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

t is my pleasure to transmit herewith the Annual Report of the National Endowment for the Arts for Fiscal Year 1997. I The Arts Endowment awards more than a thousand grants each year to non-profit arts orga­ nizations for projects which touch the lives of millions of Americans. While it would take several books to detail the profound effects of Arts Endowment support on our citizens and communi­ ties, this single year’s report of grants displays the sprawling diversity of our nation’s culture and reveals the unfettered creativity of our artists. From seeing a classic production at a theater in Connecticut to visiting an art museum in Ari­ zona, from hearing symphony musicians in an Iowa school to participating in a fine arts training program for inner-city students in Louisiana, people who benefit from Arts Endowment grants have made the arts an integral part of their lives. They know that the ability to create and sustain art must be developed and nurtured. Arts Endowment grants in 1997 continue the agency’s tradition of supporting: ¯ projects in theater, dance, music, visual arts, and the other artistic disciplines, demonstrating that our diversity is an asset--and helping us to interpret the past, understand each other in the pre­ sent, and envision the future; ¯ folk and traditional arts programs, which strengthen and display our rich cultural heritage; and ¯ arts education, which fuels our children’s skills, intellect, and fullness of life. We take pride in the power of imagination that animates and sustains our democracy. We are, and always will be, a nation of creators and innovators. This small agency fosters the creativity that has made democracy the call heard around the world. May it long continue to preserve such cre­ ativity and freedom.

William J. Clinton President of the United States

PRESIDENT’S HESSAGE

THE YEAR IN REVIEW 5

NATIONAL COUNCIL ON THE ARTS

GRANTS AND AWARDS

Grants to Organizations Creation & Presentation 9 Education & Access 50 Heritage & Preservation 66 Planning & Stabilization 78

Partnership Agreements 89 Contents

Leadership Initiatives Millennium Projects 93 International Programs 97 Other Initiatives 102

Grants to Individuals Literature Fellowships 107 American Jazz Master Fellowships 110 National Heritage Fellowships 112

Policy, Research, & Technology 114

AccessAbility 116

National Medal of Arts 118

PANELS 120

FINANCIAL SUHMARY 126

World Music, Inc. in Cambridge, Massachusetts hosted a residency of Bale Folclorico da Bahia, of Brazil, which included performances and master dance classes. Photo courtesy of Bale Folclorico da Bahia. Basic pot formation is taught at satellite sites of the Claymobile, a traveling ceramics class organized by the Clay Studio in Philadelphia. Photo courtesy of the Clay Studio, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 1997." THE YEAR IN REVIEW

The National Endowment for the Arts was established by Congress in 1965 as an independent Federal agency. Its mission is: To foster the excellence, diversity, and vitality of the arts in the United States, and To broaden public access to the arts.

A New Look for Grants Partnership Agreements support the des­ This annual report documents the first year of ignated state, jurisdictional, and regional arts sweeping changes in the Arts Endowment’s agencies. They represent a consolidation of the grantmaking structure, as foretold in last year’s Basic State Grants, Arts-In-Education Partner­ annual report. After 30 years, the Endowment ship Grants, and Underserved Communities reorganized its grant programs from discipline- Set-Aside Grants issued in previous years. based categories into broad-based, thematic Partnership Agreements remain strong stimuli categories to meet the financial and social chal­ for state governments to provide funding for lenges of the times. Stimulated by a 39 percent the arts. Congressional budget cut in 1996, the reorga­ Leadership Initiatives allow the National nization included staff reductions, elimination Endowment for the Arts to take an active role of most individual grants, and elimination of in developing and carrying out pioneering or seasonal support and general operating grants hallmark projects in the arts--such as activi­ for organizations, who now are generally lim­ ties that mark the new millennium, have inter­ ited to one grant application per year. In Fiscal national significance, or link the arts in new Year 1997 the Endowment awarded over 1,OOO ways with non-arts fields of human activity. grants totaling $90.6 million in the following The success of many of these initiatives de­ areas: Grants to Organizations, Partnership pends on the effective collaborations estab­ Agreements, Leadership Initiatives, and Grants lished by the Arts Endowment with other Fed­ to Individuals. eral agencies and with local and national Grants to Organizations fall into four ma­ nonprofit institutions. jor categories: Creation & Presentation, Educa­ Individuals may apply directly for Litera­ tion ~ Access, Heritage ~ Preservation, and ture Fellowships. Awards in the other two cate­ Planning ~ Stabilization. These awards support gories of grants for individuals--the American exemplary projects in the full range of arts dis­ Jazz Master Fellowships and the National Her­ ciplines, including dance, design, folk and tra­ itage Fellowships--are made solely on the basis ditional arts, literature, media arts (film, tele­ of nominations submitted to the agency. vision, and radio), museums, music, musical theater, opera, presenting, theater, visual arts, Research and Public Policy arts education, and multidisciplinary forms. As the the lead government agency for public Grants are awarded on the basis of artistic ex­ arts funding in the United States, and as the na­ cellence and merit, the impact of the project, tion’s largest single funding source for the non­ and the applicant’s ability to carry out the pro­ profit arts, the Endowment carries out various ject. Nonprofit, tax-exempt organizations may research and public policy activities pertaining apply for one grant each year, excluding appli­ to America’s cultural life. cations submitted as part of a consortium. All In 1997 the National Endowment for the Endowment funds awarded as grants to orga­ Arts released American Canvas, a report exam­ nizations must be matched by non-federal ining the economic and social conditions of the sources at least 1-to-1. nonprofit arts in America. The report is the re­ sult of a privately supported, year-long series of six regional public forums held across the coun­ President and confirmed by the U.S. Senate. try. It offers practical recommendations and Late in 1997, Congress changed the Council calls on all Americans to help preserve our na­ structure so that, beginning in 1998, this body tion’s cultural legacy for future generations. is comprised of 14 private citizens appointed Another outcome of the American Canvas by the President and six members of Congress process will occur in 1998 when the Endowmentwho serve in a non-voting capacity. will institute a pilot program ArtsREACH, de­ Panels of experts, including professional signed to increase the level of direct grant assis­ artists, arts administrators, and knowledgeable tance to arts organizations in underserved areas. laypersons, review all of the Arts Endowment’s The Endowment’s Office of Policy, Research, grant applications. In 1997, applications were and Technology carried out a number of other reviewed initially by panels in single artistic research studies, including the 1997 Survey of disciplines, and then by combined, multidisci­ Public Participation in the Arts that assessed fre­ plinary panels organized by grant category. In quency of and barriers to American arts par­ 1998, applications will be reviewed entirely by ticipation. This report will be published in panels organized by artistic discipline. 1998. For a second year, the Office conducted The staff is comprised of a senior executive Open Studio: The Arts Online, a project provid­ team, directors and staff specialists with exper­ ing free Internet access to artists and arts orga­ tise in the arts, and administrative personnel. nizations nationwide. The Office of Access- The staff receives and processes applications, Ability continued to address arts accessibility provides technical assistance and information issues for persons with special needs, by work­ to constituents, processes awards and rejec­ ing with arts organizations and other Federal tions, and remains informed of trends and de­ agencies, and by organizing special projects velopments in the arts field. Staff members also such as the first national forum on careers in keep the American public apprised of the En­ the arts for people with disabilities. dowment’s work and the accomplishments of The Arts Endowment also administers the its grantees. annual nomination process for the National Medal of Arts, which was created by Congress This Annual Report in 1984, is conferred by the President, and rec­ The organization of this annual report reflects ognizes extraordinary contributions to the life the changes in the Endowment’s grantmaking of the arts in the United States. structure that took effect during the Fiscal Year which began on October 1, 1996 and ended on Operations September 30, 1997. All grants, cooperative Jane Alexander was nominated by President agreements, and interagency agreements exe­ William J. Clinton and served as the sixth cuted that year are described. The narratives Chairman of the National Endowment for the preceding each section provide an overview of Arts from October, 1993 to October, 1997. Fol­ Endowment programs. Because organizational lowing her departure, President Clinton nom­ grants are no longer awarded by artistic disci­ inated William Ivey to serve as the Endow­ pline, the discipline of each project is indicated ment’s seventh Chairman. in parentheses as part of each grant listing. A The National Council on the Arts advises summary of financial transactions based on the the Chairman on policies, programs, proce­ new structure and a history of Endowment ap­ dures, and grants. Council members represent propriations are included at the end. various arts disciplines and usually serve six- year terms, staggered so that approximately For applications, publications, research reports or one-third of the body rotates every two years. other information, consult the National Endowment From 1965 through 1997, the Council was com­ for the Arts’ Web site at http://arts.endow.gov or call prised of 26 private citizens appointed by the (2o2) 682-54oo. NATIONAL COUNCIL ON THE ARTS 1997

Jane Alexander Chairman, z993-97

Appointed for Term ending in 1996" Terms Expiring in 1998 Terms Expiring in 2000

William Bailey Louise McClure Ronald Feldman Patrick Davidson Painter Arts Patron/Trustee Art Gallery Owner Television Producer Branford, CT McCall, ID New York, NY Camarillo, CA

Trisha Brown Roberta Peters Barbara V~. Grossman Terry Evans Dance Company Opera Singer/Trustee Scholar/Trustee Photographer Director/ Scarsdale, NY Newton, MA Chicago, 1L Choreographer New York, NY William E. Leo J. O’Donovan, S.J. William Po Foster Strickland, Jr. University President Music Educator Donald Hall Arts Administrator/ Washington, DC Tallahassee, FL Poet Ceramist Danbury, NH Pittsburgh, PA Kenneth M. Jarin Ronnie F. Heyman Patron/Trustee Pa tron/Trustee Hugh Hardy, FAIA George White Philadelphia, PA New York, NY Architect Theater Director/ New York, NY Producer Wallace D. McRae Speight Jenkins Waterford, CT Rancher/Poet Opera Company Marta Istomin Forsyth, MT Director Music School Seattle, WA President/Musician Jorge Perez Washington, DC Patron/Trustee Richard J. Stern Miami, FL Patron/Trustee Colleen Jennings- Chicago, IL Roggensack Judith O. Rubin Arts Presenter State Arts Council Luis Valdez Phoenix, AZ Member Theater Company New York, NY Director San Juan Bautista, CA Rachael Worby Conductor Townsend D. Wolfe, III Wheeling, WV Museum Director Little Rock, AR

*Members serve until Senate confirmation of their GRANTS AND AWARDS

Edward Hopper, Early Sunday Morning (detail), 1930. Oil on canvas. From the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New Yorlq New York. The work will tour as part of the exhibition "The American Century: 1900-2000," a millennium project supported by the Arts Endowment. Photo © Whitney Museum of American Art. Grants to Organizations

CREATION & PRESENTATION

he Creation & Presentation category the American artist Alexander Calder by Circus attracted more of the Endowment’s Flora of St. Louis; and the development and T grant applications than any other cat­ presentation of an original theater-jazz piece egory in 1997. The purposes of these grants are: based on the John Clellon Holmes novel The 1) to assist with the creation of new artistic Horn by City Lit Theatre Company and local work, and 2) to encourage the public presenta­ high school students in Chicago. tion, exhibition, performance, and publication A much smaller percentage of grants went of artistic works of all cultures and periods. to institutions that supported the creation of This is the category to which America’s arts or­ new works without an immediate venue for ganizations apply for their basic public pro­ public presentation, for example: the creation gramming, be it an exhibition, a reading or of new works of art in various disciplines by publication, a screening or broadcast, or a per­ artists from other parts of the country working formance of dance, music, theater, or opera. in residence at the Headlands Center for the These activities form the very essence of why Arts in Sausalito, California. most of the nation’s arts organizations exist. Arts Endowment grants in this category not The majority of Creation & Presentation only support the presentation of works to the grants this year were awarded to support the public. They also fund a wide range of accom­ public presentation of existing works of art. Ex­ panying educational and interpretive programs amples include the Anchorage, Maska Concert which provide a broader historical or cultural Association’s dance residency activities with the context to enhance viewers’ and listeners’ ap­ Paul Taylor Dance Company and Taylor 2; the preciation and understanding of the art form. publication of four volumes of poetry by Cop­ For example, Endowment funds made possible per Canyon press; and the Des Moines Interna­ both the Boston Camerata’s concert program of tional Children’s Choral Festival and Workshop. Shaker hymns and chants for New England au­ Slightly under half of the grants in this cat­ diences and a related educational outreach egory were awarded for the creation of new component for high school students. works and their public presentation. Examples The reach of projects funded through Cre­ include a residency and commissioning of new ation & Presentation ranges from audiences in work by photographer Abelardo Morrell and the hundreds to those in the millions. This the organization and tour of the resulting exhi­ year’s Federal investment in the Creation & Pre­ bition by Boston’s Isabella Stewart Gardner sentation category spawned not only excellence Museum; the creation and presentation of a in the arts in the United States, but also their re­ one-ring theater circus based on the work of markable and vigorous diversity. NEA 1997 ANNUAL REPORT

Creation & Presentation media new music ensemble, American Composers 496 awards $23,333,355 and the presentation of an Orchestra, Inc. American work on each classi­ New York, NY $45,000 The discipline designations in cal program during the season. (music) parentheses refer to the project, To support the presentation of not necessarily the organization. Alfred University new works by emerging Ameri­ Alfred, NY $20,000 can composers through two ac­ (visual arts) tivities: orchestral reading ses­ Aaron Davis Hall, Inc. To support Light and Shadow, sions and world premiere New York, NY $55,000 a visiting artists program that performances of commissioned (presenting) will include temporary public works in Carnegie Hall. To support the a997-98 series art projects, seminars, work­ of performances by African- shops, and lectures by artists American Conservatory American dance and multidisci­ and writers. Theater Foundation plinary artists. San Francisco, CA $60,000 Alternative Center for (theater) Actors Theatre International Arts, Inc. To support the commissioning of Louisville, Inc. (Alternative Museum) and workshop of an adaptation Louisville, KY $70,000 New York, NY $35,000 and an original score for H. Grants to (theater) (visual arts) Leivick’s Yiddish theater classic, Organizations To support the a3th annual To support "Life, Liberty and the The Golem, by playwright Tony Classics in Context Festival Pursuit of Happiness," a photo­ Kushner and composer David IO which will include four one-act graphic exhibition that will ex­ Lang. Creation & plays by playwright Thornton amine human rights issues. Presentation Wilder. American Dance Festival, Inc. Aman Folk Ensemble Durham, NC $200,000 Alabama Shakespeare Long Beach, CA $4o, ooo (dance) Festival, Inc. (dance) To support too Years of Modern Montgomery, AL $25,ooo To support community-based Dance, a series of events includ­ (theater) residencies in Florida, Arkansas, ing performances, commis­ To support the development of and North Carolina which will sions, reconstructions, panel up to four new plays to be in­ enable the company to expand discussions, and choreographic cluded in the workshop phase of its repertoire and develop new residencies. the Alabama Shakespeare Festi­ works. val’s Southern Writers’ Project, American Indian Film Institute through a series of rehearsals, American Brass Chamber San Francisco, CA $18,5oo readings, and evaluation. Music Association, Inc. (media arts) New York, NY Szo, ooo To support the 1997 American Albany Symphony (music) Indian Film Festival and the Orchestra, Inc. To support the commissioning publication of the magazine Albany, NY $30,000 of a brass quintet by composer Indian Cinema Entertainment. (music) Anthony Plog and touring per­ To support performances in formances of the new work schools by a a3-member ensem­ along with other works by the ble, commissioning and perfor­ American Brass Quintet. mance of new works by a multi­ GRANTS AND AWARDS

American Museum of the American Music Theater American Repertory Theatre Moving Image Festival Cambridge, MA $9o, ooo Astoria, NY $25,000 Philadelphia, PA $162,500 (theater) (media arts) (multidisciplinary) To support the development To support the presentation of To support CrossWaves 2, a na­ and production of Peter Pan curated film and video series, tional initiative and festival pro­ Variations, adapted from J.M. an exhibition of the technolo­ ducing new multidisciplinary Barrie’s novel. gies used to create moving im­ work linking music theater with ages, and related educational new technologies, and present­ American Women Composers activities. ing this work to live audiences. Midwest, Inc. Chicago, IL $6,ooo (music) To support the American Women Composers 15th Anniversary Gala Opening Concert.

Americas Society, Inc. New York, NY $32,500 (museum) Grants to To support a touring retrospec­ Organizations tive exhibition of the work of Mexican artist Maria Izquierdo, II with accompanying education Creation & programs. Presentation

Amherst Saxophone Society, Inc. Williamsville, NY $9,000 (music) To support a residency of the Amherst Saxophone Quartet during 1997-98 in western New York.

Anchorage Concert Association, Inc. Anchorage, AK $50,000 (dance) To support a series of dance residency activities with the Paul Taylor Dance Company and Taylor 2.

Malachy Cleary and Kim Awon appeared in Thornton Wilder’s The Rivers Under the Earth, part of the Brown-Forman Classics in Context Festival at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, Kentucky. Photo by Richard Trigg. NEA 1997 ANNUAL REPORT

Arizona Theatre Company Arts Network of Washington Asian family and the changing Tucson, AZ $40,000 State roles of its female members af­ (theater) Olympia, WA $95,000 ter migrating to the United To support the commissioning (local arts agencies) States. and production in Tucson and To support the Rural Arts Tour­ Phoenix of a new play with mu­ ing Initiative that will develop a Available Potential Enterprises, sic, entitled A House Divided by rural arts touring circuit in the Ltd. (No Theatre) Steven Dietz, set against the central-northeastern portion of Northampton, MA Szo, ooo backdrop of the Lincoln-Douglas the state. (theater) debates of 1858. To support the creation and Asia Society production of a new theater Art Awareness, Inc. New York, NY $125,ooo work and the revival and re­ Lexington, NY $15,ooo (museum) staging of two plays from No (visual arts) To support a consortium project Theatre’s repertory. To support artists’ residencies with Tibet House and the Amer­ and exhibitions to take place ican Federation of Arts for the Ballet Arizona during 1997. touring exhibition "Mandala: Phoenix, AZ $7o, ooo The Architecture of Enlight­ (dance) Art in General, Inc. ment;’ with accompanying cata­ To support the production of Grants to New York, NY $20,000 logue and education programs. Day of the Dead, a new ballet Organizations (visual arts) inspired by the Mexican tradi­ To support three site-specific Asian CineVision, Inc. tions associated with the cele­ 12 projects: a group exhibition, an New York, NY $30,000 bration of the same name, to be Creation & artist’s residency, and up to two (media arts) choreographed by Artistic Di­ Presentation street-level window installations. To support the 1997 Asian- rector Michael Uthoff. American International Film Art Institute of Chicago Festival. Ballet Tech Foundation, Inc. Chicago, IL $200,000 New York, NY $90,000 (museum) Atlanta Art Papers, Inc. (dance) To support the traveling exhibi­ Atlanta, GA $20,000 To support the touring of Ballet tion "Art and Archaeology of (visual arts) Tech in the Northeast during Ancient West Mexico," with an To support three special feature the 1997-98 season. accompanying catalogue and sections to be published by At­ education programs. lanta Art Papers: "Artists Col­ Ballet Theatre Foundation, Inc. laborating with Communities;’ (American Ballet Theatre) Art Institute of Chicago "Access to the Arts at the End of New York, NY $15o, ooo (for the Film Center at the the Millenium--an Online (dance) School of the Art Institute of Symposium;’ and "Book Art Af­ To support a performance series Chicago) ter the Print Era." for American Ballet Theatre at Chicago, IL $55,000 City Center in New York, fea­ (media arts) Aunt Lute Foundation turing works commissioned To support Cinema in a Chinese San Francisco, CA $30,000 over the company’s 56-year his­ Sphere: Before and After 1997, a (literature) tory and new ballets created for film exhibition series which will To support publication costs the smaller scale of the theater. examine and compare the cine­ and an author’s tour for a first mas of Hong Kong, Taiwan, novel by Ginu Kamani, a work mainland China, and the North tracing the struggles of a South American Chinese diaspora. GRANTS AND AWARDS

Bard College Gotanda’s new play about the full-length scripts for develop­ Annandale-Hudson, NY famous Siamese twins, Chang ment with the playwright, in­ $15,000 and Eng Bunker. cluding staged readings. (literature) To support publication costs Berkeley Symphony Orchestra Boston Ballet, Inc. and related expenses, including Berkeley, CA $15,ooo Boston, MA $75,000 authors’ fees, for two theme is­ (music) (dance) sues of Conjunctions. To support the Berkeley Sym­ To support a revival of the phony Orchestra’s Composers company’s 199o production of Bay Area Dance Series Project and the expansion of its Swan Lake, the first American- Oakland, CA $z5,ooo main performance component Soviet collaboration on a classi­ (dance) titled "Under Construction;’ cal ballet. To support the commissioning doubling the number of new of new ballets by up to six works performed and taped for Boston Camerata, Inc. emerging choreographers for the project composers. Boston, MA $20,000 second annual Pas de Si&le-­ (music) Dancing Towards the Millen­ Berks Filmmakers, Inc. To support a concert program nium, a showcase for new ballet Reading, PA $12,5oo of Shaker hymns and chants for choreographers. (media arts) audiences in Boston, New York, To support the exhibition of in­ and New England, along with an Grants to Bemis Center for dependent film and video in educational outreach component Organizations Contemporary Arts 1997-98. for high school students. Omaha, NE $20,000 13 (visual arts) BOA Editions, Ltd. Boston Early Music Festival, Inc. Creation & To support stipends for approx­ Rochester, NY $4o, ooo Cambridge, MA $35,000 Presentation imately twelve American artists (literature) (opera) to participate in three- to six- To support the editing, publish­ To support artists’ fees and re­ month residencies at the Bemis ing, and promotion of volumes lated costs for the production of Center in Omaha. of poetry in the Other Heart­ Orfeo by Luigi Rossi during the beats series. Boston Early Music Festival, Berkeley Art Center with additional performances Association Boise State University celebrating music of the Italian Berkeley, CA $15,ooo Boise, ID ¢5,000 and French Baroque. (visual arts) (music) To support the creation, exhibi­ To support concerts of the Boston Lyric Opera Company tion, and accompanying cata­ Boise Chamber Music Series Boston, MA $40,000 logue of an installation by and related educational services (opera) Berkeley artist Mildred Howard during 1997-98. To support expenses for the in celebration of the Center’s production of The Ballad of 3oth anniversary. Borderlands Theater Teatro Baby Doe by Douglas Moore Fronterizo, Inc. during 1997-98. Berkeley Repertory Theatre Tucson, AZ $6,000 Berkeley, CA $1oo, ooo (theater) (theater) To support the eighth Border To support the development Playwrights Project, a national and production of Philip Kan and international search for NEA 1997 ANNUAL REPORT

Brandywine Graphic Brooklyn Academy of California E.A.R. Unit Workshop, Inc. Music, Inc. Foundation Philadelphia, PA $35,000 Brooklyn, NY $2oo, ooo Los Angeles, CA $15,ooo (visual arts) (presenting) (music) To support Brandywine’s Asian To support the 1997 Next Wave To support the creation of new Artists Initiative which includes Festival. works for chamber ensemble in the exhibition "Japanese and collaboration with African- Japanese American Contempo­ Brooklyn Historical Society American composer-performer rary Artists’ Prints," Japanese Brooklyn, NY $50,000 George Lewis, multimedia artist artists’ printmaking residencies, (museum) Mlison Knowles, and African- an exhibition catalogue, and ed­ To support the exhibition "Mul­ American performance artist ucational programs. tiple Visions, Multiple Voices," Pamela E. featuring commissioned works Bronx Arts Ensemble, Inc. by contemporary artists includ­ California State University, Bronx, NY $18,ooo ing a collective. Sacramento Trust Foundation (music) Sacramento, CA $15,ooo To support concerts at new Brooklyn Institute of Arts and (music) sites--the New York Botanical Sciences To support the presentation of Garden and the Hostos Center Brooklyn, NY ¢200,000 the 2oth annual Festival of New Grants to for the Arts and Culture in the (museum) American Music. Organizations Bronx--featuring the world To support the second phase of premiere of a new work, a new the Brooklyn Museum’s rein­ Canton Symphony Orchestra 14 children’s concert series, and a stallation of its Ancient Egypt­ Association Creation & special concert. ian art collection, with accom­ Canton, OH $7,500 Presentation panying education programs. (music) Bronx Council on the Arts, Inc. To support a one-week resi­ Bronx, NY $20,000 Brown University dency by the music ensemble (visual arts) Providence, RI $20,000 Tales & Scales with the Canton To support Longwood Arts Pro­ (musical theater) Symphony Orchestra. ject’s Studio Fellowship Pro­ To support, at the University’s gram in 1997-98, which will " Rites and Reasons Theatre, the Capital Concerts, Inc. provide up to three artists with production of Ophelia’s Cotil­ Washington, DC $30,000 studio space and a stipend to lion, a new musical drama by (media arts) produce new work over the Elmo Terry-Morgan and Clarice To support the 1997 national course of one year. LaVerne Thompson, which television broadcasts of"A Na­ takes place during the turn of tional Memorial Day Concert" Bronx Museum of the Arts the century in the world of and "A Capital Fourth;’ two pa­ Bronx, NY $45,000 Philadelphia’s African-Ameri­ triotic holiday concerts at the (museum) can aristocracy. U.S. Capitol, which are aired To support an exhibition of the live. work of Asian-American artist Cabin Creek Center for Work Tomie Arai, with accompanying and Environmental Studies, Inc. Capp Street Project catalogue and education pro­ New York, NY $50,000 San Francisco, CA $50,000 grams. (media arts) (visual arts) To support post-production To support the residencies and costs for Woodstock 1994: The resulting exhibitions of up to Film, a feature-length documen­ five artists during 1997-98. tary film by Barbara Kopple. GRANTS AND AWARDS

Caribbean Dance Company, Inc. Center for Exploratory and work of non-fiction, Common St. Croix, VI $z5,ooo Perceptual Art Ground, by playwright Kevin (dance) Buffalo, NY $40,000 Heelan. To support the research, re­ (visual arts) hearsal, and staging of two new To support Uncommon Traits: Centro Cultural de la Raza, Inc. pieces for the company’s reper­ Re/Locating Asia, a project that San Diego, CA $45,000 tory: "Big Drum Dance" from explores the critical and cul­ (multidisciplinary) Carriacou in the Grenadines, tural boundaries of Asian- To support Ambientaciones Y and an exploration of the ori­ American and Asian-Canadian Tiempo, a multidisciplinary gins of St. Croix’s "Crucian experiences. project that will present existing Quadrille." and commissioned work by vi­ Center for Land Use sual, performing, and interdis­ Carnegie Hall Corporation Interpretation ciplinary artists. New York, NY $z6o, ooo Culver City, CA $20,000 (music) (visual arts) Charlin Jazz Society, Inc. To support production costs of To support an artist-in-residence Washington, DC $11,ooo the American Project, a com­ and exhibition program in (music) prehensive presenting program Wendover, on the Nevada and To support International E/ling­ designed to showcase distin­ Utah border, that reflects na­ ton, a program series focusing guished American music and tional land use issues. on compositions Duke Elling­ Grants to musicians. ton wrote in tribute to the Organizations Center for Puppetry Arts, Inc. many countries he visited Carnegie Institute Atlanta, GA $125,ooo throughout his career. 15 Pittsburgh, PA $40,000 (theater) Creation & (museum) To support performance, edu­ Chicago Children’s Theatre, Inc. Presentation To support the exhibition cation, and museum activities Chicago, IL Szo, ooo "Pittsburgh Revealed: Pho­ associated with presentations of (theater) tographs Since 185o;’ with ac­ Aladdin and The Body Detective: To support the production and companying catalogue and edu­ An Internal Investigation. presentation of The Magically cation programs at the Marvelous, Wonderfully Wacky, Carnegie Museum of Art. Center Stage Associates, Inc. Seriously Silly Center Ring Baltimore, MD $1oo, ooo Circus, written and directed by Carter Family Puppet Theater (theater) Steve Smith. Seattle, WA $1o, ooo To support a production of Lor­ (theater) raine Hansberry’s Les Blancs, di­ Chicago New Art Association To support the creation and rected by Center Stage Associate Chicago, IL $22,500 presentation of the Indian epic, Artist Marion Isaac McClinton (visual arts) The Ramayana, to be per­ in collaboration with composer To support the exhibition re­ formed by actors and puppets. Max Roach and choreographer view section of the NewArt Dianne Mclntyre. Examiner, a Chicago-based, na­ Celebrity Series of Boston, Inc. tionally distributed periodical. Boston, MA $45,o00 Center Theatre Group of Los (music) Angeles (Mark Taper Forum) Childsplay, Inc. To support CityMusic, a city­ Los Angeles, CA $5o, ooo Tempe, AZ $20,000 wide arts initiative designed to (theater) (theater) broaden interest in the perform­ To support the development of To support the production of ing arts through commissions, an adaptation of I. Anthony Still Life with Iris by playwright performances, and workshops. Lukas’ Pulitzer Prize-winning Steven Dietz. Grants to Organizations

16 Creation & Cincinnati Symphony MoNca Bell and John Preston perform in the Alabama Shakespeare Festival’s touring Presentation Orchestra production of The Taming of the Shrew. Photo by ASF/Scarsbrook. Cincinnati, OH $70,000 (music) Circus Arts Foundation of City Parks Foundation To support concerts featuring Missouri (Circus Flora) New York, NY $1o, ooo orchestral musicians as soloists, St. Louis, MO $15,ooo (dance) and chamber music concerts by (theater) To support Central Park Sum­ ensembles comprised of orches­ To support Circus Flora’s cre­ merstage’s 1997 dance series, tral musicians. ation and presentation of a which will include the commis­ one-ring theater circus based sioning of a new work as well as Cine Accion, Inc. on the life and works of Ameri­ performances by contemporary San Francisco, CA $15,ooo can artist Alexander Calder. and emerging dance companies. (media arts) To support the 1998 presenta­ City Lit Theatre Company Cityfolk tion of the annual Festival Cine Chicago, IL $25,000 Dayton, OH $22,000 Latino. (theater) (dance) To support a collaborative de­ To support the creation of a Circuit Network velopment and presentation, collaborative work by Rhythm San Francisco, CA $15,ooo working with local high school in Shoes, Keith Terry, and (multidisciplinary) students, of an original theater- Crosspulse which will include To support the creation of an jazz performance piece based extensive residency and other original multimedia work by on John Clellon Holmes’s novel, educational outreach activities. Guillermo Gomez-Pena and The Horn. Roberto Sifuentes. GRANTS AND AWARDS

College of Wooster Composers Conference and Contemporary Arts Wooste5 OH $18,ooo Chamber Music Center, Inc. Association of Houston (museum) Wellesley, MA $1o, ooo (Contemporary Arts I~luseum) To support a traveling exhibi­ (music) Houston, TX $50,000 tion of the work of contempo­ To support costs associated (museum) rary artist Hung Liu, with an with the 53rd Annual Com­ To support an exhibition of the accompanying catalogue. posers Conference in 1997. work of American artist James Turrell, with an accompanying Colorado Dance Festival, Inc. Concerned Citizens for catalogue and education pro­ Boulder, CO $40,000 Humanity, Ltd. grams. (dance) Hartford, CT $75,000 To support Let’s Dance: The (design) Contemporary Dance Americas!, a festival featuring To support the creation of Theater, Inc. performances, residencies, lec­ STOPAIDS, a statewide design Cincinnati, OH $12,000 ture-demonstrations, panel dis­ project tailored to educate at- (dance) cussions, classes, workshops, risk youth and persons with To support residencies and per­ and other educational outreach hearing disabilities on the prob­ formances by up to four con­ activities. lem of HIV/AIDS. temporary dance companies.

Columbia College Concert Artists Guild, Inc. Copper Canyon Press Grants to Chicago, IL $40,000 New York, NY $18,000 Port Townsend, WA $40,000 Organizations (dance) (music) (literature) To support some of the Dance To support artists’ fees, staff To support publication costs, 17 Center’s 1997-98 presentations salaries, and production costs royalties, and related expenses Creation & including Dance Africa/Chicago for national concert presenta­ for up to four volumes of po­ Presentation 1997: Celebrate Africa/Celebrate tions tied to the Guild’s Artists- etry. Chicago; the Festival of Solo in-Radio Residencies and Man­ Artists; and the Festival of Eu­ agement Program. Corcoran Gallery of Art, ropean Premieres. Trustees of the Contemporary Art for San Washington, DC $50,000 Columbus Symphony Antonio (Blue Star Art Space) (museum) Orchestra, Inc. San Antonio, TX $20,000 To support a traveling exhibi­ Columbus, OH $75,000 (visual arts) tion of portraits by American (music) To support Texas Dialogues, a artist Joshua Johnston, with ac­ To support Project Harmony, a series of exchange exhibitions companying education pro­ series of orchestral concerts fea­ between the Blue Star Art Space grams. turing ethnically diverse artists, in San Antonio and the Con­ composers, and themes. temporary Art Center in Fort Cornerstone Theater Company Worth, DiverseWorks in Hous­ Santa Monica, CA $7o, ooo Community Arts Project, Inc. ton, and Bridge Center for Con­ (theater) Columbus, OH $1o, ooo temporary Art in E1 Paso. To support the commissioning (music) of playwright Chay Yew to cre­ To support artists’ fees and ex­ ate a theater work to be pro­ penses associated with jazz pre­ duced at the Pacific Asia Mu­ sentations at the Martin Luther seum in collaboration with King, Jr. Performing and Cul­ Cornerstone, guest artists, and tural Arts Complex during members of the Los Angeles 1997-98. Chinese-American community. NEA 1997 ANNUAL REPORT

Coro de Ninos de San Juan, Inc. Cunningham Dance Dale Warland Singers San Juan, PR $20,000 Foundation, Inc. Minneapolis, MN $2o, ooo (music) New York, NY 5200,000 (music) To support Christmas concerts (dance) To support American Voices, a at the Performing Arts Center To support the creation and project including world pre­ Festival Hall in San luan and a tour of two new works by Artis­ mieres of new choral works by local tour to rural areas in tic Director Merce Cunning­ American composers and edu­ Puerto Rico. ham for the Merce Cunning­ cational and outreach activities. ham Dance Company. Coterie, Inc. Dance Continuum, Inc. (Susan Kansas City, MO 514,ooo Curbstone Press Marshall & Company) (theater) Willimantic, CT 540,000 New York, NY 535,000 To support Community of Fam­ (literature) (dance) ilies, a series of three plays for To support Living Literature To support the creation of Pyg­ Coterie Theater’s diverse family Face to Face: Latino and Latin malion Unveiled by Susan Mar­ audience, followed by post-per­ American Literature for M1 shall, a dance work in three formance community dia­ Ages, a literary publishing and acts--each act exploring a dif­ logues. touring project. ferent perspective of the Pyg­ malion fable. Grants to Court Theatre Fund Cuyahoga Community College Organizations Chicago, IL 540,000 Cleveland, OH 530,000 Dance Theater Foundation (theater) (dance) (Alvin Ailey American Dance 18 To support the presentation of To support a collaboration with Theater) Creation & The Iphigenia Cycle, a new DANCECleveland in which New York, NY 515o, ooo Presentation adaptation of two classic contemporary dance companies (dance) tragedies of Euripides, trans­ will be presented during To support costs associated lated by Nicholas Rudall and di­ 1998-99. with the Alvin Ailey American rected by Joanne Akalaitis. Dance Theater’s 1998 United D.C. Wheel Productions, Inc. States tour. Creative Time, Inc. (Dance Place) New York, NY 550,000 Washington, DC 518,ooo Dance Theater Workshop, Inc. (visual arts) (dance) New York, NY 51oo, ooo To support a series of site- To support dance performances (presenting) specific installations by Shimon and residencies with guest To support the multidiscipli­ Attie which explore New York’s artists for Dance Place. nary residency and communi­ immigration history. cations project Building Cul­ Da Camera Society of Texas tural Community: Artists, Crossroads, Inc. Houston, TX 525,000 Cultural Organizers and the New Brunswick, NJ 515o, ooo (music) Public’s Trust, during the (theater) To support the creation and 1997-98 National Performance To support the production and presentation of three original Network season. touring expenses of The Darker concert programs for the Da Face of the Earth, by Rita Dove Camera Society’s series Music Dance Theater Workshop, Inc. in collaboration with choreog­ and the Literary Imagination, (as fiscal agent for National rapher Diane Mclntyre and which links chamber music Dance Performance Network) composer Olu Dara. with literature in dramatic and New York, NY 51oo, ooo theatrical settings. (presenting) To support the Community Ani­ mation Project, designed to pro­ GRANTS AND AWARDS

mote public interest in the per­ Deep EIlum Theatre Group preparation, and performance, forming arts through the cre­ (Undermain Theatre) working with community re­ ation and extended presentation Dallas, TX $1o, ooo sources including local schools of innovative work, interactive (theater) and colleges. residencies, and special events. To support the creation and production of the second play Detroit Symphony Orchestra Dancing in the Street, Inc. in the Texas Series, to be devel­ Hall, Inc. New York, NY $z8,ooo oped from oral histories gath­ Detroit, MI $1oo, ooo (dance) ered from residents throughout (music) To support the seventh annual Texas and from contributions To support Detroit Symphony Dances for Wave Hill, a three- by ensemble members. Orchestra Hall’s African- week series of site-specific per­ American Composers Residency formances, commissions, and Delaware Symphony and National Symposium dur­ workshops presented at the Association ing 1997-98. Bronx’s Wave Hill, one of Amer­ Wilmington, DE $1o, ooo ica’s foremost public gardens. (music) Discalced, Inc. (Mark Morris To support concerts in largely Dance Group) Danspace Project, Inc. rural Kent and Sussex counties New York, NY $15o, ooo New York, NY $2o, ooo during 1997-98. (dance) (dance) To support Mark Morris’ Grants to To support Dans/City, a pro­ Dell’Arte, Inc. conception, choreography, and Organizations gram of presentation and sup­ Blue Lake, CA $22,000 direction of Jean-Philippe port for New York-based chore­ (theater) Rameau’s 1745 opera Platee, 19 ographers, which includes To support the creation, presen­ which is considered to be a pre­ Creation & subsidized rehearsal space and tation, and regional tour of cursor to much of classical mu­ Presentation technical support staff, and two original works for Project sic’s comic opera. 12-13 weeks of performances. REACH: The Weave, created in collaboration with the Karuk District Curators, Inc. Dayton Contemporary Dance tribe, and a children’s/family Washington, DC $50,000 Guild, Inc. (Dayton theater work, Out of the Frying (presenting) Contemporary Dance Pan. To support the 1997 Jazz Arts Company) Festival including the creation Dayton, OH $25,000 Des Moines Children’s of new works and the use of a (dance) Choruses, Inc. range of indoor and outdoor To support the reconstruction Des Moines, IA $25, ooo sites for workshops, educa­ of works by African-American (music) tional programs, and perfor­ choreographers Talley Beatty, To support the Des Moines mances. Donald McKayle, and Eleo Po- International Children’s Choral mare during 1997-98. Festival and Workshop. Djerassi Foundation Woodside, CA $20,000 Dayton Philharmonic Des Moines Symphony (multidisciplinary) Orchestra Association Association To support direct costs for one- Dayton, OH $26,000 Des Moines, IA $12,ooo month residencies for up to 15 (music) (music) artists in 1997. To support presentation of up To support the co-commission­ to three Classical Connections ing with the Indianapolis Sym­ concerts in 1997-98, including phony of a concerto for orches­ special educational programs tra and trio by David Ott, its for adult audiences. NEA 1997 ANNUAL REPORT

Double Edge Theatre Earplay El Teatro de la Esperanza Productions, Inc. San Francisco, CA $5,000 San Francisco, CA $22,500 Ashfield, MA $~o, ooo (music) (theater) (theater) To support a new music concert To support artists’ fees, re­ To support the development series performed by Earplay at hearsal space, and promotional and presentation of"The the Center for the Arts at Yerba costs for a tour of Basement Crowning Song" which includes Buena Gardens in San Fran­ Refugees and Deporting the Di­ Keter, the third segment of Song cisco during 1997-98. vas to rural areas of the South­ Trilogy, in conjunction with west and Midwest. gatherings, etudes, and presen­ Earshot Jazz Society of Seattle tations of documentary materi­ Seattle, WA $15,ooo En Foco, Inc. als from cultural exchanges. (music) Bronx, NY $22,000 To support the 1997 Earshot (visual arts) DOVA, Inc. (Doug Varone Jazz Festival, a series of con­ To support the publication and Dance Company) certs, residencies, and commu­ national distribution of Nueva New York, NY $35,ooo nity events. Luz, a bilingual photographic (dance) journal. To support the creation and East Tennessee Community production of a new work by Design Center, Inc. En Garde Arts, Inc. Grants to choreographer Doug Varone, as Knoxville, TN $5o, ooo New York, NY $1o, ooo Organizations well as the presentation of (design) (theater) repertory works. To support FUTURESCAPES, a To support the production of a 20 project that brings design pro­ new site-specific work, written Creation & Drama League of New York, Inc. fessionals to underserved areas by Naomi Iizuka and directed Presentation New York, NY $5,000 exploring the art of alternative by Anne Hamburger, to take (theater) design and development prac­ place on a pier on the Hudson To support costs associated tices. River in New York City. with the summer directing and fall production programs of the Educational Broadcasting Ensemble Theatre Directors Project. Corporation (WNET) Houston, TX $30,000 New York, NY $117,335 (theater) Early Music Foundation, Inc. (media arts) To support the commission and New York, NY $14,ooo To support the post-production production of a play with mu­ (opera) costs of a documentary film by sic, Distant Voices, created from To support artists’ fees and re­ Fred Wiseman about the mean­ the researched and remembered lated costs for a tour and New ing of community as it relates lives of the people buried in York performances of Herod to the town of Belfast, Maine. College Memorial Park in and the Innocents and The Play Houston. of Mary Magdalene in 1997-98. El Paso Symphony Orchestra Association ETA Creative Arts Foundation Early Music Guild of Seattle El Paso, TX $1o, ooo Chicago, IL $40,000 Seattle, WA $7,750 (music) (music) (music) To support musicians’ salaries To support the presentation of To support artists’ fees for per­ for the 1997-98 Classical Sub­ performances by female per­ formances of Handel’s scription Series. formers who have made a con­ Carmelite Vespers, one of the composer’s early works. GRANTS AND AWARDS tribution to the advancement of Experimental Television Film Arts Foundation the African musical heritage, Center, Ltd. (as fiscal agent for Light/Saraf during the eighth annual Newark Valley, NY $12,5oo Films) African Festival of the Arts. (media arts) San Francisco, CA 524,000 To support a media artists’ resi­ (media arts) ETV Endowment of South dency program, including access To support New Artists/New Carolina, Inc. to an image processing system. Visions, which will provide 300 Spartanburg, SC $50,000 new film and video artists with (media arts) Fabric Workshop, Inc. the training, tools, and mentor­ To support the 1997-98 produc­ Philadelphia, PA 535,000 ing opportunities they need to tion of the nationally-broadcast (museum) create their first film or video. radio series Marian McPart­ To support an exhibition of land’s Piano Jazz. work drawn from the Fabric Film Society of Lincoln Workshop’s permanent collec­ Center, Inc. Eugene O’Neill blemorial tion, with an accompanying New York, NY $60,000 Theater Center, Inc. catalogue and education pro­ (media arts) Waterford, CT 550,000 grams. To support three film exhibition (theater) series examining the cinematic To support the 1997 New Works Facets Multi-Media Inc. achievements of Argentina and for Contemporary Theater pro­ Chicago, IL $55,000 Hungary, as well as the films of Grants to ject, which includes the devel­ (media arts) director G.W. Pabst. Organizations opment of both musicals and To support the 1997 Chicago In­ non-musical plays. ternational Children’s Film Fes­ Film/Video Arts, Inc. 21 tival. New York, NY $50,000 Creation & Eugene Symphony (media arts) Presentation Association, Inc. Fiji Theater Company, Inc. To support artists’ residencies Eugene, OR 51o, ooo New York, NY $50,000 and workshops for emerging (music) (theater) and established media artists to To support orchestra musicians’ To support the creation and develop their skills in working salaries, guest artists’ and con­ premiere of a new work by Ping with digital technologies. ductors’ fees, and related ex­ Chong, employing both live penses for performance of con­ performers and puppets, and Fine Arts Work Center in certs in the Symphonic based on Lafcadio Hearn’s Provincetown, Inc. Subscription Series during translations of Iapanese ghost Provincetown, MA $15,ooo 1997-98. stories, Kwaidan: Stories and (multidisciplinary) Studies of Strange Things. To support the Residency Fel­ Evansville Philharmonic lowship Project for Emerging Orchestral Corp. Film Arts Foundation Writers and Artists--a seven- Evansville, IN 59,000 San Francisco, CA $65,000 month residency which pro­ (music) (media arts) vides housing, studios, and To support a special gospel mu­ To support the production of a monthly stipends to young sic concert, featuring an African- documentary film by Mlie Light artists and writers in the early American chorus and a 200­ and Irving Saraf about the stages of their careers. member community choir imaginative world of seven peo­ comprised of local church choirs ple with physical disabilities. and soloists, in February 1998. NEA 1997 ANNUAL REPORT

First Stage Milwaukee, Inc. Walker to work with high be directed by artistic director Milwaukee, WI ‘$20,000 school youth in the develop­ Tandy Beal with master acro­ (theater) ment of exhibitions and the batic trainer Lu Yi. To support the development publication of a catalogue. and production of a new play G.A.L.A., Inc. (GALA Hispanic for young audiences by Pulitzer Foundation for Dance Theater) Prize-winning playwright, Promotion, Inc. (Bill T. Washington, DC ‘$32,500 Robert Schenkkan. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Co.) (theater) New York, NY ,$50,000 To support the production of Fisk University (dance) Los Hermanos Queridos (Dear Nashville, TN ‘$55,000 To support the creation and Brothers), by Argentine play­ (museum) development of We Set Out wright Carlos Gorostiza, in To support the exhibition Early... Visibility Was Poor, an Spanish, with an original Eng­ "W.E.B. DuBois, Charles S. evening-length work by Bill T. lish language translation and Johnson, and the New Negro Jones which will premiere at adaptation. Arts Movement," with accom­ the John F. Kennedy Center for panying catalogue and educa­ the Performing Arts. Gainesville Friends of Jazz, Inc. tion programs at the Aaron Gainesville, FL ‘$5,000 Douglas Gallery. Free Street Programs, Inc. (music) Grants to Chicago, IL ‘$20,000 To support the Jazz at the Organizations Florida Orchestra, Inc. (theater) Thomas monthly concerts, in­ Tampa, FL ‘$40,000 To support TeenStreet, a jobs cluding the Women in Jazz, 22 (music) program offered to low-income, Women’s History Month, Black Creation & To support the month-long inner-city teenagers involving History Month, Jazz Around Presentation Bay-thoven Festival of music creative writing and theater Town, and Jazz in the Schools performances in venues performance. presentations. throughout the Tampa Bay area in February 1998. Friends of the North Dakota Garth Fagan Dance, Inc. Museum of Art Rochester, NY ‘$70,000 Flynn Theatre for the Grand Forks, ND $35,000 (dance) Performing Arts, Ltd. (museum) To support the creation of a new Burlington, VT ‘$50,000 To support an exhibition of the work which involves a collabo­ (presenting) work of American artists ration with live jazz, and the re­ To support the z997-98 Cre­ Hillary Leone and Jennifer staging of up to three works ation and Community Project, Macdonald, with an accompa­ from the company’s repertoire. a series of commissions, perfor­ nying catalogue and education mances, and community-based programs. Genesee Valley Arts residencies, as well as the Dis­ Foundation, Inc. (GeVa cover lazz Festival and the Sto­ Friends of Olympia Station, Inc. Theatre) rytelling Festival. (New Pickle Family Circus) Rochester, NY ‘$20,000 Santa Cruz, CA $50,000 (theater) Forum for Contemporary Art (theater) To support the production of St. Louis, MO ,$15,ooo To support the creation and Pierre Corneille’s The Illusion as (visual arts) presentation of Circus Kaleido­ adapted by Tony Kushner, in To support residencies by artists scope, a group of circus works collaboration with the Interna­ Philomena Williamson, Danny from the New Pickle Circus to tional Museum of Photography Tisdale, and Kara Elizabeth and Film of the George East- man House. GRANTS AND AWARDS

Grants to Organizations

23 Creation & Presentation

Bonnie Rich and spirits of her departed relatives celebrate the Day of the Dead at the conclusion of Dias de Muertos, produced by Ballet Arizona in Phoenix. Photo by Tim Fuller.

George Coates Performance Goodspeed Opera House Grass Roots Art and Wo rks Foundation, Inc. Community Efforts San Francisco, CA $25,000 East Haddam, CT $50,000 Hardwick, VT SZO, OOO (theater) (musical theater) (visual arts) To support the development To support the creation and To support the publication 2o and production of 2o/2o Blake, presentation of up to four new Years of G.R.A.C.E -- An Inside a live, multimedia theater piece musicals as part of the New View, a collection of work and devoted to the work of the early Musical Development Program. biographies of self-taught artists romantic poet and artist in northern rural Vermont. William Blake. Gotham Dance, Inc. (Bebe Miller Company) Graywolf Press New York, NY $20,000 St. Paul, MN $90,000 (dance) (literature) To support the performance To support publication costs and development of new work and related expenses, including and national touring for the royalty payments, for volumes Bebe Miller Dance Company. of creative nonfiction. NEA 1997 ANNUAL REPORT

Greater Washington Guthrie Theater Foundation Heart of the Beast Theatre Educational Minneapolis, MN $z25,ooo Minneapolis, MN $35,ooo Telecommunications (theater) (theater) Association, Inc. (WETA) To support a production of Black To support the development and Arlington, VA Szoo, ooo No More, adapted by Syl Jones production of a new experimen­ (media arts) from George S. Schuyler’s novel. tal theater piece which will blend To support "The Kennedy Cen­ music, ritual, puppetry, and po­ ter Presents;’ two performing Handel and Haydn Society etry into an artistic ceremony. arts television specials to be na­ Boston, MA $40,000 tionally broadcast in 1997-98. (music) Helena Presents To support artists’ fees and Helena, MT $50,000 Guadalupe Cultural Arts related costs for the Symphony (presenting) Center Series in 1997-98. To support the Cultural San Antonio, TX $z45,ooo Crossings series, including per­ (multidisciplinary) Hartford Stage Company formances, residencies, and To support the presentation of Hartford, CT $90,000 teacher-training and school Gateways: New Creative Collab­ (theater) activities. orations with Mexico, a series of To support the production of a arts events which will involve new adaptation, commissioned Henry Gallery Association, Inc. Grants to U.S. Latino and Mexican bor­ from the playwright Jose Seattle, WA $50,000 Organizations derlands visual artists, writers, Rivera, of Calderon’s seldom- (museum) musicians, dancers, filmmakers, produced 17th century master­ To support an exhibition of 24 dramatists, and actors; and to piece of the Spanish Golden work by contemporary Ameri­ Creation & support a staff position for the Age, Life Is A Dream. can artists Tony Oursler, Inigo Presentation National Association of Latino Manglano-Ovalle, and lennifer Arts and Culture. Harvestworks, Inc. Steinkamp, and education pro­ New York, NY $37,500 grams at the University of Guild Complex (media arts) Washington’s Henry Gallery. Chicago, IL $9,o15 To support three artists’ resi­ (literature) dencies, the commission of four Hiddenlte Center, Inc. To support Poets Across the Gen­ new works, and increased access Hiddenite, NC $1oo, ooo erations, a series of readings fea­ for artists to sophisticated pro­ (local arts agencies) turing writers of three genera­ duction equipment. To support artists’ fees and the tions on each program. development of a computer Headlands Center for the Arts network for the Southern Cir­ Guild Complex Sausalito, CA $2o, ooo cuits Consortium. (as fiscal agent for Tia Chua (multidisciplinary) Press) To support residencies for one Honolulu Theatre for Youth Chicago, IL $1o, ooo invited national artist and up to Honolulu, HI $40,000 (literature) eight artists from Ohio and/or (theater) To support production costs North Carolina, sponsored in To support the commissioning and related expenses for up to collaboration with the Ohio and development of up to two four books of poetry. and North Carolina state arts new plays and the presentation agencies during 1997-98. of one of the plays through Hothouse, the Center for New Play Development program. GRANTS AND AWARDS

Hostos Community College Illusion Theater and School, Inc. sioning, producing, and touring Advisory Council Minneapolis, MN $zl,ooo a play based on the real-life Bronx, NY $~8,ooo (theater) story of Frances Slocum. (music) To support the annual Fresh Ink To support a series of six Latin series of new works and works­ Indiana State Symphony jazz concerts at the Hostos Cen­ in-progress. Society, Inc. ter in x997-98. Indianapolis, IN $45,000 Imago, The Theatre Mask (music) Hostos Community College Ensemble To support the Indianapolis Advisory Council Portland, OR $1o, ooo Symphony’s American Music (for the Latin American (theater) Festival in June 1998 of works Writers Institute) To support the creation and pre­ by American composers, in­ Bronx, NY $20,000 sentation of a new theater work cluding works originally com­ (literature) exploring a surrealistic view of posed for film and live theater. To support the LibroFest Latino metaphor, to premiere in Port­ BookFest and the U.S. Latino Po­ land, Oregon in the fall of 1997. Installation Gallery etry Festival in the South Bronx. San Diego, CA $20,000 Independent Eye, Ltd. (visual arts) House Foundation for the Arts, Philadelphia, PA $z4,5oo To support the development Inc. (Meredith Monk/The (theater) and realization of new works in Grants to House) To support expansion and en­ public spaces by four American Organizations New York, NY $55,000 hancement of the high school artists: Vito Acconci, Judith (dance) touring repertory which will in­ Barry, Gary Simmons, and Nari 25 To support the creation, devel­ clude presenting A Friend from Ward. Creation & opment, production, and tour High School and Dividing Lines Presentation of The Grandmother Project, a throughout the Mid-Atlantic, Institute for Spanish Arts new work by Meredith Monk. and creating a new work, (Maria Benitez Teatro Frankenstein. Flamenco) Howard County Poetry and Santa Fe, NM $25,000 Literature Society, Inc. Independent Media Artists of (dance) Columbia, MD $20,000 Georgia, Etc., Inc. To support the self-produced (literature) Atlanta, GA $50,000 and touring performances of El To support a residency and me­ (media arts) Amor Brujo, choreographed by dia project featuring nationally To support the scripting and Maria Benitez for Maria Benitez known and regional writers. pre-production costs of the Teatro Flamenco. documentary feature film Hubbard Street Dance Chicago BlackSouth: The Life Journey of Inta, Inc. (Eiko & Koma) Chicago, IL $70,000 Zora Neale Hurston, by film­ New York, NY $35,000 (dance) makers Kristy Andersen and (dance) To support salary costs for Julie Dash. To support a new dance work, dancers and space rental for re­ River, accompanied by the Kro­ hearsal time in order to maintain Indiana Repertory Theatre, Inc. nos Quartet. the active repertoire, revive older Indianapolis, IN $40,000 pieces, and create new works. (theater) To support the consortium re­ quest with Mad River Theater Works for the costs of commis­ NEA 1997 ANNUAL REPORT

International Association of work by photographer Abelardo Jazz Institute of Chicago, Inc. Jazz Educators Morell, with an accompanying Chicago, IL $6,000 Manhattan, KS $40,000 catalogue and education pro­ (music) (music) grams. To support musicians’ fees for To support artists’ fees and pro­ the a997 Chicago Jazz Festival. duction expenses for the pre­ Jacksonville Symphony sentation of internationally Association Jazz Tap Ensemble prominent jazz artists at the Jacksonville, FL $35,000 Los Angeles, CA $5o, ooo 1998 International Association (music) (dance) of Jazz Educators Conference To support commissioning and To support the assembly of a and Music Festival. performances of an orchestral touring version of Interplay, work by Richard Danielpour for created for the company by tap International Center of symphony orchestra, mezzo so­ master Jimmy Slyde, as well as Photography prano, and baritone. works by company members. New York, NY $1oo, ooo (museum) Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Jewish Film Festival To support a traveling exhibition Inc. San Francisco, CA $15,ooo of the work of American pho­ Lee, MA $85,ooo (media arts) tographer Weegee, with accom­ (dance) To support the 1997 annual Jew­ Grants to panying education programs. To support the New England ish Film Festival. Organizations Dance Project, a consortium of International Sculpture four presenting organizations, Jewish Museum 26 Center, Inc. which will encourage the devel­ New York, NY $75,000 Creation & Washington, DC $20,000 opment and performances of (museum) Presentation (visual arts) up to four artists’ projects. To support an exhibition of the To support Sculpture at the End work of American artist Ben of the zoth Century, a project for Japan Society, Inc. Shahn, with an accompanying Sculpture magazine that includes New York, NY $60,000 catalogue and education pro­ a series of articles surveying (presenting) grams. contemporary sculptors and a To support the Japanese The­ series of commissioned projects. atre in the World project, a ma­ Joe Goode Performance Group jor part of the celebration of San Francisco, CA $25,000 Interreligious Council of the Society’s 9oth anniversary. (musical theater) Central New York To support the creation of a Syracuse, NY $37,500 Jazz in the City new contemporary musical- (multidisciplinary) San Francisco, CA $1oo, ooo dance theater work in collabo­ To support the Southeast Asian (music) ration with composer-lyricist Center’s public presentations To support artists’ fees, public­ Robin Holcomb. and workshops of a wide range ity, and marketing costs for the of culturally based art forms 1997 San Francisco Jazz Festival. John F. Kennedy Center for the taught by elders to refugee Performing Arts youth and the community. Jazz in Flight Washington, DC $98,500 Oakland, CA $1o, ooo (dance) Isabella Stewart Gardner (music) To support a dance series dur­ Museum, Inc. To support the eighth annual ing the a997-98 season that cel­ Boston, MA $40,000 Eddie Moore Festival in the ebrates the contributions made (museum) summer of 1997. by African-American dancers To support an artist’s residency and choreographers to Ameri­ and touring exhibition of new can modern dance and ballet. GRANTS AND AWARDS

Johns Hopkins University works and the ongoing WIP Katonah Museum of Art, Inc. Baltimore, MD $50,000 ( Wednesdays-in-Performance, Katonah, NY $20,000 (media arts) Works-in-Progress) series. (museum) To support the production and To support a traveling exhibi­ national radio broadcast of the Juneau Jazz & Classics tion of the work of artist Pavel Baltimore Symphony Casual Juneau, AK $12,ooo Tchelitchew, with an accompa­ Concerts with David Zinman. (music) nying catalogue and education To support fees and travel costs programs. Jomandi Productions, Inc. for American artists for the 1997 Atlanta, GA $35,000 Juneau Jazz and Classics Festival, Kearny Street Workshop, Inc. (theater) including a series of concerts, San Francisco, CA $1o, ooo To support the development of workshops, open rehearsals, free (music) original repertoire through the performances, radio broadcasts, To support the commissioning readings of two new musical and school assemblies. of a work by Horace Tapscott plays, Higher Ground and On and its performance by Jon Jang Sacred Ground, culminating in Junebug Productions and the Pan Asian Arkestra at the full production of one of New Orleans, LA $75,000 the Asian American Jazz Festi­ the new works. (theater) val in San Francisco in 1998. To support the Environmental Jos6 Limon Dance Foundation Justice Project, a public festival King County Arts Commission Grants to New York, NY $77,500 of arts events which will include Seattle, WA $60,000 Organizations (dance) the commissioning and pre­ (locals arts agencies) To support artistic salaries and senting of original works. To support dance presentations 27 touring expenses associated by the King County Perfor­ Creation & with the revival and presenta­ Kansas City Symphony mance Network, a consortium Presentation tion of classic modern dances Kansas City, MO $50,000 of local arts agencies. choreographed by Mr. Limon (music) and his mentor Doris To support costs associated Kings Majestic Corporation Humphrey, marking the com­ with up to six sets of the sym­ Brooklyn, NY $50,000 pany’s golden anniversary. phony’s Classical Series con­ (presenting) certs during 1997-98. To support performances by in­ Joyce Theater Foundation, Inc. ternational artists during the New York, NY $200,000 Karamu House 1997 and 1998 World Series, a (dance) Cleveland, OH $20,000 festival that explores ways world To support the Altogether Dif­ (musical theater) cultures influence each other ferent dance series which show­ To support the production of and how they have helped cases small dance companies, Langston Hughes’ Black Nativ­ shape American art. and up to three international ity, to be performed at the presentations. Cleveland Convention Center Kitka, Inc. Music Hall. Oakland, CA $1o, ooo Jump-Start Performance (music) Company To support the choral touring San Antonio, TX $10,000 program Braided Voices in (theater) 1997-98, showcasing traditional To support the creation and and contemporary songs from production of original com­ Balkan and Slavic women’s tra­ pany-produced performance ditions. NEA 1997 ANNUAL REPORT

Knoxville Symphony Lafayette College Light Factory Society, Inc. Easton, PA $22,500 Charlotte, NC $2o, ooo Knoxville, TN $z5,ooo (music) (visual arts) (music) To support the 1997-98 perfor­ To support the exhibition, cata­ To support two performances mance series Seeing the Music, logue and tour of "Women of of Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana, Hearing the Dance. the Photo League," which will presented as a choral cantata. examine the active role played Lake George Arts Project, Inc. by women in the photographic Koncepts Cultural Gallery Lake George, NY $9,000 documentation of urban and Oakland, CA $15,ooo (music) rural life between 1936 and 1951. (multidisciplinary) To support artists’ fees and pro­ To support the presentation of duction costs for the Lake Light Work Visual Studies, Inc. poetry and music performances George Jazz Weekend during Syracuse, NY $5o, ooo designed to develop new audi­ 1997. (visual arts) ences and provide opportuni­ To support up to 15 one-month ties for under-recognized Lakota Fund residencies for artists to work in artists. Kyle, SD $25,000 the photography and computer (media arts) lab facilities, in 1997-98. Kronos Performing Arts To support the production of Grants to Association Oyate Ta Olowan (Songs of the Lincoln Center for the Organizations San Francisco, CA $1oo, ooo People), a series of half-hour Performing Arts, Inc. (music) radio programs featuring tradi­ New York, NY $15o, ooo 28 To support the 25th Anniversary tional Native American music. (presenting) Creation & Commissioning and Perfor­ To support the Lincoln Center Presentation mance Project in which at least Lansing Symphony Festival 97 of opera, dance, the­ ten new works will be commis­ Association, Inc. ater, music, and video, featuring sioned and performed in as Lansing, MI $15,ooo American and international many as twenty communities. (music) artists and companies. To support a one-year string Kuumbwa Jazz Society quartet residency program in LINES Contemporary Ballet Santa Cruz, CA $15,ooo 1998-99, that will include per­ San Francisco, CA $40,000 (music) formances in schools and at (dance) To support weekly perfor­ area public functions, book­ To support the creation of a mances by emerging and estab­ stores, libraries, and businesses; new ballet by Artistic Director lished jazz artists, and educa­ mentoring programs for stu­ Alonzo King, scored by Moses tional outreach activities that dents; and full concerts. Sedler, to be presented during include jazz residencies. the 1997-98 season. Library of American Landscape La Pena Cultural Center, Inc. History, Inc. LINES Contemporary Ballet (as Berkeley, CA S25,ooo Amherst, MA $10,000 fiscal agent for La Tania- (presenting) (design) Flamenco Music and Dance) To support the multidiscipli­ To support the development of San Francisco, CA $23,5oo nary performing arts series a traveling photographic exhi­ (dance) Multicultural Majority: Explor­ bition based on the book Land­ To support the revival and tour ing Cultural Identity. scapes of the American Country of Abrazo by La Tania-Fla­ Place Era, which features private menco Music and Dance. residences circa 1920. Grants to Organizations

29 Creation & Presentation

Chanticleer, an "orchestra of voices" from San Francisco, is performing newly discovered works from Mexico’s Baroque period. Photo by Guido Harari.

Long Beach Symphony Lookingglass Theatre Company CD-ROM project by Christine Association Chicago, IL $40,000 Tamblyn to be presented in a Long Beach, CA $18,ooo (theater) publicly accessible digital sta­ (music) To support the production of tion in the Center’s gallery. To support a consortium pro- George, an adaptation by the ject involving the Akron, Long playwright John McCray of the Los Angeles Philharmonic Beach, and Wichita Symphony novel Le Mot Suisit Le Lifby Association Orchestras to commission, per- French writer Henri Troyat. Los Angeles, CA $2oo, ooo form, and broadcast orchestral (music) works by American composers. Los Angeles Center for To support a festival of works of Photographic Studies Gyorgy Ligeti, including perfor- Los Angeles, CA $20, ooo mances, symposia, and docu­ (visual arts) mentary screenings. To support a large-scale exhibi­ tion of photography by Clement Shuji Hanami and a NEA 1997 ANNUAL REPORT

Los Angeles Poverty Madison Opera, Inc. Manhattan Tap, Inc. Department Madison, WI $20,000 New York, NY $15,ooo Los Angeles, CA $20,000 (opera) (dance) (theater) To support the production of To support the creation of a To support a collaboration be­ Help. Help. The Globolinks by new work choreographed by tween the Los Angeles Poverty Gian Carlo Menotti. Heather Cornell in collabora­ Department and the theater tion with composer-dancer­ group Contraband to train Madison Symphony Orchestra, body percussionist Keith Terry. artistic ensembles and teach inc. workshops. Madison, WI $20,000 Manhattan Theatre Club, Inc. (music) New York, NY $80,000 Lucinda Childs Dance To support artists’ fees and re­ (theater) Foundation, Inc. lated costs for the music series To support a major creation New York, NY $4o, ooo Classical Cache, featuring rarely and development initiative (dance) performed 20th century works, during 1997-99 consisting of To support the development of primarily by American com­ two new musicals (one by a new dance by Lucinda Childs. posers. Susan Birkenhead and Lucy Simon, and one by Frederick Lyric Opera Center for Maine College of Art Freyer and Patrick Cook) and Grants to American Artists Portland, ME $30,000 four new plays (one each by Organizations Chicago, IL $25,ooo (design) Cheryl West, Elizabeth Egloff, (opera) To support an exhibition enti­ Regina Taylor, and Mary Zim­ 3O To support the world premiere tled "Constructed Views: Re- merman). Creation & of Between Two Worlds by Shu­ imagining the Coastal Land­ Presentation lamit Ran, with libretto by scape," focusing on several of Martha Graham School of Charles Kondek, based on Maine’s coastal parks as nature Contemporary Dance S. Ansky’s play, The Dybbuk. experiences, and a symposium New York, NY $40,000 of regional and national design (dance) Lyric Opera of Chicago professionals. To support the revival and re­ Chicago, IL $200,000 construction of the classic Secu­ (opera) Manhattan Class Company, Inc. lar Games, including a new To support production costs for New York, NY $z6,ooo score commissioned from Pat the world premiere of the opera (theater) Metheny. Amistad, by Anthony Davis with To support Manhattan Class libretto by Thulani Davis, dur­ Company’s Summer Play Party Maryland Art Place, Inc. ing 1997-1998. of works written by high school Baltimore, MD $15,ooo students, and its companion (visual arts) MA-YI Filipino Theater program, the MCC Theater To support the 1997-98 Critics’ Ensemble, Inc. Pass, offering free admission to Residency Program, to encour­ New York, NY $z9,ooo students, their families and age and disseminate regional (theater) friends. art criticism and cultivate the To support the production of general public’s understanding Nick ]oaquin’s Portrait of An of contemporary art. Artist, in conjunction with the international celebration of lOO years of Philippine indepen­ dence. GRANTS AND AWARDS

McCarter Theatre Company of Bernarda Alba, choreo­ Minnesota Orchestral Princeton, NJ $70,000 graphed by resident choreogra­ Association (theater) pher Jimmy Gamonet De Los Minneapolis, MN $1oo, ooo To support the production of Heros. (music) The House of Bernarda Alba by To support, in collaboration Frederico Garcia Lorca, to be Mid Atlantic Arts with the Science Museum of directed by Emily Mann. Foundation, Inc. Minnesota, the creation and Baltimore, MD $13o, ooo performances of an interactive Metropolitan Museum of Art (visual arts) work for full orchestra, actors, New York, NY $200,000 To support Artist as Catalyst, a and participatory audience, in­ (museum) new program intended to facili­ volving fifth- and sixth-grade To support the exhibition "Flow­ tate collaborative relationships school children. ers Underfoot: Indian Carpets between visual artists, critics, of the Mughal Era," and accom­ community organizations, and Mixed Blood Theatre Company panying education programs. arts centers, that will result in Minneapolis, MN $25,000 the creation of new works. (theater) Metropolitan Opera To support the creation and Association, Inc. Milkweed Editions, Inc. production of a new work by a New York, NY $350,000 Minneapolis, MN $40,000 company member. (opera) (literature) Grants to To support five new produc­ To support publication costs, Moanalua Gardens Organizations tions during 1997-1998. authors’ royalties, and national Foundation, Inc. distribution of up to six books. Honolulu, HI $30,000 31 Mettawee Theatre (folk and traditional arts) Creation & Company, Inc. Millay Colony for the Arts, Inc. To support the Prince Lot Hula Presentation Salem, NY $z7,ooo Austerlitz, NY Festival and a series of introduc­ (theater) (multidisciplinary) $1o, ooo tory workshops on the history To support a new production To support one-month artists’ and significance of ancient and and the twenty-first annual tour residencies for up to nine artists. modern native Hawaiian hula. of outdoor performances in New York State and New Eng­ Millennium Film Workshop, Inc. Monadnock I~lusic land. New York, NY $20,000 Peterborough, NH $15,ooo (media arts) (music) Miami Art Museum of Dade To support the exhibition of To support musicians’ fees and County experimental film and video related costs for free concerts in Miami, FL $50,000 art, including in-person presen­ rural towns and villages during (museum) tations, and filmmaking work­ the Monadnock Music Festival To support an exhibition of the shops. in 1997. work of Cuban-American artist Carlos Mfonzo and an accom­ Mills College Mostly Music, Inc. panying catalogue. Oakland, CA $5,000 Chicago, IL $5,000 (music) (music) Miami City Ballet, Inc. To support artists’ fees and re­ To support The Rise of an Amer­ Miami Beach, FL SZOO, OOO lated costs for contemporary ican Music Identity: (1) Roots (dance) music concerts in 1997-98. and Branches and (2) Flowering To support the acquisition of of the New Music, a three-year Paul Taylor’s "Funny Papers" retrospective of 20th century and the creation of The House American chamber music. Cityfolk will present a new collaboration between Rhythm in Shoes, the music and dance ensemble pictured above, and Crosspulse, a music and movement ensemble, in April 1999 at Memorial Hall in Dayton, Ohio. Photo by Andy Snow.

Mount Saint Mary’s College l~loving Image, Inc. Muntu Dance Theatre Los Angeles, CA $20,000 New York, NY $30,000 Chicago, IL $20,000 (music) (media arts) (dance) To support artists’ fees, related To support Truth 24 Frames Per To support the commissioning marketing and production Second: American Cinema VeritY, of Amaniyea Payne to choreo­ costs, and educational outreach 196o-z97o, a film series examin­ graph Roots ’n’ Blues, an explo­ activities for the Da Camera ing this crucial decade in docu­ ration of African-American cul­ Society’s 25th anniversary se­ mentary filmmaking. tural expressions which are ries, titled Chamber Music in rooted in African origins. Historic Sites. GRANTS AND AWARDS

Museum of African American Music at Angel Fire, Inc. National Symphony Orchestra History Angel Fire, NM $9,000 Association Detroit, MI $25,000 (music) Washington, DC $70,000 (music) To support a touring and out­ (music) To support the creation, presen­ reach program serving the rural To support a seven-week con­ tation, and installation of the communities of Angel Fire, Ra­ cert series in 1998, featuring the audio component of a long- ton, Taos, and Las Vegas, New performance of compositions term exhibition, featuring Mexico; youth concerts in Taos drawn from manuscript collec­ African-American history and and Colfax counties; and re­ tions of the Library of Congress culture. gional and national broadcasts. and including outreach pro­ grams with local schools as well Museum of Contemporary Art, Music From China, Inc. as national broadcasts. Los Angeles New York, NY $13,ooo Los Angeles, CA $27,700 (music) National Theatre of the Deaf, To amend a previous grant to To support a one-week resi­ Inc. support the traveling exhibition dency by Music from China at Chester, CT $40,000 "Out of Actions: Performance the Peabody Conservatory in (theater) and the Object," an accompany­ Baltimore. To support an original transla­ ing catalogue, and education tion and adaptation of Henrik programs. Music-Theatre Group, Inc. Ibsen’s Peer Gynt combining Grants to New York, NY $65,000 American Sign Language with Organizations Museum of Contemporary Art, (musical theater) the spoken word, for the com­ San Diego To support a national tour of pany’s touring performances in 33 La ]olla, CA $1oo, ooo Juan Darien and the develop­ the Midwest, Southern, At­ Creation & (museum) ment, production, and tour of lantic, and New England states. Presentation To support The PanAmerican You Don’t Miss Water. Project, a series of exhibitions, New City Theater educational programs and resi­ Nashville Symphony Seattle, WA $z5,25o dencies concerned with con­ Association (theater) temporary artists throughout Nashville, TN $30,000 To support the commission and the Americas. (music) production of a new play by To support the commissioning Richard Foreman for Theater Museum of Jurassic Technology of a work by composer Michael Zero, the resident company of Culver City, CA $z5,ooo Abels and its performance for the New City Theater and Art (museum) the 1998 Martin Luther King, ]r. Center. To support an exhibition titled Concert titled "Let Freedom "The World Is Bound in Secret Ring," both in full concert and New Community Cinema Club, Knots: Gaspard Schott and the in specially designed perfor­ Inc. Bibliotheca Unbrarum of the mances in local schools. Huntington, NY $20,000 Musaeum Kirchianum," with an (media arts) accompanying catalogue. National Alliance for Musical To support the 17th Annual In­ Theatre, Inc. ternational Women’s Film and New York, NY $z5,ooo Video Festival and the z4th Long (musical theater) Island Film Festival in 1997. To support the z997 Festival of New Musicals. NEA 1997 ANNUAL REPORT

New Dramatists, Inc. New Museum of Contemporary New York City Ballet, Inc. New York, NY $15,ooo Art New York, NY $125,ooo (musical theater) New York, NY $5o, ooo (dance) To support actor and director (museum) To support the revival and pre­ fees and artistic program To support an exhibition of the sentation of lerome Robbins’ salaries for the new play and work of Brazilian artist Cildo Les Noces, set to a musical and musical workshop-presentation Meireles, with an accompanying vocal score by Igor Stravinsky. components of the New catalogue. Dramatists’ playwright develop­ New York Foundation for the ment program. New Music Consort, Inc. Arts (as fiscal agent for Check New York, NY $1o, ooo Your Body at the Door) New Federal Theatre, Inc. (music) New York, NY $3o, ooo New York, NY $50,000 To support artists’ fees and pro­ (media arts) (theater) duction costs for concerts of To support the post-production To support the development, new music in several locations costs of a video project to docu­ workshop, and production of in Manhattan and Queens. ment the work and lives of New Christopher Columbus by Nikos York dancers. Kazantzakis. New Orleans Ballet Association New Orleans, LA $37,500 New York Foundation for the Grants to New Hampshire Mime (dance) Arts (as fiscal agent for Nobody Organizations Company To support the presentation of Knows Productions) Portsmouth, NH SlO, OOO performances by the Pittsburgh New York, NY S175,ooo 34 (theater) Ballet Theatre and the Jos6 (media arts) Creation & To support Pontine Movement Limon Dance Company. To support the production and Presentation Theatre’s 1997-98 touring pro­ post-production of a feature- gram, which includes original New Radio & Performing length documentary film on the adaptations of Our Town and Arts, Inc. achievements of the American The Country Of The Pointed Staten Island, NY $35,000 theater director and producer Firs; a new work, Voices From (media arts) Joseph Papp, by filmmakers The Spirit Land; and educa­ To support the production and Tracie Holder and Karen tional programs. 1998 broadcast of New American Thorsen. Radio, an innovative radio se­ New Jersey Shakespeare ries presenting half-hour works New York Foundation for the Festival of Morris County, Inc. created by new and established Arts (as fiscal agent for Art 21, Madison, NJ $1o, ooo artists specifically for the radio Inc.) (theater) medium. New York, NY Suo, ooo To support Shakespeare Live, a (media arts) new school touring program New Theater, Inc. To support post-production that will bring abbreviated Coral Gables, FL $5,ooo costs of a documentary series, Shakespeare productions to (theater) An American Love Story, by young audiences in New Jersey To support the presentation of Iennifer Fox. on a year-round basis. the 1997 New Works Project, a festival of new plays by Florida playwrights. GRANTS AND AWARDS

New York School for Circus Niagara Council of the Arts, Ohio Chamber Orchestra Arts (Big Apple Circus, Ltd.) Inc. Society New York, NY $75,00o Niagara Falls, NY $13,500 Beachwood, OH $15,ooo (theater) (local arts agencies) (music) To support the development To support a consortium for a To support the Orchestra’s 1997 and tour of a circus show cele­ writing and community pro­ Cain Park free concerts: one brating the Big Apple Circus’ grams residency for poet and celebrating the musical tradi­ 2oth birthday, to be performed writer Joan Murray. tions of Eastern European and in the Northeast and Midwest. Jewish peoples; the other fea­ Nikolais/Louis Foundation for turing signers from the local New York Shakespeare Festival Dance deaf community. (The Public Theater) New York, NY $25,000 New York, NY $162,5oo (dance) Ohio Historical Society (theater) To support expenses incurred Columbus, OH $75,000 To support production costs of for dance rehearsals and perfor­ (multidisciplinary) Henry VIII, at the Delacorte mances at the Joyce Theater. To support the National Afro- Theater in Central Park, and American Museum and Cul­ Macbeth, at the Public Theater, North Carolina Museum of Art tural Center’s exhibition based during the summer and fall of Foundation, Inc. on African-American dance, 1997. Raleigh, NC $zo, ooo and the commissioning of re­ Grants to (museum) lated choreography. Organizations New York Theatre Workshop, To support the publication of a inc. book of responses by North Ojai Festivals, Ltd. 35 New York, NY $35,ooo Carolina writers to works of art Ojai, CA $20,000 Creation & (theater) in the museum’s permanent (music) Presentation To support the development collection, and honoraria for To support artistic fees associ­ and production of the musical the authors to present readings ated with the 51st Ojai Music Bright Lights, Big City by Paul of their work. Festival in June 1997. Scott Goodman based on the novel by Jay McInerney. North Country Chamber OK MOZART, Inc. Players, Inc. Bartlesville, OK $6o, ooo Newark Museum Association Franconia, NH $5,ooo (music) Newark, NJ $100,000 (music) To support the 1997 OK (museum) To support a newly-commis­ MOZART International Festi­ To support the traveling exhibi­ sioned composition, ensemble val, including the world pre­ tion "Wrapped in Pride: Ghana- residencies, and related costs for miere of a new opera, Ochelata’s Jan ’Kente’ and African-Ameri­ an American chamber music Wedding, a range of concerts can Identity;’ with an retrospective. and related events, and national accompanying catalogue and broadcasts. education programs. Oakland Ballet Oakland, CA $20,000 Old Globe Theatre Newark Public Radio, Inc. (dance) San Diego, CA $75,000 Newark, NJ $35,000 To support the commissioning (theater) (media arts) and presentation of a new work To support the development To support JazzSet with Bran­ by Betsy Erickson and associ­ and production of To Gleam It ford Marsalis, a nationally ated outreach activities. Around, To Show My Shine by broadcast radio series. Bonnie Lee Moss Rattner, an NEA 1997 ANNUAL REPORT

adaptation of Zora Neale Opera Theatre of Saint Louis Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Hurston’s novel Their Eyes Were St. Louis, MO $z7o, ooo Inc. Watching God, with music com­ (opera) New York, NY $5o, ooo posed by Wynton Marsalis. To support the creation, devel­ (music) opment, world premiere, and To support the preparation and 171 Cedar, Inc. tour of a new children’s opera, performances of new works by Corning, NY $15,ooo Black Cowboys by Adolphus American composers Elizabeth (dance) Hailstork, and a workshop of Brown, David Rakowski, and To support a consortium pro­ Loss of Eden by Cary John Ornette Coleman; and related ject of neighboring presenters Franklin. pre-concert lectures, program to launch a premier dance series notes, and open rehearsals. in the southern tier of New York. Orchestral Association (Chicago Symphony Orchestra) Other Minds Ontological-Hysteric Theater, Chicago, IL $15o, ooo San Francisco, CA $1o, ooo Inc. (music) (music) New York, NY $30,000 To support a residency devoted To support costs associated with (theater) exclusively to the performance the 1997 Other Minds Festival. To support the creation and of new, modern, and contem­ production of an original work porary classical music, directed Owensboro Symphony Grants to to be written, directed, and de­ by Principal Guest Conductor Orchestra, Inc. Organizations signed by Richard Foreman, en­ Pierre Boulez. Owensboro, KY $2o, ooo titled Benita Canova. (music) 36 Oregon Shakespeare Festival To support in-school perfor­ Creation & OPERA America, Inc. Association mances by small ensembles of Presentation Washington, DC $5o, ooo Ashland, OR $zoo, ooo the symphony’s principal musi­ (opera) (theater) cians during 1997-99. To support OPERA America’s To support the New Play Devel­ 13o professional opera compa­ opment Program that includes Painted Bride Art Center, Inc. nies nationwide by facilitating the commissioning and devel­ Philadelphia, PA $35,ooo productions of second and sub­ opment of new plays by the fol­ (presenting) sequent performances of new lowing artists of national To support the Bride’s Onda American works. stature: Sandra Deer, Anthony Latina programming unit. Clarvoe, lerry Turner and Oc­ Opera Carolina tavio Solis. Paper Bag Players, Inc. Charlotte, NC $20,000 New York, NY $4o, ooo (opera) Oregon Symphony Association (theater) To support production costs of Portland, OR $zoo, ooo To support the creation and The Crucible by Robert Ward (music) presentation of a one-hour and accompanying educational To support the performance of show for children, to be per­ events during 1997-98. orchestral works that have been formed regionally in a variety inspired by works of visual art, of venues. Opera Pacific preo and post-concert discus­ Irvine, CA $35,ooo sions, children’s outreach pro­ (opera) grams, and collaborations be­ To support a production of The tween the orchestra and visual Daughter of the Regimen t by arts organizations. Donizetti. GRANTS AND AWARDS

Pat Graney Performance Perseverance Theatre, Inc. Philharmonia Baroque Seattle, WA 535,000 Douglas, AK $40,000 Orchestra (multidisciplinary) (theater) San Francisco, CA 535,000 To support the creation of a To support the development (music) new work through the collabo­ and production of Johnny’s Girl To support costs related to the ration of choreographer Pat by Maskan writer Kim Rich, to West Coast premiere of Handel’s Graney, visual artist Marilyn be performed in Juneau, An­ Hercules. Lysohir, and composer Ellen chorage, Fairbanks, and village Fullman. communities. Philharmonic Symphony Society of New York, Inc. (New Paul Taylor Dance Foundation, Persona Grata Productions, Inc. York Philharmonic) Inc. San Francisco, CA $35,ooo New York, NY 515o, ooo New York, NY $15o, ooo (media arts) (music) (dance) To support the production of A To support the "American Clas­ To support touring perfor­ Wok in Progress, an experimen­ sics," the second of a four-year mances and educational activi­ tal video documentary by Paul survey of 2oth century Ameri­ ties by the Paul Taylor Dance Kwan and Arnold Iger. can music performed by the Company and Taylor 2, in New York Philharmonic, to fo­ Alaska, Texas, and the San Fran­ Philadelphia Chamber Music cus on vocal works and shorter cisco Bay Area in 1997-98. Society orchestral compositions. Grants to Philadelphia, PA 5zo, ooo Organizations Pennsylvania Public Radio (music) Phoenix Art Museum Associates, Inc. To support the Philadelphia Phoenix, AZ 575,000 37 Uwchland, PA $30,000 Chamber Music Society’s (museum) Creation & (media arts) Jazz/Cross Over Series. To support the traveling exhi­ Presentation To support the production of bition "Old Master Paintings on concerts and feature programs Philadelphia Museum of Art Copper, 1525-1775," with an for Echoes, a daily, two-hour, Philadelphia, PA 5200,000 accompanying catalogue and nationally broadcast radio se­ (museum) education programs. ries that brings new music to To support the traveling exhibi­ more than loo stations tion, "Art in Rome in the Eigh­ Phoenix Bach Choir throughout the country. teenth Century." Phoenix, AZ $5,000 (music) People’s Light & Theatre Philadelphia Orchestra To support costs of two con­ Company Association certs during 1997. Malvern, PA 530,000 Philadelphia, PA 575,000 (theater) (music) Photographic Resource To support the commissioning To support a series of concerts Center, Inc. and development of works for and related programs included Boston, MA 525,000 Free Fest, a free-to-the-public in the Philadelphia Orchestra’s (visual arts) outdoor event, as well as the festivals in 1997-98. To support the exhibition Family Series, a series of plays "Recollecting a Culture: Photo­ for family audiences. graphs from the FotoKino Archive, 1949-1989," with an accompanying catalogue and public education programs. NEA 1997 ANNUAL REPORT

The Pick Up Performance Pittsburgh Dance Alloy Playwrights Horizons, Inc. Company, Inc. Pittsburgh, PA $15,ooo New York, IVY $75,000 New York, NY $30,000 (dance) (theater) (theater) To support the research and To support the activities of the To support the development of creation of a new evening- African-American Playwrights a new work, The First Picture length work by David Dorfman Unit which includes a Monday Show, directed and choreo­ and Mark Taylor for a consor­ night reading series and the graphed by David Gordon with tium involving Pittsburgh production of Mud, River, Stone music composed by Philip Dance Alloy and the David by Lynn Nottage. Glass, through workshops in Dorfman Dance Company. New York City and Los Angeles. Plymouth Music Series Pittsburgh Dance Council, Inc. Minneapolis, MN $35,000 Pierpont Morgan Library Pittsburgh, PA $40,000 (music) New York, NY $200,000 (dance) To support Plymouth’s eighth (museum) To support the first year of a annual Witness ’98 program To support an exhibition of Eu­ multi-year residency with the celebrating Black History ropean master drawings from Philadelphia-based dance com­ Month and including commis­ Moscow and St. Petersburg, pany Philadanco. sioning, performing, national with an accompanying cata­ broadcast, and in-depth school Grants to logue and education programs. Pittsburgh Symphony Society residency programs. Organizations Pittsburgh, PA $75,ooo Pilchuck Glass School (music) Poetry Project, Ltd. 38 Seattle, WA $15,ooo To support the orchestra’s Faust New York, NY $2o, ooo Creation & (visual arts) Weekend, American Treasures (literature) Presentation To support the 1997 Artist-in- series, and performance of the To support the Poetry Project’s Residency Program, which will newly commissioned Concerto Wednesday and Monday Night provide up to ten nationally for Orchestra by Richard Reading and Performance Series. known artists with the time, re­ Danielpour during 1997-98. sources, facilities, and technical Portland Art Museum support to create and present Plam Dancers, Inc. (Doug Portland, OR $40,000 new works in glass. Elkins Dance Company) (media arts) New York, NY $z4,ooo To support the Northwest Film Pittsburgh Children’s (dance) and Video Festival, which show­ Festival, Inc. To support the creation of a cases work by media artists liv­ Pittsburgh, PA $15,ooo new work by Artistic Director ing in Alaska, Idaho, Montana, (presenting) Doug Elkins. Oregon, Washington, and To support the United States British Columbia. debut of two multidisciplinary Playwrights’ Center, Inc. puppet companies from the Minneapolis, MN $20,000 Portland Performing Arts, Inc. Netherlands during the 1997 (theater) Portland, ME $75,000 Festival. To support PlayLabs, a national (presenting) play development conference To support the Dialogues Pro­ enabling playwrights to work ject involving the creation, pre­ with professional actors and di­ sentation, and touring of three rectors, and culminating in programs: Cambodian/Contem­ staged public readings of their works. GRANTS AND AWARDS

porary Dance; Gospel Project Row Houses Randolph Street Gallery, Inc. Choir/Contemporary Jazz Com­ Houston, TX $4o, ooo Chicago, IL $30,000 missioning; and Los Ritmos (visual arts) (visual arts) Hispanos. To support up to seven site- To support Trace, a multidisci­ specific installations by region­ plinary project exploring the Pregones Touring Puerto Rican ally and nationally recognized role of race and ethnicity in the Theatre Collection, Inc. artists in renovated "shotgun" construction of contemporary Bronx, NY $55,000 style 19th century houses. American identity. (theater) To support a touring project Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre REPOhistory, Inc. that will consist of residencies Company, Inc. New York, NY $z2,5oo at theaters and cultural centers New York, NY $40,000 (visual arts) throughout the Northeast over (theater) To support Circulation, a public a two-year period. To support the production of art project consisting of signs Baile Cangrejero, a collage of installed on light poles around Present Music, Inc. Afro-Caribbean poetry with New York City, created by teams Milwaukee, WI $7,000 music and choreography in­ of artists and historians. (music) spired by the African heritage To support artists’ fees in con­ common to the Spanish-speak­ Rhode Island School of Design nection with the creation of a ing peoples of the Caribbean, Providence, RI Szoo,ooo Grants to new work by Turkish-American during the 1997 summer tour. (museum) Organizations composer Kamran Ince, with To support the re-installation performances in Madison and Quad City Arts, Inc. of the museum’s classical anti­ 39 Milwaukee and broadcasts on Rock Island, IL $25,000 quities permanent collections, Creation & Wisconsin Public Radio and (local arts agencies) accompanying education pro­ Presentation National Public Radio. To support the Visiting Artist grams, and electronic publica­ Series. tion. Printed Matter, Inc. New York, NY $17,ooo Queens County Art and Ridiculous Theatrical (visual arts) Cultural Center, Inc. Company, Inc. To support the publication of Queens, NY $50,000 New York, NY $3o, ooo Printed Matter’s annual cata­ (museum) (theater) logue of artists’ publications. To support an exhibition of the To support the production of work of Cai Guo Qiang at the Charles Ludlum’s The Grand Project Artaud Queens Museum, with an ac­ Tarot directed by Everett Quin­ San Francisco, CA $20,000 companying catalogue and edu­ ton; and Georg Ostermanto’s (visual arts) cation programs. No Damn Good directed by To support the Urban Renewal Chuck Brown. Laboratory Project, in which Quintessence Chamber artists, architects, urban plan­ Ensemble, Inc. Ringside, Inc. ners, computer programmers, Phoenix, AZ $7,000 (Elizabeth Streb/Ringside) and young people will collabo­ (music) New York, NY $35,000 rate to create a virtual model To support artists’ fees and re­ (dance) city online and an actual model lated costs for cross-cultural To support the creation of two city within the gallery. concerts for school children of new works by Elizabeth Streb: the Crow Indian Reservation in "Across," which will feature Montana during 1997. NEA 1997 ANNUAL REPORT

dancers on wheel-based plat­ San Antonio, City of San Francisco Chanticleer, Inc. forms; and "Drop," which will San Antonio, TX $7o,000 San Francisco, CA $20,000 explore the definition of (presenting) (music) ground. To support artists’ fees and re­ To support the performance of lated costs for up to four, one- newly discovered music written Robert W. Woodruff Arts week residencies at the Carver by native-born composers in Center, Inc. Community Cultural Center Mexico during the Baroque Pe­ Atlanta, GA $75,000 during 1997-98. riod, as well as concerts in San (theater) Francisco, Sacramento, Santa To support the Alliance Theatre San Diego Commission for Arts Clara, Petaluma, and Carmel. Company’s creation and pro­ & Culture duction of a new gospel musi­ San Diego, CA $15o, ooo San Francisco Cinematheque cal, Jubilee, staged readings of (locals arts agencies) San Francisco, CA $z2,5oo other new works; and the addi­ To support the creation of site- (media arts) tion of a full-time dramaturge specific artworks at the Point To support the exhibition of al­ for the Alliance Theatre Com­ Loma Wastewater Treatment ternative film and video art, in­ pan~ Plant. cluding retrospectives of estab­ lished media artists, and a Rutgers, The State University San Diego Opera Association multifaceted, four-part series Grants to of New Jersey San Diego, CA $50,000 devoted to new work that ex­ Organizations New Brunswick, NI $50,00o (opera) pands the boundaries of media (museum) To support the presentation of art. 40 To support the traveling exhibi­ Romeo et ]uliette by Charles Creation & tion "Russian Graphic Arts, Gounod. San Francisco Contemporary Presentation 1895-1935," and an accompany­ Music Players ing catalogue, organized by the San Diego Repertory Theatre, San Francisco, CA $9,000 University’s lane Voorhees Zim­ Inc. (music) merli Art Museum. San Diego, CA $40,000 To support the presentation, in (theater) San Francisco, of five previously St. Luke’s Chamber To support production costs for commissioned chamber works Ensemble, Inc. the premiere of A Quiet Love by by composers Alvin Curran, New York, NY $5o, ooo Rick Najera. Roberto Sierra, Hyo-Shin Na, (music) Mario Davidovsky, and Yehudi To support the Orchestra of St. San Francisco Ballet Wyner. Luke’s zsth Anniversary New Association Music Project, which involves San Francisco, CA $z25,000 San Francisco Mime Troupe, commissions, performances, (dance) Inc. and a national radio broadcast. To support the creation of a San Francisco, CA $45,000 new work by Artistic Director (theater) Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Helgi Tomasson; a collabora­ To support the development Society tion with American Ballet The­ and production of an original St. Paul, MN $75,000 atre and choreographer Lar musical comedy play that will (music) Lubovitch; and the acquisition premiere in San Francisco, and To support the Saint Paul and commissioning of works by then tour to Bay Area parks and Chamber Orchestra’s 1997-98 other choreographers. throughout California. Masterwork Series, its flagship program showcasing chamber orchestra repertoire. GRANTS AND AWARDS

Sandglass Center for Puppetry and Theater Research, Ltd. Putney, VT $1o, ooo (theater) To support the development, production, and tour of Never Been Anywhere, a collaboration between Sandglass Theater, a Vermont writer, and a composer.

Santa Fe Opera Association Santa Fe, NM $1oo, ooo (opera) To support the world premiere of the opera Ashoka’s Dream, commissioned by the Santa Fe Opera and written by American composer Peter Lieberson.

Santa Monica College Grants to Santa Monica, CA $32,000 Organizations (media arts) To support the production and 41 radio broadcast of a dramatic Creation & reading of Ross Macdonald’s Presentation novel The Zebra-Striped Hearse.

Seattle Children’s Theatre Association Seattle, WA $35,000 Through Independent Media Artists of Georgia, Etc. in Atlanta, filmmakers Kristy (theater) Andersen and Julie Dash are producing a documentary about Zora Neale Hurston, To support the commissioning an African-American novelist who recorded Black Southern folk culture. Art by and production of Pink and Say Charles Greacon, courtesy of Kristy Andersen. by Patricia Polacco with stage adaptation by OyamO. San Francisco Symphony San Jose Symphony Association San Francisco, CA $175,ooo San Jose, CA $3o, ooo Seattle Group Theatre (music) (music) Seattle, WA $37,500 To support the San Francisco To support the presentation of (theater) Symphony’s Celebration of the Voices of America, a concert To support the development Sacred and Profane Festival in thematically based on celebrat- and production of Keepers of June 1997, including perfor- ing the cultural diversity of the Dream, a multimedia per­ mances, pre-concert lectures, America. formance piece inspired by the chamber music performances, critically acclaimed anthology and recitals. I Dream a World by Brian Lanker. NEA 1997 ANNUAL REPORT

Seattle International Children’s the opportunity to create new Sheldon Arts Foundation Festival work, using silkscreen tech­ St. Louis, MO $20,000 Seattle, WA $2o, ooo niques in the printmaking (music) (presenting) studio. To support America’s Music, a To support Window on the proiect that will include resi­ World: African Arts, a series of Seven Loaves, Inc. dencies and performances of dance and music performances (Czechoslovak-American iazz, folk music, and American during the 1997 Festival. Marionette Theater) music for brass, as well as spe­ New York, NY $15,ooo cial activities for young people. Seattle Opera Association, Inc. (theater) Seattle, WA $1oo, ooo To support the production and Shreveport Regional Arts (opera) presentation of the fifth annual Council To support the costs for a new puppetry festival Magic of Shreveport, LA $155,ooo production of Der Rosenkava­ Czech Puppetry, featuring plays (locals arts agencies) lier by Richard Strauss, and a by the Czechoslovak-American To support the implementation premiere of Florencia en el Marionette Theatre. of a series of four national Amazonas by Daniel Catan. artists’ collaborations featuring Seven Stages, Inc. Willie Middlebrook, William Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Atlanta, GA $25,000 Joyce, The Builder’s Associa­ Grants to Inc. (theater) tion, and Roberto Salas. Organizations Seattle, WA $1oo, ooo To support the production of (music) Arthur Miller’s All My Sons di­ Side Street Projects 42 To support the Celebrate Amer­ rected by Joseph Chaikin. Santa Monica, CA $20,000 Creation & ican Music project, through (visual arts) Presentation which music by American com­ Shadow Box Theatre, Inc. To support Millennium Shifts, a posers will be performed in var­ New York, NY $5,000 two-year proiect that will pre­ ious concert series and featured (theater) sent up to four visual artists’ in education programs. To support a free theater arts projects, either in gallery instal­ package including tickets to lations or on Web sites. Seattle Youth Symphony productions, a teacher learning Orchestra guide, a set of storybooks, and Sirong Ganding, Inc. Seattle, WA $15,ooo an audio tape for each class of New York, NY $25,000 (music) underprivileged children at­ (folk and traditional arts) To support the 1997 Marrow- tending a production. To support the United States- stone Music Festival, a summer based Mindanao Kulintang En­ music festival sponsored by the Shakespeare Repertory semble’s tour of performances Seattle Youth Symphony Or­ Chicago, IL $20,000 and workshops of Filipino chestra. (theater) kulintang music in several To support the composition of states with large Filipino-Amer­ Self-Help Graphics & Art, Inc. original music and musicians’ ican populations. Los Angeles, CA $55,ooo appearances with actors as an (visual arts) integral part of mainstage pro­ To support the Professional ductions. Artists Printmaking Project which will provide up to 40 artists, primarily Chicano, with GRANTS AND AWARDS

Society for New Music American nonfiction authors Spanish Theatre Repertory Syracuse, NY $14,500 will collaborate to create radio Co., Ltd. (music) documentaries for national New York, NY $50,000 To support costs associated broadcast. (theater) with the Winter Series, includ­ To support the Voces Nuevas ing artists’ fees for up to six South Bend Symphony project, Latino plays document­ concerts of new music and the Orchestra Association, Inc. ing the experiences of Hispanics commissioning of a new work South Bend, IN $6,305 born and/or raised in the by composer Dana Wilson. (music) United States, that will tour in To support the Summer-Time various states. Socrates Sculpture Park, Inc. Honors Festival in 1998, bring­ Long Island City, NY $2o, ooo ing musicians together with Speculum Musicae, Inc. (visual arts) students from high schools in New York, NY $5,000 To support the Outdoor Studio the South Bend-Mishawaka (music) program, providing up to 20 area. To support concerts in New artists with studio space, equip­ York City in 1997-98, empha­ ment, technical assistance, and South Coast Repertory, Inc. sizing works of American com­ a stipend to create site-specific Costa Mesa, CA $60,000 posers, both established and and monumental sculpture. (theater) emerging. To support a production of Grants to Soho Repertory Theatre, Inc. Thornton Wilder’s Our Town, a Spoleto Festival U.S.A. Organizations New York, NY $5,ooo Theatre Discovery Project pre­ Charleston, SC $50,000 (theater) sentation, to be mounted in the (presenting) 43 To support the creation and spring of 1998. To support the production of Creation & production of a new play by Wozzeck and the presentation of Presentation Mac Wellman, to be adapted Southern California Asian Theatre de la Jeune Lune, Lulu from the G.K. Chesterton clas­ American Studies Central Noire, In Xanadu, and the Solo sic The Man Who Was (Visual Communications) Voices series during the 1997 Thursday. Los Angeles, CA $26,200 Festival. (media arts) Solomon R. Guggenhelm To support Re-Mapping L.A., a Springfield Symphony Foundation series of film/video exhibitions Orchestra New York, NY $200,000 and workshops examining Los Springfield, MA $2o, ooo (museum) Angeles’ Asian communities (music) To support a traveling retro­ and the mainstream media per­ To support the A Little Lunch spective exhibition of the work ception of those communities, Music... lunchfime concert of American artist Robert and the publication of one issue series. Rauschenberg and accompany­ of the journal In Focus. ing education programs. Standby Program, Inc. Spaces New York, NY $15,ooo Sound Portraits Productions, Cleveland, OH $15,ooo (media arts) Inc. (visual arts) To support the provision of New York, NY $50,000 To support "Collection Service;’ state-of-the-art, broadcast qual­ (media arts) an exhibition of work relating ity, post-production video To support the first year of the to the urban environment of equipment to film and video Public Radio Writer’s Initiative, Cleveland by artists Anton Van artists and independent pro­ in which the award-winning ra­ Dahlen, loyce Scott, and Paul ducers. dio producer David Isay and Ramirez-lonas. NEA 1997 ANNUAL REPORT

State University of New York at Sun Cities Chamber Music Talking Band, Inc. Albany, Research Foundation of Society New York, NY $15,ooo Albany, NY $17,ooo Sun City, AZ $5,000 (musical theater) (music) (music) To support the rehearsal and To support lune in Buffalo, a To support the presentation of production of the premiere of composers’ seminarJworkshop the Emerson String Quartet Black Milk Quartet. sponsored by the State Univer­ during 1998, including a public sity of New York at Buffalo in concert and public elementary Tears of Joy Theatre 1997. school residencies. Vancouver, WA $30,000 (theater) Stephen Petronio Dance Sundance Institute for Film and To support the creation and Company, Inc. Television presentation, using puppets and New York, NY $25,000 Salt Lake City, UT $200,000 masks, of Bridge of the Gods, (dance) (media arts) working with Native American To support the creation of a To support the 1998 Sundance artists to adapt this legend, new dance work choreo­ Film Festival, the directing and credited to the Klickitat people, graphed by Stephen Petronio, screenwriting labs, and the pro­ for the stage and performing it with music by Andy Teirstein ducers’ conference. in other locales. to be performed by profes­ Grants to sional musicians working with Sutherland Community Arts Teatro Avante, Inc, Organizations a changing roster of school- Initiative Miami, FL $35,000 aged musicians. Chicago, IL $5,500 (theater) 44 (music) To support the 12th Interna­ Creation & Storefront for Art and To support the 1997 JAAZ tional Hispanic Theatre Festi­ Presentation Architecture, Inc. Festival. val, featuring contemporary New York, NY $20,000 and classical works by Hispanic (design) Syracuse Children’s Chorus, Inc. playwrights produced by inter­ To support "Beirut," a photo- Camillus, NY $11,ooo nationally known companies. documentary exhibition with (music) accompanying CD-ROM that To support a consortium com­ Temple University uses architectural investigation prised of the Syracuse Chil­ Philadelphia, PA $20,000 to examine the destruction of dren’s Chorus, the Chicago (multidisciplinary) Beirut during the 1991 civil war. Children’s Choir, and the San To support a consortium pro­ Francisco Girls’ Chorus that ject for workshop and presenta­ Studio Museum in Harlem, Inc. will commission and perform a tion expenses for an opera by New York, NY $75,000 new work by composer-con­ composer Leroy Jenkins, visual (museum) ductor Calvin Custer. artist Homer Jackson, and To support the traveling exhibi­ choreographer Ronnie Harris. tion "Norman Lewis: Black Syracuse Symphony Paintings, 1944-1977," with an Orchestra, Inc. Texas Folklife Resources accompanying catalogue and Syracuse, NY $50,000 Austin, TX $15o, ooo education programs. (music) (folk and traditional arts) To support performances in To support a consortium pro­ rural and underserved commu­ ject comprised of a series of res­ nities throughout central and idencies by distinguished Texan northern New York State. GRANTS AND AWARDS

traditional artists of various Theatre de la Jeune Lune Twin Cities Public Television, cultural backgrounds in under- Minneapolis, MN $52,500 Inc. (KTCA) served communities through­ (theater) St. Paul, MN $1oo, ooo out the Lone Star state. To support the development, (media arts) including the commission of an To support the development Thalia Spanish Theatre, Inc. original score, and production and production of the 1998 tele­ Sunnyside, NY $19,ooo of a new work about Elizabeth cast of Alive TV, a series pre­ (folk and traditional arts) II, Queen of England, which senting new and experimental To support a series of perfor­ will explore the role of the work in film, video, and anima­ mances of classic Spanish dance monarchy in today’s world. tion. and flamenco, Argentine folk­ loric and tango music and Theatre for a New United Indians of All Tribes dance, and Mexican folkloric Audience, Inc. Foundation music and dance. New York, NY $45,000 Seattle, WA $4o, ooo (theater) (visual arts) Theater for the New City To support the second year of a To support exhibitions of work Foundation, Inc. residency by director Julie Tay- by four contemporary Native New York, NY $30,000 mot. American artists: James (theater) Lavadour, Edgar Heap-of-Birds, To support artists’ fees for the Threepenny Review ]aune Quick-to-See Smith, and Grants to Playwright Development Pro­ Berkeley, CA $12,ooo Tom Rudd, at the Sacred Circle Organizations ject, which will develop and (literature) Gallery of American Indian Art. produce new plays by American To support authors’ fees and 45 playwrights. promotional expenses for up to University Musical Society Creation & four issues of The Threepenny Ann Arbor, MI $50,000 Presentation Theater For Youth, Inc. Review. (presenting) Boise, ID $22,5oo To support the series Unfamil­ (theater) A Traveling Jewish Theatre iar Things, focusing on the pre­ To support the completion and San Francisco, CA $125,ooo sentation of contemporary mu­ production, by the Idaho The­ (theater) sic and dance, and classical ater for Youth and the Boise To support the Network of En­ theater. Philharmonic Orchestra, of an semble Theatres consortium-­ original theatrical/musical work the Bloomsburg Theatre En­ University of California at for young audiences entitled semble, Cornerstone Theater Berkeley, Regents of the The Last Paving Stone. Company, Dell’Arte Players (for Cal Performances) Company, Independent Eye, Berkeley, CA $162,500 Theatre and Arts Foundation of Irondale Ensemble Project, and (dance) San Diego County (La Jolla Touchstone Theatre--in creat­ To support a series of residen­ Playhouse) ing an alternative touring net­ cies, performances, and teaching La Jolla, CA $4o, ooo work. opportunities for area artists, (theater) school children, and senior citi­ To support the development Tulsa Opera, Inc. zens, with the Merce Cunning­ and production of Dogeaters by Tulsa, OK $25,000 ham Dance Company, the Dance Jessica Hagedorn. (opera) Theatre of Harlem, and the To support production costs for Mark Morris Dance Group. the contemporary American opera Dreamkeepers. NEA 1997 ANNUAL REPORT

University of California at University of Hawaii at Manoa University of Virginia Berkeley, Regents of the Honolulu, HI $5o, oo0 Charlottesville, VA $35,000 (for the University Art Museum) (literature) (literature) Berkeley, CA $12o, ooo To support a direct mail cam­ To support the program Writ­ (museum) paign, production, and related ing the Self and Community: To support a touring exhibition expenses including honoraria CALLALO0 Writing Work­ of the work of American artist for writers and visual artists, for shops for Historically Black In­ Joan Brown, organized in con- four issues of Manoa: A Pacific stitutions. junct:ion with the Oakland Mu­ lournal of International Writing. seum, with an accompanying Victoria Regional Museum catalogue and education pro­ University of Houstonm Association, Inc. grams. University Park Victoria, TX $5,ooo (for the Blaffer Gallery) (museum) University of California at Houston, TX $25,ooo To support the exhibition "The Berkeley, Regents of the (museum) Horse Re-Defined," with ac­ (for Cal Performances) To support a traveling exhibi­ companying catalogue and edu­ Berkeley, CA $82,500 tion of the work of African- cation programs. (music) American artist Michael Ray To support the fifth biennial Charles, with an accompanying Victory Gardens Theater Grants to Berkeley Festival & Exhibition, catalogue and education pro­ Chicago, IL $2o, ooo Organizations a consortium project with the grams, organized by the Univer­ (theater) San Francisco Early Music sity’s Blaffer Gallery. To support a residency or com­ 46 Society. mission for one playwright, a Creation & University of Houstonm script development workshop Presentation University of California at Los University Park for a second playwright, and the Angeles, Regents of the (for Arte Publico Press) production of a play that has Los Angeles, CA $5o, ooo Houston, TX $50,000 benefited from the company’s (media arts) (literature) script development resources. To support the 1998 Los Angeles To support the continued estab­ International Women’s Film lishment ofArte Publico Press’s Video Association of Dallas, Inc. Festival. young adult imprint, Pinata Dallas, TX $12,5oo Books, through the publication (media arts) University of Chicago and promotion of new titles. To support the 1997 Dallas Chicago, IL $4o, ooo Video Festival. (museum) University of Illinois at Urbana- To support the University’s Re­ Champaign Virginia Symphony naissance Society for an exhibi­ Champaign, IL $30,000 Norfolk, VA $2o, ooo tion of the work of African- (presenting) (music) American artist Kerry James To support the 1997-98 New Vi­ To support a fully staged pro­ Marshall, with an accompany­ sions series of performances, duction of William Shake­ ing catalogue, education pro­ residencies, and community speare’s A Midsummer Night’s grams, and collaborations with and educational programs fea­ Dream, with incidental music other area institutions. turing contemporary perform­ by Felix Mendelssohn, in col­ ing artists at the Krannert Cen­ laboration with the Virginia ter for the Performing Arts. Stage Company in 1997-98. GRANTS AND AWARDS

Visual AIDS for the Arts, Inc. New York, NY $15,ooo (visual arts) To support the exhibition "Arts Communities/AIDS Com­ munities: Realizing the Archive Project."

Visual Studies Workshop, Inc. Rochester, NY $50,000 (visual arts) To support a multifaceted visual arts project designed to stimu­ late community dialogue about contemporary land use issues.

Vivian Beaumont Theater, Inc. (Lincoln Center Theater) New York, NY $50,000 (theater) To support artists’ fees and roy­ alties for the 1997 productions of God’s Heartby Craig Lucas, and a revival of Lillian Hell­ man’s Little Foxes.

Voices of Change Dallas, TX $13,ooo (music) Rosalind Elias (Grandmother) tells Ashley Putnam (Ela) of her vision that Ela must To support a residency for com­ use her spiritual gifts to save Dr. Adam Wade in a contemporary American opera, poser Roberto Sierra, including Dreamkeepers, produced by the Tulsa Opera in Oklahoma. Photo by Bob McCormick concerts, broadcast of a televi­ sion program, work in class­ Walker Art Center, Inc. Washington, DC International rooms, speaking engagements, Minneapolis, MN $50,000 Film Festival, Inc. and a publication. (museum) Washington, DC $25,000 To support the exhibition "Art (media arts) Wadsworth Atheneum Performs Life: Cunningham/ To support the 1997 Washing­ Hartford, CT $95,000 Monk/lones," with an accompa­ ton, DC International Film Fes­ (museum) nying catalogue and education tival, including free films for To support a traveling exhibi­ programs. children (Filmfest DC for Kids), tion of works from the Serge Li­ senior citizens (Cinema for Se­ far collection of designs and niors), and underserved com­ costumes for the Ballets Russes, munities; and other educational with an accompanying cata­ programs. logue and education programs. NEA 1997 ANNUAL REPORT

Washington Drama Society, Wexner Center Foundation Wooster Group, Inc. Inc. (Arena Stage) Columbus, OH $175,ooo New York, NY $7o, ooo Washington, DC $125,000 (multidisciplinary) (theater) (theater) To support artists’ residencies To support the second phase of To support the production for artists of national development of House-Lights, phase of a new work by Anna significance working in the vi­ based on Gertrude Stein’s Dr. Deavere Smith, a consortium sual, performing, and media Faustas Lights the Lights, into project with Arena Stage in arts. which film influences of the Washington, DC, the Mark Ta­ 195os and 196os will be intro­ per Forum in Los Angeles, and Whispering Voice, Inc. duced and a theatrical compo­ the Goodman Theatre in New York, NY $4o, ooo nent will be added. Chicago. (dan~e) To support the creation of Love Worcester Art Museum~ Washington Performing Arts Songs, choreographed by David Worcester, MA $75,ooo Society Rousseve, which, through the (museum) Washington, DC $1o, ooo dance and elaborate set designs, To support a traveling exhibi­ (presenting) will represent issues of love, tion of Abstract Expressionist To support programming in loss, heartache, and joy. prints, with an accompanying European classical music, catalogue and education pro­ Grants to gospel choirs, and contempo­ White Columns, Inc. grams. Organizations rary dance. New York, NY $35,ooo (visual arts) WNYC Foundation 48 Washington Square Arts, Inc. To support the White Room New York, NY $30,000 Creation & New York, NY $z25,ooo Program, a series of solo exhibi­ (music) Presentation (media arts) tions for emerging artists not To support an artist-in-resi­ To support the first phase of affiliated with a New York com­ dence program for the commis­ The World of Poetry project, mercial gallery. sioning of new works, and for including the production of live concert broadcasts from filmed poetry for distribution White Pine, Inc. Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Is­ to public television, and related Fredonia, NY $3o, ooo land, the Bronx, and Manhattan activities. (literature) featuring the commissioned To support publication costs, pieces. We Tell Stories, Inc. artists’ fees, and related ex­ Los Angeles, CA $30,000 penses for new titles in the Wolf Trap Foundation for the (theater) World of Voices multicultural Performing Arts To support the creation and publishing series. Vienna, VA $25,000 presentation throughout the (music) United States of "The Village of Williams College To support The Wolf Trap Dis­ Liver and Onions" from Carl Williamstown, MA $35,000 covery Series, chamber music Sandburg’s The Rootabaga Sto­ (museum) concerts recorded live at The ries, primarily for young audi­ To support the traveling exhibi­ Barns of Wolf Trap and distrib­ ences. tion "1oo Years of Difference: uted nationally as a series of The Hampton Project;’ with an one-hour radio programs. accompanying catalogue and education programs, organized by the Williams College Mu­ seum of Art. GRANTS AND AWARDS

Women in Translation Xicanindio Artes, Inc. Young Men’s Christian Seattle, WA $15,ooo Mesa, AZ $1o, ooo Associations of the USA (literature) (multidisciplinary) Chicago, IL $78,000 To support publication costs To support the production of (literature) and related expenses, including Mexican Cowboys and Indian To support the continued ex­ royalty payments, for up to two Lowriders, a performance/in­ pansion of the National Read­ volumes of translation by stallation by Guillermo Gomez- ings Tour of the National women authors. Pena, Roberto Sifuentes, and lo­ Writer’s Voice Project, to in­ cal artists. clude new sites in New Mexico, Words Given Wings Literary South Dakota, New Jersey, Cali­ Arts Project Yale University fornia, North Carolina, New San Francisco, CA $30,000 New Haven, CT $1oo, ooo Hampshire, and Florida. (literature) (theater) To support publication costs, To support the production of Zeitgeist authors’ advances, and related Bertolt Brecht’s Rise and Fall of St. Paul, MN $1o, ooo expenses of four books by Mer­ the City of Mahagonny during (music) cury House. the 1998 centenary of his birth. To support the commissioning and performance of a new work World Music, Inc. Young Concert Artists, Inc. by Paul Dresher. Cambridge, MA $20,000 New York, NY ¢50,000 Grants to (dance) (music) 1$14,ooo was obligated in FY Organizations To support the second annual To support the New York and 1997, with the balance carried World of Dance, a performance Washington, DC Young Concert over to the next year, subject to 49 and residency project which Artists Series in 1997-98, pre­ grantee meeting matching fund Creation & will present outstanding dance senting the winners of the an­ requirements. Presentation ensembles from around the nual Young Concert Artists’ Au­ world. ditions in concerts and school programs. World l~usic Institute, Inc. New York, NY $50,000 Young Men’s & Young Women’s (presenting) Hebrew Association To support the 1997-98 A World New York, NY $75,000 of Music and Dance series with (literature) major artists from the Ameri­ To support Authors & Audi­ cas, Asia, the African Diaspora, ences, the Unterberg Poetry the Middle East, and Europe. Center’s program of literary readings, literary interviews, X-Art Foundation, Inc. panel discussions, and a literacy New York, NY $20,000 project involving the Union (m ultidisciplinary) Settlement Association in To support the production, ex­ Harlem. hibition, and Internet dissemi­ nation of issues of Blasts: Drama, a multimedia publica­ tion. Grants to Organizations

EDUCATION & ACCESS

three decades the Arts Endowment giving family concerts and providing all the supported lifelong learning in the necessary training and materials for teachers. arts and affirmed its mission of broad­ Education & Access grants also support pre­ ening public access to the arts. The Education professional training and professional devel­ and Access grant category established in a997 opment for artists. For example, the ]uilliard expands opportunities in these two areas. School’s Seaver/NEA Conductors Award to cul­ The Endowment maintains that children tivate talented young conductors, the Texas Fine from pre-kindergarten through twelfth grades Arts Association’s exhibitions for emerging and should have a sequential education in the arts mid-career American artists, and the Boston that is linked to content standards, taught by Symphony’s professional opera training pro­ qualified teachers, and regularly involves artists gram at Tanglewood Music Center all received and works of art. Education & Access grants 1997 Endowment sponsorship. Other projects, support assessment programs, curriculum de­ such as the Hartford, Connecticut Artists’ Col­ velopment, and partnerships with arts organi­ lective professional training program in the 5O zations. These grants fund teacher and artist African Diaspora’s cultural heritage, or the training, such as the national network of the nearby Charter Oak Temple Restoration Asso­ Teachers and Writers Collaborative that brings ciation’s summer arts program for youth and writers into schools nationwide; after-school families, benefit all generations. programs, such as that of the Mosaic Youth The­ Access projects funded in 1997 include a va­ atre of Detroit; and programs for at-risk youth, riety of programs that reach people with limited such as the Art on Saturdays program at the opportunities to experience the arts first-hand. Tacoma Art Museum in the state of Washing­ Touring programs such as Junebug Production’s ton. Grants also support partnerships with lo­ Junebug/Jack Project Louisiana tour, outreach cal community centers such as the Billings, programs like Philadelphia’s Claymobile for in­ Montana YMCA writing workshops for youths ner-city and low-income communities, and na­ and teachers. tional radio or television broadcasts such as The Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra cred­ WNET’s Great Performances series receive fund­ its the Endowment’s creation of the Education ing through Education & Access grants. These & Access category for its ability to compete suc­ grants make available the work of ethnically di­ cessfully for a major grant to expand its Arts in verse, older, or physically challenged individu­ Community Education (ACE) program. ACE als, through programs such as the artists’ resi­ provides sequential music instruction to thou­ dencies of Taller Puertorriqueno in Philadelphia sands of Milwaukee children by integrating it and the International Festival of Wheelchair throughout the curriculum, involving parents, Dance, organized by Boston Dance Umbrella. GRANTS AND AWARDS

Education & Access Alliance for Young Artists & American Composers Forum 171 awards $10,787,262 Writers, Inc. St. Paul, MN $200,000 New York, NY $25,000 (music) The discipline designations in (museum) To support the production and parentheses refer to the pro­ To support a touring exhibi­ field-testing of a new music ject, not necessarily the organi­ tion, with an accompanying primer, which includes a com­ zation. catalogue, of works of art by pendium of newly commis­ secondary school students from sioned American compositions, all over the United States who to be used by band students in Adelante Corporation are winners of the Scholastic late elementary, middle, and ju­ San Francisco, CA $z2,ooo Art Awards. nior high schools. (theater) To support the Young People’s Alternate ROOTS, Inc. American Documentary, Inc. Theatre Enhancement Project, Atlanta, GA SzOO, OOO New York, NY $400,000 an after-school program that (multidisciplinary) (media) teaches at-risk Latino middle To support the Services to Un­ To support the development, and high school youth a com­ derserved Artists, Presenters acquisition, and completion of prehensive range of theater and Their Communities project, programs for the z998 broadcast skills. which provides residency fees, of the television series, P.. O. V. publications, and ongoing tech­ (Point of View). Grants to nical assistance. Organizations

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Baltimore Symphony Orchestra violinist Leonid Berkovich plays with this first grade student at Landsdowne Elementary School in Landsdowne, Maryland, one of eleven schools participating in the Orchestra’s Arts Excel program. Photo by Michael Ciesielski. NEA 1997 ANNUAL REPORT

American Film Institute Artists Collective, Inc. Atlatl, Inc. Los Angeles, CA $2oo, ooo Hartford, CT $z19,ooo Phoenix, AZ $40,000 (media arts) (multidisciplinary) (multidisciplinary) To support education and To support year-round profes­ To support exhibitions, profes­ training projects of the Ameri­ sional training in dance, the­ sional development workshops, can Film Institute, including the ater, music, and visual arts for and the publication of a development of media arts cur­ children and adults which newsletter, artist registry, and ricula and training models for broadens their understanding directory. new digital technologies, and and appreciation of the culture, online access to AFI’s informa­ heritage, and arts of the African Ballet Hispanico of New York tion resources. diaspora. New York, NY $54,500 (dance) American Library Association Arts in Progress, Inc. To support the development of Chicago, IL $80,000 Boston, MA $39,000 a model study unit, utilizing (literature) (arts education) concerts, study guides, teacher To support expansion of Writ­ To support Pathways and Part­ training, and residencies to cel­ ers Live at the Library to the nerships for Learning, a series ebrate dance and the cultural Southeast, the continuation of of activities to assist teachers contributions made by Hispan­ the program in the Midwest, and administrators in several ics to the United States. Grants to and the development of na­ Boston middle and high schools Organizations tional networks for literary pro­ to meet the new state arts stan­ Baltimore Symphony gramming. dards and the Boston Arts-in- Orchestra, Inc. 52 Education Policy. Baltimore, MD $1oo, ooo Education & Americans for the Arts (arts education) Access Washington, DC $162,5oo Arts I~atter (Gallery 37) To support development and (local arts agency) Chicago, IL $25,ooo dissemination of a replicable To support the implementation (visual arts) model program that improves of the Local Arts Agency Educa­ To support the production of a student attendance, attitudes, tion and Accessibility Learning video and manual of Gallery and performance through arts- Initiative, which will strengthen 37’s programs that provide em­ integrated teaching and part­ the quality of programming, ployment for high school stu­ nerships between schools and educational planning, and ac­ dents in the arts through part­ artists. cessibility of local arts agencies. nerships among local government, the business com­ Berkeley Repertory Theater Appalshop, Inc. munity, and arts organizations. Berkeley, CA $75,000 Whitesburg, KY $z5o, ooo (theater) (folk and traditional arts) ArtsConnection, Inc. To support the Asian Pacific- To support the Appalachian New York, NY $15o, ooo American Audience Initiative Music Initiative, providing un­ (arts education) jointly with the Asian-Ameri­ derserved Appalachian audi­ To support the creation of a can Theater Company. ences with access to exemplary national model for a sequential, arts and educational activities academically integrated, K-6 centering on mountain musical arts curriculum, providing traditions. teachers with new ways to en­ gage students and make con­ nections among different sub­ ject areas. GRANTS AND AWARDS

Bloomsburg Theatre Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Cedar Rapids Symphony Ensemble, Inc. Sciences Orchestra Association, Inc. Bloomsburg, PA $22,000 Brooklyn, NY $156,00o Cedar Rapids, IA $12,ooo (theater) (arts education) (arts education) To support Theatre in the To support the New York City To support expansion of a col­ Classroom’s production of Sto­ Museum School, a collaborative laboration between the Cedar rySpinners: Tales from the Ap­ project of five museums and the Rapids Symphony Orchestra palachians. New York City Public Schools, and the local public schools, and to assess and refine the curricu­ to support the salary of an edu­ Boston Dance Umbrella, Inc. lum, and to develop enhanced cation program coordinator. Cambridge, MA $40,000 models for documentation and (dance) its nationwide dissemination. Chamber Music Society of To support the 1997 Interna­ Lincoln Center, Inc. tional Festival of Wheelchair California Institute of the Arts New York, NY $18,000 Dance, which will include per­ Valencia, CA $2oo, ooo (music) formances, workshops, lecture- (multidisciplinary) To support the Meet the Music demonstrations, seminars, and To support the Community family concert series which in­ a conference. Arts Partnership Consortium cludes narration, visuals, project which provides a multi­ scripted dialogue, and perfor­ Boston Film/Video cultural alternative to conven­ mances by children, with audi­ Grants to Foundation, Inc. tional arts training and sets na­ ence interaction. Organizations Boston, MA $40,000 tional standards for arts (media arts) education and community in­ Charter Oak Temple 53 To support a comprehensive volvement. Restoration Association, Inc. Education & media arts education program. Hartford, CT Szo, ooo Access California Poets in the Schools (multidisciplinary) Boston Symphony Orchestra, San Francisco, CA $20,000 To support after-school and Inc. (literature) summer arts programming Boston, MA $1oo, ooo To support LitArts PULSE (Po­ for neighborhood youth and (opera) etry in the Urban Landscape families. To support the expansion of the Statewide Education), a pro­ vocal program at Tanglewood gram designed to increase the Chicago Children’s Choir Music Center to include profes­ literary arts audience in Fresno, Chicago, IL ¢30,000 sional opera training during East Los Angeles, and part of (arts education) 1997-98. Orange County. To support an increase in stu­ dents’ access to choral music Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Camera News, Inc. (Third training by the Chicago Chil­ Atlanta, Inc. World Newsreel) dren’s Choir through establish­ Atlanta, GA $35,000 New York, NY $25,000 ing additional in-school and af­ (visual arts) (media arts) ter-school programs. To support a collaboration be­ To support the launching of tween the Boys & Girls Clubs of an interactive Web site, the Metro Atlanta and the Metro­ publication of a 3oth anniver­ politan Atlanta United Way in sary catalogue, and a produc­ which six artists-in-residence tion workshop. will work with Atlanta young people. Grants to Organizations

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

Chicago Theatre Group, Inc. Children’s Art Carnival City Art Works Chicago, IL $z25,5oo New York, NY $25,000 Seattle, WA $20,o0o (theater) (multidisciplinary) (visual arts) To support the Goodman To support the Communication To support the Pratt Summer Theatre’s Student Subscription Arts Production Apprenticeship Intensives Program, a series of Series that offers an in-depth Training Program, a program week-long workshops for artists introduction to theater for that helps youth with an inter­ and public programs presented Chicago public high school stu­ est in careers in the arts prepare by visiting artists of national dents, teachers, and parents. for entry into specialized high and international stature. schools, colleges, and entry level Chicago Youth Symphony art jobs. Clay Studio Orchestra Philadelphia, PA $2o, ooo Chicago, IL $20,000 Chinese Music Society of North (visual arts) (music) America To support circulation of the To support the expansion of Naperville, IL $23,000 Claymobile, a traveling ceram­ Music Pathways, an in-school (folk and traditional arts) ics class in a van, to inner-city outreach project based on the To support a series of lectures and low-income Philadelphia musical and literary movement and educational concerts of communities. known as the Harlem Renais­ Chinese music by the Chinese sance. Classical Orchestra and the Silk and Bamboo Ensemble. GRANTS AND AWARDS

Columbus Museum of Art Dance Theater Foundation, Inc. for the creation of an expanded Columbus, OH $1oo, ooo (Alvin Ailey American Dance curriculum for Literacy (museum) Theater) through Photography, a pro­ To support the installation of New York, NY $200,000 gram to teach writing. "Eye Spy: Adventures in Art," (dance) the inaugural exhibition and To support a consortium pro­ Earmark, Inc. programmatic core of the mu­ ject to expand Mvin Ailey’s West Chester, PA $42,000 seum’s new Children’s Educa­ summer dance camps for inner- (media arts) tion Center. city youth to Philadelphia and To support the production of Chicago. Artbeat, a nationally broadcast Connecticut Public weekly radio magazine on the Broadcasting Dance Theatre of Harlem, Inc. arts and culture. Hartford, CT $60,000 New York, NY $2oo, ooo (media arts) (dance) East Bay Center for the To support the acquisition, de­ To support Dancing Through Performing Arts velopment, and production Barriers, a touring educational Richmond, CA $50,000 costs for 1997 and 1998 broad­ initiative which introduces the (multidisciplinary) casts of New Television, a series discipline of dance to over To support the Production and of half-hour television pro­ 6o,ooo children each year. Performance Program which grams presenting video art­ includes an ensembles/mentor­ Grants to works from around the world. Delaware Theatre Company ship project, a teacher intern Organizations Wilmington, DE $20,000 program, festivals and produc­ Cornell University (theater) tions, and a young artists reper­ 55 Ithaca, NY $18,ooo To support the Children At Risk tory series. Education & (museum) Program, a theater education Access To support the teachers insti­ program targeting underserved East-West Players, Inc. tute and the African component student populations through Los Angeles, CA $25,000 of the program Objects and five specialized teaching com­ (theater) Their Makers: New Insights, ponents. To support East-West Players’ which provides rural schools professional training program access to the Herbert E Johnson Downtown Community comprised of the Conservatory, Museum of Art’s collections. Television Center, Inc. the David Henry Hwang Writ­ New York, NY $35,ooo ers Institute, and the Actors Dance Exchange, Inc. (Liz (media arts) Network. Lerman Dance Exchange) To support educational Takoma Park, MD $20,000 activities, including production Educational Broadcasting (dance) training, workshops, and pro­ Corporation (WNET) To support an extended grams targeted to underserved New York, NY Sl, ooo, ooo residency at the National Insti­ youth. (media arts) tutes of Health that will To support the development include working with doctors, Duke University and production of performance researchers, administrators, Durham, NC $50,000 specials and arts documentaries patients, and visitors to explore, (arts education) to be nationally broadcast in through dance, the relationship To support a partnership be­ 1998 on the Great Performances, between art and science. tween the Center for Documen­ Dance in America, and Ameri­ tary Studies at Duke University can Masters television series. and the Durham Public Schools NEA 1997 ANNUAL REPORT

Educational Video Center, Inc. 52nd Street Project Fort Worth Symphony New York, NY $25,000 New York, NY $5o, ooo Orchestra Association, Inc. (arts education) (theater) Ft. Worth, TX $30,000 To support continued develop­ To support Playmaking, three (music) ment of the High School Docu­ progressively challenging play- To support Adventures in Mu­ mentary Workshop, Media Arts writing programs for youths sic, an education and outreach Portfolio Assessment, and repli­ between the ages of nine and program for Fort Worth and cation of the workshop model thirteen from New York’s Clin­ other Texas communities. throughout New York City ton (Hell’s Kitchen) neighbor­ schools through the Teacher hood. Foundation for Architecture Development Program. Philadelphia, PA $167,98o Fitton Center for Creative Arts (design) Electronic Arts Intermix, Inc. Hamilton, OH $5o, ooo To support the development of New York, NY $25,000 (arts education) new resource materials and ac­ (media arts) To support the Arts Basic Cen­ tivities for the foundation’s Ar­ To support the design and pro­ ter for the Development of Ed­ chitecture in Education Pro­ duction of an online catalogue ucators (ABCDE), a project to gram. of the Artists’ Videotape Distri­ provide quality professional de­ bution Service and the offering velopment opportunities for Foundation for Independent Grants to of selected tapes from its collec­ teachers and education admin­ Video & Film, Inc. Organizations tion to public libraries. istrators in a five-state region. New York, NY $35,000 (media arts) Esperanza Peace and Justice Five Colleges, Inc. To support the publication of Education & Center Amherst, MA $zo, ooo The Independent Film and Video Access San Antonio, TX $15,ooo (museum) Monthly. (m ultidisciplinary) To support the development of To support the Breaking Barri­ a database of the combined Frederick Douglass Creative ers/Building Bridges project, holdings of this six-museum Arts which consists of art and film consortium, which will make New York, NY $25,000 exhibitions, performances, and available to the public more (muItidisciplinary) community discussion groups than 80,000 objects-- the scope To support the Dramatic Writ­ that focus on issues of race, of which is rarely found outside ing program. gender, and class. a major urban museum. Glen Ellyn Children’s Chorus Eugene Ballet Florida Dance Association Glen Ellyn, IL $15,ooo Eugene, OR $20,000 Miami, FL $25,000 (music) (dance) (dance) To support educational out­ To support an educational out­ To support the 1997 Florida reach programs through work­ reach initiative which will allow Dance Festival, which includes shops for educators and their the Eugene Ballet to conduct performances, lectures, classes, choruses, and a children’s residencies and in-school per­ and symposia on topics ranging choral learning program. formances in areas that are not from Butoh dancing to injury traditionally served by other prevention. dance companies or performing groups. GRANTS AND AWARDS

Growth and Prevention into Chen & Dancers’ local, na­ Inner-City Arts Theater tional, and international resi­ Los Angeles, CA $11o, ooo Seattle, WA $5,790 dency-based touring. (arts education) (theater) To support a project to engage To support the development of Hudson River Museum of visiting artists and Inner-City a new theater piece addressing a Westchester Arts’ professional staff in creat­ critical social issue in the com­ Yonkers, NY $z6,ooo ing a sequential arts education munity. (museum) program for grades two To support a program for stu­ through six in the Los Angeles Hawaii Alliance for Arts in dents of the Museum Junior Unified School District. Education High School to explore contem­ Honolulu, HI $50,000 porary art focusing on the ex­ Japanese American Cultural (folk and traditional arts) pressive and symbolic nature of and Community Center To support the integration of clothing and costume. Los Angeles, CA $75,000 Hula Ki’i, a complex of Hawai­ (multidisciplinary) ian traditional arts, into school Illinois Alliance for Arts To support the Japanese- curricula and other means of Education, Inc. American Artists and Audiences lifelong learning on the islands Chicago, IL $40,000 Project, which consists of pre­ of Moloka’i, Oahu, and Kaua’i. (arts education) sentations of works by Japanese- To support expansion of the American artists, corollary Grants to Henry Street Settlement Chicago ARTSMART Awareness lectures, workshop series, and Organizations New York, NY $90,000 Campaign and Hotline services residencies. (multidisciplinary) for five new communities. 57 To support Building Bridges-­ Jazzmobile, Inc. Education & Building Audiences, a project Illinois State University New York, NY $40,000 Access designed to heighten awareness Normal, IL $45,000 (music) of the Abrons Art Center as an (literature) To support the Saturday Jazz arts resource within the richly To support the development Workshop Program offering diverse community of the and maintenance of a Web site musical training to predomi­ Lower East Side. by the Unit for Contemporary nantly inner-city minority Literature, in order to furnish students. Houston Grand Opera home pages for independent lit­ Association, Inc. erary presses and writers’ con­ Juilliard School Houston, TX $2oo, ooo ferences. New York, NY $25,000 (opera) (music) To support the Community Indiana Repertory Theatre, Inc. To support the Music Advance­ Connections Initiative during Indianapolis, IN $50,000 ment Program, an initiative for 1997-98. (theater) financially disadvantaged mi­ To support the Discovery Se­ nority children in New York H.T. Dance Company, Inc. ries, an educational program City public schools, providing (Chen and Dancers) which includes three fully-pro­ free music instruction to New York, NY $49,000 duced plays and detailed mate­ African-American and His­ (dance) rials chosen for their direct re­ panic-American children. To support the development of lationship to the middle and Adopted Land, a new educa­ high school curriculum. tional program to be integrated NEA 1997 ANNUAL REPORT

Juilliard School Kent State University L.A. Freewaves (for the Seaver/NEA Kent, OH $12,ooo Los Angeles, CA $1o, ooo Conductors Award) (music) (media arts) New York, NY $1o, ooo To support summer school To support L.A. Freewaves Goes (music) scholarships for nationally se­ to High School and L.A. Free- To support the Seaver/NEA lected advanced music students waves Goes to the Library, Conductors Award, a public- at Kent/Blossom Music, a six- which will bring cutting-edge private partnership dedicated week career development pro­ video art to Los Angeles high to identifying and cultivating gram of the Cleveland Orches­ schools and libraries. exceptionally talented young tra and Blossom Music Center. American conductors at the Lark Society for Chamber start of their professional ca­ Kentucky Arts Council Music reers. Frankfort, KY S7,5oo Portland, ME $4,800 (local arts agencies) (music) Junebug Productions To support the creation and im­ To support the Portland String New Orleans, LA $30,000 plementation of a Peer Advisor Quartet in a high school resi­ (theater) Network. dency project, Parallels in U.S. To support a consortium of History and the "Lively Arts" Louisiana presenters and the Ko-Thi, Inc. from 173o to the Present, which Grants to Louisiana Presenters Network Milwaukee, WI $40,000 will conclude with a perfor­ Organizations for the Junebug/Jack Project to (dance) mance for the school and com­ tour throughout Louisiana. To support studio classes, in- munity. 58 school concerts, lecture- Education & Kalamazoo Symphony Society demonstrations, and profes­ Levine School of Music Access Kalamazoo, MI $1o, ooo sional training for promising Washington, DC $25,000 (music) school-age children. (music) To support education pro­ To support the Public Housing grams, including youth con­ Koahnic Broadcast Corporation Youth Orchestra Program certs, the youth scholarship Anchorage, AK $35,000 which provides after-school ac­ program, the instrument pet­ (media arts) tivities in music education and ting zoo, professional musicians To support the KBC Training performance for at-risk youth, in schools, and a student com­ Center’s Media Education Ini­ ages five to eighteen, residing in position concert. tiative, including summer me­ Washington, DC public housing dia training for Alaska Native communities. Kansas Arts Commission youth and professional training Topeka, KS $57,500 and workshops for Native Lincoln Center for the (multidisciplinary) American radio producers Performing Arts, Inc. To support artists’ residencies throughout the United States. New York, NY $2oo, ooo in underserved communities (media arts) and professional development To support a consortium pro­ workshops for underserved iect to produce and broadcast artists. the 1998 public television series Live From Lincoln Center. GRANTS AND AWARDS

Little City Foundation Manhattan School of Music Milwaukee Symphony Palatine, IL $5,000 New York, NY $50,000 Orchestra, Inc. (visual arts) (music) Milwaukee, WI $200,000 To support a two-phase exhibi­ To support Music in Action, an (arts education) tion of artwork created by peo­ artist training and community To support the expansion of the ple with developmental disabili­ outreach program that helps Orchestra’s Arts in Community ties in the Chicago students develop and perform. Education Partnership, which metropolitan area. consists of a series of multicul­ Mayfair, Inc. tural, integrated arts experi­ Los Angeles Department of Allentown, PA $9,000 ences, to middle schools in the Cultural Affairs (presenting) Milwaukee area. Los Angeles, CA $z2o, ooo To support The Community As (local arts agencies) Artist, a project consisting of Minnesota Alliance for Arts in To support the Art Partners six artists’ residencies. Education program, a three-way alliance St. Paul, MN $7,000 among community-based arts Meet the Composer (arts education) organizations, private under­ New York, NY $200,000 To support the writing, produc­ writers, and local government. (music) tion, and national dissemina­ To support the Community tion, via print and the Internet, Mad River Theater Works Residencies Initiative, a project of a publication which docu­ Grants to West Liberty, OH $15,ooo placing composers in short- ments the Alliance’s Integrating Organizations (musical theater) and long-term residencies with the Arts into Schools through To support artists’ salaries dur­ community organizations. Technology project. 59 ing the creation of a new play Education & developed in collaboration with Metro Theater Company Minnesota Chorale Access students, teachers, school ad­ St. Louis, MO $40,000 Minneapolis, MN $5,000 ministrators, and the general (theater) (music) public in Champaign County, To support a nationwide per­ To support a concert and re­ Ohio, and based on the local formance tour with accompa­ lated events focusing on history of the region. nying education programs for women, presented as part of the students, teachers, parents, and Bridges program, which seeks Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild the community. to overcome cultural, eco­ Pittsburgh, PA $115,ooo nomic, generational, and other (multidisciplinary) Metropolitan Opera Guild, Inc. barriers through the building of To support the Arts Education New York, NY $60,000 musical and social bridges. and Community Access Pro­ (arts education) grams, which include visual and To support the establishment of Minnesota Public Radio performing arts presentations a Western Region Teacher St. Paul, MN $50,000 and performances, Web page Training Center and a Midwest (media arts) development, multimedia train­ Region Artist Training Center To support the production of ing, and video/audio recording. for the Guild’s Creating Original St. Paul Sunday, a weekly radio Opera program. series demonstrating the vital­ ity, diversity, and excellence of chamber music to the widest possible audience. NEA 1997 ANNUAL REPORT

Montana State University Music Center of Los Angeles National Conference of State Bozeman, MT $8,950 County Legislatures (visual arts) Los Angeles, CA $50,00o Denver, CO $35,000 To support Art and the Natural (presenting) (arts education) World, a consortium proiect of To support the artistic develop­ To support expansion and week-long residencies in Mon­ ment process and marketing maintenance of the national tana by three artists: Chuck development efforts of Music arts education information Forsman, Melissa Miller, and Center On Tour. clearinghouse of state legisla­ Michael Paha. tion and policies. Music Center Opera Mosaic Youth Theatre of Association (L.A. Opera) National Public Radio Detroit Los Angeles, CA $z5o, ooo Washington, DC $200,000 Detroit, MI $30,000 (opera) (media arts) (theater) To support the L.A. Opera’s Ed­ To support the Classical Music To support the Mosaic Youth ucational Continuum during Initiative. Ensemble Project, a free nine­ 1997-98. month-long, after-school the­ New School for Social Research ater training and performance Musical Arts Association New York, NY $30,000 program culminating in a pro­ (Cleveland Orchestra) (music) Grants to fessional-level production. Cleveland, OH $2o, ooo To support the New York String Organizations (music) Orchestra Seminar of orchestra Museum of Contemporary Art, To support an education and rehearsals and a performance at 613 Los Angeles outreach program by the Cleve­ Carnegie Hall under the direc­ Education & Los Angeles, CA $80,000 land Orchestra that includes in­ tion of conductor Jaime Laredo, Access (museum) teractive school video confer­ as well as chamber music To support artists participating ences, appearances by guest coaching. in the conceptualization, de­ artists and conductors in sign, and implementation of ex­ schools, and classroom lessons New Wave Corporation hibition-related education pro­ by college music education stu­ (KOPN) jects for audiences of all ages dents. Columbia, MO $15,ooo and demographic backgrounds. (media arts) Musicorda, Inc. To support the Midwest Radio Museum of Photographic Arts South Hadley, MA $8,000 Theater Workshop’s national San Diego, CA $60,000 (music) week-long workshop in live ra­ (museum) To support residencies in the dio production, concluding To support the development Summer String Program, with the live broadcast and cas­ and distribution of, and train­ which places recently formed sette distribution of three radio ing of teachers to use, a com­ string quartets at Musicorda plays. prehensive curriculum resource for instrumental study, perfor­ that helps teach visual literacy mance opportunities, and out­ New York Historical Society and critical thinking through reach activities. New York, NY $26,000 photography. (design) National Black Touring To support "Kid City," a perma­ Circuit, Inc. nent interactive exhibit de­ New York, NY $25,000 signed to help children under­ (theater) stand their urban environment To support the Theatre/Poetry/ and its history. New Music Proiect about the story of the Harlem Renaissance. Grants to Organizations

61 The Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, DC offered Ali’s Well That Ends Well as part of the Free for All outreach program. Education & Photo by Carol Rosegg. Access

New York University Pacific Northwest Ballet PEN American Center, Inc. New York, NY $40,000 Association New York, NY $50,000 (arts education) Seattle, WA $75,000 (literature) To support expansion of the (dance) To support the Phase III Pro­ Creative Art Team’s (CAT) Early To support the continuation of ject, an expansion of PEN Learning Through the Arts pro­ the Community Futures Initia­ American Center’s Readers & gram to New York City pre­ tive, which provides exposure to Writers Program. kindergarten and Head Start and training in classical ballet classrooms that do not receive to school-aged children. Pennsylvania Young Playwrights CAT’s services and have limited Program, Inc. or no access to the arts. Pacific Symphony Association Philadelphia, PA $1z7,ooo Santa Ana, CA $50,000 (arts education) Orchestral Association (music) To support a playwriting pro­ (Chicago Symphony Orchestra) To support the implementation ject that enables students to ex­ Chicago, IL $6z,ooo of the second and third years of press their experiences with vi­ (music) a three-year initiative for adult olence in their daily lives and To support scholarships for music education and audience community, to shape these sto­ members of the Civic Orchestra development among Orange ries artistically, and to share of Chicago, the training orches­ County’s ethnic communities. them with an audience. tra sponsored by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. NEA 1997 ANNUAL REPORT

Philadelphia Orchestra with disabilities), in order to graph designed to introduce Association accommodate the increased American audiences to the most Philadelphia, PA $zo8,ooo demand for its lecture-demon­ important emerging trends in (music) strations. African cinema. To support the first phase of a consortium music education Ravinia Festival Association Revolving Museum project designed to enhance Highland Park, IL $43,952 Boston, MA $15,ooo music appreciation and aware­ (music) (multidisciplinary) ness by Philadelphia public To support professional jazz To support the transformation school students, through expo­ artist fees, student artist jazz of an abandoned dry dock into sure to musical instruments, camp scholarships, and educa­ a public art carnival that will performers, and performances. tional supplies and materials involve teams of artists, youth, for the Jazz in the Schools Men­ and community members. Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre, Inc. tor Program of the Ravinia Fes­ Pittsburgh, PA $5o, ooo tival and Chicago Public Ririe-Woodbury Dance (dance) Schools. Foundation To support free ballet classes, Salt Lake City, UT $45,ooo student matinee performances, Rebekah Films, Inc. (dance) lecture demonstrations, work­ Brooklyn, NY $25,ooo To support the implementation Grants to shops, teacher training, and the (media arts) of the Community Based Pro­ Organizations production and publication of To support the production of a gramming Project, which will audiovisual and printed re­ 9o-minute performance-based allow the Ririe-Woodbury 62 source material. documentary on black music of Dance Company to develop ex­ Education & the 197os by the filmmakers tended residencies at sites it Access Plaza de la Raza, Inc. Demetria Royals and Louise tours by working in advance Los Angeles, CA $3o, ooo Diamond. with the presenters. (multidisciplinary) To support 32 five-week inten­ Regional Arts & Culture Rochester Institute of sive workshops in dance, music, Council Technology theater, and visual arts. Portland, OR $zo9,5oo Rochester, NY $12,ooo (local arts agencies) (theater) Poetry Society of America To support a consortium pro­ To support a special performing New York, NY $67,000 ject to design, implement, and arts tour of the Appalachian reo (literature) evaluate a two-year program of gion by Sunshine Too, a profes­ To support Poetry Without performances and residency ac­ sional touring troupe of The Walls, a project designed to tivities in designated neighbor­ National Technical Institute for bring poetry directly to diverse hoods of the greater Portland the Deaf. audiences nationwide. metropolitan region. San Francisco Girls Chorus, Inc. Professional Flair, Inc. Resolution, Inc. San Francisco, CA $z2,1oo Cleveland, OH $25,000 San Francisco, CA $25,000 (music) (dance) (media arts) To support the Master Teacher To support the expansion of To support Envisioning Com­ Program, an individual vocal Professional Flair’s dance munity: New African Cinema instruction program for chorus troupe (a pioneer dance com­ 1995-97, a touring film series, members. pany in showcasing dancers video collection, and mono­ GRANTS AND AWARDS

San Francisco Opera South Dakotans for the Arts Tacoma Art Museum Association Deadwood, SD $60,000 Tacoma, WA $20,000 San Francisco, CA SzOO, OOO (local arts agencies) (museum) (opera) To support ArtsCorr, a partner­ To support Art on Saturdays, a To support artists’ fees and ship program that will provide program that teaches at-risk salaries for the chorus, weekly arts experiences for young peo­ youth and their primary care­ performers, and stage crew for a ple incarcerated in South takers visual literacy through a Broadway-style production of Dakota’s State Juvenile Correc­ side-by-side art learning Giacomo Puccini’s Madame tion facilities. process. Butterfly at the Golden Gate Theatre during 1997. Southwest Chamber Music Taller Puertorriqueno, Inc. Society Philadelphia, PA $5o, ooo San Francisco Pasadena, CA $1o, ooo (multidisciplinary) Performances, Inc. (music) To support the residencies and San Francisco, CA $~o, ooo To support a mentorship pro­ presentation of work by Encar­ (presenting) gram with the music society’s nacion Diaz, Lenides Lopez, To support four specific initia­ ensemble and the John Muir Grupo Bridge, The Tri City tives: an Alexander String High School in Pasadena, Cali­ Band, Mma Villegas and The­ Quartet residency; programs in fornia providing coaching ses­ ater Group, Marta Sanchez, Su­ the San Francisco Public sions, private instruction, per­ san Donato, and other regional Grants to Schools; development of a Liv­ formance experience, and artists. Organizations ing Creators program; and an career advice to students. initiative to expand access to Teachers and Writers 63 dance. Stagebridge Collaborative Education & Oakland, CA $1o, ooo New York, NY $72,000 Access Seattle Art Museum (theater) (literature) Seattle, WA $50,000 To support Storybridge, an To support the establishment (museum) inter-generational arts and lit­ of a national network of writers To support Growing Up With eracy project in which low-in­ and teachers of the literary arts Art, a collaborative initiative come older adults interact with and to provide mentor work­ between the museum and area at-risk children, through a pro­ shops bringing writers into schools. gram of storytelling in the school communities nation­ schools and various community wide. Shakespeare Theatre venues. Washington, DC $30,000 Teatro de la Luna (theater) Symphony Society of San Washington, DC $8,000 To support outreach programs Antonio (theater) to high school students, people San Antonio, TX $60,000 To support costs associated with disabilities, and other un­ (music) with the production of El Dia derserved audiences through To support Face to Face--De Que Me Quieras (The Day You the Shakespeare Theatre Free Cara a Cara, a composer-in-res­ Love Me), by the contemporary for M1, an annual, free, classical idence proiect with Robert Venezuelan writer Jose Ignacio theater production. Xavier Rodriguez that includes Cabrujas. community outreach activities. NEA 1997 ANNUAL REPORT

Texas Commission on the Arts University of California at Los Ventures in Education, inc. Austin, TX $128,5oo Angeles, Regents of the New York, NY $50,000 (multidisciplinary) Los Angeles, CA $60,000 (arts education) To support Internet access for (museum) To support institutionalization rural constituents by providing To support the educational pro­ of the Architectural Youth Pro­ internet accounts, 15 hours of gramming that will accompany gram in rural and urban com­ free access time per month, and the exhibition, "Picturing munities, expand the rural inte­ internet training and technical Childhood: Illustrated Chil­ grated curriculum model into assistance. dren’s Books from the Univer­ the urban sites, and continue sity of California Collection," at the national expansion to new Texas Fine Arts Association the Armand Hammer Museum sites. Austin, TX $20,000 of Art. (museum) Vermont Symphony Orchestra To support the circulation of University of North Carolina at Association, inc. exhibitions of contemporary art Chapel Hill Burlington, VT $30,000 by emerging and mid-career Chapel Hill, NC $50,000 (music) American artists to smaller mu­ (museum) To support the presentation of seums, university galleries, and To support the World Religions concerts to rural, underserved community art galleries Project, using the Ackland Art Vermont communities during Grants to throughout Texas. Museum’s religious artwork to the fall of 1997, including local Organizations promote broader understand­ school visits. Theater by the Blind ing of world religions at the 64 Corporation school, university, and commu­ Very Special Arts New Mexico Education & New York, NY $20,000 nity levels. Albuquerque, NM $90,000 Access (theater) (arts education) To support the development, UrbanArts, Inc. To support ARTS WORK: Tran­ presentation, and touring of Boston, MA $50,000 sition to Work Through the original theater work by and (multidisciplinary) Arts Partnership, a pilot project about blind people, developed To support Youth Works/Art between Very Special Arts New through playwriting workshops Works, an arts education pro­ Mexico and the Mbuquerque and performances. gram which provides a way for Public Schools in association urban teens to play a vital role with Albuquerque arts-related Trinity Repertory Company in community revitalization ef­ businesses. Providence, RI $75,000 forts through creative writing, (theater) photography, and urban design. Vigilante Players, Inc. To support the financial stabi­ Bozeman, MT $z5,ooo lization and consolidation of Utah Symphony Society (theater) the Project Discovery program, Salt Lake City, UT $45,000 To support a regional tour in and to provide for its strategic (music) six rural northwestern states expansion in areas most desired To support the expansion and with shows from the existing by the local educational com­ interactive video enhancement repertoire and two new works. munity. of off-site educational outreach concerts for students in the re­ Virginia Museum of Fine Arts gion, incorporating rural Richmond, VA $75,000 schools in Idaho, Nevada, Utah, (museum) and Wyoming. To support the development of a Welcome Center, located at the entrance to the permanent GRANTS AND AWARDS

collection galleries, equipped William Marsh Rice University Writers In The Schools with a video introduction to the Houston, TX $25,000 Houston, TX $36,000 collections, interactive comput­ (design) (literature) ers, and a random access audio To support a quarterly publica­ To support the Apprenticeship guide. tion schedule of CITE, a review Initiative which will provide as­ of architecture, urban planning, sistance to fledgling school and Washington Drama Society, and design, between May 1997 community literature residency Inc. (Arena Stage) and March 1998. programs in four states. Washington, DC $80,000 (theater) Women Make Movies Wyoming Arts Council To support the Living Stage New York, NY $59,000 Cheyenne, WY $zo5,3oo company’s Community Collab­ (media arts) (arts education) orations Initiative, which maxi­ To support the production of To support explorations in and mizes access and active partici­ "Judith Jamison;’ the pilot pro­ use of arts technology within pation in the creative arts by gram for the television series, Wyoming schools and commu­ at-risk, inner-city youths. American Artists: Memories of nities. Childhood by the filmmaker Washington Opera Peggy Stern. Young Aspirations/Young Washington, DC $50,000 Artists, Inc. (opera) Woolly Mammoth Theatre New Orleans, LA $5o, ooo Grants to To support the Look-In educa­ Company (design) Organizations tion program for elementary Washington, DC $20,000 To support a training program school children and teachers at (multidisciplinary) in commercial and fine arts, 65 the Kennedy Center Opera To support the Arts for Youth designed to enhance the skills Education & House during 1997-98. Consortium, an educational of artistically gifted, inner-city Access program for inner-city youths students. WHYY, Inc. that includes a videography Philadelphia, PA $40,000 project, a play production pro­ Young Audiences/New York, Inc. (media arts) ject, and community-based act­ New York, NY $7o, ooo To support the production of ing classes. (arts education) Fresh Air with Terry Gross, a To support CommunityLink, a daily radio journal of contem­ World Music Productions new, comprehensive arts educa­ porary art and culture featuring Brooklyn, NY $36,000 tion initiative, which will focus interviews and commentary by (media arts) on school-based programming, distinguished experts. To support the production of family and community activi­ Afropop Worldwide, a national ties, as well as increased use of Wichita Art Museum radio series celebrating the mu­ technology. Foundation, Inc. sical cultures of Africa, the Wichita, KS $z6,ooo Caribbean, and the Americas, Young Men’s Christian (museum) including feature programs on Association of Billings To support expanded use and United States cities. Billings, MT $12,89o development of the Art Re­ (literature) source Center, a new lending To support literary program­ library of audiovisual and mul­ ming by the Writer’s Voice of timedia materials about the the Billings Young Men’s Chris­ visual arts that serves teachers, tian Association. parents, and community groups. Grants to Organizations

HERITAGE & PRESERVATION

he purpose of Heritage & Preservation ican collections, including public art, such as projects is to honor, assist, make visi­ tapestries, murals, paintings, textiles, sculpture T ble, or conserve those forms of artistic and architecture. Examples include: conserva­ expression reflecting the many cultural tradi­ tion of Albert Bierstadt’s The Oregon Trail, tions and artistic achievements that make up Rembrandt Peale’s Porthole Portrait of George our national cultural bounty. Washington and John Koch’s Music in the col­ Heritage grants awarded this year will sup­ lection of the Butler Institute of American Art port the presentation of culturally specific and/ in Youngstown, Ohio; restoration of the or time-honored artistic traditions to the pub­ Minton tile ceiling in Central Park’s Bethesda lic. Under a997 funding, the National Council Terrace arcade; final conservation of the Los for the Traditional Arts will conduct a "passing Angeles mural America Tropical by the Mexican the torch" national visibility project to present muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros; and conserva­ traditional folk artists through large festivals tion and exhibition of nine Dutch and French across the country, national tours, compact disc tapestries at the J.B. Speed Art Museum in recordings, and nationally distributed radio Louisville, Kentucky. programs. CultureWorks in Philadelphia will Both conservation of skills and skills in con­ produce a thirteen-hour radio biography of servation are important elements of Heritage & Leonard Bernstein. The Corporation of the Preservation grants. Folk arts apprenticeship Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco will pre­ programs were funded in seven states--Georgia, sent Art of the Americas, a series of exhibitions Hawaii, New Mexico, North Dakota, Rhode drawn from the museums’ North American, Island, Washington, and West Virginia--to sup­ Native American, Pre-Columbian, and Spanish port master traditional artists in passing along Colonial textiles and graphics collections. Many their unique artistic skills to apprentices in art Heritage projects this year include perfor­ forms ranging from fiddling to saddlemaking. mances of works by major African-American Also funded were major training and technical composers and jazz and blues musicians, and assistance projects involving the conservation presentation of significant African and African- of artwork, from videos and photographs to American dance works. textiles and the adobe architecture of the Preservation grants in 1997 supported the Southwest. conservation of significant art works in Amer­ GRANTS AND AWARDS

Heritage & Preservation Alabama Folklife Association, ern Plains artists, and research 122 awards $6,152,025 Inc, the traditional Northern Plains Birmingham, AL $15,ooo natural dyeing techniques of The discipline designations in (folk and traditional arts) porcupine quills. parentheses refer to the pro­ To support the documentation ject, not necessarily the organi­ of Primitive Baptist hymn Anthology Film Archives zation. singing in Alabama through a New York, NY $12,5oo publication, cassette recordings, (media arts) and compact discs. To support the preservation and Abhinaya Dance Company of first retrospective exhibition of San Jose Inc. Alabama State Council on the the films and videotapes of the San lose, CA $15,ooo Arts pioneer media artist Ed Emsh­ (dance) Montgomery, AL $50,000 willer. To support an East Indian (folk and traditional arts) mother-daughter dance perfor­ To support the production of Appalshop, Inc. mance series which will explore Traditional Music of Alabama, a Whitesburg, KY $75,ooo the process of change and the package of four compact discs, (theater) transference of cultural tradi­ and an accompanying book. To support Roadside Theater as tions from one generation to part of a consortium to de­ the next. Alaska State Council on the velop, test, and document a na­ Grants to Arts tionally applicable model to Organizations African-American Dance Anchorage, AK $60,000 create original, rural drama that Ensemble, Inc. (folk and traditional arts) honors and preserves local tra­ 67 Durham, NC $50,000 To support a two-year project ditions and speaks to contem­ Heritage & (dance) to establish a traditional arts porary issues. Preservation To support expansion of the program with three compo­ Dance Ensemble’s African nents: technical assistance con­ Arts Resources in repertoire to include, in addi­ tracts; a festivals and gatherings Collaboration, Inc. tion to its traditional West fund; and staff services and New York, NY $19,ooo African work, the dances and support to grantees. (dance) music of Zimbabwe and South­ To support preservation of 30 ern Africa. American Indian deteriorating Eye on Dance se­ Contemporary Arts ries master videotapes that con­ Akron Art Museum San Francisco, CA $4o,0oo tain extensive information Akron, OH $25,000 (visual arts) about the American dance (museum) To support three exhibitions of legacy, including footage of mi­ To support the design and contemporary work by Ameri­ nority dance artists and under- printing of Akron Art Museum: can Indians living throughout documented choreographers. An Introduction to the the United States. Collection, the first publication Asian American Writers’ to provide an overview of the American Indian Services, Inc. Workshop, Inc. museum’s collection. Sioux Falls, SD $32,000 New York, NY $3o, ooo (multidisciplinary) (literature) To support the creation of a ju­ To support East Is East: Cele­ ried exhibition and a mentor- brating the Asian American Lit­ ship program for Indian youth, erary Tradition in New York increase exhibitions of North­ City, a project that includes NEA 1997 ANNUAL REPORT

public readings, book publica­ Butler Institute of American Art Capoeira Foundation, Inc. tions, and creation of a map Youngstown, OH $5,ooo New York, NY $25,000 tracing the Asian American lit­ (museum) (folk and traditional arts) erary traditions in the city. To support the conservation of To support the creation of a three paintings from the mu­ National Capoeira Network Bay Area Video Coalition, Inc. seum’s permanent collection: through the establishment of San Francisco, CA $125,720 Mbert Bierstadt’s The Oregon programs in partnership with (media arts) Trail, Rembrandt Peale’s Port­ African-American and Latino To support the provision of hole Portrait of George Washing­ cultural organizations and the video preservation services to ton, and John Koch’s Music. development of a Web site. artists and arts organizations, including the recording, re­ California Indian Carter Family Memorial Music trieval, and preservation of art Basketweavers Association Center, Inc. on video. Nevada City, CA $6o,5oo Hiltons, VA $13,5oo (folk and traditional arts) (folk and traditional arts) Bella Lewitzky Dance To support the seventh and To support artists’ fees to pre­ Foundation eighth statewide gatherings of sent a weekly series and an an­ Los Angeles, CA $23,500 Indian basketweavers in 1997 nual festival of old time tradi­ (dance) and 1998 and the first Western tional music played on acoustic Grants to To support documentation of Regional Basketweavers Gather­ instruments. Organizations the dances and technique of ing in 1999. choreographer Bella Lewitzky. 68 Heritage & Preservation

The African-American Dance Ensemble of Durham, North Carolina dances in the lamban style, indigenous to the Sene Gambis area of West Africa. Photo by Rebecca Lesher. GRANTS AND AWARDS

Cedarburg Corporation performed in City Center’s mu­ Contemporary Arts Cedarburg, WI $87,91o sical theater series Encores! Educational Project, Inc. (~olk and traditional arts) Great American Musicals in Los Angeles, CA $75, ooo To support a traveling exhibi­ Concert. (literature) tion of Wisconsin folk art in To support Sun & Moon Press’s coniunction with the celebra­ City Lore, Inc. publication and promotion of tion of the state sesquicenten­ New York, NY $7o, ooo the anthology From the Other nial in 1998. (folk and traditional arts) Side of the Century: a New To support a consortium that American Drama, 196o-1995, Central Park Conservancy, Inc. will sponsor the First Annual and its individual volumes of New York, NY $50,000 People’s Poetry Gathering, contemporary plays. (design) bringing together a variety of To support the restoration of poets and poetry from around Cooper Union for the the Minton tile ceiling in Cen­ the nation for a series of public Advancement of Science and tral Park’s Bethesda Terrace events. Art arcade. New York, NY $3o, ooo City Lore, Inc. (design) Chinese-American Arts New York, NY $40,000 To support the Archive Dissemi­ Council, Inc. (folk and traditional arts) nation Project, a relational data­ New York, NY $38,350 To support the expansion of base of the center’s collection of Grants to (folk and traditional arts) "American Talkers;’ a set of sto­ American design history. Organizations To support full-length produc­ rytelling modules to be featured tions of traditional Cantonese on National Public Radio’s All Cornerstones Community 69 and Peking opera, concerts of Things Considered and Weekend Partnerships Heritage & Chinese string and percussion Edition. Santa Fe, NM $75,ooo Preservation music, and performances of (design) Chinese regional and tribal folk City Lore, Inc. To support technical assistance dance. (for the National Task Force on and training to rural communi­ Folk Arts in Education) ties in preserving historic build­ Cincinnati Museum Association New York, NY $30,000 ings and building practices cen­ Cincinnati, OH $20,000 (folk and traditional arts) tral to the Hispanic and Native (museum) To support the National Task American culture of the region. To support the conservation of Force on Folk Arts in Education furniture, from the collection of in developing a mid-Atlantic Corporation of the Fine Arts the Cincinnati Art Museum, regional network of educators, Museums of San Francisco which was carved in Cincinnati folklorists, folk artists, parents, San Francisco, CA $60,000 during the Aesthetic Movement students, and arts education (museum) at the turn of the 2oth century. advocates. To support Art of the Americas, a series of exhibitions drawn City Center 55th Street Cleveland State University from the museums’ North Theater Foundation Cleveland, OH $30,000 American, Native American, New York, NY $30,000 (music) Pre-Columbian, and Spanish (theater) To support the performance Colonial textiles and graphics To support the reconstruction and recording of the orchestral collections, with brochures and of the score of an important music of George Walker by the education programs. American musical that will be Cleveland Chamber Symphony. NEA 1997 ANNUAL REPORT

Creative Arts Guild, Inc. Delaware Art Museum Erlck Hawkins Dance Dalton, GA $2z, ooo Wilmington, DE $6,5z5 Foundation, Inc. (folk and traditional arts) (museum) New York, NY $5o, ooo To support a traditional arts To support conservation treat­ (dance) program including a tradi­ ment of American paintings To support the assembly, cata­ tional arts performance series, from the 18th through the early loguing, documentation, and instructional workshops, and 2oth centuries. preservation of Erick Hawkins’ school programs. dances and archival material, Dia Center for the Arts, Inc. ensuring the long-term avail­ CultureWorks, Ltd. New York, NY $60,000 ability of his legacy for present Philadelphia, PA $75,000 (visual arts) and future generations. (media arts) To support the publication of To support the completion of a two scholarly monographs of Ethnic Folk Arts Center, Inc. 13-hour radio biography of contemporary German artists: New York, NY $80,000 Leonard Bernstein. Joseph Beuys: Codices Madrid, (folk and traditional arts) and Blinky Palermo: To the Peo­ To support the Community Dance Notation Bureau, Inc. ple of New York City. Cultural Initiative, which en­ New York, NY $2o, ooo courages community-based (dance) East Durham Irish Culture & conservation and support of Grants to To support the documentation Sports Centre, Inc. traditional music and dance in Organizations and preservation of three semi­ East Durham, NY $z5,ooo several New York City ethnic nal dances: Alvin Ailey’s Reve­ (folk and traditional arts) communities. 70 lations, Talley Beatty’s Road of To support the Catskills Irish Heritage & the Phoebe Snow, and Bill T. Arts Week, a traditional arts ed­ Evergreen State College Preservation Jones’ D-Man in the Waters, ucation and performance pro­ Olympia, WA $22,000 through the use of Labanota­ gram. (folk and traditional arts) tion. To support artists’ fees, travel El Pueblo de Los Angeles costs, and related expenses for Davenport Museum of Art Historical Monument Authority the Third Annual Basketmakers Davenport, IA $20,000 Commission Gathering, a collaborative (museum) Los Angeles, CA $60,000 effort between Evergreen State To support the conservation of (visual arts) College Longhouse and the 16th through 18th century Euro­ To support the final conserva­ Washington State Arts Com­ pean paintings to be installed in tion phase of America Tropical, mission. the museum’s new permanent a mural painted in 1932 by the galleries in the year 2000. great Mexican muralist David Founders Society Detroit Mfaro Siqueiros. Institute of Arts Davis & Elkins College Detroit, MI $60,000 Elkins, WV $50,000 El Teatro Campesino (museum) (folk and traditional arts) San Juan Bautista, CA To support costs associated To support the statewide West $55,300 with the conservation and in­ Virginia Folk Arts Apprentice­ (theater) stallation of textiles from seven ship Program. To support salaries, fees, and areas of the museum’s perma­ related production expenses for nent collection: African, An­ La Pastorela, a religious drama cient, Asian, Native American, and Christmas tradition involv­ Near Eastern, Pre-Columbian, ing members of the community. and 2oth century. GRANTS AND AWARDS

Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc. production of a radio series fea­ community-based artists, and a New York, NY $50,000 turing excerpts of documentary panel discussion series to ex­ (visual arts) interviews with apprenticeship plore the nature and issues of To support the cataloguing and participants. hip-hop culture. documentation of 2o years of contemporary art, to include Historical Association of Iowa Arts Council text by Martha Wilson, copies Southern Florida, Inc. Des Moines, IA $50,000 of selected documents, black Miami, FL $9,800 (folk and traditional arts) and white photographs, and (folk and traditional arts) To support the development of video segments. To support educational pro­ a Statewide Folk Arts Network gramming that will accompany and a mentoring initiative. Fresno Arts Council, Inc. a multimedia exhibition enti­ Fresno, CA $6o, ooo tled "Caribbean Percussion Tra­ J.B. Speed Art Museum (folk and traditional arts) ditions in Miami;’ including a Louisville, KY $1oo, ooo To support the Textile Arts of publication, two seminar-per­ (museum) Laos project, identifying local formances, and a series of To support the conservation Laotian artists, developing an demonstrations. and exhibition of Dutch and educational curriculum, and French tapestries in the mu­ mounting an exhibit at the Hmong Cultural Arts, Crafts, seum’s collection. Fresno Art Museum, with ac­ Teaching, and Museum Projects Grants to companying programs and Sacramento, CA $40,000 Jewish Historical Society of Organizations publications. (folk and traditional arts) Maryland, Inc. To support a two-year, after- Baltimore, MD $60,ooo 71 George Eastman House school program of instruction (museum) Heritage & Rochester, NY $1oo, ooo in traditional Hmong folk To support the documentation, Preservation (media arts) dance and Pa Dao embroidery through architectural plans To support the restoration of a in Sacramento-area schools and photographs, of 18 pre- group of culturally significant with a strong Asian student World War II synagogues; and American films produced in the population. an exhibition, "Synagogues of United States between 1915 and Maryland." 1955, which illustrate a variety Ink People, Inc. of interpretations of women. Eureka, CA $20,000 Kariyushi Kal (folk and traditional arts) San Jose, CA $20,000 Georgia Council for the Arts To support a gathering of west­ (folk and traditional arts) Atlanta, GA $4o, ooo ern coastal Native American re­ To support a festival of Oki­ (folk and traditional arts) galia makers, ongoing regalia nawan music and dance in San To support a two-year, making workshops, and research Jose. statewide program of tradi­ and distribution of guidelines to tional arts apprenticeships in legally obtain controlled materi­ Kings Majestic Corporation Georgia. als used in regalia making. Brooklyn, NY $6o, ooo (dance) Hawaii State Foundation on Institute for African-American To support the presentation of Culture and the Arts Folk Culture, Inc. a performance series that will Honolulu, HI $85,000 New York, NY $15,ooo showcase the dance companies (folk and traditional arts) (folk and traditional arts) of five pioneering, female, To support a two-year, To support a series of hip-hop African-American artistic statewide, traditional arts ap­ concerts at the National Black directors. prenticeship program, and the Theater in Harlem, showcasing NEA 1997 ANNUAL REPORT

La Compania de Teatro de knowledge from one generation York, painted between 1916 and Albuquerque, Inc. to the next among members of 192o for Washington Irving Albuquerque, NM $1o, ooo Maine’s Native American and High School. (theater) Franco-American communities. To support the development Museum of Modern Art and production of the play La Media Alliance, Inc. New York, NY $163,500 Posada Magica by Octavio Solis. New York, NY $30,000 (media arts) (media arts) To support the preservation of Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts To support a video preservation American films in the mu­ Center initiative in New York State. seum’s collection, including San Pablo, CA $24,000 hand-colored and tinted works (folk and traditional arts) Michigan State University of early cinema, independent To support the Community East Lansing, MI $199,92o silent films from the Biograph Heritage Project, a program of (folk and traditional arts) Collection, and five films by instruction in and presentation To support "Native Quilting," a Joseph Cornell. of traditional Mexican music, major exhibition featuring dance, and artisan forms for North American Indian and Music From China, Inc. young artists. Native Hawaiian quiltmaking. New York, NY $25,000 (folk and traditional arts) Grants to Los Pleneros de la 21, Inc. Middle Atlantic Folklife To support a series of concert Organizations New York, NY $6,600 Association programs that focus on separate (folk and traditional arts) Chester, PA $z26,ooo Chinese traditional and con­ 72 To support An Evening with the (folk and traditional arts) temporary art forms tailored to Heritage & Masters, a concert-dance cele­ To support a consortium project, a variety of audiences. Preservation bration honoring masters and including a touring program of practitioners of Puerto Rican exhibits and artists’ residencies, National Center for Jewish Film traditional music in New York that will give traditional artists Waltham, MA $50,000 City. greater access to resources and (media arts) wider visibility. To support the restoration and Los Reyes de Albuquerque preservation of two classic Foundation Middlesex, County of American Yiddish feature films, Albuquerque, NM $20,000 North Brunswick, NJ $20,000 Motl, the Operator and The (folk and traditional arts) (folk and traditional arts) Singing Blacksmith. To support a year-long series of To support a series of perfor­ performances of traditional mances and residencies featur­ National Council for the New Mexican Hispanic music ing three components: "Story­ Traditional Arts designed for children and for tellers Cottage," "Puppet Silver Spring, MD $200,000 elderly, disabled, homeless, in­ Masters," and a three-part seg­ (folk and traditional arts) stitutionalized, and other spe­ ment exploring drumming and To support the presentation of cial needs audiences. dollmaking from three cultures. outstanding folk artists at the National Folk Festival, the Low­ Maine Arts Commission Municipal Art Society of ell Folk Festival, and the Wash­ Augusta, ME $35,000 New York ington Irish Folk Festival; in (folk and traditional arts) New York, NY $60,000 two national tours; on new To support The Generations (visual arts) compact disk recordings; and Program: Apprenticeships & To support the restoration of a on nationally distributed radio Gatherings, which passes on mural series by Barry Faulkner, programs. artistic skills and cultural Scenes from the History of New Jane Dumas, Celia Silva, and Manuela Aguiar from tribe Kumeyaay are twining with the juncus technique at the June 1997 California Indian Basketweavers Gathering in Thousand Oaks, California. Photo by Linda Yamane.

National Park Foundation Nevada State Council on the New York Baroque Dance Washington, DC $50,000 Arts Company, Inc. (folk and traditional arts) Carson City, NV $60,000 New York, NY $15,ooo To support the fifth annual (folk and traditional arts) (dance) American Roots Fourth of July To support the identification, To support the documentation concert and radio broadcast documentation, archiving, and presentation of baroque held on the grounds of the fieldwork, and programming dance through a tour of perfor­ Washington Monument and of local traditional arts in sev­ mances, lecture-demonstra­ featuring the cultural and artis­ eral model community sites tions, and a traveling exhibition tic diversity of American tradi­ throughout Nevada. of videotapes, photographs, tional music. publications, set designs, and New Mexico Arts Division costumes. National Trust for Historic Santa Fe, NM $30,400 Preservation in the U.S. (as (folk and traditional arts) New York Folklore Society fiscal agent for Lyndhurst) To support a statewide Master Newfield, NY $30,000 Washington, DC $30,000 Apprenticeship Program in (folk and traditional arts) (design) New Mexico. To support the Folk Artists Self- To support the preparation of a Management Project, a consor­ new furnishing plan for the tium project to provide technical Lyndhurst mansion in Tarry- town, New York. NEA 1997 ANNUAL REPORT

assistance for state folk artists mances and artists’ residencies Orchestra 200 I, Inc. through workshops and the utilizing previous Apprentice Philadelphia, PA 515,ooo publication of a self-manage­ Program master artists and/or (music) ment skills handbook. apprentices. To support the recording of a compact disc of George New York Public Library Astor, Northeast Document Crumb’s "Three Early Songs," Lenox and Tilden Foundations Conservation Center, Inc. "Dream Sequence," and "An­ New York, NY 5200,000 Andover, MA 54o, ooo cient Voices of Children;" and (media arts) (museum) David Crumb’s "Variations for To support video documenta­ To support a series of training Cello and Chamber Orchestra." tion of dance and theater per­ workshops in the Northeast on formances, preserving 20 the care of photographs, with Phillips Academy significant performances and follow-up consultation to pro­ Andover, MA 5125,ooo making them available for re­ gram participants, and the pro­ (museum) search, at the New York Public duction of a manual on pre­ To support the Addison Gallery Library for the Performing Arts. serving photographs. of American Art as part of a consortium project consisting New York University Oakland Youth Chorus of the touring exhibition "To New York, NY 55,000 Oakland, CA 515,ooo Conserve a Legacy: American Grants to (theater) (music) Art from Historically Black Col­ Organizations To support authors’ and trans­ To support the research, cata­ leges and Universities;" conser­ lators’ fees and the publication loguing, preserving, and record­ vation of works of art; and pub­ 74 of four 1997 issues of TDR: The ing of choral works by Ameri­ lication of a catalogue. Heritage & Drama Review. can composers of color, Preservation performed by the Oakland Poets House, Inc. Non-Traditional Casting Youth Chorus during the past New York, NY 550,000 Project, Inc. twelve years. (literature) New York, NY 530,000 To support the Poetry Publica­ (theater) Oberlin College tion Showcase and its presenta­ To support the Inclusion Pro­ Oberlin, OH $25,200 tion to the American Library ject which consists of Artists’ (museum) Association’s annual conference. Files/Artists’ Files Online, a To support the preservation of computerized directory of 3,500 and access to the archives of Portland Performing Arts, Inc. actors of color or with disabili­ American artist Eva Hesse at the Portland, ME 550,000 ties; New Traditions, a journal Allen Memorial Art Museum. (presenting) about cultural diversity in the To support the House Island theater field; and the Resource Ollantay Center for the Consortium’s work involving Guide, on how to include actors Arts, Inc. long-term artists’ residencies, who are deaf or hearing-im­ Jackson Heights, NY 530,000 school programs, public work­ paired in productions. (theater) shops and concerts, and local To support costs associated ethnic-historical documenta­ North Dakota Council on the with the publication of Anthol­ tion. Arts ogy of Latino Theater and issues Bismarck, ND 56o, ooo of Ollantay Theater Magazine. (folk and traditional arts) To support a statewide Tradi­ tional Arts Apprenticeship Pro­ gram and a series of perfor- GRANTS AND AWARDS

Preserve, Inc. Radio Bilingue, Inc. mances, and the recording, cat­ Falls Church, VA $30,000 Fresno, CA $90,000 aloguing, and promotion of lit­ (dance) (folk and traditional arts) erary events. To support Preserve’s work in To support a Mexican-Ameri­ dance documentation and can Folk Music Festival project Sealaska Heritage Foundation preservation through publica­ consisting of a series of cultural Juneau, AK $20,000 tions, a Web site, and work­ celebrations, featuring both (theater) shops on the use of computer mariachi music and norteno-te­ To support the Naa Kahidi The­ technology as it relates to jano conjunto music. ater’s week-long encampment the safeguarding of the dance with a tribal elder to learn sto­ heritage. Recorded Anthology of ries, songs, and performance American Music, Inc. (Hew traditions, and to translate Princeton University World Records) these into a new piece for per­ Princeton, N] $20,000 New York, NY $69,760 formance. (museum) (music) To support the conservation To support the preservation Smith College of ancient Greek Attic vases and restoration of archival Northampton, MA $50,000 and fragments in the Princeton master tapes in danger of disin­ (museum) University Art Museum’s col­ tegrating. To support the publication of lections. Masterworks of American Paint­ Grants to Review of Contemporary ing and Sculpture, a catalogue of Organizations Public Corporation for the Arts Fiction, Inc. works in the permanent collec­ of the City of Long Beach Normal, IL $1oo, ooo tion of the college’s Museum of 75 Long Beach, CA $30,000 (literature) Art. Heritage & (folk and traditional arts) To support the recovery, publi­ Preservation To support fieldwork to identify cation, and promotion of out­ South Carolina Arts local traditional artists, and to of-print works of modern and Commission develop a series of folk art pre­ contemporary fiction by Dalkey Columbia, SC $40,000 sentations in the Long Beach Archive Press. (folk .and traditional arts) area. To support the South Carolina Rhode Island State Council on Institute for Community Schol­ Pueblo of Pojoaque, New the Arts ars in the Traditional Arts, a Mexico Providence, RI $40,000 specialized training program to Santa Fe, _NM $25,000 (folk and traditional arts) equip local cultural workers (folk and traditional arts) To support a combined pro­ with greater knowledge in the To support the Pueblo Tradi­ gram of apprenticeships, educa­ development and presentation tional Arts Preservation Work­ tional workshops, a public of folk artists. shops, a series of intensive showcase for emerging artists, arts workshops taught by elder and artist exchanges to expand Southern Arts Federation, Inc. Native American master the support given to traditional Atlanta, GA . $15o, ooo artisans. master artists. (folk and traditional arts) To support Southern Connec­ San Francisco State University tions, a two-year training and San Francisco, CA $50,000 touring program that promotes (literature) indigenous southern artists and To support the Poetry Center’s presents their talents to re­ preservation of filmed and gional, national, and interna­ videotaped literary perfor­ tional audiences. NEA 1997 ANNUAL REPORT

Southwest Museum Los Angeles, CA $75,000 (museum) To support the conservation treatment of Navaio textiles dating from about 183o to 195o.

Texas Folklife Resources Austin, TX $7o, ooo (folk and traditional arts) To support a year-long series of single-event concert presenta­ tions, the Touring Traditions program, and a folk arts-in-ed­ ucation residency component.

Textile Conservation Workshop, Inc. South Salem, NY $z6,ooo Grants to (museum) Organizations To support a year-long appren­ ticeship for in-depth training in 76 textile art. Heritage & Preservation A Traveling Jewish Theater San Francisco, CA $45,ooo (theater) To support the development and production of a new bilin­ gual ensemble work, Diamonds in the Dark, which translates the rich and unusual culture of Yid­ dish poetry for English-speak­ ing audiences of diverse back­ grounds.

Tung Ching Chinese Center for the Arts, Inc. Student Harley Brewer softens elk hide on a stretcher at the Pojoaque Pueblo’s Poeh Flushing, NY $19,ooo Cultural Center and Museum in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Photo by Vernon G. Lujan. (folk and traditional arts) To support a series of perfor­ University of Arizona American Indian apprentices mances in the New York City Tucson, AZ $25,ooo and a post-graduate conserva­ area highlighting four styles of (museum) tion fellow at the Arizona State Chinese opera: Shaoxing, Can­ To support conservation treat- Museum. tonese, Beijing, and Kunqu. ment of significant Native American works of art, and in­ formation exchange between GRANTS AND AWARDS

University of California at University of North Carolina at Wolf Trap Foundation for the Berkeley, Regents of the Greensboro Performing Arts Berkeley, CA $135,5oo Greensboro, NC $6,000 Vienna, VA $IOO, OOO (media arts) (museum) (folk and traditional arts) To support The Next Century To support the conservation of To support the Folk Masters of American Film, a preserva­ prints by Henri Matisse, part of Concert, Radio & Recordings tion and exhibition project that the Etta Cone Collection do­ Project, a consortium effort celebrates the excellence, health, nated to the University’s Weath­ including a concert series, a and diversity of the American erspoon Art Gallery in 195o. compact disc series of Folk film heritage and safeguards it Masters recordings, and the for future generations. Vermont Museum and Gallery American Routes radio series. Alliance, Inc. University of Minnesota, Twin Shelburne, VT $1o, ooo Women’s Philharmonic Cities Campus (museum) San Francisco, CA $4o, ooo Minneapolis, MN $75,600 To support the Vermont Collec­ (music) (museum) tions Care Program--including To support costs related to To support the conservation of care of collections surveys, researching, reconstructing, Marsden Hartley paintings and training workshops, and ser­ publishing, performing, the publication of a catalogue vices-for the art and historical promoting, and disseminating to accompany a national tour­ collections of Vermont. orchestral works by historical Grants to ing exhibition of the artist’s American women composers. Organizations work from the collection of the Washington State Arts Weisman Art Museum. Commission World Music Institute, Inc. 77 Olympia, WA $6o, ooo New York, NY $85,ooo Heritage & University of New Hampshire (folk and traditional arts) (folk and traditional arts) Preservation Durham, NH $1oo,24o To support a two-year segment To support World Music Amer­ (folk and traditional arts) of the Washington State Arts ica, a consortium project to To support a two-year research Commission Folk Arts Pro­ present the United States tour and presentation project among gram’s statewide Apprentice­ of traditional musicians and New Hampshire folk artists, in­ ship Program. dancers representing South and cluding an interpretive exhibi­ Southeast Asia, the Middle East, tion and preparation of a com­ Western Washington and North and West Africa. ponent for the Smithsonian University Festival of American Folklife. Bellingham, WA $15,ooo (museum) University of New Mexico To support the conservation Albuquerque, NM $1o, ooo and management of the Wash­ (folk and traditional arts) ington Art Consortium’s collec­ To amend a previous grant to tion of American works on pa­ support costs associated with per and photographs. the national touring exhibition "Cuando Hablan los Santos WGBH Educational Foundation (When the Spirits Speak)." Boston, MA $1oo, ooo (media arts) To support the preservation of video art works from the archives of the New Television Workshop (1967-93). Grants to Organizations

PLANNING & STABILIZATION

lanning & Stabilization grants assist arts organization to examine what direction it anizations in strengthening their or­ should take with an additional 9o acres of land ganizational capacity through planning, it recently inherited. improving management systems, implement­ A Planning & Stabilization grant to the ing proiects to generate revenues, and fiscal Cumberland County Playhouse in Crossville, capitalization initiatives, such as creating or Tennessee will facilitate the stabilization of the augmenting cash reserves or endowments. organization’s operations by increasing earned These grants help arts organizations, large and income through a tourism campaign. Cumber­ small, to continue their artistic missions effec­ land County Playhouse serves more than tively and creatively. Proiects focus on organi­ lOO,OOO rural citizens and visitors each year zational planning, stabilization, or both. Agency with over 4oo performances of theater, music, funds awarded to build organizational endow­ and dance that reflect the heritage of Cumber­ ments or cash reserves must be matched 3-to-x. land area artists as well as our nation’s cultural Planning & Stabilization grants awarded for diversity. To attract larger audiences, the Play­ 78 other purposes must be matched a-to-1 as in the house will create a destination image for the other organizational grant categories. Cumberland Mountain region, promoting itself The following examples illustrate how Plan­ along with the area’s other cultural attractions. ning & Stabilization grants awarded in 1997 are The MERIT Music Program in Chicago re­ helping a variety of arts organizations in com­ ceived a major grant to support augmentation munities throughout the country. A grant to of an existing endowment. MERIT will use this Folklore Village Farm in Dodgeville, Wisconsin award, plus the significant matching funds it funded a comprehensive planning project. Lo­ will generate, as part of a planned $2.5 million cated in rural southwestern Wisconsin, Folklore endowment campaign. MERIT has provided Village has greatly expanded its programming high quality, tuition-free music instruction to in the past five years to include a new Paths to talented Chicago youth of diverse cultural and Tradition concert series, folklife exhibits, school socio-economic backgrounds for 17 years, and programs, instructional workshops, and other this grant will help the organization to expand outreach programs. The grant will enable the its work. GRANTS AND AWARDS

Grants to Organizations

79 Planning & Stabilization At the Birmingham, Alabama Museum of Art, visitors examine Nancy Graves’ Rotara, 1986. Photo © The Birmingham News, 1998 (www.al.com). All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission.

Planning & Stabilization Alliance of Resident Theatres American Alliance for Health, 126 awards $10,369,877 New York, NY $50,000 Physical Education, Recreation, (theater) and Dance The discipline designations in To support expanded efforts to Reston, VA $16,20o parentheses refer to the project, identify, reach, and build new (arts education) not necessarily the organization. audiences for Off Broadway To support implementation of through a variety of programs the third and final phase of a including Hot Seats, Hot five-year business plan for the Academy of American Poets, Groups, Hot Line, and Hot Page. National Dance Association, in­ Inc. cluding strategies for partner­ New York, NY $30,000 Alternate ROOTS, Inc. ships with business and an as­ (literature) Atlanta, GA $32,000 sessment of the structure of its To support the planning and (multidisciplinary) board of directors. prototype development of a na­ To support a consortium pro­ tional Poetry Book Club. ject which involves the planning American Music Center, Inc. of a nationwide network of in­ New York, NY $25,ooo dividuals and organizations (music) who provide training in com­ To support the implementation munity-based arts. of a stabilization plan that will encourage and assure future NEA 1997 ANNUAL REPORT

earned revenues for this organi­ Arizona Theatre Company Atlatl, Inc. zation that serves a national Tucson, AZ $25,000 Phoenix, AZ $80,000 membership. (theater) (multidisciplinar£) To support a partnership with To support the Native Arts Net­ American Symphony Orchestra Childsplay, Inc., a theater for work Associates consortium in League young audiences, to share ex­ their efforts to strengthen the Washington, DC SUO, OOO pertise and develop artistic col­ development of the field of na­ (music) laborations. tive arts, including the estab­ To support the implementation lishment of a cash reserve. of the Human Resources Devel­ Artist Trust: A Resource for opment Initiative, a compre­ Washington Balboa Art Conservation hensive program designed to Seattle, WA $1oo, ooo Center help the League’s member or­ (multidisciplinary) San Diego, CA S3o, ooo chestras nationwide to move To support the establishment of (museum) toward organizational stability. an endowment. To support the Center’s en­ hanced marketing/outreach Amigos del Museo del Barrio Arts and Science Council efforts and the improvement of New York, NY $87,500 CharlottelMecklenburg, Inc. collections storage needs of (museum) Charlotte, NC $zoo, ooo small to mid-sized museums Grants to To support planning and staff (local arts agencies) throughout California, Arizona, Organizations training that will expand audi­ To support the Technology Pro­ Washington, and Oregon. ences and increase the financial ject, a comprehensive technol­ stability of the museum. ogy enhancement effort by the Bang On A Can, Inc. Planning & Council in conjunction with its New York, NY $93,5oo Stabilization Appalshop, Inc. affiliates and neighboring arts (music) Whitesburg, KY $50,000 councils, including hiring a staff To support the establishment of (presenting) person to provide technical a cash reserve, salaries for the To support the American Festi­ support. artistic directors, and a new val Project’s First Annual Train­ staff position to handle booking ing Institute. Association of Hispanic Arts, and tour management for the Inc. Bang on a Can All-Stars. Architectural League of New York, NY $20,000 New York (multidisciplinary) Bangor Symphony Orchestra New York, NY $75,000 To support a comprehensive, Bangor, ME $70,000 (design) strategic planning project that (music) To support the augmentation of will address the organization’s To support the augmentation of a cash reserve/working capital mission, purposes, and all key an endowment. fund. areas of organizational opera­ tions. Birmingham Museum of Art Arizona Commission on Birmingham, AL $200,000 the Arts Association of Performing Arts (museum) Phoenix, AZ $85,000 Presenters~ Inc. To support the augmentation of (multidisciplinary) Washington, DC $55,000 an endowment. To support the Earned Revenue (presenting) Development Program which To support a comprehensive as­ serves ethnic arts organizations sessment of the continuing edu­ in their efforts to diversify rev­ cation needs of the presenting enue sources through grants field. and technical assistance. GRANTS AND AWARDS

Boston Baroque, Inc. Chamber Music America, Inc. Chorus America, Association of Cambridge, MA $25,000 New York, NY $75,ooo Professional Vocal Ensembles (music) (music) Philadelphia, PA $40,000 To support the augmentation of To support the National Capac­ (music) a cash reserve. ity Building Project, a technical To support the Professional assistance initiative to help Management Development Brava! for Women in the Arts member ensembles and presen­ Program, improving managerial San Francisco, CA $75,ooo ters strengthen their organiza­ and fiscal stability of the choral (theater) tional capacities. field through a series of semi­ To support an audience and fa­ nars, conferences, and work­ cility development project for Chenango County Council of shops. the new Brava Theater Center. the Arts, Inc. Norwich, NY $1o, ooo Classic Stage Company Bronx Council on the Arts, Inc. (presenting) Repertory, Ltd. Bronx, NY $81,ooo To support a long-term plan­ New York, NY $15,ooo (local arts agencies) ning process focused on finan­ (theater) To support costs for staffing the cial management and the devel­ To support fees for a campaign Community Development Ini­ opment of a capital campaign consultant and related costs for tiative, including consultants and endowment. planning the 3oth Anniversary and related expenses. Season Campaign. Grants to Chicago, City of Organizations Brooklyn Conservatory of Chicago, IL $8o, ooo Colorado Music Festival Husic (locals arts agencies) Boulder, CO $40,000 81 Brooklyn, NY $1o, ooo To support a collaboration be­ (music) Planning & (music) tween the Chicago Coalition of To support the augmentation of Stabilization To support a strategic planning Community Cultural Centers an endowment. process. and the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs in the develop­ Council of Literary Magazines Center for Women and Their ment of earned income venues and Presses Work, Inc. and the expansion and en­ New York, NY $87,950 Austin, TX $1o, ooo hancement of online services. (literature) (visual arts) To support an internal planning To support a marketing and ad­ Chicago Public Art Group process to strengthen the Coun­ vertising plan for the Center for Chicago, IL $5o, ooo cil, and a comprehensive plan­ Women and Their Work’s (visual arts) ning process leading to the cre­ gallery gift shop. To support the establishment of ation of a national service a cash reserve. organization for the literature Centrum Foundation field. Port Townsend, WA $98,950 Children’s Theatre Company (folk and traditional arts) and School Cultural Arts Council of To support planning and stabi­ Minneapolis, MN $250,000 Houston lization efforts to strengthen the (theater) Houston, TX $225,000 Foundation’s board of direc­ To support the augmentation of (local arts agencies) tors, carry out market research an endowment and the estab­ To support a stabilization pro­ and new initiatives, expand lishment of a cash reserve. ject that will strengthen the marketing staff, and establish a Council’s capacity to deliver cash reserve. NEA 1997 ANNUAL REPORT

services through its Manage­ ment Assistance and Organiza­ tional Development Enterprise program.

Cumberland County Playhouse, Inc. Crossville, TN $6o, ooo (multidisciplinary) To support the development of the theater’s cultural tourism campaign for the Cumberland Mountains region, including the integration of the ticket office into the region’s lodgings reservations and multi-ticketing service.

DanceWorks, Inc. (Pentacle) Grants to New York, NY $50,000 Organizations (dance) To support the establishment of 82 a dance docent program and Planning & the expansion of the interna­ Stabilization tional program.

Donald Byrd Dance Foundation, Inc. Brooklyn, NY $4o, ooo (dance) Cumberland County Playhouse’s cultural tourism campaign includes a tickets and To support a one-year compre­ lodging brochure and a regional cultural itinerary. Brochures courtesy of the hensive organizational evalua­ Cumberland County Playhouse, Crossville, Tennessee. tion which will result in a five- year plan for the Donald Byrd 80 Langton Street, Inc. Florida Alliance for Arts Dance Company. San Francisco, CA $20,000 Education (multidisciplinary) Orlando, FL $36,400 Drawing Center, Inc. To support the expansion of the (arts education) New York, NY $55,000 use of computers and digital To support an organizational (visual arts) networks in marketing, out­ assessment and strategic plan To support a comprehensive or­ reach, and audience develop­ for Arts for a Complete Educa­ ganizational planning process ment efforts. tion/Florida Mliance for Arts that includes a feasibility study Education. for an endowment campaign for the Center. GRANTS AND AWARDS

Folklore Village Farm, Inc. Hudson River Museum of L.A. Theatre Works Dodgeville, WI $20,280 Westchester Venice, CA Szoo, ooo (folk and traditional arts) Yonkers, NY $27,000 (media arts) To support a comprehensive (museum) To support the first phase of a planning project to accomplish To support a two-year planning direct mail marketing campaign key elements of Folklore Village process to strengthen the part­ to distribute radio dramas on Farm’s a995-98 strategic plan nership between the Hudson audiocassette nationally. and to develop its 1999 long River Museum and the Museum range plan. Junior High School. La Mama Experimental Theatre Club, Inc. Friends of the Music Hall Independent Feature New York, NY $1oo, ooo Portsmouth, NH $22,500 Project, Inc. (theater) (presenting) New York, NY $75,000 To support research and imple­ To support acquisition of soft­ (media arts) mentation of a marketing out­ ware, hardware, and training To support the upgrading of reach program including com­ for administrative and opera­ communications and informa­ puter upgrades for marketing, tional activities in conjunction tion systems, in order to stabi­ fundraising, and audience out­ with the implementation of a lize and strengthen programs reach efforts, and additional new box office and ticket deliv­ and services. performances of the La Mama ery system. Matinee project. Grants to International House of Organizations Fund for the Borough of Philadelphia La Pena Brooklyn, Inc. Philadelphia, PA $80,000 Austin, TX $15,ooo 83 Brooklyn, NY $15,ooo (media arts) (multidisciplinary) Planning & (presenting) To support a new marketing To support development of a Stabilization To support a marketing and initiative to expand audiences strategic plan for the establish­ public relations effort around and increase income for film ment of the Latino Arts Con­ the Celebrate Brooklyn festival’s and video activities of the sortium of Austin. temporary relocation from the Neighborhood Film/Video Prospect Park Bandshell to al­ Project. The Loft, Inc. ternate sites throughout the Minneapolis, MN $75,000 borough. Jacob’s Pillow Dance (literature) Festival, Inc. To support Writing Into the Fu­ Glimmerglass Opera, Inc. Lee, MA $125,ooo ture, a stabilization project con­ Cooperstown, NY Szoo, ooo (dance) sisting of technological mod­ (opera) To support the establishment of ernization and targeted To support the augmentation of a cash reserve. planning. a cash reserve. Jazz at Lincoln Center, Inc. Los Angeles County Arts Harvard University New York, NY $2oo, ooo Commission Cambridge, MA $z5o, ooo (music) Los Angeles, CA $15o, 000 (museum) To support the augmentation of (locals arts agencies) To support augmentation of an endowment. To support a two-year cultural Harvard University’s endow­ tourism initiative that will ment for the benefit of the Fogg market the arts of Los Angeles, Art Museum, the Busch- San Diego, and San Francisco Reisinger Museum, the Sackler nationally and internationally. Museum, and the Straus Center for Conservation. NEA 1997 ANNUAL REPORT

Louisiana Philharmonic MERIT Music Program, Inc. Arts Agencies, including a na­ Orchestra Chicago, IL $200,000 tional training meeting and New Orleans, LA $75,000 (music) meetings during the Americans (music) To support the augmentation of for the Arts annual convention. To support increased compen­ an endowment. sation for orchestra musicians Montana Arts Council during 1997-98. Miami Book Fair International, Helena, MT $99,951 Inc. (multidisciplinary) Madison Repertory Miami, FL $75,ooo To support the Arts Are Central Theatre, Inc. (literature) grant program, that will work Madison, WI Szoo, ooo To support the augmentation of to make the arts central to rural (theater) an endowment. and underserved communities To support a feasibility study by creating long term partner­ directed to facility development Miami-Dade Community ships between arts organiza­ and to augment a cash reserve. College tions and other community Miami, FL $1oo, ooo sectors. Magic Theatre, Inc. (multidisciplinary) San Francisco, CA $30,000 To support the establishment of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (theater) an endowment for the Wolfson Boston, MA $250,000 Grants to To support the design and im­ Campus Cultural Affairs De­ (museum) Organizations plementation of an organiza­ partment. To support the augmentation of tional model, strategic planning, an endowment. 84 and systems implementation, Milwaukee Repertory Planning & and a program to develop co­ Theater, Inc. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Stabilization producing partnerships and Milwaukee, WI $200,000 Houston, TX $300,000 multidisciplinary projects at (theater) (museum) Magic Theatre, Inc. To support the augmentation of To support the augmentation of an endowment. an endowment. Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art Foundation, Minnesota Dance Alliance Musical Traditions Inc. Minneapolis, MN $2z,ooo San Francisco, CA $15,ooo North Adams, MA $25,000 (dance) (music) (museum) To support a planning process To support expenses for facility To support a planning effort which will strengthen the orga­ improvement and salaries to that will examine the feasibility nization’s internal structures, promote producing and organi­ of a long-term collaboration making it a more viable institu­ zational partnerships. with the Dia Center for the tion within the dance field and Arts, whereby the Dia Center the Minneapolis community. National Asian American would lend most of its collec­ Telecommunications tion and provide special chang­ Missouri Association of Association ing exhibitions to the Massa­ Community Arts Agencies San Francisco, CA $85,000 chusetts Museum of Columbia, MO $50,000 (multidisciplinary) Contemporary Art. (local arts agencies) To support the establishment of To support a consortium pro­ a cash reserve. Menil Foundation, Inc. ject designed to stabilize the Houston, TX $z5o, ooo Statewide Assemblies of Local (museum) To support the augmentation of an endowment. GRANTS AND AWARDS

National Association of Artists’ New York Foundation for PEN Center USA West Organizations, Inc. the Arts Los Angeles, CA 522,000 Washington, DC 560,000 New York, NY 587,353 (literature) (multidisciplinary) (multidisciplinary) To support a formal evaluation To support a consortium to To support a planning and and planning process for PEN develop and implement a tech­ stabilization project that will Center USA West. nical assistance initiative for the strategically position and members of the organizations strengthen NYFA’s growing in­ Philadelphia Dance Company who comprise the association. formational services, increase (Philadanco) earned income, streamline sys­ Philadelphia, PA 550,000 National Trust for Historic tems, and enhance partner­ (dance) Preservation in the U.S. ships. To support the company’s stabi­ Washington, DC 51oo, ooo lization efforts, including an (design) On the Boards upgrade of its computer system To support a pilot partnership Seattle, WA $1oo, ooo and the development of new with statewide preservation or­ (dance) marketing initiatives, and to ganizations to improve commu­ To support the establishment of support the company’s continu­ nity preservation outreach. a cash reserve. ing leadership role with the In­ ternational Association of Native Arts Circle, Inc. 171 Cedar, Inc. Blacks in Dance. Grants to Minneapolis, MN $11,300 Corning, NY 515,ooo Organizations (multidisciplinary) (multidisciplinary) Philadelphia Theatre Company To support the creation of a To support the planning Philadelphia, PA 575,000 85 formal volunteer program. and development of an effec­ (theater) Planning & tive arts education extension To support the establishment of Stabilization Nebraska Arts Council program for children living in a cash reserve. Omaha, NE 540,000 the rural areas of the South (multidisciplinary) Finger Lakes Region of New Phillips Collection To support a clerical staff posi­ York State and northern Penn­ Washington, DC 5250,000 tion and the research and devel­ sylvania. (museum) opment costs necessary to im­ To support the augmentation of prove existing earned income Opera Colorado an endowment. projects and design new ones. Denver, CO 520,000 (opera) Piedmont Arts Association New Federal Theatre, Inc. To support analysis and plan­ Martinsville, VA 575,000 New York, NY 51oo, ooo ning costs for the establishment (multidisciplinary) (theater) of an endowment campaign. To support the augmentation of To support a consortium with an endowment. New York’s Pan Asian Repertory OperaDelaware, Inc. Theater and INTAR Hispanic Wilmington, DE SzOO, OOO Poets & Writers, Inc. American Arts Center to imple­ (opera) New York, NY Szoo, ooo ment an audience development To support the augmentation of (literature) project designed to increase and an endowment. To support PWOnline, a service diversify audiences in the three extending Poets & Writers’ pro­ theaters. grams to the Internet. NEA 1997 ANNUAL REPORT

Queens Symphony support, and computer software program development and im­ Orchestra, Inc. to implement programming for plementation, and preparation Long Island City, IVY $15,75o the Real Art Ways Center. for moving into a new facility. (music) To support the salary of a new Rensselaer County Council for Richmond Ballet staff position and the upgrade the Arts, Inc. Richmond, VA $50,000 of an existing computer system. Troy, NY $54,200 (dance) (local arts agencies) To support the establishment of Real Art Ways, Inc. To support the development of a cash reserve. Hartford, CT $50,000 a three-year annual fund and (multidisciplinary) related membership campaign Richmond Symphony To support planning and mar­ for RCCA: The Arts Center, Richmond, VA $200,000 keting expenses, additional staff (music) To support the augmentation of an endowment.

San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts San Angelo, TX $1oo, ooo Grants to (museum) Organizations To support the augmentation of an endowment. 86 Planning & San Francisco Art Commission Stabilization San Francisco, CA $5o, ooo (local arts agencies) To support the Asian-American Arts Community Development Initiative.

San Francisco Camerawork, Inc. San Francisco, CA $80,000 (visual arts) To support augmentation of a cash reserve and several pro­ jects to expand the audience and increase earned income, including a publicity campaign, computerization, business planning, and outreach.

San Francisco Craft and Folk Art Museum San Francisco, CA $40,000 A Chicago student rehearses with the wind ensemble of MERIT Music Program’s (museum) Conservatory--a tuition-free program for advanced students, supported by a To support the augmentation of $2 million endowment. Photo by Kathy Richland. an endowment. GRANTS AND AWARDS

Santa Fe Chamber Music South Carolina Arts Alliance Studio Theatre School Festival, Ltd. Rock Hill, SC $25,ooo Corporation Santa Fe, NM $75,ooo (local arts agencies) Buffalo, NY $200,000 (music) To support assessment of arts (theater) To support the establishment of support in South Carolina, and To support the augmentation of a cash reserve. planning for future cooperative an endowment. arts funding strategies. Scribe Video Center, Inc. Teatro Hispano de Dallas Philadelphia, PA $15,ooo South Dakota Arts Council Dallas, TX $40,000 (media arts) Pierre, SD $54,ooo (theater) To support a planning process (m ultidisciplinary) To support the establishment of which will include technical as­ To support activities at the Art a cash reserve. sistance, the designing of new Beyond Boundaries conference, workspace for classes and which promotes the profes­ Theatre Communications screenings, and the evaluation sional development of artists, Group, Inc. of educational activities. arts administrators, and volun­ New York, NY $75,ooo teers from northern plains (theater) Signature Theatre Company states. To support communications, New York, NY $50,ooo marketing, audience develop­ (theater) Southern Theater Foundation ment, and outreach initiatives Grants to To support the purchase and Minneapolis, MN $22,ooo to help stabilize the American Organizations implementation of a computer­ (presenting) theater field, and to clarify and ized box office, marketing and To support a stabilization reassert the mission of non­ 87 development system. effort that will include a guar­ profit theater. Planning & anteed base fee for artistic Stabilization Skaneateles Festival, Inc. presentations, improved tech­ Trisha Brown Dance Skaneateles, NY $z4,o93 nical services to artists, and Company, Inc. (music) broadened audience develop­ New York, NY $62,500 To support a strategic planning ment efforts. (dance) project focused on long-term To support a planning process financial plans. St. Louis Black Repertory which will enable the organiza­ Company, Inc. tion to expand and develop its Small Press Distribution, Inc. St. Louis, MO $55,000 artistic endeavors, earned in­ Berkeley, CA $5o, ooo (theater) come potential, and educational (literature) To support a project to enhance programs. To support technical assistance management and administra­ and related costs in the areas of tive stability, including planning U.B.W., Inc. market analysis, technology, for debt reduction, and the ac­ (Urban Bush Women) and facility planning. quisition and installation of a New York, NY ¢25,000 new computer system. (dance) Soundprint Media Center, Inc. To support the retention of an Laurel, MD $55,ooo St. Louis Symphony Society arts management consultant for (media arts) St. Louis, MO $300,000 one year to assist Urban Bush To support a planning process (music) Women in strengthening its that will identify and develop a To support the augmentation of artistic and administrative ca­ revenue-generating project to an endowment. pabilities. sustain and expand the docu­ mentary radio series Soundprint. NEA 1997 ANNUAL REPORT

University of Massachusetts at Westchester Conservatory of Young Audiences, Inc., Denver Amherst Music, Inc. Area Chapter . Amherst, MA $50,000 White Plains, NY $46,600 Denver, CO $6o, ooo (multidisciplinary) (arts education) (arts education) To support the expansion of the To support a feasibility study on To support the establishment Arts Extension Service’s capac­ the creation of a multidiscipli­ of a cash reserve and develop­ ity to develop and deliver new nary cultural center in White ment of program structures training and technical assis­ Plains, New York. and management systems, tance programs and services some of which will focus ser­ to the community arts field. Westchester Philharmonic, Inc. vices on rural and underserved Hartsdale, NY $90,000 populations. University of Missouri at (music) Columbia To support the establishment of Columbia, MO $62,850 an endowment fund. (literature) To support a marketing cam­ Whitney Museum of American paign, the augmentation of an Art endowment, and an editorial New York, NY $4oo, ooo assistant position for The Mis­ (museum) Grants to souri Review. To support the augmentation of Organizations an endowment. University of Pennsylvania, 88 Trustees of the Wilma Theater Planning & Philadelphia, PA $250,000 Philadelphia, PA $125,ooo Stabilization (museum) (theater) To support the establishment of To support the establishment of an endowment for the Institute an endowment and augmenta­ of Contemporary Art. tion of a cash reserve.

Waiters Art Gallery, Trustees Winston-Salem Symphony of the Association Baltimore, MD $135,ooo Winston-Salem, NC $75,000 (museum) (music) To support the augmentation of To support augmentation of an a cash reserve. endowment.

Washington Drama Society, Inc. Yellow Barn (Arena Stage) Putney, VT $23,ooo Washington, DC $25o, ooo (music) (theater) To support the new position of To support the augmentation of Associate Artistic Director, an endowment. board development, planning and implementation of out­ reach programs, and marketing plans. Partnership Agreements

s part of the restructuring of the Arts Using both federal and state funds, state arts Endowment in 1997, the various cat­ agencies play a critical role in the vitality of arts A egories through which the desig­ programming in various communities, includ­ nated state and regional arts agencies had pre­ ing underserved communities. They provide viously received grants--Basic State Grants, substantial support, including operating sup­ Arts In Education Partnership Grants, and Un­ port, to arts organizations. They make grants to derserved Communities Set-Aside Grants-­ individual artists in all disciplines. They con­ were replaced by Partnership Agreements. duct public art programs such as the Tennessee Awards are based on state plans that cover all Arts Commission’s 15-year effort to place sculp­ aspects of an agency’s programming, includingtures by Tennessee artists at each of the state’s support for arts education and for the arts in 11 Welcome Centers. They provide technical as­ underserved communities. sistance or services such as artist rosters, and of­ Partnership Agreements complement the fer information services such as statewide arts Arts Endowment’s other programs--which calendars. largely focus on projects of national, regional, State arts agencies are the Arts Endow- 89 or field-wide significance--by sponsoring pri­ ment’s key partners in support of arts educa­ marily local or statewide arts activities. tion. For example, the Minnesota State Arts Most of the 56 state and other jurisdictional Board is helping the state’s public school chil­ arts agencies were created in response to the dren meet new performance standards for national example and financial incentive pro-graduation in the arts. Together the states and vided by the Arts Endowment upon its incep­ the Endowment aim to make the arts basic to tion in 1965. Over the past 30 years this incen­ education; increase public awareness of the tive has grown into a state-federal partnership value of arts education; and increase and im­ that has contributed greatly to increased arts in prove arts education opportunities. education, preservation of folk and traditional The Endowment also makes Partnership arts, and development of strong local pro­ Agreement awards to seven regional organiza­ grams. tions, each created by groups of state arts agen­ Federal Partnership Agreements awarded in cies in order to transcend state boundaries and 1997 were combined with about $305 million in give their citizens access to a richer variety of state-appropriated funds and used to support arts experiences. One of their main roles is to more than z6,ooo projects in over 5,500 com­ help community presenters make outstanding munities. Approximately 30 percent of these performing arts events available in underserved awards go to groups in non-metropolitan areas. communities. NEA 1997 ANNUAL REPORT

Partnership Agreements gan, Minnesota, North Dakota, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, 66 awards $29,960,400 Ohio, South Dakota, and Wis­ Louisiana, Mississippi, North consin. Carolina, South Carolina, and Partnership Agreements serve Tennessee. multiple artistic disciplines. Consortium for Pacific Arts and Cultures Western States Arts Honolulu, HI $172,ooo Federation National Services To support the work of the Denver, CO $824,900 Consortium for Pacific Arts and To support the work of the National Assembly of State Cultures in its member territo­ Western States Arts Federation Arts Agencies ries: American Samoa, Guam, in its member states: Alaska, Washington, DC $254,000 and the Northern Marianas. Arizona, California, Colorado, An amendment to a previous Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New year’s grant to support NASAA’s Mid-America Arts Alliance Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Wash­ programs and services to state Kansas City, MO $583,600 ington, and Wyoming. arts agencies. To support the work of the Mid-America Arts Alliance in State Arts Agencies National Assembly of State its member states: Arkansas, Arts Agencies Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, The Arts Endowment’s 1997 Partnership Washington, DC $15,8oo Oklahoma, and Texas. Partnership Agreements sup­ Agreements A cooperative agreement to port state and jurisdictional arts support information services. Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, agencies in three areas: arts ed­ 90 Inc. ucation activities; arts in under- National Assembly of State Baltimore, MD $7Ol, OOO served communities; and grant, Arts Agencies To support the work of the Mid service, or administrative pro­ Washington, DC $15,ooo Atlantic Arts Foundation in its grams. A cooperative agreement to ad­ member states and territories: minister partnership consulta­ Delaware, District of Columbia, Alabama State Council on the tions between the Arts Endow­ Maryland, New Jersey, New Arts ment and state arts agencies. York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Montgomery, AL $447,000 Virgin Islands, and West Vir­ Regional Arts Organizations ginia. Alaska State Council on the Arts The Arts Endowment’s 1997 New England Foundation for Anchorage, AK $4oo,4oo Partnership Agreements support the Arts regional arts organizations in Boston, MA $519,3oo American Samoa Council on two areas: presenting and tour­ To support the work of the New Arts, Culture, & Humanities ing (some in rural and under- England Foundation for the Pago Pago, AS $267,400 served areas); and grant, service, Arts in its member states: Con­ or administrative programs. necticut, Maine, Massachusetts, Arizona Commission on the New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Arts Arts Midwest and Vermont. Phoenix, AZ $488,000 Minneapolis, MN $707,500 To support the work of Arts Southern Arts Federation, Inc. Arkansas Arts Council Midwest in its member states: Atlanta, GA $724,700 Little Rock, AR $41o,2oo Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michi­ To support the work of the Southern Arts Federation in its California Arts Council member states: Alabama, Sacramento, CA $865,ooo "This is a culmination of hard work and dreams. It’s the tip of the iceberg for the possibilities of community commitment to this neighborhood," said Mayor Barrie Parsons Tilghman of this mural, created in a crime-plagued neighborhood as part of a Salisbury, Maryland project funded by the Maryland State Arts Council. The teenagers in the photo helped create the mural. Photo by James Serkoch.

Colorado Council on the Arts Florida Division of Cultural Idaho Commission on the Arts Denver, CO $4z7,8oo Affai rs Boise, ID $394,700 Tallahassee, FL $520,300 Connecticut Commission on Illinois Arts Council the Arts Georgia Council for the Arts Chicago, IL $559,4oo Hartford, CT $486,300 Atlanta, GA $483,500 Indiana Arts Commission Delaware Division of the Arts Guam Council on the Arts and Indianapolis, IN $458,600 Wilmington, DE $406,700 Humanities Agana, GU $247,6oo Iowa Arts Council District of Columbia Des Moines, IA $454,400 Commission on the Arts and Hawaii State Foundation on Humanities Culture & the Arts Kansas Arts Commission Washington, DC $352,600 Honolulu, HI $414,1oo Topelca, KS $412,zoo NEA 1997 ANNUAL REPORT

Kentucky Arts Council New Mexico Arts Division Tennessee Arts Commission Frankfort, KY $46z,6oo Santa Fe, NM $383,4oo Nashville, TN $468,900

Louisiana Division of the Arts New York State Council on the Texas Commission on the Arts Baton Rouge, LA $443,5oo Arts Austin, TX $627,900 New York, NY $68o,6oo Maine Arts Commission Utah Arts Council Augusta, ME $403,7o0 North Carolina Arts Council Salt Lake City, UT $467,600 Raleigh, NC $523,400 Maryland State Arts Council Vermont Council on the Arts, Baltimore, MD $469,700 North Dakota Council on the Inc. Arts Montpelier, VT $434,8oo Massachusetts Cultural Council Bismarck, ND $4o5,2oo Boston, MA $473,3oo Virgin Islands Council on the Northern Marianas Arts Michigan Council for Arts and Commonwealth Council for St. Thomas, VI $253,800 Cultural Affairs Arts & Culture Detroit, MI $521,5oo Saipan, MP $261,6oo Virginia Commission for the Arts Partnership Minnesota State Arts Board Ohio Arts Council Richmond, VA $479,2oo Agreements St. Paul, MN $485,400 Columbus, OH $594,000 Washington State Arts 92 Mississippi Arts Commission Oklahoma Arts Council Commission Jackson, MS $495,800 Oklahoma City, OK $441,9oo Olympia, WA $454,4oo

Missouri State Council on the Oregon Arts Commission West Virginia Division of Arts Salem, OR $406,700 Culture & History St. Louis, MO $465,500 Charleston, WV $424,700 Pennsylvania Council on the Montana Arts Council Arts Wisconsin Arts Board Helena, MT $386,9oo Harrisburg, PA $598,8oo Madison, WI $443,5oo

Nebraska Arts Council Institute of Puerto Rican Wyoming Arts Council Omaha, NE $441,200 Culture Cheyenne, WY $422,800 San Juan, PR $423,1oo Nevada State Council on the Arts Rhode Island State Council on Carson City, NV $399,5oo the Arts Providence, RI $41o,4oo New Hampshire State Council on the Arts South Carolina Arts Concord, NH $41o,1oo Commission Columbia, SC $504,900 New Jersey State Council on the Arts South Dakota Arts Council Trenton, NJ $563,2oo Pierre, SD $424,ooo Leadership Initiatives

MILLENNIUM PROJECTS

eadership Initiatives fulfill the Arts En­ achievements to date, and look to the future with L dowment’s responsibility to take an ac­ renewed respect for each other and restored tive role in developing and carrying out hope in our country. One such project, recog­ pioneering or hallmark projects in the arts of nizing that the twentieth century has been the national and international significance. They American Century in the field of dance, aims to complement the Endowment’s activities in continue that role into the new millennium: the other grantmaking areas. American Dance Festival in Durham, North Many Leadership projects will highlight Carolina, was awarded a grant to support newly- American creativity to help mark the arrival of commissioned works by modern dance choreo­ the new millennium. In his 1997 State of the graphers and jazz musicians that will debut in Union address, President Clinton challenged "all this country and then tour internationally. Americans in the arts and humanities to join Another example of a Millennium Project with their fellow citizens to make the year 2ooo supported with 1997 funds is loo Years of Amer­ a national celebration of the American spirit in ican Musical Theater: Past Legacy and Future Vi­ every community, a celebration of our common sions, a celebration of a uniquely American art 93 culture in the century that is past and in the new form by the American Music Theater Festival one to come." The Endowment is joining with in Philadelphia. This program will include in­ the White House, other Federal agencies, and novative revivals of existing works as well as arts organizations around the country to honor special youth performances and education pro­ the past and imagine the future at the turn of the grams. America’s young people will also be the millennium. In Fiscal Year 1997, financial sup­ focus of a project by the widely-acclaimed Boys port was provided for Millennium Projects that Choir of Harlem, which will help towns will help us to find the range of American voices throughout the country replicate its successful throughout this vast nation, celebrate what structure--guiding youth towards responsible unites us as a country, record and solidify our citizenship in the new millennium. NEA 1997 ANNUAL REPORT

Millennium Projects tury orchestral works by living collaborations between Cham­ 22 Awards $4,874,000 American composers, to ensure ber Music America, composers, that these works have a promi­ local presenting organizations, The discipline designations in nent place in the zlst century and over loo jazz, new music, parentheses refer to the pro­ repertoire. and chamber groups to present ject, not necessarily the organi­ thousands of performances zation. Atlatl, Inc. throughout the country. Phoenix, AZ $224,ooo (expansion arts) Chicago Chamber Musicians American Dance Festival, Inc. To support Pathways of Cultural Chicago, IL $zoo, ooo Durham, NC $200,000 Influence, a series of regional (music) (dance) exhibits showcasing Native To support Music at the Millen­ To support a three-year pro­ American contemporary art nium, a three-year festival of gram of commissions to six that will travel to Native Ameri­ 2oth century chamber music, modern dance choreographers can communities nationwide that will combine a retrospec­ and six jazz musicians for the and unite as one exhibition by tive of this century’s music and creation of collaborative dance- the end of the year 2ooo. the commissioning of new music works that will premiere works. at the Kennedy Center in Wash­ Ballet Theatre Foundation, Inc. Leadership ington, DC and the American (American Ballet Theatre) Children’s Museum of San Initiatives Dance Festival in Durham, New York, NY $250,000 Diego North Carolina, and then tour (dance) San Diego, CA $50,000 94 nationally and internationally. To support the Masterworks of (museum) Millennium 20th Century American Chore­ To support the design of Kids Projects American Music Theater ography festival and national Block, the nation’s first block to Festival tour, in celebration of the mil­ be designated as a multipurpose Philadelphia, PA $300,000 lennium and the American Bal­ creative center for children and (musical theater) let Theatre’s 60th anniversary. their families, that will be cen­ To support the American Music tered around the museum and Theater Festival’s millennium Boys Choir of Harlem, Inc. combine educational, cultural, celebration, loo Years of Ameri­ New York, NY $200,000 health, social service, and com­ can Musical Theater: Past Legacy (music) mercial entities. and Future Visions, which will To support a five-year project to include world premieres, innov­ help towns throughout the Downtown Community ative revivals of past works, an country replicate the Boys Television Center, Inc. international conference, and a Choir of Harlem model, New York, NY $25o, ooo youth performance and educa­ strengthening and enriching (media arts) tion program. communities by guiding youth To support the 1999 national toward responsible citizenship tour of the Millennium Mobile, American Symphony Orchestra in the new millennium. which will celebrate American League life and culture by capturing Washington, DC $300,000 Chamber Music America, Inc. images for a video portrait of (music) New York, NY $300,000 the United States on the eve of To support Music for a New (music) the 21st century. Millennium, a six-year program To support American Ensembles: that will identify and encourage A Musical Celebration of the Mil­ the performance of 2oth cen­ lennium, a three-year series of Educational Broadcasting Corporation (WNET) New York, NY $300,000 (media arts) To support the first phase of the American Novel Project, a na­ tionally broadcast television and multimedia initiative celebrating the works of 2oth century Amer­ ican writers from Henry James to Toni Morrison, that will air on the American Masters series.

Jos6 Limon Dance Foundation New York, NY $z75,ooo (dance) To support the preservation and performance of modern dance masterworks of the 2oth cen­ tury, and the implementation of the American Choreographer’s Initiative, a young choreogra­ phers’ laboratory that will create dances for the next millennium.

Museum of Modern Art I New York, NY $275,000 (museum) To support a year-long, com­ prehensive survey of modern art from the museum’s collec­ tions, with approximately 25 ex­ hibitions and related public programs and publications Shiva Nataraja: this 13th century Indian bronze sculpture embodies the Hindu stressing the breadth and diver­ concept of time as an endless, rhythmic cycle. Crushing the demon of worldly illusion sity of the visual arts from beneath his right foot, Shiva dances the cosmic dance of perpetual disintegration and 188o-1999, components of renewal. Photo courtesy of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri. which will travel throughout the United States. terworks of the 2oth century, Nelson Gallery Foundation specially commissioned radio Kansas City, MO $175,ooo National Public Radio pieces by artists envisioning the (museum) Washington, DC $3oo, ooo future, newly commissioned ra­ To support two concurrent ex­ (media arts) dio dramas based on futuristic hibitions, one that will tour, ti­ To support a millennium initia­ fiction, and three 24-hour tled "Tempus Fugit," examining tive for NPR’s nationally dis­ broadcasts offering retrospec­ notions of time as both a nat­ tributed news and cultural pro­ tive surveys of 2oth century ural phenomenon and a cul­ gramming, including modules American music. tural construct, with works about American musical mas- NEA 1997 ANNUAL REPORT

from the Nelson-Atkins Mu­ New York Shakespeare Festival Whitney Museum of American seum of Art’s collection and (The Public Theater) Art other museums. New York, NY $250,000 New York, NY $275,ooo (theater) (museum) New York Foundation for To support a three-tiered, To support "The American the Arts (as fiscal agent for multi-year program--including Century: 19oo-2ooo," a year­ Art/2 I, Inc.) two colloquia and a documen­ long touring exhibition of 2oth New York, NY $25,000 tary film--that celebrates the century American art with (media arts) achievements of 2oth century works from various public and To support research, in cooper­ classic theater, and explores the private collections, education ation with WNET Television, development of an American programs, a two-volume history for Art for the Twenty-First Cen­ aesthetic for Shakespeare and of 2oth century American art tury, a new television series on the classics in the millennium. and culture, and a companion the contemporary visual arts, film. that will introduce the general, OPERA America, Inc 2 public television audience to Washington, DC $375,ooo 1No funds were obligated in FY major American visual artists. (opera) 1997, with the balance carried To support The Next Stage, a over to the next year, subject to New York Foundation for four-year, national initiative in­ grantee meeting matching fund Leadership the Arts (as fiscal agent for volving over 5o U.S. opera com­ requirements. Initiatives Art/2 I, Inc.) panies to highlight productions New York, NY $300,000 of under-performed American 2S15O, OOO was obligated in FY 96 (media arts) operas that premiered in recent 1997, with the balance carried Millennium To support the development decades, and to help these over to the next year, subject to Projects and production, in cooperation works become part of the stan­ grantee meeting matching fund with WNET Television, of Art dard 21st century repertoire. requirements. for the Twenty-First Century, a new television series on the Southeast Alaska Indian contemporary visual arts, that Cultural Center, Inc. will introduce the general, pub­ Sitka, AK $5o, ooo lic television audience to major, (folk and traditional arts) American visual artists. To support the carving and launching of a traditional Tlin­ New York Public Library Astor, git red cedar canoe, preserving Lenox and Tilden Foundations for future generations the cul­ New York, NY $300,000 tural knowledge of canoe de­ (multidisciplinary) sign, carving techniques, and To support digitizing the collec­ ceremonial protocol by practic­ tion at the Library for the Per­ ing and documenting their use. forming Arts, in order to make American performing arts ma­ terials from 1875-1925 accessible to wide audiences via the World Wide Web. Leadership Initiatives

INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS

ome Leadership Initiatives help to en­ The Fund’s other contributors match Endow­ sure that the excellence, diversity, and ment dollars more than 5-to-z. of American art is known A second partnership with the Trust for around the world, through collaboration with Mutual Understanding, the Ohio Arts Council, both public and private sector organizations. and the Open Society Institute (part of the In z997 the Endowment continued to support Soros Foundation network) supports the international activities such as performance ArtsLink program of the Citizen Exchange and exhibition opportunities, residencies, and Council. This program sponsors exchanges of other cooperative projects for American artists artists and arts managers between the United abroad. The Fund for U.S. Artists at Interna­ States and the new democracies of Central and tional Festivals and Exhibitions, administered Eastern Europe and the Newly Independent by Arts International, is jointly sponsored by States. Endowment funding leverages a more the Arts Endowment, the United States Infor­ than 5-to-1 match from the ArtsLink partners, mation Agency, The Pew Charitable Trusts, including support from the Soros Centers for and The Rockefeller Foundation. The only na­ Contemporary Art in 28 countries in the region. 97 tionwide source of financial support for artists Finally, the Endowment continued its sup­ of its kind, the Fund has made possible the port of the U.S.-Japan Creative Artists Pro­ participation of American artists at major vis­ gram, a project of the Japan-U.S. Friendship ual arts biennial exhibitions in Venice, Sao Commission. An interagency transfer permit­ Paolo, and Sydney. The Fund also has made ted three U.S. artists to work in Japan for peri­ possible participation by U.S. performing artists ods of six months each. The Commission in festivals from Slovenia to Senegal to Shanghai. matches the Endowment’s funds 2-to-1. NEA 1997 ANNUAL REPORT

International Programs David Mills ArtsLink: Residencies 3 awards $375,000 Rochester, VT $z,8oo To support a collaboration American Composers The following awards serve mul­ between Mr. Mills and Polish Orchestra tiple artistic disciplines. photographer Pavel Hartman to New York, NY $5,ooo create a poem and photoessay. To support the hosting of Emir Nuhanovic, Managing Director CEC International Partners, Inc. Robert Davidson Dance of the Sarajevo Philharmonic New York, NY Szz5,ooo Company Orchestra in Bosnia and Herze­ A cooperative agreement to Seattle, WA $6,ooo govina, who will observe ACO’s support ArtsLink--a partner­ To support collaboration with operations and assist with the ship with the Trust for Mutual Teatr Tanca NEI from Warsaw, production of its Carnegie Hall Understanding, the Ohio Arts Poland on development of concert series. Council, and the Open Society dance-aerial works. Institute--which funds artistic Center for Arts Criticism exchanges between the United 7 Stages Theater Minneapolis, MN $5,ooo States and Central and Eastern Atlanta, GA $4,5oo To support the hosting of Beata Europe and the Newly Indepen­ To support a collaboration with Nowacka, curator at Bunkier dent States. the Croatian National Theater Sztuki Gallery of Contempo­ Leadership on the production of Sam rary Art in Krakow, Poland, Initiatives The following awards were Shepard’s Buried Child. who will contribute to the Cen­ made in 1997 under the previ­ ter’s publications projects and 98 ous year’s agreement: Shapiro & Smith Dance assist with the day-to-day oper­ International Company ations of Intermedia Arts. Programs ArtsLink: Collaborative Projects Minneapolis, MN $~o, ooo To support the creation of Ba­ Fabric Workshop The Core Ensemble bel, a dance, theater, and music Philadelphia, PA $5,000 Lake Worth, FL $5,000 performance produced in col­ To support the hosting of Bul­ To support a new work by Russ­ laboration with Uzbek artists, garian visual artist Luchezar ian composer Yuri Kasparov for including director Mark Weil Boyadjiev, who will work with cello, piano, and percussion. and composer Dmitry Yanov- the master printer of the Fabric Yanosky. Workshop to create a new site- Liza Davitch specific work. Minnetonka, MN $4,000 Thomas Wells To support collaboration be­ Columbus, OH $2,500 Isabella Stewart Gardner tween Ms. Davitch and Polish To support the development of Museum filmmaker Greg Zglinski on a a collaborative electro-acousti­ Boston, MA $5,000 documentary about the Polish cal work based on Serbian folk To support the hosting of Russ­ actresses Krystyna ]anda and music with composer Vladan ian visual artist Vadim Fishkin, her daughter, Maria Seweryn. Radonavic, Director of Elec­ who will create new work and tronic Music Studios in Bel­ participate in public and educa­ Charles Harper grade. tional programs with other vis­ Seattle, WA $6,000 iting artists and the community. To support a collaborative the­ ater project between Mr. Harper and Czech designer and scenic artist Marek Zakostelecky. GRANTS AND AWARDS

University of Iowa Iowa City, IA $5,000 To support the hosting of Jas­ mina Tesanovic, a writer and translator from the former Yu­ goslavia who will participate in seminars, performances, and radio interviews, at the Univer­ sity’s International Writing Program.

University of Wisconsin Madison, WI S5,ooo To support the hosting of Inga Perkone, Director of the Riga Film Museum in Riga, Latvia, who will participate in graduate level classes and observe the op­ Bulgarian artist Luchezar Boyadjiev in residence at The Fabric Workshop and erations and techniques of the Museum in Philadelphia, Photo by Matthew Suib. university’s Center for Film and Leadership Theater Research. Initiatives Liz Lerman Dance Exchange Nexus and work with colleagues Washington, DC $5,000 in the Photography Department Arts International (a division of 99 To support the hosting of at the Atlanta College of Art. the Institute for International International Iwona Katarzynska, the man­ Education) Programs ager of Modern Dance Projects Rutgers University New York, NY $185,ooo in Gdansk, Poland, who will as­ New Brunswick, N1 Sl,ooo A cooperative agreement to ad­ sist in training dancers and so­ To support the hosting of Russ­ minister grants for the Fund for cial service providers using ian fiber artist Valeri Orlov, who U.S. Artists at International Fes­ Dance Exchange methods. will teach, take graduate level tivals and Exhibitions, a part­ classes, and collaborate with nership of the Arts Endowment, Maryland Arts Place Rutgers’ master printer and pa­ the Pew Charitable Trusts, the Baltimore, MD $5,000 permaker at the Rutgers Center Rockefeller Foundation, and the To support the hosting of mul­ for Innovative Print and Paper. United States Information timedia artist Oksana Chepelyk Agency. from Ukraine, who will create a School of the Art Institute of new performance work and Chicago visit the studios of Washington, Chicago, 1L $5,000 DC area artists. To support the hosting of Eve Linnap, Director of the Center Nexus Contemporary Arts for Contemporary Photography Center in Tallinn, Estonia, who will ini­ Atlanta, GA $4,2oo tiate dialogue with visiting To support the hosting of artists, critics, writers, histori­ Ukrainian visual artist Iliya ans, and scholars. Chichkan, who will exhibit at NEA 1997 ANNUAL REPORT

The following awards were Cygnus Ensemble G.A.L.A., Inc. (GALA Hispanic made in 1997 under the previ­ Wayne, N] $9,000 Theater) ous year’s agreement: To support the group’s perfor­ Washington, DC $2,ooo mance at the Europe-Asia Festi­ To support the travel of an ARTEMIS val of Modern Music in Russia. actor/director and actor/stage Lafayette, CO $4,000 manager from the U.S. for the To support the group’s perfor­ Da Camera of Houston company’s performance at the mance at the European Month Houston, TX $5,o00 Fiesta Internacional del Teatro of Culture in Slovenia. To support the group’s perfor­ San Martin de Caracas in mance at the International Fes­ Venezuela. Billy Tipton Memorial tival Cervantino in Mexico. Saxophone Quartet Sha Sha Higby Seattle, WA $3,ooo Paul Dresher San Francisco, CA $2,5oo To support the group’s perfor­ Los Angeles, CA Sl, ooo To support the artist’s perfor­ mance at the Druga Godba Fes­ To support the artist’s perfor­ mance at the International Mi­ tival in Slovenia. mance at the Body Electric Gui­ cro Festival in the Netherlands. tar Festival in Canada. Chinle Valley Singers Joe Goode Performance Group Denver, CO $2,800 The Far East Side Band San Francisco, CA $9,oo0 Leadership To support the group’s perfor­ 1ersey City, N! SzO, OOO To support the group’s perfor­ Initiatives mance at the WOMAD (World To support the band’s perfor­ mance at the Ramallah Festival of Music and Dance) Festival in mance at the Beijing Interna­ for Culture and Arts in Jordan. I00 the United Kingdom. tional Jazz Festival in China. International John Luther Adams & Company Programs Steve Coleman Footworks Percussive Dance Fairbanks, AK $13,4oo Allentown, PA $11,ooo Ensemble To support the company’s per­ To support the artist’s perfor­ Baltimore, MD $7,500 formance of Adam’s opera, mance at the Saint Louis Jazz To support the group’s perfor­ Earth and the Greta Weather, at Festival in Senegal. mance at the Nott Dance, Som­ the Mmeida Opera Festival in erset Dance Connections, the United Kingdom. The Core Ensemble Stafford, and Bury St. Edmunds Lake Worth, FL $3,ooo Festivals in England and the Kevin Maynor & Ensemble To support the ensemble’s per­ Stan Rogers Festival in Canada. Newark, N] $1o, ooo formance at the Moscow Inter­ To support the group’s perfor­ national Autumn Festival in James Freeman, Barbara Ann mance at the Standard Bank Russia. Martin, & George Crumb National Arts Festival and the Wallingford, PA $6,000 Market Theatre Festival in Cuarzo Blanco To support the three artists’ South Africa. San ]uan, PR $5,ooo performance at the European To support the company’s per­ Month of Culture in Slovenia, No Theater formance at the Barranquilla featuring a special presentation Northampton, MA $3,5oo International Theatre Festival of Crumb’s music. To support the group’s perfor­ in Colombia. mances at the Spiel Art Festival in Germany. GRANTS AND AWARDS

Nu City Mass Choir Sally Silvers & Dancers Japan-U.S. Friendship Chicago, IL $15,5oo New York, NY $2,ooo Commission To support the group’s perfor­ To support the group’s Washington, DC $75,o0o mance at the Gospel in Africa performance at the Festival In­ An interagency transfer to sup­ Festival in Senegal. ternacional de Danza Contem­ port the U.S./Japan Creative poranea de San Luis Potosi in Artists’ Program, which pro­ Paulette Beauchamp & Dancers Mexico. vides project support for three San Juan, PR $6,000 U.S. artists to pursue their artis­ To support the group’s perfor­ Bright Sheng tic goals and interests in Japan. mance at the Entrepola Festival Ypsilanti, MI $1,5oo in Chile. To support the composer’s The following awards were participation in the Shanghai made by the Commission in Plymouth Music Series of International Radio Music yen in 1997 under the previous Minnesota Festival in China, where one of year’s agreement: Minneapolis, MN $1o, ooo his recent compositions will To support the group’s perfor­ premiere. Sally Gross mance at the BOC Covent Gar­ New York, NY den Festival in the United King­ Starving Artists Theatre To support study of traditional dom, the Festval van Company Japanese dance and theater and Vlaanderen in the Netherlands, Los Angeles, CA $7,5oo collaboration with choreogra­ Leadership and the International Music To support the company’s per­ pher Suzuchi Hanayagi. I nitiatives Festival and the Prague Spring formance at the Dublin Theatre Festival in the Czech Republic. Festival in Ireland. David Stuempfle I01 Seagrove, NC International Odean Pope 33 Fainting Spells To support residencies at pot­ Programs Philadelphia, PA $5,2oo Seattle, WA $1,5oo tery centers in Shigaraki and To support the artist’s perfor­ To support the group’s perfor­ Bizen, with the intent of form­ mance at the Wangaratta Festi­ mance at the Young Interna­ ing a relationship between the val of Jazz in Australia. tional Choreographers Festival artist’s community in North in Germany. Carolina and these Japanese Pure Movement (Rennie Harris centers. Pure Movement) UMO Ensemble Philadelphia, PA $1o, ooo Vashon Island, WA $1o, ooo Pamela Z To support the group’s perfor­ To support the group’s perfor­ San Francisco, CA mance at the Via Bahia Festival mance at the Sibiu Interna­ To support the inclusion of in Brazil and the Holland tional Theater Festival in Ro­ Tokyo in the artist’s ongoing Dance Festival in the Nether­ mania. sound-performance work lands. Metrodaemonium, a digital Young at Heart Chorus sounds portrait of several U.S. Red Spirit Singers Northampton, MA $6,ooo and European cities; and to de­ Santa Fe, NM $7,ooo To support the group’s perfor­ velop a sound-performance in­ To support the group’s perfor­ mance at the Rotterdam Festi­ volving the Japanese phonetic mance at the Etonnants vals in Holland. alphabet. Voyageurs Festival in France. Leadership Initiatives

OTHER INITIATIVES

he Arts Endowment also supports a Another initiative provided grants to five uni­ number of other initiatives that inte­ versities across the country to support the May­ T grate the arts into a wide variety of ors’ Institute on City Design, bringing together community services and settings. For example, design experts and local elected officials to ad­ working with the U.S. Department of Educa­ dress the built environment and livability of tion, the Endowment demonstrated the value America’s cities. In the area of arts education, a of the arts in helping youth at risk for drug cooperative agreement with the Council of abuse and violence. Funded in 1997 through an Chief State School Officers supported the Goals interagency agreement, the program "Creative zooo Arts Education Partnership, which helps Partnerships for Prevention: A Drug and Vio­ American schools develop their arts education lence Prevention Program for Youth Using the curricula. Arts and Humanities" includes a public aware­ Funds which were set aside especially for ness campaign, a resource guide for use in underserved areas supported additional pro­ school and community programs, and demon­ jects carried out by state and regional arts agen­ 102 stration sites focusing on model, arts-based cies. Among the projects funded in Fiscal Year prevention programs. 1997 were the Deep South Literature Consor­ The Endowment works in many ways with tium of the Mississippi Arts Commission; the nonprofit organizations to integrate the arts Building Communities Through Culture pro­ into the fabric of community life. An example gram of the New England Foundation for the funded this year is the Chamber Music Rural Arts; and the American Traditions project of Residencies Program of Chamber Music Amer­ the Southern Arts Federation. Through these ica, Inc., which places chamber ensembles in and other program initiatives, the Endowment various rural communities to interact with lo­ brings the arts to new audiences and con­ cal citizens and school students through a va­ tributes toward the building of better American riety of performing and teaching activities. communities. GRANTS AND AWARDS

Other Initiatives the Goals 2000 Arts Education John F. Kennedy Center for the 33 awards $4,345,306 Partnership--an organizational Performing Arts network that helps American Washington, DC $200,000 The discipline designations in schools acquire the best prac­ (arts education) parentheses refer to the pro­ tices in teaching and learning A cooperative agreement to ject, not necessarily the organi­ the arts, and acts as a national support, in partnership with the zation. information source on state arts U.S. Department of Education, agency policies and practices. the implementation phase of ArtsEdge, a Web site which helps ~ Arts Midwest Council of Chief State School artists, teachers, and students Minneapolis, MN $98,000 Officers discover resources and ideas (state and regional: underserved) Washington, DC $220,000 about arts education. To support Rivers, Lakes, & (arts education) Prairies, a Midwest folk arts fes­ An amendment to a previous The Mayors’ Institute on City tival tour, in the states served by cooperative agreement to sup­ Design Arts Midwest: Illinois, Indiana, port, in collaboration with the The following five awards sup­ Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, U.S. Department of Education, port the continuation of an North Dakota, Ohio, South the Goals 2000 Arts Education award-winning, nationwide ini­ Dakota, and Wisconsin. Partnership. tiative-the Mayors’ Institute on City Design--that brings Leadership Chamber Music America, Inc. Idaho Commission on the Arts’ together local elected officials Initiatives New York, NY $150,000 Boise, ID $1zo, ooo with leading design and devel­ (music) (state and regional: underserved) opment professionals, to ex­ 103 To support, during 1998-99, To support The Spirit of the change ideas on the role of po­ Other costs of the Chamber Music Northwest, a cooperative pro­ litical leadership in creating Initiatives Rural Residencies Program, ject of state arts agencies and cities that are more economi­ which places chamber ensem­ state rural development coun­ cally vibrant, environmentally bles in selected rural communi­ cils in Idaho, Oregon, and sustainable, attractive, safe, and ties for several months, enhanc­ Washington that will help rural livable. ing the musical lives of their communities deal with social citizens and developing the par­ and economic challenges Harvard University ticipating artists’ repertoire. through the arts. Cambridge, MA $275,000 (design) Chamber Music America, Inc. International Association of A cooperative agreement to New York, NY $50,000 Jazz Educators support the national meeting of (music) Manhattan, KS $20,000 the Mayors’ Institute on City To support an amendment to a (music) Design. previous grant to support the To support costs of the Chamber Music Rural Residen­ National Endowment for the Tulane University cies program in 1997-98. Arts’ American lazz Masters New Orleans, LA $12,5oo Awards Concert. (design) Council of Chief State School A cooperative agreement to Officers support the Louisiana Mayors’ Washington, DC $250,000 Institute on City Design. (arts education) A cooperative agreement to sup­ port, in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Education, University of California at Berkeley, Regents of the Berkeley, CA $50,000 (design) A cooperative agreement to support the Mayors’ Institute on City Design: West.

University of Maryland, College YOUNG Park ’WRITEI College Park, MD $4o, ooo (design) ON A cooperative agreement to support the Mayors’ Institute on City Design: Northeast.

Washington University St. Louis, MO $50,000 (design) Leadership A cooperative agreement to Initiatives support the Mayors’ Institute on City Design: Midwest. 104 Other Meet the Composer, Inc. Initiatives New York, NY $z2o, ooo (music) y+ViCT01I A cooperative agreement to NEZ support the Commissioning Music/USA program, which awards funds to consortia of music organizations for com­ More than 100 San Francisco WritersCorps teenagers put heart to paper in this missioning works in concert anthology documenting racial experiences. Cover art by Rigo’98, courtesy of music, opera, musical theater, WritersCorps Books, San Francisco Art Commission. and jazz. Mississippi Arts Commission’ National Council for the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, Jackson, MS SZZO, OOO Traditional Arts Inc.’ (state and regional: underserved) Silver Spring, MD $195,ooo Baltimore, MD $200,000 To support the Deep South (folk and traditional arts) (state and regional: underserved) Literature Consortium of Al­ A cooperative agreement to To strengthen awareness of abama, Louisiana, Mississippi, support the nomination process and access to the folk arts in and Tennessee, which will nur­ and production of public events the Delmarva region-­ ture an infrastructure of hu­ for the National Endowment Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, manities councils, state literacy for the Arts’ National Heritage the New Jersey Coast--by de­ offices, schools, and library Fellowships in 1997, and to sup­ veloping mentorship programs, commissions to support the re­ port the production of a 15-year cultural tourism, and other gion’s literary arts, particularly retrospective publication about public activities. in rural communities with little access to literary activities. GRANTS AND AWARDS

the Fellowships with a radio- Regional Arts & Culture Theater Communications compatible, multi-CD record­ Council Group, Inc. ing of selected performances Portland, OR $52,ooo New York, NY $2,500 and interviews. (multidisciplinary) (theater) An amendment to a previous To amend a cooperative agree­ National Trust for Historic cooperative agreement to sup­ ment to support a residency Preservation in the U. S. port the YouthARTS Develop­ program for playwrights. Washington, DC Szoo, ooo ment Project for youth-at-risk, (design) which is run by a consortium of Theater Communications A cooperative agreement to sup­ local arts agencies in Portland, Group, Inc. port Your Town: Designing Oregon; San Antonio, Texas; New York, NY $700,000 its Future, a workshop series fo­ and Atlanta, Georgia. (theater) cused on design issues that are A cooperative agreement to relevant to small towns and rural South Carolina Arts support two cycles of the Ca­ communities such as growth Commission’ reer Development Program for and urban sprawl, historic Columbia, SC $134,ooo Directors and Designers, by preservation, land use, adequate (state and regional: underserved) which nonprofit theaters de­ arts facilities, and housing. To support the artistic develop­ velop younger artists through ment of media artists in South residencies, mentor relation­ New England Foundation for Carolina, Alabama, Kentucky, ships with master stage direc­ Leadership the Arts’ Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, tors and designers, and other Initiatives Boston, MA $200,000 North Carolina, Tennessee, and support services. (state and regional: underserved) Virginia through training and 105 To expand the Building Com­ equipment access at the South University of California at Other munities through Culture pro­ Carolina Arts Commission’s Berkeley, Regents of the Initiatives gram, an initiative to identify, Media Arts Center. Berkeley, CA $82,284 connect, and strengthen com­ (design) munity building efforts by link­ Southern Arts Federation, Inc.’ To amend a previous coopera­ ing arts with non-arts partners, Atlanta, GA $200,000 tive agreement to support the adding several New England (state and regional: underserved) Federal Property Conversion communities over three years. To support, in collaboration Initiative at Fort Ord, which en­ with the other five regional arts gages artists and designers in a North Carolina Arts Council’ agencies and 50 state arts agen­ community-based process of Raleigh, NC $225,000 cies, American Traditions, a converting decommissioned (state and regional: underserved) two-year national effort to Federal property for civilian use. To support, in collaboration showcase America’s folk and with the Tennessee Arts Com­ traditional arts beyond their U.S. Department of Education mission and the Virginia Arts usual audiences, establishing a Washington, DC SlO8,OOO Commission, the creation of network of 60 traditional arts (multidisciplinary) two heritage tourism trails en­ presenters and training 30 tra­ An interagency transfer to sup­ hancing economic development ditional artists to present and port the expansion of the U.S. and cultural preservation: the tour throughout the country. Department of Education’s Cre­ Blue Ridge Music Trail in Vir­ ative Partnership for Preven­ ginia and North Carolina, and tion, a drug and violence pre­ the Cherokee Arts and Culture vention program for youth Trail in North Carolina and using the arts and humanities, Tennessee. with Endowment funds matched 4-to-1 by the Depart­ ment of Education. NEA 1997 ANNUAL REPORT

U. S. Department of abuse. The program, created in Corporation for National State/Federal Facilities Council 1994, works through local arts Service Washington, DC SZO, OOO councils across the country. (design) An interagency transfer to sup­ Bronx Council on the Arts, Inc. An interagency agreement to port a partnership of Federal Bronx, NY $35,376 support WritersCorps. agencies convened to identify (local arts agencies) and advance technologies, An amendment to a previous District of Columbia processes, and management cooperative agreement to sup­ Commission on the Arts & practices that improve the plan­ port WritersCorps. Humanities ning, design, construction, op­ Washington, DC $63,9o7 eration, and evaluation of Fed­ Bronx Council on the Arts, Inc. (local arts agencies) eral facilities. Bronx, NY $1oo, ooo An amendment to a previous (local arts agencies) cooperative agreement to sup­ WritersCorps z A cooperative agreement to port WritersCorps. The following five awards sup­ support WritersCorps. port the WritersCorps, in which *Arts in underserved areas set- writers work with human and California Assembly of Local aside grant. social service organization clients Arts Agencies Leadership to improve literacy and commu­ San Francisco, CA $48,922 ~An additional $5,070 supported Initiatives nication skills while offering cre­ (local arts agencies) administrative costs associated ative expression as an alternative An amendment to a previous with WritersCorps. 106 to violence, alcohol and drug cooperative agreement to sup­ Other port WritersCorps. Initiatives

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LITERATURE FELLOWSHIPS

"A Literature Fellowship from the Na­ Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, ~ tional Endowment for the Arts means and the Pulitzer Prize In Poetry and Fiction ~... I live in a country that chooses to since 199o have been previous Arts Endowment hear the vital singing--the pulsations, the life Fellowship winners. All but one received their blood, the pathways that connect us profoundly fellowships before these other awards, usually to each other, profoundly to the intelligent lo to 20 years earlier. compassionate cosmos." Arts Endowment Literature Fellowships en­ --Cathy Song, poet and teacher courage new work, since most of the recipients Honolulu, HI are unknown even within the literary field at the time the awards are made. Simultaneously, Cathy Song used her 1997 Literature Fellowship the Fellowships give writers national recogni­ to take time off from teaching in order to com­ tion for the first time, an invaluable validation plete a volume of poetry, The Roses of Guadala­ of their talent to peers, agents, publishers, and jara. Her comments illustrate her gratitude to presenters around the country. the American people for providing her with this Another 1997 grant recipient was Margaret 107 opportunity, which was not available through Almon, a public services librarian at the Uni­ the commercial publishing marketplace. Her versity of Scranton in Pennsylvania, who used comments also reflect her awareness that the her grant to travel to New Mexico and work on U.S. Congress singled out Literature Fellowships a second volume of poetry. And Linda-Ruth as the Endowment’s only remaining competitive Berger, from Contoocook, New Hampshire, grant category for individual artists. took a one-year sabbatical from her work as a Three decades earlier, the Arts Endowment psychotherapist to write, travel, and complete announced its first recipients of grants to indi­ research for a poetry manuscript exploring the vidual writers. Those recipients included writ­ later lives and paintings of visual artists. This ers who later became luminaries of American project aims to shed light on the shifts in per­ literature, such as William Gaddis, Grace Paley, ception and meaning that aging brings to a per­ and Hayden Carruth. Since then, the Endow­ son’s life and work. ment has awarded Creative Writing Fellowships Literature is inherently a national and inter­ to approximately 2,3oo writers, and sponsored national art form. Both particular and univer­ work resulting in an estimated 2,000 books, in­ sal, it says something about a specific people cluding E. Annie Proulx’s The Shipping News, while also revealing something about all hu­ Alice Walker’s The Color Purple, and Oscar Hi­ manity. Three of this year’s Literature Fellow­ juelos’ The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love. ships went towards the translation into English Thirty of the 38 recipients of the National Book of poems from Bosnia, Israel, and Japan. NEA 997 ANNUAL REPORT

Literature Fellowships 40 awards $800,000

All of the following awards are in the literature discipline.

Fellowships for Creative Writers

Margaret Almon Dunmore, PA $20,000 Grants to Individuals Louis S. Asekoff St. James, NY $20,000 108 Literature Renee Ashley Fellowships Ringwood, NJ $20,000 Cathy Song of Honolulu, Hawaii received a 1997 Literature Fellowship for poetry. Photo by John Eddy. Dorothy M. Barresi Northridge, CA $20,000 Lisa Coffman Kathleen S. Halme Morrisville, PA $20,000 Wilmington, NC $20,000 Linda-Ruth Berger Contoocook, NH $20,000 Deborah A. DeNicola James W. Harris Brookline, MA $2o, ooo Alameda, CA $20,000 David Biespiel Portland, OR $20,000 Alice B. Fogel William Bernard Keckler Acworth, NH $20,000 Harrisburg, PA $20,000 Millicent C. Borges Long Beach, CA $20,000 Michele Glazer Edward Kleinschmidt Portland, OR $20,000 San Francisco, CA $20,000 Sean Brendan-Brown Olympia, WA $2o, ooo Jewelle L. Gomez Mark A. Levine San Francisco, CA $20,000 Brooklyn, NY $20,000 Nick Carbo San Antonio, TX $20,000 Jeffrey L. Gustavson Dionisio D. Martlnez Brooklyn, NY $2o, ooo Tampa, FL $20,000 Ann V. Christie Baltimore, MD $20,000 Judith Hall James D. McCorkle Oxnard, CA $20,000 Geneva, NY $20,000 GRANTS AND AWARDS

Leslea Newman Fellowships for Translators Leza A. Lowitz Northampton, MA $20,000 Oakland, CA ¢20,000 Ammiel Alcalay To support the translation Susan E Prospere Brooklyn, NY $20,000 of Ayukawa Nobuo’s Selected Houston, TX $20,000 To support the translation of an Poems: 1936-1984. anthology of contemporary Thomas Rabbitt Bosnian poetry. Tuscaloosa, AL $20,000 Tsipi E. Keller Joseph J. Ross New York, NY $20,000 Washington, DC $2o, ooo To support the translation of nearly loo poems by four con­ Grants to Charles M. Rossiter temporary, Israeli female writers. Individuals Oak Park, IL $2o, ooo 109 Nicholas Samaras Literature New Port Richey, FL $20,000 Fellowships

Catherine Sasanov (Catherine A. Baker) Cambridge, MA $20,000

Leonard W. Schwartz New York, NY $20,000

Carol A. Snow San Francisco, CA $20,000

Cathy Song (Cathy S. Davenport) Honolulu, HI $20,000

Elaine G. Terranova Philadelphia, PA $20,000

Naomi French Wallace Prospect, KY $20,000

Cynthia Zarin Poet David Biespiel of Portland, Oregon received a 1997 Literature New York, NY $20,000 Fellowship. Photo by Allan de Lay. Grants to Individuals

AMERICAN JAZZ MASTER FELLOWSHIPS

"¯ t means an awful lot when you’re chosen for ucators, musicians, industry members, and en­ an award by your peers. More than you thusiasts during the International Association could possibly imagine." of Jazz Educators conference each January. --]ames Moody, tenor saxophonist Ron Carter, with more than 2,ooo recordings San Diego, CA to his credit, is one of the jazz field’s most orig­ inal, prolific, and influential bassists. He per­ This statement by jazz artist James Moody cap­ formed with the acclaimed Miles Davis Quintet tures the importance of the American Jazz Mas­ from 1963-1968, earned Grammy awards in 1988 ter Fellowships to jazz musicians and the mu­ and 1993, and is currently a Distinguished Pro­ sic field. In 1982 the Arts Endowment began fessor of Music at the City College of New York. honoring great American jazz artists by select­ James Moody was an early member of Dizzy ing John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie, Sun Ra and Gillespie’s big band and helped give birth to be­ Roy Eldridge as its first American Jazz Masters. bop. His many career honors include induction During 1997, tenor saxophonist James Moody, into the International Jazz Hall of Fame. May­ I10 bassist Ron Carter, and saxophonist-composer ors of two American cities--Newark, New Jer­ Wayne Shorter joined 49 other American jazz sey and Savannah, Georgia--have proclaimed artists who have been selected for this title. The James Moody Days in his honor. fellowships recognize artistic excellence, signifi­ Wayne Shorter is co-founder of the ground- cant contributions to jazz, and overall impact breaking group Weather Report. From his work on the music field. Up to three fellows are se­ as a standout young musician for Art Blakey’s lected annually by a panel of jazz artists from a renowned Jazz Messengers to later experimen­ national pool of nominations, and each fellow tation performing with Miles Davis, Shorter receives a one-time-only award of $2o,ooo. The has had a profound effect on modern jazz fellows are honored at an Arts Endowment- through his work as a performer, composer, sponsored concert before thousands of jazz ed­ and recording artist. GRANTS AND AWARDS

American Jazz Master Fellowships 3 awards $60,000

All of the following awards are in the music discipline.

Carter, Ron New York, NY $20,000 Bassist Grants to Moody, James Individuals San Diego, CA $20,000 Tenor Saxophonist III American Jazz Shorter, Wayne Master Fellowships Studio City, CA $20,000 Saxophonist and Composer

James Moody, tenor saxophonist from San Diego, California was honored as an American JaTz Master. Photo © Warner Bros. Records, Inc,, 1996, by Jeffrey Henson Scales. Reprinted with permission. Grants to Individuals

NATIONAL HERITAGE FELLOWSHIPS

"~J y traditional work let me see how dowment’s Chairman for approval. Excellence influenced I really was by my her­ of artistry, authenticity of tradition, and signifi­ itage, my history. It showed me my cance within their art forms are the criteria. For roots in this area; opened my eyes. It’s all in­ example Jim and Jesse McReynolds, 1997 Her­ spired by my upbringing... I want to achieve itage winners, have long been respected for the the level of quality of those old masters--what high caliber of their bluegrass musicianship, they captured on wood, emotions so powerful, their faithfulness to the core of the "mountain so moving." music" tradition in which they were raised, and --Ram6n Jos~ L6pez, santero carver their innovative instrumental techniques that Santa Fe, NM enriched and expanded bluegrass music. Each year, the fellows receive their awards in Every year since the National Heritage Fellow­ a ceremony in Washington, DC and are cele­ ship program was launched in 1982, artists like brated in a free public concert gala that is 1997 National Heritage Fellow Ram6n Jos4 recorded and distributed nationally to public 112 L6pez have uttered words similar to these upon radio stations. This year, First Lady Hillary receiving their award. In doing so, they speak to Rodham Clinton presented the awards of the essence and the lifeline of the folk and tra­ $1o,ooo each to ten recipients in a ceremony at ditional arts--the close connection of the in­ the White House. The ceremony opened with dividual artist to a larger cultural and artistic joyous music by 1997 Heritage Fellow Edward community, present and past. Over the past 17 Babb leading the Harlem-based, brass band years, more than 200 National Heritage Fel­ gospel group, the McCollough Sons of Thun­ lowships have recognized artists representing der. Their spirited music prompted Mrs. Clin­ scores of cultural backgrounds, aesthetic tradi­ ton to announce "I’ve asked them to play one tions, and artistic genres. The list of the 1997 more piece afterwards so that any of you who National Heritage Fellows that follows is typi­ were late or more than 50 miles away and didn’t cal of the cultural and geographic breadth of hear will be able to enjoy in person, up close each year’s list of awardees. and personal this extraordinary group." Babb The artists do not apply for their fellow­ was 13 years old when Mr. Albert Edgington of ships, but are nominated by others who admire the United House of Prayer in Harlem asked them for their excellence, accomplishment, and him to pick out an instrument from a neigh­ the contributions they make to their art form. borhood pawnshop, and he has travelled the A national panel of experts with a broad knowl­ road to accomplishment. Each of the other 1997 edge of American traditional arts reviews the Fellows also has a story sure to inspire genera­ nominations and recommends a select group to tions of folk artists and their enthusiasts. the National Council on the Arts and the En­ GRANTS AND AWARDS

Grants to Individuals

113 National Heritage Wenyi Hua is internationally regarded as the premier artist in one of China’s oldest and most refined forms of opera--kunqu. Fellowships She has performed and directed extensively and founded the Hua Kun Opera in Los Angeles. Photo courtesy of Wenyi Hua.

National Heritage Clark, Gladys LeBlanc Nguyen, Phong Fellowships Duson, LA SZO, OOO Kent, OH $1o, ooo I 0 awards $ 100,000 Cajun Spinner and Weaver Vietnamese Musician and Scholar All of the following awards are Hua, Wenyi in the folk and traditional arts Arcadia, CA $1o, ooo Rankin, I-lystercine discipline. Chinese Kunqu Opera Singer Lorman, MS $1o, ooo African-American Quilter Khan, Ali Akbar Babb, Edward San Anselmo, CA $1o, ooo Whitaker, Francis Jamaica, NY $1o, ooo North Indian Sarod Player and Carbondale, CO $1o, ooo "Shout" Band Gospel Raga Composer Blacksmith and Ornamental Trombonist Ironworker L6pez, Ram6n Jos6 Brown, Charles Santa Fe, NM $1o, ooo Berkeley, CA $1o, ooo Santero Carver and Metalsmith Rhythm & Blues Pianist, Vocal­ ist, and Composer McReynolds, Jim & Jesse Gallatin, TN $1o, ooo Bluegrass Musicians Policy, Research, & Technology

Policy ment and earnings. This year the Research Di­ In Fiscal Year 1997 the Office of Policy, Re­ vision: search, & Technology (OPRT) continued to an­ ¯ conducted the 1997 Survey of Public Partici­ alyze the agency’s application and grant pat­ pation in the Arts, which addresses a variety of terns in order to assist the Endowment’s arts participation issues such as geographic dif­ ongoing evaluation of its new structure and ferences, frequency of arts participation, and grantmaking policies and practices. These barriers to further participation; a summary re­ analyses help the Chairman and the National port will be published in 1998. Council on the Arts make any policy or proce­ dural changes necessary to assure a fair but rig­ ¯ sponsored further development of a national orous application review process. database on arts organizations. OPRT oversees the Civil Rights Office, ¯ initiated an analysis to describe and docu­ which, in 1997, for the second year, managed a ment the extent of multiple jobholding in the pilot internship program as a means of meet­ arts compared to other professions. 114 ing the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU), Ex­ Many of these studies will be continued into ecutive Order 12876. The order is intended to Fiscal Years 1998 and 1999, giving the Division strengthen the capacity of HBCUs to provide a 15-year history of comparative data on the arts excellence in education to all students, regard­ in America. less of race. The Arts Endowment’s HBCU ini­ tiative places qualified fine arts and arts man­ Technology agement students enrolled in HBCUs as The Endowment promotes a strong cultural interns within nonprofit arts organizations. presence on the Internet, which is rapidly be­ During its first two years, the program worked coming the international communications with 44 out of the lo3 HBCUs in the country. mainstream. In this area, OPRT carried out its second year of Open Studio: The Arts Online, a national collaboration with the Benton Foun­ Research dation to help individual artists and nonprofit OPRT’s Research Division conducts research arts organizations gain training for going on­ and develops and disseminates information on line, and to increase the amount of arts and cul­ issues that affect the various arts fields and in­ tural Internet content. In addition, OPRT and dividual artists. The Research Division has re­ the Arts Endowment’s Office of Communica­ ported on national statistics on public arts par­ tions together manage the agency’s Web site at ticipation; financial information and other data http://arts.endow.gov. about arts organizations; and artist employ­ GRANTS AND AWARDS

Policy, Research, & one free Internet access site to students at historically black Technology arts organizations in all 50 colleges and universities. The 2 awards $600,000~ states. The project is helping to program helps meet the goals of establish lo mentoring sites the White House Initiative on The projects in this section where approximately 200 artists Historically Black Colleges and serve multiple artistic disciplines. and arts organizations are being Universities. trained to develop and main­ tain their own Web sites. ’An additional $290,03o was ob­ The Benton Foundation ligated for various research pro­ Washington, DC $500,000 Norfolk State University jects, primarily on public partici­ A cooperative agreement to Norfolk, Virginia $1oo, ooo pation in the arts. This amount support the second year of A cooperative agreement to came from Policy, Research, (~ Open Studio: The Arts Online, a support the second year of a pi­ Technology administrative funds. partnership to provide at least lot arts internship program for

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Bryan Warren, Director of Programs for Space One Eleven, Birmingham, Alabama, introduces a young computer user to the Internet as part of Open Studio: the Arts Online. Photo © The Birmingham News, 1998 (www.al.com). All rights reserved. Reprinted with permission. AccessAbility

he Arts Endowment’s Office for Ac­ Coleman, Florida; Fairton, New Jersey; and cessAbility helps to make the arts fully Cumberland, Maryland. Furthermore, the T accessible to older adults, persons with Office supported technical assistance efforts disabilities, and those living in institutions. In such as the dissemination of Arts Education 1997, the Office conducted arts access seminars for the Blind’s publication Making Visual Art at six conferences nationwide; among them was Accessible to People Who are Blind. the fourth regional access symposium, Sense A major focus of the Endowment’s accessi­ and Sensitivity, convened in Milwaukee with bility efforts is universal design--the holistic Arts Midwest for its nine-state region. In addi­ approach to design that goes beyond minimum tion, the Office helped the National Council on codes and standards to create design that serves Aging develop a first-ever National Database on the broadest public throughout the human life the Arts and Older Americans, through which span. The Office supported and distributed the arts organizations and groups concerned with first collection of Universal Design Exemplars the aging can obtain information on more than to demonstrate this concept and to encourage 116 5oo arts programs involving older adults. landscape, graphic, interior, and industrial de­ Under 1997 funding, the Office convened signers, as well as architects, to practice univer­ the first-ever national forum on careers in the sal design. One of the exemplars was the Na­ arts for people with disabilities, held in June, tional Building Museum exhibit "Washington: 1998. It was organized with the U.S. Depart­ Symbol & City," featuring large-scale, touchable ment of Health and Human Services, Depart­ models of the U.S. Capitol, the White House, ment of Education, Social Security Adminis­ and row houses. In addition, the Office funded tration, and the Kennedy Center for the and nationally distributed a video and publica­ Performing Arts. With the Department of Jus­ tion describing how the Millay Colony for the tice, the Office conducted one-year artists’ res­ Arts utilized universal design in creating its new idencies at Federal Correctional Institutions in building and landscape. AccessAbility 4 awards $148, 782

The projects in this section serve multiple artistic disciplines.

Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts~ Washington, DC $71,782 A cooperative agreement to support a first-ever forum on careers in the arts for people with disabilities that convened June 14-18, 1998 and was orga­ nized in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Education, Department of Health and Human Services, and Social Se­ curity Administration.

Millay Colony for the Arts, Inc. Austerlitz, NY SZO, OOO To support and distribute nationally the video Beyond Access: Universal Design at the With the opening of its new, universally designed main building, the Millay Colony Millay Colony and a 5o-page for the Arts in Austerlitz, New York is able to accommodate persons with and publication that documents without disabilities. Photo by David Stansbury. Millay’s model universal design process used to create its new William James Associationz 1Includes $20,000 in Policy, main facility and landscape. Santa Cruz, CA $17,ooo Research, & Technology admin- A cooperative agreement to or­ istrative funds. New England Foundation for ganize, monitor, and evaluate the Arts 2 three one-year artists’ residen­ 2This award was made using Boston, MA $50,000 cies at Federal Correctional In- Policy, Research, & Technology A cooperative agreement to stitutions in Coleman, Florida; administrative funds. support the second phase of a Fairton, New Jersey; and Cum­ project to plan and convene a berland, Maryland in conjunc­ symposium that will assist tion with the U.S. Department NEFA’s six-state region in mak­ of Justice. ing its facilities, programs, and other activities fully available to older adults and individuals with disabilities. National Medal of Arts

he National Medal of Arts honors per­ 1984, Presidents Reagan, Bush, and Clinton sons and organizations who have have collectively bestowed more than 15o Na­ T made extraordinary contributions to tional Medals on artists, arts organizations, and the excellence, support, growth, and availabil- individual and corporate arts patrons. ity of the arts in the United States. In a September, 1997 White House South The National Council recommends candi- Lawn ceremony, President William J. Clinton dates for this prestigious award to the President and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton pub- on the basis of nominations solicited by the Na- licly committed to the historic record the tional Endowment for the Arts. Final selection names and contributions of the year’s National is made by the President of the United States. Medal of Arts honorees. Since the award was created by Congress in

National Medal of Arts Angela Lansbury Jason Robards 118 I I awards (non-monetary) Los Angeles, CA Southport, CT Actor Actor

Louise Bourgeois James Levine Edward Villella New York, NY New York, NY Miami, FL Sculptor and Visual Artist Artistic Director for Opera and Artistic Director for Ballet and Pianist Dancer Betty Carter Brooklyn, NY MacDowell Colony Doc Watson Jazz Vocalist Peterborough, NH Deep Gap, NC Artists’ Colony/Arts Organiza- Bluegrass and Old-Time Music Agnes Gund tion Guitarist and Vocalist New York, NY Patron of the Arts Tito Puente New York, NY Daniel Urban Kiley Latin Percussionist and Charlotte, VT Musician Landscape Architect GRANTS AND AWARDS

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Tito Puente, Latin percussionist, enjoys applause after President William J. Clinton and First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton present him with the National Medal of Arts. White House photo. PANELS

rivate citizens make up the panels which a thorough review of all applications can take projects to be funded from place. the thousands of grant applications the In order to avoid any conflicts of interest, no Arts Endowment receives each year. Each panel individual may serve on a panel that considers is comprised of artists, arts administrators, pa­ his or her organization’s application. Split pan­ trons, and at least one layperson who does not els (Panel 1 and Panel 2) are sometimes con­ earn a living through work in the arts. Endow­ vened so that these conflicts do not occur. ment staff ensure that all panels reflect the aes­ The National Council on the Arts meets sev­ thetic, geographic, cultural, and ethnic diversity eral times each year to discuss policy issues and of America. to review the panels’ funding recommenda­ Panels meet at the Endowment’s headquar­ tions. The Council may approve or reject those ters throughout the year to consider groups of recommendations. The Council’s rejections are applications and make funding recommenda­ final. Council-approved applications are for­ tions to the National Council on the Arts. warded to the Chairman, who makes the final 120 Panel meetings usually last several days so that decision on which grants are awarded.

CREATION & Hiromi Lorraine Joanne Woodward PRESENTATION Jill Medvedow Sakata Actor PANEL I Deputy Director of Chair, New York, NY Public Programs and Ethnomusicology Curator of Program Mary G. Gates Contemporary Art Department of Music CREATION & Director Isabella Stewart University of PRESENTATION Seattle Art Museum Gardner Museum Washington PANEL 2 Seattle, WA Boston, MA Seattle, WA

Juan Felipe Herrera Sara O’Connor Sterling Van Wagenen Muhal Richard Author and Associate Director, Campaign to Independent Abrahms Professor Create the Future Filmmaker and Pianist and Composer of Ckicano and Latin Milwaukee Repertory Producer New York, NY American Studies Theater Cottonwood, UT California State Milwaukee, WI Laurie Beckelman University at Fresno John Taylor Williams Vice President Fresno, CA Nigel Redden (layperson) World Monuments General Manager Attorney Fund Cynthia Mayeda Spoleto Festival U.S.A. Palmer ~ Dodge New York, NY Arts Administrator and Charleston, SC Boston, MA Consultant Minneapolis, MN PANELS

Michael J. Bush Linda Shelton Judith Kirshner Lindy Zesch Associate Artistic Executive Director Director, School of Art Arts Administrator Director The ]oyce Theater (r Design New York, NY Manhattan Theater Foundation University of Illinois at Club New York, NY Chicago EDUCATION & New York, NY Chicago, IL ACCESS Jeannine Smith-Clark Christine D’Arcy (layperson) Bruce Marks Executive Director Arts Patron Artistic Director Jessica Andrews Oregon Arts Washington, DC Boston Ballet Managing Director Commission Boston, MA Arizona Theatre Salem, OR Susan Trapnell Company Managing Director Jack O’Brien Tucson (r Phoenix, AZ Martin Friedman A Contemporary Artistic Director Director Emeritus Theater Old Globe Theater Bruce Coppock Walker Arts Center Seattle, WA San Diego, CA Executive Director New York, NY St. Louis Symphony Steven Oliver Orchestra David Gockley CREATION & (layperson) St. Louis, MO General Director PRESENTATION President Houston Grand Opera PANEL 3 Oliver ~ Company Vishaka Desai Houston, TX Berkeley, CA Vice President of Cultural Programs 121 Stephen Gong Ernesto Alorda Marita Rivero and Director of Associate Director, Director of Artist Vice President Galleries University Relations WGBH Educational The Asia Society Art Museum & Seattle Opera Foundation New York, NY Pacific Archive Association Boston, MA University of California Seattle, WA Gene Dugan at Berkeley Timothy Rub Artistic Director for Berkeley, CA Alvin Batiste Director, Hood Programs Jazz Clarinetist, Museum OutNorth Art House Joan Gray Composer and Dartmouth College Anchorage, AK President Educator Hanover, NH Muntu Dance Theater Baton Rouge, LA Christine Elbel Chicago, IL Harriet Sanford Executive Director Amina Dickerson Director, Department Fleishhacker Donald Roth Museum Administrator of Arts (r Culture Foundation President Chicago, IL Fulton County San Francisco, CA Oregon Symphony Atlanta, GA Association Kathy Gregg Ray Kingston Portland, OR (layperson) Jackie Taylor Architect and Former Arts Patron Executive Director Member, National Judith Shea McLean, VA The Chamber Music Council on the Arts Sculptor and Educator Society of Lincoln Salt Lake City, UT New York, NY Center New York, NY NEA 1997 ANNUAL REPORT

William F. Lee III Randall Rosenbaum Rhoda Grauer John Taylor Execu rive Director Executive Director Producer Director, Foundation International Rhode Island State Dance Programs in and Corporate Association of Jazz Council on the Arts Media Relations Educators Cumberland, RI New York, NY Guilford College Manhattan, KS Summerfield, NC Sarah Tambucci Barbara L. Hampton Peggy Loar (layperson) Professor of Richard Trimillos President and Director Principal Ethnomusicology Professor of The Wolfsonian Chartiers Valley City University of New Ethnomusicology and Museum Intermediate School York Chair of Asian Miami, FL Pittsburgh, PA New York, NY Studies University of Hawaii at Bernard Lopez Suzanne Well Beatrice Medicine Manoa Poet, Photographer, Independent Film and Anthropologist Honolulu, HI Arts Administrator, Television Producer Wakpala, SD and Former Member, Santa Monica, CA National Council on Judy O’Bannon PLANNING & the Arts Board Member STABILIZATION Tesuque, NM HERITAGE & Indiana Arts Council PRESERVATION Indianapolis, IN Pepon Osorio Peggy Amsterdam 122 Visual Artist and Victor Perera Director Founding Partner, Doreen Bolger Writer Delaware Division of Pepatian Director, Museum of Berkeley, CA the Arts Bronx, NY Art Wilmington, DE Rhode Island School of Robert Rosen Beverly Robinson Design Director, Film and Richard Bains Associate Professor of Providence, RI Television Archive Director, Music Theater, World University of California Institute Culture, and Folklore Wayne S. Brown at Los Angeles California State Un iversity of California Producer, Music Los Angeles, CA University at Los Angeles, and Programs Seaside, CA Executive Director Cultural Olympiad Ann Schroll Simpson Black Filmmaker’s Hall Atlanta, GA (layperson) Jillian Daniel of Fame Advisory Board Chief of Education and Berkeley, CA Rene Buch President, Museum Outreach Artistic Director of Art Metro-Dade Cultural Vivian Donnell Repertorio Espanol University of Wyoming Affairs Council Rodriguez New York, NY Cody, Vv-Y Miami, FL Executive Director Metro-Dade Art in Patricia Fuller Maria Tallchief Martin Felnstein Public Places Consultant, Public Art Dance Educator and Senior Consultant Miami, FL and Design Lecturer Maryland Center for Boston, MA Chicago, IL the Performing Arts Potomac, MD PANELS

David Hawkanson Anthony B. Turney Rick George PARTNERSHIP Executive Director Executive Director Director of Grant AGREEMENTS, Guthrie Theater The Names Project Programs STATE ARTS Minneapolis, MN Foundation Georgia Council for the AGENCIES San Francisco, CA Arts Joanne Hoover Atlanta, GA Music Critic and James Borders, IV Former Director PARTNERSHIP Albert Head Executive Director Levine School of Music AGREEMENTS, Executive Director Louisiana Division of Corrales, NM REGIONAL ARTS Alabama State Council the Arts ORGANIZATIONS on the Arts Baton Rouge, LA Richard Howorth Montgomery, AL (layperson) Mary Campbell-Zopf Owner and General Christopher Abele Ricardo Hernandez Director, Arts in Manager (layperson) Director of Programs Education Square Books Attorney Texas Commission on Ohio Arts Council Oxford, MS Badger ~ Levings the Arts Columbus, OH Kansas City, MO Austin, TX Walter Huntley, Jr. Libby Chiu (layperson) Rose Austin John Moore, III Director, Institutional President Consultant Deputy Director for Advancement Atlanta Economic Arlington, MA Programs Boston Conservatory Development Pennsylvania Council West Roxbury, MA 123 Corporation Jo Campbell on the Arts Atlanta, GA (layperson) Harrisburg, PA Shelley Cohn Principal Executive Director Arnecia Patterson Conestoga Elementary Michael Moore Arizona Commission Managing Director School Senior Progam Officer on the Arts Dayton Contemporary Gillette, WY Lila Wallace Reader’s Phoenix, AZ Dance Company Digest Fund Dayton, OH Kim Chan New York, NY Louis DeLuca Director of Dance and Executive Director Holly Sidford New Performance Regina R. Smith Office of Operations Program Director Washington Performing Director, Programs and and Development Lila Wallace Reader’s Arts Society Services Education, Arts, and Digest Fund Washington, DC Culture Works Humanities Cabinet New York, NY Dayton, OH Frankfort, KY Wallace Chappell Milos Stehlik Director, Hancher Bonnie Stephens Kurt Dewhurst Director Auditorium Executive Director Director, Michigan FACETS Multi-Media, University of Iowa Utah Division of Fine State University Inc. Iowa City, IA Arts Museum Chicago, IL Salt Lake City, UT Michigan State Will Conner University Carlos Tortolero Chief Operating Officer Timothy Wilson East Lansing, MI Executive Director Mid-America Arts Executive Director Mexican Fine Arts Alliance Alaska State Council on Center Museum Kansas City, MO the Arts Chicago, IL Anchorage, AK NEA 1997 ANNUAL REPORT

Arlynn Fishbaugh Nadine Saltlin Florence Cawthorne LEADERSHIP Executive Director Execu tire Director Ladd INITIATIVES, MEDIA Montana Arts Council Illinois Alliance for Arts Director, Mary ARTS Helena, MT Education Ingraham Bunting Chicago, IL Institute Kay Goebel Radcliffe College Neal Benezra (layperson) William Terry Cambridge, MA Chief Curator, Hirsh­ Clinical Psychologist Arts Consultant horn Museum and Oklahoma University Terry and Associates Susana Toruella Leval Sculpture Garden Health Science Brooklyn, NY Director Smithsonian Center Museo del Barrio Institution Oklahoma City, OK New York, NY Washington, DC LEADERSHIP INITIA­ Andrea Graham TIVES, MILLENNIUM Stephen Martin James Fitzpatrick Folk Arts Coordinator PROJECTS Professor of (layperson) Nevada State Council Ethnomusicology Attorney on the Arts Portland State Arnold (~ Porter Carson City, NV Martina Arroyo University Washington, DC Opera Singer and Clackamas, OR Victoria Hamilton Professor of Music Karen Thomas Executive Director University of Indiana Lloyd Kiva New President City of San Diego Bloomington, IN Artist, Arts Educator, Film Odyssey 124 Commission for Arts and Designer Washington, DC and Culture Sally Brayley Bliss Santa Fe, NM San Diego, CA Executive Director Dance St. Louis The Honorable Pat LEADERSHIP Dennis Holub St. Louis, MO Williams INITIATIVES, Executive Director (layperson) UNDERSERVED South Dakota Arts Red Burns Former Representative Council Chair, Interactive United States Congress Pierre, SD Telecom m unications Missoula, MT Susan Bonaluto Program Former Director Dorothy Kittaka Tisch School of Art Eugenia Zukerman New Hampshire State Founder New York University Flutist, Author, and Council on tke Arts Foundation for Art and New York, NY Television Needham, MA Music in Elementary Commentator Education Richard J. Franke New York, NY Janet Brown Fort Wayne, IN Chairman Executive Director Americans United to South Dakotans for the Abel Lopez Save the Humanities Arts Associate Producing and the Arts Deadwood, SD Director Chicago, IL G.A.L.A. Hispanic Gail Crider Theatre Garrison Keillor Program Officer Washington, DC Author and Radio National Arts Personality Stabilization St. Paul, MN Baltimore, MD PANELS

Terence Liu Jorie Graham Maynard Ferguson Steven G. Ohrn Folk Arts Specialist Poet, Translator, and Jazz Instrumentalist Historic Sites Manager Public Corporation for Educator Ojai, CA State Historical Society the Arts Iowa City, IA of Iowa Long Beach, CA J. J. Jackson Des Moines, IA Yusef Komyunyakaa Jazz Instrumentalist Paul Minicucci Poet and Educator and Composer Nathan W. Pearson Executive Director Bloomington, IN Indianapolis, IN (layperson) CLARIA Co-Chairman Sacramento, CA Katha Pollitt Broadcasting Partners Poet, Writer, Critic, NATIONAL LLC Josephine Richardson Editor, and Educator HERITAGE Rye, NY (layperson) New York, NY FELLOWSHIPS Small Business Owner, Howard L. Sacks Co-Founder of Ap­ Arthur Sze Professor of Sociology palshop, and Former Poet and Educator Jacqueline c. DjeDje Kenyon College Chairman, Kentucky Santa Fe, NM Associate Professor of Gambier, OH Arts Council Ethnomusicology Whitesburg, KY C. K. Williams University of California Catherine A. Poet and Educator at Los Angeles Schwoeffermann Regina R. Smith Princeton, N] Los Angeles, CA Curator of Folklife Director, Programs and Roberson Museum Services Carol Edison Binghamton, NY 125 Culture Works AMERICAN JAZZ State Folk Arts Dayton, OH MASTER Coordinator Nicholas R. Spitzer FELLOWSHIPS Utah Arts Council Artistic Director Salt Lake City, UT Folk Masters LITERATURE New Orleans, LA FELLOWSHIPS Alvin Batiste Robert Garfias Director of lazz Professor of Nancy Sweezy Southern University Anthropology Executive Director Judith Ortiz Corer Baton Rouge, LA School of Social Country Roads, Inc. Poet, Translator, Writer, Sciences Arlington, MA Editor, and Educator Jane Ira Bloom University of California Louisville, GA Saxophonist, Composer at Irvine E. Henry Willett and Producer Irvine, CA Director Killarney Clary New York, NY Alabama Center for Poet and Educator Alicia M. Gonzales Traditional Culture Los Angeles, CA Raymond M. Brown Director, College and Montgomery, AL Jazz Instrumentalist University Relations Christine Oeavel Holllywood, CA Smithsonian Institution Isabel Wong (layperson) Washington, DC Ethnomusicologist and Bookstore Owner Betty Carter Assistant Professor, Seattle, WA ]azz Vocalist Reaves E Nahwooksy School of Music Brooklyn, NY Director University of Illinois Mark Doty Institute of American Champaign, IL Poet, Writer, and Indian Arts Museum Educator Santa Fe, NM Provincetown, MA FINANCIAL SUMMARY

SUMMARY OF FUNDS AVAILABLE~ FISCAL YEAR 1997 2 Program and State Grant Funds $ 65,754,000 Matching Grant Funds (3:1 match) 16,760,000 Policy, Research, & Technology3 377,030 Total Federal Appropriations $ 82,891,030

4 Nonfederal Gifts $ 473,175 Interagency Transfers4 436,782 Unobligated Balance, Prior Year4 14,573,466 Total Funds Available $ 98,374,453

Excludes administrative operating and computer replacement Administrative funds de.signated for these purposes. funds. Only grantmaking funds, including unobligated commitments to­ The FY z997 appropriation includes $2z,25o, ooo for support of state taling $5,428,352. arts agencies and regional arts organizations and $6,o69,ooo for support through the underserved communities set-aside.

FUNDS OBLIGATED FISCAL YEAR 1997

Grants to Organizations Creation & Presentation 23,300,055 Education & Access lO,787,262 Heritage & Preservation 6,152,o25 126 Planning & Stabilization lO,369,877 Partnership Agreements 29,960,400 Leadership Initiatives Millennium Projects 4,374,000 International Programs 375,000 Other Initiatives5 4,345,306 Grants to Individuals Literature Fellowships 800,000 American Jazz Master Fellowships 60,000 National Heritage Fellowships 100,000 Policy, Research, & Technology6 600,000

AccessAbility7 61,782

8 Museum 15,000 s Opera-Musical Theater 58,000 8 Challenge (FY 1996 commitments) 3,007,528 Total Funds Obligated9 $94,366,235

Includes WritersCorps administrative support. s Represents obligation in FY 1997 of prior year commitments in An additional s29o, o3o in Policy, Research, (z Technology admin­ these former grantmaking categories. These funds were first com­ istrative funds is not included, because the Funds Obligated col­ mitted in 1996 and earlier years, under the Endowment’s earlier umn lists only program funds. grant categories. An additional $2,347,824 in unobligated FY 1996 commitments is distributed throughout the new categories. An additional s87,ooo in Policy, Research, (z Technology adminis­ trative funds is not included, because the Funds Obligated column 9 Program obligations reflect FY ~997 transactions, and, in some lists only program funds. cases, may differ from final allocations due to variations in the obligations of prior year monies or receipt of gifts and funds from other agencies. APPROPRIATIONS HISTORY FISCAL YEARS 1966-97

Fiscal Appropriation Fiscal Appropriation Year Funds Year Funds

1966 ...... $ 2,898,308 1982...... $ 143,456,ooo 1967 ...... $ 8,475,692 1983 ...... $ 143,875,ooo 1968 ...... $ 7,774,291 1984...... $ 162,223,OOO 1969 ...... $ 8,456,875 1985 ...... $ 163,660,OOO 197o ...... $ 9,055,000 1986...... $ 158,822,240 1971 ...... $ 16,420,OOO 1987 ...... $ 165,281,OOO 1972 ...... $ 31,480,OOO 1988...... $ 167,731,ooo 1973 ...... $ 40,857,000 1989 ...... $169,o9o,ooo 1974 ...... 64,025,000 199o...... $ 171,255,ooo 1975 ...... $ 8o,142,OOO 1991 ...... $ 174,o8o,737 1976 ...... $ 87,455,000 1992 ...... $ 175,954,68o 1976’~ ...... $ 35,301,OOO 1993 ...... $ 174,459,382 1977 ...... $ 99,872,000 1994 ...... $ 17o,228,ooo 1978 ...... $ 123,85o,ooo 1995 ...... $ 162,311,ooo 1979 ...... $ 149,585,OOO 1996 ...... $ 99,470,000 1980 ...... $ 154,610,OOO 1997 ...... $ 99,494,000 1981 ...... $ 158,795,OOO 127

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