company’s stabilization efforts, including an 

upgrade of its computer system 

and the development of new 

marketing initiatives, and to 

support the company’s continuing leadership role with the International Association of 

Blacks in Dance. 

Philadelphia Theatre Company 

Philadelphia, PA 575,000 

(theater) 

To support the establishment of 

a cash reserve. 

Phillips Collection 

Washington, DC 5250,000 

(museum) 

To support the augmentation of 

an endowment. 

Piedmont Arts Association 

Martinsville, VA 575,000 

(multidisciplinary) 

To support the augmentation of 

an endowment. 

Poets & Writers, Inc. 

New York, NY Szoo, ooo 

(literature) 

To support PWOnline, a service 

extending Poets & Writers’ programs to the Internet. 

Grants to 

Organizations 

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Planning & 

Stabilization 
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Organizations 

86 

Planning & 

Stabilization 

Queens Symphony 

Orchestra, Inc. 

Long Island City, IVY $15,75o 

(music) 

To support the salary of a new 

staff position and the upgrade 

of an existing computer system. 

Real Art Ways, Inc. 

Hartford, CT $50,000 

(multidisciplinary) 

To support planning and marketing expenses, additional staff 

support, and computer software 

to implement programming for 

the Real Art Ways Center. 

Rensselaer County Council for 

the Arts, Inc. 

Troy, NY $54,200 

(local arts agencies) 

To support the development of 

a three-year annual fund and 

related membership campaign 

for RCCA: The Arts Center, 

program development and implementation, and preparation 

for moving into a new facility. 

Richmond Ballet 

Richmond, VA $50,000 

(dance) 

To support the establishment of 

a cash reserve. 

Richmond Symphony 

Richmond, VA $200,000 

(music) 

To support the augmentation of 

an endowment. 

San Angelo Museum of Fine 

Arts 

San Angelo, TX $1oo, ooo 

(museum) 

To support the augmentation of 

an endowment. 

San Francisco Art Commission 

San Francisco, CA $5o, ooo 

(local arts agencies) 

To support the Asian-American 

Arts Community Development 

Initiative. 

San Francisco Camerawork, 

Inc. 

San Francisco, CA $80,000 

(visual arts) 

To support augmentation of 

a cash reserve and several projects to expand the audience 

and increase earned income, 

including a publicity campaign, 

computerization, business 

planning, and outreach. 

San Francisco Craft and Folk 

Art Museum 

San Francisco, CA $40,000 

A Chicago student rehearses with the wind ensemble of MERIT Music Program’s (museum) 

Conservatory--a tuition-free program for advanced students, supported by a To support the augmentation of 

$2 million endowment. Photo by Kathy Richland. an endowment. 
GRANTS AND AWARDS
 

Santa Fe Chamber Music 

Festival, Ltd. 

Santa Fe, NM $75,ooo 

(music) 

To support the establishment of 

a cash reserve. 

Scribe Video Center, Inc. 

Philadelphia, PA $15,ooo 

(media arts) 

To support a planning process 

which will include technical assistance, the designing of new 

workspace for classes and 

screenings, and the evaluation 

of educational activities. 

Signature Theatre Company 

New York, NY $50,ooo 

(theater) 

To support the purchase and 

implementation of a computerized box office, marketing and 

development system. 

Skaneateles Festival, Inc. 

Skaneateles, NY $z4,o93 

(music) 

To support a strategic planning 

project focused on long-term 

financial plans. 

Small Press Distribution, Inc. 

Berkeley, CA $5o, ooo 

(literature) 

To support technical assistance 

and related costs in the areas of 

market analysis, technology, 

and facility planning. 

Soundprint Media Center, Inc. 

Laurel, MD $55,ooo 

(media arts) 

To support a planning process 

that will identify and develop a 

revenue-generating project to 

sustain and expand the documentary radio series Soundprint. 

South Carolina Arts Alliance 

Rock Hill, SC $25,ooo 

(local arts agencies) 

To support assessment of arts 

support in South Carolina, and 

planning for future cooperative 

arts funding strategies. 

South Dakota Arts Council 

Pierre, SD $54,ooo 

(m ultidisciplinary) 

To support activities at the Art 

Beyond Boundaries conference, 

which promotes the professional development of artists, 

arts administrators, and volunteers from northern plains 

states. 

Southern Theater Foundation 

Minneapolis, MN $22,ooo 

(presenting) 

To support a stabilization 

effort that will include a guaranteed base fee for artistic 

presentations, improved technical services to artists, and 

broadened audience development efforts. 

St. Louis Black Repertory 

Company, Inc. 

St. Louis, MO $55,000 

(theater) 

To support a project to enhance 

management and administrative stability, including planning 

for debt reduction, and the acquisition and installation of a 

new computer system. 

St. Louis Symphony Society 

St. Louis, MO $300,000 

(music) 

To support the augmentation of 

an endowment. 

Studio Theatre School 

Corporation 

Buffalo, NY $200,000 

(theater) 

To support the augmentation of 

an endowment. 

Teatro Hispano de Dallas 

Dallas, TX $40,000 

(theater) 

To support the establishment of 

a cash reserve. 

Theatre Communications 

Group, Inc. 

New York, NY $75,ooo 

(theater) 

To support communications, 

marketing, audience development, and outreach initiatives 

to help stabilize the American 

theater field, and to clarify and 

reassert the mission of nonprofit theater. 

Trisha Brown Dance 

Company, Inc. 

New York, NY $62,500 

(dance) 

To support a planning process 

which will enable the organization to expand and develop its 

artistic endeavors, earned income potential, and educational 

programs. 

U.B.W., Inc.
 

(Urban Bush Women)
 

New York, NY ¢25,000 

(dance) 

To support the retention of an 

arts management consultant for 

one year to assist Urban Bush 

Women in strengthening its 

artistic and administrative capabilities. 

Grants to 

Organizations 

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Planning & 

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University of Massachusetts at 

Amherst 

Amherst, MA $50,000 

(multidisciplinary) 

To support the expansion of the 

Arts Extension Service’s capacity to develop and deliver new 

training and technical assistance programs and services 

to the community arts field. 

University of Missouri at 

Columbia 

Columbia, MO $62,850 

(literature) 

To support a marketing campaign, the augmentation of an 

endowment, and an editorial 

assistant position for The Missouri Review. 

University of Pennsylvania, 

Trustees of the 

Philadelphia, PA $250,000 

(museum) 

To support the establishment of 

an endowment for the Institute 

of Contemporary Art. 

Waiters Art Gallery, Trustees 

of the 

Baltimore, MD $135,ooo 

(museum) 

To support the augmentation of 

a cash reserve. 

Washington Drama Society, Inc. 

(Arena Stage) 

Washington, DC $25o, ooo 

(theater) 

To support the augmentation of 

an endowment. 

Westchester Conservatory of 

Music, Inc. 

White Plains, NY $46,600 

(arts education) 

To support a feasibility study on 

the creation of a multidisciplinary cultural center in White 

Plains, New York. 

Westchester Philharmonic, Inc. 

Hartsdale, NY $90,000 

(music) 

To support the establishment of 

an endowment fund. 

Whitney Museum of American 

Art 

New York, NY $4oo, ooo 

(museum) 

To support the augmentation of 

an endowment. 

Wilma Theater 

Philadelphia, PA $125,ooo 

(theater) 

To support the establishment of 

an endowment and augmentation of a cash reserve. 

Winston-Salem Symphony 

Association 

Winston-Salem, NC $75,000 

(music) 

To support augmentation of an 

endowment. 

Yellow Barn 

Putney, VT $23,ooo 

(music) 

To support the new position of 

Associate Artistic Director, 

board development, planning 

and implementation of outreach programs, and marketing 

plans. 

Young Audiences, Inc., Denver 

Area Chapter . 

Denver, CO $6o, ooo 

(arts education) 

To support the establishment 

of a cash reserve and development of program structures 

and management systems, 

some of which will focus services on rural and underserved 

populations. 
Partnership Agreements
 

A s part of the restructuring of the Arts 

Endowment in 1997, the various categories through which the designated state and regional arts agencies had previously received grants--Basic State Grants, 

Arts In Education Partnership Grants, and Underserved Communities Set-Aside Grants-­

were replaced by Partnership Agreements. 

Awards are based on state plans that cover all 

Using both federal and state funds, state arts 

agencies play a critical role in the vitality of arts 

programming in various communities, including underserved communities. They provide 

substantial support, including operating support, to arts organizations. They make grants to 

individual artists in all disciplines. They conduct public art programs such as the Tennessee 

Arts Commission’s 15-year effort to place sculpaspects of an agency’s programming, includingtures by Tennessee artists at each of the state’s 

support for arts education and for the arts in 

underserved communities. 

Partnership Agreements complement the 

Arts Endowment’s other programs--which 

largely focus on projects of national, regional, 

or field-wide significance--by sponsoring primarily local or statewide arts activities. 

Most of the 56 state and other jurisdictional 

arts agencies were created in response to the 

11 Welcome Centers. They provide technical assistance or services such as artist rosters, and offer information services such as statewide arts 

calendars. 

State arts agencies are the Arts Endow- 89 

ment’s key partners in support of arts education. For example, the Minnesota State Arts 

Board is helping the state’s public school children meet new performance standards for 

national example and financial incentive pro-graduation in the arts. Together the states and 

vided by the Arts Endowment upon its inception in 1965. Over the past 30 years this incentive has grown into a state-federal partnership 

that has contributed greatly to increased arts in 

education, preservation of folk and traditional 

arts, and development of strong local programs. 

Federal Partnership Agreements awarded in 

1997 were combined with about $305 million in 

state-appropriated funds and used to support 

more than z6,ooo projects in over 5,500 communities. Approximately 30 percent of these 

awards go to groups in non-metropolitan areas. 

the Endowment aim to make the arts basic to 

education; increase public awareness of the 

value of arts education; and increase and improve arts education opportunities. 

The Endowment also makes Partnership 

Agreement awards to seven regional organizations, each created by groups of state arts agencies in order to transcend state boundaries and 

give their citizens access to a richer variety of 

arts experiences. One of their main roles is to 

help community presenters make outstanding 

performing arts events available in underserved 

communities. 
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Partnership Agreements 

66 awards $29,960,400 

Partnership Agreements serve 

multiple artistic disciplines. 

National Services 

National Assembly of State 

Arts Agencies 

Washington, DC $254,000 

An amendment to a previous 

year’s grant to support NASAA’s 

programs and services to state 

arts agencies. 

National Assembly of State 

Arts Agencies 

Washington, DC $15,8oo 

A cooperative agreement to 

support information services. 

National Assembly of State 

Arts Agencies 

Washington, DC $15,ooo 

A cooperative agreement to administer partnership consultations between the Arts Endowment and state arts agencies. 

Regional Arts Organizations 

The Arts Endowment’s 1997 

Partnership Agreements support 

regional arts organizations in 

two areas: presenting and touring (some in rural and underserved areas); and grant, service, 

or administrative programs. 

Arts Midwest 

Minneapolis, MN $707,500 

To support the work of Arts 

Midwest in its member states: 

Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, 

Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin. 

Consortium for Pacific Arts 

and Cultures 

Honolulu, HI $172,ooo 

To support the work of the 

Consortium for Pacific Arts and 

Cultures in its member territories: American Samoa, Guam, 

and the Northern Marianas. 

Mid-America Arts Alliance 

Kansas City, MO $583,600 

To support the work of the 

Mid-America Arts Alliance in 

its member states: Arkansas, 

Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, 

Oklahoma, and Texas. 

Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, 

Inc. 

Baltimore, MD $7Ol, OOO 

To support the work of the Mid 

Atlantic Arts Foundation in its 

member states and territories: 

Delaware, District of Columbia, 

Maryland, New Jersey, New 

York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, 

Virgin Islands, and West Virginia. 

New England Foundation for 

the Arts 

Boston, MA $519,3oo 

To support the work of the New 

England Foundation for the 

Arts in its member states: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, 

New Hampshire, Rhode Island, 

and Vermont. 

Southern Arts Federation, Inc. 

Atlanta, GA $724,700 

To support the work of the 

Southern Arts Federation in its 

member states: Alabama, 

Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, 

Louisiana, Mississippi, North 

Carolina, South Carolina, and 

Tennessee. 

Western States Arts 

Federation 

Denver, CO $824,900 

To support the work of the 

Western States Arts Federation 

in its member states: Alaska, 

Arizona, California, Colorado, 

Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New 

Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. 

State Arts Agencies 

The Arts Endowment’s 1997 

Partnership Agreements support state and jurisdictional arts 

agencies in three areas: arts education activities; arts in underserved communities; and grant, 

service, or administrative programs. 

Alabama State Council on the 

Arts 

Montgomery, AL $447,000 

Alaska State Council on the 

Arts 

Anchorage, AK $4oo,4oo 

American Samoa Council on 

Arts, Culture, & Humanities 

Pago Pago, AS $267,400 

Arizona Commission on the 

Arts 

Phoenix, AZ $488,000 

Arkansas Arts Council 

Little Rock, AR $41o,2oo 

California Arts Council 

Sacramento, CA $865,ooo 
"This is a culmination of hard work and dreams. It’s the tip of the iceberg for the possibilities of community commitment to this 

neighborhood," said Mayor Barrie Parsons Tilghman of this mural, created in a crime-plagued neighborhood as part of a 

Salisbury, Maryland project funded by the Maryland State Arts Council. The teenagers in the photo helped create the mural. 

Photo by James Serkoch. 

Colorado Council on the Arts 

Denver, CO $4z7,8oo 

Connecticut Commission on 

the Arts 

Hartford, CT $486,300 

Delaware Division of the Arts 

Wilmington, DE $406,700 

District of Columbia 

Commission on the Arts and 

Humanities 

Washington, DC $352,600 

Florida Division of Cultural 

Affai rs 

Tallahassee, FL $520,300 

Georgia Council for the Arts 

Atlanta, GA $483,500 

Guam Council on the Arts and 

Humanities 

Agana, GU $247,6oo 

Hawaii State Foundation on 

Culture & the Arts 

Honolulu, HI $414,1oo 

Idaho Commission on the Arts 

Boise, ID $394,700 

Illinois Arts Council 

Chicago, IL $559,4oo 

Indiana Arts Commission 

Indianapolis, IN $458,600 

Iowa Arts Council 

Des Moines, IA $454,400 

Kansas Arts Commission 

Topelca, KS $412,zoo 
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Kentucky Arts Council 

Frankfort, KY $46z,6oo 

Louisiana Division of the Arts 

Baton Rouge, LA $443,5oo 

Maine Arts Commission 

Augusta, ME $403,7o0 

Maryland State Arts Council 

Baltimore, MD $469,700 

Massachusetts Cultural Council 

Boston, MA $473,3oo 

Michigan Council for Arts and 

Cultural Affairs 

Detroit, MI $521,5oo 

Minnesota State Arts Board 

St. Paul, MN $485,400 

Mississippi Arts Commission 

Jackson, MS $495,800 

Missouri State Council on the 

Arts 

St. Louis, MO $465,500 

Montana Arts Council 

Helena, MT $386,9oo 

Nebraska Arts Council 

Omaha, NE $441,200 

Nevada State Council on the 

Arts 

Carson City, NV $399,5oo 

New Hampshire State Council 

on the Arts 

Concord, NH $41o,1oo 

New Jersey State Council on 

the Arts 

Trenton, NJ $563,2oo 

New Mexico Arts Division 

Santa Fe, NM $383,4oo 

New York State Council on the 

Arts 

New York, NY $68o,6oo 

North Carolina Arts Council 

Raleigh, NC $523,400 

North Dakota Council on the 

Arts 

Bismarck, ND $4o5,2oo 

Northern Marianas 

Commonwealth Council for 

Arts & Culture 

Saipan, MP $261,6oo 

Ohio Arts Council 

Columbus, OH $594,000 

Oklahoma Arts Council 

Oklahoma City, OK $441,9oo 

Oregon Arts Commission 

Salem, OR $406,700 

Pennsylvania Council on the 

Arts 

Harrisburg, PA $598,8oo 

Institute of Puerto Rican 

Culture 

San Juan, PR $423,1oo 

Rhode Island State Council on 

the Arts 

Providence, RI $41o,4oo 

South Carolina Arts 

Commission 

Columbia, SC $504,900 

South Dakota Arts Council 

Pierre, SD $424,ooo 

Tennessee Arts Commission 

Nashville, TN $468,900 

Texas Commission on the Arts 

Austin, TX $627,900 

Utah Arts Council 

Salt Lake City, UT $467,600 

Vermont Council on the Arts, 

Inc. 

Montpelier, VT $434,8oo 

Virgin Islands Council on the 

Arts 

St. Thomas, VI $253,800 

Virginia Commission for the 

Arts 

Richmond, VA $479,2oo 

Washington State Arts 

Commission 

Olympia, WA $454,4oo 

West Virginia Division of 

Culture & History 

Charleston, WV $424,700 

Wisconsin Arts Board 

Madison, WI $443,5oo 

Wyoming Arts Council 

Cheyenne, WY $422,800 
Leadership Initiatives
 

MILLENNIUM PROJECTS
 

Leadership Initiatives fulfill the Arts Endowment’s responsibility to take an active role in developing and carrying out 

pioneering or hallmark projects in the arts of 

national and international significance. They 

complement the Endowment’s activities in 

other grantmaking areas. 

Many Leadership projects will highlight 

American creativity to help mark the arrival of 

the new millennium. In his 1997 State of the 

Union address, President Clinton challenged "all 

Americans in the arts and humanities to join 

with their fellow citizens to make the year 2ooo 

a national celebration of the American spirit in 

every community, a celebration of our common 

culture in the century that is past and in the new 

one to come." The Endowment is joining with 

the White House, other Federal agencies, and 

arts organizations around the country to honor 

the past and imagine the future at the turn of the 

millennium. In Fiscal Year 1997, financial support was provided for Millennium Projects that 

will help us to find the range of American voices 

throughout this vast nation, celebrate what 

unites us as a country, record and solidify our 

achievements to date, and look to the future with 

renewed respect for each other and restored 

hope in our country. One such project, recognizing that the twentieth century has been the 

American Century in the field of dance, aims to 

continue that role into the new millennium: the 

American Dance Festival in Durham, North 

Carolina, was awarded a grant to support newlycommissioned works by modern dance choreographers and jazz musicians that will debut in 

this country and then tour internationally. 

Another example of a Millennium Project 

supported with 1997 funds is loo Years of American Musical Theater: Past Legacy and Future Visions, a celebration of a uniquely American art 

form by the American Music Theater Festival 

in Philadelphia. This program will include innovative revivals of existing works as well as 

special youth performances and education programs. America’s young people will also be the 

focus of a project by the widely-acclaimed Boys 

Choir of Harlem, which will help towns 

throughout the country replicate its successful 

structure--guiding youth towards responsible 

citizenship in the new millennium. 

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Projects 

Millennium Projects 

22 Awards $4,874,000 

The discipline designations in 

parentheses refer to the project, not necessarily the organization. 

American Dance Festival, Inc. 

Durham, NC $200,000 

(dance) 

To support a three-year program of commissions to six 

modern dance choreographers 

and six jazz musicians for the 

creation of collaborative dancemusic works that will premiere 

at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC and the American 

Dance Festival in Durham, 

North Carolina, and then tour 

nationally and internationally. 

American Music Theater 

Festival 

Philadelphia, PA $300,000 

(musical theater) 

To support the American Music 

Theater Festival’s millennium 

celebration, loo Years of American Musical Theater: Past Legacy 

and Future Visions, which will 

include world premieres, innovative revivals of past works, an 

international conference, and a 

youth performance and education program. 

American Symphony Orchestra 

League 

Washington, DC $300,000 

(music) 

To support Music for a New 

Millennium, a six-year program 

that will identify and encourage 

the performance of 2oth century orchestral works by living 

American composers, to ensure 

that these works have a prominent place in the zlst century 

repertoire. 

Atlatl, Inc. 

Phoenix, AZ $224,ooo 

(expansion arts) 

To support Pathways of Cultural 

Influence, a series of regional 

exhibits showcasing Native 

American contemporary art 

that will travel to Native American communities nationwide 

and unite as one exhibition by 

the end of the year 2ooo. 

Ballet Theatre Foundation, Inc. 

(American Ballet Theatre) 

New York, NY $250,000 

(dance) 

To support the Masterworks of 

20th Century American Choreography festival and national 

tour, in celebration of the millennium and the American Ballet Theatre’s 60th anniversary. 

Boys Choir of Harlem, Inc. 

New York, NY $200,000 

(music) 

To support a five-year project to 

help towns throughout the 

country replicate the Boys 

Choir of Harlem model, 

strengthening and enriching 

communities by guiding youth 

toward responsible citizenship 

in the new millennium. 

Chamber Music America, Inc. 

New York, NY $300,000 

(music) 

To support American Ensembles: 

A Musical Celebration of the Millennium, a three-year series of 

collaborations between Chamber Music America, composers, 

local presenting organizations, 

and over loo jazz, new music, 

and chamber groups to present 

thousands of performances 

throughout the country. 

Chicago Chamber Musicians 

Chicago, IL $zoo, ooo 

(music) 

To support Music at the Millennium, a three-year festival of 

2oth century chamber music, 

that will combine a retrospective of this century’s music and 

the commissioning of new 

works. 

Children’s Museum of San 

Diego 

San Diego, CA $50,000 

(museum) 

To support the design of Kids 

Block, the nation’s first block to 

be designated as a multipurpose 

creative center for children and 

their families, that will be centered around the museum and 

combine educational, cultural, 

health, social service, and commercial entities. 

Downtown Community 

Television Center, Inc. 

New York, NY $25o, ooo 

(media arts) 

To support the 1999 national 

tour of the Millennium Mobile, 

which will celebrate American 

life and culture by capturing 

images for a video portrait of 

the United States on the eve of 

the 21st century. 
Educational Broadcasting 

Corporation (WNET) 

New York, NY $300,000 

(media arts) 

To support the first phase of the 

American Novel Project, a nationally broadcast television and 

multimedia initiative celebrating 

the works of 2oth century American writers from Henry James 

to Toni Morrison, that will air 

on the American Masters series. 

Jos6 Limon Dance Foundation 

New York, NY $z75,ooo 

(dance) 

To support the preservation and 

performance of modern dance 

masterworks of the 2oth century, and the implementation of 

the American Choreographer’s 

Initiative, a young choreographers’ laboratory that will create 

dances for the next millennium. 

Museum of Modern Art I 

New York, NY $275,000 

(museum) 

To support a year-long, comprehensive survey of modern 

art from the museum’s collections, with approximately 25 exhibitions and related public 

programs and publications 

stressing the breadth and diversity of the visual arts from 

188o-1999, components of 

which will travel throughout 

the United States. 

National Public Radio 

Washington, DC $3oo, ooo 

(media arts) 

To support a millennium initiative for NPR’s nationally distributed news and cultural programming, including modules 

about American musical masShiva Nataraja: this 13th century Indian bronze sculpture embodies the Hindu 

concept of time as an endless, rhythmic cycle. Crushing the demon of worldly illusion 

beneath his right foot, Shiva dances the cosmic dance of perpetual disintegration and 

renewal. Photo courtesy of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri. 

terworks of the 2oth century, 

specially commissioned radio 

pieces by artists envisioning the 

future, newly commissioned radio dramas based on futuristic 

fiction, and three 24-hour 

broadcasts offering retrospective surveys of 2oth century 

American music. 

Nelson Gallery Foundation 

Kansas City, MO $175,ooo 

(museum) 

To support two concurrent exhibitions, one that will tour, titled "Tempus Fugit," examining 

notions of time as both a natural phenomenon and a cultural construct, with works 
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Projects 

from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art’s collection and 

other museums. 

New York Foundation for 

the Arts (as fiscal agent for 

Art/2 I, Inc.) 

New York, NY $25,000 

(media arts) 

To support research, in cooperation with WNET Television, 

for Art for the Twenty-First Century, a new television series on 

the contemporary visual arts, 

that will introduce the general, 

public television audience to 

major American visual artists. 

New York Foundation for 

the Arts (as fiscal agent for 

Art/2 I, Inc.) 

New York, NY $300,000 

(media arts) 

To support the development 

and production, in cooperation 

with WNET Television, of Art 

for the Twenty-First Century, a 

new television series on the 

contemporary visual arts, that 

will introduce the general, public television audience to major, 

American visual artists. 

New York Public Library Astor,
 

Lenox and Tilden Foundations
 

New York, NY $300,000 

(multidisciplinary) 

To support digitizing the collection at the Library for the Performing Arts, in order to make 

American performing arts materials from 1875-1925 accessible 

to wide audiences via the World 

Wide Web. 

New York Shakespeare Festival 

(The Public Theater) 

New York, NY $250,000 

(theater) 

To support a three-tiered, 

multi-year program--including 

two colloquia and a documentary film--that celebrates the 

achievements of 2oth century 

classic theater, and explores the 

development of an American 

aesthetic for Shakespeare and 

the classics in the millennium. 

OPERA America, Inc 2 

Washington, DC $375,ooo 

(opera) 

To support The Next Stage, a 

four-year, national initiative involving over 5o U.S. opera companies to highlight productions 

of under-performed American 

operas that premiered in recent 

decades, and to help these 

works become part of the standard 21st century repertoire. 

Southeast Alaska Indian 

Cultural Center, Inc. 

Sitka, AK $5o, ooo 

(folk and traditional arts) 

To support the carving and 

launching of a traditional Tlingit red cedar canoe, preserving 

for future generations the cultural knowledge of canoe design, carving techniques, and 

ceremonial protocol by practicing and documenting their use. 

Whitney Museum of American 

Art 

New York, NY $275,ooo 

(museum) 

To support "The American 

Century: 19oo-2ooo," a yearlong touring exhibition of 2oth 

century American art with 

works from various public and 

private collections, education 

programs, a two-volume history 

of 2oth century American art 

and culture, and a companion 

film. 

1No funds were obligated in FY 

1997, with the balance carried 

over to the next year, subject to 

grantee meeting matching fund 

requirements. 

2S15O, OOO was obligated in FY 

1997, with the balance carried 

over to the next year, subject to 

grantee meeting matching fund 

requirements. 
Leadership Initiatives
 

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS
 

ome Leadership Initiatives help to ensure that the excellence, diversity, and 

of American art is known 

around the world, through collaboration with 

both public and private sector organizations. 

In z997 the Endowment continued to support 

international activities such as performance 

and exhibition opportunities, residencies, and 

other cooperative projects for American artists 

abroad. The Fund for U.S. Artists at International Festivals and Exhibitions, administered 

by Arts International, is jointly sponsored by 

the Arts Endowment, the United States Information Agency, The Pew Charitable Trusts, 

and The Rockefeller Foundation. The only nationwide source of financial support for artists 

of its kind, the Fund has made possible the 

participation of American artists at major visual arts biennial exhibitions in Venice, Sao 

Paolo, and Sydney. The Fund also has made 

possible participation by U.S. performing artists 

in festivals from Slovenia to Senegal to Shanghai. 

The Fund’s other contributors match Endowment dollars more than 5-to-z. 

A second partnership with the Trust for 

Mutual Understanding, the Ohio Arts Council, 

and the Open Society Institute (part of the 

Soros Foundation network) supports the 

ArtsLink program of the Citizen Exchange 

Council. This program sponsors exchanges of 

artists and arts managers between the United 

States and the new democracies of Central and 

Eastern Europe and the Newly Independent 

States. Endowment funding leverages a more 

than 5-to-1 match from the ArtsLink partners, 

including support from the Soros Centers for 

Contemporary Art in 28 countries in the region. 97 

Finally, the Endowment continued its support of the U.S.-Japan Creative Artists Program, a project of the Japan-U.S. Friendship 

Commission. An interagency transfer permitted three U.S. artists to work in Japan for periods of six months each. The Commission 

matches the Endowment’s funds 2-to-1. 
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Initiatives 

98 

International 

Programs 

International Programs 

3 awards $375,000 

The following awards serve multiple artistic disciplines. 

CEC International Partners, Inc. 

New York, NY Szz5,ooo 

A cooperative agreement to 

support ArtsLink--a partnership with the Trust for Mutual 

Understanding, the Ohio Arts 

Council, and the Open Society 

Institute--which funds artistic 

exchanges between the United 

States and Central and Eastern 

Europe and the Newly Independent States. 

The following awards were 

made in 1997 under the previous year’s agreement: 

ArtsLink: Collaborative Projects 

The Core Ensemble 

Lake Worth, FL $5,000 

To support a new work by Russian composer Yuri Kasparov for 

cello, piano, and percussion. 

Liza Davitch 

Minnetonka, MN $4,000 

To support collaboration between Ms. Davitch and Polish 

filmmaker Greg Zglinski on a 

documentary about the Polish 

actresses Krystyna ]anda and 

her daughter, Maria Seweryn. 

Charles Harper 

Seattle, WA $6,000 

To support a collaborative theater project between Mr. Harper 

and Czech designer and scenic 

artist Marek Zakostelecky. 

David Mills 

Rochester, VT $z,8oo 

To support a collaboration 

between Mr. Mills and Polish 

photographer Pavel Hartman to 

create a poem and photoessay. 

Robert Davidson Dance 

Company 

Seattle, WA $6,ooo 

To support collaboration with 

Teatr Tanca NEI from Warsaw, 

Poland on development of 

dance-aerial works. 

7 Stages Theater 

Atlanta, GA $4,5oo 

To support a collaboration with 

the Croatian National Theater 

on the production of Sam 

Shepard’s Buried Child. 

Shapiro & Smith Dance 

Company 

Minneapolis, MN $~o, ooo 

To support the creation of Babel, a dance, theater, and music 

performance produced in collaboration with Uzbek artists, 

including director Mark Weil 

and composer Dmitry YanovYanosky. 

Thomas Wells 

Columbus, OH $2,500 

To support the development of 

a collaborative electro-acoustical work based on Serbian folk 

music with composer Vladan 

Radonavic, Director of Electronic Music Studios in Belgrade. 

ArtsLink: Residencies 

American Composers 

Orchestra 

New York, NY $5,ooo 

To support the hosting of Emir 

Nuhanovic, Managing Director 

of the Sarajevo Philharmonic 

Orchestra in Bosnia and Herzegovina, who will observe ACO’s 

operations and assist with the 

production of its Carnegie Hall 

concert series. 

Center for Arts Criticism 

Minneapolis, MN $5,ooo 

To support the hosting of Beata 

Nowacka, curator at Bunkier 

Sztuki Gallery of Contemporary Art in Krakow, Poland, 

who will contribute to the Center’s publications projects and 

assist with the day-to-day operations of Intermedia Arts. 

Fabric Workshop 

Philadelphia, PA $5,000 

To support the hosting of Bulgarian visual artist Luchezar 

Boyadjiev, who will work with 

the master printer of the Fabric 

Workshop to create a new sitespecific work. 

Isabella Stewart Gardner 

Museum 

Boston, MA $5,000 

To support the hosting of Russian visual artist Vadim Fishkin, 

who will create new work and 

participate in public and educational programs with other visiting artists and the community. 
GRANTS AND AWARDS
 

Bulgarian artist Luchezar Boyadjiev in residence at The Fabric Workshop and 

Museum in Philadelphia, Photo by Matthew Suib. 

Liz Lerman Dance Exchange 

Washington, DC $5,000 

To support the hosting of 

Iwona Katarzynska, the manager of Modern Dance Projects 

in Gdansk, Poland, who will assist in training dancers and social service providers using 

Dance Exchange methods. 

Maryland Arts Place 

Baltimore, MD $5,000 

To support the hosting of multimedia artist Oksana Chepelyk 

from Ukraine, who will create a 

new performance work and 

visit the studios of Washington, 

DC area artists. 

Nexus Contemporary Arts 

Center 

Atlanta, GA $4,2oo 

To support the hosting of 

Ukrainian visual artist Iliya 

Chichkan, who will exhibit at 

Nexus and work with colleagues 

in the Photography Department 

at the Atlanta College of Art. 

Rutgers University 

New Brunswick, N1 Sl,ooo 

To support the hosting of Russian fiber artist Valeri Orlov, who 

will teach, take graduate level 

classes, and collaborate with 

Rutgers’ master printer and papermaker at the Rutgers Center 

for Innovative Print and Paper. 

School of the Art Institute of 

Chicago 

Chicago, 1L $5,000 

To support the hosting of Eve 

Linnap, Director of the Center 

for Contemporary Photography 

in Tallinn, Estonia, who will initiate dialogue with visiting 

artists, critics, writers, historians, and scholars. 

University of Iowa 

Iowa City, IA $5,000 

To support the hosting of Jasmina Tesanovic, a writer and 

translator from the former Yugoslavia who will participate in 

seminars, performances, and 

radio interviews, at the University’s International Writing 

Program. 

University of Wisconsin 

Madison, WI S5,ooo 

To support the hosting of Inga 

Perkone, Director of the Riga 

Film Museum in Riga, Latvia, 

who will participate in graduate 

level classes and observe the operations and techniques of the 

university’s Center for Film and 

Theater Research. 

Arts International (a division of 

the Institute for International 

Education) 

New York, NY $185,ooo 

A cooperative agreement to administer grants for the Fund for 

U.S. Artists at International Festivals and Exhibitions, a partnership of the Arts Endowment, 

the Pew Charitable Trusts, the 

Rockefeller Foundation, and the 

United States Information 

Agency. 

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Initiatives 

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International 

Programs 
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International 

Programs 

The following awards were 

made in 1997 under the previous year’s agreement: 

ARTEMIS 

Lafayette, CO $4,000 

To support the group’s performance at the European Month 

of Culture in Slovenia. 

Billy Tipton Memorial 

Saxophone Quartet 

Seattle, WA $3,ooo 

To support the group’s performance at the Druga Godba Festival in Slovenia. 

Chinle Valley Singers 

Denver, CO $2,800 

To support the group’s performance at the WOMAD (World 

of Music and Dance) Festival in 

the United Kingdom. 

Steve Coleman 

Allentown, PA $11,ooo 

To support the artist’s performance at the Saint Louis Jazz 

Festival in Senegal. 

The Core Ensemble 

Lake Worth, FL $3,ooo 

To support the ensemble’s performance at the Moscow International Autumn Festival in 

Russia. 

Cuarzo Blanco 

San ]uan, PR $5,ooo 

To support the company’s performance at the Barranquilla 

International Theatre Festival 

in Colombia. 

Cygnus Ensemble 

Wayne, N] $9,000 

To support the group’s performance at the Europe-Asia Festival of Modern Music in Russia. 

Da Camera of Houston 

Houston, TX $5,o00 

To support the group’s performance at the International Festival Cervantino in Mexico. 

Paul Dresher 

Los Angeles, CA Sl, ooo 

To support the artist’s performance at the Body Electric Guitar Festival in Canada. 

The Far East Side Band 

1ersey City, N! SzO, OOO 

To support the band’s performance at the Beijing International Jazz Festival in China. 

Footworks Percussive Dance 

Ensemble 

Baltimore, MD $7,500 

To support the group’s performance at the Nott Dance, Somerset Dance Connections, 

Stafford, and Bury St. Edmunds 

Festivals in England and the 

Stan Rogers Festival in Canada. 

James Freeman, Barbara Ann 

Martin, & George Crumb 

Wallingford, PA $6,000 

To support the three artists’ 

performance at the European 

Month of Culture in Slovenia, 

featuring a special presentation 

of Crumb’s music. 

G.A.L.A., Inc. (GALA Hispanic 

Theater) 

Washington, DC $2,ooo 

To support the travel of an 

actor/director and actor/stage 

manager from the U.S. for the 

company’s performance at the 

Fiesta Internacional del Teatro 

San Martin de Caracas in 

Venezuela. 

Sha Sha Higby 

San Francisco, CA $2,5oo 

To support the artist’s performance at the International Micro Festival in the Netherlands. 

Joe Goode Performance Group 

San Francisco, CA $9,oo0 

To support the group’s performance at the Ramallah Festival 

for Culture and Arts in Jordan. 

John Luther Adams & Company 

Fairbanks, AK $13,4oo 

To support the company’s performance of Adam’s opera, 

Earth and the Greta Weather, at 

the Mmeida Opera Festival in 

the United Kingdom. 

Kevin Maynor & Ensemble 

Newark, N] $1o, ooo 

To support the group’s performance at the Standard Bank 

National Arts Festival and the 

Market Theatre Festival in 

South Africa. 

No Theater 

Northampton, MA $3,5oo 

To support the group’s performances at the Spiel Art Festival 

in Germany. 
GRANTS AND AWARDS 

Nu City Mass Choir 

Chicago, IL $15,5oo 

To support the group’s performance at the Gospel in Africa 

Festival in Senegal. 

Paulette Beauchamp & Dancers 

San Juan, PR $6,000 

To support the group’s performance at the Entrepola Festival 

in Chile. 

Plymouth Music Series of 

Minnesota 

Minneapolis, MN $1o, ooo 

To support the group’s performance at the BOC Covent Garden Festival in the United Kingdom, the Festval van 

Vlaanderen in the Netherlands, 

and the International Music 

Festival and the Prague Spring 

Festival in the Czech Republic. 

Odean Pope 

Philadelphia, PA $5,2oo 

To support the artist’s performance at the Wangaratta Festival of Jazz in Australia. 

Pure Movement (Rennie Harris 

Pure Movement) 

Philadelphia, PA $1o, ooo 

To support the group’s performance at the Via Bahia Festival 

in Brazil and the Holland 

Dance Festival in the Netherlands. 

Red Spirit Singers 

Santa Fe, NM $7,ooo 

To support the group’s performance at the Etonnants 

Voyageurs Festival in France. 

Sally Silvers & Dancers 

New York, NY $2,ooo 

To support the group’s 

performance at the Festival Internacional de Danza Contemporanea de San Luis Potosi in 

Mexico. 

Bright Sheng 

Ypsilanti, MI $1,5oo 

To support the composer’s 

participation in the Shanghai 

International Radio Music 

Festival in China, where one of 

his recent compositions will 

premiere. 

Starving Artists Theatre 

Company 

Los Angeles, CA $7,5oo 

To support the company’s performance at the Dublin Theatre 

Festival in Ireland. 

33 Fainting Spells 

Seattle, WA $1,5oo 

To support the group’s performance at the Young International Choreographers Festival 

in Germany. 

UMO Ensemble 

Vashon Island, WA $1o, ooo 

To support the group’s performance at the Sibiu International Theater Festival in Romania. 

Young at Heart Chorus 

Northampton, MA $6,ooo 

To support the group’s performance at the Rotterdam Festivals in Holland. 

Japan-U.S. Friendship 

Commission 

Washington, DC $75,o0o 

An interagency transfer to support the U.S./Japan Creative 

Artists’ Program, which provides project support for three 

U.S. artists to pursue their artistic goals and interests in Japan. 

The following awards were 

made by the Commission in 

yen in 1997 under the previous 

year’s agreement: 

Sally Gross 

New York, NY 

To support study of traditional 

Japanese dance and theater and 

collaboration with choreographer Suzuchi Hanayagi. 

David Stuempfle 

Seagrove, NC 

To support residencies at pottery centers in Shigaraki and 

Bizen, with the intent of forming a relationship between the 

artist’s community in North 

Carolina and these Japanese 

centers. 

Pamela Z 

San Francisco, CA 

To support the inclusion of 

Tokyo in the artist’s ongoing 

sound-performance work 

Metrodaemonium, a digital 

sounds portrait of several U.S. 

and European cities; and to develop a sound-performance involving the Japanese phonetic 

alphabet. 

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I nitiatives
 

I01 

International 

Programs 
Leadership Initiatives
 

OTHER INITIATIVES
 

T he Arts Endowment also supports a 

number of other initiatives that integrate the arts into a wide variety of 

community services and settings. For example, 

working with the U.S. Department of Education, the Endowment demonstrated the value 

of the arts in helping youth at risk for drug 

abuse and violence. Funded in 1997 through an 

interagency agreement, the program "Creative 

Partnerships for Prevention: A Drug and Violence Prevention Program for Youth Using the 

Arts and Humanities" includes a public awareness campaign, a resource guide for use in 

school and community programs, and demon102 stration sites focusing on model, arts-based 

prevention programs. 

The Endowment works in many ways with 

nonprofit organizations to integrate the arts 

into the fabric of community life. An example 

funded this year is the Chamber Music Rural 

Residencies Program of Chamber Music America, Inc., which places chamber ensembles in 

various rural communities to interact with local citizens and school students through a variety of performing and teaching activities. 

Another initiative provided grants to five universities across the country to support the Mayors’ Institute on City Design, bringing together 

design experts and local elected officials to address the built environment and livability of 

America’s cities. In the area of arts education, a 

cooperative agreement with the Council of 

Chief State School Officers supported the Goals 

zooo Arts Education Partnership, which helps 

American schools develop their arts education 

curricula. 

Funds which were set aside especially for 

underserved areas supported additional projects carried out by state and regional arts agencies. Among the projects funded in Fiscal Year 

1997 were the Deep South Literature Consortium of the Mississippi Arts Commission; the 

Building Communities Through Culture program of the New England Foundation for the 

Arts; and the American Traditions project of 

the Southern Arts Federation. Through these 

and other program initiatives, the Endowment 

brings the arts to new audiences and contributes toward the building of better American 

communities. 
GRANTS AND AWARDS
 

Other Initiatives 

33 awards $4,345,306 

The discipline designations in 

parentheses refer to the project, not necessarily the organization. 

Arts Midwest~ 

Minneapolis, MN $98,000 

(state and regional: underserved) 

To support Rivers, Lakes, & 

Prairies, a Midwest folk arts festival tour, in the states served by 

Arts Midwest: Illinois, Indiana, 

Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, 

North Dakota, Ohio, South 

Dakota, and Wisconsin. 

Chamber Music America, Inc. 

New York, NY $150,000 

(music) 

To support, during 1998-99, 

costs of the Chamber Music 

Rural Residencies Program, 

which places chamber ensembles in selected rural communities for several months, enhancing the musical lives of their 

citizens and developing the participating artists’ repertoire. 

Chamber Music America, Inc. 

New York, NY $50,000 

(music) 

To support an amendment to a 

previous grant to support the 

Chamber Music Rural Residencies program in 1997-98. 

Council of Chief State School 

Officers 

Washington, DC $250,000 

(arts education) 

A cooperative agreement to support, in collaboration with the 

U.S. Department of Education, 

the Goals 2000 Arts Education 

Partnership--an organizational 

network that helps American 

schools acquire the best practices in teaching and learning 

the arts, and acts as a national 

information source on state arts 

agency policies and practices. 

Council of Chief State School 

Officers 

Washington, DC $220,000 

(arts education) 

An amendment to a previous 

cooperative agreement to support, in collaboration with the 

U.S. Department of Education, 

the Goals 2000 Arts Education 

Partnership. 

Idaho Commission on the Arts’ 

Boise, ID $1zo, ooo
 

(state and regional: underserved)
 

To support The Spirit of the 

Northwest, a cooperative project of state arts agencies and 

state rural development councils in Idaho, Oregon, and 

Washington that will help rural 

communities deal with social 

and economic challenges 

through the arts. 

International Association of 

Jazz Educators 

Manhattan, KS $20,000 

(music) 

To support costs of the 

National Endowment for the 

Arts’ American lazz Masters 

Awards Concert. 

John F. Kennedy Center for the 

Performing Arts 

Washington, DC $200,000 

(arts education) 

A cooperative agreement to 

support, in partnership with the 

U.S. Department of Education, 

the implementation phase of 

ArtsEdge, a Web site which helps 

artists, teachers, and students 

discover resources and ideas 

about arts education. 

The Mayors’ Institute on City 

Design 

The following five awards support the continuation of an 

award-winning, nationwide initiative-the Mayors’ Institute 

on City Design--that brings 

together local elected officials 

with leading design and development professionals, to exchange ideas on the role of political leadership in creating 

cities that are more economically vibrant, environmentally 

sustainable, attractive, safe, and 

livable. 

Harvard University 

Cambridge, MA $275,000 

(design) 

A cooperative agreement to 

support the national meeting of 

the Mayors’ Institute on City 

Design. 

Tulane University 

New Orleans, LA $12,5oo 

(design) 

A cooperative agreement to 

support the Louisiana Mayors’ 

Institute on City Design. 

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Initiatives
 

103 

Other 

Initiatives 
Leadership 

Initiatives 

104 

Other 

Initiatives 

University of California at 

Berkeley, Regents of the 

Berkeley, CA $50,000 

(design) 

A cooperative agreement to 

support the Mayors’ Institute 

on City Design: West. 

University of Maryland, College 

Park 

College Park, MD $4o, ooo 

(design) 

A cooperative agreement to 

support the Mayors’ Institute 

on City Design: Northeast. 

Washington University 

St. Louis, MO $50,000 

(design) 

A cooperative agreement to 

support the Mayors’ Institute 

on City Design: Midwest. 

Meet the Composer, Inc. 

New York, NY $z2o, ooo 

(music) 

A cooperative agreement to 

support the Commissioning 

Music/USA program, which 

awards funds to consortia of 

music organizations for commissioning works in concert 

music, opera, musical theater, 

and jazz. 

Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, 

Inc.’ 

Baltimore, MD $200,000 

(state and regional: underserved) 

To strengthen awareness of 

and access to the folk arts in 

the Delmarva region-­

Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, 

the New Jersey Coast--by developing mentorship programs, 

cultural tourism, and other 

public activities.

YOUNG 

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More than 100 San Francisco WritersCorps teenagers put heart to paper in this 

anthology documenting racial experiences. Cover art by Rigo’98, courtesy of 

WritersCorps Books, San Francisco Art Commission. 

Mississippi Arts Commission’ 

Jackson, MS SZZO, OOO 

(state and regional: underserved) 

To support the Deep South 

Literature Consortium of Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, 

and Tennessee, which will nurture an infrastructure of humanities councils, state literacy 

offices, schools, and library 

commissions to support the region’s literary arts, particularly 

in rural communities with little 

access to literary activities. 

National Council for the 

Traditional Arts 

Silver Spring, MD $195,ooo 

(folk and traditional arts) 

A cooperative agreement to 

support the nomination process 

and production of public events 

for the National Endowment 

for the Arts’ National Heritage 

Fellowships in 1997, and to support the production of a 15-year 

retrospective publication about 
GRANTS AND AWARDS 

the Fellowships with a radiocompatible, multi-CD recording of selected performances 

and interviews. 

National Trust for Historic 

Preservation in the U. S. 

Washington, DC Szoo, ooo 

(design) 

A cooperative agreement to support Your Town: Designing 

its Future, a workshop series focused on design issues that are 

relevant to small towns and rural 

communities such as growth 

and urban sprawl, historic 

preservation, land use, adequate 

arts facilities, and housing. 

New England Foundation for 

the Arts’ 

Boston, MA $200,000 

(state and regional: underserved) 

To expand the Building Communities through Culture program, an initiative to identify, 

connect, and strengthen community building efforts by linking arts with non-arts partners, 

adding several New England 

communities over three years. 

North Carolina Arts Council’ 

Raleigh, NC $225,000 

(state and regional: underserved) 

To support, in collaboration 

with the Tennessee Arts Commission and the Virginia Arts 

Commission, the creation of 

two heritage tourism trails enhancing economic development 

and cultural preservation: the 

Blue Ridge Music Trail in Virginia and North Carolina, and 

the Cherokee Arts and Culture 

Trail in North Carolina and 

Tennessee. 

Regional Arts & Culture 

Council 

Portland, OR $52,ooo 

(multidisciplinary) 

An amendment to a previous 

cooperative agreement to support the YouthARTS Development Project for youth-at-risk, 

which is run by a consortium of 

local arts agencies in Portland, 

Oregon; San Antonio, Texas; 

and Atlanta, Georgia. 

South Carolina Arts 

Commission’ 

Columbia, SC $134,ooo 

(state and regional: underserved) 

To support the artistic development of media artists in South 

Carolina, Alabama, Kentucky, 

Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, 

North Carolina, Tennessee, and 

Virginia through training and 

equipment access at the South 

Carolina Arts Commission’s 

Media Arts Center. 

Southern Arts Federation, Inc.’ 

Atlanta, GA $200,000 

(state and regional: underserved) 

To support, in collaboration 

with the other five regional arts 

agencies and 50 state arts agencies, American Traditions, a 

two-year national effort to 

showcase America’s folk and 

traditional arts beyond their 

usual audiences, establishing a 

network of 60 traditional arts 

presenters and training 30 traditional artists to present and 

tour throughout the country. 

Theater Communications 

Group, Inc. 

New York, NY $2,500 

(theater) 

To amend a cooperative agreement to support a residency 

program for playwrights. 

Theater Communications 

Group, Inc. 

New York, NY $700,000 

(theater) 

A cooperative agreement to 

support two cycles of the Career Development Program for 

Directors and Designers, by 

which nonprofit theaters develop younger artists through 

residencies, mentor relationships with master stage directors and designers, and other 

support services. 

University of California at 

Berkeley, Regents of the 

Berkeley, CA $82,284 

(design) 

To amend a previous cooperative agreement to support the 

Federal Property Conversion 

Initiative at Fort Ord, which engages artists and designers in a 

community-based process of 

converting decommissioned 

Federal property for civilian use. 

U.S. Department of Education 

Washington, DC SlO8,OOO 

(multidisciplinary) 

An interagency transfer to support the expansion of the U.S. 

Department of Education’s Creative Partnership for Prevention, a drug and violence prevention program for youth 

using the arts and humanities, 

with Endowment funds 

matched 4-to-1 by the Department of Education. 

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Initiatives
 

105 

Other 

Initiatives 
Leadership
 

Initiatives
 

106 

Other 

Initiatives 

U. S. Department of 

State/Federal Facilities Council 

Washington, DC SZO, OOO 

(design) 

An interagency transfer to support a partnership of Federal 

agencies convened to identify 

and advance technologies, 

processes, and management 

practices that improve the planning, design, construction, operation, and evaluation of Federal facilities. 

WritersCorps z 

The following five awards support the WritersCorps, in which 

writers work with human and 

social service organization clients 

to improve literacy and communication skills while offering creative expression as an alternative 

to violence, alcohol and drug 

NEA 1997 ANNUAL REPORT
 

abuse. The program, created in 

1994, works through local arts 

councils across the country. 

Bronx Council on the Arts, Inc. 

Bronx, NY $35,376 

(local arts agencies) 

An amendment to a previous 

cooperative agreement to support WritersCorps. 

Bronx Council on the Arts, Inc. 

Bronx, NY $1oo, ooo 

(local arts agencies) 

A cooperative agreement to 

support WritersCorps. 

California Assembly of Local 

Arts Agencies 

San Francisco, CA $48,922 

(local arts agencies) 

An amendment to a previous 

cooperative agreement to support WritersCorps. 

Corporation for National 

Service 

An interagency agreement to 

support WritersCorps. 

District of Columbia 

Commission on the Arts & 

Humanities 

Washington, DC $63,9o7 

(local arts agencies) 

An amendment to a previous 

cooperative agreement to support WritersCorps. 

*Arts in underserved areas setaside grant. 

~An additional $5,070 supported 

administrative costs associated 

with WritersCorps. 

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administered by the John R Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC. 
Grants to Individuals
 

LITERATURE FELLOWSHIPS
 

"A Literature Fellowship from the Na­

~ tional Endowment for the Arts means 

~... I live in a country that chooses to 

hear the vital singing--the pulsations, the life 

blood, the pathways that connect us profoundly 

to each other, profoundly to the intelligent 

compassionate cosmos." 

--Cathy Song, poet and teacher 

Honolulu, HI 

Cathy Song used her 1997 Literature Fellowship 

to take time off from teaching in order to complete a volume of poetry, The Roses of Guadalajara. Her comments illustrate her gratitude to 

the American people for providing her with this 

opportunity, which was not available through 

the commercial publishing marketplace. Her 

comments also reflect her awareness that the 

U.S. Congress singled out Literature Fellowships 

as the Endowment’s only remaining competitive 

grant category for individual artists. 

Three decades earlier, the Arts Endowment 

announced its first recipients of grants to individual writers. Those recipients included writers who later became luminaries of American 

literature, such as William Gaddis, Grace Paley, 

and Hayden Carruth. Since then, the Endowment has awarded Creative Writing Fellowships 

to approximately 2,3oo writers, and sponsored 

work resulting in an estimated 2,000 books, including E. Annie Proulx’s The Shipping News, 

Alice Walker’s The Color Purple, and Oscar Hijuelos’ The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love. 

Thirty of the 38 recipients of the National Book 

Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, 

and the Pulitzer Prize In Poetry and Fiction 

since 199o have been previous Arts Endowment 

Fellowship winners. All but one received their 

fellowships before these other awards, usually 

lo to 20 years earlier. 

Arts Endowment Literature Fellowships encourage new work, since most of the recipients 

are unknown even within the literary field at 

the time the awards are made. Simultaneously, 

the Fellowships give writers national recognition for the first time, an invaluable validation 

of their talent to peers, agents, publishers, and 

presenters around the country. 

Another 1997 grant recipient was Margaret 107 

Almon, a public services librarian at the University of Scranton in Pennsylvania, who used 

her grant to travel to New Mexico and work on 

a second volume of poetry. And Linda-Ruth 

Berger, from Contoocook, New Hampshire, 

took a one-year sabbatical from her work as a 

psychotherapist to write, travel, and complete 

research for a poetry manuscript exploring the 

later lives and paintings of visual artists. This 

project aims to shed light on the shifts in perception and meaning that aging brings to a person’s life and work. 

Literature is inherently a national and international art form. Both particular and universal, it says something about a specific people 

while also revealing something about all humanity. Three of this year’s Literature Fellowships went towards the translation into English 

of poems from Bosnia, Israel, and Japan. 
NEA 997 ANNUAL REPORT
 

Grants to
 

Individuals
 

108 

Literature 

Fellowships 

Literature Fellowships 

40 awards $800,000 

All of the following awards are 

in the literature discipline. 

Fellowships for Creative Writers 

Margaret Almon 

Dunmore, PA $20,000 

Louis S. Asekoff 

St. James, NY $20,000 

Renee Ashley 

Ringwood, NJ $20,000 

Dorothy M. Barresi 

Northridge, CA $20,000 

Linda-Ruth Berger 

Contoocook, NH $20,000 

David Biespiel 

Portland, OR $20,000 

Millicent C. Borges 

Long Beach, CA $20,000 

Sean Brendan-Brown 

Olympia, WA $2o, ooo 

Nick Carbo 

San Antonio, TX $20,000 

Ann V. Christie 

Baltimore, MD $20,000 

Cathy Song of Honolulu, Hawaii received a 1997 Literature Fellowship for poetry. 

Photo by John Eddy. 

Lisa Coffman Kathleen S. Halme 

Morrisville, PA $20,000 Wilmington, NC $20,000 

Deborah A. DeNicola James W. Harris 

Brookline, MA $2o, ooo Alameda, CA $20,000 

Alice B. Fogel William Bernard Keckler 

Acworth, NH $20,000 Harrisburg, PA $20,000 

Michele Glazer Edward Kleinschmidt 

Portland, OR $20,000 San Francisco, CA $20,000 

Jewelle L. Gomez Mark A. Levine 

San Francisco, CA $20,000 Brooklyn, NY $20,000 

Jeffrey L. Gustavson Dionisio D. Martlnez 

Brooklyn, NY $2o, ooo Tampa, FL $20,000 

Judith Hall James D. McCorkle 

Oxnard, CA $20,000 Geneva, NY $20,000 
GRANTS AND AWARDS
 

Leslea Newman 

Northampton, MA $20,000 

Susan E Prospere 

Houston, TX $20,000 

Thomas Rabbitt 

Tuscaloosa, AL $20,000 

Joseph J. Ross 

Washington, DC $2o, ooo 

Charles M. Rossiter 

Oak Park, IL $2o, ooo 

Nicholas Samaras 

New Port Richey, FL $20,000 

Catherine Sasanov (Catherine 

A. Baker) 

Cambridge, MA $20,000 

Leonard W. Schwartz 

New York, NY $20,000 

Carol A. Snow 

San Francisco, CA $20,000 

Cathy Song (Cathy S. 

Davenport) 

Honolulu, HI $20,000 

Elaine G. Terranova 

Philadelphia, PA $20,000 

Naomi French Wallace 

Prospect, KY $20,000 

Fellowships for Translators 

Ammiel Alcalay 

Brooklyn, NY $20,000 

To support the translation of an 

anthology of contemporary 

Bosnian poetry. 

Tsipi E. Keller 

New York, NY $20,000 

To support the translation of 

nearly loo poems by four contemporary, Israeli female writers. 

Leza A. Lowitz 

Oakland, CA ¢20,000 

To support the translation 

of Ayukawa Nobuo’s Selected 

Poems: 1936-1984. 

Grants to 

Individuals 

109 

Literature 

Fellowships 

Cynthia Zarin Poet David Biespiel of Portland, Oregon received a 1997 Literature 

New York, NY $20,000 Fellowship. Photo by Allan de Lay. 
Grants to Individuals
 

AMERICAN JAZZ MASTER FELLOWSHIPS
 

" ̄ t means an awful lot when you’re chosen for 

an award by your peers. More than you 

could possibly imagine." 

--]ames Moody, tenor saxophonist 

San Diego, CA 

This statement by jazz artist James Moody captures the importance of the American Jazz Master Fellowships to jazz musicians and the music field. In 1982 the Arts Endowment began 

honoring great American jazz artists by selecting John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie, Sun Ra and 

Roy Eldridge as its first American Jazz Masters. 

During 1997, tenor saxophonist James Moody, 

I10	 bassist Ron Carter, and saxophonist-composer 

Wayne Shorter joined 49 other American jazz 

artists who have been selected for this title. The 

fellowships recognize artistic excellence, significant contributions to jazz, and overall impact 

on the music field. Up to three fellows are selected annually by a panel of jazz artists from a 

national pool of nominations, and each fellow 

receives a one-time-only award of $2o,ooo. The 

fellows are honored at an Arts Endowmentsponsored concert before thousands of jazz educators, musicians, industry members, and enthusiasts during the International Association 

of Jazz Educators conference each January. 

Ron Carter, with more than 2,ooo recordings 

to his credit, is one of the jazz field’s most original, prolific, and influential bassists. He performed with the acclaimed Miles Davis Quintet 

from 1963-1968, earned Grammy awards in 1988 

and 1993, and is currently a Distinguished Professor of Music at the City College of New York. 

James Moody was an early member of Dizzy 

Gillespie’s big band and helped give birth to bebop. His many career honors include induction 

into the International Jazz Hall of Fame. Mayors of two American cities--Newark, New Jersey and Savannah, Georgia--have proclaimed 

James Moody Days in his honor. 

Wayne Shorter is co-founder of the groundbreaking group Weather Report. From his work 

as a standout young musician for Art Blakey’s 

renowned Jazz Messengers to later experimentation performing with Miles Davis, Shorter 

has had a profound effect on modern jazz 

through his work as a performer, composer, 

and recording artist. 
GRANTS AND AWARDS
 

American Jazz Master 

Fellowships 

3 awards $60,000 

All of the following awards are 

in the music discipline. 

Carter, Ron 

New York, NY $20,000 

Bassist 

Grants to 

Moody, James Individuals 

San Diego, CA $20,000 

Tenor Saxophonist III 

American Jazz 

Shorter, Wayne Master Fellowships 

Studio City, CA $20,000 

Saxophonist and Composer 

James Moody, tenor saxophonist from San Diego, California was honored as an 

American JaTz Master. Photo © Warner Bros. Records, Inc,, 1996, by Jeffrey Henson 

Scales. Reprinted with permission. 
Grants to Individuals
 

NATIONAL HERITAGE FELLOWSHIPS
 

"~J y traditional work let me see how 

influenced I really was by my heritage, my history. It showed me my 

roots in this area; opened my eyes. It’s all inspired by my upbringing... I want to achieve 

the level of quality of those old masters--what 

they captured on wood, emotions so powerful, 

so moving." 

--Ram6n Jos~ L6pez, santero carver 

Santa Fe, NM 

Every year since the National Heritage Fellowship program was launched in 1982, artists like 

1997 National Heritage Fellow Ram6n Jos4 

112 L6pez have uttered words similar to these upon 

receiving their award. In doing so, they speak to 

the essence and the lifeline of the folk and traditional arts--the close connection of the individual artist to a larger cultural and artistic 

community, present and past. Over the past 17 

years, more than 200 National Heritage Fellowships have recognized artists representing 

scores of cultural backgrounds, aesthetic traditions, and artistic genres. The list of the 1997 

National Heritage Fellows that follows is typical of the cultural and geographic breadth of 

each year’s list of awardees. 

The artists do not apply for their fellowships, but are nominated by others who admire 

them for their excellence, accomplishment, and 

the contributions they make to their art form. 

A national panel of experts with a broad knowledge of American traditional arts reviews the 

nominations and recommends a select group to 

the National Council on the Arts and the Endowment’s Chairman for approval. Excellence 

of artistry, authenticity of tradition, and significance within their art forms are the criteria. For 

example Jim and Jesse McReynolds, 1997 Heritage winners, have long been respected for the 

high caliber of their bluegrass musicianship, 

their faithfulness to the core of the "mountain 

music" tradition in which they were raised, and 

their innovative instrumental techniques that 

enriched and expanded bluegrass music. 

Each year, the fellows receive their awards in 

a ceremony in Washington, DC and are celebrated in a free public concert gala that is 

recorded and distributed nationally to public 

radio stations. This year, First Lady Hillary 

Rodham Clinton presented the awards of 

$1o,ooo each to ten recipients in a ceremony at 

the White House. The ceremony opened with 

joyous music by 1997 Heritage Fellow Edward 

Babb leading the Harlem-based, brass band 

gospel group, the McCollough Sons of Thunder. Their spirited music prompted Mrs. Clinton to announce "I’ve asked them to play one 

more piece afterwards so that any of you who 

were late or more than 50 miles away and didn’t 

hear will be able to enjoy in person, up close 

and personal this extraordinary group." Babb 

was 13 years old when Mr. Albert Edgington of 

the United House of Prayer in Harlem asked 

him to pick out an instrument from a neighborhood pawnshop, and he has travelled the 

road to accomplishment. Each of the other 1997 

Fellows also has a story sure to inspire generations of folk artists and their enthusiasts. 
GRANTS AND AWARDS 

Wenyi Hua is internationally regarded as the premier artist in one of China’s oldest and most refined forms of opera--kunqu. 

She has performed and directed extensively and founded the Hua Kun Opera in Los Angeles. Photo courtesy of Wenyi Hua. 

National Heritage Clark, Gladys LeBlanc Nguyen, Phong 

Fellowships Duson, LA SZO, OOO Kent, OH $1o, ooo 

I 0 awards $ 100,000 Cajun Spinner and Weaver Vietnamese Musician and 

Scholar 

All of the following awards are Hua, Wenyi 

in the folk and traditional arts Arcadia, CA $1o, ooo Rankin, I-lystercine 

discipline. Chinese Kunqu Opera Singer Lorman, MS $1o, ooo 

African-American Quilter 

Khan, Ali Akbar 

Babb, Edward San Anselmo, CA $1o, ooo Whitaker, Francis 

Jamaica, NY $1o, ooo North Indian Sarod Player and Carbondale, CO $1o, ooo 

"Shout" Band Gospel Raga Composer Blacksmith and Ornamental 

Trombonist Ironworker 

L6pez, Ram6n Jos6 

Brown, Charles Santa Fe, NM $1o, ooo 

Berkeley, CA $1o, ooo Santero Carver and Metalsmith 

Rhythm & Blues Pianist, Vocalist, and Composer McReynolds, Jim & Jesse 

Gallatin, TN $1o, ooo 

Bluegrass Musicians 

Grants to 

Individuals 

113 

National Heritage 

Fellowships 
Policy, Research, & Technology
 

Policy 

In Fiscal Year 1997 the Office of Policy, Research, & Technology (OPRT) continued to analyze the agency’s application and grant patterns in order to assist the Endowment’s 

ongoing evaluation of its new structure and 

grantmaking policies and practices. These 

analyses help the Chairman and the National 

Council on the Arts make any policy or procedural changes necessary to assure a fair but rigorous application review process. 

OPRT oversees the Civil Rights Office, 

which, in 1997, for the second year, managed a 

pilot internship program as a means of meet114	 ing the White House Initiative on Historically 

Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU), Executive Order 12876. The order is intended to 

strengthen the capacity of HBCUs to provide 

excellence in education to all students, regardless of race. The Arts Endowment’s HBCU initiative places qualified fine arts and arts management students enrolled in HBCUs as 

interns within nonprofit arts organizations. 

During its first two years, the program worked 

with 44 out of the lo3 HBCUs in the country. 

Research 

OPRT’s Research Division conducts research 

and develops and disseminates information on 

issues that affect the various arts fields and individual artists. The Research Division has reported on national statistics on public arts participation; financial information and other data 

about arts organizations; and artist employment and earnings. This year the Research Division: 

 ̄ conducted the 1997 Survey of Public Participation in the Arts, which addresses a variety of 

arts participation issues such as geographic differences, frequency of arts participation, and 

barriers to further participation; a summary report will be published in 1998. 

 ̄ sponsored further development of a national 

database on arts organizations. 

 ̄ initiated an analysis to describe and document the extent of multiple jobholding in the 

arts compared to other professions. 

Many of these studies will be continued into 

Fiscal Years 1998 and 1999, giving the Division 

a 15-year history of comparative data on the arts 

in America. 

Technology 

The Endowment promotes a strong cultural 

presence on the Internet, which is rapidly becoming the international communications 

mainstream. In this area, OPRT carried out its 

second year of Open Studio: The Arts Online, a 

national collaboration with the Benton Foundation to help individual artists and nonprofit 

arts organizations gain training for going online, and to increase the amount of arts and cultural Internet content. In addition, OPRT and 

the Arts Endowment’s Office of Communications together manage the agency’s Web site at 

http://arts.endow.gov. 
GRANTS AND AWARDS 

Policy, Research, & 

Technology 

2 awards $600,000~ 

The projects in this section 

serve multiple artistic disciplines. 

The Benton Foundation 

Washington, DC $500,000 

A cooperative agreement to 

support the second year of 

Open Studio: The Arts Online, a 

partnership to provide at least 

one free Internet access site to 

arts organizations in all 50 

states. The project is helping to 

establish lo mentoring sites 

where approximately 200 artists 

and arts organizations are being 

trained to develop and maintain their own Web sites. 

Norfolk State University 

Norfolk, Virginia $1oo, ooo 

A cooperative agreement to 

support the second year of a pilot arts internship program for 

students at historically black 

colleges and universities. The 

program helps meet the goals of 

the White House Initiative on 

Historically Black Colleges and 

Universities. 

’An additional $290,03o was obligated for various research projects, primarily on public participation in the arts. This amount 

came from Policy, Research, (~ 

Technology administrative funds. 

Policy, Reseach, 

& Technology 

115 

Bryan Warren, Director of Programs for Space One Eleven, Birmingham, Alabama, introduces a young computer user to the 

Internet as part of Open Studio: the Arts Online. Photo © The Birmingham News, 1998 (www.al.com). All rights reserved. Reprinted 

with permission. 
AccessAbility
 

T he Arts Endowment’s Office for AccessAbility helps to make the arts fully 

accessible to older adults, persons with 

disabilities, and those living in institutions. In 

1997, the Office conducted arts access seminars 

at six conferences nationwide; among them was 

the fourth regional access symposium, Sense 

and Sensitivity, convened in Milwaukee with 

Arts Midwest for its nine-state region. In addition, the Office helped the National Council on 

Aging develop a first-ever National Database on 

the Arts and Older Americans, through which 

arts organizations and groups concerned with 

the aging can obtain information on more than 

116 5oo arts programs involving older adults. 

Under 1997 funding, the Office convened 

the first-ever national forum on careers in the 

arts for people with disabilities, held in June, 

1998. It was organized with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Education, Social Security Administration, and the Kennedy Center for the 

Performing Arts. With the Department of Justice, the Office conducted one-year artists’ residencies at Federal Correctional Institutions in 

Coleman, Florida; Fairton, New Jersey; and 

Cumberland, Maryland. Furthermore, the 

Office supported technical assistance efforts 

such as the dissemination of Arts Education 

for the Blind’s publication Making Visual Art 

Accessible to People Who are Blind. 

A major focus of the Endowment’s accessibility efforts is universal design--the holistic 

approach to design that goes beyond minimum 

codes and standards to create design that serves 

the broadest public throughout the human life 

span. The Office supported and distributed the 

first collection of Universal Design Exemplars 

to demonstrate this concept and to encourage 

landscape, graphic, interior, and industrial designers, as well as architects, to practice universal design. One of the exemplars was the National Building Museum exhibit "Washington: 

Symbol & City," featuring large-scale, touchable 

models of the U.S. Capitol, the White House, 

and row houses. In addition, the Office funded 

and nationally distributed a video and publication describing how the Millay Colony for the 

Arts utilized universal design in creating its new 

building and landscape. 
AccessAbility 

4 awards $148, 782 

The projects in this section 

serve multiple artistic disciplines. 

Kennedy Center for the 

Performing Arts~ 

Washington, DC $71,782 

A cooperative agreement to 

support a first-ever forum on 

careers in the arts for people 

with disabilities that convened 

June 14-18, 1998 and was organized in cooperation with the 

U.S. Department of Education, 

Department of Health and 

Human Services, and Social Security Administration. 

Millay Colony for the Arts, Inc. 

Austerlitz, NY SZO, OOO 

To support and distribute 

nationally the video Beyond 

Access: Universal Design at the 

Millay Colony and a 5o-page 

publication that documents 

Millay’s model universal design 

process used to create its new 

main facility and landscape. 

New England Foundation for 

the Arts 2 

Boston, MA $50,000 

A cooperative agreement to 

support the second phase of a 

project to plan and convene a 

symposium that will assist 

NEFA’s six-state region in making its facilities, programs, and 

other activities fully available to 

older adults and individuals 

with disabilities. 

With the opening of its new, universally designed main building, the Millay Colony 

for the Arts in Austerlitz, New York is able to accommodate persons with and 

without disabilities. Photo by David Stansbury. 

William James Associationz 1Includes $20,000 in Policy, 

Santa Cruz, CA $17,ooo Research, & Technology adminA cooperative agreement to or­ istrative funds. 

ganize, monitor, and evaluate 

three one-year artists’ residen­ 2This award was made using 

cies at Federal Correctional In- Policy, Research, & Technology 

stitutions in Coleman, Florida; administrative funds. 

Fairton, New Jersey; and Cumberland, Maryland in conjunction with the U.S. Department 

of Justice. 
National Medal of Arts
 

T he National Medal of Arts honors per­ 1984, Presidents Reagan, Bush, and Clinton 

sons and organizations who have have collectively bestowed more than 15o Namade extraordinary contributions to tional Medals on artists, arts organizations, and 

the excellence, support, growth, and availabil- individual and corporate arts patrons. 

ity of the arts in the United States. In a September, 1997 White House South 

The National Council recommends candi- Lawn ceremony, President William J. Clinton 

dates for this prestigious award to the President and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton pubon the basis of nominations solicited by the Na- licly committed to the historic record the 

tional Endowment for the Arts. Final selection names and contributions of the year’s National 

is made by the President of the United States. Medal of Arts honorees. 

Since the award was created by Congress in 

National Medal of Arts Angela Lansbury Jason Robards 

118 I I awards (non-monetary) Los Angeles, CA Southport, CT 

Actor	 Actor 

Louise Bourgeois	 James Levine Edward Villella 

New York, NY	 New York, NY Miami, FL 

Sculptor and Visual Artist	 Artistic Director for Opera and Artistic Director for Ballet and 

Pianist Dancer 

Betty Carter 

Brooklyn, NY MacDowell Colony Doc Watson 

Jazz Vocalist Peterborough, NH Deep Gap, NC 

Artists’ Colony/Arts Organiza- Bluegrass and Old-Time Music 

Agnes Gund tion Guitarist and Vocalist 

New York, NY 

Patron of the Arts	 Tito Puente 

New York, NY 

Daniel Urban Kiley Latin Percussionist and
 

Charlotte, VT Musician
 

Landscape Architect
 
GRANTS AND AWARDS 

National Medal 

of Arts 

119 

Tito Puente, Latin percussionist, enjoys applause after President William J. Clinton and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton present 

him with the National Medal of Arts. White House photo. 
PANELS
 

rivate citizens make up the panels which 

projects to be funded from 

the thousands of grant applications the 

Arts Endowment receives each year. Each panel 

is comprised of artists, arts administrators, patrons, and at least one layperson who does not 

earn a living through work in the arts. Endowment staff ensure that all panels reflect the aesthetic, geographic, cultural, and ethnic diversity 

of America. 

Panels meet at the Endowment’s headquarters throughout the year to consider groups of 

applications and make funding recommendations to the National Council on the Arts. 

120 Panel meetings usually last several days so that 

CREATION & 

PRESENTATION Jill Medvedow 

PANEL I Deputy Director of 

Public Programs and 

Curator of 

Mary G. Gates Contemporary Art 

Director Isabella Stewart 

Seattle Art Museum Gardner Museum 

Seattle, WA Boston, MA 

Juan Felipe Herrera Sara O’Connor 

Author and Associate Director, Campaign to 

Professor Create the Future 

of Ckicano and Latin Milwaukee Repertory 

American Studies Theater 

California State Milwaukee, WI 

University at Fresno 

Fresno, CA Nigel Redden 

General Manager 

Cynthia Mayeda Spoleto Festival U.S.A. 

Arts Administrator and Charleston, SC 

Consultant
 

Minneapolis, MN
 

a thorough review of all applications can take 

place. 

In order to avoid any conflicts of interest, no 

individual may serve on a panel that considers 

his or her organization’s application. Split panels (Panel 1 and Panel 2) are sometimes convened so that these conflicts do not occur. 

The National Council on the Arts meets several times each year to discuss policy issues and 

to review the panels’ funding recommendations. The Council may approve or reject those 

recommendations. The Council’s rejections are 

final. Council-approved applications are forwarded to the Chairman, who makes the final 

decision on which grants are awarded. 

Hiromi Lorraine Joanne Woodward 

Sakata Actor 

Chair, New York, NY 

Ethnomusicology 

Program 

Department of Music CREATION & 

University of PRESENTATION 

Washington PANEL 2 

Seattle, WA 

Sterling Van Wagenen Muhal Richard 

Independent Abrahms 

Filmmaker and Pianist and Composer 

Producer New York, NY 

Cottonwood, UT 

Laurie Beckelman 

John Taylor Williams Vice President 

(layperson) World Monuments 

Attorney Fund 

Palmer ~ Dodge New York, NY 

Boston, MA 
PANELS
 

Michael J. Bush 

Associate Artistic 

Director 

Manhattan Theater 

Club 

New York, NY 

Christine D’Arcy 

Executive Director 

Oregon Arts 

Commission 

Salem, OR 

Martin Friedman 

Director Emeritus 

Walker Arts Center 

New York, NY 

David Gockley 

General Director 

Houston Grand Opera 

Houston, TX 

Stephen Gong 

Associate Director, 

University 

Art Museum & 

Pacific Archive 

University of California 

at Berkeley 

Berkeley, CA 

Joan Gray 

President 

Muntu Dance Theater 

Chicago, IL 

Donald Roth 

President
 

Oregon Symphony
 

Association
 

Portland, OR
 

Judith Shea 

Sculptor and Educator 

New York, NY 

Linda Shelton 

Executive Director 

The ]oyce Theater 

Foundation 

New York, NY 

Jeannine Smith-Clark 

(layperson) 

Arts Patron 

Washington, DC 

Susan Trapnell 

Managing Director 

A Contemporary 

Theater 

Seattle, WA 

CREATION &
 

PRESENTATION
 

PANEL 3
 

Ernesto Alorda 

Director of Artist
 

Relations
 

Seattle Opera
 

Association
 

Seattle, WA
 

Alvin Batiste 

Jazz Clarinetist,
 

Composer and
 

Educator
 

Baton Rouge, LA 

Amina Dickerson 

Museum Administrator 

Chicago, IL 

Kathy Gregg 

(layperson) 

Arts Patron
 

McLean, VA
 

Judith Kirshner 

Director, School of Art 

(r Design 

University of Illinois at 

Chicago 

Chicago, IL 

Bruce Marks 

Artistic Director 

Boston Ballet 

Boston, MA 

Jack O’Brien 

Artistic Director 

Old Globe Theater 

San Diego, CA 

Steven Oliver 

(layperson) 

President 

Oliver ~ Company 

Berkeley, CA 

Marita Rivero 

Vice President 

WGBH Educational 

Foundation 

Boston, MA 

Timothy Rub 

Director, Hood 

Museum 

Dartmouth College 

Hanover, NH 

Harriet Sanford 

Director, Department 

of Arts (r Culture 

Fulton County 

Atlanta, GA 

Jackie Taylor 

Executive Director 

The Chamber Music 

Society of Lincoln 

Center 

New York, NY 

Lindy Zesch 

Arts Administrator 

New York, NY 

EDUCATION & 

ACCESS 

Jessica Andrews 

Managing Director 

Arizona Theatre 

Company 

Tucson (r Phoenix, AZ 

Bruce Coppock 

Executive Director 

St. Louis Symphony 

Orchestra 

St. Louis, MO 

Vishaka Desai 

Vice President of 

Cultural Programs
 

and Director of
 

Galleries
 

The Asia Society
 

New York, NY
 

Gene Dugan 

Artistic Director for 

Programs
 

OutNorth Art House
 

Anchorage, AK
 

Christine Elbel 

Executive Director
 

Fleishhacker
 

Foundation
 

San Francisco, CA
 

Ray Kingston 

Architect and Former
 

Member, National
 

Council on the Arts
 

Salt Lake City, UT 

121 
NEA 1997 ANNUAL REPORT
 

William F. Lee III 

Execu rive Director 

International 

Association of Jazz 

Educators 

Manhattan, KS 

Peggy Loar 

President and Director 

The Wolfsonian 

Museum 

Miami, FL 

Bernard Lopez 

Poet, Photographer, 

Arts Administrator, 

and Former Member, 

National Council on 

the Arts 

Tesuque, NM 

Pepon Osorio 

122 Visual Artist and 

Founding Partner, 

Pepatian 

Bronx, NY 

Beverly Robinson 

Associate Professor of 

Theater, World 

Culture, and Folklore 

Un iversity of California 

at Los Angeles, and 

Executive Director 

Black Filmmaker’s Hall 

of Fame 

Berkeley, CA 

Vivian Donnell 

Rodriguez 

Executive Director 

Metro-Dade Art in 

Public Places 

Miami, FL 

Randall Rosenbaum 

Executive Director 

Rhode Island State 

Council on the Arts 

Cumberland, RI 

Sarah Tambucci 

(layperson) 

Principal 

Chartiers Valley 

Intermediate School 

Pittsburgh, PA 

Suzanne Well 

Independent Film and 

Television Producer 

Santa Monica, CA 

HERITAGE & 

PRESERVATION 

Doreen Bolger 

Director, Museum of 

Art 

Rhode Island School of 

Design 

Providence, RI 

Wayne S. Brown 

Producer, Music 

Programs 

Cultural Olympiad 

Atlanta, GA 

Rene Buch 

Artistic Director 

Repertorio Espanol 

New York, NY 

Patricia Fuller 

Consultant, Public Art 

and Design 

Boston, MA 

Rhoda Grauer 

Producer 

Dance Programs in 

Media 

New York, NY 

Barbara L. Hampton 

Professor of 

Ethnomusicology 

City University of New 

York 

New York, NY 

Beatrice Medicine 

Anthropologist 

Wakpala, SD 

Judy O’Bannon 

Board Member 

Indiana Arts Council 

Indianapolis, IN 

Victor Perera 

Writer 

Berkeley, CA 

Robert Rosen 

Director, Film and 

Television Archive 

University of California 

at Los Angeles 

Los Angeles, CA 

Ann Schroll Simpson 

(layperson) 

Advisory Board 

President, Museum 

of Art 

University of Wyoming 

Cody, Vv-Y 

Maria Tallchief 

Dance Educator and 

Lecturer 

Chicago, IL 

John Taylor 

Director, Foundation
 

and Corporate
 

Relations
 

Guilford College
 

Summerfield, NC
 

Richard Trimillos 

Professor of 

Ethnomusicology and 

Chair of Asian 

Studies 

University of Hawaii at 

Manoa 

Honolulu, HI 

PLANNING & 

STABILIZATION 

Peggy Amsterdam 

Director 

Delaware Division of 

the Arts 

Wilmington, DE 

Richard Bains 

Director, Music 

Institute 

California State 

University 

Seaside, CA 

Jillian Daniel 

Chief of Education and 

Outreach 

Metro-Dade Cultural 

Affairs Council 

Miami, FL 

Martin Felnstein 

Senior Consultant 

Maryland Center for 

the Performing Arts 

Potomac, MD 
PANELS
 

David Hawkanson 

Executive Director 

Guthrie Theater 

Minneapolis, MN 

Joanne Hoover 

Music Critic and 

Former Director 

Levine School of Music 

Corrales, NM 

Richard Howorth 

(layperson) 

Owner and General 

Manager 

Square Books 

Oxford, MS 

Walter Huntley, Jr. 

(layperson) 

President 

Atlanta Economic 

Development 

Corporation 

Atlanta, GA 

Arnecia Patterson 

Managing Director 

Dayton Contemporary 

Dance Company 

Dayton, OH 

Holly Sidford 

Program Director 

Lila Wallace Reader’s 

Digest Fund 

New York, NY 

Milos Stehlik 

Director 

FACETS Multi-Media, 

Inc. 

Chicago, IL 

Carlos Tortolero 

Executive Director
 

Mexican Fine Arts
 

Center Museum
 

Chicago, IL 

Anthony B. Turney 

Executive Director 

The Names Project 

Foundation 

San Francisco, CA 

PARTNERSHIP 

AGREEMENTS, 

REGIONAL ARTS 

ORGANIZATIONS 

Christopher Abele 

(layperson) 

Attorney 

Badger ~ Levings 

Kansas City, MO 

Rose Austin 

Consultant 

Arlington, MA 

Jo Campbell 

(layperson) 

Principal 

Conestoga Elementary 

School 

Gillette, WY 

Kim Chan 

Director of Dance and 

New Performance 

Washington Performing 

Arts Society 

Washington, DC 

Wallace Chappell 

Director, Hancher 

Auditorium
 

University of Iowa
 

Iowa City, IA
 

Will Conner 

Chief Operating Officer 

Mid-America Arts 

Alliance 

Kansas City, MO 

Rick George 

Director of Grant 

Programs 

Georgia Council for the 

Arts 

Atlanta, GA 

Albert Head 

Executive Director 

Alabama State Council 

on the Arts 

Montgomery, AL 

Ricardo Hernandez 

Director of Programs 

Texas Commission on 

the Arts 

Austin, TX 

John Moore, III 

Deputy Director for 

Programs 

Pennsylvania Council 

on the Arts 

Harrisburg, PA 

Michael Moore 

Senior Progam Officer 

Lila Wallace Reader’s 

Digest Fund 

New York, NY 

Regina R. Smith 

Director, Programs and 

Services 

Culture Works 

Dayton, OH 

Bonnie Stephens 

Executive Director 

Utah Division of Fine 

Arts 

Salt Lake City, UT 

Timothy Wilson 

Executive Director 

Alaska State Council on 

the Arts 

Anchorage, AK 

PARTNERSHIP 

AGREEMENTS, 

STATE ARTS 

AGENCIES 

James Borders, IV 

Executive Director 

Louisiana Division of 

the Arts 

Baton Rouge, LA 

Mary Campbell-Zopf 

Director, Arts in 

Education 

Ohio Arts Council 

Columbus, OH 

Libby Chiu 

Director, Institutional 

Advancement 

Boston Conservatory 

West Roxbury, MA 

Shelley Cohn 

Executive Director 

Arizona Commission 

on the Arts 

Phoenix, AZ 

Louis DeLuca 

Executive Director 

Office of Operations 

and Development 

Education, Arts, and 

Humanities Cabinet
 

Frankfort, KY
 

Kurt Dewhurst 

Director, Michigan
 

State University
 

Museum
 

Michigan State
 

University
 

East Lansing, MI
 

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Arlynn Fishbaugh 

Executive Director 

Montana Arts Council 

Helena, MT 

Kay Goebel 

(layperson) 

Clinical Psychologist 

Oklahoma University 

Health Science 

Center 

Oklahoma City, OK 

Andrea Graham 

Folk Arts Coordinator 

Nevada State Council 

on the Arts 

Carson City, NV 

Victoria Hamilton 

Executive Director 

City of San Diego 

Commission for Arts 

and Culture 

San Diego, CA 

Dennis Holub 

Executive Director 

South Dakota Arts 

Council 

Pierre, SD 

Dorothy Kittaka 

Founder 

Foundation for Art and 

Music in Elementary 

Education 

Fort Wayne, IN 

Abel Lopez 

Associate Producing 

Director 

G.A.L.A. Hispanic 

Theatre 

Washington, DC 

Nadine Saltlin 

Execu tire Director 

Illinois Alliance for Arts 

Education 

Chicago, IL 

William Terry 

Arts Consultant 

Terry and Associates 

Brooklyn, NY 

LEADERSHIP INITIATIVES, MILLENNIUM 

PROJECTS 

Martina Arroyo 

Opera Singer and 

Professor of Music 

University of Indiana 

Bloomington, IN 

Sally Brayley Bliss 

Executive Director 

Dance St. Louis 

St. Louis, MO 

Red Burns 

Chair, Interactive 

Telecom m unications 

Program 

Tisch School of Art 

New York University 

New York, NY 

Richard J. Franke 

Chairman 

Americans United to 

Save the Humanities 

and the Arts 

Chicago, IL 

Garrison Keillor 

Author and Radio 

Personality 

St. Paul, MN 

Florence Cawthorne 

Ladd 

Director, Mary 

Ingraham Bunting 

Institute 

Radcliffe College 

Cambridge, MA 

Susana Toruella Leval 

Director 

Museo del Barrio 

New York, NY 

Stephen Martin 

Professor of 

Ethnomusicology 

Portland State 

University 

Clackamas, OR 

Lloyd Kiva New 

Artist, Arts Educator, 

and Designer 

Santa Fe, NM 

The Honorable Pat 

Williams 

(layperson) 

Former Representative 

United States Congress 

Missoula, MT 

Eugenia Zukerman 

Flutist, Author, and 

Television 

Commentator 

New York, NY 

LEADERSHIP 

INITIATIVES, MEDIA 

ARTS 

Neal Benezra 

Chief Curator, Hirshhorn Museum and 

Sculpture Garden 

Smithsonian 

Institution 

Washington, DC 

James Fitzpatrick 

(layperson) 

Attorney 

Arnold (~ Porter 

Washington, DC 

Karen Thomas 

President 

Film Odyssey 

Washington, DC 

LEADERSHIP 

INITIATIVES, 

UNDERSERVED 

Susan Bonaluto 

Former Director 

New Hampshire State 

Council on tke Arts 

Needham, MA 

Janet Brown 

Executive Director 

South Dakotans for the 

Arts 

Deadwood, SD 

Gail Crider 

Program Officer 

National Arts 

Stabilization 

Baltimore, MD 
PANELS
 

Terence Liu 

Folk Arts Specialist 

Public Corporation for 

the Arts 

Long Beach, CA 

Paul Minicucci 

Executive Director 

CLARIA 

Sacramento, CA 

Josephine Richardson 

(layperson) 

Small Business Owner, 

Co-Founder of Appalshop, and Former 

Chairman, Kentucky 

Arts Council 

Whitesburg, KY 

Regina R. Smith 

Director, Programs and 

Services 

Culture Works 

Dayton, OH 

LITERATURE 

FELLOWSHIPS 

Judith Ortiz Corer 

Poet, Translator, Writer, 

Editor, and Educator 

Louisville, GA 

Killarney Clary 

Poet and Educator 

Los Angeles, CA 

Christine Oeavel 

(layperson) 

Bookstore Owner 

Seattle, WA 

Mark Doty 

Poet, Writer, and 

Educator 

Provincetown, MA 

Jorie Graham 

Poet, Translator, and 

Educator 

Iowa City, IA 

Yusef Komyunyakaa 

Poet and Educator 

Bloomington, IN 

Katha Pollitt 

Poet, Writer, Critic, 

Editor, and Educator 

New York, NY 

Arthur Sze 

Poet and Educator 

Santa Fe, NM 

C. K. Williams 

Poet and Educator 

Princeton, N] 

AMERICAN JAZZ 

MASTER 

FELLOWSHIPS 

Alvin Batiste 

Director of lazz 

Southern University 

Baton Rouge, LA 

Jane Ira Bloom 

Saxophonist, Composer 

and Producer 

New York, NY 

Raymond M. Brown 

Jazz Instrumentalist
 

Holllywood, CA
 

Betty Carter 

]azz Vocalist
 

Brooklyn, NY
 

Maynard Ferguson 

Jazz Instrumentalist 

Ojai, CA 

J. J. Jackson 

Jazz Instrumentalist 

and Composer 

Indianapolis, IN 

NATIONAL 

HERITAGE 

FELLOWSHIPS 

Jacqueline c. DjeDje 

Associate Professor of 

Ethnomusicology 

University of California 

at Los Angeles 

Los Angeles, CA 

Carol Edison 

State Folk Arts 

Coordinator 

Utah Arts Council 

Salt Lake City, UT 

Robert Garfias 

Professor of 

Anthropology 

School of Social 

Sciences 

University of California 

at Irvine 

Irvine, CA 

Alicia M. Gonzales 

Director, College and 

University Relations 

Smithsonian Institution 

Washington, DC 

Reaves E Nahwooksy 

Director 

Institute of American 

Indian Arts Museum 

Santa Fe, NM 

Steven G. Ohrn 

Historic Sites Manager 

State Historical Society 

of Iowa 

Des Moines, IA 

Nathan W. Pearson 

(layperson) 

Co-Chairman 

Broadcasting Partners 

LLC 

Rye, NY 

Howard L. Sacks 

Professor of Sociology 

Kenyon College 

Gambier, OH 

Catherine A. 

Schwoeffermann 

Curator of Folklife 

Roberson Museum 

Binghamton, NY 

Nicholas R. Spitzer 

Artistic Director 

Folk Masters 

New Orleans, LA 

Nancy Sweezy 

Executive Director 

Country Roads, Inc. 

Arlington, MA 

E. Henry Willett 

Director 

Alabama Center for 

Traditional Culture 

Montgomery, AL 

Isabel Wong 

Ethnomusicologist and 

Assistant Professor, 

School of Music 

University of Illinois
 

Champaign, IL
 

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FINANCIAL SUMMARY
 

SUMMARY OF FUNDS AVAILABLE~ 

Program and State Grant Funds2 

Matching Grant Funds (3:1 match) 

Policy, Research, & Technology3 

Total Federal Appropriations 

Nonfederal Gifts4 

Interagency Transfers4 

Unobligated Balance, Prior Year4 

Total Funds Available 

Excludes administrative operating and computer replacement
 

funds.
 

The FY z997 appropriation includes $2z,25o, ooo for support of state
 

arts agencies and regional arts organizations and $6,o69,ooo for
 

support through the underserved communities set-aside.
 

FUNDS OBLIGATED 

Grants to Organizations 

Creation & Presentation
 

Education & Access
 

Heritage & Preservation
 126 Planning & Stabilization 

Partnership Agreements 

Leadership Initiatives 

Millennium Projects
 

International Programs
 

Other Initiatives5
 

Grants to Individuals 

Literature Fellowships 

American Jazz Master Fellowships 

National Heritage Fellowships 

Policy, Research, & Technology6 

AccessAbility7 

Museum8 

Opera-Musical Theaters 

Challenge (FY 1996 commitments)8 

Total Funds Obligated9 

Includes WritersCorps administrative support. 

An additional s29o, o3o in Policy, Research, (z Technology administrative funds is not included, because the Funds Obligated column lists only program funds. 

An additional s87,ooo in Policy, Research, (z Technology administrative funds is not included, because the Funds Obligated column 

lists only program funds. 

FISCAL YEAR 1997 

$ 65,754,000 

16,760,000 

377,030 

$ 82,891,030 

$ 473,175
 

436,782
 

14,573,466
 

$ 98,374,453 

Administrative funds de.signated for these purposes.
 

Only grantmaking funds, including unobligated commitments totaling $5,428,352.
 

FISCAL YEAR 1997 

23,300,055
 

lO,787,262
 

6,152,o25
 

lO,369,877 

29,960,400 

4,374,000
 

375,000
 

4,345,306
 

800,000 

60,000 

100,000 

600,000 

61,782 

15,000 

58,000 

3,007,528 

$94,366,235 

s	 Represents obligation in FY 1997 of prior year commitments in 

these former grantmaking categories. These funds were first committed in 1996 and earlier years, under the Endowment’s earlier 

grant categories. An additional $2,347,824 in unobligated FY 1996 

commitments is distributed throughout the new categories. 

9 Program obligations reflect FY ~997 transactions, and, in some 

cases, may differ from final allocations due to variations in the 

obligations of prior year monies or receipt of gifts and funds from 

other agencies. 
APPROPRIATIONS HISTORY FISCAL YEARS 1966-97 

Fiscal Appropriation Fiscal 

Year Funds Year 

1966 .......... $ 2,898,308 1982..........
 

1967 .......... $ 8,475,692 1983 ..........
 

1968 .......... $ 7,774,291 1984..........
 

1969 .......... $ 8,456,875 1985 ..........
 

197o .......... $ 9,055,000 1986..........
 

1971 .......... $ 16,420,OOO 1987 ..........
 

1972 .......... $ 31,480,OOO 1988..........
 

1973 .......... $ 40,857,000 1989 ..........
 

1974 .......... 64,025,000 199o..........
 

1975 .......... $ 8o,142,OOO 1991 ..........
 

1976 .......... $ 87,455,000 1992 ..........
 

1976’~ ......... $ 35,301,OOO 1993 ..........
 

1977 .......... $ 99,872,000 1994 ..........
 

1978 .......... $ 123,85o,ooo 1995 ..........
 

1979 .......... $ 149,585,OOO 1996 ..........
 

1980 .......... $ 154,610,OOO 1997 ..........
 

1981 .......... $ 158,795,OOO
 

~In 1976, the Federal government changed the beginning of the fiscal year from 

July 1 to October 1, hence the 1976 Transition ("T") Quarter. 

Appropriation 

Funds 

$ 143,456,ooo 

$ 143,875,ooo 

$ 162,223,OOO 

$ 163,660,OOO 

$ 158,822,240 

$ 165,281,OOO 

$ 167,731,ooo 

$169,o9o,ooo 

$ 171,255,ooo 

$ 174,o8o,737 

$ 175,954,68o 

$ 174,459,382 

$ 17o,228,ooo 

$ 162,311,ooo 

$ 99,470,000 

$ 99,494,000 

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