It is always important for artists and scholars to challenge themselves and their own assumptions about the world andKaal ra W theker, Artist, work Mid Atla ntheytic Arts Foundod aintion/ it. CCA Ujazdowski Castle American Seasons
As government support is generally decreasing, and private arts funding in the region is still in its infancy, Mikhail Umanets performing in the American premiere of Dmitry Krymov Laboratory’s Opus No. 7 at St. Ann’s Warehouse institutions like TMU will play a major role in helping in January 2013. arts professionals from the region inform, educate, and expand the vision and horizons of their organizations. Museuo m f Modern Art International Program
Building common understanding facilitates the exchange of innovative ideas and experiences that will allow us to achieve ourGalaD a vcommonaa, Director of Co nservgoalation of Science preserving for Mongolia, The Ntheature Clastonserv agreatncy natural places.
In 2012, we see new cultural, social, and political realities in the region that are testing the bridges we have built during the last three decades. Simply put, now it is more critical than ever to keep the conversations open. Phi lip Arnoult, Founder and Director, Center for International Theatre Development
Tricklock Company of Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Teatr Figur from Krakow, Poland, touring Artistic Handicraft at Zuni Pueblo in February 2013.
In the context of ever-dwindling resources globally, regions that have yet-emerging arts infrastructures or that are going through sometimes difficult socio-political transitions need © Stephanie Berger the support of organizations such as TMU more than ever. Mikhail Baryshnikov and Anna Sinyakina performing In Paris, Anne Barlow, Executive Director, Art in General presented during the 2012 Lincoln Center Festival. Story by Ivan Bunin; direction and adaptation by Dmitry Krymov.
In isolation, it is impossible for an artist to see the real positionFritzie Brown, Executive and Director, value CEC ArtsLink of his or her art… 18thr St eet Arts Center CEC ArtsLink: One Big City Chez Bushwick Santa Monica, CA New York, NY Brooklyn, NY $18,000 $20,000 $7,000
American Dance Festival CEC ArtsLink on behalf of Cutting Ball Theater Durham, NC III Moscow Biennial for San Francisco, CA $7,000 Young Art $1,750 New York, NY / Moscow, Russia American Theatre Exchange $15,000 dance/usa on behalf of Initiative Dance/UP New London, CT CEC ArtsLink on behalf of Washington, DC / Philadelphia, PA $8,000 agency for contemporary $10,000 art exchange Arden2 New York, NY / Budapest, Hungary Double Edge Theatre Costa Mesa, CA $6,000 Ashfield, MA $2,000 $20,000 CEC ArtsLink on behalf of Art in General Julia Kunin Doug Varone and Dancers New York, NY New York, NY / New York, NY New York, NY $25,000 $5,000 $25,000
Arthur Adam Mitchell CEC ArtsLink on behalf of The Drama League Foundation milada slizinska New York, NY New York, NY New York, NY $10,000 $14,000 $5,100 Dusan Tynek Dance Atlantic Theater Company CEC ArtsLink on behalf of Theatre New York, NY Summa Artium New York, NY $7,000 New York, NY / Budapest, Hungary $20,000 $13,750 Bard College East European Folklife Annandale-on-Hudson, NY Center for International Center $10,000 Theatre Development Berkeley, CA Baltimore, MD $10,000 Byrd Hoffman Watermill $70,000 Foundation Electronic Music Watermill, NY Center for International Foundation $15,000 Theatre Development New York, NY on behalf of the National $15,000 CEC ArtsLink Theatre of Hungary New York, NY Baltimore, MD / Budapest, Hungary Environmental Film $15,000 $20,000 Festival in the Nation’s Capital CEC ArtsLink: Arts Leadership Center for Traditional Washington, DC Fellows Program Music and Dance $10,000 New York, NY New York, NY $20,000 $15,000 Eugene O’Neill Theater Center CEC ArtsLink: ArtsLink Awards Charlestown Working Theater Waterford, CT New York, NY Charlestown, MA $10,000 $80,000 $10,000 Exp erimental Intermedia Lark Play Development Center Russian Arts Foundation New York, NY New York, NY Washington, DC $5,000 $15,000 $7,000
Film Society of Lincoln Lincoln Center for the San Francisco Museum of Center on behalf of Performing Arts Modern Art romanian film initiative New York, NY San Francisco, CA New York, NY / bucharest, romania $15,000 $10,000 $50,000 Martin E Segal Theatre Center SEM Ensemble Flaherty International New York, NY Brooklyn, NY Film Seminars $8,500 $15,000 New York, NY $2,500 Mid Atlantic Arts Shakespeare & Company Foundation Lenox, MA Foundation for a Civil Society Baltimore, MD $8,000 New York, NY $20,000 $140,000 SITI Company Museum of Modern Art New York, NY Foundation for New York, NY $30,000 Contemporary Arts $73,895 New York, NY St Ann’s Warehouse $6,000 New York Live Arts New York, NY New York, NY $60,000 The Gombin Jewish Historical $35,000 Genealogical Society Synetic Theater New York, NY New York Theatre Arlington, VA $5,000 Workshop $6,000 New York, NY Independent Curators $5,000 Tricklock Company International Albuquerque, NM New York, NY Oracle Productions $18,000 $2,000 Chicago, IL $5,000 Vermont Studio Center Joseph Brodsky Memorial Johnson, VT Fellowship Fund Palissimo Dance Theater $10,000 New York, NY New York, NY $15,000 $15,000 WaxFactory New York, NY Kennedy Center for the Performance Space 122 $9,000 Performing Arts New York, NY Washington, DC $15,000 World Music Institute $10,000 New York, NY Portland Institute of $18,000 Kitka Contemporary Art Oakland, CA Portland, OR Yale School of Drama $18,000 $8,000 New Haven, CT $10,000 La MaMa, ETC The Public Theater New York, NY New York, NY The Yard $32,000 $30,000 chilmark, ma $3,000 A ssociation of American EarthCorps The Tributary Fund Geographers Seattle, WA Bozeman, MT Washington, DC $20,000 $20,000 $16,500 Environmental Law Trout Conservancy Bank Information Center Alliance Worldwide Missoula, MT Washington, DC Eugene, OR $10,000 $20,000 $18,000 University of BioDiversity Research Global Parks on behalf of Wisconsin-Madison Institute Mongol Ecology Center Madison, WI Gorham, ME Alexandria, VA / $15,000 $5,000 Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia $20,000 Wild Salmon Center Blacksmith Institute Portland, OR New York, NY Missouri Botanical Garden $20,000 $15,000 St Louis, MO $16,000 Wildlife Conservation Crude Accountability Society Alexandria, VA Pacific Environment Bronx, NY $18,000 San Francisco, CA $50,000 $80,000 Denver Zoological Woods Hole Research Foundation Pacific Environment: Center Denver, CO Russian Fire Prevention Falmouth, MA $20,000 Program $15,000 San Francisco, CA Earth Island Institute $25,000 World Wildlife Fund Berkeley, CA Washington, DC $25,000 Panthera $20,000 New York, NY Earth Island Institute: $10,000 Altai Project Berkeley, CA Snow Leopard Trust $20,000 Seattle, WA $7,000 Earth Island Institute on behalf of Armenian Southwest Research and Environmental Network Information Center Berkeley, CA / Albuquerque, NM Yerevan, Armenia $40,000 $15,000 Sustainable Markets Earth Island Institute Foundation on behalf of on behalf of Sacred Land No Impact Project Film Project New York, NY / New York, NY Berkeley, CA / Berkeley, CA $16,000 $12,000 The Nature Conservancy New York, NY $30,000 2 012 C u lt u r a l a n d E n v i ro n m e n ta l G r a n t s b y F i e l d B o ard M e m b e r s
Cultural Grants … Number of grants … amount: T r u s t e e s Arts Management … 6 … $56,850 Museology … 1 … $70,000 Richard S. Lanier P resident, Asian Cultural Council, Multidisciplinary Performing and Visual Arts … 3 … $50,000 New York Dance … 7 … $118,000 Multidisciplinary Performing Arts … 10 … $166,000 Elizabeth J. McCormack Music … 9 … $106,000 c hairman, partnership for palliative care, new york Theater … 19 … $202,250 Former Chairman, The Asian Cultural Visual Arts … 7 … $48,895 Council, New York Multidisciplinary Visual Arts … 5 … $213,000 Photography/ film / new media … 4 … $67,500 Donal C. O’Brien, Jr. [TOTAL … 71 … $1,098,495] Re tired Senior Partner, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, New York
Environmental Grants… Number of grants … amount: Cultural preservation … 2 … $32,000 Blair Ruble Drc i e tor, program of global Biodiversity Conservation … 4 … $70,000 sustainability and resilience, Energy Use … 1 … $18,000 Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars, Washington, DC Environmental Law and Policy … 2 … $38,000 Environmental NGO Development … 2 … $55,000 A dvisors Environmental Safety and Health … 4 … $95,000 Species and Habitat Preservation … 11 … $138,000 Laura Chasin Sustainable Development … 8 … $182,500 Founder and Chair, Public [T otal … 34 … $628,500] Conversations Project, Watertown, Massachusetts
Wade Greene A ssociate, Rockefeller Family & 2 012 C u lt u r a l a n d Country… Number: Associates, New York E n v i ro n m e n ta l G r a n t s Bosnia and Herzegovina … 1 by Country/ R eg i o n Bulgaria … 2 William H. Luers Croatia … 4 Form er President and CEO, United Nations Association, New York Grants … Number … amount: Czech Republic … 6 Armenia … 1 … $15,000 Estonia … 1 Belarus … 2 … $23,000 Isaac Shapiro Georgia … 1 Of Counsel, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Bulgaria … 2 … $18,000 Hungary … 5 Meagher & Flom LLP, New York Czech Republic … 1 … $15,000 Kazakhstan … 1 Estonia … 2 … $23,000 Kosovo … 1 Arlene Shuler Georgia … 1 … $6,000 Latvia … 3 P resident and CEO, New York City Center, New York Hungary … 9 … $75,750 Lithuania … 1 Latvia … 2 … $7,500 Macedonia … 1 Macedonia … 1 … $10,000 Moldova … 1 Mongolia … 7 … $130,000 Mongolia … 5 S ta f f Poland … 11 … $136,995 Montenegro … 1 Romania … 5 … $94,000 Poland … 5 Barbara Lanciers Po r gram Director Russia … 29 … $576,250 Romania … 5 Serbia … 3 … $28,000 Russia … 10 Alina Enggist Slovenia … 1 … $9,000 Serbia … 4 Po r gram Officer Tajikistan … 1 … $10,000 Slovakia … 3 Uzbekistan … 2 … $16,000 Slovenia … 2 Josh Rowe Po r gram Assistant [Reg ional … 25 … $533,500] Ukraine … 4 [T otal … 105 … $1,726,995] Uzbekistan … 1 Regardless of the times we live in, the need to collaborate,
Ss compare,u an Higgins, Executive contrast, Director, Th eempathize, Tributary Fund and challenge will never go away.
We see that we are not alone in our work — we see that people living in different parts of the world are working to solve the same kinds of issues we are. We have shared problems, but the approaches to solving them can be very different. S ergei Berezniuk, Pacific Environment Agricultural Fires Exchange participant
In order to protect the common species in each land, the people who live there must understand each other and how to work together. We can best achieve this through in-person communication on personal and professional levels by giving scientists and managers the chance to travel across the border and meet with each other face to face. Elsb i a eth Kruger, Program Officer, US Arctic Field Program, World Wildlife Fund
A picture of a snow leopard taken in the Pamir Mountains of Tajikistan as part of a conservation project initiated by Panthera in summer 2012.
As art continues to prove itself as a powerful force for social change, it is more crucial than ever that we build
Alexey Dmitrenko, a 2012 summer resident at The Watermill Center’s lasting relationships between artists and International Summer Program, performing for Robert Wilson in communities across the globe. Watermill, New York. Anne Pasternak, Executive Director, Creative Time Without cultural exchange in the arts you can’t grow asro be rtan Wils on,artist. Artistic Director, Together The Byrd Ho fwefman W createatermill Foun somethingdation new.
Although, in theory, travel and communication should be easier than when TMU was founded in 1984, the economic and political hurdles for true collaboration are still extremely great. S teve Dubiel, Executive Director, EarthCorps
As we can see from recent news events, the region remains far from settled. In a world facing unprecedented change, the need to follow, to document, to The Venerable Byambaajav Khunkuhr from the Gandan Monastery in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, contemplates a mountain of plastic understand is greater than ever. recycling in Montana as part of the Tributary Fund’s 2012 Leadership Tlaom Sel r, Associate Professor, yale school of drama Development Exchange. The Trust for Mutual Understanding awards grants to American nonprofit organizations to support the international travel component of cultural and environmental exchanges conducted in partnership with institutions and individuals in Russia and Central and Eastern Europe.
Cover image: A team of retired United States National Park superintendants riding through the Gobi desert on an exchange organized by Mongol Ecology Center to share best practices in park management with the staff of the Gobi Gurvan Saikhan Park in fall 2012. Photo by Wesley Thornbury
Interior photo credits: Pavel Antonov (top left); Tricklock Company (center left); ©Stephanie Berger (bottom left); S. Kachel/Panthera/Academy of Sciences Tajikistan/U. Delaware (top right); ©Lucie Jansch (center right); The Tributary Fund (bottom right)
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