Grantee Name: Society of the Third Street Music School Settlement Inc. Organization Popular Name: Third Street Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10003-7305 Amount: $15,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Learning Category: Art Works Project Description: To support staff and faculty costs for chamber music and ensemble programs. Additional Project Description: Students will participate in free or low-cost weekly instruction in chamber music, orchestra, band, rock, jazz, or chorus ensembles, as well as music theory classes and individual and group instruction. Students will study and perform a wide variety of music repertoire, including work of well-known classical and contemporary composers, original works by Third Street faculty and guest artists, and new student compositions. |
Grantee Name: ArtBridge Projects Inc Organization Popular Name: ArtBridge Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10001-5688 Amount: $10,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Challenge America Project Description: To support a temporary public art project. Additional Project Description: Professional artists will work with local middle school and high school students to create the artwork for installation. Student artwork will be photographed and reproduced on vinyl banners which will be installed along temporary scaffolding. |
Grantee Name: Soho Think Tank, Inc. Organization Popular Name: New Ohio Theatre Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10014-2840 Amount: $10,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Creation Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the Archive Residency program at the New Ohio Theatre. Additional Project Description: The program provides independent emerging ensemble companies with the resources to develop and premiere a new work. Ensembles are provided with development time and space, an opportunity to present at the Ice Factory summer festival, and a world premiere production in the New Ohio Theatre's mainstage season. The program features a guaranteed artist fee, professional press and marketing support, technical support, artistic and organizational mentoring, and the security of an institutional home. |
Grantee Name: Artists Alliance, Inc. Organization Popular Name: AAI Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10002-3391 Amount: $25,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support an exhibition program. Additional Project Description: Project activity will take place at the Cuchifritos Gallery in the Essex Street Market on New York's Lower East Side. Cuchifritos' curatorial program will provide exhibition opportunities for emerging and underrepresented artists, while supporting the independent voices of curators seeking to address current concerns in contemporary art and society. |
Grantee Name: St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Orchestra of St. Luke's, OSL Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10018-4016 Amount: $15,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support Orchestra of St. Luke's Subway Series of free chamber music. Additional Project Description: The orchestra will present ensembles of its musicians in hour-long performances throughout the city, featuring repertoire of chamber music from the Renaissance period to the present. Performances will take place in nontraditional and emerging art spaces, including locations in mass transit hubs, in all five boroughs of New York City. |
Grantee Name: Arts for Art, Inc. Organization Popular Name: N/A Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10002-3387 Amount: $20,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the Vision Festival, a jazz and multidisciplinary arts festival. Additional Project Description: The week-long festival will include dance, spoken-word, music, and visual arts, with an emphasis on jazz. Most of the participating artists will perform work within the improvisational free jazz aesthetic. |
Grantee Name: Stephen Petronio Dance Company, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Stephen Petronio Company Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10003-8384 Amount: $40,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Creation Category: Art Works Project Description: To support restaging of additional pieces for the Bloodlines initiative and the creation of a new work by Stephen Petronio. Additional Project Description: Bloodlines was launched in 2015 to honor the lineage of American postmodern dance masters and address the issue of protecting the postmodern tradition of artists. As part of this initiative, the company will bring work by artists Yvonne Rainer, Steve Paxton, and Anna Halprin into the repertory. In addition, Petronio will create "Untitled Touch," a new work set to a commissioned score by Son Lux (aka Ryan Lott). The work's New York premiere will take place at The Joyce and will then tour to the American Dance Institute (Rockville, Maryland) and to White Bird (Portland, Oregon). |
Grantee Name: Atlantic Theater Company Organization Popular Name: Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10011-4962 Amount: $35,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the premiere of "Tell Hector I Miss Him" by Paola Lazaro-Munoz. Additional Project Description: The drama depicts daily life in La Perla, a low-income neighborhood in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Lazaro-Munoz uses dialogue that is colloquial and grounded in real-life interactions to portray emotionally complex characters, from local drug dealers to the owner of the neighborhood cantina. Diverse narrative threads and relationships are interwoven to create a vivid picture of Puerto Rican life. |
Grantee Name: Stuttering Association for the Young Inc. Organization Popular Name: SAY Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10018-3803 Amount: $30,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Learning Category: Art Works Project Description: To support SAY: Confident Voices-Youth Arts Education Program. Additional Project Description: The year-round after-school performing arts program will serve youth who stutter. Professional teaching artists, volunteers, and alumni mentors will engage youth in a variety of programs focusing on songwriting, playwriting, creative writing, storytelling, and directing. Program participants will work collaboratively to write, direct, and perform one-act plays and songs that will be performed in a variety of venues, including a festival. Students of all ages will participate in the program. |
Grantee Name: Ballet Theatre Foundation, Inc. Organization Popular Name: American Ballet Theatre Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10003-1211 Amount: $90,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support American Ballet Theatre's 2017 domestic performances. Additional Project Description: In addition to its annual New York performance series at the Metropolitan Opera House and David H. Koch Theater, American Ballet Theatre will travel to Costa Mesa, California, and Washington, D.C. ABT will perform full-length and repertory works. The tour will begin in Washington where the company will perform "Swan Lake" under the direction of Artistic Director Kevin McKenzie, followed by performances in Costa Mesa with new works from Artist-in-Residence, Alexei Ratmansky. The tour will conclude with the presentation of "The Nutcracker" and will feature student performers from ABT's William J. Gillespie School at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts. |
Grantee Name: TENET NYC, Inc. Organization Popular Name: TENET Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10025-8350 Amount: $10,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support performances as part of the eighth annual Green Mountain Project in New York and Boston. Additional Project Description: Created by Jolle Greenleaf and Scott Metcalfe in 2010, the Green Mountain Project will celebrate the under-performed music of Italian Baroque composer Claudio Monteverdi and his contemporaries. In addition, newly recreated Vespers programs, such as Praetorius German Vespers (the fourth in a cycle of new Vespers), will be part of the programming. Performances take place in accessible historic churches. |
Grantee Name: Big Tree Productions, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Tere O'Connor Dance Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10014-1683 Amount: $10,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Creation Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the creation and presentation of a new work by Artistic Director Tere O'Connor. Additional Project Description: The choreographer will explore merging stage space with notions of landscape and building. Inspiration for the work comes from reflecting on large landscapes of space and how minimal the human figure can appear in that context. The score will be created by James Baker and the lighting by Michael O'Connor. |
Grantee Name: Tamar Rogoff Performance Projects Organization Popular Name: Tamar Rogoff Performance Projects Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10009-4241 Amount: $20,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Creation Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the final development and presentation of "Grand Rounds," a dance-theater work. Additional Project Description: Choreographer Tamar Rogoff will partner with Dance for Parkinson's Disease (Dance for PD) participants, as well as professional dancers, actors, and athletes, to explore themes of aging, healing, and death. The multigenerational cast will present their work at the La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club. |
Grantee Name: Byrd Hoffman Watermill Foundation Organization Popular Name: The Watermill Center Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10001-5067 Amount: $15,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Creation Category: Art Works Project Description: To support artist residencies and related activities. Additional Project Description: Individual artists and artist collectives will be provided space, resources, and financial support to create and publicly present their work at The Watermill Center. Residencies will be designed to overlap to foster spontaneous collaborations and peer review among participating artists. |
Grantee Name: Tectonic Theater Project, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10018-8649 Amount: $50,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support a touring production of "The Tallest Tree in the Forest." Additional Project Description: The play is a multimedia work that explores Paul Robeson's rise from son of a former slave, to an international singer and film star, to an enemy of the House Un-American Activities Committee and perennial political star. The play is designed to honor Robeson as an important figure in African-American history and introduce him to a new generation of audiences. Educational activities include pre-and post-performance discussions and a series of downloadable electronic resources. The project will begin with a two-week performance run at ArtsEmerson in Boston, followed by a multi-state tour. |
Grantee Name: CEC ArtsLink, Inc. Organization Popular Name: CEC ArtsLink Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10007-1872 Amount: $25,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Creation Category: Art Works Project Description: To support residencies in the United States for international artists and managers. Additional Project Description: Artists primarily from countries in Eastern Europe, Eurasia, Central Asia, and the Eastern Mediterranean will be selected through an open call juried process and then placed in artist communities and nonprofit cultural organizations throughout the United States. Resident artists will be matched with organizations providing experiences relevant to their professional and creative goals. |
Grantee Name: Times Square District Management Association Organization Popular Name: Times Square Alliance Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10036-1537 Amount: $30,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Creation Category: Art Works Project Description: To support At The Crossroads, a series of multidisciplinary presentations. Additional Project Description: Artists will create and present site-specific works at Times Square public plazas. Selected presentations include audio-based stories collected by multidisciplinary artist Aman Mojadidi presented in repurposed phone booths, an interactive event created by Steve Lambert, a presentation of Lars Jans' "Holoscenes", a collaborative public art project created by Anne Carson and Amy Khoshbin, "Portals," an interactive installation from Structured Studios, and nightly video art installations. |
Grantee Name: Carnegie Hall Society, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Carnegie Hall (CH) Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10019-3210 Amount: $30,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Creativity Connects Project Description: To support the Lullaby Project, a program of Carnegie Hall's Weill Music Institute, in partnership with New York-Presbyterian Hospital. Additional Project Description: The Lullaby Project is a musical intervention program designed for mothers in challenging circumstances, such as poverty or homelessness. It will be initiated at New York-Presbyterian's community practice sites that use CenteringPregnancy, a national patient-centered model for prenatal healthcare. There are several common goals and outcomes between CenteringPregnancy prenatal care and the Lullaby Project, such as nurturing bonding and attachment between mother and baby, encouraging a social support network through a group experience, and promoting positive mental health and well-being with better healthcare outcomes for mother and baby. The Lullaby Project will pair professional musicians with expectant mothers, who then together compose and record lullabies written specifically for each mother's child. In addition, the women will be part of a cohort of mothers who will meet throughout their pregnancies and early after their child's birth, to receive support from nurses, social workers, and each other. |
Grantee Name: Tribeca Film Institute Organization Popular Name: TFI Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10013-2473 Amount: $15,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the TFI Interactive program. Additional Project Description: Artists, technologists, musicians, journalists, filmmakers, game designers, and community leaders will assemble during the program to explore new modes of digital storytelling. Presentations and panel discussions by media artists and field experts will be complemented by a makerspace, in which creators can experiment with new media tools, and a showcase of multimedia narrative projects that incorporate technologies such as robotic hardware, mobile devices, and virtual reality. |
Grantee Name: Carnegie Hall Society, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Carnegie Hall (CH) Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10019-3210 Amount: $90,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the series Three Generations, an exploration of the changing direction of concert music. Additional Project Description: Curated by composer Steve Reich, the programs will trace the development of new music from the generation of his contemporaries including John Adams, Philip Glass, Arvo Part, and Terry Riley to composers associated with the Bang on a Can collective, and finally to voices of the next generation, Bryce Dessner and Nico Muhly. Musicians scheduled to perform include Bang on a Can All-Stars, Ensemble Signal, violinist Todd Reynolds, and violist Nadia Sirota, among many others. Educational activities will include discussions with the composers during the performances. |
Grantee Name: Bard College Organization Popular Name: Sponsored Organization: Conjunctions City: Annandale-Hudson State: NY Zip: 12504-5000 Amount: $10,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the publication and promotion of the theme-based journal "Conjunctions." Additional Project Description: The biannual journal will be published in print and electronic formats, and a weekly online magazine will offer special features as well as select texts from the journal. The journal will be promoted through reading events, social media, and the journal's website, among other means. |
Grantee Name: Wet Ink Music Productions, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Wet Ink Ensemble Sponsored Organization: City: Astoria State: NY Zip: 11105-1977 Amount: $10,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support a contemporary music festival and recording project by the Wet Ink Ensemble. Additional Project Description: Programming for the two-day festival may include acoustic and electro-acoustic works for large ensemble (12 to 20 or more players) by American composers. In addition, the ensemble will produce a studio recording which will be released internationally on Carrier Records. The festival performances will take place at St. Peter's Church in New York City. |
Grantee Name: Bronx Council on the Arts, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Bronx Council on the Arts Sponsored Organization: Longwood Art Gallery City: Bronx State: NY Zip: 10461-1486 Amount: $20,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support a series of exhibitions at the Longwood Art Gallery. Additional Project Description: The exhibitions will be complemented by a variety of public programs, including live performances, artist and curator talks, panel discussions, films, and readings. Planned exhibitions include a solo show featuring mixed media artist Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz, and two group exhibitions, one examining film noir and one that will revisit the stereotypes found in classic Spanish love songs from the 1930s and '40s. An additional public program is planned, "Welab," that will allow participants to create their own community-based projects. |
Grantee Name: Bronx Documentary Center Inc Organization Popular Name: BDC Sponsored Organization: City: Bronx State: NY Zip: 10451-5010 Amount: $30,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support documentary photography exhibitions and related programming. Additional Project Description: The projects will explore identity and activism through the presentation of historical, archival photography collections, and works by contemporary photographers from the Bronx and West Africa. Public programming will include documentary film screenings and panel discussions, workshops, and guided exhibition tours for school and community-based groups. |
Grantee Name: Bronx Museum of the Arts Organization Popular Name: Bronx Museum Sponsored Organization: City: Bronx State: NY Zip: 10456-3999 Amount: $35,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the exhibition, "Gordon Matta-Clark: Anarchitect," and accompanying catalogue. Additional Project Description: The exhibition will examine how Matta-Clark (1943-78) "re-purposed" his architectural training and turned to creating site-specific art works and actions that deconstructed the urban landscape. A number of these key projects were realized in the South Bronx, in an era marked by the borough's steep economic decline. In addition to the works by Matta-Clark, the exhibition will feature rare archival materials, and works by artists such as David Hammons and Alvin Baltrop, that broaden the understanding of the sociocultural issues and milieu to which that artist responded. Educational programs and resources will be developed such as guided tours, workshops, curricula, and multimedia projects. |
Grantee Name: Point Community Development Corporation Organization Popular Name: THE POINT CDC Sponsored Organization: City: Bronx State: NY Zip: 10474-5335 Amount: $15,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Creation Category: Art Works Project Description: To support artist residencies and related activities. Additional Project Description: Participants will be encouraged to focus their art on solutions to environmental challenges and social injustices. Workshops, exhibitions, mural production, and teen art programs will be offered in addition to artist residencies. |
Grantee Name: Pregones Touring Puerto Rican Theatre Collection, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Pregones Theater, Pregones/PRTT Sponsored Organization: City: Bronx State: NY Zip: 10451-5237 Amount: $20,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Creation Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the creation and production of "Torched!" Additional Project Description: The new musical about the epic South Bronx fires in the 1970s will explore historical suspicions that local residents set their own homes, schools, businesses, and houses of worship on fire. Testimony will be drawn from Bronxites who lived through the devastation, as well as from first responders who came to the rescue. The piece will also investigate accounts of collusion among absentee landlords, insurance companies, and city bureaucrats, exploring the human costs and dilemmas of urban planning, safekeeping, speculation, and displacement. |
Grantee Name: A Public Space Literary Projects Inc. Organization Popular Name: A Public Space Sponsored Organization: City: Brooklyn State: NY Zip: 11217-1906 Amount: $20,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support a mentorship program for emerging writers, as well as the publication and promotion of books and the journal "A Public Space." Additional Project Description: In addition to receiving rigorous editorial guidance and publication in the journal, selected emerging writers will give a public reading in New York City and have the opportunity to meet with members of the publishing community. The newly launched A Public Space Books will release a title from Bette Howland, whose work has been featured in the journal. |
Grantee Name: Archipelago Books, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Archipelago Books Sponsored Organization: City: Brooklyn State: NY Zip: 11215-2714 Amount: $80,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the translation, publication, and promotion of international literature, including titles for children. Additional Project Description: Planned books include fiction and nonfiction from countries such as Argentina, Bulgaria, Cuba, Spain, and South Africa, as well as illustrated children's books from Brazil, Norway, and France. Books will be distributed worldwide, and planned book tour events will feature authors and translators in readings and discussions at book festivals, cultural centers, and children's museums, among other locations. |
Grantee Name: Art Council Inc. Organization Popular Name: Artadia Sponsored Organization: City: Brooklyn State: NY Zip: 11201-1023 Amount: $20,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support Art & Dialogue, a professional development series for artists and curators. Additional Project Description: Selected artists will receive studio visits and feedback from a guest curator who works outside of the immediate community. Each curator will present a series of public programs hosted by local cultural partners, taking place in the curator's home city as well as in the artist's community. Programming includes discussions, artist interviews, or presentations about an emerging artist's work, disseminated through Artadia's website. Host cities include Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco. |
Grantee Name: Trisha Brown Company, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Trisha Brown Dance Company Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10018-2918 Amount: $80,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the reconstruction, touring, educational work and preservation of Trisha Brown's legacy. Additional Project Description: The new program "Trisha Brown: In Plain Site," will adapt Brown's works into site-specific performance experiences. In collaboration with presenters, the work will reach new audiences by creating programs that highlight the unique features of the local community. Proscenium works can be toured alongside the site-specific program, and will revive additional works out of Brown's repertory. Educational activities will be available at Gibney Dance Center and Bard College. The Trisha Brown Archive is being prepared for placement into a public institution, and elements will be showcased alongside the performance activities and in stand-alone exhibitions. |
Grantee Name: Center for Art, Tradition and Cultural Heritage Organization Popular Name: CATCH Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10003-9345 Amount: $25,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support Beyond the Wall: Reclaiming Performance Traditions and Identities in the Post-Soviet Diaspora. Additional Project Description: Folklorists and ethnomusicologists will conduct fieldwork to identify and document traditional artists from the former Soviet Union, now living in New York City. A series of lectures and performances, scheduled for the city's boroughs, will explore how Soviet policy effected their art and how their art has changed since the collapse of the Soviet Union. A website will make the field notes and information on the artists available to the public. |
Grantee Name: Van Alen Institute: Projects in Public Architecture Organization Popular Name: Van Alen Institute Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10010-5816 Amount: $50,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support production of the Van Alen Sessions video series. Additional Project Description: The short videos will use narrative filmmaking to examine vital issues facing cities and the public realm, covering a broad range of topics that relate to the livability of cities, such as tunnels and power lines. The program will investigate how cities change over time and shape our routines and relationships, telling the stories of people who are affected by cities on a daily basis, alongside insight from experts. The videos in the series will be created in partnership with filmmakers and architects, artists, and urban planners, and will be presented in public programs in the Van Alen Institute gallery as well as online through the website and social media networks. |
Grantee Name: Chamber Music America, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Chamber Music America Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10001-3813 Amount: $90,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the National Leadership Initiative. Additional Project Description: Serving the diverse chamber music field, which comprises ensembles, presenters, independent musicians, composers, educators, managers, training programs, and students in all 50 states, the initiative is designed to build leadership skills for its members. Activities will encompass professional development services including a national conference, consultations, seminars, publications, and interactive workshops focused on education, audience engagement, career-building, and administrative skills. First Tuesdays is a free monthly professional development seminar series held in New York City, streamed online, and archived on Chamber Music America's website. Publications include the quarterly "Chamber Music" magazine available in print and online, and "Accent," a weekly e-newsletter that provides information on job opportunities, competitions, and general news pertinent to the small ensemble field. |
Grantee Name: Vineyard Theatre & Workshop Center, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Vineyard Theatre, The Vineyard Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10003-2102 Amount: $30,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Creation Category: Art Works Project Description: To support a production of "Can You Forgive Her?," a new play by Gina Gionfriddo. Additional Project Description: The play relates the events of one explosive Halloween night when two couples find themselves engaged in incendiary conversations about the differences between haves and have-nots in America, and whether it is possible to heal from inherited trauma and transcend the financial situation into which one is born. In conjunction with the production, the Vineyard Theatre will offer student matinees to New York City public high school students, who will participate in pre- and post-show workshops with the theater's education staff and members of the production's creative team. |
Grantee Name: Chamber Music Conference and Composers' Forum of the East Organization Popular Name: "Bennington Chamber Music Conference" or "CMC Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10040-3666 Amount: $10,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Creation Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the Composers' Forum, a composer residency and commissioning program as part of the Bennington Chamber Music Conference. Additional Project Description: The annual conference at Bennington College in Vermont will include week-long residencies by composers Susan Botti, Marc Mellits, and Harold Meltzer-each of whom will be commissioned to write a new work-as well as a residency by composer-in-residence Donald Crockett. Amateur and professional musician participants in the conference will study and perform the new commissions along with works in the standard repertoire. Concerts will be free and open to the public. |
Grantee Name: Vivian Beaumont Theater, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Lincoln Center Theater Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10023-6916 Amount: $45,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Creation Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the world premiere of "How to Transcend a Happy Marriage," a new play by Sarah Ruhl at Lincoln Center Theater. Additional Project Description: The play is a modern morality tale in which two couples disrupt their lives when they decide to reignite their youthful, rebellious spirits. Originally commissioned by Lincoln Center Theater, the production will be directed by Ruhl's long-time collaborator Rebecca Taichman. |
Grantee Name: Wave Farm Inc. Organization Popular Name: Wave Farm Sponsored Organization: City: Acra State: NY Zip: 12405-1026 Amount: $15,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Creation Category: Art Works Project Description: To support residencies for artists to create new transmission artworks and conduct research about the genre. Additional Project Description: Resident artists will receive a stipend and access to a wide array of transmission technologies, including an FM radio station. Artists will perform, be interviewed, and create programming for public broadcast. Additional opportunities for public engagement will be possible through workshop presentations. |
Grantee Name: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Inc. Organization Popular Name: CMS Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10023-6582 Amount: $60,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support a series of concerts focusing on the works of Felix Mendelssohn with related educational activities. Additional Project Description: Programs will feature a selection of his most popular works performed alongside music by his friends, idols, and artistic heirs. Works may include his Piano Trio No. 1 Op. 49 and String Quartet Op. 44, No. 2 paired with Schubert's "Quartettsatz" and Mozart's Adagio in B Minor for piano. Musicians to be featured include violinist Paul Huang, cellists David Finckel and Paul Watkins, pianist Wu Han, pianist-composer Huw Watkins, violist Paul Neubauer, and many others. Three ensembles will perform during the series: the Escher String Quartet, the Orion String Quartet, and the Schumann Quartet. Educational activities include lectures by Resident Lecturer Bruce Adolphe and printed program notes by musicologist Dr. Richard Rodda. |
Grantee Name: Women Make Movies, Inc. Organization Popular Name: WMM Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10001-5078 Amount: $100,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the Women Make Movies Distribution Service. Additional Project Description: The Women Make Movies collection of more than 600 titles includes documentary, narrative, experimental, animated, and mixed-genre work created by artists worldwide. Works from the distribution service are exhibited at colleges, universities, media arts centers, film festivals, museums, libraries, and community centers, and are also broadcast on cable and public television stations to audiences across the country. In addition, select films will be distributed through online platforms such as Netflix, iTunes, and Vimeo On Demand to increase access for viewers. |
Grantee Name: Albany Symphony Orchestra, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Albany Symphony Sponsored Organization: City: Albany State: NY Zip: 12207-2211 Amount: $15,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the American Music Festival. Additional Project Description: Under the direction of Music Director David Alan Miller, the festival will take place at the Experimental Media & Performing Arts Center in Troy, New York. The theme of the festival will celebrate the bicentennial of the Erie Canal by exploring connections between communities. The centerpiece of the festival will feature world premieres of commissioned works by Katherine Balch and Reena Esmail, as well as works by Christopher Theofanidis, Steven Stucky, and many other composers. Other activities include a composer reading session and chamber music programs. |
Grantee Name: Children's Museum of Manhattan Organization Popular Name: CMOM Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10024-4901 Amount: $15,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support Collage Collaborations, a series of arts workshops for children and their adult caregivers. Additional Project Description: In partnership with three New York City artists of color--Alexandria Smith; Naomi Reis; and Tai Hwa Goh--CMOM will investigate the artistic process of collage within the context of early childhood development. The artists will work with children five and under, introducing them to the possibilities of art-making using a wide variety of materials such as wood, fur, and grass. The children also will be introduced to basic concepts related to color, shape, texture, and form. The project will culminate in the creation of a collaborative work which will be exhibited alongside works by each artist. |
Grantee Name: Wooster Group, Inc. Organization Popular Name: The Wooster Group Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10013-2299 Amount: $20,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Creation Category: Art Works Project Description: To support development and performances of a new theater production that will celebrate the life and work of Polish artist Tadeusz Kantor. Additional Project Description: The artist's life and practice chronicle the major artistic movements and historical transformations of the 20th century. The work will explore Kantor's work in visual art, film, and theater through a contemporary lens. Kantor's daughter Dorota Krakowska will serve as dramaturg for the production. Development and work-in-progress showings will take place in New York, and the finished work will premiere at the SummerScape Festival on the Bard College campus. |
Grantee Name: Fence Magazine, Incorporated Organization Popular Name: Fence Sponsored Organization: City: Albany State: NY Zip: 12222-0100 Amount: $10,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the publication and promotion of new books of poetry in print and electronic formats, as well as the journal "Fence" and an online site for poetry criticism. Additional Project Description: The press plans to publish books by authors Walter Benjamin (in translation from the German), Harmony Holiday, Douglas Kearney, and Steven Alvarez. The biannual journal features poetry, fiction, art, and criticism, and the online site "The Constant Critic" offers bimonthly reviews of new poetry titles. |
Grantee Name: Cinema Tropical Inc. Organization Popular Name: Cinema Tropical Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10012-2648 Amount: $15,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the Cinema Tropical Film Series. Additional Project Description: The series highlights Latin-American cinema in venues throughout New York City. Curated programs include the 2017 Cinema Tropical Film Festival and the premiere of contemporary Latin-American films in partnership with the Film Society of Lincoln Center. |
Grantee Name: Words Without Borders Organization Popular Name: Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10014-2840 Amount: $35,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the publication and promotion of "Words Without Borders: The Online Magazine for International Literature." Additional Project Description: The free, monthly online magazine will focus on literature in translation from regions such as Francophone Africa, Bulgaria, Catalonia, Colombia, and Tunisia. The magazine also will present issues with themes such as climate, divided nations, and the kitchen. The journal's educational initiative, Words Without Borders Campus, contextualizes material for high school and college audiences, and "Dispatches," a long-format blog, provides regular commentary, reviews, interviews, and essays related to international literature. |
Grantee Name: Research Foundation of State University of New York Organization Popular Name: Sponsored Organization: Neuberger Museum of Art - Purchase College City: Albany State: NY Zip: 12201-0009 Amount: $45,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support insurance, crating, shipping, and catalog printing costs associated with the exhibition, "Romare Bearden Abstractions" at the Neuberger Museum of Art. Additional Project Description: Although best known for representational collages produced between 1964 and his death in 1988, to date there has been little substantive scholarly attention to Bearden's (1911-88) body of work that directly preceded those, namely his non-representational, large-scale stain paintings and mixed media collages. The exhibition will include large-scale stain paintings and mixed media collages created between 1955 and 1964 by the African-American artist, musician, and author. |
Grantee Name: City Parks Foundation Organization Popular Name: CPF Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 11222-8001 Amount: $40,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support SummerStage, a series of multidisciplinary performances and related activities. Additional Project Description: Concerts, performances, and events will be held in Central Park and at other parks in all five boroughs. The performances will be programmed by curators who specialize in music, dance, theater, and children's programming. |
Grantee Name: Young Audiences/New York, Inc. Organization Popular Name: yaNY Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10022-4200 Amount: $10,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Challenge America Project Description: To support a series of performances based on Ralph Ellison's literature, and related activities. Additional Project Description: The project will provide the communities of Harlem and the Bronx with cultural programming that addresses the themes of racism, art, and social change, as well as the American dream. All performances will take place at Harlem Stage, including offerings for the public and for students. Additional project activities will include discussion forums, artist residencies teaching monologue writing in participating schools. The events will be free and open to the public, and will feature guest artists. |
Grantee Name: State University of New York at Buffalo Organization Popular Name: Sponsored Organization: Center for the Arts City: Amherst State: NY Zip: 14228-2667 Amount: $30,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the exhibition "Wanderlust," and accompanying catalogue, organized by the Center for the Arts. Additional Project Description: The exhibition will showcase a variety of media, including drawing, photography, sculpture, installation, film, and video that explores 50 years of artistic action in and with the landscape. The exhibition will examine the theme chronologically, including works of both urban and rural environments. Participating artists include: Fallen Fruit, William Lamson, Carmen Papalia, Kim Beck, Marie Lorenz, Roberley Bell and Todd Shalomiel. The exhibition will include hands-on experiential learning with visiting artists, public lectures, an activity guide, and monthly professional development seminars for K-12 art teachers. |
Grantee Name: Classical Theatre of Harlem, Inc. Organization Popular Name: CTH Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10032-6918 Amount: $20,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the annual Uptown Shakespeare in the Park. Additional Project Description: Harlem residents will experience professional theater in their own backyard at the Richard Rodgers Amphitheater in Marcus Garvey Park. The annual summer event is designed to be an uptown alternative to Shakespeare in the Park in New York's Central Park. Project activities include the selection of a classic to be adapted, the assembly of a creative team and the design of production elements, casting and rehearsals, and the development of community outreach activities. |
Grantee Name: Young Concert Artists, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10107-1218 Amount: $20,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Learning Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the Young Concert Artists Series. Additional Project Description: The project will comprise a professional development program of recitals and concerto debuts in Washington, D.C., and New York City. Young Concert Artists will offer career management to emerging classical performers. |
Grantee Name: Bard College Organization Popular Name: Sponsored Organization: Bard Music Festival City: Annandale-Hudson State: NY Zip: 12504-5000 Amount: $15,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the Bard Music Festival and related educational activities. Additional Project Description: Led by the resident ensemble, American Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Artistic Director Leon Botstein, the festival will take place at the Richard B. Fisher Center and will explore the world and music of Polish composer and virtuoso pianist Frederic Chopin (1810-49). Programming will include piano recitals as well as orchestral concerts by other Polish composers at the time. A highlight will be a semi-staged performance of "Halka" by Stanislaw Moniuszko, considered to be Poland's "national" opera. Educational activities will include panel discussions and a companion volume of essays. |
Grantee Name: Clubbed Thumb, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Clubbed Thumb Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10003-6919 Amount: $15,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the Summerworks festival. Additional Project Description: The annual festival of new plays will include an opening night event of short, site-specific, and thematically linked pieces and readings of works-in-progress by early career playwrights. In addition, as many as three fully-produced new plays will be produced including two commissions: "Screaming Pigeon" by Jenny Schwartz (about gentrification and faith) and "The Glide" by Madeleine George (about incarcerated women and their families). The third new play, "Frontieres Sans Frontieres" (about orphaned youth grappling with friendships, beliefs and life changes), is by early-career group member Phillip Howze. |
Grantee Name: openhousenewyork inc. Organization Popular Name: Open House New York Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10010-7903 Amount: $40,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support staff and promotional costs for "Getting to Zero: The City and Waste." Additional Project Description: This year-long series of tours, lectures, and conferences will explore how New York City's goal of putting zero waste into landfills by 2030 will transform the physical city. The program will deepen public understanding about how designed buildings and landscapes have our built environment has been shaped over time in response to changing attitudes about garbage, and consider what possibilities a radical transformation in waste management could have for new concepts in architecture and the city. |
Grantee Name: Bard College Organization Popular Name: Sponsored Organization: City: Annandale-Hudson State: NY Zip: 12504-5000 Amount: $30,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the exhibition "The Conditions of Being Art" and an accompanying publication. Additional Project Description: The exhibition will highlight and contextualize the groundbreaking work of two New York City galleries in the 1990s--the American Fine Arts Company and the Pat Hearn Gallery. Featuring works by artists such as Tom Burr, Mark Dion, Andrea Fraser, Renee Green, Mary Heilmann, Jutta Koether, Cady Noland, and Christian Philipp Muller, the exhibition will showcase how a new generation of artists employed social and institutional critiques in their work, and how the traditional notion of an art gallery was challenged, as they were repurposed as concert halls, classrooms, social hot spots, and sites for social activism. The project will include public programming and production of a comprehensive catalogue published in collaboration with Dancing Foxes Press and the University of Chicago Press. |
Grantee Name: Columbia University in the City of New York Organization Popular Name: Sponsored Organization: Miller Theatre City: New York State: NY Zip: 10027-8725 Amount: $30,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support artist fees and production expenses associated with the Conversations Initiative at Miller Theatre. Additional Project Description: The initiative will feature a variety of performance series where musicians and composers are invited to speak onstage about the music they write and perform. Composer Portrait Concerts will feature entire programs of a single composer. Pop-Up Concerts are free, hour-long programs of contemporary chamber music in a salon format with audience members seated onstage alongside musicians. A new series, American Voices, will explore the unique position of string quartets in contemporary classical music in America. The series will feature commissions, performances of recent works, new interpretations of the standard repertoire, and panel discussions with composers, ensemble members, and experts in the field. |
Grantee Name: Bard College Organization Popular Name: Sponsored Organization: Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts City: Annandale-Hudson State: NY Zip: 12504-5000 Amount: $20,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the Bard SummerScape Festival at the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts. Additional Project Description: The festival will focus on exposing Frederic Chopin's work to new audiences. Other major events include a production of Dvorak's opera "Dimitrij," a world premiere theater work by The Wooster Group, and the revival of previously lost Jerome Robbins ballets. In addition, an educational and outreach program will seek to introduce new audiences to the arts and deepen performance experiences. |
Grantee Name: Art in General, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Art in General Sponsored Organization: City: Brooklyn State: NY Zip: 11201-8318 Amount: $40,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Creation Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the New Commissions Program. Additional Project Description: The program will provide support for local and international artists to create new work. Selected artists will receive an artist fee, production budget, curatorial support, and access to equipment and technology culminating in an exhibition. Free public programming and online education initiatives will be prepared in conjunction with each artist's exhibition. |
Grantee Name: BRIC Arts | Media | Bklyn, Inc. Organization Popular Name: BRIC Sponsored Organization: Celebrate Brooklyn Performing Arts Festival City: Brooklyn State: NY Zip: 11217-1152 Amount: $50,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support a performing artists series at the Celebrate Brooklyn Performing Arts Festival and related activities. Additional Project Description: The series will feature public performances by contemporary artists illuminating the cultures of four distinct immigrant communities in America-African, Mexican, French-Algerian and Malian-with classic, traditional, and contemporary music and dance. All performances will be accessible for free at the Prospect Park Bandshell. Scheduled artists include dancer and choreographer Dada Masilo (South African); vocalist Lila Downs (Mexican-American); choreographer Herve Koubi (French-Algerian) and singer Oumou Sangare (Malian). |
Grantee Name: Bang on a Can, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Bang on a Can Sponsored Organization: City: Brooklyn State: NY Zip: 11217-2998 Amount: $55,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Learning Category: Art Works Project Description: To support a performance series and resident teaching facility for emerging composers and contemporary music performers. Additional Project Description: Hosted by the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams, the festival will feature concerts by the Bang on a Can All-Stars, resident teaching faculty, and students in galleries and in community venues. Community engagement activities will include a family concert and a free performance at Windsor Lake Park. The finale of the festival will be the annual Bang on a Can Marathon, an event featuring musicians and composers from around the world. |
Grantee Name: Batoto Yetu, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Batoto Yetu Sponsored Organization: City: Brooklyn State: NY Zip: 11238-1708 Amount: $10,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Learning Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the development of an assessment report on the impact of the company's outreach in the local community. Additional Project Description: Consulting group ARTS Action Research will work with the company to develop outcomes, propose protocols for qualitative and quantitative measures, and assist with creation of new assessment of tools. The final report will reflect on the company's 25 year history and will be used to improve the organization's programs and services. |
Grantee Name: Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation Organization Popular Name: Restoration Sponsored Organization: City: Brooklyn State: NY Zip: 11216-5372 Amount: $25,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Learning Category: Art Works Project Description: To support Youth Arts Academy dance programming. Additional Project Description: Pre-school through high school-age youth will study ballet, contemporary, Horton technique, tap, and African dance year round and during a summer intensive. Taught by professional dancers, the goals of the pre-professional dance program are to expose youth to various genres of dance, improve their proficiency, provide experiences with professional dancers in residence, and build students' confidence through performance opportunities for diverse audiences. |
Grantee Name: Belladonna Series, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Belladonna* Collaborative Sponsored Organization: City: Brooklyn State: NY Zip: 11238-3367 Amount: $10,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the publication and promotion of new books of poetry. Additional Project Description: Showcasing work that exhibits experimental and intersectional impulses, planned publications include a bilingual German/English edition of work by Uljana Wolf, as well as a collection by Jennifer Firestone. The books will be promoted through social media and an e-newsletter, as well as at the annual Association of Writers and Writing Programs conference. |
Grantee Name: Big Dance Theater, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Big Dance Theater Sponsored Organization: City: Brooklyn State: NY Zip: 11231-3701 Amount: $25,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Creation Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the creation and touring of a new multidisciplinary dance theater production. Additional Project Description: Adapted and directed by Annie-B Parson and Paul Lazar, co-artistic directors of Big Dance Theater ensemble, the work will be an evening-length, large-scale dance theater production, based on the observations of 17th-century English diarist Samuel Pepys. The work will feature choreography by Parson, video design by Jeff Larson, and sound design by Tei Blow. |
Grantee Name: Brooklyn Academy of Music, Inc. Organization Popular Name: BAM Sponsored Organization: City: Brooklyn State: NY Zip: 11217-1486 Amount: $40,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the Next Wave Festival and related activities. Additional Project Description: The festival will feature new work by artists working in all disciplines. BAM will present as many as three productions for New York City high school students, as well as provide pre-show workshops in their classrooms. |
Grantee Name: Brooklyn Youth Chorus Academy, Inc. Organization Popular Name: BYC Sponsored Organization: City: Brooklyn State: NY Zip: 11201-6213 Amount: $30,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Learning Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the Concert Ensemble training and performance program. Additional Project Description: Learning through the "Cross-Choral Training Method," a curriculum designed by Brooklyn Youth Chorus (BYC), middle and high school students learn vocal music and professional-level performance techniques using a sequential, experiential, and developmentally appropriate method. The Concert Ensemble is the most advanced of the BYC's seven choral divisions, and the group often collaborates with composers on commissioned works. Students will have the opportunity to perform multiple times throughout the year. |
Grantee Name: Builders Association, Inc. Organization Popular Name: The Builders Association Sponsored Organization: City: Brooklyn State: NY Zip: 11201-1179 Amount: $20,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the touring of "Elements of Oz." Additional Project Description: The multimedia performance piece is based on a mash-up of texts including excerpts from the original "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" book by L. Frank Baum and testimonials from fans about their various interpretations of the classic film. These conversations range from discussions with the Friends of Dorothy fanclub, to the influence of debates over the gold standard in the 1880s, to using Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" as the movie soundtrack. Using a simple stage set and three performers, this production uses both traditional stagecraft and mixed media technology. |
Grantee Name: Baryshnikov Arts Center Organization Popular Name: Baryshnikov Arts Center Sponsored Organization: City: New York City State: NY Zip: 10018-4016 Amount: $45,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Creation Category: Art Works Project Description: To support BAC Residencies and BAC Presents. Additional Project Description: Residencies will provide artists working in all disciplines with space and resources, including administrative and technical support, to research and develop new projects. BAC Presents will feature local and international artists in multiple disciplines. |
Grantee Name: Concert Artists Guild, Inc. Organization Popular Name: CAG Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10019-0026 Amount: $10,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support touring engagements of roster artists. Additional Project Description: In diverse venues across the country, performance opportunities will enable artists and ensembles on the guild's roster to polish their performance and communication skills. The guild's mentorship supports artists as they prepare programs, go on tour, and refine the educational and outreach aspects of their presentations. |
Grantee Name: Four Way Books, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Four Way Books Sponsored Organization: City: New York City State: NY Zip: 10013-2847 Amount: $40,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the publication and promotion of books of poetry and short fiction. Additional Project Description: The press plans to publish poetry collections by authors Maggie Anderson, Andrea Cohen, Vincent Guerra, Nathan McClain, Kamilah Aisha Moon, Christina Pugh, and Allison Benis White, as well as a short story collection by Glen Pourciau. The books will be promoted on social media, through readings and events across the country, and on digital platforms, among other means. |
Grantee Name: DOVA, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Doug Varone and Dancers Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10013-2260 Amount: $40,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Creation Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the creation of a new work by Artistic Director Doug Varone in collaboration with director/playwright Eric Simonson. Additional Project Description: The new work is partially inspired by physicist Douglas Hofstader's book, "I Am a Strange Loop." Varone and Simonson will use Hofstader's text as inspiration for the non-verbal screenplay of a silent film-style drama, danced live onstage by an intergenerational company of dancers. The silent film era look will be achieved by black-and-white costuming and innovative projection designs (including title cards representing dialogue) by Wendall Harrington, and further enhanced by a bi-level set built by David Zinn. The work will be developed in rehearsals in New York City and during residencies throughout New York State. |
Grantee Name: Municipal Art Society of New York Organization Popular Name: MAS Sponsored Organization: City: New York City State: NY Zip: 10022-1900 Amount: $25,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support a cultural and creative asset mapping effort in New York City's under-resourced neighborhoods. Additional Project Description: The project consists of a series of public workshops where members of the public in designated communities will come together to identify and map sites of artistic and cultural significance in their neighborhoods. The workshops will give communities the knowledge and tools they need to advocate for the preservation and revitalization of their local cultural heritage and to actively participate in the city's rezoning and planning discussions, which could alter the physical landscape in these communities. |
Grantee Name: Dance Continuum, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Susan Marshall & Company Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10001-6109 Amount: $20,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Creation Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the creation and presentation of "Background Patterns," a new multidisciplinary work by Artistic Director Susan Marshall. Additional Project Description: The choreographer will return to the form of her earliest works, which include intricate duets in which relationships of power and intimacy emerge out of repeated simple gestures and movements. Marshall will develop the work in collaboration with composer Jason Treuting and musical ensemble So Percussion through a series of workshops and residencies hosted by the Lewis Center for the Arts, American Dance Institute, and POP-UP. The artists intend to pursue a very transparent creative process, with public showings and engagement activities during each residency of the project. |
Grantee Name: Museum at Eldridge Street Organization Popular Name: Sponsored Organization: City: New Yotk State: NY Zip: 10002-6204 Amount: $20,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the Egg Rolls & Egg Creams & Empanadas Festival. Additional Project Description: The event will celebrate traditions and art forms from the Chinese, Eastern European Jewish, and Puerto Rican communities located in close proximity to one another on New York City's Lower East Side. Featured performances will include selections from Chinese opera and Jewish klezmer music, as well as "bomba" and "plena", traditional Puerto Rican music and dance. |
Grantee Name: Dance Service New York City, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Dance/NYC Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10003-3694 Amount: $20,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support Dance/NYC's Symposium, Town Hall meetings, the Voices on Race and Dance series, the Junior Committee, and continued expansion of the organization's website. Additional Project Description: The Symposium includes panel discussions, case study presentations, individual consultations, and interactive workshops to share information, generate dialogue and form partnerships, and stimulate engagement in New York City dance. Town Halls generate discussions that are responsive to breaking news, issues, emerging models, or changes in field leadership. The Voices on Race and Dance series will offer at least three convenings on bright spots for racial equity work in dance, generate short- and long-term public dialogue, and advance thought leadership of creative communities of color in New York City. The Junior Committee develops field leaders of the future by providing leadership training and professional development for emerging artists, managers, and educators. The Dance/NYC website houses a community calendar, employment information, field news, directory of inclusive workspaces recommended for disabled artists, and policy research. |
Grantee Name: Copland House Organization Popular Name: Sponsored Organization: City: Peekskill State: NY Zip: 10566-8577 Amount: $10,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support performances of American music performed by the Music from Copland House ensemble. Additional Project Description: In addition to the music of Aaron Copland, programs will feature music by composers such as Derek Bermel, Richard Danielpour, Gabriela Lena Frank, Paul Moravec, Tamar Muskal, Rob Schwimmer, and William Grant Still. Concerts will take place at the historic Merestead estate in Mount Kisco, New York, at Copland's former home in Cortlandt Manor, New York, and at the Lyndhurst estate in Tarrytown, New York. Concerts will be recorded for future broadcast on WWFM public radio. |
Grantee Name: DanceWorks, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Pentacle Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10004-3237 Amount: $40,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support Pentacle's comprehensive management support for the dance community. Additional Project Description: The program provides mentoring, administrative support (direct staffing and internships), information sharing, and technical assistance to small dance companies and project-based choreographers in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Massachusetts, and California. Through the initiative, Pentacle helps a diverse, national group of dance makers become more stable and more connected to new and varied networks to support their ongoing organizational and artistic growth. |
Grantee Name: Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art Organization Popular Name: HVCCA Sponsored Organization: City: Peekskill State: NY Zip: 10566-0209 Amount: $30,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support a series of artist residencies to complement the exhibition "Between I and Thou." Additional Project Description: The exhibition will feature artists who work with yarn, paper, twine, thread, and other domestic materials to create artwork inspired by their personal journeys. The artist residency component will include both international and local artists. During the project, artists will create work, give workshops, and mentor students. Participants will include Norwegian artist Rune Olsen, Dutch artist Remy Jungerman, Filipino artist Raffy T. Napay, and American artist Melissa McGill. |
Grantee Name: Dances For A Variable Population Organization Popular Name: DVP Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10027-3235 Amount: $10,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support free dance performances and community workshops. Additional Project Description: The project will celebrate renewal of 20th-century modern dance, featuring senior professional dance artists alongside groups of nonprofessional senior dancers. The series will both revive and renew dance traditions, and will bring together multigenerational communities in a celebration of the discovery of movement. Performances will reach audiences in New York City parks, plazas, and public spaces. |
Grantee Name: Jacob Burns Film Center, Inc. Organization Popular Name: JBFC Sponsored Organization: City: Pleasantville State: NY Zip: 10570-2825 Amount: $35,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support curated film series and related activities. Additional Project Description: Dedicated to bolstering the role of the art house theater in a community, Jacob Burns will present several curated films with a focus on cultural awareness and social justice. Additional activities include talkbacks, community events, and an educational program for middle and high school students. |
Grantee Name: Danspace Project, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10003-7504 Amount: $40,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support dance presentations, residencies, and developmental activities for choreographers. Additional Project Description: Each of these activities contributes to Danspace's Choreographic Center Without Walls, a holistic system of support for artists across various career stages and points in the developmental process of their work. This framework provides curatorial support and research and contextualization around artists and their work through public discussions and online publications. All performances will take place at St. Mark's Church in New York City's East Village. |
Grantee Name: Clay Art Center, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Sponsored Organization: City: Port Chester State: NY Zip: 10573-5056 Amount: $10,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Challenge America Project Description: To support the creation and installation of public art projects in White Plains, New York. Additional Project Description: Healing Through Clay, an arts therapy program, will provide free clay classes for adults living with cancer and youth impacted by homelessness. Professional teaching artists will work with program participants to create mosaic works for public installation. |
Grantee Name: Design Trust for Public Space Inc. Organization Popular Name: Design Trust for Public Space Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10013-3094 Amount: $35,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support The Community Compact initiative. Additional Project Description: Project participants will examine the role of public space in urban life, considering how parks and plazas can better address the needs of diverse communities and maximize health, social, economic, and environmental benefits. The initiative will commence with a request for proposals, resulting in several projects that will deliver a work of art and design intended to explore this public space theme. |
Grantee Name: Spark Media Project Inc. Organization Popular Name: Formerly Children's Media Project Sponsored Organization: City: Poughkeepsie State: NY Zip: 12601-2529 Amount: $15,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Learning Category: Art Works Project Description: To support DROP Studios, a media arts education program. Additional Project Description: Students from underserved communities will gain an array of media arts and technology skills through media literacy training and hands-on production, including radio broadcasting, scriptwriting, video production, graphic design, music production, video editing, acting, animation, virtual reality, and 3D modeling. As a culminating activity, students will publish a web-based portfolio of their work that can be accessed through the Spark Media Project website. |
Grantee Name: Dia Center for the Arts Organization Popular Name: Dia Art Foundation Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10011-1119 Amount: $25,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the exhibition "Charlotte Posenenske: 1954-1968" and accompanying catalogue. Additional Project Description: The exhibition will feature Posenenske (1930-85), an influential yet overlooked figure in the history of both minimal and post-minimal art. Approximately 70 original prototypes, and authorized reproduction works from international and private collections will be exhibited alongside German artists Joseph Beuys, Imi Knoebel, Blinky Palermo, and Frank Erhard Walther, as well as American artists Carl Andre and Sol LeWitt. The presentation will offer the most comprehensive museum exhibition of Posenenske's work to be mounted in the United States to date and will contextualize her work and legacy within international contemporary art of the 1960s and '70s. The exhibition will be accompanied by public programs to engage the audience. |
Grantee Name: Queens Museum of Art Organization Popular Name: Queens Museum Sponsored Organization: City: Queens State: NY Zip: 11368-3398 Amount: $20,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the exhibition, "Never Built: New York." Additional Project Description: The exhibition will feature projects from the 19th-century to the present, including buildings, master plans, parks, transit schemes, amusements, airports, and bridges that were never realized. Buildings such as Bertrand Goldberg's ABC Headquarters and Rem Koolhaas' Office of Metropolitan Architecture will be highlighted, as well as the buildings within the idiosyncratic site of Flushing Meadows Corona Park. The exhibition will complement the museum's iconic "Panorama of the City of New York," the world's largest architectural model commissioned by the city planner Robert Moses. |
Grantee Name: Direct Cultural Access Organization Popular Name: Direct Cultural Access Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10023-6478 Amount: $10,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support Echoes of the Divine: Artistic Interchange in the Persian and Turkic Worlds. Additional Project Description: A series of concerts, workshops,& lectures will celebrate the interaction between Persian and Turkic traditional music. Scholars and musicians will demonstrate and discuss the cultural exchange in a symposium. Additionally, several concerts are planned featuring artists such as Ottoman singer Ahmet Erdogdular, Iranian singer Rustam Khodjimamedov, and Bukharian singer Roshel Rubinov. |
Grantee Name: Center for Performance Research, Inc. Organization Popular Name: CPR - Center for Performance Research Sponsored Organization: City: Brooklyn State: NY Zip: 11211-2744 Amount: $15,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support professional development and technical assistance services to New York City's experimental dance and performance communities. Additional Project Description: The Artist-in-Residence program allows artists access to rehearsal space throughout the year at further subsidized rates. The Performance Studio Open House allows artists from the CPR community to present works-in-progress and participate in question-and-answer sessions. The Technical Residency provides access to performance space, technical resources, and staff in the late stages of a work with an option to present at the conclusion of participation. |
Grantee Name: Center for Urban Pedagogy, Inc. Organization Popular Name: CUP Sponsored Organization: City: Brooklyn State: NY Zip: 11215-2728 Amount: $45,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the "Making Policy Public" publication series. Additional Project Description: The publications are visual explanations of critical government policy issues, presented in the form of a pamphlet that unfolds into a large-format color poster. The pamphlets are produced through the collaboration of competitively selected artists and designers, community organizations, and CUP staff, and are distributed free-of-charge through design and advocacy channels. These publications create new opportunities for artists and designers to engage with important social issues in diverse communities. |
Grantee Name: Civilians, Inc. Organization Popular Name: The Civilians Sponsored Organization: City: Brooklyn State: NY Zip: 11217-1694 Amount: $15,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the creation and premiere of "Times Square." Additional Project Description: The musical is based on a 1980s cult film of the same name by Allan Moyle and Jacob Brackman. Two runaway girls in New York City transcend difficult circumstances to fight intolerance and injustice. One girl is a volatile street kid who dreams of being a musician and the other is a withdrawn daughter of a wealthy lawyer and major New York City developer who is profiting from the gentrification of Times Square. The Civilians' adaptation is written by Tony Award-nominated writer Jim Lewis, with music by veteran singer-songwriter Jill Sobule and her longtime collaborator, composer Robin Eaton. Artistic Director Steve Cosson will direct the premiere. |
Grantee Name: College Community Services, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts Sponsored Organization: City: Brooklyn State: NY Zip: 11210-0843 Amount: $10,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Challenge America Project Description: To support performances and associated activities by Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company. Additional Project Description: Guest artist Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company combines classical Chinese arts with modern dance. Associated activities will include performances for students and a question-and-answer session with the artists. Marketing efforts will include a Chinese-language marketing plan, implemented through a partnership with the Brooklyn Chinese-American Association. |
Grantee Name: Dance Films Association, Inc. Organization Popular Name: DFA Sponsored Organization: City: Brooklyn State: NY Zip: 11222-5558 Amount: $10,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the Dance on Camera Festival (DOCF) and Dance on Camera Tour. Additional Project Description: The festival, co-presented with the Film Society of Lincoln Center, will include film programming that explores the broad spectrum of dance film from around the world. It will present feature films and shorts collections, Capturing Motion NYC for high-school students, and a Meet-the-Artist series. The Dance on Camera Tour provides film festival presenters, arts venues, and educators around the world with the ability to curate from the DOCF archival collection to present films specifically relevant to their missions and to their audiences. |
Grantee Name: Dance Theatre Etcetera, Inc. Organization Popular Name: DTE Sponsored Organization: City: Brooklyn State: NY Zip: 11231-1014 Amount: $20,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the Red Hook Fest featuring dance and music artists. Additional Project Description: Performances will take place in multiple venues throughout the Red Hook area of Brooklyn. The festival will engage community members of all ages through pre-festival workshops, performance opportunities for local youth, and community involvement in all stages of planning and implementation. |
Grantee Name: Delgado, Diana M. Organization Popular Name: Sponsored Organization: City: Brooklyn State: NY Zip: 11216-2651 Amount: $25,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Creation Category: Literature Fellowships: Creative Writing Project Description: Additional Project Description: |
Grantee Name: Dieu Donne Papermill, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Dieu Donne Sponsored Organization: City: Brooklyn State: NY Zip: 11205-1069 Amount: $25,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Creation Category: Art Works Project Description: To support residency and exhibition opportunities for artists in the hand papermaking tradition. Additional Project Description: Dieu Donne will offer residencies to mid-career and emerging artists through the Lab Grant and the Workspace Residency programs, providing each artist with stipends, one-on-one collaboration with master papermakers, and an exhibition. Participating artists experiment in a medium that is outside of their traditional practice and receive training on specialized equipment. |
Grantee Name: Discalced, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Mark Morris Dance Group Sponsored Organization: City: Brooklyn State: NY Zip: 11217-1415 Amount: $70,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Creation Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the creation of a new work and restaging of older works by Artistic Director Mark Morris. Additional Project Description: The choreographer will create a new work to music by composer Lou Harrison for premiere at the Tanglewood Music Festival in Lenox, Massachusetts. The piece will be part of an all-Harrison program to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the composer's birth. The company also will restage Morris' 18-minute work for 7 dancers, "Dancing Honeymoon" (1998) for performance at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts in Urbana, Illinois, and at the George Mason Center for the Arts in Fairfax, Virginia. The work is set to music transcribed and arranged by Ethan Iverson, from historical recordings of Gertrude Lawrence and Jack Buchanan, which will be performed live by the MMDG Music Ensemble. All performances will include audience engagement activities as part of Access/MMDG programming to contextualize the performances. |
Grantee Name: El Puente de Williamsburg, Inc. Organization Popular Name: El Puente Sponsored Organization: City: Brooklyn State: NY Zip: 11211-5605 Amount: $10,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Learning Category: Art Works Project Description: To support arts instruction for youth. Additional Project Description: Youth in community centers in North Brooklyn will receive year-round after-school, weekend, and summer arts instruction in dance, theater, visual arts and music. Students will create and perform original work based on culturally relevant social justice themes. Teaching artists will receive ongoing training in the program's approach, curriculum, and assessment. |
Grantee Name: Queens Museum of Art Organization Popular Name: Queens Museum Sponsored Organization: City: Queens State: NY Zip: 11368-3398 Amount: $80,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Creativity Connects Project Description: To support the "Communiversity of Inclusive Play" project for the Playground for All Children, including lectures, workshops, public programming, and an artist residency, in partnership with the City University of New York. Additional Project Description: The Playground for All Children, located in Queens, is the first playground in America constructed to integrate children of all abilities. The Queens Museum of Art will develop and implement the curriculum in partnership with CUNY staff and students, as well as local families. The curriculum will include a series of guest lectures and expert-led workshops focused on equipping participants with knowledge in cutting-edge research in the fields of developmental psychology, special education, art therapy, and inclusive design. The museum will launch a new artist residency initiative to place an artist or artist collective at the playground. The guest artists will lead arts-based workshops with an emphasis on sensory experiences. The cohort also will work together on the production of public programs based on the Communiversity of Inclusive Play curriculum at the playground. |
Grantee Name: Educational Video Center Organization Popular Name: EVC Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10014-4301 Amount: $50,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Learning Category: Art Works Project Description: To support expansion of professional development programs to new school partners. Additional Project Description: Educational Video Center will train classroom teachers to facilitate and evaluate student-produced documentary video projects designed to build digital and film literacy, critical thinking, and group collaboration skills. Professional development tools will include an online website featuring resources, research, and video clips of best practices, monthly coaching meetings to learn how to critically examine student work, and school site visits and observations. Some schools will integrate documentary arts projects into core content area while other schools will have the capacity to create a documentary arts elective. |
Grantee Name: Yarn Wire, Inc Organization Popular Name: Yarn/Wire Sponsored Organization: City: Ridgewood State: NY Zip: 11385-1038 Amount: $10,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support a touring project of Yarn/Wire residencies, collaborations, and performances. Additional Project Description: The contemporary music ensemble--a two-keyboard, two-percussion quartet--will present public concerts, master classes and workshops at colleges and universities in Michigan, Massachusetts, New York, and Virginia. The diverse repertoire will include works by composers such as Tyondai Braxton, Mei-Fang Lin, Alex Mincek, Tristan Perich, Steve Reich, and Chiyoko Szlavnics. |
Grantee Name: Elaine Kaufman Cultural Center-Lucy Moses School for Music and Dance Organization Popular Name: Kaufman Music Center Sponsored Organization: Merkin Concert Hall City: New York State: NY Zip: 10023-5915 Amount: $15,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the Ecstatic Music Festival at Merkin Concert Hall. Additional Project Description: Programs will focus on collaborations between two or more performers, ensembles, and/or composers, each working in a different musical genre. Collaborations will include Roomful of Teeth with indie rock musician Nick Zammuto and pop band San Fermin with the contemporary classical NOW Ensemble. Educational outreach activities may include live webcasts, on-demand streaming, and mini-residencies by artists for students in the Kaufman Music Center's Face the Music youth ensemble. |
Grantee Name: BOA Editions, Ltd. Organization Popular Name: Sponsored Organization: City: Rochester State: NY Zip: 14607-1198 Amount: $20,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the publication and promotion of books of contemporary poetry and short fiction in print and electronic form, as well as the digitization of backlist titles. Additional Project Description: Among the books planned for publication are new titles by such authors as Reginald Gibbons, Christine Kitano, and Craig Morgan Teicher. Books will be promoted through social media, the press's website, e-mail marketing campaigns, author book tours, and literary conferences, among other means. |
Grantee Name: Electric Lit, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Electric Literature Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10001-0067 Amount: $10,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the publication and promotion of "Recommended Reading," a weekly digital fiction magazine. Additional Project Description: Each week, the magazine publishes one piece of fiction, introduced or recommended by a well-known author, editor, or publisher. The magazine provides an avenue for readers to discover new authors, including international writers in translation. New issues are available online free-of-charge. |
Grantee Name: George Eastman Museum Organization Popular Name: George Eastman Sponsored Organization: City: Rochester State: NY Zip: 14607-2298 Amount: $20,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the preservation project "To Have and Have Not: Social Issues in Early American Independent Cinema, 1911-1917." Additional Project Description: Through the program, films focused on social class and economic inequality in early 20th-century America will be preserved and digitally restored. Created before the establishment of the Hollywood studio system, the films were produced by some of the earliest independent film companies in the United States. Works previously preserved by the museum include "Too Much Johnson" (1938) by Orson Welles and "Mission Bells" (1928) by Hans Reinhardt. |
Grantee Name: Electronic Arts Intermix, Inc. Organization Popular Name: EAI Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10011-1119 Amount: $30,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the Artists Media Distribution Service and related activities. Additional Project Description: EAI's distribution service engages broad audiences across the nation, making historic and contemporary media art works publicly available through multiple platforms and digital access channels. The archive contains more than 3,700 works ranging from video pioneers of the 1960s, such as Joan Jonas, Nam June Paik, and Dara Birnbaum, to new digital works by emerging artists, such as Sondra Perry, Takeshi Murata, and Shana Moulton. As many as 700 works will be digitized and added to the archive during the project period. Through distribution of the archived collection, the project generates direct income for artists through royalties from rentals and sales. |
Grantee Name: Geva Theatre Center, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Geva Theatre Center Sponsored Organization: City: Rochester State: NY Zip: 14607-1717 Amount: $10,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the premiere of "Other Than Honorable" by Jamie Pachino. Additional Project Description: The political drama examines the assault and harassment of men and women in uniform within the military. Pachino addresses this through the personal story of a former soldier and victim of harassment who finds a way to empower other victims to stand up for themselves. A lawyer who is a former Army officer reluctantly takes on a military sexual assault case and is forced to confront her past and the real meaning of the military's code of honor. |
Grantee Name: Ensemble Studio Theatre Organization Popular Name: EST Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10019-5012 Amount: $10,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the premiere of "The Deportation Chronicles" by France-Luce Benson. Additional Project Description: The play will portray individuals who have suffered at the hands of deportation and how it has affected their families and society as a whole. The events and characters will be based on interviews conducted with people who have faced, or are currently facing, deportation. By writing about their stories, Benson will inspire audiences to question what is happening and recognize the deeper inherited cultural attitudes in our society today. William Carden will direct the production. |
Grantee Name: Rochester Fringe Festival, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Rochester Fringe Festival Sponsored Organization: City: Rochester State: NY Zip: 14610-0508 Amount: $25,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the Rochester Fringe Festival. Additional Project Description: The festival will feature local and national artists. Activities will take place throughout downtown Rochester, and may include theater, musical theater, comedy, dance, music, visual arts, children's entertainment, performance art, cabaret, and circus. A large-scale spectacle street performance will be the opening event. |
Grantee Name: Feminist Press, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Feminist Press at CUNY Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10016-4309 Amount: $35,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the publication and promotion of books of fiction in print and electronic formats, as well as the digitization of classic titles. Additional Project Description: Planned books include a novel by Felicia Sullivan, as well as international literature in translation by such authors as Gerty Dambury (Guadeloupe), Hannah Krall (Poland), and Romina Paul (Argentina). The press also plans to digitize classic titles that revolve around stories of American immigrants, making these books available to a wider audience. Books will be promoted through social media, e-mail, and other means. |
Grantee Name: University of Rochester Organization Popular Name: Sponsored Organization: Open Letter Books City: Rochester State: NY Zip: 14627-0140 Amount: $40,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support Open Letter Books in the publication and promotion of books in translation. Additional Project Description: Planned books, which will be released in both print and electronic formats and include titles from Argentina, Brazil, the Faroe Islands, France, Iceland, and South Korea, represent a range of perspectives and styles. Open Letter Books promotes its books through conferences, events, social media platforms, and through its "Three Percent" website, which includes a daily blog focused on international literature. |
Grantee Name: Fiji Theater Company, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Ping Chong Company Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10012-1118 Amount: $25,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the development and premiere of "Where the Sea Breaks Its Back." Additional Project Description: The interdisciplinary work by Ping Chong, Ryan Conarro, and Gary Upay'aq Beaver (Central Yup'ik) will use puppetry, video, movement, and storytelling to create a collage about the epic landscape and stark realities of Alaska. The title is the translation of the Aluutiq indigenous word for Alaska and will serve as a metaphor for the personal and cultural clashes at its heart. Historical narratives will depict the collision of interlopers and colonizers with the Alaskan climate and peoples. It will premiere at the University of Alaska Anchorage. |
Grantee Name: Gateways Music Festival, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Sponsored Organization: City: Rochester, NY State: NY Zip: 14604-2505 Amount: $10,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the Gateways Music Festival. Additional Project Description: The festival celebrating the participation and contributions of classically trained musicians of African descent, will feature solo, chamber, and orchestral performances as well as a youth showcase. Musicians from across the country will participate and perform at the Eastman Theatre on the campus of the University of Rochester and in area churches. |
Grantee Name: Film Forum Organization Popular Name: Film Forum Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10014-4837 Amount: $80,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the theatrical premieres of American independent and foreign films at Film Forum. Additional Project Description: This year-round film exhibition program presents New York City theatrical premieres of American independent and foreign art films, many of which will receive their United States premiere. Since 1970, Film Forum has been committed to presenting documentaries, fiction features, and shorts by both emerging and master directors. The premiered films frequently go on to play nationwide in theaters, schools, film societies, festivals, and beyond. Screenings often include question-and-answer sessions with the filmmakers, which are recorded and made available as a podcast on iTunes and the Film Forum website. |
Grantee Name: Women's Studio Workshop, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Sponsored Organization: City: Rosendale State: NY Zip: 12472-0489 Amount: $35,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Creation Category: Art Works Project Description: To support international residencies for artists. Additional Project Description: The program will focus on emerging and mid-career women-identified artists. Participants will receive a stipend, studio space, technical and production assistance, a materials allowance, and travel costs during their residencies. Residencies will supports artists working in print, paper, book arts, photography, and ceramics. |
Grantee Name: Film Society of Lincoln Center, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Film Society Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10023-6595 Amount: $85,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support Perspectives in World Cinema, a series of curated film festivals. Additional Project Description: Throughout the year, the program's curated series and film festivals feature classic and contemporary works of American and international cinema. Programs to be presented include series on documentary film; Asian, Jewish, and French cinema; and films by new and emerging artists. During events high school students will have the opportunity to view festival works in private screenings accompanied by visiting directors. |
Grantee Name: Salem Art Works Organization Popular Name: Salem Art Works Sponsored Organization: City: Salem State: NY Zip: 12865-3000 Amount: $10,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Creation Category: Art Works Project Description: To support a summer artist residency program. Additional Project Description: Resident artists will receive room and board, studio space, and access to all equipment and facilities, which includes a welding bay, iron and bronze foundry, blacksmith shop, print studio, glass shop, wood shop, ceramic shop and fabrication shop. Public programs such as workshops, demonstrations, performances, and exhibitions will engage the community with contemporary art and artists. |
Grantee Name: Foundation for Independent Artists, Inc. Organization Popular Name: FIA Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10004-3237 Amount: $40,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the creation, presentation, and touring of works by several dance artists. Additional Project Description: Art Bridgman & Myrna Packer will tour "Truck." Beth Gill will create and premiere a new work in conjunction with the exhibition, "Merce Cunningham: Common Time." John Heginbotham will create and premiere "we recognized each other because we knew each other." Pam Tanowitz will create and premiere "New Work for Goldberg Variations." |
Grantee Name: Eyebeam Atelier, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Eyebeam Sponsored Organization: City: Brooklyn State: NY Zip: 11232-2204 Amount: $20,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Creation Category: Art Works Project Description: To support artist residencies. Additional Project Description: Research and project resident artists will be provided with studio space and administrative support. Artists will be encouraged to share their work with the public through exhibitions and installations, performances, panel discussions, workshops, hackathons, and other opportunities to introduce the work to a broad audience. |
Grantee Name: Franklin Furnace Archive, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Franklin Furnace Sponsored Organization: City: Brooklyn State: NY Zip: 11205-7501 Amount: $25,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support a series of arts education workshops. Additional Project Description: Workshops led by teaching artists will introduce elementary school teachers to the concept of "peripheral thinking" as defined by the contemporary South African artist William Kentridge. The concept encourages children to combine contextual data from all five of their senses when learning, making the absorption of information related to science, history, and math more interactive and memorable. The project will include planning sessions with administrators, classroom teachers, and teaching artists; lesson planning with individual teachers; and ongoing assessment. |
Grantee Name: Genspace NYC, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Genspace Sponsored Organization: City: Brooklyn State: NY Zip: 11217-1101 Amount: $33,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the Biodesign Challenge. Additional Project Description: The design competition and summit invites students from university art and design programs around the United States to envision how to use biotechnology in areas such as energy, materials, and medicine. The challenge concludes with the Biodesign Summit, where top teams from each school showcase their ideas to an audience of designers, scientists, artists, industrial partners, and "Popular Science" magazine staff. Designs also will be featured at events (including Biofabricate 2017), partnering museums (including the Museum of Modern Art), galleries, and on an ongoing Popular Science blog. |
Grantee Name: Groundswell Community Mural Project, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Groundswell Sponsored Organization: City: Brooklyn State: NY Zip: 11215-1439 Amount: $45,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Learning Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the Summer Leadership Institute. Additional Project Description: Under the guidance of professional artists, teens from underserved communities will create large-scale public artworks themed on critical issues in their own neighborhoods. Youth will learn about public art, artists, and artmaking traditions while engaging in sequential skill-building activities that build technical skills in composition and artmaking in a variety of media. |
Grantee Name: International Studio & Curatorial Program Organization Popular Name: ISCP Sponsored Organization: City: Brooklyn State: NY Zip: 11211-2711 Amount: $20,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support an artist residency program, exhibit and accompanying publication. Additional Project Description: The project will address the relationship between documentary practices and ethics in contemporary art with a particular emphasis on the manipulation of journalistic photographs and video. The commissioned work will be featured in an exhibition that will include a publication and accompanying public programs. |
Grantee Name: Issue Project Room, Inc. Organization Popular Name: ISSUE Project Room Sponsored Organization: City: Brooklyn State: NY Zip: 11238-3382 Amount: $15,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Creation Category: Art Works Project Description: To support Artists-In-Residence 2017. Additional Project Description: The program will provide artists working across the disciplines of music, sound art, performance art, and dance with yearlong residencies which will include a stipend and rehearsal space, as well as marketing, curatorial, and technical support. During the course of the residency period, recipient artists will premiere new works in free public performance events in New York City. |
Grantee Name: JazzReach Performing Art & Education Association Organization Popular Name: JazzReach Sponsored Organization: City: Brooklyn State: NY Zip: 11201-1076 Amount: $20,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support educational programming. Additional Project Description: Presentations in rural, suburban, and urban communities across the nation will integrate live music by JazzReach's resident ensemble Metta Quintet with live narration, video projections, lighting design, interactive post-show discussions. Supplementary activities may include clinics and master classes for student musicians and ensembles. Several distinct programs, as well as a two-week JazzReach Summer Institute, will foster greater awareness, appreciation, and understanding of the American jazz tradition and are available for students grades K-12. |
Grantee Name: Nafis, Angel A. Organization Popular Name: Sponsored Organization: City: Brooklyn State: NY Zip: 11226-1886 Amount: $25,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Creation Category: Literature Fellowships: Creative Writing Project Description: Additional Project Description: |
Grantee Name: New Amsterdam Presents Organization Popular Name: NewAm Sponsored Organization: City: Brooklyn State: NY Zip: 11205-2426 Amount: $15,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support a performance project. Additional Project Description: The artists' service organization will partner with National Sawdust, a Brooklyn-based, artist-led, nonprofit venue, in a project titled New Amsterdam Presents Record Release Performance Series. Programming will feature theGrammy Award-winning vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth, the JACK Quartet, the Jasper Quartet, and the percussion trio Tigue. |
Grantee Name: New Art Publications, Inc. Organization Popular Name: BOMB Magazine Sponsored Organization: City: Brooklyn State: NY Zip: 11217-2997 Amount: $35,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the publication of "BOMB Magazine." Additional Project Description: Visual art content for the quarterly publication will highlight the work of selected artists, both in print and online, through the presentation of interviews, artist portfolios, artist-generated texts, and new literature including fiction and poetry. Through collaborative dialogue, artists working across various genres and media reveal their ideas, concerns, and creative processes. The magazine's content is digitized and indexed into a searchable, online-archived resource. |
Grantee Name: Historic Saranac Lake Organization Popular Name: Sponsored Organization: City: Saranac Lake State: NY Zip: 12983-1833 Amount: $20,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Creation Category: Art Works Project Description: To support design and planning for the Traveling Cure Porch. Additional Project Description: The first phase of the project includes the design of a sturdy, low-cost, mobile space to be used for various arts and culture events and planning for future programming of the space. It draws upon the American cultural tradition of the porch as a public and private community space and the specific local context of the cure porch in Saranac Lake, where tens of thousands of people visited in the 19th-century for the "fresh air cure" for tuberculosis. Historic Saranac Lake endeavors to strengthen community ties by creating an intimate venue that reflects local design heritage and offers a space where residents and tourists meet to exchange ideas and experience the arts. |
Grantee Name: Foundry Theatre, Inc. Organization Popular Name: The Foundry Theatre Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10003-8385 Amount: $10,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the development and production of "Master" by W. David Hancock. Additional Project Description: The play, inspired by Mark Twain's "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," tells the story of a celebrated African-American artist known as Uncle Jimmy who created a lifetime of art works out of his retelling of the book. On the first anniversary of his death, his son, a Mark Twain impersonator, and his companion, Edna Finn, the self-proclaimed last living descendant of Huckleberry Finn, survey Uncle Jimmy's artistic output. Part lecture-demonstration, dreamscape, and vaudeville routine, the play explores the mysteries held by collective memory and things hidden in our cultural psychic archives. |
Grantee Name: Corporation of Yaddo Organization Popular Name: Yaddo Sponsored Organization: City: Saratoga Springs State: NY Zip: 12866-0395 Amount: $20,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Creation Category: Art Works Project Description: To support residencies for collaborative teams from all artistic disciplines. Additional Project Description: Artist teams will utilize a multipurpose studio building with workspaces particularly conducive to collaborative work that crosses disciplines, defies traditional styles, and requires fully concentrated time in a shared space. Working in conjunction with local schools and libraries, Yaddo will provide volunteer opportunities for artists to engage with the community through readings and/or exhibitions. |
Grantee Name: French Institute Alliance Francaise Organization Popular Name: FIAF Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10022-1011 Amount: $10,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the Crossing the Line Festival. Additional Project Description: The festival will present interdisciplinary performances and events throughout New York City by national and international artists. Featured artists include theater artist Aaron Landsman, choreographer Padmini Chettur (India), choreographer Faustin Linyekula (Congo), theater artist Tiago Rodrigues (Portugal), theater artist Adelheid Roosen (The Netherlands), choreographer Bouchra Ouizguen (Morocco/France), and theater artists Daria Deflorian and Antonio Tagliarini (Italy). |
Grantee Name: Trustees of Union College in the Town of Schenectady in the State of New York Organization Popular Name: Union College Sponsored Organization: Union College Concert Series City: Schenectady State: NY Zip: 12308-3256 Amount: $10,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the presentation of solo and chamber music performances by the Union College Concert Series. Additional Project Description: Titled Idyll and Abyss: The Late Works of Schubert, the project will explore the later works of Franz Schubert, including song cycles and impromptus. Programming will feature artists such as pianists Misuko Uchida and Jonathan Biss, tenor Mark Padmore, the Doric Quartet, as well as musicians from the Curtis Institute of Music. Additional activities will include educational and community engagement events, such as free pre-concert lectures (that will be live-streamed and archived) and free performances in nontraditional venues. |
Grantee Name: Friends of + POOL Organization Popular Name: Plus POOL Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10013-4636 Amount: $30,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support Light + POOL, a public art installation in the East River. Additional Project Description: The project is a precursor to the planned installation of + POOL, a water filtering, floating swimming pool that cleans natural water systems and is currently being designed for installation in New York City. The art installation will trace the exact size, 200 feet x 200 feet, and "plus" shape of the future pool, with LED-illuminated buoys staggered every four feet that illuminate and change in color based on the quality of the water in real time. |
Grantee Name: Thalia Spanish Theatre,Inc. Organization Popular Name: Sponsored Organization: City: Sunnyside State: NY Zip: 11104-3007 Amount: $10,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Creation Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the world premiere production of "TANGOmenaje: A Celebration of La Cumparsita's Centennial." Additional Project Description: With original music composed, arranged, and performed by Bandoneon maestro Raul Juarena, the work will focus on the song "La Cumparsita." Written in 1916 by Uruguayan musician Gerardo Matos Rodriguez, with lyrics by Pascual Contursi and Enrique Pedro Maroni, "La Cumparsita" is among the most famous and recognizable tangos. |
Grantee Name: Friends of the High Line Organization Popular Name: Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10014-1406 Amount: $40,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Creation Category: Art Works Project Description: To support a series of public art installations for the High Line Park in New York City. Additional Project Description: As part of the series, artists will be selected to create new work using a broad variety of media, from traditional sculptural media to sound installation and performance. The artworks, installed for one year, will explore the theme of the interplay between nature, humans, and technology, which traverse the precarious balance between the natural and the man-made, drawing inspiration from the High Line itself--a hybrid space with industrial origins and a vibrant ecosystem. Community outreach programming will be developed, including field trips for public school students, in-school and after-school partnerships, and informal drop-in activities for families. |
Grantee Name: Verlee Harris Khadan, Jeanann Organization Popular Name: Sponsored Organization: City: Sunnyside State: NY Zip: 11104-2520 Amount: $25,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Creation Category: Literature Fellowships: Creative Writing Project Description: Additional Project Description: |
Grantee Name: Games for Change Organization Popular Name: G4C Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10017-5706 Amount: $25,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the 14th Games for Change Festival and Games and Media Summit. Additional Project Description: Designers, developers, practitioners, educators, entrepreneurs, and other experts will convene during the Games for Change Festival for panels, showcases, and discussions focused on the creation of digital games for social change. The Games and Media Summit is a day-long event featuring game designers, researchers, and artists advancing games in the media arts field. |
Grantee Name: CNY Arts, Inc. Organization Popular Name: CNY Arts Sponsored Organization: City: Syracuse State: NY Zip: 13202-2921 Amount: $30,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support a regional marketing campaign. Additional Project Description: New online video marketing and television ads created by local artists and filmmakers will supplement existing web, radio, and print campaigns celebrating the arts, culture, history and heritage in Central New York. The video content will highlight CNY Arts' service region as an arts and cultural draw, promote the region's online cultural calendar, and encourage broader participation in the arts. These video and television marketing efforts will support the organization's long-term economic, engagement, and tourism goals identified through a cultural planning process. |
Grantee Name: George Balanchine Foundation, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10023-6913 Amount: $20,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Learning Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the filming of new coaching sessions for the Balanchine Video Archives. Additional Project Description: The Video Archives were devised to capture the first-hand memories and insights of dancers who worked with George Balanchine. The dancers are filmed coaching young dancers in their roles, and are then interviewed by a dance critic or historian to discuss Balanchine's ideas and his impact upon the dancers. An archival product is created and master recordings are deposited in the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. The videos are electronically available to educational systems everywhere through Alexander Street Press. |
Grantee Name: Erie Canal Museum Organization Popular Name: Sponsored Organization: City: Syracuse State: NY Zip: 13202-1106 Amount: $60,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the Heartland Passage Tour. Additional Project Description: The tour will celebrate the folklife, occupational traditions, and history of the area through screenings of "Boom and Bust: America's Journey on the Erie Canal." The screenings will be augmented by live performances from storytellers featured in the film and a group of traditional musicians who will perform music from the region. Performances will be staged on a refurbished canal barge and are expected to travel to as many as eight cities, twons & villages along the canal. |
Grantee Name: Global Action Project, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Global Action Project (G.A.P.) Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10001-7406 Amount: $20,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Learning Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the Urban Voices media arts program. Additional Project Description: Professional media artists will work with youth from underserved communities in digital media production to create group and individual media arts projects. The project will culminate in a public screening of student work for families, friends, and peers to view media and engage youth in dialogue about their films. |
Grantee Name: Light Work Visual Studies, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Light Work Sponsored Organization: City: Syracuse State: NY Zip: 13210-2456 Amount: $40,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Creation Category: Art Works Project Description: To support a residency program for artists, and publication of their work in "Contact Sheet: The Light Work Annual." Additional Project Description: Emerging, local, and international artists working in photography or electronic media will be invited for month-long residencies that include facility and equipment access, housing, a stipend, publication of their work, and inclusion of their work on Light Work's online image database. Contact Sheet: The Light Work Annual is distributed to select curators, directors, educators, critics, publishers, and galleries worldwide. |
Grantee Name: Glover, Kaiama L. Organization Popular Name: Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10013-2000 Amount: $12,500 Intended Outcome (Primary): Creation Category: Literature Fellowships: Translation Projects Project Description: To support the translation from the French of the novel "Hadriana in All My Dreams" by Haitian writer Rene Depestre. Additional Project Description: A peer of some of the most seminal political and intellectual figures of the 20th century, Depestre (b. 1926) was the founder of an anti-establishment newspaper in Haiti that landed him in prison and led to the overthrow of the Haitian government in 1946. Exiled from Haiti, he moved to other countries throughout his life where he was similarly driven out due to his politics, including the Czech Republic, Italy, Cuba, and France, where he was allowed to return and currently resides. Published in 1988, All My Dreams is about a young French girl who collapses at the altar in the middle of her wedding to a local Haitian boy during Carnival in 1938. Her wedding day becomes her funeral. She is buried by the town but revived by an evil sorcerer. The book was immediately translated into Spanish, Italian, German, Dutch, Danish, and Polish, but has never been translated into English. |
Grantee Name: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Organization Popular Name: RPI Sponsored Organization: Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center City: Troy State: NY Zip: 12180-3522 Amount: $20,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Creation Category: Art Works Project Description: To support artist residencies at the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center. Additional Project Description: Artists from a number of disciplines will use the center's facilities to create works investigating the intersection of art, media, technology, and science. Artists will be provided with rehearsal and production space, technological support, lodging, and artist fees. Selected artists participating in residencies will include media artist in collaboration with choreographers Raushan Mitchel and Silas Reiner, multidisciplinary artists/choreographers Brennan Gerard and Ryan Kelly, composer Enno Poppe (Germany),multidisciplinary artist Laure Provost, composer Kate Soper, multimedia artist Isabelle Pauwels, choreographer Mary Armentrout, choreographer Trajal Harrell, and multidisciplinary artist Andrew Schneider in collaboration with sound designer Bobby McElver. |
Grantee Name: Group I Acting Company, Inc. Organization Popular Name: The Acting Company Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10036-4752 Amount: $15,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the tour of "Julius Caesar" and "Caesar X." Additional Project Description: The Acting Company will tour two fully produced productions including Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" and the world premiere of "Caesar X," a new commission by Marcus Gardley about the life and assassination of Malcolm X. Together these plays will offer a dynamic and stark contrast between ancient Rome and Civil Rights-era America and draw vivid parallels between two forceful political leaders who lived two thousand years apart. The company will inspire audiences to reassess racial oppression, religious bigotry, and political assassination. |
Grantee Name: Westchester Arts Council, Inc. Organization Popular Name: ArtsWestchester Sponsored Organization: City: White Plains State: NY Zip: 10601-3328 Amount: $25,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the exhibition "Modern Families." Additional Project Description: ArtsWestchester will mount the exhibition, which will be a visual exploration of the modern American family. The exhibition will pair family portraits by the late Harlem Renaissance photographer James Van Der Zee with works by contemporary and regional photographers. "Modern Families" will explore the diverse faces and facets of the American family during the last century. Works such as photographs and mixed-media installations will show the diversity of contemporary families in aspects such as culture, race, and composition. The project will feature commissions by painter and photographer Barry Mason. |
Grantee Name: Guernica Inc. Organization Popular Name: Guernica Magazine Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10001-6243 Amount: $10,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the publication of the online magazine "Guernica," and related activities. Additional Project Description: Guernica publishes reportage, narrative, memoir, fiction, and poetry from both established and emerging writers. In addition to releasing its online magazine twice a month, "Guernica" provides new content each day on its website and releases quarterly themed special issues. |
Grantee Name: One Story, Incorporated Organization Popular Name: One Story Sponsored Organization: City: Brooklyn State: NY Zip: 11215-2714 Amount: $10,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the publication of "One Teen Story." Additional Project Description: Geared to readers of young adult fiction, the publication follows a unique model of distributng one new short story to subscribers each month. Each story, which goes through a rigorous editorial process, is published as a chapbook with an illustrated cover and is available in both print and electronic formats. |
Grantee Name: Open Source Gallery, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Open Source Gallery Sponsored Organization: City: Brooklyn State: NY Zip: 11215-5415 Amount: $20,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support a series of exhibitions with an emphasis on international exchange. Additional Project Description: Participating artists will use historic imagery to explore contemporary issues in their work and include Sana Obaid (United Arab Emirates), Liinu Gronlund (Finland), Kimberly Mayhorn (United States), as well as a theme-based exhibition curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud (United States). Each exhibition will include an artist presentation and a moderated lecture series. |
Grantee Name: Opening Act, Inc Organization Popular Name: Opening Act Sponsored Organization: City: Brooklyn State: NY Zip: 11201-5915 Amount: $20,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Learning Category: Art Works Project Description: To support staff salaries and administrative costs for the After-School Theater Program. Additional Project Description: Taught by professional teaching artists, youth from underserved communities across New York City will be guided through a free, year-long program that uses improvisation, acting games, and writing exercises to develop creativity, collaboration, and acting and improvisational techniques. During Saturday Master Class, students will learn how to audition for college theater programs, take part in a workshop on the process of applying for college and financial aid, and engage in mentoring sessions with professionals in the field. Select students will be invited to audition for the Summer Theater Arts and Leadership Conservatory and to join the Student Leadership Council. The culmination of the program is an original production, created and performed by the students in professional theaters. |
Grantee Name: Opera on Tap Organization Popular Name: Sponsored Organization: City: Brooklyn State: NY Zip: 11218-2408 Amount: $10,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Learning Category: Art Works Project Description: To support The Playground Operas. Additional Project Description: In keeping with the organization's mission to bring opera to audiences (rather than audiences to opera), an opera performance designed specifically for the playground will reach students, families, and local community members that pass the schoolyard on a daily basis. Elementary school students will be immersed in the creation, production, and performance of an opera. Professional performers will serve as teaching artists working with students in the school. The program will culminate in performances on the school's playground and will feature students alongside professional opera singers accompanied by a chamber ensemble. |
Grantee Name: Parker, Morgan Organization Popular Name: Sponsored Organization: City: Brooklyn State: NY Zip: 11216-2205 Amount: $25,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Creation Category: Literature Fellowships: Creative Writing Project Description: Additional Project Description: |
Grantee Name: Performance Space 122, Inc. Organization Popular Name: PS122 Sponsored Organization: City: Brooklyn State: NY Zip: 11222-2098 Amount: $20,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Creation Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the presentation of new works at the COIL Festival. Additional Project Description: PS122 will commission and present works from artists in disciplines including dance, theater, and performance art. Featured artists may include choreographer Antony Hamilton (Australia), theater artist Yehuda Duenyas, crossdisciplinary artist Yara Travieso, and choreographers Molly Lieber and Eleanor Smith. |
Grantee Name: Pratt Institute Organization Popular Name: Sponsored Organization: City: Brooklyn State: NY Zip: 11205-3817 Amount: $25,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Learning Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the Pratt Young Scholars Program. Additional Project Description: Teenagers from underserved communities will attend Pratt Institute's Saturday Art School and the Design Initiative for Community Empowerment (DICE), an after-school program that introduces youth to design. In addition to participating in a sequential visual arts education program, students will participate in a college readiness program and a mentorship program. Additionally, students have access to a career exploration program designed to equip participants for post-secondary success. |
Grantee Name: Residency Unlimited Inc. Organization Popular Name: RU Sponsored Organization: City: Brooklyn State: NY Zip: 11231-4351 Amount: $20,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Creation Category: Art Works Project Description: To support an artist residency program. Additional Project Description: Participating artists will receive project management, logistical and technical support, access to studio space, and the opportunity for weekly curatorial studio visits. All applications are reviewed by a panel that includes other artists, art administrators, independent curators, and advisers. Each residency will last approximately three months and will conclude with a public presentation of the artists' new work. |
Grantee Name: Rooftop Films, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Rooftop Films Sponsored Organization: City: Brooklyn State: NY Zip: 11215-2714 Amount: $65,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the 2017 Summer Series, held in outdoor settings throughout the New York City region. Additional Project Description: Screenings of feature-length and short independent films are accompanied by live music, performances, and question-and-answer sessions with guest artists. Films presented are either New York or U.S. premieres. |
Grantee Name: Roulette Intermedium, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Roulette Sponsored Organization: City: Brooklyn State: NY Zip: 11217-1897 Amount: $25,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Creation Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the GENERATE new works development program. Additional Project Description: GENERATE will assist artists in the creation and presentation of new works through commissioning fees, rehearsal space, production support, technical assistance, publicity, and documentation of their work. The program will support composers, choreographers, and multidisciplinary artists. |
Grantee Name: Center for Photography at Woodstock, Inc. Organization Popular Name: CPW Sponsored Organization: City: Woodstock State: NY Zip: 12498-1236 Amount: $20,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Creation Category: Art Works Project Description: To support a residency program for photographers. Additional Project Description: A peer review panel will select artists to receive studio, darkroom, and equipment access, a stipend, and lodging and meals. Established in 1999, the annual program provides American artists, with an emphasis on artists of color, working in photography with one-month residencies. A curator or critic also will be selected to enable him or her to advance individual research. |
Grantee Name: Harvestworks, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10012-3396 Amount: $15,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Creation Category: Art Works Project Description: To support artist residencies. Additional Project Description: Artists from various disciplines will receive commissioning fees and training to create new works in emerging technologies, such as biosensors, immersive audio and video, camera and eye tracking systems, data sonification and visualization, apps for smartphones and tablets, and new computer interfaces and controllers. Harvestworks also will offer project management support and group tutorials. |
Grantee Name: Maverick Concerts, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Sponsored Organization: City: Woodstock State: NY Zip: 12498-0009 Amount: $20,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support a mini-festival of new chamber music. Additional Project Description: The mini-festival titled New Foundations: Toward a Modern Chamber Music Repertoire will be curated by Music Director Alexander Platt and presented during the 102nd annual summer festival. Programming will feature performances of chamber music works spanning the last 30 years by American composers such as Jennifer Higdon, Aaron Jay Kernis, Daniel Hagen, Gabriela Lena Frank, and Gerard McBurney. Artists participating in the mini-festival will include the Chiara, ETHEL, Harlem, Jupiter, and Parker string quartets, as well as Trio Solisti. Festival performances, mini residencies, and community engagement events will be held in rural Ulster County, New York. |
Grantee Name: Henry Street Settlement Organization Popular Name: Abrons Arts Center Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10002-4808 Amount: $15,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the presentation of multidisciplinary performances. Additional Project Description: The Abrons Arts Center will present work by artists in disciplines including theater,and dance. Featured presentations will include works by the Target Margin Theater ensemble, New York City Players, and choreographer Jan Martens (The Netherlands). |
Grantee Name: Bennett, Joshua B. Organization Popular Name: Sponsored Organization: City: Yonkers State: NY Zip: 10705-4017 Amount: $25,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Creation Category: Literature Fellowships: Creative Writing Project Description: Additional Project Description: |
Grantee Name: Hester Street Collaborative Inc. Organization Popular Name: Hester Street Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10002-5203 Amount: $40,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the development of a place-based community health plan for the Rockaway area of New York City. Additional Project Description: Hester Street staff and community partner organizations will engage local residents in the creation of a local community health plan that addresses critical healthcare access problems and long-term equity issues. The project will focus its efforts on local low-income public housing residents in Arverne and Edgemere, two high-need neighborhoods heavily impacted by Hurricane Sandy in New York City's borough of Queens. |
Grantee Name: City of Yonkers, New York Organization Popular Name: Sponsored Organization: Department of Planning & Development City: Yonkers State: NY Zip: 10701-3926 Amount: $20,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Creation Category: Art Works Project Description: To support a site-specific, public art project to commemorate the emancipation of a group of 18th-century enslaved Africans from the region. Additional Project Description: The creation of a portion of a life-sized bronze sculpture by local artist Vinnie Bagwell will be part of "The Enslaved Africans' Rain Garden" initiative in downtown Yonkers. The sculpture will illustrate the breadth of slavery's impact on women, men, elders, and children. The artist will give talks and an open studio for the community will be conducted during the Rain Garden's creation. Arts-integrated workshops for multicultural youth will provide exposure to an art medium not taught in local public schools. An exhibition is planned at the state museum in Albany. |
Grantee Name: Hip Hop Theater Festival Organization Popular Name: Hi-ARTS Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10029-6801 Amount: $10,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Challenge America Project Description: To support the development and presentation of a new play by Chinaka Hodge, "Chasing Mehserle," with related activities. Additional Project Description: Based on a 2009 shooting of an African-American man by a BART police officer in San Francisco, the work will incorporate a curated series of community-based conversations and post-show discussions, linking public dialogue about this topic to the new work. The artists will spend two weeks in residence to continue development of this work. The audience is primarily comprised from the neighborhood of East Harlem, New York. |
Grantee Name: Home for Contemporary Theatre and Art, Ltd. Organization Popular Name: HERE Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10013-1548 Amount: $60,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the HERE Artist Residency Program. Additional Project Description: The project will focus on mid-career performing and visual artists. Resident artists will collaborate and experiment with new approaches that expand the parameters of performance work. The development of participating artists' work will be nurtured through cross-disciplinary exchange, workshops, panel discussions, artist retreats, career development services, and productions. |
Grantee Name: House Foundation for the Arts, Inc. Organization Popular Name: The House Foundation Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10013-2260 Amount: $20,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the presentation and touring of new and existing works by Meredith Monk. Additional Project Description: Monk and her Vocal Ensemble will present her new work, "Cellular Songs," a music-theater piece that weaves together vocal and instrumental music, choreography, and video installations at various venues throughout the United States. Monk's ensemble also will present her existing work "A Celebration Service," which draws on a variety of musical traditions and includes chants and songs, choreography, and readings from multicultural texts. Local artists also will perform with Monk and her ensemble throughout the tour. |
Grantee Name: Hudson Guild Organization Popular Name: n/a Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10001-5629 Amount: $15,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Creation Category: Art Works Project Description: To support performances of "La Pazza Vita" (The Crazy Life). Additional Project Description: The Hudson Guild Theatre Company will collaborate with the dance company Matthew Westerby Company and the Bindlestiff Family Cirkus to create a new work inspired by Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini. The piece will feature circus arts, contemporary dance, and theater performed by an intergenerational cast of local residents and professional artists. |
Grantee Name: Inta, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Eiko Otake Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10004-2415 Amount: $40,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the presentation of Eiko Otake's solo project, "A Body in Places." Additional Project Description: Eiko has designed her work for non-theatrical spaces where no barriers separate performer from viewer. Perormances will take place at Topaz Arts in Queens, the Cathedral of Saint John the Divine in Manhattan, and in other New York City landmarks such as the Met/Breuer Building and The Cloisters, as part of the Performa 2017 Festival. |
Grantee Name: International Center of Photography Organization Popular Name: ICP Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10036-7703 Amount: $50,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the exhibition "Magnum Manifesto." Additional Project Description: The exhibition will highlight the work of more than 60 masters, including Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, Susan Meiselas, Gilles Peress, Martin Parr, Thomas Dworzak, Alessandra Sanguinetti, and Alec Soth. Founded in 1947 by Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and several others, Magnum Photos championed the responsibility and power of photography to bear witness to and raise public awareness of critical events. Drawing from seven decades of work to explore the tension between documentary values, creative potential of photography, and examining social and political issues, the exhibition will include iconic images from the Civil Rights movement and various wars from the 20th century. Public programming will include lectures, panels, and tours. |
Grantee Name: International Foundation for Art Research, Inc. Organization Popular Name: IFAR Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10110-0902 Amount: $30,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the publication of the "IFAR Journal" and initial development of a digital version. Additional Project Description: IFAR Journal discusses scholarly, legal, and ethical issues concerning the ownership, transfer, and authenticity of art objects. Published quarterly since 1998, the journal covers a range of art world issues such as attribution/authenticity; ownership; theft; provenance; and other legal, ethical, and scholarly matters concerning art objects. Each issue also contains the "Stolen Art Alert," which has enabled the recovery of scores of stolen art works. Development of a digital version will enable the journal to reach a larger audience. |
Grantee Name: Search and Restore Inc. Organization Popular Name: Search and Restore Sponsored Organization: City: Brooklyn State: NY Zip: 11218-4209 Amount: $10,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support artist and administration fees for Winter Jazzfest. Additional Project Description: The festival will feature more than 100 performances by as many as 400 artists in various Greenwich Village venues such as the New School. The multi-night festival will take place concomitant with the Association of Performing Arts Presenters' conference and will focus on developing new audiences for jazz and improvisational music. |
Grantee Name: Searls, Damion Organization Popular Name: Sponsored Organization: City: Brooklyn State: NY Zip: 11215-1394 Amount: $12,500 Intended Outcome (Primary): Creation Category: Literature Fellowships: Translation Projects Project Description: To support the translation from the German of the sci-fi adventure novel "Mountains Seas and Giants" by Alfred Doblin. Additional Project Description: Doblin (1878-1957) was a German-Jewish war-time doctor, psychiatrist, public intellectual, and giant of 20th-century literature along with his friends Bertolt Brecht and Thomas Mann. Despite his immensely prolific writing career with an oeuvre of 30 large volumes, he was known largely for a single book, Berlin Alexanderplatz, after which he was forced into exile by the Nazis. Published in 1924, his 630-page novel, Mountains Seas and Giants, is a history of war-torn civilization and the conflict between technology and nature, from the aftermath of World War I into the 27th century. It presciently describes ecological catastrophe, mass migrations, state surveillance, terrorism, genetic engineering, and biological warfare. Gunter Grass described it as "Doblin's great, exalted novel, forgotten and awaiting rediscovery, written as though in visionary overdrive." This will be the first time it appears in English. |
Grantee Name: St. Ann's Warehouse,Inc. Organization Popular Name: St. Ann's Sponsored Organization: City: Brooklyn State: NY Zip: 11201-1052 Amount: $40,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Creation Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the Time and Space initiative. Additional Project Description: The project employs a model of producing and presenting that offers enhanced development periods, production resources, and extended performance engagements of new works. Works produced under the initiative will include The Donmar Warehouse's "The Tempest," Phyllida Lloyd's final production in a trilogy of all-female Shakespearean productions, and Kneehigh Theater's "946: The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips," a new play that explores the little known history of Black GIs stationed in Cornwall as D-Day approaches. |
Grantee Name: Triangle Arts Association Limited Organization Popular Name: Triangle Arts Association Sponsored Organization: City: Brooklyn State: NY Zip: 11201-8322 Amount: $25,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Creation Category: Art Works Project Description: To support residencies for visual artists and related activities. Additional Project Description: The program will support residencies for artists of diverse backgrounds with an emphasis on the creation of community and cross-cultural exchange. To accompany the residencies, Triangle Arts Association will host open studio weekends, lectures, artist talks, screenings, exhibitions, curator-led tours, and educational activities that are free and open to the public. |
Grantee Name: Ugly Duckling Presse, Ltd. Organization Popular Name: Ugly Duckling Presse Sponsored Organization: City: Brooklyn State: NY Zip: 11215-2700 Amount: $10,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the publication and promotion of books of poetry and prose, including work in translation and texts in hybrid forms. Additional Project Description: Planned titles will be released through the press's Emerging Writers Program; Eastern European Poets Series; Lost Literature Series; Emergency Playscripts Series, which presents scripts that can expand the practice of theater; and Dossier Series, which presents work with a unique investigative impulse. Books will be promoted through the website, an e-newsletter, social media, and other means. |
Grantee Name: UnionDocs, Inc. Organization Popular Name: UnionDocs Sponsored Organization: City: Brooklyn State: NY Zip: 11211-6944 Amount: $20,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the Documentary Bodega Series. Additional Project Description: The multimedia presentations in this series combine film, video, audio, photography, writing, and performance work based on nonfiction storytelling, accompanied by discussions with guest artists or subject experts. |
Grantee Name: Buffalo Media Resources, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Squeaky Wheel Sponsored Organization: City: Buffalo State: NY Zip: 14203-1419 Amount: $15,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Learning Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the Buffalo Youth Media Institute. Additional Project Description: Under guidance of teaching artists, students explore digital media tools and techniques through an intensive, project-based curriculum to cultivate critical 21st-century skillsets, such as digital literacy, innovation, collaboration, and creativity. Completed student artworks will be exhibited at various community venues and project partner sites. |
Grantee Name: Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra Society, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra (BPO) Sponsored Organization: City: Buffalo State: NY Zip: 14202-1121 Amount: $10,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support An American Siddhartha, a program of music and dance. Additional Project Description: Based on Hermann Hesse's novel, the collaborative project will be developed in partnership with the Lehrer Dance Company. The program will represent a re-imagining of a dance concept explored previously by Founder and Artistic Director Jon Lehrer with new choreography set to orchestral music drawn from existing repertoire. Led by Music Director JoAnn Falletta, the performance will take place at the Center for the Arts on the University at Buffalo North Campus in Amherst, New York. |
Grantee Name: Center for Exploratory and Perceptual Arts Organization Popular Name: CEPA Gallery Sponsored Organization: City: Buffalo State: NY Zip: 14203-1400 Amount: $15,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Learning Category: Art Works Project Description: To support CEPA Gallery's in-school programs in Buffalo Public Schools. Additional Project Description: Students will create and exhibit multidisciplinary works of art as they hone visual literacy, creative writing, and critical thinking skills. Project activities will support Buffalo Promise Neighborhood goals to promote community revitalization with strong school partnerships. |
Grantee Name: Just Buffalo Literary Center, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Sponsored Organization: City: Buffalo State: NY Zip: 14203-1400 Amount: $70,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Creativity Connects Project Description: To support Read | Seed | Write, a unique cross-sector collaborative project that will explore the intersection between literature and community gardening, in partnership with Grassroots Gardens of Buffalo. Additional Project Description: With activities in several geographically and socially diverse neighborhoods in Buffalo, Read | Seed | Write will bring poetry into community gardens through permanent installations of poetic public art, readings by locally and nationally significant poets, and writing workshops for youth. The project will create a forum for increased discussion about contemporary art and its ability to foster community revitalization, respect for the natural world, and individual self-sufficiency. The goals of the project are to honor and promote neighborhood resilience while making the literary arts visible and participatory, and drawing attention to the very real need for urban access to healthy food and the larger issues of sustainable gardening and environmental ethics. |
Grantee Name: Jazz Foundation of America, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Jazz Foundation of America Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10036-1308 Amount: $15,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the Gig Fund program. Additional Project Description: Free-of-charge blues and jazz performances in non-traditional performance spaces in selected cities will be curated to connect underserved artists with underserved audiences. Each engagement will be at least an hour-long and feature musicians with demonstrated financial need who reside in the participating cities. |
Grantee Name: Jazz Gallery Organization Popular Name: Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10021-0012 Amount: $20,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support expansion of the Debut Series. Additional Project Description: The program will offer expanded opportunities for emerging artists including: a mentorship component pairing emerging artists with seasoned jazz musicians, business and marketing skills training, performance opportunities at the Jazz Gallery and selected partner venues, and the opportunity to use the venue's rehearsal or workshop space at no charge. |
Grantee Name: Jazz at Lincoln Center, Inc. Organization Popular Name: JALC Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10463-9998 Amount: $50,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support two distinct Jazz at Lincoln Center performance series. Additional Project Description: The Jazz and Popular Song Series, curated by pianist Michael Feinstein, will include concerts: The Unforgettable Nat King Cole; The Music of Mel Torme; and Ella on My Mind, a celebration of Ella Fitzgerald. The Jazz Innovator Series will include The Latin Side of Dizzy with Carlos Henriquez program dedicated to Dizzy Gillespie's Latin Jazz-inspired repertoire; Round Midnight: Monk's Legacy concert with two featured pianists, teenage prodigy Joey Alexander from Indonesia and Sullivan Fortner from New Orleans; and, saxophonist Joshua Redman and his Still Dreaming Quartet interpreting repertoire from the Old and New Dreams Quartet which had featured Redman's saxophonist father, Dewey Redman. Ancillary educational activities include free pre-concert lectures aimed at increasing the audience's understanding of and apprecation for the featured musical program. |
Grantee Name: Jewish Museum Organization Popular Name: Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10128-0118 Amount: $35,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the retrospective exhibition of American painter, designer and poet Florine Stettheimer. Additional Project Description: The exhibition will comprise more than 50 paintings and drawings, theater designs, ephemera, and poetry by American modernist Florine Stettheimer (1871-1944). Organized in four sections that examine historical context, symbolic allusions, iconic figures, landmarks, as well as theater and set design, the exhibition will include her collaboration with Virgil Thomson and Gertrude Stein on the 1934 opera, "Four Saints in Three Acts." Lectures with exhibition curators and Modern American art scholars, a family festival, and tours designed especially for individuals with learning or developmental disabilities are planned. A catalogue also will be produced. |
Grantee Name: Joyce Theater Foundation, Inc. Organization Popular Name: The Joyce Theater; The Joyce Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10011-1694 Amount: $100,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the Dance Presentation Program. Additional Project Description: The Joyce will present a mix of established and emerging dance companies from the United States and abroad. Each company will receive a performance opportunity that is designed to promote their work while connecting them with the audience. Programs to encourage deeper involvement may include post-performance Curtain Chats with most companies, engaging youth and young adults through master classes and through Joyce Ambassadors, weekend Family Matinee performances for children and families, and special outreach experiences such as free lecture-discussions and dance workshops. |
Grantee Name: Kyle Abraham Abraham In Motion Organization Popular Name: AIM Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10011-4001 Amount: $20,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Creation Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the final development and premiere of a new work by Artistic Director Kyle Abraham. Additional Project Description: "Dearest Home" is an interactive dance work developed focused on loving, longing, and loss. Comprised primarily of solos and duets generated in conversation and collaboration with a variety of age groups and self-identified subcultures, "Home" interweaves movement with cross-cultural conversation and community action. The work will premiere at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco. |
Grantee Name: La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club, Inc. Organization Popular Name: La MaMa Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10003-8903 Amount: $20,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the development and premiere of "Furious Diaspora." Additional Project Description: La MaMa's Great Jones Repertory Company will collaborate with Motus Theatre (Italy) to explore global migration. A devised process will reveal a human narrative touching on themes of departure and remembrance. The repertory company comprises performers of diverse ethnicities, religions, and genders, with many hailing from immigrant families. Their real life experiences of diaspora will frame the production. Personal stories will mesh with literary narratives of assimilation, migration, and home. South Korean artists will connect with Motus Theatre through digital media to enhance the conversation and enrich the live performance. |
Grantee Name: Lark Theatre Company, Inc. Organization Popular Name: THE LARK Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10036-6001 Amount: $25,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the Open Access Program, a play scouting initiative that supports writers and new play development. Additional Project Description: The program is designed to develop the unheard voices of all cultures. Activities will include a review of new scripts, developmental readings during Playwrights' Week, and networking opportunities. |
Grantee Name: Laundromat Project, Inc. Organization Popular Name: The LP Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10027-3723 Amount: $40,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Creation Category: Art Works Project Description: To support artists' residencies and professional development programming for artists. Additional Project Description: The Create Change artist development program will provide artists with residency, commission and professional development opportunities throughout New York City. A Field Day Festival will also take place bringing together the artists and communities. |
Grantee Name: Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art Organization Popular Name: Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10013-2227 Amount: $25,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the creation and production of a permanent collection catalogue. Additional Project Description: The catalogue will feature approximately 150 works from the museum's collection of more than 1,500 objects. The collection includes vast holdings of work made by artists in the last half of the 20th century, such as Catherine Opie, Keith Haring, Andy Warhol, David Wojnarowicz, David Hockney, Peter Hujar, and Robert Indiana. Historic work dating back to the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries is in the collection as well, including late 19th-century French academic drawings and the writings of the art historian Johann Joachim Wincklemann. The catalogue will include critical essays by noted scholars and each object will be fully captioned with the artist's name, title, year and medium. Images will illustrate different mediums including drawing, painting, sculpture, photography and mixed media. |
Grantee Name: White Pine Inc. Organization Popular Name: White Pine Press Sponsored Organization: City: Buffalo State: NY Zip: 14201-0236 Amount: $10,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the publication and promotion of books of poetry and prose, including work in translation. Additional Project Description: Planned titles include poetry collections by authors Kathleen McGookey, Joel Oppenheimer, and Ester Naomi Perguin (Holland). The books will be promoted through social media, catalogues and fliers, print and online advertisements, and at conferences. |
Grantee Name: Nightboat Books Organization Popular Name: Nightboat Books Sponsored Organization: City: Callicoon State: NY Zip: 12723-0010 Amount: $20,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the publication and promotion of books of poetry, including work in translation. Additional Project Description: The press will publish books by writers Samiya Bashir, Duriel E. Harris, Rosamond S. King, Jared Stanley, Cole Swensen, and Ali Warren, as well as international writers Aditi Machado (India) and Wilson Bueno (Brazil). Books will be promoted at book conferences, and through e-newsletters and social media. |
Grantee Name: Thomas Cole Historic House Organization Popular Name: Thomas Cole National Historic Site Sponsored Organization: City: Catskill State: NY Zip: 12414-1027 Amount: $30,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the exhibition "Sanford Gifford in the Catskills". Additional Project Description: The exhibition will focus on Gifford's (1823-1880) depictions of his native Catskill landscape as well as Thomas Cole's influence on Gifford's career. Gifford, a member of the Hudson River School of landscape painting, had a lifelong devotion to depicting the Catskills, where many vistas still exist due to conservation efforts of the last two centuries. The exhibition will include public programs, such as hikes along the Hudson River School Art Trail, where visitors will be able to immerse themselves in the landscapes depicted by the artists. |
Grantee Name: American Dance Asylum, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Sponsored Organization: City: Corning State: NY Zip: 14830-3149 Amount: $10,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Challenge America Project Description: To support performances by Artichoke Dance Company and Kate Weare Company in geographically isolated communities of New York. Additional Project Description: Artichoke Dance Company (Brooklyn, New York) will offer workshops and a performance as part of the Liberate the Earth Dance Project held at Art Omi in Hudson, New York. A residency by Kate Weare Company (New York City) held in Geneva, New York, will include master classes, an open rehearsal, and a dance concert. |
Grantee Name: Standby Program, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Standby Sponsored Organization: City: Flushing State: NY Zip: 11355-2044 Amount: $25,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the provision of moving image, audio, and time-based media artwork preservation services. Additional Project Description: In partnership with such facilities as Mercer Media, Color Lab, and Chromavision, Standby provides preservation services to artists at reduced rates without incurring the costs of equipment purchase and maintenance. Through its program, Standby will preserve hundreds of hours of work. |
Grantee Name: Art Omi, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Omi International Arts Center Sponsored Organization: City: Ghent State: NY Zip: 12075-3809 Amount: $10,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Creation Category: Art Works Project Description: To support American artists as part of an international artists residency program. Additional Project Description: Omi International Arts Center will host artists in the fields of visual arts, writing, music, dance, and architecture. Each resident will receive room and board, studio space, and time to produce new works, as well as the opportunity to engage with a diverse community of international artists. |
Grantee Name: En Garde Arts Organization Popular Name: Sponsored Organization: City: Hastings on Huds State: NY Zip: 10706-2405 Amount: $10,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support community engagement activities accompanying the tour of "Wilderness." Additional Project Description: "Wilderness" combines performance, music, film, and integrated projection design to explore the effects of available inexpensive street drugs, ubiquitous technology, and escalating education costs on families. En Garde will include engagement initiatives on adolescent and family mental health at each tour venue. High school and college students will experience post-show talkbacks and engage with mental health professionals and artists. |
Grantee Name: Iroquois Indian Museum Organization Popular Name: Sponsored Organization: City: Howes Cave State: NY Zip: 12092-0007 Amount: $19,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the commission of an indoor mural by Native American artist Jay Havens. Additional Project Description: The mural project, "And Now Our Minds Are One," will be developed by Havens in discussion and collaboration with Iroquois elders and storytellers. The artist envisions a mural that incorporates existing architectural features and will include Iroquois cultural concepts, symbols, and stories. During the project's execution, Havens will work in a public setting within the museum, engage with visitors, invite their participation, and present weekly artist talks. Native and non-Native museum visitors of various ages and abilities will assist in the painting of the mural under Havens' guidance and supervision. |
Grantee Name: Hudson Opera House, Inc. Organization Popular Name: HOH Sponsored Organization: City: Hudson State: NY Zip: 12534-2413 Amount: $10,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the Hudson Opera House's Inaugural Dance Program (IDP). Additional Project Description: Taking place in its newly restored landmark facility in the central arts and business community of Hudson, New York, IDP is a signature series of performances, residencies, and multidisciplinary events combined with talks and lecture-demonstrations. Adam Weinert will be resident artistic director for IDP. The program will also include a youth engagement initiative, Hip Hop Hudson. The project will provide residents in the City of Hudson and the surrounding Hudson Valley, and national/international tourists, with opportunities to access, engage with, and explore significant dance works and their context by a select group of artistically diverse New York City and national artists. |
Grantee Name: New Community Cinema Club, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Cinema Arts Centre Sponsored Organization: City: Huntington State: NY Zip: 11743-2803 Amount: $10,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support a curated film series and discussion program. Additional Project Description: Cinema Arts Centre's monthly film series will present documentaries addressing various social issues, in alignment with the organization's mission to use the power of film to expand community awareness. Guest speakers and leading experts from the community will facilitate issue-oriented discussions with audiences after each screening. |
Grantee Name: Local Learning: The National Network for Folk Arts in Education Organization Popular Name: Local Learning Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10003-9345 Amount: $40,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support a series of folk arts education projects. Additional Project Description: Local Learning will assist educators in integrating folk arts into classroom curricula and museum education programs. Additionally, Local Learning will publish online the "Journal of Folklore and Education." |
Grantee Name: MAPP International Productions Inc. Organization Popular Name: MAPP Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10003-8385 Amount: $10,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the creation, production, and touring of multidisciplinary performance works. Additional Project Description: MAPP will produce and tour "Demolishing Everything with Amazing Speed" by puppeteer/performance artist Dan Hurlin; "The Peculiar Patriot," by playwright/performer Liza Jessie Peterson; and "Poor People's TV Room" by choreographer/performance artist Okwui Okpokwasili. Each project also will include a suite of related engagement activities that will be made available to touring partners and presenters. |
Grantee Name: Ma-Yi Filipino Theatre Ensemble, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Ma-Yi Theater Company Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10018-8645 Amount: $15,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the commission and development of "The Chinese Lady" by Lloyd Suh. Additional Project Description: The playwright will mine the long and mainly forgotten histories of Asians in America, particularly those of Chinese heritage. Afong Moy was the first Chinese female immigrant brought to America in 1834. The U.S. importers, the Carne Brothers, transported Moy and put her on display in a museum exhibition before paying audiences. During the creation and workshop process, members of the Asian American communities in New York and the Tri-State area will be invited to attend symposia, talkbacks, and panel discussions surrounding issues of immigration, representation, and diversity. The project will culminate in a public reading of the play. |
Grantee Name: Madison Square Park Conservancy, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Madison Square Park Conservancy Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10010-1814 Amount: $20,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support a multidisciplinary exhibition of sculptural glass platforms by artist Josiah McElheny and related performing arts activities. Additional Project Description: Madison Square Park will work with sculptor and glassblower McElheny to create three large, colorful industrial glass structures, inspired by parts of a building, which will serve as platforms for a series of artist residencies. The park will work with organizational partners Danspace, Blank Forms, and Poets House to select dance, music, and poetry artists to present free site-specific works on the structures. Docent-led tours, workshops, and open rehearsals also will be offered. |
Grantee Name: Mama Foundation for the Arts, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Mama Foundation Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10027-4412 Amount: $45,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support Gospel for Teens. Additional Project Description: Teenagers will learn vocal techniques as well as the history and cultural significance of African-American gospel music. Classes will be structured for beginning, intermediate, and advanced students. In addition to receiving instruction during sessions lasting up to six months, students will have performance opportunities. |
Grantee Name: Manhattan School of Music Organization Popular Name: Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10027-4689 Amount: $20,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Learning Category: Art Works Project Description: To support salaries for Camp MSM, a residential vocal and instrumental music summer camp. Additional Project Description: Set on the Manhattan School of Music conservatory campus in New York City, and offering a residential option, the Camp provides intensive instruction in musical theater and instrumental music to middle school and high school students. Each student receives a private lesson each week in their primary instrument and also participates in ensembles such as flute choir, guitar ensemble, and Latin jazz band. Students choose from elective classes such as improvisation, conducting, audition techniques, chamber music, songwriting, composition, and advanced music history. Instrumental majors participate in both large and small ensembles and vocal majors prepare fully staged theatrical productions with costumes and scenery. |
Grantee Name: Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Martha Graham Dance Company Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10014-2010 Amount: $100,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Creativity Connects Project Description: To support the creation of new online exhibits of materials archived by the Martha Graham Dance Company, through a collaboration with the Google Cultural Institute. Additional Project Description: The digitized content will include rare films owned and restored by the company, including unique photographs, videos, and educational projects, such as a comprehensive examination of the Graham Technique. Google will design and maintain the site housing the exhibits, which will be disseminated to the public through the Google Arts and Culture App. The exhibits will serve as a model for other arts organizations that wish to share their own creative projects online. |
Grantee Name: Mercantile Library Association of the City of New York Organization Popular Name: The Center for Fiction Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10017-7921 Amount: $50,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Learning Category: Creativity Connects Project Description: To support SYNTAX/SYNAPSE, a series of creative investigations exploring intersections between fiction and neuroscience, in partnership with Princeton University. Additional Project Description: The Center for Fiction will partner with the Princeton Social Neuroscience Lab to organize a year-long series that will examine how the brain works in conjunction with how novels impact our understanding of humanity. Planned activities include public events featuring a writer and a neuroscience practitioner in conversation, activities for at-risk school children with authors and scientists, a writing workshop informed by laboratory practices, monthly writing group meetings between practitioners of science and fiction (in association with the collaborative science writing group Neuwrite), and a series of commissioned essays that will grow out of the public programming component. Potential themes for investigation include the construction of possible worlds, the use and function of cognitive rewards, empathy, problem-solving, and connection building. Writers such as Rivka Galchen, Charles Fernyhough, Zadie Smith, and Teju Cole, and neuroscientists such as Susana Martinez-Conde and Lisa Genova, are being considered for participation, as well as other thinkers and scholars. |
Grantee Name: Metropolitan Museum of Art Organization Popular Name: The Met Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10028-0198 Amount: $50,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support registrar costs for "The Age of Empires: Chinese Art of the Qin and Han Dynasties (221 BC-AD 220)." Additional Project Description: The exhibition will synthesize the archaeological finds and historical research of the last 50 years of more than four centuries of the Qin and Han dynasties. Approximately 180 objects including ceramics, metalwork, textiles, sculpture, painting, calligraphy, and architecture models will be featured. |
Grantee Name: Metropolitan Opera Association, Inc. Organization Popular Name: The Metropolitan Opera; The Met Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10023-6980 Amount: $90,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support a new production of "Rusalka" by composer Antonin Dvorak. Additional Project Description: Set in a nature-filled fairytale world, juxtaposed by a contrastingly stark and corrupt human world, Rusalka (a water nymph) falls in love with a human prince and wishes to become mortal. Although her wish is granted and the Prince initially embraces her, he later rejects her for a foreign princess. Realizing his mistake, the Prince rushes back to Rusalka risking his own life to restore her immortality. The creative team will include director Mary Zimmerman, set designer Dan Ostling, costume designer Mara Blumenfeld, and conductor Mark Elder. The cast will include soprano Kristine Opolais in the title role, tenor Brandon Jovanovich, and bass-baritone Eric Owens. |
Grantee Name: A Better Jamaica, Inc. Organization Popular Name: ABJ Sponsored Organization: City: Jamaica State: NY Zip: 11434-1456 Amount: $10,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Challenge America Project Description: To support Delightful Festival, a series of cultural events presenting music performances and film screenings. Additional Project Description: Each festival focuses on the culture of African, Asian, Caribbean and Latino communities found in Jamaica, New York. A variety of partnering cultural organizations serving these communities will assist the programs. |
Grantee Name: Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, Inc. Organization Popular Name: JCAL Sponsored Organization: City: Jamaica State: NY Zip: 11432-6112 Amount: $10,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Challenge America Project Description: To support the Making Moves Dance Festival. Additional Project Description: JCAL will provide emerging dance groups with assistance to produce new dance works, emphasizing support for locally based choreographers and companies. Jamaica, New York, is an ethnically diverse community comprising large numbers of African-, Caribbean-, Latin-, and Asian-Americans. The festival will include a dance residency, a new commissioned work, and public performances. Other activities will include a question-and-answer session with the audience and creative movement activities as part of the family outreach program. |
Grantee Name: Jessica Lang Dance, Inc Organization Popular Name: JLD Sponsored Organization: City: Long Island City State: NY Zip: 11101-2922 Amount: $10,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Learning Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the establishment of a Queens-based dance workshop for teens and young adults. Additional Project Description: The company will offer instruction in technique, choreography, and technical aspects of dance-making. Lang will use her LANGuage creativity curriculum to tap into the powerful tools of teamwork, awareness, imagination, and personal potential. The company aims to draw students from the New York metropolitan area. |
Grantee Name: Sculpture Center, Inc. Organization Popular Name: SculptureCenter Sponsored Organization: City: Long Island City State: NY Zip: 11101-2907 Amount: $25,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Creation Category: Art Works Project Description: To support an international residency program providing specialized studio workspace for professional sculptors. Additional Project Description: Artists participating in 2 month-long residencies will receive 24-hour access to indoor and outdoor workspaces, specialized equipment, technical support, and a housing and transportation stipend. The program will support national and international artists for residencies that will culminate in presentation of their completed work. |
Grantee Name: Socrates Sculpture Park, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Socrates Sculpture Park Sponsored Organization: City: Long Island City State: NY Zip: 11106-4925 Amount: $28,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Creation Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the Emerging Artist Fellowship Program. Additional Project Description: The project is a studio residency for the production and presentation of large-scale public sculpture and multimedia outdoor installations. Artists will be selected through a competitive, juried application process to take part in a residency to produce new work. Approximately 15 artists will be given financial support, working space, materials, access to facilities, equipment, and on-site staff expertise to create works for public exhibition. |
Grantee Name: theater et al inc. Organization Popular Name: The Chocolate Factory Theater Sponsored Organization: City: Long Island City State: NY Zip: 11101-5610 Amount: $25,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Creation Category: Art Works Project Description: To support an artist residency program. Additional Project Description: Artists in a variety of disciplines will receive commissioning fees, dedicated access to studio space and technical equipment, production support, and administrative assistance at The Chocolate Factory Theater. The program will culminate with public performances, resulting in fully produced and edited, multi-camera, professional video and photographic documentation of the artists' work. |
Grantee Name: Mount Tremper Arts, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Mount Tremper Arts Sponsored Organization: City: Mount Tremper State: NY Zip: 12457-0088 Amount: $20,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Creation Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the Watershed Laboratory residency program. Additional Project Description: Artists in the fields of dance, theater, opera, and new music will receive support, including artist fees, accommodations, and access to studio and performance space, to develop and create new works while in residency. The artists also will participate in a culminating public performance. The Watershed Lab will partner with presenters in New York City to further expand the audience base for the public events. |
Grantee Name: Storm King Art Center Organization Popular Name: Sponsored Organization: City: New Windsor State: NY Zip: 12553-8883 Amount: $30,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the exhibition "David Smith: The White Sculptures." Additional Project Description: The exhibition will be the first ever to focus on the use of the color white in David Smith's (1906-1965) practice. His first sculptures of white coral from the Virgin Islands, as well as a series of eight large-scale sculptures using wood, wire, coral, soldered metal and other found materials, forms the exhibition's nexus, and sheds light on the ethics of custodianship and the artist's intention. After the untimely death of Smith, his executor stripped the white color off of five sculptures (believing it to be primer) to bare metal. The exhibition, which also will feature a film and catalogue, is held in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Storm King's landmark acquisition of 13 David Smith sculptures. The works will be displayed in the center's rolling hills. Smaller works, as well as carefully selected groupings of Smith's paintings and photography that also engage with the color white, will be displayed in the gallery. |
Grantee Name: 52nd Street Project, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10019-5027 Amount: $10,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Learning Category: Art Works Project Description: To support Playmaking, a series of playwriting classes for youth. Additional Project Description: The two stages of the program--"Stage-One" and "Playback"--offer direct one-on-one collaboration for students with professional theater artists, who teach children how to write for theater, critique work, and perform for the public. Students in both stages participate in out-of-town weekend retreats to work intensively with adult mentors who guide them through revision and rehearsals of their work. Students' shows are fully produced and presented to the public at 52nd Street's 150-seat theater. The project is offered free-of-charge to all children in New York City's Hell's Kitchen neighborhood who express an interest in participating. |
Grantee Name: A Blade of Grass Fund Organization Popular Name: A Blade of Grass Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10010-7103 Amount: $25,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support a residency for socially engaged artists and related activities. Additional Project Description: As many as nine artists will receive a stipend, training, and mentoring to develop socially engaged art work. The artists and outside partners will produce ethnographic-style evaluations, short documentary films, public programs, and dynamic web content for practitioners and general audiences. |
Grantee Name: Monica Bill Barnes & Company Organization Popular Name: Monica Bill Barnes & Company Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10014-1926 Amount: $20,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Creation Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the creation and presentation of "The Museum Workout." Additional Project Description: Audiences will participate in a guided exercise tour of an art museum, following the choreographed movement of Monica Bill Barnes and her long time dancing partner Anna Bass. Created in collaboration with artist and author Maira Kalman, "The Museum Workout" changes the way audiences experience their time in an art museum. Barnes and Bass will take participants jogging through the museum and stop in front of select pieces to perform repetitive exercises. Kalman will curate the tour and her recorded voice narrates the audience's experience. The work will offer a gentle disruption to the normally contained museum environment, invigorating participants by creating a new physical relationship with the art of the ages. "The Museum Workout" will premiere at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. |
Grantee Name: More Art Inc Organization Popular Name: More Art Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10038-3755 Amount: $15,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Creation Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the creation and presentation of "NYsferatu". Additional Project Description: More Art will commission multimedia artist Andrea Mastrovito (Italy) to create an animated retelling of F.W. Murnau's 1922 silent film "Nosferatu." Mastrovito will update the film to reflect contemporary issues surrounding immigration. Recent immigrants will participate in workshops during which they will view and discuss the original film, as well as work with Mastrovito to rewrite the film's title cards to reflect their personal experiences. More Art will collaborate with community partners to put out an open call for musical scores to be a part of the final product. Free public screenings, panel discussions, workshops, and public forums will be offered. |
Grantee Name: Movement Research, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10009-6855 Amount: $20,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the presentation of free and low-cost public performance programs. Additional Project Description: The programs will include Movement Research at the Judson Church and Movement Research Festivals. The programs will provide artists with critical spaces to try out new ideas and show works-in-process. The programs will foster discourse among a diverse community of artists and art audiences and continue an important legacy fostered by Movement Research to provide a supportive and fertile environment for artists' research and experimentation. |
Grantee Name: Music From China, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Music From China Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10038-1100 Amount: $10,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Creation Category: Art Works Project Description: To support a commissioning and performance project of contemporary Chinese music in New York and Pittsburgh. Additional Project Description: Titled From Roots to Reality, the project will feature the premiere performances of new works by composers Matthew Rosenblum, Tian Zhou, and Wang Guowei written for traditional Chinese and Western instruments. Activities will include an artist residency by Music From China's Long Wind Quartet (an ensemble of erhu, pipa, flute, and piano) at University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, as well as lectures, workshops, and educational programming for children and youth. Performances will be presented in New York venues such as the Chatham Square Library, Leonard Nimoy Thalia theater at Symphony Space, and Christ & St. Stephen's Church. |
Grantee Name: Music at the Anthology, Inc. Organization Popular Name: MATA Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10013-2259 Amount: $10,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the annual MATA Festival of New Music. Additional Project Description: Founded in 1996 by composers Philip Glass, Eleonor Sandresky, and Lisa Bielawa, the multi-day festival will present ensembles in performances of new works written by emerging composers of all ages selected from a call for scores. The performances will be presented at Whitebox Gallery and The Kitchen in New York City. In addition, MATA will host a week-long sound art exhibition at Whitebox Gallery. |
Grantee Name: National Alliance for Musical Theatre, Inc. Organization Popular Name: NAMT Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10018-6507 Amount: $55,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Creation Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the Annual Festival of New Musicals and Fall Conference. Additional Project Description: An annual gathering of writers and producers from the musical theater industry, the festival consists of staged readings, a songwriters' showcase, and ongoing developmental support for new musical theater works. The festival and conference are designed to benefit actors, writers, directors, and musicians by giving them access to producers and theater executives, along with the resources and expertise to develop and produce their work. |
Grantee Name: National Music Theatre Network, Inc. Organization Popular Name: New York Musical Festival Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10036-8104 Amount: $10,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Creation Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the New York Musical Festival's professional development programs for emerging musical theater composers and writers. Additional Project Description: Through the Next Link Project and Developmental Readings Series, creative teams will participate in developmental workshops and receive artistic, dramaturgical, and financial support to bring new musicals to the stage. The festival will present new works in full productions and staged readings at Off-Broadway theaters. Emerging writing teams will collaborate with established musical theater artists to provide guidance on musical structure, artistic choices, and best avenues for development. |
Grantee Name: Nature of Cities Inc. Organization Popular Name: The Nature of Cities Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10022-9000 Amount: $20,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support a convening exploring the nature of graffiti in urban vacant lots. Additional Project Description: The program will bring together artists, scientists, and community activists from various cities to discuss nature-themed graffiti. The convening will initiate a dialogue about the meaning of street art, the ecological and social roles of urban vacant land, justice, and the potential power of urban land in vibrant placemaking. |
Grantee Name: New 42nd Street, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10036-7299 Amount: $30,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the presentation of national and international works of theater for young audiences at the New Victory Theater. Additional Project Description: Works to be presented will include "The Way Back Home" by Teater Refleksion (Arhus, Denmark); "X" and "Julius Caesar" by The Acting Company (New York, New York); "Nivelli's War" by Cahoots NI (Belfast, Northern Ireland); and "Aging Magician," produced by Beth Morrison Projects and VisionIntoTalent (New York, New York). Each of the productions will include a variety of public outreach activities such as family workshops and pre-show Arts Express events. |
Grantee Name: New Dramatists, Inc. Organization Popular Name: New Dramatists Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10036-5298 Amount: $80,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Creation Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the Playwrights' Lab. Additional Project Description: The project is a series of extended workshops, readings, structured retreats, and new play development partnerships. Supported with managerial, directorial, and dramaturgical resources, resident writers will explore their work at any step in the creative process. |
Grantee Name: Aaron Davis Hall, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Harlem Stage Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10031-9127 Amount: $25,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Creation Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the development and performance of new works for the WaterWorks, E-Moves, and Harlem Stride inititatives. Additional Project Description: The Harlem Stage's residency and commissioning program WaterWorks will feature the premiere of Imani Uzuri's "Hush Arbor," an opera inspired by slave rebellions. WaterWorks also will feature The Stretch Music Festival, curated by jazz trumpeter Christian Scott. E-Moves, a dance program, will be curated by Harlem Stage. Harlem Stride will celebrate Thelonious Monk's 100th birthday with a new composition in his honor. |
Grantee Name: African Film Festival Organization Popular Name: AFF Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10011-5437 Amount: $10,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the 24th New York African Film Festival and touring program. Additional Project Description: Held in the spring, the festival showcases contemporary and classic films from Africa and the African diaspora. Screenings will be supplemented by filmmaker discussions and educational programming. The touring program will highlight film selections from the 23rd and 24th festival, and will travel to several U.S. cities. |
Grantee Name: Alarm Will Sound, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Alarm Will Sound Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10013-2292 Amount: $12,500 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support performances and related educational activities during a residency in St. Louis, Missouri. Additional Project Description: Plans include performances of "The Cave" by Steve Reich at an area school. The subject matter for Reich's work--the shared roots of Christians, Muslims, and Jews--will be integrated in an accompanying school curriculum. Students will be invited to rehearsals and facilitator-led discussions. |
Grantee Name: Alliance for Young Artists & Writers, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Scholastic Art & Writing Awards Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10012-3958 Amount: $25,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the exhibition "ART.WRITE.NOW," and related programming. Additional Project Description: Featuring works of art and writing by students, the exhibition will be complemented by artist talks, educational programs, workshops, and gatherings for the program's alumni. A printed catalogue will be produced and a digital gallery of the artwork will be hosted online. The exhibition will debut in New York City before many of the works tour to venues across the United States. |
Grantee Name: Alpha Workshops, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Alpha Workshops Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10001-5208 Amount: $30,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Learning Category: Art Works Project Description: To support staff salaries and trainer fees for a decorative arts training program. Additional Project Description: With a focus primarily on HIV-positive individuals from low-income communities, the program includes an introductory course offered on a quarterly basis and an advanced course offered twice a year. Through the courses, qualified instructors teach marketable decorative arts techniques such as gilding, faux finishes, stamping, and stenciling. Students also learn about Venetian plaster, mural painting, and mold-making/casting, and develop job skills that qualify them for employment in Alpha's studio or in other positions in the field once they graduate from the program. |
Grantee Name: Alvin Ailey Dance Foundation, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10019-4402 Amount: $100,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's 2017 United States tour. Additional Project Description: The tour will feature a new production of Ailey's "Masekela Language," Kyle Abraham's "Untitled America," and world premieres by Mauro Bigonzetti and Hope Boykin. The company will continue to tour Ailey's masterwork "Revelations," as well as Robert Battle's "The Hunt," Ronald K. Brown's "Open Door," and Rennie Harris' "Exodus." In addition to performances, the company will offer outreach activities such as master classes, lecture-demonstrations, talkback sessions, and residencies involving local community members with The Ailey Experience and AileyCity. |
Grantee Name: Amas Musical Theatre, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10019-5837 Amount: $10,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the premiere of "Distant Thunder." Additional Project Description: The musical, created by Shaun Taylor-Corbett (Blackfeet), Lynne Taylor-Corbett, and Chris Wiseman, is set on Blackfeet tribal lands in Montana. A young Native American of mixed ethnicity, now a Chicago attorney, returns to his family's reservation after the death of his mother to seek reconciliation with his estranged father. |
Grantee Name: American Academy in Rome Organization Popular Name: Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10022-1001 Amount: $50,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support a residency for visual artists to create, interpret, and present new work. Additional Project Description: The residency will provide an opportunity for as many as four American artists to spend a year in Rome in the historic setting on the Janiculum, one of the highest hills in Rome. Artists will receive a stipend, studio space, housing, and meals. |
Grantee Name: American Brass Chamber Music Association Organization Popular Name: American Brass Quintet Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10014-2772 Amount: $15,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Creation Category: Art Works Project Description: To support a commission and world premiere performances of a new work by composer Julian Revie by the American Brass Quintet. Additional Project Description: The new work, scored for choir and brass quintet, will be performed alongside a historical survey of works from the eighth century to the present. The performances, in partnership with Miami-based vocal ensemble Seraphic Fire, will take place in venues in South Florida. Performances may be preceded by panel discussions with Revie and performing musicians. |
Grantee Name: American Composers Orchestra, Inc. Organization Popular Name: ACO Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10019-5515 Amount: $25,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Creation Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the Emerging Composers Project. Additional Project Description: Activities will include Orchestra Underground concerts featuring premieres and newly commissioned works. Other project plans include the Underwood New Music Readings program serving emerging composers and the EarShot New Music Readings program. |
Grantee Name: New Group, Inc. Organization Popular Name: The New Group Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10036-6089 Amount: $20,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Creation Category: Art Works Project Description: To support a production of "The Whirligig," a new play by Hamish Linklater. Additional Project Description: The play tells the story of a young girl in rural Massachusetts who is dying as a result of drug addiction. Chronicling the events of a day-in-the-life of a fractured community, the play explores how addiction shapes the lives of those in rural America. The theater will augment the production with a series of initiatives designed to raise cultural consciousness around the issues posed by the play, and will develop a related curriculum in its Scene 1 program for New York public high school students. |
Grantee Name: New Music USA,Inc. Organization Popular Name: New Music USA Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10004-2277 Amount: $60,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support new music through online resources at NewMusicBox.org and newmusicusa.org. Additional Project Description: The project will include professional development, technical assistance, and editorial coverage of composers and artist residencies nationwide. New Music USA, a merger of two longstanding organizations of services to the field of new music (American Music Center and Meet the Composer), is committed to increasing opportunities for composers, performers, and audiences by fostering vibrant American contemporary music. |
Grantee Name: New School University Organization Popular Name: Sponsored Organization: New School Concerts City: New York State: NY Zip: 10011-8603 Amount: $20,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Learning Category: Art Works Project Description: To support New School Concerts' New York String Orchestra Seminar program for emerging young musicians. Additional Project Description: The program will be directed by violinist and conductor Jaime Laredo and will culminate in concerts at Carnegie Hall. The extensive training experience will be offered with full scholarships to high school and college string players, selected through national live auditions. |
Grantee Name: New York Chinese Opera Society Inc. Organization Popular Name: NYCOS Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10271-0002 Amount: $10,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Challenge America Project Description: To support a multidisciplinary Chinese Opera festival. Additional Project Description: The festival will be held at Pace University in Manhattan and feature international guest artists, local artists, and aspiring youth performers. Outreach activities, intended to serve Chinese-American communities in New York City, will include a series of workshops and lectures about Chinese Opera. The project will include performances by Peking Opera artists Xiaoqui Chi and Qiang Zhu. |
Grantee Name: New York City Ballet, Inc. Organization Popular Name: New York City Ballet Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10023-6913 Amount: $100,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Creation Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the presentation of ballets during the Festival of Contemporary Choreographers. Additional Project Description: The four-week festival will feature ballets that have been commissioned by NYCB during the past three decades. The festival will include two newly commissioned ballets, one by Resident Choreographer Justin Peck and one by Alexei Ratmansky. |
Grantee Name: New York Classical Theatre, Inc. Organization Popular Name: New York Classical Theatre Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10038-2748 Amount: $20,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support productions of Richard Brinsley Sheridan's "The Rivals" and Shakespeare's "Macbeth" in public parks throughout New York City. Additional Project Description: The productions will be staged using the company's unique style of "panoramic theater," in which audience members physically follow the actors from place to place throughout each venue. The theater also will offer open rehearsals of both plays. Productions will take place in Central Park, Prospect Park, Rockefeller Park, Carl Schurz Park, Battery Park, and Brooklyn Bridge Park. |
Grantee Name: New York Foundation for Architecture, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Center for Architecture Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10012-1401 Amount: $30,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the exhibition "Scaffolding: A (Flexible) Social History." Additional Project Description: The exhibition will explore the history of scaffolding and its unique capacity to go beyond typical construction applications, providing temporary structures for public performance, community gathering, and shelter for displaced persons. The topic is of special interest in New York City, where more than 200 miles of scaffolding are installed in the city at any given time. |
Grantee Name: New York Shakespeare Festival Organization Popular Name: The Public Theater Sponsored Organization: Joe's Pub City: New York State: NY Zip: 10003-7021 Amount: $25,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the New York Voices commissioning program at Joe's Pub. Additional Project Description: The program selects artists from a variety of disciplines and asks them to explore theatrical storytelling and songwriting to create new multidisciplinary works. Joe's Pub also will connect the commissioned artists with creative teams to assist in the further development of the works and make resources available to ensure a successful production. |
Grantee Name: New York Stage and Film Company, Inc Organization Popular Name: New York Stage and Film Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10001-5318 Amount: $40,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Creation Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the Powerhouse Season, a summer residency program. Additional Project Description: The project is an artist residency program for playwrights, directors, actors, designers, and apprentices to develop new plays and musicals. Held on the Vassar College campus, the program will allow artists to present fully mounted mainstage productions as well as workshops and readings of works-in-progress. |
Grantee Name: New York Theatre Workshop, Inc. Organization Popular Name: New York Theatre Workshop Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10003-8940 Amount: $40,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Creation Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the New York premiere of "Mary Jane," a new play by Amy Herzog. Additional Project Description: The play tells the story of a woman navigating both the mundane and unfathomable realities of caring for her chronically ill young son while balancing the intricacies of the healthcare system with the help of a community of women from many walks of life. |
Grantee Name: New York University School of Medicine Organization Popular Name: Sponsored Organization: Bellevue Literary Press City: New York State: NY Zip: 10016-6402 Amount: $30,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support Bellevue Literary Press in the publication and promotion of books of fiction and nonfiction in print and electronic formats. Additional Project Description: Focusing on work that is concerned with the intersection of arts and sciences, the project includes titles by authors Pascale Kramer (in translation from the French), Peter LaSalle, Norman Lock, and John McWhorter. The press also plans to offer an online interview series featuring authors in dialogue with figures whose work explores the ways that the arts and sciences can be brought together to educate and inspire. |
Grantee Name: New York Youth Symphony, Inc. Organization Popular Name: New York Youth Symphony Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10018-3616 Amount: $15,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Learning Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the Youth Symphony Composition Program. Additional Project Description: Students receive training in music composition by working closely with professional composers, and compose original music that is performed publically by professional artists and student musicians. The program is free to the students, and consists of seminar-style sessions exploring the musical thought of a wide variety of composers, with a focus on instrumentation and orchestration. Students cultivate their own artistic voices through class discussion, written exercises, and free composition. |
Grantee Name: Noche Flamenca, Inc. Organization Popular Name: N/A Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10024-4022 Amount: $10,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Creation Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the creation and presentation of a new work, "La Ronde." Additional Project Description: Based on the Arthur Schnitzler play of the same name, "La Ronde" will be choreographed by Artistic Director Martin Santangelo and principal dancer Soledad Barrio. Guitarists Eugenio Iglesias and Salva de Maria will compose the music. The work will be performed as a series of duets with pairings to include various combinations of dancers, singers and guitarists, all given equal weight as they are in classic flamenco, and possibly featuring artists from other disciplines. |
Grantee Name: Only Make Believe, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Only Make Believe Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10001-6261 Amount: $10,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support interactive theater performances for children who are patients at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, DC. Additional Project Description: In partnership with the hospital's Creative and Therapeutic Arts Services Department, Only Make Believe will expand its current programming offerings to include patients in the Radiology Unit. In addition, live performances will be offered to children confined to their hospital rooms via the hospital's closed-circuit television station. |
Grantee Name: Open Channels New York, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Dixon Place Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10002-2885 Amount: $15,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the HOT! Festival. Additional Project Description: Dixon Place will present theater, dance, music, literature readings, puppetry, spoken-word, and performance art. The centerpiece of the festival will be a commission of Los Angeles-based, Sri Lankan American theater/performance artist D'Lo. |
Grantee Name: Pachamama Peruvian Arts Organization Popular Name: Pachamama or PPA Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10004-1626 Amount: $20,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support instruction for youth in traditional music and dance from Peru. Additional Project Description: Students will learn dances including the "Zamba Malato" and the "Marinera Nortena," as well as songs in both Spanish and Qechwa, the language of indigenous Peruvians. Additionally, classes about traditional Peruvian musical instruments-such as the "cajo" (box drum), the "zampona" (panpipes), and "charango" (a guitar-like instrument)-will be offered. Instruction will be designed for beginning, intermediate, and advanced students, and will conclude with performance opportunities for the students. The project is open to all students, but has a focus on the youth of New York City's Peruvian immigrant community. |
Grantee Name: Pamphlet Architecture, Ltd. Organization Popular Name: Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10003-8027 Amount: $12,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Creation Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the publication of "Pamphlet Architecture." Additional Project Description: Through a juried competition process, professionals from architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, and design fields were invited to submit their ideas, theories, and designs as proposals for an affordable publication. Three winners and several honorable mentions were selected by the jury, with the winners developing their proposal to become the published work. The publications provide a venue for new work that is both exploratory and experimental, and work that engages and highlights the heritage of design. |
Grantee Name: Perlman Music Program Inc. Organization Popular Name: Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10023-4751 Amount: $40,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Learning Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the Summer Music School, a residential summer music program held on Shelter Island, New York. Additional Project Description: Under the guidance of Toby and Itzhak Perlman, the Summer Music School's faculty includes professional string musicians from around the country, who provide mentoring and coaching in violin, viola, cello, and bass to exceptionally talented students. Faculty members live on campus, dine with students, and are engaged with all aspects of camp life, offering students unique access to highly regarded professionals including Mr. Perlman himself. In addition to rigorous musical study, the curriculum is balanced with activities to improve musicianship through emphasis on listening, interpretation, team building, and problem solving skills. Students will have daily private lessons, time for individual practice, ensemble rehearsals, and multiple opportunities to perform for the public. |
Grantee Name: Play Production Company, Inc. Organization Popular Name: The Play Company/PlayCo Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10036-5404 Amount: $10,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Creation Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the New York premiere of "Villa" by Chilean playwright and director Guillermo Calderon at the Play Company. Additional Project Description: The play tells the story of Chilean citizens grappling with what to do with Villa Grimaldi, a historical site where thousands were tortured and killed by the Pinochet regime. In the play, three women are charged with deciding the future of the estate, and they wrestle with how the Chilean people can come to terms with the unwanted legacy of an unspeakable past. This will be the first English language production of the play in the United States, and special outreach will be conducted to attract Chilean and South American audiences. |
Grantee Name: Playwrights Horizons, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Playwrights Horizons Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10036-6809 Amount: $45,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Creation Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the New York premiere production of "Bella: An American Tall Tale," a new musical by Kirsten Childs, directed by Robert O'Hara. Additional Project Description: Told in the style of a Western dime novel reimagined with a multicultural cast of characters, the musical tells the story of Bella, a young Black woman in late 19th-century America, riding a train west to meet her soldier sweetheart. The work reframes the mythology of conquering the West from the perspective of cultures and ethnicities whose stories are seldom told. "Bella" will be developed collaboratively with Dallas Theater Center as part of Playwrights Horizons' Musicals in Partnership initiative, which allows for an immediate second production following a world premiere for the continued development and refinement of a new musical. |
Grantee Name: RFCUNY The Graduate Center Organization Popular Name: Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10016-4309 Amount: $10,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the publication and promotion of chapbooks through the "Lost & Found" series. Additional Project Description: The series features lost works by American poets, helping these voices to remain a part of our cultural identity and conversation. The chapbooks will include work such as the notebooks of writer and Native American education activist Jack Forbes; teaching materials and theory by poets June Jordan, Audre Lorde, and Toni Cade Bambara; personal writing on daily life and poetics by poet Thom Gunn; and writings about grief by Diane di Prima. |
Grantee Name: American Federation of Arts, Inc. Organization Popular Name: AFA Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10017-2312 Amount: $25,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support planning and development for the traveling exhibition and catalogue "Transatlantic Encounters: Latin American Artists in Paris between the Wars, 1918-39." Additional Project Description: The exhibition will focus on the work of more than 40 Latin American artists and their contributions to modernism during this time between the World Wars. Approximately 100 paintings, sculptures, and works on paper by renowned artists such as Roberto Matta, Diego Rivera, and Joaquin Torres Garcia, and those by lesser known artists such as Amelia Pelaez, Emilio Pettoruti, and Angel Zarraga will be presented. Related bilingual public programming will be planned to complement the exhibition. |
Grantee Name: Racing Thoughts, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Jane Comfort and Company Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10013-2349 Amount: $10,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Creation Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the presentation of dance works as part of the company's 40th Anniversary Retrospective. Additional Project Description: The concert will feature excerpts from well-known pieces by Jane Comfort with past company members participating, and a new work with the current company. The concert will be a live performance history of Jane Comfort, an artist who originated dance/text performance in the 1970s, and who has continued to expand dance theater for decades. A retrospective of live works with some of the original performers will offer a rare glimpse of a pioneer artist's path, and of a downtown community's past. |
Grantee Name: American Guild of Organists Organization Popular Name: AGO Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10115-0055 Amount: $25,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support educational programs and career development for organists, choral conductors, and composers. Additional Project Description: Plans include Pipe Organ Encounters, educational programs for youth and adults; regional conventions in cities across the country; a professional certification program for organ playing and choral conducting; and multiple commissions of new works for organ. Promotion of programs and news of conventions, educational activities, and Guild certification will be published in the monthly "The American Organist" magazine. |
Grantee Name: Rankine, Camille Organization Popular Name: Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10027-2005 Amount: $25,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Creation Category: Literature Fellowships: Creative Writing Project Description: Additional Project Description: |
Grantee Name: American Institute of Graphic Arts Organization Popular Name: AIGA Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10279-1802 Amount: $40,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the creation of an archive focused on the work of AIGA Medalists. Additional Project Description: AIGA will collect, digitize, and make the work of its end-of-career medalists available online via the AIGA Design Archive. The archive is intended to be a dynamic knowledge platform that uses visual storytelling to share the legacy of designers, both historical and contemporary. AIGA medals have been awarded since 1920 to notable designers who have set standards of design excellence during their lifetime or have made individual contributions to innovation within the practice of design in the United States. |
Grantee Name: Recess Activities, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Recess Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10013-1619 Amount: $20,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support an artist residency program. Additional Project Description: Selected through an open call, artists will receive a project stipend, artist fee, critical feedback, and marketing and staff support for residencies to create new work in the organization's storefront space in Soho. Each residency focuses on community engagement, allowing the artists to establish meaningful interactions with the public through the use of Recess's storefront studio and exhibition venue. |
Grantee Name: American Institute of Graphic Arts Organization Popular Name: AIGA Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10279-1802 Amount: $90,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Creativity Connects Project Description: To support Design for Democracy, a program partnership with the League of Women Voters. Additional Project Description: Both entities share national reach and a non-partisan commitment to civic engagement through voter education, registration, access, and participation. With the premise that good design makes for clear choices, AIGA and LWV will develop a range of new educational graphics, toolkits, field guides, and local events. Design for Democracy will tap into AIGA's 70 chapters (26,000 members) and the LWV's 800 affiliates to harness new ideas and resources towards a robust national awareness campaign. |
Grantee Name: Rosie's Theater Kids, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Rosie's Theater Kids (RTKids) Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10036-3502 Amount: $50,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Learning Category: Art Works Project Description: To support ACTE II, a program that provides summer and after-school musical theater training. Additional Project Description: Professional teaching artists and guests from the Broadway stage will lead the program for ethnically diverse, middle and high school students from low-income families. During the summer program and during the afternoon and weekend classes throughout the school year, students will study traditional skill-building curricula in dance, drama, and music as core disciplines necessary for participation in musical theater. Sessions will culminate in final public performances. Staff also will offer students tutoring, mentoring, SAT preparation, and assistance in the preparation for applications to performing arts high schools and colleges. |
Grantee Name: American Symphony Orchestra League Organization Popular Name: League of American Orchestras Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10023-7905 Amount: $90,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the League of American Orchestras' strategic services designed to strengthen orchestras through learning, leadership development, research, and communications within the field. Additional Project Description: The League will host a national conference focusing on best practices. Training and development opportunities will be provided to expand leadership skills. The Emerging Leaders Program will help strengthen the skills of competitively selected emerging leaders through a structured curriculum, mentoring, and directed on-the-job training. The Knowledge Center will conduct, analyze, and disseminate a wide range of surveys. The Hub, a special section of the League's website, comprises online information aggregating the latest thinking, news, reviews, and personnel shifts in the orchestra world in one location. The League's "Symphony" magazine and its free digital companion, "SymphonyOnline," feature articles that provide information and viewpoints, chronicle the changing cultural scene, and shed light on innovation in orchestras. |
Grantee Name: Roundabout Theatre Company, Inc. Organization Popular Name: N/A Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10018-3157 Amount: $20,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Creation Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the world premiere of "Napoli, Brooklyn," a new play by Meghan Kennedy. Additional Project Description: Set against the backdrop of the crash of a United Airlines flight in Brooklyn in December 1960, the play explores sisterhood, freedom, and forgiveness through the lens of a first-generation Italian-American family. The play raises questions about personal identity, and how it is shaped by love, religion, violence, and national identity. The theater has an ongoing relationship with Kennedy, whose previous work has been developed through the Roundabout Underground program for emerging writers. |
Grantee Name: Americas Society, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Americas Society Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10065-5072 Amount: $25,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Creation Category: Art Works Project Description: To support an exhibition and catalogue of Brazilian artist Jose Leonilson's work, and performances highlighting the Argentinean musical avant-garde of the 1960s-70s, including new commissions. Additional Project Description: In addition to the art exhibition, a concert will showcase avant-garde music composed by fellows of the Centro Latinoamericano de Altos Estudios Musicales in Buenos Aires, Argentina. New pieces commissioned by Americas Society and performed by members of the International Contemporary Society also will be presented at the concert. A separate event will feature a conversation with musicologist Laura Novoa, one of the leading experts on Latin American music. |
Grantee Name: Salvadori Center Ltd. Organization Popular Name: Salvadori Center Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10115-0031 Amount: $25,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Learning Category: Art Works Project Description: To support in-school design and architecture residencies for public school students in the greater New York City area. Additional Project Description: Salvadori teaching artists will use the built environment--buildings, bridges, parks and the urban landscape--to teach students the design process and realize the math, science, and social history embedded in the structures within their communities. The program will culminate in a one-day Annual Design Charrette in which students work with professional architects, designers, and engineers to design, develop, and build a project in response to a design challenge. |
Grantee Name: Anthology Film Archives Organization Popular Name: Anthology; AFA Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10003-8631 Amount: $20,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the presentation of several curated film and video series. Additional Project Description: Anthology's exhibition program includes public screenings of independent and foreign films unlikely to have a commercial release, retrospectives and themed series, revivals of overlooked films, and in-person appearances from contemporary artists. The majority of films screened are U.S. premieres. |
Grantee Name: Saratoga International Theatre Institute, Inc. Organization Popular Name: SITI Company Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10018-8646 Amount: $25,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Creation Category: Art Works Project Description: To support SITI Work/Space, a new model for creating work as an ensemble. Additional Project Description: Inspired by the visual artist's studio model in which a variety of different pieces are created simultaneously, the company will develop a series of smaller plays in its New York rehearsal studio. The project will support the development of "This American Moment," a new play by SITI Company members with playwright Lucas Hnath and dramaturg Megan Carter; "Chess Match," a new work inspired by composer, music theorist, and writer John Cage; "Hanjo," produced in collaboration with the Japan Foundation; and "Katzelmacher," a new work inspired by the structure of the Rainer Werner Fassbinder film of the same name. Addressing the question of how to create more modular, touring work as the company matures, the initiative is designed to make the creation process more accessible to local audiences, and to serve as a prototype for other ensemble companies. |
Grantee Name: Apollo Theater Foundation Organization Popular Name: Apollo Theater Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10027-4408 Amount: $30,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the Women of the World Festival and related activities. Additional Project Description: A partnership with London's Southbank Centre, the festival will be a multi-day event exploring issues facing women around the world. Events will include concerts, comedy shows, a town hall focused on girls, and panel discussions. The highlight of the festival will be a concert honoring artist/activist and 2003 NEA Jazz Master Abbey Lincoln (1930-2010). The tribute concert will feature female jazz artists such as Esperanza Spalding and Terri Lyne Carrington, as well as 2017 NEA Jazz Master Dee Bridgewater. |
Grantee Name: Second Stage Theatre, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10036-6406 Amount: $25,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Creation Category: Art Works Project Description: To support a production of "A Parallelogram" by Bruce Norris. Additional Project Description: Set in a near future world where human connection is deteriorating as technology becomes more valued, the play tells the story of Bee, a young woman who discovers that she can see and interact with her future self. The work explores ideas of fate, destiny, and whether or not we can change our future, and challenges audiences to consider what would happen if we lost the connections that make us human. The theater will host a series of audience engagement activities in conjunction with the production, including a free Second Generation Night for community college students, free tickets to student groups, and talkbacks after preview performances. |
Grantee Name: Architectural League of New York Organization Popular Name: Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10012-3257 Amount: $40,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the creation of new distribution channels for editorial output. Additional Project Description: The Architectural League will develop and deploy new content delivery formats, including digital magazines, printed chapbooks, video series, and podcasts, to diversify the ways in which audiences around the country access their programming to learn about design, architecture, and citymaking. The project seeks to find present platforms that will appeal to a new, general audience, perhaps unfamiliar with the jargon and internal debates of design, yet still keenly interested in its topics. |
Grantee Name: Signature Theatre Company Organization Popular Name: Signature Theatre Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10036-6805 Amount: $50,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Creation Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the world premiere production of "Everybody," a new play by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, directed by Lila Neugebauer. Additional Project Description: Taking inspiration from the roots of western drama, notably Greek tragedy and the English medieval theater, the play will explore the notion of theater as a moral act. Recognizing that these early forms were the product of homogenous cultures, the piece will challenge how the reality of modern American history intersects with literary tradition. The production will be Jacobs-Jenkins' second production through Signature's Residency Five program, which supports playwrights over a five-year period as they build a body of work. |
Grantee Name: Ars Nova Theater I, Inc. Organization Popular Name: Ars Nova Sponsored Organization: City: New York State: NY Zip: 10019-4014 Amount: $15,000 Intended Outcome (Primary): Engagement Category: Art Works Project Description: To support the premiere of "KPOP." Additional Project Description: The theater will partner with Ma-Yi Theater Company and the Woodshed Collective to investigate the cultural and sociopolitical impact of the global phenomenon of Korean Pop (K-Pop) music. A large-scale, multimedia, and immersive theatrical set and experience will center on the inner workings of a fictional Korean Pop music label. The theater complex will be transformed into a music factory pulsing with nonstop K-Pop music as audience members will be immersed in a "band-training hub." The artistic team of Teddy Bergman, Helen Park, Max Vernon, and Jason Kim will collaborate on the production. |