TO THE CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES: 

It is my pleasure to transmit herewith the Annual Report of the National 

Endowment for the Arts for the fiscal year 1996. 

One measure of a great nation is the vitality of its culture, the dedication 

of its people to nurturing a climate where creativity can flourish. By supporting our museums and theaters, our dance companies and symphony orchestras, our writers and our artists, the National Endowment for the Arts 

provides such a climate. Look through this report and you will find many 

reasons to be proud of our Nation’s cultural life at the end of the 20th 

century and what it portends for Americans and the world in the years ahead. 

Despite cutbacks in its budget, the Endowment was able to fund thousands of projects all across America -- a museum in Sitka, Alaska, a dance 

company in Miami, Florida, a production of Eugene O’Neill in New York 

City, a Whisder exhibition in Chicago, and artists in the schools in all 50 

states. Millions of Americans were able to see plays, hear concerts, and 

participate in the arts in their hometowns, thanks to the work of this small 

agency. 

As we set priorities for the coming years, let’s not forget the vita! role of 

the National Endowment for the Arts must continue to play in our national 

life. The Endowment shows the world that we take pride in American 

culture here and abroad. It is a beacon, not only of creativity, but of freedom. And let us keep that lamp brightly burning now and for all time. 

VVilliam J. Clinton
 

President of the United States
 
After receiving an 

NEA Creative Writing 

fellowship in 1992, 

Andrea Barrett wrote 

Ship Fever cited as the 

1996 National Book 

Award for Fiction. 

Photo © Wayne Scarberry 
President’s Message ..............................................1
 

Chairman’s Message .............................................


The Arts Endowment in Brief .....................................
 8

Heritage & Preservation .....................................10

Education & Access .........................................
12

Creation & Presentation .....................................
 14

Planning & Stabilization .................................
 ’ ...16 

18 Partnership Agreements .....................................


Leadership Initiatives ... .................................... 20

National Medal of Arts .......................................24

Other Projects .............................................
 25

The National Council on the Arts .................................
 27

Grants & Awards 

Programs 

Dance ....................................................
 30

Design ....................................................
 38

40 Expansion Arts .............................................
 

Folk & Traditional Arts ......................................
 47

53 International ...............................................
 

Literature ............................. 58 ....................
 

Media Arts ................................................
 63

Multidisciplinary ............................................
 71

Museum ............... ...................................
 72

Music .....................................................
 87

Opera-Musical Theater .....................................
 106

112 Presenting ................................................
 122 Theater ..................................................
 

Visual Arts ................................................
 144

Partnerships 152 Arts in Education ..........................................
 

Challenge ................................................
 154

Local Arts Agencies ........................................156
 

159 State & Regional ...........................................
 

Underserved Communities Set-Aside ..........................162

Office of Policy, Research & Technology .......................
 166

167 Panels .......................................................
 

Financial Summary ...........................................
 186
builds character in institutions as much as individuals, and the National Endowment for the Arts’
 

difficulties of 1996 have greatly enhanced the character of this agency. We
 

began with a 40 percent budget cut which necessitated staff reductions and 

the number and size of grant awards to arts organizations. Our grantmaldng 

programs and categories also needed to be re-organized and streamlined. In 

the fall of 1995, we set about making sweeping changes, including: 

 ̄	 Reducing the number of separate programs from 17 to four divisions: 

Heritage & Preservation, Education & Access, Creation & Presentation, Planning & Stabilization. Our long-established Partnerships 

with state arts agencies were maintained, and the agreements 

strengthened so that Federal/State dollars have the maximum reach. 

 ̄	 Instituting Leadership Initiatives to give the agency the flexibility to 

respond to needs that have national or fieldwide ramifications. 

 ̄	 Adding another level of review for applications through Combined 

Arts Panels in the four divisions. 

 ̄	 By legislative mandate, eliminating grants to individuals with the 

exception of Creative Writing Fellowships, the National Heritage 

Awards, and the American Jazz Master Awards. 

 ̄	 Revising the application process, also by legislative mandate, so that 

organizations apply for specific project support rather than seasonal or 

general operating support. Applicants were also limited to one proposal on their own behalf and as part of a consortium. In the past, 

applications could be made to any or all of the various programs. 

These are revolutionary and far-ranging alterations to the way we have 

done business in the past. Over the course of its history, the Endowment 

ftmctioned as a more compartmentalized grantmaking body with the discrete 

programs awarded grants within budgets allocated for specific disciplines:. All 

symphony orchestras, for example, competed one against the other for a set 

number of dollars. Under the new structure, a project by a symphony 

orchestra may compete against one by a dance company or literary magazine 

for funding through one of the four divisions. 

The advantages of such a structure go beyond ensuring that all organizations have an equitable opportunity for funding. The new structure is more 

rigorous, and many excellent projects had to go unfunded because of limited 

funds. Furthermore, the structure reflects more accurately the cross-fertilization of one arts discipline with another. Contemporary art often marries 

genres poetry and song, digital art with film, design and drama. One of 
the outcomes that we hope Chairman

Jane for is collaboration among 

Alexander. arts organizations, not 

only for fiduciary reasons, 

but for aesthetic growth 

and experimentation. 

With fewer dollars, we 

must become more 

resourceful. By confining 

applicants to a single 

proposal, we immediately 

reduced the number of 

applications to the point 

where our reduced staff 

could manage the workload. There is no question 

that we will be making 

fewer awards than in years 

past, yet the system is 

flexible and targeted so Photo by Marion Ettlinger 

that we will continue to 

have a lasting impact across all of the arts disciplines. Out of difficult circumstances, we have refashioned the Endowment to be responsive to the needs 

of the nation’s arts organizations and arts audiences. 

1996 is best seen as a transitional year. This Annual Report does not 

reflect the shift from the programs to the four divisions. Those applications 

already in the pipeline were adjudicated by our panels and the National 

Council on the Arts, and within our budgetary constraints. Grants awarded 

in 1996 were made through the former programs, simply because of the 

nature of our review process. Changes mandated by Congress -- elimination 

of grants to individuals and funding for specific project support rather than 

seasonal or general operating support -- were in effect. The new grantmaking structure will be reflected in the report for Fiscal Year 1997. (The Federal government’s fiscal year begins on October 1 of each calendar year.) 

While grantmaking continues to be our primary means of supporting the 

arts, in 1996 the National Endowment for the Arts began several endeavors 

to leverage additional funds for the arts and to assist communities in finding 

better ways to support local culture. Primary among these was our American 

Canvas initiative. 
President Clinton 

and the First Lady 

present the 

National Medal 

of Arts to 

Robert Redford. 

See page 24 

for a full list. 

Comprised of a series of six community-based meetings across the 

country, American Canvas brought 

together the arts community with civic, 

business, religious, government, education and community representatives to 

discuss topics designed to elicit concrete suggestions for the most pressing 

problem facing the arts today: in an era 

of dwindling public resources, how 

might communities best support the 

arts at a local level? Our itinerary took 

us to Columbus, Ohio, Rock Hill, 

South Carolina/Charlotte, North 

Carolina, Salt Lake City, Utah, San 

Antonio, Texas, Los Angeles, California 

White House photo and Miami, Florida. Hundreds of 

people in each of these cities turned out 

to document how the arts support communities, identify new funding models, 

and develop new collaborative funding strategies. 

American Canvas continues in 1997 with a meeting of 100 nationally 

recognized leaders from all sectors of society to analyze the information at 

the community forums and recommend strategies to better integrate the arts 

in communities. In 1997, the Endowment will publish an Action Plan to help 

communities -- from rural areas to urban neighborhoods -- create their 

own strategies in developing a funding infrastructure that will make the arts 

a permanent part of people’s daily lives. 

Another initiative begun in 1996 was Open Studio, a two-tier project 

that will bring free public Internet access at arts organizations in all 50 states 

and establish a mentoring program at 10 sites for artists and arts organizations to develop and maintain World Wide Web sites. A partnership with the 

Benton Foundation, Open Studio is intended to help artists, arts organizations, and audiences more fully participate in the creative side of technology. 

Partnerships continue to be another means of extending the reach of the 

Arts Endowment. Throughout our history, we have awarded funds to the 56 

state and special jurisdiction arts agencies, which in turn make grants at the 

statewide level. Through this mechanism, public fimding for the arts goes 

into tens of thousands of communities, reaching virtually everyone with even 

minimal interest in the arts. We are particularly proud of our partnerships 

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with the states for providing quality arts education programs through America. Since I became Chairman in 1993, we have put special emphasis on 

partnerships with other Federal agencies, and I am proud to say that in 1996, 

we had over 30 such collaborations. 

One of the more cost effective ways the Endowment reaches out to the 

American people is through our World Wide Web site, which contains 

information about the agency, links to other funding resources, listings of 

free publications, and a monthly online magazine called arts.community. 

Established in April, 1996, the Web site at http://arts.endow.gov drew over 

one million hits in its first seven months and averages about 2,000 different 

visitors each week. 

Another area of leadership that only the Federal government undertakes 

is in arts research. In 1996, we issued several research reports with data 

drawn from the Census Bureau and other national surveys. Two of the most 

important facts that emerged: the rate of participation in the arts among 

baby boomers is declining, and while there are more artists than ever before, 

they still cannot support themselves, on average, through their art alone. 

These two trends butaxess the findings of American Canvas; all indications 

are that the arts have much work to do to become more fully rooted in their 

communities and on the national level. 

Yet for all the foreboding news and our own budgetary concerns, we are 

optimistic. It is my hope that the arts community -- and I include in that 

description everyone who works in the arts and all those who love and need 

the arts in their lives -- this community will better organize itself to become 

a movement just as those who care for the environment have mobilized 

themselves in the conservation movement. 

At the beginning of this century, President Theodore Roosevelt recognized the importance of conserving our natural resources as a national 

priority, and today, the American people are recognizing that we have a 

national treasure in our culture resources. The National Endowment for the 

Arts plays a key part in cultivating the arts in America; it is an agency of the 

American people, designed to foster a climate where art may flourish and all 

may participate in the culture we share. 

JaneAlexander 
stablished by Congress in 1965, the
 

National Endowment for the Arts is an independent agency of the Federal
 

government whose mission is:
 

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

United States, and 

To broaden public access to the arts. 

We carry out that mission through grants, leadership initiatives, partnership agreements with state and regional organizations, partnerships with 

other Federal agencies and the private sector, research, arts education, access 

programs, and advocacy. 

The agency’s chief executive officer, the Chairman, is appointed for a 

four-year term by the President of the United States with the advice and 

consent of the U.S. Senate. Jane Alexander was named to this position by 

President Clinton and sworn in on October 8, 1993. 

The National Council on the Arts advises the Chairman on policies, 

programs, grants and procedures. Composed of 26 private citizens appointed 

by the President and confirmed by the Senate, the Council represents 

various arts disciplines. Council members usually serve six-year terms, 

staggered so that roughly one-third of the body rotates every two years. 

All of the Arts Endowment’s applications are reviewed by rotating groups 

of arts experts including professional artists and arts administrators and 

knowledgeable laypersons. 

The staff is comprised of a senior executive team, directors with expertise 

in the arts, and civil service employees. Staff receives and reviews all applications, provides technical assistance and information to constituents, 

processes all awards and rejections, keeps abreast of developments and trends 

in the arts, and works to bring the accomplishments of our grantees to the 

attention of the American public. 

Beginning in 1996, the Arts Endowment considered applications and 

proposals from eligible individuals and organizations in four ways: Grants to 

Organizations, Grants to Individuals, Partnership Agreements, and Leadership 

Initiatives. Grants to Organizations is further divided into four discrete categories: Heritage & Preservation, Education & Access, Creation & Presentation, and Planning & Stabilization. 

In the most general terms, the National Endowment for the Arts supports exemplary projects in the arts, including dance, design, folk and traditional arts, literature, media arts (film, television, radio, audio art), music, 

musical theater, opera, theater, visual art (including painting, photography, 

sculpture, crafts, works on paper, other genres) and multidisciplinary works. 
Artistic excellence and merit are the primary criteria in grantmaking. 

Also considered are the potential impact of the project and the applicants’ 

ability to carry it out. 

Nonprofit tax-exempt organizations of demonstrated artistic excellence 

may apply for one grant each fiscal year, which begins on October 1 for the 

Federal government. Applicants may be arts institutions, local arts agencies, 

arts service organizations, tribal communities and Indian tribes, official units 

of city government, and other organizations that can further the goals of the " 

Arts Endowment as outlined in our mission statement. Consortia of such 

organizations are also eligible, and state arts agencies and regional arts 

organizations may apply in accordance with the restrictions outlined in the 

guidelines. State and regional arts organizations apply through the Partnership Agreements. 

The only category for which individuals may apply directly for support is 

Literature Creative Writing Fellowships. Two categories for individuals -­

the American Jazz Masters Awards and the National Heritage Awards -- are 

by nomination only. 

For more information about application procedures, consult our World 

Wide Web site at http://arts.endow.gov or telephone 202/682.5400. 

THIS ANNUAL REPORT 

The organization of this report reflects the transitional nature of Fiscal 

Year 1996. Grants were awarded under the "old" programmatic structure 

that was in place at the end of Fiscal Year 1995. Thus, all grants are 

described under former program categories. You should be aware, however, 

that this structure has been replaced, and changes will be reflected in the 

report for Fiscal Year 1997. 

All 1996 awards -- grants, cooperative agreements, and interagency 

agreements -- are noted and described. Summary reports of the agency’s 

financial transactions, including administrative costs, are included as an 

appendix. A year-by-year history of authorizations and appropriations is 

included in the appendix, and more detailed information is available. 
From the 

permanent 

collection of 

The Mexican 

Museum in 

5an Francisco, 

an untitled 

ink on paper 

drawing by 

Diego Rivera. 

eritage & Preservation projects will 

preserve art works and art forms from the broad spectrum of cultural groups 

that make up our nation. They may range from documentation and presentation of the traditional folk arts to conservation of highly significant works 

of art, artifacts and collections. Projects may pass on to future generations 

the repertoire, technique, aesthetic principles and oral traditions through 

apprenticeships or other forms of instruction. 

The intent behind this category is to bring to broad public attention the 

masterworks of all arts disciplines from all Americans. In 1996, many projects supported through the former discipline-based categories can be cited 

as examples of heritage and preservation. 

Cornerstones Community Foundation in Santa Fe, New Mexico, was 

awarded $75,000 to provide technical assistance and training in rural communities for the preservation of historic buildings and building practices 

central to Hispanic and Native American culture. New Mexico’s adobe 

architecture is a 

treasured part of our 

national cultural 

heritage, and this 

project will help 

communities learn 

and practice basic 

adobe maintenance 

and repair in care of 

~~-~"~­ historic churches. 

t 1 J The Alabama 

Folklife Association 

.~ ~/~ i received a grant of 

Courtesy The Mexican Museum $15,000 to support 

the "Sacred Harp 

Video Project," an hour-long documentary on primitive-style Baptist hymn 

singing in the Deep South. In West Virginia, Davis & Elkins College was 

awarded a $50,000 grant to support the statewide Folk Arts Apprenticeship 

Program. The Historical Association of Southern Florida received $19,800 

to support a survey documenting Caribbean percussion traditions in Miami 

leading to future exhibitions, concerts and other public presentations. A 

grant to the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts in Vienna, 

Virginia, supported the "Folk Masters from Wolf Trap," a weekly radio 

series. 

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Old-time fiddler 

master artist 

Arlin Moon and 

his apprentice 

Tina Ray (left) 

and Little Julie 

Ray. 

Photo by Joey Brackner, courtesy Alabama State Council on the Arts. 

Grants to museum for conservation and cataloging projects will qualify 

under preservation. In 1996, we supported the reinstallation of the Brooklyn 

Institute of Arts and Science’s collection of American painting and sculpture. 

A $12,500 grant to the Philbrook Museum of Art went to the publication of 

Native American Painting at the Pbilbrook, and the Saint Louis Art Museum 

was awarded $17,500 to document on computer their collection of prints, 

drawings and photographs. 

In the performing arts, a residency by the U.S.-based Cambodian Khmer 

group -- the Apsara Ensemble -- at Portland Performing Arts in Maine was 

supported through a $18,000 grant, and in Los Reyes de Albuquerque 

received a grant for a series of workshops and presentations of traditional 

Hispanic songs and music at senior centers, nursing homes, and homeless 

shelters throughout New Mexico. In rural Wisconsin, the Cedarburg Cultural Center received an $8,000 grant to support a series of traditional music 

concerts throughout Wisconsin. 

I1
 
s part of the Endowment’s mission, 

we support projects that empower all Americans to have opportunities to 

experience the arts. Education & Access projects broaden and deepen arts 

and education experiences for Americans of all ages and make the arts more 

widely available. Education in the arts includes pre-K through grade 12 and 

post-secondary programs, career development, teacher training, masterapprentice relationships, culturally specific traditions of learning and lifelong 

learning projects. Access entails a deliberate effort to reach audiences that 

have not been reached before or that have been limited in their opportuni- " 

ties. It also seeks to expand appreciation for and awareness of art forms to 

which exposure has been limited or nonexistent. 

Education projects range across all of the disciplines. In 1996, we supported youth concerts with the Ann Arbor Symphony Orchestra, the Colorado Springs Symphony Orchestra, the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra, 

the Hartford Symphony Orchestra, the Owensboro (KY) Symphony 

Orchestra and dozens more. A $50,000 grant to the Berkeley Repertory 

Theatre supported school touring productions and the TEAM (Theater 

Educates and Motivates) program. In Philadelphia, a grant to the Brandywine Graphic Workshop supported a high school program that includes 

A class of 

young artists 

at the 

Minneapolis 

Institute of 

Arts. 

Photo courtesy of the Institute 

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training in computers and multimedia production. Young Aspirations/Young Artists in New Orleans 

received $30,000 for a program which 

trains inner-city students in the visual 

arts. The Manchester Craftsmen’s 

Guild on the North Side of Pittsburgh was awarded $35,000 to support costs related to a visual arts 

exhibition, artist-in-residence, and 

apprenticeship training programs. 

Access is a component of virtually 

every grant we award, but several 

organizations deserve to be singled 

out for their attention to expanding 

the audience for the arts. Educational 

Broadcasting Corporation/WNET Photo by Moses Olmos 

received three awards for the producCommanding the tion of"American Masters," "Great Performances" and "American Visions," 

attention of the public television series which bring the performing arts and profiles of our 

Dallas Symphony nation’s great artists to a wide national audience. The Japanese American 

Cultural and Community Center received $50,000 for the presentation of Orchestra is

Wayne Marshall. visual arts exhibitions and the "Celebrate California" performing arts series 

which reached thousands of people in and around Los Angeles. Appalshop in 

Whitesburg, Kentucky, received an $18,000 grant for two performing arts 

series: "Seedtime on the Cumberland" and "Old Time Weekends." 

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& Presentation projects may 

range from the creation of new works to the presentation of new or existing 

works. Projects might provide the resources, time and space for artists to 

create a specific work or body of work, or they might present art -- from any 

era or in any discipline -- to audiences through a diverse range of activities 

in formal or informal settings. 

In Fiscal Year 1996, some projects were funded under the old program 

structure that are similar to projects that may be funded in years to come 

through Creation & Presentation. For example, Ballet Arizona in Phoenix 

was awarded $7,100 to support the creation of new work by artistic director 

Michael Uthoff, choreographed to the music of Stephen Foster, and toured 

to cities and towns in Arizona that have not been exposed to classical or 

concert dance. 

The Sundance Institute in Utah was awarded $35,000 to support its 1996 

Film Festival, as well as directing and screenwriting workshops, and a producers’ conference. The Sundance Film Festival, considered the most 

important venue for American independent producers and directors, has 

stimulated public interest through featuring such recent films as Hoop 

Dreams and The Brothers McMullen. The screenwriting, directing and producing workshops enable new feature films to be developed in collaboration 

with film industry professionals. 

A collage of 

performers 

appearing 

at Helena
 

Presents!
 

in Helena,
 

Montana.
 

Photo and digital effects by Deborah 0 ’Grady. 

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The cast of The Florida Grand Opera in Miami was awarded a grant of $30,000 to 

support production ofVerdi’s Luisa Miller in 1996-97. Formed by a merger Play On! a

new jazz of companies in Miami and Fort Lauderdale, the Florida Grand Opera will 

musical at present each of the season’s productions, which also include I1 Barbiere di 

San Diego’s Old Siviglia and I1Pagliacci, in both cities. The company also continued a 32­

week residency program for young singers and technical apprentices. Globe Theatre,

based on The exhibition "Ceremony of Spirit: Nature and Memory in Contempo­Shakespeare’s rary Latino Art," was created by the Mexican Museum in San Francisco, and 

Twelfth Night,. in 1996, grants were awarded to the Fresno Metropolitan Museum of Art, 

feoturing music History and Science and the Studio Museum in Harlem to enable people in 

by Duke those t~vo communities to see this extraordinary collection. A grant of 

$41,600 was awarded to Helena Presents in Montana to bring artists such as Ellington.

the Paul Dresher Ensemble, the 

Philip Glass Ensemble, and the 

Western Opera Theater to Montana. The Rose Center and Council 

for the Arts in Morristown, Tennessee received a grant for a concert series and the annual "From 

Africa to Appalachia" celebration. 

In theater, the Irish Repertory 

Theatre Company in New York 

was awarded $6,000 develop a 

musical adaptation of James Joyce’s 

"The Dead," involving composer 

Shaun Davey and director Jack 

Hofsiss, with book and lyrics by Richard Nelson and musical direction by 

Charles Prince. In Oakland, California, the East Bay Symphony received a 

grant to support the performance of American Theater Classics repertoire as 

a portion of programming in both their subscription and young people’s 

concerts. Copper Canyon Press in Port Townsend, Washington, received a 

grant for publishing six new books; one of their long-time authors was 

honored this year by the National Book Awards for his poetry. 

Photo © Ken Howard 
Theatre Gael’s 

commemoration 

of the 150th 

anniversary 

of the Irish 

Famine was 

John Stephens’ 

Farewell the 

Fair Country, 

featuring 

(left to right) 

Sallie Bacon, 

Augusta 

MacDonald,
 

Kelly Finley,
 

Lee Nowell,
 

and David 

Marcus. 

lanning and Stabilization support 

seeks tO help organizations develop structures that will enable them to carry 

on their work effectively and creatively. Grants go to applicants to assess 

carefully their organizational strengths, weaknesses, and financial health. 

Projects can focus on strategies for building partnerships and resources 

among a group of organizations linked by geography, programming or 

mission. Projects can focus on organizational planning, stabilization, or both. 

A recent example of a grant that could have been made through Planning 

and Stabilization is the Challenge grant awarded to the Barter Foundation in 

Abingdon, Virginia. They received $150,000 to support augmentation of the 

theater fund for the Barter Theatre. Opened in 1933, the Barter Theatre has 

focused on providing professional theater for the largely rural community it 

serves on the Virginia-Tennessee border. The theater continues to serve the 

region through a variety of tours to schools, workshops and training programs, showcases for new work, and an annual season of new productions. 

Concurrent with a campaign to increase its endowment, the Barter Theatre 

is completing a renovation 

project that will increase 

the number of seats in the 

theater, and therefore, 

increase its earned 

income. 

The New Hampshire 

Symphony in Manchester 

was awarded a $125,000 

grant to augment its 

endowment fund. 

Founded in 1974, the 

New Hampshire Symphony provides a subscription series in Manchester and a wide variety 

of outreach programs, 

including concerts 

through the state, master Photo courtesy Theatre Gael 

classes and visits in 

schools, radio broadcasts, and educational programs. To celebrate its 25th 

anniversary in two years, the New Hampshire Symphony is launching a $1.5 

million campaign. 

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In performance In Sitka, Maska, at the Sainte the Sitka Summer 

Marie Church Music Festival 

in Manchester, presents chamber the New music ensembles 

Hampshire there and in 

Symphony Anchorage. In Orchestra. addition, the Sitka 

Summer Music 

Festival tours other 

cities and rural 

communities 

throughout the 

state where classical 

music is a rarity. 

Celebrating its 

25th anniversary in 

1997, the Festival 

received a $75,000 

grant to augment 

its $500,000 

endowment fund 

which is now in its 

final phase of Photo by Tom Stearns fundraising. 

The Arts Council of Oklahoma City received a $12,690 grant for a 

planning process to develop the Stage Center performing arts facility into a 

venue for diverse and creative arts activities. The planning process includes 

staff and board members from Inner City Dance, Carpenter Square Theatre, 

Oklahoma Shakespeare, and the Oklahoma Jazz Society, all resident companies of the Stage Center. The plan will guide the Arts Council in developing 

and coordinating services to benefit these arts organizations, including a 

process for ongoing communication among them, creation of individual 

company goals and needs, and strategies to strengthen the administrative 

capacities of these groups. 

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The 

Michigan 

Opera 

Theatre 

presents 

Carmen. 

eginning in Fiscal Year 1997, Partnership Agreements are being used to streamline the funding relationship 

between the Endowment and its state partners and regional organizations. 

This partnership comprises a network that annually awards over 25,000 

grants, reaching more than 5,000 communities. Under the old structure in 

place in 1996, state arts agencies submitted separate applications for Basic 

State Grants, 

Arts in Education 

grants, and up to 

four applications 

for Underserved 

Set-Aside grants. 

Basic State 

Grants, determined by formula 

based on population, were 

awarded annually 

to the 56 state 

and special 

jurisdiction arts 

agencies. In 

1996, for exam­

.... p~e~ the Idaho 

Photo courtesy Michigan Opera Theatre. Commission on 

the Arts was 

awarded $439,000 which it used in conjunction with other Endowment 

grants and $900,000 in state appropriated and other funds to support projects in the arts. The Idaho Commission reported that more than one million individuals were impacted by grant-supported activities and several 

thousand artists participated. 

The South Carolina Arts Commission was awarded an Arts in Underserved Communities grant of $54,600 in 1996 to support the rural and 

inner-city components of the state’s "Cultural Visions" projects. Rural 

communities are receiving flexible assistance through a combination of seed 

grants, technical assistance, and training in community arts development. 

The inner-city component focus is on building statewide and local coalitions 

to engage community residents in artistic self-discovery and development. 

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Arts in Education Partnership grants assisted state arts agencies in 

implementing strategies that encouraged integration of the arts into the 

basic curriculum for students, kindergarten through high school. For example, the Tennessee Arts Commission, awarded in $53,500 in 1996, supported 

residencies for artists in all disciplines in elementary and secondary schools 

across the state. Other activities included regional workshops on Goals 2000, 

recognition of Arts Honor Schools as possible models for statewide replication, and continuation of student ticket subsidies. 

Some 225 grants were awarded annually under the old structure with the 

help of five or sLx r.eview panels. Under the new structure, the separate 

grants to each state and regional will be consolidated into a single Partnership Agreement, reducing the number of awards in 1997 to 63. This will 

reduce paperwork for all involved and allow the Endowment a more comprehensive understanding of each state’s activities and the interrelationship 

among the states. 

Donald L| (left), 

Robert Montano 

(r) and Peggy 

Cowles appeared 

in the Actors 

Theatre of 

Louisville’s 

adaption of 

John Steinbeck’s 

East of Eclen. 

Photo by Richard Trigg. 

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n 1996, the Endowment set aside 

funds for Leadership Initiatives, projects of national significance and impact 

and projects that can serve as models in one field or discipline. Leadership 

Initiatives are designed to advance the arts in pivotal ways in communities 

across the country. Through Leadership Initiatives, the Endowment was able 

to continue to support some existing programs and venture out into new 

areas; the projects fall into four broad areas. 

All Leadership Initiatives are noted in this Report with an asterisk (*). 

INTERGOVERNMENTAL/INTERAGENCY 

Over the past three years, Arts Endowment partnerships with other 

Federal agencies has increased by 33 percent, tapping into other resources to 

broaden the impact of the arts. Among the initiatives supported through 

Federal partnerships are ArtsEdge, an online national arts education network 

with the Department of Education and the Kennedy Center. We also work 

with the Department of Education on sustaining the Goals 2000 Arts Education Partnership. The agency has several agreements with the Department of 

Justice to place artists-in-residence in federal correctional institutions, using 

the arts as a tool for conflict resolution, and funding Pathways to Success, an 

after-school weekend program for at-risk youth. Teaming up with the 

Institute of Museum Services, the National Endowment for the Humanities, 

and the National Science Foundation, the Endowment supports a five-year 

project called "Research in Learning in Museums." Arts programs in rural 

areas near National Forests are supported through a joint partnership with 

the National Forest Service, and Cultural Tourism is promoted through a 

joint project with the National Park Service. Writers Corps, a program that 

places volunteer writers at community sites to teach the literary arts, is a 

collaboration with AmeriCorps, arts councils in The Bronx, Washington, 

DC, and San Francisco, and the private sector. 

MAJOR FIELD SIGNIFICANCE 

Leadership Initiatives in this category were designed to serve the arts on 

a national level, extending preexisting initiatives, and developing new projects to meet new needs. Open Studio is a $1 million leadership initiative, 

funded in collaboration with the Benton Foundation, to place free public 

access sites at cultural organizations in all 50 states and 10 mentoring centers 

to train artists and arts organizations in how to participate on the Internet. 

The Mayors’ Institute on City Design was funded on both the national level 

-- through Harvard University -- and through four regional awards to bring 

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together mayors and design professionals to address problems in cities and 

towns across America. At the University of California, an amendment to the 

Leadership Initiative allowed them to undertake a series of forums on 

Federal Property Conversion using 

Fort Ord, California as a case study. 

Leadership funds also supported 

Arts on Television and Radio, funding 

projects such as "American Masters" 

on PBS and "Mountain Stage," a 

traditional music program on public 

radio. For a complete list of television 

and radio programs, please see the 

Media Arts section. The Endowment 

also continued to support the American Jazz Masters Fellowships (see the 

Music section) and the National 

Heritage Fellowships (see the Folk & 

Traditional Arts section) which 

support master jazz and folk artists 

respectively. 

The National Writers Voice, a 

project the YMCA, was funded to 

enable them to establish at least 2 5 

new community literary centers over 

the next three years. An innovative 

pairing of jazz and sports was the 

focus of a Leadership Initiative with Photo by Steve Zorc. 

the Thelonius Monk Institute of Jazz 

in Washington, DC which supports young jazz students in classes and Dancers 

performances at Los Angeles Lakers basketball games. Chamber Music Stephani Achuff 

America received Leadership funds to support Chamber Music Rural Resi- and David 

dencies which places emerging chamber music ensembles in rural communi- Shimotakahara in 

ties in Arkansas, California, Kentucky, Maine, Oregon, Pennsylvania and "The Exiles" by 

Texas. Another partnership with Chamber Music America will support a Jose Limon at the 

pilot program to support and sustain small music ensembles. Ohio Ballet. 

The New England Foundation for the Arts received a Leadership award 

for the National Dance Touring Partnership which will create new alliance 

among artists, sites and presenters to make dance projects available to 150­

250 sites nationwide each year. Theatre Communications Group received 

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Under the 

direction of 

Gerald Wilson, 

students from a 

multi-school band 

perform at the 

Great Western 

Forum before a Los 

Angeles Lakers 

basketball game. 

two awards to provide for Career Development Programs for Directors and 

Designers and a Playwrights Residency Program. 

Photo courtesy Thelonious Monk Institute. 

INTERNATIONAL 

Two projects funded through the International Program were awarded 

Leadership Initiatives for operations in 1997. The Fund for U.S. Artists at 

International Festivals and Exhibitions, a partner.ship of the Endowment, the 

U.S. Information Agency, The Pew Charitable Trusts, and the Rockefeller 

Foundation provides $1.2 million to assure that the United States is represented at important international arts festivals. ArtsLink, another public/private partnership will allow for artistic exchange between the U.S. And 

counties of Eastern and Central Europe. A partnership with Japan’s Agency 

for Cultural Affairs and the Japan/U.S. Friendship Commission will allow 

for five U.S. Artists to work in Japan for six-month residencies, and a grant 

to the National Assembly of Local Arts Agencies will enable a similar residency project for community-based residencies of U.S. Artists in Mexico, 

Ireland and Northern Ireland, and of Mexican and Irish artists in communities in the U.S. 

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MILLENNIUM 

In his 1997 State of the Union Address, President Clinton issued a 

challenge to artists and arts organizations to help celebrate the year 2000. 

For several years, the Arts Endowment has funded projects to do just that. In 

addition to several ongoing Millennium Television projects, the agency 

awarded Leadership Initiative monies for "Free to Dance: the African 

American Presence in Modern Dance," a series of three one-hour television 

programs. A Millennium Leadership Initiative to Country Roads, Inc. will " 

support a major exhibition of traditional American crafts. "American 

Visions" a production of the Educational Broadcasting Corporation in New 

York, will feature eight one-hour public television programs examining the 

U.S. From its visual culture -- painting, sculpture, artifacts, buildings and 

cities. "American Photography: A Century of Images," a production of Twin 

Cities Public Television, will tell the story of still photography in America in 

the 20th Century. The Millennium Survey of the U.S. Is administered by the 

College of Santa Fe in New Mexico to put in the field teams of photographers to make surveys of the nation at the edge of the 21st century. An award 

to The Names Project Foundation will support the documentation, storage 

and retrieval of the AIDS quilt on CD-ROM. The New York City Ballet 

hopes to tour to every state from 1998 to the year 2000 in celebration of 

American dance, and First Nights International received Leadership funds to 

support the development of a plan to rejoice through the arts on the eve of 

the Millennium in family-oriented First Night Celebrations. 

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he National Endowment for the Arts 

demonstrates leadership as ~vell in its work to recognize American master 

artists. ~Are assist in the selection process of the National Medal of Arts by 

soliciting nominations which are then reviewed by the National Council on 

the Arts and forwarded to the President of the United States. The President 

makes the final selection of the National Medal of Arts and, since 1984, has 

presented the Medals in a special ceremony. 

1996 NATIONAL MEDAL OF ARTS 

Edward Albee 

playwright dancer, choreographer, teacher 

Sarah Caldwell Vera List 

opera conductor patron of the arts 

Harry Callahan Robert Redford 

photographer actor, director, producer 

Zelda Fichandler Maurice Sendak 

theater director author, illustrator, designer 

Eduardo "Lalo " Caterrero Stephen Sondheim 

composer, musician composer, lyricist 

Lionel Hampton Boys Choir of Harlem 

musician, bandleader arts organization 

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~,~ he Arts Endowment’s leadership role 

extends beyond these projects into support for American writing, accessibility for audiences, research, policy discussions, outreach and publications. 

Creative Writing fellowships are the sole means by which the Endowment supports individuals through direct grants. In 1996, the agency 

awarded fellowships in poetry, and a list of the recipients can be found under 

the Literature section. One of the most successful funding categories, 

Creative Writing fellowships have supported many writers early in their 

Photo by Charles Sartori, conrtesy Copper 

careers who have later received other The 1996 

national honors for their work. In 1996, National Book 

all 10 of the writers nominated for the Award winner 

National Book Award were former for Poetry, 

Literature Fellowship recipients, and the and former 

winners were Hayden Carruth for Literature 

Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey and Andrea Creative Writing 

Barrett for her short story collection, fellowship 

Ship Fever. 

The Office for AccessAbility works " 

recipient, 

Hayden Carruth. 

in myriad ways to assist the Arts Endow­ ~ ment’s goal of making the arts fully ~ 

available to people who are older, I1
 

disabled, or living in institutions. This 

year marked the completion of the first Canyon t’ress. 

juried collection of Universal Design 

Exemplars which are being widely disseminated to educate and assist 

improved design of the total human environment for the lifespan. Two key 

initiatives were undertaken in response to recommendations from the 1995 

White House mini-conference on "The Arts, the Humanities, and Older 

Americans," including a national database on model arts programs for older 

adults and a monograph on arts programming for older adults with information on intergenerational activities, barrier removal, programs in institutions 

and resources. 

The Research Division published five new reports in 1996. Age &Arts 

Participation with a Focus on the Baby Boomers, A~nerican Participation in Theater, and Effects of Arts Education on Participation in the Arts used data from 

surveys of public participation to point to trends in audiences. Artists in the 

Workforce: Employment and Earnings, 1970-1990 uses Census Bureau data to 

paint a picture of the economic life of American artists. The Changing Faces of 

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Charlene Curtiss 

(left) and 

Joanne Petroff 

dance with the 

Light Motion 

Company. 

Traditions uses survey materials to describe the breadth and depth of the folk
 

and traditional arts.
 

The arts make extraordinary contributions to the lives of all Americans 

and to our communities. Today, more people have access to the arts than 

ever before, but the funding infrastructure which made this access possible 

is threatened. The climate for arts funding is changing in both the public 

and private sectors. The Arts Endowment, in its unique role as a national 

convener, launched the American Canvas. Between June and October 

1996, American Canvas convened six community forums of people of all 

sectors of society -- the arts, government, consumer organizations, education, civic groups, religious organizations, businesses and foundations. 

Through their discussions 

and the work of the American Canvas Committee, a 

report will be issued in 1997 

to identify and recommend 

strategies for future arts 

funding. 

In response to budget cuts 

and Congressional interest in 

our exploring new methods of 

support for the arts, the 

Endowment established the 

Office of Enterprise Development in 1996 to search for 

ways to augment the agency’s 

Photo courtesy Light Motion. budget through authorized 

contributions. One of the 

donations was a $450,000 three-year contribution from Heinz, Inc. to 

support arts education projects that could not be funded due to budget 

cutbacks. 

On April 10, 1996, the Arts Endowment launched its World Wide Web 

site (http://arts.endow.gov), which includes a monthly online magazine 

arts.community, a Guide to the agency, its staff, funding partners and grantmaking programs, an Arts Resource Center and publications catalogue. In 

addition, the agency also published a reports on arts education, Lifelong 

Journey: An Education in the Arts, and a brief history of federal arts funding, 

National Endowment for the Arts, I96Y-199Y, and a printed guide to our 

programs called A New Look. 

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TERMS EXPIRED IN 1996 

Philip Brunelle 

ArtisticDirector/Conductor 

Minneapolis, Minnesota 

Robert Garfias 

Scholar/Ethnomusicologist 

Irvine, California 

Roy M. Goodman 

State Senator/Arts Patron 

New York, New York 

Peter deCourcy Hero 

Community Foundation President 

San Jose, California 

Wendy Luers 

Arts Patron/Trustee 

New York, New York 

Roger Mandle 

College of Art President 

Providence, Rhode Island 

ffocelyn Levi Straus 

Arts Patron/Trustee 

San Antonio, Texas 

Catherine Yi-yu Cho Woo 

Scholar/Visual Artist/Teacher 

San Diego, California 

APPOINTED FOR TERM ENDING IN 

1996* 

William Bailey 

Painter/Teacher 

Branford, Connecticut 

Trisha Brown 

Dance Company Director/Choreographer 

New York, New York 

DonaM Hall 

Poet 

Danbury, New Hampshire 

Hugh Hardy 

Architect 

New York, New York 

Marta Istomin 

Music School President/Musician 

Washington, DC 

Colleen ffennings-Roggensack 

Arts Presenter 

Tempe, Arizona 

Louise McClure 

Arts Patron/Trustee 

McCall, Idaho 

Roberta Peters 

Opera Singer/Trustee 

Scarsdale, New York 

VV’dliam E. Strickland, Jr. 

Arts Administrator/Ceramist 

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 

George White 

Theater Director/Producer 

Waterford, Connecticut 

*Members serve until Senate confirmation of 

their successors 

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TERMS EXPIRE IN 1998 

Ronald Feldman 

Commercial Art Gallery Owner 

New York, New York 

Barbara Grossman 

Theater Historian/Professor 

Newton, Massachusetts 

Kenneth M. ffarin 

Lawyer/Civic Volunteer 

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 

Wallace D. McRae 

Rancher and Poet 

Forsyth, Montana 

Leo ff. O’Donovan, S.ff. 

University President 

Washington, DC 

Jorge Perez 

Arts Board Member/Civic Volunteer 

Miami, Florida 

Judith O. Rubin 

State Arts Council Member/ 

Theater Chairman 

New York, New York 

Rachad Worby 

Conductor 

Charlestown, West Virginia 

TERMS EXPIRE IN 2000 

Patrick Davidson 

Television Producer 

Los Angeles, California 

Terry Evans 

Photographer 

Chicago, Illinois 

Ronnie Feuerstein Heyman 

Lawyer/Arts Patron/Trustee 

New York, New York 

William R Foster 

Music Educator 

Tallahassee, Florida 

Speigbt ffenkins 

Opera Company Director 

Seattle, Washington 

Richard ~. Stern 

Arts Patron/Trustee 

Chicago, Illinois 

Luis VaMez 

Theater Director 

San Juan Batutista, California 

Townsend D. Wolfe III 

Museum Director/Curator 

Little Rock, Arkansas 

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nFiscal Year 1996, the National 

Endowment for the Arts made some 1,880 grants and awards which are 

listed in the following pages. Grants were made on the basis of artistic 

excellence as adjudicated by panels composed of private citizens and 

reviewed by the National Council on the Arts and the Chairman. In 1996, 

grants were awarded by programs. In 1997, grants will be awarded through 

the four divisions and through public partnerships. 

A new category" of awards, Leadership Initiatives, was created in 1996. 

These awards were a combination of grants, interagency transfers, and 

cooperative agreements, and they are noted in this report with an asterisk (*). 

Some of these projects are continuations of ongoing Endowment projects, 

while others went to projects that meet national or field-wide needs. In 

1996, the Endowment awarded $11.4 million in Leadership Initiatives; of 

this, $1 million went to projects that will celebrate the Millennium. 

Endowment funds go to individuals through fellowships. Creative 

writers are the only individuals who may apply directly for fellowship support. Two other categories -- American Jazz Masters and the National 

Heritage Fellowships -- are open by nomination only. 

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DANCE COMPANY 

GRANTS 

90 AWARDS $2,725,000 

African American Dance 

Ensemble, Inc. 

Durham, NC $14,200 

To support costs associated 

with rehearsals for the 

creation of new work and 

maintenance of existing 

repertory. 

Aman Folk Ensemble 

Los Angeles, CA $33,100 

To support costs associated 

with domestic touring. 

Arpino Ballet of Illinois, Inc. 

Chicago, IL $23,700 

To support dancers’ salaries 

for the company’s tours. 

Atlanta Ballet 

Adanta, GA $7,100 

To support costs associated 

with dancers’ rehearsal 

salaries. 

Bailes Flamencos 

San Francisco, CA $7,100 

To support costs associated 

with artistic salaries and fees 

for self-produced performances in the San Francisco 

Bay area. 

Ballet Arizona 

Phoenix, AZ $7,100 

To support costs associated 

with the creation of a new 

work and touring in Arizona. 

Ballet Concierto de 

Puerto Rico, Inc. 

Santurce, PR $7,100 

To support the costs associated with the 1996 Choreographers’ Festival. 

Ballet Hispanico of 

New York 

New York, NY $23,700 

To support costs associated 

with performances at the 

Joyce Theater in New York 

City. 

Ballet Metropolitan, Inc. 

Columbus, OH $7,100 

To support costs associated 

with dancers’ rehearsal and 

performance salaries for two 

company premieres by 

guest choreographers. 

Ballet Theatre Foundation 

New York, NY $150,000 

To support salaries for 

artistic personnel and 

dancers for American Ballet 

Theatre’s performances at 

the Metropolitan Opera 

House in New York City. 

Ballet West 

Salt Lake City, UT $28,400 

To support costs associated 

with the development and 

production of a new work 

choreographed by Val 

Caniparoli. 

Bella Lewitzky Dance 

Foundation 

Los Angeles, CA $35,450 

To support dancers’ salaries 

to prepare for the company’s 30th anniversary. 

Boston Ballet, Inc. 

Boston, MA $100,000 

To support artistic and 

administrative salary 

expenses for the company’s 

performances at the Wang 

Center in Boston. 

CODA: Choreographers 

Organization for Dance 

New York, NY $7,100 

To support costs associated 

with the development of 

new collaborative works for 

Creach/Koester. 

Capoeira Foundation, Inc. 

New York, NY $11,350 

To support costs associated 

with performances at the 

Carver Cultural Center in 

San Antonio, Texas. 

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Caribbean Dance 

Company, Inc. 

St. Croix, VI $7,100 

To support rehearsal salaries 

to prepare for the company’s annual performances 

on St. Croix and St. 

Thomas. 

Cincinnati Ballet 

Company, Inc. 

Cincinnati, OH $7,100 

To support dancers’ 

rehearsal salaries for mixed 

repertory programs. 

Cleveland Ballet 

Cleveland, OH $7,100 

To support dancers’ salaries 

and rehearsal expenses for 

performances. 

Cunningbam Dance 

Foundation, Inc. 

New York, NY $150,000 

To support costs associated 

with self-produced repertory performances. 

Dance Continuum, Inc. 

New York, NY $16,000 

To support the costs associated with the creation of a 

new work by artistic director Susan Marshall. 

Dance Exchange, Inc. 

Washington, DC $11,850 

To support the costs associated with creation and 

revival of solo repertory for 

various members of the Liz 

Lerman Dance Exchange. 

Dance Theater Foundation 

New York, NY $125,000 

To support the costs associated with the Alvin Ailey 

American Dance Theater’s 

self-produced performances 

at City Center. 

Dance Theatre of Harlem 

New York, NY $120,000 

To support the costs associated with the acquisition of 

new work. 

Dayton Contentporary 

Dance Guild 

Dayton, OH $23,700 

To support costs associated 

with the acquisition, 

rehearsal, and performance 

of a work by the late Jose 

Limon. 

Della Davidson Dance 

Company 

San Francisco, CA $7,100 

To support the costs associated with the development 

and production of a new 

work by Della Davidson. 

Discalced, Inc. 

New York, NY $55,000 

To support the creation of a 

new work by Mark Morris 

for the Mark Morris Dance 

Group. 

Photo Kristan Jacobsen, Deseret 

News, 

Erick Hawkins Dance
 

Foundation, Inc.
 

New York, NY $23,700 

To support the costs associated with the company’s 

performances at the Joyce 

Theater in New York City. 

Ethnic Dance Theatre 

Minneapolis, MN $7,100 

To support the salaries of 

the co-artistic directors. 

Members 

of Utah’s 

Repertory 

Dance 

Theatre 

perform the 

Utah 

Centennial 

Landscape 

Suite 

Summit by 

David 

Parsons. 

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Eugene Ballet 

Eugene, OR $7,100 

To support costs associated 

with touring and educational outreach programs. 

Floricanto Dance Theatre 

Whittier, CA $7,100 

To support rehearsal and 

performance salaries for 

dancers, musicians, and 

technical staff during selfproduced performances in 

Los Angeles for Danza 

Floricanto/USA. 

Foundation for Dance 

Promotion, Inc. 

New York, NY $50,000 

To support the costs associated with the creation of 

new work choreographed 

by Bill T. Jones for the Bill 

T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance 

Company. 

Foundation for 

Independent Artists, Inc. 

New York, NY $18,900 

To support costs associated 

with touring a full-evening 

work by Eiko & Korea. 

Garth Fagan Dance, Inc. 

Rochester, NY $56,700 

To support costs associated 

with self-produced performances at the Eastman 

Theatre in Rochester. 

Gotham Dance, Inc. 

New York, NY $21,800 

To support the creation and 

development of a new work 

by artistic director Bebe 

Miller for the Bebe Miller 

Dance Company. 

Guadalupe Cultural Arts 

Cento" 

San Antonio, TX $7,100 

To support costs associated 

with the rehearsal, production, and performance of 

"Rio Bravo" by the 

Guadalupe Dance Company. 

Guateque Folkloric Taller 

of Puerto Rico, Inc. 

Corozal, PR $7,100 

To support costs associated 

with the creation and 

development of new work 

by artistic director Joaquin 

Nieves Caldero. 

H.T. Dance Company 

New York, NY $9,450 

To support the costs associated with artistic and 

production expenses for a 

new collaborative work by 

artistic director H.T. Chen 

and composer Zhou Long. 

Hartford Ballet 

Hartford, CT $7,100 

To support the costs associated with the creation, 

rehearsal, and production of 

a new work by choreographer Graham Lustig. 

Heritage & Tradition, Inc. 

South Pasadena, CA $7,100 

To support the costs associated with the creation, 

rehearsal, and production of 

new works fi’om the AVAZ 

series "Scenes of Ottoman 

Life" and "Scenes of Urban 

Life." 

House Foundation for the 

Arts 

New York, NY $56,700 

To support the creation, 

rehearsal, and production of 

new work by artistic director Meredith Monk. 

Houston Ballet Foundation 

Houston, TX $37,800 

To support the costs associated with the rehearsal and 

production of the Cullen 

Contemporary Series in 

Houston’s Wortham Center. 

Hubbard Street Dance 

Chicago 

Chicago, IL $7,100 

To support rehearsal salaries 

for dancers in order to 

maintain the active repertory, revive older works, and 

create new works. 

Ice Theatre of New York 

New York, NY $7,100 

To support the costs associated with the creation of a 

full-length ice ballet. 

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Institute for Spanish Arts 

Santa Fe, NM $28,350 

To support the costs associated with the creation, 

rehearsal, and production of 

an expanded residency and 

touring program for Maria 

Benitez Teatro Flamenco. 

Jazz Tap Ensemble 

Los Angeles, CA $28,350 

To support the costs associated with the company’s 

self-produced concerts in 

Los Angeles, New York, 

and San Francisco. 

Joe Goode Performance 

Group 

San Francisco, CA $11,350 

To support the costs associated with artistic and 

administrative salaries. 

Jose Limon Dance 

Foundation 

New York, NY $28,400 

To support the costs associated with reviving older 

works from repertory. 

Kansas City Ballet 

Association 

Kansas City, MO $18,900 

To support administrative 

and artistic salaries for selfproduced performances of 

the State Ballet of Missouri. 

Ko-Thi, Inc. 

Milwaukee, WI $9,450 

To support the costs associated with expanding and 

revising "Song of Sundiata." 

Lines Contemporary Ballet 

San Francisco, CA $11,350 

To support the costs associated with the creation of a 

new ballet by Artistic 

Director Alonzo King. 

Lubovitcb Dance 

Foundation, Inc. 

New York, NY $16,100 

To support the costs associated with the creation and 

development of new work 

by Lar Lubovitch. 

Lucinda Cbilds Dance 

Foundation 

New York, NY $30,000 

To support costs associated 

with the creation of a new 

work by Lucinda Childs and 

related administrative costs. 

Manhattan Tap, Inc. 

New York, NY $7,100 

To support costs associated 

with self-produced performances. 

Margaret Jenkins Dance 

Studio, Inc. 

San Francisco, CA $20,400 

To support the costs associated with the creation, 

presentation, and touring of 

the evening-length project 

"Fault." 

Mat,ha Graham Center of 

Contemporary Dance 

New York, NY $75,000 

To support the creation of 

new work by guest choreographers. 

Miami City Ballet, Inc. 

Miami Beach, FL $42,550 

To support the costs associated with acquisition, 

rehearsal, and production of 

new repertory. 

Mixed Bag Productions 

San Francisco, CA $7,100 

To support the costs associated with rehearsal and 

production expenses of a 

new full-length work 

created by company members for Contraband. 

Muntu Dance Theatre 

Chicago, IL $12,250 

To support the costs associated with self-produced 

performances. 

New Dance Theatre 

Denver, CO $17,000 

To support the costs associated with rehearsal and 

performance salaries, and 

production expenses for 

self-produced performances 

of the Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Ensemble. 

New York Chinese Cultural 

Center, Inc. 

New York, NY $7,100 

To support the costs associated with the creation, 

rehearsal, and presentation 

of new work by the Chinese 

Folk Dance Company. 

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New York City Ballet, Inc. 

New York, NY $150,000 

To support rehearsal salaries 

for the company’s selfproduced performances. 

Nikolais/Louis Foundation 

for Dance 

New York, NY $39,700 

To support the costs associated with self-produced 

performances. 

North Carolina Dance 

Theatre 

Charlotte, NC $9,450 

To support the salaries for 

dancers for self-produced 

performances. 

Oakland Ballet Company 

& Guild 

Oakland, CA $9,450 

To support the costs associated with rehearsal and 

production of the company’s self-produced performances. 

Oberlin Dance Collective 

San Francisco, CA $9,450 

To support the costs associated with the creation of 

new work and dancers’ 

salaries for ODC/San 

Francisco. 

Ohio Chamber Ballet 

Akron, OH $33,100 

To support the costs associated with the commission of 

a new work by a guest 

choreographer, and production expenses for the winter 

series in Akron and Cleveland. 

Oregon Ballet Theatre 

Portland, OR $7,100 

To support costs associated 

with the creation of a new 

work for the company’s 

repertory program. 

Original Ballets 

Foundation, Inc. 

New York, NY $55,000 

To support the creation, 

rehearsal, and production of 

new work by artistic director Eliot Feld and Kids 

Dance, a moderately-priced 

family series, geared to 

children and performed by 

apprentices of Feld Ballets/NY. 

Pacific Northwest Ballet 

Association 

Seatde, WA $100,000 

To support rehearsal salaries 

for dancers and artistic staff. 

Paul Taylor Dance 

Foundation, Inc. 

New York, NY $150,000 

To support the costs associated with the creation, 

rehearsal, and presentation 

of new work by artistic 

director Paul Taylor. 

Pennsylvania Ballet 

Association 

Philadelphia, PA $9,450 

To support dancers’ salaries 

for self-produced performances. 

Performance Zone, Inc. 

New York, NY $7,100 

To support the costs associated with the creation, 

rehearsal, and performance 

of new work by artistic 

director Tere O’Connor. 

Philadelphia Dance 

Company 

Philadelphia, PA $23,650 

To support the costs associated with the creation of 

new work by emerging 

choreographers for Philadanco. 

Pick- Up Performance 

Company, Inc. 

New York, NY $35,000 

To support the costs associated with touring activity 

and the creation, rehearsal, 

and production of new work 

for the David Gordon/Pick 

Up Company. 

Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre 

Pittsburgh, PA $33,100 

To support the costs associated with the acquisition, 

rehearsal, and production of 

new work. 

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Pittsburgh Dance Alloy 

Pittsburgh PA $9,450 

To support dancers’ 

rehearsal and performance 

salaries. 

Plant Dancers, Inc. 

New York, NY $11,350 

To support the costs associated with the creation and 

production of new work by 

artistic director Doug 

Elldns for the Doug Elkins 

Dance Company. 

Princeton Ballet Society 

New Brunswick, NJ $7,100 

To support the costs associated with the creation and 

development of new work 

for American Repertory 

Ballet. 

Repertory Dance Theatre 

Salt Lake City, UT $9,450 

To support the costs associated with the fourth and 

final commissioned work of 

"Centennial Suite." 

Richmond Ballet 

Richmond, VA $7,100 

To support dancers’ salaries 

for self-produced performances. 

Ringside, Inc. 

New York, NY $13,250 

To support the costs associated with the development 

of new work and dancers’ 

salaries for Elizabeth 

Streb/Ringside. 

Rio Grande Union, Inc. 

New York, NY $14,200 

To support the costs associated with the creation of a 

new work by artistic director Douglas Dunn. 

Ririe-Woodbury Dance 

Foundation 

Salt Lake City, UT $7,100 

To support the choreographic fees and rehearsal 

salaries for the creation of a 

new work. 

San Francisco Ballet 

Association 

San Francisco, CA $135,000 

To support costs associated 

with self-produced performances in the San Francisco 

Bay area and dancers’ 

salaries. 

Sharir Dance Company 

Austin, TX $7,100 

To support artistic and 

administrative salaries. 

Stephen Petronio Dance 

Company 

New York, NY $9,450 

To support dancers’ 

rehearsal and performance 

salaries. 

Trisba Brown Dance 

Company, Inc. 

New York, NY $90,000 

To support rehearsal salaries 

in preparation for touring 

and self-produced New 

York City performances. 

U.B.W., Inc. 

New York, NY $14,200 

To support rehearsal salaries 

for dancers and artistic staff 

for Urban Bush Women. 

Washington Ballet 

Washington, DC $7,100 

To support the costs associated with the choreographic 

workshop Ballets From 

Within. 

Zivili Kolo Ensemble, Inc. 

Granville, OH $9,450 

To support costs associated 

with preparation for domestic touring. 

SPECIAL PROJECTS 

9 awards $1,458,580 

*Dance Theater Workshop 

New York, NY $150,000 

To support dance residencies and related costs during 

the 1996-97 season of the 

dance component of the 

National Performance 

Network. 

*New England Foundation 

for the Arts 

Boston, MA $1,000,000 

To support the National 

Dance Touring Project. 

*New York City Ballet, Inc. 

New York, NY $200,000 

To support the national tour 

of the New York City Ballet 

to all 50 states. 

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Donce on Tour 

Arts Midwest 

Minneapolis, MN $18,096 

To support artists’ fees and 

related administrative costs 

for regional presenters of 

dance throughout Illinois, 

Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, 

Minnesota, North Dakota, 

Ohio, South Dakota, and 

Wisconsin. 

Mid Atlantic Arts 

Foundation 

Baltimore, MD $18,096 

To support artists’ fees and 

related administrative costs 

for regional presenters of 

dance throughout the 

District of Columbia, 

Delaware, Maryland, New 

Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, the Virgin 

Islands, and West Virginia. 

Mid-America Arts Alliance 

Kansas City, MO $18,096 

To support artists’ fees and 

related administrative costs 

for regional presenters of 

dance throughout Arkansas, 

Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, 

Oklahoma, and Texas. 

New England Foundation 

for the Arts 

Boston, MA $18,097 

To support artists’ fees and 

related administrative costs 

for regional presenters of 

dance throughout Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, 

Rhode Island, and Vermont. 

Southern Arts Federation 

Atlanta, GA $18,097 

To support artists’ fees and 

related administrative costs 

for regional presenters of 

dance throughout Alabama, 

Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, 

Louisiana, Mississippi, 

North Carolina, South 

Carolina, and Tennessee. 

Western States Arts 

Federation 

Santa Fe, NM $18,098 

To support artists’ fees and 

related administrative costs 

for regional presenters of 

dance throughout Maska, 

Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, 

Montana, Nevada, New 

Mexico, Oregon, Utah, 

Washington, and Wyoming. 

GENERAL SERVICES 

TO THE FIELD 

17 awards $195,000 

Chicago Dance Arts 

Coalition, Inc. 

Chicago, IL $12,000 

To support the residency 

exchange component of the 

Dance Commissioning and 

Residency Exchange project. 

Colorado Dance Festival 

Boulder, CO $5,000 

To support the activities of 

the International Tap 

Association (ITA), including 

members’ services and the 

publication of the ITA 

newsletter. 

Dance Notation Bureau 

Glen Head, NY $5,000 

To support the Lives On 

MDS project of coordinated dance documentation. 

Dance Theater Workshop 

New York, NY $12,000 

To support the Artist Services Program and the 

Dance/Video Access Project. 

Dance Umbrella 

Austin, TX $5,000 

To support the addition of 

an office manager, the 

second annual Texas Dance 

Conference, rehearsal and 

performance space subsidy, 

workshops for artists, and 

marketing costs. 

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Dance/USA 

Washington, DC $12,000 

To support the 1996 

National Roundtable, the 

DANCE/USA Journal, and 

information services. 

Dance/USA 

Washington, DC $20,000 

To support the National 

Task Force on Dance 

Audiences which will look 

at strategies for building 

and sustaining dance 

audiences for the 21st 

century. 

DanceWorks, Inc. 

New York, NY $5,000 

To support core administrative services to the dance 

field, including national and 

international representation, fiscal administration, 

and accounting services. 

Florida Dance Association 

Miami, FL $5,000 

To support the 1996 Florida 

Dance Festival; services to 

artists, companies, and 

presenters; and publications. 

Joyce Theater Foundation 

New York, NY $9,000 

To support rental subsidy to 

19-22 dance companies over 

33 weeks during the 1996 

season. 

Movement Research, Inc. 

New York, NY $5,000 

To support Movement 

Research atJudson Church 

performances, the Workshop Series, the Studies 

Project, the Artist Residency Project, and the 

Work Study Program. 

New York Public Library 

Astor, Lenox and Tilden 

Foundations 

New York, NY $5,000 

To support video documentation of live performances, 

oral histories of select 

individuals from the dance 

field, and provision of 

materials and consulting. 

On the Boards 

Seattle, WA $5,000 

To support the Artist Access 

Project and 12-Minutes 

Max performance series. 

Original Ballets 

Foundation, Inc. 

New York, NY $5,000 

To support the training of 

advanced students and 

KIDS DANCE performances. 

Performance Zone, Inc. 

New York, NY $5,000 

To support general services 

to the dance community 

including Fieldwork, 

Marathon Performances, 

rehearsal space subsidy, 

Field Forward Network, the 

Independent Artist Challenge Program, and Type F 

Management. 

Theater Artaud 

San Francisco, CA $5,000 

To support the technical 

assistance rental program, 

the Summertime Dance 

Project, artist residency 

programs, workshops, and 

meetings of summertime and 

regional dance presenters. 

Jack Faucett & Associates 

Bethesda, MD $75,000 

A cooperative agreement to 

administer on-site evaluadons. 

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Designers 

and urban 

planners 

confer on 

the reuse of 

Fort Ord in 

California 

as part of 

the Federal 

Property 

Conversion 

Leadership 

Initiative. 

PUBLIC REALM 

INITIATIVES 

7 awards $575,000 

Georgia Tecb Research 

Corporation 

Adanta, GA $50,000 

To support the Mayors’ 

Institute on City Design: 

South, a regional forum 

which brings together 

mayors and design experts 

to discuss specific urban 

problems facing small and 

mid-sized cities in the 

*Mayors’ Institute on City 

Design -- Harvard 

University 

Cambridge, MA $200,000 

A three-year cooperative 

agreement to bring together 

a small group of mayors 

with design professionals 

for intensive workshops on 

urban design issues. 

*National Tmtst for 

Historic Preservation 

Washington, DC $150,000 

To support "Your Town: 

Designing Its Future," a 

series of workshops bringing together designers and 

civic leaders to demonstrate 

how design can improve the 

quality of life in small and 

rural communities. 

FEDERAL REALM 

INITIATIVES 

2 awards $50,000 

Corporate Design 

Foundation 

Boston, MA $40,000 

A cooperative agreement to 

help conduct the National 

Forum on Design to education the public and private 

sectors about the role of 

design in achieving national 

objectives. 

Courtesy University of California, Berkeley. 

U.S. Department of State 

for the Federal Facilities 

Council 

Washington, DC $10,000 

A cooperative agreement to 

support the Federal Facilities Council, an organization dedicated to improving 

federal design through 

workshops, advisory and 

informational studies. 

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Neighborhood 

Reinvestment Corporation 

Washington, DC $25,000 

To support the "Design for 

Housing Forum," which 

organizes regional workshops for architects, nonprofit developers, financiers, government officials 

and others to discuss the 

role of design in creating 

affordable housing. 

*University of California 

Berkeley, CA $50,000 

To support the Mayors’ 

Institute on City Design: 

West, a regional forum 

which brings together 

mayors and design experts to 

discuss specific urban 

problems facing small and 

mid-sized cities in the West. 

This project also includes 

the Federal Property Conversion Leadership Initiative 

to bring the resources of 

artists, designers and arts 

organizations to the decommissioning and reuse of 

federal property, using Fort 

Ord as a case study. 

*University of 

Maryland/CADRE Corp. 

College Park, MD $50,000 

To support the Mayors’ 

Institute on City Design: 

Northeast, a regional forum 

which brings together 

mayors and design experts 

to discuss specific urban 

problems facing small and 

mid-sized cities in the 

Northeast. 

*Washington University 

St. Louis, MO $50,000 

To support the Mayors’ 

Institute on City Design: 

Midwest, a regional forum 

which brings together 

mayors and design experts 

to discuss specific urban 

problems facing small and 

mid-sized cities in the 

Midwest. 

ACCESS/PROFESSIONAL 

DEVELOPMENT 

2 awards $272,654 

*Massachusetts Institute of 

Technology 

Cambridge, MA $200,000 

To support Civiscape, an 

online information resource 

center on design issues. 

National Building 

Museum 

Washington, DC $72,654 

A cooperative agreement to 

support an exhibition on the 

rebuilding of Oklahoma 

City entided "We Will be 

Back: Oklahoma City 

Rebuilds." 

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MU LTIDISCl PLINARY 

ARTS ACTIVITIES 

45 awards $848,000 

Afro-American Historical 

and Cultural Museum 

Philadelphia, PA $5,000 

To support artistic fees for 

the Jazz Live series. 

Alternative Center for 

International Arts 

New York, NY $27,000 

To support the exhibition of 

digitally created art works 

by Mimi Young, Yoshi 

Itagaki, and Prema Murthy 

and a solo exhibition of the 

paintings of MexicanAmerican artist Ray Abeyta. 

Appalshop, Inc. 

Whitesburg, KY $50,000 

To support outreach and 

audience development 

activities of Roadside 

Theater and W-MMT-FM. 

Artists Collective, Inc. 

Hartford, CT $18,500 

To support the expenses of a 

training program in the 

visual arts, music, dance, 

and theater. 

Asian American 

Renaissance 

St. Paul, MN $6,500 

To support costs related to a 

reading series, "Writers 

OUT LOUD," and a 

showcase of local Asian 

American artists. 

Asian Heritage Council 

San Jose, CA $8,000 

To support the salary of the 

Executive Director and 

promotional expenses for 

presenting through the 

Asian Pacific Performing 

Arts Series. 

Beacon Street Gallery and 

Performance Company 

Chicago, IL $11,000 

To support artistic fees, 

administrative and associated costs for performance, 

exhibition, and master class 

components of the Cultural 

Heritage Preservation 

Program. 

Carter G. Woodson 

Foundation, Inc. 

Newark, NJ $20,000 

To support salaries of the 

administrative and program 

staff for "OnStage in New 

Jersey" and "Black Culture 

on Tour in America." 

Casa de Unidad 

Detroit, MI $12,000 

To support a series of visual 

arts exhibitions and a poetry 

reading series. 

Centro Cultural Aztlan 

San Antonio, TX $7,000 

To support the administrative and artistic salaries and 

fees associated with exhibitions. 

Centro Cultural de la Raza 

San Diego, CA $28,000 

To support artistic and 

administrative salaries and 

fees for the film and video 

festival and performing arts 

programming. 

Chinese Culture Institute 

Boston, MA $8,000 

To support artistic and 

administrative expenses for 

visual arts exhibitions. 

City of San Antonio 

San Antonio, TX $22,000 

To support administrative 

and technical salaries and 

fees related to the presentation of the Alvin Ailey 

Dance Company, Marcus 

Roberts with members of 

the Lincoln Center Jazz 

Orchestra, and La Boehme 

by the New York City 

Opera. 

Community Arts Project 

Columbus, OH $12,000 

To support artistic fees for 

Val Gray Ward and Thomas 

Jones, as well as residency 

and production costs for 

two productions. 

East Bay Center for the 

Performing Arts 

Richmond, CA $20,000 

To support the salary of the 

production manager and 

master artists’ fees for the 

Young Artists Repertory 

Series. 

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Esperanza Peace and 

Justice Center 

San Antonio, TX $10,000 

To support the salary of the 

artistic program director 

and artists’ fees for musical 

performances by Wild 

Mango, Irene Farrera, and 

Azucar y Crema. 

Ethnic Folk Arts Center 

New York, NY $20,000 

To support "Folk Parks," a 

program presenting traditions in dance and music. 

Friends of the Davis 

Center, Inc. 

New York, NY $20,000 

To support administrative 

and artistic expenses associated with the Partnership 

Program and a visual arts 

series. 

Guadalupe Cultural Arts 

Center 

San Antonio, TX $50,000 

To support artistic, administrative, and related expenses 

for the Tejano Conjunto 

Festival and San Antonio 

Inter-American Bookfair. 

Harlem School of the Arts 

New York, NY $25,000 

To support artistic and 

administrative salaries and 

fees related to the school’s 

pre-professional and professional arts training programs in music, dance, 

drama, and the visual arts. 

Henry Street Settlement 

New York, NY $30,000 

To support a program of 

instruction and training in 

music, dance, theater, and 

visual arts at the Abrons 

Arts Center. 

Hostos Community College 

Advisory Council 

Bronx, NY $22,000 

To support artistic and 

administrative expenses for 

visual arts exhibitions and a 

concert series which will 

showcase classical, jazz, 

Latin jazz, and salsa artists. 

Houston Asian American 

Festival Association 

Houston, TX $10,000 

To support artistic, administrative, and related costs for 

the Asian Arts-Houston 

project. 

Inner City Cultural Center 

Los Angeles, CA $12,000 

To support training and an 

internship program 

designed to recruit younger 

staff members with leadership potential for community-based arts organizations. 

International Arts 

Relations, Inc. 

New York, NY $15,000 

To support administrative 

and artistic salaries related 

to the development and 

presentation of Hispanic 

American theater. 

ffamaica Center for tbe 

Performing and Visual 

Arts, Inc. 

Jamaica, NY $10,000 

To support artistic salaries 

related to the Community 

Workshop program. 

ffapanese American 

Cultural and Community 

Center 

Los Angeles, CA $50,000 

To support artistic and 

administrative expenses for 

the presentation of visual 

arts exhibitions and "Celebrate California," a performing arts series. 

Junebug Productions 

New Orleans, LA $20,000 

To support the New 

Orleans Community Arts 

Program, including the 

Environmental Justice 

Project. 

Kalakendra Ltd. 

Pordand, OR $5,000 

To support a performing 

arts program featuring 

various cultural traditions of 

the Indian subcontinent. 

Kalihi Palama Culture 

Arts Society, Inc. 

Honolulu, HI $10,000 

To support artists’ fees 

associated with classes and 

workshops in traditional 

ethnic dance and crafts of 

Pacific Island cultures and 

Western art forms. 

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Chinese 

Folk Paintings from 

Wangxia 

Village, an 

exhibition 

of the 

Chinese 

Culture 

Institute. 

Courtesy of the Institute. 

Kearny Street Workshop La Pe~a 

San Francisco, CA $10,000 Austin, TX $12,000 

To support artistic and To support artistic fees and 

administrative expenses related costs for a literary 

associated with a poetry/ festival and pe~as which 

prose reading series, the offer visual arts exhibitions, 

publication of a poetry poetry readings, and thebook, and a jazz concert atrical and musical perforseries. mances. 

Kings Majestic Corporation La PeKa Cultural Center 

Brooklyn, NY $11,000 Berkeley, CA $28,000 

To support the residencies To support the salaries of 

of Donald Byrd/The the artistic director and 

Group, Opera Ebony, and publicity coordinator, and 

Betty Carter. artists’ fees and related costs 

for the presenting partnerKoncepts Cultural Gallery ship program. 

Oakland, CA $7,500 

To support administrative 

and artistic expenses related
 

to the publication of the
 

quarterly Konceptualizations
 

and the internship program.
 

Manchester Craftsmen’s 

Guild 

Pittsburgh, PA $35,000 

To support artistic, administrative, and related expenses 

for the visual arts exhibition, artist-in-residence, and 

apprenticeship training 

programs. 

Plaza de la Raza, Inc. 

Los Angeles, CA $30,000 

To support artistic fees and 

related administrative 

expenses for "Con Sabor 

Latino." 

Pregones Touring Puerto 

Rican Theatre Collection 

Bronx, N-Y $15,000 

To support administrative 

salaries for audience development and managerial 

staff. 

Rose Center and Council 

for the Arts, Inc. 

Morristown, TN $10,000 

To support artists’ fees and 

related costs for a concert 

series and the "From Africa 

to Appalachia" annual 

celebration. 

Southeast Community 

Cultural Center 

Adanta, GA $15,000 

To support artistic and 

administrative salaries 

associated with the studio 

and theater subsidy and 

summer enrichment programs. 

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Taller Puertorriqueno, Inc. 

Philadelphia, PA $23,000 

To support artists’ fees and 

related expenses for the 

multidisciplinary visiting 

artists program that will 

include master artists from 

Puerto Rico. 

U.B.W.., Inc. 

New York, NY $17,500 

To support artists’ salaries 

and travel and transportation costs associated with 

the planning of a summer 

institute in College Park, 

Maryland. 

Urban Gateways 

Chicago, IL $30,000 

To support artists’ fees 

associated with the recruiting, training, and professional development of 

ethnically and racially 

diverse artists. 

Village of Arts and 

Humanities, Inc. 

Philadelphia, PA $25,000 

To support artistic, administrative, and related costs for 

an inner-city visual arts 

program. 

Xicanindio Artes, Inc. 

Mesa, AZ $15,000 

To support artistic and 

administrative salaries and 

fees associated with a 

Spiderwoman Theater 

residency. 

VISUAL/MEDIA/ 

DESIGN/LITERARY 

ARTS ORGANIZATIONS 

46 awards $560,000 

Afro-American Cultural 

Center 

Charlotte, NC $5,000 

To support curator fees and 

catalog production expenses 

for an exhibition of works 

by North Carolina artists. 

American Indian 

Contemporary Arts 

San Francisco, CA $5,000 

To support administrative 

and artistic costs related to 

the presentation of "The 

Emergence" and "From the 

Earth XII" exhibitions. 

Amigos del Museo del 

Barrio 

New York, NY $11,000 

To support administrative 

expenses related to the 

museum’s outreach program. 

Art Exchange, Inc. 

Union Dale, PA $5,000 

To support administrative 

expenses for workshops and 

exhibitions to benefit 

communities in this mountainous region of northeastern Pennsylvania 

Asian American Writers’ 

Workshop 

New York, NY $7,500 

To support the salary of a 

marketing associate and 

related expenses for the 

Asian American Bookseller. 

Asian CineVision, Inc. 

New York, NY $15,000 

To support administrative 

and artistic expenses for an 

Asian-American film and 

video series. 

Aunt Lute Foundation 

San Francisco, CA $15,000 

To support administrative 

salaries, fees, and related 

costs for an internship 

program and audience 

development project to 

assist in marketing authors 

affiliated with the foundation. 

Brandywine Graphic 

Workshop, Inc. 

Philadelphia, PA $25,000 

To support individual artist 

residencies and exhibitions 

which will highlight Brandywine’s 25th anniversary. 

Bronx Council on the Arts 

Bronx, NY $5,000 

To support administrative 

and artistic expenses for a 

group exhibition "Passing 

the Baton," and an artists’ 

studio program with 

selected artists George 

Crespo and Toi Hoang. 

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Bronx Museum of the Arts 

Bronx NY $27,500 

To support administrative 

and artistic expenses for the 

Satellite Gallery Program 

which provides wider 

visibility for emerging and 

established artists throughout the Bronx community. 

Chicago Public Art Group 

Chicago, IL $17,500 

To support administrative 

and artistic expenses for the 

planning and production of 

site-specific public art 

projects throughout the 

Chicago metropolitan area. 

Children’s Art Carnival 

New York, NY $11,000 

To support the Communication Arts Production 

Apprenticeship Training 

Program. 

Chinatown History 

Museum 

New York, NY $27,500 

To support administrative 

and artistic costs related to 

an exhibition featuring 

works which document the 

history of Americans of 

Chinese-Latino heritage. 

Chinese Culture 

Foundation of San 

Francisco 

San Francisco, CA $15,000 

To support administrative 

and artistic expenses for 

"Early Chinese Ceramics," 

"Contemporary Lingnan 

Painting," and "Treasures 

from the Scholars’ Studio" 

exhibitions. 

Cine Accion, Inc. 

San Francisco, CA $10,000 

To support administrative 

salaries and artistic fees 

related to "Festival Cine 

Latino," a three-day showcase of Latino film and 

video held in San Franciso’s 

Mission District. 

City Lore, Inc. 

New York, NY $10,000 

To support a festival of film 

and video with the theme, 

"Old/New Immigrant 

Dialogues." 

City of Los Angeles, 

Department of Cultural 

Affairs 

Los Angeles, CA $5,000 

To support the provision of 

supplies and the salary of 

Gary Williams who will 

conduct a one-year residency in animation studies. 

Community Renewal Team 

of Greater Hartford, Inc. 

Hartford, CT $5,000 

To support administrative 

and artistic expenses for 

three exhibitions at the 

Craftery Gallery featuring 

the works of an established 

artist, an emerging artist, 

and a collection of works 

focused on a common 

Elders Share the Arts, Inc. 

Brooklyn, NY $5,000 

To support the salary of the 

performance director. 

En Foco, Inc. 

Bronx, NY $5,000 

To support administrative 

and artistic costs related to 

the touring gallery program 

and electronic gallery 

Frederick Douglass 

Creative Arts 

New York, NY $15,000 

To support administrative 

and artistic expenses for a 

creative writing training 

program. 

Galeria Studio 24 

San Francisco, CA $10,000 

To support administrative 

and artistic expenses for 

the "Death, Mourning, 

and Renewal: Day of the 

Dead 1996," "Califas 

ReVisioned," "Visual 

Concerns in Califas," and 

"Nature’s Narratives in 

Califas" exhibitions. 

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Grass Roots Art and 

Community Efforts 

West Glover, VT $5,000 

To support administrative 

and artistic expenses for a 

workshop and training 

program which develops 

and promotes self-taught 

artists in rural Vermont. 

Hatch-Billops Collection 

New York, NY $5,000 

To support administrative 

and artistic expenses for the 

Artist and Influence Program which documents the 

artistic careers of prominent 

visual, literary, and performing artists. 

Ink People, Inc. 

Eureka, CA $5,000 

To support administrative 

salaries for a gallery training 

program for emerging 

artists. 

Juntos Art Association 

E1 Paso, TX $5,000 

To support the exhibition 

"La Frontera Visto Por Los 

Ojos de Los Artistas del 

Paso Del Norte." 

Margaret Harwell Art 

Museum 

Poplar Bluff, MO $5,000 

To support the salary of the 

museum assistant, supplies, 

and educational materials 

related to an enhancement 

program for senior citizens 

and disabled persons. 

Mexic-Arte 

Austin, TX $10,000 

To support administrative, 

artistic, and related costs for 

the "Retratos de Mexico/ 

Mexico’s Portrait Painting," 

and "Retablos and Santos" 

exhibitions, as well as the 

solo show of Manuel 

Ocampo. 

Mexican Museum 

San Francisco, CA $35,000 

To support a series of 

exhibitions including "La 

Virgen de Guadalupe," "Dia 

de los Muertos," "La Malinche," the photography of 

Julio Galan and Flor Garduno and Mayan textiles. 

Minneapolis American 

lndian Center 

Minneapolis MN $5,000 

To support administrative 

and artistic expenses for the 

exhibition of traditional and 

avant garde American 

Indian art. 

Molly Olga Neighborhood 

Art Classes 

Buffalo, NY $5,000 

To support administrative 

and artistic expenses related 

to a cost-free studio training 

program for inner-city 

youth and adults. 

Montana Indian Art and 

Culture Association 

Bozeman, MT $5,000 

To support administrative 

staff salaries related to the 

exhibition of works by 

American Indian contemporary artists. 

Moonstone, Inc. 

Philadelphia, PA $5,000 

To support administrative 

and artistic expenses related 

to a reading series of 

national and local authors, 

symposia, and the Paul 

Robeson Festival. 

Multicultural Arts, Inc. 

Los Angeles, CA $5,000 

To support the production 

and publication of an issue 

of The International Review 

of African American Art 

which will feature contemporary African American art 

focused on political expression. 

NationM Latino 

Communications Center 

Los Angeles, CA $25,000 

To support the salary of the 

program associate and 

administrative expenses for 

an apprenticeship program 

at the Center. 

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North Carolina State 

University 

Raleigh, NC $5,000 

To support "A Diaspora of 

Commonalities: An African 

and African-American 

Sculpture Exhibition," and 

accompanying programs. 

Printmaking Workshop 

New York, NY $5,000 

To support artists fees 

associated with the "Minority Fellowship" and "Invited 

Minority Artist" programs. 

Self-Help Graphics and 

Arts, Inc. 

Los Angeles, CA $35,000 

To support administrative 

and artistic costs related to a 

professional training workshop program, a traveling 

print exhibition program, 

and the exhibition program 

at Galeria Otra Vez. 

Social and Public Art 

Resource Center 

Venice, CA $11,000 

To support administrative 

salaries for the production, 

exhibition, and preservation 

of public art projects, as 

well as to underwrite 

training and educational 

programs related to public 

art projects. 

Sojourner Productions, Inc. 

Washington, DC $7,500 

To support administrative 

and artistic expenses for a 

film exhibition series, 

related programs, and the 

publication of Black Film 

Review. 

Southern Allegbenies 

Museum of Art 

Loretto, PA $9,500 

To support staff salaries for 

the exhibition program 

scheduled for the museum, 

as well as its two satellite 

galleries. 

Southern California Asian 

American Studies Central 

Los Angeles, CA $25,000 

To support administrative 

and artistic expenses related 

to the Asian Pacific Media 

Artists Development and 

Support Program. 

Studio Museum in Harlem 

New York, NY $35,000 

To support artistic and 

administrative expenses for 

the artists-in-residence and 

intern programs. 

United Indians of All 

Tribes Foundation 

Seattle, WA $10,000 

To support the exhibition of 

works by Michael Holloman, Jane Ash Poitras, Ted 

Garner, and James Luna at 

the Sacred Circle Gallery of 

American Indian Art. 

University of HoustonUniversity Park 

Houston, TX $10,000 

To support artistic, administrative, and related costs for 

an authors’ touring program 

to inner-city and rural 

locations. 

Young Aspirations/Young 

Artists, Inc. 

New Orleans, LA $30,000 

To support administrative 

and artistic expenses related 

to a visual arts training 

program for inner-city 

African American youth. 

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*NATIONAL HERITAGE 

FELLOWSHIPS 

11 fellowships $110,000 

1 award $189,100 

The following traditional 

artists were each awarded 

the National Heritage 

Fellowship and a $10,000 

grant. 

Obo Addy 

Portland, OR 

Betty Pisio Cbristenson 

Suring, WI 

Paul Dablin 

Minneapolis, MN 

Juan Gutierrez 

New York, NY 

Richard and Solomon 

Ho’opi’i 

Kahakuloa, HI 

Will Keys 

Gray, TN 

ffoaquin "Jack" Lujan 

Barrigada, Guam 

Eva McAdams 

Fort Washakie, WY 

ffohn Mealing and. 

Cornelius Wright, 3~. 

Birmingham, AL 

Vernon Owens 

Seagrove, NC 

Dolly Spencer 

Homer, AK 

*National Coundl for the 

Traditional Arts 

Silver Spring,.MD $189,100 

A cooperative agreement to 

support costs for the 

National Heritage Fellowships program, including 

solicitation of nominations, 

preparation for panel 

review, and production of 

the concert and public 

events featuring the recipients and their works. 

FOLK ARTS PROJECTS 

60 awards $1,904,000 

Alabama Folklife 

Association, Inc. 

Birmingham, AL $15,000 

To support the final production phase of the "Sacred 

Harp Video Project," an 

hour-long documentary on 

the Sacred Harp singing 

community in the Deep 

South. 

American Asian Cultural 

Exchange, Inc. 

New York, NY $29,400 

To support a travelling 

exhibition on Chinese 

calligraphy featuring 

leading Chinese-American 

calligraphers. 

Arab Community Center 

for Economic and Social 

Services 

Dearborn, MI $20,000 

To support a survey to 

identify traditional embroidery, instrument making, 

calligraphy, henna designs, 

doll making, and jewelry 

making in Detroit’s Arab 

community. 

Arte Americas - The 

Mexican Arts Center 

Fresno, CA $25,000 

To support "Tradiciones en 

las Colonias," an exhibition 

documenting MexicanAmerican traditional arts 

presented in home and 

church celebrations during 

the Christmas season. 

Bay Area Video Coalition 

San Francisco, CA $20,000 

To amend a grant for 

production of a film documentary on the folk arts. 

California Indian 

Basketweavers Association 

Nevada City, CA $20,800 

To support the sixth annual 

California Indian Basketweavers Gathering. 

Capoeira Foundation, Inc. 

New York, NY $12,000 

To support a public presentation featuring the traditions of music, song, and 

dance surrounding the 

Brazilian "Capoeira Batizado" ceremony. 

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Cedarburg Corporation 

Cedarburg, WI $8,000 

To support a concert series 

at the Cedarburg Cultural 

Center featuring traditional 

artists from throughout 

Wisconsin. 

Chicano Humanities and 

Arts Coundl, Inc. 

Denver, CO $15,000 

To support the 1996 Chile 

Harvest Festival featuring 

Southern Colorado and 

Northern New Mexico 

Hispanic crafts, music, and 

dance by regional traditional ardsts. 

City Lore, Inc. 

New York, NY $35,000 

To support the National 

Task Force on Folk Arts in 

Education. 

City Lore, Inc. 

New York, NY $14,000 

To support a year-long 

internship at City Lore 

offering advanced professional training for aspiring 

minority individuals. 

*Country Roads, Inc. 

Arlington, MA $70,000 

To support the development 

of a major exhibition of 

traditional American crafts. 

East Bay Center for the 

Pe~orming Arts 

Richmond, CA $9,000 

To support a series of 

workshops in Lao and 

Khmu music and dance, and 

a regional conference of 

Lao, Mien, and Khmu 

community leaders to 

discuss the future and 

accessibility of traditional 

music and dance. 

East Bay Center for the 

Performing Arts 

Richmond, CA $6,000 

To support the performance 

of the ancient Anlo-Ewe 

(Ghanaian) Hogbetsotso 

ceremony and a series of 

preparatory workshops in 

the history and performance 

of the traditions. 

Friends of Sheldon ffackson 

Museum 

Sitka, AK $9,300 

To support a series of 

demonstrations by Native 

Alaskan traditional artists. 

*Fund for Folk Culture 

Santa Fe, NM $460,000 

To support a national 

infrastructure of financial 

and technical support for 

the folk and traditional arts 

field, primarily through 

three years of partial funding to create and stabilize 

local, state, and regional 

folk arts coordinators and 

programs. 

Fund for Folk Culture 

Santa Fe, NM $40,000 

To support a program 

associate position at the 

Fund for Folk Culture. 

Fund for Folk Culture 

Santa Fe, NM $6,500 

To amend a 1995 grant to 

support evaluation of state 

folk arts apprenticeship 

programs. 

Historical Association of 

Southern Florida, Inc. 

Miami, FL $19,800 

To support a survey documenting Caribbean percussion traditions in Miami 

leading to future exhibits, 

concerts, and other public 

presentations. 

Hua Kun Opera 

Association 

Arcadia, CA $22,500 

To support performances of 

kunqu-style Chinese opera 

in Los Angeles featuring 

some of the finest U.S.­

resident professional kunqu 

opera actors. 

Institute for Community 

Research, Inc. 

Hartford, CT $12,500 

To support an exhibition, 

performances, and demonstrations featuring the 

traditional crafts, music, and 

dance of Connecticut’s 

Tibetan community. 

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Irish Music Academy of 

Cleveland, Inc. 

Lakewood, OH $11,900 

To support Irish traditional 

music workshops and 

performances for the 

greater Cleveland Irish 

community. 

Japanese American 

Cultural and Community 

Center 

Los Angeles, CA $18,000 

To support a three-day 

conference of key leaders 

and members of some of the 

nation’s most significant 

Japanese taiko drumming 

ensembles. 

Kariyushi Kai 

San Jose, CA $5,000 

To support manufacturing 

and distribution costs for a 

compact disc recording of 

the traditional Okinawan 

music repertory of National 

Heritage Fellow Harry 

Seisho Nakasone and his 

ensemble. 

Kaw Valley Arts &
 

Humanities
 

Kansas City, KS $10,000 

To support a survey to 

identifytraditional arts and 

artists in the seven-county 

Kansas City metroplex area. 

La Pe~a Cultural Center 

Berkeley, CA $5,200 

To support a series of 

workshops and concerts 

featuring the local AfroVenezuelan musical group 

Grupo Campana, combined 

with a residency by 

Venezuelan master percussionist Alexander Livinalli. 

Los Pleneros de la 21, Inc. 

New York, NY $6,300 

To support the presentation 

of "An Evening with the 

Masters," a concert/dance 

celebration honoring master 

practitioners of Puerto 

Rican traditional music in 

New York City. 

Los Reyes de Albuquerque 

Foundation 

Albuquerque, NM $5,500 

To support "Music Enhancement for Children," a series 

of workshops and presentations of traditional New 

Mexican songs and music at 

child care centers in rural 

New Mexico and in the 

Albuquerque area. 

Los Reyes de Albuquerque 

Foundation 

Albuquerque, NM $11,700 

To support a series of 

workshops and presentations of traditional Hispanic 

songs and music at venues 

such as senior centers, 

nursing homes, and homeless shelters throughout 

New Mexico. 

Mid Atlantic Arts 

Foundation, Inc. 

Baltimore, MD $25,000 

To support a statewide 

refugee traditional arts 

program in Pennsylvania. 

Mind-Builders Creative 

Arts Co., Inc. 

Bronx, NY $19,200 

To support the expansion of 

the Community Folkways 

Program. 

National Council for the 

Traditional Arts 

Silver Spring, MD $42,000 

To support the 58th 

National Folk Festival in 

the first year of a projected 

three-year run in Dayton, 

Ohio. 

National Council for the 

Traditional Arts 

Silver Spring, MD $42,000 

To support the "Echoes of 

Africa" national tour to 

regions of the Midwest, 

Southern, and Eastern 

United States 

*National Council for the 

Traditional Arts 

Silver Spring, MD $150,000 

To support a national 

program of technical 

assistance to the folk and 

traditional arts field to 

develop programs, 

resources, and communications projects. 

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John Bear 

Mitchell, one 

of the Native 

American 

storytellers of 

New England, 

who appeared 

as part of 

"First ~Things 

First," a 

presentation 

of World 

Music, Inc. 

Photo courtesy World Music, Inc. 

National Council for the 

Traditional Arts 

Silver Spring, MD $95,000 

A cooperative agreement to 

support administration of 

site visits and technical 

assistance. 

National Park Foundation 

Washington, DC $50,000 

To support the fourth 

annual American Roots 

Fourth of July concert on 

the grounds of the Washington Monument, including live broadcast on 

National Public Radio. 

New York Folklore Society 

Newfield, NY $30,300 

To support a traditional arts 

specialist to coordinate 

statewide collaborations for 

folk arts programming, a 

"mentoring" program to 

offer technical assistance to 

folk artists, and a conference. 

Philadelphia Folklore 

Project 

Philadelphia PA $30,000 

To support slide/tape video 

shows documenting Yiddish, South African, Native 

American, and African 

American folk arts in 

Philadelphia. 

Philadelphia Folklore 

Project 

Philadelphia, PA $30,000 

To support the "Folk Arts of 

Social Change Exhibition 

Project," an exhibition 

presenting a diversity of 

traditional folk art forms 

practiced in Philadelphia 

today that reflect a community’s quest for cultural 

survival and social justice. 

Philadelphia Folklore 

Project 

Philadelphia,PA $23,000 

To support "Neighborhood 

Dance Party," featuring 

performances of social 

dance traditions by a 

diversity of local traditional 

musicians and dancers. 

Portland Performing Arts 

Pordand, ME $18,000 

To support a residency by 

the U.S.-based Cambodian 

Khmer performing group, 

the Apsara Ensemble, 

including performances and 

workshops for local Cambodian youth. 

Prince George’s 

Community College 

Largo, MD $11,700 

To support the Bluebird 

Blues Festival, presenting 

outstanding regional blues 

artists in concert. 

Public Corporation for the 

Arts of the City of Long 

Beach 

Long Beach, CA $38,000 

To support a folk arts 

coordinator position at the 

Corporation for the Arts, 

the Long Beach Regional 

Arts Council. 

Radio Bilingue, Inc. 

Fresno, CA $15,000 

To support a two-city 

presentation of the seventh 

annual Nortefio-Tejano 

Music and Dance Festival in 

Fresno and in Salinas. 

Samuel S. Fleisber Art 

Memorial, Inc. 

Philadelphia, PA $17,000 

To support classes in traditional Cambodian court 

dance, mask making, and 

sculpture. 

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Search to Involve Pilipino 

Americans 

Los Angeles, CA $20,000 

To support workshops in 

diverse Pilipino traditional 

arts as part of the annual 

Festival of Philippine Arts 

and Culture, and a summer 

instructional workshop 

series. 

Southeast Alaska Indian 

Cultural Center, Inc. 

Sitka, AK $8,000 

To support presentation of 

Tlingit Maska Native 

traditional arts as part of a 

celebration centered around 

the raising of the first 

traditional Sitka totem pole 

honoring the Tlingit 

people. 

Texas Folklife Resources 

Austin, TX $30,000 

To support the production 

of "Conjunto!," a video 

documentary on the Tejano 

accordion-centered tradition, as part of a three-part 

series on Texas Mexican 

music intended for national 

broadcast 

Texas Folklife Resources 

Austin, TX $20,000 

To support costs of production, touring, and live 

programming for the 

exhibit "La Tradicion 

Tejana/Focus on Tejano 

Tradition." 

Tung Ching Chinese 

Center for the Arts, Inc. 

Flushing, NY $22,000 

To support "The Chinese 

Theatre Festival ’97," 

featuring performances and 

workshops rePresenting 

Beijing-, Shaoxing-, and 

Cantonese-styles of Chinese 

opera. 

University of Arizona 

Tucson, AZ $20,800 

To support the exhibit "La 

cadena que no se corta/The 

Unbroken Chain: The 

Traditional Arts of Tucson’s 

Mexican Community." 

University of Southern 

Mississippi 

Hattiesburg, MS $52,000 

To support a program 

coordinator at the Piney 

Woods Culture Center to 

document the traditional 

arts and artists of the Piney 

Woods region of Southern 

Mississippi and to develop a 

regional folldife network 

and archive. 

Ursinus College 

Collegeville, PA $24,300 

To support the development 

of folk and traditional arts 

educational curriculum 

material and a professional 

development institute for 

traditional artists and 

teachers in Pennsylvania., 

Victoria Regional Museum 

Association, Inc. 

Victoria, TX $4,800 

To support "At Home on 

the Range," a multimedia 

exhibit/performance and 

education project featuring 

cowboy poet Buck Ramsey. 

Washington Chu Shah 

Chinese Opera Institute 

Silver Spring, MD $7,500 

To support a workshop 

series for Chinese youth in 

jingju (Beijing-style Chinese 

opera). 

West Virginia Public 

Broadcasting Foundation 

Charleston, WV $25,400 

To support the "Cultural 

Heritage Programming 

Project," presenting the 

traditional music, stories, 

rhyme, and cultural wisdom 

of West Virginia folk artists 

over West Virginia public 

radio. 

Western Folklife Center 

Elko, NV $30,000 

To support a program/ 

archive specialist position to 

coordinate the maintenance 

of archive materials in the 

center’s collection. 

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V~dliam King Regional 

Arts Center 

Abingdon, VA $21,000 

To support "Living Traditions," a concert series and 

outreach programs on the 

musical heritage of southwest Virginia and the 

neighboring region. 

Wisconsin’s Ethnic 

Settlement Trails, Inc. 

Milwaukee, WI $16,600 

To support the second 

annual regional folldife 

festival featuring traditional 

artists from the corridor of 

ethnic communities extending along Wisconsin’s Lake 

Michigan shoreline. 

World Music, Inc. 

Cambridge, MA $22,000 

To support "First Things 

First: Native Traditions in 

New England," a travelling 

performance program of 

traditional storytelling, 

song, and dance. 

STATE 

APPRENTICESHIP 

PROG RAMS 

8 awards $185,700 

Davis & Elkins College 

Elkins, WV $25,000 

Economic Development 

Administration, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico 

San Juan, PR $30,000 

Fresno Arts Council, Inc. 

Fresno, CA $13,700 

To support a folk arts 

apprenticeship program in 

nine counties of the San 

Joaquin Valley of California 

Kansas State Historical 

Society 

Topeka, KS $22,000 

Michigan State University 

East Lansing, MI $20,700 

Oregon Historical Society 

Pordand, OR $29,800 

Vermont Folklife Center 

Middlebury, VT $14,500 

Washington State Arts 

Commission 

Olympia, WA $30,000 

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THE FUND FOR U.S. 

ARTISTS AT 

INTERNATIONAL 

FESTIVALS AND 

EXHIBITIONS 

*Institute for International 

Education 

(Arts International) 

New York, NY $188,000 

A cooperative agreement to 

administer grants for the 

Fund for U.S. Artists at 

International Festivals and 

Exhibitions, a partnershiip 

of the Endowment, the Pew 

Charitable Trusts, and the 

Rockefeller Foundation. 

The following awards were 

made: 

John Luther Adams 

and Company 

Fairbanks, AK .$11,800 

To support the company’s 

performance at the 

Northern Encounters 

Festival in Canada. 

American Boychoir 

Princeton, NJ $10,000 

To support the company’s 

performance at the 

International Drengekors 

Festival in Copenhagen, 

Denmark. 

Blue Note All-Stars 

Easton, CT $2,400 

To support the group’s 

performance at the 

Estoril Jazz Festival in 

Portugal. 

Caribbean Dance 

Company 

St. Croix, VI $10,000 

To support the group’s 

performances at the 

Images of Africa Festival 

in Denmark. 

Carnegie Hall Jazz 

Band 

New York, NY $8,000 

To support the group at 

the Estoril Jazz Festival 

in Portugal, the Jazz aux 

Remparts and the Jazz a 

Vienne in France, the 

North Sea Jazz Festival 

in the Netherlands, and 

the International Pori 

Jazz Festival in Finland. 

Chanticleer 

San Francisco, CA 

$13,000 

To support the group’s 

performance at the 

Brisbane Biennial International Music Festival in 

Australia. 

Victor Hernandez Cruz 

Ponce, PR $2,000 

To support the artist’s 

poetry performance at 

the Corpus Delecti/ICA 

Festival in the U.K. 

John Fleagle and Shira 

Karnmen 

Somerville, MA $1,500 

To support the musicians’ 

performance at the 

Festival van Flaanderen 

in Belgium. 

Fred Garbo Inflatable 

Theater Co. 

Berldey, MA $4,500 

To support the company’s 

performance at the 

JUBA/La Ville de l’Enfant Festival in Morocco. 

Houston Grand Opera 

Association 

Houston, TX $20,000 

To support the group’s 

performance at the 

Edinburgh International 

Festival in the United 

Kingdom. 

King’s Noyse 

Boston, MA $6,300 

To support this group to 

perform at the Holland 

Festival Oude Muziek in 

the Netherlands. 

Donald Knaack 

Manchester Center, VT
 

$2,500
 

To support the artist’s 

performance at the Zagreb 

Biennale in Croatia. 

Tei Kobayashi 

Denver, CO $1,500 

To support the artist’s 

performance at the 

Womanifesto in Thailand. 

Darius Lapinskas 

Chicago, IL $1,500 

To support the artist’s 

performance of his mixed 

media concerto at the 

International Contemporary Music Festival 

(GAIDA) in Lithuania. 

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Limon Dance Company 

NewYork, NY $15,000 

To support the group’s 

performances at the 

Sarajevska Zima (Sarajevo 

Winter Festival) in Bosnia 

and the Ankara Music & 

Art Festival in Turkey. 

Kevin Locke 

Tucson, AZ $8,000 

To support the artist’s 

performance of traditional 

Native American hoop 

dance at the Australian 

Festival for Young People. 

Merce Cunningham 

New York, NY $12,000 

To support the group’s 

performance at the La 

Batie Festival de Geneve 

in Switzerland and the 

Festival Internationale del 

Balletto di Nervi in Italy. 

Muntu Dance Theatre 

of Chicago 

Chicago, IL $3,920 

To support the group’s 

performances at the 

Festival International 

Cervantino in Mexico. 

Rufus Reid/Tanareid 

Productions 

Teaneck, NJ $3,840 

To support the group’s 

performance at the XV 

Estoril Jazz Festival in 

Portugal. 

Roger Reynolds 

Del Mar, CA $1,300 

To support the artist’s 

performance at the Warsaw Autumn Festival in 

Poland. 

Sandglass Theater 

Putney, VT $13,000 

To support the puppet 

theater group to perform 

at the International 

Puppet Theater Festival 

UNIMA in Hungary. 

Sunpie and the 

Louisiana Sunspots 

New Orleans, LA $4,500 

To support the musicians’ 

performance at the Festival 

de Lille in France. 

Sweet Honey in the 

Rock 

Washington, DC $8,625 

To support the group’s 

performance at the Bath 

International Festival of 

Music and the Arts and 

Vocal Chords Festival in 

the United Kingdom. 

Wild Goose Chase 

Cloggers 

St. Paul, MN $5,000 

To support the group’s 

performance at the Festival Folldorique des Pyrenees in France. 

Reginald Wilson/Fist & 

Heel Performance Group 

Brooklyn, NY $6,890 

To support the group’s 

performance at the Festival 

e’Nkudleni in Zimbabwe. 

ARTSLINK 

*CEC International 

Partners 

New York, NY $115,000 

A cooperative agreement to 

support ArtsLink, a partnership with the Trust for 

Mutual Understanding, the 

Starr Foundation, and the 

Open Society Fund, which 

funds artistic exchange 

between the United States 

and Central and Eastern 

Europe. 

The following awards were 

made: 

ArtsLink - Collaborative 

Projects 

Double Edge Theatre 

Ashfield, MA $5,500 

To enable four members 

of the Double Edge 

Theatre ensemble to 

collaborate with New 

Forms Theatre Shtrich on 

an on-going project using 

oral histories of the Jewish 

community in Bulgaria 

and to conduct a workshop on theater methodology. 

Marie Dutka 

Bloomington, IL $3,500 

To support a collaboration 

between Ms. Dutka and 

Polish printmakers in 

Krakow to complete a 

series of work and share 

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Martha Grenon 

Austin, TX $2,403 

To support a collaboration between photographer Martha Grenon and 

Albanian writer Robert 

Martikos to produce a 

photo-documentary essay 

depicting the life of a 

family during and after 

the dictatorial Hoxha 

regime. 

Karma Ibsen 

Birmingham, AL $2,000 

To support the writing 

and performance of a play 

to be co-written by 

Karma Ibsen and 

Bogomil Gjuzil in Skopje, 

Macedonia about an 

intercultural friendship 

between two women 

against the backdrop of 

dramatic political, cultural, economic, and 

domestic change in the 

Balkans and in the United 

States. 

Rosalie Jones 

Santa Fe, NM $5,000 

To support the collaboration between Rosalie 

Jones’ Daystar Dance 

Company and Jorjana 

Sechanova of Arabesque 

Company in Sofia, 

Bulgaria to explore the 

rhythms, steps, and 

spatial forms of traditional Bulgarian and 

Native American dance 

and create a new work for 

mutual performance. 

Carolyn Krueger 

Glendale, CA $2,000 

To support the continuation of a collaboration 

between choreographer 

Carolyn Krueger and 

Vilayat Akilova, a specialist 

in Bukharan folkloric style 

dance, that will take place 

in Tashkent, Uzbeldstan. 

Live from the Edge 

Theater 

Bronx, NY $5,200 

To support a collaboration between Live from 

the Edge Theater, in the 

South Bronx, and Teatr 

Polski in Bydgoszcz, 

Poland to rehearse and 

perform Ubu Enchained, 

the third in Alfred Jarry’s 

trilogy. The production 

will intertwine both 

theater troupes combining not only English and 

Polish languages but also 

the stories of black and 

hispanic theater artists. 

Jenny Perlin & Sarah 

Jane Lapp 

San Francisco, CA 

$6,000 

To support the creation 

of a short film and a 

photographic essay that 

examines the nature of 

joke-telling by Jewish and 

Yugoslav war survivors in 

diaspora communities in 

the Czech Republic. 

Csaba Polony 

Oakland, CA $4,000 

To support the production 

of an anthology of artwork, essays, literary 

works, and poetry created 

during the Balkan war 

(1990-95) in the former 

Yugo by artists and writers 

living in the war zone. 

River Arts Repertory 

Company 

New York, NY $5,500 

To support the continuation of River Arts Repertory Company’s Children 

of the War Project 

through collaboration 

with the young playwright Jasmila Zbanic in 

Bosnia. 

Lisa Schlesinger 

Iowa City, IA $1,900 

To support the production of Lisa Schlesinger’s 

play The Bones of Danny 

Winston and Rib Ann 

Magee by the Repertory 

Theater Company in 

Eger, Hungary. 

ArtsLink- Residencies 

Boston Film & Video 

Foundation 

Boston, MA $3,000 

To support the hosting of 

Lithuanian filmmaker 

Audrius Stonys. 

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Brooklyn Academy of 

Music 

Brooklyn, NY $3,000 

To support the hosting of 

Natalya Syrykh, Assistant 

Managing Director of 

the Globe Theatre in 

Russia. 

Chicago Chamber 

Musicians 

Chicago, IL $3,000 

To support the hosting of 

Stanislav Potchekansky, 

first trombonist and 

soloist for the Symphony 

Orchestra, State Music 

Academy in Sofia, Bulgaria. 

DiverseWorks 

Houston, TX $3,000 

To support the hosting of 

Ukranian visual artist 

Iliya Chichkan. 

Fabric Workshop & 

Museum 

Philadelphia, PA $3,000 

To support the hosting of 

Polish visual artist Maria 

Tyniec-Wadja. 

International Writing 

Center 

Iowa City, IA $3,000 

To support the hosting of 

Albanian poet Lindita 

Arapi. 

Merce Cunningham 

Dance Company 

New York, NY $3,000 

To support the hosting of 

Czech choreographer 

and dancer Barbora 

Kryslova. 

Nexus Contemporary 

Art Center 

Adanta, GA $3,000 

To support the hosting of
 

Bulgarian visual artist
 

Houben Tcherkelov.
 

Penland School of 

Crafts 

Penland, NC $3,000 

To support the hosting of 

Hungarian ceramic artist 

Mariann Ban. 

Ragdale Foundation 

Lake Forest, IL $3,000 

To support the hosting of 

Natalia Tolpekina, 

Director of the Women’s 

Gallery of Fine Arts in 

Siberia, Russia. 

Rutgers Center for 

Innovative Print & 

Paper 

New Brunswick, NJ 

$3,000 

To support the hosting of 

Jozef Bajus, a fiber artist 

from Slovakia. 

School of the Art 

Institute of Chicago 

Chicago, IL $3,000 

To support the hosting of 

Helena Demakova, 

curator and Director of 

M6, in Riga, Latvia. 

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Tacoma Arts
 

Commission
 

Tacoma, WA $3,000 

To support the hosting of 

arts manager Badri 

Samsonadze, Executive 

Director of the Georgian 

Arts & Culture Center in 

Georgia. 

Washington Ballet 

Washington, DC $3,000 

To support the hosting of 

Eugen Bobek, Managing 

Director of Tanec Praha, 

a non-profit international 

dance festival in Prague, 

Czech Republic. 

Yale Repertory Theatre 

New Haven, CT $3,000 

To support the hosting of 

Valeriy Biltchenko, 

Artistic Director of the 

Kiev Experimental 

Theatre in the Ukraine. 

*CANADA/MEXICO/U.S. 

PARTNERSHIP 

Advaita Sodety 

Berkeley, CA $7,788 

To support a residency for 

Mexican visual artist Edgar 

Clement. 

Borough of Manhattan 

Community College 

Performing Arts Center 

New York, NY $8,000 

To support an eight-week 

residency for Mexican 

choreographer Serafin 

Aponte. 
 

 

City of Gainesville 

Gainesville, FL $8,000 

To support an eight-week 

residency for Canadian 

writer David Homel. 

Columbia City Ballet 

Company 

Columbia, SC $9,120 

To support an eight-week 

residency for Canadian 

choreographer Stephanie 

Ballard. 

Fabric Workshop, Inc. 

Philadelphia, PA $9,000 

To support a residency for 

Mexican visual artist Carlos 

Avilez Villanueva. 

~Kenyon College 

Gambier, OH $4,900 

To support an eight-week 

residency for Canadian poet 

Elizabeth Cuthand. 

*JAPAN-U.S. FRIENDSHIP 

COMMISSION 

ffapan-U.S. Friendship 

Commission 

Washington, DC $75,000 

An Interagency Transfer to 

support the United 

States/Japan Creative 

Artists’ Fellowships program, which provides project 

support for up to five midcareer U.S. Artists with an 

opportunity to pursue their 

artistic goals and interests in 

Japan. The following awards 

were made: 

Beliz Brother 

Seattle, WA 

To support the visual 

artist in research, study 

and experimentation with 

creative uses of bamboo 

in both traditional and 

contemporary formats. 

Craig McTurk 

Los Angeles,. CA 

To support the filmmaker 

in creating a video 

documentary that 

explores the popularity of 

blues and jazz music in 

Japan. 

Yoji Yamaguchi 

New York, NY 

To support the novelist in 

researching and completing his second novel, 

which includes a section 

set in Japan. 

1997 LEADERSHIP 

PROJECTS 

*Japan- U.S. Friendship 

Commission 

Washington, DC $75,000 

To support the 1997 United 

States/Japan Creative 

Artists’ Fellowships program, which provides 

project support for up to 

five mid-career U.S. Artists 

with an opportunity to 

pursue their artistic goals 

and interests in Japan. 

*Institute for International 

Education (Arts Int’l) 

New York, NY $185,000 

A cooperative agreement to 

administer grants for the 

1997 Fund for U.S. Artists at 

International Festivals and 

Exhibitions, a partnershiip of 

the Endowment, the Pew 

Charitable Trusts, and the 

Rockefeller Foundation. 

*CEC International 

Partners 

New York, NY $115,000 

A cooperative agreement to 

support in 1997 ArtsLink, a 

partnership with the Trust 

for Mutual Understanding, 

the Starr Foundation, and 

the Open Society Fund, 

which funds artistic 

exchange between the 

United States and Central 

and Eastern Europe. 

*National Assembly of 

Local Arts Agencies 

Washington, DC $50,000 

A cooperative agreement to 

support community-based 

residencies of U.S. Artists in 

arts organizations in Mexico, Ireland and Northern 

Ireland, and of Mexican and 

Irish artists in residencies 

through the U.S. Hosted by 

local arts agencies. 

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FELLOWSHIPS/ 

CREATIVE WRITERS 

42 fellowships $630,000 

1 award $160,000 

The following writers were 

awarded $15,000 for Creative Writing Fellowships. 

Anderson, Donald 

Colorado Springs, CO 

Bensen, Robert R. 

Oneonta, NY 

Bernard, Pamela 

Duxbury, MA 

Bierds, Linda L. 

Bainbridge Isle, WA 

Brennan, Karen M. 

Salt Lake City, UT 

Bryan, Sharon 

Salt Lake City, UT 

Cooley, Nicole R. 

Atlanta, GA 

Covington, Dennis R. 

Birmingham, AL 

Dischell, Stuart 

Las Cruces, NM 

Eimers, Nancy C. 

Kalamazoo, MI 

Frncht, Abby L. 

Oshkosh, WI 

Giardina, Denise D. 

Charleston, WV 

Gover, Paula K. 

Mt. Pleasant, MI 

Greene, Jeffrey 

Living in France 

Hamby, Barbara L. 

Tallahassee, FL 

Harris, Marina L. 

Salt Lake City, UT 

Henrie, Carol 

Hayward, CA 

High, John A. 

San Francisco, CA 

James, Kelvin C. 

 ̄ New York, NY 

Kdrchwey, Karl W. 

New York, NY 

Knautb, Stephen C. 

Charlotte, NC 

Koetbe, John L. 

Milwaukee, WI 

Larkin, Joan 

Shelburne Falls, MA 

Lutz, Gary L. 

Greensburg, PA 

Martin, Charles E 

Brooklyn, NY 

Miller, Benjamin P. 

Brooklyn, NY 

Muelle~;, Daniel J. 

Provincetown, MA 

Olsen, tVilliam C. 

Kalamazoo, Nil 

Pancake, Ann S. 

Seattle, WA 

Pike, Bonnie L. 

Tempe, AZ 

Platt, Donald 

Carrollton, GA 

Reynolds, David S. 

Washington, DC 

Sbeck, Laurie 

Princeton, NJ 

Shomer, Enid 

Brooklyn, NY 

St. Germain, Sberyl A. 

Galesburg, IL 

Swanson, Eleanor L. 

Lakewood, CO 

Tobin, Daniel E. 

Racine, WI 

Vernon, John E. 

Vestal, NY 

ITdeaver, Judith m. 

Berkeley, CA 

14/~lliamson, Eric M. 

New York, NY 

Young, Dean H. 

Bloomington, IN 

Ziesk, Edra 

New York, NY 

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Poets & Writers 

New York, NY $160,000 

To support reading and 

evaluation of manuscripts 

and related administrative 

costs for the Literary 

Fellowships category. 

FELLOWSHIPS FOR 

TRANSLATORS 

10 awards $100,000 

The following individuals 

were awarded $10,000 

grants for Translation. 

Decker, Diana P. 

Fairfax, VA 

To support the translation 

of the Spanish-language 

novel Solitario de amor 

(Solitary Love) by Cristina 

Peri Rossi (b.1941). 

Haydar, Paula M. 

Fayetteville, AR 

To support the translation 

of the Arabic-language 

novel Mamlakat al-Gburaba 

(The Kingdom of Strangers) 

by Elias Khoury (b. 1948). 

Lappin, Linda 

Kingsport, TN 

To support the translation 

of a collection of short 

stories by the Tuscan writer 

Federigo Tozzi (1883­

1920). 

Rubin, David G. 

New York, NY 

To support the translation 

of a collection of Hindi 

poetry byJayshankar Prasad 

(1889-1937). 

Sartarelli, Stephen P. 

Hudson, NY 

To support the translation 

of Horcynus Orca, an Italian 

novel by Stefano D’Arrigo 

(1917-1992). 

Schmidt, Paul E 

New York, NY 

To support new translations 

of plays by Russian playwright Vladimir 

Mayakovsky (1893-1930), 

including Tragedija (A 

Tragedy), Klop ~be Bedbug), 

Banja (Fbe Bath), and 

Misterija-Buff (MysteryBouffe). 

Tberoux, Peter C. 

Long Beach, CA
 

To support the translation
 

of the Arabic work, Dongola,
 

Novel of Nubia by Idris Ali.
 

l/an Dyck, Karen R. 

New York, NY 

To support the translation 

of an anthology of contemporary Greek women’s 

poetry. 

Wright, Carolyne L. 

Arlington, MA 

To support the compilation 

and translation of an 

anthology of contemporary 

Bengali women poets. 

Zisquit, Linda D. 

Living in Israel 

To support a new translation of a collection of 

Hebrew poems by Yona 

Wallach (1944-1985). 

LITERARY 

PUBLISHING 

42 awards $720,000 

Assistance to Literary 

Magazines 

American Poetry Review 

Philadelphia, PA $10,000 

To support authors’ payments for issues of American 

Poetry Review. 

Boston University 

Boston, MA $10,000 

To support production, 

promotion, distribution, 

and related publishing 

expenses, including authors’ 

fees, for issues of Agni. 

Central Europe Institute 

Washington, DC $8,500 

To support payments to 

contributors and printing expenses for issues of Trafika. 
 

 

 

 

 

 

Cover from the 

Autumn 1996 

issue of 

The Gettysbur9 

Review, 

featuring a 

painting by 

Carol Anthony. 

Council of Literary 

Magazines and Presses 

New York, NY $10,000 

To support contributors’ 

fees, production, promotion, editing, and related 

publishing expenses for four 

issues of The Paris Review. 

Courtesy Gettysburg Review. 

DePaul University 

Chicago, IL $10,000 

To support contributors’ 

fees and typesetting, printing, design, promotion, and 

related publishing expenses 

for two issues of Poetry East. 

Fiction, Inc. 

New York, NY $8,300 

To support typesetting, 

printing, circulation, design, 

and related publishing 

costs, including payments to 

writers, for issues of 

FICTION. 

Gettysburg College 

Gettysburg, PA $10,000 

To support payments to 

contributors and promotional costs for issues of The 

Gettysburg Revkw. 

Gulf Coast: A Journal of 

Literature & Fine Arts 

Houston, TX $6,000 

To support design, editing, 

production, promotion, 

circulation, and related 

publishing costs, including 

contributors’ fees, for two 

issues of Gulf Coast. 

Illinois State University 

Normal, IL $10,000 

To support printing, promotion, distribution, and 

related publishing expenses, 

including authors’ fees, for 

issues of Exquisite Corpse. 

Kenyon College 

Gambier, OH $10,000 

To support production 

costs, payments to writers, 

and editing fees for issues of 

The Kenyon Review. 

Northwestern University 

Evanston, IL $10,000 

To support payments to 

writers and promotional 

costs for issues of TriQuarterly. 

Oakland Community 

College 

Farmington Hills, MI 

$8,300 

To support contributors’ 

fees, printing, typesetting, 

promotion, circulation, and 

related publishing costs for 

issues of Witness. 

Poetry in Review 

Foundation, Inc. 

New York, NY $8,300 

To support contributors’ 

fees, printing, editing, 

design, distribution, and 

related publishing expenses 

for issues of Parnassus: 

Poetry In Review. 

Threepenny Review 

Berkeley, CA $10,000 

To support printing, design, 

distribution, and payments 

to writers for issues of The 

Threepenny Review. 

University of Alaska at 

Anchorage 

Anchorage, AK $10,000 

To support editing, typesetting, printing, promotion, 

distribution, and related 

publishing costs, including 

payments to contributors, 

for two issues of Alaska 

Quarterly Review. 
 

 

 

 

 

 

University of Hawaii at 

Manoa 

Honolulu, HI $10,000 

To support payments to 

contributors, typesetting~ 

production, promotion, and 

related publishing costs for 

issues of Manta: A Pacific 

Journal Of International 

Writing. 

University of Missouri at 

Columbia 

Columbia, MO $10,000 

To support printing, payments to writers, and 

related publishing expenses 

for three issues of The 

Missouri Review. 

University of Virginia 

Charlottesville, VA $10,000 

To support production, 

promotion, circulation, and 

related publishing expenses, 

including contributors’ fees, 

for issues of Callaloo. 

Yale University 

New Haven, CT $10,000 

To support editing, promotion, and related publishing 

expenses, including contributors’ fees, for issues of The 

Yale Review. 

Distribution 

Arizona State University 

Tempe, AZ $58,500 

To support the warehousing, 

marketing, distribution, and 

promotion of small press 

books focusing on contemporary Hispanic literature. 

Small Press Distribution 

Berkeley, CA $71,500 

To support nationwide marketing, promotion, and distribution of small press books 

and literary magazines. 

Small Press Assistance 

Alice James Poetry 

Cooperative, Inc. 

Farmington, ME $6,200 

To support design, production, promotion, distribution, and related publishing 

expenses for two books of 

poetry by emerging writers. 

Aunt Lute Foundation 

San Francisco, CA $20,800 

To support royalty payments and design, printing, 

promotion, and related 

publishing expenses for two 

books. 

BOA Editions, Ltd. 

Brockport, NY $20,800 

To support authors’ 

advances and printing, 

typesetting, promotion, and 

related publishing expenses 

for five volumes of poetry. 

Coffee House Press 

Minneapolis, MN $25,000 

To support production, 

promotion, and related 

publishing expenses, including royalty payments, for six 

books during 1997. 

Contemporary Arts 

Educational Project, Inc. 

Los Angeles, CA $25,000 

To support editing, printing, typesetting, distribution, and related publication 

costs of four books published by Sun & Moon 

Press. 

Copper Canyon Press 

Port Townsend, WA 

$25,000 

To support production 

costs, royalty payments, 

design, and related publishing expenses for six books. 

Council of Literary 

Magazines and Presses 

New York, NY $6,000 

To support the reading and 

evaluation of literary 

magazines, small press 

titles, and other materials 

submitted by applicants to 

the Literary Publishing 

category. 

Curbstone Press 

Willimantic, CT $20,800 

To support production, 

promotion, and related 

publishing expenses, including authors’ royalties, for 

four books. 

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Feminist Press, Inc. 

New York, NY $20,800 

To support authors’ royalties and editing, design, 

production, promotion, and 

related publishing expenses 

for four books. 

Fiction Collective, Inc. 

Normal, IL $25,000 

To support printing, production, and related publishing expenses, including 

royalty payments, for books. 

Graywolf Press 

St. Paul, MN $25,000 

To support printing, promotion, production, 

authors’ royalties, and 

related publishing expenses 

for five books. 

Hershon, Robert 

Brooklyn, NY $12,500 

To support design, printing, 

editing, marketing, distribution, and related publishing 

expenses, including royalty 

payments, for six books of 

poetry to be published by 

Hanging Loose Press. 

Kelsey Street Press 

Berkeley, CA $6,600 

To support authors’ fees and 

production, promotion, and 

related publishing expenses 

for two books. 

Latin American Literary 

Review Press 

Pittsburgh, PA $25,000 

To support royalty payments, editing, printing, 

production, promotion, and 

related publishing costs for 

six books. 

Milkweed Editions, Inc. 

Minneapolis, MN $25,000 

To support production, 

design, editing, distribution, 

promotion, and related 

publishing expenses, including authors’ royalties, for six 

books. 

Sheep Meadow Press, Inc. 

Riverdale, NY $25,000 

To support royalty payments, printing, distribution, editing, translation, 

and related publishing 

expenses for six books. 

University of HoustonUniversity Park 

Houston, TX $25,000 

To support printing, distribution, design, and related 

publishing costs for books 

published by Arte Publico 

Press. 

University of Iowa 

Iowa City, IA $8,600 

To support editing, typesetting, printing, marketing, 

and related publishing 

expenses for two winning 

selections from the Iowa 

Short Fiction Award competition. 

White Pine, Inc. 

Fredonia, NY $25,000 

To support editing, printing, marketing, design, and 

related publishing costs, 

including artistic fees, for 

books. 

Women in Translation 

Seat-de, WA $12,500 

To support translation fees, 

printing, typesetting, 

design, promotion, and 

related publishing expenses, 

including royalty payments, 

for two books. 

Words Given Wings 

Literary Arts Project 

San Francisco, CA $25,000 

To support payments to 

writers, promotion, distribution, production, editing, 

and related publishing costs 

for six books. 

SPECIAL PROJECTS 

*NationM Coundl of Young 

Men’s Christian 

Associations of the USA. 

Chicago, IL $225,000 

To support Vision 2000: 

Literary Arts for Change, 

a three-year project to 

develop literary programming at YMCAs across the 

United States. 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

American Film Institute 

Los Angeles, CA $725,000 

To support the National 

Exhibitions Programs -­

AFI National Film Theater, 

the AFI Los Angeles International Film Festival, and 

the AFI National Video 

Festival; Advanced Technology Programs -- computerbased filmmaking workshops, .the AFI-Apple 

Computer Center, and 

seminars and workshops; 

and the National Center for 

Film & Video Preservation 

-- the AFI Catalog, the 

National Moving Image 

Database, the AFI Collection, and national moving 

image preservation coordination. 

MEDIA ARTS CENTERS 

45 awards $632,000 

911 Media Arts Center 

Seattle, WA $5,000 

To support access to lowcost film and video production/post-production 

equipment for media artists 

and a series of workshops. 

American Museum of the 

Moving Image 

Astoria, NY $5,000 

To support a film and video 

exhibition program. 

Anthology Film Archives 

New York, NY $10,000 

To support film and video 

screenings and the publication of two catalogs. 

Appalsbop, Inc. 

Whitesburg, KY $40,000 

To support film/video 

workshops, including 

training and outreach 

programs and media educa~ 

tion programs. 

Art Institute of Chicago 

Chicago, IL $16,000 

To support The Film 

Center’s exhibitions and 

resource services. 

Asian CineVision 

New York, NY $15,000 

To support the Asian 

American International 

Film Festival, the Picture 

Train Children’s Film 

Series, and introductory and 

intermediate video production workshops. 

Bay Area Video Coalition 

San Francisco,. CA $21,000 

To support access to professional video production and 

editing systems, including 

broadcast-quality camera 

equipment, and a series of 

workshops. 

Berks Filmmakers, Inc. 

Reading, PA $6,000 

To support film and video 

exhibitions and a workshop 

program. 

Boston Film/Video 

Foundation, Inc. 

Boston, MA, $10,000 

To support educational activities and a resource center. 

Carnegie Institute 

Pittsburgh, PA $11,000 

. To support film/video 

screenings and resource 

services. 

Center for Contemporary 

Arts of Santa Fe, Inc. 

Santa Fe, NM $11,000 

To support film/video 

screenings, including a 

Native American Film 

Festival. 

Chicago Filmmakers 

Chicago, IL $7,000 

To support film and video 

screenings and a series of 

workshops. 

Downtown Community 

Television Center 

New York, NY $23,000 

To support educational 

activities and access to lowcost production equipment 

for media artists. 

Electronic Arts Intermix 

New York, NY $12,000 

To support access to lowcost video production and 

post-production equipment 

for media artists and a 

distribution service which 

offers over 1,800 works by 

over 150 video artists from 

the 1960s to the present. 

**Includes a $6,000 amendment to a FY95 project. 
 

 

 

 

Blair Brown 

reads at 

"Selected 

Shorts," a 

radio series 

of one-hour 

readings of 

distinguished 

short stories 

at Symphony 

Space in 

New York. 

Photo © Henry Grossman. 

Facets Multimedia, Inc. 

Chicago, IL $21,000 

To support exhibitions, 

including an international 

children’s film festival and a 

video distribution service 

which comprises over 

26,000 titles on cassette, 

including American independent, Hollywood classics, and foreign work. 

Film Arts Foundation 

San Francisco, CA $26,000 

To support access to lowcost film production and 

post-production equipment 

for media artists, and the 

publication of its monthly 

newsletter, a catalog of 

FAF-sponsored projects, 

and a directory of alternative exhibition sites. 

Film Society of Lincoln 

Center 

New York, NY $20,000 

To support the New York 

Film Festival; publication of 

the film journal Film 

Comment; the exhibition 

series ,’New Directors/New 

Films;" and film/video 

programming at the Walter 

Reade Theater. 

Film/Video Arts, Inc. 

New York, NY $19,000 

To support access to film 

and video production and 

post-production equipment 

for media artists and a series 

of media training programs. 

Hallwalls, Inc. 

Buffalo, NY $6,000 

To support film and video 

exhibitions and access to 

video production and postproduction equipment for 

media artists. 

Helena Presents 

Helena, MT $5,000 

To support film and video 

exhibition programs and a 

series of workshops. 

Independent Media Artists 

of Georgia, Etc., Inc. 

Atlanta, GA $10,000 

To support film and video 

exhibitions and a series of 

workshops. 

International House of 

Philadelphia 

Philadelphia, PA $16,000 

To support the Neighborhood Film/Video Project’s 

screenings and resource 

center activities. 

L.A. Freewaves 

Los Angeles, CA $5,000 

To support the fifth celebration of independent video in 

Los Angeles. 

Long Beach Museum of 

Art Foundation 

Long Beach, CA $14,000 

To support access to video 

production/post-production 

equipment for media artists 

and video exhibitions. 

Millennium Film 

Workshop, Inc. 

New York, NY $7,000 

To support a film exhibition 

program and access to film 

production equipment for 

media artists. 

Minnesota Film Center 

Minneapolis, MN $8,000 

To support film exhibitions 

and guest speakers. 

Moving Image, Inc. 

New York, NY $26,000 

To support the exhibition of 

American independent film 

at Film Forum I and repertory programming at Film 

Forum II. 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Museum of Fine Arts, 

Boston 

Boston, MA $8,000 

To support film/video 

exhibition programs. 

Museum of Fine Arts, 

Houston 

Houston, TX $5,000 

To support film and video 

exhibitions and the distribution of films and videotapes 

by Robert Frank. 

Museum of Modern Art 

New York, NY $37,000 

To support film and video 

programming. 

New Community Cinema 

Club, Inc. 

Huntington, NY $5,000 

To support the exhibition of 

independent American film 

and a series of workshops. 

New Orleans Video Access 

Center 

New Orleans, LA $11,000 

To support access to video 

production/post-production 

equipment for media artists 

and a series of workshop 

and residency programs. 

Ohio State University 

Research Foundation 

Columbus, OH $8,000 

To support the Wexner 

Center for the Arts’ programming of the 

Videoteque series, a silent 

film series, and artistic and 

administrative fees for a 

conference on new technologies. 

Pittsburgh Filmmakers 

Pittsburgh, PA $11,000 

To support film and video 

exhibitions and access to 

low-cost film and video 

production/post-production 

equipment for media artists. 

Portland Art Museum 

Po rdand, OR $13,000 

To support the Northwest 

Film Center’s exhibitions 

and education programs. 

San Francisco 

Cinematbeque 

San Francisco, CA $7,000 

To support a film/video 

exhibition program, guest 

appearances, and the 

publication of program 

notes and Cinematograph, an 

annual journal of film 

criticism. 

Scribe Video Center 

Philadelphia, PA $7,000 

To support workshops, 

including seminars and 

screenings, with visiting 

artists and access to video 

equipment. 

South Carolina Arts 

Commission 

Columbia, SC $21,000 

To support access to lowcost film and video production/post-production 

equipment for media artists. 

Southern California Asian 

American Studies Central 

Los Angeles, CA $8,000 

To support Visual Communications’ screenings of film 

and video art and access to 

low-cost film and video 

production/post-production 

equipment. 

Southwestern Alternate 

Media Project, Inc. 

Houston, TX $16,000 

To support media exhibitions and educational 

programs. 

University of California at 

Berkeley, Regents of the 

Berkeley, CA $37,000 

To support Pacific Film 

Archive’s exhibition programs and study collection. 

University of California at 

Los Angeles, Regents of the 

Los Angeles, CA $21,000 

To support the exhibition 

program of the UCLA Film 

and Television Archives. 

Walker Art Center 

Minneapolis, MN $15,000 . 

To support film and video 

exhibitions. 

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Whitney Museum of 

American Art 

New York, NY $12,000 

To support the New American Film and Video Series. 

Women Make Movies, Inc. 

New York, NY $15,000 

To support the production 

and distribution of films and 

videotapes by and about 

women. 

PROGRAMMING IN 

THE ARTS: THE ARTS 

ON RADIO 

18 awards $250,000 

*Chorus America, 

Assodation of Professional 

Vocal Ensembles 

Philadelphia, PA $15,000 

To support the production of 

"The First Art," weekly 

programs of choral music 

performed by Chorus America member organizations. 

*Earmark 

West Chester, PA $15,000 

To support "Artbeat," a 

weekly national radio 

magazine addressing a 

broad range of arts and 

cultural topics. 

~[obns Hopkins

University /IV’JHU 

Baltimore, MD $18,000 

To support "Up Close and 

Classical with David Zinman," featuring the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. 

*L.A. Theatre Works 

Venice, CA $18,000 

To support the production 

and radio broadcast of a 

series of plays recorded over 

four nights before a live 

audience in Los Angeles. 

*Lincoln Center for the 

Performing Arts 

New York, NY $18,000 

To support the production 

of "Jazz from Lincoln 

Center," a series of weekly 

radio broadcasts of recordings of live jazz performed 

by Lincoln Center’s jazz 

orchestra. 

*Minnesota Public Radio 

St. Paul, MN $10,000 

To support "Saint Paul 

Sunday," a weekly radio 

series that features works of 

20th century composers, 

classical repertoire, and 

jazz. 

*National Public Radio 

Washington, DC $10,000 

To support the production 

and broadcast of the radio 

series "Billy Taylor’s Jazz at 

the Kennedy Center." 

*National Public Radio 

Washington, DC $10,000 

To support the production 

and acquisition costs for 

"NPR Playhouse," which 

presents weekly broadcasts 

of American-produced radio 

drama. 

*New Radio and 

Performing Arts, Inc. 

Staten Island, NY $24,000 

To support the production 

of "New American Radio," 

a weekly radio series of 

works by audio artists across 

the country. 

*Newark Public Radio, lnc. 

Newark, NJ $11,000 

To support the production 

of"JazzSet with Branford 

Marsalis," a weekly, nationally-syndicated jazz-inperformance series featuring leading jazz musicians 

and rising young artists 

recorded at major venues. 

*Pennsylvania Public 

Radio Assodates, Inc. 

Uwchland, PA $10,000 

To support the production 

of "ECHOES," a daily 

radio series of new music. 

*Public Radio 

International, Inc. 

Minneapolis, MN $10,000 

To support the production 

of "Schickele Mix," a 

weekly radio program 

hosted by composer and 

artist Peter Schickele. 

*Symphony Space, Inc. 

New York, NY $10,000 

To support the production 

of"Selected Shorts: A 

Celebration of the Short 

Stow," a radio series of onehour readings of distinguished short stories by 

prominent actors. 

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*University of Texas at 

Austin 

Austin, TX $15,000 

To support the production 

of arts and cultural programming for "Latino. 

USA," a weekly Englishlanguage radio journal of 

news and culture. 

*West Virginia Public 

Broadcasting Foundation 

Charleston, WV $12,000 

To support the production 

of "Mountain Stage," a 

weekly arts and performance radio series presenting contemporary music 

seasoned with traditional 

and folk roots performers. 

Philadelphia, PA $10,000 

To support the production 

of "Fresh Air with Terry 

Gross," a daily magazine of 

the arts and contemporary 

culture featuring interviews 

with prominent and emerging figures in the arts. 

*Wolf Trap Foundation for 

the Performing Arts 

Vienna, VA $18,000 

To support the production 

and distribution of"Folk 

Masters from Wolf Trap," a 

weekly performance/music 

radio series recorded live at 

the Barns of Wolf Trap. 

*World Music Productions 

Brooklyn, NY $16,000 

To support "Afropop Worldwide," a weekly radio series 

of programs which showcase 

contemporary African and 

African-influenced music in 

the Caribbean, Europe, and 

the Americas. 

PROGRAMMING IN 

THE ARTS: THE ARTS 

ON TELEVISION 

11 awards $1,550,000 

*American Dance Festival 

Durham, NC $250,000 

To support the production of 

three one-hour television 

programs called "Free to 

Dance: The African American Presence in Modem 

Dance," on the crucial role 

of African Americans in the 

development of 20th century 

modem dance. 

*American Documentary 

New York, NY $175,000 

To support acquisition, 

development, and completion costs of the 1997 

broadcast of "P.O.V." (Point 

of View), a public television 

series devoted to the art of 

nonfiction film. 

*Connecticut Public 

Broadcasting, Inc. 

Hartford, CT $50,000 

To support production, 

acquisition and broadcast 

costs of five programs in the 

1997 telecast of "New 

Television," a series of halfhour programs presenting 

video artworks from around 

the world. 

*Educational Broadcasting 

Corp. 

New York, NY $275,000 

To support the development 

and production of three 

programs in the 12th broadcast season of the "American 

Masters" television series, 

including the development 

of related educational and 

outreach activities. 

*Educational Broadcasting 

Corp. 

New York, NY $400,000 

To support the development 

and production of four 

programs for the 1997-98 

broadCast of the public 

television series "Great 

Performances." 

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*Educational Broadcasting 

Corp. 

New York, NY $100,000 

To support the completion 

and national broadcast of 

"American Visions," eight 

one-hour television programs examining the 

United States from the 

perspective of its visual 

culture -- painting, sculpture, artifacts, buildings, 

and cities. 

*Lincoln Center for the 

Performing Arts 

New York, NY $85,000 

To support the 1997 telecasts of the public television 

series, "Live From Lincoln 

Center." 

*Metropolitan Opera 

Association, Inc. 

New York, NY $90,000 

To support the telecast of 

Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte and 

Verdi’s La Forza del Destino 

as part of the 1996-97 

broadcasts of the public 

television series "The 

Metropolitan Opera Presents." 

*Pathmakers, Inc. 

Washington, DC $25,000 

To support the live national 

telecast from the West 

Lawn of the U.S. Capitol of 

two concerts with the 

National Symphony 

Orchestra: The 1996 

National Memorial Day 

Concert, and A Capitol 

Fourth, on July 4, 1996. 

*Twin Cities Public 

Television, Inc. 

St. Paul, MN $50,000 

To support the production 

of"Mive TV." 

*Twin Cities Public 

Television, Inc. 

St. Paul, MN $50,000 

To support the production 

of "American Photography: 

A Century of Images," three 

hour-long programs exploring still photography in 

America in the 20th century. 

NATIONAL SERVICES 

25 awards $208,000 

American Indian Film 

Institute 

San Francisco, CA $5,000 

To support the American 

Indian Film Festival and the 

film journal Indian Cinema 

Entertainment (ICE). 

Austin Museum of Art 

Austin, TX $6,000 

To support production of 

"The Territory," a broadcast 

showcase for independent 

film and video art distributed 

to PBS stations in Texas. 

Camera News, Inc. 

New York, NY $8,000 

To support the distribution 

of films and videos by and 

about people of color. 

Cineaste Publishing Inc. 

New York, NY $5,000 

To support the publication 

of Cineaste, a magazine 

which provides comprehensive reportage and insightful 

analysis of virtually every 

facet of the world of film. 

EBS Productions, Inc. 

San Francisco, CA $5,000 

To support a conference for 

American independent 

producers to learn about 

European co-productions, 

featuring speakers from 

such organizations as 

England’s Channel 4, 

Germany’s ZDF and 

ARTE, and Japan’s NHK. 

Film Arts Foundation 

San Francisco, CA $5,000 

To support the Canyon 

Cinema film/video distribution cooperative. 

Foundation for 

Independent Video and 

Film, Inc. 

New York, NY $29,000 

To support the publication 

of The Independent Film and 

Video Monthly. 

Hawaii International Film 

Festival 

Honolulu, HI $5,000 

To support an educational 

program and a conference. 

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Independent Feature 

Project, Inc. 

New York, NY $10,000 

To support the Independent 

Feature Film Market, the 

only market dedicated to 

the presentation of American works to distributors, 

agents, development executives, television buyers, and 

festival programmers. 

International 

Documentary Foundation 

Los Angeles, CA $6,000 

To support the publication 

of International Documentary, the only American 

magazine devoted exclusively to nonfiction film and 

video. 

International Film Circuit 

New York, NY $5,000 

To support the organization 

and circulation of two 

curated film/video exhibitions, "The ICA (London) 

Biennial of Independent 

Film and Video" and 

"Document Asia," which 

have been unable to secure 

distribution in this country. 

Mint Museum of Art, Inc. 

Charlotte, NC $5,000 

To support a circulating 

exhibition of independent 

film and video. 

Kobal 

National Alliance of Media 

Arts Centers, Inc. 

Oakland, CA $10,000 

To support NAMAC’s 

annual conference, the 

publication of its quarterly 

newsletter, and an updated 

membership directory. 

National Asian American 

Telecommunications 

Association 

San Francisco, CA $7,000 

To support CrossCurrent 

Media, a national 

video/audio cassette and 

film distribution program 

for works by or about Asian 

Americans. 

collection, courtesy American Masters. 

National Asian American 

Telecommunications 

Association 

San Francisco, CA $6,000 

To support the "Living 

Room Festival," a 13-part 

television series, broadcast 

locally. 

National Educational 

Media Network 

Oakland, CA $7,000 

To support the 26th annual 

National Educational 

Media Network’s Festival 

and Market. 

From the 

"American 

Masters" 

program 

Lena Horne: 

In her Own 

Voice, 

Lena Horne 

ond Eddie 

(Rochester) 

Anderson 

in the 1943 

MGM film 

Cabin in 

The Sky. 

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New England Foundation 

for the Arts 

Boston, MA $5,000 

To support "Mixed Signals," 

a series of works by independent film and video 

artists distributed by cable 

television throughout New 

England. 

Resolution, Inc. 

San Francisco, CA $9,000 

To support a touring 

exhibition of films and 

videos from South Africa. 

Sinking Creek Film 

Celebration, Inc. 

Nashville, TN $5,000 

To support the 1996 Sinking Creek Film Celebration 

and the Sinking Creek 

Media Institute. 

Sojourner Productions, Inc. 

Washington, DC $5,000 

To support the publication 

of Black Film Review, the 

only journal devoted primarily to Black films and 

filmmakers. 

Sundance Institute for 

Film and Television 

Salt Lake City, UT $35,000 

To support the 1996 Sundance Film Festival, the 

Directing and Screenwriting Labs, and the 

Producers Conference. 

Thomas A. Edison Media 

Arts Consortium 

Jersey City, NJ $7,000 

To support the touring 

exhibition of the Black 

Maria Film and Video 

Festival. 

University of California at 

Santa Barbara, Regents of 

the 

Santa Barbara, CA $5,000 

To support .the publication 

of Camera Obscura, a scholarly journal examining 

critical issues in media 

studies with a focus on 

recent developments in 

feminist film theory. 

Video Association of Dallas 

Dallas, TX $5,000 

To support the 1996 annual 

Dallas Video Festival at the 

Dallas Museum of Art. 

Washington D.C. 

International Film Festival 

Washington, DC . $8,000 

To support the 1996 annual 

Washington, DC International Film Festival. 

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Tucson-Pima Arts 

Council** 

Tucson, AZ $158,000 

A cooperative agreement to 

produce a study on Arts & 

Prevention for the Endowment and the Center for 

Substance Abuse Prevenlion. 

*U.S. Department of 

Agriculture 

Forest Service 

Washington, DC $300,000 

To support an interagency 

partnership for Arts and 

Rural Community grants 

with the Forest Service 

which supports arts projects 

in forest service areas. 

**Administrative Funds 

*U.S. National Park 

Service 

Washington, DC $75,000 

To support an interagency 

partnership with the 

National Park Service’s 

Rivers, Trails and Conservation Assistance Branch for 

a Cultural Interpretation 

Initiative which will support 

projects using the arts as 

part of community-based 

interpretation of natural, 

historic, and cultural 

resources along scenic 

byways or greenways or in 

townships, counties or 

urban neighborhoods. 

*U.S. Department of 

Justice 

Washington, DC $75,000 

To support an interagency 

partnership with the Office 

of Juvenile Justice and 

Delinquency Prevention 

that provides training to

arts-based at-risk youth 

programs. 

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SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS 

106 awards $2,200,000 

Albright College 

Reading, PA $10,000 

To support an exhibition, 

"Timeframes," with accompanying catalogue and 

education programs. 

Allentown Art Museum 

Allentown, PA $12,000 

To support the traveling 

exhibition "Charles Sheeler 

in Doylestown: American 

Modernism and Pennsylvania Tradition," with accompanying catalogue and 

education programs. 

American Craft Museum 

New York, NY $20,000 

To support the traveling 

exhibition "The Studio 

Craft Movement: 1945­

1960," with accompanying 

catalogue. 

Americas Society, Inc. 

New York, NY $25,000 

To support a traveling 

exhibition of Latin American "casta" paintings, with 

accompanying catalogue. 

Amigos del Museo del Barrio 

New York, NY $20,000 

To support costs associated 

with planning the exhibition 

"Transculturation and the 

Changing Self: Three 

Generations of Puerto 

Rican Artists in the United 

States." 

Art Institute of Chicago 

Chicago, IL $60,000 

To support an exhibition of 

the lithography of James 

McNeill Whisder (1834­

1903), with accompanying 

catalogue and education 

programs. 

Asia Society 

New York, NY $50,000 

To support "Traditions/ 

Tensions," a traveling 

exhibition of contemporary 

art by thirty artists from 

Asia, with accompanying 

catalogue and education 

programs. 

Baltimore Museum of Art 

Baltimore, MD $40,000 

To support a traveling 

exhibition "The Excellence 

of Every Art: The Victoria 

and Albert Museum," with 

accompanying catalogue 

and education programs. 

Beaver College 

Glenside, PA $5,000 

To support the exhibition 

"Patterns of Excess," with 

accompanying catalogue 

and education programs. 

Bronx Museum of the Arts 

Bronx, NY $12,500 

To support an exhibition of 

the work of Uruguayanborn artist Rimer Cardillo, 

with accompanying catalogue and education programs. 

Brooklyn Institute of Arts 

and Sciences 

Brooklyn, NY $60,000 

To support a traveling 

exhibition of paintings and 

other visual arts in premodern Iran (Persia), with 

accompanying catalogue 

and education programs. 

Buffalo Fine Arts Academy 

Buffalo, NY $25,000 

To support a traveling 

exhibition "Being and 

Time: The Emergence of 

Video Projection," with 

accompanying catalogue 

and education programs. 

Capp Street Project 

San Francisco, CA $10,000 

To support an exhibition, 

"Subject Matters: Art and 

Computer Technology in 

the Present," with accompanying catalogue and education programs. 

China Institute in 

America, Inc. 

New York, NY $15,000 

To support an exhibition of 

paintings, scrolls, books, 

and other materials called 

"A Patron’s Life: Zhou 

Lianggong and the Painters 

of 17th-Century China," 

with accompanying catalogue and education programs. 

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City of Palo Alto 

Palo Alto, CA $10,000 

To support a traveling 

exhibition of the work of 

American artist Dominic Di 

Mare, with accompanying 

catalogue and education 

programs. 

Contemporary Arts Center 

Cincinnati, OH $7,500 

To support a traveling 

exhibition of the work of 

Tim Hawkinson with 

accompanying catalogue 

and education programs. 

Contemporary Museum 

Honolulu, HI $10,000 

To support a retrospective 

exhibition of the work of 

Ray Yoshida, with accompanying catalogue. 

Corcoran Gallery of Art, 

Trustees of the 

Washington, DC $10,000 

To support the traveling 

exhibition "Petah Coyne: 

Recent Works," with 

accompanying catalogue 

and education programs. 

Corporation of the Fine 

Arts Museums 

San Francisco, CA $60,000 

To support an exhibition of 

pre-Hispanic Peruvian art, 

with accompanying catalogue and education programs. 

Coundl for Creative 

Projeas, Inc. 

Lee, MA $10,000 

To support a traveling 

exhibition of the photomontages of Romare 

Bearden, with accompanying catalogue and education 

programs. 

Craft and Folk Art 

Museum 

Los Angeles, CA $5,000 

To support the presentation 

of an exhibition of Swedish 

folk art at the Craft and 

Folk Art Museum, Los 

Angeles, with accompanying education programs, 

organized by the Museum 

of International Folk Art in 

Santa Fe, New Mexico. 

Dartmouth College 

Hanover, NH $25,000 

To support the traveling 

exhibition, "Intimate 

Encounters: Love and 

Domesticity in 18thCentury France," at Dartmouth College’s Hood 

Museum of Art, with 

accompanying catalogue. 

Detroit Institute of Arts, 

Founders Society 

Detroit, MI $45,000 

To support a traveling 

exhibition of Gothic ivory 

carvings, with accompanying catalogue and education 

programs. 

Dia Center for the Arts 

New York, NY $22,500 

To support an installation of 

new work by Spanish artist 

Juan Munoz, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. 

Drawing Center, Inc. 

New York, NY $8,000 

To support a traveling 

exhibition of drawings by 

Victor Hugo, with accompanying catalogue and 

education programs. 

Edmundson Art 

Foundation, Inc. 

Des Moines, IA $5,000 

To support a series of site 

specific installations by 

contemporary artists, with 

accompanying catalogue 

and education programs. 

Fresno Metropolitan 

Museum of Art, History, 

and Science 

Fresno, CA $5,000 

To support costs associated 

with borrowing the exhibition "Ceremony of Spirit: 

Nature and Memory in 

Contemporary Latino Art," 

from the Mexican Museum 

in San Francisco, with 

accompanying education 

programs. 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hammonds House 

Galleries, Inc. 

Adanta, GA $5,000 

To support the presentation 

of an exhibition of the work 

of American artist Robert 

Duncanson at the Hammonds House Galleries, 

with accompanying public 

programs, organized by 

the Washington University 

Gallery of Art, St. Louis, 

MO. 

Hand Workshop, Inc. 

Richmond, VA $10,000 

To support a traveling 

exhibition of work by 

contemporary artists whose 

work explores issues of 

childbirth, infancy, and 

parenting, with accompanying catalogue and education 

programs. 

Harvard University 

Cambridge, MA $50,000 

To support a traveling 

exhibition, "KOTAH: Its 

Gods, Kings, and Tigers," 

at the Harvard University 

Art Museums, with accompanying catalogue and 

education programs. 

Henry Gallery Association 

Seattle, WA $30,000 

To support the traveling 

exhibition "Chris Burden: 

Sculpture," with accompanying catalogue and education programs. 

Honolulu Academy of Arts 

Honolulu, HI $8,000 

To support the presentation 

of the exhibition "Workers, 

An Archaeology of the 

Industrial Age: Photographs 

by Sebastiao Salgado," at 

the Honolulu Academy of 

Arts, originally organized 

by the Philadelphia 

Museum of Art. 

Hostos Community College 

Advisory Council, Inc. 

Bronx, NY $12,000 

To support a traveling 

exhibition of the work of 

Puerto Rican artist Antonio 

Martorell, with accompanying catalogue and education 

programs. 

Illinois State University 

Normal, IL $7,000 

To support an exhibition 

"Kenny Scharf: When 

Worlds Collide," with 

accompanying catalogue 

and education programs. 

Independent Curators, lnc. 

New York, NY $7,500 

To support a traveling 

photography exhibition 

"Making It Real," with 

accompanying catalogue. 

Indianapolis Museum of 

Art, Inc. 

Indianapolis, IN $30,000 

To support a collaboration 

between the Indianapolis 

Museum of Art and The 

Spanish Institute (NY) to 

exhibit paintings from Spain 

from the 18th and 19th 

centuries along with a 

catalogue and accompanying education programs. 

Institute for Contemporary 

Art, P.S. 1 Museum and 

the Clocktower Gallery 

Long Island City, NY 

$55,000 

To support a traveling 

exhibition of the work of 

American artist Jack Smith, 

with accompanying catalogue and education programs. 

Institute of Contemporary 

Art, Boston 

Boston, MA $15,000 

To support a traveling 

exhibition tided "Gothic," 

with accompanying catalogue and education programs. 

International Center of 

Photography 

New York, NY $45,000 

To support a traveling 

exhibition of the work of 

British photographer 

W.H.E Talbot (1800q877), 

with accompanying catalogue and education pro­
 

 

 

 

ffapanese American 

National Museum 

Los Angeles, CA $10,000 

To support a traveling 

exhibition of the work of 

Bruce and Norman 

Yonemoto, with accompanying catalogue and education programs. 

ffewisb Museum 

New York, NY $20,000 

To support costs associated 

with planning an exhibition 

of the work of French 

painter Chaim Soutine 

(1893-1943) 

ffoslyn Art Museum 

Omaha, NE $20,000 

To support a traveling 

exhibition of the work of 

American artist Lyonel 

Feininger (1871-1956), with 

accompanying catalogue 

and education programs. 

Korean American 

Museum, Inc. 

Los Angeles, CA $5,000 

To support costs associated 

with borrowing the exhibition "Vessels of a Culture: 

Three Kingdoms and 

Chosun Ceramics from 

Korea" from the Asian Art 

Museum of San Francisco, 

with accompanying education programs. 

Massachusetts Institute of 

Technology 

Cambridge, MA $35,500 

To support an exhibition 

"Mirror Images: Women, 

Surrealism, Self-Representation,,’ with accompanying 

catalogue and education 

programs. 

Mattress Factory 

Pittsburgh, PA $30,000 

To support an exhibition of 

individual installations by 

Yayoi Kusama, Greer 

Lankton, and Andre 

Walker. 

Metropolitan Museum of 

Art 

New York, NY $25,000 

To support an exhibition of 

the work of Giovanni 

Battista Tiepolo (1696­

1770) and accompanying 

education programs. 

Mexic-Arte 

Austin, TX $5,000 

To support the presentation 

of the exhibition 

"Guillermo Kahlo, 1872­

1941: A Retrospective," at 

the Mexic-Arte Museum, 

organized by the National 

Council for the Arts in 

Mexico, with accompanying 

catalogue and education 

programs. 

Mexican Fine Arts Center 

Chicago, IL $10,000 

To support an exhibition 

"Dia de los Muertos: A 

Celebration of Family," 

with accompanying catalogue and education programs. 

Michigan State University 

East Lansing, MI $8,000 

To support the presentation 

of an exhibition of Swedish 

folk art at the Michigan 

State University Museum, 

organized by the Museum of 

International Folk Art in 

Santa Fe, and accompanying 

education programs. 

Mid-America Arts Alliance 

Kansas City, MO $10,000 

To support a traveling 

exhibition organized by 

ExhibitsUSA, "Inescapable 

Histories: Mel Chin," with 

accompanying catalogue. 

Mint Museum of Art, Inc. 

Charlotte, NC $7,500 

To support the costs of 

borrowing an exhibition, 

"Animals in African Art: 

From the Familiar to the 

Marvelous" from the 

Museum for African Art, 

with accompanying education programs. 

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Moore College of Art and 

Design 

Philadelphia, PA $10,000 

To support an exhibition of 

the work of Swiss artist 

Roman Signer with accompanying catalogue and 

education programs at the 

College’s Goldie Paley 

Gallery. 

Muckenthaler Cultural 

Center Foundation 

Fullerton, CA $5,000 

To support the presentation 

of the exhibition "Roycroft 

Desktop" at the Muckenthaler Cultural Center, 

originally organized by the 

Burchfield-Penny Art 

Center, Buffalo, NY. 

Museum of American Folk 

Art 

New York, NY $25,000 

To support a touring 

exhibition "Sign Sculpture: 

Shop and Cigar Store 

Figures in America," with 

accompanying catalogne 

and education programs. 

Museum of Contemporary 

Art, Los Angeles 

Los Angeles, CA $25,000 

To support a traveling 

exhibition "Out of Actions: 

Performance and The 

Object," with accompanying catalogue and education 

programs. 

Museum of Contemporary 

Art, San Diego 

La Jolla, CA $30,000 

To support a traveling 

exhibition of the work of 

American artist Sarah 

Charlesworth, with accompanying catalogue and 

education programs. 

Museum of Fine Arts, 

Houston 

Houston, TX $40,000 

To support the exhibition 

"Picasso and Photography," 

with accompanying catalogne and education programs. 

Museum of Modern Art 

New York, NY $20,000 

To support a traveling 

retrospective of the work of 

American artist Jasper Johns 

and an accompanying 

catalogue and education 

programs. 

Museum of New Mexico 

Foundation 

Santa Fe, NM $10,000 

To suport an exhibition of 

the photographic work of 

Laszlo Moholy-Nagy. 

National Museum of 

Women in the Arts, Inc. 

Washington, DC $25,000 

To support an exhibition of 

the work of Lavinia Fontana 

(1552-1614), with accompanying catalogue and education programs. 

New York State Historical 

Association 

Cooperstown, NY $10,000 

To support the presentation 

of the exhibition "James 

and John Bard, Picture 

Painters," at the Fenimore 

House Museum in Co.operstown, New York, with 

accompanying publication 

and education programs. 

New York University 

New York, NY $20,000 

To support the exhibition 

" Le Mouvement Quotidien: 

Aspects of French Art in the 

Nineties," and an accompanying catalogue 

Oakland Museum of 

California Foundation 

Oakland, CA $20,000 

To support a traveling 

exhibition of paintings by 

Frank Day (1902-1976), 

with accompanying catalogue and education programs. 

Ohio State University 

Research Foundation 

Columbus, OH $13,500 

To support the presentation 

of the exhibition "Forces of 

the Fifties: Selections from 

the Mbright-Knox Art 

Gallery" at the Wexner 

Center, with accompanying 

catalogue and education 

programs. 

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Old Jail Art Center 

Albany, TX $5,000 

To support the presentation 

of the exhibition "The 

Figure in 20th-century 

Sculpture," drawn from the 

collections of the Ulrich 

Museum of Art, Wichita, 

Kansas, and the Wichita 

Museum of Art, with 

accompanying education 

programs. 

Parrisb Art Museum, Inc. 

Southampton, NY $10,000 

To support a traveling 

exhibition, "Painting and 

Patronage: The Tenth 

Street Studios," with 

accompanying catalogue 

and education programs. 

Peabody Museum of Salem 

and Essex 

Salem, MA $10,000 

To support the exhibition 

"Profusion of Color: 

Korean Costumes and 

Wrapping Cloths of the 

Chosun Dynasty," organized 

by the Asian Art Museum in 

San Francisco. 

Philadelphia Museum of 

Art 

Philadelphia, PA $60,000 

To support the exhibition 

"Earl Horter: A Modernist’s 

Collection Lost and 

Found," with accompanying 

catalogue and education 

programs. 

Phillips Academy 

Andover, MA $20,000 

To support a traveling 

exhibition of the work of 

American photographer 

Wendy Ewald, with accompanying artist book/catalogue, residency, and education programs at the 

Addison Gallery of American Art. 

Phillips Collection 

Washington, DC $40,000 

To support a traveling 

retrospective exhibition of 

the work of American artist 

Richard Diebenkorn, with 

accompanying catalogue 

and education programs. 

Phoenix Art Museum 

Phoenix, AZ $15,000 

To support the presentation 

of the exhibition "Converging Cultures: Art and 

Identity in Spanish America," at the Phoenix Art 

Museum. 

Photographic Resource 

Center, Inc. 

Boston, MA $10,000 

To support the traveling 

exhibition "Anxious 

Libraries: Photography and 

the Fate of Reading," with 

accompanying education 

programs. 

Real Art Ways, Inc. 

Hartford, CT $15,000 

To support "RAW Specifics," an ongoing series of 

site-specific public art 

projects by contemporary 

artists and accompanying 

publications. 

Renaissance Society at the 

University of Chicago 

Chicago, IL $25,000 

To support an exhibition of 

the work of American artist 

Raymond Petribon, with 

accompanying catalogue 

and education programs. 

Rhode Island School of 

Design 

Providence, RI $45,000 

To support a traveling 

exhibition of faience (earthenware) from ancient Egypt, 

with accompanying catalogue 

and education programs. 

Robert W. Woodruff Arts 

Center, Inc. 

Atlanta, GA $10,000 

To support an exhibition, 

"Thomas Woodruff: Nose 

Gays and Knuckle Sandwiches," with accompanying 

catalogue and education 

programs. 

Salina Art Center, Inc. 

Salina, KS $10,000 

To support the traveling 

exhibition, "Of Matter and 

Spirit: African Arts from 

Kansas Collections," with 

accompanying catalogue 

and education programs. 

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Detail from 

the work of 

Black Hawk 

(c. 1880), part 

of an exhibition 

of 19th century 

Plains Indian 

ledger drawings 

organized by 

the Drawing 

Center and 

touring in 

1996-97. 

San Francisco Museum of 

Modern Art 

San Francisco, CA $15,000 

To support a traveling 

exhibition of the work of 

American artist Sargent 

Claude Johnson, with 

accompanying catalogue 

and education programs. 

Southeastern Center for 

Contemporary Art 

Winston-Salem, NC 

$15,000 

To support a traveling 

exhibition of the work of 

American artist Maya Lin, 

with accompanying 

catalogue, and education 

programs. 

Courtesy Fenimore House Museum. 

Storefront for Art and 

Architecture, Inc. 

New York, NY $15,000 

To support the exhibition 

"New York Masjid" (New 

York Mosque), with accom~ 

panying catalogue and 

education programs. 

Studio Museum in 

Harlem, Inc. 

New York, NY $5,000 

To support the presentation 

at the Studio Museum of 

the exhibition "Ceremony 

of Spirit: Nature and 

Memory in Contemporary 

Latino Art," organized by 

the Mexican Museum, San 

Francisco. 

Tacoma Art Museum 

Tacoma, WA $10,000 

To support an exhibition 

of the work of American 

artist Betye Saar, with 

accompanying gallery guide 

and video and education 

programs. 

Tennessee Botanical 

Gardens and Fine Arts 

Center, Inc. 

Nashville, TN $5,000 

To support a traveling 

exhibition of the work of 

American artist William 

Edmondson (1870?- 1951), 

with accompanying catalogue and education programs at the Cheekwood 

Museum of Art. 

United Society of Shakers 

Poland Spring, ME $25,000 

To support the exhibition 

"Quiet in the Land, Everyday Life, Contemporary Art 

and the Shakers," with 

accompanying _catalogue 

and education programs. 

University of Arizona 

Tucson, AZ $15,000 

To support the exhibition 

"Sea Change: The Seascape 

in Contemporary Photography," with accompanying 

catalogue and education 

programs at the Center for 

Creative Photography. 

University of California at 

Berkeley, Regents of the 

Berkeley, CA $20,000 

To support a traveling 

exhibition on Giambattista 

Tiepolo and his circle, with 

accompanying catalogue 

and education programs. 

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University of California at 

Los Angeles, Regents of the 

Los Angeles, CA $23,500 

To support the Armand 

Hammer Museum of Art’s 

traveling exhibition "Scene 

of the Crime," with accompanying catalogue and 

education programs. 

University of California at 

Los Angeles, Regents of the 

Los Angeles, CA $60,000 

To support a traveling 

exhibition and catalogue on 

Yoruba beaded arts, with 

accompanying education 

programs. 

University of Georgia 

Athens, GA $15,000 

To support the Georgia 

Museum of Art’s traveling 

exhibition "The American 

Scene and the South: 

Paintings and Works on 

Paper, 1930-1946," with 

accompanying catalogue 

and education programs. 

University of Miami 

Coral Gables, FL $5,000 

To support the presentation 

of "Masterworks in Haitian 

Art from the Collection of 

the Davenport Museum of 

Art" at the Lowe Art 

Museum, with accompanying education programs. 

University of Pennsylvania, Trustees of the 

Philadelphia, PA $15,000 

To support the exhibition 

"Three Stanzas on Melancholy," with an accompanying catalogue. 

University of Rochester 

Rochester, NY $15,000 

To support the exhibition, 

"The Wheel of Time: A 

Tibetan Kalachakra Sand 

Mandala" with accompanying education programs and 

cultural events. 

University of Wyoming 

Laramie, WY $10,000 

To support the traveling 

exhibition "The Painted 

Photograph: Hand-Colored 

Photography, 1839 to the 

Present," with accompanying catalogue and education 

programs at the University 

of Wyoming Art Museum. 

University of the Arts 

Philadelphia, PA $5,000 

To support a traveling 

exhibition of the work of 

American artist Jon Kessler, 

with accompanying 

brochure, artist’s publication, and lecture. 

Virginia Beach Center for 

the Arts 

Virginia Beach, VA $5,000 

TO support the presentation 

of the exhibition "Dawoud 

Bey: Portraits 1975-1995" 

at the Virginia Beach 

Center for the Arts, with 

accompanying education 

programs. 

Virginia Commonwealth 

University 

Richmond, VA $15,000 

To support the exhibition 

"Presumed Innocence," 

with accompanying catalogue, at the Anderson 

Gallery. 

Virginia Museum of Fine 

Arts 

Richmond, VA $5,000 

To support the presentation 

of "Jacob Lawrence: The 

Frederick Douglass and 

Harriet Tubman Series of 

Narrative Paintings." 

Wads-worth Atheneum 

Hartford, CT $30,000 

To support a series of 

exhibitions of the work of 

Lee Lozano, Spencer Finch, 

Mierle Laderman Ukeles, 

and Carl Pope, with accompanying artist sheets and 

education programs. 
 

 

 

 

 

Walker Art Center 

Minneapolis, MN $10,000 

To support a traveling 

exhibition of the prints of 

American artist Frank 

Stella, with accompanying 

catalogue and education 

programs. 

Walters Art Gallery, 

Trustees of the 

Baltimore, MD $65,000 

To support a traveling  ̄ 

exhibition, "In the Mind’s 

Eye: Dutch Painting from 

Utrecht in the Golden 

Age," with accompanying 

catalogue and education 

programs. 

Wellesley College 

Wellesley, MA $40,000 

To support a traveling 

exhibition on the Arts and 

Crafts Movement in Boston 

and surrounding communities, with accompanying 

catalogue and education 

programs, at the Davis 

Museum and Cultural 

Center. 

Whitney Museum of 

American Art 

New York, NY $50,000 

To support an exhibition of 

work created by the New 

York Dada artists, with 

accompanying catalogue 

and education programs. 

Williams College 

Williamstown, MA $30,000 

To support a traveling 

exhibition of the work of 

American artist Tony 

Oursler, with accompanying 

catalogue and education 

programs, at the Williams 

College Museum of Art.. 

Worcester Art Museum 

Worcester, M_A_ $15,000 

To support the presentation 

at the Worcester Art 

Museum of the exhibition 

"Grant Wood: An American 

Master Revealed," with 

accompanying education 

programs. 

Yale University 

New Haven, CT $20,000 

To support a traveling 

exhibition of British art 

from the collections of.the 

State Hermitage Museum 

in St. Petersburg, Russia, 

with accompanying catalogue. 

Yale University 

New Haven, CT $65,000 

To support a traveling 

exhibition of the art of the 

Baule people of the Ivory 

Coast, with accompanying 

catalogue. 

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Bass Museum of Art, 

Friends of the 

Miami Beach, FL $10,000 

To support scholarly 

research on the Museum’s 

collection of architectural 

drawings and vintage 

photographs of designs by 

L. Murray Dixon and
 

Morris Lapidus.
 

Cleveland Museum of Art 

Cleveland, OH $20,000 

To support the publication 

of Asian Selections, a handbook surveying Chinese, 

Japanese, Cambodian, 

Korean, and Indian masterworks in the permanent 

collection. 

Dance Theatre of Harlem 

New York, NY $15,000 

To support the documentation and archival storage of 

the Dance Theatre of 

Harlem’s photography 

collection. 

Fisk University 

Nashville, TN $15,000 

To support the scholarly 

documentation of the Fisk 

University Galleries’ 

collection of AfricanAmerican art and archives. 

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Five Colleges, Inc. 

Amherst, MA $15,000 

To support the first phase in 

the development of a 

comprehensive database 

documenting the art collections of the consortium’s 

member institutions. 

George Eastman House 

Rochester, NY $11,000 

To support the computerized documentation of the 

19th-century British photography collection. 

Henry Francis du Pont 

Wintertbur Museum, Inc. 

Winterthur, DE $17,000 

To support costs associated 

with preparing Quilts and 

Their Fabrics. 

International Center of 

Photography 

New York, NY $10,000 

To support scholarly documentation of the archive of 

the work of Weegee (Arthur 

Fellig, American, 1899­

1968). 

North Carolina Museum of 

Art Foundation 

Raleigh, NC $12,500 

To support the publication 

of Handbook of the Collections, 

an easy-to-use, illustrated 

guide which highlights the 

most important works in 

the permanent collection. 

Philbrook Museum of Art 

Tulsa, OK $12,500 

To support the publication 

of Native American Painting 

at the Pbilbrook Museum of 

Art. 

Printmaking Workshop 

New York, NY $10,000 

To support the completion 

of the Workshop’s effort to 

document and archivally 

house its permanent collection. 

Saint Louis Art Museum 

St. Louis, MO $17,500 

To support the computerized documentation of the 

Museum’s collection of 

prints, drawings, and 

photographs. 

Seattle Art Museum 

Seattle, WA $22,000 

To support the preparation 

of Long Steps Never Broke a 

Back: African Art from the 

Seattle Art Museum. 

Smith College 

Northampton, MA. $17,500 

To support the publication 

of a scholarly catalogue of 

master drawings from the 

Smith College Museum of 

Art. 

University of Arizona 

Tucson, AZ $5,000 

To support manuscript 

preparation for two issues of 

The Archive, the Center for 

Creative Photography’s 

scholarly journal exploring 

aspects of its permanent 

collection. 

University of Utah 

Salt Lake City, UT $15,000 

To support the publication 

of a handbook highlighting 

the most important works 

in the Utah Museum of 

Fine Arts’ permanent 

collection. 

Virginia Museum of Fine 

Arts 

Richmond, VA $20,000 

To support the publication 

of a scholarly catalogue 

discussing the collection of 

Indian art. 

Wichita Art Museum, 

Friends of the 

Wichita, KS $17,500 

To support the publication 

of A SEARCH FOR IDENTITY:: lmages of the Land and 

the People from the l/Vichita 

Art Museum Collection of 

American Art. 

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PRESENTATION OF 

COLLECTIONS 

21 awards $570,000 

Brooklyn Institute of Arts 

and Sciences 

Brooklyn, NY $50,000 

To support the reinstallation of the museum’s 

significant collection of 

American painting and 

sculpture and related 

education programs. 

Center for Puppetry Arts 

Atlanta, GA $15,000 

To support the development 

of a visible storage gallery 

to give students, puppet 

scholars, and the public 

more access to the permanent collection. 

Dayton Art Institute 

Dayton, OH $40,000 

To support the reinstallation of the museum’s 

encyclopedic collection. Of 

North American, European, 

Asian, African, Oceanic, and 

pre-Columbian art and 

related education programs. 

Emory University 

Atlanta, GA $35,000 

To support the permanent 

installation of the Michael 

C. Carlos Museum’s subSaharan African collection, 

related education programs, 

and accompanying 

brochure. 

Fabric Workshop, Inc. 

Philadelphia, PA $30,000 

To support several exhibitions and related education 

programs from a six-part 

series highlighting works in 

the permanent collection. 

Jewish Museum 

New York, NY $20,000 

To support the exhibition 

and tour of contemporary 

art from the permanent 

collection and related 

education programs. 

Milwaukee Art Museum 

Milwaukee, WI $20,000 

To support the reinstallation of the museum’s 

extensive collection of folk 

art and related education 

programs. 

Museum Associates 

Los Angeles, CA $40,000 

To support the reinstallation of the museum’s South 

and Southeast Asian collections and related education 

programs. 

Museum of Fine Arts, 

Boston 

Boston, MA $37,000 

To support the reinstallation of the museum’s 

collection of early Greek art 

from the Geometric, 

Orientalizing, and Archaic 

periods (1000 to 480 B.C.) 

and related education 

programs. 

Museum of Modern Art 

New York, NY $18,500 

To support an exhibition 

surveying the role of prints 

and illustrated books in 

contemporary art from 

1980 to 1995 and related 

education programs. 

Museum of New Mexico 

Foundation 

Santa Fe, NM $30,000 

To support an exhibition of 

Navajo textiles from the 

permanent collection of the 

Museum of Indian Arts and 

Culture and related education programs. 

Newark Museum 

Association 

Newark, NJ $25,000 

To support the exhibition 

"Craftsmen of Ancient 

Rome" and related education programs. 

Phoenix Art Museum 

Phoenix, AZ $20,000 

To support.the reinstallation of the museum’s Asian 

art collection and related 

education programs. 

Rhode Island School of 

Design 

Providence, RI $37,000 

To support the reinstallation of the museum’s 

collection of European 

painting, sculpture, and 

decorative arts from the 

Middle Ages to the early 

19th century and related 

education programs. 

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Southern Arts Federation 

Atlanta, GA $20,000 

To support a traveling 

exhibition program serving 

rural sites in the South. 

Textile Museum of D. C. 

Washington, DC $20,000 

To support the exhibition 

"Symmetry and Pattern in 

Oriental Carpets" and 

related education programs. 

Tucson Museum of Art 

Tucson, AZ $20,000 

To support the reinstallation of the museum’s preColumbian, Spanish Colonial, and Mexican folk art 

collections. 

University of Chicago 

Chicago, IL $40,000 

To support the reinstallation of the Oriental Institute Museum’s collection of 

monumental stone reliefs 

from the palace of King 

Sargon II of Assyria and 

related education programs. 

University of Illinois at 

Urbana-Cbampaign 

Champaign, IL $17,500 

To support the reinstallation of the Asian Art 

Gallery at the Krannert Art 

Museum and related education programs. 

Whitney Museum of 

American Art 

New York, NY $15,000 

To support a series of smallscale exhibitions highlighting masterworks as well as 

lesser-known works from 

the permanent collection. 

Worcester Art Museum 

Worcester, MA $20,000 

To support an exhibition of 

master drawings from the 

permanent collection and 

related education programs. 

EDUCATION 

28 awards $417,885 

Arkansas Arts Center 

Foundation 

Little Rock, AR $26,000 

To support the center’s 

mobile gallery program. 

Art Institute of Chicago 

Chicago, IL $32,000 

To support an exhibition for 

young audiences in the 

education gallery. 

Brandywine Graphic 

Workshop, Inc. 

Philadelphia, PA $12,500 

To support a high-school 

art program that includes 

student training in computers and multi-media production. 

Children’s Museum of 

Manhattan 

New York, NY $10,000 

To support an after-school 

program which combines 

object-based learning in the 

museum with literacy 

activities for students and 

teachers. 

Contemporary Arts Center 

Cincinnati, OH $10,000 

To support "Vital Visions," 

a program serving fifthgrade students and teachers 

from inner-city schools. 

Corcoran Gallery of Art, 

Trustees of the 

Washington, DC $10,000 " 

To support teacher training 

and the development of a 

teacher resource center at 

the museum. 

Delaware Art Museum 

Wilmington, DE $10,000 

To support the development 

of a school program for 6thgrade students and teachers. 

Dia Center for the Arts 

New York, NY $10,000 

To support an intensive art 

education training program 

for junior high school 

teachers. 

Eldridge Street Project 

New York, NY $10,000 

To support a school program for 4th through 6thgrade students on New 

York’s Lower East Side. 

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Franklin Furnace Archive 

New York, NY $25,000 

To support the expansion of 

"Sequential Art for Kids," 

an art education outreach 

program based on the book 

as an art form. 

Friends of Photography 

San Francisco, CA $8,000 

To support a year-long 

docent program for local 

junior and senior high 

school students. 

Henry Street Settlement 

New York, NY $12,000 

To support an architecture 

and design program for 

students in grades 6 to 10. 

Institute of Contemporary 

Art, Boston 

Boston, MA $20,000 

To support a teen docent 

program for inner-city 

youth. 

Isabella Stewart Gardner 

Museum 

Boston, MA $9,200 

To support the expansion of 

"Project Explore," a program for inner-city teens 

and young adults from 

Boston’s economically 

underserved communities. 

Mexican Fine Arts Center 

Chicago, IL $12,500 

To support in-service 

training for 75 teachers in 

the Chicago public schools. 

Minneapolis Society of Fine 

Arts 

Minneapolis, MN $20,400 

To support the third year of 

a five-year longitudinal 

aesthetic development study 

in collaboration with the 

Byron, Minnesota public 

schools. 

Museum of Contemporary 

Art, Chicago 

Chicago, IL $20,000 

To support a school program for junior high and 

high school students and 

teachers utilizing the 

museum’s permanent 

collections. 

Museum of Contemporary 

Art, Los Angeles 

Los Angeles, CA $15,000 

To support an outreach 

program to introduce the 

museum and contemporary 

art to diverse audiences of 

all ages. 

Museum of Fine Arts, 

Houston 

Houston, TX $15,000 

To support the third phase 

of a five-year program 

designed to cultivate a 

diverse audience utilizing 

the museum’s permanent 

collection. 

Ohio State University 

Research Foundation 

Columbus, OH $12,500 

To support two teacher 

training initiatives for 500 

teachers in grades K-12 at 

the Wexner Center for the 

Arts. 

Photographic Resource 

Center, Inc. 

Boston, MA $8,000 

To support a series of 

symposia bringing together 

the voices of contemporary 

artists, cultural historians, 

theoreticians, and social 

commentators from various 

intellectual disciplines. 

Polk Museum of Art, Inc. 

Lakeland, FL $8,285 

To support an education 

outreach program that 

addresses issues of 

nomadism, migration, and 

acculturation. 

Research Foundation of 

State University of New 

York 

Albany, NY $15,000 

To support "Writing 

Through the Arts," the 

Neuberger Museum’s 

curriculum-based art and 

literacy program serving 

area high schools. 

San Francisco Museum of 

Modern Art 

San Francisco, CA $22,000 

To support a media arts 

education program for high 

school students and teachers. 

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Toledo Museum of Art 

Toledo, OH $17,000 

To support a multi-visit 

school program for 6thgrade students based on the 

museum’s ancient collections. 

University of HoustonUniversity Park 

Houston, TX $7,500 

To support the Sarah 

Campbell Blaffer Gallery’s 

art education program for 

pre-teen and teenage 

students from schools in 

economically disadvantaged 

neighborhoods. 

Walters Art Gallery, 

Trustees of the 

Baltimore, MD $20,000 

To support the development 

of a multicultural high 

school art history course 

entitled, "Art and Artifacts: 

Clues to Distant Cultures." 

Williams College 

Williamstown, MA $20,000 

To support a program 

designed to give teachers 

and students greater access 

to the Williams College 

Museum of Art’s collections 

and programs. 

MUSEUM TRAINING 

21 awards $246,900 

American Law Institute 

Philadelphia, PA $10,000 

To support stipends for 

museum professionals to 

attend a three-day course of 

study on legal problems of 

museum administration 

conducted by the American 

Law Institute at the Carnegie Museums in Pittsburgh. 

Asia Society 

New York, NY $10,000 

To support an internship for 

an advanced graduate student at the Asia Society 

Gallery. 

Cincinnati Museum 

Association 

Cincinnati, OH $10,000 

To support an eight-month 

graduate level internship in 

the Deparunent of Prints, 

Drawings, and Photographs. 

Cleveland Museum of Art 

Cleveland, OH $10,000 

To support an internship in 

the Museum’s Department 

of Education and Public 

Programs. 

Corporation of the Fine 

Arts Museums 

San Francisco, CA $10,000 

To support a graduate-level 

internship in the Fine Arts 

Museums’ Department of 

Africa, Oceania, and the 

Americas. 

Denver Art Museum 

Denver, CO $10,000 

To support an internship in 

the education department. 

Harvard University 

Cambridge, MA $10,000 

To support an advanced 

graduate internship at the 

Harvard University Art 

Museums in the Department 

of Paintings and Sculpture. 

Honolulu Academy of Arts 

Honolulu, HI $5,000 

To support an undergraduate or graduate-level internship in the Department of 

Western Art. 

Joslyn Art Museum 

Omaha, NE $10,000 

To support a graduate-level 

internship in the curatorial, 

education, and collections 

management departments. 

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Metropolitan Museum of 

Art 

New York, NY $15,000 

To support a summer 

internship program for 

college juniors, seniors, and 

recent graduates in the 

museum’s curatorial,, education, conservation, or 

administrative departments. 

New York University 

New York, NY $12,500 

To support stipends for 

students and honoraria for 

lecturers in the Graduate 

Program in Curatorial Studies offered by the Institute 

of Fine Arts and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. 

Philadelphia Museum of 

Art 

Philadelphia, PA $27,000 

To support a post-graduate 

internship program in the 

Department of Prints, 

Drawings, and Photographs. 

Restoration College 

Association 

Mount Carroll, IL $10,400 

To support a series of workshops and seminars on 

collections care management 

at the Campbell Center. 

Rutgers, Tbe State 

University of New Jersey 

Piscataway, NJ $12,500 

To support a graduate-level 

internship in the Department of Prints and Drawings at the Jane Voorhees 

Zimmerli Art Museum at 

Rutgers University. 

Santa Monica Museum 

of Art 

SantaMonica, CA $10,000 

To support a curatorial 

internship at the Santa 

Monica Museum of Art. 

Socrates Sculpture Park 

Long Island City, NY 

$12,500 

To support an ini:ernship 

and apprenticeship program 

for graduate and undergraduate students and high 

school seniors at the 

Socrates Sculpture Park. 

University of Kansas Main 

Campus 

Lawrence, KS $12,500 

To support the Spencer 

Museum of Art’s Museum 

Training Program providing 

stipends for graduate 

students in art history and 

art education to work in the 

museum’s curatorial departments and the registrar’s 

office. 

University of New Mexico 

Main Campus 

Albuquerque NM $10,000 

 ̄ To support a graduate-level 

curatorial internship in the 

University Art Museum’s 

department of prints and 

photographs. 

University of Southern 

California 

Los Angeles, CA $10,000 

To support honoraria for 

speakers, travel, and 

stipends for Students in the 

university’s graduate program in museum studies. 

University of Texas at 

Austin 

Austin, TX $10,000 

. To support the Huntington 

Gallery’s graduate internship program which is 

designed to complement the 

University of Texas at 

Austin’s art, art history, and 

museum education graduate 

degree programs. 

Walker Art Center 

Minneapolis, MN $19,500 

To support graduate-level 

internships in the curatorial 

and education departments. 

SPECIAL PROJECTS 

*Institute of Museum 

Services 

Washington, DC $100,000
 

An interagency transfer as
 

part of a collaboration with
 

IMS, the National Endowment for the Humanities,
 

and the National Science
 

Foundation and private
 

partners to support a five-


year project called
 

"Research in Learning in
 

Museums."
 

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*AMERICAN JAZZ 

MASTERS 

3 awards $60,000 

The following jazz legends 

were each awarded an 

American Jazz Masters 

Fellowship and a $20,000 

grant. 

Billy Higgins 

Los Angeles, CA 

Milt Jackson 

Teaneck, NJ 

Anita O’Day 

San Jacinto, CA 

ENSEMBLES: 

CHORUSES 

32 awards $200,268 

American Boychoir School 

Princeton, NJ $3,300 

To support the presentation 

of American and multicultural choral music, 

engagement of a choral 

conductor, and participation 

in a residency in rural West 

Virginia communities. 

American Choral Directors 

Association 

Lawton, OK $4,500 

To support salaries related 

to the publication of the 

Choral Journal. 

Ars Nova Chamber 

Singers, Inc. 

Boulder, CO $3,000 

To support staff salaries and 

fees of the artistic director, 

rehearsal accompanist, and 

five professional singers 

within the ensemble. 

Ascension Music Chorus & 

Orchestra, Inc. 

New York, NY $5,000 

To support the fees of 

singers for up to four 

concerts during 1996-97. 

Austin Vocal Arts 

Ensemble, Inc. 

Austin, TX $3,000 

To support the salary of a 

staff member to assist the 

Ensemble’s Executive and 

Artistic Directors. 

Cantata Singers, Inc. 

Cambridge, MA $3,000 

To support artistic expenses 

related to the Boston 

premiere of"Jonah," a work 

set to Biblical text by 

American composer Marjorie Merryman. 

Choral Arts Sodety of 

Washington 

Washington, DC $3,000 

To support fees for vocal 

soloists for the Choral Arts 

Society’s concerts during 

1996-97 at the Kennedy 

Center Concert Hall. 

Choral Cross-Ties, Inc. 

Pordand, OR $3,000 

To support salaries of 

chorus singers for three 

concerts during the 1996-97 

season. 

Chorus America, 

Association of Professional 

Vocal Ensembles 

Philadelphia, PA $18,000 

To support the annual 

conference of Chorus 

America. 

Cindnnati Musical 

Festival Association 

Cincinnati, OH $3,000 

To support fees of the team 

of artistic personnel leading 

the May Festival Chorus 

during 1996-97. 

Connecticut Choral Artists 

New Britain, CT $4,000 

To support salaries of artistic 

personnel and a part-time 

marketing assistant. 

Dale Warland Singers 

Minneapolis, MN $22,000 

To support artistic stipends 

of ensemble members and " 

salaries of the artistic staff, 

including the Music Director and Assistant Conductor/Accompanist. 

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Glen Ellyn Children’s 

Chorus 

Glen Ellyn, IL $4,318 

To support costs related to a 

choral workshop and the 

"Musical Experience for 

Children" Program. 

Gregg Smith Singers, Inc. 

New York, NY $4,000 

To support costs related to 

the Gregg Smith Singers’ 

1996 Summer Adirondack 

Festival of American Music. 

Handel and Haydn Society 

Boston, MA $13,500 

To support rehearsal and 

performance fees for the 

chorus singers, Chorusmaster, rehearsal pianist, and 

guest soloists. 

His Majestie’s Clerkes 

Chicago, IL $4,000 

To support singer’s fees for 

four programs during the 

1996-97 season. 

Kitka, Inc. 

Oakland, CA $3,575 

To support performance 

fees for the ensemble’s 12 

singers and the salary of the 

artistic director. 

Los Angeles Master 

Chorale Association 

Los Angeles, CA $7,150 

To support conductor’s and 

singers’ fees for concerts, as 

well as for the Chamber 

Singers who teach in the 

Chorale’s educational 

outreach program. 

Milwaukee Symphony 

Orchestra, Inc. 

Milwaukee, WI $8,000 

To support salaries and fees 

for core singers of the 

Milwaukee Symphony 

Orchestra Chorus, the 

Choral Director and Associate Conductor, and keyboard accompanists. 

Minnesota Chorale 

Minneapolis, MN $4,125 

To support the Professional 

Singer Program, which 

provides salaries for the 

paid core of 21 singers. 

Music of the Baroque 

Concert Series 

Chicago, IL $7,500 

To support choral salaries 

and vocal soloists’ fees for 

rehearsals and concerts. 

Oregon Repertory Singers 

Pordand, OR $3,000 

To support the salaries of 

the music director and the 

accompanist during the 

1996-97 season. 

Performing Arts 

Association of Orange 

County-Pacific Chorale 

Santa Aria, CA $3,000 

To support the salary of the 

Pacific Chorale’s artistic 

director and the fees of its 

professional singers and 

guest soloists. 

Philadelphia Singers 

Philadelphia, PA $4,000 

To support salaries for 

professional singers for 

concerts during 1996-97. 

Phoenix Bach Choir . 

Phoenix, AZ $5,000 

To support costs of salaries 

for the Phoenix Bach Choir’s 

professional singers for 

concerts during 1996-97. 

Plymouth Music Series 

Minneapolis, MN $6,200 

To support professional fees 

paid to the associate conductor, rehearsal accompanist, and members of the 

Ensemble Singers. 

Pomerium Musices, Inc. 

New York, NY $3,000 

To support singers’ fees for 

rehearsals and performances. 

San Francisco Chanticleer 

San Francisco, CA $22,000 

To support the salaries of 

San Francisco Chanticleer’s 

artists. 

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San Francisco Choral 

Artists 

San Francisco, CA $3,300 

To support fees and salaries 

of singers, the music director, associate conductor, and 

the executive director. 

San Francisco Girls 

Chorus, Inc. 

San Francisco, CA $8,000 

To support salaries and 

guest artists’ fees for the 

Master Teacher Program 

and Chorus School. 

San Francisco Symphony 

San Francisco, CA $8,800 

To support the salaries of 30 

professional choristers in the 

San Francisco Symphony 

Chorus during 1996-97. 

Syracuse Children’s 

Chorus, Inc. 

Camillus, NY $3,000 

To support a series of three 

concerts designed to blend 

an educational and musical 

experience for young 

singers during 1996-97. 

CHAMBER/JAZZ 

ENSEMBLES 

49 awards $200,000 

American Brass Chamber 

Music Association 

New York, NY $3,000 

To support artists’ fees for 

the performance of chamber music by the American 

Brass Quintet during a 

concert series in New York 

City. 

Amherst College 

Amherst, MA $4,420 

To support guest artists’ 

fees in the performance of 

early music with the F01ger 

Consort. 

Amherst Saxophone 

Society, Inc. 

Williamsville, NY $3,000 

To support a chamber music 

residency by the Amherst 

Saxophone Quartet in the 

City of Buffalo and Erie 

County. 

Boston Musica Viva, Inc. 

Boston, MA $3,000 

To support artistic fees and 

related expenses for the 

performance of chamber 

music during the Fifth 

Annual Family Concert and 

related educational activities. 

California E.A.R. Unit 

Foundation 

Los Angeles, CA $3,000 

To support artist fees and 

related costs for the performance of new music during 

a four-concert series at the 

Los Angeles County 

Museum of Art. 

Carnegie Chamber Players 

New York, NY $3,000 

To support artists’ fees and 

related costs of a chamber 

music residency in the 

Upper Valley of Vermont 

and New Hampshire. 

Chamber Music America 

New York, NY $29,500 

To support a technical 

assistance program and 

costs of the magazine 

Chamber Music. 

Chamber Music Society of 

Lincoln Center, lnc. 

New York, NY $8,850 

To support artists’ fees and 

related costs for the performance of chamber music 

programs at Mice Tully Hall. 

Chicago Chamber 

Musicians 

Chicago IL $3,000 

To support artists’ fees and 

related expenses for the 

performance of chamber 

music during the "First 

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Debussy Trio Music 

Foundation 

Los Angeles, CA $3,000 

To support artists’ fees and 

related costs of a Contem-. 

porary American Music 

Residency at the University 

of OregonsEugene in fall 

1996. 

Detroit Chamber Winds 

Royal Oak, MI $3,000 

To support artists’ fees and 

related expenses for up to 

six performances of chamber music. 

Dinosaur Annex Music 

Ensemble, Inc. 

Boston, MA $3,000 

To support artists’ fees for 

the performance of three 

new music concerts in the 

Boston area. 

Dorian Woodwind Quintet 

Foundation, Inc. 

New York, NY $3,000 

To support artists’ fees and 

related expenses for the 

performance of chamber 

music. 

Early Music America, Inc. 

Cleveland, OH $7,500 

To support technical assistance workshops and the 

production of the organization’s publications. 

Earplay 

San Francisco, CA $3,000 

To support artists’ fees and 

related expenses for the 

performance of new music 

during a three-concert 

series. 

Goliard Concerts, Inc. 

Astoria, NY $3,000 

To support artists’ fees in 

the performance of chamber music concerts. 

Hesperus 

Arlington, VA $3,000 

To support the costs of five 

chamber music concerts at 

three venues in the Washington, DC area. 

Intersection 

San Francisco, CA $3,500 

To support artists’ fees for 

the performance of vocal 

music. 

Kronos peoCorming Arts 

Association 

San Francisco, CA $8,850 

To support the costs for the 

performance of new music 

concerts in San Francisco. 

La Capriole 

Williamsburg, VA $3,000 

To support artists’ fees 

associated with the performance of early music during 

a concert series in Williamsburg and Norfolk, VA. 

Maelstrom Percussion 

Ensemble, Ltd. 

Buffalo, NY $3,000 

To support artists’ fees for 

the performance of new 

music during a concert series 

and "Day of Percussion for 

Schools and Communities" 

outreach activities. 

Musica Antigua de 

Albuquerque, Inc. 

Albuquerque, NM $3,000 

To support artists’ fees for 

the performance of four 

early music programs. 

New Millennium 

Ensemble, Inc. 

New York, NY $3,000 

To support artists’ fees and 

related costs for the performance of chamber music in 

a two-concert series. 

New Music Consort, Inc. 

New York, NY $3,550 

To support artists’ fees and 

related costs for the performance of a new music 

concert series. 

New Sounds Music, Inc. 

New York, NY $3,500 

To support artists’ fees and 

related costs for a new music 

residency by the PRISM 

Quartet, Saxophone, and 

MIDI Ensemble. 

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New York Festival of Song 

New York, NY $3,000 

To support artists’ fees and 

related expenses for a series 

of vocal chamber music 

concerts. 

Newberry Library 

Chicago, IL $3,000 

To support artists’ fees for 

the performance of early 

music concerts and senior 

citizen matinees by the 

Newberry Consort. 

North Country Chamber 

Players, lnc. 

Franconia, NH $3,000 

To support artists’ fees and 

related costs for the performance of chamber music 

during "An American 

Chamber Music Retrospective" concert series. 

Odyssey Chamber Players 

Marion, MA $3,000 

To support artists’ fees and 

related costs for the performance of chamber music 

during the "MusicFest" 

festival. 

Performers’ Committee 

New York, NY $3,000 

To support artists’ fees and 

related expenses for the 

performance of new music 

during a concert series in 

New York City. 

Philadelphia Renaissance 

Wind Band 

Philadelphia, PA $3,000 

To support artists’ fees and 

related costs for the performance of early music in a 

continuing series of concerts. 

Pittsburgh Early Music 

Ensemble 

Pittsburgh, PA $3,000 

To support artists’ fees for 

the performance of early 

music during a concert 

series. 

Pittsburgh New Music 

Ensemble 

Pittsburgh, PA $3,000 

To support artists’ fees and 

related costs for the performance of five new music 

concerts. 

Present Music, Inc. 

Milwaukee, WI $4,000 

To support artists’ fees and 

related costs for the performance of new music during 

an eight-concert series in 

Milwaukee, WI. 

Quintessence Chamber 

Ensemble, Inc. 

Phoenix, AZ $3,000 

To support artists’ fees and 

related costs for the performance of chamber music in 

a concert series. 

Quintet of the Americas 

New York, NY $5,000 

To support artists’ fees and 

related costs associated with 

two concert series. 

Relacbe, Inc. 

Philadelphia, PA $3,000 

To support artists’ fees and 

related expenses for the 

performance of new music 

during an eight-concert 

series in Philadelphia. 

S.E.M. Ensemble, Inc. 

Brooklyn, NY $3,000 

To support artis’ts’ fees and 

related costs for the performance of new music in a 

five-concert series at various 

venues in New York City. 

San Francisco 

Contemporary Music 

Players 

San Francisco, CA $3,830 

To support artists’ fees and 

related costs for the performance of new music in a 

concert series and educational activities. 

Sea Cliff Chamber Players 

Sea Cliff, NY $3,000 

To support artists’ fees and 

related expenses for the 

performance of chamber 

music during the Chamber 

Music in Sea Cliff concert 

series. 

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Southwest Chamber Music 

Sodety 

Pasadena, CA $3,000 

To support artists’ fees for 

the performance of chamber music during educational programs in the 

1996-97 season. 

Speculum Musicae, Inc. 

New York, NY $3,000 

To support artists’ fees and 

related costs for the performance of new music during 

a three-concert series. 

St. Luke’s Chamber 

Ensemble, Inc. 

New York, NY $4,500 

To support artists’ fees for 

the performance of chamber music during a fiveconcert series at Weill 

Recital Hall of Carnegie 

Hall in New York City. 

Thamyris, Inc. 

Atlanta, GA $3,000 

To support artists’ fees for 

the performance of new 

music during a five-concert 

series at various venues 

throughout the metropolitan Adanta area. 

Theater Chamber Players 

Washington, DC $3,000 

To support artists’ fees for 

the performance of chamber music during four.pairs 

of concerts to be performed 

at the Kennedy Center for 

the Performing Arts and the 

Bradley Hills Presbyterian 

Church. 

Third Angle New Music 

Ensemble 

Portland, OR $3,000 

To support artists’ fees and 

related costs for the performance of contemporary 

chamber music during a 

five-concert series. 

Voices of Change 

Dallas, TX $3,000 

To support artists’ fees for 

the performance of new 

music in two concert series. 

Western Wind Vocal 

Ensemble, Inc. 

New York, NY $5,000 

To support artists’ fees and 

related costs for the performance of vocal chamber 

music during a two-concert 

series and activities associated with "The Western 

Wind Goes to School." 

Zeitgeist 

St. Paul, MN $3,000 

To support artists’ fees and 

related costs for the performance of new music in a 

concert series. 

ENSEMBLES: 

ORCHESTRAS 

58 awards $3,835,000 

Albany Symphony 

Orchestra 

Albany, NY $7,600 

To support orchestra 

musicians’ salaries for the 

performance of eight full 

orchestra concerts. 

Amarillo Symphony 

Amarillo, TX $4,000 

To support community 

outreach and educational 

programs and engagement 

of American guest artists. 

American Composers 

Orchestra 

New York, NY $17,300 

To support the artistic and 

production costs of an 

additional rehearsal for four 

concerts. 

American Symphony 

Orchestra League 

Washington, DC $210,600 

To support the League’s 

education, training, and 

information services to the 

field. 

American Symphony 

Orchestra 

New York, NY $9,600 

To support orchestra 

musicians’ salaries for the 

preparation and performance of a six-concert 

series of theme-based 

concerts. 

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Anchorage Symphony 

Orchestra 

Anchorage, AK $4,000 

To support chamber concerts and in-school performances by ensembles 

comprised of orchestra 

musicians. 

Ann Arbor Symphony 

Orchestra 

Ann Arbor, MI $4,100 

To support in-school 

ensemble performances. 

Augusta Symphony 

Augusta, GA $4,000 

To support orchestra musicians’ salaries for the preparation and performance of 

concerts for the MasterWorks Series I and II. 

Austin Symphony 

Orchestra Society 

Austin, TX $9,200 

To support orchestra 

musicians’ salaries for the 

preparation and performance of concerts. 

Baltimore Chamber 

Orchestra 

Owings Mills, MD $4,000 

To support fees for American soloists and musicians 

for the performance of a 

concert featuring contemporary works. 

Baltimore Symphony 

Orchestra 

Baltimore, MD $100,200 

To support costs related to 

the performance of concerts 

in the Celebrity series. 

Bangor Symphony 

Orchestra 

Bangor, ME $4,000 

To support orchestra 

musicians’ fees for a . 

regional tour to four rural 

and underserved communities in Maine.. 

Baton Rouge Symphony 

Association 

Baton Rouge, LA $6,000 

To support expenses related 

to performances of Masterworks Series concerts. 

Bay Area Women’s 

Philharmonic 

San Francisco, CA $4,000 

To support orchestra 

musicians’ fees for a full 

orchestra concert performance. 

Berkeley Symphony 

Orchestra 

Berkeley, CA $4,000 

To support rehearsal costs 

associated with the preparation and presentation of 

David Sheinfeld’s "Symphony no. 1, Polarities." 

Binghamton Symphony 

and Choral Society, Inc. 

Binghamton, NY $4,000 

To support costs for two 

performances of a concert. 

Boston Symphony 

Orchestra 

Boston, MA $122,900 

To support youth concerts 

to be performed in Symphony Hall. 

Brooklyn Philharmonic 

Symphony Orchestra 

Brooklyn, NY $15,600 

To support orchestra 

musicians’ fees for the 

performance of themebased programs, arts education, and community 

outreach. 

Buffalo Philharmonic 

Orchestra Society 

Buffalo, NY $25,500 

To support orchestra musicians’ salaries for "Sight, 

Sound, and Symphony" 

concerts, run-out concerts, 

and outreach concerts in 

public parks and communities in rural regions of 

western New York. 

California Symphony 

Orchestra 

Orinda, CA $4,000 

To support orchestra 

musicians’ fees for preparation and two performances 

of a concert in the main 

home series. 

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Canton Symphony 

Orchestra 

Canton, OH $10,400 

To support remuneration of 

musicians who comprise the 

string quartet and ensembles for education and 

outreach activities. 

Cayuga Chamber 

Orchestra 

Ithaca, NY $4,000 

To support orchestra 

musicians’ fees for the 

performance of seven 

chamber orchestra concerts. 

Cedar Rapids Symphony 

Orchestra Association, Inc. 

Cedar Rapids, IA $5,600 

To support salaries of the 

Symphony String Quartet 

and engagement of additional orchestra musicians 

for 75th anniversary events. 

Charleston Symphony 

Orchestra 

Charleston, SC $7,500 

To support salaries of core 

orchestra musicians. 

Charlotte Symphony 

Orchestra Society 

Charlotte, NC $26,500 

To support costs related to 

the orchestra portion of a 

collaborative production of 

"The Tempest" with the 

Charlotte Repertory 

Theatre. 

Chicago Sinfonietta, Inc. 

Chicago, IL $6,200 

To support orchestra 

musicians’ salaries for the 

performance of 11 concerts 

at two venues. 

Chicago String Ensemble 

Chicago, IL $4,000 

To support orchestra 

musicians’ and soloists’ fees 

for five concerts to be 

performed in Chicago and 

repeated in Evanston and 

LaGrange, Illinois. 

Cincinnati Symphony 

Orchestra 

Cincinnati, OH $96,100 

To support fees for guest 

artists and conductors 

who will appear with the 

orchestra. 

Classical Pbilbarmonic of 

Northern California 

San Leandro, CA $4,000 

To support an additional 

rehearsal for each of five 

concerts. 

Cleveland State University 

Cleveland, OH $4,000 

To support orchestra 

musicians’ fees for second 

performances of six American works that were commissioned by other chamber 

orchestras after 1980. 

Colonial Symphony 

Basking Ridge, NJ $4,000 

To support performances of 

American music and presentation of American guest 

artists. 

Colorado Springs 

Symphony Orchestra 

Colorado Springs, CO

$8,800 

To support Young People’s 

and Family Adventure 

Concerts. 

Colorado Symphony 

Association 

Denver, CO $28,600 

To support Youth Concerts 

and a statewide "Up Close 

and Musical" tour. 

Columbus Symphony 

Orchestra 

Columbus, OH $44,700 

To support educational 

programs, including 

engagement of an education 

director and part-time 

support staff. 

Concert Royal, Inc. 

New York, NY $4,000 

To support orchestra 

musicians’ and American 

guest soloists’ fees, preconcert talks and postconcert discussions, and 

additional rehearsals. 

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Dallas Symphony 

Association 

Dallas, TX $78,000 

To support costs related to 

the performance of African 

American and Hispanic 

Festival Concerts and 

educational "Amazing 

Music" concerts. 

Dayton Philharmonic 

Orchestra Association 

Dayton, OH $16,700 

To Support orchestra 

musicians’ salaries for 

Coffee and Casual Classics 

Concerts and the In-School 

Ensembles Program. 

Delaware Symphony 

Association 

Wilmington, DE $8,500 

To support orchestra 

musicians’ salaries for 

 ̄ concerts in Wilmington and 

southern Delaware communities. 

Des Moines Symphony 

Association 

Des Moines, IA $6,000 

To support orchestra 

musicians’ salaries for an 

additional Youth Concert 

and engagement of three 

American guest artists. 

Detroit Symphony 

Orchestra Hall, Inc. 

Detroit, MI $94,600 

To support engagement of 

American guest artists and 

conductors featured in 

Classical, Young People’s, 

and Tiny Tots concerts and 

the Christmas Festival. 

Eastern Connecticut 

Symphony 

New London, CT $4,000 

To support a performance 

of George Gershwin’s Porgy 

and Bess as part of the 

orchestra’s 50th anniversary 

celebration. 

E1 Paso Symphony 

Orchestra Association 

E1 Paso, TX $4,000 

To support orchestra 

musicians’ salaries for 

performances of concerts in 

the Classical Series. 

Elgin Symphony Orchestra 

Association 

Elgin, IL $4,000 

To support the engagement 

of an Assistant Principal 

Bassist and increased 

remuneration for the 

Assistant Concertmaster 

and Assistant Principal 

Violist. 

Erie Philharmonic 

Erie, PA $4,000 

To support increased 

remuneration for orchestra 

musicians. 

Eugene Symphony 

Association 

Eugene, OR $4,800 

To support orchestra 

musicians’ salaries for 

performance of concerts in 

the Classical Series. 

Evansville Philharmonic 

Orchestra 

Evansville, IN $5,700 

To support orchestra musicians’ salaries for performances of Family and Youth 

Concerts, and in-school 

ensemble performances. 

Fairfield Orchestra 

Norwalk, CT $4,000 

To support orchestra 

musicians’ fees and travel 

costs for preparation and 

performance of up to six 

concerts. 

Flint Institute of Music 

Flint, MI $4,000 

To support Flint Symphony 

Orchestra musicians’ salaries 

for up to four "Music Where 

You Live" Concerts. 

Florida Orchestra 

Tampa, FL $17,000 

To support orchestra 

musicians’ salaries and 

American guest artists’ fees 

for the performance of up 

to 14 concerts in the "Masterworks Series." 

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Florida Philharmonic 

Orchestra 

Ft. Lauderdale, FL $31,000 

To support orchestra 

musicians’ salaries for the 

performance of programs in 

the "Masterworks Series" 

and educational programs. 

Fort Wayne Philharmonic 

Orchestra 

Fort Wayne, IN $18,800 

To support the salaries of 18 

principal players of the 

Philharmonic and its 

chamber orchestra. 

Fort Worth Symphony 

Orchestra Association, Inc. 

Ft. Worth, TX $28,000 

To support the Fort Worth 

Symphony Orchestra’s 

touring and outreach 

program as it visits up to 17 

smaller communities across 

the state. 

Grand Rapids Symphony 

Society 

Grand Rapids, MI $27,700 

To support the salaries of 

core orchestra musicians. 

Greater Akron Musical 

Association, Inc. 

Akron, OH $5,500 

To support orchestra 

musicians’ salaries for 

education and outreach 

programs. 

Greensboro Symphony 

Society 

Greensboro, NC $4,600 

To support educational 

programs. 

Greenville Symphony 

Assodation 

Greenville, SC $4,000 

To support "A Gospel 

Celebration" holiday 

concert. 

Handel and Haydn Society 

Boston, MA $18,200 

To support orchestra 

musicians’ fees for periodinstrument performances. 

Hartford Symphony 

Orchestra 

Hartford, CT $13,800 

To support up to three 

Family Matinee concerts 

and the distribution of free 

tickets to disadvantaged 

individuals to attend these 

performances. 

Houston Symphony Society 

Houston, TX $85,800 

To Support orchestra 

musicians’ salaries for three 

performances of 18 concerts. 

Illinois Philharmonic 

Orchestra 

Park Forest, IL $4,000 

To support a chamber 

orchestra concert at 

Moraine Valley Community 

College. 

Indiana State Symphony 

Society 

Indianapolis, IN $69,700 

To support the Indianapolis 

Symphony Orchestra’s Mid~ 

Winter Festival. 

Jacksonville Symphony 

Association 

Jacksonville, FL $20,800 

To support orchestra 

musicians’ salaries for the 

performance of the education programs and community outreach concerts. 

Kalamazoo Symphony 

Society 

Kalamazoo, MI $6,200 

To support concerts to be 

performed in the Symphonic Series and a runout 

performance. 

Kansas City Symphony 

Kansas City, MO $31,200 

To support concerts to be 

performed in the Main 

Series. 

Lake Forest Symphony 

Association, Inc. 

Lake Forest, IL $4,600 

To support orchestra 

musicians’ salaries for the 

performance of Young 

People’s and Family Educational concerts. 

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Lansing Symphony 

Assodation 

Lansing, MI $4,000 

To support engagement of 

additional string section 

musicians. 

Lehigh Valley Chamber 

Orchestra 

Lehigh Valley, PA $4,000 

To support addition!l string 

sectional and string principal rehearsals for eight 

concerts. 

Lexington Philharmonic 

Sodety 

Lexington, KY $5,200 

To support education and 

community outreach 

performances and travel 

expenses for musicians 

hired from outside of 

Lexington. 

Lincoln Orchestra 

Assodation 

Lincoln, NE $4,000 

To support orchestra 

musicians’ salaries for the 

performance of two free 

concerts performed in parks 

in Lincoln and the surrounding area. 

Long Beach Symphony 

Association 

Long Beach, CA $18,200 

To support performance of 

contemporary American 

repertoire. 

Los Angeles Chamber 

Orchestra Society 

Los Angeles, CA $36,400 

To support orchestra 

musicians’ salaries and guest 

artists’ fees for the performance of concerts in the 

Connoisseur and Regency 

Series. 

Los Angeles Philharmonic 

Association 

Los Angeles, CA $122,900 

To support Upbeat Live 

pre-concert lectures and 

discussions, Green 

Umbrella and family 

concerts, and free Neighborhood concerts. 

Louisiana Philharmonic 

Orchestra 

New Orleans, LA $9,400 

To support orchestra 

musicians’ salaries for an 

additional week of services, 

education and outreach 

programs, and American 

guest artists’ fees. 

Louisville Orchestra 

Louisville, KY $14,700 

To support orchestra 

musicians’ salaries for the 

performance of concerts in 

the Masterworks and Coffee 

Concerts series. 

Madison Symphony 

Orchestra 

Madison, WI $4,000 

To support orchestra 

musicians’ salaries for the 

performance of education 

programs. 

Matin Symphony 

Association 

San Rafael, CA $4,000 

To support increased 

remuneration for orchestra 

musicians. 

Meet the Composer, lnc. 

New York, NY $33,000 

To support the orchestra 

residency portion of the 

New Residencies Program 

which allows a composer to 

work with an orchestra, 

another performing arts 

organization, and a community or human development 

agency organization. 

Memphis Orchestral 

Society 

Memphis, TN $10,600 

To support salaries of core 

orchestra musicians for 

performance of educational 

and outreach services. 

Milwaukee Symphony 

Orchestra, Inc. 

Milwaukee, WI $55,800 

To support orchestra 

musicians’ salaries for the 

performance of classical 

subscription concerts, 

including the "Classical 

Conversations" series; 

youth, high school, and 

family concerts; and touring 

throughout Wisconsin. 

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Minnesota Orchestral 

Association 

Minneapolis, MN $120,600 

To support education and 

outreach programs, American artists’ fees, and East 

and B~est Coast tours. 

Minnesota Sinfonia, 

Friends of the 

Minneapolis, MN $4,000 

To support orchestra 

musicians’ fees for preparation and performance of 

four concerts to be performed in "The Great 

Winter Festival." 

Mississippi Symphony 

Orchestra Association 

Jackson, MS $4,000 

To support orchestra 

musicians’ salaries for the 

performance of statewide 

run-out and touring concerts throughout Mississippi 

and distribution of free 

tickets to underprivileged 

and disabled citizens attending the Ovation Series. 

Missouri Symphony Society 

Columbia, MO $4,000 

To support an audience 

development effort and 

distribution of free tickets 

to disadvantaged residents 

who will attend subscription 

concerts. 

Modesto Symphony 

Orchestra 

Modesto, CA $4,000 

To support American guest 

artists’ fees and orchestra 

musicians’ salaries for the 

performance of a family 

matinee concert and four 

educational performances 

for elementary students. 

Monterey County 

Symphony Association 

Carmel, CA $4,000 

To support additional 

rehearsals. 

Music of the Baroque 

Concert Series 

Chicago, IL $6,500 

To support orchestra 

musicians’ salaries, American instrumental soloists’ 

fees, and administrative 

expenses related to orchestral programs. 

Musical Arts Association 

Cleveland, OH $122,900 

To support the Cleveland 

Orchestra’s musicians’ 

salaries and American guest 

artists’ and conductors’ fees 

for performance of Thursday, Friday, and Saturday 

evening concerts. 

Nashville Symphony 

Assodation 

Nashville, TN $17,100 

To support musicians’ 

salaries for performance of 

community outreach and 

Ensembles in Schools 

programs. 

National Chamber 

Orchestra Society, Inc. 

Rockville, MD $4,000 

To support artistic and 

administrative costs’associated with performance of 

American music, engagement of American artists, 

and increased rehearsal 

time. 

National Symphony 

Orchestra Association of 

Washington, D.C. 

Washington, DC $110,200 

To support the performance 

of six concertos composed 

by American composers. 

New Hampshire Symphony 

Manchester, ~ $4,000 

To support orchestra 

musicians’ salaries for two 

performances of six concerts 

held at the Palace Theatre 

in Manchester, NH. 

 ̄ New Haven Symphony 

Orchestra, Inc. 

New Haven, CT $8,600 

To support orchestra 

musicians’ salaries for seven 

concert performances. 

New Jersey Symphony 

Orchestra 

Newark, NJ $28,000 

To support the education 

program. 

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New Mexico Symphony 

Orchestra 

Albuquerque, NM $11,700 

To support educational 

programs and touring 

throughout New Mexico. 

New Worm Symphony, Inc. 

Miami Beach, FL $15,600 

To support fees for guest 

artists’ and conductors’ who 

wi!l be featured with the 

orchestra in the performance of 13 concerts. 

New York Chamber 

Symphony, Inc. 

New York, NY $19,700 

To support orchestra 

musicians’ fees for two 

performances of eight 

concerts. 

North Carolina Symphony 

Society, Inc. 

Raleigh, NC $41,600 

To support orchestra 

musicians’ salaries for the 

performance of full orchestra educational concerts and 

new American music. 

Northwest Chamber 

Orchestra 

Seattle, WA $4,000 

To support artistic costs 

related to the performance 

of a concert on the subscription series. 

Northwest Indiana 

Symphony Society, Inc. 

Munster, IN $4,700 

To support artistic expenses 

related to the Great American Concerto Project. 

Oakland East Bay 

Symphony 

Oakland, CA $4,700 

To support the performance 

of American Theater 

Classics repertoire as a 

portion of programming in 

subscription concerts and 

Young People’s Concerts. 

Ohio Chamber Orchestra 

Society 

Beachwood, OH $4,700 

To support orchestra 

musicians’ salaries and guest 

artists’ fees for the performance of free outdoor 

concerts and related educational activities. 

Omaha Symphony 

Association 

Omaha, NE $14,600 

To support orchestra 

musicians’ salaries for 

education programs, touring activities, and run-out 

concerts. 

Orchestral Association 

Chicago, IL $122,900 

To support the Chicago 

Symphony Orchestra’s 

festival of contemporary 

music with Pierre Boulez 

conducting. 

Oregon Symphony 

Association 

Portland, OR $54,600 

To support orchestra 

musicians’ salaries for three 

performances of 14 concert 

programs in the Classical 

Series, run-out concerts, 

and concert broadcasts. 

Orpheon, Inc. 

New York, NY $7,800 

To support additional 

rehearsal time, preparation 

and performance of American music, outreach and 

education programs, and 

presentation of American 

guest artists. 

Orpheus Chamber 

Orchestra 

New York, NY $21,700 

To support orchestra 

musicians’ salaries for the 

performance of concerts in 

the Carnegie Hall and 

Satellite Series, regional and 

national touring, and the 

preparation and performance of new American 

music. 

Owensboro Symphony 

Orchestra, lnc. 

Owensboro, KY $4,000 

To support principal musicians’ remuneration and 

regional in-school educational programs. 

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The 

French horn 

section of 

the Pacific 

Symphony 

Orchestra 

performs in 

Santa Ana, 

California. 

Photo courtesy Pacific Symphony Orchestra. 

Pacific Symphony 

Association 

Santa Ana, CA $31,200 

To support engagement of 

American soloists and guest 

conductors and orchestra 

musicians’ salaries for 

preparation and performance of contemporary 

American works and Youth 

Concerts performed at the 

Orange County Performing 

Arts Center. 

Pasadena Symphony 

Association 

Pasadena, CA $9,500 

To support orchestra 

musicians’ salaries and guest 

artists’ fees for the performance of five concerts and 

education programs. 

Peoria Symphony 

Orchestra 

Peoria, IL $4,700 

To support increased 

remuneration for orchestra 

musicians, pre-concert 

lectures, and music appreciation classes for retirement 

home residents. 

Philadelphia Orchestra 

Association 

Philadelphia, PA $117,000 

To support orchestra 

musicians’ salaries for the 

performance of concerts at 

the Academy of Music. 

Pbilharmonia Baroque 

Orchestra 

San Francisco CA $7,500 

To support orchestra 

musicians’ fees for the 

period-instrument performances of Haydn’s oratorio 

"The Seasons." 

Philharmonia Virtuosi 

Corp. 

Dobbs Ferry, NY $4,100 

To support a five-concert 

tour in Florida. 

Philharmonic Center for 

the Arts, Inc. 

Naples, FL $6,200 

To support guest conductors’ fees for Naples Philharmonic concerts, education programs, and 

collaborative performances 

with the Miami City Ballet. 

Philharmonic Society of 

Northeastern Pennsylvania 

Avoca, PA $5,000 

To support orchestra 

musicians’ salaries and 

American guest artists~ fees 

for two performances of five 

concerts and costs related to 

two free Independence Day 

community concerts. 

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Philharmonic-Symphony 

Society of New York, Inc. 

New York, NY $122,900 

To support the New York 

Philharmonic’s Rush Hour 

and Casual Saturday concerts, Philharmonic Celebrations, Philharmonic 

Variations, the School 

Partnership Program, and 

flee parks concerts. 

Phoenix Symphony 

Association 

Phoenix, AZ $22,700 

To support the performance 

of concerts in the Classics 

Series and fees of guest 

conductors who will be 

finalists in the orchestra’s 

music director search. 

Pittsburgh Symphony 

Society 

Pittsburgh, PA $119,600 

To support the performance 

of six weekends of concerts. 

Portland Maine Symphony 

Orchestra 

Portland, ME $12,800 

To support orchestra 

musicians’ salaries for the 

performance of seven 

concerts in the Classical 

Series. 

ProMusica Chamber 

Orchestra of Columbus 

Columbus, OH $4,000 

To support costs related to a 

runout concert to Delaware, 

Ohio. 

Queens Symphony 

Orchestra, Inc. 

Long Island City, NY 

$4,000 

To support the continuation 

of its community outreach 

and audience development 

activities. 

Reading Symphony 

Orchestra Association 

Reading, PA $4,700 

To support increased 

remuneration for orchestra 

musicians, additional 

rehearsals, outreach activities, and American guest 

soloists’ fees. 

Rhode Island Philharmonic 

Orchestra 

Providence, RI $4,600 

To support costs related to 

the Music in Our Schools 

Program and the Rhode 

Island Philharmonic Youth 

Orchestra. 

Richmond Symphony 

Richmond, VA $15,600 

To support musicians’ 

salaries for the performance 

of concerts in the Double 

Exposure Series, and 

statewide touring. 

Riverside Symphony, Inc. 

New York, NY $4,000 

To support orchestra 

musicians’ fees for the 

performance of free Community Concerts, additional 

rehearsals, and free concerts 

for children at the Kathryn 

Bache Miller Theatre. 

Robert W. Woodruff Arts 

Center, Inc. 

Atlanta, GA $94,600 

To support fees of guest 

artists who will perform 

with the Atlanta Symphony 

Orchestra in performances 

of Family and Holiday 

concerts as well as concerts 

in the Master Season series. 

Rochester Philharmonic 

Orchestra, Inc. 

Rochester, NY $27,300 

To support orchestra 

musicians’ salaries for the 

performance of three weeks 

of Philharmonic Subscription Concerts in the Eastman Theatre. 

Rockford Symphony 

Orchestra, Inc. 

Rockford, IL $4,000 

To support a collaborative 

performance of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and a 

chamber orchestra concert. 

Sacramento Symphony 

Association 

Sacramento, CA $13,400 

To support the Music 

Director/Conductor’s and 

core orchestra musicians’ 

salaries, per-service orchestra musicians’ fees, American guest artists’ fees, and 

education and outreach 

programs. 

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Saginaw Symphony 

Association 

Saginaw, MI $4,000 

To support engagement of 

principal section players for 

performance of concerts in 

the Masterworks Series. 

Saint Louis Symphony 

Society 

St. Louis, MO $121,200 

To support orchestra 

musicians’ salaries for the 

performance of concerts in 

the orchestral series. 

Saint Luke’s Chamber 

Ensemble, Inc. 

New York, NY $10,000 

To support orchestra 

musicians’ and guest artists’ 

fees for the performance of 

four concerts at Carnegie 

Hall. 

Saint Paul Chamber 

Orchestra Society 

St. Paul, MN $70,200 

To support artistic costs for 

the performance of concerts 

in the Masterworks, Basically Baroque, and Morning 

Coffee Series. 

San Diego Chamber 

Orchestra 

Rancho Santa Fe, CA 

$4,000 

To support additional 

rehearsals in the performance space, engagement 

of American guest artists, 

performance of American 

music, and a runout concert 

to E1 Centro. 

San Francisco Chamber 

Symphony 

San Francisco, CA $4,000 

To support musicians’ 

salaries for the performance 

of four concerts. 

San Francisco Symphony 

San Francisco, CA $122,900 

To support orchestra 

musicians’ salaries and guest 

artists’ and conductors’ fees 

for the performance of six 

Sunday Matinee concerts. 

San Jose Symphony 

Association 

San Jose, CA $28,600 

To support orchestra 

musicians’ salaries for the 

performance of concerts on 

the Signature Series and 

free community outreach 

concerts, 

Santa Barbara Symphony 

Orchestra Assodation 

Santa Barbara, CA $5,700 

To support Sunday matinee 

concerts. 

Santa Rosa Symphony 

Association 

Santa Rosa, CA $4,000 

To support engagement of 

the Music Director/Conductor. 

Savannah Symphony 

Society, Inc. 

Savannah, GA $9,900 

To support orchestra 

musicians’ salaries for 

performances of education 

programs. 

Seattle Symphony 

Orchestra, Inc. 

Seattle, WA $67,600 

To support orchestra 

musicians’ salaries for two 

performances of 18 concerts 

in the Masterworks Series. 

South Bend Symphony 

Orchestra Association, Inc. 

South Bend, IN $5,200 

To support salaries of the 

core orchestra musicians. 

Southwest Florida 

Symphony Orchestra and 

Chorus Association, Inc. 

Fort Myers, FL $4,000 

To support distribution of 

free tickets to at-risk and 

disadvantaged children, and 

educational activities. 

Spokane Symphony Society 

Spokane, WA $11,200 

To support orchestra 

musicians’ remuneration. 

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Springfield Symphony 

Orchestra 

Springfield, MA $4,600 

To support Music Matters 

educational activities and 

performance of American 

music and presentation of 

American guest artists in 

concerts performed in the 

Great Performers Series. 

Stamford Symphony 

Orchestra, Inc. 

Stamford, CT $4,000 

To support educational 

programs, and distribution 

of free and discounted 

tickets to students, the 

elderly, and economically 

disadvantaged residents. 

Symphony Society of San 

Antonio 

San Antonio,TX $26,900 

To support education and 

outreach activities and 

preparation and performance of new American 

works as part of the Music 

of the Americas project. 

Syracuse Symphony 

Orchestra, Inc. 

Syracuse, NY $19,300 

To support educational 

programs for area youth 

and rtmout performances to 

underserved regional areas. 

Toledo Orchestra 

Association, lnc. 

Toledo, OH $15,300 

To support presentation of 

four guest artists and the 

performance of four works 

by American composers in 

concerts to be performed in 

the Classics Concerts series 

and in-school performances 

and clinics by orchestra 

ensembles. 

Tulsa Philharmonic 

Society, Inc. 

Tulsa, OK $7,600 

To support salaries of the 

orchestra’s core musicians. 

University of Illinois at 

Urbana-Champaign 

Champaign, IL $4,000 

To support performance of 

American music, American 

soloists’ fees, and orchestra 

musicians’ fees for a fourth 

rehearsal for each of six 

concerts. 

Utah Symphony Society 

Salt Lake City, UT $50,100 

To support the In-School 

Concerts and Fifth Grade 

Docent Concerts programs. 

Virginia Symphony 

Norfolk, VA $12,300 

To support orchestra 

musicians’ salaries for 

performance of education 

and outreach programs. 

Washington Chamber 

Symphony 

Washington, DC $4,000 

To support the performance 

of American music and the 

engagement of an American 

conductor and guest artists. 

West Shore Symphony 

Orchestra 

Muskegon, MI $4,000 

To support costs related to 

an additional full orchestra 

rehearsal for seven concerts. 

Westfield Symphony 

Westfield, NJ $4,000 

To support a performance 

of Carmen and education 

and outreach activities. 

FVilliam Paterson College 

of New Jersey 

Wayne, NJ $4,000 

To support a concert

devoted to American music 

performed by the Wayne

Chamber Orchestra. 

Winston-Salem Symphony 

Association 

Winston-Salem, NC 

$10,400 

To support musicians’ 

salaries for performance of 

educational services and 

additional rehearsals. 

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SPECIAL PROJECTS 

4 awards $515,000 

*Chamber Music America 

New York, NY $200,000 

A cooperative agreement to 

support the first two years 

of a pilot Chamber Music 

America/Arts Endowment 

Music Performance Program for small music 

ensembles. 

*Chamber Music America 

New York, NY $200,000 

To support artist fees and 

related costs incurred by 

ensembles participating in 

the Chamber Music Rural 

Residencies program. 

*Chamber Music America 

New York, NY $100,000 

To support the Chamber 

Music Rural Residencies 

program in 1997-98. 

New Performing Arts 

Louisville, KY $15,000 

To support planning and 

administration of a chamber 

music rural residency 

through several community 

colleges in Kentuckv, 

JAZZ SERVICES/ 

SPECIAL PROJECTS 

11 awards $140,000 

American Federation of 

ffazz Societies, Inc. 

West Sacramento, CA 

$4,000 

To support artists’ fees and 

related expenses for jazz 

clinics sponsored by the 

AFJS Statesmen of Jazz, the 

production of the AFJS 

newsletter, and the annual 

AFJS convention. 

American Music Center 

New York, NY $14,000 

To support costs associated 

with the expansion and 

dissemination of the American Music Center’s collection of jazz scores, recordings, and artifacts. 

Arts Midwest 

Minneapolis, MN $7,000 

To support costs associated 

with the production of two 

issues of the quarterly jazz 

newsletter Midwest Jazz and 

for the development of a 

jazz directory for the 

Midwest region. 

*International Association 

of Jazz Educators 

Manhattan, KS $20,000 

To support the continued 

costs of the National 

Endowment for the Arts 

American Jazz Masters 

Awards Concert. 

Lincoln Center for the 

Performing Arts 

New York, NY $13,000 

To support costs for transcribing and copying 

compositions from original 

recordings of jazz masters’ 

works. 

Manchester Craftsmen’s 

Guild 

Pittsburgh, PA $13,000 

To support the costs of an 

on-line service which will 

serve as a depository of oral 

histories and related information on jazz musicians. 

National Jazz Service 

Organization 

Washington, DC $7,000 

To support expansion of the 

Technical Assistance Program and to continue the 

development of the NffSO 

Journal. 

Southern Arts Federation 

Atlanta, GA $18,000 

To support costs for a tour 

of jazz artists to Historically 

Black Colleges and Universities; technical assistance 

and professional development programs; expansion 

of a radio program; and 

production costs for a 

newsletter. 

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Strings for Schools, Inc. 

Wayne, PA $4,000 

To support the costs of 

workshops and performances by the John Blake 

Quartet in public schools. 

*Thelonious Monk 

Institute of ffazz 

Washington, DC $20,000 

To support after-school and 

Saturday morning instrument training at two Washington area high schools in 

1996-97 in Jazz Sports 

D.C., an extension of Jazz 

Sports L.A., an education 

outreach project linking jazz 

and basketball. 

~belonious Monk 

Institute of Jazz 

Washington, DC $20,000 

To support after-school and 

Saturday morning instrument training at two South 

Central Los Angeles high 

schools as part of the JazzBasketball Initiative. 

SERVICES TO 

COMPOSERS 

6 awards $75,000 

American Composers 

Orchestra, Inc. 

New York, NY $4,000 

To support costs associated 

with recruitment, reading 

sessions, and mentors for six 

emerging American composers. 

American Music Center 

New York, NY $27,000 

To support costs associated 

with the center’s information services. 

Bay Area Women’s 

Philharmonic 

San Francisco, CA $4,000 

To support costs associated 

with two new music reading 

sessions for emerging 

American women cornposers. 

Composers Conference and 

Chamber Music Center 

Wellesley, MA $4,000 

To support fees of guest 

composers and coaching 

staff, and related administrative costs for the 52nd 

Annual Composers Conference. 

Meet the Composer, Inc. 

New York, NY $32,000 

To support fees for composers’ participation in 

performances of their music 

through the Meet the 

Composer Fund. 

Minnesota Composers 

Forum 

St. Paul, MN $4,000 

To support costs associated 

with the Forum’s National 

Services Initiative. 

CONSORTIUM 

COMMISSIONING AND 

COMPOSER-INRESIDENCE 

Meet the Composer, Inc. 

New York, NY $100,000 

A cooperative agreement to 

support the Meet the 

Composer Commissioning 

Program which awards 

funds to consortia of music 

organizations for commissioning works in concert 

music, opera, musical 

theater, and jazz. 

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PROFESSIONAL 

COMPANIES 

85 awards $2,025,000 

American Music Theater 

Festival, lnc. 

Philadelphia, PA $17,000 

To support expenses associated with the production of 

Punch &Judy Get Divorced. 

American Musical Theatre 

of San Jose 

San Jose, CA $9,000 

To support in part the 

salaries of artistic staff. 

American Repertory 

Theatre 

Cambridge, MA $11,000 

To support expenses for the 

production of Puncb &Judy 

Get Divorced and The bland 

of Anyplace. 

Appalshop, Inc. 

Whitesburg, KY $4,000 

To support touring expenses 

associated with the tours of 

South of the Mountain, 

Mountain Tales and Music, 

Junebug Jack, Borderline, and 

a new work. 

Augusta Opera Association 

Augusta, GA $3,000 

To support production Of 

Marc Blitzstein’s Regina. 

Austin Lyric Opera 

Austin, TX $6,000 

To support production 

expenses associated with 

The Ballad of Baby Doe. 

Black Ensemble Theater 

Corporation 

Chicago, IL $4,000 

To support expenses associated with the production of 

a new work by Jackie Taylor 

based on the life of Lorraine Hansberry. 

Boston Lyric Opera 

Company 

Boston, MA $12,000 

To support artists’ performance and rehearsal fees, 

coaching, housing and 

transportation costs related 

to the production of 

Haydn’s Armida. 

Casa Manana Musicals 

Fort Worth, TX $4,000 

To support artistic, production, and outreach salaries 

for the production of 

Dodswortb, a world premiere 

musical by Steven Cole and 

Jeffery Saver, based on the 

Sinclair Lewis novel. 

Center Stage Associates 

Baltimore, MD $4,000 

To support expenses associated with the production of 

the premiere of Triumph, a 

new musical based on 

 ̄ Marivaux’s The Triumph of 

Love. 

Center Theatre Group of 

Los Angeles 

Los Angeles, CA $17,000 

To support expenses associated with the production of 

two musical theater works. 

Central City Opera House 

Association 

Denver, CO $4,000 

To support expenses associated with the production of 

The Ballad of Baby Doe. 

Chautauqua Institution 

Chautauqua, NY $3,000 

To support expenses associated  ̄ with the production of 

The Ballad of Baby Doe. 

Chicago Opera Theater 

Chicago, IL $3,000 

To support the expenses 

associated with the production of Stephen Paulus’s The 

Postman Always Rings Twice. 

Civic Light Opera 

Association 

Pittsburgh PA $12,000 

To support expenses associated with the production of 

Desert Song. 

Coconut Grove Playhouse 

State Theatre of Florida 

Corporation 

Miami, FL $3,000 

To support expenses associated with the production of 

the musical Rags by Charles 

Strouse. 

Dallas Opera 

Dallas, TX $70,000 

To support expenses 

associated with productions 

of Carmen and Der 

Rosenkavalier 

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Early Music Foundation 

New York, NY $3,000 

To support the tours of 

Danid and the Lions and The 

Play of Mary Magdalene. 

East-West Players, Inc. 

Los Angeles, CA $4,000 

To support expenses associated with the production of 

Stephen Sondheim’s Pacific 

Overtures. 

Florida Grand Opera 

Miami, FL $30,000 

To support expenses associated with the production of 

Monteverdi’s L’incoronazione 

di Poppea. 

George Coates Performance 

Company 

San Francisco, CA $4,000 

To support production of 

original musical .theater 

works by resident composer 

Marc Ream and artistic 

director George Coates. 

George Street Playhouse 

New Brunswick, NJ $3,000 

To support expenses associated with the production of 

the world premiere of the 

new musical Houdini by 

Robert Nassif Lindsey. 

Glimmerglass Opera 

Cooperstown, NY $17,000 

To support expenses associ­

 ̄ ated with the production of 

Jack Beeson’s Lizzie Borden. 

Goodspeed Opera House 

Foundation 

East Haddam, CT $63,000 

To support expenses associated with the production of 

Paper Moon by Martin 

Cassella, Larry Grossman, 

and Ellen Fitzhugh. 

Houston Grand Opera 

Association 

Houston, TX $142,000 

To support expenses associated with the production of 

Boris Godunov and a new coproduction of Salome. 

International Arts 

Relations, Inc. 

New York, NY $3,000 

To support production 

expenses for the world 

premiere of the musical 

Orisba. 

June Opera Festival of 

New Jersey 

Princeton Jct., NJ $4,000 

To support expenses associated with the production of 

Stravinsky’s The Rake’s 

Progress. 

Kentucky Opera 

Association 

Louisville, KY $12,000 

To support expenses associated with the production of 

Don Giovanni. 

Lime Kiln Arts, Inc. 

Lexington, VA $3,000 

To support expenses associated with the production of 

the musical Stonewall 

Country. 

Long Beach Opera 

Long Beach, CA $6,000 

To support expenses associated with the production of 

Hopper,s Wife. 

Lyric Opera of Chicago 

Chicago, IL $177,000 

To support expenses associated with the production of 

Un Re In Ascolto and II 

Trittico. 

Madison Opera 

Madison, WI $3,000 

To support the expenses 

associated with the production of Faust. 

Metropolitan Opera 

Association 

New York, NY $300,000 

To support expenses associ­

 ̄ ated with the productions of 

Andrea Chenier and A 

Midsummer Night’s Dream. 

Michigan Opera Theatre 

Detroit, MI $3,000 

To support the statewide 

touring expenses associated 

with the productions of 

Nanabusb and Hansel and 

Gretel. 

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Michigan Opera Theatre 

Detroit, MI $30,000 

To support expenses associated with the productions of 

Carmen and The Flying 

Dutchman. 

Mill Mountain Playhouse 

Company 

Roanoke, VA $3,000 

To support expenses associated with the production of 

Dream, Dream, Dream. 

Minnesota Opera Company 

Minneapolis, MN $45,000 

To support expenses associated with the production of 

Carmen and The Magic 

Flute. 

Mobile Opera 

Mobile, AL $4,000 

To support expenses for the 

production of Don Giovanni. 

Music Center Opera 

Association 

Los Angeles, CA $65,000 

To support expenses associated with the production of 

II Ritorno D’Ulisse in Patria 

and The Barber of Seville. 

Music-Theatre Group, Inc. 

New York, NY $23,000 

To support expenses associated with the production of 

Three of Hearts by Mary 

Rodgers and You Don’t Miss 

Water by Diedre Murray 

and Cornelius Eady. 

Musical Traditions 

San Francisco, CA $3,000 

To support expenses associated with an eight-week 

tour of Ocbo Rios by Path 

Dresher and Eric Overmyer, and The Strange Last 

Voyage of Donald Crowburst 

by Steve Mackey and Rinde 

Eckert. 

New Cleveland Opera 

Company 

Cleveland, OH $5,000 

To support expenses associated with the production of 

Faust. 

New Federal Theatre 

New York, NY $3,000 

To support expenses associated with the production of 

the musical Home. 

New Orleans Opera 

Association 

New Orleans, LA $4,000 

To support expenses associated with production of 

l/Verther. 

New York City Opera 

New York, NY $110,000 

To support expenses associated with the productions of 

Bellini’s La Sonnambula and 

David Diamond’s The 

Noblest Game. 

New York City Opera 

New York, NY $4,000 

To support production 

expenses associated with the 

tour of La Bobeme. 

North Shore Community 

Arts Foundation 

Beverly, MA $4,000 

To Support expenses associated with the production of 

Crazy For You. 

Odyssey Theatre 

Foundation 

Los Angeles, CA $3,000 

To support expenses associated with the production of 

Lynn Ahrens and Stephen 

Flaherty’s Lucky Stiff. 

Opera Carolina 

Charlotte, NC $4,000 

To support expenses associated with the production of 

La Fille du Regiment. 

Opera Colorado 

Denver, CO $10,000 

To support expenses associated with the production of 

Carmen. 

Opera Company of 

Philadelphia 

Philadelphia, PA $7,000 

To support expenses associated with the production of 

Verdi’s Falstaff. 

Opera Orchestra of New 

York, lnc. 

New York, NY $4,000 

To support expenses associated with the concert opera 

production of Verdi’s Alzira. 

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Opera San 57ose 

San Jose, CA $7,000 

To support expenses associated with the production of 

Puccini’s La Boheme. 

Opera Theatre at Wildwood 

Little Rock, AZ $4,000 

To support expenses associated with the production of 

Sondheim’s A Little Night 

Music. 

Opera Theatre of Northern 

Virginia 

Arlington, VA $4,000 

To support expenses associated with the production of 

The Phantom Toll Booth. 

Opera Theatre of Saint 

Louis 

St. Louis, MO $61,000 

To support expenses associated with the productions of 

Monteverdi’s 0rj~0 and Lee 

Hoiby’s Summer and Smoke. 

Orlando Opera Company 

Orlando, FL $5,000 

To support expenses for the 

production of Verdi’s II 

Trovatore. 

Paper Mill Playhouse 

Millburn, NJ $57,000 

To support expenses associated with the productions of 

Gigi and Man of La Mancba. 

Pittsburgh Opera 

Pittsburgh, PA $12,000 

To support expenses associated with the production of 

Don Carlo. 

Playwrights Horizons, Inc. 

New York, NY $3,000 

To support expenses for the 

production of Everything on 

~Toite Bread by David 

Bucknam. 

Photo by Diane Sobolewski. 

Portland Opera Association 

Portland, OR $4,000 

To support expenses associated with the production of 

The Merchant of Venice. 

San Diego Opera 

Association 

San Diego, CA $44,000 

To support expenses associated with the productions of 

The Conquistador and 

Turandot. 

Linsay 

Cummings 

portrays the 

orphaned 

Addie 

Loggins in 

the new 

musical 

Paper Moon 

at the 

Goodspeed 

Opera 

House in 

East 

Haddam, 

Connecticut. 

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San Frandsco Mime Troupe 

San Francisco, CA $3,000 

To support expenses associated with the musical 

theater portion of the 

touring production season. 

San Frandsco Mime Troupe 

San Francisco, CA $8,000 

To support expenses associated with the production of 

a musical theater work. 

San Frandsco Opera 

Assodation 

San Francisco, CA $170,000 

To support expenses associated with the productions of 

Aida, Salome, and Harvey 

Milk. 

Santa Fe Opera Association 

Santa Fe, NM $100,000 

To support expenses associated with the production of 

Stravinsky’s The Rake’s 

Progress and Tobias Picker’s 

Emmdine. 

Sarasota Opera Association 

Sarasota, FL $6,000 

To support expenses for the 

production of Puccini’s La 

Boheme. 

Seattle Opera Assodation, 

Seattle, WA $75,000 

To support expenses associated with the productions of 

Werther and Xerxes. 

Shreveport Opera 

Shreveport, LA $4,000 

To support expenses associated with the production of 

Rigoletto. 

Skylight Opera Theatre 

Milwaukee, WI $4,000 

To support expenses associated with the production of 

Elixir of Love. 

Tennessee Repertory 

Theatre Trust 

Nashville, TN $4,000 

To support expenses associated with the production of 

Dream: A Broadway Musical 

Romance. 

Thalia Spanish Theatre 

Sunnyside, NY $3,000 

To support expenses associated with the production of 

the "zarzuela" La Taberna 

del Puerto by Pablo Sorozabal, Federico Romero, and 

Guillermo Fernandez-Shaw. 

Theatre Under the Stars 

Houston, TX $8,000 

To support expenses associated with the production of 

My Fair Lady. 

Theatre Works 

Palo Mto, CA $4,000 

To support expenses associated with the production of 

the musical Sweet and Hot: 

The Songs of Harold Arlen. 

Tbeatreworks~SA 

Corporation 

New York, NY $4,000 

To support expenses associated with the production of 

the musical Peter Rabbit by 

Peter Gialloreto and 

Michael Slade. 

TheatreworksFUSA 

Corporation 

New York, NY $3,000 

To support expenses associated with the tour of Curious George by Timothy 

Brown. 

Triangle Opera Theater 

Durham, NC $3,000 

To support expenses associated with the production of 

Fidelio. 

Tulsa Opera 

Tulsa, OK $14,000 

To support expenses associated with the production of 

Bizet’s The Pearl Fishers. 

Utah Opera Company 

Salt Lake City, UT $4,000 

To support expenses associated with the production of 

Benjamin Britten’s The Turn 

of the Screw. 

Village Theatre 

Issaquah, WA $4,000 

To support expenses for a 

new musical. 

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Vivian Beaumont Theater 

New York, NY $25,000 

To support fees associated 

with the production of Juan 

Darien. 

Washington Opera 

Washington, DC $74,000 

To support expenses associated with the productions of 

El Gato Montes and The 

Ballad of Baby Doe. 

Western Opera Theater 

San Francisco, CA $4,000 

To support salaries and 

travel costs for professional 

singers, musicians, and 

technicians associated with 

the tour of a new production of The Barber of Seville. 

Wolf Trap Foundation for 

the Performing Arts 

Vienna, VA $3,000 

To support expenses associated with the production of 

Xerxes. 

York Theatre Company 

New York, NY $3,000 

To support expenses associated with the production of 

the musical The Times. 

SERVICES TO THE 

FIELD 

6 awards $75,000 

Lyric Opera of Chicago 

Chicago, IL $3,500 

To support the fees of guest 

artists for readings of the 

work-in-progress of Lyric 

Opera’s fifth composer-inresidence, Shulamit Ran. 

Meet the Composer, Inc. 

New York, NY $9,000 

To support pre-residency 

training institutes for up to 

five new residencies in 

Round Four of OperaMusical Theater Residencies. 

National Alliance for 

Musical Theatre, Inc. 

New York, NY $11,000 

To support the 1996 Festival of New Musicals, which 

will present readings of 

eight new musicals in a twoday period, in conjunction 

with the Alliance’s Fall 

Membership conference. 

National Public Radio, Inc. 

Washington, DC $11,500 

To support the recording 

and broadcast of a new 

production by an American 

regional opera company for 

the 1996 "World of Opera" 

radio series. 

New York Public Library 

Astor, Lenox and Tilden 

Foundations 

New York, NY $6,000 

To support the videotaping 

of up to four musical 

theater productions during 

the 1996-97 season by the 

Library’s Theatre on Film 

and Tape Archive. 

OPERA America, Inc. 

Washington, DC $34,000 

To support expansion of 

OPERA America’s landmark "Words! Music! 

Opera!" curriculum and 

textbooks into local school 

systems. 

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PRESENTING 

NETWORKS 

4 awards $150,000 

Alternate ROOTS, Inc. 

Atlanta, GA $20,500 

To support costs associated 

with a fee subsidy program 

for southeastern presenters 

of theater, storytelling, 

dance performances, and 

related activities. 

Appalshop, lnc. 

Whitesburg, KY $31,500 

To support artists’ fees and 

costs associated with the 

American Festival Project. 

Dance Theater Workshop 

New York, NY $85,000 

To support costs associated 

with dance, music, and 

theater residencies and the 

annual meeting of member 

presenters in the National 

Performance Network. 

Dancing in the Street, Inc. 

New York, NY $13,000 

To support artists’ fees, 

commissions, travel, and 

administrative costs associated with the Environmental Performance Network. 

111 awards $1,750,000 

Alverno College 

Milwaukee, WI $5,000 

To support the presentation 

and residency activity of R. 

Carlos Nakai. 

American Dance Festival 

Durham, NC $29,300 

To support artists’ fees 

associated with the International Choreographers 

Commissioning Program 

and the presentation of 

Merce Cunningham Dance 

Company, Pilobolus Dance 

Theatre, Dayton Contemporary Dance Company and 

others, 

Anchorage Concert 

Association 

Anchorage, AK $14,000 

To support artists’ fees and 

costs associated with the 

presentation of New England Ragtime Ensemble 

with Gunther Schuller, the 

Martha Graham Dance 

Company, and Manhattan 

Tap.. 

Appalsbop, lnc. 

Whitesburg, KY $18,000 

To support costs associated 

with the "Seedtime on the 

Cumberland" and "Old 

Time Weekends" series. 

Artist Series at the Pabst 

Milwaukee, WI $5,000 

To support costs associated 

with the Chamber Music 

and Jazz subscription series 

as well as the inauguration 

of a jazz festival. 

Artists Collective, Inc. 

Hartford, CT $5,000 

To support the presentation 

of a series of concerts and 

performances celebrating the 

cultural contributions of 

African, Caribbean, and Latin American communities. 

Asia Society 

New York, NY $7,000 

To support artists’ fees and 

other costs associated with 

the presentation of the 

Vietnamese Water Puppets, 

Sardono Kusumo, and 

Crossovers: The Drum in 

Asia, Africa, and America. 

Baltimore Museum of Art 

Baltimore, MD $5,000 

To support artists’ fees and 

costs associated with the 

"Off the Walls," "Celebrate 

the African Spirit," and the 

"Summer Jazz Series." 

Bates College 

Lewiston, ME $5,000 

To support residencies for 

Contraband, Liz Lerman 

Dance Exchange, Doug 

Varone, Nia Love, and Eiko 

and Korea. 

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Boise State University 

Boise, ID $5,000 

To support artists’ fees and 

related costs for the Boise 

Chamber Music Series. 

Brooklyn Academy of 

Music, Inc. 

Brooklyn, NY $115,700 

To support costs associated 

with BAM Opera, BAN[ 

Theater, the Next Wave 

Festival, the Performing Arts 

Program for Young People, 

and the presentation of the 

Harlem Nutcracker. 

Carnegie Hall Corporation 

New York, NY $25,000 

To support artistic fees for a 

special tribute to Marian 

Anderson and the Ira 

Gershwin Centennial 

Concert. 

Celebrity Series of Boston 

Boston, MA $5,000 

To support artists’ fees for 

arts education programs. 

Center for Contemporary 

Arts of Santa Fe, Inc. 

Santa Fe, NM $10,000 

To support costs associated 

with the Latino Performance Writers Series, the 

Visual Performance Series, 

the Composers Perform 

with Performance Series, 

and the New Works for 

Solo Woman’s Voice Series. 

Center for Puppetry Arts 

Adanta, GA $5,000 

To support costs associated 

with the Summer Festival 

1996 to be presented in 

collaboration with the 

Atlanta Committee for the 

Olympic Games Cultural 

Olympiad. 

Center for Women & Their 

Work 

Austin, TX $5,000 

To support the New Performance Series. 

Centro Cultural de la Raza 

San Diego, CA $7,000 

To support costs associated 

with the presentation of 

Pamela Z, Francisco Gonzalez and Yolanda Broyles, 

and Guillermo GomezPena. 

Chamber Music Society of 

St. Cloud, Inc. 

St. Cloud, MN $5,000 

To support artists’ fees and 

related costs for the presentation of the Brentano 

String Quartet, the Shanghai String Quartet, and the 

New York Philomusica. 

Children’s Theatre Board 

of Winston-Salem 

Winston-Salem, NC $5,000 

To support costs associated 

with the presentation of the 

Cleo Parker Robinson 

Dance Ensemble. 

City Parks Foundation 

New York, NY $5,000 

To support artists’ performance and commissioning 

fees, production expenses, 

and creation of promotional 

literature such as a multilanguage brochure associated with the 1996 SummerStage Dance Series. 

City of San Antonio 

San Antonio, TX $15,000 

To support the Carver 

Center’s presentation of 

Jam on the Groove, 

Lewitzky Dance Company, 

and "Crossing the Broken 

Bridge." 

Ciorfotk 

Dayton, OH $14,100 

To support costs associated 

with presentations of 

Rhythm in Shoes, IntiIllimani, a three-concert 

Celtic series, Keith Terry 

and I Wayan Dibia, a cajun 

dance and music concert, 

and the annual Jazz Traditions Series. 

Colorado Dance Festival 

Boulder, CO $17,600 

To support artists’ fees and 

presentation costs associated with performances by 

Jimmy Slyde and Sarah 

Petronio, Chuck Davis’s 

African-American Dance 

Ensemble, and the Dances 

of the Spirit series. 

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Columbia College 

Chicago, IL $7,500 

To support artists’ fees and 

presentation costs associated with performances 

during the Chicago On Tap 

II festival, DanceAfrica/ 

Chicago ’96, The Edge 

Project, and a six-week 

festival of contemporary 

Japanese dance. 

Community Arts Project 

Columbus, OH $5,000 

To support artists’ fees, 

marketing, and artist travel 

costs associated with the 

presentation of "Ancestral 

Legacy: Discover the 

Treasures." 

Contemporary Dance 

Theater 

Cincinnati, OH $5,000 

To support artists’ fees and 

technical and production 

expenses for the Guest 

Artist Series at The Dance 

Hall and at the new Aronoff 

Center for the Arts. 

D.C. Wbed Productions 

Washington, DC $5,000 

To support dance performances and residencies 

costs associated with the 

presentation of Bebe Miller 

Dance Company, Kankouran, Tap Dance Festival, 

Liz Lerman Dance 

Exchange, and Moving 

Black Artists. 

Da Camera Society of 

Texas 

Houston, TX $6,000 

To support a George 

Tsontakis commission, a 

series of concerts at the 

Houston Zoo, the presentation of a three-concert 

series of the music of 

Mexico, a jazz series, and 

the series "Inventing the 

20th Century." 

Dance Theater Workshop 

New York, NY $88,100 

To support artists’ fees and 

production and administrative costs associated with 

the presentation of the Big 

City Musics, Physical 

Comedies, Public Imaginations festivals, and the 

Schonberg Dancing series. 

Dance Umbrella 

Austin, TX $5,000 

To support artists’ fees and 

costs associated with "The 

Men At Work" dance series. 

Dancers Collective of 

Atlanta 

Atlanta, GA $5,000 

To support costs associated 

with three residencies: 

Pilobolus, Liz Lerman 

Dance Exchange, and Light 

Motion. 

Dancing in the Street, Inc. 

New York, NY ’ $8,000 

To support artists’ fees and 

production and administrative expenses for free public 

site presentations and 

related residency activities 

including the "Dances for 

Wave Hill" series. 

Danspace Project, Inc. 

New York, NY $5,000 

To support artists’ fees, 

technical salaries, commissioning funds, and promotional expenses associated 

with the presentation of 

dance artists Beppie 

Blankert, Ellen Cornfield, 

Lance Gries, David Alan 

Harris and Vicky Shick. 

Davis & Elkins College 

Elldns, WV $5,000 

To support artists’ fees 

associated with the Concert 

Series. 

District Curators, Inc. 

Washington, DC $15,000 

To support artists’ fees 

associated with the 1996 

Full Circle Festival. 

DiverseWorks, Inc. 

Houston, TX $10,000 

To support artists’ fees for 

the 4 + 4 + 4 Spring Dance 

series. 

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Duke University 

Durham, NC $5,000 

To support artists’ fees for 

the New Directions and 

Dance series. 

Early Music Guild of 

Seattle 

Seattle, WA $5,000 

To support artists’ fees 

associated with the fiveconcert International Series 

and the three-concert 

Recital Series. 

Earshot yazz Society of 

Seattle 

Seattle, WA $12,500 

To support artists’ fees for 

the Living Spirit of Jazz 

Series and the Duke Ellington Sacred Music Concerts. 

Elaine Kaufman Cultural 

Center-Lucy Moses School 

for Music and Dance 

New York, NY $5,000 

To support artists’ fees 

associated with the Zoom: 

Composers Close Up, New 

Sounds, and Jazz Waves 

series. 

Festival International de 

Louisiane 

Lafayette, LA $5,000 

To support the costs of 

royalties, artists’ fees, travel, 

and the purchase of technical equipment in the areas 

of theater and dance. 

Flynn Theatre for the 

Performing Arts, Ltd. 

Burlington VT $75,000 

To support administrative 

costs and artists’ travel and 

subsistence expenses for the 

presentation of Aterbaletto, 

Mark Morris, Tharp!, 

Elizabeth Streb/Ringside, 

Maria Benitez, and three 

festivals. 

Friends of the Davis 

Center, Inc. 

New York, NY $34,200 

To support costs associated 

with the "International 

Series," an educational 

program for children in 

Harlem schools. 

Guadalupe Cultural Arts 

Center 

San Antonio, TX $14,000 

To support costs associated 

with the 16th annual Tejano 

Conjunto Festival 

Helena Presents 

Helena, MT $41,600 

To support artists’ fees and 

other direct costs associated 

with performances by the 

Paul Dresher Ensemble, 

Cassandra Wilson, the 

Philip Glass Ensemble, 

Sankai Juku, Diedre Murray, and the Western Opera 

Theater. 

Henson Foundation 

New York, NY $7,500 

To support the artistic fee 

and other direct costs 

incurred in the presentation 

of Alice Farley at the 1996 

Festival of Puppet Theater 

to be held in New York 

City. 

Hult Center for the 

Performing Arts 

Eugene, OR. $6,500 

To support artists’ fees 

associated with the presentation of the Dance Theatre 

of Harlem. 

*International Alliance of 

First Night Celebrations 

Boston, MA $30,000 

To support the development 

of a plan to hold First Night 

Celebrations in several 

cities on the eve of the 

Millennium. 

Jacob’s Pillow Dance
 

Festival
 

Lee, MA $73,300 

To support artists’ fees in 

the presentation of the 

Miami City Ballet, Erick 

Hawkins Dance Company, 

and Jazz Tap programs by 

Jimmy Slyde, guest artists 

and the Bross Townsend 

Trio. 

 ̄ Japan Society, Inc. 

New York, NY $5,000 

To support artists’ fees 

incurred in the presentation 

of the actors and musicians 

of "Dragon Bond Pdte." 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Japanese American 

Cultural and Community 

Center 

Los Angeles, CA $15,000 

To support artists’ fees 

incurred in the presentation 

of dance artists Kazuo and 

Yoshito Ohno, the Warabiza ensemble of folk music 

and dance, and classical/folk 

dance and music artist 

Kotohajime. 

John E Kennedy Center 

for the Performing Arts 

Washington, DC $20,000 

To support artists’ fees 

associated with the presentation of the Paul Taylor 

Dance Company. 

Joyce Theater Foundation 

New York, NY $24,600 

To support artists’ fees 

associated with the presentation of Pilobolus. 

Jubilee Community Arts 

Knoxville, TN $5,000 

To support international 

and regional American 

musicians’ and dancers’ fees 

incurred in the presentation 

of the International Jubilee 

and the Jubilee Festival. 

Jump-Start Performance 

Company 

San Antonio, TX $5,000 

To support artists’ fees 

incurred in the presentation 

of the Festival de Libre 

Enganche. 

Junebug Productions 

New Orleans, LA $5,000 

To support guest artists’ 

fees for the Environmental 

Justice project. 

Kings Majestic Corporation 

Brooklyn, NY $10,000 

To support artists’ fees 

incurred during the presentation of Carnival d’Afrique 

Caribbean, A New Orleans 

Mardi Gras, Yenenga, and A 

la vue d’un seul oeil. 

Koncepts Cultural Gallery 

Oakland, CA $5,000 

To support artists’ fees and 

advertising costs incurred in 

the presentation of "Double-Up," an annual event of 

jazz duos featuring national 

and regional jazz artists. 

Kuumbwa Jazz Society 

Santa Cruz, CA $5,000 

To support artists’ fees 

incurred in the presentation 

of jazz performers Geri 

Allen, Bobby Hutcherson, 

Billy Childs, and Cedar 

Walton. 

La Mama Experimental 

Theatre Club 

New York, NY $!2,500 

To support artists’ fees 

incurred in the presentation 

of a new operatic collaboration by John Kelly and 

Slovenia’s Glej Theater and 

a work by choreographer 

Alice Farley and composer 

Henry Threadgill. 

La Pena Cultural Center 

Berkeley, CA $10,000 

To support artists’ fees for 

performances of multiculrural music, dance, and 

theater. 

Lafayette College 

Easton, PA $18,100 

To support artists’ fees 

incurred by the Williams 

Center for the Arts in the 

presentation of the Orpheus 

Chamber Orchestra. 

Lincoln Center for the 

Performing Arts 

New York, NY $40,000 

To support artists’ fees 

incurred during the presentation of the Lyon Opera 

Ballet as part of the Lincoln 

Center Festival. 

Mayfair, Inc. 

Allentown, PA $5,000 

To support artists’ fees 

incurred in the presentation 

of Turtle Island String 

Quartet as part of the 10th 

annual, five-day, multidisciplinary performing arts 

festival. 

Miami-Dade Community 

College 

Miami, FL $5,000 

To support costs associated 

with the one-week residency and presentation of 

Sleep, a new work cocommissioned from the Pat 

Graney Company. 

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Mount Saint Mary’s 

College 

Los Angeles, CA $11,500 

To support artists’ fees 

incurred in the presentation 

of Sequentia, AlexanderClayton-Hamilton Trio, 

Robert Mann Players, 

Brentano String Quartet 

with David Shift:in, Capella 

Nova, and Meridian Arts 

Ensemble. 

Music Center of Los 

Angeles County 

Los Angeles, CA $22,800 

To support artists’ fees 

incurred by the Music 

Center Education Division’s 

presentation of Ballet 

Folclorico do Brasil, Chuna 

McIntyre, Japanese Festival 

Sounds, World Kulintang 

Institute, L.A. Physical 

Theatre Project, and others. 

National Black Arts 

Festival 

Atlanta, GA $12,000 

To support artists’ fees 

incurred in the presentation 

of a tribute to jazz musician 

Louis Armstrong as part of 

the National Black Arts 

Festival. 

New Orleans Ballet 

Association 

New Orleans, LA $5,000 

To support artists’ fees 

incurred in the presentation 

of Sankai Juku. 

Northeast Ohio Jazz 

Society 

Cleveland Height, OH 

$5,000 

To support costs associated 

with the presentation of 

pianist Marcus Roberts. 

Ohio State University 

Research Foundation 

Columbus, OH $29,400 

To support artists’ fees and 

costs for performing arts 

events related to the exhibition of "Art and Film," a 

Mark Morris residency, and 

the Christian McBride 

Quartet. 

Old Town School of Folk 

Music 

Chicago, IL $6,500 

To support artists’ fees 

incurred in the presentation 

of a festival of Cajun music 

entided "Louisiana on the 

Lake" and the 13th Annual 

Festival of Latin Music. 

On the Boards 

Seattle, WA $47,500 

To support artists’ and 

commissioning fees 

incurred in the presentation 

of new works by artists 

Amanda Miller, Reggie 

Wilson, Bill T. Jones, 

Alfredo Castro, and Harry 

deWitt. 

Performance Space 122 

New York, NY $23,500 

To support advertising costs 

incurred in the presentation 

of dance artists Ron Brown, 

Marlies Yearby, Yvonne 

Meier, and Frank Conversant, and music artists 

Butch Morris, David Van 

Teighem, and Pauline 

Oliveros. 

Philadelphia Chamber 

Music Society 

Philadelphia, PA $5,000 

To support concert hall 

rental fees incurred in the 

presentation of the Beaux 

Arts Trio, the Borromeo, 

Emerson, Guarneri, Juilliard, Muir, Tokyo, and 

American String Quartets, 

and solo artists Andras 

Schiff and Joshua Bell. 

Pittsburgh Chamber Music 

Society 

Pittsburgh, PA $6,000 

To support artists’ fees 

incurred in the presentation 

of the New Millennium 

Ensemble with mezzosoprano Mimi Lerner and 

the Shanghai Quartet with 

guitarist Eliot Fisk. 

Pittsburgh Children’s 

Festival 

Pittsburgh, PA $5,000 

To support artists’ fees 

incurred in the presentation 

of the Theatergroup Wederzijds as part oft_he 1996 

Pittsburgh Childrens’s 

Festival. 

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Seattle jazz 

master 

Buddy 

Catlett 

performs on 

the Earshot 

Jazz "Living 

Spirit of 

Jazz" series. 

Pittsburgh Dance Council 

Pittsburgh, PA $14,600 

To support artists’ fees and 

other direct costs of presenting performances and 

multi-week residencies with 

the Martha Graham Company, Joe Chvala and the 

Flying Foot Forum, and 

Philadanco. 

Portland Performing Arts 

Portland, ME $12,000 

To support artists’ fees and 

other direct costs of performances and residencies as 

part of the House Island 

Project annual concert 

series entitled "Big Sounds 

From M1 Over." 

Quad City Arts, Inc. 

Rock Island, IL $9,000 

To support artists’ fees and 

other direct costs of presenting the Visiting Artist 

Series of music, dance, and 

theater performances. 

Renaissance and Baroque 

Society of Pittsburgh 

Pittsburgh, PA $5,000 

To support artists’ fees and 

an administrative salary 

associated with the presentation of early music. 

Photo © Steve Robinson. 

St. Ann Center for 

Restoration and the Arts 

Brooklyn NY $7,500 

To support artists’ fees for 

the presentation of 

"Petrarch’s Mr," the "Legend of King Arthur," and 

"Slain in the Spirit: The 

Promise of Jim Jones." 

San Francisco Early Music 

Society 

Berkeley, CA $7,500 

To support artists’ fees and 

other direct costs of the 

Chamber Concert Series 

and Artists in Residence 

Program. 

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San Francisco 

Performances, Inc. 

San Francisco, CA $15,000 

To support artists’ fees for 

the mainstage series and the 

Concerts with Conversation 

and Meet the Artist programs. 

Schubert Club, Inc. 

St. Paul, MN $5,000 

To support artists’ fees and 

other direct costs of presenting the International 

Artist Series, Keyboard 

Conversations, and the Hill 

House Concerts. 

Seattle International 

Children’s Festival 

Seattle, WA $5,000 

To support artists’ fees in 

the 1996 festival presentation of music, theater, 

dance, and puppetry. 

Sheboygan Arts 

Foundation, Inc. 

Sheboygan, WI $5,000 

To support artists’ fees and 

administrative costs 

incurred by the John 

Michael Kohler Arts Center 

in presenting its performance/residency series 

entided "FOOTLIGHTS." 

Spoleto Festival U.S.A. 

Charleston, SC $10,000 

To support performing 

artists’ fees for the presentation of jazz and chamber 

music at the 1996 Spoleto 

Festival U.S.A. 

Stanford yazz Workshop 

Stanford, CA $5,000 

To support artists’ fees for 

the presentation of Duke 

Ellington’s "Black, Brown, 

and Beige." 

Stanford University 

Stanford, CA $5,000 

To support artists’ fees 

associated with the presentation of the Ying String 

Quartet and ODC/San 

Francisco. 

Symphony Space, Inc. 

New York, NY $7,500 

To support artists’ fees 

involved with presenting 

"Wall to Wall" and "Face 

the Music and Dance." 

Theater Artaud 

San Francisco, CA $7,500 

To support artists’ fees and 

other direct costs of presenting Asian-American 

dance companies in performance and residency. 

University Musical Society 

Ann Arbor, Mr $30,000 

To support a weekend 

residency of the Cleveland 

Orchestra in October of 

1996 and a residency of the 

New York City Opera 

National Company. 

University of Arizona 

Tucson, AZ $10,000 

To support artists’ fees 

incurred by the Office of 

Cultural Affairs in its 

presentation of American 

Visions-American Voices, 

Classic Encounters, World 

Stage, and The Millenium 

Project. 

University of California at 

Berkeley, Regents of the 

Berkeley, CA $58,200 

To support artists’ fees 

incurred during the presentation of Mark Morris, Pina 

Bausch, the Grand Kabuki, 

Sankai Juku, James Galway, 

Joshua Redman, and the 

Carnegie Hall Jazz Band. 

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University of California at 

Santa Barbara, Regents of 

Santa Barbara, CA $20,500 

To support artists’ fees for 

performances byAngeles 

String Quartet with Jeffrey 

Kahan, Muir String Quartet, A Noise Within, 

National Theatre of the 

Deaf, Naa Kahidi Theater, 

The Whirling Dervishes, 

Baaba Maal, Parsons Dance 

Company and others. 

University of Illinois at 

Urbana-Champaign 

Champaign, IL $8,200 

To support artists’ fees for 

the presentation of the 

Philip Glass Ensemble, 

Anna Deavere Smith, and 

the Chicago Symphony 

Orchestra: 

University of Iowa 

Iowa City, IA $29,400 

To support artists’ fees for 

the presentation of Ballet 

Hispanico, the Joffrey 

Ballet, the Mvin Alley 

American Dance Theater, 

and the Lincoln Center Jazz 

Orchestra. 

University of Kansas Main 

Campus 

Lawrence, KS $12,900 

To support artists’ fees for 

the presentation of Merce 

Cunningham, the Berlin 

Philharmonia String Quartet, and Sankai Juku. 

University of MinnesotaTwin Cities 

Minneapolis, MN $5,000 

To support artists’ fees for 

the presentation of the 

Northrop Dance Series, the 

Jazz Series, and the DiscoverSeries. 

University of Nebraska at 

Lincoln 

Lincoln, NE $5,000 

To support artists’ fees for 

the presentation of the 

Alvin Ailey American Dance 

Theater and Sweet Honey 

in the Rock. 

University of Pennsflvania, Trustees of the 

Philadelphia, PA $11,700 

To support artists’ fees and 

other direct costs incurred 

by the Annenberg Center in 

presenting the 1996 

Philadelphia International 

Theatre Festival for Children and in planning the 

1997 Festival. 

University of Washington 

Seattle, WA $8,000 

To support artists’ fees for 

commissions of new work 

for the Le0ntovych String 

Quartet, June Watanabe, 

Trisha Brown, and Stephen 

Petronio. 

University of Wyoming 

Laramie, WY $5,000 

To support artists’ fees for 

the presentation of the 

Cavani String Quartet, 

Andras Shift, Barry Douglas, The Acting Company, 

and the Feld Ballet. 

Virginia Museum of Fine 

Arts 

Richmond, VA $5,000 

To support artists’ fees and 

other costs of presenting 

the "Fast/Forward" series of 

presentations. 

Walker Art Center 

Minneapolis, MN $104,200 

To support artists’ fees, 

educational activities and 

other direct costs associated 

with the presentation of 

Eiko and Korea, Elizabeth 

Streb, Liz Lerman, Joe 

Goode, Kronos Quartet, 

Meredith Monk, and Jon 

Jang. 

Washington Performing 

Arts Sodety 

Washington, DC $64,100 

To support artists’ fees for 

orchestras and chamber 

ensembles. 

Washington University 

St. Louis, MO $5,000 

To support artists’ fees for 

the presentation of String 

Trio of New York & Bang 

On A Can All-Stars. 

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World Music Institute, Inc. 

New York, NY $29,900 

To support artists’ fees 

associated with the 1996-97 

presentation Of folk and 

ethnic concerts and the 

contemporary American 

music series, Interpretations. 

World Music, Inc. 

Cambridge, MA $5,000 

To support artists’ fees in 

the presentation of three 

world music events. 

Young Men’s & Young 

Women’s Hebrew 

Association 

New York, NY $26,000 

To support artists’ fees and 

administrative costs 

incurred by the 92nd Street 

YM-YWH~s Tisch Center 

for the Arts and the Dance 

Center in presenting 

"America 2000," "Composers," "Music from 

Moab," the Schubertiade, 

and Harkness Dance. 

CONSOLIDATED 

PRESENTING 

INITIATIVE 

6 awards $150,000 

Arts Midwest 

Minneapolis, MN $25,000 

To support artists’ fees and 

related administrative costs 

for regional presenters of 

dance throughout Illino.is, 

Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, 

Minnesota, North Dakota, 

Ohio, South Dakota, and 

Wisconsin. 

Mid Atlantic Arts 

Foundation 

Baltimore, MD $25,000 

To support artists’ fees and 

related administrative costs 

for regional presenters of 

dance throughout the 

District of Columbia, 

Delaware, Maryland, New 

Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, the Virgin 

Islands, and West Virginia. 

Mid-America Arts Alliance 

Kansas City, MO $25,000 

To support artists’ fees and 

related administrative costs 

for regional presenters of 

dance throughout Arkansas, 

Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, 

Oklahoma, and Texas. 

New England Foundation 

for the Arts 

Boston, MA $25,000 

To support artists’ fees and 

related administrative costs 

for regional presenters of 

dance throughout Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, 

Rhode Island, and Vermont. 

Southern Arts Federation 

Adanta, GA $25,000 

To support artists’ fees and 

related administrative costs 

for regional presenters of 

dance throughout Mabama, 

Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, 

Louisiana, Mississippi, 

North Carolina, South 

Carolina, and Tennessee. 

Western States Arts 

Federation 

Santa Fe, NM $25,000 

To support artists’ fees and 

related administrative costs 

for regional presenters of 

dance throughout Alaska, 

Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, 

Montana, Nevada, New 

Mexico, Oregon, Utah, 

Washington, and Wyoming. 

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PROFESSIONAL 

THEATER COMPANIES 

269 awards $3,471,000 

A Contemporary Theatre 

Seatde, WA $10,000 

To support production costs 

for Cheap by playwright 

Tom Topor. 

A Travelingyewisb 

Theatre 

San Francisco, CA $9,000 

To support the development 

of a new work focussing on 

.the aging process by company member Naomi 

Newman, writer/dancer/ 

choreographer Remy 

Charlip, and director/dramaturg Martha Boesing. 

Access Theatre, Inc. 

Santa Barbara, CA $8,000 

To support artistic and 

production expenses related 

to six weeks of rehearsal and 

two weeks of performance 

of an original work, Flight, 

created by Rod Lathim, 

Artistic Director, and writer 

Ty Granaroli. 

Actors Express, Inc. 

Adanta, GA $5,000 

To support production costs 

for Sandra Deer’s play 

Sailing to Byzantium. 

Actors Theatre of Louisville 

Louisville, KY $50,000 

To support the Classics In 

Context Festival which will 

examine the work of John 

Steinbeck; a theatrical 

adaptation of East Of Eden 

will be the centerpiece of 

the festival. 

Actors Theatre of Maine 

Leeds, ME $4,000 

To support touring performances of a variety of plays 

to rural, underserved areas 

in New England and the 

development of community 

sponsors and presenters in 

the rural locations. 

Adaptors, lnc. 

Brooklyn, NY $5,000 

To support the creation and 

production of a new, largescale, multimedia movement theater piece. 

Alabama Shakespeare 

Festival, Inc. 

Montgomery, AL $15,000 

To support the production 

of Keith Glover’s play, 

Thunder Knocking On The 

Door, to be directed by 

Edward G. Smith with 

original blues music by 

recording artist Keb’ Mo’. 

Alice B. Theatre Association 

Seattle, WA $5,000 

To support the development 

and production of A Good 

List by Andrew Mellen. 

Alley Theatre 

Houston, TX $23,000 

To support the presentation 

of The Greeks, the sevenhour tale of the history of 

the world. 

American Conservatory 

Theatre Foundation 

San Francisco, CA $25,000 

To support the development 

of new works through the 

Multicultural Play Commissioning Project. 

American Museum of 

Vaudeville, Inc. 

Wellfieet, MA $4,000 

To support development 

and production costs and 

artists’ compensation 

associated with a new play 

entided Wake Up/by the 

Wellfleet Harbor Actors 

Theater. 

American Place Theatre 

New York, NY $4,000 

To support the Humor 

Hatchery, a program that 

discovers and develops new 

expressions of humorous 

playwriting by emerging 

American writers. 

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American Repertory 

Theatre 

Cambridge, MA $90,000 

To support artists’ fees and 

salaries of resident artists in 

order to preserve the integrity of the resident acting 

ensemble and to make 

available resident artist positions in directing, design, 

movement, and voice. 

Antenna Theater 

Sausalito, CA $5,000 

To support Aurora and the 

Army Corps of Engineers, a 

hybrid nature walk/theater 

performance/scientific 

debate/radio mystery show 

that will take place outdoors 

in the hills of Matin 

County, California. 

Appalshop, Inc. 

Whitesburg, KY $40,000 

To support Roadside 

Theater’s three residencies 

with the national touring/ 

education/access project. 

Archipelago Company, Inc. 

Chapel Hill, NC $5,500 

To support artists’ salaries 

in two productions based on 

the theme of intimacy 

entitled Binky’s Bar and Grill 

Presents Private Billboards 

and Another Time, Another 

Place... Someone Else. 

Arden Party, Inc. 

New York, NY $4,500 

To support the development 

and production of "The 

Medieval Mystery Plays" 

from the Wakefield Cycle. 

Arden Theatre Company 

Philadelphia, PA $4,000 

To support the Arden 

Professional Apprenticeship 

Program offering comprehensive, highly structured, 

and supervised training in 

all facets of theater operations to aspiring theater 

professionals. 

Arizona Theatre Company 

Tucson, AZ $7,500 

To support the development, rehearsal, and presentation of an original silent 

theater piece featuring the 

physical comedy of mime 

GeoffHoyle. 

Arkansas Repertory 

Theatre Company 

Little Rock, AR $7,000 

To support the development 

and production of Fort 

Chaffee, a play with music 

that chronicles the internment of Cuban refugees at 

an army post in the Ozark 

Mountains in Arkansas, 

with the intent of reaching 

the Hispanic community. 

Atlantic Theater Company 

New York, NY $4,000 

To support the marketing 

costs associated with the 

production of Minutes From 

The Route, a new play by 

Tom Donaghy. 

Available Potential 

Enterprises, Limited 

Northampton, MA $6,000 

To support the No Theatre’s creation of "Road To 

Hell," a 12-part cycle of 

short medieval morality 

plays set in the present. 

Barrow Group, Inc. 

New York, NY $4,000 

To support the costs associated with the creation of a 

new play by Steven Dietz, 

which will include a series 

of readings and workshops, 

culminating in a full-scale 

production of the completed work. 

Barter Foundation, Inc. 

Abingdon, VA $5,000 

To support production costs 

for Girl of My Dreams, 

Doctor’s and Diseases, The 

Moving of Lilla Barton, and 

The Baby Dance. 

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Berkeley Repertory Theatre 

Berkeley, CA $50,000 

To support the arts education programs including a 

school touring production 

and the TEAM program 

(Theater Educates and 

Motivates) through which 

students see mainstage 

productions. 

Big Apple Circus, Ltd. 

New York, NY $30,000 

To support the creation, 

rehearsal, and touring of a 

new production built 

around turn of the century 

vaudeville and variety 

shows. 

Bilingual Foundation of 

the Arts, Inc. 

Los Angeles, CA $6,000 

To support the creation, 

development, and presentation of Isabel Allende’s La 

Casa de los Espiritus (The 

Hous~ of Spirits) in both 

Spanish and English. 

Bloomsburg Theatre 

Ensemble, Inc. 

Bloomsburg, PA $7,000 

To support the Theatre in 

the Classroom production 

of In Our Veins. 

Borderlands 

Tbeater/Teatro Fronterizo 

Tucson, AZ $5,000 

To support performances 

and educational activities to 

underselwed secondary high 

school students. 

Brava! for Women in the 

Arts 

San Francisco, CA $8,000 

To support the salary of the 

literary associate and the 

work of the Literary 

Department. 

Bushfire Theatre of 

Performing Arts 

Philadelphia, PA $5,000. 

To support the development 

and presentation of a new 

play by Richard Pierce, The 

Last Time Bobby Sings The 

Blues. 

Butterfly Educational Arts 

Northampton, MA $4,000 

To support the development 

and production of a new 

play at Chrysalis Theatre by 

artistic director and playwright Andrea Hairston. 

Carpetbag Theatre, Inc. 

Knoxville, TN $5,000 

To support a Women 

Audiences Touring (WAT) 

program which serves 

incarcerated women and 

women in adult literacy 

programs through performance of Ce Nitram Sacul, a 

play about the issues of 

family violence and mental 

illness. 

Carter Family Puppet 

Theater 

Seattle, WA $5,000 

To support the research, 

design, creation, rehearsal, 

and performance of The 

Further Adventures of Pinocchio. 

Center Stage Associates 

Baltimore, MD $50,000 

To support the production 

of Galileo by Bertolt Brecht 

to be directed by Irene 

Lewis. 

Center Theatre Group of 

Los Angeles 

Los Angeles, CA $70,000 

To support the development 

of Mark Taper Forum’s 

New Work Development 

Project, comprised of the 

annual New Work Festival, 

Blacksmyths, Other Voices, 

and the new Asian Theatre 

Workshop. 

Center for Puppetry Arts 

Adanta, GA $60,000 

To support the mainstage 

production of Frankenstein, 

(part of the New Directions 

Series for adult audiences) 

and Charlotte’s Web, Rainforest, and The Court of King 

Arthur from the Center’s 

Family Series. 

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Chicago Children’s 

Theatre, Inc. 

Evanston, IL $4,000 

To support expenses associated with two productions 

at the Skyline Stage at Navy 

Pier with a potential audience of 9,000 to 15,000 

school children, teachers, 

and families. 

Chicago Dramatists 

Workshop 

Chicago, IL $5,000 

To support "Playwrights 

For The ’90’s - The Annual 

Production of Short Plays," 

featuring the work of 

several playwrights chosen 

from a field of 150 plays 

presented in readings, 

workshops, and festivals 

during the prior year. 

Chicago Theatre Group 

Chicago, IL $90,000 

To support the production 

of a new play entided The 

Story of the Seven Princesses. 

Child’s Play Touring 

Theatre 

Chicago, iL $4,000 

To support a multifaceted 

theatrical and educational 

program entitled Kids For 

President. 

Children’s Theater 

Company and School 

Minneapolis, MN $22,000 

To support the development 

and production of a new 

work, A Mark Twain Storybook, scheduled for workshop and preview performances in the fall of 1996 

and followed by an 

extended tour during the 

1996-97 season. 

Childsplay, Inc. 

Tempe, AZ $10,000 

To support the dramatization of Ophelia’s S’hadow 

Theatre, adapted from 

Michael Ende’s book, which 

will use state of the art 

visual/lighting technology 

to tell a story exploring the 

concept of "shadow." 

Cincinnati Playhouse in 

the Park 

Cindnnati, OH $5,000 

To support actors’ compensation during the 1996-97 

theater season. 

Circle in the Square, Inc. 

New York, NY $4,000 

To support the development 

and presentation of a new 

play, Defying Gravity, by 

Jane Anderson. 

Circle Repertory Theatre 

Company 

New York, NY $15,000 

To support education/access 

activities in which audiences 

become involved in the 

creation, development, and 

presentation of new plays. 

Circuii Playhouse, Inc. 

Memphis, TN $4,000 

To support Playhouse on 

the Square’s production of 

The Diary of Anne Frank. 

Circus Arts Foundation of 

Missouri 

St. Louis, MO $7,000 

To support artists’ fees and 

development of a new show 

at the site of Circus Flora’s 

winter quarters in St. Louis 

County, MO. 

City Lit Theatre Company 

Chicago, IL $4,000 

To support the stage adaptation and production of 

Tina McElroy Ansa’s novel, 

Ugly Ways. 

City Theatre Company 

Pittsburgh, PA $6,000 

To support City Theatre’s 

outreach residency project . 

which develops partnerships 

between professional 

theater artists and human 

service and educational 

organizations in the Pittsburgh region. 
 

 

 

Nora (Megan 

Follows), 

dutiful wife to 

Torvald 

(Stephen 

Pelinski), 

faces the 

disintegration 

of her marriage in the 

Guthrie 

Theater’s 

production of 

A Doll’s 

House by 

Henrik Ibsen. Photo by Michal Daniel. 

Cleveland Play House 

Cleveland, OH $8,000 

To support a new play 

development program, Next 

Stage, which is comprised 

Of a Playwright’s Unit to 

support emerging writers, a 

workshop which refines new 

scripts, and mainstage 

production of a play from 

the playwriting workshop. 

Cleveland Public Theatre 

Cleveland, OH $4,000 

To support the double 

performance project, Tales of 

Time, adaptations of A 

Thousand and One Nights 

and The Master and Margarita. 

Cleveland Signstage 

Theatre, Inc. 

Cleveland, OH $4,000 

To support a program for 

high school students which 

includes a performance of 

The Glass Menagerie staged 

in American Sign Language 

(ASL) and spoken English, 

and pre- and post-show 

workshops on the play, the 

playwright, and ASL. 

Coconut Grove Playhouse 

State Theatre of Florida 

Corporation 

Miami, FL $4,000 

To support Mr. Rickey Calls 

A Meeting by Ed Schmidt, a 

play commemorating the 

50th anniversary of Jackie 

Robinson breaking the 

color barrier in major 

league baseball, premiering 

at the opening of the 1997 

baseball season. 

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Connecticut Player’s 

Foundation, Inc. 

New Haven, CT $54,000 

To support development 

and presentation of Long 

Wharf Theatre’s classic 

revivals and seven new 

works as part of the "Celebration of Classic and 

Contemporary Excellence" 

project. 

Contemporary American 

Theater Festival, Inc. 

Shepherdstown, WV 

$4,000 

To support the development 

and production of Bad Girls 

byJoyce Carol Oates and 

Octopus byJon Klein. 

Cornerstone Theater 

Company 

Santa Monica, CA $7,000 

To support the Live/Work/ 

Play in L.A. Project which 

links communities citywide 

through theater by creating 

a new multiple community 

residency project and the 

development and production of a musical to be 

written by Jose Rivera. 

Coterie, lnc. 

Kansas City, MO $6,000 

To support the development 

and production of Sounder 

based on the novel by 

William H. Armstrong, In 

the Suicide Mountains, 

adapted by James Still from 

the writing of John Gardner, and Whale by David 

Holman. 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Court Theatre Fund 

Chicago, IL $5,000 

To support production of 

The Ipbigenia Cycle. 

Crossroads, Inc. 

New Brunswick, NJ 

$40,000 

To support the development 

and presentation of a new 

play by former Poet Laureate Rita Dove, The Darker 

Face of the Earth, an adaptation of the classic Oedipus 

story set in the ante-bellem 

American south. 

CSC Repertory, Ltd. 

New York, NY $8,000 

To support production costs 

for Garcia Lorca’s The 

House of Bernarda Alba and a 

new play by Migdalia Cruz 

entided Another Part of the 

House. 

Cucaracha Theatre 

New York, NY $4,000 

To support three productions, including Collosus, a 

new play by Clive Barker 

and a co-production with 

Classic Stage Company, as 

well as the Late Night 

Series, The Children’s 

Project, and the Monday 

Night Reading Series. 

Dallas Theater Center 

Dallas, TX $25,000 

To support the development 

and production of Life is a 

Dream by Octavio Solis, and 

Cousin Belle by Lynn Siefert. 

Das Puppenspiel Puppet 

Theatre, Inc. 

West-field, NY $4,000 

To support the development 

of "The Puppet Tree." 

Deaf West Theatre 

Company, Inc. 

Los Angeles, CA $4,000 

To support a production of 

Romeo and ffuliet in American Sign Language by a cast 

of deaf, hearing impaired, 

and hearing actors. 

Deep Ellum Theatre Group 

Dallas, TX $10,000 

To support artists’ compensation during the production of four plays selected 

from works by writers 

including Naomi Iizuka, 

John O’Keefe, Howard 

Barker, Octavio Solis, and 

Erin Cressida Wilson. 

Delaware Theatre 

Company 

Wilmington, DE $5,000 

To support the 2nd Biennial 

Connections Competition, 

a competition, for a new 

American play concerning 

inter-racial dynamics in 

America. 

Dell’Arte, Inc. 

Blue Lake, CA $12,000 

To support the development, performance, and 

touring of REACH, a 

regionally based 

touring/performance 

project. 

Denver Center for the 

Pe~orming Arts 

Denver, CO $25,000 

To support the collaboration of theater artists from 

Sweden, Burkina Faso, and 

the Czech Republic in the 

development and presentation of new theater works 

examining the centrality 

and universality of fables in 

world cultures. 

Double Edge Theatre 

Productions, Inc. 

Ashfield, MA $5,000 

To support the creation, 

touring, and training 

activities of Keter & Hidden Territories. 

Downtown Art Co., Inc. 

New York, NY $4,000 

To support the development 

and production of four new 

works as part of the "All 

Over Town" project which 

produces new performance 

by emerging artists working 

outside of traditional 

theater settings. 

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East-West Players, Inc. 

Los Angeles, CA $4,500 

To support the development 

and production of three 

plays including VVomenfrom 

the Other Side of the World by 

Linda Faigao Hall. 

E1 Teatro Campesino 

San Juan Bautista,.CA 

$7,000 

To support the production 

of two contemporary plays, 

El Paso Blue by Octavio 

Solis and Short Eyes by 

Miguel Pinero. 

El Teatro de la Esperanza 

San Francisco, CA $12,000 

To support the production 

of Deporting the Divas by 

Guillermo Reyes and a 

touring production of When 

El Cucui Walks by Roy 

Conboy. 

Empty Space Association 

Seattle, WA $8,500 

To support the development 

of a theatrical adaptation of 

Charlotte Bronte’s classic 

novel VFuthering Heights, 

En Garde Arts, Inc. 

New York, NY $6,000 

To support the co-production of a new music-theater 

adaptation of Homer’s 

Odyssey, written and 

directed byJoAnne Akalaitis 

with original music by 

Philip Glass. 

Ensemble Studio Theatre 

New York, NY $4,000 

To support the production 

of the 1997 MARATHON 

of New One-Act Plays. 

Ensemble Theatre 

Houston, TX $8,000 

To support the production 

of two works featuring 

Claude Purdy and Woodie 

King as guest directors and 

guest artist Ella Joyce. 

Eugene O’Neill Memorial 

Theater Center 

Waterford, CT $25,000 

To support the National 

Playwrights Conference, a 

project that identifies, 

assembles, and assists twelve 

promising playwrights to 

develop and refine a play 

through workshops, staged 

readings, and follow-up 

discussions. 

Fiji Theater Company, Inc. 

New York, NY $20,000 

To support the development 

and production of The Viet 

Nam Project, exploring 

relations between the East 

and the West, and Undesirable Elements, a community-. 

specific work concerning 

cultural identity. 

First Stage Milwaukee 

Milwaukee, WI $4,000 

To support the commissioning, development, and 

production of a theatrical 

adaptation of The Island of 

the Blue Dolphin by Scott 

Odell. 

Florida Studio Theatre 

Sarasota, FL $4,000 

To support the Young 

Playwrights Festival, a sixweek program which 

professionally produces 

outstanding short plays 

created by students in 

grades K-12 from schools 

throughout the southeastern United States. 

Fountain Theatre 

Los Angeles, CA $4,000 

To support a six-month 

process to create, develop, 

and produce Sweet Nothing 

in My Ear, a new play 

confronting the issue of 

cochlear implants, seen by 

some as a scientific miracle 

and by others as a threat to 

deaf culture. 

Friends of Olympia Station 

Santa Cruz, CA $7,500 

To support the creation, 

development, and presentation of a new theater work 

by New Pickle Circus that 

will blend the vocabulary of 

physical theater, circus arts, 

contemporary dance, and 

original music. 

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Gala Inc. Grupo de 

Artistas Latinoamericanos 

Washington, DC $7,000 

To support the adapatation, 

development, and presentation of La Pergola de Las 

Flores (The Pergola of 

Flowers), by Chilean writer 

and folklorist, Lisidora 

Aguirre, to be presented in 

Spanish and English during 

the 1996-97 season. 

George Coates Performance 

Works 

San Francisco, CA $15,000 

To support the development 

and production of an 

original multi-media work 

tided Pavlov’s God. 

George Street Playhouse 

New Brunswick, NJ $6,000 

To support the Touring 

Theatre, reaching over 

70,000 students. 

Group I Acting Company 

New York, NY $11,000 

To support the production 

of Mud, River, Stone, a new 

play by Lynn Nonage. 

Growth and Prevention 

Theater 

Seattle, WA $4,000 

To support expenses associated with the research, 

writing, and production of a 

new play focusing on the 

effects of discrimination on 

people with disabilities. 

Guadalupe Cultural Arts 

Center 

San Antonio, TX $8,000 

To support the commissioning and production of a new 

play based on the life of 

noted Mexican-American 

actress Beatriz "La Chata" 

Noloesca. 

Cruthrie Theater 

Foundation 

Minneapolis, MN $100,000 

To support producti?ns of A 

Midsummer Night’s Dream 

by William Shakespeare, .4 

Doll House" by Henrik 

Ibsen, The Cherry Orchard 

by Anton Chekhov, and 

Philadelphia, Here I Come by 

Brian Friel. 

Hartford Stage Company 

Hartford, CT $75,000 

To support productions of 

The Imaginary lnvalid by 

Moliere and a play by 

William Shakespeare. 

Heart of the Beast Theatre 

Milmeapolis, MN $18,500 

To support the creation and 

presentation of an original 

work entided Songs for a 

Millennium. 

Honolulu Theatre for 

Youth 

Honolulu, HI $22,000 

To support the development 

and presentation of two 

world premiere plays 

developed through Hothouse: Center for New Play 

Development. 

Horse Cave Theatre 76, Inc. 

Horse Cave, KY $4,000 

To support expenses associated with the ten-week 

rehearsal and performance 

period of Desert Flower, a 

new play by Kentucky 

writer Betty Peterson. 

Huntington Theatre 

Company, Inc. 

Boston, MA $7,000 

To support the productions 

of Pearl Cleage’s play, Blues 

for an ,4labama Sky, and 

Journey to the West, an 

adaptation of a Chinese 

novel by adaptor/director 

Mary Zimmerman. 

Hystopolis Productions, Inc. 

River Forest, IL $4,000 

To support an adaptation of 

Bram Stoker’s Dracula. 

Idris Ackamoor and 

Cultural Odyssey 

San F~ancisco, CA $7,500 

To support the salary of a 

Community Outreach 

Coordinator who will 

develop education/access 

programming during the 

1996-97 season. 

Illusion Theater and 

School, Inc. 

Minneapolis, MN $4,000 

To support the annual Fresh 

Ink series of six to eight 

theatrical works-in-progress, 

new works, and multidisciplinary collaborations. 

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Imago, The Theatre Mlask 

Ensemble 

Portland, OR $6,000 

To support the development 

and production of a new 

work adapted from Steppenwolf, by Herman Hesse, 

in the style of the Waylang 

Kulit, using shadow puppets 

and performed with a 

Gamelan Orchestra. 

Independent Eye, Ltd. 

Philadelphia, PA $5,000 

To support The Genesis 

Ensemble, a collaboration 

of artists developing new 

works through improvisation, staging experiments, 

staged readings, community 

outreach workshops, and 

intensive ensemble work. 

lndiana Repertory Theatre 

Indianapolis, IN $12,000 

To support artists’ salaries 

and costs associated with 

enrichment/educational 

programs and supplementary materials developed to 

introduce audiences to 

challenging and issueoriented work. 

International Arts 

Relations, Inc. 

New York, NY $9,000 

To support the Festival of 

New Works featuring three 

new plays by emerging 

Latino writers during the 

1996-97 theater season. 

Intiman Theatre 

Seattle, WA $5,000 

To support the presentation 

of Having Our Say, by 

Emily Mann, an oral history 

based oh the best-selling 

book by Sarah and Elizabeth Delany. 

Irish Repertory Theatre 

Company, Inc. 

New York, NY $6,000 

To support the development 

of a musical adaptation of 

James Joyce’s "The Dead" 

involving composer Shaun 

Davey and director Jack 

Hofsiss, with book and 

lyrics by Richard Nelson 

and musical direction by 

Charles Prince. 

Irondale Productions, Inc. 

New York, NY $4,000 

To support the creation and 

production of a new theater 

piece exploring violence in 

American culture, with a 

series of educational workshops accompanying this 

piece while on tour. 

Jewish Repertory Theatre 

New York, NY $4,000 

To support a community 

outreach campaign enabling 

the theater to reach a larger 

and more diverse audience. 

Jomandi Productions, Inc. 

Atlanta, GA $18,000 

To support the development 

and productions of Keep the 

Faith, by Jeff Stetson, and 

Underground, a musical 

from the story by Valerie 

Benning and book by Tom 

Jones. 

frump-Start Performance 

Company 

San Antonio, TX $5,000 

To support the commission 

and production of Simplicity 

by Paul Bonin-Rodriguez, 

Eyes of Zapata by Sandra 

Cisneros, and French Kisses 

by Sterling Houston. 

Junebug Productions 

New Orleans, LA $10,000 

To support the development, production, and 

touring of How Come You’re 

So Stuck Up This Morning, 

based on stories from New 

Orleans and set in the 

Treme community, and a 

new work to be directed by 

Steven Kent. 

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ffungle Theater 

Minneapolis, MN $4,000 

To support Theater Arts 

Workshops for Youth which 

provides training by Jungle 

Theater’s staff and associated theater artists for 

young people in neighborhood performing arts 

programs. 

Kitchen Dog Theater 

Company 

Dallas, TX $4,000 

To support the presentation 

of The Empire Builders by 

French playwright Boris 

V]an. 

L A Public Theatre, Inc. 

Auburn, ME $4,000 

To support the Student 

Matinee Program providing 

discounted or free tickets to 

performances, study guides 

for pre-performance classroom preparation, and postperformance discussions 

with the director, actors, 

and designers. 

La Mama Experimental 

Theatre Club, Inc. 

New York, NY $60,000 

To support the revival of 

three works of international 

renown: Carmilla by Wilford Leach, Architect and 

Emperor of Assyria by 

Fernando Arrabal, and 

Trojan Women, by Andrei 

Serban. 

Latino Chicago Theater 

Company, Inc. 

Chicago, IL $4,000 

To support artists’ fees, 

transportation, housing, and 

per diem for playwrights 

and production and distribution of a catalogue for the 

first annual "Thick Accents 

---A Showcase for Latino 

Playwrights...And Whom It 

May Concern" project. 

Live Bait Theatrical 

Company 

Chicago, IL $4,000 

To support production of a 

new play by Sharon Evans, 

Starving Artists, the premiere of which will coincide 

with a 40-year retrospective 

of Chicago art at The 

Museum of Contemporary 

Art. 

Lookingglass Theatre 

Company 

Chicago, IL $5,000 

To support the production 

of an original play, The 

Vanishing Twin, written and 

directed by Bruce Norris. 

Los Angeles Poverty 

Departraent 

Los Angeles, CA $5,000 

To support the development 

and production of a theater 

piece evolving from the 

histories, memories, and 

experiences of participants 

from LAPD’s free, weekly 

workshops in Skid Row. 

Louisville Children’s 

Theatre Stage One 

Louisville, KY $5,000 

To support the 1996-97 

regional tour of theater for 

young audience productions 

serving more than 10,000 

children. 

MA- YI Filipino Theater 

Ensemble, Inc. 

New York, NY $5,000 

To support artists’ fees for 

the production of Flipzoids: 

Adventure in White, a new 

play in ten cycles by Ralph 

Pena with original music by 

Fabian Obispo, Jr. and 

directed by Loy Arcenas. 

Mabou Mines Development 

Foundation, Inc. 

New York, NY $30,000 

To support the presentation 

of reconstructed productions of Lear, Hajj, Company, 

and I~orstward Ho, and the 

production of AnimalMagnetism. 

Mad Horse Theatre 

Company 

Portland, ME $4,000 

To support the production 

of Woyzeck by the playwright Georg Buchner. 

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Madison Repertory 

Theatre, Inc. 

Madison, WI $4,000 

To support the presentation 

of two plays from the 

African-American Theater 

Series.. 

Magic Theatre Foundation 

Omaha, NE $14,000 

To support the development, commission, and 

installation of "Performance 

Explor-Atori-Yum," an 

event in which 13 performances will be presented 

simultaneously in an interactive, walk-through, 

experimental format. 

Magic Theatre, Inc. 

San Francisco, CA $8,000 

To support the development 

and presentation of A Fair 

Country, written and 

directed byJon Robin Baitz. 

Make a Circus, Inc. 

San Francisco, CA $4,000 

To support Make*A’Circus 

Summer Festival Days which 

brings free professional 

circus/theater to underserved communities in parks 

throughout California. 

Manbites Dog Theater 

Company 

Durham, NC $5,000 

To support a production of 

Slavs] by Tony Kushner, 

which will be an area 

premiere, directed by a 

guest director and followed 

by audience discussions. 

Manhattan Class 

Company, Inc. 

New York, NY $4,000 

To support a "Summer Play 

Party" MCC Theater Pass, 

a ticket subsidy program to 

plays written by an ethnically diverse high school 

student population. 

Manhattan Theatre Club 

New York, NY $31,000 

To support expenses for the 

development and world 

premiere of the new play, 

Corpus Christi, by Terrence 

McNally. 

Marin Theatre Company 

Mill Valley, CA $4,000 

To support the Playwrights’ 

Lab, providing opportunities for San Francisco Bay 

Area playwrights to explore 

and develop their work. 

McCarter Theatre 

Company 

Princeton, NJ $30,500 

To support the third annual 

New Play Festival during 

the 1996-97 theater season. 

Merrimack Repertory 

Theatre, Inc. 

Lowell, MA $4,000 

To support the Arena Stage 

Series project during the 

1996-97 theater season. 

Metro Theater Company 

St. Louis, MO $7,500 

To support the development 

and tour of a communitybased piece created in 

collaboration with Eileen 

Cherry and Pamela Sterling, and workshops with 

young people and adults in 

communities on the tour. 

Mettawee Theatre 

Company, Inc. 

Salem, NY $6,000 

To support the development, production, and 

touring of an ensemblecreated work based on the 

myth of Persephone and 

Demeter and adapted into a 

script by the playwright 

Luis Santiero. 

Millan Theatre Company 

Detroit, MI $4,000 

To support the development 

and production of the first 

play in the 1996-97 season. 

Milwaukee Repertory 

Theater 

Milwaukee, WI $53,000 

To support the development 

and presentation of Benito 

Cereno by Robert Lowell. 

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Missouri Repertory 

Theatre, Inc. 

Kansas City, MO $8,000 

To support the creation and 

presentation of Oedipus the 

King by Sophocles. 

Mixed Blood Theatre 

Company 

Minneapolis, MN $15,000 

To support the development 

and production of an 

adaptation of Charles 

Schuyler’s classic, Black No 

More and Syl Jones’ plays 

GunPlay, Ring of Fire, and 

Baby, Baby.t to be directed by 

Jack Reuler. 

Musical Traditions 

San Francisco, CA $4,000 

To support costs associated 

with producing and marketing a two week San Francisco season, a national tour, 

and the development of 

original productions. 

National Asian-American 

Theatre Company 

New York, NY $4,000 

To support artists’ compensation for the production of 

Awake and Sing by Clifford 

Odets and Picnic by William 

Inge. 

National Black Theatre 

Workshop 

New York, NY $4,000 

To support the development 

and production of Nzingba’s 

Children by Veona Thomas 

and The Fruits of Miss 

Morning by Elmo Terry 

Morgan. 

National Black Touring 

Circuit, Inc. 

New York, NY $5,000 

To support the development 

of a new work that includes 

poetry by Amiri Baraka and 

music of the Harlem 

Renaissance to be performed at the Schomburg 

Center for Black Culture in 

Harlem, NY. 

National Theatre of the 

Deaf, Inc. 

Chester, CT $20,000 

To support the development, production, and 

touring of Curiouser & 

Curiouser, an adaptation of 

works by Lewis Carroll, A 

World of Whys, by Brian 

Jennings, and "Shakespeare 

Unmasked," which will 

introduce students to the 

works of Shakespeare. 

New City Theater 

Seattle, WA $5,000 

To support the development 

and premiere of Like 1 Say, a 

New City/Theater Zero 

commissioned play by Len 

Jenldn. 

New Dramatists, Inc. 

New York, NY $10,000 

To support artists’ compensation for the play reading 

and workshop component 

of the playwright development program. 

New Federal Theatre, Inc. 

New York, NY $15,000 

To support "The Revival 

Project," the production of 

three classic plays by 

African-American playwrights 

New Freedom Theatre, Inc. 

Philadelphia, PA $12,000 

To support a production of 

Black Nativity, by Langston 

Hughes, and the residency 

of guest director Clinton 

Turner Davis. 

New Hampshire Mime 

Company 

Portsmouth, NH $5,000 

To support Pontine’s 

Touring Program which 

will provide artistic and 

educational programs for 

the general public, K-12 

schools, and colleges 

throughout New England. 

New Jersey Shakespeare 

Festival of Morris County 

Madison, NJ $4,000 

To support production costs 

for Two Gentlemen of Verona. 

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New Theatre 

St. Louis, MO $4,000 

To support the production 

of Eric Bogosian’s SubUrbia, 

and an accompanying 

educational outreach 

program. 

New York Deaf Theatre 

New York, NY $4,000 

To support the production 

of two new plays written by 

deaf playwrights which will 

be performed in American 

Sign Language and spoken 

English by a mixed cast of 

deaf and hearing actors. 

New York Shakespeare 

Festival 

New York, NY $85,000 

To support the productions 

of Timon of Athens and Henry 

Vby William Shakespeare at 

the Delacorte Theater in 

Central Park. 

New York Street Theatre 

Caravan, Inc. 

Jamaica, NY $4,000 

To support the completion 

and performances of a 

work-in-progress entitled 

The Fugitives, a full~length 

drama inspired by Richard 

Adams’ novel Plague Dogs. 

New York Theatre 

Workshop, Inc. 

New York, NY $8,000 

To support a production of 

Elizabeth Egloff’s play, The 

Devils, based on the Dostoe~csky novel. 

North Carolina 

Shakespeare Festival, Inc. 

High Point, NC $4,000 

To support salaries and 

related costs for actors, 

directors, designers, and 

technicians; direction and 

management; and production costs for an Educational Outreach Program. 

Northlight Theatre 

Evanston, IL $7,500 

To support expenses associated with a production of 

Russell Vandenbroucke’s 

Atomic Bombers, including 

additional actors, rehearsal. 

time, increased costume 

costs, and an expanded 

STAR program for students. 

Odyssey Theatre 

Foundation 

Los Angeles, CA $4,000 

To support the American 

premiere of the international theater work Bremen 

Freedom, by German 

filmmaker-playwright 

Ranier Werner Fassbinder. 

Old Globe Theatre 

San Diego, CA $68,000 

To support the world 

premiere of Play On.t, a new 

jazz musical based on 

Shakespeare’s Twel~b Night 

and featuring music of 

Duke Ellington. 

Omaha Theater Company 

Omaha, NE $6,000 

To support the New Plays 

Project consisting of the 

production of two new plays 

for young audiences commissioned from playwright 

Mark Medoff. 

Ontological-Hysteric 

Theater, Inc. 

New York, NY $16,000 

To support the development 

and production of a new 

play by Richard Foreman 

entided Supreme Beings & 

Special Talents which examines spiritual and philosophical obsessions in relation to 

human behavior. 

Oregon Shakespeare 

Festival Association 

Ashland, OR $26,000 

To support the Professional 

Advancement Project which 

provides actors and other 

theater artists with opportunities to sharpen and develop 

their professional skills. 

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Otrabanda Company 

New York, NY $6,000 

To support the creation and 

development of new textbased movement theater 

works through collaborations with playwrights to 

explore ways in which ideas 

and emotions are manifested physically. 

Pan Asian Repertory 

Theatre, Inc. 

New York, NY $15,000 

To support the development 

and presentation of two new 

plays: The Innocence of Ghosts 

by Rosanna Staffa and As 

The World Evolves (The 

Galapagos Story) by Richard 

Haratani. 

Paper Bag Players, Inc. 

New York, NY $10,000 

To support the development, production, and tour 

of a new company work for 

young audiences. 

Penumbra Theatre 

Company, Inc. 

St. Paul, MN $12,000 

To support a strategic plan 

to insure organizational 

stability. 

People’s Light & Theatre 

Company 

Malvern, PA $11,500 

To support the production 

of Lou Lippa’s translation 

of Pirandello’s Have It Your 

V~y, Horton Foote’s Trip To 

Bountiful, and Project 

Discovery, an arts education 

program which serves 

15,000 to 18,000 students. 

Perseverance Theatre 

Douglas, AK $20,000 

To support the development 

and production of Mountains Of Light by Juneau 

writer David LaChapelle 

and Bus Stop by William 

Inge. 

Philadelphia Theatre 

Company 

Philadelphia, PA $5,000 

To support the production 

of a two-week festival of 

plays by students and 

alumni of the Philadelphia 

Young Playwrights Festival 

program. 

Phoenix Theatre Academy 

Atlanta, GA $5,000 

To support artists’ compensation for the Academy 

Theatre for Youth’s 1996-97 

Tour of five plays including 

post-performance drama 

workshops on issues facing 

young people in the audience. 

Pick-Up Performance 

Company, Inc. 

New York, NY $5,000 

To support the scripting and 

development of Silent 

Movie, an evening-length, 

multi-disciplinary theater 

work written by David 

Gordon and Ain Gordon. 

Pittsburgh Public Theater 

Corporation 

Pittsburgh, PA $12,000 

To support the Young 

People’s Theater Initiative, 

a comprehensive artists 

education program 

designed for young audiences with a teachers’ 

education component. 

Playwrights Horizons, Inc. 

New York, NY $37,000 

To support the production 

of Fit To Be Tied by Nicky 

Silver and .Baby Anger by 

Peter Hedges. 

Playwrights Theatre of 

New Jersey, Inc. 

Madison, NJ $4,000 

To support The Immigrant 

Project, a multi-genre 

examination of the immigrant experience, past and 

present, which will culminate in an original performance piece. 

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Playwrights’ Center, Inc. 

Minneapolis, M_N $8,000 

To support PlayLabs, the 

center’s national play 

development workshop, and 

the Playwright’s Lab, the 

center’s largest script 

development program. 

Pope Theatre Company 

Manalapan, FL $4,000 

To support the Educational 

Initiative, a series of programs designed to provide 

educational theatrical 

experiences for audiences of 

all ages. 

Portland Center Stage 

Pordand, OR $5,000 

To support production of 

William B. Sheridan’s The 

Rivals in collaboration with 

Peter Schickele (P.D.Q. 

Bach), and Chamber Music 

Northwest. 

Portland Repertory 

Theater 

Pordand, OR $4,000 

To support the Young 

Playwrights Festival, an 

outgrowth of the Playwrights-in-Progress program in local schools 

designed to foster artistic 

expression. 

Portland Stage Company 

Portland, ME $8,000 

To support the Little 

Festival of the Unexpected, 

a week-long festival of new 

work and new voices. 

Potomac Theatre Project 

Middlebury, VT $4,000 

To support winter productions of three plays. 

Pregones Touring Puerto 

Rican Theatre 

Bronx, NY $18,000 

To support artists’ salaries, 

touring personnel, and 

marketing expenses for the 

Touring Program of performances, master classes, and 

lecture demonstrations to 

reach wider audiences in 

Texas, Louisiana, and 

Florida. 

Primary Stages Company 

New York, NY $5,000 

To support the development 

and production of a new 

play, There, by African 

American writer Herman 

Daniel Farrell III. 

Puerto Rican Traveling 

Theatre Company, Inc. 

New York, NY $8,000 

To support the development 

and presentation of The 

Cross In The Mirror by 

Argentinean writer Coral 

Agnirre. 

Puppet Co. 

Glen Echo, MD $5,000 

To support production costs 

for A Midsummer Night’s 

Dream. 

Quest Theatre & Institute 

West Palm Beach, FL 

$4,500 

To support the commissioning of a multi-genre theater 

piece for a solo actress and 

chamber music trio entided 

Charcoal Sketches. 

Red Eye Collaboration 

Minneapolis, MN $5,000 

To support the development 

and production of a new 

collaboratively-created 

multimedia theatrical work 

tided The Makropoulos 

Secret. 

Repertory Theatre of St. 

Louis 

St. Louis, MO $4,000 

To support the development 

and production of new 

works by emerging playwrights through the Lab 

Development Project. 

Ridiculous Theatrical 

Company 

New York, NY $28,000 

To support the production 

of a revival of Charles 

Ludlum’s musical farce, 

Corn, and Everett Quinton’s 

adaptation of Charles 

Dickens’ Oliver Twist. 

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Road Company 

Johnson City, TN $6,000 

To support the development 

and residency of Zero 

Moment at Jump Start 

Productions in San Antonio, Texas. 

Robert W. Woodruff Arts 

Center, Inc. 

Atlanta, GA $32,000 

To support the creation, 

development, and presentation of two new plays: The 

Last Night of Ballyhoo by 

Alfred Uhry, and Bourbon at 

the Border by Pearl Cleage. 

Round House Theatre, Inc. 

Silver Spring, MD $5,000 

To support the 1996-97 

Arts Day Program in which 

children grades 1-5 participate free of charge in classes 

including creative drama, 

movement, character 

development, and exploration of playwrights’ texts. 

Roundabout Theatre 

Company, Inc. 

New York, NY $8,000 

To support the Sign Interpreted Series, a special 

subcription series of plays. 

S. U. Theatre Corporation 

Syracuse, NY $6,000 

To support the production 

of Coming of the Hurricane 

by Keith Glover. 

SOON 3 Theatre 

San Francisco, CA $4,000 

To support the creation and 

presentation of a new 

"performance architecture 

work," conceived as a 

continuation of a visual 

"text" series. 

Sacramento Theatre 

Company 

Sacramento, CA $4,000 

To support two outreach 

projects: Acting Out, a 

touring program of plays 

that are tailored to school 

curriculums, and SELT 

(Students Experiencing 

Live Theatre), which brings 

students from disadvantaged areas into the theater. 

Saint Louis Black 

Repertory Company, Inc. 

St. Louis, MO $6,000 

To support artists’ fees for 

the production of Gospel at 

Colonus created by Lee 

Breuer. 

San Diego Repertory 

Theatre, Inc. 

San Diego, CA $18,000 

To support the expenses of 

the "Teatro Sin Fronteras" 

initiative comprising an 

array of programs to reach 

the regional Latino community, provide forums and 

commissions for Latino 

artists, and a subsidized 

subscription program. 

San Francisco Mime 

Troupe 

San Francisco, CA $30,000 

To support the creation, 

development, and national 

tour of I3 Dias/13 Days by 

Noan Holden. 

San Jose Repertory Theatre 

San Jose, CA $5,500 

To support fees and wages 

for playwrights, dramaturgs, 

directors, and actors for 

The New America Playwright Festival which serves 

emerging playwrights from 

traditionally under-represented cultural groups. 

Saratoga International 

Theater Institute 

New York, NY $7,500 

To support the revision and 

presentation of Small Lives/ 

Big Dreams at the 1996 

Cultural Olympiad in 

Adanta. 

Seattle Children’s Theatre 

Association 

Seattle, WA $20,000 

To support production of 

Suzan Zeder’s new play, The 

Taste of Sunrise: Tuc’s Story, 

including the commission 

and workshop process, 

research and supplies for 

educational supplements, 

and all production expenses. 

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Seattle Group Theatre 

Seattle, WA $14,000 

To support the NEXUS 

Education Program which 

includes a student matinee 

program, cultural workshops, and an intern training program. 

Seattle Repertory Theatre 

Seattle, WA $62,000 

To support expenses including a guest director’s fee 

associated with the mainstage production of King 

Lear. 

Second Stage Theatre, Inc. 

New York, NY $6,000 

To support the development 

and production of Stories I 

Ain’t Told Nobody Yet byJo 

Carson, The Notebook by 

Wendy Kesselman, The 

Questions of Sara by Susan 

ICam, and Carole’s Wedding

by Tina Howe. 

Seven Loaves, Inc. 

New York, NY $4,000 

To support the production 

and presentation of The 

Golem, premiering at the 

International Puppet 

Festival; Hamlet, using both 

puppets and live actors; and 

The Wandering Egg, short 

story theater for youth. 

 ̄ Seven Stages, Inc. 

Adanta, GA $10,000 

To support production of 

three new plays by Southern writers: Blue Monk by 

Robert Earl Price, The Knee 

Desires the Dirt by Julie 

Hebert, and Whispering to 

Horses byJo Carson. 

Shadow Box Theatre, Inc. 

New York, NY $4,000 

To support the newly 

established Family Theater 

Center which offers a 

variety of enrichment 

programs at affordable 

prices, enabling families to 

attend weekend and holiday 

productions. 

Shakespeare & Company 

Lenox, MA $7,000 

To support the presentation 

of three productions in the 

Shakespeare Series, two 

Shakespeare plays, and the 

three parts of "Women of 

Will: Following the Feminine in Shakespeare’s Plays." 

Shakespeare Repertory 

Chicago, IL $5,000 

To support production costs 

for Henry V. 

Shakespeare Theatre 

Washington, DC $35,000 

To support the arts education program TEXT 

ALIVE!, a comprehensive 

curriculum- based program 

for local high. school students, with in-school, intheater workshops, performances, and activities that 

involve students in theater. 

Sierra Repertory Theatre 

Sonora, CA $4,000 

To support the salaries and 

fees for two plays that will 

tour as part of the community and educational outreach program. 

Signature Theatre 

Company 

New York, NY $7,000 

To support the premiere of 

a new play written by Sam 

Shepard and directed by 

Joseph Chaikin. 

Signature Theatre, Inco 

Arlington, VA $4,000 

To support the development 

of a new work entided Lives 

of the Saints by John Strand. 

Skysaver Productions, Inc. 

New York, NY $5,000 

To support the development 

and presentation of Journey 

to the Island, a site-specific 

performance work. 

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Soho Repertory Theatre 

New York, NY $5,000 

To support the presentation 

of a new play by Howard 

Korder based on the life of 

nineteenth century writer 

and producer Salmi Morse. 

South Coast Repertory, Inc. 

Costa Mesa, CA $50,000 

To support the Collaboration Laboratory (Colab), a 

comprehensive new play 

program including an 

Hispanic Playwrights 

Project. 

Spanish Theatre Repertory 

Co., Ltd. 

New York, NY $65,000 

To support the "Schoolday 

Matinee" project which 

offers performances of 

Spanish-language drama 

and musicals to junior and 

senior high school and 

college students nationally. 

Stages, Inc. 

Los Angeles, CA $4,000 

To support artists’ compensation for the production of 

Looking Into The Stands, an 

English adaptation of 

Mirando Al Tendido by 

Venezuelan playwright 

Rodolfo Santana. 

Steppenwolf Theatre 

Chicago, IL $15,000 

To support the commissioning and workshop of new 

plays through the New Play 

Lab. 

Studio Theatre School 

Corporation 

Buffalo, NY $6,000 

To support the production 

of Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia.  ̄ 

Studio Theatre, Inc. 

Washington, DC $5,000 

To support the development 

and production of a commissioned translation of 

Mabagonny by Bertolt 

Brecht and Kurt Well and 

Cryptogram by David 

Mamet. 

Sundance Children’s 

Theatre, Inc. 

Salt Lake City, UT $4,000 

To support the 1997 Sundance Playwrights Laboratory, an intensive threeweek program in which 

selected playwrights are 

matched with a full resource 

team of theater artists to 

develop new work. 

Tacoma Actors Guild 

Tacoma, WA $4,500 

To support the production 

of a classic play in the 1996­

97 Mainstage season, 

outreach programs to the 

community, and education 

programs for youth and 

adults. 

Talking Band, Inc. 

New York, NY $5,000 

To support the development 

and production of a new 

site-specific theater work, 

Home Entertainment by 

Diane Brown and Ellen 

Maddow. 

Target Margin Theater 

New York, NY $4,500 

To support the development 

and production of the 

American premiere of South 

by Julian Green. 

Tears of Joy Theatre 

Vancouver, WA $5,000 

To support the development 

and presentation of Aladdin 

and His Magic Lamp and The 

Amazing Adventures of CocoKaba as part of the Programming Along the 

Columbia project. 

Teatro Avante, Inc. 

Miami, FL $8,000 

To support the development 

and production of Pancho 

Diablo by Carlos Morton, 

and Escrito y Sellado by Isaac 

Chocron. 

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Teatro del Sesenta, Inc. 

San Juan, PR $15,000 

To support the development 

and presentation of two new 

plays: El Bombon De Elena, 

based on the classic Brazilian play by Vinicius de 

Moraes, and Piscolabis a 

social comedy written by 

Flora Perez Garay. 

Teatro Hispano de Dallas 

Dallas, TX $5,000 

To support production 

expenses for a new play, Of 

The Many Oceans We Belong 

7b..., based on the differences and similarities 

inherent in American 

myths. 

Teatro Vista... Theatre with 

a View, Inc. 

Chicago, IL $4,000 

To support an original 

adaptation of Memory of Fire: 

Genesis by Eduardo Galeano, 

a multidisciplinary, bilingual 

theater work produced in 

collaboration with the 

Mexican Fine Arts Center 

Tennessee Repertory 

Theatre Trust 

Nashville, TN $4,000 

To support the production 

of Shakespeare’s The Tempest 

as part of the Humanities 

Outreach Tennessee 

Program. 

Theater for the New City 

Foundation, Inc. 

New York, NY $10,000 

To support artists’ fees for 

development and production of six plays by American playwrights as part of a 

playwright development 

project. 

Theater For You, Inc. 

Boise, ID $5,000 

To support the Idaho 

Schools Tour which brings 

theater for youth to more 

than 100,000 students ~nd 

educators, K-12. 

Theatre & Arts 

Foundation of San Diego 

County 

La Jolla, CA $28,000 

Museum in Chicago. To support the development 

of La Jolla Playhouse’s 

production of Diana Son’s 

play, Boy. 

Theatre de la ffeune Lune 

Minneapolis, MN $20,000 

To support the development 

and production of Part II of 

"America Project," which 

examines social values and 

America as an ideological 

construct. 

Theatre for a New 

Audience, Inc. 

New York, NY $4,000 

To support Theatre for a 

New Audience’s production 

of King Lear to be directed 

by Cicely Berry, the voice 

director of The Royal 

Shakespeare Company of 

England and author of The 

Actor and the Text. 

Theatre Gad, Ltd. 

Atlanta, GA $4,000 

To support artists’, technical, and administrative 

salaries for "The IrishAmerican Project," an 

exploration of the experience of Irish immigrants in 

America involving the 

production of two plays. 

Theatre in the Square, Inc. 

Marietta, GA $5,000 

To support the production 

of two plays, Zion! and 

Smoke On The Mountain. 

Theatre IV 

Richmond, VA $4,000 

To support artists’ compensation during the development, production, and 

educational outreach of a 

touring musical theater 

piece for young audiences. 

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Theatre of Yugen 

San Francisco, CA $5,000 

To support salaries of 

administrative personnel for 

the establishment of a 

planning and stabilization 

initiative designed to 

increase visibility on tour, 

build a stronger audience 

base, and increase artistic 

programming. 

Theatre Rhinoceros 

San Francisco, CA $4,000 

To support the production 

of Deporting the Divas by 

Guillermo Reyes, in association with E1 Teatro de la 

Esperanza, a bilingual 

theater in San Francisco’s 

Mission District. 

Theatre Workshop 

Kansas City, MO $4,000 

To support the production 

of From The Mississippi 

Delta, by Ednesha Ida 

Holland. 

Theatre X, Inc. 

Milwaukee, WI $6,000 

To support the development 

and presentation of a new 

play during the 1996-97 

theater season. 

TheatreMoves, Inc. 

New York, NY $4,000 

To support the development 

and tour of a new work 

using personal narrative, 

movement, and computersampled soundtracks as well 

as the redirection of a piece 

in the theater’s repertory. 

Thick Description 

San Francisco, CA $4,000 

To support the development 

and production of the 

premiere of Under I/Vestern 

Eyes by Karen Amano, a 

contemporary adaptation of 

Joseph Conrad’s novel. 

Thick Description 

San Francisco, CA $8,000 

To support artists’ compensation for the production of 

Gravity Falls from Trees by 

Sunj J. Rivo, Bullet Headed 

Birds by Kan Gotanda, and 

a new work by Naomi 

Tizuka. 

Thunder Bay Ensemble 

New York, NY $4,500 

To support the development 

and presentation of a new 

ensemble-created piece, The 

Barrier Reef. 

Toucbstone 

Bethlehem, PA $4,000 

To support the development 

and production of a new 

performance piece using 

improvisational and movement-based techniques. 

Trinity Repertory Company 

Providence, RI $40,000 

To support the development 

and production of Peter 

Parnell’s adaptation of the 

John Irving novel The Cider 

House Rules, and a Shakespeare play. 

Truscus, Inc. 

Columbia, SC $5,000 

To increase institutional 

stability by supplementing 

artistic and administrative 

salaries. 

Ujima Company, Inc. 

Buffalo, NY $4,000 

To support the production 

of several performances of 

Long Time Since Yesterday by 

E J. Gibson, to be marketed 

in conjunction with the 

"Curtains Up!" event 

sponsored by the Theatre 

District Association of 

Buffalo. 

Underground Railway 

Puppets & Actors, Inc. 

Arlington, MA $4,000 

To support the creation and 

tour of a new work, Twisted 

Figures,with writings by 

Caryl Rivers, Randall 

Dottin, Paul Kahn, and Wes 

Sanders which focus on the 

impact of media on our 

lives. 

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Unidentified Moving 

Objects Company, Inc. 

Vashon, WA $4,000 

To support the development 

and production of Body 

Inheritance Movement 

and Memory of Bones to be 

directed by Ruth Zaporah. 

University of North 

Carolina at Chapel Hill 

Chapel Hill, NC $4,000 

To support the Associate 

Artists Program, a collaboration between the resident 

company and promising 

young directors and designers. 

Via Theater, Inc. 

New York, NY $4,000 

To support the development 

of The Musical Theater 

Project: Alien Love, a new 

American musical with 

direction and libretto by 

Brian Jucha, composition 

and musical direction by 

Waiter Thompson, and 

choreography by Doug 

Elkins. 

Victory Gardens Theater 

Chicago, IL $9,000 

To support the production 

of Up From 47th Street by 

Charles Smith. 

Vigilante Players, Inc. 

Bozeman, MT $6,000 

To support actors’ wages, 

health insurance, and travel 

costs for a regional tour that 

includes Montana, Idaho, 

North and South Dakota, 

and eastern Oregon. 

Vineyard Theatre and 

Workshop Center, Inc. 

New York, NY $7,000 

To support a residency 

program for playwrights 

culminating in Lab production of the playwright’s new 

work. 

Vivian Beaumont Theater 

New York, NY $43,000 

To support artists’ compensation for the world premiere production of a new 

play, An American Daughter 

by Wendy Wasserstein. 

Washington Drama 

Society, Inc. 

Washington, DC $65,000 

To support production of 

Voir Dire by Joe Sutton. 

We Tell Stories Inc. 

Los Angeles, CA $7,000 

To support the creation of 

new work and free performances for children in the 

Los Angeles, Orange, and 

Ventura counties who might 

otherwise lack a theater 

experience. 

Wilma Theater 

Philadelphia, PA $9,000 

To support the production 

of The Ruling Class by Peter 

Barnes. 

Women’s Project and 

Productions 

New York, NY $4,000 

To support the development 

and production of a new 

work by playwright Maria 

Irene Fornes entitled 

Summer in Gossemass. 

Woolly Mammoth Theatre 

Company 

Washington, DC $6,000 

To support the development 

and production of Puddin N’ 

Pete by Cheryl West and 

Sleeptbink by Kia Cothron. 

Wooster Group, Inc. 

New York, NY $35,000 

To support development 

and production of two plays 

by Eugene O’Neill, The 

Emperor Jones and The Hairy 

Ape, and a work by Tennessee Williams. 

Working Theatre 

Company, Inc. 

New York, NY $4,000 

To support the development 

and production of Belmont 

Avenue Social Club by Bruce 

Graham. 

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Workshop of the Players 

Art Foundation, Inc. 

New York, NY $5,000 

To support community 

outreach and audience 

development activities to 

bring young people into the 

theater and to involve local 

community and business 

leaders. 

Yale University 

New Haven, CT $58,000 

To support production of 

First Lady by Katharine 

Dayton and George S. 

Kaufman. 

Young Playwrights, Inc. 

New York, NY $15,000 

To support the development 

and production of the 

Young Playwrights Festival, 

which identifies and develops talented new writers, 18 

years and younger, for the 

theater. 

SPECIAL PROJECTS 

2 awards $1,009,000 

*Theatre Communications 

Group 

New York, NY $300,000 

A cooperative agreement for 

the continuation of the 

NEA/TCG Career Development Programs for 

Directors and for Designers. 

These two ongoing projects 

provide emerging directors 

and designers with support 

services, residencies with 

professional theater companies, and mentor relationships with master stage 

directors and designers. 

*Theatre Communications 

Group 

New York, NY $709,000 

A cooperative agreement to 

support a residency program 

for playwrights to work with 

professional theater companies to develop new work, to 

encourage new work within 

the community, and to bring 

new cultural and aesthetic 

viewpoints to theaters. 

SERVICES TO THE 

FIELD 

2 awards $690,000 

BHK Arts Consultants 

Washington, DC $675,000 

A cooperative agreement to 

support administration and 

coordination of site report 

activities for theater and 

musical theater applicants. 

New 42nd Street, Inc. 

New York, NY $15,000 

To support presentation of 

the Jim Henson Foundation’s International Festival 

of Puppet Theater. 

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ARTISTS 

COMMUNITIES 

10 awards $125,000 

Centrum Foundation 

Port Townsend, WA $7,500 

To support costs associated 

with housing, travel, materials, and stipends for 35 

resident artists. 

Corporation of Yaddo 

Saratoga Springs, NY 

$12,500 

To support the artists’ 

residencies project and the 

artists’ travel project. 

Djerassi Resident Artists 

Program 

Woodside, CA $12,500 

To support costs associated 

with the residencies of 17 

artists. 

Dorland Mountain Arts 

Colony 

Temecula CA $7,500 

To support in part the 

salaries of the three significant staff members who 

provide support to the 

artists in residence. 

Fine Arts Work Center in 

Provincetown, Inc. 

Provincetown, MA $15,000 

To support residencies for 

four writers and four visual 

artists at crucial early stages 

in their careers. 

Headlands Center for the 

Arts 

Sausalito, CA $20,000 

To support ten three-month 

residencies for artists from 

across the United States. 

MacDowell Colony 

Peterborough, NI-I $12,500 

To support seven visual 

artists in residence for one 

month each during the 

1996-97 season. 

Millay Colony for the Arts 

Austerlitz, NY $12,500 

To support one-month 

residencies for nine visual 

artists, composers, and 

writers. 

Ragdale Foundation 

Lake Forest, IL $12,500 

To support four-week 

residencies for six to eight 

artists from across the 

country. 

Virginia Center for the 

Creative Arts 

Sweet Briar, VA $12,500 

To support the cost for 

eight artists working in new 

genres to be in residence for 

30 days each. 

VISUAL ARTISTS 

ORGANIZATIONS 

105 awards $1,065,000 

1078 Gallery, Inc. 

Chico, CA $5,000 

To support five group 

exhibitions. 

80 Langton Street, Inc. 

San Francisco, CA $17,500 

To support costs associated 

with exhibitions and accompanying education programs and publications. 

Alternative Center for 

InternationM Arts 

New York, NY $10,000 

To support the exhibition 

"American History Paintings" by Jerry Kearns and a 

catalogue. 

Armory Center for the Arts 

Pasadena, CA $10,000 

To support four exhibitions 

and commissioned installations that explore the 

intersections of the visual 

arts with other disciplines 

and relate the visual arts 

to the daily life of the 

community. 

Art Awareness, Inc. 

Lexington, NY $7,500 

To support four exhibitions 

and installations during the 

1996 season. 

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Art in General, Inc. 

New York, NY $17,500 

To support four exhibitions, 

five project residencies, four 

audio projects, and seven 

window installations, 

Art Institute of Chicago 

Chicago, IL $22,500 

To support the distribution 

of twelve video tides and 

the production of four 

videotape interviews with 

artists by the Video DataBank. 

Art Re Grup, Inc. 

San Francisco, CA $5,000 

To support two exhibitions 

and a related performance 

series. 

Artist Trust: A Resource 

for Washington 

Seattle, WA $7,500 

To support information 

services and technical 

assistance for visual artists 

in Washington state. 

Artists Space, Inc. 

New York, NY $10,000 

To support five exhibitions 

for the 1996-97 season. 

Asian American Arts 

Centre, Inc. 

New York, NY $7,500 

To support four exhibitions 

during the 1996-97 season. 

Atlanta Art Papers, Inc. 

Adanta, GA $12,500 

To support three issues of 

Art Papers, a Southeastern 

regional publication. 

Atlaa 

Phoenix, AZ $7,500 

To support the Native Arts 

Registry and Native Arts 

Update, a quarterly publication distributed internationally. 

Baltimore Clayworks, Inc. 

Baltimore, MD $5,000 

To support a mural project, 

a workshop series, and an 

artist’s residency. 

Bemis Center for 

Contemporary Arts 

Omaha, NE $25,000 

To support residencies of 

three to six months each for 

18 visual artists. 

Brandywine Graphic 

Workshop, Inc. 

Philadelphia, PA $7,500 

To support 11 visiting 

artists residencies at the 

new Offset Institute and the 

exhibition "Inside Out: 

Japanese and JapaneseAmerican Artists Prints." 

Bridge Center for 

Contemporary Art 

E1 Paso, TX $7,500 

To support six exhibitions 

and a symposium. 

Bronx Council on the Arts 

Bronx, NY $12,500 

To support two group 

exhibitions and the Longwood Arts Journal, a yearend catalogue that documents each exhibition with 

curatorial statements and 

artists’ writings. 

Capp Street Project 

San Francisco, CA $15,000 

To support the residency, 

creation, and installation of 

new work by the Chicago 

artists collaborative Haha. 

Center for Contemporary 

Arts of Santo Fe, Inc. 

Santa Fe, NM $15,000 

To support an exhibition, 

video screenings, and visual 

arts workshops for the Teen 

Project. 

Center for Exploratory and 

Perceptual Art, Inc. 

Buffalo, NY $12,500 

To support two exhibitions, 

a public art project, and a 

film/video screening. 

Center for Women & Their 

Work, lnc. 

Austin, TX $12,500 

To support four exhibitions 

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Center on Contemporary 

Art 

Seattle, WA $7,500 

To support two exhibition 

components of the center’s 

1996 season: "The Project 

Room" and "Non-Ironic 

Painting." 

Centro Cultural de la Raza 

San Diego, CA $12,500 

To support two exhibitions 

during the 1996-97 season: 

"Los Veteranos" and "Zinc 

Show." 

Chicago Artists’ Coalition 

Chicago, IL $15,000 

To support ten issues of the 

monthly nev~sletter Artists’ 

News, updating and revisions for five informational 

lists for artists, and updating 

of Artists’ Yellow Pages. 

Chicago New Art 

Association 

Chicago, IL $12,500 

To support ten issues of the 

New Art Examiner, a nationally distributed publication. 

Chinese-American Arts 

Council 

New York, NY $10,000 

To support up to four solo 

and two group exhibitions 

at Gallery 456 and a large 

group show at Lincoln 

Center’s Cork Gallery. 

Cincinnati Artists’ Group 

Effort, Inc. 

Cincinnati, OH $5,000 

To support four monthlong exhibitions and installations with an emphasis on 

artists from the Great Lakes 

region. 

Contemporary Art for San 

Antonio 

San Antonio, TX $20,000 

To support two exhibitions 

with accompanying catalogues: "The Art Guys" and 

"Delphi." 

Corcoran Gallery of Art, 

Trustees of 

Washington, DC $12,500 

To support a 20-year 

retrospective exhibition of 

the work of Washington 

artist Martha Jackson-Jarvis. 

Craft Emergency Relief 

Fund, Inc. 

Montpelier, VT $10,000 

To support an interest-free 

loan program for craft 

artists who experience 

work-interrupting emergencies such as fire, theft, 

illness, and natural disasters, 

Creative Time, Inc. 

New York, NY $30,000 

To support the "Art in the 

Anchorage" program which 

features installations by 

artists who use sound and 

technology in their work. 

Delta Axis Inc. 

Memphis, TN $5,000 

To support up to three 

exhibitions featuring work 

by various artists. 

Dialogue, Inc. 

Columbus, OH $5,000 

To support the May/June 

1996 issue of Dialogue: Arts 

in the Midwest. 

DiverseWorks, Inc. 

Houston, TX $15,000 

To support three exhibitions 

in the 1996-97 season and 

an Artist Resource Center. 

Documents Magazine, Inc. 

Brooklyn, NY $7,500 

To support issues of Documents magazine, a nationally 

distributed journal on 

contemporary art. 

Drawing Center, Inc. 

New York, NY $12,500 

To support one solo and 

one group exhibition: 

"Louise Bourgeois: Drawings" and "Selections: 

Summer ’96." 

Exit Art/The First World 

New York, NY $t0,000 

To support "From Frankenstein to Terminator: 

Mechanical Sculpture and 

the Popular Imagination," 

"Culture/Counter Culture: 

 ̄ Artist Publications & Alternative Spaces in the U.S. 

1960-1995," and "Martin 

Wong Retrospective." 

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Fabric Workshop, Inc. 

Philadelphia, PA $22,500 

To support residencies by 

nine regional, national, and 

international artists, and 

four exhibitions. 

Forecast Public Artworks 

St. Paul, MN $7,500 

To support two issues of the 

publication Public Artreview. 

Foundation for Advanced 

Critical Studies, Inc. 

West Hollywood, CA 

$7,500 

To support five editions of 

Art Issues magazine. 

Foundation for Art 

Resources, Inc. 

Los Angeles, CA $10,000 

TO. support three projects: 

the "Art Talk Art" lecture 

series, "Open Proposals" 

artists’ projects, and exhibitions in the Full Moon 

Gallery. 

Franklin Furnace Archive 

New York, NY $7,500 

To support "The Future of 

the Book: In the Flow," an 

exhibition that will explore 

the changing nature of 

artistic authorship in the age 

of information. 

Friends of Photography 

San Francisco, CA $7,500 

To support publication of 

the quarterly journal See. 

Galeria Studio 24 _

San Francisco, CA $7,500 

To support an exhibition 

called "Growing into 

Your Cultural Skin" by the 

Bay Area artist Chico 

MacMurtrie. 

Galveston Arts Center, Inc. 

Galveston, TX $7,500 

To support two projects: the 

exhibition, and accompanying catalogue, tided "Burning Issues," and the education/outreach workshop and 

accompanying exhibition 

titled "Project Galveston." 

Glass Art Society, Inc. 

Seattle, WA $5,000 

To support the 27th annual 

conference of this national 

service organization in 

Tucson, AZ, in April 1997. 

Guadalupe Cultural Arts 

Center 

San Antonio, TX $7,500 

To support costs associated 

with three exhibitions, the 

Annual Juried Women’s Art 

Exhibit, and visiting critic 

Lucy Lippard. 

Hallwalls, Inc. 

Buffalo, NY $5,000 

To support costs associated 

with three solo exhibitions. 

Harvestworks, Inc. 

New York, NY $12,500 

To support production costs 

for two visual artists to work 

with computer-based 

multimedia equipment. 

Houston Center for 

Photography 

Houston, TX $12,500 

To support the summer 

1996 issue of Spot magazine 

and educational outreach 

programs. 

Intermedia Arts of 

Minnesota, Inc. 

Minneapolis, MN $7,500 

To support a group installation and exhibition of the 

work of artists from the 

upper Midwest region 

called "Death, Corn, and 

Relocations." 

International Arts 

Relations, Inc. 

New York, NY $12,500 

To support two exhibitions 

at the INTAR Gallery: 

"Presence: Contemporary 

Dominican Visual Artists" 

and "Works on Paper." 

Legion Arts, Inc. 

Cedar Rapids, IA $7,500 

To support costs for an 

exhibition series and publication of the quarterly 

Tractor. 

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The work of 

Martina Lopez 

was featured in 

"The Next Wave: 

Digital Images" 

exhibition at 

North Carolina’s 

The Light 

Factory. 

Image by Martina Lopez, courtesy The Light Factory. 

Light Factory Los Angeles Contemporary 

Charlotte, NC $5,000 Exhibitions, Inc. 

To support "The Next Los Angeles, CA $7,500 

Wave: Digital Revision," an To support two exhibitions, 

exhibition of work by five two video projects, and a 

artists who use computer or series of store-front window 

electronic technology as an installations. 

integral element in the 

creation of their work. Manchester Craftsmen’s 

Guild 

Light Work V~sual Studies Pittsburgh, PA $5,000 

Syracuse, NY $10,000 To support the "Clay 

To support four month-long Traditions and Frontiers" 

residencies by photographers and "Distinguished LecMiriam Romais, Danny turer Series in PhotograTisdale, Lou Draper, and phy" visiting artist series. 

Stanley Greenberg and 

publication of their work in Mayor’s Advisory 

Contact Sheet. Committee on Art and 

Culture 

Los Angeles Center for Baltimore, MD $5,000 

Photographic Studies To support up to five Los Angeles, CA $7,500 exhibitions during the 

To support two exhibitions: 1996-97 season. 

"Rank and File" and the 

"Photo Arts Annual." 

Mexic-Arte 

Austin, TX $10,000 

To support up to three 

exhibitions of regional and 

local artists. 

Mobius, Inc. 

Boston, MA $5,000 

To support the "Installation 

Series" and the "Performance Art Series." 

N.A.M.E. Gallery 

Chicago, IL $5,000 

To support one group 

exchange exhibition, two 

video installations, two 

performances, two panel 

discussions, and two public 

art projects. 

National Association of 

Artists’ Organizations, Inc. 

Washington, DC $20,000 

To support planning the 

next national conference, 

the publication of four issues 

of the Bulletin, and distribution of the membership 

directory. 

National Council on 

Education for the Ceramic 

Arts 

Flushing, NY $5,000 

To support the 1997 annual 

conference, which serves as 

a national forum for the 

exchange of ideas and 

information in the field of 

ceramic arts. 

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Nexus, Inc. 

Atlanta, GA $15,000 

To support a major group 

exhibition during the 1996 

Centennial Olympic Games 

and an artist residency at 

Nexus Press. 

Oregon Center for the 

Photographic Arts 

Portland, OR $10,000 

To support a series of six 

photography exhibitions 

which present the work of 

ten artists in two-person 

shows and one large group 

SHOW. 

Painted Bride Art Center 

Philadelphia, PA $10,000 

To support two exhibitions 

during the 1996-67 season: 

"Defining the Edge" and 

"Independent Curator’s 

Exhibition." 

Photographic Resource 

Center, Inc. 

Boston, MA $7,500 

To support a solo, a group, 

and a 20th anniversary 

exhibition. 

Pilchuck Glass School 

Seattle, WA $7,500 

To support the Artists-inResidence Program, which 

invites artists who have not 

worked in glass before to 

use facilities and equipment. 

Pittsburgh Center for the 

Arts 

Pittsburgh, PA $7,500 

To support the "1996 

Pittsburgh Biennial" for 

regional artists. 

Printed Matter, Inc. 

New York, NY $15,000 

To support production and 

distribution of this service 

organization’s annual 

catalogue, which lists tides 

and descriptions of hundreds of artist-made publications. 

Printmaking Workshop 

New York, NY $10,000 

To support residencies for 

four guest artists to work 

with three master printers. 

Project Artaud 

San Francisco, CA $10,000 

To support up to three 

exhibitions highlighting the 

work of Bay Area artists at 

the Southern Exposure 

gallery. 

Public Art Fund, Inc. 

New York, NY $10,000 

To support public art 

installations, a lecture 

series, and a newsletter. 

Public Art Works 

San Rafael, CA $12,500 

To support up to two 

permanent public art 

projects and up to three 

temporary installations. 

Pyramid Arts Center, Inc. 

Rochester, NY $7,500 

To support up to six group/ 

thematic and three solo 

exhibitions. 

Pyramid Atlantic, Inc. 

Riverdale, MD $5,000 

To support two two-week 

residencies for artists Basia 

Ireland and Josette Urso to 

create new work in paper 

and prints. 

Randolph Street Gallery 

Chicago, IL $15,000 

To support up to six group 

exhibitions and visuallybased performances at this 

multidisciplinary artist-run 

space. 

Real Art Ways, Inc. 

Hartford, CT $10,000 

To support one solo, one 

group, and an anniversary 

exhibition. 

Richmond Art Center 

Richmond, CA $7,500 

To support exhibitions of 

the work of Bay Area artists. 

San Francisco 

Camerawork, Inc. 

San Francisco, CA $12,500 

To support two photography exhibitions and two 

issues of the publication 

Camerawork: A Journal of 

Photoffrapbic Arts. 

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Santa Barbara 

Contemporary Arts Forum 

Santa Barbara, CA $10,000 

To support a 20th anniversary project, including an 

exhibition, performances, 

and lectures. 

Santa Monica Museum of 

Art 

SantaMonica, CA $12,500 

To support installations by 

up to three artists in the 

Artist Projects Series. 

Sculpture Space, Inc. 

Utica, NY $10,000 

To support residencies of 

two months each for ten 

artists. 

Second Street Gallery, Inc. 

Charlottesville, VA $5,000 

To support artists’ fees for a 

series of exhibitions at this 

regional artist-run space. 

Segue Foundation, Inc. 

New York, NY $7,500 

To support the tenth 

anniversary issue of 

M/E/A/N/I/N/G, an artistdirected publication. 

Self-Help Graphics and 

Arts, Inc. 

Los Angeles, CA $7,500 

To support residencies for 

15 artists to produce new 

work in various screenprint 

.techniques. 

Sheboygan Arts 

Foundation, Inc. 

Sheboygan, WI $15,000 

To support residencies in 

the Arts/Industry program 

and five exhibitions with 

accompanying interpretive 

materials, workshops, and 

gallery talks at the Kohler 

Arts Center. 

Side Street Projects 

Santa Monica, CA $7,500 

To support two group 

exhibitions and two solo 

installation projects. 

Snug Harbor Cultural 

Center, Inc. 

Staten Island, NY $7,500 

To .support an installation 

project and associated 

exhibitions. 

Society for Photographic 

Education, Inc. 

Dallas, TX $5,000 

To support eight regional 

conferences organized by 

this national service organization for photographers. 

Society of North American 

Goldsmiths 

Tampa, FL $5,000 

To support the quarterly 

publication Metalsmitb 

Magazine. 

Socrates Sculpture Parle 

Long Island City, NY 

$12,500 

To support two exhibitions 

during the 1996 season. 

Space One Eleven, Inc. 

Birmingham, AL $5,000 

To support a program of 

visiting artists and four 

group exhibitions with 

accompanying public programs such as lectures, 

workshops, and publications. 

Spaces 

Cleveland, OH $7,500 

To support costs associated 

with Spaces’ participation in 

"Urban Evidence: Contemporary Artists Reveal Cleveland," a collaborative project 

with two other visual arts 

organizations in Cleveland. 

Storefront for Art and 

Architecture, Inc. 

New York, NY $30,000 

To support two exhibitions 

with related public programs and one publication. 

Textile Arts Centre 

Chicago, IL $5,000 

To support the exhibition 

"Bridging Worlds," a 

collaboration with the 

Philadelphia College of 

Textiles & Science. 

Thread Waxing Space 

New York, NY $7,500 

To support a series of 

exhibitions by emerging 

artists in the Project Room. 

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Urban Glass/New York 

Contemporary Glass 

Center, Inc. 

Brooklyn, NY $5,000 

To support an exhibition 

entided "People in Glass 

Houses..." 

Urban Institute for 

Contemporary Arts 

Grand Rapids, MI $5,000 

To support the exhibition 

"Expanded Visions." 

I~tntal AIDS for the Arts 

New York, NY $12,500 

To support five projects of 

this national service organization dedicated to heightening public awareness of 

the impact of AIDS on our 

culture. 

Visual Studies Workshop 

Rochester, NY $22,500 

To support one ofle-person 

exhibition, four residencies 

for book artists, and the 

publication of up to ten 

issues of Afterimage. 

Watershed Center for the 

Ceramic Arts 

Newcasde, ME $5,000 

To support residencies for 

six artists in three two-week 

sessions. 

White Columns, Inc. 

New York, NY $7,500 

To support a series of 

exhibitions for emerging 

artists in the YVhite Room. 

SPECIAL PROJECTS 

$ awards $329,000 

California College of Arts 

and Crafts 

San Francisco, CA $5,000 

To support "No Blood/No 

Foul," a public site-specific 

performance taking place 

on a downtown Oakland 

basketball court. 

*College of Santa Fe 

Santa Fe, NM $200,000 

To support continued 

development and implementation of a Millennium 

Survey of the United States, 

which will hire photographers, writers, and video 

artists to record the the 

spirit and essence of American life and culture at the 

beginning of the next 

millennium. 

Hambidge Center for 

Creative Arts 

Rabun Gap, GA $6,000 

To support a conference of 

the Alliance of Arts Communities on "American 

Creativity at Risk." 

*NAMES Project 

Foundation 

San Francisco, CA $100,000 

To support the documentation, storage, and retrieval 

of the AIDS Memorial 

Quilt on CD-ROM. 

New York Foundation for 

the Arts, Inc. 

New York, NY $18,000 

To support continuation of 

the Visual Artist Information Hodine service. 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ARTS EDUCATION 

PARTNERSHIP GRANTS 

52 awards $2,830,000 

Alabama State Coundl on 

the Arts 

Montgomery, AL $45,000 

Alaska State Council on 

the Arts 

Anchorage, AK $53,000 

American Samoa Council 

on the Arts, Culture & 

Humanities 

Pago Pago, AS $21,000 

Arizona Commission on 

the Arts 

Phoenix, AZ $86,600 

Arkansas Arts Council 

Little Rock, AR $31,800 

California Arts Council 

Sacramento, CA $73,500 

Colorado Council on the 

Arts 

Denver, CO $43,000 

Connecticut Commission on 

the Arts 

Hartford, CT $97,500 

Delaware Division of the 

Arts 

Wilmington, DE $25,700 

Florida Division of 

Cultural Affairs 

Tallahassee, FL $42,000 

Georgia Coundl for the Arts 

Atlanta, GA $42,200 

Idaho Commission on the 

Arts 

Boise, ID $34,000 

Illinois Arts Coundl 

Chicago, IL $56,500 

Indiana Arts Commission 

Indianapolis, IN $36,000 

Iowa Arts Council 

Des Moines, IA $43,000 

Kansas Arts Commission 

Topeka, KS $68,500 

Kentucky Arts Council 

Frankfort, KY $65,000 

Louisiana Division of 

the Arts, Department of 

Culture, Recreation, & 

Tourism 

Baton Rouge, LA $40,500 

Maine Arts Commission 

Augusta, ME $38,500 

Maryland State Arts 

Council 

Baltimore, MD $39,500 

Massachusetts Cultural 

Council 

Boston, MA $47,000 

Michigan Coundl for Arts 

and Cultural Affairs 

Detroit, MI $49,000 

Minnesota State Arts 

Board 

St. Paul, MN $97,000 

Mississippi Arts 

Commission 

Jackson, MS $89,600 

Missouri State Council on 

the Arts 

St. Louis, MO $71,500 

Montana Arts Coundl 

Helena, MT $30,000 

Nebraska Arts Council 

Omaha, NE $77,000 

Nevada State Council on 

the Arts 

Carson City, NV $34,000 

New Hampshire State 

Council on the Arts 

Concord, NH $49,600 

New Jersey State Council 

on the Arts 

Trenton, NJ $99,000 

New York State Council on 

the Arts 

New York, NY $93,500 

North Carolina Arts 

Coundl 

Raleigh, NC $54,100 

North Dakota Council on 

the Arts 

Bismarck, ND $36,800 

Northern Marianas 

Commonwealth Council for 

Arts & Culture 

Saipan, MP $11,000 

**Includes a $10,000 amendment to a FY9 Y grant to Galef lnstitute. 

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Ohio Arts Council 

Columbus, OH $110,000 

Oklahoma, State Arts 

Council of 

Oklahoma City, OK $53,000 

Oregon Arts Commission 

Salem, OR $43,000 

Pennsylvania Council on 

the Arts 

Harrisburg, PA $55,500 

Puerto Rican Culture, 

Institute of 

San Juan, PR $27,000 

Rhode Island State Coundl 

on the Arts 

Providence, RI $77,000 

South Carolina Arts 

Commission 

Columbia, SC $97,500 

South Dakota Arts Council 

Pierre, SD $69,000 

Tennessee Arts Commission 

Nashville, TN $53,500 

Texas Arts Commission 

Austin, TX $33,000 

Utah Arts Council 

Salt Lake City, UT $63,000 

Vermont Council on the Arts 

Montpelier, VT $50,800 

Virginia Commission for 

the Arts 

Richmond, VA $57,000 

Washington State Arts 

Commission 

Olympia, WA $52,800 

West Virginia Arts & 

Humanities Section 

Charleston, WV $24,200 

Wisconsin Arts Board 

Madison, WI $39,300 

Wyoming Am Council 

Cheyenne, WY $49,500 

SPECIAL PROJECTS 

8 awards $1,190,000 

*Council of Chief State 

School Officers 

Washington, DC $360,000 

A cooperative agreement to 

support the Goals 2000 Arts 

Education Parmership. 

*Kennedy Center for the 

Performing Arts 

Washington, DC $200,000 

A cooperative agreement to 

support the implementation 

of the ArtsEdge national 

arts education information 

network. 

*Kennedy Center for the 

Performing Arts 

Washington, DC $275,000 

To amend a cooperative 

agreement for a National 

Arts Education Dissemination Network. 

*Music Educators National 

Conference 

Washington, DC $10,000 

To support the National 

Coalition for Education in 

the Arts, a group of more 

than 30 arts and arts education organizations, in its 

efforts to implement a series 

of arts education initiatives 

over a two-year period. 

*National Assembly of 

State Arts Agencies 

Washington, DC $140,000 

A cooperative agreement to 

support professional development assistance for state 

arts agencies’ Arts in Education coordinators. 

*National Assembly of 

State Arts Agencies 

Washington, DC $145,000 

To amend a cooperative 

agreement to support the 

Goals 2000 Arts Education 

Leadership Fund. 

*Southern Arts Federation 

Atlanta, GA $30,000 

To support the Southern 

Arts Federation’s Regional 

Partnerships for Arts 

Education Program in 

1996-97. 

*Southern Arts Federation 

Atlanta, GA $30,000 

To support the Southern 

Arts Federation’s Regional 

Partnerships for Arts 

Education Program in 

1997-98. 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Akron Art Museum 

Akron, OH $1 

To support the augmentation of the Akron Art 

Museum’s endowment. 

American Repertory 

Theatre 

Cambridge, MA $235,000 

To support the augmentation of the American Repertory Theatre’s endowment. 

Barter Foundation, Inc. 

Abingdon, VA $150,000 

To support the augmentation of the endowment for 

the Barter Theatre. 

Cindnnati Symphony 

Orchestra 

Cincinnati, OH $185,000 

To support the augmentation of the Cincinnati 

Symphony Orchestra’s 

endowment. 

Dia Center for the Arts 

New York, NY $200,000 

To support augmentation of 

the DIA Center for the 

Arts’ endowment. 

Franklin Furnace Archive 

New York, NY $100,000 

To support the establishment of a cash reserve for 

the Franklin Furnace 

Archive. 

Henry Gallery Association 

Seattle, WA $235,000 

To support the augmentation of the endowment for 

the Henry Art Gallery. 

Hubbard Street Dance 

Chicago 

Chicago, IL $150,000 

To support establishment of 

the Hubbard Street Dance 

Company’s endowment. 

Institute for Contemporary 

Art, P.S. I Museum and 

the Clocktower Gallery 

Long Island City, NY 

$200,000 

To support the establishment of an endowment for 

the Institute of Contemporary Art. 

Jazz in the City 

San Francisco, CA $100,000 

To support the establishment of an endowment and 

augmentation of Jazz in the 

City’s cash reserve. 

Municipal Art Society of 

New York 

New York, NY $75,000 

To support the establishment of the Municipal Art 

Society’s cash reserve. 

Museum of Contemporary 

Art, Los Angeles 

Los Angeles CA $125,000 

To support the augmentation of the Museum of 

Contemporary Art’s endowment. 

National Foundation for 

Advancement in the Arts 

Miami, FL $150,000 

To support the augmentation of the National Foundation for Advancement in 

the Arts’ endowment. 

New HampshireSymphony 

Manchester, NH $125,000 

To support the augmentation of the New Hampshire 

Symphony’s endowment. 

Norton Gallery and School 

of Art, Inc. 

West Palm Beach, FL 

$200,000 

To support the augmentation of the Norton Gallery 

and School of Art’s endowment. 

Oregon Shakespeare. 

Festival Association 

Ashland, OR $125,000 

To support the augmentation of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association’s 

endowment. 

Portland Art Museum 

Pordand, OR $150,000 

To support augmentation of 

the Pordand Art Museum’s 

endowment. 
 

c~muumnmm
 

Rider University 

Lawrenceville, NJ $1’50,000 

To support augmentation of 

the Westminster Choir 

College endowment. 

San Francisco Symphony 

San Francisco, CA $150,000 

To support the augmentation of the San Francisco 

Symphony’s endowment. 

Seattle Symphony 

Orchestra, Inc. 

Seattle, WA $150,000 

To support the augmentation of the Seattle Symphony Orchestra’s endowment. 

Sitka Summer Music 

Festival, Inc. 

Anchorage, AK $75,000 

To support the augmentation of the endowment held 

by the Sitka Summer Music 

Festival Foundation. 

Symphony Space, Inc. 

New York, NY $200,000 

To support augmentation of 

Symphony Space’s endowment. 

University of North 

Carolina at Greensboro 

Greensboro, NC $100,000 

To support the augmentation of the endowment for 

the Weatherspoon Art 

Gallery. 

WNYC Foundation 

New York, NY $285,000 

To support the establishment of an endowment to 

provide arts programming 

by the WNYC Foundation. 

Photo by Lois Greenfield. 

Mark Anderson 

Los Angeles, CA $165,607 

A cooperative agreement to 

complete independent 

management assessment 

reports for up to 300 FY 97 

and FY 98 Planning and 

Stabilization applications. 

Hubbord 

Street 

Donce 

Chi¢ogo’s 

Ron de 

Jesus ond 

Rhondo 

Henriksen. 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PLANNING/ 

STABILIZATION 

G RANTS 

31 awards $1,005,000 

*American Association of 

Museums 

Washington, DC $105,000 

To support the Cultural 

Tourism Leadership 

Initiative. 

Arts Council of Oklahoma 

City 

Oklahoma City, OK $12,690 

To support a planning 

process to develop the Stage 

Center performing arts 

facility into a venue for 

diverse and creative arts 

activities. 

Arts Council of Roanoke 

Valley 

Roanoke, VA $17,290 

To support efforts to 

stabilize the arts in Roanoke 

through programming for 

local artists, arts organizations, and children. 

Arts Council of Santa 

Clara County 

San Jose, CA $35,000 

To support the community 

cultural planning process of 

the Arts Council of Santa 

Clara County in conjunction with the City of San 

Jose Office of Cultural 

Affairs. 

Arts Council ~ ~peka, Inc. 

Topeka, KS ~’~ $39,380 

To support efforts to 

stabilize local arts organizations by improving technical assistance services, 

expanding arts programs for 

children, and strengthening 

the council’s administrative 

functions. 

Arts North Carolina, Inc. 

Raleigh, NC $8,750 

To support Arts North 

Carolina’s professional 

development programs for 

. local arts agencies around 

the state. 

Bronx Council on the Arts 

Bronx, NY $35,000 

To support a new outreach 

program designed to foster 

partnerships between arts 

organizations and community-based organizations. 

California Assembly of 

Local Arts Agencies 

San Francisco, CA $35,000 

To support the assembly’s 

professional development 

programs for 300 local arts 

agencies and service 

providers throughout 

California. 

Catamount Film and 

Arts Co. 

St.Johnsbury, VT $39,380 

To support the expanding 

education programs and 

partnerships with human 

service and community 

development agencies. 

Cibola Arts Council, Inc. 

Grants, NM $34,890 

To support the council’s 

Community Arts Program 

as part of the Cibola 

County’s Future Family 

Foundation Center project. 

City of Berkdey, California 

Berkeley, CA $21,870 

To support a stabilization 

 ̄ initiative that will provide 

services and programs to 

artists and arts organizations in Berkeley. 

City of Edmonds, 

Washington 

Edmonds, WA $6,880 

To support the commission’s efforts to strengthen 

community arts groups 

through leadership training 

sessions. 

City of Portland, Maine 

Portland, ME $21,000 

To support a collaboration 

between the Portland Arts 

and Cultural Alliance and 

the City of Portland, Maine 

to develop Portland’s first 

cultural plan. 

City of South Lake Tahoe 

South Lake Tahoe, CA 

$11,590 

To support a technical 

assistance program for 

artists, arts organizations, 

and other cultural groups in 

the Tahoe Basin. 

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Colquitt/Miller Arts 

Council, Inc. 

Colquitt, GA $14,000 

To support technical workshops and administrative 

staff to enhance the presentation of a folk life play 

based on the history of 

 ̄ southwest Georgia. 

Copper Village Museum 

and Arts Center of Deer 

Lodge County 

Anaconda, MT $12,250 

To support the development 

of a new earned income 

venture that will produce a 

long-term revenue source 

for the Copper Village 

Museum and Arts Center. 

Fairbanks Arts Association 

Fairbanks, AK $15,400 

To support a long-range 

planning process to develop 

a community cultural plan 

for Fairbanks. 

Lake Agassiz Arts Council 

Fargo, ND $43,750 

To support the Lake Agassiz 

Arts Council, in partnership 

with the North Dakota 

Local Arts Council Consortium, with a stabilization 

project to strengthen the 

state’s eight local arts 

agencies. 

Lower Manhattan Cultural 

Council, Inc. 

New York, NY $26,250 

To support the creation of a 

digital arts center in collaboration with New York City 

Partnership, a non-profit 

consortium representing 

business interests in lower 

Manhattan. 

Madera County Arts 

Council 

Madera, CA $13,120 

To support an arts education program in the elementary schools of Madera 

County. 

Merced Regional Arts 

Council, Inc. 

Merced, CA $10,240 

To support programming 

for the Merced Multicultural Arts Center, a multidisciplinary facility for arts 

training, performances, 

education, exhibits, and 

youth services. 

MetroArts of the Capital 

Region 

Harrisburg, PA $39,380 

To support a stabilization 

project that will assist small, 

diverse, emerging arts 

organizations in Harrisburg 

to reach organizational and 

artistic excellence. 

Metropolitan Arts Council 

Omaha, NE $31,500 

To support the council’s 

efforts to stabilize the arts 

with an accessible, quality 

venue for presenting art, 

and a program of resources 

and technology services for 

artists. 

Missoula Cultural 

Exchange 

Missoula, MT $29,430 

To support the council’s 

stabilization project, 

emphasizing arts education 

and cultural tourism. 

National Assembly of Local 

Arts Agencies 

Washington, DC $200,000 

A cooperative agreement 

for Services to the Field. 

Network of Local Arts 

Agencies of Washington 

State 

Olympia, WA $24,500 

To support the network’s 

efforts to stabilize its 

services for local arts 

agencies around the state. 

Pasadena Arts Council 

Pasadena, CA $21,000 

To support "The Children’s 

Center for the Arts" program in cooperation with 

the Pasadena Unified 

School District, providing 

in-depth visual and performing arts experiences to 

elementary school students. 
 

 

 

 

 

Pierce County Arts 

Commission 

Tacoma, WA $35,000 

To support the expansion of 

the commission’s First 

Night arts festival into four 

county locations, providing 

new earned income for the 

commission and stimulating 

greater participation in arts 

activities. 

Public Corporation for the 

Arts of the City of Long 

Beach 

Long Beach, CA $35,000 

To support a comprehensive 

technical assistance program for artists and arts 

organizations in Long 

Beach. 

Wayne County Council for 

the Arts 

Lyons, NY $12,960 

To support a five-county 

needs assessment and 

community planning 

process. 

Wisconsin Assembly of 

Local Arts Agencies, Inc. 

Madison, WI $17,500 

To support the.assembly’s 

programs that strengthen 

the organizational capacity 

of Wisconsin’s 70 local arts 

agencies. 

*WRITERS CORPS 

6 cooperative 

agreements $581,765 

WritersCorps Programs 

An interagency partnership 

with the Corporation for 

National & Community 

Service to support the 

second year of Writers 

Corps, a project that offers 

opportunities for 75 American writers to work directly 

with local social service 

providers, community 

activists, and schools to 

enhance learning for children and adults who lack 

basic academic skills in 

creative writing. 

Bronx Council on the Arts 

Bronx, NY $308,450 

To support the Bronx 

Writers Corps. 

Bronx Council on the Arts 

Bronx, NY $25,000 

To provide additional 

funding for Bronx Writers 

Corps. 

Caliber Associates 

Washington, DC $17,988 

To support the National 

Writers Corps project. 

California Assembly of 

Local Arts Agencies 

San Francisco, CA $59,733 

To support an evaluation of 

the Writers Corps project. 

California Assembly of 

Local Arts Agencies 

San Francisco, CA $37,500 

To provide additional 

funding for San Francisco 

Writers Corps. 

Humanities Council of D. C. 

Washington, DC $37,500 

To support the Washington, 

D.C. Writers Corps. 

National Association of 

Service & Conservation 

Corps 

Washington, DC $95,594 

To support the National 

Writers Corps project. 

ARTS FOR YOUTH 

1 cooperative 

agreement $120,000 

The YouthArts 

Development Project 

A consortium of three local 

arts agencies from Pordand, 

Oregon, San Antonio, 

Texas, and Adanta, Georgia, 

to expand successful prototypes for Arts for Youth 

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BASIC STATE GRANTS 

56 awards $18,528,699 

Basic State Grant activities 

support artists and arts 

organizations on a statewide 

level. 

Alabama State Council on 

the Arts 

Montgomery, AL $333,000 

Alaska State Council on 

the Arts 

Anchorage, AK $296,000 

American Samoa Council 

on Arts, Culture, & 

Humanities 

Pago Pago, AS $200,000 

Arizona Commission on 

the Arts 

Phoenix, AZ $ 332,000 

Arkansas Arts Council 

Little Rock, AR $315,000 

California Arts Council 

Sacramento, CA $611,000 

Colorado Coundl on the 

Arts 

Denver, CO $327,000 

Connecticut Commission on 

the Arts 

Hartford, CT $323’000 

Delaware Division of the 

Arts 

Wilmington, DE $297,000 

District of Columbia 

Commission on the Arts 

and Humanities 

Washington, DC $296,000 

Florida Division of 

Cultural Affairs 

Tallahassee, FL $378,699 

Georgia Council for the 

Arts 

Atlanta, GA $362,000 

Guam Council on the Arts 

and Humanities 

Agana, GU $201,000 

Hawaii State Foundation 

on Culture and the Arts 

Honolulu, HI $302,000 

Idaho Commission on the 

Arts 

Boise, ID $302,000 

Illinois Arts Coundl 

Chicago, IL $410,000 

Indiana Arts Commission 

Indianapolis, IN $349,000 

Iowa Arts Council 

Des Moines, IA $319,000 

Kansas Arts Commission 

Topeka, KS $316,000 

Kentucky Arts Council 

Frankfort, KY $329,000 

Louisiana Division of the 

Arts, Department of 

Culture, Recreation, & 

Tourism 

Baton Rouge, LA $334,000 

Maine Arts Commission 

Augusta, ME $303,000 

Maryland State 

Council 

Baltimore, MD $341,000 

Massachusetts Cultural 

Council 

Boston, MA $352,000 

Michigan Council for Arts 

and Cultural Affairs 

Detroit, MI $387,000 

Minnesota State Arts 

Board 

St. Paul, MN $337,000 

Mississippi Arts 

Commission 

Jackson, MS $317,000 

Missouri State Council on 

the Arts 

St. Louis, MO $344,000 

Montana Arts Council 

Helena, MT $299,000 

Nebraska Arts Council 

Omaha, NE $307,000 

Nevada State Council on 

the Arts 

Carson City, NV $305,000 

New Hampshire State 

Council on the Arts 

Concord, NH $302,000 

New Jersey State Council 

on the Arts 

Trenton, NJ $371,000 

New Mexico Arts Division 

Santa Fe, NM $307,000 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

New York State Council on 

the Arts 

New York, NY $476,000 

North Carolina Arts 

Council 

Raleigh, NC $362,000 

North Dakota Council on 

the Arts 

Bismarck, ND $297,000 

Northern Marianas 

Commonwealth Council for 

Arts & Culture 

Saipan, MP $200,000 

Ohio Arts Council 

Columbus, OH $403,000 

Oklahoma, State Arts 

Council of 

Oklahoma City, OK 

$323,000 

Oregon Arts Commission 

Salem, OR $322,000 

Pennsylvania Council on 

the Arts 

Harrisburg, PA $413,000 

Institute of Puerto Rican 

Culture 

San Juan, PR $327,000 

Rhode Island State Council 

on the Arts 

Providence, RI $300,000 

South Carolina Arts 

Commission 

Columbia, SC $327,000 

South Dakota Arts Council 

Pierre, SD $297,000 

Tennessee Arts Commission 

Nashville, TN $343,000 

Texas Commission on the 

Arts 

Austin, TX $478,000 

Utah Arts Council 

Salt Lake City, UT $310,000 

Vermont Council on the 

Arts 

Montpelier, VT $296,000 

Virgin Islands Council on 

the Arts 

St. Thomas, VI $201,000 

Virginia Commission for 

the Arts 

Richmond, VA $357,000 

Washington State Arts 

Commission 

Olympia, WA $345,000 

West Virginia Division of 

Culture & History, Arts & 

Humanities Section 

Charleston, VVV $309,000 

Wisconsin Arts Board 

Madison, WI $342,000 

Wyoming Arts Council 

Cheyenne, WY $296,000 

REGIONAL ARTS 

PROGRAMMING 

7 awards $2,753,301 

Grants went to support 

artists and arts organizations on a regional, multistate level. 

Arts Midwest 

Minneapolis, MN $440,000 

Consortium for Pacific Arts 

& Cultures 

Honolulu, HI $166,000 

Mid Atlantic Arts 

Foundation, Inc. 

Baltimore, MD $440,000 

Mid-America Arts Alliance 

Kansas City, MO $331,000 

New England Foundation 

for the Arts 

Boston, MA $331,000 

Southern Arts Federation 

Adanta, GA $494,301 

Western States Arts 

Federation 

Santa Fe, NM $551,000 

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COLLABORATIVE 

INITIATIVE DANCE 

ON TOUR 

6 awards $141,420 

Arts 2Vlidwest 

Minneapolis, MN $23,570 

To support artists’ fees and 

related administrative costs 

for regional presenters of 

dance throughout Illinois, 

Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, 

Minnesota, North Dakota, 

Ohio, South Dakota, and 

Wisconsin. 

Mid Atlantic Arts 

Foundation 

Baltimore, MD $23,570 

To support artists’ fees and 

related administrative costs 

for regional .presenters of 

dance throughout the 

District of Columbia, 

Delaware, Maryland, New 

Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, the Virgin 

Islands, and West Virginia. 

Mid-America Arts Alliance 

Kansas City, MO $23,570 

To support artists’ fees and 

related administrative costs 

for regional presenters of 

dance throughout Arkansas, 

Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, 

Oklahoma, and Texas. 

New England Foundation 

for the Arts 

Boston, MA $23,570 

To support artists’ fees and 

related administrative costs 

for regional presenters of 

dance throughout Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, 

Rhode Island, and Vermont. 

Southern Arts Federation 

Adanta, GA $23,570 

To support artists’ fees and 

related administrative costs 

for regional presenters of 

dance throughout Alabama, 

Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, 

Louisiana, Mississippi, 

North Carolina, South 

Carolina, and Tennessee. 

Western States Arts 

Federation 

Santa Fe, NM $23,570 

To support artists’ fees and 

related administrative costs 

for regional presenters of 

dance throughout Maska, 

Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, 

Montana, Nevada, New 

Mexico, Oregon, Utah, 

Washington, and Wyoming. 

NATIONAL SERVICES 

3 awards $168,580 

National Assembly of State 

Arts Agencies 

Washington, DC $59,580 

To amend a cooperative 

agreement. 

National Assembly of State 

Arts Agencies 

Washington, DC $79,000 

A cooperative agreement 

for National Standard Final 

Descriptive Report analysis. 

National Assembly of State 

Arts Agencies 

Washington, DC $30,000 

A cooperative agreement 

for administering partnership consultations between 

the Endowment and state 

arts agencies. 

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EXPANSION ARTS 

5 awards $163,440 

Awards were made to 

support re-granting to rural 

arts organizations 

Alaska State Council on 

the Arts 

Anchorage, AK $40,000 

Kansas Arts Commission 

Topeka, KS $30,000 

Mississippi Arts 

Commission 

Jackson, MS $33,440 

Tennessee Arts Commission 

Nashville, TN $30,000 

Texas Commission on the 

Arts 

Austin, TX $30,000 

FOLK & 

TRADITIONAL ARTS 

31 awards $891,700 

Folk Arts Projects 

Alabama State Council on 

the Arts 

Montgomery, AL $28,900 

To support a fieldwork 

survey to document the 

traditional arts and artists of 

the waterway regions of 

Alabama; the survey will 

lead to an exhibition that 

;will travel to schools and 

libraries in the region. 

Colorado Council on the 

Arts 

Denver, CO $33,000 

To support fieldwork and 

educational projects to 

identify and present traditional arts and artists of 

Eastern Colorado, laying 

the groundwork for the 

development of an ongoing 

regional folk arts program. 

Department of Arkansas 

Heritage 

Little Rock, AR $60,000 

To support an ongoing 

project to record, preserve, 

promote the traditional arts 

of Arkansas. 

Iowa Arts Council 

Des Moines, IA $45,000 

To support a state folk arts 

coordinator position in 

Iowa. 

Kentucky Arts Council 

Frankfort, KY $35,500 

To support the first annual 

Kentucky State Folklife 

Festival. 

Kentucky Arts Council 

Frankfort, KY $35,500 

To support a survey of local 

folk arts and artists and 

public programs in several 

Kentucky State Parks 

celebrating local traditions. 

Michigan Council for Arts " 

and Cultural Affairs 

Detroit MI $32,000 

To support a survey of 

traditional arts in Michigan 

leading to a new "Celebrations" component of the 

1996 Festival of Michigan 

Folklife. 

Nevada State Council on 

the Arts 

Carson City, NV $12,400 

To support a program 

assistant for the Folk Arts 

Program at the Nevada 

State Council on the Arts. 

New Hampshire State 

Council on the Arts 

Concord, NH $40,000 

To support the folk arts 

program including the folk 

arts coordinator position. 

New York State Council on 

the Arts 

New York, NY $20,000 

To support a folk arts 

program associate position 

at the New York State 

Council on the Arts. 

Oregon Arts Commission 

Salem, OR $33,500 

To support the "Neighborhood Arts Program," to 

provide technical assistance 

and artists programming to 

artists and neighborhood 

groups in the Multnomah 

County region. 

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Oregon Arts Commission 

Salem, OR $28,300 

To support the production 

and touring of the exhibit, 

"Masters of Ceremony: 

Traditional Artists and 

Life’s Passages," a five-year 

retrospective of artists 

participating in the state’s 

traditional apprenticeship 

program. 

Pennsylvania Council on 

the Arts 

Harrisburg, PA $29,000 

To support the development 

of a state folk arts program 

through a collaboration 

between the Pennsylvania 

Council on the Arts and the 

Institute for Cultural 

Partnerships. 

South Carolina Arts 

Commission 

Columbia, SC $41,300 

To support the folk arts 

coordinator position. 

Washington State Arts 

Commission 

Olympia, WA $22,000 

To support the second 

Washington State American 

Indian Basketmakers 

Gathering. 

Washington State Arts 

Commission 

Olympia, WA $25,000 

To support two tapes/booklets highlighting "Eastern 

Washington Traditional 

Arts and Heritage Tours." 

Wisconsin Arts Board 

Madison, WI $20,800 

To support the production 

and enhanced distribution 

of the weekly regional radio 

program, "Down Home 

Dairyland." 

Folk Arts State 

Apprenticeships 

Alabama State Council on 

the Arts 

Montgomery, AL $30,000 

Alaska State Council on 

the Arts 

Anchorage, AK $10,000 

Georgia Coundl for the 

Arts 

Adanta, GA $13,000 

HawaK State Foundation 

on Culture and the Arts 

Honolulu, HI $30,000 

Idaho Commission on the 

Arts 

Boise, ID $13,000 

Kentucky Arts Council 

Frankfort, KY $22,500 

Missouri State Council on 

the Arts 

St. Louis, MO $30,000 

Nevada State Coundl on 

the Arts 

Carson City, NV $16,500 

New Hampshire State 

Council on the Arts 

Concord, NH $30,000 

New ffersey State Council 

on the Arts 

Trenton, NJ $30,000 

New Mexico Arts Division 

Santa Fe, NM $28,200 

North Dakota Coundl on 

the Arts 

Bismarck, ND $30,000 

Rhode Island State Council 

on the Arts 

Providence, ILl $29,900 

Utah Arts Council 

Salt Lake City, UT $30,000 

STATE & REGIONAL 

56 awards $2,225,600 

Alabama State Council on 

the Arts 

Montgomery, AL $39,300 

Alaska State Council on 

the Arts 

Anchorage, AK $30,500 

American Samoa Council 

on Arts, Culturb, & 

Humanities 

Pago Pago, AS $29,100 

Arizona Commission on 

the Arts 

Phoenix, AZ $25,800 

Arkansas Arts Council 

Little Rock, AR $35,000 

California Arts Council 

Sacramento, CA $83,700 

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Colorado Council on the 

Arts 

Denver, CO $45,500 

Connecticut Commission on 

the Arts 

Hartford, CT $37,000 

Delaware Division of the 

Arts 

Wilmington, DE $23,100 

District of Columbia 

Commission on the Arts 

and Humanities 

Washington, DC $30,400 

Florida Division of 

Cultural Affairs 

Tallahassee, FL $63,000 

Georgia Council for the 

Arts 

Adanta, GA $46,200 

Hawaii State Foundation 

on Culture and the Arts 

Honolulu, HI $31,900 

Idaho Commission on the 

Arts 

Boise, ID $34,200 

Illinois Arts Council 

Chicago, IL $57,700 

Indiana Arts Commission 

Indianapolis, IN $49,400 

Iowa Arts Council 

Des Moines, IA $35,900 

Kansas Arts Commission 

Topeka, KS $35,300 

Kentucky Arts Council 

Frankfort, KY $38,400 

Louisiana Division of the 

Arts, Department of 

Culture, Recreation, & 

Tourism 

Baton Rouge, LA $39,500 

Maine Arts Commission 

Augusta, ME $30,000 

Maryland State Arts 

Council 

Baltimore, MD $41,200 

Massachusetts Cultural 

Council 

Boston, MA $43,100 

Michigan Council for Arts 

and Cultural Affairs 

Detroit, MI $52,200 

Minnesota State Arts 

Board 

St. Paul, MN $40,200 

Mississippi Arts 

Commission 

Jackson, MS $35,500 

Missouri State Council on 

the Arts 

St. Louis, MO $52,000 

Montana Arts Council 

Helena, MT $31,000 

Nebraska Arts Council 

Omaha, NE $42,800 

Nevada State Council on 

the Arts 

Carson City, NV $32,600 

New Hampshire State 

Council on the Arts 

Concord, NH $24,800 

New Jersey State Council 

on the Arts 

Trenton, NJ $51,000 

New Mexico Arts Division 

Santa Fe, NM $33,100 

New York State Council on 

the Arts 

New York, NY $46,400 

North Carolina Arts 

Council 

Raleigh, NC $46,300 

North Dakota Council on 

the Arts 

Bismarck, ND $21,100 

Northern Marianas 

Commonwealth Council for 

Arts & Culture 

Saipan, MP $29,100 

Ohio Arts Council 

Columbus, OH $59,800 

Oklahoma, State Arts 

Council of 

Oklahoma City, OK 

$37,000 

Oregon Arts Commission 

Salem, OR $35,600 

Pennsylvania Council on 

the Arts 

Harrisburg, PA $54,800 

Institute of Puerto Rican 

Culture 

San Juan, PR $47,500 

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Rhode Island State Council 

on the Arts 

Providence, RI $38,200 

South Carolina Arts 

Commission 

Columbia, SC $54,600 

South Dakota Arts Council 

Pierre, SD $30,800 

Tennessee Arts Commission 

Nashville, TN $50,800 

Texas Commission on the 

Arts 

Austin, TX $73,800 

Utah Arts Council 

Salt Lake City, UT $33,700 

Vermont Council on the 

Arts. 

Montpelier, VT $30,400 

Virgin Islands Council on 

the Arts 

St. Thomas, VI $29,300 

Virginia Commission for 

the Arts 

Richmond, VA $45,000 

Washington State Arts 

Commission 

Olympia, WA $42,300 

West Virginia Division of 

Culture & History, Arts & 

Humanities Section 

Charleston, WV $45,400 

Wisconsin Arts Board 

Madison, WI $27,400 

Wyoming Arts Council 

Cheyenne, WY $26,700 

PRESENTING 

12 awards $1,000,000 

Regional Arts 

Organizations 

Consolidated 

Presenting Support 

To support artists’ fees for 

regional presenters of 

music, opera and theater. 

Arts Midwest 

Minneapolis, MN $106,000 

Mid Atlantic Arts 

Foundation 

Baltimore, MD $94,000 

Mid-America Arts Alliance 

Kansas City, MO $94,000 

New England Foundation 

for the Arts 

Boston, MA $61,000 

Southern Arts Federation 

Atlanta, GA $73,000 

l/Vestern States Arts 

Federation 

Santa Fe, NM $122,000 

Dance on Tour 

To support artists’ fees for 

regional presenters of 

dance. 

Arts Midwest 

Minneapolis, MN $82,794 

Mid Atlantic Arts 

Foundation, Inc. 

Baltimore, MD $88,324 

Mid-America Arts Alliance 

Kansas City, MO $79,884 

New England Foundation 

for the Arts 

Boston, MA $48,613 

Southern Arts Federation 

Atlanta, GA $77,173 

Western States Arts 

Federation 

Santa Fe, NM $73,212 

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RESEARCH 

Westat, Inc. 

Rockville, MD $342,100 

To support the completion 

of the 1997 National Survey 

of Public Participation in 

the Arts, including questionnaire development, pretesting, and interviewing a 

representative sample of 

12,000 adults. 

TECHNOLOGY 

*The Benton Foundation 

Washington, DC $500,000 

To support the first year of 

OPEN STUDIO, a partnership to provide Internet 

access at arts organizations 

in all 50 states and to 

provide 10 World Wide 

Web mentoring sites where 

artists and arts organizations will be schooled in 

establishing their own 

Websites. 

ACCESSABILITY 

*The Actors Fund of 

America 

New York, NY $50,000 

To support the Artists 

Health Insurance Project, 

which will create a national 

information source for 

health care and insurance 

for artists and arts administrators. 

New England Foundation 

for the Arts 

Boston, MA $10,000 

A cooperative agreement to 

support the first phase of a  ̄ 

cooperative agreement to 

plan and develop a regional 

symposium to assist the six 

New England states in 

making their activities fully 

accessible to people with 

disabilities and older adults. 

U. S. Department of 

Justice 

Washington, DC $12,000 

To support an interagency 

partnership to provide three 

one-year residencies in 

Federal correctional institutions in" Tallahassee, 

Florida, Minersville, Pennsylvania, and Yankton, 

South Dakota. 

William James Association 

Santa Cruz, CA $12,000 

A cooperative agreement to 

work with local arts councils 

to select artists, train them, 

monitor and evaluate three 

artists’ residencies in 

Federal correctional institutions in conjunction with 

the Endowment’s interagency work with the U.S. 

Department of Justice. 

Technical Assistance 

Activities 

$13,500 

To support technical assistance efforts including the 

National Assembly of Local 

Arts Agencies monograph 

on "The Arts and Older 

Americans," and accessibility seminars and panels for 

the Southeastern Museums 

Conference, National 

Assembly of State Arts 

Agencies, Generations 

United, and the National 

Council on Aging. 

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rivate citizens make up the panels 

which recommend projects to.be supported from the thousands of applications we receive each year. Panels are composed of artists, administrators, 

patrons and at least one layperson who does not work for an arts organization. Care is taken that all panels reflect the aesthetic, geographic and ethnic 

diversity of America. They meet at the Endowment’s headquarters throughout the year to consider groups of applications and make recommendations 

to the National Council on the Arts, which in turn advises the Chairman. 

Panel meetings usually last several days so that a thorough review of all 

projects may take place. 

In order to avoid any conflict of interest, no individual may serve on a 

panel that considers his or her organization’s application. The Endowment 

uses split panels in some cases, so that individuals affiliated with organizations may serve on panels which do not consider their organization’s application. Where split panels are used, each of the separate panels is listed. 

Because of funding cutbacks in 1996, some programs used one panel to 

consider all categories. 

The National Council on the Arts meets several times each year to 

review applications and discuss policy issues. The Council may approve or 

reject those recommended applications; all approved applications are forwarded to the Chairman who makes the final decision on which grants are 

awarded. 

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DANCE COMPANY
 

GRANTS PANELS
 

Panel A 

* Also Served on Pand B 

Roger Copeland* 

Dance Historian 

Oberlin College 

Oberlin, OH 

Migud Delgado 

Artistic Director 

Teatro Mexicano y Danza 

Los Angeles, CA 

Olga Garay* 

Director, Cultural Affairs 

Miami-Dade Community 

College 

Miami, FL 

Barry Glass 

Artistic Director 

AMAN International Music 

& Dance Company 

Los Angeles, CA 

Joan Gray 

President 

Muntu Dance Theatre 

Chicago, IL 

j~linda Lewis-Ferguson 

Associate Critic 

Dance Magazine 

Brooklyn, NY 

Arthur :Tacobus (Chair) 

Executive Director 

San Francisco Ballet 

San Francisco, CA 

Randall Rosenbaum * 

Executive Director 

Rhode Island State Council 

on the Arts 

Providence, RI 

Linda Shapiro* 

Choreographer 

Minneapolis, MN 

Kent Stowell 

Artistic Director 

Pacific Northwest Ballet 

Seattle, WA 

Mark Taylor 

Artistic Director 

Pittsburgh Dance Mloy 

Pittsburgh, PA 

Heather Watts 

Dancer 

New York, NY 

Micki Wesson ~ayperson) 

Arts Patron 

West Orange, NJ 

Panel B 

Paul Lewis (Layperson) " 

President 

Communication 

Management Systems 

Harborside, ME 

Septime Webre 

Artistic Director 

American Repertory Ballet 

New Brunswick, NJ 

SERVICES TO THE
 

FIELD
 

Kim Chart 

Director of Dance & New 

Performance 

Washington Performing 

Arts Society 

Washington, DC 

Douglas Dunn 

Artistic Director 

Rio Grande Union, Inc. 

New York, NY 

Myrna Garry (Layperson) 

Executive Vice President 

MGT International 

Charlotte, NC 

Alonzo King 

Choreographer/Dance 

Teacher 

San Francisco, CA 

Ralph Lemon 

Dancer/Choreographer 

New York, NY 

Samud Miller 

Executive Director 

New England Foundation 

for the Arts 

Cambridge, MA 

Arnecia Patterson 

Managing Director 

Dayton Contemporary 

Dance Company 

Dayton, OH 

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DESIGN PANEL 

Herman J. Milligan 

(Layperson) 

Senior Market Research 

Analyst 

Norwest Corporation 

Minneapolis, MN 

EXPANSION ARTS 

ORGANIZATIONS 

Tarabu Betserai 

Consultant/Arts 

Administrator/Editor 

Los Angeles, CA 

June Cboi 

Executive Director 

Asian American Arts 

Mliance 

New York, NY 

Jennifer Moulton 

Director of Planning & 

Development 

City of Denver 

Denver, CO 

Barton Phelps 

Architect 

Los Angeles, CA 

Ricardo Hernandez 

Assistant Director 

Texas Commission on the 

Austin, TX 

Leah Jaynes Karp 

Photographer 

Philadelphia, PA 

Joyce Lew (Layperson) 

Director of Allocations 

(retired) 

United Way of Southern 

Michigan 

Detroit, MI 

Harry Teague 

Architect 

Harry Teague Architects 

Aspen, CO 

William Vinyard 

Architect 

Rafael Vinoly Architects 

New York, NY 

E. Henry Willett, III 

Director 

Alabama Center for 

Traditional Culture 

Montgomery, AL 

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FOLK ARTS 

ORGANIZATIONS 

Susan Auerbach 

Ethnomusicologist 

Altadena, CA 

Charlotte Herb 

Assistant Director for 

Public Programs 

National Museum of the 

American Indian 

Arlington, VA 

Worth Long 

Folklorist/Cultural 

Historian 

Atlanta, GA 

Steven ff. Loza 

Musician/Associate 

Professor of 

Ethnomusicology 

University of California, 

Los Angeles 

Los Angeles, CA 

C. Gordon McCann 

(Layperson) 

Springfield Blue Print 

Company 

Springfield, MO 

Judith McCulloh (Chair) 

Folklorist/Executive Editor 

University of Illinois Press 

Champaign, IL 

Beverly Patterson 

Folldife Specialist 

North Carolina Arts 

Council 

Chapel Hill, NC 

Elizabeth Peterson 

Folklorist 

Catonsville, MD 

Catherine Schwoeffermann 

Curator & Program 

Director 

Roberson Museum & 

Science Center 

Binghamton, NY 

Steve Siporin 

Folklorist/Associate 

Professor of English & 

History 

Utah State University 

Logan, UT 

Nancy Sweezy 

Potter/Cultural 

Conservator 

Arlington, MA 

Su Zheng 

Assistant Professor of 

Music 

Wesleyan University 

Middletown, CT 

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INTERNATIONAL 

PANEL 

Dennis Ferguson Acosta 

(Chair) 

Executive Director 

Latino Museum of History, 

Art & Culture 

Los Angeles, CA 

James Abbott (Layperson) 

President & CEO 

Zylstra Coinmunications 

Yankton, SD 

Phyllis ff. Brzozowska 

Executive Director 

Cityfolk 

Dayton, OH 

Dan Calneron 

Contemporary Editor 

Art & Auction Magazine 

New York, NY 

Kim Chan 

Director of Dance & New 

Performance 

Washington Performing 

Arts Society 

Washington, DC 

Olga Garay 

Director of Cultural Affairs 

Miami-Dade Community 

College 

Miami, FL 

Juana Guzman 

Development Coordinator 

Chicago Department of 

Cultural Affairs 

Chicago, IL 

Renee Levine Packer 

Dean of Continuing Studies 

Maryland Institute of Art 

Baltimore, MD 

Hctor Perera 

Educator, School of 

Journalism
 

University of California
 

Berkeley, CA
 

CANADA/MEXICO/U.S. 

PANEL 

Host Organization Panel 

Katbleen Davis 

(Layperson) 

Personnel Counselor 

United States Information 

Agency 

Washington, DC 

Dennis Ferguson Acosta 

Executive Director 

Latino Museum of History, 

Art & Culture 

Los Angeles, CA 

V~ctor Perera 

Educator, School of 

Journalism 

University of California 

Berkeley, CA 

Pablo Scbugurensky 

Public Art Program 

Manager 

Washington State Arts 

Commission 

Seatde, WA 

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CREATIVE 

WRITING/POETRY 

Lucille Cli~on 

Poet/Educator 

St. Mary’s College 

Columbia, MD 

Debora Gregor 

Poet/Educator 

University of Florida 

Gainesville, FL 

Edward Hirsch 

Poet/Editor/Educator 

University of Houston 

Houston, TX 

Philip Levine 

Poet/Educator 

California State University, 

Fresno 

Fresno, CA 

Thylias Moss 

Poet/Writer/Educator 

Ann Arbor, MI 

Steve Orlen 

Poet/Educator 

University of Arizona 

Tucson, AZ 

Sherod Santos 

Poet/Educator 

University of Missouri 

Columbia, MO 

Margo Viscusi (Layperson) 

Director of Public Affairs & 

Dana Awards 

Charles Dana Foundation 

New York, NY 

Ellen Bryant Voigt (Chair) 

Poet/Educator 

Cabot, VT 

CREATIVE WRITING/ 

FICTION & CREATIVE 

NONFICTION 

Pinckney Benedict 

Fiction Writer/Educator 

Lewisburg, WV 

Robert Coover 

Fiction Writer/Poet 

Playwright/Essayist/Editor 

Educator, Brown University 

Providence, RI 

William Gaddis 

Fiction Writer 

Wainscott, NY 

Diane Glancy 

Fiction Writer/Poet/ 

Playwright/Essayist 

Educator, Malcaster 

College 

St. Paul, MN 

Dagoberto Gilb 

Fiction Writer 

E1 Paso, TX 

William Hjortsberg 

Fiction Writer/ 

Screenwriter 

McLeod, MT 

Richard Howorth
 

(Layperson)
 

Co-Owner
 

Square Books
 

Oxford, MS
 

Janet Kauffman (Chair) 

Fiction Writer/Poet 

Educator, Eastern Michigan 

University 

Hudson, MI 

Randall Kenan 

Fiction Writer!Editor 

Educator, Sarah Lawrence 

College 

Carrboro, NC 

Cris Mazza 

Fiction Writer 

Educator, University of 

Illinois 

Carlsbad, CA 

Jewell Parker Rhodes 

Fiction Writer/Editor 

Educator, Arizona State 

University 

Scottsdale, AZ 

Joanna Scott 

Fiction Writer 

Educator, University of 

Rochester 

Rochester, NY 

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ASSISTANCE TO 

LITERARY MAGAZINES 

Maxine Chernoff (Chair) 

Poet/Fiction Writer 

Educator, San Francisco 

State University 

Co-Editor, New American 

~4ting 

Mill Valley, CA 

Dawn Davis 

Editor 

The New Press 

New York, NY 

Karen Gates Hildt 

(Layperson) 

Attorney
 

Port Townsend, WA
 

Benjamin Alire Saenz 

Poet/Fiction Writer
 

Educator, University of
 

Texas, El Paso
 

Editor, Equinox
 

E1 Paso, TX
 

Marc 8mirnoJ~ 

Reviewer 

Editor, The Oxford American 

Oxford, MS 

Art Winslow 

Executive Editor 

The Nation 

New York, NY 

SMALL PRESS 

ASSISTANCE/ 

DISTRIBUTION 

Lisa Freeman 

Director 

University of Minnesota 

Press 

Stillwater, MN 

Edwin S. Grosvenor
 

(Chair)
 

Founding Editor & 

Publisher
 

Current Books Magazine
 

Bethesda, MD
 

Fred C. Matbews, III 

(Layperson) 

Executive Director 

Duncan YMCA 

Chicago, IL 

Arthur J. Rosenthal 

Publishing consultant, 

former Director 

Harvard University Press 

New York, NY 

C. D. Wright 

Poet/Educator 

Co-Editor, Lost Roads 

Publishers 

Barrington, RI 

Karen Tei Yamashita 

Fiction Writer/Playwright 

Gardenia, CA 

173
 
AMERICAN FILM 

INSTITUTE 

Lynne Dundon (Layperson) 

Corporate Trainer 

Stone Mountain, GA 

John Giancola 

Film/Telecommunications 

Educator 

University of Tampa 

Tampa, FL 

Anthony Gittens 

Director 

The Black Film Institute 

Washington, DC 

George Schaefer (Chair) 

Theater/FilmiTV Director 

Los Angeles, CA 

Morrie Warshawski 

Independent Media 

Management Consultant 

St. Louis, MO 

MEDIA ARTS CENTERS/ 

NATIONAL SERVICES 

Jay Craven 

Filmmaker
 

Barnet, VT
 

William Davis H
 

(Layperson)
 

Attorney
 

Winston-Salem, NC
 

Sam Ho 

Film/Vide0 Critic
 

Houston, TX;
 

Margie Nicholson (Chair) 

Media Arts Consultants 

Public Service Media & 

Marketing 

Chicago, IL 

Sandra Pedlow 

Associate Director of 

Cultural, Drama, & Arts 

Programs 

Television Program Fund, 

Corporation for Public 

Broadcasting 

Washington, DC 

John Sloss 

Entertainment Lawyer 

New York, NY 

Laura Thielen 

Film Producer/Director 

Aspen Film Festival 

San Francisco, CA 

PROGRAMMINGIN 

THE ARTS 

Rob Gordon 

Public Radio Station 

Manager 

Nashville, TN 

Charles Hobson 

Film/Television Producer 

New York, NY 

Perrin Ireland 

Writer/Media Consultant 

Cambridge, MA 

Joan Rabinowitz 

Producer/ 

Ethnomusicologist 

Seattle, WA 

Suzanne Weil 

Independent Producer 

Los Angeles, CA 

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UTILIZATION OF 

MUSEUM RESOURCES/ 

PROFESSIONAL 

DEVELOPMENT 

Panel A 

Helen Abbott 

Manager of Publications & 

Media 

Seattle Art Museum 

Seatde, WA 

Teri Edelstein (Chair) 

Deputy Director 

Art Institute of Chicago 

Chicago, IL 

Patrida Frost (Layperson) 

Arts Patron 

Miami, FL 

Edmund Barry Gaither 

Director & Curator 

Museum of the National 

Center of Afro-American 

Artists 

Boston, MA 

Jay Gates 

Director 

Dallas Museum of Art 

Dallas, TX 

Pamela McDonald 

Director of Audience 

Development 

Fine Arts Museums of San 

Francisco 

San Francisco, CA 

ffosepb Risbel 

. Curator of European 

Painting Before 1900 

Philadelphia Museum of 

Art 

Philadelphia, PA 

Sonnet Takahisa 

Co-Director 

New York City Museum 

School 

New York, NY 

Panel B 

Rosa de la Cruz
 

(Layperson)
 

Director & Treasurer
 

Eagle Brands, Inc.
 

Key Biscayne, FL
 

Joseph Dye 

Curator of Asiatic Art 

Virginia Museum of Fine 

Richmond, VA 

Richard Kinney 

Director of Publication 

Services 

J. Paul Getty Trust
 

Santa Monica, CA
 

Seonaid McArtbur 

Education Curator 

Museum of Contemporary 

Art, San Diego 

San Diego, CA 

Lawrence Pijeaux, Jr. 

Director 

Birmingham Civil Rights 

Institute 

Birmingham, AL 

Timothy Rub 

Director 

Hood Museum of Art 

Hanover, NI-I 

Beth Schneider (Chair) 

Education Director 

Museum of Fine Arts, 

Houston 

Houston, TX 

Lewis Sharp 

Director 

Denver Art Museum 

Denver, CO 

Susan Sollins 

Co-Founder & Executive 

Director 

Independent Curators, Inc. 

New York, NY 

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SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS 

Panel A 

Mark Addison (Layperson) 

Arts Patron 

Boulder, CO 

Lisa Corrin 

Curator/Educator 

The Contemporary 

Baltimore, MD 

Louis Grachos 

Curator 

Musuem of Contemporary 

Art, San Diego 

San Diego, CA 

Madeleine Grynsztejn 

Associate Curator, 20th 

Century Painting & 

Sculpture 

Art Institute of Chicago 

Chicago, IL 

Corrine Kratz 

Acting Director, Institute of 

African Studies 

Emory University 

Atlanta, GA 

Dewey Mosby 

Director 

The Picker Art Gallery 

Hamilton, NY 

C. David Robinson (Chair) 

Architect 

Polshek & Partners 

Sausalito, CA 

Inez VVolins 

Director/CEO 

Wichita Art Museum 

Wichita, KS 

Wu Tung 

Curator of Asiatic Art 

Museum of Fine Arts, 

Boston 

Boston, MA 

Panel B 

Neal Benezra 

Director of Public 

Programs/Chief Curator 

Hirshhorn Museum & 

Sculpture Garden 

Washington, DC 

Lynne Cooke 

Curator 

Dia Center for the Arts 

New York, NY 

Elizabeth Kornhauser 

Curator of American 

Paintings, Sculpture & 

Drawings 

Wadsworth Atheneum 

Hartford, CT 

Marcia Manbart 

Executive Director 

Philbrook Museum of Art 

Tulsa, OK 

Lari Pittman 

Visual Artist 

Los Angeles, CA 

Samuel Sachs (Chair) 

Director 

Detroit Institute of Arts 

Detroit, MI 

Rod Slemmons 

Associate Curator of 

Photography 

Seattle Art Museum 

Seattle, WA 

Judith Wilson 

Assistant Professor 

History of Art/ 

AfricardAfricanAmerican Studies 

Yale University 

New Haven, CT 

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AMERICAN JAZZ 

MASTERS 

Terri Lyne Carrington 

Drummer, Composer, 

Recording Artist 

Los Angeles, CA 

Ronald Myers (Layperson) 

Baptist Minister, Physician 

Belzoni, MS 

Sara Picillo 

Regional Arts Organization 

Representative 

Washington, DC 

Billy Taylor (Chairman) 

Composer/Pianist 

New York, NY 

CHAMBER ENSEMBLES 

Maryann Bonino 

(Co-Chair) 

Musicologist/Administrator 

/Educator 

Prescott, AZ 

Lyman Brodie 

Professor of Trumpet &
 

Chair of Music
 

Department
 

University of Central
 

Florida
 

Orlando, FL
 

Michael Cameron 

Cellist
 

Anderson Quartet
 

Los Angeles, CA
 

Janet Cowperthwaite 

Managing Director 

Kronos Quartet 

San Francisco, CA 

Kathy ffudd (Co-Chair) 

Executive & Artistic 

Director 

Music at Gretna 

Newmanstown, PA 

David Shi~n 

Clarinetist/Artistic Director 

Chamber Music Society of 

Lincoln Center 

New York, NY 

Walter Strauss (Layperson) 

Professor Emeritus
 

Case Western Reserve
 

University
 

Cleveland Heights, OH
 

Hiroko Yajima 

Violinist/Founding 

Member
 

Mannes Trio
 

Englewood, NJ
 

CHORUS PANEL 

Moses G. Hogan 

Artistic Director
 

Moses Hogan Chorale
 

New Orleans, LA
 

Joseph Jennings 

Music Director 

San Francisco Chanticleer 

San Francisco, CA 

Craig Jessop (Co-Chair) 

Associate Director 

Mormon Tabernacle Choir 

Salt Lake City, UT 

Amy Kaiser 

Director 

Saint Louis Symphony 

Chorus 

St. Louis, MO 

Michael Malek 

ExecutiveDirector 

Southwest Arkansas Arts 

Council 

Hope, AR 

Jacqueline Pierce 

Singer/Administrator 

New York, NY 

Maureen Ragan 

(Co-Chair, Layperson) 

Attorney
 

Lyme, NH
 

JAZZ SERVICES TO
 

THE FIELD
 

Theresa Jenoure 

Musician/Educator
 

Curator, Augusta Savage
 

Art Gallery
 

Amherst, MA
 

Wendell Logan 

Composer/Saxophonist 

Chairman of Jazz Studies, 

Oberlin Conservatory 

Oberlin, OH 

Ronald Myers (Layperson) 

Baptist Minister/Physician 

Belz6ni, MS 

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Kenny Rogers 

Musician/Educator 

Musical Director, New 

Hope Ensemble 

New York, NY 

Patricia Willard 

Gershwin Consultant in 

Jazz & Popular Music 

Library of Congress 

Washington, DC 

ORCHESTRA PANEL 

Joan Briccetti 

Manager of Artistic 

Planning 

Saint Louis Symphony 

Orchestra 

St. Louis, MO 

Cecil Cole 

Orchestra Manager 

Utah Symphony 

Salt Lake City, UT 

Susan Franano (Co-Chair) 

Executive Director 

Columbus Symphony 

Orchestra 

Columbus, OH 

Lydia Kontos 

Executive Director 

Elaine Kaufman Cultural 

Center/Lucy Moses 

School for Music & 

Dance 

Sussex, NJ 

Robert McClure 

(Layperson) 

Financial Planner 

Merrill Lynch 

Century City, CA 

Bruce Ridge

Bassist 

North Carolina Symphony 

Orchestra 

Raleigh, NC 

Kay George Roberts 

Violinist/Conductor 

Professor of Music, 

University of 

Massachusetts 

Cambridge, MA 

Peter Smith (Co-Chair) 

Executive Director 

Grand Rapids Symphony 

Grand Rapids, MI 

Janice Weber 

Pianist/Author 

Faculty, Boston 

Conservatory 

Boston, MA 

Scott Yoo 

Violinist/Music Director 

Metamorphosen Chamber 

Ensemble 

New York, NY 

SERVICES TO 

COMPOSERS 

Jacob Druckman 

Composer 

Milford, CT 

Libby Larsen 

Composer 

Minneapolis, MN 

Cindy McTee (Chair) 

Composer/Associate 

Professor of Music " 

Composition 

University of North Texas 

Denton, TX 

Jeffrey Mumford 

Composer 

Washington, DC 

Timothy Savinar 

(Layperson) 

Real Estate Manager 

San Francisco, CA 

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PROFESSIONAL 

COMPANIES 

Panel A 

Judith Allen (Co-Chair) 

President 

Blumenthal Performing 

Arts Center 

Charlotte, NC 

Anne Farrell 

General Manager 

Tacoma Opera 

Tacoma, WA 

Martin Feinstein 

Senior Consultant 

Maryland Center for the 

Performing Arts 

McLean, VA 

Ben Levit 

Ardsdc Director 

American Musical Theater 

Festival 

Wilmington, DE 

Stephen Lord 

Music Director 

Opera Theater of St. Louis 

Bolton, MA 

Sandra Pay 

Chairman 

San Diego Commission for 

Arts & Culture 

San Diego, CA 

Shoko Kato Sevart
 

(Layperson)
 

Attorney
 

Sevart & Sevart
 

Wichita, KS
 

Jackie Taylor 

Artistic Director 

Black Ensemble Theater 

Chicago, IL 

Shirley Verrett 

Singer 

Warwick, NY 

Panel B 

Harolyn Blackwell 

Singer 

Martinique, French West 

Indies 

Peter Hemmings 

(Co-Chair) 

General Director 

Los Angeles Music Center 

Opera 

Los Angeles, CA 

Robert Heuer 

General Manager
 

Florida Grand Opera
 

Miami, FL
 

Rodney Hood (Layperson) 

Community Investment 

Coordinator
 

NationsBank
 

Raleigh, NC
 

Linda Jackson 

General Director
 

651 Performing Arts
 

Center
 

Teaneck, NJ
 

Rhodessa Jones 

Co-Artistic Director
 

Cultural Odyssey
 

San Francisco, CA
 

Van Kaplan 

Executive Producer & 

General Manager 

Casa Manana Musicals 

Fort Worth, TX 

Michael Price 

Executive Director 

Goodspeed Opera House 

East Haddam, CT 

Ann Stanke 

Executive Director 

Madison Opera 

Madison, WI 

SERVICES TO THE 

FIELD 

Rodney Hood (Layperson) 

Project Manager, National 

Initiatives 

NationsBank 

Washington, DC 

Speigbt Jenkins 

General Director 

Seatde Opera 

Seatde, WA 

Marjorie SamoJf 

Producing Director 

American Music Theater 

Festival 

Philadelphia, PA 

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PRESENTING
 

ORGANIZATIONS
 

Panel A 

(Also reviewed Presenting
 

Networks)
 

Jackie Z. Davis (Co-Chair) 

Director 

Lied Center, University of 

Kansas 

Lawrence, KS 

Lawrence J. Simpson
 

(Co-Chair)
 

Managing Consultant
 

Mogus Group
 

Cleveland, OH
 

Philip C. Bither 

Director of Programming 

Flynn Theatre 

Burlington, VT 

James Borders 

Executive Director 

Louisiana Division of the 

Arts 

Baton Rouge, LA 

Joan Boyett 

Vice President for 

Education 

The Music Center of Los 

Angeles County 

Los Angeles, CA 

Oceola Bragg 

Managing Director 

David Rousseve/REALITY 

New York, NY 

Mark Cianca 

Director of Arts & Lectures 

Series 

University of California, 

Santa Cruz 

Santa Cruz, CA 

Carolelinda Dickey 

Executive Director 

Pittsburgh Dance Council 

Pittsburgh, PA 

John Gingrich 

President 

John Gingrich 

Management, Inc. 

New York, NY 

Celeste Miller 

Solo Performer
 

Gloucester, MA
 

Herbert Weissenstein 

Arts Consultant 

H.E Weissenstein & Co.
 

Sharon, CT
 

Panel B 

Kenneth C. Fischer 

(Co-Chair) 

Executive Director 

University Musical Society 

Ann Arbor, MI 

Charles Helm (Co-Chair) 

Director of Performing Arts 

Wexner Center, Ohio State 

University 

Columbus, OH 

Kim Cban 

Director of Dance & New 

Performance 

Washington Performing 

Arts Society 

Washington, DC 

Norman Fischer 

Violoncellist/Professor/Coo 

rdinator of Chamber 

Music 

Rice University
 

Houston, TX
 

Fran Holden 

Executive Director
 

Colorado Council on the
 

Arts
 

Denver, CO
 

Alexine C. Jackson
 

(Layperson)
 

Board Member/Trustee
 

Potomac, MD
 

William Lockwood 

Special Programming 

Director 

McCarter Theatre 

Princeton, NJ 

Mark Malkovich, IV 

Director of Marketing & 

Development 

Newport Music Festival 

Portsmouth, RI 

Janet Oetinger 

Director of Arts & Lectures 

University of California, 

Santa Barbara 

Santa Barbara, CA 

John O’Neal 

Artistic Director 

Junebug Productions 

New Orleans, LA 

David D. Rodriguez 

Executive Director 

Friends of the Davis Center 

New York, NY 

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PROFESSIONAL 

COMPANIES 

Panel A 

Tewri Dillion 

Education Director 

Idaho Theater for Youth 

Boise, ID 

Oskar Eustis (Chair) 

Artistic Director 

Trinity Rep 

Providence, RI 

Barry Grove 

Managing Director 

Manhattan Theatre Club 

New York, NY 

Ronald J. Himes 

Producing Director 

St. Louis Black Repertory 

Company 

St. Louis, MO 

Marsha Jackson-Randolph 

Co-Artistic Director/ 

Managing Director 

Jomandi 

Atlanta, GA 

Eduardo Macbado 

Playwright
 

New York, NY
 

Marsue Cumming
 

MacNicol (Layperson)
 

Consultant, UNICEF/LA 

Education Committee 

Los Angeles, CA 

Benjamin Moore 

Managing Director 

Seattle Repertory Theatre 

Seatde, WA 

Lisa Mount 

Managing Director 

Seven Stages 

Atlanta, GA 

James C. Nicola 

Artisdc Director 

New York Theatre 

.Workshop 

New York, NY 

Alexander Speer 

Executive Director 

Actors Theatre of 

Louisville 

Louisville, KY 

Panel B 

Stephen J. Albert 

Managing Director
 

Hartford Stage
 

Hartford, CT
 

Rodrigo Duarte Clark 

Artistic Director
 

E1 Teatro de la Esperanza
 

Oakland, CA
 

Rick Davis 

Artistic Director
 

Theater of the First
 

Amendment
 

Fairfax, VA
 

Morgan Jenness 

Associate Artistic Producer 

New York Public Theater 

New York, NY 

Susan Trapnell Moritz 

Managing Director 

A Contemporary Theatre 

Seatde, WA 

Bonnie Morris 

Producing Director 

Illusion Theater 

Minneapolis, MN 

Robert J. Orchard (Chair) 

Managing Director 

American Repertory 

Theatre 

Cambridge, MA 

David Petrarca 

Resident Director 

Goodman Theatre 

Chicago, IL 

David Saar 

Artistic Director 

Childsplay, Inc. 

Tempe, AZ 

Ann Scott (Layperson) 

Arts Patron 

St. Louis, MO 

Lynette Turner 

Producing Director 

Perseverance Theatre 

Juneau, AK 

Ching Valdes-Aran 

Actor/Director/
 

Choreographer
 

New York, NY
 

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VISUAL ARTS
 

ORGANIZATIONS
 

Tre Arenz 

Visiting Artist/Lecturer 

University of Washington, 

Seattle 

Austin, TX 

Elizabeth (Randi) Fisher
 

(Layperson)
 

Trustee, Patron, Collector 

San Francisco, CA 

Karin Higa 

Curator of Art 

Japanese American 

National Museum 

Los Angeles, CA 

PARTNERSHIP PANEL 

Mary Cambell-Zopf 

Arts Education Director 

Ohio Arts Council 

Columbus, OH 

Nicki Clarke 

Executive Director 

Vermont Council on the Arts 

Montpelier, VT 

Victor Kendall 

Executive Director 

Texas Institute for Arts 

Education 

Houston, TX 

Irene Lee 

Artist/Teacher 

Honolulu, HI 

Ed Love 

Professor of Art 

Florida State University 

Tallahassee, FL 

Mary MacArthur Griffin 

Consultant/Arts 

Administrator 

New York, NY 

Daniel Ranalli 

Visual Artist/Associate 

Professor of Art History 

Boston University 

Boston, MA 

Tad Savinar 

Visual Artist/Educator 

Portland, OR 

Vicki Poppen 

Arts Education Program 

Director 

Regional Arts & Culture 

Council 

Portland, OR 

aTennifer Severin Clark 

Executive Director 

Nebraska Arts Council 

Omaha, NE 

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CHALLENGE 

Kim Chan 

Director of Dance & New 

Performance 

Washington Performing 

Arts Society 

Washington, DC 

Katy Kline 

Director 

List Visual Arts Center 

Cambridge, MA 

yosef Knott 

Associate Director of 

Choral Activities & 

Artistic Director of 

Opera Theater 

University of Arizona 

Tucson, AZ 

Susan Lubowsky 

Director 

Southeastern Center of 

Contemporary Art 

Winston-Salem, NC 

John E. Marshall, III 

President 

Kresge Foundation 

Birmingham, MI 

Michael D. Ross 

Executive & Artistic 

Director 

Kathryn Bache Miller 

Theatre 

Columbia University 

New York, NY 

Louise E. Shaw 

Executive Director 

Nexus 

Adanta, GA 

Martin Verdrager 

Arts Consultant
 

New York, NY
 

Laura Waterman-


Wittstock
 

President & Executive 

Director 

American Indian News 

Service Association 

Minneapolis, MN 

ADVISORY PANELISTS 

Elizabeth Jackson 

Executive Director 

Society for Environmental 

Graphic Design 

Boston, MA 

Mindy Duitz 

Arts Consultant 

Staten Island, NY 

Panelists Invited, but unable 

to attend due to weather 

Tomas Benitez 

Arts Consultant 

Los Angeles, CA 

Peter Donnelly 

President 

Corporate Council for the 

Arts 

Seatde, WA 

Kathy A. Magiera 

Administrative Director 

Seattle Opera Association 

Seattle, WA 

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LOCAL ARTS 

AGENCIES 

Pam Atchison 

Executive Director 

Shreveport Regional Arts 

Council 

Shreveport, LA 

Janet Brown 

Executive Director 

South Dakotans for the 

Arts 

Deadwood, SD 

Gregory Geissler 

Arts Administrator 

Denver, CO 

Kevin Geoghan 

Executive Director 

Arts of the Southern Finger 

Lakes 

Corning, NY 

Joe Lewis 

Chair, Arts Department 

California State University, 

Northridge 

Northridge, CA 

Alfreda B. Norman 

(Layperson) 

Vice President/Manager 

Retail Sales 

Administration 

Bank of America-Texas 

Dallas, TX 

Allen L. Nygard 

(Layperson) 

Director, Nadve American 

Business Development 

Program 

North Dakota Department 

of Economic 

Development & Finance 

Bismarck, ND 

Alberto Rafols 

Technical Assistance & 

Outreach Program 

Manager 

Metropolitan Arts 

Commission 

Pordand, OR 

Albert Soto 

Grants Program Director 

Tucson/Pima Arts Council 

Tucson, AZ 

Romalyn Tilghman 

Arts Consultant/Publisher 

Arts Rag 

Long Beach, CA 

Patryc Wiggins 

Artist 

Guild, NH 

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STATE & REGIONAL 

Panel A 

Also reviewed Regional Arts 

Programming Grants 

Albert B. Head 

Executive Director 

Alabama State Council on 

the Arts 

Montgomery, AL 

Pamela Holt 

Executive Director 

D.C. Commission on the 

Arts & Humanities 

Washington, DC 

Michael Marsicano 

President & CEO 

Arts & Science Council of 

Charlotte 

Charlotte, NC 

Barbara Russo (Chair) 

Executive Director 

New Jersey State Council 

on the Arts 

Trenton, NJ 

Panel B 

John Paul Batiste 

Executive Director 

Texas Commission on the 

Arts 

Austin, TX 

Will Conner 

Chief Operating Officer 

Mid-America Arts Alliance 

Kansas City, MO 

Cbristine D’Arcy 

Executive Director 

Oregon Arts Commission 

Salem, OR 

Larry Williams 

(Layperson) 

Superintendent of Public 

Schools 

Great Falls, MT 
SUMMARY OF FUNDS AVAILABLEI FISCAL YEAR 1996 

Regular Program Funds2 $63,499,000

Treasury Funds (to match nonfederal gifts) 9,735,000 

Challenge Grant Funds (to match nonfederal gifts) 7,5OO,O0O 

Planning, Research & Technology3 378,000 

Total Federal Appropriations $81,112,000 

Nonfederal Gifts4 $668,113 

Interagency Transfers4 1,053,558 

Unobligated Balance, Prior Year4 4,120,246 

Total Funds Available $86,953,917 

Excludes administrative operating funds.
 

Not less than 27.5 percent for support of state arts agencies and regional arts groups; not less than 7.5 percent for support


through the underserved commumties set aside.
 

Administrative Funds; reflects reprogramming of $42,000.
 

Includes only grantmaldng funds 

FUNDS OBLIGATED FISCAL YEAR 1996 LEADERSHIP 

Dance 

Design 

Expansion Arts 

$ 3,028,580 

-­

1,408,000 

$ 1,150,000 

897,654 

-­ Folk & Traditional Arts 

International 

Literature 

Media Arts 

Multidisciplinary 

Museum 

Music 

Opera-Musical Theater 

1,410,000 

-­

1,610,000 

1,571,000 

-­

3,697,285 

4,455,268 

2,100,000 

908,600 

849,808 

225,000 

1,400,000 

450,000 

100,000 

670,000 

-­ Presenting 2,020,000 -­ Theater 

Visual Arts 

4,161,000 

1,219,000 

1,009,000 

-­ Arts in Education 

Local Arts Agencies 

2,830,000 

1,020,000 

1,190,0005 

1,023,955 

State & Regional 21,592,000 -- Underserved Communities Set-Aside 4,281,640 -­ Challenge (including FY 96 commitments) 

Planning, Research & Technology7 

Millennium Projects8 

7,077,9906 

389,600 

-­

-­

550,000 

1,000,000 

Total Funds Obligated~ $ 63,871,563 $ 11,424,017 

5 Includes WritersCorps administrative support. 

6 Of the $7,077,990 shown, $4,020,462 was obligated in FY 1996. 

7 Includes the Office of AccessAbility. 

8 Listed within individual programs. 

9Program obligations reflect FY 1996 transactions, and, in some cases, may differ from final allocations due to variations in the

obligations of’two-year monies or receipt of gifts and funds from other agencies. 

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APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS
 

Fiscal Year 

1966 

1967 

1968 

1969 

1970 

1971 

1972 

1973 

1974 

1975 

1976 

Transition Quarter~ 

1977 

1978 

1979 

1980 

1981 

1982 

1983 

1984 

1985 

1986 

1987 

1988 

1989 

1990 

1991 

1992 

1993 

1994 

1995 

1996 

Appropriations 

$ 2,534,308 

7,965,692 

7,174,291 

7,756,875 

8,250,000 

15,090,000 

29,750,000 

38,200,000 

60,775,000 

74,750,000 

82,000,000 

33,937,000 

94,000,000 

123,850,000 

149,585,000 

154,610,000 

158,795,000 

143,456,000 

143,875,000 

162,223,000 

163,660,000 

158,822,240 

165,281,000 

167,731,000 

169,090,000 

171,255,000 

174,080...737 

175,954,680 

174,459,382 

170,229,000 

162,311,000 

99,470,000 

Administrative Funds° 

$ 727,000 

1,019,500 

1,200,000 

1,400,000 

1,610,000 

2,660,000 

3,460,000 

5,314,000 

6,500,000 

10,783,000 

10,910,000 

2,727,000 

11,743,000 

a From 1966 through 1977, funds were provided jointly for the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities for Administrative costs. 

b In 1976, the Federal government changed the beginning of the fiscal year from July 1 to October 1, hence the Transition 

Quarter. 

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Designed by 

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Edited by 

Keith Donohue 

Publications Director 

With thanks to the staff for their assistance. 

People with visual or learning impairments may obtain a cassette recording of this report by
 

contact the Endowment’s Office for AccessAbility at 202/68225532;
 

Voice/TT: 202/682-5496.
 

This publication is available online at http://arts.endow.gov, the Arts Endowment’s World
 

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1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW 

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