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In a world facing unprecedented change, the 1 need to follow, to document, to understand, is greater than ever and although, in theory, travel and communication should be easier than when

TMU was founded in 1984, the economic and2 political hurdles for true collaboration are still extremely great. We see new cultural,

social, and political realities in the region that are3 testing the bridges

we have built during the last three decades and we know from4 B the headlines what a lack of cultural5 competency can produce.

The region remains far from settled: artists often face censorship6 and struggle with influences from outside their borders. Poverty,

corruption, and “brain drain”7 of professionals still challenge the countries in TMU’s region. It is always important for artists and scholars to challenge C themselves and their own8 assumptions about the world and

the work they do in it. 9

The key is long-term investment. It will be important for funding10 to continue to provide more in-depth professional training which is an invaluable opportunity to make connections and

exchange knowledge11 and experiences across political and cultural

boundaries. It is only through this type of exchange that rigid and D possessive ideologies are challenged and a space for democratic

values continues slowly12 but surely to make its way into building a relevant critical mass. If more people could learn the stories and histories of others and let compassion and communication and even conflict flow

more freely and not get stuck, we could13 make so much more progress in our world community. E

Arts and culture in some parts of the world are the14 first to suffer from receding interest of governments and agencies even though the

arts are a powerful medium for communications and collaboration15 across linguistic, religious, ethnic, and ideological boundaries. This is why the funding of TMU is so important, because it supports

and creates a secure environment where an artist can16 focus on his F or her work safely, and without financial difficulties. To be around people and their culture, to see how much art matters, to sense

art as actually17 relevant rather than a mystery, deepens any artist’s

practice. In isolation, it is impossible18 for an artist to see the real position and value of his or her art.

I began to see myself in a broader context 19and it caused me to articulate and define myself more clearly. A 2013 Byrd Hoffman Water Mill Foundation Our modern world is so disconnected from the environment, International Summer Program participant and Lithuanian artist, Gintare Minelgaite with Isabella and it’s hard for 20people to care if they don’t understand it or feel Rossellini at the Watermill Center, New York. B Children watching WWF walrus researchers at that connection. work on trans-boundary conservation projects in the village of Vankarem, Chukotka, on the Arctic An important first step in addressing our environmental challenges Ocean coast of Russia. C Lithuanian opera company OPEROMANIJA’s is to create a transparent informational21 exchange and coordination performing HAVE A NICE DAY! in New York as of joint conservation efforts. This can be best achieved through part of HERE Arts Center’s PROTOTYPE festival in January 2014. in-person communication on personal and professional levels by D Amar Purev and Batmunkh Damdin, rangers in Eastern Mongolia’s Toson Hulstai Nature Reserve, giving scientists and managers the chance to travel across borders scan the grasslands for foxes and gazelle as a part 22 of a October 2013 Nature Conservancy exchange. and meet with each other face to face. E Slovakian artist Csaba Molnár participating in the 2013 Headlands Summer Artist-in-Residence We see that we are not alone in our work—we see that people program. F Muskoxen yearlings studied by Russian and living in different parts of the world are working to solve American scientists on Wrangel Island in the Russian Arctic as a part of a 2014 Wildlife Conservation Society research study. the same kinds of issues we are. We have shared problems,23 but the approaches to solving them can be very different. 1 Tom Sellar, Associate Professor, Yale School of Drama So much can be accomplished through open-minded and honest 2 Steve Dubiel, Executive Director, EarthCorps 3 Philip Arnoult, Founder and Director, Center for conversations on topics about which people are committed and International Theatre Development 24 4 Abena Koomson, CEC ArtsLink One Big City participant 5 Tom Sellar, Associate Professor, Yale School of Drama passionate, all with the shared goal of improving 25 people’s lives 6 Creative Time, Global Initiatives Department 7 Tom McCarthy, Executive Director, Snow Leopard while conserving biodiversity for future generations. Program, Panthera 8 Kara Walker, Artist, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation/ These people are now part26 of my network and I can go to them CCA Ujazdowski Castle American Seasons 9 Erika Baglyas, Residency Unlimited resident for advice and support. 10 Monique Fischer, Senior Photograph Conservator, Northeast Document Conservation Center 11 Elisabeth Kruger, Program Officer, World Wildlife Fund, U.S. Arctic Field Program The most important thing was the interaction itself—a 12 Corina Suteu, President, Making Waves: New Romanian Cinema Festival 13 Abena Koomson, CEC ArtsLink One Big City chance to meet different people, to27 get to know them, to have participant 14 Corina Suteu, President, Making Waves: New Romanian a conversation, to exchange ideas. Cinema Festival 15 Jonathan Hollander, Artistic Director, Battery Dance Direct funding to countries in Eastern and Central Europe, as well Company 16 Erika Baglyas, Residency Unlimited resident as Central Asia, Russia, and Mongolia, continues to encourage28 17 Annie-B Parson, Co-director, Big Dance Theater 18 Fritzie Brown, Executive Director, CEC ArtsLink progress despite the narrowing dynamics at work in those regions. 19 Christina Briggs Winslow, New York Live Arts Suitcase Fund resident Cultural exchange programs break stereotypes and help a new 20 Jon Waterhouse, Director, Yukon Inter-Tribal Watershed Council generation obtain knowledge that they cannot access in their home 21 Eduard Zdor, Executive Secretary of the Association 29 of Traditional Marine Mammal Hunters of Chukotka, countries. They create opportunity to transfer knowledge, to Pacific Environment exchange participant 22 Elisabeth Kruger, Program Officer, WWF, U.S. Artic Field Program experience sharing, to develop cross-cultural competence and most 23 Sergei Berezniuk, Pacific Environment Agricultural Fires exchange participant of all, the chance to collaborate with people from different cultures 24 Larysa Dyrszka, Center for Safe Energy project participant and backgrounds is profoundly30 inspiring, and inspiration is at the 25 Shannon Kachel, Wildlife monitoring expert, Panthera exchange participant beginning of any creation. 26 Nadya Sulikhan, Institute for Biology and Soil Sciences, Vladivostok, Russia Wildlife Conservation Society exchange At this moment in time, I think we all recognize collaboration31 27 Anna Orlikowska, Artist in Residence, Headlands is a necessary, inherent, and contemporary way of working. Center for the Arts 28 Corina Suteu, President, Making Waves: New Romanian It is in this environment of openness that the most extraordinary Cinema Festival 32 29 Oleksandra Oliinyk, International Summer Program participant, Watermill Center compositions are nurtured. 30 Maciej Lukazewicz, International Summer Program participant, Watermill Center 33 31 Maggie Bennett, New York Live Arts Suitcase Fund resident Together, we create something new. 32 Tim Thomas, Director of Development, Bang on a Can 33 Robert Wilson, Artistic Director, Watermill Center 2 013

18thr St eet Arts Center Bohemian Benevolent and City of Asylum Pittsburgh/ Santa Monica, CA Literary Association Archa Theatre $15,000 New York, NY Pittsburgh, PA/Prague, Czech $7,000 Republic 7 Stages $12,000 Atlanta, GA Brooklyn Academy of Music $18,000 New York, NY Creative Time $30,000 New York, NY American Repertory $18,000 Theater Byrd Hoffman Watermill Cambridge, MA Center The Cutting Ball Theater $15,000 Watermill, NY San Francisco, CA $15,000 $5,500 American Theater Exchange Initiative CEC ArtsLink: ArtsLink Awards Dance/USA on behalf of New London, CT program Dance/UP $8,000 New York, NY Washington, DC/Philadelphia, PA $90,000 $10,000 Anthology Film Archives New York, NY CEC ArtsLink: Arts Leadership Dixon Place $2,500 Fellows Program New York, NY New York, NY $15,000 Art in General $25,000 New York, NY Drama League $42,000 CEC ArtsLink: Global Art Lab New York, NY New York, NY $15,000 ARTMargins $30,000 Santa Barbara, CA Electronic Music $1,650 CEC ArtsLink: Irina Yurna Foundation on behalf of New York Residency Unsound Festival Arts Council of New York, NY New York, NY/Krakow, Poland Mongolia US $4,500 $35,000 Seattle, WA $3,500 CEC ArtsLink: Russia Presenters Environmental Film Festival in Exchange the Nation’s Capital Bang on a Can New York, NY Washington, DC Brooklyn, NY $18,000 $10,000 $20,000 CEC ArtsLink: Sound Experimental Intermedia Basement Films (In)Formation New York, NY Albuquerque, NM New York, NY $5,000 $5,000 $7,000 Foundation for a Civil Battery Dance Company Center for International Society New York, NY Theatre Development New York, NY $3,000 Baltimore, MD $140,000 $70,000 Big Dance Theater Foundation for Brooklyn, NY Contemporary Arts $20,000 New York, NY $10,000 Foundation for Jewish Movement Research Shen Wei Dance Arts Culture on behalf of LeeSaar New York, NY New York, NY The Company $15,000 $25,000 New York, NY/New York, NY $20,000 Museum of Modern Art Single Carrot Theatre/ New York, NY 36 Monkeys Fractured Atlas $70,000 Baltimore, MD/Sofia, Bulgaria on behalf of Lithuanian $10,000 National Drama Theater New Museum New York, NY/Vilnius, Lithuania New York, NY St. Ann’s Warehouse $4,000 $6,000 Brooklyn, NY $45,000 Headlands Center New York Live Arts for the Arts New York, NY Trap Door Theatre Sausalito, CA $60,000 Chicago, IL $30,000 $4,000 New York Theatre HERE Arts Center Workshop UCLA REMAP New York, NY New York, NY Los Angeles, CA $20,000 $14,550 $12,000

Jacob Burns Film Center Northeast Document Woolly Mammoth Theatre on behalf of Romanian Conservation Center Company Film Initiative Andover, MA Washington, DC Pleasantville, NY/Bucharest, $20,000 $12,000 Romania $30,000 PEN American Center World Music Institute New York, NY New York, NY Joseph Brodsky Memorial $12,000 $15,000 Fellowship Fund New York, NY Performa Yale School of Drama $15,000 New York, NY New Haven, CT $10,000 $10,000 Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Performance Space 122 Z Space Washington, DC New York, NY San Francisco, CA $15,000 $20,000 $25,000

Lark Play Development Residency Unlimited/Center Center for Contemporary Art New York, NY New York, NY/Warsaw, Poland $10,000 $20,000

Lincoln Center Theater Salvage Vanguard Theater New York, NY Austin, TX $5,000 $35,000

Link Vostok San Francisco Museum of Minneapolis, MN Modern Art $2,500 San Francisco, CA $5,000 2 013

B ank Information Center Pacific Environment University of Washington, DC San Francisco, CA Wisconsin-Madison $20,000 $95,000 Madison, WI $20,000 Denver Zoological Pacific Environment: Russia Foundation Fire Prevention Program Wild Salmon Center Denver, CO San Francisco, CA Portland, OR $20,000 $25,000 $20,000

Earth Island Institute Pacific Institute on behalf Wildlife Conservation Berkeley, CA of Circle of Blue Society $30,000 Oakland, CA/Traverse City, MI Bronx, NY $7,000 $50,000 Earth Island Institute on behalf of Center for Panthera World Wildlife Fund Safe Energy New York, NY Washington, DC Berkeley, CA/Berkeley, CA $12,000 $25,000 $15,000 Southwest Research and EarthCorps Information Center Seattle, WA Albuquerque, NM $20,000 $40,000

Environmental Law Tahoe-Baikal Institute Alliance Worldwide South Lake Tahoe, CA Eugene, OR $30,000 $18,000 Tides Foundation International Association on behalf of of Fire Chiefs Arctic Funders Group Fairfax, VA San Francisco, $8,000 CA/Chapel Hill, NC $7,000 International Funders for Indigenous Peoples The Tributary Fund San Francisco, CA Bozeman, MT $5,000 $7,000

Lake Baikal Heritage Trout Conservancy Foundation on behalf of Missoula, MT Mongol Ecology Center $8,000 Tucson, AZ/Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia University of $30,000 California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA The Nature Conservancy $5,000 New York, NY $40,000 University of Northern Iowa Cedar Falls, IA $10,000 2 013 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 Art Conservation … 2 … $20,000 Arts Management … 5 … $76,150 Richard S. Lanier P resident, Asian Cultural Council, Dance … 5 … $55,500 New York, NY Multidisciplinary Performing and Visual Arts … 8 … $235,000 Multidisciplinary Performing Arts … 6 … $99,000 Elizabeth J. McCormack Multidisciplinary Visual Arts … 8 … $231,000 Form er Chairman, The Asian Cultural Museology … 1… $70,000 Council, New York, NY Music … 8 … $110,500 The Atlantic Philanthropies, New York, NY Photography/Film/New Media … 6 … $54,500 Theater … 20 … $281,050 Visual Arts … 4 … $90,000 Marcia McLean Drc i e tor, Blanchette Hooker [T otal … 73 … $1,322,700] Rockefeller Fund, New York, NY

Environmental Grants… Number of grants … amount: Blair Ruble Biodiversity Conservation … 2 … $40,000 Ve ic President for Programs, Cultural Preservation … 3 … $19,000 Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC Energy Use … 2 … $22,000 Environmental Law and Policy … 2 … $38,000 A dvisors Environmental NGO Development … 3 … $55,000 Environmental Safety and Health … 4 … $98,000 Species and Habitat Preservation … 5 … $90,000 Laura Chasin Founder and Chair, Public Sustainable Development … 6 … $205,000 Conversations Project, Watertown, MA [T otal … 27 … $567,000] Wade Greene A ssociate, Rockefeller Family & Country… Number: Associates, New York, NY Albania … 3 Armenia … 1 William H. Luers 2 013 C u lt u r a l a n d Belarus … 2 Form er President and CEO, United Nations Association, New York, NY E n v i ro n m e n ta l G r a n t s Bosnia and Herzegovina … 7 by Country/ R eg i o n Bulgaria … 4 Croatia … 4 Isaac Shapiro Grants … Number … amount: Of Counsel, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Czech Republic … 4 Meagher & Flom LLP, New York, NY Bulgaria … 4 … $42,000 Georgia … 2 Croatia … 3 … $37,000 Hungary … 6 Arlene Shuler Czech Republic … 2 … 7,500 Kazakhstan … 1 P resident and CEO, New York City Estonia … 1 … $8,000 Kosovo … 2 Center, New York, NY Hungary … 9 … $100,000 Kyrgyzstan … 1 Latvia … 3 … $27,000 Latvia … 1 Irina Yurna Lithuania … 2 … $24,000 Lithuania … 3 De puty Director, Moscow City Galleries Network, Moscow, Russia Mongolia … 8 … $135,500 Macedonia … 3 Poland … 9 … $115,050 Moldova … 1 Romania … 2 … $30,000 Mongolia … 3 Russia … 28 … $604,000 Montenegro … 3 S ta f f Serbia … 1 … $5,000 Poland … 3 Slovenia … 2 … $30,000 Romania … 5 Barbara Lanciers Drc i e tor Tajikistan … 2 … $32,000 Russia … 8 Ukraine … 1 … $15,000 Serbia … 6 [Reg ional … 23 … $677,650] Alina Enggist Slovakia … 5 Po r gram Officer [T otal … 100 … $1,889,700] Slovenia … 3 Tajikistan … 1 Josh Rowe Ukraine … 1 Po r gram Associate Uzbekistan … 1 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: Anetta Mona Chişa and Lucia Tkáčová, Clash, 2013. Installation view at Art in General. Image courtesy of the artist and Art in General. Interior photo credits (from top to bottom): Lovis Dengler; Sergey Kavry; Kestutis Serulevicius; © Nick Hall; Mido Lee, courtesy of Headlands Center for the Arts; © Joel Berger Graphic Design: Language Arts