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PART ONE: GENERAL INFORMATION Foreword ...... 9 History & Mission...... 10 Vision & Values ...... 12 Financial Information ...... 14 FY 2016 NPN/VAN Funders ...... 18 FY 2016 NPN/VAN Individual Donors ...... 20 Board of Directors ...... 24 Staff ...... 25
PART TWO: PROGRAMS Overview of Programs ...... 29 Cultural Policy ...... 31 National Programs ...... 32 Convenings ...... 33 NPN Performance Residency ...... 38 Visual Artists Network (VAN) ...... 48 Community Fund ...... 56 Creation & Forth Funds ...... 60 Mentorship & Leadership Initiative (MLI) ...... 70 Leveraging a Network for Equity (LANE) ...... 72 Local Program...... 74 International Program ...... 78
PART THREE: PARTNERS Introduction to Partners ...... 90 NPN/VAN Partner Profiles ...... 93
PART FOUR: INDEX Partners by Alphabet ...... 130 Partners by Region ...... 132
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GENERAL INFORMATION 7 FoReWoRd I first learned of NPN/VAN over a decade ago, during my tenure at the
Alliance of Artists Communities, and I was immediately drawn to the FOREWORD organization’s fierce advocacy for more inclusive and artist-centered practices. It is an incredible honor to now serve as President and CEO of NPN/VAN, and I bring my initial crush on and abiding admiration with me.
In my 20 years of nonprofit arts leadership, I have focused With change comes the chance to reflect on our history, on a range of issues that align with NPN/VAN’s priorities, reaffirm our core values, and reassess how these guide including supporting artists in the development of new our operations and programs. Our values – freedom of work, fostering international exchange, championing expression, equitable partnerships, critical dialogue, life- environmental justice through the arts, examining long learning, diversity and inclusion, and the integration of institutional capacity for long-term sustainability, building the arts into civic life – form the foundation of all we do and resilience in the face of disasters and crises, and encouraging offer room to grow and adapt to a changing world. meaningful engagement between artists, institutions, As we dive into a new strategic plan, a growing network, and communities. As a board member of Grantmakers in and new leadership, I am excited by the opportunities the Arts, I serve on the Racial Equity committee, and I am to deepen our support of artists, better integrate all our honored to work with my peers to cultivate more equitable programs under NPN/VAN, model our community-driven practices in philanthropy. My work is also informed by my principles within New Orleans, and be a stronger voice in background as a musician and writer, and my personal the philanthropic sector for practices that center on equity, research into community-building for social change. It is creative freedom, and meaningful engagement. I invite such a joy to merge all these interests into my work at input from all of you as we continue to evolve. There are NPN/VAN! exciting things ahead! I am thrilled to share leadership of the organization with an extraordinary and growing staff (including two new Caitlin Strokosch President & CEO positions: director of development and office manager), in collaboration with our new board chair Abel López and the entire dynamic board of directors, and with our Partners across the U.S., Latin America, the Caribbean and Japan. It is a privilege to follow in the footsteps of the incomparable MK Wegmann, who has been a gracious mentor and guide throughout this transition. And I am so grateful for NPN/ VAN’s supporters and peers who help shape our work, and for the opportunity to serve this organization at a time when the intersections of social justice, cultural policy, and creativity are more critical than ever.
GENERAL INFORMATION 9 HiStOrY
Since its inception, NPN/VAN-subsidized programs have reached 3.5 million audience members and supported 4,700 projects employing more than 21,000 artists. NPN/VAN has provided $26 million in subsidies and leveraged another $44 million, resulting in $70 million in support for artists and arts organizations. 1985
Founder David R. White, then executive director of New York’s Dance Theater Workshop, convenes 17 artist-centered, geographically diverse presenting organizations to address a national dilemma—artistic isolation and the economic restraints that constrict the flow of creative ideas. 1987–1990
NPN adds several new programs to support the creation of new work, deeper community engagement, and organizational development for its Partners. 1992–1998
Through intentional Partner initiatives for organizations of color and artist-led organizations, the 2000 Network doubles in size. NPN transitions to an 2002 independent organization, Performing Americas with MK Wegmann taking Program begins, designed leadership as President to support equitable & CEO, and relocates to exchanges between the New Orleans. U.S., Latin America, and the Caribbean, establishing NPN’s International Program.
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HISTORY / MISSION 11 2016
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President & CEO. President EverettCompany Points of Interests Points of Interests Caitlin Strokosch is is Strokosch Caitlin as President & CEO. & CEO. as President selected as the new Photo: Laura Colella The Freedom Project The Freedom Project MK Wegmann retires retires Wegmann MK after more than 15 years than 15 years more after GENERAL INFORMATION 2015
other New Orleans other New Orleans NPN/VAN and several and several NPN/VAN and program space to and program cultural organizations. cultural sq. ft. multi-tenant arts ft. sq. NPN/VAN opens a 7,000 opens a 7,000 NPN/VAN providing administrative administrative providing facility, Arts Estuary 1024, Arts 1024, Estuary facility, 2014
NPN/VAN Partners. NPN/VAN and strengthen the and strengthen structural inequities inequities structural for Equity (LANE)—a for Leveraging a Network a Network Leveraging NPN/VAN launches its launches its NPN/VAN dollar effort to address dollar effort to address organizational health of health of organizational multi-year, multi-million multi-million multi-year, largest initiative to date— largest initiative 2007
support visual arts (VAN) is founded to founded is (VAN) on NPN’s successful on NPN’s residencies modeled residencies
performance residencies. residencies. performance The Visual Artists Network Visual The arts the States. United in 2006 MISSIon MISSIon provideenables the leadership that StateMent practice experience public and of the to create meaningful partnershipsto to and national reputation and reputation national recovery of New Orleans recovery In the wake of Hurricane In the wake connections connections to assist the diverse cultural organizers and artists, and organizers working diverse cultural organizations and artists. organizations Katrina, NPN leverages its NPN leverages Katrina, Visual Artists Network (NPN/VAN), is a group of Artists a group is Visual Network (NPN/VAN), community-based cultural cultural community-based The National PerformanceThe National Network, the including VISIon & VaLueS
Committed to fostering cultural equity and artistic exploration, NPN/VAN seeks to integrate the arts into public experience, further artistic pluralism, and act as an advocate for social justice.
NPN’s vision is based on the fundamental belief that independent artists and companies contribute to a healthy society by providing creative cross- sector approaches toward a just and sustainable world. NPN also believes that communities deserve broad access to art and culture that reflect their own experience, while learning about the experiences of others.
This vision is manifest in the NPN/VAN values of:
• Cultural and racial equity, social justice, inclusion, and multiple points of view
• Authentic partnerships characterized by reciprocity and mutual support
• Freedom of expression
• Critical dialogue, life-long learning, and appreciation for the creative process
• The integration of arts into civic life including public funding for the arts
Custodians of Beauty Pavel Zusitak/Palissimo Company Photo: Ian Douglas
12 NPN/VAN 2016-2017 ANNUAL REPORT AND DIRECTORY VISION & VALUES 13 GENERAL INFORMATION FInancIaL infoRMatIon
NPN/VAN’s financial systems provide maximum benefit As Phase 2 of Leveraging a Network for Equity (LANE) to its constituents—Partner organizations, artists, and begins, thoughts are on capitalization and equity. This ultimately the communities that they serve. In FY16 critical thinking needs to address not only the needs (July 2015–June 2016), NPN/VAN distributed over $1.8 of our Partners, but also the national organization million, which leveraged another $3.7 million. This means itself. Therefore, capitalization of NPN/VAN is the next that a total of $5.5 million supported 226 projects in 9 big financial goal. This includes managing a nagging countries and 88 cities/communities. These are not just structural deficit, budgeting for surpluses, building numbers, but represent the vital impact the funds have our cash reserve, and raising long-term change capital. across the globe. When this is accomplished, NPN/VAN’s support for our constituents will also be solidified. Over half (52%) of NPN/VAN expenditures reach the field directly through subsidies—internationally, nationally and locally. Convenings, cultural policy efforts and the Local Program represent another 34% of our budget. BaLance Sheet
Unaudited Audited FY16 FY15
Cash & Cash Equivalents $ 1,893,152 $ 391,186
Current Assets $ 1,311,634 $ 2,515,365 FINANCIAL INFORMATION Fixed Assets $ 624,656 $ 614,876
Total Assets $ 3,829,442 $ 3,521,427
Current Liabilities $ 774,043 $ 791,508
Net Assets:
unrestricted $ -21,953 $ -102,152
temporarily restricted $ 3,077,352 $ 2,832,071
Total Liabilities & Net Assets $ 3,829,442 $ 3,521,427
pRofIt AnD loSS
Unaudited Audited FY16 FY15
Foundations & Corporations $ 2,760,673 $ 2,901,258
Government Grants $ 114,816 $ 126,063
Other Contributed Income $ 203,940 $ 243,492
Earned Income $ 248,714 $ 140,544
Total Income $ 3,328,143 $ 3,411,357
Program Costs $ 2,736,243 $ 2,787,165
Management/General $ 376,761 $ 383,940
Fundraising $ 134,940 $ 127,640
Total Expenses $ 3,247,944 $ 3,298,745
Surplus/Deficit $ 80,199 $ 112,612 opposite Surplus/Deficit Percentage $ 2.47% $ 3.41% Las Cafeteras at Mexican American Studies Class at SJSU Photo: Courtesy of MACLA
GENERAL INFORMATION 15 $114,982 FY16 incoMe 3.5% $3,328,143 Partner Matches $88,958 $248,714 2.7% 7.5%
Individuals Earned Income $114,816 3.4%
Government
$2,760,673 82.9%
Foundation / Corporation
NPN/VAN’s direct program support of $1.8 million leveraged an additional $3.7 million in matching funds—a total $5.5 million for artists, arts organizations, and communities.
16 NPN/VAN 2016-2017 ANNUAL REPORT AND DIRECTORY FY16 exPenSe $3,247,944 $134,940 4.2% $376,761 administration: Resource Development 11.6% / EXPENSE INCOME administration: $1,085,344 Operations 33.4% $92,021 program: 2.8% National Subsidies program: Cultural Policy
$153,981 4.7% program: LANE
$728,442 22.4% program: Local
$268,616 $289,632 8.3% 8.9% program: program: Convenings International $118,207 3.6%
program: VAN
GENERAL INFORMATION 17 FY16 npn/VAn FundeRS
Doris Duke The Andy Warhol The Ford Japan Foundation The Andrew W. Charitable Foundation for the Foundation Center for Global Mellon Foundation Visual Arts Foundation Partnership
Lambent Japan-U.S. Miami Dade Foundation Friendship Joan Mitchell Louisiana Division County Department Foundation Fund of Tides of the Arts Commission of Cultural Affairs Foundation
National Robert Quixote Robert Sterling Endowment for Foundation Rauschenberg the Arts Foundation Clark Foundation
RosaMary Surdna Western States Arts Federation Foundation Foundation (WESTAF)
FY16 locaL pRogRaM FundeRS
AfricaNOLA Climbing Poetree Make Music NOLA RosaMary Foundation Bioneers / Collective Arts Council New Orleans New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Institute Heritage Foundation Bruce J. Heim Foundation Artist Corps New Orleans GeoFamily Foundation City of New Orleans - Ruth U. Fertel Foundation City of New Orleans – New Orleans Recreation The Rising Fund of Edward Wisner Donation Development Commission Tides Foundation The Cocoon: Youth D’Addario Music Foundation The ASCAP Foundation Empowerment Program Irving Caesar Fund Dawn DeDeaux’s Projects: Greater New Orleans Arts Council New Orleans End of the Road Foundation The Lagniappe Fund of The Fertel Foundation Interfaith Works New Orleans Jazz & Keller Family Foundation Heritage Foundation FLOODWALL Mary Freeman City of New Orleans Mayors’ Wisdom Foundation Office of Cultural Economy
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climACTS! Underground Octavio Campos Photo: Marilynn Humphries
Mardi Gras Indian New Orleans Airlift Pelican Bomb Rebecca Mwase's Cultural Hall of Fame Projects: Vessels Arts Council New Orleans Artis Arts Council New Orleans Alternate ROOTS Greater New Orleans Greater New Orleans Joan Mitchell Foundation Foundation Foundation – IMPACT 2015 Skin Horse Theater National Philanthropic Jewish Endowment Jewish Endowment Parkside Foundation Trust - The Clayton-Royer Foundation of Louisiana Foundation of Louisiana Family Fund Joan Mitchell Foundation Women’s Working Group New Orleans Musicians New Orleans Community Quixote Foundation Assistance Fund Printshop & Darkroom Keller Family Foundation
Surdna Foundation Arts Council New Orleans Lambent Foundation Fund of the Tides Foundation Music Inside Out with Joan Mitchell Foundation Rauschenberg Foundation Gwen Thompkins New Orleans Jazz & Greater New Orleans Heritage Foundation RosaMary Foundation Foundation
New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Foundation
GENERAL INFORMATION 19 FY16 npn/VAn indIVIduaL DonoRS
Chris Aiken Philip Bither Kathie deNobriga Anthony Garcia Alejandra Tobar Alatriz Daniel Boerner Mizu Desierto Eureka Gilkey Claudia Alick Paul Bonin-Rodriguez Peter DiMuro Rosie Gordon-Wallace Lillie Allen Paul Brohan Jeffrey Dobrinsky Bryan Jeffrey Graham Alverno Presents Yvonne Buchanan Sean Dorsey & Pat Graney Shawna Virago Myrna Anderson-Fuller BYP Group Taryn Griggs Erin Boberg Doughton Rain Anya Suzanne Callahan Dianne Grubb Mario Garcia Durham Andrea Assaf Cornelia Carey Sarah Guerra Kristy Edmunds Stephanie Atkins Rose Carroll Tom Guralnick Nancy Ellis Linda Austin Armando Castellano Michael Hanish Philip Elson Estevan Azcona Center for Community Arts Dayna Hanson Partnerships, Columbia Heidi Erdrich Claudia Bach Barbara Hayley College Chicago Teresa Eyring Barbara Schaffer Bacon F. John Herbert Leilani Chan Chad Faulk Steve Bailey Gregory Michael Hernandez Ever Chavez Laura Faure Leticia Bajuyo Natasha Huey SuJ'n Chon Susan Feder & Todd Gordon Jan Bartoszek Cheryl Ikemiya Steffani Clemons Asia Freeman Eric Bass Maria Rosario Jackson Jevon Collins Patti French Debra Baxter Jefferson James Jane Comfort Colleen Furukawa Elisabeth Beaird Lynn Jeffries Kim Cook Fusebox Carol Bebelle Judith Jennings Chris Cowden Jane Gabriels Roberto Bedoya Chloe Jones Sage Crump Jamie Gahlon Madeline Bell Holly Jones Yolanda Cesta Cursach Vallejo Gantner Ron Berry Chris Kaminstein The Dance Complex Olga Garay-English Steven Bingler Ann & Cary Kaufman Dawn DeDeaux
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GENERAL INFORMATION
Carlton Turner Carlton Tyran Monica Christy Uchida Uno Roberta Valdez Alice E. Valdez Mark Valdez Samuel Vaughan Jono Verderame M. Maureen Voigt Julie Wafer Shay Wagan Sixto A. Wegmann MK Wegmann Thérèse Wilder Arwen Wilkins K. Will Williamson Danika Wilson June Wong Kristina Wood Andrew Yoshida Kyoko Mimi Zarsky Zustiak Pave opposite ReComposed Dougand Dancers Varone Photo: Grant Halverson below ProjectTea Amber & Aaron Ginsburg Hughes Photo: Sam Virgillio Patricia Ross Patricia JerryRuiz Ruiz-Sapp Mildred Abe Rybeck Amina Sanchez Sapp Steven Sbarge Suzanne Schwarzman Mathew Shaw Cameron Sherman Karen Shim Wook Jae Daniel Singh Slaats Matthew Aimée Smallwood Krista Smith Laurie Spencer Michèle Steinwald Scott Stoner Strokosch Caitlin Quita Sullivan Swan Rachel Swinford Sarah Telushkin Rachel Thomas Vincent Thorson Morgan Productions Tigertail Tonsic Alisha Torres-Tama José Troyer Wayne Lisa Mount Mount Steve Napoli Jana K. & Meena Natarajan Mukherjee Dipankar Newman Richard Noonan Ed Oliver Cynthia Osato Joan K. Lillian Osei-Boateng Debbie Osterholt Linda Parris-Bailey Peimer Jordan Michael Peranteau Perlo Carla Jenni Person Aimée Petrin Petroni Renata Plummer Alexcia Lionel Popkin Anastacia Powers Mollie Quinlan-Hayes Raczka Laurel Raider-Ginsburg Steve Redline Erica Reich Reyes Jose "Joey" John Rich Riley Deborah Rogers Karen Drew Klein Drew Knowlton Claire Kramer Sarah Meg Leary Angela Lee Lerner Ruby Charles Levy Cheryl Lewis Abel López Lorenz Aaron Lugg George MacQueen Steve Arnie Malina Alison Manning Dietz Marchant Lindsey Juliana Mascelli Matreyek Miwa Mazzotta Matthew McDonald Rhesa O. Meek Vicki Mefford Jennifer Miami Light Project Micocci Tony Miller Amy Mimi's in the Marigny Jo Ann Minor Moore Regina Christopher Morgan Mote Tanya
Agua Furiosa Ana Maria Alvarez / CONTRA-TIEMPO Photo: Steve Wylie
22 NPN/VAN 2016-2017 ANNUAL REPORT AND DIRECTORY GENERAL INFORMATION 23 BoaRd of DIRectoRS
chair: Abel López Jevon Collins Associate Producing Director Performing Arts Director GALA Hispanic Theatre The King Arts Complex Washington, DC Columbus, OH [email protected] [email protected]
president: Caitlin Strokosch Olga Garay-English President & CEO Principal NPN/VAN OMGArtsplus New Orleans, LA Los Angeles, CA [email protected] [email protected]
vice chair: Rosie Gordon-Wallace Stephanie McKee Founding Executive Director Artistic Director Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator Junebug Productions. Inc. Miami, FL New Orleans, LA [email protected] [email protected]
treasurer: Shannon Daut Joan K. Osato Director Producing Director City of Santa Monica Cultural Affairs Youth Speaks, Inc./ Santa Monica, CA The Living Word Project [email protected] San Francisco, CA [email protected] secretary: Shay Wafer Executive Director Michèle Steinwald 651 ARTS Community Engagement Consultant Brooklyn, NY The Cowles Center [email protected] Minneapolis, MN [email protected] at-large: John B. White, Esq. InHouse Consultants, Inc. Harold Steward New Orleans, LA Manager [email protected] South Dallas Cultural Center Dallas, TX immediate past chair: Abe Rybeck [email protected] Executive Artistic Director The Theater Offensive Samuel Valdez Boston, MA Artistic Director [email protected] CARPA San Diego San Diego, CA Leticia Bajuyo [email protected] Independent Visual Artist/Visiting Assistant Professor of Art Will K. Wilkins Department of Art, Art History Executive Director and Design Real Art Ways University of Notre Dame Hartford, CT Notre Dame, IN [email protected] [email protected]
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Stephanie Atkins Bryan Jeffrey Graham Director of the Local Program IT/Designer [email protected] [email protected] 504.595.8008 ext. 202 504.595.8008
Steve Bailey María Cristina Rangel
Chief Operating Officer Development Director / STAFF BOARD [email protected] [email protected] 504.595.8008 ext. 207 504.595.8008 ext. 211
William Bowling Orchid Robinson Program Specialist, National Programs Program Assistant, Convenings [email protected] [email protected] 504.595.8008 ext. 212 504.595.8008 ext. 214
Stanlyn Brevé Caitlin Strokosch Director of National Programs President & CEO [email protected] [email protected] 504.595.8008 ext. 204 504.595.8008 ext. 205
Steffani Clemons Monica Tyran Program Specialist, Local Program Program Assistant, National Programs [email protected] [email protected] 504.595.8008 ext. 213 504.595.8008
Sage Crump MK Wegmann Program Specialist, LANE Research Fellow [email protected] [email protected] 504.595.8008 ext. 206 504.595.8008
Alec De Leon Thérèse Wegmann Program Specialist, Senior Program Specialist, Visual Artists Network Operations & Data [email protected] [email protected] 504.595.8008 ext. 209 504.595.8008 ext. 208
Elizabeth Doud Kyoko Yoshida Coordinator, Performing Americas Consultant, U.S.-Japan Connection Program [email protected] [email protected] 415.867.7080 305.519.6877 Mimi Zarsky Addam Garrett Senior Program Specialist, Convenings Office Manager [email protected] [email protected] 504.595.8008 ext. 203 504.595.8008. ext 210
Fugitive Time Janie Geiser Photo: Caleb Carr
GENERAL INFORMATION 25 What Shall We Do Next? (Sequence #3) Julien Prévieux Photo: Lynn Lane
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PROGRAMS 27 28 NPN/VAN 2016-2017 ANNUAL REPORT AND DIRECTORY OVERVIEW OF PROGRAMS 29 PROGRAMS capitalization (p. 72). 72). (p. capitalization commissioning fresh, exciting creations and collaborations. This is accomplished This is accomplished and collaborations. creations exciting fresh, commissioning Convenings (p. 33). (p. Convenings issues (p. 31). issues (p. NPN/VAN aspires to deepen aspires the impact engagement NPN/VAN of authentic through Strategic through organizations with other national collaborates NPN/VAN support increased of artists critical policy and address thatPartnerships leverage independent artists that builds capacity for Program nurtures a Local NPN/VAN NPN/VAN seeks to strengthen the capacity of Partners and the artiststhe capacity of Partners to strengthen seeks NPN/VAN they and health, organizational Equity (LANE) issues of equity, Network for addresses NPN/VAN supports artists’ ability to move their work around the country and the ability the country their work around to move supports artists’ NPN/VAN NPN/VAN is dedicated to fostering the development of new touring work by co- development the is dedicated to fostering NPN/VAN and small arts organizations in New Orleans (p. 74). in New Orleans (p. and small arts organizations world through the Performance and Exhibition Residencies (p. 38 and p. 48) and 48) and 38 and p. (p. Residencies and Exhibition world the Performance through the Community Fund (p. 56). It also intentionally fosters field-building by fosters It also intentionally 56). (p. Fund the Community sharing knowledge and generating lasting relationships, achieved through the through achieved lasting relationships, sharing knowledge and generating support, through the Mentorship & Leadership Initiative (p. 70). Leveraging a Leveraging 70). (p. Initiative & Leadership through the Mentorship support, the International Program (p. 78). 78). (p. Program the International 60). (p. Funds and Forth the Creation through &lOCAllY nAtiOnAllY leADerSHip eXerCiSe FielD OF tHe CApACitY tHe BuilD aRtIStS SuPPoRt
Installation 1 3 2 Hopscotch OVeRVIeW of pRogaMS of OVeRVIeW goals: three address major programs NPN/VAN Collectively, Agustina Woodgate Photo: Courtesy of RedLine FY16 in nuMbeRS 186 1,000 Residency Weeks Artists Directly Supported Supported
196 Companies
64% are newcomers to the Networks / 66% are artists of color 226 NPN/VAN Projects 300,000 Funded People Reached
$1.8M / $3.7M Subsidies / Leverage
30 NPN/VAN 2016-2017 ANNUAL REPORT AND DIRECTORY CuLtuRaL poLIcy
NPN/VAN is a voice for sectors of the nonprofit arts community that are often under-represented in policy making— independent artists, artist-centered organizations, organizations of color, and those from outside major metropolitan areas. For decades, outspoken advocacy for equitable cultural policies has been one of NPN/VAN’s fundamental values. With NPN/VAN’s mission, vision and values as the basic points of reference, some of the tenets that shape our policy actions and programmatic decisions are:
• Social and racial justice • Reciprocity as a way of working toward cultural equity
• Artist equity • Strategic partnerships, both cultural and cross-sector
StRategIc PaRtneRShIPS POLICY CULTURAL
Arts Council New Orleans / Arts Align Louisiana Partnership for the Arts The Performing Arts Alliance Designated as the city’s official arts agency, LPA is the hub of the Louisiana arts field, PAA is the premiere advocate for America’s the Arts Council New Orleans supports and helping to set statewide arts policies that professional, nonprofit performing arts expands opportunities for diverse artistic advance the growth and development of organizations, artists, and their publics before expression and brings the community the arts field. Its two core initiatives are to the U.S. Congress and key policy makers. together in celebration of New Orleans’ provide educational workshops, networking Through legislative and grassroots action, PAA rich, multicultural heritage. Arts Align is a events, and other professional development advocates for national policies that recognize, coalition of local arts service providers that opportunities; and to conduct community enhance and foster the contributions that advocates for the cultural sector and serves outreach and legislative advocacy in support the performing arts make to the U.S. PAA’s as a clearinghouse for resources available of Louisiana’s cultural industry. For more member network comprises more than 30,000 to individual artists, cultural projects and information, visit www.lparts.org. arts organizations, artists, and arts supporters. organizations. For information, visit NPN Partners are automatically members of www.artsneworleans.org. Nonprofit Finance Fund PAA. For more information, visit NFF unlocks the potential of mission-driven www.theperformingartsalliance.org. The Association of Performing Arts Presenters organizations through tailored investments, APAP is the national service, advocacy and strategic advice and accessible insights. South Arts / Arts Ready membership organization for presenters of NFF helps organizations effectively connect South Arts was founded in 1975 to build on the performing arts. NPN partners with APAP money to mission, supporting innovations the South's unique heritage and enhance to discount affiliate memberships to artists such as growth capital campaigns, cross- the public value of the arts. ArtsReady, an and companies with budgets under $200,000 sector economic recovery initiatives and online emergency preparedness service by and who have toured or been commissioned impact investing. Through NFF and The and for arts/cultural nonprofits, provides through NPN within the last three years. Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, NPN/VAN is arts organizations with customized business Affiliate members are eligible to apply for able to provide Partner organizations access continuity plans for post-crisis sustainability. APAP’s programs and funding opportunities. to short-term, zero-interest bridge loans of NPN/VAN Partners and artists are offered Visit www.apap365.org for more information. up to $150,000. Mellon zero-Interest loans discount memberships to ArtsReady. For help manage cash flow issues, including the information about ArtsReady, visit Fractured Atlas delay of grant payments or short-term loss www.artsready.org. Fractured Atlas is an arts service organization of earned or contributed income. For more that empowers artists, arts organizations, information, visit nonprofitfinancefund.org. and other cultural sector stakeholders by eliminating practical barriers to artistic expression, so as to foster a more agile and resilient cultural ecosystem. It provides a wide range of resources, including health and liability insurance, fiscal sponsorship and marketing/publicity services. NPN/VAN Partners and supported artists are able to receive free Associate Memberships, through which they can access Fractured Atlas’ opposite services. For more information, visit Writing in Sand www.fracturedatlas.org. Carlos Caballero Photo: Glassworks Multimedia
PROGRAMS 31 natIonaL pRogRaMS
32 NPN/VAN 2016-2017 ANNUAL REPORT AND DIRECTORY CONVENINGS 33 PROGRAMS above right Meeting: Austin,Mid-Year TX Photo: Zarsky Mimi
above left above unnamed Gerard Caliste Photo: Rosie Gordon-Wallace Out Stories
opposite top Choreographing workshop Ananya Dance Theatre Photo: Alea Hennessy opposite bottom '57 Chevy Ricardo Salinas Photo: Kelly Damian conVenIngS together at and stakeholders artists, is nurtured dynamic network by bringing presenters, NPN/VAN’s long-term, to build and strengthen Opportunities provided are Meetings. its Annual and Mid-Year Partner in different By convening skills and competencies. while developing peer relationships learn about attendees local artists members, and by including community cities each year, with work in arena. the national issues that resonate and regional NATIONAL PROGRAMS / CONVENINGS AnnuAl MeetinGS
Over four days, NPN/VAN Partners, artists, funders, and 2015 Annual Meeting “Live & On Stage” colleagues assemble to consider current issues, share Performers & Visual Exhibition Artists* solutions, examine local, national and international in Portland, OR: policies that shape the cultural environment, and expand knowledge. NPN/VAN subsidizes artists' attendance; Aion Productions (Durham, NC) this opportunity to be ‘at the table’ builds collegial and * Yvonne Buchanan (Syracuse, NY) equitable relationships. * Ashby Lee Collinson (Portland, OR) The Annual Meeting also provides opportunities to share the work of local, national, and international artists through Suniti Dernovsek/Holland Andrews (Portland, OR) ArtBursts (popup performances throughout the Meeting), * Flock (Portland, OR) visual arts exhibitions, performances, and live-streaming. “Live & On Stage” features Creation Fund-commissioned Hand2Mouth Theatre (Portland, OR) performances as well as work curated by the local hosts. * Gregory Michael Hernandez (Los Angeles, CA) In order to foster intentional networking, attendance is invitation-only. Cynthia Oliver/COCo Dance Theatre (Champaign, IL) Amy O’Neal (Seattle, WA)
Pepper Pepper (Portland, OR)
* Michael Reinsch (Portland, OR)
Samita Sinha (New York, NY)
* Sharita Towne (Portland, OR)
UNIT SOUZOU (Portland, OR)
* Takahiro Yamamoto (Portland, OR)
this page & opposite Annual Meeting: Portland, OR Photos: Lymay Iwasaki
34 NPN/VAN 2016-2017 ANNUAL REPORT AND DIRECTORY major contributors include: The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, The Ford Family Foundation, Ford Foundation, Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership, Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission, Miami Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, Joan Mitchell Foundation, Lambent Foundation Fund of Tides Foundation, Louisiana Division of the Arts, The Nathan Cummings Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Oregon Arts Commission, Quixote Foundation, Southwest Airlines, Official Airline of the National Performance Network, and WESTAF ANNUAL MEETING
PROGRAMS 35 NATIONAL PROGRAMS / CONVENINGS MiD-YeAr MeetinGS
NPN/VAN supports additional face-to-face connections through a cycle of regional meetings, rotating to various Partner cities across the country. The one-day meeting is devoted to sharing organizational successes and challenges, exchanging best practices, exploring possibilities for collaboration, and discussing current issues of interest to the field. Concurrently, NPN offers a free “Doin’ It on the Road” workshop designed to demystify the touring process for performing artists who want to expand their understanding of touring in a national arena.
2016 Mid-Year Meetings:
WEST, hosted by Su Teatro in Denver, CO, April
SOUTH, hosted by Fusebox in Austin, TX, May
VAN, hosted by Women & Their Work in Austin, TX, May
NORTHEAST, hosted by NY Live Arts in NY, NY, June
MIDWEST, hosted by King Arts Complex and Wexner Center in Columbus, OH, June
36 NPN/VAN 2016-2017 ANNUAL REPORT AND DIRECTORY MID-YEAR MEETINGS 37 PROGRAMS NATIONAL PROGRAMS peRfoRMance reSIdency
The Performance Residency subsidizes the presentation of touring artists through one- or two-week community engagement residencies at NPN Partner sites. Artists $429,565 600 are paid to publicly present their work and engage in community activities such as demos, open rehearsals, Number of master classes, or workshops in a wide variety of venues, / $1.1M Artists from prisons to schools to community centers.
Each year about 110 residencies provide direct support Subsidy / Leverage to artists through a standard contract that guarantees artists a fair fee (salaries, wages and fringe, housing, transportation, per diem, allowance for administrative expense, and contingency fee for an artistic director). NPN provides a subsidy ranging from $1,500 to $12,000 to every 62% NPN Partner to offset artist’s fees. NPN does not maintain Artists of a roster of artists. Individual NPN Partners make their own their curatorial choices. 500 Color Number of Activities Over 110 Weeks 65% First-Time Recipients
major contributors include: Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts opposite Cookie's Kid Rosie Herrera Photo: Elvis Suarez, GlassWorks
38 NPN/VAN 2015-2016 ANNUAL REPORT AND DIRECTORY NPN PERFORMANCE RESIDENCY 39 PROGRAMS NPN Partner Artist
NPN/VAN Annual Meeting Aion Productions (Durham, NC): The Clothesline Muse (Portland, OR) Suniti Dernovsek / Holland Andrews (Portland, OR): Leading Light Hand2Mouth Theater (Portland, OR): Pep-Talk Cynthia Oliver (Urbana, IL): BOOM! Amy O'Neal (Seattle, OR): Opposing Forces Pepper Pepper (Portland, OR): She's Trying Samita Sinha (Jackson Heights, NY): Cipher UNIT SOUZOU (Portland, OR): Insatiable
7 Stages (Atlanta, GA) Sean Dorsey (San Francisco, CA): The Missing Generation
Alverno Presents (Milwaukee, WI) The Hinterlands (Detroit, MI): The Radicalization Process ODC Dance (San Francisco, CA): boulders and bone Karen Sherman (Minneapolis, MN): Soft Goods
Ashé Cultural Center (New Orleans, LA) Douglas Ewart (Minneapolis, MN): Redd Linen Night
Bates Dance Festival (Lewiston, ME) Sean Dorsey (San Francisco, CA): The Missing Generation Robert Moses Kin (San Francisco, CA): Nevabawarldapece
Carpetbag Theatre (Knoxville, TN) Orisirisi African Folklore (Winter Garden, FL)
Columbia College Chicago, Center for Douglas Ridloff (Brooklyn, NY): ASL Slam Community Arts Partnerships (Chicago, IL)
Contemporary Arts Center PearlDamour (New York, NY): How to Build a Forest (New Orleans, LA)
Contemporary Dance Theater Everett Company (Providence, RI) (Cincinnati, OH)
Dance Place (Washington, DC) Sean Dorsey (San Francisco, CA): The Missing Generation Christopher K. Morgan & Artists (North Bethesada, MD): Pohaku-
Cleo Parker Robinson Dance (Denver, CO): Bamboula
DiverseWorks (Houston, TX) taisha paggett (Van Nuys, CA): The School for the Movement of the Technicolor People Julien Previeux (Houston, TX): What Shall We Do Next?
Florida Dance Association (Tampa, FL) AXIS Dance Company (Oakland, CA) Jon Ole Olstad (Astoria, NY) FY16 peRfoRManceFY16 reSidencieS
40 NPN/VAN 2016-2017 ANNUAL REPORT AND DIRECTORY NPN PERFORMANCE RESIDENCY PERFORMANCE NPN
NPN Partner Artist
Flynn Center for the Performing Arts Inta (New York, NY): Eiko Otake, A Body in Places (Burlington, VT) Marcus Roberts Trio (Jacksonville, FL) Lucky Plush Productions (Chicago, IL): The Queue
Fusebox (Austin, TX) Big Dance Company (Brooklyn, NY): Big Dance, Short Form taisha paggett (Van Nuys, CA): The School for the Movement of the Technicolor People
GALA Hispanic Theatre Ana Maria Alvarez / CONTRA-TIEMPO (New York, NY): (Washington, DC) Agua Furiosa Saulo Garcia (Miami, FL)
Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center Illeana Gomez (Albuquerque, NM): Flamenco Dance (San Antonio, TX)
Highways Performance Space Sean Dorsey (San Francisco, CA): The Missing Generation & Gallery (Santa Monica, CA)
Intermedia Arts (Minneapolis, MN) Kristina Wong (Los Angeles, CA): The Wong Street Journal
John Michael Kohler Arts Center Third Coast Percussion (Chicago, IL) (Sheboygan, WI) AXIS Dance Company (Oakland, CA) Agua Furiosa Ana Maria Alvarez / CONTRA-TIEMPO Photo: Steve Wylie
PROGRAMS 41 NPN Partner Artist
Jump-Start Performance Co. Lisa Suarez (San Antonio, TX): I'll Remember For You (San Antonio, TX)
Junebug Productions (New Orleans, LA) Urban Bush Women (Brooklyn, NY): How We Got the Funk Soul Science Lab (Brooklyn, NY): Soundtrack '63 Angela's Pulse (New York, NY): Dancing While Black
King Arts Complex (Columbus, OH) Aaron Diehl (New York, NY): History of Columbus Jazz
La Peña Cultural Center (Berkeley, CA) Maria de la Rosa (Oakland, CA): Fandango Urbano
Legion Arts (Cedar Rapids, IA) Dahlak Brathwaite (San Francisco, CA): Spiritrials The Hinterlands (Detroit, MI): The Radicalization Process Matuto (Brooklyn, NY): Landfall 2015 Chris Schlichting (Minneapolis, MN): Stripe Tease
Links Hall (Chicago, IL) Aaron Hughes (Santa Rosa, CA): Tea Project
Climbing PoeTree Photo: Pablo Aguilar
42 NPN/VAN 2016-2017 ANNUAL REPORT AND DIRECTORY NPN Partner Artist
Living Arts of Tulsa (Tulsa, OK) Cloud Eye Control (Los Angeles, CA): Half Life Michelle Ellsworth (Boulder, CO): In Preparation for Obsolescence of the Y Chromosome
MACLA (San Jose, CA) Las Cafeteras Music (Los Angeles, CA): In Concert Ricardo Salinas (Los Angeles, CA): '57 Chevy
Maui Arts & Cultural Center Dahlak Brathwaite (San Francisco, CA): Spiritrials (Kahului, HI) Christopher K. Morgan & Artists (North Bethesda, MD) Ian O'Sullivan (Honolulu, HI)
MDC Live Arts (Miami, FL) Taylor Ho Bynum (New Haven, CT) Camille A. Brown (Durham, NC): BLACK GIRL: Linguistic Play
MECA (Houston, TX) Virginia Grise (Bronx, NY): Your Healing is Killing Me Fermata Music (New York, NY): Alejandro Vela
Miami Light Project (Miami, FL) Rudi Goblen (Miami, FL): PET Kristina Wong (Los Angeles, CA): The Wong Street Journal Kota Yamazaki (Brookyn, NY): Kota Yamazaki OQ (Palace)
Museum of Contemporary Art Blair Thomas & Company (Chicago, IL): The Brotherhood of the RESIDENCY PERFORMANCE NPN (Chicago, IL) Monastic Order of Ancient Mariners Purges the Ills of Society through a Reading of the Tales of Moby-Dick
Myrna Loy Center / Helena Presents Joshua Walters (Oakland, CA): UNPLUG (Helena, MT)
New York Live Arts (New York, NY) Palissimo (New York, NY): Custodians of Beauty
On the Boards (Seattle, WA) 600 Highwaymen (New York, NY): Employee of the Year Pat Graney Company (Seattle, WA): Girl Gods Emily Johnson | Catalyst Dance (Minneapolis, MN): SHORE
Painted Bride Art Center anonymous bodies (Philadelphia, PA): Black Male Revisited: (Philadelphia, PA) Songs for the Dark Divine Dahlak Brathwaite (San Francisco, CA): Spiritrials
Pangea World Theater Ismail Khalidi (New York, NY): Foot (Minneaplis, MN) Silver Cloud Singers (New York, NY): Don't Feed the Indians
Performance Space 122 (New York, NY) Frank Boyd (Seattle, WA): The Holler Sessions
PICA (Portland, OR) Early Morning Opera (Los Angeles, CA): The Institute of Memory (TIMe) Okwui Okpokwasili (New York, NY): Bronx Gothic Amy O'Neal (Seattle, WA): Opposing Forces
PROGRAMS 43 NPN Partner Artist
Portland Ovations (Portland, ME) Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company (New York, NY)
Pregones Theater (Bronx, NY) El Teatro Campesino (San Juan Bautista, CA): La Esquinita Moses Goods (Honolulu, HI): Duke
REDCAT (Los Angeles, CA) Joey Arias (Brooklyn, NY): Billie Holiday Centennial Samita Sinha (New York, NY): Cipher Camille A. Brown (Durham, NC): BLACK GIRL: Linguistic Play
Sandglass Theater (Putney, VT) Paul Zaloom (Los Angeles, CA): White Like Me
South Dallas Cultural Center Cynthia Oliver (New York, NY): BOOM! (Dallas, TX)
Straz Center for the Performing Arts Jeremiah Ginn (New York, NY): Murder for Two (Tampa, FL)
Su Teatro (Denver, CO) Hindsight Productions (Riverside, CA): Dreamscape
The Theater Offensive (Boston, MA) Octavio Campos (Miami, FL): ClimACTS! Underground Ty Defoe (New York, NY): Generations Positive Sean Dorsey (San Francisco, CA): The Missing Generation
Tigertail Productions (Miami, FL) Art2Action (Tampa, FL): SpeakOut Emanuelee Bean (Houston, TX): WordSpeak
Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN) Faye Driscoll (Brooklyn, NY): Thank You for Coming: Attendance
Wexner Center for the Arts Faye Driscoll (Brooklyn, NY): Thank You for Coming: Attendance (Columbus, OH)
Women & Their Work (Austin, TX) Okwui Okpokwasili (New York, NY): Bronx Gothic
The Yard (Chilmark, MA) Janie Geiser & Company (Los Angeles, CA): Fugitive Time Everett Company (Providence, RI): The Freedom Project
Youth Speaks / The Living Word Project Rahleek Johnson (Brooklyn, NY) (Oakland, CA)
44 NPN/VAN 2016-2017 ANNUAL REPORT AND DIRECTORY NPN PERFORMANCE RESIDENCY 45
PROGRAMS
above above MicahKamohoali'i Waimea Hawaiian Homesteaders Homesteaders Association, Inc. Photo: Kahulu Maluo left Race Peace Nick and Carlton Slie Turner Brattleboro Union High School workshop Photo: Melisa Cardona Pohaku- Christopher K. Morgan & Artists Photo: Brianne Bland
46 NPN/VAN 2016-2017 ANNUAL REPORT AND DIRECTORY PROGRAMS 47 NATIONAL PROGRAMS VISuaL ARtIStS netWoRK (VAn)
VAN was established in 2007 to create a link among artists, communities, and visual arts organizations, a network where peers collaborate on artistic projects and develop professional relationships. VAN offers opportunities for artists to exhibit their work at VAN Partner sites and also provides a forum for discussions about trending issues in the field. The Network actively promotes cultural equity, social justice, and artistic freedom.
VAN Programs The VAN Exhibition Residency is designed to overcome the economic barriers and geographic isolation that inhibit the exhibition of visual art. The program pays artists a living wage to exhibit their artwork and also provides funds for travel, lodging, and exhibition expenses. Participating major contributors include: artists travel to communities and exhibit their artwork to The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Ford Foundation, Joan new audiences. Since 2007, VAN and its 20 Partners have Mitchell Foundation, Lambent Foundation Fund of the Tides Foundation, The Nathan Cummings Foundation, and Southwest Airlines. The VAN supported over 150 artists. Partners also make a significant contribution to the program through their matching dollars and annual dues. VAN participates in the NPN/VAN Annual Meeting each year, offering multiple opportunities to discuss artistic concerns and issues facing our communities and the larger world. Artists, Partners, and other colleagues are brought together as peers and spend time sharing and viewing artwork and learning from each other.
this page & opposite Points of Interest Imin Yeh Photo: Wes Magyar
opposite top Seeing Chinatown North Mike Hoyt and Wing Young Huie Photo: Diane Kim
48 NPN/VAN 2016-2017 ANNUAL REPORT AND DIRECTORY VAN EXHIBITION RESIDENCY 49 PROGRAMS
Recipients 90% First-Time 62% of Artists 40 of Number Artists Color 140 of Number Activities Over Weeks 30 $47,879 / $51,907 Leverage / Subsidy right Mending Patriotism Juna Rosales Muller Photo: Teresa Buscemi
below Put me down Gently: A Cooler Place Sheila Pepe Photo: Lynn Lane
50 NPN/VAN 2016-2017 ANNUAL REPORT AND DIRECTORY VAN EXHIBITION RESIDENCY 51 PROGRAMS
above Metanoia Elizabeth Phelps Meyer Photo: John Groo left The People's Paper Co-op Photo: Alex Barber Partner Artist
NPN/VAN Annual Meeting Yvonne Buchanan (Syracuse, NY): Dark Matters (Portland, OR) Ashby Lee Collinson (Portland, OR): Ball
Flock (Portland, OR)
Gregory Michael Hernandez (Los Angeles, CA): Ghost Window Chapel
Michael Reinsch (Portland, OR): Albatross
Sharita Towne (Portland, OR)
Takahiro Yamamoto (Portland, OR): Love and the City
516 Arts (Albuquerque, NM) Juna Rosales Muller (Ojai, CA): Mending Patriotism
Ashé Cultural Arts Center Leslie King Hammond (Baltimore, MD) (New Orleans, LA)
Asian Arts Initiative Mike Hoyt and Wing Young Huie (Philadelphia, PA) (Raleigh, NC and Minneapolis, MN)
Coleman Center for the Arts Darius Hill (Birmingham, AL) (York, AL)
Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Rondell Crier (New Orleans, LA) Incubator (Miami, FL)
DiverseWorks (Houston, TX) Sheila Pepe (Brooklyn, NY): Put me down Gently: A Cooler Place + I’m Afraid I Can’t Do That
Kira Lynn Harris (New York, NY): Glittering Dystopias FY16 exhibitionFY16 reSidencieS
52 NPN/VAN 2016-2017 ANNUAL REPORT AND DIRECTORY Partner Artist
Hammonds House Museum Albert Chong (Boulder, CO): Absolute Chong (Atlanta, GA)
Los Angeles Contemporary Jibade-Khalil Huffman (New York, NY): Verse Chorus Verse Exhibitions / LACE (Los Angeles, CA)
Legion Arts (Cedar Rapids, IA) Tom Torluemke (Dyer, IN): Current is the Pulse of Life
Portland Institute for Bill Jenkins (Brooklyn, NY) Contemporary Art / PICA (Portland, OR)
Project Row Houses (Houston, TX) Heather Hart and Jina Valentine (Brooklyn, NY and Durham, NC): The Black Lunch Table
Mark Strandquist (Philadelphia, PA)
Real Art Ways (Harford, CT) Elizabeth Meyer (Poughkeepsie, NY): Metanoia
RedLine (Denver, CO) Imin Yeh (Pacifica, CA): Points of Interest / Convener
Agustina Woodgate (Surfside, FL): Play Grounds VAN EXHIBITION RESIDENCY VAN EXHIBITION
Space One Eleven (Birmingham, AL) Ron Kelsey (El Paso, TX): Reflections of Generosity
Ehren Tool (Berkeley, CA)
Women & Their Work (Austin, TX) Kira Lynn Harris (New York, NY): Glittering Dystopias
opposite left Seeing Chinatown North Mike Hoyt and Wing Young Huie Photo: Annie Seng opposite right unnamed Gerard Caliste Photo: Rosie Gordon-Wallace right The People's Paper Co-op Photo: Alex Barber
PROGRAMS 53 Metanoia Elizabeth Phelps Meyer Photo: John Groo
54 NPN/VAN 2016-2017 ANNUAL REPORT AND DIRECTORY PROGRAMS 55 NATIONAL PROGRAMS CoMMunIty Fund
The Community Fund provides an additional subsidy major contributors include: (up to $5,000) for activities that expand upon a Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and Performance Residency or Creation Fund, in order to National Endowment for the Arts create a more profound, deeper engagement between touring artists and local communities. Flexible in design, the program supports a variety of activities, including planning, documentation, and collaborating with local artists and organizations.
Clear and Sweet zoe | juniper Photo: James Owens/Morgan Owens
56 NPN/VAN 2016-2017 ANNUAL REPORT AND DIRECTORY 6 $25,800 $41,200 Number of Awards Total Awards Partner Matches COMMUNITY COMMUNITY FUND
PROGRAMS 57 NPN Partner Project/Artist Description
Florida Dance Association Axis Dance Project Workshops for children and for veterans (Tampa, FL) (Oakland, CA) with spinal cord injuries, in addition to a two-day intensive for educators and experienced artists with disabilities, to develop skills in leading physically integrated dance
Highways Performance Sean Dorsey; Queer Exchange A two-day creative residency for Space & Gallery Workshop (San Francisco, CA) the LGBTQ community with local (Santa Monica, CA) partners, Patrisse Cullors (co-founder of Black Lives Matter) and trans performance artist D'Lo, with a second two-day workshop culminating in a presentation of new work at Highways' Behold Queer Festival
Junebug Productions Expansion of Soundtrack '63 Expanding Soundtrack '63 to (New Orleans, LA) (New Orleans, LA) incorporate local musicians and poets including the Greater New Orleans Youth Orchestra, and facilitating a community workshop "Singing for Movement Building"
Links Hall (Chicago, IL) The Tea Tour, with A series of community dialogues Aaron Hughes (Berkeley, CA) intended to transcend cultural divides between and among veterans, Muslims and people of all faiths, immigrants, activists, artists and the general public
On the Boards (Seattle, WA) Emily Johnson/Catalyst Dance Four connected community activities, (Minneapolis, MN) including storytelling by local Native Americans, a cross-cultural feast, an evening of local performance, and a day of community action
The Theater Offensive The Queer Body – Exploring In anticipation of The Missing (Boston, MA) Narratives of HIV/AIDS Generation, a deep dialogue around Experiences Through Storytelling HIV/AIDS among transgender elders and Movement; and youth as well as people of color Sean Dorsey (San Francisco, CA) FY16 coMMunity fund awaRdS FY16
58 NPN/VAN 2016-2017 ANNUAL REPORT AND DIRECTORY COMMUNITY FUND 59 PROGRAMS
above Engagement Tea Amber & Aaron Ginsburg Hughes Photo: Truong Giau left withClass AXIS Dance Company Photo: Foe Ian NATIONAL PROGRAMS CReatIon & FoRth FundS
The Creation Fund is a two-part program that 1) supports the development and subsequent touring of new performance works around the U.S. and 2) provides a framework for relationships among diverse artists, presenters, and community audiences to develop over time. Through the investment of commissioning funds from national presenters and NPN direct subsidies, each Creation Fund receives at least $13,000 in support and is guaranteed a minimum of a two-site tour/presentation.
The Forth Fund expands upon the Creation Fund by providing artists access to critical technical, managerial, or artistic resources needed to fully prepare a new work for touring. Supporting NPN’s value of relationship-based producing and presenting, the Forth Fund allows artists to articulate their needs and select the appropriate commissioning partners to help support them. This partnership provides an additional $15,000 in support.
above The Holler Sessions Frank Boyd Photo: Maria Baranova $262,000 $200,000 opposite Hoo Ha Darrell Jones Photo: William Frederking / $1.2M / $240,000 Creation Fund Forth Fund Subsidy / Leverage Subsidy / Leverage
60 NPN/VAN 2016-2017 ANNUAL REPORT AND DIRECTORY CREATION & FORTH FUND & FORTH CREATION
58% 47% 53 First-Time Awardees Artists of Color Co-Commissioners
major contributors include: The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Ford Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts
PROGRAMS 61 Artist // Title Co-Commissioners Description
Michelle Ellsworth PS122 (New York, NY) // Set in the context of a recurring rehearsal/ (Boulder, CO) // Richard B. Fisher Center experiment with a perpetually changing The Rehearsal Artist for the Performing Arts at cast of 21 dancers as subjects who respond Bard College (Annandale- to choreographic prompts derived from on-Hudson, NY) // Women the canon of social science experiments. A & Their Work (Austin, TX) small audience observes the shifting duets // On The Boards (Seattle, and views videos of previous subjects on WA) // University of lightweight monitors sewn into the back of Colorado (Boulder, CO) vests worn by all audience members.
Jamie Fennelly / Alverno Presents A 90-minute composition located within a Mind over Mirrors (Milwaukee, WI) // light installation (designed by Timothy Breen) (Chicago, IL) // Museum of Contemporary that features both Fennelly's solo practice for Bellowing Sun Art (Chicago, IL) Indian pedal harmonium, analog synthesizers, and effects processors, and a full panoramic ensemble with vocals, guitar and percussion
Dan Froot Legion Arts (Cedar Rapids A triptych of short plays based on oral (Los Angeles, CA) // IA) // Miami Light Project histories of three families living with hunger Pang! (Miami, FL) in Miami, Cedar Rapids and Los Angeles, written and performed in the style of a live- radio broadcast
Beth Gill (New York, NY) The Yard (Chilmark, MA) A new evening-length work with longtime // Untitled // Walker Art Center collaborators, composer Jon Moniaci and (Minneapolis, MN) // designer Thomas Dunn, to be presented in American Dance Festival conjunction with a gallery exhibition about (Durham, NC) Merce Cunningham
Rennie Harris Dance Place (Washington, A new hip-hop dance theater production Puremovement DC) // Bates Dance featuring gospel vocals and the rhythm of (Sharon Hill, PA) // Lifted Festival (Lewiston, ME) // house dance to explore contemporary issues Museum of Contemporary of community and spirituality. Loosely based Art (Chicago, IL) // South on the story of Oliver Twist, Lifted follows Dallas Cultural Center a young black man who is surrounded and (Dallas, TX) supported by his church community with music directed by Steven Sapp and Mildred Ruiz-Sapp.
Junebug Productions Carver Community Cultural A multi-disciplinary production featuring poet (New Orleans, LA) // Center (San Antonio, TX) Sunni Patterson, Kumbuka African Drum and GOMELA/to return: // Carpetbag Theatre Dance Collective and other artists, exploring Movement of Our (Knoxville, TN) // Southern gentrification and the Right of Return of Mother Tongue Methodist University displaced New Orleanians. GOMELA presents (Dallas, TX) and the beauty and resilience of Black people,
FY16 cReation fund awaRdS cReation FY16 past and present, using theater, spoken word, music, traditional African dance and drumming and modern dance.
62 NPN/VAN 2016-2017 ANNUAL REPORT AND DIRECTORY Artist // Title Co-Commissioners Description
Heather Kravas On The Boards (Seattle, An evening-length contemporary dance (Seattle, WA) // WA) // PS122 (New York, NY) performance examining the complexities visions of beauty around the practice of male conformity, asking how we assign gender, exploring endurance and repetition, and testing accepted dance aesthetics about boredom, stasis and excess
Bebe Miller New York Live Arts (New An innovative investigation of a shared (Columbus, OH) // York, NY) // Wexner Center creative process among Miller, choreographer The Making Room for the Arts (Columbus, Susan Rethorst, video artist Lily Skove, and OH) // On The Boards digital consultants Scott deLahunta and (Seattle, WA) Rachel Boggia, using a documentation platform that captures the tone of their creative conversations shared virtually and in person
The Radicalization Process The Hinterlands Photo: Kat Schleicher CREATION & FORTH FUND & FORTH CREATION
PROGRAMS 63 Artist // Title Co-Commissioners Description
Mondo Bizzaro Contemporary Arts Center A story-mapping project and live performance (New Orleans, LA) // (New Orleans, LA) // that explores the role that cartography has Fieldguiding 7 Stages (Atlanta, GA) // played in colonization and the uncharted (working title) Clear Creek Festival (Berea, spaces at the end of life and before KY) // Double Edge Theater death, touching on themes of migration, (Ashfield, MA) colonization, disorientation, and mapping
Thaddeus Phillips Miami Light Project A new solo performance about cinema, (Philadelphia, PA) // (Miami, FL) // Kelly the skewed history of images stored on The Archivist Strayhorn Theater cellulose, and its profound impact on human (Pittsburgh, PA) storytelling and behavior. The Archivist features remixes of famous and obscure film scores, action sequences, and choreographies spliced from classic films.
Graham Reynolds Fusebox Festival (Austin, The final installment in the triptych of West (Austin, TX) // TX) // Ballroom Marfa Texas portraits, exploring the archetype of Pancho Villa from a (Marfa, TX) Pancho Villa and what it means to Mexican Safe Distance and American cultures and where these intersect and conflict
64 NPN/VAN 2015-2016 ANNUAL REPORT AND DIRECTORY Artist // Title Co-Commissioners Description
Karen Sherman Walker Art Center A new dance/performance work (with all (Minneapolis, MN) // (Minneapolis, MN) // PS122 crew, dancers and company personnel) Soft Goods (New York, NY) // Center for structured as a live load-in, tech, and rehearsal the Art of Performance at for a show that never happens, illustrating the UCLA (Los Angeles, CA) loneliness of theaters, the spectral beauty of a lighting focus, the choreography of labor, and the human hand behind work
Sandglass Theater Flynn Center for the Based on actual refugee experiences, five (Putney, VT) // Babylon Performing Arts puppet characters (including one ghost (Burlington, VT) // and one caterpillar) search for refuge by Columbia College Chicago presenting their cases to an immigration Center for Community court, featuring three crankies (panoramic Arts Partnerships (Chicago, paper scrolls) that give a sense of the journeys IL) // Portland Ovations taken by the characters (Portland, ME) // University of St. Joseph (West Hartford, CT)
Su Teatro (Denver, CO) MACLA (San Jose, CA) // Su A collaboration between playwright Anthony // Ask a Mexican Teatro (Denver, CO) // CSU J. Garcia and self-described “wacky” columnist, Pueblo (Pueblo, CO) // writer, and all-around creative Gustavo San Juan College Arellano, creating a tongue-in-cheek new
(Farmington, NM) // Aurora play that examines politics, border crossing, FUND & FORTH CREATION Theater (Lawrenceville, GA) and the weird ways that Gringos perceive Mexicans
Lakin Valdez La Peña Cultural Center A site-specific performance ritual that fuses (San Juan Bautista, CA) (Berkeley, CA) // El Teatro ancient aesthetics with contemporary music // Rabinal Campensino (San Juan and dance, with the goal of introducing 21st Bautista, CA) century audiences to a pre-Columbian Mayan ritualistic dance-drama honoring the ancestors
Takahiro Yamamoto PICA (Portland, OR) // From the perspective of choreographer (Portland, OR) // DiverseWorks (Houston, Yamamoto’s experience as a Japanese Direct Path to Detour TX) // Contemporary Art immigrant to the U.S., investigating the Center (Cincinnati, OH) physical and emotional effects of multiple sets of social values and expectations in contemporary globalized society
Walkabout Theater Links Hall (Chicago, IL) // A study of grief, the fatigue of hope, and the Company (Chicago, IL) Cricoteka (Krakow, Poland) innate human desire for immortality, set on // The Cure // Dartmouth College the day death ceases to exist in a decaying (Hanover, NH) // City of and magical greenhouse populated with Chicago Dept. of Cultural snake-oil salesmen and angels Affairs (Chicago, IL) opposite The Cure Walkabout Theater Company Photo: Matthew Gregory Hollis
PROGRAMS 65 66 NPN/VAN 2016-2017 ANNUAL REPORT AND DIRECTORY CREATION & FORTH FUND & FORTH CREATION
What's Going On Vincent E. Thomas / VTDance Photo: Jonathan Hsu opposite The Freedom Project Everett Company Photo: Sally Cohn
PROGRAMS 67 Bamboula Cleo Parker Robinson Dance Photo: Mark Simpson
68 NPN/VAN 2015-2016 ANNUAL REPORT AND DIRECTORY CREATION & FORTH FUND 69 PROGRAMS NATIONAL PROGRAMS MentoRShIP & leadeRShIP inItIatIVe (Mli)
MLI strengthens NPN Partners and the arts field by supporting the professional development of Partner staff with grants of up to $5,000 with no required match. MLI $15,800 4 funds are used for a variety of activities, including peer-to- peer mentoring, training, or attending conferences. Total Awards Number of Awards
major contributors include: Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and National Endowment for the Arts $10,000
Black Lunch Table Partner Matches Heather Hart and Jina Valentine Photo: Michael McFadden
70 NPN/VAN 2016-2017 ANNUAL REPORT AND DIRECTORY NPN Partner Project Description
* Ashé Cultural Arts Black Child Supporting leadership development and Center (New Orleans, LA) Development program development skills for Frederick Conference Delahoussaye, co-director of Kuumba Institute Program, by attending the 45th annual National Black Child Development Institute
DiverseWorks Interdisciplinary Assistant curator Rachel Cook working with (Houston, TX) Performance Curation PICA and the Walker Art Center to exchange and Presentation best practices for effectively commissioning and presenting interdisciplinary performance
Pangea World Theater Enhancing Capacity In partnership with Junebug Productions and (Minneapolis, MN) for Community Carpetbag Theatre, to support the professional Engagement development, networking and leadership skills of Alejandra Tobar Alatriz
Su Teatro (Denver, CO) Skills Share for Working with Caron Atlas, director of Arts Tanya Mote & Democracy and co-director of Naturally MLI Occurring Cultural Districts, and Rosalba Rolón, artistic director of Pregones Theater, to develop skills to advocate and fundraise at the national level
* Recipient of the 2016 Wesley V. Montgomery (WVM) Memorial MLI award, made annually in honor of NPN/ VAN’s late chief operating officer. The WVM Memorial award supports an emerging administrator of color whose project focuses on leadership and professional growth. Prior awards have been made to Skirball Cultural Center and Daniel Soto (2015), The Theater Offensive and Nick Bazo (2014), Painted Bride and LaNeshe Miller (2013), and Carpetbag Theatre and Kelle Jolly (2012). FY16 MliFY16 awaRdS
PROGRAMS 71 NATIONAL PROGRAMS leVeRagIng a netWoRK foR equIty (lAne)
LANE addresses the capacity-building needs of arts Cohort 1 (2016–2020): organizations of color and geographically isolated Carpetbag Theatre (Knoxville, TN) organizations. Through a partnership with the Nonprofit Finance Fund and funding from The Andrew Central District Forum for Arts & Ideas (Seattle, WA) W. Mellon Foundation, LANE supports the leadership Junebug Productions (New Orleans, LA) of and strengthens the adaptability of NPN/VAN Partner organizations. Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana (San José, CA) In 2016 six NPN/VAN Partners were selected as the first LANE cohort. Over the next four years the cohort will The Myrna Loy Center (Helena, MT) have access to capacity-building guidance, financial Su Teatro (Denver, CO) management tools, and financial capital to develop culturally relevant business models. LANE also provides learning opportunities for the full Network and the field through a webinar series, technical assistance, and workshops. This initiative expects to engage 24 Partners over ten years in developing new business models that can adapt to changing landscapes, ensuring cultural this page & opposite diversity within the network, and growing leadership in LANE session at Annual Meeting: Portland, OR the field. Photos: Lymay Iwasaki
72 NPN/VAN 2016-2017 ANNUAL REPORT AND DIRECTORY LANE 73 PROGRAMS
: : 3 PHASE Implementation sources of funding sources additional cohorts • Secure additional Secure • model to Expand • building • Capacity deployment • Capital : : 2 PHASE Alpha & Beta Pilot Cohorts • Cohort Clinics Capital • Recovery Planning • Adaptability Capital • Change : : 1 PHASE Planning & Education • Diagnostic • Education • Pilot Planning LocaL PRogRaM
NPN/VAN's Community Engagement in New Orleans
The Local Network is an intentional learning community working with small, emerging arts organizations in peer-to-peer exchanges, built on a framework that encourages collaboration among the projects and other community partners. The Local Network offers technical assistance, educating artists and staff about planning, financial management, and resource development.
Fiscal Sponsorship provides nonprofit status and financial and administrative services to artists and artist collectives. By managing sponsorships, NPN/VAN offers accessibility so that artists gain experience with, and support through, formal granting systems and private giving that provide financial stability to artists while they practice their art.
Arts Estuary 1024 is a multi-tenant facility for nonprofit arts organizations and artist-driven projects that serves a variety of needs: administrative offices, events, community meetings, and rehearsals. Like an estuary (such as the Mississippi Delta), the facility aims to be a fertile environment that sustains the growth of much-needed cultural infrastructure in New Orleans and promotes cultural equity and the preservation of artistic practices. 29 227 Projects Artists Directly Supported
29,394 Individuals Benefited $560,000 Project Support
above Winter Concert at the Marigny Opera House Make Music NOLA Photo: Bruce Keyes
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ew Orleans Airlift left above Rally Under the Bridge N Photo: Thomas Prior above right Bronx Gothic Okwui Okpokwasili Photo: Chelsea Petrakis
LOCAL PROGRAM
Currently, the NPN/VAN Local Program includes the following artists and organizations:
*Project received 501(c)3 status and is now operating independently.
Adeline Edwards Foundation The Cocoon: Youth Empowerment Program In Good Company Theatre Supporting the emerging Young Artist Young Youth dance school, founded by Jalisa Roberts, A classically-based New Orleans theater Aspirations (YAYA) artist community through using dance to rebuild community and provide collective focused on creating work that fosters resources that advance their individual careers safe space for youth to grow into dynamic, collaboration with local artists from other and personal ambitions as artists informed leaders mediums, such as media arts, visual art, music and installation art [email protected] [email protected] www.AEdwardsFoundation.org www.thecocoonyep.org [email protected] www.facebook.com/ingoodcompanytheatre Africa NOLA *Dawn DeDeaux’s Multimedia Projects Serving to promote, preserve, perpetuate, Supporting the works of Dawn DeDeaux, Life Celebration Project encourage and share West African culture a pioneering artist in new media, currently A New Orleans feature film project based on in New Orleans through the teaching and focused on End of the Road, which highlights archival documents, as well as on investigative performance of traditional West African coastal erosion in south Louisiana work. The project explores the history of jazz music, American jazz, and New Orleans brass funeral and its current forms of expression. band music [email protected] www.dawndedeaux.net [email protected] [email protected] www.africanola.org Deltaworkers *Make Music NOLA A nomadic artistic production and residency Providing intensive, free in-school and after- Artist Corps New Orleans exchange program that hosts and presents school music training to low-income students Embedding musicians in high-need public European artists of different disciplines in five New Orleans neighborhoods schools where they initiate or strengthen core intrigued by the regional Southern U.S. music programs, build capacity and resources, [email protected] and work to make music integral to the life of [email protected] www.makemusicnola.org the school and its students www.deltaworkers.org Mardi Gras Indian Hall of Fame [email protected] The Distillery Artist Residency Preserving and promoting the unique, historical www.artistcorpsnola.org A multi-disciplinary artists’ residency New Orleans tradition of Mardi Gras Indians supporting New Orleans mid-career ALIENS Taco Truck Theater Project / Teatro Sin artists through a comprehensive three- [email protected] Fronteras month fellowship, culminating in a free www.mardigrasindianhalloffame.org Interdisciplinary theater initiative utilizing a public presentation food truck as a “theater without borders” to Mel Chin’s Operation Paydirt/ celebrate the contributions of the Latina/Latino [email protected] Fundred Dollar Bill Project community to post-Katrina New Orleans www.neworleansdistillery.wordpress.com A creative platform to address childhood lead poisoning, starting with the children and [email protected] Elephant Room communities of New Orleans, now with a www.torrestama.com An interdisciplinary ensemble focusing national presence on contemporary story telling through an Climbing PoeTree American lens to construct new archetypes and [email protected] A multimedia theater company using dual- innovative performances of black characters in www.operationpaydirt.org voice spoken word, visual art, sustainable traditional theater performance touring, and community organizing to dissolve Music Inside Out with Gwen Thompkins apathy with hope and expose injustice [email protected] A weekly, one-hour radio broadcast featuring www.elephantroomarts.com the standard bearers of Louisiana culture — [email protected] musicians, songwriters, producers, engineers, www.climbingpoetree.com FLOODWALL music writers, and more An installation-made-memorial comprised of drawers gathered in the aftermath of Hurricane [email protected] Katrina, built into a ziggurat along the banks www.musicinsideout.org of the Mississippi River before being burned by the artist.
[email protected] www.floodwall.org
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Vessels A seven-woman harmonic piece that harmonic piece that A seven-woman as song the primary coping explores women African enslaved mechanism for during the middle passage [email protected] www.rebeccamwase.com Project Series Sally Heller’s A multimedia artistthe investigating of mass-marketed potential expressive viewed outside context products their intended netting, plates, plastic such as rubber shoes, and cardboard [email protected] www.sallyheller.com Orleans of New Schola Cantorum by the Schola inspired A chamber choir, new works performing Venezuela, of Cantorum choral and contemporary by local composers music Orleans in New that reflects the cultures [email protected] Theater Skin Horse dedicated to collective A performance or mode not bound by genre experimentation of performance [email protected] www.skinhorsetheater.org Group Working Women Both a think to develop tank and a forum instigating for and implement strategies with a change in artsthe performing field, fluid membership of about 25 working women professional [email protected] Postcards From Over the Edge Edge the Over From Postcards A new work exploring theatrical by Against Nature “Crimes the court case Law Clinic by Loyola's handled Solicitation” relationship complex as well as New Orleans’ with prostitution [email protected] Project: Mwase’s Rebecca
performance work with a strong focus focus with a strong work performance Nat & Veronica Nat Veronica & An artistic team dedicated to creation the rich and viscerally of provocative on audience experience [email protected] Orleans Airlift *New that builds initiative An artist-driven with artists collaborations through community community and international), national (local, to and craftsmen bearers culture members, public artworks experimental create [email protected] www.neworleansairlift.org Orleans Black Indians Alliance New and Bringing unity to the masking tradition, sustainability and economic culture fostering all Black Masking Indian Nations for [email protected] www.4nobia Printshop Orleans Community New & Darkroom public access to affordable Providing equipment, and photography printmaking to youth and outreach and services, training [email protected] www.nolacommunityprintshop.wordpress.com NOLA Mix music and high-quality Dedicated to mentoring of New the next generation for education and music producers Orleans DJs [email protected] www.nolamix.com *Pelican Bomb dedicated multiple platforms Cultivating to sustaining the visual arts and artists in an online publication, New Orleans through and a projects curatorial panels, exhibitions, critic-in-residence [email protected] www.pelicanbomb.com Celebrate Africa Day Festival Preservation Jazz Band Jr. Hall Photo: Courtesyof AfricaNola inteRnatIonaL PRogRaM
NPN/VAN’s core values of equitable exchange and mutual respect are evident in its International Program, with a focus on building knowledge and collaborative relationships that emphasize geographical, ethnic, and cultural diversity.
NPN/VAN’s investment in the International Program is firmly rooted in the belief that international mobility and transnational exposure and collaboration are integral to the work of artists. The International Program supports artist touring and residencies, capacity-building for presenters, and network-to-network collaborations.
Performing Americas Program (PAP) PAP began as a dynamic partnership between NPN/VAN and La RED (the Network of Cultural Promoters of Latin America and the Caribbean), and now includes dozens of colleagues serving artists and audiences in the U.S., Latin America, and the Caribbean. After 15 years of cultural exchange, PAP has supported 24 U.S. artists and companies touring to 62 Latin American/Caribbean venues and 24 Latin American/Caribbean artists and companies touring to 102 U.S. venues, collectively reaching over 100,000 community members.
The Creative Exchange Program has supported 55 residencies with 89 artists in the U.S., Latin America, and the Caribbean. PAP has also supported 42 curator/ knowledge-building trips in the U.S., Latin America, and the Caribbean, providing over 70 curators and promoters the opportunity for travel and peer exchange.
Asia Exchange NPN/VAN extended its international work to Asia in 2010. In collaboration with a growing number of Asian networks: Korea Arts Management Services, the Japan Contemporary Dance Network, the Open Network for Performing Arts Management, and Arts NPO Link, our program engages 400 colleagues in Asia. The Asia Exchange has coordinated 16 curatorial trips for NPN Partners to 11 different Asian cities, with reciprocal trips by the Asian colleagues to eight different U.S. cities. Through face-to- face meetings and dialogues, curators share not just information on artists’ work but cultural context, critical societal issues, and innovative ways to address them.
The Asia Exchange has organized two tours by Japanese and Korean artists to seven U.S. above cities and supported three one-month residencies of U.S. dance artists in Japan. Talashiamii Alexey Taran / Carla Forte Bilingual facilitation and consultation services for the U.S.-Japan Connection is Photo: Alexey Taran provided by the U.S./Japan Cultural Trade Network (CTN).
opposite left major contributors include: The Sweeper City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, Japan Charo Oquet Foundation Center for Global Partnership, Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission, Miami- Photo: Anthony Michael Privitera (Local Honey) Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, Robert Sterling Clark Foundation opposite top Double Blind Charo Oquet Photo: Courtesy of the artist
opposite right Lucia Aratanha Photo: Courtesy of MUA
78 NPN/VAN 2016-2017 ANNUAL REPORT AND DIRECTORY $160,000 / $342,000 23 / 7 / 9 Subsidy / Leverage Cities / States / Countries 26 PROGRAM INTERNATIONAL 21 15 Weeks Projects Artist / Companies
PROGRAMS 79 above Qurevelum KAORI SEKI Co. PUNCTUMUN Photo: Kazuyuki Matsumoto
opposite Hoo Ha Darrell Jones Photo: William Frederking
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CReatIVe exchange reSIdencIeS
Latin America and Caribbean Hosts U.S. Hosts
Host Artist Host Artist
Centro de Investigación Antonio Ramos via Fusebox (Austin, TX) Luis Garay (Buenos Aires, Coreográfica Movement Research Argentina) (Mexico City, Mexico) (Brooklyn, NY)
MCA Chicago (Chicago, IL) Teatro Linea de Sombra Homem Cia. de Dança Augusto Soledade (Mexico City, Mexico) (Vitoria, Espirtu Santo, (Miami, FL) Brazil) The Public Theater Jose Lopez Velarde / La Paço de Frevo LaDaMa (New Orleans, LA) (New York City, NY) Teatreria (Mexico City, (Recife, Brazil) Mexico)
Plataformance / ZOT Marilyn Arsem (São Paulo, Brazil) (Jamaica Plain, NY)
Quinta Dominica Charo Oquet (Miami, FL) (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic)
RED del Caribe Bistoury, Inc. (Miami, FL) (Barranquilla, Colombia)
right Writing in Sand Carlos Caballero Photo: Buby
opposite Thank You for Coming: Attendance Faye Driscoll Photo: Pablo Carrera Oser
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Host Artist / Curator Host Artist
Mujeres en las Artes Lucia Aratanha (Miami, FL) Aire Puro Street Theater Festival Carpetbag (Tegucigalpa, Honduras) (Bogotá, Colombia) // Teatro Brigade Nacional Artístico Colombia (San Francisco, CA) (Medellín, Colombia) // Festival Programa Feminista Dinorah Rodriguez Internacional de Caribe (Santa La Corriente (Miami, FL) Marta, Colombia) // International (Managua, Nicaragua) Theater Festival of Manizales (Manizales, Colombia)
Universidad de San Martín (Buenos Faye Driscoll Aires, Argentina) // UNISAM / (Brooklyn, NY) Noelia Torres (Mendoza, Argentina)
On the Boards (Seattle, WA) // Christiane Jatahy REDCAT (Los Angeles, CA) (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Global Fest (New York, New York) // Lakou Misik Dance Place (Washington, DC) // (Port au Prince, Su Teatro (Denver, CO) // Haiti) 651 Arts & Haiti Cultural Exchange (Brooklyn, NY) INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM INTERNATIONAL
PROGRAMS 83 SHORE Emily Johnson Photo: Ian Dougles
84 NPN/VAN 2016-2017 ANNUAL REPORT AND DIRECTORY A Body in Places Moran Plant, Burlington, Vermont, 28 May 2016, No. 035 Eiko Otake Photo: Wm Johnston
85 above Girl Gods Pat Graney Photo: Jenny Peterson
right New Faithful Disco Meg Wolfe Photo: Anke Schuettler
opposite climACTS! Underground Octavio Campos Photo: Marilynn Humphries
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Agua Furiosa Ana Maria Alvarez / CONTRA-TIEMPO Photo: Alfonso Gomez
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PARTNERS 89 intRoductIon to nPn/VAn paRtneRS
NPN/VAN currently supports and connects 64 Performing Arts Partners and 20 Visual Artists Partners across 31 states and 49 communities. Partners represent a cross-section of urban and rural communities and are ethnically, culturally, geographically, and economically diverse. Reflecting NPN/VAN’s commitment to racial diversity and cultural equity, one-third of NPN/VAN Partners identify as culturally-specific organizations.
Every three years, organizations are invited to join the Network after a rigorous application process. The number of Partners in the Network is intentionally limited, in order to promote participation, equitably share resources, and create robust and sustainable relationships.
NPN/VAN Partners actively work with local artists to help them reach a national audience and engage national artists to enrich their own communities.
NPN/VAN Partners share information about trends in the field, best practices, and the artists they support. As an applied learning community, NPN/VAN promotes the circulation of new ideas and artistic practices.
this page Conveners Group installation featuring Molly Bounds & Sidney Masuga (left), Jenny Schmid (above), and John Hitchcock & Jennifer Angus (right) Photos: Wes Maygar
opposite top Your Healing is Killing Me Virginia Grise Photo: Pin Lim
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NPN/VAN does not curate artistic work or maintain a roster of artists; rather it carefully selects the organizations that compose the Network to ensure they reflect the diversity of the U.S. If you are interested in being supported, please review the NPN/VAN Partner profiles and initiate direct contact with the Partners that seem best matched with your work. PARTNERS
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Marmont KAORI SEKI Co. PUNCTUMUN Photo: Kazuyuki Matsumoto
92 NPN/VAN 2016-2017 ANNUAL REPORT AND DIRECTORY • • • 516 ARTS 651 ARTS 7 Stages Theatre
516 Central Avenue SW 1000 Dean Street, Suite 232 1105 Euclid Avenue Albuquerque, NM 87102-3114 Brooklyn, NY 11238 Atlanta, GA 30307 505.242.1445 718.304.1045 404.522.0911 www.516arts.org www.651arts.org www.7stages.org Suzanne Sbarge // executive director Shay Wafer // executive director Heidi S. Howard // artistic director [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Claude Smith // exhibitions & fulcrum fund Founded in 1989, 651 ARTS is Brooklyn’s Mack Headrick // managing director program manager premier presenter of contemporary dance, [email protected] [email protected] theater and music from the African Diaspora. 7 Stages engages artists and audiences by 516 ARTS operates a museum-style gallery in Our signature programs are the Mainstage focusing on social, spiritual and artistic values downtown Albuquerque, offering programs Performance Series (including Black Dance); in contemporary culture. Primary emphasis is that inspire curiosity, dialogue, risk-taking and Tradition and Transformation (finished work given to the support and development of new creative experimentation. They showcase a by emerging and established artists); Live plays, new playwrights and new methods of mix of established, emerging, local, national & Outspoken (provocative artist interviews collaboration. Our vision is to be a global center and international artists from a variety of and live performances); Africa Exchange for the creation of vital conversations through cultural backgrounds. Programs include (exchange projects and access for African collaborative performance. We are committed exhibitions, collaborations with museums artists to perform in the United States); Artist to inviting national and international and organizations, public art projects, the Development Initiative; and Education and performances and theatre artists to our 516 WORDS literary arts series, lectures, Community programs which engage artists in community and to bringing different cultures public forums, workshops, youth programs, adult and youth learning. into intimate contact. We also maintain a performances and special community arts 651 ARTS is committed to presenting a high multi-disciplinary performance space for other events like the Downtown Block Party. level of excellence in the contemporary arts groups in Atlanta. Openings and events draw large, diverse performing arts of the African Diaspora. Our Looking specifically at physical movement, crowds and generate excitement, dialogue presentations, humanities events and artist ensemble-based groups and theatre and interaction among artists and the public. development activities seek to further quality companies, 7 Stages travels nationally and Schools and community groups visit for cultural programming by and for people internationally to identify new artists with educational tours and activities throughout the representing the full breadth of the Black and whom we want to foster relationships. exhibitions. 516 ARTS is known for its leadership African Diasporic experience. Through live encounters, video clips and of collaborations that have drawn national and house capacity: 200 electronic communications, we international audiences and media coverage. identify companies that fit our mission. house capacities: 200 and 60-90 PARTNERS
PARTNERS: • NPN • VAN 93 • • • All My Relations Arts Arab American Art2Action — Native American National Museum Tampa and New York City Community 813.444.7268 13624 Michigan Avenue www.art2action.org Development Institute Dearborn, MI 48126-3519 Andrea Assaf // artistic & executive director 313.624.0200 [email protected] 1414 Franklin East www.arabamericanmuseum.org Minneapolis, MN 55404 Art2Action creates, develops, produces and Devon Akmon // director presents original theatre, interdisciplinary 612.235.4968 [email protected] performances, performative acts and www.allmyrelationsarts.com Kathryn Grabowski // progressive cultural organizing. We support Taylor Payer // director of arts & humanities programming coordinator women artists, artists of color, LGBTQ2 artists, cultural engagement [email protected] and creative allies. We are dedicated to cultural equity and innovation, artistic quality and [email protected] The Arab American National Museum community value, performativity and impact. (AANM) is the first and only museum in The Native American Community Development Whether working as a presenter, creator or America dedicated to telling the story of Arab Institute (NACDI), located in the heart of a producing company, community-engaged Americans. The AANM has the responsibility the American Indian Cultural Corridor in practice with diverse constituencies is central and unique capacity to foster better Minneapolis, Minnesota, builds power in to all of our work. Currently, most of our understanding and appreciation of Arab American Indian communities through presenting is done in partnership with the Americans and the Arab world. The museum’s community organizing, cultural engagement, University of South Florida and Sacred Grounds exhibits and programs are responsive to and and Indigenous arts. All My Relations Arts Coffee House in Tampa, FL. We also partner reflective of the Arab American community, is an initiative of NACDI that seeks to serve with arts organizations across the nation on serve the diverse population of our nation, contemporary Native artists and increase institutes, convenings, and productions. In dispel stereotypes and misconceptions about public access to Indigenous arts. Its robust addition to performances, residencies can Arabs, Arab Americans, and other immigrants, arts and cultural programming includes the include university class visits, community and help all ethnic groups recognize their premiere Midwestern gallery for contemporary workshops, public dialogues, or open mics; shared histories, experiences, and inter- Native arts with four quarterly exhibitions each residency is designed collaboratively dependence. An affiliate of the Smithsonian across a range of artistic mediums and styles. with our guest artists, based on expertise and Institution, in 2008 the museum received a Exhibitions include national traveling shows, shared interests. solo shows from local and emerging artists, and Coming Up Taller Award from the President’s house capacities: topical exhibits curated around current issues Committee on the Arts and the Humanities. 50, 120, 300, and 500 in the Native community. The AANM is a founding member of both the Immigration and Civil Rights Sites of Conscience Network and CultureSource. In 2013, the AANM achieved accreditation from the American Alliance of Museums. house capacity: 200
94 NPN/VAN 2016-2017 ANNUAL REPORT AND DIRECTORY • •• •• ArtPower Ashé Cultural Asian Arts Initiative at UC San Diego Arts Center / 1219 Vine Street Efforts of Grace Philadelphia, PA 19107-1111 9500 Gilman Drive, #0029 215.557.0455 La Jolla, CA 92093 1712 Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard [email protected] 858.534.0499 New Orleans, LA 70113-1313 www.asianartsinitiative.org [email protected] 504.569.9070 Gayle Isa // executive director www.artpower.ucsd.edu [email protected] [email protected] Jordan Peimer // executive director www.ashecac.org Cecilia Yen // program manager [email protected] Carol Bebelle // co-founder & [email protected] Molly Clark // associate director of artistic executive director Asian Arts Initiative is a community-based planning & education [email protected] arts center that engages artists and everyday [email protected] Harold Clark, Jr. // associate director for people to create art that explores the diverse ArtPower at UC San Diego builds creative community, creative & cultural affairs experiences of Asian Americans, addresses experiences in music, dance, film, exhibitions, [email protected] our social context, and imagines and effects and food for our collective pleasure and positive community change. We are working Ashé Cultural Arts Center is the primary inspiration. We engage diverse audiences on toward a just and joyous world where all initiative of Efforts of Grace. Its mission is and off campus through vibrant, challenging, people, regardless of their race and class, to promote, produce, create and support multi-disciplinary performances by emerging are able to view and create art that reflects programs, activities and creative works that and renowned international artists. their lives and concerns. We present all emphasize the positive contributions of Through extensive partnerships, ArtPower disciplines, including but not limited to dance, people of African descent. We pride ourselves provides exciting opportunities for research, performance art, spoken word, theater, music, on our commitment to and experience with participation, and creation of new work, film and the visual arts. collaboration and on our ability to combine igniting powerful dialogue among artists, art, culture and community into a variety of Recently relocated to a new facility, our black students, scholars, and the community. activities, events, performances and exhibits. box performance space includes a professional house capacities: 150, 450, and 725 We are a multi-disciplinary cultural arts lighting grid, modular seating, a 1,200 sq. ft. organization with a focus on performance art. gallery space with 20-foot ceilings and street- front windows. We focus on Asian-American We encourage collaborations among and artists and are open to any artist willing and between artistic disciplines and artists able to dialogue in a sustained way with our in the Ashé artistic family, independent communities. We encourage artists to provide artists, and artists associated with other arts context to their performances through pre- or organizations. Ashé collaborates among its post-performance discussions, workshops or directing team to identify themes of interest lecture/demos. Our executive director and that emerge from our artistic family and the staff select artists with the assistance and community to select artists. expertise of volunteer artists and community house capacity: 200 members. We also organize our Chinatown In/ flux exhibition at public sites throughout the Chinatown neighborhood. Asian Arts Initiative uses a combination of open call processes and invitations to artists. house capacity: 115 PARTNERS
PARTNERS: • NPN • VAN 95 • • • Bates Dance Festival Bunnell Street Carpetbag Theatre Arts Center 305 College Street 1323 North Broadway Lewiston, ME 04240-6016 Knoxville, TN 37917 106 West Bunnell 207.786.6381 865.544.0447 Homer, AK 99603 www.batesdancefestival.org [email protected] 907.235.2662 Laura Faure // director www.carpetbag.org www.bunnellarts.org [email protected] Linda Parris-Bailey // executive & Asia Freeman // executive & artistic director artistic director Founded in 1982, Bates Dance Festival (BDF) is [email protected] a leading presenter of contemporary dance in [email protected] Northern New England. BDF brings together Adele Person // assistant director Joe Tolbert// community engagement director over 60 dance artists with 350 participants [email protected] [email protected] from around the globe and 5,000 audience Bunnell was created in 1991 by and for artists to The Carpetbag Theatre (CBT) is an African members from across the state and region, sustain artists, cultivate audiences and engage American Legacy Theater with a rich history for an intensive six-week season. The Festival a vibrant Alaskan community. Our mission is of service to diverse populations. As an includes a performance series of internationally to nurture and present exceptional innovative intergenerational company, our efforts to acclaimed contemporary dance, adult art in all media for diverse audiences. Bunnell engage communities of Color and other professional training, workshops for teen presents artist residences, artist-in-schools disenfranchised communities have been dancers and local youth, extensive community programs, workshops, visual art exhibitions, constant. An ensemble company both outreach activities, and commissioning and performances, concerts, film screenings, artistically and administratively, CBT works creative time residencies. readings, artist talks and more. Bunnell has collaboratively to fulfill our mission, to build The Bates Dance Festival builds and nurtures been a powerful force in shaping Alaska’s communities and to develop social capital, artistic relationships in an effort to provide cultural landscape for 25 years. emphasizing inclusion and cross-cultural sustained support, peer engagement and house capacity: 100 dialogue. “Finding voice” is not simply a creative home. BDF director Laura Faure storytelling; it reveals an individual’s power to consults with artists, festival participants make change in their own lives and the lives and colleagues to invite new artists into of their community. Our curatorial practice is the BDF community, and a committee of rooted in these principles, selecting work that choreographers often recommends new artists exemplifies an aesthetic that is inclusive and for our programs. Planning for residencies is meets our standard of excellence. done in collaboration with the artists to best house capacity: 180 meet our individual and shared goals. house capacities: 300 and 500
96 NPN/VAN 2016-2017 ANNUAL REPORT AND DIRECTORY Master Class with the students of New Orleans Center for Creative Arts Onye Ozuzu Photo: Melisa Cardona PARTNERS
PARTNERS: • NPN • VAN 97 Conversations in a Garden Takuma Itoh Photo: MACC-Ben Ferrari
98 NPN/VAN 2016-2017 ANNUAL REPORT AND DIRECTORY • • • Carver Community Center for Community Central District Forum Cultural Center Arts Partnerships / for Arts & Ideas Columbia College 226 North Hackberry Street 104 17th, Avenue S San Antonio, TX 78202-2853 Chicago Seattle, WA 98122 210.207.7211 206.323.4032 [email protected] 600 South Michigan Avenue www.cdforum.org Chicago, IL 60605-1900 www.thecarver.org Sharon Williams // managing director Cassandra Parker-Nowicki // 312.369.8850 [email protected] cultural center supervisor [email protected] Central District Forum for Arts & Ideas is the [email protected] www.colum.edu/ccap only organization in the Seattle area solely Yonnie Blanchette // executive director Paul Teruel // director of community dedicated to presenting emerging Black arts, [email protected] partnerships artists, and ideas. Our mission is to present The Carver is a multicultural and multi- [email protected] and produce Black cultural programs that encourage thought and debate, with a vision disciplinary arts center with an emphasis JeeYeun Lee // development & of inspiring new thoughts and challenging on the contributions of African and African- communications director assumptions about Black culture. American artists. For over 40 years, the [email protected] Carver has celebrated the diverse cultures of We believe in the value of cultural and Columbia College Chicago is an undergraduate our world by presenting local, national and geographic community, creativity, identity and graduate college offering a comprehensive international performing and visual artists. and passion. By focusing on community, we education in the visual, performing, Our programming includes performing arts commit to collective efforts that celebrate communication, and media arts within a presentations, visual arts exhibits, residencies, the diversity of the Black experience. By context of enlightened liberal education. master classes and other arts education focusing on creativity, we honor the role of Since 1998, the Center for Community Arts programs. Though the Carver strives to artistic expression and disparate ideas in Partnerships (CCAP) has carried out the work extensively with the city’s east-side inspiring conversations leading to social and College’s mission of community engagement neighborhoods, all programs are available to cultural change. By focusing on identity, we by creating deep, reciprocal partnerships across the larger San Antonio community and beyond. create spaces, experiences and conversations the Chicago metropolitan region that extend that allow people and communities to see Through our programming, the Carver strives the learning environment for underserved themselves in the arts and ideas we present. not only to preserve, celebrate and foster the children and youth as well as for college By focusing on passion, we acknowledge creative expression of the African-American students and faculty. culture, but also to serve as an agent of cross- the intensity and generosity of the work of CCAP is committed to transforming lives cultural awareness, exchange and tolerance. artists, the interest of audiences, the intellect through the arts. To fulfill that mission, CCAP Artistic review is a year-round process. of thought leaders and the investments of develops programs that expand learning, supporters. These values serve as our strategic house capacity: 650 connect Columbia College Chicago to schools frame and guide day-to-day operations and and communities, and build a new generation curatorial decisions. of engaged artists. CCAP is a multi-disciplinary house capacity: 286 presenter that links entities at the College with presenting opportunities that have strong community engagement components. house capacity: 150 PARTNERS
Generations Ty DeFoe Photo: Goodloox Photography
PARTNERS: • NPN • VAN 99 • • • Coleman Center for Contemporary Arts Contemporary Arts the Arts Center (Cincinnati) Center (New Orleans)
630 Avenue A 44 East 6th Street 900 Camp Street York, AL 36925 Cincinnati, OH 45202 New Orleans, LA 70130-3908 205.392.2005 513.345.8400 504.528.3805 www.colemanarts.org www.contemporaryartscenter.org [email protected] Shana Berger // executive director Drew Klein // performance curator www.cacno.org [email protected] [email protected] Neil Barclay // director & ceo The Coleman Center for the Arts (CCA) is a Kristin Riepenhof // programs & exhibitions [email protected] contemporary arts organization in rural York, assistant Laurie Uprichard // senior curator of Alabama that uses art to foster positive social [email protected] performing arts change, answer civic needs, build local pride, Founded in 1939 and rebranded as the [email protected] and use creativity for community problem- Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) in the 1950s, The Contemporary Arts Center (CAC) is a solving. The CCA was founded in 1985 through the organization remains committed to multi-disciplinary arts center dedicated to the the grassroots efforts of local citizens. Programs impacting regional and global communities by presentation, production and promotion of the include a community-based artist-in-residence providing transformative arts experiences that art of our time. The CAC presents contemporary program that produces socially engaged challenge, entertain and educate. In 2003, the performing arts showcases, visual arts public art projects, an exhibition program that CAC moved into its current home, the Lois & exhibitions, unique education programs, features the work of local artists, as well as Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art and other events. The CAC’s Performing Arts regional and national artists completing CCA designed by celebrated architect Zaha Hadid. program features a specially curated season of projects, and an education program that offers jazz, from modern and avant-garde to big band; year-round opportunities for area youth. In 2011, the CAC launched its first performance program. The Black Box Performance contemporary classical and concert music CCA programs offer artists and community Series presents an impressive collection of from cutting-edge musicians and composers; members opportunities to work as co- contemporary music, dance, theatre, and and bold experiments in dance, theater and participants in projects that address civic multimedia works from regional, national, performance art by local, emerging and and social needs. Calling on models of and international artists. A dedication to internationally-recognized artists. contemporary art and consensus-based presenting both emerging and established The CAC positively impacts over 10,000 organizing, projects are characterized by voices is matched by a strong commitment to students, teachers, families and artists annually close collaboration with the community. By commissioning and co-producing new works. through its education and public programs. We sustaining long-term relationships between house capacity: 100 demonstrate proactive leadership by educating artists, participants and community, the CCA children and adults; cultivating and growing seeks to have a lasting effect on individuals, audiences; and initiating and encouraging issues and the means of production for collaboration among diverse artists, contemporary art. institutions, communities and supporters. house capacity: 200 and 400
100 NPN/VAN 2016-2017 ANNUAL REPORT AND DIRECTORY • • • Contemporary Dance Dance Place Diaspora Vibe Cultural Theater Arts Incubator 3225 8th Street NE Washington, DC 20017-3502 1805 Larch Avenue 600 NE 36 Street, PH 16 202.269.1600 Cincinnati, OH 45224-2928 Miami, FL 33137 www.danceplace.org 513.591.1222 305.542.4277 Carla Perlo // founding director [email protected] www.dvcai.org [email protected] www.cdt-dance.org Rosie Gordon-Wallace // founder & president Sarah Greenbaum // artistic & community Jefferson James // artistic & executive [email protected] programming associate director [email protected] Sarah Moody // artistic coordinator [email protected] [email protected] Founded in 1980, Dance Place builds a Contemporary Dance Theater (CDT) was community of artists, audiences, and Diaspora Vibe Virtual Gallery is an online founded in 1972 to promote contemporary students through high-quality performances, format to support the mission to nurture, dance. Over the years its mission has taken on commissions, training and educational promote and exhibit the works of emerging a more social aspect, now described as “moving programs, and creative residencies for Caribbean and Latin American artists. bodies, moving souls.” CDT feels this is the choreographers. We are committed to Headquartered in Miami for the past 15 essence of contemporary dance. To accomplish enriching the field of dance locally, nationally years, Diaspora Vibe supports contemporary this, CDT presents diverse dance and time arts, and internationally. Our thriving campus emerging artists who explore and experiment produces and assists the production of regional serves as an anchor in the development of with new forms and themes that challenge movement-based work and integrates art into our Brookland/Edgewood neighborhood in traditional definitions of Caribbean and Latin community life. Washington, DC. Through our free, interactive American art. The gallery is guided by the Contemporary Dance Theater is first and Art on 8th program, Dance Place offers a series conviction that contemporary art is a vital foremost a dance presenter, but the inclusion of music, dance and creative crafts for people social force that extends beyond the art world of theater/dance offers a wide variety of of all ages. and into the broader culture. Our purpose is artists/companies. Founder and artistic director to engage diverse audiences ranging from In addition to our vibrant weekly performing Jefferson James chooses the artists from arts professionals to those less familiar with series and daily dance classes, Dance Place is her knowledge of the field. She also attends contemporary art. also home to seven performing companies. conferences and showcases and views videos to Under the leadership of founding director Our exhibition programs include three bricks- make those choices. She encourages audience Carla Perlo and director Deborah Riley, the and-mortar exhibitions (the Caribbean Series, and board members to offer suggestions. A organization has built a dedicated and highly Off the Wall Experimental Series, and the season is chosen to reflect the variety within professional staff, an effective intern program International Cultural Exchange), artist-in- the field, to present familiar as well as new for college students, and Junior Staff program residency programs, international cultural artists, and to challenge the audience with new for teenagers. The organization prides itself not exchanges, and education and outreach ideas while keeping them eager for more. only as an internationally respected presenter activities that celebrate Miami-Dade County’s house capacity: 400 and theater, but also as a provider of model rich cultural and social fabric. programs for young people ages 3-21. house capacity: 144 PARTNERS
PARTNERS: • NPN • VAN 101 •• • • DiverseWorks Florida Dance Flynn Center for the Association Performing Arts 3400 Main Street Houston, TX 77002-9516 P.O. Box 9045 153 Main Street 713.223.8346 Tampa, FL 33674-9045 Burlington, VT 05401-8402 www.diverseworks.org 813.237.0216 802.652.4500 Xandra Eden // executive director & www.floridadanceassociation.org www.flynncenter.org chief curator [email protected] Cindy Hennessy // coordinator Steve MacQueen // artistic director [email protected] [email protected] Rachel Cook // curator [email protected] Dazaun Soleyn // director of marketing & Madeline Bell // programming manager communications [email protected] DiverseWorks commissions, produces, and [email protected] presents new and daring art in all its forms The Flynn Center for the Performing Arts through innovative collaborations that honor The mission of the Florida Dance Association is the largest arts organization in Vermont, each artist’s vision without constraint. Founded (FDA) is to serve, support and promote presenting world-class performances, by artists in 1982, DiverseWorks is one of the development of dance in Florida, by extensive arts education classes, programs Houston’s most innovative multi-disciplinary encouraging excellence, supporting artistic, and workshops, as well as exhibitions. It arts organizations, with an astonishing record physical and cultural diversity in dance, and encompasses a beautifully restored landmark as a cultural agitator—helping to shape the increasing opportunities for all people to 1,411-seat Art Deco Theater, a 180-seat black arc of contemporary art nationally over the last experience dance and the arts. We accomplish box experimental space, two studios, and a 30 years. this through programs and activities that gallery in downtown Burlington. It is home facilitate the teaching, creation, presentation to many Vermont performing groups and the DiverseWorks presents work by local, national, and administration of dance. box office serves as a regional ticketing agency. and international artists, with particular With broad-based community support, the attention to work that expands the definitions FDA produces the Florida Dance Festival, a Flynn has over 2,300 members; local, regional, of contemporary art and crosses the nine-day event celebrating dance through and national donors; and serves over 200,000 boundaries that have traditionally separated education, training, choreographic residencies audience members each season. dance, theater, performance art, literary art, and and performances, and the Young Dancers visual art. Workshops, two days of classes and The Flynn’s curatorial vision is guided by performances held twice a year in different its mission to present a diverse range of DiverseWorks values freedom of artistic Florida locations. Other projects include teacher high-quality performances that expand the expression in all forms, the artist’s role in workshops, scholarship programs, internships, community’s cultural experiences and support provoking understanding of social issues, and advocacy for dance. artists in the development of new work. Flynn authenticity and dependability in our programming includes a balance of recognized professional practice, artistic excellence FDA presents all forms of dance and seeks masters and emerging new voices in dance, that is born through a coupling of risk and artists whose work is innovative, contemporary jazz, music, theatre, family programs and imagination, interactions between artist and and/or culturally specific. Program planning multi-disciplinary performance. We plan our audience, diversity and inclusivity. While our generally begins 18 to 24 months in advance. programs one to two years in advance. work can be rigorous and challenging, we Strongest consideration is given to artists who pride ourselves on being welcoming, friendly, also teach and conduct residency activities. house capacity: 180 and fun. house capacity: 210 house capacities: 90, 120, 159, and 329
opposite The Missing Generation Sean Dorsey Dance Photo: Ivy Maiorino
102 NPN/VAN 2016-2017 ANNUAL REPORT AND DIRECTORY PARTNERS • • • Fusebox GALA Hispanic Theatre Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center 2023 East Cesar Chavez Street P.O. Box 43209 Austin, TX 78702-4511 Washington, DC 20010 723 South Brazos 512.800.3066 202.234.7174 San Antonio, TX 78207 [email protected] [email protected] 210.271.3151 www.fuseboxfestival.com www.galatheatre.org www.guadalupeculturalarts.org Brad Carlin // managing director Abel López // associate producing director [email protected] [email protected] Joel Settles // director of program management Ron Berry // artistic director GALA Hispanic Theatre is a professional Latino [email protected] [email protected] theater company that produces and presents Belinda Menchaca // education director Fusebox champions innovative art across a for a diverse audience in the Washington [email protected] variety of mediums. The Fusebox Festival is an metropolitan region. Since 1975, GALA has annual contemporary hybrid-arts festival that presented a bilingual season of classical Founded in 1980 and located in the heart of San takes place each spring. The festival acts as a and contemporary plays, music, dance, Antonio’s west side, Guadalupe Cultural Arts catalyst for new ideas, new artistic models, and poetry, spoken word and performances for Center is one of the largest community-based, approaches to help us engage with the issues youth by Hispanic artists from Spain, Latin multi-disciplinary organizations in the U.S. Our and questions that define contemporary life. America, the Caribbean and the U.S. GALA also mission is to preserve, promote and develop the commissions plays and translations of works arts and culture of the Chicano/Latino/Native Fusebox presents local, national, and by Latino playwrights. American peoples of all ages and backgrounds international work, including theater, dance, through public and educational programming music, literature, visual art, and everything in GALA presents its performing arts program in in dance, literature, media arts, theater arts, between. Most Fusebox presentations occur its new theater and at various venues, including visual arts, and music. during the context of the festival, but some the Washington Performing Arts Society, Dance work is presented throughout the year. We are Place, Cultural Institute of Mexico and Lisner Each year the Guadalupe presents and interested in creating a dynamic platform for Auditorium at George Washington University. produces a season of events, exhibitions, conversation and ideas. We support artists who Artist presentations are selected based on theater productions and festivals, including are pushing things and helping us re-imagine quality of work and conformance with GALA’s the San Antonio CineFestival, the Tejano possibilities. Encountering different ideas mission to promote and present the Latino arts. Conjunto Festival en San Antonio, Hecho outside of one’s immediate sphere is central to Artists should submit project proposals and a Mano/Made by Hand, performances by our understanding of creativity. To this end, we work samples at least one year in advance of the resident youth theater company (The strive to create a space for different artists from the September season opening. Teen Arts Puentes Project), Lupe’s Art Blend different backgrounds (different disciplines/ house capacity: 264 performance lab, productions featuring the geographies) to come together to share ideas Guadalupe Dance Company, and instructional and present work. Simultaneously, we’re also classes at all levels. The Guadalupe’s selection interested in using the festival as a mechanism process differs according to each event. Artists to engage with place and community in are selected by committee, department interesting, meaningful new ways. directors or by juried process. house capacity: 180 house capacity: 300
104 NPN/VAN 2016-2017 ANNUAL REPORT AND DIRECTORY • • • Hammonds House Hayti Heritage Center Highways Performance Museum Space & Gallery 804 Old Fayetteville Street Durham, NC 27701-3958 503 Peeples Street, SW 1651 18th Street 919.683.1709 Atlanta, GA 30310 Santa Monica, CA 90404 [email protected] 404.612.0500 310.453.1755 www.hayti.org [email protected] [email protected] Angela Lee // executive director www.hammondshouse.org www.highwaysperformance.org [email protected] Myrna Anderson-Fuller // executive director Leo Garcia // executive director Melody Little // director of operations [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Tracy Murrell // curator Patrick Kennelly // artistic director The Hayti Heritage Center opened in 1975 [email protected] [email protected] under the management of St. Joseph’s Historic Hammonds House Museum and Resource Foundation. Hayti is a cultural enrichment Highways promotes the development of Center of African American Art is a fine arts and arts education facility that preserves and contemporary, socially involved artists and art museum established in 1988 and housed in an advances the heritage and culture of historic forms. Its mission is implemented through early 19th Century Victorian home. The mission Hayti and the African American experience three core programs: the performance space, is to preserve, exhibit and increase public through programs that benefit the broader workshop/lab program and two galleries. awareness about art of the African Diaspora. community locally, nationally and globally. Annually, Highways co-presents over 250 Hammonds House Museum attendees performances by solo performance artists, The Hayti Heritage Center features an gain greater understanding and expanded theatre ensembles, dance companies, acoustically flawless 400-seat Performance knowledge about the contributions that artists spoken word artists, new music artists, Hall, upper and lower galleries, classrooms, of African descent make to world culture. inter-disciplinary and mixed media artists. a dance emporium, a community room with It also mounts contemporary visual art Hammonds House Museum is known for kitchen, a board room, and offices. In addition exhibitions with work that explores the presenting artists of merit and artistic to core programs (Bull Durham Blues Festival, boundaries between performing and visual excellence. The museum’s curator and Film Festival, Concert Series, Raise A Reader art, commissions and premieres work by curatorial committee use a stringent review Book Fair, Dance and Aerobic Boxing Classes, outstanding local performing artists, and process to select exhibiting artists two to Jambalaya Soul Poetry Slam), Hayti is available organizes special events and festivals. three years in advance. The museum remains for tours and facility rentals. sensitive to local and/or emerging artists In addition, Highways offers residency house capacity: 400 by providing alternate opportunities for and educational programs through the exposure, self-development assistance and Performance Lab. The performance space is avenues to realize additional income streams. curated by artistic director Leo Garcia and Hammonds House Museum offers a year- Patrick Kennelly. round calendar of exhibitions, panels, lectures Highways balances a strong commitment to and symposia, workshops and demonstrations, nurturing often-ignored community voices youth programming, concerts and other with a willingness to critique and assess that unique events. community. Our vision embraces art that addresses challenging topics and issues within and between communities in the interest of greater understanding, social justice, individual and group empowerment and unity. house capacity: 90 PARTNERS
PARTNERS: • NPN • VAN 105 above & opposite What's Going On Vincent E. Thomas / VTDance Photos: Jonathan Hsu
106 NPN/VAN 2016-2017 ANNUAL REPORT AND DIRECTORY PARTNERS 107 PARTNERS PARTNERS • • • Indianapolis Museum Intermedia Arts International Sonoran of Contemporary Art Desert Alliance / ISDA 2822 Lyndale Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55408-2108 1043 Virginia Avenue, #5 P.O. Box 687 612.871.4444 Indianapolis, IN 46203 Ajo, AZ 85321-0687 [email protected] 317.634.6622 520.387.3570 www.intermediaarts.org www.indymoca.org www.isdanet.org Julie Bates MacGillis // director of equity & Paula Katz // executive director public programming Aaron Cooper // executive director [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Mike Barclay // director of exhibitions Sha Cage // catalyst curator ISDA is a tri-national creative place-making [email protected] [email protected] organization dedicated to preserving and enriching the environment, culture, and Founded in 2001 by arts benefactors and As Minnesota’s premier multi-disciplinary, economy of the Sonoran Desert. Located in enthusiasts with the mission “to bring multicultural arts center, Intermedia Arts builds Ajo, Arizona (formerly the three separate, contemporary exhibitions and programs to understanding by catalyzing and inspiring segregated communities of Indian Village, our community to stimulate minds, inspire artists and audiences to make changes in their Mexican Town, and the Ajo Anglo Townsite), new discoveries and demonstrate the vital lives and communities. We are a nationally ISDA uses arts and culture to bring people connections between visual culture and life,” recognized leader in empowering artists together across long-standing racial and ethnic the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary and community leaders to use arts-based divisions, and to build community across the Art (iMOCA) is Indianapolis’ only museum approaches to solve community issues. U.S./Mexico/Tohono O’odham Nation borders. dedicated solely to contemporary art. From graffiti art to digital technology to For the last decade, ISDA has been renovating performance art to spoken word, we work from Showcasing innovative exhibitions by emerging historic buildings in Ajo’s town center where the community up, to unearth and enliven and mid-career artists in two locations, ISDA now manages 30 affordable live/ new and emerging artists and art forms, while iMOCA strives to present artwork that work artist apartments, an indoor/outdoor challenging and exploring the role of art in our increases the understanding and appreciation performance venue, and the new Sonoran lives. By stimulating civic dialogue and giving of contemporary visual culture, provoking Desert Inn and Conference Center created voice to the issues and experiences of under- dialogue and encouraging the discovery that for meetings, arts gatherings, and artists-in- represented communities locally, nationally art is all around us. Executive director Paula residence. ISDA presents local, regional, and and internationally, we contribute to a stronger, Katz and director of exhibitions Mike Barclay, national performing artists. ISDA has a special healthier society. along with invited guest curators, curate interest in presenting community and folk arts, iMOCA's exhibitions and programs. Artists are Intermedia Arts selects artistic programming and art that evokes or addresses issues of social intentionally selected to create a balanced based on the ability and interest of the artist justice and racial equity. exhibition program, celebrating the diversity of to interact meaningfully with communities, makers of contemporary art and the variety of to use art to create dialogue and to provide media this field encompasses. audiences and community members with the tools and access to practice their art and present their own stories. We address the most pressing issues in our community, including immigration, racism, privilege, human rights and gentrification. We seek opportunities to partner with and present the work of underserved art forms, artists and communities. house capacity: 119
108 NPN/VAN 2016-2017 ANNUAL REPORT AND DIRECTORY • • • John Michael Kohler Junebug Productions Kelly Strayhorn Arts Center Theater 1024 Elysian Fields Avenue New Orleans, LA 70117 608 New York Avenue 5530 Penn Avenue 504.577.0732 Sheboygan, WI 53081-4507 Pittsburgh, PA 15206-3562 [email protected] 920.458.6144 412.363.3000 www.junebugproductions.org www.jmkac.org www.kelly-strayhorn.org Stephanie McKee // executive artistic Ann Brusky // senior manager of public director Janera Solomon // executive director programs [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Kiyoko McCrae // managing director Andrea Petrillo // associate producer Amy Horst // deputy director of [email protected] [email protected] programming Founded in 1980 as the organizational The mission of the Kelly Strayhorn Theater [email protected] successor to the Free Southern Theater (FST), (KST) is to serve as a catalyst for creative The John Michael Kohler Arts Center Junebug’s mission is to create and support expression and the active engagement of encourages and supports innovative artistic works that question and confront audiences. Focusing on the performing explorations in the arts, fostering an exchange inequitable conditions that have historically and media arts of our time, KST takes a between a national community of artists impacted the African-American community. diverse, multi-disciplinary, inclusive and and the public to realize the power of the Through interrogation, we challenge ourselves international approach to the presentation arts. The Arts Center serves as a laboratory and those aligned with the organization to and understanding of the arts. KST programs for the creation of new works, nurturer of make greater and deeper contributions towards examine the questions that define and inspire interdisciplinary initiatives, originator of a just society. us as individuals and communities. exhibitions, presenter of performing arts, The story circle process developed by FST and Our mission supports a vision in three parts. educator, community builder and advocate Junebug Productions is central to its work. We are a leading presenter of innovative works for arts issues, functioning as a catalyst for Artists who value storytelling and whose in dance, theater, music, live and literary arts; ideas that will impact the lives of artists and mission and values are complimentary a community resource for youth education, the public. to Junebug Productions are presented emerging artist support and community The Arts Center works with community in performance residencies to support partnership; and a neighborhood destination partners to develop goals and priorities for each its community engagement, leadership accelerating the transformation of Pittsburgh’s season. Program coordinators attend booking development and social justice objectives. East Liberty as a destination for art, culture and conferences and related events, then research economic opportunity. house capacity: 200 performing artists, other presenters and house capacity: 350 commissioning organizations. The staff makes the final selections based on input provided by community partners, audience members and colleagues in the field. The Arts Center presents a variety of performing arts disciplines, including contemporary dance, dance theatre, world music and contemporary theatre by local, national and international artists. At least one community-based performing arts commission is also presented each year. house capacity: 187 PARTNERS
PARTNERS: • NPN • VAN 109 this page Generations (residency at Mashpee School) Ty DeFoe Photos: Goodloox Photography
110 NPN/VAN 2016-2017 ANNUAL REPORT AND DIRECTORY • • •• King Arts Complex La Peña Cultural Legion Arts Center 867 Mount Vernon Avenue 1103 Third Street SE Columbus, OH 43203-1411 Cedar Rapids, IA 52401-2305 3105 Shattuck Avenue 614.645.0643 319.364.1580 Berkeley, CA 94705 www.thekingartscomplex.com [email protected] 510.849.2568 Jevon Collins // performing arts director www.legionarts.org www.lapena.org [email protected] F. John Herbert // executive director Roberto Leni // program director The King Arts Complex is located in the oldest [email protected] [email protected] area of African-American life in Columbus, Mel Andringa // producing director Ohio. The Complex preserves, presents and Paul Chin // interim director [email protected] [email protected] fosters the contributions of African-Americans Legion Arts began in the 1980s as The Drawing through creative expression and education. La Peña promotes social justice and cultural Legion, producing original performance works The Complex has built artistically strong understanding through the arts, education and under the direction of Mel Andringa and F. offerings that represent the spectrum of the community action. Annually, La Peña presents John Herbert. Since 1991, the organization performing and cultural arts, establishing it over 200 events with emerging and established has been known as Legion Arts and has been as a primary African-American institution in music, theater, dance, multi-disciplinary, literary, based at CSPS, a century-old former Czech Ohio. The Complex houses three performance video and visual artists, produces new works social hall near downtown Cedar Rapids, Iowa. spaces, two dance studios, an art gallery and by local artists, presents internationally and In addition to generating original productions, three permanent interactive learning areas. nationally renown artists, offers ongoing free Legion Arts now manages CSPS as a regional The Complex sponsors community events in and low-cost art classes for youth and adults, center for contemporary arts, hosting up to 20 the adjacent public park and hosts a variety and houses a Latin American café. exhibits and 70 performing arts events each of education programs. Artist selection and Each year La Peña staff, in conjunction with its year. Through artist-based partnerships, Legion review is a year-round process. The traditional board and input from the community, set the Arts is also involved in advocacy, education and performing arts season runs September programming plan. Selection of artists for NPN community development initiatives. through June, with artist selections finalized by residencies comes out of this process, which the prior April. Independent, nonprofit and fiercely multi- is active and continuous. Artists speak to us disciplinary, Legion Arts is a vigorous and Permanent and traveling exhibits are selected about their ideas, and we approach artists with varied grassroots presenter, tending to exhibit for the educational and aesthetic content that our ideas about community programming. La emerging visual artists or established artists fits the mission of the King Arts Complex. Peña presents all disciplines with a focus on whose work is moving in a new direction. We A team comprised of the program director, music, theater and multi-disciplinary work, as generally book performing artists (especially program associate, curator, and education our space is limited for dance presenting. musicians) who already have engagements in director research the content matter of house capacity: 180 the area. We are also able to bring in regional, exhibitions as well as the artists who develop national and, on occasion, international artists them. This process presents the opportunity for residencies and special projects. We have to bring powerful African-American and had over 200 exhibits at CSPS; nearly a third multicultural art to the Greater Columbus and of those have been site-specific. Proposals Central Ohio community. are accepted on an ongoing basis, and we’re house capacity: 444 always happy to hear from artists we’re not familiar with. Send an artist’s statement and work sample (old-school slides, CD/DVD, website), then update us regularly about what you’re doing. house capacity: 220 PARTNERS
PARTNERS: • NPN • VAN 111 • • • Links Hall Living Arts of Tulsa Los Angeles Contemporary 3111 North Western Avenue 307 East Brady Street Chicago, IL 60618-6409 Tulsa, OK 74120 Exhibitions / LACE 773.281.0824 918.585.1234 [email protected] www.livingarts.org 6522 Hollywood Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90028-6210 www.linkshall.org Steve Liggett // artistic director Roell Schmidt // director [email protected] 323.957.1777 [email protected] Renee Nordholm // technical director www.welcometolace.org Anna Trier // residency & production director [email protected] Sarah Russin // executive director [email protected] Living Arts has been steadfast in its mission to [email protected] Links Hall encourages artistic innovation and present and develop contemporary art forms in Fiona Ball // programs manager public engagement by maintaining a facility Tulsa since 1969. With the goal of stimulating [email protected] and providing flexible programming for the new cross-disciplinary artworks, Living Arts LACE fosters artists who innovate, experiment, research, development and presentation of new provides additional research and development explore and risk. We move within and beyond work in the performing arts. Links Hall presents space for an Artist in Residence Program at our four walls to provide opportunities a wide-ranging program of local, national and Liggett Studio. Proposals are accepted on an for diverse publics to engage deeply with international dance and performance, and ongoing basis; this space is given to artists at contemporary art. In doing so, we further provides important services to artists. Multi- no charge for three to six weeks to develop dialogue between, and participation among, disciplinary work infuses our programming. The new works. Artists are encouraged to engage artists and those audiences. Since 1978, LACE intent is for artists and audiences to develop community members with their research and has nurtured several generations of young enthusiasm, lively discussion and context development of new works and are asked to and under-recognized artists, and championed for dance and performance as complex and give a workshop and/or performance at the end newly emerging art forms such as installation- meaningful cultural expression. of their time in Tulsa. based work, performance art and video art. Since its inception, Links Hall has presented Living ArtSpace incorporates a 5,500 sq. ft. LACE programs reflect the organization’s literally thousands of local, national and gallery/performance space, two smaller abiding interest in the creative process as much international artists, and thousands of artists installation spaces, a sprung wood dance floor/ as the product. We believe this transforms have used our space to create, rehearse, learn, performance space, an educational/workshop the art experience from passive to active. explore and grow. Fundamental to our mission space, a media space and, of course, a bar. LACE understands the importance of making is provision of inexpensive space for artists to Performance, dance, spoken word, music, visual time for artists to encounter each other rehearse, teach and present new work. Our and media artists are chosen through invitation and work together in a peer-to-peer setting. programming committee (which includes and by proposal review by our artistic director This environment allows for discovery and strong artist representation) sets strategy and and programming committees. Proposal details collaboration with time and space to bring direction for the artistic development of Links are on our website. together artists and audiences. Hall, and selects guest curators and artists for house capacity: 250 commissions and residencies. house capacity: 75
112 NPN/VAN 2016-2017 ANNUAL REPORT AND DIRECTORY • • • Maui Arts & McColl Center for Art MDC Live Arts / Miami Cultural Center + Innovation Dade College
One Cameron Way 721 North Tryon Street 300 NE Second Avenue Kahului, HI 96732-1137 Charlotte, NC 28202-2221 Miami, FL 33132-2204 808.242.2787 704.332.5535 305.237.3010 [email protected] www.mccollcenter.org [email protected] www.mauiarts.org Suzanne Fetscher // president www.mdclivearts.org Colleen Furukawa // vice president of [email protected] Kathryn Garcia // executive director programming Susan Jedrzejewski // program director, [email protected] [email protected] innovation institute Jenni Person // managing producer Kahulu Maluo // cultural program director [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Located in a retrofitted Gothic Revival church, MDC Live Arts has a celebrated history Maui Arts & Cultural Center (MACC) is the McColl Center for Art + Innovation empowers of bringing exceptional national and most comprehensive multi-disciplinary arts artists to advance contemporary art and international performing artists to Miami. center in Hawaii, with five theaters—from a community through the creative process. Annually, it produces a diverse series of stellar 5,000-seat amphitheater to a 250-seat black The Center believes artists and art are performances, presenting today’s most exciting box and pa (hula stage), all accessible to people catalysts for change. We promote the public artists while creating meaningful encounters with disabilities. Annually more than 200,000 understanding of the value of artists to society. between these artists, the students of MDC, people attend 1,700+ events. Since opening in McColl Center advances its mission through and the community through workshops and 1994, MACC has become the only arts presenter Artists-in-Residence, Exhibitions, Community residency activities. We seek artists from across in Hawaii that produces a diverse range of Engagement, and the Innovation Institute. the globe who represent a diverse range of offerings year-round, bringing high-quality Artists-in-Residence (AIRs) are the Center’s voices and forms that push boundaries, honors artists from around the world, as well as core program. Emerging, mid-career, and traditions relevant to our multicultural, multi- the finest from throughout the state. Forty established artists are invited to be in residence lingual community, and introduces voices from percent of our diverse and multicultural season for one to eleven months. A total of 12 to 18 beyond the region. offerings are free to our community. artists are in residence annually at the Center. The program’s primary goal is to engage the We present a wide range of genres: work that is Since it opened in 1999, the Center has hosted public directly with the arts, providing new easily accessible, work that pushes boundaries, more than 400 AIRs. Our business model and opportunities for profound and meaningful authentic work of Hawaii‘ and the Oceanic our broad network of partnerships enhance arts experiences. MDC Live Arts offers regions of the Pacific, work that reflects the our ability to directly address issues critical programming that challenges audiences in stories and cultures of Maui’s multi-ethnic to Charlotte’s future through facilitated order to increase awareness and understanding populations, and popular entertainment relationships with area institutions. of diverse cultures and points of view. With that draws a broad-based local audience. each of our presentations, we offer a bridge Comprehensive residency activities reach nearly between cultures and ideas, creating new 9,400 residents (6 percent of our population). opportunities for the increasingly diverse MACC has commissioned and produced new population of Miami to come together through work by Hawaiian artists who have toured shared live arts experiences. statewide, nationally and internationally. house capacity: 100-400 Annually more than 17,000 students and 500 classroom teachers participate in MACC’s nationally recognized arts education programs. house capacity: 250 PARTNERS
PARTNERS: • NPN • VAN 113 • •• • Miami Light Project Movimiento de Arte Multicultural y Cultura Latino Education and P.O. Box 1048 Miami, FL 33137-1048 Americana / MACLA Counseling through 305.576.4350 the Arts / MECA [email protected] 510 South First Street www.miamilightproject.com San José, CA 95113-2806 1900 Kane Street artistic & executive director 408.998.2783 Beth Boone // Houston, TX 77007-7611 [email protected] [email protected] 713.802.9370 Terrence Brum // program manager www.maclaarte.org [email protected] [email protected] Anjee Helstrup-Alvarez // executive director www.meca-houston.org Founded in 1989, Miami Light Project presents [email protected] Estevan Azcona // performance & residency live performances by innovative dance, music Joey Reyes // curator of engagement director and theater artists from around the world, & dialogue [email protected] supports the development of new work [email protected] by South Florida-based artists, and offers Alice E. Valdez // executive director Sharon Benítez // performing arts educational programs for students of every [email protected] engagement coordinator age. Miami Light Project is a cultural forum [email protected] MECA is committed to the healthy to explore some of the issues that define development of underserved youth and adults MACLA is an inclusive contemporary arts space contemporary society. through arts and cultural programming, grounded in the Chicano/Latino experience In 2010, Miami Light Project established The academic excellence, support services, and that incubates new visual, literary and Light Box at Goldman Warehouse as our community building. A Latino-based multi- performance art in order to engage people in permanent home, a center for creativity and disciplinary and multicultural arts organization, civic dialogue and community transformation. innovation in the heart of the Wynwood MECA has been a leader in providing culturally- Founded in 1989 as the result of a broad Arts District and a space where new work based arts education for youth for almost 40 mobilization in the City of San José and is experienced in its various stages of years from its home in the Old Sixth Ward nationwide on behalf of multicultural arts, development. At The Light Box we partner Historic District of Houston. MECA also offers MACLA promotes a vision of arts programming with artists and the neighborhood to create live performances and visual art exhibitions as a vehicle for social equity. More than 30,000 programming including workshops, open by local, national, and international artists people of all ages participate in the fifty rehearsals, performances, encounters with through the MECA Performing Arts series. programs each year. artists, informal exhibitions, arts camps for MECA Performing Arts is a platform that We commission at least one significant youth, international cultural exchange and convenes community through the arts and performance every year to further the field of research opportunities among and across encourages dialogue about issues ranging contemporary Latino art. We also support local, disciplines. Our space provides a creative from social justice and equity to diversity and regional and national artists rooted in a hybrid setting in which artists are able to interact with community transformation. From incubating aesthetic that mixes pertinent societal issues, audiences in new ways. works in progress to presenting local and popular culture and sociological interests with house capacity: 200 touring artists, MECA seeks to work with established art forms. innovative and socially engaged artists whose Gallery exhibitions feature innovative work work expands the boundaries of tradition by artists in various points of their careers, and practice. MECA is especially interested in in a range of media. Thematically, MACLA’s projects that bring to light the experiences exhibitions deal with issues of particular of life on the margins of societies, economies, societal urgency: labor, politics, gender, identity, and cultures. sexuality, globalization and immigration. MACLA house capacity: 200 also has an annual priority to commission new work in the visual arts. Commissions include financial support, an exhibition at our gallery and a catalog to further the lifespan of the exhibition and contribute to the larger field of contemporary art. house capacity: 110
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VAN • NPN • PARTNERS: PARTNERS: this page this page Agua Furiosa Ana Maria Alvarez / CONTRA-TIEMPO Photos: SteveWylie (top), Alfonso Gomez (bottom) • • • Museum of Museum of Myrna Loy Center / Contemporary African Contemporary Art, Helena Presents Diasporan Arts Chicago 15 North Ewing Helena, MT 59601-4254 80 Hanson Place 220 East Chicago Avenue 406.443.0287 Brooklyn, NY 11217-2998 Chicago, IL 60611-2643 www.myrnaloycenter.com 718.230.0492 312.280.2660 Krys Holmes // executive director www.mocada.org [email protected] [email protected] Cherise Jones // operations & www.mcachicago.org Errol Koch // live performance curator finance director Yolanda Cesta Cursach // interim director of [email protected] [email protected] performance programs The Myrna Loy Center for Performing & Media Allison Davis // associate artistic director [email protected] Arts presents contemporary indie films and [email protected] John Rich // manager of performance performing arts of all disciplines, supports programs The Museum of Contemporary African the creation of new works by Montana state, [email protected] Diasporan Arts (MoCADA) uses the visual regional, and national artists, and nurtures a arts as a point of departure for exploring The mission of the Museum of Contemporary lifelong love of the arts through arts education new artistic production across a variety Art (MCA) is to be an innovative and compelling and residencies. of disciplines. Through exhibitions and center of contemporary art where the public The Myrna Loy is one of the nation's premier programming, MoCADA incites dialogue on can directly experience the work and ideas of rural arts organizations, presenting 20-30 pressing social and political issues facing living artists and understand the historical, performances per year to audiences in the the African Diaspora, and fosters a dynamic social and cultural context of the art of high mountain valley of Central Montana. space for the creation and continuous our time. The museum boldly interweaves Housed in a historic county jail, the Myrna Loy evolution of culture. exhibitions, performances, collections and Center focuses on community engagement educational programs to excite, challenge and Focusing on contemporary issues impacting and connecting Montana audiences with the illuminate our visitors and to provide insight people of the African diaspora, MoCADA serves national creative conversation. The Myrna is into the creative process. The MCA aspires to people of all generations, with an emphasis a multi-discipline/hybrid house with small engage a broad and diverse audience, create on underserved communities of color, through audience bases for many different works. a sense of community and be a place for a diverse range of exhibitions, education and When grant support allows, the Myrna Loy contemplation, stimulation and discussion community programs. Center will bring experimental/cutting edge about contemporary art and culture. work to Montana. The MCA presents more than 20 different house capacity: 250 projects yearly involving close to 100 performances in dance, theater, music and interdisciplinary performance. MCA champions U.S., international and Chicago-based artists and pursues innovation, collaboration and community engagement. Audience-engaged residency activities are integrated with the public performances. The performing arts programming actively promotes diversity, featuring the voices of culturally and racially diverse artists. The MCA works with arts and community cultural organizations to co- organize and co-present about one-third of the performing arts programs, thereby utilizing the MCA as a shared resource for the city. house capacity: 292
116 NPN/VAN 2016-2017 ANNUAL REPORT AND DIRECTORY • • • New York Live Arts On the Boards Outpost Productions
219 West 19th Street P.O. Box 19515 P.O. Box 4543 New York, NY 10011-4001 Seattle, WA 98109-1515 Albuquerque, NM 87196-4543 212.691.6500 206.217.9886 505.268.0044 www.newyorklivearts.org [email protected] www.outpostspace.org Janet Wong // associate artistic director www.ontheboards.org Tom Guralnick // executive director [email protected] Lane Czaplinski // artistic director [email protected] Isabella Hreljanovic // senior producer [email protected] Alicia Ultan // publicity & sponsorship [email protected] Sarah Wilke // managing director coordinator Located in the heart of Chelsea in New York [email protected] [email protected] City, New York Live Arts is an internationally Founded by artists in 1978, the mission of On Established in 1988, Outpost Productions is recognized destination for innovative the Boards (OtB) is to introduce audiences based at The Outpost Performance Space, movement-based artistry offering audiences to international innovators in contemporary Albuquerque’s nonprofit, member-supported, access to art and artists notable for their dance, theater and music while developing 160-seat Performing Arts Center. Outpost conceptual rigor, formal experimentation and and presenting new work by Northwest also presents in larger venues in Albuquerque active engagement with the social, political performing artists. and Santa Fe, notably during the New Mexico and cultural currents of our times. At the center As one of the leading organizations of our size Jazz Festival. Outpost presents 100 concerts of this identity is Bill T. Jones, artistic director, a and focus in the U.S., OtB produces unique annually—jazz, experimental, folk and roots, world-renowned choreographer, dancer, theater performance projects by leading artists and spoken word, teen nights and more—plus director and writer. creates one-of-a-kind experiences for our classes for youth and adults. Outpost hosts We commission, produce and present audiences. We program approximately 12-15 visual arts exhibits in its Inpost Artspace. performances in our 20,000 sq. ft. home, which productions per year from September through While an important presenter of touring includes a 184-seat theater and two 1,200 sq. June. We present contemporary performance acts, Outpost also remains committed ft. studios. Each year, nearly 100 performances from all disciplines; typically companies to supporting locally-based performers. are presented in our theater, and our annual are in residence for one week. Production Dedicated to a mission of linking with other season includes world premieres of works residencies and commissions are selected organizations, Outpost collaborates with an commissioned by New York Live Arts through on a case-by-case basis as part of our overall ever-growing number of partners. the Dance Theater Workshop Commissioning programming curation. OtB is committed to Founding executive director Tom Guralnick Fund. New York Live Arts also supports the a range of resources and events that provide makes booking decisions with the active continuing professional development of artists. in-depth information and complimentary social input of staff, presenting partners, artists and We have a deep commitment to continuing experiences to frame the art on our stages community members. Outpost seasons run Dance Theater Workshop’s legacy of developing and create dynamic access for our audiences. from October to December; March to May; and choreographic talent, supporting many of the Alongside our live performances we also create June to August. Booking decisions are made country’s most outstanding choreographers and distribute films of full-length performance anywhere from 18 to 24 months in advance of long before they became well known. The 2014- through our OntheBoards.tv initiative. each season. Interested performers should send 15 season marked its 30th year of programmatic house capacities: 86 and 300 inquiries to Tom Guralnick. support, having supported more than 700 house capacity: 160 projects and more than 1,000 independent artists through our Fresh Tracks program. house capacity: 184 PARTNERS
PARTNERS: • NPN • VAN 117 • • • Painted Bride Pangea World Theater Performance Space 122 Art Center 711 West Lake Street, Suite 101 67 West Street, #315 Minneapolis, MN 55408-3357 Brooklyn, NY 11222 230 Vine Street 612.822.0015 212.477.5829 Philadelphia, PA 19106-1213 www.pangeaworldtheater.org www.ps122.org 215.925.9914 Meena Natarajan // executive & Vallejo Gantner // artistic director www.paintedbride.org literary director [email protected] Laurel Raczka // executive director [email protected] Benjamin Kimitch // senior creative producer [email protected] Adlyn Carreras // office manager & [email protected] Cheyenne Barboza // program manager ensemble member Performance Space 122 (PS122) is one of New [email protected] [email protected] York’s ultimate destinations for cutting-edge For over 40 years, the Painted Bride, located Pangea World Theater illuminates the human theatre, dance, music, live art and multimedia. in Old City Philadelphia, has offered a space condition, celebrates cultural differences PS122 is dedicated to supporting and presenting like no other to experience leading-edge and promotes human rights by creating and artists who explore innovative form and contemporary artists with distinct voices that presenting international, multi-disciplinary provocative content and who rigorously reflect the rich cultural mosaic of our city. theater. Pangea constitutes a vital new force challenge the boundaries of contemporary The Bride’s mission is to “collaborate with in American theater, bringing an international performance. PS122 is committed to a steadfast emerging and established artists to create, perspective to the Twin Cities’ community. search for pioneering artists from a diversity of produce and present innovative work that Since its founding in 1995, Pangea has been cultures, nations and beliefs. affirms the intrinsic value of all cultures and dedicated to the production and presentation For 30 years, PS122 has been a hub for celebrates the transformative power of the of work that brings together people from contemporary performance and an active arts. Through performances and exhibitions, different backgrounds and ethnicities, and member of the East Village, as well as the wider education and outreach, the Bride creates the contextualization of work by artists from cultural community in New York City and across a forum for engagement centered on all backgrounds for a multiracial audience. the globe. Under the curatorial vision of artistic contemporary social issues.” Our theater works, drawn from multiple director Vallejo Gantner, PS122 has raised the With a jam-packed season of jazz, world music, sources and multiple traditions, have always curtain on more than 2,500 performances, dance, theater, performance art, poetry/spoken challenged dominant European-American welcomed more than 125,000 visitors and word and educational and community events, paradigms and definitions of theater. As we supported the work of more than 2,000 artists, the Bride presents artists from around the create work that is truly inclusive in its scope performers, choreographers, playwrights, world and in the region. The bi-level gallery and artistic aesthetic, we are also developing a directors and designers. PS122 passionately offers exceptional exhibitions by artists who critical language to describe our work. We are advocates for U.S. artists in New York and across are breaking new ground in the visual arts. engaged in work that involves a cross-cultural the world. Our organization and the artists we Submissions are accepted on a rolling basis perspective, illuminating issues of social justice present are reclaiming their relevance to wider and are reviewed by curators and members and human rights. social discourse by engaging artists, audiences of the community. For Jazz on Vine and World The artistic and literary directors select the and other community leaders in cultural, Music programs, submit a CD, press kit and a artists we present. Members of the ensemble economic and environmental debates about self-addressed stamped envelope. For Dance and staff make recommendations. In addition, what it means to live in contemporary society. with the Bride and Performance in the Present we have created a community committee house capacity: 75 Tense, submit a video/DVD, resume, press kit that helps with audience development. The and SASE. For visual arts, submit a letter of selection process is ongoing. We prefer to intent, representative slides of the proposed see live work but documentation is also exhibition and a resume and references for the considered. Our aesthetic is not fixed; it curator’s consideration. includes the voices and artistic visions of house capacity: 200 multiple voices and realities. house capacity: 120
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VAN • NPN • PARTNERS: PARTNERS: ne of Us: Julie Atlas Muz & Mat Muz ne Fraser Atlas of Julie Us: Beauty and the Beast O Photo: Bozkurt Sin •• • • Portland Institute for Portland Ovations Pregones Theater Contemporary Art / 50 Monument Square, 2nd floor 571-575 Walton Avenue PICA Portland, ME 04101-4039 Bronx, NY 10451-5237 207.773.3150 718.585.1202 415 SW 10th Avenue, 3rd floor [email protected] [email protected] Portland, OR 97205 www.portlandovations.org www.pregones.org 503.242.1419 Aimée Petrin // executive director Alvan Colón-Lespier // associate artistic www.pica.org [email protected] director [email protected] Angela Mattox // artistic director Laura Stauffer // programming & [email protected] grants manager Arnaldo Lopez // development officer [email protected] [email protected] Kristan Kennedy //visual art curator [email protected] Since 1931, Portland Ovations has evolved from Pregones Theater is a Bronx-based ensemble an all-volunteer, classical music organization whose mission is to create and perform Erin Boberg Doughton // performing arts into one of New England’s leading multi- original musical theater and plays rooted in program director disciplinary presenters. Ovations curates an Puerto Rican/Latino cultures, and to present [email protected] annual season of 20-25 public performances; other performing artists who share our twin Founded in 1995, PICA’s mission is to five to eight school-time performances; and commitment to the arts and civic enrichment. acknowledge and advance ideas in more than 120 collaborative community and Founded in 1979, the company is known contemporary art. Through exhibitions, school-based education/outreach activities. for creating plays with dynamic visual and performances, artist residencies, publications Ovations supports artist from Maine and rhythmic character, mining connections and educational programs, PICA enables artists across the country in the creation of new work between theater and popular culture, and and audiences alike to push the limits of through regular co-commissioning. Ovations galvanizing multiple generations of artists artistic expression and provocative ideas that is committed to excellence and diversity of and theater-goers. Flagship programs are illuminate life in the here and now. PICA’s main programming, bringing the enjoyment of Mainstage, Presenting, Education and Touring. program is the annual TBA (Time-Based Art) the performing arts to the broadest possible Since 2005 Pregones operates its own Festival which brings together a remarkable audience and enhancing the understanding professional theater in the heart of the South group of artists from around the nation and of our world’s cultural traditions. Our goal is to Bronx Cultural Corridor. the world for ten days of thoughtful, innovative make the arts available to all who seek them, Pregones presents artists working in theater, and inspiring performances that address the while promoting the importance of the arts in dance, music and related disciplines. The cultures, aesthetics, issues and ideas of today. nourishing a vibrant, respectful community. primary goal of our Presenting program is to PICA presents artists whose work draws on the Artists are chosen for their artistic excellence give a diverse home audience an opportunity vast and varied traditions of theatre, dance, but also for a body of work that enables to sample the full range of contemporary performance, media and visual art, building Ovations to move offstage and into its performing arts. Artist compatibility with our on these to create new forms, often defying community, allowing for meaningful mission is crucial in the selection process, as are categorization. Artistic director Angela Mattox, interaction between artist and audience. scheduling and budget. along with Erin Boberg Doughton and Kristan Ovations uses an inclusive approach to house capacity: 124 and 190 Kennedy, curate PICA’s programs. Work is programming to attain a season that is reviewed on an ongoing basis, and festivals are diverse in its offerings and geared toward programmed one to two years in advance. Staff various audiences. Staff, board, community invites artists for residencies and commissions partners and patrons all have some input on on a case-by-case basis; there is no formal the decision, which is ultimately made by the submission process. executive director. house capacity: 250 house capacities: 500 and 1,000
120 NPN/VAN 2016-2017 ANNUAL REPORT AND DIRECTORY • • • Project Row Houses Real Art Ways RedLine
2521 Holman Street 56 Arbor Street 2350 Arapahoe Street Houston, TX 77004-4247 Hartford, CT 06106-1228 Denver, CO 80205 713.526.7662 860.232.1006 303.296.4448 www.projectrowhouses.org www.realartways.org www.redlineart.org Ryan N. Dennis // public art director Will K. Wilkins // executive director Louise Martorano // executive director [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Eureka Gilkey // executive director Amanda Baker // deputy director Robin Gallite // programs director [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Established in 1993, the mission of Project Founded in 1975, Real Art Ways is one of Founded by artist and philanthropist Laura Row Houses (PRH) is to be the catalyst the country’s early alternative arts spaces, Merage in 2008, RedLine’s mission is to be a for transforming community through the presenting and producing new and innovative diverse urban laboratory where art, education, celebration of art and African-American history work by emerging and established artists, and community converge. Our vision is to foster and culture. Its work is founded on the principle and serving as a crucial connection for forms of social practice in the arts that inspire that art, and the community that creates it, can audiences and artists regionally, nationally and inquiry and catalyze change. revitalize even the most depressed inner-city internationally. The organization has sustained RedLine also connects artists with the neighborhoods. Through the power of art, PRH itself through committed support for new ideas community. RedLine encourages artistic has established programs that encompass and disciplines and has steadily built a diverse growth in our two-year residency program that arts and culture, neighborhood revitalization, and unique audience that crosses lines of race, provides an environment where artists can low-income housing, education, historic sexual orientation, economics and age. cross the red line to lose the inhibitions that preservation and community service. Real Art Ways is a contemporary art space with may hold an artist back, while gaining support For the past 20 years, PRH has presented the a special link to its own community. With films, systems to excite the senses and realize one’s work of over 300 culturally diverse professional concerts, performances, readings, exhibitions dreams. Artists are required to share their artists from around the corner and around the and a lounge where people gather before and experiences and their personal creativity with world. PRH’s arts programming includes seven after events, Real Art Ways is a unique place for the community as part of their residency. installation spaces that rotate twice a year, four people of widely varying backgrounds to come on-site artist studios, three artist residency together around art and ideas. Depending spaces, class and workshop spaces, one on the event, the audience at Real Art Ways community exhibition space and permanent can range from suburban grandmothers to art installations throughout the property. It transgendered patrons, from area business seeks to shift the view of art from traditional people to urban teens, from well-respected studio practice to a more conceptual base of artists to inquisitive children. transforming the social environment through a creative process. PARTNERS
PARTNERS: • NPN • VAN 121 • • Roy and Edna Disney, Sandglass Theater CalArts Theater / P.O. Box 970 REDCAT Putney, VT 05346-0970 802.387.4051 631 West 2nd Street [email protected] Los Angeles, CA 90012-2599 www.sandglasstheater.org 213.237.2800 Eric Bass // co-artistic director [email protected] [email protected] www.redcat.org Shoshana Bass // curator Mark Murphy // executive director [email protected] [email protected] Our mission is to present, develop and support Edgar Miramontes // associate director innovative theatrical work, to provide our [email protected] audience with a broad interpretation of theater, and to encourage dialogue across REDCAT, a center for contemporary performing, ages and cultures. Sandglass is a touring visual and media arts, introduces diverse company dedicated to the use of the puppet audiences and artists to the most influential as a theatrical medium, often in collaboration developments in the arts from throughout the with artists and composers to explore identity, world and provides Los Angeles artists with memory and relationship to place. We are opportunities to develop new work. Opened interested in other media, current issues in 2003 by the California Institute of the Arts, and a range of ensemble theater forms and REDCAT is located in the Frank Gehry-designed processes. We have been presenting guest Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los artists since 1996, including an annual series Angeles. REDCAT features a flexible black in our 60-seat barn theater and a biannual box performance space and a 3,000 sq. ft. international puppet festival in local venues. exhibition space. Located in a small village in southern Vermont, REDCAT’s programming values artists we serve a rural extended community of who blur the boundaries between artistic about 30,000. There is strong interest in disciplines, cross international borders in multicultural, urban and world affairs; much of their collaborations, experiment with artistic our programming is focused on current issues traditions and invent or use new technology in around multi-cultural identity and diversity. We developing new forms of expression. Each year present an annual theme-based series, Voices as many as 200 events are presented, including of Community, which develops an extended performances, screenings, discussions, readings dialogue over several weeks around cultural and exhibitions. Most performing artists are identities and a biannual International puppet selected 12 to 18 months in advance. The gallery Festival, among other series and events. director and curator program the exhibitions. house capacity: 60 house capacity: 230
Eleven Reflections on September Andrea Assaf Photo: Courtesy of LaMaMa • • • Skirball South Dallas Cultural Space One Eleven Cultural Center Center 2409 Second Avenue North Birmingham, AL 35203-3809 2701 North Sepulveda Boulevard 3400 South Fitzhugh Avenue 205.328.0553 Los Angeles, CA 90049-6833 Dallas, TX 75210-2572 www.spaceoneeleven.org 310.440.4500 214.939.2787 Peter Prinz // ceo & co-founder [email protected] www.dallasculture.org/SDCulturalCenter [email protected] www.skirball.org Harold Steward // manager Cheryl Lewis // director of programs Amina Sanchez // associate director, [email protected] program department [email protected] Daniel Hanchett// Founded in 1986, Space One Eleven (SOE)’s [email protected] interim performing arts coordinator mission is to support visual artists by a Andy Horwitz // vice president & [email protected] commitment to artistic freedom, by paying director of programs The Center’s program places a high value on professional artist fees and by providing [email protected] works that explore contemporary issues facing opportunities for artists to exhibit and teach. The mission of the Skirball Cultural Center the African world community, particularly SOE presents innovative contemporary art by is to explore the connections between those that seek to inform the audience about diverse artists who address universal themes Jewish heritage and the vitality of American the inter-relatedness of people of color. SDCC through the lens of Birmingham, Alabama’s democratic ideals. Skirball presents the commissions work from local artists through history and its meaning to the world, providing experience of the Jewish people—their its Diaspora Performing Arts Commissioning a forum for public understanding and traditions, aspirations and values—as a Project and sponsors the annual South Dallas appreciation of contemporary art. metaphor for the experience of all immigrant Dance Festival. Space One Eleven’s curatorial team invites groups that journey to the U.S. We seek to The 34,000 sq. ft. facility features a black box artists and curators to organize projects that welcome and inspire people of every ethnic and theater, two visual arts galleries, studios for are challenging and that prompt discussions cultural identity in American life. Guided by our dance, 2- and 3-dimensional arts and digital of current social, artistic and cultural issues. respective memories and experiences, together photography, a digital recording studio with a SOE encourages artists to investigate the role we aim to build a society in which all of us Pro Tools system and a video production studio that the Deep South plays in political matters can feel at home. Skirball achieves its mission with Final Cut Pro editing systems. such as economic disparity, equal access to through the display and interpretation of the house capacity: education and healthcare, immigration, gender museum’s permanent collection and changing 100 equity and aging. Exhibitions and visual art exhibitions, scholarship and publications, installations take place in the gallery and outreach to the community, a nationally- storefront windows. Art education activities are recognized school outreach program, and held in the pottery and multi-media studios. public programs for adults and families that explore literary, visual and performing arts from around the world. Skirball presents performances, concerts, lectures, media programs, conversations and other events that illuminate our mission. We debut work from groundbreaking national and international artists and thinkers who engage, challenge and inspire. Our presentations are frequently linked to topics that are associated with our museum
exhibitions or other themes that Skirball PARTNERS examines in response to our mission. house capacity: 300
PARTNERS: • NPN • VAN 123 • • • Straz Center for the Su Teatro The Theater Offensive Performing Arts 721 Santa Fe Drive 565 Boylston Street, 3rd Floor Denver, CO 80204-4428 Boston, MA 02116-3601 1010 North MacInnes Place 303.296.0219 617.661.1600 Tampa, FL 33602-3720 www.suteatro.org [email protected] 813.222.1000 Tony Garcia // executive artistic director www.thetheateroffensive.org [email protected] [email protected] Abe Rybeck // executive artistic director www.strazcenter.org Tanya Mote // associate director [email protected] Chrissy Hall // director of programming [email protected] Evelyn Francis // director of programs [email protected] Su Teatro Cultural and Performing Arts Center’s [email protected] Donna McBride // senior director of grants & mission is to promote, produce, develop The Theater Offensive creates innovative government relations and preserve the cultural arts, heritage, and artistic/activist programs in diverse lesbian, gay, [email protected] traditions of the Chicano/Latino community, to bisexual and transgender (queer) communities. The Straz Center is more than a beautiful advance mutual respect for other cultures, and Growing out of a guerrilla theater troupe in riverside facility with five theaters (from to establish avenues where all cultures may 1989, we became a charter Resident Theater 2,600 to 100 seats) and an on-site, accredited come together. Su Teatro, the resident theater Company at the Boston Center for the Arts performing arts conservatory. We are also company born out of the Chicano Civil Rights in 1993. The Theater Offensive’s OUT In a presenting, producing and educating Movement, is the third-oldest Chicano theatre Your Neighborhood strategy covers all our institution, a community resource, and the in the U.S. While having a strong theatrical programming. We work with and within the cultural cornerstone for the Tampa Bay region. bent, Su Teatro also presents music, poetry, Boston neighborhoods of Roxbury, Dorchester, We present and produce the highest- visual and film artists. Jamaica Plain and the South End to create quality, most diverse performing arts and Artist collaborators are programmed into Su relevant performances, then collaborate with arts education programs available. Our Teatro’s season that also includes the Chicano neighbors, businesses and community groups programming serves more than 500,000 Music Festival and the Neruda Poetry Festival. to present works locally. The population we people with over 2,500 events each year Artist collaborators fit within the Chicano serve is about two-thirds people of color, which including Broadway tours, grand opera, aesthetic and represent an emerging vision of is reflected in our staff and the artists we contemporary dance, theater, ballet, music, the Latino World experience. Residencies are present. Each NPN residency artist we present cultural programs and artist residencies. Our structured within the curriculum of Su Teatro’s works inside our neighborhoods to develop resident opera and theater companies produce Cultural Arts Education Institute. relevant shows. performances not otherwise available. Our arts house capacity: house capacity: 250 250 education programs serve over 50,000 children and adults each year, and include educational performances and on-site training as well as extensive off-site outreach to more than 25 partnering Title I schools, service agencies, shelters, hospitals and community centers. house capacity: 100-250
124 NPN/VAN 2016-2017 ANNUAL REPORT AND DIRECTORY • • • Tigertail Productions Walker Art Center Wexner Center for the Arts 842 NW 9th Court 1750 Hennepin Avenue Miami, FL 33136-3009 Minneapolis, MN 55403 1871 North High Street 305.324.4337 612.375.7624 Columbus, OH 43210-1393 www.tigertail.org www.walkerart.org 614.292.6190 Mary Luft // executive director Philip Bither // mcguire senior curator, www.wexarts.org [email protected] performing arts Charles Helm // performing arts director John DeFaro // executive assistant [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Julie Voigt // senior program officer, performing arts Sarah Swinford // performing arts Founded in 1979, Tigertail serves South Florida’s program manager diverse artists and audiences. In our historical [email protected] [email protected] role as a catalyst and connector, we foster the An internationally respected contemporary transformative power of the performing, visual art center, the Walker is a catalyst for the Wexner Center for the Arts is a multi- and literary arts. Our mission is accomplished creative expression of artists and the disciplinary complex at The Ohio State through our culturally diverse programs for the active engagement of audiences. We take a University dedicated to the contemporary arts general public and persons with special needs, multi-disciplinary approach to the creation, and their audiences. With active programs in international exchange projects and festivals, presentation, interpretation, collection, and performing arts, visual arts, media arts, and educational and youth projects and service preservation of art. The Walker houses one education, the Center also serves as a creative projects. Our focus is on the new art of our time of the largest museum-based performing research laboratory, sponsoring commissions that reflects current directions and thinking. arts departments in the country and and creative residencies annually. In 2015/2016 the Wexner Center provided creative support Our artist selection is a creative, flexible annually supports dozens of commissions, for new productions by Improbable, Brian and evolutionary process. It is based on the developmental residencies, and presentations. Harnetty, and Faye Driscoll. curatorial eye of director Mary Luft, but is The McGuire Theater, opened in 2005, informed by a collection of national and serves not only as a stunning platform for We strive to provide unique arts experiences international artists and organizations. Tigertail presentations, but also as a working laboratory to the students of OSU, the Columbus commissions new work, produces a season of and production center, offering innovators community, and this region. Presenting global performing events, co-presents a mixed-ability the support, time, and resources to finish perspectives from international arts leaders is dance project, publishes an annual book of technically mounting large-scale work. a priority, as is providing contextual material poetry, produces a teen spoken word project The Walker commissions and presents new about the ideas that inform new work for and administers a professional development work on local, national, and international levels our audiences. Artists are selected for our grant program. Site selections are tailored to and continues to present a wide range of global performing arts season of dance, theater, and the art form and needs of the population being work. We support established and innovative music events by a curatorial process. addressed. Each site is distinct in terms of masters, mid-career artists and a range of house capacity: 114 location, size and demographics. emerging voices in contemporary dance, house capacities: 150-170 and 400-750 dance theater, experimental theater, new music-theater, performance art, new puppetry, avant-jazz, electronic music, contemporary classical music, international/global music and experimental pop/rock. We mainly select artists with whom we have ongoing relationships or those we have researched and sought out, but we remain open to receiving proposals and inquiries from artists who fit our mission and
who are forging new directions. PARTNERS house capacity: 385
PARTNERS: • NPN • VAN 125 •• • • Women & Their Work The Yard Youth Speaks / Living Word Project / Brave 1710 Lavaca Street 1 The Yard, P.O. Box 405 Austin, TX 78701-1316 Chilmark, MA 02535-0405 New Voices 512.477.1064 508.645.9662 www.womenandtheirwork.org [email protected] 1663 Mission Street, Suite 604 San Francisco, CA 94103-2400 Chris Cowden // executive director www.dancetheyard.org [email protected] David White // artistic director & 415.255.9035 executive producer Liberty Walker // gallery director www.youthspeaks.org [email protected] [email protected] Joan Osato // producing director executive director & Women & Their Work serves as a catalyst for Alison Manning // [email protected] co-producer new ideas in contemporary art. Our mission is Sean San Jose // artistic director [email protected] to foster the artistic growth of women visual [email protected] and performing artists by encouraging them to Founded in 1973 by late choreographer Patricia Youth Speaks creates safe spaces to empower take creative risks and make new, adventurous Nanon, The Yard promotes creation, education, the next generation of leaders, self-defined work. Since 1978, we have created significant and community building through artistic artists, and visionary activists through written opportunities for artists and audiences practices, specifically contemporary dance and and oral literacies. We challenge youth to find, to experience contemporary art through related collaborative forms, across the rural/ develop, publicly present, and apply their voices ambitious exhibitions, commissions of new island environment of Martha’s Vineyard. as creators of societal change. Founded in 1996, work, performances and programs that inform The Yard supports artists and their Youth Speaks is a multi-faceted organization audiences of all ages. Through these programs, instrumentality through paid creative research that believes that the power, insight, creativity, we seek to develop, educate and sustain and on-island residencies, public performances, and passion of young people can change audiences for the art of our time. and long-term educational application and the world. In addition to a wide variety of Known for our pioneering spirit and embrace community engagement across all ages and arts education, youth development, and civic of artistic innovation, Women & Their Work cultural populations. The Yard acts as an active engagement programs that serve thousands (W&TW) presents more than 50 events a year. collaborator with other leadership institutions each year in the Bay Area, we are the founders Our goal is to enrich and diversify the cultural in island/regional/national contexts to raise up of Brave New Voices, an annual event and ecosystem of Austin, of Texas, of the United a “culture of cultures” ecology that reflects — national network of young poets and youth States and beyond. W&TW reviews proposals and benefits — the life and times of the island development organizations, and the Emerging from performing artists throughout the year in of Martha’s Vineyard, and the nation. Arts Fellows Program which prepares fellows dance, music, theater, spoken word, multimedia house capacity: 100 for leadership and artistic opportunities in the work and performance art, usually scheduling performing arts field. for the following year. house capacity: 400 W&TW also presents ongoing exhibitions of visual art. We reserve five exhibitions a year for the work of Texas women artists and present two shows featuring national and international artists. We review proposals from non-Texas artists throughout the year, usually scheduling for the following year. We prefer that the dominant artistic voice be that of a woman; however, all performers need not be female to be presented here. house capacity: 150
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651 ARTS ...... 93 Links Hall ...... 112 7 Stages Theatre ...... 93 Living Arts of Tulsa ...... 112 Arab American National Museum ...... 94 Maui Arts & Cultural Center ...... 113 Art2Action ...... 94 MDC Live Arts / Miami Dade College ...... 113 ArtPower at UC San Diego ...... 95 Miami Light Project ...... 114 Ashé Cultural Arts Center / Efforts of Grace ...... 95 Movimiento de Arte y 114 Asian Arts Initiative ...... 95 Cultura Latino Americana (MACLA) ...... Bates Dance Festival ...... 96 Multicultural Education and Counseling through the Arts (MECA) ...... 114 Bunnell Street Arts Center ...... 96 Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago ...... 116 Carpetbag Theatre...... 96 Myrna Loy Center / Helena Presents ...... 116 Carver Community Cultural Center ...... 99 New York Live Arts ...... 117 Center for Community Arts Partnerships / 117 Columbia College Chicago ...... 99 On the Boards ...... 117 Central District Forum for Arts & Ideas ...... 99 Outpost Productions ...... 118 Contemporary Arts Center (Cincinnati) ...... 100 Painted Bride Art Center ...... 118 Contemporary Arts Center (New Orleans) ...... 100 Pangea World Theater ...... 118 Contemporary Dance Theater ...... 101 Performance Space 122...... Dance Place ...... 101 Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA) ...... 120 DiverseWorks ...... 102 Portland Ovations ...... 120 Florida Dance Association ...... 102 Pregones Theater ...... 120 Flynn Center for the Performing Arts ...... 102 Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater (REDCAT) ...... 122 Fusebox ...... 104 Sandglass Theater ...... 122 GALA Hispanic Theatre ...... 104 Skirball Cultural Center ...... 123 Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center ...... 104 South Dallas Cultural Center ...... 123 Hayti Heritage Center ...... 105 Straz Center for the Performing Arts ...... 124 Highways Performance Space & Gallery ...... 105 Su Teatro ...... 124 Intermedia Arts ...... 108 The Theater Offensive ...... 124 International Sonoran Desert Alliance (ISDA) ...... 108 Tigertail Productions ...... 125 John Michael Kohler Arts Center ...... 109 Walker Art Center ...... 125 Junebug Productions ...... 109 Wexner Center for the Arts ...... 125 Kelly Strayhorn Theater ...... 109 Women & Their Work...... 126 King Arts Complex ...... 111 The Yard ...... 126 La Peña Cultural Center ...... 111 Youth Speaks / Living Word Project / Legion Arts ...... 111 Brave New Voices ...... 126
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130 NPN/VAN 2016-2017 ANNUAL REPORT AND DIRECTORY INDEX 131 INDEX 93 95 95 94 101 102 114 116 105 113 111 123 121 121 121 126 112
108 120 100 ...... Alphabet 6 ARTS Ashé Cultural ArtsAshé Cultural / Efforts Center of Grace Coleman Center for the Arts the for Center Coleman Asian ArtsAsian Initiative by 51 VAn paRtneRS VAn All My Relations Arts Relations My All Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA) Real ArtReal Ways Project Houses Row Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts of ContemporaryMuseum Diasporan African RedLine Legion Arts Los (LACE) Contemporary Angeles Exhibitions Movimiento de ArteMovimiento y (MACLA) Latino Americana Cultura One Eleven Space McColl Center for Art for McColl Center + Innovation Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Museum Art Indianapolis DiverseWorks ...... Work. & Their Women Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Vibe Cultural Diaspora Incubator Hammonds House Museum Hammonds npn/VAn paRtneRS by reGion
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CT/ Hartford / Real Art Ways ...... 121 IA / Cedar Rapids / Legion Arts ...... 111 DC / Washington / Dance Place ...... 101 IL / Chicago / Center for Community Arts 99 DC / Washington / GALA Hispanic Theatre ...... 104 Partnerships / Columbia College Chicago ...... 112 MA / Boston / The Theater Offensive ...... 124 IL / Chicago / Links Hall ...... 116 MA / Chilmark / The Yard ...... 126 IL / Chicago / Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago .... ME / Lewiston / Bates Dance Festival ...... 96 IN / Indianapolis / Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art ...... 108 ME / Portland / Portland Ovations ...... 120 MI / Dearborn / Arab American National Museum ...... 94 NY / Bronx / Pregones Theater ...... 120 MN / Minneapolis / All My Relations Arts ...... 94 NY / Brooklyn / 651 ARTS ...... 93 MN / Minneapolis / Intermedia Arts ...... 108 NY / Brooklyn / Museum of Contemporary 118 African Diasporan Arts ...... 116 MN / Minneapolis / Pangea World Theater ...... 125 NY / New York / New York Live Arts ...... 117 MN / Minneapolis / Walker Art Center ...... 100 NY / New York / Performance Space 122 ...... 118 OH / Cincinnati / Contemporary Arts Center ...... 101 PA / Philadelphia / Asian Arts Initiative ...... 95 OH / Cincinnati / Contemporary Dance Theater ...... 111 PA / Philadelphia / Painted Bride Art Center ...... 118 OH / Columbus / King Arts Complex ...... 125 PA / Pittsburgh / Kelly Strayhorn Theater ...... 109 OH / Columbus / Wexner Center for the Arts ...... 112 VT / Burlington / Flynn Center for the OK / Tulsa / Living Arts of Tulsa ...... Performing Arts ...... 102 WI / Sheboygan / John Michael Kohler Arts Center ...... 109 VT / Putney / Sandglass Theater ...... 122
132 NPN/VAN 2016-2017 ANNUAL REPORT AND DIRECTORY INDEX 133 93 95 99 96 117 117 114 116 124 105 113 111 123 121 112 126 122 108 120 INDEX ...... WA / SeattleWA Boards / On the CA / Berkeley / La Peña Cultural Center CA / La Cultural / Berkeley Peña WeSteRn regIon WeSteRn Arts Street AK / Homer / Bunnell Center AZ / Ajo / International Sonoran DesertAZ / Ajo / International Alliance CA / La / ArtPower Jolla Diego at UCSan CA / Los / Los Angeles Angeles (LACE) Contemporary Exhibitions CA / Los Angeles / Roy and Edna Disney Disney CA Edna / Los and / Roy Angeles CalArts (REDCAT) Theatre CA / Los Angeles / Skirball Cultural Center Cultural CA / Los / Skirball Angeles CA / San Francisco / Youth Speaks / Youth CA Francisco / San NM / Albuquerque / 516 ARTS / Albuquerque NM WA / Seattle DistrictWA / Central Forum Arts for & Ideas HI / Kahului / Maui Arts Center / Maui & Cultural / Kahului HI MT / Helena / Myrna Loy Center / Helena Presents / Helena Loy / Myrna Center / Helena MT NM / Albuquerque / Outpost / Albuquerque NM Productions...... OR / Portland / Portland Institute Contemporary for Art (PICA) CO / Denver / Su Teatro / Su / Denver CO CA José de Arte / San / Movimiento y (MACLA) Latino Americana Cultura / RedLine / Denver CO CA Performance Space / Santa Monica / Highways & Gallery 93 95 94 99 96 101 102 102 114 114 124 105 105 113 113 125 123 123 121 126 104 104 109 100 100 ...... L / Birmingham / Space One Eleven / Space L / Birmingham TX / Fusebox / Austin TX / Austin / Women & Their Work & Their TX / Women / Austin TN / Knoxville / Carpetbag Theatre NC / Durham / Hayti HeritageNC / Durham Center TX / Dallas / South Dallas Cultural Center Cultural / South Dallas TX / Dallas TX / Houston / DiverseWorks TX / San Antonio / Guadalupe Cultural Arts Cultural Center TX / Guadalupe Antonio / San LA / Contemporary / New Orleans Arts Center LA Arts / Ashé Cultural / / New Orleans Center Efforts of Grace NC Art for / Charlotte / McColl Center + Innovation GA / Atlanta / Hammonds House Museum / Hammonds GA / Atlanta FL / Miami / Tigertail Productions / Miami FL SoutheRnregIon A FL / Miami / Miami Light Project Light / Miami / Miami FL LA Productions / Junebug / New Orleans FL / Tampa / Art2Action. / Tampa FL ...... Association Dance / Florida / Tampa FL GA / Atlanta / 7 Stages Theatre / 7 Stages GA / Atlanta AL / York / Coleman Center for the Arts the for Center / Coleman AL / York FL / Tampa / Straz Center for the the for Center / Straz / Tampa FL Arts Performing TX / Houston / Multicultural Education Education TX / Houston / Multicultural Arts the Through (MECA) Counseling and Center TX / Carver Antonio / San Cultural Community TX / Houston / Project Houses Row FL / Miami / Diaspora Vibe Cultural Arts Vibe Cultural / Diaspora Incubator / Miami FL FL / Miami / MDC Live Arts College Dade / Miami FL / Miami Teatro Linea de Sombra Photo: Pablo Maya
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COLLABORATION. COMMUNITY. CREATIVITY. tHe nAtional PerfORMance netWORK, IncluDIng tHe ViSual aRtIStS netWORK NPN/VAN cultivates collaborations among (npn/VAn), iS a grouP oF DIVerSe CultuRAL artists, communities, arts organizers and institutions that deepen the public’s orgAnizeRS AnD ARtIStS, WORKIng tO relationship with artistic practice. creAte MeAninGfuL PARtneRShiPS AnD NPN/VAN engages communities by supporting the ability of artists and tO pROVide leAdeRShiP tHat enAbleS the partners to participate more deeply with PraCtice AnD puBLic eXPeRience Of tHe varied communities, providing broad access to diverse cultural expression. artS in tHe unIteD StAteS.
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